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REVISED HISTORY OF
HARLEM
(CITY OF NEW YORK.)
ITS ORIGIN AND EARLY ANNALS
PREFACED BY
HOME SCENES IN THE FATHERLANDS;
OR
NOTICES OF ITS FOUNDERS BEFORE EMIGRATION.
ALSO
Sketches of Numerous Families
AND THE
RECOVERED HISTORY OF THE LAND-TITLES.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.
BY JAMES RIKER,,/
Author of THE ANNALS OF NEWTOWN; Life Member of the New York Historical Society;
Member also of the Massachusetts Historical Society; The New England Historic
and Genealogical Society; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; 'he Long Island Historical Society;
The Pennsylvania Historical Society, etc. (I88t).
-<=>OCNEW YORK:
NEW HARLEM PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1904.
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COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
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REVISED FROM THE AUTHOR'S NOTES AND ENLARGED
BY
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Edited by
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3 -GENERAL CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
I.
DUINKIRK TO ST. MALO. Pen-sketches of the coasts of Holland, Flanders,
Picardy, Normandy, and Brittany. Historic memories awakened. Inklings of localities and persons connected with our subject. Picturesque
scenery of the Norman Archipelago. Island of Jersey; home of the Carterets and Pipons. St. Malo quaint and suggestive.............Page 3.
2.
HARLEM: SPRINGS OF ITS HISTORY. Special relations to the countries
named. Their archives explored; and with good results, touching our
first settlers. These of various nationalities, but mostly Hollanders and
French Refugees. Their character bears investigation. Their history
invites inquiry........................................... Page Io.
3.
GLIMPSES OF THE FATHERLANDS. Lands of the Huguenots. Retained in
the sixteenth century the essential features of its ancient state. Noticeable
characteristics of the country and people. Amiens; its civil history.
Glance at the national annals down to the Reformation........Page I4.
CHAPTER II.
AVESNES AND ITS EXILES. French Refugees at Harlem; district whence
they came. Walslant, or Walloon Country. Principality of Sedan. The
Walloons; origin and character. Avesnes. Its lords and people. Spanish
tyranny; persecution of the Reformed. They find refuge at Le Cateau.
That city taken by Count Mansfield. Huguenots slain and scattered.
Netherland patriots rise in arms. Walloons join them, but soon yield
the contest. Liberty crushed; Protestants in despair; many leave. The
De Forests flee to Sedan.................................... Page 25.
CHAPTER III.
OUR SETTLERS FROM FRANCE AND WALSLANT. Huguenots; their history to
the Edict of Nantes. Rest under the Edict. Troubles after the death of
Henry IV. Louis XIII. sacks their towns and fortresses. A doomed
people. Era of our Refugees considered. Status of the Huguenot. Many
seek exile. West India colonies. Casier family. La Montagne (Montanye), Vermilye, Delamater, etc. Picardy and Picards. The Amienois
and Amiens; trials of the Huguenots. Two pageants. Demarest. De
Labadie preaches reform. Antagonisms. An attack and defence; Tourneur forced to flee. France at war with Spain; hostilities carried into
Hainault and Artois. Protestant Walloons escape to Holland and England. Du Four, Oblinus, Kortright, Journeay, Tiebout, Cresson, Bertholf,
etc., seek other homes...........................Page 40.
CHAPTER IV.
HOLLAND: THE DE FORESTS, AND LA MONTAGNE. Leyden the refuge. Its
Walloons, and cloth trade. Jesse de Forest and brothers; family items.
Life at Leyden. Remonstrant troubles. The University. Jean de La
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GENERAL CON7ENTS.
Montagne, student of medicine. University, how located. The Kloksteeg. Pilgrim Fathers leave for America. Walloons propose the same;
not encouraged. War with Spain. De Forest goes to Brazil; dies. Dr.
Montanye marries his daughter. De Laet's book, "The New World,"
stimulates emigration. Tobacco raising promises rich returns. Henry
de Forest marries Geertruyt Bornstra; and with his brother Isaac sails
for Manhattan............................................... Page 70.
CHAPTER V.
EMIGRATION. Amsterdam, chief port of departure. Oppression the prime
colonizing agent. Good proof of character. Our colonists: Captain
Kuyter, Bronck, De Meyer, Slot, Meyer, Dyckman, Bussing, Terbosch,
Benson, Dolsen, Waldron, Sneden, Verveelen and Vander Vin. John
Montanye visits Holland and marries. Brevoort, Van Tilburgh, Ackerman, Storm, the Kortrights and Bogert emigrate. French and Walloons-Tourneur, Delamater, Disosway, Genung, Du Four, Lozier,
Cousseau, Cresson, etc. Mannheim colonists-Demarest, Casier, Uzille,
Journeay, Oblinus, Parmentier, Du Bois, De Voe, Vermilye, etc.
Visitors from Manhattan influence colonization........... Page 92.
CHAPTER VI.: I609-I636.
MANHATTAN. Its discovery. Harlem in its aboriginal state. Schorakapok, or Spuyten Duyvel. Whence this name? Steps to colonize Manhattan Island. Rev. John Robinson. French and Walloon colonists
arrive. Locality embraced in our history-Yorkville to Kingsbridge.
Van Twiller appropriates Ward's Island; gives Van Curler the Otterspoor. Aboriginal Harlem as viewed from McGown's heights. Great
Kill, or Harlem River. Papparinamin. The Hellegat. Muscoota, Rechawanes and Schorakin located. Indian names to be cherished. Muscoota,
or, as afterward called, Montanye's Flat, first of these localities to
attract the European........................................ Page 109.
CHAPTER VII.: I636-I640.
SETTLEMENTS. The De Forests arrive; granted Muscoota. Dr. Montanye
follows. Progress on the Flat. New and trying experiences. "0 solitude! where are the charms?" Van Curler begins improvements.,Van
Twiller makes Barent Blom his overseer. Great and Little Barent's
Islands; why so called. Henry de Forest dies. Montanye looks after the
plantation. Daily fare. The widow de Forest marries Hudde. Hans
Bergen. Hudde's patent. Hudde and wife visit Holland. The farm sold.
Bought by Montanye. Claes Swits leases Van Curler's land. It is sold
to Van Keulen of Amsterdam. Account of Swits. Van Keulen's Hook.
Arrival of Kuyter and Bronck. Kuyter gets Schorakin; calls it Zegendal.
Jochem Pieter's Flat. Montanye's farm named Vredendal. Hudde and
wife return. Montanye gets his deed. Bronck at Ranachqua; calls his
home Emmaus.......... Page I25.
CHAPTER VIII.: 640-i645.
INDIAN TROUBLES. Friendly relations with the natives of mutual benefit.
Peace broken. Kieft attacks the Raritans. Bloody retaliation on Staten
Island. A Wickquaskeek kills Claes Swits. His tribe screen him. Kieft
wants to chastise them; the Twelve Men advise delay. The tobacco crop.
Kuyter unable to ship his; Montanye's crop damaged. The Doctor loses
his wife. Swits' murder unatoned for; others follow. Time to act; an
expedition. Indians alarmed, sue for peace. Peace-council at Emmaus.
Farmers keep at work. Kuyter as church-builder. The Mahicans war
upon the Wickquaskeeks. These fly for safety to the Dutch. Kieft seizes
the chance to slaughter them. The savages avenged upon the settlers.
Kieft and the Otterspoor. Peace again patched up. Death of Bronck.
GENERAL CONTENT'S.
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Montanye leases his farm. Indians resume hostilities. Settlers fly to
Fort Amsterdam. Kuyter depicts their distresses. Cry to Holland for
help. Colonists turn soldiers; invade the Indian country. Savages burn
Kuyter's house. He and Kieft dispute about it. Peace for the third
time; "solid and lasting"....................................Page I37.
CHAPTER IX.: 645-I650.
LAND PATENTS: KUYTER'S TRIALS. Sibout Claessen secures a title to
Hoorn's Hook. Dr. Vander Donck buys Papparinamin Island. Matthys
Jansen gets a patent for Papparinamin on Manhattan side. Tobias Teunissen. Jansen-Aertsen patent, since the Dyckman Homestead,-Inwood.
Montanye marries. Vredendal patent. Isaac de Forest gets a title. Kuyter's opposition to Kieft. He and Melyn arraigned by the ex-Director,
before Stuyvesant and Council, for contempt. Are fined and banished.
Sent away in the ship with Kieft and Bogardus; are wrecked, and the
two latter perish. Kuyter and Melyn reach Holland and appeal to the
States-General. Arrest of judgment. Stuyvesant summoned to answer
for his severity. Kuyter, on returning to Manhattan, has his property
and offices restored. Engages in trade. Dangerous to live on the Flats.
Few places occupied. Peter Beeck buys a plantation at Hellgate. De
Forest sells his plantation to Beeckman. Kuyter's victory a triumph of
popular rights..........Page I46.
CHAPTER X.: I651-I656.
NEW EFFORTS, BUT SAD FAILURES. Kuyter resumes his plantation, with
Stuyvesant, etc., as co-partners. Their contract. Country yet disturbed;
Kuyter, before proceeding, applies for a groundbrief. Public danger imminent. Indians murder Beeck and his workmen. Threaten Kuyter,
Beeckman and others. Alarming rumors afloat. Kuyter's popularity.
Elected schepen. Is killed by the Indians. Sorrow at his fate. Honors
awaited him. Steps to settle his estate. More trouble. Savages on a
bloody raid. Slay Tobias Teunissen near Spuyten Duyvel, and Cornelis
Swits, Beeckman's successor. All the farms laid waste; the district
abandoned by the settlers.................. Page I57.
CHAPTER XI.: I656-I660.
NEW HAERLEM FOUNDED: ITS COURT AND CHURCH. Plan to settle isolated
farms a failure. Resolved to form a village on the Swits and Kuyter
lands. Grounds for this measure. Ordinance thereupon. Work begun;
a village plot and farming lots laid out. The latter, why so narrow.
Named Nieuw Haerlem. Hindrances. Stuyvesant urges on the work.
Guarded by soldiers. Indian war at Esopus. Military officers for Harlem. Court of Justice instituted. Church formed. Do. Zyperus engaged
to preach. John Montanye is chosen deacon. Zyperus' previous history
obscure. Only a licentiate. Harlem people join Selyn's church at the
Bouwery. No church built at Harlem yet, nor for years later.... Page i67.
CHAPTER XII.: I66I-i662.
REARRANGEMENT OF LANDS: NEW ALLOTMENTS. Grain plenty, but no mill.
One projected. The Montanyes wish to form a hamlet at Vredendal.
Council refuse; will hinder New Harlem. The latter growing. Settlers'
names, etc. Scandinavian element. Calls for more land. Order thereupon. Van Keulen's Hook allotted. Grantees. First "Harlem Land
Case." John Montanye is Town Clerk. Gets part of Vredendal (the
Point); the Flat to be divided up. Settlers ask Director to modify the
terms on which they took up land. Declines. Applicants for lots on
Montanye's Flat. First owners. Wm. Montanye a resident. The alienation of the Flat indisputable. Land speculation. Conveyancing; model
Deed. Deeds, Wills, etc.; how executed. Cattle-herder employed. The
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GENERAL CONTENTS.
contract. He gets in trouble; is superseded. Sneden dies; and his wife.
Property sold. Slot made building master. Fence masters. Some chief
men fined. Mr. Muyden................................. Page 8.
CHAPTER XIII.: 1663-1665.
STIRRING EVENTS; END OF THE DUTCH RULE. A wedding; rustic custom;
a riot. Death of Dericksen and Casier. Petition again for relief in paying for their land. Granted. Indian massacre at Esopus. Montanye's
sister a captive. Harlem stockaded. Military companies organized;
arms and ammunition. Guns mounted. A detachment goes to Esopus.
Wickquaskeeks camp near Harlem; creates alarm, but the Sachem explains; brings tidings good and bad. Asks leave to fish. Powder distributed. News of an armistice. More settlers from Fatherland. Do.
Zyperus goes to Virginia. Want a voorleser. Montanye willing to serve.
Petitioned for; appointed. Le Maire arrives. Patents taken out. Swits'
widow surrenders her land. Calves on Little Barent's Island. Slaves.
Saw mill. Country menaced by neighboring English. General Assembly.
Peace with the Indians. English fleet takes New Amsterdam, etc. Called
New York. Conflicting opinions at Harlem. Waldron retires thither.
Some leave for Holland. Montanye disaffected. Moesman sells to Capt.
D elavall. H ymenial......................................... Page I97.
CHAPTER XIyV.: I665-I666.
RELUCTANT YIELDING TO ENGLISH RULE. Local authority suspended.
Drunken Indians commit abuses. The Schout's disaffection. Nicolls'
order thereupon. Harlem to form part of the City. Town officers discharged. Waldron made constable; to appoint magistrates and hold
court. De Meyer's tenant absconds; leads to an issue with the new court.
He comes out best. The court carry things imperiously; banish an inhabitant. Waldron accuses Teunissen of stealing a quilt. He resents it;
sues for slander. Waldron has the advantage. Comments. Bad feeling
engendered. Other cases cited. Demarest buys land; removes here.
Monis Staeck assaults the herder; is fined. Litigious times. Move to
erect a church. Stuyvesant feasted. More garden plots laid out and sold.
The church up and inclosed. A good wife defamed. The Mayor sees
her righted. The costs. Her experiences..................... Page 215.
CHAPTER XV.: I666-I667.
THE NICOLLS PATENT; THE COURT, MILL, CHURCH. Grazing customs. Order
to draw a line for more range for horses and cattle. Governor directs
a patent to be drafted. THE PATENT. Not satisfactory, and why. Tourneur "pays" Waldron. Both cautioned by the Mayor's Court. Waldron
takes his discharge as constable. New officers appointed. Instructions
and oath. Still at work on the church. Order; trespasses by cattle.
Sabbath workers arrested. Old story about Tourneur revived. Capt.
Delavall. His antecedents. Proposes improvements. The town acts
upon it. Verveelen to run the ferry and tavern. Bronck's Land and
Little Barent's Island. Col. Morris buys the former. Town builds a
mill-dam; Delavall a mill. The Mill Camp. Montanye voted leave to
build on his Point. Village expanding; other house lots laid out. Church
finished. Burial place located, etc. Meadows granted Tourneur; the
Bussing Meadows. Montanye gets the church-lot's meadows..Page 225.
CHAPTER XVI.: I667-I669.
NEW NICOLLS PATENT; THE FERRY; RUPTURE WITH ARCHER, ETC. Petition
for a Patent. Town growing in importance. Dairies. Knoet the herder.
Verveelen; his ordinary, ferry and rates. Smuggles beer. Compromised.
Ferry lease. Beer drinking. Brewers. Matthys Jansen's heirs and John
Archer threaten trouble. THE HARLEM PATENT. Nagel, etc., fined as
GENERA4 L CON TENTS.
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rebels. Capt. Delavall going to England. Tourneur, as agent, lets land
to W. Gerritsen. Archer buys the Jansen-Aertsen patent. Nicolls won't
confirm it. Tourneur bargains for Hoorn's Hook patent. Inhabitants
protest. Queer conduct of Verveelen's negro. Baignoux misses his
nootas. Barker ignores the ferry. Trouble with Archer. His history.
Lets land at Fordhalm His cattle trespass; are seized. The JansenAertsen patent awarded to Harlem. The ferry incommodious. Spuyten
Duyvel to be viewed. Tourneur craves Hoorn's Hook. Gets land on
Cromwell's Creek. Death of the miller. Vessel built. An erfje granted
Pelszer. A wagon-road ordered between New York and Harlem.
Horses, etc., to be branded. Ferry taken to Spuyten Duyvel. Contract
with Verveelen. I-e to be constable of Fordham. Mill repairs. Delavall
returns. Hue and cry after a slave. Montanye's Indian deed. Indians
claim other land. De Meyer sells to Kortright and Low ancestors. Calf
pasture; its rules. J. Cresson makes his will; sells his farm. Le Roy
names Tourneur sole heir................................. Page 239.
CHAPTER XVII.: 1670-672.
VILLAGE LIFE; I{ARrEM TWO CENTURIES AGO. Maturity; accruing responsibilities. Porkers missing; Tippett suspected; an inquiry. Branding, etc.
Wolters dies. Waldron buys Dolsen's house. Delamater's will. Waldron and Verveelen divide meadows. W. Gerritsen mulct for poor
fences; his vrouw scolds Waldron. Payment on the Patent. Freeholders
and lands. Vermilye sells; sale void. Wolters' curators. Cresson vs.
Delamater. Kortright to keep tavern. An erf voted J. Demarest. Waldron sells Nagel an erfje, etc. Nagel and Vermilye marry his daughters.
Jansen-Aertsen patent. Order to pay claimants 300 gl. Richard takes a
bond. L. Gerritsen sells Karsten's erf and garden. Legacy at Leyden.
New voorleser, Vander Vin. Martino leases town lands. Cresson denounces the magistrates; is arrested. Disosway vs. Archer. Colevelt
vs. Le Roy. Pound ordered. Town debts; accounts audited. Cupid
captures Meyer and others. Pelszer sues Verveelen. Use of an erfje
granted Carstensen. Road to City impassable. Lease by Lourens Jansen.
Bogert buys Montanye's farm. Journeay sells Storm his Brooklyn lands.
Bogert makes his will. Mayor's Court, met at Harlem, tries Archer.
Fordham petty causes to be heard at Harlem. Archer's leases. Tax for
the voorleser fails; people prefer voluntary giving. Fines settled. Archer
gets a patent for Fordham. Claessen, Valentine ancestor. Indian deed
for De Voe's Point. Tourneur makes his will. Demarest loses a child;
makes his will. Leases Moertje Davids' Fly. Montanye's deed for his
Point. The "wagon path" to New York..................... Page 262.
CHAPTER XVIII.: i672-I673.
THE DORP OR VILLAGE; INCIDENTS AND INSIGHTS. Demarest versus Delamater; assault. Death of Montanye. His estate. Harlem church to
have an elder. Deacons' accounts. Church-days observed. Allerheyligen.
Tippett again, with Hunt and others. Death of Capt. Morris and wife;
leave but "one poor blossom." Order; meadows on Fordham side.
Vander Vin made secretary. Waldron vs. Tourneur; assault. Church
loft let to Mrs. Montanye. Monthly-mail; New York to Boston. Town
patents; none under Stuyvesant. Houselots to be taxed for town expenses. List. Accounts to be overhauled; Roelofsen sent for. Journeay
makes his will. Accounts audited. Creditors. List of freeholders and
lands. Owners of Montanye's Flat form a combination. A history connected with this Flat. Cresson and Carbosie make wills. A big row.
Tourneur lets land at Cromwell's Creek; his death. Dyckman and Bussing marry. A stroll through New Harlem in I673. Homes of the chief
residents. In what style a magistrate lived....................Page 28I.
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GENERAL CONTENTS,
CHAPTER XIX.: 1673-1674.
REOCCUPATION BY THE DUTCH. Minute by Vander Vin; recapture of New
York. Official letter received. Hearty response. Town officers appointed; swear allegiance. Commonalty take the bath. Roll of names.
Cut pickets for city defences. Morris and Delavall estates. Barent Waldron, messenger. Carbosie vs. Bogert. Delamater fined for striking
Adrian Sammis. Plan to alternate crops on the farm lots. Instructions
to schout and magistrates. Fordham people vs. Archer. Delavall's
affairs. Petition for his out-garden. Vander Vin retained. Contributors.
Delamater will not give. Some Englishmen threaten to rob and burn.
Action taken. A Night Watch; Jansen (Kortright) made captain. The
Roll. Seasons for thanksgiving, fasting, and prayer. Proclamation.
Death of Gerritsen. Alarms continue. Beado arrested. His offence.
Branded and banished. English expected; fears increase. Letter from
the Governor. A panic. Kiersen and Michielsen tried for shooting a
hog. Curious examination. Search for horses of late English officials.
How land sold. Peace. Preparing for it. Litigation. Town officers
chosen. Church accounts audited. Fruits of Nieuwenhuysen's ministry.
Hot heads from Westchester alarm villagers. Inquiry. Country reverts
to the English................... Page 300.
CHAPTER XX.: I674-I677.
ENGLISH RULE RESTORED; REFUGEES; CAPT. CARTERET; INDIAN WAR; LAND
GRANTS; SPUYTEN DUYVEL OCCUPIED. Accession of French. Schout and
schepens superseded. Bastiaensen (Kortright) hires Tourneur farm.
Tourneurs still vexed by story of the homicide. Mayor's Court checks it.
Voorleser continued. Delamater and Demarest refuse to give. Terbosch
to be dunned. Jansens divide their lands. Le Count dies. Capt. James
Carteret. His antecedents. Comes to Harlem. On a committee to get
the patent confirmed. Palmer assaults Gano, while picking cherries. Indian outbreak at Narragansett. Fear at the news. Precautions; watch,
etc. Verveelen cited to the watch. Won't leave his ferry. Vexed by
Archer, who abducts his goods. Verveelen sues. New alarms. Our
Indians ordered within Hellgate. Some are stopped, passing Harlem.
General arming. Night watch; the roll and rules. Indians to plant at
Spuyten Duyvel. Watch re-formed. De Voe, from Mannheim. Passes
for Hellgate. Indian troubles end. Farming interests; concerning fences.
Straitened for land. Report of Andros' grants; inhabitants petition.
Persons proper to have land. Van Keulen's Hook surveyed. Coopers
stopped cutting timber; appeal. Town cuts stockades for the City.
Clerk's house repaired. Junior David Demarest will not pay toward it;
gets into trouble. Senior Demarest and Delamater at issue with the town
about clerk's salary. What now ensued. The Demarests sell out. The
elder buys land on the Hackensack. Town debts. An assessment.
Andros' grants cause anxiety; Carteret, etc., deputed to see the Governor;
an episode. Andros very gracious; will send a surveyor. Elphinstone
grant, etc. Ryder lays out lots for the Harlem people. Dispute over
meadow on Spuyten Duyvel; Meyer in trouble. Dyckman and Nagel
secure five lots at Spuyten Duyvel. Lease them. Dyckman Homestead.
Large order for palisades................... Page 318.
CHAPTER XXI.: I677-1682.
THE FRENCH LEAVING; NEW TOWN HOUSE; LAND QUESTIONS; LABADISTS;
CAPT. CARTERET; SALE OF MOERTJE DAVIDS' FLY. Nicholas de Vaux
versus Cresson. Sieur Dubuisson. De Vaux removes. The French leaving. Magister. Town accounts. Subscribers to clerk's salary. The
Demarests depart. Compromise with Vander Vin. House to be rebuilt.
Mr. Kip dies; his widow assigns her contract for timber; Tourneur to fill
it. Vander Vin mortgages. Suits about lines on Van Keulen's Hook.
GENERAL COANTENTS.
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New officers. Codrington weds Miss Delavall. Robbery at De,Voe's.
Brevoort and Nagel buy out Cresson, who leaves. Land case; Tohrneur,
etc., vs. Col. Morris. Labadists visit Harlem. Entertained by Waldron.
Pick up stories about Carteret. Call at Valentine's house. Object of
their visit; make proselytes. Seem to confound Waldron with Vander
Vin. A word for Carteret. He goes to England. Carstensen dies. Robinson buys Sawkill farm. Oblinus vs. Bogert; meadows. Du Four
vs. Bogert. "True Lips." Bear hunt; Rev. Charles Wolley. Robert
Wolley and partner buy half of Robinson's farm. Timber for Major
Cuyler. Contract for town house given out. Sale of Moertje Davids'
Fly. Outside owners. Tourneur, etc., vs. Morris; verdict for plaintiffs.
Morris ignores it, and holds possession. Mending highway, Barent Waldron, absent; Constable Vermilye refuses to collect the fine. Offended
dignity. Work on town house. Proposed to bridge the Papparinamin;
but ferry-lease extended. Sieur Dubuisson. Journeay's estate. Five
lives lost in Hellgate. Dr. De Forest. Precaution in choosing town
officers. Tax to pay for town house, etc. Proprietors and freeholds.................................. Page 347.
CHAPTER XXII.: I682-I685.
INCIDENTS; DEATH OF DELAVALL, ARCHER, DELAMATER AND VANDER VIN;
TOURNEUR VS. MORRIS; DONGAN'S ASSEMBLY; TOWN COURT REMODELED;
HALF-WAY HOUSE; GLOUDIE'S POINT OCCUPIED, ETC. Carbosie; given use
of land near Bogert's meadows. Bogert scolds the magistrates. Makes
the amende honorable. Delamater forced to pay up. Barlow vs. London.
Tourneur, etc., vs. Young. Young sells to Holmes. Old pastors dead.
Selyns returns. To preach at Harlem once a year. Death of Capt.
Delavall; his will, etc. Mrs. Tourneur, sick, makes a will, survives; her
sons Daniel and Jaco marry. How the Tourneur lands were finally
divided. Brevoort leases Church Farm. Hedding. Baignoux sells. Ald.
Cox buys out Robinson. Capt KIDD. Gov. Dongan arrives; a General
Assembly; Harlem joins in choosing delegates. Tourneur vs. Morris;
proceedings at large. Local doings. Charter of Liberties; its chief
provisions. Counties and courts erected. Common Council includes Harlem in the Out Ward. Its court, etc. Viervant. Postmael; the Post
ancestor. Commissioners meet. Give Waldron a deed. Deacons visit
Carbosie; his will, death. Archer dies suddenly. Nagel's slave fires his
barn; hangs himself. His body burned. Patents called for with reference to quit-rent. Kortright builds the Half-Way House. Tourneur vs.
Morris; final decision. Meyer again in office. Death of Vander Vin.
Succeeded by Tiebout. Barent Waldron settles at the New Lots.
Gloudie's Point sold; bought by Resolved Waldron, Barent gets the deed.
Theunis Iden's and Jacob De Key's purchases. Grant to Bickley, De
Voe's Point....... Page 374.
CHAPTER XXIII.: I685-I687.
WOLVES; DELAVALL ESTATE; TENURES; TENTHS CANCELLED; NEW STONE
CHURCH; GREAT MAIZE LAND; DONGAN PATENT; QUIT RENT; CORPORATION
RIGHTS; INDIAN CLAIM; COMMON LANDS; FRENCH GONE; DUTCH MANNERS
AND CUSTOMS. Woodlands infested by wolves; a general hunt. John
Delavall makes an exchange with the town; his father's executor. Land
Tenures; their history. The feudal tenure modified. Free and common
socage. Quit Rent. The tithes never exacted. Quit Rents compounded
for. Levied and paid. The tax list; exhibits the lands occupied. Village
regulations; refuse straw, chimney ladders. Losses by fire. Lead to
building outside. Taxed for clerk's salary. New arrangement with Do.
Selyns. New church. People begin the work. Carpenter's contract.
First service. Payments. Dolsen and Kiersen lease Great Maize Land.
Improvements; Hoorn's Hook, Great Barent's Island. Harlem Patent
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to be confirmed. Important saving clause in the New York Charter affecting said patent. Order to stay the waste of timber. Nagel and Dyckman
in law about a goose! Agreement; that the common lands be drawn pro
rata, according to the estates. THE DONGAN PATENT. Paid for. Obvious intent of the patent to confirm rights already granted. Did not the
City Charter trench on those rights? Indian claim satisfied. Lands still
in commons. Taken up by allotments in I69I and 1712. History of these
divisions important, but hitherto unknown; given in Appendix. Closing
remarks. French families nearly all gone; last word about them. Court
records negative evidence of good morals. Capable of self-government.
Succeeding times eventful, but more easily traced. A staid Dutch society.
Style of living, farming, habits, and customs; topics talked about, tales
of Fatherland; general thrift; slow to adopt English modes and manners.
Their history a legacy of useful lessons.....................Page 396.
CHAPTER XXIV.
NOTICES OF THE PATENTEES AND THEIR HEIRS OR SUCCESSORS. Benson,
Bogert, Brevoort, Bussing, Delamater, Dyckman, Haldron, Kiersen,
Kortright, Low, Montanye, Myer, Nagel, Oblenis, Parmentier, Tourneur,
Vermilye, Verveelen, Waldron...............................Page 426.
FOR notice of other patentees not named here see Index.
SEE Contents of the Appendix on page 780.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Dunkirk to St. Malo; Vignette Map,
St. Ouen, or De Carteret Manor House, Jersey,
Cathedral and Cemetery of St. Denis, Amiens,
Holland; Vignette Map,
Leyden,
Walloon Church, at Leyden,
The Zaay Hall, Leyden,
jView on the Kloksteeg (Bell-lane), Leyden,
Autograph of Jesse de Forest, 162,.
Schoonrewoerd,
Autographs of the first Settlers,.
Autographs of the founders of New Harlem,
New Harlem Village Plot, I670,.
View of the Van Bramer House,
Autographs of the founders, etc.,.
Reformed Dutch Church, erected I686,
Map of Harlem: Original Lots and Farms,
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MR. RIKER'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF THE HISTORY OF HARLEM.
It is obvious that any work like the following, made up of innumerable
details, must take character for credibility largely from the reputation of
its author, since it is scarcely possible to cite an authority for each of the
multitudinous facts presented, whatever of force and value such a feature
might impart to the work. And when it is considered how often statements rest on local inference, or result from careful comparison and
analysis, the difficulty of giving authorities becomes more apparent, though
from such processes spring much of the life and spirit of the narrative,
which the tame letter of the record fails to evoke.
For a general indication of the sources whence the present author has
drawn his facts, the incidental references in the ensuing pages to manuscript and printed works must suffice. And however pleasant it would be
to particularize the numerous correspondents who have kindly favored the
author with facts in their possession, the mere mention of their names
would fill too large a space in these pages. To all such he now tenders his
very cordial thanks. Correspondents abroad, who have aided him, are
noticed on page I3.
Special encouragement in his work, received from Mr. Henry G. De
Forest, Mr. S. Whitney Phoenix, and Mr. Samuel Riker, and his estimable
kinsmen, demands more than a passing acknowledgment, and lays the
author under a lasting debt of gratitude.
HISTORY
OF
HARLEM.
CHAPTER I.
I. DUNKIRK TO ST. MALO.
LE A AtS the coaster bound
1 for St. Malo leaves
Nhi)\} the old Flemish port of,/f/9-,<~- \ Dunkirk, now the nor'EoNVw/g x/j 1 > most cityof France; hav)~// // UAfK ~ing passed through the
fi n l oo'. "? t' y narrow artificial sluice-,I J.^.^ j(L~%...... A+ f way which stretches out
- /." f ^, /.. from the town a mile or
'l ~ (7AM L ' i more across the broad. S'^^.Jt' ops strand, to the open wal C Afi o 5 -- ters between the inner
L AI,/ and outer line of sands
forming the harbor, or
~t < ~^^~ ~ "'* xroads, of Dunkirk, and
cleared the ruined walls of castles ATerd and Bonne Esperance,
those trusty sentinels once guarding on either side its mouth;
he must still feel his way cautiously, to shun the exterior shoals,
the Braque and Tatre banks, which, with others, serve as a
natural breakwater to shelter the roadstead from the wash of the
sea. Safely past these impediments, he spreads his broad canvas
to the breeze, and shapes his course. No trip more hazardous
than that to St. Malo; an epitome, as it were, of life's voyage
in those old lands,-ever a struggle, but neither aimless nor fruitless, as shall appear.
How exhilarating the scene now opened to view,-this grand
sweep of unique landscape and wide waters! On the left the
eye takes in the coast,-a line of low sand-hills, but half concealing picturesque villages, with their tall spires and busy windmills, and, in the distant offing, snowy sails wafted on their inward
or outward mission; while again, sternwise, the blue waters of
the German Ocean spread out expansively far northward between
the English and the Netherland shores. Unlike the zigzag coast
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whither our vessel is bound, the latter of these shores stretches
northeasterly with a seeming even line, but beyond the vision,
curves gently to the north, skirting the exterior sides of the
islands of Zeeland and the low dykes of Holland, till, at full
eighty leagues or more, it reaches that insular pilot station, the
Texel, behind whose sheltering heights and hamlets the ships of
Amsterdam, Hoorn, and other cities on the Zuyder Zee, usually
anchor to await a clearance for their destined port.
The land ahead of us trending nearly southwest, our wellladen, clumsy galiot skirts for about twelve leagues the borders
of Flanders and Picardy, passing the old Anglo-French town,
Calais, and the Straits of Dover; while the white chalk cliffs
which here line the coast now project to form the Capes Blanc
and Gris-Nez, the abrupt termini also of a highland range which,
penetrating the interior, parts the basins or sections of country
drained by the rivers l'Escaut, or Scheldt, and Somme. Beyond
the last-named and bolder of these two headlands, our experienced skipper alters his course to due south, as the coast bends;
old Neptune kindly granting a fair breeze down the Channel,
for better to scud under bare poles before the brawling tempest,
than to encounter fierce head-winds or the bewildering fog, common on this coast, either of which might spoil his adventure.
A few miles bring us off the harbor of Boulogne,-to its
name often added, for distinction, "sur mer," or "on the sea."
Claiming,-though in rivalry to Wissen, an ancient port between
the capes just mentioned,-to be the Portus Iccius whence Julius
Caesar embarked his legions for the conquest of Britain, Boulogne
has been the favorite thoroughfare for travel between England
and France from remote times. The old walled town is seen
back upon the heights, looking from seaward quite as in centuries past;while, on the flat nearer the sea has grown up the lower
town, a populous suburb, where then were but two or three old
monasteries and a few cottages, nestled around the church St.
Nicholas. Its once famous lighthouse, known as the Tour
d'Ordre,-but to seamen as the Old Man of Boulogne,-lives only
in tradition, and the ruins which yet mark its site on the rocks
at the entrance of the harbor,-an old graystone octagon tower
of Roman origin, which, after battling the storms of over a
thousand years, was finally undermined and destroyed by the
sea in I644.
The white cliffs, here so noticeable a feature of the French
coast, presently give place again to sand downs; while our progress along the tedious stretch of low-lying country which bor
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ders Ponthieu is marked successively by the mouths of the rivers
Canche and Authie, and the broad estuaries of the Somme.
Scarce an object is presented to fix the attention or beguile the
weary hours, save now and then a picturesque group of huts,
tenanted by hardy Picard fishermen, or distant glimpse of town
or spire,-perhaps a craft or two leaving the mouth of the Somme,
with freights from its little port of St. Valery, or the quaint old
town of Abbeville, or from Amiens, the populous capital of
Picardy; these two, with their important manufactures, seated
far up the valley of the Somme. Imperceptibly steals over one
a sense of dreariness, which is only deepened by the splash of
waters and creak of cordage, or even the hoarse wild scream
of the sea-birds that sail across the vessel's track, bound to either
shore.
But hoary History, here dealing with marvellous prodigality,
has strown these shores with memories of past centuries far
more enduring than their old cities or crumbling cliffs. Under
his inspiration the various scenes that meet the eye assume new
interest, and become instinct with the heroic forms and deeds
which crowd upon the mental vision. Carried back to the bellicose days of the chivalry, now the potent Duke of Normandy, in
ambition rivalling a Caesar, musters his three thousand vessels
from the several Norman ports at St. Valery-sur-Somme, and
sails to seize the English crown, and win the title of the "Conqueror." Or to the martial times of Edward III. and of Henry
V., successors of this same Anglo-Norman king, as with gallant
hosts they traverse the region of the Somme, and against great
odds gain the brilliant victories of Cressy and Agincourt. The
past revivified becomes as the present, while its magic creations
impart a new zest to the voyage. E'en our hardy skipper, versed
only in nautical science, in winds, clouds and storms, in bars,
reefs and lighthouses, spins from out his store of local yarns
something to enliven many a spiritless scene. It's perchance a
bold sea-fight 'twixt the rival neighbors so long contesting the
mastery of the Channel; or yet some touching story of fleeing
victims of persecution or tyranny, of whose heroism and sufferings not the half has been told. How exceeding probable that
it was the experience of Huguenot exiles who, a little more than
two centuries ago, found a refuge at Harlem, most of whom
came from this section of France we are now skirting. Along
the fruitful valley of the Somme were scattered the homes of
our Demarest, Tourneur, Cresson, and Disosway, not to enlarge
the number; most of them prominent among the Harlem settlers,
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and heads of well-known families hereafter to be noticed. Others
will be brought to light as we extend our voyage.
The eye is now sensibly relieved, as the coast again becomes
elevated, and the chalk cliffs reappear, crowned with green waving tufts of forests and orchards. At ten miles beyond the
Somme, and eighteen leagues from Gris-Nez, is visible the gap
or opening at the river Bresle, which marks the southern limit
of Picardy. Now, putting helm aport, we bear south-west along
the rock-bound coast of Normandy, its continuity only broken
here at intervals by the openings through which the rivers fall
into the sea, and which form several secure harbors, as Dieppe,
St. Valery-en-Caux, and Fecamp, near the latter of which the
bluffs attain an altitude of seven hundred feet. Dieppe is associated with two of our settlers, Lozier and Lemaire.
Bearing westerly from Cape La Heve, near the broad mouth
of the Seine,-just within which lies Havre, the modern and
handsome seaport of Paris, and on the opposite shore the antiquated town of Honfleur, its harbor choked with great sandbanks,-we now skirt the flat, rich grazing district of Normandy,
with its numerous villages, and fine old cities Caen and Bayeux.
We must give the coast a wide margin, to avoid the dreaded
"Black Cows" and the yet more dangerous rocky reef that lines
it for some eighteen miles, full half a league from shore, and
which, proving fatal to a vessel of the Spanish Armada, took its
name, the "Calvados."
The peninsula of Cotentin, running northerly twenty miles
beyond the shore line of the Norman meadows, ends, on the side
we are approaching, in the picturesque falaise or cliffs of Barfleur, which stand boldly forth, as if to greet our vessel in its
track. But passing this cape, and the harbor of Cherbourg,
noted as the last town abandoned by the English, when finally
driven from Normandy in I45I, and now a famous naval station,
we reach, after a run of a hundred and fifty miles from the Bresle,
where we first struck the line of Normandy, the western limit of
this large province, at Cape La Hague. Bearing to larboard
under favoring winds, we double the cape, and stand again due
south, up the boisterous race between the island of Alderney and
the main, in rough weather extremely dangerous, from its conflicting currents, and run inside Guernsey and the other Channel
islands,-those ancient appendages of Normandy, and now more
Norman even than the mother province, though held by the
English. The rocky headlands on the main serve to mark our
progress,-the stately Jobourg, Gros-Nez and Nez-de-Carteret,
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7
respectively five, ten and twenty miles south of Cape La Hague.
Leaving, to the left, the last of these, sheltering within its projecting arm the village and small haven of Carteret, distinguishable by its line of yellow sands, we pass on the right the low
rocky islets of Ecrehou, and some miles farther, "old" Jersey,
in area only equal to our Staten Island, but the largest island of
the Norman Archipelago, and the home, formerly, of the Carterets and the Pipons, not unknown in Harlem story. Difficult
of approach on account of its cordon of rocks, reefs and shoals,
we pass near its massive but ruined castle of MNIont Orgueil, so
picturesque in its mantle of ivy, and crowning a high and craggy
spur that juts into the sea.
A more than panoramic beauty captivates the eye at each
stage in this passage, enhanced by that which so multiplies the
perils of the navigation. Huge rocky debris, environing these
islands, abound on every hand, now a solitary rock, now a confused cluster, but oft taking most fantastic forms. Some tower
majestically, like the Caskets off Alderney, above the highest
reach of the billows, when, storm-driven, they break upon them
in such grandeur and fury. Others, with black heads but just
visible amid silvery foam and spray, or lying in fatal ambush
beneath the surface, prove the grave of many a hapless bark,
especially when enshrouded in sea fog and the helmsman unable
to discern the friendly buoys.
Fitting resort for the old Druids was Jersey, with its interior
of umbrageous groves and silent vales, where now are rural villages and farm seats; and its exterior, on the north side of bold
ragged cliffs, rising in places over three hundred feet, and on its
southern of deep sandy bays, within the largest of which is seated
its chief town, St. Helier. Everywhere intersected by winding
lanes, nearly hidden by bordering hedges; banks of mosses and
ferns, rich shrubbery, and vine-embowered, cottage-like houses,
add new beauty at every turn among its highly rustic walks.
Toward the western side yet stands the venerable parish church
of St. Brelade, now in its eighth century, and to the north of
this, the church of St. Ouen; in the first of which the Pipons,
in the last the De Carterets, Lords of St. Ouen, worshipped, and
were entombed. And hard by St. Ouen's Church, the old granite
manor-house, till late the home of the De Carterets, still lifts
its quaint double gables, an object of curious legends with the
islanders.* Remarkable not only for its scenery, but for its
* This ancient seat of the De Carterets (we condense from "Scenic Beauties of
the Island of Jersey," by Philip J. Ouless, Esq., of St. Helier) is situated in the parish
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unique government and society, remains of an old feudal aristocracy modeled in the twelfth century by King John of England,
its industrious people, busied with their dairies, cider-making,
oyster beds, shipbuilding and marine pursuits, are more of a
study. Mostly Protestants, of simple manners, very frugal, living quite after the French mode, and speaking only the harsh
unwritten patois known as Norman French, except in town,
where modern French,-used in all local court proceedings,-is
more popular than English, they resemble an old Huguenot community; and not without cause, as many of that worthy class
took refuge here during the series of persecutions in France
which culminated at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Our course from Jersey lying southward, we descry in the
distance, upon the charming heights of the Cotentin, another
landmark welcome to the coaster,-the tall spire of the cathedral
at Coutances. Little else can be seen of this much-admired
structure, though its huge symmetrical form so towers above the
town,-and anon its receding figure falls far astern. On crossing the Bight of La Manche, formed by the sudden deflection of
the coast to the westward, and between the
rocky isles the Chausseys and the more teral where rible Minquieres, Brittany's rugged border
Eel Stlifts to view its bald
t f fi cliffs, so wild and desolate in their grandeur; most conspicuous
the headland of Can-....o hcale, forming a bay in
St. Ouen or De Carteret Manor-House, Jersey. the depth of the Bight
in which lies the islet
of Mont St. Michel, with its famous old abbey high up on the
precipitous rock. We must forego a visit to the grand abbey
hall, where the knights of St. Michel (the creation of Louis XI.
in I469) long held their banquets, and pass untested those delecof St. Ouen, from which it takes its name, about six miles from St. Helier, and a
short furlong from the parish church, on the military road from that town to St.
Ouen's Bay. To the old castellated mansion, believed to have been built about the
reign of Edward I., are annexed the more modern wings, which project in front, and
are not older than the time of Charles II. Entering its low oaken door, which seems
to have remained unchanged for ages, a fact is recalled, not least among its pleasing
reminiscences, that here the last-named monarch found refuge when, a proscribed
exile, he arrived in Jersey in I649, and was proclaimed king, sharing the hospitality
cf his brave and faithful subject, and which he afterward so well repaid. But for
this (strange as it may seem), some episodes in Harlem history could not be written!
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9
table bivalves, here abounding, and so toothsome when taken
from the half-shell. We soon reach the St. Malo roads, and
the insulated town of the same name, our place of destination,
with its fleet of traders and its fishing craft. Bars and reefs
obstruct the entrance; but now, at the mooring, we leave our
matter-of-fact skipper to sell his lading, and the jolly tar to rest
his sea-legs at his usual resort in the town, while we proceed to
explore this quaintly primitive place, which seems to carry one
back into some by-gone century. We are not now in Jersey, as
is apparent. Hidden within strong walls black with age, and
seated on a rocky peninsula, which becomes an islet at every
flood-tide,-here rising forty feet,-and at the ebb girt about by
broad sands, the rank sedge growing there haunted by sea-fowl,
and under a hot sun emitting no pleasant odors, St. Malo does not
agreeably impress the approaching visitor. A turn through its
streets may not better those impressions; but his curiosity is
deeply enlisted, not only in the place,-a small, sombre marine
town, with its dingy, oddly-fashioned old houses and its array
of shipping stores, cordage, cables and anchors,-but in its people,
true to the national instincts, so polite and deferential, yet surcharged with good feeling, so very chatty and free. Wealthy,
but none too moral, yet (contradiction easy in this land of anomalies) they yield to none in keeping the Sabbath. Once no
other French port throve as this upon its lucrative foreign trade,
its cod and whale fisheries, and not less upon rich harvests gathered in war times by its bold privateersmen, ever as vigilant as
their trusty night-watch,-not the present patrolling coast-guard,
but when, a century ago, it consisted of a pack of dogs. These,
let loose outside the walls, in charge of a soldier, served both
as a protection to the shipyards on the strand, where timber and
cordage lay exposed to pillage by the neighboring peasantry, and
to raise the cry of warning should an armed foe attempt to steal
in, either from seaward or via the Sillon,-the long causey, so
called, that led from the main to the town gate, and where it
was and still is guarded by a drawbridge and huge round towers
that flank the gateway. Truly suggestive was the old night guard
at St. Malo of that dogged watchfulness of their rights common
to this people at large, the violation of which rights by despotic
rulers had caused such effusions of blood and wholesale expatriations. But in the centuries since flown, like as the night-watch
has changed from the canine to the human, so to the credit of
that fatherland has public sentiment there made great advance in:all that is humane and fraternal. Yet the story of former wrongs
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which it devolves upon us to tell is fraught with lessons too important to be forgotten.*
2. IIARLEIM,-SPRINGS OF ITS HISTORY.
Within these far-stretching leagues of sea-washed dykes,
downs and cliffs, remote from Harlem ocean-wide, lie the opening scenes of its history. They carry us not only to the great
marts, but to obscure interior homes of Holland, Belgium, and
Northern France. Vouched for by records freshly gleaned from
this richly historic field, involving no small amount of careful
research, they at once possess the merit of authenticity, and present us pictures of former times which are new in every essential
of outline and detail.
Admired and revered world-wide, as are those old continental countries, for the peculiar fascination which invests all that
pertains to them,-their remarkable peoples, venerable institutions, and annals almost unparalleled for soul-stirring vicissitudes;
their antique remains and rare works of art, the standing wonder of tourists,-how strong their claim upon our remembrance
and veneration, in their intimate relation of fatherlands, the
source largely of our brave and virtuous ancestry, and, per
sequence, a national prosperity that is unexampled,-fact which
scarce needs an appeal to written history, because attested, as
well by the characteristics and traditions of our people as by our
family nomenclature, and the names of our towns, districts, and
states. Should not these ties of affinity which bind us so strongly
to the fatherlands lend an additional charm to the study of their
institutions and epochs?
Let credit be given to those primary agencies which paved
the way for the colonization of our country,-those hazardous
but eventful voyages which began very early in the sixteenth
century, when a new field for maritime adventure had but just
been opened to Europe by the astounding discoveries of Columbus.
It was the heroic enterprise of the merchants and mariners of
the French seaports, Dieppe, Honfleur, St. MIalo, Nantes, Rochelle,
and others, which, favored by the national prosperity under Louis
* Oh, for a full toleration in that land with reason endeared to the American
heart, when no such despotism shall tarnish the public character as the imprisonment
of a Christian minister on the trivial charge ot exceeding his parish limits in the
exercise of his functions! We refer to the recent case of M. Lacheret (by report,
not from him, but others), the excellent pastor of \Maubeuge, on the Sambre, and a
contributor of materials for this work. Quite too analogous, both as to spirit and
locality, is this act of intolerance to others of past times recited in these pages. But
we trust this enlightened nineteenth century will see that old and hideous blot upon:
the nation's honor effectually wiped out!
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II
XII., first thoroughly explored the North American coast, to find
in the Newfoundland fisheries an exhaustless mine of wealth, and
to ravish the popular mind with glowing fancies as to the character and resources of the New World. Highly conducive to
this were the several voyages of the Florentine Verrazzano, and
Cartier of St. Malo, both sailing under the royal auspices of
Francis I.: the former, after a visit to our coast and harbors in
1524, returning to Dieppe with report of his success; and the
other, ten years later, the pioneer explorer of the bay and river
St. Lawrence. And many a hapless expedition, as that of the
Picard, Sieur de Roberval, and those growing out of the exigencies of the Huguenots prior to their first civil war, which, with
the aid of Coligny and Calvin, undertook to plant colonies in
Brazil and Florida, e'en by their misfortunes pointed most impressively to this remote land as the ultimate refuge for the
oppressed of Europe. This idea of colonizing America, which
in France slumbered during the civil wars, was revived in the
time of Henry IV., and with greater promise under his enlightened patronage; when the names of such daring spirits as
De Vaux, Pontgrave and Champlain fill the page of maritime
discovery, the last of whom in I608 founded Quebec, the first
permanent European colony in North America. The cotemporary efforts of the Spaniards and English, in the same line
of exploration, concern us less.
But Holland now appears, a rival in the field of discovery.
Rife with the spirit of commerce, already enriched by her East
India trade in spices, silks, and gems, and just concluding a favorable truce with Spain, which as the fruit of a glorious struggle
was to virtually secure her independence, with the monopoly of
this lucrative trade,-she opportunely joins in the arduous search
for that long-sought passage to the Indies by a western route,
quicker, as was believed, than by the Cape of Good Hope. To
this end was the voyage of Hudson from Amsterdam in I609,
which, though futile as to its specific object, startled the merchants and capitalists of Holland, alive to every new scheme of
aggrandizement, with reports of the noble river explored by their
bold English skipper and thereafter to bear his name; promising,
in the affluence of its natural products, its forests of ship-timber,
and its more valuable furs, to eclipse the fame of Newfoundland,
and rival the wealth of the Indies. The importance of this discovery, confirmed by sundry trading voyages to Hudson's river,
covering a series of years, led to the formation of the Dutch West
India Company, under whose direction the first colonists pro
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ceeded thither in 1623, composed chiefly of French or Walloons,
who, driven from their own countries by war and persecution,
had taken refuge in the free states of Holland.
From this small beginning, as we know, grew the flourishing
states of New York and New Jersey, respecting whose origin
the zeal and industry of the historian has left but little to be
added, save in a knowledge of the pioneer colonists themselves.
Of but few of the large number who came from the continental
parts of Europe have we any personal account prior to their
advent upon the American soil. Thrown upon these shores, as
are the delicate sea-shells cast up by restless waves, whose alternate ebb and flow effaces their tiny furrows in the sand, our
French and Belgic sires had emerged from rude billows of peril
and conflict in their native lands, enough, in human view, to have
swept away all trace of them there. We may follow them in their
subsequent career, with rarely a failure, by means of scanty
records; but this opening chapter of their history, how difficult to
recover it, especially where is missing the connecting link between
the exile and his former home in the fatherland.*
To regain this lost link, this unknown page in the story of
the colonist, so important a prelude to his after-life, and almost
of necessity eventful and touching, became a prime object with
the author. It was to trace these wanderers amid the scenes of
their native lands and homes, where were their firesides, their
altars, their fields of conflict, and to study them in the face of
such circumstances as must have influenced their character and
destiny. In resolving the causes that led them to abandon their
native for a foreign soil, we should acquire the means wherewith
to better apprehend them in their new sphere, which, however
different, yet involved great sacrifice, danger, and hardship to
themselves and families; insomuch that the problem of their
strange exile could be clearly solved only by a knowledge of the
rugged experiences which had impelled them thereto. Their
antecedents must aid in forming an estimate of their personal
worth, and in accounting for their peculiar tastes, habits, and
attachments. Placing their simple virtues in bolder relief, even
* Tradition is rarely of much service in this connection. The extravagant stories
that the worthy Demarest "purchased the whole of Harlem," and that the Benson
ancestor, on coming here, "had the choice of the whole island," on which were "only
five houses," are amusing specimens of the vague and unreliable utterances of tradition! Demarest was a recently-arrived Huguenot exile, and as for Benson, he did
not come to Harlem till sixty odd years after this settlement began.
It is quite natural to give credence to such traditions as are flattering to our
ancestry. But few, comparatively, of our early colonists, on coming here, brought
much wealth, and fewer, perhaps, had enjoyed rank and position in their own lands.
Still, our colonists rise in the social scale with later investigations, and it becomes
more apparent that wealth, rank, and culture were not such rare endowments with
them as has been supposed.
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their foibles would seem more excusable, when viewed in contact with the sterner age in which they lived, the conflicts they
had to wage, and the circumscribed light and advantages which
fell to their lot.
So judging, the author was led to make such inquiries abroad
as have resulted in the recovery of many interesting details
touching the first settlers at Harlem prior to their emigration;
facts which, buried for centuries in the musty archives of the
fatherlands, now come to us with all the novelty of an original
narrative.*
Traced to many parts of Western Europe, from the sunny
plains of France to the bleak, fir-clad hills of old Scandinavia,
these founders of Harlem were neither exclusively nor mainly
Hollanders, as has been the common opinion. From the lastnamed section came sturdy Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, in
faith Lutherans, and inured to toil, with manners betraying the
blood of the brusk Norsemen, once the scourge of France and
the British Isles; but as the native asperity had been softened
under ages of culture, so had hard fortune, in the case of these
exiles, added its chastening effects. They were few in number,
* Baron W. J. C. Rammelman Elsevier, Archivist at Leyden, Holland, to whom
I here express my thanks, has furnished materials of the utmost value, extracted,
with much painstaking, from the ancient archives of the city, the University, and the
Dutch and Walloon churches there. Mr. Frederick Muller, of Amsterdam, also heartily
interested himself in causing similar searches to be made at Amsterdam, Slooterdyke,
and Haarlem, by Mr. Magnin, Brother of the Order of the Netherland Lion, and
former Archivist of Drenthe. Mr. Osgood Field, of London, who, in hours spared
from mercantile duties, has proven his love for the historic field, also has my warm
acknowledgments for aid in procuring, through Mr. H. G. Somerby, since deceased,
important extracts from the registers of the Walloon churches of London and Canterbury; as also other data from parish registers at Newcastle-on-Tyne, copied by Rev.
R. Gould, of Earsdon Vicarage. Also Mr. W. Noel Sainsbury, of Her Majesty's State
Paper Office, for materials in his custody. Thanks are due to Rev. N. Weiss, late of
Paris, for the hearty interest he manifested in my labors, and who supplied some
useful items from the records at Avesnes, obtained through the agency of M. Lacheret,
pastor at Maubeuge; and also a valuable brochure upon the church of Le Cateau,
besides many facts and suggestions pertaining to the general subject of the Huguenot
refugees and the specific names submitted to him,-he also having the kindness, unsolicited, to lay one of my letters before the Societe de l'Histoire du Protestantisme
francais, a member of which, M. Bordier, an able historian, politely lent his efforts
to further its object. Also to Hon. Edward M. Smith, U. S. Consul at Mannheim,
for instituting searches in that city; and to the gentlemen who engaged in them: Mr.
Eduard Lemp, custodian of the city archives; Herr von Feder, Deputy of the Second
Chamber and Historian of Mannheim; and M. Ruckhaber, pastor of the Concordia,
late Walloon church. Also to M. Gerlach, pastor of the Walloon church, Middleburg,
Zeeland, who sought to satisfy my inquiries, but found nothing in his registers. M.
Louis Bardy, Mayor of Sedan, also politely attentive to my inquiries, assures me, with
regret, that they have no registers for the period I had indicated. An article concerning the Carterets and Pipons, inserted in the British Press, island of Tersey,
brought a response from a lineal descendant of Capt. James Carteret, Mrs. Braithwaite, of Terrace House, St. Helier, daughter of the late Gen. James Pipon, of Noirmont, in that island, and whom I have to thank for several communications. And I
am also happy to acknowledge the valuable aid given me in the specialite to which
this note refers by the late lamented Professor Pierre Blot, and the artist, Mr. Ed.
Kalshoven, of New York, but till recently of Amsterdam; as also by Mr. John Callanan, of Binhamton, N. Y., deserving to be better known, and who loves to roam amid
the florid scenes of his native isle, Jersey. His kindness has procured us the view
of the St. Ouen, or De Carteret Manor-House, obligingly furnished at his request by
his friend, Philip J. Oules, Esq., of St. Helier, artist and author of "Scenic Beauties
of the Island of Jersey."
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yet included several of undoubted worth and superior attainments.
Other exceptions there were; but the community was made
up mainly and in about even proportion of Hollanders and
French Huguenots: names than which none suggest a truer
ideal of sterling character, of patriotism, exalted faith, and heroic
suffering. Nor do our settlers cast discredit upon this general
estimate of these classes. They and their families had sacrificed
much in behalf of liberty and the reformed religion. They were
men of probity, equal to those of their times in intelligence, education, and enterprise. Highly industrious, they scorned, even in
poverty, any dependence upon the charitable, while they could
practise an honest trade or handicraft, such as they invariably
possessed. In a word, their record, though not faultless, well
sustains this general good character. Tried men, used to conquering difficulties, undaunted by the exposure and peril incident
to a wild, a hostile land, theirs was the arduous work of constructing a new society, a civilization to which despotic Europe
was then a stranger, or which it could not tolerate. Its safe
guards, invaluable even for the security of life and estate,-the
church, the school, the civil magistracy,-they were careful to
bring with them, to plant and nurture as on a more congenial
soil; and which, deeply rooted, and with broad spreading
branches, still yield for us their golden fruits. How and under
what circumstances they acquired these valuable ideas which
possessed them, this peculiar fitness for their high destiny as
colonists and founders of empire, is surely a most inviting subject of inquiry.
3. GTLIMPSES OF' THIE FAT.\IERILANDS.
To catch the spirit and genius of the times under review is
to ignore such changes, political, moral, and physical, as three
centuries have wrought; for Europe of to-day is not the Europe
of the sixteenth century. By the light of the historic past, its
wealth of significant fact and incident is more clearly revealed.
In the land of the Huguenots the remote eras of the Gaul, the
Roman, and the Frank yet lived in piquant story, and might be
traced in existing monuments as well as in musty tomes. Still
in popular use were the old provincial names, time-honored and
interwoven with all the history of the country; for not yet had
revolution stripped the French provinces of these means of identity, in its well-conceived but too radical onslaught upon feudal
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rights and institutions. An exhaustless theme, with our Huguenot refugee, was his dear old Picardie, or Artois, or Normandie; the talisman which in his remotest wanderings, e'en till
death closed his exile, recalled all that was endearing in the
word home. In church and state the ancient regime was intact.
The old provincial dynasties which had grown up and flourished
under the feudal system, but whose lines of puissant counts and
dukes were long since extinct, lived even yet in important senses,
not only in monumental stones and structures, and in the local
annals and traditions, but in countless charters, privileges, laws
and usages still prized and cherished by the people. History,
as if to deepen its impress upon the popular heart, had scattered
its monuments over the soil with lavish hand; and around these,
time,-which in the annals of Gaul meant a score of centuries,had woven its weird and marvellous legends, often a tax upon
credulity, but perchance too real: some tale of gallant heroism,
of gentle piety, or dark superstition, touching the heart or quickening the blood, but, whether true or otherwise, a telling paraphrase upon the national traits or instincts. The old baronial
castle proudly rearing its towers was rich in reminiscences of
warlike feudal times. The razing its ponderous walls as material for the mason?-sacriligious thought. Dingy cloisters,
over whose turrets crept venerable ivy, still swarmed with pious
monks, yet had come to be symbolic of that moral darkness which
in the early ages first drove the gentle handmaids' religion and
learning to the covert of such strong and friendly walls. Held
by the masses in profound veneration, they evidenced the singular
religious fervor of the race. But here's a touching emblem, the
cross,- it is coarsely fashioned in stone,-which surprises one
in some rural solitude, but near the highway, so none may fail
to see it, and, kneeling, offer up a paternoster. Mute; yet it
tells, maybe, the affecting tale of some early martyrdom, or of
the gallant brave slain in battle, on this now sacred spot. How
suggestive of that strong, unnatural alliance between war and
religion; whence bloody crusades against Turks, Albigenses, and
Vaudois, and, we may add, the Huguenot wars.
Between the cities or villages all is forest, or heath, or tilled
lands, but alike a solitude, unbroken by cheery farm-houses or
villas; no fences even, but rows of ancient yews, or hedge of
flowering holly or thorn, or yet the natural streams, to mark
the limits of estates. The farmer, however distant his acres,
lives in town or hamlet. The wealth, industry and social life
concentre in teeming cities or towns. These are mostly seated
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on the rivers,-the latter almost the only medium of domestic
trade and travel,-or upon the old Roman ways; cross-roads
were few and neglected. Treasuries of all that was venerable
and curious were these cities. Many had sprung from rude
towns of the Gauls, and owed their first significance to Roman
civilization and law and the architectural and other improvements then introduced,-still attested by noble ruins, found everywhere, of fine structures, besides immense stretches of paved
military roads, bringing the chief places into easier communication. Shut up in massive walls, the city, each within itself,
was a little world, sparing, beyond the necessities of trade, of
any intercourse or sympathy with others around it. The older
portions were easily told, the houses so antique, the streets narrow and crooked, with a gutter running down the centre.
Through others ran canals, lined with vessels receiving or discharging merchandise, and where stood the tiled houses, two or
three stories high, occupied by merchants or traders, who mainly
composed the burghery,-the enterprising and well-to-do middle
class. More pretentious were the mansions of the lords and
gentry,-the upper strata of society; the lower,-the toiling artisans and work people,-tenanting squatty, cottage-like houses,
their low eaves overhanging the humble doorway, with windows,
or little lookouts, not the best for admitting air or sunlight, but
quite large enough in cold or stormy weather, since windowglass was too great a luxury for the poor. But the clergy often
surpassed even the nobility in the richness and comfort of their
abodes, which with monasteries and other houses of the religious
orders, usually well endowed, engrossed a large area within the
cities. Above the clustering gables arose the turrets and crosses
of parish churches not a few, and the lofty spire and pinnacles
of the stately cathedral; witnesses alike to the devotion and
taste of their votaries, but the latter the crowning glory of the
city, whether for the grandeur of its design, or for its wealth of
sculptures, frescoes, and paintings. Within, its lofty solemn
arches inspired the worshiper with reverence and awe; its very
plan, a cruciform, told where his faith should rest; and even
the dumb effigies of the noble dead, recumbent on their costly
tombs in the silent transept, read him a lesson upon his own
mortality. Still, in aid of his devotions, were images, tapers,
and clouds of incense; with "sacred relics" in profusion, accredited with healing power and other miraculous virtues, and
rarely excepting either a piece of "the true cross," or the
denuded bones of the city's ancient patron, and still guardian
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saint. The citadel afforded secure quarters to the royal governor,
who need fear no disaster incident to those times, as insurrection, or those more dreaded from want of skill to cope with them,fire, famine, and pestilence,-which often caused fearful ravages.
But what recuperative energy had these cities, and to what unwonted prosperity they attained, especially in the wool and flax
working districts of the Netherlands and Northern France.
Grand displays characterized the periodical fairs and the frequent
religious festivals. Tournament and feats at arms were the
high sport of the nobility; their pastime, hunting or hawking.
Tennis or ball playing was the great popular game, and dancing
the universal amusement for both sexes. Ancient and often
grotesque customs were kept up with great spirit. Crowning
the rosiere was a usage not only very ancient (instituted by St.
Medard of Noyon, in Picardy, in the fifth century), but pretty
and touching. It was the public presentation of a hat bedecked
with roses to the most exemplary maiden of the town or village.
The entire family of the recipient share the honor. "The crown
of roses," says the Countess de Genlis, "is expected with emotion,
awarded with justice, and establishes goodness, rectitude and
virtue in every family."
One of the cities most closely identified with our refugees
was Amiens. Within its encircling moat and high massive
walls, strengthened at short distances by round abutments and
towers, it was not then the open, airy town it now is, since its
sombre walls have given place to a handsome boulevard; but it
was noted "for the beauty of its buildings, and for the quality,
industry and number of its inhabitants." The city lay south
of the Somme, whose main channel formed a bend around its
northern part known as the Old or Lower Town, where three
branches also entered it under arches in the wall, and which,
diffusing into canals, threaded its narrow streets, here lined by
low and antiquated dwellings and shops, and uniting again on
the western side, escaped by a single outlet at St. Michel's
Bridge. To this portion, which had led Louis XI. to call
Amiens his Little Venice, lay joining southerly a larger part
known as the Upper Town, having broad and quite regular
streets, fine houses, mainly two stories high and of uniform
style, with two spacious squares "where seven fair streets
centred." Henry IV. had built its city hall and citadel, the
latter in the form of a star, with five sharp angles, commanding the northern approach to the city, and though still incomplete, deemed impregnable. But all its fine edifices, the bishop's
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palace not excepted, paled before its grand cathedral, Notre
Dame, pronounced at that time "the fairest and most lovely
structure in the West of Europe." In plan the usual cruciform,
it dated from 1220, when its foundations were laid; excepting
as to its western front, which was of later construction, very
rich in Gothic decorations, and flanked by two massive unfinished
square towers of unequal height. From over the transept arose
a light and airy spire three hundred and seventy feet high. It
would consume too much space to describe its interior magnificence. Among its treasured relics was the decapitated head of
John the Baptist, alleged to have been brought by a Picard
crusader from Constantinople, after its capture in I204. Its
great value consisted in its entire genuineness, though this was
not quite demonstrated till I665, when done in a learned treatise
prepared at the request of the chapter by the great savant of
Amiens, Sieur du Cange! Another relic they had, equally real,
and hardly less valuable,-the finger of "doubting Thomas,"
which had restored his faltering faith by a touch of the Saviour's
wounds! If aught could better show how strong a grasp old
superstitions had upon the popular mind at Amiens, it needed
but a stroll among its numerous abbeys and parish churches, or
through its great cemetery of St. Denis, hard by the cathedral,
where monumental crosses, antique and moss-grown, told the
faith in which slept its dead of many centuries.
Amiens was the city of the brave Ambiani, who having sent
a strong force to oppose the victorious Caesar, were at last obliged to open their gates to this mighty conqueror. Galling as
was the yoke, it was alleviated by the benefits of the Roman
municipal government, with its magistracy and senate, having a
share in enacting the laws and dispensing justice. Upon the
introduction of Christianity the people chose their own bishops,
-a right they had ever since exercised, save when obstructed by
violence or arbitrary rulers. After the Frank conquest, near the
end of the fifth century, the powers of the magistrates were
extended, the senate was opened to all citizens, including the
clergy; and the bishop, whose functions before were scarcely
more than spiritual, became, by the elective vote of the people,
president of the municipal body, and thus was invested with a
temporal authority and a chief influence in all the affairs of the
city. The Frankish kings also established in this, as in other
principal cities, a civil and military governor, called a count,
who exercised the powers of judge. Charlemagne, among other
beneficial changes, created judges called scabini, who were
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elected conjointly by the count, the imperial officers and the people, by which the citizen acquired a new and valued right; tle
political and administrative power being now shared by the
bishop, the count, and these judges. It was the suspension by
the counts in feudal times of this important franchise, with other
abuses of power, that led the burghers of Amiens to form that
compt)act for their protection called the commune. This was
effected at the beginning of the twelfth century (1113), when,
revolting against the encroachments of the count and the exactions of the viscounts which he had arbitrarily substituted for
the judges, the people, excited thereto by the bishop, and sustained by the king, Louis VI., constituted themselves an incorporation, adopting a charter which served as a model for many
other communes in the North of France. "The commune," says
Thierry, "was sovereign, because it had the right of self-government by its proper laws, and the right of life and of death over
all its members; it had, following the language of the ancient
jurisprudence, high, middle, and low justice. Its power, legislative, administrative, and judicial, was delegated by it to a corps
of elective magistrates, renewed each year, and whereof the
head bore the title of mayor (maire), and the members that of
echevin, or the joint titles of echevin and prevot." King Philip
Augustus confirmed these rights by a charter in II90, and this
ancient form of government still subsisted at Amiens. How it
had become a great commercial city, the struggles of its citizens in all the centuries past to preserve their privileges against
domestic and foreign enemies, and countless other incidents of
its history, are not essential to our present design.
The national history counted its centuries before the Christian era; its first known epoch was a barbaric age, devoted to
war and the bloody rites of the Druids, or the religious mysteries
of the Gauls, who, to propitiate their gods, immolated human
captives. The Gauls were then divided into three nations,-the
Belgae, Celtae, and Aquitani; the first being of German extraction, and superior in physique, energy, and courage to the others.
The Gauls told Caesar that the ancestors of the Belgae had crossed
the Rhine at an early date and appropriated the fertile country
north of the Seine and Marne, after driving out the Celtae. These
three nations were subdivided into independent tribes, as the
Nervii, the Ambiani, the Veromandui, the Bellovaci, and the
Suessiones, all of the Belgse, and all tribes of Picardy, except the
Nervii, which lay next northward.
Five centuries of Roman subjugation formed the second
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epoch, during which Gaul was civilized, through the influence
of Roman law, letters and arts, and of Christianity. Clovis,
king of the Franks, overthrew the Roman power in 486, and
founded the monarchy, which, despite many convulsions, had
subsisted for twelve centuries. A dismal period of anarchy
ensued after the death of Clovis, and ended in the dethronement
of his race. It was marked by the corruption of the church,
which had allied itself to the civil power, and by the rise of monasticism, which spread over Northern Gaul in the seventh century.
The monarchy rose to great splendor and the dignity of an
empire under the ambitious but wise Charlemagne, who added
two kingdoms to France. But all this greatness vanished under
his weak successors. Rent by internal dissensions, a general
revolt of the nobles and the inroads of the piratical Normans,
the mushroom empire soon fell asunder; its two acquisitions,
Italy and Germany, resuming their separate existence, while
France proper was resolved into numerous petty governments,
which, ruled by hereditary dukes and counts under what was
styled the feudal system, subsisted for centuries independent of
each other, and so far of the crown as to pay it scarcely a nominal homage. Thus arose among others, in the ninth and tenth
centuries, the proud earldoms or counties of Flanders (from
which Artois was subsequently taken), Hainault, Holland, and
those which afterward united formed Picardy; besides the duchy
of Normandy, founded by Rollo and his Norsemen out of their
rich conquests.
This localization of power causing many domestic wars,with the utter humiliation of the monarchy,-was, for a time, fatal
to social order and progress. But this state of things ultimately
found its remedy, in the perfecting of the feudal system, the
restraining power of the church, the rise of the spirit of chivalry,
and, above all, in the famous Crusades, whose object was to
wrest the land of Palestine from the Mohammedan power. Conceived in a desire to end the cruelties inflicted by the Turks
upon Christians going on pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, and
first set on foot in 1095 by a Picard called Peter the Hermit,
these remarkable expeditions were repeated at intervals during
two centuries. Monarchs took the field, and the chivalry of
France and the Netherlands, including many from Normandy,
Picardy, Hainault, Artois, and Flanders, bore a distinguished
part. Directly productive only of disaster, a prodigious waste
of life and treasure, and naught in return of which to boast,
beside valorous deeds, but a brief occupation of Jerusalem by
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the crusaders, the Crusades, strange as it may seem, ultimately
wrought out results highly beneficial to society. By impairing
the strength and resources of the feudal chiefs, great and small,
who had alike squandered all they had on these costly expeditions, the way was opened to the monarchy to regain, by degrees,
its control; and to the cities, to cast off their allegiance to the
counts or seigniors,-feudal masters, who had long oppressed
them,-and to accept the protection of the king: nor were efforts
for aggrandizement relaxed (a policy begun by Louis VI.,
crowned in IIo8), till, by the use of diplomacy and force,
supremacy had been regained over all the French territory
which had revolted in the ninth century, excepting only the
Netherland provinces lying north of Picardy. These, by a
train of favoring causes, had fallen to the dukes of Burgundy,
and, through them, to the crown of Spain; thus exposing to this
rival power another and more accessible frontier, where no lofty
Pyrenees opposed a difficult barrier, and which in subsequent
wars between them became a principal theatre of hostilities.
But the elevation of the sovereign consequent upon the
Crusades was no more marked than was that of the subject.
Everywhere the bands which held the vassal to his lord were sundered, and the bondman went out free. The dissipated wealth
of the feudal aristocracy had found its way largely into the
coffers of the merchants, shipwrights, mechanics and manufacturers. With the development of their energies and resources
the cities rapidly advanced toward that high state of prosperity
which they long enjoyed, until arrested by the persecutions and
civil wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The church
temporal flourished, or at least the clergy, who became rich and
more arrogant; the churches, with the monasteries or abbeys,already enjoying princely endowments,-had added largely to
their estates from those of the crusaders, who had mortgaged
or sold them to the bishops, etc., and all this was augmented by the
recovery of property alleged to have been stolen by the feudal
lords. From this profusion of wealth at the church's command,
supplemented by generous donations from the noble or affluent
and innumerable offerings by the common people, were built the
magnificent cathedrals of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries;
also countless new monasteries and cloisters. Out of all this
again came benefits other than the spiritual,-which latter we
would not undervalue,-masses of mechanics and workmen had
bread, while the large demand for skilled architects and artisans
became a powerful stimulus to many important branches of art.
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To the various home industries thus created, or quickened, were
added at this period many useful arts,-not to speak of luxuries,
-through the opening of commercial intercourse with the oriental countries by means of the Crusades.
Yet there ensued results of far greater magnitude,-least
anticipated, though essential in the chain of progressive events,when a nation, till then but little given to foreign commerce,
and strangers to distant sea voyages, having become a thoroughly maritime people, through the acquired arts of shipbuilding and of navigating the ocean, found in the opportune discovery of a new western continent so grand a field for exploration
and conquest, and such alluring prospects of wealth, that, joining
in the eager strife to seize and possess these advantages, they
became unwittingly the advanced heralds of our American colonization.
The feudal system, under which during the Crusades and the
many wars of the Middle Ages the military art had acquired
such brilliancy, had crumbled to decay. The chivalry had long
since passed its palmy days; though, still having the shadow of
an existence in the famous semi-religious order of St. John of
Jerusalem, instituted in the Holy City during the Crusades, or,
as afterward called from the island made their retreat and
headquarters, the Knights of Malta; as also in others of more
modern creation,-in France, the Chevaliers des Ordres du Roi,
and in the Netherlands, the Knights of the Golden Fleece.* But
the spirit of chivalry,-born of generous impulses, yet perverted
when the ardent soul of the knight-errant, aglow with martial
fire and thirsting for bold adventure, could be moved to court
any peril, in cause noble or trivial, merely to win an approving
smile from his fair lady-love,-had lost its former prestige, but
had developed a more general and enlightened philanthropy.
Time had stripped feudalism of its essential feature,-the fascinating but onerous military service. The weakened nobility
were no longer to be depended upon by the crown, and the feudal
had given place to a paid soldiery. But while this hard condition of the feudal compact, as regards the vassal, was thus
annulled, much of the martial spirit, and even some of the grosser
features of that system, survived. As the villages had generally
sprung up either upon the estates and about the castles of the
nobility, whose descendants still occupied them and were the
* Chevaliers des Ordres du Roi, or Knights of the King's Orders, was the general designation for the two orders, that of St. Michel, before noticed, and that of the
Holy Spirit, the latter instituted by Henry III., in I578.
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lords of the soil, or about ancient monasteries, which held the
fee of the ample domains on which they were seated, the inhabitants of these villages, mainly tillers of the ground, were largely
tenants either of the nobility or clergy, and many of these peasants "to the manner born" were still under the old vassalage.
In such case the poor ploughman or hedger sighed in vain for
other employment or better wages; virtually tied to the soil, he
was as much a fixture as his humble cottage, or the old village
church where he had been christened, at whose altar he had so
often bowed, and beneath whose shadow, with the forgotten of
ages, his weary frame would rest at last. So oppressive were
these bands, even in Picardy and Normandy, that, waiving the
claim which birth and service gave him upon his lord for protection and support, the bondman would often abandon his home
to carve out a fortune elsewhere. And though at this time the
relation of modern landlord had been widely substituted for that
of the feudal superior, yet so slow was this process, and so strong
a hold had the old system of servitude, that it survived till the
French Revolution, when it was wholly abolished.
The more favored freemen within the cities and towns,imbued with a spirit of progress as yet unfelt by the agricultural
population, and engaged in lucrative pursuits,-bore more easily
the heavy imposts levied by their sovereigns than had their predecessors the severer exactions of feudalism, though not indeed
without many a protest. Society at large also felt their influence, and mainly through their agency had been consummated
the renaissance, as is called that remarkable and universal development, the expansion of industries, the diffusion of knowledge,
the revival of letters and arts; alf accelerated by that crowning
invention, the printing-press. The common mind, liberated and
awakened to higher impulses, ventured to roam in new channels
of thought, touching even the intricate subjects of science, religion
and human rights. Thus was society ripened for the great
moral reform of the sixteenth century, which, as respects France
and the Netherlands, was not more remarkable for the ability
and piety of its advocates, for the breadth and power of its
manifestation, than for the fiery ordeal to which its adherents
were subjected, and the ultimate effects of this severity upon
the welfare of other countries.
Momentous as was this struggle, both in character and consequences, we must confine ourselves to two distinct passages in
its history which bear directly on our subject. The one will show
by what remote causes and influences were gradually developed
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and put in motion the first efforts to plant the seeds of civilization upon the Harlem soil; the other, the circumstances under
which the mass of the Harlem refugees were impelled to leave
France and the Netherlands, involving one of the most affecting
eras in the history of the Huguenots, but which, in view of its
bearing upon our early colonization, has not been given its due
prominence by our local annalists.
CHAPTER II.
AVESNES AND ITS EXILES.
T HE old province of Picardy took in a strip of the coast from
Calais to the river Canche. But its major portion between
the Canche and the Bresle, and through which flowed the Somme,
stretched eastward, wedge-like, from the Channel to Champagne,
having on the north the Walloon provinces of Artois, Cambresis
and Hainault, and on the south Normandy and Isle of France.
Its easterly sections, Thierache and Vermandois, were charmingly diversified by wooded heights, which, however, told of an
earlier age, when the adjacent Forest of Ardennes,-the "Neur
Pai," or "Black Country," of the Walloons,-spread its sombre
shades westward over this region. About these heights four
noted streams took their rise,-the Scheldt and Sambre, watering the Netherlands; the Somme and Oise, rivers of Picardy;
while the hills here diverged in four several chains, or ridges,
which parted the respective valleys or basins of these rivers.
Altogether, these formed a most remarkable feature in the
topography of the country. Often rising to slight elevations,
rarely did these ranges exceed an altitude which in our land
of grander proportions would mark them as but ordinary hills;
yet, with gentle slopes and summits mantled in woods or vineyards,-and here and there some old chateau or castle rising to
view,-they gave a charming variety and beauty to these miniature countries. One range, crossing the eastern borders of the
Cambresis, where it formed the large and venerable forest of
Mourmal, linked with stirring events soon to be noticed, skirted
for some miles the valley of the Sambre; then from northeast
wound about to northwest, cutting in halves the Duchy of Brabant, and parting the basins of the Scheldt and Meuse. Another
chain,-diverging westerly, then northward, till ending at Cape
Gris-Nez, on the Straits of Dover,-formed the bounds between
Picardy and Artois. A third ran southwest, crossing Picardy
obliquely, then westerly through Upper Normandy, to Cape La
Heve, at the mouth of the Seine; while the fourth, stretching
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westward through Thierache to Champagne, formed in part
the series of hills which environed that province and Isle of
France,-the basin of the Seine,-then followed the southern
borders of Normandy to Brittany. Within the shadows, so to
speak, of these several hill ranges,-in Normandy, along the borders of the Somme, in the basin of the Scheldt, and the valley
of the Sambre,-were the homes of nearly all the French refugees,
mostly Picards and Walloons, who came to Harlem.
In most of the externals of a genuine civilization and prosperity, these were much in advance of the districts farther south.
This was due jointly to their greater natural resources, and to the
superior organism and spirit of the people. Artois and Picardy
both abounded in grains, grasses, and fruits; the one significantly called the "Granary of the Netherlands," the other, the
"Storehouse of Paris." Flanders was renowned world-wide for
the products of her looms. Hainault,-the "Saltus Carbonarius"
of the Romans (the coal forest),-was rich, not only in coal,
but in iron, lead and marble; while the grazing lands, cornfields
and orchards of Normandy were in unrivaled repute. More
densely populated than the south, this northern section exhibited
in its people a more manly development, both physical and mental:
in stature, above the average height; and more intelligent, logical,
inventive and industrious; better fed, housed and educated.
While plodding husbandry tamely drove the plow through the
mellow soils of La Beuce and Toureine, gathered her vintages
from Burgundy to Languedoc, and fed her flocks on the green
meadows of Berry and the sterile heaths of Brittany and Les
Landes; in the north, busy trade and manufactures, enlisting all
the energies and resources of people and country, brought to
most a competence and, to many, affluence. And even husbandry, better rewarded for its toil, was more ambitious and
successful.
No class of Gallic blood was more remarkable than the
Walloons,-a people at the present day numbering nearly two
millions, and mainly included within France and Belgium. Time
has wrought but slight change among them, but we needs must
describe them as they were. Theirs was a belt of country extending eastward from the river Lys, beyond both Scheldt and
Meuse, and embracing French or Walloon Flanders, most of
Artois, the Chambresis, Hainault, Namur, Southern Brabant,
and parts of Liege and Luxemburg. Within the last lay the
principality of Sedan, stretched along the east side of the Meuse,
on which the city of Sedan, its strong capital, was seated. A
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fruitful region and, in the sixteenth century, an independent
Protestant state, it attracted many of the persecuted Walloolns
during the religious troubles of that period. The northern
limits of the Walloon country would have been nearly defined
by a line drawn from the city of Liege, on the Meuse, to Calais.
On the south it was bounded by Picardy, Champagne and Lorraine, provinces which in the times referred to composed the
French frontier.*
The Walloons were a hardy, long-lived race, tall, stout, and
muscular; in which respects, quite unlike the ordinary French,
they compared better with their neighbors, the Flemings, but
again were readily distinguished from the latter both by their
physiognomy and their speech, which last was a crude French
patois, spoken by them unchanged for centuries, and still in
common use among them. Of strong intellects, manly bearing, a sagacious, practical and laborious people, they were also
noted for the plainness of their tastes, manners and dress.
These several traits were clearly traceable to their ancestors, the
old Belgxe, their descent from whom was also unmistakable in
their coolness and pertinacity, so in contrast with the excitability and fickleness characterizing the French of proper Celtic
blood. It was these qualities, combined with a natural love of
arms, and the courage inherited from their ancestors,-whom
Caesar describes as the bravest of all the Gauls,-that made the
Walloons such famous soldiers. Ever tenacious of their rights,
and thus excessively litigant, they were yet hospitable and social,
possessing much of the French vivacity. In domestic life they
lacked no element of solid, homespun comfort: the plain, substantial domicile, roofed with tile or thatch; a bare floor, but
genial hearth stone, with ample pile of blazing wood, or turf,
as it suited; the oaken board, set with brown ware or pewter,
* The term Walloon is derived from the word Gaul, which the Germans, by an
etymological substitution of W for the Latin G, changed into Wahl, and in the plural
Whalen; the low Dutch making it Waal and Waalen. But we observe that both German and Dutch, in speaking of the Walloons, more commonly used the adjective form,
saying the Walsche-that is, the Walsche people. The old Germans applied this term
indiscriminately to all the Romanized people along their western and southern borders,
not the Gauls only, but the Romans; giving their several countries the name of
Walschland, as the Germans designate Italy even to this day; and which term is also
traceable in the Swiss canton of Vallais, in the old canton of Berne, north of Lake
Leman, or Geneva (embracing the Pays, now canton, of Vaud), and (skipping the
two provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, early overrun by German tribes) as far to the
north as Walloon Brabant. The French themselves used the term Walloon (by them
written Wallon, or Ouallon) only with reference to the French-speaking people. of
Belgic descent, occupying their northern frontiers, within the Walloon country. The
term Walsche was so restricted by the Hollanders; and by Walschland, or Walslant,
as they wrote it, they meant the Walloon country, and not the more distant Pays de
Vaud, as was wrongly held by Mr. Vanderkempt, who should have been better informed, in making his translation of the Dutch records at Albany. Almost any of the
old Dutch' histories will show the correct usuage, but one will suffice: Van Meteren,
Amsterdam, i652, fo 1.40, etc.
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with goodly supply of simple, wholesome food,-this satisfied
the Walloon ambition in the line of living. Song, or instrumental music, of which they were excessively fond, commonly
enlivened the social hour. They were very devout, and, as a
people, intensely attached to the Roman ritual.
The Walloon emigrations of the sixteenth century, already
referred to, went largely by way of the Scheldt, the Meuse, and
their affluents, to Holland. Skirting interiorwise the districts
which were the homes of our refugees, the Meuse flowed northerly, then swept westward around Brabant, reaching the sea by
several outlets between the insular parts of South Holland. It
is unsurpassed for bold and grand scenery, which beginning
near Sedan, is heightened to the sublime as it reaches Namur,
where the Sambre enters it. Towering walls of rock, now bare,
now clad in rich foliage, rise on either side; while here and
there huge cleft or ravine opens to view some far-reaching and
romantic vale, or dark unfathomed dell,-fitting retreat either
for fabled sprites or fairies, or stern feudal chiefs, who once took
tribute of each passing vessel. Weird stories are woven around
its fantastic forms and crumbling castles; for example, the
popular legend of the Fox and Wolf, drawn seemingly from that
fierce encounter of the year 900, when the shrewd Renard,
Count of Hainault, with his compatriots, slew the tyrant Zwendibold, King of Lorraine. But stranger tales were those of the
sixteenth century, of crafts richly freighted,-but not with merchandise,-stealing down its favoring current, bearing the victims
of persecution, Protestant Walloons from the adjacent districts,
to a land of safety. One such family of exiles will claim our
notice and enlist our sympathies.
The famed and picturesque Sambre was a principal branch
of the Meuse, and had its sources in that wild corner of Picardy
called Thierache, which joined upon Hainault. Flowing northerly, it entered the province just named, near the border of the
Cambresis, soon passing the city of Landrecy; whence taking
its course northeasterly through a rugged, wooded country, it
left again the confines of Hainault before joining the Meuse.
A league below Landrecy it received the Petit Hepre, and, several miles beyond, the Grand Hepre; these sister streams gently
coursing their way, in nearly parallel currents, down from the
principality of Chimay, a few leagues eastward. Between these
two streams lay the land of Avesnes, an ancient baronial estate,
whose chief town, seated on the Grand Hepre, six miles from
its mouth and eight leagues directly south of Mons, is one with
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the present Avesnes, capital of an arrondissement of the same
name in the department Du Nord, France. Paris is I23 miles
to the southwest.
The town lay mainly upon the left, or south bank, of the
river, which was not navigable, and within an uneven but, here,
quite open country, save that to the north of the town the view
was intercepted by the Hedge of Avesnes, as was popularly called
a line of pretty heights studded with forest trees, a spur of the
historic Ardennes, and which followed the course of the stream
westward to the Sambre.
This old town dated from the eleventh century, when Werric,
surnamed"With the Beard," a bold feudal chieftain, lord of Leuze,
near the Haine,-and who had inherited the lands between the
two Hepres, given to his ancestor by the Count of Hainaut,erected a castle upon the most northerly of these streams, midway between its outlet and the even then venerable abbey of
Liessies, which was seated on the same stream six miles above
the castle. About this castle the town had grown up. As a
"key of Hainault," it was guarded with jealous care by the later
counts, its lords paramount; but cut off, in a manner, by the
"Hedge," was much exposed to aggression from the French border, which was less than two leagues distant. Nor was it spared,
during a long period in which its ownership was vested in titled
subjects of France, from too often becoming common plunder
ground; since among these warlike proprietors were some of
the most renowned knights of the chivalric ages, whose varied
and often stern fortunes it had largely shared. But at the period
of which we write it had withstood the rude blasts of five centuries; trusting to the old Latin chronicle left by Baudouin of
Avesnes, who laid him to rest in I289.
The old clock in the belfry, that so faithfully struck the hour,
was not all that was striking about the town: equally so, to the
eye, was the prevailing architecture,-plain, durable, betraying its
Walloon character, if not a high antiquity. Solid as the old
stone houses at our Kingston or Hurley, built by the Walloon
settlers, few of the buildings were grand, or even ornamental;
and the streets were ill-arranged, —only one, near and parallel
with the river, running its whole length, crossed midway by
another at right angles,-while most of the other angles were anything but right; and around the venerable cathedral St. Nicholas,
in the eastern, and plainly the oldest, section of the town, some of
its "squares" took the most eccentric and original forms,-circular, wedge-like and awry! Yet, "oppidum elegans admodum
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ct cclcbar," says a learned monk of I655,-"a very handsome and
celebrated town."
Many things at Avesnes, surviving its partial ruin by Louis
XI., in 1477, still wore both a militant and a religious aspect.
The remains of the old feudal castle, hoary with age; the smithy
of the armorer, whose forge and skill could fit you a trusty
blade or battle-axe, a helmet or a coat of mail; the significant
sign-board, on which the Walloon youth, ambitious of arms,
read in rouche francais, his own rude patois, "Sword and Halberd
Taught Here." It had its sacred crosses, its religious houses, and
its collegiate church, or cathedral, already named, the latter en(lowed in I534 with a chapter,-or dean, provost, and dozen
canons,-through the benevolence and piety of the Lady of
Avesnes, Louise l'Albret, widow of its former proprietor, Lord
de Croy. Here were convents of the Franciscans, both of monks
and nuns, mendicants whose austere life and vow of poverty gave
them great favor with the people; and here also was a congregation seculiere, or society of Beguines, a less strict order, composed of worthy matrons passing their waning years in partial
seclusion from the world, in teaching the young, and in works
of charity. Devout indeed were its people, Catholics of a loyal
type, as was apparent from the number and reputed wealth of
the clergy, and the many abbeys and chapters supported by the
country at large, from which their superior, the ducal archbishop of Cambray, drew a liberal stipend.
Traces of a former vassalage were yet visible among this
people; but the innumerable wars that had marked their history
had served to foster the martial spirit and love of liberty derived
from their ancestors. Yet how cramped the ideas of liberty
among a people so intolerant of opinions opposed to the teachings of the church, so submissive to lords and masters not of
their owen choosing, but holding by inheritance, or marriage, or
even by purchase! But now they were drawn to worthier pursuits than the shedding of blood,-to productive industry; and
mainly to those solid and useful branches of labor, in a degree
peculiar to the Hainaulters, and well suited to develop their
large and sinewy frames, and to form the positive characteristics
the Walloons possessed. They wrought in timber, iron, and stone,
and the fine, white sculptor's marble found in their quarries.
Others worked the collieries, tanneries and potteries scattered
over the district, or in mills for expressing vegetable oils from
flax and rape seed and beech mast. The abundant forests supplied building timber, firewood and charcoal for a large traffic.
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The pastures nourished some flocks and herds. Sheep-rearing
and flax-growing bave activity to the woolen and linen workers,
whose looms or spinning-wheels in their accustomed niches il
the owners' dwellings rarely ceased their hum or clatter in working hours.
The well-preserved annals of Avesnes gave witness to the
warlike proclivities of its feudal lords, around whom, as its centre and soul, all its history clustered. Their brilliant exploits,
rehearsed by admiring vassals, and transmitted down from age
to age in legend and song,-what a stimulus to that courage and
martial spirit to which we have alltuded! A famous roll it was,
of these lords and dames of eighteen generations, who had ruled
Avesnes since Werric-with-the-Beard reared his castle there, and
all of whom could boast his Belgic blood.
It told of bold Thierry, son of Werric, whose hache, or axe,
subdued (and whence its name) the adjoining district, Thierache; of his nephew and successor, Goswin d'Oisy, proud castellan of Cambray, who essayed to strengthen Avesnes and bid
defiance to his liege lord of Hainault, only submitting after a
fierce battle of three days on the banks of the Sambre; of the
equally stern warrior, Gautier Plukellus, who had succeeded his
uncle Goswin, and was slain, 1147, in an attack on the castle at
Mons; also of his son Nicholas, who built the castle at Landrecy, and his son, Jacques d'Avesnes, "the most renowned,
wealthy and daring knight of this country," and a famous crusader, who in II9I fell in battle in the Holy Land, fighting the
Saracens under Saladin. Among the succeeding lords were
two Hughs, counts of St. Paul, also Louis Count of Blois, who
was slain at the disastrous battle of Cressy, whither he went to
oppose the invading English, with his wife's father, the gallant
Sir John de Hainault, whose fame is sung by Froissart. Sad
the story which was related of a son of Louis, the brave and
generous Guy,-one of the most affluent of the lords of Avesnes,
-who, forced to sell his inheritance of Soissons to effect his
release when a dreary captive in England, and, later, his earldom
of Blois, to satisfy luxurious living, died in I397, in comparative
penury, at Avesnes; this estate passing to his cousin John of
Brittany, son of the unlucky Charles of Blois, who, in famous
contest to establish his right to Brittany, had lost both his duchy
and his life at the battle of Auray. A granddaughter of John
of Brittany, Frances, Dame or Lady of Avesnes, gave his estate,
with her hand, to Allan d'Albret, one of the most puissant nobles
of France, and after her death the unsuccessful suitor of the
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much-wooed duchess, Anne of Brittany, subsequently the wife
of two kings. It was Louise, Lady of Avesnes, Lord Alain's
daughter, who, in I495, by wedding Charles de Croy, Prince of
Chimay, placed the Land of Avesnes in possession of the Croys.
The latter was an old Picard family; but when Picardy was under
Philip, Duke of Burgundy, Jean de Croy, grandsire of Charles,
attached himself to that potent duke, who made him a knight of
the Golden Fleece, when he first instituted that order at Bruges,
in I430. Charles took his title from the estate of Chimay, to
which he fell heir, in 1482, on the death of his father Philip,
and which was erected into a principality four years later by
the Emperor Maximilian, whose son Philip, King of Spain, conferred on the new prince the additional honors of the Golden
Fleece. It was a singular pride,-a result of their training under
the feudal relation,-felt by the subjects in such marks of distinction bestowed on their chief; and how often told and retold as
household stories. And further, that the prince had held the infant
Charles V. at the baptismal font, and given him his name, and
subsequently received from that emperor and king a costly helmet, wrought in silver and gold; and how after him his family
enjoyed substantial proofs of that monarch's favor. Frances,
Lady of Avesnes, eldest daughter and heiress of the prince,
marrying her kinsman, Philip de Croy,-for their parents were
cousins,-the latter took the estates on the death of his fatherin-law, in 1527, the next year further securing the land of Avesnes to his house by a release obtained from Henry d'Albert, King
of Navarre, cousin to his wife, and grandfather of Henry IV.
of France.
Since Avesnes fell to the house of Croy, no less than five
wars between France and Spain had successively convulsed these
exposed borders. In the earlier of these contests, Philip de Croy,
now Prince of Chimay and Knight of the Fleece, rendered important service with his Walloon troop; and Charles V., in 1533,
showed his love for his "nephew" by giving him the title of
Duke of Arschot, from an estate he held in Brahant. In the
destructive war of I543, armies of Francis I. overran this part
of Hainault, holding Landrecy against a siege of six months,
conducted by Charles in person; but peace ensuing the next
year, France restored to Spain its several conquests. Soon after
this Landrecy was detached from Avesnes, and ceded to the
crown by the Duke of Arschot, who meanwhile had been created
a grandee of Spain. After his decease, in I549, leaving his heirs
such rich possessions and dignities, the family of Croy became
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"of greatest revenue and authority of any in Belgium." Philip,
second duke, now enjoying his father's titles and estates, including Avesnes, had great influence in governmental affairs, as had
also his brother, Charles Croy, Marquis of Havre, in Hainault;
in which province their no less proud and aspiring cousins, the
Counts Lalain, seemed born to the gubernatoral seat. Great
destinies were in the grasp of this influential family. Time was
to eliminate, as one of the results, an humble transatlantic enterprise, to which some of their born subjects were to contribute.
Hainault was to have its share in that bloody struggle with
despotism which rent the Netherlands in the sixteenth century.
Spain now ruled these provinces as with a rod of iron. This
policy began with Charles V., and culminated under his son,
Philip II. One oppressive measure after another, subversive
of their civil rights, had reduced the inhabitants to a subjection
well-nigh absolute.
The religious reform which was rife in France and Germany
had also spread through the Netherlands, but met with deadly
opposition from the ruling powers, civil and ecclesiastical, being
subjected to every cruel means for its suppression that these
could exert, among which was the infamous system of espionage
and torture known as the Spanish Inquisition. The Walloons
were of all others most inveterate in their religious attachments;
but being essentially French, and living in close proximity to
France, the Calvinistic views had found early entrance among
them and made many warm adherents. As a people, their loyalty
to the crown had been much shaken by the grave inroads upon
their ancient rights and form of government. The Walloon,
ever impatient of subjection,-whence the boastful proverb, that
"Hainault is subject only to God and the sun,"-beheld with
the utmost jealousy his country brought under the dominion of
foreign tyrants, every part of it swarming with Spanish soldiers,
whose presence and arrogance so spirited a people could ill
brook; while the vile Inquisition, thrust upon them and working dismay and death among those indulging the new doctrines,
was repulsive and terrible, even to many of the Catholics themselves.
At Avesnes, which since the year I559 had had a Spanish
garrison, the new religion found no toleration; yet, nevertheless,
some of its worthy people, members of its old De Forest family
included, had embraced the new faith, though this exposed
them to imminent peril; for woe to him who dared avow that
heresy or quit the old church.
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Beyond the Sambre, within the borders of the Cambresis,
was the handsome forest of Mourmal, consisting of heights
covered with oaks. With a breadth of six miles it stretched
northward as many leagues, from the bounds of Vermandois in
Picardy, to near Bavay, the ancient capital of the Nervii. At
its western edge, on the Selle, an effluent of the Scheldt, five
leagues from Cambray and two west of Landrecy, stood the small
city of Le Cateau, or The Castle, so called from its very old
tower, built by Bishop Erluin. The Cambresis being a fief of
the German empire, Le Cateau, through the favor of the emperors, had long enjoyed immunities and privileges of which
its citizens were justly proud.
For the space of some years many of its good burghers and
their families had talked together freely and earnestly about the
Holy Scriptures; but with great secrecy, fearing persecution, if
it were known to any not in sympathy with them. Unobserved,
they made visits to the neighborhood of Bohain, a city up the
Selle, in Vermandois, to hear the evangelical preaching; also
to Tupigny, in Thierache, and even as far as Crespy, near Laon,
and Chauny, on the Oise; only to return with stronger faith
in the gospel plan as found in the Scriptures, and utterly dissatisfied with their old belief. The new doctrines thus spread
quietly but surely, and the whole town was leavened with them.
So it stood when Archbishop De Berghes, who was lord
temporal as well as spiritual of the Cambresis, in order to check
the growing disaffection of the church, fulminated an edict
against the practice of attending the so-called Reformed preaching, reading heretical books, or chanting the psalms of Marot
and Beza. To this little regard was paid, and two years passed
by. Then it was repeated, and its execution enjoined upon all
magistrates. A case was soon found. Certain burghers, who
with their wives and children had attended the preaching of
Rev. Pincheart, at Honnechy, a village south of Le Cateau, near
Premont, on the line of Picardy, were tried and sentenced to be
banished. This, and other attacks by the archbishop's officers
upon the rights of the people of Le Cateau, led to popular meetings and strong remonstrances on the part of the latter. The
numbers of the Reformed meanwhile had rapidly increased, and
Rev. Philippe, minister of the church of Tupigny, by invitation
preached for them many times in the faubourgs of the city, and
organized a church, with a consistory of ten members. On
August I8th, 1566, a deputation from the archbishop visited the
town, and held grand mass in the Church of St. Martin, when
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Dr. Gemelli harangeued the people, threatening them, should
they not at once return to the Roman Church and make peace
with the archbishop, with a ruin as dire as that which overwhelmed Jertsalem. Then a conference was held in the townhall; but the appeals of the learned doctor fell powerless upon
men who valued God's truth more than an archbishop's favor.
Two days after this, the Dean of Avesnes, anxious for some of
his own flock who had left his fold, visited Le Cateau on his
return from an interview with the archbishop, and reiterated
in the ears of the burghers what dangers hung over them all,
the good with the evil; but to all his arguments they gave
so brave a response from the Scriptures that he accomplished
nothing.
In the midst of many trials of patience, from the repeated
interference of the castellan and magistrates with the exercise
of their religion, the news reached Le Cateau August 25th, from
Valenciennes, a large Walloon town fifteen miles northwarl,
that the people there had cast out all the images, relics, and
other symbols of Romanism from their churches, and that the
same had also been done in many other cities. This startlirn
intelligence brought together that evening a large concourse of
people, with torches, in the cemetery of St. Martin, to discuss
this new condition of affairs. Very early the next morning Rev.
Philippe arrived, and meeting with the consistory at the house
of Claude Raverdy, it was resolved, after discussion, to follow
the example of those of Valenciennes, and clear the churches of
the objects deemed offensive, beginning at St. Martin's. So to
St. Martin's they went, Philippe and a few others, pulled down
the images and altars, and burnt them, with all their ornaments,
and the missals, anthem books and others relating to the mass;
the like being done in all the other churches, both in the city and
faubourgs. This ebullition of iconoclastic zeal has been much
condemned; but if the Reformed, where largely in the majority,
as at Le Cateau, claimed the right to order their worship as best
pleased them, who may question it?
After this work of expurgation, a large number of the citizens gathered in the Church of St. Martin to hear a sermon from
Rev. Philippe; many others also from the neighboring villages
being present, who had come to the grain market. He also
baptized three infants, and in the afternoon another.
Though the citizens, Reformed and Catholics, had wisely
agreed not to harm each other on account of religion, the succeeding months were those of great public excitement. Two
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Huguenots being held prisoners in the neighboring village of
Troisville by the castellan and echevins of Le Cateau, David Du
Four and others went with arms and liberated them. These
magistrates, finding themselves powerless, retired to Cambray,
leaving the field to the Reformed. The latter chose new municipal officers, and put the city in a better state of defense. Pastor Philippe continued his services at St. Martin's. Three
couples were joined in marriage December I5th, one of the
brides being the daughter of Jean De Forest, then living at Le
Cateau. On Christmas the church, to their joy, celebrated the
Lord's Supper in the city; whereas hitherto they had gone to
Valenciennes, or to Premont or Tupigny, and even as far as St.
Quentin and Laon.
The next spring, a terrible stroke, planned by the archbishop,
fell upon Le Cateau. On March 24th, 1567, two hundred cavaliers, led by the noted Count of Mansfield, soon after made
Governor of Avesnes, surrounded the city. The gates being
secured, the people made a good defense from the ramparts,
pastor Philippe going from gate to gate to encourage them.
But an entrance being gained through treachery, the city was
taken. Philippe and his deacon were the first victims: the one,
after a cruel beating, was hung; the other, beheaded. The
pastor's wife was subjected to gross treatment. Many executions followed during the ensuing month. One was that of
David Du Four, before named. He was a tailor at Le Cateau,
and only twenty-two years of age. But on his examination he
with firmness declared that "he paid more regard to his salvation and to God, than to men." He and four others were hung,
on April 9th. The Reformed who saved their lives were now in
great affliction. An oath of fidelity to the archbishop and the
Roman Church being imposed on the citizens, such as could not
take it were expelled from the city. The Reformed Church, if
it survived there, existed only in secret.
Hope was awakened the following year. The persecutions
under the royal governor, the bloody Duke of Alva, had become
so insufferable that, in 1568, the more northerly provinces broke
out in revolt, and took up arms under the lead of that noble
patriot, William of Orange. Fortune at first did not favor, and
the prince, with a depleted but heroic band, concluded to join
the Huguenot army in France. Passing Le Cateau, he "obtained a slight and easy victory" over the Spaniards at that
place. But the city being well defended by the archbishop's
soldiers, and Alva pressing hard on his rear, the great patriot,
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whose triumph yet lay in the future, was constrained to pass on.
Brighter were the prospects when, eight years later, the
Walloons struck for their liberties. Unable longer to bear the
outrages heaped upon them, these at length appealed to arms,
joining the Flemings and Hollanders in the effort to drive the
Spaniards from the country; for which a formal league was
made at Ghent, November 8th, I576. Sustained by "almost all
the nobility of Hainault and Artois," the Walloon people,
Catholic and Reformed, joined heartily in the common cause.
With the latter class, now numerous, especially in the cities and
towns on and near the Scheldt, this struggle was of highest import, not only appealing to their patriotism, but holding out the
promise of religious toleration in case victory crowned their arms.
But this gleam of hope, bright as a passing meteor, was equally
transient. The struggle was maintained but two short years,
when the Walloon leaders, cajoled by royal emissaries, and excited to jealousy of their compatriots, the Dutch, first refused to
contribute further of men or means; then renounced the confederacy, and privately formed a separate league, January 6th,
I579, in which Walloon Flanders, Artois, and Hainault uniting,
promised to stand by the king and adhere to holy church. In
a reconciliation with the king, and renewal of their allegiance
which followed on September 4th ensuing, the heads of the
provinces aforesaid pledged themselves to extirpate hersy.
Thus a death-blow was given to Walloon liberty, while the
Spanish cause secured the active support of the Catholic Walloons, both nobles and people; turning their weapons against
their deserted friends, the Hollanders and Flemings, in their life
and death struggle. Indeed, the king found no readier recruits
nor better soldiers than the Walloons; "a people," says a contemporary writer, "taking delight in war, and whom the Spaniards
might safely make use of in all dangers."
As a sequence, Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, and other provinces, by a union published at Utrecht, January 29th, I579,
formed the free republic known as the Seven United Provinces;
achieving their independence after a long and obstinate struggle.
But the remaining Netherlands, part unwilling, part unable to
shake off their fetters, relapsed into a more servile bondage to
Spain and the Papacy. By the king's great clemency, the Protestant Walloons were allowed two years in which either to return
to the bosom of the church or leave the country. Shut up to this
alternative, thousands sought safety in exile.
Arschot, and the Croys and Lalains, all deeply implicated in
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the late revolt against the Spaniards, whom at heart they devoutly hated, were yet among the most active in promoting the
submission of I579; and now the Spanish cause had nowhere
more zealous partisans. And they were pledged to root out the
new religion, toward which they had only waxed more bitter
since their cousin Antoine de Croy had embraced it and attached
himself to the fortunes of Admiral Coligny; and another kinsman, William Robert, Prince of Sedan, had generously opened
his gates to their persecuted and fleeing subjects, with whose
faith and trials he was in sympathy. How opposite a character
the Duke of Arschot, the ambitious, selfish courtier, whose frown
was to be dreaded by the Huguenots, mnore especially those who,
living on his own domains, were directly subject to his imperious
will
In the keeping of such were the destinies of Avesnes. The
region round had indeed felt the blighting effects of the late
war. It was invaded in the spring of 1578 by Don John, Alva's
successor, who, advancing from eastward up the valley of the
Sambre with his destroying arlny, captured the chief places in
revolt, as far as Berlaimont, eight miles northwest of Avesnes,
with many small towns "colnmodious for quartering the army;"
then again moving eastward, he took Beaumont, a seat of the
Duke of Arschot, six miles south of the Sambre; also Chimay,
in which was the voung prince, the duke's son, and his troop
of horse, these, by courtesy, being allowed to march out with
their carbines. Then storming Philipville, the Don departed,
leaving his general, Gonzaga, with horse and infantry, to guard
these frontiers,-a duty he well performed, dispersing several parties from France coming to the aid of the Belgian patriots, while
he also scoured and wasted the country to the very corn-crops in
the field.
But this was as nothing to a people inured to the chances of
war, or the general impoverishment to which they were now reduced, while there was hope of deliverance. But upon the igno-.
minious submission of the Walloon nobles to the Spanish yoke,with the crushing blow thus given to the cause of patriotism and
religious liberty; and the successes of the Spanish arms in the
Cambresis, which reduced the few places still held by the malcontents, to whom no mercy was shown,-the Reformed realized
their desperate situation, and hastened to act upon the proffered
alternative, abjuration or flight!
Deeply involved in these trying scenes were some of the De
Forests already noticed, and of whom much remains to be said.
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The family, judging from its numbers, had been some time
settled at Avesnes, where members of it still resided many years
later. So much is well attested, though there is no redundance
of details. Of Avesnes we have drawn the sketch as it had
been and now was; the little world beyond which, probably, they
they had never far roamed, till forced to it by the untoward circumstances here related. Past are those blithe and buddling years,
spent in childish gambols along its rippling streams and through
its oaken groves; or in listening to those winning tales of olden
times about the lordly tenants of the castle,-whose gray, dilapidated walls still linked so closely the present with the past,
till its martial annals were as household words. M aturer life,
with its stern realities, has also brought more tender attachments and domestic cheer, as Heaven's kind gifts, and the fruits
of arduous but welcome toil,-and which, despite life's corroding
cares, have multiplied the ties of home, kindred and friendships, which now can grow neither stronger nor clearer. But
what a change in the times and in our family's prospects? They
have heard, have embraced those soul-saving truths, revealed, as
they believe, from heaven; and, leaving the confessional and the
mass,-altars at which they had so blindly knelt,-have cast in
their lot with the devout but despised Huguenots. Their kindred
adhering only more closely to the old church, caused a wide
breech: and would it were only in sentiment! Dangers surround
the Huguenot portion, and the safety of themselves and little ones
of tender years depends upon an immediate flight. In the face
of grave difficulties they have renounced the altars and faith of
their fathers; and what heart-struggles it had cost them none may
realize but those who are led to relinquish a belief in which they
have been trained and educated from youth to manhood. Now
they lack not courage to accept the issue, to follow the utmost
mandate of duty, though home endearments must give place to
a painful exile. Noble proof of their faith and piety!
Sedan, on the Mieuse, whither many were going, offered the
nearest retreat; and thither also went the De Forests, by way of
the French border, some sixty miles southeastward. Though the
exact date of their exode has not been found, collateral circumstances assign it to the period directly succeeding the Walloon submission. Not to anticipate the important role reserved
for this exiled family when they shall again come to our notice,
under better auspices, we dare venture an opinion that it will
justify this effort, imperfect though it be, to illustrate the more
obscure portion of their history.
CHAPTER III.
OUR SIETTLERS FROM FRANCE AND WALSLANT.
AN eventful century in the affairs of France had rolled its
round since the collegiate halls of the Sorbonne at Paris
echoed the first notes of the Reformation, uttered by the learned
and inspired Le Fevre. That period, radiant with hope and
promise, which directly followed the accession of Francis I., and
in which the Reformed doctrines,-joyfully embraced by the sober,
thinking classes,-were rapidly disseminated over all France, had
been succeeded (I525) by terrible persecutions, when at times the
whole land seemed fairly to reek with the blood of martyrs.
Forced thereto in self-defense, the Huguenots took up arms in
I562, whence ensued a ruthless civil war, which raged, with only
brief intervals, for over thirty years, during the reigns of Charles
IX., Henry III., and, in part, of Henry IV. Assuming, as then
and there was unavoidable, the double character of a politicoreligious conflict, which involved in its toils king and clergy,
noblesse and people, these long-protracted and bloody wars exhausted the country and reduced it to the verge of ruin. Only
by this heroic stand, however, were the Huguenots able to maintain even a recognized existence in the land; but when the King
of avarre, their old leader,-distinguished on many a battlefield,-had fought his way to the throne, as Henry IV., he issued
in 1598 that famous decree for the pacification of his kingdom,
called the Edict of Nantes, which threw its protecting aegis over
the Huguenots, and gave them a season of peace and prosperity
such as they enjoyed at no other period. A knowledge of what
this edict pledged, and how its pledges were violated in the
succeeding reigns, will help us to understand the proper status of
the Huguenots in the time of our refugees.
The edict was based on a limited toleration, but was "the
best that the state of the times allowed." It declared a full
amnesty, conceded to the Huguenots liberty of conscience, made
them eligible to all public offices and dignities, and for their protection provided special chambers within the local parliaments,
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the chief being the "Chamber of the Edict," in the Parliament
*of Paris. They were allowed to build and maintain churches
and schools in all places where these had been permitted by
former edicts. But this did not apply to episcopal or any walled
cities, saving only La Rochelle and a few other strongly Huguenot towns, which for their security they were suffered to hold
under the edict. Further, all lords, nobles, and other persons
of the pretended Reformed religion, holding a tenure by knight's
service, or having the powers of a civil and criminal magistrate
within their seigniory or manor, might, after due notice to the
king's officers, and having the place registered, hold religious
services at their principal residence, or cause them to be held for
their families, subjects and all who wished to attend.
The last was a most important concession. The places otherwise assigned the Reformed in which to erect churches and
schools were but few and scattered, and to multitudes in distant
localities proved of no benefit; but under the friendly shelter
of private castles and manor-houses many suspended churches
could be regathered and new ones organized; as was done;
though often only by persistent effort and in the face of violent
opposition, because the Reformed worship was seldom tolerated
nearer any sizable town than from three to five miles, and for its
peaceful enjoyment the faithful were often obliged to journey as
many leagues. Laboring under the same disabilities in regard
to schools, it was creditable to their parental fidelity that the
secular education of their children was cared for equally with
their religious training; and hence we notice that nearly all of
our refugees had enjoyed advantages and were good penmen.
Under the edict the Reformed were not exempt from such burdens and annoyances as the payment of tithes to the parish
priest, and the closing of their business places and suspension
of all out-door and noisy labor on the oft-recurring festival days,
when they must join in decorating the fronts of their houses in
honor of the occasion, or permit it to be done by the official persons,-and to all which it was dangerous to object.
Briefly, these were the advantages enjoyed by the Huguenot
population under the edict, during the halcyon days of Henry
the Great. But trouble began with his assassination, in I6Io,
an event which excited the utmost alarm among the Reformed,
who in the change of rulers saw reason to apprehend a change
of policy fatal to their interests. In vain the queen-mother, as
regent, in the name of the young Louis XIII., as also that king
himself, on assuming the reins of power in 1614, tried to allay
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these fears by professing a purpose to maintain the Edict of
Nantes. Concini, an Italian favorite, being elevated to the
position of prime-minister, the government from the first was
wholly under Jesuit influence,-which was regaining itself in the
country; while the king, in I6I5, by the arbitrary dissolution
of the old States-General or national parliament, that "guardian of the public liberty," for which he substituted an assembly composed of more pliant materials. plainly foreshadowed the
imperious policy which he had marked out, and by which he
sought to centre all power in himself; thus giving caste to an
administration characterized by a French writer of that day as
"the most scandalous and dangerous tyranny that perhaps ever
enslaved a state."
Soon followed the predicted change of policy touching the
Huguenots, which, first planned by the Archbishop of Paris, was
now seconded by the ambitious Charles (I'Albert, Duke de
Luynes, who, with the blood of Concini fresh upon his hands, had
supplanted the latter in the favor of the king and also as primeminister. It was to humble the Huguenots and take away their
power of self-protection, by wresting from them their fortified
towns and their political organization, which latter Henry IV.
had sanctioned as a means of conserving their interests, through
their general assemblies. The new government looked with
jealousy upon these assemblies, some of whose acts at this feverish
juncture were dictated rather by passion than cool judgment;
and these indiscretions were made a ground for the high-handed
course to which the government now resorted.
At the bare mention of the new policy, which the Catholic
pulpits everywhere zealously lauded, all the old animosity
against the Reformed again burst forth, bearing fruit in numerous acts of violence, both in the towns and rural districts. The
first aggressive step taken by the king was in I620, when he
ordered the Catholic worship to be restored in Bearn, a part of
Southern France, where for sixty years the Reformed had been
the only region. Being opposed, as a flagrant breach of the
edict, the king invaded Bearn to enforce his decree by the
bayonet. The Huguenots flew to arms, the cautionary cities acting with great spirit; and war desolated the Protestant communities of Bearn, Guienne and Languedoc. The royal arms
were only too successful. But Montpellier, chief city of I,anguedoc, having been taken by siege, and the regiments of Picardy
and Normandy set at work to level its defenses, here a peace
was proposed, and concluded October 19th, 1622. Only La
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Rochelle and IMontauban, of all their strong lplaces, now remained
to the Huguenots.
Deeply interested were the Reformed at the north in the
struggles of their co-religiouists in arms; and scarce dissembling
their sympathies, they feared as accomplices, being "given over
to the hatred of the governors, the military commandants, the
priests and the plopulace.' Mlob outrage was common the fine
temple at Charenton, near Paris, was pillaged and( burned, though
rebuilt, at the public charge, after peace had been established.
The government disarmed the Huguenots of St. Quentin and
others in Picardy, many of whom, in 1621, retired to Geneva,
Sedan and England.
The hollow peace, as it proved, was ignore(l by Cardinal
Richelieu, who became prime-minister in 1624. His grand idea,
the unity of France and the supremacy of the church and monarchy, involved the prosecution of the war against the Huguenots;
and the restless state of that people became the pretext. La
Rochelle must be reluced, and was at length invested by powerful
armies. The resistance was heroic, lasting a year and three
months, while half its population died of famine and disease.
Then it was forced to capitulate, October 28th, 1628.
Great excitement prevailed during this siege among the
Huguenots at the north, who, under the guise of visiting, attending weddings, etc., often met to confer together about their
affairs. Hence exaggerated rumors which reached the king's
camp, of conspiracies in Lower Normandy (about Caen and
the Bessin), and in Picardy and Champagne. The king had
demanded of the people of Amiens to send to his camp five
hundred cloth suits and as many pairs of shoes; but the sergemakers, indignant at this demand, threatened the king's officer,
who fled by night from his lodgings, while the mob threw his
coach into the Somme.
But Richelieu followed up his successes. Montauban, in the
heart of Southern France, was also reduced early in I629, and
its defenses razed. All the Huguenot strongholds were now in
the king's hands, and the last civil war was at an end. The
"Edict of Grace," so called, issued the same year, fixed the
condition of the Protestants. Submission and loyalty were the
specious terms on which they should continue to enjoy their religious privileges. But well they knew that this meant nothing
less than an absolute subjection to the royal will, with no ability
to ward off any further aggression upon their rights, since they
were robbed of their only safeguard,-that material power on
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which had depended the security of their persons, property and
religion.
Alarmed and grieved as were the Protestants at seeing their
cause thus utterly ruined, their trials were only beginning, for
they were now to be subjected to a course of proscription, which,
growing more and more oppressive, was at length to become
insupportable. Deserted by nearly all the nobility, and gradually
ousted from government service and from most of the civil
offices, there was still this gain,-that they were freed from the
temptations and snares of political life, which rendered so many
idle and dissolute; while restricted in their pursuits to agriculture, to trade, and the industrial arts, they were repaid by a new
development of their industry, and additions to their wealth.
Even the infertile soils of the south, by dint of their toil, were
made to wave with bounteous harvests. As merchants and manufacturers their integrity and proficiency was known and recognized
in other lands. Nevertheless, they were ill at ease.
Anachronisms in regard to the Huguenots easily occur, from
inattention to the order of events, or to the many diverse phases
of their history. The period to which we have now arrived,the era proper of our refugees,-was to them and their compeers
fraught with no such promise as that which ushered in the
Reformation; nor yet a reign of persecutions dire, as that which
immediately succeeded. In the past, the few bright years of
Henry IV. came up in the memorlies of long and dismal civil
wars as a little oasis in the almost boundless desert waste.
These wars being ended, they now entered upon a term of
thirty years, having the semblance of rest, but with its deep
undercurrents of unrest. Even then was foreshadowed (but our
refugees dic not wait to see it) that final, doleful epoch, opening
about I66I with the destruction of temples or churches, with
arrets du conscil, for excluding the Reformed from trades and
professions, etc., and closing with the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes in I685, with dragoons, dungeons and galleys; causing
multitudes of these purest and noblest of the land,-artisans,
tradesmen, professors and divines,-to escape to other countries,
which were thus enriched by their industries, their talents and
their piety.
Hence our refugees lived in times of but semi-repose, in which
painful memories of the past gave ghastly form and reality to
the graver presentiments of the future. True, it was an age of
more enlightenment and less fanaticism than those preceding,
but the popular aversion to the Huguenots had not essentially
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lessened. It had only in a degree transferred itself from their
creed to their position as a social class. They were an unpopular minority, having peculiarities repulsive to the habits and
tastes of the people at large. Their views, feelings and mode of
life, their strict discipline, the simplicity of their worship and
scrupulous observance of the Sabbath, afforded nothing in common with those within the pale of the dominant church. To
them the Huguenot appeared reserved, rigid, and even haughty.
His very gravity was thought to betoken a felt superiority. He
claimed to be controlled by a purer faith, a better code of
morals. Intelligence, discrimination and independence, as well
as piety, were essential supports to the religious tenets he avowed
and maintained. He valued and improved his freedom to inquire and interchange opinions upon matters of church polity
and questions of doctrine and discipline, as well as those affecting his civil rights. Keeping within the limited circle of
his home and people, and wont to deny himself, the Huguenot
yielded but sparingly to the luxury in which others indulged.
Thus order and economy ruled both his house and business, and
brought him thrift. In his frugality of living, and in the time
saved from useless festivals for needful toil, he found a temporal
gain. His industry and business assiduity seemed ever to reproach his neighbors with their slackness and improvidence;
and envy of his superior intelligence, advantages and prosperity
too commonly showed itself, after the loss of his military and
political significance, in an air of triumph over his humbled condition. He still trusted for protection to his legal charter, the
Edict of Nantes; but this soon lost its prestige with the courts.
His greatest fear was from the covert designs of government and
clergy to effect his ruin,-the latter ever and anon reiterating
their demands for new restraints upon the Reformed. In I630
began systematic efforts to reclaim them in the church by means
of convertisseurs, who were paid a definite sum for every proselyte; and in I635 Richelieu created in each province a Royal
Intendant, "to promote a stronger national unity," but which
meant the use of all means for suppressing the religion. These
officials, chosen with special reference to their fitness, dispensed
their authority with rigor, and first instigated those severe and
effective measures eventually employed to complete the ruin of
the Huguenots. The decisions of the Intendant were invariably
adverse to the Huguenot. And it was usually so in questions
which came before the local parliaments; the rule obtaining in
the various tribunals that the Reformed had no rights except by
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sufferance. Law and fact were wrested against them; every
severe sentence became a precedent; and so, by one restriction
after another, enarly all of value that the Edict of Nantes had
pledged was taken away long before the edict was formally
rescinded. With a painful sense of insecurity, it became an everpresent, momentous question with this afflicted people, how to
avert the greater calamities, which passing events so plainly foreshadowed, except by quitting their country.
What this question involved we may not apprehend. The
bitter conflict going on within, as the stricken man pursued his
daily vocation, was often known only to his family and his
God. Thrice dear to him was his country, so venerable in
antiquities, heroic in deeds, romantic in legends; all that was
charming in stream and landscape, genial in the air and generous in the soil; all that was prized in institutions and customs, in social and home endearments. His religious ideas had
not weakened, but, onnly in one direction, changed his attachments. With a sort of aristocratic pride he cherished the hereditary records of the virtue, constancy, or piety of his ancestors
who had suffered for the faith. These were the letters of his
nobility. They were links binding him only the more closely
t ohis native soil-which had grown dearer with every trial or
loss he had been called to embrace, and with each act of arbitrary
power designed to force him from its bosom. But the very act
of leaving was hedged with difficulties: business, property, and
personal effects were more easily scrifiecd than converted into
available means. The younger class, with few such entanglements, found a change much easier than did their seniors; and
hence the emigrations at this era consisted very largely of the
former.
Those spasmodic flights of the Huguenots under some great
and sudden terror,- of which there had been many in the course
of their history, when multitudes, by families, and of every age
and class, left hastily for foreign lands,-had ceased with that
which took place on the fall of La Rochelle and Montauban,
when the final blow was dealt to the civil power of the Huguenots. For the thirty years ensuing, and during which most of
the Harlem refugees sought other lands, the emigration was not
large, but of a valuable character. The removals were usually
undertaken thoughtfully and heroically,-in general, as just said,
by a young and enterprising class,-in the belief that the time
had come to leave a country in which, surrounded by so many
hostile elements, it was especially difficult for them to live, and
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which threatened to become worse instead of better. Their eves
naturally turned toward Holland, England, and America, as
more hospitable lands, and the chief emigration was to those
countries from the marine provinces, Picardy, Normandy, and
those south of them, for which their numerous seaports afforded
every facility.
The West Indies, inviting both for climate and fruitfulness,
were becoming the resort of many for whom the cold region of
Canada had no attractions. Removals to these islands had been
going on under the direction of a company formed at Paris in
I626, at the instance of M. D'Enambus, who the year before had
visited the island of St. Christopher, in a brigantine from Dieppe.
There he planted the first colony in I627, and which became the
nursery of others afterward formed on the adjacent island3.
In I635, Martinique was occupied by a hundred old and experienced settlers from St. Christopher. But D'Enambuc died. In
I640 Jesuit missionaries arrived at Martinique (where were then
near a thousand French, "without mass, without priest,") and,
reluctantly admitted by the governor and people, heightened the
public dissensions which broke out in the islands, and which
grew so violent five years later, especially in Martinique, that
many of the Huguenots were glad to get back to Europe; these
going mostly to Holland, and some of them, as the Casier family,
of Calais, eventually finding more tranquil abode at Harlem.
We shall allude to these again before concluding our account
of the homes and wanderings of our refugees.*
Home! Fancy is ever swifter than pen or pencil to draw
the picture. The old familiar spot around which the heartstrings
entwine, endeared by many tender associations, perchance made
sacred by its sanctified sorrows. And how bitter the moment
when the refugee, gazing upon it for the last time, turned his
steps toward a foreign soil; like the great patriarch departing
from Haran, knowing not his destiny, but trusting his covenant
God. But, alas! to too many of our refugees,-forced to changes
as they were by a regard for their personal safety or to secure a
livelihood, or both,-home, as restricted to the place of their birth
and early life, must have lost much of its significance. To these
pilgrims home was often less the locality and society of which
* Inquiry can but partially break the silence which hangs over these wanderings.
And here starts a query: was our David Demarest a sharer with Philip Casier in his
West India, as he was in some of his subsequent travels? Did he sustain toward Sieur
Des Marets (an old captain of St. Christopher, who was beheaded September 7, 1641,
by the governor, De Poincy, for joining the populace in opposing his tyranny) such
relations as made him one most deeply affected by his tragic fate? Oisemont, in
Picardy, the seat of the Demarests, had a Commandery of Malta, of which De Poincy
was commander. Strange coincidences, if merely accidental!
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they bore the type, than the circle or community of like faith
in which for the time being their lot was cast. Difficult ofttimes
as this makes it to trace the refugee to his original home, we
shall leave the reader to note how far our efforts in that regard
have succeeded.
Saintonge was one of the provinces lying within the Bay of
Biscay, and which, owing to the tendency of the Huguenots during their protracted trouble to remove from the interior into
the marine districts and towns, became crowded with refugees,
and were a principal theatre of the bloody civil wars. Saintonge was the birthplace of our "very learned" Dr. Johannes
De La Montagne, whose history will contribute much of interest
to these pages. La Montagne was not his family name, but an
adjunct which finally took the place of the former, and was
originally derived,-as correlative facts seem to indicate,-from
La Montagne, a district of Burgundy. But Dr. La Montagne
was called a Santo, which is the provincial designation for a
native of Saintonge,-akin to that of Norman, Picard, etc. His
birth happening in I595, but three years before the Edict of
Nantes restored order to the realm and peace to the Huguenots,and under which emigration mostly ceased up to the death of
Henry IV.,-it is highly probable that La Montagne left France
somewhere within the ten years of public unrest succeeding the
murder of the king, and culminating in the last civil wars under
Louis XIII., which opened in I620. Prior to that date, however, La AMontagne and others of his family were enjoying peace
and security in Holland. He therefore knew as little personally
of these latter wars as he did of the earlier troubles which preceded the Edict of Nantes. Among our French refugee families his was the first to become exiles. We speak irrespective
of the Walloon families, of whom the first to flee their country
were those of De Forest and Vermeille or Vrmilye, the latter,
in the troubles of the sixteenth century, taking refuge in England.
Not till after the last civil wars, as before said, and which occurred quite too early for them to have borne arms, did the body
of our refugees leave their native France.
Saintonge counted among its cities La Rochelle, with its
heroic memories, and which gave us Jacques Cousseau and Paul
Richard, both sterling characters and identified with Harlem.
We know not if either was old enough at the time of the final
siege and reduction of La Rochelle, in 1628, to have shared its
terrors and miseries; but both probably left on account of the
severe measures pursued by Louis XIV. for restoring Catholi
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cism in that old Protestant stronghold, and which occasioned
many removals.
Northerly from La Rochelle, the rugged peninsula of Bretagne, or Brittany,-jutting far into the Atlantic,-is as remarkable for its strange vicissitudes as for its dreary forests, barren
heaths, pent-up valleys, vast fields of Druid remains, and lone
hillocks crowned by the ruins of castles; or yet its brawny peasantry in grotesque garb, and (in Lower Brittany) still speaking
the harsh Celtic tongue. Long a distinct sovereignty, it was
conquered by the Norman dukes; later an affluent duchy, for
which Charles of Blois and his race valiantly but vainly battled
with the house of Montfort, it was finally engrossed by the
crown. But not feudal nor royal tyranny could ever crush the
native independence and hauteur of the Breton, which so cropped
out in the case of our Glaude Le Maistre (Delamater), whose
ancestors were the lords of Garlaye, in the diocese of Nantes,
though he happened not to be born in Brittany. Near La Moussaye, in the interior of Lower Brittany, southward from St. Malo,
was the original seat of the family of our David Uzille. The
Reformed churches at Nantes and La Moussaye found in the
Le Maistres and Uzilles warm supporters.
One of the three districts forming the great Norman
meadows, whose fine horses and cattle were so celebrated, was
the Bessin, from a forest leargely converted into tillable lands and
orchards by the patient industry of its peculiar people,-French
indeed, but, unlike their neighbors and more like the English,
being descendants of the Otlings (or Osterlings), a Saxon tribe
which overran this district in the fourth century. Their small
town, St. Lo, occupied a rocky eminence, girt on three sides by
a ravine through which ran the river Vire, parting the lowlying Bessin from the mountainous Cotentin. Its streets, lined
with antiquated houses, ascended steeply to the crown, whereon
stood its old sombre cathedral. Fully a century earlier it had its
Huguenot church, which sent delegates to the first synod at
Paris, in I559. From this secluded Norman town,-strange transition, truly!-a worthy refugee, "Letelier," as with some claim
to rank he signs himself, found his way to Harlem, to woo and
wed a Picard's daughter.
Beyond the Seine, in Upper Normandy, we next find traces
of our refugees. Dieppe, capital of the high and mainly level
region called the Land of Caux,* the land of grain and grass, of
* Pronounced Ko. It is highly probable that our well-known family of Coe derive
their name from Caux.
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cider and perry, embracing the coast country from the Seine to
the Bresle, was seated at the foot of hills through which flowed
the river Arques, passing under the great stone bridge that
united the town to its suburb, Le Pollet, the fishermen's quarter,
where under the Edict of Nantes the Huguenots had their
church and enjoyed the ministrations of Montdenis and others.
Dieppe also had an immense commerce, its mariners famous of
old for distant voyages. Hence sailed D'Enambus, in I625, to
St. Christopher, paving the way for French colonies in the West
Indies, in which, as before intimated, Harlem settlers first tried
their fortunes. And from this port many of the refugees took
ship for other countries, as, we presume, did Francois Le Sueur
and Robert Le Maire, who came thence to Harlem. How it was
with these we know not, but may conclude that some left Dieppe
and other French ports, destined for New Netherland, since its
invitations to such colonists had already reached these ports
through intercourse with Holland. Le Sueur was born at ChalleMesnil or Colmenil, a small borough or market town three miles
south of Dieppe. His name,-taking such forms with his
descendants as Leseur, Lesier, Lazear and Lozier,-was well established in Caux, and a century previous had figured among
the cloth makers of Rouen.
Very interesting is Picardy, whence came so many of the
French exiles who made their homes at Harlem, for longer or
shorter periods; in all some thirty families, of which a full third
were Picards or of Picard descent. Of this class were our Tourneur, Cresson, Demarest, Casier and Disosway, all of whom,
except the last, served as magistrates.
But who were the Picards? A quite superior people to the
average French; being of mixed origin, descendants of both
Belgae and Celtae, and occupying the border between these two
ancient nations, or rather the district which parted the Celtae
from the Nervii, the most invincible of the Belgic tribes. Thus,
sanguine and choleric like the Celts, they approached the Belgae
in their moral and physical stamina. In stature above the
medium, with usually a well-developed frame, they betrayed
their affinity to the Walloons, whose patois, rough and disagreeable, theirs resembled; yet, proud and spirited, they held those
neighbors, and all others, in secret disdain. The love of independence was not so strong within them as the love of equality;
it was here their vanity showed itself, but it tempered the popular
homage to wealth or titles. Though hasty, blunt, and obstinate,
yet without the effrontery of the Normans or the superstition
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of the Champlenois,-and mlore religious than either,-the Picards
were withal lively, generous, honest and discreet. Their conversation sparkled with wit, i1lirth and sarcasm. Necessity,
rather than inclination, made them industrious, yet they yielded
their full share of workers and proficients in the arts and
sciences; as also of able physicians and divines,-some of the
latter as much distinguished in the controversial history of the
Reformation as others had been who were its earliest champions.
With intelligence, and a manly aim to excel in what they undertook, even though it were but agriculture,-in which by far the
greater number were engage(l,-the Picards could not but add
a valuable element to any society so fortunate as to attract thenm.*
The narrow strip of the seaboard, in breadtl twenty miles
or less, which stretched southerly from Calais to the Canche,
embraced the districts of Guines and Boulonnais, two subdivisions of Picardy. Of its larger part, lying on either side of
the Somme, but extending a hundred miles inland to the borders
of Champagne, the coast section called Ponthieu reached some
thirty miles up the Somme, Abbeville being the chief town.
Easterly lay, in succession, the Amienois, Santerre, Vermandois,
and lThierache, their southerly sides forming a line sufficiently
winding, but, in general, east and west. These seven districts
composed modern Picardy; but five others lying southerly of
these —to wit, the Beauvoisis, Novonnois, Soissonnois, Laonnois,
and Valois,-were equally Picard territory, as proven by the
characteristics of the people, although these districts had been
annexed to the Isle of France.
I'hese several sections of Picardy, save Guines and Boulonnais, were watered by one or more of its three principal rivers,
the Somme, the Oise and the Aisne; and seated on these were
most of those fine old cities with strange histories, for which
Picardy was noted. Two streamlets, engrossing many little rills
from Champagne and Hainault, united in the centre of Thierache to form the Oise, which now stretched westward to Guise
in the same district, but soon took its course, in general southwesterly, nearly parallel with the coast, till it entered the Seine
* Picard, though a term of disputed origin, is admitted to have been first local
and restricted to the people of the Amienois, the district in which Amiens, the provincial capital, is seated; but it early spread to the whole supplanting all the tribal
designations. It probably came from the pique, an ancient war weapon, with the German affix ard, meaning species or race; adhering to this people as inventors of that
weapon, or from the renown they had acquired in handling it. So they became known
as the Picards, or pike-men. Gibbon, who dates the name not earlier than the year
I200, says, "It was an academical joke, an epithet first applied to the quarrelsome
humor of those students in the University of Paris who came from the frontier of
France and Flanders." But its occurence early in the eleventh century refutes this
statement.
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at Fin d'Oise, below Paris, distant from Guise ninety odd miles.
Scattered along its charming banks from Guise downward, at
intervals of some ten miles, lay, in delightful seclusion, other
antiquated towns, as Ribemont, La Fere, Chauny, Noyon, Compiegne, Verberie, Creil, Beaumont and Pontois; the last six
adorned with royal palaces, exclusive of Novon, a pretty town
and a bishop's seat, but of more interest to the Huguenots as
the great Calvin's birthplace. Just above Compiegne, the Aisne,
a large tributary, entered the Oise from the eastward, and on
it lay the stately city of Soissons. Below Creil a smaller branch,
the Therain, entered from the westward, on its upper waters
seated, within a cordon of charming hills, the venerable town
of Beauvais. The Somme, rising near the borders of Thierache,
on passing St. Quentin in Vermandois curved southward to
Ham, then again to the north to Peronne, when it resumed its
course westerly past Corbie to Amiens, and thence northwest
through the Amienois and Panthieu plains to its outlet. The
region around its head-waters about Vermandois was rendered
very picturesque by the wooded hills which here crossed Picardy;
the broad plains below, just referred to, were less attractive to
the eye, though varied by a succession of pretty intervals which
bordered the tributary streams, and whose green pastures, trees
and shrubbery agreeably relieved the general nakedness of the
country and the apparent hardness of the whitish soil, the latter composed one third of chalk. but productive, and yielding
fine crops of wheat. The sub-district of Ponthieu, called the
Marquenterre, embracing extensive pastures adjoining the coast,
on the north of the Somme, had been recovered from the wash
of the sea by a line of downs and dykes; to the south of the
river's nouth the land had a gentle rise toward Normandy, till
it formed the table-lands of Caux and the chain of cliffs that
there bound the coast.
Picardy was originally composed of many small countries,
or earldoms, instead of forming but one under a single count.
Never so united and ruled, it was in this respect an anomaly
among the French provinces. Its ancient tribal divisions determined mainly its modern districts, and eight of the dozen composing it took name from their chief city. Its history, says
Michelet, "seems to embrace the whole of the ancient history
of France." Its plains and hills had been trodden by the great
Caesar and his legions, and it was on the banks of the Sambre,
near Maubeuge, that he encountered the warlike Nervii, whose
intrepidity almost wrested victory out of that fatal defeat which
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broke their power and gave Gaul to the conqueror. Near Soissons, five centuries later, the warrior Clovis, in an equally decisive
battle, extinguished the Roman power and established that of
the Franks. Here also had the Austrasian and Neustrian factions found a battle ground, till the defeat of the latter, in 687,
at Testry, in Vermandois, initiated the varied fortunes of the
race of Charlemagne. Up the Somme had often rolled that
fearful tide of Vandal and Norman invasion, which left no river
unvisited from the Meuse to the Loire, desolating their banks
and sacking towns, churches and monasteries, and at last contributing, with other causes, to the fall of the monarchical power in
the ninth century and the disintegration of the kingdom.
Picardy, or rather its several sections, had come within the
grasp of haughty chieftains, mostly of the family of the defunct
Charlemagne, and who, as refractory as their compeers ruling
the larger provinces and equally greedy of dominion, played a
no less conspicuous part in the turbulent drama of the times.
The early annals of these small earldoms superabound with deeds
of rapine and blood. Not content with the conquest of neighboring towns or territory, they made kings, or humbled them at
will; and, in fact, these imperious Picard lords for a long time
ruled the destinies of the kingdom. But what strange freaks
had fortune played with these old titled dynasties! Once scarcely
recognizing any sovereign, and with all the advantage of a
hereditary entail, yet, one by one they had shared the fate of
the great provinces, Champagne, Normandy, and others: the old
counts, with all the dazzling splendor of their houses, had passed
away, and their possessions, by a studied policy of the kings, had
been mostly engrossed as crown domains. True, it had taken
from the twelfth century to the sixteenth to consummate these
changes. More favored, however, were some of these districts
which took the form of bishoprics. Descending by the elective
process from one prelate to another in regular succession, these
had withstood the feudal powers of tle Middle Ages and the
civil convulsions of many centuries. Not restricted to the exercise of spiritual power in their bishoprics, some of these bishops
had come to enjoy great temporal dignity, even the high position
of peers of the realm, as were those of Laon, Noyon and Beauvais; to the first of whom also pertained the title of duke, and
to the other two that of count. Herein may be seen the superior advantages of the existing hierarchy to hold and transmit,
or even to augment, its power. All this while the sturdy burghery, their rights ever being trampled on, figure in many a sharp
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struggle with their tyrannical rulers; but appealing for help
to royalty only to be ultimately betrayed, vanquished and despoiled of their choicest franchises as the power ecclesiastic
and kingly came to acquire that si dreme ascendancy which it
held in the reigns of Louis XIII. and Louis XIV.,-the times
of our refugees.
Of the chief dignitaries then ruling parts of Picardy was the
Duke De Chaulnes, in whom was the temporal, and Bishop Le
Fevre, who held the spiritual, power in the Amienois; but more
of these presently. Augustine Potier was supreme in the Beauvoisis, which was the most wealthy bishopric in Picardy. Holding the fee of the soil, as had his predecessors, since the year
I015, when Bishop Roger got the county by deed from his
brother Eudes, the Count of Champagne, Potier gloried in the
titles of "Bishop and Count of Beauvais, Peer of France and
Vidame of Gerberoy." He was also Grand Chaplain to the
Queen, and intensely zealous for the church and monarchy,
though it was hinted that his capacity did not equal his ambition. The Noyonnois was under the rule of Henri De Barradat,
to whose titles of Bishop and Count of Noyon was added that
of Peer of France. The Marquise De Hocquincourt, Charles De
Monchy, had succeeded his father as royal governor in Santerre,
for which he was held fitted by his valor and his devotion to
Louis XIII. This district had been taken from the ancient Vcrmandois, in 1215, by King Philip Augustus, who had annexed
Vermandois to the crown, after that the old counts,-the most
affluent and potent in Picardy, and whose sway had lasted over
three centuries,-had become extinct. It included the cities of
Peronne, Montdidier, and Roye, the first, the old seat and stronghold of the counts, being now the residence of the governor, and
deemed the key of France on these frontiers. De Monchy distinguished himself in the war in the Low Countries, etc., and in 1651
was made a Marshal of France; but, taking offense at Louis XIV.,
he joined the Spanish cause, and was killed at Dunkirk in I658.
Vermandois proper now formed a baliwick, subject to the Bishop
and Duke of Laon, Philibert De Brichanteau. Thierache was
mainly engrossed by the Duchy of Guise,-of which the town
and castle so called was the seat,-being still the domain of the
House of Guise, those infamous and deadly foes of the Huguenots, and one of whose ancestors, a Duke of Lorraine, had gotten
this estate by marriage with a grandchild of the great crusader,
Jacques'd'Avesnes. But retributive justice seems to have visited
the later Duke of Guise, Charles Le Lorraine, who, as admiral
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of a fleet, had served against the Huguenots at La Rochelle in
I622. Ambitious and intriguing like his predecessors, he quarreled with Richelieu, and, retiring in I631 with his family to
Florence, died in exile in 1640. Ponthieu, much to the disgust of its people, and in violation of pledges given them by
Henry IV., had been conferred by Louis XIII. upon one who
had little merit, unless it consisted in his two plots to dethrone
Henry IV., for which he lay long in the Bastile; this was Charles
De NValois, natural son of Charles IX., of St. Bartholomew infamy. But as he was a good soldier and zealous for the king,
le ruled till his death, in I650. Boulonnais and Guines, held
directly by the crown, had long been ruled by royal governors.
Louis XI., on recovering the former from the House of Burgundy, in I477, had ceded it to the Virgin Mary, by an act of
homage in the church at Boulogne, and consented to hold it
of her as a fief; by which curious stroke of policy he thought
to preserve it to France. Now, what enemy would dare touch
it; what inhabitant would not die in its defense? And it had
succeeded admirably!
The Amienois, as the seat of the provincial capital, was the
most important division of Picardy. Spreading across the fertile valley of the Somme in the form of a not very regular quadrangle, it was ten leagues broad and twenty in length north and
south, reaching from the bounds of Artois, and in part the earldom of St. Paul, to the hills anticlinal of the basins of the
Somme and Oise, which separated it from the Beauvoisis. It
took name from its ancient possessors, the Ambiani, whose jurisdiction, extending west to the Channel, included Ponthieu, which
even now was within the diocese of the Bishop of Amiens. Many
thrifty villages, with broad, well-tilled fields, irrigated by brooks
and streams, which from distant hill sources gently coursed their
way to the Somme, gave it the aspect of a rich country. From
a peculiar feature of its government it was styled the Vidamate
of Amiens. The office of vidame, once common, was now almost peculiar to this district of Picardy. From some powerful
chieftain, called in ancient times by the bishop to aid him in
protecting his domains against the invasions of the Normans
and the rapacity of native seigniors, had originated the office
of vice dominus, or vidame. And from the reluctance of the
proud baron to yield the advantage thus gained, and the inability
of the bishop to dispense with his services, the office became
fixed and hereditary. It was now one of chief dignity and influence in the Amienois, the present vidame, Honore d'Albert,
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being a duke and peer of France. As brother to the prime
minister, Duke De Luynes, he also had ingratiated himself with
the king, and through his favor obtained, in I619, the hand of
the daughter and heiress of Philip-Emanuel, Lord De Picquigny,
the last of the vidames of the House d'Ailly; and with her,
beside the vidamate, the seigniory and castle of Picquigny, on
the Somme, with an annuity in rents of ~9,000. The king, at
the same time, made him his lieutenant-general in the Government of Picardy;* the next year he was dubbed a knight of
the King's Orders, and raised to the dignity of Duke De Chaulnes and Peer of France. The important post of Governor of
Picardy, Henry IV. had conferred, with his name, upon Henry
of Orleans, Duke De Longueville, at his baptism in I595, his
uncle, the Count of St. Paul, acting during his minority. Longueville's father and his father had held the same post. But in I6I9
the Duke De Luynes aforesaid superceded De Longueville, and
to him was also given the government of the city and citadel of
Amiens. But he being killed in I621, while absent, prosecuting
the war against the Huguenots, the l)articular government of
the city and citadel was transferred to his brother, the vidame.
The Government of Picardy in the next few years passed through
several hands, including the Dukes of Elboeuf and Chevreuse,
both of the noted House of Guise and knights of the King's
Orders; but Chevreuse retiring in 1633, this position also was
conferred on the Duke De Chaulness, and to it was soon after
added the powers of Royal Intendlent, an office, as before said,
created to keel a watch over the tuguenots, and which could not
have been better bestowed than on the duke, bound as he was bv
every obligation to the king, and also true to the mandates of thechurch.t
The Bishops of Amiens claimed a succession from St. Firmin,
-first on the prelatical roll, and held to have suffered martyrdom
in 287, with many of his flock, by order of the Roman magistrate. The present bishop, Francois Le Fevre,-son of Sieur De
Caumartin, of Ponthieu,-having become coadjutor to Bishop La
Marthonie in I617, the next year succeeded him in the See, and
though some of the people violently resisted his induction, he
* The Government of Picardy, as distinguished from the old province, embraced
only the Amienois, Santerre, Ponthieu, Boulonnais and Guines; the latter also called
"Calais and Pais-reconquis," because it had been recovered from the English in 1558.
t The Duke De Chaullnes died October 31, i649, in his 69th year, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Henry Louis, born I621; but he dying May 21, 1653,
without issue, the vidamate passed to a collateral branch of the family. In naming
this son after the king and his late father, the duke showed his attachment to his
royal patron; and at his baptism by the bishop, June 15, 1625, during a festive season
at Amiens, hereafter noticed, the widow of H-enry IV. and the king, represented by
the Duke of Chevreuse, stood as god-parents.
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sustained the character of an amiable and good man, —measured by a standard which then and there was not tlhe highest.
Upon 30,000 livres of income, yielded by his eight hundred parishes, he lived elegantly in his palace at Amiens. This city,
described in former pages, with allusions to its early and heroic
history, was the capital of the Amienois, as, indeedl, of all Picardy.
It had a brave 50,000 people, more or less. Abbeville, twentyfive miles (lown the Somme, its nearest rival in population, then
boasted 35,000 or upward; but after 1oulogne-sur-mer and St.
Quentin, each about half the size of Amiens, the Picard cities
rapidly (lwindled to a paltry three thousand, or less. The chief
spiritual and ecclesiastical authority thus reposing in the bishop,
and the secular in the duke,-with his numerous functions and
dignities,-while the provosts and other officials of the king came
in for a share in the local jurisdiction, it is obvious the people of
the Amienois had quite enough of rule. Without need to further define their respective powers, we know they made a unit
against the Huguenots and their interests.'
Picardy's part in the great moral struggle of the sixteenth
century was peculiar. Etaples, a little seaport on the Canche,
sent its Le Fevre to herald the Reformation; Noyon, a Calvin,
to vindicate it by voice and pen, and give a system of faith to
the Huguenot churches; and Cuthe, in Vermandois, the no less
excellent Ramus, slain in the St. Bartholomew,-worthy representative of its noble martyrs. And humble peasants, back from
their harvest labors at Meaux, had borne to Thierache a richer
harvest of precious truth, and planted at Landuzy-la-ville one
of the earliest of the Reformed churches. Thus nowhere had
arisen stronger moral forces in support of the religion. On the
other hand, does not Guise, in Thierache, recall its hereditary
foes, those sanguinary dukes; and Peronne one of their foulest
plots, the "Holy League," impiously so called,-which, sworn to
extirpate the Huguenots, soon plunged the country into the
bloodiest of its civil wars? But, mark a fact: among the two
hundred "subjects and inhabitants of the country of Picardy,"embracing "princes, lords, gentlemen and others, as well of the
state ecclesiastic as of the noblesse and third state,"-who subscribed this infamous League and took the oath in the town hall
at Peronne, February I3th, I577, we find but one of the family
names afterwards appearing at Harlem; so nicely drawn were
the family lines between the friends and foes of the religion.
* Bishop Le Fevre died of apoplexy, November 17, I652, probably after all our
refugees had left Picardy.
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Zealously did the League pursue its nefarious object of "crushing out heresy"'; till, at the close of the ensuing civil wars,-in
which Picardy, while not often the scene of actual hostilities, had
helped to swell the ranks of the respective armies (its regiment
being a fixed part of the royal forces),-the Huguenot churches
within its bounds, once numerous and flourishing, were reduced
to a few scattered and timid flocks.
Dark pictures of the times preceding loomed up to the
Huguenot mind at Amiens, where the Reformed opinions had
early been received with great favor: of Louis De Berguin, a
Walloon from Artois, who, first to maintain those doctrines here
in 1527, was burnt for it at Paris; of mob violence; of fines
and imprisonments for refusing to decorate their houses at Corpus Christ; of that fell day in I568, when one hundred and
twenty Huguenots were slain in the streets of Amiens; and the
terror caused by the Paris St. Bartholomew, which was only
averted here by strict orders from the Duke De Longueville,
Governor of Picardy. And of the dismal era of the League,
in which plot were implicated some of the most powerful lords
of the Amienois; the vidame, Louis d'Ailly, a noble exception,
having, with his family, embraced the religion. He encouraged
the faithful, who for a time met at his house for worship; though
his successor, Philip Emanuel, last vidame of that house, was
forced in 1588, by the violence of the people, to pronounce for
the League. Only when Henry IV. turned Catholic did the
citizens of Amiens acknowledge him as king, and expel their late
governor, Count d'Aumale, who was a Guise. But they carefully "stipulated in making their submission that the Huguenot
preaching should be prohibited in their precincts and suburbs."
This was on August Ioth, I594. Not long after occurred the
Spanish occupation of the city,-which they entered by an ingenious sacrifice,-and its deliverance by the armies of Henry IV.
Peace with Spain soon followed, with another event more felicitous,-the passage of the Edict of Nantes,-arresting the civil
wars and restoring order to the realm. Then for the rest of that
happy reign, Amiens, especially, became the mart of a flourishingtrade and commerce, of which its looms furnished the staples;
but a half century later the Huguenot emigrations had reduced these industries to the verge of ruin, so alarming in
I665 as to lead the general government to interpose a remedy.
In no wise exempt from the grievances common to the Reformed,
under the Edict, those at Amiens and vicinity also had their own.
On June 7th, 1625, Amiens witnessed a brilliant pageant. It
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was the city's generous welcome to a young queen, sister of the
king, and child of Henry the Great,-the beautiful Henrietta
Maria, of scarce sixteen years,-who was on her way from Paris
to Boulognto o meet her spouse, already wedded though but once
seen, Charles I. of England, then but two months a king. A
letter from King Louis, bespeaking for the youthful queen "lun
joycltsc eltree," had led to ample preparations; so, on the set
morning the city was all excitement, in every quarter was heard the
sound of trumpets and drums to muster the military bands, with
the noblesse, who were present from all the country round to
take part in the grand reception.
The Duke De Chaulnes, with three hundred well-mounted
cavaliers, rode out two leagues to meet the bride and her retinue
(which last included the queen-mother and queen-regnant, besides dukes, earls and lords, English and French, with many
noble dames and damsels, and withal a guard of soldiers), and
escorted them to the city. Their approach thereto,-entrance
through the Beauvais gate and march to the cathedral, where
they were met and greeted by Bishop Le Fevre and the Chapter,was one grand ovation; many complimentary addresses and the
thunder of musket and arquebus bade the young queen welcome. Just outside the city gate was a magnificent triumphal arch, with a beautiful tableau and other devices, all intended to please the queen and courtly party. Six other principal
pieces, replete with designs drawn from classic and French history, surprised them along the way to the cathedral. One represented Jason and the Golden Fleece, a motto affixed declaring
"Maria is the Fleece and Charles the Jason." In another, three
belles personified the goddesses Juno, Minerva and Venus, contending before Paris as judge for the prize of beauty, the golden
apple. But Paris, disallowing all their claims, turned and presented the apple to Queen Henrietta as "the real beauty." At
the cathedral Te Deum was chanted, the grand organ pealing
forth eloquent music, followed by prayers. Then her majesty
was escorted to apartments in the episcopal palace, where were
presentations and addresses to the queen, with gifts of some
dozen of superb hypocras, besides a large variety of living birds
and game of choice kinds, all in handsome cages. The queenregnant and others of the royal party were sumptuously entertained at the citadel by the Duke and Duchess of Chaulnes for
the nine days they were at Amiens; and then they departed, with
many rich presents and kind wishes.
Amiens looked but coldly on another pageant, more signifi
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cant, if less imposing. The occasions of the two were probably
among the recollections of some who later lived at Harlem, but
the following was perhaps more firmly remembered, and with
more heartfelt endurance. Betimes on Sunday morning, from
that same IBeauvais gate, called also the Gate of Paradise, (from
a legend that here our Saviour, in the garb of a beggar, once
appeared to St. Martin), a human stream began to issue, representing both sexes and all ages, sires and matrons, blooming
youths and happy-faced children, all in best attire, which proceedled along that well-trodden way, to the pleasant village of
Salouel, on the Celle, two or three miles to the southward of
Amiens. With decorum suited to holy time, but enlivening the
journey by cheerful and plious conversation, the looker-on needed
not to be told the all important errandl upon which these devout
people were going.
The Huguenot worship had been long banished beyond the
gates of the city. Prohibited in express terms, as already seen,
by the decree which restored Amiens with Peronne and Abbeville to obedience to Henry IV., this was also confirmed by the
Edict of Nantes.
Taught also by experience that they could not meet for
worship within the city walls, except at the risk of being molested,
perhaps broken up by a mob, it in some measure reconciled
the Reformed to what was felt to be a harsh and burdensome
requirement. The privilege of meeting at Salouel had not been
gotten without effort. By the edict two towns only in the entire government of Picardy were allotted the I-Iuguenots, at
which to build churches. These were Desvres, in the Boulonnais, and Hautcourt, near St. Quentin. Of what advantage was
this to those of Amiens? At first these were wont to hold their
worship within the castle of the Seigneur d'lHeucourt, at Iavernas, five miles northerly from Amiens; but the distance was
so far, and, in inclement seasons, very trying and often fatal,-especially to infants taken thither for baptism, as well as to the
infirm and the aged,-that M. De Heucourt in the year I6oo notified the lieutenant-general at Amiens of his intention to have
public worship for himself, his family, and the inhabitants of the
city, within his fief of Hem, a village or suburb of Amiens, and
where thirty-six years previous the Protestants had built a temple. This privilege, to which he claimed a right under the edict,
being denied him, an appeal was made to the king, who gave
his sanction; but the opposition of the clergy and the civil authorities was so violent as to nullify it. However, through the
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favor of the Lord of Guignemicourt, his chateau was also
opened to the Reformed, being to the southwest of Amiens, and
only half as far as Havernas. It was an important gain for
those of Amiens; and this became for some years their principal
resort. As the Count of St. Paul positively refused his consent
to their meeting in Hem, they obtained permission in 1611 to
remove their worship to Salouel, and there to build a temple.
This, as already stated, was a small village on the Celle. It was
within a fief appertaining to the widow of M. De Heucourt,
before named; and there was nothing remarkable about it but a
subterranean cavern, used as a refuge, it was said, as early as the
ninth century. Strangely enough, the bishop and clergy assented
to this measure, and on February 24th, I612, half an acre of land
was ceded to the Huguenots, upon which they erected their temple. Here they long met for worship, under the pastorates of
Le Hucher, La Cloche, Lauberan and Pinette; and to this day
the by-road leading to it is known as the "Chemin du preche."
These pastors also labored at Havernas. There was another
large and flourishing church gathered at Oisemont, a market
town twelve miles south of Abbeville, where the Huguenots were
strong. It was some eighteen miles west of Amiens, to which
its royal provost was subordinate. In the time of our refugees
this church enjoyed the labors of Rev. Jacques De Vaux, a
native of Compiegne. One of its elders, living at Oisemont at
the (late of the passage of the Edict of Nantes, was David Des
Marets, Sieur du Ferets. In 1625 he represented the church in
the Provincial Synod, held at Charenton, near Paris. Beyond
question our David Des Marest, who came from Picardy, was
of this family, but how related we cannot say.
Would we truly estimate the character of such men as
Demarest, and Disosway, and Casier, and Cresson, and their real
value to the community at Harlem, we should follow up the
pageant last introduced, and admit the moral sublimity of that
primitive worship, with its power to mould the life,-the fervid
invocation, the holy song, set to the metrical psalms of Clement
Marot; the simple Gospel, clothed in the warm, persuasive eloquence of the times, which raised the soul heavenward. We
would also note the activity and zeal which pervaded the Huguenot churches, and the watchfulness over the walk of the members, which so contributed to soundness of faith and purity of
life.
We might show, were it needful, how this active moral element was effectual for good upon the very society by which it
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was scorned and derided; how the trammels upon thought and
speech had to a great degree been thrown off, in regard especially to politics and religion, —subjects once tenderly touched
upon, but now handled with an astonishing boldness. What
latitude was taken in the doctrinal disputes between the Huguenot pastors and Catholic prelates, so rife at this period! How
the popular mind was awakening to the necessity of religious
reform, and even showing itself among the old clergy, as in the
earlier days of the Reforlation! But alas! it now went little
beyond efforts to render external rites more impressive, or to
make the rules of monastic life more austere. A step in the right
direction was taken at Amiens by Jean De Laladie. later an
avowed Protestant and founder of the Labadists, of \Wieward, in
Friesland, some of whom visited Harlem five years after his
death, which took place in I674. In 1640, Labadie, by invitation,
preached at Paris. Among the crowds drawn to hear him was
Bishop Le Fevre, who, charmed with his zeal and eloquence, made
him a canon in the cathedral. Here Labadie, imbued with the
evangelical spirit, urged upon his parishioners to read the Scriptures, and caused many copies of the New Testament in French
to be distributed( while his sermons upon repentance, grace, and
predestination awakened profound interest. But his views were
severely censured by the clergy and by the Sorbonne; so, after
a few years' service at Amiens, in which also he had not been
sparing of the Jesuits, the clamors against him forced him to
leave. The excitement stirred up by Labadie in the end reacted
upon the Reformed, to whose "pernicious teachings" his "heresy"
was imputed.
Picard society was always exceedingly impressionable and
excitable. But at Amiens its good and bad elements assumed the
most positive forms. It was a centre of political factions and
sinister plots; and it was this spirit, long fostered among the
nobility, that arrayed itself against the ministry of Concini; only
just failed, in I636, to assassinate Richelieu during the siege of
Corbie; and, in I649, plunged his successor, Mazarin, in the war
of the Fronde: a war, by the way, in which the Huguenots, by
keeping neutral, won praise from this minister.
But with a people, or society, so irascible, it made an element
in the dangers which beset the Reformed; dangers which were
now daily thickening by reason of the cruel proscription designed to crush them. And religious antagonisms needed but
slight incentive to leap forth into activity. If the Huguenots,
when assailed by brute force dared stand and defend themselves,
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it often led to a bloody collision such as that which obliged one
of our refugees to escape for his life. Daniel Tourineur, with
other Reformed (according to Tourneur's version of it,-which
we see no reason to question), had been attending a burial at
Amiens, when some of the Catholics made a wanton attack upon
them. The pretext we know not; but Huguenots were debarred from using the colmmon cemeteries. However, Tourneur,
young and spirited,-in his veins the blood of the old Picard lords
De Tourneur, one of whom had fought under William the Conqueror at Hastings,-drew his sword, as did others,in self-defense,
when some of the assailants were slain. Tourneur being charged
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Cathedral and Cemetery of St. Denis, at Amiens.
with the death of one Tilie Maire, he found it best to take a
sudden leave. Marc Disosway, who seems to have known of
this affair at its occurrence, made quite a stir about it at Harlem
in after years, when he and Tourneur happened to be at variance.
The breaking out of war between France and Spain in 1635
caused a considerable influx of Protestant refugees into England, from Picardy, Artois, Hainault and Flanders. Involving
these provinces in all the perils and disasters of a pitiless border
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warfare, and lasting nearly the fourth of a century, it resulted
in the conquest of Artois, and parts of Flanders and Hainault,
and their annexation to France. Begun by Louis XIII., jointly
with the Dutch (these agreeing to divide the Spanish Netherlands between them), this war opened adversely to the French,
for the enemy at once invaded Picardy, overran Thierache, and
captured Corbie, on the Somme, only nine miles above Amiens.
In terror the inhabitants of the villages fled with their goods
into the cities, while the Spaniards, marking their course by
burnings and massacres, stopped only at the Oise, which they
could not pass, as the bridges had been broken down. But the
energy of Richelieu soon turned the tables; for, retaking
Corbie, he drove the enemy back across the border, and began
those aggressive movements which, followed up by Louis XIV.,after the disasters of the Fronde were repaired,-added, as before
said, a large domain to France, secured to her in I659 by the
treaty of the Pyrenees, and which she has ever since held.
Although hostilities were so soon transferred to the enemy's
soil, Picardy was now called upon to maintain garrisons for the
defense of her extended frontier, and to marshal her forces for
the seat of war, whence came almost daily some new and alarming rumor; a state of things especially disheartening to the
Huguenots, whose trials before were great enough. With no
incentive to enter the army in a war waged only for conquest,and to add strength to the despotic arm which was crushing
them,-it naturally proved a turning point with those who now
left the country. Their nearness to the Low Country border
offered the Huguenots of Picardy every facility for escape, as
did also their several seaports and the long range of coast, frequented only by fishermen, whose boats often aided fugitives to
get away when obliged to shun the publicity of the town. Numbers, for sufficient reasons, took the weary and hazardous journey
through Belgium to Holland; many going by way of the Vermandois forests, and resting at Bohain, a little city of woolworkers twelve miles northeast of St. Quentin, where were many
Huguenots; so fleeing across the Cambresis, or Hainault.* Our
Demarest and Cresson, Disosway, Tourneur, Le Roy, and others
from the Amienois and Ponthieu, had the choice of those routes,
but which they took is left to conjecture. Calais, then the
extreme northern outlet of the kingdom, at an inviting prox* Jean Cottin, of New York, merchant, who died quite aged, in 1721, was a fugitive from Bohain, where he left a brother Daniel and sister Susannah, married to
Louis Libot. He intrusted by his will ~36 to Peter Van Oblinus and Samuel Waldron,
of the town of Harlem; "the income thereof to be yearly employed for and towards
the maintaining of their minister of the Dutch Protestant Church there."
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65
imity to the shores of England, and its people partly of that
nation,-which had ruled it for over two centuries, till it was re —
covered in 1558 by the French under the Duke of Guise,-was
also strongly Protestant, and therefore a great resort for escaping
refugees. Our Philip Casier was from this place, as was also
his son-in-law, David Uzille.
While many left 'icarldy, the French advance and successes
in Hainault and Artois were causing a larger migration of the
Protestant Walloons; and among these also a number whose
destiny led them to Harlem. We can make but brief allusion to
such events, military or otherwise, in their respective localities,
as seemingly influenced their removal.
Landrecy, on the Sambre, was the first place invested and
taken by the French on beginning the invasion of the enemy's
territory, in I637, and which they held, with adjacent places, for
ten years. It was during this domination, so odious to the
Walloons, that Simon de Ruine, living near Landrecy, removed
with his family to Holland, from which place, fifteen years later
he found his way to America. Through daughters married to
Demarests, he has many living descendants. Jean Gervoe, another
of the Harlem settlers, was from Beaumont, to the east of Avesnes, then a county seat of the Duke of Arschot, but an old appanage of the princes of Hainault. From Mons, the rich capital of
this province, seated to the north of Avesnes, and within the coal
region called the Borinage, came David du Four, of the same
name,-and not improbably the same blood, as the martyr of Le
Cateau, but whose posterity, which became numerous in his
country, changed the form of their name to Devoor and Devoe.
Passing to the west of the Scheldt we find the homes of other
of our refugees along the banks of the river Lys. The noble
Scheldt, the boast and pride of Belgium,-rising in the edge of
Picardy, behind the abbey of Mont St. Martin, and flowing to
the north, or rather to the northeast, but upon several zigzag
reaches or courses,-waters the western parts of the Cambresis
and Hainault, and then, eastern Flanders, forming for some distance the barrier between the latter and Brabant. It has passed
in the meantime Cambray, at the head of navigation; Valenciennes, Conde, Tournay,-all Walloon cities,-Ghent and Antwerp. At the latter, a hundred and twenty-five miles from its
head,-swollen by many tributaries, chief of which is the Lys,the now puissant Scheldt turns northwest for fourteen miles,
when it divides into two mighty arms, each of which rolls on
still forty miles to the German Sea. These two broad estuaries,
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taking the names of the East and W\est Scheldt,-the latter also
termed the Hond,-form, in conjunction with the left arm of
the Meuse, here called the M\aas, the fertile Dutch islands of
Schouwen and Walcheren, in Zeeland, both of interest to us as
the home or place of sojourn of some of the Harlem colonists.
Running parallel with the coast, and uniformly thirty miles or
so therefrom, in a course very direct, the Lys parted Flemish
from French, or Walloon, Flanders. It was navigated by light
vessels all the way from Aire, in Artois, to Ghent. About centrally of the fertile plains between it and the Scheldt lay the
city of Lille, with its teeming and busy population, the capital
of French Flanders, and the great city and centre of the Walloons. Owing its origin to Lideric du Buc. the first Grand
Forester or Count of Flanders, who, in 640, here built a castle,
(only the shapeless ruins of which remained), but growing into
significance as a town in the eleventh century,-when enlarged
and walled by other of these counts,-Lille had become to the
Walloons what Ypres, its great rival, which lay but fifteen miles
northwest, was to the Flemings,-the chief emporium of their
cloth manufacture. Round about it, and all in W\alloon Flanders, were the large and handsome cities of Douay and Tournay,
the small cities of Orchies, Armentieres, La Basse, St. Amand,
etc., besides 193 boroughs and villages. Old towns, and famed
for their industries, they formed the heart of the great woolen
and linen country of preceding centuries: enjoying a prosperity
almost fabulous, till Spanish tyranny and French conquest
brought blight and ruin. The cruel expatriations thus caused
gave to Harlem at least four families, who came from neighboring places on and near the Lys. Richebourg, a small city scarce
noticed by gazetteers or maps, but seated fourteen miles west of
Lille, on a small branch of the Lvs and in the district of
Bethune, within Artois, was the birthplace of our Glaude le
Maistre, or Delamater. Delamater's family was from France,
his immediate ancestor probably from Picardy, whence many
families seem to have worked up into Artois; and it is pretty certain that Glaude, on leaving Richebourg, took the previously referred to course of the Walloon migration to England. We doubt
if many of these Walloons from Artois went to Holland at that
* It is said ("Du Bois Reunion," pp. 32, 33) that the Peace of Westphalia, 1648,
by maintaining the Catholic religion in the Austrian dominions, caused the emigration
from Artois. But this emigration began years before, and at the date of that treaty,
which did not restore peace between France and Spain, the former was in military
possession of Artois. Nor could this province be affected bh the pacification of 1648,
in which the Spanish Netherlands were not included. It is plain that the emigrations
referred te were not due to that treaty, but to the French invasion. (See "Burn's
Refugees," London, 1846, p. 42.)
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time,-for which there was poor induccment for these Spanish
subjects,-sceing the Dutch were then il league with their enemy
tle French, while the English held a neutrality, but leaned
strongly to the Spanish side. In fact, by the threats of Englandl, the Flemish ports were left unmolested till I644, and from
these that country was tmuch nearer and more accessible than
was Holland. Naturally enough, some of these fugitive Walloons
retired at first into Flanders, hesitating,, perhal)s, to quit the
country, as the state of the ]'rotestants was solmewhat imnI)roved
under the more hulmane rule of Philil IV. The family of
Oblinus, one well known in the early history of Harlem, fled
fronl H-oulplines, two leagues northwest of Lille; and that of Dc
Pre, fromll Comines, a fevw miles below 1louplines. Iortryk
was a Flemish town yet further down the Lvs, which within the
previous century had witnessed cruel l)crsecutions, and during the
existing war, with its calamities, had changed hands four
times in five years. l ut one of its families had escaped these
last troubles by leaving somne years before: we refer to the ancestors of the Kortright, or Courtright, family, in its (ay one
of the most wealthyl in landlcd Iossessions in I-arlem.'
On the Flemish seaboard between Calais and the Hond, lay,
distant a few miles apart, the several old strongly intrenched
towns of Gravelines, Dunkirk, Furnes, Nicuport, Ostend and
Sluis, the latter seated ten miles south of the Hond, within a
x Family names were the exception and not the rule among our early )utch
colonists. The mass of people in Fatlerland used only a patronymic, formed by adding
to the child's Christian name that of the father, with the affix sen, or son; by which
originated all nalmes so tcrminlating, as for examplle, Jan Tac(obsen (meaning Jan, son
of Jacob), or Picter Janseii (I'iter, son of Jan), and the like. In correct usage in
writing, the affix -was often shortened to se (Or z, and always in the case of females to s.
This custom necessarily produced among the male descendants of the same progenitor
a great diversity of surnames, if we may, for convenience, so call them. Thus, Pieter,
Willemi and I[endrick being sons of Jan Jacobsen, would be known as Pieter Jansen,
Willcm Jansen, etc., while their children would be named respectively, Pietersen,
Willemscn and H-lcndrickscn, and these narmes, in turn, each afford other varieties in
the next generatioin. On the other hand, this use of the patronymic caused a frequent
recurrence of the samie name where no family connection whatever existed. The inconvenience thus arising, and particularly the liability of confounding persons of similar
name, was partially obviated by the practice in vogue in Iatherland, and kept up by
our colonists, both in familiar speech and in formal iwritings, of distinguishing persons
by their birthplace (not, as is now the usage, by the residence, except the one and the
other were the same); as, for example, Jan Jacobsen \Vanl Amsterdam, that is, J. J.
from Amsterdam. T'his valued link connecting the colonists with his former home,
it was in many cases directly to his interest to preserve. In H-olland, as with us, the
name of the place thus used often became the permanent family name, of which
instances abound. But it sometimes resulted that two or more brothers, born in different places, and from these deriving their respective surnames, gave rise to as many
families, whose common origin, after a few generations, none would ever suspect. In
many cases the Van has been dropped; and often the name so changed as to disguise
its origin, as those of Oblinus and Kortright. The first of these derived from
Ilouplines; after emigration, probably in conformity to English utterance, became
Oblinus, and by the usage before mentioned, was then, if not before, written Van
Oblinus. The Kortrights at first also used the Van.
The subject of our Dutch family names is a curious one, as will be abundantly
verified in the coming pages; and should be first well studied by those who undertake
to compile Dutch genealogy. See other remarks and a list of Dutch baptismal names,
with their English equivalent, in "Annals of Newtown," page 265.
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harbor on the German Sea, called the Paerdt-markt (Horsemarket), from the noise of the elements during a storm sounding very like the neighing of horses. During this century it cost
the kings of Spain dearly to hold these seaports. Ostend, in
particular, was taken by the Spaniards from the Hollanders,
September I4th, I6o4, after a terrible siege of over three years,
in which there perished 80,ooo of the former and 50,000 of the
latter. A few days previous (August i9th) Sluis surrendered
to Prince Maurice, after an investment of four months, the
Spaniards having made vain efforts to relieve it. Peace reigned
from 1o69 to I621; when Spain and Holland resumed hostilities.
In I635, as we have seen, France took part with Holland; but
England interposed to keep these ports,-of so much benefit to
her trade,-open for some years. However, the French, aided by
the Holland fleet under Admiral Tromp, took Gravelines in
I644, and Dunkirk and Fumes in I646. Mardyk was a rural
hamlet midway between the first two places, three miles from
either, where once stood a city claiming to be the famous
Portits Issius, but, sacked and burned by the Normans. and, in
1383, by the English, now consisted only of a church and a few
cottages, which could hardly excite envy, looking out so unpretendingly upon the sand dunes and the sea. But, in common
with all that border region, it was to suffer much from the contending forces. Fort Mardyk, in the vicinity, was seized by the
French on their taking Dunkirk. After six years they were
driven out of the fort and both towns by the Archduke Leopold, Governor of the Low Countries; but the French again
became masters of all in I658, conferring Mardyk, with Dunkirk,
upon the English, now their allies, who, in 1662, restored both to
the French, whence Mardyk fell under the iron rule of Louis
XIV. Meynard Journee, a young man born here, withdrew
during these troublesome times, and after wandering up and down
the Rhine, appears at Harlem, and finally on Staten Island, founding there the reputable family of Journeay.
Bruges was the last Flemish town as one approached the
Dutch border, distant eight miles from the coast and ten south
of Sluis. Very ancient, too, it was the veritable godfather of
Flanders, to which it had given a name, originally Vlonderen, a
Flemish term equivalent to Bruges (or Brugge, that is Bridges,
as its Dutch people called it), and which it early took, from the
many bridges in the town and environs. Once among the most
commercial and opulent of the Netherland cities, it dared defy
the Emperor Maximilian, whose vials of wrath vented upon it,
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and its troubles under Alva, with the rivalry of its neighbors,
Ghent and Antwerp, had ruined its industries. It was six years
under Protestant rule, but on May 22d, 1584, submitted to the
King of Spain. By degrees' its Protestant population forsook
it; and so did the good Jan Tibout, the Tiebout ancestor, for
a dozen years town clerk and voorleser at Harlemn, and also Joost
Jansen Kockuyit, who belongs to its history.
Sluis was made very secure by the D)utch, after being
wrested fronm the Spaniards in 1604, the latter trying in vain
to retake it in I621, on the renewal of the war at the end of
twelve years' truce. Its gardens and bleaching grounds told
the useful occupations of its people; but its air was so malarious, as in all that flat country, that strangers could not well
abide there, even its garrison having to be changed every year.
Blut it was the nearest Dutch town within reach of refugees
from France and Flanders, and its strong walls offered them
safety, so that many such,-and among them our Casier and
Cresson,-found a temporary home here. Sluis castle had a
reminiscence affecting to the refugees, for here the Admiral
Coligny, taken by the Spaniards at the battle of St. Quentin,
in r557, was confined, and alone with his Bible in his cell, became a Protestant, going hence, in(leed, to meet a cruel death
in the St. Bartholomew, but not till he had nobly served the
Huguenot cause, both in council and in the field. One who
could wield with equal skill the sword of the Spirit came from
Sluis at a later day: we refer to Guiliaem Bertholf, parish clerk
at Harlem, before he entered the ministry to become the "Itinerating apostle of New Jersey."'
* CGuiliacm Iertholf and his wife, Martina HIendricks Verwey, with letters from
Sluis, joined the church at Bergen, N. J., October 6, 1684. Ie lived at Ackquackneck.
In I690 le removed to Harlem, continued there about a year and a half, and soon went
to Ilolland for ministerial ordination. On his return he became pastor at Hackensack,
in which service he ended his days, in 1724. Indefatigable in his work, he labored
extensively among the surrounding churches, several of which he was instrumental
in forming. Mr. Bertholf had three children when he came to this country, viz.:
Sarah. Maria and Elizaboth, all born at Sluis; and afterward Ilendrick, Corynus
Jacobus, Martha and Anna. All were church members at Hackensack. Sarah married,
1698, )avid D. Demarest; Maria married, I699, John Bogart; Elizabeth married, 1699,
John Terhune, in 1718, Roelof Bogart; Hendrick married, 1707, Mary Terhune; Corynus married, 1718, Anna Reyersen; Martha married, I713, Albert Bogart; Jacobus
married Elizabeth Van Imburgh; and Anna married, 1718, Abraham Varick, and in
1734, Peter Post. Some of this name we have known but to respect; an honor to an
excellent ancestor.
CHAPTER IV.
IIOLAND: 1THE DE IOREISTS AND LA MONTAGNE.
T H E final adieu to
Europe marked a
crisis of no trifling imGo i;,g('(-g tr port, a grand turning-,$E^l )^/;/ 'XewrrFA&of- o point in the life and the
destiny of our colonists.
~//~J'~~-~,,,,,,, \ Cherished hopes of a
/ccisr return were seldom re- alized. That they were
/! lORIV ~ a s X oled to this decisive step
pOOI sc OrLfspecia lby a wond(erful series
I! ii w of providences, we have.l~Iy /sought to show. So far
IJr' <<S l plaas signal and of general
M ^,Ho — us"t~ p le a d bearing, these 'are mat-,/y SU v '~AMuR O,-OorT ters of common history;
m i HAAC' if less fortunate in our
this sripton r SCr *T search for special causes,
— o —ow-ing,~^r. w i limited to precise times,
places and individuals,
I LBn n r f e we must plead the diffilsin s of -ANlTehLRP r t e hculties attending such
minute inquiry. But while the craving for such details of personal experience can be but partially satisfied, our gleanings of
this description, reserved for the present chapter and the next
following, will include some touching passages of refugee life
in Holland and elsewhere.
Holland, in natural features simply, had little that was
winning: a boundless stretch of low pastures, which, walled in by
lines of dykes, both from the sea and the internal network of
sluggish rivers and artificial watercourses, formed the tame surrounding of the Zuyder Zee. The latter, the delight of the
Hollander, of whose imperturbable nature its broad, glassy bosom
in its unruffled repose presented a fit emblem, was changed from
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a lake to an inland sea bv al inundation ill 282, which, breaking through the narrow barrier on the north, united it with the
German Ocean, but leaving, to guard its entrance, small patches
of land, forming the Texel and several lesser islands. The Zuyder Zee had on the west the peninsula of North Holland. On
the opposite side, which swept in a half circle from north to
south, it washed the shores of Friesland, Overyssel, Gelderland
and Utrecht; the latter reaching westerly to South Holland,
which with North Holland composed but one province. In the
last-named was Amsterdam, the rich commercial emporium of
the Dutch, seated in the mouth of the Y, an arm, or inlet, of
the Zuyder Zee. Vvith these five districts, which nearly encircled this inland sea, the Seven United Provinces also numbered
Groningen, to the east of Friesland; and Zeeland, lying between
South Holland and Flanders, but broken into several islands by
the outlets of the Maas and Scheldt. Groningen, with Drenthe
next southerly, and then Overyssel (of which Drenthe was
usually reckoned a part), formed in conjunction with Zutphen,
a section of Gelderland to the south of Overyssel, the great
eastern boundary of the United Provinces along the German
circle of Westphalia.
With all its monotony of landscape, Holland, even in the
time of our colonists, bore witness to the indefatigable industry
of its people, in its vast system of canals, extensive dykes and
drainage, and thorough cultivation; the neatness and thrift of
its towns and villages, and its incessant activities, domestic and
maritime. Scarce enough of resemblance was found to ally it
to the parent country we have so fully described; so striking
was the difference, both in the temper of its people, and in the
matters of government and religion; for in all that was essential
to render its People both free and prosperous, the happy release
from the double x oke of Spain and the papacy had wrought
here a marvelous transformation. Its antique cloisters were
now applied to secular uses, its venerable churches and cathedrals devoted to the Reformed service, its dingy castles the merest
relics of an expiring feudalism. And if the scarred walls of its
cities told the tragic story of a recent desperate struggle, innumerable crafts plying upon its canals and rivers, and shipping
crowding every seaport, as plainly witnessed to its present prosperity. Its glory now was in being free; the recognized home
of civil and religious liberty!
But however worthy our study, Holland will now engage us
only with reference to the homes or the movements of the par
St. Peter's Church.
Burg. St. Pancras' Church.
Zaay Hall.
Ley(lcn, from the 'owcr of the City Hall.
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73
ticular persons whose checkered story forms a l)art of tie history
we are writing. Every one of the United Provinces was rel)resented in the original community at Harlem, though the settlers
from those provinces hailed chiefly from cities or villages on or
near the German (cean and the Zny(der Zee. Naturally, the great
cities of Amsterdam and Leyd(en gave the largest nullmer, the
last-named l)lace being sittated but twenty-two miles southwest
of the former, and at that (lay comlmunicating with it by means
of the Ley(len Canal, the Harlem Lake, and the Y.
Leylden was unexcelled for the beatyt of its surroundings,
as D)utch beauty went. It stood in the midst of the Rhineland,
a fertile flat, aptly called the Garden of Holland. On these broad
'meadows (razed numerous herds, the district being famous for
its suplerior butter and cheese dairies. D)irectly environed by
pretty villas and gardens, the city was inclosed by raml)arts (since
removed (around which ran a moat, crossed by seven drawbri(lges leading to the city gates; the approaches to these, arched
with the foliage of overhanging- trees, most agreeably impressing
the visitor entering for the first time. The city was intersected
by the river Rhine, which, rolling down from the classic Alps,
through two hundred leagunes of grandest highland scenery, but
reft of force and volunme by (liversion in the lowlands, flowed
placidly into the city in two branches, which uniting in one near
the centre, slid on, six miles farther, to the German O(cean; it
fed canals which traversed the town in all (lirections between lines
of shade trees, and under numerous bridges. The thoroughfares
were broad and cleanly, and the dwellings and shops,-built mainly
of brick, and stan(ling with gables to the street,-exhibited the
true Holland style. The Dutch burghers and their vrouws were
wont to resort for recreation to the shady walks upon the city
walls; or to the battlements of the Burg, an old castle or fortress
rising from a 1motnd in the centre of the town, at a point where
the ()Ol and New Rhine joined; and which afforded a picturesque
view,-rows of curious notched gables, belfries and church
steeples, with a wide and charming outlook over the country
beyond. With the advantage of a clear atmosphere (an unusual
condition in that moist climate) the eye might roam westerly to
the ocean, see southerly the masts of Rotterdam, easterly follow
up the tortuous course of the Rhine, descry to the northeast the
shipping of Amsterdam, and catch glimpses of that great inland
ocean, the Zuyder Zee.
Leyden had early become a principal refuge for the persecuted. Its brave and effectual resistance during the Spanish
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siege, in I574, gave it pre-eminence as a place of strength and
security, and attracted to its gates the flying multitudes driven
1y oppression from other lands. Of these the \Valloon refugees
were )y far the most numerous, and being welcomed by the
magistrates and people, they formed a church iln T584, the'burgomasters, at their request, giving them the permanent use of an
old edifice erected in the fourteenth century on the Haerlemstraat,
in the northern section of the city called Marendorp, and still
styled as by its Catholic founders, the Lieve Vrouw Kerk, or the
Church of the Virgin Mary. It was thence known as the French
or Walloon Church. On a later influx of refugees, this building
being found too small for the large increase of communicants,
they were permitted to celebrate the Lord's Supper in the Gasthuys (or Almshousc) Kerk,
which stood convenient to
^:^!^-^^ ~_,. '-:i ---=:- the other, on the north side
of the Breedestraat (the main
ow e - thoroughfare running east and
west through the city), and
--- h bece c- d attached to the St. Catharine
G asthutys, which occtupied
grounds in its rear. In i6o6
the W\alloons founded a college, for the better training of
their youth in their favorite
Calvinistic theology, as the
divinity school connected with
the Leyden University, though
\Walloon Church at Levden. ~7
Chrch vdnow enjoying great patronage, had become much distracted by the doctrinal controversy between its professors Gomarus and Arlminius. Daniel
Colonius, pastor of the \Valloon Church, was made regent of
the new college. The W\alloons, nurtured, as we have seen, in
the iron cradle of trial, bore with them into exile less wealth than
virtue, but with the latter a remarkable degree of common sense
and business energy. At ILeyden their skill and industry soon
told upon the commercial interests of the city, especially through
the mcdiunm of the cloth trade, for which Leyden was now justly
fanmed above all the other towns in Holland. Given its first impetus by Flemish artisans from Ypres, in the fourteenth century,
the woolen manufacture had grown to such magnitude as to engross a large share of the activities of the citizens; by more than
three hund(red busy hand-looms, turning out per annum fifty
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75
thousand pieces of cloth-not to include flannels, carl)ets, baize,
etc., amounting in a(ldition to over nine thousand pieces a year.
The older part of Leyden contained four "vierendeels," or
quarters; which districts, surrounded by the several enlargeients
of the city, ma(de from time to time, formed the central part of
the town, and stretched along the Blreedestraat, two uplll
the north side and two on the south. )One of the latter, called
the Woolhouse Ouarter, was so named because within its limits,
on the north side of the Steenschuur Canal, stood the Zaay Hall,
the great cloth emporium of the city of Leyden. This building,
formerly, in popish times, a chapel of the St. Jacob )brotherhood,
had been vacated by
~-:=, 1 -. -- coarsthis order, sold to the
city, and for sole tiein
--- - = F- rused for the storage
m- to_,3 — sla a: sl of wool, whence it.I. d sr was called the Woolhouse. About the.....ika i tdi grt year I596, it was refitted andl applropriated to the cloth trade.
H there, before they
could be sold, ml ust
be brotughtt all the
serges and camlets,.
broadcloths, single
cloths and gentry..., taa cloths, with some
coarser sorts, which
-The Zaav Hal, were made within
the town, to be inspected and appraised, and have attached the indispcensable "vent loot," or official leaden stamp. And here resorted the cloth manufacturers and drapers of Leyden,-the former to (lisp)lay and sell their goods, the latter to buy. Fromn the
"zaays," or serges, the building took its name, the Zaav Hall. On
every weekday in this great mart for trading was presented an animated scene: the ins)pectors, as require(l by law, busily examining
the white, black, or colored goods, to determine both quality an(l
quantity; the noisy klopp)er, with a blow affixing the proper stamp;
and the vociferous saleslnan, crying his price to the buyers who
thronged the place; while, interrupting the buzz of voices, the two
clocks overhead faithfully struck the hour and half hour, and
anon, the chime of small bells which also adorned the tower, to
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
each its name, as the \Weaver, the Dyer, etc., rung out a pleasing
melodv.
Another district, called the Gasthuys Vierendeel (Almlshouse
Quarter), had on the north side the Rhine below the junction
of its two branches, upon the south the Breedestraat, andl to the
east the Wanthuys Quarter. It took its name from the St.
Catharine Gasthuyts, which, with its kerk, before spoken of, stood
within its limits, a little to the west of that antique and massive
pile, the Stadt Huys, or City Hall. Through this quarter, along
the west side of the Gasthuys kerk yard, a little street called the
V rouwsteeg (woman's lane) led northward across the Rhine
to the W\alloon Church, and was often (levoutly trodl(dln by the
feet of the refugees.
In the Gasthuys (Oarter lived a \Valloon named Jesse I)e
Forest. I-ie was one of the exiles from Avesnes, in the plrovince of Hainault, as already noticedl, driven by the perils of the
times to take refuge at Sedan; and whence the De Forests, after
a sojourn there applarently of soime years, had renove(l do\wn
the MAaas to Holland.
Jesse, Jean, Michael and Gerard, recognized as b)rothers, are
found at Leylden, with a sister Jeanlle, whose husband was one
Cartier, from Columbier, France. The )e Forests stoo(d prominent among the French refugees. Jesse and Gerard, of whom
only we shall need to sl)eak further, were by occupation dyers.
It was their subtle art wxTich imllarte(l beauty and value to those
useful fabrics disllaye(d and sold at the Zaay Hall. Gerard,
whose birthplace was Avesnes, married at Leyden, on August
12th, I6i1, a young lady of French parentage, but born here,
Hester, daughter of Crispin and Agnes (le la Grange, the latter
now a widow. Surviving his marriage forty-five years, he was
blessed with a goodly competence and in seeing his children
respectably married at Leyden. His brother, Jesse, had brought
a wife with him to Holland, AMarie Du Cloux, whom he probably
marrie(l at Sedan, as his eldest son was born there. Five children
that reached maturity came of this union, namely, Jean, Henry,
Rachel, Jesse and Isaac. Alore than once, however, had death
invaded their circle, taking little Israel and Philippe from their
fond enmbrace. Yet having, for love to God, forsaken country
and kindred, they could accept these painful visitations as the
salutary chastenings of an All-wise Father, teaching them the
lesson of resignation to His will, and inspiring a faith to look
upward and beyond. Diligent also in his vocation, which had
long ranked among the "Greater Arts," Jesse De Forest, in the
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77
easy position of a master artisan, was one of a limited number
having license from the magistrates "to dye serges and camlets
in colors." It was a tribute to his skill; for only the most expert
and approved dyers were thus preferred, as on the beauty and
permanence of the colors so largely (lepen(led the reputation and
success of the cloth trade of Leyden. Plying his useful art,
De Forest mixe(l his delicate tints, and among his steaming vats
laily earned an honest living. His home was near the W\alloon
church, at which he and his Mlarie loved to offer ulp their devotions, and where from time to time they dedicated their offspring
to God in baptism.
But Jesse De Forest had again fallen upon perilous times.
Leyden was at this date rent by popular discords, which affected
the whole country, but this city in particular. While the people of Holland were crushed and humbled by the Spanish war,
and had to struggle for existence, they showed, as we have seen,
the deepest sympathy for the victims of oppression who fled to
their country for refuge. lBut once in the flush of enjoyment of
peace and Iprosperity, and forgetful of their former trials, feelings
of national pride prolnpted them to draw lines of social distinction, especially between themselves and the foreign population,
insomuch that the refugees now began to be eyed with contempt,
treated as inferiors, and often refused employment. This intolerant spirit was also fostered by the parties and feuds which had
sprung up in church and state. The old dispute about predestination, which had arisen among the professors at the University,
had proceeded from the schools into the pulpits, and the people readily took sides. Hence the controversy spread far and
wide. The pastors of the various churches, as well as their flocks,
became sorely at issue, many of both classes embracing the Arminian views; those holding these opinions being called Remonstrants. The famous Synod of Dort, convened November I3th,
IG68, on account of these dissensions, remained in session for
over six months, and handled the Arminian preachers with great
severity. Its action being sustained by the government, a general
crusade against the Remonstrants was instituted, and a large
number of their ministers, men of undoubted talent and piety, were
deposed and driven from the country. The Synod of South Holland, which met at Leyden in July following, though numbering
but thirty ministers and ten elders, expelled about sixty Remonstrant preachers, who refused to subscribe to the canons adopted
by the Synod of Dort. Many of this proscribed sect left the
country, a part of whom retired to Denmark, and by favor of
~-1 — — r1; - - - I
L —
- = - - - - - - - - -
University.
View -on the Klokslteeg.
St. Peter's Church.
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79
the Duke of Holstein, founded the town of Frederickstadt, in
I621, though, the troubles over, most of them returned to their
native country.
At Leyden, where prior to tlhe Synod of Dort the new sect
had gained a multitude of adherents, includingl some of tile city
agtistrates, everythingl was now done to sul)plress them. Ejected
from their churches, they met for worshil) in a l)rivate house,
only to be driven out by a mob. In vain tley l)raye(l the magistrates to allow them the public exercise of their religion, urging
that the Lutherans, English Puritans, and even the Jews, enjoyed
that right unmolested. A bturgler at whose d(welling they assemibled u)pon a night in August was heavily fined, anl( expelled
from the town for a year. Two months later a zaav-wveaver,
for having a meeting at his house, was mulcted two hundred and
twenty-five florins, stripped of his rights as a freeman, and banished from Levlen and the Rhineland. Some of the citizens were
fined and imprisoned for collecting mloney in aid of the exiled
l)astors.
At the University a change was 1male in tlhe faculty, by the
removal of all the professors who were Remonstrants, and the
applointment of aplproved Calvinists. Even after their ejectment
they were followed with a malevolence which is in strange contrast with our ideas of toleration. And it was but the culmination
of this same politico-religiouts persecution that brought to the
block that venerable and pure-minded patriot Oldenbarneveldt,
May 13th, I619, while the Synod was yet in session at Dort,-a
cruel episode of the war upon the Remonstrants, and which
thrilled the nation with horror. The severity toward that sect
did not cease for some years after; several executions took place
at Leyden, and this town was the last to grant them toleration.
ThesQ party strifes and public tumults having a tendency to unhinge society, to fetter speech and conscience, to check the industries of the people and make a livelihood more difficult, greatly
disquieted all classes, but mnore especially the foreign refugees.
While these things were transpiring, there attended the Walloon church a young Frenchman, who was a boarder in the
family of one Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft,
and who was studying medicine under the learned Heurnius at the
University, where he had been registered as a student November
I9th, I619, in the Latin style, Johannes Monerius Montanus, or
as in French, Jean Mousnier De La Montagne. His surname
might betoken social rank, or, as already suggested, point to a
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
family origin in La Montagne, or both, yet without doubt
connects him with the talented family of that name which
became so distinguished in the fields of theology, medicine, and
literature, during the sixteenth century. Himself, as before
seen, a refuge from Saintonge, he was twenty-four years of age
on entering the University. It was directly after the aforesaid
change in the faculty had taken place,-a change much approved
by the French families, who as Calvinists were opposed to the
former regime; and which may have had its weight with MIontagne in going thither, but more likely the better facilities aforded
by a new edifice, with the other and peculiar advantages which
a membership conferred.'
The University building stood in the southwestern part of
the city, upon the west side of the street and canal called the
Rapenburg, where it was crossed by the Nun's Bridge, upon the
lane running east and west known as the Kloksteeg. The building (a very plain structure, formerly a cloister of the White
Nuns), being nearly consumed by fire November i, I616, had
been rebuilt with more elegance and better accommodations, and
adorned with a spire and clock.
Frtom the eastern windows of the University, looking down
the Kloksteeg, could often be seen a company of English dissenters, assembling for worship at the dwelling of their pastor,
John Robinson, on the south side of the street, opposite St.
Peter's Church. Here were wont to gather the pious Carver,
and Brewster, and Brewer, and Bradford, Winslow and Standish, and many others of the "Pilgrim Fathers," to receive the
word of life, "enjoying," says one of them, "nmuch sweet and
delightful society and spiritual comfort together, in the ways
of God." Many of these persons working at honest employments connected with the staple manufacture of the city, such
as weavers, carders, dyers, etc., were almost as well known as
was their pastor, Robinson, who was a constant visitor at the
University, and a reader at the library, and who being "versed
in the Dutch language," had "procured him much honor and
respect," in the pulpit of St. Peter, by his defense of Calvinism
in the recent discussions. And at the time Montagne entered
the University, the affair of Brewer and his associate Brewster
was in everyone's mouth. These worthy men, in a room near
* Montagne's age warrants the belief that he had finished a course of study elsewhere before coming to Leyden, and now attached himself to the University, as was
a common practice, for professional improvement, as well as to secure other benefits
and immunities which such connection conferred. All thus entering were termed
students; and so Montagne was always enrolled "student of medicine," though his
membership was three times severed and as often renewed in seventeen years.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Robinson's house, were engaged in printing religious books for
the English dissenters. Being complained of by Sir Dudley
Carleton, the English ambassador at the Hague, it devolved upon
the University of which Brewer was a member to investigate
the matter. The accused persons being exonerated, the affair
was eclipsed by the graver agitations of the times; yet the fears
which it excited gave spur to a movement now contemplated by
the English congregation.
Robinson and his flock, feeling ill at ease in Leyden, had been
led "both deeply to apprehend their present dangers, and wisely
to foresee the future, and think of timely remedy.'' Having
resolved upon a removal to some other place, they were looking toward America as their future home. But several years
were spent in fruitless negotiation for aid with "The Virginia
Company of London," and "The New Netherland Coimpany" at
Amsterdam. At length, obtaining the needed assistance from
private sources, a good portion of the church, "the youngest
and strongest part," after a farewell meeting at Robinson's house,
departed from "that goodly and pleasant citie," July 2ISt, 1620,
to embark at Delft Haven. "They that stayed at Leyden," says
Winslow, "feasted us that were to go, at our pastor's house,
being large, where we refreshed ourselves after tears with singing of psalms, making joyful melody in our hearts, as well as with
the voice.... After this they accompanied us to Delft
Haven."
So remarkable an exodus, its preparation, object, and destination, being generally known throughout the city, had its influence upon others, who like the former, "pilgrims," wearied and
alarmed by the prevailing disorders, were casting about for a
better home. It especially affected the French and Belgian
refugees, to whom another cause of apprehension now presented
itself. This was a threatened war with Spain, which, reviving
gloomy recollections of former trials, set many to planning some
way of escape from the dreaded atrocities of war, to which they
were likely to be again exposed. Hence the subject of a removal
to America began to be agitated also among the Walloons at
Leyden, whose numbers were now daily and largely increasing
by the arrival of other refugees, impelled by their fears to leave
the southern provinces; and many needed only the necessary
means or guarantees of protection, etc., to induce them to emigrate. Of the number pledged to do so, were Jesse De Forest
and his family, with two named Mousnier, or La Montagne, kins
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men, one of whom was our Jean, "student of medicine," and the
other an "apothecary and surgeon," like the former, single, and
probably his brother.
For many years efforts had been making in Holland, by the
more wealthy Walloon and other Belgian residents, to organize
a "West India Company," to open up a trade with America.
During the truce with Spain this project had slumbered, but was
revived on the prospect of a renewal of the war; the StatesGeneral being now ready to encourage the formation of the company, whose reprisals upon the settlements and commerce of the
common enemy, by means of its armed vessels, would help to
weaken his power.
But the company met with various hindrances, even after
obtaining, its charter in I62I, not the least of which was the,
want of sufficient capital. Tracts "for the instruction of the
public," with which the press literally teemed, many from the
forms of Elzevier, the University printer, set forth the grand
undertaking in glowing terms, and urged the people to invest.
But still subscriptions came in slowly; great doubt and uncertainty hung over "the long-expected West India Company"; insomuch that when, in I62I, the Walloons began, in imitation of
Robinson's people, to make plans for their contemplated
emigration, the hope of aid from this source, especially in
the tame work of planting a colony, was too faint to be seriously entertained. Therefore they resolved to apply to the
English ambassador at the Hague in regard to emigrating to
Virginia.
Jesse De Forest, whose standing among the Walloons and
interest in the enterprise, marked him as a suitable person
to present a letter of inquiry in their behalf, had been
full twenty years in Holland, and well understood the
condition and needs of his countrymen, as also their
peculiar views and aims in respect to this movement,
upon which so much was depending. In an ably drawn
communication to Sir Dudley Carleton, about the first
of August, 1621, he asks whether His Majesty of England will permit fifty or sixty families, Walloons and
French, all of the Reformed religion, to settle in
Virginia; will aid them with an armed vessel to make
the voyage; will guarantee them protection in their
persons and religion; grant them land to cultivate,
and allow them to form a town and enjoy various specified
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83
rights and privileges pertaining to the soil and to a free community.*
These inquiries being forwarded to England, were referred
by the king to the directors of the Virginia Company, who, on
August 12th, I621, gave "so fine an answer,"-in the words of
a letter conveying the news to their agent in Virginia,-"as we
consider they will resolve to go." But the Walloons thought
otherwise, for as the company "were contented to receive them
upon certain conditions," and these quite different from their
own, and could promise no aid in the way of providing ships, it
virtually amounted to a refusal.
Autograph of Jesse de Forest.
From an original of 1621, in the State Paper Office, London.
Jesse De Forest continued his calling, and when the people
of Leyden were registered for a poll-tax in the autumn of 1622,
the dyer, with his family, numbering his wife and five children,
and their maid-servant, Margariete Du Can, still lived on the
Breedestraat, within the Almshouse Quarter. The great theme
which had absorbed his mind,-America,-was nevertheless not
forgotten. Anon this wish of his heart was to be realized, but
in an unexpected way.
The West India Company had so far succeeded in its organization, and in raising the necessary amount of capital, as to
begin operations, through its board of managers, chosen September I7th, I622. Under its patronage, and bound to a term of
service, a company of Walloons, with their families, sailed for
New Netherland early in the succeeding March; but De Forest
and the Montagnes declined to accompany them, as did most of
those who had subscribed to the Virginia project. This was not
the inviting plan of free colonization which De Forest had pro* De Forest's letter, translated by Dr. O'Callaghan from the French copy in the
JProadhead papers, is printed in "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the
State of New York," vol iii, p. 9. The signature, as in the copy, is there erroneously
printed Jose De Forest; see above, facsimile of the original autograph, from a tracing
obligingly sent me by Mr. W. Noel Sainsbury, of Her Majesty's State Paper Office,
London. The closing paragraph of this letter, in the original, reads thus:
"Sur ce que dessus mondict Stigneur l'Ambassadeur donnera avis s'il luy plaist
commne aussi, si son plaisir de faire expedier le diet privilege en forme heur le plustost
que faire se pourra a cause du peu de teimps qui reste d'icy au Mars (temps commode
pour l'embarquemnent) pour faire l'acceuil de tout ce aui est requis ce faisant obligera
ses serviteurs a prier Dieu pour l'accomplissement de ses saincts deseins et pour la
sante et longe vie. "JESSE DE FOREST."
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posed; and though the adventure was attractive for its very
novelty, nothing probably but their necessities would have induced any of the Walloons to accept so tame a servitude, considering their natural aversion to restraint and love of personal
freedom. A new purpose soon usurped his mind,-perhaps it
had already,-and the fortunes of Jesse De Forest were to take
a sudden turn.
The lone ship dispatched with the Walloons, and other vessels sent out by the company soon after to the West Indies, were
designed merely to secure possession of the country, and to forestall the trade. The grand business in hand was the conquest
of Brazil. Invested with the control of the Dutch possessions
in Africa and America, with ample powers to trade with and
colonize those countries, expel the Spaniards, and prey upon their
commerce, the company now began the most extensive preparations to this end. The dockvards of Holland resounded with the
noise of busy workmen, and loud was the call for seamen and
soldiers to man the fleet. At length, a powerful armament was
ready to sail. On December 2Ist and 22d, I623, nineteen ships
of war left the Texel and the Ems, with the Admiral Jacob Willekens, joined the next day by three more from the \Iaas, making
twenty-two vessels of war destined to operate against the Spanish
settlements in the West Indies and Brazil. This expedition, designed also to cripple the maritime power of Spain, and ultimately
compel her, if not to yield her control of the Low Countries, at
least to grant civil and religious rights to the inhabitants, and the
restoration of their sequestered estates to the refugees, was in
high favor with the Walloons, whose patriotism and martial spirit
were aroused by this stirring call to arms. For some time Leyden
had witnessed "nothing but beating of drunms and preparing for
war." Even the excellent Colonius, pastor of the Walloon church,
had taken the field with Prince Maurice, the Stadtholder, against
the Spaniards. And so Jesse De Forest, giving up his old occupation, enlisted in this grand naval expedition to Brazil. He had
latterly occupied a house with his brother Gerard, on the Mare,
a canal running north from the Rhine to the city gate called the
Mare Port. Gerard was to continue the business, but was licensed
only to dye in black. Appearing before the burgomasters, January 4, 1624, and stating that his brother Jesse had "lately
departed with the vessels for the West Indies," he requested to be
appointed in his stead to dye serges and camlets in colors, as the
number of dyers engaged in this specialty would not thereby
be increased. And his request was granted.
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But here the veil drops over the career of our De Forest.
The summer was not quite ended when the yacht De Vos brought
news of Willekens' success in Brazil, but no good news of De
Forest. He seems either to have fallen at the siege of St. Salvador, or to have otherwise perished during that arduous service;
for the fact of his decease soon became known to his family in
Holland. The sad tidings, as it reached Leyden, that Jesse De
Forest, the dyer, was dead, must have caused many an honest
regret; but a deeper sorrow, within that small circle of bereaved
hearts, the desolate widow and orphans, whose wants could no
longer be met by his provident care. But the breach in the social
circle caused by the departure of even so good and useful a man,
-what was it in the grievous mortality which visited Leyden in
the years I624 and 1625? Years roll on; and those whoml he
left enjoy the fruits of his patient labor; but the voice of the lost
husband and father comes back no more. Time buries alike his
virtues and his foibles, and oblivion claims the memory of Jesse
De Forest. Ah! not so; he still lives in his last ambitious adventure, to lmould other destinies, which are yet in the unrevealed
future.
Near the time De Forest went abroad, our Jean La Montagne, latterly a boarder, with other "students," in the family of
Thomas Cornelisz, on the Breedestraat, in Meat Market Row, is
found to have quit the University. The coincidence, and at a
juncture when physicians were needed for the fleet, almost forces
the conviction that he too had joined the expedition.1' But perhaps he had merely retired from Leyden to avoid the plague,
which, as intimated, made fearful ravages in that city in the
two ensuing years. Leaving this to conjecture, as we must, it
at least appears that, after having been gone for some time, Montagne returned to Leyden, and in order that he might continue
his favorite studies, which had been interrupted by his absence,
and also enjoy the various privileges of the University, which
he seems to have valued very highly, was enrolled anew at that
institution as a "student of medicine," July 7th, 1626. He had
taken convenient lodgings with the.widow De Forest,-now living on the Voldersgraft, the second street east of St. Peter's
Church,-whose only daughter, the fair Rachel, had already
stolen his heart, and to whom, with the approval of the family,
as signified by her uncle Gerard, who was present, Montagne
was united in wedlock by the pastor of the Walloon Church, De* One La Montagne, captain in the Dutch service in Brazil, was killed in the
Portuguese assault upon Fort Hinderson, I646.
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cember I2th, 1626. Living so near to St. Peter's, one of the
principal churches in the city, it was here during the following
year that they had the joy to present for baptism their little son,
Jolant, their precious first-born, but alas! destined soon to be taken
from them.
Holland was now overflowing with people, all intent on making a livelihood, but "where one stiver was to be gained there
were ten hands ready to receive it." Many, on that account,
were leaving that country in search of other homes, where they
might find better opportunities, and obtain a living more easily.
The possessions of the Dutch in America, known as New Netherland, presented to such persons special advantages, and very
alluring was the offer of the West India Company to grant each
colonist as much land as he should be able to cultivate. So, while
many of the sturdy sons of Holland were turning their faces
thitherward, the subject was daily becoming of wider and more
practical interest.
)ften might have been noticed, poring over the musty tomes
at the University library, a person of studious mien, known as
Johannes De Laet, one of the several directors of the West India
Company, who resided at Leyden. An elder of the church, and
distinguished for learning, moderation, and probity, De Laet
enjoyed the public confidence; and the two Synods of North and
South Holland, by selecting him to write an ecclesiastical history,
paid a high tribute to his judgment and impartiality. His prolific pen had done much to familiarize the public mind with the
discoveries of the Dutch in America. One of his works, published at Leyden, entitled, "The New World; or a Description of
the West Indies," having been five years in print, appeared in an
improved form in I630, and gave the first full and authoritative
account of New Netherland, awaking a lively interest not only
in the circles of Leyden, but throughout Holland.
While De Laet's first edition was yet in press, sundry letters
had been received from the WValloons who had gone out in I623
to Manhattan and Fort Orange (Albany), in which they spoke
in glowing terms of their new home, extolling its "beautiful
rivers and bubbling fountains," the excellence of its soil, and
the abundance of its timber, fruits, game, and fish; then, urging
their friends to come out with their families and enjoy the benefits
of a country which fairly rivaled "the paradise of Holland."
The natural effect of these letters* was to induce not a few
* Quoted in the "Cedenkwaardige Geschiedenissen, zo Kerkelyke als Wereldlyke,"
or "Remarkable Events, as well Ecclesiastical as Secular, from 1603 to 1624," by Rev.
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persons here and there forthwith to emigrate, while in many
others was awakened a keen desire for fuller information, such
as the work of De Laet was designated to gratify. The demand
for the book became so great as only to be met by repeated editions. With the original journals of Hudson and succeeding explorers before him, many of the details presented were exceedingly entertaining.
Opening De Laet's vellum-bound, attractive folio, fresh from
the press of the Elzeviers, the reader presently found his attention drawn to the extraordinary advantages and resources of the
country around the Island of Manhattan, and bordering the Great
River of the Mountains. "This land is excellent and beautiful
to the eye, full of noble forest trees and grape-vines; and wanting nothing but the labor and industry of man to render it one
of the finest and most fruitful regions in that part of the world."
He then condeises the accounts given by "our countrymen
who first explored this river, and those who afterward made
frequent voyages thither." The trees are "of wonderful size,
fit for buildings and vessels of the largest class. Wild grapevines and walnut trees are abundant. Maize or Indian corn,
when cultivated, yields a prolific return; and so with several
kinds of pulse, as beans of various colors, pumpkins,-the finest
possible, melons, and similar fruits. The soil is also found well
adapted to wheat and several kinds of grain, as also flax, hemp,
and other European seeds. Herbaceous plants grow in great
variety, bearing splendid flower,', or valuable for their medicinal
properties. The forests aboun in wild animals, especially the
deer kind; with other quadrupeds indigenous to this part of the
country. Quantities of birds, large and small, frequent the rivers,
lakes and forests, with plumage of great elegance and variety
of colors. Superior turkey-cocks are taken in winter, very fat,
and the flesh of fine quality. Salmon, sturgeon, and many other
kinds of excellent fish are caught in the rivers. The climate
differs little in temperature from our own, though the country
lies many degrees nearer the equator than the Netherlands. In
winter the cold is intense, and snow falls frequent and deep, covering the ground for a long time. In summer it is subject to
much thunder and lightning, with copious and refreshing showers. Scarcely any part of America is better adapted for colonists
from this quarter; nothing is wanting necessary to sustain life,
except cattle, which can be easily taken there, and easily kept,
Wilhelmus Baudartius, of Zutphen; printed at Arnhem, 1624, in 2 vols. folio. See
Doc. Hist. N. Y., iv. I31. Baudartius was grandfather of our Wilhelmus Beeckman.
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on account of the abundance of fodder growing naturally and
luxuriantly.
"The Indians are indolent, and some crafty and wicked, having slain several of our people. The Manhattans, a fierce nation,
occupy the eastern bank of the river, near its mouth. Though
hostile to our people, they have sold them the island or point
of land which is separated from the main by Hellgat, and where
they have laid the foundations of a city called New Amsterdam.
The barbarians are divided into many nations and languages, but
differ little in manners. They dress in the skins of animals.
Their food is maize, crushed fine, and baked in cakes; with fish,
birds and wild game. Their weapons are bows and arrows; their
boats made from the trunks of trees, hollowed out by fire. Some
lead a wandering life, others live in bark houses, their furniture
mainly mats and wooden dishes, stone hatchets, and stone pipes
for smoking tobacco. They worship a being called Manetto, are
governed by chiefs called Sagamos, are suspicious, timid, revengeful and fickle; but hospitable when well treated, ready to
serve the white man for little compensation, and susceptible of
being imbued with religion and good manners, especially if
colonies of well-ordered people should be planted among them,
who would make use of their services without rudeness or abuse,
and by degrees teach them the worship of the true God, and the
habits of civilized life."
These accounts, here epitomized, were published in French,
as well as in the vernacular tongue, and being eagerly sought for
and read, proved a powerful incentive to emigration; turning
the scale with many desiring a change in favor of that new
country, whose superior advantages had been depicted with so
graphic a pen.
The same year in which the Walloon college was founded, a
child was born in the city of Leyden, of Walloon parents, who
being well-to-do, no doubt educated him in that school of learning. This was Henry De Forest, the son of Jesse, and the
brother of Rachel. Bereft of his father while yet under age, ie
had looked to his uncle, Gerard, for needed counsel; and there is
pleasing evidence that the relations of the uncle and nephew were
intimate and confiding. Time, with rapid flight and many a
change, had ushered in the year I636. Henry was now of the
mature age of thirty years; his brother Isaac,-an infant of four
months when the bells rung for the great fire at the University,
-had grown to be a young man of twenty; Jean, the eldest
brother, a dyer by occupation, had recently taken a wife, and
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was living at the Hoogewoert in Leyden; whilc Jesse, the other
brother, was spoken of tenderly,-he was dead.
Since that memorable day when the elder De Forest left the
shores of Holland, never to return, his famiily had felt no common interest in all that related to Amierica. The favorite theme
of the social hour, it lent a fascination to their dreams. As
seated around their smouldering turf fire they talked of the
eventful past, and now of the flattering advantages to be enjoyed in New Netherland,-thought of the unwholesome air and
prevalent agues of Leyden, and of the appalling scenes of the
preceding year, when pestilence again raged around them, and
many thousands of their neighbors and townsmen were swept
off by the plague,-the two brothers, Henry and Isaac De Forest,
resolved to turn their backs upon Holland, for a venture in New
Netherland. There the tobacco culture now assumed new importance, and promised large profits to those who should engage
in it, owing to the late failure of that crop in Virginia, as reported
by vessels which had returned the preceding fall from James
River, mostly without cargoes. This then was their opportunity.
Aided in their plans and preparations by their uncle Gerard,
whose son Crispin, it would seem, intended to make one of the
emigrating party, their project doubtless had all the encouragement and support to be given it by their influential cousin, Mr,
Johannes PIanhuysen, of Leyden, —married to a daughter of
Gerard De Forest,-who was then a director of the West India
Company, and represented Leyden in the Chamber at Amsterdam, in which office he had succeeded Johannes De Laet. The
plan seemed complete when their only sister, Rachel, and her
husband, Dr. La Mlontagne, agreed to go; the doctor, under
assurances of some preferment there, deciding to give up his
practice, and his associations and membership at the University,
which but lately,-that is, on March 3d, I636,-he had renewed,
as also his old home on the Kloksteeg, where he had for some
years lived, at the sign of the Queen of Bohemia.*
But all things were not yet ready; others who were deeply
interested in these plans were to be consulted. Across the Zuyder
Zee, on the west coast of Freisland, and between and extending
* The Queen of Bohemia, a noble Christian woman, was long an exile in Holland,
the object of profound respect and sympathy among all Protestants; hence her effigy
upon Montagne's signboard. She was Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I. of England, and wife of Frederick V., Elector Palatine of the Rhine and King of Bohemia,
who had been driven from his dominions by the Catholic powers in 1621. He died in
I632, leaving the Queen with a large family. Neal says they "were always the delight
of the Puritans," the hope of Protestantism in England resting on their expected succession to that throne; an event which happened not till 17I4, when a grandson of
the Queen of Bohemia was crowned as George I.
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nearly to the towns of Workum and Hindelopen, lies a pleasant
grazing district called Nieuwlant. Here dwelt the respectable
Dutch family of Bornstra, to one of whose members, a maiden
of two-and-twenty years, named Gertrude, Henry De Forest
was affianced. The same pleasing relations subsisted between
her sister Margareta and Henry's cousin, Crispin. To marry,
to leave the kindly covert of the parental roof, and go across
the sea to a far country,-it was a bold adventure, to which the
familiar passage of the Zuyder Zee, though that was often dangerous, was a trifling matter. But what confiding young bride
ever refused to follow her Henry, wherever he might lead, and
to feel safe under his protection? And so it was agreed that the
nuptials in both cases should take place at the same time, and
in the seat of Dutch fashion, Amsterdam. Accordingly, on Saturday, June 7, I636, the two happy pairs were there, and attended
by Gerard De Forest, as voucher for his son and nephew, and
having the written consent of the father of the brides, attested
by Secretary Van Neck, of Nieuwlant, presented themselves in
the chamber of the eminent regent and physician, Dr. Claes Tulp,
and Jacob Bicker, both schepens, or magistrates, of the city, and
also the "Commissaries of Marriages," to have their bans registered as required by law, and to request the usual publication
of the same. Names, residence, age, etc., being then recorded,
and the record signed by the parties, this first public step toward
their union, one so trying to bashful lovers, was taken. The
next was to send notice to Leyden to have the bans published in
the church on three succeeding Sundays; and this also having
been done "without delay," the two couples, on Tuesday, July 1st,
again attended by the father and uncle, Gerard, and by other
friends, met in Amsterdam, and were married by Dominie Baudius, probably at the New Church, in the public place called the
Dam, on whose register the event stands recorded.
The social festivities, few and simple at that day, the parting
visits to the dear old homes at Leyden and Nieuwlant, and busy,
thoughtful preparation at both places for their coming departure,
could not but wear a tinge of sadness, in view of their long
and perilous voyage, and uncertain absence from kin and country.
The kind uncle, Gerard, engaged two persons to accompany them
in the capacity of farmer and farmer's boy, each of whom entered
into a formal contract to "serve said De Forest, or his agent,
three successive years after arriving in New Netherland." The
circumstances of Crispin De Forest's marriage, and the active
part taken by his father in the preparations for the voyage, are
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reasons for the belief, before expressed, that he also intended
to be of the party. If so, something changed his purpose during the
long delay before the others sailed, and Crispin stayed at Leyden.
The company yet consisted of Dr. La Montagne and his
wife, and three children, Jesse, Jean, and Rachel; Henry De
Forest and his bride, and Isaac De Forest, with the assistants,
Tobias Teunissen and Willem Fredericks Bont, both natives of
Leyden. The last was a sturdy lad of sixteen years, perhaps an
orphan, for his education had been neglected, but of a surname
common there, and even distinguished. Teunissen, by trade a
woolwasher, had reached middle life, having married in I618.
An attendant of St. Peter's Church, where he had several children
baptized, and being known to the curators of the University as
a trustworthy person, he was employed in I622 as a nightwatchman at that institution, for which he received six florins a week.
But time had brought him sad changes, and having been bereft
of his family, he now resolved to leave behind his native land
and kindred, and, as he vainly hoped, also his adversities.
Now arrived the long-expected day of embarkation, when
hopes and fears, congratulations and farewells, smiles and tears,
strangely commingled. The party (except the Montagne family,
who for some reason deferred their going) set sail from the
Texel for New Amsterdam, October Ist, I636, in the yacht Rensselaerswyck, of which Jan Tiebkins was skipper, and carrying
colonists to Fort Orange, in the service of the Patroon, Kilian
Van Rensselaer, of Amsterdam.
Interrupting for a space the story of these pioneers, let us
note the movements of others in whom we are interested, who
were led to follow upon the same adventurous voyage across the
ocean.
CHAPTER V.
EMIGRATION.
A MSTERDAM, as the great commercial mart of Holland,
and the seat of the principal business chamber of the Dutch
West India Company, had become the great point of embarkation for colonists going to New Netherland. They came from all
parts of the country: not only the native Dutch, and fugitives from
France and the Catholic Netherlands, but also refugees from the
German and Scandinavian countries, multitudes of whom, rendered miserable by the Thirty Years' War, were seeking a home
and employment in the United Provinces. Of these refugees the
historian of Holland has drawn the character in happy terms.
Says Davies: "Nor was it more in the numbers than in the sort
of population that Holland found her advantage. The fugitives
were not criminals escaped from justice, speculators lured by
the hope of plunder, nor idlers coming thither to enjoy the luxuries which their own country (lid not afford: they were generally
men persecuted on account of their love of civil liberty, or their
devotion to their religious tenets. Had they been content to sacrifice the one or the other to their present ease and interest, they
had remained unmolested where they were; it was by their activity, integrity and resolution that they rendered themselves obnoxious to the tyrannical and bigoted governments which drove
them from their native land; and these virtues they carried with
them to their adopted country, peopling it, not with vagabonds
or indolent voluptuaries, but with brave, intelligent and useful
citizens."
Thus our Captain Jochiem Pietersen Kuyter, who had formerly commanded in the East Indies for the king of Denmark,
and who with his friend, Jonas Bronck, came out in I639 by
way of Amsterdam, was from Holstein; as were also our Nicholas
De Meyer and Jan Pietersen Slot, who arrived a few years later:
all these being sterling men, and, except the last, well educated.
The small county of Bentheim,-a part of Westphalia bordering
on Overyssel, diversified with mountain ranges, forests, and fertile plains, and yielding to a laborious people more than they
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needed of cattle, wool, linen, honey, etc., all of which found in
Holland a ready market, and whence had arisen a free intercourse
between the two peoples,-furnished three colonists, whose surnames yet survive with us, to wit, Adolph leyer, Jan Dvckman,
and Arent Harmans Bussing, the last named of a family not
unknown to fame in that country; and two bore prenomens popular in their part of Germany,-as among the rulers of Bentheim
none were such favorites as the late counts A(lolph and Arent.
Other cVestphalians found their way to Harlem, as Hendrick
Karstens, from Oldenburg, whose sons were called Boch, or
Bouck; Jan Terbosch, from Tellust, or Delmenhorst, whose descendants are numerous; and Jan Meynderts, from Jever, in
Oldenburg, and the father-in-law of Barent Waldron. Kier
Wolters, the Kiersen ancestor, who had lived at Gees and at
Aernhout, two obscure villages in the "Groot Veenen," or desertlike fens of Drenthe, came out via Amsterdam; as did also our
PBcnson ancestor, who was originally from Groningen. Froml
Workum, on the coast of Freisland, came Captain Jan Gerritsen
De Vries, or V\an Dalsen, progenitor of the Dolsen family, of
Orange County, whose blood may be traced in those of Waldron,
Kiersen and M\eyer.
Amsterdam itself gave us of its resident families those of
Waldron, Sneden and Verveelen, familiar names, yet found in
this State and others, and to which the Slots and Bensons may
le aldded. Dirck Benson, the ancestor, though himself from
Groningen, as stated, had lived at Amsterdam, where he married
Catalina, daughter of Samson Berck and Tryntie Van Rechteren;
whence the name Samson, so common in the Benson family.
Benson came out about 1648.
Also from Amsterdam was Hendrick Jansen Vander Vin.
Well educated, and a good accountant, he was commended to
the notice of the West India Company, and went under their auspices to Pernambuco, in Brazil, where he acted as clerk to the
High Council of Justice at Maurits Stadt, a town built by the
Dutch near the Reciff. Some fragments of his minutes kept at
that place in 1646 are yet extant. He was there during the disnal period of the Portuguese conspiracy to extirpate the Dutch,happily discovered and thwarted,-but which was followed by
many reverses to the Dutch arms, and then by the surrender of
Brazil to the rival power in 1654. Vander Vin had left some
years prior to the final catastrophe, and returned to Amsterdam,
resuming his business as a notary. But in 1651 he went out to
Manhattan Island to see the country. It pleased him so well that,
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returning for a stock of goods to set up trading in New Amsterdam, he again repaired thither in I653, taking his good vrouw,
Wyntie, to share with him the blessings and privations of his new
home. He subsequently served fourteen years at Harlem as
voorleser, and twelve of these as town clerk.
Joseph and Resolved Waldron, sons of Resolved Waldron,
of Amsterdam, were book printers. The family was English;
the name, of repute in England from the time of the Conqueror,
had spread through nearly all its southern tier of counties. But
born and raised at Amsterdam, these brothers had acquired all
the characteristics of Hollanders, having also married Iutch
wives, the sisters Aeltie and Rebecca Hendricks, whose father,
Hendrick Koch, was a respectable Amsterdam burgher. It is
stated on pretty good authority that Resolved had made the
voyage to Brazil, but of this we will not speak further here.
Having the misfortune to lose his wife, he married again, on
May Ioth, 1654, a lady of thirty years, living near the West
India House, Tanneke Nagel, daughter of Barent Nagel, deceased,
of Groningen. Resolved was living at this time in the Teerketelssteeg, a short street just north of the Dam; but the same year
sailed with his family for America. His brother, Joseph Waldron,
had preceded him to this country by two years, according to his
son's reckoning. He also was accompanied by a second wife,
Annetie Daniels, but twenty-five when he married her, at Amsterdam, April 4, I649, she and Resolved's wife being of the same age.
Near the time Resolved Waldron left for the Manhattans, the
young John La Montagne, who had spent seventeen years at
the latter place,-indeed had grown up there, where he was highly
esteemed, and was now in business with Vincent Pikes, "both free
traders in company,"-arrived at Amsterdam in the ship King
Solomon. Not only to visit his native land and kindred,-alike
as strange and new to his eye as though he were an alien,-he
came to buy a stock of merchandise, and also to sell a lot of tobacco, of which he was consignee, and to invest the proceeds in
goods for his uncle, Isaac De Forest; but what more deeply concerned him, was to choose a wife, the fair one selected being Peternella, sister of his business partner, and daughter of Jan Pikes,
of Amsterdam. The nuptial knot being tied by Pastor Meursius,
at Slooterdyk, a village a mile from Amsterdam, on March I4th
following (I655), La Montagne sailed very soon on his return,
he wife remaining till after the birth and baptism of her son
John, which occurred late in the same year.
Jan Pietersen Slot, before named as from Holstein, and
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ancestor of the respectable family of Slott or Sloat, of Orange
County, and of Rockland, and the Ramapo Valley, came out with
his children, born and reared in Amsterdam, about the same time
with Resolved Waldron; and Johannes Verveelen and Jan Sneden followed them, in I657. Sneden was descended from a
family long at Amsterdam, and was accompanied to America by
his wife Grietie Jans, two children, and brother, Claes Sneden.
They sailed in the St. Jan Baptist, December 23d of the lastnamed year,-one which witnessed the departure of many colonists for New Amstel, on the Delaware, under the patronage of the
City of Amsterdam, and among whom was Kier Wolters, father
of the Kiersens, as before stated.
Verveelen was born in 16i6, at Amsterdam, but of German
stock, with an infusion of French, being a son of Daniel Verveelen, who, with his parents, Hans Verveelen and Catharina,
daughter of John Oliviers, had some five years prior to the
birth of Johannes removed to that city from Cologne, on the
Rhine. Religious intolerance, which culminated in I618 in the
expulsion of all the Protestants from that town, had doubtless
driven the Verveelens to Amsterdam. Here the son Daniel, born
at Cologne in 1594, married in I6I5, and became a "shopkeeper";
and here also his son Johannes, the eldest of six children, was
reared and educated, and in 1637 married Anna Jaarsvelt, by
whom he had, all born in that city, three children, Daniel, Anna
and 1\aria. The first of these, when a mere boy, preceded his
father to New Netherland, under the care, we believe, of Dominie
Gideon Schaets, one of whose daughters he married. After
several years his father followed, bringing his wife and daughters, and widowed mother, Anna Elkhout, aged about sixty-six
years.
Utrecht and Arnhem, cities on the Rhine, the latter within
Gelderland, supplied settlers to Harlem. A hamlet near Amersfoort, in the province or diocese of Utrecht, gave us Jan Hendricks Van Brevoort, who came to this country in boyhood with
his father, and from whom have sprung the reputable family of
Brevoort. Several years later (about I655) the head of the Van
Tilburg family, Jan Teunissen, emigrated from Tilburg, in the
Mayory of Bosch (or Bois le Duc), in Dutch Brabant; and from
the same district afterward came two other colonists whose progeny are numerous and respectable, to wit, David Ackerman and
Dirck Storm, names not unknown at Harlem. Ackerman was
from Berlikum. These, with other families, sailed from Amsterdam, September 2d, 1662, in the ship Fox, Captain Jacob Huys,
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which also brought Jan Terbosch and Robert Le Maire, already
named and identified with Harlem.
The large emigration to New Netherland from the exposed
borders nearest the Spanish possessions, and especially the insular
district having on the south the river Waal, and on the north the
Rhine and Leck, furnished Harlem with several substantial families. Central of the district mentioned, upon the small river
Linge, which empties into the \Vaal, stood the city of Leerdam,
giving name to a county in which it was seated,-a level, grazing country, otherwise called the Prince's Land, because inherited
by a son of William of Orange, from his mother, Anne of Egmont. To Leerdam had retired from the religious troubles in
Flanders, as before noticed, the familv of Sebastian, or Bastiaen
Van Kortrvk, about all we know of this Kortright progenitor,
with his royal Spanish name. Two sons of Bastiaen, of whom
we must speak, Jan and Alichiel, were born at Leerdam; but Jan
married and settled farther up the Lingc, at a busy little village
within sight of Wolfswacrt Castle, as also of the ruined abbey
of IMarenwaert, and called leest, its bailiwick of the same name
adjoining westerly to the Prince's Land, but within the Gelderland border. The spirit of emigration reaching this locality,
many of its people began to pack up and leave for New Netherland, in which they had a safe precedent in no less a personage than the village pedagague, Master Gideon Schaets,-much
reverenced was he and looked up to in those days,-and who,
in the spirit of his deceased senior, Mathias Bartholomeus Schaets
(late pastor at Leerdam, who died four years before Gideon was
born), after a course in theology, had gone thither with his
family in I652, under license from the Classis of Amsterdam, to
preach the Gospel, and to fill "the office of schoolmaster for old
and young." Among those, accordingly, who at length set their
faces to follow their old preceptor to the New World, were two
brothers, of Beest, sons of Peter Buys. Aert, the elder, with
wife and son Cornelis, joining some families from that place,
and single persons of both sexes, his friends and neighbors, set
sail from Amsterdam May 9, I66I, in the ship Beaver, reaching
Manhattan July 29th.* Two years later Johannes Buys joined
his brother at Harlem.
* Peter Marselis, his wife, four children and two servants; Frans Jacobson, wife
and two children; Goosen Jansen Van Noort and Hendrick Bries were among those referred to from Beest. The first two went to Bergen, N. J.; the others, I believe, to
Albany. (See Pearson's Albany Settlers.) Bries must not be taken for Hendrick Volkertsen Bries, from Jever, in Oldenburg, who married at New Amsterdam in 1655, and whence
came the Breese family of Iong Island, Staten Island and New Jersey. Marselis died
September 4, i68i, leaving descendants. Jacobsen, having a son Jacob Franssen, born
in 1664, died about that time, and in i665, Cornelis Abrahams, from Deyl, near Beest,
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Michiel, or, as often called, 'Chiel Kortright, the other son
of Bastiacn, had also married and been living in "the Prince's
Land, near Schoonrewoerd"; the latter a pretty village two miles
northerly from Leerdam, whence there had been some emigrating
to the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck, at the instance of the Patroon,
who had a seat and estates at Vianen, but four miles from Schoonrewoerd. Foremost in this service were Rutger Jacobsen, who
went out in the vessel with the De Forests, and also his brother,
Tteunis Jacobsen, the ancestors of families since well known.* To
the Colonie afterward Dominie Schaets had also gone. Each bit
of news wafted home from time to time in friendly letters served
to quicken interest in the new country which had caused so many
vacant tenements and broken families about Beest and Schoonrewoerd. Yet 'Chiel Kortright tarried some years at the latter
married his widow, Geertie Gerrits. She died a widow, at Pemrepogh, in 1680, having
the year before lost her eldest son Gerrit Franssen, and married her daughter, Marritie
Frans, to Johannes Spier, son of Hendrick Jansen Spier, from Ascheward, in Bremen,
common ancestor of the Spier or Speer family of New Jersey.
The same ship, the Beaver, took over Hugh Barents De Kleyn, from Buren; Aert
Teunisz Middagh, from Heykoop (settled in Brooklyn); and Evert Pietersen Keteltas,
returning to New Amsterdam as "consoler of the sick, chorister and schoolmaster;"
also Etienne Geneau, a Huguenot from La Rochelle, his wife Lyria Metereu and three
children. He lived at Harlem, I believe, in I675, but went to Staten Island, and was
the Gano ancestor.
* Rutger Jacobsen was the ancestor of the Rutgers family of New York, and
also, through his daughter Margaret, who married, 1667, Jan Jansen Bleecker, from
Meppel, a progenitor of the highly respectable family of this name. Teunis Jacobsen's descendants, who have been numerous in Albany County, took name from
his birthplace, but shortened to Van Woert. (See Holgate's Am. Gen., Pearson's
Albany Settlers and O'Callaghan's N. Neth., i. 436, 439).
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place, till blest with three or four children; when he and his elder
brother, Jan Bastiaesen, whose three sons, born at Beest,-his
humble home in a bend of the Linge,-were now fast approaching
manhood, yielded to the flattering offers held out to colonists, and
agreed to leave together for that distant land. The contagion
had also seized some of the neighbors at Schoonrewoerd, one of
whom was Jan Louwe Bogert, a young man with wife and two
children, and whose kinsman, Theunis Gysberts Blogert, of Heykoop, two miles northwest of Schoonrewoerd, had already been
ten years in America. Proceeding to Amsterdam, they all embarked, April I6th, I663, in the Brindled Cow, Jan Bergen, master, in which ship there also sailed several French refugees from
Mannheim, in the Palatinate, who will command further notice.
For years the streams of Huguenot emigration setting out
of France and the Low Countries had been bearing to Holland,
now a solitary wanderer, now a stricken family, some to abide
here for a time, others seeking a passage to the New World, but
destined ultimately to find at H-arlem a resting-place. Coming
by no general or concerted action, but only as a crisis in the
affairs of each had indicated the time and the mode, it is not
easy to fix the exact date of their flight, though the era has
been sufficiently shown. We shall name them, as we have the
Dutch colonists, in the order of their departure for New Netherland.
Daniel De Tourneur (so his name was sometimes written),
leaving Picardy by a sudden necessity, as already related, and
coming to Leyden, had here followed the business of a draper;
and on September 5th, I650, married Jacqueline Parisis, of a
Walloon refugee family from Hesdin, in Artois, and a sister to
Rev. Eustacius Parisis, then of Amsterdam. Nearly two years
later, Tourneur sailed, with his wife and infant son Daniel, for
New Netherland, probably in the ship with Dominie Samuel Drisius, of Leyden, which left Holland April 4, 1652. Jean le Roy, a
kinsman of Tourneur, appears to have accompanied him with
his wife, Louise De Lancastre, whose name implies an English
birth.
Glaude Le Maistre, or Delamater, as usually written by his
descendants, had sprung from an ancient house of Brittany, the
Lords of Garlaye, whose chateau and estates lay in the parish
of Derval, in the diocese of Nantes. It was eminent in the civil
and military service, the church, and the law. Its members had
held commands in Picardy, where one of its now scattered
branches, in which the name Claude first appears, became allied
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early in the sixteenth century to the lords of Caumartin. Claude
Le MTaistre, Sieur De Hedicourt, becoming a Protestant, was,
with others, imprisoned and fined at Amiens ill I588, at the
instance of the League. Eie was a man of talent and spirit,
and showed great valor in opposing the entrance of the Spaniards
into that city in I597, when soldiers in the garb of peasants,
selling apples and nuts, had gaine(l admission. Our Glaude Le
Maistre was no doubt of this family, nmellbers of which lad removed to Artois, where he was born, as before said, in the town of
Richebourg. After escaping the country he comes to notice at
Amsterdaim, in I652, an exile and a widower, living in the Tanners' cross-street, having lost his wife, Jeanne De Lannoy. On
April 24th of that year he mnarried Hester, daulghter of Pierre
Du lois, of Amsterdam, though late of Canterbury, England,
where Hester was born. Some of the Le Maistres had also taken
refuge at Canterbury, and circumstances make it nearly certain
that Glaude was among them, and with the Du Boises had left
England because of the civil wars then raging, or the threatened
rupture with Holland, and, perhaps, in his case, to take ship for
New Netherland, as he soon did, appearing with Tourneur first
at Flatbush, and afterward at Harlem.
\Iarc Du Sauchoy, whose name will hardly be recognized by
his worthy posterity the Disosway family, was a native of Picardy,
and probably from Amiens. The lords Du Sauchoy came from
the house of Clermont, in the Beauvoisis, and one of them went
to the conquest of Britain with the Duke of Normandy. Perhaps
our Marc, a man of worth and enterprise, was of that blood, but
we know not. In his exile he worked as a wool-carder, but in
search of something better, made a voyage from Holland to New
Netherland in I655. Sufficiently pleased with the country to
make it his future home, he returned to Leyden, married, March
IIth, I657, Elizabeth, daughter of Guillaume Rossignol, and with
his bride again sailed from Amsterdam for Manhattan, on April
2d ensuing, in the ship Draevat, Captain Bestevaer, taking with
him two workmen, and two boys over twelve years of age, to aid
him in farming. One of the adults was Johannes Smedes, from
Harderwyck, in Gelderland, and one of the lads, Jean Guenon
(now Genung), of Leyden, both of whom have many descendants.*
David Du Four, a native of Mons, in Hainault, upon this
* Tennis Kray (or Gray), from Venlo, on the Maas, returned in this ship to
New Netherland, where he had already lived several years. He was now accompanied
by his wife and children, one of the latter afterward the wife of Capt. Jan Van
Dalsen, of Harlem, already noticed.
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place being threatened by the successes of the French in the
Walloon districts, retired with others of his family to Sedan,
and afterward to Amsterdam, where Du Four, though fitted by
education for a better position, became an "opperman," or drayman. Left by the death of his wife, Marie Boulen, with a young
child, Jean, born during their stay at Sedan, he found another
companion in Jeanne Frances, a lady of mature thirty-two years,
fromn Queivrain, a little east of Mons, to whom he was married
July Ioth, I657. That same year, with his new wife and his
little son aforesaid, he sailed for Manhattan Island.
Jean Gervoe and Francois Le Suer went out at near the
same date, the first being a young man from Bealumont, iin HIalnault, and who, choosing the coingenial calling of the Walloon,
afterward served the West India Compaany as a soldier at Harlem. Le Sueur, the Lozier ancestor, was from Colmnenil, in
Normanldy, and was accompanied by his young sister Jeanne,
neither being married.
Jacques Cousseau, merchant at La Rochelle in 1653, and for
four years later, when he returned to Amsterdam, took his (leparture soon after, with his wife Madeleine Du Ti'llierc, for
America, evidently on the ship Gilded Beaver, which sailed May
I7th, 1658. This need hardly be doubted; Cousseau paid the
fare of Simon Bouche, who went in that vessel, and directly on
its arrival at New Amsterdam, several of the passengers, and
with them Cousseau, on July i8th, applied for and were granted
the small burgher right.
Simon De Ruine, another refugee (familiarly known as Le
Ouallon,-that is, the Walloon), bore a name found at Valenciennes, near Landrecy, escaped to Holland, tarrying there for
some years. He went out with his wife, Magdalena Vanderstraaten, and several children, in the ship Faith, "a private trader
going to the Manhattans," which sailed February 13, I659, with
nearly a hundred passengers, De Ruine* being the only Frenchman.
* Gillis Jansen De Mandeville, from Garderen, in the Veluwe, Gelderland, and
ancestor of the American family of Mandeville, came out in this vessel; as did his
neighbor, also a farmer, Wouter Gerritsen, from Koetwyck, some three miles from
Garderen; and likewise Jan Meynderts, already named. The last two will appear at
Harlem.
Gillis (often written Yellis) or Giles De Mandeville was accompanied by his
wife Elsie Hendricks and four children, having two born afterward, one being David.
Yellis bought a farm at Flatbush, which he finally gave to his eldest son Hendrick,
and got the grant of another, of 30 acres, at Greenwich, on Manhattan Island, laid
out to him December 5, 1670, and patented December 30, I680. Here he died between
I696 and 1701. All of his children married. He had but the two sons, both of whom
left descendants. David remained on the farm at Greenwich. Hendrick removed from
Long Island to Pequannock, N. J. These have given several pastors to the Reformed
Church, including Rev. Giles Henry Mandeville, D. D.
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Pierre Cresson was another worthy refugee, and whose family seat, as is believed, was at Menil la Cresson, or Cresson Manor,
a little northeast of Abbeville, in Picardy, though he was no doubt
allied to the Cressons of Burgundy, of whom were several Reformed ministers. Such change of residence was common during the long Burgundian rule in Picardy. Pierre, whose character for piety is well attested, fled with some of his kin to the
noted refuge, Sluis, in Flanders, but soon moved farther north,
and in I640 is found (with Nicolas and Venant Cresson, both
married) among the refugees at Leyden. The large number of
these emigrating to New Netherland had doubtless an effect upon
Pierre, though, with a vigor and activity, which indeed he retained
till old age (but at this date scarce more than thirty), he supported
himself in Holland for about seventeen years, living parts
of that time at Ryswyk and Delft. Employed as gardener to the
Prince of Orange, he was ever after known as Pierre Le Gardinier. But Cresson was at last taken with the favorable offers of
the City of Amsterdam to those who would go to their new colony
on the Delaware; and it seeming a good opportunity for him and
his growing family, he gathered up his little means, and with wife
Rachel Cloos and children, embarked, in I657, at Amsterdam,
for New Amstel. The next year Governor Stuyvesant, visiting
the Delaware, engaged Cresson "for his service" at the Manhattans, "with the proposition that what he owed the city (Amsterdami) should be settled." Soon after Cresson made a trip to
Holland, returning in company with several other French agriculturists in the ship Beaver, which sailed April 25th, I659, reaching its destination after a quick passage of six weeks. Each
passing year thus added to the roll of worthy fugitives, who, led
by an unseen but mighty hand out of oppression into the atmosphere of freedom, were perforce of their common nationality and
sympathies to find a common home beyond the Atlantic.*
But this roll is not yet complete. England, as already hinted,
first became an asylum for some of our settlers. Many peresecuted refugees from France and Flanders took that direction,
embarking usually in regularly plying vessels, but often, if hard
pressed, venturing to cross the Channel in any sort of craft, even
at the peril of their lives, while making for the most accessible
port on the opposite shore. They landed principally at Dover,
* Marten Van Weert, a hatter from Utrecht, who had visited this country five
years before, came out in the ship with Cresson, in 1659. He married, December 4,
1660, Susanna, daughter of Abraham Verplanck. The Van Weerts, his children,
were prominent in the church at Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County. Isaac Van Wart,
one of the captors of Major Andre, the spy, was a descendant. (See Bolton's Westchester, i. 197, 235).
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Sandwich, and Rye, within the counties of Kent and Sussex.
Meeting a uniform welcome and sympathy, they formed colonies
and churches at these places, and set up various manufactures,
mainly those of cloth and linen, in which they were encouraged
by the general and local authorities. The seaports named, and
others becoming crowded with these exiles, many by invitation
went inland to Canterbury, Norwich, etc., and still more up the
Thames to London, at all which places they founded similar communities and industries. These colonies were greatly multiplied
after the time of which we are writing. The story of the refugees
in England is very touching; while their patient toil, the skill
and ingenuity they exhibited in the production of various useful
articles, evoked the admiration of the English; their devotion to
their religion, their care to maintain its ordinances whereever
they went, was highly creditable. Kept well informed of affairs
in their native lands, the sympathy they manifested for their still
suffering brethren set them in a most amiable light. Bound to
their fellow-refugees in Holland by common interests as well
as by many family ties, there was a free intercourse, and removals
from one country to the other often took place due to these affinities or the simple desire to better their state; but sometimes
prompted by dangers which threatened them as a people, or those
countries at large. Ever keenly alive to passing events in anywise
bearing on their cause or that of Protestantism in general, one
which greatly affected the refugees was the Peace of Westphalia,
in I648, ending the Thirty Years' War, and opening to them a
new asylum up the Rhine, unto which many resorted, as we shall
see.
The family Des Marets was of the old Picard gentry, and
was also prominent in the church at Oisemont, of which David
Des Marets, the Sieur Du Ferets, was an elder. His son, Samuel,
born at Oisemont, in I599, and taught at the great schools of
Paris, Saumur and Geneva, became in I6I9 pastor of the church
of Laon. But forced to leave in I623 by an attempt upon his life
which nearly proved fatal, he accepted a new charge at Falaise,
in Normandy, but after a year went to Sedan, and thence, in
1642, to Groningen, in Holland, as professor of theology. Our
David Des Marest, who wrote his name thus, was born in Picardy,
and, as is strongly indicated, was of the same lineage,-for dignity
of character and fidelity to his religion, worthy so excellent a
kinship; the clerical tendency among his descendants is also very
significant. He went to Holland and joined the French colony
in the island of Walcheren, at which place his eldest son, Jean
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Demarest, was born in 1645. Here David probably married his
wife Marie Sohier, as a family of this name from Hainault had
taken refuge at Middelburg in the first Walloon emigrations.
In 1651 Demarest is found at Mannheiml, on the Rhine,
within the German Palatinate; to which were going many French
and Walloon refugees from England, and also from the Dutch
seaboard, partly in view of an expected war between the English
and Hollanders, but especially drawn thither by the assurance
of freedom and protection under the government of the Protestant Elector Charles Lewis, who, invested by the Treaty of
Westphalia (1648) with the Lower Palatinate, from which his
father, Frederick V., had been driven in I621 by the Catholic
powers after the battle of Prague, held out strong inducements
to the refugees, especially Calvinists, to settle at Mannheim, and
which found a ready response through the lively interest always
cherished by the refugees, in common with the English Puritans,
in the strange vicissitudes of his late father, and his excellent and
yet surviving mother, named in a former note as the "Queen of
Bohemia." By 1652 Demarest and others among the numbers
gathered there, joined in forming a French church; the elector
himself building them an edifice, which he called the Temple of
Concord, because the Lutherans were also allowed to worship
there.
Philippe Casier and family, originally of Calais, also found
this inviting refuge, as did Simeon Cornier, "from France";
Meynard Journee (the Journeay ancestor), from Mardyk, Flanders; Joost Van Oblinus (now O'Blenis), his son Joost and family, from Walloon Flanders, and Pierre Parmentier, also from
"\Walslant," that is, the Walloon country,-all these afterward
at Harlem. Here Peter Van Oblinus, son of Joost, Jr., and his
wife, Marie Samnis, was born in 1662. He was afterward
listinguished at Harlem. Among the Walloons from Artois
found here, were Matthieu Blanchan, Louis Du Bois, and Antoine
Crispel; Blanchan having sojourned in England, as perhaps had
the other two, who became his sons-in-law. Others joining this
Mannheim colony, and to be hereafter noticed, were the families
of Le Comte, from Picardy, and De Vaux, from Walslant, whose
descendants are called De Voe. De Vaux and Parmentier were
clearly names derived from Picardy.
Philippe Casier was husbandman and something of a traveler, having lived several years in the island of Martinique, to
which he had gone with other colonists under the auspices of
the French West India Company. But weary of rough pioneer
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life among wild Caribs, and more weary of the civil anarchy
then reigning in the islands, he returned with his family to
Europe, and tarried awhile at Sluis before removing up the Rhine.
While at IMannheim, a son, Peter, was born (I659) to his eldest
daughter, Marie, the wife of David Uzille, the latter also mentioned as from Calais, but no doubt of the Brittany family. But
neither was Casier contented at Mannheim, still indulging, as
it would seem, visions of a better fortune for him in America.
His wife's brother, Isaac Taine, called also La Pere, "the Father,"
had gone out some years previous, and had been made a burgher
of New Amsterdam; and thither the Cacier family, Uzilles included, resolved to go.'' Returning to Holland, they sailed
directly for the Manhattans in the ship Gilded Otter, which left
the Texel April 27, I660, carrying also Blanchan and others
from Mannheim, besides a band of soldiers, among whom were
Jacob Leisler, famous in our colonial history, and Joost Kockuyt,
heretofore mentioned, afterward part owner of the land since
forming the "Dyckman Homestead." Later, Simeon Cornier,
with his wife, Nicole Petit, left Mannheim and returned to Holland, whence they sailed in the ship Faith, March 24th, I662, from
the Texel for the M\anhattans, arriving June I3th.
Isaac Vermeille, one of the Harlem settlers, and head of the
well-known family of Vermilye, was the son of Jean Vermeille
and 5Marie Roubley, who are found among the Walloon refugees
at London toward the close of the sixteenth century.' They were
members of the WValloon church, and had several children born
in that city, among these Isaac, in I60I. The last child was
Rebecca, born I609, and three years later we lose sight of the
father. Some of the family soon removed to Leyden, where
Isaac's elder sister, Rachel, who had been admitted to the church
in London July I5th, I613, was married April 25th, 1615, to
Jacques Bordelo, a Walloon from Valenciennes. Jean Vermeille,
to whom a child was born in 1633, at London, and who married
a second wife at Leyden in I647, was probably brother to Isaac.
* Isaac Tayne, as he wrote his name, obtained a grant of land, June 24, i666, at
New Castle, Del., where he was living ten years later.-Penn. Archives, i. 35, His
wife was Sarah Reson. This name, ending with the French nasal sound ng, is sometimes written Ting.
* We nowhere find it stated that our Vermilyes were Walloons, hut think it a
safe assumption, for several reasons. The congregation at London of which they were
members was then composed quite exclusively of that people. Then their Christian
names favor it. And one of the Walloon towns bears the name Vermelle; being in
Artois, southeast of Rethune, near a lake at the source of the Papegay, which latter
runs northward, entering the Lys near Armentieres. Traced to its origin, the surname was doubtless the same as the Italian Vermigli. "Its birthplace," says Rev. A. G.
Vermilye, "was probably Peruggia." Peter Vermigli (or Martyr), the reformer, was
born at Florence. Like many others, the name had evidently worked upward to
Northern France, but how early we know not. Vermeille is the French for vermilion.
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M\arie Vermeille (mother or sister?), with her husband, Jean
Dimanche, stood as godparents for Isaac's daughter, Marie (afterward Mrs. Montanye), at her baptism at Leyden, August 2d,
1629. Then Isaac first attracts our notice here, with his Dutch
vrouw, Jacomina Jacobs, but later has two other children baptized, the last in 1637. Then not finding his name at Leyden
for full twenty-five years, it seems to imply his absence; and he
probably went to Mannheim, as the name Isaac Wurmel, found
on its civil records, is thought by a good authority there to refer
to him. However, again at Leyden in the company of other
French, who "by advice of some gentlemen, and reading the New
Netherland conditions, were allured and persuaded to emigrate
with their families," we meet with Vermeille, about to leave with
them for that much-mooted country, whither during his time so
many Leyden refugees, back to the De Forests and Montague,
had already gone. With wife, his two sons and as many daughters, Vermeille embarked October I2th, 1662, in the ship Purmerland Church, Captain Barentsen, which on the I4th weighed
anchor and "passed the last village on the Texel," bound with
supplies to New Amstel.*
Soon after this the Palatinate was threatened with hostile
invasion by the Duke of Lorraine and other neighboring Catholic
princes. The refugees having everything to fear from such
enemies to their kind and religion, many more of these hastily quit
Mannheim. The Demarest, Oblinus and Parmentier families,
with Journee, returned to Holland, apparently with purpose
formed of going to New Netherland, for making short stay at
Amsterdam, they all embarked for that country in the Brindled
Cow, April I6, 1663, having in company Jean Mesurolle, a Picard,
but then from Mannheim, Jerome Boquet (Bokee) and Pierre
Noue, both originally from Walslant; besides our several Dutch
colonists before noticed, the Bogerts and Kortrights, from Schoonrewoerd and vicinity. Men, women and children, there were
ninety odd passengers, the French composing a third. Each
adult was charged for passage and board thirty-nine florins;
children of ten years and under, except infants, half price. It
cost Jan Bastiaensen (Kortright) for himself and family 204 fl.
* Charges for their passage stand thus in the accounts of the West India Co.:
"ISAACQ VERNIELE debet
Voor vracht en costgelt dat hy A~. 1662, I2 Octobr. pr: 't Schip de Purmerlander
Kerck, Schippr. Benjamin Barentsen, is herwaerts gecomen................f. 39
V oor syn vrou............................................................. 39
En 4 kinderen, alle boven de 2oe Jaeren...................................... I56
f. 234"
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10 st., and David Demarest, 175 fl. o1 st.* These refugees from
Mannheim nearly all took certificates of membership from the
French church there. Some others, who followed them ten years
later, will be noticed hereafter.
Holland had now lost the special attractions it presented to
the first refugees. These finding sympathy and employment,
were generally content to remain as permanent residents. But
the disturbances of later years had unsettled many, while trade
had steadily and greatly declined, with no hope of any revival.
Moreover, other unfortunate fugitives were flocking in "from
Germany, Westphalia, and those countries which within two years
had been ruined by hard times, but mainly by persecutions, to
which the faithful all through France (as also the Waldenses)
had been subjected." Under these circumstances many were
easily drawn into the current of emigration to New Netherland,
which was extolled as "beyond the finest country in the world,
where everything can be produced that is grown in France or the
Baltic," and whose virgin soil and settlements, free from the
tyranny of kings and the contagion of European society, offered
a most inviting abode and ample scope for enterprise. The most
flattering reports of that country were rife, as given by those visiting Holland in search of farm-laborers, and by merchants whose
business took them over to Amsterdam. Among those by whom
the section of Manhattan Island since known as Harlem was first
brought to the favorable notice of the colonists, was Andries
Hudde, late counsellor in New Netherland, who spent the winter
of I638-9 in Holland, and part of whose errand was to send out
hands to work his tobacco plantation, afterward known as Montanye's Flat. It was plainly his representations regarding that
locality that took Captain Kuyter and others thither, and induced
Van Keulen, of Amsterdam, to secure the two-hundred-acre tract
thence called Van Keulen's Hook; the purchase of which was
effected directly upon Hudde's return. And Sibout Slaessen, an
energetic burgher of New Amsterdam, going to Fatherland in
the autumn of I649, spent nearly two years between Hoorn, his
native place, and Amsterdam and Leyden, while prosecuting
charges against Stuyvesant. Bad as, in his view, was the administration, none had a higher opinion of the country, Manhattan
especially, where Claessen had a fine property opposite Hellgate,
which he called Hoorn's Hook. And Jean La Montagne, who
* The Dutch florin or guilder is usually valued at forty cents, the stiver at two
cents; but taking into account that, in the times we are treating of, money in Holland,
as compared with labor, commodities, or whatever else it purchased, had about four
times its present value, certainly these emigrants paid well for their passage.
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revisited Holland ill 654. With his many years' experience in
the new country, glowing, we dare assert, were the pictures he
drew of it,-when tenderly pressing his suit with the fair Peternella, who was to share his 1home and fortunes. And Nicholas
De Meyer, the clear-leaded and thrifty trader at New Amsterdam, making a trip to Hiolland in 1662, to remain over winter, no
doubt astonished his auditors as he told of lands on Manllattan
at one dollar and sixty cents an acre, and his recent purchase of
two farms in the young settlement, Newv Harlem. What interest
must have attached to these accounts by visitants from the New
\Vorld, as every listener caught up the story of its almost fabulous
advantages and resources! To the young and ambitious, the far-off
America had all the dazzling attractions of a fairyland, when so
often even the tender sex were led as by al irresistible chalrm,
in the face of many perils, to venture its wild solitudes. But
again, with more caution, one of a falnily first goes to the New
World, as if to report from personal knowledg upon te expediency of the change before others should follow; so with the
Verveelens, the brothers Waldron, Buys, etc. The colonists were
wont to revisit Fatherland to obtain wives; whence its records
show many nuptials consummated on the eve of embarkation.
And timid maidens, in not a few cases, drawn by ties of kinship,
or some more tender impulse, stopped not to count the hazards
of the voyage: instance young Barentie Dircks, of Meppel (her
sister Geertie then some years in New Netherland as wife of Jan
Metselaer),- going over with other colonists from Drenthe in
I66o; lo! scarce a year passing, when she and a sister, Egbertie,
found their daring rewarded and the highest aspiration of their
womanly hearts realized, in Nelis Matthyssen and Hage Bruynsen, honest Swedes, the one called to the magistry at Harlem, the
other to become its first miller. All most natural, truly; yet we
mistake if these glimpses of simple life among our colonist ancestors are wholly devoid of interest.t
* Jan Adams Metselaer was born at Worms, in 1626; was in service as corporal
on the Delaware, and returned to New Amsterdam in I654. He died in New York
in I696 or I697. His sons who reached maturity were Jacobus, born I668; Abraham,
born I671; Hendrick, born I676. Descendants of Abraham early settled on the Raritan, and whence the respectable family of which is Rev. Abraham Messler, D. D.
t The French Refugees were sometimes designated, not by a proper surname,
but by the name of some place, evidently that of their nativity or former abode, appended to their Christian name. The effect, no other clew to their identity appearing,
is confusion like that liable to occur in Dutch nomenclature. Cases in point are
Etienne Rochelle (his proper name Geneau), Pierre Grand Pre, Jean Belin, Etienne
Button, etc., all names of French towns; and Jean Paris, also written De Parisis, but
no other than Jan Lequiere, from Paris, afterward of Ilushwick. Some retained these
as family names; Button or Baton was perpetuated on Staten Island and in New Jersey.
Belin, written a Belin, became Ablin. (See also note on Jean Baignoux.) That this
designation by place (as well without as with the prefix De or Du) was a usage prevalent in France (not to trace it further), anyone who examines the subject will see; and
it starts the question whether it is always safe to take such prefix as proof of nobility,
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Such moral courage as they exhibited, especially the refugees,
commands admiration; such trials as they endured when called
to resist or flee oppression, appeal to our sympathies! Clinging
to their faith or principles though at the cost of their peace and
safety, and all the endearments of home, country and kindred;
choosing rather to venture the treacherous ocean and the dangers
of an untried wilderness where still was sovereign the savage
and the beast of prey,-and all to secure the sacred boon of liberty
denied them in their native lands; do they not deserve the first
place in history, and in the grateful remembrance of those who
are reaping the benefits of their labors and sacrifices?
when it may serve only to show the birthplace, or residence, or perhaps the place of
the family origin; as le or la often indicated names derived from a trade, calling, office,
etc. (See Index, Chaudronnier.) The children of some of our refugees, ambitious to
assume prefixes, sometimes made bad work of it; thus the name Le Maistre (the
Master), taking on the De (and whence I)elamater), came to signify of the Master!,a use of the prefix wholly inappropriate. On the contrary, the sons of Dr. La Montagne
very properly prefixed the De, and the fact adds strength to our hypothesis as to the
source of that name. Very few old names among us at present, whether of French,
Dutch, or other descent, preserve their original form; a result to be deprecated, though
a return to the early orthography may now be neither practicable nor desirable.
— A~.~
CHAPTER VI.
1609-I636.
MAN IIATTAN.
I the year I609 a Dutch ship was feeling it way along the then
wild and unfrequented coast of North America. Her intrepid commander, as in former fruitless voyages made for the
same object under English patronage, was still eagerly seeking
a western route to China, the golden Cathay of the ancients.
Dispatched in this instance by the East India Company, of Holland, the Half Moon left Amsterdam the 4th of April, and after
gaining the American waters had explored each principal bay
and inlet from north to south, and now again to northward, five
weary months, but with no results. To one of less resolution
than Henry Hudson the case might well have seemed hopeless,
but still the undaunted mariner continued the search.
The 3d of September dawns upon the vessel enshrouded in
a dense sea-fog, which at the hour of ten, lifting its vapory mantle, leaves upon her spars and rigging myriads of watery jewels
which sparkle in the sunbeams, bright harbinger of a coming
success, while the ship, quitting her moorings, spreads her "mainsail and spritsail," and under a clear sky and with a balmy breeze
from the south-southeast resumes her northerly course. Five
hours pass, when Hudson makes the headlands of Neversink,
"very pleasant, and high, and bold to fall, withal"; and "at three
of the clock in the afternoon" approaches "a very good harbor,"
into which flow "three great rivers." These at once arrest his
attention; their sources wrapped in mystery naturally invite the
boldest speculation. Has he not been told "there was a sea leading into the Western Ocean by the north of Virginia?" Curiosity
and hope receive a new impulse; surely he has found at last the
long-desired passage!
Hudson at first stands for the northernmost river, but repelled
by a very shoal bar before its mouth, changes his course and bears
away across the bay, where another passage seems to open, casts
his anchor, and prudently sends in the yawl to sound. On a
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favorable report he again weighs, runs farther in with the ship,
and finally d(rops his kedge on the soft, oozy bottom at a depth of
five fathoms. Hudson takes the latitude,-forty degrees and
thirty minutes,-and enters it in his log. As the vessel rides at
ease upon the bosom of these expansive waters, no fellow-craft
greets the eye of the brave mariner; not so much as a tiny sail
breaks the monotony of the scene. The undulating land is beautiful in varied shades of green, but, as far as the eye can scan.
bare of human habitation,-even to a rustic cabin,-all yet appears
lone, wNild, charming in its very air of desolation. The fish seem
surprisingly tame as they swarm about the vessel, and the white
sea-gull disports itself familiarly, soars upon its broad pinions,
or stoops to kiss the wave.
But the arrival has not passed unnoticed. Some of the
tawnvy natives, engaged in fishing,-for the salmon, and mullets,
and rays, were plenty, —espy, far out on the ocean (so the red
man handed down the story), a large and strange-looking object.c
H-astening back to land, they break the news to some of their
countrlymen, who also go out, in order to discover what it may be.
They view with astonishment the strange phenomenon, now so
near as to be plainly visible, but are quite disagreed as to what it is;
some take it to be an enormous fish or animal, others a very big
wigwamn floating on the sea. As the curious object comes nearer
to the land their apprehensions increase; they conclude that it
possesses life, and resolve without further delay to put all the
neighboring Indians on their guard. Messengers depart to carry
the news to the scattered chiefs and braves, and to urge their
immediate presence. Many of these soon arrive in breathless
haste, and, viewing the queer object which has now gained the
very entrance of the river or bay, finally conclude that its nothing
less than the wigwam of the great MAanitto, or Supreme Being
himself, who has evidently come to pay them a visit. This opinion prevailing, they begin preparations to give him a suitable reception. The women must cook the most savory food, and a
grand kintekoy or dance be given, measured to their best music,
as "an agreeable entertainment for the Great Being."
Early the next morning Hudson, after sending the boat to
take soundings farther up the bay, finds a better anchorage; and
remaining there all day, some of the crew go ashore to draw a
* The Indian tradition of Hudson's visit is taken from Heckwelder; otherwise
the facts have been drawn from original statements by De Laet, Juet, Vander Donck,
and others, every circumstance and intimation being duly weighed. We believe these
will warrant all the amplification here given, the traditionary part finding strong
confirmation in these authors.
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net for fish, returning with ten big mullets, a foot and a half long,
and a great ray, taking four men to haul it into the ship. By
this time the Indians, having carefully watched the movements
of their strange visitor, are so well assured of his sul)ernatural
character and friendly mission, that they resolve to venture out
to the ship and extend him a welcome. Two of them, clad in
loose deer skins, and taking a bundle of green tobacco as a
lresent for the MIanitto, launch forth in their canoe, and being
admitted on board the vessel, manifest their pleasure at seeing
the pale-faced strangers by every sign and exclamation at their
command expressive of wonder and ldelight. Making their offerings, they receive in return a few knives and beads. Admiring
the dress worn by the Europeans, they signify a wish to have
the same for thelnselves; but so far from showing any rudeness,
their decorumn is such that the officers notice it and declare them
'very civil."
On the succeeding day Hudson and others from the ship
made a formal visit to the land, when the assembled Indians,
"men, women and children," received and entertained them in
their best manner. "The swarthy natives all stood arotlnd and
sung in their fashion," says Hudson; the ceremony without doubt
indicated more of fear and reverence than of confidence, and was
designed to propitiate his favor. The usual present of green
tobacco was given, and refreshments served, including bread made
of maize, or Indian corn, of which Hudson partook and found
it "excellent eating." Then the ship's party strolled "up into the
woods, and saw great stores of very goodly oaks and some currants." Many Indians of both sexes also visit the ship during
the day, "in their canoes made of a single hollow tree," says Hudson. They are dressed, "some in mantles of feathers, and some
in skins of divers sorts of good furs." About their necks are
ornaments of copper. They bring offerings of dried currants,
"sweet and good," and Indian hemp. These expressions of goodwill do not throw the shrewd navigator off his guard. From
common prudence he "durst not trust them," yet his keen eye
can detect no lurking evil intent, and he frankly admits that "they
appear to be a friendly people." 'Such is his testimony of "the people that he found dwelling within the bay." Their entire deportment thus far had betrayed only profound respect and veneration
for their mysterious visitors.
But, strange, pleasing hallucination of the untutored son of
the forest, how quickly did one untoward circumstance dispel it
forever, reduce his supposed divinity to the level of a mortal,
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and place him in the attitude of an enemy! On the morning of
the 6th, the weather being fair, Hudson, with more accurate
conclusions as to the best direction in which to continue his search,
ordered John Coleman and four others to proceed with the yawl
"over to the north side, to sound the other river," yet little dreaming that all that was to impart fame to his voyage hung upon its
undisclosed mysteries. Rowing twelve miles to its mouth (the
Narrows) they ascended and entered a spacious harbor, "with
very good riding for ships," whence extending their search two
leagues up "a narrow river to the westward between two islands"'
and reaching "an open sea,"t they were returning filled with admiration of the country, "as pleasant with grass and flowers and
goodly trees as ever thevy ad seen," when suddenlly, in a manner
unexl)laince(, they came in fatal conflict with the natives, twentysix in number, in two canoes. Colemian was slain by an arrow,
and two others of the crew wounded, but strange to say the savages (lid not follow up their advantage. A rain set in, which
extinguishing their match, made their guns useless, and after
toiling all night "to and fro on their oars" the party reached
the ship. They declared "they were set upon" by the Indians; the latter have not left us their story! Why, so superior in force, did they spare any of the whites to tell their
tale? Why the sudden change which Hudson observed in the
temper of the savages? Peradventure in this affray the Indians were "more sinned against than sinning;" then the case
becomes clearer. If, smarting under a deep sense of unlprovoked injury, they retired to dress their wounds and bury their
dead, then the news, which spread rapidly, at once stamped the
new-comers as enemies.
Suspicious of the savages from the first, Hudson now had
great reason to fear an attack. He thereupon ordered a strict
watch to be kept day and night to prevent a surprise, which indeed the Indians were plotting, and only seeking an opportunity
to execute, as was apparent from the many canoes filled with
armed men which prowled around the ship. Admitting but few
of the savages into the vessels, he seized two, who came on board
with a treacherous design, and held them as hostages. Passing
the Narrows, September IIth, Hudson entered the harbor with
his ship. The morning of the I3th found him skirting "that
side of the river that is called Mannahata," having "fair weather,
the wind northerly." With the full of the tide he casts anchor
opposite a gorge in the hills from which a stream, meander* Kill Von Kull. t Newark Bay.
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ing through ver(lant lmeadows, elpties into a small cove or
bay (M\anhattanville).
News of his coming has preceded him. From one Indian
village to another and from wigwam to wigwam runners have
carried the startling tidings; delegations from the Flats and parts
contiguous have poured in through the ravine till the multitudes crowd the beach and crown the acclivities, eager to catch
a sight of the big canoe, about which and its inmates such
strange rumors have spread far and wide, exciting "great surprise and astonishment among the Indians." I-udson and his
officers greet with civility the natives, who here approach the
ship in four canoes, bringing 'great store of very good
oysters." He accepts the present, and gives them some trinkets
in return but the menacing attitude of the savages only the day
previous in(lisl)oses Hudson to any intimacy, or to admit any
of thel on board,-a wise precaution, as events will show.
Ilarred from intercourse, and withal ignorant of their language, Hudson could as yet have acquired but scant knowledge
of the country from the natives. But this was in a measure
supplied by his own habit of close observation, noting objects
so trivial as the ornaments and tobacco-pipes of the natives,
whence he inferred the existence of copper. And on this bright
September morning, while cooling breezes from the north amble
through the rigging of the ship as it lies idly at anchor for several hours waiting for the tide to set in, and the practised eye
of the great navigator surveys on the one hand the pure watery
expanse, on the other the charming wooded bluffs which here
adorn the Island of Manhattan, doubtless it penetrates the
notable cleft in the heights, opening to him a distant vista of the
broad and beautiful plains upon which our interest centres, as
yet, save only to the aborigines, a very terra incognita! We may
read his emotions as, turning from this scene, he records in his
journal the admiration of a sailor: "It is as pleasant a land as
one need tread upon; very abundant in all kinds of timber suitable
for shipbuilding."*
Hudson ascends the river. A fortnight spent in its further
exploration and he has realized, not the prime object of his
ambition, but results in the highest degree important; the best
* Hudson's Journal, as quoted by De Laet (see Coll. N. Y. Hist. Soc., 2d series,
vol. i, p. 300), places this incident in latitude 40~ 48', which agrees well with the
locality given. Juet's Journal (ibid., p. 325) gives the date and other particulars, and
when closely studied aids in fixing the locality beyond a reasonable doubt. See also
the subject of Hudson's voyage carefully treated in Yates and Moulton's Hist. of N. Y.,
which unhesitatingly gives this incident as happening when the ship was "anchored off
Manhattanville."
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indeed of all his voyages. Since he first entered Sandy Hook
he had been delighted with the country. He had penetrated
nearly to its source the noble river which was thereafter to
take his name, finding at every stage in his progress something
new to admire in its extended reaches, its majestic highlands,
its fruitful vales and its grand and diversified scenery. Now,
elated with his valuable discoveries, inspirited by the bracing
air and gorgeous appearance of the highlands, clad in the
richest hues of autumn, he is on the downward passage. At
break of day October 2(1 the ship leaves its moorings at "Sleepers'
Haven," near the jutting Senesqua, or Teller's Point, at the
mouth of the Croton, and with canvas bending under a stiff
breeze from the northwest, runs down twenty-one miles till,
the tide setting in too strongly, it again casts anchor at the
upper end of Manhlattan Island, near the beautiful inlet Schorakapok, since "by the Dutch" called the Spuyten Duyvel.
But unlooked-for danger was lurking in its track. An incident of the upward voyage, already alluded to, now had a most
painful sequel. The two natives whom Hudson kept on board
as hostages were carried up the river. But haughty captives
were not to be beguiled by a voyage in the big canoe of the
great Manitto, nor long amused by the red coats with which
they were bedecked. In the highlands these restless spirits
escaped through a port-hole and swam off, hurling back, from a
safe distance, cries and gestures of scorn and defiance. Making
their way down the river, and thirsting to avenge the indignities offered them, they sounded the war-Nwhoop to rouse their
peoIle to arms, and at the head of Manhattan Island collected a
force, with the evident purpose of seizing the ship and appropriating the rich booty which it contained.
No sooner does the returning vessel heave to near their place
of ambush than several canoes dart out, filled with armed warriors, led on, as is observed, by one of the savages who had
escaped from the ship. Hudson, seeing their hostile design,
warns them to keep off. Hereupon two of the canoes fall back
near the stern and let fly a volley of arrows. Six muskets
return the assault, and two or three Indians are killed. Meantime the ship having gotten under way, the main body of warriors, about a hundred, collect at a point of land (now Fort
Washington) to get a fair chance at her as she slowly moves
along. But a falcon-shot from the vessel kills two of them, and
the rest flee into the woods. They are now quite discomfited;
yet about ten of the boldest, still firm in their purpose, jump into
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a canoe and paddle to meet tlhe ship. Another cannon-shot
kills one of their number and pierces the canoe. A volley of
musketry slays three or four more, and puts an end to the fight.
The savages are left to mourn the loss of nine of tleir braves,
-while HIudson pursues his way to tle ocean. All, hal)less fate!
which at this first interview thus scaled in blood all enmity between
the two races, destined for half a century to redden the soil of
\lanhattan Island with Christian blood to glut the Indian's vengeance. The inlet where began this fatal encounter soon took
tle name of Spuyten Duyvel, but for what reason has not been
explained. True, that veritable author, Diedrich Knickerbocker,
makes it the presumiptuous boast of Pletrus Stuyvesant's valiant
trullpeter, who essayed to swim the stream in a storm, spyt (deJ
dtyl'ucl, but was seized and carried under by his satanic majesty
in tle forml of a huge mossbunker! But for those to whom
this story may wear a tinge of incredibility we give another
possible derivation. B]y what more fitting term could the savages, so apt in the choice of their names, have designated Hudsol's shlip, recalled as an uncouth monster vomiting streams
of deadly fire, than by that which (from the object adhering
to tlhe locality) found its Dutch equivalent in Spuyten Duyvel,
that is, Spouting Devil? But if this also will not bear criticism,
we ask the reader to soberly weigh a fact which seems to indicate the true source of the queer designation in question. From
the larg-e spring which sprouts or bubbles out near the foot
of Cock Hill and flows into the creek, "The Spring" became
but another name, with the early settlers, both Dutch and English, for the locality known as Spuyten Duyvel; and an ancient
record of I672 expressly calls it Spuyten Duyvel, alias the Fresh
Spring!
Iudson's discoveries so aroused the enterprise of the merchants and shipmasters of Holland that for a series of years vessels
were annually dispatched to New Netherland to prosecute discovery and the fur trade, for which purpose they were sometimes "ordered to remain there the whole year." That section
of MIanhattan Island in which our interest centres could not
long elude these enterprising Dutch traders, though this seat
of the hostile MIanhattans remained inaccessible for years after
they had gained a foothold on the upper Hudson. Wrapt in
that normal state which for untold ages had known no change,
its weird charms must have strangely impressed such daring
spirits as were foremost to navigate its untried waters or first to
penetrate its slumbering solitudes. The Hollander,-his eye ac
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customed only to a flat country, to dykes and polders,-beheld
with admiration this majestic display and picturesque blending
of heights and low land, of wood and meadow and meandering
brooks. But no humn of busy industry caught his ear, no familiar
sight yet met his eye; the waters' gentle ripple, the wind's
moaning through the tall pines, the cry of startled beast or bird
was his greeting. The group of rustic cabins and the moving
forms of dusky savages, clad, if at all, in skins or furs and feath —
ers, but enhanced the weirdness of the scene. Lucky, too, was
he if his first welcome was not conveyed by the swift-winged
arrow from behind the thicket, as was the case with Captain
Dermer, ten years after Hudson's visit, but before the Dutch
had yet occupied Manhattan Island. Coming from the eastward, and passing "a most dangerous cataract among small,
rocky islands," he soon found greater perils than those of Hellgate in the hostility of the natives: for, says he, "the savages
had great advantage of us, in a strait not above a bow-shot, and
where a multitude of Indians let fly at us from the bank; but it
pleased God to make us victors." Only escaping, as his words
seem to imply, and as had Hudson, by making his assailants feel
the superiority of firearms, it seems hardly credible that such
was ever the rude and perilous state of our beautiful Island, the
now secure abode of peace and refinement.
As introductory to the history of the section in which we are
most interested, we must notice the advent and progress of settlement upon the southern point of the Island, which antedated
by some thirteen years the first known attempt to locate at Harlem. The idea of a permanent occupation of the country naturally followed upon the more intimate knowledge of its resources,
acquired through the frequent visits of the Holland traders.
But the first move in that direction must be accredited as before mentioned, to Rev. John Robinson, pastor of an English
congregation at Leyden, and to the directors of the company
engaged in trading to New Netherland. In negotiating with
said directors, Robinson had informed them that upon condition
of the government protection, etc., he was "well inclined to
proceed thither to live," and also "had the means of inducing
over four hundred families to accompany him thither, both out
of this country (Holland) and England," who would "plant
there a new commonwealth." But the company's charter meanwhile expiring, the directors, on February I2th, 1620, laid their
case before the States General and besought them to take these
colonists under their protection and detail two ships of war to
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convey them to that country, in order to keep out other nations
and make it "secure to the State."
But this application failed, as did another of similar import
made the next year to the London Company by the French and
Walloons of Leyden, as heretofore noticed. Nevertheless the
States General were not indifferent to the benefits likely to accrue
from such colonies being planted in New Netherland. Hence in
their charter to the West India Company, in view of "the great
abundance of their people, as well as their desire to plant other
lands," they enjoined upon the company, as one among the important objects contemplated, "to advance the peopling of those
fruitful and unsettled parts."' Accordingly a first act of the company was to equip and send out (March, I623) a vessel of I30
lasts, the New Netherland, in command of one familiar with the
voyage, Captain Cornelis Mey, and which carried about thirty
families, "mostly Walloons," with a few single men, all engaged
to the company for a term of service, and who were to occupy and
garrison several new points along the coast, besides forming a settlement up the Hudson. Captain Mey was to be the director or
governor in New Netherland, with a deputy in the person of Captain Adrian Tienpont, who accompanied him. Arriving at Hudson's River about the beginning of May, they lay at anchor for
several weeks at Manhattan, where eight men were set ashore "to
take possession" for the company, and others dispatched for a like
object to the rivers Connecticut and Delaware. About eighteen
families proceeded with the vessel up the river to Castle Island, at
or near which the Dutch had for nine years maintained a tradingpost. Choosing a spot for a settlement still higher up (within the
present city of Albany), there they "made a small fort," and entered into "covenants of friendship" with the Mahicans or River
* No credit is due to the statement that colonies were planted in New Netherland,
on Manhattan Island or elsewhere, prior to i623. Sir Dudley Carleton, English ambassador at the Hague, no doubt makes a true representation when, in a letter of February 5, 1621 (February 15, 1622 N. S.), to the Leards of the Council in England, he
says: "About four or five years since, two particular companies of Amsterdam
merchants began a trade into those parts betwixt 40 and 45 degrees, to which after
their manner they gave their own names of New Netherlands and the like; whither they
have ever since continued to send ships of 30 and 40 lasts, at the most, to fetch furs,
which is all their trade; for the providing of which they have certain factors there
continually resident trading with savages, and at this present there is a ship at Amsterdam bound for those parts; but I cannot learn of any colony either already planted
there by these people, or so much as intended; and I have this further reason to
believe there is none, because within these few months divers inhabitants of this
country to a considerable number of families have been suitors unto me, to procure
them a place of habitation amongst his Majesty's subjects in those parts; which, by
his Majesty's order, was made known to the Directors of the Plantation; and if these
countrymen were in any such way themselves, there is small appearance they would
desire to mingle with strangers, and be subject to their government." (Col. Hist. of
N. Y-, 3: 7. Stuyvesant does not claim for the Dutch any earlier possession of Manhattan Island. Ibid, 2: 412. See also ibid, i: 149, and Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4to0, 3:
3I, 32.)
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Indians, the Mlaquas, and other neighboring tribes, who "desired
that they might come and have a constant free trade with them,
which was concluded upon." Such a beginning had the now
wealthy capital of the State.
Those left to form a trading-post at Manhattan intrenched
themselves at Capsee, on the southern end of the island, and built
them hausse "of the bark of trees." Three years later Governor Peter Minuit came out, Mlanhattan Island was purchased
from the Indians "for the value of sixty guillers,"-twenty-four
dollars and, with a view to making this "the principal colony,"
the settlement, which had already received important accessions
from Holland, with a supply of live stock and farming tools,
was further increased by the families from Fort Orange, who,
disquieted by a recent affray with the savages in which some of
their number were slain, gladly accepted this change; and as the
Manhates "were becoming more and more accustomed to the
strangers."* New Amsterdam, as now called, and containing
two hundred and seventy souls, was permitted, April 7, I628,
to welcome its first minister, Rev. Jonas MIichaelius, from Holland. This devoted man, educated at Leyden, preached a
dozen years, then went out to Brazil with the great expedition
in I624. After a short term of service at St. Salvador he
lalored a year or two in Guinea before coming to New Amsterdam. Here at once he "established the form of a church,"
but as the Walloons and French knew very little Dutch, he
preached to them in their own language. Hither resorted the
Indian hunters, bringing quantities of furs, of which from year
to year valuable cargoes were taken to Holland in the company's
ships. Their agents also used every means to increase this trade
by exploring in their yachts all the adjoining coasts, while others
scoured the woods and sought the Indian villages for friendly
traffic. But it was not only the fur trader, the hunter tracking
the game, or the amateur drawn hither by curiosity to see the
country; others were already intent upon finding out its varied resources,-the husbandman noting the quality of the soil, the
mechanic and artisan whatever for each had a practical business
value, the scientist or naturalist in quest of mineral and other
* Harlem was settled before New Amsterdam, if we may credit the tradition
current among our old New Yorkers half a century ago; the first colonists, after
living here awhile, for some cause removing to the lower end. Such, then, and even
later this was the popular belief, as we have had it from the lips of several aged persons
long since deceased. But finding no mention of this either in Wassenaer or De Laet,
or in any contemporary or early record, we suspect the tradition is due to the removal
from Fort Orange or to the abandonment of Harlem for a time by its first settlers
because of the Indians, as hereafter related, or perhaps to the confused and faded
memories of both.
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treasures,-some new wonder in every stone, tree, shrub, and
flower, every beast that starts at his approach, or bird that warbles
from the bough. Much of this useful information was presently
transmitted to Fatherland, both in private letters from the colonists
to their kindred and in official reports to the West India Company.
Isaac De Rasieres, who came out in G626 and served some two
years as chief commissary and secretary at New Amsterdam, has
left us, in an account written after his return to Holland, the
earliest known description of Manhattan Island by an eye-witness.
It is, he says, "full of trees, and in the middle rocky," but the north
end "has good land in two places, where two farmers, each with
four horses, would at first have enough to do without much clearing." So early had the attention of the Hollanders, instinctively
attached to rich bottom lands, been drawn to these fertile plains,
then known to the colonists as the Flats of the Island of M\anhatta.
In tracing the history of this section of the Island, the territorial limits will be those given in the patent or charter granted
the inhabitants of Harlem by the colonial governor Nicolls in
I666, which embraced all the upper portion, from Kingsbridge
south, as far as Manhattanville on the west side and Seventyfourth Street on the east.
Of those who early manifested an interest in this particular
section were Wouter Van Twiller, now Director-General of the
colony, and his friend Jacobus Van Curler, who bore the title of
Jonkheer. They were both young men, from the same place,
Nieukerck, and Van Curler, had accompanied the new director
hither in I633. A residence of three years giving them the opportunity to spy out the land, Van Twiller had improved it by
selecting for himself several choice tracts in the vicinity of New
Amsterdam, among which was the island lying "over against"
the Flats, and known to us as Ward's Island. The Jonkheer, in
his rambles, had fixed his covetous eye upon these rich Flats,
and, with leave of the director, had pre-empted a goodly section
bordering upon the river, opposite the island referred to, and
which obtained the name of the Otter-spoor, or the Otter-track.
It is scarcely a departure from the literal facts to picture these
two dignitaries upon one of their tours of observation up the
island; and in fancy we may accompany them. Van Curler well
knows the lay of the land, for he loves to scour the woods in
quest of game; but one of his feats, which he took some pride
in relating, was the killing an hundred and seventy black-birds at
a single shot!
Quitting the drowsy little town of New Amsterdam, its
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thatched roofs and its fortress with low turf wall receding from
view, we follow the Indian trail leading to Wickquaskeek, or
"the birch bark country," which lies beyond the quiet waters of
the Papparinamin, as that part of the Spuyten Duyvel was called
where it turns the extreme northerly point of Manhattan. Spring
is in her loveliest attire. Around and along our pathway she
displays in rich profusion her grandest works. Plains scarce
trodden by human kind, save by the red man, are clothed in all
the beauty of their pristine verdure, while the rock-capped hills
and the resonant forest echo back and forth the sounds of wild
and savage life. Plumed songsters fill the woods and enliven
our journey with their music. Perchance the shrill cry of the
eagle, startled from its eyrie, or the plaintive note of the cuckoo,
or the busy hammer of the woodpecker, in turn arrests our attention.
"And playful squirrel on his nut-grown tree:
And every sound of life was full of glee,...
While hearkening-fearing nought their revelryThe wild deer arched his neck from glades, and then,
Unhunted, sought his woods and wilderness again."
Treading that "central" part of Manhattan, in our day rescued from mercenary uses and restored again to nature and art,
to resume under their culture more than its original beauty, we
emerge upon the bluff near that romantic spot since known as
McGown's Pass, and before us lie the "Flats of Manhattan."
Let us survey the charming panorama which opens to our view,
note its more striking features, and point out the several sections
of the land, as it is subdivided by the aborigines, under distinctive names. At our left a chain of high land extends away to the
northward till lost to the eye, but broken at one point by a
ravine, beyond which are dimly visible through the entangled
foliage the silvery waters of the majestic Mahican-ittuck, or
Hudson. In the distance a lesser stream, which flows from the
Papparinamin, and is known simply as the Great Kill (its Indian
name is undiscovered), comes gently coursing toward the troubled
waters of the Hellegat.'* Familiar to us as the Harlem River, it
has been fitly designated as "one of the sweetest streams that ever
gave a charm to landscape." Along the heights through which
* Muscoota, says the History of Westchester County, was the aboriginal name
for Harlem River, but various original authorities agree in making it the common
Indian term for flats or flatland! After diligent but vain search among our early
records to discover some warrant for applying it to the river, we gave it up, when an
inquiry addressed to Mr. Bolton, and answered with his usual courtesy, failed to elicit
his authority on this point.
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flow its upper waters, the scenery, though less imposing, still rivals
that of the classic Hudson in all that is picturesque and pleasing.
On the hither side the banks, rising boldly from a rocky base
and clothed with lofty forest trees, present by their very abruptness a fine contrast to the eastern shore, where undulating hills,
woodland and meadows form a gradual descent to trie water's
edge. Here, aforetime, till its quiet was invaded by the snort
of the iron horse, the visitor loved to tarry, wrapt in the contemplation of a scene sublime, and quite forgetful of the outer
world, till his reverie was broken by the wild cry of the heron,
or the plunge of the kingfisher as it darted from an overhanging
bough, —"most celebrated and besung of all other birds,"-species
which had ever haunted these waters and nested in the lofty pines.
Lingering tenant of these solitudes, the heron was seen at early
dawn assiduous at his piscatory work. Taking his gloomy stand
in the water's edge, and motionless, as if meditating mischief, he
kept his head turned on one side, and eyed the pool intently for
an opportunity to strike his prey. If undisturbed, he spent the
day, resting when gorged, with his long neck sunk between his
shoulders, but retiring long before night to his retreat in the
woods. The scene is better depicted by M'Lellan, in "The Notes
of the Birds."
"Far up some brook's still course whose current mines
The forest's blackened roots, and whose green marge
Is seldom visited by human foot,
The lonely heron sits, and harshly breaks
The sabbath silence of the wilderness:
And you might find her by some reedy pool,
Or brooding gloomily on the time-stained rock,
Beside some misty and far-reaching lake.
Most awful is thy deep and heavy boom,
Gray watcher of the waters! Thou art king
Of the blue lake; and all the wing'd kind
Do fear the echo of thine angry cry.
How bright thy savage eye! Thou lookest down
And seest the shining fishes as they glide;
And poising thy gray wing, thy glossy beak
Swift as an arrow strikes its roving prey.
Ofttimes I see thee, through the curling mist,
Dart like a spectre of the night, and hear
Thy strange, bewildering call, like the wild scream
Of one whose life is perishing in the sea."
Hellgate, or Hellegat, as the name was given by the Dutch,
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after an inlet of the WVest Scheldt, lies in full view at our right,
the terror of ancient voyagers, and whose conception of it is well
given in these words of an early writer: "Being a narrow passage, there runneth a violent stream both upon flood and ebb,
and in the middle licth some islands of rocks, which the current
sets so violently upon that it threatens present shipwreck; and
upon the flood is a large whirlpool, which continually sends forth
a hideous roaring, enough to affright a stranger from passing
further, and to await for some Charon to conduct him through."
The Indians, in the last century, had a tradition "that at some
distant period in former times their ancestors could step from
rock to rock, and cross this arm of the sea on foot."
Beneath us spreads out, as a royal tapestry of velvety green, a
section of rich bottom land, known to the Indians by the euphonic
term Muscoota, that is, The Flat, as the whites, who adopted the
name, rendered it. The hills form its southern limit, with a
fresh water run long known as the Fountain, from its spring
upon the hillside, and which, passing out to the Great Kill, skirts
northerly a point or neck of land opposite Hellegat, its surface
slightly elevated, and which the natives call Rechawanes, or, as
interpreted, the Great Sands; since the Benson or McGown property. It is bounded southerly by a creek and broad marshes,
which stretch from the Bay of Hellegat even to Konaande
Kongh. *
Beyond the creek of Rechawanes lies Van Curler's grant,
reaching away to the Great Kill, a broad and level tract, called
in the language of the natives Conymokst, but by the Dutch the
Otter-spoor, from the little amphibious animal which sports hereabout, burrows, and leaves its foot-tracks (spoor) on the margins of its streamlets and river, and whose furs are so coveted
by the Dutch trader. Northerly still lies Schorakin, with a mostly
level surface, and stretching along the Great Kill upward toward
the hills. It is partly separated from the Otter-spoor by a creek
and meadows, and partially hidden from view by the Ronde
Gebergte, or Round Hills. One is an abrupt wooded emlinence,
by modern innovation styled Mount MIorris, but which the Dutch
called the Slang Berg, or Snake Hill, from the reptile tribes that
infested its cleft rocks and underbrush even within the memory
* An Indian term which occurs in a Dutch document of I669 (see under that
year), but misread, apparently, by the late Dominie \Westbrook, who rendered it King's
Highway, the proper Dutch for which is Koning's ITooge Weg. It may come from
ko, a fall or cascade, and ononda, a hill; kong signifying elevated place or locality.
Hence probably refers to the spring aforesaid, but possibly to a village site (an Indian
village, or perhaps the one contemplated in i66J), nunda being the term for village.
It approaches in sound nearly to the Iroquois Genunda, or Kannata, Village on the
Hill, and from which, says Charlevoux, the name Canada is derived.
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of the living. Southerly from it the gneiss rock crops out in
huge, disordered masses. A little way to the right is the other,
a lesser height or ridge, and which to the inhabitants came to be
known as The Little Hill, when was built olpposite to it (Kingsbridge road only parting them) the goodly Dutch farm-house of
Johannes Sickels, still standing in I23d Street. Strewed over
the plain, and here and there conspicuous, are rounded boulders
of gray, red, and ferruginous sandstone, unlike any rock found
here in situ, and Awhose presence is ascribed to some mighty action
of nature in times far remote, bry wihich they had been drifted
and deposited here. The hugest of these weather-beaten boulders, which lay behind the Sickels house, still lives in memory
and in the written romance of the Child of the Singing
Rock. '
O'er all this fair domain still roams the haughty Manhattan
or \Vickquaskeek, as properly called, making forest and waters
alike contribute to his subsistence, as though he yet held rights
in the soil, notwithstanding the sale, ten years previous, to the
West India Company. So the sachems of AMareckaweek, or
Brooklyn,-a fact quite remarkable if they were not a band of
the Manhattans,-claim the two islands, one before referred to,
lying opposite the Otter-spoor and called Tenkenas, since named
Ward's Island, and the other called MIinnahanoncl, now Blackwell's Island. But cast the vision across the intervening centuries, and it strips this virgin landscape of its almost bewitching
charms; its every feature changes like a dissolving view, and the
congregated homes of a cultivated people engross these several
tracts of many hundred broad acres, forming one of the fairest
sections of our great metropolis! Gone is every memento of
the aborigine, save a few uncouth names or unearthed relics.t
The former, as applied to places within Harlem, we have endeavored to rescue, because, however unintelligible or difficult of
rendering are such Indian terms, they are, as admitted. usually
* The Bachelor's Ward, or the Child of the Singing Rock: a Legend of Harlem,
was begun in the New York Sun of September 24, 1860, and extended through twentytwo chapters. It was written by Mr. William E. Pabor, then of Harlem, son of the
late Alexander Pabor, whose father, Martin Pabor, by birth a Swiss, came to this
country via Bordeaux, about 1803, and died at Bloomingdale, May i6, i816, aged 48
years.
f t A deposit of Indian arrow-heads was found at Harlem, in I855, in excavating
for a cellar on Avenue A, between 12oth and i2ist street, a spot nearly central of the
old Bogert or Morris Rendell farm, and on the ancient Otter-spoor. Being in considerable number, of various sizes, and in all stages of manufacture, it shows that
here had been the red man's workshop, where, with wondrous patience and skill, he
chipped out those little implements, of equal use to him in peace and war. They were
made of a buff-colored flint, resembling the yellow semi-opal of India, but, what is
remarkable, unlike any stone to be met with on or about Manhattan Island. Some
of these arrow-heads, obtained by him at the time, are in the author's cabinet.
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found to be aptly significant, generally descriptive of the locality,
or of some signal event in its Indian legends."
Here, lying as it were at our feet, is Muscoota,-The Flat,stretching northward from the elevation we occupy, a fine level
plain, shut in westerly by bold heights dressed in the primeval
forest, the substratum of gray gneiss, like artificial grass-grown
bulwarks, bare and exposed to view along their entire face; its
eastern limit a tiny creek that glistens in the sunlight from between its bushy banks as a thread of limpid silver, and which,
meeting at flood tide the flow into the ravine through the heights,
or the "Clove of the Kil," as afterward called, serves to bisect
the island and to bear the canoes of the natives from the Hellegat
to the Hudson. Rejoicing in its primitive integrity and beauty,
no farm lines, no Harlem Lane or Avenue St. Nicholas yet intersect it, nor even a furrow has upturned its deep, rich, vegetable
mould, though partially cleared, and tilled by the Indian women
with the hoe, in their rude way, for raising scanty crops of
maize, pumpkins, beans, and tobacco. This inviting spot has also
been appropriated. Its repose must now be broken by the ring
of woodman's axe, the noise of saw and hammer, for the first
European settlers have arrived, to rear their isolated dwellings.
Their story in the Old World has already been told, and will now
be continued, with its checkered experiences in the New.
* Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Iartford, the eminent Indian philologist, in a
letter of February 3, I880, with which he has had the kindness to favor me, remarks:
"Nothing disguises an Indian name so effectually as a Dutch pen; and few of
the names of Northern New Jersey or Southern New York are easily recognized in the
shape they come to us in the Dutch records or under Dutch corruptions. The Indian
dialect differed very slightly from that of Massachusetts or ]astern Connecticut, but
the Dutch spelling transforms them to an unknown tongue, and it is only by comparison of all the various ways of writing a name, and by a careful study of the locality
to which it is appropriated,-and probably wrongfully appropriated,- that one can
guess at the original sound, an so, at the meaning."
CHAPTER VII.
I636-I640.
SETTLEM EN TS.
U NDER most flattering auspices, and well supplied with
needed stores and house and farm utensils, including arms
and ammunition, Henry and Isaac De Forest have at length the
satisfaction of treading the strange country, so long the object
of mingled hope and solicitude. Equally cheering was this unexpected arrival to the denizens of New Amsterdam, who for
some months had seen no new faces from Fatherland; their isolation the more keenly felt since the departure together, August
I3th, of the ship King David, Captain.David De Vries, and a
company's ship, the Seven Stars, the first having brought a small
accession to the settlers.* The merry salvo from the fort, the
grasp of welcome which greeted the new-comers, only betokened
the general gladness; while to the old Walloons, who spake but
broken Dutch, it gave an opportunity, not often enjoyed, for free
inquiry in their native patois about friends and events in Europe.
It did not take long to fix upon a location, and fully inform
themselves of the nature of and best mode of doing the work to
be entered upon. But buildings and fences were to be erected,
trees felled, and the land prepared to receive the crop. Having
come so late in the year, instead of in the spring, the usual time
for sailing, they needed to be diligent in order to accomplish this
preparatory work in season for the spring planting. Choosing
as his future home the rich flats at Muscoota, promising to rival
in productiveness the fertile meadows around his native Leyden,
and, as memory ran backward, perchance recalling his father's
description of the old home in Hainault, the plains, skirted on
* Tacob Walings Van Winckel, from Hoorn, and Peter Caesar Albertus, an Italian,
from Venice, were of the number, and, we believe, Claes Cornelisz, who certainly came
out this year. The first was the ancestor of the Van Winkle family, of Bergen, N. J.,
the second of those of Alburtis and Burtis. From Claes Cornelisz, the emigrant of
1636, two well-known families have sprung, viz.: that of Wyckoff, through his son
Pieter Claessen Wyckoff, a child when his father came over, and that of Van Arsdale,
his daughter, Pietertie, born here in I640, marrying the common ancestor, Simon
Jansen Van Arsdalen.
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the one side by the heigllts of Avesnes, on the other by the gentle
-Ilep)re, Henry De Forest at once obtained from Director Van
Twiller the grant of A[uscoota, then roughly estimated at one
hundred morgen, or two hundred acres, and offering no inmle(liment to its immediate occupation, as sometimes occurred where
the Indian title had first to be acquired. Here, as the weather
favored, De Forest and his assistants began their toilsome work.
The winter had scarcely closed when their hearts were
cheered by the arrival of Dr. La Mlontague and his family. The
voyage, as was not uncommon1, had been long and tedious, occasionedI by their taking a circuitous course by way of tlle Canary
Islands, in order to reach the trade winds. They iltroduced a
little stranger, Marie Monltagunc, born at sea off the Island of
Mladeira, January 26th, G637, and called after its grandmother,
De Forest.: MIJontagne was a welcome and valuable addition to
the colonists. Reputed skilful in his profession, he so soon rose
in plublic favor that Governor Kieft, on his arrival, called him
to a seat in his council, lwhich app)ointment, if not by positive
instructions from tle directors, met with their app)roval.
Winter and sl)ring had not p)assed in idleness, as is manifest
from the amount of work wlich had been acconplislhed in clcaring land and getting ready for the season of planting. A farmhouse was being4 built, in the Dutch rural style, having an ample
ground floor "forty-two feet by eighteen wide, with two doors."
The roof was thatched, and, as a protection against the Indians,
the house was surrounded by a high, close fence of heavy round
palisades or pickets. The inclosure, which was entered by a
well-secured gate or gates, was ample for out-buildings, including a house for curing tobacco; this article, as before hinted,
intended to form the principal crop, one to which the soil, "on
account of its great fertility, was considered well adapted," and
yielding the best returns. It was also "well suited to prepare
the land for other agricultural purposes." Fixed in their new
home, with the requisite means of defense afforded by their
strong stockade and four guns kept ready for use, and with humble trust in a kind Providence, who had hitherto so favored them,
the De Forests, with their helpers, Tobias and Willem, addressed
themselves industriously to the work of tilling the virgin soil.
With no neighbors but the roving Indians, those who had been
reared amid the activities of a great city, with its busy, crowded
* This date, with that of Montagne's coming, rests upon a note in Holgate's Am.
Genealogy, p. II2, the original authority for which I have inquired for in vain, but
I see no reason to doubt its accuracy, while collateral facts are in harmony with it.
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marts, must have been strangely impressed by this scene of wild
solitude and this lone isolation. The dusky savage, whose trail
lay near them, leading from the forests of Wickquaskeek to New
Amsterdam, as he passed to and fro on his trading errands, and
eyed with ill-disguised suspicion this inroad upon his ancient
hunting-groutnds, must doubtless have excited, l) his uncouth
dress and demeanor, his very coyn-ess, a correspondlilng suspicion
and dread in the minds of the toilers.' And when weariness
invited rel)ose,-perchance sweet dreams of home and kindred,how oft were these disturbed by1 the dismial howl of the wolf or tlhe
terrifying scream of the panther, suddenly breaking the deathlike stillness of the night!
HIowever, Jonkhecr \Van Curler now set about inll)roving his
fine tract of two hundred acres, called the Otter-spoor, lying next
to De Forest's plantation; but, to describe it in terms now familiar, situated north of the Mill Creek, at io8th Street, and extending from Harlem River to near Fifth Avenue. lie erected
a dwelling-house and out-buildings, and procured all things
necessary for a well-regulated plantation,-domestic animals and
farming tools, with the no less needful "boat and fixtures" for
passing to and from New Amsterdam. Van Twiller also built
upon the larger island, opposite the Otter-spoor, the Indian Tenkenas, now called Ward's Island, and put there some choice Holland stock, all in charge of Barent Jansen Blom, a stalwart Dane,
as his overseer or farmer; after which, on July I6th, I637, the
director purchased the Indian title to this island, and also the
lesser one "lying westward," called Miinnahanonck (Blackwell's
Island), from the sachems, Heyseys and Numers, who took in
payment "certain parcels of goods." From Barent Blom, whose
huge proportions had gained him the nickname of "Groot Barent,"
the island whereon he lived received the name of Great Barent's
Island. Years later, when Blom had removed to Brooklyn and
Van Twiller been dispossessed by the government, the term groot,
or great, losing its proper reference to Barent, was applied to
the island itself, to distinguish it from the smaller one adjacent
* "The Indians about here," says Capt. David De Vries, who had been a great
deal among the Wickquaskecks and other tribes living around New Amsterdam, "are
tolerably stout, have black hair, with a long lock which they let hang on one side of
the head. The hair is shorn on the top of the head like a cock's comb. Their clothing
is a coat of beaver skins over the body, with the fur inside in winter and outside in
summer; they have also sometimes a bear's skin, or a coat made of the furs of wild
cats or raccoons. They also wear coats of turkey feathers, which they know how to
put together; but since our Netherlanders have traded here, they barter their beavers
for duffels-cloth, which they find more suitable than the beavers, and better for the
rain. Their pride is to paint their faces hideously with red or black lead, so that
they look like fiends. Then are they valiant; yea, they say they are Manetto,-the
devil himself."
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(now Randall's Island), which latter from mere proximity was
called Little Barent's Island!*
Illusory is the dream of worldly aggrandizement; how often,
alas, the fondest hope of the heart only buds to be blighted!
Such was a frequent experience of our early colonists. Suddenly
a gloom black as night overshadowed that lone dwelling on the
plain; death had reaped the first harvest. "Henry De Forest died
on the 26th July, A~ I637." Painfully brief, is the record. Had
exposure in a new and variable climate proved too much for one
reared among the comforts and protecting influences of a city;
or had the over-zealous toiler suddenly fallen under the burden
and heat of the day? Was it due to disease or violence? Vain are
all surmises. We only know that, far from his native land, from
the endeared forms and scenes of other days, saving the presence
of some he most loved, the first European settler on these Flats met
his fate! He was borne to his last resting-place,-doubtless at
New Amsterdam,-with fitting tokens of respect, and the sympathizing pastor Bogardus, who but six months agone had greeted
and welcomed him on his arrival, performed the last sad ritual,
presenting each pall-bearer with a silver spoon as a memento of
the departed. These tokens were furnished the dominie by direc* Barent Jensen Blom, whose descendants write their names )Tloom, was born in
16ii, at Ockholm, a town of Sleswick, in Denmark. After quitting Van Twiller's
service he settled in Brooklyn, bought, in 1652, a farm near the Wallabout, and there
lived till he died, June 5, I665, from a stab wound in the side, given by Albert Corn.
Wantenaer, and at once fatal. As Albert set up the plea of self-defense, the court of
Assize, at his trial, October 2, convicted him only of manslaughter. He "was then
and there burnt in the hand, according to law;" the further penalties, which were
the loss of his property and a year's imprisonment, being remitted by the governor.
By his wife, Styntie Pieters, whom he married in 164I, 1Barent left two sons, Jan,
born 1644, and Claes, born 1650. His daughter Engeltie, born 1652, married Adam
Vrooman, of Schenectady, and another laughter named Tutie, born 1654, married
Lembert Jansen Van Dyck. Jan Barentsen B10om became a farmer in Flatbush, married
Mary, daughter of Simon Hansen, and had issue, Barent, of Flushing (died about 1735,
having by wife Femmetie, sons Garret, born 1695; John, I697; Abraham, 1703; George,
1706, and Isaac, 1709); Simon, of Jamaica (died 1722, having by wife Gertrude, sons
John, born 1706; Isaac, 1708; Bieruardus, I7Io; Abraham, 1713; Jacob, 1715, and
(;eorge, 1716, of whom Bernardus, of Nestown, blacksmith, I73I-'84, was father of
Simon and grandfather of Capt. Bernardus Bloom, see Annals of Newtown), and
George, of Flatbush, who died witlhout chilldren about I737. Claes Barentse Blom
married I685, Elizabeth, daughter of Paulus )ericksen and widow of Paulus Michielse
Vandervoort. Hle remained in his native town, 1,rooklyn, and was still living in I737.
He had several children, of whom was Iarent, of Bledford, also Jcnnetie, who married
Jacobus,efferts and Peter Luyster, the first the grandfather of the late Judge Lefferts,
of iBrooklyn. Barcnt, of Ilcdford, lwhose wife was also named Femmetie, died in 1756,
having children Nicholas, Jacob, Phebe, Elizabeth, Jane, Barbara and Maria. Nicholas
died at Bedford about 1782, leaving Jacob and Mattie. Consult Bloom wills, Surrorogate's Office. New York. For other facts touching this lineage we refer, with
pleasure, to the Bergen Genealogy, in its new and improved form, a perfect thesaurus
of our Dutch family history, yet, to our regret, must take issue with it upon the Bloom
ancestry.
Frederick Arents Bloem, ancestor of the 1loom family of New York City, distinct
from the former, was from Swarte Sluis, between Zwolle and Meppel, in Overyssel,
and came over via Amsterdam, in 1654, with and under engagement to Laurens
Andrisz Van Boskrk, turner and common ancestor of the Van Buskirk family. Bloom,
also a turner, and hence often called "De l)rayer," married at New Amsterdam, in
1656, Grietie Pieters, from Breda; issue, nine children, four being sons, viz.: Arent,
born 1657; Pieter, I66I; Johannes, I671, and Jacob, 1676, of whom at least the first
and last married and had children.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I29
tion of Dr. Mlontage, and at his own cost. Then,-it was the approved custom,-when the assembled burghers had gravely lit
their pipes and spent some honest regrets, over their wine and beer,
at the untimely exit of one thus snatched away at the manly age
of thirty-one years, the scene closed over Henry De Forest.
As De Forest was childless, his estate fell to the widow and
next of kin. Dr. Mlontagne took charge of the plantation, and
saw the ripening crops proplerly harvested. He also finished the
house and barn, till which he boarded at the house of \Van Curler.
An account of his expenses while in charge of the farm affords
us a bill of fare which might challenge the luxuries of a European
table. Items "powder, shot, and balls' suggest not only a care
for their personal security, but as well the means of supllying
their larder with savory venison, (leer being so l)lentiful in the
island as often to stroll within gun-shot of the farm house. Besides a variety of game, with fish, and "salted eels," pea soup,
wheat and rye bread, butter, eggs, and poultry, they adopted the
wholesome native dish called sapaan, a mush made of Indian corn.
The year following, Andries Hudde, an ex-member of Van
Twiller's council, won the heart and hand of the young widow
De Forest, and they were married. Preparing to visit Holland
with his bride, Hudde engaged Hans Hansen, from Bergen in
Norway, by trade a shipwright, but with some knowledge of
farming, and who during eleven years' residence had "borne a
respectable character," to cultivate tobacco, upon shares, on the
De Forest farm, Hudde pledging to send him six or eight farm
laborers, with suitable tools, "by the first opportunity of any vessel
leaving a port of Holland." Lastly, prior to leaving, Hudde made
good his title by a "groundbrief," or patent, from Director Kieft,
dated July 20th, I638, none having been taken out before; in
fact, no such deeds had yet been issued to any of the settlers.
Only on June 24th preceding had the governor and council, upon
a petition from "the free people," resolved to give titles for the
farms in course of improvement. This conveyance to Hudde, here
given entire, is the earliest of its kind known relating to Harlem
lands, if not the very first, in point of date, issued by the government.
We, the Director and Council of New Netherland, residing on the
Island of Manhatas and in Fort Amsterdam, under the authority of the
High and Mighty Lords, the States General of the United Netherlands,
and the General Incorporated West India Company, at their Chambers at
Amsterdam; By these presents do publish and declare, that pursuant to
the Liberties and Exemptions allowed on the 7th day of June, A. D. I629,
to Lords Patroons, of a lawful, real and free proprietorship; We have
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granted, transported, ceded, given over and conveyed; and by these presents We do grant, give over and convey, to and for the behoof of Andries
Hudde, a piece of land containing one hundred morgen, situated on the
North East end of the Island of Manhatas, behind Curler's land; on
condition that he and his successors shall acknowledge their High
Mightiness, the Managers aforesaid, as their Sovereign Lords and Patroons, and shall render at the end of ten years after the actual settlement and cultivation of the land, the just tenth part of the products with
which God may bless the soil, and from this time forth annually for the
House and Lot, deliver a pair of capons to the Director for the Holidays;
constituting and substituting the aforesaid H1udde in our stead and state,
the real and actual possessor thereof, and at the same time giving to him
or to his successors full and irrevocable might, authority and special
license, tanquam actor et procurator ini rein slual ac propriam, the aforesaid land to enter, peaceably to possess, inhabit, cultivate, occupy and use,
and also therewith and thereof to do, bargain and dispose, in like manner
as he might do with his own lands honestly and lawfully obtained, without
they, the grantors, in their said quality, thereto having, reserving, or
saving in the least, any part, action or ownership, other than heretofore
specified: Now and forever, finally desisting, abstaining, withdrawing
and renouncing by these presents; promising, moreover, this their transport, and what may be done by virtue thereof, firmly, inviolably and
irrevocably to maintain, fulfil and execute, as in equity they are bound to;
in all good faith, without fraud or deceit. In witness whereof, these
presents are confirmed with our usual signature and with our Seal. Done
in Fort Amsterdam the 2oth of July, I638. WILLEM KImET, DR.
All their arrangements made, including authority to Do.
Bogardus to administer the De Forest estate in their absence,
Hudde and his Gertrude sailed for Holland, we believe in the
company's ship the Herring, of twenty guns, which had brought
out Director Kieft. Naturally, after a nine years' absence, Hudde
longed to see his native city, Amsterdam, and his widowed mother,
Aeltie Schinckels; his father, Rutger Hudde, was dead. Besides
the business of his wife's estate, certain sums due him from his
guardians at Amsterdam and deposited in the Orphan Chamber
required to be looked after, as well as moneys coming from his
deceased brother, Claes Hudde, and a legacy at'Campen, left him
by his old aunt Seurbeeck, who had lately died; amounting in
all to nearly 8,000 fl.!
Since Montagne took charge of the plantation he had expended over a thousand guilders, in paying claims against it, in
completing the improvements, and for current expenses, as per
his statement rendered to Dominie Bogardus July 23d, and which
had been approved and taken to Holland. Wishing a settlement, he
petitioned the council, September I6th, that Bogardus as administrator be required to assume the care of the farm and refund him
the amount which he had advanced upon account of it. As
Bogardus was not prepared to do this except by a sale of the
property, the court at their next meeting thought best and so
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decreed, that the plantation should be put up at public vendue il
Fort Amsterdam, October 7th, "for the benefit of the widow,"
and that from the proceeds of the sale Bogardus should pay Montagne "such moneys as he had disbursed for the improvement of
the bouwery." The sale taking place, the farm, with its fixtures,
was struck off to M:ontagne for the suin of I700 gl. Included were
portions of the recent crops of tobacco and grain, two milch cows
and other cattle, two goats, domestic fowls, farming tools, and a
"wey schuyt" or boat used by the farmers to bring salt hay from
their meadow.
But Alontagne had now to meet a new vexation, for no sooner
had the farm changed owners than Tobias and Willem, refusing
to work, applied to the council, October I4th, to be released from
their engagement, as they were not hired by the defendant, but
by his uncle." MIontagne, however, "produces the contracts made
between the plaintiffs and Gerard De Forest, from which it clearly
appears that the plaintiffs are bound to serve said De Forest or
his agent for three sucessive years after their arrival in New
Netherland, and the defendant further exhibiting power and authority from the said De Forest to employ the plaintiffs in his
service till the expiration of their bounden time; all this being considered, the plaintiffs are condemned to serve out their term with
La Montagne without further objection, he promising to pay them
the wages which shall be due them at the expiration of the said
term." The secret of the dissatisfaction with Tobias, and which
had caused him to vent a little Dutch spleen against his employer,
would appear in his complaint to others that he had been stinted
in his allowance of meat at Montagne's house. But when put to
the proof of this also before the court, he confessed to having
wronged Montagne in what he had said, admitting "that he had
his share of the beef as well as the plaintiff." Thus this trouble
ended.
Jonkheer Van Curler, constantly in the public service, and
now engrossed with the duties of inspector of merchandise under
the new director, found it expedient, May I8th, I638, to lease
the Otter-spoor farm, which he improved at great expense, to
Claes Cornelissen Swits, for a term of three years, the lessee engaging to employ a good plowman, and Van Curler an active
boy to assist him. The rent was to be paid in produce, and the
land, when vacated, to be left well sowed. But some months
later the Otter-spoor changed owners, Cornelis Van Tienhoven,
provincial secretary, becoming its purchaser, "at the request and
on behalf of Mr. Coenraet Van Keulen, merchant, residing in
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Amsterdam," for the sum of 2900 gl. The Van Keulens of that
city were much interested in New Netherland, one of them, Matthys Van Keulen, being a principal partner director of the \est
India Company il the Amsterdam Chamber. Coenraet, a kinsman of Matthys, we l)resume, with his friend Elias De Raet, also
a prominent director of the company, and who had befriended
Kieft in getting the directorship here, invested in lands on Manhattan Island, and subsequently Kieft became their agent to manage
this property, including the Otter-spoor after Van Tienhoven's
charge of it ceased. On January 25, I639, Van Tienhoven gave a
new lease to Swits, and with him, as a partner, Jan Claessen Alteras, late planter on Verken, or Blackwell's Island. Two span of
horses, three cows, farming utensils, and "twelve schepels of
grain in the ground" were included in the lease, which now was
to run for six years, the rent payable in live stock and butter and
"one eighth of all the grain with which God shall bless the field."
Claes Cornelissen Swits' earlier history is little known. Captain I)e Vries, in noting the circumstances of his death, styles
him a Duytsman, by which term the Hollanders of that day meant
a German. But his true nationality is clearly indicated by the adjunct to his name, which when used is commonly written Switz
or Switzer, and so we may accept the tradition held by his descendants that he was a Swiss. He and his family had sojourned in
the Island of Schouwen, and thence came to Amsterdam, boarding
with other Germans at Peter De Winter's inn before embarking
for this country. He had been here now some five years, being
advanced in life, and on a chosen spot at Turtle Bay, on the East
River, "had built a small house and set up) the trade of a wheeIwright." With a still vigorous manhood, some education and
means, and a fair business tact, Claes Rademaaker, or Claes the
Wheelmaker, as from his occupation he was familiarly called,
proved "a very useful man," given to enterprises outside of his
regular calling, assisted probably by his sons Cornelis and Adrian,
as he was by Alteras at the Otter-spoor. All this made his tragic
death some years later the more regretted. He was killed by an
Indian, and, strangely enough, his son Cornelis, from whom the
present Swits family are descended, met with a similar fate at
Harlem, as will be further noticed.
Van Tienhoven had obtained his deed for the Otter-spoor
* Jacobus Van Curler remained many years in this country. He took an active
part, in 1657, in the settlement of New Utrecht, where he built one of the first
houses, and served as town clerk and magistrate. At the age of sixty years he returned to Iolland, sailing from New York, May 29, 1669, in the ship l)uke of York.
On losing his first wife, Adriana, Van Curler had married, in 1652, a worthy but
much-injured maiden, Lysbet Van IIoogvelt, whom the false-hearted Van Tienhoven,
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from Jacobus Van Curler' only the previous May, and having now
'been fully satisfied and paid" by Van Keulen of Amsterdam,
he executed a conveyance to the latter for that valuable property,
August 22d. 1639, subject only to the lease to Swits. From its
new owner this large section became known in all the subsequent history of the town as Van Keulen's Hook.
A most valuable accession was now ma(le to the settlers, resulting from the more liberal measures recently adlopted by the
States General and the West India Colmpany to promote colonization to New Netherland. Captain Jochiemn Pietersen Kuyter,
a Danish gentleman, born in the district of Ditmarsen in Holstein, and liberally educated, had arisen to position, having held
a command in the East Indies under commission of King
Christian IV. He was now in his prime, forty-two years of age,
and had acquired considerable means. Resolving to come to
this country, he made his plans known to the directors of the
company at Amsterdam, who showed him marked attention, not
only giving him every assurance, but instructing Director Kieft
to afford him all needed facilities, in order the better to encourage others. Engaging the Fire of Troy, a private armed vessel
at Hoorn, he shipped "a large cargo of cattle," perhaps of
the fine breed for which his native Ditmarsen was famous, and
sailed for New Netherland, accompanied by his friend and countryman, Seignior Jonas Bronck. Each was attended by his
family and a number of farmers or herdsmen, and with them
came several laborers sent out by Andries Hudde, from which
person, it is highly probable, Kuyter had received such information respecting the grazing lands upon Manhattan Island as served
to direct him in his choice of location. Early in July, I639, the
ship, with its valuable cargo, reached New Amsterdam, where its
arrival was hailed as a great public good.t In the joy of his
honest heart, Captain De Vries, who returned to Manhattan on
July i6th, but a few days after Kuyter had arrived, wrote in his
journal, "It were to be wished that one to three hundred such
families, with laborers, had come, for then this would soon be
made a prosperous country."
So warmly commended to the favor of Kieft, Kuyter immewhen in Amsterdam, in I650, had cruelly deceived by a promise of marriage, and
induced to accompany him to this country, though he had a wife and children living
here. Exposing him publicly in court, Lysbet found great sympathy, and Tienhoven's
baseness being proved by testimony sent for to Holland, it came near going hard with
him, but he escaped punishment only to become a few years later a public swindler, a
fugitive from justice, and, as was believed, a suicide!
' De Vries, in the journal of his voyages, places Kuyter's arrival under June,
but it is shown by other data that the journal is here at fault as regards the month.
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diatelv obtained from him a grant of that extensive and beautiful
tract before noticed, called Schorakin. On these rich lands was
found ample pasturage for his stock, and here Kuyter built his
thatch-roofed dwelling and out-buildings, enclosing the whole
with a high palisade fence, with proper gates. In ldue time
fruit-trees and various implrovements adorned his home. This
plantation, which embraced about four hundred acres, may now
be located in general terms as that section of Harlem bordering
on the Harlem River north of what composed the old village
lots, and referred to in title deeds, even till a modern (late, as
Jochem Pictersen's Flat; though Kiuyter, in the gratitude of his
pious heart, named it Zengendal, or Vale of Blessing.
Montagne had chosen for his bouwery,-its air of sweet repose so in contrast with the turbulent scenes of his early life,-the
name Vredenval, or Quiet Dale. Alas, he was to realize but little
of the happiness which he anticipated in its possession and use!
Tobias and WVillem, his two farmers, having served out their time,
were now to leave him, the former to occupy a bouwery near
P-apparinamin. A- question arising as to some extra pay due
them, under an agreement made before M\ontagne came, and
to which Jacob Stoffelsen was privy, he being at that time
"werkbaas" over the colmpany's negroes, who usually assisted in
the heavy work on new bouweries, such as cutting palisades,
clearing the land, etc., Stoffelsen testified "that in the year
I636 Henry De Forest promised to pay the said persons twenty
florins annually for their improvements." P-arties came to a settlement March 5th64, 64, when Tunissen and Bont gave a receipt
in full, acknowledging themselves to have been well treated and
paid to their satisfaction by Mr. La 5Montagne during and for their
three -ears' service on the farm Vredendal.
After a vear's absence M\r. and Mirs. Hudde returned to New
Netherland, apparently in the Herring, which arrived here again
July 7th, I639, bringing goods and supplies purchased by Hudde
in Amsterdam, where before sailing he had been obliged to
borrow two hundred carolus guilders from Mr. Jonas Bronck,
to be paid when they should arrive in New Netherland. But
Hudde now learned of the sale of the farm Vredenval and the
defeat of his plans as a tobacco-planter. Some questions arose,
as was natural, and for a full year the legal transfer of the property from Hudlde to Montagne was delayed, though the latter
had made the former a payment upon it of 200 gl. July I8th,
soon after he arrived from Holland. But the parties finally came
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to terms July I2th, I640, and on August 28th ensuing Dr. Montagne received his deed.'
This plantation and those at Zegendal, the Otter-spoor, and
Great Barent's Island were the only places yet occupied in this
vicinity, with one exception. W\hen Kuyter set him down at
Schorakin, his friend Bronck located at Ranachqua, on the
other side of the Great Kill, directly opposite Kuyter's land.
B1ronck was of a family long distinguished in Sweden, though
probably himself from Copenhagen, where some of his kindred
lived. 1ie last resided at Amsterdam, and had there married his
wife, daughter of Jurlaen Slagboom. His interviews there with
Hudde and Kuyter upon the subject of New Netherland having
quickened, if they did not originate, his purpose to emigrate, he at
once applied his ample means to securing a proper outfit, and with
his family, farmers, female servants, and cattle, arrived here in the
Fire of Troy, as before stated. Immediately, with consent of the
government, he purchased from the Iidian sachem Tackamack
and his associates the large tract of land called by them Ranachqua,
lying between the Great Kill and the river Ah-qua-hung, now the
Bronx, conprising over five hundred acres, and since included in
the Manor of MIorrisania. Here Bronck began at once to make
substantial improvements, including "a stone house, covered with
tiles, a barn, tobacco house, two barricks," etc. Pieter Andriesen
and Laurens Duyts also leased portions of his land, July 2Ist, I639,
for three years, for raising tobacco and maize, from the proceeds
of which they were to reimburse Bronck for their passage money
in the Fire of Troy, which he had paid. Upon the same "stipulations," Cornelis Jacobsen Stille (later of Harlem)and his brother
Jan took, August i5th, part of Bronck's land, with a good dwelling and some stock, for six years. With his house neatly if not
richly furnished for those times, and his vrouw pronounced "a
good housekeeper," Bronck was pleasantly situated.
North of Bronck's land, only separated from it by the kill
Mannepies (the Indian name of Cromwell's Creek) was the hilly
tract or district of Kaxkeek, "lying over against the flats of the
Island of Manhatas, extending in its length along the kill" from
* Andries Hudde, as before said, was the son of Rutger Hudde, of Amsterdam,
and was born in i608. He arrived in New Netherland in I629, and in 1633, became a
permanent member of Van Twiller's council; in 1642 was appointed the public surveyor, and in 1644 was sent as chief commissary to the Delaware, where he subsequently held other offices, and also officiated as voorleser in the church, under the
ministry of Dominie Lock. Iere he lost his wife, she that had been Mrs. De Forest, but
he married again in 1657. Dismissed at his own request from the public service, he
left for Maryland, intending to set up a brewery there, but died at Appoquinimy,
November 4, 1663. On April I9, 1667, Isaac De Forest, "representing Andries Hudde,
deceased," sold his house and lot on the Heere-weg.
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"opposite the high hill of the flat land" till it reached "the source of
the said kill." On August 3d, I639, just about the time of Bronck's
purchase, Kaxkeek was also bought for the company, from Tackamack aforesaid and others. Now a populous district of Westchester,
in fact forming a part of New York City, then it had yet to welcome
its first white occupant, and Bronck and his farmers had only for
neighbors the native tenants of the forest, the prowling beast and
savage. But the devout Bronck had an arm whereon to lean; a
Lutheran in faith, he had brought with him Luther's catechism and
other devotional books, with his most prized folio Danish Bible.
And as he drew therefrom a name for his own home, Enmaus,
it carried with it the sweet assurance that even in this secluded
wilderness his risen Lord would reveal himself, if not visibly,
as to the two disciples of old, yet with tokens of his presence no
less comforting because no less real to his eye of faith.
I
CHAPTER VIII.
1640-I645.
INL)IAN TROUBLES.
T HRICE happy was the colonist in the friendship of the Indian;
for he coveted his furs, to be had for a trifle, but worth at
New Amsterdam a good price in cash or its equivalent; he ate
of his maize when his bread failed, and often stood in need of
his labor or other service. And the advantage was mutual. The
red man was quick to see that various articles in use among the
Dutch would be of equal use to him. He admitted the superiority
of the Holland duffels,-a thick-napped woolen cloth, blue or red,
-by adopting it for his own wear. No longer prostrating himself
through fear on the discharge of a musket, he could now handle
this firearm, and would give a pile of beavers for an old gun and
some ammunition. But of worse consequence, he acquired a taste
for the Dutch fire-water, and for a draught of the exhilarating
beverage would strip the last fur covering from his body!
His visit to the bouweries or farms upon peaceful errands,
usually for something which he needed and to barter a little game
or peltry, was no longer a novelty, and the sight of these savages
in their canoes, daily passing and repassing on the streams and
rivers, or engaged in their favorite employment of fishing, excited
no apprehensions. "The farmers," writes Kuyter, "pursue their outdoor labor without interruption, in the woods as well as in the field,
and dwell safely, with their wives and children, in their houses,
free from any fear of the Indians."
"The drowsy herdsman now reviews his charge,
Unbars his stalls and sets his flocks at large;
The ploughboy next comes trudging o'er the plain,
Writh merry heart to yoke his team again;
lie slowly goads along the lounging pair,
As whistling on he goes for want of care.
Unconscious of his happier lot below,
In thought confined he wields his steady plow;
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And all the joyful train with sickles bright,
Now join the harvest fields in gay delight;
And as the rustic jest goes jocund round,
The rural hour in guileless mirth is crowned;
While health does o'er each cheerful visage play,
Content and joy beguile their hours away."
Sweet dream of security, it was past! A mortal enmity was
brewing between the white and the red man, in the face of
every interest which should have bound them in friendship.
Though the responsibility lay not with the colonist, but with the
authorities, the effects fell heavily on the former. In I639 Director Kieft was guilty of a most impolitic act, in attempting to
levy a tax upon the several Indian tribes, sending his wily agent
Tienhoven to demand their corn, furs, and sewant.' The demand
was indignantly spurned, and served only to arouse a hostile
feeling toward the Dutch. Montague's prediction was well made
when, seeing the folly of his measure, he said, "A bridge has been
built, over which war will soon stalk through the land." Some
petty depredations being committed soon after, which were, in part
falsely, charged upon the Raritan Indians, the hotheaded Kieft
dispatched a body of soldiers to demand satisfaction. They too
well executed their mission by a wanton attack on the Indians,
July I6th, I640, killing several, and burning their maize.
The next year, I641, brought retaliation from the Raritans,
who, on September Ist, swept off the settlers upon Staten Island,
while MIanhattan Island was already smarting under the first
stroke of savage vengeance. A Wickquaskeek who from boyhood had harbored a grudge against the Dutch, because at that
time three of Director Minuit's men had slain his uncle and stolen
his beavers, could no longer restrain his thirst for revenge. On
a day in midsummer he entered the house of Claes Swits, at
Turtle Bay, "on the road over which the Indians from Wickquaskeek passed daily." Assuming a friendly air, and being known
to Swits, for whose son he had worked, he was "well received
and supplied with food." Then he wanted to trade some furs
for duffels; but while the unsuspecting old man was bending over
the chest in which his cloth was kept, the savage, with an axe
that lay near, struck him upon the neck, when "he fell down dead
* Sewant, also called wampum, was the Indian money, consisting of tubular
heads made from the conch-shell, perforated lengthwise and fastened with thread
upon strips of cloth or canvas. For many years it was almost the only money in
circulation among the settlers, and for trading with the Indians was preferable to
coin. Even the contributions at church were made in sewant. The color of the
beads, whether white or black, and the finish determined its value. For an exhaustive article upon its manufacture, etc., see IMunsell's Annals of Albany, vol. ii,
pp. i-8, second edition.
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by the chest." He then stole all the goods and fled into the
forest. This cruel murder, at their very doors, aroused the
authorities, and a yacht was sent to W\icrkquaskleek to demand
satisfaction from the sachem. He not only refused, but justified
the act. "He wished twenty Swannekins (. c., Dutchmen) had
been murdered."
Burninlg to scourge the savages, but fearing- to assume tle
responsibility, Kieft referred it to the citizens, who at his request
came together and chose twelve of their numller to decide upon
the grave question of making war to avenge the murder of Swits.
The twelve men, Kuvter being one, reported their conclusions
on the 24th of August. They counseled delay. A better opportunity should be chosen to inflict the blow, for their cattle were
now pasturing in the woods, and the settlers were living isolated
from each other,-east, west, north and south. Meanwhile another demand should be made for the murderer, and repeated, if
necessary, "twice or three times." Then, his surrender being
still refused, let war begin "at once." "The attack should be
made in the harvest, when the Indians were hunting," or deferred
"till the maize trade be over, and until an opportunity and God's
will be made manifest." These reasonable counsels prevailed;
peace was maintained, and Kuyter and his neighbors pursued
their farming work unobstructed, though not without more or
less apprehension.
Vredcndal and the Otter-spoor, in the year which inaugurated these troubles, had yielded profitable returns for the "great
expenses" put upon these bouweries, while Kuyter, after" a
heavy outlay, much pains, and immense labor" upon his buildings
and lands at Zegendal, to conplete the one and bring the other
under good cultivation, had also realized a valuable crop of
tobacco, which being wintered and well cured he was intending
to ship during the summer of 1641 to Coenraet Van Keulen, at
Amsterdam, who had already made him advances thereon. But
his purpose was defeated by the sudden departure of the Oak
Tree for Virginia, the vessel in which he had designed to make
his shipment, adding to his disappointment and loss the necessity
of refunding to his consignee the sum advanced by him. Montagne was hardly as fortunate, for while his crop was being
sweated and cured, his tobacco-house, too slightly built, blew
down, by which accident the tobacco was injured. He prosecuted John Morris, the carpenter, for damages, which ended in
a compromise. And so, notwithstanding a malicious report which
reached Holland, that Montagne "daily filled his pockets with
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dlucatoons and jacobuses," his pecuniary affairs really began to
wear a discouraging aspect, his domestic horizon being also
clouded just at this time by the loss of his wife.
Meanwhile satisfaction for the murder of Swits had been
"several times sought for, but in vain." Indeed, it is reported
that the savage tribes were combining for a general war upon
the colonists; and the killing of two other persons at Staten
Island and H1ackensack was proof of the hostile spirit animating
the savages. All this was very alarming to the inhabitants,
especially those upon exposed bouweries, who lived in constant
fear, "and not without reason, as the Inlians were daily in their
houses."
Persuasion having failed, Kieft now felt justified in using
force with the savages. He summoned the twelve men, November Ist, and asked their opinion. "\Ir. Jochem" (Kuyter) advised "to be patient, and to lull the Indians into security"; and
most agreed with him. On January 2ISt, 1642, the twelve men
gave their assent to an expedition against the Wickquaslkeeks,
but (knowing his cowardice) suggested that the director himself should lead the forces! The latter declined the honor, but
began warlike prelarations. All being ready, and spies sent to
reconnoitre reporting that the Indians "lay in their village suspecting nothing," Ensign Hlendrick Van I)yck, with eighty men,
left Fort Amsterdam early in the month of March for Wickquaskeek. Arriving at the AnneplIerah, or the Saw Mlill Creek, at
Yonkers, Willemn Bont, who held a subordinate command, bravely
passed over with his men and "marched on with the advanced
troops," expecting the ensign to follow.': But Van Dyck halted
at the creek for more than an hour before he crossed with his command and came up; but now darkness had set in, Tobias Teunissen, the guide, lost his way, and the ensign, perplexed and out
of temper, ordered a return. The result was more happy, probably, than if they had met the savages, for the latter, noticing
by the tracks of the soldiers near their wigwams "that they had
narowly escaped discovery," dreaded another visit, and sent
messengers to sue for peace. Kieft accordingly sent delegates,
including Van Tienhoven, who u1nderstood Indian, to meet the
chiefs of Wickquaskeek in council at the house of Jonas Bronck,
at Emmaus, and here was made a formnal treaty, in which, among
* Willem Fredericks Bont, the same year, removed to Fort Orange, and being
a "free carpenter" took part in constructing the first church there. Later he was
for several years a magistrate, kept tavern, farmed the excise, and acquired property.
He married, about 1650, Geertie Nannincks, as her fourth husband; in 1683 both
were members of Dominie l)elius' Church. Whether he left children is not known.
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other things, the sachems engaged to deliver Swits' murderer to
the Dutch.
Under this pledge of peace the spring and summer witnessed
considerable labor on the several plantations on the Flats. At
the same time \lontagne, as a member of the council, was much
occupie(l with official duties, and Kuyter ma(le his debut into
public life as a "kermeester," one of those chosen to oversee
the erection of a church at New Amsterdam, because Kuyter was
"a (evout person of the reformed religion, and had good workmen who would quickly prepare the timber." The church was
begun forthwith, its walls "laid up with quarry stone," and "built
in the fort, to guard against any surprise by the Indians."
Illusory indeed was the holpe of living in peace with the
natives, now that the old ties of friendship had been rul)tured. It
so happened that in midwinter following, the M\lahicans, who
lived below Fort Orange, came down and male war upon the
Tappans and Wickquaskeeks, it was said, to force those tribes,
whom they had once subjugated, to render them tribute. Numerous as were these tribes, they were easily overpowered by the
M1 ahicans, who were well armed with guns, many of the men
being slain, the women and children ma(le captives, and a crowd
of terror-stricken fugitives forced to take to flight through a
deep snow to find shelter in the Dutch settlements. Half (lead
with cold and hunger, they were kindly received by the people and
fed for two weeks, till, gathering courage, they returned to their
castles. But soon, another panic seizing them, they again sought
the protection of the Dutch. Now Kieft, with no commiseration for these wretched beings, thought it his chance to avenge
the death of Clacs Swits and others. "God hath wholly delivered them into our hands," impiously said Van Tienhoven and
other restless spirits, who, simply echoing the sentiments of Kieft,
made a formal request for leave to destroy them.
Kuyter and other considerate persons opposed this stoutly,
insisting that it would only recoil upon their own heads, bring
disaster upon the country, and especially expose the out-plantations to the rage of a vindictive and cruel foe. Montagne, having
just arrived from Quiet Dale, its stalls of cattle and full garners
all endangered, urged his objections with unusual warmth. "We
ought first to consider well," he insisted, "whether we shall be
able to give protection to those who are living at a distance." But
this pertinent suggestion was unheeded, evil counsels prevailed,
and Kieft, set in his mad purpose, rashly issued orders. On the
night of February 25th, 1643, a party of Dutch soldiers sallied
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forth from the streets of New Amsterdam and made a savage
onslaught upon the sleeping Wickquaskeeks, at Curler's Hook,
forty of whom were massacred "in cold blood." Another party,
crossing the Hudson, slaughltered a band which had sought refuge
at Pavonia. Nor did it stop here, for a day or two after several
of the friendly Mareckaweeks were basely murdered.
The enraged savages were not slow to resent such treatment,
and several tribes joining hands made common cause against the
Dutch. Issuing from the woods and thickets, they boldly attacked and slew the farmers, both in their dwellings and in the
open field, put the firebrand to houses, haystacks, and grain, killed
or drove away the stock, and carried off women and children into
a painful captivity. Happy they who had the means of defense
or timely notice to flee. "The winter passed in confusion and
terror." No outdoor labor could be safely done. Kieft, as
agent of Van Keulen, had contracted on December 6th for the
erection of a fine substantial residence on the Otter-spoor, fifty
by one hundred feet on the ground, with porticos front and rear,
and all very complete; for whose occupancy we cannot tell, unless
for Van Keulen or some of his family, but certainly not for the
chicken-hearted director, who kept himself "safely protected in
the fort, out of which he had never slept for all the years he had
been there." But this work was probably arrested.
At length "the season came for driving out the cattle, which
caused many to desire peace; the Indians, on their part, seeing
that it was time to plant maize, were not less solicitous for a cessation of hostilities; so, after some negotiation, peace was concluded." It was ratified April 22d, I643, though many doubted
its continuance. But the colonists, and especially Kuyter, had met
with a sad loss in the recent death of Jonas Bronck. Was it at
the hands of the Indians? We judge not, as his property was
spared. On May 6th Kuyter and Dominie Bogardus visited Emmaus, and, aided by the widow* and Peter Jonassen Bronck, took
an inventory of the estate, of which Kuyter and the dominie had
been apointed guardians. Seignior Bronck, as he was styled,
must be rated quite above the ordinary colonists, his Danish and
Latin library, stored with law history, as also divinity, being
indicative of his tastes and culture as well as of his piety.
The bouweries of Montagne and Kuyter were also intact.
* Bronck's widow afterward married Arent Van Curler, of Rensselaerswyck,
whom she also survived. She died at Schenectady, December 19, i6'6, as per a
letter written from Kingston, twelve days after, by her nephew, Wilhelmus Beeckman, whom for want of children she named as one of her heirs. Her will was
made November iI, 1676; the date of probate being inadvertently given in Pearson's
Schenectady Settlers as the date of her death.
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Buildings and stock well intrenchled within palisades had escapled
the general devastation. Alontaguen had already put twenty-six
acres in rve, barley and peas, when, willing to be relieved of a
charge so fraught with danger, he leased his bouwery, with the
"farml-house," kitchen, out-houses, orchard, stock, and all as it
stood, June I4th, to Bout Franssen, from Naerden, for the term
of three years. In three months (September 22d), Franssen
gave it up, for the Indians, having harvested their maize, began
again their bloody work. Terrible scenes ensue(l. The settlers,
compelled to fli, took refuge at Fort Amsterdam, to within sight
of which the brutal savages tracked their victims. \lontagne
"was driven off his land," involving the loss of all he could not
carry away; and scarcely a settler remained on the bouweries of
Manhattan Island. "Almost every place is abandoned," wrote
Kuyter and others, of the popular board of Eight Men, in a letter
of November 3d, I643, imploring aid from the directors in Holland. "MWe wretched people," say they, "with our wives and little
ones that still survive, must in our destitution find refuge together
in and around the fort at Manhattas, where we are not safe even
for an hour, as the Indians daily threaten to overwhelm us.
Very little can be planted this autumn, and much less in the
spring; so it must come to pass that those of us who may yet
save our lives will necessarily perish next year by hunger and
grief, as also our wives and children, unless our God have pity
on us."
But relief from Holland could not be immediate. The question of self-preservation now pressed upon the colonists; to remain inactive was but to die. Their courage rising to the emergency, it was resolved to muster in every man able to bear arms,
and to take the field with all their available force against the wily
and powerful foe. Montagne and Kuyter, however, opposed at
first to war, had now no alternative but to second the effort to
conquer a peace. The former, appointed to the chief military
command, led several expeditions sent out in various directions
during the succeeding winter and spring, and in which Kuyter
held the captaincy of a burgher company. These forces scoured
the Indian country, driving the foe from his rude castles and
villages with sword and firebrand.
Thus far Captain Kuyter, by means of a guard of soldiers
stationed at Zegendal, under Sergeant Ael, had protected his
house and farmers. But on the night of March 5th, when he
was absent, the Indians stealthily surrounded his enclosure. The
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guard was sleeping in a cellar or underground hut;*' but two
young men in Kuytcr's employ, apprehensive of danger, were
patrolling around the farm-house. Near two o'clock in the
morning these were startled by a blazing arrow, "the flame having the appearance of brimstone," which darted through the air
and fell on the roof of the dwelling. The wind blowing strongly,
the thatch at once took fire, and soon the house and contents were
burned to the ground. During and after the conflagration the
savages made the night hideous by whooping and discharge of
guns, to the terror of the two maid-servants, while the sergeant,
with the caution of years, kept within the cellar, refusing to expose
either himself or his men, though the other persons, and especially
the young men, in face of a double danger, saved what they could
from the flames.
The WVickquaskeeks were set down as the authors of this
villainy. But this was denied by Ponkes, a Mareckweek, to two
Dutchman who understood his language, and whom he met but
two days after the fire. "It was their way to boast," he said,
"whenever they committed any mischief." But not one had he
heard boast of this; besides, "it was well known among the Indians that the Swannekins theimselves burned the house, and
removed through dread of being killed there!" This piece of
Indian logic, evidently invented by the artful savage to shield
his tribe from retribution, was too transparent. Kuyter censured
"the English soldiers" for not assisting. Kieft, on the other hand,
took occasion to throw the blame on Kuyter, charging him
with rashly sending away part of his guard just before the fire,
leaving to protect the property only "four soldiers and five laborers."t This dispute between Kieft and Kuyter betrays a state
of feeling which afterward led to very serious results.
Overcome by dread of the savages, neither the planters nor
their laborers had courage longer to engage in work upon the
Flats; and thus things continued till at length a brighter (lay
dawned upon the colonists. Wearied with "a two years' war,"
the Indians themselves manifested a wish to bury the hatchet.
The sachems of the adjacent tribes upon Long Island and the
banks of the Hudson were accordingly invited to a grand council,
held in Fort Amsterdam, August 30th, 1645, when was happily
* Underground huts were first made use of bv those who at first had no means
to build farm houses, and in which they could live "dry and warm for two, three
or four years." The method of making them is described by Van Tienhoven,
Doc. Hist. N. Y., iv: 31.
t Sergt. Martin Ael and three English soldiers, Thomas Foster, William Gilford
and Abraham Newman, with Cornelis Van TIouten, Jan liegeman, Pieter Jansen,
Jacob,ambertsen and Derick Gerritsen and the two dairymaids, made eleven persons
within the palisades. Three soldiers had left only a few days before the attack.
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concluded, "a solid and durable peace." Some of the powerful
Mohawks, with their interpreter, Cornelis Van Slyck, also attended and assisted in the negotiations. Little Ape, chief of the
Mahicans, spoke in behalf of their tributaries, the Wickquaskeeks,
pledging them to the observance of the treaty, by the terms of
which the Indians were "not to come with weapons on Manhattan
Island, nor in the vicinity of Christian dwellings." The treaty
was signed, in the presence of many citizens, by several of the
more distinguished, and by the sachems, among the former being
La Montagne; and also by the two interpreters, in which capacity
the worthy Norman, Claes Carstensen, who later ended his days
at Harlem, acted for the colonists.
_4tP'~
CHAPTER IX.
I645-I650
LAND PATENTS-KUYTER'S TRIALS.
EACE thus assured, the planters whom the Indians had
driven from the Flats and parts adjacent, again took heart
and ventured to return to their desolated bouweries. But, grown
wiser since their late expulsion, they had come to realize by how
uncertain a tenure they held their lands, having as yet received
no patent or groundbrief. By a neglect to secure such patents
there was imminent risk of losing whatever they invested, as well
as the land itself; and how soon some new contingency might
arise, to wrest all from them and their heirs, who could tell?
Moreover, in so settled a state of the country the legal seizin by
documentary title was a needed stimulus to exertion, an inducement to bear the toil, hazard, and hardship involved in a residence
upon one of these exposed bouweries. The settlers were led to
expect a groundbrief after having held and improved their lands
for two years; in most of the cases to be named where such
patents were received there had evidently been a much longer
occupancy. But meanwhile some new farms had been begun,
not as yet noticed, and as will further appear by a brief survey
of the progress of settlement at this date.
Sibout Claessen, one of the burghers of New Amsterdam,
was from Hoorn, on the Zuyder Zee. He was respected, and as
a builder of practical consequence to the community, insomuch
that Director Kieft granted him fifty morgen of land "on the
Island of Manhattas, beginning at the hook at the Hellegat, where
Verken Island ends." With filial affection for his native place,
where rested the bones of his father, Claes Sibout, and still lived
his brother, Hendrick, and other kinsfolk, Claessen called his new
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possession Hoorn's Hook. It was patented to him June 5th,
1646.*
The narrow kill called by the Indians Papparinamin, which,
winding around the neck of land forming the extreme northerly
part of Manhattan, connected the Spuyten Duyvel with the Great
Kill, or Harlem River, gave its name as well to the land lying
contiguous to it on either side. Pa)pparinamin, as interpreted,
Place where the stream is shut, was thus confined neither to the
land nor stream, but to the locality, and was certainly well given,
as it has ever been the great bar to navigation around Manhattan
Island. The noted Dr. Adrian \Vander Donck, who owned "a
saw mill, bouwery, and plantation," some distance above on the
Annep)perah, had selected the island on the northerly side of the
Papparinamin Creek, "containing some thirty or forty morgen,
with a convenient meadow about it," intending, as he himself
states, "to go and dwell on the said spot, or to make gradual preparations therefor, by building upon it and tilling it, since both
his inclination and judgment led him to that place." Having,
with Kieft's consent, bought the land from the sachem Tackamack
and other Indians, Vander Donck, with his newly-married wife,
the daughter of Rev. Francis Doughty, visited Holland, expecting
on his return to bring over his "mother, sister, brother, servants,
and other members of his family," to make their home at Papparinamin. But, offending the directors by acting as a representative of the commonalty of New Netherland in certain charges
against Stuyvesant, Vander Donck was restrained for several
years from again leaving the fatherland, and then returned to his
possessions only to die a year or two later.
But the opposite section of Papparinamin, forming the upper
extremity of Manhattan Island, was not less inviting for its arable
lands, meadows, and circumambient creeks, and, if we do not
mistake De Rasieres, was one of the two places he found at the
the north end,-the other Harlem Flats,-where was "good land,"
ready, with little or no clearing, for tillage. Here another Hollander, Matthys Jansen Van Keulen, had obtained a grant of
fifty morgen of land from Director Kieft, probably in advance
* Jan Aertsen Van Putten and his two sisters, whose mother, Susannah, had
recently married this first proprietor of Hoorn's Hook, were children of Aert
Teunissen Van Putten, who, in 1643, was massacred (but not his family, as some say)
by Indians at Pavonia. Jan Aertsen chose the trade of a blacksmith, and settled
at Esopus, where he joined the church, April 15, I66I, and soon after was made
an elder. Having been of the party who attacked the Indians there in 1659, this
was too well remembered, for in the vengeful onslaught made by the savages upon
that place, June 7, 1663, he was killed in his house. Only a few days before this
his wife Grietie Hendricks and little daughter Annetie had reached their home from
a visit to Wie by Swolle, in Holland, Grietie's birthplace. The daughter and only
child, Annetie, born 1659, afterward married Hendrick Kip, son of Isaac of H.,
by whom she had sons John, Hendrick, etc. See Du Mont.
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of Vander Donck. His patent was issued August I8th, 1646,
and in after years was confirmed to his children, from whom are
descended two fanilies of Ulster County,-Jansen and Van
Keuran, the last name corrupted from Keulen.* It does not appear that Matthys himself ever occupied this land; at the date
of the patent he was living at Fort Orange. His hundred acres
must have reached quite down to the Jansen and Aertsen grant,
hereafter noticed. The latter, according to the patent, as certainly reached northward to "Tobias' Bouwery." Tobias Teunissen, late farmer for Dr. La Montagne, is here referred to, and
the facts stated warrant the conclusion that Teunissen now occupied Matthys Jansen's land either under a lease or an agreement
to purchase. To this sequestered home, beside the Great Kill,
Tobias had taken a new vrouw, in hope of happier years, though
the spirit and activity he had shown in the late Indian war made
his situation not without peril. But, courageous of heart, he did
not anticipate the fate which awaited him.
Pieter Jansen, in company with MIr. Huyck Aertsen, then a
schepen at Brooklyn, had taken up a tract of land lying between
Tobias' bounds and what is now known as Sherman's Creek,
and for which a groundbrief was given them March I th, I647.
Jansen was a hardy Norwegian of twenty-seven years, had been
in the employ of Kuyter, and was present on that fearful night
when his house was burned by the savages. The next summer
after the patent was secured, Pieter, the Norman, as he was
usually called, took to his heart and home a young wife, Lysbet
Jansen, from Amsterdam, and near the same time, by the death
of Aertsen, was left in sole care of the bouwery, though between
the widow and the next of kin (for Aertsen left no children) his
share did not want for claimants. Aertsen was born at Rossum,
a village of the Bommellerwoert, an island formed by the Waal
* Matthys Jansen became a trader on the Hudson, removed to Fort Orange,
and thence to:Esopus, where he died prior to I663. That year, February 15, the
deacons loaned Iooo gl. from his estate. His widow, Margaret Hendricks, married
Thomas Chambers, Lord of the Manor of Fox Hall. Jansen had four children,
viz., Jan, Matthys, Catharine, married, i66o, Jan Jansen, from Amersfoort, and
Anneke, who married, i668, Sergt. Jan Hendricks Buur, alias Pearsen.
Jan Matthyssen, born at Fort Orange, married, in I667, Madelaine, daughter of
Matthew Blanchan, was an elder of the Kingston church, and died between 1719
and 1724. He had Matthys, Thomas, Jan, Hendrick, David, Margaret, who married
Barent Burhans; Magdalene, married Richard Brodhead; Sarah, married Elias Bunschoten; Catharine, married John Crook, Jr., and Mary, who died early. These
bore the name of Jansen, in English Johnson. Jan took to the sea, went to England,
and in I690 was thought to be dead. From the other sons were the respectable
Jansens of Ulster County, some of whom bore a conspicuous part in the Revolution.
Matthys Matthyssen was made a captain in 1685, and later served against the
French on the northern frontier. HIe married Tietie, daughter of Tjerck De Witt,
and had issue Matthys, Tjerck, Nicholas, Thomas, Gerardus, Hasuelt, Sarah, married Matthew Du Bois; Leah, who, with Hasuelt, removed to New York, and Barbara,
married Peter Tappan. (See Annals of Newtown, p. 303.) It was these six sons
of Matthys who, says an old manuscript, "changed their names of Matthyssen to
Van Keuren," and whence the numerous family so called.
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and \[aas; but he had a brother, a burgher at Utrecht, who, on
having notice of his death, and taking proof thereof December
30th, 1647, was declared his only heir. For reasons similar to
those for which other patents within Harlem were afterward held
to be vacated or void, the validity of this title was subsequently
called in question, and by a decision of the governor and council
and a compromise with thle successors of Jansen and Aertscn,
became vested in the freeholders of Harlem. It llas additional
interest as covering the identical tract known in our time as the
"DI)cklmanl Homestead."'
These bouweries, forming the outposts of settlement on the
north end, were evidently laid out by actual survey,, whence the
courses and distances and the uneven quantity, seventy-four
morgen, one hundred and( six rods, in that to Jansen and Aertsen.
The stretch of alternate heights and hollows, reaching from Sherman's Creek down to the Flats, had not yet a solitary white settler. Through its forests and thickets red men hunted the deer
and beaver, and rudely tilled other portions, one of which was
known as the "Great Maize Land." Indeed the Indian title to
this part of Manhattan Island was not fully extinguished till I7I5.
Coming to the settlements on the Flats, the Otter-spoor farm,
which Van Tienhoven had "long since conveyed" to Van Keulen,
of Amsterdam, and whence, as before said, it took the name Van
Keulen's Hook, was only made sure to the latter the month
before the new Indian treaty was ratified, by a patent from Kieft
to Van Tienhoven, the object and effect of which was to give
him power to sell, and to perfect the title in Van Keulen, no
patent having been issued before. With so firm a tenure it is
remarkable that no evidence appears of any further attempts on
the part of Van Keulen to improve this valuable tract, nor is his
ownership again distinctly recognized. While the evidence we
have bearing upon it is far from satisfactory, our solution is that
1\iIatthys Jansen Van Keulen, being authorized by the Amsterdam
merchant, received from Kieft the grant of Papparinamin in
exchange for Van Keulen's Hook.
Dr. Montagne, with brightened prospects, and about to wed
* The Jansen and Aertsen Patent, or rather the descriptive part, reads as follows: "A piece of land lying between Montagne's hay meadow and Tobias' bouwery,
stretching from the north corner of said meadow south-southeast to the hook, two
hundred and seventy-five rods. It goes'* to a spring (fontyn) against the high land,
and from there to the end of a creek coming out of the North River, northeast by
north along the high hills an hundred and seventy-five rods, and from there,t to
the kill which runs around the Island of Manhattans, an hundred and twenty rods
south-southeast, seventy rods southeast, and thirty south-southeast; and along the
before-named kill to the aforesaid hook, two hundred rods; the same amounting to
seventy-four morgen, one hundred and six rods." Dated March 1, I647.
* i. c., On the west side. f Being its northern boundary.
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the widow of Arent Corssen Stami, who two years previous, sailing for Holland on the public service, had I)erished at sea, took
occasion, Mlay 9th, I647, only two days before his friend Kieft
closed his directorship, to secure a patent for the farm Vredendal, to which was now joined what was not included in the
original grant to Hendrick De Forest, namely, the point or neck
of land called Rechawanes, extending out to the East River, and
since known as the Benson or MlcGown farm. As belonging to
the oldest title in the township, and one to which an unusual interest attaches, we feel warranted in giving a translation of the
patent entire.
We, William Kieft, Director General, and the Council, residing in
New Netherland, on behalf of the High and M\ighty Lords the States
General of the United Netherlands, his Highness of Orange, and the
Honorable Messeurs, the M\anagers of the Incorporated West India Company, do, by these presents, acknowledge and declare, that we on this day,
tle date underwritten, have given and granted unto Sicur Johannes La
Montagne, counsellor of New Netherland, a piece of land situate on the
Island of Manhattans, known by a name in the Indian language which
in the Nether Dutch signifies the Flat Land, containing one hundred
morgen in the flat, lying between the hills and kill; and a point namled
Rechawanes, stretching betwixt two kills, till to the East River; (which
above described land was occupied by Hendrick Forest deceased, and has
been purchased by the said La Mlontagne at public auction in the Fort,
for seventeen hundred guilders;) with express conditions and terms that
he Johannes La i\ontagne, or whoever by virtue hereof may accept his
action, shall acknowledge the Honorable Mlanagers aforesaid as his Lords
and Patroons, under the sovereignty of their High Mlightinesses the Lords
States General, and obey their Director and Council here in all things, as
good inhabitants are in duty bound to do; provided further that they
subject themselves to all such burdens and imposts as are already enacted,
or may hereafter be enacted by their H-onors; constituting therefore the
said Sieur La Montagne, or whoever may hereafter obtain his action,
in our stead in real and actual possession of the aforesaid lot and land,
giving him by these presents, full power, authority and special order,
the aforesaid parcel of land to enter upon, cultivate, inhabit and use as he
would lawfully do with other his patrimonial lands and effects, without
we the grantors in the quality aforesaid, thereunto having, reserving or
saving any, even the slightest part, action or control whatever, but to the
behoof as aforesaid, from all desisting, from now henceforth and forever.
Promising moreover, this transport firm, inviolable and irrevocable to
keep, respect and fulfil, all under the penalty provided therefor by law.
In witness, these presents are by us signed and confirmed with our seal
in red wax hereto appended. Done in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the 9th day of May, I647.
WI1LEiM KlF^T.
Six days afterward Dr. Montagne's brother-in-law, Isaac De
Forest, obtained from the new director, Stuyvesant, the groundbrief for a bouwery previously granted him, consisting of fifty
morgen of surplus land which had been found to lie between the
Kuyter and Van Keulen tracts. It bordered on the Harlem
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River, opposite the mouth of "Bronck's Kill,"-the passage, still
called "The Kills," parting Randell's Island from the Westchester
shore. Upon this fifty-morgen tract the village of New Harlem
was subsequently laid out and ran its humble career, but "the
lawn where scattered hamlets rose" has so changed before the rise
of modern structures that barely one of its ancient dwellings
remains.*
The bouweries mentioned, with Zegendal, or Kuyter's farm,
were the only ones, so far as known, yet begun within the territorial limits to which our history refers. Kuyter, though one.of
the most energetic of the settlers, had been strangely baffled in his
efforts to improve his lands. Yet to his various disappointments
and losses other trials, and more severe, were to be added. But
the indomitable spirit of the man, rising superior to misfortune,
exhibits Kuyter throughout in a character to be admired, and
in which we cannot but be interested. The ill-feeling which had
sprung up between him and Kieft, as already alluded to in connection with the burning of Kuyter's house, grew out of Kieft's
culpable rashness in bringing on the Indian war. The good
Dominie Bogardus, sorely grieved by the director's course in
authorizing the cruel massacre of the Indians, and thus provoking
the fearful retaliation which had followed, had expressed himself
freely in regard to these things, "many times in his sermons,"
while also rebuking the prevalent immorality, avarice, and other
gross indulgences. This pungent preaching so offended the
director that he forsook the church, absenting himself for more
than three years, his example also leading off nearly every officer
of the church and government, not excepting the usually discreet
counsellor, MIontagne, who had formerly been an elder. Kuyter
himself had once felt hard toward the dominie for refusing him
a favor which Kieft had asked in his behalf; but he was not
vindictive, and this was a bygone. As a ruling elder, and controlled by his religion and strong sense of justice, he did not
hesitate now to sustain the minister and his utterances, although
not another member of the consistory stood by him. In consequence he brought upon his own head the maledictions of the
director, which were in no wise appeased by Kuyter's official
action as one of the Eight Men, a body which, representing the
people, had felt it a duty to address the directors in Holland,
exposing Kieft's misrule in New Netherland and the ruinous
condition to which, as a consequence, the colony had been reduced.
As to the differences between Bogardus and Kieft, these, after
* See De Forest Family, Appendix A.
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a sharp warfare, had ended in a reconciliation. But not so with
Kieft and Kuyter, whose mutual animosity another year did not
quench, while Cornelis Melyn, also an active member of the
Eight Men, came in for a share of Kieft's hot displeasure. These
two honest men were as thorns in the side of the director. Nor
could they easily bear either the insults which he had heaped
upon them, or the heavy losses they had sustained through his
maladministration; and thus the case stood when Kieft was
superseded in office by General Petrus Stuyvesant, who arrived
May I th, I647. In some remarks made on the occasion of
formally resigning the government to his successor, Kieft thanked
the people for their fidelity, evidently expecting to be complimented in return. But on the contrary, Kuyter, Melyn, and one
or two more had the frankness to speak out and tell him that
they would not thank him, as they had no reason for doing so!
The existing quarrel, brought thus directly to the notice of
Stuyvesant, now took the form of a complaint preferred by Kieft
against Kuyter and Melyn, whom he charged with having sent
"some letters to Holland, to the directors, in the name of the
Eight Men; among others, one dated 28th October, I644, containing nothing but libels and lies." He demanded justice and
the punishment of the accused. This w-as on June S8th, and
next day a copy of the complaint, containing the points of objection to the obnoxious letter, was handed to the accused by the
court messenger, with a summons to answer within forty-eight
hours. Kuyter and \ Ielyn replied at length on the 22d, and,
in a telling statement, invited an inquiry into the truth of
what they had written. This defense had little weight with the
arbitrary Stuyvesant, himself a great stickler for the divine right
of rulers, and the tables were turned against Kuyter and his
associate, who, after further preliminaries, were placed under
arrest, and on July i6th brought before the director and council
for trial. It was plainly to be seen that the court held the attitude of both prosecutor and judge. The charges, in brief, were
that they had slandered and threatened Director Kieft. The
prosecution relied mainly on the letter before referred to, written
to the directors in Holland, and pronounced by Kieft to be "full
of libels and lies"; of which letter, though it purported to be
a memorial from the Eight Men, the accused were declared the
authors, and to which, as was charged, they had fraudulently
obtained the signatures of their associates. Kuyter, it was further
alleged, had, at a meeting of the Eight Men, raised his finger
to Kieft in a threatening manner, and said to him that when he
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should (loff his robe of office then he would have him! Mlel'ln,
as was charged, in speaking of the orders for dlestroying0 the
Indians in the winter of 1643, had dared to say, "T'hey wlio gave
such orders should look well to themlselves, lest they come either
to the gallows or the wheel"'-words almost l)rophetic, considtering tlhe mlallner of Kieft's (leatl. Ikuyter expllained his remllark
as quite lifferent from that ilnl)uted to hi. ile and 5Mel1n,
stan(ling to their former anlswer, i w-hich they had fully and ablv
met the several poiiits of ol)jectiol to the obln)xious letter,: now
offered certain memorials, proofs, and witlnesscs, "in order to
establish the truth of what was written." 'But tlese were either
rejected or allowed to have no weight, and tthus, tlle evidence
being unjustly set aside, the case was carried a-ainst the accused,
who were pronounced guilty of high conteml)t of authority.
Stuyvesant, in his judgment in Kuyter's case, hinged it on sacred
and civil law. "He who slanders God, the magistrate, or his
parents," says Bernard De IIuscatel, "must be stoned to death."
Then he quoted the Scriptutres: "Thou shalt not speak evil of the
ruler of thy people." Oin July 25th they were sentenced,-Kuvter to a fine of I50 gl. and three years' banishment from New
Netherland; \lelyn to a heavier fine and longer exile.
Elated with his success, Kieft soon after took passage for
Holland in the ship Princess, carrying with him a fortune which
he had amassed here. In the same ship Dominie Bogardus and
others embarked, while Kuyter and M \elvn, "publicly banished the
country," were "brought on board as exiles, torn away from
their goods, wives and children," while, as if to mock their misery, the bells in the church were made to ring a merry peal.
The vessel sailed August I6th, I647, but never reached its destination. On September 27th, having mistaken their course,
they were wrecked upon a rock on the coast of Wales. The
wretched Kieft, with death before his eyes, sighed deeply as lie
said to Kuyter and Melyn, "Friends, I have done you wrong;
can you forgive me?" All night the ship rocked in the sea,
and toward morning went to pieces, a large number of persons
perishing, including Kieft and Bogardus. Kuyter and Melyn
providentially escaped with their lives, though the latter lost a son.
"Kuyter remained alone on the after part of the ship, on which
stood a cannon, which lie, observing in the gray of the morning,
took for a man; but speaking to it and getting no answer, he
supposed him dead. He was at last thrown on land, together
* This letter may be found and its character judged of by reference to the
Col. list. of N. Y., i, 109-213. Kieft's points of exception to it are given at p. 203,
and the able rejoinder of Kuyter and Melyn at p. 205.
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with the cannon, to the great amazement of the English, who
crowxded the strandl b) thousands, and who set up the piece of
ordnance as a lasting memorial. Melyn, floating back to sea,
fell in with others who had remained on a part of the wreck on
a sand-bank which became dry with the ebb. They then took
some planks and pieces of wood, fastened them together, and
having made sails of their shirts and other garments, they at
last reached the mainland of England. As these persons were
more concerned for their papers than for anything else; they
caused them to be dragged for, and on the third day Jochem
Pietersz recovered a box containing a part of them."''
The resolute Kutter and Melvn passed over to Holland, and
appealed to the States General from the sentence rendered by
Stuyvesant. Upon a hearing of their case, this body granted a
suspension of the judgment, with permission for theln to return
to New Netherland, and summoned Stuyvesant to appear at the
Hague, in person or by attorney, either to sustain his decision
"or to renounce the same."
Armed with a mandamus and passports from their High
Mlightinesses, and also bearing a letter from his Highness the
Prince of ()range to Stuyvesant, datedl MIla I9th, I648, adlnonishing him "duly to reslect and obey those commands, " Kuyter
andl Ilelyn were now prepared to return to this country and face
their accusers. But (letained for some months longer by other
megagements, Melyn sailed at the close of the year, leaving Ktyter behind, probably to manage the case should Stuyvesant attempt to prosecute it further. Reaching New Amsterldam about
January Ist, I649, Melyn presented his letters to Stuyvesant,
who was in great wrath over the mandamus, declaring with much
bluster his purpose to answer it. Alelyn was inclined to push
his advantage, but, joining the citizens in other complaints against
the director, affairs became rather involved; while Kuyter, remaining abroad for a year longer, more or less, found on his
return no obstacle interposed to his resuming his property, and,
contenting himself with his own business, he was reinstated in
his several offices by Stuyvesant, the breach of friendship between
them being soon healed.
* Everardus Bogardus, the pastor, counsellor and friend of our De Forests,
La Montagne, Kuyter, Bronck, and their fellow-colonists, who cheered them amid
their toils and adversities and in dark hours of peril, joined many in marriage, baptized their offspring, oft performed in their stricken homes the last sad rites of
sepulture, and frequently acted as guardian of their estates; full justice is yet to be
done his memory. His advice often sought for in many affairs affecting individuals
or the community, the amount of important business with which he was intrusted on
his final departure for Holland evinced the continued respect and confidence of his
people. In the record of a useful life, as we apprehend, Dominie Bogardus has left his
numerous heirs a better inheritance than they will ever realize from his landed possessions. See Valentine's Manual for 1863, p. 595; also Corwin's Manual.
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Kuvter was not in circumstances to restore his ruined plantation at Schorakin; indeed there was little encouragement for
any to prosecute labor on the north part of the island, owing to
the hostile temper of the Indians, who during these several years
waylaid and murdered a number of the settlers dwelling in
exposed places. Some still kept up) their bouweries; others disposed of theirs. Pieter Cornelissen Beeck, an old and respected
citizen of New Amsterdam, had come to own one "on this island
near Hellgate," adjacent to the Hoorn's Hook patent; while De
Forest, expending his means in building several fine houses in
New Amsterdam, sold his plantation, November itth, 1650, to
the distinguished burgher Wilhelmus Ieeclkman. lBut both lBeeck
and leeckman resided in town,* and there Kuvter had entered
upon trade, on the Heere Graft, now Broad Street, enjoying a
respite from the ills which had hitherto beset his pathway, and
retaining a warm regard for his compatriot Melyn. We have
dwelt the more fully on Kuyter's case, not only as an interesting
passage in Harlem's infantile history, but because it shows how
the old struggle with arbitrary power, which had long convulsed
European countries, was thus early renewed on this free soil.
Kuyter was a representative man. Mlany like him held that the
people had rights as well as their rulers, and that one of these,
of vital importance to the colonists, was that of appeal to higher
courts in fatherland from verdicts rendered here, the denial of
which right was a cause of much puclic clamor against both Kieft
and Stuyvvesant. Kuyter had proved the fallacy of that assumption, and had achieved a victory, not for himself alone, but for
the community, for which he was held in highest respect.t
* Pieter Cornelisz B]eeck, whose tragical fate remains to he noticed, was master
carpenter to the West India Co., in New Netherland, and was born in 1607, at
Rotterdam. IHe came out early via Amsterdam, where he had resided, with him
coming his wife Aeltie Willems and a young daughter, Marritie, who, in I665, married Pieter Jacobsen Marius, a prominent merchant at New York, who emigrated, in
I644, from IHoogwoudt, his descendants now writing their name Morris. See Bergen
Gen. Pieter Beeck had other children born here, viz., William, Deborah, who married, I667, Warner Wessels; Elizabeth, who narried Capt. Silvester Salisbury, Dr.
Coin. Van Dyck and Capt. Geo. Bradshaw; Cornelia, who married, I672, Jacobus
l)e Haert, and Cornelius, who married, I667, Marritie Claessen, and had sons Peter,
Nicholas, John, Isaac, William, Henry. From these we presume all the Beecks of
this stock have sprung. William Beeck, born 1640, son of Pieter, married Anna,
daughter of Tielman Van Vleeck (notary public and first sheriff of Bergen), and
died at Esopus in I684, leaving issue Peter, Tielman, Aeltie and D)eborah, who all
died childless. The widow, Anna, married, I686, Capt. Jacob Phcenix, a son of
whom by this union, Capt. Alex. Phoenix, was father to I-on. Daniel Phoenix, father
of the late Rev. Alexander Phoenix, of H.
t Isaac Adriance, gone but not forgotten, was in many respects and in thebest sense another Kuyter. "In his life were exhibited Dutch courage and firmness,
along with New England enterprise and activity. A true benevolence marked his
character, and a high sense of justice. He hated robbery and wrong, and set himself especially against abuses under municipal law. He sought to reform that law
and its administration, and had a powerful influence in doing so. He honored the
schoolhouse and the church, and was ever ready to aid them; and many a public
work, now deemed noble and valuable, owed its origin in part to his sagacity and
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lalior. Many a young man owed to his kind interest in his welfare the course of
his after life, and his success in it. Hundreds of shade-trees now adorn the streets
and avenues of Harlem, planted by him." Fond of such matters, he had gathered
a mass of information relative to that section, and especially to its land titles, both
in MSS. and in the storehouse of his retentive memory; and which, with the enlighitened liberality that so distinguishied him, hie permitted the author to make free
use of for the compilation of this work. Mlr. Adriance was horn February 13, 1794.
in tile old Sickels, house, spolcen of elsewheire, was educated at Yale, and devoted
his life to the law. Ilie dlied Auglust 26, 1863. le was a lineal dlescendlant of
Adriacn Reyersz, an early settler at Flatbush, L. 1., the son probably of R.eyce
E~ltcrts, from Utrecht, whose wife by a formner hlusbandl was mnottler of Goosen
tGerritse Van Schlialk, anicestor of the Albany Van Schaicks. See Pearson-. Adriaen
Reyer1S7 came11 to this country, as hie statedi, in i646. Il~e macrried July 29, i69,~q
Anna, dau~tc111r (If Martin Schenck, a niame (If celebrity iii Holland; was a leading
iian and in elder 'it F latbusli, and (lied November 24t, 1710. One of tils children,
Elbcrt, boi Ii1663, settled in Flushing, married, 1689, Catalina, (laughter of Rem
Xan1tderbeeek, ancestor of the Remnsens, and by 11cr had Rein, Elbert and Anneke;
these retailling the patronymic (whence Adriuce) as their stirnalnie. Remn marricel
Sarah, daughter of ( corgc htrinckerhoff, and (lied, aged 40 years, in 1730. His sons5
were E,~lbert, born I715; George, 1716; Abraham, I720; Isaac, 1722; Jacob, 1727;
Rem', 1729. George, Abraham and Isaac wenlt to D~utchess County; Isaac married
1,atctia Van W~yck and Ida Scheuck, and i wa.s father of Rein, Theodore, Isaac, John
and Caroline, whio marimed Ch~arles Platt, of P~lattshurgh. John came to Harlem after
the Revolution, mirried M~ary, daughter of John S. Sickels, and died October ~23,
1849, aged 87 years, being the father of Isaac, first nailed.
CHAPTER X.
I65I-I656
NEW EIVORTS, BUT SAD FAILURES.
K UYTER'S thoughts now turned wistfully toward his deserted bouwery at Zegendal, which stood in danger of
forfeiture for non-improvement. He longed to make one more
attempt to occupy his broad acres, if by the favor of Heaven he
might retrieve the misfortunes of the dozen checkered years that
had passed since his eye first rested with delight upon that lovely
spot. But his unaided means were inadequate to the effort. His
house and barns must be rebuilt, the soil again brought under
the plow. The course he took to effect it is explained in the following instrument:
This day, the 23d of September, 165I, a friendly agreement was made
between Mr. Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, a free merchant, on one side;
and the Hon. Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland,
Curacao, and its dependencies, Lucas Rodenburg, Governor of Curacao,
and Cornelis De Potter, free merchant, of the other side, concerning
a piece of land lying on Manhattan Island, and belonging to said Jochem
Pietersen Kuyter, named Zegendal, or by the Indians called Schorrakin,
bounded on the south by land of William Beeckman, Lieutenant of the
Burgher Company at this place, and westward by the bounds of the Hon.
Johannes La MAontagne, so on in a north course to the first rock, and
on the east to the Great Kill; having to the west toward the North
River, a meadow of three or four morgen; the aforesaid land containing
about two hundred morgen, yet not precisely known, but remaining to
be ascertained with more accuracy; on tlie following conditions, viz.:
That said Kuyter shall cede, transport and convey to the said Stuyvesant, Rodenburg and De Potter the three-fourths parts of said land,
being one-fourth part for each, while the said Kuyter retains one-fourth
part for himself, and to his own behoof, upon condition that the said
Kuyter shall receive from the aforesaid gentleman the sum of One
Thousand Carolus Guilders, of which sum each of said gentlemen is to
pay a third part, with the understanding that the said money is to be
employed at once in the cultivation of the said land; which land is to
remain undivided, until it is agreed by a majority of those interested, to
make a partition of the shares.
During which time said Jochem Pietersen Kuyter is to remain the
cultivator and superintendent of all the land, to the greatest profit and
best advantage of all interested, among whom he is to distribute the
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profits in equal shares, whether such profits come from grain, stock, or
otherwise. It being understood, however, that the wife of Jochem Pietersen Kuyter may keep for her family some hens and ducks. The said
Kuyter shall receive for his services as cultivator, one hundred and fifty
guilders (per annum), that is to say, each of the three co-partners shall
pay fifty guilders.
And in order to make a good beginning, with God's assistance, there
shall be built at the expense of said partners, on the land aforesaid, a
suitahle dwelling house to accommodate the said Kuyter. But this dwelling hous shall be the property of all the partners in common; and Kuyter
shall keep a correct account of all expenses connected therewith, and of
other expenses, and communicate it to the partners.
And it is further stipulated that as soon as any distribution of grain is
made, or that the land shall be divided by the partners aforesaid, the
said Kuyter shall previously receive his thousand guilders for the transfer
and cession of said land, and when such division shall take place, it shall
be done by lot, without allowing any preference to any of the parties.
Further stipulated that in case of the absence of one of the partners, another must be put in his place, and secondly that in case the said cultivator should die, another may be placed in his stead, though all the
partners be not consulted. Further, that in case of such decease, the
widow of the deceased shall succeed in his share, or may transfer it to
one of the partners.
And therefore that this contract may have full effect, said Jochem
Pietersen Kuyter transfers his lands to the partners aforesaid, as if he
had actually received the stipulated sum; while they on their part, for
his security, submit their persons and property, real and personal, present
and future, to the control of any court of justice. In witness whereof
it is signed at New Amsterdam.
JOCH1EM PR. KUYTIR.
P. STUYVESANT.
L. RODrENBURG.
CORNELIS DE POTTER.
Witness, NICHOLAS BLANK.
In presence of me,
JACOB Kip, Clerk.
But the state of the country was becoming "more and more
disquieted." Under such circumstances, no wonder that Kuyter hesitated about proceeding to restore his ruined buildings
and fences, more especially as he could show no deed for his
lands, which had either never been executed or had been lost in
some one of his disasters. This left his boundaries, if not his
title, in uncertainty. But, applying for a groundbrief and receiving a favorable answer (Montagne and Van Tienhoven stating
to the council their knowledge of the original grant by Kieft,
and its limits), Kuyter was reassured on this point, and led to
prosecute his work, though with no slight misgivings as to the
result.* The farmers on the Flats had no heart to make improve* "Jochem Kuyter, by petition, requested a groundbrief for his lands which
the Hon. Dr. W. Kieft, deceased, gave him in the year I639, in July, and which
were pointed out by Mr. Montagne and the Secretary.
"The Director and the Council answer: The applicant is directed to take a copy
~of his groundbrief from the register book of the groundbriefs, where the Director
and Council think the same is recorded. If it is not, he shall be preferred before
HISTORY OF HARILEM.I.
I59
ments which in an evil hour might be laid in ruins by the savages, who, on pretext of not having been paid for their lands,
did not hesitate, as a chance offered, still to attack and murder
the settlers on the scattered bouweries. Thus it soon after happened to Pieter Beeck, before noticed, formerly deacon and now
one of the selectmen, to which office he and Kuyter had recently
been appointed. He and three workmen, while engaged at his
bouwery near Hellgate, M\ay I7th, I652, were surprised by savages and all cruelly murdered.
Kuyter, Beeckman and others were threatened to have their
bouweries burned, should no satisfaction be given. AMonltague
was otherwise embarrassed. Heavily indebted to the company
and burdened with a large family, he was dependent upon the
director or government for a meagre support, and had no means
to expend on his deserted plantation. M\any persons who would
have undertaken new bouweries were kept from doing so 'through
dread of the Indians and their threats." The public disquietude
was greatly enhanced during this year and the next by absurd
rumors that the Dutch authorities were plotting with the Indians
to cut off the English residents in and near Manhattan; reports
which had well nigh caused a rupture with the New England
colonies, and so wrought upon some of the neighboring English
settlers upon Long Island that they left hastily and took refuge
in Connecticut. As the natural effect of this state of things, no
new bouweries had thus far "been formed on the Island of Manhattan during Director Stuyvesant's administration," though
"some had been abandoned."
Kuyter in the meantime won for himself a large share of
the public favor as one foremost in the church, and since he was
chosen, January 30th, 1652, an efficient member of the board of
selectmen. After this, on an important occasion, Stuyvesant
honored him with a request to sit with the council. Indeed it
excited surprise that one "whom the director formerly, for the
affair of the selectmen, did publicly banish the country with
ringing of the bell," should have been reinstated in the same
office, and also in the eldership. But a new honor was now
conferred upon him, a seat among the schepens of New Amsterdam, on the first institution of that office here in I653. Usually
present at their sittings, so valued were his counsels that on
some special occasions a messenger was sent to Zegendal to
others, and a new groundbrief of his lands be executed; in case the petitioner remains inclined, according to promise, again to improve and cultivate his lands.
Done in meeting of the Director and Council, the 29th January, 1652." Extract
front Council Minutes.
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solicit his attendance. But on March 2d, I654, he met with the
city council for the last time. The threats of the Indians were
now to be put in execution. Only a few days after, the savages
murdered him in his house on his bouwery. Secure in their
city home, his family were spared his fate.*
Kuyter's death caused a profound sensation. The community had lost a good and useful member, and with unfeigned
sorrow Stuyvesant announced the sad event to the directors in
Holland, who responded with expressions of regret at his untimely death. Labor on the bouwery was necessarily interrupted
for a time. On April 22d following, Kuyter's widow, Leentie
MIartens, empowered two of her friends, Govert Loockermans
and the notary, Dirck Schelluyne, "to proceed to the liquidating,
taking and fairly closing to the final account and rcliqzuiae, with
Director General Petrus Stuyvesant, Hon. Lucas Rodenburg,
and Mr. Cornelius De Potter, regarding the lands named Zegendal, belonging to her deceased husband, with the effects, as they
were farmed and cultivated by her said husband in company
with the above named gentleman, pursuant to contract dated the
23d September, 1651."
These managed to keep the farm under tillage, while the
widow, in the persons of other friends, gave bonds for the delivery of the grain which should be raised, in satisfaction of the
claims of the several partners. For two summers the farm work
went on, the sowing, reaping and gathering of the ripened harvest;
not, however, without much distrust of the wily savages and
fears for their personal safety. So insecure was it considered
that the sureties for Mrs. Kuyter required of the other owners
indemnity bonds "for all losses and interests which should occur
through fire, robbery, or other unexpected accident, either to the
lands of the late Kuyter or to the crops." These apprehensions
of further trouble from the Indians were well grounded. This
island and its vicinity now of a sudden became the scene of ruthless massacres.
Very early one morning, September I5th, 1655, sixty-four
* The Indians were resolved upon expelling the whites from this end of the
Island, upon the ground that they had not been duly paid for their lands. True,
the Indians had sold the Island to the company in 1626, and by virtue of this purchase the government had made the land grants to the settlers. Of course the
latter deemed their title good and valid. But it is certain that the Indians did not
recognize the sale as a surrender of all their rights and privileges on this part of the
Island. Perhaps, grown wiser in a generation, they saw that the trivial price then
paid them ($24) was no equivalent for their rich maize land and hunting grounds.
But they probably claimed to have reserved (as they often did in their sales) the
right of hunting and planting, because in after years the Harlem people so far
admitted their pretensions as to make them further compensation. Well had it
been for the colonists had they earlier given heed to the dissatisfaction of the Indians
and done something to remove it.
HISTORY OF HARLEM. 10l
canoes of armed savages landed on the beach at New Amnsterdam, and before scarcely anyone had risen scattered about the
town and began to break into the houses for plunder. All was
alarm and confusion, and to make matters worse, Stuyvesant was
absent, having departed on an expedition to the Delaware a few
lavs before, taking with him most of the garrison. The menmbers of the council finally prevailed with the chiefs and their
people to withdraw fromn the city, but at evening they returned,
and a skirmish took place between them and the Dutch soldiers,
blood flowing on both sides. The now enraged Indians departed,
but on that doleful night began a horrible slaughter of the settlers, full fifty of whom fell within three days, while over an
hundred, mlostly women and children, were carried into captivity.
Hordes of armed savages, thirsting for blood, swept over
these Flats, slaying the settlers, plundering and burning their
houses, and dlevastating their bouweries. Cornelis Claessen
Swits, whose father, as we have seen, had been killed bv an
Indian, now owned the farm on the Flats originally granted to
Isaac De Forest, but which Swits had purchased from Beeckman,
March loth, I653, selling the latter in exchange his plantation
near Curler's Hook, later known as the "Delancey Farms."*
* Wilhelmus Beeckman, whose descendants, numerous and highly respectable,
have usually written their name Beekman, was a son of Hendrick Beeckman, by
his wife Mary, daughter of the excellent Wilhelnus Baudartius, annalist and pastor
at Zutphen, in Gelderland, at which place our Beeckman was born April 28, 1623.
Holgate (Am. Genealogy) says he was born at Iasselt, in Overyssel, but Beeckman s
marriage entry in the N. Y. Coll. Chh. Rec., more reliable as indited by himself,
says at Zutphen. Coming out to Manhattan, in 1647, to serve as a clerk for the
W. 1. Comp., the next year he exchanged this for a mercantile life, and the year
following married a young lady from Amsterdam, Catharine, daughter of Hendrick
I)e Boog. Being "an honest and polite man," he was elected schepen in I653, and
began a long and honorable public service. Hlis "ability, piety and experience"
gained him the position of \'ice-Iirector on the Delaware, which lie held from 1658
to 1663. Then recalled and made sheriff at Eisopus, he served as such till the close
of Governor Lovelace's rule, when he engaged in the brewing business at the Smith's
Fly, in N. Y. Filling an alderman's seat much of the time till his final retirement,
in i606, and having also served as an elder both at Kingston and at New York, he
(lied in this city in his 85th year, September 21, 1707. He had nine children, viz.,
Maria, born i650, married Nicholas William Stuyvesant. son of the governor; Htendrick, born 1652; Gerardus, born 1653; Cornelia, born 1655, married Capt. Isaac Van
Vleck; Johannes, born 1656, Jacobus, born I658, died 1679; William, born i661;
Martinus, born I665, and Catharine, born I668, Who married Gerard Duyckinck, as
per IHolgate, p. 75. Of these, Martinus is not again named, unless he that joined
the military force sent by Leisler to Albany in I690. William, who united with the
New York church in I68i, became a Labadist. Johannes, "a mariner," married, in
i685, Aeltie, daughter of Thomas Popinga, from Groningen, and in I699, removed to
Kingston, N. N.; issue William, Thomas, Jolannes, Hendrick, Mary, Catharine,
Rachel. Hendrick, who also settled in Kitgston, married, J68I, Johanna, widow of
Joris Davidsen and daughter of Capt. Jacob Loper; issue William, Catharine, Hendrick and Cornelia. Gerardus, M.. D., of Flatbush and New York, married, October
25, 1677, Magdalena, daughter of Stoffel Janse Abeel, of Albany. Hle died October
io, 1723. His children were William, born January 25, 1679, died young; Christopher, born January 4, i68I, married Mary, daughter of Abram Delanoy; Adrian,
born August 22, 1682, married Aletta Lispenard and Lucretia De Key; William,
AI. D., born August 8, 1684, married Catharine, daughter of Peter Delanoy; Jacobus,
M. D., born August 7, married Elizabeth, daughter of Tohannes De Peyster; Catharine, born May 25, 1689, married Charles I,e Roux; Gerardus, born June 9, 1693,
married Anna Maria Van Horne and Catharine Prevoost; Cornelia, born May 25,
1698, married Richard Van Dam; Hendrick, of New York, merchant, born December
i, 1701, died, unmarried, September 4, 1643, and Maria, born January io, 1704,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Since his good vrouw, Adriana, had lost her father, Cornelis
Trommels, of Rengerskerk, a quiet hamlet in the Island of
Schouwen, what changes she had experienced! Left an orphan
to the care of a guardian at Brouwershaven, she had, after other
vicissitudes, found a home on these beautiful but solitary plains,
having since her arrival here inherited some property from an
aunt in Zeeland. She was now the mother of five children between the ages of three and fifteen years. Swits had built him
a house, and labored hard upon his farm of fifty morgen, in clearing the land, etc., hoping by patient industry to cancel a debt
of seven hundred guilders due the West India Company for
commodities advanced to him. His good friend Tobias Teunissen was equally busy on the bouwery near Spuyten Duyvel. His
present wife, whom he had married in I649, was a daughter of
Claes Boone, of Amsterdam, at which place her mother, Beatrice
Hermans, was still living, on the Boomstraat. Jannetie also had
had her trials, having lost a former husband, Urbane Leursen,
with whom she had come to New Netherland (we think he perished in the Princess, on board which he had served), and who
left her with three children, other three being added after she
married Tobias, though but one was surviving, namely Teunis,
now between four and five years of age.
These two households felt the full force of the Indian raid.
Being "miserably surprised by the cruel, barbarous savages,"
both Swits and Teunissen were massacred, their goods plundered
or burned, and their terrified wives and little ones captured and
hurried away to their haunts in the forest. The crops on the
bouweries were destroyed, and the cattle either killed, driven off,
or left to wander in the woods. The same scene was enacted at
the Kuyter bouwery. The grain, etc., was burned, but, sadder
still, the widow Kuyter, now the wife of Willem Jansen, from
Heerde, in Gelderland, also fell a victim to savage fury, though
the husband by some means escaped.:
married Jacob Walton. Our distinguished New York Beekmans have been chiefly
of this branch. For fuller details consult Holgate's mainly accurate account before
cited, and also Our Home, which contains a valuable but not faultless article upon
the Beekman family.
* Jochiem Pietersen Kuyter was an" ordinary man. His career was one of
those not so rare in human history, which seems a failure in the light of worldly
ambition, but when viewed from a higher standpoint, both a success and a triumph.
Not in his laudable efforts to subdue the wilderness, but by his bold defense of
popular rights, he conferred invaluable benefits upon his fellow-colonists and those
succeeding them, and which entitles him to a place on the roll of public benefactors. Kuyter should have a memorial in Central Park. It is an interesting query
whether his descendants do not compose the highly respectable family of Keator,
seated very early in Marbletown, Ulster County, most patriotic "associators" in
behall of independence in 1775, though now widely scattered, some having Anglicized
their name into Cator. These are traced back to Melchert Claesz Keeter, born at
Amsterdam, who married, in 1674, widow Susanna Richards, from Oxford, and settled
in Marbletown.
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The Indians had threatened "to root out the Dutch," and
well they kept their word; nor did they spare the English,
either. All the neighboring settlements were also swept off.
The lands of Vander Donck, "bordering on our island, and only
parted from it by a small creek, in some places passable at low
water," had been "divided and settled by his children and associates, in various plantations and farms, but which in the massacre,
were abandoned." The occupants of Jonas Bronck's land met
with no better fate. Adjoining Bronck's land lay Cornell's
Neck; its patentee, Thomas Cornell, an Englishman from Herefordshire, who had served the company as a soldier, "was driven
off his lands by the barbarous violence of the Indians, who burned
his house and goods and destroyed his cattle." On Long Island
side the house and plantation of William Hallett, another Englishman, opposite Hoorn's Hook, "were laid waste by the Indians."
Their canoes kept prowling about Hellgate, and on October I3th
about thirty savages stealthily approached the house of Hallett's
neighbor, Pieter Andriessen, living at the present Ravenswood,
and the same who came over with Bronck. He and five other
persons who chanced that day to be at his house were attacked,
four of the six wounded, and all captured; the savages then having
the effrontery to send two of them to New Amsterdam, with an
offer to release the others on receiving some guns, ammunition,
etc., which they demanded.
In a few days the Indians having glutted their revenge, and
willing to get the captives off their hands, made overtures, which
resulted in the ransom, during the month of October, of a large
number, but the families of Teunissen and Swits were not included. Meanwhile Stuyvesant having returned from the "conquest" of the Swedish colony on the Delaware, his soldiers were
ready for an exterminating war upon the Indians, and which some
strongly advised. But this was opposed by Montagne in the
council, on the ground of their weakness. "If," he urged with a
convincing logic, "we have no power to prosecute a war, then it
becomes necessary that we remain quiet till we shall obtain it,
and meanwhile not to place too much confidence in the Indians.
As for the great damage we have suffered from the savages, I
know of no remedy, because reparation seems not to be had from
them either by war or peace; and with respect to the captives,
experience has taught us that they cannot be recovered without
ransom." This moderate and discreet advice met the approval
of the director himself, who also expressed his opinion that the first
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
attack upon the Dutch was not premeditated, but was provoked
by a "too hasty rashness on the part of a few hot-headed spirits."
Parties were sent out to bury the dead and collect the stray
stock. Such a scene was presented of poor slaughtered remains,
blackened ruins, and general devastation as appalled the hearts
even of brave soldiers. Some of the cattle belonging to the lmurdered Swits were found in tle woods, brought in and cared for.
And toward the close of Novelnmber his widow and children, with
those of Teunissen, were happily restored to their friends at New
Amsterdaml. The hostile attitude of the Indians and the fear
"of being again as suddenly surprised" were an effectual bar to
ally present attempt at rebuilding the ruined habitations on the
Flats. Indeed, such of the settlers as survived were impoverished;
"dispossessed of their properties, and not left wherewith to provide
food and clothing." And though others, having courage and
means, would venture upon these lands and run the hazard, they
were now w1holly prevented from so doing by an ordinance of tlle
director and council, passed January T8th, I656, which prohibited
all persons from dwellilng in exposed situations, and required the
farmers upon isolated bouweries to forthwith remove, with their
families, into the nearest village, where they would abide more
safely, be able to act in concert in case of danger, and go out in
armed parties to till their lands and gather their crops.
Such an ordinance was a necessity. The history of settlement
on these Flats, up to this record, presented but a series of adversities, and it was time to arrest these single-handed attempts to
plant bouweries, costing as they had so many valuable lives. Need
we recount the gloomy roll of the dead?-De Forest, the pioneer,
the respected Van Rossumn, the excellent Beeck and Kuyter, the
industrious and worthy Teunissen and Swits! Governor Rodenburg, one of Kuyter's partners, also died about this time. Claessen
of Hoorn's Hook, after his visit to Holland for redress of personal
grievances charged upon Kieft and Stuyvesant, returned no more
to his plantation. Willenm B1ont and Matthys Jansen had gone to
Fort Orange, as also Dr. M\ontagne, who with exhausted means
* Tobias Teunissen, with no such culture as shone forth in Kuyter, yet possessed
measurably those sterling qualities needed to battle manfully with adversities, and
he deserves honorable mention among those pioneer settlers by whose toil's and
sacrifices the way was paved for the ultimate success of the settlement. Iis widow
married Thomas Verdon, of Brooklyn, where both joined the church in I66I. Iher
son, Teunis Tobias, born in 1651, was living in 1692, on his farm at Gowanus (Deeds,
Brooklyn, vol. i, 313), but search and inquiry fail to trace him farther. Perhaps his
descendants compose the Tobias family, found trom an early date in the states or
New Jersey and New York.
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and no prospect of any returns from his wasted bouwery, had gladly accepted the honorable position of vice-director at that place.*
Bereft of inhabitants and desolated by firebrand and tomahawk; the current rumors of Indian threats which still agitated
the public mind; the prohibition against isolated settlements; and
the complications arising in regard to the interests and estates of
the persons slain in the late massacre; were so many barriers in
the way of any immediate effort to rescue these fertile plains and
primeval forests from the wilderness of nature.
* Sibout Claessen, first proprietor of Hoorn's Hook, showed strength of character
by his resolute stand against the assumptions of Stuyvesant. It accords with the
belief that his parents were Friesans,-most stalwart and strong-minded of Netherlanders,- and had removed to Hoorn before his birth; for Sibout was no doubt
cousin-german to Harck Siboutsen, from Langedyk, on the river Kuinre, in the
district of Zevenwolden, or Seven Forests. See "Cronkhite Family," Annals of
Newtown, p. 3I6. Claessen married, in i645, Susannah, daughter of Tan Van Schunenburgh and widow of Aert Teunisz Van Putten, before noticed. After returning
from Holland he lived in New York till his death, in i680. He left,000o guilders,
wampum value, to the Dutch church, of which he and wife were members, and his
remaining estate on the decease of his wife to her daughters by Teunissen, viz.,
Wyntie, wife of Simon Barentsen, and Susannah, wife of Reynier Willemsen.
CHAPTER XI.
I656-i60o.
NEW HAERLEIM FOUNDED; ITS COURT AND CHURCH.
AN interesting period in our history is that which gave
origin to the village of Harlem. This inviting section of
Manhattan was to be peopled and cultivated; but by some new
and more efficient mode than that already tried, fruitful only in
unrequited labor, the waste of property, and the loss of precious
lives. It could only be done by the direct aid of government. The
farm owners were nearly all dead; their estates insolvent. La
Montagne and Swits, having had large advances from the public
stores to supply the wants of their families, were deeply indebted
to the company: Swits in the sum of seven hundred guilders, to
satisfy which, with "other debts," he left nothing but his ruined
bouwery. Dr. La M\ontagne, as early as 1652, was reputed to be
owing the company "several thousand guilders." As Vice-Director, his salary of six hundred florins, with an extra allowance for
board of two hundred florins per annum (increased in I659 to
three hundred), proving inadequate to his support, things had
cone from bad to worse, and were fast tending to that crisis in his
affairs which, in I662, wrung from him the touching admission
to Stuyvesant, that he had not the means of providing bread for
his family, and being sixty-eight years of age, was reduced to
penury and want.
The Kuyter heirs were in no b,etter case, and "divers persons
interested in the estate" began to clamor for its settlement. Proceedings to this end were begun soon after Mrs. Kuyter's death;
when, on a petition from Gov. Stuyvesant, "relative to certain
share belonging to him," the burgomasters ordered "that an inventory be taken of the lands, houses, and other effects of the
deceased Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, and of his widow, she having
remarried, and being now dead; so that his Honor, as well as the
other private creditors, may obtain justice." Next came a claim,
preferred against one of Mrs. Kuyter's sureties by Cornelis De
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Potter, for a balance due him, which was to have been paid il
grain from the farm; but the court rejected the demand, upon the
ground that "the grain had been destroyed in the troubles with the
Indians," and De Potter had covenanted not to hold the bail responsible for any default arising from such losses.
Two years passed, when the plans having maturedl for closing
up the estate of "Jochem Pietersen Kuyter and Leentie Martens,
his wife, killed by the Indians," their city residence on the Heerc
Graft was put up at public sale by the administrators, January
12th, 1658, and struck off to one of the schepens, Hendrick Jansen
Vander Vin, later a resident of Harlem, to whom, on February
T4th, the burgomasters gave a deed.
As to the Zegendal lands and others adjacent, the Director
and Council, with a just regard for all the interests involved, both
of a public and private nature, resolved upon forming a village
there, b- laying out suitable building and farming lots, to be sold
to settlers at a fixed price per morgen, and to apply tile moneys
so derived for the benefit of the late lroprietors, their heirs or
creditors. Tle Van Keulen tract, besides the Kuyter lands, was
to be disposed of, with the Swits bouwery lying between themi
and the cleared portion of the latter was fixed upon as the village
site.-' As Stuvvesant owned a fourth part of the Kutter tract,
* Cornelis Claessen Swits, whose history, with that of his father's, as before
related, challenges romance, had 10 children, of whom reached maturity only Claes,
born 1640; Isaac, born i642; Jacob, born 1645; Apollonia, born 1648, and Cornelis,
born I65I. Hlls widow had one or more clildren by her sccond husband, Albert
Leenderts. Apollonia Swits married Jan Thomasz Aken, and their daughter married
Vincent Delamontagne. Claes Swits was accidentally killed at Albany in 1663. Cornelis joined the church at Kingston, Ulster County, in 1678, was afterward all elder.
and died 1734, in the town of Rochester, leaving only his widow, Jannetie, daughter
of Tjerck I)e Witt.
Isaac Cornelissen Swits, the only son, as far as is known, who left (,cscendants.
was familiarly called 'Kleyn Isaac," or Little Isaac. lie settled at Schenectady,
where his posterity have been among the most respectable residents. I'y his wife
Susanna, daughter of Simon (root, he liad eight children, of whom need be nalned
only Cornelius, Simon and Jacob; all of whom left descendants. At the sack of
Schenectady by the French and Indians, February 8, 1690, Isaac, for the second
time became a captive, he and his eldest son Cornelius, aged about 12 years, being
taken with other prisoners to Canada; but after live months' captivity Isaac escaped,
reaching Albany July 9, and was soon followed by his son. (;overnor Leisler shortly
after gave Swits a commission as lieutenant of militia. While he was in Canada a
fort was built in his lot il Schenectady, in lieu of which he was granted 1,ooo acres
along the east side of the Mohawk, for which he also got a deed from the Indians
August i6, 1707. Ile survived this only about a month, but this purclhase was confirmed to his son Cornelius, as his heir at law, by patent of April 14, 1708. Cornelius
in 1702, married IHester Fisher, and lived in Albany. Simon married Gesina Beekman, in 17I, and resided in Schenectady. 'I'he other brother, Jacob Swits, of
Schenectady, born I695, married, 1719, Helena l)e ivitt, of Esospus, by whon lie
had issue: Isaac, born 1720; Andries, 1723; Susanna, 1726; Jannetie, 1727; Abraham, 1730; Cornelius, 1733, and Maria, 1737. Abraham, known as MIajor Swits, at
eighteen years, distinguished himself for his courage onl the day of the Bockendal
battle, when the Indians killed 12 of the best men of Schenectady. In the Revolutionary war he held a commission as "First Major of the Regiment of Militia, of
which Abraham Wemple is Colonel," dated June 20, 1778. Two of his sons bore
arms in that struggle, viz., Walter and Jacob, the latter afterward Major General
of the state militia. After the war Major Swits resided in a brick house on the
north corner of Maiden Lane and State Street. In this house was born his grandson, the late F. N. Clute, of Ilerkimer, who always spoke with interest of his grandfather Sswits. Major Swits died August 17, 1814, having had thirteen children, nine
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lie reserved his share, I)robably to avoid unpleasant complications;
so that only 150 morgen of this tract were to be laid out into lots.
These lands being dleemed ample for the wants of the proposed
village for solme time to comie, the Vre(lendal or Montagne farm
was not as yet inclu(le(l; in fact, it was held that "it could not be
thence conveniently cultivated, being over a kill."
The government hadl another iiml)ortant object in view besides
that of obtaining its dues, or promoting the settlement of this
listrict. This was to enhance the safety of the city of New Amsterdam, as would naturally result from planting a strong village,
with a garrison, on this frontier endl of the island. But in carrying out this (lesign, as already hinted, neither the honest efforts
of the late owners to coimply with the terms of their grants by
improving their lands, neither their misfortunes and heavy losses,
were lost sight of. True, these lands had been granted subject to
the ilmperative con(lition that the soil should be brought under tillage. 1By such means were the resources of the country to be
(leveloped, its growth promoted. Not to comply with this condition was ordinarily to forfeit the grant, even though a patent
had issued: in which case the government felt warranted, and
usually did not hesitate, to reclaim the land and give it to others
as it pleased. IBut as manifest injustice would result from applying the above rule of forfeiture to the specific cases under consideration, iwhere the unfortunate proprietors had dlone what they
could and had failed through no fault of their own, it behooved
the government, in whatever action it might take touching these
lands, to have a proper regard for the interests of the said proprietors, while exercising the usual prerogative of the civil power,
the right of eminent domain, or that of judging how far private
interests and convenience must yield to the public necessities; and,
under the Dutch rule, it had always been held "that a private farm
or plantation ought never to be prejudicial to a village." How
far this measure was agreed to by the parties interested, does not
appear; but it certainly commended itself as the readiest way to
make these otherwise useless lands yield them some returns,
whereby to relieve their indebtedness to the government and
others. It was this injunction of circumstances that called forth
the following ordinance:
The Director-General and Council of New Netherland hereby give
by his last wife, Margaret, daughter of John Delamont, whom he married November
22, 1760. Their son Jacob. born November 3, 1762, was father of the late Rev.
Abraham J. Swits, of Schenectady, and their daughter, Susanna, born Tune 12, 1766,
became wife of Nicholas F. Clute, and mother of Mr. Frederick N. lute aforesaid,
who was born at Schenectady, March 12, 1797, and died December 51, 1879. See
Pearson's Schenectady Settlers.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
notice, that for the further promotion of agriculture, for the security of
this Island and the cattle pasturing thereon, as well as for the further
relief and expansion of this City Amsterdam,* in New Netherland, they
have resolved to form a new Village or Settlement at the end of the Island,
and about the land of Jochem Pietersen, deceased, and those which are
adjoining it. In order that the lovers of agriculture may be encouraged
thereto, the proposed new Village aforesaid is favored by the DirectorGeneral and Council with the following Privileges.
First: Each of the inhabitants thereof shall receive by lot in full ownership, 18, 20 to 24 morgen of arable Land; 6 to 8 morgen of Meadow;
and be exempt from Tenths for fifteen years commencing next May; on
condition that he pay within the course of three years, in instalments,
Eight guilders for each morgen of tillable land for the behoof of the
interested, or their creditors, who are now or formerly were driven from
the aforesaid Lands, and have suffered great loss thereon.
Secondly: In order to prevent similar damage from calamities or
expulsion, the Iirector-General and Council promise the Inhabitants of
the aforesaid Village to protect and maintain them with all their power,
and, when notified and required to assist them with I2 to I5 Soldiers on
the monthly pay of the Company, the Village providing quarters and
rations; This whenever the Inhabitants 1nay petition therefor.
Thirdly: When the aforesaid Village has 20 to 25 Families, the
Director-General and Council will favor it with an Inferior Court of
Justice; and for that purpose, a double number is to be nominated out of
the most discreet and proper persons, for the first time by the Inhabitants,
and afterward by the Magistrates thereof, and presented annually to
the Director-General and Council, to elect a single number therefrom.
Fourthly: The Director-General and Council promise to employ all
possible means that the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Village, when it has
the above-mentioned number of Families, will be accommodated with a
good, pious, orthodox Minister, toward whose maintenance the DirectorGeneral and Council promise to pay half the Salary, the other half to be
supplied by the Inhabitants in the best and easiest manner, with the
advice of the Magistrates of the aforesaid Village, at the most convenient
time.
Fifthly: The Director-General and Council will assist the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Village, whenever it will best suit their convenience,
to construct, with the Company's Negroes, a good wagon road from this
place to the village aforesaid, so that people can travel hither and thither
on horseback and with a wagon.
Sixthly: In order that the advancement of the aforesaid Village may
be the sooner and better promoted, the Director-General and Council
have resolved and determined not to establish, or allow to be established,
any new villages or settlements, before and until the aforesaid Village be
brought into existence; certainly not until the aforesaid number of
Inhabitants is completed.
Seventhly: For the better and greater promotion of neighborly correspondence with the English of the North, the Director-General and
Council will at a more convenient time authorize a Ferry and a suitable
Scow near the aforesaid Village, in order to convey over Cattle and
Horses; and will favor the aforesaid Village with a Cattle and Horse
Market.
Eighthly: Whoever are inclined to settle themselves there or to take
up Bouweries by their servants, shall be bound to enter their names at
once. or within a short time, at the office of the Secretary of the DirectorGeneral and Council, and to begin immediately with others to place on
* The words in the original are, "tot meerder recreatie en uytspanninge van
dese Steede Amsterdam," etc.
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the land one able-bodied person, provided with proper arms, or in default
thereof, to be deprived of his right.
Thus done in the meeting of the Director and Council, held in Fort
Amsterdam, il New Netherland, on the 4th of March, A~ I658.
The number of applicants for the land being sufficient to warrant a beginning, ground was broken for the new settlement
August 14th ensuing; between which (late and September Ioth
was completed the l)reliminary work of surveying and staking
out the lands and village plots, etc. Hilarity and good cheer
marked the occasion, for one of those present was Johan Verveelen, not till five years later a resident, but who acted as tapster,
regaling the conmpany with generous potions of his New Amsterdam beer.
The village was laid out adjoining the Great Kill or Harlem
River, taking for the principal street what had apparently been
used before as a road by the ill-fated Swits and others, or at least
an Indian trail. Touching the river (about I25th Street) just
north of a small cove, where a ferry to Bronckside, or Morrisania, was soon established, it lay "about east and west," continuing beyond the village, on much the same course, till it
reached the north branch of Montagne's Kill. A second street,
north of the former (distant at the river end fifteen Dutch rods),
was laid out in the same direction, as far as found necessary.
Being broader than the other, it was called the "Great Way,"
but since that day has been better known as the Church Lane,
with its old homesteads and rows of stately elms; of all which,
however, there now remains scarce a trace, save upon the maps.
Between these two streets were located the erven, or house
lots, lying in two ranges, a central line dividing those facing
one street from those facing the other, as in modern fashion;
but the lots were nearly square, and measured about ninetythree English feet in depth, with a frontage somewhat less;
while cross-streets formed these into blocks containing four lots
each. It should be said that the erven toward the west end
exceeded considerably the depth stated, owing to the fact that
the two main streets did not preserve their parallel, the southern, at a point between the second and third cross-streets, suddenly diverging about eight degrees from a direct line. Larger
plots laid out on the north side of the Great Way, though some
were subsequently built upon, were designed only as tuynen,
or gardens, one for each of the erven. They were described as
five by twenty Dutch rods, or one-sixth of a morgen, but were
meted out by liberal measure (the case also with the erven), and
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)being soon extene(l(l in the rear and otherwise enlarge(ld came
to be reduced to half the original number, and( to contain one
morgen or two acres.:::
To each erf, or house lot, was laid out upon Jochem Pieter's
Flat a lot of bouwlant. or farming land. These were simply
staked off and numbere(l, the lots running from the river into
the woo(ls westerly: No. I lying against the rear of the tuvnen,
at the south end of the range, and No. 25 at the north end.
These lots were laid out for six morgen, but were soon after enlarge(d a little and the number reduced, as we shall see. These
twenty-five lots were the only farming lands taken up at first.
In form like all those subsequently laid out for the same purlpse, the-y were made narrow and long, and butted either on the
river or creeks,-a favorite mode of (lividing up land, borrowed
from Holland, but here having its peculiar advantages. The
farmers liked this water privilege, as they were long in the habit
of removing their produce from the field to their barns in the
" 'lThe Church Lane, like a faded picture almost reft of power to recall the
lovely reality, still lives, with its air of rural repose, in the memories of a few who,
in their juvenile days trod its grassy paths to the old Dutch church, which stood near
the Harlem River, on the south side of the Lane, in a corner of the old cemetery
removed in i868. Extending from the river, where on its north side stood the Judal
house, on its south the lienson house, this ancient road, cutting the modern blocks
diagonally, struck Third Avenue at 12ISt Street, then crossing where was since the
Park to S lvan Place and I2oth Street, turned southward just beyond that point
and joined the original IHarlem and New York road, or continuation of the lower
village street, which in early times extended west to the little Mill Creek (north branch
of Montagne's Kill) and across to Hiarlem Lane, now,Avenue St. Nicholas.
The church, the second( which had occupied that spot, was taken down in 1825,
a new one being built on the present site, then part of the Church Farm. The old
vane, bearing the date 1788, wvhcn the former house was erected, was taken care of
and mav still be seen on Judge Inlgraham's barn, in Second Avenue. See note on0
The Reformed Church. 'The fenson house, aforesaid, yet in good repair, standing
cornerwise to the ul)per side of I25th Street, late occupied by Mr. J. K. Cowperthlwait,
hut early il this century the hoime of Lawrence L:enson, then o0 Capt. Bailey, and
later of Judge M\orrell, marks the situation of a much more ancient house,-tliat of
the original settler, David Demnarest. 'The Judah house, whiich stood opposite, on the
north side of the Lane, was deserted long before it was pulled down in I867, but had
been a tasteful structure for the times, and was owned prior to the Revolution by
Peter R. Livingston. Kept as a tavern just after the war for some years by the
noted patriot, of whalebone fame, Capt. William Marriner, who also ran the ferry to
Morrisania, it was also known as the Ferry House. It was bought in 1822 by Mr.
John Moore, and becane his residence. PBoth the above were originally stone houses,
of one story, but had been raised to two. Before the present century, the erven, or
ancient village house lots (on one of which is the Benson house; the church and
graveyard having occupied two others), had nearly all lost their buildings, and become
pasture-lots, or been thrown into the adjoining fields, by closing up the lower street
before named, the river end only being kept open; while the tuynen, or one morgen
lots, on the north side of the Church LIane, being joined two or more in a plot, and
built upon, had come to form the best part of the village, the homes a century ago of
the ['ussing, Waldron, Livingston, and Myer families, succeeded later by those of
Sickels, Chesterman, I3rady, etc. The Myer house, of stone, one story and very old,
was removed by Judge lngralham when 125th street was opened, on which it stood.
The Brady house, a frame building, erected by John Livingston some years before tle
Revolution, was torn down in 1863. Tile stately frame house with heavy columns, yet
standing at Second avenue and 124th street, was built by the late James Chesterman,
in 1821, on the side of the old stone Waldron house. The old Bussing house occupying the plot next the Church Farm, was destroyed in the Revolution, and on the
same spot after the war John S. Sickles built the house still standing on I23d street,
north side, just west of Second avenue, it having been turned to line with the street.
This property descended, ill 1804, from Sickles to his grandson, John S. Adriance, who
sold it, June 7th, i820, to Christopher Heiser.
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I73
village by means of canoes and scows, until suitable roads were
made. Again, the laborers had less fear of the Indians, wvhen
working near each other, in a common field (for it was a full half
century before they built division fences) as, always having
their guns with them, there was a better chance, if attacked, to
unite in defending themselves. And tradition adds that they
used the ingenious plrecaution of planting each plarticular crop
in a continuous row across their several lots, that the w\orkers
need not be very far apart while engaged in cultivating or harvesting their crops.
Salt hay was thought indispensable for the cattle; hence a
small parcel of marsh or meadow, usually about three morgen,
was set off to each lot of bouwland. That all might be supplied, these had to be taken wherever found,-on Little Barent's
and Stony Islands; on the other side of Harlem River; about
Spuyten Duyvel, and in the Great MAeadow, ulpon Sherman's
Creek. The meadows in the Bay of Hellgate were reserved to
the church, to be used or rented for its benefit, with the bouwland in the village, set apart to the same use.
With its first advent into life and activity, the infant settlement received its name, fitly taken from a famous old city of
North Holland. It was called Nieuw Haerlem; conferred, no
doubt, by Stuyvesant, who seems always to have exercised that
right, though usually a formal request coming from the people
gave it the look of a courtesy paid to their chief ruler. Its selection was such as could neither flatter any one settler, nor excite
the jealousy of others, as none of them were from Haerlem.
Perhaps the semblance in the two localities first suggested it.
New Haerlem and New Amsterdam, like the two great cities
after wlhich they were named, lay apart "about three hours' journey;" or so thought two observing tourists of that century.
Old I-aerlem, watered on its eastern side by the gentle Sparen,
and girt about landwise by groves "of shadowy elms," for
beauty and extent unrivaled in Holland, where are few forests,
might well have dictated a name for a situation so similar. But
more suggestive was its history. To the Hollander the word
H-aerlemn was the svnonym for all that was virtuous and heroic.
During the memorable siege sustained by that fated town, when
for seven long months the choicest troops in the Spanish army
were foiled by the intrepidity of its citizens, women vieing with
the men in bearing arms, was displayed a patriotism worthy the
loftiest flights of the poetic muse. And though Haerlem fell,
there went up from the merciless slaughter of its brave but van
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quished people such a piercing cry as palsied the weakened arm
of the invader, and nerved the patriots to an unconmpromising
resistance,-freedom was virtually achieved for the United Provinces! Noble Haerlem! illustrious example of courage, endurance and sacrifice, ever to live thy memory, and tenderly to be
cherished among the proudest and dlearest of Fatherland!
Thus the name New Haerlem was aptly chosen. Like its
great exemplar, it might be called upon to withstand the onslaught of a savage and relentless foe. In such dark and trying
hour,-and who could tell, after the gloomy experience of past
years, but it might come,-the inspiration of a glorious name was
something to incite its peoI)le to noblest proofs of fortitude and
heroism. Peril was in the new enterprise, equally with labor and
hardship; and those entering upon it had clearer apprehensions
than we can well understand what they might be called to do
or suffer to maintain and defend their new home.`
The beginning was not auspicious. Summer in I658 brought
"an unusually distemplered atmosphere," and "many persons
died." Others were prostrated for weeks and months "with
sickness and debility." Then "flooding rains, which came about
the time of harvesting," so damaged the fruits and crops as to
cause "a scarcity of bread." Many feared it would "be impossible to get in winter forage for the cattle." With so serious a
check upon labor and enterprise, but slow progress was made at
New Harlem.
With a view to urging the work forward, the Director and
Council, on November 27th, issued a peremptory order in these
words: "All persons whom it mnay concern are hereby forewarned and notified, that all those twho have obtained lots or
plantations in the newly-begun village of Haerlem shall take
possession, or cause possession thereof to be taken, and commence preparations for fencing and planting the samne, within
the space of six weeks from the date hereof, on pain of having
* -Iaerlem, in writing which we now drop a letter for brevity, is derived by
Dutch writers from IIeer Lem (Lord Willem, or William), an early prince of Friesland. in Holland, the reputed founder of Haerlem, from him called the stadt (town)
of -leer Lem; whence the easy transition into Haerlem, or Haarlem, as the Hollanders now write it.
Among the oldest of our historic names, significant for reference, and entering
into the corporate titles of our churches, our railway and navigation companies, etc.,
how preposterous the suggestion that this time-honored designation is become useless,
and should be ignored! Rather cherish it, together with the more local names within
Harlem, many of which it has been our good fortune to rescue. Apropos of this-has
justice been done the worthy pioneers of Harlem, in selecting names for the streets,
avenues and places? Mount Morris, from its former owners, would surely find a
more significant name in Mount Benson. And Kortright Avenue, for a like reason,
more happily apply to Harlem Lane than Avenue St. Nicholas! Since "God's
Acre" has been desecrated, and the forefathers' gravestones uprooted as things obsolete and useless, what inore proper tribute to their memory than that here suggested?
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the lots and plantations which are not entered upon within that
time given and granted to others who may be disposed to improve them."
This premonition was not without its effect, but the winter
setting in early and with severity must have retarded the work.
However, in place of those who abandoned their lots came other
settlers, who iput up buildings and undertook to cultivate the soil.
The number of landholders thus augmented, during the ensuing
spring and summer building after building began to adorn the
new village, among the earliest to take up a permanent residence there being the Slots, Cressons, Tourneur and Montagne
junior, who all bore an active part in its affairs. For the security of the settlers, all of whom were required to be well armed,
the government furnished eight or ten regular soldiers from
Fort Amsterdam, in the pay of the company, whose presence
were a necessity in the "newly-begun village," as the Indians
were yet a source of anxiety, especially to the wives and families
of the colonists; the recent murder of a Swedish family at Mespat
Kills serving to heighten this feeling among their fellow Swedes,
of whom there were several in the new community at Harlem.*
This public disquietude arose to an actual panic when, on
September 23d, the startling news arrived at the Manhattans,
that a firce and bloody war had broken out between the Esopus
savages and the settlers there. A general consternation seized
the inhabitants upon Manhattan Island and in the neighboring
settlements, many of whom forsaking their bouweries, crops and
cattle, fled hastily to New Amsterdam. Operations at New
Harlem were wholly suspended for a time, especially as every
soldier and public servant had to leave and accompany Stuyvesant on an expedition to Esopus. These soon returned, but
things continued in a very threatening attitude the whole winter; and until the renewal of peace with the Wickquaskeeks
and other tribes about Manhattan, early in the spring, brought
some quiet to the public mind in this quarter. But the Director-General, on a second visit to Esopus, finding the savages
there still hostile, resolved to give them their fill of war. He
sent a message to the secretary, Van Ruyven, that the entire
country was in danger, and directed him to warn the out set* Eldert Engelberts, one of the murdered Swedes (see Annals of Newtown, 46,
51), married, in 1656, Sarah Walker from Boston; issue Anna Maria, born the same
year at Maspeth Kills, and who married, i680, Clement Elsworth, of New York. He
and three brothers (sons of Stoffel Elsworth) all left families, whence those of this
name. Capt. Verdine Elsworth, of Orange County, a descendant of Clement, married
Dorothy Gale, in New York, 1759, and took an active part in the old French war.
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tlements around Manhattan to carefully guard against a surprise. This having been done, the next day, being March 23d,
I66O, the people at New Harlem were further notified that
since it was "highly necessary to keep a good watch in the
newly-settled village," the Council had appointed as its military officers, Jan Pietersen Slot, as sergeant; Daniel Tourneur,
as corporal, and Jaques Cresson, as "lancepesade." They called
upon all the inhabitants to obey the commands of Sergeant Slot,
till other orders should be given by the Director and Council.
This was the first step taken for the establishment of local authoritv at Harlem. Furnished with a supplly of powder fron
the lublic magazine by Derick Looten, the commissary, the
inhabitants were prepared for defense. This state of unrest
lasted for several months, when it was relieved by news that a
peace had been ratified with the Esopus Indians, and approved
by the river tribes.
Meanwhile the settlers, having steadily increased in numbers,
now deemed themselves entitled to a Court of Justice, agreeably
with the original conditions under which they had settled here.
They met therefore and nominated a double number of the best
qualified persons alnong them, to bear rule as "commlissaries"
or magistrates, and submitted their names to the Director and
Council, who, by the following ordinance, confirmed three of the
nominees in that office, and defined their duties and powers:
The Director-General and Council of New Netherland, To all those
who shall see or hear these Presents read, send greeting and make
known. That for the welfare of the community, for promoting the growth
and success of the new Village of Harlem, and for the easier administration of Justice, they have deemed it necessary to erect in the aforesaid village, an Inferior Court of Justice, which shall consist, provisionally, of the three undernamed Commissaries, to wit: Jan Pietersen,
Daniel Tourneur, Pierre Cresson, before whom in the first case shall
be brought all Questions, Actions and Differences arising in the said
Village, between Lord and Subject, Master and Servant, Mistress and
Maid, Neighhor and Neighbor, Buyer and Seller, Lessor and Lessee,
Landlord and Laborer, and other such like; also all criminal actions,
consisting of Misdeeds, Threats, Fighting or Wounding, whether moved
and instituted by the parties or by the senior Commissary, who, until
further order, shall represent the Sheriff in that place.
Said Commissaries shall (1o justice, to the best of their knowledge,
between parties appearing before them, and may decree the giving of Bail,
Acquittal or Condemnation, as the circumstances of the case shall warrant. But any party feeling himself aggrieved, may appeal to the DirectorGeneral and Council of New Netherland, according to custom here,
from all judgments exceeding Fifty Guilders, pronounced by said Commissaries. And said Commissaries are hereby specially commissioned
and authorized to enact proper Ordinances that the arable Lands and
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Gardens be carefully fenced, kept enclosed, and the broken fences properly
repaired.
They hereby command all Inhabitants of the said Village, and those
who may in future reside there, to respect the aforesaid Commissaries in
the office to which they are now qualified, and acknowledge them as
such; and all this until it be otherwise ordained by the Director-General
and Council aforesaid. Thus done at the meeting of the Director-General
and Council, held at Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the I6th
August, I66o.
The new Board of Commissaries, the duties of schout or
deputy sheriff devolving upon Jan Pietersen Slot, as senior
member, gave early attention to the religious needs of the comnmunitv. With neither a church nor a minister, the benefits of
the sanctuary could be enjoyed only by making a toilsome journey of eight miles, by land or by water, to Fort Amsterdam.
Strong in their religious faith and attachments, so natural in a
people who had but recently emerged from great convulsions in
the church, and shaken off the old clogs of superstition and
error, the faithful at Harlem set a high value upon God's word
and ordinances. It were a mistake to suppose that they did not
fell keenly the loss of those advantages which they had enjoyed
in Holland, where not the cities only, but every considerable
hamlet had its pastor and house of worship. The promise of "a
pious orthodox minister," and of aid in sustaining him, was a
great inducement for them to settle here. As yet they felt themselves unable to do much toward supporting one, but it was
all-important to secure the preaching of the Gospel within their
own bounds. Through the commissaries, who had the supervision of such matters, and who were all professors of the Reformed
religion, this urgent need of a minister was made known to Governor Stuyvesant, and by him brought to the notice of the Directors in Holland, in a letter dated October 6th, I660.
But, providentially, one Michiel Zyperus had arrived here
in the preceding year from the Dutch island of Curacao, in the
West Indies, where he had labored as a proponent or licentiate.
Something had caused the vice-director, Beck, in writing to
Stuyvesant in August of that year, to speak of the dominie in
terms ambiguous, but not flattering. He said, "Dominie Michiel
Zyperus goes, with his wife, to your country, by this opportunity,
in the hope of there securing a call in one place or another. I
believe it would be a good chance for him, could he depart with
a good testimonial, and had so comported himself as to deserve
it!" The "opportunity" was by the ship Sphera Mundi, then
about to sail, and in which Zyperus and his wife, Anna Duurkoop, had engaged passage for New Amsterdam, having in ad
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vance, May I6th, shipped hither "a keg of sugar," consigned
to H. J. Vander Vin. But the Sphera Mlundi not leaving as
soon as expected, it was not till October 25th that they reached
New Amsterdam.
The innuendo of Beck, as it lost its force ere it gained this
cooler latitude, seems not to have harmed the young dominie.
At once finding friends, the secretary, Van Ruyven, and his wife,
the daughter of Dominie Megapolensis, stood as sponsors for his
son Cornelius, at his baptism, December 2Ist. Having good letters
to the church at New Amnterdam, with which he united January
4th, I66o, Dominie Zyperus is not again named till the following
autumn. Perhaps he was seeking "a call in one place or another.
As late as October 6th, the date of Stuyvesant's letter, it is evident he had not engaged at Harlem, where there was yet no
church to receive him. But before the letter bespeaking a minister for this place could have reached Holland, the faithful here
had joined themselves in church fellowship, and secured Zyperus'
services; apparently, late in November. His purchase of a house
and lot here, with the usual bouwland, etc., shows a purpose of
remaining.
Unhappily, but few particulars can be given as to the origin
of the church, from the paucity of records at this period. Patterned after the Reformed Church of Holland, it was to be under
the care of the Consistory at New Amsterdam, having at the
first no officers from its own nmembership, except a single deacon,
to which place Jan La Montagne, Jr., was now chosen. Thus
its organization was quite informal and incomplete. Another
deacon was added after some years, whence ensued a regular
succession of these officers, intrusted with the financial and eleemosynary work of the church. Their resources were the Sunday
collections, fines levied in the town court for the benefit of the
poor, rent from the church lands, and burial fees, with the usual"
legacy left by testators of from ten to fifty guilders. Thus were
met the wants of needy members and other worthy poor, as also
the dominie's salary and sexton hire. And after Zyperus left,
till they secured a resident pastor, which was a long period, the
deacons provided a horse and wagon to bring the dominie and
return him to his house in the city.*
We know little of Dominie Zyperus' services here. Obviously
No proper record of the organization of this church has been found; but of the
date we may be reasonably assured. Montagne's term as deacon (which agreeably to
usage in the Dutch establishment must have covered two years) expired November 30,
T662. It began, then, in i660, the earliest date consistent with the existence of a
church here, as it was just after the magistracy was instituted; prior to which there
could have been no church organization. The same date is given in Corwin's Manual.
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ie was never installed as pastor over this church; and as a mere
licentiate, he could preach and teach, but not administer the
ordinances. Still more obscure is his previous history. His
name, in its unlatinized form, was probably the French Cipierre,
an honore(l one in Huguenot story; his lknowledge of both the
Dutch and English languages, and, as will appear, his evident
predilection for episcolacy, seem to warrant the belief that lie
had resided in Holland, but hadl acquired his theology in an
English divinity school; the latter ol)inion strengthened by the
fact that the records of the Leyden University, and of that city
and Amsterdam, are silent as to his name. Nor is his former
service in a Dutch colony any proof that he went thither under
Holland licensure, since the Church of England was quite ready
to both license and ordain the I)utch ministers, though Zyperus,
as is plain, had not been ordained.
His (lisability to administer the sacraments, to admit to
church membership, or perform the marriage rite, constrained
the flock at Harlem, for these several objects, to resort to Stuyvesant's Bouwery, where Rev. Henry Selyns, pastor of the church
of Brooklyn, over which he had been installed September 7th, I660,
had, at the governor's desire, instituted a Sunday afternoon an(l
evening service, in his private chaIel, on the site of the present
St. Mark's Church. ()nlv five miles to enjoy these valued privileges, and D)ominie Selvns an able and attractive preacher, it naturally resulted that many of those living at Harlem sought and were
received into membership at the Bouwery, during the four years
that Selvns officiated, and who were wont to attend there, especially to celebrate the Lord's Supper, and present their infants
for baptism. i\1ost of the marriages among them, from that of
Sigismund Lucas, October 31st, i66o, were also performed by
Dominie Selyns. The practice was to first publish the bans in the
church at Fort Amsterdam; and this being formally certified to
the dlominie. he tied the nuptial knot. These Harlem marriages
still standl upon the church register, at Brooklyn. A few of the
Harlem members not enrolled by Dominie Selvns at the Bouwery
retained a connection with the lower church in the Fort. At one
or the other place their children's baptisms were performed and
recorded; save in only two cases, where the parties went to
l'rooklyn for that purpose.
No mention of a church edifice, or any effort to erect one
here, occurs till four years later, and it but shows the general
struggle with poverty, in the origin of the settlement. As in the
older community at Brooklyn, where they still held public wor
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ship in a barn; so the infant church at New Harlem during this
time had no better sanctuary than a private house, or outbuilding;
as happened once again, for a like term of Xears, at the close
of the Revolutionary War.
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CHAPTER XII.
I661-I662.
REARRANGEMEINT 01O LANDS: NEW ALLOTMENTS.
T OBACCO, though still cultivated, had been supplanted as a
leading crop by others needed for home consumption,
mainly wheat, maize, rye, buckwheat, peas, flax, etc. But although
full garners of corn,-which term then stood for all the grains,
-were rewarding the toil of these husbandmen, as yet they had
no mill to grind it. This was now the felt need. If, with their
grist in the canoe, they rowed some miles to Burger Joris' mill
at the Dutch Kills, being the nearest; this at best could only
grind three schepels per day, or two and a quarter bushels, on
the word of Mark Disosway, who had lately run it under a lease!
To the distance, the dangers of Hellgate added an objection.
It had been contemplated to build a tide mill and dam upon Montagne's Kill, and many thought the time come to act upon it.
But needing no demonstration, while backed by those convincing
Dutch arguments, capacious stomachs and good appetites, yet
the effort spent itself in fluent talk and foaming beakers; and
it was not undertaken till done by the energy and capital of a
distinguished stranger.
But out of the mill question while yet rife, and the demand
for additional homes and bouweries to supply the newly-arriving colonists, grew another plausible project. The farm Vredendal, stretching along the stream aforesaid, and still owned by
Dr. Montagne, had lain for some years unused, except as cattle
and goats browsed in its deserted clearings and woodlands. The
Montagne family now proposed to occupy it, as is set forth in
the following petition to the Director and Council, July 4th, I66I:
To the Noble, Great and Worshipful, the Director-General and High
Council in New Netherland: Represent with due respect, John De La
Montagne, Junior, Jacob Kip, who married the daughter of La Montagne, Senior, and William De La Montagne, for themselves and in behalf
of the absent heirs, the true proprietors, pursuant to the letters patent,
of the land lying back of New Harlem, called Vredendal, or commonly,
Montagne's Land, to your Honors well known; how that they the peti
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tioners are willing and inclined to take possession of their land, which is
situated nearly a mile (cnr quarticr zcrgacns) from New Harlem. And
whereas from there it cannot be conveniently cultivated, lying beyond a
kill, whereon in time a water-mill for the use of the said village can,
and as they are now informed, is actually to be made; and whereas they
the petitioners,-for whose greater convenience it will not only serve, in
the cultivation of their lands there, but will be for the better protection
of the village of New Harlem, as for the benefit of the said mill, and
also afford a resting place for strangers, whether they have lost their
way, or be looking for their cattle, or others,-are inclined to form
there a concentration of six, eight or ten families, to remain under the
jurisdiction of New Harlem, in a similar manner as this has been granted
by your Honors to others; they therefore with all respect petition that
they may be allowed to establish such concentration there, either on the
point of the flat land, opposite the place where the mill is to be built,
on the heights near the spring (fonteyn)* or otherwise wherever your
Honors may deem most proper, within the jurisdiction of New Harlem;
which, if your Honors are pleased to permit, they promise to settle there
before the next winter, six, eight or ten families. Praying your Honors'
favorable consideration of this request, we remain your Honors' servants,
LA MONTAGNF., Junior.
JAcoB KiP,.
WIIL,IEM D)i: LA AI()NT'AGNF.
To this came the following negative: "The request is dismissed, because it is tending to the great prejudice and retarding
of the village of Harlem; and is also contrary to the privileges
granted said village some years ago." Though he does not
expressly say it, we doubt not the Director, even then, had his
own purpose in regard to the Montagne lands; to be made manifest in due time, and that not far distant.
The decision was highly satisfactory to the people of Harlem,
for several reasons. A rival settlement so near them, ind(leed
within their very limits, was not to be thought of! Not only
would it tend to weaken them by drawing awav some whom
they could ill afford to spare, but would naturally attract l)ersons
who otherwise would come hither to settle. Thus it would
greatly obstruct and hinder their l)resent growth; and, looking
to the future, the very lands proposed to be settled. would be
required for the proper subsistence and (levelopment of their
own village. For three years this had been steadily growing,
and at the close of I661 contained over thirty adult male residents, mostly heads of families and freeholders. The following
* Montagne's S)ring.-Perennially flowing, as in the virgin days of the settlement, this spring is still to be found in Central Park. Its source is on a hillside, at a
point (where the ways mentioned extended into the Park) on the line of Iosth Street,
some 200 feet west of Sixth Avenue. But this natural basin is now covered over, the
water being led by a subterranean conduit to the foot of the hill, where, in a secluded,
romantic nook in the rocks, it again leaps forth as playfully as of old, when it was
known among the Dutch inhabitants as the "fonteyn;" whence, in following its ancient
outlet or run, it is soon lost in the modern Harlem Lake. Should it not be called
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are the names of these pioneers, who first succeeded in planting
the seeds of civilization and religion in this vicinity.
\lichel Zyperus, French. Jan Sneden, Hollander.
Jan La Montague, Jr., " Michiel Janse Muyden,
Daniel Tourneur, " Lubbert Gerritsen,
Jean Le Roy, " eyndert Coertein,
Pierre Cresson, " Aert Pietersen Buys,
Jaques Cresson, " Sigismundus Lucas,
Philippe Casier, " Jan Pietersen Slot, Dane.
David Uzille, Nicolaes De Meyer,
Jacques Cousseau, " Jan Laurens Duyts,
Philippe Presto, " Jacob Elderts Brouwer,
Francois Le Sueur, " Nelis Matthyssen, Swede.
Simon De Ruine, Walloon. Monis Peterson Staeck,
i)avid Du Four, " Jan Cogu,
Jean Gervoe, " Adolph Meyer, German.
Jan De Pre, ' Adam Dericksen,
Dirck Claessen, Hollander. Hendrick Karstens,
La Alontagne, of all these, had been longest in the country,
namely, twenty-five years; and Duyts was the only one born here,
being twenty years of age, and the son of Laurens Duyts, who
came out with Bronck, the good Kuyter having stood as godfather for Jan at his baptism. Karstens, Gerritsen, and Claessen
had had a dozen or more years' experience in the New World,
Tourneur and Le Roy nearly ten, but the others less. Casier,
LUzille, and Meyer, had come to Harlem only the last year.
Casier and family arrived here from Mannheim in June, I66o,
having in company Matthew Blanchan, and his son-in-law, Antoine Crepel; these two going to Esopus, while Casier, at New
Amsterdam, engaged, "with his three beside," in timber sawing.
Here De Meyer and Cousseau were in trade, as had been Montagne, and Tourneur was a "sworn butcher." Slot and Matthyssen were carpenters, Muyden a soap-boiler, De Pre a cooper,
Claessen a pot-baker, Elderts a brewersman, Lucas a shoemaker,
Gervoe and Coerten soldiers, Karstens, before a seaman, now
worked as a mason, and Cogu had a lime-kiln, and soon took
in Staeck as partner. Most of tfiese also took up land. Possibly one or more, who appear a little later, should be added.
Several had already gone, after a short stay, as Matthys Boon
and Simon Lane, of whom we know little but their names.*
* Blanchan and Crepel (now written Crispell) were originally from Artois, as
before stated; and the first of some note in his native town of Nouville le-Conte.
With him came his wife, Madeleine Goore, and (beside Maria, Mrs. Crepel), three
other children, viz., Madeleine, aged 12 years; Elizabeth, 9, and Matthew, 5, the
last born at Mannheim. Stuyvesant welcomed them and gave Blanchan a letter to
Sergt. Romp, at Esopus, directing him to provide them accommodation. Arrived
there, and D)ominie Blom having also come, it was a solace to the pious Blanchan, for
all he had suffered, and the loss of property in his native, place, and at Armentieres
(Flanders), and elsewhere, to sit down with his wife and son and daughter Crepel,
at the Lord's Supper, on l)ecember 25, ensuing. Louis Du Bois, married to
Blanchan's daughter Catherine, probably came out with his brother-in-law, Pierre
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From what has heretofore been said of these colonists, of
their rough and checkered experiences before quitting the shores
of Europe, we cannot but regard their future with special interest, while better facilities will be found to study their individual
character. Little remains to be said of them in generalities.
Though the Dutch and French elements were dominant in giving
tone to the community, the Scandinavians and Germans, few
in number as seen, were second to none for sterling commonsense, while foremost to breast danger and hardship, to wield
the axe whose ring first startled the slumbering forest, or turn
the first furrow in the virgin soil. Hardy sons of toil, bred to
habits of untiring industry, none were more fitted for the task
of converting the rude wilds into an abode for civilization.
Frank and outspoken, but of honest aim and dealing, with essentially the same language, which was closely allied to that of
the Dutcl, toward whom, as Protestants, they were drawn in
sympathy, they readily assimilated to the latter; and if less indebted than these to the schoolmaster, being in great part unable
to read or write, this was in a degree supplied by their native
good sense and equanimity, which contributed not a little to harmonize the diverse elements composing the settlement, and to
mold them into a well-ordered society.
"Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;
How jocund did they drive their team afield,
HIow bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor."
By the large influx of settlers, who with scarcely an exception gave their attention to farming, either as proprietors or
Pilliou, also from Artois, in the ship St. Jan Baptist, which arrived here August 6,
i66 I-reasons, Du Bois and wife were not present at the communion season referred
to, but with letters joined the church there not until October i, I661, having a child
baptized nine days after. Blanchan, Du Bois and Crepel all got land in Hurley, near
Kingston, and received groundbriefs April 25, 1663. Du Bois died at Kingston in
1696, and his widow married Jean Cottin, named page 71. On May I8, 1679, Blanchan,
Jr., married Margaret Van Schoonhoven, and succeeded to lhis father's farm in
Hurley, left beside four daughters, a son, Nicholas, whence all of the name in Ulster
County descend. His sister, Madeleine, born in England, married Jan Matthysz,
ancestor of the Jansen family, as before noticed. Iis other sister, Elizabeth Blanchan, married Pieter Cornelisz Low, of Kingston, whose progeny have been numerous
and widespread. Cornelius I,ow, of New Jersey, born 1670, was eldest son of Pieter,
and father of Cornelius, father of Isaac and Nicholas Low, leading merchants of
New York in their day. The first was President of the Chamber of Commerce, but
when Independence was declared forsook the "Liberty Boys" and adhered to the
Royal cause; while his brother Nicholas continued an active patriot, and was a
member of the Convention of New York for adopting the Constitution of the United
States. See Steven's Chamber of Commerce. Honored names in various sections of
our country have been and still are those of Blanchan, Du Bois, Crispell, Jansen
and Low.
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I85
tenants, the original allotments of land had all been taken up,
causing the demand, before noticed, for additional erven and
bouwlots. It was a want now equally felt by other villages, and
as a first step toward meeting it the government resolved to inform itself as to what lands were available (tracts lying unimproved, and not needed as pasturage or woodland), that these
might be distributed to settlers and brought under tillage. With
this in view the Director and Council issued a general order, of
which the people of Harlem received a copy, as follows:
All Inhabitants of New Netherland, and especially those of the Village of New Harlem, with all others who have or claim any Lands
thereabouts, are ordered and commanded that within the space of three
months from the date hereof, or at least before the first of January next,
they shall have all the cultivated and uncultivated Lands which they
claim, surveyed by the sworn Surveyor, and set off and designated by
proper marks; and on the exhibition of the Return of Survey thereof,
apply for and obtain a regular Patent as proof of property, on pain of
being deprived of their right; To the end that the Director-General and
Council may dispose, as they deem proper, of the remaining Lands, which,
after the survey, may happen to fall outside of the Patents, for the
accommodation of others. All are hereby warned against loss and after
complaints. Thus done, in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the
15th of September, I66I.
Thllis order moved the community to give immediate attention
to the whole subject of their lands, it being necessary for each
inhabitant to consider and decide what quantity he further
needed and could pay for. The idea largely prevailed, and very
naturally, that the ordinance for planting the village secured to
all able to purchase and improve that quantity, as high as 24
morgen and bouwland. The magistrates and freeholders having
canvassed the matter and laid it before Gov. Stuyvesant, he gave
his assent to the following measures, looking to a further distribution of land, and in connection therewith, to some conveni-
ent changes in the old lots. Discarding the former groundbriefs, Van Keulen's Hook and Ipntagne's Flat were to be laid
off into lots and distributed among the freeholders. It was
agreed that John La Montagne should hold the Point, as having
belonged to his father, and take his full allotment there, by
throwing up his lot No. I, on Jochem Pieters; and as a special
immunity should enjoy the Point free from any future demands
in the way of town tax. He was to conform to the town regulation against building upon the bouwlots, and was not to build or
live upon the Point till the town saw fit to allow it. Jan Pieters
Slot and Simon De Ruine, owning two lots apiece on Jochem
Pieters, also consented to give up one each, lying toward the
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further endl; instead of which Slot was to draw nine morgen together on Van Keulen's Hook, and De Ruine to draw a lot, three
morgen, on said tract, and enough more on Montagne's Flat to
make good his quantity. Moreover, both were to retain their
two erven.
All this being arranged, the lots on Jochem Pieters,' now
numbering but twenty-two, were staked out anew, and to each lot
(before six morgen) was added 400 Dutch rods, or two-thirds of a
morgen; a remnant of three and one-third, left of No. I, being
taken to enlarge the gardens. The owner next adjoining to No.
i, Daniel Tourneur, to whom fell part of that lot with part of
No. 2, now became No. i; a similar change occurring to the next
owner, and so on.
Van Keulen's Hook, the large plain directly south of the
village, and lying mostly in woods, was laid off into lots, narrow
and long, and these, for convenience of ingress and ultimate
improvement, were, excepting the first three, butted on the
main street, from which they ran south to the river and Mill
Creek; being each twelve Dutch rods in breadth, and containing three morgen, or about six acres. Twenty-two lots were laid
out, as on Jochem Pieters, and numbered from the river westward. Nos. I to 3, instead of reaching up, as (lid the others, to
the village street, ended at the marsh or meadows, some acres in
extent, which lay intervening, and through which a creek, forked
and winding, overflowed its banks or lapsed to its muddy
channel with the tidal flood and ebb. The upland between
streets and meadows was reserved for the common use of the
village, and to allow free access to the creek-side and small cove
at its outlet, which was the usual landing-place for the villagers
and others, as it afforded a safe mooring for canoes and skiffs.
The Van Keulen Hook lots were drawn in the beginning of
I662, the original owners being as follows:
No. i. David Du Four. No. 12. Simon )e Ruine.
2. Jan Cogu. " I3. Adam Dericksen.
3. Lubbert Gerritsen. " I4. Jaques Cresson.
4. Michel Zyperus. ' 1. Nicolaes De l\eyer.
5. Daniel Tourneur. ' T6. David Uzille.
6. Sigismund Lucas. 1 7. Dirck Claessen.
7. Jan Pietersen Slot. I8. Jan Sneden.
8. '" " ' 19. Jan De Pre.
9. ".. 20. Pierre Cresson.
Io. Philippe Casier. 21. Jacques Cousseau.
". Jean Gervoe. 22. Jean Le Roy.t
* Jochem Pieter's Flat, with the history of the several lots, showing the origin
of the titles in this section, is treated of in Appendix E.
t See the subsequent history of the Van Keulen Hook lots in Appendix F.
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An episode of these land operations here claims a notice,the first "Harlem Land Case," not reported, we believe, either
in Wheaton or Wendell! Sigismundus Lucas, as his autograph
is, working long and lustily on his cobbler's bench, had gotten
him "a house, barn and plantation at New Harlem." Iiut
early in January, I662, he agreed to sell out to Nicholas l)e
Meyer, then a Harlem freeholder, for 400 gl. in sewant. Going
home from New Amsterdam, where the bargain had been made,
Cobbler Lucas considered the many stitches that property had
cost him, sorely repented his act, and tried to back out, on the
ground that De Meyer had given him till morning to decide if
he would sell. De Meyer began to smell leather, and forthwith
took written statements from two witnesses to the bargain, and
also that of Evert Duyckinck, whom Lucas had told of having sold his farm to De Meyer, but did not think "the costs
would run so high." Coming in court at Harlem, January
13th, De Meyer claimed the property, showing his papers, and
offering also the testimony of Meyndert Coerten, who had heard
defendant admit the sale. Lucas, who was present, demurre(l.
pleading that the sale was not peremptory; that Coerten, having
hired land of De M\eyer, was an interested witness, and that the
affidavits were not sworn to. The last objection was sustained,
and the case was adjourned, to give plaintiff time to remedy this
defect. This was done the next dav before the Heer Tonneman, schout of New Amsterdam. On the i6th the town court
again examined the papers and heard the pleas of both parties;
then ordered Lucas to give up the farm on receiving the price,
and to pay the costs of suit. But in vain did De Meyer send
once, twice, thrice, to tender the money and demand the (lelivery of the premises; the resolute cobbler, maintaining his
ends, only waxed firmer in his refusal, so that on a further complaint, February 2(1, the court authorized De Mleyer to take possession. Now Lucas, still showing his bristles, appealed to the
-)irector and Council, praying "to be relieved of the sale to De
Ileyer, and the sentence of the court at Harlem, in whose jurisdiction said houses and lands are situated, as he loses by that
sale more than half of their value." He was directed to give
De Meyer a copy of the petition, and notify him when to appear
and answer. On February i6th both parties presented themselves, when the Director and Council, after reviewing the case,
confirmed the action of the local court, and held Lucas to his
bargain. The poor shoemaker had held on to the last, but must
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now vieldl up his all (indeed his awl was now everything to
him!), and in disgust he soon left the town."
It may be added that, two years later, or January 2Qth, I664,
De Meyer obtained a patent from Gov. Stuyvesant for his several lands in Harlem, then including twelve morgen upon Montague's Flat; which tract, as proposed, had been divided up
among the people of Harlem, and to the l)articular history of
which we now return.
John La M\ontagne, after the project to form a new settlement on the farm Vredendal had failed, continued at Harlem,
one of the most useful and honored of its inhabitants. The
Director and Council, November 3d, I66I, appointed him
schepen, with Slot and Tourneur as associates; and when Slot
retired a year later, he succeeded as schout, which office he retained till the Dutch rule ended. He was the first Town Clerk,
so far as appears from the earliest protocol or register, but
which commences only with January 13, I662, leaving the preceding sixteen months a blank; an unfortunate vacuum at the
introduction of the town history, though partially filled by other
records. But from this (late Montagne's minutes (save another
hiatus of fifteen months) are quite complete for ten years, up to
his death.
However thwarted were the MIontagnes in their plans respecting Vredendal, they yielded gracefully to the alternative which
secured to John La Montagne, the doctor's eldest son, that part
of the property called the Point, of which his father was the
original grantee, but surrendered the Flat to the government,
to be parceled out to such of the people of Harlem as still
wanted more land, and upon terms which, though not stated,
probably did not differ from those of the previous allotments,
* Sigismund Lucas, on quitting Harlem, bought him a house in Pearl Street. He
was sued in the Court of Burgomasters, January I5, I664, for a pair of shoes left to
he mended "during the Indian troubles" of the previous year. They were "stuffed
into the straw bed," for safe keeping, as he had "neither kit nor chest in which to
lock them." The case was dismissed upon Simon making oath "that he knew not
what became of them." I-Ie now threw aside his cobbler tools to become a carman,
and on the Dutch reoccupation, I673, good loyal Dutchman, lie worked gratis at the
city defenses, only taking pay for horse and cart. But the English succeeding, the
sheriff wished Simon to "cart down a cable," by order of Governor Andros; but now
in other mood re refused, saying "he would not cart for the Governor, nor nobody
else." Hereupon the Mayor's Court, December 22, I674, "Ordered that he shall cart
noe more until ye Court think meete to admit him thereto." He and wife made a
joint will "Sunday evening about eight o'clock," September T7, I673, which he survived four years at least, but both were dead when the will was proved in court.
April 26, i68i. The Court, October I I ensuing, authorized his effects to be "sold
at an outcry for payment of debts. HIe left by his first wife, Engeltie Jans, a
daughter, Maria, who married Andre Lauran, of the French Church, and by his
second wife, Gertrude Bulderen, a son, who wrote his name Johannes Simensz, also
a cordwainer, later a carman, in New York, and admitted a freeman July 19, I726.
He married, 1692, Phebe, daughter of Capt. Titus Syrachs de Vries, of Flatbush.
Her brothers bore the name of Titus (see Annals of Newtown), one of whom, Syrach
Titus removed to 1Bensalem, Bucks County, Pa., died I761, and left descendants
there. IHazard's Reg., 7: 30.
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but without doubt looking to a liquidation of the large debt due
from Dr. Montagne to the company. While John La Montagne
was to remain the possessor of the Point, which was rated at sixteen morgen, it was open to his brother William (we think then
engaged to succeed Zyperus as schoolmaster, and hence usually
styled by his brother "Meester Willem"), if he should become a
freeholder, in same manner as others, by the purchase of the
usual allotment, to draw with them his prol)ortionate share of
the Flat, enough to give him likewise sixteen morgen. It was
clearly a compromise regarding \redendal, arranged, as it could
only be, with the sanction and by order of the Director and Council; and the correspondence which at this time these were having
with Dr. Montagne respecting his long-standing indebtedness to
the company, and for which they strongly censured him, shows
that their action as aforesaid was a stern necessity.*
The question of the disposal of the Flat was intimately connected with another of vital interest to the community. 'The
three years allowed them in which to pay for their lands had
nearly expired, and with not a few it became a difficult problem how they should provide the 8 gl. per morgen which
the government must have. In this dilemma the schepens represented to the Director and Council, March 9th, I662, what
embarrassment several of the inhabitants must experience if
compelled at once to pay the purchase money for their lands,
eight guilders per morgen, and praying to be relieved of this
payment; in lieu of which they proposed that the term of fifteen
years' exemption from tithes should be shortened to ten years.
To this the Director and Council would not assent, but in
their answer "insist upon the conditions on which the village
of Harlem has been laid out." But they added: "No person is
obliged to accept more land than it is convenient for him to pay
for."
It was plainly owing to the difficulty of raising this morgenmoney, or morgen-gelt, as called (a term also denoting any tax
assessed according to the morgen), that a number of persons quit
the town during this year, to try their fortunes elsewhere; as
well landholders as others designing to become such. Of these
were Coerten, De Pre, Du Four, Gervoe and Le Sueur.t Du
* See a letter from Montagne upon this subject, with touching allusion to his
needy circumstances and frugality of living, Appendix D.
t Meyndert Coerten, from Arnhem, came out as a soldier of the West Indian Company. He married in i660 a girl of Picard parentage, Maria, daughter of Pierre,
Pia, and visited Holland, returning the next year in the ship with Muyden, who probably drew him to Harlem. Here he leased land of De Meyer, and kept stock. In his
brief residence he won respect, and the court honored his abilities in naming him with
o 1 HISTO()RY ()F HARLEM.
Tour sol(l out his allotmlent to Jacob Eldertsen, a sturdyl Dane
from Lubeck, and late a brewersman, who resold it, June Ist,
I662, to Jean Le Roy, for 350 gl. But these few withdrawals
only) making place for others, it was soon apparent that all the
land now to be (listributetl woutld be eagerly taken. The following list was made out by Mlontagne, at a mneeting of the resident
proprietors, called to ascertain how munch land they wanted:
List of Lands at N. Hl-arlem, according to each one's request, I4th
March, 1662.
Jan Pietersen Slot. 24 morgen.
Daniel Tourneur, 24
M[ichel Zypernls, 18
Ilbbert Gerritsen, 24
Adam L)ericksen, 6
David Du Four, "
Simon De Ruine, 2
Jan Cogu and t,0
Mlonis Peterson,
Jean Gervoe, 10
Hendrick Karstens, 6
WVidow of Jan Sneden, 4
Philip Casier, 24 "
Jan De Pre, absent.
Jaques Cresson, 12
Simon Lucas, 10
Peter Cresson, 8
These bids were made writh obvious reference to the offers in
the ordinance of i658., as the quantities indicate. 1tit to meet
these tlemands, as was applarent, must exhaust the allotments
proposedl to be Imatle on AIontagne's Flat, to the exclusion of
soime of the ablest proprietors, living in the city and not now
present, as I)e fMeyer, Cousseau, Claessen, and I\thyden. In such
case the government could only tse its discretion in revising the
list. It (lecitled that sixteen morgen ntmust at present be the
maxinmum of a single allotment. Slot was therefore (lropped(l
others raise(l to sai(l number of mIorgen, except asking for less.
Ilut of course we cannot know all the reasons which weighed in
making utp the list.
Upon such circumstances was the Flat nowx laid out into
Iarcels of fromi four to six morgen each, by an actual survey;
running in narrow strips from the little creek dtue west to the
1)ooilnie Zyperus, 1February 16, I662, to settle a financial dispute hetween Cogu and
Tourneur. C'ocrten soon Nwent to Flusiling, and thence to New Utrecht, where hc
arose to position ans serived as an elder. liTTe was high sheriff under Leisler, and
one of his council; but his devotion to that party cost him a long imprisonment. Tn
1698 he represented King.s County in the General Assembly. HTe died on1 his farm,
Ilruynshurg, about 1706, il a good o)ld age. For his children, see the lBergen Gen.,
Ist edition; not in 2d edition, as later evidence changed the opinioni that lie was of
the an \Voorhees family.
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hills, originally some twelve lots, and numl)ered from south to
north. As near as can be told, the first owners were Nicholas
De Meyer, Lubbert Gerritsen, William De La Montagne, Simon
De Ruine, Derick Claessen, Do. Zvperus, Jean Le Roy, Jacques
Cousseau, and Daniel Tourneur. De Meyer, as owning two
allotments, obtained two lots on the Flat; and so of Cousseau.
Mlontagne had lot No. 4, being six and a half morgen, he having
met the required conditions by purchasing, April 7th, I662, fronl
Jan De Pre,* who had advertised to sell the same at auction, his
"house, house-lot (erf), garden, and land,"-the land being No.
7 Jochem Pieters. Lot 19, Van Keulen's Hook, also made part
of this allotment. But after a temporary residence, M1ontagne
sold out to his brother, John, and returned to Albany, whence he
removed to Esopus, married, and was long the parish clerk. Had
we no other evidence of this alienation of Montagne's Flat, the
bare fact that while Dr. Montagne and his sons were yet living
these lands are found divided up, and in the possession of several
other of the Harlem people, nearly all holding under special
patents from the Governors Stuyvesant, Nicolls and Lovelace,
is evidence prima facie that the title had passed from the original
owners; a conclusion which none may now gainsay, without
ignoring the official acts of the government in the issuing of these
patents.t
The spirit of land speculation, infecting few places as it has
Harlem, is in no wise peculiar to our century. In the days under
review, and mainly for the cause we have stated, many transfers
of land took place, the buyers the more thrifty class, with usually
a keen eye to a bargain. Very informal was the legal act of
transfer. The earliest deeds, most simple and brief, seem especially defective in describing the property. But this information was supplied by the original surveys and allotment lists on
file with the town clerk, while no complex chain of title embarrassed the question either of location or propriety. That of
* Jan de Pre, born at Commines in i635-a Fleming, but of Walloon or French
descent, judging from his surname-was a cooper, and before coming to Harlem lived
several years as a "small burgher" in New Amsterdam, where he married, in 1655,
a Scotch lassie, Margaret, daughter of John Cromartie. His present wife was
Jannetie, daughter of Simon de Ruine, married in I659. De Pre finally went to New
Utrecht, and thence to Staten Island. By his first wife he had Andries, born I656
(but one child, called a daughter, is referred to in his marriage settlement of December 31, 1659), and by his second wife, Jannetie, born 1662, Francina, 1665, Maria,
1667, John, I671, Simon, I676. Jannetie married Cornelius Banta, of Hackensack,
where her uncles, the Demarests, resided. She died and Banta married her cousin,
Magdalena Demarest. Banta was a son of Epke Jacobs Banta, farmer from Harlingen, common ancester of the prolific family bearing that name, and who, with his
wife and five children, emigrated in the ship with Simon de Ruine. How often the
acquaintance thus formed proved a link uniting the fortunes of the children!
t See further remarks upon Montagne's Flat under the year 1673, and in Appen(lix CG.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
boundary came up occasionally. Payment was made, not by bank
check, but either in sewant, in beaver skins, in cattle, grain, or
tobacco; and property was often sold subject, because not previously paid, to the morgen-gelt (before explained), the meet-gelt,
or survey money, the cost of groundbrief, and, in sales by vendue,
the stuyver-gelt, or auctioneer's fees. A curious sample is the
deed to Montagne, before mentioned, the earliest save one to be
found of date subsequent to the planting of the village. It was
drawn up by Do. Zyperus, as the clerk was an interested party,
being brother of the grantee, and otherwise involved in the transaction of which this purchase was a part. The morgen money
being unpaid, the consideration named was only for the improve,
ments and improved value of the land. As the scribe forgets to
tell us where the contract was signed and sealed, and where on
this mundane sphere the land was situated, we judge he was
not an experienced clerk. In the Dominie's neat Dutch penmanship it still stands in the protocol.
On this date, the 7th of April A~. 1662, have agreed and bargained,
Jan De Pre, on the one side, and Wilhelm Montagnie on the other, in
relation to, and over the sale of his allotment bought of Simon Lane,*
on the following conditions. Jan De Pre acknowledges to have sold his
house and house lot, land and garden, all that is fast by earth and nail,
to Wilhelm Miontagnie, for one Cow and Fifteen Guilders in sewant, the
which he acknowledges to have received. The purchaser shall be held
to pay the morgen money and the survey money. This all so done, and
have with our hands subscribed. Dated as above.
Witness, JAN DE PR,,,
M. ZYPERUS. WILULiM DE LA MONTAGNE.
A~. 1662.
In executing a deed, a bill of sale, lease, or other contract, custom required the parties to appear with two witnesses before the
town secretary, who, after hearing their statement, wrote out
the instrument in his register, receiving for such service a fee of
thirty stivers. When signed by all the parties, this remained
as the original; but if desired, an attested copy was furnished by
the secretary for an additional fee of twenty stivers. Wills, in
the making of which the wife commonly joined with her husband (thus it was mutually fair and mutually binding) were
executed in a similar way. A will in the usual form gave to
"the longest liver" the use of the property for life or till a re* As first written it read "his lot No. 7," but Zyperus erased "No. 7," and
inserted instead "gecocht van Symen Leen," i. e., bought of Simon Lane. It was to
save misapprehension, as Lane had held and was registered for No. 8, though changing with the rest when Jan Montagne vacated No. i, he now held No. 7; and further
the allotment carried with it No. 19, Van Keulen's Hook, just drawn by De Pre. Hence
"No. 7" fell short of the proper description; yet without this number we could
hardly identify the lot conveyed.
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193
marriage, after which it went equally to the children or other
heirs. Sometimes in default of heirs it fell to the deacons for
the benefit of the church or poor.
The grant of the commons west of the village for grazing
purposes, of which we soon find the inhabitants in the peaceable
enjoyment, must have dated from the very origin of the settlement; for while such grant unfortunately does not remain of
record, it logically follows from the necessities of the case, the
keeping and increase of cattle promising the facilities for doing
it, and to which the settlers were directly encouraged in the
ordinance of 1658, by the promise of "a cattle and horse fair."
The extent of the first grant for the range of their cattle was
probably left indefinite, to be determined by the future needs of
the place, but it seems at least to have embraced the entire flats
to the westward. The kine of the village, now much increased,
were liable, if not carefully looked after, and with no fences to
hinder them, to stray off and become lost in the woods and
swamps. So, to save the time of many, it was resolved to employ a common herder, who should collect the cows after milking in the morning, drive them with the oxen out to pasture, and
watch over them till brought in again toward evening. Hence
was made the following:
Agreement with the Cow Herder.
I, David Du Four do acknowledge to have taken the cows to herd,
belonging to the Town of New Harlem, at my own expense, and also
from each house one pair of oxen; for the sum of three hundred guilders
in sewant, and one-half pound of butter for every cow; provided I pay
for the cattle that may be lost through my neglect. The time shall commence on the 23d of April, and end a fortnight after All-Saints' Day, at
the option of the Inhabitants. It is also stipulated that the butter shall
be paid in May, and the further payment as the Herder shall perform
his work. Also the Herder grants power of parate executie. The above
obligation we on both sides engage to hold to and fulfil. In N. Ha.erlem,
20th April, Anno I662.
DAVIT DU FOUR,.
I P [mark of JAN P. SLOT],
b. TOURNEUR,
Daniel Tourneur and Lubbert Ger- M. J. MUYDEN,
ritsen promise to collect and J. LA MONTAGNE, Junior,
pay the Herder money at the ap- * mark of LUBBERT GERRITS,
pointed time. Dated as above. M/YNDERT COERTEN,
D. TOURNEUR. PHILIPPEI CASIER,
* HH H. KARSTENS,
SIMON + DE RUINE,
JE mark of JACOB ELDERTS,
MOY PIER CRESSON.
Du Four, the Amsterdam drayman, better at driving a team
than stupid cows, was soon disgusted with his new occupation,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
and turned it over to Jean Gervoe, the soldier. But now the
cattle were not well looked after, as was alleged; in fact, some
of the oxen, when needed for the yoke, were missing. As things
went, it was necessary to engage another herder, and on April
29th Jan Cogu and MIonis Peterson, who were partners in a
lime-kiln, etc., undertook the herding for 350 gl., being 50 gl.
more than Du Four was to have. The collectors, Tourneur and
Gerritsen, sued Du Four to recover the difference, and the town
court decided he must pay it, the defendant only making the
flimsy plea that he "was led by artful talk" to undertake the
herding.*Meanwhile occurred the first case of mortality brought to
our notice in the little community, and soon another. The persons were Jan Sneden and his wife, who died in quick succession early in the year. Descended of an Amsterdam family,
as before stated, Sneden came to Harlem in I66o, where he occupied Monis Peterson's house and bouwery, but soon secured
an allotment of his own, being No. 14 Jochem Pieters, with the
erf and garden belonging to it. The Snedens were probably interred in the ground used later for the negroes, and lying at the
rear of the Judah plot, as interments were made there many
years before "the old graveyard," removed a dozen years since,
was taken for that use. The magistrates proceeded to settle
Sneden's estate, as he was indebted to Isaac De Forest and
others. His property was sold at vendue on three separate
days, beginning March 25th. First the house and lands, with
the grain on the latter sown by Sneden the previous fall, were,
pursuant to notice, set up, and struck off at 135 gl. to Jaques
Cousseau, who bid 25 gl. over his highest competitor, Tourneur.
Jan La Montagne bid Ioo gl., perhaps for his brother, who had
not then purchased. At the two subsequent sales the household
articles were disposed of, bringing 189 gl. But a mere pittance,
42 gl., was left to the orphans, Carsten and Grietie, over whom,
on April 28th, Philip Casier and Lubbert Gerritsen were appointed guardians, with directions "to act according to law."
Grietie soon chose another protector, being married, August I3th
* Jena Gervoe, who apparently came out under an engagement as a soldier, had
done such duty for several years at Harlem, but was free when not required to bear
his musket, to till the land which he had taken up, or engage in other honest labor.
But on leaving, in 1662, he sold his allotment, being, Nos. I3, Jochem Pieters, and II,
Van Keulen's Hook, with house and lot and meadows, to Philip Casier. He served
as adelborst, cadet or corporal, under Lieut. Stilwell, in the Esopus war, for which, on
his petition, January Io, 1664, he was allowed extra pay. He married in 1659, but
his only child mentioned was Hillegond, at whose baptism, March 5, I664, Jaques
Tuynier (Cresson) stood as godfather. When the English took the country, Gervoe
probably left with the Dutch forces.
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I95
following, to Jean Guenon, of Flushing, from which union have
sprung the now widely scattered Genung family.*
On November I6 new magistrates were appointed by the
Director and Council, from a double number nominated by the
old board. The new board consisted of Jan La Montagne,
Philip Casier and Derick Claessen. One of their first acts was
to provide for the more careful placing of houses and fences;
which some seem to have disregarded, to the damage of particular and general interests. It was to check this abuse, and also to
prevent any houses being put up outside the proper limits, that
the mlagistrates, November 25th, passed the following:
"The Hon. Heere Schepens find it good to alppoint and
authorize Jan P. Slot, former schepen, as Rooy-meester (surveyor of buildings), for the improvement and sightliness of the
village; and the builders shall every one be charged, after this
time, to set no fences nor houses in the absence of the Hon. Heer
Roov-meester."
Upon November 30th, Montagne's term as deacon having expired, Daniel Tourneur was chosen in his place, and also as
brandt-meester, or fire-warden. Simon De Ruine and Monis
Peterson were appointed keur-meesters van de heyningen, or inspectors of fences, in place of Hendrick Karstens and Adam
Dericksen; and a fine of three guilders was ordered against the
owners every time their fences should be found defective. The
court also directed "the fences at the north side of the village
to be set within fourteen days, under a penalty of two pounds
Flemish" for each failure,-equivalent to 12 gl. A placard to
that effect was posted up. This was called for by the great
damage done the past summer to the crops of peas and buckwheat upon the land of Jochem Pieters, from the cattle
getting in; and which the schout, Slot, had taken no means to
remedy, though the fence-masters and others had gone to him
with loud complaints. The new officers going to view the
fences, December i8th, found that Michiel Muyden, Hendrick J.
Vander Vin, Daniel Tourneur and Jean Le Roy had not complied
* Carsten Jansen Sneden, still at Harlem, entered Daniel Tourneur's service
January 15, i668, for a year, and at its expiration was to have 300 guilders and "a
pair of shoes and stockings." His uncle, Claes Sneden, lived in New York, where his
children by his wife Maria were baptized, between 1663 and 1667. He or Carsten was
no doubt the ancestor of the Snedens of Rockland County.
Jean (uenon died at Flushing, L. I., in I7I4. His will, made when he was in
perfect health, date November 24, 1703; that of his widow, Margaret, February 21,
1721-2. At the latter date their sons, John, born I669, and Jeremiah, born 1671,
were living; as also their daughters, Hannah, wife of Joseph Hedger, and Susannah,
wife of Louereer. John and Jeremiah Genung shared their father's farm in Flushing;
their descendants are now to be found in many parts, especially of the State of New
York.
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with the placard. They were all complained of December 27th,
by the new schout, who demanded the fines, viz.: from Muyden 24 gl. for his two lots, and 12 gl. each of the others. Tourneur pleaded sickness and other excuses, but the court exacted
the fine from him and from Le Roy, with costs of suit. Muyden
and Vander Vin, after being thrice in default, were also sentenced,
January 25th, I663, with order to pay inside of eight days.
It showed admirable pluck on the part of the magistracy to
thus deal with persons of the first standing; for Vander Vin
and Muyden were both great burghers of New Amsterdam, and
the first an ex-schepen. On several occasions, by invitation,
Muyden had occupied the bench at Harlem, as "an extraordinary schepen," his intelligence and fitness for the office leading
to a regular appointment soon after to fill a vacancy. He had
visited Holland in I66I, bringing out on his return a number
of hardy Norwegian workmen, and was now prosecuting the
business of soap-making. And thus closed I662, with its various measures of public utility and impartial dispensing of justice, alike necessary to protect and promote the common interests of the villagers.*
* Francois le Sueur, who left the town early in 1663, was the ancestor of the
families of Leseur and Lozier, now mostly seated in New York City and Bergen
County, N. J. Francois first lived in Flatbush after coming to Manhattan, and in
I659 married Jannetie, daughter of Hillebrand Pietersen, of Amsterdam; in which
year Jannetie's brother, Pieter Hillebrands, was captured by Indians at E1sopus, but
this did not deter her from removing there with her husband. Before going from
Harlem he sold some of his effects, and his wife bought "a little bed," etc., at Sneden's
sale. Le Sueur's sister, Jeanne, went with them to Esopus, and there married Cornelis
Viervant, with whom she returned to Harlem. Le Sueur was living in I670, but on
November 30, I67I, his widow bound out her son, Hillebrand, eight years old. He
was engaged by the deacons, in I673, to ring the bell at five guilders a year. Afterward
the widow married Antoine Tilba, and by him had children also. Those by Le Sueur,
all but the first, born at Esopus, were Jannetie, born i66o, who married Jan Postmael
(or Post) and Thomas Innis; Hillebrand, born I663, John and Jacob, born I665, and
Nicholas, born i668. Hillebrand married, i688, Elsie, daughter of Jurian Tappen, but
soon died, leaving apparently but one child, Jannetie, born I689, who married William
Elting. Hillebrand's widow married Abraham Delamater, previously of Harlem.
John, of Kingston, married Rachel Smedes, in i686, was an elder of the church, and
quite distinguished. He had Jannetie, born I687, John, born I689, Catherine, born
I692, etc., of whom the first married Abraham Low. Nicholas, whose branch of the
family write their name Lozier, married at New York, May 8, I691, Tryntie, daughter
of Peter Slot. He afterward left Kingston and settled near Hackensack, where he
married, in January, 1709, Antie, daughter of Derick Banta. His children were, Hillebrand, born i695; Peter, born I697; John, born I699; Mary, born 17oI; Antie,
born 1703; Lucas, born I705; Jacobus, born 1707; Benjamin, born 1708; Tryntie,
born 171o; Hester, born 1711; Rachel, born I714; Jacob, born 1719; Abraham, born
1721; Leah, born 1723, and Margaret, born I726. These intermarried with the
Demarests and others, but we must here leave them. In Ulster County the French
pronunciation of this name was, for a time, tolerably preserved in the form Lashier,
but is now extinct there, though the blood runs in the Post family and others.
CHAPTER XIII.
I663-1665.
STIRRING EIVENTS: END OC) T'HE DUTCH RUI]'.
IT happened that Pieter Jansen Slot, son of the ex-schepen, was
to wed a fair damsel of Ahasimus, by name Marritie Van
Winckel. The young roysters of the village hearing, on Friday,
February 2d, I663, that the bans had that day been registered,
were jubilant over the news, and set to work,-it was an ancient
rustic custom of fatherland,-to honor the happy Pieter by
planting a "May-tree" before his door. Now, some workmen
in the employ of Mr. Muyden and others, in for ruder sport,
not only raised "a horrible noise in the village by shouting, blowing horns, etc., while others were asleep," but proceeded to
deck the May-tree with ragged stockings; at which, when discovered by Pieter, he was very wroth, taking it as "a mockery
and insult." He at once cut the tree down, but the young
men brought another to take its place; when, as it lay before the
house, along came Muyden's men and hewed it in pieces. Not
to be baffled, the young folk the same night procured and raised
a third tree, which, however, shared the same fate.
On Sunday morning, February 4th, Jan Pietersen, at whose
house Pieter was staying and all this happened, made his complaint to Montagne, the schout; the masters also informing him
that their men were plotting other mischief, but they had no
power to prevent it. The schout, now going thither, ordered
the rioters to disperse; but they only defied him, and even
threatened him with their guns and axes. Only more enraged,
they gave the Sabbath to cutting down and burning the palisades
around Jaques Cresson's barn. Next morning Jacob Elderts,
who had lately bought a lot on Van Keulen's Hook, was engaged
bringing thatch from Bronck's meadow. Before he had spoken
"a single word," they caught and beat him, also wounding him
on the head. In vain "Meester Willem," who witnessed the assault, commanded them to desist. Perhaps it was to pay off El
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derts for the death of their countryman, Bruyn Barents, a cooper,
five years before; perhaps not. The two were then working in
a brewery at Brooklyn, and Bruyn made at Elderts with a knife,
when the latter, in self-defense, knocked him down with a sledge.
Bruyn lingered six months, and died February I2th, I658. As
the case stood, Jacob was arrested, but let off by the court with
a fine of Ioo gl. for the wounding. But be this the explanation
or not, the schout seeing the rioters heeded not his authority,
and apprehending further trouble, hastened, the same day, to
inform the Director, who, with the Council, referred the matter
to the Attorney-General, "to take further information about it."
Here ended, or is lost sight of, this almost tragedy; the public attention at Harlem being absorbed by the death, in quick
succession, of two worthy inhabitants, Adam Dericksen and
Philip Casier. Dericksen was from Cologne, owned an allotment of land and had served as inspector of fences with Hendrick Karstens in I66I-2. In the first of these years he married
Magdalena, daughter of Lambert Van Telckhuys. Left with
an infant Grietie, his widow, a few months later, became the
wife of Monis Peterson. In the death of Casier the community
lost one of its sterling men, a skilful farmer, and valued for his
experience and judgment. His place in the magistracy was filled,
April 23d, by the appointment of Michiel J. Muyden.The old question touching the payment for their lands now
came up in a somewhat different shape, and with better success.
The following memorial, explaining it, was drawn tip by Heer
* Philippe Casier, had he lived, must have proven a most useful inhabitant. His
adventurous voyage from France to the West Indies, back to Holland, thence up the
Rhine, and finally to this country, with his eight in family, are events in his life
already noticed. Another child, Sarah, was added in 1662, when Casier had become a
resident and landholder at Harlem. He and wife, Marie Taine, united with the church
October 2, of that year, and on November 16, he was made a magistrate. But near the
close of the ensuing winter, 1663, death arrested his usefulness. He had but just
sold, January ii, 1663, a lot on Van Keulen's Hook to Jacob Eldertsen, also called
Brouwer (Brewer), from his former occupation. Selling her lands to Joost Van Oblinus, the widow bought a house in the Markvelt-steegie, in New York, and lived there
for some years, with her sons, Jean and Jaques, who were bakers. In 1671 she married
Jean le Roy, of Harlem, and afterward went with him to Staten Island. Her daughter,
Hester, born at Sluis, in Flanders, married, in 1677, Jean Belleville, who was living
in I703. They had sons, Jean, born 1677; Philip, born 1679, etc. See Martino.
The younger daughter, Sarah Casier, married, I680, Jacques Guion, merchant, from
St. Martin, France, she being much his junior. His will, made May 3, I680, was
proved December i, 1604, and his widow admitted executrix. (uion visited Europe
in 1678. He owned 200 acres of land on Staten Island, granted him October 13, 1664,
on which some of the descendants still reside. Philip Casier's two sons, in 1673,
were members of Capt. Steenwyck's troop; but Jacques appears to have soon died
unmarried. Jean accompanied his mother to Staten Island, in 1676, obtaining that
year a grant of 80 acres of land on Long Neck. IHe married, in i680, Elizabeth,
daughter of John Damen, of Brooklyn. In 1701 he and his brother-in-law, Jean Belleville, owning an adjoining farm, with other neighbors like themselves, born French
subjects (Casier had his birth in the French island of Martinique), sent their names
to England, and were naturalized by act of Parliament. Casier made his will December 26, 1709, which was proved the next nonth, January 24, 1710. Susannah, a second wife, survived him. His children then living were Philip and Peter, who shared
his farm, and daughters Sophia and Elizabeth. Has not this name become Casey?
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Vander Vin; the clerk, Montagne, having now no personal interest in this matter apparently:
To the Noble, Great and Honorable, the Director-General and Council
in New Netherland:
The undersigned, owners and occupants of the lands within the
village and jurisdiction of New Harlem, respectfully represent, that to
their great surprise and solicitude, they have been informed that the eight
guilders which your Honors required said proprietors to pay for each
morgen of land taken by them, should be paid in beavers, or their value;
whereas this was not the understanding of your petitioners who, in regard
to the announcement made by your H}onors, on the 4th of March, 1658,
as to the privilege with which this village was to be favored, did not
otherwise conceive respecting the price set upon said land, but that payment thereof was to be made in sewant currency, according to the
customary usage. Had they understood differently, they would never
have agreed, nor could have been persuaded, to burden themselves with
so hard an undertaking as that of bringing those lands under cultivation,
besides paying thus heavily for them; and even yet the petitioners,
instead of finding themselves eased in their labors, have great difficulty
in making these lands fit for tillage, so they are now wholly discouraged,
as they did not apprehend that they should encounter the present difficulty. Wherefore, addressing themselves to your Honors, they pray that
your Honors may be pleased to declare, by a favorable answer on the
margin, that the petitioners may pay the eight guilders per morgen, in
sewant, in the usual course between man and man.*
JAN PIETERSEN, his mark IP DIRCK CLAESSEN.
HENDR. J. VANDR. VIN D. TOURNEUR.
JEAN LE ROY, his mark + MOY PIER CRESSON.
MOENIS PETERSON, his mark N. D'MEYER.
JAN LOURENS, his mark N SIMON DE RUINE, his mark +
COUSSEAU. MI. MIUvJYDEN.
HENDRICK KARSTENS, his mark H JAQUES CRESSON.
As the effect of their former decision upon this subject had
been to force some worthy persons to sell out their improvements and quit the town, the Director and Council now conceded
more than the petition asked for. The answer was as follows:
This i9th A[arch, I663. The foregoing petition being presented and
read, and besides this, the proposals of the schepens of the village of
New Harlem, made in the name of the inhabitants of that village having been heard and considered; the Director-General and Council, after
some debate pro and con, have resolved to relieve the inhabitants from
the payment of the eight guilders per morgen, which they agreed to
and were held to pay, by the terms upon which the lands were dis* Beaver and other furs, with sewant (see note p. 153, together formed the common currency among the settlers. Beaver was convenient for large payments, especiallv for remittances to Holland, as was sewant for small payments and for making
change, and this was the currency mainly used in all ordinary trading. But Leaver,
which was as gold, always commanding its fixed price, had become so scarce as often
not to be had for the payment of a debt, without going a long distance for it, even to
Fort Orange or the D)claware River; while sewant was plenty, and its value fluctuating.
Therefore this distinction; a guilder beaver, that is, a guilder payable in beaver, was
counted 40 cents, at the standard value of the guilder, but a guilder sewant was worth
only one-third of the former, or 13 1-3 cents, and depreciated still more. Hence a wide
difference how the bargain was, whether to pay the stipulated number of guilders in
beaver or in sewant.
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tributed; Provided, that the said inhabitants, in lieu of an exemption
from tithes for fifteen years, shall enjoy the same but eight years; so
that they shall be obliged to satisfy the tithes promptly in the year I666,
which said tithes, from I666 to 1672, both years inclusive, shall, in place
of the eight guilders per morgen, be for the benefit of the parties (or
their creditors), who were formerly expelled from said lands.
Thus was put to rest, to the great relief of the inhabitants, a
question which had been a long-standing source of anxiety with
them; and the history of which is important, first, as showing
on what terms the lands were finally held, and second, to what
labor and trouble the settlers were put, in felling the forests and
subduing the soil, to make themselves a home; a struggle truly,
with their scanty means. But they had come to a point when
their courage, energy and faith in God were to be put to a more
severe test.*
Astounding news reached the villagers of an Indian onslaught
and massacre at Esopus, on June 7th, in which some of their
friends and kinsfolk were sufferers, and witnessed by Jacob Elderts, who had lately gone thither. The schout, Montagne, in
the flush of nuptial greetings on his union with Maria Vermeille,
a lady from his native place, was shocked to hear that his sister,
Van Imbroch, and her little Lysbet were in captivity with the
savages. Harlem was all alarm. The town people assembled
June I2th, by orders from below, and with the advice of the magistrates, Montagne, Claessen, Tourneur and Muyden, and clearheaded Slot, asked to sit with them as extraordinary schepen,
proceeded to take the necessary steps for inclosing the village
with a line of stockades, and putting it in a complete state of
defense. Ten persons were designated to cut palisades, and four
others to draw them to the village; while Tourneur and Jaques
* David Uzille, the H-Iuguenot, married to Maria, daughter of Philip Casier, had
now left the town, and, as did the Casiers afterward, probably went to Staten Island,
because his son, Peter Uzille, was living there April 6, i686, when he married Cornelia
Damen, of the Wallabout, a sister of Mrs. Jean Casier. Peter went thence to Bushwick, near his brother-in-law, Michael Parmentier, but both ultimately removed to
Poughkeepsie, Duchess County, where Uzille was living in 1714. His sister, MariaMagdalen Uzille, born at Harlem in i662, married, I believe, Jonas Le Roy, of Esopus.
Peter Uzille's children were, John, born i688, of whom no family; Sophia, born I69I,
married, 1712, Storm Bratt, of Albany; Cornelia. born I693, married, I714, John
Becker; Helena, born I696, married, 1716, William Hlooghteeling; Elizabeth, born 1701;
Peter, born I703, and ])avid, born I708. David, living at Albany, had by wife, Engeltie
Vrooman, the following children, viz.: Peter, born I733; Cornelia, born I734; Gertrude, born I736;, and Adam, born 1738. Peter Uzille, born I703, married Anna
Ackerson, 1724, and settled at Scholiarie. In his will, made on a sick-bed, February 9,
J747, he provided that if his wife should have a son, he was to take half his farm;
otherwise to go to his daughters, after his wife's death. To these, viz., Cornelia,
Elizabeth, Engeltie, Maria. Annetie, Janneke, and Catherine, the pious father gives
this touching counsed: "My loving children, this is the last I shall recommend to you;
divide my estate peaceably amongst you all, according to the intent and meaning of
my last will and testament, and look upon the poor and help them, love your neighbor,
and keep the peace amongst you and with all men, honor your mother and your king,
and fear God and keep his commandments." Some of these daughters married Vroomans. This name took the form of Zielle and Seely.
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Cresson were deputed to procure a supply of arms and ammuni
tion promised from the Manhattans. At the same time the dozen
or more soldiers stationed here, together with the settlers (exclusive of the presiding magistrates), forty persons in all, were
formed into military companies, which, after some time spent
in changing and rearranging the ranks, were duly organized.
For officers the eldest and most capable persons were selected.
In the first company, Pierre Cresson, in the ripe manhood of fiftyodd years, and still very active, was assigned the chief and responsible command of corporal; with Isaac Vermeille, aged sixtytwo, as his lancepesade, and Glaude Le Maistre, turned of fifty
years, and Lubbert Gerritsen, about forty, as adelborsts or cadets.
Of the second company Willem Jensen was made lancepesade,
and the cadets were Jan De Weever (the weaver) and Arent Snyder (or the tailor), by the last probably meant Arent Harmans
Bussing. Of the third company, Simon De Ruine, "the Walloon," was chosen corporal; Nelis Matthyssen, lancepesade, and
Pieter Jansen Slot and Barent Acker, cadets.'>
Two clays after the munitions of war were received from Heer
Van Ruyven, the government officer, to wit: 3 steen stucken
(cannon from which stones were fired); 5 snaphaanen, or firelocks; 3 musquets, or matchlocks; 36 flints (called viersteenen
or firestones); 50 pounds of cannon powder; Io pounds of fine
powder and 15 bars of lead for running bullets. At once the
small arms were distributed to such as needed them. On the
I6th six more matchlocks were obtained, together with a bundle
of match for touching off the matchlocks and cannon. The
former were placed in the hands of those still unsupplied. The
persons to whom the small arms were given, one to each, were
* The privates were as follows:
ist Company. Ambrosius De Wveerham,
Abram Vermeille, Jacob Droogscheerder,
Jean Le Roy, Arent J. Moesman,
Joost Van Oblinus, Jan Noorman,
Aert Pietersen Buys, Arie Noorman.
Johannes Piet'n Buys, 3d Company.
Jaquen Te sson, Monis Peterson,
Jan Teunissen,
Hendrick Karstens, Jan Cogu
Jan Jansen Slot, Roelof Noorma,
Thomas Ottosen. Jaobert Noorman,
Govert Noorman,
2d Company. Hans Deen,
Jan Schoenmaker, Derick De Vries,
Hans Littou, Adolph Meyer,
Abram Littou, Cornelis Aertse Buys,
Michiel Littou, Jean Casier.
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Daniel Tourneur, Jan La Montagne, Michiel J. Muyden, Jaques
Cresson and Jan P. Slot, supplied with firelocks; and Isaac Vermeille, Abram Vermeille, Pierre Cresson, Jean Le Roy, Glaude
Le Maistre and Aert P. Buys, with musquets. Mr. Muyden
also took musquets for two of his workmen. The "steen stucken"
were properly mounted. Thus prepared to repel an attack, the
villagers awaited the course of events, keeping up a strict watch.
New Harlem now became, in fact, a garrisoned outpost to
New Amsterdam, and a barrier against Indian raids; with Stuyvesant, a cherished object, as before seen, in his anxiety to
protect the metropolis. In view of the danger the director and
council invited delegates from all the villages to a conference at
New Amsterdam on July 6th. Harlem found it safest to keep
every man at his post, but answered by letter, promising to detail
a force of eight soldiers "whenever the necessity might require
it." Troops being needed soon after for an expedition to Esopus,
to subdue the Indians and give relief to the settlers there, a
part of the regular force at Harlem departed upon that service,
accompanied by others who went in response to the urgent call
for volunteers which was made through all the villages about
New Amsterdam.
The savages at Esopus were soon made to flee before the
advance of the resolute Dutch soldiers; but armed parties still
kept the warpath, threatening vengeance on the whites and
whoever should aid them. It happened during the month of
July that the now friendly Wickquaskeeks, apprehending a hostile visit from such, left their usual haunts and removed for
safety over into the woods near Harlem. The sudden appearance of so large a body of Indians, including some eighty warriors, in the vicinity of the village, caused much excitement
there, till the sachem Sauwenarack, with his 'brother, came
to the magistrates and gave the reason of their visit. They
brought the pleasing intelligence that the sister of Mr. M\ontagne had been released from captivity through the intervention of the friendly Mohawks, and conveyed to her home; but
they also gave this piece of disagreeable news, that the Indians
of the Wappinger tribe had warned them that the Esopus Indians
were intending, within five or six days, to descend the river, forty
of fifty strong, in order to surprise and murder them, the Wickquaskeeks, and also destroy New Harlem and other settlements
about Manhattan. Their message delivered, the chiefs hastened
"of their own accord" to New Amsterdam, and repeated it to
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the director-general, with the offer of their services, in the common peril to which all were exposed.
No little anxiety was felt at Harlem for a time, but the
talked-of visit was not made, and the movements of the Wickquaskeeks came to excite no apprehension. The sachem and his
people,-a thing they once would have scorned to ask of the
white man,-sought permission to fish near the village, which was
granted on condition that they should never approach that place
with their weapons; and for the purpose of ready identification,
in their intercourse with the settlers, thev were given copies of
the official seal of the West India Company, "printed in wax
upon small billets," to be shown upon occasion. Still the magistrates relaxed none of their vigilance. Another thirty pounds
of powder, obtained of the commissary, was distributed, September 2d, to the following persons, a pound to each:
Monis Peterson,
Simon De Ruine,
Hendrick Karstens,
Jan Jansen Slot,
Jan Teunissen,
Jan Schoenmaker,
Arent Snyder,
Nelis Matthyssen,
Adolph Meyer,
Aert Pietersen Buys,
Cornelis Aertsen 13uys,
Hans Deen,
Barent Acker,
Pierre Cresson,
Jaques Cresson,
Jean Le Roy,
Jan Cogu,
Michiel Littou,
Joh. Pietersen Buys,
Glaude Le Maistre,
Lubbert Gerritsen,
Jean Frenchman,
Jan La Montagne,
Jan Pietersen Slot.
Govert Noorman,
Jacob Droogscheerder,
Jan Noorman,
Daniel Tourneur,
Pieter Jansen Slot,
Mr. Willem.*
The public apprehensions were gradually removed by a
series of victories over the Esopus -Indians, which forced them to
submit. But the people of the province were ill at ease. Delegates from the villages, met to consider their common dangers,
signed, November 2d, an urgent appeal to the West India Company, praying for protection both against the Indians and the
* Jan Schoenmaker and Arent Snyder may have been Dyckman and Bussing; but
we have no sufficient proof. By "Mr. Willem," and "Willem Jansen," Jan La Montagne, who makes the record, no doubt means his brother. Fourteen of those enrolled
June 12 are not in the above list, viz., Isaac Vermeille, Jean Vermeille, Jean Casier,
Arent Moesman, Hans and Abram Littou, Ambrose de Weerham, Jan de Weever,
Thomas Ottosen, Dirck de Vries, Arie Noorman, Roelof Noorman, and Jacob Noorman.
Gone, we presume, with the forces to Esopus; Moesman certainly had, and he, Casier,
and Isaac Vermeille are the only ones known to have returned to Harlem.
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neighboring New England colonies, which latter were now preparing to end a long diplomatic warfare with the Dutch authorities touching their boundaries, by boldly asserting a claim to
the whole of New Netherland.
Notwithstanding the ruffled state of public affairs, there was
a growing activity at Harlem, as may be judged from the valuable accession to the number of inhabitants which the current
year (I663) had brought. With most of these, already incidentally mentioned in the transactions of the year, we have been made
acquainted in former pages. Glaude Le Mlaistre (or Delamater)
had removed here, after living about ten years at Flatbush, where
he owned a farm and two village lots, which he sold July 3Ist,
I662. He bought two allotments of land at Harlem from
Daniel Tourneur, who had purchased them of Jacques Cousseau,
and subsequently got a patent for them. Johannes Verveelen,
previously for several years an innkeeper in New Amsterdam,
had come to resume his old business, and to enter immnediately
upon public life.
But the new arrivals were mostly direct from fatherland.
The Vermeille or Vermilye family, six in number, had reached
Manhattan early in I663, via the Delaware River; the family of
Oblinus arriving during the ensuing spring, after a quick passage, and coming direct to Harlem; as did Johannes Buys
(though by another vessel, the Rosetree, which left Amsterdam
March I5th, I663), joining his brother, who had preceded him
hither some two years.* The younger Oblinus at once entered
* Isaac Vermilye had, as companions on the voyage, Jacque Cossart, Nicholas du
Puis, Gideon Merlett, Jean le Conseille, Louis Lacquema, Jacob Kolver, and Jan
Bookhoolts, as also Arnout du Toict, these now written Cashow, Depew, Marlett,
Conselyea, Lakeman or Lockman, Culver, Buckhout, etc.), all having lived at Le7den,
we presume, as we know had Buckhout, Culver and Vermilve; and probably all Walloons except Buckhout. Vermilye, with his wife and daughter, Maria (later Mrs.
Montanve), and all his fellow-passengers above named, save Culver and Buckhout.
joined the church at New Amsterdam, April i, 1663, no doubt by letter. The wives
of Cossart, Du Uuis, and Lacqueman also united. Vermilye came directly to Harlem.
Buckhout became "koecherder van de gemente desen stede." The rest made an application, March 19, I66:, for land and seed grain, and victuals for six months, showing
their necessities. Buckhout later owned a farm at Mespat, and left two sons, Capt.
Matthias, who sailed a coaster, and Peter, a farmer; and whence come the family of
this name. Du Toict was from Lillie, and probably related to David du Toict, of
Leyden, son-in-law of Gerard de Forest. By his wife, Madeleine Arnauds, he had a
son, Abraham, born I648, lessee of Pierre Cresson's meadows at Harlem, in I668; who
married Jannetie, daughter of Jerome Boquet (Bokee), and had a family. He went to
New Utrecht and bought a farm, served during the second Dutch rule as a soldier.
under Capt. Knyf, in New York, afterward lived at Bedford, but with his wife joined
the Bergen church, July 21, i68i. Lakeman brought a wife, Anna du Sauchoy, and
children by a second wife, Maria Walters. Two of the children that came over with
him were Abraham and Peter, who afterward got grants upon Staten Island, but
Peter Lakeman removed to New York in I698, when he married widow Jannetie
Stavast. Marlett brought his wife and sons, Joshua, born I647; Paul, born i654;
John, born 1656, and Abraham, born I658, and settled on Staten Island. The name
has now left the Island, but is found in other sections of New York and New Jersey.
Cossart brought his wife, Lydia Williams, and 2 children of I8 months and 5 years.
They had also Jacob, born i668; David, i67I; Anthony, i673. Jiacob married, I695,
Anna Maria, daughter of Joh. Caspars Springsteen. He and Anthony, who married,
I696, Elizabeth, daughter of Jan Tymensen Valentine, of Schenectady, were resi
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the emiploy of Delamater, but before the year closed his father
became a proprietor by the purchase of the allotment of Philip
Casier, deceased. Of Oblinus' companions on board the Spotted
Cow, Demarest went to Staten Island, Journee and Bogert to
Brooklyn, and the Bastiaensen brothers to Stuyvesant's Bouwery,
though they all soon after came to Harlem. The Bastiaensens,
it may be observed, were the ancestors of the entire Kortright
or Courtright family, in the States of New York and New Jersey,
and also, through other branches, of the families of Ryer and
Michiel (now Mekeel and M\cKeel,- a 1)utch metamorphosed
into a Hibernian name!) of Westchester and other counties of
our State, and that of Low, in Somerset County, New Jersey,
but distinct from the Lows of Ulster County, named in a preceding note. Arent Jansen Moesman,-first met with at Amsterdam in 1662, acting as purveyor to the passengers about to
leave, March I Ith, in the merchant ship Golden Eagle, for
New Amstel on the Delaware, and in which he also took pasway to Harlem, as before seen, now returned from the Esopus
war, with the credit and profits of some special service rendered.
He became the purchaser of a bouwery upon Jochem Pieters and
Van Keulen's Hook, the history of which derives interest from
its subsequent owners, Delavall, Carteret, and others. Indeed
the village was fast filling up, and already showed a disposition
to exceed the limits of the protecting palisades. At a court held
on December 4th, Derick Claessen, who after quitting the town
had again returned, applied for "the house lot lying without the
gate"; and Johannes Vermilye also made a similar application.
Many, with the returning sense of security, were laying plans
for the future.
dents of Brooklyn; their posterity bearing the name Cashow or Carshow. Jacob
Cosart, born at Brooklyn, I701, a son of Anthony, died at Bound Brook, N. J.,
April I9, I772. David Cosart, married, i696, Styntie, born I677, daughter of Joris
Tansen V\an Hoorn, and had, with other children born in New York City, sons George,
Jacob, David, John, Francis. He died between 1736 and I740, in Somerset County,
N. J., leaving farms there to his sons George, David and Francis. Conselyea married
Phebe Schut, and lived in Bushwick, where 'his old farm house till late remained.
He had sons, John, born i679; Peter, i688; and a daughter, Margaret, who married
Joh. Van Tilburg and Claes Bogert. Culver, whose wife was Sarah, daughter of
Peter Hasbrouck, died soon after the birth of his daughter Sarah, and the next year,
I664, his widow married Jacob Jansen Blaeck, from Amsterdam, by whom she had
other children. The daughter, Sarah Culver, born i663, married Peter Losee, of
Bushwick; her sister, Gertie Culver, born i657, married Cornelis Jansen Zeeuw, and
their brother, Jacob Culver, (born I659, at Leyden, died, I694, in New York), married,
I684, Jannetie, daughter of Joh. Caspars Springsteen, of Brooklyn. Their daughter,
Sarah, born, i686, married David L. Ackerman, of Hackensack; their daughter,
Maria, married Joost Springstee, of Newtown, and their son, Johannes Culver, born
1689, married Sarah, daughter of James Way, and Mary, daughter of John Gancel,
served as elder at Newtown, and there died, June 12, 1760, leaving several sons.
Depew, who was from Artois, was sworn as "beer and weigh-house porter," at New
York, June 19, I665. Here he died in i691, leaving issue by his wife, Katalina
Renard, Jean, born I656; Moses, I657; Aaron, I664; Susannah, i669, and Nicholas,
I670. From these spring the numerous Depew families of Ulster and Orange Counties
and the Minisink Flats.
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lBy a recent choice of magistrates, confirmed November I7th,
the new board consisted of Jan La Montagne, "who for certain
reasons," say the Council, "shall yet be continued for one year";
besides Daniel Tourneur, Johannes Verveelen, and Jan Pietersen
Slot. The religious interests of the village were suffering, and
called for their first care. Do. Zyperus had recently taken his
leave, probably early in I663, when his wife transferred her church
connection from New Amsterdam to Brooklyn. Chosen at different times as an arbiter between parties in litigation, Do.
Zyperus had made himself useful outside of his office or special
sphere of duty, and had acquired the respect of the community.
Disposing of his lands to Sergeant Juriaen Hanel, of Bergen, he
removed with his fal ily to Virginia, where he afterward preached
mnany years, in North River Precinct, now Kingston Parish, in
Mathews County; having conformed to the Church of England.*
The experiment had evidently proven the inability of the
congregation to support a minister, and since the departure of
Zyperus, not without much effort had the Sabbath services been
sustained. Hence, at the meeting referred to, on December 4th,
1663, one of the magistrates, Mr. Verveelen, was "chosen by a
i)opular vote to inquire for a voorleser," or, in other words, a
parish clerk. This office, though akin to that of precentor or chorister in the Romish cathedral service and in the Scotch kirk, was
in its range of duties quite peculiar to the Reformed Dutch
Church. Its incumbent, acting either in place of or as an assistant to the dominie, must needs be a person not only of suitable
gifts and culture, but of exemplary life and approved piety.
Standing before the pulpit, he read the Scriptures at the opening
of public worship, whence came his title, voorleser, or forereader.
He led the congregation in singing David's Psalms in metre,
lining off the verses one by one, as they proceeded, with melodies
D* o. Zyperus' wife was the daughter of Claes Duurkoop; her brother, Jan
Duurkoop, and sister, Jannetie, wife of Hendrick Jansen Been, were living at Brooklyn in I662, whence, probably on their account, Mrs. Zvperus took her church letter,
March 25, I663. With the departure of herself and husband soon after disappeared
also her kindred above named. While here Do. Z. had two children baptized, viz.,
Cornelius, D)ecember 2I, I659, and IHillegond, August I4, I66i; the last named for
Mrs. Cornelis Van Ruyven. He is noticed as rector of Kingston Parish in a list of
the Virginia clergy, dated June 30. I68O. But this is verified by his old vestry
book, now in the custody of the Episcopal Theological Seminary near Alexandria,
extracts from which were kindly furnished me by the late principal, Rev. William
Sparrow, D.I)., since deceased, and containing all additional that I know of Zyperus in
Virginia. The record begins only with November I5, I679, but the last mention of
him, as follows, is suggestive:
"The 27th of June, I687. The day abovesaid Mr. Mychaell Zyperus, Minister,
(lid promise to give fitt and convenient Glasses for ye Window at ye Gable End of
ye New Chappell to be built for ye North River precinct. In witness whereof he hath
hereunto sett his hand. M. ZYPtRUS."
Interesting thus to take leave of him actively at work rearing the walls of Zion,
in that field which he had chosen, and where he probably ended his labors. I strongly
suspect that Do. Zyperus' descendants compose the respectable family of Sypher, of
Pennsylvania, whose early Michaels-a fact, with others made known to me by Mr.
J. R. Sypher, of Philadelphia-seem to favor it.
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long drawn out, but stately and solemn.* In the absence of a
preacher his duties were augmented. He then read a sermon
from the works of some orthodox Dutch (ivine, and il a word
conducted the entire service so far as belonged to a layman to do.
He visited and aldministered comfort to the sick, and those nigh
to death, and, when desired, performed the burial service. He instructed the children in the Heidelberg catechism, filled the office
of schoolmaster, and in addlition kelpt the records and accounts
of the church and town. In fact, except the alministration of
holy ordinances, he performed all the functions of pastor, besides
those of chorister, schoolmaster, and secretary. To these were
usually added the duties of vendue-master, or public auctioneer.
Jan La Montagne, already acting as secretary, being conferred
with and found willing to assume the full office of voorleser, the
schepens, after advising with Governor Stuyvesant, prepared the
following interesting petition, which was presented through Mr.
Verveelen:
To the Noble, Very Worshipful, their Honors and the Director-General
and Council of New Netherland:
Gentlemen: Your Noble Worships' petitioners, residents of New
H-arlem, show with due reverence and submission, that by their saving
faith, obtained through hearing the gospel preached and taught, they, too,
find themselves for the sake of their salvation compelled, conscientiously,
to promote, with increased diligence and zeal, whatever your Noble
Worships' petitioner and Commissaries of this village have determined
upon and undertaken for the maintaining of public worship and the
outward means of grace, to the magnifying of God's Name, the observance of his day of holy rest, and the upbuilding of the body of Jesus
Christ. But having seen from Sabbath day to Sabbath day the small
and insignificant success of the public gatherings, and believing confidently that everything relating to public worship may be brought in
better train and all be more properly ordered by the services of a salaried voorleser and schoolmaster, to read God's word and edifying sermons, keep school, catechise and visit the sick, your Noble Worships'
* Imagine our devout fathers thus gravely singing, in the following words, their
favorite 23d Psalm:
I. Myn Godt voed my als myn Herder gepresen;
Dies sal ik geenes dings behoeftik wesen.
In't groene gras sceliestfk hy my weydet:
En aen dat soet water hv my geleydet:
Hy verquickt myn ziel, die seer is verslegen;
Om syns naems wil leyt hy my in syn wegen.
2. Alwaer't schoon dat ick in't dal des doots ginge,
En dat my des doots schaduwe omvinge,
Ik vreese niet, gy zyt by my gestadig,
En gy troost my met uwen staf genadigh.
Gy maeckt ryk met goede seer velerhanden
Myn tafel voor d'oogen myner vyanden.
3. Gy salst myn hooft met rickend'oly goedigh,
En schenkt my den beker vol overloedigh.
Gy suit doen dat uwe gunst, O Heer krachtigh,
Myn leven langh by my steedsvlyft eendrachtig:
Soo dat ick hoop eeuwighlick vast te woonen
In Godes Huys, 't welk niet is om verschoonen.
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petitioners, appointed to attend to the public welfare and advantage of
the said village, thought it proper, very timely and only their duty, to
speak to the community about this matter, that they persuade Jean De
La Montagne, a resident of the said place, to undertake such services
provisionally for the least possible salary, and then present themselves
before your Noble Worships as patrons of the church of Jesus Christ
with this humble and Christian petition, that your Noble Worships may
please to consent both to the office and person before named, for the
benefit of God's church and not less necessary teaching of the children.
But perceiving their present inability and incapacity to give in the aforesaid case a full and proper salary, and not having been able to collect
for his support more than 24 schepeis of grain,* they respectfully request
your Noble Worships, that in their usual noble discretion your Noble
Worships contribute something toward a decent salary and the greater
encouragement of your Noble Worships' very humble petitioners and
God's subjects.
Your Noble Worships' most dutiful petitioners and humble subjects,
Done New Harlem, t
Dec. 25, 1663.
D. TOURNEUR.
JOHANNES VErRVEELEN.
I P mark of JAN PIEITERSrEN.
To this the following reply was given, January loth, I664:
Received and read the foregoing request of the Commissaries of New
Harlem, and therewith heard the verbal statement of Sieur Johannes Verveelen, at present commissary there, that it is highly necessary that a
person be appointed there as voorleser and schoolmaster; therefore the
Director-General and Council accept and appoint thereto the proposed
person Johannes La Alontagne, Junior; and in order that he may attend
to these offices with greater diligence, to him shall be paid annually on
account of the Company the sum of fifty guilders, according to the state
of the treasury.
Thereafter the church had a regular succession of voorlesers,
to perform the varied and responsible duties before specified;
except when partially relieved by the visits of the city ministers,
who officiated here by occasional appointment, or under engagements made with them from time to time, as will further appear.
New arrivals in the village were still occurring. One was
that of a French refugee heretofore mentioned, and who is first
alluded to in the minutes of January 23d, I664, thus: "Robert
Le Maire requested an"... the record left unfinished;
but probably explained by the fact that he soon obtained an erf
from the town. A few of the larger landholders, as Slot and
De Meyer, now took occasion to obtain patents or groundbriefs
for their lands, though the two named and that of Hanel, dated
May I6th ensuing, are the only patents found, issued by Governor Stuyvesant, for the allotments under the ordinance of
1658. This accords with what the inhabitants afterward told
* The schepel, a Dutch measure, was commonly rated in this country at three
English pecks. Wooley's Journal, p. 34.
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Governor Nicolls, namely, that most of them "never had a
groundbrief." An event of interest to the villagers was the
surrender by the widow of Cornelis Claessen Swits, to the
Director and Council (pursuant to an offer which she made to
them February 7th, I664, and by them accepted), of all her
claim to the farm occupied by her late husband, but "purchased
and cultivated by her," in lieu of the debt due from Swits to the
West India Company. The title thus reverted to the government, and the lands on which was the village plot were thereby
relieved of any mediate claim which could possibly be set up
under the old patent of I647.*
* This petition and answer are of sufficient interest to be given entire.
To the Noble, Right Honorable, the Director-General and Council in New Netherland: Shows with all humility, Ariaentie Cornelis, late widow of Cornelis Claessen
Swits, now married to Albert Leenderts; how that the supplicant with her now
deceased husband, and their children, occupied for several years and actually built
upon, a parcel of land whereon has since been laid out the village of Haerlem; upon
which farm, after much labor there expended, she, with her said deceased husband,
was, in September, 1655, miserably surprised by the cruel barbarous savages, who at
once murdered her husband, plundered or burnt all their goods, and carried her off
with her six children captives. From whose cruel hands, by the aid of her good
friends, being delivered, with her six naked children, she remained bereft of all that
she possessed, her husband and all means of subsistence, except only the aforesaid
farm, on which she hoped, sooner or later, by the assistance of others, to be able to
maintain herself in an honest manner; but in this she was disappointed, as well by
the continued troubles, and the want of means, as by the orders issued against having
any isolated habitations, and so was compelled for a time to abandon that farm.
When, at last, it was resolved by the Director and Council to lay out the village of
Haerlem, and the supplicant was inclined, with her present husband, Albert Leenderts,
to again occupy the said farm, this could not be done, because her cleared land had
been distributed among others, and the only offer then made her, was, to draw lots
with the rest; to which she could not agree, as it was to her great prejudice, and
thus was her whole farm, bought and cultivated by her, given to others, and the supplicant deprived of the means by which, with God's help, she could have maintained
herself, instead of which she is now, with her children, reduced to poverty. The land
being so distributed by the Director-General and Council, it was provided that those
interested, who had been driven off their land, should be paid by the actual possessors,
ten guilders (sic) per morgen, but it was afterwards granted that in lieu of ten guilders per morgen the said occupants should, 5 years (sic) earlier than had been before
determined, pay tithes of the produce, in behalf of those interested, but this cannot be
collected but slowly. Our humble petition, therefore, is, that it may please your
Honors either to return again the said parcel of land to the supplicant, or that its
value, that for which it was before sold, may be reimbursed to her,-or otherwise
(as the supplicant's deceased husband remained indebted to the Hon. Company about
seven hundred guilders, for commodities, for whose liquidation with that of other
debts, he left her nothing besides the said land), that your honors may be pleased to
accept that farm, or what shall be paid for it by its actual possessors, in place of the
aforesaid debt, and then to favor her with a receipt for it in full-which proposal the
supplicant humbly requests your Honors may be pleased to seriously consider, with
her present situation, and may through compassion let her enjoy a favorable answer,
which doing she will remain
' Your Honors' obedient
her
ARIASNTIE X CORNELIS.
mark.
This petieion being read, and the supplicant's poor condition considered, the following order is thereupon made:
Although the debt incurred by the supplicant's deceased husband, should long since
since have been paid, and ought now to be paid without any further delay, yet, considering the scanty means which were left to the supplicant by the barbarians, as is
explained more at large in her petition, and furthermore, her present situation; therefore resolved that we accept in payment of what her deceased husband, Cornelis Claessen Swits, remained indebted to the Company, whatever shall in time be collected from
her land as mentioned in her petition, giving her by this a receipt in full, so that
neither she nor her posterity shall ever be troubled about it in future, provided that
she deliver to the Noble Company her deed, transfer, etc., which she may have for the
aforesaid land. Done in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherland, the 7 Feb., i664.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
The opening spring brought its share of work for the farmers. A shelter was needed for the young calves turned out
to feed on Barent's Island, and at a meeting held March I3th it
was agreed to build on April ist. They also resolved to fence
the gardens. Some of the inhabitants, in want of servants and
laborers, seized the opportunity to buy a number of negro slaves,
sold at auction in Fort Amsterdam, May 29th, by order of the
Director and Council. They had arrived on the 24th instant,
in the company's ship Sparrow, from Chicago. At that sale
were eager bidders, Johannes Verveelen, Daniel Tourneur,
Nicholas De Meyer, Jacques Cousseau, Isaac De Forest, and
even Jacob Leisler, himself, in 1678, enslaved by the Turks, and
years later the champion of liberty! Verveelen bought a negro
at 445 fl., De Meyer one at 460 fl., and Tourneur another at
465 fl. These were probably the first slaves owned at New
Harlem, and, strange as it may seem, the recollections of the
living run back to the time when negro slavery still existed here.
Of much advantage to the whole neighborhood was the
new saw mill constructed soon after by Jan Van Bommel, a
thrifty citizen of New Amsterdam, on the run of water emptying
into the East River near the foot of 74th Street, and known ever
after as the Saw Kill, which stream the people of Harlem claimed
as their southern limit. The right to run this mill, granted May
26th, expired in three years, when it was discontinued; but its
site became a noted landmark in connection with the Harlem
Patent line.
While the inhabitants were thus busied with their own
domestic affairs, the general interests of the country were in
greatest peril; the government, assailed by enemies within and
without, was rapidly approaching its fall. The seizure of the
Dutch possessions on the Connecticut River, the successful revolt of the English towns upon Long Island, and in Westchester,
and their alliance with New England, too plainly told the inpotency of the powers at New Amsterdam to resist any further
aggressions which enemies might choose to make. Added to
these were the yet existing Indian troubles. Alarmed for the
safety of the state, Stuyvesant, before slow to recognize the
principle of popular representation, at last was constrained to
yield, and call a general assembly of delegates from the several
Dutch towns, chosen by the people, and which met at New Amsterdam on April Ioth; Harlem sending two of her most active
men, Daniel Tourneur and Johannes Verveelen. But with an
humbling sense of their weakness or want of resources, they did
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little more than to send an urgent appeal to the States General
of Holland for aid in defending their homes and firesides. However, a new treaty being concluded on the I6th of May with the
Indian tribes on the Hudson, the harrowing fears from that
quarter were quieted; and the families at Harlem found relief
in the fact that the neighboring chief, Sauwenarack, head sachem
of the Wickquaskeeks, renewed his pledge of friendship by signing the treaty.
Some months of mingled hope and fear now lulled both
government and people into a false security, when an English
fleet, under Colonel Richard Nicolls, suddenly appeared before
New Amsterdam, and made a short and easy conquest of the
province. The fort was surrendered on September 8th to the
invaders, who named the city, as also the province, New York.
Surprised into a change of rulers, the staid old settlers at New
Harlem accepted the condition with a mixed sentiment. Tired
of the late administration, some welcomed a change which in
any respect could hardly prove for the worse, btu a majority,
with the attachments of native or adopted citizens, would have
preferred the old government with all its faults. Nor could the
wise and conciliatory course taken by the new governor, Nicolls,
at once allay the feeling of indignation which found expression
among the Harlem people, or repair the injury inflicted on the
whole colony by a nation professedly at peace with the mother
country.
The withdrawal of the Dutch soldiers from Harlem,-most
of these at the surrender returning to Holland,-and the abrupt
departure of others, gave an air of desertion to the village. But
new residents soon took their places, prominent among whom
was Resolved Waldron, late deputy schout of New Amsterdam,
an efficient officer, to whom Stuyvesant had been much attached.
Now finding his vocation gone, he retired with his family to
Harlem, to spend his remaining years, but not to be released
from public service.
Among the persons leaving was Juriaen Hanel, who ten
years before first came to this country as a soldier of the company, and, raised to be a sergeant, had been rewarded for faithful
service by an increase of pay. He was a native of Poland, and a
man of no little consequence at Harlem, to which place he had
removed from Bergen only within a few months, having, as
before said, purchased Do. Zyperus' lands, but which before
leaving he sold to Johannes Verveelen. Jan La Montagne was
much disaffected by the change of government, and while his
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father and brother, William, both living at Albany, accepted the
issue and took the oath of allegiance, he, with the tie of a nativeborn Hollander, which neither of the former could boast, made
haste to dispose of his property, with a view no doubt to quitting
the town or country, as many were doing. On October 22d,
I664, he sold to the partners Jan Myndertsen and Johannes
Smedes, his "piece of land, and meadow belonging thereunto,
called by the name of Montagne's Point, paled in betwixt two
creeks, according as the bill of sale doth mention," for 800 gl.,
wampum, to be paid by instalments.*
Another inhabitant, Arent Moesman, respected in the church
and community, though he took the oath of fidelity to the English,
prepared, with his brother Jacob, to visit fatherland. Conveying
his property lying in this town to Captain Thomas De Lavall, an
Englishman who had lately arrived here with Governor Nicolls,
he bought instead a house and lot in Broadway, offered for sale
by Meynderts before named, after contracting for Montagne's
Point. For this he gave a deed, or power of sale, to Dirck
Vandercliff, taking from him a mortgage on the premises for
700 gl. Thus secured, Moesman, December Ioth, 1664, obtained a pass for Holland in the ship Unity, Captain Jan Bergen.
Michiel Muyden, the late proprietor, after holding a prominent
standing in the town and contributing no little to its welfare,
had sold his two erven, and indeed his whole allotment, to Jacques
Cresson in I663. He too returned to Holland, and, like a true
Dutchman, warmly advocated the forcible recovery of New Netherland from the English. Subsequently his city residence in the
Winckel Street, left in care of Jacob Kip, was confiscated.
These removals, causing painful breaks in families, as in the
case of Verveelen, whose eldest daughter, Anna, went to Holland with her husband, Derick Looten, late military commissary,
were the least disastrous consequences, as affecting New Harlem,
of the political change which had happened the country. Months
were required to restore order and check abuses which had suddenly sprung up to disturb the peace of the community. Yet
these disquieting circumstances were not allowed to hinder several genial gatherings at the hymenal altar during the winter
* Meynderts and Smedes were in business together in New York. The former
is noticed at pp. 93, Io2; the latter at p. 99. Mynderts married, I660, Belitie
Plettenborg, by whom he had several daughters besides Mrs. Barent Waldron.
Smedes is called Smith in the contract with Montagne, a render of his name
into English, which never prevailed, at least with the earlier generations of his descendants. He married, January 3, 1665, Lysbeth, daughter of Michiel Verschuur,
and on February 2, 1676, Machtelt, daughter of Jan Willems Van Isselsteyn. He had
sons, born in New York, Johannes, Benjamin and Abraham, the last by his second
wife. I believe he removed to Ulster County, but the name has spread to matly
localities.
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and spring of I665. The old schepen, Jan Slot, ended his widowerhood by choosing another wife, and provident Pierre Cresson, whose son, Jaques, had married since coming to Harlem,
found a worthy companion for his daughter, Christina, in a
young man from St. Lo, in Normandy, named Letelier, now a
magistrate at Bushwick.*
* Jean Letelier was one of the "fourteen Frenchmen" by whom Bushwick was
settled, in i660, and was one of its first schepens, March 25, I66I. He always signed
his name simply "Letelier," the usual mode among the French gentry. In 1662 he
gave three guilders toward the ransom of Teunis Cray's son Jacob, in captivity with the
Turks. Removing to New Utrecht, he there died September 4, I671. In his will (to
which Abraham du Toict is a witness) he speaks of his children, but does not name
them. His widow married Jacob Gerrits De Haes, by whom she had issue, Jacob, born
1678; John, born i680, etc. Letelier was usually called by the Dutch Tilje (Tilya),
and whence perhaps the family of Tillou or Tilyou, whose ancestor, Pierre (see N. Y.
Gen. and Biog. Rec., 1876, p. 144), if the son of Jean, took the name of his godfather Cresson.
CHAPTER XIV.
I665-I666.
RELUCTANT YIELDING TO ENGLISH RULE.
U PON the late surrender of the country by the Dutch it was
conceded that "all inferior civil officers and magistrates
shall continue as they now are, if they please, till the customary
time of new elections." But "the customary times" arriving, no
new election took place at Harlem; while the old officers, either
from indifference, or from doubts as to their power to act without the schout, who positively declined, utterly failed in their
duties. Sundry violations of law and order naturally followed
upon this suspension of authority, and at the bottom of which
was that ever prolific cause of evil,-rum! Who the offenders,
or what the offenses, is not further specified than in the following missive, addressed "To the Schout and present Magistrates
of Harlem:"
A Warrant to the Magistrates of Harlem for the Prohibition of the
sale of strong liquors to Indians.
Whereas, I am informed of several abuses that are done and committed by the Indians, occasioned much through the liberty some persons
take of selling Strong Liquors unto them; These are to require you that
you take special care that none of your Town presume to sell any sort of
Strong Liquors or Strong Beer unto aly Indian, and if you shall find
any person offending therein, that you seize upon such Liquor and bring
such person before me, to make answers for the offense. Given under
my hand, at Fort James, in New York, this i8th of March, 1664 [1665
N. S.]. RICHARD NICOLLS.
These infractions of law were largely due to the disaffection
of Jan La Montagne, to which reference has been made. For
some cause failing in the sale of his Point, he remained here,
but threw up his office as schout, refusing to arrest and prosecute
offenders, by which means lawbreakers went unrebuked, and
the course of justice was obstructed. A state of things so abhorrent to the law-abiding Waldron and others could not long
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be endured; and the result was another order, more explicit than
the previous one, and in this form.
To the Magistrates of Harlem:
Whereas, complaint hath been made to me that the Schout of Harlem
doth not execute his office, and that several disorders are committed and
the Inhabitants hindered of their accustomed rights; I do therefore order,
that the Magistrates now in being do act, as formerly; and in case the
Schout will not execute his office, that the Magistrates do Justice in his
place, for the good of the Town, and to decide all matters that doth or
shall happen there, not exceeding the value of One Hundred Guilders
in Wampum; and this to continue till further order. Given under my
hand at Fort James, in New York, this 20th of April, I665.
RICHIARD NICOLLS.
In the reconstruction of the city government after the English form, which now took place, the want of a better administration of authority at Harlem operated as a reason for bringing
that district within the jurisdiction and control of the city.
Hence, Gov. Nicolls' proclamation of June I2th, I665, constituting the new municipal government, declared "that the inhabitants of New York, New Harlem, with all other His Majesty's
subjects, inhabitants upon this island, are, and shall be forever
accounted nominated and established, as one body politic and
corporate, under the government of a Mayor, Aldermen and
Sheriff." In these was vested "full power and authority to rule
and govern, as well all the Inhabitants of this corporation, as
any Strangers, according to the general laws of this Government,
and such peculiar laws as are or shall be thought convenient and
necessary for the good and welfare of this, His Majesty's corporation; as also to appoint such under officers as they shall judge
necessary for the orderly execution of justice." One of the
aldermen therein appointed was Mr. Thomas De Lavall, whose
relations to Harlem were to form an important chapter in its
history.
One of the first acts of the new Common Council was to
adopt the following, June I5th. "Resolved, to send for the
Court at Harlem, and the constable, Resolved Waldron, by
letter, to come hither by Saturday next." What was brewing
was hardly hinted at in the polite billet thereupon addressed:
"To the Honorable, the Court of New Harlem." It ran in these
words:
Honorable and Affectionate Friends:
Thse serve only that your Honors hold yourselves ready to appear
here in this city, on Saturday next, being I7th June, old style, with
Resolved Waldron, and to receive all such orders as shall be communi
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cated. Whereunto confiding, we commend your Honors, after cordial
salutation, unto God's protection, and remain
Your affectionate friends,
THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND SHERIFF OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
By order of the same, JOHANNES NEVIUS, Secretary.
Done, N. York, the I5th June, I665.
Punctually those sent for appeared, and the record reads
thus: "Resolved Waldron entering is notified that he is elected
Constable of New Harlem, which accepting, he hath taken the
proper oath; and the Magistrates who accompanied him are
informed that they are discharged from their office. The aforesaid Constable is authorized to select three or four persons, who
shall have power to decide any differences or dispute to the
extent of Five Pounds Sterling, in Sewant, and no higher; and
the party who shall not be satisfied with the decision of those
elected as aforesaid, shall be bound to pay him, the Constable,
the sum of Six Stivers, and further to bear the costs of proceeding before this bench of Justice."*
Waldron, clothed with these unusual powers, called Daniel
Tourneur, and who else we know not, to the magistracy. Johannes Vermilye was given the place of gerechtsboode, or court mes* Jan Pietersen Slot, the old magistrate, had just before left the town with his
family. Himself from Holstein, as before noticed, his sons Pieter and Jan were
born at Amsterdam. Pieter sold his property at Harlem, gotten from his father, to
Resolved Waldron, and removed to Bergen, where he owned 25 morgen of land,
bought May 14, i657, and where, on April i, I665, he joined the church with his
wife, who was the daughter of Jacob Walings Van Winckel, of that place, deceased.
His father sold his lands at Harlem, named in his patent of January 4, i664, to
Johannes Verveelen, and on April 20, i665, bought other property at the Bouwery,
from Governor Stuyvesant. But he again sold out here, February 12, i669, having,
on August 14 preceding, sold to Capt. Delavall for ~ io a parcel of meadow on "the
nnorth side of Barent's Island," which he held by ground-brief from Stuyvesant. In
i686 he and wife resided in Wall street; in 1703, in the South Ward. His children
were by his first wife, Aeltie Jans; his second, Claertie Dominicus, he married while
at Harlem.
Jan Jansen Slot married, 1672, Judith, daughter of Stoffel Elsworth, took a house
in the Smith's Fly, and that year joined Capt. Steenwyck's new troop of horse. A
warm partisan of Leisler, in I689, he was made an ensign. He is named, October 7,
I695, as selling his city property. His children, so far as known, were Heyltie, born
1672, who married Capt. Zebulon Carter; Johannes, born 1674; Stoffel, born, 1677;
Annetie, born i68i, married David Demarest 3d, and Jonathan Hart; Hendrick, born
I684, and Judith, born 1687, who married John Van Horn.
Pieter Jansen Slot sold out at Pemberbogh, on Bergen Neck, January 30, I671,
and on March 23 ensuing, bought a place in New York, to which he removed; but in
i673 his house, with others, was taken down to enlarge the grounds about the fort.
in 1677 Slot hired a farm at Esopus, to which place he had gone to follow his trade
as builder. Returning in I683, he and wife, to Bergen, with letters to the church
there, they were soon back to New York, living for years on property which they
owned "at Crommesslie, near Stuyvesant's Bouwery." Selling this, April 10, i688,
Peter died soon after. In 1692 his widow, still of New York, married John Demarest,
Esq., of Hackensack. Pieter's choldren were Tohn, born i665; Jacobus, born 1669,
both at Bergen; Tryntie, born 1671, married Adam Van Norden and Cornelius Banta;
and Jonas, born I68I, at Esopus, and who married, 1713, Jannetie Ostrum, of
Poughkeepsie, where he was living in 1738. John Slot, born i665, was residing in
New York in 1703, with his wife, Jannetie Andries, and children. Jacobus Slot settled
at Hackensack, married Mary, daughter of John Demarest, aforesaid, and was father
of Petrus, born 1696; John, I699; Eve, 17oI; Leah, 1706; Jonathan, 1712; Sarah,
1715; Tryntie, 1718; Benjamin, 1721. These have many descendants in Bergen.
Rockland and Orange counties, including the Sloats, of the Ramapo Valley.
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senger; and Tourneur, the now deacon and magistrate, was soon
after, by the appointment of the governor, made "under sheriff"
at New Harlem, and "president of the court there." Thus was
abolished the Court of Schout and Schepens.
Entering zealously upon their duties, the very first act of
the new magistrates had nearly gotten them into trouble. While
Nicholas De Meyer was busied with his merchandise at New
York,-having lately taken out, March 3Ist, "a certificate of
denization, with liberty to traffic to Fort Albany,"-his farm
tenant at Harlem, Aert Pieterz Buys, took occasion to abscond,
being in arrears for rent, and in debt to the town. By authority
of the Mayor's Court, De Meyer, June g9th, proceeded to "attach all his goods." This the new magistrates opposed, asserting their own claim as paramount. De Meyer at once appealed
to the Mayor's Court, which set the matter right by declaring the
attachment valid, and citing Waldron and his colleagues "to show
cause, on the next day, why they claim to be preferred, in the
disposal of said property, before the prosecutor of the attachment." The silence of the record makes it evident that the
magistrates declined to press their claim.
But, abating none of his vigilance, the zealous Waldron soon
found more work at hand. A quilt had been stolen from Jan
Dircksen, usually called, from his former occupation, "Jan the
Soldier." Waldron searched in all the houses without finding it.
He then called the townsfolk together in the square, and reminding them that no stranger had been in the village, declared that
some one of them must have taken the quilt. Hereupon it occurred to Pierre Cresson that Jan Teunissen, the brother-in-law
of Dircksen, had told him, one day before the quilt was missed,
that Jan the Soldier had only an empty chest in the house. Suspicion at once fastened upon Teunissen; and the more readily
as during the previous winter Verveelen's negro had been caught
by his master taking a schepel of grain from his barn toward
Teunissen's house, and had laid it upon Teunissen; albeit, the
integrity of the negro, as will be seen by and by, was not above
suspicion. Waldron therefore asked Teunissen "how he knew
that there was nothing in Jan the soldier's chest." Getting a
curt answer, Waldron retorted, "You may as well be guilty of
stealing the quilt, as of Sieur Verveelen's corn!" This roused
Teunissen to defend his injured reputation, and forthwith he
summoned Waldron before the Mayor's Court, to answer for
having "accused him of being a thief."
But when the case came up, August 22d, Waldron rehearsed
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with such effect all the suspicious circumstances, backed up by
written testimony, as to completely turn the tables against 'eunissen, who was not only made to pay for defendant's lost time,
with the costs of suit, but was sharply reprimanded in these
terms: "And if further complaints of your improper conduct
come before the court, you shall be punished as the merits of
the case may require, for an example to others!"
This case perhaps was clearer to the court than the record
makes it, but it should be viewed in the light of certain collateral
facts. The conflicting views and feelings which had divided
society at Harlem into the English and anti-English parties, had
brought various individuals and families into most unfriendly
and even hostile relations. It plainly crops out both in the nature and increased amount of the business which occupied the
two courts. This ill-will, added to the spirit of lawlessness before
noticed, while it lent eagle eyes to suspicion, disposed the courts
to be strict; their decisions, especially when based upon circumstantial evidence, to which in those early times undue weight
was often attached, were very liable to be partial, if not to wholly
ignore such mitigating or rebutting circumstances as might even
warrant an acquittal. Then Waldron, his official training akin
to that of a modern detective, intent only on finding the evidence
leading to conviction, and with ideas of the rigid Stuyvesant
stripe, whose severity often met a rebuke from superiors in Holland, was prone as magistrate to administer justice sternly, and
law to the letter. Add to this Teunissen's uniform good standing, and there is room to question whether he was fairly treated.
The same may apply to the case of another person, most respectably connected, who the same year was accused of theft, declared
guilty, and forbidden a residence in the town.*
* Jan Teunissen, better appreciated by a later court held December 14, i666, was
appointed, with Lubbert Gerritsen and Jeremias Jansen Hagenaer, to arbitrate in a
difference between Nelis Matthyssen and- Cornelis Jansen, concerning timber; and
again at another court, October 24, I667, when the high sheriff Manning presided, was
named, with Valentine Claessen as referee in re Johannes Buys vs. Jan Duyts and
Lubbert Gerritsen. He was rarely referred to while living at Harlem, otherwise than
as Jan Teunissen, but from his birthplace, Tilburg, as before noticed, he ultimately
took the name Van Tilburg. Jan Teunissen married at New Amsterdam, I655,
Tryntie Pieters Cronenberg, an orphan, though 23 years of age, who had been sent
out that year at the charge of the city of Amsterdam. They settled at Fort Orange,
Teunissen getting a house and lot; but for selling liquor to Indians he fell under
severe penalties. He thence went to the l)elaware to follow his trade as carpenter,
found times hard, and applied to be a soldier. Returning, in I659, he worked some
time on Long Island, and then came to Harlem. Engaging in farming, he bought
Dirck Claessen's place, but was unable to keep it, though he took it up again in i668,
on a lease from Tourneur, then the owner. The next year he hired one of Archer's
farms at Fordham, but finally removed to New York. Here his wife joined the
church in I674, and he the year after. In their will, made January 24, I686, they
name their children, Peter, Barent, Johannes, Jacob, Isaac and Abraham, who are to
share equally their real and personal estate. Teunissen outlived Tryntie, married again
in I691, and in I703 had his third wife.
Peter Van Tilburg, born i658, at Albany, became a bolter in New York, married,
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Soon after this, Montagne, the Vermilyes, and some others,
fell into a sore wrangle with Tourneur, and all because Tourneur's dog had bitten one of Montagne's hogs. It went so far
that Tourneur cited Montagne and two others before Waldron's
court, September 28th, when each of the three was fined a pound
flemish, "for the benefit of the poor." They appealed, but the
Mayor's Court sustained the sentence. The natural effect was
to still more sour the parties. IMontagne, cherishing the purpose to sell out and leave (arrangements for which he completed
only just before his death), now disposed of his village property
and bouw-land, recently his brother's, with the crop he had just
sown thereon, to David Demarest, late of Staten Island, who
became a resident of the town, where he at once took a prominent position.
One of the three individuals fined as aforesaid was Monis
Peterson, who was also complained of at the same session of the
town court for an assault upon Jacques, "the herdsman of said
village," with whom he had a dispute about his oxen. For this
he was fined oo00 gl. The burly Swede not only refused to pay
the fine, but threatened the constable to serve him as he had
Jacques! This, even from the belligerent Monis, was insufferable; Waldron arraigned the offender before the Mayor's Court,
which, approving the former sentence, directed Staeck to be
kept in custody till he gave security for his good behavior. But
enough. These cases, which illustrate the times, and possess
interest as showing the then procedure, are but samples of the
many which engaged the courts, and supplied topics for the
village coteries, during the latter half of I665.
But the signal event of that year, in the town's history,
awakens more agreeable reflections, and deserves a particular
notice. Do. Selyns had received into his spiritual fold at the
Bouwery, up to his leaving for Holland, July 23d, I664, seventeen of the Harlem residents of both sexes, whose names, after
1685, Lysbeth, daughter of Frans Van Hooghten, and had children (with three named
Frans who died in infancy), Johannes, born I686; Abraham, 1694; Frans, 1699;
Catherine, 1700; Petrus, 1703. The Negro Plot of I712 was begun by a slave of
Mr. Van Tilburg's, who, at midnight, April 6, set his master's outbuildings on fire,
when the citizens running thither, the negroes killed several. Peter died at Newark,
N. J., in 1734, aged 76 years. Barent Van Tilburg, born at Flatbush, married, I686,
Marritie, daughter of Adam Brower, and widow of Jacob Pietersen. He had children,
Geesie, born 169I, and Jan, I697, and was a widower in 1793, living in New York.
Johannes Van Tilburg was born at New Utrecht. He and his brother, Isaac, served
Leisler as soldiers in I690. IHe married, I686, Anna Maria Van Giesen, and, 1690,
Margaret, daughter of John Conselyea, who survived him, and married Claes Bogert,
1703. Children, Teunis, born 1693; Peter, i694; John, 1702, and Catherine, 1703,
who married Cornelius Turk, Jr. Jacob Van Tilburg, born at Harlem, married, i688,
Grietie, daughter of Abraham Kermer, and widow of Hendrick de Boog; was a
mariner, and had children, Metje, born 1692; Catherine, 1698; Abraham, 1700. His
widow married Derick Benson, of New York. Isaac Van Tilburg, born 1670, at Fordham, married, 1693, Aeltie, daughter of Hendrick Barens Smith, of Bushwick. He
survived but four years; his widow, in 1698, married Pierre Chaigneux, of New York.
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he left, were transferred to the register of the church at Fort
Amsterdam, to which several of them had previously belonged.
Other communicants living at Harlem (Vermeille, Waldron and
Slot, and their wives) still held their original connection with
that church. This seems indicative of two facts,-the yet imperfect organization of the church at Harlem, and its dependence,
by mutual agreement, upon the city pastors and consistory.*
The ensuing winter the congregation, though not strong in
numbers, undertook to build a house of worship. A pleasant
little episode growing out. of it was "a feast' given to General
Stuyvesant by the three magistrates Tourneur, Montagne, and
Verveelen, but probably acting as well in their specialties of
deacon, voorleser, and innkeeper. It came off January 23d,
I665, costing the deacons' fund 21 gl. I st., and so was plainly
identified with the building movement, as to which, and probably
other matters affecting their interests, they naturally sought
counsel of their honored guest before he should leave on his
intended voyage to Holland,-he whose advice they had hitherto
so greatly leaned upon and valued, both as their governor and
an old elder and father in Israel. In order to provide the ways
and means it was resolved to lay out additional tuynen, or gardens, suitable also for building lots, to be sold to actual freeholders, or residents, at 25 gl. each," for the benefit of the town."
This was at once carried into effect. The gardens, twenty in
number, and containing about half an acre each, lay at the west
end of the village plot, and ran north and south from street to
street. To distinguisrh them from the others they were called
the Buyten Tuynen, or Out Gardens, as they lay outside the
palisade. Dirck Claessen bought No. I, next to the town plot;
Daniel Tourneur, No. 2; Claude Le Maistre, No. 3, and Nicholas
* The church members referred to were the following:
Jan La Montagne, Jr., and Maria Vermeille, his wife.
Daniel Tourneur and Jacquline Parisis, his wife.
Johanes Verveelen and Anna Jaersvelt, his wife.
Joost Van Oblinus, Sr., and Martina Westin, his wife.
Joost Van Oblinus, Jr., and Maria Sammis, his wife.
Glaude le Maistre and Hester du Bois, his wife.
Pierre Cresson and Rachel Cloos, his wife.
Jaques Cresson and Maria Renard, his wife.
Jean le Roy.
Isaac Vermeille and Jacomina Jacobs, his wife.
Resolved Waldron and Tanneke Nagel, his wife.
Pieter Jansen Slot and Marritie Van Winckel, his wife.
Of former residents or landholders here the following had been church members;
De Meyer, though a non-resident, being still a proprietor:
Nicholas de Meyer and Iydia Van Dyck, his wife.
Hendrick F. Vander Vin and Wyntie, his wife.
Jacques Cousseau and Madeline du Tulliere, his wife.
Philip Casier and Marie Taine, his wife.
Willem de la Montagne.
Anna Verveelen.
Arent Jansen Moesman.
Juriaen Hanel.
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De M1eyer, No. 4. Captain Delavall engaged the next four numbers, but the rest went off slowly. For the history of the church
erection, at best obscure, yet its every detail interesting, we are
largely indebted to Montagne's accounts as treasurer, showing
what the deacons expended for materials, labor, etc.' Doubtless,
as is usual in new settlements, the people undertook the incipient
labor of preparing the timber. etc., as a voluntary offering. This
work, of which no record remains, had evidently been completed
and the building enclosed and ready for seats at the (late of the
"'feast" aforesaid, as the deacons' accounts indicate.
The church was built on the nor'th side of the Great Way
(since the Church Lane), on a vacant lot between the east end
of the old gardens and the river, seemingly reserved for this
purpose. The work, suspended during the farming season, was
resumed on the approach of winter by the mechanics Jan Gulick
and Nelis Matthyssen, in order to make the house more comfortable before cold weather should set in. And some special, genial
occasion it must have been, most likely a dedicatory service,
* The Deacon's accounts covering the time the church was building are sufficiently
curious to be given entire. The charges are in florins and stivers.
The Worthy Deaconry, Credit:
1665, 23 Jan. By feast given Stuyvesant by D. Tourneur, J. Verveelen
and J. Montagne................................... f. 21: I
"a book by J. Montage.............................
" 26 "" 5 planks for benches at the Church................... 7: Io
" " labor making the benches............................. 8: o
" 2/ lb. nails for ditto................................ 12
"to Wessels for bringing the Dominie.................. 7 o
to the Sexton (Koster).............................. 6 o
" ditto............................................... i o
" 6:........................ o
20 Dcc. "nails for the house on the Church lot................. 15 o
"nails for the Church............................ 49: 2
wages for labor at the Church................... 36:13
"a piece of gold to the Preacher........................ 50 o
nails for the church.................................. 6: 5
wages for labor at the Church to Jan Gulcke and Nelis.. 24 o
I666, 27 Jan. " ditto to ditto........................................ 40:
" 3 Feb. " to the Sexton....................................... 6 o
25 Mar. " ditto.............................................. 6 o
25 Apl. " nails for the Church................................ I7:i8
" planks for the Church............................... 90go: o
" Hendrick Karstens for raising up the Church and making
the foundation (stander).......................... 30
"ditto for plastering the same......................... 6: o
" I Dec. " to the Sexton....................................... 8: o
1667, 30 Jan. " at allotment of the seats............................. 4: o
Jan Teunissen for a plank for the Church...............:
" 7 M ar. " to the Sexton....................................... 6: o
Nelis far making the table.......................... 3: o
i lb. nails........................................... 3: o
"3 planks for the table and benches..................... 4: Io
27 " Bart the mason...................................... 40 0
Sept. " to the Sexton....................................... 6 o
"2 schepels rye to sow upon the Church lot.............. 9 o
i668, Jan. " to the Sexton....................................... 6 o
a tow n book......................................... 4 o
"Matys for taking away the Dominie....................... 9
"to the masons and lime by Verveelen................... I9 o
f. 369: 8
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which in midwinter brought the dominie, and drew forth the
generous acknowledgment of twenty dollars in gold! Do. Samuel
Megapolensis had now taken Selyns' charge, his father being
senior pastor at New York, and Samuel Drisius his colleague.
To one of these, doubtless, Harlem was indebted then, as at
stated times thereafter, for ministerial visits and services,-always
notable occasions, and welcome interruptions to the ordinary
routine of the voorleser.
Better for the peace of the village had Madam Gossip never
made her debut there; but, alas! the unfriendly prejudices which
had crept into the community gave a tempting opportunity to
employ her insinuating but venomed tongue to the injury of a
worthy church member; for "slander loves a shining mark." To
speak plainly, three Dutch matrons, Sarah Teunis, Tryntie Peiters,
and Mayke Oblinus, with no fear of law or husbands before their
eyes, had "falsely accused of theft" a French woman, and neighbor, none other than the wife of Jacques Cresson. The first two
being the wives of Jan the soldier and Jan Teunissen; may be it
was a retort upou the Cressons, for the affair of the stolen quilt.
Upon the injured lady's complaint, Mayor Delavall, March 27th,
I666, directed the under sheriff and constable at Harlem to interrogate the fair transgressors, "regarding the matter at issue,"
and advise him by the hand of Mrs. Cresson. So much for her
advantage did the investigation prove, that the Mayor required
the trio to make a public confession before the court at New
Harlem, and also sign a writing to that effect, that they knew
nothing of her whom they had defamed, "except what is honorable and virtuous." But mark the inevitable costs of justice in
these neat little bills which the clerk at Harlem presented to the
amiable litigant.
Marie Renard, Dr.
To an extra court................................f. 25 0
seven citations.4 4
" seven citations............................. 4 4
" a copy of examination........................ 2 0
" a copy of the appeal (nullatie)................ 2 o
" a copy of the account......................... 12
f. 33: i6
To after signing................................ I 3
" signing the certificate........................ I 3
" copy of the certificate........................ 2: 6
" notice of extra court........................ 3: o
' copy of the appeal............................ 3: o
I. II O
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Marie, thus injured in her good fame and purse, was of
Huguenot parentage and of unquestioned piety, her husband
also being one of the "real Reformed of France." Once having
"some remarkable experiences, of a light shining upon her, while
she was reading in the New Testament about the sufferings of
the Lord Jesus," it greatly startled her, yet "left such a joy and
testimony in her heart as she could not describe." Constrained,
as she was, to speak to others about "this glory," her brother-inlaw, Nichols De La Plain, rashly told her, "You must not go
to church any more; you are wise enough." These words, the
tempter's prompting to spiritual pride, impressed and grieved
her, " for not to go to church, and to leave the Lord's Supper,
she could not in her heart consent." So, seeking higher counsel,
she remained steadfast in her religion, whose support she so much
needed in the peculiar trials which fell to her lot.*
* This lady died at Philadelphia, October I, 1710. (See N. Cresson's letters, p.
401.
CHAPTER XV.
1666-1667.
T'HE NICOLLS PATENT; TIHE COURT, MILL, CHURCI.
H ARLEM was now a well-ordered rural hamlet, owning some
eighty head of neat cattle. These, from April till November, were to be seen grazing on the commons west of the village,
usually in care of a herder, hired by those who kept stock, on
terms such as were at first made with Du Four and Peterson.*
For the same reason the young horses, cattle, and swine, after
being branded or marked, with the initials of the owner's name,
or otherwise, were turned out to feed in the common woods, free
as the native deer, till necessary to look them up and install them
from autumn rains and winter snows. The growing need of enlarged commonage, and of having the limits thereof fixed, naturally brought up the subject of applying for a general patent,
which should confirm the communitv in these and their other
rights and privileges, and also secure to them the large outlays
made in building their houses, as well as what it had cost them
to clear, fertilize, and fence their lands. Governor Nicolls, on
* Mans Staeck was from Abo, in Finland, and was best known as Monis Peterson, bearing a prenomen common among the Swedes. Being at New Amsterdam when
the order issued for laying out the village of Harlem, he took part in that enterprise
by securing a house and bouwery, but which he first rented and then disposed of,
entering into a three years' partnership, January 17, I662, with Jan Cogu, a fellow
Swede, but better educated, from whom Peterson received the half of his allotment of
land, with house, barn, etc., for 125 guilders, giving Cogu in exchange a half interest
in a lime kiln, with a canoe valued at 15 guilders, and a balance in cash. With farm
and lime kiln and the herding to attend to, they also engaged, August 22, I662, to
work Tourneur's land, "already under the plough;" but Cogu died near the time
the partnership expired, which was on February I, I665. Peterseon held minor
offiffices in town, and here married, in 1663, as before noticed. Unlettered, but by
nature gifted, much reliance was placed upon his judgment; yet strong drink often
made him abusive and violent, and this failing marred his whole life. The heavy
penalties put upon him in I665 may have led him to quit Harlem, and he soon removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., taking his lumber thither in a canoe, aided by Gillis
Boudewyns; and there Monis took the oath of allegiance, February I9, I666. By a
previous appointment by the court as a referee to fix the damages in a case of trespass, he reported at Harlem, July 3, ensuing. Within ten years he went to the
Swedish colony at Upland, Penn., and got land at Calkoen Hook, where he was yet
living in I693. Too often mastered by his bad habit, once for scolding a magistrate,
he was fined I,ooo guilders, but the fine was remitted at the request of the injured
party, upon Monis asking pardon for his abuse, and pleading that he said it "in his
drink." His native frankness and good sense disarmed resentment, and despite his
weakness won respect. His sons, Peter, Matthew and Israel, are understood to have
been the ancestors of the Stuck family.
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knowing their case, sent to Cortilleau, the surveyor, who had
first laid out the village, "a warrant directing a line to be drawn
for the range of cattle." It read:
Whereas, you have formerly received order to draw a line from the
River near the Town of Harlem, upon this Island, one mile into the
woods, somewhat in relation as it stands from this place, some particular point of the compass; These are to authorize you to draw the said
line from the River against the middle of the said Town, one mile directly
into the woods, for the greatest conveniency of range of cattle belonging to the said Town, not considering so exactly how it lies from hence,
whether southerly, or westerly, or otherwise. For so doing, this shall
be your warrant. Given under my hand, at Fort James, in New York,
the 20th day of March, 1665-6.
RICHARD NICOLLS.
To Mr. JAQUtS CORTILLEAU.
The lines being run out pursuant to this order, and a return
of the survey made to the governor, he thereupon gave written
directions for drafting a patent, in which he specified three things
to be observed, namely:
"There is one condition, which is, that that town is to be
forever thereafter called by the name of Lancaster."
"To build one or more boats fit for a ferry."
"There is also liberty of going further west into the woods
with their horses and cattle, for range, as they shall have occasion."
In due time the patent was received, and read as follows:*
RICHARD NICOLLS, Espr., Governor under His Royal Highness
James, Duke of York, &c., of all his territories in America; To all to
whom these Presents shall come, sendeth Greeting. Whereas there is a
certain Town or Village, commonly called and known by the name of
New Harlem, situate and being on the east part of this Island, now in
the tenure or occupation of several freeholders and inhabitants, who
have been at considerable charge in building, as well as manuring, planting and fencing the Town and lands thereunto belonging; Now for
a confirmation unto the said freeholders and inhabitants, in their enjoyment and possession of their particular lots and estates in the said
Town, as also for an encouragement to them in the further improvement of the said lands, Know ye that, by virtue of the commission and
authority unto me given by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, I
have thought fit to ratify, confirm and grant, and by these Presents do
ratify, confirm and grant unto the said freeholders and inhabitants, their
heirs, successors and assigns, and to each and every of them, their particular lots and estates in the said Town, or any part thereof, And I do
likewise confirm and grant unto the freeholders and inhabitants in general, their heirs, successors and assigns, the privileges of a Town, but
* "A patent granted unto the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Harlem, alias
Lancaster, upon the Island of Manhattan."
Such is the title or heading given to the patent as recorded in the Secretary of
State's office, Albany, in the original book of patents, Liber i, page 57, but
stands disconnected from and forms no part of the instrument, although so appearing in the copies printed by Mr. Adriance. In the date the day is left blank. By a
careful collation with the original records, we are enabled to present exact copies of
the several Harlem patents; only conforming to modern orthography.
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immediately depending on this City, as being within the liberties thereof;
Moreover, for the better ascertaining of the limits of the lands to the
said Town belonging, the extent of their bounds shall be as followeth,
viz., That from the west side of the fence of the said Town, a line be
run due West four hundred English poles, without variation of the
compass, At the end whereof another line being drawn to run North and
South, with the variation, that is to say, North to the very end of a certain piece of meadow ground commonly called the Round Meadow, near
or adjoining to Hudson's River, and South to the Saw Mills over against
Hog Island, commonly called Ferkins Island;* It shall be the West
bounds of their lands. And all the lands lying and being within the
said line, so drawn North and South as aforesaid, eastward to the Town
and H-arlem River, as also to the North and East Rivers, shall belong to
the Town; Together with all the soils, creeks, quarries, woods, meadows,
pastures, marshes, waters, fishings, hunting and fowling, And all other
profits, commodities, emoluments and hereditaments to the said lands
and premises within the said line belonging, or in anywise appertaining, with their and every of their appurtenances; To have and to hold
all and singular the said lands, hereditaments and premises, with their
and every of their appurtenances, and of every part and parcel thereof,
to the said freeholders and inhabitants, their heirs, successors and assigns,
to the proper use and behoof of the said freeholders and inhabitants,
their heirs, successors and assigns forever. It is likewise further confirmed and granted, that the inhabitants of said Town shall have liberty,
for the conveniency of more range of their horses and cattle, to go
farther west into the woods, beyond the aforesaid bounds, as they shall
have occasion, the lands lying within being intended for plowing, home
pastures and meadow grounds only; And no person shall be permitted
to build any manner of house or houses within two miles of the aforesaid limits or bounds of the said Town, without the consent of the inhabitants thereof. And the freeholders and inhabitants of the said Town
are to observe and keep the terms and conditions hereafter expressed;
that is to say: That from and after the date of these Presents the
said Town shall no longer be called New Harlem, but shall be known
and called by the name of Lancaster; and in all deeds, bargains and
sales, records or writings, shall be so deemed, observed and written.
Moreover the said Town lying very commodious for a Ferry to and
from the Main, which may redound to their particular benefit as well
as to a general good, the freeholders and inhabitants shall be obliged,
at their charge, to build or provide one or more boats for that purpose, fit for the transportation of men, horses and cattle, for which
there will be such a certain allowance given as shall be adjudged reasonable. And the freeholders and inhabitants, their heirs, successors and
assigns, are likewise to render and pay all such acknowledgments and
duties as already are, or hereafter shall be, constituted and ordained by
His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and his heirs, or such Governor
and Governors as shall from time to time be appointed and set over
them. Given under my hand and seal, at Fort James, in New York, on
Manhatans Island, the day of May, in the eighteenth year of the
reign of our sovereign lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God
King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,
&c., and in the year of our Lord God, I666.
RICHARD NICOLLS.
It is putting it in mild terms to say that this patent was not
approved by the Harlem people, whose wishes, as is obvious,
* From verken, the Dutch word for hog, and so called because the neighboring
settlers allowed their hogs to run there. Now Blackwell's Island.
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were little regarded in preparing it. The change in the name
of the town, with the governor a pet idea, and tried elsewhere
but not always successfully, was a most offensive feature, and
was never adopted.* The bench of justice or local court, and,
in general, such rights as they had enjoyed in common with the
other villages, were indeed comprehended under "the privileges
of a town," but as it made all, without limitation, "depending
on this city,"-this condition might impose untold burdens. In
the vital matter of taxation, it left them quite at the mercy of the
Duke, his heirs and governors, and not to the safer operation of
the laws. Nor did it fully cover their landed interests, as it
omitted to name the meadows appertaining to their farms, but
separated by the Harlem River. These were grave objections
to the patent in its present form, and though it remained of
record, and was not "recalled" as were some others, the inhabitants only abided the time when they could secure a better, obviating these defects.
Two positve characters, such as Tourneur and Waldron, the
one under sheriff and president of the court, the other constable,
could hardly be expected always to work in harmony, and so
it happened that the former took a grudge against the latter for
something said or done. Now, Waldron, being requested by
the inhabitants, went officially to see Tourneur, who was at his
bouwery, "to speak to him about the fences," when the latter,
losing temper, caught up a stick, and saving to Waldron, "Now,
nobody is looking, I'll pay you!" fell to beating him. Waldron
entered a complaint to the Mayor's Court, May Ist, demanding
to be sustained in his official acts, or relieved from his office.
Tourneur being cited, appeared on the 8th, the next court day.
On hearing his version of the story the case seemed to wear a
different look, and was dismissed, with a charge "that both parties for the future live together in good friendship," he who
should first offend to pay a penalty of 50 gl. Tourneur was better satisfied than Waldron, who immediately asked the Court to
give him his discharge as constable, which they did. Of Waldron's official acts but one remains to be mentioned,-the contract
with Nelis Matthyssen to cut and remove the timber from the
town lot, and to keep the fences in repair. This work he completed early in I668.
On May I5th, Johannes Verveelen was confirmed as Waldron's successor, from a nomination (of two persons) made by the
* Lancaster, as a name applying to Harlem, is not once found on its records;
nor has it been met with as so used in any other record or document of that period,
saving the instance above noticed.
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inhabitants, per order; and in presence of the Court he took the
oath of fidelity. This was followed, June I2th, by an appointment of four persons as overseers, from a double nomination by
the people; those elected being Joost Van Oblinus, Isaac Vermilye, Glaude Delamater and Nelis Matthyssen; while Jan La
Montagne was again made secretary, in which office he had not
acted since I664. The letter communicating the result contained
the following instructions:
"The which persons are hereby authorized, together with the
under sheriff and constable,-or three of them, whereof the
under sheriff or his deputy shall always make one,-in all
questions and suits that between man and man in their village
may happen and be brought before them, without respect of
persons, to do justice and to determine absolutely, to the sum
of Two Hundred Guilders in Sewant, following the laws here
in this land established; and all the Inhabitants of the Village
of New Harlem are by these ordered and charged to respect the
before-named persons in all that belongs to them as their overseers. Done at New York, the I2th of June, I666."
On June I9th the members elect presenting themselves in
the Mayor's Court, were tendered and took the following oath:
Whereas you, Daniel Tourneur, as Under Sheriff, and you, Joost
Oblinus, Isaac Vermilye, Glaude Delamater and Nelis Matthyssen, by
the Honorable Mayor's Court are chosen as Overseers of the Village of
New Harlem, for the term of one succeeding year, beginning upon this
date; you Men swear in the presence of Almighty God, that you will, to
your best knowledge and with a good conscience, maintain the laws of
this government without respect of persons, in all suits that shall be
brought before you, to the sum of Two Hundred Guilders; You Men,
so far as able, will execute the laws for the benefit of your town and the
inhabitants of the same. So truly help you Almighty God.
Thus was constituted the first local court at Harlem, in which
(save at the first choice of schepens, under the Dutch) the people enjoyed the right of nominating their magistrates.*
* Nelis Matthyssen was from Stgckholm. His name (the prenomen usually abbreviated in the Dutch records, though sometimes written in full, Cornelis) was, in
proper Swedish, Nils Mattson; but he had a countryman and contemporary of this
name who lived on the Delaware, for whom he is not to be taken. He and Barentie
Dircks were married at New Amsterdam in I66I. At Harlem he was well esteemed,
his good common-sense going far to supply a lack of early advantages. By occupation a carpenter and timber-hewer, he was the first tenant of the land since known as
the "Church Farm," from which he cut and cleared the primeval forest trees. On
his lease expiring, in I668, he left the town and bought a small place at Hellgate
Neck, Newtown, being also an applicant, in I673, for Patrey's Hook, "lying between
Col. Morris and the Two Brothers." He sold out at Hellgate to Thomas Lawrence,
and obtained a grant of sixty acres at Turtle Bay in 1776. This he sold to Joh.
Pietersen-date not given-and perhaps went to Hackensack (as did his family) after
I68i, when he is last named in New York. He had children, Matth~ys, Hendrick,
Anna, Maria, Catherine, Sarah and Rachel. Sarah married Jacob Matthews, and
Maria married Samuel Hendricksen, both of Hackensack. Matthys Cornelissen, born
I665, at Harlem, married Tryntie Hendricks, I692, and died at Hackensack I743-8,
his descendants retaining the name Cornelison, and of whom, we believe, was the
late Rev. John Cornelison, born 1769, at Nyack, N. Y., died, I828, at Bergen, N. J.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
A first business of the new board was to provide for the
completion cf the Church. Work upon it had been continued
by the two carpenters, off and on, during the past winter, but it
was not finished, and money was wanted. Little had been paid
in for the out-gardens sold, and some of these gardens were yet
undisposed of.* At the motion of Tourneur, the magistrates,
on June 27th, resolved that as it was necessary to finish the
church, a tax for that purpose should be laid upon the lands, "by
the morgen from each lot," but "for the present to borrow it
from the poor money with the approval of the ministers and the
deacons." Accordingly lumber was procured, and Hendrick
Karstens was employed to raise up and underpin the building
with a proper foundation, and also to plaster it, that the next
winter should find it more comfortable for the worshipers than
had the last.
This object secured, the overseers found other business,-to
stay the damage being done by cattle foddered on the cultivated
lands, and hogs daily rooting in the vegetable gardens, causing
"manifold complaints." As a remedy, they issued an order, July
25th, prohibiting all persons letting their hogs run at large without being yoked; and providing that for every hog without a
yoke found within the fenced lands, the owner should pay, besides
the damages sustained, "six guilders for each hog for the first
offense; two pounds of powder for the second, and for the third
offense forfeit the hog or hogs." A like penalty was declared
against keeping cattle or calves within the general fencing.
On September 2d, being Sunday, the quiet of the village was
disturbed, by Jan Teunissen and Philip Presto bringing in a
canoe load of hay from Daniel Tourneur's meadow. The next
day they and Tourneur also were arraigned by the town court,
for working on the Sabbath. Teunissen admitted the charge,
but said that Tourneur had ordered it done. Tourneur refused
to appear, but said that he had given them no orders to fetch it
on Sunday. The Court thereupon directed the constable to take
the hay and canoe in charge, till they were redeemed. Tourneur
* The Buyten Tuynen, or Out-Gardens, were in some instances given by the first
purchasers to their children, at their marriage, to build on, and begin wedded life.
At a later date four of these small plots were occupied by Joost Van Oblinus as his
homestead, then by his son, Peter, who added a fifth garden, and who owned a farm
on Van Keulen's Hook to which these adjoined. His nephew and successor, Petrus
Waldron, buying up the remaining ones (two excepted), the whole descended to his
son, John P. Waldron, forming the north part of his farm where it came to the Church
Lane. The two westerly gardens, Nos. 19, 20, were retained in the Bussing family,
whose ancestors received them from his father-in-law, Glaude Delamater, the original
purchaser. They finally came to a daughter of Aaron Bussing, Mrs. Catherine Storm,
forming the small piece attached to the north end of her farm, on which was her residence, the old family mansion, till late seen standing cornerwise to I9th street, at
the north side, between Third and Fourth avenues.
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gave bail for Presto, and proceeded to appeal from this action
to the Mayor's Court.
But once up for public criticism, Tourneur, whose late affair
with Waldron, yet fresh in the people's mouths, was no help to
him, had now to meet and contend with another damaging report.
An act of his youth, long past and buried, suddenly sprang forth
to assail his character. Elizabeth Rossignol,* the wife of Marc
Du Cauchoy, under strong provocation as appears, abused Tourneur roundly with her tongue, calling him "a villain of villains,"
and tauntingly added, that he durst not call her to account for
it either! Tourneur complained to the magistrates September
27th, Elizabeth being present, and prayed that she be put to
the proof. The defendant said that she held the plaintiff for a
villain, while he did not restrain his children from giving her
a vile name in his presence; and furthermore, that the plaintiff
in France had intentionally taken the life of a man with a sword.
Tourneur declaring that he knew not that his children had railed
at her, prayed that the defendant should prove that he had killed
a man, or taken his life. Thereupon, Glaude Delamater and
Barentien Matthyssen testified, at the request of Elizabeth, that
they heard Tourneur say, at the house of Nelis Matthyssen, that
"his sword was the cause that he durst not go to France." Tourneur explaining, said, that attending a funeral in the city of
Amiens, the Papists fell upon the Reformed, and some of them
being slain he was obliged to leave. He asked that the defendant
be interrogated, whether she had known the plaintiff in France.
The defendant said that she had not known him in France, but
that the affair was well known to those who had known him
there. The Court having heard both sides, referred the parties
to the Honorable Mayor's Court. But Tourneur, at the next
meeting of the magistrates, still pressed his suit, praying that
the defendant be imprisoned till she prove her words, and held
to bail for the costs. Elizabeth was equally urgent that Tourneur should give bail for the costs, and reiterated that he had
given the death to Tilie Meer. But the magistrates again referred
the parties to the higher court, so there the persistent Tourneur
went.
His two suits came to trial October 9th. In the "hay case,"
the Court upheld the magistrates in seizing his hay, etc., on the
ground that Tourneur was accountable for the acts of his servants, and disregarding his plea that his orders were to bring
* In the record she is called Lysbeth Nachtegaal, a mere change of her French
name into Dutch; and Nachtegaal finding its English equivalent in Nightingale.
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the hay early on Monday morning. They fined him 25 gl., but
put the costs on the magistrates; instructing them, since Tourneur was president of their board, to apply to the higher court,
"in case plaintiff shall forget himself hereafter, while holding
said position." In the matter of Elizabeth Rossignol, the defendant frankly admitted all she had said, and offered to prove
it, "if the Hon. Court please to grant her a delay to obtain
the proof thereof from France. But the court declining such
an investigation, and keeping itself to the charge of slander, condemned the defendant to acknowledge her fault in open court at
Harlem, and pay the costs. This checked, but did not wholly
stop, this malicious story, which even after Tourneur's death
was circulated by Du Sauchoy, as the widow alleged, "to the
great damage of herself and children."
Capt. Thomas De Lavall was an English gentleman, his
surname derived from Normandy, but the family of great antiquity at Eeaton-Delavall, in Northumberland, where it held
large possessions. Members of it were active partisans of King
Charles., by whom Sir Ralph Delavall was knighted in I66o, and
made surveyor of the port of Seaton-Sluice; while others in the
collateral branches were as noted for their commercial spirit and
wealth. Circumstances connect Capt. Delavall with this family,
whose tastes, pursuits, and loyalty he so largely shared, but
further it is quite well ascertained that he was son of Thomas,
a son of Sir Ralph Delavall. The official favor he enjoyed was
the fruit of meritorious service for his king and country, before
his arrival here in the suite of Gov. Nicolls. During the late
war in Flanders he was Deputy Treasurer of the port of Dunkirk, and handling public funds exceeding an hundred thousand
pounds, so well discharged his trust, that he was assigned to a
similar one at New York, and had entered upon its duties directly
after his arrival.
Capt. Delavall, now owning lands at Harlem, including lot
No. 22 on Van Keulen's Hook, which extended down to Montagne's Kill, designed to build a grist-mill upon this lot and
stream, with a substantial stone dwelling-house near it, in case
he could secure the co-operation of the Harlem people, and the
patronage of the surrounding districts; though the latter much
depended upon the opening of a proper highway between the
Bouwery and Harlem, to give the inhabitants easy access to the
mill with their grain. It would further insure the success of
the undertaking, to draw travel as much as possible toward Harlem, by establishing a ferry there, and to divert it from Spuyten
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Duyvel, by closing up the passageway then used as a fordingplace for horses and cattle to and from the main. Mr. Delavall
now having authority as mayor of the city, resolved to undertake
these enterprises, which with his usual sagacity he judged would
prove a good investment for him, while also conducing to the
public convenience. le therefore male the following propositions to the authorities of Harlem:
On this date, 3d January, A~. I667, the Honorable Iteer Delavall*
proposed and requested that the magistrates of this town do consider
the following points:
Ist. That they make one-half of the road from here to the Malnhatans
or New York; and that Spuyten Duyvel be stopped up.
2d. That like care be taken for a suitable Ordinary (i. c. tavern),
for the convenience of persons coming and going, as also of the village;
and he promises the nails and the making of the scow, provided the ferryman be holden to repay him for the same when required.
3d. That it may be firmly settled, that the inhabitants of the town
will make the dam, because other towns promise to make a dam, if so
be that he pleased to build the mill near them.
4th. Requests leave to erect a stone house at the rear of his land
near the mill, and to fortify it as a refuge for the village in time of need.
5th. Requests leave to run a fence straight from the fence now standing to the stone bridge, upon Van Keulen's Hook, and to use the land
and meadow so inclosed.
6th. Requests that the inhabitants of the town shall set off (fence)
the meadow at Little Barent's Island, in case they wish to keep the
same, as said Island belongs to him; or otherwise, not to put the town
to inconvenience, he will present them the Island, if they will free the
meadows.
7th. Whereas the Bronck's Land has been sold for two thousand
guilders in beavers; and as he thought that it should more properly fall
to the town,-offers, for that price, to let the town have it.
Upon all which, after consideration given, to notify and inform him.
On this matter being talked over among the magistrates,
Johannes Verveelen agreed to take the ferry and ordinary for
six years. He was then formally sworn to provide proper entertainment for travelers, as victuals and drink, lodgings, etc., and
further, not to tap liquor to the Indians who should resort to
the village. On his request for an addition of six feet to his
house lot, next the street, "a's he was crampel for room, and
must make convenience for his ordinary," the Court granted
him "six feet into the street, to extend right out at the south
side; that is, the line stretching as the street now runs, nearly
east and west."
The next day the inhabitants were called together to act
upon Mr. Delavall's proposals, and with the following result:
* The word Heer, though properly translated Lord, often, as in this instance, had
simply the sense of Mr. as used at that early day; this latter term being then applied
with discrimination, and only as denoting great respect. (See Annals of Newtown,
P. 38, note).
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
On the 4th of January; Advice of the Inhabitants of the town upon
the propositions of the Honorable Heer Delavall:
ist Point. Offer, together with their neighbors, to stop up Spuyten
Duyvel, as it was formerly; are also resolved to make a road so far as
practicable.
2d. Have provided for this, and settled Johannes Verveelen as ferryman and keeper of the Ordinary for six years.
3d. Agree to make the dam for the mill, provided they may enjoy its
benefits according to custom.
4th. Agree that a house be built for the bouwery, to set near the mill,
or where it is most convenient for him.
5th. Agree that the mill use the land and meadow lying from the
fence now standing to the stone bridge on Van Keulen's Hook.
6th. Require further opportunity to consider how this point shall be
settled.
7th. They are parties: Hon. -leer Delavall, Nicholas De Meyer,
Johannes Verveelen, Daniel Tourneur, Glaude Delamater, Lubbert Gerritsen, Joost Van Oblinus, David Demarest, Valentine Claessen and
Derick Claessen.
Bronck's Land, referred to under the seventh point, and embracing some five hundred acres, opposite Harlem on the Westchester side, had passed from Bronck's heirs, through several
hands, to Samuel Edsall. The answer to the seventh point
appears to mean that the "parties" named were the ones most
interested, as they were those whose salt meadows lay on that
side of the river. With a view to buying the Bronck tract, some
of these persons met the next day, and "constituted and authorized Daniel Tourneur, Nicholas De Meyer, and Johannes Verveelen, in their name to agree respecting the payment and redemption of the land called Bronck's Land; to do and execute as
would they themselves if present, promising to maintain firm
and inviolate whatever these their attorneys may do in the
premises."*
As to Little Barent's Island, the case stood thus: Stuyvesant
* Dirck Claessen, son of Claes Jacobsen and Pietertie -Ieertgers, was born at
Leeuwarden, in Friesland; emigrating, I believe, with his wife and widowed mother,
in I653. lie was a potter, several of whom came out that year. In I657, when he
became a small burgher, he bought a house and lot in New Amsterdam, and set up a
pottery, known afterward as "Pot-baker Corner, situated near the outlet of the Fresh
Water into the East River, and next to Henry Braiser." Leasing this property,
August 10, I662, for three years, he came to Harlem to manage his bouwery here,
and that fall was chosen magistrate. On November 5, I663, he sold his bouwery to
Jan Teunissen, but was obliged to take it back under a mortgage of that date, and
finally sold it to Daniel Tourneur, February I, I667. He now resumed his pottery
in New York, where he died in i686. lIe married Wyntie Roelofs, Annetie Dircks,
widow, and Metje Elberts. By the first he had Claesie, born I654, who married
John Ray and Gustavus Adolphus Horne; Jannetie, born i656, married Cornelis
Dyckman, and Geertie, born I662, married Barent Christiaens. By his second wife
he had a daughter, Gisberta, to whom, and his stepson, John Everts (son of said
wife Annetie by Evert Jansen), he deeded his pottery property, September lo, i68o.
Who Gisberta married, if at all, has not been observed. When a miss of sweet fifteen,
one Wm. Phillips visited her, but on a Sunday morning, October 26, I679, being
caught acting rather free to suit the father, he indignantly drove Philips out of the
house, nearly cutting his nose off with a knife. Ray was from Berkshire, England,
had served here as a soldier in the English garrison, but became a pipemaker. His
descendants have been of first respectability in this State. His daughter, Wyntie,
married Hendrick Meyer, and daughter Catherine married Derick Potter.
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had granted the meadows lying around it to some of the Harlem
people, and had allowed all of them to use the island for pasturing their young stock. Later this and Great Barent's Island,
as being the property of the West India Company (Van Twiller's
title to the latter island under his In(lian purchase having been
disallowed by the company and annulled by the Director and
Council, July ISt, 1652), fell to the English by the general act
of confiscation of October ioth, 1665; and were soon after sold
to Capt. Delavall, though his patent did not issue till February
3d, I668, when he was about to visit Europe. Upon Delavall's
offer of the lesser island to the inhabitants of Harlem no immediate action was taken, and on May 3d, ensuing, Daniel Tourneur, in Delavall's behalf, urged that Jacques Cresson, who had
meadow on the south side of that island, might be removed therefrom, by having other meadow given him instead; and that the
Heer Delavall's meadow should be fenced in by the town-folks
who had calves pastured there. Delavall's meadow, gotten with
the land of Simon De Ruine, lay in common with Cresson's, and
Cresson was willing to give up his part, provided he could have
"the meadow west of the hills, along Montagne's Kill, at the
north side of the Kill," and if "the persons using Barent's Island
would help him a day in making fence." But this was not
agreed to, and no step being taken to "free the meadows," Delavall afterward purchased them, excepting Cresson's, which he
never owned.
Nor was the attempt to buy Bronck's Land more successful;
even Delavall did not take it, and that valuable tract was conveyed by Edsall, June 4th, I668, to "Col. Lewis Morris, of the
Island of Barbadoes, merchant," whose brother, Capt. Richard
Morris, under a mutual contract of August Ioth, I670, came to
reside on the plantation. His death within two years led to a
visit from Col. Morris in I673. But being dispossessed that year
by the Dutch, he did not make it his permanent residence till
after he had secured a large addition to it by royal grant; the
whole of which estate, embracing I920 acres, upon his death,
February I4th, I691, fell to his nephew, Lewis Morris, son of
Richard, and in 1697 was erected into the Manor of Morrisania.
After much labor the mill-dam was finished (crossing the
creek a little west of the present Third Avenue), and near its
northern end Delavall built his mill; employing as his miller
Hage Bruynsen, a Swede, but for twenty odd years a resident
in this country.* The land adjoining his own, of which Delavall
* Hage Bruynsen was born at Weish, in Smallant, and may have been the son
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had tle use for mill purposes, took the name of the "Mill Camp."
John La Montagne thought the time favorable for removing
to his farm, or at least for asking permission of the town to do
so; and on his application the inhabitants, January 4th, 1667,
voted him "authority to build and live upon his Point." But
Delavall's plan to build a substantial house and fortify it was
frustrated by an urgent call soon after to go to England, and
whither he went the next year, leaving his property at Harlem
in care of Daniel Tourneur, as his agent.
But the village plot was expanding and undergoing material
changes. On their petition several of the inhabitants were
allowed to extend their erven or house-lots, by taking in portions
of the streets. For this they were charged from Io to 15 gl.
Two new erveii were also laid out on the north side of the "Great
Way," and since forming the Judah place. The one adjoining
the river was sold to Johannes Vermilve, and that lying next
to it, to Robert Le 1\Iaire, each for 25 gl. The vacant land to
the south of the village, north of lots I, 2, 3, Van Keulen's Hook,
and reserved to the town uses, was also encroached upon; and a
triangular piece in the northwest corner, opposite the erven of
Karstens and Cresson (taking its form from the course of the
creek), was sold at the above price to Jan Gerritsen De Vries,
who built upon and fenced it.*
The work upon the church having been prosecuted at intervals, as opportunity and the finances warranted, the building
was so far completed by January 30th, I667, that an allotment
of the seats then took place. With the finishing of his work by
"Bart the mason," and "the table" which Nelis Matthyssen had
been employed to make in its place, the modest structure was
now assigned to its double use as a church and school-house;
having a convenient loft or second story, from which,-O primiof Bruyn Barents, named on page I98. Hage entered the service of Burger Joris, a
blacksmith at the Smith's Fly-he who owned a grist mill at Dutch Kills. Seven
years later, 1653, Hage bought a house and lot in Smith's Fly, was enrolled in the
city burgher corps, and also married Annecke Jans, from Holstein, by whom he had
a son, Bruyn, born 1654. In i66i he married Egbertie Dircks, sister to Nelis Matthyssen's wife, and by her had a son, Hermanus, born I662. His term as miller at
Harlem was cut short by his death, in i668. His city property was sold, in 1670, to
Jacob Helliker. Hage's widow married Hendrick Bosch, sword cutler, the Bush ancestor, who afterward owned land near Harlem. Bruyn HIage spent his youth with
his uncle, Dirck Jansen, was taught his trade by his stepfather, and became a "master
blacksmith." He married, in I68i, Geesie, daughter of Frederick Schureman, moved
to Esopus, bought land in 1683, but died the next year. Two years later, his widow
returned with a church letter to New York, where her daughter, Annetie, born 1683,
married, I699, Robert Jacobsen, from Rotterdam.
* This was he later known as Capt. Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen, ancestor of the
Dolsens, of Orange County. The family was from Dalfsen, or Dalsen, a villige near
Zwolle, in Overyssel, but Jan, by chance horn in Friesland, was distinguished as de
Vries, the Friesan or Frieslander; the child's pet name having clung to him up to
manhood. The Dutch were much addicted to this mode of disignation, and to the
use of nicknames of all sorts.
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237
tive economy!-inconle was sometimes derived by renting ic.
But, unpretentious as it was, it suited none the less for the
acceptable worship of Him who "dwelleth not in temples made
with hands." There was on the church lot (kerk lot) an older
house belonging to the town (noticed in i665), and probably
was rented with the latter.
The question had come up of some change in the burial-place,
so as to have it extend out from the rear of the kerk-erf, across
the back ends of the Le M\aire and Vermilye lots to the river;
and the inhabitants being consulted, the following vote was
passed on January 5th, when the action was taken for the enlargement of the house-lots: "The worthy court, with the approval
of most of the inhabitants, have ordered, that the grave-yard
(kerkhof) now shall be behind the erven of Jean Le Roy and
Johannes Vermilye."
The only person to object was Le Roy, who, holding the lot
here referred to, as agent for Le Maire, and on which was a small
tenement that had belonged to the late Jan Cogu, but had
been bought and placed there,-came in court, January 25th,
and requested that the deacons, Daniel Tourneur and Johannes
Verveelen, would be pleased to move his house for him, or that
the erf might remain his. But in place of this, Tourneur offered
to give him timber sufficient for making a house as large as
Cogu's, and Verveelen promised to add 30 gl.; with which Le
Roy declared himself satisfied. On May 1st, ensuing, Le Roy
sold the lot, "as at present fenced in, excepting the street," to
Jan Terbosch, whose wife was sister of Vermilye, the adjoining
owner.'" On June I4th, ensuing, the town, by agreement with
Tourneur, resolved to further enlarge the church-yard (kerk-erf)
at the rear, by extending it westerly into his erf or house-lot,
"four rods in length, and five in breadth." This left a passage
from Tourneur's erf to his lot No. I, Jochem Pieters. As a
consideration they granted Tourneur "the meadows lying along
Montagne's Kill, west of the hills, from the rocky point till to
the end of the creek on the north side of the said Kill." The
hills were Mount Morris, etc.; and the meadows, which lay opposite Tourneur's land on Montagne's Flat (since of David Wood,
* Terbosch and Le Maire, as also the Ackerman and Storm ancestors, emigrated
in the same ship in 1662. (See pp. 93, 96). Terbosch married Rachel, daughter of
Isaac Vermilye, June io, 1663. They had issue, Johannes, born I665; Catherine,
born i668; Isaac, born 1669; Maria, born 1672; Sarah, born i674; Johanna, born
1675, and Jacobus, born I677. Terbosch died soon after, and his widow married
Dirck Wessels, May 25, I679. This family removed up the Hudson. Johannes married
at Kingston in i688. Among the descendants, in Duchess County and elsewhere,
this name, like many others, has suffered some change in the mode of spelling it, as
Terbos and Terbush.
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the Bussings, and others), were those known later as the Bussing
Meadows, in part conveyed, as claimed, to Samson Benson, prior
to I80o, and added to his farm.
On the same date, June I4th, I667, "Jan Montagne was
permitted to have, in case of exchange, the church-lot's meadows,
lying in the bend of the Hellegat; provided he leave instead a
piece of meadow, lying south of the Great Meadow, belonging
to Number i." The Great Meadow was that upon the north
side of Sherman's Creek; No. I referred to the lot on Jochem
Pieters' Flat which MAontagne gave up to the town in I66i. With
that nice economy before observed the deacons, the ensuing fall,
sowed upon the church lot (kerk lot) "two schepels of rye."*
* The land thus early designated the Kerck lot was that since known as the
Church Farm, a part of which is occupied by the present Reformed Church. It lay
at the west end of the old gardens, several of which came to be included in it.
The Kerck erf, which was distinct from the former, lay at the east end of the old
gardens, and was then occupied by the church edifice, being the easterly half of the
plot afterward of the Myers, and which Samuel Myer sold to Alexander Phoenix,
March 27, I8o6, but later known as the Eliphalet Williams plot. The Kerck hof was
the more ancient burying place, lying in the rear of the Judah plot, and still remembered as the "Negro Burying Ground." The last contained about a quarter of an acre,
as conveyed by John De Wit and Catherine, his wife, to John B. Coles, April 7, I794.
CHAPTER XVI.
1667- 669.
NEW NICOLLS PATENT; THE FERRY; RUPTURE WITH ARCHER, ETC.
T HE chief event of I667 was the solving of the knotty question of their patent. The subject was again thrust upon
the freeholders, early in the year, by an order from the governor,
directing them to take out confirmations of their Dutch groundbriefs, under his hand and seal. But how comply with this order,
when very few of them had groundbriefs? On the other hand,
the general patent granted by Governor Nicolls the preceding
year was so deficient, that it seemed to some of little more value
than so much blank parchment. Out of this dilemma appeared
no opening, but in the way of another application to the governor
for a general patent which should include all their lands and
meadows; and this had the additional advantage, that it would
give an opportunity to supply what else was wanting in the former
patent. To this proposal the following persons gave their assent,
at a meeting held on March I5th:
Daniel Tourneur, Jean Le Roy,
Nicholas De Meyer, Valentine Claessen,
Resolved Waldron, Jaques Cresson,
Lubbert Gerritsen, Pierre Cresson,
Johannes Verveelen, Hendrick Karstens,
Joost Van Oblinus, Jan La Montagne, Jr.
David Demarest,
A suitable petition was also prepared, and Waldron and Gerritsen were chosen to present it, and manage the business It read:
To His Excellency, Col. Richard Nicolls, Deputy Governor:
The inhabitants of the Town of New Harlem, your Excellency's
petitioners, would most respectfully represent, that they are informed
that a placard has been issued, that each Inhabitant must get his groundbrief renewed within fourteen days, expiring April ISt of this year; and
whereas the most of your Excellency's petitioners even till now have no
groundbriefs, they therefore pray that your Excellency may please to
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grant them a general groundbrief or patent, in accordance with the last
survey made by your Excellency's land surveyor, Mr. Hubbard,* or otherwise, as your Excellency and wise Council shall find good and proper;
as also that therein may be included the meadows which are lying at
the other side, and belonging to their land.
Your Excellency; Whereas through ignorance of your Excellency's
placards, some faults might be committed by your Excellency's petitioners, they pray that his Honor, the Sheriff, may be charged to send a
copy of every proclamation affecting your Excellency's petitioners, so
that they may not transgress your Excellency's orders. Herein we await
your favorable answer; and meanwhile shall pray God for your Excellency's welfare. Dated New Harlem, I5th March, I667.
That this matter which vitally affected their landed rights,
should be determined and settled, was also demanded by the
rapidly increasing value of the soil and the growing importance
of the settlement. It now had some considerable dairies. Fiftyeight cows, besides other cattle, daily went forth from the village
in care of the new herder, Knoet Mourisse Van Hoesem, who
entered upon this service April I5th, and was to continue "till
All-Saints' Day, either fourteen days earlier or later, as the winter
might set in, or the pasture fail."t
The establishment of the ferry gave a new spur and energy
to the village, by the increase of travel this way. Verveelen
having fitted up his "ordinary," and provided boats for transportation, of which his lusty negro Matthys was put in charge,
found a congenial employment and plenty to do to wait upon
sich as frequented his tavern for entertainment or wanted to
be ferried across to or from the Bronckside, or bring over their
droves of cattle. On his application, January 25th, the town
court had previously fixed the following rates of ferriage, but
subject to the approval of the Mayor's Court:
For one person, 4 stivers, silver money; for two, three, or
four, each 3 stivers, silver money; for one beast, I shilling; and
for more than one, each 10 stivers, silver.
At the corner of the lower street and third crossway, Ver* Capt. James Hubbard, of Gravesend, who was a surveyor. We may infer
that he had been employed to re-survey for the new patent.
t List of the Cattle that went with the Herder, April 15, 1667:
M r. Delavall................................ 2 oxen, 6 cows.
Daniel Tourneur.................................. 2 8
Nelis M atthyssen................................. 3
David Demarest.................................. 2 4
Lubbert Gerritsen................................. 2 5
Valentine Claessen................................ 2 3
Johannes Verveelen............................... 2
Joost Van Oblinus................................ 2 4
Johannes Pietersz Buys.......................... 2 7
esolved W aldron................................ 2 7
Jan Teunisz v: Tilburg........................... 2 3
Isaac Vermilye................................. I
Jan La M ontagne................................2
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veelen's tavern hung out its sign-board, its site now on the north
line of I23d Street, 300 feet west of First Avenue. Well patronized, too, by the lovers of good cheer and goed bier, this is shown
by the frequency with which he supplied his vault with goed
bier and kleyn bier, Spanish wine and rum; but it would occur
sometimes that a cask found its way into the cellar, on which
no excise had been paid or charged. This had happened before.
On October 5th, I666, Daniel Verveelen sent his father at Harlem two half vats of good beer. Allard Anthony, sheriff, hearing
of it, visited Harlem the next day, and found the beer at Verveelen's house, the excise neither paid nor entered with the collector. Verveelen told Anthony he did not known him. Anthony complaind to the Mayor's Court. Verveelen plead ignorance, and was found not guilty in regard to the beer. He excused
his remark made to Anthony, by saying that he did not know
him as schout, but well as sheriff! For this quibble the court
fined him 20 gl. sewant, and costs. In the present case the vigilant Tourneur discovered something wrong, and accused Verveelen of smuggling. Vain were denials or explanations; the
sheriff's deputy at once took proceedings as follows:
Most HTonorable Heeren, Overseers of this Town:
Whereas Johannes Verveelen, ordinary-keeper in this town, did on
the 6th February wickedly smuggle one-half vat of good beer; on the
i8th April, one vat of good beer and one anker of rum; on the 27th
of April, one-half vat of good beer; on the 8th May, one-half vat of
good beer; on the 27th May, one-half vat of good beer and one anker
of rum; all which is contrary to the existing placards on the subject
of smuggling, and by the high magistracy approved. Therefore the
plaintiff, ex-officio the preserver of the peace, demands that the defendant
be condemned in the penalty of twenty-one hundred guilders, according
to the placards, together with the costs of prosecution. The I4th June,
1667, in N. Harlem. Yours, Honorable Heeren,
DANIEL, TOURNEUR,
Deputy Sheriff.
The court ordered this placed in the hands of the defendant,
who was given till the I7th to answer it. But two days after
it was amicably arranged, Tourneur so far abating his demand
as to accept Verveelen's note for I25 gl. in sewant, in settlement
of "the beer transaction."
Verveelen seems to have gotten the idea that the costs he had
incurred as ferryman and innkeeper entitled him to some exemption from the payment of excise; because the following lease
which he presently secured gave him such exemption for a year
and silenced all cavil regarding his rights:
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
At the request of Johannes Verveelen of Harlem, We the Mayor and
Aldermen of New York, have sold the Ferry there as followeth:
It is agreed he shall have the Ferry for five years, provided he keep
a convenient house and lodging for passengers at Harlem, and he shall
have a small piece of land on Bronck-side, about an acre, and a place to
build a house on, which he must clear, and not spoil the meadow, which
shall be laid out by the Town, which must be a morgen of land;-and
at the end of five years it is to be farmed out, and during the five years
he shall pay nothing for it, and in case it shall be let to another, the
house shall be valued as it stands, and he must be paid for it; provided
he may have the preference of the hiring of it at the time expired.
Here followeth what he shall ask for every man passenger or horse or
cattle. For every passenger, two pence silver, or six pence wampum.
For every ox or cow that shall be brought into his ferry boat, eight
pence of twenty-four stivers; and cattle under a year old, six pence or
eighteen stivers wampum. All cattle that are swum over pay but half
price. Ile is to take for diet, every man for his meal, eight pence, or
twenty-four stivers wampum; every man for his lodging, two pence a
man, or six stivers in wampum; every man for his horse shall pay four
pence or twenty-four stivers; and cattle under a year old, six pence or
the grass be in fence. All men going or coming with a packet from our
Governor of New York or coming from the Governor of Connecticut,
shall be ferried free. Also in regard the said Verveelen must be at the
charge of building a house on each side of the Ferry, the Governor hath
freed him from paying any excise for what wine or beer he shall retail
in his house for one year after the date hereof. Dated at New York,
this 3d day of July, I667.
THOS DE LAVALL, Mayor.
Beer was the common beverage. At vendues, or in making
contracts or settlements, its presence was deemed indispensable
to the proper transaction of the business. The magistrates when
occupying the bench always had beer brought in, running up
a score with the tapster at the public charge. Nor did the ordination of elders and deacons, or funeral solemnities, form an
exception. At such times wine and other liquors, with pipes
and tobacco, were also freely distributed. Families commonly
laid in their beer by the quarter and half vat, or barrel. Such
the social habits and customs prevailing among our ancestors,
all oblivious as to the evils of the indulgence. Surely time has
wrought a good departure from former usage. Much of the
beer consumed here was brewed by Johannes Vermilye, while
the breweries of Daniel Verveelen, Isaac De Forest, and Jacob
Kip, at New York, were also patronized.*
* The Excise Accounts from January I6, to July 22, I667, charge the following
persons, the number of times here noted, with excise on beer, obtained usually by
the half or quarter vat: Tourneur and Vermilye always for kleyn bier (small beer),
the rest mostly for goed bier ((i. e., strong beer); Hans Lourens, once for one ton
of strong beer. The farm hands were good consumers. We omit Verveelen's invoices.
Daniel Tourneur, Isaac Vermilye, David Demarest, each 6 charges; Jan La
Montagne, Lubbert Gerritsen, Joh. Pietersen Buys, each 4; Nelis Matthysen, Jean
Leroy, and "the Indian," each 3; Jan Teunisz Van Tilburg, Jan Lourens Duyts,
Hans Lourens, Resolved Waldron, Claes Carstens Norman, each 2, and a single charge
against John Archer, Glaude Delamater, Hendrick Karstens, Mark Disosway, Johannes
Pelszer, Jaques Cresson, Arent Harmans Bussing, Valentine Claessen, Jan Van Gulck,
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243
Events soon demonstrated the wisdom of the steps taken for
securing a general patent. The heirs of the late Matthys Jansen,
of Esopus, had obtained from Governor Nicolls, May 23(1, 1667,
a confirmation of the Papparinamin grant at Spuyten Duyvel.
And the summer brought bodings of trouble with John Archer,
of Westchester, touching the meadows on that side of the river,
opposite Papparinamin, belonging to several inhabitants of Harleml; and on their complaint the following order was issued:
A Warrant to the Constable of Westchester, about some Meadow Ground
claimed by Harlem:
Whereas, I am informed that the Inhabitants of IIarlem have, for
divers years, mowed their hay in the Meadows on the other side of Harlem
River, where John Archer of your town pretends an interest, by virtue of
a patent granted for the Yonker's Land to H1ugh O'Neale and Mary his
wife; These are to require you to warn the said John Archer, that he
forbear cutting hay in those Meadows this present season, and likewise
that he do not presume to molest those of Harlem, until I shall be fully
satisfied of the Titles on both parts, and give my judgment thereupon,
to whom of right these MIeadows do belong. Given under my hand at
Fort James, in New York, this I6th day of August, 1667.
R. NICOLLS.
Shortly after this threatened encroachment by the avaricious
Archer, which, however, (lid not end here, the Harlem freeholders
received their town latent, drawn in the following ample terms:*
Richard Nicolls, Esq., Governor-General under His Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany, &c., of all his Territories in
America; To all to whomn these Presents shall come, sendeth Greeting. Whereas there is a certain Town or Village upon this Island Manhatans, commonly called and known by the name of New Harlem, situate, lying and being on the East part of the Island. now in the tenure
or occupation of several of the freeholders and inhabitants, who, being
seated there by authority, have improved a considerable proportion of
the lands thereunto belonging, and also settled a competent number of
families thereupon, capable to make a Township; Now, for a confirmation
to the said freeholders and inhabitants in their possession and enjoyment
of the premises, as also for an encouragement to them in their further
and Michiel Bastiaensen. It is well that entries such as follows, which occur often
in the public accounts, belong to the past:
June 15, 1667, To 41/2 pints Rum, and I5 cans measured Beer,
used at the agreement with Verveelen.......f. 20.
Feb. i8, 1678, To one anker Good Beer, dispensed when Do.
Nieuwenhuysen was here to ordain the deacon.f. 7: o0
Sept. 9, i688, To Rum at his funeral..................... f. 7
The last one is among the charges "for the burial of a stranger who died at
Cornelis Jansen's." Jan 'Iibout (voorleser) is allowed f. 12, "for an address to his
credit."
* Recorded in original book of Patents, Sec. of State's Office, Albany, in Liber
4, p. 6o. The date is there given as i666, but a palpable error; since October I, in
the i9th year of Charles II., was 1667, and, moreover, the date is correctly recited in
several later documents including Dongan's Patent. From a scrutiny of the record
it would appear that the date was omitted when the patent was recorded, and carelessly entered afterward. The names of the three patentees are also written Verveelen, Turner, Oblene; but we count these in with other clerical blunders, and correct them from their own autographs.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
improvement of the said lands; Know ye, That by virtue of the commission and authority unto me given by His Royal Highness, I have
given, ratified, confirmed and granted, and by these Presents do give,
ratify, confirm and grant unto Thomas Delavall, Esq., John Verveelen,
Daniel Tourneur, Joost Oblinus and Resolved Waldron, as Patentees
for and on the behalf of themselves and their associates the freelolders
and inhabitants of the said Town, their heirs, successors and assigns,
All that tract, together with the several parcels of land which already
have or hereafter shall be purchased or procured for and on the behalf
of the said Town within the bounds and limits hereafter set forth and
expressed, viz.: That is to say, from the West side of the fence of the said
Town line being run due West four hundred English poles, without
variation of the compass, and at the end thereof another line being drawn
across the Island North and South, with the variation, That is to say,
North from the end of a certain piece of meadow ground comnonly
called the Round Meadow,* near or adjoining unto Hudson's or North
River, and South to the place where formerly stood the Saw Mill, over
against Verkens or Ilog Island in the Sound or East River, shall be the
Western bounds of their lands; And all the lands lying and being within
the said line to draw North and South as aforesaid Eastward to the end
of the Town and Harlem River, or any part of the said River on which
this Island doth abut, and likewise on the North and East Rivers within
the limits aforementioned described, doth and shall belong to the said
Town, As also four lots of meadow ground upon the Main, marked with
Number I, 2, 3, 4, lying over against the Spring,T where a passage hath
been used to ford over from this Island to the Main, and from thence
hither, With a small island, commonly called Stoney Island, lying to the
East of the Town and Harlem River, going through B3ronck's Kill by the
Little and Great Barne's Islands, upon which there are also four other lots
of meadow ground, marked with No. T, 2, 3, 4, Together with all the soils,
creeks, quarries, woods, meadows, pastures, marshes, waters, lakes, fishing, hawking, hunting and fowling, and all other profits, commodities,
emoluments and hereditaments to the said lands and premises within the
said bounds and limits set forth belonging or in anywise appertaining.
And also freedom of commerce for range and feed of cattle and horses
further West into the woods upon this Island as well without as within
their bounds and limits. To have and to hold all and singular the
said lands, island, commonage, hereditaments and premises, with their
and every of their appurtenances, and of every part or parcel thereof.
unto the said Patentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and
assigns, to the proper use and behoof of the said Patentees and their
associates, their heirs, successors and assigns forever. And I do hereby
likewise ratify, confirm and grant unto the said Patentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns, all the rights and privileges
* Moertje Davids' Vly, or Mother Davids' Meadow, was the name by which this
meadow was known ten years later; the word Vly (now usually written Fly, which
gives its English sound) being a contraction of valley, the Dutch term for meadow.
It was the identical meadow named in Kuyter's grant, and lay just within the bay or
clove at Manhattanville: and it was to distinguish it from another Round Meadow
(that at Sherman's Creek, called in the original allotments the Great Meadow) that it
received the name Moertje Davids' Meadow. This name was singularly derived from
the larger meadows so called lying upon the opposite side of the Hudson, in Bergen
County, and annexed to "Moertje David's Plantation." Often referred to in the
history of the town, our Moertje Davids' Fly has notoriety as a landmark, not only in
connection with the Harlem patent line, but with the Battle of Harlem Plains. The
perversion to Murdanies, Mordanis, etc., (see N. Y. Cal. of Land Papers, i6, and
Winfield's Land Titles, 129), has obviously come by clipping the first word, and mistaking the v (often formed as u, in old writings) for an n.
t The Spring; that is, Spuyten Duyvel. (See page I 115). Verken Island, before
noticed, was soon after called Manning's Island, from its owner, Capt. John Manning,
and later Blackwell's Island. Stony Island has hardly yet yielded to the modern
name of Port Morris.
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belonging to a Town within this Government; with this proviso or exception, That in all matters of debt or trespass of or above the value of
Five Pounds they shall have relation to and dependence upon the Courts
of this City as the other Towns have upon the several Courts of Sessions
to which they do belong; Moreover the place of their present habitation shall continue and retain the name of New Harlem, by which
name and style it shall be distinguished and known in all bargains and
sales, deeds, writings and records, And no person whatsoever shall be
suffered or permitted to erect any manner of house or building upon
this Island, within two miles of the limits and bounds aforementioned,
without the consent and approbation of the major part of the inhabitants of the said Town. And whereas the said town lies very commodious for a Ferry, to pass to and from the Main, which may redound
to the particular benefit of the inhabitants as well as to a general good,
the freeholders and inhabitants of the said Town shall, in consideration of the benefits and privileges herein granted, as also for what advantage they may receive thereby, be enjoined and obliged at their
own proper costs and charge to build or provide one or more boats, fit
for the transportation of men, horses and cattle, for which there shall be
a certain allowance given by each particular person as shall be ordered
and adjudged fit and reasonable. They, the said Patentees, and their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns, rendering and paying such
duties and acknowledgments as now are or hereafter shall be constituted
and established by the laws of this Government, under the obedience of
His Royal Highness, his heirs and successors. Given under my hand
and seal, at Fort James, in New York, on the Island Manhatans, the
IIth day October, in the I9th year of His Majesty's reign, Annoq. Domini,
1667.
RICHARD NICOLLS.
While the proceedings relating to the patent were pending,
much ill-feeling had found vent at certain "orders of the new
government." One of the most outspoken was Jan Nagel, late
soldier in the Dutch service who, on being notified of the order
by the constable, Verveelen, returned him the following answer,
wherein his sentiments are not disguised:
April ye 12, 1667.
I take this opportunity to send you word that I will see you to-morrow to comply with ye orders of ye new government, as such a course
seems now necessary, and leaving no other alternative; but not without
very strongly protesting against ye injustice which has long been heaped
upon us. Not finding satisfactibn in ye confiscation of very valuable
property, they are now compelling us to submit to an illegal and tyrannical foreign government. If God has designed in his providence that ye
Dutch people should become victims to ye treachery and rapacity of ye
English, then all they can do is to submit.
JAN NA^.GE,.
But, on May 3d, Verveelen complains to the magistrates that
Nagel "has not obeyed his order." Nagel replies, saying "he
has conveyed the order, but they would not go." On motion of
the under-sheriff, Tourneur, that the defendant "be bound over
to the Mayor's Court as a rebel, on the charge of having refused
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to obey the order of the constable," the Overseers so referred
the case. Others were also implicated, for on September 6th,
Nelis Matthyssen, ex-magistrate, taking by invitation a seat on
the bench, Tourneur (not in love with Nelis, whose wife had
appeared against him in the manslaughter case) stoutly protested, charging Nelis with being a rebel; but the court rejected
the charge. So it rested till another sitting on October 24th,
when affairs had become so grave that Capt. John Manning, the
High Sheriff, presided, and before whom Jan Nagel and Hans
Lourens, in the same category, were also cited to appear. Matthyssen had summoned Tourneur to prove "that he is a rebel."
Tourneur now "proves it by the order of the Mayor's Court, that
the plaintiff should not continue as one of the bench." Nelis
being cast, and put to an amende of 6 gl. and costs of suit, with
becoming nonchalance promised 25 gl. to the poor. The two
other cases were then taken up, when Nagel was fined 60 gl.,
and Lourens 40 gl., each with costs.
Captain Delavall had become by far the largest landed proprietor in the town, and hence was entitled to be named as first
patentee. He now owned (not to specify further) several of the
uppermost lots on Jochem Pieters' Flat, besides those of Simon
De Ruine and the late Jan Cogu, in the same tract. On March
I4th, I668, Tourneur, as agent for Delavall, who was arranging
his business preparatory to going to England, leased these several
lots, with the De Ruine house and garden in the village, for a
term of four years, to a respectable settler named Wouter Gerritsen, whose emigration in 1659 has been already noticed.*
* Simon de Ruine, otherwise called de Waal, i. e., the Walloon, was originally
from Landrecy, in Hainault, as before noticed. Having sold his lands in Harlem, in
i666, he bought a few acres in Flushing, near Jean Genung, and is named on the
rate list of I675, Doc. Hist. N. Y., ii. 461 On April 27, I678, the Sieur Dubuisson
drew up his will; a copy is here given. It was proved June 13, i678. Simon was
sick, and perhaps in extremis, as he did not put his hand to the will, and thus its
date may be that of his death. As he always made his mark, and his name takes
many forms in cotemporary records, we follow Dubuisson as probably correct. The
following forms prevail: Drune, Dreune, Druwen. John Montagne varies it thus
in a dozen times: Durwyn, Druween. Simon had, with other children, Tacomina,
born near Landrecy, who married John Demarest; Jannetie, born at Amsterdam, who
married John De Pre; and Maria, born at Harlem, who married Samuel Demarest.
A Jourd huy 27me avril I678, faict en prensence de Jean Guenon et de Marguerite sa femme, et Jean des Conseiller, et de Jean Baptiste de Poictier, Sieur
Dubuisson, et du libre consentement de Simon de Ruine, le Oualon, se croiant malade,
a recongnu pour le repos de sa consiense, par un libre et st. jugement, a tesmoigne
ettre sa volonte ainsy quy seulmt qu apres les despt paiez desclare et a les dare
Madlaine sa femme heritier des les bien et en disposer sa vie durante, sans toutes
fois le pouvir vendre gra ny engager en quelque facon, que le soit tant meuble et
inmeuble demeurant au mesme point qu il sont. C etait et concluet a reste dans la
maisonmaison du dict Simon de Ruine, dit le Oualon, en presence des tesmoin cy
dessre nonme 1 on desclare ne savoir siner faute de quoy mestre on leur marque.
de Jean nm Guenon
marque nn Jean des Conseiller.
fait par moy
Jean Baptiste de Poictier, Sieur Dubuisson.
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In the meantime other old groundbriefs of Governor Kieft's
time were being hunted up by heirs or successors of the grantees
for official confirmation. That to Pieter Jansen and Huyck Aertsen for land at Sherman's Creek was now claimed in partnership
by Joost Kockuyt, of Bushwick, who had married Jansen's widow,
and Thomas Lamberts, of Brooklyn, Aertsen's successor. These
parties sold the groundbrief to Archer, of Westchester, for 600
guilders. But when presented to Governor Nicolls he refused
to confirm it, both because he considered it as forfeited by the
neglect of the owners to improve the land, and "in regard it might
be injurious to the Town of Harlem."
The old Hoorn's Hook patent, granted to Sibout Claessen,
was also offered for sale to Daniel Tourneur, who, consulting
his own interests rather than those of the town, agreed to buy it.
This being known, caused great dissatisfaction, and gave rise
to the following petition:
To His Excellency Gov. Richard Nicolls:
The Magistrates of the Town of New Harlem, with all becoming
respect and submission, do represent; That your Excellency's petitioners
have been informed that some persons have bought the lands commonly
called H-oorn's Hook; which conflicts with the privileges wherewith this
Town was laid out, and is to the great prejudice of the town, the more
so. as the said privileges have been confirmed by your Excellency, and
the lands are situated within our jurisdiction. Your Excellency's petitioners do not desire the same for nothing, but offer to pay what they
have been sold for.* Hoping your Excellency will give the preference
to your petitioners of having the same, with the redemption thereof, by
paying what they have been sold for; for they await your Excellency's
favorable answer. In the meantime they will not cease to pray God to
grant your Excellency enduring health and salvation. Amen. New Harlem, 15th March, I668.
In the name of your Excellency's faithful subjects,
J. LA MONTAGNEl, JUNIOR,
Secrctary.
This paper had scarcely gone on its errand when another
excitement arose in the village. The 22d of the same month,
Jeaen Baignoux, a worthy French refugee, and subsequent owner
of a farm on Hoorn's Hook, having occasion to cross the river
to Morris', forty pounds of tobacco, with a nootast and other
* In margin; "To wit, Seven or eight hundred sticks of firewood."
t Nootas, a bag made of Indian hemp, in which the natives carried their sewant,
tobacco, etc., and measured their corn. They came into common use with the settlers,
and are often named in inventories and vendue lists. The court minutes of July
12, I663, contain the following:
"Lubbert Gerritsen and Marie Taine declare, by request of Nelis Matthyssen, that
they heard Madalena Lodewycks say, at said Madalena's house, that Barentien Dircks
had stolen the pork of Jacob Brouwer, which was in a nootas by the oven door.
The court condemn defendant to pay, for the needs of the poor, 6 guilders and the
cost of suit." She was wife of Simon de Ruine.
(See Wooley's Journal, p. 52, and N. Y. Col. Doc. I, 281).
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articles, all valued at 76 florins, were stolen out of his canoe
while it lay at the landing-place. He charged the theft upon
Matthys, the ferry negro, who was arrested, but released on his
master, Verveelen, becoming his bail. The case, more serious
for that Matthys was (de facto a public servant, demanded, as
thought, an extra court, which was held April 2d, when beside
the usual magistrates, his honor, High Sheriff Manning, was
present. Pierre Grandprc, another refugee, with Knoet Mourisse,
had occasion to go over together just after Baignoux, and described the strange actions of the negro, who "with a sword in
one hand and fire in the other," forbade their landing. They also
saw that Matthys had a nootas, but could not say whose it was,
The testimony left little doubt of his guilt, but the court though
best to postpone the case for further evidence; Verveelen promising Capt. Manning to make good Baignoux' loss should the
latter be able to clearly fix the theft upon the negro. No more
appears.
But new trouble awaited the ferryman. It was found no
such easy matter to close up the passage at Spuyten Duyvel, long
"used to ford over from this Island to the Main." Fences were
rudely thrown down, and the grazing kine strayed across at will.
Further, it became known that John Barker, of Westchester, had
presumptuously, and to the great damage and loss of the ferry
at Harlem, taken over a great number of horses and cattle, toll
free. Verveelen and the magistrates hastened to make complaint. The Mayor's Court gave both sides a hearing on June
2d, when some neglect on the part of the ferryman appearing,
it was "Ordered that said Barker shall pay the ferry money for
all horses and cattle conveyed by him over the Spuyten Duyvel
whilst the ferry has been at Harlem, which money the petitioners shall employ to repair the fences at Spuyten Duyvel; and the
ferryman is in like manner expressly ordered and charged to
finish the house and pen, on the opposite side of the ferry at
Harlem, at the earliest opportunity; under such penalty as the
Hon. Court shall impose." Verveelen made out a bill for ~5
sterling against Barker, but recovered it only by an attachment,
issued September 5th, by the Town Court.
A series of troubles now began between the inhabitants and
John Archer, respecting their lands and meadows near Spuyten
Duyvel. This noted person is first introduced to us as "Jan
Arcer, alias Neuswys, from Amsterdam." His affix, literally
rendered nosewise, when coupled with his more familiar nickname, "koop-al," or "buy-all," suggested,-that Archer was a
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shrewd fellow and had an eve to business! One alias, indeed,
he got from his father, who, in 1658, is called "Jan Aarsen, from
Nieuwhoff, commonly called Jan Koopal," the son in 1662
being styled "Jan Arcer, alias Koopal, the younger." He had
been in Vestchester a dozen years or more, and in its affairs
borne an active l)art. It was an English community, and( he,
taking to wife in 1659 an English girl from Cambridge, his name
thus came to take the English form of Archer, which has descended to a numerous l)osterity.'' By his assiduity acquiring a
large tract of land bteween the Harlem River and the Bronx,
he had "at his own charge and with good success begun a township in a convenient place for the relief of strangers,-it being
the road for passengers to go to and fro from the main,-as
well as for mutial intercourse with the neighboring colony."
Archer began by leasing his land in parcels of 20 to 24 acres,
to such persons as would undertake to clear and cultivate it (and
with each a house and lot in the village), all upon easy terms;
so that in the years 1668 and 1669 a good number of the Harlem
people were led to go there. The "new plantation" was given
the name of Fordham.t
Already, as we have seen, there was a dispute between Archer
and the Harlem people about the line parting his lands from their
meadows upon that side. It so happIened that four of Archer's
cattle trespassed on the meadows. They were seizeed by order
of the Harlem magistrates, who entered a complaint against
Archer to the new governor, Lovelace. Both parties appeared
before his Excellency in Council, at a special session held November 6th, and were heard at length; the Harlem people having
deputed Tourneur, Verveelen, Waldron, and the constable,
Aoelofsen, to answer for them.
Two charges were preferred against Archer:
* The Archers, we may hence conclude, are not of English, but of Holland descent, although the contrary is assumed in the History of Westchester County. The
ancestor was born at Nieuwhoff, his son at Amsterdam, and the latter has left us his
autograph, invariably written Jan Arcer, as only a Hollander would write it. This
seems pretty conclusive.
t The annexed list of leases executed by Archer at Harlem shows who took up
farms in Fordham. Nearly all subsequently left and got land of their own elsewhere.
The leases with stars affixed are not signed in the record.
Feb. 12, 1669, Kier Wolters and..............
Pieter Roelofsen,............. Term 7 years from Sept. 29, I668..". Marc du Sauchoy................ 4 April I, 1669.
May i, " Jan Pietersen Buys*.............. 5 Aug. 31, 668.
I "C Cornelis A. Viervant............. 5
Jan Teunisz v. Tilburg...........
" Jan Hendrick Boch*.............. 5
Hendrick Kiersen................ 5
Louwerens Ackerman............ 5
Michiel Bastiaensen.............. 5
Dec. 5, " Kier W olters..................... " "
".. Marc du Sauchoy................ " 5
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"ist. That upon pretence of a certain purchase, he lays
claim to a parcel of land upon this Island, near Spuyten Duyvel,
which is within the limits and bounds of their patent, and of
right belongeth to their Town."
"2(1. That having seated himself very near unto some lots
of meadow ground upon the Main, belonging unto their Town,
he is a daily trespasser upon them with his cattle, and that the
said ground, lying in length alongst the Creek or Kill, cannot
without very great charge be fenced in."
Upon the first point Archer replied that he owned the land
in question, on this Island, by virtue of a groundbrief granted
by the Dutch governor Kieft, which he had purchased from
Thomas Lanmberts and Joost Kockuyt for 600 guilders. But the
court decided, that owing to "the long time since the first groundbrief was given, and no settlement since," the title had "lapsed";
or, in other words, was "of no validity, it becing forfeited by
several acts of the government." Further, because "it might be
injurious to the Town of Harlem," Governor Nicolls had refused
to confirm it. It was therefore "adjudged that the land in controversy doth belong to the Town of Harlem, by virtue of their
patent." But it was recommended, "in regard the owners thereof
have sustained loss upon the said land," to find means to pay
them so much as the first agreement for the sale thereof."
Upon the second count, Archer "denies any claim to the lots
upon the Main, Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, with which he is charged; but
hath purchased land near adjoining, that was the Yonker Vander
Donck's." Thereupon, "it was ordered that the defendant do
bring in the patent for the Yonker's land in fifteen days' time,
with what right he hath to the land where he hath built; at which
time some persons shall be appointed to view the meadow belonging to Harlem, upon the Main, and to make report how it may
be preserved from the defendant's trespassing on it. Which persons shall also be ordered to view the passage at Spuyten Duyvel,
how it may be made convenient for travelers and drift of cattle;
the ferry at Harlem being found incommodious, and not answering the ends formerly proposed." The latter announcement foreshadowed a change which was to plant a lifelong thorn in Archer's
side.
On November I5th, Archer attempted "to make out his title."
But the court remained of the opinion, that he had "not clearly
made it out, he having no bill of sale, nor bonds setting forth
his purchase." They gave him till February I4th to "clear his
title,"-and meanwhile he was to give "no disturbance to his
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251
neighbors." An order was then issued for the release of his
cattle. The receipt to the magistrates for the "four attached
cattle," dated December I3th, and signed "Jan Arcer," shows
compliance with the order.
No answer has been found to the application respecting
Hoorn's Hook; the decision upon the Jansen and Aertsen patent
seems to have answered it. Certainly Harlem held the land, and
the upshot of the matter was that Tourneur asked the freeholders
to grant him this fifty morgen "as a recompense for his services
to the town,' or to indorse the purchase which he had made.
But when it came up for action, November 20th, some were in
favor, others opposed, or said they would have no more to do
with it, and so it dropped. Howbeit, Tourneur had already
secured, June I5th, a valuable grant from Governor Nicolls of
eighty-one acres on the other side of Harlem River, between
Archer's and Bronck's land, and watered by the gentle Mannepies, now Cromwell's Creek; which property, by the marriage
of his daughter Esther, became vested in the De Voe ancestor,
afterward owner of the adjoining tract known as De Voe's Point.
On September I7th, the magistrates Tourneur and the senior Vermilye had been summoned to Delavall's mill to appraise
the effects of the miller, Hage Bruynsen, just deceased; and ere
the year closed, death claimed another settler, Hendrick Karstens,
late a nominee for the office of overseer. The village had been
the scene of unusual activity through the working season now
closing. The first vessel of size put upon the stocks here, of
which any notice is taken, was a sloop built this year, under a
contract, by Jan Gerritsen De Vries, for Capt. Thomas Bradley,
who before this had sailed a market yacht between New York
and "Stafford." On November 27th, the parties discharged each
other of their contract, Bradley giving De Vries a bond for the
balance due him, 122 gl. in sewant, to which Verveelen and William Sandford were witnesses. As indicative of growth in the
village, the magistrates, on December I7th, I668, granted Johannes Pelzer "a little house-lot, lying south of the house-lot of
Glaude Le Maistre."*
* Hendrick Karstens was born in i6io, in Oldenbourg, Westphalia, but directly
after that event, his father, Karsten Hendricks, removed to Amsterdam. The family
were Lutherans. Hendrick took to sea, but finally married, in 1644, Femmetie Coenraets, from Groningen. Soon after the birth of a daughter, whom they called
Wybrecht, they left Amsterdam for New Netherland. Karstens took up land at
Harlem, but also worked as a mason. Unschooled, but industrious and worthy, he
bore his humble part in the building up of the town, holding, at times, several minor
offices. In I667 he visited the Delaware. The year after his death, his widow married
Lubbert Gerritsen. Karsten's children were, Wybrecht, born I646, at Amsterdam, who
married Hermanus Van Borsum; Coenraet, born 1648, in this country; and Jan,
born I650. The name Boch, assumed by the two sons, was probably derived from
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The following year, I669, witnessed several imp)ortant measures for the improvement of the town. On February 22d, Governor Lovelace and his Council, with "others of the bench at
New York," held a court at Harlem to consider two or three
matters affecting the town and neighborhood. First and principal was that of laying out a wagon road btween New York and
Harlem, "which hath heretofore been ordere( and appointed, but
never as yet was prosecuted to effect," though "very necessary
for mutual commerce with one another." The following action
was taken:
"It is this dla ordered that a convenient wagon way be made
between the city of New York and this place, to which end four
commissioners shall be appointed, who are to view and consider
of the most convenient passage to be madle.
"That these four commissioners meet to view the said wav
on Thursday next, being the 25th of this instant month; and
after having concluded upon it, that immediately they fall upon
laying out the way, according to their former agreement thereupon1; that is to say, the neighbors of the Bowery and parts
adjacent to clear the way to be fit for the passage of wagons,
from New York to the Saw Kill; and the Town of Harlem, from
thence to their town. That this way be laid out and cleared,
according to the intent of this order, by the first of May next.
"That the appointed Commissioners, upon their conclusion
of the best way, do immediately give the Governor an account
of their agreement, who thereupon will give order for the putting
the same in execution.
"That the Commissioners of either party have hereby liberty
to make inspection on the sufficiency or defect of each other,
to the intent that there prove no failing in either of them."*
The two commissioners appointed for the Harlem district
were Daniel Tourneur and Resolved Waldron.
This court "also ordered that all horses and cattle belonging
to New York and New Harlem, which shall be turned into the
TBourg, used familiarly for Oldenbourg, their father's birthplace. After some years
they both removed from the town, but whither is not certain; possibly to Kinderhook.
(Consult Munsell's Albany ITist. Coll., iv. io6).
* Harlem Lane, as we have reason to believe, was at first an Indian trail. Such
forest paths, conveniently marked out by savage instinct, were often adopted by the
white settlers as the best routes for highways. In traveling from New Amsterdam to
Spuyten Duyvel, at McGowan's Pass was the natural descent to the plain, the path
striking its northern end, where it would as naturally fork to the left and right, for
the equal convenience of the pedestrian passing through the "Clove of the Kill" to
the North River, or along the base of the height to and up Break Neck Hill. It is
not possible to tell when this path over the Flats became a road, but the indications
are that it was very early, many years before it was formally laid out as such,
which was done pursuant to an Act of Assembly of June 19, 1709. (See Hoffman, ii,
249).
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253
woods 1upon this islandl, shall have a marl of distinction iupon
them; That is to say, those belonging to New York, the Bowery,
and parts adjacent, are to have a brand mark with N. Y. upon
them, and those of New Harlem with N.. H And that there
be a person appointed and sworn in each llace to mark such
horses an(l cattle as really (lo belong to the inhabitants, and none
others."
The question of the transfer of the ferry from Harlem to
Spuyten Duyvel had been for some time mooted. Proceedings
in regard to it were opened by the following communication from
Governor Lovelace to the Mayor and Aldlermen of the city, dated
February 27th, I669.
"Whereas Johannes Verveelen, of New Harlem, hath pro
ferred a petition unto me, in regard the ferry at Harlem is to be
removed, and that the passage at Spuyten Duyvel is to be fitted
and kept for passengers going to and from this Island to the
Main, as also for a drift for cattle and horses, that he may be
admitted to keel) the said passage; the Petitioner alleging, that
having a promise from the late Governor, my predecessor, as
also a confirmation from the Mayor and Aldermen of this city,
that he should enjoy the benefit of the ferry at Harlem for five
years, conditionally that he should provide boats and other necessary accommodation for strangers, which accordingly he hath performed, but there is not as yet above two years of the time expired; I have thought fit to refer the whole case of the Petitioner
to the Mayor anl( Aldermen of this city, who are to return back
to me their judgment and resolution therein. Whereupon I
shall give order for the laying out of a piece of land near Spuyten
Duyvel fit for the accommodation of the person that shall be
appointed to keep the ferry and passage there, as also for the
relief of passengers and strangers."
The Mayor and Aldermen, by resolution, March 2d, concurred in a change of the ferry from Harlem "to the wading
place," and recommended that Verveelen be settled there for
the remaining three years, provided he "deliver up annually an
account of the income of said ferry." Hereupon the Governor,
June 2d, granted Verveelen a warrant which after informing "all
officers or other persons whom it may concern," of the purpose
to remove the ferry from New Harlem to Spuyten Duyvel, "a
nearer and more convenient passage to and from this Island and
the Main," and that Johannes Verveelen was found "the fittest
person to be employed therein that will undertake it, both in
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regard to the change he hath been already at, and his experience
that way"; proceeds thus
"These are to authorize and empower him, the said Johannes
Verveelen, to repair to the said place at Sptyten Duyvel, and to
cause a fence to be made for keeping all manner of cattle from
going or coming to or from the said passage without leave or
paying therefor, and at his best conveniency to lay out a place
upon that piece of land called Papparinamin on the Main side,
near unto the said passage, for habitation and accommodation of travelers, for the which he shall have a patent and articles
of confirmation. And for so doing this shall be his warrant."
"Instructions for ye Ferryman at Spuyten Duyvel" were
drawn tip July I th, and incorporated in the following curious
lease:
Articles of Agreement Indented, consented unto and concluded
upon, the 15th day of July, in the 21st year of his Majesty's reign,
Annoqe Domini, I669, Between the Rt Hoonble Francis Lovelace, Esqr,
Governor Geni under His Royal Highness, James Duke of York and Alblany, &c., of all his Territories in America, on the one part; and Johannes
Verveelen, of New Harlem, on the Island Manhatans, Ferryman, on the
other part, for and concerning the settling of a Ferry at the place commonly called Spuyten Duyvel, between this Island Manhatans and the new
village called Fordham, as followeth, viz., that is to say:
Imprimis, It is agreed, concluded upon and mutually consented unto,
by and between the parties to these present, That the said Johannes
Verveelen as Ferryman shall erect and provide a good and sufficient
dwelling-house upon the Island or Neck of Land known by the name of
Papparinamin, where he shall be furnished with three or four good beds
for the entertainment of strangers, as also with provisions at all seasons,
for them, their horses and cattle, together with stalling and stalling.
That the Ferryman have a sufficient and able boat for the transportation of passengers, horses and cattle, upon all occasions.
That the said Ferryman cause the Pass upon the said Island near unto
Spuyten Duyvil, to be sufficiently fenced in, with a gate to be kept locked,
that no person may pass in or out without his permission.
That the Ferryman do bear one-third part of the charge of making
the bridge over the meadow ground to the Town of Fordham, who are
to be at the remainder of the charge themselves.
That the said Ferryman do give his due attendance at the said Ferry,
either himself in person, or by one sufficiently deputed by him, so that
nobody be interrupted in their passage to and fro, about their occasions,
at seasonable hours. Except in case of emergency, where the public affairs are concerned, when the said Ferryman is to be ready at all seasons
that he shall be called upon.
And in case of neglect of the Ferryman's duty, upon complaint of the
party wronged to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen of this City, the
said Ferryman shall incur such a Penalty as the Court shall adjudge,
according to the merits of the case.
In consideration of what is herein required to be done and performed
by the said Johannes Verveelen as Ferryman, he, the said Johannes Verveelen, shall, for the well execution of his office, have and receive as followeth, viz..
That the whole Island or Neck of Land called Papparinamin, whether
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255
encompassed with water or meadow ground, shall be allotted to the said
Ferryman, together with the piece of meadow ground adjoining to it,
lately laid out by Jacques Cortilyou, Surveyor, towards the accommodation
of strangers, and the defraying of his charges.
'That the said Island or Neck of Land and meadow ground, together
with the housing, or whatever else he shall erect or build thereupon,
together with the Ferry, and the benefits, privileges and profits thereunto belonging, shall be and remain to the proper use and behoof of the
said Johannes Verveelen and his assigns, for and during the term and
space of eleven years, to commence from and after the ist day of November, I669.
That for the first year, he, the said Johannes Verveelen, be Constable
of the new Town of Fordham, which said Town or Village is to have
its dependence upon the Mayor's Court of this City, in like manner as
the Town of New Harlem hath; They having liberty to try all small
causes under five pounds amongst themselves, as is allowed in other Town
Courts.
That after the expiration of the said term and time of eleven years,
he, the said Johannes Verveelen, if he so long shall live, and desire the
same, shall have the first proffer to continue Ferryman; or in case of his
decease, his nearest relation or assign shall have preference before another, in being admitted to take the said Ferry to farm. But if it shall
happen that another person shall be invested in the employment, the
person so invested shall pay unto him the said Johannes Verveelen or
his assigns, and make such satisfaction for his buildings, boats and other
accommodations remaining thereupon, as shall be adjudged by two indifferent persons to be chosen between both parties.
That at the expiration of the term of eleven years, the said Johannes
Verveelen or his assignee who shall exercise the employment of Ferryman, shall be obliged to have the house tenantable, with a sufficient
boat, and the fences and gates kept in repair, as they ought to be continued all the time, so that no discouragement be given to passengers,
nor the Ferry through any neglect be discontinued.
That the Ferryman shall take and receive of all passengers, whether
alone or whether on horseback, drift of horses or cattle, for lodging,
diet, feeding, passage, or ferrying, according to the rates in a Table to
that end directed and set forth.*
*Ye Ferryman His Rates.
For Lodging any person, 8 pence per night, in case they
have a bed with sheets, and without sheets, 2 Pence in
silver.
For transportation of any person, I Penny silver.
For transportation of a man and horse, 7 Pence in silver.
For a single horse, 6 Pence.
For a turn with his boat, for 2 horses, IO Pence, and for
any more, 4 Pence apiece; and if they be driven over,
half as much.
For single cattle, as much as a horse.
For a boat loading of cattle, as he hath for horses.
For droves of cattle to be driven over, and opening ye
gates, 2 Pence p. piece.
For feeding cattle, 3 Pence in silver.
For feeding a horse one day or night with hay or grasse,
6 Pence.
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Provided always that all persons employed by special warrant from
the Governor, or any Magistrate upon the public account, shall be exempted from paying either ferriage or passage for themselves or horses,
as also such person or persons as shall at any time be summoned to
appear at Arms, upon any emergency or extraordinary occasion, who are
likewise to be free.
Moreover if the Governor shall at any time within the term aforesaid
think it convenient that a Fair shall be kept either in the City or any
other part of the Island, It is also agreed upon, that all droves of cattle
and horses passing over the said Ferry shall be free from payment, either
in going thither or returning back, which privilege shall continue during the time of keeping the Fair, as also a day before and a day after its
expiration.
And lastly, the said Johannes Verveelen, or whosoever on his behalf
shall keep the Ferry aforesaid, shall pay yearly and every year as a Quit
Rent to His Royal Highness, the sum of Ten Shillings.
In Testimony hereof the Parties to these present Articles Indented
have interchangeably put to their hands and Seals the day and year first
above written. FRANCIS LOVELACE,
JOH(-IANNES VJRVSE:bIN.
Verveelen was soon settled at Papparinamin, where, as
ferrymaster, he kept the key of M\anhattan Island. Being constable of Fordham, here he held court after William Betts, sen..
and Kier Wolters, had been appointed by the governor, December
24th, I669, as "Overseers and Assistants." The next year he
superintended the "making a bridge over the marsh between Papparinamin and Fordham." He was the ferryman here for many
years, under renewals of his lease, and by the favor of successive governors; but he and Archer were ever at swords' points
on the subject of Papparinamin, the latter claiming it to the day
of his death as successor to Vander Donck, and "by virtue of his
purchase and patent."
Other events of I669 remain to be noticed.* The mill-dam,
"lately impaired by a breach of water," needed prompt attention, but as Capt. Delavall was then abroad, Governor Lovelace
* Jan Laurens Duyts, who left the town this year, was the son of Laurens Duyts,
nicknamed great shoe, a Dane, born in Holstein, in i6io. (See pp. I35, 183). The
father was banished by Stuyvesant-an easy thing for him to do, and seldom wisely
done, but Duyts' case would seem to have been an exception. He died at Bergen,
January 14, i668, leaving two sons, Jan and Hans. Kuytcr stood as godfather for
both at their baptism. Hans was born in I644, and lived at Harlem in I667. His
daughter, Catherine, born I674, married, i688, Joost Paulding, from Cassant, Holland, who went to Westchester, and was the ancestor of John Paulding, one of
Andre's captors; also of Gen. William Paulding, formerly mayor of New York.
Jan Duyts bore a good name at Harlem, and did not deserve the taunt uttered
one day by Jeanne de Ruine, in presence of Monis Petersen. You schelm, loop by
you vaar Deen. "You villain, run to your father Dane." Monis testified that Jan
said nothing to provoke it. He was then twenty years old, and the same year, November 22, 1662, bought of Lubbert Gerritsen the house and bouwery formerly of Matthys Boon, engaging to pay for it 300 guilders. He sold out the next year, and Resolved Waldron soon after got this property. In I667 Duyts was working for Gerritsen aforesaid, and married that year; but on January 8, I669, he leased a farm
at Dutch Kills from John Parcell, and lived there, when he married a second time, in
T673. His wives were Jannetie Jeurians, from Bois le Due, and Neeltie Ahriaens, from
Breda; the last married, I679, Hendrick Van Dyck, of New Utrecht. Duyts left
some property to his two children, Laurens and Annetie.
HISTORY O(F HTARLEM.
was informed of the accident, June 8th, and ordered John Askew
and Peter V\an Nest, of Flatlands, to go to Harlem, forthwith.
with their workmen, andc "use the best skill and endeavor in
repairing the dam,?' and "what else is requisite about the mill."
Capt. I)elavall returned toward the close of the year, to his
estates and his honors, and in full favor with the Duke of York;
having been acquitted of certain charges on account of which
he had gone to England.
Tourneur's negro now absconded; inevitable contingency of
a state of bondage,-African slavery even then existing in all the
colonies. So to Westchester went the following warrant,
directing the constable to pursue the runaway with "hue and cry."
Whereas, there is lately a Negro Servant run away from his Master's
service, and supposed to be gone your way toward New England. These
are to require all persons within this government and to desire all others,
if the said Negro can be found within your lilerties or precincts, that
you forthwith seize upon and secure him, and cause him to be safely
conveyed to this place, or to his Master, Daniel Tourneur, at Harlem,
upon this Island. The Negro is big and tall, about 25 or 26 years old,
and went away from his M\aster four or live days since. Given under
my hand at Fort James, in New York, this 28th day of June, I669.
FRANCIS LOVEVIACIr.
The Indians still laid claim to portions of the Harlem lands,perhaps reserved rights,-one of the tracts being their old and
favorite haunt, Rechewanis, or Montagne's Point. The chief
claimant was Rechewack, the old sachem and proprietor of
Wickquaskeek, who, as far back as I639, had been a party to the
sale of Ranachqua and Kaxkeek. Though he and his tribe had
lately been "beaten off by the Maquas," or Mohawks, who were
at war with them, and forced to retreat over the Hudson to the
deep cloves and forests of Tappan, their enemies, as they affirmed,
made war only on their persons and goods, but not on their lands,
so that their title still held. Montagne proceeded to satisfy the
old Wickquaskeek and his chiefs, and thereby to secure the
Indian title,-in those times a desideratum. Obtaining a release
of the Point, he has left us the following record of it:
Ay 20 Augusty oude steyl hebben de onderges: Willden myn Jan La
Montagne verkocht de punt genaampt Rechewanis, bepaalt tussen twee
killen en bergen, en achter een fonteyn die aen Montangen Vlachte
scheyt; met de Valeyen van de bochte van't Hellegat tot Konaande
Kongh.
Rechkewackan
Achwaaroewes
I Sacharoch I
Verkoopers van de Punt. Pasachkeeginc Tappan.
I Niepenohau
| Kouhamweu
[ Kottareu J
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[Translation.]
On this date, 20th August, old style, the underwritten Indians have
sold to me, Jan La Montagne, the Point named Rechwanis, bounded between two creeks, and hills, and behind, a stream* which runs to Montagne's Flat; with the meadows from the bend of the Hellegat to Konaande Kongh.
Sellers of Tappan.
the Point. names as above. Tappall.
Upon the heel of this came another claim. On April 9th,
I670, when certain chiefs met Governor Lovelace to make sale
of Staten Island, "some of the Indians present laid claim to the
land by Harlem." But this was answered by producing the
Indian deed of I626, for the whole island, and they were told,
"the record shows it was bought and paid for forty-four years
ago." But in nowise satisfied, the sachems still held to their pretensions, which later were more successful. The deed to Montagne is especially interesting, as tending to show the identity
of the Wickquaskeeks with the Manhattans, so called, a name
meaning simply the Islanders.
A notable transaction was Nicholas De Meyer's sale, September 25th, 1669, of the two farms embraced in his patent, to
the brothers Cornelis and Laurens Jansen; the first of whom
was the ancestor of the Kortright family, or that branch afterward known for its large landed possessions, of which this purchase formed the nucleust The town now proceeded to inclose
a portion of the commons lying about "the hills" (Mount Morris,
etc.) as a calf pasture, probably on being interdicted the further
use of Little Barent's Island for that purpose by Capt. Delavall,
whose proposition respecting the Island they had declined. The
following regulations were passed November 25th, I669:
Ordinance made concerning the Common Calf Pasture lying north of
the village.
It is first ordered that no one of the inhabitants shall be allowed to
pasture therein any beasts except calves, upon the forfeit of three guild* The Dutch word fonteyn, though usually rendered spring, here means as well
the brook issuing from a spring, I believe that spoken of on page 182. This brook or
run became a recognized boundary, and is several times referred to in connection with
this and the adjoining property, and always, in the original, called the fonteyn.
t Jan Bastiaensen, the father of Cornelis and Laurens Jansen, came to this
country, as we have seen, in 1663, from the County of Leerdam, or the Prince's Land,
in South Holland, accompanied by his brother, Michael Bastiaensen, who afterward
lived in Harlem, and whose family will be noticed elsewhere. Jan may have been the
"Kortryck" who owned a bouwery on Staten Island, in 1674. (N. Y. Col. Mss.,
xxiii. 403). He seems to have spent part of his time at Harlem, but is last mentioned here January 8, 1677, when he is witness to a power of attorney, given by his
old Schoonrewoerd friend, with whom he came out, Jan Louwe Bogert, to Hendrick
Jansen Baker, to collect money due Bogert on Brooklyn property sold to Thos. Lamberts, etc. His children were Cornelis, born 1645, and noticed on a future page;
Hendrick, born I648; Laurens, born I651, also noticed hereafter, and Belitie, born
I659, who was, as were the others, "uit Holland," and who married, in 1678, Jacob
Jansen Decker, of Esopus, whither her brother, Hendrick, had gone to live.
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259
ers for each beast, and for a flock of sheep three guilders. Moreover,
every one leaving the gate open shall forfeit three guilders; also for every
beast found in said pasture shall three guilders be forfeited; provided
that the owner of the beast or beasts may seek his remedy upon those
who shall have opened, or left open, the gate or fence. It is also ordered
that each one shall duly make his part of the bridges in both meadows
within the common calf pasture between this and the last of March next
ensuing, upon penalty of five and twenty guilders.
Hendrick Jansen Van Beest, as he at first styled himself, but later in life, from
his father's birthplace, called Hendrick Jansen Van Kortright, bought land near
Stuyvesant's Bouwery, February 12, I669, but did not long hold it. He and his
brother, Laurens, going to lsopus, both married there; Iendrick, on December 14,
1672, to Catherine Hansen, "born in New York," and Laurens on or about the same
date to Mary, daughter of Albert Ileymans Roosa. Probably Hendrick's wife was
the daughter of Hans Weber, "master at arms," who died in I649, and whose widow
marritd Matthys Capito, removed to Esopus, and was killed by the Indians in 1663.
Itendrick's first child being "born at Harlem," in 1674, we presume he was then
living here; but, as before said, he settled in Ulster County, buying land at Mombackus, town of Rochester, where he raised a large family, who bore the name of
Kortright, or Cortright, and whose descendants have become numerous and widely
scattered. Hendrick lost his wife in I740, and he died in I741, aged 93. His
children, so far as shown, were John, born I674, who married Maria, daughter of
Wm. Van Vredenburgh, of New York; Hendrick, born 1677, who married, 1700, Mary
De Witt, and, in 1704, Catherine Crom, widow of Arie Van Etten; Cornelius, born
i68o, who married, 1701, Christina Rosecrans; Geertie, born i682; Arie, born 1684;
Antie, born I686, married Jacob Decker; Lawrence, born i688, who married, I715,
Sarah Ten Fyck; Jacob, born i692; Peter, born I696, married Marritie Van Garden,
and Catherine, born I699. John, Cornelius, Lawrence and Peter Kortright subscribed,
I717, for the minister at Rochester, and were leading men there. Peter died in
I744. Cornelius removed to Marbletown. John and Maria had issue, Hendrick, William, Adrian, etc., two at least of these straying down into Orange County, where
William had a family, and, in 1740, was justice of the peace. His brother, Hendrick,
born 1704, married, I730, Grietie Van Bunschoten, left Rochester and settled in
Minisink. Being very sick, he made his will, December 3, I753, providing for his
widow, but naming no children, and giving his homestead and Great and Little Minisink Islands to his "cousin" (nephew), Hendrick W. Cortwright, son of William, deceased. His will was proved June 26, I760. This Hendrick, 'tis said, has many descendants within the old town of Minisink. Friendly intercourse was kept up for
many years between the Kortrights of Harlem and those of Ulster County.
Jaques Cresson, who in a ten years' residence had proved
himself a worthy inhabitant, made his will before the secretary,
October 1st, preceding, his wife joining with him, and Tourneur
and Waldron being witnesses. The survivor was to use the
property, and "bring up the children reputably, and in the fear
of the Lord." Soon after this, Cresson was made constable, but
subsequently resolving to remove in the spring to New York,
where his brothers-in-law, Nicholas De La Plaine and Nicholas
Du Puis (Depew) were living, he sold his house, bouwery, etc.,
December 4th, I669, to Meynard Journee, of Bradford, Brooklyn, for I6oo gl., sewant. Du Puis, whose wife was Mrs. Cresson's sister, was present, with David Demarest.
The day following Montagne was sent for to the house and
sick-bed of Jean Le Roy, who wished to make his will; Oblinus,
Isaac Vermilye, and Constable Roelofsen being desired to witness it. He had been bereft of his wife, Louise De Lancaster,
and his only child, Stephen, baptized at Brooklyn, on April 3d,
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neur, senior, as his sole heir and testamenteur. But Le Roy
recovered, to marry again, and to see his klinsman, Tourneur,
buried. Jean was probably related to Marc Le Roy, who stood
as godfather for young Daniel Tourneur, at his baptism at
Leyden.*
* Peter Roelofsen was from Utrecht, as was his first wife, Willcmtie Jans, married
in this country in 1653. Ite, with others, started the town of New Utrecht, in I657,
put up a house, etc., but after three years sold out, and moved to Flanders. In 1664
he married a second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Jan Pater, she having been born in
Brazil. Pieter served two terms as constable at Harlem; tilled one of Archer's farms,
and, in I671, some of Delavall's land. In 1672 he went to Mespat Kills, and there
bought a farm. IIe and wife sustained a good name here, as certified by the magistrates after his death, which happened in 1679. They made their will in New York,
March 20, I678, Jochem Pteeckman and Dirck Jansen, burghers, being present. A funny
incident is related of the widow and Dr. John (rcenleaf, of Newtown. The latter,
by way of a joke, offered to waive his bill for services, for a kiss. The widow took
him up, the kiss was duly given, and they shook hands over it. Afterward the doctor
was so ungallant as to sue for payment. But the magistrate, holding the settlement
binding, found for the amiable defendant. She subsequently married Peter Buckhout.
(See p. 204). Roelfsen had issue by his first wife, Roelof and Maria, and by his
second, Johannes, Jacobus, IIendrickje, Abraham and Susannah. The sons retained
the patronymic Peterson for a time, but finally adopted the name of Bass.
CHAPTER XVII.
I670-I672.
VILLAGE LIFE; IIARLEM TWO CENTURIES AGO.
B USY yeoman, drawn into such intimacy at home and in
the field,-from the very proximity of their dwellings and
narrow bouwlots, and their modes of tillage in common,-their
was more than a monotonous round of dull rural life.* Hence
the variety of transactions and incidents which crowd the years
next ensuing, none remarkably signal or startling, but affording
nevertheless a curious study touching the ways and customs prevailing among them. A new generation has grown up, taxing
the energies of provident sires to give them land, homes, and
outfits. The seniors admonished by advancing years that they
must pass away, full oft the parish clerk is called in to draw up a
last will and testament. Yet following the pioneer work of
organization, these are years of maturing and progress. Multiplying interests naturally bring new duties and burdens to both
town officers and the community, and to which they seldom prove
unequal. It was to engross much of their united effort, wisdom,
and vigilance to support the institutions and maintain the wholesome regulations they had introduced, as well as to guard and
utilize the long stretch of territory comprehended in their patent.
It greatly enhanced these responsibilities when Fordham was
added to their jurisdicition.
The stock, allowed to run at large ill the woodlands, was
very liable, especially if unmarked, to be embezzled by persons
not over-scrupulous. The case of George Tippett, near Spuyten
* Plan of the village in 1670, on page 260. Explanations:
Plots a to v embrace the original erven or house lots, to which 5 erven, (w, x, y,
aa, bb), and 3 half erven (z, cc, dd), had since been added. For some cause v was
also rated as a half erf. On this stands the only remaining house of the old dorp
or village proper, being that occupied by Mr. Cowperthwait. The old Ferry House,
pulled down in 1867, stood on plot x.
A. Site of Reformed Church and Harlem Library.
B. " Chesterman House.
C. " Congregational Church.
D. Judge Ingraham House.
E. Derick Benson's House, removed before 1766.
F. " Lewis Morris Coach House, built about 1724.
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263
Duyvel, had recently been reported to the Governor. By his
Excellency's order of February Ioth, I670, the constablf and
overseers of Harlem met with the court at Fordham, on the last
day of that month, to inquire whether certain unmarked hogs
which Tippett had slaughtered, belonged to him; the same being
"claimed by John Archer, on the behalf of His Royal Highness,"
under the Governor's warrant. Tippett had once been reproved
by the Governor for "the unlawful mark he hath, of cutting the
ears of cattle so close that any other marks may be cut off by
it"; but the evidence now given at Fordham by Elizabeth Heddy,
Benjamin Palmer, and Jan Hendricks, established the weighty
fact that Tippett had owned a litter of pigs, "the which were
gray red, spotted and white." Archer protested, and, coming
to Harlem March 3d, took the testimony of the magistrates and
Daniel Tourneur as to what Tippett and his witnesses had admitted and said. Nothing seems to have come of it; but,
two days after, the Mayor's Court issued new instructions, "that
no horses or cattle be fed in the commons of this Island but
those that are branded with the Town's mark." They ordered
a record to be kept of the color and marks of the creatures, and
of the owners' names; and that two days in the week should be
designated for branding, etc. The fees were to be 3 gl. sewant
for a horse, and 2 gl. for an ox, steer, or heifer. Resolved
Waldron and Daniel Tourneur were appointed branders "fol
the town of New Harlem and adjacent farms," to act from May
Ist ensuing, when the above rules were to go into effect.
The removal of Kier Wolters to Fordham early in the winter caused a vacancy in the board of overseers, to fill which
Joost Van Oblinus was appointed on January 25th. Wolters
was present with Archer at Harlem March 3d, aiding him in
the Tippett affair; but he died shortly after, having been much
respected for character and abilities, notwithstanding Tippett
had said "he acknowledged him for no magistrate."* Jan Ger* Kier Wolters, the ancestor of the Kiersen and Kiers family, arrived here in
I657, as before noticed, from the Dutch county of Drenthe; coming via Amsterdam,
to New Amstel on the Delaware, where he was reputed to be one of their ablest and
best farmers. Two years later, flattering offers being made him, he came to New
Amsterdam, and had the charge of Governor Stuyvesant's bouwery. He took De
Meyer's farm at Harlem, in the fall of i667, I believe, at 500 guilders rent per annum,
and half the increase of the stock; and worked it for two seasons. Losing his wife,
Jannetie Jans, he married, early in I668, Lysbet, daughter of David Ackerman, removing the next year to Fordham, and there died, in I670, as above stated. While at
Harlem he was twice chosen an overseer. His children, so far as known, were Walter,
Hendrick, Jan and Grietie, all born in Drenthe; Jannetie, born in New York, and
Tjerck, of whom we only know that he joined the church at New York in I674. Jannetie married, in I672, Claes Jansen Van He,'ningen, and Grietie married, in I68o,
Willem Peersen, of New York. Hendrick Kiersen was born in I648, at Giest, in
Drenthe, and, in I673, married Metje Michiels, daughter of Michiel Bastiaensen. He
finally settled in Fordham; his children being Kier, born I674; Michiel, born 1676;
Jannetie, born I68o; Sarah, born i682; Peter, born I684; Maria, born I687;
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ritsen De Vries obtained from the overseers on March 2d a
formal grant of the house lot set off to him some years before
at the south side of the village, on condition of his "paying
as other such small house lots (erfjes), and also the same servitudes." He is charged for it in the town book, under I667,
25 gl. De Vries had sold this lot, with its house and improvements, to Resolved Waldron, to whom he conveyed it the next
day, March 3d. Here Waldron took up his residence.
Claude Delamater and Hester Du Bois, his wife, joined in
making their will, April I5th, though he survived a dozen years,
and she forty. It shows the then form of such instruments,
In the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1670, the I5th
April, appeared before me Jan La Montagne, Junior, admitted Secretary of this Town by the Honorable Mayor's Court, residing within the
jurisdiction of New Haerlem, Glaude le Maistre and Hester du Bois,
husband and wife, of sound memory and understanding as externally
appears; and of mind to make a disposition of their temporal estate.
First, on resting in the Lord, they commit their souls into the hands of
the Most High God, and their bodies to decent burial, and fifty guilders
in sewant to the poor in this place. Secondly, they annul all testaments and codicils that before this were made, and declare this mutual
testament to be their final will. One of them having deceased, the survivor is to continue in full possession till again married, when the marrying party shall place into the hands of two guardians thereto appointed by the Court, a full account of all; remaining in possession until
the children arrive at age, or are married with the consent of father or
mother: on condition of placing in the hands of the guardians a mortgage upon the real estate, so the same be not alienated. Excluding or
renouncing herewith all Orphan Courts, or laws which may conflict with
these provisions. In presence of David des Mareest, Joost van Oblinus and
Marcus du Sauchoy, as witnesses hereto requested, and who besides the
testators, have subscribed these presents. Dated as above.
GLAUDE LE \IAISTRE.
David des Marest, D. B.
J. van Oblinus, This is the mark of
Marc du Sauchoy. HESTER DU Bois.
With my knowledge,
J. LAMONTAGNE, JUNIOR, SCc'y.
Resolved Waldron and Johannes Verveelen, on the same date
as above, made a partition of their meadows at Sherman's Creek
and Spuyten Duyvel which they had gotten with the lots bought
of Jan Duyts and Juriaen Hanel.
Jaques Cresson, the constable, in view of removing to New
York after the first of May, appeared in court April 2Ist, and
gave an account of the fines due from several parties for defective fences. Those of Wouter Gerritsen, lessee of Delavall's
land, amounted to 43 gl. IO st. Much vexed at this heavy loss,
Rachel, born I693; Hendrick, born 1696. Descendants have been called Kiers
and, we believe, Keese. Jan Kiersen, who remained at Harlem, will be named in
treating of the Patentees.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
265
\Vouter's wife had scoled the magistrates, and called \Valdron
an uytsuyp)er, a drunkard. Arraigned for it by \aldron and
Tourneur at the same court, the afflicted Mlary still persisted
that the magistrates were killing her, but owned she was hasty
in abusing them. She was fined for her rashness 6 gl. for the
poor, and costs of suit.
The month of \Iay brought a demand from Capt. Mlatthias
Nicolls, colonial secretary, for the first payment on the town
patent, his entire bill for which was 332 gl. To meet this call
an assessment was authorized and made out, at the rate of 2 fl.
7 st. for each erf, or house lot, and 12 st. for each morgen (2
acres) of land, the assessed lands embracing only Jochem Pieters'
Flat and V\an Keulen's Hook. The following is the list, and
which is interesting as an exhibit of all the landholders within
the town at that late, and the number of erven, farming lots,
and morgen held by each. From relialle data we have added
the numbers of the lots, and shown in which tract they lay.
This, to those in any way interested in locating the original plots,
will give the table greater value, as the title to these lots may
in most cases be traced down to a moldern date.
On May 4th Isaac Vermilye sold his house and house lot
on Van Keulen's Hook (part of lot No. 5, and not reckoned
among the erven), with the fruit thereon,-the buyer, Evert
Dircksen, agreeing to pay 600 gl.; but the bargain was not closed,
and Vermilye remained in possesion till his death in I676.
On May Igth, the magistrates, pursuant to directions from
the Mayor, appointed David Demarest and Arent Evertsen
Keteltas curators over the estate of Kier Wolters, late of Fordham, deceased. To these, on a subsequent recommendation of
the Mayor, was added, May 23d, "Michiel Bastiaensen, residing
at Fordham," who was "reasonably conversant with the estate
of the deceased."
* Michiel Bastiaensen, of whose history up to his emigration, in 1663, we have before spoken, had, so far as known, five children, viz.: Reyer, born 1653; Metje,
born 1655, who married Iendrick Kiersen; Annetie, born 1658, who married John
Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen, born i662, and Aefie, born 1665,
in New York, who married Jacques Tourneur. Reyer Michielsen, named in some
curious proceedings, under I674, married, in i686, Jacomina, daughter of Jan Tibout,
and settled in the town of Fordham. He took part in building the church there, in
I706, and a stone bearing his initials may now be seen in the carriage house wall of
Mr. Moses De Voe, who took it from the foundation of the old church, which stood
upon Mr. De Voe's farm. Reyer died in 1733, aged 80 years, having had eight children, to wit: Michiel, Reyer, Hendrick, Teunis, Hannah, who married Leonard Vincent; Mary, who married Benjamin Haviland; Sarah, who married Joseph Haviland,
and Jane, who married Benjamin Corsa. The sons of his son Michiel (being Reyer
and Michael) retained the name of Michaels, but other of Reyer's sons took the
patronymic Reyers. Hence have descended the two families of Westchester County,
and other sections of this State, named Ryer, and Michael, or as also written, McKeel
or Mekeel. The name Rever is said to come from ridder, a knight.
Bastiaen Michielsen, always so styled in the town books, though in the church
records usually called Bastiaen Kortright, remained in Harlem, where he married, in
"LIST OF THE FIRST PAYMENT OF THE CHARGES FOR WRITING THE: PATENT BY CAPT. NICOLLS."l
5.^ 5i2 'a.g_
LAND OWNERS. AMOUNT T NUMBERS:
May ist, I670. _ _ _ _ AX. O J. P. Flat. V. K. Hook.
Thomas Delavall............. 5 10 48 4 6 4 3,12,19,20, 22 2,3, 22
Glaude le Maistre............ 2 3 15 1I3 4 2 I 14, 5 21
Cornelis Jansen............... 2 4 18 15 0 2 2 2, 18 6, 15
Jean le Roy................. 9 7 5 I I I
Daniel Tourneur.............. 3 5 21 19 13 2 3 I, 7 I7, 18, 19
Lubbert Gerritsen............ 2 2 9 2 4, 9................
Johannes Verveelen......... 2 4 15 13 4 I 3 7,8, 2 of 4, 2 of 9
David des Marest............ I 2-3 8 7 5 I 2-3 7 2-3 of 5
Johannes V erm elje........... I 2: 7................................
Joost van Oblinus............ 2 3 12: 8 I 2 3, II
Conrad Hendricksen... I o 2 7 o.
Pierre Cresson........... 2 9 7 I5 I 5 20
Resolved Waldron......... 2 4 5 13 I4 I 3 8 2, 3, 2 of4, 2 of 9
Jan Nagel...... 6 3 2 I......
Jean des Marest.............. 2 3................
Isaac Vermeille.............. -3 2 -3........-3 f
Jaques Cresson.............. I 2 9 7 I5 I I 6 I4
Jan La M ontagne*.....................
* The half-erven in the list are not taxed where the owner holds other land. Montagne having no property here, except his farm
at the Point, which was then exempt from town tax, he contributed "in plaats van de Kalver Wey," that is, on account of the Calf Pasture; but the amount is illegible in the record.
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On the same date (the g9th) the court-room witnessed an
unusual scene. Pierre Cresson three years before had leased his
farm to Glaude Delamater, and things had not gone smoothl"
between them. In a sharp dispute about one of the oxen, which,
as appeared, had died through Delalnater's neglect, the latter
called Cresson "a villain for driving away his wife." Mrs. Cresson was spending a season at Esopus. Coming into court with
his complaint, where Delamater was sitting as one of the magistrates, the usually amiable and prudent Pierre, overcome by
anger, told Glaude that "he ought to slap his face." Delamater
pretended forgetfulness, but remembered that plaintiff had called
him names too. The court regarding both parties at fault, fined
each 12 gl. and costs. Unhappily this did not end the quarrel
between the Walloon and Picard.
The removal of Verveelen to Papparinamin having left the
village without an ordinary keeper, Cornelis Jansen Kortright,
who was well liked in the town, and afterward enjoyed various
public trusts, was admitted June 2d to keep the ordinary, on
the usual conditions,-to make suitable provision for the entertainment of travelers, and not "to sell any liquor to the Indians."
He thereupon accepted the oath. At the same meeting a small
erf lying opposite to Kortright and Delamater, on the south
side of the street, was voted to Jean Demarest, who was already
in possession, having two years previous married a daughter
of Simon the Walloon. Also, on the same day (June 2d),
Resolved Waldron made over to Jan Nagel, soon to become his
son-in-law, part of the De Vries house lot, with No. I6 Jochem
Pieters and its meadows, bought of Pieter Slot. If the object
I689, Jolante, daughter of La Montagne, deceased. On September I9, 170i, be
bought, from Peter Van Oblienis, a tract of land at Sherman's Creek, laid out to
Oblienis, in I691, as lot No. 20. This became the well-known Kortright farm,
which continued in the family till I786. It was originally ten morgen, or twenty acres,
and is so rated on the town books for the next half century; but this was exclusive
(for meadows were never taxed) of the adjoining marsh, or the morasse creupelbos,
of the original description. And then, be it remembered, the allotments of I691
generally overran the estimate, and this lot lying isolated was not likely to be an exception. This brought it up to 45 acres, 27 perches. Here Bastiaen Michielsen built
and lived till very aged; at least, his name in the tax list runs down to 1753. He
also owned two pieces of meadow at Kingsbridge, bought of the town by Joh. Vermilye, April i, I693, and on the same date transferred to Bastiaen, to whom the
town gave a deed January 4, 17oo. Bastiaen Michielsen Kortright had issue, as far
as appears, Michael, born i697; Johannes, born 1702; Aefie, who married John Devoor, and Rachel, who married Isaac Delamontagne. Johannes Bastiaens, as he is
properly styled in certain deeds, but calling himself (after his father's patronymic)
Johannes Michelson Kortright," married Aeltie, daughter of John Vermilye, 2d..e was a weaver, but succeeded to the farm at Sherman's Creek, which, in a mortgage
given January 9, 1768, he describes as No. 20, and io morgen, and by the original
boundaries of I69I. Within a year after, he removed to New York, and having lost
his wife, appears to have died about I775. His son, John Courtright, as he wrote
his name, married in I774, his cousin, Aefie, or Effie, daughter of John Devoor, of
Hoorn's Hook, and was last of the family to own the ancestral farm, of which he made
sale, May 24, 1786, to Cornelius Harsen, who conveyed it, January 3, I804, to Jacobus
Dyckman, whence it came to his son, the late Isaac Dyckman. It was included in the
tract of 128 acres (being part of said Isaac's estate) called the Fort George Tract,
which was parcelled into lots, and disposed of by public sale, October I4, I868.
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of this was not well known, it came out August 27th ensuing,
when two happy plair, to wit, Nagel and Rebecca Waldron, her
sister Aeltie and Johannes Vermilye, appeared at the Stadt Huys,
in New York, and "entered their bans of matrimony before his
Honor the Mayor of this city, to be proclaimed at the usual time
and place." This was the more genteel way of doing it. The
bans being entered on the same Wednesday in the register of
the church in the Fort, was followed by the three publications
which usage required. The registration before the Mayor was
a new thing here, perhaps due to a vacancy in the pastorate.
The elder MIegapolensis had just diedl, his son gone to Holland,
and Drisius apparently absent; so Do. Polhemus, of Flatlush,
now supplying New York, probably married these parties.
No settlement as recolmmended by the Governor had yet
been made with the claimants of the Jansen and Aertsen Patent
at Sherman's Creek, awarded to the people of Harlem as within
their general patent, though steps thereto had been taken a year
before (May 2d, I669), when De Meyer, Waldron and Oblinus
were empowered to arrange it. Archer of course declined to
take the worthless groundbrief, and the holders were now Paulus
Richard, of New York, and Thomas Lamberts, of Brooklyn;
the first having bought the interest of Pieter Jansen from his
successor Kockuyt. The subject was again brought up by the
following from the Governor, an order which was held by the
Harlem people as in effect wiping out the old groundbriefs.
An Order for the Payment of the sum of Three Hundred Guilders
Sewant, to Paulus Richard and Thomas Lamberts.
Whereas there hath been a difference long depending between the
Town of Harlem on the one part, and Paulus Richard and Thomas
Lamberts on the other, concerning a parcel of Land upon this Island,
near Spuyten Duyvel, the which was heretofore adjudged to belong to
the Town of Harlem, yet with this reservation, that in regard the first
owners had sustained loss thereupon, payment should be made for the
same, of so much as the first purchase money was; and it appearing
that one hundred and fifty guilders sewant was paid for one-half of the
first purchase: It is this day ordered, that the sum of three hundred
guilders sewant shall be paid to Paulus Richard and Thomas Lamberts,
or their assigns, in lieu of all claims or pretenses whotsoever, they or
either of them have to the said Land; and the Inhabitants of the Town
of Harlem are from henceforth to have and enjoy the same, they paying
the said sum of three hundred guilders as aforesaid, on or before the
29th day of September next. Always provided that this shall be no
precedent for any other pretense to lands within the Patent of the said
Town of Harlem, by virtue of such old claims or groundbriefs. Given
under my hand at Fort James, in New York, this 22d day of June, I670.
FRANCIS LOVELACE.
The matter was arranged thus: Richard bought out Lam
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269
berts' share, and took a bond from the Harlem folks for the
full amount of 300 guilders.
()n August 4th ensuing, Lubbert Gerritsen, who the last
year had married the widow of Hendrick Karstens, sold Karstens' erf and out-garden to Joost Van ()lblinus for 400 gl., to
be paid to Coenraet and Jan Hendricks, sons of Karstens, when
of lawful age. These afterward took the name of Boch.
A little later (October 23() Lulbbert Gerritsen executed a
power of attorney to his brother-in-law, Philip Weckmlan (Wakeman), of Ley(len, to enal)le him to collect from the orlphan masters or others in that city a legacy of 800 1g. left to his wife,
Femmetie Coenraets, by her mother's sister, Tryntie Gerrits. who
had d(ied at Leyden, October 7th, I669. It is l)robable that this
was sent to Holland b-y Nicholas De \lever, who went thither
the next spring, having several such collections to make for
persons at Esolpus.
Jan La Mlontague, who had recently lost his father,' now
resigned the dluties of voorleser and schoolmaster, but retained
the secretaryship. To fill the vacant position, the town officers
engaged Hendrick Jansen Vander Yin, the former freeholder,
for the term of three years, "at f. 400 yearly in sewant, or in
grain at sewant price," and also a dwelling house, with 60 loads
of firewood, which latter the following persons agreed to cut
and deliver, annually, viz.: Resolved Waldron, Glaude Delamater, and Joost Van Oblinus, each 12 loads; David Demarest,
Pieter Roelofsen, Jan Nagel, and Lubbert Gerritsen, each 6
loads. This contract was entered into October 23d. The change
was amicably made as regarded Montagne, who agreed to pay
the new voorleser yearly 10 fiorins 7 stivers. To aid in making
up the salary, the town lot, garden, and meadow were, on the
same date, leased for a term of six years to Francois Martino, a
newly-arrived French refugee, who was to pay an annual rent
of I20 gl. in sewant, or grain at sewant price. The land had
just been cleared of timber-by Nelis Matthyssen, and was new;
so Waldron, Delamater, Tourneur, Roelofsen, L. Gerritsen, W.
Gerritsen, Demarest, and Oblinus, together agreed to give the
lessee 53 loads of manure, "once for all." For reasons best
known to himself, Martino soon turned over his lease to Jean
Le Roy, and settled on Staten Island, where many of his descendants may still be found.t
* See Montanye Family; Appendix B.
Francois Martino and his friend, Jean Belleville, joined the church at New
York, July 28, I670, being the first mention of them. The latter was from St. Martin,
near La Rochelle-perhaps Martino was-this early association and their later in
270 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
The ill-feeling between Cresson and Delamater again showed
itself when the term of three years, during which the latter had
worked Cresson's farm, was closing. The court had ordered
payment for the lost ox, but one of the farm tools was found
broken. On September Ist Pierre in open court demanded his
tools of Delamater, who was seated on the bench with his brother
magistrates. Glaude answered that the broken tool was at the
smith's, being mended. The court, hearing what passed between
tbr parties, referred them to their agreement of September 5th,
1667, but put the court charges upon Cresson. Shortly after
Glaude sent Pierre word by the constable to come and examine
his tools. Cresson would (lo no such thing but again went to
the court room, October 6th, and repeated his demand for the
tools. Delamater now promised to send them by his son; but
the court, to vindicate its injured dignity, directed Pierre to
fetch the tools himself from the defendant's house, and fined him
12 gl. and costs of suit.
Vexed at what he conceived to be a harsh judgment,
Cresson, at the sitting of the court December Ist, entered, and
asked if he nust satisfy the sentence given against him. He
was answered "Yes." Now passion got the better of him, and
he denounced the magistrates as "unjust judges," adding, with
Dther abusive words, that "instead of judges they were devils!"
On this the court ordered the constable to take Cresson into
custody and convey him a prisoner to the High Sheriff at New
York, to be duly proceeded against.
Cresson was soon released, but, now bent upon leaving the
town, had his wife at Esopus apply for a building lot in that
village, and this she asked for and obtained April I5th, I67I.
Marcus Du Sauchoy brought a charge against John Archer,
December Ist, I670, of some very bad usage, and cited Dirck
timacy seeming to favor it. Whether Belleville was he who was called le Chaudronnier, or, by the Eng-lish, the Tinker, as the first signifies, I am not able to determine,
but Jan Tincker was enrolled in the night watch at Harlem, November 7, 1673, and
went to Staten Island, where he held property, as did Belleville. (See note on Casier).
Martino had 96 acres of land on Staten Island, laid out to him April 24, i676, near
the "Iron Mountain." To this Governor Dongan added 35 acres, in 1685. He married Hester Dominees, widow of Walraven Lutin, or Lutine; issue, Stephen, born
1679, and a daughter, who married Vincent Fontaine. Martino, in 1683, was foremost
among the French and Walloon residents in sustaining the French worship. His will,
made October i, 1706, and proved August 5, 1707, gave his estate, on the death of his
widow, to his two god sons, Stephen Martino (son of Stephen, deceased) and Vincent
Fontaine, Jr. (See Clute's Annals of Staten Island). It is to be regretted that the
new and interesting work last cited contains so little relating to the original settlers
upon that beautiful island; materials for their history are not entirely wanting. For
some of these pioneers, see our Index under Disosway, Journeay, See, Casier, Uzille,
Cresson and Bush; also Lakeman, Marlett and Guion. Many facts might also be
gleaned respecting Jacques Baudoine, William Britton, Jean Crosseron or Crocheron;
his son-in-law, Jacques Poillon; Gerrit Crousen, or Cruser; Jacques La Resilier,
now Larzelere; Arend Prall, and Francois du Puis, or Depuy, the ancestors of families
still upon the Island.
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271
Everts to tell what he knew about it. The latter testified that,
about four weeks before, Archer threw Du Sauchoy's furniture
out of the house, but deponent knew not for what cause. The
matter here rested for future action.
A case came up December I4th which involved a principle
of town law concerning the woodlands. Laurens Colevelt, married to a niece of Resolved Waldron was neither a landowner
nor resident, yet had been burning coals upon Waldron's lands
on Van Keulen's Hook, to supply his forge. In so doing, by
accident, as he said, he burnt some of Le Roy's palisades. The
latter arrested his coals, when Colevelt called an extra court in
order to recover them, pretending to nearly 400 gl. damages for
the want of them. But the court (Delamater taking Waldron's
place) held that no one, not an inhabitant or proprietor, had any
right to cut wood within this jurisdiction, much less within the
fencing. Colevelt was condemned to make good Le Roy's loss,
and pay costs of court; being let off on these easy terms, and his
coals released.
On January 5th, I671, the Town Court ordered a pound
built, at the common charge, to be seven rails high, and imposed
for each hog impounded a fine of I gl. IO st., and for every
horned beast 3 gl., the damage, if any had been done by the
creature, to be made good.
The subject of the town debts also came up as follows:
Exhibited by Resolved Waldron, as payable by the Lands of the Town:
To Mr. John Sharp..........................................f. 92 o
" Abraham la Noy......................................... 68: o
" Daniel Tourneur........................................ 73 I6
" Johannes iVermilje...................................... 24: o
" Resolved Waldron...................................... 4I 4
" Joost van Oblinus....................................... 6: I5
" Meyndert Maljaart*..................................... 3: o
" Pierre Cresson......................................... 2: IO
" Glatde le Maistre...................................... 6 I5
" David des Mareset.2: o
" Jean le Roy............................................ 4: IO
" Nicolls, for Patent......... I37: o
" Paulus Richard, for the land at Spuyten Duyvel.......... 300: o
" Johannes Verveelen..................................... 87: I3
* Meynard Journee, or, as now written, Journeay, is the person here intended.
This metamorphose arose from the similar import of the Dutch word maaljen, and the
French journee, as adopted by the Dutch. With these, the latter word, wrested
from its usual meaning (a day of battle, or simply, a battle), had come to denote a
coat of mail, which, in Dutch, was maaljen. The two terms being used synonymously
by his Dutch neighbors, Journee was often called Malyar, as pronounced, but which
Montagne wrote as in the text. The English records sometimes have it Malliar
Journee-a tautological blunder. His given name, Meynard, became, in Dutch, Meyndert. Incidental notices of Journee, both before and after his emigration, will be
found on other pages. On his arrival here, he settled with Bogert, in Brooklyn, where
he united with the church, April 9, i664, on certificate from Mannheim, and on June
2, ensuing, married Elizabeth du Mont, a young lady born at Middelburg. She was
probably sister to Margaret du Mont, wife of Pierre Noue, who, as we have seen,
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HISTORY (F HARLEM..
The last item involved a careful auditing of accounts for six
years past, in which those of the town, with MAontagne as their
collector, those of Verveclen as tapster,-mainly his indebtedness to the excise, and his scores for liquors furnished the magistrates,-as also the particular transactions between A1ontagne
and Verveelen, were much mixed up. Curious as these details
are, we must exclude them. The balances being struck, the town
found Montagne its debtor for 208 gl., and itself indebted to
V\erveelen 87 gl. 1:3 st. Hereupon Montagne dlrew up the following, which Verveelen signed:
On this date, I5th Feb'y, I, Johannes Verveelen, acknowledged to have
settled with Mlontagne for his accounts, and for the accounts of the Town,
so that there is due me from the Town, by l)alance of accounts, seven and
eighty guilders, thirteen stivers. Dated as above.
JOIIANNES VERVE1,rIN.
To discharge these several debts an assessment was authorized to be made upon the lands and erven: on each erf, f. io:
I8:12; and on each morgen, f. 2:i6:14.
0 cruel Cupid! ever seizing the favored opportunity to
scatter his fatal darts where met the young and unwary to
cheerily while the social hour, to crack walnuts and rustic jokes,
or yet seeking a prouder conquest among those not strangers
to his shafts; his triumphs the past winter are thus summed up:
Persons whose bans of matrimony are entered by consent of the
Worshipful Mayor of this City, New York, and according to custom,
pullished in the church.
Feb. i8th, I67I, William Waldron, l)orn at Amsterdam, with Engeltie
Stoutenburgh, of New York. Present, Resolved Waldron and Peter
Stoutenburgh.
March 5th. Martin Hardewyn with Madeleine du Sauchoy, both living
at Fordham. Present, the bride's mother, Elizabeth Nachtegaal, and
Jacques Cousseau; with a note from the bride's father, Marc du Sauchoy,
that he beared consent to the same.
April 7th. Jean le Roy, living at New Haerlem, widower of Louise
de Lancaster, with Marie Taine, widow of Philip Casier, living at New
York.
came out in the same vessel with Journee, and it is quite as apparent that Margaret
was sister to Wallerand du Mont, of Esopus. She who became Mrs. Journiee was
most likely the person that accompanied Noue and his wife in their voyage, and is
called his "sister." Journee held honorable places in the town government at Harlem,
resigning that of magistrate when he removed to Staten Island, toward the close of
I676, having sold his house and houwery, March 7, preceding, to Jan Nagel and Jan
Delamater, for 2700 guilders. His meadow, on Sherman's Creek, has till late years
borne the name of Meyndert's Fly. On March 26, 1677, he bought 80 acres of land
on Staten Island, from Francis Chartier. Journee had lived there but a year when he
died, January 30, 1678. Some months after his widow married "Boswell de Lisle,
alias Francois;" the Court of Sessions held at Gravesend June I9, 1678, appointing
Paulus Richard, with Obadiah Holmes, of Staten Island, as trustees for the children,
to "take care that the estate of said children be not embezzled." There were several
daughters, but the only son, apparently, was John Journeay, who married, in 1703,
Elizabeth Deyo. But we have made no effort to trace his descendants, who have become numerous, while some have been prominent on the island, to which, however,
the name is by no means restricted.
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273
April 29th. Adolph Meyer, young man, born at Ulsen, in Westphalia,
with Maria Verveelen, born at Amsterdam.*
Johannes Pelszer sues Johannes Verveelen March 2d, I67I,
for a claim of 24 gl., the balance of 90 gl. 12 st., his former
indebtedness, of which Koopal (Archer) had paid him 66 gl.
12 st. He also complained that Verveelen had accused him
of being "the cause that the defendant's house had come to be
burnt." Verveelen answered that the plaintiff had said that he,
defendant, kept two account books. He maintained that his
arrest was unlawful, since he was a resident, and plaintiff could
have levied on his goods; le claimed 6 gl. for the ten (lays' arrest.
The court having heard all they had to say, allowed Pelzer the
24 gl., and Verveelen to pay the costs. On the same date the
old Indian interpreter, Claes Carstensen, a Norwegian, who had
lived some thirty years in the country and several in this town,
was granted a small house lot, to use during his lifetime, but
without the right of succession. Carstensen had seen better
days.
"Whereas the carriage road between this City and New Haerlem is
impassable; and this Worshipful Court considering it necessary that a
carriage road be maintained between this City and the above-named village: It is therefore ordered and directed by the W. Court that the
magistrates of New Haerlem and the overseers of the highways beyond
the Fresh Water shall lay out together the most suitable work, and that
then, on the first day of the next coming month of May, the said road
shall be made fit for use, by the inhabitants of the village of Haerlem,
and the householders, both on this and the other side of the Fresh Water,
each for his limits, and that on such penalty as shall be fixed by said
magistrates and overseers."
The above order was passed by the Mayor's Court, April
I8th, I671, and Jan Jansen Langestraat, Dirck Siecken (alias
Dey), and Jan Cornelisz De Ryck, were then appointed as overseers "on this and the other side of the Fresh Water."
Cornelius and Laurens Jansen, having for a year worked
the farm bought in partnership of Mr. De Meyer, agreed to
part. Laurens was about to lease the farm of Lubbert Gerritsen;
the parties met for the purpose, October 24th, I670, and the con* Maria Meyer, mother of a large and worthy progeny, identified as she was
with Harlem, from her early childhood for a period of eighty-five years, and, as
daughter of the patentee, Johannes Verveelen, directly concerned in the principal
distribution of the common land-she becomes a historic character. After a married
life of forty years and thirty-seven of widowhood, and having survived all the Dongan
patentees, except possibly Barent Waldron, death overtook her at the advanced age of
92 years, in I748. It afforded the author an agreeable surprise, while engaged some
thirty years ago in the preparation of a work kindred to the present one, to discover
that he was a descendant of this locally noted woman, and also of the redoubtable
Spuyten Duyvel ferrymaster; and subsequently to find that a lineal chain, of eight
intervening links, allied him to good old Hans Verveelen and Catrina Oliviers, of
Cologne. (See Annals of Newtown, pp. 277, 305, 317).
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tract was partly drawn, when they failed to agree. Cornelis
having taken the De Meyer farm, Laurens on IM'ay 5th ensuing
(1671) gave him a lease of his part for four years, to date from
September 25th, I670, at the yearly rent of 400 gl. in grain.
Their father, Jan Bastiaense, and Bastiaen Elyessen, the fatherin-law of Cornelis, were present and subscribed this agreement.
Laurens went to Esopus and married, and is not found at Harlem
for several years.
(n May i8th, 1671, Jan Louwe Van Schoonrewoerd, of
Bedford, L. I., later known as Jan Louwe Bogert, bargained
with Jan La Montagne for his "piece of land named in the
Dutch language Montagne's Punt, or by the Indians Rechcowanis," for the sum of 3,000 gl. He reserved "the crop of grain,
the hop plants, apple and pear trees, and twelve cherry trees."
Full possession was to be given on receipt of the first payment,
due May Ist, 1672. Some account will be given of the numerour and respectable family descendants of Bogert.
On Septemebr 6th MAeynard Journee sold to Dirck Storm
his property at Bedford, Brooklyn, consisting of houses, land,
meadow, etc., for 1,400 gl. in wheat, peas, or rye, at the price
of sewant. Jan Louwe Van Schoonrewoerd witnesses this
deed.
On the same day, said Jan Louwe and his wife, Cornelia
Everts, residing at Bedford, aforesaid, made their will at Harlem,
as they expected to remove here. They "give to the poor of
New Harlem the sum of ten guilders as a memorial." Speak of
children, but name none. Make Johannes Pietersen Verbrugge
and Tennis Gysberts Bogert executors. The witnesses are Cornelis Jansen and Johan Daniels, late under sheriff at New Castle,
- I)irck Storm, as already noticed, arrived here in i662, with his wife, Maria
Pieters, and three young children. IIe had in all, at least, sons, Gregoris, Peter and
David, and daughter, Maria, who married Caspar Springsteen. In 1669 he succeeded
Carel de Beauvois, deceased, as secretary at Brooklyn; afterward served some years
as town clerk at Flatbush, was made Clerk of the Sessions for Orange County, in
I69I, and held that office till 1703. In I697 he and family were living at Philips Manor,
Westchester County, where his descendants became numerous and noted. His son,
(Gregoris Storm, married, at New Utrecht, Engeltie, daughter of Thomas Van Dyck,
and had sons, Derick, born I695; Thomas, born I697, etc. After (;regoris, or Goris,
as commonly called, died, his widow married Jacques Tourneur, of Harlem. Her son,
Thomas Storm, becoming a widower, married the daughter of Adolph Meyer, of Harlem, and widow of Johannes Sickels, ist. Tholmas remained on Philips Manor, holding a farm tunder Col. Frederick Philips, but he made three several purchases of land
in Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, on which he settled his sons Gerrit, Goris,
Abraham and John. His son Isaac took his place at Philips Manor. Other sons.
Thomas, his eldest, and Jacob, were dead when he made his will, June, 28, 1763. It
was proved January I5, I770. Abraham Storm married, O)ctober 5, 1759, Catherine,
daughter of Aaron Bussilng, of Ilarlemt. An active whig in the Revolution, he was
"made prisoner by the British troops," and his family saw him no more. On March
22, I784, his widow released to Gerrit, Goris and Isaac Storm the lands of said
Abraham, in Rombout Precinct, and, returning to Harlem, obtained, by deed of August
I8, 1784, from her father's executor, John Sickels, the farm of 3I acres on Van
Keulen's Hook, which she sold, eleven years later, to James Roosevelt. She died
August I6, I803, leaving no children. The descendants of Dirck Storm take prominence
for numbers and worth.
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Delaware, under Beeckman, and who had before "held this position under Mr. Montagne." The testator signs Jan Lu Van
Sooderwoer.
Mayor Delavall held this court at Harlem on September 8th,
1671, at which were considered:
I. Complaint of David Demarest against John Archer, for
mawing grass ill his mealow at Spuyten Duyvel, being No. i
on the Westchester side.
2. Complaint of Martin Hardewyn, of Fordham, against
Archer, for breaking (lown his fences.
3. Complaint of Mlarcus Du Sauchoy, of Fordham, against
Archer, for throwing his furniture out of doors.
4. Complaint of Johannes Verveelen against Archer.
The first case was referred to the magistrates of Harlem
and Fordham, the others to the arbitration of Daniel Tourneur
an(l Jan La M1ontagne.
The "Inhabitants of the Town of Fordham" also preferred
a charge against Archer, "that the defendant, several times, hath
been the occasion of great troubles betwixt the inhabitants of
the said Town, he taking upon himself to rule and govern over
them by rigor and force; and (lo humbly desire relief and the
protection of this Court."
"Upon the hearing of both parties, the court ordered the
defendant, John Archer, to behave himself, for the future, civilly
and quietly against the inhabitants of the said Town, as he will
answer to the contrary at his peril."
"And it is further ordered, that all small differences, which
for the future shall happen to fall out at Fordham aforesaid,
shall be decide(l at Harlem by the magistrates of Fordham, with
the assistance of two of the magistrates of Harlem aforesaid.
except those of Fordham will be at the charge to satisfy the magistrates of Harlem for coming up to their Town of Fordham."
On October I th, 1671, John Archer executed at Harlem
sundry new leases for farms at Fordham, viz.: to Hendrick Kiersen, Aert Pietersen Buys, and Cornelis Viervant; making the
rent payable to Cornelis Steenwyck, of New York, to whom
Archer, on September roth, I669, had given a mortgage on his
lands for I,IOO gl. in wampum. Another mortgage to Steenwyck in I676, for 2,400 gl. sewant, ultimately gave him the full
title and possession of the Manor of Fordham, which passed
under his will and by certain deeds to the Dutch Church at
New York.*
* In getting possession, the church met with great opposition from the town of
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On October 23d the voorleser's salary, 400 gl., became due,
and to pay it a tax was authorized, "calculated 2-3 on the lands,
and I-3 on the Erven; amounting for each morgen to f. I:I2:6,
and for each erf, f. 6:7." But, notes Montagne in the margin,
"It came to nothing." The reason is found in the strong aversion of the people to being taxed for religious purposes, especially
the French and Walloons, who, cruelly tithed and amerced in
their native lands to support the old church, had a mortal dread
of this compulsory giving. Then, again, the present tax for
exceeded any former call for this object. Montagne's allowance
as voorleser was not over 150 gl. per annum, one third of which,
derived fron the Company, failed after the first year. But whatever he got from the people was by voluntary gift. Hence the
present opposition to an assessment, and this proving effectual,
led to a return to the former method of free-will offerings,-a
plan continued for several years, though, unfortunately, the
earlier lists of contributors are missing.
Two days later, a meeting was held at Cornelis Jansen's to
adjust certain fines which had also caused no little excitement.
It happened, July 7th preceding, that two of Jansen's horses
were found upon the bouwland without a herder and driven to
the pound, with one owned by "Mr. Aldrich," one of Waldon's,
and one of Adolph Meyer's. The next (lay another of Waldron's
horses, and one of Meyer's, and the next day still, being Sunday,
a pair of oxen of David Demarest's, one of Delavall's hogs, and
two of Pieter Roelofsen's. Again on the 24th were put in pound
three hogs belonging to Waldron and Nagel, besides a yoke of
oxen owned by Jean Le Roy, and found cropping the herbage
"in the garden."
This enforcement of the law made some squirming, as the
fines were put at 6 gl. for each horse, ox, etc., amounting in all
to f. 74:8. But the matter was finally ararnged, over sundry
pots of Tapster Jansen's beer, for which his bill against the town
was as follows:
Westchester. This led, in i688, to a forcible entry by the officers and friends of the
former. Elijah Barton, dwelling "near Harlem River, within the bounds of Westchester, at the house that formerly Aert Pietersen lived in," was, with his father
Roger Barton, engaged "to keep possession for and in behalf of the town of Westchester," when, on July i6, in the afternoon, "there came a great company of men with
Nicholas Bayard of New York," demanding admittance. This being refused, Reyer
Michiels and Teunis De Key, at Bayard's word, broke open-the door, and the Bartons
were ousted and roughly handled. With Bayard were also Nicholas Stuyvesant, Johannes Kipp, Isaac Van Vleeck, Michiel Bastiaens, his wife, and sons Bastiaen and Reyer
Michiels, IIendrick Kiersen and Jacques Tourneur. Also "in the exploit" was Hannah
(or Anna) Odell, wife of John Odell. Hendrick Verveelen and Jacob Valentine were
there, too. The Westchester authorities issued a warrant July 20, to "take the bodies
of the said Reyer Michiels, with the said complycetors." But the church maintained its
hold, and the lands were ultimately sold off in parcels between the years 1755 and
1760.
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CORNELIS JANSEN, Credit.
Drank at the settlement of the fines, the 25th Oct. I67I, at two
bouts............................................ f. 34 o
Also for Mr. Arent, engaged at writing, 2 vans beer*........... I: I2
Further, after the settlement was conducted, also drank 5 vans
beer and I muts runmt.................................... 4 ' Io
f. 40: 2
John Archer, to escape the interference of the Harlem magistrates, obtained from Governor Lovelace, November I3th, 1671,
an ample patent for his domain, upon which "the new dorp or
village is erected known by the name of Fordham." It was to
enjoy "equal privileges and immunities with any town, enfranchised township, or manor within this government." Released
from all dependence upon, or subjection to the rule, order, or
direction of any other riding, township, place, or jurisdiction;
thereafter it was to "be ruled, ordered, and directed, in all matters
as to government, by the Governor and his Council, and the
General Court of Assizes only." It now took the style of the
"Manor of Fordham." But not long after, "upon complaint of
some disorders which were made at the town of Fordham, in
the Corporation of this City, by reason they lie too far distant
from'any constable or overseers," his Honor the Mayor, on
February I3th, 1672, appointed Johannes Verveelen as constable
and clerk, and Jan Pieters Buys and John Heddy as overseers
of the said town, to serve during his mayoralty.
Valentine Claessen, founder of the Valentine family at
Valentine's Hall, having sold his property in Harlem to Mr.
Delavall, resolved upon a sea-voyage, and on December I th,
1671, procured the governor's pass "to transport himself hence
in the ketch Zebulon, whereof John Follett is commander, for
the Isle of Providence, Curacao, and Jamaica, in the West Indies;
and to return again as his occasions should present, etc."**
* Arent Evertsen Keteltas, here referred to, was, like his father, "Mr. EvertV"
Pietersen Keteltas," a voorleser and schoolmaster. (See note on page 96). In 1664
Arent is called molenaar, that is miller. He was here before Vander Vin was engaged
as voorleser, maybe serving temporarily in that office. But he soon left, and on October 6, 1670, Tourneur took his place as curator of Kier Wolters' estate. Arent's wife.
Susannah de Boog, was sister to Mrs. Wilhelmus Beeckman. They were daughters of
Hendrick de Boog, of Amsterdam, whose wife was a sister of Mrs. Jonas Bronck.
The Keteltas family descend from Evert Pietersen Keteltas.
T A vaan was two quarts, and a mutsje one gill.
** The Valentine family, of Westchester, from which most of this name in New
York City have sprung, has been quite misapprehended, as regards its common ancestor,
who was not "Benjamin Valentine, a dragoon in the French military service, Canada,"
as per Bolton, ii, 544; but Valentine Claessen aforesaid, who, as a soldier, gained his
laurels under Stuyvesant, not in Canada, but in an expedition to Esopus, in i660.
His sons took and retained the patronymic Valentine. He was from Saxenlant, in
Transylvania; married, in i662, Marritie Jacobs, from Beest, and before settling in
Westchester county, lived some years in Harlem, where his vrouw found people from
her native place, the Kortrights and Buys brothers. Valentine Claessen is named as
late as i688. His children, Jacob, born 1663, living I690; Matthys, born 1665; John,
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On December I8th, certain Indians, some of them apparently the same that signed Montagne's dleed for Rechawanes,
conveyed to Daniel Tourneur, of New Harlem, all their lands
"lying upon the Main, next to the land of John Archer, beginning
at the Bay on the south side of Crab Island, and so running
alongst the Creek parting the Main and Manhattan Island, to
Bronxland, and thence extending east and west so far as the
land of the said John Archer." This was the same land as that
granted Tourneur June i5th, I668, but which the Indians afterward claimed, and therefore this purchase was authoried by the
Governor, who added "a small tract behind it towards Broncks
his river, the which (loth properly belong to no person,' and
confirmed the whole to Tourneur, March 8th, I672. Governor
Dongan, as we shall see, afterward entrenched this grant, otherwise disposing of that part since known as De Voe's Point.
On December 29th, I671, Daniel Tourneur, ruling magistrate, and his wife, Jacqueline Parisis, both in health, made their
will, and give Io gl. each for the poor of New Harlem. The survivor to manage and use the estate till death or remarriage; then
the children to share it equally. Witnesses, David Demarest and
Glaude Delamater.
On January 7th, 1672, Pieter Van Oblinus, a boy of 9 or
o1 years, driving through the village with his fathers' horse and
sleigh, ran over David Demarest's child, Daniel, 5 or 6 years old,
who was playing with other children, about the door of Cornelis
Jansen's tavern. He died the next morning, and the magistrates
then assembled to inquire into the circumstances. It was shown,
by the statements of Cornelis Jansen, Arent Harmans Bussing,
and Conrad Hendricks Boch, to have been accidental. Joost
Van Oblinus declared "that he did not know of the accident till
informed of it by others, and that he was heartily sorry."
On February ist, David Demarest, ruling magistrate, and his
wife, Marie Sohier, in health, but "reflecting on the frailty of
human life," made their will, giving, "each of them, 25 gl. to
the poor of New Harlem, as a remembrance." The survivor to
enjoy the estate until remarriage, and then "even though the
laws of the land provide that one child shall inherit more than
the other," their will is that "all their lawful children, mutually
born 1671; Mary, born 1674, are all of which we find notice. Matthys, living 1710,
probably died before May 3, 1724, when a division of land was made by John and Matthias Valentine, of Lower Yonkers, his sons, if we are not much mistaken. John was
born in 1691. Matthias was born in I693-not '98, as his children's ages show-and
died in 1781, being the "first proprietor of Valentine's Hill, Yonkers," as says Mr.
Bolton; in whose work upon Westchester County, but more fully in the later History
of the Valentine Family, may be found the several branches of the family tree, of
which we have given the trunk.
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begotten, shall inherit equal legatary portions." Witnesses, Daniel Tourneur and Glaude Delamater.
On February 8th, the Town leased two parcels of meadow;
the first, not located, being taken by Lubbert Gerritsen, Jan Nagel,
and Johannes Vermelje, for six years from May 1st, I67I, at 31
gl. a year. The other, "a piece of meadow at the North River"
(called a little later Moertje Davids' Fly), was taken for the
same term by David Demarest, at the yearly rent of 24 gl.
The same day, Jan La Montagne secured the signatures of
the magistrates to the following deed for his Point, written in
October preceding, but its execution for some cause (lelayed. It
included also the meadows granted him some years before, in
exchange for some others at Sherman's Creek. The effect of
this deed was to release whatever claim the town might have
acquired from Governor Nicolls' Patent, and to place the property
on a colmmon footing with the other improved lands, so that
from this date it became taxable for town charges, and at the
same time invested with the right to a share of the common lands
held by the freeholders in joint tenancy, whenever a division of
said lands should be made. Hence the value of this deed to
Montagne, and to Bogert, who was to succeed him in that estate.
We, Hon. Magistrates, with the vote and resolution of the Inhabitants
of this Town, have granted forever and as hereditary, to Jan de La
Montagne, a piece of land, with the meadows thereto annexed, named
Montagne's Point, formerly possessed by his late father, lying within
our Town's jurisdiction, bounded on the north side by a creek called
Montagne's Kill; extending from the East River unto a little fresh water
creek running between Montagne's Flat and aforesaid Point; on the
south side bounded by a creek and a meadow and by hills, to the aforesaid little fresh water creek where the King's Majesty his highway goes
over; with the Meadows lying in the Bend of Hellgate, which Montagne beforenaned has had in exchange for the Town Lot's meadows;
with such rights and privileges as are granted us by patent and still remain to grant; provided he submit to such laws and servitudes as with
us are common and may be imposed, without that we or our Inhabitants,
now or in future days, shall have any claim thereupon, but as his other
patrimonial property may enter upon and use or sell, as he may resolve
and shall choose, saving the lord's right. For further security, and that
our deed shall have greater force and legal authority, we the Magistrates
and constables the same subscribe, this 8th February, Anno 1672, in New
Haerlem.
D. TOURNEUR.
RESALVERT WALDRON.
JOHANNES VERMELJE.
DAVID DES MAREST.
PI'rETR ROELEFSEN, Constable.*
* The frequent use already made of this deed, has led us to give an amended
translation of it from the oribinal Dutch text of Montagne; and we also annex a
verbatim copy of said original.
Wy, E. Magistraten, met toestemminge en goetvinden van de inwoonderen deser
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To all familiar with our modern Manhattan, with its fine
avenues, its railways, and ample means of through transit, the
following action of the Mayor's Court of February I3th, I672,
must at least prove amusing. It was in the Mayoralty of Mr.
Delavall.
The Court do empower Mr. Cornelis van Ruyven and Mr. Isaac Bedlo,
aldermen, to cause the former orders for making a good wagon path betwixt this city and the Town of Haerlem to be put into strict execution.
The record proceeds to say that "it is still found unfinished,"
although recommended by the Governor, "at (livers times," and
enjoined by the Court upon the Overseers both of Harlem and
the Suburbs.. "For which reason many complaints have been
lodged, yea, that people wishing lately to travel over that road
on horseback have been in danger of losing their lives, by the
negligent keeping of the said road." This had moved the Governor again not onlv to earnestly recommend but to require its
immediate completion, "forthwith, without any delay." The
two aldermen commissioned to take charge of it were instructed,
as often as they saw fit, to summon "the Overseers, as well of
Harlem as of the outside people dwelling hereabouts," to tell
them "how very ill it has been taken that the previous orders
regarding the aforesaid road have not been better observed," and
"to devise means, not only to finish said road, but to keep it
constantly in good repair."
durpe, hebben vergunt, eeuwich en erffelyck, aen Jan de La Montogne, een stuck landt,
met de valeyen daar anex, genaamt Montangis punt, eertyt door syn vader sl.
gepossedeert, gelegen binnen onse onser durps jurisdictie, bepaalt aen de noort syde
het een yil genaamt Montam Kil, streckende van de oost revicr tot aen een verse
killekken streckende tussen Montangis Vlackte en voornm punt. Aen de zuyt zyde
bepaalt met een kil en een valey en met bergen, tot aen de voornm verse killeken daar
zyn Konm Majism zyn hooge wech overgaat, met de valeyen gelegen in de bocht vant
Hellegat die Montagne voornm gereuylt heeft heest tegens durps lodts valeven; met
soodanige gerechticheeden en privilegen als ons by patent is vergunt, en noch staat te
vergunnen, mits hem onderwerpende sodanige wetten en servituten als ons int gemeen
is en sal opgeleyt worden, sonder dat wy ofte ons ingesetenen, nu oft ten eeuwigen
dagen, daar iets op sullen te pretenderen hebben, maar gelyck syne andere patrimoniale
goederen sal aenvaarden en gebrucken, of verkoopen, so als hy sal goetvinden en wille
kueren, behoudens den herr zyn recht. Tot meerder verseekeringe en op onser grontbrief meerder kracht en echt sal resorteren hebben, wy magistraten en konstapel de
selve onderteeckent, Ay 8 Feb'y Anno 1672, in Nieu IHaarlem.
D. TOURNEUR.
RESALVERT VERMELJE.
JOHANNES DESMAREST.
PIETER ROELEFSEN, Constaple.
CHAPTER XVIII.
I672-I673.
'THEI DORP, OR VILLAGE; INCIDENTS ANI) INSIGHTS.
T HE Town Court was busied April 23, 1672, with an investigation sought by David Demarest as to an assault made
upon him the day before by Glaude Delamater. The townsfolk
being at work, "making tight the fences of the Calf Pasture,"
Demarest fell into conversation with Ralph Doxey, Mr. Delavall's man; after which, going to Delamater, he charged him as
the cause of Heer Delavall being at variance with the town; adding, that before he, Delamater, became intimate with him, Delavall
let his cows go with the herdsman. Delamater retorted that "he
lied like a buffoon and a bugger," and seizing Demarest by the
coat kicked him. Instinctively the latter caught up a stone and
threw it, hitting Delamater on the breast! Here further violence
was stayed. As Demarest was a magistrate, the board had to
refer the case to the Mayor's Court, and with that view took the
evidence of Jean le Roy, Adolph Meyer, Glilis Boudewynsen,
and Lubbert Gerritsen. Joost Van Oblinus became bail for
Demarest's appearance.
Jean De La Montagne's last official act as secretary was to
record this affair of the Calf Pasture, and beneath the entry his
successor, Vander Vin, writes: "Here ends the register and
protocol of the deceased J. De La Montagne, kept at the village
of N. Harlem." And years after, when growing infirmities foreshadowed his own departure, he added in a tremulous hand,
"since the said Jan De La Montagne died in the year I672."
Stuyvesant, the old friend of his father and family, had but just
preceded him to the grave. He made his will May 13, 1672,
of which we have only the date, but which must have given his
consort the full control of the estate. Two years later the
widow closed the sale of the farm to Bogert, by a warranty
deed, dated March 30th, 1674, acknowledging the receipt of the
3,000 gl., and conveying for herself and heirs; having power to
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(do so, as is evident, either under the will, or by the recognized
rules of law, since she acted with the knowledge and official
sanction of the public secretary, and one of the magistrates.
Later still-that is, on November 14, I679-she conveyed for
300 gl to Mrs. Bogert, "authorized by her husband," to take
the deed, the parcel called the Hop Garden at the rear of the
farm, or "lying behind the land of John Louwe, over against
the hill." M/ontagne left no other real estate here; that owned
subsequently by his son, Abraham Montagne (the only son that
remained at Harlem), being derived through his mother, who
bought a village residence, which fell to Abraham at her death
in I689. True the latter afterward indulged the idea that he
was entitled to a share of the common land, in virtue of his
father's freehold, but the town held that such right had passed
to Bogert.
The church at Harlem lost in Montagne a good and useful
servant. It applied soon after for an elder to represent it in
the Consistory at New York, under whose charge it had been
up to this time. This was acceded to, and by an agreement made
Wednesday, June 19, I672, the Harlem church were to nominate to the Consistory a double number of suitable persons as
elders and deacons (the first institution of the former office here),
out of which that body would choose one to serve with them.
Then after each annual election made in this indirect modean exception to that usual in the Dutch churches-the pastor
at New York was to preach at Harlem, and install the new officres. The deacon was to serve two years, so that there should
always be two in office; but in regard to the eldership the usage
of the church was not followed, as but one elder appears, for
many years later. The commlunicants would still partake of the
Lord's Supper at the Fort, and all seeking membership were to
be received there as before. It was also agreed to pay "three
hundred guilders to the preachers of New York," namely, Do.
Drisius and his newly inducted colleague, Do. Nieuwenhuysen,
"for services at this village."
In this manner the church obtained its representative elder
and deacon, the latter being Joost Van Oblinus, with whom
Daniel Tourneur, acting deacon, was to serve the first year.
The elder's name is not given. For the installation services,
"the preacher" received f. 24, and f. 6 were paid Teunis Cray
for "fare," bringing and returning the dominie, we presume.
On July 26th Resolved Waldron paid over to Deacon Oblinus,
as treasurer, the balance of sewant in the deacon's chest, f. 2:15.
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The new cash-book is thus prefaced: "Daniel Tourneur, Johannes Verveelen, and John de La MIontagne, in their accounts, are
remaining indebted to the deaconry, f. 21:I9." So it seems that
on revising Montagne's accounts, this sum expended iln 665
for the dinner to Stuyvesant, and charged to the deacon's fund,
was disallowed. The collections from this time average about
two florins, or eighty cents, per Sabbath, as shown by the record
kept by Vander Vin, under whose lead, as voorleser, the Sunday
services were continue(l with much regularity. Also, as appears,
they religiously observed the Voorbereyling,-that is, the Preparation for the Lord's Supper,-on the Friday before its quarterly celebration, in March, June, etc.; as also Kersdag, or
Christmas; Palm Sunday; Paasche, Passover or Easter; Hemelvaarts-dag, Ascension Day, and Pinxter, or Whitsuntide. Allerheyligen, or All Saints' Day, November ist, was excluded from
the church days, but was often named as the (late when a contract or term of service should begin or end.
With the farmers, Allerheyligen usually closed the grazing
season. Then they began to prepare for winter. The cattle
were taken from pasture, and the stock running in the commons
hunted up and housed. The young swine often ran out all
winter, but were liable to be missing when sought for. Indeed
certain persons about Spuyten Duyvel did not scruple to embezzle them. It was an old trick with Tippett, who, with others,
had been at it again the last winter. Arraigned and convicted
at the Assizes, October 3, I672, "Jan Hendricks, called Captain"
(otherwise Boch), for his "ingenuous confession," was excused;
but fines and stripes were imposed on Thomas Hunt, Jr., and
George Tippett, and fines only on John Heddy and William
Smith.
An event which cast a gloom over the community at Harlem was the death of Capt. Richard Morris and his wife, leaving
a tender babe to the care. and sympathy of strangers. Full of
hope they came hither from Barbadoes, where they had( been
married (she as Sarah Pool) on August 17, I669. Captain
Matthias Nicolls thus condoles with the brother, Colonel Lewis
Morris, of Barbadoes, in a letter written him from New York,
October 29, I672: "I cannot but reflect upon the transitory
condition of poor mortals, when I frequently call to mind in
how little time God hath been pleased to break a family, in taking
away the heads thereof; first a virtuous young woman in the
prime of life, and then a man full of strength and vigor, inured
to hardships; while there is remaining only one poor blossom,
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of whom yet there may be great hope, with your kind friendship,
for it is a lovely healthy child, and was well at Harlem, where
it is at nurse, and I went to see it yesterday. I was also at the
plantation on the other side," etc. The "poor blossom," an
infant of a year old, afterward became the distinguished judge,
Lewis Morris, proprietor of the manor of Morrisania, and ancestor of the Morris family.
An effort was now made to put a stop to the controversies
"about some meadow in difference, beneath the Town of Fordham," being lots Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, held by the people of Harlem.
Though nothing appears to have come of it, the following order
upon the subject is interesting:
Whereas the Meadow Ground or Valley by the Creek beneath the
town of Fordham at Spuyten Duyvel is claimed by some of the inhabitants of New Harlem, but is at so great distance from them and lying
unfenced, and so near the Town of Fordham that those of Harlem can
receive little or no benefit thereby, as the inhabitants of Fordham cannot
avoid being daily trespassers there, if the propriety there shall still
continue to Harlem; To prevent all further cavils and contests upon
that subject, as also for an encouragement to that ney Plantation, as
well as in compensation to those of Harlem for their interest which they
shall quit at Spuyten Duyvel; I do hereby promise and engage that some
convenient piece of meadow being found out at or near Bronx Land, in my
disposal, I shall grant and confirm the same unto the persons concerned;
provided the said grant do not greatly prejudice the rest of Bronx Land
when it shall be settled; and I do refer this matter to Daniel Tourneur
and David des Marest, with John Archer, to make inquiry hereunto, and
make report thereof unto me with all convenient expedition. Given, etc.,
this oth day of November, I672.
FRANCIS LOVELACE.
A nomination for town officers having been made November
2d, and the position of secretary, vacant since the death of
Montagne, given to Vander Vin, he was confirmed December 3d
in that office for which he was peculiarly fitted, as a scholar and
good penman. On December 6th, Pierre Cresson and Meyndert
Journee were chosen fence-masters. Another quarrel between
Daniel Tourneur and Resolved Waldron, now retiring magistrates, was brought to a friendly issue December 12th. As in a
similar rupture between them six years before, it ran so high
that Tourneur struck Waldron. The latter made complaint to
the Mayor's Court, on the day Vander Vin and the new magistrates were sworn in. The defendant being absent, the case was
referred to the new board, with a request to use their best endeavors to reconcile the belligerents. In this they succeeded;
the parites, binding themselves to drop all their differences of
whatever kind as "from henceforth dead and of naught," agreed
"to live hereafter in all charity, friendship, and peace," while the
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285
first one to raise a question should forfeit 50 gl. for the poor.
The I6th of the same December the deacons, Tourneur and
Oblinus, with consent of magistrates and community, let out at
pubic auction "the loft over the church or school-house." Mrs.
Maria Vermilve (Montagne's widow), as highest bidder, took
it for a year at 20 gl., to be paid the deacons. On giving up
the farm to Bogert, she removed to the village and soon bought
a house and lot, undoubtedly that adjoining the river, and before
owned by her brother, Johannes Vermilye.
The road to Harlem was at length finished, or made usable;
and a monthly mail between New York and Boston was officially
announced, to set out for the first on January I, I673. Now
the novelty of the mounted postman reining up at the tavern,
with his dangling "portmantles," crammed with "letters and
small portable goods," but tarrying only so long as necessary
to deliver his mail and refresh himself and horse, added another
to the sights and incidents which filled up the unwritten columns
of village news.
Vander Vin being installed in his duties as secretary, Resolve Waldron, on January 16, I673, "with the advice of the
constable and magistrates," delivered to him the valuable title
papers of the town; and on March 6th he obtained from Sieur
Jacob Kip, brother-in-law of Montagne, the old protocol and
other records kept by the latter. The papers handed over by
Waldron were as follows:
No. i. Patent of the town N. Haerlem, in the English.
2. Patent of the said town, in Dutch.
3. Two confirmations of the same, in English.
4. Patent in Dutch.
5. Ordinance of the Mayor's Court.
" 6. Extract from the Mayor's Court.
7. Procuratic ad lites.
" 8. Groundbrief of Spuyten Duyvel.
The mention of "patents in Dutch," in the above list, is
likely to mislead. In questions affecting their landed rights and
jurisdiction, the ordinance of I658, under which Harlem was
settled, is so often appealed to as to make it quite apparent that
the inhabitants during the Dutch rule knew no other official
grant or enactment upon which these rights and privileges were
made to depend. The profound silence of the records as to any
other general grant or patent to Harlem from Governor Stuyvesant, and the omission to recite it, as was usual, in the English
confirmatory patents, must be taken as proof that none was ever
issued. And the references in the above list are plainly not to
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such, but only to the translations of the two English patents, into
Dutch, which were made for the use of the inhabitants who did
not read English. Thus a bill of Nicholas Bayard for services,
in "the differences of the town with Fordham and Tourneur,"
contains a charge "for the translation of a groundbrief" (from
Dutch into English, probably No. 8 in the foregoing list, being
the Jansen and Aertsen Patent which Harlem now owned), and
then comes the item, "For the translation of the town's patent,
f. 20."
The new and old magistrates in joint meeting, January I6,
1673, enactel:
It is, with the common consent, resolved and established, that from
now forward the house lots (erven) which the several residents of this
village possess, shall pay the charges, such as are already imposed, or
may still be imposed, for the reduction of the debts and expenditures of
this town; unless some alteration therein shall happen, owing to the
various hindrances to it that are liable to come: being owned as follows:
Resolved Waldron................................... 2 erven.
Daniel Tourneur.................................... 2
Glaude le Maistre.................................... 2
Joost van Oblinus................................. 3
Cornelis Jansen................................... 2
Pierre Cresson...................................... I
Lubbert rerritsen................................... I
Adolph Meyer...................................... I "
Robert Hollis....................................... I
Jan le Roy......................................... I
Mr. Delavall........................................ 4
Johannes Verveelen..............................
[Ieyndert Journee................................. I
I)avid I)emarest..................................... I "
Widow hlontagne.................................... I "
Jan Nagel...........................................
Together.....................24 erven.
This list is believed to embrace (see MAap, page 292), the
erven plroler, marked a to x (v excepted); the small house lots
granted Jean Demarest and Pelszer not appearing as yet among
the erven.
By the death of Montagne the town accounts were left in
some disorder. These needed careful revision, as there were
various town debts which must be paid. It was concluded, in
this connection, to write to Pieter Roelofsen, at M\espat Kills,and which was accordingly done,-asking him to be present on
the 20th, or, at farthest, the 2rst instant, to give an account of ihs
receipts and disbursements while serving here as constable. The
business of January 16th ended with making up the rate list
for 300 gl., to paid the ministers, as had been agreed upon. Mey
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nard Journee being sick, January 25th, male his will, naming
his wife Elizabeth Du Mont; alludes to "children.' Appoints
Sieur Demarest and Oblinus overseers of his estate.
After a second sutmmons Pieter Roelofsen attended on February 4th, and gave a statement of his accounts while constable
in I671 and 1672, and by which it appeared that he had collected from sundry persons named the sum of 76 fl. IO st. in
wheat, sewant, and firewood, and paid the same to Mr. John
Sharp toward the liquidation of his claim of 92 fl., the balance
being more than cancelled by a load of wood, 20 fl., delivered to
Sharp by Resolved Waldron.l- The subject being resumed the
following lay, the 5th, it was resolved, with the advice of Mr.
Delavall, to revise all the town accounts from the year 1664, an(l
all creditors and debtors were notified to make tup and hand in
their statements on the 6th of March, to be examined by the old
and present magistrates. The next day, at the request of the
voorleser (Vander Vin), the constable was directed to collect
his salary as per list of "free-will contributors."
Upon the investigation which took place, March 6th, it "was
found that the accounts of J. de La Monltagne and J. Verveelen,
upon their books concerning the town, were balanced on the
i5th of February, I67I, and that there is due Verveelen from
the town 87 gl. io st., and that Montagne is charged with 208
gl. for his particular, or as having been collector; so that the
town have no further interest in their transactions but to let
them rest, and front now forward to make up new accounts of
the town's debts, and to find the means to discharge and pay the
same." Then the debts follow:
A~. 1673, the 6th March. List of the Creditors of the town of N.
Haerlem, as a part were given in the 5th January, 1671, and now are
found, to wit:
John Sharp according to account....................f. 92: o
Abraham La Noy or Fredr. Gysbertsen................ 68 o
Daniel To rn eur..................................... 73 6
Johannes Vermilje.. 24: 0
Resolved Waldron................................... 41 4
Joost van Oblinus.................................... 6 I5
leyndert Journee.................................... 3 o
Peter Cresson........................................ 4 o
Cornelis Jansen...................................... 2 Io
Glaude le AMaistre.................................... 6 Io
David des Marest................................... 2: 0
Jean le Roy......................................... 4 I
Capt. Nicolls for the patent.......................... 332 o
Johannes Verveelen.................................. 87: Io
* John Sharp was a "Public Notary," at New York; his appointment dating December i, I665. This charge was probably for legal services.
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Paulus Richard for the land at Spuyten Duyvel.......f. 300 o
For two years' interest @ 6 pr. ct.................... 36: o
Metje Wessels....................................... 26: o
For the preacher when the confirming of elder and
deacons happened............................... 24 0
For fare to Theunis Crey............................ 6 o
To victuals and drink................................ 35: I
Total.......................... 1175: 5
Also due Warner Wessels.......................... 8
and Cornelis Jasen............................ 36 o
The above exhibits the original amounts in full, upon which
partial payments had been made by some of the inhabitants who
were to have credit for the same in the town rate now to be
levied. Sharp's bill had been paid, as before seen, and a considerable sum on the patent.' Jaques Cresson, formerly constable, reported the receipt of 66 fl. io st. in wheat and sewant,
from the following persons (upon the assessment ordered May
I, I670), and to have paid it on the patent, viz.:
Johannes Verveelen............................f. 9: o
Joost van Oblinus.............................. 2:
Jaques Cresson...................... 7:15
Resolved Waldron............................. 3:14
David Demarest........................... 6: o
Peter Cresson...................... 7:15
Jean le Roy....................... 7:15
Isaac Vermeille....................... 2: II
A~. I673, the 6th March; List of the Lands and Erven of the Town
N. Haerlem, to contribute to and discharge the aforesaid debts, whereof
I-3 must come from the Erven, and 2-3 parts from the Lands; and amount
for each erf to I6 gl. 6 st. and for each morgen of land to 3 gl. 14 st.
Thomas Delavall..........4 erven; 48 morgen; 242 gl. I6 st.
Nos. 3, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22 Jochem Pieters.
Nos. 12, 13, i6, 22 Van Keulen's Hook.
Glaude le Maistre........2 erven; 15 morgen; 88 gl. 2 st.
Nos. 14, I5 J. P. No. 21 V. K. H.
Cornelis Jansen...........2 erven; i8 morgen; 99 gl. 4 st.
Nos. 2, I8 J. P. Nos. 6, 15 V. K. H.
Jean le Roy.............. I erf; 9 morgen; 49 gl. 12 st.
No. I I J. P. No. I V. K. H.
Daniel Tourneur.......... 2 erven; 21 morgen; iio gl. 6 st.
Nos. I, I7 J. P. Nos. I7, i8, 19 jV. K. H.
Lubbert Gerritsen.........I erf; 12 morgen; 6o gl. 14 st.
Nos. 4, 9 J. P.
* Capt. Nichols transferred his bill for writing the patent to Reynier Willemsen,
baker, to whom the town officers, April 5, I676, gave a note in these terms:
"We Constable and Magistrates of the town of New Haerlem, acknowledge to be
truly and honestly indebted, in the name of the common inhabitants of this town, to
and for the behoof of Reynier Willemsen, in the sum of 332 guilders, upon the
Patent, on account of Capt. Matthias Nicholls, deducting what may be found to have
been paid thereon; which aforesaid sum of 332 guilders we promise to pay in the first
ensuing January, 1677, without default, under bond pursuant to the laws."
The amount yet due on the above February 19, I677, was 253 guilders, on which
sums were paid from time to time till 1683, when Constable Vermilye made the final
payment of I5 guilders.
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Johannes Verveelen....... 2 erven; 15 morgen; 83 gl. 2 st.
No. IO J. P. Nos. 7, 8, /24, '29 V. K. H.
David des Marest.........I erf; 8 morgen; 45 gl. I8 st.
No. 7 J. P. 2-3 of No. 5, V. K. H.
Joost van Oblinus........ 3 erven; 12 morgen; 93 gl. 6 st.
No. 13 J. P. Nos. Io, ii V. K. I-.
Pierre Cresson............ erf; 9 morgen; 49 gl. 12 st.
No. 5 J. P. No. 20 V. K. H.
Resolved Waldron........2 erven; 15 morgen; &8 gl. 2 st.
No. 8 J. P. Nos. 2, 3, ~24, '29 V. K. H.
Jan Nagel............... l erf; 6 morgen; 30 gl. 7 st.
No. I6 J. P.
Isaac Vermeille...........I morgen; 3 gl. 14 st.
I-3 of No. 5 V. K. H.
Meynard Journee........ I erf; 9 morgen; 49 gl. 12 st.
No. 6 J. P. No. 14 V. K. I-1.
Jean La Montagne........ 8 morgen; 66 gl. 12 st.
The Point.*
Johannes Vermeljc........I erf; I6 gl. 6 st.
Robert Hollis............I erf; I6 gl. 6 st.
Total..................242 erven; 216 morgen; II98 gl. II st.
The following important document throws light upon the
history of MIontagne's Flat:
Upon this day, 8th March, I673, appeared before me, Hendrick J.
Vandervin, Secretary, admitted by the Hon. Mayor's Court at New York,
residing at the village N. Ilaerlem; the undersigned inhabitants of N.
Haerlem, as also owners and possessors of the land called Montagne's Flat,
lying under this Town's jurisdiction; who together promised to inclose
the aforesaid piece of land in a common fence, and to use, until the
building, planting, or dwelling on, or as every of them shall think
proper to do with his part; and if it happen that they in common or
either separately should be troubled by any one, who would bring the
ownership and possession in question, and would offer them jointly or
either singly, any molestation concerning it, on account of the ownership of the aforesaid land; therefore the undersigned covenant, jointly
or each separately, to defend them there-against, and to maintain one
another in their rights (which they have in the same;) protesting
against such as to all costs, damages, or losses which, by any interference,
they jointly, or either in particular, may be put to. In witness of the
sincerity of these above standing conditions, this has been written, and
subscribed with our own hands. Thus done and passed at N. Haerlem,
on the date as.above.
DAVID DES MAREST,
GLAUDI LE MAISTRE,
DANIEL TOURNEUR,
CORNELIS JANSEN,
RESOLVED WALDRON,
This mark made
LOURENS + JANSEN,
by himself.
JAN DYCKMAN.
In presence of me
HENDR. J. VANDR. VIN, Secretary.
* Montagne was to deliver this property to Bogert free and unincumbered, hence
this was properly charged to him.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Though not so much as hinted from what quarter trouble
was apprehended, circumstances plainly point to the old Montagne patent or groundbrief. Montagne's Point, as we have
seen, had just received a new owner, Jan Louwe Bogert. On
January I6, I673, the constable and magistrates, with a view
of fixing a limit to Bogert's lands, held under the bill of sale
from Montagne, had passed a resolution to estimate said lands
at 18 morgen, which allowed 2 morgen for the Hop Garden.
The deed, which only awaited the final payment, was soon to
be given by Mrs. Montagne, and Bogert was already "in possession." It was, doubtless, in anticpation of some intereference
on the part of their new neighbor, or the M:lontagne's, or both,
which now led the owners to fence in the Flat, and to join in a
covenant to protect themselves against any rival claimants.*
Indeed it appears that, in common with others who had
built up claims upon the old defunct groundbriefs, some of the
Mlontagne family indulged a hope of getting their groundbrief
confirmled, with the view of claiming portions of the Flat. In
this, as is apparent, neither of the sons of Dr. La Montagne took
any part. The compromise with John La Montagne, in I66I,
which secured him the Point (for which the town gave him a
deed in I672), was to him and his children an estoppel to any
further claim upon the Vredendal lands, and there is no intimation that he or they ever made any such claim. With his brother,
William, the same was no doubt true, since his assent to the disposal of the Flat appears in that he not only drew and sold some
of that land, but subsequently withheld his name from a petition
to Governor Fletcher for a confirmation of the old groundbrief.
Without question, the Flat came within the agreelment of I663,
* p huyden 8 Marty I673: Comparcerde voor my Hendr. J: Vandr. Vin,
Secrets: by de E. gr. achtbr. Mayor Court tot N: Yorcke geadmitteert: Ten Durpe
N. Durpe N. Haerlem resideren: de ondergesn. ingesetenen van N: Haerlem, alsmede
eygenaers enr. possesseuren van het lont genaemt Montagnes Vlackte gelegen onder
deses durps jurisdictie, de welcke verclaerden gesametlk. het voorsn. stuck lant, in
gemeene heyningh te besluyten enr. te gebrucken, tot den bouw, planten, of wooning;
of soo ider van haer voor syn gedcelt sal geraden duncken, enr. oft gebeurde, dat sy
int gemeen of ider int bysonder, moghten werden getroubleert, door imant, die den
eygendom enr. possessie wilde in twyffel trecken, enr. haerln. gesainentlk. of ider int
bysonder, eenigh molest (dien aengaende), wilde doen, wegens den eygendom vant
voorsn.lant: Soo verbinden sy ondergesn. gesamentlk., of ider int bysonder, haer daer
tegen te beschermen ende malcanderen in hare gerechtigheyt (die sylidn. op het selve
syn hebbende), te mainteneren: protesterenn. tegene soodanige van alle costen, schaden
enr. interessen, die haerln. gesamentlk. or ider int bysonder, door eenigh molest moghte
werden aengedaen: Oirconde der wareheydt vant beene voorsn. staet, hebben die doen
schryven ende met eygen handen onderts: Aldus gedaen enr. gepasseert tot N: Haerlem, dato ut supra.
David des Marest, Resalvert Waldron,
Glaude le Maistre, dit merke by
Daniel Tourneur, Lourens X Jansen,
Cornelies Yansen, selffs gestelt.
Jan Dyckman,
In kennisse van my
Hendr. J: Vandr. Vin, Secrets:
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291
between Stuyvesant and Council and the inhabitants of Harlem,
that the tithes, or tenths of the produce of their cultivated lands
for the years I666 to I672, both inclusive, should be applied for
the benefit of the original grantees who held the groundbriefs,
their heirs or creditors. This agreement, by which the tenths
were substituted for the 8 gl. per morgen, was alike binding on
the government and the landholders, and was limited in its effects
to the term of years named. If carried out in good faith, there
must terminate the demands both of the said original grantees
and their creditors. It seemed to favor the then owners, for
the amount of tithes to be paid must deIend upon what the land
should be made to yield; but had the Dutch rule continued no
doubt the government would have held these owners strictly to
this condition, and the proceeds from nMlontagne's Flat would
have been app)lied toward cancelling the debt due from Dr. Montagne to the West India Company. It might be argued that these
payments being limited to seven years, had the Flat for that time
been under tillage it would have taken a husbandry then and
there unknown, to have made the tenths pay Dr. Montagne's debt,
which as early as I662 amounted, by his own figuring, to 1130 gl.,
but by that of the public bookkeeper to not less than 1,936 gl.; and
that the tithes being insufficient to satisfy this claim, the balance
would still be against Montagne!
lBut the change of government, in I664, was alike fatal to
this provision for the payment of the tenths, and to the old
groundbriefs on which it was predicated; the English, as we have
seen, refusing to confirm the latter within the Harlem patent,
and holding them to be null and void, while it also ignored the
system of tithes which had worked badly for the country, and
"did much hinder the populating of it." Montagne's Flat having
lain as commons, unfenced and untilled, had indeed yielded
nothing but pasturage, nothing for the payment of tithes. Therefore the owners (with whom must be named Captain Delavall,
who had a small lot there, of 4 morgen 320 rods, bought of
Simon de Ruine), being released from their obligation to render
the tithes, while the Montagne heirs were still liable to some
demand from the government, which assumed to collect all other
debts due the West India Company (even to small charges on
their books for unpaid passage money), these heirs were easily
led to look upon the agreement under which they had given up
the Flat as thereby vitiated, and to fall back upon their old
groundbrief as entitled to confirmation. Could they have succeeded it would have been a nice operation for them, as the lands
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had risen in value, and lots on the Flat now brought 44 guilders
per morgen. But to the credit of the English rulers, they did
not attempt so unfair a proceeding as to enforce the claim against
the AMontagne heirs, while at the same time relieving the landholders of their obligation to pay the tithes. A majority, and
no doubt all, of the eight proprietors of the Flat had documentary
titles, five at least, as heretofore noticed, holding particular patents
from the government, and Demarest deriving through the Montagnes themselves. The aggregate of their lands, contained in
nine lots, amlounted to 54 morgen, as afterward rated and taxed;
to which being added another lot which lay there vacated or
untaxed till 1725, made 60 morgen, as reckoned, in the entire
Flat. This came by a generous allowance to the morgen, the
Flat being correctly estimated, in the Montagne groundbrief, at
Ioo morgen. Here was the real bone of contention. The lMontagnes regarded as of right theirs the excess over the quantity
the eight owners were entitled to. But the inhabitants took
another view, and in which the government concurred, namely,
that so much of the Flat as was undisposed of belonged to the
common lands of the town, as granted and confirmed to them
by Nicolls and Lovelace. The government adhering to the policy
laid down by Stuyvesant regarding the old groundbriefs, saw no
reason to make the Montagne groundbrief an exception. It
respected the act of the Dutch government, which allowed the
tenths to offset the Montagne debt, but also held the heirs to
their act in the surrender of the Flat. Hence it could never be
prevailed upon to confirm the old groundbrief.*
Pierre Cresson and Rachel Cloos, his wife, "both being sound
of body," made their joint will, March I5, 1673; Cornelis Jansen
and Jan Nagel witnesses. How sensible and wise thus, in
health, to calmly weigh the fact of their mortality, and deliberately
set their house in order. Leaving fifty guilders to "the church
at New York," they say, "whereas their daughter Susannah has
enjoyed as a marriage portion the value of two hundred guilders,
so the testators will that at the decease of the longest liver each
of their other children then living shall draw the like 200 guilders,
* A petition was addressed to Governor Fletcher, in I695, in the name of John
Louwe Bogert, William Montagne, his sister Mrs. Tacob Kip, and nephew Johannes
Van Inborgh, who claimed to be seized, and by descent as well as mean assurance in
the law, owners of the patent granted by Governor Kieft to Dr. Montagne; and prayed
for a confirmation of said patent, as they were now willing to divide the same. But
William Montagne, then of Ulster county, did not sign this petition; neither did
Abraham Montagne, of Harlem (son of John), which is remarkable, considering the
claim to be the Montagne lands set up in our day, under a title purporting to be derived from him. The petition being referred to the Attorney General for his opinion
received no further notice. A better knowledge of this old exploded claim than that
afforded by the family traditions, might, in the case above alluded to, have saved a
protracted and fruitless litigation.
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293
and our youngest son Elie, if he is under the age of sixteen years,
also a new suit of clothes becoming to his person, from head to
foot."
Gabriel Carbosie, the miller, and his wife Brieta Wolferts,
"both sound of body," also made their will, on April I8th ensuing, and which was witnessed by Jan Louwe Van Schoonrewoerd
and Cornelis Jansen. They gave six guilders "to the poor of
the Lutheran congregation at New York." Each by former
marriages had had children, but none had come from their own
as yet.
On March 30th, "being Sunday and Pass," the quiet and
good order of the village was broken by a most shameful affray,
the more scandalous considering the standing of some of the
parties. About four o'clock in the afternoon, young Samuel
Denarest falling in with Daniel Tourneur, Jr., began to tease
him by asking why he had prated so much in Coenraet Ten Eyck's
shop in New York, that Glaude Delamater's son should fight
(plockhairen) with him, and added that he, Tourneur, was a
blaffert, a bully. Tourneur answered angrily, "Youngster, hold
your mouth, or I'll give you some knocks." The other said he
would not; on which Daniel made good his therat, with a blow
or two. Now ran up Samuel's elder brother Jean, and then
David, to take his part, and there was a free use of fists, stones,
and sticks, which Mr. Gipsen (Gibbs), who saw the melee, tried
in vain to stop, telling the Demarests, "Three against one is not
fair." The fathers of the combatants now reached the scene of
action, and with Tourneur came his prospective son-in-law, Dyckman, "with his drawn knife in his hand," and who clinched and
got "the young David Demarest under," exclaiming, "This shall
cost you your life." At the same time Joris Jansen Van Hoorn
caught hold of Jean Demarest, and struck him several times in
the face with his fist; while the elder Tourneur, who had turned
upon the father, drew his knife and tried to stab him, but David,
using only a stick, gave his assailant a stunning blow on the
head, "so that he fell down." Gillis Boudewyns saw the whole
affray form the beginning, and with Pierre Cresson testified to
this stabbing; for by this time many of the villagers beside those
named were drawn to the spot by the uproar, as Isaac Vermille,
Jean Delamater, Le Roy,* Vander Vin, and Nagel, with Pieter
* Simeon Cornier had bought Le Roy's house and lands, February 24, 1672, but
it was not till May 2, 1674, that Le Roy, acknowledging payment, gave a deed and
possession. Cornier and wife, Nicole Petit (also called Petitmangin and Piemainte),
joined the church at New Amsterdam, October 2, I662, having just arrived from
Mannheim, via Holland, as has been noticed. Entering the military service, and promoted to a corporalcy, he was given his choice, at the English conquest, either to re
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Claessen, Thomas Etherington, and Elias Bailey, who happened
to be at-the village. A stop was now put to t he fight, but young
Tourneur, still excited, said, "Wait, wait! this is not the last
time." The elder Tourneur has the benefit of a doubt, as Jean
Delamater, the innocent cause of the tumult, declared "that he
had not seen that Daniel Tourneur stabbed David Demarest."
High Sheriff Allard Anthony, on being notified of this flagrant breach of the peace, held a court at Harlem, the next day,
and took the testimony of several witnesses; but a hiatus in the
minutes of the Mlaor's Court probably deprives us of the sequel
of this affair, in which, however, no lives were lost, and but
slight personal injury sustained. Tourneur was about as usual,
April 5th, when he leased to Jan Dircksen, or "Jan the Soldier,"
as before called, "a certain piece of woodland, lying at Menepas
Kill," with meadow on "the kill of boor Aert and Jan de Paep,"
for the term of three years, the lessee to build.his own dwellinghouse, and leave three morgen of land cleared and fenced; to all
which Jan Dyckman and Ralph Doxey are witnesses.
Society was not very polished in those dlas, and was still
wedded to the old ideas about personal prowess,-pluck and
muscle, never mind what called them forth, were things to boast
of and applaud. The younger combatants might glory in this
general knock-down, and little fear the approbrium; but for the
two elderly ones holding high positions, Demarest a magistrate,
and Tourneur a deacon, sober retrospection no doubt brought
shame and regret. But we must discriminate between Tourneur,
rash, even dastardly, and Demarest, more temperate in his Picard
impulses, and probably acting in self-defence only. The latter,
a few weeks later (August 23d) was re-elected to the magistracy;
but then Tourneur, a man, mauger his faults, of generous instincts
and of great energy, and to whose tact and abilities the town owed
much of its success, had just closed an active life and been laid
to rest. He is last noticed May I2th, when he subscribed as
witness to an engagement of Thomas Selligh, late in his emloy,
turn to Europe with the Dutch forces or to remain here. As he chose the latter, the
government remitted his passage money, which was yet unpaid. He went to Staten
Island and engaged in farming, his old calling in France. He received, at Harlem,
the marks of respect due to his character and abilities. On the Dutch reoccupation,
in I673, trouble being feared from the English, Cornier was fitly chosen as a corporal
in the Night Watch, and two years later, during the Indian troubles, held the like
command. Hte also served as deacon; but selling his lands, July 26, 1675, to Paul
Richard, he removed to New York, a few months later. In i686 he married, as a
second wife, Tryntie Walings Van Winckel, widow of Cornelis Jacobsen Stille, who
had lived at Harlem, ancestor of the Somerindyke and Woertendyke families. (See
p. 151, and N. Y. G. & B. Record, 1876, p. 49). The day he bought it Richard sold
Cornier's property to David Demarest, Jr. We know not when Cornier died, nor that
he left children, but take for his descendants Capt. Peter Corne, of New York, merchant, and commander of a privateer in the old French war, who still lived in the
city during the Revolution. (See Dyckman family).
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to work a year for Wallerand du MTont, of Esopus. Tourneur's
death made the first break in the company of Nicolls Patentees.
It probably followed close upon Dyckman's espousal (June I5th)
to his daughter Madeleine. We notice that D!ckman's old
friend, Arena Harmans Bussing, with whom he had left his
native Bentheim, had just before married Susanna le Maistre,
Glaude's daughter, both brides having been born at Flatbush,
soon after their parents emigrated.*
This chapter of incidents may fitly close with a glance at the
village of New Harlem as it was in the autumn of 1673.t How
quaint an aspect has the Dutch settlement as e'en now its plain
wooden tenements, embowered in foliage whose variegated hues
already tell the declining year, rise modestly to view. Their
humble eaves, keeping line with the street, lift themselves but
one low story, yet the extraordinary slope of the thatched roof
gives space to the loft above, so useful for many domestic purposes. Aside the house, quite too near for entire safety, stands
the ample and well-stored "schuer" or barn, in its squatty eaves
and lofty ridge the very counterpart of the dwelling, but by a
noticeable contrast turning its gable with huge gaping doors to
the highway. In the spaces between buildings and homesteads
flourish rows of choice imported fruit trees, apple, pear, peach,
cherry, and quince, and the no less prized garden and ornamental
shrubs, the Dutch currant, gooseberry, and evergreen box, dwarf
and arborescent. Tidiness reigns, at least about the dwelling,
and within reach of the busy housewife's mop and broom; but
all betoken's a plainness and frugality, in wide contrast with the
* Wallarand du Mont (Dumont), whose descandants are still found in Ulster
County, came to this country in 1657, from Coomen, in Flanders; served as "cadet in
the honorable Company of the Heer Director General," and married at Esopus, January
13, 1664, Margaret Hendricks, widow of Jan Aertsen, who had been slain by the
Indians. (See Van Putten). Du Mont's sister Margaret was wife of Pierre Noue, a
Walloon, who emigrated with Demarest and company in 1673. (See Journee). How
will our revered friend and early pastor make Pierre the son of Elias Neau, the
catechist, of New York, who was born at Soubiz in Saintonge, in I662? (History of.lizabeth, p. 267). D)u Mont died, at Esopus, in 1783, having had sons, Wallarand, John
Baptist and Peter; and daughters, Margaret, wife of William Loveridge; Jannetie,
wife of Michael \an Vechten, and Francina, wife of Frederick Clute. Clute went to
Schenectady. (See Pearson's Schenectadv Settlers). Peter Dumont, with his brethren,
Loveridge and Van Vechten, settled on the Raritan N. J. Dumont and Van Vechten
became justices of the peace. The latter was born in 1664, being son of Derick
Teunissen, who was born in 1634, at Vechten, in the diocese of Utrecht, and when
four years of age came with his father, Teunis Dericksen, to Albany. William Loveridge was from the parish of Wool, in Dorsetshire, England, and died at Perth Amboy,
in 1703, leaving sons William, Wallerand and John. He was brother to Samuel
Loveridge, of New Ybrk, shipwright, who was born in Albermarle County, 'Va., and
married at Esopus, in i688, Tlannah, daughter of George Meals. Their father, William
Loveridge, a hatter, came out to Connecticut as early as 1659, removed to Virginia,
thence to Albany, and died at Catskill, about 1683. He had daughters, Temperance,
who married Capt. Isaac Melyn, of New York, and Sarah, mho married John Ward,
of Ulster county. Hence the belief expressed in the Hisotry of Elizabeth that Samuel
Loveridge was a son of Rev. William Leverich, though with seeming reason, is plainly
not warranted.
t Consult the plan of the village at page 292.
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elegance of modern living. The daily life of the villagers,-but
let us first note the occupants of the principal dwellings ere we
cross the threshold, to explore the humble sphere of their domestic economy.
Here at the river end, where, about the tavern, smith-shop,
church, and ferry, gather the stir and business activity of the
village, is the comfortable home of the French refugee and newlyappointed schepen, David Demarest. His house and barn occupy
a lot "abutting on three streets from which it is fenced," and
extended "toward the strand, as far as he can," by virtue of a
town grant of January 5, I667. It contains a double-erf, or
two erven, the upper, facing the Great Way, being that gotten
from Montagne (and where now the oldest house and relic of the
village stands), the other once Dominie Zyperus'. This last
looks out to the south upon the square or green about the landing-place. Demarest's neighbor, over the cross-street, is Glaude
Delamater, recent magistrate, testy but kind-hearted; his doubleerf joining that of Cornelius Jansen, late constable, a young but
rising man in the town, and at whose friendly inn,-where swinging signboard and feeding-troughs mark it merely as the village
hostel, but to Kortright, Bogert, and others, the veritable counterpart of Mynheer's inn at Schoonrewoer,-the passing traveler
stops for refreshment, or the wiseacres of the dorp resort to
swallow the latest bit of news or scandal in a bumper of Kortright's beer. Opposite the tavern, past the second crossway, lives
the Picard, good Pierre Cresson, from his occupation called by
his Dutch neighbors, de tuynier, or the gardener, whose erf
joins at its rear or north side to that of Daniel Tourneur, but
just deceased, and westerly to that late of Hendrick Karstens,
but now of the worthy Joost Van Oblinus, schepen. Over the
third cross-street are the two erven of Johan Verveelen, where
his son-in-law, Adolph Meyer, now lives, and next him the
"garden" and erf (strictly a double-erf), which had passed from
Mr. Muyden to Jaques Cresson, and from him to Meynard
Journee, present occupant, also called Maaljer, his surname
Belgicized. Being sickly, Journee had just resigned his office
of fence-master, which was given, February 6th, to Laurens
Jansen, the Low ancestor. Journee's grounds extend to those
of Captain Delavall, a small strip between them, "laid out for a
street" (the fourth crossway), having been added to Cresson's
lot while his, by a grant of May 3,I667. In one of Delavall's
houses, once the home of Simon the Walloon, had recently lived,
till he removed to the city, Wouter Gerritsen, Delavall's princi
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297
pal farmer, and the old neighbor of Gillis \Iandeville, in the
Veleuwe,-the other of Delavall's houses had been occupied by
Pieter Roelofsen, twice constable here. Beyond this point we
soon reach the lButen Tuynen, or Out-Gardens, the two farther
ones soon to l)e the home of Arent Harmens Bussing, lately
married and just appointed one of the schepens.
But from the quiet west end, retracing our steps, on the south
side of the street, we come to the dwelling of the venerable Isaac
Vermeille. Seated upon the end of lot 5, Van Keulen's Hook,
"over against the garden of Jaques Cresson," as it was till of late;
his erf, which extends back to a strip of flag marsh stretching across
the lot, is well stocked with fruit trees, the pride of the Huguenot
settlers, and in which culture they excelled. On either side of
Vermeille lie vacant lots, but that on the west, No. 6, soon to be
built upon and occupied by its owner, Laurens Jansen, aforesaid.
Lot No. 4, on the east side of Vermeille, and which Adolph Meyer
had gotten with his wife from her father, Verveelen, was at this
end fit only for pasturage, being marshy; but a plot here was
bought from MIeyer November 2, I673, by his friend Jan Dyckman, who for the many years before he moved to Spuyten Duyvel
occupied a house built upon two of Tourneur's out-gardens,
received by his wife Madeleine. Adjoining lot No. 4, and
opposite to Oblinus, lives the most influential man in the town,
Resolved Waldron, at present the shout, or sheriff, and next to
him, easterly, his son-in-law Jan Nagel. Going still toward the
river, to the two small erven opposite Cornelis Jansen and Delamater (granted Jean Demarest and Johannes Pelszer, but seemingly never improved by them), on the corner of the Pelszer lot,
where the road runs down by the green to the creek, stands, or
later stood, the village smithy, whereWilliamHaldron,an Englishman, plied his hammer and bellows, waking the neighbors at
early dawn with the music of his anvil, as did, within the same
century, his successor in the smithshop, Zacharias Sickels, whose
descendants are yet among us.*
* Zacharias Sickels, the common ancestor and father of Zacharias aforesaid, was
from Vienne, in Austria. Finding his way to Holland, he went out to Curacao, and
served in the military rank of adelborst or cadet. When Stuyvesant returned from a
visit to that island, in 1655, Sickels came with him, being soon after attached to the
garrison at Fort Orange. In I658 he was a tapster. He remained at Albany after the
surrender, in 1664, and worked as a carpenter, having married Anna, daughter of
Lambert Van Valkenburgh, by whom he had sons, Robert, Lambert, Zacharias and
Thomas, and daughters, Anna, Elizabeth, Maria, Margaret and Leah. Anna married
Abraham Isaacs, and Elizabeth married William Peelen. In 1670 to '72, and i68i to
'83, Sickels was t9wn herder, and had I8 guilders a head for the season. He next
held the responsible place of rattle watch, so called from the rattle, used to give
warning, in making his nightly rounds. He was also town cryer, to call the people
together on needed occasions; and porter, or keeper of the city gates, to close and lock
them at night and to open them in the morning. His sons Robert and Lambert removing
to New York, he, with his other sons, etc., followed them in 1693, his vacated office
being given to his son-in-law Isaacs. In 1698 he was admitted a freeman of New
298 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
But for an inside view of the domestic life and home comforts of these villagers, let us visit the worthy and well-to-do
Itubbert Gerritsen, late one of the magistrates, living near the
west end. We enter. No carpet hides the well-scrubbed floor,
and in vain we glance around the room for many articles which
in our day imperious fashion, and even comfort, demand. The
furniture goes but little beyond the practical and useful. A
gilded mirror indeed adorns the whitewashed wall. The two
beds have pillows and striped curtains. Two chests very convenient contain the clothing, one of the wife, the other of the
daughter, fair Eva, who five years later married the Bussing
ancestor. On one side is a small octagon table; and here a
brass candlestick and a warming-pan. Upon hooks on the wall
hang a musket and firelock. No stove is there; but in the ample
fireplace the wood crackles and blazes cheerfully above the huge
backlog and around the two iron dinner pots hung to the trammel
by hooks and chain. On the table or shelves, and in the pantry,
we notice exactly I pewter bowl, 2 small pewter platters, 4 pewYork, and in 1702 was living in the Tast Ward. Robert, his son, married, 1686,
Geertie, daughter of Abel Reddenhaus, and moved to Bergen County, N. J., where he
died in 1729; Lambert, born i666, married, I69o, Maria Jansen, from Albany, settled
at Bedford, Brooklyn, and died 1722; and Thomas married, 1702, Jannetie, daughter
of Jan Hendricks Brevoort, and remained in New York. All these left descendants.
(See Winfield's Land Titles, the Bergen Gen., and N.Y. G. & B. Rec., 1876, 60).
Zacharias Sickels, blacksmith, and referred to in the text, was born in 1670, at
Albany, and after coning to Harlem, married, August 23, 1693, Mary, daughter of the
aforesaid TBrevoort. On February 20, 1705, he bought of his father-in-law, who had
then left Harlem, the lands he still held there. (See Brevoort). Of these, Sickels
sold, April 9, 1705, a meadow, once Pierre Cres-on's, and lying at the head of Sherman's Creek, and northerly of the Kortright farm, to Jan Kiersen (with whose lands
it was sold to James Carroll, in 1763), and on January 23, 1706, he sold to Samson
Benson, No. I New Lots, with "a garden" (originally two erven of Cresson and
Tourneur), lying next west of the churchyard. H-Te drew land in 1712, in 1st and 2nd
Divisions, having sold his 3rd and 4th to Jan Kiersen, but obtaining in exchange
Kiersen's lot in Ist Division. (See Appendix J). For these drawn lands he received
a patentee deed, December 24, 1712. Later, he sold his 1st Division to Joh. Meyer.
ITe married, July I9, 1717, a second wife, Wyntie Dyckman, widow of Joh. Kortright.
Bleing sick, he sold his property, January 15, I729, to his step-son, Nicholas Kortright. This consisted of lot No. 5, Jochem Pieters, a lot on Montagne's Flat, rated
at 6 morgen or 12 acres (but in reality 20 acres), and No. 12, in 2d Division, 18'
acres; in all, as rated, 43 acres. Zacharias Sickels (lied January 20, 1729, aged 59
years. lie had issue, Johannes, Jacobus, Zacharias, I-endrick, Gerardus, William,
Cornelius and Robert. Johannes, the eldest, was born in 1694, married, May 2, 1718,
Annecke, daughter of Adolph Meyer, and settled in Westchester County, on a farm
of o00 acres, bought in 1720 and 1722. lie died in June, 1729; his widow married
Thomas Storm. IHis children, as far as known, were Zacharias, Johannes and Maria,
who married Gerrit Storm, of Philipsburgh. (f these, Zacharias became a merchant
in New York, married, 1744, Catherine IHeyer, and was the father of John Sickels,
grocer, who had five children, viz: John, lawyer; Alletta, who married John Tenbrook; Catherine, married Corn. Isaac Chauncey; Maria, married James Ieard, and
Ann, who married Nathaniel Griswold.
Johannes Sickels, born 1720, son of Joh. and Anneke. married his cousin Margaret,
daughter of Adolph Meyer, 2d, of Harlem, where Sickels settled, inheriting, in 1748,
84 acres from the Meyer estate. This embraced Nos. 2, 3, Jochem Pieters, No. Io, 2d
Division, and No. 14, 4th Division. To this was attached the north garden (sold teni
years later to John Livingston), derived originally by his great-grandfather Verveelen
from Jan Slot. (See App. E). lie died in 1784, leaving one son, John S. Sickels, and
a daughter, Mary, wife of Samson Benson. John S. Sickels married, September 29,
1763, Maria, daughter of Aaron Bussing, and died June 4, 1804; his only child surviving infancy being Mary, born April 9, 1764. who married John Adriance, father of
John S. and Isaac Adriance, Latitia, wife of Wm. I. Kenyon, and Margaret, wife of
James Kenyon. Many write this name Sickles.
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ter trenchers, 6 pewter spoons, a pewter cup with a lid, and another without, 2 white earthen jars, a copper cake pan, a small
copper pot, a small brass kettle, 2 water pails, and 2 churns for
butter-making. There is still place for 2 siths,* 2 sikles, and 2
augurs.
We ascend to the "loft." Here are 4 milk pans, 2 iron
hand-basins, 2 tubs, a lye-barrel, a cask filled with buckwheat,
2 ploughshares, a plough-chain and rope, a coulter, a yoke with
a hook, 2 old sickles, an adze, and a sail mast, perhaps belonging
to the "canoe at the strand."
Invited out to the barn: here is the garnered harvest, stores
of rye, peas, and buckwheat in the sheaf, and 1 or 12 bundles
of unswingled flax; also a fan, harrow, and 2 iron forks. On
the premises, fat and sleek in their sheds and stalls, are the livestock: 2 yoke of oxen, 2 cows, one black, the other red; I steer,
and 2 calves. Four young hogs are running upon Little Barent's
Island. Other farming implements are at hand: 2 ox-yokes,
2 iron plough-rings, a wood-axe, 3 iron wedges, 2 hand-saws,
and a draw-saw, 2 iron-bound buckets, and an iron lamp. Ah!
here stands the ox-cart, and here are 2 new cart-wheels. The
plough is missing; left where Lubbert's last ploughing was done,
out on one of the bouwlots, of which he has the Nos. 4 and 9
on Jochem Pieters, with salt meadow, and out-garden No. I
beside. Busy bees still hum about, sucking sweets from the fall
flowers, with which to store the seven hives in the garden, and
hens as busily scratch and cluck about the barnyard. Not an
item of Lubbert's effects has escaped our notice; all as enjoyed
by him at the time of his decease soon after,-affording us a
reliable index to the average style of living observed here at that
period.
And a grand political event had but just transpired in the
highest degree pleasing to the Harlem community, because
promising to its simple Belgian character and customs a happy
perpetuity, while it restored, fresh and intact, the waning memories of dear Fatherland. This was the recapture of New York
by the Dutch.
I See a description of the Sith and its use, under the year I687.
CHAPTER XIX.
I673-I674.
REOCCUPATION BY THE DUTCI.
( f T HIS day, ioth August, I673, New Style, have the Holland and Zeeland fleets captured the Fort at N. York,
in the name of their High Mightinesses, the Lords States General
of the United Netherlands and his Highness the Lord Prince of
Orange; and the Fort is re-named iillem Hendrick, and the
City obtained the name New Orange."
In these words did the secretary Vander Vin record in his
protocol an event which, suddenly reducing the colony again to
the obedience of Holland, at once startled and overjoyed the
Dutch community at Harlem. The mother countries were at
war, and this one of the fruits. They were therefore prepared
for the following official letter:
To the Inhabitants of the Town of N: IHaerlem.
You will, by authority of the High Commanders and Council of War
residing in the fort Willem Hendrick, appoint two persons from your
village as deputies, and with the same send your constable's staff and
town ensign, on the day after to-morrow, being Monday, in order then
to talk with us; whereon depending, we remain, after greetings, your
friends,
The SCHOUT, BURGOcMATSTERS and SCHEPENS
of the City of N. Orange.
By order of the same
N. BAYARD, Secretary.
N. Orange, g9th August,
1673, New Style.
To this the following reply was sent by the hands of the
delegates:
To the Noble, Honorable Lords, the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens,
at the City of New Orange.
We, Inhabitants at the village N. Haerlem, pursuant to your Honors'
writing of the g9th instant, by authority of the High Commanders and
the Council of War, residing in fort Willem Hendrick, send by these
the constable's staff (having no ensign), besides two deputies from us, to
receive such orders as your Honors shall find to pertain to the welfare
and benefit of this town; whereupon we shall rely, praying God to pre
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serve your Honors in a prosperous, just, and enduring government; in
the meanwhile remaining your Honors' dutiful, willing sul)jects, the Inhabitants of the town N. Haerlem, August 2Ist, 1673, New Style.
By order of the same,
H. J. VANDER VIN, Secretary.
The delegates returned bearing the following letter:
To the Inhabitants of the town of New I-aerlem.
You are by these, by authority of the Noble Burgomasters and Schepens
of this City of New Orange, ordered, for your town's folks and the dependent neighborhood, on the morrow to assemble, and by a general vote
to nominate eight from the same as magistrates (all such being also of
the Reformed Christian Religion), out of which said nomination we then
shall elect four as magistrates for your town; whereon we relying, remain
your friends,
THi; BURGOMASTERS and SCHEPI-NS
of the City of New Orange, 22d August, I673.
By order of the same,
N. BAYARD, Secretary.
The town folks met pursuant to this order and nominated
David Des Marest, Joost Van Oblinus, Lubbert Gerritsen, Cornelis Jansen, Resolved Waldron, Adolph 1\eyer, Arent Harmans (Bussing), and Jan Nagel, all good friends of fatherland,
as magistrates, and Hendrick J. Vander Vin as secretary, from
whomn wer —e appointed' to the former office, Waldron, Des Marest,
Oblinus, and Bussing, Waldron being named as schout; and as
secretary, Vander Vin. These took an oath of fidelity "to their
High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United
Netherlands and his Highness the Lord Prince of Orange."
By order of the Burgomasters and Schepens, the new board
called the other inhabitants together on August 25th, and administered to them the following oath of allegiance:
"We promise and swear, in presence of Almighty God, unto
their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United
Netherlands, and his Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, and
their Governor already placed here, or hereafter to be appointed,
to be beholden and faithful, and in all circumstances to behave us
as trusty and obedient subjects are bound to do. So truly help us,
God Almighty."
The roll of names is as follows, being classified by Vander
Vin, thus:
ist. Over I6 and under 60 years.
Lubbert Gerritsen,
Cornelis Jansen,
Meyndert Journee,
Adolph Meyer,
Simeon Cornier,
Jan Laurens v: Schoonrewoert,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Jean des Marest,
Jan Dyckman,
Daniel Tourneur,
Jan Nagel,
Samuel Pell, )
Robert Hollis,* Englishmen.
John Smith, )
Jan le Maistre,
David des Mlarest, Jr.,
Samuel des Marest,
Jaco el Roey,
Evert Alrichs,, Yo"ung Men (i. c. unmarried).
Jochem Engelbert,
Coenraet Hendricks,
Cornelis Theunisz,
Gabriel Carbosie, Mlillcr.
2(1. Impotent, above 60 years.
Glaude le Maistre,
Pierre Cresson,
Jean le Roy,
Claes Carstensen,
Isaac Vermeille.
The Dutch rule was now re-established; after two days came
the Sabbath, when the people at worship expressed their gratitude in a practical way, by an extra large contribution of 4 florins.
To this, the next Sunday, Vander Vin added, as a special gift,
a schepel of wheat, equal to 6 gl.
The ready response to every demand of the new rulers also
told the general satisfaction. Called upon to furnish "800 pieces
of great palisades, 14 feet long, I foot thick and under," for the
city defences, the inhabitants met August 28th, and apportioned
this heavy work pro rata, Io posts to an erf, and I 2 to each
morgen. An adlmirable spirit was also shown by the young men
who owned no bouwland, four of wihom,-to wit, Coenraet Hendricks, Engelbert, BIussing, and Dvckman,-volunteered 20 sticks
each, and the loyal Jan Nagel and Jean Demarest each 25. Le
Roy, Hollis, Pell, and Smith, severally pledged 20 each, and
Widow Montagne the same, to be cut by her hired man, Evert
Alrichs. Carbosie would spare time from the mill to furnish I6.
The younger sons of Demarest, with his servant Jaco el Roey,
offered together to cut 26, Jan le Maistre 12, and Oblinus' man,
Robert HTollis, says Governor Nicholls, "came over with me into these parts,
in his Majesty's service, a soldier under my command." I-Ie got a license August I5,
I665, to marry widow Mary Page. On July i8, 1667, he secured a patent for 26
acres of land in Brooklyn, having Jan Martyn on the north and Jan Damen on the
south, "with his housing and accommodation thereupon," which he had bought early
that year from Jean Mesurolle. He obtained at that time the sole right to tap strong
drink in that town. In 1672 he bought an erf at Harlem, where he was made a corporal in the Night Watch, December 6, 1675, but must have left soon after, being
last named at the settlement, January 17, 1676, between the town and William Palmer,
for whom H-ollis had stood security.
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303
Cornelis Theunisz, 7. They agreed to draw all these to a suitable place at the strand.*
A new life and vigor seemed infused into the village; the
overseers being especially occupied. Pursuant to orders from
the Council of War, they had, on the 23d inst., visited the plantation of Captain Richard MNorris, and alppointed Jean Denarest
and Arent Harmans to take charge of it till further orders. The
affairs of Captain Delavall now demanded their care. His
estates, which were scattered in different parts of the province,
and valued by him at about ~5,ooo, had been attached by the
Dutch connmmanders. A ketch building at Harlem, by Samuel
Pell, ship carpenter, and of which )Delavall was half owner, was
to that extent included. John Smith, late in emplloy of Delavall,
was instructed to take good care of his other property at Harlem
till further notice.
Sundry claims against Delavall now came up; one by Pierre
Cresson for what Delavall, in I670, had agreed to pay to rebuild
and keep up the fence between their gardens; another for repairs
the last year at the mill on "the flume and door to the race," Carbosie still having charge. Meanwhile Smith, Delavall's man,
intrusted with his cattle and goods, having suddenly absconded,
the High Commanders on September 9th dlirected Resolved
Wvaidron to take the property in keeping, and which trust he
accepted. This was officially made known to the people of
Harlem on the IIth, and accompanied by directions that the ferry
folks should set no strangers, "that is Christians, or negroes, or
cattle," over the river, either at Harlem or Spuyten Duyvel, unless
they could show a pass. These directions were afterward repeated.
On September 25th the magistrates appointed Barent Waldron, the Court Messenger, who, on being sworn into office, was
furnished with a commission, setting forth in general his duties,
and warning all persons not to interfere with him in the proper
discharge thereof. At the Court held next day, Carbosie, the
miller, complained of Jan Louwe Van Schoonrewoerd, for threatening to shoot his hogs, which had troubled him by running
* Jochem Engelbert Van Namen, from Heusden, came out in the ship Hope,
which sailed from Amsterdam, April 8, I662. I-le lived four and a half years with
Burger Joris, and then entered the service of Verveelen, at Harlem, March 5, i668,
but complaining of ill-usuage, was released by the Court, September Io ensuing. He
bore a good name while with Burger, and seems to have sustained it afterward at
Esopus, where he married, November 3, 1676, Elizabeth, daughter of Evert Pels,
by whom he had a family of children, viz.: Deliantie, Evert, Engelbert, Johannes,
Anna. Deliantie married Barent Marteling, in 1702. Anna married Isaac Marteling.
(See Clute's Staten Island).
Evert Alrichs, five years later, is found at Upland, on the Delaware, having married Elizabeth, widow of Ians Walter.
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over the mill-dam. Louwe was told to repair his fences if he
would not suffer from others' hogs or cattle, and Carbosie was
ordered to make good his railing about the mill-dam, so that no
cattle could run over.
The following day Joost Van Oblinus made complaint that
having sent Adrian Sammis, his wife's brother, living with him,
to pasture the cattle "upon the point over against Simeon's land,"
le had been beaten off by Glaude le Maistre with a stick.* Le
Maistre said that he chased the cattle from his own fence, and
not from that of the point, and admitted to have struck Adrian,
but not with a stick. Poor Adrian, who could not speak for
himself, being "deaf, dumb, and paralytic," had two good witnesses, Esther Tourneur and Cornelia Waldron. Esther being
called in, said that Adrian coming along the fencing with the
cattle, she saw that Glaude had beaten him with a stick. Cornelia testified the same, and that Glaude ran after them. The
Court condemned Le Maistre "in an amend of 6 gl., to the behoof of the church here, with the costs hereby accruing." He
was also directed to "draw in his fence by the point of his
meadow forthwith, within the time of two months, without longer
delay."
On the same date (September 27th) the magistrates, with the
advice of Cornelis Jansen and Jan Dyckman, passed the following curious regulation, respecting the lands in common fence:
"Is resolved and found good to establish that in the coming
year, I674, the tilled land on Jochem Pieters shall be exempt
from any afterplanting of buckwheat, pumpkins, turnips, or any
summer fruits, that the cattle of this village (after the crop is
off the field) may pasture thereon; and the land Van Keulen's
Hook shall in the same year, I674, be sown and planted with
summer fruits; and in the year 1675, on the contrary, Van Keulen's Hook from summer fruits shall remain unplanted and unsown, and Jochem Pieters again be sown as above; running so
from year to year, alternately, the one to be sown by summer
fruits and the other left unsown, for reasons as above."
The Dutch Commanders had now sailed for Holland leaving
* 'Te point here referred to was undoubtedly that since known as Bussings
Point. Simeon Cornier had agreed to buy lot No. it, Jochem Pieters, but the reference
is plainly not to him, nor to this land. We conclude it was the lot on Jochem Pieters,
given up in I66I by Simon (also called Simeon) de Ruine, and was No. 2S (afterward No. 22, one of Delavall's, whose title was just now uncertain), and that "Simeon's
land," best known by its original owner's name, thus formed the north line of
Jochem Pieters; and "over against" (that is, opposite to it, some space intervening)
was said point early called Gloudie's Point, from Delamater, whose meadows lay
there. Later, No. 22 formed the northermost of the so-called "Six Lots," embraced
in the large Myer tract.
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the administration of affairs in the hands of Governor Anthony
Colve, who on October ist issued the following:
Provisional Instructions to the Schout and Magistrates of the Town of
New Haerlem.
I. The Schout and Magistrates each in their sphere shall have a care
that the Reformed Christian Religion shall be maintained conformably
to the Synod of Dordrecht held in the years 1618 and I6I9, without
suffering it, through any other persuasion thereto opposed, to be in any
wise altered.
2. The Schout, so far as possible, shall be present and preside at all
meetings. But when he acts for himself as a party, or respecting the
right of his Lords Patroons, or in behalf of justice, on such an occasion,
he shall stand up and vacate the bench, and at that time neither advise
nor vote; but the oldest Schepen shall preside in his place.
3. All cases of government, of the security and peace of the inhabitants, also of justice betwixt man and man, shall be determined by the
Magistrates of the aforesaid Town by definitive sentences to the amount of
sixty guilders in beavers, or less. But in all cases exceeding this sum,
every one shall be free to appeal to the Hon. Governor General and Council
here.
4. In case of diversity of voices, the minority must yield to the majority, yet permitting those of the contrary opinion to record and sign their
protest; but in no wise to publish such outside the meeting, on pain of
arbitrary correction.
5. Whenever in the Court any cases shall occur, in which any Magistrate shall be concerned as a party, in such case the Magistrate shall rise
up and leave his seat, as before is directed in the case of the Schout.
6. All the inhabitants of the aforesaid Town shall be citable before the
said Schout and Schepens, who shall hold their sessions and courts as often
as the same shall be necessary.
7. All criminal offences may be referred to the Governor General and
Council, saving that the Schout shall be obligated the criminal offenders
to apprehend, to arrest and to detain, and as prisoners, under proper
security, to deliver over to the High Magistracy, together with good and
true information of the offences committed; at the expense of the offenders or the prosecutor.
8. Minor offences, such as quarrels, injuries, slanders, threats, fist
blows, and such like, are left to the adjudication and decision of the Magistrates of each particular town.
9. The Schout and Schepens shall be authorized, for the peace and
tranquillity of the inhabitants in their district, to make any orders for
the regulating of highways, setting off lands and gardens, and whatever
like things as relate to farm lands; also for the observance of the Sabbath, respecting the building of churches, of schools, and similar public
works; also against fighting and striking and such like minor offences;
provided the same do not conflict with, but are conformable unto the
laws of our Fatherland and the statutes of the province; and to this end
all orders of importance, before they are promulgated, shall be presented
to the High Magistracy for their approval.
10. Said Schout and Schepens shall be held closely to observe and
execute all the placards and ordinances which shall be enacted and published by the High Magistracy, and not to permit anything to be done
contrary thereto; further to proceed against the transgressors according
to the tenor of the same; and to execute promptly such orders as the
Governor General from time to time shall send to them.
ii. The Schout and Schepens shall also be bound to acknowledge
their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Nether
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lands, and his Serene Highness, the Lord Prince of Orange, as their Sovereign Rulers, and to maintain their high jurisdiction, right, and dominion
in this land.
12. The choice of all minor officers and assistants to the said Schout
and Schepens (alone excepting the Secretary's office) shall be made and
confirmed by themselves.
I3. The Schout shall personally, or by his substitutes, put in execution
all the sentences of the Schepens, without releasing anybody, except with
the advice of the Court; also take good care that the places under his
control shall be purged from all rascality, gambling, baudy-houses, and
such like immoralities.
14. The Schout shall enjoy the half of all civil fines accruing during
his term of office, together with a third part of the allowance coming to
the respective towns from criminal cases; wherefore he shall receive no
presents, directly or indirectly, forbidden by the laws.
15. At the time of election, the Schout and Schepens shall nominate a
double number of the best qualified, honest, intelligent, and most wealthy
inhabitants, and only those who are of the Reformed Christian Religion,
or at least well disposed thereto, as Schepens, and to be presented to
his Honor the Governor, from whom by him the election shall be made,
with the continuation of some of the old, in case his Honor shall deem
it necessary. Done at the fort Willem Hendrick the First of October
A~. I673.
By order of the Honbl. Governor General
and Council of New Netherland,
N. BAYARD, Secretary.
On Wednesday, October 4th, Governor Colve visited Harlem
and held a council there. Some of the people of Fordham, presenting themselves, complained "of the ill-government of their
landlord, John Archer," and asked the privilege of nominating
their own magistrates. Archer being summoned, also appeared;
and on hearing the complaint, he voluntarily yielded up the government there, retaining only the right to his houses and lands;
whereupon the Court granted the people their request, and on
the following day, pursuant to previous notice, all the inhabitants of that place appeared at Harlem, and took the oath of
allegiance at the hand of Governor Colve, and before the Heer
Cornelis Steenwyck, Burgomaster Egidius Luyck, and Secretary
Bayard; Resolved Waldron and David Demarest being also present. Within a few (lays Johannes Verveelen, Michiel Bastiaensen, and Valentine Claessen, were elected magistrates at Fordham,
the first being also made secretary.
The Harlem town court met October 6th with reference to
the affairs of Captain Delavall, who had departed with-Governor
Lovelace for England in the ship of the Dutch commander
Benckes. A statement being drawn up, he was found indebted
to the town as follows:
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For his part of Preacher's salary, as per list of Jan. I6th
preceding........................................f. 66: I6
" his share of the general expenses of the town, as per
list of Mar. 6th................................... 242: I6
" the 4 gardens sold him off the Clover Pasture........ oo: o
" wages for labor in making his fences.................. 84: o
493: 12
The cutting and cartage of 140 l)alisades, for the city, was
also to be a(de(. His assets, in real estate, were found to be,
"On Jochem Pieters, in 9 lots, 54 morgen; on Keulen's Hook, in
2 lots, 6 morgen; together, 11 lots, 6o morgen. In the village,
two houses and erven. And meadows for hay in lproportion."
The following petition, having reference to Delavall, was
drawn up on the g9th of October:
To the Noble, Right Honorable Lord, the Governor of New Netherland.
Respectfully make known the Schout and Rulers of the Town New
Haerlem, in the name and on behalf of their common Inhabitants, your
Excellency's subjects, how that they the petitioners are entitled to a
considerable sum of money from Capt. Thomas Delavall, on account of
burdens and charges which by this town some years hither are borne upon
the lands, houses, and house lots (erven), of the Inhabitants, being
shown by the assessments and accounts thereof kept from time to time;
and the aforesaid Thomas Delavall having possessed extraordinary parcels of land, as also houses and house lots, for his quota has done,
contributed, or paid not one stiver to the discharging of the town's
debts, to the great grievance of the community. 'Tis now such, that at
this village lies a small strip of land, between the two common streets,
reaching west to common land named the Clover Pasture, having appertained to the above-mentioned Delavall, who upon some of the same
ground (die op de grout dessclffs), is now remaining indebted to this
town one hundred guilders; So it is that they the petitioners, in quality
as above, humbly request your Excellency to be pleased to grant and
confer upon them, the petitioners, as property, in recompense for the said
arrears, the said small strip of land, so that the inhabitants aforesaid may
use it for a Calf Pasture (as the calves have little driving out), the which
to nobody's prejudice in particular is tending, but which may serve for the
common convenience and the inheritance (oirbor) of this town and its
Inhabitants: hereupon awaiting your Excellency's favorable answer, remain meanwhile and at all times your Excellency's right willing servants,
etc. N. Haerlem, Igth Octobr., A~. I673.
RESALVERT WALDRON,
DAVID DES MAREST,
JoosT VAN OBLINUS,
ARENT HERMENSEN.
Answer. The Petitioners are allowed to use the small Clover Pasture
requested, provisionally, till such time as order shall be taken about the
affairs of Capt. Delavall. In the mean time the Petitioners to bring in
their proper claim to the curators to be chosen thereto. Done in Fort
Willem Hendrick, on the date 23d October, A~. I673.
By order of the Governor General of N. Netherland
and the Hon. Council,
N. BAYARD, Secretary.
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On the st of November, Vander Vin's three years' service
having ended, he was engaged for another year as clerk and
voorleser, on the same conditions as of the 23d of October, 1670,
to wit: 400 guilders, dwelling house, and fuel. It was also stipulated that the people should keep the house and the garden fence
in repair. The salary was to be paid half-yearly in grain at
market value, and "according to the old list of the free-will contributors," namely:
The Free-will Contributors to the Voorleser's office for this ensuing
year:
Resolved Waldron.................................f. 30 o
Glaude le M aistre.................................
Jean le Maistre.................................... 4:o
Joost van Oblinus.................................. 25: o
Daniel Tourneur................................... 30: o
Adolph Meyer..................................... 30:o
David des Marest................................. I5
Arent Hermens.................................... 8 o
Pierre Cresson.................................... 4: o
Lubbert Gerritsen................................. 20: o
Cornelis Jansen.................................... 20: o
Jan Nagel......................................... 5:o
Jean le Roy........................................ 6:o
Jan Dyckman...................................... 8:o
Meynard Journee.................................. I6 o
The Widow of Jan La Montagne..................
Jan Louwerens van Schoonrewoert.................
Simeon Cornier............
Jean le Roy, rent of the Town's allotment........... 20: o
Rent of the meadows, beginning Ist May, 1671, of
which are to pay each year:
David des Mareset..............f.24: o
Jan Nagel................................ 7
Lubbert Gerritsen...................: 7
Johannes Vermelje........................ I: 7 55: I
Glaude le Maistre's annual contribution had been 25 guilders,
but, for reasons which will hereafter appear, he declined to renew
his subscription. The three others wanting the amount were
new subscribers of the previous year. The items of rent for the
town lands being added brought the figures up to 406 gl. I st.
Some of the neighboring English, exasperated at the recapture of the country by the Dutch, now began to make trouble;
as will appear from the following minutes of proceedings at
Harlem:
A~. I673, the 7th November, Tuesday.
Present, Schout, Magistrates and all the Inhabitants of this village collected.
Whereas by daily reports we are informed that some wicked and
insolent persons, of the English nation, their riotings make about these
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309
countries, threatening to give one and another some molestation and
trouble by robbing and burning; before which threats those of us who
live outside will not prove secure. But as much that is feasible to be
done rests upon our care, through heed and keeping watch upon such as
may be disposed to do the same some hurt and damage, owing to their
ability to escape away to a great distance; So it is that we, Schout,
Magistrates, and the whole community, being assembled, have found
good and deemed necessary to watch by turns during the nights; and
that it may take place more orderly, we have thought it necessary to
appoint a suitable person as Captain, to command as many as go on watch,
to whom we promise obedience and submission in all that which he
shall therein command, upon forfeiture of the fines also hereby ordered;
and by a majority of votes is thereunto chosen and confirmed the person
Cornelis Jansen, as Captain. And moreover the community are divided
into four companies or corporalships, in order, by turns with their fellow
soldiers, to keep the night watch, and to go the rounds as needful, and
each his arms to keep ready, provided with powder and lead as required.
Whoever neglects the watch without lawful reason, or those whose arms
are not ready, wanting necessary powder and lead, or the command of
the Captain, or his Corporal oppose, shall forfeit each time three guilders,
for the use of the whole company. Thus done at N. Haerlem, the 7th
November, 1673.
LIST OF THE CORPORALSH1PS.
I. Jan Nagel, Corporal,
Joost van Oblinus,
Jan Helmont,
Jean le Maistre,
Jean le Roy,
Robert Hollis.
2. Simeon Cornier, Corporal,
Lubbert Gerritsen,
Samuel Pell,
Jacque el Roe,
Barent Waldron,
Samuel des Marest.
3. Jan Dyckman,'Corporal,
Arent Hermens,
David des Marest, Jr.,
Jan Tincker,
Conradus Hendricksen,
Cornelis Theunissen.
4. Adolph Meyer, Corporal,
Laurens Matthyssen
David des Marest,
Daniel Tourneur,
Jochem Engelbert,
Meyndert Journee.
The gratitude of the Dutch inhabitants at the restoration of
the country to Holland, now found expression throughout the
colony in the observance, not of a day merely, but of a series of
public thanksgivings. The following letter and proclamation
from the new governor explains it:
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Honest, Beloved, Faithful, the Schout and Magistrates of the village
Haerlem.
Honest, Beloved, Faithful,
These serve to accompany the inclosed proclamation of a general day
of thanksgiving, fasting, and prayer, which you are required to publish
at the usual time and place, and to take care that it be observed after the
tenor thereof; let also the inclosed be seasonably sent on to the village of
Fordham. Whereon relying, I remain, after greetings, your friend,
A. COLVE.
Fort Willem Hendrick,
20th November, 1673.
Proclamation.*
Honest, Beloved, Faithful,
Considering the manifold blessings and benefits wherewith the only
good and merciful God has favored this province and its inhabitants, of
which by no means the least is their fortunate restoration under their
former lawful and natural rulers, and that which is above all to be prized,
the continuance of the reformed worship, which also, like all other blessings
and benefits to us, not only imposes a debt of gratitude, but also, in
truth, humility and repentance for our manifold and weighty sins, so
that the Almighty God may continue His blessings, and this land and
people be freed from His righteous judgments and well-deserved punishment; Therefore it is that we have judged it highly necessary by these
to ordain and proclaim a general day for thanks, fasting, and prayer,
which everywhere within this province shall be observed every first Wednesday in each month, beginning on Wednesday, the 6th December next
coming, and so following on each first Wednesday in the month. And
that all may be the better practised and observed, so by these interdicted
and forbidden, on the aforesaid thank, fast, and prayer day, all labor, and
play of tennis-court, ball-tossing, fishing, hunting, gaming, sailing, diceplaying, excessive drinking, and all tapping of liquors by innkeepers; the
whole upon penalty of arbitrary correction. For the observance of the
same, the Magistrates, Officers, and Justices of this province to whom these
shall be sent, are required and charged strictly to provide that the trainsgressors be proceeded against as they should be; and to make known this
our proclamation by timely publication where such is necessary. Herewith
committing you to the protection of the Most High; Honest, Beloved,
Faithful,
Your affectionate friend, A. CoLvE.
Fort Willem Hendrick,
I5th November, I673.
In fitting mood was the community at Harlem to receive
this message, for on that self-same day, November 2Ist, one
much esteemed in the town, Lubbert Gerritsen, late an overseer,
departed this life.* The town was also full of the alarms which
* This interesting document is newly translanted from the Dutch, the old translation printed in N. Y. Col. Doc. ii., 658, being faulty.
* Lubbert Gerritsen, having lived at Gravesend, I,. I., till after his youngest child
was born, appears at Harlem in I66i, when he bought the house and land of Matthys
Boon, who then left the town. I-e was chosen adelborst in 1663, and held several
town offices afterward, serving as overseer the year before he died. His property has
been shown, as in his inventory taken November 27, i673. His children, all born in
this county, and by his first wife, Grietien Dircks, were, Lysbeth, born I65I, who
married Dirck Evertson Fluyt and Joris Burger, both of New York; Gerrit and Dirck,
twins, born I653; Gerrit, born i655, and Eva, born I657, who married Arent Harmans Bussing. Lubbert's second marriage with the widow Femmetie Coenraets has
been noticed. Their contracts, respectively providing for their former children, are
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had dictated the institution of the night watch, and excited over
the arrest at Spuyten Duyvel of one Francois Beado, aged about
27 years, a native of London, for being concerned, as was believed, in a conspiracy against the Dutch. From Verveelen's,
where during his detention he had tried to induce one James
Pinnet, of Fordham, "to assist him to kill the ferryman and other
people, saying they were but Dutch," he was taken and lodged
in the fort at New Orange. At his examination before the
Governor and Council, November 28th, Pinnet and George Tippett gave evidence against him. The following deposition was
also taken:
"William Smith, aged about 46 years, inhabitant of Fordham, declareth upon oath that Francois Beado, now in prison,
about six weeks ago came to the deponent at Fordham and
inquired what neighbors he had; then saying further that he
had a commission from the * * * on this side, Canada, to burn,
take, kill, and ruin all the Dutch; because he and his father, and
cousin, had lost by them about 800 pounds, which he was resolved
to get again; and when this deponent questioned his commission,
the copy of which he did read to the deponent, he, the said Beado,
replied that if he had no other, his sword and his half-pike
(which he had in his hand) was his commission, the Dutch being
his enemies,-and the second day after the said Beado came again
to the deponent, and said he was beset by three rogues, but that
he had two friends in the woods with whom he was resolved to
meet them; inquiring further what woman Michiel Bastiaensen,
his wife was, saying that he would burn Mr. Verveelen's and the
said Michiel's house, but he was afraid that the said woman
would betray him, she having seen his half-pike; and desired
further that this deponent would warn Mr. Gibbs, who quartered
at Michiel's house, of his intention."
Beado also confessed "without torture," and being found
guilty of disturbing and breaking the peace, was sentenced to
be publicly bound to a stake and branded on the back with a
red-hot iron, and then banished from the province, for a term
of twenty-five years, which sentence was put in execution on
December 20th.
The intense excitement which these things created in the
community at Harlem was heightened by the fears generally
dated June 28, and their marriage bans July 7, I669. Lubbert chose as guardians of
his children's inheritance, Tan Gerritsen de Vries, from Workum, and Adrian Dircksen Coen, from Maasen, in Utrecht. Judging from their patronymics, these may
have been, one his brother, the other his first wife's brother. Dirck and Gerrit Lubbertsen are not again named here; the last no doubt the "Gerrit Lubbertsen, from
New York," who married Alida Everts, at Albany, in 1684. Pearson's Alb. Settlers.
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entertained that an attempt would be made by the English government to recover possession of the province. The following
letter received from Governor Colve has reference to this:
To the Schout, Magistrates, and Inhabitants of the Towns of New Haerlem
and Fordham.
Good Friends,
On last Tuesday week I had some conference in the town of Midwout
with the Magistrates and chief officers of all the Dutch towns situated
on Long Island, concerning the present condition of the country, and
had wished indeed that time and the season of the year had permitted
me to visit you the same as the rest; but time not allowing this, I have
therefore deemed it necessary hereby to incite you to your duty, and
with many of the other good inhabitants to fulfil your oath and honor,
whereof I entertain not the least doubt, being herein partly assured by
the Schouts of your respective towns. Therefore nothing remains but
to recommend you to keep a wakeful eye on all designs which may be
concocted against this province or yourselves in particular, and always to
be ready to transport your families and movables hither, on certain information of the enemy's approach, or on special command from me; and that
such may be executed in good order, Schout Resolved Waldron is hereby
appointed chief officer of the militia of the towns of Haerlem and Fordham, with order to communicate these presents to the inhabitants of
said towns, who, for the preservation of better order in each town, are
hereby required to choose a Sergeant, and not to fail to give me information of all that occurs. Whereupon relying, I remain,
Your friend, A. COLVE.
Fort Willem Hendrick,
27th Xber, I673.
This coupling of Harlem and the adjacent parts of Westchester in one jurisdiction, seen thus early to be expedient, was
fully consummated just two centuries later, in I873.
The panic at Harlem was almost as great as if the enemy
were already at their doors. Influenced by rumors of their
approach, many left for the city or other places, and the Sabbath
congregations were reduced to a mere handful. The Secretary,
Vander Vin, on January 21, I674, makes this entry in the deacon's accounts: "Owing to the daily reports of the coming of
the English, the inhabitants being fled with their families and
movable goods, little was collected and found at the date of
January 2ISt." But this excitement soon spent itself and subsided, things became more settled, the fast-days were regularly
observed, and the Sunday services better sustained.
About this time complaint was made against Hendrick
Kiersen and Reyer Michielsen, of Fordham, for shooting a hog
belonging to Jean le Maistre. These two, according to their
statement, came over to this Island, on Monday, January 29th,
to look for a hog which had strayed. In their hunt they shot a
deer, and soon after that Kiersen, espying, as he thought, the
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missing hog, told Reyer to shoot it, which he did. As they could
carry but one with them, they tool the dear, and left the hog
for another time. Reyer went for it two days after, when someone seeing it was curious enough to examine the head, and found
upon the ear the mark of young Lodewyck Ackerman, from whom
Le Maistre had gotten the hog. Rever passed an examination
before the magistrates at Harlem on Felruary Ist, and the case
was referred to the Burgomasters,-Cornelis Jansen, who was
cousin to the accused, becoming his bail. The Burgomasters,
February 3(1, sent the case back to the magistrates for further
inquiry. This was made on the 5th, the testimony being sent
to the Bturgomasters, and from them to the Governor and Council, by whom the case was again referred back to the local court
at Harlem, to be there decided, "unless they find it to be criminal." As a curiosity, we give the minute of the examination on
February 5th:
On 5th February, Monday.
Present, the Heeren, RESOLVED WALDRON, Schout.
DAVID DES MAREST,
Joosr VAN OBLINUS, Magistrates.
ARENT HERMENSEN,
Interrogatories to be put to Reyer Michielsen and Hendrick
Kiersen, both living at Fordham, about the shooting of a hog
upon this Island, belonging to Jean Le Maistre, &c.
QUESTION. ANSWER.
I. What is your name? ist. Reyer Michielsen.
2. Where were you born?
3. How old are you?
4. Who has given you orders to
shoot hogs upon this Island?
5. You knew well that you might
hunt no hogs upon this Island
without the knowledge- of the
magistrates of N. Haerlem?
6. Why do you shoot other people's
hogs?
7. When you had shot the hog, did
you not well know that it was not
yours?
2d. Hendrick Kiersen.
Ist. In the Prince's Land, about
Schoonrewoert.
2d. At Giest, in the Land of Drent.
ist. About 20 years.
2d. About 25 years.
Ist. No one has given orders.
2d. Thought not that he was doing
wrong to fetch his own hog.
ist. Well knew that such was the
order under the English rule, but
knew not that it continued under
the Dutch.
2d. As above.
Ist. Knew not that it was another
person's hog, but his brother-inlaw, Hendrick Kiersen, said that
it was his.
2d. Thought that it was his own
hog.
Ist. Knew well that it was not my
hog, but my brother-in-law still
knew not better than 'twas his
OWI].
2d. Knew not better than 'twas his
own hog.
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8. Why did you not take it away at
the first?
9. Why did you skin the hog?
IO. Why did you carry it in sacks?
IT. Why sought you to conceal it
when you perceived our folks?
12. WVhy did you not fetch the hog
the next day?
ist. Because that he, having shot a
deer, thereupon for that time had
enough to carry.
2d. That they had to carry a deer.
ist. Because I saw that in the night
it would freeze, and then the hair
would not come off.
2d. Because that he thought it to be
his, and therewith might do as he
saw fit.
Ist. Because he thought that they
could carry it better in sacks.
2d. Because it was to be better carried in sacks; but has not been
near there.
Ist. Denied that; and said he had
had no thought to hide the sacks.
Ist. Because the kill was frozen,
and the canoe could not get off.
2d. That he was busy with threshing, and also gave it no thought,
as it was a lean hog.
The result was that proceedings were dropped, the evidence
not clearly showing a criminal intent; but at the desire of the
magistrates, the Governor and Council, on April i8th, issued a
stringent order in regard to the offence of shooting hogs in the
common woods of this Island, without consent of the Harlem
or City authorities.
The attention of the government was also drawn to the
matter of securing the horses of the late governor, Lovelace, and
of Captain Delavall and others, "now running in the woods upon
Manhattan Island," and the magistrates of Harlem were notified
to employ the whole community on the second day of the coming Whitsuntide, "to collect and drive into their village all the
horses" belonging to the aforesaid persons, and other of the late
English officials. This order was given by the Governor April
27th.
Little more of interest transpired in the "dorp" for some
months succeeding, except a few transfers of property, from
which mav be had an idea of the value of Harlem lands at that
period. On May 2d Jean le Roy executed a deed to Simeon
Cornier for his farm, consisting of a house, barn, and erf, a lot
on Jochem Pieters, and one on Van Keulen's Hook, with
meadows; for which Cornier had a bill of sale, dated February
24, I672, the price paid being 1,400 gl. At a public sale, July
5th, of the estate of the late Lubbert Gerritsen, a lot of tillable
land, No. 9, Jochem Pieters, with the crops thereon, and the
meadows thereto belonging, and the erf with house and barn,
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were struck off to his stepson, Conrad Hendricksen, for 875 fl.
His lot No. 4, Jochem Pieters, with its meadows, and a garden
(No. I ), for a building plot, "west of the village and north
of the street," and "between Cornelis Jansen and Joost Van
Oblinus," was sold to David Demarest, Sr., for 925 fl.
But now came news of a peace in Europe, welcome enough
in itself, but which cost the Dutch inhabitants a tearful regret
when they learned that, by stipulation, the colony was to be again
given up to the English. The news was officially communicated
in a letter of July 3d, from Secretary Iayard, inclosing the Governor's proclamation of peace, dated June 30th, and p)ostponing
the fast-day for eight days, and changing it into a day of thanksgiving. It directed that on July iIth, in the forenoon, religious
service should be held, and the proclamation of peace published.
Several months passed before an English government succeeded to the Dutch, and the interval was marked by a little
shrewd preparation for it. This caused considerable litigation
in the town court; several parties sued the Tourneurs, to recover
for work done for Delavall, by direction of the elder Tourneur,
while acting as his agent, and in connection with which suits
the old story of Tourneur's having killed a man in France was
again revived by the Disosways, and as the widow said, "to the
great damage of herself and children." These demands for
payment were generally sustained, though it appeared that the
late Tourneur had declared to Martin Hardewyn, "I will no
more pay the debts of Delavall, but I will give you an order
upon him to pay you."
It is pleasing to note the regularity with which both civil
and church affairs proceeded, amid all these disturbing causes.
The new nomination for magistrates was made on September
24th, and the choice and confirmation by the Burgomaster's
court, October 4th. Waldron was continued as shout, and
Oblinus as schepen, the new schepens being Adolph Meyer and
Jan Dyckman. On October 29th, Dominie Nieuwenhuysen came
up and installed as new deacon Simeon Cornier, to serve with
Joost Van Oblinus, then holding the office. He was attended by
the Heer Van Cortlandt, one of the city elders, and the accounts
of the church from July 26, I672, were taken up, audited, and
pronounced correct.* During that period there had been col* Olof Stevens Van Courtlandt, the common ancestor of the Van Cortlandt family
n this country, was a wealthy brewer, ocupying a residence in Stone street, adjoining
his "malthouse;" and here he died April 4, I684. His son Jacobus, a prominent merchant, bought of Jacques Tourneur, September 28, 1705, about two acres of salt
meadow on the Harlem side of the Spuyten Duyvel, which remaining in the family
i68 years before it was sold, became very valuable. In a communication to Mr.
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lected on the Sabbath, fast-days, and Fridays, for preparation
for the communion (as also on Christmas, when services were
held and the largest collection realized), the sum of 184 florins,
9 stivers, and 8 pennings, from which 71 florins had been expended in alms, etc., leaving a balance of 113 fl. 9 st. 8 p. in the
deacon's chest. Thereupon Secretary Vander Vin closes the
account with the following formal entry:
"On the date, 29th October, 1674, these accounts collected,
and agreeing with the above donations, are found to be correct,
with the assistance of the Heer Olof Stevens Van Cortlandt,
Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ in the city of New Orange,
and the same are also closed."
Dominie Nieuwenhuysen had already had a useful ministry
since he came, about twenty of the Harlem people had been
received to church membership, mostly otoung men and women.
The last accessions were Adolph Meyer, Cornelis Jansen, Conrad
Hendricksen, and Jean le Maistre, on March 1st preceding; and
the next were received December I3th following, namely, Barent
Waldron, his sister Ruth, afterward Mrs. Jean le MIaistre, and
Eva Lubberts, afterward married to Arent Harmans Bussing.
Impatient to see the English rule re-established, a few restless spirits in Westchester, who had already given the Dutch
much annoyance, now began to bluster about the country venting
their spleen on the Hollanders, and vaunting their loyalty to the
king. Of these was Thomas Hunt, Jr., who having at first
refused to take the oath of allegiance, and been ordered to leave
the province, was, at his father's request, allowed to remain on
accepting the oath and giving security for its observance. On
Monday, November 5th, Hunt and five or six others came riding
toward the village. Accosting Pierre Cresson, who was engaged
fixing his fence, with a "Howd'ye do," to which he replied, "So
and so," they passed on, falling in with a flock of geese, which
they began to chase, heeding not Pierre's remonstrance to "let
the geese alone." At several houses in the village they stopped,
denanding in an insolent manner feed for their horses, and bread
and beer for themselves. Mrs. Tourneur told them she had
nothing to give, but said, "There is water; if you are thirsty,
drink it." Her daughter, Madeleine (Mrs. Dyckmian), pertly
added, "If we had them we should not give them to you."
Finding Jan Nagel at his house, they called out, "Here, give us
oats for our horses; or else peas or wheat." Nagel; not the one
Samuel E. Lyon, of New York, May 2, 1873, just previous to said sale, we had the
pleasure of restoring the knowledge of the old title, which had become lost, to the
owners.
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to be intimidated, answered, "I have no oats; but peas and wheat
are strange food for horses!" Said Hunt, "I must and will have
some, nevertheless." Nagel repeated that he had none for him;
whereupon Hunt asked "Does not Waldron live here?" Nagel
signified that he did. "He does not," replied Hunt, "you know
very well where he lives." And, so saying, they rode on.
Waldron was not at home; but his wife, Tanneke Nagel, like
her namesake, showed a proper courage. "Give us oats for our
horses," demanded Hunt; to which Mrs. Waldron replied, "I
have none." "Then give us peas or wheat," said he. "There
are none threshed, and I cannot get any," was the answer. With
his usual oath, Hunt said, "I will have some, threshed or unthreshed"; then adding, "Or give us wine or rum; have you
nothing for the king's soldier's?" "I know no king's soldiers,"
said the matron. "I am a soldier of the king, by the blood of
God," said Hunt, striking his breast, "and I shall and will have
it! Is not your husband the Constable?" he further demanded.
"No," said the spirited Tanneke, "but my husband is the Schout
of this town." Venting curses upon Waldron, Hunt turned and
left with his companions.
Waldron entered a complaint to Governor Colve, and by
his order the magistrates on the 7th held a court of inquiry upon
the matter. But Hunt just escaped merited punishment, owing
to an important event which happened only three days after, and
of which the careful Vander Vin makes the following minute:
"I674, the Ioth November, New, or 3ISt October, Old Style,
was the fort Willem Hendrick again to the English governor
yielded up, and the governor, A. Colve, with his people, therefrom departed; the fort again named Fort James, and the city,
New York."
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CHAPTER XX.
I674-1677.
ENGLISH RULI, REISTORED; REFUGE4ES; CAPTAIN CARTERET; INDIAN
WAR; LA\ND GRA\NTS; SPUYTEN DUYVEL OCCUPIED.
SIR EDM[UND ANDROS, the new governor referred to,
was accompanied, besides his own retinue of officers and
soldiers, by several families of French refugees who had fled to
England from the Palatinate, lately invaded and laid waste by
the ruthless armies of Louis XIV. under Marshal Turenne.
Among these refugees were Nicholas de Vaux (whence our De
Vouw, and De Voe), Isaac See, Isaac See, Junior, and Jean le
Comte, all of whom were related. These, with Gerard MIagister,
evidently of the same band, came directly to Harlem on account,
as it would seem, of old MIannheim acquaintances, Demarest and
others. Some brought their household goods, but as choicer
treasures, the Holy Scriptures in French, the French Psalm Book,
and the then highly prized Book of Martyrs. De Vaux, Le
Comte, and their wives, united with the church on the first opportunity, the I3th of December.
Andros restored the English form of government. The
M1ayor's Court again resumed its jurisdiction, and by its order
the town, on December 7th, nominated a double number of persons from which to fill the places of constable and overseers.
The next day the Court acted upon the nominations. Schout
Waldron gave place to David des Marest as constable; Cornelis
Jansen took his seat as an overseer, and with him, the old
schepens, Oblinus, M\eyer, and Dyckman. They were not sworn
in till January i9th.
Several of the Dutch settlers about Spuyten Duyvel, probably distrusting the English and feeling unsafe, removed down
into the village. Michiel Bastiaesen and his son-in-law, Hendrick Kiersen, hired from the widow Tourneur and her son
Daniel, January I, 1675, their farm upon Jochem Pieters and
Van Keulen's Hook, with house, barn, orchard, and meadows,
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stock and farming tools, for three years from Alay Ist ensuing.
The Tourneurs apparently intended an early removal to their
farm on Montagne's Flat, which was to be Daniel's inheritance.
They were still annoyed by that injurious report, the more
keenly felt, now that the object of it lived only in their affffections. But the widow, bent on putting a stop to it, had on
December 22d made a complaint to the Mayor's Court, that
Elizabeth Nightingale "had greatly defamed her husband (leceased." Thereupon "the Court ordered that, it being formerly
determined, the defendant shall, either at Harlem or in this
court, make an acknowledgment and pay all costs." Lysbet had
to comply, but preferred a journey to the city to facing exultant
adversaries whom she would meet at the town court. Her al)pearance, January i9th, the day the magistrates were sworn in,
is thus noticed: "The Deft brought into ye Court her suplicatory
peticon, in wch was her acknowledgmt for her wrong and injury
to ye Plts husband; well ye Court accepted off, conditionally she
behaved her selfe well, and pay all costs."*
* Marc du Sauchoy, ancestor of the Disosway family, has place in our introductory
sketches of the French refugees, etc. As we follow these homeless refugees from exciting scenes in the Old World, when, no longer the suffering victims of despotism,
we can only contemplate them amid peaceful walks and engaged in commonplace pursuits, we cannot but mark with interest the happy effects of the change in their ambitious and laborious efforts to provide a home and living for themselves and familiesthe admirable versatility, especially in the choice of new callings, with which they
adapted themselves to circumstances every way extraordinary. Our Disosway, late
wool-carder, on his first visit to this country, found employment in cleaning up some
land at Flatbush for Cornelis Van Ruyven. Well pleased with the island, and being
present, June 17, 1655, when his countryman, Pierre Terracon, bought a farm at
Mespat, Disosway went there on his return in 1657, and leasing Burger Joris' mill, at
Dutch Kills, the former wood-cutter now became a miller. This proving a failure, but
by no fault of his, gave it up for a plantation, and turned to farming in the town of
Brooklyn, to which place he and wife, April Io, I66I, transferred their church connection from New Amsterdam. Selling his farm a year later to Pierre Prae, from Dieppe,
who had refuged at Leyden when Disosway was there, Marc appears at Harlem,
January 3, 1664, as prosecutor of a claim against Glaude le Maistre for 951/2 guilders,
and soon after removed here and hired lands of Jean le Roy. How long was the lease
we know not, but it had expired March 15, 1667, date of their settlement. Archer
now induced him to take a farm in Fordham, where he continued to live a number
of years.
The quarrel with the Tourneurs, grown bitter as many in feudal story, was shown
in the mutual disposition to vex one another. The charge of homicide, reiterated so
persistently, was met by recriminations even worse, till the local magistrates became
weary of it. Wisely, the Mayor's Court cooled Dame Disosway's itching to push
her adversary to the wall by making good her charge; and but for the rejection of her
offer to send to France for proof, we might know more of the affair in question. The
settlement of some old accounts between the parties, March 4, 1674, in presence of
the magistrates, was another step toward cessation of hostilities. Still Lysbet, but
four days after, made another charge in the Mayor's Court against the widow Tourneur, but it was dismissed as "a vexatious suit,' with costs to the plaintiff; and no
more is heard of this quarrel.
Disosway must have had means, to pay 80 guilders for "a Book of Martyrs and
others," from the estate of Jean le Comte, as he did July 2, 1675. He bought lots
Nos. 8, 9, on Hoorn's Hook, from Jan Delamater, November 29, I679, but presently
sold them. On June 7, 1683, he and wife took letters from the Dutch to the French
church, newly formed under Rev. Pierre Daille. He soon moved to Staten Island,
where 225 acres of land near Daniel's Neck were laid out to him April 5, I684, and
for which he got a patent July I6,1685. In 1689 Staten Island partook of the Leisler
excitement. Disosway informed the government that many of his neighbors had left
their houses and taken to the woods, "for fear of the Papists." He was still living,
October i, I706. His children, as far as known, were Madeleine, born 1657, who
married Martin Hardewyn (as the Dutch wrote it, but perhaps Ardenne); Marcus,
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On January 1I, I675, the community renewed their engagement with Vander Vin, for two years' service as parish clerk
and schoolmaster, running from October 23d preceding. The
terms were as before, to wit, 400 gl. per mannum, with fuel, etc.
The following persons promised, of their free-will, to give the
sums set opposite to their names:
Resolved Waldron....................................f. 30
Joost van Oblinus.................................... " 38
Cornelis Jansen...................................... 25
Jan Dyckman........................................ "
Adolph Meyer...................................... "14
Jan Louwe van Schoonrewoert....................... "30
Daniel Tourneur............................. 30
Meynard Journee............................... 6
Jan Nagel................................... 8
Maria Montage............................ Io
Jean le Maistre...................................... Io
Arent Hermens................................. " 8
Conradus Hendricks.................................. 8
Lourens Jansen.................................. 8
Barent Waldron..................................... " 6
Pierre Cresson................................. 4
David des Marest, Jr................................ 4
Isaac ermeille............................... 3
Total.........................................f. 272
Glaude le iMaistre and David des M:arest, Sen., declined to
subscribe; but the remaining deficiency was to be made up by
rent from Jean le Roy for the use of the town lot, being 120 gl.
Few events worth naming marked the close of the winter,
I675. The town court was much occupied with petty cases.
On February 4th it was resolved to remind Jan Bos (Terbosch)
to pay 25 gl., due "since the year 1667," for an erf charged to
him (that bought of Robert le Maire), or to enforce payment
in the Mayor's Court. On February 6th, the Jansens, Cornelis
and Lourens, completed a division of the lands bought of De
AMeyer;' Cornelis taking the farm (two lots) on Montagne's
born 1659; Jeanne, born 1662, married Conrad Hendricks Boch, of Harlem; Jean,
born 1665, and Maria, born I669. Marcus joined the Dutch church New York, November 30, 1676, but later took a letter to the French church. Succeeding to his
father's lands, he petitioned, November 27, 1708, for two vacant tracts next to him,
stating that he "hath been an inhabitant of Staten Island, and hath followed husbandry
upwards of thirty years past, and hath nine children, four whereof are sons, brought
up to husbandry along with him." This was no doubt granted, as by his will, made
December 23, I713, and proved January 27, 1714, he gives each child a farm, ranging
from 88 to 95 acres. But three sons were then living, viz.: Job, who married Sarah
Deny; Israel, who married Gertrude Van Deventer, and Gabriel. His daughters
were, Elizabeth, wife of Peter Barberie; Susannah, wife of Daniel Hendricks; Mary,
wife of Thomas Eyres; Dianah, wife of Hendrick Brees, and Sarah, unmarried.
Part of the original Disosway farm, with the old stone house upon it, is still owned
and occupied by some of the descendants.
* Nicholas de Meyer, originally from the city of Hamburgh, was one of the most
enterprising and successful merchants of his day, often visiting Europe in the prosecution of his business. Few men enjoyed so much of the public confidence. He was
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Flat, lots No. i8 Jochem Pieters and 15 Van Keulen's Hook,
and the outgardens; and Lourens, No. 2 Jochem Pieters and
No. 6 Van Keulen's Hook, with the two erven, and also the
orchard occupying two north gardens, later forming the John P.
Waldron homestead. Lourens' part being of most value, as it
included the buildings, he agrees to give his brother 600 gl.
This property, as thus divided, composed the beginnings, respectively, of the Kortright and Low estates.
Among the newly-arrived French refugees before noticed
was Jean le Comte, with his wife Mary Laurens and one child.
For want of a dwelling, they were allowed by the constable,
Demarest, to put their household effects in his barn. The father
was now prostrated by a sickness which no efforts of the "chirurgeons" employed could help, and he died May 24th. His personal estate, per inventory taken July 2d, amounted, less expenses, to 6o6 gl., of which the widow set apart 300 for her little
son Moses, who afterward married Glaude le Maistre's daughter,
and settled at Esopus, leaving descendants called De Graaf,
which was the Dutch for Le Comte or Lecount.
There had recently arrived at Harlem "a person of quality,"
as he is styled, Captain James Carteret, descended remotely from
the famous Lords de Carteret of the Cotentin in Normandy, and
directly allied to the De Carterets, Lords of St. Ouen, in the
island of Jersey, noticed in our opening chapter, and at which
place various members of the family were now enjoying prominent civic positions. * The captain's father, Sir George De
several times an Alderman of New York, and once Mayor. He was chosen a member
of Governor Sloughter's Council, but when the Gocernor arrived, March I9, I69i,
Mr. De Meyer had just died. He left a fine estate, partly in Europe, as we conclude
from his son William's estate. He married, in i655, Lydia, daughter of the Fiskael,
Hendrick Van Dyck, and, in i689, Sarah Kellenaer, widow of Rev. John
Weekstein, of Esopus. His children were, Johannes, born 1656; Wilhelmus, born
i657; Anna Catrina, born i66i; Deborah, born i664; Elizabeth, born i666, and
Itenricus, born I668. Johannes died before I689, without issue. (Johannes De
Meyer, so called, of New York, who left a will dated September 13, 1725. was a
Meyer, not a De Meyer). Anna Catrina De Meyer married, i68o, Jan Willems
Neering, from Bordeaux, and went to New Castle, Del.; Deborah married, in 1684,
Thomas Crundall, in i691, Capt. Thomas Lyndon, and, in I697, William Andersonall Englishmen; Elizabeth married, in I687, Philip Schuyler, of New York, merchant,
afterward of Kingston. Henricus De Meyer, of New York, merchant, married, I689,
Agnes, daughter of Jacob De Key. He bought his late father's mansion, near the
Stadt Huys, July 20, I691, but died in i692; in I696 his widow married William Janeway, Esq. Henricus De Meyer left issue, Ludia, born I691, and Hericus, born I692.
The latter died in 1739, leaving a daughter, Agnes, wife of Edward Nicoll, and of
whom my friend, Mr. Joseph 0. Brown, is a descendant. Wilhelmus De Meyer, called
in the will of Nicholas the eldest son, married, i678, Catherine Bayard, sister of
Col. Nicholas Bayard. He settled in Kingston, Ulster Couunty, where he inherited
property from his father; was made deacon in i68i, and elder in I692. He was
much in public life, became lieutenant-colonel of militia, and died in 1710, his wife
surviving. His will, dated January I0, 1705, proved January 8, 1711, divides his
property "as well in this province as in Europe," among his children therein named
being Lydia, born i68i; Nicholas, born I683; Annecke, born I685; Catrina, born
I689, and Deborah, born I693. Lydia married Andries Douw. Nicholas De Meyer
married Elsie Schoonmaker, and died on his farm, near Esopus Creek, in 1766, having
sons, William, Jeremiah and Benjamin, and a daughter, Catherine, who married
Christopher Kiersted.
* Amice de Carteret and Charles de Carteret, Esquires, were Jurats of the
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Carteret, Baronet, had been governor of that island as early as
1626, was knighted twenty years later, and now held a seat in
the Honorable Privy Council of England, being also "ViceChamberlain of His Majesty's household"; which eminence he
had gained by marked devotion to Kings Charles I. and II.
Capt. James Carteret, being the second son, was bred to the sea.
took colmmand of a merchantman in the India trade prior to the
Restoration, and subsequently of a British man-of-war. He was
captain-general of the forces which in I666 attempted the recovery of St. Kitts from the French, and later had command of
marines in the Duke of York's ship. In 1671, on being made
a landgrave of Carolina, of which colony Sir George was part
owner, he embarked directly for America to visit his new domains,
but bearing also certain instructions and powers from the Lords
Proprietors of New Jersey, advisory, if not supervisory (as more
than his own words plainly show), touching the affairs of that
province, over which his younger kinsman, Governor Philip Carteret, had for several years presided. On coming to New Jersey
Captain Carteret found the people full of complaints against their
governor for alleged violations of their rights, and matters growing worse soon led to an open revolt, and a pressing call upon
the senior Carteret to interfere,-which the latter felt himself justified in doiig. For the details of this short but manly struggle
of the people to rid themselves of a supercilious and incompetent
ruler, with the sympathy and under the lead of the generoushearted cal)tain, reference may be had to the annals of that State."'
Mleanwhile our Carteret, in 1673, married Frances, daughter of
island; Mr. Nicholas de Carteret, Sergeant of Justice, in Greuville Parish, and Edward
(le Carteret, Knight (uncle of Capt. James), was first (;entlemen Usher in Ordinary
to the King, and Usher of the "Verge Noire iBailly;" as per an old parchment of July
29, I678, in my possession.
* Capt. Carteret, in a letter dated Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, June I4, I672,
and addressedl to Governor Lovelace and Council, in reply to one of theirs, charges
Capt. Philip Carteret with having "for several years past threatened and forbidden
our people, upon pain of death, not to exercise themselves in military affairs or disciplinc," besides "other gross miscarriages;" by which he had "unjustly dissatisfied
and impo vecrished the King's subjects in this l'rovince." As to differences between
himself and said Philip Carteret, he has no doubt "but they will in time be healed or
cured by the Honorable Lords Proprietors, unto whom they are already presented and
referred." But he deems "a true understanding," to still quote his words, "unnecessary
to be declared to unconcerned persons, seeing that I am not under obligation to render
the same to any but to his Majesty, and my superiors, the Lords Proprietors, by whose
orders and instructions I act. I shall, in an orderly, meek, and peaceful way, endeavor to suppress such as do most falsely, without either show or color, repute me
a disturber of the country. These have very lately published me, by their writs, a
rebel and mutineer,who am proprietor of my father's interest in this Province. And
if God spare life, I will give his Royal Highness an account of them by the first
occasion, and after, second it myself by a verbal declaration, how I am used in his
territories, as also who they be that have appeared like enemies to 'king and country."
'This frank and spirited letter, which does the writer no discredit, may be found, with
the one which called it forth, in vol. 4, General Entries, Secretary of State's Office,
Albany. But advices from England put an end to Capt. Carteret's authority; the
king, by letter, dated December 9, I672, directing Capt. John Berry, Dep. Gov. of
N. J., to enforce obedience to the laws and government established in that colony by
authority of Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
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Captain Thomas I)elavall; soon after which, submitting to a
decision of the king and the Lor(ls Proprietors in favor of Governor Philip, and to the wishes of his father, he left New Jersey,
and ill July following, attended by his wife, sailed for Carolina.
LUnluckily the vessel was taken by the Dutch fleet on its way to
the capture of New York, but the Carterets wishing to gain their
destination, were set ashore in Virginia. Captain Ielavall meanwhile, his estates confiscated by the victorious enemy, had returned
to England and engage(l iln nerchandise in London. But on
the eve of the new governor Andros' (lel)arture for New York,
to reclaim it from the I)utch, Delavall procured the Duke of
York's order for the restitution of all his estate in this colony,
with the evi(lent plurl)ose of sending it by An(lros. The order,
however, was not placed on record here till January 23, I675,
whicli was near the (late of Carteret's reappearance, emplowered
to take charge of his father-in-law's property at Harlem; whence
we infer that it was recorded and prolullgate(l only when Carteret
arrive(l from Carolina.
Taking part in the public affairs of the town, Captain Carteret found himself courted for his abilities, and his influence with
the ruling powers, Governor Andros being his kinsman. Consequently, when the inhabitants resolved to ask that governor to
confirm their patent, Carteret was dep)uted with others as the
bearer of their petition, which was couched in the following
worls, and for the governor's information was accompanied by
"the Great Tatent in English," and "the Confirmation in English,"
both being referred to in the petition.
To his Excellency the Governor General, at New York.
W;e the Constable, Overseers and common Inhabitants at the village
of New Haerlem, declare to have constituted and empowered, as by
these we do constitute and empower, the Hon. Capt. James Cartaret,
David des Marest, constable, Joost van Oblinus, overseer, and Resolved
Waldron, for and in behalf of this town's jurisdiction and privileges, to
request and obtain from his Excellency, the Governor of this province,
the maintenance and confirmation of their Patent granted by the late
Governor Richard Nicolls, dated the Irth October A~. I667, and confirmed by his Excellency, Governor Francis Lovelace, on the date 22d
June A~. I670; promising for good, durable and of value, to hold and to
ratify whatever by the aforesaid, our committee, in the premises, shall
be done and executed concerning it, whether the case require greater
or special burden, whereupon we shall fully rely and hold our peace;
therefore humbly pray your Excellency to be pleased to maintain and
protect our liberties and privileges, according to the agoresaid Patents,
against every one who may design or think to trouble the same; Wherefor we shall remain your Excellency's good and obedient subjects, etc.,
the Constable, Overseers and common Inhabitants at the village of N.
Haerlem. Done N. Haerlem, i6th June, I675. By order of the same,
HeNDR. J. VANDR. VIN, Secretary.
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William Palmer, ship carpenter, was now engaged building
a "ketch" at Harlem, and with his family occupied a house as
tenant of Captain Carteret. Etienne Rochelle,* employed by
Carteret, went thither on Sunday, July 4th, to pick cherries. He
was in one of the trees which stood beside Palmer's house, with
Nicholas de Vaux, whom he had asked to assist him in picking,
when Palmer came out and roughly bade them get down.
Stephen refused, "saying that he had orders from his master to
pick cherries." Then Palmer jerked Stephen by the foot, plied
him with oyster-shells, and finally took a stick to him, when the
latter was forced to leave the tree. Running to tell the constable,
and then Waldron, neither of whom were found at home, he was
overtaken by Palmer, who had followed him, crying "Papist,
Papist!" and who first struck him with his stick, then seized him
by the throat and tried to choke him; but Stephen breaking away
fled into the house of Meynard Journee. Palmer then turned
upon William Noird, Carteret's bookkeeper, who had come to
Stephen's aid, and giving him a blow with his stick he also thought
best to retreat. Palmer now spit out his spleen before the house
of Journee, shaking his stick and uttering threats against the
persons within, while Noird, finding Demarest the constable, got
an order from him to restrain Palmer from picking the cherries,
and delivered it to Palmer's wife. Many of the villagers, brought
out of their houses by the uproar, as Cornelis Jansen, Jan Hendricks Kyckuyt (or Brevoort), Jean le Maistre, Jan Nagel and
his wife, and Mrs. Cornier, saw the affray, and the assaults made
on Carteret's people. Palmer returning to his house and finding
himself served with an injunction from the constable, boiled with
rage, and going over to Noird's toward evening, found Daniel
Tourneur there engaged in slaughtering a sheep, for which purpose Noird had sent for him. Palmer asked William by whose
directions he had procured the constable's order forbidding him
to pick cherries. "By my master's," said Noird, "and if I had
no orders I should have done it, knowing well how to answer for
it." On which Palmer retorted, "Had I been at home as well
* Geneau, or Gano. (See Notes pp. Io7, 120.) He bought property in New
Amsterdam, April 29, 1662; again July I5, 1670, a house and lot in Broadway; and
his wife, Lydia Metereu, another, on the Bever Graft, April 22, 1672. In 1676, he
was granted 8o acres of land on Staten Island, "near the commons." Geneau was a
Huguenot. "Flight or the relinguishment of the Protestant religion was the only
means of preserving his life. One of his neighbors had been martyred; he was determined on as the victim for the next day, information of which he received in
the dead of the night. He therefore chartered a vessel, removed his family on
board, and in the morning was out of sight of the harbor." From his son, Francis,
whom he brought with him, come all of the name, so far as known. The above extract is from the Memoirs written by his descendant, Rev. John Gano, chaplain in the
American army in the Revolution, and afterward a pastor in New York, who died at
Frankfort, Ky., in his 78th year, August io, 1804.
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325
as my wife, I would have quickly paid you off, and made you
find your legs, and possibly the constable the same, though it
was Sunday; yes, even though your master had been present.'
This breach of the peace was duly reported to the Governor,
and an investigation ordered, which took place two days after,
Noird taking a copy of the testimony; but we hear no more of
it, for news of graver import now filled the minds of the community.
On that self-same Sunday, about three o'clock in the morning, Governor Andros was aroused from his slumbers to hear
the startling intelligence that the Indians had taken up arms at
Narragansett, in New England, and murdered some of the settlers; at the head of this rising being the shrewd and powerful
chief of the Wampanoags, from whom the bloody conflict which
ensued took the name of "King Philip's War." The same evening the Governor sailed with a military force for Connecticut
River, but soon returned on finding he was not needed there.
The possibility that the Indians in this province, from sympathy for their brethren at the east, might be induced either to
join them or take up the hatchet against our own inhabitants
here, led the Governor and Council to the precaution of inviting
some of the chiefs to an interview to renew the bond of friendship; seeing no reason for breaking with these tribes "upon
account of the war between our neighbors and their Indians."
But it was enjoined upon the several towns to maintain a strict
watch. And to allay or prevent excitement at Harlem, a message from the Mayor was published in the village, August 9th,
charging all there at their peril not to beat the drum nor to hold
any meetings, neither to ferry any stranger across the river,
without the knowledge and sanction of the constable. This had
reference to the practice long in vogue in the town before they
had a bell, of beating the drum to call the people together, upon
all occasions.*
Verveelen at Spuyten Duyvel was required to exercise all his
vigilance. It happened that Jan Hendricksen, alias Kyckuyt,
"inhabitant here," having been sent by the constable of Harlem
* The venerable bell still in use at the Reformed Church, 3d avenue and I2ISt
street, is the first within the bounds of Harlem of which we have knowledge. "It
was cast in Holland expressly for this church. Among other metals, it contains twenty
dollars' worth of gold and twenty dollars' worth of silver;" at least, so says a communication made by "Knickerbocker" to the Harlem Traveler, in January, 1863. The
writer probably knew whereof he affirmed, but it would be gratifying could we trace
this statement to its source. The bell, only relic of the old stone church erected in
1686, has the following inscription:
AMSTERDAM, ANNO I734, ME FECIT.
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to Fordham, with a warrant that came from New York, arrived
at Verveelen's door just after sunset. Presently there was a
knock at the door, and a messenger from Fordham came in, who
said, "Verveelen, 1 am sent to warn you to come to the watch."
Verveelen replied that he could attend to no watch other than
to pass people over the ferry, and that there was a person then
in the house with a warrant, and who must be ferried over again.
But as the other insisted, and argued the risk of refusing, "Let
them call me before his Honor the Governor," said the resolute
ferryman, " and I will answer them there." The messenger left,
but at midnight there came three or four persons before the
ferry-house making a great clamor, and trying to force the door.
calling upon Verveelen to come to the watch. No heed being
paid to them, they finally went away in great rage. It was then
suspected, as it afterward turned out, that no such order had been
sent; and this ruse to decoy the ferryman from his post of duty
while they execute(l some mischief which they were brewing, had
succeeded but for Verveelen's firnmness. At this time a most
unfriendly feeling existed between Verveelen and Archer. The
latter had cut the hay on Verveelen's meadows; the Mayor's
Court, to which V\erveelen complained August 17th, appointed
arbitraters, who decidled "that the meadow in controversy belonged to the plaintiff." Nevertheless Archer carried off about
four loads of hay, to recover which Verveelen petitioned the
Governor and Court of Assize. And lduring the next winter.
"about the month of January," Archer and his confederates went
to Verveelen's, and "by force and arms" took out of his house
"a quantity of wheat, and (livers merchandises and householl(
goods," to the value, as Verveelen allege(l, of 980 gl., and to
recover which he afterward sue(l Archer in the Mayor's Court.
But we will not anticipate.
Mid-autumn, 1675, brought new alarms. In vain had the
Governor a few weeks before issued a proclamation to assure
the people of "the falsity of the late reports of Indians' ill intents." King Philip's Indians were said to be a(lvancing westward in order to destroy Hartford and other places this way as
far as Greenwich. This dlone, what could stay their onward
march to New York? The Governor, to prevent any co-operation on the part of our Indians, immediately directed that their
canoes on the shores of the Sound should be laid up where they
could not be used, and ordered the Wickquaskeeks at Ann's
Hook, now Pelham Neck,-then one of their summer haunts,
and where to our day are many Indian graves,-"to remove
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32/
within a fortnight to their usual winter quarters within Hellgate
upon this island.'
This winter retreat was either the woodlands between Harlem Plains and Kingsbri(lge, at that date still claimed by these
Indians as hunting grounds, or Rechawanes and adjoining lands
on the Blay of Hellgate, as the words "within Hellgate" would
strictly mean, and which, by the immense shell-beds found there
formerly, is proved to have been a favorite Indian resort. That
tllis was the locality referred to, seems indeed to follow from the
fact that the Indians, removing in obedience to the above order,
attempted to pass up the Harlem River, but were stopped at the
village by Constable Demarest. They said they were "going to
\ickquaskeek," but could show no pass. Demarest thereupon
(letained them, and (lispatched a letter to the Governor. to which
came the following answer:
Mr. Constable,
I have just now seen, by yours of this day sent express by Wm.
Palmer, of your having stopt IO or I2 Indian canoes, with women, children, corn and baggage, coming as they say from Westchester, and
going to Wickers-creek, but not any Pass mentioned: So that you have
done very well in stopping the said Indians and giving notice thereof.
These are now to order all the said Indians to stay in your Town, and
that you send some of the chiefest of them to me early to-morrow, and
one of your Overseers for further orders; and that it may be better
effected, you are to order them some convenient house or barn to be in,
and draw up their canoes until the return of them you shall send: and
that you double your watch
Your loving friend,
E. ANDROS.
N. York, Octobr. the 2Ist, I675.
A long and restless night, we dare say, was that to some
timidl souls, with these Indians, friendly but always distrusted,
perhaps prowling about their streets and their very doors, despite
the utmost vigilance of the watchman; but the morning came
without harm to any, and the unwelcome visitors soon departed.
All the settlements, indeed, were iin astate of feverish anxiety,
alll taking measures for defence. The people of Fordham
erected fortifications, and "Archer, proprietor of the Town,"
called upon all the neighbors round to come "into his town"
and assist. But four families seated on the Yonker's Land near
Spuyten Duyvel, including those of John Heddy, William Beets,
and his son-in-law, George Tippett, "being removed from Mr.
Archer, his town above a mile, and being strong enough, or
thought so, to resist this heathenish war, having a good and
strong blockhouse," objected "to leave their houses and goods,
to please the humors of said M\r. Archer," and therefore at their
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request were excused by the Governor from going to Fordham.
On October i6th, Andros had ordered all the towns to keep
"double and strict watches," and to the Harlem people on the
2Ist, as seen, had reiterated the caution, "Double your watch."
This was complied with, so far as was practicable at that busy
season, when much of the fall work was yet to be done, but with
the setting in of winter the Night Watch was formally organized
as follows; the Governor, at the town's charge, furnishing powder, "for the Indian war":
On the 6th December, A~. 1675, Monday.
Present: Their Honors, Jan Dyckman, Constable.
Joost van Oblinus.
Resolved Waldron.
Meynard Journee.
The following are, according as they rank, appointed upon the Night
Watch, organized by order of his Excellency the Governor-General, and
divided into four Corporalships, each consisting of seven persons, to wit:
I. III.
I. Adolph Meyer, Corporal. I. Simieon Cornier, Corporal.
2. Meynard Journee. 2. Cornelis Jansen.
3. David des Marest. 3. Samuel des Marest.
4. Daniel Tourneur. 4. Laurens Jansen.
5. Nicholas de Vaux. 5. William Palmer.
6. Isaac Kip. 6. Jaco el Roe.*
7. Jan Hendricks Boch. 7. Gerard Magister.
II. IV.
1. Jan Nagel, Corporal.. Robert Hollis, Corporal.
2. Joost van Oblinus. 2. Resolved Waldron.
3. Jan Hendricks Kvckuyt. 3. Arent Hermensen.
4. Jan le Maistre. 4. Coenrad Hendricks Boch.
5. Johannes Vermelje. 5. David des Marest, Jun.
6. Jean le Roy. 6. Cornelis Theunisz.
7. Isaac le Maistre. 7. Isaac See, Jun.
Ist. The whole or half corporalships, whose turn it is to watch, shall,
in the evening, at the hour of eight, upon beat of the drum, be in full
number at the watch-house, shall place their sentinels, and take the necessary rounds; and shall not retire before the beating of the morning reveille;
upon a forfeiture, fixed or to be fixed, of 3 guilders.
2d. Whoever neglects the watch without a lawful cause, or making
the same known to his corporal beforehand, shall each time forfeit 6
guilders.
* Jacques TLaroe was born in 1657. From his name, and affiliation with the French
refugees, we conclude he was himself French, though Vander Vin, usually careful,
writes his surname, the first two or three times, el Roey or el Roeyl, and finally
adopts the form of el Roe. As he must have had warrant for this, probably Jacques
was of mixed blood, Spanish and Walloon. He is always called by Vander Vin, Joco,
a juvenile form of his name used by the Walloons. In I677 Jacques joined the
church in New York, but the next year accompanied the Demarests to Hackensack.
Here he married Wybrecht, daughter of Hendrick Teunisz -Ielling. She was five years
vounger than he, and bore him sons, Peter, Hendrick, Samuel, Abraham, Johannes
and as many daughters. On the decline of the French Church of Kinkachemeck, which
he must have helped to form, he took a letter to the Dutch Church of Hackensack, April
5, I696. We think this family, under the name Laroe, has become widely extended, at
least in the States of New York and New Jersey.
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329
3d. Each watchmnan coming to the watch shall be provided with suitable side and hand arms; also with sufficient powder and lead, upon forfeit
of 3 guilders.
4th. The watch shall be kept quietly, without much calling or noise,
upon penalty of 3 guilders.
The Indian excitement continued through the winter and
spring, I676. Suspicions were entertained that the Wickquaskeeks (or Wickers-creeks, as now commonly called) intended to
join "the North Indians.' But some eighteen of these, with
their sachems and "Claes ye Indian," visited the Governor, Janutary 7th, bringing a present of venison and deer-skins, and renewed their pledge of friendship. The Governor assured them
of his continued good-will and desire to protect them, but said
that as they had now gone out of his reach he could not "mind
them as before." Then, to quote the record of the interview,
"the Governor in return would give them coates, but they desired
drink, which is ordered for them."
Upon this hint the Indians asked leave to return to their
old maize lands on Manhattan Island; whereupon the Governor
and Council, on February 6th, passed the following:
"Resolved, That the Wickers-creek Indians, if they desire it,
be admitted with their wives and children, to plant upon this
Island, but nowhere else, if they remove; and that it be upon
the north point of the Island near Spuyten Duyvel."
Still the settlers at Harlem were on the alert. On March 2d
the Night Watch was reorganized, each corporal's squad being
composed of five instead of six. The corporals were now: Ist,
Lourens Jansen; 2d, Arent Hermansen Bussing; 3d, Adolph
Meyer, and 4th, Jan Nagel. For various reasons the following
names disappear from the roll, to wit: Journee, Tourneur, Kip,
Le Roy, Cornier, C. Jansen, Palmer, Hollis, and See; and the
following new ones appear: Barent Waldron, Michiel Bastiaensen, Rever Michiclsen, Hendrick Kierson, Frederick de Vaux.
The last of these persons, born in the Walloon country,
had lately left the Lower Palatinate, with many other French,
on account of the troubles there; De Vaux coming via England
to join his brother Nicholas in this country. He was now a
widower, but a little later married a daughter of Daniel Tourneur deceased, from which union sprang the respectable De Voc
family in the lower sections of Westchester County, first seated at
De Voe's Point, near which Frederick obtained by his wife a
fine property.*
Frederick de Vaux's passport, brought with him from Mannheim, is still preserved. We are indebted for a copy in German to one of his descendants, Col. Thomas
F. De Voe, of New York. Here follows a translation.
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(n AIpril 8th the Council "ordered that all boats and vessels that pass through HIellgate do take a permit from the Custom House, by reason of the Indian troubles, which permit (unless
for merchandise) to be given gratis and with all (lispatch."
But now fear of the Indians gradually subsidedl; the Wick —
quaskeeks proving their friendship sincere, had their canoes
restored to them. The close of the war at the eastward conse(quent l)pn0 the (leath of King Philip, who witl many of his
warriors was slain, August 12th, in the great swamp fight near
Mount Hope, was a principal means of allaying apprehension.
The ordinary domestic interests were not neglected amid
all this public disquiettude, and the extra drafts uplon the time
and energies of the inhabitants. Planting and harvesting allowed
of no interruption. A common fence inclosed their cultivated
lands on Pochem Pieters Flat, and on Van Keulen's Hook, and
no partition fences were yet set up; the lots bein n merely staked
off that everyone could know and make use of his own. Strict
rules were required to maintain these comimon fences; so implortant since the entire planting of the community was at the mercy
of any one member through whose neglect to keep up his part
cattle might get in an(l (lestro!y an(l none so offending but had
to meet the p)ublic frown, it not a lawsuit to recover losses.
When new fence-masters were apl)ointe(l, April 24, 1675.-Cornelis Jansen and Conrad Hendricks, to succeed(' Arent Hermens
anl I)avid Demarest, Jr.,-it was resolved that each inhabitant
should forthwith repair his part of the common fencing, an(l that
by the spring of:1676 these fences should be generally renewed
and made at least five and one-half feet high, Engilish measure:
and anyone failing it should be (lone by the town at his exl)ense.:Again, November 22(1, because of (aily and manifold complaints
of damage done by horses an(l cattle running upon the sowed
lands, an ordinance was passed and lposted up requiring the
fences still unrepaired to be atten(led to within fourteen days
punctually, under penalty of 25 guilders for every case of neglect;
"We, I)irector, Sheriff, TBurgomaster and Council of the lElectoral I'altz City
Mannheim, hereby make known and publish, that the bearer of this, Frederick de
Vaux, late a Burgher of this city, for his own business is intending to travel in IHolland,
and from thence further to England; in which behalf every one is requested to let
the said Frederick de Vaux pass free, safe, and unmolested, at all places, and also to
show him all good will and consideration; we engaging to (do the same for every city.
according to merit. In witness hereof, we have attached our usual Seal. Done at
Mannheim, this 23d February, old style, Anno one thousand six hundred and seventyfive,"
SEAL
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33'
and also repeating the former or(ler. that by the first of March
ensuing all the common fences should be built anew, with posts
and six rails, five and one-half feet high, English measure, upon
the same penalty and further, no one should let his calves, or
other beasts, run within the sowe(l land without a herder, as
any such being found trespassing utpon another man's grain
would subject its owner to a fine of 12 gl.
The veomen were alrealdy nmuch straitenedl in the breadth of
their acres. In other words, the need of more arable land to
mleet the growing wants of the old residents an(l the newlyarrived families was becoming urgent. The town had reached
a point in its history when the limited amount of implroved land
was nlostly absorbed by the older and well-to-do settlers, who,
aiming to enlarge rather than to reduce their area, held their
lands at a high price. It was not easy to purchase any, except
plerchance an estate was to be closed up, or it happened that
parties were leaving town, as was the case this year with Journee
and Le Roy, who removed to Staten Island; whither also went
the Sees, father and son, unable to suit themselves with land here.'
With the immnlability of Dutchmen, and moreover as a matter
of policy, the present freeholders had been slow to move in a
further division of the coimmon lands, which hight tend to lessen
the value of the improved farms. Their aim was, if possible.
to retain the control of these lands, an(l hence the anxiety to
secure new confirmations of their patent from the successive governors. But the late petition to Andros for his confirmation,
interfered with (loubtless by the Indian troubles, had effected
nothing; while, on the other hand, the governor was beset with
applications for land 1upon Mlanhattan Island, and which he
resolved to satisfy by dividing up various tracts of woodland
among such applicants as were most worthy, and would undertake to clear and improve their grants. At this the Harlem
freeholders took alarm, especially as tlhey understood that these
grants were to extend to the unappropriated lands within their
own patent. No tilne was lost, therefore, in preparing a second
memorial to Governor Andros in these terlns:
* The See family, whose name in early records takes the several forms of Cie,
du Cie, Sieck, Zy, and Sie, consisted, so far as appears, of the heads, Isaac See and
wife Esther, their son, Isaac, Jr., and daughter, Maria, wife of Nicholas de Vaux,
The wife of Isaac, Jr., was also named Maria. The Sees obtained two farms, 194
acres, on Karle's Neck, Staten Island, by patent of September 29, I677. But after
living there some years, they removed to Philips Manor, Westchester County, the
father and son appearing as church members at Sleepy Hollow, or Tarrytown, in 1697.
Then the name was usually written Sie. Isaac and Maria had sons, Peter, born in
Europe; Jacob, born 1675; Simon, born 1679, etc. The family is still numbered among
the most respectable residents there, and from its branches have come several wellknown clergymen.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
To his Excellency the Governor General at New York.
The Constable, Magistrates and Inhabitants of the Town of New
Haerlem respectfully represent that your petitioners have understood
and been informed by their Constable and Joost van Oblinus that your
Excellency's purpose is to distribute the lands lying within their town's
jurisdiction, for bouweries and plantations; wherefore they the petitioners and undersigned request that each may be allowed a part of the
same to build upon and plant, etc. Remaining meanwhile your Excellency's most willing subjects. New Haerlem, Wednesday, 30th August,
1676.
CONRADUS HENDRICKS, GERARD MAGISTER,
JAN HENDRICKS, DAVID DES MAREST, JUN.,
JAN NAGEL, JACO;EL ROE,
ARENT HERMENSEN, SAMUEL DES MAREST,
JAN LE MAISTRE, ADOLPH MEYER,
CORNELIS JANSEN, FREDERICK DE VAUX,
LAURENS JANSEN, ISAAC LE' MAISTRE.
PIERRIE CRESSON, GLAUDE LE MAISTRE,
NICHOLAS DE,VAUX, ABRAHAM LE MAISTRE.,
HENDRICK J. VANDER VIN, BARENT WALDRON,
DAVID DES M1AREST, FRANCOIS BRETEAU.
Andros favored this application, but as none of the magistrates had signed it, he referred it to them to make out and present him a list of those to whom such grants might properly be
made. This they prepared, omitting the petitioners Cresson,
Vander Vin, David des Marest, Jr., El Roe, the Le Maistres, and
Breteau; and designating instead Jan Dyckman, Resolved Waldron, Joost and Pieter Van Oblinus, Jan Louwe Bogert, and Jean
Baignoutx,-but the last-named, who was a tenant of Mr. Verveelen, was erased from the list, Andros making him a special
grant upon Hoorn'sHook. The list was headed: "Persons for
land in Harlem bounds, given in by ye Constable and overseers
as fitt persons, ye 4th of 7ber, I676."*
Pending the new grants, the town employed Robert Ryder,
government surveyor, to run out the lot lines on Van Keulen's
Hook, in order to assign each owner his proper quantity, or at
least to equalize them, as these lots had never been accurately
surveyed, and nearly all were known to much exceed the prescribed three morgen or six acres. The survey, finished before
the close of I676, put most of the owners who had inclosed and
* Francois Breteau, as he signs his name, was sometimes styled "Frenchman."
Vander Vin wrote his name Bartou, showing how pronounced. If he, as we suspect,
was the same with Francois Beado, mentioned on page 348, he was born in London
in 1646. About the (late of this petition for land, lreteau was in the employ of
Glaude le Maistre; but no land being granted him, lie procured soon after 12 acres
at Flushing. IIe petitioned, September 28, i680, for more land, giving as a reason
that he had nine children to support. IHe was still living there, with his wife Mary,
in 1698, having sons John and Francis. These two married and had families; John
had sons, John, horn I709, who removed to Vermont, and Francis, born I7II, who
settled at Ilempstead, Long Island, in which localities, respectively, their descendants
are still found. (See N.. G..& B. Rec., and Bartow Genealogy, by Rev. Evelyn
Bartow).
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333
built upon the north ends of these lots to the necessity of shifting their fences.**
William Waldron, eldest son of Resolved, had learned the
cooper's trade, and established himself in New York, where he
married the daughter of the wealthy Stoutenburgh, city treasurer, and now enjoyed the position of inspector of pipe-staves.
He and his partner, Jan Pietersen, undertaking to cut timber
for use in their business, in the common woods upon Hoorn's
Hook, the town officers stopped them, upon the ground that
they were non-residents. The coopers made their plaint to the
Mayor's Court, November I4th, against the "Constable of Harlem and several other Inhabitants, for discharging them from
cutting of wood upon this Island, just against Hellgate, not
being within fence." To the surprise of the defendants the case
went against them; this decision being rendered:
It is Ordered, That the said William Waldron and John Petersen may
cut timber upon this Island, within one mile of any plantation fence; and
the timber already cut they to carry away; and the town to pay the
charges.
The approaching winter promised but little leisure. The
inhabitants had been called upon to cut and draw to the water
side 5,000 stockades twelve feet long and four inches thick, to
be used in making "a harbor before the City of New York."
They met October 3d, formed themselves into four corporalships,
and apportioned the work; choosing as corporals Laurens Jansen,
Arent Bussing, Adolph Meyer, and Jan Nagel. Another call
was from Vander Vin, the clerk, whose house had become unfit
to live in. At his request it was resolved at a meeting in October
to remove him for the winter into the school-house (or church),
after it should be repaired and adapted to the purposes of a
dwelling by putting in a bedroom (bedstede), chimney, and
mantel, and making the door and windows tight. It was further
decided "to repair (vermaeken) the old house the following
spring." In repairing the school-house, the elder Demarest was
employed upon the work in "the loft," and also put a lock upon
the door, and glazed the windows, while Floris Gerritsen, mason,
** The Out-Gardens, "lying at the west side of the village" (see pp. 246, 256,
292), were also "laid out by numbers," February 5, 1677. On January 5, I667, record
was made that Tourneur had gotten No. I from Claessen in exchange for No. 1I,
and 3 from Delamater for I9, and 4 from De Meyer for io, "called Jan Cogu's
garden." Later he got 5, 6, from Delavall, who let Verveelen have 7, 8. Lubbert
Gerritsen exchanged No. i6 for ii; but Demarest buying i, gave it back to the
town, being allowed to "survey" I6 instead. The present owners were: Daniel
Tourneur, Nos. i to 6; Johannes Verveelen, 7, 8; Cornelis Jansen, 9, io; The Dorp,
IT; Joost Van Oblinus, 12, 13, I4; Thomas Delavall, 15; David Demarest, i6, I7,
18; Glaude Delamater, 19, 20.
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HISTORY (F HARLEIM.
did the plastering. Gerard Magister at the same time made three
new "sitting benches, in the church."
But David Demarest, Jr., offended, maybe, because he haa
been (lropl)ed from the list of those recommended to have land
given them, declared to Daniel Tourneur that he would not contribute toward the repairs upon the town-house. Tourneur bade
him consider that in such case he could have no privilege in the
town. Demarest angrily replied, "What have you to say, since
you have been magistrate a (ay or two? Hold your peace; I
will not give to it; you (1o your best." The town court took
the matter up December 7th. Tourlneurr demanded that it should
maintain its right and authority, in which view agreeing, it or(lered the defendant to pay 12 gl. to the deacons and the court
charges.
The elder Demarest and Glaude Delamater, giving reasons
which will appear, had for some time ceased to contribute to
V\an(ler in's support, the first being two years in arrears anl
the latter three. The matter was referred to the MIayor's Court,
which, on November 7th, pasesd an order that "the Clerk of the
Parish be continued in his place, and have his pay what is behind,
and for the future as formerly."
The two refractory persons paying no heed to this order,
were now waited upon, December i9th, by the constable, Resolved Waldron, and Adolph Meyer, magistrate, to demand from
them the payment of their (lues. l)emarest refused, but added,
"If the Heer Governor order that I pay it, I shall do it." Said
Delamater, "If you will have it, you must fetch it out of my
house, for I will not give it." Again, after ten days, the same
persons, taking another magistrate (Tourneur) with them, repeate(l the (leman(l. Demarest, still stout in his refusal, answered,
"I will not pay before the Court of Sessions decide that I must."
D)elamater's answer now was, "I must first see the town accounts
for six years; would you otherwise have it, vou must take it out
of my house." O)n February 5th the same officers, with another
magistrate, Jan Louwe B(ogert, went to Demarest's house, but
he was not at home. They then called upon Delamater, but
with no success. "I shall not pay," said Glaude, at this third
interviexw " vyou must take it out of mlv house, and then I will
aplIeal to the High Council."
The baffled officers hesitated to distrain utpon their goods foi
the lebt; but after another month's delay again applied for
power to (1o so to the Alayor's Court, which on Mlarch 6th,
I677, issued the following ample order:
HISTORY OF HARILEM I. 335
From the City of New York to the Town of Harlem.
The Court order, that Hendrick Jansen Vander,Vin, the Clerk of the
said Town, l)e continued in his place according to former order, and
have his pay, what is behind and for the future as formerly by the Inhabitants; and if they or any of them refuse to pay what is due from
them for the time past, and for the time to come, then the Constable is
hereby ordered to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods, for
satisfaction of what is or shall hereafter become due to the said Clerk.
()n April 3(1 citations were issued to Demarest an(l Delamater to appear before the town court on the 5th instant. (laude
appeared. The constable as plaintiff, demanlded that tile order
of March 6th should be enforced. The defendant stated that
thev of the French congregation, in the time of Governor Francis
Iwovelace, having received a preacher, the aforesaid governor had
said that "the French of the Town of New Harlem should be
free as to contributing to the Dutch voorleser."' He dlemanlded
* Rev. Pierre Daille is said to have been the first "pastor" of the French Church
in New York. But according to the reference in the text, a "preacher" had preceded
him by ten years of more, whose name, however, is unknown to us. The statement is
of interest as showing that the refugees at New York and Iarlem joined to introduce
and sustain the French service as early as 1674. A better organization followed on
the arrival of Mr. l)aille, of whom Domine Selyns, in a letter of October 21, 1683,
thus speaks: T)ominie Peter l)aille, late professor at Saumur, has become my colaborer, and conducts the French worship. lie is full of fire, godliness, and learning.
Banished on account of his religion, he maintains the cause of Jesus Christ with untiring zeal." With others of his family, Mr. D)aille first took refuge in Holland; but
must have been some months in this colony at the date of Selvns' letter, as he organized a church at New Paltz, January 22, I683. (Du Bois Reunion, p. 8; and compare
Doc. Ilist. of N. Y., iii. 472, 1T67.) The date of the organization at New York may be
nearly indicated by letters taken from the Dutch church in order to unite with the
French, the earliest of these noticed being those of our Marc Disosway and wife,
which are dated June 7, I683. MTr. Daille extended his labors to neighboring French
communities, and probably aided in organizing the church of Kinkachemeck, near Hackensack, of which the Demarests were chief promoters. He evidendtly revived that upon
Staten Island, where the church established as early as 1664, by I)emarest and others,
had declined, till there was "neither church nor minister," as the French residents told
the Labadist travellers in 1679. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes added to his
flock many French families, who came by way of London, South Carolina and St.
Kitts. Though disapproving Leisler's course, Mr. Daille's sympathies were so stirred
at his impending fate, that he circulated for signatures, at Harlem and elsewhere, a
petition for his pardon, but for this humane act was called to account by the General
Assembly. Rev. Pierre Peiret, before a minister in France, but expelled for the cause
of religion, arriving, with other refugees, at New York from London, November 19,
1687, soon after formed a second church, and became its pastor. He was deemed very
learned. in I692 the two French churches united, agreeing to give an equal support
to both pastors; Mr. Peiret to perform service in the city, and Mr. Daille in the
country, as he had loved to do. The latter, in I696, accepted a call to Boston, returning the next year to marry a second wife, and occassionally thereafter coming to New
York, as in 1703, when he sold a house and lot in Broadway, and again three years before his death, which was probably his last visit to his old flock. This devoted minister,
long remembered by the Iarlemn French for his eloquence and excellence, closed his
earthly labors May 21, I715, in his 67th year. Mr. Peiret continued to serve the
churchf in New York with general approbation, to the time of his death, September i,
1704, having attained his 6oth year. I-e was buried the next day "in the common
cemetery of this city." The consistory and people agreed to pay his widow an extra
year's salary. Tie was succeeded by Rev. James Laborie, late Indian missionary at
Oxford, Mass. For some years the church had worshipped in a plain structure near
the Fort; that is, on the south side of Marketfield street, also called Petticoat lane,
which had become in a sense the French quarter. Only the year before Mr. Peiret's
death they bought a lot in Pine street, and were engaged in building the unique stone
church which stood till 1834, and witnessed the labors of Peiret's successors down to
thelate Dr. Verren. Trinity churchyard contains Mr. Pieret's tombstone, with an inscription il both Latin and French, the first, as follows, copied some years ago with
difficulty, it being almost illegible:
Hic jacet Reverd, Dom. Petrus Perretrus, V. D. Mr. qui ex Gallia religionis causa
expulsus, verbum Dei in hujus civitatis Ecclesia Gallicana per annis 17 cum generali
appropatione predicavit quique. Cum vitam praedicationibus suis conformem duxeri
336
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
that this might be deemed sufficient, and that the court should
carry out the order they had from the Mayor's Court so as they
were advised to. But the court would not allow this plea, and
directed execution for the amount of the debt and costs. Forthwith the magistrates (except Arent Hermensen, Delamater's sonin-law) proceeded in a body to the defendant's house to levy upon
his goods. Finding nothing suitable at hand, the constable told
him that on Wednesday evening (April IIth) he would take one
of his cows out of his stable and sell her at public vendue, to
satisfy the debt. Delamater replied scornfully, "You may as
well take her now; why have you to wait so long?"
On April I th the court ordered another citation to be
served on Demarest, who had not appeared, and meanwhile to
delay the execution against Delamater. Demarest, in no very
amiable mood, appeared before the court on the I4th. The constable inquired why he had neglected to obey the order of the
Mayor's Court after being so many times notified. Demarest
said that he was not cited to answer before the Mayor's Court,
and that the Heer Governor had told him that he was not bound
to pay. He said further, that the Mayor's Court was wrongly
informed of the case; adding that the constable, Jan Louwe,
and Daniel Tourneur, were parties in this prosecution, and the
secretary the instigator. Yet, as he intends to remove out of
this town, he will pay, or cause it to be paid, but not if he should
not leave. "You people," said he, meaning all the magistrates,
"are my enemies, and seek but to drive me into costs." The court
seems to have let this ebullition of feeling pass unnoticed. The
contest was ended as to Demarest, who having promised, kept his
word. Delamater, however, heldout, and the magistrates hesitating
to use extreme measures, the case thus rested for several years.
Demarest was now engrossed with a scheme of some magnitude,-the purchase from the Indians of a large tract of land on
the Hackensack River, with the "declared purpose of making a
settlement of 30 or 40 families, to be transported from Europe."
He and his son, David, contracted with Paulus Richard, of New
York, merchant, apparently on the same date, March I2th, I677,
to sell him their property in Harlem, but only the deed from
David, Jr., has been found, given April I2th, pursuant to the
articles of sale previously executed. On June 8th ensuing,
Demarest affected his Indian purchase of 2,000 acres, to which
he prepared to remove with his entire family, including Jacque
usque, ad 6omum aetatis sue annum tandem in manus Domini spiritum humiliter
deposuit i mens. Sept. Ann. Dom. 1704.
HISTORY OF HARLEM. 337
el Roe, on the Ist of May, 1678, until which date the two Davids
had reserved the use of their respective dwellings, the father then
occupying his "new house."*
The I9th of February, this year, was given to making provision for the town debts and the discharge of other public business. Quoting from the record:
At a meeting held Monday, g9th February, I676-7. Present: Their
Honors, Resolved Waldron, constable; Jan Louwe van Schoonrewoerdt,
Adolph Meyer, Arent Hermens, Daniel Tourneur; with the advice of Joost
van Oblinus, old magistrate, and Jan Dyckman, late constable.
It is resolved and found good to reckon up the debts, for which the
town is now in arrears, and must pay; and to make an assessment upon
the lands and house-lots (erven) lying within this town, to discharge the
said debts; and there is found to be due toReynier Willems, balance.............................f. 253:
Paulus Richard, balance.............................: I5
Jan Louwe......................................... 5: o
Joost van Oblinus................................... 26: o
Hendr. J. Vandr. Vin................................ 31: o
Glaude le Maistre, 2 schepels wheat.................. 12:
Resolved Waldron, V2 vat of beer..................... I5:
Jan Dyckman, board money to Surveyor............. 8: o
Frederick Gysberts................................... 57: IO
Nicolaes Bayard.................................... 24:
For extraordinary expenses................... 46: 15
Total.........................................f. 500: o
An assessment made on the lands and house-lots, to pay and discharge
the foregoing 500 guilders; whereof one-third was put upon the house* Richard had an old claim of 600o guliders against Demarest, senior, and the
lats Tourneur. How it originated we know not, unless from what follows. Demarest
having bought Montagne's farm, failed to meet the second payment (but had paid Jacob
Vis, on Montagne's order, i80 guilders sewant); when Montagne sued him, Oct. 6,
I666, and citing the articles of sale, demanded back the farm. Demarest said his default was caused by Allard Anthony having stopped the payment-that yesterday,
Daniel Tourneur, acting for said Anthony's brother-in-law, had arrested 300 guilders
for claims against Montagne. The court ordered the land to be-given up, but on an
appeal to the Mayor's Court, October 9, it reversed the decision, holding "that the
sale of the land in question shall stand fast." But Demarest must pay his second instalment (less the i80 guilders) within fourteen days. The amount due could hardly
have exceeded 800 guilders, but Richard (we only presume that this was the occasion)
advanced Demarest and Tourneur together 600o, and -the town officers became their
surety. This appears from the following letter (suggesting that Tourneur's loan was
for the town's use), indorsed by Richard, "Obligation to pay from Daniel Tourneur
and David Demarest."
Ao. I671/, the 23d Feb., N. Harlem.
Honored friend Celitie Richard:
Whereas we have duly received yours of the I9th, so these serve for answer; As
your husband has agreed, with Daniel Tourneur and David Demarest, that he will
wait yet one year, by their paying interest upon the sixteen hundred guilders, so it is
that we by these accept it, and shall take measures the next year for the payment, as
this year we have some other burdens. Farewell.
D. Tourneur,
David des Marest,
Pieter Roelefsen, Constable,
Resalvert Waldron.
This was cancelled March 12, 1677, upon the elder Demarest selling out to Richard,
and the letter returned, with the following on the back:
"Acknowledged paid, etc., being from date for standing obligation. Done, New
York, the i2th March, I67 6-7. Paulus Richard."
338 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
lots and two-thirds on the lands, and upon each house-lot comes 8 guilders
and on each morgen 2 guilders, to wit:
Glaude le Maistre*................... 2 erven. 15 morgen. f. 46
Laurens Jansen...................... 2 " 9 " 34
Cornelis Jansen.................... " I
'... on the Flat.......... 2 " 4
l)avid des Marest, Jr................. I " 9 " 26
Daniel Tourneur................... I 2" 18 " 48
Jan Dyckman....................... 2 " 4
Conrad Hendricks................... I " 6 " 20
Johannes Verveelen................. 2 " 9 34
Adolph Meyer...................... I 6 20
David des Marest.................... I I14 " 36
Joost van Oblinus................... 3 " 2 " 48
Nicholas de Vaux................... I 9 " 26
Resolved Waldron.................. 2 " 15 " 46
Jan Nagel.......................... " 2 2 " 28
Johannes Vermelje.................I " 2
Jan le Maistre........................ I "4
Jan Louwe.......................... 6 32
Isaac Kip........................... I " 8
Arent Hermens..................... 2 4
Pieter Cresson...................... 2
f. 500
The foregoing umsl must be paid, at furthest, by the last of March
next ensuing, punctually, without any delay, or exception, in good merchantable grain, upon penalty, etc.
Most of the inhabitants were present at this meeting of February I9, I677. Some action was expected in regard to the
shifting of the fences on Van Keulen's Hook," but nothing was
resolved upon. Weightier matters claimed attention. No little
concern was felt at the silence of Governor Andros in regard to
his promise to distribute more land among them, and at reports
of the large grants he was intending to make in their immediate
vicinity, and even within their limits. It was therefore resolved to
send another committee to his Excellency, requesting him to
Richard took this property, obviously, in payment of this claim; or at least the
claim was part of the consideration paid by Richard for said property. lHe got his
deed from David, junior, April 12, 1677, and the same day reconveyed what it covered
(house and lot, barn, lot II, Jochem Pieters; lot i, Van Keulen's Hook and meadows)
to Joost Van Oblinus, for 2400 guilders in sewant. He disposed of the property late
of David, senior, in the course of the year, as follows: On July i, the houses and
lots, barn, and 7 Jochem Pieters, to Oblinus, for 4000 guilders, in grain, and 3 Outgardens, Nos. I6, 17, 18, to Arent Harmans, for 700 guilders; on November 17, the
half of No. 5, V. K. Hook, to Laurens Jansen, for 400 guilders, and lot No. 4, Montagne's Flat (since in the Nutter farm) to Cornelis Jansen, for 400 guilders. All
these to pay in grain or tobacco. Two north gardens, described in the senior Demarest's patent, 1671, as "betwixt (laude le Maitre and the Poor's Garden," meaning the
Church Farm, were added to the latter. On November 27, 1691, Paul Richard gives a
receipt, having "settled in full with Joost Obline's wife, for two farms (twee bowry)
lying in the town of New Harlem." Richard (see p. 53) was twice alderman. He married, 1664, widow Celitie Vanderwal, from Christianstadt. A daughter, Hester (Mrs.
Le Fort), was mysteriously murdered October 19, 1699. Their son Stephen, born
1670, had ten children, one being Paul Richard, inayor of New York from 1735 to
I739.
* "N. B. Glaude le Maistre has not more than 9 morgen of land, so that in the
foregoing is put by mistake 6 morgen too much." Note in the original.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
339
grant the lands lying within their purisdiction only to the actual
residents, according to their petition of August 30th preceding,
"and further to be maintained in the rights of their patent."
Captain James Carteret was named first on this committee.
Apparently he had just returned from a voyage to England.
He had taken from Vander Vin, April 5, I676, a statenent of
Captain Delavall's indebtedness to the town, being 242 gl I6st.
Between the dates of May 9th and December 5th ensuing, no
mention of him here has been found, and he now held deeds of
lease an(l release, dated London, August 7th and 8th, I676, from
his father-in-law, for the mill property, the Moesman farm, and
Little Barent's Island; in which instruments Delavall is described
as "late of New York in America, and now of London, merchant," and Carteret also as "of London." Delavall had been
promplte(l to this gift, as he says, "in consideration of the natural
love and affection which the said Thomas Delavall beareth to the
said James Carteret and Francis his wife, the daughter of the
said Thomas Delavall, and for (livers other good causes." With
his usual caution, Delavall signed the lease only, reserving his
signature to the deed till he should return himself to America.
Perhaps Delavall was afraid the captain's creditors might get it.
A little episode may suffice here.
()n his first coming to Harlem, about the Ist of April, 1675,
"having occasion for a horse to employ," Carteret sent his man
Willer to borrow one of William Sturt. But it happened that
the horse took sick and died "within three or four days after his
return." Sturt declared that the animal "was overridden and
much misused," and when more than a year had passed sued
the captain for damages. But Willer having left, the captain
was placed at a disadvantage in the matter of witnesses when
the trial came on, December 5, 1676. "Daniel Tourneur, sworn,
saith that he saw the horse in question at Harlem, and that the
man told him that the horse failed him 'at Freshwater, and that
he was forced to lead him forewards and backwards between
York and Harlem." Sturt dleman(ded I2 for the horse, and ~5
"for want of said horse and expenses in his sickness." The jury
and court found for the plaintiff. But Carteret objected to the
price put upon the steed; and this point was referred to arbitrators, who reduced the valuation to ~8; whereupon the court,
M arch 20, I677, "order a horse of that value to be delivered
before next court day, or judgment to be entered against Carteret
to that amount and costs of suit." Carteret was delinquent, and
on April 3d execution issued; but the next year came round and
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
it was not yet satisfied, when Sturt, getting the court to reaffirm
its former judgment, left soon after to become town clerk at
Pemaquid. But to return.
Besides Carteret, the committee to wait upon the governor
consisted of Adolph Meyer and Daniel Tourneur from the magistracy, and Jan Dyckman and Laurens Jansen from the community. The committee reported on February 24th that at their
interview with Andros, he said he had understood from David
Demarest that the people of New Harlem had not needed nor
desired any land. But that now he would send the surveyor,
within eight days or thereabouts, and "they of New Harlem might
themselves lay out the land as was convenient, because he had
no knowledge of this place."
It is hard to say what designs Andros may have had regarding the Harlem lands, or whether he ever seriously intended to
override the Harlem patent. There is some reason to believe
that he did. But if so, he came to think better of it; and while
he did not formally confirm their patent, he recognized it by
allowing the Harlem people to dispose of their common lands in
their own way. Nothing could have suited them better, and
the concession was important as tending to settle their rights.
They had to congratulate themselves on their own vigilance and
efforts, and especially to thank Captain Carteret, whose name
with six others was now added to those who were to draw land.
Ryder finally came, and spent fourteen days in making the
surveys. He had been occupied during the intervening time in
laying out several farms along the East River, in a range
extending from Kip's Bay to Hoorn's Hook; forming, within
the recollection of many, the charming rural seats of Winthrop,
Hoffman, Buchanan, Pearsall, the Beekmans, Jones, Riker, and
Lawrence, the Delafields, and Schermerhorn. Beginning at Kip's
Bay, the grants were 30 acres to Gabriel Carbosie, 60 to David
du Four and son, 60 to Rev. Jacobus Fabricius, 30 to Cornelis
Matthyssen, 60 to John Bassett, 384 to George Elphinstone, 324
to Jacob Young, and 30 to Jean Baignoux. The last three fell
partly within the Harlem patent.* That to Elphinstone, which
lapped upon the southern end of this patent (at 74th Street,
including within its limits the Saw Kill); and that next, granted
to Young, and "bounded to the northeast by the commons or a
certain run of water,"-were surveyed on April 25th. Baignoux's farm was run out adjoining to Young, on July 20th. The
* See Notes on these Titles from Carbosie to Bassett, in the N. Y. Corp. Mannual
for 1869, pp. 881-887; also Abstracts of Farm Titles, by H. Croswell Tuttle.
HISTORY OF HARLE4M.
34I
grants were "to be confirmed by patent when begun to be improved." The first patent was issued to Young, May I, I677,
the other two not till September 29th following, and they were
subject severally to a quit-rent or annual render to the government of "half a bushel of good winter wheat.' In the interim,
30 acres on the North River side, upon the hills next below
Moertje Davids' Fly, and running into "the Commons of Harlem," were granted and set off July 9th to Hendrick Bosch, a
sword-cutler, and originally from Leyden. Elphinstone had
erected a leather mill and other buildings upon his tract, with
the assistance of a copartner, Abraham Shotwell, late of New
Jersey, to whom (probably in view of what followed) the patent
was made out. Cn October 30th Elphinstone sold all his interest in the farm, houses, and mill, to Shotwell, who in payment
gave his obligation, in the form of a mortgage, for ~52:os.*
W\ith genuine sagacity, the people of Harlem resolved to
secure the two extremities of their patent from further encroachment. Under their direction, Ryder first laid out five lots at
Spuyten Duyvel, upon the old M1atthys Jansen patent,-"beginning by Johannes Verveelen," who, as ferryman, occupied the
upper end of that patent; and ranging down the Harlem River
to "the hills and the meadows," or the northern line of the Jansen and Aertsen patent, which touched the river at what is now
2IIth Street. These lots were "given out by lot." WVe annex
the numbers, owners, and acres of thoseAt Spuyten Duyvzcl.
No. I. Johannes Vermelje........................ I8 acres.
" 2. Jan Nagel................................ 14
" 3. Conrad Hendricks Boch................... I4
" 4. Jan Dyckman............................ 4 "
5....................
The unappropriated meadows behind these lots on the
Spuyten Duyvel Creek (with the exception hereafter noticed)
were given to Dyckman and Nagel, who at once purchased Vermilye and Boch's lots.
Upon Hoorn's Hook ten lots were laid off, these running
in from the East River northwest, and ranging from Jean
Baignoux's line upward to the bend since called Gracie's Point;
the last lot in the range containing 12 acres, but all the others
8 acres each. These were allotted as follows:
* For more relating to this and the adjacent farms, see App. H.
342
HISTORY (F HARLEM.
Upon Hoorn's Hook.
No. I. Adalph Meyer,
2. Laurens Jansen,
3. Johannes Verveelen,
4. Jan le Maistre,
5. Maria Vermelje,
6. Jan Louw v. Schroonrewoert,
7. Daniel Tourneur,
8. Barent Waldron,
9. Jan Hendricks Boch,
"o. Pieter van Ohlinus.*
Another ten lots, each eight acres, were laid off upon Jochem
Pieters' Flat, in continuation of "the old lots." Running east
and west, they began "at the land of Captain Carteret," ranging
northward to what has since been called Bussing's, but then
Gloudie's Point, so named from Le Maistre, who owned meadow
there. These, often distinguished as the "New Lots," were
drawn by the following persons:
On Jochent Pictcrs' Flat.
No. I. Jan Hendricks Brevoort,
2. Glaude le AMaistre,
3. 'Frederick de Vaux,
4. Resolved Waldron,
5. Arent Heriens,
6. Cornelis Jansen,
7. Gerard Magister,
8. Joose van Oblinus,
9. Capt. James Carteret,
Io. Pieter Jansen Bogert.
We observe in these allotments a preconcerted design to
occupy what remained of the three old groundbriefs given to
Matthys Jansen, Claessen, and Kuyter: a shrewd stroke of policy,
truly, but which we are not to interpret into a distrust of the
equity of their claim to those lands, of which they had been
legally put in possession by the deliberate action of the constituted
authorities.
Ryder dates his certificates of the above surveys on August
6th. They were recorded August I7th. While here surveying,
he boarded with Resolved Waldron, the town paying for it, and
also for six gallons of rum drank during the progress of the work.
The surveyor's bill, including the survey of Van Keulen's Hook,
amounted to 429 gl.
A parcel of meadow land lying on the Spuyten Duyvel, to
the westward of the first lot there granted, had been the object
* For the after history of these lots, which were mainly included in the Waldron
farm, see App. H.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
343
of some contention, but was finally disposed of, by a vote of the
magistrates, August Ioth, as follows:
"Whereas, a dispute has arisen among the inhabitants of this
town respecting a certain parcel of meadow lying on the Spuyten Duyvel, which each of them claims to have, and the said
meadow is too small to be divided amongst them all; and because
some have no meadow annexed to their land, to wit, Arent Hermens, Johannes V\ermelje, and Gerard Mlagister, We the Court,
pursuant to the order of his Honor the Governor-General given
to the Land Surveyor, also give directions to said Surveyor to
measure out and give the said meadow to the aforesaid persons."
It was then further resolved, that "a piece of meadow lying
at the north point of this Island, and Moertje Davids' Vly, shall
remain to the town's lot."
More wrath seems to have been stirred up at this action of
the magistrates in giving away the meadows, than at the larger
grants made by Andros impinging on their patent, though this
caused, from first to last, a deal of excitement. Adolph Meyer,
now a magistrate, but opposed to the grant, had the temerity to
take an active part with the dissatisfied people in getting up a
remonstrance. Andros took this as a grave offence, and issued
his warrant, August i4th, for Meyer's arrest, charging him with
having "occasioned disturbance by siding with the commonalty
and petitioning in a factious manner." He was admitted to bail,
on condition of appearing before the Governor and Council when
required, to answer what should be alleged against him, "and
in the meantime to be of the good behavior." At the next election his townsmen renominated Meyer for magistrate, and he
was even confirmed in the office. But when brought to the notice
of the Miayor, Van Cortlandt, he removed Meyer Novemebr 3d,
because he was "under recognizance for his good behavior"; and
ordered a new nomination, which resulted in putting Laurens
Jansen in the vacancy.
Scarcely was the survey at Spuyten Duyvel made, when
Dyckman and Nagel bought out Vermelje and Boch, and thereby
became the owners of the whole five lots, containing 74 acres
of upland, with the meadows granted them as before stated being
about eight acres; the beginning of the fine estates subsequently
held there by the Nagel and Dyckman families. With no intention of yet quitting their old homes in the village, they agreed
with Michiel Bastiaensen annd his son-in-law, Kiersen, to take
these lands upon lease for a term of twelve years. We have
thought the contract, here translated from the Dutch, worthy to
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HISTO)RY OF HARLEIM.
be preserved, as it relates to the first successful effort to make
improvements in that section of Manhattan Island, on which as
vet there was not another white man's hearthstone north of Harlem village.
On this (late, 26th October, A~. 1677, appeared before me, Hendrick
J. Vander Vin, by the Honorable Mayor's Court admitted Secretary,
residing at the Town of New Harlem, and the after-named witnesses;
the honest Jan Nagel and Jan Dyckman, on the one side, and Michiel
Bastiaensen with Hendrick Kiersen, on the other; the which agree to
contract with the others and are agreed in the following manner. Jan
Nagel and Jan Dyckman have conjointly leased, and by these do lease to
the before-named Mlichiel Bastiaensen and Hendrick Kiersen in company, certain the lessors' lands, contained in five lots, marked No. I, 2,
3, 4, 5, with the meadows thereto belonging, all lying upon this Island
MIanhatans, at Spuyten Duyvel, and under this town's jurisdiction, as
appears by the surveys thereof existing, the which the lessees take and
accept on lease upon condition as follows, to wit: The lessees shall occupy and use the aforesaid lands and meadows for the time of twelve
consecutive years, to count from now on, expiring in the year I689 after
the crops and fruits are off the land, and the lease of the houses shall
end at M[ay in the year I690; in particular, the lessees shall possess and
use the aforesaid lands and meadows the first seven years free, by paying
as an acknowledgemenlt, each one hen, every year; the three following
years shall the lessees pay each a hundred and fifty guilders per year;
the last two years to pay each two hundred guilders in the year; the
lessees shall have authority to build and erect houses, barns or stables,
after their own satisfaction and contenttment, for their accommodation;
on condition that the same, at the end of the lease, with the fences
which then shall be upon the lands and meadows, be delivered over all
in good repair; the lessors promise to furnish the lessees-in order upon
the aforesaid lands, wherever the lessees decide, to place an orchardwith fifty fruit trees, both apple and pear, and all the trees which they
the lessees shall come to set out and raise shall at the end of the lease,
except the fifty trees aforesaid, be divided half and half; the lessees
holding their option as to their circumstances, to be permitted to remove
or give up this present lease at their pleasure, with the same to the
lessors, upon mentioning it one year before; the lessors promise
the lessees freedom in the real possession of the aforesaid lands
and dependencies, without any charges standing thereon, reserving the
lord his right; all the before-written conditions, the appearers declare to be their contract and accord, promising the same on both sides
to conform to and fulfil, each in his regard, without craft or cunning,
under obligation as according to laws. Thus done and passed at New
Haerlem in presence of Joost van Oblinus and Conradus Hendricx, as
witnesses hereto requested and solicited, who beside the appearers and
me secretary, have undersigned these, on the date as above.
fWitness, JAN NAGEL.
J. VAN OBLINUS, JAN DYCKMArN.
CONRADUS HENDRICKS. This mark * of
MiICIHIIJEL BASTIAENSEN
by himself made.
HENDRICK KIERS.
With my knowledge,
HENDR. J. VANDR. VIN, Secretary.
Subsequently Dvckman and Nagel became the joint owners
HISTORY OF HARLEM. 345
of the adjacent tract, known as the Jansen and Aertsen Patent,
but in our day as the Dyckman Homestead; as also of that part
of the Papparinamin Patent which had been occupied by Verveelen.*
The ensuing winter found nearly all of the inhabitants
busily employed in the woodlands cutting 5,000 palisades "for
the use of the city," pursuant to an order from the Governor,
of November 27, 1677. They were to be "under 4 inches thick
and 12 to 13 feet long, to be delivered at the waterside in a convenient llace to be taken away." The inhabitants on November
29th were divided into four corporalships, "as was done formerly"; the corporals being Laurens Jansen, Arent Bussing,
Adolph Meyer, and Jan Dyckman. The labor was probably
turned to advantage in the clearing of some of the newly-drawn
lands. All those who had shared in the late land drafts took part
* The Papparinamin, or Matthys Jansen Patent, in the view of the Harlem people,
was in the same category with that of Jansen and Aertsen, and other of Kieft's grants
which have lapsed for want of the required improvement; and hence they claimed it
under their general patent as part of their common land, notwithstanding Governor
Nicoll's confirmation to Matthys Jansen's heirs. Verveelen, on or after removing to
Spuyten Duyvel, had inclosed some sixteen acres off the north end of the patent; and
the grants of 1677 engrossing the remainder, the Jansen heirs had nothing left them.
These held to their claim, however, and many years later, when Verveelen had
vacated, made an attempt to recover. On August 2, 1700, John Matthysen, eldest
son of Matthvs Jansen, late of Ulster County, deceased, in behalf of himself and
others, the co-heirs of the said Jansen (see Index, \Van Keuren), petitioned the
General Asselmbly for relief, representing "that by reason of the uncertainty of some
bounds in said patent contained, he was wholly dispossessed of his father's inheritance, and therefore humbly prayed that the bounds of the said land might be settled,
and the said patent confirmed unto the co-heirs of the said Matthys Jansen." Leave
being granted, a bill for that object was introduced the next day, passed on the 8th,
and sent to Governor lBellomont for his signature.
After ieciting the original grant by Kieft to Matthys Jansen, August i8, 1646, of
"one hundred acres," at Papparinainn on Manhattan Island, its confirmation by
Nicolls, May 23, I667, and the petition of Jan Matthyssen, this bill provided "that
the lillits and bounIds of the said Patent be, and are hereby forever declared to be, at
a place called Papparinamin, which said l'apparinamin is upon the island of New
York, joiinig to the river upon which the bridge called King's Bridge is built, according as the Indian name Papparinamin did anciently signify." It also declared
"that all and singular the estate, right, title, and interest contained in the said patents, shall be, and hereby are, confirmed and ratified unto the said John Matthyssen
and other of the said co-heirs of the said Matthys Jansen, his and their heirs and assigns in equal proportions and divisions, any law, usuage, or custom to the contrary
hereof in anyways nothwiithstanding"
Put the governor withheld his signature, and tlhe bill failed to become a law.
Matthyssen petitioned the Assembly again, October 26; it "was read, and referred for
further consideration," but not again taken up. The Harlem folk had meanwhile, by
their deputy, Peter Van Oblienis, taken counsel and put in their plea before the governor, and doubtless with effect. Iis Excellencly informed the Assembly, November
2, that he had declined to meddle with certain bills presented for his approval, because
as matters of property they should be referred to the Courts of Judicature, soon to be
established. But no further proceedings in the case have been found. The Dyckmans
soon took possession under their grant of I701 from the town, of which we shall
hereafter speak.
There was really no injustice done to the Jansen heirs, for the land had lain
neglected and tunclaimed by them, now more than thirty years since the confirmation
by Nicolls. 'his groundbrief stood in no wise different from others which had been
declared void, except said confirmation, which was probably an oversight. As it had
never been sold, there was no such reason for compensation as there was in the case of
the Jansen and Aertsen patent; and to have admitted its validity at that late day
would have been a bad precedent, and one which the holders of other vacant groundbriefs would have been only too ready to take advantage of.
The parcel which Verveelen had had the use of passed from Jacob Dyckman to
his son Jacob, and formed part of the 30 acres sold February II, I773, to Caleb Hyatt.
346 HIST(RY ()F HARLEM.
in this work, save Constable Nagel, Johannes Verveelen, ferryman, and Captain Carteret; Maria Vermilye, represented by her
husband, Isaac Kip. In addition were enrolled David Demarest,
David Demarest, Jr., Michiel Bastiaensen, Reyer Michielsen,
Pierre Cresson, Abraham Delamater, Jan Kiersen, Hendrick
Kiersen, Nicholas de Vaux, Francois Breteau, Jan Jansen (P.
Bogert's man), and Jan Petit (Baignoux) "and his mate."
CHAPTER XXI.
I677-I682.
riHE FRENCI LEAVING; NEW TOWN-H-OUSE; LAND QUESTIONS;
ILABADISTS; CAPT. CARTERET; SALE OE MOERTJE )DAVIDS FLY.
A SUIT of Nicholas de Vaux versus Pierre Cresson, for
some time pending in the local court, was decided November 15, I677. Defendant having sold plaintiff his house
and lands, October 27, I676, the bill of sale was cancelled on
April 23d ensuing, when De Vaux gave Cresson a parcel of
fence rails, and was promised in return the use of enough 1h d
to sow a schepel of flaxseed, Cresson to receive of the flax every
fourth sheaf. Jean Baptiste de Poictier, Sieur Dubuisson, was
present and heard the bargain. But before De Vaux was ready
to put in his seed Jan Hendricks Brevoort leased and planted
Cresson's land on Jochem Pieters, leaving to De Vaux only a
small corner, where it was sandy and unfit for his purpose. De
Vaux then demanded of Cresson the use of his lot on Van Keulen's Hook;but the latter objecting, De Vaux on September
6th appealed to the magistrates. On a hearing it was agreed to
"hold the case in advice till the coming of Jean Baptiste Bison."
(n the date first named it again came up, when Cresson presented Debuisson's written declaration. The Court now decided that Cresson "restore to the plaintiff the 250 rails which
he has wrongfully taken from him; and as the plaintiff has
failed to perform his part of the contract, that he be condemned
in the costs hereby incurred." De Vaux removed soon after to
New Jersey, and with his wife, Marie See, joined the church
at Bergen, April 5, I679. His descendants, under the name of
De Vouw, or De Voe, were long to be found at Hackensack and
Tarrytown.*
* Nicholas de Vaux had a daughter, Esther, born at Harlem, who, in I698, married
Ulderrick Brower, of Hackensack, whither De Vaux had removed, and where, in
1706, he married a second wife, Margaret Jans, widow of Jacques Button. He died
prior to 17I7, when his widow married Hendrick Cammega, whose first wife was
Anna M. Verveelen. De Vaux had other daughters, Susanna, born I680, who married
Thomas Brickers and Jacobus Van Gelder; Mary, who married Jacob Buys, of Bergen,
and Rachel, who married Abraham Martelingh; also, by his second wife, another
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The French refugees were gradually leaving, drawn principally to Bergen County, N. J., Staten Island, and up the Hudson, Iwhere they found other French families, and land more
abunda ant nd to be had at a trifling cost. Gerard MI agister
was of the number that left. lie had lately drawn one of the
New Lots, and at the same time, by deed of August 9, I 677,
bought from Joost Van Oblinus, for 400 gl. in grain, the erf,
house, and barn lately owned by and yet in the occupancy of
David Demarest, Jr. On December 26th ensuing, he and his
wife, Madeleine l'Admiral, made a joint will before the secretary, 'Magistrate Tourneur, and Frederick de Vaux, after the
form usual with the French refugees. All this looked to a fixed
residence; but within two years Mlagister left the town. He
sold his lot No. 7, March 22, I679, to Jan Delamater, but no
sale of his dwelling-house is to be found. *Again came up the matter of the town finances, and prominently that of the vorleser's salary. The record of February
7, I678, runs: "Is proposed and resolved that the accounts of
this Town, as well the debts as credits, revised on the date of
I9th February, 1677, shall with the first opportunity be taken
up and disposed of; and the Secretary is authorized henceforth
to keep a separate register thereof.' From the register so begun
and yet preserved have been culled many interesting items relating to the settlers.
On the same (late we also read:
Is further resolved and concluded that the magistrates shall go agout
among the common inhabitants and see how much each is willing to
contribute yearly to the maintenance and salary of the Voorleser, beginning the 23d October of the previous year, I677, and following. The
Voorleser must have yearly for salary, according to the agreement entered
into the 23d October, I670, the sum of.0oo guilders; the magistrates remain
held to furnish the money.
daughter, Esther, born I7I11, his first, so named, Mrs. l]rower, having just died. His
son, Abraham (id Vaux, or de Vouw, joined the Hackensack church in I694, but removed to Tarrytown, to which place his mother's kinfolks, the See family, had gone.
and where he and wife Mary appear as churchmembers. I believe he had sons Nicholas
and Johannes. lie served as deacon in I1708, and as elder in I724; offices afterward
held by said Johannes de Vouw.
** Tean le Roy had owned this domicile as early as 1670, and apparently it was
the north lgarden No. 2, next Tourneur; on which account I suppose Ie Roy was led
to get it. This garden was in Simon Dc Ruine's allotment, bought in I666, by Capt.
Delaval; and when Le Roy sold Delavall his lands bought of Presto, he probably
took this garden in part payment, and built on it. Le Roy sold out entire in 1674.
The owners after him were Coriiier, Richard, Demarest, Jr., Richard again, and
Oblinus. The latter agreed to sell Magister the house, barn and houselot, for 400
guilders, to run on interest, if he could not meet the paymient. The rate lists indicate
that Oblinus took it back. His sons John and Hendrick evidently held this garden
No. 2, then an erf, in 1706 and 1708, and John alone in 1712; though Marcus Tiebaut
at this date had some interest in it, and was in possession in 1713. I think he had
bargained for it, but died before the sale was closed; and that then, I714, his stepson,
John Lewis bought it. This is probably its history, but, resting in part on other proof
than deeds of transfer, it cannot be given with absolute assurance. (See note on John
Lewis for more about this lot, which later formed a part of the William Brady plot).
HISTORY OF HARLEM. 349
List of the Free-will Contributions for the support and salary of the
Voorleser of this Town, etc., and the following are to contribute yearly:
Jan Nagel............................ f. I8
Daniel Tourneur...................................... " 15
Joost van Oblinus................................ 40
Jan Dyckman............................... "I2
Laurens Jansen....................................... "Io
Resalvert Waldron................................. 30
Conradus Hendricks.................................. " o
Jan Hendricks..................................... 6
Maria Vermelje............................ " 8
Johannes Vermelje................................... Io
Glaude le Maistre.................................... 12
Michiel Bastiaensen............................. " 6
Hendrick Kiers................................... " 6
Arent Hermens................................. 8
Jan Hendricks van Brevoort........................... " I
Jan le Maistre................................. " 6
Adolph Meyer........................................ "I4
Cornelis Jansen.................................. 12
Gerard Magister..................................... " 6
Jan Louw.................................... 20
Jan le Maistre t
Arent Hermens 5
rent of the land..................... "65
Jan Nagel, rent of the meadow........................ " I8
f. 342
Upon the 4th April, "The Constable was authorized and
empowered to collect and receive the debts which to this town
must be paid, according to the assessment of the g9th February,
I677, as from Jan Louwe, David Des Marest, Glaude le Maistre,
and others."
Demarest settled up in full with the town on April 26th,
his son David had done so on the 23d, and soon after this the
whole family, with Jacques Laroe, removed to their new home
on the Herring River, now the Hackensack. All the adults, being
eight persons, united "by certificates" (in part from the French
church), with the church at Bergen, on October 7th succeeding.*
* Demarest's "two miles square" purchase from Mendawasey and other Tappan
chiefs was commonly called "The French Patent." From what is now New Bridge,
on the Hackensack, two miles above Hackensack village, it reached up the river to a
little beyond Old Bridge; and from the river eastward to the "North River Mountains,"
or present line of the Northern Railroad. On the part lying above the Old Bridge,
upon the bank of the Hackensack, in a charming situation, Demarest built his dwelling
and a grist mill, with a dam across the stream. He called his home Essa, perhaps
from the old family seat in Picardy, Oise Mont, or Oise, which the Latin authors called
CEsia or Aisia. Afterward buying lands on the west side of the river, he put up there
a saw mill, and also a more capacious grist mill. This last was called the Great Mill,
and its older neighbor opposite, the Little Mill. Demarest's plan of forming a French
colony on his tract, failed; though he drew to him several families, as those of Daniel
du Voor, Jean Durie, Jacques Laroe and Nicholas de Vaux, and they together organized what was called "The French Church of Kinkachemeck," and built a house of
worship in Demarest's land near the dwelling, upon a knoll just below the Old Bridge,
where still remains "The French Burying Ground." In midsummer, I693, David
Demarest, the patriarch, died and his remains, with those of his wife, who died first,
no doubt rest in the old burying ground aforesaid. His last will, made August 26,
350 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Again on the 8th of M1ay resolutions were passed as follows:
Whereas it is found that the Voorleser, from the contributions, for
this current year since the 23d October past, with the rent of the town's
lot and meadow reckoned in, will not draw for his salary more than 342
guilders, instead of 400 which he must have yearly; the said Voorleser
has, to the constable and magistrates assented, that (because of other
burdens) he shall have for this current year till 23d October first coming, no more than the said 342 guilders; and the constable and magistrates shall then make a new and reliable assessment for the full sum of
400 guilders yearly as salary, according to the first accord of 23d October,
1670. The whole aforewritten provision is by the Voorleser agreed to,
declaring therewith to be content.
Is also taken into consideration about the rebuilding of the town's
house for the Voorleser; it is found good to take the same in hand by
the tirst opportunity, as the most necessary work to be done by the
Inhabitants, and they having leisure to properly hew and make ready
the timber for the same; thereupon called in Gerard Magister, a wheelwright, to contract with him for the carpenter work, according to a plan
to him submitted. Demands 200 guilders; whereupon it was not ordered,
but the magistrates said that they would think upon it and inform him
when they should be able to have himn do it; thereupon separated.
Circumstances led to a change of plan. Mrs. Montagne had
ended her widowhood, but within a short three years had lost
her second husband, Mr. Isaac Kip; the magistrates being called
upon July 25, I678, to inventory the household goods "which
1689, gave his estate equally to his three sons. David junior had meanwhile died, and
his widow married John I)urie. (n August 13, 1693, some days after the death of
I)avid, the elder, a division was made, in presence of Rev. Pierre Peiret, by John and
Samuel I)emarcst, and by John Durie for the children of I)avid, junior; the homestead and Little Mill falling to John, the lands and mills west of the river to Samuel,
and heirs of I)avid. After losing its chief patron, the French church declined; Rev.
Pierre ])aille, leiret's colleague who usually preached here, removing to Boston, his
visits ceased, and the i)emarests and others took letters to the Dutch church at Hackensack. I)emarest's cherished creations, the church, the mills, have alike disappeared;
only a few piles, the remains of the mill-dam, show their heads at very low water.
John l)emarest was born, 1645, on the Island of Walcheren, Zeeland; married,
1668, Jacomina, daughter of Simon l)e Ruine, again in 1692, Marritie Van Winckel.
widow of Peter Slot, and, in I702, Magdalena Laurens, widow of Jean Tullier. In
1689, he was of the committee of safety which commissioned Governor Leisler. He
died in I7I9, having parcelled his lands among his children. These were (wife or
husband given in parentheses), I)avid, born 1669 (Antie, daughter of Jan Slot); John,
1671 (I)eborah - ); Maria, 1673 (Jacobus Slot); Sarah, 1675 (Abraham Canon);
Rachel, 1678 (Thomas Ilyatt); Jacomina, i680 (John Stewart, from Sterling, Scotland); Leal, 1682 (Abraham Birower); Magdalena, I684 (James Christie, from Iverden); Peter, i688 (Maria Meet and Maria Button). David l)emarest was born, 1652,
at Mannheim, and married, 1675, Rachel, daughter of Pierre Cresson. lie (lied about
169I. IIis widow married John Durie, and, in 1702, Roelof Vanderlinde. i)emarest's
children were, I)avid, born 1676 (Sarah, daughter of Rev. Guiliaem Bertholf); Peter,
1677, not again named; Susanna, 1679 (Peter Westervelt); Rachel, i680 (Andries
Van Norden); Jacobus, I68i (Leah, daughter of Peter De (root, and Grietie, daughter
of Cosyn Herring); Samuel (Sitske, daughter of Siba Banta); Mary (Wiert Banta);
l)aniel (Rebecca, daughter of Peter I)e Groot); Benjamin (Elizabeth, daughter of
Peter De Groot); Jacomina (Andries Van Buskirk); Leah (Rynier Van Houten);
Lydia (Stephen Terhune).
Samuel I)emarest was born, 1556, at Mannheim, and marierd, about 1678, Maria,
daughter of Simon 1)e Ruine, who survived him. lie died in 1728. His sons who
reached manhood, were, 1)avid, born I68I (Mattie 1)ebaun); Samuel (Annetie Van
Iloorn); Peter (Margaret Herring); Simon, born I699 (Vrouwtie Herring); and his
daughters were, Magdalena, horn I680 (Cornelius Banta); Jacomina (Samuel Helling
and Cornelius Van Hoorn); Judith (Christian Debaun and Peter I)urie); Sarah
(John Westervelt); Rachel (Jacobus Peek); Susanna, born 1703 (Benjamin Van
Buskirk). To most of these Samuel assigned portions of his lands before his death.
We cannot extend these interesting details, so far, we believe, entirely reliable;
but invite some one to fill out the genealogical lines, which, in I820, were said to
embrace seven thousand names!
HISTORY OF HARLEMI.
351
the deceased in his lifetime had brought to the widow." The
plan to build a new house, the timber for which was already
contracted for with Daniel Tourneur, was suddenly arrested, and
the widow turned her contract over to the town. Thereupon
the following resolution was passed September 7th:
The Constable and Magistrates, with the advice of the whole Community, have found good and resolved to rebuild and renew the town's
house for the Voorleser; and Daniel Tourneur has agreed to cut the timber needed therefor, as he was held to do for Maria Vermelje, for I30
guilders (on condition it shall cancel her whole debt in the town's account); to wit: 5 beams twenty feet long, broad in proportion; I2 posts
ten feet long, 4 sills twenty-two and twenty feet long, 2 rafters, 2 girders,
I other spar, all twenty-two feet; also split shingles for the roof; all
finished to deliver at the stump, and they of the community shall ride out
the said timber, as it is ready, and bring it to the work, etc.*
Leaving Tourneur to perform his toilsome work of hewing,
and good Vander Vin to make the best of his straitened circumstances,-for owing Gerrit Van Tright, of New York, merchant,
"64 gl. 13 st. in beaver, Ioo gl. 17 st. in sewant, and 2 pieces
of eight in silver," he was obliged, July 27th of this year, to
mortgage his house and lot on the Beaver Graft, whence he derived a part of his support,-other matters now claim a notice.
Changing the lines on Van Keulen's Hook was a fruitful
cause of misunderstanding between adjoining owner's during
this and the preceding year. Hendrick Kiersen's lease of the
Tourneur lots had not yet expired. Pierre Cresson, who joined
Tourneur on the west, summoned Kiersen to court, June 7, I677,
demanding that he should give up the strip of his land on which
he had sowed. Kiersen said he had only used the land he had
hired of Tourneur.
"The Honorable Court having maturely considered the case
in question, and finding it to be a mistake general among the
* Isaac Kip was of a worthy and well known family, for an account of which
see Holgate's Am. (en. and the N. Y., G. & B. Rec., for i877.
Mr. Kip was born at Amsterdam, in i627. HIe was much respected at Harlem,
and was nominated for magistrate October 27, I675. He had no children by Maria
Vermilye; but his first wife, Catalina, daughter of Hendrick Jansen, bare him Hendrick (see p. I63), Tryntie, Abraham, Isaac, Jacobus, Johannes. Tryntie married
Philip de Forest. Jacobus was the great-great-grandfather of Rev. Francis M. Kipp,
and Rev. Wm. I. Kipp, D.D. Johannes, baptised January 20, I669, is the subject of
a letter in my possession, written in Dutch, on a sheet four by six inches, and which
read thus:
Mrs. Mary Kip. After salutation; These friends come to counsel with you to
the best and most proper way to manage it with Johannesie Kip, the youngest child
of your husband, my brother deceased. 'Tis such 1 should also have come, but have
just now in daily employ four strange masons, and cannot leave them. Therefore request that you with the friends will please consider all that is needful to do for the
welfare of the child, and further provide that which is necessary. What you and
the friends do, shall be acceptable to me. Hoping that both sides may agree in all
friendship for the best; whereof not doubting, commend you to God's protection, and
remain,
I678, the 26 July Your affectionate
Kipsberry. Jacob Kip.
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users and owners of these lots, consent and order that, as it is
now sowed, it shall remain as it is till the crop is off the land;
and that then each one shall plough and sow his land according
to the last survey made and staked off by the sworn surveyor."
Again, Glaude le Maistre claimed and put under arrest the
grain which had been sowed by Joost Van Oblinus on a strip
of land that fell within Le Maistre's line. On a complaint by
Oblinus July 12, I677, the town court, a little mystified in this
instance, directed "the plaintiff to cut and carry in his grain,
but that he shall take account how much has stood upon the
strip of land in question, and keep the same separate till further
order."*
Again, on September 5, I678, Cornelis Jansen complained
of Jan le Maistre, "concerning a strip of bouwland upon Van
Keulen's Hook"; that he "had not fixed his land properly according to promise." Defendant said that he had regulated the land
as it should be, and that the plaintiff might have ploughed it;
proves that he had proposed and plaintiff had refused an arbitration as to the fitness. After hearing parties the Court went out
and viewed the situation, "in order afterwards to judge as they
should"; and then the parties came to an agreement,-Jansen to
have his strip of land, etc., and the costs to be borne half and
half. Then the Court passed the following general order:
"Is moreover resolved and established that from now forward, to prevent further questions concerning the fences upon
Van Keulen's Hook because of the changing of some strips,
those intending to reset their new fence instead of old, remain
bound to remove the old from the new, and to set it properly;
according to which each one must conform himself."
The year 1678 at the dorp wore away with no other noticeable incident except the usual choice of town officers, and the
visit from Dominie Nieuwenhuysen to install an elder and deacon.
On the latter occasion, Glaude le Maistre, at the expense of the
town, furnished "a half-vat of good beer" for the entertainment
of the dominie and the congregation, and Waldron, Dyckman,
Bussing, and Oblinus, advanced the dominie each 3 guilders (in
all 12) for his services, while Jan Nagel provided the wagon to
bring and return his reverence; the visit costing the town in all
41 guilders.
An episode of the current year was a marriage in high life
* Coin was then so rare an article in the colony, that Vander Vin makes a note
to this case as follows: "The Plaintiff paid for the extraordinary session a double
gold ducat, 9 guilders Holland; in sewant, 36 guilders." So it then took four guilders
in sewant to make one in coin.
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353
at New York, that of Thomas Codrington, merchant, to Margaret,
daughter of the then mayor, Captain Delavall. Having resumed
active business on his return from England, the captain was
now in the height of his prosperity, and enabled to do handsomlely by his daughter, upon whom, October 9th, in view of her
nuptials soon "to be solemnized," he settled the sum of 1500.
Twenty years later, Captain Codrington, meanwhile risen to
wealth and official listinction, became a freeholder of Harlem,
by the purchase of the Baignoux farm; the good services which
he rendered the town in its public affairs only ending with his
death in 1710.
It speaks well for the prevailing security at this period,
that but seldoln an act of robbery comes to notice. A flagrant
case which occurred in the spring of 1679 made the greater excitement at Harlem, as one of the thefts was committedl at "the
house of Daniel Tourneur's sister," the wife of Frederick De
\Voe. The thief was one Williams, who having stolen a horse
at Stamford, had also robbed several persons in Fordlham. Being
arrested, and, by an order from the Governor of MIarch 3d,
"delivered pinioned into the hands of the constable of Harlem,"
Waldron conducted him to New York for trial. He was convicted on May 8th, of horse stealing, upon several affidavits taken
at Stamford.
This year another French refugee left the town with his
family. This was Pierre Cresson. After selling out his farm,
May 23, I677, to Jan Hendricks Van Brevoort, who had had it
a year under lease, he built upon and occupied his outside garden No. 14. This he now sold, March 5, I679, to Jan Nagel,
who owned No. 13, for Ioo guilders in goods or grain, a pair
of oxen, one cow, and a half-firkin of soap. Cresson removed to
Staten Island, having already secured a lot of land at or near
Long Neck, on the northwest side of the island, for laying out
which an order had issued from the Secretary's office, MayI4,
I678. A small stream, on which lay his meadow at Sherman's
Creek, was long called after him "Pieter Tuynier's Run."
This year gave rise to a protracted law-suit between Daniel
Tourneur and Cornelis Laurens Jansen, as plaintiffs, and Colonel
Lewis Morris, defendant, concerning certain meadows on Stony
Island, which the plaintiffs claimed to have owned "upwards of
sixteen years." This carried their title back to Stuyvesant's
grants, in I663, to Tourneur, Cogu, and De Meyer. Morris
claiming the meadows as within his purchase, had sent his men
in haying time to mow and gather the grass. The others com
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plaining of this trespass, obtained from the Council the following
mandate in their favor:
"Ordered that the Petitioners do continue in quiet posession of the said meadows at Stone Island, according to their
grants. And if Colonel Morris have any claim or pretence
thereto, the same is to be heard and determined at the next (eneral Court of Assizes."
'hus the matter rested till the next annual return of the
having season.
The signal event of the year was the visit of the two Labadist travelers, Sluyter and Dankers, from WVicward, in Friesland. Their journal affords us this interesting description of
their visit.
Under date of October 6, I679, they say: "We left the
village called the Bouwery, lying on the right hand, and went
through the woods to New Harlem, a tolerable village situated
on the south side of the Island, directly opposite the place where
the northeast creek and the East River come together." Their
object was "to explore the Island of Manhattan," which in their
view ran east and west, but in this respect we correct their
account in italics. "This island is about seven hours' distance
in length, but is not a full hour broad. The sides are indented
with bays, coves, and creeks. It is almost entirely taken up;
that is, the land is held by private owners, but not half of it is
cultivated. Much of it is good woodland. The south end on
which the city lies is entirely cleared for more than an hour's
distance, though that is the poorest ground; the best being on
the east or north side. There are many brooks of fresh water
running through it, wholesome, and fit for man and beast to
drink, as well as agreeable to behold; affording cool and pleasant resting-places, but especially suitable for the construction
of mills, for while there is no overflow of water, yet it can be
shut off and so used."
With eyes accustomed only to monotonous plains and pastures, they viewed with delight the variety of landscape. Mount
Morris and the heights lying westward of the flats they describe
as "two ridges of very high rocks, with a considerable space
between them, displaying themselves very majestically, and inviting all men to acknowledge in them the majesty, grandeur,
power, and glory of their Creator, who has impressed such
marks upon them." The last reference is probably to the outcropping of the gray stone along the entire face of the west
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heights. "Between them runs the road to Spyt den duyvel.i
The one to the wecst is most conspicuous; the cast ridge is covered with earth on its west side, but it can be seen from the water
or from the mainlandc beond to tie cast. The soil between these
rildges is very good, thouol a little hilly and stony, and would
be very suitable in my opinion for planting vineyards, in conse(luClice of its being shut off on 1)oth sides from the winds which
Vwould injure them."
\ith (;errit Van!)Dutvn, of Long Island, who had volunteered
to show them the way, they reached -larlem. "As our guide,
Gerrit, had somne business here and found many acquaintances,
we remained over night at the house of one Geresolvecrt (meaning Resolvedl Waldron), constable of the place, who had formerly
lived in IBrazil, and whose heart was still full of it. This house
was constantl- filled with people, all the time drinking; for the
most part that (letestalle rum. IHe had also the best cider we
have tasted.
"Amilong the crowd we found a person of quality, an Englishmal named Captain Carteret, whose father is in great favor
with the king, and he himself had assisted in several exploits in
the king's service. This son is a very profligate person. He
married a merchant's daughter here, and has so lived with his
wife that her father has been compelled to take her home again.
He runs about among the farmers and stays where he can find
umost to drink, and sleeps in barns on the straw. If he conducted
himself prol)erly, he could be not only governor here, but hold
* Harlem lane. (See note p. 282). The road from Harlem village to Spuyten
Duyvel had been laid out recently by order of the Mayor's Court of November 7,
1676, and pursuant to which the inhabitants on December 7, met and "resolved to make
the road between this village and Spuyten Duyvel; to begin on Saturday the 9th of
this month." Harlem lane was probably regulated about the same time. Its first
house was put up by the Tourneurs as early as I679, and stood "about where 7th
avenue intersectes I I5th street." Says one looking back over half a century, "I remember the depression where the partly filled up cellar was, and the two large old
ox-hearted-cherry trees that stood probably in front of the house." The only ancient
dwelling left on Harlem lane is the old Van Bramer house, on the east side of the
lane midway between I I7th and i i8th streets, its gable end to the road, and fronting
to the south. It was built not long before the Revolution, probably by Hendrick Van
Bramer, who lived there in I774. Fifteen years ago we noted: The front and the
west endc were laid up of hammered red or free stone. Query, why were not all
sides of stone? The oldest portion measured i8 by 31 feet; for the frame addition of
I5 feet 6 inches on the east end was modern. Its exterior was tasty. The eaves were
low, the roof had a modern pitch; while the short beveled chimney tops, and the
quaint dormer windows, with fiat roofs sloping downward toward the front, had a
decidedly antique air. The weather-beaten clapboards (on the rear and on the gable
above the caves the same), were very thick, rabbeted deep, finished with a half-inch
bead, and put on with large wrought nails. The window sills, etc., were of black
walnut, the sash stiles very heavy and the glass all 7 by 9. The two front doors
were in halves after the old fashion, and hung on strap hinges. The ceilings low, not
plastered, showed the bare, heavy oaken timbers, planed and beaded; and the stair
to the loft was a perpendicular ladder! Some claim it to be the very house that De
Forest and Montagne built on this Flat in i637, which had two doors and was I8 feet
wide. But that was 42 feet long, and measured by Dutch feet. Plainly no such
antiquity can be assigned it, as the deed for the land given by Arent and Lourens
Kortfight to Benjamin Benson. February 9, 1755, mentions no tenement.
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357
higher positions, for he has studied the moralities, and seems to
have been of good understanding; but that is all now drowned.
His father, who will not acknowledge him as his son, as before,
allows him yearly as much only as is necessary for him to live.
"Saturday, 7th. — This morning, about half-past six, we set
out for the village, in order to go to the end of the Island; but
before we left we (lid not omit supplying ourselves with peaches
which grew in an orchard along the road. The whole ground
was covered with them and with apples, lying upon the new
grain with which the orchard was planted. The peaches were
the most delicious we had eaten." Proceeding up the Island,
they add:
"We crossed over the Spyt den duyvel in a canoe and paid 9
stivers fare for us three, which was very dear. We followed the
opposite side of the land and came to the house of one Valentyn"-this was the ancestor of the Valentines of 'Westchester.
He was not at home, but his Dutch vrouw, who was from Beest,
in Gelderland, glad to see the Hollanders, entertained them at
breakfast; after which they came down on that side to Col.
Morris's, meeting his nephew Walter Webley, ready to cross the
river. "He carried us over with him and refused to take any pay
for our passage, offering us at the same time some of his rum, a
liquor which is everywhere. We were now again at New Harlell, and dined with Geresolveert, at whose house we slept the
night before, and who made us welcome. It was now two o'clock;
and leaving there we crossed over the Island, which takes about
three quarters of an hour to do, and came to the North River,
which we followed a little within the woods, to Sappokanikke."
A few days after at Staten Island they fell in with Pierre
Cresson.- Had the elder Tourneur been living, this visit of the
x l'ierre Cresson, or M\oy Pier Cresson (me Pier Cresson), as he always wrote
his name, is the subject of interesting notice in the journal of these Labadists. Under
late of October 13, I679, they say, "We pursued ourf journey this morning fromn
plantation to plantation, the same as yesterday, until we came to that of Pierre le
Gardinier, who had been a gardener of the Prince of Orange, and had known him
well. lie had a large family of children and grand children. Ile was about seventy
years of age, and was still as fresh and active as a young person. He was so glad to
see strangers who conversed with him in the French language about the good, that
lie leaped for joy. After we had breakfasted here they told us that we had another
large creek to pass called the Fresh Kill, and there we could perhaps be set across the
Kill van Kol to thle point of 'Mill Creek, where we might wait for a boat to convey us
to the Manlhattans. Tlie road was long and difficult, and we asked for a guide, but he
had no oine, ill consequence of several of his children being sick. At last he determined to go himself, and accordingly carried us in his canoe over to the point of
Mill ('reek in New Jersey." Here they "thanked and parted with Pierre le Gardinier."
Pierre and his son Joshua, had each obtained a grant of 88 acres on the west side
of the island, which were surveyed for them December 24, i68o, and patents issued
December 30. This is the latest notice found of Pierre. His children, so far as appears, were Susannah, Jaques, Christina, Rachel, Joshua and Elias. Susannah, born
at Ryswyk, married, i658, at New Amsterdam, Nicholas Delaplaine. Tier father gave
hler a marriage portion of 200 guilders. Christina, born at Sluis, married Jean Letelier
and Jacob (,erritsz Haas. Rachel, born at Delft, married David Demarest, Jr., Jean
Durie and Roelof \ anderlinde. Joshua Cresson, born I659, and Elias, born 1662,
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Labadists must have restored faded reminiscences of the father
of the sect, Labadie, when by his eloquence he so moved the
hearts of the people of Amiens. If others had personal knowledge of those scenes, as Demarest, Disosway, Cresson, they had
remove(l, and the interest which the travelers awakened at Harlem was probably confined to the objects of their visit, their
character and movements. Professing the doctrines of the Dutch
Churcb, but warmly advocating a higher religious life, they appear to have won the respect of all till they began to make
proselytes to their peculiar social ideas, which nearly resembled
those of the Shaking Quakers. But they gained over to their
views members of several respectable families, as those of Beekman, Bayard, Cresson, and Montanye, some of whom were persuaded to join the community established by Sluyter at Bohemia
Manor, in Maryland.
The travelers staying a night with Waldron and dining with
him the next day, should have made no mistakes in speaking of
him. Yet we suspect they have. Waldron's history is sufficiently known to make it improbable that he had ever visited Brazil.
But the voorleser, Vander Vin, whom they must have seen and
conversed with, had spent some of his earlier years in that
country, when clerk of the High Court of Justice at Mauritsstadt, during the presidency of the Heer Johan van Raasvelt. He
kept the minutes of this court. Here he had met with Hon.
Matthys Beck and his uncle Jacob Alrichs-both afterward vicedirectors, the one at Curacao and the other on the Delawarewho were then among the Heere Electors of Schepens at Mauritsstadt. Vander Vin might well retain vivid impressions of his
experiences in Brazil at a very exciting period in the history of
the Dutch occupation there, to which we have before alluded, and
have been "still full of it," as the travelers say of Waldron. Mistakes easily find place in the hastily-written notes of tourists, and
the journal of these travelers forms no exception.
both lived upon Staten Island, the latter, we presume, succeeding to his father's
farm. tie was high sheriff of Richmond County, under I,eisler. One Joshua Cresson
lived at North JBranch, N. J., in 1720.
Jacques Cresson, of good rep)ute and mulch respected at Harlem where he owned
property and held office, married, 1663, Marie Renard, of whom we have given some
account. They had issue, Jaqucs, born 1665; Maria, I670; Susannah, 1671; Solomon,
1674; Abraham, and Isaac, I676; Sarah, i678; Annla, 679; Rachel, I682. Jaques'
injury, January 3I, 1677, and sad death, August i, I684, we leave unrecorded. Htis
widow, with her son Jaques or Jacobus, sold their house in Stone street, September 9,
1685, and taking a church letter, November 25, she sailed, with her family, for the
Island of Curacao. Later they returned, and Mrs. Cresson reunited with the church
at New York, May 28, 70oI, but it is evident they soon left again for Philadelphia.
Solomon Cresson served as constable there in 1705, and others of the family are found
in that vicinity. The descendants include the late eminent philanthropist, Illiot Cresson, and the present Dr. Charles M. Cresson. The name of late years has worked up
the valley of the Susquehanna into New York State.
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359
"Great injustice has been done to the memory of Capt.
James Carteret," says the historian of Elizabeth; and a truer re*miark was never uttered. We do not believe all the hard things
said of him by the Labadist travelers, for we recall the oft-told
story of his illegitimacy, now at length admitted to be a fiction.
In quest of information wherewith to embellish the narrative of
their tour, and strongly inclined to the hypercritical, the tourists
were likely to swallow any bit of scandal which their. fellow
Dutchmen at Harlem were ready to deal out to them against the
English in general, and Delavall's family and kin in particular;
one-sided stories, which the brevity of their stay gave no opportunity to correct. Into these old prejudices none probably entered
more heartily than Waldron, who, albeit he was of English extraction, evidently cherished no affection for the land of his
ancestors.
Carteret, it is true, had been unsuccessful in business ventures, incurring debts which, maugre his willingness and
promises, he found it hard to pay; but it is difficult to believe him
so utterly the vagrant he is represented, being still a land-holder
at Harlem. That Mrs. Carteret, having young children, should
prefer a comfortable city home under her father's roof, was not
so strange for one to whom the society at Harlem was uncongenial, or could offer little that was attractive. And so there was
room for dislike or prejudice to put the worst construction upon
it. But why argue about that which could have been scarcely
more than a matter of temporary convenience? as Mrs. Carteret,
while her father was still living, accompanied her husband to
Europe, to look after his landed interests there; probably making
their principal home in the Island of Jersey, where their only
daughter was married in I699, and so respectfully notited as
"dauoghter of the Honorable James De Carteret." Certainly Capt.
Carteret was treated with much consideration at Harlem, where
on (ct. 20th, 1677, he received a nomination for magistrate.
If he was a hard drinker, he lived in a day and community when
indulgence was the rule. He was well read in the Scriptures;
and also reverenced them, if his apt quotations in his letter referred to be taken as evidence. That his heart had a tender side,
* The Labadist views were embraced by Nicasius de La Montague, Jaqucs Cresson, Petrus Blayard, William Beekman and his aunt, Susanna, widow of i\rent Keteltas,
named p. 277. Cresson could hardly have joined the community, as he died but a year
after Peter Sluyter's second arrival at New York, July 27, 1683, on his way to Maryland. Beekman and Montagne were but young men. Bayard left his wife, Blandina
Kierstede, in New York, but returned and died here in 1699. HIis son Samuel.
born 1675, married Susanna Bouchelle, Sluyter's stepdaughter, and, in I698, Sluyter
conveyed him part of the manor. Sluyter had married Anna Margareta Coude, then
the widow Bouchelle. She died in I721, he in 1722, and the community dissolved.
(See Jour. of Dankers and Sluyter, and N. Y. G. & B. Rec. 1878, i88).
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let an incident show. It was in the winter of I676; Jean le Roy
became embarrassed, and unable to pay his last year's rent for
the town lot. When told to the generous Captain, he headed a
subscription for his relief with Io gl.; more than was given by
all the rest besides.
The last mention of Capt. Carteret at Harlem is under date
of Nov. 21st, I679, when he sold his land on Montagne's Flat to
(laude Delamater, "for 200 guilders and a wether." Certain
provisions in the will of his father, Sir George Carteret, whose
death occurred Jan I4th ensuing, made it necessary for him to
return promptly to England and Jersey; and he appears no
more in this country. He still held the farm and mill property
with Little Barents Island, the title to all which descended to
his daughter, MIrs. Pipon, of Jersey.
On the 6th of November, 1679, died at the house of Johannes
Vermelje, the worthy old Norwegian settler, Claes Carstensen,*
whose age was 72 years. He had been for some time in needy
circumstances and was aided by the deacons, having been a
church member for many years.
On the same (late Abraham Shotwell sold the Sawkill farm
to John Robinson, of New York, merchant.
A question of some local interest had arisen between Jan
Lotuwe Bogert and Joost van Oblinus, touching a piece of salt
meadow at Hoorn's Hook, which Oblinus (in behalf of his son
Peter, still a minor) claimed as belonging to the lot laid out to
Peter on Aug. 6th, I677, by Robert Ryder, the surveyor, and
described as "a parcel of land being the tenth lot in the row, in
breadth on the river side twelve rods, bounded southwest by the
land of Jan Hendricks, stretches northwest into the colmmlon
woods one hundred and sixty rods, and northeast by the river,
including all points and morasses therein comprehended, containing twelve acres."
On the I2th of November Louwe procured a citation for
()Oblinus, requiring him to answer next court day "why he has
forbidden him to set off his meadows." The case came up on
* Claes Carstensen being from Sant, in Norway,, was called "the Norman." ITe
was here prior to the Indian war of 1643, had learned the Indian language, and figures
as public interpreter, at the forming of treaties, &c. In I646 lie married telena HIendricks, served, in I653, as corporal in the burgher corps at New Amsterdam, and was
admitted to the small hurgher right in 1657. After the English came in power, he
removed to Harlem, and on \Iarch 2, 1671, was granted a small house lot for the
term of his life. On his decease, and at the request of Resolved Waldron, elder and
constable, the deacons, Arent TTermens and Jan Nagel, took an inventory of his effects,
found in his house and at \ermilye's, where lie died; these being sold, November io,
1679, at public vendue for 268 guilders, i6 stivers "for the benefit of tile deaconrv
here."
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the 4th of December, Oblinus appearing as plaintiff, and the
following is the minute:
JoOST VAN OBI,INt-'S, Pltf., WhVereas a dispute has ariseil between
t's. Joost van Oblinus and Jan Louwe van
JAN Louwi. J Schoonrewoert over a certain small meadow
lying in the Bay of IHellgate, which each of
the parties claims as b)elollging to him; after several debates and rebuts
on either side, it was decided by the Honorable Court (the said small
meadow being the most southerly in the range under against the steep
hill next the little kil) that Jan Louwe for his meadows shall have those
that stretch from his great kil till to the little kil from anckcrs house;*
the rest to Joost van Oblinus. And ordered that each shall bear his own
costs attaching to this case.
The line of partition here indicated was apparently the same
as that afterward fixed and described in the deeds for the
adjacent upland, given by the town, March 2d, 170I, to Jan
Louwe Bogert and Jan Delamater, the latter then owning the
Hoorn's Hook or Waldron farm, which included the Oblinus lot.
By the above decision Oblinus plainly took a small share of the
meatlows claimed by Bogert under the town's grant to his predecessor Montagne.
Bogert's shrewdness in protecting his own interests more
than once exposed him to the charge of being disobliging, if not
churlish. Some time before-in I675-he had forbidden David
du Four and others from passing over his land, as they had
been wont to (ldo, to shorten their travel from Hoorn's Hook to
the m1ill, the village, and church. It happened that Du Four and
w.ife, in passing this way on Sunday, April lSth, in the said
year, noticed a cow, one of two which Bogert had taken of Hans
Jacobs Harding, "to winter, and to feed and water with his own
cattle," lying out in the road alone, while Bogert's cattle were
grazing in the meadows. Harding's cow (lied, as he charged,
from neglect; and the honest Swiss, finding such fruits of a friendship with Blogert running back to their emigration in the same
ship, brought his suit, Du Four being a witness for him.- Hence
*The Dutch word used (anckers) may be either the possessive or plural form.
Here it probably means anchor, perhaps the anchorage house; though the reference is
by no means clear. For those whom it may interest, we give the record in the
original:
Alsoo questie was geresen tusschen Toost van Oblinnis cndc Jan Touwe van
Schoonrewocrt over scecker valecytge, geiegen in de boght vant Hlellegat die elck
van parthyen sustineerde hem toe te behooren, naer v'scheyden debatten en rcbatten
ten weder zyde, is by den E gerechte verstaen dat het geseyde valcytge synde het
suydelycxte in die rygh onder tegen de stel,'e bergh naest het killetgc, dat Jan
Louwe voor valeyen sal hebben die haer strecken van syn groote kil tot aen het killetge
van anckers h.lys, de rest aen Joost van Oblinnis. Enn ordonneren dat ider syn
cygen costen over dese saecke gevallen, sal dragen.
* Hans Jacobs Harding was a weaver, and then lived at Stuyvesant's Bowery,
where he had bought a small place, February 12, I669, from Jan. Piertersen Slot.
He was a native of Bern, and married here July 29, i668, (eertie, daughter of Lambert M0oll, of Bushwick. She was born I648. Her older sister Marritie, also born here,
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Du Four and others, going that road againl A\ugust 5th, were forbidden and threatened by lBogert, who called them "rebels and
highway-lmen. David complained Sept. 2d, but the Court so
far sustained I:ogert as to decide "that there is no common way
over (lefenlant's land." At another time, William Waldron, of
New York, cooper, accused Bogert of having for spite unfastened
and taken to his house a cutting bench, two of which Waldron
had been usiing, and left nailed to stumps in the woods on Bogert's
point. IBut Blogert denied doing it, and after a long debate, pro
and con, they were reconciled. It was the tradition-so said a
descendant of Jan Louwe, the late excellent James Bogert, Jr.that Louwe's credit with the Indians for veracity led them to call
him in their language Schoonrewoerd, or True Lips! But as
this term is Dutch and not In(lian, alas for the tradition.*
The winter of I679-80 was barren of noteworthy incidents,
unless it was a bear hunt which took place on the farm of Mr.
John Robinson, at the Saw Kill; for bears, wolves, and other
noxious animals still infested the woods on Manhattan Island,
and were so troublesome, especially the latter, even years after,
that official encouragement was given to destroy them.t In the
bear hunt here noticed "very good diversion and sport" was
afforded those who took part in it, one of whom was the Rev.
Charles Wolley, chaplain of the garrison at New York. Bruin
was chased and treed in Robinson's orchard; "and," says the
chaplain, giving an account of it in his Journal, "when he got
to his resting place perched upon a high branch; we dispatched
a youth after him with a club to an opposite bough, who, knockmarried, in I646, Gerrit Hendrickse lBlauvelt, from D)eventer, who died in New York
about 1684, his sons l-Iendrick, Huybert, Johannes, Abraham and Isaac, who all had
families, removing to Tappan or Orangetown, Rockland County, and whence sprang
the numerous Blauvelts. Hlarding died in I685. The next year his widow married
Thys Fransz Oudewater, of Tappan, whither she and her children went to live. This
name took the form of ()utwater, and probably Atwater. Thys had a brother Thomas,
of New York; they were both born at Albany, and were sons of Frans Jacobsen, who
lived at Fort Orange as early as I657. Dr. Thomas Outwater, of Rockland, of Revolutionary merit, was a descendant.
The lHarding children were Tryntie, born I670; Frena, I671; Conrad, I673;
Lambert, I676; Reyer, I678; Johannes, I679; Jacob, I68i; Lambert, 1683; Emeline,
1685. The last married Johannes Verveelen. All the sons married, except perhaps
Lambert, and the Hardings in time spread through the counties of Rockland, Orange
and Ulster,- some being sturdy patriots in the Revolution.
* Schoonderwoerd, as more correctly written, was obviously so called from the
Dutch schoonder, signifying fairer, finer, &c., and woerd, another term for polder, a
tract of low land recovered from the overflow of the sea or surrounding rivers b~'
dykes and drainage; this term (woerd) applying as well to islands that had undergone the same reclaiming process. \Very many such places throughout Holland bear
names, of which this term forms the ending; variously written waard, woerd, woert,
etc. Schoonderwoerd was simply the Fairer-podler. We suspect the "tradition"
aforesaid came from nmistaking this term woerd for the more familiar woord, so taking Schoonderwoerd to mean fairer word; and fancy supplying the rest.
t The modern annotator of Woolley's Journal, aware of the prevalence of "bears"
about Wall street, may be pardoned for locating Robinson's farm, the scene of this
bear hunt, near that section of the city; Journal, Note 33. Hle only failed to bear in
mind that the old species, more cautious, and less disposed to risks, seldom ventured
so far down.
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ing his paws, he comes grumbling down with a thump upon the
ground; and so we after him again." The sequel is not told;
we know the youth was dispatched, but whether the bear was, is
more than doubtful, since Mr. Wolley says they had neither gun
nor weapon, except "a good cudgel;" whence also it may be
inferred that the hunt was not prearranged, but incidental to one
of those not agreeable surprises, which till years later often
awiaited the astonished farmer, on visiting his barnyard upon a
winter's morning.
We naturally connect Mr. XVollevys visit to Robinson's farm
with the sale which Robinson made, Jan. Ist, I680, of the half
of said farm, with the leather mill. etc.. to John Lewin, Esq.,
and 1\Mr. Robert Wolley, of London, merchants, the latter
probably a brother of the chaplain; wrhich l)urchase was effected
through the immediate agency of William Pinhorne, who had
returned from England in I678, in the same vessel with Chaplain Wolley, directly after a business interview with Lewin and
Wolley in London, at which the chaplain was present. Lewin
soon visited his purchase, as he arrived in New York on October
i6th ensuing, commissioned by the Duke of York to inquire into
and report utpon the administration of Gov. Andros.
Jan Nagel, Jan Dyckman, Arent Hermens 3Bussing, Adolph
Meyer, and Jan Delamater were busy hewing timber to fill a contract made Jan. 2d, I680, with Nicholas (le Meyer as agent for
Hendrick Cu-ler, of Albany, for whom thev were to furnish timber for a house, including "beams, posts, rafters, plates, sleepers,
loor-posts, and casings, according to the plan thereof," to be
delivered in the ensuing M\ay, part at the water side, and part
in New York, at the Burgher's Path; and for which they were
to receive "the sum of I300 (guilders with a half-ancker of rum,
to wit: one third in silver money or sewant, one third in good
winter wheat, and one third in goods at such price as he (De
Meyer) sells the same at his store for current sewant."*The timber for the town house had been ready for some time.
As early as December 20th preceding, a vote was taken to give
out the contract for building it, but it had been delayed in order
H [Tendrick Cuyler, tailor, was horn in 1673. His brother, Reynier, button maker,
resided at Amsterdam. Ilendrick married. at New Amsterdam, Anna, daughter of
Tan Schepmloes, andl about T664. went to Albany, where he acquired property. lie
eventually returned to New York, and with his wife united with the church by letter,
November 29, 1688. ITe died soon after, in 1690. IHis daughters, Maria, Sarah.
Rachel and PEva, married respectively John Cruger, Peter Van Ilrugh, Myndert
Schuyler and Rev. Petrus Van Driessen. His son, Johannes (Cuyler, born I661, was
mayor of Albanv in 1725-6. IIe married Elsie, daughter of Major Dirk Ten Broek.
From him and his brothers, Henry, married to Maria Jacobs, and Abraham, whose wife
was Catrina, daughter of lTon. Jan Jansen Blleecker, come the respectahle family of
Cuvler, allied from an early day to many others noted in the annals of New York.
HISTORY OF HARLETI. 365
that debts d(ue the town might first be collected. (n AMay
6th, I68o, action was taken regarding the house for the clerk; a
visitation of the outside lands was authorized with a view to assessingthose in fence; several small pieces of land were sold or
granted; and a resolution was passed to sell Moertje David's Fly.
But to particularize:
Constable Johannes Vermelje and Daniel Tourneur were appointed and empowered to employ a carpenter to build the house,
"for the least cost to the town." It was to be made 22 feet long
and 20 feet broad, and all complete with chimney, mantelpiece,
doors and windows. Adolph Pietersen De Groot, carpenter at
New York, took the job at 250 guilders.* The inhabitants agreed
to work at the building a certain number of days gratis.
The visit to the outside lands under the town's jurisdiction
was to ascertain the quantity enclosed within fence, with a view
to making an assessinent for town expenses. It was intrusted
to the constable, with Arent IHermens and Joost van Oblinus,
and who reported as follows:
Hendrick Bosch, at Moertje Davids Fly, I crf, I morgen.
John Robinson, at the Saw-kill, I erf.
Jacob Young, I erf, 2 niorgen.
Jean Baignoux, on HIoorn's Hook, I erf, I morgen.
Jean Belin and
Etienne Button,
on ditto, I erf, I nmorgen.
Jan Dircksen, on ditto, I erf, I morgen.
Michiel Bastiacnsen and
Hendrick Kiersen, at Spuyten Duyvel.
(No quantity
reported.)
Cornelis Jansen purchased of the town "a small piece of land
lying next to his land upon Montagne's Flat next the run (de
fonteyn), paying therefor to this town at once 25 guilders."
Johannes Vermelje "was granted and allowed the place before
his house extending into the street, from the corner post of Jan
Dyckman, on a line straight to the corner of Laurens Jansen's
* Gerard Magister, and his wife Madeleine l'Admiral, had now left the town,
posibly to join Demarest's colony. But inquiry, even an appeal made and repeated in
the columns of that valuable medium, the N. Y. G. and B. Record, fails to recall this
worthy Huguenot pair from their subsequent obscurity. A bill for carpenter work,
written by Magister's own hand, reads as follows:
Memoire de l'ouvrage que ici fait pour le comunaute de Iarlem.
Ic I4 fevriere 1677, fait une bariere..........................io franc
fait une siviere a Peter le mort...............................Io franc
le 17 decembre 1877, reclove une table et fait 2 banc pour le
maitre d'ecole........................................... 4 franc
le i6 fevriere 1678 fait 2 ban.............................. 8 franc
la som m e et..........................................32 franc
fait par moi
Gerard Magister.
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house, as broad as his erf and land may stretch, for him to set
off and use." Laurens Jansen was in like manner allowed to
take in the street so far as his land stretched, and Arent H-ermens was permitted to set off for his use a place 33 feet in the
street "along his two gardensl'; for which he was charged 12 gl..It was resolved to sell MIoertje Davids Fly at public vendue,
on Monday, the Toth instant. Whoever wanted it was invite(
to come, hear the conditions, and benefit himself. The constable
was authorized to extend the notice, and the secretary to post
a handbill. On May lo, I680, toward evening, the time appointed,
the constable and magistrates lbeinmg resent, the terms of sale
were madle knovwni as follows:
Conditions and Termns on which the constable and magistrates have
a mind to sell to the highest bidder a certain meadow lying in this town's
jurisdiction, at the North River, nalmedl \loertje Davids Valey.
Ist. Whoever remains purchaser shall be held to pay in the following
February, 168o-8I, punctually, with good winter wheat, without any default.
2. The cost attending this sale, as stiver money and other expense of
writing, shall be lorne and paid by the buyer.
Vander Yin started the sale with a bid of 50 gl. from Resolved Waldron, between whom and Hendrick Bosch was the
principal contest. Finally, Barent Waldron gave the sixteenth bid,
advancing 50 gl. and calling out "Mine," as was then the custom,
when it was struck off to him at 205 gl.
Meanwhile, Daniel Tourneur and the Jansens commenced a
prosecution against Colonel Lewis Morris for the trespass upon
their meadows at Stony Island the previous year. This case
assumed a graver importance, as upon its legal decision seemed
to hang other landed rights which the inhabitants had upon that
side of Harlem River.
On June 5th a formal declaration was entered in the Mayor's
Court, or Court of Record, at New York, as follows:
Daniel Tourneur, Cornelius Jansen and his brother Lawrence Jansen,
Plaintiff, against Lewis Morris, Sen., Defendant.
The Plaintiffs declare against the Defendant in an action of Trespass
upon the Case, for that he the Defendant sometime in or about the
month of July or August, in the year of our Lord one thousand six
hundred and seventy-nine, contrary to law and against the public peace,
did enter into and upon Plaintiff's meadow upon Stone Island, over
against New Harlem, and then and there by force and arms did with
scythes mow and cut down the grass which was growing upon the said
meadow, and with force and arms carried the hay away, whereby the
Plaintiffs were much damnified for want of hay for their own cattle in
the winter season, which is to the damage of the Plaintiffs, Forty
HISTCORY OF HARLEM3I.
367
Pounds. And thereupon tile Plaintiffs l)ring their Suit and crave Judgment. with costs of Court, et daml. ad qiuoqitc.
To which Colonel Morris entered this counter plea:
City of New York, Ss. And the said Col. Lewis Morris comes and
defends the wrong and injury to himi done, etc., and saith that the said
Daniel Tourleutr, Cornelius Jansen, and Lawrence Jansen their action
against him ought not to lhave, for that he knoweth not of any such
place as Stone Island over against New IHarlemn, as in the Declaration is
set forth, or that any Trespass is by him committed. But if by it shall
be meant a certain Island called Stone Island adjoining to his Plantation
and belonging to him, and that thereon the pretended Trespass should
be committed, he the said Col. Lewis IMorris doth plead in bar to the
said action, that the said Island is not within the Jurisdiction of this Court,
and therefore not triable in this Court. And therefore prays Judgment,
that the Plaintiffs may be nonsuited and pay costs, etc.
Having thus joined issue, the case came to trial as follows:
City of New York. The Court of Record of the City aforesaid, holden
at the City }Iall within the said City, the 6th day of July, I68o. Before
Francis Romnbouts, Mayor; William Beeckman, Johannes Van Brugge,
Peter Jacobs, Gulian Verplanck, Samuel Wilson, Aldermen.
Daniel Tourneur ct alii,]1
against \ about a Trespass upon a marsh.
Col. Lewis Morris, J
Mr. William Pinhorne, Mr. Jacob Leisler, '
Mr. Paul Richard, M\r. James Matthews, I
Mr. William Cox, Mr. Baltus Bayard,
Mr. Thomas Codrington, Mr. Norton Claypole,
Mr. John Lawrence, Jun. Mr. Albert Bush, I
Mr. John Robinson, Mr. Philip Smith,
The Deposition of John Delamater saith, that as he was going to the
Mill-dam, he saw three canoes loaden with hay, and he asked the negroes
where they had the hay so soon; they answered they had it at Stony
Island.
The Deposition of John Dyckman: Being at the meadow where the
hay was cut which is now in question; seeing negroes cut grass there,
asked the negroes who set them to cut the hay; they told him that their
master Col. Morris set them to do it. This deponent said that he could
find it in his heart to take away the hay which was made. The negroes
answered, he should not. This deponent asked why he should not carry
it away. The negroes answered, for because they were stronger than he.
Mr. Nicholas Demeyer sworn, saith that Col. Morris did confess that
he did send his negroes to cut the grass off the land in question, and said
he would send them to cut it again this year.
Verdict. The Jury find for the Plaintiffs; fifty shillings damage, and
costs of court.
The Court agree with the verdict, for all charges whatsoever.
Morris had relied with too great confidence upon the inability
of the other side to prove that he cut and took away the hay, or
ordered it done. He insisted "that they prove their damage how
much it is," and declared the jury was "not lawfully impan
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elled," that "the Smith,"-alluding to Bush,-was "no juryman.
Morris paid no heed to the decision, but soon made good
his threat by again mowing the meadows. Of this Tourneur
and the Jansens complained July 26th, and the next day the
Mayor issued his warrant to the constable of Harlem to 'give
warning unto the said Colonel Lewis Morris, his agents, workmen, and servants, that they presume not to mow, cut, or carry
away, any of the grass or hay from off the said marsh or meadow
late in the controversy as aforesaid, as they and every of them
will answer the contrary at their perils," etc.
Nor (id this notice move Morris, who still denied the jurisdiction of the Mayor's Court. \hereupon the plaintiffs appealed
to Governor Andros. In this appeal they say:
"That your petitioners about seventeen years past did buy
and was possest of our several lands lying at Harlem, to which
belongeth a certain marsh or mea(low ground called by the nane
of Stony Island; for which land and meadow ground your petitioners hath and can produce patents signed in Governor Stuyvesant's time and afterward renewed by Governor Nicolls, vet
notwithstanding and although it is our just right, Colonel Morris
the last year did send his servants and workmen to cut the grass
off our said meadow and carried the same away before we had
knowledge of it; and the 6th day of July last past we had a trial
in the Mlayor's Court, where we obtained a judgment against
him, with damage and costs of court; yet notwithstanding the
same, he hath sent his servants and workmen to mow the said
meadow and make it into hay, and saith he will carry it away,
although he hath been forewarned to the contrary. Whereupon
* Hendrick Bosch, ancestor of the Bush family, was a nativex of Leyden, his
father bearing the same name, HIendrick. The son married Ann Maria Rembach, from
which union was Albert Bush, named in the text, born at Leyden in I645. Losing his
wife, Hendrick married Maria, daughter of Gerrit Eshuysen, with whom, his said son
Albert, and an infant of two. years (which last died early), he embarked for America,
December 23, i66o-a wrong year being given in N. Y. Col. Mss. vol. XIV. He
established himself as a sword-cutter in New York, where he had other children, viz.:
Dorothy, born I66i, who married Isaac Caspars Halenbeck, of Albany; two Gerrits,
born i663, and i665, both died early; and Hillegond, born I666, who married Lodewyck
Ackerman. By a third wife, Egbertie Dircks, widow of Hage Bruynsen, of Harlem, he
had also Cornelia, born 1672, who married Peter Gerard Cavalier; Hendrick, born I674;
Samuel, i677, and Joshua, I678. His farm near Moertje Davids Fly, referred to
elsewhere in the text, was sold before his death to Thomas Tourneur. Being of a
"great age," he made his will April 23, 1701, when all his children were living, save
those above excepted, and said son Albert. He cut off from sharing his estate, his
two eldest daughters, for "stubborn and disobedient carriage toward me these many
years," &c. All the sons had families. Albert learned his father's trade, married,
i668, Elsie, daughter of Jurian Blanck, and had children, Jurian, born I669; Anna
Maria, born i672; Justus, born i674; Albertus-Conradus, born I68I, and Casparus,
born I683. The daughter married Edward Marshall, tailor. On May 24, 1721,
Albert's widow and children, except Jurian, petitioned the Assembly; wish to sell his
house and lot. The registers of the Collegiate Church, New York, give the descendants
of Albert and others. Joshua Bush settled on Staten Island, his posterity being still
there; Justus Bush removed to Rye; others of the family went to Hackensack.
Marshall, born in Barbadoes, died June i, I704, aged 37 years.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
369
the Mayor hath directed a warrant to the Constable of Harlem
to forewarn them from such unjust, illegal actings, and to forbear;
vet would he take no notice thereof, and (lid say that he wondered that the Mayor was so bold as to issue forth his warrant
there. Which, if we are deprived of this our just right, we shall
be destitute of food for our cattle in the winter time, and must
be constrained to turn our stocks out into the woods, where we
shall be in danger of being damnified by several inconveniences
that attend the same; it being the chiefest of our pasture-ground.'
They pray for his Excellency's consideration, etc.
On the above being submitted to Colonel Morris, he indorsed
upon it the following answer:
"I have seen the contents of this petition, and in answer say,
that what hay hath been cut and carried away has been from
and off my own land, which I am ready to make appear and
justify in the Court at Jamaica (in which precincts, as I am
informed, the land lies), and to make good my title, or pay the
condemnation for the trespass thereon committed, according to
the verdict of the jury. New York, the 28th July, I680.
"LEwis MORRIS."
To Morris' proposal to change the venue to Jamaica, exception could hardly be taken, that town being the seat of justice
for the North Riding, in which Westchester was included. But
a year now slipped by, when Tourneur again essaying to mow
his meadows was forcibly ejected by Morris, who seized his hay.
And thus the matter rested for another two years.
Things went on as usual in the village. On September ist,
1680, there was a full turnout of the inhabitants to repair the
king's highway. Barent Waldron was missing, and thus liable
to a fine of 6 gl., which was to be put upon every delinquent.
The four magistrates, conferring together, repaired in the evening to the house of Constable Johannes Vermelje, and in the
name of the community requested him to collect the fine from
Waldron. Vermelje, who was a brother-in-law to Waldron,
refused, said he was not bound to, that they were fools to ask
it, and, moreover, that they had no right to command him; that
being constable it was his prerogative to command in this town,
and not the magistrates', who could not hold a court without
him. On September 4th, the court having met, Vermelje, whose
dignity had been touched because the magistrates had presumed
to act in his absence, took them to task for it. In vain they
explained that they had held no court, but only a conference:
Vermelje protested that his authority as constable should be
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HIISTORY OF HARLEM.
maintained or he would appeal to the High Court. The magistrates also insisted that their authority should be respected; and
so the affair ended.
The work upon the town house drew largely on the time of
some of the inhabitants, especially Daniel Tourneur and Jan
Delamater; and these, with Jan Hendricks Brevoort, Arent Hermens, Jan Nagel, Adolph Meyer, Jan Dyckman, and Laurens
Jansen, all took part in riding the shingles to enclose the house.
Four hundred and thirty feet of sawed planks were obtained
from Gabriel Legget, of \Vrestchester, "wood-sawyer," for flooring the loft; and Henricus (le Forest, of New York, did the
glazing of the windows. The inhabitants had credit in their
accounts for whatever articles they furnished, or extra time they
spent; the allowance for a day's labor being 5 gl., or two dollars.
The building of a bridge across the Spuyten Duyvel had been
under consideration for a year; on January 7, I680, the Council had taken orler to have the passage viewed for that purpose.
It caused Verveelen some uneasiness, as his lease would run out
on November I, i68o. The time had even expired when he succeeded, on December 30th, in getting from Governor Andros an
extension of his ferry privileges for seven years longer.
The Sieur Dubuisson visited the village March 28, I68I, to
give testimony in a case pending before the court. Marked
respect seems to have been shown this Huguenot stranger, regarding whom we know so little.- On April 8th Paulus Richard,
as administrator of the estate of Meynard Journee, late of Staten
Island, deceased, confirmed to Jan Nagel and Jan Delamater the
sale made them by Journee before he left Harlem. A painful
incident of the summer was the drowning of five persons, in
Hellgate, caused by the upsetting of a canoe. It happened at
night, August 23d. Thomas Palmer, tanner and currier, and
* Jean Baptiste de Poictier, Sieur l)ubuisson, of whom just enough is recorded to
whet our curiosity, was evidently a person of character, and of standing and influence
among the refugees. His interest in their affairs, and the friendly offices performed
for them, which incidentally appear, present him in an amiable light. He remained a
number of years in or about New York, being first noticed at Harlem in I676 and
last in I68i. If we are not mistaken, it was he who at a time of popular excitement
and fear of a French invasion from Canada, was the subject of the following order:
"Whereas we are informed that one Dubison is intending to transport himself
and family to Canada, being suspected to have kept a secret correspondence with the
French there, and it being judged dangerous to suffer such a person to live at
Saratoga, or any place in this country, at this juncture of the time, where he may
have conveniency to keep such a correspondence. You are therefore hereby required,
in his Majesty's name, to bring the said Dubison and family forthwith here, in order
that they may be secured from any such dangerous designs; in doing whereof this
shall be your sufficient warrant. Given, etc., in Albany, the I4th of June, I689.
"To Anthony Van Skaick, Constable of the Halfmoon."
As Dubuisson is found at Kingston, November 12, 1693, standing as godfather for
two children of Pierre Montras, who had renounced Romanism, we presume nothing
was found against him. One Sieur Dubuisson was sent from Quebec, in 171I, to take
command at Detroit.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
37I
Matthew Smith, in his employ, set out to row to Flushing, having
in company Anna MIarlett and Ann Coffin, of Staten Island, with
Mary Marshall, and one other person. Getting into the Pot, and
being "by the eddy tide overset," all but Smith were drowned.
Mhr. John de Forest, of New York, "Chirurgeon," bought
November 3oth, from Jan Delamlater, his lot No. 4 on Hoorn's
Hook, containing eight acres, for the sum of I30 guilders, or $52.
At the choice of new town officers this year was afforded a
striking instance of the precaution taken by the appointing power
to prevent favoritism on the part of the ruling magistrates in
procuring the choice of successors. In presenting a nomination
to the Mayor and Aldermen, if anv of the candidates were nearly
related to each other, or to either of the retiring nmagistrates, the
fact was to be expressly stated. Jan Nagel and Johannes Vermnelje, two of the nominees, returned December i9th and acted
l)pon the next (lay, were brothers-in-law, and also sons-in-law
of Resolved Waldron, retiring magistrate. Hence Vermelje
only was accelted. Cornelis and Laurens Jansen, being also
candlidates, Cornelis only was chosen, and his brother thrown out.
Similar cases might be cited.
The town house had been finished, and must be paid for.
To provide for this and certain other claims against the town,
a meeting was held February 14, I682. ()On a careful audit of
the accounts, the public debts were found to amount to 1,190 fl.,*
and the sums due the town from sundry persons to 406 fl. 12 st.
To meet the deficiency of 783 fl 8 st. a tax of 800 fl. upon the
lands and erven was voted.
The following is the assessment list, with a description of
the property annexed; the whole showing the exact state of the
occupied lands as they stood at this (ate, and the changes which
had taken place since the last list. According to what had
become the established practice and so continued, two thirds of
the gross tax was assessed uI)on the lands, and one third upon
the erven. Now each erf was taxed 7 guilders, and each morgen 2 guilders 14 stivers. Hitherto only the lands of Jochem
Pieters' Flat and Van Keulen's Hook, with Bogert's Point, had
been subject to tax. But to make up for Delavall's 54 morgen,
here for some reason omitted, an equal quantity (short half a
morgen) was taxed upon the outside lands, that is to say, Montagne's Flat, the New Lots, Hoorn's Hook, Spuyten Duyvel, etc.
It will be observed that the New Lots, so far taxed, are reckoned
* Costs incurred in making the Town's House, and some old balances, of debts,
etc., which must be paid from the present assessment, to wit:
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at two morgen each, or half their actual contents; and the other
outside lots, so far as included, at one morgen per lot, excepting
those at Spuyten Duyvel. For the first time also the outside
erven are included, swelling the list to 37 whole and 2 half
erven, without the two erven of Delavall or Carteret. The lands
in the list in brackets are either not assesed or only in part as
indicated. Dr. De Forest's lot on Hoorn's Hook is not in the
list. Delavall's 54 morgen embraced Nos. 15 to 22 of Jochen
Pieters, and Nos. 21, 22 on Van Keulen's Hook.
To Daniel Tourneur, 13 days' work, @ 5 guilders per day.............. f. 65 o: o
Riding 1650 shingles, @ 5 guilders per I50........................ 55 o:o
Also for shingles and clapboards................................ i6: 5:o
21/ Ibs. nails, @ 30 stivers...................................... 3 5 o
Paid Kleyn Jan for fixing town's drum.......................... 9: o o
I gallon of rum to the carpenter................................ 6 o o
A cord to the drum............................................. 3 o o
To Jan le Maistre, 6 days' work, ( 5 guilders....................... 30 o: o
3 Ibs. nails, @( 30 stivers........................................ 4 I0 o
Riding shingles and clapboards, etc.............................. 6: 5 o
Taking a warrant to Spuyten Duyvel............................. 4 oo
To Adolph Pieters for building the town house...................... 25: o:o
To Resolved Waldron, Io schepels wheat delivered................... 60 o:o
48 lbs. nails, @ 30 stivers...................................... 72 o o
Also to lath nails............................................. 5 o o
A cord to the town's drum....................................... 6 o o
Old payment (see page 352)..................................... 3 o o
Paid to the carpenter........................................... 120 o o
Board for the carpenter......................................... 40 o o
Barent Waldron, taking a warrant to Spuyten Duyvel.............. 4 o o
To Joost Van Oblinus, I lb. nails delivered........................... I: 0o:
Paid the carpenter.............................................. 30 o o
Old payment (see page 352).................................... 3 o o
To Jan Nagel, 3 lbs. nails, @C 30 stivers, delivered.................... 4 10 o
Riding shingles and clapboards, etc.............................. 26 5 o
Taking a warrant to Spuyten Duyvel............................. 4 o o
To Adolph Meyer, 2 schepels wheat delivered......................... 12 o o
Riding shingles and clapboards, etc............................... 16 5 o
Taking a warrant to Spuyten Duyvel............................. 4 o o
To Jan Dyckman, I schepel wheat delivered....................... 6 o o
Riding shingles and clapboards, etc.............................. 6: 5 o
Old payment (see page 352).................................... 3 o o
To Arent Hermens, I schepel wheat delivered......................... 6 o o
Riding shingles and clapboards, etc.............................. 6: 5:
Old payment (see page 352).................................... 3: o o
To Laurens Jansen, riding shingles, clapboards, etc................... 26: 5:
To Jan Hendricx Kyckuyt, riding shingles, clapboards, etc............ 26: 5:
To Johannes Vermilje, beer, wine and rum, etc...................... 33: o:o
To Isaac le Maistre, taking a warrant to Spuyten I)uyvel.............. 4: o:o
To Glaude le Maistre, 1/2 vat beer, old account (see page 396).......... 5: o: o
To Reynier Willems, the baker, balance............................. 15: o 0
To Nicholas Bayard, for services, old account......................... 24: o o
To Hend. J. Vander Vin, writing book, paper, and ink................ 12 o o
To De Forest and Legget, glass and planks to the town's house........ IIo: o
f. I9o: o:o
OWNERS.
Feb. I4th, 1682.
Joost van Oblinus.....
Resolved Waldron......
Jan Nagel..............
Daniel Tourneur........
Jan Hendricx Kyckuytl..
Laurens Jansen2.........
Arent Hermens3........
Glaude le Maistre......
Adolph Mleyer..........
Cornelis Jansen4........
Joannes Verveelen......
Joannes Vermelje.......
Jan le Maistre..........
Maria Vermelje........
Jan. Louwe Bogert......
Wid. Daniel Tourneur..
Michiel Bastiaensen5....
Hendrick Kiers.........
John Robinson.........
Hendrick Bosch........
Jacob Young...........
Jean Petit..............
Dirck vander Clyff......
Jan Dircksen...........
Jan Gerritsen de Vries7..
Jan Dyckman...........
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DESCRIP'ION OF PROPERT Y BY NUMBERS, ETC.
J. P. Nos. 7, TI, 13; V. K. H. I o, i, I,2 i6. [N. L. 8; H. H. 6, IO.]
J. P. No. 12; V. K. H. Nos. 2, 3, 2 4, 2 9; N. L. Nos. 3, 4, 9, Io.
J. P. Nos. 6, 8, 9: I2 erf on Out Gardens Nos. I3, 14.
J. P. No.;V. K. H. Nos. 17 double lot, I8, 19.
J. P. No. 5; V. K. H. I2 i6, 20. [N. L. No. I.]
J. P. No. 2; V. K. H. 2-35, 6.
V. K. H. /2 of No. I3. [N. L. No. 5.]
J. P. No. I4; V. K. H. No. I2; M. F. 3 lots 12 morgen; N. L. No. 2.
J. P. Nos. 4, io. [H. H. No. 7.]
J. P. No. 3; V. K. H. I2 I4, I5; N. L. No. 6. [M. F. I8 morgen.]
V. K. H. Nos. 7, 8, 2 9, /2 I3. [H. H. No. 3.]
V. K. H. upper I-3 of No. 5.
V. K. H. 2 of No. 14. [N. L. No. 7.]
[Hoorn's Hook No. 5.]
"On the Point."
MI. Flat, 3 lots i8 morgen; H. H. Nos. I, 2.
At Spuyten Duyvel. [Dyckman and Nagel had 74 acres there.]
At Saw-Kill. [Had 384 acres, with Lewin, &c.]
At Moertje David's Fly. [Had 30 acres.]
Below Hoorn's Hook. [Had 32%2 acres.]
On Hoorn's Hook. [Had 30 acres.]
Hoorn's Hook No. 8.
Hoorn's Hook No. 9.
V. K. H. 2 4, with house-lot on the end called 2 morgen.
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I Brevoort. 2 Low. 3 Mussing. 4 Kortright. 5 Kortright. 6 Baignoux. 7 Dolsen.
CHAPTER XXII.
I682-I685.
INCIDENTS; DEATH OF DELAVALL,, ARCHER, DELAMATER, AND VANDER VIN; TOURNEUR VS. MORRIS; DONGAN'S ASSEMBLY;
TOWN COURT RFMODELED; IALF-WAY HOUSE;
GLOUDIE'S POINT OCCUPIED, ETC.
F AR up the winding Neckar which joins the Rhine at Mannheim, in a fruitful part of Germany, was the little town of
Lauffen, where Gabriel Carbosie was born. Finding his way to
Holland, and thence to this country while under the Dutch, Carbosie, used to a rich soil, tried divers places, at both farming and
milling, and by the way had served on the "rattle watch" at New
Amsterdam in 1658; but yet this "very clever fellow" had accumulated little. Again at Harlem, after years on the Delaware,
to which he had gone when his Lutheran dominie, Fabricus, was
called thither, he was now too old to do much. Asking the
use only for his lifetime of "a small piece of land in the bend of
the Hellegat," whereon to set a small house, and by it make a
garden, from which, with fishing, to support himself and his
Brieta; Constable Oblinus assembled the whole community March
14, 1682, and, the matter having already been talked over one
with another, his request was granted. But it must be to no
one's prejudice, and Carbosie was not to keel over three or four
swine, lest they should damage "the meadows there lying, belonging to Jan Louwe." But were Carbosie to die, his widow, should
she marry again, must give up the land, unless the grant were
renewed; a wise provision (yet to Brieta perhaps too palpable a
joke), since Carbosie was her third husband, and with another
chance she might extend her tenure indefinitely. All of which
was as hard to foresee as what might be her next fancy; for herself a Swedish woman from Gottenburgh, she had already taken
to her heart a Dane, Freislander, and German.*
* Carbosie's first wife was Teuntie Straetsman, whom he married at New Amsterdam, in 1657. Her history has a touch of romance. She had lived in the Dutch colony
at Fort Margariete, in Brazil, and had already had three husbands, viz.: Jan Meyer,
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375
While Carbosie was miller for Delavall, his swine running
over the milldam had, as we have seen, caused Bogert not a little
annoyance. Whether he was now the more troubled at the
liberties just granted Carbosie, or at being himself fined 20 gl.,
"for the loss of four days' work upon the Town House," we
know not; only some things had crossed him. On May 4th, when
called to pay the late assessment and other arrears which, aside
from the fine aforesaid, relieved him of 52 fl. IO st., in silver, and
IO st. in sewant, Bogert tarried in the court-room, a full bench
being present, and demanded that he might have the same justice
as was done to other inhabitants. When asked wherein justice
had not been done him, he answered that in various ways he had
been treated with injustice; and then losing his usual control,
he outright charged their honors with being unrighteous rulers,
and "vomiting forth the same in great rage and railing," left
the room.
Recovering from their astonishment, the magistrates resolved
to cite Bogert to appear on the next court-day and answer for
his abusive language. They also ordered the debts still standing
out to be collected, if necessary, by execution. Bogert failing
to appear July 6th, another citation was sent him. But ere the
time arived he came before the board, which met August 3d at
his request; and expressing hearty sorrow for what he had said,
alleged it had resulted from passion, and promised, if forgiven
that time, never to repeat it. Thereupon the following action
was taken: "The magistrates of this Court having heard the petition, do excuse the petitioner his fault this time; nevertheless
that this Court may maintain and defend its rights and authority,
and that such conduct may not happen in future from him or
anyone else, they condemn him in a fine of 25 gl. to this town."
The fine was paid to the constable, and so the affair ended.
Next day, August 4th, the Court-held its regular monthly
session. A summons had been issued to Glaude le Maistre, pursuant to a motion of the constable, Oblinus, passed at the July
term, to the effect that the old verdict of July 12, I677, against
George Ilaff and Tileman Jacobs Vander Myen. By the first she had a daughter,
Margaret Meyer (wife of Hendrick Wiltsee, common ancestor of our Wiltsee family,(See Annals of Newton); by the second husband, "in his lifetime, field trumpeter in
Brazil," she had a son, Laurens Haff (who was born in Brazil, lived at Flushing, Long
Island, married, in I676, Kniertie, daughter of Peter Meet, and originated the respectable New York family of Haff); by the third, a daughter, Annetie Tilemans
(who married Dirck Hattem, of Gowanus, and Hendrick Van Pelt, of New Utrecht,(See Bergen Gen., 2d edit., p. 232); and by Carbosie, a son, David, born I659. Teuntie,
whose posterity thus remains among us, died at Gowanus, October 19, i662, and a
dozen years later, one of her former husbands in Brazil, Vander Myen, thought to be
dead when she married Carbosie, arrived safe and sound in New York, found his
(laughter, Annetie, married, in I678, the widow of Jan Thomasz Van Dyck, of New
Utrecht, and lived there for some years after.
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Le Maistre, be confirmed, and the debt, 85 gl., collected by execution. Le MIaistre not appearing, the Court proceeded in a body
to his house, but found him as unwilling as ever to admit the
claim, he telling them, among other things, that he had "nothing
to do with the town or town books." On this they proceeded
to attach and seize three pieces of new linen, which they measured in the presence of witnesses, and found to contain 56 ells.
Notice was then given by the constable, and also posted up in
writing, that on Thursday, the i8th instant, Delamater's linen,
unless redeemed, would be publicly sold. But the very next
day (August 5, I682), John and Isaac Delamater, in behalf of
their father, came and recovered the linen, giving security for
the debt and costs, 93 gl. Io st. So this vexatious matter, many
years pending, was finally arranged; the brothers duly met their
obligation, and Glaude having (lied, his account with the town
was closed by John Delamater paving a small balance "for his
mother," October 3, 1685.
Petty troubles with the English residents on or near Hoorn's
Hook also drew.upon the time of the magistrates. John Smith,
"miller at the mill of CIr. Pinhorne," on the Saw-kill, having
taken "French leave," his creditor, John London, seized a horse,
which he understood belonged to the runaway. But Robert Barlowe brought Ralph Ross and William Engel, persons in his
employ, to prove that he was the owner, whereupon Barlowe
obtained his steed, and London pocketed the costs, for which
Jacob Young became his bail. This suit was decided July 6, I682.
Young himself now had an issue with some of the town's
folks. Daniel Tourneur and Johannes Verveelen, owning lots
on Hoorn's Hook. accused him of taking their fence-posts.
Cited to appear and answer on Aug. 4th, he gave no heed, nor to
a second citation, but finally came, Dec. 7th, in no amiable mood.
He denied the charge, declared that he bought the posts and
would prove it; further saying that "the whole town was against
him, and that Jan Dyckman (one of the magistrates) had
threatened to burn his house." The Court directed defendant
to bring evidence regarding the posts on the next court day, and
also "to prove his scandalous words," onpain of correction. The
finale is not given, but within a year Young left the town and
wvent to other parts, having sold his farm, Sept. 27th, I683, to
William Holmes, of Turtle Bay; this sale, including "buildings,
barns and outhouses," with 3 cows, i heifer, 2 calves, 4 ewes,
i ram, and 4 stocks of bees, all for ~50.
The ministerial labors of Dominies Drisius and Nieuwenhuv
HISTORY OF HARLEIM.
377
sen had been productive of much good among the Harlem people,
as results prove. The pastoral visits, oftener devolving upon
Nieuwenhuysen, but infrequent, and, aside from weddings and
burials, almost restricted to the annual induction of new church
officers, became for this reason signal events among the villagers,
and occasions for much sociality. But death had recently taken
away these two beloved pastors, to the great grief of the people.
In sympathy to the bereaved Annetie Maurits Sluyswachter,
whose good man, Nieuwenhuysen, had gone to rest Feb. I7th,
i68i, Jan Nagel. "on account of the town," took her "two
schepels of wheat," and Resolved Waldron also "two schepels,
and a bottle of rum."
The loss to the church was in a measure repaired by the arrival from Holland, during the summer of I682, of Do. Henry
Selvns, who had now returned as pastor at New York, but was
also to follow up the custom of preaching at Harlem at least once
a year, for the purpose of confirming the elder and deacons; the
flock here, except when called to the city on sacramental seasons,
to continue its usual Sabbath exercises by the voorleser, as before.
The first installation of an elder and deacon the next fall, chosen
in the way then observed, was a time of unusual interest. A few
still remained here to welcome Selyns, of his former members
at the Bowery-Joost van Oblinus and Glaude le Maistre, with
their wives, and the two worthy widows, Jacqueline Tourneur
and Mlaria Kip. And there was Verveelen, the genial old deacon,
whlo, to greet his good dominie, must surely for this once have
left his ferry at Papparinamin, with its weighty responsibilities,
in charge of his son Daniel, now living with him. But while to
not a few others Selyns' features were familiar, though eighteen
years had passed, to Abram de La Montanie, who could only
know him by hearsay, was reserved the gratification of taking
the hand which had been laid on his infant head, at his baptism,
just before the dominie left for Holland. It must have been a
pleasant reunion, evoking gratitude to God; while, with the flow
of good feeling, freely flowed Johan Vermelje's "good bier," a
half vat nearly being consumned before it broke up. Arent HermIens Bussing was the newly installed deacon; the elder's name
is not mentioned.
Captain Thomas Delavall died in the summer of 1682, in
New York City, over which, during three respective terms, he
had presided as may.or. The event necessarily caused a sensation
at Harlem, owing to his long and peculiar relations to the town,
both as a proprietor and a patentee. Being sick and weak, John
378
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Tuder, attorney, wall called in, June 9th, and drew up his will,
which he signed with tremulous hand; the next day adding a
codicil disposing of some property not before specified. His death
directly ensuing, his will was proved July i th.
He bequeathed to his son-in-law, William Darvall, Esq., "all
his lands lying and being in the bounds of Harlem," as also
"Great Barnes Island, lying near Harlem," and his mill at
Esopus, besides all the debts due him, contracted since the year
I664; the said Darvall out of the same to pay such money as
was due from the testator to Mr. Samuel Swynock, of London,
merchant. To his son John Delavall, whom he made his sole
executor, he gave all his houses and lands at the Esopus (the mill
excepted), and his share of "the Yonker's Mill, lying in Hudson's
River," with such debts as were due him, the testator, and were
contracted before the year I664; and charging upon him the payment of certain legacies and charities. To his son-in-law Thomas
Codrington, he gave all his land and houses at Gravesend, on
Long Island; and to his (testator's) grandchild, Frances Darvall,
his piece of ground "lying beyond the Smith's Fly, in New York,
called by the name of the Cherry Garden." This grandchild, then
but a year old, afterward married Richard Willett, whose name
will occur again. Capt. Delavall omits any reference to the
Moseman farm, the Mill and Little Barent's Island, already conveyed to his daughter Frances and to her husband, Capt. James
Carteret, whom he does not name, and who at this date were no
doubt in Europe.
We nay simply add here, that subsequently, to wit, on Nov.
24th, 1684, William Darvall conveyed his lands in Harlem, with
Great Parent's Island, to Samuel Swvnock, aforesaid, of London,
and Jacob Milborne, of New York (formerly Captain Delavall's
book-keeper), as trustee of said Swynock; and that the latter
buying Swynock out, Aug. 9th, 1687, afterward sold the island
to Thomas Parcell, as will be further noticed. Abraham
Gouverneur marrying Milborne's widow (who was a daughter
of the 1iowed Capt. Jacob Leisler), eventually came in possession
of one third of Capt. Delavall's lands in Harlem-the other two
thirds, with Little Barent's Island, going to the Pipons, as heirs
of Captain Carteret. But not till sixty-five years after the death
of Capt. Delavall were these respective claims fully adjusted, and
the estate-much enhanced meanwhile by drafts from the common lands-finally closed by the sale of the property. This in
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
379
teresting title is especially treated of in the Appendix, under the
head of "The Delavall Lands.'
Jacqueline Parisis, widow of Daniel Tourneur, being "sick
and weak of body, and lying in bed." made her will Aug. 3Ist,
I682, to which were witnesses Resolved Waldron and Joost van
Oblinus. The property, comprising "lands, houses, house lots,
cattle, ready money, credits," was to be shared equally by her
children, Daniel, Madeleine, Esther, Jaco and Thomas, except
as follows: "Whereas, Jan Dyckman, married to Madeleine, has
a lot of land on MXontagne's Flat, and an erf and garden here in
the village, already in possession;" her son Daniel shall have the
lot of land on Hoorn's Hook, which he has procured in his own
name, with a lot on Montagne's Flat, and also the carpenter's
tools. Jaco and Thomas are each to have "a weaver's loom and
its fixtures." Daniel and Jaco are to engage to give her youngest
son, Thomas, a good trade, whichever he is best suited for, either
wheelwright or weaver, which they themselves understand. Her
two daughters to divide her clothing. But Mrs. Tourneur survived this illness eighteen years. Not "sackcloth and mourning"
came to her house, but a happier event, the marriage, the ensuing
winter, of her eldest son, Daniel, to an English maiden, "Ann
Wodhull, of Seattalcot, spinster." By what unbidden chance or
love's deep art was brought about this alliance with a distant
Long Island family, we are not told. The Governor's license was
obtained Feb. 5th, 1683, and the nuptials were probably celebrated
at Setauket, in the hospitable home of the Woodhulls. The next
summer the son Jacques married into the Dutch family of Kortright, and went to live on the farm on Montagne's Flat, on the
expiration of the lease to Thomas Holland, who had taken it Oct.
30th, 1679, for four years, "with the house and hoybergh," engaging, the first year, to clear and fence three morgen of land;.
the lessor (Daniel Tourneur) and lessee to use the barn in common, and together to dig a well.
By a later will, and a contract between the children, both
Jacques Cousseau, another old merchant of New York, and a Huguenot exile
(see pp. 48, ioo), associated with Harlem in his infancy, survived Capt. Delavall
but a short time, after being present as a witness to his will. He himself died intestate. His account and letter books running from 1653 to I677, and described in
his inventory, taken December 7, i682, evidence a long and active business career,
chiefly at La Rochelle and New York. He was latterly a shipping merchant; in
business affairs "esteemed a person of credit and honesty, and in no manner suspected
of fraudulent dealings." In 1665 he visited Hamburgh, and again went to Holland
in I668. He had served as schepen at New Amsterdam, and was one of the commissioners who arranged the capitulation in 1664. His connection with Harlem had
previously ceased, on the sale of his lands to Tourneur. A warm friendship had long
subsisted between Mr. Cousseau and Simon Fell and his wife, he a Hugeunot from
Dieppe (probably ancestor of Judge John Fell, of New Jersey), and, in 1680, Cousseau married Fell's widow, Anna Vincent. Her brother, John Vincent, was Mr.
Cousseau's administrator. Martha Cousseau, his daughter, as would appear, married
Daniel Potreau, of New York.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
dated Sept. 7th, I69), the Tourneur lands were divided somewhat
differently. Daniel took the land and buildings on Montagne's
Flat, then occupied by his brother Jacques, giving him his own.
including three lots together (in which the late Wood farm was
embraced), with the meadow on the adjoining creek; Jacques and
Thomas took "the buildings and house lots and orchard, and the
five lots lying at this village, to wit: a lot behind the aforesaid
orchard (being No. i Jochem Pieters) anrd four lots of land lying
on Van Keulen's Hook; with the meadows to the same belonging,
at Stony Point, and at Spuyten Duyvel, in the Round Meadow."
The children of Madeleine Dyckman, deceased, were to have the
inheritance from their grandfather and grandmother, namely, a
lot on Montagne's Flat and two Out-gardens at the village; and
Esther was to retain the land on which she then lived (in Westchester), with the meadow on that side of the river at Spuyten
Duyvel. Jacques and Thomas were to pay their sister Esther
400 gl., and the children of their sister Madeleine 1,ooo gl.; all the
lands were to pass into full possession in May, I691, and the children were to pay their mother for her support, each the sum of 40
gl. yearly. Daniel's death, which happened only a few davs later,
made no change in this arrangement of the lands; for the further
history of which and of the partition between Jacques and
Thomas, see Appendix E, F, G.
Jan Hendricks van Brevoort leased the town lot (church
farm) and meadows, Jan. 12th, 1683, for the term of ten years,
at 85 gl. per year. According to custom, it was set up at public
auction, and struck off to Brevoort as highest bidder. On March
15th, Resolved W;aldron, Johannes Vermelje, Jan Nagel, and
Joost van Oblinus, curators and guardians of the estate of Thomas
Hedding, deceased, advertised for creditors to present their
claims within six weeks.' After further notice, his stock, etc.,
was sold at auction May i2th and June 2(, I683, bringing 608
gl. Buyers, Johannes Vermelje, Jan Dyckman, William Bickley,
Barent Waldron, Rever Mlichielsen, Lourens Jansen, and Jan
Gerrits (le vries. Three cows, with each a calf, brought respectivelV, 132, 145, 150 gl.
Jean Baignoux sold his farm on Hoorn's Hook, May I5th,
* Thomas Iledding, who leased a farm in the town, had lately died. lie made
his will June 2, 1682, when "sick in body and lying in bed." Ile was then the
"widower of Maria IIuyberts," and devised what he had to his children equally, after
gifts to Catherine, the child of his daughter Sarah, and to his youngest daughter.
Maria. Sarah was then the wife of John \Watson. Lawrence Hedding, his only son
known to us, and who was horn in Amsterdam, in s665, hecame a "mariner" or sea
captain, and married, in 1698, Johanna, daughter of I,aurens Colevelt. The next
year he took a dismission from the Harlem church to that of New York. Hle was
naturalized in 1702.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
381
to Isaac Deschamps, a French refugee, and well-to-do merchant
at New York. On June 8th ensuing, Deschamps got a lien on
Jacob Young's farm aljoining, to secure the payment of ~20;
but three months later, Young sold to Holmes, as before stated.
The Saw-kill farm was now held jointly by Robinson and Pinhorne (the last as agent for Lewin and Wolley), but Robinson,
within a short time, to wit, on Feb. 12th, 1684, disposed of his
half to William Cox, a prominent New York merchant, largely
engaged in the West India and foreign trade. Deschamps eventually sold the Baignoux farm to John Spragge, Esq., of New York.
The lands about this lower section of the town, already acquiring
value, were thus passing from the hands of the sturdy yeomen
who first settled and improved them, in part to become, under the
touch of wealth and refinement, the charming rural seats of
affluent tradesmen and shipping merchants, noted mariners and
others. Later occupants of the Saw-kill farm were Capt. Samuel
Bradley and his son-in-law, the famous Capt. William Kidd,
whose wife was the former Mrs. Cox.*
Col. Thomas Dongan arrived at New York, August 25th,
i683, with a commission as governor. He was instructed to convene a General Assembly, to frame new laws for the province,
and in Council, Sept. I 5th, ordered a writ sent to the Sheriff,
"to summon the freeholders of the City of New York, the
Boweries or Farms, and Harlem, to choose four Representatives."
Due respect must have been paid to this notice, though the records
are silent in regard to the effect upon the Harlem people, or their
action thereon. Exciting less enthusiasm here than it produced
among the English population, we presume none of the delegates
were from Harlem. On Sept. 24th, John Delamater's two horses
were 'pressed'" for some urgent public service, and he accompanied
them and was paid for it, but we are left to surmise the object.
Indeed, a home matter of great interest to the freeholders
had for some months occupied the public mind. This was
another suit brought by Tourneur and the Jansens against Colonel
* Jean Baignoux bore a good character, but is little known. It was he, we presume, who, as Jan Binjou, joined the church April 12, I665, at the same time with
Abraham du Toict. Binjou (Beenyou) approaches his name in sound. Montagne
writes it Benu; the English scribes usually Benew. The cultured Vander Vin using
a Latin prefix (see note p. I20), writes it Abignou, i. e. from Baignoux, the latter a
Burgundian town, whence Jean probably came. Twice he calls him "Jean Abignou,
alias Jan Petit." The French called him Jean Petit, the Dutch Klyn Jan, both meaning Little John. Kleyn Jan was paid at Harlem 9 forins for "putting the drum in
order." I suspect he had been one of Governor Nicolls' soldiers. He had license
l)ecember 6, 1670, to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, but his wife in and
after 1673, was Anna Hoede. In i680, he married J enne Stevens. Later, if we
mistake not, sailing a coasting vessel, he met with disaster. Abraham Gouverneur,
writing from Boston, October 12, I692, relates "the sad mischance of Little John and
his son," who bound thence for New York, "were cast away on Nantucket Shoals,
and both drowned."
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HIST()ORY ()OF HARLE.
illorris, for the recovery of the meadows at Stony Island. On
May 3I, 1683, at the instance of the plaintiffs, Justice Willett,
of the Court of Sessions for the North Riding, issued a summons for Colonel Morris; an entry and record of the case being
also lmade as follows, by John WXest, the clerk:
Jamaica Sessions Ss: Col. Lewis AMorris was summoned to answer
i)aniel Tourneur, Cornelis Jansen and Lawrence Jansen, of a Plea, for
that he the said Col. Lewis Morris them, the said Daniel Tourneur.
Cornelis Jansen and Lawrence Jansen, out of a certain parcel of Meadow
Ground at Stone Island, being four lots, hath ejected, and from them
unjustly and unlawfully does detain, etc. And thereupon the said
Daniel, Cornelis and Lawrence say that for divers years last past, they,
the said Daniel, Cornelis and Lawrence, have been quietly, peaceably, and
lawfully seized of the before-menltioned four lots of MeIadow Ground,
and to their own proper use and behoof have held, occupied, and enjoyed the same; but the said Col. Lewis Morris the right, title, and
interest of the said Daniel, Cornelis and Lawrence not at all regarding,
into the said four lots of Meadow Ground hath entered, and therefrom
the said Daniel, Cornelis and Lawrence hath ejected, and by force unlawfully anl injuriously the same doth withhold and detain, by which
they say they are damnified the sum of Sixty Pounds; Whereupon they
bring this their suit, praying Judgment against the said Col. Lewis Morris,
for the said four lots of Meadow Ground, with their Damage and Costs,
etc.
The sumt111ons was in these terms:
Jainaica Sessions; To Col. Lewis Morris.
You are in his MIajesty's name required to be and personally to appear at the next Court of Sessions to be holden at Jamaica for the
North Riding of Yorkshire on Long Island, on Wednesday, the I3th day
of June next ensuing, then and there to answer Daniel Tourneur,
Cornelis Jansen and Lawrence Jansen, for that you them, the said Daniel
Tourneur, Cornelis Jansen and Lawrence Jansen, out of a certain parcel
of Meadow Ground at Stone Island, being four lots, have ejected, and unjustly and unlawfully from them do detain and withhold, to their damage
Sixty Pounds; and thereof you are not to fail at your peril. Dated the
31st day of May, 1683. TH)MIAS WJI,T,ETT.
This summons was served on Morris, June 2(, and at the
time appointed the case came to trial. Plaintiffs produced the
Harlem platent, and the special patents to Tourneur and De Meyer,
in support of their claim. Witnesses were heard. Adolph Meyer
testified that he had been at Harlem twenty-two years, and never
heard that any others laid claim to the meadows in question at
Stony Point; further, that the two brothers, Jansens, mowed
the hav before Governor Colve's time, at Stony Point and Stony
Island, and that the island belonged to Daniel Tourneur fifteen
or sixteen vears ago. Defendant endeavored to show that the
island so called was not such till "David Demarest made the Ditch
between Stony Neck and the Main, in the time of the Dutch,
he being then overseer of the Plantation." Hnece he held that
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383
it was part of his land. The case being submitted, the jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiffs; but iMorris' attorney put
in a plea for an arrest of judgment, which being allowed by the
court, the verdict was (luashed, and the plaintiffs were ordered
to pay the costs.
Thus the case stood till after the arrival of Colonel Dongan,
when, sing-le-handed, Tourneur determinedl to renew the contest.
On September 25th, he p)etitioned and ol)taine(l an order of the
Governor and Council, allowing him to carry his suit to the
Court of Assize. Thereupon the following sutmmons was issued:
By the Governor.
You are, in his Royal Highness' name, required to be, and personally
to appear at the next General Court of Assizes, to be holden at the City
of New York, beginning the first Wednesday in October next ensuing, by
nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day; Then and there to
answer Daniel Tourneur in an Action of Trespass on the Case, for ejecting the said Daniel Tourneur out of a certain lot of Meadow Ground
lying on Stone Island, in the Precincts of Harlem, and therefore you are
not to fail under the Penalty of One H-undred Pounds. Given under my
hand at Fort James, the 25th day of September, 1683.
THos. DONGAN.
To Col. L IwIs MORRIS.
Tourneur's statement, (lulv entered, was as follows:
Declaration ad Almi, Daniel Tourneur vs. Col. Lewis Morris.
Province of New York: To the Honorable Court of Assizes, etc. Col.
Lewis Morris was summoned to this Court to answer Daniel Tourneur, of
the Town of Harlem, in plea of Trespas on the Case, for that he the said
Lewis the said Daniel out of a lot of meadow ground lying on Stony
Island, in the precincts of Harlem, within the jurisdiction of this Court,
did eject, expel, and from his quiet possession thereof did remove; And
whereupon the said Daniel sayeth, that in the month of June, in the year
of our Lord I68T, he the said Daniel stood quietly and lawfully
possessed of a certain lot of meadow, marked Number 3, lying on Stony
Island, on the east part of the said Island, containing by estimation about
four acres; And being so quietly and peaceably possessed, he the
said Lewis Morris, upon the 2d day of July, in the year of our Lord
i68I, with force and arms, upon the said lot of meadow ground did enter,
and him the said Daniel from his quiet and peaceable possession
thereof did eject, expel, and remove, and the hay which he the said
Daniel had mowed with force did take and carry away, and him the
said Daniel from his quiet possession thereof doth keep, contrary to the
peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, etc., and to the damage of the
said Daniel Forty Pounds; which causes the said Daniel to bring this
his suit, craving Judgment of this Honorable Court, that he may be repossessed of the said meadow, and such damage and cost may be awarded
him as your Honors in your grave judgment shall think meet. And the
Plaintiff will ever pray, etc.
Morris' answer, prepared with care, was in these terms:
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HISTORY OF HARLEMI.
Ad Anmi, A~. 1683.
Daniel Tourneur, Pit. - jec
Col. Lewis Morris, Deft. Il Trespass and Ejectment.
Declaration. The Pit. declares in Trespass and Ejectment, that the
Deft., the 2d July, I681, with force and arms, etc., did eject him out of
a lot of neadow ground lying on Stony Island, on the east part of the
said Island, in the precincts of Harlem, containing by estimation about
four acres, and the hay which he had there mowed did take and carry away,
to his damage ~40.
Plea. Deft. pleads not guilty, etc., and puts himself on the country,
etc. Claims the meadow in question belongs to the Deft. He derives his
Title as followeth, viz.:
Oct. 20th, i644, a patent was granted by the Dutch Governor Win.
Kieft unto Arent van Curler, who married the widow of Jonas Bronck,
for a certain tract or parcel of land formerly in the tenure or occupation
of the said Jonas Bronck, and by the English called Bronck's Land,
lying and being on the main to the east and over against Harlem town,
having a certain small creek or kill which runs between the south-west
part of it and little Barnes Island, near Hlellgate, and so goes into the
East River, and a greater creek or river which divides it from Manhatans
Island; containing about 500 acres or 250 morgen of land, and including
all the fresh meadow thereunto annexed or adjoining.
July Ioth, I651, the said Arenlt van Curler conveyed the said land unto
Jacob Jans Stoll.
Dec. 19th, I662, ]Mattileus de Vos. as attorney of Geertruyt Andries,
the widow of the said Jacob Jans Stoll, conveyed the said land unto
Geertrieu Hendricks, formerly the widow of Andries Hoppen. Upon the
same day the said Geertrieu Hendricks. with the approbation and consent
of Dirck Gerrits van Tright, then her huslband, conveyed the same land
to Harman Smeeman.
Oct. 22d, I664, Harman Simeeman sold and conveyed thmesame land, for
a valuable consideration, to Samuel Edsall.
1668, Col. Nicolls, by patent, makes recital of all the former conveyances and ratified and confirmed to the said Samuel Edsall, his heirs
and assigns forever, all the aforesaid land and premises, with its appurtenances, and all meadow ground, imarshes, etc., to the same belonging
or in anywise appertaining.
June 4th, i668, The said Samuel Edsall and Jannetien his wife, by
deed indented, for the consideration of ~140, sold and conveyed the same
to the Deft. with all the meadows and marshes thereto belonging; and
had actual possession thereof.
1673. The Deft. remained in possession until Anno 1673, when the
Dutch taking the place, his negroes were seized, and his family forced to
leave the land, in which time the Pit. cut a ditch in his meadow to make
that an Island which was not so before.
I674. By the Articles of Peace, and surrender of the place,the Deft.
was again possessed of the land and premises, and so remains.
March 25th, 1676; The before-mentioned land, meadows and premises,
with an addition of a larger quanitiy of land, was by patent from Sir
Edmund Andros confirmed to the Deft. who is in possession thereof, and
therefore says that the meadow in question is part of the land and meadow
mentioned and contained in all the former grants and conveyances; and
that he ought to hold and enjoy the sanle, for that his title as aforesaid
is far preferable and more ancient than the Plaintiff's pretences, which are
but of late, and on uncertain grounds.*
* The H-opper family, of this country and of good Holland antecedents, are descendants of Andries Hoppen, who with his wife, Geertie Hendricks, emigrated about
I650. He was enrolled, in I653, in the burgher corps at New Amsterdam, and granted
the small burgher right in I657, when he owned considerable property in the city; but
IST()RY ( )It IARLEM. I..35
I'pol t th(. trial, whichl camel on at the tillie appl)loint((l,;(and at
whllich ((o'er1 )r 1)Dongal presiled(l,,lg'eltic li ur'er, widowl of
Ilurger Joris, Thomas Hunt, Sr., Thom(las 1-hunut, Jr., \Valter
\Veblev, ohll Archer( Mr I. ( )s)orne, anld Thomas \Vandell, g-ave
the followil testillony ill behalf of the defendlant; that for tlle
)laintiff llas l)een substantiall allticialated(
lu rger sayeth that B r()onck in owed the Il'eadow o() the Neck ablout
40 years ago, three tilies; anld Ill lde a brid ge, l(l lnput their cattle tlhere.
Itiunt, Senr., had kiiowledge of tile land il (,ov. Kieft's time, andl saw
fences of Bronck's land standiln o()l the east side of the creek; and( a
b)ridge went over it, and the '(land \was genlerally calleld )y tile ln;ine of
l[ronck's land, and that Stole Island is a new naiie.
Huntit Jnnr., that when Col. Morris' l-rother camel,:a repl)t \was that
lie had got the lland as far as Bronlck's river; a(ld lileettilg with I)aniel
Tourneur, father to the plaintiff, lie told him thereof; and ill discourse
the said Totilrnieur showed him the lotiulds of lronick's landl, anl that
the land inl controversy was colitailldt therein that till the time of the
D)utch gov(rilor Col\ve, tilh same \was a tiri, enltilre ieck. land horses and
carts coul(l g(o oer, when a (litch was ade(; landt that lie inever klew\\ it
to 1)e called Stone 1slandl, andl that tile lefe(ldailt's landl c(omes to tle Fast
River only ill that place.
Welley understandiing that so(ne H arlelm lnelll had )eeil ()oI tile land to
mow the meadow, lie forewarned theml; they went away. Next year the
place being taken by the )utch, Totirneur hired one to make a ditch roundtl
the mead(ow, etc. In discolurse after, with Totrneiur, iill )resence of Capt.
Nicolls andl Capt. Knapton, the draft being shown, they agreed(l and the
(lefentlanlt thereon proctred a patent for it.
Archer sayeth that long time since, tile town l)pretend(ilg want of
meadow, ol)tained liberty of Stuyvesanlt to mow, uiitil tile owners appeared
to forewarn them, and when Col. Nicolls came, they undl(erhand got a
patent of him, and had none before, )but hired land of the Indianls.*
Osborne sayeth he was overseer on Col. Morris's land; the plaintiffs
by Capt. Morris's leave mowed there at halves, and afterwards were by
him discharged, and that the meadow was then fast and tilrm, without any
ditch.
Wandell, the same.
The folloxving is a COp)y of the decision:
this honor he survived little more than a year. Having agreed with Jacob Stol for
the purchase of Bronck's land, and made a payment on it, he and Stol both died before the deed passed. The two widows concluded the transfer. In view of her
marriage with Van Tright, which took place in May, 166o, Mrs. Hopper secured to
each of her four children the sum of 200 guilders. These were Catherine, horn I65i,
who married Frederick Thomasz, of New York; William, born i654, married Minne,
daughter of Jurck Paulus; Ilenry, born 1656, married Maria, daughter of John Van
flarkum; and Matthew Adolphus, born I658, who married Anna, daughter of Jurek
Paulus. Part of his family settled at Bloomingdale, part in Bergen County; and from
the former came Yellis Hopper, of I-oorn's i ook, grandfather of Mrs. W\illiam H.
Colwell, of Harlem. And the author. ilaking his home in Jersey City hliile passing
his work through the press, has prepared this brief note under the mayorality of an
estimable descendant of Andries Hopper, the old New Amsterdam burgher; we refer.
as is obvious, to the Hon. Henry J. Hopper.
* Archer's unfriendly thrust at the Harlem people regarding their patent, and to
b)e readily accounted for, cannot impair his direct statement, that they had no patent
prior to that of Governor Nicolls. rhus the position taken on page 285, that Harlem
had no general patent under the Dutch, is sustained.
386 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
At a General Court of Assizes held in New York, beginning the 3d and
ending the 6th day of October, I683.
Daniel Tourneur, Pltf.
Col. Lewis Morris, Deft.
Upon an Action brought into this Court by the Plaintiff against the
Deft. for being ejected, expelled, and from his quiet possession removed
out of this lot of land lying on a certain piece of ground called Stony
Island, which the Deft. alleged to be within his purchase as belonging
to the land bought by his brother, of Samuel Edsall, on his behalf; the
Case having been fully heard and debated, and witnesses on both parts
produced, the Jury brought in their Verdict in writing: We find for the
Plaintiff, with Costs of Suit; and the Court gave their Judgment accordingly. The Defendant petitioning the Court for a review of his case,
and desiring that the Jury may be of the neighborhood, it was Ordered,
that Col. Lewis Morris have a review or a hearing at the next General
Court of Assizes, and that there be a Jury appointed, the one-half whereof
is to be of this City of New York, and the other half from Long Island,
to view the said Land, and to have the patent of Arent van Curler along
with them.
By order of the Governor and Court of Assizes,
J. SPRAGGI, Sccrctary.
Again this matter hung in suspense. By having it submitted
to a jury "of the neighborhood," the defendant hoped to gain
a verdict in his favor, but to this the Court would not consent.
As it stood, the prospects were not very flattering for a reversal
of the decision given and sustained in three several courts.*
Other matters were pending of great import, touching the
public interests. The General Assembly met on October I7th,
and the next day that august body, the Town Court, also sat as
usual for the discharge of business. "To prevent as much as
possible all accidents by fire, which may God avert,"-so reads
the minutes of the latter body,-an ordinance of September 6,
I677, was re-enacted, to wit: "That every one shall bring his
compost heap and refuse straw within his inclosure, and not throw
them into the street." A disastrous fire the next spring showed
that human foresight could not always prevent such calamities.
On the day the General Assembly performed its crowning act,
* As a precedent for modern courts we copy "A Bill of Court Charges at the
Assizes, 1683; Daniel Tourneur, Pltf., Col. Lewis Morris, Deft.
The special warrant of summons...........................~o: 12 o
The entry for trial....................................... 5: 0
Filing the Declaration..................................... 2: 6
Copy.................................................... 3: 4
Filing the Answer........................................ 2: 6
Copy 3: 4
The High Sheriff's fees................................... I2
The Cryer and M arshal.................................... 3 8
Seven witness sworn in Court............................. 4: o
To the Cryer for swearing them............................ 4 8
The Charges to the Publick................................: o o
The Judgment of the Court................................ I: o
The Copy................................................. 2:
~4: 5: 6"
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
387
the town magistrates and clerk were busy with Robert Hudson,
of \estchester, concluding a settlement respecting a horse which
Hudson had attached in the hands of Jan Dyckman a full year
before. Hudson sold the horse to Resolved Waldron, paying the
costs of keeping and clerk fees, which amounted to "Li:II:o, or
62 guilders."
The General Assembly, in session within the walls of Fort
James, were framing a Charter of Liberties for the province,
which being adopted on the 30th of October, I683, was published on the 3rst, with great acclamation. It provided for similar assemblies, to meet as often as every three years; admitted
tle people, with some limitations, to a voice in legislation, by
their representatives; declare(l entire freedom of conscience and
religion to all professing faith in God by Jesus Christ; and forbade any tax, assessment, or impost being laid upon any of His
Majesty's subjects, or their estates, "but by the act and consent
of the Governor, Council, and Representatives of the People, in
General Assembly."
B1y another act, the province was divide(1 into shires and
counties, in place of the ridings; the city and county of New
York to embrace, besides Manhattan Island, also Manning's, or
Blackwell's Island, and the two Barne Islands.
Another act recognized or erected Courts of Justice: the
Town Court, the County Court, or Court of Sessions, a General
Court of Oyer and Terminer, and a Court of Chancery. The
town court was to be coml)osed of three "Commissioners," chosen
by the freelolders, and to be called the "Commissioners' Court";
having power to hear and determine small causes to the value of
forty shillings. This law, passed on the Ist of November, was
of special advantage to Harlem, as against the assumptions of the
city government.
The city authorities were aiming to secure enlarged prerogatives, and were now in conference with the Governor upon this
subject; but passing over details which have no place here, it
is sufficient to say that a check was put upon their aspirations.
To the first proposition submitted by the Mayor and Aldermen,
November 9th, viz., "That all the Inhabitants on the Island Manhattans are under the government of the City of New York,"
the Council took exception. They regard it but "reasonable that
the Town of Harlem shall have liberty to determine all matters
that come before them under forty shillings at their own Town
Court." Whereupon the Mayor and Aldermen hastened to explain thus: "The Town of Harlem is a village within and belong
3<88
3-l ST()RY (OF ()I' ARLEM.
ing to this City and Corlorati)ll, and for tlle lmore easy ad(llinlistration and (lispatch of Justice, officers have been annually
al)l)ointed b) the A layor andl XAl(lerlell, to hol(l Courts ani
determine matters not exceed(lig 4os., both at Harlem andl the
Ifowery, an(l shall do the like for the future."
The ()ut \' ard, one of the six war(ls into wlhich the citv.
lurstuant to a resolutionl of tlle M\lay!or andl Al(lerlmcn, of D)ecembller
8th, was now (livi(lel, emlllrace( "t'he to\w n of [-larlem, \with all
the Far1ms, Plantations, an(l Settlements on this Islald M\anhattans, from the north side( of the Fresh Water." It \\as to be
subdivided into the Iowerv and -Harlem I)ivision. The selarating line between these two (livisions, as 1)v a resolve of I)eceimber 0oth, was to "continue as fornierlv at the Sawmilill Creek,"
and each (livision was to have its local court; thile p)ople) to Iomlinate a doubtle number of )Cers(ns fit to b)e comm(issine( rs, andl the
Maxor an(l Aldermen to make the al)l)ointments.
Harlem, ul)pon being notified, lladle its nomination; an1d oni
1Deceimber t8th "Jan )Dclkman, John Nagel, and Arent H-arians
were a))pointed Commliissioners for the Harlelm )ivision, in the
)Out Warld, andl took the oath of office. Resolved \Valdron
was name(l Assessor, andl Daniel Tourneur Constable and Collector. William Cox, chosen e1 Alderman for the said war(l, sooI
secure(l a freehold here, as part owner of the Saw-kill farm, a
fact already notice(l. The militia was organized( the next vear.
when the inhabitants of the ()ut \Vard capable of bearing arms
were formed into a company, unler Captain Nicholas \Villiaml
Stuyvesant, with Daniel Tournetur as lieutenant, ani(l A(lriaell
Cornelisz V;an Schaack as ensign.
Nothing much happened till the meeting- of the lnew court.
Resolved \Waldron and Johannes \Vermilye, the guardians of
Cornelia Viervant, offered at auction, January I6, 1684, a horse
left by her late father, but did not succee(l in selling it, only
37 gl. being bid. It was afterward botught for 120 gl. 1)y Jan
hired three cows left by Viervant, for six years, for half the
increase.:
* Cornelis Arcnts Viervant was a native of l,exmont, in the [,and of Vianen,
Utrecht. lie married, at Kingston, in 1668, Teanne le Sueur, sister of Francois, the
Lozier ancestor, and died at Fordham, in 1675, leaving an only child, Cornelia. She
married William Innis at New York. in 1686. William Innis had children, Alexander,
born I694; Cornelius, 1696, etc. I)escendants are yet found.
Jan Jansen Postmael, whose children lived some years in New York, where he
seems to have gotten his surname, from being employed as mail carrier; a family
legend gives it this origin, but names no place. I[e married Jeanne, daughter of
Francois le Sueur aforesaid, and leased l,aurens Jansen's farm at Harlem, April 23,
1679, but the lease was canceled July 3, under a new agreement. Removing, about
1684, to Kingston, there he died a few years later. His children were, Jan, born
i68o; Abraham, I682; Anna Catrina, I684; Elsie, i686; Anthony, 1688. TTis widow
married Thomas Innis. Anna C. Post married Jan Pearson. Jan Post, for so he
.t[lS'TO()IY l 1Lf.\R1 I.3..
389
()n February 8th the Constable and Commlissioners, Dvcklman as President, held tlheir first court. T'ile old officers were
also p)reslet. It was resolved to take 11l and examine the townl
accollts, 1oth (lel)its anl cre(lits, anl to transfer them to ta new
b1ook. "as tile ol(d ook C is written full.":1dolph Mleyer and
1Resolved \\aldrl)ll were chosen ilsl )ectors of clhillllmneys and fire\\ardlles; and(1 arcnt \Valldron andl Isaac D)elamater, surveyors
of the co()mmon felnce. These fences w!ere )r(lred to be repaired
andlll llade of four sl)lit rails; g-ood and suitable. [arent Waldron,
ll his reluest, \\was voted a dleetl for 1(\oertje Davids M1eado(,
which he had purchased four years l)revious. The deed w\as dculy
1passed( b1 the Commlissioners, A\lpril 8. 1 (84.
( )nl Iebrua 2st. Jall D)vckilia antid \l-ctr t l-arli anls B'ussilln, "ldac(os of tlh Chhlristian conlre' atii (o f New 1 arleCn"
\wre calle(l to visit tle ag-edl Gabriel Carbosie, \llhoml fi(lding in
bed( sick at the house of Jan Louwe logert, they first "instructe(l
as far as plracticable, wvitll wor(ls of comfort." ''o an inquiry
as to tlle lisl)osal of his effects. "ii case God should with this
sicknelss take him out of this world" for his vwife, I rieta, ha(l
g^one l)before him,- -le aIsw\ered "tihat he should leave his goods
to( thosc wlho hadl b)een kind1 to) him"; evi(lently the I (ogerts.
S()oo after, lie p1assed(l \ay, ana l ln i Mlarch 3(1 the (leacons made
a r ccrd(l of lwhat \\as sai( at this. interview\ for tle bellefit of
those iInterested.
Near thlis time also, "J)hlln A.trcher, Lord lPro)rietor of the
Manotl)r of Ford(lam," niet \ith a su(l(lden and unexpected( death."
His son), John) Archer, Ir., who by this event "became a p)o)r orphaln vi(d and destitute of all support." as lie himself allegedl. ap1 lie(l to the Council, oi( -1 arch I st. to appoint a(lministrators ulpon
lis father's estate..\ similar apl)lication was made 1)v Cornelis Stecnw-yck. to who(m Archer vas in(lebte(l ~993:18, secured
1)' llm)rt-aec ()II the nanor' and(l appr))aisers were appol)linted, one
of wl\mi( was l)aniel To)urneur.
()n XMarcl i r th, in the evening, the village' was alarmed b)v
the cry of fire. It proved to be Jan Nagel's barn l which was
not only burnt to the cground, but witll it 1:2 head of cattle, including 7 mucilel cows. It was fou(nd to have been set on fire by
\vas Called. was I bor at liarletm, and married at Kingston, 1702, Cornelia, daughter of
artiiI I sselstcvn li e has descendants in Ulster CouInty. Abraham returned to
Harlem. and,lln; 1i7(, then calling himself Postmael, became farmer for Capt. Jacob
D)e Key. In I70(), as itnetss in a suit to which l)e Key was a party, lie is called
'ost. lie was no doubt ancestor to the Post family given in Boltol's Westchester, ii.,
537. lie la(l, howeverl, son ITendrick Post, who married, 1737, Rebecca, daughter
of Jan Nagel, of KIingsbridge, and died before 1786, his children being John, Abraham,
I endrick, IElizabeth and Iena. ()One of hlis daughters married Htenry Tison, who,
with John and 1Tendrick 'ost, caime into possession of the Nagel lands at Kingsbridge,
on tlhe death of their uncle, William Nagel, in 18o8.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
his own negro, who then ran away, and was discovered next
morning "hanging to a tree at the Little Hill by the common."
A leter was sent to the Mayor and Court asking what they should
do with the body; to which, on the I4th, came an answer to
hang it on a gibbet, in any place they thought proper. But the
magistrates and community, fearing the effect of such a spectacle
upon "their children, who are in the habit of going daily to the
fields and woods, and who might be terrified thereby," cut the
body down, and burnt it to ashes. No pen has revealed the
incentive to actions so desperate, on the part of the poor bondman, by which we may judge of this particular case. But the
chains of slavery were sufficiently galling even then and there;
and the wonder is that the free spirit of the native African,
chafing under an involuntary servitude, did not oftener avenge
itself. Another case occurred, within a year, on Colonel Morris'
plantation. His slave, Cuffy, being guilty of arson, was hung
and buried, but afterward disinterred and placed on gibbets.
The first direct step toward the renewal or confirmation of
the town patent by Governor Dongan was taken at a Council
held on March 2Ist, of this year, by the passage of an order "that
the Inhabitants of Harlem bring in their Patents and Indian
Deeds on Thursday." As for Indian Deeds, the town of Harlem had none; but this was the form in which the order went
forth to the several towns. The "patents" were delivered to
the Council, April I9th, by Mr. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who,
in behalf of the inhabitants, proceeded "to treat about Quit
Rent"; to secure which was the object had in view by the government in calling for the old patents. A year or more later
this negotiation ripened into a formal demand upon the freeholders "to make up the quit rent for the Heer Governor."
An event locally interesting was Cornelis Jansen's removal to
his land on Montagne's Flat, since known as the Nutter Farm.
On April 30th, I684, he engaged Adrianus Westerhout to build
him a house there, 22 by 36 feet, to be ready in six weeks, or at
farthest by the 20th of June; for which he agreed to pay "800
guilders in fat cattle, wheat and rye;" the cattle to be delivered
on All Saints' Day, and the grain the next January. Here Jansen
established the famous tavern and stopping-place, "commonly
called the Half-Way House," and which continued to be kept
after his death in 1689, by his widow. It stood on the west side
of Harlem Lane, at the foot of the hill about Io9th Street. A
little above this site, Valentine Nutter, on getting possession of
the Kortright farm after the Revolution, built a new residence,
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391
which remained till swept away by the opening of 6th Avenue,
on which it stood, its north corner touching IIoth Street.
Mowing-time was again at hand, and Daniel Tourneur petitioned the Council, July 9th, that whereas the review of the case
between him and Col. Morris could not take place before the
Court of Assize, since that court had been "wholly taken away,
and other courts constituted," he might be secured in his possession by a "writ of habere facias possessionem." But Col. Morris,
being present as a member of the Council, "desired a writ of
error, which was granted." The old Cromwellian officer, though
his fighting principles had yielded to the pacific tenets of the
Quaker, had thus far proved himself so good a tactician as to
maintain his ground against every attempt to dislodge him. But
emboldened by success, he now determined, if possible, to force
the case to an issue before the Court of Oyer and Terminer in
his own county, where he might have the advantage of his opponent; and thereupon petitioned as follows:
To the Hon. Col. Thomas Dongan, Lieutenant and Governor-General,
etc., etc.
The petition of Lewis Morris, the elder, commonly called Colonel
Lewis MTorris, Sheweth: That at a General Court of Assizes held in New
York, beginning the 3d and ending the 6th day of October, I683, an
Action was commenced against your Petitioner by Daniel Tourneur for
being ejected, expelled, and from his quiet possession removed out of
his lot of land lying on a certain piece of ground called Stony Island;
where on the trial the Jury found for the Plaintiff with costs of suit, and
the Court gave Judgment accordingly; whereupon your Petitioner, according to the usual custom and practice of that Court, petitioned for a
Review of his Case, and that the Jury might be of the neighborhood, to
view the land in controversy; which was ordered accordingly to be done
at the next General Court of Assizes, since which said General Court
of Assizes is made void and null, and Court of Oyer and Terminer appointed in each County, for the trial of causes of this nature. Your
Petitioner not being willing that the difference between him and the said
Tourneur should be longer delayed, but that some speedy issue may be
put to the same, humbly prays your Honor that the said Daniel Tourneur
may be ordered to commence his action at the next Court of Oyer and
Terminer to be holden in the County where the land in controversy lyeth,
that the same may be reviewed and reheard, and a Jury of the neighborhood,
who shall view the said land, to pass thereupon, etc. And your Petitioner
shall pray, etc. LEwIS MORRIS.
In acting upon this petition, Morris' plan was again amended
as to having "a jury of the neighborhood;" but care was taken
to secure a fair and impartial hearing. The record reads:
At a Council held at Fort James, the I3th September, I684; Present,
The Governor, etc.
This Petition being read, the two Judges, Capt. Matthias Nicolls and
Capt. John Palmer, were consulted, who gave their advice, and it was
ordered by the Governor and Council that a Special Commission be given
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to the Judges, and to Mr. Cortlandt, Mlr. Pell, Jacques Cortilieu, Justices;
and a particular writ le sent to the Sheriff of New York, and anotler
to the Sheriff of Queens County, one to return twelve men and the other
twelve more, for a Jury in the Action between Col. Lewis MIorris and
Daniel Tourneur, the Cause to ie tried at New York, to beginl o, the
6th of October next ensuing; the Jury is to view the ladl, and the trial
is not to continue above six days; and it is further ordered that Col. Lewis
Morris is to l)e at the charges of the Review.
Twenty-two (lays only were to intervene before the imeetitn
of this Court, and as the Council (lid not revoke the order, no(
(loubt it met accordingly, though its minutes, we regret to say,
have not been found. But fronl several considerations, we infer
that it changed nothing. The New York Court of Record of
July 6th, t68o, had found for the plaintiffs, so had the Jamaica
Sessions of June i3th, 1683. and then the Court of Assize of
Oct. 3(l ensuing. T'his last allowed a rehearing, because that was
"the usual custom and plractice of that Court.":ut no change
in the status had occurre(l to warant any reverse of judgilent.
It was a silnple question of fact. These courts had assumed that
whren Stuvvesant granted these meadows, he acted from the
knowledlge that no one else had a prior title. After the last hearing. to wit, on NQvelmber 24th, 1684, Col. Morris paid to Secretary S)pragge the amount of the bill given on page 386, as we
finl by an illdorsement thereon. And the Tourneurs appear to
have remained in possession. See page 379. As a piece of early
litigation, this case is interesting' but it assumes real inportance
as evi(lence of the high respect with which the early English
courts regardedl Stuyvesant's official acts, touching landed interests. His grants were not to be lightly set aside. And if this
view obtained at a (late the imost favorable for knowing the real
merits of such cases, how wise the reticence of modern courts
to mle(dlle \w itlh questions of title reaching back into times so
remiote!
Tourlneur, now lieutenant of the ()ut Ward iMliitia, under
the Governor's colmmission of the ioth of September, was succeleded as constable of the Harlem Division by Adolph lAeyver,
who was appointed (Octol)br 1 3th, and( tool the oath of office
the 8thl of Novemlber.
Vandder \in, the venerable secretary and voorleser, who had
serve(l the town so long and faithfully, and exhibited much wisdomi and ability in the discharge of his duties, now entered into
rest, having reached his seventieth vear. As he lives in the work
of his pen, Vander Vin shows his culture, and inci(lentally his
knowledge of Latin anid Spanish. Hle was renlarkable for his
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accuracy, very methodical and precise il small as well as greater
matters. Clerk of the Court, both drafter and registrar of (leeds,
wills and contracts, accountant for the town and church, all these
added to his sl)ecific duties as voorleser and schoolmaster, it is
aiusing to findl minuted in his clear, neat hand. "Set hen to
brood, 15th July. 1675." He left no family, and his wife had
died within a few vears; therefore, on January 28. 1685, the
Mayor's Court passed an order, "That Daniel Tourlneur and
Cornelis Jansen (lo appraise the estate of Hendrick Jansen Vander X in, deceased; and that the same 1)e disposel of by Resolved
Waldron and Johannes \ernmelje, to satisfy his funeral charges
and (lebts: andl to make report therof to this Court."
On the same (late Joost Oblilnus, Johiannes Vermelje. and
Jan Delamater were "appointed and sworn Commissioners for
Harlem, for the -e'ar ensuing"' and Jan Tibout, by birth a
Fleming. and late schoolmaster at Flatbush, was mna(le Clerk
for the same term. Tibout had entered upon his duties January
20th, at a salary of 300 l.; lhe anld his family to occupy "the
town's house.-"::
Jan Tibout was obuor at Blruges, (see p. 69) and after emigrating lived for a
short timie at Fort Casirner, o the I)elaware, where he was, in 656, and whence
coming, he and his wife, Sarahll ander \ lucht, joined the chiurchi at New Amsterdam,
in January. T66o. lThelre and at Flatibush (save while at Bergen, where lie was court
messenger, in 1662, and took the oath of allegiance to tlhe lnglish, November 20,
1665), he spent most of tile ensuing years till lie camle to Hlarlem. lie was voorleser here fromi 1685 till 169go when for a year- (,uiliaem Bertholf took his place,
but resuming his office, il 1691, le served vet six vears, and prohably till Adrain
Vernieulc was emplloyed. ill 1699. Thenlce, and at least till r709, he held the same
office at Iushwick. le marr-ied, ill 1687, te widow of (laude Delamater, and on her
erf right dre\w L,ot 13, oil Jochein Iieter-s l ills, which was sold to Jan l)yckiiian. Of
his ldozen childrein we give only suich as apllear to have reached maturity (with the
reservation hereafter made as to tile first), viz.: Marcus, hlleunis, Tohalnnes, Anidries,
Jacominl, s \ho married Reyer M ichielseii, and Jannetie, who married Hendrick Van
)hbilnus.,\iidries Tibout imarrl ied Ilnaria D)e ('rave, settled at Hlackensack; had
childrell, Johlanines, 'eter.;\ndries. Jacobuis, Jacomina, and Annetie. Hle died in
I704, and his widow married.\lhert Terhuine. Johannes Tibiout, son of Jan, was a
turner; married Teuntie \an Rommnien; was a zealous I,eislerian soldier, i689; made
a freeman at Ne\w York, 169o, then alderman, and died childless, June 20. 1728,
leaving' his lUproperty. after his wife's death, to his brothers and sisters. Theunis
''ibout, Iiorn in Ne; \York, 1663, miarried, I690, Mary, daughter of Hendrick Vandewater, was a carplenter; liade freeman at New York, 1698; proposed, 1712. to erect
a horsenill iln the city, "never hefore seen in these part-s;" had eight children, and
fied July 27, 1754, aged 90 years. llis will was dated Noveimler 8, 1753. His
daughiter, Sarali h orn 1692, lmarried Jan lEwouts: lie also had sons, whence the 'iehouts of New York, viz.: 1 Iendrick, born 1694, married 1720, IElizabeth Burger;
Johannes, born 1696, imarried J719, MTaria \an al)eventer; Theunis, born 1705, married,
1729, Iargaret Drinkwater anid Albertus, born 1708, who married, 1728, Cornelia
nogert, and was captain in the old French var. Johannies, a blockmaker, living in
New York, January 2, 1763, when, vwith ssis sister Sarah, lie sold some roerty of
his late father, died September 12, 1773.
lartculs Tielbaut, as he wrote his lname, was born at Ghlent. 'Flanders, and was
prohably a soni of the voorleser; for though nowhere so called, he was also a Fleming;
lived at l-arlei before, as well as after, his marriage, and acted as town clerk after
\:erimeule, as would alppear from records of 1710, written by him. Marcus married,
May 29, I698, Aefie, widow of Jonas Lewis, and daughter of Cornelis Jansen, and, in
1713, was "iln possession" of a house and lot on the north side of the Church Lane,
next but one west of the kerk erf, which no doubt came from John Van Oblinus, and
went to John I,ewis, from whlom it passed, in 1748, to Dr. Josiah Paterson. Marcus
hought from Caspar Mabie, March 26, 1700, a dwelling, with its lot, which had formed
Nos. 5, 6, of 1)aniel Tourneur's out-gardens. Here Marcus lived after John Lewis
married, in 17i3, but dying in 1714, vithout children, so far as appears; his widow
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Barent Waldron, soon to marry, prepared to occupy his
land, being two of the New Lots purchased by him November
21, 1677, the one No. 9, from Captain James Carteret, "for 277
lbs. of beef," and the other, No. Io, from Pieter Jansen Bogert
"for one heifer of three years old." Waldron now bargained
with the magistrates for a house lot "on the north side of Pieter
Jansen,"-that is, lying at the west end of his lot No. Io, where
it joined the highway, and for which he was to pay the town
after two years, namely, in January, I687, "30 gl. in cash, and
a gallon of rum." Soon after this the magistrates concluded to
sell the "piece of land called Gloudie's Point, with a house lot
lying between the swamp and the King's Way, next to the house
lot of Barent Waldron." It was put up at auction March I5th.
Johannes Vermelje offered 1,200 gl., but Resolved Waldron,
wanting it for his son Barent, bid 1,500 gl., and took it. Security
was given for the payment, which was to made in two equal
instalments, in one and two years. Fifteen years after,-that is,
on March 7, I700,-Barent got a deed from the town for this
property, which he occupied till I740, being that since known
as the Bussing Point Farm.
While the process had thus begun, by which the new lands
were to be brought under the plough, or otherwise utilized,
sundry large tracts beyond and adjoining the patent lines, or too
near to be matter of unconcern to the Harlem people, were being
eagerly sought for and taken up. On the North River side,
settlement pushing out from the city, beyond Sapokaniken, or
Greenwich, to the region already called Bloemendael; here
Theunis Idens Van Huyse, apparently by buying up the title
to several lesser grants, had come to own an immense tract, 460
acres, by actual survey, which extended from the present 86th
Street to Io7th Street. From the Hudson it ran within direct
and parallel lines into the woods, nearly 220 rods, touching at
its easterly corner the Harlem patent line. Here Theunis, after
toiling hard to "make tillable land out of the rough woods,"
built his dwelling and barns, and set out an orchard, for a lifelong home.
The high lands, stretching north from Van Huyse's line to
Hendrick Bosch's farm at Moertje David's Fly (and which,
being sold a few years later to Jacob De Key, became, after his
time, the seats of the De Peysters and others, and on portions
of which stand the Asylum for the Insane, and the Leake and
sold it the next year to John Van Oblinus, the trusty friend of Marcus, and also his
kinsman, if we are right as to the latter's parentage.
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
395
Watts Orphan House), were yet in native woods; as was also
the case with the greater stretch of heights and hollows which
reached northerly from Harlem Plains to Sherman's Creek; but
here the plough was soon to begin its work, in an Indian field,
near the present Fort Washington, called the Great Maize Land.*
Colonel Morris' trusty friend, William Bickley, had made an
application, July 9, 1684, for a parcel of vacant land on the east
side of the Harlem River, which, in the survey, made by Philip
Wells, August Io, 1685, is described as:
A certain neck of land-lying upon the main, and adjoining upon Harlem River; beginning at a certain spring or run of water to the south of
Crab Island, which is the southwest corner of the land of John Archer,
and runs into the woods by his line east, by a range of marked trees,
forty chains, to a marked tree by a small run of water which is the west
bounds of the land of Daniel Tourneur, and so by the run to a creek,t
and so round by the creek to Harlem River, and then by the Harlem
River to the said small spring or run of water to the south of Crab Island;
the whole bounded north by the land of John Archer, east by a run of
water, the west bounds of Daniel Tourneur, south by a creek, and west
by Harlem River: containing in all one hundred and eighty-four acres
and a half.
After an opportunity had been given for presenting objections, a patent issued to Bickley May 13, I686. Bickley sold
this tract June 25, I694, to Tourneur's son-in-law, Frederick
De Vaux, whose descendants long owned it, and whence it was
called De Voe's Point. Highbridgeville is on this tract.
* The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, of the city of New York, convey, July
21, I701, to Jacob De Key, of the said city, bolter, for ~237, "all that certain tract or
parcel of land situate, lying, and being on the Island Manhattans, within the Out
Ward of the city of New York, lying on the north side of the land of Teunis Ides,
and beginneth at a certain old black oak tree marked with three notches, which stands
in the southeast corner of the fence of Teunis Ides, and ranges along the fence of
the said Teunis Ides northwest sixty chains to Hudson's River, and from thence along
the said river northeast and by north (nearly) seventy chains, and from thence southeast and by east till it cuts the line of Harlem, ten chains, and from thence it runs
directly south along the line of Harlem Commons eighty-eight chains to the place
where it first began; containing in all two hundred thirty-five acres, three roods and
eighteen perches, or thereabouts, all English measure; being bounded on the east by
the Commons of Harlem, southerly by the land of Teunis Ides, and on the northwest
side or thereabouts by Hudson's River, and upon the corner northerly by lands of
Thomas Turneur; together with all and singular the pastures," etc.-Grants, City
Comptroller's Office, vol. 2: 28.
t The Mannepies, or Cromwell's Creek, before named (see pp. 251, 278) Crab
Island, to which other references will be found, lay "in Harlem River, at or near
the outlet of a small stream, near the old boundary line between Morrisania and the
Manor of Fordham, which point is just below the Aqueduct or High Bridge." Communicated, as the result of his inquiries, by Hon. Lewis G. Morris, and which is
corroborated by the documents here quoted.
CHAPTER XXIII.
I685-I687.
WOiLVNES ), DEIAVA, -STATr; TENURS; TENTHS CANCELED; N, \W
STONE' C('l ItRCI (;R,'AT \AIZE, 1,.\Nt 1D)NGN' S PATrE'NT;
oUI' RENT; CORPORATION RI(;I'TS; IND)IAN CLAIM,. COM(MON
LAND); VRENCI1 G;ONE; DUTCHl' MANNI'ERS AN1) CUSTOMS.
A S the neighboring woodlands were gradually takell up, and
here and there the ancient forest, subdued bv the axe and
burnings, gave place to new fallows and cornfields, it greatly
disturbed the noxious animals still infesting this section of the
island, and which, driven fronm their old haunts an(l feedinll
places, were led to 1)rowl about the open fields in search of food
or prev, andl even to intrudle within the paling of the barnyards.
The wolves were especially annoying, an(l verv destructive to
the vyoung cattle and stock running- at large in the wools. The
following order of the governor, authorizing a gelleral foray
upon these dangerous animals, to take place on the 6th of August,
shows how serious was the evil, and no doubt afforded a dlay
of rare antd exciting sport for the young hunters of the town:
Upon tle many complaints of the great mischief done by Wolves on
the Islandl of Mdlanhattans, and at the request and desire of several of the
inhabitants of the said Island that they may have lilertv and license to
lilit and destroy the same: These may certify that lilertv and license is
herely granted 'to any of the inhalitants of the said Island to hunt and
destroy the said Wolves oni Thursday next after the date hereof. Given
under my handl at Fort James, this ist day of Anugtst, 1685.
Trio. DOI)NN.
Passed the office. J. SPKi\cr.. S((cr(t(ar-.
There was a piece of woodland, about twelve acres, for which
a bargain had been penliing between the town and the late Captain Delavall, the latter wanting it in exchange for two village
lots. This bargain was now completed by John Delavall. On
September 2, 1685, he and the town officers passed deeds in which
they "acknowledge to have agreed upon an exchange of two
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397
house lots (erven), lIing north of Johannes Verveelen, and
south of the highway, that belonged to Captain Delavall, which
said house lots he, John Delavall, releases and delivers over to
the aforesaid Constable and Magistrates, for the behoof of the
said Town, for a parcel of woodland lying behind the lots of
the said John Delavall, on Jochem Pieters, being the piece of
woodland the before-named Captain Delavall applied for." This
woodland, in a release of the "Three Lots," by Abraham Gouvernleur to Johannes M\eyer, dated \lav 2, I725, is referred to as
"lands in possession of the heirs of James Carteret, (lecease"''
and by a subsequent division it came to be included, part with
the Three Lots, and part with the Six Lots. Upon the lower
en(l (defined by a double elbow in the old Harlem and Kingsbridge road, at I27th Street), the 7th Avenue and I28th Street
cross each other, and upon the upper end, the 8th Avenue and
131st Street.
John Delavall, as heir at law, had succeeded to the remaindel
of all and singular the rights and prerogatives at Harlem which
had pertained to his late father in his twofold capacity of freeholder and town patentee. As his sole executor he took the
custotd of all the lands and erven given by his father to his
sons-in-law Carteret and Darvall. This last became necessary
for the due discharge of his trusts as executor, the respective
interests requiring adjustment, while the devise to Darvall was
subject to the payment of certain debts due by the testator, in the
settlement of which it was requisite for the executor to become a
party. It does not appear that the disposition of his lands made
by Captain Delavall, or his widow, ever pretended to any interest
in these, after the I4th of January, 1687, when he gave Swynock
and Milborne a full and absolute release of the lands conveyed
to them conditionally by himself and Darvall, on the 24th of
November, I684. Although such claim must have been excluded
under the rule which obtained in making the divisions, namely.
that the common lands belonged only to those who held the erf
and morgen rights.t
* Verveelen's lots on Van Keulen's T-ook are here referred to. The house lots
were afterward included in the John P. Waldron farm.
t John Delavall, quite young when his father first came to this country, in 1664,
probably remained in England, and arrived here with the family a few years later.
He was brought up to a mercantile life in the city of New York, where he united
with the Dutch church August 29, I678. On October 14 ensuing, he sailed in the
ship Blossom, upon a visit to England. Returning to his business here, his father, on
November 24, 1680, in consideration of "natural affection and love," conveyed him a
house and lot in Brewers or Stone street. After the death of his father, two years
later, the care of a large and somewhat involved estate did not hinder him from engaging in public duties. On September io, 1684, he was commissioned captain of militia;
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
The kind of tenure under which the freeholders held their
lands was justly regarded as of vital importance, and invites a
notice. The grants made by government, both the Dutch and
English, and whether to individuals or communities, were always
conditional, imposing a counter obligation upon the grantee or
grantees, to recognize the superior right of the lord or sovereign,
and his claim upon their obedience and service. Some visible
token of this was required annually, and whether the trivial gift
of a peppercorn or fat capon, or a render of greater intrinsic
value, it was none the less an act of homage, an acknowledgment
of fealty on the part of the subject toward the superior. A remnant of feudal polity, it had this important advantage that the
superior was no longer some imperious lord or suzerain, but a
sovereign amenable to a constitution, and a government limited
by laws framed with regard to the rights of the subject. So
little of feudal law remained under the Dutch, as to impose few,
if any, hard conditions uI)on the colonists, or to render the tenure
of land in any degree precarious. But in the I2th year of Charles
II., which was prior to the capture of New Netherland, the tenure
by military service was abolished, and all sorts of tenures held
of the king or others, with some unimportant exceptions, were
converted into tenures by free and common socage, a species of
tenure of great antiquity, and which, as then also modified, was
neither military nor burdensome, but whose requirements were
moderate, well-defined, and fixed. It was the specific nature of
the service, duty, or render which made this species of tenure such
a safeguard against the wanton exactions of the feudal lords,
and had given it an incalculable value with the English. When
the service under this tenure was commutted to an annual paybut this honor he was soon constrained to renounce. It was consequent upon that
radical change in his religious views which made him a non-combatant, a Quaker, and
which is alluded to as follows, in a notice of the excellent woman who became his
wife: "Being earnestly solicited in marriage by John Delavall, who, though a worthy
man, was not at that time of the same religious communion, she, by her prudent conduct and pious resolution to maintain the principles she professed, without deviating
therefrom in a matter of such importance, did not agree thereto until he, after some
time, embraced the truth in sincerity of heart, and bore his cross like an humble
follower of Christ. He received a gift in the ministry, and continued faithful therein
to his death." She was wont to say of him that "he never used to her an expression
of anger, or the product of a disturbed mind." This lady, to whom he was married
May 31, i686, was Hannah, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, of New York, afterward governor of Pennsylvania. She was born in Wales in i666, and was therefore some years
his junior. Mr. Delavall subsequently removed to Philadelphia, where he continued
his business, associated with Mr. John White, his late partner in New York. Here
he died on August io, I693. "Faithful and zealous for the truth, a man of a tender,
broken spirit," wrote one of Mr. Delavall who had known him personally, "he finished
his testimony with a heart full of love to God and his people."
None of his children reached maturity. Eight years after his death his widow
married Richard Hill, for some years Mayor of Philadelphia, and who survived her.
She entered into rest February 25, 1727. (See Memorials, etc., of the People called
Quakers; Phila., I824. Also The Friend, Phila., vol. 27, p. 216). For the history of
the property at Harlem, subsequent to the death of John Delavall, see The Delavall
Lands, App. I.
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399
ment in money or the produce of the land, such render was
called Quit Rent.
The Tithes (or tenth part of the crop), which by arrangement between the freeholders of Harlem and Governor Stuyvesant, the government was to receive annually, in and after the
year I666, were never exacted by the English rulers, and no
specific charge of quit rent was made in Governor Nicolls'
patents to said freeholders. Nor were they called upon to pay
such rent till the time of Governor Dongan. But now, in order
to enhance the revenues of his master, the Duke of York, and
by his direct instructions, Dongan set about introducing a system of quit rents throughout the province, and making it retrospective in its operation. The negotiations had with him by
Harlem people on this subject resulted in a compounding for all
back rents, for the full years expired since the English took possession of the country, beginning with I665, at the nominal
charge per year of one bushel of wheat. Having an obvious
reference to the old claim for tenths above referred to, it at once
took the place of and canceled every such claim, while it acquitted
the inhabitants of all liability touching the same.
At a meeting of constable and magistrates, December 3, I685,
"for making up the quit rent for the Heer Governor," the lands
were assessed at the rate of eight stivers per morgen, and the
house lots, one guilder seventeen and one-half stivers each.
Within a few days "this quit rent was paid to Mr. Cox, according
to the order of the governor," and consisted of eighteen bushels
of grain, which Adolph Meyer delivered, we presume at the
mill on the Sawkill. This payment was in full up to (but not
including) the year 1683, when Dongan became governor.
The tax list, which here follows, embraces only the erven
actually built upon, and also excludes the half erven. As to the
outside lands, Montagne's Flat is taken at the full number of
morgen, less one vacant lot; the New Lots, at three morgen per
lot, as far as assessed, those omitted being apparently such as
were unimproved. At Spuyten Duyvel the rate is partial, as
will be seen, and on Hoorn's Hook, only Peter Van Oblinus is
assessed, his eighteen morgen being reckoned at half.
As exhibiting the state of the occupied lands, just prior to
the granting of the Dongan patent, this list has special interest.
Its value, with that of those previously given, may not indeed
be at once apparent to the reader. Had the author's work been
only for the present, and his object simply to gratify the popular
taste for something novel and entertaining, he should hardly have
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burdene(l his pages with these tables, much less have imposed
upon himself the task of p)reparing them. But he has done both,
and with the deliberate conviction that the exact information
which these tables embody will prove them to be one of the
most valuable features of this work. Time will not render them
obsolete, so long at least as any question remains to be raised
which will involve the landed rights of the Dongan patentees
(and of those deriving under them); inasmuch as the estate of
each patentee respectively, as exhibited in these tables, determined
his share and interest in the -et undivided common lands. Taken
in connection with lists of these lands given in the Appendix,
they present a full and consecutive statement in regard to the
original and early ownership, situation, quantity, etc., of the
Harlem lands, such as in all probability can be shown of no other
territory of equal extent, and undergoing like sul)division. Will
someone, keeping the record, do as much for the lower section
of M\anhattan Island?
At the meeting, December 3d, each householder was ordered
to make a ladder to his chimney, within a month, or to be fined
6 gl., an(l Jan Nagel was mulct 25 gl. for putting his compost
heap on the plublic street, contrary to the town regulation. In
that era of straw roofs and woolen tenements special precaution
against fire was necessary; and several fires had actually happened
in the village, causing great alarm and heavy losses.
This, no doubt, was one of the reasons which led to the
gradual abandonment of the small village plots, andl removal to
their outside lands, for which we now observe a growing inclination. Especially after the grants of I677, the old rule against
building out of the village, the necessity for which had ceased,
fell into disuse, as it was found to seriously hinder the growth
of the town, which could best be promoted by the occupation and
improvement of the new lands as farms and homesteads. So the
privilege to build was granted whenever applied for, usually by
selling the party erf convenient to his land; the dwellings so
erected on these farms being generally substantial stone houses,
of which a very few are still standing. By a careful computation
made at a meeting of the old and new magistrates, January 20,
1686, for laying a "repartitie," or assessment, to pay the parish
clerk's salary due this (late, "so are found 25 erven (house lots),
and 393 morgen of land; each house lot must pay 4 gl., and each
morgen of land Io2 st., for making up 300 gl."* This rate was
* This enumeration is valuable as embracing all the lands taken up, excepting
the small parts of the three farms below Hoorn's Hook which lay within the patent
line. The list of erven is obviously the same as that of December 3, 1685; the last
Owners, December 3, i685.
Erven. Morgen.
Joost van Oblinus...............
Resolved Waldron.............
Barent Waldron.................
Jan Nagel.......................
Daniel Tourneur...............
Wid. Daniel Tourneur...........
Jan Kyckuyt,...................
Laurens Jansen,2................
Arent Harmans,................
Wid. Glaude Delamater..........
Adolph Meyer..................
Cornelis Jansen,4................
Johannes Verveelen..............
Johannes Vermelje..............
Jan Delamater..................
Maria Vermelje,........
Jan Louwe,....................
Jan Dyckman...................
Pieter van Oblinus..............
William Haldron................
John Delavall...................
William Cox....................
William Holmes................
Isaac Deschamps................
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2
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I
2
I
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2
I
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24
9
26
6
30
12
II
6
15
15
30
7'2
I
3
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i6
14
9
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66
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Tax.
f. 13: 7/2
II: 9 /2
5 9/
14: 3
4 5 I
I5:I5
6 I3/2
6: 5/2
4 5/2
9: 5
7:I72
I3:17/2
3:
2: 5/2
3: I/2
I: 17/2
8: 5'/2
9 7
5:9
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30: 3
I: I72
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Description of Property.
J. P., Nos. 7, 11, I3: V. K. H., Nos. 10, II, 13, i6.
V. K. H., Nos. 2, 3, V24, /29; N. L., Nos. 3, 4, 5, 9, o0.
Gloudie's Point.
J. P., Nos. 6, 8, 9; S. D., 8 morgen.
Montagne's Flat, 6 morgen.
J. P., No. i; V. K. H., Nos. 17 double, I8, I9; M. F., 12 m.
J. P., No. 5; V. K. H., No. 20; N. L., No. I.
J. P., No. 2; V. K. H., 2-3 of 5, 6.
J. P., No. 12.
V. K. H., No. 12; M. Flat, 12 morgen (3 lots).
J. P., Nos. 4, io; V. K. H., No. 14.
J. P., No. 3; V. K. H., No. 15; M. F., 18m.; N. L., No. 6.
V. K. H., Nos. 7, 8, %29.
V. K. H., 1-3 of No. 5.
V. K. H., No. I.
Erf, since known as the Judah Plot.
Bogert's Point.
V. K. H.,,2 of 4. or 2 m.; M. F., 6 m.; S. D., 6 m.
Hoorn's Hook.
J. P., Nos. I4 to 22 @ 6 2-3 morgen; V. K. H., 21, 22.
Hoorn's Hook.
Hoorn's Hook.
Hoorn's Hook
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I Brevoort. 2 Low.
3 Bussing. 4 Kortright. 5 Widow Kip.
6 Bogert.
7
402
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
levied, and received in grain. Also this year, as in the last, the
inhabitants contributed toward Dominie Selyn's salary.
The care taken to keep up the common fences enclosing the
farming lands appears in another order, needed to stay the damage being caused by swine.
There was good cause found by the Constable and the old and new
Magistrates for an order in regard to the running of the hogs: So it was
Resolved, to keep tight the fencing of Jochem Pieters up to the land of
Capt. Delavall, and from the village to set it off till into the river; and to
keep tight the fencing of Van Keulen's Hook from the village off till
into the creek of the mill. And all shall be held within one year from the
ensuing May, being the year 1687, to make the whole fencing around
tight and sufficient. And if any hogs still be found out of the limits of
the fencing, the owners shall be compelled to keep up their hogs-and
shall continue till the year 1687. By order of the Constable and Magistrates, this 4th Feb., 1685-6.
Measures were now taken to build a new church. The old
church was no longer adapted to the needs and improved tastes
of the community, though still answering the purposes of a
school-house. An invitation given them in I68o, to aid in the
erection of a new church in the city, a work not yet begun, had
perhaps suggested the present movementl and, not unlikely, it
was part of a new agreement already made with Dominie Selyns,
by which he was to administer the Lord's Supper at Harlem
twice a year, in the spring and fall, during the intervals between
its occurrence in New York. It was to be observed on a weekday, and this arrangement had gone into effect on Wednesday,
April 22, 1685, when the first celebration of the Supper here,
as a stated observance, took place. An extra large collection was
taken by the deacons, Adolph Meyer and Jan Dyckman, amounting to 14 florins 9 stivers. On the next occasion, and for some
years, while this arrangement lasted, the Supper was observed
on Thursday, and the preparation for it the day before. From
this time also obtained the practice of receiving new members
here.
three on the said farms, being omitted. The list of morgen is made up as follows:
Jochem Pieters Flat, 13 lots @ 6 morgen each............... 78 m.
do Delavall, 9 lots @ 6 2-3 m.............. 60
Van Keulen's Hook, 22 lots (@ 3 m......................... 66
do for Tourneur's No. 17, add.............. 3
Montagne's Flat, 7 lots @ 6 m., 3 @ 4 m................... 54
Hoorn's Hook, 9 lots @ 4 m., I @ 6 m..................... 42"
Bogert's Point.......................................... 6"
New Lots, 9 lots @ 4 m., I @ 6m........................ 42"
Gloudie's Point, now rated at................................ 12
Spuyten Duyvel, Dyckman and Nagel,*....................... 20"
393
* Dyckman and Nagel owned 74 acres at Spuyten Duyvel. How they came to be
rated at 20 morgen is shown in App. J.
HISTORY OF HARLEM. 403
The church was to be built of stone, and upon a new site;
an arrangement being made with Laurens Jansen and the Delamater family, who gave up their two north erven for this purpose, and which also afforded ample ground for a new churchyard or cemetery. The community pledged themselves liberally,
and assumed the labor of preparing and bringing the stone, lime,
timber, shingles, lath, etc., all which was to apply on their subscriptions.* Tobias Stoutenburgh and Hyman Koninck, masons,
the first brother-in-law to William Waldron, were employed, and
by the 29th of March the foundation was begun; Resolved
WValdron, with due ceremony, placing the first stone, and Johannes Vermelje the second. The following day the contract was
made for the carpenter work with William Hellaker, of New
York, half-brother of Teunis Ides, a good mechanic, and honest,
though "a little rough." Here is the agreement:
Specification of the Church at Harlem: The size of the church, across
it either way, is 36 Dutch feet; upon which William Hellaker undertakes to construct the roof, with an arch therein, and a small steeple
upon it, and to cover all properly with shingles, and to make a scuttle
thereto; upon condition that the people of the town shall be obligated
to deliver the timber at the building place. For which the Constable and
Magistrates promise to pay the aforesaid William Hellaker, the sum of
Seven Hundred and Fifty Guilders, in Wheat, to be delivered at the
current price. Thus arranged and agreed to in the presence of the afternamed witnesses, and which, with our usual hand, is subscribed. Done at
New Haerlem, this 3oth of March, I686.
Witnesses.
JOHANNES VEIRMELJE,
RESAI,VERT WALDRON,
WILLEM HrELIAKER,
JAN DE LAMTEtR, Constable,
DANIELT TOURNEUR,
JAN NAGEL.
Before me,
JAN TIBOU%, Clerk.
* Subscription for building the Church, I686.
-)aniel Tourneur........................................................ f. oo
Jan D yckm an............................................................ " Ioo
Isaac Delam ater....................................................... 30
Cornelis Jansen Kortright................................................ oo
Jan Louw e Bogert....................................................... oo
Jan Hendricks Van Brevoort............................................. Ioo
Jan D elam ater.......................................................... 75
Barent W aldron.......................................................... 50
Laurens Jansen.......................................................... 70
Jacques Tourneur....................................................... " 25
A dolph M eyer............................................................ 90
Jan N agel............................................................... " oo
Joost Van Oblinus....................................................... 100
Arent H arm ans Bussing.................................................. 75
Resolved W aldron........................................................ "oo
Abram Delam ontanie..................................................... 25
Thom as Tourneur......................................................... 25
Pieter V an O blienis...................................................... 50
Johannes Vermelje...................................................... 50
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
405
The walls, laid in good mortar, were soon up; the "bent
timber" for the arch being placed in position, was well secured
with clamps, the rafters were set, and the roof shingled. William Haldron, the village smith, kept his forge and anvil busy
on the iron work, of which he furnished I39 pounds, at I gl.
10 st. a pound. And then came a proud moment for the villagers; it was when the gilded "haen," or weather-cock, with the
cap on which it perched, was raised to its lofty position on the
tip of the steeple.*
On Thursday, April I5th, the people had gathered around
the Lord's table for the last time in that humble but hallowed
sanctuary where, through their early struggles, they had sought
and found inward strength and comfort. The collection was
large and significant, being 24 florins. The work upon its successor was pushed forward so rapidly, that on Thursday, September 30th, Dominie Selyns preached the first sermon in the
new church, and administered the Lord's Supper. A liberal
collection, 22 florins, was taken up. This item is also recorded,
"I686, Septemb. 30th, to bread and wine, 12 florins Io stivers."
Before the people separated they took the opportunity to nominate new town officers; those appointed being sworn in, at New
York, on the 2d of November. They were Jan Hendricks Van
Brevoort, constable, and Jan Dyckman, Lawrence Jansen, and
Isaac Delamater, magistrates. On November 4th the constable
and magistrates resolved that the churchyard (kerckof) should
be inclosed with clapboards, within the ensuing two months.
The secretary, Tibout, on December I3th, made up the accounts for the building of the church, and a glance at which will
show their way of doing things. Jan Hendricks Van Brevoort
offsets his pledge of Ioo florins, by the following work done,
materials furnished, etc.
i3th December, Jan Hendricks van Brevoort, Credit.
For stone broken and drawn to the church...................... f. 30 o
timber cut and drawn to the church...................... "4 I5
300 shingles, delivered at the church, 7 gls. the hundred.... "21I o
" making lath................................... " 6 5
o ton lime, I gl. Io st. per ton............................ 15 o
"payment of masons, carpenters, and laborer.............. 17 I8
Essentially the same are the credits to Daniel Tourneur,
Jan Dyckman, Isaac Delamater, Cornelis Jansen, Jan Delamater,
Barent WValdron, Laurens Jansen, Adolph Meyer, Jan Nagel,
* Jan Delamater has credit, January 15, i687, "Aen een ketel tot de haen van de
toorn f. 9." Schult Boeck (or Ledger), page 74.
406
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Joost Van Oblinus, Arent Harmans Bussing, and Resolved
Waldron, most of whom exceeded the amount of their pledges.
Others did less as they were able.* On the same date Barent
Waldron, in presence of the court and community, accounted for
the moneys he had disbursed for nails, stone, and other things,
and which amounted to 576 florins. Resolved Waldron was given
credit for 12 florins, and Jan Delamater, Adolph Meyer, and
Laurens Jansen, each 6 florins, all "earned at the bent timber.'
Mr. John Delavall being in arrears, Tibout and Dyckman
were sent to "the Manhattans," to see him about it. His indebtedness, as made out December I3th, was, "for stone, timber, lime, and morgen money, 236 florins; for 2 years' salary of
voorleser, 95 florins; for quit rent, 32 florins." Having embraced
Quaker principles, Delavall had scruples as to paying toward the
church or voorleser, and had rather submit to a distraint upon his
goods. So the town by its constable, Brevoort, levied on 6I
schepels of wheat belonging to him, in the hands of Laurens
Jansen, Adolph Meyer, Jan Delamater, and said Brevoort, then
the lessees of Delavall's lands.
The voluntary subscription being insufficient, a tax was laid
of 2 guilders on the morgen, and afterward, on February 24,
I687, an additional tax of 8 stivers per morgen. A special contribution was made up for glazing the windows. The people
brought in their wheat to the town house, depositing it in the loft;
others delivered it to the mechanics or at the sawmill, in payment
for boards and plank, receiving credit therefor in their accounts.*
Jan Delamater paid to the laborer (opperman) a remnant of
wheat left in his hands, after the last payment of the town's
quit rent, three schepels, amounting to I8 guilders. Constable
* Arent Harmans has credit in the church accounts:
"Jan. 15, I686-7, For riding stone to the city of New York........ f. I: o
I" " 2 schepels wheat........................... 2: o."
It would have been extraordinary, a departure from the universal practice in
Fatherland, had the builders omitted to place over the portal of the church the usual
inscription, giving the date of its erection, with perhaps a scripture text in Dutch.
Over the entrance to the church in the fort they had often read: "Ao, Do. MDCXLII.
W. Kieft, Dr. Gr. Heeft de Gemeenten dese Temple doen Bouwen." It could hardly
have failed to be imitated, and this, we think, explains the credit to Arent Bussing;
one florin for taking the stone to New York, to be cut, and twelve florins, paid for it.
* I68'/s the 25th February; List of those who have paid to Adolph Meyer, Constable, for the glass at the church:
Adolph Meyer................ f. I4 Jan Louwe Bogert............ f. 9
Arent Harmans............... " I4 1Daniel Tourneur.............. " 9
Tan Dyckman................. " Pieter Van Oblinus........... 9
Jacqueline Tourneur.......... " Jan Nagel.................... 9
Joost Van Oblinus........... " Jan H. Brevoort............ 9
Cornelis Jansen.............. 9 Maria Vermelje.............. 9
Laurens Jansen............... 9 Resolved Waldron............ 9
Jan Delamater................ 9 Bare nt W aldron.............. "
Isaac Delamater.............. 9 Johannes W aldron............ "
Johannes Vermelje............ 9 Samuel Waldron........... 9
Jacques Tourneur............. 9
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
407
Brevoort afterward paid him 2 schepels, or 12 guilders, and the
balance of his wages, 35 guilders, on February 24th, 1687. To
Jerome van Bommel, of New York, "smith," was paid 126
florins. At this date the new patent had also been paid for,
and the mechanics gave time on their bills. The I4th of March,
I688, the sum of 528 florins yet due the masons (their contract
was 600 florins) was paid to Stoutenburgh, by Barent Waldron.
William Hellaker had received "for the building of the church,"
from Jan Dyckman 45 florins 12 stivers, from Constable Brevoort I53 florins, from Jan Louwe Bogert 125 florins, and from
Adolph Meyer, Constable, 275 florins. At a final reckoning with
him March 14th, 1689, there was found due him a balance of
I63 florins 13 stivers, which included I2 florins 5 stivers, for
extras, over and above the contract; and on April I6th, Barent
Waldron was authorized to pay this balance from funds in his
hands. Besides the work done by the people themselves, and the
materials they furnished, the church cost them over 2600 guilders.
It was spacious and substantial, but obviously of the plainest
finish, according thus with the simple tastes and strictly
utilitarian ideas of the builders, of which the following item
from the deacon's book for I687, is quite suggestive: "July 21,
gave to the Smith for making of a bolt, also a latch, for the
church, 8 guilders." During the first year of its occupancy, the
collections amounted to 171 guilders 4 stivers, averaging 3
guilders 5 stivers per Sabbath.*
* The Reformed Church.-It was three-fourths of a century after the new church
was built before the congregation secured a pastor to live among them. The ministry
of Dominie Selyns seems to have gone smoothly till the breaking out of the Leisler
troubles, in I68o. The Dutch at Harlem, and with them Tibout, the voorleser, generally approved l1eisler's course. Selyns took the opposite ground, and this caused
an alienation. It went so far that after the celebration of the Lord's Supper, October
9, i69o, the arrangement with Selyns was broken off, and this ordinance suspended
here for a series of years. Tibout had closed his services on preparation day, April
23, I690. Selyns, in writing to the Classis of Amsterdam, says Harlem had fallen
off, "under the idea that they can live without ministers or sacraments." The church
had been much afflicted in the loss of several of its old members, Cornelis Jansen,
Jan Nagel and Mrs. Maria Kip, formerly Montayne, all in I689, and Resolved Waldron and Daniel Tourneur in 1690. Repairs were needed on the church and church
yard, and, on September 13, I690, Joost Van Oblinus and Adolph Meyer. were chosen
church masters to superintend this work. The Sunday services were kept up, however, without interruption; for the first year under the lead of Guiliaem Bertholf,
who came here from New Jersey as voorleser, and began serving April 24, I690. He
also acted as town clerk at Harlem, but performed his last service here as voorleser,
September I3, i691, Tibout resuming his old place the next Sabbath. (See note page
77.) ribout continued to serve the Harlem church six, if not eight years, when he
entered on a term of service at Bushwick. The breach with Selyns had meanwhile
been healed; indeed, his labors here had never been wholly suspended. A young
man, named Adrian Vermuele, from Vlissengen, in Zeeland bringing a church letter
addressed to "Henry Selyns, Minister of Harlem and Yori, in America," was now
engaged to fill Tibout's place as voorleser, etc., and entered upon his duties November
4, I699. judging from his penmanship, he was a scholar; the town immediately
built "a new house, as a dwelling for the voorleser, and as a school and town house,"
beside repairing the church; and that the latter might be taken out of the control of
popular meetings. and placed directly under the church officers, a deed was secured,
November 2, I699, from "all the residents or proprietors of the town," conveying
"the church" to the consistory; but those who helped build the church to retain their
seats. We have not seen this deed, but only the record by the clerk of its having
408 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Coeval with the church enterprise, was another looking to the
opening of a new section of the township to the plough and husbandman, and to the ultimate increase of the town revenues.
Midway of the long range of heights stretching from Moertje
Davids Fly to Sherman's Creek, and not far below Fort Washington, was an Indian clearing known as the Great Maize Land.
This was now leased to Capt. Jan Gerritsen van Dalsen and his
son-in-law, Jan Kiersen, upon the following curious terms:
On this date, We the Constable and Magistrates hereby acknowledge
to have consented and agreed in manner hereafter written. Jan Gerritse van Dalsen and Jan Kiersen own and declare to have received from
the aforesaid Constable and Magistrates, a piece of land named The
Great Maize Land, belonging under the jurisdiction of New I-aerlem;
which aforesaid piece of land the before written Jan Gerritse van Dalsen
been 'given. Whether it included, in express terms, the kerk lot or "church farm,"
and the kerk erf. we do not know: hut nevertheless these had always been held as
appurtenances of the church, for whose use and benefit they were originally set
apart (the church farm being expressly recognized in records as early as I665, as
also at various subsequent dates, as "the church lot"), so that not merely by an implied right, or with the tacit consent of the town, but under the original allotment,
always held to give a title, the consistory continued to possess the church farm, even
down to our own time.
Adrian Vermeule having served here with acceptance for eight years, "was requested to be the voorleser at Bergen;" and in a meeting of the consistory at New
York, January I, 1708, the elder Peter Van Oblienis, and deacons Samuel Waldron
and Samson Benson, being present, it was agreed to dismiss him with a recommendation. He closed his term on February i. ensuing. While here he married Dinah,
laughter of William Hellaker. He married again at Bergen, Christina Fredericks.
granddaughter of Andries I-Iopper, and here he (lied, in I735. The church left without
a voorleser, Col. Morris, of Morrisania, "endeavored to persuade the Dutch in his
neighborhood (that is, the Ilarlcm people) into a good opinion of the Church of
England," and induced Rev. Ilcnricus Bleys, of Esopus, to come and preach at Harlem, as a missionary of that church, with a view to accepting Episcopal ordination.
The attempt seemed to promise success, and Mr. Beys labored here in the years I7I1
and 1712, having the support of Col. Morris. Capt. Congrevc, and some other English
residents, but the Venerable Society in England gave him but little encouragement,
and he was obliged to give it up. For the next half century the history of the church
is scanty. It was still ministered to by the pastor at New York, now the Rev.
Gualterus Du Bois, called in I699, as colleague with Dominie Selyns, who died July
I9, 1701. In a few years they secured another voorleser, Johannes Martinus \an
Harlingen, a young man from Amsterdam. He married here, September I7, 1722,
Mary, youngest daughter of Arent Bussing. The next year, June 19, he was naturalized by act of assembly. He afterward, by the death of his nephew, Jan de Cerff,
Lord of Old Byerland, fell heir in fee tail to that lordship. In 1741 he removed to
New Brunswick, N. J., where he was an elder, in 1765. Ile was the father of five
sons, of whom the eldest was the Rev. Johannes M. Van H-arlingen, of Neshanic and
Sourland. The question between the conferentie and the cetus (or the adherents of
the Classic of Amsterdam, and those who favored an American classis) now greatly
disturbed the Harlem church. The church was mainly of the latter, but the dominies
now acting, Ritzeina and De Ronde, were strongly in favor of the old regine. These
took it very hard, in 1755, because the Harlem folks subscribed toward founding an
American college, proposed by Dominie Frelinghuysen. But in I765 the church called
Rev. Martinus Schoonrnaker, of the ccetus, who divided his services with Gravesend,
but took up his residence at Harlem, where he bought, August io, 1678, a farm of
28 acres, just north of the village, afterward owned by Lawrence, and later by Wagstaff. Being an ardent Whig, he spent the period of the Revolution within the American lines, as did many of his flock. lHe returned at the peace, but left in 1785. The
church edifice having been ruined durirg the war, another was begun in 1788, and,
in 1791, the Rev. John F. Jackson was called as pastor. His ministry continued till
i80o. His successors have been: Jeremiah Romeyn, i806 to I813; Cornelius C.
Verrnuele, ).D. (a descendant of the former voorleser), i816 to 1836; Richard L.
Schoonmaker, I828 to 1847; Jeremiah S. Lord, D.I).. 1848 to 1869; G. HI.nry Mandeville, D.D., the pastor from I869 to i88I. For details of these several pastorates, we
refer to "Golden Memories," treasured by Doctor Mandeville in his valuable discourse
of April 20, I873. The present pastor, Rev. George H. Smyth, was settled in the fall
of I88I. Until the organization of the St. Mary Episcopal Church, at Manhattanville,
in I823, the Reformed Church was the only one of any denomination within the
entire limits of Harlem.
HISTORY OF HARLEM. 409
and Jan Kiersen shall use, build and live upon, for the time of twelve
successive years, to commence in the month of August of this year, I686,
and ending in the month of August, after the harvest is off; and the
hirers shall be permitted the last years to sow two schepels of buckwheat
and to plant a piece of maize (corn); also the lessees, for the first seven
years, shall occupy it free, only each giving to the lessors a fat capon
yearly, as all acknowledgment, and shall be obligated for the last five
years to pay each year two hundred guilders in good wheat, rye, peas, or
barley, at the market price; from each parcel the just fourth part to
be given to God the Lord. The lessees shall be allowed to make an orchard, and at the end of their years, shall have the right of taking up
half of the same, from the large fruit trees or the nursery; and the
lessees shall be required to clear fourteen morgen of land in the first
years, which will be two morgen yearly, and if the lessees shall have
need'of more land, the lessors shall be required to assign more land to
the lessees, at the most convenient time; also is leased with the land a
piece of meadow lying at the farthest point at the North River. So also
the lessees are required to deliver up the buildings in good condition at
the end of the years, as also to deliver the fencing of the land tight and
sufficient. To the extent of fourteen morgen, the lessees shall be obligated to bear the ordinary town clarges, but no extraordinary. The
lessees shall be allowed to continue living on the aforesaid land till
\May of the last year, being the year 1699. The lessees shall have the
liberty of removing, upon condition that they signify one year before,
their intentiol to give up the lease. All thus performed and agreed to,
tand with our ustual hand undersigned. Done at New Haerlem this 30th
of MIarch, I686. [Signed by Jan Delamater, as Constable, Daniel Tourneur. Jan Nagel, Jan Kiersen, and Jan Gerritsen van Dalsen, in the
presence of Jan Tibout, Clerk.]
Some progress had been made in clearing and cultivating the
1-oorn's Hook lands, since known as the Waldron Farm. On
Jan. 8th, I687, Peter van Oblienis leased his erf and four lots
here (Nos. 6, 8, 9, Io), to David Devoor, junior, for six years, to
commence with the ensuing May.' He was to have it rent free
* I)avid du Four, senior, thus wrote his surname, but it soon exchanged F for
V, then took the form of Devoor. Some now write it De Voe, which confounds it
with the name of another and distinct family, herein noticed, descended from the
brothers Nicholas and Frederick de Vaux, or l)e Voe. Early at Harlem. as an original
proprictor, the elder David left again on selling his allotment to Jacob Elderts, who
directly resold it, June i, 1662, to Jean le Roy. In I668, Du Four, passing in a
canoe up the East River, and with him his child. Anthony, when, between Turtle
Bay and Blackwell's Island, John Copstaff, a drunken soldier in another boat, let off
a gun which wounded little Anthony; this was on August I8, and he died August 3I.
Copstaff was convicted of manslaughter. )u Four being very ill, he and wife, Tannetie,
made a will, September 14, 1671, naming the places whence they came in Hainault,
I)robabl:- for the reason that the survivor is to enjoy all the property both here and
"in their fatherland." But David recovered and lived long. In I677, Governor Andros granted, for him and his son John, 60 acres of land "on the Coale Kill,"
Turtle Bay, and here David spent the rest of his life. His will was proved May i,
1699. It names his children John, David, Peter and Glaude; Peter not named again,
and Claude not after 1687.
John D)evoor, born during his father's sojourn at Sedan, married, in I676, a
Leyden girl, Tannetie, daughter of Jan Willems Van Isselsteyn, otherwise called
Jan of Leyden. IIe bought a farm at Bloomingdale, where he died, leaving a widow,
Mary. She was daughter of Capt. Peter Van Woglum, of Albany. The twelve children of John, senior, were all by his first wife, and all living July 24, I717, when.
being sick, he made his will; it was proved April 13, I724, after his youngest child
became of age. These children, who shared equally in his estate, were: Maria, born
I677, who married Gerrit Roelofs Vander Werken, of Half Moon, near Albany;
John, born I68o; Margaret, born 168I, married Teunis Pier; David, born i683;
Peter, born I686; Rachel, born 1687; Adriana, born i688, married Conrad Vanderbeck and Jacob Montanye; Jannetie, born 1690, married Andrew Bisset; Elizabeth,
born 1693; Teunis, born 1696, married Georgie Barheyt and Sarah Van Oblinus;
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for the first year, for the second, pay Ioo gl., and for the remaining time, I50 gl. yearly; "in good wheat, rye, barley, peas and
buckwheat." Devoor engaged "to pay toward the salary of the
Voorleser," and to allow Oblienis liberty to build a house and
live there, but not to the limiting of Devoor "in syn wey ofte int
hos;" in his pasture or in the woodland.
The neighboring Baignoux farm had already passed, by a
transfer of Oct. I2th, I686, from Isaac Deschamps, also known
by the name of Saviat Broussard, to John Spragge, Esq., one
of Dongan's councilors.
Great Barent's Island was now to become productive under
the well-directed toil of a new proprietor and experienced farmer,
Thomas Parcell, late of Newtown. He contracted with Jacob
Milborne, Feb. I7th, I687, for the purchase of the Island for
~600; Milborne being empowered to sell it by Samuel Swynock.
Having paid his three instalments, Parcell, on June 23d, I690,
obtained a full deed from Milborne, to whom, in the interim,
Swynock had conveyed the Island, Aug. 9th, [687.
Meanwhile a matter of common interest and of great importance to the freeholders, the renewal or confirmation of the town
patent, had been pressed upon them by the governor, who in
behalf of his sovereign, now King James II., was aiming at a
William, born 1698, and Abraham, born 1701. John, eldest son, married, in 1706,
Catharine, daughter of Roelof Gerrits Vander Werken, of Half Moon, to which
place he removed, and, on April I, 1724, sold his interest in his father's farm to his
brothers David and William. He died in 1746, and his descendants are called De
Voe. (See Pearson's Albany Settlers.) David, last named, lived for a time at Harlem, where he married, in 1726, Anna, daughter of Thomas Wakefield, and widow of
Jacob Van Bremen, ancestor of the Van Bramers, late of Harlem Lane. Devoor and
wife owned a place on the upper side of the Church Lane, which they sold, in the
year 1745, to Daniel McGowan. It was the old Hanel garden, bought by Van Bremen,
in 1715, from Abraham Meyer.
David Devoor was born in 1659, and married, 1689, Elizabeth Jansen, from the
Delaware. When his Hoorn's Iook lease expired, in 1693. he returned to the homestead at Turtle Bay, of which he became the owner. He had five children, viz.:
Margaret, born 1690; David, 1693; Jannetie, 1695; John, 1697, and Elizabeth, 1700.
David, the eldest son, who succeeded to the Turtle Bay farm, married, I715, Jannetie,
daughter of Abraham Delamontanie, of Harlem, by whom he had issue, David; Elizabeth, married, 1741, John Burger, and Jane, married. 1749, Nicholas Burger. David,
last naned, born T717, married, 1740, Mary Van Vleckeren. On May 2, 1760, his
father conveyed him 121/2 acres off the north side of his farm; hut the former, then
living retired in the East Ward, died November 12, ensuing, leaving the remainder to
David, jointly with his two sisters, whose interests he acquired. He added to it
I04 acres next south of him, by purchase, in 1769. All this, at his death, in 1780,
fell to his daughter, Ann. who married, successively, Abraham Brevoort and Gen.
Jacob Odell. (See N.Y. I. & G. Rec. IX., 48.)
John Devoor, born 1697, and son of David second, married, 1722, Aefie (Eve)
daughter of Bastiaen Michiels Kortright, and had three children, to wit: Jelante, born
1723, married Abraham Ackerman; John, born 1728, and Aefie, born 1730, who
married John Courtright, of Sherman's Creek, grandson of Bastiaen aforesaid. In
173I, Devoor bought the Saw-kill farm (See App. H.), of which at his death, in 1780,
he left 14 acres on the upper side to his son John, and the remainder, 241/4 acres, to
his daughter, Aefie Courtright. Jelante received a house and lot in town. John Devoor, Jr., born October I, 1728, bought and occupied 4 acres of the Young farm,
adjoining the 14 afterward received from his father, which 18 acres subsequently
formed the southerly part of the Dr. Baker farm, now vested in the trustees of the
Trinity Church School. Devoor married, May 19, 1752, Bellitie, daughter of Hendrick Bogert, by whom he had a son, John, horn 1757, and other children. His property here passed into other hands under mortgages, one for the 4 acres dated February
i6, 1774, and another of the 14 acres, dated March i7, 1783.
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411
large increase of the revenue in the form of quit rent, and also
to fix the amount, and the time and mode of payment, by the
general issue of new patents. Cogent reasons were brought to
bear upon the people. James, Duke of York, had ascended the
throne, Feb. 6th, 1685; but as king it was by no means certain
that he would be bound by his acts as duke; and hence the wisdom of taking out new letters patent directly under the crown,
by the land and its accredited agent. Indeed, assuming the old
town patents to be invalid unless confirmed, Dongan avowed his
intention to appropriate, as belonging to the king, and at his
disposal, all such tracts of common land as could be found within
the several townships, and not yet purchased of the Indians. So
the inhabitants "were willing rather to submit to a greater quit
rent, than to have that unpurchased land disposed of to others
than themselves."
While the Harlem people were thus given to expect great
trouble and loss, should they neglect to secure the confirmation
of their patented rights, the utmost benefit was, apparently, to
accrue from such a confirmation, and especially in view of a certain clause contained in the charter just granted by Gov. Dongan, to the City of New York (being dated April 27th, I686),
and which clause reads as follows:
And I do by these presents give and grant unto the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the said City of New York, all the waste, vacant,
unpatented and unappropriated lands lying and being within the said
City of New York and on Manhattans Island aforesaid, extending and
reaching to the low-water mark in, by, and through all parts of the said
City of New York and nManhattans Island aforesaid, together with all
rivers, rivulets, coves, creeks, ponds, waters, and watercourses, in the said
City and Island, or either of them, not heretofore given or granted by any
of the former Governors, etc.
As rights and privileges within the township of Harlem very
akin to some of these, and in some respects more ample, had
heretofore been granted the inhabitants by the patent of Gov.
Nicolls, its confirmation was now deemed imperative to preserve and insure these valuable franchises to them, their heirs,
or successors. A pledge to bear equally the expense of the new
patent had been circulated in the town, and signed by the whole
community. This was entered on the records at the meeting
held Nov. 4th, I686, when the resolution passed to fence the
churchyard.
To digress a little: At this time action was also taken for protecting the common woodlands. "Whereas, great damage has
happened therein by the destruction of the timber," so the order
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read, "every one is hereby forbidden to cut any wood within the
limits of the Town more than he wants for his own use, under
penalty of ~5, being 200 guilders."
But the court on this occasion found itself "weakened by
animosities." The old board had been invited to sit with the
new; but one from each, namely, Cornelis Jansen and his brother
Laurens, were absent, the latter having just left on a visit to his
kinsfolk, the Roosas, at Esopus, where he and his cousin Reyer
Michielsen had been only the year before.* Two of the other
members had a quarrel, one of the old and one of the new board,
Jan Nagel and Jan Dyckman, before such good friends-all because a goose of Nagel's, getting into Dyckman's grain, had been
bitten by his dog. To settle this weighty matter Joost van
Oblinus and Adolph Meyer were, "for this time," called to the
bench.
On further deliberation upon the subject of their patent,
another paper, designed to amend the former action, was drawn
up and signed by the inhabitants, as follows, and the value of
which constituted in this, that it pledged them to a pro rata distribution of the lands held in common, and which plan was
adhered to in all the general allotments subsequently made.
Those with the signs made their marks.
The underwritten Persons subscribe to pay according to their estates,
and are to draw in proportion to their estates, of the common woods:
Resalvert Waldron, Pieter van Oblienis,
Joost Van Oblinus, Johannes Vermelje,
Daniel Tourneur, Jan Delamater,
Jan Hendricks van Brevoort, 8, Arent 1-arlmans,
Laurens Jansen, + Abram de Lamontanie,
Isaac Delamater, Jan Louwe Bogert,
Jan Nagel, Jacqueline Tourneur,
Cornelis Jansen, Jacques Tourneur, S T,
Jan Dyckman, Hester Delamater, IT,
Barent Waldron, Adolph Meeycr, AD.
New HTaerlcm, 8th January, 1686-7.
JAN TIBOUT, Clerk.
* The Roosa family, since so multiplied in Ulster and adjacent counties, and
known also as Rosa and Rose, came from Herwynen, Gelderland; sailing from Holland for this country, in the ship Bonte-koe, April 15, i660. There were Albert
Ieymans Roosa, his wife, Weilke de Jonge, and eight children between the ages of
2 and 17 years. Directly on arrival, Roosa went to Esopus (no doubt at the instance
of Roelof Swartwout, a fellow passenger returning to that place); where he and his
wife united with the church, of which, two years later, lie became an elder. Governor
Stuyvesant giving a name to Wiltwyck, May i6, i66I, appointed Roosa one of his
first schepens. Here he took up land, for which he got a patent August 19, 1664.
He was a man of firm will and great energy, being also "wonderful strong and quick."
Roosa died February 27, 1679, leaving a good estate to his children, who were: Heyman, born 1643; Arien, born 1645, and Jan, born i65 —by all whom the name was
perpetuated-and daughters, Ilke, Mary, Neeltie and Jannetie. The last was married
to Matthys Ten Eyck, of New York, Ilke to Roelof Kierstead, Neeltie to Henry
Pawling, and Mary to Laurens Jansen, of Harlem.
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413
Meanwhile the new patent was drawn up. The names of
those who had subscribed the paper of January 8th were entered
as patentees, only that Jacqueline Tourneur stood also for her
son Jacques, and Peter Parmentier took the place of Jan Louwe
Bogert. Then four others were added, namely, John Delavall,
in the stead of his father, the councilor Spragge, Johannes
Verveelen, and William Haldron, the smith, all freeholders.
Being submitted to the attorney-general, James Graham, who
found "nothing contained therein prejudicial to His Majesty's
interest," the patent was approved in council March 7th, and
signed by the governor.* It read as follows:
THOMAS DONGAN, Captain-General, Governor-in-Chief, and
Vice-Admiral in and over the Province of New York, and its dependencies thereon in America, under His Majesty James the Second, by the
Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., To all to whom these Presents shall come,
sendeth Greeting:-Whereas Richard Nicolls, Esq., formerly Governor
of this Province, hath by his certain writing or Patent, bearing date
the Eleventh day of October, Anno Dom. One Thousand Six Hundred
Sixty-Seven, Did Give, ratify, confirm, and grant unto Thomas Delavall, Esq., John Verveelen, Daniel Tourneur, Joost Oblinus, and Resolved Waldron, as Patentees, for and on the behalf of themselves
and their Associates, the freeholders and inhabitants of New Harlem,
their heirs, successors, and assigns, All that tract, together with the
several parcels of land, which they then had, or after should be purchased, or procured, for and on the behalf of the said Town, within the
bounds and limits hereafter set forth and expressed, vizt. That is to
say, from the west side of the fence of the said Town, a line being run
due west four hundred English poles, without variation of the compass,
and at the end thereof another line being drawn across the Island north
and south with the variation, that is to say, north from the end of a certain piece of meadow ground, commonly called the Round Meadow, near
or adjoining unto Hudson's or the North River, and south to the place
where formerly stood the Saw Mills, over against Verkens or Hog Island
in the Sound or East River, shall be the western bounds of their lands,
and all the lands lying and being within the said line so drawn north and
south as aforesaid, eastward to the end of the Town and Harlem River,
or any part of the said River on which this Island doth abut, and likewise on the North and East Rivers, within the limits aforementioned
described, doth and shall belong to the said Town; As also four lots
of meadow ground upon the Main, marked with Numbers I, 2, 3, 4,
lying over against the Spring, where a passage hath been used to ford
* John Spragge, being a member of the Governor's Council, and owning the
Baignoux farm, managed to get his name into the Patent. He was present in Council
when the Patent was passed upon, March 7, I687, but diretly after sailed with
dispatches for England, and appears not to have returned to this country. On December 6, 7, I690, he conveyed his farm aforesaid to Dr. Daniel Cox, of London, who,
on April 28, 1692, empowered his agent, Jeremiah Bass, Esq., of New Jersey, to
sell it. No common land was ever laid out within the Harlem Patent, in virtue of this
freehold. The next two farms south of Spragge's, also partly within the patent
line, fared no better; except that William Holmes drew a five-morgen lot in 169I.
He owned the centre farm and had paid a small sum on the Patent. But in the
subsequent divisions these three farms had no share; the rule obtaining that those
only who had helped bear the expense of the general Patent, were named.therein,
and held morgen and erf rights under it (the three farms holding under special
patents), were entitled to draw of the common land.
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over from this Island to the Main, and from thence hither, With a
small Island commonly called Stony Island, lying to the east of the Town
and Harlem River, going through Bronck's Kill, by the little and great
Barn's Islands, upon which there are Also four other lots of meadow
ground, marked with Numbers I, 2, 3, 4; Together with all the soils,
creeks, quarries, woods, meadows, pastures, marshes, waters, lakes, fishing, hawking, hunting and fowling, and all other profits, commodities,
emoluments and hereditaments to the said land and premises, within the
bounds and limits set forth, belonging, or in any wise appertaining, And
also freedom of commonage for range and feed of cattle and horses, further
west into the woods upon this Island, as well without as within their
bounds and limits set forth and expressed; To have and to hold all
and singular the said lands, island, commonage, hereditaments, and
premises, with their and every of their appurtenances, and of every part
and parcel thereof, unto the said Patentees and their Associates, their
heirs, successors, and assigns, to the proper use and behoof of the said
Patentees and their Associates, their heirs, successors, and assigns
forever. And whereas Richard Nicolls, Esq., did likewise ratify, confirm, and grant unto the said Patentees and their Associates, their heirs,
successors, and assigns, All the rights and privileges belonging to a Town
within this government, With this proviso, or exception, that in all matters of debt or trespass of or above the value of Five Pounds, they shall
have relation unto and dependence upon the Courts of this City, as the
other Towns have upon the several Courts of Session to which they do
belong; And that the place of their present habitation shall continue
and retain the name of New Harlem, by which name and style it shall
be distinguished and known in all bargains and sales, deeds, writings,
and records; And that no person whatsoever should be suffered or permitted to erect any manner of house or building upon this said Island,
within two miles of the limits and bounds aforementioned, without the
consent and approbation of the major part of the inhabitants of the said
Town; And whereas the said Town lies very commodious for a Ferry, to
and from the Main, which may redound to the particular benefit of the
inhabitants, as well as to a general good, the freeholders and inhabitants
of the said town should, in consideration of the benefits and privileges therein granted, as also for what advantage they might receive
thereby, be enjoined and obliged, at their own proper costs and charge,
to build or provide one or more boats fit for the transportation of men,
horses, or cattle, for which was to be a certain allowance given by each
particular person, as should be then ordered and adjudged fit and reasonable; They, the said Patentees and their Associates, their heirs, successors, and assigns, Rendering and paying such duties and acknowledgments as then were or after should be established by the laws of this
government, under the obedience of His Royal Highness, his heirs and
successors, as in and by the said Patent, remaining upon record in the
Secretary's Office, reference being thereunto had, doth fully and at
large appear. And whereas, the present inhabitants and freeholders
of the Town of New Harlem aforesaid have made their application unto
me for a more full and ample confirmation of their premises to them,'
their heirs, successors, and assigns forever, in their quiet and peaceable
possession: Now know Ye, that by virtue of the commission and authority to me derived, and power in me residing, in consideration of
the premises, and of the Quit Rent hereinafter reserved, I have given,
granted, ratified, and confirmed, and by these presents do give, grant,
ratify, and confirm unto John Delavall, Resolved Waldron, Joost van
Oblinus, Daniel Tourneur, Adolph Meyer, John Spragge, Jan Hendricks
Brevoort, Jan Delamater, Isaac Delamater, Barent Waldron, Johannes Vermelje, Lawrence Jansen, Peter van Oblinus, Jan Dyckman, Jan Nagel,
Arent Harmanse, Cornelis Jansen, Jacqueline Tourneur, Hester Delamater,
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Johannes Verveelen, William Haldron, Abraham Montanie, Peter Parmentier,* as Patentees, for and on lehalf of themselves the present freeholders and inhabitants of the said Town of New Harlem, their heirs,
successors, and assigns, All and singular the before recited tract,parcel
and parcels of land and meadow, butted and bounded as in the said
Patent is mentioned and expressed, together with all and singular the messuages, tenements, houses, buildings, barns, stables, orchards, gardens,
pastures, mis,, mill-dams, runs, streams, ponds, woods, underwoods,
trees, timber, fencing, fishing, hawking, hunting, and fowling, liberties,
privileges, hereditaments, and improvements whatsoever to the said tract
of land and premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining, or accepted,
reputed, taken, or known, or used, occupied, and enjoyed, as part, parcel, or member thereof, with their and every of their appurtenances;
Always provided, that nothing contained therein shall be construed to
prejudice the right of the City of New York, or any other particular
right; and saving to the said City of New York, and their successors
forever, and also saving to every particular person, his heirs and assigns,
that have any right, interest or estate within the limits of the said
Town of New Harlem, as well as without the limits of the said Town
of Harlem, full power, liberty and privilege to build, cultivate and improve all such tracts and parcels of land as the said City of New York
now have, or hereafter shall have, within or without and adjacent to
the limits of the Town of Harlem aforesaid; As also the commonage, of
the Town of Harlem aforesaid, is to be confirmed within the limits abovesaid, and the right of commonage to extend no further, any grant
or thing contained herein to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
To have and to hold the said several tracts and parcels of land and
premises, with their and every of their appurtenances, unto them the
said John Delavall, Resolved Waldron, Joost van Oblinus, Daniel Tourneur, Adolph Meyer, John Spragge, Jan Hendricks Brevoort, Jan Delamater, Isaac Delamater, Barent, Waldron, Johannes Vermelje, Lawrence
Jansen, Jan Dyckman, Jan Nagel, Arent Harmanse, Cornelis Jansen,
Peter van Oblinus, Jacqueline Tourneur, Hester Delamater, Johannes
Verveelen, William Haldron, Abraham MIontanie, Peter Parmentier, as
Patentees for and on the behalf of themselves, their heirs, successors,
and assigns, to the sole and only proper use, benefit, and behoof of the
said Patentees, their heirs, successors, and assigns forever; To be holden
of His Most Sacred Majesty, his heirs and successors, in free and common
socage, according to the tenure of East Greenwich, in the County of
Kent, in His Majesty's Kingdom of England; Yielding, rendering and
paying therefor, yearly and every year forever, on or before the Five
and Twentieth day of March, in lieu of all services and demands whatsoever, as a Quit Rent, to His Most Sacred Majesty aforesaid, his heirs
and successors, or to such officer or officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, Sixteen bushels of good winter merchantable Wheat, at the
City of New York. In testimony whereof I have caused these presents
to be entered upon record in the Secretary's Office, and the Seal of the
Province to be hereunto affixed, this Seventh day of March, I686, and in
the Third year of His Majesty's reign.*
THO. DONGAN.
* These names are strangely distorted in the Patent, as "Recorded for the Inhabitants of Harlem," in Liber 6, page 192, of Patents, in the Secretary of State's Office,
Albany; showing gross carelessness somewhere, either on the part of the recording
clerk, the draftsman, or the person who made out the list. They are here corrected
from indisputable data; and the entire document is also relieved from the crudities
of the old spelling, which serve no purpose but to mar the text.
* The Manor of East Greenwich was an ancient Crown domain, which had been
given successively to several monastic institutions, but was finally recovered from one
of these, in exchange for other lands, by Henry VIII. in the 23d year of his reign.
On the sale of the Crown lands, under Cromwell, this Manor was reserved for the
use of the State, and at the Restoration fell again to the Crown, in which it con
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It now remained to discharge the arrears of quit rent, and
pay for the patent. To this, for the time being, some of the
payments on the church had to give way, as before stated. On
March 29th Jan Louwe Bogert brought in his wheat to the
constable, as did others on the same date, and on April 5th
nearly all the rest. It was deposited in the loft of the town
house, over I30 schepels, preparatory to being taken to New
York. Constable Brevoort carted from the loft, April 29th,
four bushels of wheat as the balance due for quit rent, under
the commutation, to wit, for the years I683 to I686 inclusive.t
On June 3d William Holmes paid I florins on the patent,
though not named as a patentee, for which he was allowed to
draw of the common land in the first general allotment, in I691.
On October I8th Johannes Verveelen made the last payment, 9
florins, 12 stivers in money, by the hand of his daughter, Mrs.
Meyer. The whole cost of the patent was something over 800
guilders.
The Dongan patent was professedly designed for quieting
the freeholders and inhabitants in their ancient rights and privileges. Save that it annuls the restriction upon the erection of
buildings, and cuts off the outside commonage (a most unwarrantable measure), it simply confirms what Nicolls' patent had
granted. The several persons holding under Andros' grants to
Elphinstone and others, and not named in the patent, were held
to be thereby excluded from its provisions, and from any share
with the other patentees in the common lands. The limits of
the patent, recited somewhat awkwardly, but never meant to be
indefinite or uncertain, plainly included so much of Manhattan
Island as lay to the east and north of the given line, and bordertinued till the accession of James II. to the throne, in I685, when it was bestowed
on his queen as part of her jointure. It was apparently in compliment to the queen
that it was now taken and cited as a pattern tenure, enjoying all the advantages of
the free and common socage, briefly explained on a former page. The term socage as
here used is derived by Blackstone from the Saxon soc, a privilege, and hence here
denoting a privileged tenure, but others very plausibly refer it to soca, a plough. (See
Blackstone; the chapters on English Tenures.) The date of the above Patent is
given in Old Style, by which the year began March 27. According to our present
reckoning it should be I687.
t The Ouit Rent charged by the Dongan Patent continued to be assessed upon
the freeholders, and paid to the Receiver-(General, down to the opening of the Revolution, from which time no further payments were made for a term of forty years.
The State Legislature had passed a law, in 1786, providing for the commutation and
collection of all quit rents due on the numerous land patents granted by the English
colonial governors; but nothing was done in relation to the Harlem Patent till I8I5.
In this year it was advertised, with many others, to be sold for the arrearages; but
the claim was then cancelled by the Comptroller of the city of New York, Thomas R.
Mercein, who, on November i, 1815, paid to the State Treasurer, in three per cent.
stock, the sum of $547.50, in full satisfaction of all the quit rents which had accrued
upon the Harlem Patent since March 25, 1774, and also in commutation of all the
prospective rents. This exaction of the quit rent premises the validity of the early
colonial patents; but this point is clearly admitted by the contitution of this State,
which annuls all colonial grants and charters made subsequent to October I4, I775,
but affects none given prior to that date.
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417
ing upon the "Harlem River, or any part of the said river on which
this Island doth abut, and likewise on the North and East Rivers."
It expressly comprehended "all the soils, creeks, quarries, woods,
meadows, pastures, marshes, waters, lakes, and all other profits,
commodities, emoluments, and hereditaments to the said lands
and premises, within the bounds and limits set forth, belonging,
or in anywise appertaining."
If these premises be admitted, and if the vacant lands, etc.,
granted by Dongan's charter to the Corporation of New York,
were, as that charter says, only those "not heretofore given or
granted by any of the former Governors," we may fairly question
whether Dongan did not violate the ancient rights of the Harlem
people, not only as to their commonage, but in giving the Corporation the control of the water-line along the exterior shore of
the Harlem patent. But while greater wrongs must inevitably
follow any impairing of this now venerable and generally conceded prerogative, how can the claim hold that it extends alike
to the interior vacant lands, creeks or marshes, the title to which
we submit is rightfully vested in the heirs or assigns of the Dongan patentees?*
At the date of Dongan's patent all was woodland and commons north of Moertje Davids' Fly (Manhattanville), that is,
from what were called Jochem Pieters' Hills, all the way to
Spuyten Duyvel; the claims of Dyckman and Nagel and the salt
meadows owned by individuals excepted. To this section of the
island the Indians still laid a claim, but which they surrendered
to the town, in lieu of "sundries delivered to the natives" by
Colonel Stephen Van Cortlandt, in behalf of the inhabitants, February 28, I688, and a balance which was not made up till March I,
17I5, when a tax was raised by the freeholders for that purpose.
Besides the above, the yet unappropriated woodlands embraced a few inconsiderable parcels here and there on the Flats,
* This view is taken in an opinion, given by the late Hon. Murray Hoffman,
March I1, 1873, respecting a piece of land owned by Mr. Voorhis, situate on Harlem Creek, between 2d and 3d avenues, and extending from io8th street toward Iogth.
It lay in a cove of the creek and was part of the 12 arcres (two of the Van Keulen
Hook lots) owned at an early day by Capt. Thomas Delavall, and sold to Benjamin
Benson by Simon Johnson, 1747. We quote one or two paragraphs from the opinion.
"We can here draw a natural and, we think, legal distinction between the River
proper and a creek of it. The former is defined by the general course (filum) of the
body of the stream, and such course is from point to point where there is an indentation into the land, properly a cove. The latter is that indentation. And we
could very consistently hold that the land under water within the cove, between
high and low water mark passed, but not outside of it. This view would be
tenable even if that was an indentation from Harlem River; a fortiori when from
Harlem Creek. But the creek itself, we contend, passed; and the case is then
much stronger."
Again, alluding to the language of the Harlem Patent, quoted in the text, granting
all the soils, creeks, etc., Judge Hoffman very pertinently remarks: "It would be
difficult to get together terms which would more fully embrace anything of land, of
water, and of any combination of the two."
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a larger piece between Hoorn's Hook and the Bogert (since
Benson or McGown) farm, and the tract lying between the village and Montagne's Flat, hitherto kept for pasturage, containing some 250 acres. It was bounded east by Kingsbridge road,
west by the creek, and stretched from where IIIth Street and
Fifth Avenue now intersect (and where said creek was then
assessed by the road from Harlem to New York), northward to
I3Ist Street and Eighth Avenue. The allotments and sales made
under the Dongan patent, in and between the years I69I and
1712, disposed of most of this tract and nearly all the other common land within the patent lines, though several small pieces were
not sold till 1753. The exact plan and history of these several allotments, hitherto unknown to modern conveyancers, and which
will be found in Appendix J, not only supply a vast deal of
curious information upon a new subject, but, as we conceive,
have an intrinsic and permanent value, in connection with the
subsequent titles, on which they throw much light.*
There were now remaining here but few witnesses to those
trials in Fatherland which had so largely contributed to people
the town. Of the French refugees, filling heretofore so considerable a space in its history, nearly all were either dead or had
gone with their families to other parts. Spirited and litigious
as were these refugees, wearying the courts with their petty disputes, the recital of which may seem beneath the dignity of history; they did not betray in all this the underlying national
trait, extreme jealousy of their rights, the legitimate fruit of
former and sharper conflicts. For them, in the fullest sense,
"self-preservation was the first law of nature." But we may
not forget their many good qualities, nor their valuable agency
in building up the town, in which quickness of perception,
promptitude and efficiency, whether in official or business relations, and greater skill in various industries, supplied elements
in which the Dutch were not their equal. A principal cause of
the removal of so many of these families was the better facility
for obtaining land in the places to which they went; but the
fact is also obvious that thev could not well fraternize with the
Dutch, for while the latter were generally prosperous, the French
were commonly "poor, and therefore forced to be penurious."
Strongly attached, moreover, to their own frugal mode of living,
* The 250 acres included the late Myer homestead, in the angle formed by the
forking of the road from Kingsbridge, together with the Isaac Day plot i%/ acres,
the William Molenaor 17 acres, the Lawrence or Wagstaff 28 acres, the Samson A.
Benson or Race Course farm, Mount Morris Park, Elizabeth Benson 25 acres and
Samson Benson 45 acre tract. (See notices of Myer and Benson families, and App.
J., Ist Division.)
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their language and church service, intuitively they sought out
the place and society where these advantages could be best secured and enjoyed. A few of the wealthier families remained
here, as the Tourneurs, Montanyes, Delamaters, and De Voes,
held either by property ties, or intermarriage with the Hollanders,
to whom by degrees they became assimilated.
The court proceedings are curious and quite enjoyable, as exhibiting the prevailing causes of dispute between neighbors, the
usual grounds of legal action, and the court customs and jurisprudence of the times. Not less valuable are the court records
as an index of the public morals. Cases of trespass, slander, and
breach of the peace were indeed too common, but flagrant crime
was almost unknown. Not a single manslaughter, or action for
livorce, or bastardy, or a clear case of petty larceny, is reported
for the entire half-century under review. The case of arson by
a slave, as before noticed, and the beating to death of a negro
child in June of this year (I687), are not to be cited as against
the general devotion to law and order, which indeed was shown
in both these cases by a prompt report to the mayor, and in the
last case, an inquest; though no particulars are given, not even
the name of the party implicated. The doings at town meetings
also prove beyond question the capacity of this early community
for self-government, and for handling the perplexing questions
which cane up from time to time. No superior ability is shown
in the advanced periods of the town's history.
Did not the scope of this volume limit it to the "origin and
early annals' of the town, it would be easy to find in the varied
exigencies of succeeding times much food for sober thought.
The Leislerian troubles; how deeply they affected some Harlem
families! The arbitrary suspension of the local court for eight
long years after the colonial government was settled in I691;
what embarrassment it caused, till it was finally restored after
long soliciting the General Assembly! Unswerving friends of
the Dutch Church, with what alarm they beheld the efforts of Col.
Morris and others to introduce the English service, through the
ministrations of Rev. Henricus Beys! And then grave questions
and difficulties attended the distributions of the common lands.
Coercive measures taken by the King's Receiver-General, in I713,
to levy quit rents not justly chargeable, subjected six of the principal inhabitants to legal prosecution in the Court of Chancery.
Other questions which arose respecting their lands could only
be settled by a reference to the Supreme Court. And the PiponGouverneur imbroglio, and questions growing out of it, kept the
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whole town disquieted till finally ended in I747. Then came the
sad discords and division in the Church between the Ccetus and
the Conferentie. A desultory warfare with the Corporation of
New York, concerning the "Commons," began with the century
and ended only the year before the Revolution.* And a volume
of itself might be written upon those seven years of unprecedented trial, under the galling domination of British and Hessian
soldiery,- before the distressed inhabitants could realize the blessings of independence. Aside from these and a few similar passages, their history as a community is meagre during the colonial
period proper. The recovery from the ruin of war, and the successive steps by which a sparsely settled rural district was transmuted into the teeming city, with its wonderful concomitants of
churches, schools, railways, parks, boulevards, etc.-which latter
change may be dated from the sale of the Commons in 1825, and
the first disposal of some of the farming lands as city lots-forms
a history of much and varied interest, but still within the knowledge of the living, and easily traced as compared with that of
the obscure initial period to which this volume is chiefly devoted.
Not to enlarge, therefore, upon these more modern times
(though some of the matters touched upon and others pertaining to these periods will claim attention either in the succeeding
chapter on the patentees, or in the notes or appendix), the social
condition, at and after the period under review, presents some
interesting features yet to be noticed.
The inhabitants, in their ways and mode of living, preserved
all the characteristics of Fatherland. Wedded to their plain
and primitive habits, the portrait of our early Dutch yeomanry, as
others have drawn it, is here true to life, with but slight retouching.
The village seats or scattered farm-houses: let us enter one,
bidden welcome by mine host, smoking his evening pipe, in his
wonted seat on the porch. An air of hospitality has the premises, even to the old well, with watering-trough beside it, which,
placed conveniently before the house, with mossy bucket
hung from the primitive well-pole, invites the gentle kine to
come freely to water, or the wayfarer to stop and slake his
thirst. These houses have begun to be constructed with greater
regard to permanence, and even to style, being solidly built of
stone, and of more ample dimensions than formerly, though only
* The history of this tract is particularly set forth in the Deduction of the Title
to Harlem Commons, forming pages II7 to 175 of a volume prepared by the late
Isaac Adriance, and entitled Conveyances on record in the Register's Office by
Dudley Selden, from the ist January, 1825, to the ist January, I838. Printed by
Alexander S. Gould, 144 Nassau street, N. Y., I838." It contains maps of the commons, as divided into city lots.
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of one full story. The low ceilings, still void of lath and plaster,
expose the heavy oak beams as roughly hewn, or, if taste has
dictated, planed and beaded. Similar taste sometimes demands
wainscoting, either plain or in panels, around the rooms and hall,
and up the broad stairway, with its oaken balustrade, leading
to sleeping-chambers in the loft. Outer doors, swung upon heavy
strap hinges, are invariably divided in halves horizontally, the
upper one usually open by day in the warm season, for the admission of air and light. Above it perhaps is a sash, with three or
four small panes of thick green glass, blown with a curious knob
or swell in the centre. The panes in the windows measure not
over seven by nine inches, and are sometimes set in leaden crossbars, being protected by strong, close shutters, instead of the less
secure modern blinds. The fireplace, with usually no jambs (but
having supports built into the wall), gives ample room for all
around the fire. Thus suspended, as it were, overhead, the
chimney mouth opens wide and flaring to catch the fugitive
sparks and smoke, and forms a convenient place in which, at
the proper season, to hang up hams, sausage, and beef to cure.
If the fireplace is built with jambs, these are often faced with
glazed earthen tile, imported from Holland, on which are
pictured Bible stories and other scenes. These amuse and instruct
the juvenile part of the family, who make it a favorite pastime
to study out the curious designs. The last of these ornamental
fireplaces now recollected was in the Peter Benson stone house,
which stood in Io9th Street, between 2d and 3d Avenues, and was
demolished in 1865.
Plain and substantial were their dwellings, and in perfect
accord with the manners and tastes of the occupants, which
were simple, unaffected, and economical. Slow and deliberate
in what they did, it was made up by patience and application.
And no people could have been more independent of the outside
worll. The farmer burnt his own lime, tanned his own leather,
often made all the boots and shoes worn by himself and family,
and did much of his own carpenter and wheelwright work.
Their help in the heavy farm work was mainly African slaves,
who, at this time, numbered as one to four whites.
Primitive were their methods of farming; it was not the
era of iron ploughs, horse-rakes, and reapers. The scythe was
used in mowing grass. The cradle was then unknown, and
instead of which all grain was cut with sickle, or with the sith
and hook. The sith had a blade similar to that of the scythe,
but only half as long, to which was attached a snath of about
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the same length, having at the other end a loop like that of a
shovel-handle. The hook was made of a slender wooden stock,
three feet long, from the end of which ran out at a right angle
a small iron prong about eight inches long. When used the hook
was held in the left hand near the middle, where, to prevent its
turning, was a socket for the thumb to rest in, the prong being
turned from the person. The hook, pressed against the standing
grain, served to hold it in place, while it was cut by a swing of
the sith, which was held in the other hand. The cut grain was
thus left leaning against that still uncut, till the reaper, or his
attendant following after him, gathered and bound it into sheaves.
Nothing was deemed more important than to cut and lay in a
good supply of salt hay, which was then thought indispensable
for the healthy subsistence of cattle through the winter. It was
for this reason that a piece of salt meadow was regarded as a
necessary appendage to every farm, and was not less valuable in
view of the early settlers than so much upland.
The children were brought up to those habits of industry
which the parents themselves found so profitable. The sons
were invariably given a useful trade, and the daughters well
taught in all household duties. While the men were engaged in
the out-door work of the farm, the women, in short gown and
slippers, the common indoor dress, were as busy at their special
avocations. The spinning-wheel was brought out and set in
motion as soon as wool and flax could be prepared in the fall,
and so each family made its own "homespun," as it was termed,
both white and colored, to supply its members with clothing;
while she was considered but a poor candidate for matrimony
who could not show her stores of domestic linens, and other products of her maiden industry. The dames, so saving were they
of their time, usually took their spinning-wheels on going to spend
a social afternoon with a neighbor. Nor were the females unwilling to help in the field during the busy season of harvest, or corngathering. Side by side with their fathers, brothers, and husbands, they vied with them in raking hay or carrying sheaves;
and their presence gave a charm to the merry time of husking.
Broom and scrubbing brush, with a periodical whitewashing,
frequently tinted yellow or green, kept their apartments cleanly
and neat. The carpet, when first introduced, called in derision
a dirt-cover, was in those days unknown here. The bare floors,
as scrupulously clean as the bare table on which they ate their
meals, were regularly scrubbed, then sprinkled with the fine beach
sand which was brought to the city by the boat-load, and peddled
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423
in carts through the streets and roads of the island. On cleaning-day it was spread moistened in little heaps over the floor,
the family being taught to tread carefully between them. To
disturb these would sadly mar the economy of the good housewife,
and maybe provoke some good honest scolding in Dutch. The
next day the sand, now dry, was swept in waves, or other figures.
by drawing the broom lightly over it. It was in truth but a
sample of the general tidiness which ruled the premises.
Living so largely within themselves, they knew little of the
dangers and diseases incident to luxury and indolence. Their
clothing, bedding, etc., all of their own homespun, most that
their table required the farm supplied, to which a mess of clams
or fish often gave variety; but no dish, with the Dutch farmer,
could compete with his speck en koole, pork and cabbage.
Their pride was of a kind that was no bar to pleasure, if their
only coach was a common wagon, or perchance an ox-cart!
Home-made linsey-woolsey gave content equally with the finest
imported fabrics, and, says a contemporary, "though their lowroofed houses may seem to shut their doors against pride and
luxury, yet how (do they stand wide open to let charity in and
out, either to assist each other or relieve a stranger." Another
bears this testimony: "They are sociable to a degree, their
tables being as free to their neighbors as to themselves." And
hospitality could not do too much for the guest if welcome; the
acme only reached if he tarried for the night, when, soon after
sunset, he was snugly ensconced in the best bed, made of softest
down, and between homespun linen sheets, from which, if cold,
the chill was taken by the indispensable warming-pan! At the
same time the idea of warming the church was yet unfledged,
nor was this provided for till early in the present century, when
a stove was introduced. Before this, each church-going matron
took to comfort her her little foot-stove and her Dutch Bible
with silver clasps! Intermarriages among the resident families
was the rule, and he was thought a bold swain truly who ventured beyond the pale of the community to woo a mate. And
with the unaffected welcome, a keen-eyed scrutiny also awaited
the blushing bride, on her first arrival from the charming vales
of Bloomingdale, the hills of Westchester, or rural home at
Bergen, Hackensack, or Esopus. When friends gathered socially,
or happened to meet, as at the village tavern, conversation running in mellifluous Dutch, turned, as usual with farmers, upon
their crops, or on horses or cattle, or modes of farming, unless
some special topic intruded. With the good Juffrouws, church
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matters and the dominie's last visit were always in order. Not
many survived who could speak from personal recollection of
the Fatherlands; yet we cannot misjudge of the themes on which
a few gray heads could still dilate, with all the effect of eyewitnesses or actual participants. Good Joost van Oblinus,-the
thrilling incidents of the French invasion of Flanders, his escape
with parents to Holland, sojourn at Mannheim, second flight
before French invaders, and final adieu to the dear shores of
Europe. Mrs. Tourneur, in tender childhood a victim of that
cruel war, and driven with others of her family from her native
Hesdin, probably on its capture by Louis XIII., in I639; her's
was a tale of trials, of which we have but the veriest outline.
And Mrs. Delamater, the daughter of a refugee, depicting her
young life at Canterbury, and the humble abode where she was
born and reared, whence also, on the quiet Sabbath, she was wont
to accompany her parents to the grand old cathedral, and down
by a flight of stone steps into the solemn crypt or vault, where
the French and Walloons used to meet for divine service, a
privilege long before granted them by good Queen Bess. And
Frederick De Vaux, or De Voe, who lived to a patriarchal age,
and probably was the last survivor of the refugees experimentally
familiar with persecution and hair-breadth escapes in fleeing
his native land; facts still among the lingering traditions of his
family.* Now Bogert and the Jansens grow mellow over the
good old times at Schoonrewoert; or the other trio, Meyer, Dyckman, and Bussing, draw parallels between the soils or productions
of Harlem and their native Bentheim, so famed; or again the
* Frederick de Vaux, the ancestor of the De Voe family, has already had a partial
notice. Born on Walloon soil, as records inform us, tradition has handed down
some touching particulars of the flight, the pursuit of bloody persecutors, and the
escape into Holland. How long Frederick de Vaux sojourned at Mannheim is unknown, but long enough to obtain citizenship. He emigrated in I675, bringing a passport from the authorities of that place, a copy of which is given on a former page.
He was then a widower, but in I677 he married Esther, daughter of Daniel Tourneur.
To the lands in Westchester, since the Cromwell farm, gotten with his wife, he added,
as we have seen, the Bickley tract, or De Voe's Point. He also provided his sons,
Daniel and Abel, with large farms at Fordham and New Rochelle. Living in his
later years among his several children, he died in New Rochelle, in I743, at the venerable age of about 90 years, and was buried on the farm of his son Abel. His children
were Frederick, Daniel, Joseph, Abel, Rachel, who married Johannes Dyckman; Esther,
married Levi Vincent; Susannah, married Andrew Nodine; Mary, married Evert
Brown and Joshua Bishop; Leah, married Nathaniel Bailey; Dinah, married Louis
Guion and Tobias Concklin; Judith, married Johannes Barhite, and Abigail, who died
unmarried. Daniel De Voe settled in Fordham, and Abel in New Rochelle, upon the
farms conveyed to them by their father before his death. Joseph removed to the city
of New York, where he died, in I764, leaving a family. Frederick, the eldest son,
succeeded to the paternal estate at De Voe's Point, under a deed of June I3, 1721,
and where he died in I753. He married twice, and had children Frederick (3d of the
name), Daniel, David, John, Thomas, Abraham, Abigail, Hester, Sarah. Mary and
Leah. This old and respectable family is now widespread and numerous. The brothers,
Isaac, Thomas Farrington, James, Moses (of Fordham), John Appleby (deceased),
George W., and Frederick W. De Voe, are sons of the late John De Voe, of New
York, who died August 29, I853, aged 68 years, having attained the same age as his
father, John De Voe, of Yonkers, or Philips Manor, who died September 24, 1824,
being the son of Frederick De Voe, 3d, aforesaid. To the estimable Col. Thomas F.
De Voe, of New York, we are indebted for many of these particulars.
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425
well-companioned Waldron and Verveelen live amid former
scenes in busy old Amsterdam,-the shop-keeper's son, perchance,
garrulous over shrewd bargains in trade, and the "book-printer"
of the Teerketels-steeg, once more among his type and forms, and,
as of old, throwing off from his new press, which his townsman
Blaau, the map-printer, and former assistant to Tycho Brahe,
had brought to such perfection, fresh sheets of learned folios, full
fifty impressions per hour! But should conversation chance to
turn upon some controverted question, either of politics or
theology, and the latent fire once kindle, the dispute was sure to
run high; for only then their tobacco-pipes lost the power to
soothe,-that solace alike of their working and their leisure hours,
and by no means confined to the males; but yet the good dominie
set the example!
Large productive farms, and a convenient market for all they
had to sell, led to certain wealth, and no thriftier farmers were
to be found anywhere. They were proud, too,-of their broad
acres, fine stock, lands well tilled and barns well filled! But not
the alluring example ever before their eyes could win them to
the display and ceremony of city life; though the latter, simplicity
itself as compared with the demands of modern fashion, sets in
stronger contrast the style of living, so unpretentious yet rational,
which obtained in even the wealthier families, as the Waldrons,
Meyers, Bensons, and Bussings. English modes and manners
could make but slow advance among a people so tenacious of
the Holland tongue, who for half a century later kept their
records in Dutch, and their accounts in guilders and stivers.*
This picture of the former times, so rudely drawn and void
of limner's art, is yet worthy of thoughtful study. As every age
has had its virtues as well as its vices, things which men admire
and emulate, so the initial days of our colonial history teem with
instructive lessons in all that pertains to manly aims and right
living, the study of which is calculated to make one wiser and
better. If the present effort to restore a knowledge of the Harlem
founders shall subserve so useful a purpose, and the sequel to
their history, as now to be given in that of the patentees and their
families, shall in any degree contribute to the same result, we may
count our labor not wholly lost.
* In I688 the valuation of real estate in the several wards of the city of New
York was as follows:
Out W ard, Harlem Division.............................. ~I,723
do. Bowery Division............................. 4, 40
N orth W ard............................................. 7,625
W est W ard.............................................. 9,600
E ast W ard.............................................. 9,648
Dock W ard............................................. 6,241
South W ard............................................. 29,254
CHAPTER XXIV.
N()TICES 01F TIHE PATENTEES AND THEIR HEIRS OR SUCCESSORS.
BENSON.
X, IITH those whose recollections of Harlem run back a generation or more, to the time when it yet retained all the
charms of a quiet rural suburb,-ere "trade's unfeeling train
usurped the land and dispossessed the swain,"-the name of this
locality finds almost a synonym in that of Benson; so largely
identified was this respectable family with the history and
landed interests of the town. Standing first in alphabetical
order, we cheerfully accord it the precedence, which it may
properly claim among these genealogical notes.*
Captain Johannes Benson, the first of the family to locate
here, is not named in Dongan's patent, as he was not then a resident, nor till some ten years after; but, purchasing the Bogert
farm, he thereby acquired the rights of a patentee, before the
final division of the common lands, in which he shared; and his
descendants continued, as we shall see, among the largest proprietors at Harlem till it ceased to be an agricultural community.
His father, Dirck Bensingh, as commonly called, was not a Hollander, but a Swede, according to the tradition in the family, as
old Lawrence Benson used to say; and this is borne out by the
original form of the name. Perhaps, to be more exact, Dirck
was a Dane. We have traced him from Groningen to Amsterdam, and thither, with his wife, Catalina Berck, to New Amsterlam. Here he bought a house and lot near the fort, August 23,
I649, and the next year another on Broadway. On June 29, 1654,
at his desire, the Director and Council allowed him "to leave this
* These sketches do not claim to be complete genealogies, but are designed to
preserve, in the case of each family, enough of its history to interest its living members, and to enable many of them to identify their connection with the parent stock:
while others, wishing to perfect their line of descent, will here find a valuable beginning for such a work. As serving to elucidate the land titles, by showing the transmission of real property in the several families, and this, by including all the patentees, necessarily embracing all the lands within the township or patent lines, these
sketches have a special importance. The result of many years search among authentic
records, they are believed to be substantially correct and reliable, whether as genealogies or otherwise; any venerable hearsay or family traditions, so called, to the contrary notwithstanding.
It may be noted that in numerous instances throughout these pages the number
and not the names of the children of certain descendants are given.
By referring to the New Harlem Register the names of these children and their
descendants will be found.
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place to promote his own affairs." Going to Fort Orange, he
built upon a lot granted him October 25, I653, and proved himself an industrious and worthv citizen. He worked as a carpenter
on the new church built in I656; in 1658 he loaned the deacons
Ioo guilders. He died February 12, 1659. Three years later
Dirck's widow married Harman Tomasz Hun.
Dirck Benson's children were Dirck. born I650; Samson,
born I652; Johannes, born February 8, 1655; Catrina, born 1657,
who married Doctor Reynier Schaets and Jonathan Bradhurst;
and Miaria, born I659, who married Volckert van Hoesen. The
three sons of Benson grew up in Albany much respected, and all
became church members. Samson set up a pottery, and was
known as the "pottebacker." Dirck became a skipper on the
Hudson, sailing the sloop Eendraght between Albany and New
York. Johannes was probably an innkeeper, for in I689, when
apprehensions existed of a French and Indian invasion from
Canada, a committee of safety, of which Lieutenant Johannes
Benson was a member, directed "that the people of Patcook do
make their retreat to Johannes Bensing's upon occasion." Raised
to a captaincy soon after, he performed useful service during
those fearful times. The midnight massacre at Schenectady, February 8, 1690, in which their brother-in-law, Doctor Schaets,
theyi a justice of the peace at that place, was slain, together with
one of his sons, and the continuance of French and Indian hostilities, quite unsettled the Bensons and their families (for the
three brothers were now married), and they finally transferred
their residence to New York, Dirck in 1693, and Samson and
Johannes in I696, when the public alarm became so great as to
cause many such removals.
Dirck and Samson remained in the city, while Johannes came
to Harlem and bought a place in the village from Peter van
Oblienis.- It consisted of the two erven lying easterly of the
* The Blensons, of New York City, became numerous; we subjoin a brief noticc
of them, as of interest to their descendants, and to save the mistaking of persons of
similar Christian name, so often recurring in both branches of the family, a plan
we have also pursued in regard to some other names, for. a like reason.
Derick Benson, born 165o, married Thysie Claes, daughter of Claes Jansen
Stavast, of Albany, by whom were all his children, and, secondly, Jannetie, daughter
of Barent Pietersen Coeymians, of Albany, who survived him. D)erick became
wealthy, owning, among other property, i,ooo acres of land on the Raritan, which he
sold, in I697, to his father-in-law, Coeymans, and on which his son, Andries Coeymans, afterward settled. In 1701, Benson leased the ferry between New York and
Brooklyn, for seven years, at ~130 a year, but lost money at it. For additional
items respecting Derick Benson, see the Bergen Genealogy. He died June 26, 17 7,
having had children, Catalina, born i683, married John F. Vandermeulen and John
Kelly; Eve, born I686, died young; Rachel, born I689, married Hans Bergen; Eve,
born I693, married, 1717, Anthony Duane, father (but by a second wife) of Honorable James Duane; Derick, born i696, died August 30, I734; and Thysie, born
1699, who married James Henderson, of New York, merchant. As Derick, last named,
left no descendants, his uncle, Samson, becomes the head of all the later New York
Bensons, not of the Harlem branch.
Samson Benson, the potter, born in I652, married, first, Tryntie Van Deusen,
sister to the wife of Johannes, by whom were all his children but one; and, secondly,
Grietie, daughter of Abraham Kermer, and widow of Capt. Jacob Van Tilburg; Benson being her third husband, and surviving her. We have not located Benson's pottery, but he owned a house and lot in Smith street (now William, below Maiden
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third cross street, which Peter's father secured from Lubbert
Gerritsen, as heretofore noticed, and which he formally conveyed
to Peter December 28, I699, after the latter had sold it to Benson. It formed a part of the late Dunning plot of 4 acres. Benson was still here November I6, I700, when he acted as an arbiter
in settling the Tourneur estate, and on December 13 ensuing he
voted for building a new bridge "at the stone bridge," which
crossed the Mill Creek at IIIth Street. But, in the meantime,
Lane), bought of Dr. Lucas Van Tienhoven, and which his executors sold to his
son Harman, February 4, I732. He died June 2, 1730, having had thirteen children,
viz: Catalina, born 1675, died 1706, having married, 1697, Stoffel (also called Theophilus) Pelts; Derick, born I677; Teuwes, or Matthew, born 1679; Harman, born
i68i; Samson, born 1684; Robert, born i686; William, born 1687; Elizabeth, born
1689, married Egbert Van Borsum; Johannes, born 1692; Helena, born 1694; Maria,
born I696, who with William, Johannes and Helena, died early; IHenricus, born 1698.
and Catalina, born 1707 (after the elder child so called was dead), and who was
unmarried in 1726.
Derick Benson, born 1677, also a potter, lived in Crown street (now Liberty),
and died in 1725. By his wife Elizabeth Radcliff, who survived him, he had Samson,
born 1712 (who married Catharine Peck, and had Derick, born 1741; Johannes, born
1744, etc., perhaps went to Albany); Catharine, born 1714, who married Capt.
Abraham Eight, of New York, father of the excellent Abraham Eights, Esq., of
Albany, deceased father of the late Dr. Jonas Eights (see Pearson's First Settlers);
Rachel, born 1716, who narried Frederick Fine, of New York; Johannes, born 1718;
Derick, born I721; Matthew, born 1723; and Elizabeth, born, I725. On April 9,
I754, the widow, Elizabeth, and her two daughters, Catharine (with her husband.
Captain Eight) and Rachel, the last being also a widow, sold the residence in Crown
street, to Rem Rapelje, bolter, for ~300.
Matthew Benson, mason, born 1679, died 1721. He married, 1706, Catrina,
daughter of Jonathan Provoost, and their children that reached maturity, were
Samson, born 1713; Catharine, born 1716, and Catalina, born I719. His will, made
May 9, 1721, was proved December 9, 1755, on the oath of Henry Riker, one of the
witnesses. On April 30, 1753, the widow, with Catharine and Catalina, the surviving
children, the last unmarried, and Catharine, then the wife of Thomas Moore, weaver,
sold property of Matthew Benson to Charles Johnson, schoolmaster. But it would
appear that Samson married, 1735, Jannetie Arment, and had issue: Matthew, born
1741; Jonathan, born I744; Lucas, born 1746; Cornelius, born 1748.
Harman Benson, carpenter, born I68i, married, 1702, Aeltie, daughter of Victor
Bicker, and surviving her six years, died October 7, I743. Their children were
Catharine, born 1703, who married John Leake; Claesie, also called Cloe, born 1705,
married David Scott and John Van Ternhem; Samson, born 1707; Catalina, born
1711, married John Walker; Victor, born 1714; Annetie, born 1716, married John
Man; and Harmanus, born I719, who married, I742, Judith Castang.
Samson Benson, cooper, born 1684, married, I7I0, Maria, daughter of Abraham
Bokee, and died November 29, I732. His children, except three that died early,
were Abraham, born 1712, living, 1763, married Anna Tilly, 1739, and had a family;
Samson, born 1714, was a mariner, married Elizabeth Williams, 1737, had a son,
Samson, born 1739, etc.; his widow was appointed administratrix June i, 1743;
Catharine, born 1715, married James Taylor; and John, born 1725, who died before
1763, leaving his property, by will dated July 2, 1754, to his brother Abraham and
sister Catherine.
Henricus Benson, potter, born 1698, married, 1722, Catherine, daughter of Gerrit
Van Laer. He died October 27, 1742. Three children named (;errit, who died in infancy, besides which he had Tryntie, born 1722; Henricus, born 1726; Samson, born
1729, and Derick, born 1737. On December 29, 1737, Henricus sold a house and lot
in Smith street, deeded him February 24, 1727, by his father. We trace his children
no further.
Robert Benson, born I686, married, 1708, Cornelia, daughter of Johannes Roos,
but died in 1715, and the next year his widow married Anthony Rutgers. Benson had
children, Elizabeth, born 1708, who married Harmanus Rutgers, 1729; Tryntie, born
1710, died young; Tryntie, born 1712, married Col. Martinus Hoffman, 1733; and
Robert, born 1715, died 1762, who was a brewer, married, 1738, Catharine, daughter
of Egbert Van Borsum, became wealthy, and served in the Common Council from
1740 to I754. He was father of Robert Benson, born October 30, 1739, died February 25, 1823, assistant alderman 1766-68, aid-de-camp to Governor George Clinton,
in the Revolution, clerk of the State Senate, and later clerk of the New York Common
Council; also of Captain Henry Benson, born November 17, 1741, died unmarried
August, 1823; and of late Judge Egbert Benson, born June 21, 1746, died unmarried
August 24, I833. Robert, last named, was the father of Honorable Egbert Benson,
of New York, and later of New Utrecht, and his sister Maria, who married Judge
Leffert Lefferts, and was the mother of Mrs. J. Carson Brevoort.
BENSON FAMILY.
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his brother-in-law, Van Hoesen, also quitting Albany, had settled
as a farmer and innkeeper at the Indian Sappokaniken, just
without the city on the North River side; otherwise called by
the Dutch New Nordwyck, and also from Gerrit Bas, a proprietor there, Bassen Bouwery, a contraction of "Bas syn bouwery."
It has since been known as Greenwich Village. At this place
lived the Mandevilles, the Van Schaicks, etc., and here Jacob
Cornelissen Stille (see Woertendyk and Somerindyk) had an
improved farm of Ioo acres which Johannes Benson bought December 6, I699, for 2000 guilders. Hither Benson soon removed,
having agreed, November 12, I701, to sell his house and lot at
Harlem (for which he had obtained a deed March I5 preceding),
to his eldest son Samson, now married to a daughter of Adolph
Meyer. With it Samson bought "a negro, with a plough, and
iron-work for a wagon, as also 37 schepels of seed rye and wheat,"
all for I130, which he had till May, 1705, to pay for, and then
to receive his deed.
After several years at the Bessen Bouwery, Captain Benson
bought the farm of Jan Louwe Bogert, September 21, I706, and
the next spring returned to Harlem to spend the rest of his days.
In the divisions of 1712 he drew his proportion of land, for which
see Appendix J. He added otherwise to his acres, which numbered 182 in I7I5. Captain Benson died this year; his widow,
Elizabeth van Deusen, surviving till I746. She was the daughter
of Teuwes (Matthew) van Deusen, of Albany, where she was
married July 26, I676.
CHILDREN OF JOHANNES BENSON AND ELIZABETH
VAN DEUSEN.
2. Samson, born October 15, I680, at Albany, N. Y., married,
July 26, I699, Maria Meyer.
3. Helena, born October 8, I682, married Lawrence Kortright,
October 22, I703, and had two children.
4. Derick, born February 28, I686, married, October I6, I707,
Jannetie Vandewater, and in 1711, Catalina, daughter
of Abraham Bokee.
5. Catalina, born August 24, I688, married Jacob Sammon,
May 17, I706, had twelve children.
6. Rachel, born August 29, I69o, married Johannes Cowenhoven, of Bergen County, N. J., May 7, I707, had nine
children.
7. MXatthew, born January 5, I693, married, December 12, I7I6,
Elizabeth, daughter of Arent Bussing, and on December
9, 1727, Hannah, daughter of John Edsall, and widow
of Gerrit De Groot.
8. Catharine, born August 27, I695, married Abraham Dela
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
mater, February 21, I718, had four children. (See Delamater.)
9. Marritie, born April 26, I699, married Ryck Lydecker, of
Bergen County, N. J., April I9, 1718, had eleven children.
Io. Johannes, Jr., or Joanni, as he wrote his name, born May 29,
I701, married May 2, 1724, Elizabeth, daughter of Gerrit Lydecker, of Bergen County, N. J.
ioa. Benjamin, born March 14, I704.
Samson (2), (son of Johannes), with his wife and a negro
servant, began life in his own house at Harlem village, which
he purchased from his father. On January 23, 1706, he bought
from Zachariah Sickels part of the Brevoort property, being No. I
of the New Lots, and two erven on the east side of his own, and
adjoining the cross street on which were the church and the
church yard. On making a larger purchase he sold Lot I to his
brother Derick, from whom it passed in 1712 to Johannes Meyer.
In 1711 Samson bought the property of Daniel Tourneur, Jr.,
deceased, embracing the farm on Montanye's Flat, and lot No.
2 in the Division of I691, the first of which he sold soon after
to i\Metje Cornelis (reserving the Morgen rights), and in I7I5
he sold lot No. 2 to Adolph Meyer. For his own drafts, in 1712,
see Appendix J. On March 28, 1721, by buying out the widow
and co-heirs, Samson became owner of the paternal farm at the
Point, and the lots drawn by his father in the Four Divisions;
his brother Derick, by an arrangement already noticed, taking
other of his father's lands.
On May 4, I721, he exchanged land with Barent Waldron
for lot No. 6, First Division, lying between his farm and the highway, and by a decision of the Supreme Court, of November 29,
1723, was quitted in his title to his drafted lands. (See account
of Abraham Delamontanie.) Lot No. 6 lay mostly within the
64 acres (erroneously called 80) which Benjamin Benson conveyed to his brother Adolph, in I743, and which descended to
Adolph's son, Lawrence Benson. For notice of Samson's grant
of the Mill Camp, and the erection of a mill, etc., see Appendix F.
This mill stood on the south side of the creek, and had two run
of stones, only some eighteen inches in diameter. While building it, in I740, Samson Benson died.
His children were:
ii. Johannes, born February 4, I700, married Tanneke, daughter of Samuel Waldron, September 17, 1722.
12. Adolph, born January 8, I703, was made constable in I732,
soon after his marriage with Eve, daughter of Lawrence
Kortright. He married second, on September 28, I768.
Martha Van Dyck.
13. Benjamin, born October 3, I705, married Susannah, daughter
of Peter Bussing.
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43I
14. Elizabeth, born October 13, I707, married Johannes Waldron,
Jr., December I0, 1719, and had two children. (See
Waldron.) She married second, John Romer.
I5. Mlary, born July 4, I709, married Samson Pelts, of New York,
January 22, 1725, and had five children.
i6. Catharine, married Captain Luke Shourd,* January 2, 1728,
and had one child. She married second, Capt. Daniel
McGown, in I740, and had one child.
17. Daniel, born August io, I7I4.
I8. Helena, born November 5, I716, married Peter Bussing, of
Fordham, April 5, I740.
19. Anne, born Mlarch 25, I720, married John Odell, of Fordham,
and had three children.
20. Catalina, born M1ay 5, I725, married Jacob Dyckman, Jr., of
Kingsbridge, about I742, and had ten children.
Derick (4), (son of Johannes), in I7I5, owned 57 acres of
land, which included the old Resolved Waldron farm on Van
Keulen's Hook, bought, I714, from John Van Horn, and since
known as the Bogert or Morris Randell farm. He got an increase of 40 acres at the settlement of his father's estate, in I721;
by releasing to Samson the parts of the lots in the First, Second
and Fourth Divisions drawn with him in 1712 (see Appendix J),
and taking No. 4, Second Division; No. 4, Third Division; No. 6,
Third Division, and No. 2, Fourth Division. Of these he sold,
in 1724, the first and last to Johannes Meyer, and 3y2 acres of
No. 6 to John Lewis. The last named passed, in 1726, to the
Kortrights, later to Peter \Valdron, and from him, May 5, 1768,
to John Bogert, Jr. In 1731 Derick bought Nos. 19, 20, Van
Keulen's Hook, from Grietie Kortright. Thus his estate stood
till his death in 175I. Derick was several times constable of the
Harlem division of the Out Ward, and was named as collector,
in Montgomery's Charter, 1731.
His children were:
* Luke Sioerts, also called Shourd, was a "mariner," as were others of his race,
at a later day. The name is evidently derived from the Swedish Christian name Shute.
The ancestor, Sioert Olfertsen, emigrated from Heerenven, a large village eighteen
miles southeast of Leuwarden, and for its beauty called the Friesland Hague. He
sailed from Amsterdam September 27, I663, in the ship Statyn, and with him his
wife, Itie Roelofs, their child, Olfert, and servant, Foppe Johannes. In the same
vessel came Minne Johannes, also from Friesland, whose descendants in Rockland
County have borne the name of Minne or Manny. Sioert was a mason, and hence
usually called Sioert de metselaer. He and wife joined the church in New York
August 24, 167I, at the first communion under Dominie Nieuwenhuysen. He was
assistant alderman in i688 and I689. He married, secondly, in I697, Heyltie Pieters,
widow of Cornelis Clopper, and again, in 1701, Janneke Snediker. He died in 1702,
leaving all his property to his son Olfert. His daughter, Maria, born I664, married
Johannes Clopper. Olfert Sioerts, as called, born at Heerenveen, in I66i, took his
father's trade, a bricklayer, but abandoned it for the sea. He married, in i682,
Margaret, daughter of Cornelis Clopper, and, in I703, Hillegond, daughter of Skipper
Lucas Andriessen. Captain Sioerts died in New York in 1710. His children that
reached maturity were Mary, born i686, Heyltie, born i688; Sioert, born I691;
Aeltie, born I695; Johannes, born I70o; Luke, born 1704, and Cornelius, born I707.
Ileyltie married Johannes Roosevelt, and has many descendants. Luke married
Catharine Benson, January 6, 1728, but within five years left her a widow. Some of
this family removed to Rockland County long prior to the Revolution.
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21. Elizabeth, who married Abraham Lydecker, November 26,
I732.
22. Tanneke, baptized December 2, 17I5.
23. Helena, baptized August 6, 1718, married Peter Banta, April
5, I740, and had seven children.
24. Catalina, baptized July 20, I720, married Dr. Josiah Paterson,* and had nine children.
25. Maria, baptized August 14, I723, died April 5, I754.
26. John, married May I8, I747, Marritie Lydecker, of Hackensack, N. J., and came to own his father's lands at Harlem. He sold the farm aforesaid, March 12, 1766, to
John Bogert, Jr., and, I believe, removed to Bergen
County, N. J. John was the father of Cattelyntie, who
was baptized May 6, I750.
Matthew (7), (son of Johannes), was by trade a cooper.
In 1716 he bought 30 acres of land at Harlem from his brotherin-law, Lawrence Kortright; sold it, in I7I9, to John Delamater;
in 1724 bought 66 acres from his brother Samson, being lots 2
and I8 in Second Division. These he sold, in I730, to Nicholas
Kortright, and went to Bergen County, N. J., he and his wife
uniting with the church at Hackensack, May 29, I731, by certificate from Harlem. Matthew was afterward a "vintner" in
New York, owning a house and lot in Dey Street, where he died,
leaving children:
27. Gerrit, baptized October 15, 1728, died, unmarried, 1758,
aged 30 years.
28. Benjamin, born February 13, I732, married Catherine Deronda, April 30, 1756, died August 5, I779. Succeeded
to the property in Dey Street, New York City, which he
owned in I773, when he resided on a farm at Haverstraw, N. Y.
29. Samuel, of New York, house carpenter, married Ann Steel,
December 23, I759.
30. Charity, baptized January 26, I735, married William Sloe,
July 27, I755.
* Josiah Paterson, of New York, "surgeon," bought the property of John Lewis,
at Harlem, in 1748. Besides the house and lot named in note it embraces two others
in the village, with eleven acres of woodland in second, third and fourth divisions.
Dr. Paterson was probably the son of John Paterson, of New York, "surgeon," who
bought land at the Fly. March 25, 1709. Josiah owned property in Queen street
and in Crown street. His widow, etc., sold the latter to Gualterus Du Bois, in I767.
tie also owned "part of Leonard Lewis' right" in the Great Patent in Ulster County,
New York. lie disposed of his property at Harlem, after holding it ten years.
Dr. Paterson was admitted a freeman in New York in 1750, and there he died,
October 23, 1766, leaving by his wife, said Catalina Benson, children, John, Richard,
Josiah, Abraham, Elizabeth, Ann and Mary. John became a merchant in Dutchess
County, and, I believe, married Catherine, daughter of Robert Livingston, proprietor of the Manor of Livingston, and was a justice of the peace, at the Manor, in
the time of the Revolution. Colonel Peter R. Livingston, who owned the Judah
place (see page 172), was a brother of Mrs. John Paterson. (See Doc. Hist. N. Y.
8 vo., iv., 448.)
BENSON FAMILY.
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Johannes (io), (son of Johannes). On June 26, 1724, he
bought from his brother Samson, Lot 12, in First Division, which
their father had drawn. On February g9th ensuing he also
bought from Samson two other parcels of land, in First and
Second Divisions, as hereafter further designated, which gave
him in all 60 acres. He and his wife conveyed these lands to
Peter Bussing, March 14, I733. That same spring they removed
to Bergen County, N. J., and on June 3, joined the church at
Hackensack, by certificate from Harlem.
Their children were:
3I. Elizabeth, born October 23, 1725, married Hendrick J. Banta,
July I6, I743, and had five children.
32. Gerrit, born October 3, 1727, married Eva Berdan, February
9, I754 -33. Johannes, born January 29, I730, married Rebecca Demarest.
34. Cornelius, born March 17, 1832, married Cornelia Debaun,
October I6, I756, had eight children.
35. Catrina, born June 29, I734, married Isaac Lameter, January
II, 1756.
36. Matthew, born November 19, 1736, married Marytje?
and had issue: Hannes (Johannes), born September 28,
I760; Albert, baptized February 12, 1764; Samuel, baptized January 28, I776; John and Dirck, twins, baptized
March 13, I779.
Johannes Benson ( I), (son of Samson), was the third
of the name in the order of descent; but being' a year older
than his uncle Joanni, was designated as "de oudste," the eldest. The year after his marriage, pursuant to a town custom, he
was made constable. In 1727 he bought Theunis Delamontanie's
place in the village, being three acres, the upper half of No. 4,
Van Keulen's Hook, near to which Benson lived; adding, in 1742,
the adjoining Peto lot, one acre. See Appendix F. In I733 he
bought 31 acres from Nicholas Kortright, 6 of which were off the
north side of lot No. 17, 3d Division, and 25acres lay on the west
side of the Harlem and Kingsbridge Road, and included the
Ronde Gebergte, or Mount Morris (see p. 122), being lot No. 5,
First Division; both lots having descended to Kortright from his
grandmother, Metje Cornelis, for whom they were originally laid
out. The last, as enlarged by a strip of land taken off the highway in I744 (when the latter was narrowed to a width of three
rods) and sold to Johannes Benson by the town, May II, 1747,
for ~Io, came to form part of a title hitherto but imperfectly
understood. Johannes Benson was serving as deacon at Harlem,
August 30, I753, but was probably dead November 27, I756,
when his lands in 3d Division were in possession of and sold by
his brother Adolph. On February 2I, I773, his widow Tanneke
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made her will, which was proved May 25, 1778, in Dutchess
County, whither she had gone with her nephews, the Waldrons of
Hoorn's Hook, and other kinsfolk, at the opening of the Revolution. Johannes Benson's 4 acres on Van Keulen's Hook were
bought by his brother Benjamin (in possession in 1.766), and his
other lands by his brother Adolph.
His childlren were:
37. Elizabeth, born July I, 1726.
38. Adolph, born April 22, 1728, (lied in infancy.
39. George, born November 21, 1730.
40. Maria, born Jul I15, 1733, died in infancy.
41. Samuel, born February 25, 1736.
42. Jannettie, born April 5, 1738, died in infancy.
43. John Henry, born November 17, I74I, married Rachel Brunston (or Bollston), Ju:e 5, 1762. Had seven children.
Adolph Belnson, son of Samson. He bought his first land in
I737, from his brother-in-law, John Delamater, being 30 acres to
the south of lot No. I (of I691), said tract having been purchased
from the town in 1712 by Benson's father-in-law, Kortright, who
sold it in 1715 to Matthew Benson, and he in 1719 to said Delamater. It was the nucleus of the large farm of 90 acres, lying central of Harlem plains, and known in our day as the Samson A. Benson or Race Course Tract; its title indisputable, but its origin hitherto an enigma to the professional conveyancer. The farm contained two other parcels. One of these embraced the land lying between the 30 acres aforesaid and the old Kingsbridge Road, (contents not given), for which Adolph agreed with the town, in I747,
for ~5o; this sale being confirmedl \lav 30, I753, by an award of
arbitrators, touching the disposal of this and other parcels of the
common land, pursuant to which the price, with six years' interest,
was paid, and the title secured. The other was the adjoining
25-acre tract of his brother Johannes (No. 5, Ist Division), as
enlarged on the northeast and east by the strip from off the road,
purchased by Johannes from the town as aforesaid; of which lot
Alolph also became the owner.
Adolph also acquired the 6 acres of lot 17, 3d Division, which
his brother Johannes bought of Nicholas Kortright, and lot I8,
3d Division, 5 a. 3 q. 2 r., originally of his grandfather, Captain
Johannes Benson, both which, making IT a. 3 q. 2 r., he sold on
November 27, 1756, to Jacob Rapelje. This formed part of the
late Dyckman Fort George tract. He died in his 99th year, April
30, 1802, in his old homestead, which stood till I854 on the line
of 122d Street, one hundred feet or more east of Seventh Avenue,
and on his first purchase.
BENSON FAM ILY.
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Ai()IIII (12), (S()N () SAMSON), HAD ISSUEF:
44. Sampson (also called Samuel), born 1733, married on March
3, I763, Rebecca, daughter of John Dykman.
45. Lawrence, married October 25, I765, his cousin, Mary, (laughter of B-enjamin fIenson.
Benjamin Benson (13), (son of Samson), has been mentioned as the next owner of the homestead or Point farm, and
mill, and as having purchasetl the Miill Camp and adjacent lots,
together forming the large Benson farm north of the Creek.
In I748 he received 35 acres (with 2 erven, we believe those
originally Slot's) from the estate of his grandfather, M'eyer.
See \)Appendix F. For another l)urchase see Appendix G. On
\lay i, 1770, he gave his son, Samson, a deed for 20 acres, off the
soutlh side of tlhe homesteal, bounded by the river, the land of
Williain \\aldron, and the commons, but twenty years later, viz.,
on l\Iay 2, 7, conveyed him the entire farm; having on April
2 preceding given his other son, P'eter, a deed for the farm north
of the M\ill Creek, including the mill-pond and stream, and the
nill which Benjamin had recently built. He now bought the
homestead farmn of John -Bogert. Jr., deceasedl, by deed of May 9,
10, 179r, and removed thither, but died the following year. MainIv by his instrumenltality in securing funds was the new church
erecte(l at Harlem, in I788.
The homestead, and other lands of Samson Benson, were sold
b dleeds of September 23, 1740, and January 28, I743, to his
sonl 1Benjamin, who the next (lay, after the last deed was given,
conveyed the 64 (called 80) acres of the homestead before noticed
(its western part), to his brother, Adolph, with lot No. I8, Fourth
Division (the latter reconveved to Benjamin) Johannes at the
same time getting the 5 acres 3 q. 2-rod lot, being No. I8, Third
I)ivision. IBenjamin took tlhe mill a1nd his father's rights in the
I ill Camp, obtaining a full title for the latter from the town
in 175 3. With ad(litions, it became that since known as the
I'eter Blenson farm. The old( mill south of the creek being burned
(luring the Revolution, while the Blritish had possession and the
lIensons were in exile, IBenjamin built a new mill on this farm,
on the north bank of the creek. which remained till the construction of the Harlem Canal, when it was taken down. See Appendix F.
IB;,1NJ.AM IN (13), (SON (O S\AIsoN), H AD ISSUE:
46. Samson, "Jr.", born September 13, I736, married December
6, I762, Mary, daughter of John Sickels.
47. Peter, marriedl Hannah,l daughter of John Horn, of the
Bloomingdale Road, who after his death, in I802, mar
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
ried Rev. John F. Jackson,* then pastor of the church
at Harlem.
48. Mary, who married Lawrence Benson, October 25, I765, had
three children.
49. Rebecca, who married September 9, 1765, Matthias Vredenburgh (whose son Benjamin married Eve Benson).
50. Susannah, who married Benjamin Lightbourn. Their daughter, Maria, married Edward Elting, of New York.
51. Elizabeth, who died unmarried in I795.
BENJAMIN (28), (SON OF MATTHEW), HAD ISSUE:
52. Joana, born February Io, I757.
53. Catherine, born April 3, I759, married John Harris, had one
child.
54. Charity, born September 14, 176I.
55. Matthew, born April 27, 1764, married Johanna Davis, and
died October 23, I843.
56. Henry, born September 3, 1766, died single, 1782.
57. Benjamin, Jr., born December 6, 1768, married Elizabeth
Craig, 1790, died February 25, 1823.
58. Jacob, born March 15, 177I.
59. Maria, born July 31, I773, married Silas Davis, February
24, 1794. Both of Haverstraw, N. Y.
60. William, born October 3, 1776, married Hannah Fils, May
27, 1794.
6I. Abraham, born January 28, I780, married first, Esther Jarvis,
May I6, 1802; second, Grissel Burr, May 6, I804, and
third, Finette Edwards, June 30, I831.
GERRIT (32), (SON O JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
62. Elizabeth, born April 6, I755.
63. Maria, baptized June 26, I757.
64. Johannes, baptized October 14, I759, married Mary Lydecker,
January 29, 178I, died May 8, 1828.
65. Jannetie, born 1761, married William Lozier, had one child.
66. Kattelynte, born 1764.
JOHANNES (33), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
67. Elizabeth, born October 3, I754, married Dirck S. Banta,
and had five children.
68. Anna, born March 29, 1757.
* Rev. John Frelinghuysen Jackson was a son of the Rev. William Jackson,
whose father, Patrick Jackson, was a son of William Jackson, from Edinburgh, Scotland, a zealous Presbyterian, who came out to East Jersey, in i685, with George Scot,
Laird of Pitlochie, and settled in New York, where he married, I694, Anna, rdaughter
of Dr. Hartman Wessels. Rev. John F. Jackson and the widow Benson were married
February 2, 1804. He built and occupied till his death, which occurred March 26,
1836, in his 68th year, the stately frame house on II4th street, between Second and
Third avenues, now the residence of his son, Dr. William H. Jackson.
BENSON FAMILY.
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69. John, born June 29, I759.
70. Lana, born May 19, 1762.
7I. David, born October 17, 1765, married Elizabeth Van
Houten, January 21, 1792.
72. Catelina, born November Io, I767.
73. Gerritt, born March 20, I770, married Maria Van Vranken,
1797, died I86I.
74. Daniel, born December 8, I77I, married Rachel D. Doremus,
November II, I795.
CORNELIUS (34), (SON OFr JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
75. Elizabeth, born January 9, 1762, married Edward Smith,
June 3, I787, and had four children.
76. Yannetie (Jane), born April 29, I757, died single.
77. Johannes, born February 20, I758.
78. Carel, born July 30, I764, married Hilletje Van Der Bilt,
April 19, I787.
79. Petrus, born October 4, 1766, married Geya Demarest, October I, I795.
80. Margrietje, born February 24, I769, married Jonas Green,
January 12, 1795, and had five children.
81. Catelyntye, born November I77I, married John Smith, May
9, I794. Both of Clarkstown, N. Y.
82. Marya (Maria), born April 22, I774, married William P.
Felter, December 22, 1804, and had three children.
83. Cornelius, baptized March II, 1777, died single.
JOHN HENRY (43), (SON O0 JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
84. Betsy, born October 3, I762, died, unmarried, I80o.
85. John, born December 25, I764.
86. Stephen, born December I8, 1766, married Anna Trippe,
December 29, I791.
87. Daniel, born February 4, 1769.
88. George, born September 17, 1772.
89. Jane, born June 8, I774.
go. Rachel, born April 25, I776.
Samson (44), also called Samuel, (Son of Adolph), succeeded to his father's lands under his will, dated August 2, I795.
In 1776 Captain Benson, with his Harlem company, rendered
important service in standing guard and carrying out the orders
of the convention while it met at Harlem, and till forced to
retire before the enemy. His father and brother, Lawrence, remained at Harlem. Samson died on the Race Course farm at
an extreme age, November 22, 1825. Under his will, made
April 28, 1823, the said farm passed to his grandson, Samson
Adolphus Benson, while to his other heirs he gave that other
438
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
tract of 45 acres 3 q. 22 rods, which Samson bought, May 6,
1787, from the estate of Aaron Bussing, and further described
in Appendix J, in notice of First Division. Mount Morris Park,
20 I73-I000 acres, was taken from the Race Course farm, by the
city, Septelber 4, I839.
SAiMSON( (44) HAD ISSUE:
9I. John, born Miay 9, 1778, married April 28, 1820, Mlaria,
daughter of Dr. Milledoler.
92. Susan S., who died, unmarried, 1825.
93. Eve, who married Benjamin Vredenburgh.
94. Jane, who married Aaron Bussing, August i8, I891, and
had five children.
Lawrence (45), (son of Adolph), with his wife, he obtained
the four-acre plot on Van Keulen's Hook, late of his uncle,
Johannes, and the house still standing, venerable and sole relic
of old Harlem village, and now occupied by Mr. Cowperthwait
(1881). His father conveyed to him, M\arch 1o, 1781, the socalled eighty-acre tract set off to him from the Point farm, by
deed of January 29, I743. As Adolph, in 1748, had become the
owner of the ten acres as estimated, west of the highway (lot 23
of I691), originally granted to Abrahani Delamontanie, possibly
this tract also passed to Lawrence under that deed, and with
which it may have grown to eighty acres. Lawrence also bought,
April 26, 1785, from the heirs of John Bogert, the forty-two acres,
since known as the Lawrence Benson homestead (see Appendix
E), on which he thereafter lived till his death in 1822.
LA\WRF, NC (45) II)D ISSUE:
95. Adolph, who died unmarried.
96. Benjamin L., who (lied in I852.
97. Susannah L., who married Rev. Philip Milledoler, D. D.
Samson, "Jr." (46), (son of Benjamin). He succeeded to
the ancestral farm, as before stated, on which he lived until his
death, January 31, 1821. From a weakness of the eyes he was
familiarly called "Crying Sam." His widow died, aged go
years, November 14, 1835, when the farm fell to their (laughter,
Mrs. Margaret McGown, the only child then living.
SAMSON (46) HAD ISSUE:
98. Margaret, born March Io, I766, died May 25, I851, married
November 21, 1784, Andrew McGown, son of Captain
Daniel McGown, already named in this article. Had
four children.
BENSON F.AMILY.
439
99. Benjamin, born June 21, I770, married Eliza, daughter of
Xavier Gautro, and (lied April 15, I815. No issue.
Said Captain M\cGown, a shipmaster of New York, married Mrs. Shourd, in 1740. after her widowhood of ten years.
He owned a residence in the village, on the north side of the
Church Lane, and adjoining westerly on Petrus Waldron, which
had once belonged to Dominie Zyperus. (See note, page 4IO.)
It was a one-morgen lot, like others in this range, but having
been divided, and each part built upon, was called two lots.
McGown sold the whole, June I, 1758, to John Livingston, and
it has since made a part of the Brady plot. (See note, page
172".) Captain McGown was lost at sea some years before the
Revolution, and his widow soon after bought from Jacob Dyckman, Jr., a few acres on the hill back of the old Benson farm,
at what became known as McGown's Pass, where she and her
son, Andrew, kept a public house (in part the identical building
in Central Park since known as Stetson's Hotel), her house being
a favorite resort, before and (luring the war, of gentlemen coming
from the city with their hounds to indulge in the sport of foxhunting. Mr. Andrew McGown, who (lied October I6, 1820,
aged 78 years, was the father of the late Major Andrew McGown,
born I786, died March 2, 1870, and of Alderman Samson B. McGown, born I797, who still occupies the ancestral seat of the
Bensons (i88I). A few years since he removed the venerable
stone farm-house, erected by his great-grandfather, Benjamin
Benson, on the south shore of the Mill Pond, and built upon its
site his present residence, io6th Street, south side, between Third
and Fourth Avenues (I88I).
PETER (47), (SON O0 BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
IOO. Benjamin P., who married April 7, I821, Marv Ann, daughter of Jonathan Ferris, of Peekskill, N. Y. The distinguished artist, Eugene Benson. now (188I) of Rome,
Italy, is his son.
Ior. Wilhelmina, who married Dr. Peter Van Arsdale, of New
York, whom she survived.
MA''T''IEW (55), (SON or BENJAMIN), IAD ISSUE:
I02. Nancy, born May 4, 1797, married Samson Marks, had five
children, and died July 5, 1850.
* John Livingston, born I714, died 1788, and whose country seat was at Harlem,
from I758 to 1780, was an eminent merchant of New York, the uncle of Colonel
Peter R. Livingston, named in note on p. 432, and son of Philip Livingston, second
proprietor of the Livingston Manor. John Livingston was an assistant alderman from
1750 to 1755. He took a principal part in the proceedings for settling the division
line of the New York and Harlem Commons, in the years 1772 to 1775. His wife
was Catharine De Peyster. (See Holgate's Am. Gen.)
440
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I03. William, born June 15, 18oo, married Louise Waldron, 1830,
died in 1876.
104. George, born March 6, 1804, married Ann Hopper, July 2,
1828, died January 28, I868.
IO5. Charles, born May 4, 1809, married Mary Elizabeth Wood,
had three children (names not found), and died December 6, I886.
BENJAMIN, JR., (57), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
io6. Mary.
107. Catherine, born 1794, married Lewis Mather, September 2,
I8I7.
Io8. Gabriel Leggett, born September 14, 1796, married Abigail
Mills, April 13, 1820, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
o09. Harriette Davis, born January 19, i8oi, married Hardy B.
Lane, October, I817, and had twelve children.
IIo. Benjamin Whitney (Col.), born in New York City in 1804,
married first, Esther Foster, November 29, 1825, and
second, Mary Kanouse Brison, February i8, 1857; died
November 22, I877.
ABRAHAM (6I), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE, BY
SECOND WIFE, GRISSEL BURR:
III. Hevlyn, born April 29, I805, married Emeline Davis.
112. Esther Jarvis, born February II, 1807, married Obediah
Beardsley; no issue.
II3. George Washington, born May II, I809.
II4. Catharin Abby, born March 4, 1811, died, unmarried, January II, I891.
II5. Mary Burr, born March II, 1813, married Nelson Brush,
and had nine children.
II6. Susan Ann, born October 26, 1814, married John Ryker,
October 12, I840, and had four children.
II7. Abraham, born August i6, I8i6, married Julia?, died
October 23, 1855; no issue.
II8. Oliver Munroe, born August Io, I818, died November 2,
I8I9.
119. Elizabeth Frances, born March 2, I820, married George F.
Griffen, and had five children.
120. Emeline Maith, unmarried.
12I. Caroline Matilda, born December 28, I823, married Elija
T. Lewis, and had six children.
ABRAHAM (6I), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE
BY THIRD WIFE, FINETTE EDWARDS:
122. Finette Edwards, born December 26, 1836, married John
Nichols, November 19, I863, and had five children.
BENSON FAMILY.
44I
JOHANNES (64), (SON OF GERRIT), HAD ISSUE:
123. Garret I., born August II, I783, married Margaret Brinkerhoff, November 19, I805, died June 3, 1849.
124. Elizabeth, who married Daniel Demarest.
I25. Effie, who married John Demarest.
126. Rachel who married Tunis Banta.
GERRITT (73), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
127. John, born February 9, I798.
I28. Richard Van Vranken,, born 1807, married Mary Ann
Becker, November 25, 1841. He of Schenectady, N. Y.,
she of Albany, N. Y.; had child named Albert N.
DANIEL (74), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
I29. Rebecca, who married Abraham Kierstead, and had four
children.
I30. David, born April 17, I798, married Catherine Pier, died
October 30, I870.
I3I. John, born July 25, I800, married Millie Helms.
I32. Jane, born September 13, 1802, married Robert Helms,
December I, 1824.
133. Garret, born February 9, 1805, died October 23, I8o6.
134. Cornelius, born May 12, 1807, married Catharine Shawgo,
April 9, 1828, died September 25, I875.
I35. Garret, born July 31, I8Io, married Caroline Taylor.
I36. Peter, born August 26, I812, married Virginia Fox, died
without issue.
I37. Samuel, born August Io, 1815, died November 5, I815.
CAREL (78), (SON Or CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I38. John, born January 13, I790, died single.
I39. Cornelius, born March 15, 1793, married Maria Vandeen,
and had child, Maria Jane, baptized September 7, 1827.
PETRUS (79), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I4Q. Cornelia, born July 8, 1796, died 1798.
I41. Cornelius, born May 30, 1803, died 1804.
142. Jane, born June Io, i8o6, married James Iseman, January
28, I826. He of Kakiat, N. Y., she of Clarkstown, N. Y.
I43. Daniel, born April I9, I814, married Hannah Eckerson,
December 31, 1839, died November 24, I895. He of
Clarkstown, N. Y., she of Saddle River, N. J.
144. Elizabeth, born October 4, 1816, married John G. Vanderbilt, died October 27, 1887, and had four children.
I45. Cornelius, born January 23, I820, died I82I.
146. Catherine, born February 4, 1822, died 1823.
442
HISTORY OF HARLEMI.
STEPHIIEN (86), (SON O() JO)IN HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
I47. Betsey, born June 2, 1792, married John Knobles.
I48. John, born April 20, I794.
149. George, born August 9, I796.
I50. Rachel Ann, born May 5, 1799, died 1805.
151. Henry, born September 13, 1802, married Sarah Thaire,
February 2, 1828, died November Io, I844, and had seven
children.
John (97), (son of Samson), was named as an executor of
his grandfather, Adolph Penson. He (lied shortly before his
father, leaving child:
I52. Samson Adolphus, born September, 1821, who married, June
7, I848, Louise Aman, of Fishkill. N. Y., where he died
August 6, I85I.
IBENJAMIN L. (96), (SON o0F LAWRENICE), HAD ISSUE:
I53. Benjamin L.
I54. Lawrence A., who, empowered by the Coulrt of Conmmon
Pleas, Mayv 9, 1875, changed his name to George Gardener Grennell.
WI1LLI\AM (103), (SON () A1T'rH\1EIIW), HAD ISSUE:
I55. Mary Anna, born June 27, I831, married \William Rose
Osborne, December 9, I858, had four children, and died
April 1, i900.
156. Sarah Jane, born June 13, 1837, married David Gamer,
March 2, 1899, and had three children.
157. Henrietta, born June 29, I840. marriel Martin Van B.
Brooks, May 25, 1858, (lied April 21, I888, and had nine
children.
158. Adeline, who married Samuel Brooks, deceased.
I59. Matthew, born July 4, I833, married Emal7yne Spader, deceased.
I60. Caroline, born December I6, 1837, married Isaac De Baun,
and had one child.
I6I. William, Jr., born August 20, 1841, married Mtary Palmer,
September 2, I866.
GEORGE (104), (SON ()OF MA\TTIIEW), TILI) TSSUE:
I62. Johanna, born M1arch 7, I826, married Nelson Blauvelt, June
29, 1848, died August 20, I899, and had one child.
163. Martha M.. born January 27, 1828, married Samuel Cosgrove, February 2, 1848, lied April Io, I885, and had
three children.
I64. Almira, born February 23, 1830, married Stephen De Clark,
October I7, I849, and had one child
BENSON FAM ILY.
443
I65. Elizabeth D., born February 22, 1832, married Joseph
Demarest, October 27, 1851, had two children, and (lied
April 30, I903.
166. Emily A., born Miay 23, 1834, married James A. Barnes,
January I6, I856, had five children, and dlied January
5, I889.
I67. Ann Mf., born June 27, 1836, married Abram B. Jersey,
March 28, I859, and had two children.
168. George W., born October 29, 1838, married Elizabeth De
La M\ontanye, November 20, 1862, and (lied September
26, I896.
I69. Henry Clay, born January 6, I841, (lied January 12, I841.
I70. William Seward. born June 9, 1843, died June 28, 1854.
I7I. Emma Louise, born July 30, I847, married John Derbyshire,
June 5, 1901.
Colonel Benjamin Whitney (IIo), (son of Benjamin, Jr.),
was founder of the American Bank Note Company, was first
Chief of Police under Mayor Harper, in New York City, being
also prominently identified with the old John Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, and was actively interested in the business,
municipal and religious career of old New York.
He had issue, by his second wife, Mary Kanouse Brison, viz.:
172. Mary Elizabeth, born at Milburn, N. J., January 13, I859,
narried her cousin, James Frontier Ives, September 28,
I880, had one child, and died June 17, 1892.
173. Benjamin Lane, born June 7, I86o, died single, December
28, 1876.
174. Emilie, born April i8, I862, married St. Blouton C. Walsh,
of the United States Army, October 2, 1885, and had
two children.
HEV\LYN (IIT), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
175. Silas. who had three children, namely, Fred C., Arthur
Davis, and Hevelyn Dirk, all single.
I76. Oliver, who died single.
GA.RRET I. (123), (SON OF JOIA\NNES), IAD ISSUE:
177. Jacob.
I78. Garret.
I79. Eliza.
180. Maria.
18i. Catherine, born December I9, I808, married Samuel Vanderbeek, January 14, 1830, and had eight children; she deceased.
444
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
DAVID (I30), (SON OE DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
182. Daniel P., born January I8, 1825, married Catherine M. Fox,
October I6, I849; was father of Garry D., born May
I3, 1852, who married Laura E. Martin, September 9,
I874.
I83. Sally Ann, born May 30, I826, married John Babcock, July
Io, 1845, and had three children.
184. John D., born May 4, 1828, married Sarah Ann Fonda,
October 30, I853.
185. Rachel Jane, born September 2I, 1830, married Edwin
Hitchcock, February 24, I858, died November 23, 1858.
I86. Caroline Abigail, born November 20, 1832, married Horace
Hall, September II, 185I.
I87. Rebecca Sophia, born September 19, 1835, married Chester
D. Tuttle, September 26, 1854, and had one child.
I88. Ellen Arietta, born November I5, I838, married Edwin H.
Hitchcock, September 4, i86o.
189. Mary Catherine, born April 8, 1841, married Lyman F.
Weeden, May 6, I863.
I9o. Lydia Louisa, born May II,' 844, married Frank F.
Crooker, December 20, I865, and had three children.
CORNELIUS (I34), (SON OF DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
I9I. David, born January I5, I829, married Mary Burtch, September 25, I85I, died October 27, I895.
I92. George, born November 4, 1830, married Elizabeth Hodges,
September 12, 1853, died May 28, I902.
I93. Daniel, born November 13, 1832, married Ella Loucke,
April I6, 1878.
I94. Peter, born March 8, 1835, married Ella Mclntire, February 23, I857.
I95. Perry, born May 31, I837, married Hannah Stearns, September 8, 1863, died November 19, i88i.
I96. Doremus, born August I, 1840, married Jennie King, May
I, 1878.
I97. Jane, born June 23, I843, married E. White, February Io,
I863.
DANIEL (I43), (SON O' PETRUS), HAD ISSUE:
I98. Matilda, born December 17, 1841, died October I9, I847.
I99. Edwin, born May 27, 1843, married Rachel J. Van Blarcom, October 25, I877, father of Clyde, who was born
May 31, I884.
200. Almira, born August 9, 1844, died October 19, I847.
201. Alfred, born March 3, 1849, married Margaret Van Zandt,
May 3I, 1874, and second, Jane M. Vanderbilt, October
6, 1887.
202. Carrie, born November 29, I86o.
BEN SON FAMILY.
445
HENRY (151), (SON OI STEPHEN AND ANNA
[TRIPPE] BENSON), HAD ISSUE:
203. Elizer, born April 9, I830, married first, Sarah L. Curtis,
August 30, 1852, and second, Mrs. Alice Davis. Had by
first wife one child, Laura J., born May 30, 1853, who
married James Harris, April 4, I876, died January I,
900o, and had one child.
204. Mary, born September 20, 1832, married Lewis D. Knickerbocker, 1855, died December 2, 1864.
205. Laura, born January 8, 1834, married Everitt Knickerbocker,
1862, died I877, and had one child.
206. Sally Ann, born August 22, 1838, died April 7, I845.
207. Stephen Henry, born November 21, I840, married Hannah
M. Smith, March 21, I868, died April 14, 1900.
208. Jane, born April II, 1842, died unmarried, April 12, I865.
209. George W., born December 24, I843, died single, I899.
SAMSON ADOLPHUS (I52), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
2IO. Maria Louisa, born September I5, 1849.
211. Edward A., born January 2, I85I, married Georgiana
Wharm, February I6, I88I.
WILLIAM (i6I), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
212. Fidelia, born December I8, i866, married Zana De Bevoise,
had one child.
213. Matthew Z., born February 13, I868, died April 5, I872.
214. Elizabeth, born June 22, I869, married William B. Ganson,
March 27, I892, and have two children.
215. Alfred C., born August I, I870, married Elizabeth Ryder,
March 25, I894, and have two children, namely, Percy
and Anness.
216. George S., born November 27, 1870, died August 5, I877.
217. Charles, born March II, I872, married Sarah Allinson, September II, I892; no issue.
218. Reginald, born November I, 1873, married Mamie Wassy,
July I, 900o, father of Helen P.
2I9. Edwina DeB., born August I9, I875, married Ira Demarest,
December 15, I897; no issue.
220. William H., born May 2I, 1878, single.
221. Ethelbert, born September 2, I880, married Mabel Felter,
August 25, I902, and have one child named Ethel.
222. Ira Hedges, born June 9, 1883, married Alice Springstead,
November 28, I90o, and have one child named Catherine.
223. Amasa L., born January 24, 1885, died August 7, I885.
224. Kate E., born March 13, I886, died December I, I888.
446
HISTORY )F HARLEM.
GE:ORG(E W\. (i68), (SON () GEORGE), HIAD ISSUE:
225. Lillian, born (ctober 27, 1863, married John NV. Heck,
(ctober 9, I884, and had two children.
226. Grace E., born November To, I864, unmarried.
227. Frederick Seward, born June 14, 1867, married Caroline
Anna Water, October 2, I895; no issue.
228. George, born Septenmber I, 1870.
229. De La Montanye, born January 19, I876.
230. Harry I\., born November 20, I877.
Gil,()cR (I92), (SON O( CORNEIIUS), h\AD ISSU-:
231..Iina L., born January 28, I855, unmarried.
232. Frank G., born February 9, 1862, single.
PI2:RRY (195), (SON o( CO(RNIIJUS), HAD JSSUtEr
233. Jennie L., born November Ii, I875, marrie(l Legrand
Philips, July 19, 1898.
234. Kittie B., born October 15, 1865, married John A. King,
March 29, 1887, and ha(l three children.
235. Burt P., born l\larch l, i872, married Emma J. Duffill,
May 23, 1901.
236. \rilliamn H., born October 7, T868, married Myrtie Brown,
September 20, 1901.
237. James A., born August 17, 1879.
238. Clyde Mi., born August 25, I870.
-\LFREID (201), (SON O )DA\NIE), HAD ISSUI:
239. Ella. born I)ecember 5, I875, died July 6, I88o.
240. Clarence Everett, born M\arch 3, I88o.
241. Flora May, born iMayv 29, 1878.
Alfred (201) had one child by second wife, Jane MA. Vanlerbilt, namel:
242. Frank, xwho (lied in 1893.
STPI.1II;N HENRY (207), (SON o(! HENRY) II.\I ISSU.:
243. George B., born November 3, I868, married Emma Ginder,
April 29, 1887.
244. Gertrude L., born June 12, I870, married WVilliam Van der
Poole, February 15, 1894.
245. \lanson I)., born October 17, I871, married first, Mary
Rynehart, February I4, I891, and second, Pertha Honald,
April 5, I899.
246. Sarah M'., born August 31, 1873, married Albert H. Vantine, April 17, I892.
247. Lillian J., born April 17, 1875, died single January 29, I894.
248. William F., born January II, T884, single.
BENSON FAMILY.
447
EDI)\\.RD Ai. (211), (SON or, S\AMSON ADOI) iiuS),
HAI) ISSUE:
249. Philip Adolphus, born December 17, I88r.
250. Helen Wharm, born Februarv 6, I883.
251. Daniel Annan, born June i6, I885.
252. MIargaret Annan, born October 23, 1887.
253. Edward Adolphus, born June 8, 1889.
254. Ralph, born December 17, I89I, diedl July I8, I892.
BOGERT.
Jan Louwe Bogert, otherwise, from the place of his nativity,
called Jan Louwe from Schoonderwoerd, claims a place among
the patentees, for reasons given in the annexed note.* Many
references to him will be found in the preceding pages. Having
spent nine years at B:edford, Long Island, he came to Harlem,
in I672, as proprietor of the Montanye farm, the history of which,
up to its purchase by Bogert, has also been given. He was chosen
a magistrate in I675, was re-elected in 1676, and on November
30th of this year, with his wife, Cornelia Everts, was received
at New York as a member of the Harlem church. In I677 Bogert
drew lot No. 6, on Hoorn's Hook, but sold it December 9, I679,
to Joost van Oblinus. He drew, in i691, lot No. 25, adjoining
his farm on the south side, and which in the deed from the town,
\larch 21, 1701, is thus described:
"There is set off for Jan Louwe Bogert, for the right of sixteen morgen
of land and an erf right; a piece of land lying in the bend of Hellgate,
beginning from the southwest corner of the Hop Garden, by a birch tree,
till to a white oak tree which stands by a small swamp (crcupclbosjc),
marked I L B and I D L; thence towards the River, past a rock marked
* Peter Parmentier was one of the Mannheim refugees who came out in company
with Jan Louwe Bogert, in 1663, as heretofore noticed. lie and his wife, Antoinette
Terrin, bringing letters from Mannheim, were received to the Brooklyn church,
September 23, of that year. Parmentier and Ilogert lived as neighbors at Bedford
for some years, and the former was one of the four named as trustees for the inhabitants at large, to whom the Indians, iln 67o, sold lands in that vicinity. Parmentier became the owner of a farm and grist mill in Bushwick, where, in I675, one
other excepted, he paid the largest tax on land and stock. Selling his farm to his
only son, Michiel, he kept the mill and eight morgen of land, but these lie also conveyed to Michiel some time after, and probably when he sold (May 31, I684) certain lots in Brooklyn to Jacques Lazillere. He soon came to Harlem and assuredly
took 1'ogert's place in l)ongan's patent, for which there seems no accounting, except
on the ground of a contract to buy Bogert's farm, whose milling facilities probably
attracted him. Nevertheless, no sale took place; PBogert kept the farm, and Parmentier is not again named among the freeholders. He died at Kingston, Ulster
County, ill 170, evidently in reduced circumstances as the church officers attended
to his burial and the wants of his widow.
M1ichiel Parmentier sold his mill property in Bushwick, January 26, I696 (owned
soon after by Tohn Mesurolle, Jr., anid Charles Fountain), and on May 6, T699,
bought from Sanders and Ilarmanse, land at "Wareskeech," in Dutchess County, to
which lie removed. He was living there until 1714 at the age of 60. lie married
Neeltie, daughter of John Damen, of Brooklyn, by whom lie had issue, Peter, born
I68o, married Sarah Van Kleek, 1702, and HIelena Vanden Blogert, 1714; John, born
I682; Antoinette, born I684, married Barent Van Kleek; Michael, born i687, married
Maria Tl'itsoort, 1717; Neeltie, born I690, married Myndert Bogert; Damen, born
1694; Elizabeth, born 1699, and Johanna, born 1702. l)amen and younger members
of the family were still occupying the paternal lands in "Poughkeepsie Precinct," in
1770, 1under the name Palmatier.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I L B and I D L, and so on to the beach, till to the end of a meadow
north of a rocky hill; as it is at present fenced in." The initials (I for J)
are those of Jan Louwe Bogert and Jan De Lamater.
Bogert having spent 35 years at Harlem, sold his farm to
Captain Johannes Benson, September 21, I706, for ~650, and the
next spring removed to New York; with his wife uniting with
the church there by certificate from Harlem, on May 27, I707.
JAN LOUWE BOGERT (I) HAD ISSUE:
2. Peter, born I656, at Leerdam, Holland, married Fytie
(Sophia) Vlierboom, September 29, I686, had nine children.
3. Gysbert, born at Bedford, L. I. I663, baptized September 30,
I663, at Brooklyn, N. Y., married Annatie (Laurens)
Jansen, of Harlem, had six children.
4. Claes (Nicholas), born at Bedford, L. I., in I668, married first
Belettie Van Schaick, June 28, I695, had four children.
He married second, Margaret (Consilyea) Van Tilburg,
February 23, I707, by whom he had nine children. He
lived in New York, was a "baker and bolter," and died
January 5, 1727.
5. Johannes, baptized September 15, I675, died young.
6. Johannes, baptized August I6, 1679, married Claessie Van
Schaick, June I6, 1700, but died without issue in 1711.
7. Elizabeth, who married Harmen Janse Knickerbocker before
I688, had eight children.
8. Catherine, who married Elbert Harmense (also known as
Lieverse).
9. Margaret, who married Pieter J. Haring, December 4, 1687,
had twelve children.
TO. Jenneke, who married Jooris (George) Holmes, July 8, I704,
had three children.
II. Cornelia, who married Wouter (Pieterse) Quackenbos, of
Albany, N. Y., on October 4, I696, had five children, and
died November 21, I736.
Peter Bogert (2) was born in 1656, in Leerdam, Holland; we
presume the county, as it included Schoonrewoerd. He is also
called in Harlem records, Peter Jan Louwe. He married, September 29, I686, Feytie, daughter of Matthys Vlierboom, of Albany.
Peter Bogert served as a soldier under Leisler, in holding the fort
at New York, in I689 and 'go, and in I7I7 was paid for arms
given up in I69I to the government.
PETER (2), (SON Or JAN LouwE), HAD ISSUE:
I2. Cornelia, baptized July 3, 1687, married Gysbert Krom,
August 9, 1718, had three children.
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13. Maria, baptized July 21, 1689, married Mouris Klearwater,
April I8, 1713, had five children.
I4. Elizabeth, baptized November 5, 1693, married Pieter Vonck,
had five children.
I5. Jannetie (Tanneke), baptized October 4, 1691, married
Johannes Waldron, August 5, 1720, had one child.
I6. Catalina, baptized May 5, 1697, married Pieter Mabie, June
19, I715, had twelve children.
17. Johannes P., baptized February 14, I700, married Martyen
Haring, December 25, I720, had six children.
I8. Matthew P., born I702, married Margrietje Talama, I735,
had seven children, and died in 1784.
19. Peter P., baptized March I8, I705, married first, Rachel Van
Horn, had four children. He married second, Rachel
Banta, by whom he had two children, and died in I786.
20. Willemtie, baptized February 29, I708, married Albert Westervelt, had four children, and died prior to June I8, 1742.
Gysbert (3), (son of Jan Louwe). About the time his
parents left Harlem he removed to Tappan or Orangetown, N. Y.,
where he bought land from Hendrick Lamberts, October 6, I707,
served the same month as a grand juror, and was living in I729
on his farm on the Sparkhill. Had issue:
21. John (Jan), baptized May 9, I705, married Catharine Evert,
had six children.
22. Marytje, baptized October 14, I707, unmarried.
23. Mary (Maria), born June 8, I707, married Isaac Blauvelt,
had five children.
24. Lawrence (Lourens), baptized April 12, I7Io.
25. Cornelius, baptized October 12, I715, married Grietje Blauvelt, had three children.
26. Nicholas (Klaas), born December 12, 1718, married Catherina
Myer, had six children.
Claas (Nicholas) (4), (son of Jan Louwe), had issue; by
first wife, Belettie Van Schaick, viz.:
27. John, born May I, 1697, married Hannah (Anna) Peeck,
March Io, 1716, had ten children, and died November 7,
I775 -28. Cornelius, born January 9, I700, married Cornelia Verduin,
May I, 1720, lived in New York, was a baker, had eight
children, and died April I8, I793.
29. Evert, born July 13, I702, married Catherine Van Tilburg,
and died without issue prior to 1725.
30. Hendrick, born March I8, I705, was a baker. He married
Cornelia De Graw (daughter of Gerrit), November 22,
1724, had ten children, and died August 20, I76I.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Claas (Nicholas) (4), (son of Jan Louwe), had issue, by
second wife, Margaret Van Tilburg, viz.:
3I. Cornelia No. I, born December 26, I707, died young.
32. Belletjie No. I, born November 25, 1708, died young.
33. Cornelia No. 2, born March 29, 1710, married Albertus Tiebout, October 12, 1728, had thirteen children.
34. Johannis, born August 3, 1711, died single.
35. Margaret, born March I, 1713, married Johannes Quackenbush, December 20, I730, had eight children, and died
October 3, I785.
36. Elizabeth, born September I, I714, married Elbert Haring,
September 17, 1732, had thirteen children.
37. Belletjie No. 2, born June 5, I716, married Teunis Tiebout,
Jr., November I8, I744, had two children.
38. Anneckie, born April I, I718, died September o1, I73I.
39. Petrus, born September I, I720, married first, Tannecke
Pears, August 2, 1741, had two children. He married
second, Maria (Roome) Phoenix, February 24, 1748, had
six children and died April I8, I795.
JOHANNES P. (17), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
40. Maria, born September 28, 1721, married Isaac Blauvelt, had
five children.
4I. Gerrit, born March 23, I724, married Lea Blauvelt, had five
children.
42. Peter, born April 19, 1726, married Jannetje (Jane) Parleman, March 31, I744, had two children.
43. Jacobus, born November 2, 1728, married Maria Blauvelt,
had three children.
44. Marritye, born July II, I731, married Abraham Smith, had
ten children.
45. Catherina, born December 15, I735, married Johannes Terhune, had six children.
MATTHEW (I8), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
46. Pieter M., born April 12, I736, married Rachel Banta, March
22, 1750, had seven children, and died 1809.
47. Fytie (Sophia), born January 5, 1740, married Peter Demarest, had seven children.
48. Cornelius, born March 29, I742, married Annatye Banta,
July I4, I765.
49. Maria No. I, born December I6, 1746, died young.
50. Materis (Matthew), born April 24, 1749, married Sarah
Bogert, 1777, had seven children. She married second,
Martin Hogan (Hagens) I798, and died October I, I828.
5I. Maria No. 2, born January 13, 1752.
52. Douwe, born June Io, I759.
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PETER P. (19), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
53. Fytie (Sophia), born April 18, 1738, married Dirck Haring,
had five children.
54. Margrietje, born June 6, I742, married Dirck Wannemaker,
had two children.
55. Petrus, born November 26, 1746, married Maria Christie,
had eight children.
56. Maria (Margaret), born May 4, 1751, married James Edwards, had two children.
PETER P. (I9), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE, BY
SECOND WIFE, RACHEL BANTA, VIZ.:
57. Margrietje, baptized February 24, I760, married William
Campbell, July I, 1788, had one child.
58. Samuel, baptized November 12, I778.
JOHN (21), (SON OF GYSBERT), HAD ISSUE:
59. Annetie, born September 4, 1738.
60. Elizabeth, born February I, I740.
6I. Maria, born May 25, 1742.
62. Catherina, born August I6, 1744, married Cornelius Smith,
had two children.
63. Jan, born September 20, I747.
64. Cornelius, born January I, 1754, married first, Hester Roos,
December 25, I808, had three children. He married
second, Abigail D. Clark.
CORNELIUS (25), (SON OF GYSBERT), HAD ISSUE:
65. Gysbert, born October Io, 1742, married Maria Lent, had
two children.
66. Grietje (Margaret), who married Thomas Eckersen, had
seven children.
67. Leah.
NICHOLAS (,26), (SON OF GYSBERT), HAD ISSUE:
68. Mary, who died unmarried.
70. Lawrence.
7I. Gysbert, born June 8, I745, married Geertye Hendricks, had
three children.
72. Johannes, born November II, 1753, married Catherine Mabie,
had six children.
73. Cornelius Gerret, born July 13, I756, married Sara Mabie,
February 2, 1784, had eight children.
74. Maria, who married Johannis Vanderbilt, and had six children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
John Bogert was by trade a mason, married, March Io, I716,
Hannah, born I695, daughter of Jan Peek, by his wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Dr. Gysbert and Rachel (Montanye) van Imbroch.
He and his brothers, Cornelius and Hendrick, owned land at Fishkill, N. Y.; they sold three-fourths of it to Jacob Haff, December
17, 1736, for ~2,ooo.
JOHN (27), (SON 0F NICHOLAS) (CLAAS), HAD ISSUE:
75. Beeltje, baptized December 25, 1716, died young.
76. John (Johannes), baptized December 3, I718, married first,
Abigail Quick, March I6, I737, had sixteen children.
He married second, Elizabeth Brasher, July 7, 1781, and
died December 5, 1782.
77. Isabella (Belitjie), born 1719, married Francis Wessels,
October 12, I745, had two children.
78. Elizabeth, baptized November 25, 1720, married first, Benjamin Shoed, November 20, I736, had one child. She
married second, John Leary, and died January I9, I783.
79. Margaret, baptized December 19, 1722, married Jacobus Van
Antwerp, April I8, I745, had eleven children.
80. Nicholas, born April 2, I725, married first, Maria Quick,
April 29, I747, had eight children. He married second,
February 2, 1762, Alida Ritzema (daughter of Rev.
Johannis Ritzema), by whom he had thirteen children.
Died July 23, I814, in Beekman, Dutchess County, New
York.
8I. Annatje No. I, baptized August 20, 1727, died September I,
I727.
82. Annatje No. 2, baptized August I8, 1728, married Jacobus
Roosevelt, December 4, I746, had seven children.
83. Rachel, baptized February 26, I73I, died October 5, I731.
84. Jacobus, baptized September 8, 1734, married first, Elizabeth Banker, December 9, I753, had six children. He
married second, Judith Van Syse, November II, 1762,
had eight children, and died October 22, i8iI.
CORNELIUS (28), (SON OF NICHOLAS) (CLAAS), HAD ISSUE;:
85. Cornelius No. I, baptized May To, 1721, died young.
86. Belitje, baptized April 15, 1722, married Charles Dickenson,
had one child.
87. Cornelius No. 2, baptized April 4, 1725, died single, September 4, I750.
88. Sarah, baptized June I6, 1728, married Richard (Robert)
Ray, April 23, I748, had one child.
89. Nicholas No. I, baptized September 30, I730, died young.
9o. Rachel, born 173I, married Charles Dickenson.
91. Henry C. (Hendrick), baptized September Io, 1732, mar
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ried Helena Van Wyke (Wyck). He and his brother,
Nicholas C., were eminent merchants in New York. For
interesting details of this branch, see Thompson's Long
Island, and Stevens' Chamber of Commerce.
92. Nicholas C. No. 2, baptized December 22, I734, married first,
Cornelia Bradus, had two children. He married second,
Ann Myndert Schuyler, November 6, I766, had four
children, and died September 23, I794.
HENDRICK (30), (SON ov NICHOLAS) (CLAAS), HAD ISSUE:
93. Belitje (Isabell), baptized January 13, 1724, married John
Devore (De Voor), May 17, 1752, had three children.
94. Nicholas, baptized January 27, 1727, died November 7, I732.
95. Gerrit No. I, baptized March 23, 1729, died May 24, 1730.
96. Gerrit No. 2, baptized June 23, I73I.
97. Dorotea, baptized June 13, I733.
98. Hendricus, baptized August 20, I735, married Barbara Coopman, had two children.
99. Cornelius, baptized March 5, 1738, married Elizabeth Williams, January 12, I760, had one child.
Ioo. Cornelia, baptized May 19, I742.
IoI. Elizabeth, baptized June 20, I744.
I02. Annatje, baptized October I8, I747.
PETRUS (39), (SON o0 NICHOLAS) (CLAAS), HAD ISSUE:
BY IIRST WIIF, TANNEKE PEARS:
I03. Margrietje, baptized April 20, 1743, married David A. Masterson, December 31, I762, had eight children.
104. Hendrick, baptized April 28, I745.
PETRUS (39) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE, MARIA
(ROOME) PHOENIX:.
I05. Nicholas P., baptized January I, 1749, married Catharine
Waldron, September 21, I770, had five children, and
died January 3, 1788.
Io6. Susannah No. I, baptized January 30, I751, died June 12,
I75I.
107. Maria, baptized March 28, I755, married Andries Van Tuyl,
August 9, 1773, had two children.
o18. Anna (Annatje), baptized April 24, I757, married Nicholas
Herring (Haring), February I, I777, had three children.
o09. Elizabeth, baptized September 20, 1758, died December I7,
I759.
IIO. Susannah No. 2, baptized April 30, 1761, died December
14, 1762.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
GERRET (41), (SON OF JOHANNES P.), HAD ISSUE:
I I. Maritie, born March 13, I749.
112. Grietje, born December 22, I75I.
II3. Johannes, born August 30, I755.
II4. Cornelius No. I, born May 20, 1760, died young.
II5. Cornelius No. 2, born September 4, 1764, married Sarah
Onderdonk, January 29, 1788, had one child.
PETER (42), (SON OF JOHANNES P.), HAD ISSUE:
116. Roelof, baptized May 26, I745.
II7. Catharina (Catrina), baptized September I8, I748.
JACOBUS (43), (SON OF JOHANNES P.), HAD ISSUE:
1 8. Johannis, born January 31, I760.
II9. Peter, born January 3, 1767, married Effie Westervelt,
August 23, I806, had four children.
120. Marretje, born September 19, I775, married George Van
Alst, May 19, I793, had three children.
PETER M. (46), (SON OF MATTHEW), HAD ISSUE:
I21. Margaret, born February 8, I760, married William Campbell, had two children.
122. Maria, born June II, 1762, married Matthew Demarest, had
nine children.
I23. Anna (Anaetje), born July I, 1764.
124. Matthew P. (Matheus), born October 8, 1767, married first,
Polly (Maria) Demarest, October 24, 1786, had nine
children. He married second, Sarah Cole Van Horn,
February 21, I833, and died January 6, 1850.
125. Seba (Seiba), born March 25, 1774, married Sarah Blackledge, January 2, I795, had ten children, and died April
14, I846.
126. Sophia (Fytie), born August I, 1776, married James
Demarest.
127. Samuel P., born October 24, 1778, married Peggie (Margaret) Mead, March 2, I803, had five children.
MATERIS (MATTHEW) (50), (SON OF MATTHEW), HAD ISSUE:
128. Margaret (Margrietje), born May 17, I771, married Abraham Haring, November 22, 1787, had six children.
129. Sara, born September 17, I773, married John Blanch, no
issue.
I30. Matthew (Mattheus) No. I, born November 25, I775, died
young.
13I. Maria (Polly), born April 12, I777, married Johannis Enderson, had five children.
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132. Matthew M. (Mattheus) No. 2, born November 6, 1779,
married Willempie Haring, May 9, I8oi, had five children, and died March 30, I87I.
I33. Albert M., born September 13, 1782, married first, Tinie
(Catharine) Westervelt, August 4, i8oi, had four children. He married second, Cornelia Haring, no issue, and
died February 2I, I879.
134. Fytye (Sophia), born February 25, I785, married Weart
Westervelt, April 5, I806, had seven children. He died
December 27, I845.
PETRUS (55), (SON OF PETER P.), HAD ISSUE:
I35. Johannis, born March 2, 1769, married Maria Kool (Cole),
June I, I793, had four children.
136. Willem (William), born January 30, I771.
I37. Roelof, born December ii, 1773.
138. Cathlyntye, born September I9, I775.
I39. Petrus, baptized December I9, 1779.
140. Cornelius, baptized September 8, 1782.
I4I. Margaret (Grietie) No. I, born September 14, 1784, died
young.
142. Margaret (Margrietie) No. 2, born August Io, 1788.
CORNELIUS (64), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
143. Willempje, born October 27, 1790.
I44. Jacob, born December 22, 1793.
I45. Sarah, born October 19, I797.
GYSBERT (65), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
146. Grietje (Margaret), born August 6, 1762, married John
Duryee, had three children.
I47. Abraham, born May 23, 1767, married Annatje (Anna) Van
Delinde, had three children.
GYSBERT (71), (SON oF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
148. Cornelius, born March 13, I767.
I49. Jannetje, born October 9, 1769.
I50. Elisabeth (Elizabeth), born July 7, I775.
JOHANNES (72), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
151. Gerrit J., born April 4, 1781, married Maria Haring, December Io, i8oi, had six children.
152. Casparis, born July 22, 1784.
153. Grietje (Margaret), born March 26, I786.
154. Maria, born August 7, I788.
I55. Leah (Helena), born March I8, I79I.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I56. John J., born May I6, 1793, married Sarah Brouwer, July
13, i8i6.
CORNELIUS GERRET (73), (SON o0 NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
I57. Gerret, born November 25, 1785, married Maria Blauvelt,
May I, I809, had two children.
I58. Rachel, born December 12, I787.
I59. Leah (Helena), born March 26, 1790, married William
Naugle, August 12, I813, had one child.
I60. Jeremias, born August 23, I792, died young.
I6I. Jeremiah, born January 7, 1795, married Maria Van Valen,
had five children, and died January 19, I831.
I62. Sara, born January I9, I798.
I63. Grietje (Margaret), born September 17, I8oo.
I64. Catrina (Catherine), born August I, I8II.
John Bogert, Junior (76), (son of John), born 1718, married
March I6, I737, Abigail,' daughter of Jacobus Quick. A distinguished and prosperous New York merchant, he served as an
alderman from I756 to 1766, and during the same period was a
deacon and elder of the church for several terms. On March
12, I766, he bought John Benson's farm at Harlem, lying on
Van Keulen's Hook, adjoining Harlem River, and thither he
removed, devoting his remaining years to husbandry. He afterward bought the property known as the Lawrence Benson Homestead. In I776, when the Revolution opened, the Provincial Convention, on leaving New York, met for a month in the church at
Harlem, and Mr. Bogert being a good Whig, the records were kept
at his house, which stood on the same site as the present (I88I)
Morris Randell house, at the foot of I25th Street, Harlem River.
John Bogert, Jr., died December 5, 1782, having only the year
previous, July 7, 1781, married a second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Daly and widow of Abraham Brasher.
JOHN (OR JOHANNES) (76), (SON OV JOHN), HAD ISSUE,
BY HIS FIRST WIPE, ABIGAIL QUICK, VIZ.:
I65. Jacobus (James), born December 25, 737, married Elizabeth
Peacock, April 23, 1756, had eight children, and died
February I, 1811.
I66. Annatje, born December 4, 1739, married Peter Byvanck,
March 13, 1758, died October I6, I825.
I67. Marytje (Maria), born February ii, I741, married Captain
Willett Taylor, September Io, 1760, had one child.
I68. John J., born February 15, I743, died December I5, I754.
I69. Nicholas No. I, born March 12, 1745, died August 13, I747.
I70. Abigail, born July 12, I75I, died August 5, I75I.
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I7I. Nicholas No. 2, born August I8, I752, died single, December 19, I783.
172. Cornelius J., born October 13, 1754, married first, Ann Murray, February 26, 1772, had two children. He married
second, Susannah Bartlett, December 5, I795, had two
children, died February 16, I832.
I73. Peter, born April 29, 1757, married Mary Lawrence, June
15, 1783, had fifteen children, and died June II, I838.
I74. Hendrick, born May 31, 1758, died September 17, I783.
I75. Abraham No. I, born May 17, 1759, died February 20, 1760.
I76. Abraham No. 2, born May 31, I760, died January 14, 176I.
I77. There were four other children whose names were not
found that died in infancy.
NICHOLAS (80), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE, BY
FIRST WIFE, MARIA QUICK, VIZ.:
178. Jan (John N.), born January 28, I748, married Philander
Forbes, November 21, I771, had two children, and died
February 21, 1781.
179. Maria No. I, born November 3, I749, died April 21, I750.
I80. Jacobus, born March 17, I75I, died June 7, I780.
I8i. Nicholas, born January 28, 1753, died May I5, 1782.
182. Maria No. 2, born March 6, I755, married Theophilus
Brower, February 20, 1775, had five children, and died
March 14, I818.
I83. Annatje, born May 21, I757, died November I6, 1759.
I84. Elizabet (Elizabeth), born September 2, I759, died August
20, 1761.
185. Cornelius, born September 21, 1761, died October 13, I761.
NICHOLAS (80) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIPE,
ALIDA RITZEMA, VIZ.:
I86. David Ritzema, born February 3, I763, married Margaret
Morton, 1815. He married second, Ann Barkens, and
died June 3, I839.
187. Helena Ritzema, born July 19, 1764, died August 19, 1765.
i88. Rudolphus, born February 16, I766, married Ann Clark,
May 22, 1802, had ten children, and died November I6,
1842.
I89. Helena Strachan, born February 7, I768, married William
Strachan, March 8, 1782, had five children, and died June
20, I799.
I9o. Annatje (Nancy), born March 4, I770, married first, David
Barkins, November 4, I794, and second, Charles Russell.
She died August I8, I847.
19I. Allida, born April 9, 1772, died unmarried about 1857.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
192. Cornelius No. I, born August I, I774, died October 5, I775.
193. Cornelius No. 2, born August 14, I775, married Alida Van
Dyke, had four children, and died August II, 1856; a
lawyer of New York.
194. Margaret, born June 26, 1777, married Jacob J. Kool, September 29, 1804, but died without issue, March 25, i8i8.
195. William, born September 7, 1779, died single, September 4,
I820.
i96. Nicholas, born April 23, 1782, married Eliza Shear, had four
children, and died June 3, I804.
I97. John, born September 19, 1784, died single, 1862.
I98. James, born September 6, 1786, single.
JACOBUS (84), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE, ELIZABETH BANKER, VIZ.:
I99. Elizabet (Elizabeth), baptized October 2, 1754.
200. Jan (John), baptized December 28, 1755, married Margareta
Demarest, October 7, 1781.
201. Neeltje, baptized July 15, I759, married William Leacraft,
had four children.
202. Adriann, baptized May 24, 1761, married Willempie Suydam, had one child.
203. Beletje, baptized May 24, 1761.
204. Annetje, baptized July 3, 1757, married Samuel Rogers, had
one child.
JACOBUS (84) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE, JUDITH
VAN SYSE, VIZ.:
205. Maria No. I, baptized September I8, 1763, died young.
206. Maria No. 2, baptized December 5, 1764, married Wessel
Wessels, April 22, 1792, had two children.
207. James, born February 12, I766.
208. Nicholas No. I, baptized November 15, I767, died young.
209. Nicholas No. 2, baptized April 18, I769, died young.
210. Judith, baptized December 2, 1770.
211. Helena (Lena), baptized September 13, 1772, married Henry
Stoutenburg, July 7, I799, had one child.
212. Nicholas No. 3, baptized December 25, I774.
NICHOLAS C. (92), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE,
BY HIS FIRST WIFE, CORNELIA BRADUS, VIZ.:
213. Nicholas, baptized February I8, I759.
214. Cornelia, baptized April 15, 1761, married John J. Banta,
had three children.
BOGERT FAMILY.
459
NICHOLAS C. (92) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE,
MYNDERT SCHUYLER, VIZ.:
2I5. Cornelius N., baptized December 2, 1768, died single, I821.
216. David Schuyler, born January I2, I770, married Elizabeth
(Jonas) Platt, April 29, I792, had nine children, and died
July Io, I839.
217. Two daughters who died in infancy.
HENDRICOS (98), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
218. Christiaan, baptized January I9, I755.
219. Johannis, baptized December 15, I756.
CORNELIUS (99), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
220. Cornelia, baptized February 29, I764, married Isaac Tal —
man, April 7, 1792, had one child.
NICHOLAS P. (105), (SON OF PETRUS), HAD ISSUE:
221. Maria No. I, baptized March 22, I772, died January 13, 1774.
222. Katharina, baptized November 14, I773, died September i8,
I775.
223. Catherine, who married Elam Williams, May i8, 1797, had
one child, and died June 23, 1798.
224. Ann, baptized August IO, 1777.
225. Maria No. 2, baptized 1779, married John McLeod, had
three children, and died August 4, i868.
CORNELIUS (II5), (SON OF GERRET), HAD ISSUE:
226. Geertye (Gertrude), born June 23, 1789, baptized July 26,
I789.
PETER (II9), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
227. John, born July 20, I807.
228. Anna Demarest, born December 19, I809.
229. Margaret, born February 22, 1814.
230. Peter, born December 12, I8I7.
MATTHEW P. (I24), (SON OF PETER M.), HAD ISSUE,
BY HIS FIRST WIFE, POLLY (MARIA) DEMAREST, VIZ.:
23I. Peter M., born March 3, 1788, married Tiny (Catherine)
Banta, December 21, 1811, had five children, and died
January 9, I833.
232. Hetty (Hester), born December I, I789, married Stephen
Yeury, and died June 6, 1884.
233. David, born September 20, 1791, married Sally Tinkey, had
one child, and died November I, I8I5.
460
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
234. Seba (Siba), born May 2, I794, married Maria (Polly)
Bell, December 25, ISI3, had one child, and died September Io, I8I7.
235. Rachel, born December 21, 1796, married John Brush.
236. James (or Jacobus), born April 4, 1799, died single, June
24, 1815.
237. Samuel M., born May 29, I801, married Lydia Powless (or
Powlisson), July 7, 1821, had two children, and died
August Io, I832.
238. Mary, born July 4, 1807, married Abraham A. Blauvelt,
August 12, 1828, had six children, and died June 14,
I885.
239. Betsy, born July 25, 1811, married Peter D. Haring, July
5, I828.
SEBA (I25), (SON O0 PETER M.), HAD ISSUE:
240. Peter No. I, born May 3, I795, died single, December 25,
18I3.
241. Benjamin S., born February 21, 1797, married Sarah Clark,
June 8, I8i6, had two children, and died March 29, i86o.
242. Matthew S., born April 9, 1799, married first, Maria (Polly)
Kip, January 31, 1824, had four children. He married
second, Margaret Christie (a widow), November 13,
1833, had three children, and died October 23, I874.
243. Cornelius, born May 19, I80o, married first, Effie Westervelt, August 14, I819, had four children. He married
second, Hannah Christie, April 26, 1842, had two children, and died March 27, I864.
244. Samuel, born April 19, I804, married Hetty (Hester) Westervelt, April 28, I826, had seven children, and died January 5, I837.
245. Elizabeth, born July 9, I808, married Peter W. Christie, had
nine children, and died March 9, I892.
246. Jacob S., born July 7, 1813, married Martina Haring, March
7, 1844, had five children, and died March I, I886.
247. Henry, born June 15, 1811, died single, September 19, I83I.
248. Peter No. 2, born August 6, 1815, married Lydia Bartholf,
had four children, and died May 13, I87I.
249. Rachel, born March 4, I818, married Peter Mabie, had six
children, and died February 14, I888.
SAMUEL P. (127), (SON OE PETER M.), HAD ISSUE:
250. Rachel, born March 6, I804, married Joseph N. Blauvelt.
251. Maria Klyn, born November 3, I8o6, married James Van
Wagoner.
252. Margaret, born April 12, I8Io, married Adam Alyea.
BOGERT FAMILY. 461
253. Martha, born January 13, I8I5, married James J. M. Mandeville, had two children.
254. Henry M., born April I4, I818, married first, Peggy Minturn, and second, Mary Ann Smith, June 9, I852.
MATTHEW M. (132), (SON OE MATERIS) (MATTHEW), HAD ISSUE;
255. Sally, born February 23, 1802, married Samuel Haring,
May 19, 1824.
256. Jane, born February I6, 1804, married first, John D. Brower,
May II, 1822, and second, James Anderson.
257. Margaret, born December 27, I809, married Paul Powliss,
July 28, 1827, had two children.
258. Maria, born May Io, 1813, married Cornelius Blauvelt, September 6, I834.
259. Jacob M., born May 15, I819, married Maria Haring, November 3, 1842, had six children, and died March I8, I874.
ALBERT M. (I33), (SON 0r MATERIS) (MATTHEW), HAD
ISSUE, BY HIS FIRST WIFE, TINIE WESTERVELT, VIZ.:
260.? (daughter), who died in infancy.
26I. Sallie (Sarah), born September 29, I803, married James
Blauvelt, December 21, 1822.
262. Sophia, born September 28, I805.
263. Mary Ann, who married Frederick Haring, November 3,
1824.
JOHANNIS (135), (SON OF PETRUS), HAD ISSUE:
264. Maria, born March I2, I794.
265. Sarah No. I, born August I9, 1795, died young.
266. Sarah No. 2, born December 22, I797, died young.
267. Sarah No. 3, born June 7, I799.
ABRAHAM (147), (SON OF GYSBERT),.HAD ISSUE:
268. Maria, born November 4, I792.
269. Roelof, born September 9, I795.
270. Rachel, born December 29, I797.
GERRET J. (151), (SON O0 JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
271. Johannis No. I, born February I8, I802, died young.
272. Johannis No. 2, born June 7, I805.
273. Catrina Haring, born May I6, I807, married Daniel D.
Clark, May 19, 1827. He of New York.
274. Martyntje (Martha), born April 17, I809.
275. Leah, born February II, 1813, married James I. Ackerson,
November 4, I847.
276. Petrus, born November 9, I815.
462
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
GERRET (I57), (SON OF CORNELIUS GERRET), HAD ISSUE:
277. Sarah, born August 23, I8IO, married Henry Blauvelt, May
8, 1830.
278. Marragrietje (Margaret), born December 14, I813.
JEREMIAH (I6I), (SON OF CORNELIUS GERRET), HAD ISSUE:
279. Cornelius, born December 14, I818, married Sarah Gould
Lovett, December 25, 1845, had three children, and died
May 23, 1883.
280. Daniel Vanvalen, born July 8, 1822, died August 14, 1826.
281. Sarah Ann, born December 30, 1824, married Elhannan W.
Whitney, March 14, 1843, had eight children, and died
July 30, I885.
282. Jacob, born September 20, 1827, married Mary Pitcher, had
one child, and died May 6, I864.
283. Jane, born May 24, 1830, married James B. Lefferts, January
I, 1854, had eight children.
Jacobus Bogert (I65), born December 25, I737, (son of John
Bogert, Jr.), married, April 23, 1756, Elizabeth Peacock, of a
French Huguenot family. He died February I, I8II.
JACOBUS (I65), (SON OF JOHN, JR.), HAD ISSUE:
284. Abigail No. I, baptized March I6, 1757, died March 25,
I757.
285. Johannes, baptized August I6, 1758, married Elizabeth Berrien, August 22, 1778, had eight children, and died September I6, I8o2.
286. Maria No. I, baptized November Io, I760, died April 8, I761.
287. Abigail No. 2, baptized November I8, 1761, married Phineas
Parker, January 11, 1784, but died without issue, April
15, 1838.
288. Maria No. 2, baptized April 12, I764, married first, Captain
William Moore, May 28, 1786, and second, William Peacock, but died without issue, September 23, I8o6.
289. James, Jr., born April I4, 1767, married first, Elizabeth Benezet,* May Io, 1795, had eleven children. He married
second, Cornelia Smith, July 22, I826, by whom he had
one child, and third, Esther Crowell, April 3, I828, no
issue. He died March 30, 1858.
290. Ann, baptized March 12, I769, died unmarried, July I9,
I853.
* This lady was of the Benezet family of Philadelphia, whose ancestor, Jean
Benezet, died at Abbeville, France, August 15, I7Io. A MS. account of the family,
yet preserved, opens with this entry made by Jean Benezet:
"Le i6ce Aoust, 1682, Je mesiers marie avec Marie Madelaine Testart, fille de
M. Pierre Testart et de defunte Rachel Cromelin, de la ville de St. Quentin, en
Vermandois." (See also Bartow Genealogy, p. 53.)
BOGERT FAMILY.
463
29I. Elizabeth, baptized September 20, I770, died unmarried,
August 22, I844.
CORNELIUS J. (I72), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS FIRST WIFE, ANN MURRAY, VIZ.:
292. John G., born January 19, I773, married first, Mary Corbett Ludlow, October 15, 1794, had seven children. He
married second, Eliza Robins, November 4, 1826, and
died December 17, I828.
293. Abigail, born May 20, I774, married Robert Jenkins Thurston, June 4, I801, had four children, and died May 8,
I841.
CORNELIUS J. (172) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE,
SUSANNAH BARTLETT, VIZ.:
293a. Cornelia, born January 24, I797, died September II, I797.
293b.? (daughter), born July 2, I799, died July 2, I799.
PETER (I73), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
294.? (son), born August I6, 1783, died August 20, I785.
295. Thomas Lawrence, born January 21, 1787, married Margaret Green, October 14, I819, had three children, and
died June 3, I866.
296.? (son), born March 22, 1788, died May 17, 1788.
297. Peter Byvanck, born May 7, I789, died August 7, I811.
298. Cornelis, born January 7, I79I, died December 14, I874.
299. Mary Lawrence, born April 2, I792.
300. Eliza, born November 8, I793, married Henry Green, but
died without issue, January 28, 1848.
301. James Lawrence, born December 29, I794, died August 19,
i88i.
302. Amelia, born January 2, I796, died August 2I, I797.
303. Edward L., born January 27, I797, died October 14, 1841.
304. Robert, who died November 14, I799.
305. Eloise Lawrence, who married Augustine Hicks Lawrence,
had one child, and died May 15, I88o.
306. Henry Kneeland, born March 4, I80I, married Mary Elizabeth Bogert, January 14, 1826, had five children, and
died August 30, I875.
307. Ann Amelia, born June 25, I802, married Edwin Taylor
Neufville Taylor, now deceased.
308. Harriet L., born July 7, 1804, deceased.
JAN (JOHN N.) (178), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
309. Maria, baptized July 5, 1772.
3Io. Philander, baptized October I6, I774.
464
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
RUDOLPHUS (i88), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
3II. George Clark No. I, born April 6, I803, died November 9,
i8i6.
312. Alida Ann, born July 15, I804, married David Stafford
Hickoe, September 23, 1863, and died December 13,
1869.
313. John Ritzema No. I, born February 3, I8o6, died single,
August 17, 1823.
314. Helena Maria, born July, 1808, married Timothy Bloomfield Jervis, May 30, 1837, had one child, and died January, 1865.
315. Rudolphus, born April 9, 1811, married Wealthy Jane Gordon, April 8, 1841, had five children, and died June II,
i866.
316. Elizabeth Ross, born February 22, 1814, married Cornelius
T. Brouwer, and died March, 1895.
317. George Clark No. 2, born November 25, i8i6, married
Eliza M. Toby, October 30, 1844, had seven children,
and died August 20, i888.
318. Henrietta Mills, born October 13, 1819, married Orsinius
D. Day, and died November 16, I86o.
319. Emily Ritzema, born May, 1821, married Francis Eaton
Knight, August 21, 1851, had one child, and died February 20, 1889.
320. John Ritzema, born October 21, 1826, died single, December 21, 1829.
CORNELIUS (193), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
321. Horatio G., who married Elizabeth Gill, had five children,
and died in 1882.
322. Sophia Margaretta, born I8IO, married John Taylor, M. D.,
but had no isuue.
323. Cornelia, born September, 1821, married Philip M. Brett,
October, 1839, had two children.
324. Sarah Van Dyke, who married John Vanderbilt, no issue.
NICHOLAS (196), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
325. Ann Eliza, who married Jacob D. Fowler, had eight children.
326. John Nichols, born August 22, 1807, married Mary Naylor,
had five or six children.
327. William Strachen, born 1809, died single, August 14, I883.
328. Alida Ritzema, born September 6, 1813, married Fred William Walker, who lived at Pompton, N. J.
ADRIANN (202), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
329. Susannah, born May 7, 1798, baptized June IO, 1798.
BOGERT FAMILY.
465
DAVID SCHUYLER (216), (SON OF NICHOLAS C.), HAD ISSUE:
330. Henry, born January 4, I793, baptized March 13, I793.
331. Ann Schuyler, born May 25, 1794, married Charles Debost,
1817, had five children, and died in I834.
332. Elizabeth, born December 8, 1795, died unmarried, May 12,
I879.
333. David Schuyler, born I798, married (wife's name not
found), had one child, and died in I849.
334. William Henry, born I8oo, died single, I836.
335. Eugene, born April, I803, married Eliza Ann Peck, 1828,
had four children, and died I847. She a daughter of
David Peck. (Names of children not mentioned.)
336. Alwyn, born December 8, I805, married Elizabeth Ludlow
Walker, I829, had four children, and died February 7,
I860. He a physician of New York City.
337. Alexander J., born April, I808, married first, Oliva Howland, 1829, had four children. He married second, Agnes
Stone (Stuart), had six children, and died I870. (Names
of children not given.)
338. Orlando M., born December, I8IO, married first, Catherina
Terhune, 1840, had six children. He married second,
Julia M. Lipton (Lupton), and died I892.
PETER M. (231), (SON OF MATTHEW P.), HAD ISSUE:
339. John Banta, born September 13, I8I3, married first, Jane
Vreeland Houghwout, June 15, 1837, had four children.
He married second, Elizabeth C. Bissel, June I2, 1851,
had two children.
340. James, born July 24, 1815, married Maria Doremus, December 13, I837, had nine children.
34I. Cornelia, born December 7, I820, married Jonas Sparks,
December 24, 1839, had eleven children, and died April
2, I887.
342. Matthew P., born January 9, 1823, married Matilda Cheethen, December I9, 1843, had two children.
343. Elizabeth Ann, born June 14, 1830, married first, Jacob
Cholwell, May 15, I850, had three children. She married second, Stephen Stymets, October 27, I870.
DAVID (233), (SON OF MATTHEW P.), HAD ISSUE:
344. Matthew D. (Col.), born September 15, 1813, died February
28, I898. Of Haverstraw, N. Y.
SEBA (234), (SON OF MATTHEW P.), HAD ISSUE:
345. Jacobus Smith, born January 7, I815, baptized February 6,
I815.
466
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
SAMUEL M. (237), (SON OF MATTHEW P.), HAD ISSUE:
346. David, born September 8, 1822, died August 22, 1832, buried at Closter, N. J.
347. Matthew, born February 19, 1829, died August 14, I832,
buried at Closter, N. J.
BENJAMIN S. (241), (SON OE SEBA), HAD ISSUE:
348. Jacob, who married Julia Anna, daughter of Rev. Isaac
Cole. He deceased.
349. William Henry, who died single.
MATTHEW S. (242), (SON OE SEBA), HAD ISSUE BY
BOTH WIVES:
350. Seba M., born October 6, 1825, married Lavinia Westervelt,
May 23, I844, had one child. He married second, Catherine Z. Connor, April 2, I857, had one child, and died July
25, I900.
35I. Eliza, who married Peter C. Campbell.
352. Sally.
353. Catherine.
354. David, a soldier in the Civil War, deceased.
355. John M., born August 6, 1839, married Jane Bogert, June
5, 1858, had seven children.
356. Samuel M., who married Mary H. Lozier, November 23,
I86i, had three children (names not mentioned). He
deceased.
CORNELIUS (243), (SON Or SEBA), HAD ISSUE BY
HIS FIRST WIFE, EFFIE WESTERVELT, VIZ.:
357. Seba, born October ii, 1820, married Rachel Goetchius. He
was a jeweler in New York City.
358. Benjamin, born April 8, I824, married Maria Myers, and
died January 8, I880. She a daughter of John C. Myers.
359. Sarah, born December 13, 1826, married Edward Esler.
360. Henry, born December 19, 1831, married Ann Westervelt,
and died October 14, I893.
CORNELIUS (243) HAD ISSUE BY HIIS SECOND WIFE,
HANNAH CHRISTIE, VIZ.:
361. John Jacob.
362. Euphemia.
SAMUEL (244), (SON OF SEBA), HAD ISSUE:
363. Sarah, who married J. P. Moore, and resides out west.
364. John, who married Elizabeth Clark.
365. Eliza, who married Mr. Brown.
BOGERT FAMILY.
467
366. Sophia, who married Felix V. Dillon.
367. Catherine, who married Mr. - oore.
368. Henry, who married Catherine Ackerson.
JACOB S. (246), (SON OF SEBA), HAD ISSUE:
369. Sarah, born January 5,. I845, died January 22, I845.
370. Sarah Maria, born January 5, I845, married Simeon Westervelt, November 7, I866, had three children.
37I. Lydia Ann, born March 26, 1847, married William A. Tallman, June I, I864, had five children.
372. Catherine Elizabeth, born October 2I, 1848, married William H. Westervelt, September 13, I870, had six children.
373. Rosana R., born September 3, I850, unmarried.
PETER (248), (SON or SEBA), HAD ISSUE:
374. Sarah Jane, who married Jacob Peter Manselle.
375. Rachel Ann.
376. Garret, who married Rebecca Holman.
377. Ella Lavinia.
JACOB M. (259), (SON Of MATTHEW M.), HAD ISSUE:
378. Henry Van Valen, born September I8, I843, died November 30, I847.
379. Matthew J., born May I, 1846, married Mary A. Hopper,
May 22, 1873, have four children.
380. Cornelia, born September 2, 1848, unmarried.
381. Sarah Jane, born February 15, 185I, unmarried.
382. Leah E., born July 23, I854, married Peter E. Huyler, September 23, 1874, had one child.
383. Huyler, born January 7, I863, married Ella Bogert, December 4, 189o, has two children.
CORNELIUS (279), (SON Of JEREMIAH), HAD ISSUE:
384. Maria Augusta, born December 2, I846, died in infancy.
385. Fannie Adelia, born February 2, I84.9, married Walter A.
Davis, April 28, 1874, had two children.
386. Charles Van Valen, born April 9, 1853, married Annie A.
Goodwin, April 9, 1877, had three children.
JACOB (282), (SON Of JEREMIAH), HAD ISSUE:
387. Joephine.
JOHANNES (285), (SON Of JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE-:
388. Jane, born November 20, 1780, married David Banta, February I8, 1804, and died September 21, I843.
389. James, born October 13, 1782, was lost at sea.
468
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
390. Elizabeth, born January Io, I785.
39I. Mary Frances, born December 2, 1790, married Matthias
Warner, had six children.
392. There were four other children that died in infancy.
Said James Bogert, Jr., (289), born April 14, 1767, was
married thirce; May Io, 1795, to Miss Elizabeth Benezet;
second, Cornelia Smith, July 22, 1826; third, Esther Crowell,
April 3, 1828. Mr. Bogert eventually came to Harlem, and
after two or three years' residence bought (by two purchases
in I8II and 1812) the farm on Van Keulen's Hook before
owned by his grandfather, John Bogert, Jr. In I816 he joined
the Reformed Dutch church at Harlem, to whose interests
his hands and purse were devoted. After living here some years,
his house being burned, he sold his farm, in 1825, to Morris
Randell. Highly respected during a useful life protracted to his
9Ist year, Mr. Bogert died in New York, March 31, 1858, two
sons and a daughter surviving him; the latter, an estimable lady,
now deceased, was the wife of Dr. Edward L. Beadle, of Poughkeepsie, but formerly of New York, to whom I am indebted for
some of these details.
JAMES, JR. (289), (SON OF JACOBUS), 1-AD ISSUE BY
HIS FIRST WIE, ELIZABETH BENEZET, VIZ.:
393. Francis Bouquet, born April 3, 1797, died single.
394. James Benezet, born May 31, 1799, died aged six months.
395. Russel Graffe, born June 26, I8oo, baptized September II,
I8oo, died aged one year.
396. Adeline, born December 5, i80o, who married first, R. C.
Willis, and second, Dr. Edward L. Beadle, October 14,
1832, but died without issue, November 14, 1876.
397. Edwin, born January 25, 1803, died aged six months.
398. Theodore Peacock, born February 17, I804, married first,
Frances Nelson Jones, April 15, 1828, had two children.
He married second, Eliza Turner Howe, November 3,
I85I, had nine children, and died October 24, 1882.
399. Lawrence Kimball, born March 20, 1805, married Adeline
Seaman, June i6, 1827, had nine children.
400. Alexander Glass, born March 24, 1807, married Harriet
Young, November 30, 1833, had one child, and died
October I9, 1838.
401. Catherine Elizabeth, born September 25, I809, married
Charles Williams, December 8, I830, had one child, and
died February, I844.
402. Abegail Anna, born August 4, I812, married Ralph Clark,
April 26, 1831, had two children, and died February 28,
I853.
BOGERT FAMILY.
469
403. Mary Benezet, born November 25, 1816, died unmarried,
aged 15 years.
JOHN G. (292), (SON OF CORNELIUS J.), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS FIRST WIFE, MARY CORBETT LUDLOW, VIZ.:
404. Ann Maria, born July 28, 1795, married Gerardus Clarke,
November 21, 1825, had two children.
405. William Henry, born August 5, 1797, married in 1824 (name
of his wife not found), and died December 26, I840.
406. Robert Thurston, born March 23, 1799, died May IO, I799.
407. Cornelius Robert (Dr.), born February 26, I800, married
Maria Louisa Thurston, and died November IO, 1877.
408. Charles William, born May 5, 1802, died February 5, 1824.
409. Mary Elizabeth, born December IO, 1804, married Henry
Kneeland Bogert, January 14, 1826, had five children,
and is now deceased.
4I1. Cornelia Henrietta, born June 13, 1827, died July 20, I827.
THOMAS LAWRENCE (295), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
4II. Peter, born May 27, 1822, married, but wife's name not
found.
412. George W., born January 24, 1825, married Hibernia C.
Michaels, had five children.
4I3. Mary Eliza, born October 23, 1827, married Benjamin R.
Robson, October Io, 1848.
HENRY KNEELAND (306), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
414. Henry Augustine, born May 9, 1827, married Mary Bowne
Lawrence, November 5, 1853, had eleven children.
415. Edward Clark, born September 3, 1828, married Olivia
Hawks, October I, I853.
416. Mary Anna, born August 25, 1830, married Daniel Jackson Stewart, had four children.
4I7. Charles Ludlow, who married Julia T. Hamilton, had five
children, and died June 15, 1873.
418. James T., who died in I838.
RUDOLPHUS (315), (SON OF RUDOLPHUS), HAD ISSUE:
4I9. Rudolphus Ritzema, born February 17, 1842, married Elsie
Comstock, November 24, 1875, had two children.
420. Orlando Gordon, born August II, I844.
421. George Washington, born February 22, 1847, died August
I9, 1848.
422. Collingwood, born March 6, I849, died March 30, 1850.
423. Jane, born January 27, I852, died January 27, I852.
470
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
GEORGE CLARK (317), (SON OF RUDOLPHUS), HAD ISSUE:
424. Henrietta Ann, born November 3, I845.
425. Thomas Johnston, born November 21, 1846, died October
20, I875.
426. Camella Dameron, born November 7, 1848, married William
Leslie Black, June IO, I869.
427. Otho Klemm, who died October I, 1854.
428. Emily Eliza, born November 28, 1856.
429. William Henry Peet, born July 8, 1859, married Miriam
Viola Pyke, November 21, I882, had one child.
430. Georgiana, born January I6, 1864, died August 13, I865.
HORATIO G. (32I), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
43I. Alice, deceased.
432. Cornelia, deceased.
433. Walter, who married Miss Ferris, but died without issue.
434. Louis, deceased.
435. Nora, unmarried.
JOHN NICHOLS (326), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
436. Charles.
437. John.
438. Alida.
439. Maggie.
440. Sarah.
44I. James Nicholas, born December 2, I844, baptized June 8,
I845, at Newton, L. I.
ORLANDO M. (338), (SON OF DAVID SCHUYLER), HAD ISSUE:
442. Mary Elizabeth, who married Abram Moorhouse, October
30, I873, had three children.
443. William Henry, born June 8, 1844, married Mary E. Crane,
October 15, 1870, had two children.
444. Eugenia, born September Io, 1846, married Charles W.
Townsend, had two children.
445. Katherine Knapp, born December 14, 1848, unmarried.
446. Orlando Myndert, Jr., born December II, 185I, married
Alice S. Wheeler, April 25, 1872, had one child.
447. Ellistina Potter, born May 28, 1854, died in infancy.
JOHN BANTA (239), (SON OF PETER M.), HAD ISSUE:
448. John Vreeland, born April 6, I839.
449. Edward Hyer, born May I5, 1840, died November 23, i885.
450. Augusta, born January 4, 1843, married Charles A. Place,
June I5, 1857.
45I. Elizabeth Ann, born January 8, 1848.
BOGERT FAMILY.
471
JOHN BANTA (239) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE, VIZ.:
452. Kate Bissell, born September I6, 1852, married Charles T.
Roe, I875, have two children.
453. Victorine Bissell, born December 5, 1854, died March 23,
1858.
JAMES (340), (SON Of PETER M.), HAD ISSUE:
454. Christina, born October 7, I838.
455. Peter, born February 24, 1840.
456. Margaret Jane, born July 12, 1842, married Samuel Demarest, M. D.
457. Anna Maria, born December 31, I844, married Charles H.
Wessells.
458. Cornelia, born August 8, 1845, married Nelson H. Drake,
M.D.
459. Richard D., born July 30, I847.
460. Elizabeth Caroline, born December I8, I85I, married Christian H. Tilljen.
461. Mary Emma, born January 7,. 854.
462. James, born May 29, 1857.
MATTHEW P. (342), (SON OF PETER M.), HAD ISSUE:
463. James, born January 7, 1854, married Ida M. Marshall,
October II, I876, had one child.
464. Matthew, born April 7, I862, married Ella Anderson, April
i8, 1881.
SEBA M. (350), (SON OF MATTHEW S.), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS FIRST WIFE, LAVINIA WESTERVELT:
465. John W.
SEBA M. (350) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE,
CATHERINE Z. CONNOR:
466. Mary C. Ford, born June 22, I862.
JOHN M. (355), (SON OF MATTHEW S.), HAD ISSUE:
467. Margaret.
468. David C., who had four children.
469. Clark.
470. Muton, had one child.
47I. Emma.
472. Mabel.
473. Elmer.
MATTHEW J. (379), (SON OF JACOB M.), HAD ISSUE:
474. Cora, born June 19, 1874, died June 14, 1878.
472
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
475. Jessie, born November 28, I875, married Frederick W. Mattocks, June 15, I990, have one child.
476. Virgil, born September 22, i880.
477. Clarence, born March 22, 1882.
HUYLER (383), (SON OF JACOB M.), HAD ISSUE:
478. Marie, born August 13, I892.
479. Chester, born January 12, I896.
CHARLES VAN VALEN (386), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
480. Grace Augusta, born June 8, i88o.
481. Ralph Goodwin, born February 9, I883.
482. Walter Lovell, born October 17, I895.
THEODORE PEACOCK (398), (SON OE JAMES, JR.), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS FIRST WIFE, FRANCES NELSON JONES, VIZ.:
483. Theodore Parker, born October 22, 1830, married Sarah Bull
Wilken, February 17, 1853, had seven children. He deceased.
484. Mary Benezet, born September 14, 1832, married Dr. Samuel
Conant Foster, September 23, 1857, had five children,
and died February 4, I88o.
THEODORE PEACOCK (398), (SON OF JAMES, JR.), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS SECOND WIFE, ELIZA TURNER HOWE, VIZ.:
485. Edward Langdon, born August I8, I852, married first,
Maria V. Lincoln, September 24, 1884, had one child.
He married second, Tessie MacGregor, January 12, I898.
486. Edith, born December 22, 1853, died August 13, I855.
487. George Howe, born November, I855, died April 15, 1864.
488. Alice, born November 15, 1857, married Edward Percy
Guerard, October 4, 1887, have three children.
489. William Russell, born November II, 1859, married Antoinette R. North, November 15, I893, have two children.
490. Isabel, born September I, I860, died September 6, i86i.
49I. Adeline, born September 21, 1862, died September 29, I865.
492. Harry Howe (Rev.), born April 19, I865, married Sadie
Marie Nelson, have five children.
493. Julia, born August 13, I868, unmarried (I9O2).
LAWRENCE KIMBALL (399), (SON OF JAMES, JR.), HAD ISSUE:
494. James Benezet, born April 20, I828.
495. Katherine Augusta, born April 27, 1830, married John J.
Doolittle, June 6, I849.
496. Adeline Matilda, born February I8, I833.
497. Charles Clark, born February 12, I835.
BOGERT FAMILY.
473
498. Lawrence Kimble, born July I4, 1838.
499. Edward Beadle, born January 26, I84I.
500. Emily Franklin, born November 3, 1843.
501. Alida Louisa, born I846.
502. Anna Bykbee, born April II, I850.
ALEXANDER GLASS (400), (SON OF JAMES, JR.), HAD ISSUE:
503. Anna, who married Dr. Allen. Was living in New York
in I883.
GEORGE W. (412), (SON 0r THOMAS LAWRENCE), HAD ISSUE:
504. George A., born May 31, I869.
505. Mary E., born June 30, I87I.
506. Thomas S., born March 15, 1873, died July I6, I874.
507. Lilly M., born December 26, 1875.
508. Hibernia J., born June I, I885.
HENRY AUGUSTINE (414), (SON OE HENRY KNEELAND),
HAD ISSUE:
509. Mary Lawrence, born January I9, I855, married William
Elliman, June 3, 1873, have five children.
51o. Henry Lawrence, born January 20, 1857, married Carrie
Lawrence Osgood, October 8, 1879, have four children.
5II. John Lawrence, born October 27, 1858, married Helen
Lyman Boardman.
512. Emily Louise, born October 29, I860, died April 8, 1864.
513. Edward Ludlow, born December I9, 1862, died October 2I,
1863.
514. Walter Lawrence, born December 7, 1864.
5I5. James Lawrence, born March 31, 1867, died July 21, I867.
516. Marston Taylor, born April I8, I868, married Charlotte
Elizabeth Hoogland, September 12, I893.
5I7. Frances Lawrence No. I, born July II, 1869, died July 19,
1870.
518. Frances Lawrence No. 2, born September 8, 1870, married
Robert Hare Egbert Elliot, August 19, 1890, have three
children.
5I9. Theodore Lawrence, born June 24, I875.
CHARLES LUDLOW (417), (SON OF HENRY KNEELAND),
HAD ISSUE:
520. Julia Hamilton, born January 25, I865, married Duncan M.
White, March I8, I886.
521. Henry Kneeland, born August 3, I868, married Adeline
Mitchell, February 2I, 1893.
474
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
522. Harriet Lawrence, born October 28, 1871, married Francis
D. Gallatin.
523. Edward Sandford, born July 12, 1870, died November 28,
I882.
524. Mary Elizabeth, born February IO, 1873, married Horace
Porter, Jr., November 15, I892.
RUDOLPHUS RITZEMA (419), (SON OF RUDOLPHUS), HAD ISSUE:
525. Helen, born October IO, I876.
526. Charlotte Ritzema, born September 22, I880.
WILLIAM HENRY PEET (429), (SON OF GEORGE CLARK),
HAD ISSUE:
527. Viola, born January 4, i888.
WILLIAM HENRY (443), (SON OF ORLANDO M.), HAD ISSUE:
528. Isabel Duncan, born January 6, I87I, married Philip A.,
Fitzpatrick, June I8, I890, have five children.
529. Helen Holbrook, born July 9, I875, married George P.
Vail, March 8, I899, have two children.
ORLANDO M., JR. (446), (SON OF ORLANDO M.), IAD ISSUE:
530. Alice Wheeler, born April 14, 1878, married Harold W.
Patterson, June 10, I902.
JAMES (463), (SON OF MATTHEW P.), HAD ISSUE:
53I. Clarence M., born July 7, I877.
TIIEODORE PARKER (483), (SON OF THEODORE PEACOCK),
HAD ISSUE:
532. Frances Nelson, born February I, 1854, married first, Robert E. O'Brien, September 27, 1883, had one child.
He died October I8, 1896. She married second, John
Purdon, November 3, I897.
533. James, born February 13, I859, died December 17, I859.
534. William Benezet, born October 2, I860, married Ella Loomis,
June 29, 1887, have three children.
535. Theodore Parker (Peacock), born November 14, I862,
married Alice Weaver Danielson, November 14, 1893.
Adopted child named Alice, born September 17, 1901.
536. Lawrence.
537. Alexander Glass.
538. Elizabeth.
BOGERT FAMILY. 475
EDWARD LANGDON (485), (SON oF THEODORE PEACOCK),
HAD ISSUE:
539. Edward Langdon, Jr., born August 28, 1885.
WILLIAM RUSSELL (489), (SON OF THEODORE PEACOCK),
HAD ISSUE:
540. Helen North, born June 15, 1895.
54I. William Russell, Jr., born June 4, 1899.
REV. HARRY HOWE (492), (SON oI THEODORE PEACOCK),
HAD ISSUE:
542. Marie Nelson, born September IO, 1889.
543. Edith, born May 12, I89I.
544. Elsie, born October 9, I892.
545. Katherine, born May 21, 1896.
546. Harry Howe, Jr., born September 7, 1898.
HENRY LAWRENCE (510), (SON oF HENRY AUGUSTINE),
HAD ISSUE:
547. Caroline Lawrence, born March 26, i88i.
548. Henry Lawrence, Jr., born May 7, 1883.
549. Mary Ludlow, born August 22, 1890.
550. Edward Osgood, born January 9, I894.
WILLIAM BENEZET (534), (SON OF THEODORE PARKER),
HAD ISSUE:
55I. William Benezet, Jr., born May 23, I888.
552. Theodore Loomis, born November 3, I890.
553. Frances Hoyt, born October 21, I892.
BREVOORT.
John Hendricks Brevoort, of humble origin, but attaining
to wealth and honorable station, presents one of many instances
among our early colonists of similar rewards meted out to honesty and industry. When Harlem village was first settled, Brevoort was a boy of fourteen years, and living at Bushwick, with
Hendrick Jansen van Brevoort, his father, we assume, who had
leased a farm from Reyer Moll, owned later by Jean Mesurolle,
and from an eminence called the Kyckuyt, or Lookout, known
as the Kyckuyt Farm. Hence its occupant, living there from
1659 to I665, came to be distinguished as Hendrick Jansen
Kyckuyt. Though Brevoort in Guelderland has hitherto had
the credit of giving name to our Brevoort family, the ancestor
476
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
really came from "Brevoort in the diocese of Utrecht." It was
a hamlet to the northwest of Amersfoort, and but little over a mile
from its walls, and here Hendrick Jansen was born, in 1630,
taking his own statement as to his age, made at various times.
Before leaving the Kyckuyt farm he secured land at Dutch Kills,
in Newtown, "which was laid out for him by Jacques Cortelyou,
the surveyor, by order of Governor Stuyvesant." This became
his home, and was confirmed to him by Governor Lovelace, May
20, 1672, the main tract lying between lands then of Jan Hendricks and Frans Hendricks.
About this time John Hendricks Brevoort, or Jan Hendricks
Kyckuyt, as he was then called, removed to New York, where his
wife's parents were living, for he was now married. Hendrick
Jansen Kyckuyt followed him, and bought property in the city,
February 24, I680, having, in or after I675, sold his farm in Newtown to one Laurens Cornelisz, who soon conveyed it to a neighboring owner, Joris Stevens van Alst, whose daughter was the
wife of Hendricks' son, Frans Hendricks.*
Hendricks' daughter, Marritie, had married, in 1673, Hendrick Bastiaens, of New York, brother to Annetie Bastiaens, Jan
Hendricks' wife. Metje Bastiaens, wife of Cornelis Jansen, of
Harlem, being a sister of Annetie, this may account for Jan Hendricks going to Harlem, as he soon did. The three Bastiaens were
children of Bastiaen Elyessen (as he wrote his name), from
Werckhoven, a wheelwright, and who by several purchases, the
last in I684, became the owner of 40 acres of land west of the
Bowery Road (Fourth Avenue), extending from ioth Street
northward, and forming subsequently the lower half of the wellknown Brevoort estate.
John Hendricks Kyckuyt, living in New York, in I673, on its
recapture by the Dutch, was among the patriotic carmen who
volunteered to work gratuitously on the defences one day in a
* Doubts have arisen as to the relationship between Hendrick Jansen and Jan
Hendricks Brevoort, because of a too close approximation in their ages (only fourteen
years intervening, as shown by their own statements), and an apparent difference of
birthplace; for Hendrick and his children, Frans and Marritie, were born at Brevoort, while Jan Hendricks' marriage registration names him as "from Amersfoort."
As against the last discrepancy, we should say it would be quite as natural for Jan,
in stating where he came from, to name a well-known city, near which he was born,
as the obscure village (Brevoort) in its suburbs; and we judge this the explanation,
for while in the one instance only is Jan called "Van Amersfoort," he is many times
called "Van Brevoort." The difficulty arising from his *being so nearly of an age
with Hendrick is relieved by the record of many similar and well attested cases. We
premise, for reasons deemed sufficient, that neither Hendrick nor Jan had fallen into
an error regarding his age, however common this is, as we know, especially with the
uneducated. But it may be urged further in favor of the blood paternity in Hendrick,
that the almost imperative custom of that day would require the eldest son of Hendrick Jansen to be called Jan Hendricksen; while the birthplace of the father and
younger children being the same (indicating a fixed residence), we should look for
this to correspond therewith. But if (as has been suggested, by way of solving this
problem) our Jan were only an adopted son of Hendrick, we should not expect to
find, as we do in this case, the three requirements-birthplace, name and priority as
eldest son-to be all exactly met.
These difficulties obviated, all doubt as to the paternity of Jan Hendricks Brevoort must be dispelled by the direct testimony of the Newtown court records of
i669, where, on two separate occasions, Hendrick and Jan are named as father and son.
BREVOORT FAMlILY.
477
week. The city being restored to the English, he was sworn anew
as a carman, November 13, I674. He removed to Harlem the
next year. On March 13, I676, he took Pierre Cresson's farming
lot on Jochem Pieters, No. 5, on a four years' lease; but bought
Cresson out March 23, I677, house and house lot, said lot on
Jochem Pieters, and No. 20 Van Keulen's Hook, with meadows
at Sherman's Creek. He drew the same year, No. I of the New
Lots. He now began to use the surname Brevoort, and is sometimes called by the clerk, "Jan Hendricks van Brevoort, alias
Kyckuyt." Natural abilities making up in a good degree his lack
of education, Brevoort arose to be an overseer of the town in 1678,
and was reappointed the next year. He bore an active part in the
building of the new church in I686. In I691 Brevoort drew lot
No. 6, on Jochem Pieters Hills, 14 morgen, to which, on May 27,
1698, he added No. 7, being Io morgen, by purchase from
Jacques Tourneur. He was living on this property February 21,
170I, when he sold it to Johannes Myer. The same year, November 15, he bought the farm of his father-in-law, Bastiaen
Elvessen, before noticed, and to which he removed; he and wife
Anna selling their remaining lands and interests at Harlem to
their son-in-law, Zacharias Sickles, February 20, I705. Brevoort's acres were subsequently doubled by the purchase of
another tract of 45 acres which lay adjoining, and ran up to I8th
Street.
Mr. Brevoort was elected assistant alderman of the Out Ward
in 1702, and filled the same office from I707 to I713. He died
in I714, leaving five children, viz.:
JOIN HENDRICKS BREVOORT (I) IAD ISSUE:
2. Hendrickje, baptized January 13, I669, died young.
3. Hendrick, baptized December 17, I670, married first,, Maria
(Maryken Van) Cowenhoven, August 26, I699, had two
children. He married second, Jacomina Bokee, October
9, 1705, had seven children, and died in I718.
4. Marritie, baptized November 12, I673, married Zachariah
Sickles, August 23, I693, had five children.
5. Elias, baptized June 21, 1676, married Margaret Sammans,
May I6, I70I, had eight children.
6. Jannetie, baptized April 9, I679, married Thomas Sickles,
April 5, I702, had thirteen children. He a blacksmith
of New Harlem, brother of Zacharias.
Hendrick Brevoort (3), after that excellent Dutch usage
which gave each son a trade, was bred a weaver, but followed
farming. He married, August 26, 1699, Maria, daughter of Johannes Couwenhoven, deceased, "late Secretary between Harlem
and Bowery"; and October 9, I705, Jacomina, daughter of Abraham Bokee.
478
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
HENDRICK (3), (SON OF JOHN HENDRICKS), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS IIRST WIIE, MARIA COWENHOVEN, VIZ.:
7. Johannes, baptized June 2, 1700, married Annetje Idesse,
October 8, 1726, had three children. She a daughter of
Eide Van Huyse, of Bloomingdale.
8. Maria, baptized October 5, 1701.
HENDRICK (3) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE,
JACOMINA BOKEE, VIZ.:
9. Abraham No. I, baptized June 23, I706, died young.
Io. Abraham No. 2, baptized September 24, I707.
II. Annecke, baptized October 16, 1709.
12. Hendrickus, baptized December 9, 1711, married Catherine
Delamater, September 29, 1739, had eleven children.
She a daughter of Abraham Delamater.
13. Elias No. I, baptized July 8, 1713, died young.
14. Elias No. 2, baptized May I, 1715, married Lea Persel, June
8, 1741, had four children.
15. Jacob, baptized October 2, 1717, died I7I9.
Hendrick's (3) widow married, in 1721, Jacob Harsen, the
Harsen ancestor.
Elias (5), (son of John Hendricks), followed his trade as
a carpenter in the city, of which he was admitted a freeman in
1698. He married Margaret, daughter of John Sammans, by
whom he had issue:
16. Aefjee No. I, baptized August 27, I701, died young.
I7. Anecke (Anna) baptized October 24, 1703.
I8. Hendrickje, baptized November 21, I705.
19. Margaretje, baptized February 25, 1708.
20. Aejje No. 2, baptized January 17, 1711.
21. Grietje, baptized October 28, I7I3.
22. John, baptized September 8, 1715, married Louisa Abigail
Kockerthal, July 30, I739. She a daughter of Rev.
Joshua Kockerthal. He was a goldsmith in New York.
23. Elias, baptized March 30, 1718, acted as an executor of his
father's estate, with his brother Hendrick, whom he survived.
JOHANNES (7), (SON O' HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
24. Martje, baptized July 23, 1727.
25. Henry, born February 12, I735, married Maria Anthony,
September 7, 1758, had four children, and died October
2, 1782.
26. Latisse, baptized September Io, I764.
BREVOORT FAMILY.
479
HENDRICKUS (12), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
27. Henricus, baptized April 5, I74I.
28. Jacomyntje No. I, baptized December 26, I742, married Benjamin Stout, Jr., August 22, I776.
29. Abraham, baptized September I8, I745, married Permile
Dusentbirre, had five children.
30. Henry, born October 19, I747, baptized October 2I, I747,
married Sarah Whetten (Wheaton), June I6, 1778, had
five children, and died August 2I, I84I.
3I. Elias, baptized December 6, I749, married Maria Stoutenburg, July 5, I775, had three children.
32. Anna, baptized October 25, 1752.
33. John (Johannes), baptized April I6, I755, married Mary
Tweedle, November 21, I782.
34. Isaac, baptized June II, 1758.
35. Catherine, baptized February 18, 1761, married Dr. James
S. Cannon, October 6, 1796, had one child.
36. Jacomyntje No. 2, baptized December 25, 1762.
37. Jeminia, who married Daniel Lawrence, August 31, 1781,
had six children.
ELIAS (14), (SON Or, HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
38. Henry, baptized March 14, 1742.
39. John, baptized January 20, I745.
40. Jacomintie, baptized December 27, 1747.
4I. Lea, baptized March 14, I750.
JOHN (22), (SON OF ELIAS), HAD ISSUE:
42. Charlotte, born May 22, 1740, baptized May 26, 1740, married Hon. Whitehead Hicks, October 6, 1757, had seven
children. He was mayor of New York from 1766 to
I773. See Thompson's Long Island, Vol. 2, page 5IO.
43. Margrietje, baptized June 24, I74. -
44. Louisa, baptized August Io, I743.
HENRY (25), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
45. Abraham, born June 24, 1762, married Ann Devoor, May
20, 1788, had two children, and died November 12, 1794.
46. Hester, born June 20, I765, married Joseph Henry, March
2I, 1785, had three children.
47. Nicholaas, born August 5, 1767, married Rachel Blann, September 19, 1787, but died without issue, November 3,
1798.
48. Maria, born February 28, I774, died September 7, I774.
480
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
ABRAHAM (29), (SON OF HENDRIKUS), HAD ISSUE:
49. Permile, born November 15, 1782.
50. Hendricus, born July 30, I779.
51. Abraham, born December 28, I786.
52. Elizabeth, baptized September 20, I789.
53. Abraham Nicholson, baptized November II, I792.
HENRY (30), (SON or HENDRIKUS), HAD ISSUE:
54. Henry, born September 25, 1782, married Laura Carson,
I8I7, had eight children, and died May 17, I848. She
of Charleston, S. C., born in I799. Resided at 21 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
55. William Whetten, born September 17, 1784, married Sarah
Nash, about 1804, had one child.
56. Margaret Ann, born May 5, 1794, married James Renwick,
L.L. D., October Io, I816, had four children. She deceased. He was a professor at Columbia University,
author, etc.
57. John, born February 13, I797, died in New Orleans.
58. Elias, born August 22, 1804, married Mary Brown, 1830, had
two children.
ELIAS (31), (SON Or HENDRIKUS), HAD ISSUE:
59. Catharina, born February 25, I777.
6o. Maria, born April IO, I779, married Jacob C. Zabriskie,
December 20, I797, had nine children.
6I. Willemintie, born May 13, 1782.
ABRAHAM (45), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
62. Ann, born March 21, 1789, married William Bolmer, July 25,
I807, had six children, and died August I6, I82I.
63. Henry, born February I6, 1791, married Jane Stewart, September 19, I838, had three children, and died April II,
I874.
HENRY (54), (SON Or HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
64. James Carson, born July Io, I818, married Elizabeth Dorothea Lefferts, October 8, 1845, had one child.
65. William Augustus, born December 24, I819, died about 1832.
66. Elizabeth Neville, born January 3, 1821, married Frederick
W. Collidge, July 14, 1849, had four children.
67. Laura Whetten, born October 6, 1823, married Charles Astor
Bristed, I847, had one child, and died abroad in I860.
68. Margaret Claudia, born November 4, 1825, unmarried.
BREVOORT FAMILY.
481
69. Constance Irving, born May 22, 1828, married William Ellery
Sedgwick, of New York, November 26, I850, had six
children.
70. Henry Wortley, born February 20, 1831, single.
7I. Edith, born July 10, 1832, married Pierre C. Kane, September 29, I853, had four children.
WILLIAM WHETTEN (55), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
72. Henry, born in New York City, August 3, I8I, married
Bridget Seely, November 19, 1823, had eight children.
She was a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Waters)
Seely, and was born at Goshen, N. Y.
ELIAS (58), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
73. James Renwick, born July 20, 1832, married first, Marie
Louise 13ascom, had three children. He married second,
Anna Augusta Tuthill, no children.
74. Henry, who married Sarah Thompson, I86o, but had no issue.
HENRY (63), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
75. Mary Stewart, born December 15, 1839, married Stevenson
Towle, October 14, 1863, had nine children, and died
September 20, 1883.
76. Annie, born May 9, 1841, married John H. Riker, September
I, 1858, had one child.
77. Jane, born March 13, 1843, married Ulysees D. Eddy, November I6, 1871, have five children.
JA\MIES CARSON (64), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
78. Henry Leffert, born January 27, 1849.
HENRY (72), (SON OF WILLIAM WHETTON), HAD ISSUE:
79. Sarah, born August 14, 1834, married Frederick Potts, October 8, 1857, had four children.
80. William Whetton, born March 19, 1838, married Ella Gardner.
81. Alice, born August 23, 1839, married Edward Sabine Renwick, June 4, I862, had three children.
82. Henry Seely, born April 9, I843, married Aline Drevit.
83. Emily, born January 29, 1845, married W. Rockhill Potts.
84. Edward Renwick, born May 5, 1847, married Mary Lewis
Butler, October 5, I870, had three children. She a daughter of John A. and Mary (Lewis) Butler, and was born
December 18, I847.
85. Elizabeth, born April 29, I849, married Robert L. Pirsson.
86. Laura, born November 23, 1853, married Gerard M. Barretts.
482
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
JAMES RENWICK (73), (SON 0 ELIAS), HAD ISSUE:
87. Rosamond Renwick, born July 3, I875.
88. Florence Edith, born August 8, I876.
89. Victor, born May 8, 1878.
EDWARD RENWICK (84), (SON o0 HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
9o. John Butler, born October 14, 1871, married Susette Terhune,
had one child, and died February 21, 1903. She a daughter of Edward S. and Susette (Flender) Terhune, and
was born July I, I872.
91. Alice Renwick, born February 22, 1873.
92. Edward Renwick, born April 19, 1875, married May Waldie.
JOHN BUTLER (90), (SON 01 EDWARD RENWICK), HAD ISSUE:
93. Susette Terhune, born June 17, 1900.
BUSSING.
Arent Harmans Bussing, one of the most worthy of the Harlem settlers, appears in the earlier records only as Arent Hermens
(Harmens or Harmans, for he thus varied the spelling), and is
so called in the Dongan patent; but he finally dropped the
patronymic. and took his proper surname. To the former frequent mention of him little need now be added. By his marriage
in 1673, with Susannah Delamater, he obtained two of the west
gardens, Nos. 19, 20, on which he built a house and barn, and
lived the rest of his life; being the place afterward of his greatgrand-daughter, Mrs. Catharine Storm. When about to marry
again, Bussing bound himself, March 8, I678, to pay his two
children by said wife, Susannah, when they should be of lawful
age, the sum of 9oo guilders, being the portion received with their
mother; and he then to own the said two gardens, valued at
400 guilders. He had recently added to these the three Demarest
gardens on the east side, but these were sold by his heirs, at a
later period, to Petrus Waldron. He drew No. 5 of the New Lots,
but sold it to Barent Waldron. Serving often in the magistracy,
and bearing office in the church, Arent Bussing was not inattentive to his worldly estate, which he enhanced with a lot on Van
Keulen's Hook and three lots lying together on Jochem Pieters
Flat, the latter the same tract sold by John Adriance to Charles
Henry Hall, June 27, 1825. He drew lot 8 in the Division of
I691, being 12 i-6 morgen, to which 4 acres were added in I720,
making it 28 acres, as sold by the Bussing heirs to John Myer,
November 6, I790. For his lands drawn in 1712, see Appendix
J. At his death, in 1718, he owned 127 acres, then valued, as per
sale to his son Peter, at 1~5 I.
Arent Harmanse Bussing (I) married first, Susannah Dela
BUSSING FAMILY.
483
mater, May 24, 1673, had three children. He married second,
Eva Lubberts, March 31, 1678, had eight children, and died in
I7I8.
HE HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST WIFE, VIZ.:
2. Peter, born 1674, married Rebecca Vermilyea, June 7, I700,
had seven children, and died in I737.
3. Harman No. I, born 1675, died 1676.
4. Harman No. 2, baptized March 12, 1677, married Sarah
Selover, January 27, I707, had eight children, and died
[uly 29, I762.
ARENT HARMANSE BUSSING (I) HAD ISSUE BY HIS
SECOND WIFE, E VA LUBBERTS, VIZ.:
5. Dirck, born I679, died young.
6. Margaret, born I681, married Lawrence Kortright, about
1708, had five children.
7. Susannah, baptized February 23, 1684, was unmarried in
1718.
8. Engelite (Angeline), born I686, married Abraham Meyer,
May IO, 1706, had five children.
9. Elizabeth, born January 5, 1693, married Matthew Benson,
December 12, I716.
IO. Geesie (Gertrude), baptized September 2, 1694, married
Teunis de la Montanye, November 15, I718.
ii. John, born about 1697, married Metje Kortright, September
2, 1723, had three children, and died before 1732.
12. Mary, born about 1700, married John M. Van Harlingen,
September 17, 1722.
Peter Bussing (2),born I674, married, June 7, I700, Rebecca,
daughter of Captain Johannes Vermilye, and went to Westchester
County, N. Y., but on the death of his father, he returned to Harlem, buying out the interests of the other-heirs in the paternal
lands, December 30, 1718, for (less his own share) the sum of
~454:4:6. He also purchased, March 14, I733, from Joanni Benson, the 60 acres bought by the latter from his brother Samson, and
which included No. 12, First Division, and 6 acres in No.8, Second
Division; besides Nos. I and 2, First Division, being the tract
north of the road and the Benson or Mill farm (and opposite the
old Bussing house), containing 41 acres I q. 23 rods, which the
executors of his son, Aaron, sold to Samson Benson, May 6, I787.
In 1726 Peter Bussing had secured all Jacques Tourneur's lands,
viz., his lots drawn in the four divisions, and those on Van Keulen's Hook, which adjoined southerly to the said Bussing house
lot (when the road between them was closed up), and westerly to
the Mill farm aforesaid, and, with said house lot, since composing
484
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
the Catharine Storm farm. Peter's father had purchased from
Samuel Waldron, January 3, 17II, the two north gardens next to
the Church Farm, previously owned by his father-in-law, Glaude
Delamater, from whose surviving children and heirs Peter Bussing obtained a quit-claim deed June I, 1726. This plot being
built upon was held by his descendants till sold by John S. Adriance to Christopher Heiser, June 7, 1820. In 1733 Bussing sold
Nos. I, 12, 13, First Division, and his 6 acres in No. 8, Second
Division, to Adolph Meyer, whence they descended to William
Molenaor. Peter Bussing died in I737, leaving his house and
lands in Harlem to his son Aaron, and to his sons Peter and Abraham each a farm at Fordham.
PETER (2), (SON OF ARENT HARMANSE), HAD ISSUE:
13. Arent, born January 10, 1701, married twice.
14. Sarah, born January 27, 1702, married Elias Slater, August
30, I718, had seven children.
15. Aaron, born December 27, 1703, married Maria Meyer, October 21, I730, had six children, and died in 1784.
I6. Nancy, born May 6, 1704, married Daniel Pierce, May- 29,
1724, had eleven children.
17. John, born January 20, 1705, married Mary Bruyn, June 15,
1725, had three children, and died about 1732.
I8. Alexander, born September 29, 1706, married Effic Weed,
November 22, 1730,
19. Peter, born January I, 1707, married Helena Benson, April
5, 1740, had four children, and died October 20, 1782.
She a daughter of Samson Benson. He was an elder at
Fordham, and left his lands to his daughter Mary Bussing and his son Peter.
20. Aeltie, born January 20, 1710, married Jacob M\eyer, had
two children, and died in I765.
21. Abraham, born May 31, 1714, was living in 1737.
22. Susannah, born May I9, I716, married Benjamin Benson,
and had six children.
HARMAN (4), (SON ()O ARENT HARMANSE), became a carman in New York. His wife was a daughter of Isaac Selover.
23. Susannah, born 1708, married John M. Montanye, February
7, 1726, had six children, and died April 27, I736.
24. Isaac, baptized February 5, I710, married Elizabeth Tilly,
August 19, I737, had seven children, and died August
4, I757. He a carman.
25. Anna, baptized October 12, 1712, died, unmarried, October
I9, 173I26. Eve, baptized September 4, I715, married James Marr (or
Man) July 9, 1738.
BUSSING FAMILY.
485
27. Arent, baptized February 16, 1718, married Sarah Roome,
April 29, 1749, had nine children, and died February 17,
1781.
28. Jacobus, baptized February 12, 1721, married Anna Bisschop,
had seven children.
29. Abraham, baptized October 7, I724, married ElizabethMesier,
1749, had four children, and (lied in I798.
30. Sarah, baptized Mav 14, 1727, married Reynier Nack, September 7, I760, had three children.
John Bussing (II), who married, September 2, 1723, Metje,
daughter of Johannes Kortright, was a weaver, and perhaps left
the town; certainly did not hold any real estate here. His
daughter, Eva, married, October 30, 1756, Alexander Forbes,
shopkeeper, afterward of the Out Ward, farmer, to whom administration on the estate of widow Metje Bussing was granted
January 27, 1774.
His children were:
31. Eva, born 1724, married Alexander Forbes, October 30, I756,
had two children.
32. John, born 1726, married Elizabeth Tiebout, October 9, I750,
had four children.
33. Susan, born 1728, married Peter Waldron, April Io, I750.
Aaron Bussing (I5) married October 21, I730, Maria,
daughter of Johannes Myer, the next year was named as constable in the Montgomery Charter, and succeeded upon the
death of his father to all his lands at Harlem, rated at 201 acres,
and which he held nearly intact until his death. He parted with
the Tourneur lots, No. 14, Second Division, and No. 2, Third
Division. He (lied in 1784, aged 81 years. Pursuant to the
will of Aaron Bussing, made May I, 1782, and proved May 27,
I784, his lands were sold by his executors to various parties,
the homestead being purchased by his daughter, Mrs. Storm.
AARON (15), (SON OS PETER), HAD ISSUE:
34. Catherine, born August 31, 1731, married Abraham Storm,
October 5, I759.
35. Rebecca, born January 8, 1734, married John Waldron, February 2, I759, had two children.
36. Abraham, born December 31, 1736, married Margaret Meyer,
December27, I764, had two children, and died about I784.
37. Maria No. I, born November 29, 1738, died September 17,
I744.
38. Maria No. 2, born January 8, I745, married John S. Sickles,
September 29, I763.
39. Aaron, born March I8, I747, died July 6, I750.
486
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
John Bussing (17), born January 20, I705, married June 15,
1725, Mary, daughter of Evert Bruyn, of Westchester County,
New York. On August 26, 1729, he contracted to complete the
church at Fordham for ~4. He died about 1732, before his father.
JOHN (17), (SON OI PETER), HAD ISSUE:
40. Evert, was living in Westchester in I757.
4I. Peter, who married Susannah Myer, and had three children.
She a daughter of Abraham Myer.
42. John, born I757, married Ann Bogardus, October 15, 1817,
(Was sixty years old at date of marriage.)
PETER (I9), (SON OFI PETER), HAD ISSUE:
43. Peter, born October I, I735, married Charity Williams, June
7, I757, had seven children, and died July 9, I790.
44. Mary, born July I6, 1738, died, unmarried, July 7, I751.
45. Rebecca No. I, born March 3, 174I, died June 26, I751.
46. Maria, born July 28, 1752, died February 9, 1822.
47. Rebecca No. 2, born March 6, I755, died, unmarried, June
20, I77I.
ISAAC (24), (SON OF HARMAN), lived in Lombard Street,
now Trinity Place, was deceased in I765. Had issue:
48. Timothy (Timotheus), baptized September 12, I739, married Jane Crosby, April 29, 1763, had eight children, and
(lied March 24, 1831, at Bethlehem, N. Y.
49. Isaac, baptized July 15, I74I.
50. Herman, baptized December 7, I743.
5I. Jacobus, baptized March 19, 1746, married Elizabeth Fort,
November 21, 1782.
52. Anna No. I, baptized May 22, 1748, died young.
53. William, baptized August I, I750.
54. Anna No. 2, baptized October 4, 1752, married Richard
Thomas, May 2I, I770.
ARENT (27), (SON OI HARMAN), HAD ISSUE:
55. Sarah, baptized April 29, I750, died May 26, I8I2.
56. Mary (Maria) baptized January 15, 1752, married first, Ellis
Wool, February 15, I774, had two children. She married second, Simon Van Antwerp, June 12, I787, had
five children, and died February 15, I822.
57. Anna, born October Io, 1753, married William Hyer, March
30, I775, had five children.
58. William, born January Io, I756, married first, Mary Clark,
December 3, 1788, had one child. He married second,
Susan Odell, March I8, I792, had eleven children, and
died March 2, 1836.
BUSSING FAMILY.
487
59. Harmanus, born December 19, 1759, married Alida Fort,
October 6, I787, had eleven children,' and died May 28,
1845.
60. Hester No. I, born October 13, 1761, died October 29, I764.
6I. Peter No. I, born March 13, 1764, died October 9, I764.
62. Peter (Pieter) No. 2, born May I8, 1766, married Catherine
Weldon, November Io, 1792, had one child, and died
November I6, I794.
63. Hester No. 2, born October 29, 1768, died October 15, I769.
JACOBUS (28), (SON OF HARMAN), HAD ISSUE:
64. Jacobus, baptized September I, 1748.
65. Sara, baptized October 17, I750.
66. Anna, baptized July 5, 1752.
67. Maria, baptized February 17, I754.
68. Harmanus, baptized February 4, I76I.
69. Susanna, baptized December IO, I758, married Abraham
Rich, June 2, I789.
70. Johannes, baptized April 29, I764.
ABRAHAM (29), (SON OF HARMAN), HAD ISSUE:
71. Jane, born July 12, I750, married Simon (Samuel) Schermerhorn, September 3, I773.
72. Elizabeth, born July 24, 1752, married Peter Schermerhorn,
September 5, I77I.
73. Sarah, born June I8, 1756, married Jacobus T. Stoutenberg,
July 17, 1780.
74. Abraham, born March I6, I770, married Hester Kingsland,
April 17, 1794, had six children, and died I825.
JOHN (32), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
75. Johannes, baptized June 23, I751, married Mally (Margaret)
Wilson, had five children.
76. Hendrik, baptized August I6, 1752, married Elizabeth Ryers,
March 8, I774.
77. Elizabeth, baptized July 7, I754, married Theunis Ryer,
November 26, 1772.
78. Gerrett, baptized July 25, I756.
ABRAHAM (36), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
79. Aaron, who married Jane, daughter of Samuel Benson,
August I8, I79I, had five children, and died May 22,
I835.
80. Susannah, who married first, John Meyer, December 15,
1785, and second, Peter Montfort.
488
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Peter (41) bought of Abraham Myer, Jr., April i6, I753, the
two southerly lots (called 40 acres), of the old Tourneur farm on
Harlem Lane, to which, about a year later, he added the upper
lot by purchase from the widow Grietie Kortright. The three
lots taking in the land outside the patent line in the rear, up to the
hills, made about 74 acres, of which, in 1784, after the death of
their father, the three sons of Peter, namely,Adolph, Abraham and
John Bussing, conveyed that part of the upper lot which lay west
of Harlem Lane, and containing 14 acres, to the brothers, Henry
and Abraham Van Bramer. The remainder of the farm was
equally divided by the three Bussing brothers, by deeds of April
7, 1787. (See Appendix G.) These occupied their respective
portions, and here Adolph closed his life, on February 3, I820,
and John on May I, 1830.
PEITER (41), (SON OF JOHN), IAD ISSUE:
8I. Adolph, who married Anna?, had one child, and died
February 3, I820.
82. Abraham, who married first Elizabeth Britt, November 3,
1782, and second, Sarah Brown. Had four children by
second wife.
83. John, who married first, Mary McCree, January 3, 1781,
and second, Elizabeth Lindsley, October 12, 1784, and
died May I, I830.
PETER (43), (SON or PETER), HAD ISSUE:
84. Peter, born November 24, 1758, married Elizabeth Valentine, had three children.
85. Margaret, born June 2, 1761, married Isaac Valentine.
86. Helena, born October 28, 1763, married Andrew Corsa.
87. Mary, born January 23, 1766, married Walter Briggs, January 15, 1789.
88. John, born May 26, 1768, married Sarah Valentine, March
28, 1790, and died August 26, I853.
89. Sarah (or Susan), born September I, 1770, married Dennis
Valentine.
90. Elizabeth, born July I, 1772, married John Valentine, and
died June 3, 1843.
TIMOTHY (48), (SON Or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
9I. Timothy, born April 29, 1777, married Catherine Oliver,
had two children.
92. William C., born October I9, I779, married Jane McMurdy,
July 26, 1823, had three children.
93. Harman, born April 5, 1782, baptized July 3, 1782.
BUSSING FAMILY.
489
94. Ann, born June 7, I784, baptized October 17, 1784.
95. Isaac (Ysak).
96. Betsy Hannah.
97. Two other daughters, names not found.
WILLIA.\M (58), (SON 01F ARENT), IAD ISSUE BY
SECOND WIFE:
98. Peter No. i, born December 26, 1792, died August 28, I808.
99. John, born March 31, I795, died September 27, 1829.
Ioo. Sarah, born January 20, I797, married Abraham B. Rich,
had eight children, and died in November, I870.
IOT. Maria (Mary), born November 19, 1798, (lied August 26,
1799.
102. William, born February 17, i8oi, died June 30. 1836.
103. Susannah, born April Io, 1803, died June 26, I805.
I04. James, born September 17, 1805, died February 28, I836.
TO5. Harman, born February 18, 1807, (lied October 7, I807.
o16. Peter No. 2, born December 28, i8o8, died May I6, I809.
107. Hyer, born January 6, i8Io, died July 6, I8io.
to8. George H., born may 3, 8r12, married Phynetta Williams,
May 4, 1837, had four children, and (lied June 7, I877.
HARMANUS (59), (S()N OF AREN'T), HAD ISSUE:
o19. Rebecca, born November 23, 1788, baptized December 25,
1788, (lied November I9, I790.
I O. Aaron, born September 8, 1790, was lost at sea.
IIr. John, born September 12, 1792, married Mary Brown, but
(lied without issue:
112. Peter, born September 14, 1794, married, and had two
children.
113. Sarah, born February I, I797, married Roswell Granger,
July 31, i816, had six children, and died August 22, 1879.
I 4. William, born November Io, 1799, married first, Miss?
Long, had one child. He married second,? Winegar,
but (lied March 28, I860, leaving no issue by second wife.
I I5. Jane, born September 6, 1802, married David Johnson,
October I8, 1827, had six children.
I 6. Mary Ann. born March io, 1805, married Edwin B. Chamberlain, December 29, I835, had three children.
117. Harman, born August 22, 1806, married first, Catherine
Schuyler, May 20, 1836, had one child. He married
second, Margaret Schuyler, May 21, 1840, had three
children.
II8. Abraham, born August 22, 1808, died August 25, I8o8.
II9. Harvey Hyer, born July Io, I812, married Avilda Hilton,
September I7, 1839, had five children, and died April
25, I86o.
490
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
PETER (62), (SON OF ARENT), HAD ISSUE:
120. Aaron, born February 3, 1794, baptized March I, 1794,
died July 23, 1814.
ABRAHAM (74), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
121. Abraham, who married Hester Kingsland, June 9, I825,
and died January 26, I853.
122. Edmund Kingsland, born January 25, I798.
123. Elizabeth Mesier, who married William W. Moulton, September 22, 1817.
124. John Schermerhorn, born October 15, I802, married first,
Ann Spier, had one child. He married second, Ann Van
Nest, August 20, I833, had three children, and died June
9, 864.
125. Mary Wilkinson.
126. Jane.
JOHANNES (75), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I27. Cathalyna, born December 7, I775, baptized January 21,
I776.
I28. Anna, born April 17, I777, baptized May II, I777.
I29. Marytje No. I, born September 2, 1778, baptized October
26, 1778, (lied young.
I30. Marytje No. 2, born March 9, I780, baptized April 30, I780.
I3I. Jane, born July 9, 1784, baptized August 15, I784.
AARON (79), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
132. John M., who married Margaret Legrange, about I818, had
nine children.
I33. Samuel.
I34. Abraham Barker.
I35. Margaret, who married Peter Myer.
136. Rebecca D., who married Hon. Nathaniel Jarvis, September 3, 1831.
ADOLPH (8I), (SON Or PETER), HAD ISSUE:
137. Susannah, who married Obadiah Sands, and had one child.
ABRAHAM (82), (SON oF PETER), HAD ISSUE BY
SECOND WIFE:
138. John.
139. Peter (Rev.), who had three children.
I40. Anna, who married George Warner.
I4I. Susan, who married Benjamin Banks, had two children.
BUSSING FAMILY.
49I
PETER (84), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
142. Elizabeth, born April 13, 1782, married Jeronimus Turk,
Jr., had two children.
I43. John, born April 28, I787.
I44. Mary (Corson), born January 12, 1796.
JOHN (88), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I45. Peter, born October IO, 1792, at Fordham, Westchester
County, N. Y., married Martha Corsa, October 12, I825,
and died October 7, I864.
GEORGE H. (IO8), (SON O1I WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I46. Sarah Maria.
I47. Emma, who married Charles Corsa, December 13, 1871,
had two children.
148. Susannah.
I49. Georgianna.
PETER (112), (SON OF HARMANUS), HAD ISSUE:
150. Mary.
151. Harvey.
WILLIAM (114), (SON OF HARMANUS), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
152. Jane Ann, who married Benjamin Humphrey, July 2, I86I,
had one child.
HARMAN (1 7), (SON OF HARMANUS), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
I53. Catherine, who married Jonathan Morey, July 2, I86I, had
one child.
HARMAN (117) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
I54. Daniel Schuyler, who married Fannie W. Starr, October
II, I876.
I55. John N.
156. Charlotte S., who married John G. Serviss, September 25,
1872.
HARVEY HYER (II9), (SON OF HARMANUS), HAD ISSUE:
I57.? (child) that died in infancy.
158. Caroline A., born March ii, 1841, married Nicholas Few,
but died without issue, July 24, 1867.
I59. Jane, who married James Smith, had three children.
160. Sarah G., who married Putnam Miller.
492
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I6I. Mary, who married Jacob J. Johnson, March, I875.
EDMUND KINGSLAND (I22), (SON OF ABRAHAMI), HAD) ISSUE:
162. Abraham, who married Emma Frost, I859. She a daughter of Samuel Frost of New York City.
JOIHN SCHERMERI[ORN (124), (SON OF ABRAHAM),
HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIIFE, ANN SPIER:
I63. Robert Spier, born September 28, 1826, married Mary
Kingsland Brown, January 8, 1850, had eight children.
He a real estate dealer.
JOHN SCHERM1ERH1ORN (124), HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND
wIFE, ANN VAN NEST, \VIZ.:
I64. Abraham V. N., who died in infancy.
I65. John S., born September 21, 1838, married first, Katherine
Breath, June 17, 1873, died M\arch 26, I874. He married second, Emily iMorton, (ctober 31, 1882, had two
children.
I66. Mary.
J()ON M. (132), (SON O)' AARON), HAD ISSUE:
I67. Marten, born July 6, 1820, baptized August 6, 1820.
I68. Maria Ann, born June Io, 1822, baptized August II, 1822.
I69. John Legrange, born February 15, 1824, baptized March
7, I824.
I70. Adam, born October 25, 1825, baptized February 12, I826.
171. Abraham, born October 29, 1827, baptized November I8,
1827.
172. Christian, born September 21, 1829.
173. Margaret, born May 2, 1831, baptized July 24, I831.
I74. Ellen Rebecca, born February 28, 1833, baptized May 19,
I833.
I75. Andrew Teneick, born May 21, 1835, baptized August, I835.
REV. PETER (I39), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I76. William J.
177. Julia A., who married Horatio W. Thompson.
178. Elizabeth, who married George Peck.
PETER (145), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
179. John, born May I, 1831, married Amanda Valentine, July
8, 1863, had four children, and died January 8, I877.
I80. Peter Valentine, born June 5, I843, single (I902).
I8I. Mary, who married William Johnston, November I5, 1853,
now deceased.
BUSSING FAM!ILY.
493
I82. MAartha Jane, who married James B. Sheridan, May 20,
1862, had four children.
183. Sarah Elizabeth, died unmarried.
184. Hannah, unmarried.
I85. Amanda, unmarried.
ROIBRT SPIER (I63), (SON or JOHN SCHERMERHORN),
HAD ISSUE:
186. Robert Spier, Jr., born January 25, I853.
I87. Mary.
I88. Florence.
189. Maude.
i9o. Edith.
I9I. Cornelia.
I92. George.
193. Jennie.
JOHN S. (I65), (SON OFI JOHN SCHERMERHORN), HAD
ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE, VIZ.:
194. Kate, who died young.
195. Ann, who died young.
JOHN (I79), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I96. Martha Valentine, unmarried (I902).
197. Mary, who married Ralph 0. Ives, July 2, I890, have one
child.
198. Sarah A., unmarried (I902).
I99. John, died single, July I5, I877.
DELAMATER.
Glaude le Maistre, born I620, as his autograph is, ancestor of
the entire Delamater family in this country, having died before the
(late of the Dongan patent, his widow, Hester, and sons Jan and
Isaac, took his place among the patentees. An exile from his home
at Richebourg, in Artois, it was while living in the Loyerdwarsstraet, at Amsterdam, April 24, I652, that Glaude married Hester
Du Bois, who was his second wife (his first wife having been
Jeanne De Lannoy), and, as we have seen, also of a French
refugee family. Glaude spent some of his first years in America
at Flatbush, working as a carpenter, and there four of his six
children were born. With Meyndert Coerten, Walraven Luten,
Pierre Billiou and others (Mrs. Billiou, a Du Bois, was probably related to Mrs. Delamater*), he applied, August 22, i66i,
* Pierre Billiou was a Walloon from near Lille, and married at Leyden, April
20, 1649, Francoise du Bois, a sister of Louis du Bois, later of Esopus; both, we think,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
for land on Staten Island; but only Billiou and Luten settled there, while he and Coerten soon came to Harlem, where
Delamater served four terms as a magistrate, between I666 and
I673. He bought two allotments of land, from Daniel Tourneur,
for which he took out a patent June 25, I668. In 1675 he was
chosen a deacon, but his sympathies were with the French church
and service, whence arose the controversy with the town regarding the parish clerk's salary, which so disturbed his latter years.
If impetuous, Glaude was not incapable of generous acts when
approached kindly; and his obstinacy in maintaining what he
conceived to be his rights can hardly be deemed a defect in his
character. He died in or about I683, his years having exceeded
three-score and ten.
Glaude Delamater. or Le Mlaistre, as he was then called, married first, Jeanne De Lannoy, and second Hester Du Bois, April
24, 1652, had six children, and died about I683. On November 6,
1687, Glaude's widow married Jan Tibout, the parish clerk. In
view of this event, she and Tibout had entered into an agreement,
September 23, preceding, with her sons Jan and Isaac, and sonin-law Bussing (who together took the real estate, having power
to (1o so from the absent heirs, Abraham and Jacobus Delamater,
and Mloses Le Count), by which she was to "have the free use
of the house and erf at the strand," while she lived, and Jan and
Isaac were to pay her twenty-seven schepels of wheat yearly.
"Should any land be drawn during Hester du Bois' lifetime, it
shall belong to them both, to wit, Jan Tibout and Hester Du
Bois."
GLAUDE, BY SECOND WIFE, HAD ISSUE:
2. Jan, born in I653, baptized March 9, 1653, married Ruth,
daughter of Resolved Waldron, August I, I678, had
nine children, and died I702.
3. Abraham Delamater, born at Flatbush, in I656, removed in
his early manhood, with his brother Jacobus, to Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y. He there married, June I8,
I682, Celeste, daughter of Cornelius Vernoy, and had
four children. He married a second wife, Elsie, daughter of Jurian Tappan, and widow of Hillebrant Lechier,
about I692, having five children. A magistrate and
of the Canterbury family, of which was Mrs. Delamater; this kinship, probably, the
cause of three of the Delamater children going to Esopus. Billiou had two daughters,
born at Leyden. He embarked at Amsterdam, May 9, I66I (see note p. ), accompanied by his wife and four children, aged 9, 7, 6 and 21/ years. They had an
Isaac baptized four days after landing at New Amsterdam. Isaac was living in I707.
A son, Peter, born here in I668, married Maria Breese in 1701. Pierre Billiou was
schout of Staten Island during the Dutch reoccupation. He and "his two sons"
received a grant of three farms, 270 acres, on the south side of that island, next to
Jacques Guion, laid out to them October I8, I675. He also acquired land at Piscataqua, N. J. Billiou has descendants, but now much scattered.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
495
elder at Kingston, and prominent in public affairs, he
closed a useful life November 20, I734.
4. Isaac, born 1658, married Cornelia Everts (Van Ness), about
I68I, had nine children.
5. Susannah, born I660, married Arent Harmanse Bussing,
February 24, I673, had three children.
6. Hester, born I662, married Moses Le Count, had four children.
He of Kingston, N. Y.
7. Jacobus Delamater, born I665, at Harlem, married at Kingston, September 23, I688, Gertrude (born I666), daughter
of Martin Cornelisz. Ysselsteyn (Esselsteyn), of Claverack. He was a trustee of Kingston, and a firm supporter
of the church there for some years, till he settled in Marbletown upon land (296 acres) bought in 1715, and where
he died in I741, leaving this property to his sons Isaac
and Martin, and a farm at Claverack to his eldest son
Glaude. Had ten children.
Jan Delamater (2), (son of Glaude), was, as we have seen,
a worthy and useful resident. He operated considerably in lands.
On March 7, I676, he and Jan Nagel bought Journee's property.
Dividing it July 14, 1677, Delamater took the house and lot and
No. 14 Van Keulen's Hook. He soon sold the latter, but afterward acquired Nos. 10, II, in the same tract, and No. 7 of the
New Lots. He also succeeded to an erf and 9 morgen of the
paternal lands; this giving him the lower half of the farm on
Montanye's Flat, lot No. 12 Van Keulen's Hook, and the two
north gardens next the church lot. He now sold No. 7 to
Samuel Waldron, April 21, I688, leased his three lots on Van
Keulen's Hook to Joost Van Oblinus, and on the same date
conveyed the Journee erf to Peter Van Oblinus, who sold
it to Jacques Tourneur, August 7, I69I. In May, I690, Delamater bartered his Van Keulen's Hook lots for others on Hoorn's
Hook, to which he removed. See Appendix H. On October
25, I702, being "sick in bed," he made his-will, giving his wife
a life use of his estate. The will was proved September 9, I703,
only a few days before the widow married Henry Bogert, of
Marbletown, to which place she removed with some of her children. The Hoorn's Hook farm and other lands of Jan Delamater were sold, in I7Io, to Samuel Waldron.
JAN (2), (SON O0 GLAUDE), HAD ISSUE:
8. Jannetie, born April 20, I679, baptized April 30, I679, died
young.
9. Susannah No. I, born November 25, I680, died young.
Io. Susannah No. 2, baptized October II, 1682, married Albert
Low, October 2, I702, had five children.
496
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
1. Cornelius, baptized May 6, 1683, married Margaret Van
Steenburgh, September 28, 1703, had eleven children.
12. Cornelia, baptized February 19, I685, married Cornelius
Bogert, I707, had two children.
13. Susannah, baptized December 12, I685.
I4. Johannes No. i, baptized January 29, I688, died young.
I5. Abraham, baptized July 17, 1689, married Sarah Bogert,
January 19, 1711, had four children. He married
second, Catherine?, and had one child.
I6. Jannetje, baptized October 13, I689, married William Elting.
ABRAHAM (3), (SON OF GLAUD)E). HAD ISSU, BY IRST WIE'E
17. Tanneke, baptized March 27, I692, married Martin Bogert,
May 7, 1713, had five children.
I8. Hester, born I694, married John Lewis, IIay 22, 1713, had
two children.
19. Maria (Marytje), born August 8, I696, married John Pierce,
June 3, I716, had ten children.
20. Catherine, baptized Mlarch 21, I697.
ABR\HAM (3) -A) ISSUE:Y SECOND WRIE, ELSII} LECHIER:
21. Adriana (Ariaantje), baptized November II, I694, married
Aldert Kiersted, October 26, 1714, had two children.
22. Johannes (Joannes), baptize(l July 4, 1697, married first
Christina Wynkoop, MV ay 12, 1723, had seven children.
He married second, Maria Decker, November II, 1738,
had two children, and died 1756.
23. David, baptized February 2, 1701, married Laurentia Tenbroek, May 10, I728, had nine children. Will proved
December 17, I771.
24. Jacobus (James), baptized April 22, 1705, married Catrina
Schoonmaker, November 12, 1726, had one child.
25. Abraham (Abram), baptized September 28, I707, married
Rachel, daughter of Abraham Low, had seven children,
and died July 13, 1776.
Isaac Delamater (4), (son of Glaude), was born I658, at
Flatbush, and married about I68I, Cornelia Everts (Van Ness),
of Albany, a sister of Rebecca Everts, wife of Jerome Barheyt,
of that place. Both Isaac and wife united with the church at
New York, December 3, I68I, though living at Harlem, where
he was afterward a deacon. Later he served the town as a commissioner, also a constable. Isaac obtained the upper half of
his father's farm on Montanye's Flat, called six morgen, or
twelve acres. He leased it, with house, garden, orchard, and
half the meadow, to Jan Tibout, February 13, I688, for I2 years.
Isaac drew lot No. II, Jochem Pieters' Hills, which he sold to
DELAMATER FAMILY.
497
Jan Dyckman. He resumed his farm, and occupied it as late
as December 3, I726, on which date he conveyed all his lands
to his son John. He, or his son Isaac, bought No. 6, New Lots,
from Nicholas Kortright, in 1729, and sold it in I73I to Johannes
Waldron.
ISAAC (4), (SON OF GLAUDE), HAD ISSUE:
26. Hester, baptized April 7, I683, at Albany, married first Simon
Van Ness, from that place, January 15, 1701, but in 1716
a farmer at Newark, N. J., and second, Frans Spuys, October 4, I733.
27. Evertie (Titje), baptized January 14, 1685, married Bernardus Verveelen, April 6, I7I3, had eight children.
28. John (Jan), baptized January I6, I687, married Annatje
Waldron, June II, I714, had ten children, and died about
I743.
29. Abraham, baptized March 29, I693, married Catharine,
daughter of Johannes Benson, February 21, 1718, had
four children, and died December 8, I77I. Was owner
from 1727 to 1742 of the Louvre, or Jones' Woods Farm.
He lived for some years at Tappan, N. Y., but returned
to New York, where he died.
30. Isaac, baptized March 29, I693, married Belitie Waldron,
August 9, I717, had four children.
3I. Rebecca, baptized November 25, I696, married Captain Isaac
Delamater, October 20, 17I7, had fourteen children.
32. Jacob, born April 9, I699.
33. Susannah, who married Johannes B. Waldron, June 5, I719,
had five children.
34. Cornelia, who married Cornelius Quackenbos, June I6, 1726,
had one child.
JACOBUS (7), (SON OIF GLAUDE), IAD ISSUE:
35. Glaude, born I692, baptized January 28, I692, married Christina Leggett, had eight children, and died I770.
36. Isaac, baptized June 3, I694, known as Captain Delamater,
who married his cousin, Rebecca Delamater, November
8, I7I7, had fourteen children, and on October 21, 1764,
married Catherine Winegar, removed from Marbletown
to Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., served in the French
War, was a justice of the peace, and died April 20, 1775.
37. Martha, baptized November 8, I696.
38. Jacobus, baptized May I8, I699.
39. Martin, baptized May 4, I70I, married Elizabeth Nottingham,
April 13, 1728, had ten children, and died about 1768.
40. Bata, baptized December 24, I703, married John Leggett,
October 25, 1722, had four children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
4I. Hester, baptized August II, I706.
42. Cornelius, born 1708, not mentioned in his father's will.
43. Jannetie, baptized January II, 1711, married Joris Middagh,
October II, 1734, had nine children.
44. Susannah, born 1713, married Thomas Nottingham, January
7, 1732, had eleven children.
CORNELIUS (I ), (SON Or" JAN), IAD ISSUE:
45. Tebina, baptized July 21, 1706.
46. Zeletie, baptized August 4, I706, married Matheus Van
Keuren, January 26, 729, had six children.
47. Anna Catharina No. I, baptized January 28, I708, died young.
48. Anna Catharina No. 2, baptized September i8, 1709, married
Ephraim Dubois, November IO, 1727, had eight children.
49. Mary Salmi, baptized April 22, 1711.
50. Abraham No. I, baptized September 20, 1713, died young.
51. Johannes, baptized January 15, 1716.
52. Abraham No. 2, baptized January 19, 1718, married Sarah
Chambers, August 26, 1744, had six children.
53. Cornelius (Cornelis), baptized December 13, I719, married
Catalyntjen (Catalina) Oosterhout, May 28, 1743, had
eleven children.
54. Thomas, baptized October 21, 1722.
55. Benjamin, baptized July 4, 1725, married Anna Hooghtaling,
November 19, I762, had six children.
AIRAlAIAM ( 5), (SON OF JAN), HAl) 1SSUE:
56. MAargareta, who married Johannis Picheltzimmer, had one
child.
57. Sarah, born August 6, 1713, married Job Warfoot, had one
child.
58. Catherine, who married W. J. -?, had one child.
59. Rachel, who married Isaac Isselstein, had one child.
JOHANNES (22), (SON ()F ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
60. Cornelia. baptized March I, 1724, married Cornelius Low,
August 26, I750, had four children.
6i. Elsie (Elsjen), baptized April 3, 1726, married Dirck Schepnoes, August 26, I750, had four children.
62. Catrina, baptized September IO, 1727, married Wilhelmus
Van Gaasbeek (William Chambers), December 7, I750,
had four children.
63. Annatje No. I, baptized September 7, 1729, died young.
64. Abraham J.. baptized February I8, I733, married first, Sarah
Tenbroek, December 20, 1755, had six children. He married second, Margaret Tenbroek, May 5, 1772, had two
children.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
499
65. Johannes, baptized February 2, 1735.
66. Annatje No. 2 (Anna), baptized November 21, 1736, married
John Edmonds, April 20. I775.
JOHANNES (22) HAD 1SSUE BY SEC()NI WIFE, MIARIA DECKER, VIZ.:
67. MIaria (M'arytje), baptized September 13, I74I, married
Henry Sleight, January 15, 1764, had two children.
68. Elizabeth.
D,\vD (23), (SON )F ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
69. Abraham No. i, baptized March 2, I729, died young.
70. Zara No. I (Sarah), baptized February 18, 1733, died young.
71. John, baptized April 20, 1735.
72. Cornelius, baptized May 19, 1737.
73. James or Jacobus. baptized October 14, 1739.
74. Zara No. 2 (Sarah), baptized March 28, I742.
75. David D., baptized June IO, 1744, married Sarah Hoffman.
November 5, 1768, had six children, and died October
30, 1815.
76. Abraham No. 2, baptized February 22, 1747, married Elizabeth Low, had one child.
77. Catherina, baptized November 27, 1748, married Jacob Delamater, April 14, 1768, had seven children, and died July
18, 1796.
JACOBUS (24), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
78. Anneken, baptized February 13, 1732, married Abraham Post.
ABRAHAM (25), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
79.?-? (child), (name torn out of record), baptized October
21, I733.
80. Rachel No. I, baptized December I, I737, died young.
8I. Abraham, baptized February I8, I739.
82. Catharine, baptized August 23, 1741, married Isaac Roosa,
November 10, 1764, had eight children.
83. David, baptized November 27, I843, married Rebecca Roosa,
October I8, 1771, had one child.
84. John (Johannes), baptized May 3, I747, married Elizabeth
Brink, 1777, had nine children, and died July I8, I8II.
85. Rachel No. 2, baptized August 13, I749, married Teunis
Sleight, October 8, I77I, had five children.
John Delamater (28), baptized January I6, I687, married
June II, 1714, Anneke, daughter of Johannes Waldron, and in
1718 was elected constable. In I715 he bought the property of
his aunt, Aeltie Vermilye, who removed to Westchester. This
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
consisted of lot No. 5, of I69I, and her drafts in the four divisions, 31 acres in all, with a village seat. In I719 he added 30
acres from Matthew Benson (since in the Samson A. Benson
farm), and next, in I726, his father's lands, giving him a total
of 99 acres. In 1729 he sold four acres (the Vermilye First
Division) to Johannes Waldron, and in I737 the 30 acres aforesaid, to Adolph Benson. The rest of his lands, 65 acres, in which
was included the farm on Montanye's Flat, and said lot No. 5,
he sold March 15, 1742, to Arent Kortright, who afterward married his daughter. John Delamater died soon after, and on
March 24, 1744, his will was admitted to probate, and his sonin-law, Myer, allowed to administer.
JOHN (JAN) (28), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
86. Anneke (Anna), born July 15, I7I5, married Samuel Waldron, of Newtown, April 25, I735, had eight children.
87. John, born August Io, I717, married Elizabeth Post, had
seven children. He a carpenter of New York.
88. Samuel, born October 3, 1725, married Catalina, (laughter of
Benjamin Waldron, October 3, 1756, had six children.
He "of the Out Ward, cordwainer." Not mentioned in
his father's will, I736.
89. Isaac, born November 12, 1727, married Anna Pearse (Antje
Peers), had five children, and died February 4, 1790.
go. Cornelia, who married John Myer, Jr., had three children.
9I. Susannah, who married Isaac Day. Joined church at Hackensack, N. J., May 22, 1742. He a blacksmith at Hackensack, later went to Harlem, where he kept Day Tavern.
92. Margaret, who married Aaron Kortright, had three children.
93. Rebecca, who married Lewis Williams, had seven children.
94. Hester.
95. Sarah.
ABRAHAM (29), (SON OF JSAAC), HAD ISSUE:
96. Catherine, who married Henry Brevoort, September 20, 1739,
had eight children.
97. Isaac, who married Maria Richardson, November 26, I744,
had four children.
98. John, who married Phebe (Sytje) Mabie, August I5, I750,
had two children.
99. Elizabeth, who married Cornelius Vanderhoof, December 9,
I750, had nine children. He of New York. She of
Tappan, N. Y.
ISAAC (30), (SON OO ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
IOO. Barent, baptized April 12, I720, married Rachel Jewel, June
DELAMATER FAMILY.
50o
8, I745, had six children, and died 1812. He bought
farm in Westchester County, N. Y., was a deacon in
Tarrytown Church, I773.
IoI. Isaac, who married first, Jannetie Flierboom, had one child.
He married second Catalina Benson, had four children.
102. John, who married Jannetie Post, August I6, I755, had eight
children. He a carpenter of New York.
I03. Abraham, baptized March 19, 1732, married Maria Vandewater, of Bloomingdale, had eight children.
GLAUDE (35), (SON oF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
I04. John, baptized July 13, 1718, married Hilletje Muller, had
two children.
o15. Jacobus, born May I6, 1720, baptized June 5, 1720, married
Maria Muller, February 23, 1752, had two children.
Io6. Dirck, baptized June 17, 1722, married Thryntie Osterhout,
October 13, 1768, had eight children. He died at Greenport, N. Y.
107. Catalina, baptized October I8, 1724, married Jacob Harter
(Herder), June 27, I777, had one child.
Io8. Rachel, baptized June 8, I729, married John Leggett, Jr.,
April 19, 1764, had one child.
Io9. Jeremiah.
IIO. Gertrude, who married John M. Van Valkenburgh, had
eight children.
III. Christina, who married John Van Deusen, May 29, I750, had
seven children.
ISAAC (36), (soN oF0 JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE BY FoIRST WIEE:
112. Jacobus, baptized August 24, 1718, married Cintie?,
had one child.
II3. Johannes, baptized June 5, I720, married Maria Kip, February I, 1752, had thirteen children, and died October 30,
I793. Removed to Chatham, Columbia County, N. Y.,
and bought farm. Died there.
114. Jannetie, baptized June 8, I720.
II5. Bata (Elizabeth), baptized February 17, 1722, married
Jacob Mayer, December I8, 1755, had one child.
16. Janneke, baptized July I6, I723, married Robert George,
March 26, I760.
II7. Isaac, born prior to I730, married Eva Kip, February I,
1752, had four children. She a daughter of Johannes
Kip, of Rhinebeck, N. Y.
18. Martin, baptized September I9, I73I, married Ann Marsh,
September 8, 1763, had nine children, and died in I805.
She died in I815.
II9. Benjamin No. I, born I733, died young.
I20. Geertie, baptized November 4, I733.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
121. Elizabeth, baptized February 13, I737, married a son of
Rev. Cyrus Marsh, of Connecticut.
122. Hendrick, born January 4, I739, married first, Catherine
Kip, November I8, 1765, had four children. He had one
child by a second wife, and died at Valatie, Columbia
County, N. Y.
123. Cornelius, baptized August 17, 1740, married Blandina De
Graff, July II, I770, had three children.
124. Benjamin No. 2, baptized February 13, 1743, married Hannah Row, January 2, 1769, had eight children, and died
August 7, 1800. He diel at Clinton, Dutchess County,
N. Y.
125. Rebecca, baptized March 3, I745, married Samuel Young,
May I8, 1766, had two children.
MiARTIN (39), (SON OF JAcCOB3US), HAD ISSUE:
I26. Geertjen, baptized September 21, I729, married Daniel Cantine, October 30, I750, had one child, and died before 1768.
127. Jacob No. i, baptized Miarch 17, 1734, died young.
128. Elizabeth, baptized January i8, 1736, married Abraham Cantine, November 19, I756, had two children.
I29. Margriet, baptized April 16, 1738, married Jan Elmendorph,
had two children.
130. Maria, baptized June 22, 1740, married Coenraad Du Bois,
had nine children.
I31. Bata, baptized April 18, 1742, married Gerrit M. Niewkirk,
June I5, 1765.
132. Hester No. I, baptized September 16, 1744, died young.
I33. Jacob No. 2, baptized April I, 1750, married Catherina
Delamater, April 14, I768, had seven children, and (lied
May 17, I794 -134. William, baptized June 14, 1752, married Mary Vandewater,
December 18, 1770.
135. Hester No. 2, baptized October 6, 1747, married Jacob Elmendorph, October 16, 1767.
AlRAHAM (52), (SON O() CORNE1LIUS), H1D) ISSUE:
136. Cornelius, baptized November 4, 1744, married Rachel
Slaight, September 26, I767, had eleven children, and
died May 7, 1812. She a daughter of Benjamin Slaight,
baptized March 13, 1748.
137. Abraham, baptized April 20, I747, married Annetie Sleight,
November 15, I769.
138. Peter, baptized June 25, 1749, married Lavinia Dean, had
three children. Settled at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he
died.
139. Sarah, baptized November 3, 1751.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
503
140. Johannes, baptized February 3, 1754, married Jennettje
Whittaker, October 22, 1779, had five children. She a
daughter of Jan Whittaker and Catherine Hooghtaling.
141. Margaret, baptized March 7, 1756.
CORNELIUS (53), (SON OF( CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
142. Jan. baptized October 23, 1743, married Catherine VanVliet,
had four children.
143. Cornelius No. i, baptized April 12, 1745, died young.
144. Cornelius No. 2, baptized December 7, 1746, (ied young.
145. Abraham C., baptized August 28, 1748, married Catharine
Van Waggoner, October 15, 1773, had three children,
and clied July 31, I812.
146. Benjamin, baptized January 28, I750.
147. Matheus, baptized May 3, 1752.
148. Rachel, baptized October 21, I753, married David Low, May
13, I775, had nine children.
T49. Margaret, baptized September 14, 1755, married Jeremias
Hoogtelingh, June 27, I770, had twelve children.
150. Elizabeth, baptized May 8, 1757.
151. Cornelius No. 3, baptized April 22, 1759, died young.
152. Cornelis No. 4, baptized July 20, 1760, married Sarah Krom,
November 10, 1782, had two children, and (lied November, 1842.
BENJAMIN (55), (S(N OF( CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I53. Maria, baptized January 15, I764.
154. Margriet, baptized April 14, 1765.
155. Sarah, baptized July 13, I766.
156. Anna, baptized March 16, 1769.
157. Cornelius No. i, baptized October IO, 1770, died young.:58. Cornelius No. 2, baptized November 9, 1771, married Helen
Ostrander, September 5, 18oI.
Ani.\I.RAHM J. (64), (SON OF JOIHANNES), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
159. John, baptized September 5, 1756, died single.
i60. Blandina, baptized September 9, 1759, married Peter Sharp,
had eight children.
T16. Christina, baptized August 23, 176I, unmarried.
162. Cornelius, baptized February 19, 1764.
i63. Maria, baptized October 4, 1766, married John Schepnoes,
November 12, I787.
164. Elizabeth, baptized April 13, 1769.
ABRAHAl M J. (64) IAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE, MARGARET
TENBROEK:
I64a. Jacob, baptized August 24, I773, married Magdalena
Broadhead, December I6, 1798, had two children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
164b. Catharine, baptized December 3, I775, married Jacob Tenbroeck. Joined Reformed Church at Germantown, N. Y.
October 6, I792.
DAVID D. (75), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
I65. David D. No. I, baptized October 21, I764, died young.
166. David D. No. 2, baptized June 3, 1766, died young.
167. Anthony, baptized November 2, 1768, married Catharine
Houghtaling, May 28, 1794, had one child. He settled
at Rhinebeck, N. Y., where he died at an advanced age.
Was a captain in the War of I812.
I68. Abraham, baptized February I9, I770, married Engeltje
Elmendorf, February 8, I795, had five children, and died
February I6, 1841. He was a physician at Rhinebeck,
N.Y.
169. David D. No. 3, baptized August 13, I775.
170. Catherina, baptized March 21, I779.
ABRAHAM (76), (SON oF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
I7I. Abraham, baptized January 23, 1787, died young.
DAVID (83), (SON OI' ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
172. Rachel, baptized October 26, 1772, married Petrus P. Roosa,
June 13, 1790, had twelve children.
JOHN (84), (SON o0 ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
173. Mary (Maria), born February I, I774, married Petrus G.
Ostrander, January 21, 1796, had seven children.
I74. John, baptized April 25, 1779.
I75. Rachel, baptized June 30, 1782.
I76. Cornelius, baptized January I, I785.
I77. Abraham, baptized May 14, I786.
178. Anne (Annatje), baptized May 24, I789.
I79. Peter Low, baptized November 17, I793, married Mary
Brink, December 29, I816, had eight children. He born
at Marbletown, N. Y., was officer in the Reformed Dutch
Church until his death.
I80. Caterine, baptized June 12, 1797.
I8I. Jacob Brink, born March I9, 1799, married Rachel Beenon,
had eight children.
JOHN (87), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
182. John, baptized October 9, I754, had one child.
I83. Rebecca, baptized April 3, I757.
184. Isaac No. I, baptized August 5, I759, died young.
I85. Elizabeth No. I, baptized March 24, I762, died young.
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505
I86. Isaac No. 2, baptized March 4, I764, married Ann Burns,
September 7, 1783, had one child.
187. Abraham, born I765.
I88. Elizabeth No. 2, baptized November 5, I769.
SAMUEL (88), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I89. John S., born I757, married Margaret Cronk, had three
children. Served in artillery during Revolution. Was
Health Officer of New York for many years.
I90. Samuel, born March 28, I759, married Hannah Vanderburgh, July 4, I779, had eight children, and died June 8,
1843. Was a tanner and currier in New York. Died at
residence, No. 20 North Moore Street, New York City.
I9I. Ann, born 1761, married John M. Vandenburgh, had eight
children, and died August 9, I850.
192. Cornelia, born 1763, married Samuel Gautier, May I6, 1784,
had three children.
I93. Benjamin, born I765.
I94. Elizabeth, who married Jonathan Penny.
ISAAC (89), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I95. John (Jan), baptized April I, I750, married Elizabeth Caldwell, November 29, I798, had two children, and died
December 7, 1829.
I96. Maria, baptized October 29, 1752, married Ashar Pike, April
15, 1772, had four children, and died October 3, 1822.
I97. Anna, baptized June 19, I755.
I98. Joseph No. I, baptized December 7, I757, died young.
I99. Joseph No. 2, baptized April 15, I76I.
ISAAC (97), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
200. Catherine, born December 24, I745.
20I. William, born January I9, I747.
202. Abraham, born September 7, 1749, baptized October 8, I749,
married Sarah Van Blarcom, June 13, I774, had three
children.
203. John, born April 22, I752, baptized May 31, 1752.
JOHN (98), (SON 0' ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
204. Abraham, born January 29, 1751.
205. Catalina, born February 19, I753, married John Hendrick
Harper, had one child.
BARENT (IOO), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
206. Jooris, baptized August 21, I746.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
207. Ieletje, baptized August 30, I749, married Mr. Knapp, had
one child.
208. Rebecka (Rebecca), baptized June 20, 1752, married David
Devoe, had two children.
209. Sara, baptized September 9, 1755, married Mr. Shule.
210. Isaac, baptized September 6, 1758, married Abigail Haight.
December 24, 1785, had twelve children, andt died July 8,
I837.
211. Elizabeth, baptized September 12, 1761, married Mr. Lanigan.
Is\xAxc (tIO), (SON O( ISAC), iiHAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
212. Isaac, born September I, 1751, baptized December 25, 1751,
married Jannetie Meyer, had five children.
ISAAC (IOI) HAt) ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE, CATALINA BENSON:
213. Johannes, born August 13, 1756, baptized September 5, 1756.
214. Beletie, born March 20, I762, baptized April 11, 1762.
215. Abraham, baptized November 25, 1767.
216. Gerrit, baptized May 28, I775.
JO-IN (102), (SON ()O ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
217. Isaac, baptized May IT, 1757.
218. Sara, baptized May 21, 1760.
219. John No. I (Johannis). baptized September 26, 1762, died
young.
220. Abraham. baptized April 28, I765.
221. Margarita, baptized April 12, 1767.
222. Evert, baptized May 20, 1770, married Mary Cole. October
20, I795, had seven children.
223. John No. 2, born I773.
224. Jane, baptized August 27, 1775.
ABRAHAM (103), (SON OF ISA.\C), HAD ISSUE:
225. Mary, born 1770, married Abraham Montfort, I790.
226. William, born 1772.
227. Elizabeth, born 1774, married John Lake.
228. Isaac, born I776, had one child.
229. Catherine, born April 25, 1778, married John Wilson, February 9, 1797, had thirteen children. He of New York.
230. Cornelia, born 1780.
231. Benjamin, born 1783.
232. Abraham, born I786.
JOHN (104), (SON Or GLAUDE), HAD TSSUE:
233. Jeremias, baptized February 14, 1748, married Alida Vos
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507
burgh, had one child, and died February 27, 182I. He
served in the Eighth Regiment, of Albany County, N. Y.,
militia, in the Revolution. She died March 27, 1848.
234. Glaude, baptized August I, 1752, married Elizabeth Herder,
1778, had eight children, and (lied in 1842. He serve(l
in the Eighth Regiment, Albany County, N. Y., militia.
in the Revolutionary War.
JAIcoBus (105), (SON o() GL\UDPl), HIA) ISSUE:
235. Glaude. baptized October 25, 1752, married first Maria Van
Deusen, September (, 177I, had five children. He married second Lea M1andeville, April 27. 1783, had three
children.
236. Jeremias, baptized August 22, 1756.
DIRCK (106), (SON ()o GLAUDE!i), IT.AD iSSUi':
237. Cloudy (Claude), baptized February 25, I770, married Jannetje Elton, April 7, I789, had six children.
238. Teunis, baptized November 7, 1773, died young.
239. Tones, baptized January 24, 1775.
240. Christine, baptized February Ii, 1776, married Wilhelmus
Hoogtaling, 1797.
241. Dunis (Tunis), baptized March 6. I778, died young.
242. Gertruit (Gertrude), baptized September 5, 1779.
243. Theunis, baptized October 21, T781.
244. John, baptized September 17, 1786, married Margaret Rossmore, had one child.
245. Kornelia, baptized February 12, 1744.
JOHANNES (113), (SON F0 ISAAC), HAl) ISSUE:
246. Isaac, born December 13, 1752, married Hannah Barlow,
February 8, 1776, had seven children, and died March 12,
1830. He was born at Amenia, N. Y., enlisted and served
as commissary during the Revolution. He removed to
Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., and (lied there.
247. Margaret, born August 21, 1754, died unmarried August 19,
I769.
248. John, born September 23, I756, died single, July 2, 1774.
249. Rebecca No. i, born September 5, 1758, died May 14, 1761.
250. Rachel, baptized October 26, I760, married Joshua Neuman,
October 14, 1779, had seven children. She died at Delhi,
N. Y.
251. Jacob, born June I, 1762, married Elizabeth Dorr. 1786, had
six children, and died June 27, 1828.
252. Benjamin, born June I, 1762, married first, Sarah Gifford,
of Chatham, N. Y., had one child. He married second,
Isabel Beverly, had nine children, and died April 26, 1832.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
253. Rebecca No. 2, born March 15, 1764, married first, William
Bullis, had one child. She married second, Captain Amos
Rice, had two children, and died January II, I835.
254. Abraham No. I, born March 4, 1766, died young.
255. Abraham No. 2, born April 2, I767, married first, Phebe
Herrick, and second, Anetje (Anna) Storm, had seven
children by second wife, and died August 6, 1845.
256. Samuel, baptized April 15, I770, married Lucy Sedgewick,
1796, had six children, and (lied in 1822. Settled at Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, N. Y., at which place he died.
257. Peter, baptized February 14, I773, married Sarah Gage,
I805, had nine children. Was a physician. Settled at
Duanesburgh, and died there September 14, I849.
258. Elizabeth, born May I, 1776, died February 29, 1790.
ISAAC (II7), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
259. Margaretha, baptized April 14, I754, married Martinus
Becker, had six children.
260. Isaac, born I754, married Rachel Kip, November 30, I783,
had four children.
261. Abraham, born I756, married Catherine Miller, had five
children.
262. Johannes, born February 26, I758, married first, Maria De
Graff, June 17, 1778, had one child. He married second,
Betsy Lester, July 17, 1791, had eight children, and died
March, 1836, at Ellenburgh, N. Y.
MARTIN (II8), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
263. Cyrus M., baptized January 13, I765, married? Lyon,
had five children.
264. Isaac, baptized October 20, I765.
265. Maria, who married Asel Terril, had two children.
266. Rebecca, baptized June 25, 1767, married Philip Winegar,
had four children.
267. James, baptized March 12, 1768, not mentioned in his father's
will, dated 1803.
268. Susanna, baptized July 2, I770, married Rev. Ebenezer
Smith, January 5, I797, had two children.
269. Mercy, baptized April 12, 1772.
270. Anna, baptized December 25, I774.
271. Lydia, baptized November 17, I776. Not mentioned in
father's will, dated 1803.
HENDRICK (122), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
272. Rebecca, born December I8, 1767, married William Brayman, December 31, 1788, had nine children, settled on
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509
farm in Broome, Schoharie County, N. Y. She died February 20, I837.
273. John, born February I8, 177I, married Mary Eaton, October
19, I794, had fifteen children, settled at Westerlo, Albany
County, N. Y., and died September 6, 1848.
274. Benjamin Valatie (Capt.), born March 3I, I773, married
Anna Barnes, 1793, had eight children. He was a captain of a military company during the War of 1812, and
died June 4, I815.
275. Abraham Valatie, born I775, married Olive Chapman, had
nine children, and died 1852.
HENDRICK (122) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
276. Catharine, who married Reuben C. Kraig, March 31, I8II.
Settled in Cortland County, N. Y.
CORNELIUS (123), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
277. Antonetta, born December I6, 1772.
278. Moses, born June 9, I776.
279. Isaac, born May 21, 1782.
BENJAMIN (124), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
280. Benjamin, born October 28, 1778, married Almira Row, had
nine children, settled at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.
Y., and died March 21, 1858.
281. Elizabeth, born March 5, 1782.
282. Nicholas, baptized June 20, I773.
283. Jacob, not mentioned in his father's will of I798.
284. Susanna.
285. Sarah.
286. Laura, not mentioned in her father's will of I798.
287. Mary.
JACOB (I33), (SON oF MARTIN), HAD ISSUE:
288. Martyn (Martin), baptized September 26, 1770, married
Elizabeth Nottingham, had one child.
289. Laurentia, baptized July I8, I77I.
290. Elizabeth, baptized May 5, 1776.
291. Sara, baptized May 5, I776.
292. Sally Malcum, baptized May II, 1783, married Charles Dewitt, November 25, 1798, had three children.
293. John Addison, baptized August 27, 1785, married Anne Dewitt, had two children.
294. Gerret, baptized February 3, 1788, married Ann Tack, had
three children, and died February 9, I849.
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HISTORY (F HARLE\M.
CoRNEIJUS (136), (SON or ABRA.\XI\HA), H-AD rSSUE::
295. Sarah, baptized November 2, 1768.
296. Anna No. r, baptized February 19, 1771, died February 25,
1771.
297. Anna No. 2, baItized January 15, 1772, married Jacob Felter.
298. Thomas, baptized April 6, 1774, married Christina Pulver,
had five children.
299. Conrad, baptized November i, 1778, died single, September
1, 1825.
300. Catharine, baptized May 13, 1781, marriedl William Tremper, had four children.
301. I1enjamin S., baptized November 23, 1783, married Rachel
Snyder, January 29, I8o5, had three children.
302. Elizabeth, baptized (ctober i, 1786, married Tobias Hasbrouck.
303. William, baptized Mlarch 28, 1789, married Eliza Douglas.
304. Effie, baptized March 28, 1789.
305. Margaret, baptized July 6, 1792, married James Van Keuren,
was living in 1858.
PET'E1R (138), (SOTN OF AiBRAHAM), HAD\) ISSUE:
306. Charlotte Elizabeth, born about 1770, married Justis Smith,
had five children, and diedl 864. Removed to Warren,
Ohio.
307. William B., born about 1772, married first, Annatje Sleight,
January 8, I795, and second, Jane Hardenburgh, June
6, 1802, had five children. Settled at Rosendale, N. Y.,
where he (lied.
308. Henry A.
JO(IHANNES ( 40), (SON ()O ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
309. Abraham No. i, baptized April 30, 1780, died young.
3I0. Abraham No. 2, baptized May 5, 1782, married Hannah Radcliff, had seven children, and tlied March 14, 1871.
31I. John, baptized August 15, 1784, married Lena Hulder (Holler), May 29, 1807, had four children.
312. Sarah, baptized September 15, I786.
313. Margrit, baptized October 28, 1787, married John Ten
Broeck, Jr., had nine children.
JAN (142), (S(N ()F CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
314. Cornelis, baptized February To, I765.
315. Wilhelm, baptized February 28, I773.
316. Jan, baptized August 15, I779.
317. Rachel, baptized September 21, 178I.
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ABRAHAM C. (145), (SON 01 CORNELIUS), H.D ISSUE:
318. Sarah, baptized August 22, I774.
319. Cornelius, baptized April 6, I777.
320. Isaac, baptized November I I 1781.
CORNELIUS (152), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
321. Maria, baptized May 29, 1785, married Joshuah Van Keuren,
had three children.
322. Petrus, baptized May 25, 1788, married Lena Van Keuren,
had one child.
JAcOB ( 64a). (SON or ABRAH.\M J.), HAD ISSUE:
323. Blandina No. I. born April 24, i80o, died young.
324. Blandina No. 2, baptized May 17, I807.
ANTHONY (I67), (SON OF DAVID D.), HAD ISSUE:
325. Catherine, baptized October 14, 1798, married Egbert Jansen, January 25, I8I5, had two children.
ABRAHAM ( 68), (SON OF DAVID D.), HAD ISSUE:
326. David, baptized November I8, 1796.
327. Cornelius, baptized March 3, I799.
328. John Schoonmaker, born March 4, I802.
329. Peter R. Roosa, born December 23, I804.
330. Mary, born I816.
PETER LOW (179), (SON Or JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
331. Cornelius Brink, born August I, i818, died August I9, I819,
buried at Marbletown, N. Y.
332. John, born October 29, I8I9, married Dina W. Brink, June
5, 1844, had three children.
333. Eliza (Catherine), born March 29, 1822, married Lyman H.
Davis, September I6, 1845, had three children, and died
July 14, i88i.
334. James Brink, born October I, 1825, married Harriet F.
Bailey, February IO, I859, had one child. He served in
95th Regiment, Company E, Illinois Volunteers, in 1862,
and died July I, I863.
335. Rachel, who married Dr. James Northrup, April I9, 1849,
had one child. She of Woodstock, Ill.
336. Theodore C.. born June 24, 1835, married Mary Fifield,
November 17, I859, had four children. He resided at
San Francisco, Cal.
337. Mary Jane, who married Bloomer Sower, September 30,
I862, and died October 30, I867.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
338. Cornelius, born September 17, I828, died December 28, 1828,
buried at Marbletown, N. Y.
JACOB BRINK (I8I), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE,:
339. James.
340. Lewis.
34I. Mary A.
342. Samuel S.
343. Eliza A.
344. Sarah J.
345. Wealthy M.
346. John
JOHN (182), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
347. John, born September 5, 1778, married Fanny Decker, 80o6,
had five children. Will proved April 26, i86o.
ISAAC (I86), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
348. Isaac, who married Sarah Smith, had four children.
JOHN S. (189), (SON Or SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
349. John, baptized August 23, 1788.
350. Maria, baptized July I8, I79o.
351. Samuel, baptized January 6, I793.
Samuel Delamater (I90) became a tanner and currier in
New York, married July 4, 1779, Hannah Vandenburgh, and
died at his residence, 20 North Moore Street, June 8, I843.
SAMUEL (I90), (SON Or SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
352. Hannah, born May 20, 1780, married Peter Stryker, I804,
had one child.
353. Catalina, born July 15, 1782, married Gysbert B. Vroom,
January 9, 800o, had eight children, and died March 8,
1836.
354. Samuel, born July 23, 1784, died single, October 8, 1819.
Shipmaster. He made his will November 25, I8I8, "expecting to sail to-morrow for Mantanzas."
355. Garret, born July 8, 1787, died I797.
356. Maria, born January 14, I790, joined church at Schodack,
N. Y., August 4, 1821. She married first, Rev. Isaiah Y.
Johnston, May 4, I818, had two children, and second,
Abel Hine. She died March 6, I867.
357. John, born July I, 1792, married Sophia J. Ostrander, June
25, 1814, had six children. Was a builder by trade, and
at one time an Alderman. Died December 21, I877.
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358. Benjamin Waldron, born March 28, 1795, was a grocer, and
later President of the Long Island Insurance Company.
He married first, Lucretia Marquand, October 3, I833,
had one child, and second, Mary Smith Adams, December 23, I852.
359. James Home, born October 11, 1799, married Elizabeth
Beekman, July 4, I82I, had seven children. Removed to
Ohio, and later to Meshawaka, Ind., died September 6,
I857.
JOHN (I95), (SON OF ISAAC), IAD ISSUE:
360. Caroline, born 1799, married Jacob Dunton, October Io,
1821.
36I. Anna, born I802,' married Dr. John A. Elkinton, October
IO, I830. She of Philadelphia, Pa.
ABRAHAM (202), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
362. Isaac, baptized January 22, I775, married Elizabeth Webber,
had one child.
363. Mary, born May 6, I784.
364. Jane, born September 7, I787.
ISAAC (20I), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
365. George, born April Ii, 1787, died young.
366. Samuel, born February 6, 1789, married Hannah Jewell,
November i, I82I.
367. Jesse, born March 31, I79I.
368. Amy, born May 13, I793, married Jeremiah Roat, September
13, I82I, had five children.
369. Abraham, born May 12, I795, married Margaret Freeman,
September 7, 1821. He resided in Michigan for a number of years.
370. Isaac Jewell, born August 27, 1797, married Eliza Doty,
December 31, I830, had two children. Resided in Westchester County, N. Y.
37I. William B., born October 6, 1799, married Sarah Felter, January 23, 1823, had four children. Resided in Orange
County, N. Y.
372. Ely, born August I, 1801, died single.
373. John, born August 13, 1804, married Cornelia McClelland,
November 15, 1841, had six children.
374. Francis, born August 6, I806, died single.
375. Aseneth, born February I8, 1809, married William Felter,
September 20, 1829. Resided in Orange County, N. Y.
376. Edward D., born May 19, I8II, married Jane Chesire, September 19, 1833, had one child. Resided on Long Island.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
377 -378.
379.
380.
381.
ISAAC (212), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
Jannetye, born December 13, 1776, married Abraham Nagel,
June 6, 1797, had five children.
Jacobus Flierboom, born January 23, 1782.
John, born July 4, I787.
Catrina, born December 31, 179I, married Abraham Stagg,
had four children.
Elizabeth, born November 4, I794.
EVERT (222), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
382. John Cole, born May 2I, I796, baptized August 3, I796.
383. Jacob, who married Adelia Wattles, had four children.
384. Charles, died young.
385. Ralph.
386. William.
387. Susan.
388. Mary.
ISAAC (228), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
389. Catherine, who married Jacob Weeks.
JEREMIAS (233), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
390. Jacobus, baptized January 6, 1782.
CLAUDE (234), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
391. John, baptized May 13, I780, died June 21, I853.
392. Maria, baptized March 24, 1782.
393. Jacob, baptized November 28, I784.
394. Heletje, baptized February I8, 1786.
395. Richard, baptized April I9, I789.
396. Michel, baptized April 17, I791.
397. Christinje, born December 12, I793, baptized January 5,
I794.
398. Peter, born March 19, I796, married Hannah Van Deusen,
1825, had four children, and died I884.
CLAUDE (235), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST
wIFE, MARIA VAN DEUSEN:
399. Jacobus No. I, baptized April 21, 1773, died young.
400. Maria, baptized May 6, I775, married Samuel Salisbury,
September I8, I792.
40o. Robert, baptized July 20, I777.
402. Jacobus No. 2, baptized December 25, I779.
403. Leynje, baptized August 12, 1781, married Cornelius Van
Deusen, April 3, I798, had one child.
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515
CLAUDE (235), HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE, LEA
MANDEVILLE:
404. Dorothea, baptized March 7, 1784.
405. Gertje, baptized December 25, 1785.
406. Christina, born September 2, 1792, baptized October I4, 1792.
CLOUDY (CLAUDE) (237), (SON OF DIRCK), HAD ISSUE:
407. Maretje, born November 8, I789, baptized November 20,
I789.
408. Marytje, born October 25, 1791, baptized November 17,
I79I.
409. Richard, baptized April 19, I79I.
4IO. Trinje, born December I6, 1795, baptized January 17, I796.
41I. Rachel, born November 28, I797, baptized December 23,
I797.
412. Tunis Osterhout, born 1807, married Mary Decker, had two
children, and died September 29, I865.
JOHN (244), (SON OF DIRCK), HAD ISSUE:
413. Jonas Rossmore, born 1807, married Sarah A. Groat, had
one child, and died 1871.
ISAAC (260), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
414. Johan Peters, born January 7, I785.
4I5. Juny, born January 30, I787.
416. Eva, born September 5, I789.
4I7. Maria, born November 21, I79I.
ABRAIIAM (261), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
418. John, born July 9, I789.
4I9. Anna, born May 30, I790.
420. Gertje, baptized August 18, I790.
421. William, baptized January 5, I797.
422. James Barnes, born April I, I802, married Elizabeth Lapgvear, had seven children.
JOIIANNES (262), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST
WIFE, MIARIA DE GRAFF:
423. Jacobus, born February 6, I779, baptized March 14, I779.
JOHANNES (262) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE, BETSY
LESTER:
424. James, born I792, married.Abigail Norton.
425. Anna Maria, born March 5, 1793, married Robert Grick
Hudson, July 4, 1813, had three children. She of Odle
Town, Canada.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
426. William, born February 26, 1798, married Sally Hogle, June
23, I826, had five children. He of Odle Town, Canada.
427. Sally, born 1803, married Freeborn Knapp, had three children, and died I844. Of Canada.
428. Lucretia, born July I, I805, married first -? Latham, had
one child. She married second Reuben Knapp, 1830, had
one child.
429. Phoebe, born 1807, died unmarried, about I82I.
430. Caroline, born I809, (lied about I8I9.
43I. Smith, born I8IO, married first, Phoebe Leonda Esterbrook,
January 15, I826, had twelve children. He married
second Sylvana Ross, October 29, 1847, had four children.
Was living in I880 in Dickinson Center, Franklin County,
N. Y.
ISAAC (246), (SON or JOHANNES), AI\D ISSUE:
432. John, born July 14, I776, at Albany, N. Y. Was partner
with his father at Oran Pompey. Removed to Sullivan,
Madison County, N. Y. He married Zoe Eaton, March
13, I803, had ten children, and died December 28, 1828,
at Sullivan, N. Y.
433. Stephen, born Septemnber 27, I779, at Albany, N. Y., married Abigail Hollister, had six children, and died at S. E.
End, Oneida Lake, N. Y.
434. Nathan, born April 25, I787, married Sally Merrill, had
three children, and died January 15, I818, at Pompey,
N. Y.
435. Abraham, born April 25, 1787, married Pamelia Hough,
January 3, I808, had ten children. Removed in 1833,
to Washtenawan County, Michigan, and died on his
farm there.
436. Isaac, born April 20, I79I, married Diadema Barnes, had
ten children, and died February, I878.
437. Anson, born November 8, 1794, married Nancy Weatherby,
November 8, I817, had five children, and died at Columbia, N. Y., March 23, 1863.
438. Maria Kip, born February 26, I80o, married Dr. Daniel
Dennison, had two children, and died I830.
JACOB (251), (SON or JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
439. John (M.D., LL.D.), born April I8, I787, married Ruth
Angel, April I, I8IO, had eight children, and died March
30, I869, at Cleveland.
440. Edward, born March 20, 1789, married Sarah Hale, September, I812, had seven children.
44I. Jacob, born May 20, 1791, died single, October 21, 1814.
442. Elizabeth, born January 4, 1794, at Duanesburg, N. Y., mar
DELAMATER FAMILY.
5I7
ried Thomas Van Dervere, September 22, 1811, had six
children, and died January 20, 1840, at Florida, N. Y.
443. Maria, born February 4, I799, married Dr. John S. Shuler,
about I816, had two children.
444. Helen, born June 4, I801, married James Duane Shuler,
February 2, I830, had four children, and died February
9, I865.
BENJAMIN (252), (SON OF JOHANNES), SIAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
445. -? (child), died aged Io years.
BENJAMIN (252) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE, ISABEL
BEVERLY:
446. Benjamin, born I796, had two children.
447. John, born I798, married first, Hannah Tripp, September
25, 1828, had one child. He married second, Rosette
Allen, June 15, 1852, had four children.
448. Maria, born October 20, I8oo, married Amory Stearns, July
20, 1821, had six children. Was living in I88I at Jamestown, N. Y.
449. Betsy, born April, 1805, died July, I833.
450. Thomas Jefferson, born 1807, died April, I83I.
45I. George Clinton, born May I, 1809, married twice, had three
children, and died August 6, 1876. Was a physician.
452. Caroline, born 1812, (lied May I8, 1824.
453. Jacob, born May 3, I8I5, married first, Eliza Ann Woodward, December 24, I845, had three children, and second
Julia Bush, July 4, 1857, had two children. Was living
in San Jose, California, until I879.
454. Mary Ann, born June 13, I818, married first, Amos R. Weller, January 3, I838, had three children, and second,
Moses L. Knapp, October, I850, had two children.
ABRAHAM (255), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE BY
SECOND WIFE:
455. Phcebe, born January 7, I80o, at Duanesburg, N. Y., married Caleb Robbins, April 27, I819, had two children, and
died July 31, I853.
456. John, born January 24, I803, died December Io, I804.
457. James, born February 22, 1804, died single, September 20,
1823.
458. Lafayette, born December 2, I806, married Keturah Stewart, had five children.
459. Isaac, born January 4, I809, died February I5, I8II.
460. Julia, born January 9, I8II, died December 20, I8I3.
461. Maria, born July 8, 1814.
518
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
SAMUEL (256), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
462. Willard.
463. John.
464. Isaac, a clergyman, settled in Indiana in I868.
465. Anna, married? Rockenstyne.
466. Polly, who married Mr. Stevens.
467. Irene, born October 3, I799.
PErTER (257), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
468. Maria, born June 24, 18o6, married John Q. Adams Day,
1824, had one child, and died September 10, 1825.
469. John M., born May 4, I809, married Aseneth Bogardus,
1832, and died February, I835.
470. Frederick, born July 2, I8II, married Maria Beebe, January
2, 1834, had three children, and died July 9, I862, at
New Amsterdam, N. Y.
471. Ann Eliza, born May 13, I813, married first, Daniel Coon,
January 2, 1832, had one child, and second, John D.
Jones, February 5, I847, had one child, and died November 15, I850.
472. Stephen G., born March 7, 1815, married Emily Burbanks,
April 24, 1842, had eleven children. Settled at Duanesburg, N. Y., and died I888.
473. Catharine, born April 28, 1817, married Stephen G. W. Van
Natta, January 2, 1833, had ten children, and died December II, I862.
474. Ira M. (Dr.), born September 28, I8IO, married Margaret
Elizabeth Beebe, November 25, 1841, had seven children,
and died September 24, 1864. Settled in Albany, N. Y.
Was a practising physician.
475. Elizabeth, born February 25, 1824, married Henry Harden.
April 9, 1846, had two children, and died July 12, 1848.
476. Marcus R., born August 4, 1827, married Caroline Torry,
March 7, I847, had six children. Settled in Mariaville,
Town of Duanesburg, N. Y. In the milling business.
CYRUS M. (263), (SON or MARTIN), HAD ISSUE:
477. John.
478. Isaac.
479. William.
480. Matilda.
481. Nathaniel.
JOHN (273), (SON or HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
482. Henry, born October 25, I795, married Mary Titus, December 12, I819, settled at Westerlo, Albany County, N. Y.,
had nine children, and died August I6, I87I.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
519
483. Elizabeth, born June Io, I797, died August I, I799.
484. Caty (Catherine), born May 19, 1799, married Jabez Jackson, March 14, I816, had nine children, and died February 6, 1872.
485. Betsy, born July 7, I801, married Rufus Lamreaux, 1817,
had four children, and died September 15, I845.
486. Rebecca, born May 17, 1803, married Stephen F. Cherrytree, November 15, 1821, had three children. Settled
at Greenville, Greene County, N. Y.
487. Ebenezer, born May II, 1805, married Jane Roberts, had
four children. Settled at Jacksonville, town of Coxsackie, N. Y. Joined 9Ist Regiment, and was killed on
picket duty during the Rebellion, April 14, 1863.
488. John, born April 26, 1807, settled on farm in Town of Wolcott, Wayne County, N. Y., had one child, and died I889.
489. William, born April 14, 1809, married Lydia Emeline Matthews, January 13, 1836, had six children. Settled at
Windham, Greene County, N. Y., and died September 21,
I848.
490. Ira, born May 6, I8II, died March 26, I853:
491. Lucius, born May 14, 1813, died October 28, 1830.
492. Mary Ann, born February IO, 1815, married Dr. W. R.
Johnson, March I, I828, had three children. Settled at
Jordan, Onondaga County, N. Y., but later resided near
Syracuse, N. Y.
493. Uriah, born January 28, 1817, married Delia A. Lockwood,
January 27, 184I, had two children, settled at South Westerlo, N. Y., and died 1882.
494. George, born April I6, I8I9, married Laura Chase, had two
children. Settled on farm at Lexington, N. Y., and died
December Io, I862.
495. Lousia, born May II, 1821, married Alanson F. Bryant,
November 9, I840, had two children. Settled at Norton
Hill, Greene County, N. Y., and died March 19, I869.
496. Jane, born October 12, 1824, died March 8, I849.
BENJAMIN VALATIE (274), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
497. Anna, born December 22, 1795, married William Gilbert,
1814, had six children, settled at Muncie, Delaware
County, Indiana, and died April, I847.
498. Thomas, born July 15, 1798, married Martha Day, January
15, I820, had seven children, and died November 26,
I868.
499. Betsy (Elizabeth), born May 22, I801, married Salmon
Noble, April 7, I816, had six children, and died August
I, 1847.
520
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
500. Sibyl, born August I8, I804, married Leonard Reed, October
5, I825, had six children. Resided in I880 at Erie, Pa.
501. Rosena (Lena), born January 6, I8o6, married first, George
W. Ellison, had two children, and second, Charles Lester.
Had three children by second marriage.
502. Henry (Harry), born February 7, I808, married Lydia
Pierce, December 15, I829, but died May 3, 1873, without surviving issue.
503. Abel, born April 5, I8IO, married Celinda Wilcox, had seven
children, and died July 4, I869.
504. Laura, born May I, 1813, married Nathan Bull, February
I, 1831, had seven children.
ABRAHAM VALATIE (275), (SON or HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
505. Dolly, who married Peter Chulters.
506. Reuben C., who married first, Eliza Lambert, about 1836,
had two children. He married second, Harriet Alger,
about I869, had two children.
507. Asa, who died June, I88I.
508: Peter, who married Garret.
509. Willard, who married Emeline Traver.
5Io. Anna, who married David Boice.
51I. Susan.
512. Hannah, who married David Lawton.
513. Polly, who married Nicholas Van Loon, had two children.
BENJAMIN (280), (SON 0F BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
514. Edwin, born February 4, I8IO, died single, June 21, I829.
515. William Harrison, born March 2, 1813, married Elizabeth
Burroughs, February 26, 1834, had one child, and died
April 8, I853.
516. Benjamin Franklin, born March I6, 1815, died April 5, i8i6.
517. Perry Decatur, born June 7, I817, married Susan Swade,
November 17, 184I, had two children.
518. Belden, born February I6, I819, married Elizabeth O'Leary,
February II, 1842, had three children.
519. Catherine Louisa, born February I8, I821, married John
McLean, October 24, 1844, had two children, and died
August Io, I849.
520. Susan Caroline, born March 9, 1823, died unmarried, April
I5, I854.
521. James Van Ness, born February ii, 1828, married Hannah
E. Slocum, November 20, 1855, had one child.
522. Benjamin Edwin, born August 27, 1831, married Amelia
Caroline Gibbs Lloyd, August 8, 1854, had two children,
and died before I862.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
521
MARTYN (288), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
523. Elizabeth.
JOHN ADDISON (293), (SON Of JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
524. John De Witt, born May 15, I808.
525. Jacob, born May 13, i8Io.
GERRET (294), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
526. Jacob, born April 28, I807.
527. Sarah Catherine, born October 8, I8I5.
528. Charles De Witt, born October 5, i8i8.
THOMAS (298), (SON OF CORNELIUS), IAD ISSUE:
529. (Child) that died in infancy.
530. (Child) that died in infancy.
53I. Mary, born December 9, 1794, had two children, and died
I855.
532. Henry No. I, born July 2, 1798, died young.
533. Henry No. 2, born November 19, I8oo, married Julia Harrison, June 12, 1833, and died before I868.
BENJAMIN S. (30I), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
534. Helena, baptized September 22, 1805, married Abraham
Auchmoody, October 30, 1824.
535. Ann Eliza, baptized May 8, i8o8.
536. Abraham Howard, born April I, i8io, married Maria H.
Dolph, December 24, 1839, had four children.
WILLIAM B. (307), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
537. Charles Dewitt, born September 25, I804.
538. Charlotte, born September 25, 1804, married Dr. Daniel V.
Deyo, July 17, 1822, had one child, and died January 14,
1832, at New Paltz, N. Y.
539. Jane, born November 14, 1807, married Dr. S. Tomkins, had
six children. Settled in Dutchess County, N. Y. Resided there in I880.
540. Peter, born June I8, 1813, married Rachel Auchmoody,
April 2, 1834, had nine children. Resided in Lansing,
Michigan, in 1882.
541. Hardenburgh, who married Margaret Lefre, May 12, I858,
no issue.
ABRAHAM (3IO), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
542. Jane Margriet, born March 26, 1806, died January 23, I840.
543. Clarissa, born July 27, I8o8, died May 31, I830.
544. Sarah, born November Io, I8Io, married William Tubbs,
August I, I850, no issue.
522
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
545. Caroline, born January 17, 1813, died, unmarried, August
17, 1823.
546. Radcliff, born May 31, 1815, married Jane Magdaline Elting, I836, had eight children, and died April 2, I895.
547. William Peter, born July 20, I817, married Hannah M. Hopper, August 15, I849, had eight children, and died November 12, I90I.
548. Jennet, born January 8, 1821, died May I6, I853.
JOHN (311), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
549. Jane Eliza, baptized August 25, 1807.
550. Alexander, baptized August 12, 1809.
551. Abraham, born December 29, 1811, married Maria Rich,
May 3, 1844, had two children, and died December 9,
I887.
552. John, baptized July 12, I814.
PETRUS (322), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
553. Maria, baptized June 7, 1807, married James Ellsworth, July
8, 1824, had seven children.
JOHN (332), (SON OF PETER LOW), HAD ISSUE:
554. Emma Elizabeth, born March 3, 1845. Lived in Maryland.
555. Ella Jessie, died aged three years.
556.?-? (boy), died at'birth.
JAMES BRINK (334), (SON Or PETER Low), HAD ISSUE:
557. Alva James, born December 5, I86o, married Lida McConnell, September I, I886, had two children.
THEODORE C. (336), (SON OF PETER Low), HAD ISSUE:
558. Lyman Albert.
559. Arthur J., who resided in San Francisco, Cal.
560. Oscar, who resided in California.
56I. -? (boy), died in infancy.
JOHN (347), (SON or JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
562. Jacob, born September 25, I8IO, married Sarah C. Hendricks, November 22, 1832, had one child. He deceased.
563. John, born November 26, 1812, married Sarah Terpenning,
1840, had two children.
564. Peter, born May 24, 1817,,married Rosalind C. Delamater,
January II, I838, had five children. He deceased.
565. Catherine Ann, born August 7, I807, married Stephen
Sleight, had seven children. Resided in Cayuga County,.
N. Y.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
523
566. Eliza Linnet, born July 27, 1823, married Jacob Dewitt
Hammond, October o1, I846, had five children. Resided
in Ulster County, N. Y.
ISAAC (348), (SON O0' ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
567. Catherine, born April 3, I8o8.
568. Abraham, born October 26, I8IO, had two children.
569. Sally Ann, born March 20, I8I7.
570. Maria, born April 21, I8I9.
JOHN (357), (SON OF SAMUEL), HA) ISSUE:
571. Samuel, born July I, I8I5.
572. Ann Eliza H., born November o1, 1817, married William
Allason, now deceased.
573. Harriet, born October 26, 1820, married Joseph S. Myers.
She deceased.
574. Benjamin, born August 25, 1825, married Ann D. Ostrander, had five children. He deceased.
575. John William, born May 15, 1830, married Eliza McBride.
He deceased.
576.. Charles B., born June 29, I836, married Emma E. Pleslin,
September 8, I859. He deceased.
BENJAMIN WALDRON (358), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
577. Cornelius Marquand, born September 1834, died 1836.
JAMES HORNE (359), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
578. Samuel Martin, born February 15, 1823, married Lavinia
Jane Small, June 12, I853. He deceased.
579. Cornelia Ann, born October 31, 1824, died, unmarried, May
I6, 1850.
580. Guysbert Bogert Vroom, born October 23, 1826, married
Eliza A. Cope, December 28, 1864, had five children.
58I. Hannah Matilda, born August 7, 1828, married Edward A.
Jessup, February I, 1854, had two children.
582. James Watts, born August 21, I830, married first, Mary
Jane Alden, September 24, 1855, and second, Celestine
Maria Grant, December 23, I859, had six children.
583. Peter Vroom, born July 27, 1832, single.
584. Lucretia Maria, born March 2, 1839, married first, John C.
Fuller, and second, C. C. Olney, September I, I859.
ISAAC (362), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
585. Sarah, born October 12, I797, baptized March I8, I798.
524 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
WILLIAM B. (371), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
586. Sarah, deceased.
587. Susan, who married Joseph Fink, of Syracuse, N. Y.
588. Mary, deceased.
589. Wilbur S.
JOHN (373), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
590. Mary Elizabeth, born September 19, 1842, married James
Thompson, June 19, i86o.
59I. William Gardiner, born November 25, I844, married Caroline A. Citti, October 29, 1871, have one child.
592. Emma Frances, born December I6, 1846, married Edward
A. W. Smith, July 6, I864.
593. Edward W. C., born December 24, 1848, single.
594. John Mortimer, born January 8, 1851, died in infancy.
595. Frederick Miledge, who married first, Helen L. Thierbock,
January 14, 1882. He married a second wife in I898.
No issue.
JACOB (383), (SON oV EVERT), HAD ISSUE:
596. Charles, who died young.
597. Mary, who married Mr. M yers, had one child.
598. Susan, who married Jabez H. Davis, no issue.
599. Jehiel, born June 28, 1831, married Amelia A. Kipp, March
20, I855, had one child.
PEIT'ER (398), (SON OF CLAUDE), HAD ISSUE:
60o. Jacob H., born 1825, married Mary Jannete Rote, April,
1859, had one child.
6oI. Lewis, who resides in Columbia County, N. Y.
602. Richard.
603. Elizabeth.
TUNIS OSTERHIOU' (412), (SON OF CLOUDY (CLAUDE),
HAD ISSUE:
604. Henry, who married Cornelia Moul, and resided in Columbia County, N. Y.
605. Albert, who married Albertine Sagendorph, and resided in
Columbia County, N. Y.
JONAS ROSSMORE (413), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
606. Ezra Doane.
JAMES BARNES (422), (SON Op ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
607. Jacob, born April 27, 1827, baptized January 19, I833.
608. Abraham, born March 27, I829, baptized January I9, I833.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
525
609. Joseph Nelson, born February 20, 1831, baptized January
I9, 1833.
6Io. Isaac Leister, born March 30, I833, baptized July 6, I833.
6II. Andrew, born March 31, I835.
612. Harry, born August 9, I844, baptized July 2, I854.
613. Josephine, born September i6, 1846, baptized July 2, I854.
WILLIAM (426), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
614. Margaret, born about 1828, married James Miller, July 17,
1878, had one child.
6I5. Jane, born about I830, married Roger Bresba, August 27,
1873, had two children.
616. Caroline, born about 1832, married Frank Boone, January
4, 1864, had three children.
617. Elizabeth, born about 1834, married Archibald McGuire,
April 3, I858, had five children.
618. John, born about I836, married Mary C. Nutting, October
II, I860, had four children.
SMITH (43I), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
69r. Julius S., born April 14, 1827, married Amanda Sweet, May
5, I857, had two children.
620. Betsy C., born June 15, 1828, married Barney Philips, January 1, 1853, had four children.
621. William H., born June 25, 1829, married Ruth Berry, January 28, I850, had two children.
622. Horace N., born May 26, I831, married Mary Brewster,
March 28, 1859, had three children.
623. Joseph F., born October 25, I832, married Maria Mayo, had
two children.
624. Maria J., born April II, 1834, married first, Horace Bellows,
December 25, 1852, had one child. He died March 21,
1853, and she married second, John L. Lang, having six
children by this marriage.
625. Sarah M., born November 6, 1836, married Romeo Emerson, July 3, 1855, had fourteen children.
626. Amanda E., born October 3, 1839, married James Warren,
March, I862.
627. James M., born February 17, I841, married Emma Shaw,
had six children.
628. Charles E., born October 28, I843.
629. Lucius B., born January 24, 1845, married Frances E. Gordell, had two children.
630. Mary J., born September 20, I847.
526
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
SMITH (43I) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
631. George, born January 8, 1850, at Dickenson, N. Y., married
Cornelia Davis, January I, 1870, had six children.
632. Lecta A., born December 20, I852, married first, David Cook,
November 15, 1871, and second, William Quackenbush.
633. Emily L., born June 3, 1854, married Alfred Drew, June,
1872, had three children. She deceased.
634. John L., born March Io, I857, married Delvina Clark, December I8, 1873, had three children.
JOHN (432), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
635. Matilda, born October Io, 1804, married first, Charles Buell,
June 25, 1826, and second, Edwin Merrill, May 14, 1829,
had one child, and (lied in 1832.
636. Harriet, born February 3, i8o6, married Silas B. Safford,
had ten children.
637. Harry, born March I808, died in infancy.
638. Caroline, born May 23, 1809, married Elisha Adams, January 12, 1831, at Sullivan, N. Y., had one child.
639. Anson H., born April 13, 1811, married first, Ann Alida
Adams, January II, 1831, and second, Lydia Ann Parmentier, November I6, 1842. Settled at Columbus, Michigan. Was County Surveyor in I836, and in State Legislature about 1844.
640. DeWitt C., born March 7, 1813, married Jane Hitt, had one
child. Settled at Columbia, Michigan, and died November, 1840.
641. Sarah, born October 27, 1814.
642. Mary Etta, born June 15, 1817, married Marshall B. Hart,
had three children.
643. John, born March 29, 1820, married Phebe 0. Buell, March
29. 1843, had nine children. Settled at Brooklyn, Jackson County, Michigan.
644. Louisa, born June 25, 1826, married Luther H. Buell, September 4, I850, had two children. She of New York City.
STEPHEN (433), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
'645. Lizzie.
646. Isaac, born 181O, married Jane Carter, March, I844 or I845,
had four children, and died February 25, I887.
'647. Hannah.
648. Sally.
649. Stephen.
650. Nathan.
NATHAN (434), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
65I. Maria, born May 8, I8o8, married Morris Harrison, July,
1832, had three children.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
527
652. James M., born May 13, 1811, married Mary Coats, August
3, I832, had one child, and died in 1878.
653. Chandler B., born February 14, 1814, at Pompey, N. Y.
Was in brokerage business in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
died in I856.
ABRAHAM (435), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
654. Nathan, born December I, I808, at Avon, N. Y., married
first, Ursula Ruby Rathbone, January, 1842, had one
child. He married second, Sarah A. Miner, February II,
1849, had three children, and died at Sheridan, Michigan.
655. Emeline, born April 9, I8IO, married Josiah R. Sloat, October I, 1835, had one child, and died March 15, I837.
656. Chandler, born April 22, 1812, died February 24, 1813.
657. Lorenzo D., born August 2, 1816, married Hannah Kellogg,
March 9, I837, had two children, and died August I8,
I852.
658. Bradley M., born May 17, I8I9, married Clarissa J. Denton,
June I6, 1842, had two children.
659. Maria Jane, born June 14, 182I, died May I8, 1828.
660. Benjamin C., born August 6, 1823, married Mary L. Hall,
August I6, I865, had one child.
66I. Samuel, born April II, 1825, died May I8, 1828.
662. Susan A. H., born April 28, 1827, married Bradley F.
Granger, October I8, I848, had five children.
663. Helen S., born April 28, I830.
ISAAC (436), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
664. Edward, born August 26, I812, married Mary Hungerford,
September I, 1835, had two children.
665. Sophia No. I, born March, I8I5, died July I, I8i8.
666. Washington, born April 7, 1817, at Manlius, N. Y., married first, Esther Randall, March I9, 1845, had two children. He married second, Lucy Loomis, had two children.
667. Maria, born March 29, 1820, married Hiram Tuthill, January 7, I839, had three children, and died December 20,
I849.
668. Sophia No. 2, born May 5, 1822, married Lewis F. Pickett,
December 30, 1841, had three children, and died June 7,
1847.
669. Charles, born June 24, 1825, married Clara Lester, October
5, 1859, had two children.
670. Jackson, born September ii, 1827, married Elizabeth Hollister, April 2I, 1863, had six children.
671. Constant C., born August II, 1830, married first, Frances
528
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Needham, December 25, I868, and second, Mary Pickett,
I875.
672. William Wallace, born June 22, 1832, married Magdalena
Dubois, April 6, 1856, had four children.
673. Isaac Newell, born October I, I836, married Mary A. Barry,
had one child.
ANSON (437), (SON Or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
674. Mary Jane, born August 21, I818, married S. T. Marsh, Jr.,
September 17, 1835, had two children.
675. Harriet Louisa, born December 20, I8I9, died January II,
I820.
676. Nancy W., born June 6, 1824, married John G. Clark, October 6, 1842, and died October, I843.
677. Anson White, born October 12, 1827, married Mary C. Powers, March 4, 1845, had one child.
678. Hannah Helen, born June 7, 1830, married John G. Clark,
March 4, 1845, had one child.
JOHN (439), (SON OF JACOB), hAD ISSUE:
679. Mehitable, born July 31, I8II, married Dr. James Davis,
January 27, 1828, and died May 29, 1836.
680. Elizabeth, born February 27, I813.
68I. Jacob (Dr.), born June 25, 1815, married Sophia Beckwith,
January I, 1838, had three children.
682. Gertrude C. H., born August 26, 1817, married Ellis Worthington, October 27, 1844, and died February I5, i866.
683. John Angell, born July 19, I819, died October 31, I875.
684. Mary W., born March Io, 1824, died June 3, I85I.
685. Eliza Sill, born February, 1825, married Dr. Rodney Matthews, February 14, 1844, and died October 5, I847.
686. Martha, born March 31, 1826, married Dr. Burnham, November 3, 1852.
EDWARD (440), (SON oF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
687. Maria Ann, born August 30, 1814, died March I8, 1859.
688. Jacob, born September 6, I816, died I86I.
689. Cornelia, born December 12, I817, died 1829.
69o. Addison, born October 12, 1820.
69I. Adalina, born October 12, 1820.
692. Helen, born September I8, 1826.
BENJAMIN (446), (SON or BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
693. Sarah, who married John W. Bundy, and settled at Indianola, Warren County, Illinois.
694. Betsy Amanda, who married Rufel P. King. Resided in
I880, at Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
529
JOHN (447), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
695. Harmon, born August 14, 183I.
JOHN (447) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
696. Benjamin, born July I, I853.
697. Kate, born September 29, I855.
698. (Son), born I857, died in infancy.
699. (Daughter), born I859, died in infancy.
JACOB (453), (SON oF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
700. Joseph Benjamin, born December28, 1846, died July 28,I847.
701. John Smith, born July 5, 1848, died August I, 1848.
702. Albert F., born September 29, I849.
JACOB (453) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
703. Alton Washington, born May 5, I858.
704. Marvin Levilla, born July 29, I860.
LAFAYETTE (458), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
705. Martha Jane, born January 15, 1830, of Albany County, N.
Y., was unmarried in 1881, and died I9OI.
706. Maria Lewis, born April 3, I832, married Ferris Tripp, June
I5, 1852, had seven children. She of Brooklyn, N. Y.
707. James, born September 14, 1834, married Mary Ellen Coley,
had two children, and died in I877, at Albany, N. Y.
708. John Adams, born July 22, I837, married Angelica Wheeler,
May 20, 1862, had three children. Resided in Albany
County, N. Y.
709. Stephen Truesdall, born January 20, 1840, married Mary
(Ellen) Ann Lee, September 22, 1864, had four children.
He deceased.
FREDERICK (470), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
710. Marcus F., born October 14, 1834, died single.
7II. Henry, born September I6, I836, died March 8, I837.
712. William Henry, born September I6, I839, died single.
STEPHEN G. (472), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
7I3. Peter, born January 26, I843, diedsingle, November 24, 1863.
714. Ann Augusta, born June I8, 1845, died May 2, I847.
715. Sarah Elizabeth, born November I, 1846, died June I8, 1858.
716. Eliza M., born April 8, 1849, married David Humphrey,
December 8, 1875, had four children. Lived on a farm
at Duanesburgh, N. Y.
717. Horace B., born April 30, 1851, died single, July 9, I879.
530
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
7I8. Emily, born June 29, 1852, married Joseph Mitchell, September 4, I88I, had three children. Settled at Tamaqua,
Pa., and died January I8, I886.
719. Marietta, born January 22, 1856, unmarried.
720. Laura, born March 20, 1858, unmarried.
721. Helen, born June 27, I860, married John H. Veeder, October IO, I9oo. No issue:
722. Stephen, born August 8, I862, died in I862.
723. Mary, born December I6, 1864, married John P. Bender,
June 22, 1889, had two children.
IRA M. (474), (SON O' PETER), HAD ISSUE:
724. John M., born May 3, 1843, married Mary Elizabeth Ostrander, June 21, I86I, had seven children. Settled in
Schenectady County, N. Y. Enlisted in Company J,
I3th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers Heavy Artillery, September 13, I863, and was mustered out of United States
service, June 28, I865. He deceased.
725. Elizabeth, born March 25, 1845, died July 24, I845.
726. Nicholas B., born February 21, 1847, married Ella J. Link,
November 3, 1870, had one child. He was a practising
physician, and settled in Chicago, Ill.
727. Helen Shuler, born February 17, 1849, married Benjamin
Finch, March 13, 1867, had four children.
728. Eliza Maria, born June 2, I85I, died June 21, I85I.
729. Almira, born June 28, 1857, died November 8, I857.
730. Libius, born June 28, 1857, died November 8, I857.
MARCUS R. (476), (SON Or PETER), HAD ISSUE:
73I. Ira, born February I8, 1848, died single, August 28, i866.
732. Austin, born May 25, I850, married Emily Stoddard, December I3, I877, had two children.
733. Maria Antoinette, born March I, 1853, married Abram N.
Brink, October 21, I873, had three children. Settled at
Mariaville, N. Y.
734. Frederick, born October 20, 1855, married Elizabeth Van
Valkenburgh, July 3, 1877, had one child.
735. James L., born September I6, 1859, married, and had one
child.
736. William H. (Dr.), born September 24, 1862, married December 5, i888.
HENRY (482), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
737. Lucius, born October 22, 1820, married first, Harriet Conrad, October 15, I845, had three children. He married
second, Lusetta Snyder, September II, 1876, no issue.
He deceased.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
53I
738. Titus, born February 22, 1822, married Hannah M. Reeves,
December 24, I850, had two children. He deceased.
739. Zebulon, born July 22, 1824, married Mary Lounsbury, October 25, 1848, had four children. He deceased.
740. Elizabeth, born June 17, 1827, married George Lewis
Rogers, June 21, 1852, had two children. She deceased.
74I. Mary, born May 12, 1829, married Willett Lounsbury, October IO, I849, had six children.
742. Henry, born March 24, 1831, married Elizabeth Mackey.
743. Sarah, born March 4, 1833, married John W. Tanner, December 25, 1850, had two children.
744. Isaac, born February I8, 1835, married Isadora Winans,
September Io, 1873, had one child.
745. Susan, born August I6, 1837, married Aaron Scott, but died
without issue.
EBENEZER (487), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
746. Ann Eliza, born 1828, married Abner Palmer, no issue.
747. John, settled at Medway, Greene County, N. Y., had two
children. He deceased.
748. Harriet, who married Mr. Cochran, and settled at Medway, Greene County, N. Y. She deceased.
749. William H.
WILLIAM (489), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
750. William Wallace, born November 13, I836, married Anna
Bevier Steffield, December I6, i868, had one child.
751. Lucius Matthews, born December I6, 1838, married Margaret Gray, December 24, I86I, had two children.
752. Josephine, born December 31, I84I, married John Sturgis,
April 23, i86i, had five children, and died January II,
1880.
753. Antoinette, born August 9, I844, married Platt M. Snyder,
I867, had two children.
754. Ellen Eliza, born May Io, 1846, married Albert N. Smith,
October II, I865, had one child.
755. Eunice Rebecca, born June I, 1848, married Rev. Edward F.
Barlow, September 18, I868.
URIAH (493), (SON Or JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
756. Mary Elizabeth, born March 4, 1842, died June 2, 1849.
757. Horace L., born July 6, 1850, married Emma Norton, March
27, 1872, had one child. Settled at Westerlo, N. Y.
GEORGE (494), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
758. Estelle, who married Mr. Peck.
759. Oscar, who is a farmer in Greene County, N. Y.
532 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
THOMAS (498), (SON OF BENJAMIN VALATIE), HAD ISSUE:
760. George Benjamin, born January 14, I821, married Susan
Cowle Toun, March 24, I847, had four children.
76I. Melisa Amelia, born January I6, 1823, married James Madison Miller, June 6, I839, had nine children.
762. Charles Day, born September 30, I824, married Julia Hatch,
November 19, 1846, had two children.
763. Lafayette, born July I, 1827, married Sarah Pealman, had
four children.
764. Thomas Henry (Rev.), born March 3, 1829, married Anna
(Ann) Peasley, September 4, 1856, had five children.
765. John, born September 18, 1832, married Fannie Lyon,
March 5, 1854, had one child, and died June I6, I867.
766. Almon, born March 21, 1842, married Sylvia C. Sanford,
January 24, I866, had three children.
ABEL (503), (SON OF BENJAMIN VALATIE), HAD ISSUE:
767. Benjamin F., born December 21, I834, died October I6,
I844.
768. Leonard, born October I, I836, married M. E. Smith, November 8, 1855, had six children.
769. Reuben S., born June 29, I838, married Amelia C. Custiss,
September io, I86o, and died July 2, I862.
770. Mary M., born December 25, 1839, married W. W. Cutshall,
November 14, I858, and died September 22, 1874.
77I. Thomas, born February I9, 1842, died May 11, 1842.
772. Martha A., born November I, I846, died, unmarried, November 9, I862.
773. William M., born July 19, 1854, died September 26, 1858.
REUBEN C. (5o6), (SON OF ABRAHAM VALATIE), HAD ISSUE:
774. Stephen, born about I837.
775. S. M. K., born about I839.
REUBEN C. (506), HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
776. Mary Ann.
777. George C., who married Elizabeth Fox, I86I.
WILLIAM HARRISON (515), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
778. William Burrough.
PERRY DECATUR (517), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
779. Abraham.
780. Sarah Elizabeth.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
533
BELDEN (518), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
781. Belden.
782. Caroline
783. James.
JAMES VAN NESS (52I), (SON or BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
784. Bayard Edwin.
BENJAMIN EDWIN (522), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
785. Frederick who resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
786. Maria Rose, who resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
ABRAHAM HOWARD (536), (SON OF BENJAMIN S.), HAD ISSUE:
787. Adelaide M., born September 18, 1840, married John Wells
Hammond, March IO, I864, had four children.
788. Helen, born May 12, I844, married Harvey Beers, had two
children.
789. Effie, born April I, 1854, deceased.
790. Reid A., born September 21, 1856, married Maria Jones,
had two children.
PETER (540), (SON OF WILLIAM B.), HAD ISSUE:
79I. Charlotte, born September 25, I835, married Charles Atwood, August 24, 1859, had two children.
792. Maria, born August 5, I837, died unmarried May 26, 1858.
793. William B., born June 22, 1840, married Emma C. Baker,
September 2, 1867, had two children, and died in I897.
794. Isaac A., born February 20, 1842, married first, Harriet Colton, May Io, I86I, and second, Millie Shelley, October,
1871, had one child, and died in 1885.
795. Sarah, born June 20, 1844, married D. N. Shull, April 4,
I868, but died without issue.
796. Olive, born June 13, I846, died August 8, I85I.
797. Clarissa, born April 21, 1848, died March 6, I855.
798. Louis (Rev.),born August I6, 1850, married Mary E. Baker,
June 4, 1879, had four children.
799. Delia, born March 2I, 1852, married A. O. Baker, January
9, 1872, had two children, and died in 1887.
RADCLIFF (546), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
800. Edward B., born November 27, I837, married Julia Myers,
March 27, I86I, had four children.
801. Charles K., born August 12, 1839, married first, Lavinia
Keator, I866, had two children, and second, Melinda
Terwilliger, had two children.
802. Julia J., born June 9, 1841, married George E. Seamon, October 27, I86I, had five children.
534
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
803. William P., born November 13, I843, died single, January
28, I863.
804. Elting, born May IO, I846, married Mary Ann Roosa,
August 16, 1872, had three children.
805. Radcliffe, born June 14, 1850, married Louisa J. Hildreth,
January 6, I875, had three children.
806. Antoinette, born May 4, 1853, unmarried.
807. Abraham, born I859, died in infancy.
WILLIAM PETER (547), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE;:
808. Clarissa, born April 28, 1851, married Isaac Carman, August 28, 1874, had six children.
809. Josephine, born February 20, 1852, married Charles W.
Maxwell, October 15, I874.
8io. Abram J., born January 8, 1854, married Elizabeth Ward,
November 27, I884.
811. George Wallace, born June 15, I856, died I860.
812. Gertrude, born November 4, I858, married Chester De Puy,
November io, I886.
8I3. Charles Wallace, born June i8, I860, died 1862.
814. Mary V., born September 25, 1865, married Luther Schoonmaker, April 15, I900.
8I5. Flora; born November 6, 1867, married Frank Allington,
August 14, I894.
ALVA JAMES (557), (SON O' JAMES BRINK), HAD ISSUE:
816. James Brink, born November I8, 1887.
8I7. Theodore Alva, born August 4, 1900.
JACOn (562), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
818. Peter, born August 13, 1833, married first, Sophia H.
Thompson, November i6, 1854, had one child. He married second, Mary J. Styles, September II, I895. Resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
JOHN (563), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
8I9. Israel Van Keuren, born November I, 1835, died single.
820. Eliphaz, born March 2I, 1842, married Anna M. Andrews,
October 25, I882, had six children.
PETER (564), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
821. William.
822. Henry, died single.
823. Orrin, married, but died without issue. Lived in Connecticut.
824. Lewis, died single. Was a policeman in New York.
825. Mamie, of New York.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
535
ABRAHAM (568), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
826. Nelson, who married Eliza Ann Sleight, had four children.
Resided in Cayuga County, N. Y.
827. Dorcas, who married Christopher Sleight, had one child.
Resided in Cayuga County, N. Y.
BENJAMIN (574), (SON OF JOIN), HAD ISSUE:
828. Mary Emma, who resided in Missouri, married James Beattie, had six children.
829. John Howard, of New York.
830. Ida, who married John Gardner, had one child. She of
Bayonne, N. J.
83I. Dubois, who married Jennie Cornell, had two children. He
resided in New York.
832. Charles Henry (D. D. S.), who married Josephine M. Deane.
Resided in New York.
GUYSBERT BOGERT VROOM (580), (SON OF JAMES HORNE),
HAD ISSUE:
833. Schuyler C., born September 24, I865, single.
834. Cathleen M., born I867, died in infancy.
835. Gertrude A., born May 30, I868, married J. B. T. Tuthill,
had three children.
836. Jessie N., born June I8, 1870, married Joseph G. Enright.
837. Grace E., born June 2, I873, married William H. Williamson, had one child.
JAMES WATTS (582), (SON OF JAMES HORNE), HAD ISSUE:
838. Lucretia Eliza, born October 3I, I86o, married John Ives,
April I2, I866.
839. Mary Cornelia, born April I6, 1862, married John C. A.
Pickett, September II, I879.
840. Evelyn Catalina, born July 26, 1864, married William F.
Vallandyham, September II, 1884, had one child.
841. Guysbert Watts, born July 20, I866.
842. Schuyler Beekman, born July 26, I868.
843. Erskine Grant, born November I4, I874.
WILLIAM GARDINER (591), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
844. Maria Alexina, born December 8, 1875, died in infancy.
JEHIEL (599), (SON oF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
845. Cornelia, born April I, 1862, married Frederick A. Ryer,
had one child.
536
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
JACOB H. (6oo00), (SON O0 PETER), HAD ISSUE:
846. Frederick, born I86I, married Hattie A. Root, 1884. Resided in Humphreysville.
JOHN (6i8), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
847. Henrietta, born June 4, i86i.
848. David J., born April II, 1863.
849. William Rubens, born March 22, I866.
850. Mary, born May 17, i868.
JULIUS S. (6I9), (SON or SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
85I. Eldredge.
852. Anna.
WILLIAM H. (621), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
853. Henry Sabine, born November 5, I850, married Mary Watson, November 4, 1874, had one child.
854. Louise Celesta, born May 3, 1853, married James Riley,
July II, I870, had four children.
HORACE N. (622), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
855. Albert W., born April 17, i86o.
856. Alfred, born September I6, I866.
857. Alonzo, born August 31, I869.
JOSEPH F. (623), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
858. Fidella, born March 3, 1864, died May I, I877.
859. Florence, born March 13, I864.
JAMES M. (627), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
860. Etta.
86I. Minnie.
862. Charles.
863. Elvina.
864. Bertie.
865.?.
LUCIUS B. (629), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
866. Edwin James.
867. Tella Adella.
GEORGE (63I), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
868. Florence, born September 5, 1872, married Thomas Tewksbury, had two children.
869. Charles, born December 12, 1874, married Orpha Moody, had
two children.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
537
870. Sarah, born April 26, 1877, deceased.
871. Maud, born July 15, 1879, married Edgar Hoyt. She deceased.
872. Mamie, born June I8, 1882, deceased.
873. George, born February I9, 1884.
JOHN I,. (634), (SON OF SMITH), HAD ISSUE:
874. Emma, born October 15, 1874, died April, I883.
875. Maggie, born February 4, 1875, married Cornelius Clark,
had two children.
876. Bert, born April 9, 1878, married Lulu Trim, had one child.
JOHN (643), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
877. DeWitt Clinton, born January I, 1844, married Kate Hewitt,
January I, I866, had one child.
878. John Luther, born October 4, 1845, married Sarah E. Sanford, September 14, I868, had two children. He deceased.
879. Cynthia Louisa, born September 20, I847, married Bradley
M. Delamater, Jr., had two children. She deceased.
880. Sarah Odelia, born July 25, 1850, married John C. Covert,
September I6, 1873, had three children.
88I. Lillie D., born September 29, 1853, married James H. Dresser, September 6, I883, had two children.
882. Zoe Alida, born September 29, 1856, married Bradley M.
Delamater, Jr., April 2, 1897.
883. Myra Eugenia, born 1859, married J. W. Palmer, November
9, I88I, had one child.
884. Julia Phebe, born June Io, 1862, died 1863.
885. Mary Jane, born November 9, I865, unmarried (I902).
ISAAC (646), (SON OF STEPHEN), HAD ISSUE:
886. Calista, born January Io, 1846.
887. Webster, born September 6, 1848.
888. Endell, born June 25, I850.
889. Elmer Ellsworth, born April 14, i86i.
JAMES M. (652), (SON OF NATHAN), HAD ISSUE:
890. Sarah, born August 23, I837.
NATHAN (654), (SON oF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
89I. Helen Ursula, born September 19, 1842, married Milan
Fowler, had two children.
NATHAN (654) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
892. Ruby Maria, born January I8, I850.
893. John, born September 3, I85I, died August ii, I852.;894. Rosett, born June 13, 1853.
538
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
LORENZO D. (657), (SON or0 ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
895. Merrick L., who married Eliza Wade, August I, I86o, had
two children.
896. Henlen E., who married Warren R. Vincent, had three
children.
BRADIY M. (658), (SON o0 ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
897. Thomas, who died young.
898. Bradley M., Jr., born October 24, 1847, married first, Cynthia Louise De Lamater, had two children. He married
second, Zoe Alida De Lamater, June 2, I897.
BENJAMIN C. (660), (SON oF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
899. Charles Fremont, born December 15, I856, at Fox River
Township, Davis County, Iowa.
EDWARD (664), (SON o0 ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
90o. Henry Columbus, born April I9, 1838, married Laura Smith.
90o. Jane E., born February 7, 1846.
WASHINGTON (666), (SON or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
902. Bellona, born October 17, I846, married Joseph S. Choat,
June 4, I864, had four children.
903. Julia, born August 24, 1848, died in infancy.
WASHINGTON (666) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
904. John, born September 12, I850, died June 30, I874.
905. William (Dr.), born February 2, 1852.
CHARLES (669), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
906. Maria E., born June I, I866.
907. George L., born June 29, I874.
JACKSON (670), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
908. Newell, born May 14, I864.
909. Frank, born September 21, I865.
9IO. George, born May 6, I868, died September 8, I870.
9II. Florence E., born July 23, I870.
912. Edith May, born October 2, 1871.
913. George Albert, born November 14, 1876.
WILLIAM WALLACE (672), (SON or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
914. Henry, born January 9, I86I, at Columbia, Michigan.
915. Homer, born March 3, i868, at Columbia, Michigan.
916. Willis, born April 22, 1872, at Columbia, Michigan.
917. Freddy, born September 14, 1874, at Columbia, Michigan.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
539
ISAAC NEWELL (673), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
918. Diadema, born August 2, I879.
ANSON WHITE (677), (SON OF ANSON), HAD ISSUE:
919. James Willard, born November I6, 1848.
DR. JACOB (68I), (SON OI: JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
920. Annie, born May 2, 1842, died April 29, I849.
921. Georgie, born April 12, 1848, married G. A. Hamlin, February 12, I873.
922. George, born September 25, I854, married Ida A. Gilbert,
September 26, 1882, had one child.
JAMES (707), (SON OF LAFAYETTE), HAD ISSUE:
923. George Wright, born February 7, 1859, had one child. He
deceased.
924. Grace Maria, born March 30, I862, died October 27, I864.
JOHN ADAMS (708), (SON OF LAFAYETTE), HAD ISSUE:
925. John Wheeler, born March 27, 1863, died in infancy.
926. Anna Wheeler, born April 25, I865, died January 17, i868.
927. John A., Jr., born September 30, I867, married Minnie
Mluckudge.
STEPHEN TRUESDALT (709), (SON OF LAFAYETTE),
HAD ISSUE:
928. Grace, born January 9, I865, married W- ard.
929. Sarah Fayette, born November 3, I867, married Charles
Pratt, had three children.
930. Ezra Lee, born February 13, I870, died November 5, I870.
931. Stephen Truesdall, Jr., born February 25, I877.
JOHN M. (727), (SON OF IRA M.), HAD ISSUE:
932. Ira M., born December Io, 1863, died December 20, I863.
933. Walter James, born January 2, I866:
934. Ada Belle, born July 22, i868.
935. Edith L., born July 22, i868.
936. Mattie F., born September 8, I870.
937. Horace William, born May 26, 1872.
938. Earl Mott, born March 23, 1878.
AUSTIN (732), (SON OF MARCUS R.), HAD ISSUE:
939. Edna, born October 2, 1878.
940. Frank, born November 15, I88o.
FREDERICK (734), (SON OF MARCUS R.), HAD ISSUE:
94I. Melvin Van Valkenburgh, born December i5, 1878, died
April I8, I879.
540
HISTORY OF HARLEM:
Lucius. (737), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
942. Mary Helen, born September 21, 1846, married George
Mackey, February 28, I869, had two children.
943. Charles H., born November 22, I847, married Dora Gifford,
September 20, I870, no issue.
944. Frank L., born December i8, 1851, married Josephine Ingalls, July I6, 1873, had one child.
TITUS (738), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
945. Julia, born August 9, 1853, married Lewis Litchfield, had
two children.
946. William, born March I8, 1859, married Nettie A. Cleveland, had two children.
IZEBULON (739), (SON Oil' HENRY), hAD ISSUE:
947. Ira E., born September Io, 1853, married Mary C. Bouton,
December 24, 1874, had one child.
948. Oscar Z., born November 13, 1855, married Anna Brouk,
April 4, I876, had two children.
949. Wilson T., born October I, I862.
950. Cora C., born July 30, I865.
ISAAC (744), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
95I. Roscoe Winans, born January 9, I879.
WILLIAM WALLACE (750), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
952. Edward Sellew, born August 30, I875.
Lucius MATTHEWS (751), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
953. Anna, born September 2, 1863, married Emory G. Tompkins, had one child.
954. Emeline, born April 20, 1874, died April 14, I875.
HORACE L. (757), (SON 01' URIAH), HAD ISSUE:
955. Bertie, born June 26, I878.
GEORGE BENJAMIN (760), (SON OF THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
956. George Wallace, born March 31, 1849, married Mary E.
McFarland, November 23, 1871, had two children.
957. Thomas Albert, born December 7, I850, married Sarah
Elizabeth Richmond, June I, 1871, had two children.
958. Susan Adelaide, born March 27, 1859, married Lewis
Walker, October 4, 1877, had three children.
959. Victor Morris, born November I, I86o, married Frances
Josephine Forkes, September 25, 1884, had two children.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
54I
CHARLES DAY (762), (SON or THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
960. Mary Esther, born August 26, I849, married George Brice.
96I. Walter Henry, born May 29, 1852, married twice, had one
child.
LAFAYETTE (763), (SON of THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
962. Flora Eva, born February 22, 1853, married Judson C.
Sayer, July 2, I871.
963. Ella Sarah, born July 21, 1854, married Laverne Devilier
Aiken, October 9, 1876.
964. Albert Laverene, born October 4, 1856, married Sarah Emma Bentley.
965. Alice Martha, born October 4, I856, married William Gustavus Bentley, March 15, 1878.
REV. THOMAS HENRY (764), (SON OF THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
966. Melva Maria, born March 17, I858.
967. Emma Florence, born December 13, I859.
968. Almon Herman, born December 31, 1862, died August 3,
I864.
969. Martha May, born June 15, 1868, died October 5, I869.
970. Henry Bruce, born March 22, 1876.
JOHIN (765), (SON OF THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
971. Susan Frances, born December 22, 1857, married John
Thomas Hill, October 17, 1879, had one child.
ALMON (766), (SON OF THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
972. Grace Laura, born November 29, 1872.
973. Sylvia Maude, born September 21, I875.
974. Leonie, born June I6, I88I.
LEONARD (768), (SON OF ABEL), HAD ISSUE:
975. William M., born December I3, I857.
976. Horace L., born December 30, I859.
977. Jennie M., born May I6, 1862, married Albert L. Bowman,
August 14, I88o.
978. Amelia, born July 2I, I864.
979. Franklin W., born October Io, 1870.
980. Sarah A., born January 14, I874.
REID A. (790), (SON OF ABRAHAM HOWARD), HAD ISSUE:
981. Harry A., resided at Addison, N. Y.
982. Florence A., resided at Addison, N. Y.
542
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
WILLIAM B. (793), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
983. Harry B., born August 29, 1872.
984. Fred M., born February 3, I874.
ISAAC A. (794), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE,:
985. Louie J., born July 29, 1872.
REV. Louis (798), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
986. Eric, born February I8, I880.
987. Elsie, born April 11, 1883.
988. Donald L., born May 4, 1885.
989. Luella M., born March 8, I889.
EDWARD B. (800), (SON OF RADCLIFF), HAD ISSUE:
990. Luella E. L., born February IO, 1862, died February 17,
I866.
991. John W., born May 3, I863, married Emma J. Smith, November 7, 1883, had three children.
992. Cora B., born April 20, I870, married Walter Howard,
August 24, I894, had one child.
993. Frederick R., born August 4, 1874, married Clara Johnson,
April 15, I896, have one child.
CHARLES K. (8oi), (SON OF RADCLIFF), HAD ISSUE:
994. Carrie, born June I6, I867, married Freeman Straight, January I, 900o, no issue.
995. Irving, born August, I870.
ELTING (804), (SON OF RADCLIFF), HAD ISSUE:
996. James C., born September 29, 1873, died young.
997. William, born June io, 1875, married Ethel Oakley, February 28, I9oo, no issue.
998. Elting R., born June 23, 1870.
RADCLIFFE (805), (SON OF RADCLIFEF), HAD ISSUE:
999. Hildreth, born November 28, 1875, died young.
Iooo. Claude Fay, born October 7, 1877.
1oo0. Ethel, born January 20, 1879, died young.
PETER (818), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
1002. Mary F., born December 23, 1855, died unmarried, May
I, I873.
ELIPHAZ (820), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
1003. Emmett, resided in Dutchess County, N. Y., deceased.
1004. John Oscar, single, resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
DELAMATER FAMILY.
543
1005. Harold Waldo, resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
Ioo6. Mildred, resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
I007. Wilfred Schuyler, resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
IOO8. Cornelia, resided in Dutchess County, N. Y.
NELSON (826), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
Io09. Stephen, of Cayuga County, N. Y.
IOIO. Phebe, who married John W. Bibbins, and resided at
Brutus, N. Y.
ioII. Fanny, resided at Brutus, N. Y., married Frank Jacobs.
1012. Royal, died in I892.
HENRY SABINE (853), (SON OF WILLIAM H.), HAD ISSUE:
1013. Willard, born August 15, 1876.
CHARLES (869), (SON OF GEORGE), HAD ISSUE:
1014. Edgar.
IOI5. Hazel.
DEWITT CLINTON (877), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
IOI6. Bell, born July 20, I868, at Paw Paw, Michigan, married
David Kay, I896, had two children.
JOHN LUTHER (878), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
II017. Zella L., born August 17, I870, at Brooklyn, Michigan,
married Fred Adams, had one child.
IOI8. Anson, born June 13, 1874, at Columbia, Michigan, married
Flora Miller, and had one child.
MIERRICK L. (895), (SON OF LORENZO D.), HAD ISSUE:
IOI9. Minnie Helen, born January Io, I867.
1020. Nellie Josephine, born August 24, I869, died August I5,
1876.
BRADLEY M., JR. (898), (SON OF BRADLEY M.), HAD ISSUE:
102I. Allie, born November 27, 1873, married E. R. Nash, June
7, I899.
1022. Edna Louise, born January 13, I877, died January 5, I882.
GEORGE (922), (SON OF DR. JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
1023. Foster Beckwith Gilbert, born July 9, 1885, died February
23, I886.
FRANK L. (944), (SON OF LUCIUS), HAD ISSUE:
IO24. Hattie C., born October 7, 1876, married Burton C. Dinius,
October 14, I897, no issue.
544 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
WILLIAM (946), (SON Of TITUS), HAD ISSUE:
1025. Leroy, born July 22, 1880, married Sarah Winne.
1026. Grace, born June 22, i888, resided in Greene County, N. Y.
IRA E. (947), (SON Of ZEBULON), HAD ISSUE:
I027. Lottie, born February 12, I877.
OSCAR Z. (948), (SON OF ZEBULON), HAD ISSUE:
1028. Isabella, born March 23, I877.
1029. Frederick, born June, I879.
GEORGE WALLACE (956), (SON OF GEORGE BENJAMIN),
HAD ISSUE:
1030. Susie Louisa, born April 17, 1873, married Shirley P. Austin, February 15, I897, have one child.
1031. James Scott, born June 15, 1877, married Jennie Hutton,
April I2, 900o, no issue.
THOMAS ALBERT (957), (SON OF GEORGE BENJAMIN),
HAD ISSUE:
1032. Grace Adelaide, born October 29, 1874, married Willis
McDowell, June 4, I899, had one child.
1033. George Richmond, born October 14, I88o.
VICTOR MORRIS (959), (SON OF GEORGE BENJAMIN),
HAD ISSUE:
1034. Adelaide, born May Io, I889.
1035. Mary Forkes, born October 8, I894.
JOHN W. (991), (SON OF EDWARD B.), HAD ISSUE:
I036. Ada S., born September 25, I884, died October 22, I896.
1037. Harold E., born October Io, I890, resides in Dutchess
County, N. Y.
1038. Helen O., born April 16, I896, resides in Dutchess County,
N. Y.
FREDERICK R. (993), (SON OF EDWARD B.), HAD ISSUE:
1039. Edward Radcliff, born December 13, I897.
ANSON (IOI8), (SON OF JOHN LUTHER), HAD ISSUE:
1040. Anneke, born April 5, I898.
DYCKMAN FAMILY. 545
DYCKMAN.
Jan Dyckman,-Deekman, as then pronounced,-the ancestor of the Dyckmans of Kingsbridge and vicinity, and ultimately
one of the wealthiest of the patentees, came, as already stated,
from Bentheim, in Westphalia,* probably in company with his
early and life-long friends, Adolph Meyer and Arent Bussing,
* Johannes Dvckman, father of Cornelis, ancestor of the Bloomingdale family,
was the son of Joris Dyckman and Aeltie Root, of Amsterdam, and not related, so
far as appears, to Jan Dyckman, of Kingsbridge. Hie had been "first clerk" to the
West India Company, came out in 1651, and served as clerk and commissary at Fort
Orange of Albany, but in 1655 was laid aside by insanity. Tie died in 1672, leaving
by his wife, Maria Bosyns, who survived him, two sons, said Cornelis, born 1647,
and Johannes, born 1662. The last married Jannetie, daughter of Cornelis Viele, of
Schenectady, and by her received land at the All Plaats, on which they had lived but two
years, when the French and Indian massacre of 1690 happened. Dyckman and family
made their escape to Albany, and went to Dutchess County, but in 1715 removed to
the Manor of Livingston, where he enjoyed some prominence and left posterity. IHe
had a son, Johannes, born 1690, and one daughter.
Cornelis Dyckman, some of whose descendants write the name l)ikeman, married
Jannetie, daughter of Dirck Claessen, potter (see p. 234), and settled in Albany County
at Canistigione (Niskayuna), buying lands, which he occupied five years or more,
but abandoned in 1690, on the French and Indian invasion, finding a temporary home
in Bergen County, New Jersey, but removing thence to Harlem, where he lived in
1694, and was made constable in 1698. He was still here on September 5, 1701,
when he and wife sold 80 acres of their Niskayuna lands to Evert Van Ness. Cornelis finally buying a farm at Bloomingdale, there died, leaving children Johannes,
Derick, George, Cornelius, Nicholas, Wyntie, married Johannes Kortright; Cornelia,
married Jacob Harsen; Geertie, married Derick Vander Haan, and Elizabeth, married
John Sprong. By his will, made November i, 1711, when he was "sick and weak,"
Cornelis left his farm to his sons George and Cornelius, who were to remunerate
the other children. But "the executors not sworn, and no administration granted,"
we infer that Derick and Nicholas bought it, as they owned parts of this farm, subsequently, of about equal size and extending together from 7oth to 78th street, on
North River, and from 68th to 77th on 7th avenue. Johannes, the eldest son, born
in Albany, leased a farm at Bloomingdale December 29, 1701, for six years, from
Jurien Rynchout, and the next year married Rachel, daughter of Frederick De Voe,
by whom he had Elizabeth, born I703; Janneke, 1705; Cornelius, 1707; Hester, 1709;
Frederick, 1711; the last two baptised at Hackensack, whither Johannes seems to
have gone when his lease expired. Derick learned the art of weaving from Hendrick
Brevoort. He married, 1711, Wilhelmina Bass, from Newtown. His will, dated
February i6, 1730, was proved October 12, 1762. He left his' farm at Bloomingdale
to his widow and children. The latter were: Cornelius, born 1713; Anna, 1716;
Cornelia, 1718; Johannes, 1720; Derick, 1723; Aaron, 1726, and George, 1729. His
daughter Anna married Jacobus Myer, and daughter Cornelia married, 1745, Teunis
Somerindyke. Nicholas, born in Bergen, 1692, married, 1716, Anneke, daughter of
John Sevenhoven, who by her father s will received half of the Fabricius farm on
the East River side, and which she and Nicholas sold in 1751. Dyckman's homestead,
at Bloomingdale embraced 94 acres, which ran up to 73rd street at 7th avenue, and
a little higher on the river. Pursuant to his will, dated May 29, 1752, it was sold
March i, 1763, by his executors, John Harsen and Garret Cozine, to Jacob Harsen,
who, two days later, reconveyed the northern half to said John Harsen (nephew of
Dyckman, and also married to his daughter Rachel), and the southern half to said
Cozine, whose wife was Jannetie Dyckman. The southern half, with east portion of
the northern, formed the well-known Harsen estate.
George Dyckman married, May 17, 1712, Catalina, daughter of Teunis Idens
Van Huyse, of Bloomingdale, and went to Bergen County, but returned to occupy 115
acres conveyed to him, June 23, 1720, by his father-in-law, from off his farm. (See
Van Huyse.) In 1729 he bought an adjoining section of the farm from his
brother-in-law, Abraham Montanye, with 20 acres in the rear, lying within the Harlem line; also Montanye's erf, at Harlem. In I748 he sold the erf and 20 acres to
Adolph Benson and Jacob Dyckman, Jr. Jacob sold his Io acres to Mrs. McGown, being the place in which she lived at McGown's Pass. (See Benson family.)
George Dyckman owned a part of the old Tourneur Meadows on the little Mill
Creek, "two acres, more or less," gotten, we presume, with Montanye's land, and
bought by Montanye when the adjacent Tourneur farm, to which it had belonged,
was sold to the Kortrights. Dyckman sold these meadows, October 19, 1734, to
Nicholas Kortright, married to his niece, whence they passed to Abraham Myer, June
12, 1740, and from Myer to Peter Bussing, April i6, 1753. Dyckman died January
16, 1753. He had issue, Jannetie, born 1714; Teuntie, born 1716; Cornelius, born
1718; Maria, 1720; Teunis-Eidesse, 1722; George, 1725, and John, 1728. John Dikeman, last named, first a baker in New York, with wife Rebecca (who was a daughter
546
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
jointly with whom he first became a landholder, March 13, i666,
by the purchase of Simon De Ruine's farm. But with little means
of their own, the borrowed purchase money, 2,000 guilders, was
apparently too heavy a burden to carry, for the associates, on
April 7, ensuing, turned over their bargain to Captain Delavall.
Dyckman united with the church at New York, on February 26,
1673, together with Bussing and others, his young acquaintances,
of both sexes, to one of whom, Madelaine, daughter of Daniel
Tourneur, Dyckman was married during the next summer. Obtaining by her a farming lot upon Miontanye's Flat, and two of
the out-gardens on which to build and begin domestic life, Dyckman bought of Meyer, November 2, following, "a certain hook
of marsh land," on the north end of lot 4, Van Keulen's Hook.
We have taken notice, page 344, of his grant and purchase at
Spuyten Duyvel in I677, in connection with Jan Nagel. The latter died in I689, and the next year, May 19, I69o, Dyckman, then
living at Spuyten Duyvel, married his widow, Rebecca, who was
a daughter of Resolved Waldron. By this means the union of
the Dyckman and Nagel estates was maintained. They drew
jointly of the common land in I69I, but in 1712, the Nagel heirs
being of age, the drafts were made in separate lots, in the names
of Jan Dyckman and Jan Nagel respectively.
The land drawn in I691 lay in two places; one parcel, No.
14, of 20 morgen, being on Jochem Pieters' Hills (see Appendix
J), and the other, No. 24, drawn mainly on their joint rights at
Spuyten Duyvel, embracing all the common land north of Sherman's Creek, as shown by the annexed extract from the deed
(groundbrief), having the written consent of the freeholders,
and signed by the town officers, March 21, 1701.
No. 24.
There is set off for Jan Dyckman and Jan Nagel, on account of 26
morgen and 2 erven,* a piece of land upon the end of York Island, north
of the Round Meadow and the Half Creek, commonly called Pieter
Tuynier's Fall, till to the little Sand Bay lying at the North River; all
the common land north of this above written boundary; also a suitable
King's Way shall remain over the said land.
The quantity of land strictly due upon the given erf and
morgen rights was 49 acres, but the grant was estimated at I49.
The additional oo00 acres, with I6 more on Jochem Pieters' Hills
(known as Lot 17, Last Division), all woodland, were gotten
by agreement between Dyckman and the town, in exchange for
of John Buys), sold their city property in I759 and returned to Bloomingdale. He was
alderman of the Out Ward, 1769 to 1773, and died some years after the Revolution,
leaving children Teunis-Eidesse, Matthew, John, Catherine and Rebecca. Catherine
married, in 1780, Peter Grim, Jr. These divided the paternal lands in I793. Of
this family and branch, we believe, was Judge John Dikeman, of Brooklyn.
* These erf and morgen rights had been adjusted as early as i686. How they
were made up is shown in a note in Appendix J.
DYCKM.AN FAMILY. 547
cleared land on Jochem Pieters' Flat (29 acres), which had
belonged to Nagel, but was now wanted in order to make up
the quantity claimed by the heirs of Captain Delavall, in that
tract. In this exchange Dyckman got four acres of woodland for
one of tillable land, being the relative value of the two at that
date. See this matter further explained in Appendix E.
The deed of necessity included the lands covered by the old
Jansen an(l Aertsen patent, and known latterly as the Dyckman
Homestead. Dyckman and the Nagels also bought in company
three lots, Nos. II, 12, 13, adjoining their lot 14, on Jochem
Pieters' Hills. Thus in I715, when Dyckman died, his estate and
Nagel's together were rated at 300 acres; which was exclusive of
the said lots I to I4, being 90 acres, then held in his own name by
Dyckman's son Gerrit, and also of the three Nagel lots on Jochem
Pieters' Flat, except I acres, also of the Dyckman lot on Montanye's Flat, which had passed to Zacharias Sickels, and the Nagel
drafts in the four divisions which had been disposed of to Abraham Mlver and Johannes Waldron.
Jan Dvyckman's (death, in I715, was followed after four years
by that of his widlow.
The Dyckman and Nagel children, under the marriage articles
between Dyckman and Mrs. Nagel, dated May 12, I690, and their
joint will of November 2, I702, were to share equally of the
patrimonial estates. Before Dyckman died his eldest son, Gerrit,
as already seen, had come to possess the 90 acres, or lots i to
14, on Jochem Pieters' Hills; and other of the separated parcels
had been disposed of. But the ample domain above Sherman's
Creek, and Dyckman's drafts in the four divisions, remained
intact and undivided till November Io, I719, when the heirs of
both names made a settlement. Gerrit Dyckman took 30 acres
more of his father's estate, embracing his lots in Ist and 4th
Divisions, and half of No. 17 Last Division, being eight acres near
Kiersen. Jacob Dyckman and John Nagel, Jr., on the date aforesaid, bought the interests of their co-heirs respectively in the
remaining lands, which gave Dyckman 120 acres and Nagel I51
acres; the latter taking the Dyckman lots in 2d and 3d Divisions.
Each had an equal quantity above Sherman's Creek, to wit, 1I2
acres, and these lands, excepting the homesteads, were held in
joint tenancy for another ten years. Their possessions were made
up thus:
NAGEL: Half the 5 lots of I677........... 38 a. o q. o r.
Half No. 24 of I691............... 2 " O
Half Ioo acres................... 50 o" o
2d Div., No. I7.................. I9" o " 39"
3d Div., No. I................... 8 " 3 " I
On Jochem Pieters Flat........... I " o" o
I5I a. 2 q. IO r.
548
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
DYCKMAN: Half the 5 lots of I677........ 38 a. o q. o r.
Half No. 24 of 1691........... 24 ( 2 " o (
Half o10 acres................ 50 " o " o"
Half No. I7, Last Division..... 8 o " o"
I20 a. 2 q. o r.
Jan Dyckman (I) married first, Madeline Tourneur, June
I5, I673, had six children. He married second, Rebecca Nagel
(nee Waldron), May 19, I69o, had two children, and died I7I5.
His second wife was the widow of Jan Nagel and daughter of
Resolved Waldron.
He had issue by first wife:
2. Daniel, baptized December 3, I673, died young.
3. Maria, baptized April 26, I676, married first, Captain James
Hewett, September 17, 1695, had one child. She married
second, Peter Ulregh, June 22, 1713.
4. Gerrit, baptized March 6, I678, had two children, and died
I729.
5. Magdalena, baptized March 27, 1680, married John Nagel, Jr.,
January 2, I708, had seven children.
6. John, baptized May 6, 1682, married Deborah Nagel, March 2,
1702, had one child.
7. Grietie, baptized January ii, I685.
JAN DYCKMAN (I) HAD ISSUIE BY HIS SEICOND WIEI, VIZ.:
8. Jacob, born May I8, 1692, married Jannetie Kiersen, June 6,
I716, had seven children.
9. Rebecca, born I695, married Joseph Hadley, M\ay 8, I7I6.
Gerrit (4), (son of Jan Dyckman), was constable in I7I0-II.
He died in I729, his property being held by his widow till 1748,
when her son Jan Dykman, who dropped the c from his name.
came in possession.
GEJRRIT (4) IHAD ISSUE:
IO. Jan, who married Maria, daughter of Abraham Meyer, about
1728, had two children, and died about I77I.
Ii. Jacob, who married Rebecca Vermilyea, had eleven children.
JOHN (6), (SON OF JAN DYCKMAN), IAD ISSUE:
12. Johannes, Jr., born June 5, 1702, married Eliza Buys, April
2, 1750, had one child, and died April 23, 1782.
Jacob Dyckman (8), (son of Jan), born 1692, and from whom
the late Isaac, of Kingsbridge, was descended, married, June 6,
1716, Jannetie, born 1693, daughter of Jan and Gerritie Kiersen.
DYCKMAN FAMILY.
549
He and Nagel, joint owners of all the lands from Sherman's Creek
to Kingsbridge, passed deeds May 15, 1729, for their homesteads,
then computed at 38 acres each; parted by the creek at 2I Ith Street
(where on either side near Harlem River stood their respective
dwellings), and a line running westerly, in the direction of said
street, to I2th Avenue. The Dyckman tract so conveyed was
limited south by the Kingsbridge Road, which then deviated from
its present course at 204th (say Inwood) Street, and ran nearly
straight to the foot of 208th Street, at Harlem River; then for
some distance northward followed the shore. On June 9, I744,
Dyckman and Nagel completed the division of their lands, passing
deeds. Dyckman took the i6 acres at the extreme end of the
island; Nagel the next 38 acres, which came down to his homestead
farm, also estimated at 38 acres, and which Nagel now transferred
to Dyckman, though he or his sons subsequently bought it back.
The highlands next the Hudson, from Tubby Hook upward,
which had been set off by a line run from the little Sand Bay,
north 59 degrees east, to the Spuyten Duyvel Creek, and surveyed
into six lots singularly corresponding in contents to the parcels
before disposed of on Jochem Pieters' and Montanye's Flats, were
also divided on the above date.
Jacob Dyckman took part with others, in 1758, in building a
free bridge over Harlem River. By a letter from him to Sir
William Johnson, the Indian Agent on the Mohawk, dated March
22, I675 (see Documental History New York, Vol. ii, page 816),
it appears he gave attention to raising choice fruit trees, and farm
stock "of the right old England breed." He lived to a good age,
his will being dated August 10, I767, and admitted to probate
June 16, I774.
JACOB (8), (SON OF JAN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE:
13. John, baptized November 9, 1718, died young.
14. Jacob, born March 12, I720, married Catalina (Tryntje)
Benson, about 1742, had ten children, and died I773.
15. William, born August 23, 1725, married Mary Tourneur,
1747, had nine children, and died August 10, I787.
I6. Magdalena, who married Evert Bruyn.
I7. Gerretie (Charity), who married John Vermilyea, about I736,
had seven children.
I8. Rebecca. born December IO, 1727, married Abraham Odell,
April 12, 1761, had seven children, and died April I6,
I821.
19. Margaret, born about 1732, married Jonathan Odell, had
twelve children, and died March 20, I783.
Jan (Io) was constable in 1734-5, being chosen May Io,
1744, with Jacob Meyer and Benjamin Benson, to sell certain
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
remnants of common land, and in 1753 was acting as an elder.
Dyckman sold lots Numbers 20, 21, First Division, to Lawrence
Low, and bought instead Numlber 19, FirstDivision, from the heirs
of Johannes Waldron. But now on November 13, I767, he sold to
John Watkins his farm, with its several appendages, including, on
the north side, lots No. 15, 22 acres, the Lawrence Low homestead,
which he had lately purchased of John Low. John Dykman died
five years before the Revolution, and on October 8, 1770, his sonsin-law, Benson and Mever, were apl)ointe(l his administrators. His
residence, a substantial stone house, built by him or his father, is
yet standing on Kingsbridge road, west side, corner of I52d
Street (I881).
JAN (IO), (S(oN Or, GERRIT), HAD ISSUE:
20. Rebecca, who married Samuel Benson, March 3, 1763, had
four children.
21. Eve, who married John M[yer, had five children, and died
November i, I8o().
JACOB ( I), (SON OF GERtRI:T), HAD ISSUE:
22. Jesyntje, baptized October 26, I737.
23. Gerrit, baptized June 6, 1741, served in First Regiment, Westchester County militia, New York.
24. Isaac, baptized April 30, I743, served in Westchester County,
New York, militia.
25. Rebecka (Rebecca), baptized April 20, I745.
26. Jacob, born July I. 1747, baptized July 26, 1747.
27. Marytje, born June 19, I749, baptized June 21, I749.
28. Helena, born August I9, 1751, baptized October 8, 1751.
29. Jan (John), born January 20, 1752, baptized April 4, 1753,
married Antie Ecker, December 3, 1774, had one child.
30. Maria, born September 2, I755, baptized September 9, 1755.
3I. Aeltie, born November 29, I757, baptized April 25, I758.
33. Petrus, born July 22, 1760, baptized September I3, 1760.
JOHANNES, JR. (12), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
34. John, born May 3, I757, married Leah Acker, December 9,
I776, had three children. Was ensign in the Revolutionary War. Died in Sugar Hane Basin, New York City.
Jacob Dyckman, Jr. (I4), (son of Jacob), born MTarch 12,
1720, a person of prominence in the town, married about 1742,
Catalina, (laughter of Samson Benson, and at first lived near
his father at Spuyten Duvvel. In 1748 he and his brotherin-law, Adolph Benson, bought from George Dyckman 20 acres
of land adjoining the highway, in the rear of the Benson Point
farm, which they divided; and here Dyckman kept a public
DYCKMAN FAMILY.
55I
house for about ten years, till he sold his place to MIrs. McGown
(see Benson family, and note, Dyckman family), and returned to
Spuyten Duyvel. It was here that the Colonial Assembly met in
1752, from October 24 to November II; the Governor and Council
while in attendance staying at the neighboring house of Benjamin
Benson, which stood where is now (I88I) the residence of S.
Benson McGown, Esq. Jacob Dyckman obtained from his father
the I6 acres lying next to Kingsbridge, and from Nagel, I4 acres
adjoining, giving him 30 acres; whereon he built the tavern since
kept up, which, on account of the free bridge, became popular,
but not a financial success for Dyckman, who, becoming insolvent,
made an assignment. His farm, then occupied by his son, Samson, was advertised and sold at the Merchants' Coffee House,
September 30, 1772 (deed given February II, 1773), the purchaser being a New York innkeeper, Caleb Hyatt, whose son,
Jacob Hyatt, owned it after him. (See note, page 345.)
JACOB (14), (SON o0 JACOB), IAD ISSUE:
35. Sampson (Samuel), born September 12, 1748, married Rebecca Odell, August 27, 1770, had two children, and died
in 1792. She was a daughter of Isaac Odell.
36. Staats Morris, born I755, married Eliza Come, had two children, and (lied August 14, i8o6.
37. Benjamin, who married Martha Lent, had five children, and
died about I833. He a post-rider. Served as first lieutenant under Lewis Morris. Joined the Reformed Church
at Cortlandtown, N. Y., October 23, I793.
40. Jacobus, who married Margaret Post, had eight children. He
served in Third Regiment, Westchester County, New
York, militia. She a daughter of Martin Post.
41. John, who married Aletta Goetchius, had two children.
42. Garret, born March 3, 1756, married Joanna Odell, April 23,
1783, had three children, and died May 17, I816. She
a dlaughter of Jonathan Odell, bor-n December 28, I755,
(lied April 12, 1832.
43. William Nagel, who married Rebecca Odell, had five children,
and died about I834.
44. Maria, who married John Clark, 177I, had four children.
45. Jane, who married John Van Vredenburgh, December 9, I777.
46. Catalina (Catherine), who married Daniel Hale, had one
child, and died March 24, 1829.
William Dyckman (15), (son of Jacob), and grandson of Jan
Dyckman, was born August 23, 1725, and married Mary, daughter
of Michael Tourneur, 1747. She was born February 4, 1728.
William succeeded to the homestead at Sherman's Creek, occupying the old residence which stood on 2Ioth Street, near Harlem
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
River. In the times which tried men's souls, the patriotic Dyckman and his family warmly espoused the cause of their country,
and upon the invasion by the British army left their home for a
seven years' exile. The sons, very active during the war in aiding
the American operations, immortalized themselves as the "Westchester Guides." The survivors returned at the peace, and their
dwelling having been burnt by the enemy, built another on a new
site, where it yet remains on Kingsbridge Road, west side, between
208th and 209th Streets, or more properly a little north of Hawthorne Street. Here William Dyckman closed his life, August
Io, 1787, and his widow, February 14, I802.
WILLIAM (15) HAD ISSUE:
47. Jacobus, born September I8, 1748, married Hannah Brown,
September Io, I773, had eleven children, and died August
20, 1832.
48. Mary, born June 2, I752, married Jacob Vermilyea, June 15,
1773, had nine children, and died February 23, 1826.
49. Abraham, born August 25, I754, served in Second Regiment,
Orange County, New York, militia, in the Revolutionary
War, and was lieutenant in the Line, New York, in
Revolution. He (lied single, March 9, 1782.
50. Michael, born August 9, I756, married Sarah Oakley, had
two children, and (lied January, I808.
51. Jane, born June 26, I759, died unmarried, i\arch 24, 1772.
52. William, born December 9, 1762, married Maria Smith, February 23, 1786, had five children. He served in Second
Regiment, Orange County, New York, militia, in the
Revolutionary War. Removed to Western New York,
and died in Pan Pan, N. Y., either 79 or 85 years of age.
53. John, born July 28, 1764, died April 15, I774.
54. Jemima, born February 25, 1765, married Evert Brown, had
ten children.
55. Charity, born May 18, married Benjamin Lent, had five children.
JAN (29), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
56. Jacob, baptized June 17, 1775.
JOHN (34), (SON or JOHANNES, JR.), HAI) ISSUE:
57. Abraham, born January 13, I777, married first, Latty Lent,
had seven children. He married second, Eliza Dusenberry, September 30, I838, no issue by second wife, and
died January 2, I856.
58. Jacob.
59. Catherine, born August 5, 1782, married Seneca Stewart,
I8oo, had fifteen children, and died February 5, I865.
DYCKMAN FAMILY.
553
He was born April 2, 1780, and died August, I86I, at
Cairo, N. Y.
SAMPSON (SAMUEL) (35), (SON 01 JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
60. Hannah, born Mav 2, 1780, married Richard Covert, June 20,
1801, had two children.
6I. Catherine, who married Matheas Valentine.
STAATS MORRIS (36), (SON or JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
62. Peter Corne, born about 1797, married Susan Matilda Whetton, had one child, and died April 20, 1824.
63. Letitia Catelina, born June, I799, died July 29, I800.
BENJAMIN (37), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
64. Jacob, mentioned in his father's will, dated I833.
65. William, who married Mary Post, had seven children.
66. John, who married Leah Goetschius, had four children.
67. Sampson Benson, who married Rachel Goetschius, had seven
children.
68. Jane (Jannetje), born February 8, 1783, died unmarried.
JACOBUS (40), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
69. Martin.
70. Sampson.
71. Benjamin (Benson), married M\aria Lent.
72. Catherine, who married Pell C. Vought.
73. Martha Maria, who married Isaac Mandeville.
74. Elmira, who married Louis Levines.
75. Elizabeth, born November 26, 1803, baptized October 13, 805.
76. Staats Morris.
JOHN (41), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
77. Sampson.
78. Rachel Goetschius.
GARRET (42), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
79. William N., baptized May 7, I787, married Eliza A. Honeywell, September 25, 1831, had two children.
80. Jacob G., who married Mary Eliza Prestwick, had three children. He lived in Morristown, N. J.
81. Catalina Benson, born December 30, I791.
WILLIAM NAGEL (43), (SON or JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
82. Sampson B., born November 5, 1793, baptized April 21, I794,
died, I877.
83. Jonathan Odell, who married Sarah Ann?, died, 1878.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
His will was proved May 6, 1878, no children named in
will.
84. William W., his will was proved December I1, 1883, no chil(lren named in will.
85. Maria, will proved September 28, 1859.
86. Rebecca, (lied in 1859.
Jacobus Dvckman (47), (son of William), married September I0, 1773, Hannah Brown, an(l became chief owner of the
Kingsbridge estate, to which he added the Courtright farm (see
note, page 265), and several lots in Third Division. He was a
member of the Constitutional Convention in 1821, and alderman
in 1822. He died in his 84th year, August 20, 1832.
JACOBUS (47) D\) ISSUE:
87. William, born about I775, died single, August 31, 1803.
88. Frederick, born December 4, 1776, married Eva Myers, had
three children, and died October 20, 1809.
89. John No. I, born February 10, 1778, died September 9, 1778.
9o. Michael, born September 22, I797, died November 24, 1854.
9I. Hannah (Annatje), born February 3, 1782, married Caleb
Smith, January 26, 1804, had ten children.
92. Abrahall, born March 14, 1784, married Margaret Honeywell, had three children, and died April 26, I815.
93. Maria, born December 25, 786, (liedl, unmarrie(l, January 1o,
T816.
94. Jacob, born October II, 1788, was a physician, and at one
time Health Commissioner of New York. He (lied single, December 8, 1822.
95. James, born December 10, 1790, (lied single.
96. Isaac, born November 17, I794. He and his brother, Mlichael,
being the only surviving sons, took all the real estate under
their father's will, and of which, on the death of Michael,
in 1854, Isaac became sole owner. The latter dying unmarried, January 6, I868, his nephew, James F. D. Smith,
was made principal heir, and took the name of Isaac
Michael Dyckman, but since deceased.
97. John No. 2, born March 15, 1799, died June 28, 1803.
MICHA1EL (50), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
98. Sarah, who married Samuel Thompson, had three children.
99. Maria, who died, unmarried, at the Dyckman homestead, February 23, I863.
WILLIAM (52), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
IoO. Maria, who married first, -? Danforth, had one child.
She married second, John A. Smith.
DYCKMAN FAMI\1LY.55
5 5.15'
ioi. William, born November 24, 1788, had six children.
102. Aaron Smith, born September, 1790, baptized September 28,
1790, resided in Michigan..
103. Jane, born September II, 1797, married first, Barney Hicks,
had four children. She married seconil, O~win Church,
and had five children.
104. Evert Brown, born September 25, 1799, marriedl Harriet
Hincklev,, had six children. Hie residledl in tlhe West.
AZ-BRAIIAM (57), (SON o1F JOHN), ]LU) ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE4:
105. John, born May 24, i8oi, deceasedl.
io6. Isalbel, born Julfy 1, 1803, marriedl Augustus T. Lenit, Mtarch
11, 1823, had one child.
107. Jacob, born August 20, i8o5.
io8. Em-eline, born August 3, 1807.
109g. William Henry, born October 4, 1809.
110o. Maria (Jane 1\iaria), born December 17, i8i [.
I II. Abigail, born April 5, 1814, marriedl Wesley Haines, April
I 5, 1834.
11I2. David Waters, born Januiary 20, i8i8, married first, Harriet
Dyckman, June i6, 1838, hadl one child. He married
second, Catherine A. Tuttle, November 25, 1857, had one
child.
PETER CORNE, (62), (SON Or, STAATS, M\ORRZIS), HAD ISSUE,:
113. Eliza, who married Colonel John P. Cruger.
WILLIAM (65'), (soN OF BE,,NJAMIN), HAD) ISSUEr":
114. Cathrina, born November 17, i8o6, baptized April 20, 1807.
115. M~artin Post, born November 8, i8o8, baptized January 19,
181I2.
ii6. Sampson Benson, born January 13, i8i-j, baptized March i5,
1812.
117. Harriet Douglas, born March io, 1813, baptized June 26,
i8i6.
ii8. Patty M\'aria, born October 20, i8i5.
119. States Morris, born February 4, 82,bPtie uy5 89
married Rebecca ~?, and died 1873.
120. Jane Almira, born August 4, 1824.
12. JOHN (66), (soN oF, BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
12.Garret (Garnet), born May 30, 1814, married Martha Elizabeth Tucker, February ii, 1848.
122. Martha Margaret, born March 3, 1817.
1 23. Betsy Mary, born March 3, i8i7.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I24. Peter B., born March 27, 1827, married Mary A. Savage,
March I, I847.
SAMPSON BENSON (67), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
125. Catalina, born November 26, I808, baptized July 30, I809.
I26. Jane Maria, born July 20, I8II, baptized January 26, I812.
I27. Peter Goetschius, born July 19, 1814, baptized May II, I8I5,
married Sarah P.?, had one child. Will proved
March 28, I874.
128. Benjamin Benson, born January 4, I817, baptized February
I I, 1818, married Maria?, will proved April 25, I891.
129. Susan Matilda, born August 8, 18I9, baptized April 4, 1821.
I30. Walter James, born January 6, 1822, baptized August 21,
1822.
I31. Aletta Eliza, born August 2, 1824, baptized June 15, 1825.
WILLIAM N. (79), (SON 01 GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
132. William.
I33. Susan.
J.coB G. (80), (SON OF GARRET'), HAD ISSUE:
I34. Johanna, who married Peter Morris, no issue.
I35. Eliza.
I36. William Henry, born November 28, 1823, married Frances
Naomi McKenzie, had seven children, and died January
II, I90I, at Orange, N. J.
FREDERICK (88), (SON Or JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
I37. Mary, born September 27, I805, unmarried.
I38. Maria, born September 20, I806, died, unmarried, February
8, 1878.
I39. Cornelia, born November 7, I809, unmarried.
ABRAHAM (92), (SON Or JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
I40. Jane Odell, who died, unmarried, February I, I840.
141. John Honeywell, born May 5, I813, died single, April 6,
1879.
142. Isaac Vermilye.
WILLIAM (IOI), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I43. Jane, who married George Brown.
I44. Julian.
I45. Barney.
I46. Evert.
I47. Michel.
148. Betsey Taylor.
DYCKMAN FAMILY.
557
EVERT BROWN (104), (SON OF W\ILLIAM), AID ISSUE:
I49. Prudence Hale.
I50. Elizabeth Cobb.
I51. Maria Portland.
152. Harriet De Puy.
153. Smith.
I54. Esther Rick.
DAVID WATERS (12), (SON OF ABRAHIAM), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
155. Jacob W., born November 28, 1840, married Mary Williams,
November 25, I865, had five children.
DAVID WATERS (I 12) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
I56. My;ron Horton, born September 3, I865, married Lena B.
Lounsbury, July 13, 1877, have two children.
I)'PTER GOETSCHIUS (127), (SON OF SAMPSON BENSON),
IAD ISSUE:
157. Sarah Catalina.
WILL.IAM HIENRY (I36), (SON OF JACOB G.), HAD ISSUE:
158. Mary, who married Alexander Land, had one child.
159. Lizzie, who married Edward Dickinson, have three children.
I6o. Harry.
I6I. Frank N., born November 6, 1862, married Lou Heroy, have
two children.
I62. Helen.
I63. William.
I64. Isabel.
JACOB W. (I55), (SON OF DAVID WATERS), HAD ISSUE:
I 65. Lillie.
I66. Louis.
I67. Edith.
I68. Harry.
I69. Percy.
[MYRON HORTON ), (SON OF DAVID WATERS), HAD
ISSUE:
170. Blanche L., born July 27, i888.
171. Amy M., born October I6, I896.
FRANK N. (I6I), (SON OF WILLIAM HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
172. Mary.
I73. Lang.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
HALDRON.
William Haldron, referred to on page 297, etc., first comes
to notice in I685, as the owner of a house and lot (erf), by virtue
of which he was numbered with the patentees. By a clerical
error, as we must regard it, his name is entered in the official
record of the Dongan Patent as Waldron; but fortunately contemplorary records remove all doubt of Haldron's identity as the
patentee. Being a blacksmith, he made most of the iron-work
for the church built in i686, but the next year he was unfortunately drowned in the river, on or about December 7, 1687, date
of the coroner's inquest. His widow survived him but a short
time, for in April, I)690, the town court ordered "that the property
found in the house where W\illiam Hlaldron's widow died, according to the inventory, and also the smithshop, shall be given over
to the deaconry of New Harlem and to Johannes Vermilye."
()On June I, I693. Zacharias Sickels, a smith from Albany,
was put in possession as tenant of the "house, with smithshop and
garden" (smith tools included), by the deacons, who on April
I8. 1694, gave him a formal lease for three years from the (late
of occupancy.
WVe find the following, written in English, signed and dated
April 17, I696: "I. Henry Haldron. son of William Haldron,
deceasel, do hereby acquit and discharge the Overseers and Poormasters of Harlenm and by these presents do give them full power
to sell and dispose of all the goods and movables that did belong
to my father, William Haldron, deceased.' It was soon after
this that Jan Kiersen bought the Haldron property, in which was
included lot No. 17, on Jochem Pieters' Hills, set off to Haldron's
erf right in I691.
\VILIXAM HALDRON ( ) H1AD ISSUE:
2. Henry.
3. John, who married Cornelia Van Tienhoven Holst, MIay I8,
1707, had eight children. Removed to Tappan, N. Y.,
about 1713. She was the daughter of Dr. Lucas Van
Tienhoven, and widow of Andries Holst.
4. Anna (Johanna), who married first, John Allen, of MIilford,
June 28, 1705, had three children. She married second,
Thomas Cox. September 4, 1720, had one child. Her
second husband was a widower, of Boston, Mass.
JOHN (3), (SON 01oI WILIIAM), HAD ISSUE:
5. William (Willem), baptized May I6, I708, married Margrietie Peters, 1734, had nine children. He purchased
lands in Harington Township, N. J., about I745. She a
daughter of Claes Peters, of Rockland County, N. Y.
HALDRON FAMILY.59
559
6. Elizabeth, baptized October 5, 17o9.
7. Lucas (Luykus), baptized June 14, 1711I.
8. Elsie, born Januarv 13, 1713, baptized January 13, 1713.
9. Sarah, born September 5, 17i6, baptized October 29, 17i6,
married Andries Pieterse, had ten children.
10. John, born April 21, 1719, baptized june 30, 1719.
II. Cornelius, born August 1, 172r, baptized August 2, 1721.,
married Antje (Anna) Meyer, had five children.
12. Hester, wvho marriedl William X~Iinter, and had three children.
W.V ITJL\AM (5), (SON OF JolIJN). IL~kl) ISSUI,13. jan (Jolhn), born September I 1, 1735, baptized October 5,
1735.
14. Cathlyntie., born October 1-2, 1737, baptized November 20,
1737.
15. Cornelia, born April I8. 1739, baptized April 29, 1739.
i6. Claes (Nicholas), born November 12, 1740, baptized December 14, 1740, married M,/arretye Janse, had one child.
17. Willim' (William), born February 15, 1742., baptized March
7, 1742, marrie(1 Margrietye Alvie, had two children.
i8. Maria, born May\7 19, 1745, baptized June 30, 1745, married
Arie Ackerman, had two children.
19. A —brahami, born February 27, 1747, baptized 'March 22, 1747.
20. Cornelius, born October 22, 1749, baptized December 3, 1749,
marriedl Elizabeth Harinfg,_ had three children, and (lied
May 31, 1831.
21. Cathar~ine, born M\,ay 29, 1751, baptized June 20, 1751T.
CORNEIJUS (II), (SON Or, JOHN), HAD ISSUE,:
22. Cornelia, born May 31, 1740, baptized June 15, 1740.
23. Jan (John), born September 8, 1744, baptized October 7
1744.
24. William, born November 25, 1746, baptized January 25, 77
25. Anatye (Anna), born January 24, 1748, baptized February
12, 1749.
26. Yivfaryvtye (Marie), born July 24, 1750, baptized October 7,
1750.
CLAIES (NICHOLAS) (i6), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
27. Willem (William), born November 6, I766, baptized November 23, 1766, married Catriena ~?, about I794, had
six children..
WILLiim (WILLIAM) (17), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
28. William, born February I4, I776, baptized March 10, I776,
married Aaltje Merselis, April I3, i8i6.
29. Annatje, born February 5, 1778, baptized March 15, 1778.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
CORNELIUS (20), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
30. James C. (Jacobus C.), born December 21, I785, married
Margaret Demarest, August 26, I804, had two children,
and died October 5, I877.
3I. William C.
32. Cornelius C.
WILILEM (WILLIAM) (27), (SON O( CLAES) (NICIOLAS),
IAD ISSUE:
(All baptized at Paramus, N. J., Reformed Church.)
33. Johannis, born June 3, I796, baptized July 3, I796.
34. Lena, born February 28, I798, baptized April I, I798.
35. Catriena, born September 16, 1799, baptized October 6, I799.
36. Elizabeth, born July 7, I80o, baptized August 2, I801.
37. Nicholas, born January 19, i8o6, baptized February 9, I806.
38. Marytje, born February 28, 80o8, baptized March 20, I8o8.
JAMES C. (JACOBUS C.) (30), (SON OF CORNELIUS),
HAD ISSUE:
39. Cornelius J., born March 6, I8o6, married Elizabeth De Pew,
June 16, 1831, had five children.
40. Rachel, who died April 26, i88i.
CORNELIUS J. (39), (SON Or JAMES C.), HAD ISSUE:
4I. Martha, born August 20, I831, married Abram P. Jersey,
October I, 1851, had one child.
42. James C., born November 6, 1832, married Ellen M. Haring,
April 25, I860, had three children.
43. Catherine Ann, born May 24, 1834, married John J. Demarest,
November 20, 1873, had' six children.
44. Abram Cornelius (Hon.), born September 23, I837, married
Mary Leah Hopper, January, I872, have two children.
45. John C., born April 19, I850, married Catherine D. Haring,
November 14, 1877, had two children, and died March
I6, I897.
JAMES C. (42), (SON OF CORNELIUS J.), HAD ISSUE:
46. Mary Elizabeth, born June 25, I862, unmarried.
47. James Demarest, born October I8, 865, married Ida May
Long, April 6, I896, have four children.
48. Estelle, born January 9, I880, unmarried.
ABRAM CORNELIUS (44), (SON or CORNELIUS J.), HAD ISSUE:
49. Bessie C., born I876, married Edwin St. George Hardin, January I8, I9oo, have one child.
50. Garrett S. M., born I88i.
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JOHN C. (45), (SON O CORNELIUS J.), HAD ISSUE:
51. Emily, born January 20, 1879, unmarried.
52. Jessie Louise, born September I, I889,
JAMES DEMAREST (47), (SON OI JAMES C.), HAD ISSUE:
53. Percy Long, born March 12, 1897, died March I4, I897.
54. Marie Roseland, born January 8, I899.
55. Edith May, born May 13, I900.
56. Adele Ethlyn, born June 24, 1902.
KIERSEN.
Jan Kiersen claims a notice among the patentees as the direct
successor of William Haldron. He chose to write his name
Ciersen, a departure neither warranted by the derivative word
nor followed by Kiersen's children, for which reasons we adopt
the usual spelling of the records. He was the son of Kier Wolters, and was born at Arnhout, in Drenthe, about I655. September 8, I685, at about 30 years of age, he married Gerritie,
(aughter of Captain Jan Van Dalsen. She was born in New
England. The next year Kiersen and his father-in-law obtained
from the town a lease of part of the Great Maize Land, on Jochem
Pieters' Hills (Harlem Heights, below Fort Washington), for
a term of 12 years. But the lands there being laid out and
allotted to the inhabitants in I691, Kiersen, on July 2, I694,
bought, "for iooo guilders in money," the lots, Nos. I6 and I8,
from Thomas Tourneur, as purchased by him from Holmes and
Waldron, the original drawers. In March, I696, Kiersen obtained
the signatures of "every inhabitant of the town" to a paper granting him "a half morgen of land from the common woods, lying
at the southeast hook of the land that Samuel Waldron has drawn
out of the common woods, which half morgen of land he may
build upon, thereon setting a house, barn and garden, for which
he promises to let lie a morgen of land upon the northeast hook
of the aforesaid lot; leaving a suitable road or King's way betwixt
his house and the lot of Samuel Waldron." Kiersen built his
house, etc., and on March 7, I700, the town officers gave him a
deed. This was the first settlement on the well known Jumel
homestead, and we believe the first spot permanently occupied on
these heights. Kiersen, by purchasing the lands and patentee
rights of William Haldron, deceased, came to own the lot lying
between his two, west of the road, and which lot (No. 17) Henry
Haldron, eldest son of William, released to Kiersen, November 7,
1701. A resurvey of that tract, in 1712, united those three in one
lot, as No. I8, and it was subsequently called 40 acres. Kiersen
sold Haldron's smithshop lot to Samuel Waldron, as it joined
southerly on Waldron's meadows, but reserved the erf, on which
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
he drew land in I712. When those drafts were made, Kiersen
enlarged his half morgen or house lot, east of the road, to 8 acres,
but from whom he got it is not a matter of positive record. To
this, in I720, he added an adjoining 4 acres, being a remnant left
after the 1st Division was laid out. He afterward got the Vermilye lot, No. 6, 2d Division, which joined his homestead on the
north, and which gave him 20 acres east of the road. For his
drafts in 1712, etc., see note, page 298, and Appendix J.
Kiersen joined the church in I682, and later served as deacon. He was also town collector and constable, and was a party,
in I738. to the Mill Camp grant. When he died does not appear.
His o9 acres (upland) stand in the tax lists in the name of "Jan
Kiersen," down to I753, but we might conclude that John senior
was not living at so late a date, and that his son, John, born I690,
had succeeded him. Yet, if we mistake not, we find the peculiar
signature of John senior to a town document of March 28, I749.
If his, he lived to a great age. His children were Jannetje, baptized March 13, I687, died unmarried; Grietje, baptized November 25, I688; John, Abraham, baptized October 6, I695, and Jannetie, baptized May 25, I693, who married Jacob Dvckman, of
Kingsbridge, May 16, I716, had seven children. John and Abraham, on April 23, 1756, join in selling part of their salt meadow,
at Kingsbridge, which the elder John bought of Johannes VWaldron, January I6, I703.
The names of the two sons appear upon the roll of Captain
Stuyvesant's company in I738; but devoted to husbandry, their
quiet, unobtrusive lives seldom bring them into notice. John,
especially, is rarely named otherwise than herein stated, nor is
there any intimation that he left descendants. His brother, Abraham, born I695, was constable in 1728, and probably had no
family. He acts alone with the freeholders in signing deeds, etc.,
in I747 and 1753, neither his father nor brother being named. It
would seem that his sister, with her husband and children, had
either purchased, or been empowered to sell (perhaps by the will
of John senior), the Kiersen property in Harlem, because these
join in a deed, January 29, 1763, conveying said lands to James
Carroll, of New York, for ~1,ooo. Abraham Kiersen is named
therein as a grantor, but does not subscribe. A clause in Jacob
Dyckman's will of August Io, I767, devising a share of his property to John and Abraham Kere, and directing that they "be
supported as I have done," shows a state of dependency in their
old age, whatever else it may imply. With their descendants, the
name disappears here, though probably perpetuated in the Westchester branch. From Carroll the Kiersen property passed to
Colonel Roger Morris, whose stately mansion, better known as the
Jumel house, still remains, being owned and occupied by Mr.
Nelson Chase (I88I.)
KORTRIGHT FAMILY.
563
KORTRIGHT.
Cornelis Jansen, with whom the preceding pages have made
us acquainted, will be further named only as introductory to a
notice of his descendants, who composed the principal part of the
late Kortright family of Harlem. Born in I645, at Beest, in
Gelderland, he came out with his father, Jan Bastiaensen, in 1663
(see pages 67, 95, 204, and note, page 258), and on November
8, I665, married Mletje, daughter of Bastiaen Elyessen, and widow
of Claes Teunisz van Appeldorn; a lady who, after Jansen's early
death, in I689, proved her ability both to manage his business and
enhance his estate, the use of which, under his will, dated February 25, of said year (but not proved till March I8, I706), she was
to enjoy till her death or remarriage. Having been a trooper, he
gave his eldest son, Johannes, "the best horse, and the best saddle,
and the best boots, and the best pistols, and holsters, and carbine
and cutlass." He also left him, over and above his share of the
estate, "the lot of land at Jochem Pieters, to wit, the lot by the
great gate." This was No. 3 of the old lots (afterward Sickels'),
and the gate must have stood at the upper corner of the Church
Farm, where the road going north to Myer's narrowed from 412
to 3 rods, as finally fixed by a vote of the town in 1744.
The widow, from her husband, is usually called Metje Cornelis, once Metje Jansen, and sometimes, from her father, Metje
Bastiaens. As the lists show, she drew largely of the common
lands in the several divisions; but survived those of 1712 only
a short time. Under that of I691 she obtained an annex to the
farm on Montanve's Flat; in the deed dated March 21, 1701,
"bounded by a line leading from the southwest corner of the
kitchen as the fence runs, to a small brook, and along the brook
till it meets with the patent line of Harlem, thence along said
line northerly till it meets with the old lots of Cornelis Kortright,
deceased." In 17I5 her family held 246 acres, of which Laurens
Cornelissen held exclusively 77; and he and the other heirs
jointly I69, which, from I7I5 to I726, stood in the name of
"Metje Cornelis' heirs." Laurens' 77 acres included 30 acres
sold by him the same year, and since in the Race Course Farm
(see Benson family), with No. I, 2d Division, and half of No 17,
3d Division, both of which finally passed to the Nutters. In the
I69 acres was the farm on Montanye's Flat (since Nutter's),
rated as 36 acres, the adjoining Tourneur farm (later of Peter
Bussing), 36 acres; No. Io, Jochem Pieters' Flat; No. I6, Van
Keulen's Hook; No. 6, New Lots; No. IO of I69I; No. 5, Ist
Division, and half of No. 17, 3d Division. Widow Tiebout and
her son, John Lewis, in I7I5, held each I3'2 acres in the four
Divisions; the widow's lots reverting the same year to John Van
Oblienis, in whose name they had been drawn.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Cornelius Jansen left six children, at first called Cornelissen,
viz.:
2. Aefie, baptized May 30, I666, married first, Jonas Lewis, February 5, I688, and second, Marcus Tiebout, May 29, I698,
but died in I7I4 without issue.
3. Johannes No. I, baptized July 30, 1671, died young.
4. Johannes Cornelissen No. 2, baptized April 24, I673, married
Wyntie, daughter of Cornelis Dyckman, May 26, I70I,
had three children, and (lied in 1711. She married
second, Zacharias Sickles, in I7I7.
5. Maria, baptized April 2, I679.
6. Laurens Cornelissen, baptized August 20, I68I, married first,
Helena, daughter of Captain Johannes Benson, October
22, I703, had two children. He married second, Margaret, daughter of Arent Bussing, about 1708, had five
children. He was father of the main branch of the Harlem family of this name. Served as constable in 1708-9,
and succeeded to the homestead on Harlem lane, which,
at his death (1726) fell in the division to his widow.
7. Annetie, who married Adrian Quackenbos,* August 22, 1701,
had two children. He of Albany, N. Y.
Johannes Cornelissen (4), (son of Cornelius Jansen), was
appointed constable in I702, and died in 1711. He had issue:
8. Metje, baptized February 27, I702, married John Bussing,
September 2, 1723, had one child. (See Bussing.)
9. Nicholas, who married first, Elizabeth, daughter of Eide Van
Huyse, of Bloomingdale, February 5, I73I, had one child,
and second, Elizabeth Peltrong (Conteyn), April 15,
1739, had two children, and died November 19, I751.
Io. Jannetie, who married Johannes Van Wyck, September 2,
1723, had one child.
Laurens Cornelissen Kortright (6), from whom sprang the
main branch of the family at Harlem, was born here August 20,
I68I. On December 9, I704, his mother leased him for four years
the farm "lying on the flats about New Harlem," and also "the lot
on the Maize Land," or Jochem Pieters' Hills. Laurens served
as constable in I708-9. He succeeded to the homestead on
Harlem Lane (since Nutter's), which at his death, in I726, fell
* John Lewis was born at Harlem, married, May 22, 1713, Hester, daughter of
Jan Delamater, and the next fall was chosen constable. He succeeded to the allotment drawn in 1712 by Marcus Tiebaut, his step-father, from the common lands;
but not to the half-erf and three morgen on which it was drawn. His house lot was
on the north side of the Church Lane, and has since formed the easterly lot of the
Brady plot. (See notes, pages - -.) In 1740 Lewis sold his lot in ist Division
to Adolph Myer, and in 1748 the rest of his property in Harlem to Dr. Josiah Paterson. It included two house lots (erven) besides that he occupied, one of which he
bought of Simon Johnson, in 1747, out of Pipon's estate. One of Lewis' daughters,
Tanneke, married Abraham Montanye, and another, Ruth, married John Ewvouts.
KORTRIGHT FAMILY.
565
in the division to his widow, Grietie, together with the upper
Tourneur lot, and Nos. 19, 20 (the last got in 1720), on Van
Keulen's Hook, No. I, 2d Division; half of 17, 3d Division, and
3y2 acres of No. 6, 3d Division, bought 1726 from John Lewis.
In 1740 she bought from Nicholas Kortright the Sickels lot on
Montanye's Flat, and in I747, from Simon Johnson, the parcels
below Montanye's Flat, and being part of No. 8, Ist Division,
and mostly within the late Valentine Nutter farm. These lands
(except Nos. 19, 20, Van Keulen's Hook, sold, I730, to Derick
Benson) descended to her surviving sons Aaron and Lawrence
Kortright. Lawrence took the homestead and No I, 2d Division;
the upper Tourneur lot was sold to Peter Bussing, and the adjoining Sickels lot, February 9, I755, to Benjamin Benson, the
deed also covering the next lot, which Benson had inherited from
his father, bounded by Vandewater's gore in the rear.
LAURENS CORNELISSEN (6), (SON OF CORNELIUS JANSEN),
HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST WIIE:
11. Cornelius, baptized MIay 30, 1704, married Hester, daughter
of John Cannon, of New York, November II, 1727, had
seven children, and died April 15, I745.
12. Elizabeth, baptized November 3, 1706, married Gilbert Garrison, of New York, April I9, I753.
LAURENS C. (6) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
13. Aaron, born I710, married about I733, had three children.
He married second, Margaret, daughter of John Delamater, 1762, had six children, and died November I9,
I789.
I4. Lawrence, who died single, 1761.
15. Eve, who married Adolph Benson, about 1732, had two children. (See Benson.)
I6. Mattie, who married Abraham Meyer, had five children.
(See Meyer.)
17. Susannah, who married Aaron Meyer,* had two children.
Nicholas (9), (son of Johannes), was constable of the town
in 1729, and afterward collector. On the death of his uncle
Laurens, in 1726, the Kortright lands were divided, and Nicholas took as his portion IOI acres, viz., Io acres from the south
lot of the Tourneur farm, No. IO, of I69I; 40 acres, No. Io,
* Adrian Quackenbos, or Quackenbush, was born at Albany, and probably the
brother of Wouter (married Cornelia, daughter of Jan Louwe Bogert), a son of Pieter
Ouackenbos, brickmaker, from Oestgeest, in Holland, the common ancestor. (See
Pearson.) Adrian married Annetie Kortright, August 22. 1701, and for some years
occupied the Kortright lot, No. Io, on Jochem Pieters Hills, being part of the Dr.
Samuel Bradhurst tract He had a son, Cornelius, who married Cornelia Delamater,
and Metje, who married Resolved Waldron, afterward of Haverstraw, N. Y. Cornelius had a son, Adrian, born 1728.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Jochem Pieters' Flat; 12 acres, No. 5, Ist Division, and half
of No. 17, 3d Division. The middle lot of the Tourneur farm
(on which were the buildings), and 2 acres of the south lot,
making 14 acres, were set off for the use of his mother, Wyntie
Sickels. In 1729 he bought his stepfather's, Sickels, lands,
No. 5, Jochem Pieters' Flat, 2 q. 23 r. of I6, Ist Division; No.
12, 2d Division, and a lot on Montanye's Flat, in all 42 a. 3 q.
19 r. This gave him 144 acres. In I730 he bought Nos. 2
and I8, 2d Division, from M. Benson, and in I739 succeeded to
the Tourneur middle plot, 14 acres. In I729 he sold No. 6, New
Lots, to Isaac Delamater; in 173I, Nos. 5, Io, Jochem Pieters'
Flat, and No. I2, 2d Division, to Abraham Myer; in I733, No.
5, Ist Division, and upper 6 acres of 17, 3d Division, to Johannes
Benson; in 1737, No. IO of I69I, to Lawrence Low; in I740,
the Sickels lot on Montanye's Flat to widow Grietie Kortright,
and the remnant of his lands, being the two southerly Tourneur
lots, and Nos. 2, 8, 2d Division, to Abraham Myer. Kortright
again, in I742, bought 21 acres of land in HIarlem, whicl at his
death passed to John Van Zandt. He died November 19, I75I.
NICHOLAS (9) HAD ISSUE BY HIS CIRST wIVE,:
I8. John, born 1732.
NICHOLAS (9) IAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
I9. Frances (Francyntie), baptized October 4, 1741, married
John Norris, a peruke maker.
20. Nicholas, baptized December 26, I743, married Elizabeth?, had two children. He a sailmaker, was vestryman
of Trinity Church, I789-92, and died I820. Owned
property in New York, where he lived. His wife, Elizabeth, died in I789, aged 46 years.
Cornelius (I ) owned property in Queen (now Pearl) Street,
where he carried on the baking business. He was assistant alderman of Montgomery Ward, I738-40. His two slaves, implicated
in the Negro Plot, in 1741, were transported to San Domingo.
After his death, which happened April 15, I745, his business was
continued by his widow and son Cornelius.
CORNELIUS (I ), (SON OF LAURENS C.), HAD ISSUE:
21. Lawrence, baptized November 27, I728, married Hannah
Aspinwall, May 6, I755, had five children. He was a
merchant of New York, and died in I794.
22. John, baptized January 3, I73I.
23. Cornelius, baptized December 17, 1732.
24. Maria, baptized October 3, I736, married John Wilkinson
Hanson, merchant, January 29, I763.
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567
25. Helena, baptized April 18, 1739, married Abraham Brasher,
merchant, July 13, 1758, had ten children, and died November 3, I819. He died at Morristown, N. J.
26. Margrietze, baptized October I4, I74I.
27. Elizabeth, baptized June 30, I745, married William Ricketts
Van Cortland, merchant, January 3, I765.
Aaron (I3) had purchased, March 15, I742, the Delamater
farm on Montanye's Flat, and accompanying lands. The latter
embraced all Isaac Delamater's draft lots of 1712, and Aeltie Vermilye's, of I69I and 1712, except No. 20, Ist Division (see Appendix J). We believe two acres of No. 5, Van Keulen's Hook,
were also included. Of these Aaron sold No. Io, Ist Division,
to Adolph Myer, in 175I; part of the large Molenaor tract. He
sold No. 5, of I69I, to Jonathan Odell, May II, I753, since of
Jacob Schieffelin; and No. 6, 2d Division, to John Kiersen.
He recovered, by purchase from Peter Waldron, the lower half
of the Delamater farm,which together now embraced 12 acres east
of the Lane, on which were the buildings, and west of the Lane, 40
acres on the Flat, and 19 I-3 acres (in it part of No. 8, Ist
Division) on the heights. In 1762 and I765 Aaron gave liens
on some of the lands bought of Delamater to his nephew Lawrence Kortright, of New York, merchant, and finally the two
made an exchange, April 28, 1772, Lawrence taking the farm
and some woodlands, and giving Aaron and his wife a deed for
24I acres of the Wawayanda patent, in Orange County,-to go
after their death to their sons, Lawrence, John, and Aaron Kortright,-whither they removed, and where their descendants are
still found.
AARON (13), (SON or LAURENS C.), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE:
28. Benjamin, born about I731, married Catharine Cudabee, had
three children. Settled in Wyoming Valley.
29. Elisha, born about I740, married Huldah Dingman, had seven
children. Settled in Wyoming Valley. Killed in massacre there in I82I.
30. John, born 1741, settled in Wyoming Valley, died July 13,
I778.
AARON (13) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
3I. Eve, born July 2I, 1752, married Casper Writer, September
8, 1772, had eight children,.and died December 2I, I830.
32. Lawrence, born December 21, 1758, married Mary Cox, June
4, 1782, had five children, and died February II, I843.
33. John, born 1761, married Susannah Kittel, November 30,
1782, had three children, and died February I6, I824.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
34. Aaron, who married Heyltje Van Garden, had three children.
35. Ann Elizabeth, who married Henry Sherman, May 15, 1766,
had one child.
36. Susannah, who married -? Spinksted, had three children.
Lawrence Kortright (I4), last of the name to hold the homestead, died in 1761, unmarried. He had devised all his estate to
one Sarah Gilmore, wife of William Nutter, and afterward, on
April 5, 1760, gave her a deed for the farm (which is described,
from the old groundbriefs, as in four contiguous parcels) and two
woodland lots. But by another will, of November 8 ensuing,
he revokes, to quote his words, "a pretended last will and testament said to have been made by me in favor of Sarah Nutter,
which last will and testament (if any such there be), and also
certain deeds of lease and release for my real estate (if any such
there be), pretended to have been made and executed by me to
her, I do hereby, on the faith of a christian, declare to have been
obtained from me by fraud and circumvention, and without any
valuable consideration received by me for the same." By this
second will he divides his property among his kindred. The
Kortright heirs refusing to give up the premises, Valentine Nutter, only child and heir of Sarah, brought an ejectment suit in
I77I; but after "divers differences, controversies, and disputes
about the said lands," a compromise was made, Aaron Kortright
(I3) and his co-heirs, for a consideration, releasing their claims,
by deeds dated September 12, 1789, and February 28, I799. Upon
getting possession, Mr. Nutter erected a new dwelling-house and
outbuildings (see page 390); living here till go years of age
(1831), when he went to pass his remaining days with his grandson, Gouverneur M. Wilkins, Esq., at Westchester, where he
died in 1836, aged 95 years.
NICHOLAS (20), (SON oF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
37. Nicholas.
38. James, who married Elizabeth Warner, May 21, I794.
Lawrence (21), also a merchant, became wealthy and
prominent. In the old French war he was part owner of several privateers fitted out at New York against the enemy. He
was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce, in I768.
He had a large interest in Tryon County lands, and on his purchase the township of Kortright was settled. He had identified
himself with the Episcopal Church, and during the Revolution
remained quiet at his residence, I92 Queen Street; but his sympathies were with his country. In I778, partly on his surety,
Judge Fell, then a prisoner in the provost, obtained his release.
Before his death he conveyed his farm at Harlem, with some
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569
woodland, to his only son, John. Mr. Kortright died in I794.
LAWRENCE (21), (SON OE CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
39. John (Capt.), who married Catherine, daughter of Edmund
Seaman, May 2, I793, had six children, and died in I8Io.
She married after his death, Henry B. Livingston, Esq.
40. Sarah, who married, I775, Col. John Heyliger, of Santa Cruz.
4I. Hester, who married Nicholas Gouverneur, I790.
42. Elizabeth, who married Hon. James Munroe, I786, had two
children. He was President of the United States.
43. Mary, who married Thomas Knox, 1793.
BENJAMIN (28), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
44. Cornelius, born May 7, I764, married Catherine Kennedy,
had nine children. Settled in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and died May 25, 1848.
45. John, who married Mary Abbott, had seven children, and
died in 1822.
46. Henry.
ELISHA (29), (SON OF AARON), IAD ISSUE:
47. Cornelia, born October 20, 1768, married Emanuel Hoover.
48. Abram, born 1769, married Sarah Bouchter, about I794, had
six children.
49. Euphemia (Eva), born March 4, I774, married?-? Drake.
50. Isaac, born I776, married Mary Dodson, had eight children,
and died I852.
5I. Andrew, born about 1780, married Matilda Bowman, had
seven children.
52. Ellen, who married Joseph Rhoads.
53. Margaret, who married Samuel Seely, had five children.
LAWRENCE (32), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
54. Lydia, born July 25, 1787, married Richard Holley, had eight
children, and died March 6, I838.
55. John Cooper, born October 15, 1788, married Almira Jackson, April 28, I84I, had two children, and died August
20, 1845.
56. Samuel Delamater, born October 15, 1788, died single, June
I4, I830.
57. Aaron, born August 13, I793, married first, Sarah Writer,
August 2, 1817, had eight children, second, Elizabeth
Brown, April I, 1824, had six children, and third, Helen
O. Horton, December 31, 1839, had two children, and
died July IO, I867.
58. Nancy, born August 13, I793, died unmarried, September 23,
I84I.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Captain John (39), (son of Lawrence). His farm on Harlem Lane, with the new mansion built west of the Lane, descended
to his children, who were:
59. John L.
6o. Edmund.
6I. Robert.
62. Nicholas G., who married Sarah Allaire, had one child, and
died in 1874.
63. Eliza, who married Nicholas Cruger.
64. Hester Mary, who married Billop B. Seaman.
CORNELIUS (44), (SON Or BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
65. Mary, born July 29, I787, married -? Murphy.
66. Benjamin, born March I9, I789, married Clara Williams, had
five children.
67. Catherine, born October II, 1790, married -? Tyson.
68. John, born October I I, 1790, married Louisa Searle, had four
children.
69. Hannah, born I789, married John Abbott, had three children.
and died May 3, I892.
70. Helen, born I802, married William Abbott, had four children,
and died I883.
71. Elizabeth, born 1807, married Charles Wright, had five children. She was living in 1892.
72. Henry, who married Sarah Bidleman, had ten children.
73. M!ilton, who married Hannah Passmore, had four children.
JOHN (45), (SON o0 BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
74. Hannah, born June 9, I8oI.
75. Cornelius, born May 28, 1803, married first, Harriet Bailey,
July Io, 1827, had eleven children. He married second,
Susanna Luther, in 1852, by whom he had no issue, and
died March 22, 1895.
76. Roxanna, born October 12, I805.
77. Charles, born March 4, 1807.
78. John, born December 29, I8o8.
79. Volney, born June 17, i8II.
80. Eliza, born May 14, I814.
ABRAM (48), (SON OF ELISHA), HAD ISSUE:
8I. Elisha, born I795, married Sarah Klinetop, had ten children.
82. John B., born November I6, 1796, married first, Nancy
Santee, had three children, and second, Eliza Pollock,
had three children, and died March 29, I874.
83. Margaret, born I8oo, married Solomon Parker.
KORTRIGHT FAMILY.
57I
84. Ellen, born i806, married first, Martin Line, had five children, and second, Gerad Harrison.
85. Isaac, born November II, I808, married Mary Pollock,
March 21, I833, had nine children.
86. Joseph, born I8IO, married Lydia Klinetop, had one child.
ISAAC (50), (SON OF ELISIA), HAD ISSUE:
87. Elisha, born 1803, married Martha Cole, had three children.
She deceased.
88. Mabel Dodson, born November 25, I805, married first, John
Ramsey, had one child, and second, Samuel Ransom, in
1836, had three children, and died October 8, 1902.
89. Nancy, born I808, married Barton Mott, had six children,
and died in I89I.
o9. Thomas Dingman, born I8I, married Lydia Bidlack, but
died without issue.
9I. Huldah, born 1813, died, unmarried, in I834.
92. Nathan D., born I815, married Margaret L. Harlan, February 6, 1845, had six children, and died October II,
1902. He of Mauch Chunk, Pa.
93. Abraham D., born 1817, married Elizabeth Lerch, November
6, 1844, had four children. He deceased.
94. Rachel, born I819, (lied unmarried.
ANDREW (51), (SON O0 ELISHA), HAD ISSUE:
95. Fletcher.
96. Pamelia.
97. Dingman.
98. Christian.
99. Jesse D., born I819, married first, Mary Cortright, had one
child, and second, Martha Turner, had five children.
Ioo. Susannah.
IOI. Ashbel Morris.
JOHN COOPER (55), (sON oF LAWRENCE), HAD ISSUE:
102. Mary, born August I6, I843, married Oscar Halstead, October 29, I862, had seven children.
103. John Jackson, born December I8, 1844, married Mary Grey,
March 30, i865, had six children.
AARON (57), (SON OF LAWRENCE), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE, SARAH WRITER:
104. Charles A.
105. Mary H.
io6. Matilda E.
107. Aaron Writer, born March 14, I818, married Hester Mid
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
dagh, December 31, 1842, had three children, and died
July II, I894.
IO8. John Benson, born September 6, I8I9, died February 2, I820.
IO9. Maria Elizabeth, born February 5, 1821, died unmarried,
July, I897.
IIo. Samuel Denton, born December I8, 1822, married first, Juliette Phillips, August 5, 1843, had one child, and second,
Harriett Devoe, September 17, 1852, had one child.
III. Lawrence W., who married first, Sarah A. Nichols, and
second, Emma Johnson.
AARON (57) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE, ELIZABETH
BROWN:
112. Sarah Eliza, born February 5, 1825, died April 23, 1825.
II113. Lawrence William, born November 28, I826, married Harriet Eaton, April 28, I855, had three children.
II4. Sarah Caroline, born January 19, I829, married Andrew T.
McLaughlin, November I8, I855, had two children, and
died February II, 1896.
II5. Matilda Ellen, born May II, 1831, died, unmarried, February 20, 1871.
II6. John C., born February 23, 1834, married first, Julia Vidella
Smith, November 7, 1860, had one child, and second, Mrs.
Hannah A. Weymer, March 28, 1883. He married third,
Susan -?.
117. Thomas Brown, born March 7, 1838, died September 4, I840.
AARON (57) HAD ISSUE BY H1IS THIRD WIFE, HELEN O.
HORTON:
II8. Mary Helen, born April 15, 1842, married George McCullough, April 23, 1858, had thirteen children.
II9. Charles Augustine, born October 30, 1843, single.
NICHOLAS G. (62), (SON OF CAPTAIN JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I 9a. Lawrence M.
BENJAMIN (66), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
120. John Milton (Hamilton), was living in 1892, deceased.
121. Frank, was living in I892.
122. James, born November 3, 1831, had one child. Was living
in 1892, but now deceased.
123. Thomas, was living in 1892.
124. Mary, was living in 1892.
JOHN (68), (SON o0 CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
125. George.
KORTRIGHT FAMILY. 573
126. Cornelius.
127. Louisa, deceased.
128. Hannah, deceased.
HENRY (72), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I29. Winfield Scott, who was living in I892.
I30. William, was living in I892, now deceased.
I3I. Charles, was living in I892, now deceased.
132. Henry Harrison, was living in I892, now deceased.
I33. Elizabeth.
I34. Catherine, deceased.
135. Roseanna, deceased.
I36. Margarette, deceased.
I37. Mary, deceased.
I38. Ellen, deceased.
MILTON (73), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
139. Norman.
I40. John.
141. Elizabeth.
142. Alice.
CORNELIUS (75), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
143. Louisa, born January 27, I829.
I44. John, born August 6, I830.
I45. Roxanna, born September 8, 1832.
I46. Horace, born August I8, I834.
I47. Lidia, born June 13, 1836.
148. Benjamin, born August 12, 1838.
I49. Harriett, born October 17, 1840.
I50. Carrie, born November 4, I842.
I5I. Cornelius, born September 19, I844.
152. Charles, born January 30, 1847.
I53. Chester, born March 28, I849.
ELISHA (8I), (SON OF ABRAM), HAD ISSUE:
154. John.
I55. Abram.
I56. Christopher.
I57. Jacob, born December 18, 1825, married Nellei -?, March
25, 1858, had four children, and died December 24, I897.
She died October 23, I900.
158. Margaret.
I59. Lydia.
I60. Washington.
I6I. Anna.
574
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
162. Erastus.
I63. Ellen.
JOHN B. (82), (soN Ov ABRAM), HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST
WIFE:
I64. James, who died single.
I65. Abram, born I829, married Lucinda Fortner, had one child.
He deceased.
i66. Rachel Caroline, born 1832, married Tobias L. Garner.
JOHN B. (82) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
I67. Nancy Jane, born 1840, unmarried.
I68. Sylvester, born 1841, married Margaret Edwards, and died
March 5, 1872.
I69. Theodore, born 1846, died young.
ISAAC (85), (SON OF ABRAM), HAD ISSUE:
I70. Elisha Dingman, born January 3, I834, married Margaret
P. Potter, July 4, I86I, had six childen.
7I1. William Pollock, born October 21, I835, single.
I72. John Wesley, born October I3, I837, married Mary A. Seitz,
September 15, I86I, had eight children.
I73. Joseph Rhodes, born March 19, 1841, married Elizabeth
Jane Burket, October 12, 1870, had six children.
I74. Richard Pollock, born August 31, 1843, married Anetta
Simonson, November 22, I876, no issue.
I75. Thomas Clinton, born May 6, I846, died single, December,
I868.
176. Margaret Ellen, born May 5, I849, married John Moore,
had one child, and died in March, 1873.
177. Nathan Alonzo, born September 27, 1852, married Catharine
A. Burket, I)ecember 9, 1873, had six children.
178. Frank Stewart, born September 29, 1854, married Harriet
Trowbridge, had two children.
JoSEPH: (86), (SON OF ABRAM), HAD ISSUE:
I79. Richard.
ELISHA (87), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
I8o. Elias.
I8I. Mary.
182. Huldah.
NATHAN D. (92), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
I83. Harlen W., born November 14, 1845, married Eliza Le
Fevre, had four children.
KORTRIGHT FAMILY.
575
184. Nathan D., Jr., born November 24, 1847, married Margaret
S. Kennedy, I875, had six children.
I85. Gertrude M1., born June 22, I849, married Simon B. Cunningham, no issue.
i86. Samuel M., born November 28, 1852, died single, 1896,
buried at Mauch Chunk, Pa.
I87. William A., born June 12, 1855, married Jennie Rawlings,
June 5, 1883, had six children.
I88. Emma L., born September 15, 1857, married Edward F.
Keen, no issue.
ABRAIL.HAM D. (93), (SON 01V ISAAC), hAD ISSU;E:
I89. Milton Lerch, born September 14, I846, married Mary
Elizabeth Supplee, December 7, I871, had three children.
I90. Mary, born March 29, 1848, married Townsend George
Fulmer, 1879, had three children.
I91. Aseneth, born August 14, 1850, married Eugene J. Boyer,
February I, 1877, had two children.
I92. Clara, born September 25, 1853, married Miorris Kemerer
Schweitzer, August 22, 1882, had one child.
JESSE D. (99), (SON OF ANDREW), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFEI:
I93. Helen Gertrude.
JESSE D. (99) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
194. Bowman, born I856, married Laura Kingsbury, had one
child.
I95. Miner.
I96. Benton.
I97. Alice.
I98. Elizabeth.
JOHN JACKSON (103), (SON OF JOHN COOPER), HAD ISSUE:
I99. William Albert, born March 4, I866, married Alice Halstead, October IO, I880, had one child.
200. Ella Louise, born January 14, I869, unmarried.
201. Charles Franklin, born January 15, I871, married Elizabeth
Green, had three children.
202. John Cooper, born June IO, 1873, married Ella Deyo, no
issue.
203. Lulu Elizabeth, born October IO, 1875, unmarried.
204. Etta Carrie, born April IO, I88o, unmarried.
AARON WRITER (l07), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
205. Emma M., born March I6, 1857, married first, James Wood,
576 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
January IO, 1893, no issue. She married second, Isaac
Simons, had one child.
206. George Denton, born December 13, 1859, married Frances
Emma Cox, June 3, I896, no issue.
207. Sarah A., born January 21, 1845, married William Ketcham,
have three children.
SAMUEL D. (IIo), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE:
208. John Jaline.
SAMUEL D. (IIo) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
209. Edgar, born August 26, I857.
LAWRENCE WILLIAM (113), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
210. William T., born June 14, I856, married Lillian Carr, March
23, I887, no issue.
211. Frederick L., born June Io, 1867, married Flora Corwin,
I892, no issue.
212. Martha, died unmarried. Of Orange County, N. Y.
JOHN C. (II6), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE:
213. Scott Elmer, born May 5, I869, married Della Smith.
JAMES (122), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
214. John Searles, admitted to the Bar (presumably at Luzerne
County, Pa.), in I876.
JACOB ( 57), (SON OF ELISHA), HAD ISSUE:
215. Mary E., born April 16, 1859, married Edward Simerson,
had one child.
216. A. Gussie, born March 8, I86I, married H. S. Edsall, had
one child.
217. Christopher Jacob, born July 5, 1863, married Jessie Sutphin,
had two children.
218. Phillip Lee, born April 7, I867, single.
ELISHA DINGMAN (170), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
2I9. Joseph Daniel, born November 17, 1863, married Nora Mufley, had two children.
220. Thomas C., born September 22, I869, married Nellie \M.
Leavenz, had one child.
221. Samuel, born October I6, I871.
222. Nathan D., born September 4, 1875, single.
223. Isaac, born May I, I878.
KORTRIGHT FAMILY.
577
224. John M., born September 19, I879.
225. Sarah H., born May 3, I882.
JOHN WESLEY (172), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
226. Teresa I., born June Io, 1862, married William Lough, had
two children, and died October ii, I890.
227. Isaac H., born June 5, 1867, married Ada Flint, had one
child, and died November 19, I89o.
228. May, born March 26, I869, married W. Q. Edson.
229. William Eddy, born August 27, 1872.
230. Anna V., born January 4, 1874, married R. W. Perkins, June
17, I900.
23I. Flora G., born October 7, 1875, married R. W. Dennis.
232. Laura.
233. Wilson Grant, born June 29, I877.
JOSEPH RHODES (I73), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
234. Molly J., born August 6, 1871, married W. G. Ross.
235. Fannie F., born October 3, 1873, married A. E. Correll.
236. Grace K., born March 7, I877, married F. M. Mulford.
237. Maude B., born August 19, I879.
238. Josephine B., born January 27, 1882.
239. Luther.
NATHAN ALONZO (I77), (SON Or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
240. J. Wilbur, born February 28, 1876, married Mary Smith,
had one child.
241. Charles N., born January i, I878.
242. Shelby M., born April 5, I88o.
243. Nellie B., born January 25, 1883.
244. Clyde C., born February I, I885.
245. Cecil J., born August 27, i888.
FRANK STEWART (178), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
246. Harlen.
247. Ethel.
HARLEN W. (183), (SON OF NATHAN D.), HAD ISSUE:
248. Mabel Louisa, born December 24, I876.
249. William Le Fevre, born December 3, 1879.
250. John Harlan, born December 24, I886.
251. Abbie Hope, born February 26, 1889.
NATHAN D. (I84), (SON OF NATHAN D.), HAD ISSUE:
252. Charles, born 1878.
253. Frank, born i88o.
578
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
254. Henry L., born July 14, I882.
255. Edgar, born 1884.
256. Donald, born I889.
257. Margaret, born I895.
WILLIAM A. (187), (SON OF NATHAN D.), HAD ISSUE:
258. Nannie Rawlings, born May 9, I885.
259. Edwin K., born January I8, 1887.
260. Nathan Dodem, born January I, I89o.
261. William Abram, Jr., born April 12, I893.
262. James, born March II, I896.
263. Frances Whiley, born October I7, I898.
MILTON LERCH (189), (SON OF ABRAHAM D.), HAD ISSUE:
264. Grace Pearl, born September II, 1872, married Herbert
Stanton Balliet, had one child.
265. Robert Milton, born December 29, I877, single.
266. Florence Tear, born December Io, I88I.
BOWMAN (I94), (SON OF JESSE D.), HAD ISSUE:
267. Lawrence.
WILLIAM ALBERT (I99), (SON OF JOHN JACKSON), HAD ISSUE:
268. Wardell, born November 30, I889.
CHARLES FRANKLIN (201), (SON OF JOHN JACKSON), IAD ISSUE:
269. Harold.
270. Walter.
271. John J.
CHRISTOPHER JACOB (217), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
272. Paul A., born February 8, I895.
273. Margaret Genevieve, born March 8, 1899.
JOSEPH DANIEL (219), (SON OF ELISHA DINGMAN), HAD ISSUE:
274. Archie.
275. Carl I.
THOMAS C. (220), (SON OF ELISHA DINGMAN), HAD ISSUE:
276. Blanche M.
ISAAC H. (227), (SON OF JOHN WESLEY), HAD ISSUE:
277. Emma.
J. WILBUR (240), (SON OF NATHAN ALONZO), HAD ISSUE:
278. Vernon Smith.
LOW FAMILY.
579
LOW.
Laurens Jansen, born in Leerdam, Holland, in 1651, and ancestor of the Low family of Harlem, was the youngest son of Jan
Bastiaensen, whose two elder sons bore the name of Kortright.
For notices of their emigration see pages 67, 95, 204, 258; other
references to Laurens after he established himself at Harlem
may be found in subsequent pages. His share of the De Meyer
lands, bought jointly with his brother, Cornelis, laid the foundation for the ample estate he acquired here; but which, with his
grandsons, passed out of the name. His election as an overseer,
in I677, and repeatedly afterward, and the other responsible
duties entrusted to him, evince the respect in which he was held.
In the division of the De Mieyer lands, Laurens took lot No. 2,
on Jochem Pieters' Flat; No. 6, on Van Keulen's Hook, the two
north gardens, or orchard, and the two erven, on one of which
the new church was built in I686. To said Lot 6, on which
he afterward built, he added the lower half of No. 5 (rated at
two morgen), by purchase from Paulus Richard, November 17,
I677. (See note, page 338.) He drew 6I acres in the several
divisions, for which see Appendix J. Prior to 1715 he sold
No. 4, 2d Division, to Johannes Benson, and conveyed the orchard
to Peter Van Oblienis, the last the plot which passed to Peter
Waldron, and since owned by James Chesterman, who built
thereon the Chesterman house still standing (I881). Laurens
married, in I672, Mary, daughter of Albert Heymans Roosa, of
Esopus. (See page 388.) On April 13, 1706, she and Laurens
joined in the sale of her father's estate to her brother Arien Roosa.
Laurens Jansen died in 1727.
LAURENS JANSEN (I) HAD ISSUE:
2. Annatje, baptized July 8, I674, married Gysbert Bogert, had
six children.
3. Albert, baptized November ii, I676, married Susannah,
daughter of John Delamater, October 2, I702, had five
children. Removed to Raritan, Somerset County, N. J.,
in 1709. Will dated September 24, I739; probated February 20, I76I. He died 1761.
4. Wvntie (Lavinia), baptized April 23, I679.
5. Neeltie (Cornelia), baptized May 20, 1682, married Conrad
Lamberts, May 27, I703.
6. Jan (John), baptized April 29, 1685, married Jannetie Corsen, June 20, I707, had eight children. Resided in
Somerset County, N. J.
7. Gysbert, baptized August I4, 1687.
8. Cornelis (Cornelius), born in I691, married Judith Middagh,
about I715, had nine children, and died in I763.
580
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
9. Belitie (Isabele), baptized June I8, I693.
Io. Lawrence, born in I698, at Harlem, N. Y., married Jannetie
Van Vleckerens, June 12, 1724, had three children, and
died in 1755.
Albert (3), (son of Laurens Jansen), served as a deacon
at Raritan, N. J., and died in 176I, leaving his farm to his sons
Abraham and Cornelius.
ALBERT (3) HAD ISSUE:
II. Marytje (Maria), baptized September 15, 1703, married Hendrick Pettinger, about 1725, had seven children.
I2. Jan (John), baptized June 2, I707, not mentioned in his
father's will.
13. Louwerens (Lawrence), baptized October 25, 17Io, not mentioned in his father's will.
14. Abram (Abraham), baptized October 13, I7I9, married Ida
Stoothoff, January 23, I753, had four children. Served
in the Revolutionary War from Somerset County, N. J.
Was elected deacon of the Neshanic, N. J., Reformed
Church, April 27, I780.
I5. Cornelis (Cornelius), baptized October 13, 17I9, married
Catrina Van Duyn, September 27, I746, had five children.
Jan (John) (6), (son of Laurens Jansen), was deacon of
the Reformed Church at North Branch, N. J., in I721.
JAN (JOHN) (6) HAD ISSUE:
I6. Gysbert, baptized October 9, I714, married Persila?,
had one child.
17. Lawrence, born about 1711, married Geertje Rosa, had seven
children.
I8. Benjamin, baptized October 17, 1716, married Neeltje Van
Nest, had eight children.
19. Cornelius, born about 1718, married Johanna Jansen, had two
children.
20. Marytje, baptized April 4, 1719, married Jan Kool, March
19, I749, had five children.
21. Wenitje (Lavinia), baptized April 4, 172I.
22. Metje (Mary), baptized August I8, I723.
23. Yeunis (Tunis), baptized April 3, 1728, married Maayke
(Mary) Hall, had three children.
CORNELIS (CORNELIUS) (8), (SON OS1 LAURENS JANSEN),
HAD ISSUE:
24. Dirck, born September 26, 1717, married Rebecca E-:::nons
LOW FAMILY.
58i
(Emans), June I, I747, had fourteen children, and died
about I804. He resided at Hillsborough, Somerset
County, N. J. Was building master and trustee of the
Neshanic, N. J., Reformed Church from I759 to 1772,
beingprominently identified with this church for many years.
25. Marytie (Mary), baptized April 14, 1721, married Abraham
Bodine, had seven children.
26. Cathelyntje, baptized March 3, 1723, not mentioned in her
father's will.
27. Gysbert, baptized November 14, 1725, not mentioned in his
father's will.
28. Cornelis (Cornelius), baptized December 3, I729, married
Annatje Dildein, had six children.
29. Judick (Judith), baptized October 25, I730, married Johannes
Van Nest.
30. Jan (John), baptized February 4, I733, marriedCatherina
Emans, had four children.
3I. Gerrit (Garret), baptized August 3, I735, married Rachel?, had five children.
32. Antje (Anna), baptized January 2I, I739, married Abraham
Van Vleet.
Lawrence Low (Io), born in Harlem, I698, married on
June 12, 1724, Jannetie, daughter of Marinus Roelofs Van Vleckeren (whence Flackra and Flack), of Bloomingdale. He succeeded to his father's lands at Harlem, as we have described
them, and which his brother, Albert, as heir-at-law, released
to him December 8, I731. On May 22, 1732, he sold to
widow Maria Myer his lot and a half (now called nine acres)
on Van Keulen's Hook, and built upon his Lot 15 of I69I,
on the Heights, where he was living May 9, 1738, when he
and his wife conveyed Lot No. 2, Jochem Pieters' Flat, to Isaac
Myer. Low also made several considerable purchases; in I737
he bought Lot No. IO of the division of I69I, to which, in I747,
he added the upper half of the adjoining Lot 9, laid out to Delavall, and called "the 33 morgen lot" (this half, with No. IO,
forming the tract since of Samuel Bradhurst); and also half of
Delavall's No. 9, 4th Division. Low made his will November
25, 1754, which was proved November 4, I755, and by which his
widow was to enjoy his estate during her life. But ten years
before her death, which happened in 1772, in her 7oth year, her
two sons made a formal division of the property, and sold some
of it, whence it would appear that they had acquired the interests
of their mother and sister.
LAWRENCE (10), (SON 0' LAURENS JANSEN), HAD ISSUE:
33. Dinah, baptized March ii, I730, married Jacobus Tourneur,
of Haverstraw, N. Y., had ten children.
582
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
34. Marinus, born I734, married Deborah, daughter of John
Oblinus, February 7, I754. See Vol. 19, page 327, of
Wills in the New York Surrogate's office.
On the division of the lands by Marinus and John, February
2, 1762, embracing, as at their father's death, I49 acres, Marinus
took the 73 acres in Lots 9 and io of I69I, with No. I8, ist Division, and No. 5, 3d Division. He conveyed to John No. 15 of
I69I, being the homestead, Nos. 20 and 21, Ist Division, and
No. ii and half of 9, 4th Division. Having given sundry mortgages on his lands, he sold out, in 1766, to John Maunsell, Esq.,
afterward Lieutenant-General in the British army.
35. John, who married Bridget, daughter of Adolph Meyer, June
22, 1765, had three children.
He added considerably to his lands; including No. 4, Second
Division, 17 acres, originally of his grandfather Low, and
which had passed from the Bensons to Johannes Myer. He
also bought No. i. Second Division, 41 acres, and No. I6, Last
Division, 31 acres. But he, too, sold out, in and between the
years 1762 and 1767; his No. I, Fourth Division, to Jacob Dyckman; Lot 15 of I691 to John Dykman; No. I, Second Division,
to Benjamin Waldron, Sen., and Nos. 20, 21, First Division, No.
4, Second Division, half of 9, Fourth Division, and No. I6, Last
Division, to John Watkins. Thus within a few years after getting possession, the brothers Low disposed of all their lands here.
In 1776 they kept a public-house at Freshwater, in the suburbs
of the city.
This family must be distinguished from another of the
same name, to which it bore no relationship, that of Ulster
County, named page 184; members of which also lived in New
York and New Jersey. It is indeed difficult to separate the two
after the one left Harlem, and in regard to the latter family we
should welcome further information.
ABRAM (ABRAHAM) (14), (SON Or ALBERT'), I\AD ISSUE:
36. Rem, baptized January 20, I754.
37. Abraham, baptized April o1, I757, married Maria Garretson,
had four children. She joined the Reformed Church at
Neshanic, N. J., October 18, 1793.
38. Marya (Maria), baptized August Io, I760.
39. Catreina (Catherina), baptized June 29, 1766.
CORNELIS (CORNELIUS) (15), (SON OF ALBERT), HAD ISSUE:
40. Sara, baptized July 26, 1751.
41. Cornelius, baptized April 27, 1755.
LOW FAMILY.
583
42. Catrentje, baptized July 24, 1757, her will recorded at Trenton, N. J., Book M, page I II.
43. Willem (William), baptized March 23, I774.
44. John, baptized October 20, 1776.
GYSBERT (i6), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), 1AD ISSUE:
45. Maria, baptized December 12, I773.
LAWRENCE (I7), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), IAD ISSUE:
46. John, who married Mary Bodine.
47. Guisbert (Gysbert).
48. Henry.
49. Yanaca (Jannetje).
50. Elizabeth, baptized December 28, I75I.
51. Charity.
52. Wynca (Lavinia).
BENJAMIN (I8), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
53. Pieter (Peter), baptized November 6, I743, married first,
Sarah -?, had one child, and second, Hannah Ten
Eyck, had three children.
54. Jan (John), baptized March 23, I746, married Maria?,
had two children.
55. Janneke (Joan), baptized March 31, 1748, died young.
56. Cornelius, baptized May, 1750, married Catlina Stryker,
had five children.
57. Jannetje (Jane), baptized March 13, I755.
58. Benjamin, baptized December 26, 1757, married Elizabeth?, had one child.
59. Gisbert, baptized September 25, 1762.
6o. Isaac, baptized June 29, 1766.
CORNELIUS (19), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
6I. Jan (John), baptized May 13, I752, married Aeltie?
had two children.
62. Benjamin, baptized October 28, I753.
YEUNIS (TUNIS) (23), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
63. Jan (John), baptized August 2, 1752, had one child.
64. Thomas, baptized February 6, I755.
65. Metje (Mary), baptized March 21, I756.
DIRCK (24), (SON OF CORNELIS) (CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
66. Maria, born February 23, 1748, married Joseph Carle.
67. Dirck D., born November 27, 1749, married Dorothea Ten
Eyck, had eight children, and died February 20, 1826.
584
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
68. Johannis (John), born June 23, 1751, married Sarah?.
69. Teuntje (Eunice), born January 4, I753, married? Sutphin.
70. Cathelina (Catherine), born March 8, I754, married?
Kimberly.
7I. Cornelius D., born December 27, I755, was a private in Continental Army from New Jersey. Single.
72. Rebecca, born December 12, I757, married William Verbryck,
had one child.
73. Gisbert, born October 19, I759, married Margaret Emery,
had two children.
74. Ann, born October 20, 1761, married -? Hall.
75. Judith, born September II, I763, married John T. Hall.
76. Abraham, born September Io, I765, married first, Mrs. Stevenson (nee Jones).
77. Jacob Derrick, born May 12, 1767, married first, Martha
Perlee, March 6, I796, had six children, second, Martha
Edgar, October 5, I8i I, had one child, and third, Frances
Wilds, March 23, I815, had two children. He removed
to N. W. Territory, Ohio, about I8oo, and died December
9, I839.
78. Sarah, born January 15, 1769, married Peter Stryker, had
three children.
79. Isaac, born February 25, 1772, married first, Elizabeth Hall,
had three children. He married second, Jane Sutphen,
and had four children.
CORNELIS (CORNELIUS) (28), (SON OE CORNELIS), HAD ISSUE:
80. Cornelius, baptized September 9, I750, married Sara?,
had one child.
8I. Cathelyntje, baptized November IO, I75I, married -
Vlereborne.
82. Judick, baptized September 8, I754.
83. Gysbert, baptized October 24, I757.
84. Maria, baptized March 4, I759.
85. Rebecca, baptized June 21, 1761, married Jacobus Emans,
had one child.
JAN (JOHN) (30), (SON OF CORNELIS) (CORNELIUS),
HAD ISSUE:
86. Johannes, baptized May 22, I757, married Maria Stryker,
had one child.
87. Abraham, baptized July 15, I759, married Phebe Bodine, had
four children.
88. Tuentje, baptized October 13, I765.
89. Judick, baptized June 12, I768.
LOW FAMILY.
585
GERRIT (31), (SON OF CORNELIS) (CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
90. Judith, born July 24, 1756, married Christopher Stryker, had
five children, and died November 20, I830.
91. Cornelius, baptized February 12, 1758, married Jane Allen,
October 5, 1788, had three children.
92. Sara, baptized April I, I764, married Cornelius Emans, had
three children.
93. Gysbert, baptized February I6, 1766.
94. Abraham, baptized August 7, I768.
JOHN- (35), (SON oF LAWRENCE), IAD ISSUE:
95. Adolf, born April 30, I771.
96. Saartje (Sarah), born April 4, I773.
97. Brechje (Bridget), baptized December 14, 1782.
ABRAHAM (37), (SON oF ABRAM) (ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
98. Abraham, baptized February 20, I780.
99. Gerrit, baptized July 31, I785.
Ioo. Pieter (Peter), baptized July 6, 1788, married Martha Terhune, December 7, I809, had one child.
IOI. Cornelus (Cornelius), baptized July 27, I79I.
PIETER (PETER) (53), (SON oF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS FIRST WIFE:
102. Daniel, baptized March I, I767.
PIETER (53) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
103. Cornelius, baptized December Io, I780.
104. Andries Ten Eyck, baptized September 21, 1788.
105. Rebecca, baptized August 22, I792.
JAN (JOHN) (54), (SON OE BENJAMEN), HAD ISSUE:
IO6. Isaac, baptized May 2, I773.
107. William, baptized May I6, 1776, married Frances Hoff, had
five children.
CORNELIUS (56), (SON or BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
o18. Cornelius, baptized March 27, I774.
Io9. Deneys Stryker, baptized October 19, I777.
I I. Lena, baptized September 28, I783.
III. Catlina, baptized July 2, 1786.
112. Barent, born August 27, I795.
BENJAMIN (58), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
II13. Elesebath (Elizabeth), baptized June 14, I777.
586
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
JAN (JOHN) (6I), (SON oF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
114. Cathlintie, baptized December 4, I774.
II5. Bengemen (Benjamin), baptized August 28, 1780, married
Annie Trimmer, January 14, I802.
JAN (JoIN) (63), (SON oF YEUNIS) (TUNIS), HAD ISSUE:
I 6. David.
DRCK D. (67), (SON OF DIRCK), HAD ISSUE:
117. Rebecca, born April 28, I775, died young.
118. Debora, born April 28, 1778, married Derrick Sutphen, September I, I799, had four children, and died August Io,
I857.
I 19. Dirick (Richard D.), born June 3, 1780, went West and married there. Returned and died January 9, i866. Had
surviving issue.
120. Maria, born May 23, 1782, married Abraham R. Sutphen.
121. Rebecca, born June 6, I785.
122. Nelly (Eleanor), born May I, 1788.
I23. Annie Van D., born March 25, 1792, married Peter Clover
Schenck, February I, 1812, and died March 5, 1867.
124. Peter Ten Eyck, born July 2, 1794, married first, Sarah Ott,
had three children, and second, Parmelia Ott, by whom
he had four children.
GISBERT (73), (SON OF DIRCK), HAD ISSUE:
I25. Mary, born January 29, 1795.
126. Cornelius, born March 9, 1797, buried March o1, I84I, at
Readington, N. J.
JACOB DERRICK (77), (SON OF DIRCK), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
127. Rebecca J., born July 2, 1797, narried James Kemper, had
eight children, and died April 3, I85I.
128. Jacob J., born March 21, I799, died single, July 30, 1825.
I29. Peter Perlee, born June II, 180o, married Ann Bomberger,
May 4, 1830, had four children, and died August 7, I866.
I30. Derrick J., born in Ohio, May 21, 1803, married?
Duval, and died April 25, I856.
131. Ralph Phillips, born November 24, I805, married Phebe
Carlton, had nine children.
132. Isaac, born September 22, 1807, died single, February I6,
I815.
JACOB DERRICK (77) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
133. James Edgar, born July 22, 1812, died September 2, I8I2.
LOW FAMILY.
587
JACOB DERRICK (77) HAD ISSUE BY HIS THIRD WIFE:
134. James Kemper, born June 25, I8i6, died July 6, I8i6.
135. John Gilbert, born September 25, 1817, married Marianna
Louise Thurston (nee Phillips), I843, had five children,
and died July 30, I892. She died September 7, I896.
ISAAC (79), (SON OF DIRCK), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
I36. Mary, born December 25, 1799, deceased.
I37. Martha, born August 20, I803, married Dennis Wyckoff.
138. Elsey, born August I, I807, married John B. Hoagland, had
one child. She deceased.
ISAAC (79) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I39. Peter, born January 13, 1814, married Sarah Van Arsdalc.
1835, had seven children. He deceased.
140. Isaac, born March I2, i8i6, married Rachel Young, September 24, 1836, had six children. He deceased.
141. Rachel, born October 25,,I8I8, married Aaron H. Trimmer,
but died without issue.
142. John, born April 29, I827, died single.
CORNELIUS (80), (SON OF CORNELIS), HAD ISSUE:
I43. Sara, baptized December 22, 1782.
JOHANNES (86), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I44. Gerrit, born June 26, I797, baptized September 7, 1798.
ABRAHAM (87), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I45. John, born September 20, I789.
146. Esther, born January 2, I79I, married David P. Schamp,
had eight children.
I47. Peter Bodine, who married Harriet Van Home, had three
children. He kept a store at Centerville, N. J. Moved
to Texas, and died in Illinois.
148. Catherine, born May 15, 1804, married Cornelius Booraem.
CORNELIUS (91), (SON OF GERRIT), HAD ISSUE:
149. Garret, born July 13, I789.
I50. Robert Allen, born September I, 179I, married Maria Voorhees, January I9, I820.
I5I. Elizabeth, born July 20, I796, unmarried.
PIETER (IOO), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
152. Cornelius Terhune, born October 7, I8Io.
WILLIAM (107), (SON OF JAN) (JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I53. Abraham Huff, baptized July 23, 1788.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I54. Hannah, born June 8, I791.
I55. Hendrick, born July 6, I793.
I56. Neeltje, baptized January 24, I796.
157. George Huff, who married Hannah Randolph, had three
children.
PETER TEN EYCK (124), (SON Or DIRCK D.), HAD ISSUE
BY HIS FIRST WIFE:
158. Nathaniel Hilyer, born July I, 1817, married Catharine?, had six children, and died February 15, I853.
I59. Rachel Ann, born April 2, I8I9, died, unmarried, October
27, I843.
I60. Nicholas Ott, born August 2, 1820, married Elizabeth Ludlow, November IO, 1847, had two children, and died April
II, 1854.
PETER TEN EYCK (124) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIEE:
I6I. Dorothy, born June -, 1823, died unmarried.
I62. Richard, born January 8, I829, married first, Sallie M.
Hoagland, had two children, and second, Hannah Hoagland. No issue by second wife.
163. Sarah, born May 24, 1830, married John I. More, November
24, I863.
I64. John M., born September 5, I837.
PETER PERLEE (I29), (SON Or JACOB DERRICK), HAD ISSUE:
I65. Sarah Perlee, born July 6, I83I, died, unmarried, May I,
i880.
I66. Jacob Derrick, born September I5, 1833, died single, March
12, I859.
I67. William Bomberger, born September 13, 1835, married
Anna P. Findlay, January 20, I859, but died without
issue in September, I889. He was captain in the IIth
Infantry, in the United States Army, during the Civil
War.
I68. Anne, born July 19, I838, at Dayton, Ohio, married Joseph
H. Rieman, October 3, I86I, had seven children, and died
in Baltimore, Maryland.
RALPH PHILLIPS (131), (SON OF JACOB DERRICK), HAD ISSUE:
I69. Carlton, who died single.
I70. Glenn, single.
I7I. Clifton.
172. Kate, who married George Kendall, January 20, I868, had
three children.
I73. Lemoni, who died single.
LOW FAMILY.
589
I74. Ralph, who died single.
I75. Peter.
I76. Nellie, who married Gabriel F. Johnston.
I77. Nathaniel Edson, who was a missionary in South America.
Married twice.
JOHN GILBERT (I35), (SON OF JACOB DERRICK), HAD ISSUE:
178. Frances Kemper, born September I, I844, married Charles
Newbold, had six children.
I79. Elizabeth W., born June 17, I846, married E. Fowler Stoddard, November Io, I868, had five children.
I80. Henry Clay, born February I, 1848, married Ella Harries,
had one child.
181. Houston, born September I8, I849, married Carrie Harries,
December 28, 1871, have five children.
182. Mary D., born December 4, I857, married Thomas P. Gaddis, April I6, 1878, had one child.
PETER (I39), (SON OF ISAAC), IAD ISSUE:
I83. John B., born December 31, I836, married Martha V. N.
Sebring, had two children.
I84. Ann Maria, born 1838, married Peter Laub, I86I, had three
children.
185. Sarah Jane, born I840, married William H. Dudley, I860,
have four children.
I86. Peter, born I843, married in 1864.
187. Rachel Trimmer, born 1845, married Samuel Chevalier,
I869, had one child, and died in I872.
I88. Mary Louisa, born 1848, died, unmarried, 1869.
I89. Rulof, born I850, died young.
ISAAC (140), (SON Of ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
190. Jane A., born September 25, I839, married December 7,
1859.
I91. Mary C., born July 7, 1839, married December 28, I854.
192. Loretta L., born May 3, 1841.
I93. John T., born September 28, 1845.
I94. Jacob S., born December 31, I847, married Jane A. Voorhees, September 20, 1871, had six children.
195. Simeon D., born March 23, I855, married May 12, 1883.
PETER BODINE (147), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I96. Abraham, single.
I97. John, single.
I98. Phebe Elizabeth, who married -? Pinnell, now deceased.
590
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
GEORGE HUFF (157), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I99. Ezekiel F. R., born January I, I830, married Lucy A. Low,
I876, no issue.
200. David.
201. John R.
NATHIANIEL HILYER (158), (SON OFr PETER TEN EYCK),
HAD ISSUE:
202. Henry 0., born June 9, I841.
203. Samuel E., born.June 4, I843, died September Io, I857.
204. Peter B., born August 29, 1845, died in August, I886.
205. Josiah A., born November 4, 1847, had one child.
206. Sarah Ann, born February 10, I849.
207. Nathaniel H., born April I9, 1852, died March 14, I877.
NICHOLAS OTT (I60), (SON OF PETER TEN EYCK),
HAD ISSUE:
208. Susan Ludlow, born June 30, 1849.
209. Helen, born October 12, I853, married Charles Sloan, October 12, 1875, no issue.
RICIIARD: (162), (SON OF PETER TEN EYCK), I-AD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
210. Mary Anna, born February 2, 1863, married James S. Hall,
November 31, 1884, no issue.
211. Amelia Aletta, born September 21, I866, unmarried.
HENRY CLAY (I80), (SON OF JOHN GIL1ERT), HAD ISSUE:
212. Marianna Louise, born June 14, 1876.
HOUSTON (I8I), (SON OF JOIN GILBERT), IAD ISSUE:
2I3. Charles Harries, born June 24, I873.
214. Ella Harries. born January 15, 1875, married Lewis W.
Gunckel, November 7, I895, no issue.
215. Elizabeth, born February I8, I877.
216. Henrietta C., born November 20, 1882.
217. John Gilbert, born March 2, 1884.
JOHN B. (183), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
218. Vanny B., born June 8, I862, married Addie H. Praul, I881,
had three children.
219. Isaac S., born August 5, I866, married Margaret H. Polhemus, I893, had one child.
LOW FAMILY.
591
JACOB S. (194), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
220. Anna Maria, born July 27, 1872, married Theodore S. Harm,
December 25, I89I.
221. Isaac J., born April 25, i876.
222. Loretta L., born November 9, I879.
223. Cora R., born October 21, I885.
224. Madeline B., born September 2I, i89o.
225. Clara S., born February 17, I894.
JOSIAH A. (205), (SON OF NATHANIEL HILYER), HAD ISSUE:
226. Josiah Appleton, born September 12, I874.
VANNY B. (2I8), (SON OF JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
227. Martha S., born 1885, married William Van Middlesarth,
February 6, 1902.
228. Mary P., born 1887.
229. Isaac J., born April 2I, I89I.
ISAAC S. (219), (SON OF JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
230. Ethel H., born June I6, I897.
MONTANYE.
Abram De La Montanie,-he so wrote his name,-claims
a separate notice here as one of the patentees, though representing only a lesser branch of this numerous family, of which
more extended notes will be found in Appendix B. The prefix
De La, adopted by all the sons of Dr. Johannes La Montagne,
was more generally retained, perhaps, by his descendants of this
branch than of any other, but still was so far common to all of
the name, and yet so generally treated as of doubtful utility,to be used or omitted at pleasure,-that it becomes a very unreliable means of identity. (See note, page 167.)
Abram Delamontanie, born in I664, baptized March I6, 1664,
and but eight years of age when his father, John, died, was the
only son that remained at Harlem. He was bred a weaver, and
afterward gave instruction in that handicraft to other young men
of the town. He married, March 27, I689, Rebecca, eldest daughter of Theunis Idens Van Huyse, of Bloomingdale, and by the
death of his mother soon after, near the close of that year, succeeded to her house and lot in the village. His rights as a patentee were by virtue of this freehold; and upon this he drew, in
I69I, lot No. 23, five morgen, which in the deed given by the town
March 21, 1701, is described as follows:
There is set off to Abraham de La Montanie (for the right of one erf),
a piece of land lying west of the King's way, bounded against the Harlem
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
limits to a steep rock standing in the run, upon it four rods northerly a
small maple tree of Metje Cornelis; and southerly on along the King's
way to a run where the King's way passes over.
This piece of land, now within Central Park, lay opposite to
and below the old McGown place, stretching along the west side
of the road from 99th to Io4th Street, or thereabouts, and upon
its southern end afterward stood the Black Horse Tavern, of
Revolutionary notoriety. The west side of this grant lay in
proximity to the lands of his father-in-law, Theunis Idens.
Samuel Waldron, in 1712, had drawn No. 7 in Ist Division, which
was in two parts, one of nearly o1 acres, being identical with the
McGown place aforesaid; the other, some 2'2 acres, lying opposite, west of the road, between Delamontanie's grant above described, and a lot laid out to the Delavall heirs, and later included
in the Nutter farm. Delamontanie, by an exchange, added Waldron's lot to his own, giving \Waldron his drafts in 2d, 3d, and
4th Divisions. His lot in ist Division, No. 17, containing 3 a. I q.
24 r., lay on the hill about I45th Street, on the east side of Kingsbridge Road. He sold this to Barent Waldron, from whom it
passed with his farm, in 1740, to John R. Myer, and from him
to Abraham Myer; being the piece improperly described as in
"first fourth division," and which experts even have been puzzled
to locate. Delamontanie's lands in Harlem continued to be rated
at 20 acres. On June 22, 1720, his father-in-law conveyed to
him and his wife an eighth part of his farm, said part being 57 2
acres, running in a strip from near Delamontanie's land northwesterly to Hudson River.*
There is not a circumstance to show that Abraham Delamontanie ever set up any claim to the lands sold and conveyed by
his parents to Bogert; but he early conceived the idea, drawn
apparently from some clause in his father's will, as well as the
tenor of the deed to Bogert, that said deed merely conveyed the
Point and meadows attached, but did not carry the morgen right,
* Theunis Idens, as his autograph is, but also called Theunis Eidesse Van Huyse,
has been noticed as the owner of a large farm between 89th and 1o7th streets, on the
North River side. He was born in I639, probably in Holland, being son of Iden Van
Huyse, by his wife Tryntie Jacobs, afterward married to Jacob IHelliker (or
Hellaker), alias Swart, who has descendants of both names. Theunis spent his early
life on Long Island. A curious account of him there and after he came to New York
is given by Dankers and Sluyter of his reckless youth and his reformation. He became a church member June I7, i68o. When and from whom he purchased at
Bloomingdale is not ascertained; the line between his land and Harlem patent was
run in i690, the town paying 24 guilders toward the survey. In his old age Theunis
had his farm laid off by Peter Berrien into lots of 57/2 acres each, being in breadth
42 rods, or thereabouts, at the river and rear, and numbered i to 8, from south to
north. On June 22 and 23, 1720, he and wife Jannetie (daughter of Thys Van Pelt),
conveyed these several parcels to their children as follows (giving possession, after the
ancient usage, "by turf and twig"): No. 8 to their son-in-law, Abraham Delamontanie,
and his wife aforesaid; Nos. 6, 7 to their son-in-law, George Dyckman, married to
their youngest daughter, Catalina; Nos. 4, 5, to their son, Eide Van Huyse; No. 3
and 1-3 of 2. to their son-in-law, Myndert Burger Van Evera, married to their daughter
Sarah, and No. i and 1-3 of No. 2, to their son-in-law, Marinus Roelofse Van Vleckeren, married to their daughter Dinah. Of these lots, Nos. i to 5 were owned subsequently by Charles Ward Apthorpe, and Nos. 6 to 8 were held many years by the
Dikemans, descendants of Joris Dyckman. To his daughter Maria, married to Jurien
Rynchout. Theunis gave the farm noticed page 545.
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593
or a share in the undivided common lands. This gave rise to
the following letter:
N. Haarlem, 5 December, I700.
To the Overseers of N. Haarlem.
Honorable Sirs.
Abram de Lamontanie, inhabitant of this town, inquires of your
Honors, whether you or your predecessors have laid out any ground or
land for the deed of John de La Montanie, deceased, which deed is remaining on the records of this town, and dated 8 February, 1672.
ABRAM DF, LA MONTANIE.
To this, two days after, the following reply was given:
N. Haarlem, 7 December, I700.
We, Laurens Jansen, Jacques Tourneur and Peter Van Oblienis, Overseers of N. Haarlem, having read the writing of the 5 December, 1700,
sent to us by Abram de La Montanie, think proper to answer that the
before named La Montanie may examine whether he can obtain any advantage from the deed which John Louwe Bogert shall get from our
hands. Also, he can then take a copy thereof. Witness,
ADR: VERMEULE, Secretary.
It was a disturbing question to Bogert, who had drawn lot
No. 25, adjoining his farm, and which now seemed to be menaced.
Not to rely wholly on the deed given him March 21, I70I, he took
occasion to fortify himself by another from Joost Van Oblinus,
the surviving Nicolls patentee, dated February 14, I702, and still
another from the town trustees, September 14, I706, soon after
which he sold out to Benson. The question was not put to issue
during the lifetime of the latter, but enough of uncertainty hung
over it to make Benson unwilling to pay quit rent on that part
of his farm. After Samson Benson came in possession, Delamontanie entered an action of ejectment in the Supreme Court of the
Province, October 5, 1723, which came to trial at New York,
November 29, following, in the name of John Simson, "on the
demise of Montanye," against Samson Benson. Lewis Morris,
Chief Justice, and Robert Walters, Second Justice, presided. The
best counsel were employed on both sides. Defendant confessed
lease, entry, and ouster.* Delamontanie had clothed himself with
due power in the premises, by deeds obtained from his elder
brother, John, and several other of the co-heirs. These and various public records and writings were read, including the proceedings of the freeholders, the agreements subscribed to, and
rules adopted, for the division of the common lands. A number
of witnesses were also sworn. Mr. Abraham Gouverneur acted
* This presupposes that Montanye had forcibly entered, or by a legal fiction was held
to have so entered upon the land; that he had given Simson a lease and entry of the
premises; and that Simson had thereupon been ousted by Benson. All this taking
place, entitled Simson, as Delamontanie's tenant to his action of ej.ectment. To
avoid being non-suited, Benson must have applied to be made a defendant, which
could only be allowed upon condition that he comply with a rule of court to confess
at the trial of the cause, the lease, entry, and ouster, as aforesaid, these making three
of the four requisites for the maintenance of the plaintiff's action, and which. being
done the trial stood solely upon the merits of the title. (Blackstone.)
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
as interpreter, ex parte, for the prosecution. Mr. Edward Blagge,
Zacharias Sickels, and Johannes Waldron were called to testify
for plaintiff, and Peter Van Oblienis, Samuel Waldron, and
lBarent Waldron, for defendant. But Delamontanie failed to
make out a title, and the jury found for the defendant. This was
final, and we hear no more of the matter.
In 1729 Abraham sold out to his brother-in-law, George
D)ckman, who owned an adjoining part of the Van Huyse farm.
(See note on Bloomingdale Dvckmans, Dyckman family.) Abraham was living January i6, 1734, having a second wife named
Aeltie Hoogland. His grave, as believed, was in the old cemetery, beneath a rude stone inscribed A. L. M., February 12, 1733-4.
A marked taste for the sea and relative Ipursuits is noticed amongl
the descendants of Abraham Delamontanie.
Abraham Montanye (1) marrie(l first, Rebecca Van Huyse,
'\larch 27, 1689, had eight children. He married seconld, Aeltie
Hoogland, and (lied February 12, 1734.
A\1R.AIH.AM (I) TAD) ISSUF:
2. Jo0hn, baptized (ctober 1, I693.
3. Teunis, baptized July 24, I695, married first Geesie Bussing.
November 15, I718, had three children. He married
second, Rebecca.
4. Isaac, lived in 1738 near his brothers-in-law, Devoor and Albodv, at Turtle Bay, noted for its shipyards, in which he
was probably employed.
5. Jacob, who married Maria Pell, April 6, 1729, had six children.
A blockmaker at New York. Was appointed fireman in
1738. Some of his kinsmen, the Pells, being shipbuilders
at the Snith's Fly.*
6. Ide, who married Elizabeth?, had two children.
7. Jannetie, who married David Devoor, Jul-y 8, 1750, had three
children.
8. M-aria. who married John Bass, November 6, 1714, had four
children.
9. Hannah, who married first, John BIuys, December 30, 1727, had
two children. She married second, Andries Albodv
(alias Anderson), in 1732, had three children.
Teunis Delamontagnie (3), baptized July 24, I695, bought a
place in Harlem village,in 1719, having married the year previous,
November 15, 1718, Geesie Bussing (see pages 433, 483.) He
and Ide were living in Somerset County, N. J., in 1731 the
latter had sons Abraham and Ede, or Edward, who bore arms in
the Revolution. In 1735, Teunis owned Ioo acres in Franklin
* John Pell and his brothers, William. Thomas and Samuel, of New York, were
sons of Samuel, of Harlem, shipcarpenter, named page 302, etc., who was from London. Thomas was father-in-law of said Jacob Delamontagnie.
AMONTIANYE FAMILY.
595
township, and had a second wife, Rebecca. He seems to have
returned to New York.
TEUNIS (3), (S()N oF ABRAHAM), HIAD ISSUE:
IO. Elder, who was the father of four children.
I. B'regie, born 1723, baptized Mlay, 1723, married Peter Zenger, (ctober 26, I751. He son of the famous printer.
12. Jacobus, born )December 19, 1731.
Jacob Delamontagnie (5), blockmaker, married April 6,
1729, Alaria Pell. He was one of the city firemen, appointed in
1738, all "strong, able, discreet, honest, and sober men."
JACOi( (5), (S()N O( A,\II.HA.\AI)), HA;)1 SSUK:
13. Abraham No. i, baptized April 29, 1730, died March 25, 1731.
[4. Aaltje, baptized January I, 1732.
15 Abraham No. 2, baptized January 16, 1734, married Mary
Remsen, 1755, had seven chilren, and died in 1774.
16. Thomas, baptized March 24, 1736, diedl December i8, I791.
17. Rebecca, baptized September 26, 1739, married Christian
D)iemer, had one chill.
18. James, born April 17, 1744.
IDI)I: (6), (S() ()OIF AiRAi\.xAx), IIAD ) SSUE:
[9. A.)rahaii, baptize(l Mlay 28, 1727.
20. Eide, bal)tize(l April 9, 1732, marrie(l Elizabeth --,had
three chil(lren.
Elder (o1), (son of Teunis). There are reasons for believing that the father of Teunis, Robert, Joseph, and William Delamontagnie. all, except Robert, members of the New York Marine
Society, an(l shilpmasters in the B:ermuda and West Indian trade,
was an elder son of Teunis. But unfortunatelv neither his worthy
lescendants, living in New York, nor the parish registers of Bermuda, where he resided when his children were born, are able
to tell us any m1dre about the father of these brave "toilers on
the sea." He had issue:
21. Teunis, born 1744, married Sarah, daughter of Edward
Nicoll, named on page 321, January 14, 1771, and the
next year was adimitted to the Marine Society, but died
prior to 1783.
22. Robert.
23. Joseph (Capt.), born November IO, 1747, in Bermuda, married Elizabeth, daughter of Teunis Tiebout, had six children, and died in New York April I6, I820. He born
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
at Bermuda. Was a member of the New York Marine
Society.
24. William, born June 27, I750, was a member of N. Y. Marine
Society in I774, also Shipmaster in the Bermuda trade.
His daughters, Mrs. Woodward and Mrs. Asson, of Philadelphia, still survive (I88I).
Abraham Delamontagnie (15), as he called himself, took the
trade of his father,Jacob, a blockmaker. He was admitted to freemanship in I769, and also to honorary membership in the Marine
Society. He married, in I755, Mary, daughter of Jacob Remson,
of Brooklyn, and ultimately became a "vintner," or innkeeper, in
which he was engaged in I769, his house being near the Commons, and then and thereafter a famous resort for the "Liberty
Boys." It was probably the same place, "opposite the Green,
near the Bridewell," or, to exactly locate it, at the corner of
Broadway and Murray Street, where he leased, March 25, I773,
five lots of ground from Trinity Church, for 99 years. Abraham
did a good thing for his heirs, but he himself (lied the very next
year, aged only 40, and on October 17, I774, letters of administration were taken out by his widow. She continued the house,
253 Broadway, married, in I777, John Amory, whipmaker, and
died in 1797, in her 66th year.
ABRRAIHA (I5), (SON Or JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
25. Maria, baptized September 22, I756, died July 22, 1762.
26. James No. I, baptized August 21, I758, died August 15, 1759.
27. James No. 2, born December 6, 1760, died August 6, 1762.
28. Abraham. born July 4, I763, (lied August 29, I764.
29. James No. 3, born September 4, I764.
Jacob (30), born September 15, 1765, is remembered as one
of the best of men. He studied law, opening an office at 9
Beekman Street, but removed before his mother died to 253
Broadway. He had married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Armour, shipmaster. In 1792 he was lieutenant
and adjutant of the First New York Regiment, was alderman
much of the time from I796 to i8o6, and in I798 member of
assembly. The 99 years lease being sold in 1812, Jacob was one
of three purchasers, but sold out, I817, to Benjamin Ferris and
Amos Butler. He died at his residence in Beaver Street, April
9, 1823, without children, and leaving large legacies to members
of the Armour and Moore families, besides providing amply for
his wife, Mary E. Delamontagnie. She survived him twenty-five
years, and died at Belleville, New Jersey. For a portrait of Mr.
Delamontagnie, see Documentary History of New York, Vol. 4,
page 1024. He had issue:
MONTASNYE FAMILY.
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3I. Rebecca, born June 5, I766, died August 23, I767.
EIDE (20), (SON OF IDE), HAD ISSUE:
32. Eide, baptized February 20, 1762, married Cathrina Young,
had one child.
33. Anate (Anna), baptized November 24, I766.
34. Yacobes (Jacobus), baptized December 2, I767.
JoSEPlHI (23), (SON or ELDER), HAD ISSUE:
35. Sarah, born October 7, 1785, married Rev. William Gray.
36. Anna, born March 24, 1878, married William J. Crolius.
37. William, born November I, 1788, was the father of four
children, and died June 15, I877. Was the veteran boatbuilder of Water Street.
38. Edward, born May 5, 1792, had two children, and died March
19, 1872. Was a boatbuilder.
39. Elizabeth, born December 27, I794, died in infancy.
40. Joseph, born January 8, 1796, died single, September 23, I826.
ETDE (32), (SON OF EIDE), HAD ISSUE:
4I. Maria, born June 19, I785.
WILLI AM ( (37), (SON O JOSEP), HAD ISSUE:
42. William.
43. John.
44. Joseph E.
45. Albert.
EDWARD (38), (SON OF JOSEPH), HAD ISSUE:
46. Robert.
47. Alexander, born 1824, married Mary Jane Cox, July 8, I847.
MYER.
Adolph Meyer, the ancestor of the Myer family of Harlem
(whose name, at first pronounced Mayer, has changed its sound
as well as form), emigrated, as before noticed, from Ulsen, a
parish of Bentheim, in the German province of Westphalia. He
arrived at Harlem in I66I, where he gained a good standing;
and April 29, I671, married Maria, daughter of Johannes Verveelen. Three years later he united with the church, his wife
having done the same some months before. At their marriage,
Verveelen gave them the two out-gardens, Nos. 7, 8, with most of
the land in the Hanel patent, the rest being promised, and the patent eventually transferred to Meyer, October 13, I683. Meyer sold
the lot on Montanye's Flat, January 28, I673. Adrianus Jansen
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Van Westerhout built him a house 25 by I8 feet, with a leanto;
the contract dated August I8, 1675. It cost 360 guilders, as
appeared at their settlement January 6, I676. Meyer bought the
Demarest lot, No. 5, on Jochem Pieters, August I, I677. On
September 4, I679, he and John Delamater leased for io years
the Slot lands on Van Keulen's Hook, with house lots, garden
and meadows; but just before the lease expired Meyer, whose
house and barn had been burnt, stating to his father-in-law that
he wished to build a new barn, but was afraid of another accident,
as he and Joost Van Oblinus were living so near, Verveelen sold
him the Slot patent, June 3, I689, for 300 guilders, "silver money
or in wheat as silver," Meyer engaging, should Verveelen die
before receiving the money, to pay Daniel Verveelen and his sister
Anna their respective shares of I,ooo guilders each. Meyer no
doubt met his engagements, as he continued in possession, and
later, Daniel released to his sister, Mrs. Meyer, all his interests
at Harlem, by deeds of June 12, 17I0, and June 30, I712; in the
latter expressly including all "the right and property of Johannes Verveelen deceased, by reason of his being patentee of said
town and patent." The Hanel and Slot patents laid the foundation of the large Myer estates.*
* The Hanel patent is unrecorded, and I am but too well convinced that the
original (in fragments when I saw it) has perished. Luckily a copy was taken which
saves to us the text of this ancient Dutch grant:
Wy Petrus Stuyvesant, Directeur-Generael ende Raeden, wegens de H-o: MIo: I-eere
Staaten Generael der vereenighde Nedertants, zyn Hoogheyt van Orantjie, ende Edele
Heere Bewinthebberen der geoctroveerde West Indien Compagnie, in Nieuw Nederlant residerende, oirkonde en verclaren mits deesen, dat wy. op huyden dato ondergeschreeven, hebben toegestaen en vergunt aen Juriaen Hanel, resident van het
evlant van Manhatans, en in de dorp Nieuw Haerlem, een parceel lant gelegen op
Van Keulen's Hook, geteykent No. 4, suylen wederzyde zuyden, breet twaelf roeden,
groot drie morgen; alzo een stuck op Jochem Pietersen's Lant, tusschen H-endrick
Carsense en Jan Le Roy, suylen wederzyden west wel so noordelyk, breet sestien
roeden, groot ses morgen vier hondert roeden; alzo een stuck lant op Montagne's
Lant, geteykent No. 7, breet seven en twintigh roeden, vier en een half voeten suylen
van de kil tot het gebergte west, groot vyf morgen en vicr hondert roeden; een
erf bezuyden Montagne, langh seven roeden negen voeten, breet seven roeden ses en
een half voeten; item een thuyn bewesten Jan Pietersen, beoosten Nicholaes de
Meyer, breet vif roeden. langh twintigh roeden; item een stuck valey getuykent No.
5, gemeen met Lubbert Gerritsen, synde het noordelyk streek tot eylant by 't Springh,
als mede het noordelyk streek in de Groot Valey. Met expresseerde conditie ende
voorwaarde dat hy Juriaen Ilanel, of die uyt krachte deses syn actic macht genomen,
de Ed: Heeren BIewinthehheren voornaemde vooe syn heeren en patroonen sal
erkennen, onder de souvereignteyt van hare Hooge Moogende de Heeren Staaten
Generael, en hier haren Directeur ende Raeden en alles gehoorzamen als goede
ingezetenen schuldig syn te doen, mits hem wyders onderwerpende al sulcke lasten
ende gerechticheden, als by de Ed: Heeren reets is beraemt ofte noch te beraemen;
Constitueerende oversulcx den voornoemde Juriaen Hanel in onze staet reele en
actueele possessie vant voornoemde parceel lants, hem gevende mits desen volkomen
macht, authoriteyt, ende speciael bevel, omme t voorschreeven lant te moogen aenvaerden, bebouwen, bewoonen ende gebruycken, gelyck hy met andere syne patrimoniale landed ende effecten doen soude moogen, sonder dat wy cedenten inde
qualite als vooren. daer aen eenige part actie oft gesacht int minste meer syn hebben
te reserveren oft behouden, maer ten behoeve als vooren, van alles te desisteren. van
nu en voor eeuwigh, beloovende voorts dit transpoort vast, bondich, onverbreckelyk
ende irevocabel te behouden, naer te komen ende te volbrengen, alles ondert verbout
naer rechten daer toestaende. 'tOirkonde is desen by ons geteekent en met zegel
bevestight; actum int Fort Amsterdam in Nieuw Nederlant. I6 Ma —, 1664.
P. STUYVESANT.
Ter Ordonnantie van den E: Hr: Dr: Generael
ende Hooge Raeden van Nieuw Nederlant, etc.
CORNELIS VAN RUYVEN, Secretaris.
Mr. Meyer often held office in the town, was assistant alder
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man of the Out Ward. I693-95; also served as an elder. Between
I69I and 170I, chosen with others for that purpose, he had much
to do with the first allotment of the common land under the Dongan patent, and signed the deeds. The first four lots in that allotment embraced that part of Harlem Flats which lay north of the
Samson A. Benson line, and extended up between the two roads
to the point or forks at I3Ist Street. (See list of these lots in Appendix J). Myer drew lot No. 4, at the forks, in conjunction
with his son, Johannes, who owned a 7!/2 morgen right upon the
lots on Van Keulen's Hook, which came from his grandfather,
Terveelen. Here, at the fork of the roads, Adolph or Johannes
built a substantial stone house, as early as I706. Mr. Meyer died
in February, 171. By his will, made the 13th of that month, he
left the use of his property to his widow. To his grandsons,
named for him, he gave each a pair of gold buttons, and to his
granddaughters, named for his wife, each a gold ring.
The Mver estate was much increased, both by purchase and
by the drafts from the common lands, before Mrs. Myer died,
which was not till 1748. We except the Delavall lands, the bulk
of which was bought by the Myers, but held separate from the
common inheritance. Adolph Myer's will was proved September
2, 1748, after the death of the widow, but when his children were
all yet living, and by whom a final division of the property was
made November 15, 1748, and deeds passed. How the lands were
parcelled out will be shown as we speak of the sons respectively;
here we need only mention that Benjamin Benson, grandson of
Adolph Myer, succeeding to his mother's share, took 35 acres,
which included Lots 7, 8, 9, Van Keulen's Hook; and another
grandson, Johannes Sickels, intended by his uncle Myer as his
sole heir, received said uncle's portion, to wit: No. 3, Jochem
Pieters, No. 40, 2d Division, and No. 14, 4th Division, as also
the remaining north garden, which Sickels sold July I, I758, to
John Livingston. No. 2, Jochem Pieters, and No. 6, half of 5,
Van Keulen's Hook, he took under Isaac's will.
Adolph Meyer (I) married Maria Verveelen, April 29, I67r.
had nine children, and died in February, 1711.
ADOLPH M/EYER (I) HAD ISSUE:
2. Johannes, baptized August 13, 1671, married Tryntie, (laughter of Jan Van Dalsen,* January 30, 1702, had five children, and died in I755.
* Capt. Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen, elsewhere called de Vries (see pages 93,
236), was a shipcarpenter, and married, 1660, at New Amsterdam, Grietie, daughter
of Teunis Cray. After the Dutch lost New York he lived somewhere in New England;
there his daughter, Mrs. Kiersen, was born. But coming, i667, to Harlem for the
inducement, possibly (see page 311), he put up a house, and built one or more vessels
here. In 1670 he sold his place to Resolved Waldron, but subsequently owned another, and appears among the erf-holders, I681-83, having his home here, and sailing
an "open boat" out of New York. While thus engaged he is noticed as follows in the
Council minutes, January 28, 1684: "John de Vries desired that he might have some
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
3. Hendrick, baptized September 3, I673, married Wyntie Ray
(Rhee), December Io, 1697, had ten children, and died
October 31, I753.
4. Anna Catrina, baptized March 12, 1677, married Abraham
Lent, December 24, I698, had eleven children, and died
July 2I, I762. Anna Catrina's name, derived from the
Verveelens, is yet worthily borne by descendants of her
granddaughter, Anna Catrina Riker; an example of the
almost religious adherence, in our Dutch families, to the
ancestral Christian names.
5. Maria, baptized April 26, 1679, married Samson Benson, July
29,I169, had nine children.
6. Abraham, baptized March 3, 1682, married Engeltie Bussing,
May Io, I706, had five children, and died in I757.
7. Isaac, baptized April 13, I6S4, purchased from Gideon and
Bernardus Verveelen, in I710, jointly with his brother,
Jacob, a tract of land in Bergen County, New Jersey,
Jacob selling him his share in I743. By his will, dated
September 12, 1743, he gave "all his lands in the provinces
of New York and New Jersey" to his nephew, Johannes
Sickels. He could have left no children; maybe he was
called "Widower Myer." It would appear that he lived
with Sickels, on the lower street, I think on the old Laurens Jansen place, at the north end of No. 6, Van Keulen's
Hook, the lots attached to which, half of 5, 6, his mother
bought of Lawrence Low in 1732, and conveyed to Isaac
in 1735. Low sold him No. 2, Jochem Pieters, in 1738.
But it is singular that Isaac's name never occurs in the
tax lists.
8. Jacob, baptized May I6, 686, married first, Annatie Hendricks
land at Harlem. They at Harlem said he formerly had land and sold it; he said he
bought it; they said it was given to him, and he was obliged to sell it (if he parted
with it) to no stranger. lie, not being able to produce any witness or writing of said
purchase, it was agreed by those of Harlem to give him a piece of ground, for him
and his children; provided that he should not sell it, but for want of heirs it should
relapse to the township." After this he and Kiersen got a lease of the Great Maize
Land. (See page 408.) Capt. Van Dalsen subscribes to Dominie Selyns' salary in
I685 and '86, and was living in I602. His children (omitting the first two who died
young) were Teunis, born I664; Gerritie, born 1667, married Jan Kiersen; Annetie,
born i669, married Johannes Waldron; Peter, born I671; Tryntie, born I674, married
Johannes Meyer; Jacob, born I679; Lysbet, born 1682; Jannetie, born I685.
Teunis Van Dalsen, in an obituary published at the time of his death, is stated
to have been "the first male person born in this city (New York) after it was ceded
to the English by the Dutch;" and with this the family tradition accords. lie lived at
Harlem when he married Sarah, daughter of Capt. Johannes Vermilye, in the fall
of I696, having, on May 21, preceding bought No. 8 of the New lots from Joost Van
Oblinus. This he sold, January i, 1701, to Barent and Johannes Waldron, for I070.guilders; in 1721 was a farmer at Mamaroneck, in Westchester, but removed to
Goshen, Orange County, where he died August 30, I766, aged 102 years. The Dolsens
of that county are his descendants. They were great Whigs in the Revolution, and
from them Dolsentown takes its name. (See Eager's Orange County, page 412.) We
are not to confound with these the numerous Dolsens of Rockland and other counties,
descendants of Jan Van Dalfsen, from Haarlem, Holland, who, bringing certificates
from that place, with wife, Anna Van Raasvelt, joined the church in New York.
February 27, 1702. He died ten or fifteen years later at Tappan, where he had
served as voorleser.
MYER FAMILY.
6oi
Kammega, I7I0, had six children, and second, Rachel
Baton, September I6, 1725, had three children.
9. Adolph, baptized July 24, I692, married first, Margaret,
daughter of Johannes Waldron, October 25, I716, had
five children. He married second, Catherine, daughter
of Peter Haring, April 26, 1723, had five children.
Io. Anneke (Anna), baptized August 3, I698, married first, Johannes Sickels, May 2, I718, and second, Thomas Storm.
Johannes (2) became a large landholder; his first acquisition
being a share of Lot No. 4, in the Division of I691, drawn in
partnership with his father, the whole of which he ultimately
owned. On February 21, I701, the Brevoort farm, on Jochem
Pieters' Hills, being Lots 6, 7, of I691, was purchased in his
name, and on March II, 1712, he bought of Derick Benson, No.
I, New Lots, also once Brevoort's. See page 430. Johannes
Myer drew jointly with his mother of the common lands in 1712,
on his 7Y2 morgen right, which entitled him to just 17 a. I q.
22'2 r. They agreed that he should hold No. 15, Ist Division
(all but Io acres at the lower end), with No. 6, of I691, and that
she should hold in her name the lots No. I and 7, aforesaid;
however, on November Io, I713, she conveyed the Io acres to
Johannes, and in I7I5 gave him possession of the No. I, New
Lots. Among Myer's purchases was Sickels' lot, No. I6, Ist
Division, on March 3, 1722. See also page 431. He bought
114 acres of the Delavall lands from Abraham Gouverneur, March
25, 1720, but Philip Pipon reclaimed this land, on his arrival the
next year. After Pipon and Gouverneur had had their claims
settled by a legal decision, the latter sold Myer, on May I, 2,
1725, the three most southerly of the "Nine Lots," on Jochem
Pieters' Flat, with a third of the Delavall drafts from the common lands. Johannes ultimately got a full half of the Delavall
drafted lands; for more of which see Appendix I. Simon Johnson, assignee of Elias Pipon, also sold him that part of "that
piece of land formerly belonging to the heirs of James Carteret,"
which lay at the west end of the "Three Lots," but separated by
the road, and which Myer sold to John Sickels, April 4, I754,
called five acres more or less; Sickels the next year buying the
Three Lots, when the road was altered and carried around this
piece. See page 397.
Johannes Myer living to take part in the settlement of his
father's estate in 1748, came in legal possession of the homestead
(No. 4 of 1691), and No. 7 of the same allotment. He then
gave his sons, Jacob and John, his half of No. 9, 1691, and of
No. 15, 3d Division, both Delavall land. In I75o, he further conveyed to Jacob No. 6, 1691, and No. I5, Ist Division. On May
5, I753, he conveyed to Jacob No. 6, 1691, and to his other son,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
John, No. 7, adjoining; the latter sold his lot to Jacob, March
12, I758. Johannes Myer died in I755 in his 84th year. His
will, dated February 7, I729, was admitted to probate April 5,
I756. He devised all his lands, after the decease or remarriage of
his widow, equally to his two sons, but required them to satisfy
their sisters, by paying each fIoo, so that all should have an equal
share of his estate.
JOHANNES (2), (SON O() AI)()OLPII), HAD ISSUE:
I i. Jannettie, born about 1705, married Resolved Waldron, January 25, 1722, had four children.
12. Jacob. baptized May 8, 1709, married Aeltie, daughter of
Peter Bussing, I730, had two children, and died Novemvemiber 25, 1758.
13. MIaria, baptized May 6, I711, married Aaron Bussing, October 24, 1730, had six children.
14. Elizabeth, born 1714, married Petrus Waldron, had four children.
15. John, born about 1716, married first, Cornelia, (aughter of
John Delamater, July 20, 1738, had three children. He
married second, Amy --?, and died in 1773.
Hendrick Myer (3) bought the farm of Barent Waldron,
Gloudie's Point; but the deed, dated August 6, 1740, was made
in the name of his- son John (or properly John R.) aforesaid.
He sold it, July 21, 1743, to his uncle Abraham, who bought it
for his son Arent Myer, and to whom Abraham gave a deed
March 21, I747.* Hendrick Myer died in New York, October
31, 1753, aged 80 years.
HENDRICK (3), (SON () ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
I6. M5aria No. I, baptized May 14, T699, died young.
17. Adolph, baptized October 29, I70I, died October 7, 1732.
I8. Johannes No. I, baptized January 27, 1703, died young.
I9. Johannes No. 2, baptized July 9, 1704, died young.
20. Abraham, baptized July 8, I705.
* The Gloudie Point Title has its beginnings set forth on page 394. Barent Waldron drew. in i69I, a piece of land between his Point and lot No. Jo, which in his
deed of March 21, I701, is thus described: "There is set off to Barent Waldron, for
a morgen, more or less, a piece of land north of his house lot (erf), east of the
King's Way; saving that a suitable road remain along the swamp (creupelbosch), to
the meadow of Isaac Delamater, as the fence at present stands." **
The Bussing Point farm was therefore made up of five parcels, viz.: The Point
and adjoining tract above described, with lots io, 9 and 1/2 of 8 of the New Lots.
(See account of Johannes Waldron.) This is exclusive of Barent Waldron's drafts
in the Four Divisions and the lot 17, ist Division, lying on the hill, "four acres more
or less," which he got of Abraham T)elamontanie. Barent owned No. 3. I691 (late
Molenaor 17 acre tract), bought of his brother Samuel prior to 1715, and not sold
with the farm, 1740, but apparently to Aaron Bussing, 1746, who sold, 1747, to
Adolph Myer.
** In making the four divisions in 17I2, all the lots embraced in this farm
enioved the morgen right, and drew of the common land, except this single piece,
which, as drafted land, bore no such right; a curious distinction.
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21. Maria No. 2, baptized September 14, I707, died young.
22. Hendrickus No. I, baptized August 10, 1712, died young.
23. Hendrickus No. 2, baptized July 26, I7I3, married Maria
Gouverneur, September 23, 1735, had one child, and died
December 15, I740.
24. Johannes No. 3, baptized April 15, I716, died young.
25. Johannes No. 4 (John Ray), baptized July 5, I719, married
first, Anna, daughter of Charles Crommelin, of New
York, October I, I747, had three children. He married
secondl, Helen Rutgers Scott, and (lied August 13, 1807.
Abraham Myer (6), baptized March 3, 1682, marrie(1 Engeltie, daughter of Arent Harmans Bussing, May Io, 706. ' On
August 12, I713, he bought fron John Van Oblienis Lot No. 1,
Jochem Pieters, with the one morgen houselot attached, both
owned originally by Daniel Tourneur. This became Abraham's
home. In 17I5 he had acquired 85 acres, which included No. 1
of I691, late Thomas Tourneur's, with Jan Nagel's First Division.
and half of his drafts in Second, Third and Fourth Divisions.
In 1722 he bought from Nagel I acres on Jochem Pieters, and
from Zachariah Sickels, No. 4, First Division. In I731 he
bought Nos. 5, io, Jochem Pieters, and No. 12, Second Division,
from Nicholas Kortright; and probably at this date exchanged
with his mother No. I, I691, for No. 4, Jochem Pieters. Before
1748 he had evidently anticipated by possession what land was
due him from his mother. Subsequently buying another lot on
Jochem Pieters, he held, under Nos. 5, 7, Io, lying together, and
then called 40 acres (see Appendix E), the tract later known as
"the homestead farm of Lawrence Benson," containing 42 acres,
2 q., I6 r., the title to which, after six years' litigation, was settled by the Supreme Court of the United States, January 19, I863.
Mr. Myer was appointed clerk of the town, May II, I747. He
made his will April 3, 1754, which was proved February I8, I756.
Mr. Myer had also purchased from Nicholas Kortright, June II,
12, I740, for his eldest son Abraham, 40 acres of the old Tourneur farm, on Montanye's Flat, with some meadow east of the
creek, and Lot i8, Second Division. He had also provided for
his younger son Arent, as we have seen, by the purchase, in I743,
of the Gloudie Point farm, of which Arent took immediate possession.
ABRAHAM (6), (SON 01r ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
26. Abraham, baptized February 8, 1716, married Mattie Kortright, 1740, had five children, and died in 1772.
27. Arent, born I7I7, married Susannah, daughter of Lawrence
Kortright, I735, had four children.
28. Susannah, born I7I9, married Peter Bussing, February I9,
1753, had three children.
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29. Maria, born I720, married John Dykman, about 1738, had two
children.
30. Eve, born I726, deceased.
Jacob Myer (8), born I686, baptized May I6, I686, married
Anna, (laughter of his cousin Hendrick Cammega, about 1710,
and settled at Closter, Bergen County, New Jersey, where, losing
his wife he married secondly, September I6, 1725, Rachel Baton.
Jacob was a purchaser of some of the Delavall lands in I747.
JAcOB (8), (SON OF ADOLPI), HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST WIEE:
3I. Adolph No. I, baptized March 4, 1711, died young.
32. Adolph No. 2, baptized May I8, 1712, deceased.
33. Maria, born January 4, I715.
34. Tryntie (Cathrina), born January 15, 1717, married Klaas
(Nicholas) Pieterse, had four children.
35. Adolph No. 3, born March 20, I720, married Lena Ridnaer,
had four children.
36. Annatie, baptized May 20, 1722.
JAcOB (8) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIF:
37. Jacob, baptized July 30, I726.
38. John, born December 21, 1728, removed to Fishkill, N. Y.
39. Margrietje, born October 25, I730.
Adolph (9) made his first purchase of land in 1715, when he
bought from Samson Benson Lot No. 2 of I69I, his father, as
we have seen, having drawn No. 4 of the same tract. Adolph
eventually acquired Nos. I, 3: as also the several parcels beyond
the highway to the westward, originally Nos. 8 to 14, First Division, laid out to Captain Delavall's heirs and others, and forming
the 84 acre tract, afterward sold, with Lot 3, etc., by his son
Adolph, to Charles Duryee, and purchased soon after by William
Molenaor. To specify: Adolph bought several lots in the 84
acre tract in I733 (see page 484), and in 1740, No. 14, from John
Lewis. He had already built on his No. 2 of I69I, and in I747
bought No. 3 from Aaron Bussing. In 1748 he got from his
mother's estate No. I6, Third Division, and by pre-arrangement
with Abraham, No. I of I691, which gave him Nos. I, 2, 3 in that
tract. These lands, excepting the "homestead," or Lots I, 2 of
I69I, fell to Adolph third under his father's will, dated May Io,
1760, and proved May 5, I762.
ADOLPH (9), (SON 0r ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
40. John, I7I7, married Antie Waldron, July II, I76I, had three
children, and died in I767. Succeeded to the homestead
of 28 acres. On August IO, I768, his brother Adolph,
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605
as executor, sold the homestead (the rights of dower
having been released) to Rev. Martinus Schoonmaker,
then pastor at Harlem.
4I. Adolph, born 1718, married Maria Bussing, September I2.
I740, had eight children. He added Nos. 9, IO, First
Division, and some other parcels of land, in addition to
those described above.
42. Ann (Anna), born 1720, married William Waldron, August
24, 1744 -43. Isaac, born 1721, deceased.
44. Abraham, born 1723, deceased.
45. Margaret, born 1725, married John Sickels, I745.
46. Peter (Petrus), baptized October 22, I729, married Mary
Bunn (Maria Bon), April I6, 1762, had one child.
47. Mary (Maria), baptized August 9, 1724, married Benjamin
Vandewater, I750.
48. Sarah, born I731, married Elias De Grush, Jr., October 17,
I76I.
49. Bregie, born I733, married John Low, June 22, I765.
Jacob (12), by lease and release from Simon Johnson and
others, trustees of Elias Pipon, dated February II, 12, I74I, Jacob
Myer came to own that part of the Delavall estate called the Six
Lots, with two-thirds of the adjacent Carteret Lot. This purchase, with the adjoining Lot No. I, New Lots, which Jacob received from his father, gave him that large square tract since
known as the Myer farm, bounding upon the Harlem River, its
lower angle on I28th Street just west of 7th Avenue; its upper
angle on i39th Street, a little east of 6th Avenue. The fine large
tract on the heights which Johannes Myer had gotten from Brevoort came, as we have seen, to be vested in Jacob, and reached
(where intersected by the Bloomingdale branch of the Kingsbridge Road) from just below I36th Street to I39th Street. His
son, John, added the Bussing lot, next north,, 28 acres, by deeds
dated 1790 and I79I. Jacob Myer, at forty years of age, was
a prominent man in the town, and at a later period its treasurer.
He died November 25, 1758, leaving all his property to his widow,
who survived till 1765, when his son, John, born I73I, came in
possession, either under his mother's will, or as heir-at-law.
John provided in his will for an unmarried sister, Rebecca, who
lived with him.
JACOB (12), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
50. John, born I73I1, married Eve, daughter of John Dyckman,
had five children.
5i. Rebecca, who died unmarried.
John (I5) was constable in I740-I. In the division of their
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
inheritance, between him and his brother Jacob, John obtained
the "Three Lots," which he and wife sold, October, 1755, to
John Sickels, and which subsequently formed the well-known
Richard Harrison and Gabriel Furman tracts. John lMer's
home was afterward on the west side of Kingsbridge Road,
near Breakneck Hill (on Lot I6, First Division, reaching from
140th to i45th Streets, and part of Lot 9 of 1691, in the rear,
in all about 20 acres, which had fallen to his share), and here
he kept a public house till his death, in I773, at about the age of
57 years. A second wife, Amy -?, survived him.
JO()N (15), (S()N () JO)IANNES)!, HA1) ISSUI ]-i IllS
FIRST WIFE':
52. John, Jr., married Susannah Bussing, December 15, 1785.
53. A(olph, baptized November 27, 1743, deceased.
54. Catherina, baptized June 28, 1752, married Jonathan Randell,* July 5, 1770, had thirteen children.
HENDRICKLUS (23). (soN ol 1-J1IENDRICIK) II AD 1 SS.u I;:
55. Henricus, baptized Augtust 4, 1736, (leceased.
Johannes (25), (son of Hendirick), became a wealthy New
York merchant, and having outlived his second wife (H-elena
Rutgers, widow of Hon. John MIorin Scott), and attained to
near 9o years, as one who knew him informed us,, (died A-ugust
31, 1807. He had issue:
56. Henry R., of New York, merchant, 1774.
57. Anna, baptized August 10, 1748, married Thomas Sowers,
of New York, June 23, 1769. tIe "Capt. of Engineers
in His Majesty's service," who died I774.
58. _Mary, who married Henry Bowers, Jr., January 8, 1772. He
of Swansea, Mass. Mrs. B'owers inherited her father's
estate un(ler his will.
Abraham I Myer (26), baptized December 8, 1716, marriedl
Mattie Kortright, sister of Arent's wife, in 1740. He succeeded
to his father's lands, having sold his farm on Montanye's Flat.
(See page 488.) Abraham served as deacon. He (lied in 1772,
his wife, iMattie, surviving, and also five children. The first
three. with the widow and executor, Adolph Myer, conveyed the
42-acre tract, April 20, 1773, to John Bogert, Jr., whose heirs
sold it to Lawrence Benson.
* Jonathan Randell came from Greenwich, Connecticut, being by trade a carpenter. After his marriage he lived for some time upon Harlem Heights, but on
November 29, 1784, purchased Randell's Island for ~2,400, and by his energy and industry as a farmer paid for it in ten years. Here he resided, greatly respected, till
his death at the-age of 88 years, January 17, I830. Leaving this fine property to. his
heirs, these sold it, five years later, to the Corporation of New York, for $50,000.
MYER FAMILY.60
607
ABRAHAM\Iv (26), (SON OF. ABRAHAMx~), HAD ISSUE.:
59. Abraham, born 1741, married Agnietie Roome, june 29, 1771.
Was a weaver.
6o. Lawrence, born 1742, married Engeltie, dlaughter of Samuel
Waldron,, November i6, 1766, had one childl. He a
blacksmith.
6 t. Margaret, born 1744.
62. Engeltie, born 1745.
63. Bregie, born 1747.
I-vN Arent I\IMver's (27) will, made November 23. 1773, and
lprovedl September 21, 1784, hie left half his estate to his grandchildren, Arent andl Susannah Bussing, and half to his gran.d(laughter., Susannah Waldron.
AREINT (27), (SON ov mAA) H-AD) ISSUEI
64. Engeltie, born 1736, married P~eter Waldron, January- 24.
1765.
65. Margaret, born 1737, married Abrahami 1ussing, December
27, 1764, bY license, and Bussing's bondsman was no
less a person than George Clinton, afterward Governor.
066. Arent., born 1739, deceased.
67. John', b~orn 1741, (leceased.
AixOLPH (3) (SON OV J`coI'), IJAD ISSUEI,~
68. Jacob, born January 19, 1744.
69. Anatje No. i, born October 12, 1746, (liedl young.
70. Anatje (Anna) NO. 2, born September 8,178
71. Catherinal, born JulyV 31, 1752.
_joIN (40), (SON Or ADoLPH)l HAD TSSUE"
72. I\\l arxy (M\aria), born 1762, baptized February 17, 1762.
73. Cath~erine, born 1764.
74. Adolph, lborn 1766.
Adolph (41), (son of Adolph), was an elder at Harlem, and
signedl the articles of unionin 172wihhae h ivisions
in the Dutch church. He occupied his lands, aforesaid, till the
Revolution, when, being a Whig, he retired to Dutchess Counti-.
andl, at the close of the war, concluding to remain there, traded
farms, M\,ay T, 1784, with Charles Duryee, of New York, merchant; as shown by the dleedl from Duryee to MTver, for his lands
in Rombout Precinct, given, as it states, "by virtue of a mutual
exchange of farms"; the fact of said exchange being also corroborated by the late Simeon De Witt.*
William Molenaor, in some records called Miller, this being the En~glish of- his
name, was a descendant of Joost Adraens Molcnaer, who was horn at Pvnacker, a
608 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
ADOLPH (41) HAD ISSUE:
75. Adolph, born I741.
76. John, born 1742.
77. Mary, born I743.
78. Peter, born I745.
79. Isaac, born I747.
80. Anna, born I749. Twi
8I. Gertrude, born I749. ' TW S
82. Elizabeth, born April I8, 1751, married John Backhouse,
April 12, I770, had four children.
PETER (46), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
83. Adolph, baptized March 2, I763.
John Meyer (50) was many years town clerk, we believe the
last holding that office here. He married Eve, daughter of John
Dykman, who died in her 78th year, November I, I809. He
died, aged 86 years, February 23, I817. From Johannes, if not
from Adolph, the ancestors down, this branch of the family all
occupied the old stone house which stood, till of late, at the northern angle of Lot 4 of I691, at the junction of the two roads; or
to otherwise locate it, about a hundred and fifty feet west of
8th Avenue, on the lower side of I31st Street.
JOHN (50), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
84. Jacob, born April 23, 1757, married Cornelia -?, June 15,
1780, had five children, and died October 29, 1813.
85. John Dyckman, born December 25, 1759, married Catherine
Ackerman, December 19, 1782, had four children, and
died May 4, I802.
village three miles east of )elft, and came to this country in the ship Faith, which
sailed from Amsterdam, December 23, i660. At Esopus, where he went to live,
he married, May 20, 1663, Femmetie Hendricks, from Meppel. On June 7, ensuing,
the Indians rose against the white settlers and killed and wounded many, carrying
others into captivity, among whom was Molenaer's wife. She was soon ransomed,
and a year later their first child, Marritie, was born. Joost married a second wife,
Lysbeth, daughter of William Krom, October 28, i668, having first, on September 2,
made his will. By this wife he had issue, Jane, born 1672, who married Jellis de la
Grange, of Albany; Adrian, born 1675; William, 1678, and Henry, I68I. He
served as deacon, and from 1672 to 1678 as schepen. On July 9, I68I, he married
his third wife, Maria, daughter of Jacob Hayes, and widow of Philip Leeuw, or Lyon.
By this wife he had a daughter, Sarah, born 1682. Removing to a farm in Bushwick,
of 50 acres, he and his wife joined the church at New York, May 30, 1683, but he died
that same year (his will being admitted to probate at Kingston, October 17, 1683),
and the next year his widow married Capt. Peter Praa. (See Annals of Newtown,
page 382, and Stiles' Brooklyn, volume ii., page 321, etc.) Adrian Molenaer married
at Kingston, in I700, Anna de la Grange. Did he not settle on the Raritan? William
Molenaer married, 1704, Gertrude, daughter of Caspar and Maria Springsteen, and
died in Newtown, "an aged man," May 11, I753. His son David,who married Catherine
Meserole, was the father of William Molenaor, born 1754, the first of the name at
Harlem. The latter, then living in Bushwick, bought the Adolph Myer farm, April i,
1790. He died in 1812, leaving by his wife, Mercy, issue, David, William DeWitt C.,
and Catherine, wife of Charles W. Gordon. Dr. William Molenaor, long a practitioner at Harlem, married but left no children, now living; his brothers have
deceased. We remember the old Molenaor house, while yet standing, but in ruins.
It stood in a hollow, on the north side of 124th street, 200 feet west of 8th avenue.
MYER FAMILY.
609
86. Peter, born August 9, 1761, married Mrs. Sarah Westervelt
(Banta), had three children, and died March 4, I834.
87. Abraham, born January 20, 1767, died single, April 2, 1819.
88. Garret, born March 20, 1775, married Jane Bogert, December
I8, 1799, had three children, and died January 6, I86o.
Resided at Hackensack, N. J.
LAWRENCE (60), (SON OI' ABRAHAM), IAD ISSUE:
89. Samuel, a carpenter, who married Mary, daughter of Captain
John Waldron, had one child. He removed to Claverack,
N. Y. Last of the family to occupy the ancient stone
house, removed by Judge Ingraham when I25th Street
was opened, the well remaining on the south side of the
street, and in use until a few years ago (I88i).
This house stood on the Tourneur home-lot, bought by Abraham \Myer in 1713, and which Samuel sold to Alexander Phoenix,
March 27, I8o6, with the old church lot joining it on the easterly
side; his father, Lawrence, holding that the fee of the last-named
lot (whereon the first church had stood) was in his father, Abraham M1yer, and passed by devise to his children. These two lots
have since formed the Eliphalet Williams plot. There was a
house of later construction on the adjoining farm lot, probably
built by Johannes De WVitt before the Revolution, which was
burned in i8rI, and on whose site Nathaniel G. Ingraham erected
the present Judge Ingraham house.
JACOB (84), (SON O, JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
o9. Peter. who married \Margaret Van Bussin.
91. John, who married Mary Amanda, but died without issue.
92. Phebe, who married Francis Swords, but died without issue.
93. Marcy, born April 5, 1781, married Smith Valentine, but died
August 18, I802, without surviving issue.
94. Eve, who married first, Frederick Dyckman, had three children. She married second, Edward Riker.
JOHN DYCKMAN (85), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
95. John, born September 9, 1783, married Elizabeth Johnson,
had five children. Lived at Leonia, N. J.
96. Gilbert, born September 14, 1785, married Mary Delancey
Hammond, June 8, 1841, had five children.
97. Hannah, born June 25, I794, married David D. Meyer, November 30, 1814, had three children.
98. Peter, born November 15, I8oo, married May A. Totten, had
three children.
PETER (86), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
99. Eve Maria, who married Capt. Joseph P. Dean, no issue.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
IOO. Cornelia Frances, who married John G. Dietz, no issue. She
deceased.
IOI. Abraham Dyckman, who married -- Kehoe, had two children.
GARRET (88), (soN oF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
102. John G., born August 30, i800, married Ellen Kip, November 3, 1825, but died without issue, March 15, 1834.
103. Harriet, born June 7, I803, married first, John C. Z. Anderson, November 26, 1823, had five children. She married
second, Robert C. A. Ward, September 2, 1841, and died
October 23, 1873, without issue by second husband.
104. Eve, born June I, 1807, married Adolph W. Campbell, September 28, 1826, had seven children, and died April 17,
1854. Buried at Hackensack, N. J.
SAMUEL (89), (SON oF LAWRENCE), HIAD ISSUE:
105. Abraham.
JOHN (95), (SON OF JOIN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUI:
io6. Maria.
107. John, born February Io, I8Io, married Amelia Purdy, June
14, I83I, had three children, and died May 5, 1887. He
of Boonton, N. Y.
Io8. Livingston.
o09. Catherine, who married George Doremus.
IIo. Eve, born I8I9, married Daniel Riley, no issue.
GILBERT (96), (SON OF JOHN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE:
III. Amanda Fitzallen, born October 2, I8I9, married De Witt
C. Hays, had seven children, and died March 3, 1890.
112. Harvey Elliot, born May 27, 1822, married Eleanor A.
Pomeroy, had two children. He deceased.
113. Rachel Hammond, born May 27, 1822, married Jeremiah
Bush, I844, had one child, and died I845.
114. Catherine, born March 6, 1824, unmarried.
115. Henrietta, born December 2, 1828, unmarried.
PETER (98), (SON o0 JOHN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE:
1 6. E. George, who married Charlotte?.
II7. James S. (M.D.).
ii8. Rebecca S.
ABRAHAM DYCKMAN (IOI), (SON or PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I 9. Mary Matilda, who married Dr. William T. Lusk.
120. Anna Maria, who married Orlando Lines.
MYER FAMILY.
6II
JOHN (107), (SON Or JOIN), HAD ISSUE:
121. John, born May 5, 1832, married Sarah Whitehead, October
22, 1854, had five children, and died October 22, I879.
Resided at Boonton, N. J.
122. Emory, born August 8, I846, died December 8, I847.
I23. Oscar W., born December 13, 1835, married Louisa A.
Briggs, July 31, I859, had three children.
HARVEY ELLIOT (112), (SON Of GILBERT), HAD ISSUE:
124. Charles A., born 185I, married Ella Hays, had two children.
125. Nellie M., who married Richard H. Lippincott, had three
children.
JOHN (121), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I26, Ellis G., born November 26, I855, married Frances Beddon,
October 14, I88o, have four children.
I27. Oscar, born January I, I858, died in February, I862.
128. Enoch G., born January 21, 1862, single.
I29. John, born December i6, I865, married Bertha Jacobus,
November 7, I895, had two children. She died April 6,
1901.
I30. Harry, born September I6, 1872, died March 30, I894.
OSCAR W. (123), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I3I. Emory Wallace, born April 17, 1863, married Lena L. Patterson, October 8, I889, had two children.
I2. Amelia P., born July 30, I864, unmarried.
133. Helen B., born December I6, 1873, married Arthur H. Temple, June 7, 1899, no issue. He died May 23, I903.
CHARLES A. (124), (SON OF HARVEY ELLIOT), HAD ISSUE:
I34. W. H. H., born I881.
I35. Charles A., Jr., born I889.
ELT,IS G. (I26), (SON OP JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I36. Alivia, born I88I, died December I5, I9oI.
137. John, born August 25, 189o.
138. Caroline, born July 8, I896.
I39. Sarah, born October 3I, I897.
JOHN (129), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I40. Florence, born March 28, I897.
I41. Marian J., born April 3, I899.
EMORY WALLACE (13I), (SON O' OSCAR W.), HAD ISSUE:
142. Oscar P., born July 25, I89o.
I43. Lois Nye, born January Io, I894.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
NAGEL.
John Nagel has no descendants of the name at Harlem,
though yet to be found in Rockland County and other localities.'
The name is now oftener written Nagle or Naugle, the last expressing its original sound. Jan Nagel, born in Holland, 1645,
having been "a soldier in the service of the honorable West India
Company," up to the surrender to the English, in I664, then quit
the service and retired in disgust to Harlem, with avowed intention to leave the country. He saw fit to remain, but was slow in
becoming reconciled to th.e English rule. His first essay as a freeholder and marriage, August 27, 1670, with Rebecca Waldron
(see page 267) require no further notice. On.the division, in
1677, of the lands bought jointly with John Delamater (see pages
272, 495), Nagel took lot No. 6, Jochem Pieters' Flat, with outgarden No. 13, and half the meadows. In I679 he bought the
adjoining garden, No. 14, with the dwelling-house on it (see page
353), which he may have occupied thereafter. On August 16,
1678, he bought a third lot on Jochem Pieters. (SeeAppendix E.)
His acquisitions at Spuyten Duyvel have been noticed, pages 34I,
343. In I675 Nagel was chosen deacon, and he seems to have
been a man of sterling principles. Owing probably to his known
dislike of the English government, his nomination for office was
several times rejected by the Mayor's Court, but at length he was
confirmed as constable in I677, and later served twice as commissioner. He (lied in I689. The next year his widow becailme
the wife of Jan Dvckman, then of Spuyten Duyvel, and there they
were married. Their marriage contract, made at Harlem, May
12, I690, says: "As it is found by the testament of Jan Nagel
that his surviving children should receive the exact half of his
estate, part of which is lying here at this dorp, and the other part
at Spuyten Duyvel, but, as is thought, the part of the aforesaid
estate lying at the dorp is the greater part; yet Rebecca Waldron
assigns to her children by Jan Nagel, deceased, all that is situated
* Jan Gerritsen Hagel-Ilagel is often written for Nagel in our early records, a
mistake easily made-was a passenger by the ship Faith, which left Amsterdam December 21, i66o, bringing also the Molenaor and Bush ancestors. Prior to this date our
Nagel is not named, while another Jan Nagel of that period, whom we shall presently
notice, had just died, and therefore was not the passenger referred to. Was this
passenger our Nagel? As against it, apparently, Nagel calls neither of his sons
Cerrit, but his eldest, Barent, which would indicate that his own patronymic was
Barentsen, judging from common usage. In such case, and considering his relations
to the Waldrons, he might be taken for a brother of Tanneke Barents Nagel. BI t,
on the other hand, those relations may have been alone due to his marriage with
Rebecca Waldron, and the child's name, Barent, have come from her brother Parent.
Further. we notice that Nagel, though a church member, is not enrolled on the very
full register extant, either as Ilagel, Nagel, or Barentsen, while the name Jan Gerritsen occurs twice, at the same date with those of persons uniting, from Harlem, in
1670 and I673. The presumption is that one of these was Nagel, and renders probable
his identity with the emigrant of i66o. But with the uncertainty as to our Nagel's
patronymic, whether Gerritsen or Barentsen-or again, since he called his second son
John, whether he may not have been a son of Sergt. Jan Nagel. hereafter mentionedwe will not assume to decide the question.
NAGEL FAMILY. 613
and lying at this dorp." These lands, for a time, stood in the
name of her son Barent.
Jan Nagel (I), born in Holland, about I645, married Rebecca Waldron, August 27, I670, had ten children, and died in
1689.
JAN (I)* IAD ISSUE:
2. Barent No. I, baptized July 23, I67I, died young.
3. Jannetie, baptized November 2, I672, died young.
4. Jan (John), baptized February 24, I675, married Magdalena
Dyckman, January 2, I708, had seven children, and died
in I763.
5. Anna Catherina, baptized November 29, I676, married Johannes Berck, December 4, 1702.
6. Barent No. 2, baptized December I8, 1678, married Sarah
Kiersen, 1708, had seven children, went to Rockland
* Jan Nagel-not ours, for he, as well as Dyckman, had a contemporary of like
name-was also a soldier; but nothing is found to prove a relationship between the
two Nagels, or any intercourse between the families. Sergt. Nagel was from Limborg,
and is called an Oosterling. After five years or more of military service at New
Amsterdam, he married Grietie Dircks, in 1652. It may be that he had a former
wife in Europe, as in his marriage record the customary mention whether he was a.oung man or widower is omitted. It was usual for persons coming out as soldiers
to leave their family at home. Iis present wife was a daughter of Dirck Volkertsen,
Norman, of Bushwick, and her uncle, John Vinge, was the first male person born in
the State of New York.** Grietie was the young widow of Nagel's fellow-soldier,
Sergt. Jans Hermans Schut, married but three years before, and lately murdered by
the Indians, leaving her with a child, Phebe, born I65I, afterward wife of the Conselyea ancestor. (See page 204.) By Nagel she had two children, viz.: Juriaen, born
1653, and Christina, born I655. Nagel was enrolled as a burgher, April 13, 1657,
but died soon after, and in 1658 his widow married Barent Gerritsen. Christina
married William Aertsen, of New York. Juriaen Nagel, born in New York, but living
at Blushwick, married, 1679, Jannetie, daughter of Philip Langelaan. That year Mrs.
Nagel joined the church at New York, as did Juriaen in 1683, when they went to live
there, but subsequently returned, and, in 1695, transferred their connection to the
Bushwick church. Nagel, in 1689, and '9o, served 22 months as a soldier under
Leisler. How his independence revolted at the official exactions of his time appears
from an incident in Stiles' Brooklyn, volume ii., page 352, where he is called Hagell.
He served as deacon at Bushwick, and took part in building the new church there in
1706; then owning a farm of 95 acres. He died in 1732. His children were John,
born 1679, died young; Philippus, born 1682; Margaret, born 1684, who married
Conselyea and Covert; Jacobus, born 1687; Benjamin, born I690; John, born 1695,
and Cornelia, born 1697, who married Andries Stockholm. In Lieutenant Philippus
Nagel the military taste still showed itself. He settled in Flatbush, and was supervisor in 1719, constable 173I, etc. By his wife Anna, whom he married in 1703, he had
sons Juriaen, Cornelius and Philip, besides daughters. Philip was long a judge of
Kings County, and county treasurer. He died May ii, 1797, aged 84 years. (See
Strong's Flatbush.) Some of his family early migrated to Bucks County, Pa., and
have descendants in and about Philadelphia.
** Is there not room to distrust the accuracy of the Labadist travellers as to John
Vinge's age? (Dankers and Sluyter's Journal, page II4) inasmuch as he-and an
older sister, Rachel, born in Europe, and afterward wife of Cornelis Van Tienhovenwere minors and yet to be educated and put to trades, on the date of April 30, -1632,
when their mother, Adriana Cuvilly, contracted a second marriage with Jan Jansen
Damen. (New York Colonial Manuscript, volume i., page 6.) On the assumption
that John's birth was as early as 1614, eleven years must have transpired (a remarkable interval if there were families here thus early) before a girl was born, that girl
being Sarah Rapelye. Our opinion is that Gulian Vinge came over with the first
Walloon colonists in 1623, and that his son John was born in that or the ensuing year.
It might otherwise have been rather stale news which was sent to Holland, September
23, 1626, that "the women also have borne some children here." (Colonial Historv
New York, volume i., page 37.) What has been said on page 117 must be our
apology for alluding to this matter. Vinge was an ancestor of Gulian C. Verplanck.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
County with his brother, Resolved, and purchased I,Ooo
acres of land from Lancaster Sims.
7. Johanna, baptized November 25, I680, married William Waldron, March IO, I705, had five children.
8. Jacobus, baptized January IO, 1683, died young.
9. Debora, baptized February 23, I684, married Robert Westgate, had two children.
IO. Resolved, baptized August 4, I687, married Clara, daughter
of Gerrit Leydecker, May 9, I713, had seven children,
joined church at Hackensack, N. J., on certificate from
Harlem, in I713.
II. William, born I689, died young.
John Nagel (4), of Harlem, was taught to weave by Abraham Delamontanie. He married, January 2, I708, Magdalena
Dyckman, and on November IO, 1719, became sole owner of the
paternal lands, by deed from his brothers and sisters; Jacob Dyckman and his sister, Mrs. Hadley, also joining in the conveyance.
On May 15, I729, and June 9, 1744, Nagel and Dyckman passed
partition deeds. (See Dyckman family.) In 1736 Nagel built
him a stone dwelling, which continued to be the residence of the
family, and is that yet standing on the bank of Harlem River at
213th Street, and known as the "Century House" (I88I). Nagel
was constable in 1712, signed the Mill Camp grant in 1738, and
deeds given for common lands, sold in I747. His will, made
when "far advanced in years," December 14, I754, was proved
October II, I763.
The Nagel estate descended by devise from the other brothers
to William, the youngest, who in his will, dated August 31, I8o6,
left all his property to his four nephews, Hendrick, Dennis, and
Abraham Post, and Henry Tison, and to his niece, Lena Post,
living with him. Making ample provision, in money, for Abraham and Lena Post, he distributed the real estate as follows:
To Henry Post, "the upper lot of land of my farming, running
from the Post Road to Harlem River; likewise the opposite lot
of land running from the Post Road westerly to Spuyten Duyvel
Creek, with the salt meadow joining to the said lot on Spuyten
Duyvel Creek; likewise that lot of land adjoining said lot, bounded
north to land of Caleb Hyatt, near Kingsbridge; also two lots
of woodland, the one adjoining the Fishing Rock, at the North
River, the other the last lot of woodland adjoining Spuyten Duyvel Creek." To Dennis Post, "all the lands belonging to the
homestead whereon I live, except about ten rods square of the
burying ground, with free access from the road to the same for
interments; also the Clove lot of woodland; also that lot of land
known by the name of the Barrick, with the three Huckleberry
Islands, and the salt meadow called Mindersche Fly." To Henry
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Tison, "the house and lot of land whereon John Oblenis now
lives, and a woodlot lying between the lots belonging to Jacobus
Dyckman, joining the North River; also a lot of salt meadow
lying near the Round Meadow Creek, three acres, more or less."
He empowered his executors to sell his meadow, lying on the
other side of Harlem River, opposite his house.
JAN (4), (SON O0 JAN), HAD ISSUE:
12. John, baptized December 30, 1716, died single, I786.
13. Jacob, who died single in I806.
14. William, who died single in I808.
I5. Rebecca, who married Hendrick Post, I737, had six children.
I6. Magdalena, who married John Nagel, September 23, I754.
17. Deborah, who married Benjamin Waldron, July 23, 1762.
I8. Catherine, who died unmarried.
Barent (6), (son of Jan), was a justice of the peace in I73I.
He had issue:
19. John, born about I709, married first, Elizabeth Blauvelt, had
eleven children. He married second, Magdalena Nagel,
September 23, I754.
20. Rebecca, baptized April 14, I713, married Gerrit Bruyn, had
one child.
21. William, baptized April IO, I716, married Lena Alger, April
I6, 1748, had seven children.
22. Hendrick, born March Io, I718, married first, Catherine Blauvelt, 1745, had seven children. He married second, Mary
De Clark, November 22, I764, and died January 7, I8o6.
Buried at Closter, N. J.
23. Sarah, who married Peter Oblinus, 1732, had six children.
24. Johanna, baptized April 24, 1724, married Nicholas D.
Demarest, I743, had one child.
25. Jacob, baptized June 8, I729, married Margalet Lozier, November I9, 1752, had eight children.
Resolved (Io), (son of Jan), in 1729, was elder and trustee
at Orangetown. He had issue:
26. Cornelia, baptized May 2, 1714, married Arie Arieyanse, had
seven children.
27. Rebecca, baptized May 20, 1716, married Teunis Van Houten,
had six children.
28. Catrina, born 1717, married Roelof Van Houten, 1742, had
six children.
29. Elizabeth, baptized January 13, 1719, married Stephanus
Stevenson, I743, had three children.
30. Marrittie, baptized October 15, 1723, married Petrus Van
Houten, 1742, had eleven children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
3I. Johanna, baptized February 6, 1726, died unmarried.
32. Janneke, born 1728, married Hendrick Stevenson, September
19, 1751, had five children.
JOHN (19), (SON OF BARENT), hAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST WIFE:
33. Sarah, baptized January 24, I73I, died unmarried.
34. John, baptized July 29, I733, married Elizabeth Leydecker,
July 7, I756, had nine children.
35. Barent, baptized November 24, 1734, married first, Angenietje
Dirge, December 15, 1763, had four children. He married second, Jannetie Westervelt, had three children.
36. Catherine, baptized September 5, I736, died unmarried.
37. Maria, baptized March I2, I738, married Albert Leydecker,
1759, had two children.
38. Elizabeth No. I, baptized November 4, I739, died in infancy.
39. Hendrick, baptized September 6, 174I, died in infancy.
40. Rebecca, baptized July 24, I743, married Tunis Quackenbush,
1770.
4I. David No. I, baptized March 3I, 1745, died in infancy.
42. Elizabeth No. 2, baptized April 20, I747, married Peter Lozier, June 26, 1764.
43. David No. 2, baptized October 7, 1750, married Dirkie Haring, 1775, had four children, and died May 29, 1831.
WILIAIAM (21), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
44. Sarah, born April 4, 1749, married Daniel De Klerck, September 26, 1766, had two children.
45. Petrus, baptized March 17, I751.
46. Margritye, baptized February 4, I753, married Gerardus
Ryker, had four children.
47. Rebecca, baptized March 31, I755, married Cornelius Blauvelt, April 16, I773, had five children.
48. Lena, baptized May 30, I757, married Thomas Demarest, in
August, I779, had four children.
49. Maria, baptized October 5, I759.
50. Barent, baptized February 21, 1762.
HENDRTCK (22), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE BY IIIS
FIRST WIFE:
5I. Sara, born April I, I747, married Abraham Haring.
52. Elizabeth, born November 30, I749, married Jacob Voorhees,
had six children.
53. John, born I75I, married Elizabeth Riker, had nine children.
54. Isaac, born April 26, I753, married first, Maria Arieyanse,
had three children. He married second, Leah Powles,
had one child.
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55. Barent, born April 26, I753, married Maria Benson, January
I, 1779, had two children. Was a deacon at Tappan, N.
Y., in 1783, and (lied October 14, I834. Buried at Closter,
N. J.
56. Annetye, baptized March I4, 1756, married Matthias Riker,
had two children.
57. Maria, baptized July 29, I759.
JACOB (25), (SON Or BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
58. Sara, baptized October I, I753.
59. Antic No. I, baptized October 12, I755, died young.
60. Barent No. I, baptized September 17, 1758, died young.
6I. Antic No. 2, baptized September 17, 1758, married Jacob
More, had seven children.
62. Niclaes (Nicholas), baptized November I, I761, married
Frenke Nagel, had two children.
63. Rebecca, baptized November I, 176I, married Philip Ryckmnan, had four children.
64. Marya, baptized December I8, I763, married Simon Carlock,
had three children.
65. Barent No. 2, baptized July 13, I766.
JOHN (34), (SON OF JOHN), IAD ISSUE:
66. Elizabeth No. I, born December 9, I757, died young.
67. Wyntie, baptized April I6, 1759, married William D. Campbell, had two children.
68. Magdalena, baptized January I, I76I, married Joseph Demarest, had one child.
69. M\aria, baptized October 31, 1762, married Jacob I. Blauvelt,
had nine children, and died January 18, I849.
70. Catherine, baptized September 30, I764, married William
Harven.
7I. John J., baptized November 2, I766, marri'ed Cornelia Auryansen, November II, I791, had five children.
72. Gerrit, baptized November 13, 1768, married Elizabeth De
Graw, November Io, 1798.
73. Elizabeth No. 2, baptized February 3, I771, married Daniel
Vanvalen, had one child.
74. Geertye, baptized June 13, I773, married David Anderson,
October 14, I79I.
BARENT (35), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST WIFE:
75. Jan, baptized April 21, I765.
76. Tryntje, baptized April 19, I767.
77. Hendrick, baptized December 3, I769.
78. Wyntje, baptized January 26, I772.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
BARENT (35) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
79. Angenitje, baptized June 22, 1777.
80. Jan, baptized November 22, I778.
8i. Tryntje, baptized November 12, 1780.
DAVID (43), (SON OF JOHN), IAD ISSUE:
82. Jan D., baptized June 2, 1776, married Sarah Mabie, October
12, I796, had five children, and died October 22, 1831.
Buried at Closter, N. J.
83. Rachel, baptized February 7, I779, married Henry Montagne,
April 2, 1802, had three children, and died July 22, 1859
84. Frederickus D., baptized August 20, I780, married Margaret
Bogert, January 5, I804, but died without issue. Buried
at Tappan, N. Y.
85. Elizabeth, baptized March 31, 1790, married Peter Blackledge, January 17, 1812, had three children, and died
March 7, I868. Buried at Closter, N. J.
JOHN (53), (SON O ENDRICK), IIAD ISSUE:
86. Hendrick, baptized November 12, I775.
87. Abraham, baptized December 7, 1777.
88. Barent, baptized April 4, I779.
89. William, baptized April I, I781.
90. Sarah, baptized September 15, I782, married Bernardus Vanvalen, September 14, 1805.
91. Grietye (Margaret), baptized July 4, 1784, married Matthew
Conklin, December 19, I80I, had two children.
92. David, baptized April 8, I787.
93. Jacob, baptized June 28, I789.
94. Wyntje, baptized June 22, I794.
ISAAC (54), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST
WIFE:
95. Catherine, baptized March 17, I776, married Barent Kool.
96. Cornelia No. I, baptized October 29, 1780, died unmarried.
97. Cornelia No. 2, baptized February 13, 1785, married Henry
Verveelen, August I, I8oi, had one child.
ISAAC (54) IAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
98. Henry I., born March 9, 1794, married Hester Westervelt,
August Io, I8I6, had four children, and died January
I3, I831.
BARENT (55), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
99. Catherine, baptized September I6, 1781, married Peter Huy
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ler, March 5, 1803, had five children, and died January 4,
I867. Buried at Bergenfields, N. J.
Ioo. Elizabeth, born September II, 1786, married John Ferdon,
November 27, 80o6, had four children, and died April 7,
I862. Buried at Closter, N. J.
NICLAES (62), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
IOI. Jacob, born April 19, I784.
102. Annatie, born April 21, I786.
JOHN' J. (71), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I03. Elizabeth, baptized August 8, I793, married Gabriel Hill,
but died without issue.
104. Resolvert, baptized Mlay IO, 1795, married Mary Lozier,
November II, 1815, had four children, and died January
25, I868. Buried at Old Hook, N. J.
105. Maria, baptized March 8, I801, married James Haring, had
three children.
Io6. Deetje (Deborah), baptized September 9, 1804, died unmarried, August II, i880.
107. Geertje, baptized November 29, 1807, married Abraham
Haring, but died without issue, March 17, I875. Buried
at Old Hook, N. J.
JAN D. (82), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
o08. David No. I, born I792, died in infancy.
Io9. David No. 2, baptized February 7, I798, died young.
IIo. Sarah, born March 19, 1799, married Peter B. Westervelt,
March 29, I8I7, had six children, and died December 28,
I870.
III. Rachel, born May 3, I8II, married George F. Brickel, April
5, 1838, no issue.
112. John J., born July I, 1818, married Hannah Maria Eckerson,
August 8, I839, had eight children, and died January 27,
I882.
HENRY I. (98), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
II3. Leah, born September 4, 1817, married Jacob Mabie, had six
children, and died January I, 1886.
II4. James Westerfield, born July 23, 1824, married Maria
Christopher, November I, 1845, had five children, and
died October 14, 1856. Buried at Bergenfield, N. J.
II5. Eliza (Elizabeth), born March 31, 1828, married Hildebrant Naugle, August I8, 1845, had six children, and
died February 17, 1889.
II6. Catherine, born December 13, I830, died August 13, I832.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
RESOLVERT (104), (SON O JOHN J.), HAD ISSUE:
117. William, born May 25, 1817, married Sarah Demarest, January 2, I839, had six children, and died May 12, i886.
Buried at Old Hook, N. J.
18. Cornelia, born April 24, 1820, at Closter, N. J., married Peter
Merseles, November 19, 1836, had four children, and died
December 5, 1856. Buried at Old Hook, N. J.
II9. Hildebrandt, born October 28, 1823, married Elizabeth
Naugle, August I8, 1845, had five children, and died
April I, I899.
120. Elizabeth, born September 27, I829, married Stephen Bogert.
March 7, 1850, had six children, and (lied January I, I902.
JOHGN J. (TI2), (SON Or JAN D.), HAD ISSUE:
12I. David, born August 2, I841, married Ella Wordsworth,
November Io, 1862, had two children.
I22. Elizabeth, born June 5, 1845, died in infancy.
I23. Margaret A., born May 25, 1847, married Abraham Van
Valen, November 30, 1867, had three children.
124. Rachel, born M\arch 25, 1850, married James Kipp, 1872, had
three children.
125. Sarah Elizabeth, born March 25, 1853, married William De
Graw Kipp, had seven children.
126. Frederick, born March 3, I856, married Emily Augusta
Corning, February IO, i88I, had six children.
127. James, born MI'ay TO, I86o, married Lillie -?, no issue.
128. William H., born October 25, I864, married Jeanette Pitot,
no issue.
JAMES WESTERFIELD (114), (SON O0 HENRY I.), IAD ISSUE:
I29. Hester Louise, born August 5, 1848, married Abraham J.
Adriance, December 30, I866, had three children.
I30. John Henry, born September 15, 1850, married Maude Jaslin, June 25, 1885, had two children.
I31. MIargaret J., born September II, 1852, unmarried.
132. David F., born M1\arch 31, I854, single.
I33. Matthew Bogert, born December 23, I856, died single, September 13, I881. Buried at Bergenfield, N. J.
WILLIAM (II7), (SON or RESOILVERT), HAD ISSUE:
134. Mary A., born 1840, married Leroy Goodrich, had five children, and died July 6, I893.
I35. Matilda, born about I852, married Nicholas B. Van Houten,
M. D., had one child, and died June 3, I884.
I36. Resolvert, who died young.
I37. Three other children (names not found).
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HILDEBRA\NDT (119), (SON OF RESOLVERT), HAD ISSUE:
I38. Debbie (Deborah), born August 18, 1847, married Thomas
Tate, December 27, I863, had five children.
139. William Henry, born May 20, 1850, (lied October 13, I85I.
I40. Leah, born June I8, 1852, married Henry Craft, December
25, 1871, had two children.
I4I. Mary, born November IO, I862, unmarried.
142. Resolvert, born July 20, 1865, married Hattie Bell, September 21, 1887, had one child.
D.xAID (121), (SON OF JOHN J.), hAD ISSUE:
I43. Margaret Marvine, born I863, unmarried (1902).
I44. Annie, born 1872, unmarried (19o2).
FREDERICK (I26), (SON OF JOHN J.), HAD ISSUE:
I45. John J., born December Io, I88I, single (1902).
146. Samuel A., born September I, 1883, single (19o2).
I47. Angie, born 1885, unmarried (1902).
I48. Edith, born I887.
I49. David, born I889.
I50. Jeanette P., born I89I.
JOHN HENRY (130), (SON OF JAMES WESTERFIELD),
HAD ISSUE:
151. Pauline AM., born March 24, I886.
152. Harry D., born July 28, 1889.
RESOLVERT (142), (SON OF HILDEBRANDT), HAD ISSUE:
I53. Leroy Bell, born March 25, 1894.
OBLENIS.
Joost Oblinus, or, as his autograph is, Van Oblinus, being
the person named in the patents of Nicolls and Dongan, was born
in Holland, 1640, was the son of Joost, who bought out the heirs
of Philip Casier, November 8, 1663 (see pages I98, 205), and
who with his wife, Martina, and a younger son soon after disappear from our records. Probably they returned to Europe,
where some of the children seem to have remained; as in a letter
written by the younger Joost, after the English took New York,
to his "virtuous, well-beloved brother and sisters"-the first of
whom he calls Jan Van Oblinus-he says: "Know, my beloved
brother, that we are here in a land before this called New Netherland and now New England, by the English mastered, being to
the injury of our Dutch nation," etc. Joost, second, succeeded
to his father's property aforesaid, and made large additions
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
thereto (see pages 269, 333, 337, 342, 348, and the Appendix).
It was a deserved tribute to his worth when in I666 he was made
a magistrate, and soon after one of the five patentees. To the
former office he was often chosen, besides serving as deacon and
elder, and it was his peculiar fortune to be the last survivor of
the Nicolls patentees. He married Mlaria Sammis, in I66i, and
died in I706.
JoosT (I) HAD ISSUE:
2. Peter, born at Mannheim, in I662, married first, Cornelia,
daughter of Resolved Waldron, June 8, I685. He married second, Agnietie Brett, in I715, but died without
issue in 1743.
3. John, born I664, died single, I7I7.
4. Maria, born i668, married first, Thomas Tourneur, April 5,
1692, had four children, and second,? Aldrich.
5. Hendrick, baptized February I8, I672, married Jannetie Tiebout, August 28, I692, had seven children, and died in
I745.
6. Josina, baptized August 21, 1678, diedl oung.
7. Josyntie, baptized February 19, 1685, married first, Teunis
Corssen, May 29, I702, had one child. She married
second, Isaac Vermile, January I6, I707, had eight children.
Peter Van Oblienis (2), (son of Joost), as he wrote his surname, was born at M\Iannheim, in I662, the year before his parents emigrated. He was bred a weaver. At nineteen years of
age he became a church-member, afterward serving many times
as deacon and elder, and for most of his life, protracted to over
80 years, took the lead in all the affairs both of the church and
town. On June 8, I685, he was joined in marriage by Dominie
Selyns to Cornelia, daughter of Resolved Waldron. Three years
later, namely, on April 21, I688, he bargained with Jan Delamater for the house and lot in the village, originally Jaques Cresson's, for 400 guilders, and on the same date his father leased
Delamater's lots on Van Keulen's Hook, Nos. Io to 12, next his
own. This resulted, Maay T, I690, in an exchange of property,
Delamater giving Peter Oblinus,100o guilders and deeds for
these three lots and the Cresson place, and taking a deed for the
farm on Hoorn's Hook. Oblienis sold the house and lot to
Jacques Tourneur, August 7, I69I; his father turning over to
him three erven, two originally bought from the estates of Casier
and Karstens, and one (joining the Karstens lot), gotten by Joost
from Lubbert Gerritsen, in exchange for another bought of the
Casiers. Peter sold the Karstens and Gerritsen lots to Captain
Johannes Benson. (See page 429.) In the division of I691
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Peter Van Oblienis drew lot No. 20, being Io morgen, "by the
Round Meadow"; and the town gave him a deed for it March
21, I701. On September I9 ensuing he conveyed it to Bastiaen
Kortright, in whose family it remained till after the Revolution.
It formed a part of the late Dyckman "Fort George Tract." (See
page 267.) On August 24, 1705, Joost Van Oblinus, being near
his last days, conveyed to Peter, for ~425:
All his certain dwelling house, barn and orchard, in the Town of Harlem, aforesaid, being formerly called four lots, and containing between
two and three acres of ground, lying between the lot of Arent Harmense
and the Town lot. Also three lots of land in said Town lying together,
having the lot of said Peter van Oblienis joining to the eastward, and the
lot of Metje Cornelisse adjoining to the westward. Also another lot of
land on the north side of Harlem aforesaid, lying between two lots belonging to Barent Nagel. Also a piece of meadow joining to the meadow which
did formerly belong to Thomas Delavall. Also another piece of meadow
at Spuyten Duyvel, joining meadow of Johannes Waldron. As also all
his right in the undivided lands under the Patents of Nicolls and Dongan.
The homestead named in this deed, and where Peter afterward lived, comprised four of the buyten tuynen, or out-gardens,
being Nos. 12 to 15; the three lots of land were Nos. 13 to 15 of
Van Keulen's Hook, and the lot described as between two of Barrent Nagel, was No. 7 Jochem Pieters. The next day Peter conveyed to his brother Hendrick the meadow at Spuyten Duyvel, and
half the right in the undivided common lands named in said deed
from his father. But after the death of Joost, the brothers and
sisters of Peter gave him, September 6, I706, a quit-claim of all
the property covered by the deed from his father, which restored
the whole to Peter again, and hence he is credited in the quit-rent
list of May 24, I708, with his father's full rights; saving one erf
right then held by John and Hendrick, but in 1712 by John alone.
As eldest son and heir of the last survivor of the Nicolls
patentees, Peter Van Oblienis held a commanding position, when
the great division of the common lands was,made, in 1712, all
the deeds for which had to have his approval and signature.
Those allotments lay in four general divisions, and in each of the
four every freeholder drew a lot, which were scattered from 94th
Street to Sherman's Creek. Oblienis alone enjoyed the privilege
of drawing his four shares in one parcel, and this he located at
an intermediate point near Fort Washington, adjoining the farm
of his brother Hendrick, to whom he sold it. Before this date,
as we conclude, Peter had secured for his own special use and
behoof the Ioo acres lying at Manhattanville (since of Lorillard
and others), of which he was certainly the recognized owner in
I712. (See Appendix J.) The adjoining meadow, called
Moertje David's Fly, Oblienis must have gotten from his brothersin-law, Samuel and Johannes Waldron, to whom it had been sold
January 15, I702, by their brother Barent. On October I8, I715,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Abraham Gouverneur conveyed him a piece of the adjoining Delavail woodland, being a part of No. 8, First Division. In 1718
Oblienis tarnsferred all his lands in Harlem to Samuel Waldron,
reserving only ten acres, not till then named in the tax lists, and
not located with entire certainty, but we believe forming the
island adjoining to Gloudie's Point and Oblienis' meadows. This
also he passed to Waldron two years after; but in 1728 Oblienis
regained possession of his lands, said ten acres only excepted.
Certain suits brought against him, at this period, may explain
these transfers.
Peter Van Oblienis,. who died in I743, left no children,
though twice married, his last wife being Agnietie, widow of
William Brett, married 17I5, whom he survived, and of whose
six children by Brett he made kind remembrance in his will,
dated September 20, 1742, when he was in health. He further
left his niece, Tanneke Benson, ~50, to his "well-beloved brother
Hendrick, one British shilling," and his whole estate otherwise to
his nephew, Peter Waldron, to whom, on the same date, in consideration of good causes and ~700, he gave a deed for the real
estate, all therein described. (Deeds, Secretary of State's office,
Liber 26, page 219.) This deed did not cover the two home-lots
(four acres) on the north side of the Church Lane, bought by
Oblienis from Laurens Jansen, and since Chesterman's, nor the
lot on Jochem Pieters' Flat; but all these, if not already sold to
Waldron, he must have taken under the will, which was proved
January 17, I744.
John Oblienis (3), (son of Joost), brother of Peter, was
made poundmaster in I699, but took no prominence in town
affairs. He made weavers' reeds, and was apparently well to
do, owning a house and lot in Smith (now Cedar) Street, which
he bought March 27, 1707, and an erf at Harlem village, on which
he and Marcus Tiebaut drew land together, in 1712. Marcus'
step-son, John Lewis, became the owner in I7I4. (See notes,
pages 348, 393, 564, and Appendix J.) That Oblienis purposely
had nothing to do with making the four divisions, in which his
brother Peter bore so important a part, would appear from his
not signing the preliminary agreements, nor any of the patentee
deeds. He subscribed to articles of May 2, 17I3, by which the
freeholders bound themselves to pay their proportions of quitrent, and to defend their titles. He died at Harlem, in I717,
without issue. We judge favorably of his character and tastes
from the items in his inventory: "The Book of Martyrs in
Dutch; a Dutch Psalm Book, with silver clasps; one book of
poetry, one book of history called Eupheme, one book of Common Prayer." In his will, dated May ii, and proved August
Io, of that year, he made various bequests of ~25, gave others
gold rings, to brother Peter a shilling, to brother Hendrick his
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clothing and sleigh, and the rest of his estate equally to "brother
Hendrick Oblienis, Mary Alderick, and Josantia Vermillia."
The last was his sister, but if Mary Alderick was, she must have
married again after the death of her husband, Tourneur, and we
notice that Laurens Jansen's wife was commonly called Mary
Aldricks.
John Oblienis' lands stood in his name, intact, for thirty
years, his brother Hendrick and brother-in-law Vermilye, named
as his executors, in the meantime paying Mary Alderick "her proportion." On November 17, I747, John Romer bought lot No.
II, Second Division, being six acres nine rods, from Isaac Vermilye and Johannes Oblenis, the last acting instead of his father,
Hendrick, then deceased. His lot 9, First Division, was sold to
Adolph Myer, but those in Third and Fourth Divisions, held in
common with John Lewis, who sold his shares to Dr. Paterson,
we have not traced later than I753.
Hendrick Oblienis (5), (son of Joost), baptized February
i8, I672, married August 28, I692, Jannetie, daughter of John
Tibout, and was the only son of Joost who left descendants. He
bore his part in town affairs, being constable in 1705, etc. His
father gave him his allotment of I691, being No. 19, containing
2234 morgen, "upon the south end of the Long Hill," or just
below Fort Washington. Here he had built and was living when
his father died. In 1712 he added the larger tract adjoining, as
before stated (see Appendix J), and which increased his farm
to I30 acres, salt meadows excluded. In I709 he was a petitioner, with others,. for 1,500 acres of land in the Highlands. At
his death, in 1745, his fine property in Harlem passed to his son
Johannes. He had issue:
8. Sarah, baptized November I9, I693, married Teunis Devoor,
November II, I73I, had three children.
9. Mary, baptized December 29, I695, married Michael Tourneur, February I, 1717, had eight children.
*Io. Jacomina, baptized May 4, I698, married Jacobus Tourneur,
May 26, 1720, had six children. Went to Haverstraw,
N.Y.
II. Josyntie, born I700, married Benjamin De Voe,. February 8,
1726. He of Westchester County, N. Y.
I2. Lucia, born I703, married John Brown.
13. Peter, born I705, married Sarah, daughter of Barent Nagel,
April 10, I73I, had seven children, and died in I764.
Went to Rockland County, N. Y., and settled on part of
the Kakiat patent, at New Hempstead, now Ramapo.
14. Johannes, born I7I0, married Mary Devoe, 1731, had four
children, and died in I775.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
PETER (13), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
15. Hendrick, born April 5, I732, married first, Antie Lydecker,
January I, I757, had seven children; second, Catrina
Blauvelt, December Io, I792, and third, Bridget De Clark.
He died December 14, I8I5.
i6. Sarah, born December 4, 1733, married first, James Tourneur, March 26, 1752, had one child, and second, Abraham Steve.
17. Jannetie, born July 26, I735, married Andris Van Orden, December 15, I756, had four children.
I8. Barent, born May 8, I737, died before I764.
19. Maria, born October 5, I739, married Johannes Blauvelt.
20. John, born June 26, I743, settled in Pennsylvania.
21. Jonitia (see I276, Calendar of Wills).
Johannes Oblenis (14), (son of Hendrick), was constable in
I736. Coming into possession of the paternal farm at Fort
Washington, which he occupied many years, he sold Ioo acres
of it, May 23, I769, to Blazius Moore, of New York, tobacconist;
and conveying the remainder, the lower part, to his son Hendrick, he removed to the Manor of Cortlandt, where he died in
1775, leaving him surviving his wife, Mary Devoe, whom he
married 1731. He gave his lands to Dennis and John. He had
issue:
22. Hendrick, born 1732, married Maria Devoe, November 12,
1753, had two children. Held his farm on the Heights
at the opening of the Revolution, but it subsequently
passed to Jacob Arden.
23. Deborah, born I735, married Morinus Low, February 7, 1754.
24. John, Jr., born I737, was the father of one child.
25. Dennis, born July 14, I740, married Catharina Parsells, May
16, 1764, had eight children, and died May 2, 1825.
Hendrick (I5), (son of 1eeter), was alive during the Revolution, when he had a son wounded in the service of his country.
He had issue by second wife:
26. Petrus, born December Io, I757, married Maria Brytseit,
had nine children, and died May 29, 1831.
27. Gerrit, born March 27, 1760, married Verontjer Blauvelt, but
died without issue, March 4, 1839.
28. Maria, born November 22, I762, married Philip Demarest,
had seven children.
29. Albert, born July 3, I765, married Aletta -?, had two
children, and died October 24, i8o6.
30. Wyntje, born April I6, 1768, married William House, November 8, 1792, had two children, and died March 5, I797.
3r. Barent, born March 20, I77I, married Gertrude Sanders, had
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four children, and died September I, 1825. Was clerk
of police from I805 to I8I9.
32. Sarah, born July 30, I774, died September 4, I776.
HENDRICK (22), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
33. John, born 1756, married Elizabeth Ostrom, July 29, 1783,
had ten children, and died in I808.
34. Helen, who married John Ostrom, February 5, 1782.
DENNIS (25), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
35. Elizabeth, born December 22, 1764, married first, Joseph Vermilyie, 1782, had three children. She married second,
Grands T. Willsey, I793, had five children, and died January 20, I825.
36. Mary, born November ii, 1766, married Jesse Thorn, I791,
had six children, and died February 22, I837.
37. Catherine, born December 9, 1768, married Thomas E.
Powell, 1793, had five children, and died May 22, 1847.
38. John, born September 27, 1770, married Anna Sorless, I792,
had eight children, and died March 5, I820.
39. Nancy, born December 9, 1772, married first, Simon Wyman,
I792, had eight children; second, John Pool, 1820, and
third, Samuel Jaycox. She died December 19, I858.
40. Deborah, born April 27, I775, married Frederick Powell, had
four children, and died October 30, 1835.
41. Sarah, born April 27, 1777, married Daniel Sorless, 1804, had
six children, and died August 3, 1846.
42. Henry V., born February 22, 1782, at Manor of Cortlandt,
married Elizabeth Powell, May I, I804, had eight children. Moved to Albany County (now Greenville, Greene
County), N. Y.
PETRUS (26), (SON OFI HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
43. Maria, who married Charles Deady.
44. Antje No. I, born November 15, 1781, died young.
45. Johannis, born January 19, 1784, married Elizabeth Van
Orden, June 30, I802, had one child.
46. Antje No. 2, born March 2I, 1786, married Jacob Meyers,
had one child.
47. Hendrick, born December 16, 1787.
48. Leah, born November 12, 1790, married David Van Orden,
had seven children, and died February 12, I862.
49. Sarah, born July 31, 1792, married Daniel Talman, November
24, 181o, had four children.
50. Garret, born 1802, was the father of four children.
5I. Bridget, who married Lavinus Pruyn, of Albany, N. Y.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
BARENT (31), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
52. John, born 180I, married Maria Lydecker, had one child.
53. William, born 1803, married first, Ann Smith, had nine children, and second, Margaret Codington, by whom he had
one child. He died March 3, I88I.
54. Maria, who died unmarried.
55. Henry, who died single.
JOHN (33), (SON or HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
56. Mary, born June 12, 1785, married Elisha Keely, July 30,
i8o6.
57. Henry, born September 19, 1788, was the father of two children.
58. Elizabeth, born June 26, I787, married John Francis, had
nine children.
59. Catherine, born Milay 30, I792, married Richard Gilmore, had
seven children.
60. Anna, born March 24, I794, married Henry Ward, had five
children.
6I. Charlotte, born MIarch 15, I796, died unmarried.
62. Mahala, born March 5, I798, married John Sowarby, about
1820, had seven children.
63. John, born May 24, 800o, married?-? Holly, had one child.
64. Dammas, born August 14, 1802, died in infancy.
65. Abraham, born March I, I804, married Catherine Quane, had
three children, and died July 12, I876.
JOHN (38), (soN or DENNIS), IAD ISSUE:
66. Dennis, born February IO, I796, married Elizabeth Russell,
January 12, 1817, had six children, and died February
I6, I879.
67. John, born May 20, I798, married Sarah Pearsall, had two
children, and died May ii, I862.
68. David, born I799, died young.
69. Daniel, born March 25, I8oo, married Catherine Powell, in
March, 1822, had one child, and died March 30, I863.
70. Catherine, born August 29, I801, married Matthew Hollack,
March I8, 1829, had two children, and died May 27, I877.
7I. Henry, born March 12, 1803, married Hannah Palmer, September 2, I823, had eight children, and died in 1876.
72. Jesse, born November 28, I808, married Sarah Nelson, December 6, 1826, had ten children, and died in I873.
73. Maria, born July 17, I809.
HENRY V. (42), (SON OF DENNIS), HAD ISSUE:
74. Oliver, born January 31, I805, married Mary Ann Bloomer,
September I, 1824, had nine children.
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75. Sarah A., born October 14, I8o6, married John C. Nelson,
April 8, I828, had nine children.
76. Lewis V., born November 21, I8IO, married Catherine
Powell, June 5, 1838, had five children.
77. Mary Ann, born May 7, I814, married William M. Palmer,
October I6, 1837, had two children, and died September
I0, I844.
78. Elizabeth Ann, born February 28, I816, married Thomas H.
Powell, September 12, I838, had ten children, and died
March 22, 1887.
79. Catherine, born October 5, I818, died December 21, 1821.
80. Henry P., born December 22, 1822, married first, Caroline E.
Holley, August 29, I849, had one child. He married
second, Nancy A. Newman, September 27, 1853, had one
child.
8I. Elisha P., born June I8, 1825, married Louisa A. Crum, June
I8, 1851, had four children.
JOHANNES (45), (SON OP PETRUS), HAD ISSUE:
82. Peter, born August Io, I802, married first, Martha Mode
Ackerman, February 17, 1821, had two children; second,
Eliza Galagar, January 26, I833, had one child, and third,
Maria Leefoy, May ii, 1845, had one child.
JOHN (52), (SON Op BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
83. Bernard, who married Elizabeth Haring, had two children.
WIILLIAM (53), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
84. Henrietta, born 1823, married John Hutton, had three children.
85. Charles McK. (Capt.), born February 28, 1825, married
Sarah Vanderbilt, April 8, 1846, had one child.
86. Smith, born I827, married Letitia Vanderbilt, I846, had three
children. He deceased.
87. Mary, born 1829, married Samuel G. Elsworth, had one child.
88. Gertrude, born 1831, married John Tenyke, had one child.
89. John, born 1833, died single.
go. Henry, born I835, married Elizabeth Gurney, no issue.
9I. William, born 1837, married Annie -?, had four children.
92. Edward, born 1843, died single.
ABRAHAM (65), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
93. John, who died in infancy.
94. Peter Van, born December 21, I862, married Mary Dugen,
had five children.
95. Abraham, born December 23, I864, married Ellen E. Dugen,
had five children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
DENNIS (66), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
96. Alpheus, born I8I9, married Mary Shaw, had three children,
and died April I, I870.
97. Francis, born May 3, 1822, married Helen Kendall, I870,
had one child, and died October 19, I879. He a lawyer.
98. Catherine Ann, born October 26, 1826, married Aaron Cornish, I86o, had one child.
99. Lewis, born May I, 1831, married Jane Brown, I870.
IOO. Elizabeth, born September 21, 1833, died June I8, I863.
Was an invalid for some time.
IOI. Lucinda, born August 29, 1838, unmarried (1887).
JOHN (67), (SON Or JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
102. Ambrose.
I03. Anna Maria.
DANIEL, (69), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I04. Frederick, who died at the age of twelve years.
HENRY (71), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I05. John, born August 28, 1827, drowned in lake at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, November 9, I850.
Io6. David, born July 9, I829, married Ruth Ann Babbitt, December I8, I86o, had seven children, and died January
19, 1883.
107. Louisa, born September IO, I830.
o18. William, born August 6, I83I, died November 9, I850.
IO9. Harriet Miera, born February 28, I834, married Charles
Holley, September 6, 1853, had four children.
I O. Japhet H., born September 24, I836, died November 21, I843.
IIi. Henry C., born January 12, I840, married Catherine J.
Philips, May 28, I864, had two children.
112. Dennis, born January 21, 1842.
JESSE (72), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
II3. Lewis, born November 27, 1827, married Ervilla Carr, had
three children.
114. Anna, born April 22, I829, married John Brower (Brewster).
II5. John M., born July 5, 1830, died young.
i 6. Hannah Jane, born July 21, 1833, married Peter Mannes.
I I7. Sarah Ann, born July 4, I836, married Shubel Simes, had
one child.
II8. Joshua Nelson, born January I, I840, married Lucinda
Madison, I866.
II9. Fidelia, born April 15, 1842, married Gilbert Crane.
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120. Pamelia, born March I8, 1846.
12I. Cornelia, born March I8, I846.
I22. Stephen J., born June 26, I85I.
OLIVER (74), (SON OF HENRY V.), HAD ISSUE:
I23. Catherine A., born June 20, 1825, married Gilbert Bogardus,
had three children.
I24. William, born December 2, 1826, married Jane Rowe (Roe),
1850, had one child, and died May 17, I87I.
I25. Lewis P., born June' 24, 1830, married Eunice Kimball, had
four children.
126. Oliver, Jr., born October I6, 1832, died in Civil War in
Virginia, about 1863.
I27. Matthew B., born August 2, 1834, married Elizabeth Tibbets, had two children.
128. Henry H., born July 12, I836, died single, I860.
I29. Mary A., born May I, 1838, married Amos Tibbets, had two
children.
I30. Thomas, born July 12, I844, married Josephine Devoe, had
two children.
I3I. Alpheus (Alfred P.), born October 4, 1847, married Phebe
C. Bogardus, had one child.
LEWIS V. (76), (SON OF HENRY V.), HAD ISSUE:
132. Eliza Maria, born July 4, I839, died November I6, I862.
I33. Emma L., born April 24, 1841.
I34. Hannah E., born September 9, I843, married James H.
Powell, October 5, I865, had three children, and died in
I874.
I35. Josephine, born December II, I849, married Oliver Miller,
April 7, I886.
I36. Willard, born July I6, I859, married Anna Matthews, February 8, 1887.
HENRY P. (80), (SON OF HENRY V.), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
I37. Charles Adelbert, born August I, I850, married first, Alice
Wood, December I8, 1872, had one child. She died November 14, 1876. He married second, Caroline Halstead,
September I9, I88i, had one child.
HENRY P. (80) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I38. Caroline, born May 22, I855.
ELISHA P. (8I), (SON OF HENRY V.), HAD ISSUE:
I39. Franklin H., born September 6, 1852, married Sarah H.
Loyd, January 2, 1872, had two children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEIM.
140. Martin Krum, born August 21, I857, married Romette Chichester, February 17, 1884.
I4I. Rossettatnine, born November 4, I863, unmarried (1887).
142. Rosella, born November 4, I863, unmarried (I887).
PETER (82), (SON OF JOIIANNES), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
I43. Hester Ann, born March II, I823.
I44. Henry, born May 2, I826.
PETER (82) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I45. Sarah E., born October 9, 1834.
PETER (82) HAD ISSUE BY THIRD WIFE:
146. Emma Jane, born March 19, I846.
CHARLES McK. (85), (SON OF WILLIAM), IIAD ISSUE:
I47. Charles, born February 5, I847, married Julia Stodard, I872,
had two children.
SMITH (86), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
148. George.
I49. Henry.
150. Annie.
WILLIAM (9I), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
5 I. Annie.
I52. Minnie.
153. Edna.
154. Nettie.
PETER VAN (94), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I55. Catherine, born I891.
I56. Mary.
157. Henry.
I58. John, died in infancy.
I59.? — (boy), died in infancy.
ABRAHAM (95), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I60. Clara E., born January I9, 1889.
16I. Peter H., born September 13, I89o.
162. Abraham J., born September 25, I892.
I63. Charlotte, born June I I, I896.
164. S. Joost, born November 3, I898, died I902.
ALPHEUS (96), (SON OF DENNIS), HAD ISSUE:
I65. Mary.
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I66. Minnie.
I67. Phila.
FRANCIS (97), (SON OF DENNIS), HAD ISSUE:
I68. Frank Annettie.
DAVID (106), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
I69. Carlisle, born November 26, I866.
I70. Hannah, born September ii, I868, died in infancy.
I7I. Carrie A., born November 29, I869, died March I9, 1872.
172. Maggie C., born April 28, 1873, died May 26, I873.
I73. Anna L., born October 17, I874.
I74. Lottie E., born May 6, I877.
I75. lay V., born June 28, I880, died February 5, 1885.
HENRY C. (III), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
176. Frederick, born June I8, I866.
I77. Olivia Agnes, born June 26, i868.
LEWIS (II3), (SON OF JESSE), HAD ISSUE:
178. James Edward, born I846, single (I887).
I79. Charles Orthezo, born I849, married first, Sevilla Sellar, and
second, Lois Rogers.
I80. Ray Rudolphus, born I85I, married Jennie Barbarer, had
three children.
WILLIAM (124), (SON OF OLIVER), HAD ISSUE:
I8I. Alzinia, who married Alexander Palmer.
LEWIS P. (I25), (SON OF OLIVER), HAD ISSUE:
182. George K.
I83. William.
184. Charles.
I85. Fred.
MATTHEW B. (127), (SON OF OLIVER), HAD ISSUE:
i86. Della.
I87. Henry.
CHARLES ADELBERT (I37), (SON OF HENRY P.), HAD
ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
I88. Alice Wood, born November I4, 1876.
CHARLES ADELBERT (137) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I89. Robert Henry.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
FRANKLIN H. (I39), (SON OF ELISHA P.), HAD ISSUE:
I9o. Waldo K.
I91. Ada.
CHARLES (I47), (SON OF CHARLES IMICK.), HAD ISSUE:
I92. Ora May, who married Karl Seager.
193. Edward, born I88I.
RAY RUDOLPHUS (I80), (SON OF LEWIS), HAD ISSUE:
I94. Bertie, born I879.
I95. Minnie, born 1881.
I96. Erville, born 1884.
The Oblenis name, now quite extinct on Manhattan Island
(1881), is yet found in other sections of our State, taking in
some cases, by an odd fancy, an Irish form, O'Blenis!
TOURNEUR.
Daniel Tourneur being deceased at the date of the Dongan
patent, his widow, Jacqueline, represented his rights among the
patentees; while her son Daniel was named in virtue of an erf,
and six morgen lot, which he owned on Montanye's Flat. The
peculiar circumstances under which the elder Tourneur left his
native Picardy and retired to Leyden, with his mother in that city,
and departure for this country a few months after the baptism,
July 30, I65I, of his son Daniel at the Walloon church, are
already familiar to us. On coming here he first lived at Flatbush,
where a daughter, Maria, was born, being baptized March 4, I654,
who died in infancy, and where Tourneur, with some military
prestige, as would seem, was made corporal of a company formed
April 7, I654, for protection against marauders. Soon after this
he was granted a corner lot in New Amsterdam, with a view to
put up a house, but a year or more passing before the timber was
ready, he renewed his request, April II, I657, for leave to build,
but, we suspect, without success. He afterward built a house
on the Prince's Graft, where he had bought a lot, May 31, I66o,
and on August I6 of the same year was appointed a magistrate
for Harlem; but probably yet continued in business at New Amsterdam, as, on October 15 ensuing, he was made one of the
"sworn butchers." The next winter he put a barn on his village
plot at Harlem, where he had already built a house, and whither
he soon removed, serving in the magistracy at various periods,
and for several years as deputy sheriff. He was repeatedly
chosen deacon, besides which he was a delegate to the General
Assembly of I664, and also one of the Nicolls patentees. He
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died in 1673, leaving a goodly estate, as heretofore particularized.
(See pages 379, 380.) The widow Tourneur survived her husband 27 years, and died in I700, and her personals, as per inventory taken August 22, that year, were divided November I6 ensuing, each child (Daniel's heirs in his stead) getting in cash
167 guilders with a fifth part of the goods.
Daniel Tourneur (I), born at Amens in Picardie, France,
in I626, married Jacqueline de Parisis, September 5, 1650, at
Leyden, Holland, had seven children, and died at Harlem, N. Y.,
in I673.
DANIEL (I) HAD ISSUE:
2. Daniel, Jr., baptized July 30, 165I, married Ann Woodhull,
had three children, and died in I690o.
3. Maria, born at Flatbush, N. Y., baptized March 4, I654, died
in infancy.
5. Marretje, baptized September 4, I66I.
6. Jacques, born at Harlem, N. Y., married first, Aefie, daughter
of Michael Kortright, June 7, I683, had seven children.
He married second, Engeltie Thomas, widow of Gregoris
Storm, of Philips Manor, May 29, 1714.
7. Thomas, born at Harlem, N. Y., in 1665, married Maria,
daughter of Joost Van Oblenis, April 5, I692, had four
children, and died in 17I0.
8. Madeline, who married John Dyckman, June 15, I673, had six
children.
9. Esther. who married Frederick de Vaux, June 24, 1677, had
thirteen children. He of Westchester County, N. Y.
Daniel Tourneur (2), (son of Daniel), was made "a free
denizen of this place and province," by special letters, dated January I3, I672, he having been born in Holland, with which England
was now at enmity. He served as magistrate, and was lieutenant of militia, still holding the latter office under Leisler, whose
cause he actively supported, and by whom he was sent to Hartford, in March, 1690, to arrest Robert Livingston. But his death
the ensuing fall spared him the pain of witnessing the tragic fate
of his chief captain, perhaps of sharing it. His inventory, taken
October 13, begins with "The bouwery lying upon Montanye's
Vlackte, consisting of three lots of land, house and barn, orchard,
and a piece of meadow lying on the kill of the Vlacte. Also another three lots of land lying upon Hoorn's Hook." (See page
355.) By his wife, Ann Woodhull (see page 379) he had issue:
Io. Dorothea, baptized June I, 1684, deceased.
ii. Woodhull, born about I685, married Hannah Lawrence, May
13, 1715, had four children.
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12. Daniel, who owned lands in Westchester County, N. Y., which
he sold in 1727.
Jacques (6), (son of Daniel), served as a deacon, and also
as constable and overseer of the town, succeeding, in i691, to
that part of his father's lands on Van Keulen's Hook known as
Lots 17, 18, but in quantity three lots, and since the Bussing or
Storm farm. On August 7, 1691, he bought from Peter Van
Oblienis, for 60 guilders, the old Jaques Cresson residence, which
became his home. On May 27, I698, he sold his lot No. 7, of
the draft of I69I, to Johannes Myer. His death is not noticed,
but his farm, and lots in the several divisions, in all 60 acres, were
sold to Peter Bussing in 1726.
The Turnures of Rockland County, N. Y., were good Whigs
in 1776, as the lists of associators witness. The name took that
and other forms.
JACQUES (6) HAD ISSUE:
13. Anna, born i686.
I4. Adriana (Ariaentie), baptized August 4, I686, married Jacob
Gerritsen, June 27, 1712.
15. Maria, baptized July I, I69I.
I6. Michael, born I693, married Maria, daughter of Hendrick
Oblenis, February I, I717, had eight children, and died
in I775. Settled at Haverstraw, N. Y.
17. Jacobus, baptized November 20, 1695, married Jacomina,
daughter of Hendrick Oblenis, May 26, 1720, had six
children, and died at Haverstraw, N. Y.
i8. Abraham (Abram), baptized May 25, I698.
19. Isaac, baptized February 12, I70I, was living at Fordham
in 1733.*
Thomas (7), '(son of Daniel), had just come in possession of
his share of the paternal lands, embracing lots No. 19 Van Keulen's Hook and No. i Jochem'Pieters, with the adjoining "orchard," or one morgen lot, reaching from the latter down to the
Church Lane, and on which stood the house and barn. The outgardens, Nos. I to 4, also fell to his share; and prior to I70I he
became the owner of the Bosch or Bush farm, on the North River
side. Thomas seems to have inherited largely the tastes and
spirit of his father. Besides filling lesser town offices, he was
the alderman of the Out Ward in 1696-7. Being appointed sur* The Turner family, of Westchester County, are not to be mistaken for the Tourneurs. The
former were descendants of Lawrence Turner, who. as early as 1646. had dealings with English residents at Manhattan. He removed from Newport to Greenwich, and thence into " the borough and
town of Westchester," where.he:died in 1668, leaving a widow}, Martha. His daughter Mary married John Ferguson, Jr., and his son. Daniel Turner, of Westchester, yeoman, died May 24, 1705
leaving his widow "Margaret, a won Daniel, and daughters Martha, Mary and Rebecca, the last of
whom mried Eleazar Gedney, of Mamaroneck.
TOURNEUR FAMILY. 637
veyor of highways in I707, he sided with the Harlem people, who
felt aggrieved because required by the hiayor and aldermen to
join in working the newly surveyed roads outside of their limits,
and Tourneur, refusing, was fined six shillings by Constable
Sickles, who levied on his goods. Tourneur thereupon procured
a writ of the Supreme Court, and had the constable arrested for
trespass. The mayor and aldermen resolved to defend the constable. It caused much excitement, but pleased the inhabitants,
and the next year Tourneur was made constable. But the city
council, on the plea of his "having served in the office of alderman," declared him exempt, and ordered a new election. On
September 29, 1709, he was chosen town collector. Tourneur
probably died in 17I0, as his son Jacobus is charged for back quitrent in his stead, and that year all his lands were sold. His farm,
last named, was bought by Capt. Jacob De Key, his Van Keulen
Hook lot by John Dyckman, his out-gardens by Maria Meyer; and
his lot No. i, etc., by Capt. Charles Congreve. The latter sold,
in 17I3, to John Van Oblenis, and he directly to Abraham Myer.
The children and their mother are remembered in John Oblienis'
will in I717. Jacobus, familiarly called Cobus, to whom his uncle
John Oblienis left a legacy of ~25, was probably the "chirurgeon,"
Jacob Tourneur, who practiced in the families of Frederick De
Voe, Louis Guion, and other French residents of Westchester,
and died March 9, I7I9, at the house of Frederick Bolt, at New
Rochelle.
THOMAS (7), (SON OI DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
20. Jacobus, born I693, died March 9, I719.
21. Magdalena, born I695, baptized June 26, I695.
22. Martina (Martyntie), baptized January 30, 1698.
23. Thomas, baptized February 15, 1702.
Woodhull ( i), (son of Daniel, Jr.), by trade a weaver, is
named in I706 and I708 as holding his late father's farm on Montanye's Flat, but in 1711, he sold it to Samson Benson and went
to Newtown, L. I., where he is found the next year, and on January 27, I7I3, bought the farm since of Cornelius Purdy. Here
he married, May 13, 1715, his cousin. Hannah Lawrence, but sold
his farm April 8, 1714, and removed to Rockland County, whither
most of the Tourneurs, on leaving Harlem, seemed to gravitate.
-He was living in 1728. He had issue:
24. Anna, baptized June Io, 1717, deceased.
25. Daniel, born November 2, 1718, deceased.
26. Jacobus (James), born 1720, married Sarah Oblenis, March
26, 1752, had two children.
27. Benjamin, baptized June 25, 1727, deceased.
638
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Michael Tourneur (I6), (son of Jacques), married Maria
Oblenis, February I, 1717. In I743 he bought the old residence
of his father and twelve acres of his land, being lot No. 2, Third
Division, and nine acres of No. 14, Second Division. He got
from Bussing, in I750, the remaining six acres of the last-named
lot. (See Benson.) But selling out within ten years he removed, and died at Haverstraw in 1775, aged about 82 years.
MICHAEL (I6), (SON OE JACQUES), HAD ISSUE:
28. Jacobus, who married Dinah, daughter of Lawrence Low, of
Harlem, had ten children.
29. John, deceased.
30. Aefie, who married Derrick De Clerck, had ten children.
3I. Sarah, who married Edward' Salyer, had five children.
32. Hendrick, who married MIargaret Blauvelt, April 28, 1758.
had four children. Succeeded to the homestead part of
the paternal farm.
33. Jannetie, who married John Tourneur, had two children.
34. Mary, born February 24, 1728, married William Dyckman,
had nine children, and died February 14, I802.
35. Jeminia, who married William Chappell, April 13, I75I, had
one child.
JAcoBus (17), (SON oF JACQUES), IAD ISSUE:
36. Jacobus, who married first, Grietie Kuyper, had two children,
and second, Grietie Blauvelt, August 9, I753, by whom
he had three children, and (lied in I773, at Haverstraw,
N. Y.
37. Hendrick, who married Mary Kuyper, September 23, 1753.
38. John, who married Jannetie Tourneur, had three children.
39. Aefie, who. married Johannes Van Dalsen, December 20, 175I,
had two children.
40. Sarah, born February 23, I736.
4I. Jannetie, who married Teunis Blauvelt, had eight children.
JACOBUS (JAMES) (26), (SON OF WOODHULL), HAD ISSUE:
42. Sarah, born January 13, I753, married John Stegg, had six
children.
43. Woodhull, born October 28, I754, married Elizabeth Steve,
had two children.
JACOBUS (28), (SON OF MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
44. Jannetje (Jane), born June 17, I758, married Lucas Campbell, had seven children.
45. Maria, born October 4, I760.
46. Mary (Marretye), born August I, I762.
TOURNEUR FAMILY.
639
47. John, born November 8, I764.
48. Sarah, born November 5, I766.
49. Hendrick, born October 4, I769.
50. Breghie, born November I6, I77I, married Barent Gardinier,
had three children.
5I. Michael, who married Leah Hennion, December 29, 1775, had
one child, and died in 1817.
52. Lawrence.
53. Jacobus, who married Elizabeth Secor, December 13, 1792,
had one child.
HENDRICK (32), (SON OI MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
54. Maria, born April 27, 1759.
55. Annaetjie, born April IO, 1761.
56. Michiel, born October 2, 1763, married Geertje Blauvelt, June
15, 1786, had one child.
57. Elizabeth, born January 30, I77I.
JACOBUS (36), (SON OF JAcOBUS), HAD ISSUE BY HIS
FIRST WIFE:
58. Jacobus, born February 28, I747.
59. Grietye (Margaret), born August I, I751.
JACOBUS (36) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
60. Rachel, born December 8, 1760, married first, John Van
Orden, had five children, and second, Abraham Polhemus,
April 8, I803.
6I. Jacomina, born October 7, I764, married Jacobus Vanderbilt,
June 6, I799, had three children.
62. David, born June 23, I768.
JOHN (38), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
63. John, born December 28, I75I, married Hannah Bugby, April
26, I776, had children.
64. Jacobus, born November 17, I755.
65. Daniel, born May 30, I763.
WOODHULL (43), (SON OV JACoBUS), HAD ISSUE:
66. Sarah, born November 7, I776.
67. Jacobus, born June 28, I783.
MICHAEL (5I), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
68. Cornelius, born September 30, I776, married Peggy Baldwin,
February 13, 1794, had one child, and died July 7, I852.
JACOBUS (53), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
69. Dinah, born April IO, I794.
640
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
MICHAEL (56), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
70. Margritje, born March I8, 1790.
CORNELIUS (68), (SON OF MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
71. Michael, born October 20, 1797, married Margaret Wilkins,
had seven children, and died in 1863.
MICHAEL (71), (SON OF CORNELIUS), IIAD ISSUE:
72. Cornelius Bush, born September 9, 1841, married Kate Gerst,
July 15, 1872, had five children.
73. John Henry, born April 25, 1844, married Emma Onderdonk,
October 24, 1869, had five children.
74. Irving, born April 26, 1846, married Ellen Drain, I872, had
four children.
75. Edward T., born December 25, 1847, married Julia Quackenbush, December 23, 1873, had four children.
76. Peter J., born April I8, I853, married Margaret E. Torrens,
July 15, 1875, had four children.
77. Aaron, born May I, I856, married Elizabeth Garrabrandt,
July 25, I880, had eleven children.
78. Julia Etta, born March 27, 1859, married F. Smith, September
12, 1870, no issue.
CORNELIUS BUSH (72), (SON OF MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
79. Mary Lillian, born March 14, 1874, married'Thomas James
Worsey, February 20, I902, no issue.
80. Adolphena, born June 26, I878, unmarried.
81. Julietta, born January I6, 1880, unmarried.
82. Elmer, born September 2, I88I, single.
83. -?
JOHN HENRY (73), (SON OF MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
84. William Henry, born July 2, 1870, married in I890, father of
three children.
85. Frank, born December 2, 1871, married in 1899.
86. Charles J., born March 30, 1873, single.
87. John Lester, born May 9, I880.
88, Elizabeth Morton, born July Io, I890.
IRVING (74), (SON Or MICIIAEL), HAD ISSUE:
89. Nettie.
90. Margaret.
9I. Olive.
92. Ethel.
EDWARD T. (75), (SON OF MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
93. Arthur, born May 12, I88I, deceased.
TOURNEUR FAMILY.
64I
94. Florence M., born August 15, 1884, married Benjamin Donnison, October 29, 1902.
95. Clarence E., born June 6, 1887.
96. Elsie E., born November I4, I895.
PETER J. (76), (SON OF MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
97. William.
98. Lillian.
99. Jean.
Ioo. Harold.
AARON (77), (SON OI MICHAEL), HAD ISSUE:
IOI. Julia, born February 4, I882.
102. Edward, born March 9, 1884.
103. Frances (Mary), born November 15, I885.
I04. Jeannette, born August 20, 1887.
105. Della, born March 14, I89I.
IO6. Emma, born August 28, 1893.
107. John, born August II, I895.
I80. Georgiana, born August II, I895.
IO9. Alfred, born October 29, I896.
I IO. Sophronia, born February 25, I899.
I I. Russell, born November 19, 1900.
VERMILYE.
Johannes Vermilye, the patentee, was common ancestor of
all who in this country bear the name of Vermilye or Vermilyea.
His father, Isaac Vermeille, has been already the subject of notice,
before as well as after he emigrated with his family, in 1662.
Welcomed to Harlem by some of his former acquaintances, Vermeille's worth was recognized by an appointment to command
a military company in I663. Later he served two terms as magistrate. Buying the northern end (a morgen) of lot No. 5, Van
Keulen's Hook, probably from Montagne, his son-in-law, he
built a house, planted fruit trees, and here made his home. His
house occupied a spot nearly central of the block between First
and Second Avenues and I22d and I23d Streets. Vermeille held
no other farming land, no doubt having some other calling suited
to his now advanced years, perhaps with his son in the brewery.
He was living August 29, I676, when he witnessed the will of
Aert Pietersen Buys and wife, Jenneke Cornelis; of Fordham,
and on September 4, ensuing, Vermilye, either father or son, is
called "clerk". Observing that on the death of Jean le Comte, in
1675, there was paid "To Isaac Vermeille, for the burial, f. 12,"
we think he performed the office of "clerk" for the French resi
642 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
dents at Harlem. He probably died in 1676, and is not among
the proprietors, February I9, 1677, when his house and lot stand
in the name of Johannes.* Isaac's children were Johannes, aforesaid; Abraham, who had no issue; Maria, born I629, who married John La Montagne and Isaac Kip, and Rachel, born I637,
who married John Terbosch and Derick Wessels.
Johannes Vermelje, as he wrote his name, was born in I632
at Leyden.* Coming here in ripe manhood, and uniting in his
character the sterling traits of the French and Dutch, he was
made a court messenger in 1665, and constable in I667, being for
this year also farmer of the excise; previous to which he had set
up a brewery. August 27, I670, then holding the position of
magistrate, he married Aeltie, daughter of Resolved Waldron;
when he probably built upon an erf, procured some years before,
but which is first taxed in I67I. It lay in the Judah plot. (See
pages 236, 237, 285.) Mr. Vermilye took a leading part both in
civil and church affairs. In the political crisis of I689 he was
chosen one of the Committee of Safety, which, on June 8 of that
year, appointed Capt. Jacob Leisler to be "captain of the fort",
and on August I6 signed his commission as "commander-in-chief"
of the province. Taking a seat in Leisler's council, December
I I ensuing, he was sent soon after upon an embassy to New
Haven. He continued a member of the council till a sudden end
was put to Leisler's rule by the coming of Col. Sloughter, March
20, I691, by whose orders Leisler and his council (Vermilye included) were "committed to the guards", on a charge of high
treason. The execution of Leisler and Milborne, but two months
later, seemed to Vermilye and his fellow-prisoners to forebode a
similar fate. But after a painful suspense of over seventeen
months they were liberated by Governor Fletcher, on his arrival,
and were pardoned by the king February 20, I693. Vermilye
survived this trying ordeal but a short period, as he was deceased
in March, I696. His widow sold out her lands at Harlem in
17I5 to her nephew, John Delamater (see page 499), and died
at Yonkers in I734.
Johannes Vermilye (i), born at Leyden, Holland, in 1632,
married Aeltie Waldron, August 27, I670, had ten children, and
died in I696.
JOHANNES (I) HAD ISSUE:
2. Rebecca, baptized December 17, 1671, married Peter Bussing,
June 7, I700, had seven children.
* Bolton, History of Westchester County, volume ii. page.327, under date of
I694, copies the name of Capt. Isaac Van Vleck as Vermilyea! Such carelessness is
reprehensible.
* The letter j (with Hollanders) having the sound of our English y when the
latter begins a word or syllable; Johannes only conformed to the Dutch mode of
writing his name, without changing its terminal pronunciation, which is well preserved in the modern spelling Vermilye, but better (since e in Dutch, as in French,
takes the sound of a) by Vermilyea.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
643
3. Sarah, baptized October 4, 1673, married Teunis Dolsen,
August 28, I696, had one child.
4. Rachel, baptized November 10, 1675, married Charles Vincent, I694.
5. Abraham No. I, baptized December I9, I677, died young.
6: Abraham No. 2, baptized January 24, I680, was the father of
seven children, and died in I734.
7. Isaac, baptized April I, I682, married Josyntie Oblinus, January I6, 1707, had eight children, and died in I767.
8. Maria, baptized April 13, 1684, married Peter Kierse, I704.
9. Jacob, baptized November 24, I686, died young.
*Io. John, who married first, Sarah Odell, October 29, I713, had
twelve children. He married second, Maritie -?, and
died in I782.
I. Hannah, born I690, married Johannes Odell, October 29,
1713, had four children.
Isaac Vermilye (7), (son of Johannes), married January
i6, I707, Josyntie, daughter of Joost Van Oblinus, and widow
of Teunis Corssen, who left her with a child, Teunis, living in
I748. Isaac was an executor of his brother-in-law, John Van
Oblinus, and well sustained the good reputation so generally
characteristic of the family. His will, made March I, 1748, was
proved March 5, I767. He had issue:
12. Isaac, born June o0, 1708, married Mehitabel Hadley, had
eight children. Of Croton Valley.
13. Maritie, born May 12, 1711, married Jacobus Teller, had nine
children.
I4. John, born April 7, 1714, married Charity, daughter of Jacob
Dyckman, had seven children. Of Kingsbridge (Yonkers) succeeded to the land his father bought of Anthony Basley.
15. Peter, born 1725, married Mary (Polly) Pinckney, had ten
children. Of Croton Valley.
I6. Aeltie, who married John Teller, had ten children.
17. Sarah, who married -? Valentine.
I8. Rebecca, who married Jacob Dyckman, had eleven children.
19. Hannah, who married Isaac Odell.
John Vermilye (io), (son of Johannes), became rich in
landed property, by buying up farms in Yonkers, about Kingsbridge, from William and Benjamin Betts, Anthony Basley, etc.
He lived till 1782, "far advanced in years," as he says in his will,
dated June 3, 1776, and proved November 2, 1786. He married
Sarah Odell, October 29, 1713, but before his death contracted
a second marriage with Maritie?. He distributed his lands
among his sons. He had issue by first wife:
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
20. Antie (Anna), born I7I9, married Abraham Brown, had two
children, and died February 28, I8oI.
21. Johannes (John), who married twice. His second wife was
Jacomina Corsa, by whom he had two children.
22. Abraham, who married Mehitabel -?, had six children,
and died at Yonkers in 1784.
23. Joshua, who married Sarah Emans, had four children, and
died in Westchester County in 1782.
24. Frederick, who married Catherine Nodine, May 27, 1763, had
two children, and died in I814.
25. Maritie, who married Dirck Van Arsdalen, January 29, 1767,
had three children.
26. Sarah, who married Roger Downing, September I, I757, had
two children.
27. Rebecca, who married George Wherts, had one child.
28. Aeltie, who married John Kortright.
29. Benjamin.
30. David, who married Patience -?, had four children.
3I. Gerardus, who married Jane Valentine, August 5, 1762, had
seven children. He contributed toward building the Reformed Dutch Church at Hopewell, N. Y.
Some of these removed to New York as early as I792. John,
Oerardus and David, before the Revolution, removed from Yonkers to Lagrange, Dutchess County. They, in common with their
kindred, had now yielded their French characteristics, at least
as to their speech, for it is known that John, called Honnes (Johannes), was wont to ask blessings in Dutch.
ISAAC (I2), (SON OE ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
32. John, who married first, Mary Vermilye, had six children.
He married second, Rachel -?, and died in 1812.
33. Isaac, who married Mary -?, had one child.
35. Joseph, who married Elizabeth Oblinus, 1782, had three children.
36. Rebecca, deceased.
37. Cynthia, who died unmarried.
38. Hannah.
39. Nancy, who married Solomon Owens, had one child.
40. Hester (Mehitabel), who married Ely Reynolds, had three
children.
JOHN (14), (SON oF ISAAC), HAD ISSU;:
4I. Jacob, born 1740, married first, Susannah Dyckman, April Io,
1766. He married second, Mary Dyckman, June 15,
1773, having ten children by both marriages, and died
January 31, 1814.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
645
42. William, born I749, married first, Mary Brower, April Io,
1773, had two children, and second, Mary Taylor, by
whom he had four children. He died March 8, 1822.
43. Isaac, who married. Susannah, daughter of Jacob Myer, April
2, I756, had six children. Of Yonkers.
44. Jane, who married Edward Prior, April 13, 1767, had seven
children.
45. Rebecca, who married William Maharry, October 15, I765.
46. Cynthia, who married Timothy Hunt, had twelve children.
47. Aletta, who married James Teller, had two children.
PETER (15), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
48. Isaac, deceased.
49. Mary (Polly), born I75I, married John Vermilye, had six
children.
50. Susan, born 1758, married John Shear, had ten children, and
died in 1838.
5I. Philip, baptized September 6, I758, married Rebecca Elliott,
had eleven children.
52. Peter, born July 3I, I760, married Mary Jewell, had seven
children.
53. John, born I763.
54. William, born 1765, married Cynthia Simons.
55. Abraham, born March 20, 1768, married Jemima Travers,
I79I, had twelve children, and died December I8, I831.
56. Anna, born I770, married Jesse Travers.
57. Aeltje (Ally), born I773, married Obediah Avery.
JOHANNES (2I), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
58. Benjamin, born August 13, I759.
59. Jacomina, baptized March 27, I768.
ABRAHAM (22), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE::
60. John, born about I750, married Mary (Polly) -?, had five
children.
6I. Edward, born June 12, 1759, married Sarah Hyatt, April Io,
I790, had nine children, and died July I9, 1832.
62. William, who married Phebe Husted, had ten children.
63. Abraham, who married Mary Brower, had one child.
64. Sarah, who married Solomon Hustis.
65. Margaret, who married Abraham Sloote, August 24, 1788.
JOSHUA (23), (SON OV JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
66. Anna, born 1772, married James Jarvis, September Io, I796.
67. Thomas, born I774.
68. Mary, born I778.
69. Isaac, born 1782.
646
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
FREDERICK (24), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
70- John.
71. Frederick.
DAVID (30), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
72. Benjamin, born 1759, married Sarah Downing, September 22,
1781, had two children.
73. David, born about 1765, was the father of eight children, and
died in 1848.
74. John, born I767, married Aeltie Jewell, February I4, I788,
had four children, and died January 26, 1838.
75. Isaac Dyckman, born I77I, married Maria Jewell, April II,
1792, had eight children, and died in I853.
GERARDUS (31), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
76. Mary, born 1765, married Jonathan Brooks.
77. Isaac G., born I768, married Catherine Kipp, had nine children, and died in 1846.
78. John G., born 1770, married Elizabeth Asten, December 27,
I797, had six children, and died in 1828.
79. Sennai, born I774, married Joseph Noxon.
80. Rebecca, born April 6, 1776, died unmarried.
8I. Gerardus, born July 25, 1777, married Charlotte Palmer,
September 26, 1807, but died without issue in I808.
82. Jane, born I779, married Lewis Davenport, October 24, 1797.
JOHN (32), (SON or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
83. Mehitabel, baptized May I, I774, married Montgomery
Moore, had four children.
84. Mary, born December 28, 1778, married Evander Childs, May
I8, I8oo, had six children.
85. Emily, born I808, died unmarried, February Io, I860.
86. Aletta, died unmarried.
-87. Betsy, died unmarried.
88. John, who married Mary Hewson, had five children.
ISAAC (33), (SON Or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
89. Mary, baptized July 2, I783.
JOSEPH (35), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
go. Catherine, born 1783, married James Willeey.
9I. Hetty, born 1785, married - Arnolds.
92. Elizabeth, born 1787, married Arnolds.
JACOB (41), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
93. John, born January 2, 1768, married Rebecca Fowler, had
nine children, and died October 15, I823.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
647
94. Gerardus, born June 3, I771, died single, August 3, I823.
95. William, born about I776, died single, March 8, 1822.
96. Susannah Maria, born February 5, I777, married Jacob
Cregier, had one child.
97. Jacobus, born March 8, I779, deceased.
98. Michael, born August 31, 1781, married Susan Vermilye,
had two children.
99. Isaac, born 1785, married Deborah?-, had five children.
Ioo. James, who married Mary Greenway, had six children.
IoI. Jane, died unmarried.
102. Rebecca, died unmarried.
William (42), (son of John), went to New York as early
as I792, was a builder, and from 1812 till his death surveyor for
the Eagle Insurance Company. He died March 8, 1822, aged
73 years, II months. He had issue by first wife:
103. Maria, who married William W. Chardavoyne, had nine
children.
104. Gerritie (Charity), baptized February 27, I774, died young.
WILLIAM (42) HAD ISSUE -BY SECOND WIFE:
105. William W., born December 24, 1780, married Mary Montgomery, January ii, I8oo, had twelve children, and died
November 14, 1849. Began business in New York as
a printer with Langdon & Son.
io6. Thomas B., born August 29, 1784, married first, Mary Hoagland, September 26, I804, had eight children. He married second, Jane Rebecca Mattocks, October I8, I86o,
but died without issue by second wife.
107. Robert, deceased.
Io8. Joanna, born I799, married George B. Smith, had nine children, and died July 30, I883.
ISAAC (43), (soN oF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
Io9. William, born I757, married Fannie Bonnet, had one child,
and died in I799.
IIO. John, who married Effie Clark, had one child.
III. Jacob Meyer, who married Phebe Vail, had one child.
112. Susan, who married Michael Vermilye,.had three children.
113. Isaac, born I769, married Jane Odell, had one child, and
died in I855.
114. Jane, who married Benjamin Fowler, had three children.
PHILIP (51), (SON Oi PETER), HAD ISSUE:
II5. Nathaniel Drake, who married Jane Eliza Ackley, October
28, I809, had fourteen children, and died February 2,
I826.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
i 6. Elizabeth (Betsey), who married John Cure.
II7. Polly, born March 15, 1784, deceased.
II8. Nancy, born September I, I786, married Lyons.
II9. Rebecca, born April II, 1788, married Staats Dyckman.
120. Jenny, born September 14, I790.
121. Frances, born September 14, 1790, married Peter Shapter,
had seven children.
122. James, born October 25, 1792, married Rebecca Fisher,
November 25, 1817, had five children, and died April 20,
1832.
123. Philip, born November 12, I794, married Ann?, had
three children.
124. George, born March 27, I796, married Mary Peck, May IO,
I821.
125. Sally (Sarah), born November 12, I799, married John S.
Jones.
PEATER (52), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I26. William, who married August 30, I809, had one child.
I27. Peter, who married Margaret Schenck, had seven children.
128. Walton.
I29. Mary.
130. Ann.
13I. Sarah.
132. Solomon.
ABRAHAM (55), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I33. Millicent, born May 31, 1792, died in I843.
I34. Mary (Polly), born July 24, I795, married Peter D. Taylor,
had three children, and died in I873.
I35. David, born May II, 1797, (lied in I869.
I36. Amy, born March 30, I799, died in I876.
I37. Petty (Martha), born April 28, I80I, married John Shears,
Jr., and died March 29, I896.
I38. Philip, born February 2, 1803, married first, Jane Calden,
had five children, and second, Lucy Higginbotham, by
whom he had two children. He died in 1876.
I39. Daniel, born January 26, I805, was the father of one child,
and died in 1867 or I879.
140. Livingston, born June I, 1807.
I41. Abraham, born November 17, I809, married Elizabeth A.
Showers, had nine children.
142. Gilbert, born June 27, i8ii, married Eliza Edwards, June
I, 1834, had one child, and died in I873.
143. Abel, born November 25, 1813, died in 1879.
I44. Betsey (Elizabeth), born January 14, 1817.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
649
JOHN (60), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I45. John, born about I770, married Abigail Baxter, had four
children. He a blacksmith of Kingsbridge, N. Y.
I46. James.
I47. William.
I48. Mehitabel.
I49. Phoebe, baptized May 31, I793.
EDWARD (6I), (SON Or ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I50. Mary, born December 22, 1791, married William Brady,
June 6, 1807, had twelve children.
15I. Abraham, born June 5, 1793, married Mary Seamore, and
died July 20, I832.
152. Mehitabel, born May 15, I795.
153. Eliza, born June Io, I797.
I54. William, born August I6, 1798, died single, I826.
I55. Catherine Ann, born March 17, I801, deceased.
I56. Edward, Jr., born April 21, I803, married Aurelia A. Jones,
August 20, 1829, had nine children, and died December
22, I855.
157. Sarah, born October 19, 1805, married Andrew Howe,
March 14, 1824, had three children.
158. James, born June 17, I809, married Mary Ann Hall, January
3, 1841, had three children.
WILLIAM (62), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I60. Solomon, born November 6, 1784, married Susan Mulner,
had nine children, and died June I8, 1872.
I6I. Samuel, born January 8, I793, married Catherine Robinson,
I8I5, had six children.
162. Elizabeth, who married Amos Sniffen.
I63. Jonathan, who married Margaret Petrie, had thirteen chil'dren. (Not here named.)
I64. Jesse, who married Elizabeth Vail, had twelve children.
I65. John, who married, but left no surviving issue.
I66. William, who married Abigail Whitney, had six children.
167. Abram, who married Charity Molineaux, had eight children,
and died in 1822.
I68. Mehitabel, who died young.
ABRAHAM (63), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I69. John Bruce, born September 30, I8o8.
BENJAMIN (72), (SON of DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
170. George, baptized July I5, I784.
I7I. Anna, born July 15, I785.
650
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
172. Joseph, born I788, married Susannah Pinckney, had eleven
children.
I73. Hannah.
I74. Betsey, deceased.
175. Gilbert, married Polly Dyer, had six children.
I76. Benjamin.
I77. David.
178. John D.
I79. Isaac.
JOHN (74), (SON 01o DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
I80. Letitia, born 1788, married John T. Griffen, December 13,
1805, and died January 28, I839.
181. Catherine, born 1794, married Samuel Flagler, and died
February 8, I833.
182. Nancy, born 1796, married Walen Patrick, July 2, 1814.
I83. Aletta, born 1798, married John Townsend, had four children, and died June 24, I86I.
ISAAC DYCKMAN (75), (SON or0 DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
184. Jane, born I797, married first, John Booth, September 12,
I8i8, had three children. She married second, John Van
Nostrand, had two children.
185. Patience, born 1802, married John N. Jewell, March 27,
1817, had four children.
i86. Gideon Townsend, born I803, married Eliza Van Voorhis,
1826, had three children, and died February 4, I865.
I87. Letitia, born I8o5, married Richard Weeks, April I9, I82I,
had seven children.
I88. Jerome, born March 20, I808, married Phebe Palmer, had
five children, and died in December, I889. Was a member of the police force of New York City for many years.
I89. Sarah A., born I8i I, married first, Sylvester Potter, had two
children. She married second, Daniel Wickes, had two
children, and died June 12, 1832.
I9O. Maria, born 1813, married Farrington Ferguson, had four
children.
I9I. Catherine, born I8I6, married Isaac Sebring Vermilye, October 3, 184I, had four children. He of Cold Spring,
N. Y.
ISAAC G. (77), (SON o' GERARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
I92. Elizabeth, born October 23, 1794, married Daniel Billings,
about I820, had four children, and died March 6, 1878.
I93. Jane, born March 2, I796, married Alexander Homans,
about 1820, had three children.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
I94. Peter I., born September 25, I797, married Rosanna Van
Nostrand, had five children.
195. Maria, born April 7, 1799, married Enoch G. Dorland, November I4, 1822, had five children.
196. Gerardus, born January 26, i8oI, married Maria Van Nostrand, had eight children.
I97. John Kipp, born September 16, I802, married Catherine
Livingston Hamlin, 1832, had four children, and died in
I877.
I98. Catherine, born January 29, 1804, unmarried.
199. Brooks, born February 27, I8I1, married first, Charity
Sheav, and second, Lydia A. Donaldson, by whom he
had three children.
200. Valentine Mott (Dr.), born April 4, I818, married Phebe
Ann Davids, November 5, 1845, had seven children.
JOHN G. (78), (SON OF GERARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
201. Abraham, born I798, deceased.
202. John, born I803, died single, I850.
203. Jane, who married Balters S. Velie, had one child.
204. Eliza, who married George Upton, had four children.
205. Crumeline Verplank, died unmarried, 1838.
206. Maria, who married Lewis Wright, had two children.
JOHN (88), (soN OE JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
207. Mary, born December 25, I809, married James Ward, February 9, I829, had seven children, and died June 14, 1884.
208. Isaac, born I8II, married Mary Lambet, 1842, had three
children, and died in I875.
209. Sarah, born December 15, I8I6, married Jackson P. GaNun,
March 23, 1842, had six children, and died June 5, I902.
210. Richard, who died young.
211. Cynthia or Asenath, who married Edwin Augustus Firby,
July I6, 1834.
JOHN (93), (SON o0 JACOB), HAD ISSUE;:
212. Dorothea, born I797, died, unmarried, I861.
213. Jacob, born I799, died single, I8I5.
214. Benjamin, born I801, died single, I854.
215. Susan, born 1803, died unmarried, I854.
216. Gerardus (Garrit), born I806, married Charity Guyon, had
two children, and died in I88I.
217. Maria, born I808, died unmarried, I883.
218. Rebecca Jane, born 810o, died I8Io.
219. Abraham F., born 1812, married Louisa Oakley, November
9, 185I, had five children, and died in I879.
220. Isaac, born 1815, died single, I860.
652
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
MICHAEL (98), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
221. Abraham.
222. Isaac.
ISAAC (99), SON Or JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
223. William.
224. Isaac.
225. Susan, unmarried.
226. Julia.
227. Jane, unmarried.
JAMES (IOO), (SON Or JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
228. Julia A., born I800, died, unmarried, September 20, I877.
229. Jane Rebecca, born 1809, married William D. Smith, and
died August 9, I855.
230. Susan, unmarried.
23I. Michael, single.
232. Euretta, died, unmarried, 1894.
233. Charity, who married Patrick McGee, had two children.
WILTIAM W. (105), (SON OE WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
234. William Miontgomery, born September 30, I80I, married
Hester Ann De Reimer, April 4, 1827, had five children.
Founder of the banking house of Vermilye & Co., together with his brother Washington R., who also was
colonel of the Seventh Regiment, New York Militia. He
died June i8, 1878.
235. Thomas Edward (Rev.), born February 27, I803, married
Eliza B. Hazard, had three children. Senior pastor of
the Collegiate Reformed Church of New York.
236. Joanna Maria, born July 26, 1804, married Benjamin B.
Ruton, May 23, I838, had three children, and died January 4, I877.
237. Margaret Louisa, born July 23, 1806, died August 31, I874.
238. Robert George No. I, born June 24, 1808, died January 20,
I8io.
239. Washington Romeyn, born September 29, I8Io, married
Elizabeth Dwight Lathrop, had five children, and died
December 23, I876.
240. Robert George No. 2 (Rev.), born March 3, I812, married
Anna McCarty, had three children, and died July 5, I875.
241. Mary Ann, born April I9, 1814, died October I, I838.
242. Jacob Dyckman, born July 15, 1817, married first, Mary
Cornelia Lathrop, had three children. He married
second, Mrs. Baldwin, no issue by second marriage. Was
a Presbyterian clergyman, at one time professor in Hartford Theological Seminary. President of the Merchants'
Bank (I88I).
VERMILYE FAMILY.
653
243. Rebecca, born November 15, 1818, married Fergus A.
Hathorn, had six children.
244. Erskine Rockwood, born December 20, 1821.
245. Ebenezer, born January 20, 1823, died January 20, 1823.
THOMAS B. (106), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
246. Robertanna, born September 15, 1804.
247. Thomas Edward, born January 15, 1809, married Jane Magdalena Chardavoyne, April I4, 1834, but died without
issue, November 25, 1841.
248. William Henry No. I, born August 25, I812, died young.
249. William Henry No. 2, born February 12, 1814, married first,
Ann Maria Van Wart, February I6, I841. He married
second, Phebe Louisa Babbitt, February 3, 1853, had two
children.
250. John Robert, born August 9, I816, died April 3, I883.
251. Isaac Dyckman (Rev.), born June 19, 1819, married Josephine Ward, October 5, 1842, had twelve children, and
(lied August 24, 1864. Was a Protestant Episcopal
clergyman and educator of note.
252. John Hoagland, born September 26, 1822, married first,
Phebe Ann Lippincott, February 4, I847. He married
second, Sarah Elizabeth Hatch, January I2, 1848, had
four children, and died May 17, I889. Was president of
Stock Yards National Bank of Chicago, Ill.
253. Theodore Chardavoyne, born December 18, 1824, married
Hannah Minthorn Tompkins,* May 24, 1848, had six
children, and died November 13, 1879. Was a lawyer
and judge in New York City.
WILLIAM (109), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
254. Peter Bonnett, born 1788, married first, Elizabeth Van
Wart, had one child. He married second, Martha See,
had one child, and died in I864.
JOHN (IIO), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
255. Jacob Meyer, baptized May 21, I797.
JACOB MEYER (III), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
256. Elizabeth, baptized May 31, I793.
ISAAC (113), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
257. Rebecca, who died unmarried.
* Granddaughter of D. D. Tompkins, Vice-President of the United States of America.
654
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
NA-THANIEL DRAKE (115), (SON OF PHILIP), IIAD ISSUE:
258. John Akley, born May 20, I833, married Mary E. Duryea,
September IO, 1857, and died March 27, 1903.
259. Jane Eliza, born March 25, 1835, died May 2, I838.
260. Mary Elizabeth, born July II, 1836, died May 9, 1838.
261. Martin Van Beuren, born April 17, 1838, died March 25,
I839.
262. Nathaniel Drake, Jr., born March 13, I840.
263. Sarah Lavinia, born January 25, 1842, married Almerson
Gwynne, had seven children.
264. Charlotte Nelson, born November I8, I843, married George
W. Phillips, had twelve children.
265. Andrew Jackson, born August 15, 1845, married Belinda
Cruse.
266. William Henry, born October 10, I847, died May I, 9oo0.
267. Benjamin Franklin, born October 19, I849, married Anna
-?, had fourteen children, and died November 29,
I895.
268. James Martin, born August 3, I85I, died October Io, I864.
269. Maria Rebecca, born August 27, 1853, married first,?
Barnet, and second, Rev. A. A. Robertson.
270. Catherine Matilda, born March 29, I856, married Oscar
Waldemar Vonder Bosch, April 26, 1877, had one child.
271. Julia Augusta, born January 6, I858, married Lewis Van
\Whicklen, December 22, 1879, had three children.
JAMIES (122), (SON O0 PHILIP), HAD ISSUE:
272. Sarah Ann, born July 7, I818, married Henry Taff, January
I, I839, had six children, and died June 8, I885.
273. Jackson, born October 19, I8I9, married Amelia -?, I856.
274. Hannah Maria, born January, 1824, married first, Leonard
R. Rhodes, February I6, 1841, had five children. She married second, Charles D. Van Dyke, had two children, and
died july 8, 1875.
275. Jane, born February I, I827, married John H. Depuy, December 14, 1842, and died May 6, I896.
276. William Pierce, born January 31, 1829, married Rachel
Beach Clark, had five children, and died July 5, i865.
PHILIP (123), (SON OF PIIILIP), HAD ISSUE:
277. Mary, born March 17, 1827.
278. Edward, born December 9, 1828.
279. Richard, born July I9, I833.
WILLIAM (126), (SON O0 PETER), HAD ISSUE:
280. Peter.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
PETER (I27), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
281. Sarah Maria, born July 14, I8io, died September 24, I8I2.
282. Richard Jewell, born June 2, 1813, married first, Ann Barnes,
and second, Sarah Jane Serine. He deceased.
283. Isaac Sebring, born March 20, I8I7, married Catherine Vermilye, October 3, 1841, had four children.
284. Sarah, born July 25, I820, unmarried.
285. Maria Schenck, born March 25, 1823, died, unmarried,
August 25, 1840.
286. Jane Elinor, born October 5, 1825, married David St. John.
287. Ralph Schenck, born September 29, I830, married Fanny J.
Kniffen, had two children.
PHILIP (I38), (SON OF ABRAHIAM), HAD ISSUE:
288. Marion Anne, born December 13, 1825, married Thomas
Fitzgerald, December 9, I845, had three children. She
deceased.
289. Abraham Augustus, born October 12, I827, married first,
Julia Crispell, and second, Sarah Groves, March 7, I858,
by whom he had six children. He died in January, I897.
290. Rachel Elizabeth, born February 4, 1829, deceased.
291. Joseph Calder, born September 8, 1830, married first, Isabella Bassett, October, I859, had five children, and second,
Mary Barnum. He died in February, 1894.
292. Elizabeth Rachel, born September o1, 1833, married Abner
Lewis, had four children.
PHILIP (138) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
292a. Aribell Jane, born July 9, I855, married Charles Frink, had
two children. She deceased.
292b. Anna M., born December 14, I860, married J. S. Gault,
1876, had seven children.
DANIEL (I39), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
293. Daniel.
ABRAHAM (141), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
294. George H., born July 8, I848, married Romelia F. Scott,
I868, had five children.
295. Gilbert.
296. Mary, who married Joel Smith.
297. Ann.
298. Jane, who married Sylvester Cooper.
299. John.
300. Daniel.
30I. David.
302. Charles.
656
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
GILBERT (142), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
303. Jemima, born August I8, 1836, married Roland Simpson,
February I6, 1853, had five children.
JOHN (145), (SON 0P JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
304. James Hustis, born April II, I80o, married Maria Warner,
had three children, and died in I894.
305. William, died single.
306. Mary, who married Garret Holmes, October 12, 1835, had
two children.
307. John, who married Harriet Brown, had five children. He
deceased.
EDWARD, JR. (I56), (SON OF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
308. Fanny Jane, born 1830, married Homer Ruggles, April 24,
I867, but died without issue in April, 9oo0.
309. Martha Woodward, born I832, died in I855.
3Io. Edward Lyman, born 1835, married Mary E. Russell, November I6, 1859, had six children.
3II. Amos Jones, born 1837, died April 23, 185I.
312. Aurelia Emma, born I840, died October II, I846.
313. Charlotte Amelia, born 1842, married B. J. Cruser, March
29, I867, had four children.
314. Henry Marcellus, born 1845, married Mary L. Graff, April
23, 1871, had six children.
315. Sarah Hester, born 1847, married William Garretson, November I8, I868, had eleven children.
316. Aurelia Emily, born 1849, died April 8, I862.
EDWARD (I59), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
317. Phebe, born I795, married David Burr, but died without
issue, February 20, I837.
318. Rachel, born I799, died young.
319. Banheba, born I8oo, died young.
320. Robert Wright, born December 19, I80I, married Malvina
Phelps, May 4, 1826, had seven children, and died November 15, 1842.
321. John Cole, born September II, I803, married first, Catherine
Murphy, 1823, second, Mary Ann Carter, December I,
1846, had four children. He married third, Mrs. Carpenter, and died January 12, I897. No issue by first and
third marriages.
322. Mehitabel, born May I, I805, married first, Rev. Walter
Benton, March 31, 1824, had nine children. She married
second, Albert Banks, January I, 1871, no issue, and died
November 6, I875.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
657
323. William, born May 31, 1807, married Sarah -?, had one
child, and died October 26, I835.
324. Jesse, born May I8, I809, married Maria M. Taggert, July
4, I832, had five children, and died August II, 1846.
325. Adeline, born June 2, I8II, married Alexander Worth, had
ten children. She deceased.
326. Solomon, born March 2, 1813, married Mary Jane Wiley,
November I8, 1835, had seven children, and died January
21, I849.
327. Joanna, born I816, married James Sweetser, July 23, 1837,
had six children, and died October 31, 1877.
SOLOMON (I6o), (SON OP WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
328. Noah D., born March 27, 1823, was the father of one child,
died March I4, I898.
329. Levi.
330. William D. Twins.
331. Mary.
332. Phebe.
333. Anna.
334. Emmeline.
335. Eliff.
336. Hannah.
SAMUEL (I6I), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
337. Edward, born I818, married Martha Whipple.
338. Orville, born 1822, married Margaret Stone, had five children.
339. William, born I829, married Lydia Kelly.
340. Melissa, born 1835, married Nelson Beardsley.
34I. Edgar A., born 1940, married Melissa C. Todd, 1864, had
one child.
342. Oliva S., born 1842, married first, John B. Elsmore, and
second, Rex Hewitt.
JESSE (164), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
343. Edward, born February I6, I795, married first, Mary Wentworth, December 17, I8I7, had thirteen children.. He
married second, Lydia Higby, and died February 22,
I89o.
344. Sarah, who married Joseph Wentworth, 1826, had one child.
345. Emmeline, born I8II, married Ezra Howard, March I8,
1834, had eight children.
346. Angeline, who married William Cheney.
347. Samuel, who married Rebecca St. John. He deceased.
348. William, who married Hannah Hill. He deceased.
349. John, who married Mary Bunnell.
658 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
350. Hannah, who married Willard Benson. She deceased.
35I. Barnabas.
352. Mehitabel.
353. Chester.
354. Phebe, who married?- Crandall.
WILLIAM (I66), (SON O0 WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
355. William.
356. Mary.
357. Turney.
358. Hanna.
359. Arvilla No. I, died young.
360. Arvilla No. 2.
ABRAM (I67), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
36I. Mercy, born 1809, married Erastus Dodge, had eight children.
362. Solomon, born ISII, married Deborah Pierce, had five children.
363. Phebe, born 1813, married Patrick Redman, had six children.
364. Susan, born 1815, married Abel Lawrence, February 15,
1852, no issue.
365. John, born I8I6, was the father of two children.
366. Cynthia, born I8I8, married Samuel Gaskill, had six children.
367. Avery, born September 20, 1820, married Fanny Meade,
March 20, I844, had eleven children.
368. Abram, born 1822, married Sarah Griffen, had three children. He deceased.
JOSEPH (172), (SON or DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
369. David, born November II, 1812, married Leney Dietz, had
three children, and died December II, I848.
370. John P., born October 5, 1813, died in 1884.
37I. Patience, born May Io, I8I5, married -? Chatterton, had
two children, and died in February, 1882.
372. Gilbert H., born August 26, 1817, died single, November I5,
1890.
373. Maria, born February 14, 1820, married Robert Bogardus,
and died January 19, I882.
374. George, born January 17, 1822, married Helen?, had
five children.
375. Julia Ann, born November 21, 1824, married Charles Downing.
376. Joseph, born August 7, I825, married Louisa Van Luven,
had five children, and died September 28, 1895.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
659
377. Isaac, born May 19, 1827.
378. Sarah L., born May 2, 1829, married Thomas Hyzer.
379. Louise E., born May 15, 1832, married Lucius Merrihew.
GILBERT (I75), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
380. Emma, born I8II, died in I870.
381. Catherine, born May 6, 1813, married Christian Dietz, May
26, 1830, had nine children, and died August 23, 1871.
382. Charles, born 1815, married Maryette Fowler, I84I, had
eight children, and died in I895.
383. Lucius.
384. James, deceased.
385. Gilbert, who married Jane A. Groat, had two children.
GIDEON TOWNSEND (I86), (SON OF ISAAC DYCKMAN),
HAD ISSUE:
386. John, born Ocotber 5, 1831, married Catherine E. Jewell,
October 5, 1859, had four children, and died October 19,
I897.
387. Maria, unmarried.
388. Sylvester, who married Anna Goodwin, had five children.
JEROME (I88), (SON OF ISAAC DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE:
389. Mary Jane, who died unmarried, September, 1838.
390. George W., born May 26, I833, married Jane F. Getston,
1857, had three children, and died May 4, I903.
39I. Charles B., born June 27, 1836, married Emma A. Hadley,
March 7, I86o, had three children.
392. Franklin S., born August 3, 1839, married Elizabeth Tilton,
had two children, and died January 23, 1903.
393. Susan Elizabeth, who died unmarried in November, I850.
PETER I. (I94), (SON OF ISAAC G.), HAD ISSUE:
394. George P., born 1852, married Nettie M. Myers, February
21, 1872, had eight children.
395. Paul, born June 28, 1854, married Lizzie Van Vlack, June
28, I877, had ten children.
396. Isaac V., born i856, married Orpha J. Vandewater, had
eight children.
397. Mary K., born I860, married Julius O. Donald, had one
child.
398. John G., born I863, single.
GERARDUS (I96), (SON OF ISAAC G.), HAD ISSUE:
399. Cromwell, who married Jessie Trembly Lynch, July 4, I897.
400. Isaac.
66o
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
401. Oscar, single.
402. Walter.
403. Callie, who married Irving Vermilyea
404. Jane, unmarried.
405. Minnie, unmarried.
406. Catherine, who married George Holmes, no issue.
JOHN KIPP (I97), (SON OF ISAAC G.), HAD ISSUE:
407. Dupuyster (Rev.), born September I6, 1833, married Lea
Aletta Zabriskie, had one child.
408. Anna Romeyn, born I839, married Ezra James Haight,
about I86o, had four children.
409. Gerardus, born 1840, married first, Kate Kimbark, had one
child, and second, Sarah E. Wilcox.
4Io. Lucy David, born I846, married Edwin J. Jones, had one
child.
BROOKS (I99), (SON OF ISAAC G.), HAD ISSUE:
41I. Addison, born 1841, single.
412. Irving, born I843, married Callie Vermilyea, had one child.
413. Abram, who died young.
DR. VALENTINE MOTT (200), (SON OF ISAAC G.), HAD ISSUE:
414. Ino, born December 28, I846, married Robert K. Woodward,
December 28, I868, and died February 14, 1882.
4I5. Larry, born December 19, 1847, married Jennie Barnes,
July 19, I87I.
416. Phebe Catherine, born May 28, I849, died June 2, I853.
417. Maria, born December 19, 1852, married Thomas A. Weir,
May I8, 1883, had one child.
418. Jessie, born January 17, 1857, married Robert K. Woodward, July 19, 1883, had four children.
419. Oscar, born August 6, 1859, married Carrie Case, February
27, 1882, had three children.
420. Kate, born May 24, I861, married John Potter, April 26,
1883, had two children.
ISAAC (208), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
421. Isaac, born 1848, married Mary White, 1876, had four children.
422. Sarah Emma, who married Edward Bonnell, July 15, I853.
423. Mary Elizabeth, who married E. Turner.
GERARDUS (216), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
424. Mary, who died unmarried, I89I.
425. John, who died single.
VERMILYE FAMILY. 66I
ABRAHAM F. (219), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
426. George H., born 1853, died single, I877.
427. Benjamin F., born I855, married Clara A. Seeley, 1877, had
six children.
428. Clarence Oakley, born I857, married Emily A. Seeley, I878,
had three children, and died in I89o.
429. Irving, born 1863, marrried Ida Sammis, I892, and died in
I896.
430. William E., born I860, married Carrie Graham, 1882, had
three children.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY (234), (SON OF WILLIAM W.),
HAD ISSUE:
431. Mary Anthony, born I830, married Charles A. Davison,
June 6, I850, had two children. She deceased.
432. William Edward, who was the father of one child. He deceased.
433. Robert Montgomery, who married Amanda Conover, had
one child. He married a second time, and is now deceased.
434. Charles Augustus Morford, single.
435. Louisa, who married John E. Burrill, had five children. She
deceased.
REV. THOMAS EDWARD (235), (SON OF WILLIAM W.),
HAD ISSUE:
436. Ashbel G. (Rev.), married Helen -?, had three children.
437. Thomas E., single.
438. Elizabeth, who married Edward Smith.
WASHINGTON ROMEYN (239), (SON OF WILLIAM W.),
HAD ISSUE:
439. Washington Romeyn, who married Harriet Comstock, no
issue.
440. Emily Augusta, who married Elbert A. Brinckerhoff, had
six children.
44I. Three other children (names not found).
REV. ROBERT GEORGE (240), (SON OF WILLIAM W.),
HAD ISSUE:
442. Elizabeth, who died unmarried.
443. Anna, who died unmarried.
444. Mary, unmarried.
JACOB DYCKMAN (242), (SON OF WILLIAM W.), HAD ISSUE:
445. William Gerard, who married Cornelia Whitney Rowland,
662
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
December 13, I863, had five children, and died in I90I.
Was treasurer of the Union India Rubber Company.*
446. Louise C., who died young.
447. Mary Anna, who married Henry W. Baldwin, had four children.
WILIJAM HENRY (249), (SON OF THOMAS B.), IAD ISSUE
BY SECOND WIFE:
448. Daniel Babbitt, born 1854, married first, Mary Cornelia
Holmes, April 30, I879, had one child. He married
second, Elise Calame, July 3, I886, had one child.
449. Katharine Holmes, born 1856, unmarried.
REV. ISAAC DYCKMAN (251), (SON OF THIOMAS B.),
HAD fSSUE;:
450. Thomas Edward, born I843.
45I. William Henry, born 1845, married Kitty Depew, July 24,
I876, no issue.
452. Isaac Ward, born 1846, died young.
453. Henry Fisher, born I848, married Anna Scofield, September
17, 1870, had one child, and died February 3, I872.
454. Joseph Fenelon, born 1850, died single, August 17, 1884.
455. Charles A. Townsend, born 1851, died young.
456. Lewis Chauncey, born 185I, died young.
457. Annie Ward, born 1853, married Walter Ruckel, had one
child.
458. Robert C. Halsey, born I855, married Rebecca Elizabeth
Southard, September 28, I88I, had two children.
459. Marion Hoagland, born I865, married first, Hannah Earle,
second, Josephine Ware, had two children.
460. Hobart Potter, born 1858, married Elizabeth Wallace, had
one child.
46I. Mary Josephine, born I860, died young.
JOHN HOAGLAND (252), (SON OF THOMAS B.), HAD ISSUE:
462. Thomas Bean, born 1851, died young.
463. Mary Caroline, born I853, married John Rossiter Redfield,
December 13, 1877, had one child, and died November
I, I887.
464. John De Wint, born 1856, died young.
465. William Gray (Dr.), born 1857, married first, Eva Viola
Van Syckel, October 22, 1886, had one child. He had a
second wife named Anna.
* To the gentleman last mentioned, whose tastes and foresight led him years
ago to investigate his family history, are we indebted for most of the later details
here presented.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
663
THEODORE CHARDAVOYNE (253), (SON OiR THOMAS B.),
HAD ISSUE:
466. Theodore Chardavoyne, born September 27, 1849, married
Jane Catherine Van Howenberg, August 27, 1876, had
one child, and died in 1889.
467. Mary Hoagland, born May 4, I85I, married Samuel Russell
Ludlow, January 30, I878, had three children, and died
November I6, I884.
468. Cornelia Tompkins, born December I6, 1852, married Edward A. Caner, June 4, 1877, no issue.
469. Hannah Tompkins, born August 23, 1855, married Frank
E. Van Auken, had six children.
470. Isaac Dyckman, born November 13, I86o, died young.
471. Sarah Hatch, born December 9, 1865, died young.
PETER BONNETT (254), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
472. William, born 1822, married Maria Webb Sherwood, had
seven children, and died in I901.
PETER BONNETT (254) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIIE:
473. Jane, born 1852, died unmarried, 1892.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (267), (SON OF NATIANIEL DRAKE),
HAD ISSUE:
474. Charles H., born November 15, I868.
475. Benjamin F., born January I6, 1870, married Clara Woodford, November 28, I89I, had three children.
476. William E., born September 22, 1872, married Bertha Elizabeth Ralph, had three children.
477. James M., born August 13, I873, deceased.
478. Sarah A., born September 24,.I874, deceased.
479. Edith L., born August 20, 1876.
480. Clara B., born March I, I879.
481. Thomas M., born July 25, 188I, deceased.
482. Nathaniel D., born September IO, I883.
483. George W., born November 15, I885.
484. Gussie, born February 22, 1887.
485. Mabel, born April 24, i888.
486. Eddie E., born January 7, I89I.
487. Russel S., born December 8, I892.
ISAAC SEBRING (283), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
488. Theodore, born I844, single.
489. Francis H., born 1847, married Jane Van Arsdale, had three
children.
664 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
490. Eugene, born I850, married Hannah Thompson, had two
children.
49I. Mary Ida, born 1858, unmarried.
RALPH SCHENCK (287), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
492. Barent, who married Ruth E. Michaels, had one child.
493. Howard, who married Georgie Williams, had one child.
ABRAHAM AUGUSTUS (289), (SON OF PHILIP), HAD ISSUE:
494. Henry G., born July 8, 1859, married Anna Alwild Jones,
had five children.
495. Mary V., born January 8, I865, married Virgil Pock, had
six children.
496. Joseph C., born December 19, I869, married Florence Downing, had six children.
497. Ira A., born April 5, 1872, single.
498. Gertrude, born January 27, I879, married Francis Morton
David, April 12, I897, had one child.
499. Lewis M., born January 31, I88I, single.
JOSEPH CALDER (29I), (SON OF PHILIP), HAD ISSUE:
500. Jane, born July 6, i86o.
501. Platt Bassett, born November IO, I86I, married Letitia
Jones, November 9, 1887.
502. Mary, born January I9, I865, married Marvin H. Gesamin,
January 25, I888, had four children.
503. Jessie, born October 17, 1874, married twice, her second
husband being Frank C. Goodrich.
504. Forest A., born May 19, I879.
GEORGE H. (294), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
505. Carrie B., born August 17, I869, married Edward Scott, had
three children.
506. Frank S., born July 30, I87I, married Bertha Yeumans, had
two children.
507. George S., born December 6, 1873, married Nellie George,
had two children.
508. Nettie M., born February 14, 1878, unmarried.
509. Anna E., born November 26, I88I, unmarried.
JAMES HUSTIS (304), (SON Of JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
5Io. James Heustis, born April 14, 1836, married Sarah A. Berlin, November, I865, no issue.
5Ii. Hannah Louisa, born about 1838, married Robert H. Shipley, about I856, had two children, and died in 1872.
512. John, died young.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
665
JOHN (307), (SON OE JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
513. Ann Maria, who married Henry Newkirk.
514. Helen Louisa, died young.
515. William Henry, who married Eleanor U. Hawkins, had two
children.
516. John Gifford, who married Mary Cole, had two children.
517. Edna, who married first, - Van Cleeve, and second,
Loderbaugh.
EDWARD LYMAN (310), (SON OF EDWARD, JR.), HAD ISSUE:
518. Lyman R., born I86I.
519. Frank, born I863.
520. Mary C., born I867.
52I. Fred, born I869.
522. Emily, born I870.
523. George Albert, born I874.
HENRY MARCELLUS (314), (SON OF EDWARD, JR.), HAD
ISSUE:
524. Alvin Graff, born February 12, 1872, married Louise E.
Gabelman, November I8, I896, no issue.
525. Herbert, born June II, 1874, died July II, I874.
526. Arthur Lewis, born August 19, 1875, married Aida Belle
Fisher, December 31, I901, no issue.
527. Aurelia Abby, born May 24, 1878, married Edward R.
Mould, October 17, I901, have one child.
528. Claude Kingdon, born April 23, I880, sing>.
529. Henriette, born November I6, 1882, unmaned.
ROBERT WRIGHT (320), (SON OF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
530. Eunice C., born April 15, 1828, died in infancy.
53I. Edward Alexander, born November 26, 1829, married first,
Marian Amanda Oviatt, January 4, 1853, had five children. He married second, Eliza Enoch, March 25, 1869,
had three children.
532. Joanna, born November 3, 1831, married Robert Shaw Gray.
533. Adeline, born October 6, 1833, married Jacob McDonald,
October I9, 1848, had four children.
534. William Francis, born October 31, 1836, married Mary E.
Dean, October 9, 1864, had one child, and died May I8,
I879.
535. Robert Davis Burr, born June 23, 1840, married Barbara C.
Ramsey, December 23, 1864, had five children.
536. Virginia V., born January 24, 1838, died in infancy.,JOHN COLE (32I), (SON OF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
537. Ann Maria, born August 2I, 1847, died November I8, 1849.
666
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
538. Mary Catherine, born July 12, 1848.
539. Delight Sweetser, born September 28, I850, married Joseph
Gardner Strong, August 27, I868, had one child, and died
December 27, I886.
540. Asenath Burr, born May II, 1855, married Arthur Lee
Brooks, September 4, I876, had four children.
WILLIAM (323), (SON OF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
54I. Lucinda.
JESSE (324), (SON o0 EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
542. Burr, born 1833, died young.
543. Marietta, born August 19, 1834, married Ezekiel Merrill
Talbot, December 30, 1857, had two children.
544. Adaline V., born December 30, 1837, married John M. Turner.
545. Ann Eliza, born May i6, 1840, married M. S. Robinson.
546. Jessie Maria, born July 15, I843, married Stephen B. Bond,
had ten children.
SOLOMON (326), (SON o0i EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
547. William Burr, born August 21, 1837, married first, Louisa
Ellen Knox, June 2I, I866, had two children. He married second, Lorinda Ellen Driscoll, May 14, 1891, had
two children.
548. Phebe Burr, born January 19, 1839, married first, John Andrew Peffenberger, June 21, 1855, had six children. She
married second, John Allen, January i6, 1870, had four
children.
549. Hetty Ann, born December 26, 1840, married Anthony Cyrus
Willey, June i8, I857, had eight children.
550. Wright, born August II, 1843, married Josephine E. Miller,
September 2, 1869, had six children.
55I. Agnes Adaline, born June 6, 1845, married Dr. William H.
Ireland, August 7, 1865, had three children.
552. Edward, born February IO, 1847, died young.
553. Joanna, born May I, 1848, died young.
NOAH D. (328), (soN o0 SOLOMON), HAD ISSUE:
554. William D.
ORVILLE (338), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
555. Mary Frances, born July 14, 1849, married William Henry
O'Connor.
556. Charles, born March 17, 1851, married Loretta Doolittle, no
issue.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
667
557. R. Willard, born November 9, 1853, married Almena Van
Houten, October 29, 1883, had one child.
558. Judson, born December 6, I855, single.
559. George, deceased.
EDGAR A. (34I), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
560. Herbert Scudder, born September 26, I867, married Augusta
Maude Banker, June 20, I894, had one child.
EDWARD (343), (SON OF JESSE), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
56I. Elvira, born February ii, I819, married Aaron Christopher,
May I, 1845, had one child, and died May 3, I856.
562. Melissa, born January IO, 1821, unmarried.
563. George W., born March I, 1823, married Lavina White,
October 8, 1848, had four children.
564. Elijah Wentworth, born November 27, 1824, married Cynthia A. Leslie, April 27, 1852, had five children.
565. Mary, born December 27, 1826, married Martin Marble,
June 29, 1853, no issue.
566. Edward, born December 27, I826, married first, Eva A.
Upton, September 9, I855. He married second, Sarah
Chapin, had six children.
567. Emily, born May 25, 1829, married Aaron Christopher,
August 25, i85I, had seven children.
568. Helen, born April 23, 1831, married Archibald B. Johnson,
July 4, 1855, had four children.
569. Harriet M., born November 27, 1832, married Joshua W.
Thompson, January, 1858, had one child,-and died August
I, I863.
570. Jane M., born April 8, 1835, married James Neath, September 7, I857, had three children.
57I. John W., born March 13, 1837, married Flora A. Preston,
June 30, I866, had two children.
572. Angelica, born June Io, 1840, died October 24, 1847.
573. Charles Harbert, born April I6, 1843, died single, June 21,
1864.
SOLOMON (362), (SON OF ABRAM), HAD ISSUE:574. Lonson, single.
575. Delphine, who married Edwin Grant, had four children.
576. Solomon, Jr., died in the army, I863.
577. Isa, who married Dell Sisson.
578. Ella, unmarried.
AVERY (367), (SON OF ABRAM), HAD ISSUE:
579. David M., born June 9, 1845, married Catherine E. Walters,
no issue, died in October, I887.
668
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
580. Abraham, born December 2, 1846, married Mary T. Benner,
had four children.
58I. James I., born November 30, 1848, married Mary Hinton,
had four children.
582. John K., born September I2, 1852, married Alice Whitney,
had five children.
583. Joseph, born November 29, 1854, married Martha Chamberlain, had six children.
584. Josephine, born November 29, I854, married James L. Putnam, had four children.
585. Samuel E., born May 28, 1858, married Minerva A. Doyle,
had one child.
586. Orville, born April 25, I86I, married Samantha Morrow,
had seven children.
587. Jesse C., born June 26, I863, married first, Anna T. Weideman, had two children. He married second, Grace E.
Huntoon, had one child.
588. Eulalia E., born November 5, I866, married N. A. Frost,
had six children.
589. Reuben, born January 5, I869, married Rose Huntoon, had
two children.
ABRAM (368), (SON OF ABRAM), HAD ISSUE:
590. Mary.
59I. Alice.
592. Emily.
JOSEPH (376), (SON oF JOSEPH), HAD ISSUE:
593. Harriet, born August 30, 1850, married H. Leslie Brown,
no issue.
594. Eugene, born June 2, 1852, single.
595. Ella M., born February 15, 1854, married John W. Fox, no
issue.
596. Isabella, born I856, married Frank Foster, no issue.
597. Clinton I., born I859, married Annie Adams, had three children.
CHARLES (382), (SON OF GILBERT), HAD ISSUE:
598. Patience, born July 29, 1842, died 1842.
599. Le Roy, born November 21, 1843, married Eliza Ferguson,
November 20, 1879, had two children.
600. Phebe Elizabeth, born April Io, 1845, unmarried.
60o. Mary Helen, born March 17, 1847, died I847.
602. Emma Jane, born September 27, I849.
603. Sarahette F., born September 26, I85I, married Lawrence
A. Hallenbeck, I870, had two children.
604. Charles W., born I855.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
669
605. Frank, born September 30, I866, died April 15, I899.
GILBERT (385), (SON OF GILBERT), HAD ISSUE;:
606. George, who died August, I863.
607. Eugene, born July 15, 1856, married Celia A. Small, November 6, 1875, had ten children.
JOHN (386), (SON OF GIDEON TOWNSEND), HAD ISSUE:
608. Millard G., born December 13, 1860, married Katharine Farley, no issue.
609. Elmer J., born September 2, I862, died September 23, I862.
6Io. Luella, born June 6, 1864, died August 13, 1864.
6II. Mortimore, born April 30, I866, died August 9, I866.
SYLVESTER (388), (SON OF GIDEON TOWNSEND), HAD ISSUE:
612. Cornelia R., born I860, died February 20, I866.
613. Alphonso R., born June 8, I86I.
614. Francis Goodwin, born January 24, 1867, married Eliza
Wood, September 24, I893, had three children, and died
November 16, 1900.
615. Sylvester P., born December 2, 1868, deceased. Twins.
616. Crucer McRae, born December 2, I868. f w
GEORGE W. (390), (SON OF JEROME), HAD ISSUE:
617. George F.
618. Jerome C.
6I9. Lizzie.
CHARLES B. (39I), (SON OF JEROME), HAD ISSUE:
620. Hattie L., born January 20, I864.
621. Edward M.
622. Ida A., born December I, I869, married Walter S. Burdett,
April 9, 1881.
FRANKLIN S. (392), (SON OF JEROME), HAD ISSUE:
623. John R., who was the father of one child.
624. Phoebe Elizabeth.
GEORGE P. (394), (SON OF PETER I.), HAD ISSUE:
625. Grace P., born 1874, married William Palmer, had five children.
626. Roy M., born 1878, died young.
627. George P., Jr., born I897, married Annie J. Travaskus.
628. Blanche R., born I880.
629. Goldie G., born I883..
670
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
630. Winslow S., born 1885, died young.
63I. Mary Case, born I888, died young.
632. Walter Ortis, born I892, died young.
PAUL (395), (SON Or PETER I.), HAD ISSUE:
633. Rosanna Martha, born April 23, 1878, married Charles
Storm, had one child.
634. Clarence Edward, born September Io, I880, married Ida F.
Hall, had one child.
635. Daisy May, born November 17, 1882, married Melvin Bassett.
636. Edith, born October 7, I885.
637. Mildred, born April 7, I888, died May 21, I89I.
638. Verdine, born March 6, I89I.
639. Rufus Franklin, born February I, I894.
640. Elizabeth Pauline, born March Io, 1897.
64I. Paul, born April II, I90I.
642. Claude, born January 2I, 1903, died March 15, I903.
ISAAC V. (396), (SON OF PE;TER I.), HAD ISSUE:
643. Martha J., born I880.
644. William I., born I88I.
645. Vernon Lester, born I883.
646. Lois S., born I885.
647. Alfred, born 1887.
648. Florence M., born 1896.
649. Gladys Belle, born I897.
650. Abram Floyd, born 1899.
REV. DUPUYSTER (407), (SON OF JOHN KIPP), HAD ISSUE:
651. Eliza Pell, born 1873, married Bernard O'Blenis Bogert.
GE;RARDUS (409), (SON OF JOHN KIPP), HAD ISSUE:
652. Kate Estella, who married John R. Lovatt, had one child.
IRVING (412), (SON 0r BROOKS), HAD ISSUE:
653. Horatio S.
OSCAR (419), (SON OF DR. VALENTINE; MOTT), HAD ISSUE:
654. Ino Louise, born January 14, i886.
655. Hazel, born February 8, 1889.
656. Oscar Valentine, born September I6, I892.
ISAAC (42I), (SON Or ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
657. Isaac, Jr., born January 24, I877.
658. Lester, born September 25, I88I.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
671
659. Millard, born November 29, I885.
660. Howard, born April 29, i888.
BENJAMIN F. (427), (SON OF ABRAHAM F.), HAD ISSUE:
66I. Louise, born 1878.
662. Florence, born I88I, died in I889.
663. Bessie, born 1885.
664. Frank, born I887.
665. Arthur F., born I89I.
666. Herbert, born I895.
CLARENCE OAKLEY (428), (SON OF ABRAHAM F.),
HAD ISSUE:
667. Edwin S., born I879, died single, I902.
668. George H., born I88I.
669. William Russell, born 1885.
WILLIAM E. (430), (SON OF ABRAHAM F.), HAD ISSUE:
670. Irving, born I89o.
67I. Edgar, born I892.
672. Roy, born I894.
WILLIAM EDWARD (432), (SON OF WILLIAM MONTGOMERY),
HAD ISSUE:
673. Frederick Montgomery.
REV. ASHBEL G. (436), (soN OF REV. THOMAS EDWARD),
HAD ISSUE:
674. Thomas Edward, who marriel Gertrude?, had one child.
675. Helen, who married George Hutchings, had one child.
676. Elizabeth, unmarried.
WILLIAM GERARD (445), (SON OF JACOB DYCKMAN),
HAD ISSUE:
677. William Gerard, Jr., born 1867, married Flora Sherwood,
had three children.
678. Henry Rowland, born I869, married Nettie De Milt, had
one child.
679. Cornelia L., born I873, unmarried.
680. Jennie T., born 1875, unmarried.
68I. Annie B., born I877, unmarried.
DANIEL BABBITT (448), (SON OF WILLIAM HENRY), HAD
ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
682. William Moorehead, born April 6, I88o.
672 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
DANIEL BABBITT (448) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WISE:
683. Herbert Noble, born November I6, 1887.
HENRY FISHER (453), (SON OF REV. ISAAC DYCKMAN),
HAD ISSUE:
684. Anna Josephine, born May 28, I871.
ROBERT C. HALSEY (458), (SON OF REV. ISAAC DYCKMAN),
HAD ISSUE:
685. Emma Southard, born June 28, 1883.
686. Margaret Elizabeth, born March 17, I886.
MARION HOAGLAND (459), (SON OI REV. ISAAC DYCKMAN),
HAD ISSUE:
687. Hazel.
688. Joseph.
HOBART POTTER (460), (SON OF REV. ISAAC DYCKMAN),
HAD ISSUE:
689. Hobart Potter, Jr., born I900.
DR. WILLIAM GRAY (465), (SON OF JOHN HOAGLAND),
HAD ISSUE:
690. John Hoagland, born May 6, I889.
THEODORE CHARDAVOYNE (466), (SON OF THEODORE CHARDAVOYNE), HAD ISSUE:
691. Theodore Chardavoyne, born I886.
WILLIAM (472), (SON OF PETER BONNETT), HAD ISSUE:
692. Elizabeth, born I848, died young.
693. Peter Bonnett, born I848, married Carrie M. Park, October
19, I869, had six children.
694. Sarah Newman, born 1852, married William S. Hartwell,
had one child.
695. Samuel, born I853, died young.
696. Allen George Newman, born I854, married Irene Norman,
October 29, I890, had four children.
697. Mary, born I857, died young.
698. William, born 1859, died young.
BENJAMIN F. (475), (SON OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN),
HAD ISSUE:
699. George Washington, born February 22, I893.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
673
700. Frank, born February 3, I899.
70I. Lillian, born December 3, I900.
WILLIAM E. (476), (SON OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN),
HAD ISSUE:
702. George, born July I8,.i896.
703. Willie, born September II, 1898.
704. Herbert, born May 24, I902.
FRANCIS H. (489), (soN OF ISAAC SEBRING), HAD ISSUE:
705. Oscar.
706. Frank.
707. Florence.
EUJGENE (490), (SON OF ISAAC SEBRING), HAD ISSUE:
708. Edward A.,'born I88I.
709. Harold E., born I889.
BARENT (492), (SON OF RALPH SCHENCK), HAD ISSUE:
7IO. Maude M., born August 20, 1884.
HOWARD (493), (SON OE RALPH SCHENCK), HAD ISSUE:
7II. Ralph, born December I, I897.
HENRY G. (494), (SON OF ABRAHAM AUGUSTUS), HAD ISSUE:
712. Mabel.
7I3. Robert.
714. Fay.
715. Abram A.
716.?
JOSEPH C. (496), (SON OF ABRAHAM AUGUSTUS), HAD ISSUE:
717. Russell L.
718. Elva.
719. Slye.
720. Luca.
721. Forrest.
722. --?
FRANK S. (506), (SON OF GEORGE H.), HAD ISSUE:
723. Grey.
724. Lillian.
GEORGE S. (507), (SON OF GEORGE H.), HAD ISSUE:
725. Maurice.
726. Ina.
674
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
WILLIAM HENRY (515), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
727. Jessie M.
728. Irene H.
JOHN GIFFORD (5I6), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSJE;:
729. William, who married, but died -without issue.
730. John, who married, but died without issue.
EDWARD ALEXANDER (53I), (SON OF ROBERT WRIGHT),
HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
73I. Robert Wright, born September 14, I854, deceased.
732. Edward Oviatt, born June II, I856.
733. Susan Adelaide, born October Io, 1858.
734. Guy Ellsworth, born July 26, I86I, deceased.
735. William Burr, born November 9, I863, deceased.
EDWARD ALEXANDER (53I) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
736. Charles, born July 9, I873, deceased.
737. Persis Malvina, born May 28, 1875, deceased.
738. Grace E., born March I6, I877.
WILLIAM FRANCIS (534), (SON OF ROBERT WRIGHT),
HAD ISSUE:
739. Victor V., born January 3I, I869, died August 30, I89I.
ROBERT DAVID BURR (535), (SON OF ROBERT WRIGHT),
HAD ISSUE:
740. Fred, born August 3, i866.
741. Ora, born April 7, 187I, died in infancy.
742. Gertrude, born January 26, I874.
743. Robert, born March, I880, died young.
744. Anna, born November 6, I883.
WILLIAM BURR (547), (SON OF SOLOMON), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
745. Cora May, born November I8, I867, married Ora Maharry
Brindle, February 14, 1887, had three children.
746. Solomon Walter, born March I8, I869, died August I2, 1869.
WILLIAM BURR (547) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
747. Ethel, born June I8, 1892.
748. Wright, born December 12, I893.
WRIGHT (550), (SON OF SOLOMON), HAD ISSUE:
749. Edwin L., born July 4, I870, married Anna Stilwell, December 2, I894, had two children.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
675
750. Joseph Clyde, born April 26, 1872, married Anglie Hinderlider, April 15, I896, no issue.
75I. Solomon Earle, born November I8, I874.
752. William Ray, born January 22, I877, married Bertha Truitt,
January 22, 1903.
753. Wright, born January 23, I880, died September 27, I883.
754. Lilla Marie, born November 29, 1884.
R. WILLARD (557), (SON OF ORVILLE), HAD ISSUE:
755. Mabel, born August 31, I886.
HERBERT SCUDDER (560), (SON oF EDGAR A.), HAD ISSUE:
756. Macia Alleine, born December 21, 1900.
GEORGE W. (563), (SON OF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
757. Mlark Edward, born November I2, 1851.
758. Mary Edith, born August 4, I854, married Otto K. Dean,
had two children.
759. Rachel, born May Io, 1864, married J. Henry Loeb, had
three children.
760. George Orton, born March I, I866.
ELIJAH WENTWORTH (564), (soN oF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
761. Harriet Martin, born August 26,' 853.
762. Milton Edward, born October 4, I859.
763. Ella Virginia, born March 20, 1862, married William Boener, March 27, I890, had three children.
764. Martha Isadore, born March 15, I864.
765. Lois Cordelia; born March 23, I867.
EDWARD (566), (SON oF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
766. Daniel Irving, born November 2I, I859.
767. Martha Evelyn, born March 28, I86I, married Arthur Toger.
768. Willard Martin, born July 7, I863, died May 9, 1865.
769. Harry Lincoln, born June 2I, I865.
770. Orilla V., born June 23, I867.
77I. Allie, born January 24, I874.
JOHN W. (57I), (SON o0 EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
772. Maggie B., born April 20, i868.
773. Charles H., born May I4, I87I.
ABRAHAM (580), (SON OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
774. Maude.
775. Kathleen.
776. George.
676
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
777. Jesse.
JAMES I. (581), (SON OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
778. Cora.
779. Meade.
780. Irving.
78I. George.
JOHN K. (582), (soN OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
782. Avery.
783. Earle.
784. David.
785. Emma.
786. Fanny.
JOSEPH (583), (SON OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
787. Joseph, Jr.
788. Isa.
789. Paul.
790. Silas.
79I. Seth.
792. Hiram.
SAMUEL E. (585), (soN OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
793. Frances D.
ORVILLE (586), (SON OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
794. Blanche.
795. Leo.
796. Mabel.
797. Glen.
798. Dale.
799. Orvis.
800. Vera.
JESSE C. (587), (SON OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
80o. Minerva.
802. Leland.
JESSE C. (587) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
803. Mildred.
REUBEN (589), (SON OF AVERY), HAD ISSUE:
804. Gladys.
805. Harold.
VERMILYE FAMILY.
677
CLINTON I. (597), (SON OF JOSEPH), HAD ISSUE:
806. Gilbert, born December 3, I883.
807. Rena, born March 28, I887.
808. Roy, born July 7, I889.
LE ROY (599), (SON OI CHARLES), HAD ISSUE:
809. Helen Ferguson, born August 26, 1882, died August 15,
I889.
8IO. Le Roy S., born March 7, 1887.
EUGENE (607), (SON oP GILBERT), HAD ISSUE:
811. George Gilbert, born February I4, 1877, married Jenny
Krannear, have two children.
812. Effie May, born October 15, 1878, married Andrew Mohr,
have one child.
8I3. Ernest, born July 22, 1880, married Florence Wait, have one
child.
814. Chester, born May 20, 1882.
8I5. Eva G., born August 13, I884.
816. Eugene, Jr., born April I6, I886.
817. Roy Elbert, born December I, i888.
818. Arthur Louis, born July I8, I89I.
8I9. Wesley Floyd, born July ii, I894.
820. Ina Elizabeth, born August 8, I889.
FRANCIS GOODWIN (614), (SON OF SYLVESTER), HAD ISSUE:
821. Anna E., born November I9, I895.
822. Maria E., born March 28, I897.
823. Mary Kate, born March 2, I899.
JOHN R. (623), (SON Of FRANKLIN S.), HAD ISSUE:
824. Robert.
CLARENCE EDWARD (634), (SON OF PAUL), HAD ISSUE:
825. Ruth May, born May I8, I903.
THOMAS EDWARD (674), (SON or REV. ASHBEL G.),
HAD ISSUE:
826. Ashbel G.
WILLIAM GERARD, JR. (677), (soN Or WILLIAM GERARD),
HAD ISSUE:
827. Katharine Rowland, born I895.
828. Sherwood, born I9oI.
829. William Gerard, Jr.
678
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
HENRY ROWLAND (678), (SON OF WILLIAM GERARD),
HAD ISSUE:
830. Louise Rowland, born I894.
PETER BONNETT (693), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
831. Arthur Park, born 1871, married Grace E. Hill, had three
children.
832. Herbert Marshall, born I873, married Maud Smith.
833. Frank Bayles, born 1876, married Anna O'Beirne.
834. Percy Sherwood, born I878, single.
835. Helen Bonnett, born I880, unmarried.
836. Norman Loutrell, born 1884, single.
ALLEN GEORGE NEWMAN (696), (SON OF WILLIAM),
HIAD ISSUE:
837. Sybil, born I89I.
838. Allen Bonnett, born I893.
839. Norman Sherwood, born I897.
840. Aeltje, born I900.
EDWIN L. (749), (SON OF WRIGHT), HAD ISSUE:
841. Wright, born January 16, I897.
842. Herschel, born October 28, 1898.
ERNEST (813), (SON OF EUGENE), HAD ISSUE:
843. Leona.
ARTHUR PARK (831), (SON OF PETER BONNETT), HAD ISSUE:
844. Howard Hill.
845. Wallace P.
846. Jean.
VERVEELEN.
Johannes Verveelen,* born about 1616, in Amsterdam, held
a prominent place in the history of the town, and was one of the
five original patentees. As before stated, his ancestors were
German, and citizens of Cologne, at the terminus of the highlands
of the Rhine; whence his grandfather, Hans Verveelen, with his
family, removed, about I6IO, to Amsterdam, obviously to escape
the oppressive policy dealt out to those of the reformed faith at
Cologne-a fact in the family history to be cherished by the present numerous descendants of Hans and Catrina Verveelen. To
our account of Johannes, his birth and marriage at Amsterdam,
emigration, and subsequent career at Harlem, a few particulars
* This name has assumed various forms, as Vervalin, Vanvalin, Vanvaler, etc.
VERVEELEN FAMILY.
679
may be added. A first step after his arrival, with his wife, Anna
Jaarsvelt, whom he married in 1637 at Amsterdam, was to enroll
his name, April 24, 1657, among the burghers, and to unite with
the church here, where Verveelen, whose social habits, if we
rightly apprehend him, won him friends and popularity, soon
found himself at home engaged in the brewing business in partnership with Isaac de Forest. He also bought a house and lot
in the Marckvelt-steeg from John La Montagne, Jr., June 27,
I659. Nominated for schepen, first in I660, then in I66I, but
not a successful candidate, he removed to Harlem, in which place
from the first he had taken an interest, and where he was made
a magistrate in 1663, a delegate to the General Assembly of I664,
and, as intimated, a patentee in 1667. By the purchase of the
groundbriefs of Jan Pietersen Slot and Jurian Hanel, one dated
January 4, the other May I6, I664, Verveelen had become a large
proprietor. For the subsequent history of these patents, see Myer
family. The public duties intrusted to Verveelen, and his long
retention as ferrymaster, evidence the favor in which he was held.
When his second lease of the ferry expired, his son Daniel, in
his behalf, petitioned Governor Dongan, April 2, I688, for its
renewal. He was told to "hold the premises until further order
to the contrary". Four years later Frederick Philips brought a
suit in the Supreme Court to eject Verveelen from the island
Papparinamin, which Philips claimed under a title derived from
Vander Donck. Verveelen complaining, the council, February
25, I692, resolved to defend their tenant and his Majesty's title.
But the same year the governor proposed that the city build a
bridge across the Spuyten Duyvel; the mayor and aldermen were
quite willing to oust Verveelen, and hereupon Philips, on his
petition, readily procured an order, January I9, 1693, for converting his lands in Westchester County, with the neck or island,
Papparinamin, into the Manor of Philipsburgh, and empowering
him to build a drawbridge, across the Spuyten Duyvel, to be
called King's Bridge, and to collect certain tolls from passengers.
This was amply assured by the charter of June 12, ensuing,
erecting the said manor; and the bridge was built forthwith. (See
Bolton's History of Westchester County.) *
Verveelen, now grown to be an old man, is known to have
been living March 13, 1693, when, styling himself "of the county
of Westchester, yeoman," he sold a house and lot in New York.
* An application by Jasper Nessepott to the common council, January i6, I700,
for leave to build a grist-mill at Kingsbridge, was submitted to a committee, which reported in favor "on condition that he take cut of the way the stones and rocks on the
other side thereof, that the same may not hinder the passage of boats and canoes, and
when any is to pass, at their reasonable request, he is to shut the sluices; and on
the other side of the bridge erect a post in the water, and have a rope ready to assist
them in passing." John Marsh, millwright, "being projector and contriver of the mill,"
Nessepott bought him out, when the mayor and aldermen formally granted Nessepott
said "mill or mills, under one roof," and "the ground whereon the said mill or
mills doth stand," with toll for grinding, and other mill privileges; by deed of
January 29, 1700, or I70I (New Style) Grants, City Comptroller's Office, vol. 2,
page 388.
680
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
On January 10, I699, Johannes Verveelen brought a suit in the
Mayor's Court against one Huling, a citizen, to recover pay for
eight barrels of beer. If this was our Johannes (and not his
grandson) he was 83 years of age. Witnesses were cited, November 24, I70I, to prove the deed last named, whence we conclude he was then deceased, as he certainly was February 14, I702,
having outlived all but one of the Nicolls' patentees. He made
a will, in which he gave his lands at Harlem to his daughter,
Maria. (See page 95.)
Johannes Verveelen (I), born at Amsterdam, Holland, about
I616, married there, Anna Jaarsvelt, had three children, and died
in I700. He had issue:
2. Anna, born 1638, joined the church at New Amsterdam in
1662, married February 9, I664, Derick Looten, commissary, with whom, as before noticed, she returned to Holland.
3. Daniel, who married Aletta Schaets, about I662, had eight
children.
4. Maria, born I656, married Adolph Meyer, April 29, I67I, had
nine children, and died in I748. (See pages 273, 597.)
Daniel Verveelen (3), (son of Johannes), who was nearly
of age with his sister, Anna, preceded his parents to this country,
coming, as is believed, in I652, with Rev. Gideon Schaets, whose
daughter he afterward married in Albany, about I662. At Albany (then Beverwyck), Daniel, a mere youth, engaged in trade,
as early as I655, but several years later joined his father at New
Amsterdam, uniting with the church there January 2, I66I. It
was probably during the next summer (when he visited Albany,
and on August 25 sold an interest in a house and lot there) that
he married Aletta Schaets, who, as his wife, joined the church
at New Amsterdam October 2 ensuing. The next month (November 7) Daniel and his father secured a lot adjoining one owned
by the latter, on the Prince's, now Beaver Street, and on February
14 following they also bought out Isaac de Forest's interest in the
brewery in Prince's Street, of which for some years Johannes
had been part owner. At the surrender Daniel was opposed to
resisting the English, and took the oath of allegiance. The next
year he had a narrow escape from some riotous soldiers, one of
whom cut him with his sword. Several years later he left the
city, and went to New Utrecht, L. I., with his wife, taking letters
to the church there, of which Verveelen, in I678, was chosen an
elder. He next went to Spuyten Duyvel, whether "to live at
Fordham," as Archer had expected, does not appear. Subsequently he and his family settled in the neighborhood of Hackensack, N. J., where Daniel was living in 1712.
VERVEELEN FAMILY.
68I
DANIEL (3) HAD ISSUE:
5. Anna Maria, born April 2, I663, died young.
6. Anna Maria No. 2, baptized January IO, I666, married Hendrick Jansz Cammega, February 9, I7I7.
7. Hendrick, born i668, last mentioned in I688.
8. Gideon, born I680, married first, Marritie Koch, March 23,
1712, and second, Susannah De Graef, 1714, had ten children.
9. Bernardus, who married first, Evertie Delamater, had eight
children, and second, Jannetie Vanderbeek, by whom he
also had eight children.
IO. Reynier. We have failed to find evidence that he had a
family. He was named for his uncle, Dr. Reynier
Schaets. slain at the burning of Schenectady.*
II. Johanna, who married first, Johannes Schuerman, had four
children, and second, Nicholas Peterson, January I9,
1723.
12. Johannes, born in New Utrecht, married Amelyntie Heerte
(Emeline, daughter of Hans Jacobs Harding), January
2, 1703, had two children. His widow married Wouter
Willemsen, in 17I0. (See page 362.)
Gideon Verveelen (8), (son of Daniel), born I68o, at New
Utrecht, married March 23, 1712, Marritie Koch, and in 1714
Susannah, daughter of loses and H'ester De Graaf. He removed from Rockland to Dutchess County, and, on May 20, 1740,
bought 3,II5 acres of land in Rombout Precinct, from which he
sold off twelve parcels, but kept enough to give his four children
each 252 acres. These, named in his will, dated January 25, 1755,
and proved June 26, I762, were Marritie, Hester, Alida and
Moses. If all his other children were deceased without issue, at
the date of his will, it appears remarkable; if living, fhey must
have been otherwise provided for.
GIDEON (8) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
13. Marritie, baptized April 12, I715, married William Rogers,
October 12, 1749.
I4. Hester, baptized January 15, 1717, married Johannes Rogers,
had five children.
* Rev. Gideon Schaets, the worthy minister of Albany, and of whose blood are all
the Verveelens, is too well known through the works of O'Callaghan, Broadhead and
Pearson to require further notice here. But, strangely enough, all the printed accounts ignore his daughter Alida, who married Verveelen. Another mistake occurs
in regard to his son Bartholomew, who is confounded with a later person of that
name. The first, said to have gone to Holland in 1670, died prior to 1680, when his
widow, Willemtie, daughter of Hugh Barents de Kleyn (see page 97), married again.
Bartholomew, who came from Albany to the city of New -York, in 1706, and whose
posterity are noticed upon its records down to the Revolution, was probably the son
of Gideon. son of Doctor Reynier Schaets, as the name Reynier ran in the New York
family. Doctor Schaets' first wife was Agnietie Moriaens. He married his second
wife in 1683, survived her five years, and died February 27, 1694, in his 87th year.
682
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I5. Alida, baptized October 15, 1718, married Isaac Cole.
I6. Moses, born 1720, married Hester De Graaf, had seven children. The homestead farm was devised to Moses, but he
died before his father. His son Gideon succeeded to
the farm.
17. Daniel, baptized January 15, 1723.
18. Johanna, baptized October 29, 1725.
I9. Cloudie (Claude), baptized December 17, 1727.
20. Jan (John), baptized June 27, I73I.
21. Johannes, baptized October i8, I733.
22. Gideon, deceased.
Bernardus Verveelen (9), (son of Daniel), joined the church
at Hackensack, N. J., in I704, at the same time with his brother,
Reynier. In 1708 he obtained a patent for a large tract of land
in Rockland County, described as between the Hudson and Overpeck Kill, part of which he sold his brother Gideon; the two conveying I,ooo acres to Lancaster Sims, in I709. Bernardus married Evertie, or Titje Delamater (see page 497). He had issue:
23. Alida, baptized January 14, 1714, married Hubartus Blauvelt,
had ten children.
24. Isaac, baptized April 12, I715, married Trintie Van Scheyren,
August I2, I736, had three children. Removed to the
City of New York years before the Revolution.
25. Cornelia, baptized January 15, I7I7, married Pieter Van
Scheyren, October 30, I749, had eleven children.
26. Daniel, baptized December 6, 1719, married Jannetie Van
Scheyren, had ten children.
27. Johannes, born June 13, I723, married Sarah Westervelt,
had four children.
28. Hester, baptized October I9, I725, married Jacob Cool, had
two children.
29. Fredericus, baptized December 8, 1728, married Catryntje
Pessel, July 31, 1752.
30. Abraham, baptized May I6, I731, married Elizabeth Allen,
June 28, 1752, had three children.
BERNARDUS (9) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIIFE:
3I. Jacobus, baptized September 22, 1734, married Sarah Nagel,
had seven children, and died February 8, I8I6, at 22
Walker Street. Removed to the City of New York years
before the Revolution.
32. Lybetie (Elizabeth), baptized February 22, 1736, married
William Persel, February 7, 1752, had three children.
33. Bernardus, born October 30, I737, married Mary Blauvelt,
had five children, and died April 20, I820; buried at Old
Tappan, N. Y.
VERVEELEN FAMILY.
683
34. Gideon, born August I, I739, married Maria Banta, May 5,
1768, had six children.
35. Jan (John), baptized August 2, I74I.
36. Aengenietje, baptized March 27, 1743, married Abraham
Persel, 1763, had three children.
37. Cornelius, baptized September 15, I745.
38. Abram.
JOHANNES (12), (SON OF DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
39. Alida, baptized January II, I704, married Rev. Fredericus
Muzelius, and had one child.
40. Francyntie, baptized June 28, I706.
MOSES (I6), (SON OF GIDEON), HAD ISSUE:
4I. Gideon, baptized February 13, 1743, succeeded to the homestead farm, and was an active patriot during the Revolution.
42. Moses, who married Annatja Cool, October 27, I767, had
eight children.
43. John, baptized May i8, I756.
44. Daniel A., who married Rachel Volk, October 26, 1788, had
nine children.
45. Jeremiah.
46. Elizabeth.
47. Hannah.
ISAAC (24), (SON OF BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
48. Tittye, born May 12, 1738, baptized June 4, I738.
49. Jan, baptized April 15, I744.
50. Isaac, baptized December I8, I75I, married Margaretje
M\oore, had four children.
DANIEL (26), (SON OF BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
5I. Tittye, born November 22, 1738, died unmarried.
52. Geertye, born February I, I74I, married Jacobus Blauvelt,
had eight children.
53. Maria, baptized May 27, 1744, married Jan Arieyanse, had
three children.
54. Tietje, baptized December 6, I747.
55. Jan, baptized April I, I750.
56. Abraham, baptized December 25, 1752, married Elizabeth
Benson, had one child.
57. Jacobus, baptized August 3I, I755.
58. Debora, born March 19, I757, married Geresolveert Arieyanse, August I, 1773, had three children, and died Januuary 4, I820.
684
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
59. Elizabeth, baptized October 25, I76I.
60. Catharine, baptized February 12, 1764, married Richard
Blanch, February 22, 1788, had five children.
JOHANNES (27), (SON Of BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
6I. Titye, born June 28, I746, married Wilhelmus Ferdon, had
four children.
62. Dirkie, born January 26, I74, married Christian Cammel,
August 25, I766.
63. Jannetie, baptized September 18, I757, married Jacob Paulisse,
had three children.
64. Jan (John), baptized September I8, I76o, married Maria
Banta, had four children.
ABRAHAM (30), (SON OF BERNARDUS), hAD ISSUE:
65. Jannetje, baptized July 28, I755.
66. Petrus, baptized July 2, I757.
67. Catharina, baptized June 4, I769.
Jacobus (31), (son of Bernardus), was a grocer, and died at
22 Walker Street, New York City, February 8, I816. We presume Henry and James, then of 20 Walker Street, were his sons.
He had issue:
68. Elizabeth, baptized August II, 1756, married Abraham
Ryken, had two children.
69. Jan No. I, baptized February II, I759, died young.
70. Jan No. 2, baptized December 14, I760.
71. Hendrick, baptized June 15, 1763, married Mary Drake, January IO, I789, had five children.
72. -Jannetje, baptized October 4, 1767, married Arthur Smith,
July 7, 1790, had four children.
73. Sara, baptized July 30, I769.
74. Jacobus, baptized April 5, 1772.
BERNARDUS (33), (SON Or BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
75. Jacobus (James), born January 25, 1760, married Elizabeth
Eckerson, had three children, and died August IO, 1786,
at Clarkstown, N. Y.
76. Cornelius, born May 14, 1762, married Antje Van Orden,
March 17, 1783, had six children, and died April I9, I820.
77. Jannetye, born April 30, 1765, married John Gilbert, had two
children, and died October, 1786.
78. Isaac, born June 30, 1768, married Elizabeth Haring, January
22, 1814, had three children.
79. Andrew.
VERVEELEN FAMI.IILY.
685
GIDEON (34), (SON Or BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
80. Lizabeth (Elizabeth), born February 21, 1769.
81. Daniel, born January 3, 1772, married first Hannah (Annatje)
Randall, April 24, 1.796, had six children. He married
second, Agnes Christie (Volk), had two children, and
died December 2, I834.
82. Jacob, born December 27, I774.
83. Jan (John), born January 5, 1778.
84. Catlynte, born July 14, I789.
85. Maria, born January i8, I793.
MOSES (42), (SON OF MOSES), HAD ISSUE:
86. Hester, born August 27, 1768.
87. Moses, born October 5, 1770.
88. Arie, born July 17, 1772.
89. Annatie, born May 2, I774.
go. Gideon, born January 20, 1777.
91. Mary, born February 20, I779.
92. Elizabeth, born May 12, 1782.
93. Benjamin, born June 6, I784.
DANIEL A. (44), (SON Of MOSES), HAD ISSUE:
94. Elizabeth, born January 4; 1790.
95. Maria, born October 28, I793.
96. Abraham, born May 3, 1796.
97. Jannetje, born July 17, I798.
98. Annaatje, born September 28, i8oo.
99. Hendrick, born June I6, I802.
Ioo. Rachel, born May 5, 1804.
ioi. Eleanor, born December 9, i8o6.
102. Gerrit, born November 25, i8o8.
ISAAC (50), (SON Of ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
103. Isaac, baptized June 3, 1778, married Margaret Myers, of
Harlem, about I799, had six children, and died December
4, I858. Was buried at Closter, N. J.
I04. Catrina, baptized February 15, 1784.
I05. John, born September i6, 1789, married Margaret Blauvelt,
of Blauveltville.
io6. Margaret (Polly), born August 30, I790, married John
Blauvelt.
ABRAHAM (56), (SON OF DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
107. Maria, baptized November 6, 1795.
JAN (JOHN) (64), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
Io8. Sarah, baptized May I6, I779, married Thomas Dubois,
April 4, 1790, had four children.
686
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Io9. Hendrick, baptized April 2r, 1783, married Cornelia Nagel,
August I, i80o, had one child.
IIo. Teitye, baptized June I, 1788.
I r. Johannis, baptized August 19, 1792.
HENDRICK (7I), (SON OP JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
112. Martha, born December 3, I789.
II3. James, born September 19, I79I.
II4. Sarah, born January 19, I793.
II5. Phebe, born September 30, I796.
i 6. Elizabeth, born November 12, I797.
JACOBUS (75), (SON OF BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
II7. Barnardus, born September I, 1782, married Sarah Nagel,
September 14, I805, had five children.
II8. Sarah, born January 13, 1784, married Henry Westervelt,
February 14, 1807, had seven children, and died December 17, I87I.
119. Cornelius, born May 21, 1786, married first, Elizabeth Blackledge, December 3I, I808, had three children. He married second, Jane Zabriskie, had five children, and died
August Io, I865.
CORNELIUS (76), (SON OP BERNARDUS), IAD ISSUE:
I20. Marritye, born June 27, 1784, died April 22, 1850.
121. Andrias, born October 24, 1786, married Hester Little, had
six children, and died March 15, 1882.
122. Jannetje (Jane), born July 24, 1789, married Nathan Lyman, April 10, I8I3, had ten children, and died March 23,
I879.
I23. Jacobus, born August 26, 179O, died May 26, 1869.
124. Sara, baptized August I8, 1794, died February 6, I795.
I25. Elizabeth, born May 29, 1796, married Fosdick, had
one child, and died May, I890.
ISAAC (78), (SON OF BERNARDUS), HAD ISSUE:
126. Barney, who married Margaret -?, and died April 17,
I860, without issue.
127. John I., born September 20, I820, married Maria Post, had
five children, and died December 3, I899.
128. Sarah, who married John Muckey, had two children. Lived
at Binghamton, N. Y., and died August I, I897.
DANIEL (8I), (SON OP GIDEON), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIPE:
129. Maria, born February 26, I797, married first, Jeremiah
Bogert, 18I7, had five children. She married second,
Robert Pitcher.
VERVEELEN FAMILY.
687
I30. Elizabeth, born January 29, I798, married John Campbell,
had two children.
I3I. Johannis, born January 11, I802.
132. Jenny (Jane), born March II, I804, married Albert Tallman, January 7, 1821, had seven children, and died April
2, I893.
I33. Jacob; born May 2, I807, married Hannah Maria Wilson,
had three children, and died in 1856.
I34. Fannie, born 1812, married Luther Shattuck, had three children, and died in 1842.
DANIEL (8I) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIF.E:
I35. William Christie, born May 26, 1823, died single, August 5,
I840.
136. Rachel Hannah, born September 12, 1825, married John T.
Banta, had eight children, and died January 26, I893.
ISAAC (I03), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
I37. Abraham Myers, born r802, married Nancy C. Sellick, had
eight children.
138. Maria, born March I, 1805, married Alva Lockwood, last
heard of in Ohio.
I39. John, born September 14, I806, married Jane Chatterton,
had one child. He deceased.
I40. Samuel, born December 28, 1807, died single.
I4I. Isaac, born February 26, I8IO, married Elizabeth Naugel,
March I6, 1830, had seven children, and died September
IO, I852.
142. Jacob, died single.
HENDRICK (0I9), (SON Or JAN), HAD ISSUE:
I43. Leah, born October 17, I802, married David Haring, had
two children.
BARNARDUS (I 17), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
I44. Kobus (Jacobus), baptized December 21, i8o6.
I45. Elizabeth, baptized December 17, I8o8.
I46. John Gilbert, baptized April 14, i8II.
I47. Jane Gilbert, baptized October Io, I8I3.
148. Cornelius, baptized August 20, I8I5.
CORNELIUS (II9), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
I49. Catelyntie, born April 13, I8IO, married David Lamberson,
December II, 1829, had six children. She deceased.
I50. James, born January 24, 1821, died young.
688
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I5I. Cornelius, born March i8, 1823, died single, November 29,
869.
CORNELIUS (II9) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIE:
152. Eliza J., born June 22, 1840, at Teaneck, N. J., married Edward Barr, September, 1862, had two children, and died
April 3, I867.
I53. James M. (Judge), born July 21, 1842, married Anna A.
Smith, June 24, 1874, had nine children.
I54. Sarah A., born November 24, 1843, married Cornelius D.
Schor, June 23, I874, had two children.
I55. Carrie J., born November 23, I862, married Mabie, had
one child.
I56. Ella L., born February I, I865, married Lindsay J. Riggins,
had one child.
ANDRIES (121), (SON OV CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I57. Ann Maria, born May 27, I809, married Archibald Scobey,
had one child, and died November 4, I866.
I58. Cornelius, born January 31, I8II, married Matilda Bush,
November 25, I829, had five children, and died June I,
I854.
159. Hannah, born March 9, 1815, died unmarried.
I6o. Jane, born November 22, 1817, married William Knight, and
died April 29, I864.
I6I. Sarah, born June 22, 1820, married David Swezey Mapes,
1848, had one child, and died November I8, I89I.
I62. Hester, born July Io, 1826, married William E. Mapes, had
two children, and died December 6, I89o.
JOHN I. (127), (SON O ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
I63. Sarah Elizabeth, born March 12, I843, married Joseph T.
Healey, October I, I862, had three children.
164. Abraham, born February 25, 1847, died single, October Io,
I88I.
I65. John J., born July 21, 1850, single.
I66. Hannah Jane, born March 22, 1856, married Henry J. Hering, April Io, I889, no issue.
I67. Ralph, born March 27, I858, single.
JACOB (I33), (SON or DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
168. Joseph Randall, born September 2, I839, married Rachel
Elizabeth Quackenbush, November 27, I860, had four
children, and died September i5, I895.
I69. Daniel, who died in infancy.
I70. Jacob, who died in infancy.
VERVEELEN FAMILY.
689
ABRAHAM MYERS (I37), (SON O ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
I7I. Margaret, born September I, 1832, married Simon Dunn,
October 5, 1857, had three children, and died October,
I879.
I72. Annie, born March 26, 1835, married James D. Retallie,
June I, 1854, had four children.
I73. Catherine, born February 25, 1837, married Lyman (Lysien)
Van Alstyne, August 15, 1855, had one child.
I74. Mary, who married William T. Davis Walker, January 6,
I856, had eight children.
I75. Isaac.
176. Phcebe Jane, who married first, Samuel G. Walker, I863,
had one child. She married second, Thomas Palmer,
1875, had five children, and is now deceased.
177. Nancy, who married Jesse W. Spencer, had two children.
She deceased.
178. James Harvey, born February I6, 1850, married first, Sarah
A. Hayner, October 7, 1874, had one child. He married
second, Clara W. Baerr, September 24, 1883, had one
child.
JOHN (I39), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
179. Mary Jane.
ISAAC (141), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
I80. Daniel, born May 2, 1832, married Mary E. Vanderbilt,
March 23, 1854, had two children.
I8I. Catherine, born September I8, I834, married Abraham J.
Smith, November 26, 1854, had four children.
182. Euphemia, born October 3, 1836, married Cornelius H.
Demarest, November 5, I857, had three children.
I83. Richard, born May 26, I839, married Henrietta Hunter, October I2, 1871, had five children.
I84. William, born January 31, I842, married Emma Likely,
May 28, 1873, and died July 3I, I877, without issue.
I85. Jane Elizabeth, born May 31, 1845, married Peter J. Stephens, September 8, I880, no issue.
I86. Margaret Ann, born August 28, 1848, died unmarried, April
27, 1900.
JAMES M. (I53), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I87. James A., born October 13, 1877, married Elizabeth W.
Walker, October 15, 1902.
I88. Garrett A., born November I6, I88I.
I89. Emma E., born October 31, 1884.
I9o. Frederick M., born October I5, i886.
I9I. Raymond S., born October 17, i888.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
192. George W., born February 22, 1890.
I93. Arthur, born July 25, I893.
I94. Howard W., born January, I895.
I95. Anna E., born November 24, 1897.
CORNELIUS (158), (SON OF ANDRIAS), HAD ISSUE:
I96. Andrew, Jr., born September I, 1830, married, but died without issue, April 23, 1877.
197. Peter, born January 8, 1832, married Sarah Knight, September 24, 185I, had four children.
I98. William Henry, born January 31, I843, married Margaret
B. Ridgeway, and died October 25, 1902.
I99. Nathaniel, born March 29, 1845, married Victoria Guiterray, January 3I, 1884, had six children.
200. Edwin L., born February 8, I849, married Sarah Ridgeway,
had two children, and died March 30, 1894.
JOSEPH RANDALL (I68), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
20I. Carrie, born December 9, I86I, died August 22, i868.
202. Morris Bartow, born November 26, I863, married May Conger Warner, November 3, I886, had two children.
203. William Randall, born May 29, i866, married Alma C. Hartman, July 21, I892, no issue.
204. Charles Banta, born August 5, I869, married Jennie Louise
Sandford, October I9, I892, had two children.
JAMES HARVEY (178), (SON of ABRAHAM MYERS), HAD
ISSUE BY 'IRST WIFE:
205. Archie, born September Io, I879, single.
JAMES HARVEY (178) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
206. Ellia May, born March 13, 1888, died September 8, I889.
DANIEL (I80), (SON Of ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
207. George, born April 29, 1855, married Kate Dalton.
208. Eugene, born December 13, 1856, single.
RICHARD (183), (SON Of ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
209. Henrietta, born February I8, I874.
210. Richard, Jr., born November I8, I875.
211. Jane Elizabeth, born September 13, I877.
212. William, born August 21, I880, married Elizabeth Connor,
May 13, 1899, have one child.
213. Grace, born August 28, 1889.
EPTER (I97), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
214. John K., born July 22, 1852, married Fanny R. Cass, July
VERVEELEN FAMILY.
69I
22, I889, had two children.
2I5. Cornelius, born December 24, 1855, married Carrie V. B.
Rea, April 21, I898, but died July 14, I901, without issue.
216. Matilda, born February 6, 1854, married William D. Hall,
June 7, 1872, and died without issue, June Io, 1874.
217. Eugenia A., born August 17, I858, married Brewster S.
Gurnee, September 29, I88I, had four children.
NATHANIEL (199), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
218. Josephine, born November 21, 1885.
219. William, born November 8, 1887.
220. Alvin, born May 21, 1889.
221. Victor, born October 4, I89o.
222. Matilda, born July 27, I898.
223. Victoria, born July 20, I90I.
EDWIN L. (200), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
224. Clarence.
225. Claude.
MORRIS BARTOW (202), (SON OF JOSEPH RANDALL),
HAD ISSUE:
226. Maud W., born November I, I888.
227. Morris Bartow, Jr., born March 7, I893.
CHARLES BANTA (204), (SON OF JOSEPH RANDALL),
HAD ISSUE:
228. Joseph Randall, born January 5, I894.
229. Edward Sandford, born June 7, I898, died February 23,
I901.
WILLIAM (212), (SON OF RICHARD),'HAD ISSUE:
230. Bessie Adelaide, born October I8, I890.
JOHN K. (214), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
23I. Fanny R., born August 29, I892.
232. Helen, born December 13, 1897.
WALDRON.
Resolved Waldron, bQrn May Io, I6IO, the most noted, as
he was one of the most intelligent, of the Harlem settlers, needed
not the titular dignity of baron, which some of poetic humor claim
for him; yet might he well have graced the title. As we have
seen, he had been in the printing business at Amsterdam, and
692 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
emigrated with his family to New Netherland late in 1654. Received with his brother, Joseph, and their wives, to the fellowship
of the church at New Amsterdam, the first care was to secure a
home, and on April 3 ensuing the brothers bought a house and
lot on Broadway, near Wall Street. Both entered the public service, Resolved being made "overseer of the workmen".* On
* Joseph Waldron, "living near the hoeck of Passenger Street," in Amsterdam,
and on the eve of his second marriage, appeared before the orphan master, May I2,
I649, according to custom, and gave bonds for the maintenance of his two children
by his late wife, Aeltie Hendricks; as "the children by the former marriage had no
property." One of these perhaps was left at Amsterdam with its grandmother, Maria
Goverts, since it is not named in our records here, and Waldron was wont to order
part of his salary to be paid his said mother. The last time noticed was on August
30, I66I, being two months' wages, 48 florins. He was butler to the garrison, and had
charge of the magazine of the company. Waldron died in I663. Just before his
end, sending for a notary to draw up his will, he said "there would be nothing left,
but if anything should remain, it should not be touched, but go to pay the passage
of his widow, who intended to leave for Fatherland." Upon these representations,
and it appearing that there were "six minor children, two of whom are of a former
marriage," the orphan's court of New Amsterdam, December io, I663, at the desire
of the widow, Annetie Daniels, appointed Resolved Waldron, "her husband's brother,"
and Hendrick Jansen Vander Vin, "who is her oldest and most intimate friend," as
guardians of her surviving children. It is uncertain whether she visited Holland, as
she was married here, in I668, to Harman Smeeman, and again, in I682, to Coenraet
Ten Eyck. Joseph Waldron's children known to us were Sarah, Daniel, Mary, Anna,
Deborah and John. Deborah died in infancy, and John, when not quite 8 years old,
was accidentally killed in his step-father's mill, January 23, I669. Sarah, born about
I646, at Amsterdam, married, in I662, Jan Gerritsen Van Voorst, and in I666 Laurens
Jansen Colevelt, by whom she had children whose descendants are yet found. Mary,
born 652, married Hendrick Gerritsen Blauvelt (see page 363), and Anna, born
I657, married John Delamontagne. To her son Daniel and son-in-law Delamontagne,
Annetie Daniels, then for the third time a widow, conveyed some city property, May
IO, i688. She was afterward allowed pay by government "for tending sick soldiers.'
Daniel Waldron, born I65o, at Amsterdam, married, in I673, Sarah Rutgers, daughter
of Rutger Willemsen. He was a gun-stock maker, but while serving in the city guards
against Leisler lost an eye and was otherwise badly hurt by the premature discharge
of "a great gone," March I9, I691. and which killed several persons, including Jacob
De Key, the De Key ancestor, and Major Patrick MacGregory, from whom are
descendants, I believe, the Gregory family of Orange County, of which was the late
Dr. H. H. Gregory, of Harlem. Daniel Waldron and his son Joseph were admitted
freemen August 30, I698. He had children, Joseph, born I674; Judith, born I675,
married Mr. Isaac Selover; Rutger, born i677; Annetie, born 168i, married Francis
Buys and Isaac Van Duersen; Sarah, born 1683, married Carsten Burger; John,
born 1685; Maria, born i686, married Frederick Williams; Cornelia, born i688,
married Gerrit de Forest; and Catharine, born I689, married Isaac Boelen. The
last died in her 83d year, in I772, her sisters, Sarah and Cornelia, surviving her;
and of the others, Judith lived to be 85, Annetie, 84, and Mary 80. Their mother
died January 7, 1738, having reached her 95th year. Truly a long-lived race.
* Joseph Waldron, a "cordwainer," married, in I696, Anna Woodward; his will,
dated New York, May 5, 1715, was proved October io, 1722. His children that survived infancy were Jannetie, born 1698, who married Henricus Boelen; Sarah, born
I701; Catharine, born 1703, married, I726, Hendrick Van Winckel, of Bergen, New
Jersey; Joseph, born 1708, cordwainer, married, I731, Effie Hellacker, both living,
I758, at Pemberpogh, on Bergen Neck (parents of Jacobus, of Staten Island, blacksmith, who married, 1762, Elizabeth Holland, widow, and had issue Joseph, I765,
etc.); Benjamin, born I7I1, hatter, married Maria Debevoise (by whom a daughter,
Maria, who married Isaac Meet), and was living in I758 with his second wife, Bridget
Haviland, at Newtown, L. I.; Daniel, born 1713, a cordwainer, admitted freeman,
N. Y., 1737, where he died about 1756, having married three wives, viz.: Maria
Pell, I735; Maria Gautier, 1743; and Teuntie Bogert, 1746, and leaving two sons,
Daniel, house carpenter (married, 1759, Catharine Turner), and Joseph, born 1740,
feltmaker (married, I76I, Mary Foshay); and Jacobus, born I717, who died July
22, 1730.
Rutger Waldron, a turner, made freeman February 3, I699, married, I700, Deborah Pell, and, 1714, Cornelia Morse. He died, I720, leaving Daniel, born I703
(father of William, of New York. baker, who married, I752, Hillegond Minthorne,
and died I762, leaving children Jane, John, Daniel and Richard); Samuel, born
1705, of New York, blockmaker, married, 1746, Mary Kip, and died April 2, I772,
leaving son Richard; Richard, born I707, made freeman, I732, married, 1734,
Anna de Graaf, widow of John Langedyke, made property as a baker and shopkeeper,
and died January 4, 1775, without surviving children; Johannes, born 71I3, married,
I741, Margaret Van Ness, was living 1774, with children Christopher, born 1743;
Deborah, born I745; and Rachael, born I746; Sarah, born 1716, living unmarried
WALDRON FAMILY.
693
April I7, 1657, he applied for the burgher right, and under May 3
occurs this entry- "Resolved Waldron being admitted a burgher,
hath on this date taken the oath of fidelity." His salary was increased soon after. Found to be efficient, the Director and Council, on May 25, 1658, appointed him deputy to the schout-fiscael,
or attorney-general, de Sille; the Burgomasters being ordered,
October 28, to recognize him as deputy sheriff. Very exact in
carrying out his orders and in enforcing the laws, he was charged
by the Quakers, some of whom he arrested, with being "hardhearted". He visited, upon public errands, every part of the
province, and even the neighboring colonies; and in I659 was sent
with Augustine Heermans to Maryland, to vindicate the Dutch
title on the Delaware. The next year the directors in Holland
would have made Waldron sheriff of the Dutch towns on Long
Island, but Stuyvesant wrote them, June 25, I660: "Respecting
the person, Resolved Waldron, we may be permitted to remark,
that when appointed as a deputy to the fiscael, and as schout-bynacht, in this city, he conducted himself with so much fidelity and
vigilance that he gave to us and the magistrates great satisfaction, so that his services, both as respects the Company and the
fiscael, can hardly be dispensed with, besides that he would not
be so well fitted for the shrievalty of the said villages, as he cannot well wield his pen; wherefore, till your further orders on this
point, we shall ask his continuance in that office." Stuyvesant
was allowed to retain his favorite officer while his own rule lasted.
On the.accession of the English, Waldron took the oath of
allegiance (October, 1664), but retired to private life at Harlem
with the disappointment of one whose interests, as well as sympathies, all lay with the former government. It was still a pleasure to correspond with kindred in Holland. Mortien Govert, of
Amsterdam, writing to Resolved, April I2, I666, says, "Brother:
Tall Anna has gone over with the supercargo who lived in
Nicholas Carmen's house." Waldron had secured some property
at Harlem (see pages 256, 264, 267), and was soon called to
public office, from which he seldom had a respite for the rest of
his life. He was one of the five patentees named in Nicolls'
patent, and also served in the eldership. He died in I69o; his
inventory taken that year, May 17, embraced lands, slaves, farmstock, etc. The following items stand first: "Three lots of land
lying upon Van Keulen's Hook, with one lot of land lying upon
1774; and Cornelia, born 1718, who married Juriaen Blaau, issue William, Cornelia,
Sarah and Henry Blaau, or Blaw.
John Waldron was a turner, and married Rachel Lefferts, daughter of Leffert
Pietersen Van Haughwout, of Flatbush, to which place Waldron removed, and was
there living in I755. a farmer. He had issue Daniel, Leffert, Benjamin, etc., of
whom Leffert, who died 1748, was father of Johannes, of Middlebush, New Jersey.
(See Leffert Genealogy, pages 28, 29, from which we differ somewhat.) Daniel and
his wife, Hepzibah, also went to New Jersey, had Johannes, born 1737, etc., and one
of their younger sons, Leffert, born 1754, died August 20, 1847, was the father by
his wife, Sarah Colthar, of the present respected Cornelius L. Waldron, of Martinville, New Jersey, father-in-law of Charles H. Horton, M. D.
694
HISTORY OF HARLEM..
Jochem Pieters, and a house with its lot (erf), comprising buildings and plantation, as it is situate and lying at this village; as
also a piece of meadow lying in the Round Meadow."*
But Waldron owed so much that the heirs agreed to let his
son Samuel take all the property, real and personal, on condition
that he assume the debts and the support of the widow. This was
subscribed to May Io, I69o, and pursuant to which, on the I7th,
the town clerk, Bertholf, took a list of the lands and effects, in
presence of the constable, etc., and on June 5 the magistrates appointed Adolph Meyer and Daniel Tourneur to appraise the same.
But on the I4th the heirs executed a paper assigning "two-thirds
of the estate of our deceased father, aforesaid, to his creditors, for
the payment of his debts, and the widow agreeably to law shall
retain one-third." On July I6 ensuing, the widow, for 1,200
guilders, conveyed to Arent Harmens, "a lot of land on Jochem
Pieters, being No. 12 on the survey." On the 25th ensuing a
public sale of part of the farm-stock, etc., took place; and the next
day the widow sold to John Hendricks Van Brevoort, for 600
*guilders, "a half lot lying upon Van Keulen's Hook, being No. 9,
the other half belonging to Adolph Meyer." On November 25,
I69o, the widow and heirs sold to Samuel Waldron, for 3,800
guilders, "the farm of his deceased father, Resolved Waldron,
consisting of two lots and a half of land, lying upon Van Keulen's
Hook, with the meadows, buildings, and planting;" on the same
date released to John Dyckman, for 400 guilders, "a certain piece
of meadow lying in the Round Meadow, at Spuyten Duyvel, next
to the meadow of Coenraet and Meyndert;" and also ratified the
sale of Nos. 3 and 4, New Lots, which Resolved Waldron had
deeded to Samuel, February 20, I686, and he to his brother, Johannes, May 21, I689.
Resolved Waldron (I), born May o0, I6Io, married first,
Rebecca Hendricks, before 1647, had three children. He married
second, Tanneke Nagel, May o1, I654, had five children, and died
in I690. He had issue by first wife:
2. William, born at Amsterdam, Holland, February Io, 1647,
married Engeltie Stoutenburg, February Io, 1671, had
seven children.
3. Rebecca, born at Amsterdam, in I649, married first, John
Nagel, August 27, 1670, had ten children, and second,
John Dyckman, May I5, I690, had two children.
4. Aeltie, born at Amsterdam, in I65I, married Captain Johannes
Vermilye, August 27, 1670, had ten children.
* The statement in the Annals of Newtown, page 381, that Resolved Waldron
"acquired a large property at Hoorn's Hook, within the limnts of Harlem, on which
he located," was made on the authority of Mr. Isaac Adriance, seldom inaccurate in
such matters; but was found, on fuller investigation, to apply to Samuel, son of
Resolved Waldron.
WALDRON FAMILY.
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RESOLVED (I) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
5. Barent, born at New Amsterdam, in I655, married Jannetie
Meynderts, September 25, 1687, had six children.
6. Ruth, baptized May IO, I657, married first, John Delamater,
August ii, I678, had nine children. She married second,
Hendrick Bogert, September 15, 1703.
7. Cornelia, baptized February 30, 1659, married Peter Van
Oblienis, June 8, 1685.
8. Johannes, born at Harlem, September 12, 1665, married Anna
Van Dalsen, April 25, I690, had seven children, and died
in I753.
9. Samuel, born at Harlem, April IO, 1670, married Neeltie Bloodgood, March 5, 1692, had ten children, and died in I737.
William Waldron (2), (son of Resolved),* of New York,
cooper (see page 333), was made viewer of pipestaves, June 7,
1676. On December 17, 1679, he and the other coopers, in all
twenty-two, formed a combination to maintain their prices upon
casks and barrels, and prevent underselling. For this they were
proceeded against before the governor and council, and fined each
fifty shillings, for "the church or pious uses". The cullers of
pipestaves were dismissed, and Waldron and his partner, Petersen, were sworn as cullers, February I6, 1680. Waldron was appointed one of the public measurers December I, I702. He was
still living in I71o. By Engeltie, daughter of Peter Stoutenburgh, married February io, 1671 (see page 272),
WILLIAM (2) HAD ISSUE:
IO. Rebecca, baptized June 21, 1672, married first, John Davenport, August 28, I696, had two children. She married
second, David Kent, had one child.
I. Peter, baptized June 23, 1675, married Tryntie, daughter of
Cornelius Vandenbergh, September 9, '1698, had ten children, and died May 3, 1725. Went to Albany and died
there.
12. Hendrick, born April IO, 1677, married Maria Van Tassel,
March 2, 1706, had six children.
13. William, born January 16, I680, married Johanna, daughter
of John Nagel, March IO, I705, had five children. After
1717 he seems to have left the city. On his petition an
* Capt. John Waldron, who commanded his Majesty's ship "Greyhound" was
probably not from either of our Waldron families. He married at New York, by
license of October 27, 1704, Cornelia Hardenberg. About I721 he gave up his command, and became a merchant; was vestryman of Trinity Church, 1725 to 1732, and
captain of the Blue Artillery company, and as such had charge of the military stores
for some 20 years. He died about 1762. His daughter Mary married Daniel Stiles.
1713, married, 17-6, Elizabeth Hose, but both died soon after their marriage (Gerardus in 1737, at Hurley, Ulster County), leaving no issue. The widow of John, Jr.,
married, I737, Johannes Remsen.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
act was passed in 17I7 to exempt his sloop, the "Mary
and Hannah", from paying tonnage.
I4. Aefie, born 1682.
15. Jannetie, born I692, married first, Thomas Powell, March 25,
1711, had three children. She married second, William
Adams, had two children.
I6. Wyntie, baptized September 30, I694.
Barent Waldron (5), (son of Resolved), whose possession
of Gloudie's Point gave him a place among the patentees, married
September 25, 1687, Jannetie, daughter of John Meynderts.
(See page 212.) Having much of his father's aptness for public business, he served the town in various trusts, especially in that
of collector. His name as assessor stands in Montgomery's charter, I73I, and he signs the Mill Camp grant in I738. At this
date Jochem and Jacob Gardenier appear to occupy his farm.
Being aged, he sold his farm, August 6, 1740, to John R. Myer,
of New York. (See page 602.)
BARENT (5) HAD ISSUE:
17. Tanneke, born November 3, 1688, married John Adriaens
(Ariaense), March 25, 1720, had four children.
I8. Belitie, baptized April 6, I69o, married Isaac Delamater, Jr.,
August 9, 1717, had four children.
19. Johannes, baptized August 7, I692, married first, Susannah,
daughter of Isaac Delamater, June 5, I719, had seven children. He married second, Margaret Roll, April 13, I729,
had five children. Later removed to Philipsburgh, Westchester County, N. Y., both living to an advanced age.*
* There was also Johannes Waldron, who lived at Philipsburgh, probably related
to, but not easily identified with, our Waldrons, if, as his marriage record says, he
was born "at Utrecht, in Holland." H-le married, in 1720, Janneke Bogert, of Tappan,
probably a daughter (not named, page 448) of Peter and Feytie, and, if we mistake
not, was the father of Peter Waldron, born in Fordham, who, while living at Philipsburgh, married October io, I747, Marritie Ackerman.t IHe became a freeman of New
York in 1752, and had sons David, born I754, and Isaac, 1756; the first, by trade
a gunsmith, and a much respected citizen, married, I773, Elizabeth Tremper, and
died November 9, i8iI, at 418 Broadway.
t David Ackerman, whose descendants are very numerous, was from Berlikum,
in Brabant. His departure from Amsterdam for this country, in i662, is mentioned
page 95, but considering the silence of our records regarding him it may be doubted
whether he survived the voyage. He had six children, who came over, viz.: Lysbeth,
born 1642; Anneken, born I644; David, born i646; Lourens, born I65o; Lodewyck,
born 1654, and Abraham, born I606. Lysbeth being the eldest, upon her seems to
have devolved the care of the younger children. She and her sister joined the
church at New Amsterdam January 6, I663, being the first communion season after
their arrival. They lived in the Marckvelt Steeg. In I664 Anneke married Nathaniel
Pietersen HIennion, from Leyden; and in I668 Lysbeth became the wife of Kier
Wolters, of Harlem, whence for several years some of the family are found here and
at Fordham, where Lourens rented a farm. (See pages 249 and 313.) In I679
Lourens married Geertie Egberts. David, living in New York, married, in I68o,
Hillegond, daughter of Abram Isaacs Verplanck. Lodewyck married at Kingston, in
i68i, Janneke, born in New England, daughter of Jacob Blaeck, of New York (see
page 205), and Abraham, living at Bergen, married, in I683, Aeltie, daughter of
Adrian Van Laer. All the family ultimately went to Hackensack; David, Lourens
and Lodewyck, with their wives, helping to organize the church there in I686, the
nearest church previously being the newly formed French society at Kinkackemeck.
or Kinderkameck. Abraham also joined in I696. Lodewyck losing his wife, married,
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20. Resolved, baptized September I, 1695.
21. Catherine, baptized May 25, I698, married John Foshay, May
18, 1728, had one child.
22. Margaret, born I700, married Cornelius Lydecker, June 24,
1721.
Johannes Waldron (8), (son of Resolved), married April 25,
I69o, Anna, daughter of Captain Jan Van Dalsen; and living close
under Jochem Pieters' Hills (I33d Street, between Eighth and
Ninth Avenues), he was usually called of the Hill, to distinguish
him from his namesake of Hoorn's Hook. His house-lot, which
lay at the end of the New Lots, but west of the highway, was
bought from the town, May IO, I688, for I2 guilders, by his
brother Samuel, who, after building on it, sold it to Johannes,
May 21, I689, together with the New Lots, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, which
had come to Samuel from his father and others. On April 3,
I69o, the town sold Johannes an addition to his house-lot, making it 17 rods on the road, and to extend back to the foot of the
hill: Johannes and Barent together bought No. 8 of the.New
Lots, January I, 1701, from Johannes' brother-in-law, Teunis
Van Dalsen, who had obtained it, May I, I696, from Joost Van
Oblinus. This lot they divided, Johannes taking the western half.
He had already secured No. 2, originally Glaude Delamater's,
from his son-in-law, Arent Bussing, and in 173I bought No. 6
from Isaac Delamater, who had received it in 1729 from Nicholas
Kortright, grandson of Cornelis Jansen, the first owner. Thus
Johannes came to hold Nos. 2 to 7 and half of 8, being 6'2 lots.
His large acquisitions from the drafted lands are shown in Appendix J. He died in 1753, having survived his wife and all his
children, except his son Resolved.
JOHANNES (8), (SON O0 RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
23. Anneken, baptized February 22, I691, died young.
24. Annetie, baptized April 17, I692, married John Delamater,
June II, I714, had ten children.
in I699, Hillegond, daughter of Hendrick Bosch, and removed to Philipsburgh, Westchester Count'. We give a list of children, but incomplete. David had issue, David,
born I68I, married Gerbrecht Romeyn; Johannes, born I684, married Jannetie Lozier;
Marritie. born I690, married Cornelius Vanderhoof, from Albany; Jannetie, born
i682, married Jacobus Van Voorhees; Egbert, born I685, married Elizabeth Bryant:
Catharine, born I687, married John Verwey; David, born I689, married Sarah
Culver, and Johannes, who married Jacomina Demarest. Abraham had David, born
I684, married Margaret Jurcks; Gerrit, born I685, married Jannetie Van Voorhees;
Abigail, born I687, married Andries Hopper and Derick Brinkerhoff. Lysbeth, born
I689, married Johannes Doremus; Anneken, born I69T, married Thomas Doremus;
Adrian, born I695, married Mary Van. Blarcom; Johannes, born I696, married, 1721,
Maria Wakeneld, and, 1728, Elizabeth Stagg: Gulian, born I697, married Rachel
Van Voorhees; Anna Maria, born 1701, married Albert Terhune; Abraham, born
1702, married Hendrica Hopper, and Sarah, born I705, married Cornelius Boers.
Lodewyck, of Philipsburgh, had a daughter, Lysbeth, born I684, married Arent Pootman (Putnam), of Schenectady, but who moved to the "Maquaas country;" and
daughter Francina, born I696, married Samuel Williams, of Albany. His son David,
born I694, married, 1719, Mar- See. was a deacon in the Philipsburgh Church, and
father of Mary, who married Peter Waldron, as in the text. We have not space for
fuller details, but hope this brief sketch may aid some descendant, with a becoming
pride in his ancestry, to fill out the family tree.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
25. Margaret, baptized October 22, I693, married Adolph Myer,
October 25, I716, had five children.
26. Cornelia, born March 4, I696, married Ryck Lent, December
26, 1722, had four children.
27. Johannes, baptized May 22, I698, married Elizabeth Benson,
December IO, 1719, had two children, and died December
I0, 1724.
28. Resolved, born May 6, 1702, married Mattie Quackenbush,
May 9, 1729, had seven children, and died January Io,
I761.
29. Samuel, born about I705, married Engeltie Myers, 1725, had
one child, and died in 1752. Bought his father's farm
and stock, November 17, 1748, his widow, Engeltie, occupying the farm till the Revolution. His heirs sold it
to John Delancey, July Io, 1776, the principal heir being
his daughter, Engel, who married November I6, 1766,
Lawrence Myer, father of Samuel Myer.
Samuel Waldron (9), (son of Resolved), purchased the
paternal farm upon Van Keulen's Hook, November 25, I69o, as
before mentioned. He married Neeltie, daughter of Francis
Bloodgood, of Flushing, March 5, I692.* Waldron was among
the first to discard the common fences. On October 26, I704, he
gave notice that he should do so, and, within a year and six weeks,
fence in his lands on Van Keulen's Hook. The same notice was
given by Arent Bussing; and also by Johannes Waldron, Joost
and Peter Van Oblienis, and Barent Nagel, owning lots on Jochem
Pieters. Waldron had a share in the Hoorn Frigate, a somewhat
noted vessel, which, being sent out by Governor Sloughter on the
public service, was captured by the enemy. In I7IO he bought
the John Delamater lands, including the Hoorn's Hook farm, two
north gardens (see page 484), a lot on Montanye's Flat, and No.
I, Van Keulen's Hook, the last adjoining his farm there, which
embraced lots 2, 3, and half of 4. This farm he sold, March 23,
1711, to Capt. Charles Congreve and John James, reserving the
morgen rights, but allowing the purchasers "all those undivided
* Capt. Frans Jansen Bloodgood, or Bloetgoet, as then written, was from Amsterdam, and one of the early colonists to New Amstel, whither he was accompanied by his
wife, Lysbeth Jans, a native of Gouda, and an infant, Geertie. In 1659 he came to
New Amsterdam, but settled in Flushing, owning, when he died, land, cattle and
sheep. On May 24, 1674, he was commissioned chief officer of the Iutch militia of.
Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. Two years after, "being sorely wounded
and very weak," he gave directions as to his property, and died December 20, 1676.
His widow, three years later, married Wouter Gysberts, from Hilverzum. His children were Geertie, born 1658 at Amsterdam, married John Marston; Adriana, born
I660, married Hendrick Hegeman; Isabella, born 1662, married Ide Van Schaick;
Judith, born I665, married Johannes Wynkoop; William, born 1667; Neeltie, born
1670, married Samuel Waldron; John, born 1672, and Lysbeth, born I675, and unmarried in I698. At this date John and his wife Mary were living at Flushing.
William belonged to Lieut. Schuvler's troop in 1687, was elected one of the first
vestrymen for Jamaica parish in 1703, and in 1714 was justice of the peace. Descendants of Frans Bloodgood went to Albany in the next century (Pearson); and the
New York Directory witnesses to their increase in this city, some of them distinguished for their wealth.
WALDRON FAMILY.
699
sixteen acres of land in the commons of Harlem, of the first and
second draft belonging to the said Samuel Waldron." On selling
this farm to John Van Horn, March 27, 1711, Congreve substituted for this sixteen acres his lot No. 7, Second Division, retaining his lot in First Division, which he sold, December 26, I7I3,
to Johannes Waldron. Removing to Hoorn's Hook, Samuel
Waldron secured a patentee deed for his new farm, of II5 acres,
December 20, 1712. For his draft lots see page 592, also Appendix J. He sold, prior to I715, his lot in First Division to
Abram Delamontanie, his Second Division to Samson Benson, and
Third Division to Johannes Benson. He got an additional ten
acres from Peter Van Oblienis in 1720. Its situation is not
clearly shown; but what is said (Oblenis family) may be compared with the further reference to it here. Waldron died in
I737, his lands, now rated I56 acres, passing to his son Johannes,
and from him, in I74I, to his brother William, who the year following conveyed part of the farm (17 acres, say the Hopper place)
to his brother Benjamin, and the lot on Montanye's Flat, with lot
No. I2, Fourth Division, and four acres of the ten-acre lot aforesaid to his brother Peter. William kept three acres of the last lot,
and the remaining three acres were bought by Hendrick Myer,
apparently because adjacent to the Gloudie Point Farm, which
Myer had recently purchased (see page 602). If not here, we
know not where to locate this ten-acre lot. From William and
Benjamin the title to the farm is readily traced. (See Appendix H.)
SAMUEL (9), (SON o0 RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
30. Johannes, born December 23, I693, died without issue, November 7, I741. He was assistant alderman of the Out
Ward from I73I to I737, excepting one year. A stone,
rudely inscribed IWxDx23xAOxI693x and rescued by
*Mr. Rufus Prime from the venerable Waldron house
(88th Street, north side, a little east of Avenue A), when
its walls were demolished in I870, takes us back to the
boyhood of Johannes Waldron; his own record, no doubt,
of his initials and birthday, "Johannes Waldron, December 23, Anno I693."
3I. Francis No. i, born September I, 1695, died December 19,
I695.
32. Francis No. 2, born February 14, 1697, married Catherine
Brunneal, had thirteen children, and died in I765.
33. Resolved, baptized May 14, 1699, married Jannetie Myer,
January 25, 1722, had four children, and died October 2I,
1772.
34. Elizabeth, born January 26, I70I, married Martin Beekman,*
* Martin Beekman is named by two respectable authorities (Our Home, page
492, Bergen Genealogy, page 348), as a descendant of Wilhelmus Beeckman, noticed
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
June 21, 1724, had five children, and died November 27,
176o.
35. Tanneke, born April 7, 1703, married Johannes Benson, September 17, 1722, but died without issue.
36. William, born February IO, 1705, married first, Angie Sammon, April 13, I729, second, Catherine Mandeville, October 6, 1734, and third, Antie Myer, August 24, I744. By
his three wives he had fourteen children, and died December 5, 1769.
37. Peter, born January 15, 1708, married Elizabeth Myer, January 24, 1732, had four children, and died July 12, 1772.
38. Samuel, born February 13, 1710, married Anna Delamater,
April 6, 1739, had eight children, and died August 23,
1771.
39. Benjamin, born November 15, 1714, married first, Elizabeth
on page 161. This is a mistake. Martin was the son of Hendrick and grandson of
Marten Iendricksen, of Fort Orange, or Albany, apparently the person so-called,
from Hamelwaard, in the duchy of Bremen, who came out in 1638, in the service
of the Patroon Van Rensselaer. Marten Hendricksen Beeckman was a sturdy blacksmith, such a character, we may judge, as gives dignity to labor, for during a residence of some years he maintained a good credit with the deacons, who loaned him
considerable sums, in i652 and later. By his wife, Susannah Jans, he had, as identified, five children, viz.: Hendrick, Johannes, Marten, Metie, who married Cornelis
Vanderhoof, of Albany, and Jan Bebout, of Brooklyn,7iai Neeltie, who married
Jacob Bennett, of Brooklyn. Johannes Martensen Beckman, who married Machtelt,
daughter of Jacob Schermerhorn, and Eva, daughter of John Vinhaegen, is noticed
in the works of Holgate and Pearson. His brother Marten married Neeltie, daughter
of Teunis and Engeltie Slingerlant, of Albany, removed, in I692, to New York, and
had, so far as known, seven daughters, but no sons.
Hendrick Martensen Beekman; of Scotia, near Schenectady, married Annetie,
daughter of Peter Quackenbos, and had issue, Martin, born I685; Susanna, born
i686; Lydia, born I689; Hendrick, born 1692; Mary, born I695; Peter, born I697,
and Magdalena, born I701. He removed to Somerset County, New Jersey, where he
was living on November 13, I7I0, when he bought from Octavio Conraets, of New
York, a large tract of land on the Raritan River, about three miles above Somervillc,
part of which is now occupied by the widow of ex-Sheriff Van Doren Vredenburgh.
Wilhelmus Beeckman's sons also owned various tracts on the Raritan, some of which
Dr. Geradus Beekman conveyed and devised to his son Hendrick, a merchant in New
York, and the two Hendricks being taken as one person has led to the error pointed
out at the beginning of this note. Hendrick M. Beekman died prior to September 20,
I735, as we find by an agreement of that date between his sons Martin and Peter,
and which states that they, with their brother Hendrick, had "hitherto jointly enjoyed" his lands. Peter Beekman, who died in 1773, left a widow, Grietie, and
daughters Leentie. married Fernandus Gulick, Annetie, married Peter Peterson, and
Neeltie, married Bernardus Van Zandt. Hendrick, brother of Peter, died a bachelor,
in his 77th year, March 19, 1767, and by will gave his property to the five children of
his brother Martin, deceased, said Martin having died October 27, I757, aged 72
years. These children (all by his wife Elizabeth Waldron, of Hoorn's Hook, whom
he married June 21, 1724, and who died November 27, 1760, aged 60 years), were,
Elizabeth, born August 30, 1725, married Francis Brazier, and died November 9, i8io;
Hendrick, born March 24, I727, married Phebe Bloomfield. and died January 26,
1796; Samuel, born November 26, 1729, married Elizabeth Waldron, of Newtown, I,.
I., and died October 19, 1808; Anna, born Tune 28, I714, married Johannes Waldron
November 12, 1766, and died September x. 1795 (lie died September io, T795), and
John, born November 5, 1741. Of these Hendrick and Phebe had eight children, of
whom Benjamin (born October 26, 1766, married Cornelia Beekman, and died March
21, I838), was father of Bloomfield Beekman, and of Elizabeth, now the respected
widow of Van Dorn Vredenburgh, Esq., deceased. Samuel and Elizabeth had five
children, of whom two were sons, viz.: Samuel and Martin, the last (born May 14,
I773, married Matilda Brokaw and Mary Powelson, and died August 26, 1844, in
Somerset County) having fourteen children. of whom Joseph B. was father of Revs.
John S. and Abraham J. Beekman. Martin's brother Samuel (born September 21,
1766, married Helena Ten Broeck, and died March 4, I85o, at Harlingen), was father
of Rev. Jacob Ten Broeck Beekman, born April Io, i8oI. married Ann Crawford, and
died April 23, 1875. being the father of Hon. George C. Beekman, of Freehold, N.
J., without whose friendly co-operation we may have been less successful in correcting
the current mistakes regarding the early history of this important branch of the
Beekman family.
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Sammon, September 19, 1736, had eight children. He
married second, Debora Nagle, July 23, 1762, and died
in 1782.
PETER (II), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
40. Engeltie No. I, baptized February 19, 1699, died young.
4I. William, born April 13, 1700, married Elizabeth Beekman,
January I9, 1720, had twelve children. Removed to the
City of New York, but eventually returned to Albany.
Was a mason. Will dated I768, proved I774.
42. Cornelia, baptized December 2, 1702, married Derick Bratt,
Jr., September 6, 1719, had two children.
43. Cornelius, baptized November I8, I705, married Jannetie Van
Ness, September 26, 1732, had eight children, and died
May I8, I756.
44. Engeltie No. 2, baptized May 23, 1708, died unmarried.
45. Catherine, baptized October 24, 1711, married Hendrick Van
Wie, October 2I, I732, had eight children.
46. Eva, baptized April II, I714, married John F. Whitbeck, May
9, I740, had six children.
47. Peter, baptized July 26, I7I7, died May 29, 1728.
48. Rebecca, baptized August 30, 1719, married John G. Yates,
November 28, I737, had seven children.
49. Gerrit, baptized April 7, 1723, married Maria de Forest, October 21, 1744, had eight children. A mason; removed to
to New York City.
HENDRICK (12), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
50. Stephen, born October 12, 1716, married Martha A. Pierce,
April 12, 1736, had six children.
5I. Samuel, born April 12, I715, married Deborah Vandenburgh,
May, I736, had six children.
52. Hendrick.
53. Maria.
54. William.
55. Rebecca.
WILLIAM (13), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
56. Resolved, baptized October 9, I706.
57. Rebecca, baptized December 21, I709.
58. William, baptized January 25, 1712, married Margrietye
Pieterse, had one child.
59. Johanna, baptized March 27, I715.
60. Deborah, baptized July 21, I7I7.
JOHANNES (19), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
6I. Barent, born November 6, I720, married Lena Gardenier,
June 9, 1744, had thirteen children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
62. Peter, born September 5, 1723, married Marritie Ackerman,
October Io, I747, had twelve children, and died in I806.
63. Isaac, born October 7, 1722, married Francina Flierboom, had
two children.
64. Cornelia, who married Jacob Gardenier, had four children.
65. Catherine, who married Reynier Quackenbush, had thirteen
children.
66. Rebecca, who married Jacob Flierboom, July 7, 1753, had one
child.
67. George, born January Io, 1732, married Annetta Hagerman,
January 10, 1752, had eight children.
JOHANNES (19) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
68. Hester, born April 23, I734, married William Williams, December Io, 1748.
69. Femmetye, baptized November 20, 1736, married Archey Williams, January 23, I753.
70. Jacobus, baptized October 24, 1738, married Claessie Quackenbush, had two children.
71. Margrietie, baptized January 12, I742.
72. Nicholas, baptized April I9, I746, married Marritje Ackerman, had five children.
Johannes Waldron (27), (son of Johannes), of the Hill,
married December IO, I719, Elizabeth, daughter of Samson Benson, but died December Io, I724. His widow married JohnRomer,
and went to live in Bergen County, New Jersey, but returned to
Harlem, where Romer purchased, in 1744, and held till the Revolution or later, the square plot in the village, south of the Church
Lane, which John P. Waldron devised, in I806, to his daughter
Cornelia, who married S. D. Ingraham.
JOHANNES (27) HAD ISSUE:
73. Johannes, born April 12, 1721, married first, Wyntie Terhune,
April 28, I745, had ten children. He married second,
Maria Vermilye, November I8, 1781, and died October,
I8I3.
74. Samuel, born May Io, 1723.
Resolved Waldron (28), (son of Johannes), of the Hill,
married May 9, 1729, Mattie, daughter of Adrian and Anna
Quackenbush, and removed to Hackensack, joining the church
there in I731. On April Io, I75I, he bought a farm of 135 acres
on Floris' Fall, at Haverstraw, to which, after his decease, January IO, 1761, his sons John and Jacob succeeded, purchasing from
the co-heirs, June 17, 1789, and making a division October 23,
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i8oo. Resolved being weak, made his will, December 22, I756;
it was proved June I, 1761.
RESOLVED (28), (SON 0F JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
75. Mary, born I730, married Abraham H. Lent.
76. John (Johannes), baptized May 28, 1732, married Elizabeth
Lamb, had one child.
77. Anna, born I733, married Johannes Springsteen.*
78. Catherine, born I735, married Alexander Bulen.
79. Adrian (Edward), born May 5, 1736, married Hannah Allison, January 6, I773, had seven children.
80. Jacob, born February I6, I737, married Catherine Lamb, February 6, 1765, had eight children, and died February 17,
1805.
8I. Elizabeth, born I740, married Patrick Hine.
SAMUEL (29), (SON O0 JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
82. Engeltie, who married Lawrence Meyer, November I6, 1766.
FRANCIS (32), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
83. Gertrude, born March 2, 1722.
84. Elizabeth, baptized December I6, 1722.
85. MIartha, born July 5, I724.
86. Neeltje, baptized October I8, I724.
87. Agnietie Neisje, baptized May I8, 1727.
88. Samuel, born March 3, I729, married Gertrude Van Ness,
May 12, I75I, had eight children, and died May 17, I791.
89. Hieronimus (Jerome), baptized October 14, 173I, married
Lydia -?, had six children.
go. Catherine (Catlyna), baptized May 19, I734.
91. John Obadiah, born March 21, 1738, married Nancy Hagerman, March 21, I765, had five children.
92. Francis, born March 20, 1739, married Nelly Hagerman, I76o,
had six children.
93. Johannes, born February -i, I740.
94. William, born March 13, 1744.
95. Tunis, born March 3, 1746.
Resolved Waldron (33), (son of Samuel), married January
25, 1722, Jannetie, daughter of Johannes Myer, settled near Har* The Springsteens have a good claim, in the matter of, ancestry, to the traditional "three brothers;" for to Joost and Johannes Springsteen, named in the Annals
of Newtown, page I30, as coming from Groningen in 1652, must be added Melle,
or Melchert, at Bushwick, 1663, who married Gertrude Bartelsen, became a freeman
of New York, January 23, I696, but ultimately removed to Rockland County. He
had sons Casparus, Juriaen and Isaac; the first the miller who went to Schenectady.
(See Pearson s Albany Settlers.) Caspar, of Haverstraw, 1702, son of Jqhagnes aforesaid, also left a family, whence, probably, Johannes named in the text. We have
gathered other items respecting the Springsteens, which would. aid in making up a
genealogy. The first were Swedes. The Delaware branch shortened the name to
Spring.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
lingen, N. J., where he was a deacon and elder; returned eventually and lived at Eastchester, then became a baker in New York,
and later a farmer in Brooklyn. He died there October 21, 1772,
and was buried in New York, administration on his estate being
granted on October 23d to his youngest son, Adolph, also of
Kings County, yeoman.
RESOLVED (33) HAD ISSUE:
96. Samuel, born 1723, married Mary Bassett, June IO, I749, had
ten children, and died October, I771. Was a farmer at
the ferry in Brooklyn.
97. John, baptized April 24, 1726, married Rebecca Bussing, February I, I759, had two children. "Of New York, mariner."
98. Adolph, born March 30, 1729, married Catharine, daughter
of Capt. Alexander Phoenix, March 15, 1758, had eight
children, and died August 25, I818. Was a baker and
shop-keeper.
99. Catharina, baptized September 17, I735.
William Waldron (36), (son of Samuel), born February Io,
I705, married April 13, 1729, Aagie, daughter of Jacob Sammon;
October 6, I734, Catharine, daughter of David Mandeville, and
as his third wife, August 24, I744, Antie, daughter of Adolph
Myer, who survived him. He was made constable in I734, and
soon after sergeant in the company of Capt. Stuyvesant. Enjoying the confidence of his townsmen, by whom on various occasions he was intrusted with the public interests, Mr. Waldron
fairly represented the stability and respectability so largely characteristic of the family. He died December 5, 1769, and was buried with his fathers in the old graveyard at Harlem.
WILLIAM (36) HAD ISSUE:
IOO. Tanneke, born April 22, I730, married Matthew Mandeville,
October 26, I75I, had seven children.
IOI. Jacobus, born November 6, I73I, died I740.
102. Aggie No. I, born August, I735.
103. David, born May 23, I737, married first, Cornelia Waldron,
December I, 1763, had four children. He married second,
Sarah Meyer, 1802, but died without issue by second wife,
October Io, 81I3.
Io4. Maria No. I, born January 8, died in infancy.
I05. Mary (Maria No. 2), born October 12, 1740, married first,
Stephen Brinckerhoff, April 3, I755, had one child. She
married second, John Vredenburgh, 1760, had three chil-.dren.
Io6. Samuel, born August 3, 1742, married Aefie Waldron, April
Io, I774, had four children, and died in 1798.
WALDRON FAMILY.
705
107. Aggie No. 2, born July 19, I745.
Io8. William, born September 11, 1746, married Lena Van Tassel, July 26, 1760, had six children.
Io9. Adolph, born April 4, I748, married Christina Zabriskie, September I2, I775, had seven children, and died April I,
1798.
IO. Margaret, born December 8, I749, married Abraham Lent,
January Io, I779, had eight children.
III. John, born November 3, I75I, married first, Elizabeth Oaks,
November 12, 1772, had five children. He married
second, Aletta Bicker, October 9, 1785, had eight children,
died September 19, I798. Was a tailor.
II2. Peter, born April 23, I754, married Edna Swartwout, February 21, 1796, had ten children, and died May Io, 1827.
II3. Benjamin, born February 15, I759, married Maria Brinckerhoff, December 5, I779, had seven children.
Peter Waldron (37), (son of Samuel), also called Petrus,
was named for his uncle, Peter Van Oblienis, to whose lands he
afterward succeeded. He married January 24, 1732, Elizabeth,
(laughter of Johannes Myer, and was made constable in I735. In
1738 he occupied the plot before of Peter Van Oblienis, and since
of James Chesterman (see page 172). Coming into possession
of the Oblienis farm on Van Keulen's Hook, Peter Waldron made
additions to that part of it which joined on the Church Lane.
One piece, known as "the hoeck", corner or end, "of the Klaaver
wey", or Clover Pasture (see page 307) and described as "lying
in the village of Harlem, aforesaid, bounded west against the land
now in possession of Peter Waldron, north by the highway, east
by the street or lane, south by the old lots of Van Keulen's Flats,"
was sold him by the town, May II, I747, for ~I6:IO, "upon condition that Maria Meyer may have a convenient way to her land."
A question between him and Benjamin Benson, who owned lots
7 to 9, Van Keulen's Hook, was settled by the award of May 30,
1753, which decided "that Peter Waldron hath a just right to,
and that he be at liberty to take in and enclose to his own use and
possession, a small slip of land which lies within the fence of said
Benjamin Benson, behind the Cloverwey, so as the same is now
staked out to him for that purpose." Waldron died July 12, 1772.
PETER (37) HAD ISSUE:
I I4. Cornelia, born December 19, I733, married David Waldron,
December I, 1763, had four children, and died March 28,
I796.
II5. Peter, born December I5, 1736, married Engeltie Meyer,
January 24, 1765, had one child.
II6. John, born June 30, 1741, died November 12, I74I.
706
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
rI7. John P., born April I, 1748, married Elizabeth Bend, I770,
had four children, and died in I806. At a meeting of the
Harlem freeholders, held at Mariner's Inn, December 19,
I80o, John P. Waldron and five others were chosen commissioners to carry into effect a plan for dividing up the
Harlem Commons among the freeholders, and laying an
annual ground-rent which should be applied to the support of an academy in said town. Register's Office, Deeds,
73:420.
Samuel Waldron (38), (son of Samuel), born February 13,
I7IO, was a blacksmith, married April 25, I735, Anna Delamater,
born July 15, 17I5, and removed to Newtown, Long Island, where
he bought a small farm, February 6, 1736; joined church at Newtown, Long Island, November I, I74I, and was an elder and a
deacon, and died August 23, I77I.
SAMUEL (38) HAD ISSUE:
18. Anne, born January 29, 1736, married Richard Rapelye.
II9. Samuel, born March 13, I738, married Hannah Van Alst,
March 4, 1763, had five children, and died September 4,
I799. Joined church at Newtown, L. I., November 24,
1788, was an elder there till I795. (See Annals of Newtown, page 381.)
120. John S., born June I8, 174I, died single, February I8, I795.
121. Elizabeth, born January 29, 1744, married Samuel Beekman,
December 5, I765, had five children.
122. Margaret, born July 13, 1746, married Jacobus Waldron,
March 1O, 1772, had three children, and died August 5,
I834.
123. Cornelia (Catherine), born September II, 1749, died, unmarried, April 5, I769.
124. William, born October 22, 1752, married Mary (Maria)
Waldron, May 20, 1781, had nine children, and died April
1824.
125. Benjamin, born February 25, I755, married first, Pheby
Wood, 1780, had two children. He married second,
Maria Southard, February 27, 1795, had nine children,
and died March 15, I830.
Benjamin Waldron (39), (son of Samuel), married September 19, 1736, Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Sammon, and 9n July
23, 1762, he married Debora Nagle. Obtaining the two lower
lots of the Hoorn's Hook farm, known as Nos. 3, 4, of the grants
of I677, he exchanged with John Brown, owning the Codrington
farm, giving the easterly half of these for the westerly half of
his lots Nos. I, 2, by which both tracts were made nearer square.
WALDRON FAMILY.
707
Waldron built on his part, and for many years carried on a tannery and shoe factory. He died in 1782, and the property passing
to Yellis Hopper, was thence known as the Hopper place, the
quaint old stone house standing till late on Second Avenue, west
side, between 83d and 84th Streets.
BENJAMIN (39), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
126. John, born April 2, 1739, married Anna Beekman, November
12, 1766, had two children, and died September IO, I795.
127. Elizabeth, born October 3, 1740, married Yellis Hopper, July
15, I759, had six children.
I28. Jacobus, born May 6, 1741, married Margaret Waldron,
March 10, 1772, had three children. Settled at Newtown, L. I., where he was a deacon of the church, November I5, 1795.
I29.. Benjamin, born September Io, 1743, married Hannah Van
Sise, March 10, I779, had three children, and died August,
1832.
130. Catalina, born June 5, 1744, married Samuel Delamater,
October 3, I756, had six children.
I3I. Aeffie, born April Io, 1746, married Samuel Waldron, April
10, I774, had four children, and died April I8, 1825.
I32. Cornelia, born November 3, 1747, married Ide Hennion, June
14, 1760, had seven children.
I33. Eve, who married Robert Boyle, March 12, I758.
WILLIAM (41), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I34. Pieter, born April Io, 1720, married first, Neeltie Lansing,
December 3, 1743, had six children. He married second,
Antje Onderkerk, April 14, 1764, had seven children.
I35. Neeltie No. I, baptized August 13, 1721, died young.
136. Tryntje (Catharine), baptized September 23, 1722, married
Arent Van Deusen, April 20, I745, had two children.
I37. Martin, baptized November 22, 1725.
I38. Susanna, baptized September II, 1726.
I39. Cornelia No. I, baptized January Io, 1728, died young.
140. Cornelia No. 2, baptized August 22, I730, married Patrick
Clark, had ten children.
I4I. Neeltie No. 2, baptized December 24, 1732, married Folkert
Vandenbergh, May Io, I755, had seven children.
142. Anna No. I, baptized June 22, I735,-died young.
I43. Anna No. 2, baptized February 5, I738.
I44. James (Jacobus), born October IO, I740, married Catherine
Vanburen, November Io, I764, had three children.
I45. Elizabeth, baptized August I6, 1741, married Frederick
Meinerssen, April 23, 1765, had nine children.
708
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
CORNELIUS (43), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
146. Pieter, born June IO, I734, married Rachel Vandenbergh,
had one child.
I47. Evert, born May 8, 1736, died June 20, I829.
148. Garret, born May 31, 1738, married Catherine Van Denburgh, November 26, 1761, had ten children, and died in
I829.
I49. Geertje, born February 22, 1741, married Nicholas Groesbeck, June 27, I766, had eight children.
I50. Cornelius, born May 17, 1743, married Alida Goewey, July
2, I769, had seven children.
I5I. Hendrick (Capt.), born May 2, I745, married Margarita
Van Vranken, November 26, I77I, had nine children.
152. Tryntje (Catherine), born November 25, I747, married
Nicholas Vandenbergh, January 3, 1779, had seven children.
I53. Willem (William), born March 3, I749, married Margarita
Van der Werken, February Io, I777, had eight children,
and died November 26, I832.
GERRIT (49), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I54. Pieter, baptized June 15, I746, died young.
I55. Tryntje (Catherine), baptized August IO, 1748, married
Alexander Exceen, April 13, I769, had two children.
I56. Engeltie No. I, baptized December 20, I749, died young.
I57. Peter, baptized September 15, I75I.
I58. Johannes No. I, baptized March 24, I754, died young.
I59. Cornelius, baptized October 2, I755.
I6o. John (Johannes No. 2), baptized June 4, I758.
I6I. Engeltie No. 2, baptized August 17, I760.
STEPHEN (50), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
I62. Joseph, born May 23, I737, married Anna Shaw, March Io,
I757.
I63. Robert.
I64. Sylvester.
I65. Nancy.
I66. Betsey.
167. Hannah.
SAMUEL (51), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
I68. Abiather, born I750, married Malinda Ostrander, I775, had
eight children.
I69. William.
I70. Hendrick.
I7I. Samuel.
WALDRON FAMILY.
709
172. Deborah.
173. Maria.
WILLIAM (58), (SON or WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I74. Andreas, born November 29, I743, baptized December 25,
I743.
BARENT (6I), (SON OS JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
I75. Rachel, baptized April 20, 1745.
I76. Susanna, baptized July 26, I747, married William Peterson,
had one child.
I77. Albartus, baptized June 9, I750, married Rachel Haring,
1785, had two children, and died April 27, I833.
I78. Johannes, born July 25, 1752, married Annatye Blauvelt, had
two children.
I79. Barent, born November 20, I754.
I80. Jacobus (James), born February 24, I757, married Lydia
Haring, had two children, and died April I8, 1836.
I8I. Isaac, born June 7, I759.
182. Jannetee, born May 22, 1761, married Cornelius Peterson,
had four children.
I83. Rebecca, born December I8, I763, married Johannes Van
Hoorn, January 22, I794, had two children.
I84. Abraham, baptized October 26, 1766, married Elizabeth
Crum, had three children.
185. Petrus, born December II, 1768, married Charity King,
October 2, I798.
I86. Margrietje, born February 15, I771.
I87. Helena, baptized February 28, I779.
PETER (62), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
I88. Johannes, baptized April 25, I749.
I89. Maretje (Maria), baptized August 19, I750, married Abraham Van Tassell, October 3, I769, had four children.
I9o. David, baptized September II, I75I, married first, Elizabeth
Sempee, July 25, 1773, had one child. He married
second, Mrs. Fanny Morgan, 1778, had two children, and
died November 9, I819.
19I. Jannetje, baptized July 5, 1752.
I92. Isaac No. I, baptized November 24, I756, died young.
I93. Isaac No. 2, baptized October 24, 1758.
I94. Petrus, baptized February 4, 1761.
I95. William, baptized September I8, I763.
I96. Catherina, baptized December 22, 1765.
I97. Jacobus, baptized July 17, 1768.
I98. Abraham, born April I, I770, married first, Mary Conklin,
7IO
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
May IO, I797, had six children. He had a second wife,
by whom he had three children, and died in I834.
I99. Henrikus, baptized January 30, I773.
ISAAC (63), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
200. Margrietje, born August II, I75I, married John Taylor, had
two children.
201. John, born December 13, 1760, married Aeltje Onderdonck,
had seven children.
GEORGE (67), (SON oF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
202. Joseph, born May 23, 1753, married Emily Pierce, May 15,
I776, had one child.
203. George, born I755.
204. Thomas, born I758.
205. Anna, born I760.
206. William, born I76I.
207. Philip, born April 10, I763, married Anna Catherine Keller,
April Io, 1786, had nine children, and died January I,
I857.
208. Maria, born I767.
209. Ely, born I767, was the father of three children.
JACOBUS (70), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
210. Susanna, born May 2I, 1766, married John Coe, had one
child.
211. Jacob, born December 2, I767.
NICHOLAS (72), (SON Or JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
212. Marritje, born I770.
2I3. Rebecca, born I77I.
214. Johannes, born January 24, I773, married Sarah Levines,
September 20, 1796, had eight children.
2I5. Abraham, born 1715.
216. Nicholas, born I777.
Johannes (73), (son of Johannes), built a house on the Commons, at 96th Street, at the junction of Kingsbridge Road with
the Bloomingdale New Cross Road, also called Apthorpe's or
Jauncey's Lane. Though originally, we believe, without a written
title to the land he had inclosed, he continued in possession till
his death in October, 1813, at the age of 91 years. His old house,
which stood in Central Park, was afterward burned. He was
twice married, first April 28, I745, to Wyntie Terhune, of Hackensack, N. J., and secondly November I8, 1781, to Maria Vermilye; by the first wife having a large family, his son, Samuel
Benson, succeeding to his "possession."
WALDRON FAMILY.
7iI
JOHANNES (73) HAD ISSUE:
217. John, baptized March 23, I746.
218. Elizabeth, baptized November 15, I747, married William
Sandallen, April 20, I764.
219. Albert, born I749.
220. Antie (Anna), baptized November Io, I75I, married Samuel
Jones, I767.
221. Peter, baptized March 20, I753, married Hannah Van Blarcom, April 17, I774, but died without issue in I780.
222. Oliver, born November 12, 1753, married Sarah Jay, June
10, 1778, had six children. Of New York; freeman.
223. Geesje, baptized July 7, I754.
224. Marytie, born January I, 1756, married William Shaw, had
twelve children, and died April II, I8I9.
225. Samuel Benson, born August 28, 1757, married first, Gertrude Somerndyke, June 10, 1782, had two children. He
married second, Polly Holmes, in 1824, and died in 1848.
226. Benjamin, born May 12, 1762, married Sarah Vermilye,
1790, died at his residence, near St. Mark's Church, New
York City, about 1823.
JOHN (76), (SON OF RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
227. John, born December 25, I780.
ADRIAN (79), (SON OF RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
228. John, born July I8, I774, married Anna Gardener, September 3, 1798, had twelve children.
229. Edward, born July 15, 1779, married Annie Secor, had ten
children.
230. Resolvert E., born July 29, 1781, married Elizabeth Ten
Eyck, had nine children.
23I. Joseph, who married Katherine Demarest,,had nine children.
232. Elizabeth, who married David Babcock.
233. Deborah, who married Anthony Call.
234. Martha, who married James Du Boice.
JAcoB (80), (SON OF RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
235. Jacob, born August 6, 1766, died single, September 3, I787.
236. Resolved No. i, born February 19, 1768, died young.
237. Abraham, born March I4, I769, married Maria Deronda,
April 6, I791, had ten children, and died May 19, I8I5.
238. Rachel, born November I, I772, married John Blauvelt, and
died October io, I795.
239. Resolved No. 2, born July 8, I775, married, but died without
issue, June 17, I856.
240. Catherine, born July 20, 1777, married George Weiantt,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
February Io, 1796, had ten children, and died March 25,
I85I.
241. Margaret, born December 4, 1781, died, unmarried, in 1872.
242. Hannah, born July Io, I785, married Blanchard.
SAMUEL (88), (SON OF FRANCIS), HAD ISSUE:
243. Samuel Van Ness, born August 19, 1752, married Magdalena Simpson, April 26, I774, had ten children, and died
January 23, I849.
244. Mary (Polly), born October Io, I753.
245. Maria, born April Io, I754, married William Waldron,
May 20, I78I, had nine children.
246. Francis, born May 12, I755, died December 25, 1799.
247. Jeremiah, born 1756.
248. Jerome, born May II, I760, married Maria Hagerman, September 6, 1780, had four children.
249. Catherine, born April 12, 1762, married Francis Hagerman.
250. John, born September I8, I769.
HIERONIMUS (JEROME) (89), (SON OF FRANCIS),
HAD ISSUE:
251. Derick (Richard), born January 15, 1764, married Elizabeth Weezer, September I9, I790, had thirteen children.
252. Francis, born I767.
253. John, born I769, married Maria Van Fleet, had eight children.
254. Tanneke, baptized May 23, 1773, married first, Noah Phillips, had eight children. She married second, Stout.
255. Elizabeth, who married Hardenbrook.
256. Catherine, who married Isaac Huff, had one child.
JOHN OBADIAH (9I), (SON OF FRANCIS), HAD ISSUE:
257. Francis, born 1761, married Nancy Petit, 1782, had four
children, and died in I835.
258. Derick (Richard).
259. John.
260. Nancy.
261. William, born September 12, I780, married Sarah Lunger,
I8I3, had five children.
FRANCIS (92), (SON OF FRANCIS), HAD ISSUE:
262. Jerome, born November I, 1760, married Elizabeth Van
Fleet, September Io, 1786, had six children, and died
January 5, 1848.
263. Samuel, born August 11, 1762, married Nelly Van Fleet,
May 20, 1783, had six children, and died March 6, 1838.
WALDRON FAMILY.
7I3
264. Maria (Mary), born I763.
265. Catherine, born I766.
266. Francis, born I767.
267. Nelly, born I769.
SAMUEL (96), (SON OO RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
268. Catherine, baptized July 25, I750, married Captain Nicholas
P. Bogert, had five children.
269. Johannes No. I, baptized October 9, I75I, died young.
270. Maria, baptized September 26, I753, married Elias Nexsen,
October 3, I775, had six children.
271. Margaret, baptized August 20, I755, married Frederick de
la Montagnie, I775.
272. Samuel, baptized September 14, I757.
273. William, baptized August 5, I759, died in infancy.
274. Elsie, baptized August 5, I759, married Peter Parcels, I779,
had five children.
275. John (Johannes No. 2), baptized May I6, 1761, married
Maria Vandenburgh, 1782.
276. Jannetje (Jane), baptized June Io, I763, married Elias Nexsen, I795.
277. Efje (Eve), baptized January 27, I765.
JOHN (97), (SON OF RESOLVED), HAD ISSUE:
278. Mary (Maria), baptized June 20, I762, married Samuel
Myer, 1782.
279. John (Johannes), baptized September 29, I77I.
Adolph Waldron (98), (son of Resolved), born March 30,
I729, of New York, baker and shop-keeper, married March 15.
1758, Catharine, daughter of Capt. Alexander Phoenix, removed
to Eastchester, returned to New York, sold out here after the
death of his brother Samuel, and became a farmer and innkeeper
at Brooklyn ferry. In 1775 he was made captain of the troop
of light-horse and soon called into active service to guard the
coast. During the war he lived at Preakness, New Jersey. In
I795 he sold his Brooklyn property, and died in 1802.
ADOLPH (98) HAD ISSUE:
280. Catharine No. I, born March Io, 1759, died young.
281. Elizabeth No. I, born April 13, 1761, died April 26, I775.
282. Resolvert (Capt.), born August 13, 1763, married Elizabeth
Godwin, January 30, 1782, had four children, and died
June 6, I8Io. "Of New York; shipmaster."
283. Alexander Phcenix, born September 13, 1765, married first,
Maria, daughter of Rev. Harmanus Meier, April 8, 1789,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
had three children. He married second, Hannah Robertson, December II, I796, had two children, and died October 6, I798.
284. Catherine No. 2, born December 12, I768, married David
Godwin, March I8, 179I, had four children.
285. Maria, born October 12, I770.
286. Jane, born June 30, 1772, married Dr. John R. Campbell,
November 28, I792, had eleven children.
287. Elizabeth No. 2, born September 3, I777, died unmarried,
June 9, 8o02.
DAVID (103), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
288. Catherine, born December I, I766, married Jonathan Randell, January 19, I794, had five children.
289. William, born May 3, 1767, married Mary Boyce, October
17, I789, had three children, and died in I8II.
290. Eliza, born September 8, I769, married John Dawson, May
23, I790, had three children, and died January 4, I802.
29I. Peter, born March 8, I777, married Sarah Williams, I8Io,
had two children, and died in 1830.
SAMUEL (IO6), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
292. Elizabeth, born I778, died young.
293. Samuel Resolved, born September 7, 1780, married Gertrude Waldron, May 12, 1805, had eight children, and
died December 31, 1824.
294. David, born December 15, 1788, died single in 1814.
295. Benjamin, born September 5, I792, died young.
WILLIAM (IO8), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
296. Joseph, baptized February 13, 1762.
297. Anna, baptized February I2, 1764.
298. Johannes, baptized August 27, 1767.
299. Effye, baptized June 3, I770.
300. Catherine, baptized November 20, I774.
301. John, born June I, I776.
ADOLPH (IO9), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
302. William, born July 23, I776, died single, March 14, I807.
303. Catherine, born September 17, 1778, died unmarried, October 2, I798.
304. Wilhelmus, born December 27, I780.
305. Antje (Anna), born September 23, 1783, married John
Young, had four children, and died June I8, 1825.
306. Tunis A., born April Io, 1786, married first, Julia St. John,
had five children. He married second, Amanda Buckley,
WALDRON FAMILY.
715
June 28, 1834, had two children, and died March 2, I86i.
307. Sarah, born October 29, 1788, married Thomas Williams,
had three children, and died in I862.
308. Benjamin A., born November I8, 1794, married Ann M.
Donelsen, October 12, I816, had two children, and died
February I8, I828.
JOHN (III), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WISE:
309. Anna, born September I8, I773, married Robert H. Towt,
June Io, 1793, had six children, and died August I, I863.
3I1. William J., born October 13, I774, married first, Elizabeth
Montanye, May 5, 1796, had five children. He married
second, Anna Collister, November I, 1831, and died April
15, I85I. Was a grocer and assistant alderman, I8II.
3I1. Thomas, born April 26, 1776, died single, December 17,
I794.
312. Eve, born June 13, 1778, married Abraham Freelove, November 26, 1796, had three children, and died January
20, I805.
313. Elizabeth, born November 20, 1780, died unmarried, September I9, I798.
JOHN (III) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
314. Nelly Bicker (Elinor), born February 20, 1786, married
William Seamon, March 23, I805, had ten children, and
died October 9, I86o.
315. John Vredenburgh, born July I6, 1788, married Maria Williams, April 23, I8I8, and died April 9, I825.
316. Ann Catherine, born November 20, 1789, died September 2,
I790.
317. Victor Bicker No. I, born July I, I79I, died August 30,
1792.
318. Margaret, born October I6, 1792, married Ebenezer Baldwin Nuttman, April 4, I815, had four children, and died
May 12, 1871.
3I9. Maria, born September 26, I794, married James Calvert
Faulkner, September 26, I8I5.
320. Annetje, born February 24, I796, married James Gillespie,
March 9, I8I5,'and died December, I876.
321. Victor Bicker No. 2, born February 8, I798, married
Catharine Deliverance Adeline Mapes, October 15, 1822,
had four children, and died March 3, 1848.
PETER ( I2), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
322. Edward H., born April 22, I798, died single, 1884.
323. Sarah Hunting, born April 28, 800o, married John Bedford,
February 20, 1828, had two children.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
324. Jacobus Swarthout, baptized April IO, I802.
325. Anna Rebecca, baptized January I, 1804, married Abraham
Rappelye, December 20, 1836, had ten children, and died
January 14, I868.
326. Letta, born 1804, died unmarried.
327. Alletie Swarthout, born April 13, i8o6.
328. Four other children that died young.
BENJAMIN (II3), (SON 0or WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
329. Mereca (Maria), baptized November 26, 1780, married John
Hoogland, January 8, I8o6, had five children.
330. Willem (William), born December 3, 1782, married Sarah
Wood, I809, had six children.
33I. Anna, born October I6, I783.
332. John Brinkerhoff, born October I8, 1787, married Jane
Sleight, February 28, I8i6, had two children.
333. Peter, baptized May 21, I790.
334. Stephen Brinkerhoff, baptized November 14, I793, married
Susan -?, had two children, and died March 7, 1850.
335. Benjamin, born November 20, I8oo.
PETER (115), (SON OE PETER), HAD ISSUE:
336. Susannah, born January 20, I766, married Peter Myer, 1786.
JOHN P. (II7), (SON o0r PETER), HAD ISSUE:
337. Peter, born 1772.
338. Grove Bend, born I776.
339. John P., Jr., born 1780, married Catherine Maria McGown,
- 812, had one child.
340. Cornelia, born I784, married Samuel Dana Ingraham, I804.
SAMUEL (II9), (SON or SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
341. Aletta, born December 8, 1763, married Adrian Montfort,
1783, had three children, and died July 29, I802.
342. Anna, born July 25, I765, married Isaac Bragaw, August
I6, 1782, had nine children, and died March, 1814.
343. Hannah, born November 15, I770, married Edward Moore,
1792, and died November, I854.
344. Samuel, born July I6, I775, married first, Ann Emmons,
February 3, I803, had four children. He married
second. Mary Rider, had one child, and died May 6, I856.
345. Cornelia, born March 10, 1788, married Dr. Joseph Rodgers
(or Rogers), I8oo, had three children, and died April I9,
1814.
WILLIAM (124), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
346. Samuel No. I, born February 3, 1782, died August 25, I784.
WALDRON FAMIILY.
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347. Jerome (Jeremiah), born April 12, I783.
348. Samuel No. 2, born September 29, 1784, married Sarah
Stout, June 24, I813, had ten children, and died January
23, I870.
349. John, born December 30, 1786, married Lydia Hagerman,
June II, I8II, but died without issue, February II, I867.
350. William, born January 12, 1789, married Hester Matthews,
February 2, 1814, had nine children, and died November
14, I833.
35I. Richard, born March 2, I79I, married Mary Stout, June 12,
I813, had five children, and died August 6, I826.
352. Francis, born July 29, I793, died September IO, I793.
353. Anna, born November I8, I798, died March 13, i8oo.
354. Elizabeth, born February 25, I8o0, died unmarried, July 9,
I847.
BENJAMIN (I25), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
355. Samuel, baptized November 18, 1781.
356. Benjamin, born I790, died young.
BENJAMIN (125) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
357. Elizabeth, born I792, married Franklin Roe, had three children, and died in I865.
358. Benjamin, born September 15, 1795, married Sarah A.
Eiden, and died April IO, 1874.
359. Emily, born I8oo, married James Pine, December 30, I827,
had six children, and died in I875.
360. Thomas, born September, 1802, married Charlotte Bloomfield, 1830, had nine children, and died in I86I.
36I. Mary, born December 30, 1807, married Thomas Bowie,
had five children, and died May 11, I868.
362. Anna, born 1817, married first, John Caden, had one child.
She married second, Parsells, had six children, and
died in I882.
363. Amelia, born August 3, I818, married Robert P. Pierson,
September 6, 1846, had two children, and died February
I, I889.
364. James, born I819, was the father of six children, and died
in I883.
365. Catherine, born 1821, married Jacob Melvin, I840, had five
children. She deceased.
JOHN (I26), (SON 0I BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
366. Elizabeth, born December 6, 1771, married Hendrick Van
Arsdale, October I6, i8oo, had two children.
367. Anna.
718
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
JACOBUS (128), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
368. Benjamin, born December 22, 1780, married Rachel Wilmorth, November 25, 1803, had ten children, and died
September 6, I834.
369. Margaret, born September Io, 1782, married John Lott.
370. Antje (Anna), born June I2, 1785, married John D. Bough,
I8o6.
BENJAMIN (I29), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
37I. Gertrude, born January 5, 1784, married Samuel Waldron,
May 12, 1805, had eight children.
372. James, born 1786, married Mary Gellen, had four children.
373. Elizabeth Maria, baptized October 5, 1788.
PIEITER (134), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFrE:
374. Elizabeth, born July 7, I745.
375. Jannettie, baptized April 7, I75I, married Nicholas Jerolamen, May 14, 1770, had eight children.
376. Willem (William) No. I, baptized June 17, I753, died
young.
377. Willem (William) No. 2, baptized April 20, I755, married
Catherine Van Derzee, had two children.
378. Machtelt, baptized November 27, I757.
379. Susanna, born October 7, 1763.
PIETER (134) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
380. Cornelis, born February 6, I769.
38I. Abraham, born September 13, 177I, married first, Hannah
Christancy, April 17, 1793, had six children. He married
second, Hannah Quackenbush, November 30, 1803, had
two children.
382. Evert, born October 8, I773.
383. Hester No. I, baptized June 6, I776, died young.
384. Hester No. 2, baptized November 23, I778.
385. Isaac, baptized April 8, 1781..386. Tryntje (Catherine), born June 3, I785.
JAMES (JACOBUS) (0I4), (SON Of WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
387. James, born August 28, 1767, married Eytie Ten Eyck,
March 3, 1788, had seven children, and died March 23,
I813.
388. Philip, born August 28, I767.
389. Aeffie, born June 26, 1776, died unmarried, January I, 1826.
PIETER (146), (SON Of CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
390. Cornelia, born August 29, 1768.
WALDRON FAMILY.
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GARRET (148), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
39I. Cornelius G., born January 28, 1763, married Catherine
Becker, December 12, I790, had five children, and died
July 15, I813.
392. Annatie (Hannah), born October 12, 1764, married Evert
Ostrander, February 3, 1788, had nine children, and died
1820.
393. Wynand, born December I8, 1766.
394. Peter, born November II, 1768, married Margaret Steenburgh, August 2, 1791, had seven children, and died
March 23, I847.
395. Abram, born April 14, I77I, married Helen Clute, January
3, 1794, had one child.
396. Evert G., born October 17, I773, married Elizabeth Van
Derwerken, April 24, I797, had thirteen children, and
died March 28, I86o.
397. Henry G., born November II, I774, married Gitty Van
Derwerken, September I2, I8II, had nine children, and
died March 28, 1858.
398. Jeannettie, born March 15, 1776, died, unmarried, September, I843.
399. Gisebert, born February ii, 1778, married Margaret Crawbank, May 12, I802, had ten children, and died May 6,
I830.
400. William G., born November 9, 1783, married Judith Brodt,
May 9, 1804, had fourteen children, and died March 7,
1874.
CORNELIUS (I50), (SON OE CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
401. Cornelius, born March 4, I770, married Susanna Wermer,
had thirteen children.
402. Benjamin, born February i, 1772, married Elizabeth Borst,
October 28, I798,.had seven children.
403. Hendrick, born February 17, 1774.
404. Solomon, born August 30, I776.
405. Pieter C., born April 7, I779, married Caty Winne, March
8, 1802, had ten children.
406. Gerrit, born July 24, 1781, married Hannah Devoe, December, 1803, had four children, and died August, 1847.
407. Evert, born April 19, 1785, married Mary Earl, 1813, had
nine children.
HENDRICK (I5I), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
408. Cornelius, born December I8, 1772, married Hester Van
Aernam, June 7, I796, had six children.
409. Richard (Ryckert), born September 23, I774, married Catherine Peak.
720
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
4Io. Jannettie (Jane), married Henry Van Aernam, August 6,
I793, had six children.
4II. Maas (Moses), born March 6, I779.
412. Nancy (Anna), who married Capt. George Young, had three
children.
4I3. William, who married Elizabeth Winne, had two children.
414. Christina, born May 3, 1788, married Jacob Hallenbeck, had
five children.
4I5. Henry, born December 25, 1790, married Julia N. Newman,
April 21, I818, had six children, and died December 31,
I829.
416. Gertrude, born April 27, I792, married first, Evert M. Barkley, had three children. She married second, Dr. Jonathan Johnson.
WILLEM (WILLIAM) (153), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD
ISSUE:
4I7. Cornelius W., born September 22, 1778, married Jane Van
Wie, January 20, I802, had four children, and died I852.
418. Maria, baptized February 12, 1781, married Peter Yates,
March 8, I801, had five children.
4I9. Jenny (Jane), born March 29, 1783, married Peter Van
Veghten, June 20, 1802, had two children, and died 1876.
420. Henrietta (Hendrickye), baptized April 2, 1786, married
Cornelius Yates, March 2, I805, had seven children, and
died July 8, i868.
421. William W., born May 26, I790, married Phebe Buckhout,
had twelve children, and died August 24, I85I.
422. Hannah (Annatie), born January 25, I793, married James
Webster, December 2, I812, had six children.
423. Tunis, born April 30, 1796, married Mary Ann Story, had
two children, and died December 28, I874.
424. Charity, born December 28, 1798, died young.
ABIATHER (I68), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
425. Samuel, born I780, married Rhoda Grennels, had eight children.
426. James.
427. John.
428. Moses.
429. Silas.
430. Linus.
43I. Malinda.
432. Florilla.
ALBARTUS (I77), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
433. Feytye (Sophia), baptized August 5, 1787, married George
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W. Woods, had six children, and died May 23, 1826.
434. Peter, who died November 19, I850.
JOHANNES (178), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
435. Miargrietye, born February 17, I776.
436. Barent, baptized July 5, 1778.
JACOBUS (JAMES) (I80), (SON OF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
437. Johannes, born August 27, I796.
438. Peter, born August I, I80o, died October I6, I826.
ABRAHAM (184), (SON oF BARENT), HAD ISSUE:
439. Caty, born August 26, 1797.
440. John, born August 12, I8oo.
441. Peggy, born June 29, I805.
DAVID (I90), (SON 1F PETER), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
442. Mary, baptized September I8, I774.
DAVID (I90) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
443. James, born 1780, died single, I798.
444. Joseph, born August 28, 1784, married Martha Perry, 1803,
had eight children.
ABRAHAM (I98), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
445. Betsey, born March I8, I798, married Truman Southwick,
November 25, I8I9, had eleven children, and died July
Io, I865.
446. Mary, born April II, i8oo, married John Greenfield, had
five children.
447. Amy, born May 4, 1802, married John Kent, no issue.
448. David, born September IO, I803.
449. Joseph, born December 15, I804, married Rebecca Doane,
1825, had ten children.
450. Almira, born July 31, I805, married Jacob Hinds, 1826, had
five children, and died January 29, I874.
JOHN (20I), (SON OF ISAAC), HAD ISSUE:
45I. Abraham, born April 4, I793.
452. Antje (Anna), born July 23, 1795.
453. Sarah, born July 17, I797.
454. Aeltje, born September 28, I799.
455. John, born January 3, I802.
456. Femmetye, born January 17, 1804.
457. William, born August 4, I805.
722
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
JOSEPH (202), (SON OF GEORGE), HAD ISSUE:
458. Stephen, born February 4, I780, married first, Martha Wescoat, September 15, I80o, had three children. He married second, Lucinda Picksley, had five children.
PHILIP (207), (SON OF GEORGE), HAD ISSUE:
459. Sarah, born 1787, married John Hoever.
460. Thomas, born I789.
46I. James, born 1791, married Mary Reade, had two children,
died June, I885.
462. Hosanna, born I793, married first, John Boots, I811, had
one child. She married second, Mitchell Sellars, I819,
had six children.
463. George, born 1797, married Charlotta Morley, had four children.
464. John, born I799, married MAary Doty Anthony, had four
children.
465. Solomon, born I799, was the father of twenty-two children
by his three wives.
466. Elizabeth, born 1805, married William Graves, March 25,
1824.
467. Hiram, born June 26, I8IO, married Elsey Graves, October
30, 1830, had ten children, and died I858.
JOIIANNES (214), (SON OF NICHOLAS), HAD ISSUE:
468. John, born I797.
469. Nicholas, born I799.
470. Rebecca, born 800o, married Charles Porter.
47I. Maria, born I802, married Wesley Sherwood.
472. George, born April Io, 1804, married Mary Evarts, 1837,
and died I879.
473. Ophelia, born I805, married William Flanders.
474. Susan, born August, 1807, married Elijah Barton, August
IO, 1836, had four children, and died February 4, I84I.
475. Hannah, born I809, married Charles Gilbert.
OLIVER (222), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
476. Thomas (Dr.), born May 5, I779, died single.
477. Sarah, born June 3, 1781, married first, Capt. Ennes Hoyt,
June 3, 1795, had three children. She married second,
George Le Baron, I80o, had four children, and died I855.
478. Oliver, Jr., born April 15, I783, married Mary Ellen Sheppard, April IO, I8IO, had four children, and died about
1830.
479. Gertrude, born November 6, 1784.
480. Mary Sedallia, born April, 1788, married Robert Bogardus,
1802, had six children, and died before 1870.
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481. Eliza, born I790, married Edward Byrnes, 1812, had four
children, and died I877.
SAMUEL BENSON (225), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE:
482. John, born April 12, 1783, married Lydia Burroughs, July
20, 1822, had two children, and died I845.
483. Anna, born I790.
JOHN (228), (SON OF ADRIAN), HAD ISSUE:
484. Hannah, born May IO, I797, married Jacob I. Garrison,
November II, 1815, had four children, and died June 29,
1871.
485. Susan, born November 2, 1798, married John Stanton, October Io, 1822, had six children.
486. Edward, born September Io, 800o, married Maria C. Mandeville, November II, 1825, had seven children, and died
1851.
487. Harrison, born September IO, 1803, married Susan Olmstead, 1840, and died May 30, I875.
488. Phebe, born August 27, 80o4, married Philip Van Ornum,
February 28, 1830, had seven children, and died I886.
489. Nancy, born October 5, I806, married Robert Case, July I8,
1822, had five children, and died June 30, 1878.
490. Robert, born October 9, I808, married Nancy Holmes, July
I5, I833.
49I. Julia, born July 19, I8I9, married John J. Young.
492. Mary, born July 19, I8I9, married James S. Young, December I, I842.
493. John.
494. Eliza.
495. Margaret, who died unmarried.
EDWARD (229), (SON OF ADRIAN), HAD ISSUE:
496. Calvin, born October 24, 1814, married' Mary Youmans,
I836, had ten children, and died February 26, I896.
497. Isaac.
498. Edward.
499. Abraham.
500. John.
501. Jacob.
502. Matthew.
503. Nancy.
504. Eliza.
505. Sarah (Sally).
RESOLVERT E. (230), (SON Of ADRIAN), HAD ISSUE:
506. Henry, born October 25, I808, died single, February I6,
I840.
724 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
507. Hannah, born November Ii, I8IO, died, unmarried, May 28,
I85o.
508. Elizabeth, born October 3, 1812, died, unmarried, September
23, I850.
509. Washington, born October 4, 1814, married Mary Ann
Knapp, June 23, 1842, had eleven children, and died April
I5, I898.
5io. Resolvert, born January I, I8I6, died single, September 5,
I89I.
511. William, born July 8, I8I9, died single, December 14, I843.
512. Matilda, born August I6, 182I.
513. Harrison, born September I, 1824, married Katharine Rose,
April ii, I849, had one child, and died August 8, 1852.
514. Deborah, born April 6, 1826, married James Brooks, June
i8, 1862, had three children, and died August 24, I899.
JOSEPH (231), (SON OF ADRIAN), HAD ISSUE:
515. James, born May 10, I819, married Sarah Babcock, January
I, 1838, had fourteen children.
516. Martha, born May IO, I819, married William Jackson, April
I9, 1849, had one child, and died March 7, I883.
517. Michael, who married Mary Lumain.
518. John, who married Emily -?, had three children.
5I9. William.
520. Sarah, who married Degroot.
521. Margaret, who married John Teed, February 29, 1836, had.
six children. She deceased.
522. Elizabeth, who married Abraham Bulson, had one child.
523. Deborah, who married Marshall, had one child.
ABRAHAM (237), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
524. Maria, born April 27, 1792, died, unmarried, January 29,
1870.
525. Jacob J., born January 12, I794, married first, Eliza Brewster, April 12, 1820, had two children. He married
second, Rebecca Conklin, May Io, 1830, had three children, and died June 7, I867.
526. Tobias, born February 8, 1796, married Harriet Byron, November i6, 1825, had one child, and died April i8, I837.
527. Rachel, born July 23, 1798, died, unmarried, December ii,
1818.
528. Catherine Hannah, born January 23, i80o, died, unmarried,
October 24, 1817.
529. Alexander (Judge), born April I6, 1803, died single, March
17, I877.
530. Louisa, born October 26, i805, married William Benson,
1830, had five children.
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53I. Sarah No. I, born October 26, 1807, died in infancy.
532. Sarah No. 2, born March 6, I809, married George Byron,
June ii, I825, had one child, and died March 27, 1842.
533. Margaret, born December 12, 1811, died September 19, I8I3.
SAMUEL VAN NESS (243), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
534. Daniel No. I, born May I, I775, died November I, 1776.
535. Mary, born May 6, 1778, died I782.
536. David, born March 3, I780, married first, Jane Scudder,
April, 1802, had five children. He had two children by
a second wife, and died I867.
537. Daniel No. 2, born March 3, 1780, married first, Mary
Clark, May Io, 1804, had six children. He married
second, Hannah Osborn, I819, had three children, and
died December i, I853.
538. Sarah, born June 12, 1782, married first, Samuel Coleman,
no issue. She married second, John Simpson, I8oo, no
issue, and died I839.
539. John, born April I7, 1785, married Maria Lindsey, I808, had
eight children, and died 1853.
540. Samuel, born September 29, 1787, died in infancy.
541. Margaret, born October 27, I790, married Thomas Montgomery, June 30, 1814, had nine children, and died May
17, 1852.
542. Samuel Oliver, born November 7, I792, married Elizabeth
Martin, March I, 1821, had seven children, and died April
I9, I849.
543. Stephen D., born October 4, I795, died single, June 29, 1817.
JEROME (248), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
544. Samuel.
545. Jeremiah.
546. Anna.
547. William.
DERICK (RICHARD) (251), (SON OF HIERONIMUS) (JEROME),
HAD ISSUE:
548. Mary, born August I4, I79I, married Jacob Quick, had six
children, and died July 26, I850.
549. Susannah, born March I, 1793, married George Forker,
July 6, I8Io, had seven children, and died November 14,
I882.
550. John, born March 9, I795.
55I. Joseph, born February 2, I797.
552. Samuel, born February I, 1799.
553. Elizabeth, born April 13, I801, married Patrick Gunn.
554. Jane, born March 15, I803.
726
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
555. Richard, born April 17, 1805, married Mary Elliott, November 28, I826, had five children, and died July 2I, 1885.
556. Sarah, born February 6, 1807, married first, William B.
Gundrey, had one child. She married second, Louis
Woolman, July, I86o, no issue by second marriage, and
died March 27, I866.
557. Catherine, born May 7, I809, married James Peterson, had
six children, and died November 28, i886.
558. Rebecca, born August 25, I8II, married Jacob B. Jackson,
July 19, I829, had one child, and died August 17, 1882.
559. Hannah, born September 20, 1813, married George Benner,
had one child, and died September 13, I866.
560. Marinda Ann, born April 8, I816, married James M. Henderson, July 28, I836, had nine children, and died June
23, I889.
JOHN (253), (SON OF HIERONIMUS) (JEROME), HAD ISSUE:
56I. Elizabeth, born February 26, I801, married Austin Grey,
had one child.
562. William, born October I4, I803, married Abigail Vandeventer, had seven children.
653. Jerome, born June 14, I806, died single.
564. Elisha, born April I7, I809, married Mary Hoffman.
565. John, born May 6, 1812, died single.
566. Ann, born March II, 1815, married Everett.
567. Catherine, born May 8, I820.
568. Rebecca, born June 21, 1822.
FRANCIS (257), (SON OF JOHN OBADIAH), HAD ISSUE:
569. John Obadiah, born March, 1783, married Julia Ann Argo.
570. Mary, born September 25, 1796, married Jonathan Tipton,
August 6, I8I5, had six children, and died October 6,
I846.
57I. Anna H., born 800o, married David Russell, September 25,
1817, had nine children.
572. Sarah, born November Io, I804, married William Kinney,
July I, 1824, had twelve children, and died March 9, I882.
WILLIAM (26I), (SON OF JOHN OBADIAH), HAD ISSUE:
573. John, born 1814, married Sarah Ann Girton, July 2, 1836.
574. Charlotte, born I816, married John Lockhart.
575. Jane, born I818, married Alonzo Douglas.
576. Rebecca, born 1821, married John'Hitchen.
577. Sarah A., born 1824, died unmarried.
JEROME (262), (SON Of FRANCIS), HAD ISSUE:
578. Catriena (Catherine), baptized October 23, I785.
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579. William, born May Io, I788, married Mary Latourette, had
two children.
580. Margaret, born April 12, I790, married Joseph Whitenach.
58I. Moriah, born May 5, 1795, married George Wyckoff.
582. Ellen, born September Io, I800, married Elisha Morrell,
1827, had three children.
583. Samuel, born April 6, I808, married Ellen Ann Mine, April
5, 1831, had eight children.
SAMUEL (263), (SON OF FRANCIS), HAD ISSUE:
584. Catherine, born December I8, 1784, married Samuel Blain,
November 20, 1802, had two children.
585. Thomas, born August 27, 1787, married Elizabeth Stout,
March 15, I814, had six children, and died June 7, I828.
586. Margaret, born March 8, 1790, married William Wisner,
December 31, 1805.
587. Elizabeth, born May 25, I793, married first, Gilbert A. Munson, September 5, I811, had eleven children. She married second, Kennan, and died August 24, 1857.
588. Leah, born January 17, 1796, married Caleb Sutton Turner,
January 3, 1822, had eight children.
589. Samuel S., born May 5, I802, married Dinah Coryell, February 23, 1823, had thirteen children, and died January
17, I864.
CAPT. RESOLVERT (282), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
590. Adolph, born October 22, I786.
59I. Abraham Godwin, born August 12, 1788.
592. Elizabeth, born September Io, I789.
593. Phoebe, baptized January 21, I790.
ALEXANDER PHOENIX (283), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD
ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
594. Catherine P., born September II, I790.
595. Rachel M., born September I8, I791.
596. Harmen M., born February 22, I792.
ALEXANDER PHOENIX (283) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
597. Hannah Maria Phenix, born March, 1798, married Judge
Crane.
598. James R., born April 20, 1799, married Sarah E. Lupton,
September 8, I829, had seven children.
WILLIAM (289), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
599. Cornelia, born February IO, 1792, died, unmarried, November 29, I878.
728
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
600. Maria, born March IO, 1797, married William F. Hoggins,
May 19, 1822, had seven children, and died 1885.
60. David, born August 23, 1800, married Sarah Sparks, May
24, 1827, had seven children, and died September 18,
I866.
PETER (291), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
602. Peter, born October, I8Io.
603. Sara, born 1815, unmarried.
SAMUEL RESOLVED (293), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
604. Samuel James, born May 17, 1813, married Laura A. Sherman, October 17, 1836, had nine children, and died April
21, I890.
605. Gertrude Sige, born August IO, 1815, died, unmarried,
August 21, I864.
606. Elizabeth, born September 15, 1823, married John Sherman,
May 10, 1840, but died without issue, November o1, 1850.
607. Five other children that died young (names not found).
TUNIS A. (306), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
608. Adolphus, born 1817, deceased.
609. Tunis, born 1819, deceased.
61o. Anna Elfrida, born 1821, married Willis Balden, had two
children, and died in 1856, at Newark, N. J.
6I1. George, born 1822, deceased.
612. Sarah, born 1824, deceased.
TUNIS A. (306) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
6I3. Amanda, born June 5, 1835, unmarried.
614. Edith M., born M1ay I, 1848, married William Weeks, October 23, I872.
BENJAMIN A. (308), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
6I5. James, born 1818, single, was killed in the Mexican War.
616. Catherine, born 1820, married Jacob Vanderpool, November 4, 1835, had six children, and died I872.
WILLIAM J. (310), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
6I7. Catharine, born March 23, 1798, died June 4, 1807.
618. Elizabeth, born April 12, i8oo, died unmarried, May 6, 1851.
619. John D., born May 19, 1802, married Caroline Van Norden,
March 7, 1827, had twelve children, and died October 2,
i86i.
WALDRON FAMILY.
729
620. William P., born December 5, I804, died single, May 4, I819.
621. Louis Thibon, born July 18, I808, died August 26, I8o8.
VICTOR BICKER (321), (SON O( JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
622. Elizabeth Eglentine, born October 15, 1823, married William -I. Furman, October 15, I840, had five children, and
died October 10, I901.
623. Carolin Amanda, born September 3, 1826, married Nathaniel
L. McCready, had three children.
624. Matilda A., born. May 18, 1834, married George William
Elder, January 28, 1852, had four children.
625. Louizine, who died September II, 1856.
WILLEM (WILLIAM) (330), (SON oF BENJAMIN), HAD
ISSUE:
626. Abraham, born 1815, married Sarah E. Baxter, October 24,
1856, had five children, and died I870.
627. Rachel Ann, who married John Cary, November 6, 1842,
had three children, and died April Io, I889.
628. Sarah, who married John Van Slyck, November I6, I850,
had one child, and died April, 1903.
629. Edward, who died single, April, 1893.
630. Jane, who married John Senical, February 14, I856.
63I. Mary Eliza, who married Anthony Edwards, September 7,
I869, but died without issue, April, I903.
JOHN BRINKERHOFF (332), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD
ISSUE:
632. John Brinckerhoff, born I815, married Belinda Diamond,
had two children, and died I881.
633. Maria, born September, 1817, married William Baxter.
STEPHEN BRINKERHOFF (334), (SON BENJAMIN),
HAD ISSUE:
634. Aleta Maria, born July 7, I819, died August 23, I849.
635. Henry D., born January 12, 1821, died November 17, I82I.
JOHN P., JR. (339), (SON oF JOHN P.), HAD ISSUE:
636. Margaret Ann, born 1813, married Isaac Adriance, 1830,
had three children.
SAMUEL (344), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
637. Hendrick E., born January i5, I804, married Mary E. Duryee, July Io, 1845, had two children, and died July 20,
I864.
73O
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
638. Isaac, born August 9, I806, died January 6, 1812.
639. Sarah, born May 2, I8II, married John R. Debevoise, I835,
but died without issue, August 2, I88I.
640. Aletta, born May 2, I8II, unmarried.
641. Anna Mariah (Anne), born July 20, 1825, died unmarried,
December 27, I852.
SAMUEL (348), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
642. John, born I814.
643. Hiram, born I815.
644. William, born I816.
645. Anna, born I818.
646. Jeremiah, born 1820.
647. Matilda, born 1822.
648. Betsey, born 1824.
649. Samuel, born 1826. Twins.
650. George, born I826.
651. Hildah, born I828.
WILLIAM (350), (SON Or0 WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
652. John, born March 5, 1815, married Cynthia Earl, I835, had
one child. He deceased.
653. Maria, born April 12, 1817, died unmarried, I83I.
654. Rachel Maria, born March 4, 1821, married first, James
Whitbeck, 1838, no issue. She married second, George
W. Martin, April 15, 1862, but died without issue, April
23, 1893.
655. Aaron, born October 2, I823, married Sarah Gunderman,
1846, had six children, and died I896.
656. Rebecca, born November 12, 1825, died unmarried.
657. James, born October 22, I827, married Emily De Bell, October 11, 1856, had three children.
658. William, born September 19, 1828, married Harriet Bendell,
1848, had two children. He deceased.
659. Peter, born February I, 1831, was the father of two children,
and is now deceased.
660. Richard, born March 19, 1833, married Martha Swick, I864,
had two children, and died February 6, 1891.
RICHARD (35I), (SON Or WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
66I. William Richard, born January 22, 1814, married Martha
Ayers, 'February 28, 1839, had seven children. He deceased.
662. Anna, born 18i6, married Warren Hamilton, had three children. She deceased.
663. Zebidee, born I818, married Tamar Ann Hatch, 1836, had
three children. He deceased.
WALDRON FAMILY.
73I
664. Elizabeth, born I8I9, married Horace Hamilton, had five
children. She deceased.
665. Lydia, born March i6, 1825, married Nelson Benjamin, June
4, 1845, had three children.
THOMAS (360), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
666. Benjamin No. I, born 1831, died in infancy.
667. Edward Bloomfield, born May 25, 1832, married Juline
Blackington, October 23, I876, had three children, and
died July 31, I90I.
668. Walter S., born I833, died young.
669. Robert H., born November 11, 1837, married Glyceria Le
Count, no issue.
670. Catherine, born December 8, I839, unmarried.
67I. Thomas, born December 21, 1841, died young.
672. Mary E., born December 21, 1841, married Isaac Wright,
no issue.
673. Benjamin No. 2, born August 6, 1848, married Lois Lessey,
November 4, I874, had four children.
674. Caroline, born June 6, I85o, married Dr. Charles Lee, had
one child.
JAMES (364), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
675. Julian.
676. Mary.
677. Lavinia.
678. Sarah.
679. Charles.
680. Edward.
BENJAMIN (368), (SON OF JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
68I. James, born March 12, 1805, married Hannah Van Slyke,
June II, I829, had four children, and died December 25,
I846.
682. Wilmarth, born April 20, I807, died single, September 5,
I834.
683. Margaret Ann, born'June 28, I8Io, married Jacob E. Etzell,
had six children.
684. Rachel Catherina, born May 5, 1812, died unmarried.
685. John, born September 7, I814, died single, June 9, 1824.
686. Elizabeth No. I, born August 12, 1817, died November Io,
i818.
687. Charles Lott, born January 25, I820, married first, Emily
Van Wart, I839, had one child. He married second,
Thorna Sprock, March Io, I852, had one child, and died
September 7, I898.
732
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
688. Elizabeth No. 2, born October 19, 1823, married John J.
Varick, July 25, 1842, had nine children.
689. John B., born October II, 1824, died June 9, 1834.
690. Sarah Jane, born May 19, 1830, died October 2I, I834.
JAMES (372), (SON oF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
69I. Sarah A.
692. Eliza.
693. Levonica.
694. Charles.
WILLEM (WILLIAM) (377), (SON Or PIETER), HAD ISSUE:
695. Maritie, born October 25, 1792.
696. Peter, born December 17, I797.
ABRAHAM (381), (SON OF PIETER), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST
WIFE:
697. Evert A., born I794, married Catherine Vanderwerker, had
one child.
698. Peter, born 1796, niarried Elizabeth Voorhis, had six children, and died I842.
699. Abraham, born I798.
700. Hannah, born 1799, died unmarried.
701. Cornelius A., born April I6, I8oo, married first, Johanna
Schoonmaker, November 22, 1821, had five children. He
married second, Elizabeth C. Teller, April 28, 1834, had
six children, and died June 23, 1879.
702. Maria, born 1802, died unmarried.
ABRAHAM (381) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
703. George Washington, born November 30, I804, married
Temperance Bates, May 12, I850, had six children, and
died September 8, 1876.
704. John C., born June 3, 1809, married Johanna De Boyce, December 3, 1828, had one child.
JAMES (387), (SON OF JAMES) (JACOBUS), HAD ISSUE:
705. Elizabeth, born November 27, 1788, died, unmarried, August
I9, I865.
706. Elsie, born November I8, 1790, died, unmarried, October 12,
1882.
707. Tobias T. E., born December I7, 1792, married first, Cornelia Vanderzee, December 17, I817, had three children.
He married second, Magdalen Slingerland (Arnold),
November 6, 1831, had four children, and died October
21, I875.
WALDRON FAMILY.
733
708. Jacobus (James), born September 15, 1794, died single,
March 26, i8i6.
709. Judith, born September 7, 1796, married John C. Ten Eyck,
had three children, and died April I, I823.
7IO. Barent, born December 17, I798, died single, January 2,
i880.
71I. Annatie Ten Eyck, born December 5, I800, unmarried.
CORNELIUS G. (39I), (SON OF GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
712. Elizabeth, born August 20, 1791, married Joseph McGuire,
February 13, 1814, had seven children, and died May 14,
i86o.
713. Garret C., born January II, 1795, married Catherine Van
Wort, May I6, i8i6, had six children, and died October
I5, I873.
714. Catherine, born September 28, I797, married William
Shirts, February 21, 1840, but died without issue, March
I, I873.
715. Sara, born January 23, 800o, married Samuel Anthony,
April Io, I8I9, had four children.
716. Abraham, born November I, I802, died single, 1863.
PETER (394), (SON OF GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
717. Catherine (Cata), born July 5, 1793, married Benjamin Goewey, August 15, 1824, had three children, and died November 8, I868.
718. Maria, born November 5, I8oo, married William H. Van
Arnum, December 2, 1822, had five children, and died
October 24, I853.
719. Jane, born June 19, 1803, married first, Benjamin Reid, September IO, 1827. She married second, John Howlett,
I835.
720. Margaret, born August 30, i805.
721. Hannah, born March ii, I809, married first, Richard West,
December 5, I827, no issue. She married second, William Travis, June 5, 1839, had three children.
722. Garret P., born October 14, 1812, married Jane Carhart,
1835, had six children, and died April 4, I850.
723. Ephraim D., born June 12, i8i6, married Sarah Watson,
February 12, I840.
ABRAM (395), (SON OP GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
724. Maria, born October 24, I794.
EVERT G. (396), (soN oF GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
725. Catherine, born April 19, 1796, married William L. Babcock, i8i6, had five children, and died December 2, 1871.
734 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
726. Martin (Rev.), born August I, 1798, married Liddie Chase,
November 15, 1822, had eleven children, and died February I, I864.
727. Ephraim B., born April 29, 1804, married Emily Killecutt,
January 7, 1830, had nine children.
728. Ebenezer B., born February 14, I8Io, married Lavinia R.
Burton (Benton), January I6, 1839, had three children,
and died February Io, I895.
729. Mariah (Polly), born February 14, I8IO, married David
Babcock, August 28, 1828, had seven children.
730. Garrett.
731. Jesse, who married Sarah Fredenburgh.
732. Wynant, who married Polly House.
733. Peter, who married Olive Sabens.
734. William.
735. Margaret, who married Henry Guliger.
736. Eliza, who married Isaac Woodruff.
737. Jane, who married William Vieley.
HENRY G. (397), (SON 0F GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
738. Mary Ann, born July ii, I8II.
739. Wynant G., born September II, 1812, married Maria Winne,
April ii, 1848, had three children, and died February 3,
I872.
740. Henry, born February 28, I8i6.
74I. Margaret, born May 4, 1817.
742. Jane Maria, born April 4, I819, married Daniel Edge, I854.
743. Catherine, born April 4, I819.
744. Eleanor, born May 14, 1821, married John Hinchman, May
26, 1843, had one child.
745. Susan, born January 26, 1824, married John Kennedy,
August 22, I847, had four children.
746. Getty B: (Gertrude), born April 7, I829.
GISEBERT (399), (SON OF GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
747. Abraham, born January 8, 1803, married Janet Renier, April
I, I836, had five children, and died May 22, I873.
748. Maria Gertrude, born September 14, 1804, married Thomas
L. Reese, January 31, I83I, had two children, and died
July, 22, 1889.
749. Catherine, born December 3, I806, married Jacob Lovejoy,
had seven children. She deceased.
750. Jane Ann, born December I8, I808, married Phineas Tyler,
I83I, had seven children. She deceased.
75I. Elizabeth, born November 29, I8IO, married Jacob Tutor.
She deceased.
752. Amelia, born February II, I8I3, married James Morgan,
had three children. She deceased.
WALDRON FAMILY.
735
753. George R., born March IO, I815, married Mary E. Crissman,
December 3, 1835, had ten children. He deceased.
754. Margaret, born July 7, I8I8, married Jacob Atwater. She
deceased.
755. Caroline, born September I8, 1821, married William Rogers,
had one child. She deceased.
756. Elias Hawley, born December 23, 1824, died single, at sea.
WILLIAM G. (400), (SON OF GARRET), HAD ISSUE:
757. Garret, born November 29, 1804, married Betsey Grover,
November 11, 1826, had six children, and died I849.
758. Wynant Vandenburgh No. I, born September 20, I8o6, died
in infancy.
759. Eveline, born March I8, I808, married Hugh Waddell, December 3, I827, had five children. She deceased.
760. Wynant Vandenburgh No. 2, born March 23, I8io, married
first, Laura Roblee, September 25, 1834, had one child.
He married second, Ann West, May 9, 1847, had three
children. He deceased.
761. Daniel, born February 21, I812, married Asenath Hills,
January 20, 1852, had seven children, and died April 15,
1871.
762. Margaret Ann, born October 20, 1813, married Luther Roblee, June 24, 1832, had four children. She deceased.
763. Alidah, born October 23, I815, married Ashbel Bostwick,
December 20, I837, had five children, and died June II,
I86I.
764. Cornelius, born August 15, 1817, married Margaret Washburn, September 26, 1838, had five children. He deceased.
765. John D., born August 25, 1822, married Alice West, November 25, 1844, had five children. He deceased.
766. Jacob, born September 12, 1824, married Lucy J. Roblee,
November 7, 1845, had four children, and died March 22,
I898.
767. William H., born 1827, married Betsey D. Roblee, October
I9, 1845, had one child.
768. farmon, who married Augusta Corey, February 14, 1853,
had three children.
769. Mariah, who married James M. Cross, 1840, had six children. She deceased.
770. Fanny, who married John Straight, January I, 1843, had
nine children. She deceased.
CORNELIUS (401), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
77I. Alida, born August 31, 1805, died, unmarried, January 24,
I834.
736
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
772. Aaron, born April 5, 1807, married Susan Bloomingdale,
had four children. He deceased.
773. Elshe No. I (Alice), born December I6, I808, died young.
774. Cornelius, born September II, I8I1, married Edna Ann
Hall, had ten children. He deceased.
775. Isaac, born August 29, 1812, married Julia Ann Douglass,
had three children. He deceased.
776. Henry, born August 29, 1812, married Mary J. Douglass,
had two children. He deceased.
777. Elshe No. 2 (Alice), born September 9, I814, married Dr.
Weatherby. She deceased.
778. John Evertson, born September 21, I816, deceased.
779. Anna Maria, born August 30, I818, married Campbell.
780. Benjamin, born March I, I820, married first, Melissa J.
Daniels, October 15, 1843, had three children. He married second, Frances A.?, and died May 12, I900.
781. Margaret J., born September II, 1824, died unmarried.
782. Harriet E., born July 14, I826, married Bruce Turner. She
deceased.
783. Sarah, born January 9, 1828, married Stephen H. Viele, had
four children. She deceased.
BENJAMIN (402), (SON O0 CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
784. Henry No. I, born June I8, 1799, died March 9, i8oo.
785. Alida, born January 28, i8oi.
786. Henry (Hudson), born May 2, I803, married Malinda
Decker, 1824, had three children, and died I877.
787. Katy, born April I6, I805, married Abraham Bergh, had
three children.
788. John B., born March 29, 1807, married Dorothy E. Freemeyer, 1831, had nine children.
789. David, born August I9, I809, married Abigail Billings, had
two children.
790. Peter, born August II, I8II.
PIETER C. (405), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
79I. Alida, born November 4, I802, married Charles Broot, I823,
had five children.
792. Catherine, born August 5, 1804, married Abel S. Reed, May
I, I830.
793. Henry, born July I, I806.
794. Peter Winne, born January 6, I809, married Maria Hemstreet, February 15, 1837, had five children.
795. Cornelius, born August 7, I8I2.
796. John, born November 12, 1814, married Alida Waldron,
March I8, 1848, had three children.
797. David, born March I8, I8I7.
WALDRON FAMILY.
737
798. Evert, born November I2, 1819.
799. James, born December 4, 1822.
800. Winant, born April I6, I825.
GERRIT (406), (SON Or CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
80oi. Alida, born January 13, 1805.
802. Cornelius, born October 5, 1807, married Mary Magdalena
Frederick, had six children, and died I890.
380. Margaret, born 1813, married Robert Vine, had three children, and died 1887.
804. John, born March 4, 1821, married Mary Vroman.
EVERT (407), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
805. Cornelius E., born December I, 1814.
806. William, born July 26, I8I6.
807. Alida, born December 21, 1817, married John Waldron,
Miarch I8, I848, had three children.
808. Elizabeth Ann, born June 14, I8I9.
809. Henry E., born September I, I821.
81o. Lena, born January 31, 1823.
8ii. Peter, born March i6, 1825.
8I2. Susan, born March 7, I830.
813. Margaret, born May 23, 1832.
CORNELIUS (408), (SON of HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
814. Henry C., born July 4, I797.
8I5. Catherine Banker, born October 27, 1798, married Peter
Shaver, had two children.
816. John Van Aernam, born January I6, I8oI, married Mary
Wales Keys, December 17, 1823, had seven children.
8I7. Richard Van Vranken, born October 3, I803, married Deborah Weaver, January 20, 1827.
818. Jacob Van Aernam No. I, born April 27, I807, died 1813.
8I9. Jacob Van Aernam No. 2, born September i, i816, married
Eliza Ann Lawrence.
WILLIAM (413), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
820. Henry, born June 8, I8Io.
821. Stephen, born March 28, 1815.
HENRY (415), (SON OF HENDRICK), HAD ISSUE:
822. Henry, born I819, married Caroline M. Bard, July I8, 1844,
had one child.
823. Mary E., born I820, married Jeremiah Waterman, had seven
children.
824. Charles Newman (Rev.), born December 25, 1822, married
738
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
first, Eveline M. Adams, October I4, 1852, had one child.
He married second, Georgie S. Waldron, July I, 1857,
had two children, and died March 2, I885.
825. William, born November 2, 1824, married first, Mary Moon,
August 15, 1848, had four children. He married second,,
Caroline Walters Osband, September 23, 1873, no issue,
and died December II, I877.
826. Margaret, born 1826.
827. Julia, born I830, died unmarried, December 31, I853.
CORNELIUS W. (417), (SON OF WILLEM) (WILLIAM),
HAD ISSUE:
828. Margaret, born November 2, 1803, married John Quackenbush, had four children. She deceased.
829. Abraham C., born May 7, I8o5, married first, Elizabeth
Groesbeck, June 12, 1827, had seven children. He married second, Eleanor Vanderwerker, September 23, 1838,
had two children. He deceased.
830. William, born February I6, I809, married first, Nancy
Force, I830, had three children. He married second,
Phebe Hicks, had three children. He deceased.
83I. Jemina, born July 27, I812, married Stephen Viele, had five
children.
WILLIAM W. (421), (SON OF WILLEM) (WILLIAM),
HAD ISSUE:
832. Abraham Buckhout, born May 15, 1812, died young.
833. William No. I, born 1814, died young.
834. Harmon Knickerbocker, born I8I6, married Polly Perry,
had five children, and died I873.
835. Marietta, born 1817, married Lemuel S. Jenks, October 19,
1833, had one child.
836. Margaret Jane, born I818, married Joseph Wilkie, no issue,
and died I892.
837. William No. 2, born 1822, married Mary Jacobs, had two
children. He deceased.
838. Edward Augustus, born 1824, married Jane Wilson; had
one child.
839. Abby Emeline, born 1826, married Shubel Cross, had one
child, and died I902.
840. Amanda, born I830, married Harvey W. Green, no issue.
941. Elizabeth, born 1832, died unmarried, I847.
842. Joseph Hunt, born July 24, I834, married Sarah Brackenbury, had nine children.
843. Caroline, born July 24, I834, married William R. Parks,
November 7, 1856, had three children.
WALDRON FAMILY.
739
TUNIS (423), (SON OF WILLEM) (WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
844. Francis Story, born December I, 1822.
845. Georgie Story, who married Rev. Charles Newman Waldron, July I, 1857, had two children.
SAMUEL (425), (SON OF ABIATHER), HAD ISSUE:
846. Willard Earl, born June 20, 1837, married Dunston,
I85I, had five children.
847. John, who died single.
848. Icabod.
849. Samuel.
850. Luke.
85I. James.
852. Betsey.
853. iMary.
JOSEPII (444), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
854. Richard Varick, born MIay 25, 1804, married Ann Roberts,
December 24, 1831, had five children.
855. Mary, born August 17, I807, married Hugh Perry, I824,
had three children, and died August 26, I847.
856. Ann, born March 27, I809, married Charles Fowler, May
24, 1825.
857. Daniel, born September 26, I8II.
858. Ephraim G., born August 2, 1813, married Harriet M.
Brown, September 21, 1836.
859. John P., born March 8, I816, married, Matilda Bowman,
October 6, 1847.
860. M\argaret, born June 13, 1820, married Stanley Bostwick,
September 27, 1838.
861. Jane, born October 30, 1822, married Henry Shaw, June I8,
I844.
JOSEPH (449), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
862. Amy M., who married Samuel J. Hake.
863. Betsey C., who married Samuel Westcott.
864. Daniel.
865. David.
866. Marinda, who married Samuel Coum.
867. Sarah J., who married Elnathan Gates.
868. Francis M.
869. Albert M.
870. Asenath.
871. James H.
740
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
STEPHEN (458), (SON OF JOSEPH), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST
WIFE:
872. Leonard F., born October 30, 1802, married Nancy Bennett,
May 30, 1831, had six children, and died June 22, i866.
873. Martha, born I803.
874. Nathan, born I805.
STEPHEN (458) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
875. Lucinda.
876. Martha.
877. George W.
878. Ruth.
879. Francis P.
JAMES (46I), (SON OF PHILIP), HAD ISSUE:
880. Malon L.
88I. -?.
JOHN (464), (SON OF PHILIP), HAD ISSUE:
882. Thomas.
883. William.
884. John.
885. Hosanna.
HIRAM (467), (SON OF PHILIP), HAD ISSUE:
886. Sarah Samantha, born November 25, I832.
887. Uriah, born November 5, I834, was the father of seventeen
children.
888. Catherine, born July 5, I837.
889. Bersheba, born March 7, I840.
89o. Mary, born May 28, 1842.
891. Andrew Jackson, born March 5, I845, married Mary I. Morrison, December 14, 1871, had five children.
892. Margaret, born March 7, I847.
893. James H., born March 15, I850.
894. Nancy J., born November II, I853.
895. William H., born August 23, I856.
OLIVER, JR. (478), (SON OF OLIVER), HAD ISSUE;:
896. Mary Ellen, born June 6, 1814, married Edward Quyer,
April 5, 1848, had two children.
897. Sarah J., born May IO, I8I5.
898. John O., born October I2, I8I7.
899. Thomas, born May 12, I8I9.
WALDRON FAMILY.
741
JOHN (482), (SON OF SAMUEL BENSON), HAD ISSUE:
900. Mary Catherine, born April 26, 1824, married Van
Cott, June I3, 1846.
90o. Joseph, born May 12, I826.
EDWARD (486), (SON Of JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
902. John M., born October 15, 1826, married Elmira Fox, 1855,
had five children.
903. Jacob N., born September 4, I828, married Elizabeth Green.
904. Sarah M., born August Io, I830, unmarried.
905. Charles G., born January 19, I833.
906. Clark J., born November 30, 1834, married Caroline Lincoln.
He deceased.
907. Cornelia S., born January 6, 1837, married George Munson.
908. Edward H., born September 30, 1838.
CALVIN (496), (SON Of EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
909. John, born November 25, 1838, married Carrie Dickson, no
issue.
910. Martin, born November 30, 1840, married Elizabeth Hammond, October 26, I86I, had six children.
911. Matthew, born December 8, 1843, married Margaret W.
Sutton, had two children.
912. Anna, born April 3, 1846, married Charles Rickson (or
Rickim), no issue. She deceased.
913. Andrew (Andress), born December I6, I849, married Carrie Goble, had two children.
914. Isaac, born February 28, 1854, married Martha Herring,
September 21, I876, had ten children.
915. Thomas, born February 9, 1856, married Amanda Hinkell,
I875, had three children, and died August 28, I898.
916. Charles, born February 9, 1856, married Ellen Tickel, had
four children.
917. Calvin, born July 3, 1859, married Anna Heller, October 24,
1880, had ten children.
918. James Harrison (Harry), born April ii, 1862, had two children by his first wife. He married second, Flora Totten,
November 25, 1897, had one child.
WASHINGTON (509), (SON OF RESOLVERT E.), HAD ISSUE:
919. Margaret Knapp, born December 30, 1850, married Samuel
L. Secor, December 29, I870, had three children.
920. William H.
92I. George.
922. Elizabeth (Sarah E.), who married George Carpenter.
923. Josephine (Mary J.), who married Charles Carson.
742
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
924. Matilda, who married William Allen. She deceased.
925. Lottie (Charlotte), deceased.
926. Alida, who married Alfred Thomans.
927. Minnie, who married Warren Felter.
928. Ella, who married Milton Rose.
929. Laura, who died in infancy.
HARRISON (513), (SON Or, RESOLVERT E.), HAD ISSUE:
930. Charles Pitman, born 1850, married Mlaryetta L. Cole, September, 1881, had one child.
JAMES (515), (SON OF JOSEPH), HAD ISSUE:
93I. Jackson, born February 15, 1839, married Mary E. Jones,
August 15, I866, had five children.
932. Charles, born December 31, 1840.
933. Charlotte, born October 8, 1842, married Ballard, July
3, I87I.
934. Matthew, born December Io, 1843, married Charlotte Louise
Smith, April 8, I869, had three children.
935. Sophia, born February 15, 1845, married - ackey, December 24, I862.
936. James, born January 15, I847.
937. Edward, born April 17, 1849.
938. Henry, born November 5, I850.
939. Madison, born January 29, 1853.
940. Sarah, born November 12, I854, died young.
941. Elias, born July 13, I857.
942. Martha, born March 13, 186I, married Isaac M. Bradbury.
943. Sarah E., born May 26, 1863.
944. Theodore, born May 28, I865.
JOHN (518), (SON O' JosEPII), HAD ISSUE:
945. Charles, born December 4, 1836, married Elizabeth Rock,
March 4, 187I, no issue.
946. Mary, unmarried.
947. William, who married Emily C.?. He deceased.
JACOB J. (525), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIPE:
948. Harriet W., born February 24, 1822, married Samuel
Weiant.
949. Abraham, born November 28, 1824, married Maria Witbeck,
October 7, I850, had two children, and died February 3,
I864.
JACOB J. (525) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIPE:
950. Catharine, born I83I.
WALDRON FAMILY.
743
951. Sarah E., born January 25, I835.
952. Margaret E. L., born October 2, 1838.
TOBIAS (526), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
953. William Alexander, born August 13, 1827, died April 26,
1849.
DAVID (536), (SON OF SAMUEL VAN NESS), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
954. Corbet Scudder, born' I799, died single, 1865.
955. Isaac, born November 24, 1807, married Jane E. Guion,
August 26, 1829, had one child, and died October 13,
1831.
956. Joseph Wildey, born April 8, I812, married Martha H. Beaman, July 3, I836, had four children, and died 1862.
957. Jane.
958. Frances, who married Joseph Wildey, had one child.
DAVID (536) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
959. Cornelius, single, who was killed at the battle of Alamo,
Texas.
960. David.
DANIEL (537), (SON OF SAMUE VAN NESS), HAD ISSUE:
961. Anna, born April 7, I805, married William Mayes, April I8,
I825, had six children, and died 1848.
962. Polly, born May 12, 1807, died young.
963. Lemuel, born September I2, I809, married Almyra Pike,
June 9, 1834, had six children, and died May, I857.
964. Nancy, born September 12, 1811, married Christopher Osbourn, October 17, I838.
965. Samuel, born December 6, I8I3, died I873, or 1874.
966. Lucinda, born November 21, I816, married Patrick McDowell, July 13, 1838, had two children, and died I844.
DANIEL (537) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
967. William, born 1820, died in infancy.
968. Simeon D., born May 22, 1821, married Nancy T. Turner,
January 2, I849, had four children, and died June 2,
I896.
969. Mary, born February 23, 1823, died 1827.
JOHN (539), (SON 0 SAMUEL VAN NESS), HAD ISSUE:
970. Margaret, born February 7, I809, married William Dunlap,
February I, 1835, had four children.
744
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
971. Isabel, born October 21, I8Io, married George Wilson, April
12, 1835, had one child.
972. Jemima, born July 15, 1812, married Thomas P. Lushbaugh,
July 4, I84I, had five children, and died July 19, I892.
973. Alexander, born January 19, 1814, married Mary Kirk, April
II, 1837, had nine children, and died April 2, 1879.
974. Samuel, born December Io, 1815, married first, Elizabeth
Schleppy, June 2, I843, had five children. He married
second, Elizabeth Hanesch, May 3, 1853, had ten children.
975. John L., born May 24, 1818, married Bella Stewart, September 4, 1844, had one child. He had three children by a
second wife, and died April I7, I900.
976. Susan, born November 13, I820, married John M. Adams,
April 2, I843, had two children.
977. William S., born June 23, 1823, married Eliza M. Belles,
September 3, I846, had fourteen children.
SAMUEL OLIVER (542), (SON OF SAMUEL VAN NESS),
HAD ISSUE:
978. Jane, born April 17, 1822, married James H. White, December II, I850.
979. Sarah A., born January 29, 1824, married Joseph S. Parks,
June 9, I849.
980. James, born January 3, 1827, died January 28, 1827.
98I. Elizabeth, born April 11, 1828, married Thomas Campbell,
January 24, 1850, had six children, and died I9oo.
982. Samuel S., born April 3, 1830, married Mary A. Giebner,
February 9, 1858, had six children, and died October 31,
I889.
983. Nancy, born April I4, 1883, unmarried.
984. David M., born May 28, I835, married Pelina Shira, November 15, I86o, had two children.
RICHARD (555), (SON 0I DERICK) (RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
985. Charles B., born April 2, 1831, married Sophia Taylor,
August 22, 1852, had two children, and died December
26, I895.
986. Margaret, who married William Stratton, had one child.
She deceased.
987. Richard, deceased.
988. George W., born December 14, 1842, married Martha Eldridge, May 29, I866, had four children.
989. James, who married Jane Lennon, April, I869. He deceased.
WILLIAM (562), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
990. John No. I, died in infancy.
WALDRON FAMILY.
745
99I. James, died single.
992. William B. F., died single.
993. Maria E., who died unmarried.
994. Edward, who married Frances Murdin, had two children.
995. Annie, unmarried.
996. John No. 2, who married Jane Hubele, had seven children.
WILLIAM (579), (SON OF JEROME), IAD ISSUE:
997. Peter V., who married Louisa West.
998. Mary, who married John Nixson.
SAMUEL (583), (SON OF JEROME), HAD ISSUE:
999. Elizabeth, born February 3, 1832.
Iooo. John, born October I, I834.
IooI. Ida, born August 13, I837.
1002. Anna, born January 23, 1842.
1003. Jerome, born January 23, 1845.
I004. Julia, born July 15, 1848.
I005. Lewis E., born February 19, I851.
Ioo6. Mary Ellen, born August 25, I853.
THOMAS (585), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
I007. Ira, born June Io, 1815, died January 29, i866.
Ioo8. Sarah, born May 4, I8I6, married Clarkson Warne, December 26, 1833, had ten children.
IOO9. George, born April 8, I8I8, died January 22, I8I9.
IOIO. Nancy, born January 29, 1820.
IoII. Jane, born July I6, 1822.
1012. Mary, born September 6, I824.
SAMUEL S. (589), (soN OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
IOI3. William V., born M\arch 28, 1825, married Cornelia Doty,
June 3, 1846, and died June 17, 1851.
IOI4. Charity G., born December I8, I826, died unmarried, November 22, I88O.
IOI5. Ellen, born October 4, 1829, married Cornelius Holliday,
November 11, I849, and died March 14, I865.
IoI6. Philetus A., born July I6, I83I.
IoI7. Phileta A., born July I6, 1831, married Orrin Baldwin,
November I9, I854.
IOI8. David C., born September 22, 1833, married Margaret McGhen, November 9, 1856.
IOI9. Elizabeth, born December 9, 1835, married David J. Claus,
July 4, I855.
I020. Samuel J., born March 3, 1838, married Rachel McGhen,
January 28, 1857, and died January 31, I865.
102I. Clark, born August I2, 1840, died August I8, I840.
746
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
1022. John Thomas, born September 29, 1841, died May 26, 1864.
1023. Catherine, born November 3, I844, married George Johnston, May 30, 1869.
1024. Mary V., born July Io, I846, married Cornelius Holliday,
August I8, I865.
1025. Martha A., born October II, 1849, married Byron S. Nelson, June 26, I875.
JAMES R. (598), (SON OF ALEXANDER PHOENIX), HAD ISSUE:
1026. Alexander P., born July 4, I830.
1027. Samuel L., born March 2, I833, married first, Martha
Horan, January I, I865, had one child. He married
second, Charlotte McGill, no issue.
1028. Hannah M. P., born June 8, 1834, married Charles G.
Johnston, had one child. She deceased.
1029, James Jacob, born December 30, 1835, died single.
1030. Silas Butler, born November 28, 1837, died single.
103I. Brant Schuyler, born October 21, 1839, died single.
1032. Thomas Howland, born May 3, 1842, married Martha M.
Hale, had four children.
DAVID (6oi), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
1033. William F., born April 2, 1828, died single, June 3, I87I.
IO34. Alexander M., born December II, I829, married Amelia
Fairchild, I86o, but died without issue, June 30, I890.
1035. Walter S., born January 9, I832, married Adeline McCready, 1855, had one child.
1036. James A., born September I6, 1833, married first, Terese
Ball, May 26, I859, had one child. He married second,
Elizabeth?.
1037. Sarah Agnes, born March 8, 1837, unmarried.
1038. Isaac D., born August 2, I838, single.
1039. Mary B., born March 17, 1840, unmarried.
SAMUEL JAMES (604), (SON OF SAMUEL RESOLVED), HAD
ISSUE:
1040. Edward, born October I, I837, married Amelia Hegen,
I856, had two children.
1041. Benjamin, born February I8, 1839, married Louise Travis,
September, 1875, had three children.
1042. Caroline, born March 14, 1841, married James Creed, December, 1862, had three children. She deceased.
1043. Laura, born January 27, 1843, married James Edward Simmons, June 28, 1876, no issue.
IO44. Gertrude E., born August 16, 1848, married William C.
Hicks, October I8, 1871, had two children.
WALDRON FAMILY.
747
Io45. Sarah, born April 5, 1851, married Wilfred B. Hanmore,
February 23, I88I, had five children.
1046. Elizabeth, born April 5, I851, died unmarried.
1047. Samuel R. (Rev.), born July 14, 1854, married Louise Arnold, February 22, 1881, had three children.
Io48. Matilda L., born August 27, I856, married James H.
Hamilton, 1893, no issue.
JOHN D. (619), (SON OF WILLIAM J.), HAD ISSUE;:
IO49. William John, born December 31, 1827, married Teresa
Beers, April 28, 1852, had five children, and died July 2,
1899.
Io50. Harriet Augusta, born March 14, I829, died May II, I83I.
1051. Theodore Van Norden, born May 9, 1830, died October 24,
1830.
Io5Ia. Julia, born July 20, 1831, died August 28, I83I.
1052. Theodore, born September 4, I832, died October 14, I832.
Io53. Augustus Henry, born August 20, I833, died September 22,
1834.
1054. Victor Salinas Hopkins, born September 3, 1835, married
Mary Louise Clark, September 6, 1862, had seven children.
Io55. Carroll Scott, born September 9, I837, married Ina A. Kilburn, September 6, I866, had eleven children.
Io56. Edgar N., born May 8, 1840, married Emma Cross, June
I5, 1879, no issue.
1057. Ann Avonia Eliza, born June 8, 1843, married Henry B.
Corwin, January 6, I88I, no issue, and died November 6,
i886.
IO58. Jacob John, born September 19, 1841, died single, September 24, I862.
Io59. Sarah Van Norden, born September I8, 1845, married
Henry B. Corwin, April 8, 1875, had two children, and
died November 8, I879.
ABRAHAM (626), (SON OF WILLEM) (WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
1060. John C., born December 17, 1857, married Elizabeth Murphy, August I, 1882, had eight children.
IO6I. Charles A., who married Ella Haight. He deceased.
1062. William B.
Io63. Bertram A.
Io64. Abraham B.
JOHN BRINKERHOFF (632), (SON OF JOHN BRINKERHOFF),
HAD ISSUE:
Io65. Cornelius.
Io66. Anna, who died unmarried, I883.
748
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
HENRY E. (637), (SON OV SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
o067. William Henry, born January 3, 185o, married Mary E.
Albertson, October 15, I873.
Io68. Mary Frances, born January 12, 1855, married George
Stewart Gunnison, September II, 1872, and died May,
1878.
JOHN (652), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
o069. Lewis E.
AARON (655), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
1070. Lewis M., born March 12, 1848, married Emma J.
Schroeder, December 23, 1887, had one child.
I07I. William J., born December 9, I850, married Fredine?,
I881, had one child.
I072. Charles A., born March 4, I854, married Josie -?, I880,
had two children.
1073. Clara, born April 19, I859.
I074. Ada, born June 19, I864, married Clifton Payne, 1894, had
two children.
I075. Sarah H., born September 12, I867.
JAMES (657), (SON oF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I076. Clara, born 1857, married M- iller.
I077. Peter, born I86I, single.
1078. Herman, born I865, single.
WILLIAM (658), (SON Or WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I079. Truman.
080.?.
PETER (659), (SON O0 WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
io8I. Jonas K.
I082. Peter J.
RICHARD (66o), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
1083. Martin, born August 22, I865, married Fannie Harris,
June 21, I888, had two children.
I084. Cora E., born September 23, I868, married Andrew Jones,
December 23, I886, had three children.
WILLIAM RICHARD (66I), (SON OF RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
I085. Edward A., born December 28, 1839, married Salina Kimberly, May 2I, 1863, had four children. He deceased.
Io86. Mary, born December I8, 1841, unmarried.
WALDRON FAMILY.
749
o187. Richard, born April, I844, married first, Emma A. Berrien, had two children; second, Mary H. Jameson, had
four children, and third, Augusta D. Hall. No issue by
last marriage.
IO88. Jane M., born September 2, 1845, married James M. Hallock, February, I868, had two children.
Io89. Warren H., born November 22, 1850, married Eliza Kenney, had three children.
IO90. Salletta, born December 7, 1852, married Edgar Cranson,
no issue.
IO9I. Martha A., born October 13, I857, married Olean A.
Vaughan, had three children.
ZEBIDEE (663), (SON OF RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
I092. Charles Richard, born 1838, died single, I861.
1093. Henry C., born 1842, married Amanda Van Schaick.
1094. Anna, born 1844, married W. B. Thompson, 1876, no issue.
EDWARD BLOOMFIELD (667), (SON OF THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
I095. Charlotte F., born October 4, 1880, died July 27, i88i.
Io96. Roy S. F., born April 23, 1883.
1097. Ethel, born February 28, I886.
BENJAMIN (673), (SON of THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
Io98. Mabel B., born January 12, 1876, married Harry J. Powell,
January 23, I899, no issue.
1099. Maud L., born June 25, 1877, unmarried.
IIoo. Lois L., born September 25, 1887. Twins.
IIOI. Ethel, born September 25, 1887. f
JAMES (68I), (SON oF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
1102. Mary Jane, born August I, 1830, married George S. Applegate, March 20, 1848, and died October Io, I89o.
II03. James Lawrence, born March 25, 1834, married Eliza Van
Mater, June 9, I856, had five children.
II04. Catherine Louisa, born February I, 1836, married Capt.
Brandon, 1878, and died November I8, i886.
I105. Evan Nelson, born July I9, 1842, died October 28, I844.
CHARLES LOTT (687), (SON oF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
IIO6. Charles H., born December 23, 1840, married Elsa A.
Odell, July II, I863, had one child.
CHARLES LOTT (687) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I I7. George W., born October 3, 1854, married Parthenia Crain.
750
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
EVERT A. (697), (soN OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I I8. Catherine.
PETER (698), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
11O9. Asa H., born 1821.
IIIO. Anna, born I823.
IIII. Jeremiah, born March 5, I824, married Mary Card, 1844,
had two children.
1112. Sidney T., born October 5, 1826, married Charlotte Vosburgh, had two children.
1113. Mary Ann, born 1828, married Charles W. Bowen.
1114. Fanny C., born I830.
CORNELIUS A. (701), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
1115. Elizabeth Ann, born March I6, 1824, married Emmett P.
Rumsey, April 21, 1842, had two children, and died January, I880.
III6. George Washington, born February 22, I826.
1117. James Henry, born September 21, 1828, died single, December 23, I856.
III8. Mary Jane, born November 26, 1830, died August 20, I832.
II9. Isaac Ferris, born May 17, 1833, married Adele Decosenine,
January I8, I858, had one child, and died October 13,
i866.
CORNELIUS A. (701) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
1120. Martha Jane, born January II, I835, died November 25,
1839.
1121. Harriet Lansing, born December 15, I836.
1122. Henrietta Beatie, born November 30, 1838, married George
H. Melville, December II, I864, had three children.
II23. Cornelius Abraham, born October 17, 1840, married Annie
S. Hartuss, December I6, 1863, had five children.
1124. Erastus Corning, born January I, 1844, married Maria De
Forest, 1870, had four children.
II25. Sarah J., born March 16, 1846, married John Schoonmaker,
January 29, i866, had two children.
GEORGE WASHINGTON (703), (SON op ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
II26. Henry E., born June 10, 1851, married Maria A. Mote, July
19, 1882, had two children.
II27. Lydia L., born November 30, 1854, married George W.
Evans, December 20, 1877, had two children.
1128. George Marion, born April 12, 1857, married Mary Brown,
September 30, 1877, had three children.
WALDRON FAMILY.
75T
II29. Elsie Ann, born March i8, I859, married first, William V.
Brogaine, February I2, I879, and second, William Lawry,
had one child.
II30. Edward Lincoln, born January 22, i86i.
1131. Harrison Johnson, born August 2, I867.
JOHN C. (704), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
II32. Halsey, born June 30, I830, married Bridget Roach, November 3, 1858, had five children.
TOBIAS T. E. (707), (SON OF JAMES), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WIFE:
II33. Edith (Eyckie), born October 3, I818, married John
Mosher, December 7, 1841, had five children. She deceased.
II34. Henry, born September 2I, I820, died single.
II35. Cornelia, born April 28, 1822, married Gilbert R. Spaulding, August 5, 1838, had one child, and died September
22, i88o.
TOBIAS T. E. (707) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WISE:
II36. Elizabeth Ann, born June 30, 1834, married William W.
Springsteed, had one child.
II37. Leah, born September 29, 1837, married Leonard Coonley,
had four children. She deceased.
1138. Helena, born July 3I, 1842, married Smith Moorehouse,
had three children. She deceased.
II39. Barent T., born July 31, 1842, married Annie Winne, had
three children, and died April 24, 1901.
GARRET C. (713), (SON OF CORNELIUS G.), HAD ISSUE:
II40. Cornelius G., born May II, 1817, married Maria Crapo.
January I, 1838.
I141. Sally Maria, born April 8, I819, married Joseph Moll,
October Io, I847, had two children.
1142. Jacob V., born I82I, married Cornelia MacGuire, May 24,
1842, had nine children.
II43. James L., born February 25, 1825, married Tamer Bradford, March, I849, had two children.
II44. Eleanor Ann, born October 13, 1828, married Silas J.
Shepard, April 22, 1852, had two children, and died February 3, I90I.
II45. Charles E., born February 28, 1838, single.
GARRET P. (722), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
1146. Margaret, born 1836, married Sylvanus Haverly.
752
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
II47. Susan, born January 10, 1838, married first, Lewis H.
Smith, 1856, had two children, and second, William H.
Hall, 1887, no issue.
1148. Peter, born I840, married Margaret Carl.
II49. James, born I844, deceased.
II50. Asa, born I846, married Sarah R. Porter.
1151. Eliza, born 1848, married Samuel Snyder.
REv. MARTIN (726), (SON OF EVERT G.), HAD ISSUE:
1152. Francis, born June 17, I825.
II53. William, born August 28, 1827, married Rosa Kelly, July
4, 1852, had eight children.
II54. Daniel, born June 22, I829, died June I8, I832.
II55. Smith, born November 25, I83I, died June I8, 1832.
II56. John, born November 30, 1833.
II57. Traverse, born October 29, 1837, died single, June 20, I863.
II58. Philetus, born November 21, I839.
II59. Henry, born December 15, 1841, died single, April 20, 1864.
60o. Sarah, born August 26, I843.
116I. Emma, born September 17, I845.
II62. Edward, born October 5, I847.
EPHRAIM B. (727), (SON OF EVERT G.), HAD ISSUE:
II63. Sarah A., born June 29, 1832, married Philetus Coleman.
1164. Ephraim, born October II, I836, married first, Lucy Fairbanks, October 24, 1857, had one child. He married
second, Eliza Luddington, September 8, I875, had one
child.
II65. George Sylvester, born March 31, 1838, married Amanda
L. Coe, June 21, 1876, had two children.
1 66. Augustine W., born March 20, 1840, married Mary D. Turner, July 4, I86o, had two children.
II67. Mary E., born March 24, 1842, married Martin V. Chase,
August I6, I858; had four children.
168. Aaron, born August I6, I844, married Martha C. Rich,
married January Io, I866, had five children.
II69. Elizabeth, born July 4, I846, married Charles Holcomb,
September 24, 1862, no issue.
II70. Wayland, born July 24, 1848, married Florence Armstrong,
March Io, i868, no issue.
1171. Lucy E., born September 15, 1852, married first, Edwin
Higley, June I5, I869, had two children. He had a
second wife.
EBENEZER B. (728), (SON OF EVERT G.), HAD ISSUE:
1172. James A., born September 25, 1851, married Mary Jane
Denel, April 10, I870, had three children.
WALDRON FAMILY.
753
II73. George W., born March I, I857, married Florence Adelia
Barns, October 13, I886, no issue.
II74. John B., who died young.
WYNANT G. (739), (SON o0 HENRY G.), HAD ISSUE:
II75. Gertrude, born November 4, 1849, married George E.
Brown, December 22, 1870, and died June 29, I874.
II76. Orrin, born August 6, 1855, married Mary Burnham, September 30, I874.
II77. Henry G., born June 7, 1857.
ABRAHAM (747), (SON o0 GISEBERT), HAD ISSUE:
II78. Frederick H., born March 14, 1840, married Alice Bottomley, July 20, I87I, had five children.
II79. Henry Oscar, born June II, 1842, married Minnie L.
Spindler, December 20, 1883, had two children.
180. William I., born May 30, I844, died June 8, I847.
ii8i. Samuel C., born April 4, 1846, married Jennie M. Hall,
March 9, I887.
II82. Frances H., born March 17, I848, married Joshua G. Leete,
April 17, I887.
GEORGE R. (753), (SON OV GISEBERT), HAD ISSUE:
I183. Margaret C., born November II, 1836, married Wilim N.
Fox, March 29, i86o.
1184. Jane V., born October 6, 1838, married Rev. Charles E.
Simmons, August 24, 1858.
II85. George Gilbert, born July I8, 1842, married Mary E. Harrison, November 2, 1863, had one child.
186. Coraline, born March 17, 1843, died September 29, I844.
II87. Harriet E., born February 4, 1845, married Alonzo Slawson, June 8, 1867, had five children.
188. Jesse C., born December 25, 1847, married Anna L. Hudson, March 15, 1871, had two children.
1189. Abram D., born June 29, 1848, died May 8, I854.
II90. Marcella P., born February 26, i850, married A. Milo Russell, May 28, I879, had six children.
1191. Franklin T., born June 29, I853, died November 20, 1863.
II92. Ida B., born December Io, I856, married Henry Miller.
GARRET (757), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
II93. Catherine, born July 29, 1827, married Montraville Bronson, 1852, had six children.
1194. William, born November 21, 1828, died single, 1849.
1195. John Clark, born January 15, 1831.
1196. Eveline Judith, born May 29, 1833, married first, James
754 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
McCormick, August, 1849, and second, Thomas J.
Thomill, June 17, I85I, had four children.
II97. Alida A., born May 22, 1836, married Charles E. Scarlett,
July 13, 1858, had four children.
II98. Calvin M., born March 25, 1839, married Emeline J. Medsell, March, I86i, had three children.
WYNANT VANDENBURGH (760), (SON OF WILLIAM G.),
HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
1I99. Abraham.
WYNANT VANDENBURGH (760) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
1200. Helen M., born June 30, I857, married Charles Dickinson,
had one child, and died July 30, I90I.
1201. Orrin W., born July I3, 1859, married Mary E. Phillips,
had five children.
1202. Emma, born August 5, 1863, married Jefferson Davison,
had one child.
DANIEL (76I), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
1203. Sally Ann, born March 26, 1834, married R oblee.
1204. William A., born March 26, 1836.
1205. Jane, born April 15, 1838, married Rogers.
1206. Luther A., born January o1, I843, married Eliza J. Cross,
November Io, I867, had five children.
1207. John D., born May, 1845.
1208. Mary Etta, born May 4, I849, married Roblee.
I209. Walter L., born May I2, I857.
CORNELIUS (764), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
I210. Mary.
1211. Judah.
1212. Delia.
1213. James.
I214. Cornelia J.
JOHN D. (765), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
1215. Josiah D., born January 22, I846.
1216. Sophia, born February 21, 1848.
I2I7. Sarah Alidah, born May 8, 1851.
1218. William G., born October 4, I853.
I2I9. Charles, born July 4, I855.
JACOB (766), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
I220. Harvey, born April 13, 1847, married Charlotte Russell,
had five children.
WALDRON FAMILY. 755
1221. M\arv E., born April o1, 1852, married Henry Straight, had
four children.
1222. Philetus F., born March 30, 1856, married Maggie Bush,
January 22, 1881, had three children.
1223. Joseph, born July I6, I864, married Clara Reitter.
WILLIAM H. (767), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
1224. Roxey Ann, born December 29, 1859, married Joseph H.
Higgins, May 28, 1878, had four children.
HARMON (768), (SON OF WILLIAM G.), HAD ISSUE:
I225. Robert.
1226. Edward.
I227. Howard.
AARON (772), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
1228. Margaret Jane, born December 24, 1832.
1229. Anna Maria, born June 14, 1835, married Elias Osterhout,
March 30, 1853.
1230. Isaac Henry, born December 23, 1837.
1231. John, born February 9, I841.
CORNELIUS (774), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
1232. Harriet.
I233. Mary, deceased.
1234. Benjamin.
1235. Rhoda Ann.
1236. Mary Jane, married M-oorehouse.
1237. Susan.
I238. Sarah A.
1239. Edna J.
1240. Martha.
1241. John A.
ISAAC (775), SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
1242. Mary A., who married -Edwards.
I243. Helen A., who married Gilmore.
1244. Emma.
HENRY (776), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I245. Mortimer, who married Turner.
I246. Nancy Jane.
BENJAMIN (789), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
I247. Harriet A., born April 17, 1845, married Henry Mott, February 21, 1861, had four children.
756
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
1248. Adelbert S., born July I7, I854, died single, January I,
1878.
I249. Ida M., born September I, 1863, married Adelbert Teachout, January I, 1878, had three children.
HENRY (HUDSON) (786), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
I250. Benjamin, born 1827, married Rebecca Mitchell, 1850, had
one child, and died I88..
1251. Alida, who married - Stevens, had one child.
1252. Elizabeth.
JOHN B. (788), (SON or BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
1253. William M., born May 23, 1834, died single.
I254. Albert (Rev.), born July I, 1836, married Celia Bissell, had
two children. He deceased.
1255. Catherine, born September 3, 1838, married Ransom Sisson, September 25, I865, had one child. She deceased.
1256. Abraham, born January 29, 1841, married Mary E. Harvey,
January 6, I870, had five children.
I257. Edwin, born April 2, I843, married Harriet R. Porter,
April, 1874, had two children.
I258. George (Dr.), born April 27, 1845, married Alida Eudora
Whitney, had four children.
I259. Aurelia, born May 31, 1847, died unmarried, I897.
I260. John, born November 3, I849, married Azuma Shaffer, had
two children.
1261. Charles Alfred, born. January 20, 1855, married Alice
Bergh, no issue.
DAVID (789), (soN or BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
1262. Harriet, who married Perry.
1263. William.
PETER WINNE (794), (SON Of PIETER C.), HAD ISSUE:
1264. Peter.
1265. Catherine.
I266. Alida.
I267. Mary E.
1268. Jacob.
JOHN (796), (SON or PIETER C.), HAD ISSUE:
I269. John, born September Io, 1849.
1270. Evert, born August 15, I853.
1271. Benjamin H., born January 24, 1858.
WALDRON FAMILY.
757
CORNELIUS (802), (SON Of GERRIT), HAD ISSUE:
1272. Garrett C., born May 15, 1829, married Angelica Salisbury,
May 15, 1848, had five children.
I273. Agnes G., born October 4, 183I, married White.
1274. Stephen, born August 22, 1834, died single.
I275. Elizabeth, unmarried.
I276. Tillie, died unmarried.
1277. John, who died single.
JOHN VAN AERNAM (816), (SON Or CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
1278. Cornelius J., born February 6, 1825, married Mary Ann
Van Wormer, September 5, 1849, had seven children, and
died I90o.
I279. Stephen Pearl Keyes, born August I6, 1828, married Sarah
Maria Rogers, November 25, 1852, had ten children, and
died November IO, I888.
1280. Henry J., born September 22, 1830, was the father of seven
children, and died 1878.
1281. Zachariah Keyes, born January 23, 1833, married Margaret
Archbold, December 20, I855, had ten children.
1282. Hester, born May 9, I835, married Emory K. Sheak, October 6, 1853, had four children.
I283. George M., born January 27, I838, died I902.
1284. Charles D., born April 9, 1841.
HENRY (822), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
1285. Mary, born September 20, I845, died June 26, I846.
REV. CHARLES NEWMAN (824), (SON OF HENRY), HAD
ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
1286. Henry Adams (Dr.), who married Elizabeth E. Miller.
REV. CHARLES NEWMAN (824) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
1287. William Augustus, who married Lydia Gail King, June 7,
1882, had two children.
1288. Charles Francis.
WILLIAM (825), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
1289. William Henry, born September 3, 1853, died July 14, I854.
I290. Charles Waterman.
1291. Howard Baldy, born March 8, i866, married Maud Berry
Read, November 14, 900o, have one child.
1292. Mary Frances, born May 15, 1871, married Henry K.
Bradley, have one child.
758 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
ABRAHAM C. (829), (SON OF CORNELIUS W.), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
1293. George, born October 22, 1828, deceased.
I294. Cornelius Augustus, born July 23, I829.
I295. Ann Jane, born November 24, 1831, married Dixon.
I296. Robert, born September 7, I833.
I297. Daniel, born August IO, 1835.
I298. Catherine, born August 7. 1837, married Stillman.
I299. Mary, who married M- cCrea.
ABRAHAM C. (829) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
1300. John A., born August 27, 1839, deceased.
I301. Charles, born June 12, 1841, deceased.
WILLIAM (830), (SON OF CORNELIUS W.), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
I302. Mary Jane, born October 19, 1831, married Sewall S.
Davis, February 26, 1855, had three children.
1303. Charlotte Ann, born I835, unmarried.
1304. John, born 1837, died single.
WILLIAM (830) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I305. Hicks B., born July 17, I840, married first, Eva G. Gunsaulus, had two children, and second, Harriet Gildersleeve, had four children.
I306. Zaremba W. (Dr.), born April 15, 1843, married Jennie B.
Minty, October 5, 1871, had two children.
I307. Le Grand C., born 1846, married Sarah Wiswell, had two
children, and died January, I903.
HARMON KNICKERBOCKER (834), (SON OF WILLIAM W.),
HAD ISSUE:
1308. Lois, born 1847, died unmarried, 1873.
1309. Tunis, born 1864, died single, 1882.
I3IO. George, who married Clara Strong, had three children.
1311. Theodore, who married Smith, had two children.
1312. William, who married Betsey J. Smith, had one child.
WILLIAM (837), (SON OF WILLIAM W.), HAD ISSUE:
3I33. Williette, who married Jewell.
3 I4. Oliver.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS (838), (SON OF WILLIAM W.), HAD
ISSUE:
I3I5. Estella, who married William D. Osborn, Jr.
WALDRON FAMILY.
759
JOSEPH HUNT (842), (SON OF WILLIAM W.), HAD ISSUE:
1316. Lemuei, who died young.
1317. Frederick, who married Lois Waldron.
1318. Edward, who died April 2, I900:
I3I9. Joseph, who married May?.
1320. Clayton, who died I897.
I321. Amanda.
1322. Georgiana.
1323. Cornelius, deceased.
1324. Guy.
WILLARD EARL (846), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
1325. Willard A., born May 12, 1852.
1326. Alice G., born March 26, 1854, married M osher.
1327. Jane B., born MIay 20, 1858, married Aiken.
1328. Arthur W., born May 27, I863.
1329. Silas S., born February 20, I867.
RICHARD VARICK (854), (SON OF JOSEPH), HAD ISSUE:
1330. Eliza Jane, born June 4, 1835, married Theodore Ackerman,
July 3, I86i, had four children.
133I. Hiram Sprague, born October 9, I837.
I332. Anna, born December 8, I839, married Dewitt C. Church,
February 28, I86I, had three children, and died April 2,
I875.
I333. Albert, born February 6, 1842, married Caroline F. Clarke,
May 30; I87I, had four children.
I334. Martha, born October 4, I849, married John Sharp, September 30, 1873, had one child, and died June 30, 1883.,LEONARD F. (872), (SON OF STEPHEN), HAD ISSUE:
I335. Martha J., born June 9, 1832, married first, Rev. John A.
Soben, October I2, 1852, had two children. She married
second, Rev. H. H. Janes, M\ay 23, 1867, no issue.
I336. Elizabeth, born September 27, 1833, married Leonard E.
Leah.
I337. Leonard A., born September 8, I834.
I338. Sylvanius, born July 4, 1836.
1339. Emeline E., born August 19, 1837, married first, Thomas
Stephens, February 4, I86I, and second, Thomas Nevill,
December 25, I875.
I340. Charles E., born January 5, I849.
ANDREW JACKSON (89I), (SON OF HIRAM), HAD ISSUE:
I34I. -? (child), that died in infancy.
1342. Cora May, born July 20, I874.
760
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I343. Bertha Angeline, born Mlarch 8, 1876.
I344. Maud Elsey, born March 4, i88i.
I345. Claud Ernest, born February Io, 1883.
JOHN iM. (902), (SON OF EDWARD), HAD ISSUE:
I346. Edward, born I856, died I862.
I347. Ida, born I858, married William Metcalf, I882.
I348. Clara, born I860, married T. J. Jenkins, 1885.
1349. Ella, born 1862, unmarried.
I350. John P., born I870, single.
MARTIN (9IO), (SON OF CALVIN), HAD ISSUE:
I351. Philander.
1352. Nora, who married W etzel.
I353. Elmer.
I354. Almeada, who married David.
I355. Benjamin.
I356. Edith.
MA1'TI-IFW (9II), (SON OF CALVIN), hAD ISSUE:
I357. William, born December 15, I870, married Harriet J. Holley, had two children.
I358. Susan L., born March 20, I886, died unmarried.
ANDREW (913), (SON OF CALVIN), IAD ISSUE:
I359. Mlamie A., born September 22, 1878.
I360. Calvin, born April 3, I882.
ISAAC (914), (SON OF CALVIN), HAD ISSUE:
I36I. Caroline, born July I9, 1878, married Sylvester Buchman,
had four children.
I362. Lulu, born March 13, 1879.
I363. Samuel, born. February 6, i88i.
I364. Lucy M., born March 9, I883.
I365. Thomas, born November 25, I885.
I366. Myrtie, born August 7, 1887.
1367. Maggie, born December 4, I890.
1368. Florence, born July 24, I894.
I369. Laura, born May II, 1895.
I370. Sylvia, born June 12, I899.
THOMAS (915), (SON Of, CALVIN), IAD ISSUE:
I37I. Charles, born May 3, 1876, married Jennie Stage, May 2I,
I898, had two children.
1372. John, born 1877, died single.
I373. David J., born October 14, 1879, married Jennie Dougherty,
lavc two childreni.
WALDRON FAMILY.
76i
CHARLES (916), (SON or CALVIN), HAD ISSUE:
I374.. Ellen.
I375. Charles.
I376. Thomas.
I377. Susan.
CALVIN (917), (SON or CALVIN), HAD ISSUE:
I378. Emma, born October 26, 1883.
I379. James H., born October I, I885.
I380. Bertha, born July 20, 1887.
1381. Calvin, Jr., born December 29, I888.
1382. Clara, born June 28, I89I.
I383. Tilley, born June I8, 1893.
I384. Ruth, born April 4, I895.
I385- Joseph, born September I, I896.
1386. Florence, born April 14, I900.
I387. Ida E., born April 28, I902.
JAMES HARRISON (918), (SON OF CALVIN), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
1388. Andres James, born July 3, I890.
1389. Arthur, born October 31, 1892.
JAMES HARRISON (918) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIIFE:
I390. Clarence, born October 27, I898.
CHARLES PITMAN (930), (SON oF HARRISON), HAD ISSUE:
I39I. Catherine R., born August I, 1882, unmarried.
JACKSON (93I), (SON OF JAMES), HAD ISSUE:
1392. Mary Emma, born September 6, I86I, died September 22,
I862.
I393. Minnie May, born August I, I863, died August 13, 1863.
I394. William Curtis, born November 30, I864, died September
28, I865.
1395. John Wesley, born March 5, I868, died August I, I868.
I396. Olive Louise, born August 26, I873.
MATTHEW (934), (SON OF JAMES), HAD ISSUE:
I397. Annie Louise, born July I, 1873, married - Jerome, November 17, I897.
I398. Embree, born March 27, i88o.
I399. Marguerite, born June 3, I887.
762
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
ABRAHAM (949), (SON OF JACOB J.), HAD ISSUE:
1400. Charles M., born December I8, 1852, died single, September
9, I899.
I401. Frank E., born June 30, I856, married Margaret Cassidy,
January I, I893, had two children.
ISAAC (955), (SON oF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
1402. Hannah Jane, born June 8, 1830, married first, John Booth,
had two children, and second, William H. Hasson, had
one child.
JOSEPH WILDEY (956), (SON OE DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
I403. Julia Frances, who married first, Cyrus Holland, August,
1860, and second, David Galerctine.
I404. Sarah Cornelia, who married G. Downing, I864.
1405. Mary Emily, who married S. W. Childs, I865.
1406. Effie Mary, who married A. J. Cooley, I876.
LEMUEL (963), (SON OF DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
1407. Polly.
I408. John.
I409. Debora.
1410. Savannah.
1411.?
1412. Constantine D.
SIMEON D. (968), (soN OF DANIEL), HAD ISSUE:
I4I3. Loduska, born November 3, I849, married M orrison,
November 23, I869.
I414. Florissa, born June 15, 1852, married Shaw, April 12,
i88o.
I415. Dorcas, born September 22, 1855, married - Sopher,
March I6, 1876.
I416. James S., born November 25, 1859, married Minnie M.
Sopher, February 23, I882, had two children.
ALEXANDER (973), (SON Or JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I417. Samuel, J., born January 23, 1838, married Jane Harper.
I4I8. William O., born March 28, 1840, married Mary E. Phillips, January 20, I869, had three children.
I419. Maria L., born February 24, 1842, married C. S. Burt, October Io, I867.
1420. James A., born January 28, 1844, married Jennie Slenmons,
October 9, 1867, had eight children.
1421. Abigail (Mary A.), born February I8, 1846, married Robert Taylor, December 7, I875.
WALDRON FAMILY. 763
1422. Susanna, born March 20, 1848, died unmarried, October
31, I865.
I423. Erasmus K., born April 4, 1850, died single, November 7,
i868.
1424. Belle (Eliza B.), born December 14, 1852, married Maurice
Kinsey.
1425. Frank, born August 26, 1856, died November 27, 1865.
SAMUEL (974), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
I426. Samantha J., born June Ii, I844, married Charles B. Seaman.
I427. Almerin John, born October 2, I845, died May I8, 1850.
1428. Agnes M., born June IO, 1847, married James Davison, had
five children, and died October IO, I884.
1429. Isaphena, born February 12, I849, married Benton Collard.
I430. Angelina, born November i8, I850, married Thomas
Sharth.
SAMUEL (974) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I43I. George W., born August 26, 1854, married Amanda Adkins, 1877, had three children.
1432. Martha Emma, born September 28, I856, married Joseph
Harrington.
I433. Ann Elizabeth, born November 23, 1858, married William
O. Sperry, September 28, I879, no issue.
I434. John A. Lincoln, born October 5, I860, married May Batten.
1435. Gabrielle, born February I, 1863, married W. Warren.
1436. Samuel O., born February 2, I865, died April 14, 1873.
I437. Christina, born December 24, I866, married Richard Barbour.
1438. Henry A., born November 2, I868, married Ethel B. Batten, September 29, I896, had two children,
I439. Jessie Rosaline, born October 30, 1871, married Millard
Hyatt.
I440. Edgar Milton, born November 21, 1873, married Izetta
Rider, October 6, I896, had one child.
JOHN L. (075), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST WIFE:
I44I. Louis K.
JOHN L. (975) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
1442. Winfield C., born November I9, I86o, married Kate Paulus,
January, I889.
I443. Ella M., born October 17, I862, married Edwin M. Whiting, October I8, I887.
764
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
I444. Vernon, born June 5, I864, married Bessie A. Gaskill, December 24, 1894, had one child.
WILLIAM S. (977), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
1445. Orlando K., born February 2, 1847, married B. Fredly,
November 2, 1882.
I446. Susan 0., born July 20, I849, married N. B. Duncan, February 22, I869.
I447. Theodore C., born November 2, 1850, single.
1448. William S., born June 23, I857, married Mary McChain,
September -, 1872, had one child, and died October 12,
1890.
1449. Laura H., born December 5, 1853, married R. M. Kinnear,
June 9, I870.
I450. John C., born November 9, I855, married Mary Leach,
November 9, I886, had one child.
I45I. Eva M., born July 20, 1857, married J. B. Evans, April
o1, I874.
1452. Reuben O., born August I4, I858, single.
1453. Maria B., born February 21, I860, married F. B. Dodds,
June 20, I879.
I454. Frederick V., born July 12, I862, married Gertrude Robinson, July 10, I894.
1455. Wina E., born October 7, I863, unmarried.
1456. Ulysses S. G., born July 6, I865, single.
1456a. Ada Mainda, born November 14, I866, married Benjamin S. Buhl, November 3, I890.
I456b. Leota Elfonza, born September 25, I868, married 0. S.
Sutton, October 20, 1890.
SAMUEL S. (982), (SON OF SAMUEL OLIVER), HAD ISSUE:
I457. Minnie M., who married Michael.
1458. VWilliam Curtin, who died single, August 6, I863.
I459. Elzie Elmer, who died unmarried, March 6, I862.
I460. Eddie Oliver, who died single, August I8, I864.
I46I. Valentine Pickney, who died single, September 12, I868.
1462. Hattie Dale, who married Vensel.
DAVID M. (984), (SON OF SAMUEL OLIVER), HAD ISSUE:
I463. Emburetta, born April 9, 1863, married George W. Campbell, September 24, 1885, had one child.
I464. Friend Alford, born May 7, I869, married Lou Ramsey,
August 28, 1900.
CHARLES B. (985), (SON OF RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
I465. Richard, born January 6, 1854, married Margaret O'Hara,
July 12, 1877, had nine children.
WALDRON FAMILY.
765
1466. Eliza, born June 3, 1856, married Henry Bush, 1878, had
one child.
GEORGE W. (988), (SON OF RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
1467. Annie, born August 20, I87I, married George Shaffer,
December I9, I894, no issue.
1468. Joseph G., born July 26, 1874.
I469. Maggie E., born June 3, 1878.
1470. George W., Jr., born September 20, I88I.
EDWARD (994), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I47I. Elizabeth.
1472. Annie.
JOHN (996), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I473. William H.
I474. Edward A., who married Helen Robbins, March I8, I903.
I475. Jerome, deceased.
I476. Francis.
I477. Herbert M.
1478. Howard V. D.
1479. Florence.
SAMUEL L. (1027), (SON OF JAMES R.), HAD ISSUE BY
FIRST WVIFE.
1480. Sarah Esther, born November 13, 1865, married James H.
L. Moore, October 12, I886, had three children.
THOMAS HOWLAND (1032), (SON OF JAMES R.), HAD ISSUE:
I48I. James A., born December 13, 1872, married D. C. Cox.
1482. Stella E., born October 13, 1885.
I483. Mattie M., born April 6, I886, died September 28, I886.
I484. Jessie G., born October 13, I890.
WALTER S. (1035), (SON oF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
I485. Ida, born 1857, married Walter Smith, 1871, no issue, and
died August, I885.
JAMES A. (1036), (SON OF DAVID), HAD ISSUE:
1486. Arthur, born December 22, 1859, married Jeannette Bennett, June, I886, no issue.
EDWARD (1040), (SON OF SAMUEL JAMES), HAD ISSUE:
I487. Elizabeth, born April 29, I86I, married Frank Edwards,
March 27, I89I, no issue.
766
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
1488. Isabella, who died at the age of eighteen.
BENJAMIN (1041), (SON OF SAMUEL JAMES), HAD ISSUE:
I489. Victor B., born February 3, 1877, single.
I490. Caroline L., born October 2, 1878, unmarried.
I491. Gilbert Travis, single.
SAMUEL R. (1047), (SON r() SAMUEL JAMES), HAD ISSUE:
I492. Hinton S., born December Io, 1882, single.
I493. Clarence H., born January I, 1887, single.
I494.?-? (child) that died at birth.
WILLIAM JOHN (1049), (SON OF JOHN D.), HAD ISSUE:
I495. Caroline, born April 22, 1853, married Winifred Jersey,
had four children, and died September I, IS86.
1496. Mary Louisa, born October 4, I855, died February 6, 1856.
I497. Helen, born April 24, 1857, married Byron H. Stickney,
January I, I88I, no issue, and died November 20, 1882.
I408. Arthur, born October 30, I86o, married Mary Nickerson,
had two children.
I499. Wilbur, born January I8, 1864, married Hattie Williams,
December Io, 1887, had six children.
VICTOR SALINAS HOPKINS (1054), (SON OF JOHN D.), HAD
ISSUE:
1500. Minnie Louise, born July 28, I863, married Byron H. Stickney, November ii, 1885, had five children.
1501. Carroll Edgar, born May Io, 1865, married Bertha A.
Frost, November 19, 1902, no issue.
1502. Louis Victor, born March 4, I863, married Addie A. Blauvelt, June 26, 1902, no issue.
I503. Annie Lockwood, born May 7, I87I.
1504. Maggie Warner, born June 25, I876, died August 14, I877.
I505. Florence Mortimer, born June Io, I880, died October 9,
I886.
I506. Edward Langdon, born October 3, I88I, died April 27,
I888.
CARROLL SCOTT (1055), (SON OF JOHN D.), HAD ISSUE:
I507. Henry Percival, born May 30, 1867, died single, March 28,
I89o.
1508. John D., born May I8, I868, married Bessie Crossit, December 21, 1897, had two children.
I509. Alice Kilburn, born April 5, I870, married S. George Graul,
April 4, I894, no issue.
I5IO. Charles Elmer, born March 21, I872.
WALDRON FAMILY.
767
151I. David Sterling, born September 3, 1874, married Etta
Phipps, had three children.
1512. Sarah Eliza, born March 5, I877.
I513. Bertha Louise, born January 29, I88o.
I5I4. Carroll Scott, born December 28, I882.
I I5. Ina Almira, born November I, I885.
I5i6. Margaret Elizabeth, born December 5, I888, died May 14,
I894.
1517. Caroline Dorothea, born July 7, I892.
JOHN C. (IO6o), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
I518. Grace A., born June 17, I883, unmarried.
I519. William A., born January 5, 1885.
1520. Caroline E., born December I, I886.
1521. Edna D., born October 7, i888.
1522. May E., born May I3, I89I.
I523. John A., born February 17, I895.
I524. Dorothy I., born November II, I899.
1525. Wesley D., born February 24, I90I.
LFEWIS M. (1070), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
1526. Margaret, born July 4, I89o.
WILLIAM J. (1071), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
1527. Wilfred, born I887.
CHARLES A. (1072), (SON OF AARON), HAD ISSUE:
1528. James, born 1887.
I529. Clara May, born I889.
MARTIN (1083), (SON OF RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
I530. Ethel Maude, born I89I.
I53I. Martha F., born go90, died 1901.
EDWARD A. (IO85), (SON OF WILLIAM RICHARD), HAD
ISSUE:
1532. Lambert S., born November 22, I863, deceased.
I533. Lamont K., born January I6, I865, married Emma R.
Story, September 24, I890, had two children.
I534. Martha A., born September 27, 1874, married Willard H.
Benton, had two children. She deceased.
I535. Grace E., born August 4, 1876, unmarried.
RICHARD (IO87), (SON OF WILLIAM RICHARD), HAD ISSUE
BY FIRST WIFE:
I536. Marian, born March I9, I865, married Robert Campbell,
had four children.
768
HIST ORY OF HARLEM.
I537. William B., born September 13, 1867, married Marie
Durand, had two children.
RICHARD (1087) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIVFE:
I538. Richard, born August 28, I877, single.
I539. Ruth, born May 17, I88o, unmarried.
I540. Walter J., born August 30, 1883, single.
I54I. Edith, born August 6, I887.
WARREN H. (IO89), (SON OE WILLIAM RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
I542. Clarence R., born December 14, 1875, married Gertrude
Ball, had one child.
I543. Norris W., born April 15, I878, married Pearl Lucas, had
one child.
I544. Rose E., born December 14, I896.
JAMES LAWRENCE (103), (SON OF JAMES), HAD ISSUE:
I545. James Lawrence, Jr.,. born May Io, 1858, married Louisa
Rousseau, July, I886, had one child.
I546. Ida L., born April 13, I86I, died May 19, i86i.
I547. George E., born September 17, I863, married Eugenia
Hammer.
I548. Frederick Van Iderstine, born December 2I, 1867, married
Lena Hammer, September 29, 1885, had two children.
I549. Maude E., born December 6, 1875, married Alonzo
Schwartz, November 6, 1894, had one child.
CHARLES H. (IIO6), (SON OF CHARLES LoTT), HAD ISSUE:
I550. Julia R., born March 21, I866, married George Ashmore,
had two children.
JEREMIAH (IIII), (SON O1 PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I55I. Percy C.
1552. Emma.
SIDNEY T. (1112), (SON OF PETER), HAD ISSUE:
I553. Asa H.
I554. Anna.
ISAAC FERRIS (III9), (SON OF CORNELIUS A.), HAD ISSUE:
I555. Della, born NoVember 2, I862, married Charles P. Forbush,,1884.
CORNELIUS ABRAHAM (1123), (SON OF CORNELIJUS A.),
1AD ISSUE:
1556. Harvey.
WALDRON FAMILY.
769
1557. Albert.
1558. George.
1559. Elizabeth.
1560. Guy.
HENRY E. (1126), (SON OF GEORGE WASHINGTON), HAD
ISSUE:
I56I. Henry O.
1562. Chester E.
GEORGE MARION (II28), (SON OF GEORGE WASHINGTON),
HAD ISSUE:
I563. Noble B.
I564. George M.
1565. Clarissa Bell.
HALSEY (1132), (SON OF JOHN C.), HAD ISSUE:
I566. Miary E., born July 4, I860, married John Holmes, June
I4, 1884.
1567. Halsey J., born February 25, 1863, died October -, I879.
1568. George, born August I', I865.
1569. Nellie A., born September I8, I868, died August IO, I869.
I570. Agnes, born November 19, 1870.
BARENT T. (I139), (SON OF TOBIAS T. E.), HAD ISSUE:
I57I. Henrietta, born January 27, I869, died April 27, 1884.
1572. Mabel S., born September 25, I876.
I573. Winnie B., born July 26, 1882.
JACOB V. (1142), (SON OF GARRET C.), HAD ISSUE:
I574. John J., born November 14, I843.
I575. Ellen M., born February 13, I845.
I576. Charles L., born March 3I, I846.
I577. Truman B., born January 31, 1848.
I578. Elizabeth A., born October 29, 1850, married Henry Goodwin, September 23, I874, had one child.
1579. William B., born November I4, I852.
1580. Eugenia, born August 4, I855.
1581. Lewis V., born August 13, I856.
1582. Celia A., born May 7, I870, married - Dorsey.
JAMES L. (II43), (SON OF GARRET C.), HAD ISSUE:
I583. Mary J., born June 28, 1853, married Charles P. Barnes,
had five children.
I584. Anna L., who married Counsell.
770
770 ~HISTORY OF HARLEM.
WILLIAM (1153), (SON or, REV,. MARTIN), HAD ISSUE:
1585. Sarah, born September 15, 1853, died September 15, 1853.
1586. William Francis, born April 22, 1855, married Margaret
Owens.
1587. Marcella, born December 24, 1857, married J. B. Pfordt.
1588. George, born September i6, 1859, married Catherine Rapp,
had one child.
1 589. John R., born April II, 187I, married Amelia Gosha.
1 590. Emma. born August 5, 1863, married 'M. J* O'Rilev.
1591. Edward, born May I I, 1865, married Alice Morris.
1592. Peter P., born August 9, 1867, married Ellen Byrnes, November 27, 1890, had two children.
EPIIRAIM (1164), (SON ov EPHRAIM B.,HAD ISSUE~ Iy
FIRST WVIFE:
1593. Emma, born August 31, i86i.
EP`I~URAIM (1164) HAD ISSUE, BY SECONI) WIFE:
1594. Fanny MX., born February I17, I1876.
GEORGE SYLVES'rER (ii65), (SON o1' EP1IR.:\1M-~ B.), IIAD
IS SUE:
1595. George H., born 1878, married V/inie Crouks.
1596. Grace F., born i88o, married Joseph S. MNorgan.
AUGtTSTINE, W. (I i66), (SON oF, EPHRAIJM B.), HAD ISSUE,:
1597. Minerva C., born March 25. i862, married George 14.
Cottle, November 28, i882>1 had four children, and (liedl
October 26, 1896.
1598. Ida 1\I., born August I I, 1 868, married H. Seymour Sweeting, September 30, 1883, had two children, and died September 12, 1893.
AARON (ii68), (SON oF, EPHRAIm B.), HAD ISSUE,:
1599. Marian L., born May 29, 1867, married Clarence Woodford, April II, 1889.
i6oo. Elizabeth, born July 4, 1869, unmarried.
i6oi. Frederick, born June 23, 1873, died March 2, 1877.
1602. Frances M., born August i8, 1876, unmarried.
1603. Ada L., born August 7, 1879, unmarried.
JAME~s A. (I1172), (SON OF E~,BENEZER B.), HAD ISSUE,:
1604. La Monte Raymond, born October i8, 1871, married Nellie
Swartwout, March 12, i891, had two children.
WALDRON PAM'\ ILY.7'
771
1605. Olive Lavinia, born June 14, 1874, mrarried first, James L.
Carlisle,, August 24, i891, had one child. She married
second, George F. Dorr.
i6o6. George Albert, born December 26, i879, married Anna B.
True, October i, iqw
FREDEgRICK H. (1178), (soN or. ABRAHAM).,HAD ISSUE:
i607. George Remer, born December 2, 1874, married Phoebe
Rice.
i~o8. AliceTNM., born 'i\,ay i, 1878, married Harry W. Vanderbilt,
June i8, 1902.
1609. Charles W., born November 25, i88I.
i6io. Frederick H., Jr., born August io, 1883.
i6ii. Harry P., born A'arch 29, 1885.
HENRY OSCAR (1 179),~ (SON or, ABRAHAM\), HAD issue,:
1612. Lillian L., born October 2, 1884, died August io, 1885.
16I3. Albert F., born August 9, 1887.
GiroRrE, GILBERT (ii185), (SON OFr GEORGiEi R.), HAD ISSUE':
1614. Jennie E., who married Albert G. Sanford.
JEF~SSE, C. (II88), (SON OGF GORGE, R.), HAD ISSUE:
i615. George Leon, born September 24, 1872, married Marion C.
Newton, January 26, 1896, no issue.
i6i6. Grace L14, born August I, 1875, unmarried.
CALVIN iNL (1198), (SON oF GARRT), HAD ISSUE
1617. George.
i6i8. William.
1619. F~rancis.
ORRIN W. (1201),. (SON Or, WYNANT VANDIENBURGH),
HAD ISSUE,:
1620. Grace E.
1621. Harold.
1 622. Dean.
1623. Ralph.
1624. Elizabeth.
LUTHER A. (1206), (soN OF. DANIEL), HAD ISSUE,:
1625. Lilly A., born September i8, i868, married ~~Osborn.
1626. Frank, born January i8, 1871.
i627. Parry A., born March 3, i84
i628.' Martha, bor-n'July 24, 1877, married Convers'.
i629. Clara, born September 26, i886.
772
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
HARVEY (1220), (SON OE JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
I630. Addie, who married M owery.
I63I. Grace.
1632. Burt.
I633. Walter.
I634. Jessie.
PHILETUS F. (1222), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE:
I635. Evelyn, born April 8, I882, unmarried.
I636. Ella, born February 9, I884, unmarried.
I637. Charlotte, born March 24, I886, unmarried.
BENJAMIN (1250), (SON OF HENRY), HAD ISSUE:
1638. Erskine, born 1851, married Anna E. Burdione, 1877, had
one child.
REV. ALBERT (1254), (SON OF JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
1639. Edna Pamelia, born July 14, I862.
I640. Celia Alberta, born February 12, I866.
ABRAHAM (1256), (SON OF JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
1641. Joel Harvey (Dr.), born June I, 1871, married Zenaida L.
Stewart, May 24, 1894; had two children.
1642. Albert Edwin, born November 5, 1873, married Mollie Orr,
February I8, I899, had one child.
I643. Ralph Irving, born January 7, 1879.
I644. Rachel, born June IO, I88I. ).
1645. Raymond, born June io, I88I. Twins
EDWIN (1257), (SON OF JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
1646. Stuart P., born September 6, 1876.
I647. Ray, born July 31, i88o.
DR. GEORGE (1258), (SON OF JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
1648. George Albert.
I649. Clarence R.
I650. Clare.
I65I. —?
JOHN (I26o), (SON or JOHN B.), HAD ISSUE:
1652. Alice Mary, born September 7, I874.
I653. Eugene.
GARRETT C. (1272), (SON OF CORNELIUS), HAD ISSUE:
1654. Charles E., born October 20, 1849, died single, December 4,
I868.
WALDRON FAMILY.
773
I655. Andrew S., born September 17, 1859, died single, March
29, I894.
1656. Agnes G., born November 13, I86I, unmarried.
I657. John W., born April 25, 1867, single.
I658. Helen W., born September 14, 1869, married Francis S.
Weis, September Io, I900, had one child.
CORNELIUS J. (1278), (SON OE JOHN VAN AERNAM), HAD
ISSUE:
I659. Eliza Jane, born May 15, 1850, died December 20, I858.
I660. Arthur K., born February 29, 1852, married Carrie N.
Boone, had two children.
I66I. Charles F., born February 25, I860, died March 15, i86i.
1662. Francis, born April I8, 1862, died April 26, I863.
I663. Ann Elizabeth, born January 14, I868, married Charles L.
Preston, no issue.
1664. Elizabeth, born December 9, 1870, married Fred L. Chichester.
I665. John V. A., born September I6, 1875, died October 27,
1884.
STEPHEN PEARL KEYES (1279), (SON OE JOHN VAN
AERNAM), HAD ISSUE:
I666. William A., born January 30, I856, died 1863.
1667. Mary E., born August 6, I858, died I863.
I668. George S., born August 26, I86o, died I863.
1669. Henry Stanton, born December 23, 1862, married Carolyn
Elizabeth Moddy, February I8, 1892, had two children.
I670. Margaret, born August 5, I865.
I67I. Charles S., born September I8, I867.
1672. John S., born December 19, I868, died I868.
I673. Ada, born December I8, I869.
I674. Carrie May, born February 4, I873.
I675. Frank Rogers, born July 4, I875.
HENRY J. (1280), (SON OE JOHN VAN AERNAM), HAD
ISSUE:
I676. Ella, who married W illiams.
1677. Nellie M.
1678. Frank C.
I679. William H.
I680. Carrie A.
I68I. Emma J., who married George A. Herzer.
1682. Ida, who married - Richards, had one child. She deceased.
774
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
ZACHARIAH KEYES (1281), (SON Or JOHN VAN AERNAM),
HAD ISSUE:
I683. W. Archbold, born November 28, I856.
I684. Carrie, born December IO, 1858, married Lewis P. Tier,
October 9, I879, no issue.
I685. Catherine A., born July 29, I860, married Charles Poffenberger, no issue.
I686. Sue, born March 26, 1862, married William J. Shelley, Oc —
tober 14, I896, no issue.
1687. Mary, born January 30, 1864, married H. D. Giggs.
I688. John V. A., born March 8, I866.
I689. George H., born August 9, i868.
I690. Louisa, born March 31, 1870, married W. Henderson.
1691. Zachary, born February I6, 1872.
I692. William, born August 26, 1875, died single.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (1287), (SON oF REV. CHARLES NEWMAN), HAD ISSUE:
I693. Charles Newman.
I694. Gail King.
HOWARD BALDY (I29I), (SON OE WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I695. Phylis Read, born September 3, I90I.
HICKS B. (I305), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE BY FIRST
WIEE:
I696. William Gunsaul, born December 8, I866, married Mary
Voorhees, August, I888, no issue.
I697. Frank E., born September 4, i868, married Louisa J. Miller, 1885, had four children, and died April I9, 1901.
HICKS B. (I305) HAD ISSUE BY SECOND WIFE:
I698. George G., born January 22, I88I.
I699. Kitty May, born May Io, 1884.
1700. Lillian P., born April 3, 1887.
I70I. Harriet L., born December 30, I894.
DR. ZAREMBA W. (I306), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I702. Frederick Rice (Dr.), born March 24, 1876, married Clara
Sherwood Carter, November 19, I902.
I703. Alexander Minty, born June 7, I880, died single, September 26, I900.
LE GRAND C. (1307), (SON or WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
I704. Edward L.
I705. Cora M., who married John B. Sowle.
WALDRON FAMILY.
775
GEORGE (1310), (SON OF HARMON KNICKERBOCKER), HIAD
ISSUE:
1706. Lewis P.
I707. Ermine, who married Cannon.
1708. Carl.
THEODORE (1311), (SON OF HARMON KNICKERBOCKER),
HAD ISSUE:
1709. Clara.
I7IO. Enos.
WILLIAM (1312), (SON OF HARMON KNICKERBOCKER), HAD
ISSUE:
1711. Lois.
ALBERT (I333), (SON OF RICHARD VARICK), IAD ISSUE:
1712. Kate C., born August 14, 1872.
17I3. Anna F., born August 20, I877.
1714. Ruth F. S., born November 15, 1879.
I715. Albert V., born 1883.
WILLIAM (I357), (SON OF MATTHEW), IAD ISSUE:
I716. Rosamond, born October I, I899.
I717. Lewis, born April 9, 1902.
CHARLES (I37I), (SON OF THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
I718. David C., born May 4, I899.
I7I9. Blanche L., born July 23, 190I.
DAVID J. (I373), (SON THOMAS), HAD ISSUE:
1720. Bonnie A., born March I2, I900.
1721. David K., born June 9, 90oI.
FRANK E., (I40I), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
1722. Bessie, born April I8, I894.
1723. Margaret, born May 22, 1899.
JAMES S. (I416), (SON OF SIMEON D.), HAD ISSUE:
1724. Dona B., born September 14, I883, unmarried.
1725. Charles, born October 22, 1885.
WILLIAM 0. (1418), (SON OF ALEXANDER), HAD ISSUE:
I726. Charles P., born May -, 1871, single.
I727. Edwin D., born June 4, 1874, single.
I728. Helen, born November 28, 1877, unmarried.
776
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
JAMES A. (1420), (SON OF ALEXANDE;R), HAD ISSUE;:
I729. Walter, born August 2, I868, married Eva Evans, March
7, I894.
I730. John, born December 30, 1870, single.
I73I. Anna, born December 30, 1870, married F. K. Byrkit, October 23, i896.
I732. Libbie, born March 23, 1873, unmarried.
I733. James R., born June 24, 1875, single.
I734. Ralph 0., born November 15, 1877, single.
I735. Alice M., born July 27, I88o, unmarried.
I736. Garvin B., born October 17, I886, single.
GE;ORGE W. (I43I), (SON OF SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
I737. George C., born 1878, single.
I738. Cora L., born I880, unmarried.
I739. Jennie E., born 1883, unmarried.
HENRY A. (1438), (SON or SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
1740. Dorla, born I898.
I74I. Ronald, born I899.
EDGAR MILTON (I440), (SON or SAMUEL), HAD ISSUE:
1742. Guy E., born April 9, 1897.
VERNON (I444), (SON OF JOHN L.), HAD ISSUE:
I743. Marjorie, born October 7, 1895.
WILLIAM S. (I448), (SON oF WILLIAM S.), HAD ISSUE:
I744. Frank W.
JOHN C. (1450), (SON OF WILLIAM S.), HAD ISSUE:
I745. Hazel, born April 21, I889.
RICHARD (I465), (SON OF CHARLES B.), HAD ISSUE:
I746. Sophia, born July 2, I88o.
I747. Mattie, born March 2, I882, married Blum.
I748. Maggie, born February 29, 1884.
I749. Kate, born January 28, i886.
I750. Richard, born April 29, I888.
I75I. Charles, born March 4, I889.
1752. Henry, born November 20, I894.
I753. Edith, born August 28, 1898.
I754. Walter, born October 4, I900.
WALDRON FAMILY.
777
ARTHUR (1498), (SON OF WILLIAM JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
I755. Arthur Raymond, born September 17, I887.
I756. Pearl Martha, born August I6, I890.
WILBUR (I499), (SON OF WILLIAM JOHN), IAD ISSUE:
I757. Edith Frances, born July 2, I888.
I758. Lillian Elizabeth, born August 23, I890.
I759. William Clenton, born August 23, 1890.
1760. Melvin H., born July 13, I892.
176i. Clyde Chester, born March 22, 1896.
1762. Earle Edward, born May 25, I897.
JOHN D. (I508), (SON OF CARROLL SCOTT), HAD ISSUE:
I763. La Perceil Joan, born June 4, I899.
1764. John Brown, born November I8, I901.
DAVID STERLING (1511), (SON OF CARROLL SCOTT), HAD
ISSUE:
I765. David Henry, born November 4, I898.
1766. Edna Gertrude, born September 3, I900.
I767. Carroll Edmond, born January I9, 1903.
LAMONT K. (I533), (SON OF EDWARD A.), HAD ISSUE:
I768. Blanche M., born July 17, I89I.
I769. Lavern F., born May 24, 1896.
WILLIAM B. (I537), (SON OF RICHARD), HAD ISSUE:
I770. Douglas Durand, born I898.
177I. (daughter), born October, 1902.
CLARENCE R. (1542), (SON OF WARREN H.), HAD ISSUE:
1772. Warren W.
NORRIS W. (1543), (SON OF WARREN H.), HAD ISSUE:
I773. Helen.
JAMES LAWRENCE, JR. (1545), (SON OF JAMES LAWRENCE),
HAD ISSUE:
I774. Louisa, born June I, I888.
FREDERICK VAN IDERSTINE (1548), (SON OF JAMES LAWRENCE), HAD ISSUE:
I775. Tessie, born April 12, 1887.
I776. Frank, born March 5, I889.
778
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
GEORGE (1588), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
1777. William, born February 13, I880, married Barbara Reineman.
PETER P. (I592), (SON OF WILLIAM), HAD ISSUE:
1778. Catherine, born September 22, I901.
1779. Annetta, born April 23, I893.
LA MI)ONTE RAYMONI (I604), (SON OF JAMES A.), HAD ISSUE:
1780. Nina, born April 26, I892, died young.
1781. Lawrence, born September 28, I898.
ERSKINE (I638), (SON OF BENJAMIN), HAD ISSUE:
1782. E. Mitchell, born 1877, married Katherine Golden.
I783. Lucile Alberta, born February Io, I895.
JOEL HARVEY (I641), (SON oF ABRA\HAM), HAD ISSUE:
I784. Aileen Elizabeth, born-July 30, I897.
ALBERT EDWIN (1642), (SON OF ABRAIHAM), HAD ISSUE:
1785. Margaret Elliott, born July 7, 1902.
ARTHUR K. (I66o), (SON OF CORNELIUS J.), HAD ISSUE:
I786. Clement.
I787. Mabel.
HENRY STANTON (I669), (SON OF STEPHEN PEARL KEYES),
HAD ISSUE:
1788. Helen Margaret, born October 31, 1893.
I789. Gladys Katherine, born September 8, I896.
FRANK E. (I697), (SON OF HICKS B.), HAD ISSUE:
I790. John M., born June, i886.
I79I. Hicks B., born Mlarch I6, I89I.
I792. Louisa, born July I6, I892.
I793. Esther, born August Io,' 893.
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A. THE DE FOREST FAMILY,... 781
B. THiE MONTANYE FAMILY,...... 784
C. TOWN OFFICERS, I660-I7IO,... 791
D. LETTER: DR. MONTANYE TO STUYVESANT,. 793
E. JOCHEM PIETERS' FLAT........ 794
F. VAN KEULEN'S HOOK,....... 798
G. MONTANYE'S FLAT,....... 802
H. THE HOORN'S HOOK FARMS,.... 804
I. THE DELAVALL LANDS,....... 809
J. DIVISION Oo THE COMMON LANDS,... 814
APPENDIX.
A. Page 151.
THE DE FOREST FAMILY.
The history of the De Forest ancestors, as the pioneer settlers at
Harlem, early engaged the author's attention, since it promised him the
leading historic thread for the vet unwoven fabric of his story. Extending his inquiry to the Fatherlands, the result is already known to the
reader. Driven by persecution from the French Netherlands, the De
Forests became identified in Holland with the beginnings of our colonial
emigration,-some of its phases, developed in their unpretentious yet
eventful career, in a manner equally novel and touching,-till it culminated in the first settlement upon the then wild and solitary "Flats of
Manhattan." Hence the pre-eminence here given them: a deserved
tribute to their trials in their own and other lands, and to their well-conceived enterprises, of no less local significance because thwarted or marred
by disasters beyond human control. As supplementary to these interesting details, we here add some further notes upon the family in this
country, premising that this name, which under the Dutch took the form
De Foreest, is quite distinct from those of De La Forest, and Van Foreest,
the last an old titled family of Holland.
Isaac De Forest, younger of the two brothers who emigrated in 1636,
was the common ancestor. Born at Leyden, in I616, as elsewhere stated,
he married at New Amsterdam, 1641, Sarah, daughter of Philippe Du
Trieux (Truax), and Susannah De Chiney, Walloons of the early migration, Sarah being born here in the semi-fabulous days of Peter Minuit.
The same year De Forest built at Harlem a dwelling and tobacco-house
on his plantation, subsequently the site of Harlem village. In 1643 he
leased it to John Denton, for raising tobacco on shares, and opened a
tobacco wareroom on the Strand, now Pearl Street, in what had been
the first church. Coming to own that property, he built there a fine house,
"an ornament to the city." In I650 he sold his bouwery at Harlem to
William Beeckman. Later he became a brewer; his malt-house and residence were in Stone Street, north side, near Whitehall. He' also had "a
hop-garden and orchard at Norman's Bight." He was among the affluent
citizens who loaned Ioo guilders each for repairing the city defences in
I653. On April 6, I657, "Isaac De Forest requests by petition the privileges of the Great Burgher right, as he has been in this country over
twenty years, has built considerably in this city, and performed many services." The burgomasters deferred his request, but on January 28, 1658,
as one of six "suitable persons" recommended by Stuyvesant and council,
De Forest was made a Great Burgher. The same year he was elected
schepen, having served sundry times in the board of selectmen. In I664,
when the English fleet, which took New York, entered the harbor, among
some persons seized was De Forest; released August 31, he afterward
swore allegiance. His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674, but
his widow not until November 9, I692. She sold the property "called the
782
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Old Kerck," June 30, 1682; that in Stone Street was sold by the children
May 2, 1693, to Harman Rutgers, brewer, from Albany. Isaac De Forest's children were Jesse, born I642; Susannah, 1645; Gerrit, 1647; Michael,
1649; John, I650; Philip, 1652; Isaac, I655; Hendrick, 1657; Maria, I666,
and David, I669; of whom, the three elder sons died early. Susannah
married, I665, Peter De Riemer, and Maria married, I687, Bernard Darby,
from London, mariner, and I706, Alderman Isaac De Reimer, son of Peter.
John De Forest was educated a "chirurgeon," or physician; his
brothers were given trades,-Philip a cooper, Isaac a baker, Hendrick and
David, glaziers. Dr. De Forest married, June 8, 1673, Susannah, daughter of Nicholas Verlet; bought a house and lot in Beaver Street, February
20, I682; on October 4, I687, sold for ~6:5, lot No. 4, Hoorn's Hook, to
Wm. Presker. See page 37I. Of several children, but one survived childhood, viz., Susannah, born I676, married Robert Hickman, I703. Philip
De Forest married, January 5, I676, Tryntie, daughter of Hendricks Kip,
and removed to Albany, served as high-sheriff, etc., and died 1727, having
had sons Isaac, Jesse, Johannes, David, Abraham; David being ancestor
of Colonel Jacob J. De Forest, of Duanesburgh. See Pearson's Albany
Settlers.
Isaac De Forest, born I655, only son of Isaac that remained in New
York, married September 4, I68I, Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Vanderspiegel, was serving the Dutch church as a deacon, I69O and 1696, and
I699 was appointed an overseer of public works. He died within a year
or two, his widow, it seems, continuing his business; she furnished provisions for the expedition to Capada, in I7II. In 174I, in her 8oth year,
she changed her church relation to Hackensack, the home of her daughter,
Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Antonius Curtenius. Isaac De Forest left nine
children, of whom reached maturity: Johannes, born I684; Sarah, I686,
married John Myer; Margaret, I689, married Harman Rutgers; Maria,
I694, and Elizabeth, I697, who, I732, married as aforesaid. Johalnnes DA:
Forest was a baker, married June 23, 1705, Catharine, daughter of Gerrit
Van Ravenstein, and buying property March 22, 1715, in Marketfield Street,
resided in New York till his death, July 30, 1757. His children named
in his will, December 25, I746, were Isaac, born I705; Nicholas, 1710;
Johannes, I711; Maria, 1718, who married Gerrit Waldron; Lawrence, 1720;
Gerrit, I723; Elizabeth, I725. Of these, Lawrence married, I744, Sarah,
daughter of Mansfield Tucker; issue Mansfield, born I746, perhaps others.
Isaac became a freeman, in New York, 1734, his brother Nicholas, I735,
and Johannes, 1748; the last probably father of Theodorus, grocer, at
Fly Market, who married, 1778, Mary Doughty; issue John, born August
II, I780; Mary, December 22, I782; Theodorus, May II, I786, etc.
Nicholas married Maria Barker, October 17, 1736, and had a son John,
born 1739, probably the sailmaker, freeman 1765, who married, I768, Jane
Albouy; in 1780 a widow, when she married George Scott, mariner.
Bernard De Forest, shopkeeper, freeman 1768, apparently brother of the
sailmaker, married, 1767, Martha Albouy, in I773, a widow, and married
Nathaniel H arriott, mariner. Isaac, born I705, removed to Adamsville,
Somerset County, New Jersey, died about I8oo; issue by wife
Maria Brokaw, Maria, born I740, John, I743; Catharine, I745;
Abraham, 1749. His son, John, born July 28, I743, died in New
York May I6, I825, leaving five children by his wife Maria Van
Nest, viz., Isaac, born March 3, I764; Catharine, January I7, I766;
Abraham, April 2, I774; Lawrence-Vanderveer, May II, 1782, and John,
May 8, I784; of whom Catharine died November I9, I846. John died in
his 8oth year, November I6, I864, having married Surviah Whitehead; his
only child being Mr. Isaac De Foreest, Sr., of No. 2 Old Slip. Abraham
aforesaid married Catharine Fulkerson, and died in his 57th year, August
30, 1830, was father of Richard and Maria; his brother Isaac, who married Kneertie Wortman, and died March I3, I8o8, was father of the late
APPENDIX. 783
Peter and John I. De Foreest, of New York, grocers, and their sisters,
Maria, Sarah, Catharine, and Margaret; and Lawrence V., of New York,
merchant, who married Jane, daughter of Peter Davis, of Somerville, New
Jersey, and died May 7, 1858, aged nearly 76 years, was father of the
late Alderman Theodore Romaine De Foreest, M. D., John Abeel De
Foreest, and Jane Lawrence De Foreest, the accomplished and lamented
Mrs. Dr. Hull, of New York, murdered in her bed, June II, 1879, by the
burglar Cox. Gerrit De Forest, born I723, called Gerardus, married, I744,
Sarah Hardenbrook, and had issue John, born I745; Andrew, 1751; Gerardus, 1753; Theodorus, 1756, etc., of whom Theodorus married, 1779,
Susannah Leggett. Gerardus was a shipwright, married Rachel Kingsland, and died April 19, 1802, in Harrison Street, leaving his widow, who
survived many years, and sons John, Gerardus, and David, besides seven
daughters, of whom Sarah, the eldest, married Hugh Fairley. John was
father of Cornelius V. and Charles S.
Hendrick De Forest, born I657, married July 5, 1682, Phebe, daughter of Barent Van Flaesbeek, and settled at Bushwick, Long Island, was
commissioned justice of the peace I698, in I705 bought land at and removed
to Madnan's Neck, and died in I715, having issue Barent, born I684;
Sarah, I686; Gerrit, I689; Henricus, 1691; Susannah, I693; Phebe, i695;
Maria, I696, and Jesse, I698; of whom Susannah married Abraham Koning, and Phebe married Henry Cole. Several of the sons returned to
New York. Henricus was probably the sea-captain, of I747. Barent married, 1708, Catalina, daughter of Anthony Sarley, and 1723 Elizabeth,
daughter of Cornelius Verduyn. He was teacher of the Dutch church
school, serving as late as I726, in which year he probably died. His widow
died March I, I736. His children, save some who died in infancy, were,
so far as known, Henricus, born 1712; Phebe, I714, married Benjamin
Stout; Sarah, 1717; Catalina, 1720, married Hendrick Van Beuren; Cornelius, 1725. Cornelius married Antie Van Winkle. Gerrit married, 1716,
Cornelia Waldron; he died October 14, I744, she May 9, I772; issue
Sarah, born 1719, married IHendrick Vandewater; Henry, 1722; Phebe,
about 1725, married Andrew Gewara; and Gerrit, I731. Henry, last named,
was perhaps the blockmaker, made freeman 1770, and Gerrit, the storekeeper at Fly Market, 1776. Henricus, born I712, freeman 1734, married that
year Susannah, daughter of Benjamin Bill, and widow of William Golding,
and was a printer in King (now Pine) Street, in I753. His widow sold
part of the property August 2, 1766. His children known but in part:
his daughter, Susannah, married, I754, Samuel Brown, stationer, and
daughter Caroline, married, I759, Richard King, mariner. Jesse married,
June I4, I719, Teuntie Titsoort. He died April 12, 1755; she September
3, I76I. Their children who reached maturity were Abraham, born 1722;
Henricus, 1724, and Margaret, 1732, who married Captain William Long.
Of these, Henricus, blacksmith, married Elizabeth Young, and died prior
to August 21, 1772, when administration on his estate was granted his
widow. Abraham, hatter, married, in 1744, Elizabeth Myer; in 1758 went
out as master-at-arms in the privateer Peggy; in 1760, 'i and '2, commanded companies from New York against the French, on the frontiers.
His wife died April 6, 1761. Captain De Forest removed to Dutchess
County, and was living in I774. His children were Jesse, born 1745;
Elizabeth, 1746; Peter, 1748; Anna, 1752; Abraham, 1754; Henry, 1756;
Cornelia, 1758, and Deborah, I759.
David De Forest, born I669, removed to Stratford, Connecticut, subsequent to 1693, where he married in 1696. His wife was Martha, her
maiden name Blagge, as says tradition, with probable truth. Evidently
she was related to Edward, Samuel, and Benjamin Blagge, of New York,
but not a sister, as we conclude from the will of their father, Captain
Benjamin Blagge, dated June 6, I695, and other records. David died in
April, 1721, his widow (after a second marriage) in I74a, aged 63 years.
784
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
For a list of his male descendants, who have mostly lived in Connecticut,
see Bronson's History of Waterbury. His children were Mary, Sarah,
Martha, David, Samuel, Isaac, Edward, Henry, Elizabeth, and Benjamin.
The last, born 1716, married Esther Beardslee, and was father of
Benjamin, born 1749 (who married Mehitable Curtis), father of Benjamin, born 1780 (married Alma Southmayd), father of John De Forest,
M. D., of Watertown, Connecticut, whose wife was Lucy S. Lyman. His
only child is Mr. Erastus L. De Forest. Said Benjamin, born I749, was
father of David C., born 1774, founder of the "De Forest Fund," of Yale
College, and whose son, Carlos M. De Forest, born 1813, removed to
Troy, Pennsylvania, where his children now reside. Hezekiah, born I745,
a son of Benjamin, born 1716, was father of Samuel A., of Stratford, born
1784, died 1852, who settled in Danby, Tioga County, New York, and was
the father of Mr. Charles De Forest, of Waverly. Samuel De Forest,
born 1704, son of David and Martha, was father of Joseph, born 1731,
whose son Gideon removed to Edmeston, Otsego County, New York, died
in I840, and had sons Abel B., Lee, Cyrus H. (of Buffalo), Charles A.,
and Tracy R. De Forest. Nehemiah, born 1743, a brother of Joseph, was
father of Lockwood, born March 5, 1775, who married Mehitable Wheeler,
and began business as a merchant in Greenwich Street, New York, in
I816, but three years later, with his son William, founded the well-known
mercantile house of De Forest & Son, at 82 South Street. Mr. Lockwood De Forest died November 28, i848. His sons, like himself, nearly
all merchants and enterprising business men, were William W., George B.,
Alfred, Frederick L., James G., Henry G. (lawyer), and Frederick L., 2d.
His daughters were Mary L., who married Roger Sherman Skinner, of
New Haven; Susan, who married Daniel Lord; Eliza, who married Samuel
Downer; Jane, who married Burr Wakeman; Ann, whb married Simeon
Baldwin; Sarah, who married Walter Edwards, and Louisa, the wife successively of Samuel Woodruff and Thomas F. Cock, M. D.
B. Page 269.
THE MONTANYE FAMILY.*
Dr. Johannes La Montagne, prominent in the affairs of New Netherland, has a relatively important place in Harlem history, as is set forth
in the preceding pages. We give briefly the sequel of his life; then notice
his descendants. Derick Corssen Stam, supercargo in the vessel which
brought the De Forests over, had a brother Arent, whose widow, Agnes,
a daughter of Gillis Ten Waert, was wooed by the Doctor, after the death
of his wife, Rachel De Forest. As Arent had been lost at sea (see page
150), it proved an obstacle to their union, but this was overcome, as is
shown by the following proceeding of July I8, I647: "Mr. Johannes La
Montagne appeared before the council, and requested leave to marry
Angenietie Gillis Ten Waert, widow of Arent Corssen. Being fully persuaded that he perished, as the Lords Directors have written, that they
had left nothing untried to learn about him, but were entirely ignorant of
his fate; therefore if Mr. La Montagne, and she Angenietie, have no
scruples regarding it, they are at liberty to marry." Two months later
they were married.
* We cannot follow here the various spellings of this name which occur, but observe the form Montanye, as most accordant with modern usage, and with its original,
the Latin Mons, in French Montagne, Mountain; see page 48. The change of the o,
in some branches, to a and i, seems unfortunate. After he came to this country, Dr.
Montanye, previously signing his name "Mousnier de La Montagne," invariably
wrote it "La Montagne," omitting his family name Mousnier or Monier, which, however, was sometinges used by all his sons, and even grandsons, before it was finally
dropped. (See Ip. 79, 59I.)
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Montanye was commended for his discreet rule as vice-director at
Fort Orange, which lasted till 1664; much of his official correspondence
with Stuyvesant is preserved. He prudently swore allegiance to the new
government, but from this date is lost sight of, and probably accompanied
his old friend Stuyvesant on his errand to Holland in 1665, to defend his
course in surrendering the country to the English. There is reason to
conclude that Dr. Montanye died abroad in 1670. He had eight children,
viz., Jolant, born I627; Jesse, 1629; John, 1632; Rachel, 1634; Maria,
1637; William, 1641; Gillis,,650, and Jesse, I653. The last two died
young, as had Jolant. The first Jesse was commissary of stores, 1647,
but died soon after. Rachel married Dr. Gysbert Van Imbroch, and Maria
married Jacob Kip, whose descendants have been locally prominent.*
William Montanye (he styled himself De La Montagne) joined the
church at New Amsterdam October 2, I66I, when he came to Harlem.
Called to be voorleser at Esopus, he held that office till I678; from I668
adding the duties of secretary. He married May 19, 1673, Elenora, daughter of Anthony De Hooges, and that year drew 300 guilders from the
Orphan Chamber, at Leyden (whence derived is left to conjecture); to
obtain which he chose as guardians his cousins, Panhuysen and Du Toict,
the sons-in-law of Gerard De Forest.t Leisler made him high sheriff of
Ulster County, December 24, 1689. He had removed to Mombackus, town
of Rochester, and was living I695. His children were Rachel, born 1674,
who married Harman Decker; Johanna, 1676, living 1699; William, 1678;
Maria, I68o, married Nicholas Westfall; Johannes, 1682; Jesse, I684; Eve,
I686, married Derick Krom, and Catharine, I688, who married John Bevier.
Ulster County records are strangely silent as to William's sons.
John Montanye was born at Leyden, and first appears as Jean Monier
De La Montagne, Jr., later as Jan La Montagne, Jr. He early joined the
church at New Amsterdam, where, in 1652, he taught school a few months,
under an appointment from the directors in Holland; then was made com* Dr. Gysbert Van Imbroch, descendants of whom, in New York and New Jersey,
write their name Van Emburgh and Van Amburg, was a physician; had a sister,
Barbara, the first wife of Thomas Verdon; see p. 164. In I655 Van Imbroch, then
for two years a shopkeeper at New Amsterdam, was permitted "to make a lottery
of a certain number of bibles, testaments and other books." His marriage probably
took place at Fort Orange, whither he went to live, Rachel being his second wife.
They removed to Wiltwyck or Kingston, joining the church by letter, December I6.
1662 (see pp. 200, 202) and here Van Imbroch practiced medicine, being one of the
schepens from 1663 till his death, August 29, I665, his wife having died October
4, 1664. Their children were, Elizabeth, born 1659; Johannes, I66I, and Gysbert, 1664;
all of whom removed to New York. Elizabeth married John Peeck. Gysbert, shoemaker, came to New York in I686, married, i688, Jannetie, daughter of Peter Mesier,
and acquired property; see Deeds N. Y. 26, 327, and Albany, 14, i. He had nine
children; some died in infancy. See N. Y. Corp. Manual for I863, p. 825, and 1864, p.
829. Johannes Van Imbroch was "doctor of physic;" married, in 1687, Margaret,
daughter of Arie Van Schaick, and later Catherine, daughter of Capt. William Sandford, of Bergen County, N. J., where Dr. Van Imbroch then lived, and where he
made his will, June 6, 1729, proved September 13, I742. He had d sons anddaughters,
the former, Gysbert, William and John. His daughter, Mary, married John Sandford; Catherine married Richard Gibbs, of New Brunswick, and Elizabeth married
Jacobus Bertholf, 1729.
t We, Commissaries of the Court at Kingston, do certify that before us has
appeared William Monier de La Montagne, son of the elder deceased Johannes Monier
de La Montagne, begotten by Rachel de Forest; that said William Monier de La
Montagne has given to Mr. Gabriel Monvielle, merchant at New York, a bill of exchange for three hundred guilders Holland money, reckoned at twenty stivers per
guilder: And that Mr. Monville or his order may receive the same, therefore the
above named William Monier de La Montagne by these constitutes and makes, even
as he is himself authorized and fully empowered to do, his guardians or friends,
Sieur Johannes Panhuysen and Mr. David du Toict, living in the city of Leyden, on
his behalf and in the constituent's name, to take up from his money due from the
Orphan Chamber of the said city,' the betorenamed three hundred guilders, and to
deliver the same according to the bill of exchange, to Mr. Gabriel Monville or to
his order, promising to hold good that which they shall do in the premises. In witness
whereof, we with our own hand, as also the Hon. Commissaries, Cornelius Wynkoop
and Joost Adriaens, have subscribed this on the date, 27th March, I673, at Kingston,
in the Esopus.-Esopus Records.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
missary of accounts. Entering into trade with Vincent Pikes, in 1654,
Montanye, about midsummer of that year, sailed for Holland, and while
there (as noticed page 94) married Peternella Pikes, two years his
junior. Returning alone to this country, he bought a residence on Marckvelt-steeg, from his uncle De Forest, September 26, I655, preparatory to
the coming of his wife, who soon arrived, with her infant, John, born at
Amsterdam, and there baptized, at the Walloon church, October 21, I655.
On the institution of the burgher right, Montanye's name was the first
enrolled on the list of Great Burghers, April I0, I657. That year he was
Farmer of the Retail Excise, and was made a Fire-warden, December 23,
I658.
One of the first, if not the first, to take up land at the proposed New
Haerlem, in which enterprise he felt a special interest, owing to the
proximity of his father's lands, IVredendal, he sold his home on the
Marckvelt-steeg to Johannes Verveelen, June 27, 1659, and removed hither,
being chosen deacon in I660. He was living here the next winter, when he
bought "a horse, with a saddle and bridle," for 300 guilders, "in good
strung current wampum." His next appointment was that of schepen of
the new village, where all his interests centred, after the sale, February
I4, I662, of another house and lot, adjoining one owned by his father
in Beaver Street. His service as schout, secretary, and voorleser, has
been duly noticed. Having lost his wife, he married, June Io, 1663, Maria,
daughter of Isaac Vermilye, Dominie Selyns officiating; the bride's sister, Rachel, being also married to John Terbosh. How Montanye acquired
the property known as the Point, before patented to his father, as also its
history till sold to Bogert, has been stated in the general history of the
town, to which it properly belongs. As Montanye left the village within
two years after getting permission to build on his Point (see page 236),
but remained "in the jurisdiction of New Haerlem," it may be inferred that
he put up buildings there, yet neither the bill of sale nor deed to Bogert
mention any. They may have been destroyed. He or Bogert built the
stone house whose ruins have disappeared within the last fifty years; it
stood nearer the Mill Pond, and westerly a little from the late farm
house, torn down by S. B. McGown, Esq., when about to erect his present
dwelling. It antedated the late house, itself considerably over Ioo years
old, and built in the early childhood of Samson Benson, born I736.
In May, I670, Montanye dropped the Jr. from his name, indicating
his father's decease. He himself died in I672. His widow surviving
another husband (see page 350), was buried November 23, I689. Montanye had children, John, born I655; Vincent, I657; Nicasius, I659; Abraham, I664; Jelante, I667; Isaac, I669; Peternella, I67I, and Johanna, I673.
Jelante married Bastiaen Kortright; Peternella married Peter See, and
Johanna, posthumous, married Johannes Vredenburgh.* For Abraham
and descendants, see page 59I. Nicasius, named for his god-father, Hon.
Nicasius De Sille, joined the Labadists at Bohemia Manor (see page
359), and was of those who shared the lands in I698. He then returned
to New York and bought a lot on Broadway, June 10, I702. His only
children, Samuel, born June 2, I698, and Jesse, born November 2I, I699,
were baptized June 26, I703, near which date Nicaisius died. His widow,
Christina, a daughter of Nicholas Martensen Roosevelt, married John
* Peter See was son of Isaac and Maria, named p. 37I, and father of Isaac See, born
1703, who married Eve Foshay, October 5, 1734. Their son, Peter, born March 20, 1737,
married, June 29, I765, Sophia De Kevere, and died October i8, i8oo; issue, Isaac,
born July 12, I766; John, April I8, 1768; Abraham, April i6, 1770; Jacobus, January i, 1772; Catrina, November 21, 1774; Maria, June 22, 1780, and Leah, October 13, I784. John, last named, married Maria Seaman, December 2, 1797, and removed to New York. Their children were, John D., born September 20, 1799; Isaac,
July 14, 1o80; Clara, August 2, I803; Eliza Ann, January 13, i806; Mahala, June
7, i8o9: Barney, January 27, i812; David, November i6, 18I3; George Comb,
August 24, i8i8; Catherine, October 7, i820, and Maria, August 4, 1822. Isaac, last
named. married Grace Sands Hudson, July 19, i82i, and died December 25, 1829,
being father of Rev. John L. See, D.D., Rev. Wm. G. E. See, and Rev. Isaac M. See.
APPENDIX. 787
Hammell; they sold said lot February 26, I704, and are traced no further.
Isaac Montanye, usually called Isaac Monier De La Montagne, on
April 26, 1679, when IO years old, was bound by his mother for 3 years
to John Dyckman, who was to clothe him and send him "to the day or
evening school." When grown up he served as a soldier in His Majesty's
fort at New York, under Captain Leisler. In 1696 he married Hester Van
Voorst, from Albany, and died in I703; the next year his widow married
Alexander Phcenix. Isaac left issue Sarah, born I696; Johannes, 1698;
Jacobus, I700, and Isaac, 1702. Sarah married 1717 James Mackintosh,
and 1730 Samuel Van Naamen. Jacobus was in New York 1738; Isaac,
not named, appears to have gone to New Jersey; neither traced further.
Johannes, born I698, remained in New York, married, February 7, 1726,
Susannah, daughter of Harman Bussing. She died April 27, 1736; he on
September 26, 1762. Their children were Sarah, born I726, married Daniel
Brand; Isaac, 1729; John, 1730; Hester, 1733, married Captain Lazarus
Peperall, and Harman, 1736, the last a' mason, and living 1763. His brother
John, painter and glazier, married I760 Catharine White, and died in 1772,
his widow, in 1814, aged 87 years. John left issue, Susannah, born I763,
married William Gibson; 'John, I766, not in his mother's will, I8II, perhaps he who died April I, 1802; and Catharine, 1768, who married William
Gamble. Isaac, born 1729, died April 26, 1814, in Cedar Street, had by
wife Anna Speer, sons Isaac, born 1763; John, 1765, and Harmanus, 1769,
besides daughters. Harmanus was a house-carpenter, married, November
I, 1794, Anna Tabele, and lived in 1798 at 46 Cortlandt Street. Isaac and
John, like their father, were masons; the first married, September I8,
1785, Sarah Stitcher, had known issue John, born 1786, and Ann, 1788,
and lived in 1798 at 34 Lumber Street. John, born February, 1765, married Mary Weldon, May 3, 1788, and died December I3, 1820; issue that
reached maturity, Catharine, born December I8, 1790, married J. Wyckliffe Donnington, printer; Isaac, August 8, 1793; William, November 14,
I796; Abraham, March 8, 1799; and Ann Maria, November 2, 1803, who
survives. William, lapidary, who married Elizabeth Marshall, and died
February 3, I842, aged 45 years, was father of William H. Montanye, coffee
and spice dealer, 62 Barclay Street.
John Montanye, often called Delamontagne, was born, I655, in Amsterdam, became a "master cooper" in New York, married, September 4,
1678, Annetie, daughter of Joseph Waldron. He married secondly, September 8, I70I, a widow, Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick A. Bloom; see
page 129. Mr. Montanye lived on Broadway, where he had bought, May
io, I688, as on page 692. From his 22d year a church member, he was
long the sexton, both in the fort and in Garden Street; and as an elder,
was named in the charter granted the Colonial Dutch Church, May ii,
I696.* He died July 12, 1730, in his 75th year. His children sold his
residence, May 31, I748. These were Annetie, born 1679, married Frederick Bloom and John Peterse; Johannes, I681; Peternella, 1683, married
Jacob Brower; Joseph, 1684; Jesse, I687; Abraham, I688; Rachel, I69I,
married Patrick Smith; Jacobus, 1693, and Marritie, 1695, who married
Adrian Bogert. Smith, an innkeeper, died December 6, 1755; his widow,
who survived but two years, having no children, gave her property to her
Montanye kindred. Of John Montanye's sons, Abraham removed to
Foster's Meadow, Long Island, early as 1715; subscribed that year for
building a Dutch church at Jamaica. His son, John, born 1723, farmer,
received as church member at Success, in 1766, died without issue during
the Revolution; his widow, Mercy, in 1784. Jesse Montanye, born I688,
married Charity Yates, May 29, I714, and died in New York April 25,
1745; the city granted his widow, February 12, 1751, the water lot No. 4, in
* Bolton, History Westchester, ii., 332, wresting this charter to his purpose, makes
John Montagne minister at Fordham, and Henry Selyns an elder; whereas Selyns
was minister at New York, and Montanye an elder! This error is copied in Corwln's
Manual, last edition.
788 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Montgomery Ward. She died March 28, 1762; issue, John, born I715;
Ann, 1716; Joseph, 1718; Charity, 1720, died April I8, 1751; Jesse, 1722;
Mary, 1725, married William Van Sise; and Sarah, 1727, who married
Robert Finley. Jesse died January 6, I756; Ann, named in Rachel Smith's
will of September I7, 1757, died May 4, 1758; of the others, nothing certain known; Joseph, freeman 1740, probably married Maria Bragaw, of
Newtown, and went to New Jersey. Joseph, born 1684, married Margaret
Roll, March 2, 1728; his son Joseph, born 1732, lived at Stroudsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and married Mary Brodhead. Their son Abraham, born
1772, died 1825, married Elizabeth Buffum, and was father of the estimable Joseph D. L. Montanye, of Towanda, Pennsylvania, born November
12, 1802, died May I8, I880.
Johannes Montanye, born I68I, married Sarah Parcell, January 27,
I706, was admitted a freeman 1716, succeeded his father as sexton, and
died very aged. His will, made in health December 12, I770, was proved
October 17, I774. Judge Benson, "in his earliest youth," saw and conversed with Montanye, when, "approaching to four-score," he went his
round to collect the dominie's salary. See Benson's Memoir. His children, all living 1770, were, Sarah, born 1708; John, I710; Ann, 1716, married Captain John Tomkins; Joseph, 1719, and Abraham, 1722. The sons,
all made freemen 1743, became tradesmen. Abraham, born August 25,
1722, carpenter by trade, married, 1749, Tanneke Lewis; she and infant
John died next year. He then married Sarah Christeen, of English
Neighborhood, New Jersey, where he took up his residence on a farm,
and served as an elder. His father left him his own dwelling in New
York, and on March 26, 1775, he and his brothers bought a house in Cortlandt Street, formerly of their aunt Rachel Smith. He died February 7,
I801, and was buried on his farm, now in possession of Mr. Samuel Edsall.
Under his will, dated October 30, I789, his executor sold his property
corner of Cedar and Lumber Streets, May 14, I80I. Joseph, in 1770, occupied a house in Cortlandt Street, given him by his father. He married
Phebe Barnes; issue, Sarah, born 1756; Rachel, 1757; John, 1759; Phebe,
1762; Anna, 1765, and Joseph, I770. On June 2, 1796, John J. Montanye,
blacksmith, and wife Martha, and Simon Kiersted, blockmaker, and wife
Sarah (Montanye), sell to John Moore, mason, their two-thirds interest
in said house, "formerly the property of Joseph Montanye,. deceased."
John J. removed the same year to Haverstraw. By his wife Martha
Strachen, he had Phebe, born 1785; Sarah Christeen, 1787; Nancy, 1790;
Joseph, 179I, and John, 1792.
John Montanye, born 17I0, was a carpenter; perhaps constable of Dock
Ward, I734. He married March 14, 1741, Mary, daughter of Philip Daly,
and later set up a bakery. He in turn became sexton, serving "till the
dispersion of the congregation on the invasion of the city in I776." Returning, he died at 24 Pine Street in 1794, having had issue, Sarah, born
I743, who married John Barrea; John, 1744; Philip, 1746; Cornelia, 1751,
married Demarest; Catharine, 1753, married Philip Minthorn; Mary,
1755, married William Ash; and Abraham, I759. Of these, John, then
a baker, married, 1767, Abigail Wilsey, and died soon after his father,
apparently without leaving issue. Abraham was a brass-founder, named
1786 to 1796, died at 38 Cedar Street, near Nassau, where his widow, Ruth
Decker, lived in 1798; issue, John, born March 13, I794.
Jacobus Montanye, born I693, married, July 6, 1717, Adriana, daughter of John Devoor, and widow of Conrad Vanderbeck. She died January 5, 1758; he on December 5, 1761. Their children were John, born
1718; Ann, 1722, married Benjamin Paine; William, 1725, died 1737; Maria,
1728, married John Tomkins, and Adriana and Elizabeth, twins, 1730, who
married, the first, I759, to Stephen Callow; the last, 1751, to George
Giffing. Callow, upholsterer, left sons in the city, and was god-father of
Mr. William Stackhouse, of Columbus, Ohio. Giffing died 1771; was father
APPENDIX.
789
of the Giffings, formerly of 40 Chapel Street, now College Place. Rachel
Smith's will names Jacobus' four daughters; omits his son John. Perhaps he was the feltmaker, or hatter, long at 187 Broadway. The latter
probably married twice. He lost a child August 17, 1770; on April 30,
1773, bought his place in Broadway, then known as Pelt's Ropewalk, and
sold the rear part May 3 ensuing, naming no wife. His daughter Mary,
by his wife Mary Lowry, was born March 29, I774. He died prior to
I798. On May IO, I80o, Mary and Elizabeth Montanye, spinsters; James
Anderson, gunsmith, and Ann his wife, sold three-fourths of the lot on
Broadway, and on August 19, I801, John Montanye, bookbinder, "one of
the heirs" of John, hatter, conveyed his one-fourth of said lot. He lived
at 20 Christie Street in 1822.
jVincent Montanye, born 1657, married, March 5, I684, Adriana, daughter of Jan Thomasz Aken (see page I68); first lived in New Street, being
church member; afterward "at Sclavonia, in Bowery Division of Out
Ward"; Vincent, then a brickmaker, constable there in 1695. Here, fourteen years later, his domestic peace was interrupted by the wiles of one
Cordaz, a neighbor brickmaker, who, found guilty, was fined by the Court
of Sessions. Vincent left the city, perhaps temporarily; was living I713.
His children, save two which died young, were John, born I689; Thomas,
I69I; Apollonia, I694; Jesse, I696; Petrus, I698; Peternella, I701, who
married Godfricus Bennoe; Annetie, I703, who married Henry Dyer;
Vincent, 1705, and Rachel, I707. John, we suspect, was he who died in
Great Britain, leaving a son Henry, for whom George Harrison, of New
York, was allowed to administer, October 24, I743. Vincent, born 1705,
married, I737, Elizabeth Murray; issue, Vincent, born I738. Petrus married Jannetie Dyer, April 17, 1723, was constable of Montgomery Ward
in 1734, and died June I, I75I; issue Maria, born 1724; Adriana, I728;
Vincent, 173I; Rebecca, I732; Thomas, 1735; of whom Rebecca married
Captain Richard Martin and Captain Richard Richards. Was this the
Thomas, cabinet-maker, who died in the Island of Grenada, administration
on his estate being granted Philip Pelton, at New York, December 9, 1774?
Thomas Montanye, born I69I, married November 25, I718, Rebecca
Bruyn, was ultimately a shopkeeper, but died October 12, I76I, his widow
not till September I5, I775. His dwelling-house, in Prince Street, sold
by his son Peter, as executor, May I5, I784. Of fifteen children there
reached maturity, Vincent, born 172I; Peter, I723; Adriana, 1724, married Abraham Lefoy; Martha, I726, married Abraham Allener; Thomas,
I73I, died unmarried June I9, I758; Rebecca, I735; Hannah, I737, married Morris Earl; Jane, I739, married John Wright; Appollonia (called
Prudence), 174I, married Elbert Amerman; John, I743; Benjamin, I745,
and Peternella (called Nelly), I747, who married, Isaac Vredenburgh.
Of these, John T., as called, married Mary Blain, lived in New York when
the Revolution opened, and the brothers Peter, Isaac, and Jacob Montanye, who early removed to Central New York, are believed to have been
his sons; a conclusion arrived at after careful inquiry; still an intelligent
descendant says they were sons of Jesse, and from Morris County, New
Jersey. Isaac, who died 1825, aged 45 years, was father of Joseph B.
Mintonye, now of Conquest, and of the late John, of Lysander; Peter,
born I775, died I85o, at Sempronius, was father of John, late of Westfield, Pennsylvania; Elijah, who removed to Ohio, and William, father
of William J. Mantanye, lawyer, Marathon, New York. Vincent, shopkeeper, married, May 8, I743, Catharine Harte, who died August 29, 1760;
married April 12, 176I, Gertrude Vonck, who died September I5, I766;
married, July 6, I767, Mary Brundige, who survived him. He died May
26, I773, aged 52 years. Dr. O'Callaghan (Hist. N. N.), misled by those
who confounded the two Vincents, makes the latter II6 years old! the
"connecting link between Stuyvesant and Washington." We regret to
spoil this pretty fiction, which we see is copied in our N. Y. B. & G. Rec.,
790
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
vii, II9. Vincent had children (with four that died young),
Thomas, born 1745; John, 1747; Isaac, 1751; Rebecca, 1752; Peter, 1757,
and Mary, 1768, who died unmarried August 14, 1814. Rebecca married'
Peter Truman, godfather of the late James A. Cosse, known for his persistent but ineffectual efforts to recover the Montanye lands at Harlem.
Thomas last named married, May 4, I766, Catharine Smith, who died
September 20, I770, and by whom he had two sons, viz., Vincent, born
I767, who, with the father, was deceased in I789; and Henry, born 1769,
who removed to Tappan, and married, in I802, Rebecca Nagel; issue, John,
born April I, I805; David, December 12, I808, etc.* Peter, born 1757, son
of;Vincent, was a tailor, removed to Orange County, and had sons George,
Isaac, and Abraham; Isaac, born 1783, died 1840, being father of the late
John, father of William D. L. Montanye, M. D., of Rondout. Isaac,
born 1751, grocer in New York, 1786; his descendants, if any, not traced.
John, born 1747, tailor, married Mary Briggs, and lived at Tappan before
and during the Revolution; then returning to New York, lived from I8Io
in Elm Street, where he owned property, and died September 24, I829.
His wife died March 29, 1825, aged 70 years. He left daughters, Mary,
widow of James Brown, merchant; Elizabeth, widow of James Lorton,
and Gertrude, wife of Charles Denison. Another daughter, Catharine,
married Elijah Fountain. His eldest son was Isaac, born March 4, 1774.
The late John Delamontanye, tailor, born February I6, I778, was another
son; issue, Matilda, Stanley, Mary A., Vincent. Another was Vincent,
born March 8, I784, who at his death, December 8, 1827, kept the Cold
Spring Garden, corner of Greenwich and Leroy Streets. His daughter,
Sarah Ann, married Aris Bogart, and was the mother of Mr. Vincent D.
L. M. Bogart. His other children were Mary, who married Richard D.
Blauvelt; Susan, married William Cary; and George Fowler Delamontanye, who died March I2, I857, in his 42d year; issue, Vincent, Sophia,
George A., Mary J., Charles H., Maria L., and Clarence.
Peter Montanye, born 1723, was a blacksmith, made freeman I746,
married, June 10, I754, Catharine Vanderhoof, and acquired property.
He died June 20, I798, at 281 Pearl Street. He had children, Ann, born
I756, married Thomas Parcells, coachmaker; Peter, I759, not in father's
will, dated June I7, I798; Catharine, 176i, married John Van lVarick,
baker; Thomas, I763, not in father's will; Benjamin, I766; John, 1768;
Isaac, I770; Elizabeth, 1774, who married William J. Waldron, grocer.
Said John, master-cooper, inspector of provisions in I805, died a bachelor,
1823. His brother, Isaac, married Mary Foskett, and died July I, I805,
his only child being John, of New York, cedar-cooper, born January 31,
i802, died at Hoboken, January I8, I862. Benjamin, born I766, in I798
china dealer at 28I Pearl Street, died September I2, I8i6, leaving by his
wife, Sarah, daughter of Peter Rushton Maverick, whom he married
May 10, 1792, children Charles Kearney, Benjamin Maverick, and Maria,
who married Andrew D. Veitch.
Benjamin Montanye, born I745, son of Thomas, was a blacksmith, and
married Elizabeth Norris, April I4, I768. Siding with his country at
the Revolution, he left the city in I776, as did most of the Montanyes,
and retired up the Hudson, being employed as confidential messenger by
the Provincial Convention. Once, sent by Washington with secret dispatches, he was taken by the enemy, and endured a cruel imprisonment in
the Old -Sugar House, at New York. He resumed his trade here at the
close of the war, but soon after gave himself to the Baptist ministry, and
in 179I became pastor of the Oliver Street church. He still worked at his
* This Thomas, born I745, is named in his father's will, February 3, I773, but
not in the list of citizens, May 2, I774; N. Y. Corp. Man., I850, 427. Moreover,
his grandmother, Rebecca, in her will of October 25, I774, gives a tenth of her estate
to her son Vincent's "five children;" whence it would follow (as the others were
living) that Thomas was deceased. Most likely he was the cabinetmaker before
noticed, who had lately died in the West Indies.
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forge, at 8 Prince Street. In 1794 he removed to New Vernon, Orange
County, New York, where he founded a church, and preached, beloved
and revered, till his death, December 25, 1825. Elder Montanye married
secondly Cornelia Cooper, an excellent woman, but his children were by
his first wife, being Thomas B., Benjamin, Rebecca, who married William
Ustick; Nancy, who married Samuel King, and Elizabeth, who married
James Thompson, father of the late Deacon Benjamin M. Thompson, of
Harlem. Thomas B. Montanye, born in New York, January 29, 1769,
first joined the church under the care of Rev. John Gano (see page 324),
and in his 20th year, namely, on November 20, 1788, was ordained as
pastor of the Baptist church at Warwick, N. Y., whence, in 1801, he removed to Southampton, Pa., where he ministered till his death, September
27, 1829. He wrote for his epitaph, "The chief of sinners and the least
of saints." By his wife, Ann Edmonds, whom he married, May 20, 1788,
he had eleven children; four, namely, Sarah Ann, Eliza, Rebecca, and
Thomas, still living. Benjamin, brother of Elder Thomas, was born in
New York City in 1786, spent his life in Orange County, was a man
much respected, and at one time deputy sheriff. He married Theodocia,
daughter of Colonel Samuel Clark, and died at New Vernon, April I9,
1848, aged 62 years, having had thirteen children, several of whom went
west, the seventh son being the Hon. Isaac V. Montanye, of Goshen,
New York, editor and proprietor of the Independent Republican.
C.
TOWN OFFICERS, i660 TO I71o; WITH DATE OF
APPOINTMENT..
BENSON, Johannes, surveyor of highways, September 29, 171o. Samson,
constable, September 29, 1700; collector, September 29, 1704; assessor,
September 29, 1708.
BERTHOLF, Guiliaem, clerk and voorleser, March 6, i69o.
BOGERT, John Louwe, overseer, October 29, 1675; October 23, 1676.
BREVOORT, Hendrick, collector, September 29, I697. John Hendrick, overseer, October 28, 1678, December 4, 1679, December, I682; constable,
November 2, I686, October 14, I689; authorized man, November 29,
1691; surveyor of highways, September 29, I697.
BUSSING, Arent Harmans, schepen, August 23, 1673; overseer, October
23, 1676, October 28, 1678, December 4, 1679; constable, November Io,
I680; commissioner of the town court, December I8, 1683; constable,
1690; surveyor of highways, September 29, I694, September 29, 1695;
authorized man, December 14, I699; assessor, September 29, 1700.
CASIER, Philip, schepen, November I6, I662.
CLA^SSSN, Derick, schepen, November i6, 1662.
CRESSON, Jaques, constable, December 7, I669. Pierre, schepen, August
i6, i66o.
DALSEN, Teunis, constable, September 29, 1697.
DELAMATER, Glaude, overseer, June 12, I666, December 7, 1669, December 3, 1672. Isaac, commissioner of the town court, November 2, I686;
constable, September 29, 1693; surveyor of highways, November 9,
I700; overseer, September 29, 1701, September 29, 1702. John, overseer,
December, 1682; commissioner of the town court, January 28, I685;
constable, October 13, I685; commissioner of the town court, November
I, 1687.
DEMAREST, David, overseer, -August 6, 1667, October 2, I668, February 7,
I671, December 3, 1672; schepen, August 23, 1673; constable, December
8, 1674. John, constable, June i, I670.
DYCIMAN, Cornelius, constable, September 28, i698. Gerrit, collector,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
September 29, 1707; constable, September 29, I7I0. John, schepen, October i, 1674; overseer, December 8, 1674; constable, October 29, 1675;
overseer, October 23, 1677, October 28, I678, November Io, I680, December 19, I68I; commissioner of the town court, December I8, 1683,
November 2, I686; assessor, September 29, 1691; constable, September
29, 1695; assessor, September 29, 1699; surveyor of highways, September 29, I708.
GERRITSEN, Lubbert, overseer, December 3, 1672.
HARMANSEN, Arent. See Bussing.
HOLMES, George, constable, September 29, 1704.
JANSEN, Cornelius. See Kortright. Lawrence, overseer, November 7,
1677, October 28, 1678; commissioner of the town court, November 2,
I686, October 14, 1689; constable, March, 1691; surveyor of highways,
September 29, 1694, September 29, 1695; overseer, September 29, 1699,
September 29, 1700.
JOURNEAY, Meynard, overseer, October 29, I675.
KIERSEN, John, assessor, September 29, 1695, September 29, I696, September 29, 1697; collector, November 9, 1700; constable, September 29, 1701;
assessor, September 29, 1706.
KORTRIGHT, Cornelius Jansen, constable, December 3, 1672; overseer, December 8, I674, December I9, I68I, December, I682; commissioner of the
town court, February 2, i686, November i, I687. Johannes Cornelissen,
collector, September 29, I698; constable, September 29, I702; surveyor
of highways, September 29, 1705. Lawrence Cornelissen, surveyor of
highways, September 29, I706; constable, October, I708.
MABIJI, Caspar, constable, September 29, I696.
MATTHYSSEN, Nelis, overseer, June I2, i666.
MONTANYvE, Abraham, constable, September 29, I694; collector, September 29, 1702; surveyor of highways, September 29, I704, September 29,
1707. John, schepen, November 3, I66I; schout, November I6, I662,
November I7, I663, retired June 17, I665; clerk, I660-I672; voorleser,
I663-I670.
MYvER, Adolph, schepen, October I, 1674; overseer, December 8, I674,
October 23, I676, October 23, I677, December, I682; constable, October
13, I684, October I4, I687; authorized man, November 29, I691; assistant alderman, September 29, I693, September 29, 1694; surveyor of highways, September 29, I696, September 29, I697; authorized man, December
14, I699; overseer, September 29, 170I, September 29, 1702; assessor,
September 29, 1703; surveyor of highways, September 29, 1710. Johannes,
collector, September 29, I699; assessor, September 29, I707; surveyor of
highways, September 29, 1709; assessor, September 29, 1710.
NAGE:L, Barent, surveyor of highways, September 29, 1705; constable, September 29, I709. John, constable, October 23, I677; commissioner of
the town court, December I8, I683, February 2, i686.
OBLENIS, Hendrick, constable, September 29, 1705; surveyor of highways,
September 29, 1706, September 29, 1708. Joost, overseer, June I2, i666,
August 6, I667, January 25, I670, December 3, I672; schepen, August
23, I673, October I, I674; overseer, December 8, I674, October 29, I675,
October 23, I677, December 4, I679, November io, i68o; constable, December 19, I68i; commissioner of the town court, January 28, 1685.
Peter, commissioner of the town court, October I4, 1689, I690; constable, September 29, i69g; authorized man, November 29, i69I; assessor,
September 29, I694; assistant alderman, September 29, i696; overseer,
September 29, 1699, September 29, 1700; collector, September 29, 1705;
assessor, September 29, I709.
ROELOFSEN, Peter, constable, October 2, i668; February 7, I671.
SICKELS, Zacharias, constable, September 29, 1707.
SLOT, John Pietersen, schout and schepen, August I6, I66o, November 3,
i66i; schepen, November I7, I663, retired June I7, i665.
APPENDIX.
793
TIBOUT, John, clerk and voorleser, January 20, 1685 to 1690, September 20,
1691 to 1697.
TIIBAUT, Marcus, collector, September 29, 1700, September 29, 1708.
TOURNEUR, Daniel, schepen, August I6, I66o, November 3, I66I, November
17, 1663; magistrate, June I7, 1665; deputy sheriff, I665-170; overseer,
February 7, 1671. Daniel, Jr., overseer, October 23, 1676, October 23,
1677, December 4, I679, November Io, I68o, Decembet I9, I68I; constable, December I8, 1683; collector, January 22, 1684; commissioner of
the town court, February 2, I686. Jacques, constable, September 29,
1692; overseer, September 29, I699, September 29, 1700. Thomas,
assessor, September 29, 1692; alderman, September 29, 1696; assessor,
September 29, 1704; collector, September 29, 1706; surveyor of highways, September 29, 1707; constable, September 29, 1708; collector, September 29, 1709.
VANDERVIN, Hendrick Jansen, voorleser, 1670; clerk and voorleser, 1672
to 1684.
IVERMtULE, Adrian, clerk and voorleser, September 29, 1699, to February
I, I708.
VERMILYE, Isaac, overseer, June 12, I666, August 6, 1667. Johannes, court
messenger, June 17, I665; constable, August 6, 1667; overseer, December
7, I669, February 7, 1671; constable, December 4, 1679; overseer, December 19, I68I; constable, December, 1682; assessor, October 13, 1684;
commissioner of the town court, January 28, I685, November I, I687,
October 14,,689.
VERVEEJLN, Johannes, schepen, November 17, 1663; constable, May 15,
I666; overseer, August 6, 1667, October 2, i668.
WALDRON, Barent, court messenger, September 25, 1673; assessor, September 29, 1698; surveyor of highways, September 29, 1702; collector,
September 29, I703. Johannes, surveyor of highways, November 9, 1700;
overseer, September 29, 1701, September 29, 1702; constable, September
29, 1703; surveyor of highways, September 29, I704; assessor, September
29, 1705; constable, September 29, 1706; surveyor of highways, September 29, I709. Resolved, constable, June 17, 1665; overseer, October
2, I668, December 7, 1669, February 7, 1671; schout and schepen, August
23, I673, October I, 1674; overseer, October 29, 1675; constable, October
23, 1676, October 28, 1678, November Io, I68o; assessor, December Io,
1683, October 13, I685. Samuel, authorized man, November 29, 1691;
assessor, September 29, 1693; surveyor of highways, September 29, I696,
September 29, 1697; constable, September 29, i699i authorized man,
December 14, 1699; assessor, September 29, 1702.
WOLTEsRS, Kier, overseer, October 2, i668, December 7, 1669.
D. Page 189.
LETTER: DR. MONTANYE TO STUYVESANT AND COUNCIL.
Honorable, Valiant and Worthy Lords.
My Lords, I have received here a letter of the 1st July last, and read
the same with sorrow, not for the reproof, which I accept with thanks,
but for my accounts which to me appear astonishing: because from the
extract sent me by Sieur Jacob Sam the previous year, in October, I find
myself credited upon the last of December A~ I66o, for the sum of f. 96;
and in the extract from the monthly pay book of the year I66I, I am
debited for f. 1936:12; so that I the same cannot comprehend, since in
my book.of the year I662, I find myself indebted for not more than f.
II59:5:8, whence I judge (under correction from my superiors), that a
mistake must exist in the said reckoning: for of the two, either I was
owing, at the end of the year i66o, more than f. 96:, or I am now not
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
so much indebted as in my accounts stands. Further, in the year 1659,
per balance of accounts from my book, I find myself to be indebted f.
432:13, to which added f. I338:I3:Io, of the year I660, makes the sum f.
1771:6:10, from which my wages deducted, to wit, f. 900, I should remain
indebted for f. 87I:6:Io, which yet added to f. 1159:5:8, being the whole
that I for the year I66I, on my book sent off, was also indebted, makes
f. 2030:12:2; now the wages of the year 166I being deducted therefrom,
I remain still indebted f. II30:I2:2, and not f. 1936:12 (but I refer me
to the examination of Sieur Jacob Sam); which same excessive sum I
behold with great heart grief, not that my conscience witnesses to me
that I am fallen into the same by any quis cingit ostio that I may have
practiced, having (without boasting) always kept my household in victuals
and clothes as temperately as a common burgher here; but the excessive
dearth of all things has driven me insensibly into such need and poverity,
as that never in the 68 years that I have lived, so great distress have felt,
finding myself destitute of all means to provide for my daily bread, and
provisions for the winter; but my hope rests in those who until now have
always helped me. It were well if that considering my support one should
deem it to be sufficient; but those who have knowledge of the advantages
of this place can well judge, that I, spending in bread, small beer and
wood f. 800, have of necessity light money-bf the balance left to speak of.
I should to your Worthy Honors send a request, with an obligation
in the form of a Note of the Honorable Lord Director Kieft, deceased,
to me given; but the sudden departure of this yacht in haste, did not permit me, yet hope to do it the coming Monday with the other yacht.
In the meanwhile I remain, your Worthy Honors' humble and willing
servant,
In Fort Orange,
i8th August A~. I662. LA MONTAGNE.
(Superscribed ):
Honorable, Valiant and Worthy Lords, My Lords Petrus Stuyvesant
Directr. General and the Council of New Netherland.
E. Page 186.
JOCHEM PIETERS FLAT.
This large tract embraced three-fourths of the grant made in I639 to
Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, and whence its name. It lay between the old
Kingsbridge Road and Harlem RiVer, and extended, say from the northern line of the old Church Farm and village plots of Heiser, Chesterman,
etc., upward, including nearly all the late Myer Farm. The preceding
pages may be consulted for its history prior to I66I, when it was divided
into 22 lots, each 6 2-3 morgen, or I3 acres, as usually rated.
The earliest list of proprietors is that of I670, given on page 266,
but we know, for the most part, who were the original owners. The subsequent titles, though difficult to trace, because of exchanges made from
time to time (to group together lots having the same owner), and the
vacating of three lots or numbers, as will further appear, have been clearly
made out, it is believed; a work, which if it but adds a technical value
to the modern title, is of real significance. It holds true (all modern legislation notwithstanding) that ordinarily every link carried backward into
the "good old honest times," serves to improve the chain and strengthen
confidence in the title. We believe our efforts to restore such lost links
will also prove a material help to the modern conveyancer in his often
perplexing work. To each of these lots on "Jochem Pieters" was originally
attached a house lot in the village and a share of salt meadow. For many
years these allotments were usually sold together; often a lot on Van
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Keulen's Hook being included. A knowledge of this fact is not without
its value in tracing the title to the several parcels. It must also open to
many a one a new source of pleasure, to discover the homes where the sterling characters treated of in these pages spent their years and energies, and
which of these in the olden time tilled the soil he now occupies-reft indeed
of its former rural charms, but invested by modern taste with other attractions no less endearing.
We name the owners of these lots in the order of the numbers, as
on May I, I670; premising that No. I lay at the south end:
No. I. Daniel Tourneur. No. 12. Thomas Delavall.
" 2. Laurens Jansen. " I3. Joost Van Oblinus.
" 3. Thomas Delavall. " I4. Glaude Delamater.
" 4. Lubbert Gerritsen. " I5. do.
5. Pierre Cresson. " I6. Jan Nagel.
6. Meynard Journee. " I7. Daniel Tourneur.
7. David Demarest. " I8. Cornelis Jansen.
" 8. Resolved Waldron. " I9. Thomas Delavall.
9. Hendrick Karstens' heirs. 20. do.
" I0. Johannes Verveelen. " 21. do.
" II. Jean Le Roy. " 22. do.
Lot No. I, as it was originally laid out in I658, belonged to John Montanye, who gave it up in I66i, for other land, when the upper part, with
the lower part of No. 2, was taken to form No. i, and to which Tourneur
succeeded, as he had owned No. 2. See pages 185, I86. Tourneur's
children dividing up his property in I69o, this lot fell to his son Thomas,
and passed in 17I0 to Captain Charles Congreve. He sold it, July 22,
I7I3, to John Van Oblienis, and he, August I2 ensuing, to Abraham Myer,
whose son Abraham, with his wife Mattie, conveyed the eastern part to
Johannes De Witt (since Hon. D. P. Ingraham's); and the western part,
called the Pond Lot, containing 7 acres 4 r., to Johannes Sickels, by deed
of September 6, 1768, Sickels building a farm-house at the west end next
the Kingsbridge Road, its site on I23d Street, south side, midway of
Third and Fourth Avenues. His son John S. succeeding by devise, this
house became the home of his son-in-law, John Adriance, and the birthplace of the late Isaac Adriance, Esq., named page I55. See Nos. 2, 3, 4.
No 2. Nicholas De Meyer owned this lot, and No. I8, in i662; one
of them bought that year from Simon Lucas. He sold both in i669 to
Cornelius and Laurens Jansen (see page 258); the latter getting No. 2.
From him descending to his son Albert Low, of Somerset County, New
Jersey, he released it to his brother Lawrence, December 8, I73I. Lawrence sold to Isaac Myer, May 9, I738, who gave it to his nephew Johannes
Sickels. See page 6o0.
No. 3. Simon De Ruine, called the Walloon, had this lot in I662.
He sold, March I3, I666, to Bussing and others (see page 546), and they
April 7 following, to Captain Delavall. He exchanged it for No. I8, with
Cornelis Jansen (Kortright), from whose widow, Metje Cornelis, it was
gotten by Adolph Meyer, April 6, I697, in lieu of No. io. Meyer's heirs
conveyed No. 3 to Johannes Sickels, November I5, I748, when it is called
I8 acres. See No. 4.
No. 4. Hendrick J. Vander Vin apparently owned this lot in I662.
Lubbert Gerritsen succeeded about I664, at the sale of whose lands, July
5, I674, it was bought by David Demarest, Sr. He sold it, March I2,
I677, to Paulus Richard, and he, August i, I677, to Adolph Meyer, to
whose son Abraham the other heirs conveyed it November I5, 1748. This
lot had then received an addition of 6 acres, as No. 3 had of 5 acres;
caused as follows: The New Lots of Jochem Pieters, so called, were laid
out, as we have seen, in I677, beginning at Delavall's or Carteret's northern
line. By mistake or otherwise in fixing this line, the "old lots," yet lying
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in common fence, were encroached upon full three lots; to remedy which,
afterward, and give the Delavall heirs the quantity claimed by them in
this tract, the town assigned to them the adjoining island, thence known
as Carteret's Island, containing I2 acres of upland, and bargained with
Dyckman and the Nagel heirs for 29 acres of the three lots which the
latter owned here, and for which they took other land at Spuyten Duyvel.
See page 546. This arrangement could hardly have dated prior to I69o,
nor later than I700, but the Nagels retained a nominal possession of these
lots for some years thereafter, and drew land on the morgen rights in
1712. In 1724 this flat was resurveyed, at the instance of Pipon and
Gouverneur, claiming under Delavall. Nine lots due the claimants being
set off to them at the upper end without regard to the old lines; and
then the other lots to the several owners down to and including Zacharias
Sickels, who held No. 5, there remained an excess of II acres, which had
already been ascertained, and sold by John Nagel, in 1722, to Abraham
Myer; and of which 5 acres were added to No. 3, making it I8 acres,
and 6 acres to No. 4, making it 19 acres (See remark under No. IO.)
Abraham Meyer having set off from No. 4 about 2 acres at the west
end on the Kingsbridge Road, as a building plot, and also reserving the
river end, since in part the Coles property, sold the main portion of the
lot to Johannes Sickels, September 6, 1768. The 2-acre piece, mortgaged
to Sickels by Abraham Myer, May I, 1774, was purchased in 1815 by
T. W. Van Norden. With these additions and exceptions noted, Johannes
Sickels came to hold the Nos. I to 4; all which passed under his will of
February I2, 178I, proved November 10, I784, to his son John, known
as John S. Sickles, remaining in his possession till his death, June 4,
1804, when it fell by devise to the heirs of his daughter Mary, Mrs. John
Adriance. Thus the survey of 1724 affected the division lines of all the
remaining lots yet to be described, as must be borne in mind by the inquirer
after the original lines as they were prior to said survey, if he would
fix these even approximately,-for more than this can hardly be expected.
No. 5. Pierre Cresson, originally holding No. 6, exchanged, in I661,
for No. 5, in the way before shown. He sold to John Brevoort, May
23, I677; he to his son-in-law, Zacharias Sickles, February 20, I705, and
he to Nicholas Kortright, January I5, I729. See next Nos.
No. 6, owned by Michiel Muyden, was bought by Jaques Cresson.
He sold, December 4, I669, to Meynard Journee, and he March 7, I676,
to John Nagel and John Delamater. These making a division of the
Journee lands, July I4, I677, Nagel took this lot or number, being one
of those vacated by his heirs.
No. 7 was owned by John De Pre, who bought Simon Lane's allotment. De Pre sold, April 7, I662, to William Montanye, who conveyed
it to his brother John, and he, in I665, to David Demarest. Demarest sold,
March I2, I677, to Paulus Richard; he, July 3I, I677, to Joost Van Oblinus,
and he to his son Peter, August 24, 1705. From the latter to Peter Waldron, and thence to Abraham Myer.
No. 8. Lubbert Gerritsen having bought the allotment of Matthys
Boon, including this number, sold it, November 22, I662, to Jan Laurens
Duyts. He sold to Resolved Waldron, who exchanged it for No. I2,
with his son-in-law Nagel, whose heirs vacated it.
No. 9. Hendrick Karstens held this number, probably from I662.
At the sale of his estate, July 5, I674, it was bought by his son Conrad
Hendricks. He sold it, August I6, I678, to John Nagel, whose heirs
vacated it with Nos. 6, 8. These three numbers were therefore dropped
out, while the land embraced under them being assigned to the next owners
in their order, left the requisite quantity to make up the nine lots for the
Delavall heirs. We describe the remaining lots under the old numbers,
which were in some cases retained.
No. 10 was owned successively by Dominie Zyperus, Jurian Hanel
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(see his patent, page 598), and Johannes iVerveelen. ''Te latter sold to
Adolph Meyer, October 13, I683, and on April 6, 1697, he let Metje Cornelis have it for No. 3. Thus the Kortrights came to own Nos. 5 and
10, which two lots Nicholas Kortright, the heir to a large part of Metje
Cornelis' lands, sold in 1731 to Abraham Myer. The now united Nos.
5, 7, 10, passed to Abraham's heirs, and became the famous 42 acre tract,
or Lawrence Benson homestead. See page 603. These three lots, computed at 6 2-3 morgen each (and 2 acres to the morgen), made just 40
acres, and with No. 4 adjoining, at first 13 acres, but increased as beforesaid to I9, made together 59 acres, being so estimated in a mortgage for
this tract, therein bounded north by Aaron Bussing, and south by John
Sickles, given by Abraham Myer to St. George Talbot, June 7, I766.
No. II was purchased from Jacob Elderts, June I, I662, by Jean Le
Roy, being part of an allotment Elderts had recently bought from David
Du Four. Le Roy sold, May 2, I674, to Simon Cornier, he, July 26, 1675,
to Paulus Richard, and he, the same day, to David Demarest, Jr. Demarest conveyed it back to Richard, April 12, 1677, and he on the same
date to Joost Van Oblinus. Oblinus sold it, some twenty years later, to
Arent Bussing. See Nos. 12, 13.
No. 12 Captain Delavall bought out of the estate of Jan Cogu. He
exchanged with John Nagel for No. I6; Nagel exchanged with his fatherin-law, Waldron, for No. 8. Waldron's widow sold No. I2 to Arent
Bussing, July I6, I69o, and Johahnes Waldron confirmed the sale April
5, I697.
No. I3 was bought by Joost Van Oblinus, November 8, I663, from
Philip Casier's widow and son-in-law Uzille; Casier having gotten it from
Jean Gervoe. Oblinus conveyed it to Arent Bussing, October 26, I693.
Bussing thus acquired Nos. II, 12, I3, which passed in I718 to his son
Peter, and in 1737 to his son Aaron, under whose will (see page 485), his
executor, Adolph Myer, conveyed said tract, May 10, 1787, to John
Adriance, who sold it, June 27, I825, to Charles Henry Hall.
Nos. I4, I5. Jacques Cousseau, owning No. I5, March 25, I662, on
that date bought I4, from John Sneden's estate. He sold both to Daniel
Tourneur, and he directly to Delamater, whose patent of June 25, i668,
includes them. Delamater, about I676, transferred I5 to Delavall, and
shortly before his death No. I4 also. See ensuing numbers, all which
unite in Delavall.
No. I6, given by Jan Pietersen Slot to his son Peter, was sold by
the latter, in I665, to Resolved Waldron, who assigned it to John Nagel,
by deed of June 2, I670, Nagel afterward exchanging it with Delavall
for No. I2.
No. 17. Tourneur bought, February I, I667, from Dirck Claessen,
potbaker, who having owned it five years at least, was probably the original
drawer. Tourneur sold it, about I676, to Captain Delavall.
No. 8. Nicholas De Meyer, as before said, owned this and No. 2,
in I662, and sold them to the Jansens. No. I8, in the division, fell to
Cornelis, who exchanged with Delavall for No. 3.
No. I9 was obtained by Delavall from Jacques Cresson, who bought
it with No. 6, from Michiel Muyden.
Nos. 20, 2I, 22, Delavall purchased, as would appear, two from Arent
Moesman, and one from Valentine Claessen; in this order as to date, but
their respective numbers we are not sure of. Claessen, we believe, bought
Adam Dericksen's allotment. One of Moesman's had probably belonged
to Philip Casier, and the other to Jean Le Roy, who bought, I662, of
Philip Presto. In I673, Delavall was the ostensible owner of nine lots here
(see page 307), of which he probably gave six to his son-in-law, Carteret,
in I676 (see page 339), as in the subsequent division of Delavall's lands,
Carteret's heirs got six, and Darvall's successors (see page 378), three
of these lots. The title to these nine lots involves largely the history of
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the Delavall lands hereafter given, Appendix I. In an adjustment of
their respective claims by Carteret's son-in-law, Philip Pipon, and Abraham
Gouverneur, deriving from Darvall, Pipon took the six uppermost lots,
and Gouverneur the three lower lots. By the survey of 1724, these nine
lots were run out as each 6 morgen, the additional two-thirds of a morgen
on each lot, making together 6 morgen, being put in Carteret's Island. It
was this contraction of the nine lots that gave the ii acres to lots Nos.
3, 4. On May I, 2, 1725, by lease and release, Gouverneur and wife conveyed the "Three Lots," containing IS morgen, to Johannes Myer, and
on February II, 12, 1740-I, Simon Johnson, John Amboyneau, and James
Faviere, as trustees of Elias Pipon, son of Philip, conveyed the "Six Lots,"
including an additional acre, probably for the road,* with nearly 8 acres
of adjoining woodland (known as the Carteret Lot) and Carteret's Island,
to Jacob Myer. This property descended to Jacob's grandchildren. See
page 605. In the division of Johannes Myer's lands, in 1753, between his
sons Jacob and John, the latter took the Three Lots, together with the
residue (called 5 acres, see page 606) of the Carteret Lot. From John
Myer the title (terminating, see page 6o6, in deeds from Gabriel Furman
and Richard Harrison to Charles Henry Hall, in I825 and 1826) forms
one of Mr. Adriance's valuable series of printed abstracts.
F. Page 186.
VAN KEULEN'S HOOK.
This tract, known originally as the Otterspoor, but renamed from
an early owner, Conrad [Van Keulen, of Amsterdam, included the range
of farms to the north of the Mill Creek (Io8th Street); from the late
Morris Randell farm, on Harlem River, westward to the Peter Benson
or Mill farm. A line drawn from the foot of I25th Street westward to
the Fifth Avenue at iiith Street would nearly describe its northern
boundary. Laid out in I66I, in 22 lots of equal breadth, all
running to the river or creek, and designed to be three morgen each, the
contents necessarily varied with the length, and this led, in I676, to a
new survey, by which most of the lines were contracted, and the lots
equalized. The many transfers and exchanges occurring make it difficult
to trace these lots by the numbers, but out of "confusion worse confounded" a result has been attained, which is here given with a reasonable
assurance. See the names of the original grantees, page i86.
Lot No. I passed from Du Four, with his other lands, to Jacob Elderts,
and from him, June I, I662, to Jean Le Roy. The latter sold out, May 2,
I674, to Simeon Cornier; he, July 26, I675, to Paulus Richard; he, the
same date, to David Demarest, Jr.; he again to Richard, and he to Joost
Oblinus, on the same day, April I2, I677. Sold by Oblinus to John Delamater, it was bought of his heirs, in 1710, by Samuel Waldron, and
annexed to the adjoining farm, late of his father, Resolved Waldron.
No. 2 Resolved Waldron bought at the sale of Cogu's estate, in I665.
See No. 3.
No. 3 was sold by Gerritsen, with other lands, November 22, 1662, to
John Duyts; he sold these to Resolved Waldron, who bought himself a
residence directly north of this lot, on the street, which ultimately formed
the northwest corner of his farm. See pages 264, 297. Waldron also
secured the lower half of the adjoining lot, No. 4, giving him 2I2 lots
together. His son Samuel, who bought the farm November 25, i69o,
added, by sundry purchases, Lot No. I, and all the upland and meadow
* On laying out the New Lots, in i677, a road five rods broad was left "for the use
of the land of Mr. De Lavall," along the north side of his lots. Deed, Zacharias
Sickels to Samson Benson, January 23, 1706.
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lying between these lots and the street, including the old Haldron lot,
which he bought of Kiersen, January I, 1701. We except, however, the
small open space at ihe landing, kept till many years later for public use,
and on which stood Colonel Lewis Morris's coach-house, the town having
granted Morris, June 26, 1724, a plot twenty feet square whereon to place it.
Samuel Waldron sold the farm to Captain Congreve and John James,
March 23, 1711, and they, on March 27 ensuing, to John Van Horn, who
soon after conveyed it to Derick Benson. See pages 431, 456, 468, 698.
Benson died in possession in 1751, and his only son, John, remained upon
the property, for which he ultimately took a deed from Peter Lott, of
New York, November 2, I758. John being an executor, with the widow
and Dr. Paterson, he probably joined with these in conveying to Lott,
in order to get a lawful title. Benson built a new house on the farm
proper; his old house stood on the north side of the street, on one of the
old erven joining the river. He sold to John Bogert, Jr., March I2, 1766.
See page 435. After his grandson, James Bogert, Jr., came to own the
farm, in I8II, he took down the farm-house and built another; but this
being burnt, Morris Randell bought the property in 1825, and erected
on the old foundation a fine residence, still seen at the foot of I25th
Street, south side.
No. 4. Dominie Zyperus, Jurian Hanel, Johannes Verveelen, and his
son-in-law, Adolph Meyer, were the successive owners, Meyer getting it
by the marriage contract with Maria Verveelen, though the patent was
not transferred to him till October 13, I683. But it was then agreed that
Verveelen should use this lot (i. e., what remained of it) till his death.
Meyer had sold John Dyckman, November 9, I673, a piece of the north
end, and Dyckman appears to have leased for Verveelen's lifetime the rest
of the half- lot, with an acre in the rear left by the survey of I676, making
2 morgen. This eventually returned to Meyer, after whose death it was
conveyed to Kiersen for half of No 9. Teunis Delamontanie got three
acres of it, which he sold, in 1727, to Johannes Benson, who added in
1742 an acre adjoining, on which had stood the first Vermilye house. This
four acres eventually passed to Benjamin Benson, brother of Johannes,
from him to his son-in-law Lawrence Benson, and was conveyed, Septemebr 4, I797, to his daughter Susannah, wife of Dr. Philip Milledoler.
No. 5 Tourneur exchanged for No. I9, before or while John Montanye owned it, whose father-in-law, Isaac iVermilye, occupied a morgen
at the upper end; see pages 297, 64I. His son Johannes adding an acre
at the rear left vacant by the survey of I676, his widow sold, in 1715, to
John Delamater, who directly sold the house and one acre of the land
to Humphrey Peto. Peto, in his will, proved July 20, I742, says: "My
house and lot of land in the township of Harlem,, where I now live, I
give and bequeath unto my nephew, Thomas Van Bremen, second son
of my sister, Johanna Wickfield, now the wife of David Devoor." See
page 409. It was sold that year to Johannes Benson, as before noticed.
Montanye sold the lower part of No. 5 to Demarest, he to Paulus Richard,
and he to Laurens Jansen, November I9, I677, whence it rated as two
morgen.
No. 6 was sold by Lucas, in i662, to Nicholas De Meyer; by him,
in I669, to the Jansens, and falling to Laurens' share, he built on the
northern end, and lived there. It and the half of No. 5. descended, with
his other lands, to his eldest son, Albert Low, who conveyed the whole,
December 8, I73I, to his brother Lawrence, from whom Maria Myer
bought this tract, May 22, I732. She deeded it, August I, I735, to her
son Isaac, whence it passed by devise to his nephew, Johannes Sickels,
who devised it to his daughter Mary, wife of Samson Benson. Benson
and wife sold the same, October 8, I803, to their daughter Margaret, wife
of Andrew McGown, and these, October 3I ensuing, to John G. Bogert
and Jacob Bradford, who made a division of the tract March 15, I809.
800 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Nos. 7, 8, 9. Jan Pietersen Slot gave his son, Peter, one morgen
off the west side of No. 9; the rest of the tract was included in his patent
sold Johannes Verveelen. See page 679. Verveelen sold this patent,
August 21, I689, to his son-in-law Meyer, whose widow acquired the one
morgen of No. 9, now rated as a half lot. This had passed, in 1665, from
Peter Slot to Resolved Waldron; from his widow, in I690, to John Brevoort; from his son-in-law Sickels to John Kiersen, and to Mrs. Meyer.
At her death her children transferred the three lots to her grandson, Benjamin Benson, November 15, I748. Benson gave them to his son-in-law,
Lawrence Benson, who conveyed them to his daughter Susannah, wife of
Rev. Philip Milledoler, September 4, I797, and to said Philip, September
21, I804.
No. 10 was sold by Casier's widow and son-in-law, Uzille, to Joost
Oblinus, November 8, 1663. See Nos. II to I6.
No. II was sold by Gervoe to Philip Casier, who exchanged with Uzille
for I6. Uzille and the widow Casier conveyed it with No. io to Oblinus,
who about I688 sold these numbers to John Delamater.
No. 12 was sold by De Ruine, with his other lands, March 13, I666,
to Bussing, etc., who sold out directly to Captain Delavall. See page 546.
Delavall soon exchanged it for No. 21, with Glaude Delamater, whose
son John sold it, with Nos. 10, II, to Peter Oblienis, May 10, 1690.
No. 13 evidently passed from Adam Dericksen's widow (married to
Moenis Peterson), to Valentine Claessen, from him to Delavall, from him
to Verveelen and Bussing, and from them to Joost Oblinus, who sold
Nos. 13, 14, I5, to his son Peter, August 24, 1705.
No. 14 Jaques Cresson sold, with his other land, December 4, I669,
to Meyndert Journee, and he, March 7, 1676, to John Nagel and John
Delamater. The latter took this lot in a division made July 14, I677, and
sold the half, then the whole of it, to Cornelis Jansen, who conveyed it to
Adolph Meyer, and he to Joost Oblinus, in exchange for 20. Joost to
Peter as -aforesaid.
No. I5, in the division of the De Meyer farm by the Jansens, fell to
Cornelis, from whose widow, Metje Cornelis, Joost Oblinus obtained it,
in exchange for No. I6, which see.
No. I6 Uzille exchanged for No. II, with Casier, who sold it, January
II, I663, to Jacob Elderts, he to Delavall, and he to Joost Oblinus and
John Brevoort as joint owners. Oblinus, getting the other half, exchanged
this lot with Metje Cornelis for No. I5. His son Peter buying this lot
also, thus came to own Nos. IO.to I6, which he ultimately conveyed to
his nephew, Peter Waldron, September 20, 1742, with the house, barn, and
orchard, which occupied five of the out-gardens, lying north of the seven
lots, and finally joined to them by the closing of the lower street. Waldron
bought up the rest of these gardens (save Nos. 19, 20), and also an adjoining plot, once within the old village, by deed from the town, March II,
I747. See page 705. This strip along the Church Lane, and the said
seven lots, composed the late John P. Waldron farm.
No. 17 was sold by Derick Claessen to Daniel Tourneur, February I,
I667, and is described in his patent of September I, I669, as "I3 acres, or
6 morgen and 240 rod." It was equal to two of the other lots, and
always carried a six morgen right.
No. I8 Tourneur bought from Cousseau. On the partition of Tourneur's lands in I69I, this and Lot 17 fell to his son Jacques, to whom
Peter Bussing succeeded in 1726. They passed by devise to his son Aaron,
whose daughter, Mrs. Storm, succeeded by deed from her father's executors, August I8, 1784, whence its title is well known. See page 485.
The two out-gardens, Nos. 19, 20, attached to these lots, contained the
farm-house, the original home of the Bussings. See page 230.
No. 19 passed with De Pre's property, in I662, to William Montanye,
from whom, or his brother John, Daniel Tourneur obtained it for No. 5.
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In I691 it fell to Thomas Tourneur, and passed, in I7I0, to John Dyckman, who drew land upon it in 1712. This lot was untaxed from 1715
to I720. Doubt hangs around the after-history of this and the remaining
lots; but more anon.
No. 20 was sold by Pierre Cresson, May 23, 1677, to John Brevoort,
from whom, prior to I700, as would appear, Joost Oblinus got it, and
bartered with Adolph Meyer for No. 14. Mrs. Meyer drew land on it
in 1712.
No. 21 Cousseau sold to Tourneur, and he to Glaude Delamater, who,
prior to I676, exchanged with Captain Delavall for No. I2. But the last
two persons being dead, Delamater's widow claimed this lot, and on
January 4, I69O, sold it to her son-in-law, Arent Bussing, to whom Samuel
Waldron, as successor to all the lands and rights of Glaude's eldest son,
John Delamater, gave a quit-claim, January 3, 17II, and it is named in
his patentee deed, I715.
No. 22, drawn by Jean Le Roy, on the allotment gotten of Philip
Presto, was sold to Arent Moesman, and by him to Captain Delavall, who
upon it built his grist-mill in I667. See pages 232-236.
Bussing's right to No. 21 was allowed, but it caused trouble among
the lot-holders at this end, as there were more claimants than lots. To
obviate the difficulty in part another lot, No. 23, was projected, for John
Delavall, on the other side of his mill lot, which itself, on account of the
mill, admitted of no substitution; and it seems indicated that the Dyckman and Bussing heirs gave up or sold out their rights; various small
parcels of land being distributed to Peter Bussing and others in 1720,
when this vexatious matter was finally arranged. This adjusted the number of lots existing to the number claimed. A "small strip of land lying
west of the lot of Arent Bussing (No. 2I) and east of the lots of John
Delavall," called three acres, a motion to sell which, in I691, was negatived,
was added to Jacques Tourneur's lots. The two Delavall lots were purchased, September 24, 25, 1747, by Benjamin Benson, from Simon Johnson, assignee of Elias Pipon; and Benson, we believe, also succeeded to
the Meyer lot, November 15, I748. The Kortrights claimed two lots here,
but under the numbers 14, I5, before held by Cornelis Jansen, and on
which Metje Cornelis and Marcus Tiebaut drew land in 1712. See page
564. The heirs had divided one or both of these lots transversely into
equal halves, but the whole came, in I726, to widow Grietie Kortright,
who sold them, in I730, to Derick Benson, from whose son John, Benjamin Benson obtained them, half at a time, December 30, I755, and May
II, 1764. Thus the title to all the lots (we believe five in number) lying
west of Jacques Tourneur, to whom Peter Bussing had succeeded, passed
to Benjamin Benson, and came to form part of the Benson farm, the
remainder being taken from the Mill Camp, whose title we notice briefly.
By the disuse of the mill, some years after the death of John Delavall,
the privilege of using this land for mill purposes became void. On October
23, I738, the town granted a similar privilege to Samson Benson, owning
the farm on the opposite side of the creek, who was authorized "to place
a mill, with a dam, on the Mill Camp, wherever it may suit him best";
this right to revert to the town should the mill cease to run for two
years. Benson built the mill on his said farm, but it was scarcely finished when he died, in I740. His son Benjamin succeeding to the farm
and mill, and buying several of the lots before mentioned, obtained from
the town, by an award of May 30, I753, and for the sum of 60o 1., a deed
for the Mill Camp, by the following description: "Beginning at the fence
of the said Benjamin Benson by the Mill Creek, and runs along his fence
Northwardly to Harlem Road, about thirty-one chains, thence along said
Road twenty-three chains and one-half,* which is three chains beyond a
* This course followed for a short distance the old road which bridged the little
creek at iith street, then took that laid out later, which, branching from the former,
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
large Oak Tree near Van Breemen's House, thence South, tel degrees
East, to the said Iill Creek, thence along the said Creek to the place
where it began." Besides providing for a road to the mill, it enjoined
"that no encroachments shall be made from the westernmost limits of this
grant to Benjamin Benson, but that the small part of the Mill Camp which
remains undisposed of, lying between his westernmost bounds and the
Mill Creek, so far as the bridge, shall be and remain in common, free,
and open for the benefit of all the freeholders and inhabitants, for their
creatures feeding and going to salt."
During the Revolution the old mill on the south side of the creek
was burnt, and after the war Benjamin Benson built a new one on the
Mill Camp farm, as also a substantial stone dwelling, which with the
said farm and the creek itself he conveyed, April 2, 1791, to his son Peter,
whose son Benjamin P. 'Benson, and daughter, Mrs. Dr. Peter Van Arsdale, afterward shared it. In I827, when the Harlem Canal was begun,
the mill, a frame building three stories high, was taken down; but the
dwelling stood till I865. See page 42I.
G. Page 191.
MONTANYE'S FLAT.
This tract granted to Henry De Forest, in I636, and subsequently
patented to Hudde and La Montague, has a remarkably interesting history, for which reference must be had to the foregoing text, where both
patents are recited (see pages 129, I50), as also the circumstances which
constrained the government to resume possession of these lands in I662,
and distribute them among the Harlem settlers. The-Flat embraced the
lands intersected by Harlem Lane, from the late Nutter farm to the Captain John Kortright farm, both inclusive (Io9th Street to 124th Street);
the whole bounded easterly by the creek, and westerly by the heights.
It is apparent that the Flat was originally laid out in lots of unequal
quantity, to suit the requirements of those applying for land. See pages
185-191. Original descriptions of nine of the lots name them as on "Montagne's Land," or "Montagne's Flat"; six as running "from the hills east
to the kill," and one "from the kill to the hills west." The Flat was not
so much as fenced in till I673 (see page 289), and the first house, after
De Forest's, was not built till some years later. See pages 355, 379. As
in the other tracts, early exchanges among the owners broke up the order
of the original numbers; and eventually there came to be ten lots, of
nearly equal size, and rated as six morgen each. The lots first built upon
by Tourneur and Delamater began to be taxed in I682, and all the rest
in I685, amounting to 54 morgen, Le Roy's lot, vacated, being excepted.
This was added in I725, making 60 morgen (120 acres), being twelve acres
per lot; and even down to the Revolution they were never rated higher
in the tax lists, though usually sold for 20 acres. In further tracing these
lots, we will refer to them as the Ist lot, 2d lot, etc., with regard to the
actual order in which they lay, beginning at the south end of the Flat.
The ISt and 2d lots, described in De Meyer's patent of January 29,
I664, as 8o rods broad and containing 12 morgen 360 rods, were bought,
September 25, I669, by Cornelis and Laurens Jansen. Cornelis took them
crossed the creek at Iogth street. This last road cut off a gore from Van Keulen's
Hook, of about 4 acres, since known as the Lanaw Benson tract. It was sold by the
town to Aaron Bussing, and confirmed to him by the award of May 30, 1753. The
upper road being closed, joined it to Bussing's other land known as No. i, Ist
Division; but it was sold separately by his executor, Adolph Meyer, to David Waldron,
May' I, 1788, as 4 acres, I9 rods. Waldron sold it, June 6, 1793, to Lanaw Benson
(colored woman), who conveyed it, all but % of an acre of woodland at the east
point, to John Rankin, April 9, 1799.
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in a division of their lands, February 6, I675, and on November 17, I677,
added Demarest's lot (the 3d lot, but originally No. 4); which is described in Demarest's patent of March 3, I67I, as 26 rods broad,' 160 rods
long, and containing about 13 acres, or 6 morgen 300 rods. These three
lots, with drafts from the adjacent common land, descending to Lawrence
Kortright, son of Cornelis Jansen, and to his son Lawrence, who on April
5, 1760, conveyed it to Mrs. Sarah Nutter, became the well-known Nutter
farm. See pages 563, 565. Here was the "Half-Way House," established
in I684 by Cornelis Jansen, and kept after his death by his widow Metje
Cornelis. See page 390. On October I3, 1694, she was allowed pay "for
entertaining his Excellency the Governor, on his return from Connecticut." She or her family, at one time or another, owned all of Montanye's
Flat. After the tavern here was discontinued, the "Black Horse," below
McGown's Pass (see page 592), became the Half-Way House. It was kept
during the Revolution by Richard Vandenburgh. The piece of the Nutter
farm east of the lane (8 acres), sold by Valentine Nutter to Daniel McCormick, November 8, I8o6, was a part of the 3d'lot; the adjoining pieces
occupied by Nutter's son-in-law, Henry G. Livingston, and James Beekman, included parts of the ISt and 2d lots.
Daniel Tourneur, holding the 5th lot, by deed of February I, 1667,
from Derick Claessen, and described in Tourneur's patent of September
i, I669, as No. 6, 24 rods broad, and containing about I3 acres, or 6
morgen, 480 rods, also purchased the 6th lot, from Adolph Meyer, January, 28, I673, described in Hanel's patent (see page 598), as No. 7, 27 rods
4X2 feet broad, and containing 5 morgen 400 rods. This lot had come
from Dominie Zyperus. Daniel Tourneur, taking these two lots in his
patrimony, bought the 4th lot in the range, December 6, I679, from
Resolved Waldron (described as No. 5, and 30 rods broad), Waldron
deriving title from Lubbert Gerritsen, to whom was originally allotted
No. 3. In 1711, Tourneur's son Woodhull sold the three lots to Samson
Benson, who sold them directly to Metje Cornelis. Their later history
is to be traced through the Kortrights, Myers, and Bussings; see pages
485, 488, 563, 565, 603. In the division of this farm made by John Adolph,
and Abraham Bussing, April 6, I787, each had an equal share of I9 acres
I q. 13 r., Adolph taking most of the 4th lot. The highway parted the
other two shares; that to the west fell to Abraham, and subsequently, after
passing through several hands, was bought, March 8, I815, by David Wood,
who had already purchased part of the adjoining Van Bramer tract, from
Abraham Van Bramer, May 2, 1812.* These composed Mr. Wood's farm,
which at his death, May I2, I842, descended to his widow, and children,
William G. Wood, M. D., etc.
The 7th lot was sold by De Ruine, March I3, i666, to Arent Bussing
and others (see page 545), as No. 8, being I6 rods broad, and containing
4 morgen 320 rods. Bussing, etc., sold, April 7 ensuing, to Captain Thomas
Delavall, from whom it passed to his son-in-law, Carteret, who sold it,
November 2I, I679, to Glaude Delamater. The latter exchanged it for
another lot, with John Dyckman; Dyckman sold half to John Brevoort
(which half passed to Zacharias Sickels), and later the other half to
* The Van Bramer family (originally Van Bremen) came from Albany. Jacob,
son of Abraham Van Bremen and Maria Van Nostrand, married, in 171, Johanna, or
Anna Wakefield, from Albany (see p. 410), and had sons, Abraham, of Harlem, and
Thomas. of Peramus, N. J. (See p. 799.) Abraham, to whom, in I733, his stepfather, David Devoor, transferred an erf, which he soon sold to John Lewis, and was
living some years after near the bridge crossing the Mill Creek (I believe the place
later of John Rankin), was father of Hendrick and Abraham, of Harlem Lane, the
first a wheelwright and bachelor. These brothers divided the land bought of the
Bussings in 1784 (see p. 488). Hendrick, by his will of January 14, i805, left his
residence on Harlem Lane to his nephew, Henry Van Bramer, whose brother-in-law,
Tyler, afterward owned it. Abraham married Abigail Brown, who survived him.
She was a sister of Abraham Bussing's wife. Their children were, Henry, deceased,
unmarried; James, mariner, lost at sea; Abraham, Hester, who married John Kimmel,
and Susan, who married William Tyler.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Sickels direct, who sold the lot, January 15, 1729, to Nicholas Kortright,
from whom it passed in 1740 to his aunt Grietie Kortright, and from her
sons to Benjamin Benson, who owned the next lot, afterward, of Benjamin Vandewater. See pages 565, 566.t
The 8th lot, in possession of John Le Roy as late as I668, is presumed to have been given up by him for his indebtedness to the town.
See page 360. It is not included among his lands sold to Simeon Cornier,
May 2, 1674, and is omitted from the tax lists down to 1724. Samson
Benson then appears as the owner, and without doubt it descended to
his son Benjamin aforesaid. From the latter the parts of the 7th and
8th lots, which lay to the west of Harlem Lane, passed, the first to Robert
Hunter, the second to Benjamin Vandewater; the latter conveying his
part, with his farm on the adjoining heights, to James W. De Peyster,
October I6, I785. The remnants east of the Lane were sold to Adolph
Myer, who conveyed the part of the 7th lot to John Dykman, except
an acre sold to Hendrick Van Bramer on which his house was built,
described on page 355. u
Two lots sold by Cousseau to Tourneur, and by him to Glaude Delamater, are described in Delamater's patent of June 25, I668, as situated
"to the north of John Le Roy, to the south of Daniel Tourneur, an east
line being run from the hills to the kill; it's in breadth 48, and in length
Ioo rod, and makes in all about I6 acres or 8 morgen." By adding to
this the adjoining Tourneur lot (which Tourneur had given to his sonin-law Dyckman, who exchanged with Delamater for the 7th lot), Delamater came to be rated at I2 morgen. This being divided into halves,
by his sons John and Isaac, formed the 9th and Ioth lots, of which John
took the lower one, and Isaac the upper. John's share passed, in I7I0,
to Samuel Waldron, and thence to his son Peter. Isaac's lot passed,
December 3, I726, to his son John Delamater, who sold it to Aaron Kortright, March 12, 1742. See its history continued, on page 567. The
old Delamater homestead stood on the east side of the Lane. Captain
John Kortright built the large mansion which stood at a centre point in
the block between II9th and I20th Streets, and 8th and 9th Avenues.
H. Page 341.
THE HOORN'S HOOK FARMS.*
I. SAW-KILL FARM.
George Elphinstone, the grantee of this tract, transferred his claim
to Abraham Shotwell, to whom the patent was issued by Governor Andros,
t The Vandewaters and Hooglands, of Harlem, had this origin: Cornelis Dircksen
Hoogland, born 1599, was living at Brooklyn in I638, and for many years kept the
ferry. By his wife, Aeltie Adraens, he had a son, Derick, born I638, who married
Lysbeth, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje. From this union came, with other children, 'Johannes, born I666; Adrian, I670, and Aeltie, I68I, who married Abraham
Delamontanie. Johannes and Adrian removed to New York, where the latter, a respected merchant, was murdered by his own slave, Robin, in the negro outbreak, just
after midnight, April 7, 1712; at which time Joris Marschalk, Henry Brazier, Augustus Grassett and Adrian Beekman were also killed. (See pp. I6I, 220.) Johannes
Hoogland married twice; in i686, Anna Duyckinck, widow of Peter Vandewater, from
Amsterdam; in 1706, Jenneke Peet; and by the latter was father of Adrian, born
17i6, who lived on Bloomingdale Heights, owning half of the De Key Tract, purchased
of Thomas De Key, in 1738, in company with Harman Vandewater. He died in
1772, and his executors, Benjamin and William Hoogland, sold his lands to Nicholas
De Peyster, December 7, I785. Peter Vandewater's son Benjamin, born I677, was
father, we believe, to said Harman (see p. 50o), whose son Benjamin, in 175I, succeeded to his lands, which, with what he had acquired on Harlem Lane, he sold to
James W. De Peyster, October I6, I785. His wife was Mary, daughter of Adolph
Meyer.
* The Dutch word hoeck, or hook, is rendered "a nook, a corner, or an angle,"
in Hexham's Groot Wordenboeck, Rotterdam: I658. In common usage, a neck of
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September 29, I677. See pages 340-34I. It grants a tract of land upon
Manhattan Island, in breadth 51 rods, running from the East River northwest into the woods 120 rods, including the run of water formerly called
the Saw Mill Creek, together with the pond; being bounded southwest
by the land of John Bassett, and northeast by the land of Jacob Young,
and containing 38'4 acres.
Abraham Shotwell, with consent of his son John, sold the farm and
improvements November 6, 1679, to John Robinson, who, on January I,
I680, conveyed one half to John Lewin and Robert Wolley, of London,
for ~60; and on February 12, I684, the other half to William Cox, for
~I60. See pages 360, 364, 38I.
Mr. Cox was drowned in July, I689, in returning from Amboy, whither
he had been sent by Leisler to proclaim the accession of William and Mary.
On July I5, before taking his last fatal journey, he made his will, amply
providing for his wife Sarah, and devising his share of the Saw-kill farm
to her brother, Henry Bradley. The latter, named in his brother Samuel
Bradley's will, July 5, I693, died soon after, without issue, -his estate falling
to his said brother Samuel and sister Sarah, late Mrs. Cox, who being
left "a good rich widow," had meanwhile married John Oort, merchant,
and now had her third husband, the noted Captain William Kidd. She
married Captain Kidd by license of May I6, 1691. On June I, I695, Kidd
and his brother-in-law Samuel Bradley (soon to sail for England, to prepare for that nefarious voyage in the Adventure Galley, from which
Bradley returned only to be landed sick and dying on the island of St.
Thomas, and Kidd to be arrested, sent to London, and executed for
piracy), joined in conveying their half of the farm, etc., to Mrs. Kidd's
father, Captain Samuel Bradley, for the term of his life. The reversion
of the half farm falling to Mrs. Kidd by the death of her husband and
brother Samuel, she obtained administration on the will of the latter, April
13, I703, and on September 14 following, quit-claimed all her right and
interest in the farm to her father, Captain Bradley. Before the year closed
she married Christopher Rousby. On January 7, 1704, Bradley conveyed
the said half farm to Rousby. But Rousby and wife doubting the sufficiency in the law of the patents to Shotwell and Cox, for the half farm
and other their property, to assure them the legal possession (such at
least was their plea), petitioned Governor Cornbury, March 23, I704, to
accept a deed of sale for their said property to her Majesty Queen Anne,
and then to re-grant the same to them and their heirs forever. Obviously
the true reason for this lay in the fact, as stated in a warrant of August
4, I70I, for, the seizure of Kidd's effects, that he had "been executed in
England for piracy, whereby all his estate, both real and personal, is forfeited to his Majesty." With this request the governor complied; the
deed to the Queen is dated March 31, 1704, and Cornbury's patent to the
petitioners, May 2, I704. The Harlem freeholders, April 15, 1703, had
voted "Wolley and partner" a release of what part of their land lay within
the town patent; and on February I, 1705, Rousby obtained from Charles
Wolley, of New York, merchant, son and successor of "Robert Wolley,
citizen and cloth-worker, of London," a deed for the other half of the
Saw-kill farm.
From Rousby the farm passed to John Gurney, of New York, baker.
Under Gurney's will, dated September 23, 1708, his widow, Mary (Van
Hosen), sold the farm, May 24, 1709, to Thomas Hook, Jr., of New York,
gentleman, for ~400. The parties to this sale were married July Io, ensuing.
Mr. Hook made his will March 13, 1713, as he "designed to take a voyage for London." He was deceased May 29, 1723, the date his will was
proved, but the farm stood in his name till I730, and was then sold to
land bounded on three sides by streams or meadows; or where these limits were
roads, or even surveyor's lines, was called a hook (see examples, pp. 561, 697),
Hoorn's Hook, originally, was regarded as being bounded south by Marston's Creek,
which emptied into the river near 8oth street.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
John Devoor, who occupied it half a century; By will dated June 26,
1778, proved October 2, 1780, Devoor gave 14 acres off the upper side of
the farm to his son John, and the other 24a> acres to his daughter Aerie,
wife of John Courtright. Courtright and wife sold their part, May 20,
22, 1786, to Isaac Gouverneur, and he on September 9, 1791, to John Leary,
Jr., whence it passed to David Dickson and Andrew Stockholm. These,
loaning i3,000 from the State Treasurer, Gerard Banker, on a mortgage,
July 30, 1793, put up near the river extensive cotton mills; employing
workmen from Manchester, England. But this enterprise failed, and on
December 26, I799, Dickson and Stockholm, for ~4,800, conveyed the
property, now called 28 acres, to Isaac Gouverneur. The latter died intestate, the State foreclosed, and under a decree of December I4, 1805, the
premises were publicly sold March 6, 80o6, and bought by John Lawrence
for $30,000, the deed to him being executed the same day by Pierre C.
Van Wyck, master in chancery. Richard Riker and John Tom being
partners in this purchase (the three were brothers-in-law), Lawrence, by
deeds of March. 20, I807, assigned portions of the premises to his said
copartners. On July 21, 1807, Mr. Tom's executors reconveyed his share
to Lawrence, who with Mr. Riker made a formal division June 21, iSi,
the first having made his residence tiponl the upper, the other upon the
lower part. For this purpose Mr. Lawrence had repaired the old house
onil his tract, while Mr. Riker built upon his part, now named Arch-Brook,
a fine stone dwelling, occupied by him till his death in 1841. His heirs
divided the property into city lots.
John Devoor, Jr., mortgaged his I4 acres of this farm to Mangle Minthorne, March I7, 1783; hie assigned the mortgage to Anthony L. White,
November 25, 1786, and he, the same day, to Mary Ellis, "formerly of the
Out Ward, now of the State of New Jersey, singlewoman." See next title.
II. THE BAKER FARM.
The patent to Jacob Young, dated May I, I677, grants a piece of land
on M\ianhattan Island, in breadth by the riverside 43 rods, ranging thence
northwest into the woods T20 rods; being bounded northeast by the Commons, or a certain run of water, and southwest by the land of George
Elphinstone, and containing 32>4 acres. On September 27, 1683, Young
conveyed this land to William Holmes. See page 376. The latter, born
in I644, was a son of George Holmes, of Turtle Bay, and married, in I675,
Elizabeth, daughter of Claes Wyp, of Albany. On April I5, I703, the
town voted him a similar release as that to Wolley and partner. Holmes,
by will made September I8, 1705, gave his wife Elizabeth, the use of
his farm, which at her death was to be shared half by his son George,
and half by his daughters Bregie, Jannetie, Judith, and Priscilla. Of these
Jannetie married, I712, Cornelius MesLurolle, and Judith married, 1718,
Martin Van Iveren; the other daughters died unmarried and intestate.
George Holmes, born I678 (see his marriage, page 448), came in possession of his patrimony prior to 17IO, and by the death of his unlmarried
sisters, and the purchase, December 29, I746, of Jannetie's interest, acquired
seven-eighths of the farm. Under his will, dated September I3, I743,
his widow Janneke took the estate in fee, and after her death Peter Anderson, with his wife Cornelia, only child and heiress of George and Janneke
Holmes, conveyed the farm, March 30, 1756, to Abraham Lefferts, for
~41o. Lefferts devised it to his son Derick, and daughter Elizabeth, wife
of Peter Clopper, and Clopper and wife sold their half to Derick, M\ay I6,
I769, for ~1,400. Lefferts resided here till after the Revolution, and -on
June 25, 1788, conveyed the farm, 28 acres, to Mary Ellis, for ~3,900, "in
Spanish Milled Dollars."
Before Abraham Lefferts made his purchase, the remaining one-eighth
of the farm, being a four acre strip on its southerly side, held by Martin
and Judith Van Iveren, had come to be owned by John Devoor, Jr., from
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whom it passed, by deed and mortgage of February 15, i6, 1774, to David
Provoost, and subsequently was purchased by Mary Ellis. On May I,
1791, said Mlary Ellis conveyed to John Baker, her farm called Sans Souci,
46 acres, which included the 28 acres, 4, and I4 acre tracts. The mortgages on the lesser pieces were assigned to Dr. Baker, who thus got title
to this valuable property, which after his death, in 1796, and the expiration and surrender of certain life interests, enjoyed by the Delafields under
the will of Dr. Baker, passed to the trustees of the New York Protestant
Episcopal Public School.
III. THI-' MARSTON FARM.
The patent for this farm, dated September 29, 1677, describes it as
44 rods in breadth by the water side, ranging in length northwest into the
woods 120 rods; being bounded southwest by Jacob Young's land, and
northeast and northwest by the Common.s; and containing 30 acres.
John Baignoux, the patentee (see page 380), sold the farm May 15,
1683, to Isaac Deschamps, lie on October 12, I686, to John Spragge, and
the latter, on December 7, 1690, to Daniel Cox, of London, Doctor in
Physic, and then principal proprietor of West Jersey. On April 13, I698,
Dr. Cox, by his attorney, Jeremiah Bass, Governor of New Jersey, and
in consideration of ~24, leased the farm to Thomas Codrington, of Raritanl, for 99 years, at the yearly rent of one pepper-corn. On June 28, I701,
Dr. Cox conveyed the said farm in fee simple to his son, Daniel Cox.
Codrington must afterward have gotten a release of the fee. He also
secured Nos. i, 2, of the Hoorn's Hook lots, I6 acres; in exchange, one
for No. 4, which he bought September 4, I700, from Israel Honeywell,
who got it, August I, I699, of William Presker (see page 782); the
other for No. 3, obtained from Thomas Tourneur, or his heirs, Tourneur
having gotten it, March 13, I689, from Johannes Verveelen. In I704 the
corporation leased him 60 acres of the commons, adjoining his farm, for
21 years, at six pence an acre per annunm. Codrington set up a brewery,
kept cattle and sheep, and owned half a dozen slaves. He left no children.
By will made April 9, and proved April 20, 1710, he gave ~50 to each of
his four sisters; ~200 to his "cousin Frances Willett" (wife of Richard
Willett; see page 378), and his "farm at Harlem," etc., to his. wife Margaret. See page 353. Under her will, dated September 2, proved September 24, 1728, Martha, daughter of Richard Willett, and wife of Captain William Lawrence, should have taken the farm, as residuarX legatee.
But it paid quit rent for ten years later as "the estate of Mr. Codrington."
On July 24, 1738, "the Plantation of the late Captain Thomas Codrington,
containing about thirty acres of land, besides two Out Lots of about eight
acres each, with the Orchard and Dwelling House and Appurtenances;
All in the Bounds of Harlem," was advertised in the New York Gazette,
to be sold at public vendue, on September 2 ensuing, in the Exchange
Market House. "The Title is good, and may be seen at the house of
John Chambers, who is one of the persons impowered to sell the same."
The property was bought by John Brown. He exchanged parts of
the Out Lots with Waldron (see page 706), who built the "Hopper House,"
on No. I. In 1749 the farm was purchased by Nathaniel Marston, of
N. Y., merchant, and by his will, made February 8, I776, passed to his
son Thomas, excepting the eight acres gotten by Brown from Waldron,
which Marston left to his son John, who sold it to Thomas, June 5, I795.
The Prospect Farm, as called, was sold in parcels by Thomas Marston,
and formed the seats of Jones, Schermerhorn, etc.; but here we rest our
notes, and with pleasure refer the inquirer for the later title to Tuttle's
Abstracts.*
IV. THE WALDRON FARM.
This farm was made up of eight of the ten lots laid out in I677 (see
* Nathaniel Mar.ston was a son of Nathaniel, an original vestryman of Trinity'
808 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
pages 341-342), with later additions. It is a mistake to deduce the title
from Resolved Waldron, who never owned a foot of it. Peter Van Oblienis
had drawn lot No. Io (see description, page 360); his father bought No.
6, from Bogert, December 9, 1679, and gave it to Peter (the deed passing
December 28, I699); and Peter also acquired Nos. 7, 8, 9, from various
parties to whom they had been transferred. See page 409. Tourneur had
exchanged No. 7 for No. I, with Adolph Meyer; Oblienis agreed to give
Meyer 300 guilders for it, and thereupon sold the five lots, with the improvements, May Io, I690, to John Delamater. See pages 495, 622. Delamater
added three more lots, bought from Daniel Tourneur's heirs (see page
635), and came to own Nos. 3 to Io, being 68 acres. In the allotment
of 1691 he secured an adjoining tract, described in his deed of March 21,
1701, from the town as "a piece of land lying in the Bay of Hellgate, extending from the northwest corner of the end of his lots to a white oak tree
marked J. D. L. and J. L. B. To the river past a rock marked J. D. L.
and J. L. B., and so onward by the strand till to the end of the meadow
north of a rocky hill."
Samuel Waldron bought this farm in I710, from the Delamater heirs
(see page 495), and on December 20, 1712, obtained a patentee deed taking in the land westward to "the patent line." It is therein described as
"All that tract of land commonly called or known as Hoorn's Hook, aforesaid, with all and singular the houses, house lots, lots of land, now in
the possession of the said Samuel Waldron, as they are hereinafter named,
expressed, bounded and numbered, that is to say: on the south, over
against Hog Island, als Forcans Island, by the river of Harlem; on the
southwest by the lot No. 2, now in the possession of Margaret Codrington,
widow; on the northwest by the patent line of Harlem; on the north by
a white oak stump upon the bounds of the lands now in the possession
of Barent Waldron and John Benson; on the northeast by a rock marked
on the northeast side thereof with the letters L. B., on the southwest by L.
M.; and so goes down to the said river by several marked trees with the aforesaid letters, and runs on the north side of a rocky hill, and on the south
side by a piece of meadow, and thence along the river to the said lot No.
2; including all points, meadows, and marshes within the bounds above
mentioned; containing by estimation one hundred and fifteen acres, be
the same more or less."
The farm remained intact during the life of Samuel Waldron. His
son William, who came in possession in I74I, set off lots 3, 4, to his
brother Benjamin (see page 698), and, on November 29, 1759, sold
214 acres at the southerly side of the farm to Jacob Leroy, (since the
Com. Chauncey seat); but otherwise the farm underwent no material
change, till divided by William's heirs, after.his death. From that period
dated the improvements, which the last few years have almost obliterated,
that first associated with this fine property other notable names, such as
Astor, Gracia, Prime, and Rhinelander. It is not in our plan to extend
these notes beyond this brief compendium of the early titles. Tuttle's
Abstracts give full details as to the modern titles; and a volume only
would suffice for the stirring reminiscences connected with the Hoorn's
Hook farms.
church, New York, named in its charter, I697, and acting much of the time till I73I.
His wife was Margaret, daughter of Abel Hardenbrook. Their son John married
and went to Jamaica, W. I. Their daughter, Ann, married Ebenezer Grant. Nathaniel
married Mary, daughter of John Crook, and became wealthy. In 1731 he succeeded
his father as vestryman, and, in 1770, was made warden. He died in his 75th year,
October 21, 1778. His children were, Nathaniel, whose daughter, Mary, married
Capt. Fred. Philipse; Thomas, Tohn, member of the New York Provincial Congress;
Margaret, married Hon. Philip Philipse and Rev. John Ogilvie, and Frances. Thomas
married, I759, Cornelia, daughter of Leonard Lispenard. He died in New York,
January II, 1814, in his 75th year. For his portrait see Stevens' Chamber of Commerce. His eldest daughter married Francis Bayard Winthrop.
APPENDIX. 809
1. Page 378.
THE DELAVALL LANDS.
The considerable tracts of land at Harlem held by Captain Thomas
Delavall and his heirs have a history as little known as it is curious and
interesting. For details regarding his purchases, the disposition he made
of his lands, etc., the reader should consult the general history of the
town.*
Captain Delavall released, August 8, 1676, to his son-in-law Captain
James Carteret and wife: "All that messuage, tenement and farm which
the said Delavall formerly bought of one Moseman, situate lying and
being in the township of Harlem, within or upon a certain island called
or known by the name of Manhattan Island, in America; and all that
water mill which the said Thomas Delavall built or caused to be built,
situate, lying and being in and upon Manhattan Island aforesaid, together
with all the land and meadows and pastures to the said mill belonging
or adjoining, or therewithal usually held, used, occupied or enjoyed; and
also all that island called Little Barnes Island, near adjoining to Manhattan Island, aforesaid; and all and singular houses," etc. See page 339.
By his will, admitted to probate July 25, 1682, Captain Delavall devised
the lands he then owned at Harlem, together with Great Barnes Island,
to his son-in-law, William Darvall; he to pay certain moneys to Samuel
Swynock, of London. See page 378. On November 24, 1684, William Darvall and wife, and John Delavall, son and heir of Captain Thomas Delavall,
of the first part; Joseph Benbrigge and others named, of London, creditors
of said William Darvall, of the second part; and Samuel Swynock, of
London, and Jacob Milborne, of New York, trustee for said Swynock,
of the third part; joined in a deed, by which the parties of the first and
second parts, for and in consideration of certain specified sums paid them
by said Swynock, conveyed to said Swynock and Milborne, all those messuages, tenements, lands, etc. (those in Harlem, with Great Barnes Island,
included), which were devised by said Thomas Delavall to said William
Darvall: But nevertheless providing that if said Darvall should duly pay
to said Samuel Swynock, the sum of ~1,657:6s., on August 26, I686, at
his house in Pye Alley, Fanchurch Street, London; then said Swynock
would reconvey all said premises to said Darvall.
Darvall failing to pay any part of the money due Swynock as aforesaid, John Delavall executed the release to Swynock and Milborne referred
to on page 397. On August 9, I687, Swynock conveyed to Milborne all
the said lands at Harlem, with Great Barnes Island. Milborne sold the
island to Thomas Parcell. See pages 378, 4IO.* Milborne, on losing his
* See pages 212, 232, 235, 246, 288, 306, 323, 333, 34I, 348, 353, 372, 377, 378,
393, 397, 401, 402, 406, 456.
* Thomas Parcell was a son of John Parcell otherwise "John Butcher," from
Huntingdon County, England, who early settled at Dutch Kills, L. I., died in
s680, and left children, Thomas, William, Henry and Catherine, with an estate worth
6,ooo guilders. Thomas, born I653, and bred a blacksmith, married Christina Van
Hattem. On removing to Great Barents Island he sold his lands at Dutch Kills to
Bourgon Broucard and Hans Covert, June 21, I690, for ~4,087. Parcell built a grist
mill on the race at the upper side of his island. His son, John, bought the north
half of the island, June 4, 1722, and, on March 29, 1723, Thomas and Christina
sold the other half to their son-in-law, Tohn Lanyon, of New York, innkeeper. Parcell
died prior to 1732, on Spectacle or Hart Island, which he then owned. He left
children, Nicholas, John, Henry, Hannah, married, successively, Jeremiah Redding,
John Lanyon and Thomas Behena, and Eda, who married Walter Dobbs. Nicholas
married a daughter of Hon. Rip Van Dam. Henry succeeded to Hart Island, and
John, holding his half of Great Barents or Parcell's Island till his death, in I751,
aged 75 years, gave it to his son, Thomas, one of nine children, by his wife, Leah,
daughter of Johannes Van Alst. Thomas, who married Deborah, daughter of Capt.
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first wife Joanna, daughter of Samuel Edsall, married Maria, daughter
of Captain Jacob Leisler, and being involved with Leisler in the political
tumults which brought both to the scaffold M\ay I6, I691, left besides his
widow an only son, Jacob. Upon these two, or the survivor of them, by
an Act of Assembly of May I6, 1699, was settled the title to all the lands
'and tenements within the province of New York, of which the elder Milborne died seized. On the day this act passed the widow married Abraham
Gouverneur; and Jacob Milborne, Jr., died unmarried some time after.
In the division of the Harlem common land made in 1691 there was
laid out to the right of Captain Delavall, lot No. 9, on Jochem Pieters'
Hills, containing 33 I-3 morgen. See Appendix J. Other lots were laid
out to Delavall's heirs, on the further division in 1712, according to the
surveyor's certificate annexed:
"At the request and by the direction of Samuel Waldron, Zacharias
Sickels and Johannes Meyer, persons authorized thereto by the owners
of the undivided lands of New Harlem, in the City of New York, in an
Instrument under their hands and seals dated the g9th May, 1711, I have
surveyed and laid out these following parcels of land to the right of Captain Delavall, deceased, viz: in the First Division, No. 8, I6 acres, 3 q.,
and 28 r., adjoining to the land of Mettie Cornelisse and the brook, the
land now allotted to Samuel Waldron, and the highway; i acre, 3 q. and
24 r. of land and meadow, lying on the other side of the highway, between
the same and the mill creek, adjoining also to the land of the said Mettie;
and also, 35 acres and 25 rods, beginning at the top of the hill against
the said Mettie's land, and runs thence northward along the land of Captain De Key to the corner of the land now allotted to John V. Oblienis,
thence along the same North 79~ E. to the land of Peter Van Oblienis,.
thence S. 313~ E. to the highway, thence S. 451~ W. to the land of
Isaac Delamater, and then along the same with a crook to the upper end
thereof until it even meets again with the land of the said John Van
Oblienis, and from thence, along the fence and land of several people,
with a crooked line, to the place where the same first began; in the Second
Division, No. I6, 73 acres, and 20 rods (with two acres allowance for the
way which leads through the same to Harlem River), the same contains
in breadth about four score rods, and runs from the highway between the
land of Marcus Tiebout and John Dyckman, S. 53~ E. to Harlem River.;
in the Third Division, No. 15, I8 acres, 3 q. and 20 r., being in breadth
44 rods, and runs from the middle line in said division, between the land
of Isaac Delamater and Mary Meyer, S. 53~ E. to said river; and, in
the Fourth Division, No. 9, 32 acres, i q. and 20 r., being in breadth 43 1-3
rods, and runs from the said highway between the land of Arent Bussing
and John Nagel, N. 67~ W. to Hudson's River; as appears by the several
drafts of the same. Witness my hand, the 25th June, Anno Dni, 1712.
PETER BERRTEN."
On February I, 1713, Peter Van Oblienis, Johannes Waldron, etc.,
patentees of Harlem, confirmed to Abraham Gouverneur the several parcels
of common land laid out to the right of Captain Delavall. Gouverneur
and wife, on February 13, T720, obtained from William Milborne, of Boston, N. E., baker, son and heir of William Milborne, brother and heir of
Jacob Milborne, Sr., deceased, a release of all the estate, real and personal,
of said Jacob Milborne, including all the lands he had or ought to have at
Harlem.
Captain James Carteret, son-in-law of Captain Delavall, left a son
George, who died without issue, and a daughter Elizabeth, who was marWilliam Penfold, was drowned in Hellgate, August i, I766, in the evening, in attempting to swim his horse over to his island. Behena succeeding to Lanyon's half
of the island, it was mortgaged by his widow, in i765, and eventually passed to
Benjamin IHildreth; Parcell's half passed to his kinsman, John Wm. Penfold. Valentine's Mannual, I855, p. 495, gives other details regarding this property, now Ward's
Island.
APPENDIX.
8II
ried in the Island of Jersey, November ii, 1699, to Philip Pipon, Esq., of
Noiremont. On August I, 1705, Pipon and his wife, then residing in
London, empowered Thomas Newton, of Boston, N. E., to enter upon
and take legal possession of all their lands, etc., upoin Manhattan Island,
and Little Barnes Island, or elsewhere in America, whereof she, Elizabeth
(or he, Philip, in her right), is seized, interested or entitled, as granddaughter or heir of Thomas Delavall, deceased, as daughter or heir of
her father or mother, James Carteret, Esq., and Frances his wife, or either
of them, or as sister or heir to George Carteret, Esq., also deceased;
authorizing said Newton to lease said premises for a term not to exceed
live years. What Judge Newton did in the case we know not.
Mrs. Pipon died in Jersey, near November II, 1720, the date of her
burial in the parish church of St. Brelade. SMr. Pipon, attended by one
of his sons now came to New York, "about his private affairs," arriving
toward the close of 1721. For some years the Delavall lands had been
partly in charge of Pipon's kinsman and agent, Richard Willett, of New
York, merchant (see page 378), but had been mainly engrossed by
Abraham Gouverneur, who, aspiring to four lots on Jochem Pieters and
all the drafted lands, had, as we have seen, gotten a patentee deed, February I, 1713, and had disposed of about I50 acres to Peter Van Oblienis,
Isaac Delamater, and Johannes Myer.
Pipon, however, claimed the entire property; at least it stands in his
name in the quit rent lists for 1722 and 1723. There was now an apparent agreement among the parties interested, to have the title to all the
Delavall lands settled by the Supreme Court of the Province. Pipon first
brought suits against Samuel and Barent Waldron, evidently to test the
validity of Captain Carteret's sales, menltioned on pages 360, 394, which lots
were now held by these defendants.* The last named case was tried
November 27, I723, and Barent Waldron's title sustained. In regard to
the other lands, Pipon proceeded to eject Robert Crannell, Gouverneur's
tenant, who thereupon brought his suit to regain possession. The cause
was tried, with great array of evidence, on June 8 and 9, 1724; a verdict
being rendered as follows: "The Jury do find that, as to a certain piece
of ground known by the name of the Clover Wey, and as to the three
southernmost lots of the Nine Lots, at the place called Jochem Pieters'
Flat, and as to one third part of the common lands that have been laid
out in right of the estate of Thomas Delavall and John Delavall, deceased;
the Defendant is guilty, and they do find for the Plaintiff sixpence and
costs and sixpence damages. And as to all the residue of the premises,
they find the Defendant not guilty." The record adds: "It is agreed by
Abraham Gouverneur, lessor of Robert Crannell in ejectment, and Philip
* I have not ascertained Capt. Carteret's ultimate history, nor where he died.
"lie certainly did not die in Jersey," says an able genealogist of that island, but, he
adds, "most likely in Bedfordshire, England." His father left ample estates and
seats at HIawnes, in that county. I should expect further traces of him at London.
In the will of Sir George Carteret, dated December 5, I678, occurs the following:
"And whereas I am desirous to make some provision for my son, Captain James
Carteret, for his life, Therefore my mind and will is that the said Manor and premises
[the Manor of Epworth, with Trestwood and Hlaxey, in Lincolnshire], be charged
and chargeable with the payment of one annuity or yearly sum of one hundred pounds
of lawful English money, to be paid.and payable unto my said son and his assigns
for and during his life.... in half yearly payments, namely every Lady day and
Michaelmas day, the first payment to begin and to be made at such of the said days
as shall first and next happen after my decease.... But this bequest of mine
to my said son, James Carteret, as aforesaid, is upon this condition, that he within
two years next after my decease, shall convey or otherwise release unto my heirs at
law, all such right, title, interest, claims and demand which he, the said James Carteret,
hath or shall pretend to have, of, in and unto my lands and hereditaments in the said
Island of Jersey. And in case my said son shall refuse to make such conveyance or
release, as aforesaid, and shall not do the same, Then my will and meaning is that
this bequest of mine, of the said yearly sum of one hundred pounds, limited to him
for life, and charged upon the lands in manner as aforesaid, shall be void and of
none effect, to all intents whatsoever.'
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Pipon, defendant, that the costs and charges in this cause may be equally
paid between the parties."
This decision confirmed Pipon's title, except as to the Three Lots,
and one third of the drafted lands, which went to Gouverneur. For the
Clover Wey, consult the Key to Titles.
Pipon and Gouverneur now petitioned the Governor and Council
July I, 1724, and representing that they were owners, Pipon of two thirds,
and Gouverneur of one third, of certain Nine Lots, at Harlem, on Jochem
Pieters' Flat, and containing 60 morgen of land; and further that said
lots having for some time laid unimproved, the bounds thereof could not
be well ascertained except by a survey of all the tract called Jochem
Pieters' Flat, which contained about 66 morgen more, owned by several
people of Harlem; prayed for a warrant to have said tract surveyed. This
was granted, and the survey made, as already described in Appendix E.
On May 2, 1725, Abraham Gouverneur, and Maria, his wife, for ~255,
released to Johannes Myer, their tract known as the Three Lots, being
eighteen morgen, bounded south by Peter Bussing, north by the Six Lots,
east by Harlem River, and west by lands in possession of the heirs of
James Carteret; and also an undivided third of lot No. 9, Jochem Pieters'
Hills, and of the Delavall lots in the four divisions. This gave Myer 114
acres, making good to-him the quantity sold him by Gouverneur March 25,
I720, though but in part the same lands. In this later deed Gouverneur
particularly excepts and reserves all his right in any lands in Harlem
"which now are held or claimed by the heirs or assigns of James Carteret, and Frances, his wife, deceased." What limit Gouverneur put to
his claim, to which he so firmly adhered, is not apparent; only that it
extended to all the drafted lands.*
Philip Pipon entailed upon his son James and his heirs male his estate
in Jersey, and upon his son Elias and heirs male his property in America.
Elias, being twenty-four years of age, came hither to enjoy his possessions.
He built up Little Barent's Island, which he renamed Belle Isle, and
married Blanche, daughter of Mr. John Lafons. After several years,
unable to support himself upon the scanty income derived from his mainly
unproductive property. Pipon resolved to ask the Colonial Assembly to
remove the entail and empower him to sell a part of his land, in order
that he might improve the rest. Notice of his intentions was publicly read
in the church at Harlem by the parish clerk, Van Harlingen, on three
successive Sundays, beginning September 27, I730, and duly certified to
the Governor and Council, October I5; but Pipon's application to the
Assembly was stayed by the adjournment of that body for a long interval.
During this time the brothers Pipon exchanged releases, James conveying
to Elias all his interest in the lands at Harlem and in Little Barent's Island
by lease and release executed in the Island of Jersey, May I8, I9, I732.
Pipon's needs at length forced him to mortgage Belle Isle, for ~432, to
St. George Talbot, July 3, 1735. On October 29, ensuing, he petitioned the
Assembly for the proposed relief. A bill was introduced, read twice and
committed, but nothing came of it. He was soon compelled to make
an assignment to three principal creditors, Simon Johnson, John Auboyneau and James Faviere, in trust also for the rest; his wife joining with
* Abraham Gouverneur was the son of Nicholas and Machtelt (de Riemer)
Gouverneur, and was born in I67I, "upon the Single, near the Konings Pleyn," in
Amsterdam. He took a zealous part for Leisler, tho.ugh yet a minor, and was
charged with having shot the parish clerk four days before Governor Sloughter arrived.
His father had been dead for years, his mother being married to Jaspar Nessepott
(Nesbitt), named p. 679. Gouverneur was afterward Recorder of New York, and
member of the Assembly, and enjoyed considerable notoriety. He died June I6,
1740. By Maria Leisler he had four children who reached maturity, viz.: Nicholas,
Jacoba, Elizabeth and Maria, of whom the last married Henry Meyer, Jr., and Capt.
Jaspar Farmer. The son Nicholas died March 20, 1739, aged 39 years, leaving issue,
Abraham, Esther, Barent and Nicholas. Bolton, I: 380, mistakes for descendants of
Abraham Gouverneur those of his brother Isaac.
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him.* These three, with Pipon, intending another appeal to the Assembly,
gave notice as before by a poster upon the church door at Harlem. But
a fatality seemed to attend their applications to the Assembly. A bill was
brought in, but failed by a sudden dissolving of that body; another bill
introduced at the next session, was agreed upon and ordered to be engrossed, though opposed by Gouverneur, who alleged that he or his
assigns were in lawful possession of part of said lands, "and claim a great
part of the rest." This bill also failed, by an adjournment of the Assembly, December I6, 1737, and no further attempt was made in that body.
Meanwhile Gouverneur died. By will, dated September 12, I739, and
proved October 8, 1740, he gave his estate to his wife, with power to sell,
or to devise to the children; named her sole executrix, but appointed to
act after her decease, his daughters Jacoba, Elizabeth, and Maria, his
nephew Nicholas Gouverneur, and friend Paul Richard. The trustees of
Pipon and the widow Maria Gouverneur, now came to an agreement, in
virtue of which she transferred all her right in the Six Lots and several
other pieces of land in Harlem to said trustees, Johnson, Auboyneau, and
Faviere, by lease and release of February 9, 10, 1741; while they conveyed
to her at the same time, the Three Lots, together with half the woodlands, or commons before allotted to the right of Captain Delavall. On
February II, 12, 174I, the said trustees sold to Jacob Myer, of Harlem,
the Six Lots aforesaid, with 7 a. 3 q. 37 r. of the adjoining Carteret woodlot, also Carteret's Island, containing I2 a. I3 r. of upland, and I0 a. I q.
3I r. of meadow; in all by survey 107 a. I8 r. By a separate writing,
Johnson and Faviere also promised to warrant and defend the title, in
proportion to Pipon's indebtedness to them.
The balance of Pipon's land stood in his name till 1743, when Simon
Johnson succeeded.* The latter, on September 12, 1747 (Pipon, Auboyneau, and Faviere, were now all dead), sold to Jacob Myer, of Bergen
County, N. J., all his half of a lot at Round Meadow Hill; being the
Delavall lot No. 15, Third Division. On September 25, I747, he conveyed
to said Jacob Myer all his half of the woodlot No. I6, Second Division,
and to Benjamin Benson the two lots on Van Keulen's Hook, next the
Mill Camp. He also sold Lawrence Low his half of lot No. 9, of I691,
and his half of lot No. 9, Fourth Division. Grietie Kortright bought parcels i and 2 of No. 8, First Division (later added to the Nutter Farm);
Harman Vandewater I7 acres of third parcel, and Adolph Myer, Jr., a
remnant of the same, 4 acres, being exclusive of a piece held by Peter
Waldron (see page 400). Johnson sold the balance of the Carteret woodlot, which joined upon the Three Lots, to Johannes Myer; and the two
erven or village houselots to Derick Benson and John Lewis. And lastly,
t Simon Johnson was the Recorder of New York from 1747 to I769; had previously served as Alderman and Assemblyman. He died March 9, I772, in his 7oth
year.
* Elias Pipon succeeded his father in I726. Whether he or a brother was the
"young Mr. Pipon" who came out with the senior Pipon, but returned to Europe at the
close of I723, we know not. Mrs. Coddington, in her will, dated September 2, I728,
bequeaths "to Elias Pipon of the city of New York, Gent, ~io, and my negro girl,
Betty." The records of the French Church Du St. Esprit contain the following:
A la Nouvelle York le i0 de Juin I730, Baptesme. Aujourd'hui Mercredi apres
la priere, a ete baptiste par moi L: Rou, ministre de cette Eglise, Jean Pipon, ne a la
Nouve York, le 28 de May dernier, fils d'Elie Pipon et de Blanche La Fonds, etant
presente au St. Baptesme par Mr. Jean La Fonds et Mademlle Charlotte Faviere ses
parrain et marraine. L: Rou, Pasteur.
Jean Lafons. Elie Pipon.
Charlotte Fauviere.
Elias was born in Jersey, in 1702. He died in this country, having survived his
wife. Being sick and weak, he made his will, August 30, I744, leaving his estate to
his four children, John, Jane, Mary and Elizabeth. It was proved September 30,
1746. "John Pipon, Esq., of the Island of Jersey," died at Cardiff, South Wales,
October 5, 18I5. Mrs. Braithwaite (see p. 13) thinks he may have been the John born
May 28, 1730, as aforesaid.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
on January 21, I748, he released Belle Isle (Randell's Island), to St.
George Talbot. See page 605, also Valentine's Manual, 1855, page 493.
A deed from Jacoba Gouverneur, etc., children, etc., of Maria Gouverneur,
deceased, to Johannes Myer, April 30, 1748, conveying one-half of a third
of the Delavall common lands, a third having been before sold him by
Abraham Gouverneur, perfected Myer's title to one-half of said lands.
Thus the estate of Captain Delavall fell to many owners, originating as
many separate titles. We only add that parcel 3 of No. 8, First Division,
was subsequently included, mainly, in the Molenaor and Captain John.Kortright farms; lot No. I6, Second Division, extending along the Kingsbridge Road, between I79th and I85th Streets, and thence to Harlem
River, was afterward owned by Blazius Moore and others; lot No. 15,
Third Division, running from the Cut Line in that division to Harlem
River, has since formed a part of Dyckman's Fort George Tract. See
abstract by Lockwood & Crosby. Of No. 9, Fourth Division, which ran
from Kingsbridge Road to Hudson River, Myer took the upper, and Low
the lower half; Myer's part passing to Adolph Myer, later to William
Molenaor, and Low's part to General John Maunsell, being subsequently
included in the large tract owned by Dr. Samuel Watkins, above Fort.
Washington.
J. Page 418.
DIVISION OF THE COMMON LANDS.
UNDER THE DONGAN PATENT.
I. Division of I69I.
At the date of the Dongan patent (see page 413) the appropriated
lands at Harlem were held principally under the three general allotments
made in 1658, I66I, and 1677, of which a full history has been given. The
patent conferred upon these proprietors, or properly such as were named
therein, a joint interest in all the unappropriated or common lands. Four
years having expired, the patentees agreed to make an allotment, and at
a meeting held November 29, I691, chose Adolph Meyer, John Hendricks
van Brevoort, Samuel Waldron, and Peter van Oblienis, "to consider
and devise such measures as shall be most proper for the benefit and best
interests of the town and inhabitants thereof." The following resolutions
were then passed:
I. It is resolved that the land lying in the common woods, so much
as may be found suitable for making good tillable land, shall be laid out
and surveyed into lots, or parcels, whereof each inhabitant of this town
shall draw a part as his property, every one according to his estate or
proportion.
2. It is also resolved that the parcel of land lying at the end of the
lots named Jochem Pieters shall be laid out, from the end of the old lots
to the hill, and so again to the Clove of the Kill, behind the high hill in
the hills; on condition that a good and sufficient King's or high way shall
be left around the fencing of the same.
3. It is resolved to lay out a parcel of land situated and comprehended from Moertje Davids' Meadow eastward up Jochem Pieters' Hills,
and northerly so far as good tillable land shall be found. Provided, that
the land of Barent Waldron being extended, the east side from the island
according to the river, shall claim no further in than the King's way is
now running.
4. It is also resolved to lay out a parcel of land at the southerly end
of the Long Hill, so much as shall be found good tillable land.
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5. It is also resolved to lay out a parcel of land at Spuyten Duyvel,
between the high hills by the Round Meadow, on the other side of the
swamp (morass creupelbos), so much as shall be found fit for tillage;
on condition that there remain a good and sufficient King's way where
shall be found best and most convenient.
6. The land lying at the end of the lots named Jochem Pieters shall
be so estimated that one morgen shall go for two morgen upon any of
the other parcels that shall be laid out. Also that the hills shall be fenced
off from the corner of the land behind the high hill to the meadow of
Daniel Tourneur at Montanye's Kill, for a sheep pasture,-those having
fences within this stretch to keep the same tight and in good order,-with
a draw-rail (draei-hek) at the road; and that a bridge shall be made
there, beyond the stone bridge or thereabouts.
7. It is further resolved that when the said surveys shall take place,
each inhabitant shall have the privilege to draw according to his right or
apportionment, for the erven a third part; and then the rest shall be
drawn according to the number of morgen.
The Authorized Men, with the aid of Adrian Appel, surveyor, made
up a list of the freeholders, with the number of erven and morgen each
one held, and on which lands could be drawn; and proceeded to survey
and allot the designated tracts, as shown in the following schedule:
DIVISION OF I691. —" List of the drawn Landss, as they are measured out by the Surveyor,,. AJpel, by lot, pursuant to order from
the whole Community and Authorized Alen of this Town."
00
1-4
Lot
Numbers.
BY WHOM DRAWN.
Erf Rights.
Morgen
Rights.
Number of
Morgen drawn.
I
LOCATION OF THE LAND.
I
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
I0
II
12
I3
I4
I5
I6
I7
I8
I9
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Thomas Tourneur.....................
Daniel Tourneur, Jr., dec.............
Johannes Waldron....................
Adolph Meyer
Johannes,Vermilye
Jan Hendricks Van Brevoort..........
Jacques Tourneur..........
Arent Harmans Bussing..............
Thomas Delavall, dec.................
Metje Cornelis........................
Isaac Delamater
Barent Waldron
Jan Tibout
Jan Dyckman
Louwrens Jansen
William Holmes
William Haldron, dec..................
Samuel Waldron
Joost Van Oblinus
Pieter Van Oblinus...................
Barent Waldron
Metje Cornelis........................
Abraham Delamontanie
Jan Dyckman.........................
Jan Louwe Bogert....................
Jan Delamater........................
2
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
0
I
I
I
I
2
I
I
I
9
I8
I6
24
1/2
I6
9
I3
60
3I
6
20
0
i8
II
0
0
7 1-2
7 I-2
7 I-4
9 I-4
6
I4
IO
12 I-6
33 I-3
20 1-2
8 I-3
12
5
20
II
5
5
Behind the old lots of Jochem Pieters.:o:
do.
On Jochem Pieters' Hills.
do.
do
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
On the Southern end of the Long Hill.
By the Round Meadow.
North of his Erf.
Nigh Montanye's Flat.
Between the Patent Line and King's Way.
North of the Round Meadow.
In the Bay of Hellgate.
do.
2.
ry~
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ti
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~-i
0
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M
trl
I 7I I 9I-2
I 32 22 3-4
I 9 IO
*4
*I 1-2
I 0o 5
2 26 24 1-2
I i6 14
I 9 Io
upon rights given under Nos. IO and i
* Drawn
APPENDIX.
8I7
In computing this allotment, 5 morgen, or Io acres, were allowed for
each erf right, and 333-600 of a morgen, or 333 square Dutch rods, for each
morgen right.* To avoid many fractional parts, where the quantity fell
less than Ioo rods short of a full morgen, it was counted as a morgen, while
fractions of a morgen below Ioo rods were thrown out. In addition to the
tracts designated, the authorized men had disposed of some other parcels
(the lots 21 to 26), which lay adjoining the farms of the persons to whom
granted. The last was formally allowed and approved of by the freeholders, December ii, as appears by the following document, of that date:
"Whereas on this day have assembled the community of New Harlem,
and having from among themselves chosen and authorized Adolph Meyer,
John Hendricks van Brevoort, Peter van Oblienis, and Samuel Waldron
to lay out the available land, according to the surveyor's schedule hereunto
annexed; So we undersigned promise to hold inviolate that which the four
persons before named have caused to be measured and set off (aangewesen), to Metje Cornelis, John Louwe Bogert, John Delamater, Abraham
Delamontanie, Barent Waldron, and John Dyckman. Nota, All the lands
that are unsuitable for tillage shall bear half costs. And all those who
have drawn the land behind the old land of Jochem Pieters shall be
obligated to leave a convenient road for the town's use. The erven which
have been drawn shall be required to contribute to town expenses. The
path or road shall be taken from the newly drawn land. All this have
we subscribed with our hands." [Signed by Adolph Meyer, Pieter van
Oblienis, Joost van Oblinus, Jan Louwe Bogert, Arent Harmans, Jan Hendricks van Brevoort, Samuel Waldron, Johannes Waldron, Jan Delamater,
Jan Dyckman, Metje Cornelis, Johannes Vermelje, Barent Waldron,
Laurens Jansen, Isaac Delamater, Abraham Delamontanie, andc Jan
Tibout.]
During the years which expired before the title deeds for these lots
were given, the town made several small grants and sales, hereafter noticed;
and at a meeting held Nov. 2, I699, "all the residents or proprietors of the
town made a conveyance of the church, to the Reverend Consistory, upon
condition that the proprietors who have helped build the church shall
continue to hold their seats."t And on December 14, following, Arent
Bussing, Adolph Meyer, and Samuel Waldron were chosen as Authorized
Men, to act with the overseers, Laurens Jansen, Peter van Oblienis, and
Jacques Tourneur, in giving the freeholders their deeds for the newly
drawn lands. The six persons met December 18, "to commence the business," and approved "the last survey, made by the surveyor, Adrian Appel."
After fourteen days, allowed to hear objections, another meeting was held,
January 4, I700, and no one having appeared to oppose the survey it was
finally adopted. The inhabitants then subscribed another paper promising to
* The erven were only the original village plots so called, with such other house
fots as had been granted or sold for that purpose by the town, for a price, usually 25
guilders; no other house lot was counted as an erf, or invested with the erf right.
So the morgen right only attached to the lots on Jochem Pieters' Flat, Van Keulen's
Hook, Montanye's Flat, the New Lots, Bogert's or Benson's Point, Gloudie's or
Bussing's Point, and the Dyckman and Nagel lots, near Kingsbridge. This right
never attached to the lands allotted under the Dongan patent. (See last note on p.
602. This principle carried out with refererence to any claim which the present Har.
lem proprietors may have upon such new lands as have been made by filling in the
creeks and marshes, 'and never allotted to anyone, must necessarily limit such claims
to those holding the original morgen lands and erven!
t Donderdag den 2 Novemb: Anno I699, N: Haarlem. Present, de Overciers
Louwrens Jansen, Pieter Oblinis en Jacques Tourneur.
Oock is hede ten dage voornoemt, van alle de inwoonders, off eygenaars, deses
dorps, een opdragt gedaan van de Kerck, aan de eerwaarde Kerck-Raaden, onder
conditie dat de eygenaars die de Kerck hebben helpen maaken sullen behouden haare
vaste plaats.
* * * * * * * * *
Attesteert, datum ut supra,
*~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~Adr. Vermeule, Klerck.
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HISTORY OF HARLEM.
pay their proportion of town charges, and agreeing to a pro rata distribution
of the common lands. The meeting also voted a deed to Bastiaen Kortright for two pieces of meadow (see p. 265), "as soon as the purchase
money shall be paid." The overseers and authorized men met on March
7, 1700, and gave the deeds referred to pp. 394, 561; also one to Adolph
Meyer for "three feet of ground lying north of his house," and granted
him in 1694. On May 2, deeds for all the newly drawn lands were ordered.
These being prepared, were signed by the overseers and authorized men
March 21, 1701. But to a brief notice of these lots:
Nos. I to 4, lying on the flats, and described as "behind the old lots of
Jochem Pieters, by the high hill," were identical with the Lawrence, Molenaor, and Myer tracts, filling the space above the Samson A. Benson
farm, to the junction of the roads. They were those which came under
the rule making one morgen here equal to two in the other places. See
references to these lots pp. 417, 418, 599, 604, 607, 6o8. Day's Tavern (pp.
418, 500) was on No. 4, on the line of I26th Street, 200 feet west of Eighth
Avenue.
Nos. 5 to I8 lay upon the heights above Manhattanville; the southeast
corner of No. 5 touching I33d Street, say Ioo feet west of Ninth Avenue;
its southwest corner the North River at I36th Street. No. I8 reached up
nearly to I62d Street, at the Kingsbridge Road. The lots ran from the
river within parallel lines, southeast, "according to the course of a pocket
compass," and were 200 Dutch rods in length. Their breadth was as follows, Dutch measure: No. 5, I8 rods; No. 6, 42 rods; No. 7, 30 rods, 9
feet; No. 8, 36'2 rods; No. 9, 100 rods; No. 10, 6I12 rods; No. I I, 25
rods; No. 12, 36 rods; No. I3, I5 rods; No. 14, 6o rods; No. I5, 33 rods;
No. I6, I5 rods; No. I7, I5 rods; No. I8, 28X2 rods.
No. 5, since owned by Schieffelin, may be traced by reference to pp.
500, 567, 642. For Nos. 6 and 7, owned latterly by the Myer family,
see pp. 477, 6oi, 605. No. 8, its lines crossing Bloomingdale Road at
I39th and I4Ist Streets, passed from Arent Bussing to his son Peter, and
to his son Aaron, whose heirs sold it to John Myer, November 6, I790,
and May I9, I79I. See pp. 482, 605. No. 9, extending (where intersected
by the Bloomingdale Road) from I4Ist Street to I45th, is particularly
referred to in Appendix I. In a resurvey it was called No. 6 (the Peter
van Oblinus 100 acre tract taken as No. I), was 20 chains 85 links broad,
and ran from lot No. I6, First Division (which lay between it and the
highway), north 38~ west to Hudson River, being in length on the south
side 36 chains 43 links, and on the north side 37 chains 26 links. It was
divided by Delavall's successors, first crosswise, afterward lengthwise, the
upper half subsequently owned by Gen. John Maunsell, and later by Dr.
Samuel Bradhurst; the lower half sold by Samuel Kelly to Jacob Schieffelin, January I5th, I799. "Hamilton Grange," the former seat of Gen.
Alexander Hamilton, occupied part of this lot.
No. IO, first in the range reaching to the highway, its northerly line
touching it at I48th Street,* was latterly owned by Dr. Bradhurst; the
lower corner was included in Hamilton Grange. See pp. 563, 565, 58I.
Nos. II to 13 were bought up by John Dyckman and the Nagel heirs.
Dyckman had drawn No. I4, on his rights and those of John Nagel jointly,
the latter I erf, I5 morgen, and Dyckman's, I erf, 3 morgen; the morgen
rights being upon their lots on Jochem Pieters' and Montanye's Flat. Each
had a deed for his share of No. I4, Dyckman for 62-3 morgen, and Nagel
for 13 I-3 morgen. Dyckman's patentee deed, of June I, 1713, covers his
undivided half, or 45 acres, of Nos. II to 14. See further pp. 547, 549.
Trinity Church Cemetery is on these lots; also "Minniesland," the seat of
the late John J. Audubon. As this tract, when sold to John Watkins, in
I767 (it reaching nearly to I56th Street on Kingsbridge Road, and to I59th
* That is the old Kingsbridge Road. The first move for extending the Bloomingdale Road through lots 5 to io was made in 1791.
APPENDIX.
819
Street, North River), contained about' II2 acres, we infer that it took
in the Low lot, No. 15, 22 acres. The lots in this range were resurveyed
by Peter Berrien, and some surplus pieces were found and disposed of,
forming the "Last Division." This survey is not well understood, yet
it would appear that space was found between Lawrence Jansen and John
Kiersen for two new lots (Nos. I6, 17), the last of these, containing I6
acres, being allotted to John Dyckman (see p. 546), but subsequently added
to Kiersen's tract. No. I6, extending upward to a line from Kingsbridge
Road, 86 feet below I58th Street, to the North River at I6Ist Street, was
sold by John Low, as 31 acres, to John Watkins, enlarging Watkins' tract
to I42 2 acres. This tract, embracing lots ii to I6, being sold with other
parcels, under a foreclosure by Gen. John Maunsell, to Charles Watkins,
was reconveyed to Mlaunsell, March 28, I793. Two years later General
Maunsell's widow succeeded under his will, and devised her lands here,
May 20, I815, to her nephew, Dr. Samuel Watkins (son of said John), and
her nieces, Lydia, wife of James Beekman, and Elizabeth, widow of
Robert H. Dunkin. These divided the I42~2 acres into equal parts, under
Nos. I, 2, 3, and passed deeds October 17, I816; Mrs. Beekman taking
No. I (the lower lot), Mrs. Dunkin No. 2, and Dr. Watkins No. 3. Dr.
Watkins subsequently removed to Jefferson (since for him called Watkins), at the head of Seneca Lake.
The old Nos. I6 to i8, which completed this range of lots, and were
bounded northerly by a line touching Kingsbridge Road, say 50 feet below
I62d Street, and the North River, midway of I64th and I65th Streets,
formed a part of the Kiersen lands, which shortly before the Revolution
came into possession of Col. Roger Morris. See pp. 558, 56I. This
tract then contained 57 acres, which included No. I7, Last Division.
Colonel Morris' estates being confiscated, because of his supporting the
royal cause, his Harlem lands, called 115 acres, were sold, July 9, I784, by
the Commissioners of Forfeiture, to John Berrien and Isaac Ledyard, and
passed by several mesne conveyances, all of record, to William Kenyon,
who sold this tract with others, August 29, I799, to Leonard Parkinson,
Esq., of Kinnersley Castle, Herefordshire, England.* Colonel Morris
owned the Kiersen homestead, lying opposite, east of the road (see p. 56I),
and built the fine residence known as the Jumel House.t He enlarged
this tract, which already included lot No. 6, Second Division, by the purchase of No. 7, being I6 acres, from John Bogert, and giving Morris
35 acres I q. 36 rods, or 364 acres, as subsequently surveyed by Charles
Loss. This too passed through the same hands to Parkinson, who con* William Kenyon, son of David Kenyon, of Liverpool, England, ironmonger, and
of Dorothy Barnes, his wife, was born February 2, 1753. At about twenty-one years
of age he came to New York, where he was successful in business, and became an
eminent shipping merchant. In I779 he was admitted a member of the Chamber of
Commerce. He was one of the governors of the New York Hospital from I795 to
1797. For some years he made his residence upon Hoorn's Hook, having purchased
from Joseph Blackwell, May 4, 1799, i2 acres of land, since in the Prime tract; the
house he is said to have built. He died at Gloucester, Va., November 29, 1826. Mr.
Kenyon's parents were Quakers, and he adorned the same profession by an exemplary
life. He was married in New York April 8, 1778, to Abigail, daughter of Samuel
Bowne. Their children, save two who died in infancy, were Samuel, born March 6,
1780, died unmarried September 6, I803; William Barnes, born August 7, 1784,
married in I815 (see p. 298), died at Harlem May 26, I866, being father of Mr.
Samuel B. Kenyon, etc., and James, born August 20, 1791, who married in I813 (see
same p.), and died at Harlem December Io, i852, being the father of Mr. John S.
Kenyon, etc.
t Col. Morris's II5 acres included, with his said homestead, and the 57 acre tract,
the lots, Nos. 3, 2d Division, 8, 3d Division, and 7, 4th Division, besides salt meadows
(see p. 298) not counted in the II5 acres. The Dyckmans seem to have gotten the lot
in 3d Division in exchange for 8 acres of No. 17, 2d Division, before September 25, I793,
when William Kenyon bought the Morris lands from Anthony J. Bleeker. Col. Morris
died in England in 1794; and it appearing that the Confiscation Act did not affect
the rights of his children, it was not till I828, after satisfaction had been made by
the State, etc., that the persons who held the confiscated lands were quieted in their
possession. (See Sabine's Loyalists, ii., 104.)
820
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
veyed the said homestead-tract to Stephen Jumel, April 28, I8IO. Of
Parkinson more anon. Melbourne, the rural seat of the late Shepherd
Knapp, is on the 57 acre tract.
The remaining numbers of the allotment of 1691 are sufficiently noticed
as follows: No. 19, on p. 625; No. 20, on p. 267; No. 21, in note p. 602;
No. 22, on p. 563; No. 23, on p. 59I; No. 24, on p. 546; No. 25, on p. 447;
and No. 26, on p. 808. We notice that these lots are described in the
deeds, as set off or designated (aangczcesen); but all the others, as surveyed (gemeeten). This choice of terms was not without reason. Tlese
six lots lying adjacent to the farms or other lands of the grantees, and
allotted, as we must conclude, under special arrangement between the
latter and the town authorities, were taken as the tracts lay, consisting
largely of heights, abrupt slopes or rocky land, not answering the description of "good and tillable," and allowing a margin in the measurement.
Nos. 21, 22, 23 took in order (north to south) the small grants which conformed nearly to what was due on their rights, and Nos. 24, 25, 26, the
principal grants; this explains the seeming want of order in the numbering. The reasons for the extraordinary grant to Dyckman and Nagel,
at Spuyten Duyvel, have been given p. 546.* What interest gathers about
this tract, whose title, in fact, reaches backward over two centuries to
the closing days of Governor Kieft's directorship; and whose history, in
the times agone, recalls the most stirring incidents, whether of early
Indian barbarity, or of civil contests for its ownership, or yet of British
and Hessian sway, when the patriotic Dyckmans being fled, their homes
in ashes, and their fields a military camp, with breastworks and cannon
frowning from every neighboring hill, this charming section of Manhattan was given over, for seven years, to the rude alarms of war!
Pleasanter the anticipations of I883, when on this very spot, now known
as Inwood, visitors from every state and nation shall gather in friendly
concourse at the World's Fair.
II. THE FOUR DIVISIONS.
Under an act passed by the Governor, Council, and General Assembly,
October 30, I708, entitled "An Act for the easier Partition of Lands in
Joint Tenancy, or in Common," steps were taken by the Harlem freeholders for a more complete division of their common lands.
This act allowed a majority of the resident owners to make a division,
after giving public notice for three months previous, and required such
division to be made by drawing lots in the presence of at least three disinterested persons to be named by the dividers, and paid five shillings per
day "for their trouble had in the making of said division." The surveys
were to be made by a sworn surveyor, or any three neighbors, men of intelligence and integrity, to be chosen by the dividers; the lots after being
laid out "as equally as possible in regard both to quantity and quality,"
must be numbered and then publicly drawn for; and in order to prevent
dispute as to the costs of making the division, it provided that before any
division was made, such part of the land as they should judge reasonable
for defraying said costs should be laid out and sold by the majority of
the dividers, whose conveyance thereof should be good and effectual in the
law.
Pursuant to a Justice's warrant, issued May 9, I711, and directed to
* Dyckman and Nagel, having, in i677, gotten 74 acres at Spuyten Duyvel, or as
subsequently estimated, 76 acres (see pp. 304, 306, 546), their rights upon these were
arranged as follows: The 76 acres making 38 morgen, from this count I8 morgen
were taken and the two house lots substituted, these being classed as erven and taking
erf rights. This gave them 2 erven, 20 morgen (or i erf Io morgen each), upon
which they were entitled to draw land. The additional 6 morgen rights on which
they drew here were partly on the Nagel lots on Jochem Pieters' Flat, and partly
on Dyckman's lot on Montanye's Flat, 3 morgen rights at each place. Thus they
drew together upon equal rights at Spuyten Duyvel, viz.: each on a i erf I3 morgen
right.
APPENDIX. 821
Gerrit Dyckman, constable of Harlem, authorizing a meeting for that
purpose, the inhabitants and freeholders assembled on the g9th, and agreed
that a division of the common land should be made forthwith; appointed
Samuel Waldron, Zacharias Sickles, and Johannes Meyer to engage one
or more surveyors to make a fair and equal division, and promised to
defray the costs of the survey and all other charges attending such division, according to each one's proportion. A writing to this effect, dated
at the town house, Harlem, May 19, 1711, was subscribed by Zacharias
Sickels, Abram de Lamontanie, Samson Benson, Jan Kiersen, Metje Jansen, Johannes Meyer, Charles Congreve, Marcus Tiebaut, Laurens Cornelissen, Maria Meyer, Richard Willett, Pieter Oblienis, Samuel Waldron,
Barent Waldron, Johannes Waldron, Abram Meyer, Jan Dyckman, Arent
Bussing, Isaac Delamater, Gerrit Dyckman, Laurens Jansen, Jan Nagel,
Derick Benson, Abraham Gouverneur, and Woodhull Tourneur.
The business was promptly undertaken, and so far as possible in the
mode prescribed by the act of I708. Peter Berrien, of Newtown, an experienced surveyor, was employed; and three disinterested persons, to wit,
John Lawrence, Cornelis Luyster, and Edward Blagge, were chosen by the
freeholders and inhabitants, "to see that a just and equal division be made
of their undivided lands." No record remains of any sales of land, as
provided for by the act, for meeting the necessary expenses; but it may be
presumed that such sales took place, since a disregard of this provision
might have caused dissatisfaction and impaired the legality of the entire
proceedings, and because the records show that several tracts of the common
land, not in the regular allotments, passed into private hands at about this
date. These tracts consisted of Ioo acres adjoining the North River and
lot No. 5 of I69I (now Manhattanville), which passed to Peter van Oblienis (see p. 623); 30 acres next to lot No. I, of I69I, which passed to Lawrence Kortright, and since forming a part of the Samson A. Benson farm
(see p. 434), and other parcels adjoining to the farms of Capt. Johannes
Benson, Samuel Waldron, and John Kiersen, and which these persons
secured. In making this division Peter van Oblienis figures prominently;
no one did more to further the business, according to the wishes of the
freeholders. Legal advisers held that whereas the Nicholls patentees had
at no time during their joint tenancy made any lawful partition among
themselves to alter said joint tenancy, the premises, on the decease of the
other four patentees, became vested in the survivor, Joost van Oblinus,
and at his death, in I706, in Peter, as his eldest son and heir. But nevertheless, it was a trust; not to inure to his peculiar benefit, but, on the
contrary, held and to be used for the benefit of the whole body of freeholders who had rights in the land. The Nicolls patent constituted the
freeholders and inhabitants a corporation, so far as was requisite to the
ownership and enjoyment of their common lands, with the inevitable right
of alienation. The patentees named therein received a trust, to be administered for and on behalf of all the freeholders in common. But these
patentees, in such capacity, made no grants and gave no deeds. Interpreted
by the usage which from the first obtained under the patent, we find the
principle constantly recognized and acted upon, that the power to grant
lands and give deeds resided in the body of freeholders, except when delegated by them to others. Hence such business was invariably done either
in town meeting, or by the magistrates, or other persons chosen for that
purpose. The act of I708, therefore, conferred no new power upon the
freeholders in this regard, only so far as to enable a majority who should
be residents to act. And Peter van Oblienis, from the first favoring a pro
rata division of the common lands, is found, even after his father's decease,
still acting under his former appointment, as one of the "trustees for the
said town," in signing deeds. He subscribed, with the other freeholders,
all preliminary agreements necessary for making the division of 1712, and
admitted as grantors with himself the heirs of the four other patentees,
822
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
who also shared with him in the 60 acres of land voted by the freeholders,
March 20, 1712, to be laid out before the division should be made, to the
only use and behoof of the heirs or assigns of the five original patentees,
or to such person or persons as should be adjudged by counsel proper to
sign releases to the rest of the freeholders. Oblienis' Ioo acres being in
his possession when Berrien laid out the other lots, leads us to regard it
as a purchase; but that he arbitrarily appropriated it, on pretense of an
exclusive fee in himself, is not to be supposed. Until the deed to Oblienis be found (for doubtless he had one from the freeholders, as authorized by the act and former usage), we shall hardly know more about the
origin of this title. This tract, in the deed from Oblienis to Peter Waldron, referred to p. 624, is described as "Beginning at a stake near a rock,
at the land of Margreta Cortright, thence north 37~ west, along the said
land 171 rods to Hudson's River, thence along the said River 73 rods to a
stake in the Meadow of Martje Davids aforesaid, thence along the said
Meadow to a stake at the head of the Swamp above the said Meadow, thence
to a highway or road, and so along the said highway to a certain chestnut tree
marked and standing on the northwest side of the road, near the house
of Johannes Meyer, and from thence along the land of said Meyer to the
place where it at first began; containing by estimation one hundred acres
of land." The convent and chapel of the Sacred Heart now occupy the
northeast corner of this tract. [I88I.]
Peter van Oblienis, on his private rights (I erf and 24 morgen), was
entitled to draw of the common land 8I acres I q. 4 rods, including the
12 acres allowed him as a full patentee for signing deeds. This he sold
to his brother Hendrick, who owned no erf or morgen rights. The latter
was living on the farm given him by his father "upon the southern end
of the Long Hill" (see p. 625), his house standing at the intersection of
Twelfth Avenue and 176th Street, on the tract since Arden's. His 8i
acres were laid out in one parcel, next above his farm, taking in Fort
Washington heights. This with 6 acres named in the following vote of
the town gave Hendrick 130 acres as rated, and which he held unchanged
till his death in 1745.
"At a town meeting, 27th March, 1712; Memorand; That it was then
agreed by all the freeholders and inhabitants then met, that Hendrick Oblienis shall have laid out to his own use Six Rod, (in consideration of his
share of the undivided land now surveyed), from the southerly corner of
his fence southerly, thence in a parallel line along the line of his lands,
north 67~ west to Hudson's River. The said Hendrick to leave a sufficient
open road, with a swinging gate, up to the Long Hill; that is to say, from
a certain brook where a bridge lies, where the old highway went.
Signed as evidence CORNELIS LUYSTER,
JOHN LAWRENCE."
The spring of 1712 found the work of the surveys essentially completed.
The vacant lands to be disposed of were laid out in four general groups
called the Four Divisions, in each of which every freeholder so entitled,
drew a lot.
First Division embraced nearly all that remained of common land on
and adjacent to Harlem plains. It numbered 21 lots, which of necessity
lay considerably scattering, as we shall show. The 60 acres given as a
consideration for signing deeds were included in this division, except 6
acres.*
* The 60 acres were awarded as follows: T2 to Peter Van Oblienis; I2 to Maria
Meyer; 12 to the estate of Capt. Delavall; 6 to Jacques Tourneur; 6 to Woodhull
Tourneur; 6 to Johannes Waldron, and 6 to Samuel Waldron. The distribution was
thus confined to the sons or heirs of the five original patentees, and in no case extended beyond two representatives of any one patentee. At the same time any of the
heirs or assigns of these patentees were "adjudged by counsel proper to sign releases
to the rest of the freeholders." Hendrick \Van Oblienis signed patentee deeds, as
APPENDIX.
823
Second Division began above the lots on Jochem Pieters Hills, laid
out in I691, at the line heretofore designated, which ran from Kingsbridge
Road, about 50 feet below I62d Street, on a course north 34~ west to
Hudson River. Lots I to 5 were laid out on this (the west) side of the
road, and extended up the same to Hendrick van Oblienis' line, which
began at a point midway between I75th and I76th Streets, and ran thence
to the Hudson, north 67~ west. Easterly of the road lay lots 6 to 20,
beginning at the lower line, continued to Harlem River, and extending up
to within a few feet of Igoth Street, at the highway, being bounded northerly by a line south 53~ east.
Third Division beginning where the second ended, lay in two parallel
tiers, separated by what was called the Cut Line, whose course was then
north 35~ east; and extended up to the farm of Bastiaen Kortright (see
p. 267), and the Sherman's Creek meadows. It contained I8 lots, of which
Nos. I to 13 lay between the highway and the Cut Line, and the remainder
between the Cut Line and Harlem River.
Fourth Division, which also contained I8 lots, lay opposite the third,
between the highway and the Hudson, and beginning upon Hendrick van
Obelienis' northern line, which ran from a point on the highway about
central between I85th and I86th Streets, north 67~ west to the river, extended up to "the little bridge at John Dyckman's land," where the highway crossed Pieter Tuynier's Run; leaving a small gore of common land
between lot I8 and Dyckman's line, which latter ran from the bridge
north northwest to the "little Sand Bay," on the Hudson.
There was method in the divisions. These lands were to be kept
chiefly as woodlands; but Third Division, occupying the slope and commanding the heights then called the Rondevlysberg, or Round Meadow
Hill, since known as Fort George, was planned for a future dorp, and
indeed was often referred to as "the village." Lying so near to Fourth
Division, these were often joined in subsequent sales, as some had been
in the original drawing. The Second Division bore a similar relation to
the First, or to the homesteads, to which they were more especially the
appendages. The whole planning was obviously the result of much study
and wise forethought.
"The several Highways laid out in the new Divisions" were legalized
by the following action:
"At a town meeting held 22d March, 1711-12: It was then agreed by
the freeholders of the said townI. That a sufficient wagon road be laid out and remain for the use of
the owners of the lands laid out between the patent line and the line of
Johannes Vermilye's land; the said wagon road to run across the head of
each lot to the Round Meadow.
2. That a sufficient common wagon road be laid out and remain for
the use of all the freeholders, over the lot of land laid out to John Dyckman in the First Division, No. 21, from the Queen's High Road, to the
usual landing place on Harlem River.
3. That a sufficient common wagon road be and remain from the
Queen's Road at Hendrick Oblienis' house to the landing place on Harlem
River over against Crab Island; as laid out in the General Map of the
late undivided lands.
4. A road sufficient for wagons from the Round Meadow lying near
Spuyten Duyvel, as near the middle line as conveniently may be, to the
road laid out from the house of Hendrick Oblienis and the Queen's Road,
to the landing place against Crab Island.
did Barent Waldron, Samson Benson and Capt. Congreve; Congreve and Benson,
with Dyckman, holding part of the Tourneur lands and rights, but none of the above
shared in the 60 acres. Woodhull Tourneur, by heirship, took a share, though he had
sold his lands, and then held neither erf nor morgen right, and was not even a resident. He signed deeds and was entitled to 6 acres as a half patentee, but probably
sold his claim to Hendrick Van Oblienis. (See p. 822.)
824 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
5. Another road for wagons, etc., from the north end of the Long
Hill, through the land of Hendrick Oblienis, to the Queen's Road.
6. Another road from Upbro's Hook, below the hill, to the land of
John Kiersen, thence to the Queen's Road.*
7. A road from the Queen's Road along the fence of Barent Waldron,
and along the meadow of Isaac Delamater.
8. A road from the Queen's Road, betwixt the houses of John Meyer
and John Waldron, to the top of the hill, to the line of Peter Oblienis'
land, and so along said line northward, and along the heads of the lots,
to the land laid out to right of Capt. Delavall."
Messrs. Lawrence, Luyster and Blagge made a return, June 20, 1712,
of the land due each person upon his erf and morgen rights, and of which
we annex a copy; the apportionment being made upon the following basis;
to wit: In First Division, 3 acres Iq. 20 rods to each erf or house lot,
and 2 q. 14 rods to each morgen; In Second Division 6 acres per house
lot, and I acre 3 rods per morgen; In the Third Division I acre 2 q. Io
rods per house lot, and Iq. 2 rods per morgen; In the Fourth Division,
2 acres 2q. 30 rods per house lot, and I q. 32 rods per morgen.
Peter Berrien, on June 25, signed certificates of the lands laid out for
each person, similar in form to that given p. 8IO, and of these also, which
give the quantities actually drawn, we append a summary. From these
the deeds were prepared and executed; and in which the other lands -of
the grantee were included or not, at his option. These date all the way
from 1712 to I715. We would gladly learn the whereabouts of any of these
patentee deeds; such as we have seen are engrossed on large sheets of
vellum, and usually done by Capt. Congreve, then the town clerk.
The situation of the lots in the First Division will be better understood
by a brief description; as these lots lay in several detached groups, and
some of the lots consisted of more than one piece. These lots usually
overran by a few rods the quantity called for, owing to surplusage in the
tracts divided. Lots I to 5 lay in one tract adjacent to the village.
No. I, containing 24 acres, ran from the end of the Buyten Tuynen, or
Out Gardens, westerly, on the north side of the highway, to the Mill
Creek. It was bought from Waldron by Samson Benson, and included
in his patentee deed of April 20, I713.
No. 2, which Benson had drawn, lay next north, and butted easterly
on the Kingsbridge Road, opposite the Church Farm.t He set off, probably at this end, to his brother Derick, a plot of 3 acres Iq. 39 rods, which
Derick gave back under a later agreement; when Samson conveyed the
two lots entire, in all 41 acres I q. 23 rods, to his brother Johannes Benson,
February I9, 1724-5. Johannes sold the tract, March 14, 1732-3, to Peter
Bussing, it passing under his will of February I9, 1733-4, proved July 27,
I737, to his son Aaron. In 1753, Aaron buying some strips next the roads,
from the town, increased the contents to 45 acres 3 q. 22 rods, as per
Goerik's survey of May 5, I787. On May 6, 1787, Bussing's executor sold
this tract to Capt. Samson Benson, who near the close of his life had it
laid off into several parcels, which by his will dated April 28, 1823, he
distributed among his heirs. St. Paul's Church (Catholic) stands on the
eastern part of said lot No. I, First Division [I88I]. See Deduction of the
Title of Peter Poillon, etc., by Mr. Adriance.
* Tubby Hook, a point of land on the North River side, at 206th street, is here
referred to. It took its name from Peter Ubregt, a Brabanter. (See p. 548.) Ubregt,
by a clipt pronunciation, became Upbro, and Ubby, or as the Dutch made it, 't Ubby,
or Tubby Hook.
t On this corner where the roads met Capt. Benson built a large tavern early in
the present century-the site since within the "Harlem Park"-and which was conducted for some years by Capt. Marriner, who had previously kept the Ferry House
(see p. 172), and who gained a great celebrity for the excellent table he set for his
guests, as for his whale boat exploits during the Revolution, which he was never
tired of relating. He was an intelligent, well educated man. (See notice of him in
Thompson's Long Island.)
APPENDIX.
825
No. 3 (23 acres 32 rods) lay above No. 2, extending from Kingsbridge Road westward to the meadows; its southern line running north
86'2~ west, its northern, north 64~ west. It was sold directly by Nagel to
Abraham Myer, who in 1720 added 2 acres lying "in the hills," (Mount
Morris), for which, in 1747, he paid the town I6 shillings, and took a deed.
The lot passed to Abraham Myer, Jr., thence to his kinsman Johannes De
Witt, Jr., who sold it to Peter Benson, April 9, 1789. See said Poillon Title,
p. 30.
No. 4 (3 acres I q. 29 rods) lay next to No. 3, and was 5 rods broad;
its lines parallel, and north 64~ west. It ran "almost to the meadow at
the Mill Creek." Zacharias Sickels took it in exchange for other land, as
per his patentee deed mentioned p. 298, but sold it in 1722 to Abraham
Meyer, whence we believe it passed to Adolph Benson, owning No. 5,
which lay next northerly.
No. 5 (25 acres I rod) included "the hills," or Mount Morris. Passing through several hands to Adolph Benson (see p. 434), it became a
part of the Samson A. Benson farm. This exhausted the common land
in this tract, except some 30 acres still reserved by the town, but subsequently sold to Adolph Benson, in 1747, for f50.
No. 6 (I6 acres I q. 8 rods) embraced a strip of common land stretching along the Harlem patent line and the highway, from the northern end
of the Hoorn's Hook or Waldron farm (94th Street), up to lot No. 7 (the
late McGown place, Io2d Street), being bounded easterly by a crooked
fence of Capt. John Benson. Samson Benson bought it May 4, 1721 (see
p. 430), as an addition to his farm, but it is now mostly within Central
Park.
No. 7 included the McGown plot referred to, laid out for 9 acres 3 q.
32 rods, and also 2 acres 2 q. 12 rods lying opposite to it, west of the highway, and along the north side of the grant made Abraham Delamontanie,
in I691; both pieces being now in Central Park. We have noticed this lot
fully on pp. 439, 545, 55I, 592. The venerable McGown house made a
part of the late Stetson's, or rather Ryan and Radford's Hotel, destroyed
by fire Jan. 2, I88I.
No. 8, alloted the heirs of Capt. Thomas Delavall, consisted of three
parcels, two of these now in Central Park, the first containing I6 acres
3 q. 28 rods, being bounded south by the small part of No. 7, east by the
highway, west by the creek or run called the fonteyn, and north by the
Metje Cornelis, or Nutter farm, to which it was afterward added. The
second piece (I acre 3 q. 24 rods) lay opposite, across the highway;
bounded south and east by the creeks, and north by Metje Cornelis' farm.
Later the road to Harlem village was run over this piece; it is now mostly
within Harlem Lake. The third and chief part of No. 8 (35 acres 25 rods)
lay near the upper end of Harlem Lane, and was of very irregular shape;
joining northwesterly to No. 9, of this division, northeasterly to Peter van
Oblienis' Ioo-acre tract before noticed, southeasterly in part by the highway, and westerly upon Jacob De Key's land, or the Harlem patent line,
along which it ran southerly, between said line and the Montanye Flat
lots, to a point at the old Tourneur farm. The late Capt. John Kortright
farm took in part of this parcel, other parts (one owned by Peter van
Oblienis) were bought up by Adolph Myer, and included in the Molenaor
84-acre tract. See pp. 604, 607, and Appendix I.
Nos. 9, 10, II, I2, I3, 14, all taking a course north 79~ east and butting
upon the land of Jacob De Key and the Oblienis Ioo acre tract, formed a
tier or wedge-like plot which reached to Moertje Davids' Fly. These lots
also were subsequently included in the Molenaor 84 acre tract.
No. I5 (35 acres 32 rods) laid out to Maria and Johannes Myer, extended along the west side of Kingsbridge Road from 13oth to I4oth
Streets, being bounded westerly (nearly on the line of Ninth Avenue) by
826 HISTORY OF HARLEM.
the Oblienis Ioo-acre tract, and lot 5 to 8, of I691. It fell to Johannes
Myer and his son Jacob. See p. 6oi.
No. I6 being in two pieces, the principal one, containing 9 acres. 3 q.
14 rods, stretched north from No. 15, between the end of lot 9 of I69I, and
the highway to 145th Street, or the line of lot io of 1691. Johannes Myer
bought this part in 1722. See pp. 6oi, 605. A supplementary piece (2 q.
23 rods) lay opposite, east of the road, at the south point of the triangular
tract, since owned by Samuel Bradhurst, and probably not reaching above
I45th Street.
No. 17 (3 acres I q. 20 rods) lay next north, and was sold by Delamontanie to Barent Waldron, by the latter, August 6, I740, to John R.
Myer, and called "four acres more or less," and by John to Abraham Myer,
July 21, I743. It came to be included in the Bradhurst tract.
No. I8 lying next north, extended up between the highway and Bussing's Point inlet to I5oth Street. It passed through the Low family (see
p. 582) to John Maunsell, from him to Bradhurst.
No. I9 was sold by Congreve, December 26, 1713, to Johannes Waldron,
and by him to his son Samuel, November 17, 1748. It passed to John
Dykman, thence to John Watkins (see p. 550), thence to John Maunsell,
and from his widow to Mrs. Beekman.*
No. 20 was sold by John Delamater to Johannes Waldron, in 1729,
passed to John Dykman, thence to Lawrence Low, thence to his son John,
thence to John Watkins (see pp. 550, 582), thence to John Maunsell. See
No. 21.
No. 21, (12 acres 3q. 7 rods) making the last lot in First Division,
extended up, on Kingsbridge Road, to I59th Street, to the Kiersen or Jumel
Homestead line. It passed to Gerrit Dyckman, to his son John, to Lawrence Low, to his son John, to John Watkins (see pp. 548, 550), to
John Maunsell, to his widow, and with No. 20, to Dr. Samuel Watkins.
We do not see an equal necessity for tracing the lots in the other three
divisions, many references to which will be found in the foregoing pages.
This may be done, usually, without much difficulty; care being taken to
avoid the confusion which may arise in some cases from the re-plotting
and re-numbering. This applies particularly to the lands purchased by
Leonard Parkinson, who came to own (with the Roger Morris, or Jumel
Homestead, and the 57-acre tract opposite), the lots I to 5, Second Division, on the west of the highway, and on the east side, lots 8 to II, inclusive, less the Wear portion of No. 8. He caused all these lands to be
mapped by Charles Loss, and divided up into 15 parcels, by new numbers,
and which ignored all the original dividing lines. The Jumel Homestead
alone remained unchanged, and this was called No. 8. From the 57-acre
tract opposite, 48 acres 20 rods were set off as No. I. This he sold March
9, I8I0, to Ebenezer Burrill. Above it, 37 acres 2 q. were laid off as No. 2,
and sold, the same day, to R. C. Smith; later Dickey's. "Fanwood," the
* Charles Congreve, Gent., arrived at New York, May 3, 1702, in the suite of
Governor Cornbur; the next year, as lieutenant, commanded a force sent to Albany,
to guard the frontiers; in 1704, by Cornbury's orders, reported to the Lords of Trade,
upon the military resources of the province, and to the Venerable Society, upon the
state of religion, and, in 1706, being in England helped Oldmixon to facts for his
British Empire in America. Capt. Congreve's zeal as a Churchman, with other circumstances, induces the belief that his clerkship at Harlem was not merely secular,
but was designed for introducing the English liturgy. (See p. 408.) Here he acquired property, as noticed pp. 637, 698. His land in the 4 Divisions were drawn on
a 6 morgen i erf right, upon his lot on Jochem Pieters' Flat, and its adjoining house
lot; except I6 acres "of first and second draft," gotten of Samuel Waldron. His lot
in 2d Division he sold, with his farm on Van Keulen's Hook, to John Van Horn, of
New York, merchant; those in Ist, 3d and 4th Divisions to Joh. Waldron. Congreve
was a frequent petitioner to the government for land, between 1702 and 1723, and received several grants. In 1736 he commanded at Oswego; in 1740, with his son-inlaw, John Lindesay, went to Cherry Valley, but left on the breaking out of the
French War, in I744; Mr. Lindesay, in whose favor Congreve had resigned his lieutenancy in the Independent Fusileers, going to take command at Oswego. And here
we lose sight of Capt. Congreve. (See N. Y. Col. Hist. vi., 707, note.)
APPENDIX. 827
residence of the late Colonel Monroe, is on this lot No. 2, as also the
Deaf and Dumb Institution, the latter building being intersected by the line
which before parted the Second Division from the Division of 1691. Next
came Nos. 3, 4, together 67 acres 2 q., sold the same date to John R.
Murray. And next above this lay lot 5 (39 acres I q.), reaching to Arden's
line, and sold the same day to Stephen Jumel, together with his lots 7,
9, IO, II, I2, 13, I4, I5, which embraced the old lots 8 to II, with the exception of Wear's part of No. 8; and also excepting parts of the old lots
IO, II, next the Kingsbridge Road, and a gore from No. 9, which made up
his lot No. 6. This he sold on the same date to Gerardus Post, who conveyed it to Jumel, May 3, 1814. On April 28, I8Io, Parkinson also sold
Jumel the Colonel Morris Homestead. Thus Jumel came to own 39 acres
west of Kingsbridge Road (being the old lot 5, and most of 4), and I31
acres east of said road, the last stretching from I59th Street to midway of
I74th and I75th Streets, excepting where separated by the 6 acres owned
by Wear.*
As little common lands remained within the patent lines after the
division of I712, except the tracts already named in connection with the
farms to which they were finally attached, we will not extend these notes.
It only remains to give the lists of the lands in the Four Divisions, as
awarded upon the erf, or house lot, and morgen rights; and an alphabetical
"Summary," which shows the actual contents of the lots as laid out; the
latter varying from the former in some cases, for reasons which are also
noted.
First Division, 1712.
6Q a A LAND DUE.
Z BY WHOM DRAWN. X 0
JJ0 w A. Q. R.
I John W aldron........................ I 22 16 8
2 Sampson Benson...................... 2 i8 17 I 12
3 John Nagel.......................... 2 28 23 32
4 John Kiersen......................... o 3 I 20
5 M etje Cornelis........................ 2 31 24 3 34
6 Barent W aldron....................... I 22 16 8
7 Samuel W aldron...................... 3 6' 3 II
8 Thomas Delavall..................... 2 6o 42 o o
9 John van Oblenis...................... I O 3 I 20
Io Isaac Delamater...................... I 6 6 3 24
II Arent H. Bussing..................... I 21 15 2 34
I2 John Benson.......................... I 6 2 3 4
13 Jacques Tourneur..................... I 9 8 2 26
14 Marcus Tiebaut....................... Y2 3 3 I 32
15 Maria Meyer......................... 2 28 23 o 32
I6 Zacharias Sickels...................... I 2 10 I 28
17 Abraham Delamontanie............... I 3 I 20
I8 Lawrence Jansen Low............... I II 9 3 I4
19 Charles Congreve..................... I 6 6 3 24
20 Aeltie Vermilye....................... I 4 I I
21 John Dykeman........................ I 6 I2 3 4
* George Wear, the sturdy blacksmith, we may thank him for holding on to his
little 6 acre lot (the lower part of No. 8, 2d Division), which he bought November
7, I8o3, from Ithamar Heily; although called 6% acres, and all its boundaries reversed, with Benson, from whose lot it was taken, called Bussing! Because its transfer
being clear to Heily through William Molenaor and others, back to Capt. Johannes Benson, who drew it in I7I2, it becomes an invaluable landmark in fixing the starting line of
828
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Second Division, 1712.
vzi y5LAND DUE.
Z BY WHOM DRAWN. - -
o ( A. Q. R.
I Metje Cornelis....................... 2 31 43 2 13
2 Samuel Waldron...................... 4 6 40 3 9
3 John Kiersen......................... I 0 6 o o
4 Lawrence Jansen Low................. I II 17 o 33
5 Barent Waldron...................... I 22 28 I 26
6 Aeltie Vermilye....................... I I /2 7 2 4
7 Charles Congreve..................... I 6 12 o 18
8 John Benson......................... I I6 22 I 8
9 John Nagel........................... 2 28 40 2 4
IO Maria Meyer......................... 2 28 40 2 4
11 John van Oblenis..................... I 0 6 o o
I2 Zacharias Sickles...................... I I2 I8 o 36
I3 John Waldron........................ I 22 28 I 26
I4 Jacques Tourneur..................... I 9 15 o 27
I5 Marcus Tiebaut....................... 2 3 6 o 9
I6 Thomas Delavall...................... 2 6o 73 0 20
17 John Dykeman........................ I I6 22 I 8
I8 Samson Benson....................... 2 i8 30 I 14
I9 Isaac Delamater...................... I 6 I2 0 i8
20 Arent H. Bussing.................... I 21 27 I 23
Third Division, 1712.
0:Z LAND DUE.
Z BY WHOM DRAWN. X
o Z S A. Q. R.
I John Waldron...........I 22 7 I 14
2 I Jacques Tourneur......................I 9 3 3 28
3 Aeltie Vermilye........ I.............. I I I 3 33
4 Samson Benson........................ 2 i8 7 3 i6
5 Lawrence Jansen Low.................I II 4 I 32
6 Samuel Waldron...................... 4 I62 10 2 13
7 Barent W aldron...................... I 22 7 I 14
8 John Kiersen......................... 2 I2 6 I 4
9 Marcus Tiebaut....................... I% 3 3 o 21
Io John Dykeman......................... I6 5 3 2
II Charles Congreve..................... I 6 3 o 22
12 John Nagel............................ 2 28 IO I 36
I3 Arent Bussing........................ I 21 7 o 12
I4 Isaac Delamater...................... I 6 3 o 22
I5 Thomas Delavall...................... 2 60 i8 3 20
I6 Maria Meyer.......................... 2 28 IO I 36
I7 M etje Cornelis........................ 2 31 II I 2
I8 John Benson......................... I I6 5 3 2
the 2d Division. Its lower line began at Kingsbridge Road, in the centre of i65th
street, and nearly touched i64th street at the bluff on Harlem River. But improvements going on must soon obliterate these old lines, save upon the maps.
APPENDIX. 829
Fourth Division, I712.
6 ) (Z LAND DUE.
BY WHOM DRAWN. Q.
0 ^ 4 St A. Q. R.
I Samson Benson....................... 2 I8 I3 I 36
2 Lourens Cornelisse................... 2 31 19 I 12
3 Barent Waldron....................... I 22 12 2 14
4 John Dykernan....................... I I6 9 3 22
5 Jacques Tourneur..................... I 9 6 2 38
6 John W aldron........................ I 22 12 2 14
7 John Kiersen........................ 2 2 I 3 4
8 Arent Bussing........................ I 21 I2 0 22
9 Thomas Delavall...................... 2 60 32 I 20
IO John Nagel........................... 2 28 I7 3 36
II Lawrence Jansen Low.................. I II 7 2 22
I2 Samuel Waldron...................... 4 I62 I8 o 28
I3 M arcus Tiebaut....................... I 2 3 5 I 21
I4 M aria M eyer......................... 2 28 17 3 36
I5 Aeltie Vermilye....................... I I/2 3 I I8
I6 Charles Congreve..................... I 6 5 I 22
I7 Isaac Delamater....................... I 6 5 I 22
I8 John Benson......................... I I6 9 3 22
We whose names are here underwritten, elected, nominated and appointed by the freeholders and inhabitants of New Harlem, to see that a
just and equal division be made of their undivided Lands, Do by these
presents Certify that there is a just and equal division made according to
the proportions of right of every house lot and every morgen right, as it
is here above expressed*; as witness our hands this twentieth day of June,
Anno Dom. 1712.
JOHN LAWRENCE,
CORNELIS LUYSTER,
E. BLAGGE.
The causes of the material variations, which appear in certain lots,
between the quantity of land due on the rights, and the quantity actually
drawn, were these, viz.:
First Division. No. I, as laid out, contained 6 acres awarded Johannes
Waldron, "as a half patentee right for signing releases," and I acre 2 q.
32 rods allowed him by his brother Samuel. No. 2: Derick Benson buying
a house and lot of his brother Samson, drew with him on an erf right in
the several Divisions. See pp. 430, 431. No. 7: Samuel Waldron took 6
acres as a half patentee, but allowing his brother Johannes, I acre 2 q. 32
rods, and Capfain Congreve 12 acres, in this Division, was entitled to only
12 acres 19 rods here. He got I q. 25 rods in excess of this, for which /2
an acre was taken from his Third Division. No. 8 was increased 12 acres,
as a patentee's share. The lot ran short 3 rods of the quantity due; but
it was fully made up in Second Division. No. 13 took 6 acres as a half
patentee share. No. 15 took 12 acres as a full patentee share. No. 19:
Samuel Waldron allowed Capt. Congreve 12 acres in this lot. No. 21 included 2 acres for a road through it from the highway to Harlem River.
* The original list first gives the quantity due on the house lots, and the quantity
due on the morgen rights, and then the total. But we omit the two former, as they
may be easily computed from the scale given p. 824.
830
HISTORY OF HARLEM.
Second Division. No. I, as laid out, contained but 4I acres 33 rods,
owing to a mistake of the chain-bearers; but the deficiency, 2 acres I q.
20 rods, was added to No. 17, Third Division. Laurens Cornelissen is
named as drawing with his mother Metje, in Second and Third Divisions,
and she with him in the Fourth Division. No. 2 was reduced 4 acres,
allowed Capt. Congreve by Waldron in this Division. Waldron drew on
Abram Delamontanie's erf right, in Second, Third and Fourth Divisions.
No. 7: Congreve took 4 acres in this lot, allowed him by Samuel Waldron.
No. I6: 2 acres were added to this lot for a road through it to Harlem
River. No. 17: 3 acres 9 rods left out of this lot, were added to No. IO,
Third Division.
Third Division. No. 6: See remark under No. 7, First Division.
No. 8: Kiersen drew Sickels' share in Third and Fourth Divisions. No. 9:
John van Oblienis drew with Marcus Tiebaut in Third and Fourth Divisions; these lots were divided accordingly. No. Io: See remark to No. 17,
Second Division. No. 17: See remark to No. I, Second Division.
Fourth Division. No. 2: Metje Cornelis also drew with her son
Laurens in this Division, as in Second and Third; this No. 2 was soon
sold to Johannes Benson. No. 7: See remark to No. 8, Third Division. No.
12: See remark to No. 2, Second Division. No. 13: See remark to No.
9, Third Division.
SUMMARY O0 THE FOUR DIVISIONS; SHOWING THE ACTUAL CONTENTS
o0 THE SEVERAL LOTS.
ist Division. 2nd Division. 3d Division. 4th Division.
A. A. Q. R... R. A. Q. R.
z
Benson, John............ I212:3: 9 822:: 8i8 5:3: 2 8 9: 3: 22
Benson, Samson....... 7: I:2318130: I: 14 4 7:3: 6 II3: I:36
Bussing, Arent...........II 15:2: 34120 27: I 23113 7: 0: I2 8 2:0:22
Congreve, Charles........ 198: 3:241 76:0: 8 I 3: 0:22i6 5 I::22
Cornelis, MetjeandLourens 5 25: 0: I I 14I: 0 30 17 3 22 2 9: I: 12
Delamater, Isaac.......... IO 6:3:24 I9 I2: 8 14 3:0:22 17 5: I:22
Delamontanie, Abraham.. I7 3: I: 20
Delavall, Thomas, heirs of. 8 53: 3: 37i6 73: 0: 20151: 3 20 9 32: I:20
Dyckman, John.......... 2I I2 3: 7 I7 I 0:39 IO 8:3: II 4 9: 3:22
Jansen, Lourens.......... I8 9:3: I4 417:0: 33 5 4: I:32 II 7:2:22
Kiersen, John............ 4 3:I:29 3 6:0: o 8 6: I: 4 7 I:3: 4
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Tiebaut, Marcus.......... 4 3: I: 32 I5 6:o: 9 9 3: 0: 2 3 5: I:21
Tourneur, Jacques........ 3 4: 2:26 I4 15: 0:27 2 3: 3:28 5 6:2:38
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KEY TO TITLES.
N. B.-Different designations are sometimes applied to the same tract.
Adriance Tract, 482, 797.
Baker Farm, 4I0, 806.
Benson (Elizabeth) Tract, 418; see First Division, No. 3.
Benson (Lawrence) Homestead, 438, 456, 606, 797.
Benson (Peter) Farm, 430, 435, 8oi, 802.
Benson Point Farm, 122, 150, I89, 417, 429, 448, 817; see Bogert Point Farm.
Benson (Samson A.)Farm; see Race Course Farm.
Bickley Tract (De Voe's Point), 395, 424.
Bogert Point Farm, 371, 402, 418, 447, 592, 593, 817; see Index, Montanye's
Point.
Bogert (John J.) Farm, 456, 468; see Randall Farm.
Brady Plot, 439, 564.
Bronck's Land, 233, 234, 235, 251, 278, 284, 384, 385.
Bronck's Meadow, 197.
Bush Farm, 636; see Index, Bush.
Bussing Farm (Harlem Lane), 483, 563, 802, 803.
Bussing Meadows, 237, 545.
Bussing Point Farm, 342, 394, 485, 602, 603, 606, 817.
Carteret Island, 796, 798, 813.
Carteret Lot, 6o0, 605, 798, 813.
Chesterman Plot, 579, 623, 705, 794.
Church Farm, 172, 229, 238, 337, 563, 824.
Clover Wey (Clover Pasture), 307, 396, 705, 8II.
De Key Tract, 394, 395, 637, 804.
Delavall Lands, 809; see also 581, 599, 60o, 604, 605, 607, 623, 822, 824, 825,
827, 830.
De Peyster Tracts, 804.
De Voe's Point, 251, 278, 329, 395, 424.
Division of the Common Lands; Remark upon, 417; History of, 814; see
also Division of 1691, etc.
Division of 1691, List of, 816; Lots in, referred to, 393, 430, 434, 477, 482,
495, 500, 546, 547, 558, 561, 563, 565, 58I, 591, 599, 60o, 603, 604, 605, 622,
636, 8io, 8I6.
Division, The First, What it embraced, 822; Lists of 827, 830; Lots in, referred to, 298, 430, 433, 438, 483, 500, 547, 550, 562, 563, 566, 567, 582, 592,
60I, 603, 604, 607, 624, 625, 699, 827; see The Four Divisions.
Division, The Second, Where located, 823; Lists of, 828, 830; Lots in, referred to, 298, 433, 483, 547, 562, 563, 566, 567, 579, 582, 592, 599, 603, 625,
638, 699, 828; see The Four Divisions.
Division, The Third, Where located, 823; Lists of, 828, 830; Lots in, referred to, 298, 433, 434, 435, 547, 554, 563, 566, 582, 592, 603, 604, 625, 638,.
699, 8io, 828; see The Four Divisions.
Division, The Fourth, Where located, 823; Lists of, 829, 830; Lots in, re
834
KEY TO TITLES.
ferred to, 298, 430, 431, 547, 582, 592, 599, 603, 625, 699, 8io, 829; see The
Four Divisions.
Division, The Last, 546, 547, 582, 819.
Divisions, The Four; Summary of, 830; Referred to, 430, 483, 500, 547, 563,
579, 624, 636, 820.
Dunning Plot, 428.
Dyckman Homestead, 104, 149, 345, 547, 55I, 821, 826; see Index, JansenAertsen Patent.
Dyckman Lands, Spuyten Duyvel, 341, 345, 373, 402, 546, 561.
Fort George Tract, 267,.434, 623, 814, 823.
Gloudie Point Farm; see Bussing Point Farm.
Hall (Charles Henry) Tracts, 797, 798.
Hanel Patent, 598, 679.
Heiser Plot, 484.
Hoorn's Hook Farm, 804.
Hunter Tract, 804.
Hopper (Yellis) Farm, 707.
Jochem Pieters' Flat, 794.
Judah Plot; see Index.
Jumel Homestead, 56I, 820, 826, 827.
Lanaw Benson Tract, 802.
Lands, Lists and Tables of the, 288, 338, 34I, 342, 373, 401, 795, 8i6, 829, 830.
Lawrence Tract, 418, 8i8.
Marston Farm, 807.
McGown Farm, 122, 150, 418, 439.
McGown Place, 439, 551, 592, 825.
Milledoler Tracts, 799.
Moesman Farm; see Delavall Lands.
Molenaor, 84-acre Tract, 567, 604; Small Tract, 418, 8i8.
Montanye's Flat, 802.
Mount Morris Park, 802.
Myer (Adolph) Homestead, 418, 604.
Myer Tract (Forks), 418, 599, 605.
Myer Tract (Jochem Pieters), 304, 605, 794.
Nagel Burying Ground, 614.
Nagel Lands, 341, 343, 373, 402, 547, 551, 612, 614, 796.
Negro Burying Ground, 238.
New Lots; see Index.
Nine Lots, The, 6oi, 797, 8ii.
Nutter Farm, 338, 390, 563, 592, 803, 813, 825.
Oblienis, Ioo-acre Tract, 623, 821, 822, 825.
Out Gardens, 482, 546, 597, 612, 623, 636.
Pond Lot, 795.
Race Course Farm, 418, 427, 434, 437, 500, 563, 8i8, 821, 823.
Randell (Morris) Farm, 123, 431, 432, 435, 456, 798.
Randell's Island; see Index, Little Barent's Island.
Roads, 170, 172, 232, 252, 273, 280, 285, 305, 355, 369, 550, 563, 702, 7Io, 798,
802, 8i8, 822, 823.
Sawkill Farm, 804; see also 340, 34I, 360, 363, 381, 388.
Sickels (Johannes) Tract, 795.
Six Lots, The, 304, 605, 797, 812, 814.
Slot Patent, 598, 679.
Storm Farm, 482, 484, 485, 636, 800.
Three Lots, The, 60I, 606, 797, 8ii, 812, 813.
Tourneur Farm, 825; see Appendix G.
iVandewater Tract, 804.
Van Keulen's Hook, 798.
Wagstaff Tract, 408, 418, 8i8.
KEY TO TITLES. 835
Waldron (Hoorn's Hook) Farm, 804; see also 362, 409, 495, 622, 698, 782,
825.
Waldron (John P.) Farm, 800.
Waldron Tract; see Oblienis Ioo-acre Tract.
Ward's Island; see Index, Great Barent's Island, and Ward's Island.
Williams (Eliphalet) Plot, 609.
Wood Farm (Harlem Lane), 380, 803.
Young Farm; see Marston Farm.
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS.
THE ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS WORK ARE: ab., for about; ae., for aged; anc., for
ancestor; a. q. r., for acres, quarters, rods; b., for born; br., for brother; brs.,
brothers; ch., for child; chn., for children; chh., for church; d., for died,
death; desc., for descendant, descended; dr., for daughter; drs., daughters; d. y.,
died young; f. or fl., for florin; fa., for father; gd-fa., for grandfather; gt-gd-fa.,
for great-grandfather; gl., for guilder; hus., for husband; inf., for infancy; m.,
for married, marriage; mem., for member; mo., for.mother; nfa., for no further
account; sr., for sister; srs., for sisters; st., for stiver, or street; unm., for
unmarried; w., for wife; wid., for widow; yr., for year; yrs., years; Corn.,
for Cornelius; Hend., for Hendrick; Joh., for Johannes, etc.
INDEX.
A
Aarsen, Jan, 249.
Abbott, John, 570.
Mary, 569.
William, 570.
Abeel, Magdalena, 161.
Stoffel Janse, 161.
Abrahams, Cornelis, 96.
Acker, Barent, 201, 203.
Leah, 550.
Ackerman, 237.
Abigail, 697.
Abraham, 696, 697, 410.
Adrian, 697.
Anna Maria, 697.
Anneken, 696, 697.
Arie, 559.
Catherine, 608, 697.
David, 95, 696, 697.
David L., 205.
Egbert, 697.
Gerrit, 697.
Gulian, 697.
Jannetie, 697.
Johannes, 697.
Lodewyck, 313, 369, 696, 697.
Lourens, 696.
Louwerens, 249.
Lysbet, 263, 696, 697.
Marritie, 696, 697, 702.
Marritje, 702.
Martha Mode, 629.
Mary, 697.
Sarah, 697.
Theodore, 759.
Ackerson, Anna, 200.
Catherine, 467.
James I., 461.
Ackley, Jane Eliza, 647.
Adams, Ann Alida, 526.
Annie, 668.
Elisha, 526.
Fred, 543.
John M., 744.
Mary Smith, 513.
William, 696.
Adkins, Amanda, 763.
Adolph, John, 803.
Adolphus, Matthew, 385.
Adraens, Aeltie, 804.
Adriaens, Joost, 785.
Adriaens (Arieanse), John, 696.
Adriance, Abraham, 156.
Abraham J., 620.
Anneke, 156.
Caroline, 156.
Elbert, 156.
Adriance, George, 156.
Isaac, 155, 156, 298, 420, 729, 795.
Jacob, 156.
John, 156, 298, 482, 795, 797.
John (Mrs.), 796.
John S., 172, 298, 484.
Mr., 226, 798.
Rem, 156.
Theodore, 156.
Ael, Martin (Sergt.), 144.
Sergeant, 143.
Aertsen, 149, 251, 268, 286.
Huyck, 148, 247.
Jan, 295.
William, 613.
Ahriaens, Neeltie, 256.
Aiken, 759.
Laverne Devilier, 541.
Aken, Adriana, 789.
Jan Thomasz, 168, 789.
Alain, Lord, 32.
Albertson, Mary E., 748.
Albertus, Peter Caesar, 125.
Albody, Andries, 594.
Albony, Jane, 782.
Martha, 782.
Alden, Mary Jane, 523.
Alderick, Mary, 625.
Aldrich, 276, 622.
Aldricks, Mary, 625.
Alger, Harriet, 520.
Lena, 615.
Allaire, Sarah, 570.
Allason, William, 523.
Allen, Dr., 473.
Elizabeth, 682.
Jane, 585.
John, 558, 666.
Rosette, 517.
William, 742.
Allener, Abraham, 789.
Allington, Frank, 534.
Allinson, Sarah, 445.
Allison, Hannah, 703.
Alrichs, Evert, 302, 303.
Jacob, 358.
Alteras, Jan Claessen, 132.
Alyea, Adam, 460.
Alyie, Margrietye, 559.
Aman, Louise, 442.
Amanda, Mary, 609.
Amboyneau, John, 798.
Amerman, Elbert, 789.
Amory, John, 596.
Anderson, Ann, 789.
Cornelia, 806.
David, 617.
Ella, 471.
838
INDEX.
Anderson, James, 461, 789.
John C. Z., 610.
Peter, 806.
William, 321.
Andre, 256.
Andrews, Anna M., 534.
Andries, Geertruyt, 384.
Jannetie, 217.
Andriesen, Pieter, 135.
Andriessen, Hillegond, 431.
Lucas, 431.
Pieter, 163.
Andros, 332, 340, 343.
Edmund (Sir), 318, 384.
Governor, 188, 323, 325, 327, 328, 331, 338,
364, 368, 370, 409, 804.
Angel, Ruth, 516.
Anthony, Allard, 241, 294.
Maria, 478.
Mary Doty, 722.
Samuel, 733.
Aoelofsen, 249.
Appel, Adrian, 815, 817.
Applegate, George S., 749.
Apthorpe, Charles Ward, 592.
Arcer, Jan, 251.
Archbold, Margaret, 757.
Archer, 247, 249, 250, 261, 268, 271, 277, 319,
326, 327, 680.
John, 242, 243, 248, 263, 275, 278, 284, 306,
385, 389, 395.
John, Jr., 389.
Arden, 827.
Jacob, 626.
Argo, Julia Ann, 726.
Arieyanse, Arie, 615.
Geresolveert, 683.
Jan, 683.
Maria, 616.
Arment. Jannetie, 428.
Armour, John (Captain), 596.
Mary Elizabeth, 596.
Armstrong, Florence, 752.
Arnauds, Madeline, 204.
Arnold, Louise, 747.
Arnolds, 646.
Ash, William, 788.
Ashmore, George, 768.
Askew, John, 257.
Aspinwall, Hannah, 566.
Asson, Mrs. 596.
Asten, Elizabeth, 646.
Astor, 808.
Atwater, Jacob, 735.
Auboyneau, 813.
John, 812.
Auchmoody, Abraham, 521.
Rachel, 521.
Audubon, John J., 818.
Auryansen, Cornelia, 617.
Austin, Shirley P., 544.
Avery, Obediah, 645.
Ayers, Martha, 730.
B
Babbitt, Phebe Louisa, 653.
Ruth Ann, 630.
Babcock, David, 711, 734.
John, 444.
Sarah, 724.
William L., 733.
Backhouse, John, 608.
Baerr, Clara W., 689.
Baignoux, 353, 373.
Jeaen, 247.
Jean, 332, 340, 365, 380, 381.
John, 807.
Bailey, Elias, 294.
Bailey, Harriet, 570.
Harriet F., 511.
Nathaniel, 424.
Baillet, Herbert Stanton, 578.
Baker, A. 0., 533.
Dr., 410, 807.
Emma C., 533.
Hendrick Jansen, 258.
John, 807.
Mary E., 533.
Balden, Willis, 728.
Baldwin, Henry W., 662.
Mrs., 652.
Orrin, 745.
Peggy, 639.
Simeon, 784.
Ball, Gertrude, 768.
Terese, 746.
Ballard, 742.
Banker, Augusta Maude, 667.
Elizabeth, 452, 458.
Gerard, 806.
Banks, Albert, 656.
Benjamin, 490.
Banta, Annatye, 450.
Antie, 196.
Cornelius, 191, 217, 350.
David, 467.
Derick, 196.
Dirck S., 436.
Epke Jacobs, 191.
Hendrick J., 433.
John J., 458.
John T., 687.
Maria, 683, 684.
Peter, 432.
Rachel, 449, 450, 451.
Siba, 350.
Sitske, 350.
Tiny (Catherine), 459.
Tunis, 441.
Wiert, 350.
Barbarer, Jennie, 633.
Barberie, Peter, 320.
Barbour, Richard, 763.
Bard, Caroline M., 737.
Bardy, M. Louis, 13.
Barents, Bruyn, 236.
Barentsen, Benjamin, 105.
Captain, 105.
Simon, 166.
Barheyt, Georgie, 409.
Jerome, 496.
Barhite, Johannes, 424.
Barkens, Ann, 457.
Barker, John, 248.
Maria, 782.
Barkins, David, 457.
Barkley, Evert M., 720.
Barlow, Edward F., (Rev.), 531.
Hannah, 507.
Barlowe, Robert, 376.
Barnes, Ann, 655.
Anna, 509.
Charles P., 769.
Diadema, 516.
Dorothy, 819.
James A., 443.
Jennie, 660.
Phebe, 788.
William, 819.
Barnet, 654.
Barns, Florence Adelia, 753.
Barnum, Mary, 655.
Barr, Edward, 688.
Barrea, John, 788.
Barretts, Gerard M., 481.
Barry, Mary A., 528.
Bartelsen, Gertrude, 703.
Bartholf, Lydia, 460.
INDEX.
839
Bartlett, Susannah, 457, 463.
Barton, Eiijah, 276, 722.
Roger, 276.
Bartow, Evelyn (Rev.), 332.
Bas, Gerrit, 429.
Bascom, Marie Louise, 481.
Basley, Anthony, 643.
Bass, Jeremiah, 413, 807.
John, 594.
Wilhelmina, 545.
Bassett, Isabella, 655.
John, 340, 805.
Mary, 704.
Melvin, 670.
Bastiaens, Annetie, 476.
Hendrick, 476.
Metje, 476, 563.
Michiel, 276.
Bastiaense, Jan, 274.
Bastiaensen, 205.
Aefie, 265.
Annetie, 265.
Bastiaen, 265.
Jan, 105, 258, 563, 579.
Metje, 265.
Michiel, 243, 249, 258, 263, 265, 306, 311,
329, 343, 344, 346, 349, 365, 373.
Reyer, 265.
Bastiaesen, Jan, 98.
Michiel, 318.
Bates, Temperance, 732.
Baton, Rachel, 601, 604.
Batten, Ethel B., 763.
May, 763.
Baudartius, Mary, 161.
Wilhelmus (Rev.), 87, 161.
Baudius, Dominie, 90.
Baudoine, Jacques, 270.
Baxter, Abigail, 649.
Sarah E., 729.
William, 729.
Bayard, 315, 358.
Baltus, 367.
Catherine, 321.
N., 300, 301, 306, 307.
Nicholas, 276, 286, 372.
Nicholas (Col.), 321.
Nicolaes, 337.
Petrus, 359.
Samuel, 359.
Beadle, Edward L. (Dr.), 468.
Beado, Francois, 311, 332.
Beaman, Martha H., 743.
Beardslee, Esther, 784.
Beardsley, Nelson, 657.
Obediah, 440.
Beattie, James, 535.
Bebout, Jan, 700.
Beck, Matthys (Hon.), 358.
Becker, Catherine, 719.
John, 200.
Martinus, 508.
Mary Ann. 441.
Beckwith, Sophia, 528.
Beddon, Frances, 611.
Bedford, John, 715.
Bedlo, Isaac, 280.
Beebe, Margaret Elizabeth, 518.
Maria, 518.
Beeck, 164.
Cornelia, 155.
Cornelius, 155.
Deborah, 155.
Elizabeth, 155.
Henry, 155.
Isaac, 155.
John 155.
Marritie, 155.
Nicholas, 155.
Peter, 155.
Beeck, Pieter Cornelissen, 155.
William, 155.
Beeckman, 159, 275.
Catherine, 161.
Christopher, 161.
Cornelia, 161.
Gerardus, 161.
Hendrick, 161, 700.
Jacobus, 161.
Jochem, 261.
Johannes, 161, 700.
Maria, 161.
Marten, 700.
Marten Hendricksen, 700.
Martinus, 161.
Mary, 161.
Metje, 700.
Neeltie, 700.
Rachel, 161.
Thomas, 161.
Wilhelmus, 87, 142, 155, 161, 699, 700.
Wilhelmus (Mrs.), 277.
William, 157, 161, 367, 781.
Beekman, 162, 340, 358.
Abraham J. (Rev.), 700.
Adrian, 804.
Anna, 700, 707.
Annetie, 700.
Bloomfield, 700.
Cornelia, 700.
Elizabeth, 513, 700, 701.
George C. (Hon.), 700.
Gerardus (Dr.), 700.
Gesina, 168.
Grietie, 700.
Hendrick, 700.
Hendrick M., 700.'
Hendrick Martensen, 700.
Jacob Ten Broeck (Rev.), 700.
James, 803, 819.
Johannes Martensen, 700.
John, 700.
John S. (Rev.), 700.
Leentie, 700.
Lydia, 700, 819.
Magdalena, 700.
Marten, 700.
Martin, 699, 700.
Mary, 700.
Mrs., 826.
Peter, 700.
Phebe, 700.
Samuel, 700, 706.
Susanna, 700.
William, 359.
Been, Hendrick Jansen, 206.
Beenon, Rachel, 504.
Beers, Harvey,, 533.
Teresa, 747.
Beets, William, 327.
Behena, 810.
Thomas, 809.
Belin, Jean, 365.
Bell, Hattie, 621.
Maria (Polly), 460.
Belles, Eliza M., 744.
Belleville, 270.
Jean, 198, 269.
Philip, 198.
Bellows, Horace, 525.
Benbrigge, Joseph, 809.
Bend, Elizabeth, 706.
Bendell, Harriet, 730.
Benezet, Elizabeth, 462, 468.
Jean, 462.
Benjamin, Nelson, 731.
Benner, George, 726.
Mary T., 668.
Bennett, Jacob, 700.
Jeannette, 765.
840
INDEX.
Bennett, Nancy, 740.
Bennoe, Godfricus, 789.
Bensing, Johannes, 427.
Bensingh, Dirck, 426.
Benson, 12, 93, 122, 150, 172, 418, 425, 817.
Abraham, 428, 436, 440.
Adeline, 442.
Adolph, 430, 433, 434, 435, 438, 442, 500,
545, 550, 565, 825.
Alanson D., 446.
Albert, 433.
Alfred, 444, 446.
Alfred C., 445.
Almira, 442, 444.
Amasa L., 445.
Ann M., 443.
Anna, 436.
Anne, 431.
Anness, 445.
Annetie, 428.
Benjamin, 355, 417, 430, 432, 435, 436, 439,
443, 484, 549, 551, 565, 599, 705, 799, 800,
801, 802, 804, 813.
Benjamin, Jr., 436, 440.
Benjamin L., 438, 442.
Benjamin P., 439.
Benjamin Whitney (Col.), 440.
Betsey, 442.
Betsy, 437.
Burt P., 446.
Captain, 429, 437.
Carel, 437, 441.
Caroline, 442.
Caroline Abigail, 444.
Caroline Matilda, 440.
Carrie, 444.
Catalina, 427, 428, 429, 431, 432, 501, 506,
550.
Catalina (Tryntje), 549.
Catelina, 437.
Catelyntye, 437.
Catharin Abby, 440.
Catharine, 428, 429, 431, 497.
Catherine, 436, 440, 441, 443.
Catrina, 427, 433.
Cattelyntie, 432.
Charity, 432, 436.
Charles, 440, 445.
Claesie (Cloe), 428.
Clarence Everett, 446.
Clyde M., 446.
Cornelia, 441.
Cornelius, 428, 433, 437, 441, 444.
Daniel, 431, 437, 441, 444.
Daniel Annan, 447.
Daniel P., 444.
David, 437, 441, 444.
De La Montanye, 446.
Derick, 220, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 565,
601, 799, 801, 813, 821, 824, 829.
Dirck, 93, 427, 433.
Doremus, 444.
Edward A., 445, 447.
Edward Adolphus, 447.
Edwin, 444.
Edwina De B., 445.
Effie, 441.
Egbert (Honorable), 428.
Egbert (Judge), 428.
Eliza, 443.
Elizabeth, 418, 428, 431, 432, 433, 434, 436,
437, 441, 445, 683, 698, 702.
Elizabeth D., 443.
Elizabeth Frances, 440.
Elizer, 445.
Ela, 446.
Ellen Arietta, 444.
Emeline Maith, 440.
Emilie, 443.
Emily A., 443.
Benson, Emma Louise, 443.
Esther Jarvis, 440.
Ethel, 445.
Ethelbert, 445.
Eugene, 439.
Eve, 427, 436, 438.
Fidelia, 445.
Finette Edwards, 440.
Flora May, 446.
Frank, 446.
Frank G., 446.
Frederick Seward, 446.
Gabriel Leggett, 440.
Garret, 441, 443.
Garret I., 441, 443.
George, 434, 437, 440, 442, 444, 446.
George B., 446.
George S., 445.
George W., 443, 445, 446.
George Washington, 440.
Gerrit, 428, 432, 433, 436.
Gerritt, 441.
Gertrude L., 446.
Grace E., 446.
Hannes (Johannes), 433.
Harman, 428.
Harmanus, 428.
Harriette Davis, 440.
Harry M., 446.
Helen P., 445.
Helen Wharm, 447.
Helena, 428, 429, 431, 432, 484, 564.
Henricus, 428.
Henrietta, 442.
Henry, 436, 442, 445.
Henry (Capt.), 428.
Henry Clay, 443.
Hlevlyn, 440, 443.
Ira Hedges, 415.
Jacob, 436, 443.
James A., 446.
Jane, 437, 438, 441, 444, 487.
Jannetie, 436.
Jannettie, 434.
Jennie L., 446.
Joana, 436.
Joanni, 483.
Johanna, 442.
Johannes, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433,
434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 441, 497, 566, 579,
699, 700, 791, 799, 824, 830.
Johannes (Capt.), 426, 448, 564, 622, 821,
827.
Johannes (Lieutenant), 427.
Johannes, Jr. (Johanni), 430.
John, 428, 432, 433, 437, 438, 441, 442, 456,
799, 808, 827, 828, 829, 830.
John (Capt.), 825.
John D., 444.
John Henry, 434, 437.
John P., 530.
Jonathan, 428.
Judge, 788.
Julia, 440.
Kate E., 445.
Kattelyntie, 436.
Kittie B., 446.
Lana, 437.
Lanaw, 802.
Laura, 445.
Laura J., 445.
Lawrence, 172, 426, 430, 435, 436, 437, 438,
456, 603, 606, 797, 799, 800.
Lawrence A., 442.
Lillian, 446.
Lillian J., 446.
Lucas, 428.
Lydia Louise, 444.
M., 566.
Margaret, 438, 799.
INDEX.
841
Benson, Margaret Annan, 447.
Margrietje, 437.
Maria, 427, 428, 432, 434, 436. 443, 617.
Maria Jane, 441.
Maria Louisa, 445.
Marritle, 430.
Martha M., 442.
Mary, 431, 435, 440, 445.
Mary Anna, 442.
Mary Burr, 440.
Mary Catherine, 444.
Mary Elizabeth, 443.
Marya (Maria), 437.
Marytje, 433.
Matilda, 444.
Matthew, 428, 429, 432, 433, 434, 436, 439,
442, 483, 500.
Matthew Z., 445.
Mina L., 446.
Nancy, 439.
Oliver, 443.
Oliver Munroe, 440.
Percy, 445.
Perry, 444, 446.
Peter, 421, 435, 439, 441, 444, 798, 802, 825.
Petrus, 437, 441.
Philip Adolphus, 447.
Rachel, 427, 428, 429, 437, 441.
Rachel Ann, 442.
Rachel Jane, 444.
Ralph, 447:
Rebecca, 436, 441.
Rebecca Sophia, 444.
Reginald, 445.
Richard Van Vranken, 441.
Robert, 428.
Sally Ann, 444, 445.
Sampson, 827.
San-son, 238, 298, 408, 427, 428, 429, 430,
431, 432, 433, 435, 483, 484, 550, 593, 600,
604, 637, 699, 702, 786, 791, 798, 799, 801,
803, 804, 821, 823, 824, 828, 829, 830.
Samson (Capt.), 824.
Samson (Samuel), 437, 438.
Samson A., 418, 434, 500, 599, 818, 821, 825.
Samson Adolphus, 437, 442, 445.
Samson, Jr., 435, 438.
Sanuel, 298, 432, 433, 434, 441, 487, 550,
710.
Sarah Jane, 442.
Sarah M., 446.
Silas, 443.
Stephen, 437, 442.
Stephen Henry, 445, 446.
Susan Ann, 440.
Susan S., 438.
Susannah, 436, 799, 800.
Susannah L., 438.
Tanneke, 432, 624.
Teuwes (or Matthew), 428.
Thysie, 427.
Tryntie, 428.
Victor, 428.
Wilhelmina, 439.
Willard, 658,
William, 428, 436, 440, 442, 445, 724.
William F., 446.
William H., 445, 446.
William, Jr., 442.
William Seward, 443.
Yannetie (Jane), 437.
Bentley, Sarah Emma, 541.
William Gustavus, 541.
Benton, Walter (Rev.), 656.
Willard H., 767.
Berck, Catalina, 93, 426.
Johannes, 613.
Samson, 93.
Berdan, Eva, 433.
Bergen, Hans, 427.
Bergen, Jan, 98.
Jan (Captain), 212.
Bergh, Abraham, 736.
Alice, 756.
Berlin, Sarah A., 664.
Berrien, 822.
Elizabeth, 462.
Emma A., 749.
John, 819.
Peter, 592, 810, 819, 821, 824.
Berry, John (Capt.), 322.
Ruth, 525.
Bertholf, 694.
Anna, 69.
Corynus, 69.
Elizabeth, 69.
Guiliaem, 69, 393, 407, 791.
Guiliaem (Rev.), 350.
Hendrick, 69.
Jacobus, 69, 785.
Maria, 69.
Martha, 69.
Sarah, 69, 350.
Bestevaer, Captain, 99.
Betts, Benjamin, 643.
William, 256, 643.
Beverly, Isabel, 507, 517.
Bevier, John, 785.
Beys, Henricus (Rev:), 408, 419.
Bibbins, John W., 543.
Bicker, Aeltie, 428.
Aletta, 705.
Jacob, 90.
Victor, 428.
Bickley, 424.
William, 380, 395.
Bidlack, Lydia, 571.
Bidleman, Sarah, 570.
Bill, Benjamin, 783.
Susannah, 783.
Billings, Abigail, 736.
Daniel, 650.
Billiou, 494.
Isaac, 494.
Mrs., 493.
Peter, 494.
Pierre, 183, 493, 494.
Binjou, Jan, 381.
Bishop, Joshua, 424.
Bison, Jean Baptiste, 347.
Bisschop, Anna, 485.
Bissel, Elizabeth C., 465.
Bissell, Celia, 756.
Bisset, Andrew, 409.
Blaau, 425.
Cornelia, 693.
Henry, 693.
Juriaen, 693.
Sarah, 693.
William, 693.
Black, William Leslie, 470.
Blackington, Juline, 731.
Blackledge. Elizabeth, 686.
Peter, 618.
Sarah, 454.
Blackstone, 416.
Blackwell, Joseph, 819.
Blaeck, Jacob, 696.
Jacob Jansen, 205.
Janneke, 696.
Blagge, 824.
Benjamin, 783.
E., 829.
Edward, 594, 783, 821.
Martha, 783,
Samuel, 783.
Blain, Mary, 789.
Samuel, 727.
Blanch, John, 454.
Richard, 684.
842
INDEX.
Blanchan, 104, 184.
Catherine, 183.
Elizabeth, 183, 184.
Madelaine, 148.
Madeleine, 183, 184.
Matthew, 148, 183.
Matthieu, 103.
Nicholas, 184.
Blanchard, 712.
Blanck, Elsie, 368.
Jurian, 368.
Blank, Nicholas, 158.
Blann, Rachel, 479.
Blauvelt, 626.
Abraham, 363.
Abraham A., 460.
Addie A., 766.
Annatye, 709.
Catherine, 615.
Catrina, 626.
Cornelius, 461, 616.
Elizabeth, 615.
Geertje, 639.
Gerrit Hendrickse, 363.
Grietie, 638.
Grietje, 449.
Hendrick, 363.
Hendrick Gerritsen, 692.
Henry, 462.
Hubartus, 682.
Huybert, 363.
Isaac, 363, 449, 450.
Jacob I., 617.
Jacobus, 683.
James, 461.
Johannes, 363.
John, 685, 711.
Joseph N., 460.
Lea, 450.
Margaret, 638, 685.
Maria, 450, 456.
Mary, 682.
Nelson, 442.
Richard D., 790.
Teunis, 638.
Verontjer, 626.
Bleecker, Catrina, 364.
Jan Jansen (Hon.), 97, 364.
Bleeker, Anthony J., 819.
Bloem, Arent, 128.
Frederick Arents, 128.
Jacob, 128.
Johannes, 128.
Pieter, 128.
Blom, Abraham, 128.
Barbara, 128.
Barent, 128.
Barent Jansen, 127.
Barent Jensen, 128.
Beruardus, 128.
Claes, 128.
Claes Barentse, 128.
Dominie, 183.
Elizabeth, 128.
Engeltie, 128.
Garret, 128.
George, 128.
Isaac, 128.
Jacob, 128.
Jan, 128.
Jan Barentsen, 128.
Jane, 128.
Jennetie, 128.
John, 128.
Maria, 128.
Mattie, 128.
Nicholas, 128.
Phebe, 128.
Simon, 128.
Tutie, 128.
Bloodgood, Adriana, 698.
Frances, 698.
Frans, 698.
Frans Jansen (Capt.), 698.
Geertie, 698.
Isabella, 698.
John, 698.
Judith, 698.
Lysbeth, 698.
Neeltie, 695, 698.
William, 698.
Bloom, Bernardus (Capt.), 128.
Elizabeth, 787.
Frederick, 787.
Frederick A., 787.
Bloomer, Mary Ann, 628.
Bloomfield, Charlotte, 717.
Phebe, 700.
Bloomingdale, Susan, 736.
Blot, Pierre (Prof.), 13.
Blum, 776.
Boardman, Helen Lyman, 473.
Boch, 343.
Conrad Hendricks, 278, 320, 328, 341, 342.
Jan Hendrick, 249.
Jan Hendricks, 328.
Bodine, Abraham, 581.
Mary, 583.
Phebe, 584.
Boelen, Henricus, 692.
Isaac, 692.
Boener, William, 675.
Boers, Cornelius, 697.
Bogardus, 128.
Ann, 486.
Aseneth, 518.
Dominie, 130, 142, 151, 152.
Everardus, 154.
Gilbert, 631.
Phebe C., 631.
Robert, 658, 722.
Bogart, Albert, 69.
Aris, 790.
John, 69.
Roelof, 69.
Vincent D. L. M., 790.
Bogert, 105, 123, 205, 271, 279, 281, 282, 285,
296, 375, 424, 426, 592, 786, 808, 817.
Abegail Anna, 468.
Abigail, 456, 462, 463.
Abraham, 455, 457, 461.
Adeline, 468, 472.
Adeline Matilda, 472.
Adrian, 787.
Adriann, 458, 464.
Albert M., 455, 461.
Alexander Glass, 468, 473, 474.
Alexander J., 465.
Alice, 470, 472, 474.
Alice Wheeler, 474.
Alida, 470.
Alida Ann, 464.
Alida Louisa, 473.
Alida Ritzema, 464.
Allida, 457.
Alwyn, 465.
Amelia, 463.
Ann, 459, 462.
Ann Amelia, 463.
Ann Eliza, 464.
Ann Maria. 469.
Ann Schuyler, 465.
Anna, 473.
Anna (Anaetje), 454.
Anna (Annatje), 453.
Anna Bykbee, 473.
Anna Demarest, 459.
Anna Maria, 471.
Annatje, 452, 453, 456, 457.
Annatje (Nancy), 457.
INDEX.
843
Bogert, Anneckie, 450.
Annetie, 451.
Annetje, 458.
Augusta, 470.
Beeltje, 452.
Beletje, 458.
Belitje, 452.
Belitje (Isabell), 453.
Belletjie, 450.
Bellitie, 410.
Benjamin, 466.
Benjamin S., 460, 466.
Bernard O'Blenis, 670.
Betsy, 460.
Camella Dameron, 470.
Caroline Lawrence, 475.
Casparis, 455.
Catalina, 449.
Catharina (Catrina), 454.
Catherina, 450, 451.
Catherine, 448, 459, 466, 467.
Catherine Elizabeth, 467, 468.
Cathlyntye, 455.
Catrina (Catherine), 456.
Charles, 470.
Charles Clark, 472.
Charles Ludlow, 469, 473.
Charles Van Valen, 467, 472.
Charles William, 469.
Charlotte Ritzema, 474.
Chester, 472.
Christiaan, 459.
Christina, 471.
Claas (Nicholas), 449, 450.
Claes, 205, 220.
Claes (Nicholas), 448.
Clarence, 472.
Clarence M., 474.
Clark, 471.
Collingwood, 469.
Cora, 471.
Cornelia, 393, 448, 450, 453, 458, 459, 463,
464, 465, 467, 470, 471, 565.
Cornelia Henrietta, 469.
Cornelis, 463.
Cornelius, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455,
457, 458, 459, 460. 462, 464, 466, 467, 496.
Cornelius Gerret, 451, 456.
Cornelius J., 457, 463.
Cornelius N., 459.
Cornelius Robert (Dr.), 469.
David, 459, 465, 466.
David C., 471.
David Ritzema, 457.
David Schuyler, 459, 465.
David Vanvalen, 462.
Dorotea, 453.
Douwe, 450.
Edith, 472, 475.
Edward Beadle, 473.
Edward Clark, 469.
Edward Hyer, 470.
Edward L., 463.
Edward Langdon, 472, 475.
Edward Langdon, Jr., 475.
Edward Ludlow, 473.
Edward Osgood, 475.
Edward Sandford, 474.
Edwin, 468.
Elisabeth (Elizabeth), 455.
Eliza, 463, 466.
Elizabet (Elizabeth), 457, 458.
Elizabeth, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 460,
463, 465, 468, 474.
Elizabeth Ann, 465, 470.
Elizabeth Caroline, 471.
Elizabeth Ross, 464.
Ella, 467.
Ella Lavinia, 467.
Ellistina Potter, 470.
Bogert, Elmer, 471.
Eloise Lawrence, 463.
Elsie, 475.
Emily Eliza, 470.
Emily Franklin, 473.
Emily Louise, 473.
Emily Ritzema, 464.
Emma, 471.
Eugene, 465.
Eugenia, 470.
Euphemia, 466.
Evert, 449.
Fannie Adelia, 467.
Frances Hoyt, 475.
Frances Lawrence, 473.
Frances Nelson, 474.
Francis Bouquet, 468.
Fytie (Sophia), 450, 451.
Fytye (Sophia), 455.
Garret, 467.
Geertye (Gertrude), 459.
George A., 473.
George Clark, 464, 470.
George Howe, 472.
George W., 469, 473.
George Washington, 469.
Georgiana, 470.
Gerret, 454, 456, 462.
Gerret J., 461.
Gerrit, 450, 453.
Gerrit J., 455.
Grace Augusta, 472.
Grietje, 454.
Grietje (Margaret), 451, 455, 456.
Gysbert, 448, 449, 451, 455, 579.
Harry Howe (Rev.), 472, 475.
Harry Howe, Jr., 475.
Harriet L., 463.
Harriet Lawrence, 474.
Helen, 474.
Helen Holbrook, 474.
Helen North, 475.
Helena (Lena), 458.
Helena Maria, 464.
Helena Ritzema, 457.
Helena Strachan, 457.
Hendrick, 410, 449, 452, 453, 457, 695.
Hendricus, 453, 459.
Henrietta Ann, 470.
Henrietta Mills, 464.
Henry, 460. 465, 466. 467, 495.
Henry Augustine, 469, 473.
Henry C. (Hendrick), 452.
Henry Kneeland, 463, 469, 473.
Henry Lawrence, 473, 475.
Henry Lawrence, Jr., 475.
Henry M., 461.
Henry Van Valen, 467.
Hetty (Hester), 459.
Hibernia J., 473.
Horatio G., 464, 470.
Huyler, 467, 472.
Isabel, 472.
Isabel Duncan, 474.
Isabella (Belitjie), 452.
Jacob, 455, 462, 466, 467.
Jacob M., 461, 467.
Jacob S., 460, 467.
Jacobus, 450, 452, 454, 457, 458, 462.
Jacobus (James), 456.
Jacobus Smith, 465.
James, 458, 465, 467, 471, 474.
James (or Jacobus), 460.
James Benezet, 468, 472.
James, Jr., 363, 462, 468, 799.
James Lawrence, 463, 473.
James Nichols, 470.
James T., 469.
Jan, 451.
Jan (John), 458.
844
INDEX.
Bogert, Jan (John N.), 457, 463.
Jan Louwe,, 98, 258, 274, 290, 332, 334, 360,
362, 363, 373, 389, 403, 406, 407, 412, 413,
416, 429, 447, 448, 565, 816.
Jane, 461, 462, 466, 467, 469, 609.
Janneke, 696..Jannetie (Tanneke), 449.
Jannetje, 455.
Jenneke, 448.
Jeremiah, 456, 462, 686.
Jeremias, 456.
Jessie, 472.
John, 438, 449, 451, 452, 458, 459, 466, 470,
819.
John (Jan), 449.
John (Johannes), 452.
John Banta, 465, 470, 471.
John G., 463, 469, 799.
John J., 456.
John Jacob, 466.
John, Jr., 431, 432, 435, 456, 462, 468, 606,
799.
John Lawrence, 473.
John Louwe, 292, 593, 791, 817.
John M., 466, 471.
John Nichols, 464, 470.
John Ritzema, 464.
John Vreeland, 470.
John W., 471.
Johannes, 448, 451, 454, 455, 462, 467.
Johannes P., 449, 450.
Johannis, 450, 454, 455, 459, 461.
Josephine, 467.
Judith, 458.
Julia, 472.
Julia Hamilton, 473.
Kate Bissell, 471.
Katharina, 459.
Katherine, 475.
Katherine Augusta, 472.
Katherine Knapp, 470.
Lawrence, 451, 474.
Lawrence (Lourens), 449.
Lawrence Kimball, 468, 472.
Lawrence Kimble, 473.
Leah, 451, 461.
Leah (Helena), 455, 456.
Leah E., 467.
Lilly M., 473.
Louis, 470.
Lydia Ann, 467.
Mabel, 471.
Maggie, 470.
Margaret, 448, 450, 452, 454, 458, 459, 460,
461, 471, 480, 618.
Margaret (Grietie), 455.
Margaret (Margrietje), 454, 455.
Margaret Ann, 480.
Margaret Jane, 471.
Margrietje, 451, 453.
Maria, 449, 450, 451, 453, 454, 455, 457, 458,
459, 461, 462, 463.
Maria (Margaret), 451.
Maria (Polly), 454.
Maria Augusta, 467.
Maria Klyn, 460.
Marie, 472.
Marie Nelson, 475.
Maritie, 454.
Marragrietje (Margaret), 462.
Marretje, 454.
Marritye, 450.
Marston Taylor, 473.
Mary, 451, 460.
Mary (Maria), 449.
Mary Ann, 461.
Mary Anna, 469.
Mary Benezet, 469, 472.
Mary C. Ford, 471.
Mary E., 473.
Bogert, Mary Eliza, 469.
Mary Elizabeth, 463, 469, 470, 474.
Mary Emma, 471.
Mary Frances, 468.
Mary Lawrence, 463, 473.
Mary Ludlow, 475.
Marytje, 449.
Marytje (Maria), 456.
Martha, 461.
Martin, 496.
Martyntje (Martha), 461.
Materis, 454.
Materis (Matthew), 450.
Matthew, 450, 466, 471.
Matthew (Mattheus), 454.
Matthew D., 465.
Matthew J., 467, 471.
Matthew M., 461.
Matthew M. (Mattheus), 455.
Matthew P., 449, 459, 465, 471.
Matthew P. (Matheus), 454.
Matthew S., 460, 466.
Mr., 456.
Mrs., 282.
Muton, 471.
Myndert, 447.
Neeltje, 458.
Nicholas, 451, 452, 453, 456, 457, 458, 464.
Nicholas (Klaas), 449.
Nicholas C., 453, 458, 459.
Nicholas P., 453, 459.
Nicholas P. (Captain), 713.
Nora, 470.
Orlando Gordon, 469.
Orlando M., 465, 470.
Orlando M., Jr., 474.
Orlando Myndert, Jr., 470.
Otho Klemm, 470.
P., 346.
Peter, 448, 450, 454, 457, 459, 460, 463, 467,
469, 471.
Peter Byvanck, 463.
Peter M., 454, 459, 465.
Peter P., 449, 450.
Petrus, 450, 451, 453, 455, 461.
Philander, 463.
Pieter Jansen, 342, 394.
Pieter M., 450.
Rachel, 452, 456, 460, 461.
Rachel Ann, 467.
Ralph Goodwin, 472.
Richard D., 471.
Robert, 463.
Robert Thurston, 469.
Roelof, 454, 455, 461.
Rosana R., 467.
Rudolphus, 457, 464, 469.
Rudolphus Ritzema, 469, 474.
Russel Graffe, 468.
Sallie (Sarah), 461.
Sally, 461, 466.
Samuel, 451, 460, 466.
Samuel M., 460, 466.
Samuel P., 454, 460.
Sara, 454, 456.
Sarah, 450, 452, 455, 461, 462, 466, 467, 470.
Sarah Ann, 462.
Sarah Jane, 467.
Sarah Maria, 467.
Seba, 460, 465, 466.
Seba (Seiba), 454.
Seba (Siba), 460.
Seba M., 466, 471.
Sophia, 461, 467.
Sophia (Fytie), 454.
Sophia Margaretta, 464.
Susannah, 453, 464.
Stephen, 620.
Teunis Gysbert, 274.
Teuntie, 692.
INDEX.
845
Bogert, Theodore Lawrence, 473.
Theodore Loomis, 475.
Theodore Parker, 472, 474.
Theodore Parker (Peacock), 474.
Theodore Peacock, 468, 472.
Theunis Gysberts, 98.
Thomas Johnston, 470.
Thomas Lawrence, 463, 469.
Thomas S., 473.
Victorine Bissell, 471.
Viola, 474.
Virgil, 472.
Walter, 470.
Walter Lawrence, 473.
Walter Lovell, 472.
Willem (William), 455.
Willempje, 455.
Willemtie, 449.
William, 458.
William Benezet, 474, 475.
William Benezet, Jr., 475.
William Henry, 465, 466, 469, 470, 474.
William Henry Peet, 470, 474.
William Russell, 472, 475.
William Russell, Jr., 475.
William Strachen, 464.
Boice, David, 520.
Bokee. Abraham, 428, 429, 477.
Catalina, 429.
Jacomina, 477, 478.
Maria, 428.
Bolmer, William, 480.
Bolt, Frederick, 637.
Bolton, Mr., 120.
Bomberger, Ann, 586.
Bond, Stephen B., 666.
Bonnell, Edward, 660.
Bonnet, Fannie, 647.
Bont, 134.
Willem, 140, 164.
Willem Fredericks, 91, 140.
Bookhoolts, Jan, 204.
Boon, Matthys, 183, 253, 310, 796.
Boone, Carrie N., 773.
Claes, 162.
Frank, 525.
Jannetie, 162.
Booraem, Cornelius, 587.
Booth, John, 650, 762.
Boots, John, 722.
Bouquet (Bokee), Jannetie, 204.
Jerome, 105, 204.
Bordelo, Jacques, 104.
Bordier, M., 13.
Bornstra, Gertrude, 90.
Margareta, 90.
Borst, Elizabeth, 719.
Bos (Terbosch), Jan, 320.
Bosch, Hendrick, 236, 241, 366, 368, 373, 394,
697.
Bostwick, Stanley, 739.
Bosyns, Maria, 545.
Botack, Robert, 79.
Bottomley, Alice, 753.
Bouche, Simon, 100.
Bouchelle, Susanna, 359.
Bouchter, Sarah, 569.
Boudewyns, Gillis, 293.
Boudewynsen, Gillis, 281.
Bough, John D., 718.
Boulen, Marie, 100.
Bouton, Mary C., 540.
Bowen, Charles W., 750.
Bowers, Henry, Jr., 606.
Mrs., 606.
Bowie, Thomas, 717.
Bowman, Albert L., 541.
Matilda, 569, 739.
Bowne, Abigail, 819.
Samuel, 819.
Boyce, Mary, 714.
Boyer, Eugene J., 575.
Boyle, Robert, 707.
Brackenbury, Sarah, 738.
Bradbury, Isaac M., 742.
Bradford, 80.
Jacob, 799.
Tamer, 751.
Bradhurst, Dr., 818.
Jonathan, 427.
Samuel, 581, 826.
Samuel (Dr.), 565, 818.
Bradley, Henry, 805.
Henry K., 757.
Samuel, 805.
Samuel (Capt.), 381, 805.
Thomas (Capt.), 251.
Bradshaw, Geo. (Capt.), 155.
Bradus, Cornelia, 453, 458.
Brady, 172.
William, 348, 649.
Bragaw, Isaac, 716.
Maria, 788.
Brahe, Tycho, 425.
Braithwaite, Mrs., 13, 813.
Brand, Daniel, 787.
Brandon, Capt., 749.
Brasher, Abraham, 456, 567.
Elizabeth, 452.
Bratt, Derick, 701.
Storm, 200.
Brayman, William, 508.
Brazier, Frances, 700.
Henry, 804.
Breath, Katherine, 492.
Brees, Hendrick, 320.
Breese, Maria, 494.
Bresba, Roger, 525.
Breteau, Francis, 332.
Francois, 332, 346.
John, 332.
Brett, Agnietie, 622, 624.
Philip M., 464.
William, 624.
Brevoort, 373, 605.
Abraham, 410, 478, 479, 480.
Abraham Nicholson, 480.
Aefjee, 478.
Aejje, 478.
Alice, 481.
Alice Renwick, 482.
Anecke (Anna), 478.
Ann, 480.
Anna, 479.
Annecke, 478.
Annie, 481.
Catharina, 480.
Catherine, 479.
Charlotte, 479.
Constable, 407, 416.
Constance Irving, 481.
Edith, 481.
Edward Renwick, 481, 482.
Elias, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481.
Elizabeth, 480, 481.
Elizabeth Neville, 480.
Emily, 481.
Florence Edith, 482.
Grietje, 478.
Hendrick, 477, 478, 545, 791.
Hendrickje, 477, 478.
Hendrickus, 478, 479.
Hendricus, 480.
Henricus, 479.
Henry, 478, 479, 480, 481, 500.
Henry Leffert, 481.
Henry Seely, 481.
Henry Wortley, 481.
Hester, 479.
Isaac, 479.
846
INDEX.
Brevoort, J. Carson (Mrs.), 428.
Jacob, 478.
Jacomintie, 479.
Jacomyntje, 479.
James Carson, 480, 481.
James Renwick, 481, 482.
Jan Hendricks, 298, 342, 347, 370, 414, 415,
476.
Jane, 481.
Jannetie, 298, 477.
Jeminia, 479.
Johannes, 478.
John, 478, 479, 480, 796, 800, 801, 803.
John (Johannes), 479.
John Butler, 482.
John Hendrick, 790.
John Hendricks, 475, 476, 477.
Latisse, 478.
Laura, 481.
Laura Whetten, 480.
Lea, 479.
Louisa, 479.
Margaret Claudia, 480.
Margaretje, 478.
Margrietje, 479.
Maria, 478, 479, 480.
Marritie, 477.
Martje, 478.
Mary, 298.
Mary Stewart, 481.
Nicholaas, 479.
Permile, 480.
Rosamond Renwick, 482.
Sarah, 481.
Susette Terhune, 482.
Victor, 482.
Willemientie, 480.
William Augustus, 480.
William Whetten, 480, 481.
Brewer, 80.
Brewster,, 80.
Eliza, 724.
Mary, 525.
Brice, George, 541.
Brickel, George F., 619.
Brickers, Thomas, 347.
Bries, Hendrick, 96.
Hendrick Volkertsen, 96.
Briggs, Louisa A., 611.
Mary, 790.
Walter, 488.
Brinckerhoff, Elbert A., 661.
George, 156.
Maria, 705.
Sarah, 156.
Stephen, 704.
Brindle, Ora Maharry, 674.
Brink, Abram N., 530.
Elizabeth, 499.
Mary, 504.
Brinkerhoff, Derick, 697.
Margaret,,441.
Brison, Mary Kanouse, 440, 443.
Bristed, Charles Astor, 480.
Britt, Elizabeth, 488.
Britton, William, 270.
Broadhead, Magdalena, 503.
Brodhead, Mary, 788.
Richard, 148.
Brodt, Judith, 719.
Brogaine, William V., 751.
Brokaw, Maria, 782.
Matilda, 700.
Bronck, 135, 136, 154.
Jonas, 92, 133, 134, 140, 142, 384, 385.
Jonas (Mrs.), 277.
Peter Jonassen, 142.
Bronson, Montraville, 753.
Brooks, Arthur Lee, 666.
James, 724.
Brooks, Jonathan, 646.
Martin Van B., 442.
Samuel, 442.
Broot, Charles, 736.
Brouk, Anna, 540.
Broussard, Saviat, 410.
Brouwer, Cornelius T., 464.
Jacob, 247.
Jacob Elderts, 183.
Sarah, 456.
Brower, Abraham, 350.
Adam, 220.
Jacob, 787.
John D., 461.
Marritie, 220.
Mary, 645.
Mrs., 348.
Theophilus, 457.
Ulderrick, 347.
Brower (Brewster), 630.
Brown, Abigail, 803.
Abraham, 644.
Elizabeth, 569, 572.
Evert, 424, 552.
George, 556.
George E., 753.
H. Leslie, 668.
Hannah, 552, 554.
Harriet, 656.
Harriet M., 739.
James, 790.
Jane, 630.
John, 625, 706, 807.
Joseph 0., 321.
Mary, 480, 489, 750.
Mary Kingsland, 492.
Mr., 466.
Myrtie, 446.
Samuel, 783.
Sarah, 488.
Brundige, Mary, 789.
Brunneal, Catherine, 699.
Brunston, Rachel, 434.
Brush, John, 460.
Nelson, 440.
Bruyn, Evert, 486, 549.
Gerrit, 615.
Mary, 484, 486.
Rebecca, 789.
Bruynsen, Hage, 107, 235, 251, 368.
Hermanus, 236.
Bryant, Alanson F., 519.
Elizabeth, 697.
Brytseit, Maria, 626.
Buchanan, 340.
Buchman, Sylvester, 760.
Buckhout, 204.
Peter, 204, 261.
Phebe, 720.
Buckley, Amanda, 714.
Buell, Charles, 526.
Luther H., 526.
Phebe 0., 526.
Buffum, Elizabeth, 788.
Bugby, Hannah, 639.
Buhl, Benjamin S., 764.
Bulderen, Gertrude, 188.
Bulen, Alexander, 703.
Bull, Nathan, 520.
Bullis, William, 508.
Bulson, Abraham, 724.
Bundy, John W., 528.
Bunn (Bon), Mary (Maria), 605.
Bunnell, Mary, 657.
Bunschoten, Elias, 148.
Burbanks, t:mily, 518.
Burdett, Walter S., 669.
Burdione, Anna E., 772.
Burger, Carsten, 692.
Elizabeth, 393.
INDEX.
847
Burger, Engeltie, 385.
John, 410.
Joris, 310.
Nicholas, 410.
Burhans, Barent, 148.
Burket, Catharine A., 574.
Elizabeth Jane, 574.
Burnham, Dr., 753.
Mary, 753.
Burns, Ann, 505.
Burr, David, 656.
Grissel, 436, 440.
Burrill, Ebenezer, 826.
John E., 661.
Burroughs, Elizabeth, 520.
Lydia, 723.
Burt, C. S., 762.
Burtch, Mary, 444.
Burton (Benton), Lavinia R., 734.
Bush, 270.
Albert, 367, 368.
Albertus Conradus, 368.
Anna Maria, 368.
Casparus, 368.
Cornelia, 368.
Dorothy, 368.
Gerrit, 368.
Henry, 765.
Hillegond, 368.
Jeremiah, 610.
Joshua, 368.
Julia, 517.
Jurian, 368.
Justus, 368.
Maggie, 755.
Matilda, 688.
Samuel, 368.
Bussing, 172, 203, 230, 238, 302, 352, 424, 425,
494, 546, 636, 795, 800, 803, 826.
Aaron, 230, 274, 298, 438, 483, 484, 485, 487,
489, 602, 604, 797, 800, 802, 818, 824.
Abraham, 484, 485, 487, 488, 489, 490, 492,
607, 803.
Abraham Barker, 490.
Abraham V. N., 492.
Adam, 492.
Adolph, 488, 490.
Aeltie, 484, 602.
Alexander, 484.
Amanda, 493.
Andrew Teneick, 492.
Ann, 489, 493.
Anna, 484, 486, 487, 490.
Arena Harmans, 295.
Arent, 333, 345, 429, 484, 485, 486, 545, 564,
607, 697, 698, 797, 801, 803, 810, 817, 818,
821, 828, 829, 830.
Arent H., 827, 828.
Arent Itarmans, 93, 201, 242, 278, 301, 310,
316, 389, 403, 406, 408, 482, 603, 791, 816.
Arent Harmanse, 483, 495.
Arent Harmens, 297.
Arent Hermens, 364, 377.
Arent Hermensen, 329.
Betsy Hannah, 489.
Caroline A., 491.
Catalyna, 490.
Catherine, 274, 485, 491.
Charlotte S., 491.
Christian, 492.
Cornelia, 493.
Daniel Schuyler, 491.
Dirck, 483.
Edith, 493.
Edmund Kingsland, 490, 492.
Elizabeth, 429, 483, 487, 488, 491, 492.
Elizabeth Mesier, 490.
Ellen Rebecca, 492.
Emma, 491.
Engelite, 483.
Bussing, Engeltie, 600.
Eva, 485.
Eve, 484.
Evert, 486.
Florence, 493.
Geesie, 594.
Geesie (Gertrude), 483.
George, 493.
George H., 489, 491.
Georgianna, 491.
Gerrett, 487.
Hannah, 493.
Harman, 483, 484, 488, 489, 491, 787.
Harmanus, 487, 489.
Harvey, 491.
Harvey Hyer, 489, 491.
Helena, 488.
Hendrik, 487.
Herman, 486.
Hester, 487.
Hyer, 489.
Isaac, 484, 486, 489.
Jacobus, 485, 486, 487.
James, 489.
Jane, 487, 489, 490, 491.
Jane Ann, 491.
Jennie, 493.
Johannes, 487, 490.
John, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490,
491, 492, 493, 564.
John Legrange, 492.
John M., 490, 492.
John N., 491.
John S.. 492, 493.
John Schermerhorn, 490, 492.
Julia A., 492.
Kate, 493.
Margaret, 483, 488, 490, 492, 564.
Maria, 298, 485, 486, 487, 605.
Maria (Mary), 489.
Maria Ann, 492.
Marten, 492.
Martha, 493.
Martha Jane, 493.
Mary, 408, 484, 486, 488, 491, 492, 493.
Mary (Corson), 491.
Mary (Maria), 486.
Mary Ann, 489.
Mary Wilkinson, 490.
Marytje, 490.
Maude, 493.
Nancy, 484.
Peter, 430, 431, 433, 482, 483, 484, 486, 487,
488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 545, 565, 602, 603,
636, 642, 797, 800, 801, 818, 824.
Peter (Pieter), 487.
Peter (Rev.), 490, 492.
Peter Valentine, 492.
Rebecca, 485, 486, 489, 704.
Rebecca D., 490.
Robert Spier, 492, 493.
Robert Spier, Jr., 493.
Samuel, 490.
Sara, 487.
Sarah, 484, 485, 486, 487, 489.
Sarah (Susan), 488.
Sarah A., 493.
Sarah Elizabeth, 493.
Sarah G., 491.
Sarah Maria, 491.
Susan, 485, 490.
Susanna, 487.
Susannah, 430, 483, 484, 487, 489, 490, 491,
606, 607, 787.
Timothy, 488.
Timothy (Timotheus), 486.
William, 486, 489, 491.
William C., 488.
William J., 492.
Butcher, John, 809.
848
INDEX.
Butler, Amos, 596.
John A., 481.
Mary Lewis, 481.
Button, Etienne, 365.
Jacques, 347.
Maria, 350.
Buur, Jan Hendricks, 148.
Buys, Aert P., 202.
Aert Pietersen, 183, 201, 203, 275, 641.
Aert Pieterz, 218.
Cornelis, 96.
Cornelis Aertse, 201.
Cornelis Aertsen, 203.
Eliza, 548.
Francis, 692.
Jacob, 347.
Jan Pieters, 277.
Jan Pietersen, 249.
Job. Pietersen, 203, 242.
Johannes, 96, 204, 219.
Johannes Piet'n, 201.
Johannes Pietersz, 240.
John, 546, 594.
Peter, 96.
Rebecca, 345.
Byrkit, F. K., 776.
Byrnes, Edward, 723.
Ellen, 770.
Byron, George, 725.
Harriet, 724.
Byvanck, Peter, 456.
C
Caden, John, 717.
Calame, Elise, 662.
Calden, Jane, 648.
Caldwell, Elizabeth, 505.
Call, Anthony, 711.
Callanan, John, 13.
Callow, Stephen, 788.
Calvin, 11.
Cammega, Anna, 604.
Hendrick, 347, 604.
Hendrick Jansz, 681.
Cammel, Christian, 684.
Campbell, 736.
Adolph W., 610.
George W., 764.
John, 687.
John R. (Dr.), 714.
Lucas, 638.
Peter C., 466.
Robert, 767.
Thomas, 744.
William, 451, 454.
William D., 617.
Caner, Edward A., 663.
Cannon, 775.
Hester, 565.
James S., (Dr.), 479.
John, 565.
Canon, Abraham, 350.
Canterbury, 494.
Cantine, Abraham, 502.
Daniel, 502.
Capito, Matthys, 259.
Carbosie, 303, 304, 375.
Brieta, 374, 389.
David, 375.
Gabriel, 293, 302, 340, 374, 389.
Card, Mary, 750.
Carhart, Jane, 733.
Carl, Margaret, 752.
Carle, Joseph, 583.
Carleton, Dudley (Sir), 81, 82, 117.
Carlisle, James L., 771.
Carlock, Simon, 617.
Carlton, Phebe, 586.
Carman, Isaac, 534.
Carmen, Nicholas, 693.
Carpenter, George, 741.
Mrs., 656.
Carr, Ervilla, 630.
Lillian, 576.
Carroll, James, 298, 562.
Carsense, Hendrick, 598.
Carson, Charles, 741.
Laura, 480.
Carsten, Claes, 145, 273, 302, 360.
Cartaret, 605.
James (Capt.)-, 323.
Carter, Clara Sherwood, 775.
Jane, 526.
Mary Ann, 656.
Zebulon (Capt.), 217.
Carteret, 13, 205, 323, 372, 797, 803, 813.
Captain, 323, 324, 340, 342, 346, 355.
Elizabeth, 810.
Frances, 811.
George, 810, 811.
George (Sir), 322, 360.
James, 397, 601, 811, 812.
James (Captain), 13, 321, 322, 339, 342,
359, 360, 378, 394, 809, 810.
James (Mrs.), 809.
Mrs., 359.
Philip (Capt.), 322.
Philip (Governor), 322.
Cartier, 11, 76.
Carver, 80.
Cary, John, 729.
William, 790.
Case, Carrie, 660.
Robert, 723.
Cashow, 204.
Casier, 47, 50, 61, 270, 622.
Elizabeth, 198.
Hester, 198.
Jacques, 198.
Jean, 198, 201, 203.
Jean (Mrs.), 200.
Maria, 200.
Marie, 104.
Peter, 198.
Philip, 47, 65, 190, 194, 195, 198, 200, 205,
221, 272, 621, 791, 797, 800.
Philippe, 103, 183, 186, 193.
Sarah, 198.
Sophia, 198.
Widow, 800.
Cass, Fanny R., 690.
Cassidy, Margaret, 762.
Castang, Judith, 428.
Cavalier, Peter Gerard, 368.
Chaigneux, Pierre, 220.
Chamberlain, Edwin B., 489.
Martha, 668.
Chambers, John, 807.
Sarah, 498.
Thomas, 148.
William, 498.
Champlain, 11.
Chapin, Sarah, 667.
Chapman, Olive, 509.
Chappell, William, 638.
Chardavoyne, Jane Magdalena, 653.
William W., 647.
Chartier, Francis, 272.
Chase, Laura, 519.
Liddie, 734.
Martin V., 752.
Nelson, 562.
Chatterton, 658.
Jane, 687.
Chauncey, Isaac (Com.), 298.
Cheethen, Matilda, 465.
Cheney, William, 657.
Cherrytree, Stephen F., 519.
INDEX.
Chesire, Jane, 513.
Chesterman, 172, 794.
James, 172, 579, 705.
Chevalier, Samuel, 589.
Chichester, Fred L., 773.
Romette, 632.
Childs, Evander, 646.
S. W., 762.
Choat, Joseph S., 538.
Cholwell, Jacob, 465.
Christancy, Hannah.
Christeen, Sarah, 788.
Christiaens, Barent, 234.
Christie, Hannah, 460, 466.
James, 350.
Margaret, 460,
Maria, 451.
Peter W., 460.
Christie (Volk), Agnes, 685.
Christopher, Aaron, 667.
Maria, 619.
Church, Dewitt C., 759.
Owin, 555.
Citti, Caroline A., 524.
Claes, Thysie, 427.
Claessen, 106, 190, 200, 333, 342, 797.
Claesie, 234.
Derick, 191, 195, 205, 234, 791, 800, 803.
Dirck, 183, 186, 199, 219, 221, 545.
Geertie, 234.
Gisberta, 234.
Jacob, 277.
Jannetie, 234, 545.
John, 277, 278.
Marritie, 155.
Mary, 278.
Matthias, 278.
Matthys, 277, 278.
Pieter, 293, 294.
Sibout, 146, 166, 247.
Valentine, 219, 234, 239, 240, 242, 277, 306,
797, 800.
Clark, Abigail D., 451.
Ann, 457.
Cornelius, 537.
Daniel D., 461.
Delvina, 526.
Effie, 647.
Elizabeth, 466.
John, 551.
John G., 528.
Mary, 486, 725.
Mary Louise, 747.
Patrick, 707.
Rachel Beach, 654.
Ralph, 468.
Samuel (Colonel), 791.
Sarah, 460.
Theodocia, 791.
Clarke, Caroline F., 759.
Gerardus, 469.
Claus, David J., 745.
Claypole, Norton, 367.
Cleveland, Nettie A., 540.
Clinton, George, 607.
George (Governor), 428.
Cloos, Rachel, 101, 221, 292.
Clopper, Cornelis, 431.
Johannes, 431.
Margaret, 431.
Peter, 806.
Clute, F. N., 168.
Francina, 295.
Frederick, 295.
Frederick N., 169.
Helen, 719.
Nicholas F., 169.
Coats, Mary, 527.
Cochran, Mr., 531.
Coddington, Mrs., 813.
Codington, Margaret, 628.
Codrington, Captain, 353.
Margaret, 807, 808.
Thomas, 353, 367, 378, 807.
Coe, 49.
Amanda L., 752.
John, 710.
Coen, Adrian Dircksen, 311.
Coenraet, 694.
Coenraets, Femmetle, 251, 269, 310.
Coerten, 494.
Meyndert, 183, 187, 189, 193, 493.
Coeymans, Andries, 427.
Barent Pietersen, 427.
Jannetie, 427.
Coffin, Ann, 371.
Cogu, 353, 798.
Jan, 183, 186, 190, 194, 201, 203, 225,
246, 333, 797.
Cole, Henry, 783.
Isaac, 682.
Isaac (Rev.), 466.
Julia Anna, 466.
Martha, 571.
Mary, 506, 665.
Maryetta L., 742.
Coleman, John, 112.
Philetus, 752.
Samuel, 725.
Coles, John B., 238.
Colevelt, Johanna, 380.
Laurens, 271, 380.
Laurens Jansen, 692.
Coley, Mary Ellen, 529.
Coligny, 11.
Admiral, 38.
Collard, Benton, 763.
Collidge, Frederick W., 480.
Collister, Anna, 715.
Colonius, 84.
Daniel, 74.
Colthar, 693.
Colton, Harriet, 533.
Colve, A., 310.
Anthony (Governor), 305, 306.
Governor, 312, 317, 382, 385.
Colwell, William H. (Mrs.), 385.
Comstock, Elsie, 469.
Harriet, 661.
Concini, 42.
Concklin, Tobias, 424.
Congreve, 826.
Captain, 408, 799, 823, 824, 829, 830.
Charles, 821, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830.
Charles (Captain), 637, 698, 795.
Conklin, Mary, 709.
Matthew, 618.
Rebecca, 724,
Conner, Elizabeth, 690.
Connor, Catherine, Z., 466, 471.
Conover, Amanda, 661.
Conrad, Harriet, 530.
Conselyea, 204, 205, 613.
John, 205, 220.
Margaret, 205, 220.
Peter, 205.
Convers, 771.
Cook, David, 526.
Thomas F. (M. D.), 784.
Cool, Jacob, 682.
Cooley, A. J., 762.
Coon, Daniel, 518.
Coonley, 751.
Cooper, Cornelia, 791.
Coopman, Barbara, 453.
Cope, Eliza A., 523.
Copstaff, John, 409.
Cordaz, 789.
Corey, Augusta, 735.
Cornbury, 826.
849
237,
850
INDEX.
Cornbury, Governor, 805, 826.
Corne, Eliza, 551.
Peter (Capt.), 294.
Cornelis, Ariaentie, 209.
Jenneke, 641.
Metje, 430, 433, 563, 592, 795, 797, 800, 801,
803, 816, 817, 825, 827, 828, 830.
Cornelisse, Lourens, 829.
Metje, 623.
Mettie, 810.
Cornelissen, Laurens, 563, 821, 830.
Matthys, 229.
Metje, 830.
Cornelison, John (Rev.), 229.
Cornelisz, Claes, 125.
Laurens, 476.
Thomas, 85.
Cornell, Jennie, 535.
Thomas, 163.
Cornier, 329, 348.
Simeon, 103, 104, 293, 301, 304, 308, 309,
314, 315, 328, 798, 804.
Simon, 797.
Corning, Emily Augusta, 620.
Cornish, Aaron, 630.
Correll, A. E., 577.
Corsa, Andrew, 488.
Benjamin, 265.
Charles, 491.
Jacomina, 644.
Martha, 491.
Corsen, Jannetie, 579.
Corssen, Arent, 784.
Teunis, 622, 643.
Cortelyou, Jacques, 476.
Cortilieu, Jacques, 392.
Cortilleau, Jaques, 226.
Cortilyou, Jacques, 255.
Cortlandt, Mr., 392.
Cortright, Margareta, 822.
Mary, 571.
Cortwright, Hendrick W., 259.
Corwin, Flora, 576.
Henry B., 747.
Coryell, Dinah, 727.
Cosart, Anthony, 205.
David, 205<
Francis, 205.
George, 205.
Jacob, 205.
John, 205.
Cosgrove, Samuel,, 442.
Cossart, Anthony, 204.
David, 204.
Elizabeth, 204.
Jacob, 204.
Jacque, 204.
Cosse, James A., 790.
Cottin, 184.
Daniel, 64.
Jean, 64.
Susannah, 64.
Cottle, George L., 770.
Coude, Anna Margareta, 359.
Coum, Samuel, 739.
Counsell, 769.
Courtright, Aefie, 410.
John, 267, 410, 806.
Cousseau, 190, 199, 800, 801, 804.
Jacques, 48, 100, 183, 186, 191, 194, 204,
210, 221, 272, 379, 797.
Martha, 379.
Couwenhoven, Johannes, 477.
Covert, 613.
Hans, 809.
John C., 537.
Richard, 553.
Cowenhoven, Johannes, 429.
Maria, 478.
Maria (Maryken Van), 477.
Cowperthwait, 438.
J. K., 172.
Mr., 262.
Cox, 783.
Daniel, 807.
Daniel (Dr.), 413.
Dr., 807.
Frances Emma, 576.
Mary, 567.
Mary Jane, 597.
Mr., 399.
Mrs., 381.
Sarah, 805.
Thomas, 558.
William, 367, 381, 388, 401, 805.
Cozine, Garret, 545.
Craft, Henry, 621.
Craig, Elizabeth, 436.
Crain, Parthenia, 749.
Crandall, 658.
Crane, Gilbert, 630.
Judge, 727.
Mary E., 470.
Crannell, Robert, 811.
Cranson, Edgar, 749.
Crapo, Maria, 751.
Crawbank, Margaret, 719.
Crawford, Ann, 700.
Cray, Grietie, 599.
Jacob, 214.
Teunis, 214, 282, 599.
Creed, James, 746.
Cregier, 647.
Crepel, 184.
Antoine, 183.
Maria, 183.
Cresson, 5, 50, 61, 64, 175, 236, 270, 332.
Abraham, 358.
Anna, 358.
Charles M. (Dr.), 358.
Christina, 214, 357.
Elias, 357.
Elie, 293.
Elliot, 358.
Isaac, 358.
Jacques, 183, 197, 202, 212, 223, 235, 357,
358, 359, 636, 791, 796, 800.
Jaques, 186, 190, 199, 200, 201, 203, 214,
221, 239, 242, 259, 266, 288, 296, 297, 622.
Joshua, 357, 358.
Maria, 358.
Moy Pier, 193, 199.
Mrs., 233, 267, 358.
Nicolas, 101.
Peter, 190, 287, 288.
Pierre, 101, 176, 183, 186, 201, 202, 203,
204, 214, 218, 221, 239, 266, 267, 271, 284,
286, 289, 292, 293, 296, 298, 302, 303, 308,
316, 320, 332, 346, 347, 350, 351, 353, 357,
477, 791, 795, 796, 801.
Pieter, 338.
Rachel, 350, 357, 358.
Sarah, 358.
Solomon, 3F8.
Susannah, 292, 357, 358.
Venant, 101.
Crey, Theunis, 288.
Crispel, Antoine, 103.
Crispell, 184.
Julia, 655.
Crissman, Mary E., 735.
Crolius, William J., 597.
Crom, Catherine, 259.
Cromartie, John, 191.
Margaret, 191.
Cromelin, Rachel, 462.
Crommelin, Anna, 603.
Charles, 603.
Cronenberg, Tryntie Pieters, 219.
Cronk, Margaret, 505.
INDEX.
85I
Crook, John, 808.
Mary, 808.
Crooker, Frank F., 444.
Crooks, Vinie, 770.
Crosby, Jane, 486.
Cross, Eliza J., 754.
Emma, 747.
James M., 735.
Shubel, 738.
Crosseron, Jean, 270.
Crossit, Bessie, 766.
Crouser, Gerrit, 270.
Crowell, Esther, 462, 468.
Croy, Charles, 33.
Cruger, John, 364.
John P. (Colonel), 555.
Nicholas, 570.
Crum, Elizabeth, 709.
Louisa A., 629.
Crundall, Thomas, 321.
Cruse, Belinda, 654.
Cruser, B. J., 656.
Cudabee, Catharine, 567.
Cuffy, 390.
Culver, 204, 205.
Gertie, 205.
Jacob, 205.
Johannes, 205.
Maria, 205.
Sarah, 205, 697.
Cunningham, Simon B., 575.
Cure, John, 648.
Curtenius, Antonius (Rev.), 782.
Curtis. Mehitable, 784.
Sarah L., 445.
Custiss, Amelia C., 532.
Cuthe, 57.
Cutshall, V. W., 532.
Cnvilly, Adriana, 613.
Cuyler, Abraham, 364.
Hendrick, 364.
Henry, 364.
Johannes, 364.
Reynier, 364.
D
Daille, Peter (Dominie), 335.
Pierre (Rev.), 319, 335.
d'Ailly, Louis, 58.
d'Albert, Charles, 42.
Henry, 32.
Honore, 55.
Dalsen, Teunis, 791.
Dalton, Kate, 690.
Daly, Elizabeth, 456.
Mary, 788.
Philip, 456, 788.
Damen, Cornelia, 200.
Elizabeth, 198.
Jan, 302.
Jan Jansen, 613.
John, 198, 447.
Neeltie, 447.
Damarest, David, 220.
Danforth, 554.
Daniels, Annetie, 94, 692.
Johan, 274.
Melissa J., 736.
Danielson, Alice Weaver, 474.
Dankers, 354.
Darby, Bernard, 782.
Darvall, 397, 797, 798.
Frances, 378.
William, 378, 809.
William (Mrs.), 809.
d'Aumale, Count, 58.
Davenport, John, 695.
Lewis, 646.
d'Avesnes, Jacques, 31, 54.
DaVid, 760.
Francis Morton, 664.
Davids, Martje, 822.
Moertje, 365, 366, 368, 369, 394, 814, 825.
Phebe Ann, 651.
Davidsen, Joris, 161.
Davis, Alice (Mrs.), 445.
Cornelia, 526.
Emeline, 440.
Fred C. Arthur, 443.
Jabez H., 524.
James (Dr.), 528.
Jane, 783.
Lyman H., 511.
Peter, 783.
Sewall S., 758.
Silas, 436.
Walter A., 467.
Davidson, Charles A., 661.
James, 763.
Jefferson, 754.
Dawson, John, 714.
Day, Isaac, 418, 500.
John Q. Adams, 518.
Martha, 519.
Orsinius D., 464.
Deady, Charles, 627.
Dean, Joseph P. (Capt.), 609.
Lavinia, 502.
Mary E., 665.
Otto K., 675.
Deane, Josephine M., 535.
De Barradat, Henri, 54.
De Baun, Isaac, 442.
Debaun, Christian, 350.
Cornelia, 433.
Mattie, 350.
de Beauvois, Carel, 274.
De Bell, Emily, 730.
De Berghes, Archbishop, 34.
De Berguin, Louis, 58.
De Bevoise, Zana, 445.
Debevoise, John R., 730.
Maria, 692.
de Boog, Hendrick, 161, 220.
Susannah, 277.
De Boog, Catharine, 161.
Debost, Charles, 465.
De Boyce, Johanna, 732.
De Brichanteau, Philibert, 54.
de Carteret, Amice, 321.
Charles, 321.
Edward, 322.
Nicholas, 322.
De Carteret, 6, 13, 321.
George (Sir), 320, 321.
De Caumartir, 56.
de Cerff,.Jan, 408.
De Chaulnes, Duke, 54, 56, 59.
Decker, Fanny, 512.
Harman, 785.
Jacob, 259.
Jacob Jansen, 258.
Malinda, 736.
Maria, 496, 499.
Mary, 515.
Ruth, 788.
De Clark, 626.
Mary, 615.
Stephen, 442.
De Clerck, Derrick, 638.
Decosenine, Adele, 750.
de Croy, Antoine, 38.
Charles, 32.
Jean, 32.
Lord, 30.
Philip, 32.
Deen, Hans, 201, 203.
De Foreest, Catharine, 783.
852
INDEX.
De Foreest, John Abeel, 783.
John I., 783.
Lawrence V., 783.
Margaret, 783.
Maria, 783.
Peter, 783.
Sarah, 783.
Theodore Romaine (M. D.), 783.
de Forest, Gerrit, 692.
Henricus, 370.
John, 371.
Maria, 701.
Philip, 351.
Rachel, 785.
De Forest, 33, 38, 39, 48, 77, 97, 105, 127, 130,
154, 155, 164, 355, 781, 786.
Abel B., 784.
Abraham, 782, 783.
Alfred, 784.
Andrew, 783.
Ann, 784.
Anna, 783.
Barent, 783.
Benjamin, 784.
Bernard, 782.
Captain. 783.
Carlos M., 784.
Caroline, 783.
Catalina, 783.
Catharine, 782.
Charles, 784.
Charles A., 784.
Charles S., 783.
Cornelia, 783.
Cornelius, 783.
Cornelius V., 783.
Crispin, 89, 90, 91.
Cyrus H., 784.
David, 782, 783, 784.
David C., 784.
Deborah, 783.
Dr., 372, 782.
Edward, 784.
Eliza, 784.
Elizabeth, 782, 783, 784.
Erastus L., 784.
Frederick L., 784.
George B., 784.
Gerard, 76, 84, 85, 88, 89, 90, 131, 204, 785.
Gerardus, 783.
Gerrit, 782, 783.
Gideon, 784.
Hendrick, 150, 782, 783.
Henricus, 783.
Henry, 76, 88, 89, 90, 91, 125, 126, 128, 129,
134, 783, 784, 802.
Henry G., 784.
Hezekiah, 784.
Isaac, 76, 89, 91, 94, 125, 135, 150, 161, 194,
210, 242, 781, 782, 784.
Israel, 76.
Jacob J. (Colonel), 782.
James G., 784.
Jane, 784.
Jean, 36, 76, 82, 88.
Jeanne, 76.
Jesse, 76, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 782,
783.
Johannes, 782.
John, 782, 783.
John (M. D.), 784.
Joseph, 784.
Lawrence, 782.
Lawrence Vanderveer, 782.
Lee, 784.
Lockwood, 784.
Louisa, 784.
Margaret, 782, 783.
Maria, 750, 782, 783.
Martha, 784.
De Forest, Mary, 782, 784.
Mary L., 784.
Michael, 76, 782.
Mrs., 135.
Nehemiah, 784.
Peter, 783.
Phebe, 783.
Philip, 782.
Philippe, 76.
Rachel, 76, 85, 784.
Richard, 782.
Samuel, 784.
Samuel A., 784.
Sarah, 782, 783, 784.
Susan, 784.
Susannah. 782, 783.
Theodorus, 782, 783.
Tracy R., 784.
William, 784.
William W., 784.
De Forest & Son, 784.
de Genlis, Countess, 17.
de Graaf, 321.
Anna, 692.
De Graaf, Hester, 681, 682.
Susannah, 681.
De Graef, Susannah, 681.
De Graff, Blandina, 502.
Maria, 508, 515.
De Grave, Maria, 393.
De Graw, Cornelia, 449.
Elizabeth, 617.
Gerrit, 449.
De Groot, Adolphus Pietersen, 365.
Elizabeth, 350.
Gerrit, 429.
Leah, 350.
Peter, 350.
Rebecca, 350.
Degroot, 724.
De Grush, Elias, Jr., 605.
De Haert, Jacobus, 155.
De Haes, Jacob, 214.
Jacob Gerrits, 214.
John, 214.
de Hainault, John (Sir), 31.
De Hedicourt, Sieur, 99.
De Hocquincourt, Marquiese, 54.
De Hooges, Anthony, 785.
Elenora, 785.
de Jonge, Weilke, 412.
De Key, Agnes, 321.
Captain, 810.
Jacob, 321, 394, 395, 692, 825.
Jacob (Capt.), 389, 637.
Lucretia, 161.
Teunis, 276.
Thomas, 804.
De Klerck, Daniel, 616.
de Kleyn, Willemtie, 681.
De Kleyn, Hugh Barents, 97, 681.
De Labadie, Jean, 62.
De Laet, 110, 113, 118.
Johannes, 86, 87, 89.
Delafield, 340, 807.
de la Grange, Agnes, 76.
Anna, 608.
Crispin, 76.
Hester, 76.
Jellis, 608.
De Lamater, Cynthia, 538.
Jan, 448.
Zoe Alida, 538.
Delamater, 205, 269, 270, 297, 333, 335, 336,
419, 482, 493, 494, 797, 802.
Abel, 520, 532.
Abraham, 196, 346, 429, 478, 494, 496, 497,
498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 504, 505, 506, 508,
510, 511, 513, 515, 516, 521, 522, 523, 524,
527, 532, 534, 535.
INDEX.
853
Delamater, Abraham (Abram), 496.
Abraham C., 503, 611.
Abraham Howard, 521, 533.
Abraham J., 498, 503.
Abraham Valatie, 509, 520.
Abram J., 534.
Ada Belle, 539.
Ada S., 544.
Adalina, 528.
Addison, 528.
Adelaide, 544.
Adelaide M., 533.
Adriana (Ariaantje), 496.
Albert, 524.
Albert F., 529.
Albert Laverene, 541.
Albert W., 536.
Alexander, 522.
Alfred, 536.
Alice Martha, 541.
Allie, 543.
Almira, 530.
Almon, 532, 541.
Almon Herman, 541.
Alonzo, 536.
Alton Washington, 529.
Alva James, 522, 534.
Amanda E., 525.
Amelia, 541.
Amy, 513.
Andrew, 525.
Ann, 505.
Ann Augusta, 529.
Ann Eliza, 518, 521, 531.
Ann Eliza H., 523.
Anna, 503, 505, 508, 510, 513, 515, 5
520, 536, 540, 700, 706.
Anna Catharina, 498.
Anna Maria, 515.
Anna Wheeler, 539.
Annatje, 498, 499.
Anne (Annatje), 504.
Anneke, 544.
Anneke (Anna), 500.
Anneken, 499.
Annie, 539.
Anson, 516, 528, 543, 544.
Anson H., 526.
Anson White, 528, 539.
Anthony, 504, 511.
Antonnetta, 509.
Antoinette, 531, 534.
Arthur J., 522.
Asa, 520.
Aseneth, 513.
Austin, 530, 539.
Barent, 500, 505.
Bata, 497, 502.
Bata (Elizabeth), 501.
Bayard Edwin, 533.
Belden, 520, 533.
Beletie, 506.
Beletje, 506.
Belle, 543.
Bellona, 538.
Benjamin, 498, 501, 502, 503, 505, E
509, 517, 520, 523, 528, 529, 535.
Benjamin C., 527, 538.
Benjamin Edwin, 520.
Benjamin F., 532.
Benjamin Franklin, 520.
Benjamin S., 510, 521.
Benjamin Valatie, 509, 519.
Benjamin Waldron, 513, 523.
Bert, 537.
Bertie, 536, 540.
Betsy, 517, 519.
Betsy (Elizabeth), 519.
Betsy Amanda, 528.
Betsy C., 525.
518, 519,
Delamater, Blandina, 503, 511.
Bradley M., 527, 528.
Bradley M., Jr., 537, 538, 543.
Calista, 537.
Captain, 497.
Caroline, 513, 516, 517, 522, 525, 526, 633.
Carrie, 542.
Catalina, 501, 505, 512.
Caterine, 504.
Catharine, 499, 504, 509, 510, 518.
Catherlna, 502, 504.
Catherine, 478, 496, 498, 499, 505, 506, 511,
514, 523.
Catherine Ann, 522.
Catherine Louisa, 520.
Cathleen M., 535.
Catrina, 498, 514.
Caty (Catherine), 519.
Chandler, 527.
Chandler B., 527.
Charles, 514, 524, 527, 536, 538, 543.
Charles B., 523.
Charles Day, 532, 541.
Charles De Witt, 521.
Charles E., 525.
Charles Fremont, 538.
Charles H., 540.
Charles Henry, 535.
Charles K., 533, 542.
Charles Wallace, 534.
Charlotte, 521.
Charlotte Elizabeth, 510.
Christina, 501, 503, 515.
Christine, 507.
Christinje, 514.
Cintie, 501.
Clarissa, 521, 533, 534.
Claude, 514, 515.
Claude Fay, 542.
Cloudy, 515.
Cloudy (Claude), 507.
Conrad, 510.
Constant C., 527.
Cora B., 542.
Cora C., 540.
Cornelia, 496, 497, 498, 500, 505, 506, 535,
543, 565, 602.
Cornelia Ann, 523.
Cornelis, 510.
Cornelius, 496, 498, 499, 502, 503, 504, 509,
510, 511, 512.
Cornelius (Cornelis), 498.
Cornelius Brink, 511.
Cornelius Marquand, 523.
Cynthia Louisa, 537.
Cyrus M., 508, 518.
Daniel, 293.
David, 496, 499, 511.
David D., 499, 504.
David J., 536.
Delia, 533.
De Witt C., 526.
DeWitt Clinton, 537, 543.
Diadema, 539.
Dirck, 501, 507.
Dolly, 520.
Donald L., 542.
Dorcas, 535.
Dorothea, 515.
Dubois, 535.
Dunis (Tunis), 507.
Earl Mott, 539.
Ebenezer, 519, 531.
Edgar, 543.
Edith L., 539.
Edith May, 538.
Edna, 539.
Edna Louise, 543.
Edward, 516, 527, 528, 538.
Edward B., 533, 542.
506, 507,
854
INDEX.
Delamater, Edward D., 513.
Edward Radcliff, 544.
Edward Sellew, 540.
Edward W. C., 524.
Edwin, 520.
Edwin James, 536.
Effle, 533.
Eldredge, 536.
Eliphaz, 534, 542.
Eliza (Catherine), 511.
Eliza A., 512.
Eliza Linnet, 523.
Eliza M., 529.
Eliza Maria, 530.
Eliza Sill, 528.
Elizabeth, 499, 500, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506,
508, 509, 510, 514, 516, 518, 519, 521, 524,
525, 528, 530, 531.
Ella Jessie, 522.
Ella Sarah, 541.
Ellen Eliza, 531.
Elmer Ellsworth, 537.
Elsie, 542.
Elsie (Elsjen), 498.
Elting, 534, 542.
Elting R., 542.
Elvina, 536.
Ely, 513.
Emeline, 527, 540.
Emily, 530.
Emily L., 526.
Emma, 537.
Emma Elizabeth, 522.
Emma Florence, 541.
Emma Frances, 524.
Emmett, 542.
Endell, 537.
Eric, 542.
Erskine Grant, 535.
Estelle, 531.
Ethel, 542.
Etta, 536.
Eunice Rebecca, 531.
Eva, 515.
Evelyn Catalina, 535.
Evert, 506, 514.
Evertie (Titje), 497, 682.
Ezra Doane, 524.
Ezra Lee, 539.
Fanny, 543.
Fidella, 536.
Flora, 534.
Flora Eva, 541.
Florence, 536.
Florence A., 541.
Florence E., 538.
Foster Beckwith Gilbert, 543.
Francis, 513.
Frank, 538, 539.
Frank L., 540, 543.
Franklin W., 541.
Fred M., 542.
Freddy, 538.
Frederick, 518, 529, 530, 533, 536, 539, 544.
Frederick Miledge, 524.
Frederick R., 542, 544.
Garret, 512.
Geertjen, 502.
George, 513, 519, 526, 531, 536, 537, 538,
539, 543.
George Albert, 538.
George Benjamin, 532, 540.
George C., 532.
George Clinton, 517.
George L., 538.
George Richmond, 544.
George Wallace, 534, 540, 544.
George Wright, 539.
Georgie, 539.
Gerret, 509, 521.
Delamater, Gerrit, 506.
Gertje, 515.
Gertrude, 501, 534.
Gertrude A., 535.
Gertrude C. H., 528.
Gertruit (Gertrude), 507.
Glaude, 229, 230, 231, 234, 242, 264, 267, 269,
279, 281, 293, 296, 333, 334, 360, 393, 484,
494, 495, 497, 501, 507, 697, 791, 795, 800,
801, 803, 804.
Glaude (Mrs.), 401.
Grace, 539, 544.
Grace Adelaide, 544.
Grace E., 535.
Grace Laura, 541.
Grace Maria, 539.
Guysbert Bogert Vroom, 523, 535.
Guysbert Watts, 535.
Hannah, 512, 520, 526.
Hannah Helen, 528.
Hannah Matilda, 523.
Hardenburgh, 521.
Harmon, 529.
Harold E., 544.
Harold Waldo, 543.
Harriet, 523, 526, 531.
Harriet Louisa, 528.
Harry, 525, 526.
Harry A., 541.
Harry B., 542.
Hattie C., 543.
Hazel, 543.
Helen, 517, 528, 530, 533.
Helen 0., 544.
Helen S., 527.
Helen Schuler, 530.
Helen Ursula, 537.
Helena, 521.
Heletje, 514.
Hendrick, 502, 508, 509.
Henlen E., 538.
Henrietta, 536.
Henry, 518, 521, 524, 529, 530, 531, 534, 538.
Henry (Harry), 520.
Henry A., 510.
Henry Bruce, 541.
Henry Columbus, 538.
Henry Sabine, 536, 543.
Hester, 412, 414, 415, 495, 496, 497, 498, 500,
502, 564.
Hildreth, 542.
Homer, 538.
Horace B., 529.
Horace L., 531, 540, 541.
Horace N., 525, 536.
Horace William, 539.
Ida, 535.
Ira., 519, 530.
Ira E., 540, 544.
Ira M., 530, 539.
Ira M. (Dr.), 518.
Irene, 518.
Irving, 542.
Isaac, 376, 389, 403, 405, 406, 412, 414, 415,
494, 495, 496, 497, 500, 501, 504, 505, 506,
507, 508, 509, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516,
517, 518, 523, 526, 527, 531, 537, 540, 566,
567, 602, 696, 697, 791, 804, 810, 811, 816,
817, 821, 827, 828, 829, 830.
Isaac (Captain), 497.
Isaac A., 533, 542.
Isaac Jewell, 513.
Isaac, Jr., 966.
Isaac Leister, 525.
Isaac Newell, 528, 539.
Isabella, 544.
Israel Van Keuren, 534.
Jackson, 527, 538.
Jacob, 497, 499, 502, 503, 507, 509, 511, 514,
516, 517, 521, 522, 524, 528, 529, 534.
INDEX.
Delamater, Jacob (Dr.), 528, 539.
Jacob Brink, 504, 512.
Jacob H., 524, 536.
Jacobus, 494, 497, 499, 501, 507, 514, 515.
Jacobus (James), 496.
Jacobus Flierboom, 514.
James, 508, 512, 515, 517, 529, 533, 539.
James (or Jacobus), 499.
James Barnes, 515, 524.
James Brink, 511, 522, 534.
James C., 542.
James Home, 513, 523.
James L., 530.
James M., 525, 527, 536, 537.
James Scott, 544.
James Van Ness, 520, 533.
James Watts, 523, 535.
James Willard. 539.
Jan, 272, 319, 348, 362, 364, 370, 371, 393,
401, 412, 414, 415, 494, 495, 503, 510, 564,
622, 816, 817.
Jane, 506, 513, 519, 521, 525.
Jane E., 538.
Jane Eliza, 522.
Jane Margriet, 521.
Janneke, 501.
Jannetie, 495, 498, 501.
Jannetje, 496.
Jannetye, 514.
Jean, 293, 294.
Jehiel, 524, 535.
Jennet, 522.
Jennie M., 541.
Jeremiah, 501.
Jeremias, 506, 507, 514.
Jesse, 513.
Jessie N., 535.
Johan Peters, 515.
Johannes, 496, 498, 499, 501, 503, 506, 507,
508, 510, 515.
Johannes (Joannes), 436.
John, 367, 376, 381, 434, 497, 499, 500, 501,
503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 509, 510, 511, 512,
513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 522, 523,
524, 525, 526, 528, 529, 531, 532, 534, 536,
538, 541, 565, 579, 598, 602, 612, 642, 695,
697, 698, 791, 796, 798, 799, 800, 801, 804,
808, 817, 826.
John (Jan), 497, 500, 505.
John (Johannes), 499.
John (Johannis), 506.
John A., Jr., 539.
John Adams, 529, 539.
John Addison, 503, 521.
John Angell, 528.
John Cole, 514.
John De Witt, 521.
John Howard, 535.
John L., 526, 537.
John Luther, 537, 543.
John M., 518, 530, 539.
John Mortimer, 524.
John Oscar, 542.
John S., 505, 512.
John Schoonmaker, 511.
John Smith, 529.
John W., 542, 544.
John Wheeler, 539.
John William, 523.
Jonas Rossmore, 515, 524.
Jooris, 505.
Joseph, 505.
Joseph F., 525, 536.
Joseph Nelson, 525.
Josephine, 525, 531, 534.
Josephine Benjamin, 529.
Julia, 517, 538, 540.
Julia J., 533.
Julia Phebe, 537.
Delamater, Julius S., 525, 536.
Juny, 515.
Kate, 529.
Kornelia, 507.
Lafayette, 517, 529, 532, 541.
Laura, 509, 520, 530.
Laurentia, 509.
Lecta A., 526.
Leonard, 532, 541.
Leonie, 541.
Leroy, 544.
Lewis, 512, 524, 534.
Leynje, 514.
Libius, 530.
Lillie D., 537.
Lizzie, 526.
Lorenzo D., 527, 538.
Lottie, 544.
Louie J., 542.
Louis (Rev.), 533, 542.
Louisa, 519, 526.
Louise Celesta, 536.
Lucius, 519, 530, 540.
Lucius B., 525, 536.
Lucius Matthews, 540.
Lucretia, 516.
Lucretia Eliza, 535.
Lucretia Maria, 523.
Lucuis Matthews, 531.
Luella E. L., 542.
Luella M., 542.
Lydia, 508.
Lyman Albert, 522.
Maggie, 537.
Mamie, 534, 537.
Marcus F., 529.
Marcus R., 518, 530.
Maretje, 515.
Margaret, 500, 503, 507, 510, 525, 565.
Margareta, 498.
Margaretha, 508.
Margarita, 506.
Margriet, 502, 503.
Margrit, 510.
Maria, 502, 503, 505, 508, 511, 512, 514, 515,
517, 518, 522, 526, 523.
Maria (Marytje), 496, 499.
Maria Alexina, 535.
Maria Ann, 528.
Maria Antoinette, 530.
Maria E., 538.
Maria J., 525.
Maria Jane, 527.
Maria Kip, 516.
Maria Lewis, 529.
Maria Rose, 533.
Marietta, 530.
Martha, 528, 497.
Martha A.;' 532.
Martha Jane, 529.
Martha May, 541.
Martin, 495, 497, 501, 502, 508.
Martyn, 521.
Martyn (Martin), 509.
Marvin Levilla, 529.
Mary, 509, 511, 513, 514, 521, 524, 530, 531,
536.
Mary (Maria), 504.
Mary A., 512.
Mary Ann, 517, 519, 532.
Mary Cornelia, 535.
Mary Elizabeth, 524, 531.
Mary Emma, 535.
Mary Esther, 541.
Mary Etta, 526.
Mary F., 542.
Mary Forkes, 544.
Mary Helen, 540.
Mary J., 525.
Mary Jane, 511, 528, 537.
856
INDEX.
Delamater, Mary M., 532.
Mary Salmi, 498.
Mary V., 534.
Mary W., 528.
Marytje, 515.
Matheus, 503.
Matilda, 518, 526.
Mattie F., 539.
Maud, 537.
Mehitable, 528.
Melisa Amelia, 532.
Melva Maria, 541.
Melvin Van Valkenburgh, 539.
Mercy, 508.
Merrick L., 538, 543.
Michel, 514.
Mildred, 543.
Minnie, 536.
Minnie Helen, 543.
Moses, 509.
Mrs., 424, 493, 494.
Myra Eugenia, 537.
Nancy W., 528.
Nathan, 516, 526, 527, 537.
Nathaniel, 518.
Nellie Josephine, 543.
Nelson, 535, 543.
Nicholas, 509.
Nicholas B., 530.
Newell, 538.
Olive, 533.
Orrin, 534.
Oscar, 522, 531.
Oscar Z., 540, 544.
Perry Decatur,,520 532.
Peter, 502, 508, 510, 514, 518, 520, 521, 522,
524, 529, 534, 542.
Peter Low, 504, 511.
Peter Vroom, 523.
Petrus, 511, 522.
Phoebe, 516, 517, 543.
Polly, 518, 520.
Rachel, 498, 499, 501, 503, 504, 507, 510,
511, 515.
Radcliff, 521, 533.
Radcliffe, 534, 542.
Ralph, 514.
Rebecca, 497, 500, 502, 504, 507, 508, 519.
Rebecka (Rebecca), 506.
Reid A., 533, 541.
Reuben C., 520, 532.
Reuben S., 532.
Richard, 514, 515, 524.
Robert, 514.
Rosalind C., 522.
Roscoe Winans, 540.
Rosena (Lena), 520.
Rosett, 537.
Royal, 543.
Raby Maria, 537.
S. M. K., 532.
Sally, 516, 526.
Sally Ann, 523.
Sally Malcum, 509.
Samuel, 500, 505, 508, 512, 513, 518, 523,
527, 707.
Samuel Martin, 523.
Samuel S., 512.
Sara, 506, 509.
Sarah, 498, 500, 502, 503, 509, 510, 511, 521,
523, 524, 526, 528, 531, 533, 537.
Sarah A., 541.
Sarah Catherine, 521.
Sarah Elizabeth, 529, 532.
Sarah Fayette, 539.
Sarah J., 512.
Sarah M., 525.
Sarah Odelia, 537.
Schuyler Beekman, 535.
Schuyler C., 535.
Delamater, Sibyl, 520.
Smith, 516. 525, 526.
Sophia, 527.
Stephen, 516, 526, 530, 532, 543.
Stephen G., 518, 529.
Stephen Truesdall, 529, 539.
Stephen Truesdall, Jr., 539.
Susan, 514, 520, 531.
Susan Adelaide, 540.
Susan Caroline, 520.
Susan Frances, 541.
Susanna, 508.
Susannah, 482, 495, 496, 497, 498, 500, 509,
579.
Susie Louisa, 544.
Sylvia Maude, 541.
Tanneke, 496.
Tebina, 498.
Tella Adella, 536.
Teunis, 507.
Theodore Alva, 534.
Theodore C., 511, 522.
Theunis, 507.
Thomas, 498, 510, 519, 521, 532, 538.
Thomas Albert, 540, 544.
Thomas Henry (Rev.), 532, 541.
Thomas Jefferson, 517.
Titus, 531. 540.
Tones, 507.
Trinje, 515.
Tunis Osterhout, 515, 524.Uriah, 519, 531.
Victor Morris, 540, 544.
Walter Henry, 541.
Walter James, 539.
Washington, 527, 538.
Wealthy M., 512.
Webster. 537.
Wilbur S., 524.
Wilfred Schuyler, 543.
Wilhelm, 510.
Willard, 518, 520, 543.
William, 502, 505, 506, 510, 514, 515, 516.,
518, 519, 525, 531, 534, 540, 542, 544.
William (Dr.), 538.
William B., 510, 513. 521, 524, 533, 542.
William Burrough, 532.
William Gardiner, 524, 535.
William H., 525, 531, 536.
William H. (Dr.), 530.
William Harrison, 520, 532.
William Henry, 529.
William M., 532, 541.
William P., 534.
William Peter, 522, 534.
William Rubens, 536.
William Wallace, 528, 531, 538, 540.
Willis, 538.
Wilson T., 540.
Zara, 499.
Zebulon, 531, 540.
Zeletie, 498.
Zella L., 543.
Zoe Alida, 537.
Delamatie, Geertie, 501.
De Lameter, Jan, 403, 405, 406, 409.
Delamont, John, 169.
de La Montagne, J., 287.
Jan, 280.
John, 283.
Nicasius, 359.
Willem, 221.
De La Montagne, 182.
Jan, 281.
Jean, 208, 281.
Jean Mousnier, 79.
Johannes (Dr.), 48.
John, Jr., 181.
Isaac Monier, 787.
William, 181, 191.
INDEX.
857
Delamontagne, 267.
John, 692.
Vincent, 168.
-de la Montagnie, Frederick, 713.
Delamontagnie, Abraham, 596.
Jacob, 594, 595, 596.
Joseph, 595.
Mary E., 596.
Robert, 595.
Teunis, 594, 595.
William, 595.
de La Montaine, Abram, 377.
de La Montanie, Abram, 591, 593.
John, 593.
de Lamontanie, Abram, 412, 821.
Delamontanie, 826.
Abram, 403, 699, 830.
Abraham, 410, 430, 438, 592, 594, 602, 614,
804, 816, 817, 825, 827.
Jannetie, 410.
Teunis, 799.
Theunis, 433.
de la Montanye, Teunis, 483.
De La Montanye, Elizabeth, 443.
Delamontanye, George Fowler, 790.
John, 790.
De Lancaster, Louise, 259, 272.
De Lancastre, Louise, 98.
Delancey, John, 698.
De Lannoy, Jeanne, 99, 493, 494.
Delanoy, Catharine, 161.
Peter, 161.
De La Plain, Nichols, 224.
De La Plaine, Nicholas, 259.
Delaplaine, Nicholas, 357.
Delaval, Capt., 348.
De Lavall, Mr., 798.
Thomas, 212, 216, 232, 242.
Delavall, 205, 233, 234, 236, 240, 251, 261, 275,
276, 277, 280, 286, 297, 304, 314, 315, 333,
359, 371, 372, 375, 401, 581, 592, 601, 605,
796, 797, 800, 818.
Captain, 217, 222, 235, 246, 256, 257, 258,
291, 296, 303, 339, 353, 396, 397, 402, 546,
547, 604, 795, 797, 801, 810, 813, 814, 824.
Frances, 322, 378.
John, 378, 396, 397, 398, 406, 413, 414, 415,
801, 809, 811.
Margaret, 353.
Mayor, 223.
Mr., 281.
Ralph (Sir), 232.
Thomas, 244, 264, 266, 306, 307, 323, 333,
377, 378, 379, 413, 417, 623, 795, 811, 816,
827, 828, 829, 830.
Thomas (Captain), 803, 809, 825.
T)elius, Dominie, 140.
De Longueville, Duke, 56, 58.
De Luynes, 56.
Demarest. 5, 12, 47, 50, 61, 64, 65, 103, 105,
191, 196, 205, 292, 295, 318, 321, 324, 327,
328, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 349, 358, 365,
788, 803.
Benjamin, 350.
Cornelius H., 689.
Damare-t, 315.
Daniel, 350, 441.
David, 47, 69, 106, 172, 217, 234, 239, 240,
242, 259, 265, 269, 275, 276, 278, 279, 281,
286, 288, 293, 294, 296, 306, 333, 346, 382,
791, 795, 796.
David, Jr., 330, 334, 336, 346, 348, 350, 357,
797, 798.
Geya, 437.
Ira, 445.
Jacobus, 350.
Jacomina, 350, 697.
James, 454.
John, 102, 217, 246, 267, 286, 293, 297, 303,
350, 441, 791.
Demarest, John J., 560.
Joseph, 443, 617.
Judith, 350.
Katherine, 711.
Leah, 350.
Lydia, 350.
Magdalena, 191, 350.
Margaret, 560.
Margareta, 458.
Maria, 350.
Mary, 217, 350.
Matthew, 454.
Nicholas D., 615.
Peter, 350, 450.
Philip, 626.
Polly (Maria), 454, 459.
Rachel, 350.
Rebecca, 433.
Richard, 337, 338.
Richard, Jr., 348.
Samuel, 246, 293, 350, 471.
Sarah, 350, 620.
Simon, 350.
Susanna, 350.
Thomas, 616.
De Mandeville, David, 100.
Giles, 100.
Gillis Jansen, 100.
Hendrick, 100.
de Meyer, Nicholaes, 598.
Nicholas, 320, 364.
De Meyer, 189, 190, 208, 263, 268, 273, 274,
320, 321, 333, 353, 382, 800, 802.
Agnes, 321.
Anna Catrina, 321.
Annecke, 321.
Benjamin, 321.
Catherine, 321.
Catrina, 321.
Deborah, 321.
Elizabeth, 321.
Henricus, 321.
Jeremiah, 321.
Johannes, 321.
Ludia, 321.
Lydia, 321.'
Nicolaes, 183, 186.
Nicholas, 92, 107, 187, 191, 210, 218, 221
222, 234, 239, 258, 269, 321, 795, 797, 799.
Wilhelmus, 321.
William, 320, 321.
Demeyer, Nicholas, 367.
De Milt, Nellie, 671.
De Monchy, 54.
De Muscatel, Bernard, 153.
D'Enambus, 50.
M., 47.
Denel, Mary Jane, 752.
Denison, Charles, 790.
Dennis, R. W., 577.
Dennison, Daniel (Dr.), 516.
Denton, Clarissa J., 527.
John, 781.
Deny, Sarah, 320.
de Parisis, Jacqueline, 635.
De Pew, Elizabeth, 560.
Depew, 204, 205.
Aaron, 205.
Jean, 205.
Kitty, 662.
Moses, 205.
Nicholas, 205.
Susannah, 205.
De Peyster, 394.
Catharine, 439.
Elizabeth, 161.
James W., 804.
Johannes, 161.
Nicholas, 804.
De Picquigny, 56.
858
INDEX.
de Poictier, Jean Baptiste, 246, 347, 370.
De Poincy, 47.
De Potter, Cornelis, 157, 158, 167, 168.
Cornelius, 160.
de Pre, Andries, 191.
Francina, 191.
Jannetie, 191.
John, 191, 246.
Maria, 191.
Simon, 191.
De Pre, 67, 189, 800.
Jan, 183, 186, 190, 191, 192.
John, 796.
De Puy, Chester, 534.
Depuy, John H., 654.
De Raet, Elias, 132.
De Rasieres, Isaac, 119.
Derbyshire, John, 443.
De Reimer, Hester Ann, 652.
Isaac, 782.
Peter, 782.
De Revere, Sophia, 786.
Dericksen, Adam, 183, 186, 190, 195, 198, 797,
800.
Elizabeth, 128.
Grietie, 198.
Paulus, 128.
Teunis, 295.
De.Riemer, Peter, 782.
Dermer, Captain, 116.
de Roberval, Sieur, 11.
Deronda, Catherine, 432.
Maria, 711.
De Ronde, Dominie, 408.
de Ruine, Jacomina, 246.
Jannetie, 191, 246.
Jeanne, 256.
Maria, 246.
Simon, 65, 191, 247, 291, 304.
De Ruine, 100, 186, 800, 803.
Jacomina, 350.
Maria, 350.
Simon, 100, 183, 185, 186, 190, 191, 193, 195,
199, 201, 203, 235, 246, 348, 350, 546, 795.
De Ryck, Jan Cornelisz, 273.
Deschamps, 410.
Isaac, 381, 401, 807.
des Conseiller, Jean, 246.
de Sille, 693.
De Sille, Nicasius, 786.
des Mareest, David, 264, 266.
des Mareset, David, 271.
des Marest, David, Jr., 302, 320, 328, 332,
338.
Jean, 266, 302.
Samuel, 302, 309, 328, 332.
Des Marest, David, 102, 103, 279, 284, 287,
289, 290, 301, 307, 308, 309, 313, 318, 320,
323, 328, 332, 337, 338, 340, 349.
Desmarest, Johannes, 280.
Des Marets, David, 61.
Samuel, 102.
Sieur, 47.
De Tourneur, 63.
Daniel, 98.
De Valois, Charles, 55.
de Vaux, Abel, 424.
Abigail, 424.
Abraham, 424.
Daniel, 424.
David, 424.
Dinah, 424.
Esther, 348, 424.
Frederick, 329, 330, 332, 342, 348, 409, 635.
Hester, 424.
Johannes, 348.
John, 424.
Judith, 424.
Leah, 424.
Mary, 347, 424.
de Vaux, Nicholas, 318, 324, 328, 329, 331,
332, 338, 346, 347, 348, 349, 409.
Rachel, 347, 424.
Sarah, 424.
Susanna, 347.
Susannah, 424.
Thomas, 424.
De Vaux, 11, 103, 318.
Frederick, 395, 424.
Jacques 'Rev.), 61.
De Voe, 103, 251, 278, 419.
Benjamin, 625.
Frederick, 353, 424, 545, 637.
Frederick W., 424.
George W., 424.
Isaac, 424.
James, 424.
John Appleby, 424.
Moses, 265, 424.
Rachel, 545.
Thomas F. (Col.), 329, 424.
Thomas Farrington, 424.
Devoe, 626.
David, 506.
Hannah, 719.
Harriett, 572.
Josephine, 631.
Maria, 626.
Mary, 625.
Devoor, 594.
Abraham, 410.
Adriana, 409, 788.
Aefie, 410, 806.
Aefle (Effie), 267.
Ann, 410, 479.
David, 410, 594, 799, 803.
Elizabeth, 409, 410.
Jane, 410.
Jannetie, 410.
Jelante, 410.
John, 267, 410, 788, 806.
John, Jr., 410, 806.
Margaret, 409, 410.
Maria, 409.
Rachel, 409.
Teunis, 409, 625.
William, 410.
Devore (De Voor), John, 453.
de Vos, Mattheus, 384.
de Vouw, Johannes, 348.
de vries, Jan Gerrits, 380.
de Vries, Dirck, 203.
John, 599.
Phebe, 188.
Titus Syrachs (Capt.), 188.
De Vries, 133, 267.
Captain, 132.
David (Capt.), 125, 127.
Derick, 201.
Jan Gerritsen, 93, 236, 251, 263, 264, 311,
373.
de Weerham, Ambrose, 203.
De Weerham, Ambrosius, 201.
De Weever, Jan, 201, 203.
De Winter, Peter, 132.
De Wit, John, 238.
De Witt, Barbara, 148.
Gerardus, 148.
Hasuelt, 148.
Helena, 168.
Jannetie, 618.
Johannes, 609, 795.
Johannes, Jr., 825.
Leah, 148.
Mary, 259.
Matthys, 148.
Nicholas, 148.
Sarah, 148.
Simeon, 607.
Thomas, 148.
INDEX.
859
De Witt, Tietie, 148.
Tjerck, 148, 168.
Dewitt, Anne, 509.
Charles, 509.
Deyo, Daniel V. (Dr.), 521.
Elizabeth, 272.
Ella, 575.
d'Heucourt, Seigneur, 60, 61.
Diamond, Belinda, 729.
Dickenson, Charles, 452.
Dickinson, Charles, 754.
Edward, 557.
Dickson, Carrie, 741.
David, 806.
Diemer, Christian, 595.
Dietz, Christian, 659.
John G., 610.
Leney, 658.
Dikeman, John (Judge), 546.
Dildein, Annatje, 581.
Dillon, Felix V., 467.
Dimanche, Jean, 105.
Dingman, Huldah, 567.
Dinius, Burton C., 543.
Dircks, Annetie, 234.
Barentie, 107.
Barentien, 247.,Egbertie, 107, 236, 310, 368.
Geertie, 107.
Grietie, 613.
Dircksen, Jan, 218, 294, 365, 373.
Dirge, Angenietje, 616.
Dirk, Hevelyn, 443.
Disosway, 5, 50, 61, 64, 270, 315, 319, 320,
358.
Dame, 319.
Dianah, 320.
Elizabeth, 320.
Gabriel, 320.
Israel, 320.
Jean, 320.
Jeanne, 320.
Job, 320.
Madeleine, 319.
Marc, 63, 335.
Marcus, 319, 320.
Maria, 320.
Mark, 181, 242.
Mary, 320.
Sarah, 320.
Susannah, 320.
Dixon, 758.
D. L. Montanye, Joseph, 788.
William (M. D.),790.
D'Meyer, N., 199.
Doane, Rebecca, 721.
Dobbs, Walter, 809.
Dodds, F. B., 764.
Dodge, Erastus, 658.
Dodson, Mary, 569.
d'Oisy, Goswin, 31.
Dolph, Maria H., 521.
Dolsen, 373.
Teunis, 643.
Dominees, Hester, 270.
Dominicus, 217.
Donald, Julius 0., 659.
Donaldson, Lydia A., 651.
Donelsen, Ann M., 715.
Dongan, Governor, 679.
Thomas, 270, 273, 278, 381, 383, 385, 390,
391, 396, 399, 410, 411, 413, 415, 417.
Dongan patent, The, 243, 416, 417, 418, 426,
447, 493, 558, 599, 623, 634, 817.
Donnington, J. Wyckliffe, 787.
Donnison, Benjamin, 641.
Doolittle, John J., 472.
Loretta, 666.
Doremus, George, 610.
Johannes, 697.
Doremus, Maria, 465.
Rachel D., 437.
Thomas, 697.
Dorland, Enoch G., 651.
Dorr, Elizabeth, 507.
George F., 771.
Dorsey, 769.
Doty, Cornelia, 745.
Eliza, 513.
Dougherty, Jennie, 760.
Doughty, Francis (Rev.), 147.
Mary, 782.
Douglas, Alonzo, 726.
Eliza, 510.
Douglass, Julia Ann, 736.
Mary J., 736.
Douw, Andries, 321.
Downer, Samuel, 784.
Downing, Charles, 658.
Florence, 664.
G., 762.
Roger, 644.
Sarah, 646.
Doxey, Ralph, 281, 294.
Doyle, Minerva A., 668.
Drain, Ellen, 640.
Drake, 569.
Mary, 684.
Nelson H., 471.
Dresser, James H., 537.
Drevit, Aline, 841.
Drew, Alfred, 526.
Drinkwater, Margaret, 393.
Driscoll, Lorinda Ellen, 666.
Drisius, 268.
Dominie, 282, 376.
Samuel, 223.
Samuel (Dominie), 98.
Droogscheerder, Jacob, 201, 203.
Duane, Anthony, 427.
James (Hon.), 427.
Dubison, 370.
Du Boice, James, 711.
du Bois, Francoise, 493.
Hester, 221.
Louis, 493.
Du Bois, 184.
Coenraad, 502.
Gualterus, 432.
Gualterus (Rev.), 408.
Hester, 99, 264, 493, 494.
Louis, 103, 183.
Matthew, 148.
Pierre, 99.
Dubois, Ephraim, 498.
Magdalena, 528.
Thomas, 685.
du Buc, Lideric, 66.
Dubuisson, Sieur, 246, 347, 370.
Du Can, Margariete, 83.
du Cange, Sieur, 18.
Du Chauchoy, Marc, 231.
Du Cloux, Marie, 76.
Dudley, William H., 589.
Du Ferets, Sieur, 102.
Duffill, Emma J., 446.
du Four, David, 340, 362, 363, 409, 410.
Du Four, 100, 189, 194, 225, 798.
Anthony, 409.
David, 36, 65, 99, 183, 186, 190, 193, 797.
Glaude, 409.
Jannetie, 409.
Jean, 100.
John, 409, 410.
Peter, 409.
Dugen, Ellen E., 629.
Mary, 629.
du Mont, Elizabeth, 271.
John Baptist, 295.
Margaret, 271, 272, 295.
86o
INDEX.
du Mont, Peter, 295.
Wallerand, 272, 295.
Du Mont, Elizabeth, 287.
Dumont, Peter, 295.
Duncan, N. B., 764.
Dunkin, Elizabeth, 819.
Robert H., 819.
Dunlap, William, 743.
Dunn, Simon, 689.
Dunston, 739.
Dunton, Jacob, 513.
du Puis, Francois, 270.
Nicholas, 204.
Du Puis (Depew), Nicholas, 259.
Durand, Marie, 768.
Durie, Jean, 349, 357.
John, 350.
Peter, 350.
Duryea, Mary E., 654.
Duryee, Charles, 604, 607.
John, 455.
Mary E., 729.
du Sauchoy, 264.
Anna, 204.
Marc, 249, 272, 319.
Marcus, 270.
Madeline, 272.
Du Sauchoy, 232, 271.
Marcus, 275.
Dusenberry, Eliza, 552.
Dusentbirre, Permile, 479.
Dutch West India Co., 11.
Arnout, 204.
David, 204, 785.
Du Toict, 785.
Du Trieux (Truax), Philippe, 781.
Susannah, 781.
Du Tulliere, Madeleine, 100, 221.
Duurkoop, 177.
Claes, 206.
Jan, 206.
Jannetie, 206.
Duval, 586.
du Voor, Daniel, 349.
Duyckinck, Anna, 804.
Evert, 187.
Gerard, 161.
Duyts, 183.
Annetie, 256.
Catherine, 256.
Hans, 256.
Jan, 219, 256, 264.
Jan Laureas, 256, 796.
Jan Lourens, 242.
John, 798.
Laurens, 135, 256.
Dyckman, 149, 203, 293, 295, 318, 352, 417,
424, 434, 623, 787, 796, 801, 814, 817, 820.
Aaron, 545.
Aaron Smith, 555.
Abigail, 555.
Abraham, 552, 554, 555, 556.
Aeltie, 550.
Aletta Eliza, 556.
Amy M., 557.
Andries, 393.
Anna, 545.
Barney, 556.
Benjamin, 551, 553.
Benjamin Benson, 553, 556.
Betsey Taylor, 556.
Betsy Mary, 555.
Blanche L., 557.
Catalina, 556.
Catalina (Catherine), 551.
Catalina Benson, 553.
Catherine, 546, 552, 553.
Cathrina, 555.
Charity, 552, 643.
Cornelia, 545, 556.
Dyckman, Cornelis, 234, 545, 564.
Cornelius, 545, 791.
Daniel, 548.
David Waters, 555, 557.
Derick, 545.
Edith, 557.
Eliza, 555, 556.
Elizabeth, 545, 553.
Elizabeth Cobb, 557.
Elmira, 553.
Emeline, 555.
Esther Rick, 557.
Eve, 550, 605.
Evert, 556.
Evert Brown, 555, 557.
Frank N., 557.
Frederick, 545, 554, 556, 609.
Garret, 551, 553.
Garret (Garnet), 555.
Geertie, 545.
George, 545, 550, 592, 594.
Gerretie (Charity), 549.
Gerrit, 547, 548, 550, 791, 821, 826.
Grietie, 548.
Hannah, 553.
Hannah (Annatje), 554.
Harriet, 555.
Harriet De Puy, 557.
Harriet Douglas, 555.
Harry, 557.
Helen, 557.
Helena, 550.
Hester, 545.
Isaac, 267, 548, 550, 554.
Isaac Michael, 554.
Isaac Vermilye, 556.
Isabel 555, 557.
Jacob, 345, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553,
554, 555, 562, 582, 614, 643.
Jacob G., 553, 556.
Jacob, Jr., 431, 439, 545, 550.
Jacob W., 557.
Jacobus, 267, 551, 552, 553, 554, 615.
Jacomina, 393.
James, 554.
Jan, 93, 289, 290, 294, 297, 302, 304, 308, 309,
315, 328, 332, 337, 338, 340, 341, 343, 344,
345, 349, 364, 365, 370, 372, 373, 376, 379,
380, 387, 388, 389, 393, 401, 402, 403, 405,
406, 407, 412, 414, 415, 497, 545, 546, 547,
548, 549, 550, 551, bo2, 612, 816, 817, 821.
Jan (John), 550.
Jane, 551, 552, 555, 556.
Jane (Jannetje), 553.
Jane Almira, 555.
Jane Maria, 556.
Jane Odell, 556.
Janneke, 545.
Jannetie, 393, 545.
Jemima, 552.
Jeqyntje, 550.
Johanna, 556.
Johannes, 393, 424, 545.
Johannes, Jr., 548, 550.
John, 367, 545, 546, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552,
553, 554, 555, 605, 635, 637, 694, 792, 799,
801, 803, 810, 817, 818, 819, 823, 826, 830.
John Honeywell, 556.
Jonathan Odell, 553.
Joris, 545, 592.
Julian, 556.
Lang, 557.
Letitia Catelina, 553.
Lillie, 557.
Lizzie, 557.
Louis, 557.
Madeleine, 380.
Magdalena, 548, 549, 613, 614.
Marcus, 393.
Margaret, 549.
INDEX.
86i
Dyckman, Maria, 545, 548, 550, 551, 554, 556.
Maria (Jane Maria), 555.
Maria Portland. 557
Martha Margaret, 555.
Martha Maria, b53.
Martin, 553.
Martin Post, 555.
Mary, 552, 556, 557, 644.
Marytje, 550.
Matthew, 546.
Michael, 552, 554.
Michel, 556.
Mis., 316.
Myron Horton, 557.
Nicholas, 545.
Patty Maria, 555.
Percy, 557.
Peter B., 556.
Peter Corne, 553, 555.
Peter Goetschius, 556, 557.
Petrus, 550.
Prudence Hale, 557.
Rachel Goetschius, 553.
Rebecca, 546, 548, 549, 550, 554, 555.
Rebecka (Rebecca), 550.
Sampson, 553.
Sampson (Samuel), 551, 553.
Sampson B., 553.
Sampson Benson, 553, 555, 556.
Samson, 551.
Sarah, 554.,prnh Ann. 553.
Sarah Catalina, 557.
Sarah P., 556.
Smith, 557.
Staats, 648.
Staats Morris, u51, 553, 555.
Susan, 556.
Susan Matilda, 556.
Susannah 644.
Teunis-Eidesse, 545, 546.
Teuntie, 545.
Theunis, 393.
Walter James. 556.
William, 549, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556,
557, 638.
William Henry, 555, 556. 557.
William M., 553, 556.
William Nagel, 551, 553.
William W., 554.
Wvntie, 298. 545, 564.
Dykeman, John, 827, 828, 829.
Dykman, Eve, 608.
John, 435, 604, 608, 804, 826.
Rebecca, 435.
Dyer, Henry, 789.
Jannetie. 789.
Polly, 650.
E
Earl, Cynthia, 730.
Mary, 719.
Morris, 789.
Earle, Hannah, 662.
East India Company, 109.
Eaton, Harriet, 572.
Mary, 509.
Zoe, 516.
Ecker, Antie, 550.
Eckerson, Elizabeth, 684.
Hannah, 441.
Hannah Maria, 619.
Eckersen, Thomas, 451.
Eddy, Ulysees D., 481.
Edgar, Martha, 584.
Edge, Daniel, 734.
Edmonds, Ann, 791.
John, 499.
Edsall, 235.
Hannah, 429.
H. S., 576.
Jannetien, 384.
Joanna, 810.
John, 429.
Samuel, 234, 384, 386, 788, 810.
Edson, W. Q., 577.
Edwards, 755.
Anthony, 729.
Eliza, 648.
Finette, 436, 440.
Frank, 765.
James, 451.
Margaret, 574.
Walter, 784.
Egberts, Geertie, 696.
Eiden, Sarah A., 717.
Eight, Abraham (Capt.), 428.
Eights, Abraham, 428.
Jonas (Dr.), 428.
Elberts, Metje, 234.
Reyer, 156.
Elder, George William, 729.
Elderts, 183.
Jacob, 193, 197, 198. 200, 409, 797, 798, 800.
Eldertsen, Jacob, 190, 198.
Eldridge, Martha, 744.
Elkhout, Anna, 95.
Elkinton, John A. (Dr.), 513.
Elliman, William, 473.
Elliot, Robert Hare Egbert, 473.
Elliott, Mary, 726.
Rebecca, 645.
Ellis, Mary, 806, 807.
Ellison, ueorge W., 520.
Ellsworth, James, 522.
Elmendorf, Engeltje, 504.
Elmendorph, Jacob, 502.
Jan, 502.
Elphinstone, 416.
George, 340, 341, 804, 806.
el Roe, Jaco, 328, 332.
Jacque, 309, 336, 337.
el Roey, Jaco, 302.
Elsevier, W. J. C. Rammelman (Baron),
13.
Elsmore, John B., 657.
Elsworth, Clement, 175.
Judith, 217.
Samuel G., 629.
Stoffel, 175, 217.
Verdine (Capt.).
Elting, Edyard, 436.
Jane Magdaline, 522.
William, 196, 496.
Elton, Jannetje, 507.
Elyessen, Bastiaen, 274, 476, 477, 563.
Metje, 563.
Emans, Catherina, 581.
Cornelius, 585.
Jacobus, 584.
Sarah, 644.
Emanuel, Philip, 58.
Emerson, Romeo, 525.
Emery, Margaret, 584.
Emmons, Ann, 716.
Emmons (Emans), Rebecca, 580.
Enderson, Johannis, 454.
Engel, William, 376.
Engelbert, Jochem, 302, 309.
Engelberts, Anna Maria, 175.
Eldert, 175.
Enoch, Eliza, 665.
Enright, Joseph G., 535.
Erluin, Bishop, 34.
Eshuysen, Gerrit, 368.
Maria, 368.
Esler, Edward, 466.
Esterbrook, Phoebe Leonda, 516.
:862
INDEX.
Etherington, Thomas, 294.
Etzell, Jacob E., 731.
Evans, Eva, 776.
George W., 750.
J. B., 764.
Evarts, Mary, 722.
Evert, Catherine, 449.
Everts, Alida, 311.
Cornelia, 274, 447, 495.
John, 234.
Rebecca, 496.
Everts (Van Ness), Cornelia, 496.
Everett, 726.
Ewouts, Jan, 393.
John, 564.
Exceen, Alexander, 708.
Eyres, Thomas, 320.
F
Fabricius, Jacobus, 340.
Fabricus, Dominie, 374.
Fairbanks, Lucy, 752.
Fairchild, Amelia, 746.
Fairley, Hugh, 783.
Farley, Katharine, 669.
Farmer, Jasper (Capt.), 812.
Faulkner, James Calvert, 715.
Fauviere, Charlotte, 813.
Faviere, 813.
James, 798, 812.
Fell, John (Judge), 379.
Judge, 568.
Simon, 379.
Felter, Jacob, 510.
Mabel, 445.
Sarah, 513.
Warren, 742.
William, 513.
William P., 437.
Ferdon, John, 619.
Wilhelmus, 684.
Ferguson, Eliza, 668.
Farrington, 650.
John, Jr., 636.
Ferris, Benjamin, 596.
Jonathan, 439.
Mary Ann, 439.
Miss, 470.
Few, Nicholas, 491.
Field, Osgood, 13.
Fifield, Mary, 511.
Fils, Hannah, 436.
Finch, Benjamin, 530.
Findlay, Anna P., 588.
Fine, Frederick, 428.
Finley, Robert, 788.
Firby, Edwin Augustus, 651.
Fisher, Aida Belle, 665.
Hester, 168.
Rebecca, 648.
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 655.
Fitzpatrick, Philip A., 474.
Flagler, Samuel, 650.
Flanders, William, 722.
Flender, Susette, 482.
Fletcher, Governor, 290, 292, 642.
Flierboom, Francina, 702.
Jacob, 702.
Jannetie, 501.
Flint, Ada, 577.
Fluyt, Dirck Evertson, 310.
Follett, John, 277.
Fonda, Sarah Ann, 444.
Fontaine, Vincent, 270.
Forbes, Alexander, 485.
Philander, 457.
Forbush, Charles P., 768.
Force, Nancy, 738.
Forest, Hendrick, 150.
Forker, George, 725.
Forkes, Frances Josephine, 540.
Fort, Alida, 487.
Elizabeth, 486.
Fortner, Lucinda, 574.
Fosdick, 686.
Foshay, Eve, 786.
John, 697.
Mary, 692.
Foskett, Mary, 790.
Foster, Esther, 440.
Frank, 668.
Samuel Conant (Dr.), 472.
Thomas, 144.
Fountain, Charles, 447.
Elijah, 790.
Fowler, Benjamin, 647.
Charles, 739.
Jacob D., 464.
Maryette, 659.
Milan, 537.
Rebecca, 646.
Fox, Catherine M., 444.
Elizabeth, 532.
Elmira, 741.
John W., 668.
Virginia, 441.
Wilim N., 753.
Frances, 808.
Jeanne, 100.
Francis, John, 628.
Franssen, Bout, 143.
Fredenburgh, Sarah, 734.
Frederick, Mary Magdalena, 737.
Fredericks, Christina, 408.
Fredly B., 764.
Freelove, Abraham, 715.
Freeman, Margaret, 513.
Freemeyer, Dorothy E., 736.
Frelinghuysen, Dominie, 408.
French West India Co., The, 103.
Frenchman, Jean, 203.
Frink, Charles, 655.
Froissart, 31.
Frost, Bertha A., 766.
Emma, 492.
N. A., 668.
Samuel, 492.
Fulkerson, Catharine, 782.
Fuller, John C., 523.
Fulmer, Townsend George, 575.
Furman, Gabriel, 606, 798.
William H., 729.
G
Gabelman, Louise E., 665.
Gaddis, Thomas P., 589.
Gage, Sarah, 508.
Galagar, Eliza, 629.
Gale, Dorothy, 175.
Galerctine, David, 762.
Gallatiq, Francis D., 474.
Gamble, William, 787.
Gamer, David, 442.
Gancel, John, 205.
Mary, 205.
Gano, John (Rev.), 324, 791.
Ganson, William B., 445.
Gardenier, Jacob, 696, 702.
Lena, 701.
Barent, 639.
Gardner, Ella, 481.
John, 535.
Garner, Tobias L., 574.
Garrabra ndt, Elizabeth, 640.
Garret, 520.
Garretson, Maria, 582.
INDEX.
863
Garretson, William, 656.
Garrison, Gilbert, 565.
Jacob I., 723.
Gaskill, Bessie A., 764.
Samuel, 658.
Gates, Elnathan, 739.
Gault, J. S., 655.
Gautier, Maria, 692.
Samuel, 505.
Gautro, Eliza, 439.
Xavier, 439.
Gedney, Eleazar, 636.
Gellen, Mary, 718.
Gemelli, Dr., 35.
Geneau, 324.
Etienne, 97.
Francis, 324.
George, Nellie, 664.
Robert, 501.
Gerlach, M., 13.
Gerrits, Geertie, 97.
Marritie Frans, 97.
Tryntie, 269.
Gerritsen, 194, 333, 798.
Barent, 613.
Derick. 144.
Dirck, 310.
Eva, 298, 310.
Floris, 333.
Gerrit, 310.
Jacob, 636.
L., 269.
Lubbert, 183, 186, 190, 191, 193, 194, 201,
203, 219, 234, 239, 240, 242, 247, 251, 256,
266, 269, 273, 279, 281, 286, 288, 298, 301,
308, 309, 310, 314, 428, 598, 622, 792, 795,
796, 803.
Lysbeth, 310.
W., 269.
Wouter, 100, 246, 264, 296.
Gerst, Kate, 640.
Gervoe, 189, 800.
Jean, 65, 100, 183, 186, 190, 194, 797.
Jena, 194.
Gesamin, Marvin H., 664.
Getston, Jane F., 659.
Lewara, Andrew, 783.
Gibbon, 51.
Gibbs, 311.
Richard, 785.
Gibson, William, 787.
Giebner, Mary A., 744.
Giffing, George, 788.
Gifford, Dora, 540.
Sarah, 507.
Giggs, H. D., 774.
Gilbert, Charles, 723.
Ida A., 539.
John, 684.
William, 519.
Gildersleeve, Harriet, 758.
Gilford, William, 144.
Gill, Elizabeth, 464.
Gillespie, James, 715.
Gilmore, 755.
Richard, 628.
Sarah, 568.
Ginder, Emma, 446.
Gipsen (Gibbs), 293.
Girton, Sarah Ann, 726.
Gloudie Point Title, The, 602.
Goble, Carrie, 741.
Godwin, David, 714.
Elizabeth, 713.
Goetchius, Aletta, 551.
Leah, 553.
Rachel, 466, 553.
Goewey, Alida, 708.
Benjamin, 733.
Golden, Katherine, 778.
Golding, William, 783.
Goodrich, Frank C., 664.
Leroy, 620.
Goodwin, Anna, 659.
Annie A., 467.
Henry, 769.
Goore, Magdeleine, 183.
Gordell, Frances E., 525.
Gordon, Charles W., 608.
Wealthy Jane, 464.
Gosha, Amelia, 770.
Gould, Alexander S., 420.
R (Rev.), 13.
Gouverneur, 796, 813.
Abraham, 378, 381, 397, 593,
810, 811, 812, 814, 821.
Barent, 812.
Elizabeth, 812, 813.
Esther, 812.
Isaac, 806, 812.
Jacoba, 812, 813, 814.
Machtelt (de Riemer), 812.
Maria, 603, 812, 813, 814.
Nicholas, 569, 812, 813.
Govert, Mortien, 693.
Gracia, 808.
Graff, Mary L., 656.
Graham, Carrie, 661.
James, 413.
Grandpre, Pierre, 248.
Granger, Bradley F., 527.
Roswell, 489.
Grant, Celestine Maria, 523.
Ebenezer, 808.
Edwin, 667.
Grassett, Augustus, 804.
Graul, S. George, 766.
Graves, Elsey, 722.
William, 722.
Gray, Margaret, 531.
Robert Shaw, 665.
William (Rev.), 597.
Green, Elizabeth, 741.
Harvey W., 738.
Henry, 463.
Jonas, 437.
Margaret, 463.
Greenfield, John, 721.
Greenleaf, John (Dr.), 261.
Greenway, Mary, 647.
Grennell, George Gardener, 44
Grennels, Rhoda, 720.
Grey, Austin, 726.
Mary, 571.
Griffen, George F., 440.
John T., 650.
Sarah, 658.
Grim, Peter, Jr., 546.
Griswold, Nathaniel, 298.
Groat, Jane R., 659.
Sarah A., 515.
Groesbeck, Elizabeth, 738.
Nicholas, 708.
Groot, Simon, 168.
Susanna, 168.
Grover, Betsey, 735.
Groves, Sarah, 655.
Guenon, Hannah, 195.
Jean, 99, 195, 246.
Jeremiah, 195.
John, 195.
Susannah, 195.
Guerard, Edward Percy, 472.
Guion, 270.
Jacques, 198, 494.
|Jane E., 743.
Louis, 424, 637.
Guiterray, Victoria, 690.
Gulcke, Jan, 222.
Gulick, Fernandus, 700.
601, 624, 798,
12.
864
INDEX.
Gulick, Jan, 222.
Guliger, Henry, 734.
Gunckel, Lewis W., 590.
Gunderman, Sarah, 730.
Gundrey, William B., 726.
Gunn, Patrick, 725.
Gunnison, George Stewart, 748.
Gunsaulus, Eva G., 758.
Gurnee, Brewster S., 691.
Gurney, Elizabeth, 629.
John, 805.
Guyon, Charity, 651.
Gwynne, Almerson, 654.
Gysbert, Frederick, 337.
Gysberts, Wouter, 698.
Gysbertsen, Fredr., 287.
H
Haas, Jacob Gerritsz, 357.
Hadley, Emma A., 659.
Joseph, 548.
Mehitabel, 643.
Mrs., 614.
Haff, George, 375.
Jacob, 452.
Laurens, 375.
Hagel, Jan Gerritsen, 612.
Hagenaer, Jeremias Jansen, 219.
Hagerman, Annetta, 702.
Francis, 712.
Lydia, 717.
Maria, 712.
Nancy, 703.
Nelly, 703.
Haight, Abigail, 506.
Ella, 747.
Ezra James, 660.
Hainault, 32, 33.
Haines, Wesley, 555.
Hake, Samuel J., 739.
Haldron, Abraham, 559.
Abram Cornelius, 560.
Abram Cornelius (Hon.), 560.
Adele Ethlyn, 561.
Anatye (Anna), 559.
Anna (Johanna), 558.
Annatje, 559.
Bessie C., 560.
Catharine, 559.
Catherine Ann, 560.
Cathlyntie, 559.
Catriena, 559, 560.
Claes (Nicholas), 559.
Cornelia, 559.
Cornelius, 559, 560.
Cornelius C., 560.
Cornelius J., 560.
Edith May, 561.
Elizabeth, 559, 560.
Elsie, 559.
Emily, 561.
Estelle, 560.
Garrett S. M., 560.
Henry, 558, 561.
Hester, 559.
James C., 560.
James C. (Jacobus C.), 560.
James Demarest, 560, 5t-.
Jan (John), 559.
Jessie Louise, 561.
Johannis, 560.
John, 558, 559.
John C., 560, 561.
Lena, 560.
Lucas (Luykus), 559.
Maria, 559.
Marie Roseland, 561.
Martha, 560.
Haldron, Mary Elizabeth, 560.
Marytje, 560.
Marytye (Marie), 559.
Nicholas, 500.
Percy Long, 561.
Rachel, 560.
Sarah, 559.
William, 297, 401, 405, 413, 415, 558, 559,
561, 816.
William (Willem), 558.
William C., 560.
Willem (William), 559, 560.
Willim (William), 559.
Hale, Daniel, 551.
Martha M., 746.
Sarah, 516.
Halenbeck, Isaac Caspars, 368.
Hall, 584.
Augusta D., 749.
Charles Henry, 482, 797, 798.
Edna Ann, 736.
Elizabeth, 381, 584.
Horace, 444.
Ida F., 670.
James S., 590.
Jennie M., 753.
John T., 584.
Maayke (Mary), 580.
Mary Ann, 649.
Mary L.. 527.
Ralph, 381.
William D., 691.
William H., 752.
Hallenbeck, Jacob, 720.
Lawrence A., 668.
Hallett, William, 163.
Hallock, James M., 749.
Halstead, Alice, 575.
Caroline, 631.
Oscar, 571.
Hamilton, Alexander, 818.
Horace, 731.
James H., 747.
Julia T., 469.
Warren, 730.
Hamlin, Catherine Livingston, 651.
G. A., 539.
Hammell, John, 78.
Hammer Eugenia, 768.
Lena, 768.
Hammond, Elizabeth, 741.
Jacob Dewitt, 523.
John Wells, 533.
Mary Delancey, 609.
Hanel, Juriaen, 211, 221, 264, 598.
Juriaen (Sergeant), 206.
Jurian, 679, 796, 799.
Hanel and Slot Patents, The, 598.
Hanesch, Elizabeth, 744.
Hanmore, Wilfred B., 747.
Hansen, Catherine, 259.
Hans, 129.
Mary, 128.
Simon, 128.
Hanson, John Wilkinson, 566.
Harden, Henry, 518.
Hardenberg, Cornelia, 695.
Hardenbrook, 712.
Abel, 808.
Margaret, 808.
Sarah, 783.
Hardewyn, Martin, 272, 275, 315, 319.
Hardin, Edwin St. George, 560.
Harding, Conrad, 363.
Emeline, 363, 681.
Frena, 363.
Hans Jacobs, 362, 363, 681.
Lambert, 363.
Tryntie, 363.
Haring, Abraham, 454, 616, 619.
INDEX.
865
Haring Catherine, 601.
Catherine D., 560.
Catrina, 461.
Cornelia, 455.
David, 687.
Dirck, 450.
Dirkie, 616.
Elbert, 450.
Elizabeth, 559, 629, 684.
Ellen M., 560.
Frederick, 461.
James, 619.
Lydia, 709.
Maria, 455, 461.
Martina, 460.
Martyen, 449.
Peter, 601.
Peter D., 460.
Pieter J., 448.
Rachel, 709.
Samuel, 461.
Willempie, 455.
Harlan, Margaret L., 571.
Harm, Theodore S., 591.
Harmans, Arent, 303, 338, 388, 401, 412, 817.
Harmanse, 447.
Arent, 414, 415.
Elbert, 448.
Harmansen, Arent, 792.
Harmens, Arent, 694.
Harper, Jane, 762.
John Hendrick, 505.
Mayor, 443.
Harries, Carrie, 589.
Ella, 589.
Harrington, Joseph, 763.
Harriott, Nathaniel, 782.
Harris, Fannie, 748.
James, 445.
Harrison, George, 789.
Gerad, 571.
Julia, 521.
Mary E., 753.
Morris, 526.
Richard, 606, 798.
Harsen, Cornelius, 267.
Jacob, 478, 545.
John, 545.
Hart, Jonathan, 217.
Marshall B., 526.
Harte, Catharine, 789.
Harter (Herder), Jacob, 501.
Hartman, Alma C., 690.
Hartuss, Annie S., 750.
Hartwell, William S., 672.
Harven, William, 617.
Harvey, Mary E., 756.
Hasbrouck, Peter, 205.
Sarah, 205.
Tobias, 510.
Hasson, William H., 762.
Hatch, Julia, 532.
Sarah Elizabeth, 653.
Tamar Ann, 730.
Hathorn, Fergus A., 653.
Hattem, Dirck, 375.
Haverly, 751.
Haviland, Benjamin, 265.
Bridget, 692.
Joseph, 265.
Hawkins, Eleanor, 665.
Hawks, Olivia, 469.
Hayes, Jacob, 608.
Maria, 608.
Hayner, Sarah A., 689.
Hays, De Witt C., 610.
Ella, 611.
Hazard, Eliza B., 652.
Healey, Joseph T., 688.
Heard, James, 298.
Heck, John W., 446.
Hedding, Lawrence, 380.
Thomas, 380.
Heddy, Elizabeth, 263.
John, 277, 283, 327.
Hedger, Joseph, 195.
Heermans, Augustine, 693.
Heerte, Amelyntie, 681.
Heertgers, Pietertie, 234.
Hegeman, Hendrick, 698.
Jan, 144.
Hegen, Amelia, 746.
Heily, Ithamar, 827.
Heiser, 794.
Christopher, 172, 484.
Hellacker, Effie, 692.
Hellaker, Dinah, 408.
William, 403, 407, 408.
Heller, Anna, 741.
Helliker, Jacob, 236, 592.
Helling, Hendrick Teunisz, 328.
Samuel, 350.
Wybrecht, 328.
Helmont, Jan, 309.
Helms, Millie, 441.
Robert, 441.
Hemstreet, Maria, 736.
Henderson, James, 427.
James M., 726.
W., 774.
Hendricks, Aeltie, 94, 692.
Coenraet, 269, 302.
Conrad, 330, 338, 796.
Conradus, 320, 332, 349.
Daniel, 320.
Elsie, 100.
Femmetie, 608.
Frans, 476.
Geertrieu, 384.
Geertye, 451.
Grietie, 147.
Helena, 360.
Jan, 263, 269, 283, 332, 349, 360, 476.
Karsten, 251.
Margaret, 148, 295.
Marritie, 476.
Rebecca, 94, 694.
Sarah C., 522.
Tryntie, 229.
Hendricksen Conrad, 266, 315, 316.
Conradus, 309.
Jan, 325, 476.
Marten, 700.
Samuel, 229.
Hendricx, Conradus, 344.
Hennion, Ide, 707.
Leah, 639.
Nathaniel PieterFen, 696.
Henry, Joseph, 479.
Herder, Elizabeth, 507.
Hering, Henry J., 688.
Hermans, Arent, 365.
Beatrice, 162.
Hermans, Arent. 308, 320, 330, 337, 338, 342,
343, 349, 360. 366, 370, 372, 373.
Hermensen, Arent, 307, 313, 328, 332, 336.
Heroy, Lou, 557.
Herrick, Phebe, 508.
Herring, Cosyn, 350.
Grietie, 350.
Margaret, 350.
Martha, 741.
Vrouwtie, 350.
Herring (Haring), Nicholas, 453.
Herzer, George A., 773.
Heurnius, 79.
Hewett, James (Captain), 548.
Hewitt, Kate, 537.
Rex, 657.
Hewson, Mary, 646.
866
INDEX.
Heyer, Catherine, 298.
Heyliger, John (Col.), 569.
Hickman, Robert, 782.
Hickoe, David Stafford, 464.
Hicks, Barney, 555.
Phebe, 738.
Whitehead (Hon.), 479.
William C., 746.
Higby, Lydia, 657.
Higginbotham, Lucy, 648.
Higgins, Joseph H., 755.
Higley, Edwin, 752.
Hildreth, Benjamin, 810.
Louisa J., 534.
Hill, Gabriel, 619.
Grace E., 678.
Hannah, 657.
John Thomas, 541.
Richard, 398.
Hills, Asenath, 735.
Hilton, Avilda, 489.
Hinchman, John, 734.
Hinckley, Harriet, 555.
Hinderlinder, Anglie, 675.
Hinds, Jacob, 721.
Hine, Abel, 512.
Patrick, 703.
Hinkell, Amanda, 741.
Hinton, Mary, 668.
Hitchcock, Edwin, 444.
Edwin H., 444.
Hitchen, John, 726.
Hitt, Jane, 526.
Hoagland, Hannah, 588.
John B., 587.
Mary, 647.
Sallie M., 588.
Hodges, Elizabeth, 444.
Hoede, Anna, 381.
Hoever, John, 722.
Hoff, Frances, 585.
Hoffman, 340.
Judge, 417.
Martinus (Col.), 428.
Mary, 726.
Murray (Hon.), 417.
Sarah, 499.
Hogan (Hagens), Martin, 450.
Hoggins, William F., 728.
Hogle, Sally, 516.
Holcomb, Charles, 752.
Hollack, Matthew, 628.
Holland, Cyrus, 762.
Elizabeth, 692.
Thomas, 379.
Holley, Caroline E., 629.
Charles, 630.
Harriet J., 760.
Richard, 569.
Holliday, Cornelius, 745, 746.
Hollis, 329.
Robert, 286, 289, 302, 309, 328.
Hollister, Abigail, 516.
Elizabeth, 527.
Holly, 628.
Holman, Rebecca, 467.
Holmes, 381, 561.
Bregie, 806.
Cornelia, 806.
Elizabeth, 806.
Garret, 656.
George, 660, 792, 806.
Janneke, 806.
Jannetie, 806.
John, 769.
Jooris( George), 448.
Judith, 806.
Mary Cornelia, 662.
Nancy, 723.
Obadiah, 272.
Holmes, Polly, 711.
Priscilla, 806.
William, 376, 401, 413, 416, 806, 816.
Hoist, Cornelia Van Tienhoven, 558.
Homans, Alexander, 650.
Honald, Bertha, 446.
Honeywell, Eliza A., 553.
Israel, 807.
Margaret, 554.
Hooghtaling, Anna, 498.
Catherine, 503.
Hooghteeling, William, 200.
Hoogland, Adrian, 804.
Aeltie, 594, 804.
Benjamin, 804.
Charlotte Elizabeth, 473.
Cornelis Dircksen, 804.
Derick, 804.
Johannes, 804.
John, 716.
William, 804.
Hoogtaling, Wilhelmus, 507.
Hoogtelingh, Jeremias, 503.
Hook, Thomas, Jr., 805.
Hoover, Emanuel, 569.
Hoppen, Andries, 384.
Hopper, Andries, 385, 408, 697.
Ann, 440.
Catherine, 385.
Hannah M., 522.
Hendrica, 697.
Henry, 385.
Henry J., (Hon.), 385.
Mary A., 467.
Mary Leah, 560.
Mrs. 385.
William, 385.
Yellis, 385, 707.
Horan, Martha, 746.
Horn, Hannah, 435.
John, 435.
Home, Gustavus Adolphus, 234.
Horton, Charles H. (M. D.), 693.
Helen 0., 569, 572.
Hose, Elizabeth, 695.
Hough, Pamelia, 516.
Houghtaling, Catharine, 504.
Houghwout, Jane Vreeland, 465.
House, Polly, 734.
William, 626.
Howard, Ezra, 657.
Walter, 542.
Howe, Andrew, 649.
Eliza Turner, 468, 472.
Howland, Oliva, 465.
Howlett, John, 733.
Hoyt, Edgar, 537.
Ennes (Capt.), 722.
Hubbard, James (Capt.), 240.
Hubele, Jane, 745.
Hudde, 134, 802.
Andries, 106, 129, 130, 133, 135.
Claes, 130.
Rutger, 130, 135.
Hudson, 11.
Anna L., 753.
Grace Sands, 786.
Henry, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116.
Robert, 387.
Robert Grick, 515.
Huff, Isaac, 712.
Hulder (Holler), Lena, 510.
Hull, Dr. (Mrs.), 783.
Humphrey, Benjamin, 491.
David, 529.
Hun, Harman Tomasz, 427.
Hungerford, Mary, 527.
Hunt, 317.
Thomas, Jr., 283, 316, 385.
Thomas, Sr., 385.
INDEX.
867
Hunt, Timothy, 645.
Hunter, Henrietta, 689.
Robert, 804.
Huntoon, Grace E., 668.
Rose, 668.
Husted, Phebe, 645.
Hustis, Solomon, 645.
Hutchings, George, 671.
Hutton, Jennie, 544.
John, 629.
Huyberts, Maria, 380.
Huyler, Peter, 618.
Peter E., 467.
Huys, Jacob (Capt.), 95.
Hyatt, Caleb, 345, 551, 614.
Jacob, 551.
Millard, 763.
Sarah, 645.
Thomas, 350.
Hyer, William, 486.
Hyzer, Thomas, 659.
Idens, Theunis, 592.
Ides, Teunis, 395, 403.
Idesse, Annetje, 478.
Ingalls, Josephine, 540.
Ingrahafn, D. P. (Hon.), 795.
Judge, 172, 609.
Nathaniel G., 609.
Samuel Dana, 716.
Innis. Alexander, 388.
Cornelius, 388.
Thomas, 196, 388.
William, 388.
Ireland, William H. (Dr.), 666.
Isaacs, Abraham, 297.
Iseman, James, 441.
Isselstein, Isaac, 498.
Isselsteyn, Cornelia, 389.
Martin, 389.
Ives, James Frontier, 443.
John, 535.
Ralph 0., 493.
J
Jaarsvelt, Anna, 95, 679, 680.
Jackson, Almira, 569.
Jabez, 519.
Jacob B., 726.
John F., 436.
John F. (Rev.), 408;
John Frelinghuysen (Rev.), 436.
Patrick, 436.
William, 724.
William (Rev.), 436.
William H. (Dr.), 436.
Jacobs, Frank, 543.
Jacomina, 105, 221.
Maria, 364.
Marritie, 277.
Mary, 738.
Peter, 367.
Tryntie, 592.
Jacobsen, Claes, 234.
Frans, 363.
Jacob Franssen, 96, 97.
Margaret, 97.
Robert, 236.
Rutger, 97.
Teunis, 97.
Jacobson, Frans, 96.
Jacobus, Bertha, 611.
Jaersvelt, Anna, 221.
James, John, 698, 799.
Jameson, Mary H., 749.
Jan, Kleyn, 372.
Janes, H. H. (Rev.), 759.
Janeway, William, 321.
Jans, Aeltie, 217.
Annecke, 236.
Engeltie, 188.
Grietie. 95.
Jannetie, 263.
Lysbeth, 698.
Margaret, 347.
Susannah, 700.
Willemtie, 261.
Janse, Marretye, 559.
Jansen, 147, 149, 184, 251, 268, 286, 366, 368,
381, 424, 797, 799.
Abraham, 388.
Anna Catrina, 388.
Annatie (Laurens), 448.
Anneke, 148.
Anthony, 388.
Belitie, 258.
C., 329.
Catalina, 351.
Catherine, 148.
Cornelis, 219, 243, 258, 266, 274, 276, 277,
278, 286, 287, 288, 289, 292, 293, 297, 301,
304, 308, 309, 313, 315, 316, 318, 320, 324,
328, 330, 332, 333, 338, 342, 349, 352, 366,
371, 373, 382, 390, 393, 401, 405, 406, 407,
412, 414, 415, 476, 697, 795, 797, 800, 801,
802, 803.
Cornelis Laurens, 353.
Cornelius, 273, 296, 366, 367, 792, 795.
Dirck, 236, 261.
Egbert, 511.
Elizabeth, 410.
Elsie. 388.
Evert, 234.
Frans, 476.
Hendrick, 258, 351, 476.
Jan, 148, 346, 388.
Johanna 580.
Laurens, 258, 273, 274, 296, 297, 320, 328,
332, 333, 338, 340, 342, 343, 345, 349, 365,
366, 370, 371, 372, 373, 388, 401, 403, 405,
406, 412, 593, 600, 624, 625, 795, 799, 802,
817. 821.
Lawrence, 366, 367, 382, 405, 414, 415, 792,
803, 819.
Lourens, 289, 290, 320, 329, 380, 816, 830.
Lysbet, 148.
Maria, 298.
Marritie, 476.
Matthys, 164, 341, 342, 345.
Metje, bb6, 821.
Pieter, 144, 148, 247, 268.
Tapster, 276.
Willem, 162..
Jansen (Kortright), Cornelis, 795.
Jarvis, Esther, 436.
James, 645.
Nathaniel (Hon.), 490.
Jaslin, Maude, 620.
Jay, Sarah, 711.
Jaycox, Samuel, 627.
Jenkins, T. J., 760.
Jenks, Lemuel S., 738.
Jensen Willem, 201.
Jerolamen, Nicholas, 718.
Jerome, 761.
Jersey, Abram B., 443.
Abram P., 560.
Winifred, 766.
Jervis, Timothy Bloomfield, 464.
Jessup, Edward A., 523.
Jeurians, Jannetie, 256.
Jewel, Rachel, 500.
Jewell, 758.
Aeltie, 646.
Catherine E., 659.
868
INDEX.
Jewell, Hannah, 513.
John N., 650.
Maria, 646.
Mary, 645.
Johannes, Foppe, 431.
Minne, 431.
John, Don, 38.
Johnson, 813.
Archibald B., 667.
Charles, 428.
Clara, 542.
David, 489.
Elizabeth, 609.
Emma, 572.
Jacob J., 492.
Jonathan (Dr.), 720.
Simon, 417, 564, 565, 601, 605, 798, 801, 812,
813.
W. R. (Dr.), 519.
William (Sir), 549.
Johnston, Charles G., 746.
Gabriel F., 589.
George, 746.
Isaiah Y. (Rev.), 512.
Mary, 492.
Jones, 340, 807.
Andrew, 748.
Anna Alwild, 664.
Aurelia A., 649.
Edwin J., 660.
Frances Nelson, 468, 472.
John D., 518.
John S., 648.
Letitia, 664.
Maria, 533.
Mary E., 742.
Samuel, 711.
Joris, Burger, 181, 236, 303, 385.
Journeay, 270.
John, 272.
Meynard, 271, 792.
Journee, 105, 205, 329, 331, 495.
Meynard, 68, 103, 259, 274, 289, 296, 320,
324, 328, 370, 795, 796.
Meyndert, 284, 286, 287, 301, 308, 309, 800.
Juet, 110, 113.
Jumel, 826.
Stephen, 820, 827.
Jurcks, Margaret, 697.
Kennan, 727.
Kennedy, Catherine, 569.
John, 734.
Margaret S., 575.
Kenney, Eliza, 749.
Kent, David, 695.
John, 721.
Kenyon, David, 819.
James, 298, 819.
John S., 819.
Samuel B., 819.
William, 819.
Wm. B., 298.
Kere, Abraham, 562.
John, 562.
Kermer, Abraham, 220, 427.
Grietie, 220, 427.
Ketcham, William, 576.
Keteltas, Arent, 359.
Arent Evertsen, 265, 277.
Evert Pietersen, 97, 277.
Susanna, 359.
Keys, Mary Wales, 737.
Kidd, William (Capt.), 381, 805.
Kieft, 132, 144, 147, 151, 152, 153, 164, 345.
L)irector, 129, 130, 133, 138, 139, 140, 141,
142, 146, 794.
Governor, 126, 247, 250, 292, 820.
W., 406.
W. (Hon. Dr.), 158.
William, 150.
Wm. (Governor), 384, 385.
Kiers, Hendrick, 349, 373.
Kierse, Peter, 643.
Kiersen, 93, 95, 547, 600, 799, 819, 826.
Abraham, 562.
Gerritie, 548.
Grietie, 263.
Grietje, 562.
Hendrick, 249, 263, 265, 276, 312, 313, 318,
329, 343, 344, 346, 351, 365.
Jan, 263, 298, 346, 408, 409, 548, 558, 561,
562, 600, 821.
Jannetie, 263, 548, 562.
Jannetje, 562.
John, 562, 567, 792, 800, 819, 821, 827, 828,
829, 830.
Kier, 263.
Maria, 263.
Michiel, 263.
Mrs., 599.
Peter, 263.
Rachel, 263.
Sarah, 263, 613.
Tjerck, 263.
Walter, 263.
Kierstead, Abraham, 441.
Roelof, 412.
Kiersted, Aldert, 496.
Christopher, 321.
Simon, 788.
Kierstede, Blandina, 359.
Kilburn, Ina A., 747.
Killecutt, Emily, 734.
Kimball, Eunice, 631.
Kimbark, Kate, 660.
Kimberly, 584.
Salina, 748.
Kimmel, John, 803.
King, Charity, 709.
Jennie, 444.
John A., 446.
Lydia Gail, 757.
Richard, 783.
Rufel P., 528.
Samuel, 791.
Kingsbury, Laura, 575.
Kingsland, Hester,- 487, 490.
Rachel, 783.
Kinnear, R. M., 764.
K
Kalshoven, Ed, 13.
Kammega, Annatie Hendricks, 600.
Kane, Pierre C., 481.
Karsten, 236, 269.
Hendrick, 795.
Karstens, 622.
Coenraet, 251.
H. H., 193.
Hendrick, 93, 183, 190, 195, 198, 199, 201,
203, 222, 230, 239, 242, 251, 296, 796.
Jan, 251.
Wybrecht, 251.
Kay, David, 543.
Keator, Lavinia, 533.
Keely, Elisha, 628.
Keeter, Melchert Claesz, 162.
Kehoe, 610.
Kellenaer, Sarah, 321.
Keller, Anna Catherine, 710.
Kellogg, Hannah, 527.
Kelly, John, 427.
Lydia, 657.
Rosa, 752.
Samuel, 818.
Kemper, James, 586.
Kendall, George, 588.
Helen, 630.
INDEX.
869
Kinney, William, 726.
Kinsey, Maurice, 763.
Kip, 329.
Abraham, 351.
Catherine, 502.
Ellen, 610.
Hendrick, 147, 351.
Hendricks, 782.
Isaac, 147, 328, 338, 346, 350, 351, 642.
Jacob, 158, 181, 182, 212, 242, 785.
Jacob (Mrs.), 292.
Jacob (Sieur), 285.
Jacobus, 351.
Johannes, 351, 501.
Johannesie, 351.
John, 147.
Maria, 377, 501.
Maria (Mrs.), 407.
Maria (Polly), 460.
Mary, 692.
Mary (Mrs.), 351.
Rachel, 508.
Tryntie, 351, 782.
Kipp, Amelia A., 524.
Catherine, 646.
Francis M. (Rev.), 351.
James, 620.
Johannes, 276.
William De Graw, 620.
Wm. I. (Rev.), 351.
Kirk, Mary, 744.
Kittel, Susannah, 567.
Kbearwater, Mouris, 449.
Klinetop, Lydia, 571.
Sarah, 570.
Knapp, 506.
Freeborn, 516.
Mary Ann, 724.
Moses L., 517.
Reuben, 516.
Shepherd, 820.
Knapton, Capt., 385.
Knickerbocker, Diedrich, 115.
Everitt, 445.
Iarmen Janse, 448.
Lewis D., 445.
Kniffen, Fanny J., 655.
Knieht, Francis Eaton, 464.
Sarah, 690.
William, 688.
Knobles, John, 442.
Knox, Louisa Ellen, 666.
Thomas, 569.
Knyf, Captain, 204.
Koch, Hendrick, 94.
Marritie, 681.
Kockerthal, Joshua (Rev.), 478.
Louisa Abigail, 478.
Kockuyt, 268.
Joost. 104, 247, 250.
Kolver, Jacob, 204.
Koninck, Hyman, 403.
Koning, Abraham, 783.
Kool, Barent, 618.
Jacob J., 458.
Jan, 580.
Kool (Cole), Maria, 455.
Kortright, 105, 205, 258, 296, 298, 321, 373,
4oi, 434, 801, 803.
A. Gussie, 576:
Aaron, 500, 565, 567, 568, 569, 571, 572, 804.
Aaron Writer, 571, 575.
Abbie Hope, 577.
Abraham D., 571, 575.
Abram, 569, 570, 573, 574.
Adrian, 259.
Aefie, 267, 564, 635.
Aefie (Eve), 410.
Alice, 573, 575.
Andrew, 569, 571.
Kortright, Ann Elizabeth, 568.
Anna, 573.
Anna V., 577.
Annetie, 564, 565.
Antie, 259.
Archie, 578.
Arent, 355, 500.
Arie, 259.
Aseneth, 575.
Ashbel Morris, 571.
Bastiaen, 265, 623, 786, 818, 823.
Bastiaen Michiels, 410.
Bastiaen Michielsen, 267.
Benjamin, 567, 569, 570, 572, 573.
Benton, 575.
Blanche M., 578.
Bowman, 575, 578.
Carl I., 578.
Carrie, 573.
Catherine, 259, 570, 573.
Cecil J., 577.
Charles, 570, 573, 577.
Charles A., 571.
Charles Augustine, 572.
Charles Franklin, 575, 578.
Charles N., 577.
Chester, 572.
Chiel, 97.
Christian, 571.
Christopher, 573.
Christopher Jacob, 576, 578.
Clara, 575.
Clyde C., 577.
Cornelia, 569.
Cornelis Jansen, 267, 563, 564, 403.
Cornelius, 259, 565, 566, 569, 570, 573.
Cornelius Jansen, 792.
Dingman, 571.
Donald, 578.
Edgar, 476, 578.
Edmund, 570.
Edwin K., 578.
Elias, 574.
Elisna, 567, 569, 570, 571, 573, 574.
Elisha Dingman, 574, 576.
Eliza, 570.
Elizabeth, 565, 566, 567, 569, 570, 573, 575.
Ella Louise, 575.
Ellen, 569, 571, 573, 574.
Emma, 578.
Emma L., 575.
Emma M., 575.
Erastus, 574.
Ethel. 577.
Etta Carrie, 575.
Euphemia (Eva), 569.
Eve, 430, 565, 567.
Fannie F., 577.
Fletcher, 571.
Flora G., 577.
Florence Tear, 578.
Frances (Francyntie), 566.
Frances Whiley, 578.
Frank, 572, 577.
Frank Stewart, 574, 577.
Frederick L., 576.
Geertie, 259.
George, 572.
George Denton, 576.
Gertrude M., 575.
Grace K., 577.
Grace Pearl, 578.
Grietie, 431, 488, 566, 801, 804.
Hannah, 570, 573.
Harlen, 577.
Harlen W., 574, 577.
Harold, 578.
Harriett, 573.
Helen, 570.
Helen Gertrude, 575.
870
INDEX.
Kortright, Helena, 567.
Hendrick, 259.
Henry, 569, 570, 573.
Henry Harrison, 573.
Henry Y., 578.
Hester, 569.
Hester Mary, 570.
Horace, 573.
Huldah, 571, 574.
Isaac, 569, 571, 574, 576.
Isaac H., 577, 578.
J. Wilbur, 577, 578.
Jacob, 259, 573, 576.
James, 568, 572, 574, 576, 578.
Jannetie, 564.
Jesse D., 571, 575.
Job., 298.
Johannes, 267, 485, 545, 563, 564, 792.
Johannes Cornelissen, 564, 792.
John, 259, 566, 567, 569, 570, 572, 573, 644,
801.
John (Captain), 569, 570, 802, 804, 814, 825.
John B., 570, 574.
John Benson, 572.
John C., 572, 576.
John Cooper, 569, 571, 575.
John Harlan, 577.
John J., 578.
John Jackson, 571, 575.
John L., 570.
John M., 577.
John Milton (Hamilton), 572.
John Searles, 576.
John Wesley, 574, 577.
Joseph, 571, 574.
Joseph Daniel, 576. 578.
Joseph Rhodes, 574, 577.
Josephine B., 577.
Laura, 577.
Laurens Cornelissen, 564, 565.
Lawrence, 259, 429, 430, 432, 483, 565, 566,
567, 568, 569, 578, 603, 792, 803, 821.
Lawrence M., 572.
Lawrence W., 572.
Lawrence William,572, 576.
Lidia, 573.
Louisa, 573.
Lourens, 355.
Lulu Elizabeth, 575.
Luther, 577.
Lydia, 569, 573.
Mabel Dodson, 571.
Mabel Louisa, 577.
Margaret, 569, 570, 573, 578.
Margaret Ellen, 574.
Margaret Genevieve, 578.
Margarette, 573.
Margrietze, 567.
Maria, 564, 566.
Maria Elizabeth, 572.
Martha, 576.
Mary, 569, 570, 571, 572, 574, 575.
Mary E., 576.
Mary H., 571.
Mary Helen, 572.
Matilda E., 571.
Matilda Ellen, 572.
Mattie, 565, 603, 606.
Maude B., 577.
May, 577.
Metje, 483, 485, 564.
Michael, 267, 635.
Milton, 570, 573.
Milton Lerch, 575, 578.
Miner, 575.
Molly J., 577.
Nancy, 569, 571.
Nancy Jane, 574.
Nannie Rawlins, 578.
Nathan Alonzo, 574, 577.
Kortright, Nathan D., 571, 574, 576, 577.
Nathan D., Jr., 575.
Nathan Dodem, 578.
Nellie, 573.
Nellie B., 577.
Nicholas, 298, 432, 433, 434, 497, 545, 564,
565, 566, 568, 603, 697, 796, 797, 804.
Nicholas G., 570, 572.
Norman, 573.
Pamelia, 571.
Paul A., 578.
Peter, 259.
Rachel, 267, 571.
Rachel Caroline, 574.
Richard, 574.
Richard Pollock, 574.
Robert, 570.
Robert Milton, 578.
Roseanna, 573.
Roxanna, 570, 573.
Samuel, 576.
Samuel D., 576.
Samuel Delamater, 569.
Samuel Denton, 572.
Samuel M., 575.
Sarah, 569.
Sarah A., 576.
Sarah Caroline, 572.
Sarah liza, 572.
Sarah H., 577.
Scott Elmer, 576.
Shelby M., 577.
Susan, 572.
Susannah, 565, 568, 571, 603.
Sylvester, 574.
Teresa I., 577.
Theodore, 574.
Thomas, 572.
Thomas Brown, 572.
Thomas C., 576, 578.
Thomas Clinton, 574.
Thomas Dingman, 571.
Vernon Smith, 578.
Volney, 570.
Walter, 578.
Wardell, 578.
Washington, 573.
William, 259, 573.
William A., 575, 578.
William Abram, Jr., 578.
William Albert, 575, 578.
William Eddy, 577.
William Le Fevre, 577.
William Pollock, 574.
William T., 576.
Wilson Grant, 577.
Winfield Scott, 573.
Kortright (Courtright), 67.
Koster, 222.
Kraig, Reuben C., 509.
Krannear, Jenny, 677.
Kray (Gray), Teunis, 99.
Krom, Derick, 785.
Gysbert, 448.
Lysbeth, 608.
Sarah, 503.
William, 608.
Kuyper, Grietie, 638.
Mary, 638.
Kuyter, 135, 137, 139, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150,
151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 159, 160, 162, 164,
167, 244, 256, 342.
Captain, 106, 143.
Jochem, 140.
Jochem Pietersen, 157, 158, 167, 168, 794.
Jochiem Pietersen, 92, 162.
Jochiem Pietersen (Capt.), 133, 134.
Mrs., 160.
Kyckuyt, Hendrick Jansen, 475, 476.
Jan, 401.
INDEX.
871
Kyckuyt, Jan Hendricks, 324, 328, 476.
Jan Hendricx, 372, 373.
John Hendricks, 476.
L
Labadie, 62.
Laborie, James (Rev.), 335.
Lacheret, M., 10, 13.
Lock, Dominie, 135.
La Cloche, 61.
Lacquema, Louis, 204.
l'Admiral, Madeleine, 348, 365.
Lafons, Blanche, 812.
Jean, 813.
John, 812.
Lake, John, 506.
Lakeman, 204, 270.
Abraham, 204.
Peter, 204.
l'Albret, Louise, 30.
La Marthonie, Bishop, 56.
Lamb, Catherine, 703.
Elizabeth, 703.
Lamberson, David, 687.
Lambert, Eliza, 520.
Lamberts, Conrad, 579.
Hendrick, 449.
Thomas, 250, 258, 268.
Lambertsen, Jacob, 144.
Lambet, Mary, 651.
Lameter, Isaac, 433.
La Montagne, 48, 80, 81, 85, 131, 13,
154, 167, 802.
Carsten, 194.
Dr., 89, 91, 126, 148, 290.
Grietie, 194.
J., Jr., 193, 247.
Jan, 194, 195, 202, 203, 206, 207, 211
229, 240, 242, 258, 266, 269, 274, 271
Jan (Mrs.), 308.
Jan, Jr., 178, 183, 221, 239, 264.
Jean, 85, 91, 106, 289.
Jesse, 91.
Johannes, 150, 157.
Johannes (Dr.), 591, 784.
Johannes (Sieur), 150.
Johannes, Jr., 208.
John, 94, 185, 188, 189, 236, 290, 642.
John, Jr., 679.
Jolante, 267.
Jr., 182.
Rachel, 91.
William, 189, 212, 290.
Lamreaux, Rufus, 519.
Land, Alexander, 557.
Lane, Hardy B., 440.
Simon, 183, 192, 796.
Lang, John L., 525.
Langdon & Son, 647.
Langelaan, Jannetie, 613.
Philip, 613.
Lange-traat, Jan Jansen, 273.
Langyear, Elizabeth, 515.
Lanigan, 506.
la inoy, Abraham, 271, 287.
Lansing, Neeltie, 707.
Lanyon, 810.
John, 809.
La Resilier, Jacques, 270.
Laroe. Abraham, 328.
Hendrick, 328.
Jacques, 328, 349.
Johannes, 328.
Peter, 328.
Samuel, 328.
Latham, 516.
Lathrop, Elizabeth Dwight, 652.
Mary Cornelia, 652.
i, 145,
L, 215,
5, 279.
Latourette, Mary, 727.
Laub, Peter, 589.
Lauberan, 61.
Lauran, Andre, 188.
Laurens, 799.
Jan, 301.
Magdalena, 350.
Mary, 321.
Lawrence, 340, 408, 418, 818, 824.
Abel, 658.
Augustine Hicks, 463.
Daniel, 479.
Eliza Ann, 737.
Hannah, 635, 637.
John, 806, 821, 822, 829.
John Jun, 367.
Mary, 457.
Mary Bowne, 469.
Thomas, 229.
William (Captain), 807.
Lawry, William, 751.
Lawton, David, 520.
Lazillere, Jacques, 447.
Leach, Mary, 764.
Leacraft, William, 458.
Leah, Leonard E., 759.
Leake, John, 428.
Leary, John, 452.
John, Jr., 806.
Leavenz, Nellie M., 576.
Le Baron, George, 722.
Lechier, Elsie, 496.
Hillebrant, 494.
le Comte, Jean, 318, 319, 321, 641.
Moses, 321.
Le Comte, 103, 318.
le Conseille, Jean, 204.
Le Count, Glyceria, 731.
Moses, 495.
Ledyard, Isaac, 819.
Lee, Charles (Dr.), 731.
Ellen Ann, 529.
Leefoy, Maria, 629.
Leenderts, Albert, 168, 209.
Leete, Joshua G., 753.
Leeuw (or Lyon), Philip, 608.
Le Fevre, 57.
Bishop, 59, 62.
Francois, 56.
Lefferts, Abraham, 806.
Derick, 806.
Elizabeth, 806.
Elizabeth Dorothea, 480.
Jacobus, 128.
James B., 462.
Judge, 128.
Leffert (Judge), 428.
Rachel, 693.
Le Fort, Mrs., 338.
Le foy Abraham, 789.
Lefre, Margaret, 521.
Le Gardinier, Pierre, 101.
Legget, 372.
Gabriel, 370.
Leggett, Christina, 497.
John, 497.
John, Jr., 501.
Susannah, 783.
Legrange, Margaret, 490.
Le Hucker, 61.
Leisler, 190, 217, 220, 407, 448, 613,
785, 805, 812.
Captain, 787.
Governor, 168, 350.
Jacob, 104, 210, 367.
Jacob (Capt.), 378, 642, 810.
Maria, 810, 812.
Le Lorraine, Charles, 54.
Ie Maire, Robert, 320.
Le Maire, Robert, 50, 96, 236, 237.
635, 692:
872
INDEX.
Lemaire, 6.
le Maistre, 295.
Abraham, 332.
Glaude, 221, 266, 271, 286, 287, 288, 289,
290, 295, 302, 304, 308, 319, 320, 321, 332,
337, 338, 342, 349, 352, 372, 373, 375, 376,
377, 493.
Isaac, 328, 332, 372.
Jan, 302, 328, 332, 338, 342, 349, 352, 372,
373.
Jean, 308, 309, 312, 316, 320.
Jean (Mrs.), 316.
Le Maistre, 313.
Claude, 99, 221.
Glaude, 98, 99, 201, 202, 203, 251.
Jean, 313.
Le Maistre (Delamater), Glaude, 49, 66,
204.
le Maitre, Glaude, 338.
Lemp, Eduard, 13.
Lennon, Jane, 744.
Lent, Abraham, 600, 705.
Abraham H., 703.
Augustus T., 555.
Benjamin, 552.
Latty, 552.
Maria, 451.
Martha, 551.
Ryck, 698.
Leopold, Archduke, 68.
Lerch, Elizabeth. 571.
Le Roux, Charles, 161.
le Roy, Hendrick, 348.
Jan, 286.
Jean, 98, 198, 221, 271, 272, 281, 287, 288,
302, 308, 309, 314, 319; 320, 328, 360, 409.
John, 348.
Le Roy, 64, 196, 271, 293, 329, 331, 802.
Jan, 598.
Jean, 183, 186, 190, 191, 195, 199, 201, 202,
203. 237, 239, 259, 261, 266, 269, 276, 795.
797, 798, 801.
John, 804.
Jonas, 200.
Marc, 261.
Stephen, 259.
Leroy, Jacob, 808.
Jean, 242.
Leslie, Cynthia A., 667.
Lessey, Lois, 731.
Lester, Betsy, 508, 515.
Charles, 520.
Clara, 527.
le Sueur, Abraham, 196.
Antie, 196.
Benjamin, 196.
Catherine, 196.
Francois, 196, 388.
Hester, 196.
Hildebrand, 196.
Jacob, 196.
Jacobus, 196.
Jannetie, 196.
Jeanne, 196, 388.
John, 196.
Leah, 196.
Lucas, 196.
Margaret, 196.
Mary, 196.
Nicholas, 196.
Peter, 196.
Rachel, 196.
Tryntie, 196.
Le Sueur, 100, 189.
Francois, 50, 100, 183.
Jeanne, 100.
Letelier, 49.
Jean, 214, 357.
Leursen, Urbane, 162.
Leverich, William (Rev.), 295.
Levines,' Louis, 553.
Sarah, 710.
Lewin, 381.
John, 364, 805.
Lewis, Abner, 655.
Aefie, 393.
Charles, 103.
Elija T., 440.
John, 348, 393, 431, 432, 496, 563, 5(
604, 624, 625, 803, 813.
Jonas, 393, 564.
Leonard, 432.
Mary, 481.
Ruth, 564.
Tanneke, 564, 788.
Leydecker, Albert, 616.
Clara, 614.
Elizabeth, 616.
Gerrit, 614.
Libot, Louis, 64.
Lieverse, Elbert, 448.
Lightbourn, Benjamin, 436.
Maria, 436.
Likely, Emma, 689.
Lincoin, Caroline, 741.
Maria V., 472.
Lindesay, John, 826.
Lindsey,' Maria, 725.
Lindsley, Elizabeth, 488.
Line, Martin, 571.
Lines, Orlando, 610.
Link, Ella J., 530.
Lippincott, Phebe Ann, 653.
Richard H., 611.
Lipton (Lupton), Julia M., 465.
Lispenard, Aletta, 161.
Cornelia, 808.
Leonard, 808.
Litchfield, Lewis, 540.
Little, Hester, 686.
Littou, Abram, 201, 203.
Hans, 201, 203.
Michiel, 201, 203.
Livingston, 172.
Catherine, 432.
Henry B., 569.
Henry G., 803.
John, 172, 298, 439, 599.
Peter R., 172.
Peter R. (Colonel), 432, 439.
Philip, 439.
Robert, 432, 635.
Lloyd, Amelia Caroline Gibbs, 520.
Hannah, 398.
Sarah H., 631.
Thomas, 398.
Lockhart, John, 726.
Lockwood, Alva, 687.
Lockwood & Crosby, 814.
Loderbaugh, 665.
Lodewycks, Madalena, 247.
Loeb, J. Henry, 675.
London, John, 376.
Long, Ida May, 560.
Miss, 489.
William (Capt.), 783.
Loockermans, Govert, 160.
Loomis, Ella, 474.
Lucy, 527.
Looten, Derick, 176, 212, 680.
Loper, Jacob (Capt.), 161.
Johanna, 161.
Lord, Daniel, 784.
Jeremiah S., 408.
Lorillard, 623.
Lorton, James, 790.
Losee, Peter, 205.
Loss, Charles, 819, 826.
Lott, John, 718.
Peter, 799.
64, 565,
INDEX.
873
Loucke, Ella, 444.
Louereer, 195.
Lough, William, 577.
Louis, Henry, 56.
Lounsbury, Lena B., 557.
Mary, 531.
Willett, 531.
Lourens, 246.
Hans, 242, 246.
Jan, 199.
Louwe, 304.
Jan, 336, 337, 338, 349, 362. 374, 401, 447.
Peter Jan, 448.
Lovatt, John R., 670.
Lovejoy, Jacob, 734.
Lovelace, 292, 314.
Francis, 256, 257, 258, 268, 284.
Francis (Governor), 323, 335.
Governor, 161, 191, 249, 252, 253, 254, 277,
306, 322, 476.
Loveridge, John, 295.
Samuel, 295.
Sarah, 295.
Temperance, 295.
Wallerand, 295.
William, 295.
Lovett, Sarah Gould, 462.
Low, 205, 321, 373, 814, 826.
Abraham, 196, 496, 580, 582, 584, 585, 587,
589.
Auraham Huff, 587.
Abram (Abraham), 580, 582.
Adolph, 585.
Albert, 495, 579, 580, 581, 795, 799.
Amelia Aletta, 590.
Andries Ten Eyck, 585.
Ann, 584.
Ann Maria, 589.
Anna Maria, 591.
Annatje, 579.
Anne, 588.
Annie Van D., 586.
Antje (Anna), 581.
Barent, 585.
Belitie (Isabelle), 580.
Bengemen (Benjamin), 585.
Benjamin, 580, 583, 585.
Brechje (Bridget), 585.
Carlton, 588.
Cathelina (Catherine), 584.
Cathelyntie, 581.
Cathelyntje, 584.
Catherine, 587, 588.
Cathlintie, 586.
Catlina, 585.
Catreina (Catherina), 582.
Catrentje, 583.
Charity, 583.
Charles Harries, 590.
Clara S., 591.
Clifton, 588.
Cora R., 591.
Cornelis (Cornelius), 579, 580, 581, 582,
584.
Cornelius, 184, 498, 580, 582, 583, 584, 585,
586, 587.
Cornelius D., 584.
Cornelius Terhune, 587.
Cornelus (Cornelius), 585.
Daniel, 585.
David, 586, 590, 503.
Debora, 586.
Deneys Stryker, 585.
Derrick J., 586.
Dinah, 581, 638.
Dirck, 580, 583.
Dirck D., 583, 586.
Dirick (Richard D.), 586.
Dorothy, 588.
Elesebath (Elizabeth), 585.
Low, Elizabeth, 499, 583, 587, 590.
Elizabeth W., 589.
Ella Harries, 590.
Elsey, 587.
Esther, 587.
Ethel H., 591.
Ezekiel F. R., 590.
Frances Kemper, 589.
Garret, 587.
George Huff, 588, 590.
Gerrit, 585, 587.
Gerrit (Garret), 581.
Gisbert, 583, 584, 586.
Glenn, 588.
Guisbert (Gysbert), 583.
Gysbert, 579, 580, 581, 583, 584, 585.
Hannah, 588.
Hendrick, 588.
Henrietta C., 590.
Henry, 583.
Henry Clay, 589, 590.
Henry 0., 590.
Houston, 589, 590.
Isaac, 184, 583, 584, 585, 586, 589.
Isaac J., 591.
Isaac S., 590, 591.
Jacob Derrick, 584, 586, 587, 588.
Jacob J., 586.
Jacob S., 589, 591.
James Edgar, 586.
James Kemper, 587.
Jan (John), 579, 580, 581, 583, 584, 585, 586.
Jane A., 589.
Janneke (Joan), 583.
Jannetje (Jane), 583.
Johannes, 584, 587.
Johannis (John), 584.
John, 550, 583, 585, 587, 589, 605, 819, 826.
John B., 589, 590.
John Gilbert, 587, 589, 590.
John M., 588.
John R., 590.
John T., 589.
Josiah A., 590, 591.
Josiah Appleton, 591.
Judick, 584.
Judick (Judith), 581.
Judith, 584, 585.
Kate, 588.
Laurens Jansen, 579.
Lawrence, 550, 580, 581, 583, 600, 638, 795,
799, 813, 826.
Lawrence, Jansen, 827, 829.
Lemoni, 588.
Lena, 585.
Loretta L., 589, 591.
Louwerens (Lawrence), 580.
Lucy A., 590.
Madeline B., 591.
Maria, 583, 584, 586.
Mariana Louise, 590.
Marinus, 582.
Martha, 587.
Martha S., 591.
Mary, 586, 587.
Mary Anna, 590.
Mary C., 589.
Mary D., 589.
Mary Louisa, 589.
Mary P., 591.
Marya (Maria), 582.
Marytie (Mary), 581.
Marytje, 580.
Marytje (Maria), 580.
Metje (Mary), 580, 583.
Morinus, 626.
Natnaniel Edson, 589.
Nathaniel H., 590.
Nathaniel Hilyer, 588, 590.
Neeltie (Cornelia), 579.
874
INDEX.
Low, Neeltje, 588.
Nellie, 589.
Nelly (Eleanor), 586.
Nicholas, 184.
Nicholas Ott, 588, 590.
Persila, 580.
Peter, 587, 589.
Peter B., 590.
Peter Bodine, 587, 589.
Peter Perlee, 586, 588.
Peter Ten Eyck, 586, 588.
Phebe Elizabeth, 589.
Pieter, 184, 586.
Pieter (Peter), 583, 585.
Pieter Cornelisz, 184.
Rachel, 496, 581, 587.
Rachel Ann, 588.
Rachel Trimmer, 589.
Ralph, 589.
Ralph Phillips, 586, 588.
Rebecca, 584, 585, 586.
Rebecca J., 586.
Rem, 582.
Richard, 588, 590.
Robert Allen, 587.
Rulof, 589.
Saartje (Sarah), 585.
Samuel E., 590.
Sara, 582, 584, 585, 587.
Sarah, 583, 584, 588.
Sarah Ann, 590.
Sarah Jane, 589.
Sarah Perlee, 588.
Simon D., 589.
Susan Ludlow, 590.
Teuntje (Eunice), 584.
Thomas, 583.
Tuentje, 584.
Vanny B., 590, 591.
Wenitje (Lavinia), 580.
Willem (William), 583.
William, 585, 587.
William Bomberger, 588.
Wynca (Lavinia), 583.
Wyntie (Lavinia), 579.
Yanaca (Jannetje), 583.
Yeunis (Tunis), 580, 583.
Lowry, Mary, 789.
Lozier, 6.
Jannetie, 697.
Margaret, 615.
Mary, 619.
Mary H., 466.
Peter, 616.
William, 436.
Lubberts, Eva, 316, 483.
Lucas, 799.
Maria, 188.
Pearl, 768.
Sigismund, 179, 186, 188.
Sigismundus, 183, 187.
Simon, 190, 795.
Luddington, Eliza, 752.
Ludlow, Elizabeth, 588.
Mary Corbett, 463, 469.
Samuel Russell, 663.
Lumain, Mary, 724.
Lunger, Sarah, 712.
Lupton, Sarah E., 727.
Lushbaugh, Thomas P., 744.
Lusk, William T. (Dr.), 610.
Luten, 494.
Walraven, 493.
Luther, Susanna, 570.
Lutin, Walraven, 270.
Luyck, Egidius, 306.
Luyster, 824.
Cornelis. 821, 822, 829.
Peter, 128.
Lydecker, Abraham, 432.
Antie, 626.
Cornelius, 697.
Elizabeth, 430.
Gerrit, 430.
Maria, 628.
Marritie, 432.
Mary, 436.
Ryck, 430.
Lyman, Lucy S., 784.
Nathan, 686.
Lynch, Jessie Trembly, 659.
Lyndon. Thomas (Capt.), 321.
Lyon, 508.
Fannie, 532.
Samuel E., 316.
Lyons, 648.
M
Mabie, 688.
Caspar, 792.
Casper, 393.
Catherine, 451.
Jacob, 619.
Peter, 460.
Phebe (Sytje), 500.
Pieter, 449.
Sara, 451.
Sarah, 618.
Mac Gregor, Tessie, 472.
Mac Gregory, Patrick (Mayor), 692.
Mac Guire, Cornelia, 751.
Mackey, 742.
Elizabeth, 531.
George, 540.
Mackintosh, James, 787.
Madison, Lucinda, 630.
Magister, 348.
Gerard, 318, 328, 332, 334, 342, 343, 348, 349,
350, 365.
Magnin, 13.
Maharry, William, 645.
Maire, Tilie, 63.
Maljaart, Meyndert, 271.
Man, John, 428.
Mandeville, 429.
Catharine, 704.
Catherine, 700.
David, 704.
G. Henry, 408.
Giles Henry (Rev.), 100.
Gillis, 297.
Isaac, 553.
James J. M., 461.
Lea, 507.
Maria C., 723.
Matthew, 704.
Mannes, Peter, 630.
Manning, High Sheriff, 248.
John (Capt.), 244, 246.
Sheriff, 219.
Mantanye, William J., 789.
Mapes, Catharine Deliverance Adeline,
715.
David Swezey, 688.
William E., 688.
Marble, Martin, 667.
Marius, Pieter Jacobsen, 155.
Marks, Samson, 439.
Marlett, 204, 270.
Abraham, 204.
Anna, 371.
John, 204.
Joshua, 204.
Paul, 204.
Marquand, Lucretia, 513.
Marr, James, 484.
INDEX.
875
Marriner, Capt. 824.
William (Capt.), 172.
Marsc.aik, Joris, 804.
Marselis, Peter, 96.
Marsh, Ann, 501.
Cyrus (Rev.), 502.
John, 679.
S. T., Jr., 528.
Marshall, 724.
Edward, 368.
Elizabeth, 787.
Ida M., 471.
Mary, 371.
Marston, Ann, 808.
John, 698, 807, 808.
Margaret, 808.
Mary, 808.
Nathaniel, 807, 808.
Thomas, 807, 808.
Marteling, Barent, 303.
Isaac, 303.
Martelingh, Abraham, 347.
Martens, Leentie, 160, 168.
Martin, Elizabeth, 725.
George W., 730.
Richard (Captain), 789.
Martino, 270.
Francois, 269.
Stephen, 270.
Martyn, Jan, 302.
Masterson, David A., 453.
Mather, Lewis, 440.
Matthews, Anna, 631.
Hester, 717.
Jacob, 229.
James, 367.
Lydia Emeline, 519.
Rodney, Dr., 528.
Matthias, Captain, 204.
Matthys, 248.
Matthysen, John, 345.
Nelis, 242.
Matthyssen, Anna, 229.
Barentien, 231.
Catharine, 148.
Catherine, 229.
Cornelis, 340.
David, 148.
Hendrick, 148, 229.
Jan, 148, 345.
Laurens, 309.
Magdalene, 148.
Margaret, 148.
Maria, 229.
Mary, 148.
Matthys, 148, 229.
Nelis, 107, 183, 201, 203, 219, 222, 228, 229,
231, 236, 240, 246, 247, 269, 792.
Rachel, 229.
Sarah, 148, 229.
Thomas, 148.
Matthysz,, Jan, 184.
Mattocks, Frederick W., 472.
Jane Rebecca, 647.
Maunsell, John, 582, 826.
John (General), 814, 818, 819.
Mrs., 819.
Maurice, Prince, 68, 84.
Maverick, Peter Rushton, 790.
Sarah, 790.
Maxwell, Charles W., 534.
Mayer, Jacob, 501.
Mayes, William, 743.
Mayo, Maria, 525.
McBride, Eliza, 523.
McCarty, Anna, 652.
McChain, Mary, 764.
McClelland, Cornelia, 513.
McConnell, Lida, 522.
McCormick, Daniel, 803.
James, 753, 754.
McCrea, 758.
McCready, Adeline, 746.
Nathaniel L., 729.
McCree, Mary, 488.
McCuliough, George, 572.
McDonald, Jacob, 665.
McDowell, Patrick, 743.
Willis, 544.
McFarland, Mary E., 540.
McGee, Patrick, 652.
McGhen, Margaret, 745.
Rachel, 745.
McGill, Charlotte, 746.
McGowan, Daniel, 410.
McGown, 122, 150, 418.
Andrew, 438, 439, 799.
Andrew (Major), 439.
Catherine Maria, 716.
Daniel (Capt.), 431, 438, 439.
Margaret (Mrs.), 438.
Mrs., 545, 551.
S. B., 786.
S. Benson, 551.
Samson B., 439.
McGuire, Archibald, 525.
Joseph, 733.
McIntire, Ella, 444.
McKenzie, Frances Naomi, 556.
McLaughlin, Andrew T,, 572.
McLean, John, 520.
McLeod, John, 459.
McMurdy, Jane, 488.
Mead, Peggie (Margaret), 454.
Meade, Fanny, 658.
Meals, George, 295.
Hannah, 295.
Medsell, Emeline J., 754.
Meer. Tilie, 231.
Meet, Isaac, 692.
Kniertie, 375.
Maria, 350.
Peter, 375.
Megapolensis, 268.
Dominie, 178.
Samuel (Do.), 223.
Meier, Harmanus (Rev.), 713.
Meinerssen, Frederick, 707.
Melchert. 703.
Melle, 703.
Melville, George H., 750.
Melvin, Jacob, 717.
Melyn, Cornelis, 152, 153, 154, 155.
Isaac (Capt.), 295.
Mercein, Thomas R., 416.
Merlett, Gideon, 204.
Merrihew, Lucluas, 659.
Merrill, Sally, 516.
Merseles, Peter, 620.
Merselis, Aaltje, 559.
Meserole, Catherine, 608.
Mesier, Elizabeth, 485.
Jannetie, 785.
Peter, 785.
Messier, Abraham (Rev.), 107.
Mesurolle, Cornelius, 806.
Jean, 105, 302, 475.
John, Jr., 447.
Metcalf, William, 760.
Metereu, Lydia, 324.
Lyria, 97.
Metselaer, Jacobus, 107.
Jan Adams, 107.
Meursius, Pastor, 94.
Mey Captain Cornelis, 117.
Meyer, 93, 172, 318, 424, 425, 435, 546, 800.
Aaron, 565.
Abraham, 410, 483, 548, 565, 795, 796, 825.
876
INDEX.
Meyer, Abram, 821.
Adolph, 93, 183, 201, 203, 273, 274, 281, 286,
296, 297, 298, 301, 308, 309, 315, 316, 320,
328, 329, 332, 333, 337, 338, 340, 342, 343,
345, 349, 364, 370, 372, 373, 382, 389, 392,
399, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 407, 412, 414,
415, 429, 430, 484, 545, 582, 597, 598, 599,
680, 694, 795, 797, 799, 800, 801, 802, 803,
804, 808, 814, 816, 817, 818.
Annecke, 298.
Antje (Anna), 559.
Bridget, 582.
David D., 609.
Engeltie, 705.
Hendrick, 234.
Henry, Jr., 812.
Henry R., 606.
Jacob, 484, 549.
Jan, 374.
Jannetie, 506.
Joh., 298.
Johannes, 397, 430, 431, 599, 600, 810, 821,
822.
John, 487, 824.
Lawrence, 703.
Margaret, 298, 375, 485.
Maria, 273, 429, 484, 548, 637, 705, 821, 822,
827, 828, 829, 830.
Mary, 804, 810.
Mrs., 416, 598, 800, 801.
Sarah, 704.
Meyers, Jacob, 627.
Meyndert, 694.
Meynderts, 212.
Jan, 93, 100.
Jannetie, 695.
John, 696.
Michael, 764.
Michaelius, Jonas (Rev.), 118.
Michaels, Hibernia C., 469.
Ruth E., 664.
Michiel, 205.
Michiels, Metje, 263.
Reyer, 276.
Michielsen, Bastiaen, 265.
Hannah, 265.
Hendrick, 265.
Jane, 265.
Michiel, 265.
Reyer, 265, 312, 313, 329, 346, 380, 393, 412.
Sarah, 265.
Teunis, 265.
Middagh, Aert Teunisz, 97.
Hester, 571.
Joris, 498.
Judith, 579.
Milborne, 397, 642.
Jacob, 378, 410, 809, 810.
Jacob, Jr., 810.
William, 810.
Milledoler, Dr., 438
Maria, 438.
Philip (Dr.), 799.
Philip (Rev.), 438, 800.
Miller, 748.
Catherine, 508.
Elizabeth E., 757.
Flora, 543.
Henry, 753.
James, 525.
James Madison, 532.
Josephine E., 666.
Louisa J., 774.
Oliver, 631.
Putnam, 491.
Mills, Abigail, 440.
Mine, Ellen Ann, 727.
Miner, Sarah A., 527.
Minthorn, Philip, 788.
Minthorne, Hillegond, 692.
Mangle, 806.
Mintonye, Joseph B., 789.
Minturn, Peggy, 461.
Minty, Jennie B., 758.
Minuit, 781.
Director, 138.
Peter, 118.
Mitchell, Adeline, 473.
Joseph, 530.
Rebecca, 756.
Moddy, Carolyn Elizabeth, 773.
Moesman, Arent, 203, 212, 797, 801.
Arent J., 201.
Arent Jansen, 205, 221.
Jacob, 212.
Mohr, Andrew, 677.
Moleanor, William, 418.
Molenaer, Adrian, 608.
Catherine, 608.
David, 608.
Henry, 608.
Jane, 608.
Joost Adraens, 607, 608.
Marritie, 608.
Mercy, 608.
Sarah, 608.
William (Dr.), 608.
William De Witt C., 608.
Molenaor, 814, 818, 825.
William, 484, 604, 607, 608, 814, 827.
Molineaux, Charity, 649.
Moll, Geertie, 362.
Joseph, 751.
Lambert, 362.
Marritie, 362.
Reyer, 475.
Monroe, Colonel, 827.
Montagne, 80, 83, 85, 105, 130, 131, 134, 138,
139, 141, 143, 151, 158, 163, 169, 175, 190,
192, 200, 212, 220, 221, 235, 237, 257, 259,
271, 272, 275, 276, 278, 284, 285, 290, 292,
296, 337, 355, 598.
Abraham, 282.
Dr., 129, 135, 149, 164, 181, 189, 291, 292.
Henry, 618.
J., 222.
Jan, 192, 238.
John, 246.
Maria, 320.
Marie, 126.
Mrs., 105, 290, 350.
Widow, 286, 302.
William, 292.
Montagnie, Wilhelm, 192.
Montanie, Abraham, 415.
Montanus, Johannes Monerius, 79.
Montanye, 358, 419, 603, 786, 815, 817, 820.
Aaltje, 595.
Abraham, 545, 564, 594, 595, 596, 786, 787,
788, 790, 792.
Adriana 788, 789.
Albert, 597.
Alexander, 597.
Anate (Anna), 597.
Ann, 787, 788, 790.
Ann Maria, 787.
Anna, 597, 788.
Annetie, 789.
Apollonia, 789.
Apollonia (Prudence), 789.
Benjamin, 789, 790, 791.
Benjamin Maverick, 790.
Bregie, 595.
Catharine, 785, 787, 788, 790.
Charles -., 790.
Charles Kearney, 790.
Clarence, 790.
Cornelia. 788.
David, 790.
INDEX.
877
Montanye, Dr., 785, 793.
Ede (or Edward), 594.
Edward, 597.
Eide, 595, 597.
Elder, 595, 791.
Elijah, 789.
Eliza, 791.
Elizabeth, 594, 595, 597, 715, 788, 789, 790,
791.
Elizabeth Murray, 789.
Eve, 785.
George, 790.
George A., 790.
Gertrude, 790.
Gillis, 785.
Hannah, 594, 789.
Harman, 787.
Harmanus, 787.
Henry, 789, 790.
Hester, 787.
Ide, 594, 595.
Isaac, 594, 786, 787, 789, 790.
Isaac V. (Hon.), 791.
Jacob, 409, 594, 595, 596, 789.
Jacobus, 595, 787, 788, 789.
James, 595, 596.
Jane, 789.
Jannetie, 594.
Jelante, 786.
Jesse, 785, 786, 787, 789.
Johanna, 785, 786.
Johannes, 785, 787, 788.
John, 594, 597, 785, 786, 787. 788, 789, 790,
792, 795, 796, 799, 800.
John J., 788.
John M., 484.
John T., 789.
Jolant, 785.
Joseph, 597, 787, 788.
Joseph vcapt.), 595.
Joseph E., 597.
Maria, 407, 594, 596, 597, 785, 788, 789, 790.
Maria L., 790.
Maria Pell, 595.
Marritie, 787.
Martha, 788, 789.
Mary, 788, 789, 790.
Mary A., 790.
Mary J., 790.
Matilda, 790.
Mercy, 787.
Mrs. 204.
Nancy, 788, 791.
Nicasius, 786.
Peter, 789, 790.
Peternella, 786, 787, 789.
Peternella (Nelly), 789.
Petrus, 789.
Phebe, 788.
Philip,- 788.
Rachel, 785, 787, 788, 789.
Rebecca. 594, 595, 597, 789, 790, 791.
Robert, 595, 597.
Samuel, 786.
Sarah,. 597, 787, 788.
Sarah Ann, 790, 791.
Sarah Christeen, 788.
Sophia, 790.
Stanley, 790.
Susan, 790.
Susannah, 787.
Teunis, 594, 595.
Thomas, 595, 789, 790, 791.
Thomas (Elder), 791.
Thomas B., 791.
Vincent, 786, 789, 790.
William, 596, 597, 785, 787, 788, 789, 796,
800.
William H., 787.
Yacobes (Jacobus), 597.
Montfort, Abraham, 506.
Adrian, 716.
Peter, 487.
Montgomery, Mary, 647.
Thomas, 725.
Montras, Pierre, 370.
Monvielle, Gabriel, 785.
Moody, Orpha, 536.
Moon, Mary, 738.
Moore, 596.
Blazius, 626, 814.
Edward, 716.
J. P., 466.
James H. L., 765.
John, 172, 574, 788.
Margaretje, 683.
Montgomery, 646.
Mr., 467.
Thomas, 428.
William (Captain), 462.
Moorehouse, 755.
Smith, 751.
Moorhouse, Abram, 470.
More, Jacob, 617.
John I., 588.
Morey, Jonathan, 491.
Morgan, Fanny (Mrs.), 709.
James, 734.
Joseph S., 770.
Moriaens, Agnietie, 681.
Morley, Charlotta, 722.
Morrell, Elisha, 727.
Judge, 172.
Morris, Alice, 770.
Capt, 385.
Colonel, 229, 382, 383, 384, 385, 390, 395,
408, 419, 827.
John, 139.
Lewis, 235, 284, 551, 593.
Lewis (Colonel), 235, 353, 354, 357, 366,
367, 368, 369, 386, 391, 392, 799.
Lewis G. (Hon.), 395.
Peter, 556.
Richard (Captain), 235, 283, 303.
Roger, 826.
Roger (Colonel), 562, 819.
Morrison, 762.
Mary I., 740.
Morrow, Samantha, 668.
Morse, Cornelia, 692.
Morton, Emily, 492.
Margaret, 457.
Moseman, 809.
Mosher, 759.
John, 751.
Mote, Maria A., 750.
Mott, Barton, 571.
Henry, 755.
Moul, Cornelia, 524.
Mould, Edward R. 665.
Moulton, William W., 490.
Mourisse, Knoet, 248.
Mowery, 772.
Muckey, John, 686.
Muckudge, Minnie, 539.
Mufley, Nora, 576.
Mulford, F. M., 577.
Muller, Frederick, 13.
Hilletje, 501.
Maria, 501.
Mulner, Susan, 649.
Munroe, James (Hon.), 569.
Munson, George, 741.
Gilbert A., 727.
Murdin, Frances, 745.
Murphy, 570.
Catherine, 656.
Elizabeth, 747.
Murray, Ann, 457, 463.
John R., 827.
878
INDEX.
Mussing 373.
Muyden, 190, 196, 200, 296.
M., 199.
M. J., 193.
Michiel, 195, 212, 796, 797.
Michiel J., 198, 202.
Michiel Janse, 183.
Muzelius, Frederick (Rev.), 683.
Myer, 418, 500, 794, 803, 814, 818:
Abraham, 486, 545, 547, 566, 592, 600, 602,
603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 609, 610, 637, 795,
796, 797, 825.
Abraham Dyckman, 610.
Abraham, Jr., 488, 825.
Adolph, 564, 567, 599, 601, 602, 604, 605, 606,
607, 608, 625, 698, 704, 792, 797, 804, 814.
Adolph, Jr., 813.
Alvivia, 611.
Amanda Fitzallen, 610.
Amelia P., 611.
Amy, 602, 606.
Anatje, 607.
Anatje (Anna), 607.
Ann (Anna), 605.
Anna, 606, 608.
Anna Catrina, 600.
Anna Maria, 610.
Annatie, 604.
Anneke, 601.
Antie. 700, 704.
Arent, 602, 603, 606, 607.
Bregie, 605, 607.
Caroline, 611.
Catherina, 449, 606, 607.
Catherine, 607, 610.
Charles A., 611.
Charles A., Jr., 611.
Charlotte, 610.
Cornelia, 608.
Cornelia Frances, 610.
E. George, 610.
Elizabeth, 602, 608, 700, 705, 783.
Ellis G., 611.
Emory, 611.
Emory Wallace, 611.
Engeltie, 607.
Enoch G., 611.
Eve, 604, 609, 610.
Eve Maria, 609.
Florence, 611.
Garret, 609, 610.
Gertrude, 608.
Gilbert, 609, 610.
Hannah, 609.
Harriet, 610.
Harry, 611.
Harvey Elliot, 610, 611.
Helen B., 611.
Hendrick, 600, 602, 699.
Hendrickus, 603, 606.
Henricus, 606.
Henrietta, 610.
Isaac, 581, 600, 605, 608, 795, 799.
Jacob, 600, 601, 602, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608,
609, 645, 798, 813, 826.
Jacobus, 545.
James S. (M. D.), 610.
Jannetie, 699.
Jannettie, 602.
Johannes, 477, 485, 582, 599, 601, 602, 603,
60a, 606, 608, 636, 703, 705, 792, 798, 811,
812, 813, 814, 825, 826.
Johannes (John Ray), 603.
John, 482, 550, 601, 602, 604, 605, 606, 607,
608, 609, 610, 611, 782, 798, 818.
John Dyckman, 608, 609.
John G., 610.
John, Jr., 500, 606.
Jo-n R., 592, 696, 826.
Lawrence, 607, 609, 698.
Myer, Livingston, 610.
Lois Nye, 611.
Marcy, 609.
Margaret, 605, 607.
Margrietje, 604.
Maria, 485, 581, 600, 602, 603, 604, 610, 799,
825.
Marian J., 611.
Mary, 608.
Mary (Maria), 605, 607.
Mary Matilda, 610.
Mattie, 795.
Mrs., 599.
Nellie M., 611.
Oscar, 611.
Oscar P., 611.
Oscar W., 611.
Peter, 490, 608, 609, 610, 716.
Peter (Petrus), 605.
Phebe, 609.
Rachel Hammond, 610.
Rebecca, 605.
Rebecca S., 610.
Samuel, 238, 609, 610, 698, 713.
Sarah, 605, 611.
Susannah, 486, 603, 645.
Tryntie (Cathrina), 604.
W. H. H., 611.
Widower, 600.
Myers, Engeltie, 698.
Eva, 554.
John C., 466.
Joseph S., 523.
Julia, 533.
Margaret, 685.
Maria, 466.
Mary, 606.
Mr., 524.
Nettie M., 659.
Myndertsen, Jan, 212.
N
Nachtegaal, Elizabeth, 272.
Lysbeth, 231.
Nack, Reynier, 485.
Nagel, 268, 276, 293, 317, 402, 417, 549, 796,
817, 820, 825.
Abraham, 514, 618.
Angenitje, 618.
Angie, 621.
Anna, 613.
Anna Catherina, 613.
Annatie, 619.
Annetye, 617.
Annie, 621.
Antie, 617.
Barent, 94, 612, 615, 616, 617, 618, 623, 625,
698, 792.
Benjamin, 613.
Catherine, 616, 617, 618, 619.
Catrina, 615.
Christina, 613.
Constable, 346.
Cornelia, 613, 615, 618, 620, 686.
Cornelius, 613.
David, 616, 618, 619, 620, 621.
David F., 620.
Debbie (Deborah), 621.
Debora, 614.
Deborah, 548, 615.
Deetje (Deborah), 619.
Edith, 621.
Eliza (Elizabeth), 619.
Elizabeth, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620.
Frederick, 620, 621.
Frederickus D., 618.
Frenke, 617.
Geertje, 619.
INDEX.
879
Nagel, Geertye, 617.
Gerrit, 612, 617.
Grietye (Margaret), 618.
Harry D., 621.
Hendrick, 615, 616, 617, 618.
Henry I., 618, 619.
Hester Louise, 620.
Hildebrandt, 620, 621.
Isaac, 616, 618.
Jacob, 615, 617, 618, 619.
Jacobus, 613, 614.
James, 620.
James Westerfield, 619, 620.
Jan, 245, 246, 266, 267, 269, 272, 279, 286,
289, 292, 297, 301, 302, 308, 309, 316, 320,
328, 329, 332, 333, 338, 341, 343, 344, 349,
352, 353, 360, 364, 370, 371, 372, 373, 377,
380, 389, 400, 401, 403, 405, 406, 407, 409,
412, 414, 415, 495, 546, 548, 603, 612, 613,
617, 618, 795, 821.
Jan (John), 613.
Jan (Sergt.), 612, 613.
Jan D., 618, 619.
Janneke, 616.
Jannetie, 613.
Jeanette P., 621.
Johanna, 614, 615, 616, 695.
John, 388, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618,
694, 695, 792, 796, 797, 800, 810, 818, 827,
828, 829, 830.
John Henry, 620, 621.
John J., 617, 619, 620, 621.
John, Jr., 547, 548.
Juriaen, 613.
Leah, 619, 621.
Lena, 616.
Leroy Bell, 621.
Lillie, 620.
Magdalena, 615, 617.
Margaret, 613.
Margaret A., 620.
Margaret J., 620.
Margaret Marvine, 621.
Margritye, 616.
Maria, 616, 617, 619.
Marrittie, 615.
Mary, 621.
Mary A., 620.
Marya, 617.
Matilda, 620.
Matthew Bogert, 620.
Mrs., 547.
Niclaes, 619.
Niclaes (Nicholas), 617.
Pauline M., 621.
Petrus, 616.
Philip, 613.
Philippus, 613.
Rachel, 618, 619, 620.
Rebecca, 389, 548, 615, 616, 617, 790.
Resolved, 614, 615.
Resolvert, 619, 620, 621.
Samuel A., 621.
Sara, 616, 617.
Sarah, 615, 616, 618, 619, 625, 682, 686.
Sarah Elizabeth, 620.
Tanneke, 94, 221, 317, 694.
Tanneke Barents, 612.
Tryntje, 617, 618.
William, 389, 614, 615, 616, 618, 620.
William H., 620.
William Henry, 621.
Wyntie, 617,
Wyntje, 617, 618.
Nagle, Debora, 706.
Deborah, 701.
Nannincks, Beertie, 140.
Nash, E., R., 543.
Sarah, 480.
Naugle, Elizabeth, 620, 687.
Hildebrant, 619.
William, 456.
Naylor, Mary, 464.
Neath, James, 667.
Neau, Elias, 295.
Needham, Frances, 527.
Neering, Jan Willems, 321.
Nelson, Byron S., 746.
John C., 629.
Sadie Marie, 472.
Sarah, 628.
Nessepott, Jasper, 679.
Nessepott (Nesbitt), Jaspar, 812.
Neuman, Joshua, 507.
Nevill, Thomas, 759.
Nevius, Johannes, 217.
New Netherland Company, The, 81.
Newbold, Charles, 589.
Newkirk, Henry, 665.
Newman, Abraham, 144.
Julia N., 720.
Nancy A., 629.
Newton, Judge, 811.
Marion C., 771.
Thomas, 811.
Nexsen, Elias, 713.
Nicholls, 693, 821.
Nichols, Capt., 288.
John, 440.
Sarah A., 572.
Nicoll, Edward, 321, 595.
Governor, 279.
Sarah, 595.
Nicolls, 271, 292, 295, 345, 634, 693.
Capt., 287, 385.
Col., 384, 385.
Governor, 119, 191, 209, 212, 224, 232, 239,
243, 247, 250, 251, 302, 368, 381, 385, 399,
411.
Matthias (Capt.), 265, 266, 283, 391.
Richard, 215, 216, 226, 227, 413, 414.
Richard (Colonel), 211.
Richard (Governor), 323.
Nicolls' Patent, The, 416, 623, 821.
Nickerson, Mary, 766.
Nieuwenhuysen, Dominie, 282, 315, 316, 352,
376, 377, 431.
Niewkirk, Gerrit M., 502.
Nightingale, Elizabeth, 319.
Nixson, John, 745.
Noble, Salmon, 519.
Nodine, Andrew, 424.
Catherine, 644.
Noird, William, 324, 325.
Noorman, Arie, 201, 203.
Govert, 203.
Jacob, 201, 203..
Jan, 201, 203.
Roelof, 201, 203.
Norman, Claes Carstens, 242.
Irene, 672.
Norris, Elizabeth, 790.
John, 566.
North Antoinette R., 472.
Northrup, James (Dr.), 511.
Norton, Abigail, 515.
Emma, 531.
Nottingham, Elizabeth, 497, 509.
Thomas, 498.
Noue, Pierre, 105, 271, 295.
Noxon, Joseph, 646.
Noyon, 57.
Nutter, Sarah, 568.
Sarah (Mrs.), 803.
Valentine, 390, 565, 568, 803.
William, 568.
Nutting, Mary C., 525.
Nuttman, Ebenezer Baldwin, 715.
88o
INDEX.
0
Oakley, Ethel, 542.
Louisa, 651.
Sarah, 552.
Oaks, Elizabeth, 705.
O'Beirne, Anna, 678.
Oblene, 243.
Oblenis, Abraham, 628, 629, 632.
Abraham J., 632.
Ada, 634.
Albert, 626.
Aletta, 626.
Alice Wood, 633.
Alpheus, 630, 632.
Alpheus (Alfred P.), 631.
Alzinia, 633.
Ambrose, 630.
Anna, 628, 630.
Anna L., 633.
Anna Maria, 630.
Annie, 629, 632.
Antje, 627.
Barent, 626, 628.
Bernard, 629.
Bertie, 634.
Bridget, 627.
Carlisle, 633.
Caroline, 631.
Carrie A., 633.
Catherine, 627, 628, 629, 632.
Catherine A., 631.
Catherine Ann, 630.
Charles, 632, 633, 634.
Charles Adelbert, 631, 633.
Charles McK., 629, 632.
Charles Orthezo, 633.
Charlotte, 628, 632.
Clara E., 632.
Cornelia, 631.
Dammas, 628.
Daniel, 628, 630.
David, 628, 630, 633.
Deborah, 626, 627.
Della, 633.
Dennis, 626, 627, 628, 630.
Edna, 632.
Edward, 629, 634.
Elisha P., 629, 631.
Eliza Maria, 631.
Elizabeth, 627, 628, 630.
Elizabeth Ann, 629.
Emma Jane, 632.
Emma L., 631.
Erville, 634.
Fidelia, 630.
Francis, 630, 633.
Frank Annettie, 633.
Franklin H., 631, 634.
Fred, 633.
Frederick, 630, 633.
Garret, 627.
George, 632.
George K., 633.
Gerrit, 626.
Gertrude, 629.
Hannah, 633.
Hannah E., 631.
Hannah Jane, 630.
Harriet Miera, 630.
Helen, 627.
Hendrick, 622, 623, 624, 626. 627, 636, 792.
Henrietta, 629.
Henry, 628, 629, 630, 632, 633.
Henry C., 630, 633.
Henry H., 631.
Henry P., 629, 631.
Henry V., 627, 628.
Hester Ann, 632.
Oblenis, Jacomina, 625, 636.
James Edward, 633.
Jannetie, 626.
Japhet H., 630.
Jesse, 628, 630.
Johannes, 625, 626, 629.
Johannis, 627.
John, 615, 622, 623, 626, 627, 628, 629, 630,
632.
John, Jr., 626.
John M., 630.
Jonita, 626.
Joost, 625, 792.
Josephine, 631.
Joshua Nelson, 630.
Josina, 622.
Josyntie, 622, 625.
Leah, 627.
Lewis, 630, 633.
Lewis P., 631, 633.
Lewis V., 629, 631.
Lottie E., 633.
Louisa, 630.
Lucia, 625.
Lucinda, 630.
Maggie C., 633.
Mahala, 628.
Maria, 622, 626, 627, 628, 636, 638.
Martin Krum, 632.
Mary, 625, 627, 628, 629, 632.
Mary A., 631.
Mary Ann, 629.
Matthew B., 631, 633.
May V., 633.
Minnie, 632, 633, 634.
Nancy, 627.
Nettie, 632.
Oliver, 628, 631.
Oliver, Jr., 631.
Olivia Agnes, 633.
Ora May, 634.
Pamelia, 631.
Peter, 622, 625, 626, 629, 632, 792.
Peter H., 632.
Peter Van, 629, 632.
Petrus, 626, 627.
Phila, 633.
Ray Adolphus, 633, 634.
Robert Henry, 633.
Rosella, 632.
Rossettatnine, 632.
S. Joost, 632.
Sarah, 625, 626, 627, 637.
Sarah A., 629.
Sarah Ann, 630.
Sarah E., 632.
Smith, 629, 632.
Stephen J., 631.
Thomas, 631.
Waldo K., 634.
Willard, 631.
William, 628, 629, 630, 631, 632, 633.
Wyntje, 626.
Oblienis, 410, 822, 826.
Hendrick, 625.
John, 624, 625, 637.
Peter, 800, 824.
Pieter, 821.
Oblinus, 67, 105, 204, 205, 259, 268, 285, 297,
315, 318, 348, 644.
Constable, 374, 375.
Deborah, 582.
John, 582.
Joost, 229, 244, 393, 413, 621, 622, 798, 800,
801.
Josyntie, 643.
Mayke, 223.
Peter, 615, 622.
O'Brien, Robert E., 474.
O'Callaghan, Dr., 83, 789.
INDEX.
88i
O'Connor, William Henry, 666.
Odell, Abraham, 549.
Elsa A., 749.
Hannah (Anna), 276.
Isaac, 551, 643.
Jacob (Gen.), 410.
Jane, 647.
Joanna, 551.
Johannes, 643.
John, 265, 276, 431.
Jonathan, 549, 551, 567.
Rebecca, 551.
Sarah, 643.
Susan, 486.
Ogilvie, John (Rev.), 808.
O'Hara, Margaret, 764.
O'Leary, Elizabeth, 520.
Olfertsen, Sioert, 431.
Oliver, Catherine, 488.
Oliviers, Catrina, 273.
John, 95.
Olmstead, Susan, 723.
Olney, C. C., 523.
Onderdonck, Aeltje, 710.
Onderdonk, Emma, 640.
Sarah, 454.
Onderkerk, Antje, 707.
O'Neale, Hugh, 243.
Oort, John, 805.
Oosterhout, Catalyntjen (Catalina), 498.
O'Riley, M. J., 770.
Orr, Mollie, 772.
Osband, Caroline Walters, 738.
Osborn, 771.
Hannah, 725.
William D., Jr., 758.
Osborne, Mr., 385.
William Rose, 442.
Osbourn, Christopher, 743.
Osgood, Carrie Lawrence, 473.
Osterhout, Elias, 755.
Thryntie, 501.
Ostrander Ann D., 523.
Evert, 719.
Helen, 503.
Malinda, 708.
Mary Elizabeth, 530.
Petrus G., 504.
Sophia J., 512.
Ostrom, Elizabeth, 627.
John, 627.
Ostrum, Jannetie, 217.
Ott, Parmelia, 586.
Sarah, 586.
Ottosen, Thomas, 201, 203.
Oudewater, Thomas, 363.
Thys Fransz, 363.
Oules, Philip J., 13.
Outwater, Thomas (Dr.), 363.
Oviatt, Marian Amanda, 665.
Owens, Margaret, 770.
Solomon, 644.
P
Pabor, Alexander 123.
Martin, 123.
William E., 123.
Page, Mary, 302.
Paine, Benjamin, 788.
Palmer, 329.
Abner, 531.
Alexander, 633.
Benjamin, 263.
Charlotte, 644.
Hannah, 628.
J. W., 537.
John (Capt.), 391.
Mary, 442.
Palmer, Phebe, 650.
Thomas, 370, 689.
William, 302, 324, 327, 328, 699.
Panhuysen, 785.
Johannes, 89.
Johannes (Sieur), 785.
Parcell, 810.
Catherine, 809.
Eda, 809.
Hannah, 809.
Henry, 809.
John, 256, 809.
Nicholas, 809.
Sarah, 788.
Thomas, 378, 410, 809.
William, 809.
Parcells, Thomas, 790.
Parcels, Peter, 713.
Parisis, Eustacius (Rev.), 98.
Jacqueline, 98, 221, 278.
Park, Carrie M., 672.
Parker, Phineas, 462.
Solomon, 570.
Parkinson, 820. 827.
Leonard, 819, 826.
Parks, Joseph S., 744.
William R., 738.
Parleman, Jannetje (Jane), 450.
Parmentier, 105.
Antoinette, 447.
Damen, 447.
Elizabeth, 447.
Johanna, 447.
John, 447.
Lydia Ann, 526.
Michael, 200, 447.
Michiel, 447.
Neeltie, 447.
Peter, 413, 415, 447.
Pierre, 103.
Parsells, 717.
Catharina, 626.
Passmore, Hannah, 570.
Pasteur, L. Rou, 813.
Pater, Elizabeth, 261.
Jan, 261.
Paterson, Abraham, 432.
Dr., 625, 799.
Elizabeth, 432.
John, 432.
John (Mrs.), 432.
Josiah (Dr.), 393, 432, 564.
Mary, 432.
Richard, 432.
Patrick, Walen, 650.
Patterson, Harold W., 474.
Lena L., 611.
Paulding, John, 256.
Joost, 256.
William( Gen.), 256.
Paulisse, Jacob, 684.
Paulus, Jurck, 385.
Kate, 763.
Minne, 385.
Pawling, Henry, 412.
Payne, Clifton, 748.
Peacock, Elizabeth, 456, 462.
William, 462.
Peak, Catherine, 719.
Pealman, Sarah, 532.
Pears, Tannecke, 450, 453.
Pearsall, 340.
Sarah, 428.
Pearse, Anna, 500.
Pearson, Jan, 388.
Peasley, Anna (Ann), 532.
Peck Catharine, 428.
Eliza Ann, 465.
George, 492.
Mary, 648.
882
INDEX.
Peeck, Hannah (Anna), 449.
John, 785.
Peek, Hannah, 452.
Jacobus, 350.
Jan, 452.
Peelen, William, 297.
Peersen, Willem, 263.
Peet, Jenneke, 804.
Peiret. Pierre (Rev.), 335, 350.
Pell, Deborah, 692.
John, 594.
Maria, 594, 692.
Mr., 392.
Samuel, 302, 303, 309, 594.
Thomas, 594.
William, 594.
Pels, Elizabeth, 303.
Evert, 303.
Pelszer, 286.
Johannes, 242, 273, 297.
Pelton, Philip, 789.
Peltrong (Conteyn), Elizabeth, 564.
Pelts, Samson, 431.
Stoffel, 428.
Pelzer, Johannes, 251.
Penfold, Deborah, 809.
John Wm., 810.
William (Capt.), 809, 810.
Penny, Jonathan, 505.
Peperall, Lazarus (Captain), 787.
Perkins, R. W., 577.
Perlee, Martha, 584.
Perretrus, Petrus (Dom.), 335.
Perry, 756.
Hugh, 739.
Martha, 721.
Polly, 738.
Persel, Abraham, 683.
Lea 478.
William, 682.
Pessel, Catryntje, 682.
Peters, Claes, 558.
Margrietie, 558.
Peterse, John, 787.
Petersen, 695.
John, 333.
Peterson, Cornelius, 709.
Israel, 225.
James, 726.
Matthew, 225.
Moenis, 199, 800.
Monis, 190, 194, 195, 198, 201, 203, 220, 225,
256.
Nicholas, 681.
Peter, 225, 700.
William, 709.
Petit, Jan, 346.
Jean, 373.
Nancy, 712.
Nicole, 104, 293.
Peto, Humphrey, 799.
Petrie, Margaret, 649.
Pettinger, Hendrick, 580.
Pfordt, J. B., 770.
Phelps, Malvina, 656.
Philip, Governor, 323.
Philippe, Rev., 34, 35, 36.
Philips, Barney, 525.
Catherine J., 630.
Frederick, 679.
Frederick (Col.), 274.
Legrand, 446.
Philipse, Fred (Capt.), 808.
Philip (Hon.), 808.
Phillips, George W., 654.
Juliette, 572.
Mary E., 754, 762.
Noah, 712.
William, 234.
Phipps, Etta, 767.
Phoenix, Alexander, 238, 609, 787.
Alexander (Capt.), 155, 704, 713.
Catharine, 704, 713.
Daniel (Hon.), 155.
Maria (Roome), 450, 453.
Pia, Maria, 189.
Pierre, 189.
Picheltzimmer, Johannis, 498.
Pickett, John C. A., 535.
Lewis F., 527.
Mary, 528.
Picksley, Lucinda, 722.
Pier, Catherine, 441.
Teunis, 409.
Pierce, Daniel, 484.
Deborah, 658.
Emily, 710.
John, 496.
Lydia, 520.
Martha A., 701.
Pierson, Robert P., 717.
Pieters, Adolph, 372.
Grietie, 128.
Heyltie, 431.
Jochem, 372, 380, 393, 397, 402, 477, 599,
600, 601, 603.
Maria, 274.
Tryntie, 223.
Pieterse, Andries, 559.
Klaas (Nicholas), 604.
Margrietye, 701.
Pietersen, Aert, 276.
Ilillebrand, 196.
Jacob, 220.
Jan, 176, 199, 208, 333, 598.
Jannetie, 196.
Jochem, 134, 170, 598.
Joh., 229.
Pietersz, Jochem, 154.
Pike, Almyra, 743.
Ashar, 505.
Pikes, Jan, 94.
Peternella, 94, 786.
Vincent, 94, 786.
Pincheart, Rev., 34.
Pinckney. Mary (Polly), 643.
Susannah, 650.
Pine, James, 717.
Pinette, 61.
Pinhorne, 381.
Mr., 376.
William, 364, 367.
Pinnell, 589.
Pinnet, James, 311.
Pipon, 13, 378, 796, 813.
Elias, 601, 605, 798, 801, 812, 813.
Elie, 813.
Elizabeth, 811, 813.
Jane, 813.
John, 813.
Mary, 813.
Mrs., 360.
Philip, 601, 798, 811, 812.
Pirsson, Robert L., 481.
Pitcher, Mary, 462.
Robert, 636.
Pitot, Jeanette, 620.
Place, Charles A., 470.
Platt, Charles, 156.
Elizabeth (Jonas), 459.
Pleslin, Emma E., 523.
Plettenborg, Belitie, 212.
Plukellus, Gautier, 31.
Nicholas, 31.
Pock, Virgil, 664.
Poffenberger, Charles, 774.
Poillon, Jacques, 270.
Peter, 824.
Polhemus, Abraham, 639.
Do., 268.
INDEX.
883
Polhemus, Margaret H., 590.
Pollock, Eliza, 570.
Mary, 571.
Pomeroy, Eleanor A., 610.
Pool, John, 627.
Pootman (Putnam), Arent, 697.
Francina, 697.
Pontgrave, 11.
Popinga, Aeltie, 161.
Thomas, 161.
Porter, Harriet R., 756.
Horace, Jr., 474.
Sarah R., 752.
Portor, Charles, 722.
Post, 196.
Abraham, 389, 499, 614.
Anna C., 388.
Dennis, 614.
Elizabeth, 389, 500.
Gerardus, 827.
Hendrick, 389, 614, 615.
Jan, 388.
Jannetie, 501.
John, 389.
Lena, 389, 614.
Margaret, 551.
Maria, 686.
Martin, 551.
Mary, 553.
Peter, 69.
Postmael, Jan, 196.
Jan Jansen, 388, 389.
Potier, Augustine, 54.
Potreau, Daniel, 379.
Potter, Derick, 234.
John, 660.
Margaret P., 574.
Sylvester, 650.
Potts, Frederick, 481.
W. Rockhill, 481.
Powell, Catherine, 628, 629.
Elizabeth, 627.
Frederick, 627.
Harry J., 749.
James H., 631.
Thomas, 696.
Thomas E., 627.
Thomas H., 629.
Powelson, Mary, 700.
Powers, Mary C., 528.
Powles, Leah, 616.
Powless (or Powlisson), Lydia, 460.
Powliss, Paul, 461.
Praa, Peter (Capt.), 608.
Prae, Pierre, 319.
Prall, Arend, 270.
Pratt, Charles, 539.
Praul, Addie H., 590.
Presker, William, 782, 807.
Presto, Philip, 230, 797, 801.
Philippe, 183.
Preston, Charles L., 773.
Flora A., 667.
Prestwick, Mary Eliza, 553.
Prevoost, Catharine, 161.
Prime, 808.
Rufus, 699.
Prior, Edward, 645.
Provoost, Catrina, 428.
David, 807.
Jonathan, 428.
Pruyn, Lavinus, 627.
Puffenberger, John Andrew, 666.
Pulver, Christina, 510.
Purdon, John, 474.
Purdy, Amelia, 610.
Cornelius, 637.
Putnam, James L., 668.
Pyke, Miriam Viola, 470.
Quackenbos, Adrian, 564, 565.
Annetie, 700.
Cornelius, 497, 565.
Peter, 700.
Pieter, 565.
Wouter, 565.
Wouter (Pieterse), 448.
Quackenbush, Adrian, 702.
Anna, 702.
Claessie, 702.
Hannah, 718.
Johannes, 450.
Jonn, 738.
Julia, 640.
Mattie, 698, 702.
Rachel Elizabeth, 688.
Reynier, 702.
Tunis, 616.
William, 526.
Quane, Catherine, 628.
Quick, Abigail, 452, 456.
Jacob, 725.
Jacobus, 456.
Maria, 4o2, 457.
Quyer, Edward, 740.
R
Radcliff, Elizabeth, 428.
Hannah, 510.
Rademaaker, Adrian, 132.
Claes, 132.
Cornelis, 132.
Ralph, Bertha Elizabeth, 663.
Ramsey, Barbara C., 665.
John, 571.
Lou, 764.
Ramus, 57.
Randall, Esther, 527.
Hannah (Annatje), 685.
Randell, Jonathan 606, 714.
Morris, 431, 456, 468, 798, 799.
Randolph, Hannah, 588.
Rankin, John, 802, 803.
Ransom, Samuel, 571.
Rapelje, Jacob, 434.
Joris Jansen, 804.
Lysbeth, 804.
Rem, 428.
Rapelye, Richard, 706.
Sarah, 613.
Rapp, Catherine, 770.
Rappelye, Abraham, 716.
Rathbone, Ursula Ruby, 527.
Ray, John, 234.
Richard (Robert), 452.
Wyntie, 234.
Ray (Rhee), Wyntie, 600.
Rawlings, Jennie, 575.
Rea, Carrie V. B., 691.
Read, Maud Berry, 757.
Reade, Mary, 722.
Reddenhaus, Abel, 298.
Geertie, 298.
Redding, Jeremiah, 809.
Redfield, John Rossiter, 662.
Redman, Patrick, 658.
Reed, Abel S., 736.
Leonard, 520.
Reese, Thomas L., 734.
Reeves, Hannah M., 531.
Reid, Benjamin, 733.
Reineman, Barbara, 778.
Reitter, Clara, 755.
Rembach, Ann Maria, 368.
Remsen, Johannes, 695.
884
INDEX.
Remsen, Mary, 595.
Remson, Jacob, 596.
Mary, 596.
Renard, Katalina, 205.
Maria, 221.
Marie, 223, 224, 358.
Rendell, Morris, 123.
Renier, Janet, 734.
Renwick, Edward Sabine, 481.
James, 480.
Reson, Sarah, 104.
Retallie, James D., 689.
Reyersen, Anna, 69.
Reyersz, Adriaen, 156.
Elbert, 156.
Reynolds, Ely, 644.
Rhinelander, 808.
Rhoades, Joseph, 569.
Rhodes, Leonard R., 654.
Rice, Amos (Captain), 508.
Phoebe, 771.
Rich, Abraham, 487.
Abraham B., 489.
Maria, 522.
Martha C., 752.
Richard Paul, 48, 294, 338, 367, 813.
Paulus, 268, 271, 272, 288, 336, 337,
579, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799.
Richards, 773.
Richard (Captain), 789.
Susanna, 162.
Richardson, Maria, 500.
Richmond, Sarah Elizabeth, 540.
Rickson (or Rickim), Charles, 741.
Rider, Izetta, 763.
Mary, 716.
Ridgeway, Margaret B., 690.
Sarah, 690.
Ridnaer, Lena, 604.
Rieman, Joseph H., 588.
Riggins, Lindsay J., 688.
Riker, 340.
Anna Catrina, 600.
Edward, 609.
Elizabeth, 616.
Henry, 428.
John H., 481.
Matthias, 617.
Riley, Daniel, 610.
James, 536.
Ritzema, Alida, 452, 457.
Dominie, 408.
Johannis (Rev.), 452.
Roach, Bridget, 751.
Roat, Jeremiah, 513.
Robbins, Caleb, 517.
Helen, 765.
Robert, William, 38.
Roberts, Ann, 739.
Jane, 519.
Robertson, A. A. (Rev.), 654.
Hannah, 714.
Robin, 804.
Robins, Eliza, 463.
Robinson, 81, 381.
Catherine, 649.
Gertrude, 764.
John, 360, 363, 364, 365, 367, 373, 805.
John (Rev.), 116.
M. S., 666.
Roblee, 754.
Betsey D., 735.
Laura, 735.
Lucy J., 735.
Luther, 735.
Robson, Benjamin R., 469.
Rochelle, Etienne, 324.
Rock, Elizabeth, 742.
Rockenstyne, 518.
370,
Rodenburg, Governor, 164.
Lucas, 157, 158, 160.
Rodgers (or Rogers), Joseph (Dr.), 716.
Roe, Charles T., 471.
Franklin, 717.
Roelofs, Itie, 431.
Wyntie, 234.
Roelofsen, 269.
Abraham, 261.
Constable, 259.
Hendrickje, 261.
Jacobus, 261.
Johannes, 261.
Maria, 261.
Peter, 261, 792.
Pieter, 249, 269, 276, 279, 280, 286, 297, 337.
Roelof, 261.
Susannah, 261.
Rogers, 754.
George Lewis, 531.
Johannes, 681.
Lois, 633.
Samuel, 458.
Sarah Maria, 757.
William, 681, 735.
Roll, Margaret, 696, 788.
Rombouts, Francis (Mayor), 367.
Romer, John, 431, 625.
Samson, 702.
Jeremiah, 408.
Romp, Sergt., 183.
Roome, Agnietie, 607.
Sarah, 485.
Roos, Cornelia, 428.
Hester, 451.
Johannes, 428.
Roosa, 412.
Albert Heymans, 259, 412, 579.
Arien, 412, 579.
Heyman, 412.
Ilke, 412.
Isaac, 499.
Jan, 412.
Jannetie, 412.
Mary, 259, 412, 579.
Mary Ann, 534.
Neeltie, 412.
Petrus P., 504.
Rebecca, 499.
Roosevelt, Christina, 786.
Jacobus, 452.
James, 274.
Johannes, 431.
Nicholas Martensen, 786.
Root, Aeltie, 545.
Hattie A., 536.
Rooy-meester, Heer (Hon.), 195.
Rosa, Geertje, 580.
Rose, Katharine, 724.
Milton, 742.
Rosecrans, Christina, 259.
Ross, Ralph, 376.
Sylvana, 516.
W. G., 577.
Rossignol, Elizabeth, 99, 231, 232.
Guillaume, 99.
Rossmore, Margaret, 507.
Rote, Mary Jannete, 524.
Roubley, Marie, 104.
Rousby, Christopher, 805.
Rousseau, Louisa, 768.
Row, Almira, 509.
Hannah, 502.
Rowe (Roe), Jane, 631.
Rowland, Cornelia Whitney, 661.
Ruckel, Walter, 662.
Ruckhaber, M., 13.
Ruggles, Homer, 656.
Rumsey, Emmett, P., 750.
INDEX.
885
Russell, A. Milo, 753.
Charles, 457.
Charlotte, 754.
David, 726.
Elizabeth, 628.
Mary E., 656.
Rutgers, Anthony, 428.
Harman, 782.
Harmanus, 428.
Helena, 606.
Sarah, 692.
Ruton, Benjamin B., 652.
Ryckman, Philip, 617.
Ryder, 340, 341.
Elizabeth, 445.
Robert, 332, 630.
Ryer, 205.
Frederick A., 535.
Theunis, 487.
Ryers, Elizabeth, 487.
Ryken, Abraham, 684.
Ryker, Gerardus, 616.
John, 440.
Rynchout, Jurien, 545, 592.
Rynehart, Mary, 446.
S
Sabens, Olive, 734.
Safford, Silas B., 526.
Sagendorph, Albertine, 524.
Sainsbury, W. Noel, 13, 83.
Salisbury, Angelica, 757.
Silvester (Capt.), 155.
Salyer, Edward, 638.
Sam, Jacob (Sieur), 793, 794.
Sammans, John, 478.
Margaret, 477, 478.
Sammis, Adrian, 304.
Ida, 661.
Maria, 221, 622.
Marie, 103.
Sammon, Aagie, 704.
Angie, 700.
Elizabeth, 700, 706.
Jacob, 429, 704, 706.
Sandallen, William, 711.
Sanders, 447.
Gertrude, 626.
Sandford, Catherine, 785.
Jennie Louise, 690.
John, 785.
William (Capt.), 785.
Sands Obadiah, 490.
Sanford, Albert G., 771.
Sarah E., 537.
Sylvia C., 532.
Santee, Nancy, 570.
Sarley, Anthony, 783.
Catalina, 783.
Savage, Mary A., 556.
Sayer, Judson C., 541.
Scarlett, Charles E., 754.
Schaets, Aletta, 680.
Dominie, 97.
Gideon, 95. 681.
Gideon (Master), 96.
Gideon (Rev.). 680, 681.
Mathias, Bartholomeus, 96.
Reynier (Doctor), 427, 681.
Schamp, David P.
Schelluyne, Dirck, 160.
Schenck, Anna, 156.
Ida, 156.
Margaret, 648.
Martin, 156.
Peter Clover, 586.
Schepens, Heere (Hon), 195.
Schepmoes, Anna, 364.
Eva, 364.
Jan, 364.
Maria, 364.
Rachel, 364.
Sarah, 364.
Schepnoes, Dirck, 498.
John, 503.
Schermerhorn, 340, 807.
Jacob, 700.
Machtelt, 700.
Peter, 487.
Simon (Samuel), 487.
Schieffelin, Jacob, 567, 818.
Schinckels, Aeltie, 130.
Schleppy, Elizabeth,' 744.
Schoenmaker, Jan, 201, 203.
Schoonmaker, Catrina, 496.
Elsie, 321.
Johanna, 732.
John, 750.
Luther, 534.
Martinus, (Rev.), 408, 605.
Richard L., 408.
Schor, Cornelius D., 688.
Schroeder, Emma J., 748.
Schuerman, Johannes, 681.
Schureman, Frederick, 236.
Geesie, 236.
Schut, Jans Hermans (Sergt.), 613.
Phebe, 205, 613.
Schuyler, Ann Myndert, 453.
Catherine, 489.
Lieutenant, 698.
Margaret, 489.
Myndert, 364, 459.
Philip, 321.
Schwartz, Alonzo, 768.
Schweitzer, Morris Kemerer, 575.
Scobey, Archibald, 688.
Scofield, Anna, 662.
Scot, George, 436.
Scott, Aaron, 531.
David, 428.
Edward, 664.
George, 782.
Helen Rutgers, 603.
John Morin (Hon.), 606.
Romelia F., 655.
Scudder, Jane, 725.
Seaman, Adeline, 468.
Billop B., 570.
Catherine, 569.
Charles B., 763.
Edmund, 569.
Maria, 786.
Seamon, George E., 533.
William, 715..
Seamore, Mary, 649.
Searle, Louisa, 570.
Sebring, Martha V. N., 589.
Secor, Annie, 711.
Elizabeth, 639.
Samuel L., 741.
Sedgewick, Lucy, 508.
Sedgwick, William Ellery, 481.
See, 270, 329, 348.
Abraham, 786.
Barney, 786.
Catherine, 786.
Catrina, 786.
Clara, 786.
David, 786.
Eliza Ann, 786.
George Comb, 786.
Isaac, 318, 331, 786.
Isaac, Jr., 318, 328, 331.
Jacobus, 786.
John, 786.
John D., 786.
886
INDEX.
See, John L. (Rev.), 786.
Leah, 786.
Mahala, 786.
Maria, 331, 786.
Marie, 347.
Martha, 653.
Mary, 697.
Peter, 786.
Wm. G. E. (Rev.), 786.
Seeley, Clara A., 661.
Emily A., 661.
Seely, Bridget, 481.
Robert, 481.
Samuel, 569.
Seitz, Mary A., 574.
Selden, Dudley, 420.
Sellar, Sevilla, 633.
Sellars, Mitchell, 722.
Sellick, Nancy C., 687.
Sellig,, Thomas, 294.
Selover, Isaac, 484, 692.
Sarah, 483.
Selyn, Dominie, 600.
Selyns, 223.
Dominie, 220, 402, 405, 407, 408, 622,
Henry, 787.
Henry (Do.), 377.
Henry (Rev.), 179.
Sempee, Elizabeth, 709.
Senical, John, 729.
Serine, Sarah Jane, 655.
Serviss, John G., 491.
Sevenhoven, Anneke, 545.
John, 545.
Shaffer, Azuma, 756.
George, 765.
Shapter, Peter, 648.
Sharp, John, 271, 287, 759.
Peter, 503.
Sharth, Thomas, 763.
Shattuck, Luther, 687.
Shaver, Peter, 737.
Shaw, 762.
Anna, 708.
Emma, 525.
Henry, 739.
Mary, 630.
William, 711.
Shawgo, Catharine, 441.
Sheak, Emory K., 757.
Shear, Eliza, 458.
John, 645.
Shears, John, Jr., 648.
Sheav, Charity, 651.
Shelley, Millie, 533.
William J., 774.
Shepard, Silas J., 751.
Sheppard, Mary Ellen, 722.
Sheridan, James B., 493.
Sherman, John, 728.
Laura A., 728.
Sherwood, Flora, 671.
Maria Webb, 663.
Wesley, 722.
Shipley, Robert H., 664.
Shira, Pelina, 744.
Shirts, William, 733.
Shoed, Benjamin, 452.
Shotwell, Abraham, 341, 360, 804, 805.
John, 805.
Shourd, Luke (Captain), 431.
Mrs., 439.
Showers, Elizabeth A., 648.
Shule, 506.
Shuler, James Duane, 517.
John S. (Dr.), 517.
Shull, D. N., 533.
Sibout, Claes, 146.
Hendrick, 146.
Siboutsen, Harck, 166.
786.
Sickels, 172, 800, 804.
Alletta, 298.
Ann, 298.
Anna, 297.
Catherine, 298.
Cornelius, 298.
Elizabeth, 297.
Gerardus, 298.
Hendrick, 298.
Jacobus, 298.
Johannes, 123, 274, 298, 599, 600, 601, 795,
796, 799.
John, 274, 298, 435, 601, 605, 606.
John S., 156, 172, 298, 795.
Lambert, 297.
Latitia, 298.
Leah, 297.
Margaret, 297, 298.
Maria, 297, 298.
Mary, 156, 298, 435, 799.
Robert, 297, 298.
Thomas, 297.
William, 298.
Wyntie, 566.
Zachariah, 430, 603.
Zacharias, 297, 547, 558, 594, 792, 796, 798,
803, 810, 825, 827, 828, 830.
Sickles, Constable, 637.
John, 797.
John S., 485, 796.
Mary, 796.
Thomas, 477.
Zacharias, 477, 564, 796, 821.
Jacob, 331.
Peter, 331.
Simon, 331.
Siecken, Dirck, 273.
Simensz, Johannes, 188.
Simerson, Edward, 576.
Simes, Shubel, 630.
Simmons, Charles E. (Rev.), 753.
James Edward, 746.
Simons, Cynthia, 645.
Isaac, 576.
Simonson, Anetta, 574.
Simpson, John, 725.
Magdalena, 712.
Roland, 656.
Sims, Lancaster, 614, 682.
Simson, John, 593.
Sioerts, Aeltie, 431.
Cornelius, 431.
Heyltie, 431.
Johannes, 431.
Luke, 431.
Maria, 431.
Mary, 431.
Olfert, 431.
Sioert, 431.
Sioerts (Shourd), Luke, 431.
Sissin, Dell, 667.
Ransom, 756.
Skinner, Roger Sherman, 784.
Slaessen, Sibout, 106.
Slagboom, Jurlaen, 135.
Slaight, Benjamin, 502.
Rachel, 502.
Slater, Elias, 484.
Slawson, Alonzo, 753.
Sleight, Annetie, 502.
Annatje, 510.
Christopher, 535.
Eliza Ann, 535.
Henry, 499.
Jane, 716.
Stephen, 522.
Teunis, 499.
Slenmons, Jennie, 762.
Slingerland (Arnold), Magdalen, 732.
INDEX.
887
Slingerlant, Engeltie, 700.
Neeltie, 700.
Teunis, 700.
Sloan, Charles, 590.
Slocum, Hannah E., 520.
Sloe, William, 432.
Sloote, Abraham, 645,
Slot, 175, 186, 188, 195, 200, 208, 221.
Annetie, 217.
Antie, 350.
Benjamin, 217.
Eve, 217.
Hendrick, 217.
Heyltie, 217.
Jacobus, 217.
Jan, 214, 217, 298, 350.
Jan Jansen, 201, 203, 217.
Jan P., 193, 195, 202.
Jan Piertensen, 362.
Jan Pieters, 185.
Jan Pietersen, 92, 94, 176, 177, 183, 186,
190, 203, 206, 217, 679, 797, 800.
Johannes, 217.
John, 217.
John Pietersen, 792.
Jonas, 217.
Jonathan, 217.
Judith, 217.
Leah, 217.
Peter, 196, 350, 797, 800.
Petrus, 217.
Pieter, 217, 267.
Pieter Jansen, 197, 201, 203, 217, 221.
Sarah, 217.
Sergeant, 176.
Stoffel, 217.
Tryntie, 196, 217.
Slots, 93.
Sloughter, 812.
Col., 642.
Governor, 321, 698.
Sluyswachter, Annetie Maurits, 377.
Sluyter, 354, 358.
Peter, 359.
Small, Celia A., 669.
Lavinia Jane, 523.
Srmedes, Abraham, 212.
Benjamin, 212.
Johannes. 99, 212.
Rachel, 196.
Smeeman, Harman, 384, 692.
Smith, 212, 758.
Abraham, 450.
Abraham J., 689.
Albert N., 531.
Ann, 628.
Anna A., 688.
Arthur, 684.
Bet-ey J., 758.
Caleb, 554.
Catharine, 790.
Charlotte Louise, 742.
Cornelia, 462. 468.
Cornelius. 451.
Della, 576.
Ebenezer (Rev.), 508.
Edward, 437, 661.
Edward A. W., 524.
Fdward M. (Hon.), 13.
Emma J., 542.
F., 640.
George B., 647.
Hannah M., 445.
Hendrick Barens, 220.
James, 491.
James F. D., 554.
John, 302, 303, 376, 437.
John A., 554.
Julia Vilella, 572.
Justis, 510.
Smith, Laura, 538.
Lewis H., 752.
M. E., 532.
Maria, 552.
Mary, 577.
Mary Ann, 461.
Matthew, 371.
Maud, 678.
Patrick, 787.
Philip, 367, 368.
R. C., 826.
Rachel, 788, 789.
Sarah.
Walter, 765.
William, 283, 311.
William D., 652.
Smyth, George H. (Rev.), 408.
Sneden, 93.
Carsten Jansen, 195.
Claes, 95, 195.
Jan, 95, 183, 186, 194.
Jan (Mrs.), 190.
John, 797.
Snediker, Janneke, 431.
Sniffen, Amos, 649.
Snyder, Arent, 203.
Lusetta, 530.
Platt M., 531.
Rachel, 510.
Samuel, 752.
Soben, John A. (Rev.), 759.
Sohier, Marie, 103, 278.
Somerby, H. G., 13.
Somerindyke, Teunis, 545.
Sonierndyke, Gertrude, 711.
Sopher, 762.
Minnie M., 762.
Sorless, Anna, 627.
Daniel, 627.
Southard, Maria, 706.
Rehecca Elizabeth, 662.
Southmayd, Alma, 784.
Southwick, Truman, 721.
Sowarby, John, 628.
Sower, Bloomer, 511.
Sowers, Thomas, 606.
Sowle, John B., 774.
Spader, Emalyne, 442.
Sparks, Jonas, 465.
Sarah, 728.
Sparrow, William (Rev.), 206.
Spaulding, Gilbert R., 751.
Speer, Anna, 787.
Spencer, Jesse W., 689.
Sperry, William 0., 763.
Spier, Ann, 490, 492.
Johannes, 97.
Spindler, Minnie L., 753.
Spinksted, 568.
Spragge, 413.
J., 386, 396.
John, 381, 410, 413, 414, 415, 807.
Secretary, 392.
Springstead, Alice, 445.
Springstee, Joost, 205.
Springsteed, William W., 751.
Springsteen, Anna Maria, 204.
Caspar, 274, 608.
Casparus, 703.
Gertrude. 608.
Isaac, 703.
Jannetie, 205.
Joh. Caspars. 204, 205.
Johannes, 703.
Joost, 703.
Juriaen, 703.
Maria, 608.
Sprock, Thorna, 731.
qnrong, John, 545.
Spuys, Frans, 497.
888
INDEX.
St. John, David, 655.
Julia, 714.
Rebecca, 657.
Stackhouse, William, 788.
Staeck, Mans, 225.
Monis Peterson, 183.
Stage, Jennie, 760.
Stagg, Abraham, 514.
Elizabeth, 697.
Stam, Arent, 784.
Arent Corssen, 150.
Derick Corssen, 784.
Standish, 80.
Stanton, John, 723.
Starr, Fannie W., 491.
Stavast, Claes Jansen, 427.
Jannetie, 204.
Stearns, Amory, 517.
Hannah, 444.
Steel, Ann, 432.
Steenburgh, Margaret, 719.
Steenwyck, Capt., 198, 217.
Cornelis, 275, 306, 389.
Steffield, Anna Bevier, 531.
Stegg, John, 638.
Stephens, Peter J., 689.
Thomas, 759.
Steve, Abraham, 626.
Elizabeth, 638.
Stevens, 756.
Jenne, 381.
Mr., 518.
Stevenson, Hendrick, 616.
Mrs., 584.
Stephanus, 615.
Stewart, Bella, 744.
Daniel Jackson, 469.
Jane, 480.
John, 350.
Keturah, 517.
Seneca, 552.
Zenaida L., 772.
Stickney, Byron H., 766.
Stiles, Daniel, 695.
Mary, 695.
Stille, Cornelis Jacobsen, 135, 294.
Jacob Cornelissen, 429.
Jan, 135.
Stillman, 758.
Stilwell, Anna, 674.
Lieut., 194.
Stitcher, Sarah, 787.
Stockholm, Andrew, 806.
Andries, 613.
Stodard, Julia, 632.
Stoddard, E. Fowler, 589.
Emily, 530.
Stoffelsen, Jacob, 134.
Stol, Jacob, 385.
Stoll, Jacob Jans, 384.
Stone, Margaret, 657.
Stone (Stuart), Agnes, 465.
Stoothoff, Ida, 580.
Storm, 237, 636.
Abraham, 274, 485.
Anetje (Anna), 508.
Catharine, 484.
Catherine (Mrs.), 230, 482.
Charles, 670.
David, 274.
Derick, 274.
Dirck, 95, 274.
Gerrit, 274, 298.
Goris, 274.
Gregoris, 274, 635.
Isaac, 274.
Jacob, 274.
John, 274.
Maria, 274.
Mrs., 485, 800.
Storm, Peter, 274.
Thomas, 274, 298, 601.
Story, Emma R., 767.
Mary Ann, 720.
Stout, 712.
Benjamin, 783.
Benjamin, Jr., 479.
Elizabeth, 427.
Mary, 717.
Sarah, 717.
Stoutenberg, Jacobus T., 487.
Stoutenburg, Engeltie, 694.
Henry, 458.
Maria, 479.
Stoutenburgh, 407.
Engeltie, 272, 695.
Peter, 272, 695.
Tobias, 403.
Strachan, William, 457.
Strachen, Martha, 788.
Straetsman, Teuntie, 374, 375.
Straight, Freeman, 542.
Henry, 755.
John, 735.
Stratton, William, 744.
Strong, Clara, 758.
Joseph Gardner, 666.
Stryker, Catlina, 583.
Christopher, 585.
Maria, 584.
Peter, 512, 584.
Sturgis,' John, 531.
Sturt, William, 339.
Stuyvesant, 147, 161, 164, 166, 167, 168, 173,
178, 183, 210, 211, 222, 234, 277, 281, 283,
291, 292, 297, 353, 385, 392, 693, 781, 785,
789, 793.
Captain, 562, 704.
Director, 159, 160.
General, 221.
Governor, 101, 177, 185, 188, 191, 207, 217,
263, 285, 368, 412, 476.
Nicholas, 276.
Nicholas William, 161.
Nicholas William (Captain), 388.
Petrus, 115, 157, 158, 578, 794.
Petrus (General), 152, 154, 155.
Styles, Mary J., 534.
Stymets, Stephen, 465.
Supplee, Mary Elizabeth, 575.
Sutphen, Abraham R., 586.
Jane, 584.
Sutphin, 584.
Jessie, 576.
Sutton, Margaret W., 741.
O. S., 764.
Suydam, Willempie, 458.
Swade, Susan, 520.
Swartwout, 770.
Roelof, 412.
Sweet, Amanda, 525.
Sweeting, H. Seymour, 770.
Sweetser, James, 657.
Swick, Martha, 730.
Swits, 140, 162, 163, 164, 167.
Abraham, 168.
Abraham J. (Rev.), 169.
Andries, 168.
Apollonia, 168.
Claes, 138, 141, 168.
Claes Cornelissen, 131, 132.
Cornelis Claessen, 161, 168, 209.
Cornelius, 168.
Isaac, 168.
Jacob, 168.
Jannetie, 168.
Maria, 168.
Simon, 168.
Susanna, 168, 169.
Walter, 168.
INDEX.
889
Swords, Francis, 609.
Swynock, 397.
Samuel, 378, 410, 809.
Sypher, J. R., 206.
T
Tabele, Anna, 787.
Tack, Ann, 509.
Taff, Henry, 654.
Taggert, Maria M., 657.
Taine, Isaac, 104.
Marie, 198, 221, 247, 272.
Talama, Margrietje, 449.
Talbot, Ezekiel Merrill, 666.
St. George, 797, 812, 814.
Tallman, Albert, 687.
William A., 467.
Talman, Daniel, 627.
Isaac, 459.
Tanner, John W., 531.
Tappan, Elsie, 494.
Jurian, 494.
Peter, 148.
Tappen, Elsie, 196.
Jurian, 196.
Tate, Thomas, 621.
Taylor, Caroline, 441.
Edwin Taylor Neufville, 463.
James, 428.
John, 464, 710.
Mary, 645.
Peter D., 648.
Robert, 762.
Sophia, 744.
Willett (Captain), 456.
Tayne, Isaac, 104.
Teachout, Adelbert, 756.
Teed, John, 724.
Teller, Elizabeth C., 732.
Jacobus, 643.
James, 645.
Temple, Arthur H., 611.
Ten Broeck, Helena, 700.
John, Jr., 510.
Tenbroeck, Jacob, 504.
Ten Broek, Dirk (Major), 364.
Elsie, 364.
Tenbroek, Laurentia, 496.
Margaret. 498, 503.
Sarah, 498.
Tenbrook, John, 298.
Ten Eyck, 692.
Coenraet, 293.
Dorothea, 583.
Elizabeth, 711.
Eytie, 718.
Hannah. 583.
John C., 733.
Matthys, 412.
Sarah, 259.
Ten Waert, Agnes, 784.
Angenietie, 784.
Gillis, 784.
Tenyke, John, 629.
Terbosch, 237.
Catherine, 237.
Isaac, 237.
Jacobus, 237.
Jan, 93, 96, 237.
Johanna, 237.
Johannes, 237.
John, 642, 786.
Maria, 237.
Sarah, 237.
Terhune, Albert, 393, 697.
Catherina, 465.
Edward S., 482.
Johannes, 450.
Terhune, John, 69.
Martha, 585.
Mary, 69.
Stephen, 350.
Susette, 482.
Wyntie, 702, 710.
Terpenning, Sarah, 522.
Terracon, Pierre, 319.
Terril, Asel, 508.
Terrin, Antoinette, 447.
Terwilliger, Melinda, 533.
Testart, M. Pierre, 462.
Marie Madelaine, 462.
Teunis, Sarah, 223.
Teunissen, 134, 162, 163, 164, 230.
Abraham, 219.
Barent, 219.
Derick, 295.
Isaac, 219.
Jacob, 219.
Jan, 95, 201, 203, 218, 219, 222, 223, 230,
234.
Johannes, 219.
Peter, 219.
Susannah, 166.
Tobias, 91, 140, 148, 162, 164.
Wyntie, 166.
Tewksbury, Thomas, 536.
Thaire, Sarah, 442.
Theunissen, Cornelis, 309.
Theunisz, Cornelis, 302,303, 328.
Thierbock, Helen L., 524.
Thierry, 19, 31.
Thomans,Alfred, 742.
Thomas, Engeltie, 635.
Richard, 486.
Thomasz, Frederick, 385.
Thomill, Thomas J., 754.
Thompson, Benjamin M. (Deacon), 791.
Hannah, 664.
Horatio W., 492.
James, 524, 791.
Joshua W., 667.
Samuel, 554.
Sarah, 481.
Sophia H., 534.
W. B., 749.
Thorn, Jesse, 627.
Thurston, Marie Louisa, 469.
Marianna Louise, 587.
Robert Jenkins, 463.
Tibbets, Amos, 631.
Elizabeth, 631.
Tibout, 405, 406, 407.
Albertus, 393, 450.
Andries, 393.
Annetie, 393.
Hendrick, 393.
Jacobus, 393.
Jacomina, 265, 393.
Jan, 69, 265, 393, 403, 409, 494, 496, 816,
817.
Johannes, 393.
John, 625, 793.
Peter, 393.
Sarah, 393.
Theunis, 393.
Tickel, Ellen, 741.
Tiebout, Marcus, 348, 393, 394, 564, 624, 793,
801, 821, 827, 828, 829, 830.
Tiebkins, Jan, 91.
Tiebout, Elizabeth, 485, 595.
Jannetie, 622, 625.
Marcus, 564, 810.
Teunis, 595.
Teunis, Jr., 450.
Widow, 563.
Tienpont, Adrian, 117.
Tier, Lewis P., 774.
Tilba, Antonie, 196.
89o
INDEX.
Tilemans, Annetie, 375.
Tilljen, Christian H., 471.
Tilly, Anna, 428.
Elizabeth, 484.
Tilton, Elizabeth, 659.
Tincker, Jan, 270, 309.
Tinkey, Sally, 459.
Tippett, George, 262, 263, 283, 311, 327.
Tipton, Jonathan, 726.
Tison, Henry, 389, 614.
Titsoort, Maria, 447.
Teuntie, 783.
Titus, Mary, 518.
Syrach, 188.
Tobias, 126, 131, 134.
Teunis, 164.
Toby, Eliza M., 464.
Todd, Melissa C., 657.
Toger, Arthur, 675.
Tom, John, 806.
Tomkins, John, 788.
John (Captain), 788.
S., (Dr.), 521.
Tompkins, Emory G., 540.
Hannah Minthorn, 653.
Torrens, Margaret E., 640.
Torry, Caroline, 518.
Totten, Flora, 741.
May A., 609.
Town, Susan Cowle, 532.
Tourneur, 5, 50, 64, 99, 175, 188, 194, 196,
200, 218, 219, 220, 221, 228, 230, 231, 232,
237, 242, 245, 246, 249, 251, 269, 277, 295,
297, 298, 315, 319, 329, 333, 348, 353, 355,
357, 368, 369, 381, 419, 428, 609, 625, 797,
799, 802, 804.
Aaron, 640, 641.
Abraham (Abram), 636.
Adolphena, 640.
Adriana (Ariaentie), 636.
Aefie, 638.
Alfred, 641.
Anna, 636, 637.
Annaetjie, 639.
Arthur, 640.
Benjamin, 637.
Breghie, 639.
Charles J., 640.
Clarence E., 641.
Cornelius, 639, 640.
Cornelius Bush, 640.
D., 199, 208, 222, 279, 280.
Daniel, 63, 176, 183, 186, 190, 191, 193, 195,
202, 203, 204, 206, 210, 217, 221, 229, 230,
234, 235, 236, 237, 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 247,
252, 257, 259, 261, 263, 265, 266, 271, 275,
278, 279, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288,
289, 290, 294, 296, 302, 308, 309, 318, 319,
320, 328, 329, 333, 334, 336, 337, 338, 339,
342, 349, 351, 353, 365, 366, 367, 370, 372,
373, 376, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386,
388, 389, 391, 392, 393, 395, 401, 403, 405,
406, 407, 409, 412, 413, 414, 415, 424, 494,
546, 603, 634, 635, 636, 637, 639, 793, 795,
797, 800, 803, 804, 808, 815.
Daniel (Mrs.), 401.
Daniel (Wid.), 373.
Daniel, Jr., 261, 293, 430, 635, 793, 816.
David, 639.
Della, 641.
Dinah, 639.
Dorothea, 635.
Edward, 641.
Edward T., 640.
Elizabeth, 639.
Elizabeth Morton, 640.
Elmer, 640.
Elsie E., 641.
Emma, 641.
Esther, 304, 379, 380, 424, 635.
Tourneur, Ethel, 640.
Florence M., 641.
Frances (Mary), 641.
Frank, 640.
Georgiana, 641.
Grietye (Margaret), 639.
Harold, 641.
Hendrick, 638, 639.
Irving, 640.
Isaac, 636.
Jaco, 379.
Jacob, 637.
Jacobus, 581, 625, 636, 637, 638, 639.
Jacobus (James), 637, 638.
Jacomina, 639.
Jacqueline, 377, 406, 412, 413, 414, 415.
Jacques, 265, 274, 276, 315, 380, 403, 406,
412, 413, 477, 483, 495, 593, 622, 635, 636,
793, 800, 801, 816, 817, 827, 828, 829, 830.
James, 626.
Jannetie, 638.
Jannetje (Jane), 638.
Jean, 641.
Jeannette, 641.
Jemina, 638.
John, 638, 639, 641.
John Henry, 640.
John Lester, 640.
Johannes, 799.
Julia, 641.
Julia Etta, 640.
Julietta, 640.
Lawrence, 639.
Lillian, 641.
Madelaine, 546.
Madeleine, 295, 297, 316, 379.
Madeline, 548, 635.
Magdalena, 637.
Magistrate, 348.
Margaret, 640.
Margrietje, 640.
Maria, 634, 635, 636, 638, 639.
Marretje, 635.
Martina (Martyntie, 637.
Mary, 549, 551, 638.
Mary (Marretye), 638.
Mary Lillian, 640.
Michael, 551, 625, 636, 638, 639, 640.
Michiel, 639.
Mrs., 316, 318, 424.
Nettie, 640.
Olive, 640.
Peter J., 640, 641.
Rachel, 639.
Russell, 641.
Sarah, 638, 639.
Sophronia, 641.
Thomas, 368, 379, 380, 403, 561, 603, 622,
635, 636, 637, 793, 795, 801, 807, 816.
Widow, 635.
William, 641.
William Henry, 640.
Woodhull, 635, 637, 638, 639, 803, 821, 822.
Towle, Stevenson, 481.
Townsend, Charles W., 470.
John, 650.
Towt, Robert H., 715.
Travaskus, Annie J., 669.
Traver, Emeline, 520.
Travers, Jemima, 645.
Jesse, 645.
Travis, Louise, 746.
William, 733.
Tremper, Elizabeth, 696.
William, 510.
Trim, Lulu, 537.
Trimmer, Aaron H., 587.
Annie, 585.
Tripp, Ferris, 529.
Hannah, 517.
INDEX.
89I
Trippe, Anna, 437.
Trommels, Adriana, 162.
Cornelis, 162.
Tromp, Admiral, 68.
Trowbridge, Harriet, 574.
True, Anna B., 771.
Truitt, Bertha, 675.
Trumann, Peter, 790.
Trumbull, J. Hammond (Hon.), 124.
Tubbs, William, 521.
Tucker, Mansfield, 782.
Martha Elizabeth, 555.
Sarah, 782.
Tuder, John, 377,378.
Tullier, Jean, 350.
Tulp, Claes (Dr.), 90.
Turenne, Marshal, 318.
Turk, Cornelius, Jr., 220.
Jeronimus, Jr., 491.
Turner, 243, 755.
Bruce, 736.
Caleb Sutton, 727.
Catharine, 692.
Daniel, 636.
E., 660.
John M., 666.
Lawrence, 636.
Margaret, 636.
Martha, 571, 636.
Mary, 636.
Mary D., 752.
Nancy T., 743.
Rebecca, 636.
Tuthill, Anna Augusta, 481.
J. B. T., 535.
Hiram, 527.
Tutor, Jacob, 734.
Tuttle, Catherine A., 555.
Chester D., 444.
H. Croswell, 340.
Tuynier, Pieter, 823.
Tweedle, Mary, 479.
Tyler, Phineas, 734.
William, 803.
Tyson, 570.
U
Ubregt, Peter, 824.
Upton, Eva A., 667.
George, 651.
Ustick, William, 791.
Uzille, 270, 797, 800.
Adam, 200.
Annetie, 200.
Catherine, 200.
Cornelia, 200.
David, 49, 65, 104, 183, 186, 200.
Elizabeth, 200.
Engeltie, 200.
Gertrude, 200.
Helena, 200.
Janneke, 200.
John, 200.
Maria, 200.
Maria Magdalen, 200.
Peter, 104, 200.
Sophia, 200.
V
Vail, Elizabeth, 649.
George P., 474.
Phebe, 647.
Valentine, 643.
Amanda, 492.
Benjamin, 277.
Dennis, 488.
Valentine, Elizabeth, 488.
Isaac, 488.
Jacob, 276.
Jan Tymensen, 204.
Jane, 644.
John, 278, 488.
Matheas, 553.
Matthias, 278.
Sarah, 488.
Smith, 609.
Valentyn, 357.
Vallandyham, William F., 535.
Van Aernam, Henry, 720.
Hester, 719.
van Alst, Joris Stevens, 476.
Van Alst, George, 454.
Hannah, 706.
Johannes, 809.
Leah, 809.
Van Alstyne, Lyman (Lysien), 689.
Van Antwerp, Jacobus, 452.
Simon, 486.
van Appeldorn, Claes Teunisz, 563.
Van Arnum, William H., 733.
Van Arsdale, Hendrick, 717.
Jane, 663.
Peter (Dr.), 439.
Peter (Mrs. Dr.), 802.
Pietertie, 125.
Sarah, 587.
Van Arsdalen, Dirck, 644.
Simon Jansen, 125.
Van Auken, Frank E., 663.
Van Beest, Hendrick Jansen, 259.
Laurens, 259.
Van Beuren, Hendrick, 783.
Van Blarcom, Hannah, 711.
Mary, 697.
Rachel J., 444.
Sarah, 505.
Van Blarkum, John, 385.
Maria, 385.
Van Bommel, Jan, 210.
van Bommel, Jerome, 407.
Van Borsum, Catharine, 428.
Egbert, 428.
Hermanus, 251.
Van Boskrk, Laurens Andrisz, 128.
Van Bramer, 355.
Abraham, 488, 803.
Hendrick, 355, 803, 804.
Henry, 488, 803.
Hester, 803.
Jacob, 803.
James. 803.
Susan, 803.
Thomas, 803.
Van Breemen, 802.
Van Bremen, Jacob, 410.
Thomas, 799.
van Brevoort, Anna, 477.
Hendrick Jansen, 475.
Jan Hendricks, 95, 349, 353, 380, 403, 405,
406, 412, 477, 816, 817.
John Hendricks, 694, 814, 817.
Van Brugge, Johannes, 367.
Van Brugh, Peter, 364.
Van Bunschoten, Grietie, 259.
Vanburen, Catherine, 707.
Van Buskirk, Andries, 350.
Benjamin, 350.
Van Bussin, Margaret, 609.
Van Cleve, 665.
Van Cortland, William Ricketts, 567.
Van Cortlandt, 343.
Heer, 315.
Jacobus, 315, 390.
Stephen (Colonel), 417.
Van Cott, 741.
Van Courtlandt, Olof Stevens, 315, 316.
892
INDEX.
van Curler, Arent, 384, 386.
Van Curler, 122, 129, 131.
Arent, 142.
Jacobus, 119, 132, 133.
Jonkheer, 127, 131.
Van Dalfsen, Jan, 600.
Van Dalsen, Anna, 695, 697.
Annetie, 600.
Capt. 600.
Gerritie, 561, 600.
Jacob, 600.
Jan, 599.
Jan (Capt.), 99, 561, 697.
Jan Gerritsen (Capt.), 236, 408, 409, 599.
Jannetie, 600.
Johannes, 638.
Lysbet, 600.
Peter, 600.
Teunis, 600, 697.
Tryntie, 599, 600.
Van Dam, Richard, 161.
Rip (Hon.), 809.
Van Delinde, Annatje (Anna), 455.
Vandenbergh, Cornelius, 695.
Folkert, 707.
Nicholas, 708.
Rachel, 708.
Tryntie, 695.
Vanden Bogert, Helena, 447.
Van Denburgh, Catherine, 708.
Vandenburgh, Deborah, 701.
Maria, 713.
Richard, 803.
Vandeen, Maria, 441.
Vanderbeck, Conrad, 409, 788.
Vanderbeeck, Catalina, 156.
Rem, 156.
Vanderbeek, Samuel, 443.
Vanderbilt, Harry W., 771.
Jacobus, 639.
Jane M., 444, 446.
Johannis, 451.
John, 464.
John G., 441.
Letitia, 629.
Mary E., 689.
Sarah, 629.
Van Der Bilt, Hilletje, 437.
Vanderburgh, Hannah, 505, 512.
John M., 505.
Vandercliff, Dirck, 212.
vander Clyff, Dirck, 373.
Vander Donck, 110, 148, 256.
Adrian (Dr.), 147.
Vander Haan, Derick, 545.
Vanderhoof, Catharine, 790.
Cornelis, 700.
Cornelius, 500, 697.
Vanderkempt, 27.
Vanderlinde, Roelof, 350, 357.
Vandermeulen, John F., 427.
Vander Myen, Tileman Jacobs, 375.
Vanderpool, Jacob, 728.
Van der Poole, William, 446.
Vanderspiegel, Elizabeth, 782.
Lawrence, 782.
Vanderstraaten, Magdalena, 100.
Van Dervere, Thomas, 517.
Vandervin, Hendrick J., 289, 290.
Vander Vin, 196, 277, 281, 283, 284, 285, 287,
293, 300, 301, 302, 308, 312, 316, 320, 323,
328, 333, 334, 351, 352, 358, 366, 392.
H. J., 178.
Heer, 198, 199.
Hendrick, 337.
Hendrick F., 221.
Hendrick J., 195, 199, 332, 344, 372, 795.
Hendrick Jansen, 93, 168, 269, 335, 393,
692, 793.
Wyntie (Mrs.), 221.
Vander Vlucht, Sarah, 393.
Vander Vonck, 679.
Vandervoort, Paulus Michielse, 128.
Vanderwal, Celitie, 338.
Vander Werken, Catherine, 410.
Gerrit, Roelofs, 409.
Roelof Gerrits, 410.
Van Derwerken, Elizabeth, 719.
Gitty, 719.
Van der Werken, Margarita, 708.
Vanderwerker, Catherine, 732.
Eleanor, 738.
Van Derzee, Catherine, 718.
Vanderzee, Cornelia, 732.
van Deusen, Elizabeth, 429.
Teuwes (Matthew), 429.
Van Deusen, Arent, 707.
Cornelius, 514.
Hannah, 514.
John, 501.
Maria, 507, 514.
Tryntie, 427.
Vandeventer, Abigail, 726.
Van Deventer, Gertrude, 320.
Maria, 393.
Vandewater, 804.
Benjamin, 605, 804.
Harman, 804, 813.
Hendrick, 393, 783.
Jannetie, 429.
Maria, 501.
Mary, 393, 502.
Orpha J., 659.
Peter, 804.
Van Driessen, Petrus (Rev.), 364.
Van Duersen, Isaac, 692.
Van Duyn, Catrina, 580.
Gerrit, 355.
Van Dyck, 140.
Corn (Dr.), 155.
Engeltie, 274.
Hendrick, 256, 321.
Hendrick (Ensign), 140.
Jan Thomasz, 375.
Lembert Jansen, 128.
Lydia, 221, 321.
Martha, 430.
Thomas, 274.
Van Dyke, Alida, 458.
Charles D., 654.
Sarah, 464.
Van Etten; Arie, 259.
Van Evera, Myndert Burger, 592.
Van Flaesbeek, Barent, 783.
Phebe, 783.
Van Fleet, Elizabeth, 712.
Maria, 712.
Nelly, 712.
Van Gaasbeek, Wilhelmus, 498.
Van Garden, Heyltje, 568.
Marritie, 259.
Van Gelder, Jacobus, 347.
Van Giesen, Anna Maria, 220.
Van Gulck, Jan, 242.
Van Harlingen, 812.
Johannes Martinus, 408.
John M., 483.
Van Hattem, Christina, 809.
Van Haughwout, Leffert Pietersen, 693.
Van Heyningen, Claes Jansen, 263.
Van Hoesem, Knoet Mourisse, 240.
Van Hoesen, 429.
van Hoesen, Volckert, 427.
Van Hooghten, Frans, 220.
Lysbeth, 220.
Van Hoogvelt, Lysbet, 132, 133.
Van Hoorn, Annetie, 350.
Cornelius, 350.
Johannes, 709.
Joris Jansen, 205, 293.
INDEX.
893
Van Hoorn, Styntie, 206.
Van Horn, John, 217, 431, 699, 799, 826.
Rachel, 449.
Sarah Cole, 454.
Van Home, Anna Maria, 161.
Harriet, 587.
Van Hosen, Mary, 805.
Van Houten, Almena, 667.
Cornelis, 144.
Elizabeth, 437.
Nicholas B. (M. D.), 620.
Petrus, 615.
Roelof, 615.
Rynier, 350.
Teunis, 615.
Van Howenberg, Jane Catherine, 663.
Van Huyse, Catalina, 545, 592.
Dinah, 592.
Eide, 478, 564, 592.
Elizabeth, 564.
Maria, 592.
Rebecca, 591, 594.
Sarah, 592.
Teunis Idens, 545.
Theunis Eidesse, 592.
Theunis Idens, 394, 591.
van Imbroch, Elizabeth, 452.
Gysbert (Dr.), 452.
Rachel (Montanye), 452.
Van Imbroch, 200.
Barbara, 785.
Catherine, 785.
Elizabeth, 785.
Gysbert, 785.
Gysbert (Dr.), 785.
Johannes, 785.
John, 785.
Lysbet, 200.
Mary, 785.
Rachel, 785.
William, 785.
Van Imburgh, Elizabeth, 69.
Van Inborgh, Johannes, 292.
Van Isselsteyn, Jan Willems, 409.
Jannetie, 409.
Machtelt, 212.
Mary, 409.
Van Iveren, Judith, 806.
Martin, 806.
Van Keulen, 133, 142, 148, 149, 150, 168.
Coenraet, 131, 132, 139, 798.
Conrad, 798.
Matthys, 132.
Matthys Jansen, 147, 149.
Van Keuren, James, 510.
Joshuah, 511.
Lena, 511.
Matheus, 498.
Van Kleek, Barent, 447.
Sarah, 447.
Van Kortright, Hendrick Jansen, 259.
Van Kortryk, Bastiaen, 96.
Jan, 96.
Michiel, 96.
Van Laer, Adrian, 696.
Aeltie, 696.
Catherine, 428.
Gerrit, 428.
Van Loon, Nicholas, 520.
Van Luven, Louisa, 658.
Van Mater, Eliza, 749.
Van Middlesarth, William, 591.
Van Naamen, Samuel, 787.
Van Namen, Anna, 303.
Deliantie, 303.
Engelbert, 303.
Evert, 303.
Jochem Engelbert, 303.
Johannes, 303.
Van Natta, Stephen G. W., 518.
Van Neck, Secretary, 90.
Van Ness, Evert, 545.
Gertrude, 703.
Jannetie, 701.
Margaret, 692.
Simon, 497.
Van Nest, Ann, 490, 492.
Johannes, 581.
Maria, 782.
Neeltje, 580.
Peter, 257.
Van Noort, Goosen Jansen, 96.
Van Norden, Adam, 217.
Andries, 350.
T. W., 796.
Van Nostrand, John, 650.
Maria, 651, 803.
Rosanna, 651.
van Oblenis, John, 827, 828.
Hendrick, 822, 823.
Pieter, 817.
Van Oblenis, John, 637.
Joost, 635.
Maria, 635.
van Oblienis, Peter, 427, 428.
Pieter, 412.
Van Oblienis, John, 563, 603, 795, 810, 830.
Joost, 698.
Peter, 267, 345, 579, 593, 594, 622, 623, 624,
695, 698, 699, 705, 808, 810, 811, 814, 817,
821, 822, 825.
Pieter, 403, 406, 408, 409.
van Oblinus, Joose, 342.
Joost, 264, 266, 271, 286, 287, 288, 289, 307,
308, 309, 313, 320, 323, 328, 337, 338, 344,
349, 352, 360, 362, 365, 377, 379, 380, 401,
412, 414, 415, 424, 447.
Peter, 360, 414, 415.
Pieter, 342, 401.
Van Oblinus, Hendrick, 393.
Jan, 621.
John, 393, 394, 643.
Joost, 103, 198, 201, 221, 229, 230, 234, 239,
240, 263, 269, 281, 282, 296. 301, 304, 315,
333, 348, 372, 373, 403, 406, 407, 495, 593,
598, 600, 623, 643, 697, 795, 796, 797, 816,
817, 821.
Joost, Jr., 221.
Josyntie, 643.
Peter, 64, 103, 230, 399, 495, 796, 818, 821.
Pieter, 278, 322, 816.
Sarah, 409.
Van Orden, Andris, 626.
Antje, 684.
Caroline, 728.
David, 627.
Elizabeth, 627.
John, 639.
Van Ornum, Philip, 723.
Van Pelt, Hendrick, 375.
Jannetie, 592.
Thys, 592.
Van Putten, Aert Teunisz, 166.
Annetie, 147.
Jan Aertsen, 147.
van Raasvelt, Johan (Heer), 358.
Van Raasvelt, Anna, 600.
Van Ravenstein, Catharine, 782.
Gerrit, 782.
Van Rechteren, Tryntie, 93.
Van Rensselaer, Kilian, 91.
Patroon, 700.
Van Rommen, Teuntie, 393.
Van Rossum, 164.
van Ruyven, Cornelis, 280, 319, 598.
Van Ruyven, 175, 178.
Cornelis (Mrs.), 206.
Cornelius, 178.
Heer, 201.
894
INDEX.
Van Schaack, Adriaen Cornelisz, 388.
Van Schalck, 429.
Amanda, 749.
Arie, 785.
Belettie, 448, 449.
Claessie, 448.
Goosen Gerritse, 156.
Ide, 698.
Margaret, 785.
Van Scheyren, 682.
Jannetie, 682.
Pieter, 682.
Van Schoonhoven, Margaret, 184.
Van Schoonrewoerd, Jan Louwe, 274, 293,
303.
van Schroonrewoert, Jan Louw, 342.
Jan Louwe, 320, 337, 362.
Jan Louwerens, 308.
Van Schunenburgh, Jan, 166.
Susannah, 166.
Van Sise, Hannah, 707.
William, 788.
Van Skaick, Anthony, 370.
Van Slyck, Cornelis, 145.
John, 729.
Van Slyke, Hannah, 731.
Van Sooderwoer, Jan, 275.
Van Steenburgh, Margaret, 496.
Van Syckel, Eva Viola, 662.
Van Syse, Judith, 452, 458.
Van Tassel, Lena, 705.
Maria, 695.
Van Tassell, Abraham, 709.
Van Telckhuys, Lambert, 198.
Magdalena, 198.
Van Ternhem, John, 428.
Van Tienhoven, 131, 132, 138, 140, 141, 144,
149, 158.
Cornelis, 613.
Harman, 428.
Lucas (Dr.), 428, 558.
Van Tilburg, 95.
Abraham, 220.
Barent, 220.
Catherine, 220.
Frans, 220.
Geesie, 220.
Isaac, 220.
Jacob, 220.
Jacob (Capt.), 427.
Jan, 220.
Jan Teunisz, 240, 242, 249.
Job., 205.
Johannes, 220.
John, 220.
Margaret (Consilyea), 448.
Metje, 220.
Peter, 219, 220.
Petrus, 220.
Teunis, 220.
Van Tillburg, Catherine, 449, 450.
Vantine, Albert H., 446.
van Tright, Dirck Gerrits, 384.
Van Tright, 385.
Gerrit, 351.
Van Tuyl, Andries, 453.
Van Twiller, 127, 128, 129, 135, 235.
Direotor, 126.
Wouter, 119.
Vanvalen, Bernardus, 618.
Daniel, 617.
Van Valen, Abraham, 620.
Maria, 456.
Van Valkenburgh, Anna, 297.
Elizabeth, 530.
John M., 501.
Lambert, 297.
Van Varick, John, 790.
Van Vechten, Jannetie, 295.
Van Vechten, Michael, 295.
Van Veghten, Peter, 720.
Van Vlack, Lizzie, 659.
Van Vleck, Isaac (Capt.), 161, 642.
Van Vleckeren, Jannetie, 581.
Marinus Roelofs, 581, 592.
Mary, 410.
Van Vleckerens, Jannetie, 580.
Van Vleeck, Aeltie, 155.
Anna, 155.
Deborah, 155.
Isaac, 276.
Peter, 155.
Tielman, 155.
Van Vleet, Abraham, 581.
Van Vliet, Catherine, 503.
Van Voorhees, Jacobus, 697.
Jannetie, 697.
Rachel, 697.
Van Voorhis, Eliza, 650.
VanVoorst, Hester, 787.
Jan Gerritsen, 692.
Van Vranken, Margarita, 708.
Maria, 437.
Van Vredenburgh, John, 551.
Maria, 259.
William, 259.
Van Waggoner, Catherine, 503.
Van Wagoner, James, 460.
Van Wart. Ann Maria, 653.
Elizabeth, 653.
Emily, 731.
Isaac, 101.
Van Weert, Marten, 101.
Van Westerhout, Adrianus Jansen, 597.
Van Whicklen, Lewis, 654.
Van Wickel, Jacob Walings, 125, 217.
Marritie, 221, 350.
Tryntie Walings, 294.
Van Wie, Hendrick, 701.
Jane, 720.
Van Winckel, Hendrick, 692.
Van Winkle, 125.
Van Winkle, Antie, 783.
Van Woglum, Peter (Capt.), 409.
Van Wormer, Mary Ann, 757.
Van Wort, Catherine, 733.
Van Wyck, Johannes, 564.
Latetia, 156.
Pierre C., 806.
Van Wyke (Wyck), Helena, 453.
Van Zandt, Bernardus, 700.
John, 566.
Margaret, 444.
Neeltie, 700.
Varick, Abraham, 69.
John J., 732.
Vaughan, Olean A., 749.
Veeder, John H., 530.
Veitch,Andrew D., 790.
Velie, Balters S., 651.
Vensel, 764.
Verbrugge, Johannes Pietersen, 274.
Verbryck, William, 584.
Verdon, Thomas, 164, 785.
Verduin, Cornelia, 449.
Verduyn, Cornelius, 783.
Elizabeth, 783.
Verlet, Nicholas, 782.
Susannah, 782.
Vermeille, 48, 105, 204, 221.
Abram, 201, 202.
Isaac, 104, 105, 201, 202, 203, 221, 266, 288,
289, 297, 302, 320, 641.
Jean, 104, 203.
Marie, 105, 200, 221.
Rachel, 104.
Rebecca, 104.
Vermelje, 343.
INDEX.
895
Vermelje, Johan, 377.
Johannes, 266, 289, 308, 328, 338, 341, 343,
349, 360, 365, 369, 371, 380, 393, 394, 401,
403, 406, 412, 414, 415, 642, 817.
Maria, 342, 349, 351, 373, 401, 406.
Resalvert, 280.
Vermeule, 393.
Adr., 593.
Adrain, 393.
Adrian, 793.
Vermilje, Johannes, 271, 279, 287, 372, 373.
Vermille, Isaac, 293.
Vermillia, Josantia, 625.
Vermilye, 220, 237, 251, 360, 500, 625.
A. G. (Rev.), 104.
Abel, 648.
Abraham, 642, 643, 644, 645, 648, 649, 651,
652, 655, 668, 675.
Abraham Augustus, 655, 664.
Abraham F., 651, 661.
Abram, 649, 658, 660, 668.
Abram A., 673.
Abram Floyd, 670.
Adaline V., 666.
Addison, 660.
Adeline, 657, 665.
Aeltie, 267, 499, 567, 643, 644, 827, 828, 829,
830.
Aeltje, 678.
Aeltje (Ally), 645.
Agnes Adaline, 666.
Aletta, 645, 646, 650.
Alfred, 670.
Alice, 668.
Allen Bonnett, 678.
Allen George Newman, 672, 678.
Allie, 675.
Alphonso R., 669.
Alvin Graff, 665.
Amelia, 654.
Amos Jones, 656.
Amy, 648.
Andrew Jackson, 654.
Angelica, 667.
Angeline, 657.
Ann, 648, 655.
Ann Eliza, 666.
Ann Maria, 665.
Anna, 645, 649, 654, 657, 661, 662, 674.
Anna E., 664, 677.
Anna Josephine, 672.
Anna M., 655.
Anna Romeyn, 660.
Annie B., 671.
Annie Ward, 662.
Antie (Anna), 644.
Aribell Jane, 655.
Arthur F., 671.
Arthur Lewis, 665.
Arthur Louis, 677.
Arthur Park, 678.
Arvilla, 658.
Asenath Burr, 666.
Ashbel G., 677.
Ashbel G. (Rev.), 661, 671.
Aurelia Abby, 665.
Aurelia Emily, 656.
Aurelia Emma, 656.
Avery, 658, 667, 676.
Banheba, 656.
Barent, 664, 673.
Barnabas, 658.
Benjamin, 644, 645, 646, 649, 650, 651.
Benjamin F., 663, 671, 672.
Benjamin Franklin, 654, 663.
Bessie, 671.
Betsey, 650.
Betsey (Elizabeth), 648.
Betsy, 646.
Blanche, 676.
Vermilye, Blanche R., 669.
Brooks, 651, 660.
Burr, 666.
Callie, 660.
Carrie B., 664.
Catherine, 646, 650, 651, 655, 659, 660.
Catherine Ann, 649.
Catherine Matilda, 654.
Charity, 652.
Charles, 655, 659, 666, 668, 674.
Charles A. Townsend, 662.
Charles Augustus Morford, 661.
Charles B., 659, 669.
Charles Edward, 670.
Charles H., 663, 675.
Charles Harbert, 667.
Charles W., 668.
Charlotte Amelia, 656.
Charlotte Nelson, 654.
Chester, 658, 677.
Clara B., 663.
Clarence Edward, 677.
Clarence Oakley, 661, 671.
Claude, 670.
Claude Kingdon, 665.
Clinton I., 668, 677.
Constable, 288.
Cora, 676.
Cora May, 674.
Cornelia L., 671.
Cornelia R., 669.
Cornelia Tompkins, 663.
Cromwell, 659.
Crucer McRae, 669.
Crumeline Verplank, 651.
Cynthia, 644, 645, 658.
Cynthia (or Asenath), 651.
Daisy May, 670.
Dale, 676.
Daniel, 648, 655.
Daniel Babbitt, 662, 671, 672.
Daniel Irving, 675.
David, 644, 646, 650, 655, 658, 676.
David M., 667.
Delight Sweetser, 666.
Delphine, 667.
Dorothea, 651.
Dupuyster (Rev.), 660, 670.
Earle, 676.
Ebenezer, 653.
Eddie E., 663.
Edgar, 671.
Edgar A., 657, 667.
Edith, 670.
Edith L., 663.
Edna, 665.
Edward, 645, 649, 654, 656, 657, 666, 667,
675.
Edward A., 673.
Edward Alexander, 665, 674.
Edward, Jr., 649, 656.
Edward Lyman, 656, 665.
Edward M., 669.
Edward Oviatt, 674.
Edwin L., 674, 678.
Edwin S., 671.
Effie May, 677.
Eliff, 657.
Elijah Wentworth, 667, 675.
Eliza, 649, 651.
Eliza Pell, 670.
Elizabeth, 646, 649, 650, 653, 661, 671, 672.
Elizabeth (Betsey), 648.
Elizabeth Pauline, 670.
Elizabeth Rachel, 655.
Ella, 667.
Ella M., 668.
Ella Virginia, 675.
Elmer J., 669.
Elva, 673.
896
INDEX.
Vermilve, Elvira, 667.
Emily, 646, 665, 667, 668.
Emily Augusta, 661.
Emma, 659, 676.
Emma Jane, 668.
Emma Southard, 672.
Emmeline, 657.
Ernest, 677, 678.
Erskine Rockwood, 653.
Ethel, 674.
Eugene, 664, 668, 669, 673, 677.
Eugene, Jr., 677.
Eulalia E., 668.
Eunice C., 665.
Euretta, 652.
Eva G., 677.
Fanny, 676.
Fanny Jane, 656.
Fay, 673.
Florence, 671, 673.
Florence M., 670.
Forest A., 664.
Forrest, 673.
Frances, 648.
Frances D., 676.
Francis Goodwin, 669, 677.
Francis H., 663, 673.
Frank, 665, 669, 671, 673.
Frank Bayles, 678.
Frank S., 664, 673.
Franklin S., 659, 669.
Fred, 665, 674.
Frederick, 644, 646.
Frederick Montgomery, 671.
George, 648, 649, 658, 667, 669, 673, 675,
676.
George Albert, 665.
George F., 669.
George Gilbert, 677.
George H., 655, 661, 664, 671.
George Orton, 675.
George P., 659, 669.
George P., Jr., 669.
George S., 664, 673.
George W., 659, 663, 667, 669, 675.
George Washington, 672.
Gerardus, 644, 646, 647, 651, 659, 660, 670.
Gerardus (Garrit), 651.
Gerritie (Charity), 647.
Gertrude, 664, 671, 674.
Gideon Townsend, 650, 659.
Gilbert, 648, 650, 655, 656, 659, 669, 677.
Gilbert H., 658.
Gladys, 676.
Gladys Belle, 670.
Glen, 676.
Goldie G., 669.
Grace E., 674.
Grace P., 669.
Grey, 673.
Gussie, 663.
Guy Ellsworth, 674.
Hannah, 643, 644, 650, 657, 658.
Hannah, Maria, 654.
Hannah Tompkins, 663.
Harold, 676.
Harold E., 673.
Harriet, 668.
Harriet M., 667.
Harriet Martin, 675.
Harry Lincoln, 675.
Hattie L., 669.
Hazel, 670, 672.
Helen, 658, 661, 667, 671.
Helen Ferguson, 677.
Helen Louisa, 665.
Henriette, 665.
Henry Bonnett, 678.
Henry Fisher, 662, 672.
Henry G., 664, 673.
Vermilye, Henry Marcellus, 565, 665.
Henry Rowland, 671, 678.
Herbert, 665, 671, 673.
Herbert Marshall, 678.
Herbert Noble, 672.
Herbert Scudder, 667, 675.
Herschel, 678.
Hester (Mehitable), 644.
Hetty, 646.
Hetty Ann, 666.
Hiram, 676.
Hobart Potter, 662, 672.
Hobart Potter (Jr.), 672.
Horatio S., 670.
Howard, 664, 671, 673.
Howard Hill, 678.
Ida A., 669.
Ina, 673.
Ina Elizabeth, 677.
Ino, 660.
Ino Louise, 670.
Ira A., 664.
Irene H., 674.
Irving. 660, 661, 670, 671, 676.
Isa, 667, 676.
Isaac, 204, 229, 237, 240, 242, 259, 265, 622,
625, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 650, 651, 652,
653, 659, 660, 670, 786, I93, 799.
Isaac Dyckman, 646, 650, 663.
Isaac Dyckman (Rev.), 653, 662.
Isaac G., 646, 650.
Isaac, Jr., 670.
Isaac Sebring, 650, 655, 663.
Isaac V., 659, 670.
Isaac Ward, 662.
Isabella, 668.
Jackson, 654.
Jacob, 643, 644, 646, 651.
Jacob Dyckman, 652, 661.
Jacob Meyer, 647, 653.
Jacobus, 647.
Jacomina, 645.
James, 647, 648, 649, 652, 654, 659.
James Hustis, 656.
James I., 668.
James M., 663.
James Martin, 654.
Jane, 645, 646, 647, 650, 651, 652, 654, 655,
660, 663, 664.
Jane Elinor, 655.
Jane Eliza, 654.
Jane M., 667.
Jane Rebecca, 652.
Jean, 678.
Jemima, 656.
Jennie T., 671.
Jenny, 648.
Jerome, 650, 659.
Jerome C., 669.
Jesse, 649, 657, 666, 676.
Jesse C., 668, 676.
Jessie, 660, 664.
Jessie M., 674.
Jessie Maria, 666.
Joanna, 647, 657, 665, 666.
Johanna Maria, 652.
Job., 267.
Johannes, 205, 217, 236, 237, 242, 285, 388,
558, 641, 642, 645, 793, 816, 823.
Johannes (Capt.), 483, 600, 694.
Johannes (John), 644.
John, 267, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 649, 650,
651, 653, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 660, 664,
665, 669, 674.
John Akley, 654.
John Cole, 656, 665.
John D., 650.
John De Wint, 662.
John G., 646, 651, 659.
John Gifford, 665, 674.
INDEX.
897
Vermilye, John Hoagland, 653, 662, 672.
John K., 668, 676.
John Kipp, 651, 660.
John P., 658.
John R., 669, 677.
John Robert, 653.
Jonn W., 667, 675.
Jonathan, 649.
Joseph, 644, 646, 650, 658, 668, 672, 676.
Joseph C., 664, 673.
Joseph Calder, 655, 664.
Joseph Clyde, 615.
Joseph Fenelon, 662.
Joseph, Jr., 676.
Josephine, 668.
Joshua, 644, 645.
Judson, 667.
Julia, 652.
Julia A., 652.
Julia Ann, 658.
Julia Augusta, 654.
Kate, 660.
Kate Estella, 670.
Katharine Holmes, 662.
Katharine Rowland, 677.
Kathleen, 675.
Larry, 660.
Leland, 676.
Leo, 676.
Leona, 678.
Le Roy, 668, 677.
Le Roy S., 677.
Lester, 670.
Letitia, 650.
Levi 657.
Lewis Chauncey, 66z.
Lewis M., 664.
Lilla Marie, 675.
Lillian, 673.
Livingston, 648.
Lizzie, 669.
Lois Cordelia, 675.
Lois S., 670.
Lonson, 667.
Louisa, 661.
Louise, 671.
Louise C., 662.
Louise E., 659.
Louise Rowland, 678.
Luca, 673.
Lucinda, 666.
Lucius, 659.
Lucy David, 660.
Luella, 669.
Lyman R., 665.
Mabel, 663, 673, 675, 676.
Macia Alleine, 675.
Maggie B., 675.
Margaret, 645.
Margaret Elizabeth, 672.
Margaret Louise, 652.
Maria, 346, 351, 642, 643, 647, 650, 651, 658,
659, 660, 702, 710, 786.
Maria E., 667.
Maria (Mrs.), 285.
Maria Rebecca, 654.
Maria Schenck, 655.
Marietta, 666.
Marion Anne, 655.
Marion Hoagland, 662, 672.
Maritie, 643, 644.
Mark Edward, 675.
Martha Evelyn, 675.
Martha Isadore, 675.
Martha J., 670.
Martha Woodward, 656.
Martin Van Beuren, 654.
Mary, 644, 645, 646, 648, 649, 651, 654, 655,
656, 657, 658, 660, 661, 664, 667, 668, 672.
Mary Ann, 652.
Vermilye, Mary Anna, 662.
Mary Anthony, 661.
Mary C., 665.
Mary Caroline, 662.
Mary Case, 670.
Mary Catherine, 666.
Mary Edith, 675.
Mary Elizabeth, 654, 660.
Mary Frances, 666.
Mary Helen, 668.
Mary Hoagland, 663.
Mary Ida, 664.
Mary Jane, 659.
Mary Josephine, 662.
Mary K., 659.
Mary Kate, 677.
Mary (Polly), 645, 648.
Mary V., 664.
Maude, 675.
Maude M., 673.
Maurice, 673.
Meade, 676.
Mehitabel, 644, 646, 649, 656, 658.
Melissa, 657, 667.
Mercy, 658.
Michael, 647, 652.
Mildred, 670, 676.
Millard, 671.
Millard G., 669.
Millicent, 648.
Milton Edward, 675.
Minerva, 676.
Minnie, 660.
Mortimore, 669.
Nancy, 644, 650.
Nathaniel D., 663.
Nathaniel Drake, 647, 654.
Nathaniel Drake, Jr., 654.
Nettie M., 664.
Noah D., 657, 666.
Norman Loutrell, 678.
Norman Sherwood, 678.
Olivia S., 657.
Ora, 674.
Orilla V., 675.
Orville, 657, 666, 668, 676.
Orvis, 676.
Oscar, 660, 670, 673.
Oscar Valentine, 670.
Patience, 644, 650, 658, 668.
Paul, 659, 670, 676.
Percy Sherwood, 678.
Persis Malvina, 674.
Peter, 643, 645, 648, 654, 655.
Peter Bonnett, 563, 663, 672, 678.
Peter I., 651, 659.
Petty (Martha), 648.
Phebe, 656, 657, 658.
Phebe Burr, 666.
Phebe Catherine, 660.
Phebe Elizabeth, 668.
Philip, 645, 647, 648, 654, 655.
Phoebe, 649.
Phoebe Elizabeth, 669.
Platt Bassett, 644.
Polly, 648.
R. Willard, 667, 675.
Rachel, 237, 642, 643, 644, 656, 675, 786.
Rachel Elizabeth, 655.
Ralph, 673.
Ralph Schenck, 655, 664.
Rebecca, 483, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647,
653.
Rebecca Jane, 651.
Rena, 677.
Reuben, 668, 676.
Richard, 651, 654.
Richard Jewell, 655.
Robert, 647, 673, 674, 677.
Robert C. Halsey, 662, 672.
898
INDEX.
Vermilye, Robert David Burr, 674.
Robert Davis Burr, 665.
Robert George, 652.
Robert Montgomery, 661.
Robert Wright, 656, 665, 674.
Robertanna, 653.
Rosanna Martha, 670.
Roy, 671, 677.
Roy Elbert, 677.
Roy M., 669.
Rufus Franklin, 670.
Russel S., 663.
Russell L., 673.
Ruth May, 677.
Sally (Sarah), 648.
Samuel, 649, 657, 672.
Samuel E., 668, 676.
Sarah, 600, 643, 644, 645, 648, 649, 651, 655,
657, 711.
Sarah A., 650, 663.
Sarah Ann, 654.
Sarah Emma, 660.
Sarah Hatch, 663.
Sarah Hester, 656.
Sarah L., 659.
Sarah Lavinia, 654.
Sarah Maria, 655.
Sarah Newman, 672.
Sarahette F., 668.
Sennai, 646.
Seth, 676.
Sherwood, 677.
Silas, 676.
Slye, 673.
Solomon, 648, 649, 657, 658, 666, 667.
Solomon Earle, 675.
Solomon, Jr., 667.
Solomon Walter, 674.
Susan, 645, 647, 651, 652, 658.
Susan Adelaide, 674.
Susan Elizabeth, 659.
Susannah Maria, 647.
Sybil, 678.
Sylvester, 659, 669.
Sylvester P., 669.
Theodore, 663.
Theodore Chardavoyne, 653, 663, 672.
Thomas, 645.
Thomas B., 647, 653.
Thomas Bean, 662.
Thomas E., 661.
Thomas Edward, 653, 662, 671, 677.
Thomas Edward (Rev.), 652, 661.
Thomas M., 663.
Turney, 658.
Valentine Mott (Dr.), 651, 660.
Vera, 676.
Verdine, 670.
Vernon Lester, 670.
Victor V., 674.
Wallace P., 678.
Walter, 660.
Walter Ortis, 670.
Walton, 648.
Washington Romeyn, 652, 661.
Wesley Floyd, 677.
Willard Martin, 675.
William, 645, 647, 648, 649, 652, 653, 654,
656, 657, 658, 663, 666, 672, 674.
William Burr, 666, 674.
William D., 657, 666.
William E., 661, 663, 671, 673.
William Edward, 661, 671.
William Francis, 665, 674.
William Gerard, 661, 671.
William Gerard. Jr., 677.
William Gray (Dr.), 662, 672.
William Henry, 653, 654, 662, 665, 674.
William I., 670.
William Montgomery, 652, 661.
Vermilye, William Moorehead, 671.
William Pierce, 654.
William Ray, 675.
William Russell, 671.
William W., 647, 652.
Willie, 673.
Wright, 666, 674, 675, 678.
Vermilye & Co., 652.
Vermilyea, 483.
Callie, 660.
Irving, 660.
Jacob, 552.
John, 549.
Rebecca, 548.
Vermilyie, Joseph, 627.
Vermuele, Adrian,.i, 408.
Cornelius C., 408.
Verniele, Isaaco, 105.
Vernoy, Celeste, 494.
Cornelius, 494.
Verplanck, Abraham, 101.
Abram Isaacs, 696.
Gulian, 367.
Gulian C., 613.
Hillegond, 696.
ousanna, 101.
Verrazzano, 11.
Verren, Dr., 335.
Verschuur, Lysbeth, 212.
Verveelen, 93, 212, 221, 222, 240, 243, 245,
248, 249, 267, 297, 298, 303, 311, 325, 326,
332, 333, 345, 370, 425, 800.
Abraham, 682, 683, 684, 685, 688.
Abraham Myers, 687, 689.
Abram, 683.
Alida, 681, 682, 683.
Alvin, 691.
Andrew, 684.
Andrew, Jr., 690.
Andrias, 686.
Andries, 688.
Ann Maria, 688.
Anna, 95, 212, 221, 598, 680.
Anna E., 690.
Anna M., 347.
Anna Maria, 681.
Annaatje, 685.
Annatie, 685.
Annie, 687.
Archie, 690.
Arie, 685.
Arthur, 690.
Barnardus, 686, 687.
Barney, 686.
Benjamin, 684.
Bernardus, 497, 600, 681, 682, 684.
Bessie Adelaide, 691.
Carrie, 690.
Carrie J., 688.
Catelyntie, 687.
Catharina, 95.
Catharine, 684.
Catherine, 689.
Cathlynte, 685.
Catrina, 678, 685.
Charles Banta, 690, 691.
Clarence, 691.
Claude, 691.
Cloudie (Claude), 682.
Cornelia, 682.
Cornelius, 683, 684, 686, 687, 688, 690, 691.
Daniel, 95, 241, 242, 377, 598, 680, 681, 682,
683, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690.
Daniel A., 683, 685.
Deacon, 377.
Debora, 683.
Dirkie, 684.
Edward Sandford, 691.
Edwin L., 690, 691.
Eleanor, 685.
INDEX.
Verveelen, Eliza J., 688.
Elizabeth, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687.
Ella L., 688.
Emma E., 689.
Eugene, 690.
Eugenia A., 691.
Euphemia, 689.
Fannie, 687.
Fanny R., 691.
Francyntie, 683.
Frederick M., 689.
Fredericus, 682.
Garrett A., 689.
Geertye, 683.
George, 690.
George W., 690.
Gerrit, 685.
Gideon, 600, 681, 682, 683, 685.
Grace, 690.
Hannah, 683, 688.
Hannah Jane, 688.
Hans, 95, 273, 678.
Helen, 691.
Hendrick, 276, 681, 685, 686, 687.
Henrietta, 690.
Henry, 618, 684.
Hester, 681, 682, 688.
Howard W., 690.
Isaac, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687, 689.
J., 287.
Jacob, 685, 687, 688.
Jacobus, 682, 683, 684, 686.
James, 684, 686, 687.
James Harvey, 689, 690.
James M., 689.
James M. (Judge), 688.
Jan, 683.
Jan (John), 682, 683, 684, 685.
Jane, 688.
Jane Elizabeth, 689, 690.
Jane Gilbert, 687.
Jannetie, 684.
Jannetje, 684, 685.
Jannetje (Jane), 686.
Jannetye, 684.
Jenny (Jane), 687.
Jeremiah, 683.
Joannes, 373.
Johan, 171, 296.
Johanes, 221.
Johanna, 681, 682.
Johannes, 95, 204, 206, 208, 210, 211, 217,
228, 233, 234, 237, 239, 240, 241, 253, 254,
255, 256, 264, 266, 271, 272, 273, 275, 277,
283, 286, 287, 288, 289, 306, 333, 338, 341,
342, 346, 363, 376, 397, 401, 413, 415, 416,
597, 598, 678, 680, 681, 682, 683, 684, 786,
793, 795, 797, 799, 800, 807.
Johannis, 686, 687.
John, 244, 413, 683, 685, 687, 689.
John Gilbert, 687.
John I., 686, 688.
John J., 688.
John K., 690, 691.
Joseph Randall, 688, 690, 691.
Josephine, 691.
Leah, 687.
Lizabeth (Elizabeth), 685.
Lybetie (Elizabeth), 682.
Margaret, 686, 689.
Margaret Ann, 689.
Margaret (Polly), 685.
Maria, 95, 273, 597, 599, 680, 683, 685, 686,
687, 799.
Marritie, 681.
Marritye, 686.
Martha, 686.
Mary, 685, 689.
Mary Jane, 689.
Matilda, 690, 691.
Verveelen, Maud W., 691.
Morris Bartow, 690, 691.
Morris Bartow, Jr., 691.
Moses, 681, 682, 683, 685.
Mr., 207.
Nancy, 689.
Nathaniel, 690, 691.
Peter, 690.
Phebe, 686.
Phoebe Jane, 689.
Rachel, 685.
Rachel Hannah, 687.
Ralph, 688.
Raymond S., 689.
Richard, 689, 690.
Richard, Jr., 690.
Samuel, 687.
Sara, 684, 686.
Sarah, 685, 686, 688.
Sarah A., 688.
Sarah Elizabeth, 688.
Sieur, 218.
Teitye, 686.
Tietje, 683.
Tittye, 683.
Titye, 684.
Victor, 691.
Victoria, 691.
William, 689, 690, 691.
William Christie, 687.
William Henry, 690.
William Randall, 690.
Verwey, John, 697.
Martina Hendricks, 69.
Viele, Cornelis, 545.
Jannetie, 545.
Stephen, 738.
Stephen H., 736.
Vieley, William, 734.
Viervant, Cornelia, 388.
Cornelis, 196, 275.
Cornelis A., 249.
Cornelis Arents, 388.
Vincent, Anna, 379.
Charles, 643.
John, 379.
Leonard, 265.
Levi, 424.
Warren R., 538.
Vine, Robert, 737.
Vinge, Gulian, 613.
John, 613.
Rachel, 613.
Vinhaegen, Eva, 700.
John, 700.
Virginia Company, The, 81, 83.
Vlereborne, 584.
Vlierboom, Fytie (Sophia), 448.
Matthys, 448.
Volk, Rachel, 683.
Voelkertsen, Dirck, 613.
Vonck, Gertrude, 789.
Pieter, 449.
Vonder Bosch, Oscar Waldemar, 654.
Vonder Donck, 163.
von Feder, Herr, 13.
Voorhees, Jacob, 616.
Jane R., 589.
Maria, 587.
Mary, 774.
Voorhis, Elizabeth, 732.
Mr., 417.
Vosburgh, Alida, 506.
Charlotte, 750.
Vought, Pell C., 553.
Vredenal, 169.
Vredenburgh, Benjamin, 436, 438.
Isaac, 789.
Johannes, 786.
John, 704.
900
INDEX.
Vredenburgh, Matthias, 436.
Van Doren, 700.
Van Dorn, 700.
Vredendal, 786.
Vroman, Mary, 737.
Vroom, Gysbert B., 512.
Vrooman, Adam, 128.
Engeltie, 200.
W
Waddeli, Hugh; 735.
Wade, Eliza, 538.
Wagstaff, 408, 418.
Wait, Florence, 677.
Wakefield, Anna, 410.
Johanna (Anna), 803.
Maria, 697.
Thomas, 410.
Wakeman, Burr, 784.
Waldron, 93, 172, 215, 218, 219, 221, 228, 231,
249, 259, 268, 276, 315, 317, 318, 324, 352,
353, 425, 434, 797, 807, 824.
Aaron, 730, 736, 748, 752, 755, 770.
Abby Emeline, 738.
Abiather, 708, 720.
Abigail (Mary A.), 762.
Abraham, 709, 710, 711, 718, 721, 723, 724,
729, 732, 733, 734, 742, 747, 753, 754, 756,
762, 772.
Abraham B., 747.
Abraham Buckhout, 738.
Abraham C., 738, 758.
Abraham Godwin, 727.
Abram, 719, 733.
Abram D., 753.
Ada, 748, 773.
Ada L., 770.
Ada Malinda, 764.
Addie, 772.
Adelbert S., 756.
Adolph, 704, 705, 713, 714, 727.
Adolphus, 728.
Adrian, 711.
Adrian (Edward), 703.
Aeffie, 707, 718.
Aefie, 676, 704.
Aeltie, 642, 694.
Aeltje, 721.
Aggie, 704, 705.
Agnes, 769.
Agnes G., 757, 773.
Agnes M., 763.
Agnietie, 703.
Aileen Elizabeth, 778.
Albartus, 709, 720.
Albert, 711, 759, 769, 775.
Albert (Rev.), 756, 772.
Albert Edwin, 772, 778.
Albert F., 771.
Albert M., 739.
Albert V., 775.
Aleta Maria, 729.
Aletta, 716, 730.
Alexander, 744, 762.
Alexander (Judge), 724.
Alexander M., 746.
Alexander Minty, 774.
Alexander P., 746.
Alexander Phoenix, 713, 727.
Alice G., 759.
Alice Kilburn, 766.
Alice M., 771, 776.
Alice Mary, 772.
Alida, 735, 736, 737, 742, 756.
Alida A., 754.
Alidan, 735.
Alletie Swarthout, 716.
Almeada, 760.
Waldron, Almerin John, 763.
Almira, 721.
Amanda, 728, 738, 759.
Amelia, 717, 734.
Amy, 721.
Amy M., 739.
Andreas, 709.
Andres James, 761.
Andrew, 760.
Andrew (Andress), 741.
Andrew Jackson, 740, 759.
Andrew S., 773.
Angelina, 763.
Ann, 739.
Ann Avonia Eliza, 747.
Ann Catherine, 715.
Ann Elizabeth, 763, 773.
Ann Jane, 758.
Anna, 692, 703, 707, 710, 714, 715, 716, 717,
723, 725, 730, 741, 743, 745, 747, 749, 750,
759, 768, 776.
Anna Elfrida, 728.
Anna F., 775.
Anna H., 726.
Anna L., 769.
Anna Maria, 736, 755.
Anna Mariah Anne), 730.
Anna Rebecca, 716.
Annatie (Hannah), 719.
Annatie Ten Eyck, 733.
Annatje, 497.
Anne, 706.
Anneke, 499.
Annetie, 692, 697, 787.
Annetje, 715.
Annetta, 778.
Annie, 745, 765.
Annie Lockwood, 766.
Annie Louise, 761.
Antie, 604.
Antie (Anna), 711.
Antje (Anna), 714, 718, 721.
Arthur, 761, 765, 766, 777.
Arthur K., 773, 778.
Arthur Raymond, 777.
Arthur W., 759.
Asa, 752.
Asa H., 750, 768.
Asenath, 739.
Augustine W., 752, 770.
Augustus Henry, 747.
Aurelia, 756.
Barent, 93, 273, 303, 309, 316, 320, 329, 332,
342, 366, 369, 372, 380, 389, 394, 401, 403,
405, 406, 407, 412, 414, 415, 430, 482, 592,
594, 600, 602, 623, 695, 696, 697, 701, 709,
721, 733, 793, 808, 811, 814, 816, 817, 821,
823, 824, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830.
Barent (Mrs.), 212.
Barent T., 751, 769.
Belitie, 497, 696.
Belle (Eliza B.), 763.
Benjamin, 500, 582, 615, 692, 693, 699, 700,
705, 706, 707, 711, 714, 716, 717, 718, 719,
731, 736, 746, 749, 755, 756, 760, 766, 772,
808.
Benjamin A., 715, 728.
Benjamin H., 756.
Bersheba, 740.
Bertha, 761.
Bertha Angeline, 760.
Bertha Louise, 767.
Bertram A., 747.
Bessie, 775.
Betsey, 708, 721, 730, 739.
Blanche L., 775.
Blanche M., 777.
Bonnie A., 775.
Brandon, 749.
Brant Schuyler, 746.
INDEX.
901
Waldron, Burt, 772.
Calvin 723, 741, 760, 761.
Calvin, Jr., 761.
Calvin M., 754, 771.
Carl, 775.
Carolin Amanda, 729.
Caroline, 731,,35, 738, 746. 760.
Caroline Dorothea, 767.
Caroline E., 767.
Caroline L., 766.
Carrie, 774.
Carrie A., 773.
Carrie May, 773.
Carroll Edgar, 766.
Carroll Edmond, 777.
Carroll Scott, 747, 766, 767.
Catalina, 707, 500.
Catharina, 704.
Catharine, 453, 692, 713, 742.
Catherina, 709.
Catherine, 697, 701, 702, 703, 711, 712, 713,
714, 717, 726, 727, 728, 731, 733, 734, 736,
740, 746, 750, 753, 756, 758, 778.
Catherine (Cata), 733.
Catherine (Catlyna), 703.
Catherine A., 774.
Catherine Banker, 737.
Catherine Hannah, 724.
Catherine Louisa, 749.
Catherine P., 727.
Catherine R., 761.
Catriena, 726.
Caty, 721.
Celia A., 769.
Celia Alberta, 772.
Charit-r 720.
Charity G., 745.
Charles, 731, 732, 741, 742, 754, 758, 760,
761, 775, 776.
Charles A., 747, 748, 767.
Charles Alfred, 756.
Charles B., 744, 764.
Charles D., 757.
Charles E., 751, 759, 772.
Charles Elmer, 766.
Charles F., 773.
Charles Francis, 757.
Charles G., 741.
Charles H., 749, 768.
Charles L., 769.
Charles Lott, 731, 749.
Charles M., 762.
Charles Newman, 774.
Charles Newman (Rev.), 737, 739, 757.
Charles P., 775.
Charles Pitman, 742, 761.
Charles Richard, 749.
Charles S., 773.
Charles W., 771.
Charles Waterman, 757.
Charlotte, 726, 742, 772.
Charlotte Ann, 758.
Charlotte F., 749.
Chester E., 769.
Christina, 720, 763.
Christopher, 692.
Clara, 748, 760, 761, 771, 775.
Clara May, 767.
Clare, 772.
Clarence, 761.
Clarence H., 766.
Clarence R., 768, 772, 777.
Clarissa Bell, 769.
Clark, 745.
Clark J., 741.
Claud Ernest, 760.
Clayton, 759.
Clement, 778.
Clyde Chester, 777.
Constantine D., 762.
Waldron, Cora E., 748.
Cora L., 776.
Cora M., 774.
Cora May, 759.
Coraline, 753.
Corbet Scudder, 743.
Cornelia, 304, 622, 692, 693, 695, 698, 701,
702, 704, 705, 707, u16, 718, 727, 751, 783.
Cornelia (Catherine), 706.
Cornelia J., 754.
Cornelia S., 741.
Cornelis, 718.
Cornelius, 701, 708, 719, 732, 735, 736, 737,
743, 747, 754, 755, 757, 758, 759.
Cornelius A., 750.
Cornelius Abraham, 750, 768.
Cornelius E., 737.
Cornelius G., 719, 733, 751.
Cornelius J., 757, 773.
Cornelius L., 693.
Cornelius W., 720, 738.
Daniel, 692, 693, 725, 735, 739, 743, 752, 754,
758.
David, 696, 704, 705, 709, 714, 721, 725, 728,
736, 739, 743, 746, 756, 802.
David C., 745, 775.
David Henry, 777.
David J., 760, 775.
David K., 775.
David M., 744, 764.
David Sterling, 767, 777.
Dean, 771.
Debora, 762.
Deborah, 692, 701, 709, 711, 724.
Delia, 754.
Della, 768.
Derick (Richard), 712, 725.
Dona B., 775.
Dorcas, 762.
Dorla, 776.
Dorothy I., 767.
Douglas Durand, 777.
Earle Edward, 777.
Ebenezer B., 734, 752.
Eddie Oliver, 764.
Edgar Milton, 763. 776.
Edgar N., 747.
Edith, 760, 768, 776.
Edith (Eyckie), 751.
Edith Frances, 777.
Edith M., 728.
Edna D., 767.
Edna Gertrude, 777.
Edna J., 755.
Edna Pamelia, 772.
Edward, 711, 723, 729, 731, 741, 742, 745,
746, 752, 755, 759, 760, 765, 770.
Edward A., 748, 765, 767.
Edward Augustus, 738, 758.
Edward Bloomfield, 731, 749.
Edward H., 715, 741.
Edward L., 774.
Edward Langdon, 766.
Edward Lincoln, 751.
Edwin, 756, 772.
Edwin D., 775.
Effe Mary, 762.
Effye, 714.
Efie, 713.
Eleanor, 734.
Eleanor Ann, 751.
Elias, 742.
Elias Hawley, 735.
Elisha, 726.
Eliza, 714, 723, 732, 734, 752, 765.
Eliza Jane, 759, 773.
Elizabeth, 699, 700, 703, 706, 707, 711, 712,
713, 714, 715, 717, 718, 722, 724, 725, 726,
727, 728, 731, 732, 733, 734, 737, 738, 744,
745, 746, 747, 752, 756, 757, 759, 765, 769,
902
INDEX.
Waldron, Elizabeth, 770, 771, 773.
Elizabeth( Sarah E.), 741.
Elizabeth A., 769.
Elizabeth Ann, 750, 751.
Elizabeth Eglentine, 729.
Elizabeth Maria, 718.
Ella, 742, 760, 772, 773.
Ella M., 763.
Ellen, 727, 745, 761.
Ellen M., 769.
Elmer, 760.
Elshe, 736.
Elsie, 713, 732.
Elsie Ann, 751.
Elzie Elmer, 764.
Ely, 710.
Fanny, 735.
Fanny C., 750.
Fanny M., 770.
Femmetye, 702, 721.
Feytye (Sophia), 720.
Florence, 760, 761, 765.
Florence Mortimer, 766.
Florilla, 720.
Florissa, 762.
Frances, 743.
Frances A., 736.
Frances H., 753.
Frances M., 770.
Francis, 699, 703, 712, 713, 717, 726, 752,
765, 771, 773.
Francis M., 739.
Francis P., 740.
Francis Story, 739.
Frank, 763, 771, 777.
Frank C., 773.
Frank E., 762, 774, 775, 778.
Frank Rogers, 773.
Frank W., 776.
Franklin T., 753.
Frederick, 759, 770.
Frederick H., 753, 771.
Frederick H., Jr., 771.
Frederick Rice (Dr.), 774.
Frederick V., 764.
Frederick Van Iderstine, 768, 777.
Fredine, 748.
Friend Alford, 764.
Gabrielle, 763.
Gail King, 774.
Garret, 708, 719, 735, 753.
Garret C., 733, 751.
Garret P., 733, 751.
Garrett, 734.
Garrett C., 757, 772.
Garvin B., 776.
Geertje, 708.
Geesje, 711.
George, 702, 710, 722, 728, 730, 741, 745,
758, 769, 770, 771, 775, 778.
George (Dr.), 756, 772.
George Albert, 771, 772.
George C., 776.
George E., 768.
George G., 774.
George Gilbert, 753, 771.
George H., 770, 774.
George Leon, 771.
George M., 757, 769.
George Marion, 750, 769.
George R., 735, 753.
George Remer, 771.
George S., 773.
George Sylvester, 752, 770.
George W., 740, 744, 749, 753, 763, 765, 776.
George W., Jr., 765.
George Washington, 732, 750.
Georgiana, 759.
Georgie S., 738.
Waldron, Georgie Story, 739.
Geresolveert, 355, 357, 358, 359.
Gerrit, 701, 708, 719, 737, 782.
Gertrude, 703, 714, 718, 720, 722, 728, 746,
753.
Getty B. (Gertrude), 734.
Gilbert Travis, 766.
Gisebert, 719, 734.
Gladys Katherine, 778.
Grace, 772.
Grace A., 767.
Grace E., 767, 770, 771.
Grove Bend, 716.
Guy, 759, 769.
Guy E., 776.
Halsey, 751, 769.
Halsey J., 769.
Hannah, 708, 712, 716, 722, 723, 724 726,
732, 733.
Hannah (Annatie), 720.
Hannah Jane, 762.
Hannah M. P., 746.
Hannah Marie Phenix, 727.
Harmen M., 727.
Harmon, 735, 755.
Harmon Knickerbocker, 738, 758.
Harold, 771.
Harriet, 755, 756.
Harriet A., 755.
Harriet Augusta, 747.
Harriet E., 736, 753.
Harriet L., 774.
Harriet Lansing, 750.
Harriet W., 742.
Harrison, 723, 724, 742.
Harrison Johnson, 751.
Harry P., 771.
Harvey, 754, 768, 772.
Hattie Dale, 764.
Hazel, 776.
Helen, 766, 775, 777.
Helen A., 755.
Helen M., 754.
Helen Margaret, 778.
Helen W., 773.
Helena, 709, 751.
Hendrick, 695, 701, 708, 719.
Hendrick (Capt.), 708.
Hendrick E., 729.
Henrietta, 769.
Henrietta (Hendrichye), 720.
Henrietta Beatie, 750.
Henrikus, 710.
Henry, 720, 723, 734, 736, 737, 742, 751, 752,
755, 757, 776.
Henry (Hudson), 736, 756.
Henry A., 763, 776.
Henry Adams (Dr.), 757.
Henry C., 737, 749.
Henry D., 729.
Henry E., 737, 748, 750, 769.
Henry G., 719, 734, 753.
Henry J., 757, 773.
Henry Oscar, 753, 771.
Henry Percival, 766.
Henry Stanton, 773, 778.
Hepzibah, 693.
Herbert M., 765.
Herman, 748.
Hester, 702, 718, 757.
Hicks B., 758, 774, 778.
Hieronimus, 712.
Hieronimus (Jerome), 703.
isildah, 730.
Hinton S., 766.
Hiram, 722, 730, 740.
Hiram Sprague, 759.
Hosanna, 722, 740.
Howard, 755.
INDEX.
903
Waldron, Howard, Baldy, 757, 774.
Howard V. D., 765.
Icabod, 739.
Ida, 745, 760, 765, 773.
Ida B., 753.
Ida E., 761.
Ida L., 768.
Ida M., 756, 770.
Ina Almira, 767.
Ira, 745.
Isaac, 696, 702, 709, 710, 718, 723, 730, 736,
741, 743, 755, 760, 762.
Isaac D., 746.
Isaac Ferris, 750, 768.
Isaac Henry, 755.
Isabel, 744.
Isabella, 766.
Isaphena, 763.
Jackson, 742, 761.
Jacob, 702, 703, 710, 711, 723, 754, 756.
Jacob J., 724, 742.
Jacob John, 747.
Jacob N., 741.
Jacob V., 751, 769.
Jacob Van Aernam, 737.
Jacobus, 692, 702, 704, 706, 707, 709, 710,
718.
Jacobus (James), 709, 721, 733.
Jacobus Swarthout, 716.
James, 717, 718, 720, 721, 722, 724, 728, 730,
731, 732, 737, 739, 740, 742, 744, 745, 748,
749, 752, 754, 767.
James (Jacobus), 707, 718.
James A., 746, 752, 762, 765, 770, 776.
James H., 739, 740, 761.
James Harrison, 761.
James Harrison (Harry), 741.
James Henry, 750.
James Jacob, 746.
James L., 751, 769.
James Lawrence, 749, 768.
James Lawrence, Jr., 768, 777.
James R., 727, 746, 776.
James S., 762 775.
Jane, 692, 714, 725, 726, 729, 733, 734, 739,
743, 744, 745, 754.
Jane Ann, 734.
Jane B., 759.
Jane M., 749.
Jane Maria, 734.
Jane V., 753.
Jannetee, 709.
Jannetie, 692, 696.
Jannetje, 709, 713.
Jannettie, 718.
Jannettie(Jane), 720.
Jeannettie, 719.
Jemima, 744.
Jemina, 738.
Jennie E., 771, 776.
Jenny (Jane), 720.
Jeremiah, 712, 725, 730, 750, 768.
Jerome, 712, 725, 726, 745, 765.
Jerome( Jeremiah), 717.
Jesse, 734.
Jesse C., 753, 771.
Jessie, 772.
Jessie G., 765.
Jessie Rosaline. 763.
Joel Harvey, 778.
Joel Harvey (Dr.), 772.
Johanna, 701.
Johannes, 406, 449, 497, 500, 547, 550, 562,
594, 600, 601, 602, 623, 692, 693, 694, 695,
696, 697, 698, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 708,
709, 710, 713, 714, 721, 722, 793, 797, 810,
816, 817, 821, 822, 826, 829.
Johannes B., 497.
Waldron, Johannes, Jr., 431.
John, 485, 692, 693, 702, 704, 705, 707, 710,
711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 717, 720, 721, 722,
723, 724, 725, 726, 731, 736, 737, 739, 740,
741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 748, 752, 755, 756,
758, 760, 762, 765, 772, 776, 824, 827, 828,
829, 830.
John (Captain), 609, 695.
John (Johannes), 703, 708, 713.
John A., 755, 758, 767.
John A. Lincoln, 763.
John B., 732, 736, 753, 756.
John Brinkerhoff, 716, 729, 747.
John Brown, 777.
John C., 732, 747, 750, 764, 767, 776.
John Clark, 753.
John D., 728, 735, 747, 754, 766, 777.
John Evertson, 736.
John J., 769.
John, Jr., 695.
John L., 744, 763.
John M., 741, 760, 778.
John 0., 740.
John Obadiah, 703. 712. 726.
John P., 321, 702, 706, 716, 739, 760, 800.
John P., Jr., 716, 729.
John R., 770.
John S., 706, 773.
John Thomas, 746.
John V. A., 773, 774.
John Van Aernam, 437, 757.
John Vredenburgh, 715.
John W., 773.
John Wesley, 761.
Jonas K., 748.
Joseph, 94, 692, 708, 710, 711, 714, 721, 722,
724, 725, 739, 741, 755, 759, 761, 787.
Joseph G., 765.
Joseph Hunt, 738, 759.
Joseph Wildey, 743, 762.
Josephine (Mary J.), 741.
Josiah D., 754.
Josie, 748.
Judah, 754.
Judith, 692, 733.
Julia, 723, 738, 745, 747.
Julia Frances, 762.
Julia R., 768.
Julian, 731.
Kate, 776.
Kate C., 775.
Katy, 736.
Kitty May, 774.
Lambert S., 767.
La Mont Raymond, 778.
La Monte Raymond, 770.
Lamont K., 767, 777.
La Perceil Joan, 777.
Laura, 742, 746, 760.
Laura H., 764.
Lavern F., 777.
Lavinia, 731.
Lawrence, 778.
Leah, 727, 751.
Leffert, 693.
Le Grand C., 758, 774.
Lemuel, 743, 759, 762.
Lena, 737.
Leonard A., 759.
Leonard F., 740, 759.
Leota Elfonza, 764.
Letta, 716.
Levonica, 732.
Lewis, 775.
Lewis E., 745, 748.
Lewis M., 748, 767.
Lewis P., 775.
Lewis V., 769.
Libbie, 776.
Lillian Elizabeth, 777.
9o4
INDEX.
Waldron, Lillian L., 771.
Lillian P., 774.
Lilly A., 771.
Linus, 720.
Loduska, 762.
Lois, 758, 759, 775.
Lois L. 749.
Lottie (Charlotte), 742.
Louis K., 763.
Louis Thibon, 729.
Louis Victor, 766.
Louisa, 724, 774, 777, 778.
Louise, 440.
Louizine, 729.
Lucile Alberta, 778.
Lucinda, 740, 743.
Lucy E., 752.
Lucy M., 760.
Luke, 739.
Lulu, 760.
Luther A., 754, 771.
Lydia, 703, 731.
Lydia L., 750.
Maas (Moses), 720.
Mabel, 778.
Mabel B., 749.
Mabel S., 769.
Machtelt, 718.
Madison, 742.
Maggie, 760, 776.
Maggie E., 765.
Maggie Warner, 766.
Marjorie, 776.
Malinda, 720.
Malon L., 740.
Mamie A., 760.
Marcella, 770.
Marcella P., 753.
Maretje (Maria), 709.
Margaret, 601, 697, 698, 705, 706, 707, 712,
713, 715, 718, 723, 724, 725, 727, 731, 733,
734, 735, 737, 738, 739, 740, 744, 743, 751,
753, 755, 767, 773, 775.
Margaret Ann, 729, 735.
Margaret E. L., 743.
Margaret Elizabeth, 767.
Margaret Elliott, 778.
Margaret J., 736.
Margaret Jane, 738.
Margaret Knapp, 741.
Margrietie, 702.
Margrietje, 709, 710.
Margrietye, 721.
Marguerite, 761.
Maria, 692, 701, 704, 709, 710, 712, 713, 714,
715, 720, 722, 724, 728, 729, 730, 732, 733.
Maria (Mary), 713.
Maria B., 764.
Maria E., 745.
Maria Gertrude, 734.
Maria L.. 762.
Mariah, 735.
Mariah (Polly), 734.
Marian, 767.
Marian L., 770.
Marietta, 738.
Marinda, 739.
Marinda Ann, 726.
Maritie, 732.
Marritje. 710.
Martha, 703, 711, 724, 740, 742, 755, 759,
771.
Martha A., 746, 749, 767.
Martha Emma, 763.
Martha F., 767.
Martha J., 759.
Martha Jane, 750.
Martin, 707, 741, 748, 760, 767.
Waldron, Martin (Rev.), 734, 752.
Mary, 609, 692, 717, 721 723, 725, 726, 731,
739, 740, 742, 743, 745, 748, 754, 755, 757,
758, 774.
Mary (Maria), 704, 706, 713.
Mary (Polly), 712.
Mary A., 755.
Mary Ann, 734, 750.
Mary B., 746.
Mary Catherine, 741.
Mary E., 731, 737, 752, 755, 756, 769, 773.
Mary Eliza, 729.
Mary Ellen, 740, 745.
Mary Emily, 762.
Mary Emma, 761.
Mary Etta, 754.
Mary Frances, 748, 757.
Mary J., 769.
Mary Jane, 749, 750, 755, 758.
Mary Louisa, 766.
Mary Sedallia, 722.
Mary V., 746.
Marytie, 711.
Matilda, 724, 730, 742.
Matilda A., 729.
Matilda L., 747.
Matthew, 723, 741, 742, 760, 761.
Mattie, 776.
Mattie M., 765.
Maud Elsey, 760.
Maud L., 749.
Maude E., 768.
May, 759.
May E., 767.
Melvin H., 777.
Mereca (Maria), 716.
Michael, 724.
Minerva C., 770.
Minnie, 742.
Minnie Louise, 766.
Minnie M., 764.
Minnie May, '61.
Moriah, 727.
Mortimer, 755.
Moses, 720.
Mrs. 317.
Myrtie, 760.
Nancy, 712, 723, 743, 744, 745.
Nancy (Anna), 720.
Nancy J., 740.
Nancy Jane, 755.
Nathan, 740.
Neeltie, 707.
Neeltje, 703.
Nellie A., 769.
Nellie M., 773.
Nelly, 713.
Nelly Bicker (Elinor), 715.
Nicholas, 702, 710, 722.
Noble B., 769.
Nora, 760.
Norris W., 768, 777.
Olive Lavinia, 771.
Olive Louise, 761.
Oliver, 711, 722, 758.
Oliver, Jr., 722, 740.
Ophelia, 722.
Orlando K., 764.
Orrin, 753.
Orrin W., 754, 771.
Parry A., 771.
Pearl Martha, 777.
Peggy, 721.
Percy C., 768.
Peter, 431, 485, 567, 579, 607, 695, 696, 697,
699, 700, 701, 702, 705, 708, 709, 711, 714,
715, 716, 719, 721, 728, 730, 732, 733, 734,
736, 737, 748, 750, 752, 756, 796, 800, 804,
813, 822.
Peter J., 748.
INDEX.
905
Waldron, Peter P., 770, 778.
Peter V., 745.
Peter Winne, 736, 756.
Petrus, 230, 439, 482, 602, 709.
Phebe, 723.
Philander, 760.
Phileta A., 745.
Philetus, 752.
Philetus A., 745.
Philetus F., 755, 772.
Philip, 710, 718, 722.
Phoebe, 727.
Phylis Read, 774.
Pieter, 707, 708, 718.
Pieter C., 719, 736.
Polly, 743, 762.
Rachael, 692.
Rachel, 709, 711, 724, 772.
Rachel Ann, 729.
Rachel Catherina, 731.
Rachel M., 727.
Rachel Maria, 730.
Ralph, 771.
Ralph Irving, 772.
Ralph 0., 776.
Ray, 772.
Raymond, 772.
Rebecca, 268, 546, 612, 613, 694, 695, 701,
705, 709, 710, 722, 726, 730.
Resalvert, 279, 290, 337, 349, 412.
Resolved, 94, 95, 211, 216, 221, 239, 240,
242, 244, 252, 256, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267,
269, 271, 272, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288,
289, 297, 301, 303, 306, 307, 308, 312, 313,
320, 323, 328, 332, 334, 337, 338, 342, 360,
366, 371, 372, 373, 377, 379, 380, 387, 388,
389, 393, 394, 401, 403, 406, 407, 413, 414,
415, 431, 546, 548, 599, 602, 622, 642, 691,
693, 694, 695, 697, 698, 699, 701, 702, 703,
711, 793, 795, 796, 797, 798, 800, 803, 808.
Resolvert, 713, 724.
Resolvert (Capt.), 727.
Resolvert E., 711, 723.
Reuben O., 764.
Rhoda Ann, 755.
Richard, 692, 717, 726, 730, 744, 748, 749,
764, 767, 768, 776.
Richard (Ryckert), 719.
Richard Van Vranken, 737.
Richard Varick, 739, 759.
Robert, 708, 723, 755, 758.
Robert H., 731.
Ronald, 776.
Rosamond, 775.
Rose E., 768.
Roxey Ann, 755.
Roy S. F., 749.
Rutger, 692.
Ruth, 316, 695, 740, 761, 768.
Ruth F. S., 775.
Salletta, 749.
Sally Ann, 754.
Sally Maria, 751.
Samantha J., 763.
Samuel, 64, 406, 408, 430, 484, 495, 500,
561, 592, 594, 602, 607, 623, 692, 694, 695,
697, 698, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 706,
707, 708, 712, 713, 714, 716, 717, 718, 720,
725, 727, 729, 730, 739, 743, 744, 745, 760,
763, 793, 798, 799, 801, 804, 808, 810, 811,
814, 816, 817, 821, 822, 826, 827, 828, 829,
830.
Samuel Benson, 711, 723.
Samuel C., 753.
Samuel J., 745, 762.
Samuel James, 728, 746.
Samuel L., 746, 765.
Samuel 0., 763.
Samuel Oliver, 725, 744.
Samuel R., 766.
Waldron, Samuel R. (Rev.), 747.
Samuel Resolved, 714, 728.
Samuel S., 727, 744, 745, 764.
Samuel Van Ness, 712, 725.
Sara, 728, 733.
Sarah, 692, 715, 721, 722, 724, 725, 726, 728,
729, 730, 731, 736, 742, 745, 747, 752, 770.
Sarah (Sally), 723.
Sarah A., 726, 732, 744, 752, 755.
Sarah Agnes, 746.
Sarah Alidah, 754.
Sarah Cornelia, 762.
Sarah E., 742, 743.
Sarah Eliza, 767.
Sarah Esther, 765.
Sarah H., 748.
Sarah Hunting, 715.
Sarah J., 739, 740, 750.
Sarah Jane, 732.
Sarah M., 741.
Sarah Samantha, 740.
Sarah Van Norden, 747.
Sauannah, 762.
Sidney T., 750, 768.
Silas, 720.
Silas Butler, 746.
Silas S., 759.
Simeon D.,743, 762.
Smith, 752.
Solomon, 719, 722.
Sophia, 742, 754, 776.
Stella E., 765.
Stephen, 701, 708, 722, 737, 740, 757.
Stephen Brinkerhoff, 716, 729.
Stephen D., 725.
Stephen Pearl Keyes, 757, 773.
Stuart P., 772.
Sue, 774.
Susan, 716, 722, 723, 734, 737, 744, 752, 755,
761.
Susan L., 760.
Susan 0., 764.
Susanna, 707, 709, 710, 718, 763.
Susannah, 607, 716, 725.
Salvanius, 759.
Sylvester, 708.
Sylvia, 760.
Tanneke, 430, 696, 700, 704, 712.
Tessie, 777.
Theodore, 742, 747, 758, 775.
Theodore C., 764.
Theodore Van Norden, 747.
Thomas, 710, 715, 717, 722, 727, 731, 740,
741, 745, 760, 761.
Thomas (Dr.), 722.
Thomas Howland, 746, 765.
Tilley, 761.
Tillie, 757.
Tobias, 724, 743.
Tobias T. E., 732, 750.
Traverse, 752.
Truman, 748.
Truman B., 769.
Tryntje (Catharine), 707, 708, 718.
Tunis, 703, 720, 728, 739, 758.
Tunis A., 714, 728.
Ulysses S. G., 764.
Uriah, 740.
Valentine Pickney, 764.
Vernon, 764, 776.
Victor B., 766.
Victor Bicker, 715, 729.
Victor Salinas Hopkins, 747, 766.
W. Archbold, 774.
Walter, 772, 776.
Walter J., 768.
Walter L., 754.
Walter S., 731, 746, 765.
Warren H., 749, 768.
Warren W., 777.
906
INDEX.
Waldron, Washington, 724, 741.
Wayland, 752.
Wesley D., 767.
Widow, 797.
Wilbur, 766, 777.
Wilfred, 767.
Wilhelmus, 714.
Willard A., 759.
Willard Earl, 739, 759.
Willem (William), 708, 716, 718, 720, 729,
732.
William, 272, 333, 363, 403, 435, 605, 614,
694, 695, 699, 00, 701, 703, 704, 705, 706,
707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714,
716, 717, 720, 721, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728,
730, 734, 737, 738, 740, 742, 743, 744, 745,
748, 752, 753, 756, 757, 758, 760, 770, 771,
774, 775, 778, 808.
William A., 754, 767, 773.
William Alexander, 743.
William Augustus, 757, 774.
William B., 747, 768, 769, 777.
William B. F., 745.
William Clenton, 777.
William Curtin, 764.
William Curtis, 761.
William F., 746.
William Francis, 770.
William G., 719, 735, 754.
William Gunsaul, 774.
William H., 735, 740, 741, 755, 765, 773.
William Henry, 748, 757.
William I., 753.
William J., 715, 748, 767, 790.
William John, 747, 766.
William M., 756.
William 0., 762, 775.
William P., 729.
William Richard, 730, 748.
William S., 744, 764, 776.
William V., 745.
William W., 720, 738.
Williette, 758.
Wilmarth, 731.
Wina E., 764.
Winant 737.
Winfield C., 763.
Winnie B., 769.
Wynand, 719.
Wynant, 734.
Wynant G., 734, 753.
Wynant Vandenburgh, 735, 754.
Wyntie, 696.
Zachariah, 774.
Zachariah Keyes, 757.
Zachary, 774.
Zaremba W. (Dr.), 758, 774.
Zebidee, 730, 749.
Walker, Elizabeth Ludlow, 465.
Elizabeth W., 689.
Fred William, 464.
John, 428.
Lewis, 540.
Samuel G., 689.
Sarah, 175.
William T. Davis, 689.
Wallace, Elizabeth, 662.
Walsh, St. Blouton C., 443.
Walter, Hans, 303.
Walters, Catherine E., 667.
Maria, 204.
Robert, 593.
Walton, Jacob, 162.
Wandell, Thomas, 385.
Wannemaker, Dirck, 451.
Wantenaer, Albert Corn, 128.
Ward, 539.
Elizabeth, 534.
Henry, 628.
James, 651.
Ward, John, 295.
Josephine, 653.
Robert C. A., 610.
Ware, Josephine, 662.
Warfoot, Job, 498.
Warne, Clarkson, 745.
Warner, Elizabeth, 568.
George, 490.
Maria, 656.
Matthias, 468.
May Conger, 690.
Warren, James, 525.
W., 763.
Washburn, Margaret, 735.
Washington, 789, 790.
Wassenaer, 118.
Wassy, Mamie, 445.
Water, Caroline Anna, 446.
Waterman, Jeremiah, 737.
Waters, Sarah, 481.
Watkins, Charles, 819.
John, 550, 582, 818, 819, 826.
Samuel (Dr.), 814, 819, 826.
Watson, Catherine, 380.
John, 380.
Mary, 536.
Sarah, 380, 733.
Wattles, Adelia, 514.
Way, James, 205.
Sarah, 205.
Wear, 827.
George, 827.
Weatherby, 736.
Nancy, 516.
Weaver, Deborah Weaver, 737.
Webber, Elizabeth, 513.
Weber, Hans, 259.
Webley, Walter, 357, 385.
Webster, James, 720.
Weckman, Philip, 269.
Weed, Effie, 484.
Weeden, Lyman F., 444.
Weeks, Jacob, 514.
Richard, 650.
William, 728.
Weekstein, John (Rev.), 321.
Weezer, Elizabeth, 712.
Weiantt, George, 711.
Weideman, Anna T., 668.
Weir, Thomas A., 660.
Weis, Francis S., 773.
Weiss, N. (Rev.), 13.
Weldon, Catherine, 487.
Mary, 787.
Weller, Amos R., 517.
Wells, Philip, 395.
Wemple, Abraham, 168.
Wentworth, Joseph, 657.
Mary, 657.
Wermer, Susanna, 719.
Werric, 31.
Wescoat, Martha, 722.
Wessells, Charles H., 471.
Wessels, 222.
Anna, 436.
Derick, 642.
Dirck, 237.
Francis, 452.
Hartman (Dr.), 436.
Metje, 288.
Warner, 155, 288.
Wessel, 458.
West, Alice, 735.
Ann, 735.
John, 382.
Louisa, 745.
Richard, 733.
West India Company, 82, 83, 86, 89, 92, 93,
100, 105, 117, 119, 123, 129, 132, 133, 150,
155, 162, 189, 203, 209, 235, 291, 545, 598.
INDEX.
907
Westbrook, Dominie, 122.
Westcott, Samuel, 739.
Westerhout, Adrianus, 390.
Westervelt, Albert, 449.
Effie, 454, 460, 466.
Henry, 686.
Hester. 618.
Hetty (Hester), 460.
Jannetie, 616.
John, 350.
Lavinia, 466, 471.
Peter, 350.
Peter B., 619.
Sarah, 682.
Simeon, 467.
Tinie, 461.
Tinie (Catharine), 455.
Weart, 455.
William H., 467.
Westervelt (Banta), Sarah (Mrs.), 609.
Westfall, Nicholas, 785.
Westgate, Robert, 714.
Westin, Martina, 221.
Wetzel, 760.
Weymer, Hannah A. (Mrs.), 572.
Wharm, Georgiana, 445.
Wheeler, Alice S., 470.
Angelica, 529.
Menitable, 784.
Wherts, George, 644.
Whetten (Wheaton), Sarah, 479.
Whetton, Susan Matilda, 553.
Whipple. Martha, 657.
Whitbeck, James, 730.
John F., 701.
White, 757.
Anthony L., 806.
Catharine, 787.
Duncan M., 473.
E., 444.
James H., 744.
John, 398.
Lavina, 667.
Mary, 660.
Whitehead, Sarah, o11.
Surviah,782.
Whitenach, Joseph, 727.
Whiting, Edwin M., 763.
Whitney, Abigail, 649.
Alice, 668.
Benjamin (Colonel), 443.
Colonel Benjamin, 443.
Elhannan W., 462.
Whittaker, Jan, 503.
Jennettje, 503.
Wickes, Daniel, 650.
Wickfield, Johanna, 799.
Wiicox, Celinda, 520.
Sarah E., 660.
Wilds Frances, 584.
Wiley, Mary Jane, 657.
Wilken, Sarah Bull, 472.
Wilkie, Joseph, 738.
Wilkins, Gouverneur M., 568.
Margaret, 640.
Willeey, James, 646.
Willekens, Jacob (Admiral), 84, 85.
Willem, 126, 131, 134.
Mr., 203.
Willems, Aeltie, 155.
Reynier, 337, 372.
Willemsen, Reynier, 166, 288.
Rutger, 692.
Wouter, 681.
Willett, Frances, 807.
Justice, 382.
Martha, 807.
Richard, 378, 807, 811, 821.
Thomas, 382.
Willey, Anthony Cyrus, 666.
Williams, 353, 773.
Archey, 702.
Charity, 486.
Charles, 468.
Clara, 570.
Elam, 459.
Eliphalet, 238, 609.
Elizabeth, 428, 453.
Frederick, 692.
Georgie, 664.
Hattie, 766.
Lewis, 500.
Lydia, 204.
Maria, 715.
Mary, 557.
Phynetta, 489.
Samuel, 697.
Sarah, 714.
Thomas, 715.
William, 702.
Williamson, William H., 535.
Willsey, Grands T., 627.
Wilmorth, Rachel, 718.
Wilsey, Abigail, 788.
Wilson, George, 744.
Hannah Maria, 687.
Jane, 738.
John, 506.
Mally (Margaret), 487.
Samuel, 367.
Wiltsee, Hendrick, 375.
Winans, Isadora, 531.
Winckel, Marritie Van, 197.
Winegar, Catherine, 497.
Philip, 508.
Winne, Annie, 751.
Caty, 719.
Elizabeth, 720.
Maria, 734.
Sarah, 544.
Winslow, 80.
Winter, William, 559.
Winthrop, 340.
Francis Bayard, 808.
Wisner, William, 727.
Wiswell, Sarah, 758.
Witbeck, Maria, 742.
Wodhull, Ann, 379.
Wolferts, Brieta, 293.
Wolley, 381, 806.
Charles, 805.
Charles (Rev.), 363, 364.
Robert, 364, 805.
Wolters, Kier, 93, 95, 249, 256, 263, 265, 277,
561, 696, 793.
Wood, Alice, 631.
David, 237, 803.
J-.za, 669.
James, 575.
Mary Elizabeth, 440.
Pheby, 706.
Sarah, 716.
William G. (M. D.), 803.
Woodford, Clara, 663.
Clarence, 770.
Woodhull, Ann, 635.
Woodruff, Isaac, 734.
Samuel, 784.
Woods, George W., 720.
Woodward, Anna, 692.
Eliza Ann, 517.
Mrs., 596.
Robert K., 660.
Wool, Ellis, 486.
Woolman, Louis, 726.
Wordsworth, Ella, 620.
Worsey, Thomas James, 640.
Worth, Alexander, 657.
Worthington, Ellis, 528.
Wortman, Kneertie, 782.
908
INDEX.
Wright, Charles, 570.
Isaac, 731.
John, 789.
Lewis, 651.
Writer, Casper, 567.
Sarah, 569, 571.
Wurmel, Isaac, 105.
Wyckoff, Dennis, 587.
George, 727.
Pieter Claessen, 125.
Wyman, Simon, 627.
Wynkoop, Christina, 496.
Cornelius, 785.
Johannes, 698.
Wyp, Claes,. 806.
Elizabeth, 806.
Y
Yansen, Cornelies, 290.
Yates, Abraham 788.
Ann, 788.
Charity, 787, 788.
Jesse, 788.
John, 788.
John G., 701.
Joseph, 788.
Mary, 788.
Peter, 720.
Sarah, 788.
Yeumans, Bertha, 664.
Yeury, Stephen, 459.
Youmans, Mary, 723.
Young, Cathrina, 597.
Elizabeth, 783.
George (Capt.), 720.
Harriet, 468.
Jacob, 340, 365, 373, 376, 381, 805, 806, 807.
James S., 723.
John, 714.
John J., 723.
Rachel, 587.
Samuel, 502.
Ysselsteyn (Esselsteyn), Gertrude, 495.
Martin, Cornelisz, 495.
Z
Zabriskie, Christina, 705.
Jacob C., 480.
Jane, 686.
Lea Aletta, 660.
Zeeuw, Cornelis Jansen, 205.
Zenger, Peter, 595.
Zyperus, Cornelius, 206.
Dominie, 178, 179, 190, 191, 192, 206, 211,
296, 439, 796, 799, 803.
Hillegond, 206.
Michel, 183, 186, 190.
Michiel, 177.
Mrs., 206.
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