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INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
Anniversary Address before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Febmary 27, 1880, by Genl. James Grant Wilson, loi.
Baptisms in the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, 29.
" in the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York, 34, 137.
** in St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., 47, 88, 133. Bergen, Hon. Teunis G. Contributions to the History of the Early Settlers of Kings
Co., N. Y., 62, 159. Biography of Robert Feake, by John T. Latting, 13.
*• of Henry Feake, bjr John J. letting, 7a
** of Commodore Hull, by James Grant Wilson, loi.
" Homer Crane Blake, 147.
'* Solomon Townsend, 148.
** Rev. John Moore, by Charles B. Moore, 5, 93.
** Capt. John Seaman, by Charles B. Moore, 149. . Births ahd Baptisms in the Records of the First and ^cond Presbyterian Churches in
New York City, 29, 8j. Birth Records of Rahway andPlainfield, N. J., Friends* Monthly Meetings, 42. Blake, Capt. Homer C. Biography of, 147. Brookhaven, L. I., Wills, Abstract of, by Joseph H. Petty, 24.
Ddafield, M. L., Notice of Smith Family, 98.
Feake Family, Genealogical Fragments relating to, by ][ohn J. Latting, 12, 7a
" Robert, Biographical Sketch of^ by John J. Latting, 13.
*' Henry, BiographiGed Sketch of, by John J. Latting, 70. Frost, William, Notice of Family of, by John J. Latting, 169.
Genealogies, Notices of, 52, 99, 100, 16^9, 182.
Genealogy of the Adams Familv, Notice of, 181 ; Bartow Family, Notice of, 100 ; Briggs Family, Notice of, 98 ; CoghiU Family, Notice of, 52 ; Durye Family, Geoiealogy of, 62 ; Farwell Family, Notice of, 99 ; Hastings Family, Notice of, 181 ; Loomis Family, Notice of, 146 ; Mowry Family, Notice of, 99 ; Russell Family, Notice of, 100; Seymour Family, Genealogy of^ 116; Smith-Hett Family, Notes on, 145 ; Terhune Family, Genealogy of, 169 ; Williams Family, Notice of, 100.
Genealogical Fragments, by J. J. Latting, 12, 70, 169.
Hempstead, Annals of, 1632-1832, by Henry Onderdonk, Notice of, 181.
Hicks, Benjamin D. Esq., Records of St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., 47, 88,
133- Hull, Commodore, and the Constitution, by Genl James Grant Wilson, loi.
Jay, Elizabeth Clarkson, Pedigree of the Jay and Livingston Family, 114.
** *• Pedigree of the Clarkson and Rutherfurd Family, 156.
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Latting, John J., Genealogical Fragments of the Feake Family, 12, 70. " " Memorial Sketch of Joel Munsell, Printer, 53.
** " Notice of the Frost Family, 169.
Marriages in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches of New York City, 83, 120.
" in the Reformed Dutch Church of the City of New York, 75, 125, 172. Moore, Charles B., Sketch of the Life of Rev. John Moore, 5, 93.
** *• Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of Capt. John Seaman, 149.
** Rev. John, Sketch of the life of, by Charles B. Moore, 5, 93. Munsell, Joel^ Memorial Sketch of, by John J. Latting, 63.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Anniversary Address before, by Genl. James Grant Wilson, loi.
Notes on Books. — Report of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia for 1878 and 1879, 52 ; Rer)ort and Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for 1878, Vol.- 1., 52; The Family of Coghill, 1377 to 1879, ^*^^ some Sketches of their Maternal Ancestors, the Slingsby*sof Scriven Hall, by James Henry Cog- hili, 52 ; The Archives of the Briggs Family, 98 ; Descendants of Nathaniel and Richard Mowry. 99; Farwell Ancestral Memorial, 99; The Williams Family, 100 ; The Bartow Family, 99 ; The Descendants of John Rus?ell, 100 ; The His- tory of Redding, Conn.; 100; Administration of John De Witt, 146; Descend- ants of Joseph Loomis, by Elias Loomb, LL.D., 146; Lady Deborah Moody, 147 ; Annals of Hempstead, 1643, 1832, 181 ; History of the Adams and Hastings Family, 182; Copy of the Poll Lists of 1761-1768, and 1769, 3 vols., 181.
Notes and Queries. — Renaudet, 51 ; Schuyler, 51 ; Van Alstyn, 51 ; Kidd, 51 ; Sey- mour, 51; Shrieve, 51; Noble, 52; History of Harlem, 52; Van Horn, 52; Biography of Commodore Hull, 145 ; Munsell, 145 ; Smith, Hett, 145 ; Emer- son, 180 ; Drowne, 180 ; Mott Family, of L. I., 180 ; Street, 181 \ Van Brug, 181 ; West, i8i.
Pedigree of the Jay and Livingston Families, by Elizabeth Clarkson Jay, 1 14.
" of the Clarkson and Rulherfurd Families, by Elizabeth Clarkscn Jay, 156. Petty, Joseph H., Abstracts of Brookhavcn, L. I., Wills, 24.
Records of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, 29.
" of Rahway and Plainfield, N. J., Monthly Meetings of Friends, 43. ** of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York, 34, 75, 125, 137, 172. ** of Baptisms in St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. L, by Benjamin D. Hicks, Esq., 47, 88, 133.
Seaman, Capt. John, Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of, 149. Smith Family, Joshua Hett, Joshua Hett Smith, by M. L. Delafield, 98.
Talcott, Mary K., Genealogy of the Seymour Family, 116. Townsend, Solomon, Biographical Sketch of, 148.
Wilson, James Grant^ Anniversary Address before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, February 27, 1880, xoi.
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SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF REV. JOHN MOORE, OF NEWTOWN.
6t Charlss B. Moorb, Esq.
One of the early settlers of L. I., known as John Moore, of Newtown, made his first appearance that can be traced, pn Long Island, in April, 1 64 1, and he died in September, 1657. Between 1644 and 1649, as near as the date can be estimated, he married Margaret Howell, who, it has been fairly conjectured, was the daughter of Edward Howell, then of Southampton, L. I. ; but we have seen no exact proof of it.
Edward Howell, the first American of his name, b. about 1600, was a native of Marsh Gibbon, in the County of Buckingham, England, on the borders of Oxfordshire, within five miles of Bicester, where he sold land called the manor of Wesbury, in 1639, long possessed by his ancestors, but used as fighting ground in 1645. ^is father, as believed, was Henry ; his wife was named Eleanor (or Ellinor). She survived him, and was adminis- tratrix of his estate, October 6, 1655. She may not have been his first wife. He was at Lynn, Mass", on loth March, N. S., 1640, and perhaps earlier, having land there, and admitted a freeman of Mass** Colony, 14*** March, * 1639/40. He became the 2** owner of a water inill at Lynn (which he sold to John Elderkin). (Lewis's Lynn, 82). He associated with several oth- ers, who came from the same English county.
There were other Howell's in Massachusetts, and one mar. Mary, dau. of William More, of Ipswich, before 1660.
Margaret Howell, the wife of John Moore, of Newtown, survived him, and married (2**) Francis Doughty, the son of the first minister of New- town, L. I., the Rev^' Francis Doughty. She and her 2** husband will presently be further traced.
John Moore and Margaret (Howell) had issue :
II. I. Samuel, b. about 1645/51, but date uncertain; and it is
also uncertain whether he was the eldest son. " 2. John ; not well traced. " 3. Gershom.
" 4. Joseph ; prob. youngest ; baptised after his father's decease. " S. Elizabeth, who mar. Content Titus. I
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The traces of this John Moore from the public records and publica- tions have to be placed in order of date, and the surrounding circumstan- ces noted, to secure the fullest view we can of him. It appears he was in this counUy before the Rebellion broke out in Ireland, and he may have come from Northampton C% or from Norfolk or Suflfolk, or Oxford C*. We have to estimate his age, and suppose him bom about 1620-25.
At a town meeting in Southampton, L. I., oa the 6*** of April, 1641, four orders were made by the crudely organized democracy (or manor court) of that new settlement^ which have been preserved, in **tbe first book of records" as printed in 1874, pp. 22 and 23. Their theme was, caution as to Indians.
The first order was : " Yt is Ordered that noe man shall giue or lende ''unto any Indian or Indians eyther gunnes, pistoUs or any other Instrur "ments of Warre, viz., powder, shott. Bullets, matches, swords, or any other " engine of warre whatsoeuer ; Upon payne of the forfeiture of his whole '' personal estate found within the hmits of Southamplon, and also to be *' liable to the Censure of the Court for what corporsdl punishment they "shall thinke meet to inflict upon such like offenders."
The 2^ order of same date was : " Yt is ordered that any person whatso- " ever hath any Lott or Lotts uix)n Shinecock playne in the which there are ** any Indian Barnes or weDs lying open, whereby cattle have or may take ** hurte or harme, the owners or overseers of such Lotts shall fill up all '^ such Barnes and welles by the tenth day of this month, upon payne of <* payeing all such damage as arise by their neglect, and further to answer ** for theire contempt at the next Court."
The " barnes " in other places have been called " cairns ;" " holes dug "in the earth and lined with bark*' or stones, "for the purpose of keeping ** their com during winter," or other articles at convenience. The" land had been sold by the Indian chiefs. It is probable that if any wells or cairns were valuable they might be safely covered over or curbed instead of being filled. But it was designed to prevent any Indian from again re- sorting there to use them. They were much like a modem rifle-pic.
The 3<* order, believed to be of the same date, was : " It is ordered *' that there shall be three planteing lotts layed out, abutting upon the " Little Common appertayneing vnto each of the forty eight Acres, viz : . " to Henry Symonds, the first lott, to M'. Abraham Peirson the second "Lott, and to John Moore, the third btt ; y* being further ordered that " the persons above mentioned shall be at the charge of fencing the sayd ** lotts, so much as they shall abutt vpon the little common.^*
The remaining order, supposed of the same date was : " Yt is ordered ^ that M'. Howe is to have Yi\s planteing lott at the end of Allen Breades ^^ planteing lott, and yt is to lye three acres in length,* and soe much in " bredth as will make the lott to containe three score and foiur Acres ;" — (1. ^., 64 acres, being 16 acres larger than others)*
These orders are the earliest and perhaps the most appropriate intro- duction of John Moore to our attention. They were connected with the idea of planting, building, and residing outside of the close village of Southampton, east of it. They will bear explanation and comment. " Planting lots " it seems were the largest lots granted. Originally the plan was to have " house lots " limited to /?»r acres, and *' planting lots " to twelve acres ; the large parcels to be "farms." But asno the latter,
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the name seems to have been dropped, and all the larger plots called ** planting lots."
"The little common" (if the local antiquarian guessed right) was the same as " the little plains," and lay at the south end of the main street of the village of Southampton, being bounded south by the beach, and as he supposes washed away. But it seems the one upon which the three plant- ing lots were to be abutted was another " little common^'* appertaining to parcels of 48 acres before granted — as planting lots — not house or home lots. It may have lost its name, without being swept away by the ocean. It would be lost simply by being fenced in by private owners. We can- not identify it with ** the little plain " that was divided by lottery in 165 1. Thomas Halsey had a parcel of 48 acres, not all laid out or fenced (p. 44). Mr. Jones was to have 48 acres (p. zzY ^Y '^^ taxing law after- ward applied, any land left open for common pasture {i, ^., unfenced) was not taxed, and the eariy orders to fence compelled a man to fence only a small part of his land. In 1641, but little fence could have been made. The "home lots" were soon ordered fenced at each end, so that taken together the fence might enclose one large parcel for a village, and that mi^t be defended. In 1643 it was agreed that " what shall be want- **ingwhen each man hath done his i^roportion" (as ordered) "the re- ** mainder of the sayed fence shall be done upon a common charge, and '' that each man shall make and maintayne his fence." It seems to fol- low that the part of planting lots not ordered to be fenced, became — ^until fenced — a common "appertaining" to the lot, without interfering with a private ownership. A similar course was pursued in other places. It led to disputes. On 26 Oct 1643, the "little common" was mentioned as one upon which some persons had a right to leave their cattle, andnot others, M'. Henry Symonds d\d not remain as an inhabitant, and was admit- ted freeman of Boston in 1643. (Snow, Hist, of Bosl., 124 ; Drake's do., 278, etc) In 1646 " Mr. Symonds " was reported at Southampton as one who had not paid taxes (First book of records, p. 53), and no other ac- count is given of him. It is probable he was a millwright He seems, from being named first, that he had a prior claim or held a higher rank than Rev**. Mr. Pierson. But he was not employed. Mr. Howell built a mill and probably employed William Rogers. Mr. Pierson was from York- shire; graduated at Cambridge in 1632, arrived in New England in 1639, was ordained at Lynn in Nov., 1640, and (as described by Cotton Mather) was •* regularly incorporated," with seven or eight 'piore, " into the church " state before going ; the whole company also entering (with the advice ** of the Governor of Mass. Bay Colony) into a civil combination for " mabtaining government among themselves. Thus was then settled a " church at Southampton," etc. It ought not to escape attention that if die attempt of Archbishop Laud to extend his church rule over this coun- try was objectionable, this smaller attempt of the Mass. clique to extend their church rule over Long Island may have been also objectionable.
The provision for Mr. Howe referred to Daniel Howe, several times chosen to represent Lynn in Mass., who took charge of the vessel, ob- tained by the first band at Lynn (composed of Edward Howell, Allen Bread, and others), and agreed to hold it, upon prescribed terms " for the use of the plantacon "; not to sell it without consent of the major part, and to be ready at Lynn to transport goods three times in the year, th« i", the 4^, and the ^ month, etc (meaning in Mardi^ June, and Octo-
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ber). He was soon elected a ma^strate of Southampton. He did not accord with the church party. It is apparent that he did not approve of the rule by which church members were to assume the whole government.
It appears the . family of this John Moore, or some one for them, claimed afterwards that they were descended from the English family which had its headquarters from 1400 to 1554 at Benenden, Kent Co., England, (where the name was spelt "More"^. Many of the residents of Kent county sustained Wyatf s rebellion agamst Qu. Mary and Philip of Spain, in favor of Elizabeth. Many were banished, or sold their land and re- moved to Ireland. In 1554 John More, of Kent Co., sold his place at Benenden to Watts, and his sons went to Ireland, probably taking land there from Watts. One of them married the widow of a noted participator in Wyatt's rebellion. Afterwards one of that family was favored by Qu. Elizabeth, when in power, and became strong and wealthy. His son became a baron in 1616, and a viscount in 162 1, and his male descendant and heir became a marquis of Drogheda. In Ireland the spelling was changed to " Moore." The baron had several uncles, three brothers and seven sons, and there were many descendants. The arms claimed by the descendants of this John belonged to that house. (Riker's Newtown, p. 327). There is nothing improbable in the claim, and there are some con- firmatory circumstances. But the name was a very common one and diffi- cult to identify. There were branches of the same old family in North- ampton Co. and in Norfolk Co., and it is reported that the Chancellor's family arose from- it (see Life of Sir T. More, by his gr. son), who left some descendants in Oxford Co. and some in Yorkshire.
Some generations afterwards the Mores of England adopted quite ex- tensively the spelling " Moore ;" some families much earlier than others.
Catharine, a dau. of Sir Adam Loftus, an English family in Ireland of 1 7 children, connected by marriage there with the English family of Moore, married Arthur Bostique or Bostock^ and had a dau. Margaret. One sis- ter, Letitia, became the ist wife of Richard Parsons, son of Sir William j another, Ann, married Richard Parsons, son of Sir Lawrence (see Pedi- grees in Irish Peerage books).
Arthur Bostock was too unusual a name to be possessed by many at the same time. One of that name appeared early at Southampton. By report he came from Cheshire, England, which was near Ireland. On 29 May, 1643, two /acres of land "upon the plain" were ordered for Arthur Bostock to lye "against Robert Bond's west and against M'. Gosme.r*s *; eight acre lott north."
Upon the division of the town (when it had 44 male inhabitants) into wards of eleven persons, bound to furnish two men from each ward to watch. for and assist in securing any whales driven on shore, &c., R. Gos- mer, Arthur Bostock, Henry Pierson, John Hand, Thomate Hildreth, John Mulford, John Moore, Ellis Cook, Robert Bond, Fulke Davis, and Mr. Howe, were named in the 3d ward. The date as written was 7 March, 1644 (before East Hampton was granted). In 1645 Arthur Bostock had been appointed with Messrs. Stanborough and Barret to lay out the eight and ten acre lots upon the great plain. It seems he challenged Mr. Stan- borough to fight a duel (Irish heroic style), and it is probable he was there- upon arrested and required to give bail. Mr. Cooper, of Southampton, and " John Moore " became bound in JQ^^ ** unto the body of this towne," conditioned " that Arthur Bostock doe appear at the next quarter court to
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** bee holden .... October." On the entry of the record of this — with no date — it is noted that Arthur Bostock made his appearance accord- ing to the Recognizance (The First Book of Records, p. 17).
On 6th October, 1646, ** Arthur Bostock was censured by the Court of ** Magistrates for challenging M'. Stanborough to fight with him, and to " pay for the sayd offence unto the Towne Ten shillings."
He then disappeared from Southampton; and perhaps flourished in Count., where his name was assumed to be Arthur Bostwick ; having a son John, and a gr. son Major John (932, 426, 480, 15, N. Eng. Hist Reg., 86). John Bostwick had land in Southampton, 1673-1680, which he sold to Isaac Mills.
This is a slight indication that John Moore was of the Irish family. Many from Kent Co. gathered on that branch of L. I. Easthampton was first called Maidstone. There were several -at Southampton who came from Ireland — nearly ail Englishmen — and probably Thomas Halsey and Richard Barret, called kinsman of Halsey's son Daniel, were of the num- ber, as well as Hugh Gelston, Nathaniel Dominy and John Kelly. It seems the church organization of Rev. Mr. Pierson claimed that none but church members ^ould vote or be officers of State, and the civil com- bination, of which Daniel Howe was chosen chief^ did not like that plan. A strong disagreement grew up between them.
On the 15th of March, 1643, as the date appears, an entry is "Thomas " Halsey was censured for some unreverent speeches to Daniel How in " Court, then a magistrate, who acknowledged his offence and promised to *' make the lyke acknowledgement the next Quarter Court."
"March 15, 1643 William Wells, Gent, was censured for some unreve- ** rent speeches to Daniel Howe, who confessed his offence and promised ** reformation.'' [This doubtless was W. Wells, of Southold, who favored the New Haven plan about church members.]
" March 16, 1643, John Moore was censured for saying Daniel How **did usurpe the execution of the place of Magistrate, he " (probably mean- ing Mr. Howe) " then lyein under Church censure, not being then deposed " or degraded from the same. And to confesse his fayling yf hee shall " bee at the next quarter court.*'
The articles agreed to on 30 May, 1644, for Southampton's union with the Connecticut Colony of Hartford, are copied in Trumbull's Colonial Records of Conn., Vol. I., p. 566, and in Howell's Southampton, p. 53. The names of Edward Howell, John Gosmer, and John Moore are recited in them, as the representatives of Southampton. The composition and penmanship of the young man, it is quite probable, were more in demand than his advice.
In October, 1644, after Southampton was recognized as belonging to the (Hartford) Connecticut colony organization (which did not require voters or officers to be church members). " Mr. Moore and Robert Bond " were appointed for Southampton, to collect subscriptions for scholars to "be educated a^ Cambridge" fnieaning in Massachusetts, afterward Har- vard College), "and Edward Howell, John Gosmore, and John Moore ** were deputed by (or for) Southampton to negotiate a union with the New '* England colonies." In Nov., 1644, Mr. Gosmer was magistrate ; John Cooper and Thomas Sayre were censured. On 6 March, 1645, "Upon ** the new measuring of the eight acre lots," " what shall be left as overplus •' of Tho». Hildreth's 8 acre lotte shall lye in length next to Mr, Gosmer' s *' and John Moor^s eight acres " (p .35). This shows that John Moore had
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eight acres next to Mr. Gosmer. Robert Bond in 1643 ^^ three acres granted him ** lying on ^^ south side of Mr. Gosmer's eight acre lot'* (p. 30). Arthur Bostock's two acres were against Robert Bond*s west. By comparing and tracing these, we learn the location of the land, which placed Mr. Moore and his neighbors in the third ward, outside of and east of the old village, and not far from modem Bridge Hampton.
Before October, 1646, it is probable that this John Moore was at Cam- bridge, perhaps as a student, to complete his studies, and was deputed to and attended a meeting of the synod of ministers held probably at the same time as the meeting of the General Court {ox Legislature) in Mas- sachusetts. It is possible he had studied some with Rev'd Mr. I*ierson at Southampton, and was recommended by him. We have no precise proof of it. It would be surprising if Mr. Pierson's Yorkshire tones, or dialect, suited all his parishioners, even as a reader, while some required that he should speak or read so that Yorkshiremen could understand him when they could hardly comprehend ordinary Ehglish. It appears that money was furnished to John Moore and Edward Mitchellson (known as the marshal of Mass*"., for whom this young man might be a convenient clerk), to provide provisions (meals, dinners, etc.,) for the members of the synod and of the General and Particular Courts in session ; some probably from the public treasury ; (and others perhaps expected by subscription, or as, pay for meals for members of the 3d House, or peritioners in attendance). Robert Bridges, of I^ynn, in that month of October, 1646, was presiding officer (speaker) of the House of Deputies (or Representatives), but after that an assistant or magistrate. . John Endecott was not then Governor, but perhaps was Deputy Governor presiding. After this he was not elected Governor until 1649.
A Petition was presented, probably in the handwriting of John Moore, signed by him and Mr. Mitchellson, in these words :
**To the Honored Court
** Wee, whose names are underwritten, being (by the providence of God) " Imployed in the expending of several sommes of money for the pcure- '^ ing of puisions for the Synod and severall Generall and perticular Courts *^ at Cambridge ; ffor the which provisions and sommes of monyes we '' yo' humble petitioners stood psonally Ingaged ; But in regard of the Lenght ** of tyme before they were discharged, and the badnes of the paye in ** which they were discharged, and since that tyme there hath been great '* losse by the dischargeing of severall somes of monies which were not *' given in upon Accompt. likewise we have found that we left the best " part ot forty pounds concerning the Synods which in conscience we might "have lawfiilly given in. In consideration whereof o' Humble request " vnto this Honored Court is. That you would be pleased to relieve the " oppressed, so as to release the remainder of o' Accompt, hopeing we ** shall finde so much favo' from you for o' former paynes and service to **the country, as that the damage may not rest upon upon those who are " alltogether unable to bear it. Thus desiring the Lords p*sence with you '* in all weighty affayres, shal ever Remayne
** Yo** to be comanded
"John Moore "Edw. ATitchellson"
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Written on this Petition, immediately after the signatures :
"The peticons are forgiven y* 4olb. they owe y* country upon the " consideracons p*sented, and the house of Deputys desire o' hon'ed ** mag^ to concur w* them herein, p. Robert Bridges
By order &c " Consented unto by the magistrates
Jo. Endecott. Gou' "*
The writer has looked in vain over the brief minutes preserved, for any other notice of this, and has looked in vain for any other ^ting or signature of Mr. Moore, with which to compare this. The original Peti- tion and underwritings are carefully preserved in the book of " Ecclesias- tical papers," in the office of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. There were several other John Moore's, but probably none who could write like this ; and there are some strong circumstances in favor of his identity ; he having been authorized to collect subscriptions for scholars at Cambridge, and appointed with his seniors to negotiate a Union with the United Colonies, which was successful, and as agreed by all he was " per- mitted in New England to preach, but not authorized to administer sacra- ments ; " which license, we suppose, must have been granted at such a synod, and about 1646^1649. This proceeding may demonstrate one of the peculiarities of uniting church and State.
In 1646 strong dissensions had occurred in Southampton. Thos. Halsey was censured for hindering the quiet proceedings of the court, etc., fined 5s., and required to make acknowledgment, and upon his re- fusing to do this fined 40s. This fine was remitted in March, 1647. In Oct., 1646, Henry Pierson and Josiadi Stanborough were censured as well as Arthur Bostock, as before mentioned.
On 24 June, 164 7i John Moore was present at a town meeting in Southampton, after it had been visited by magistrates from Connecticut, and was one of seven principal men who certified that all the inhabitants of the town (except three) were present and consented to an important agreement (to bury differences, etc.). The names were in this order ; Ed- ward Howell, Abraham Pierson, Richard Odell, John Moore, Thomas Halsey, Henry Pierson, Jo. Gosmer, Job Sayre. (The two last printed in a separate column. First Book of Rec, 45.)
On 9 March, 1649, his name was on the list of ** perfect freemen " of Southampton ; only sixteen in number — probably church members — but not including either of the Piersons, nor William Rogers (gone). On 9 May, 1649, ^*s name was not on the list of townsmen — 26 in number. (lb. 55, 56.) The written agreement with llev*d Robert Fordham to preach at South- ampton took effect on ist April, 1649. ^^Vd Mr. Pierson, after 24 June, 1647, and before the 9 of March, 1649, went to Branford, in Connecticut, mider the New Haven organization, where none were to hold office or vote but church members, and several ^followed him. Serious difficulties with the Indians were apprehended, and the settlers were at this time ex- cited by finding them armed and jealous. The wife of Thomas Halsey was murdered at night, in 1649, in his lonely residence, not then in the village ; and Lyon Gardiner urging Wyandank, the murderers were ar- rested by him and called Pequots. It seems that neither Pierson, nor Bostwick, nor Moore, had any house or lot in the village. The subject of the Dutch. Governor's, selling or giving guns to the Indians became soon a
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serious item, and an element of complaint and dispute. The settlers on the west end of L. I. wanted guns for themselves. After receiving loo, they wpre permitted by order from Amsterdam, on nth April, 1650, to have 100 more, to be distributed among the people under the care of Ja- cob Cowenhoven, CaptT of the Burghers Guard (i N. Y. Hist. Doc'^jgy). On 3d Nov., 1650, it was complained that ^^ the English of Gravesend, ** among others, had, with the Director's consent^ given the Indians of Ca^ " narse " (towards Jamaica) " some stamped guns," *' in payment for their " land." The Indians came with the guns, on 6th Nov., to Cowenhoven*s house, who complained of it to the Fiscal and to Mr. Montagne, who also had seen the guns, but without any result [i do. 449].
From all the circumstances, it appears that John Moore, at this period disturbed at the east end of L. I. by the murder of Halsey's wife and other Indian difficulties, left Southampton, and took, or attempted to take, Rev'd Mr. Fordham's place at Hempstead, then under Dutch rule, Petef Stu3rvesan,t, Governor. This requires separate consideration.
GENEALOGICAL FRAGMENTS.
By J J. Latting.
Feake.
Of the origin of the three individuals, Robert, Henry, and Tobias, bearing this patronymic, who were early immigrants to New England, we are left to conjecture, pointing with reasonable probability, however, to the family seated and flourishing for many successive generations at Wigh- ton and adjacent places in Norfolk Co., England. Among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum [Vol. 1096, p. 119] may be seen the follow- ing pedigree of this family, from a visitation in 1664 :
James Feke = of.Wtghtoa ' in Norff.
WDliam Simon = Robert
of Welles, Ca
Eldest son. of Kerdeston
in Norffbke, ad Son.
Norff.
John Feke = Cicetey. dau. of ... . Reere ofKerdesto^. I of Claj, in NorflfbDce.
Robert Feake (*) Anne = John Feke. = (*) Anne. dau. of John Dodd
of Basham in diau. of of London^and
Norffoik. Thomas
Langley.
Margaret Taylor.
William Maxgaret Elizabeth John Rowland Elizabeth Robert John Anne
Eldest s<»& d. an d. s. p.
inCant.
From other sources it appears there was a Pamell Feake, residing in Lon- don in 1593, who had children, William, James, Margaret, Judith, and Anne.
There was also a William Feake of London, goldsmith, whose wife was Mary • . . • Will dated May ^y 1595. They had children^ James^
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John, Edward, William, Mary, Sarah, and Rebecca. In 1617-21, there was a William Feake living at Stafford in Staffordshire, gentleman, son and heir of John Feak of London, deceased, who had for his arms, sable^ a/ess dancetie^ or, in chief, three fleurs de lis ar,
I. Robert Feake came to Massachusetts Bay in the fleet with Gover- nor Winthrop, in the year 1630. The earliest notice of him occurs in the journal of the Governor, detailing the particulars and incidents of a prospect- ing expedition made by him (the Governor) " and some company with hini," on 27th January, 1631, when they " went up by Charles River about eight miles above Watertown, and named the first brook on the north side of the river (being a fair stream, and coming from a pond a mile from the river) Beaver Brook, because the beavers had shorn down divers great trees there,, and made divers dams across the brook. Thence they went to a great rock, upon which stood a high stone cleft in sunder that four men might go through, which they called Adam*s Chair, because the youngest of their company was Adam Winthrop. Thence they came to another brook, greater than the former, which they called Masters* Brook, because the eldest of their company was one John Masters. Thence they came to an- other high pointed rock, having a fair ascent on the west side, which they called Mount Feake, from one Robert Feake, who had married the Gover- nor's daughter-in-law.'*
The Governor's daughter-in-law here referred to was Elizabeth, the young widow of Henry Winthrop, to whom she had been married in Eng- land as recently as the month of April, 1629. She was the daughter of Thomas and Anna (Wiilthrop) Fones, of London, and consequently the niece of Governor Winthrop, and own cousin of her husband. When the latter, following his father, sailed from England in the month of April, 1630, he left her at Groton to come over subsequently with his mother — both then on the verge of maternity. Henry arrived on the ship Talbot, in the harbor of Salem, on the ist of July, 1630, and, as the ancient family record states the circumstance, on the following day he went on shore with the principal officers of the ship, and " walkmg out to a place now called by the Salemites, Northfield, to view the Indian wigwams, they saw on the other side of the river a small canoe. He would have had one of the com- pany swim over and fetch it, rather than walk several miles on foot, it being very hot weather; but none of the party could swim but himself; and so he plunged in, and, as he was swimming over, was taken with the cramp a few roods from the shore, and drowned."
His young wife, thus suddenly widowed, appears to have been highly esteemed by the Winthrop family, and was the object of their solicitude and continued interest in her welfare. William Coddington, who had ac- companied Governor Winthrop to New England, having lost his wife, Mary Moseley, a few weeks after their arrival, returned to England in the spring of 163 1. He was then only 30 years of age, and had proved himself one of the Governor's most trusted and efficient counsellors. The Governor, writing to his son John by the same vessel in which Coddington sailed, adds this postscript to his letter ; ** I hope the Lord hath provided a good husband for your sister Winthrop. Mr. Coddington is well affected to her. If he proceed, I wish you to further it ; for he is a godly man, and of good estate." On his arrival in England he repaired to Groton, and Margaret Winthrop, the Governor's wife*, writing to her son, John Winthrop, Jr., then in London, says : I rejoice much to hear that Mr. Cottington beares such
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good affections to my daughter ; I trust there will be a further prosedinge. I have heard him very well reported of to be a religious man and of good meanes. Mr. Wilson had some speech with me about it, and did very much desyre to knowe hir virtues. I gave her the best commendations that I could. I shall dayly expect his cominge : he shall be very welcome." In a postscript she adds : '^ As soon as 1 had written these, Mr. Cottington came to see us, but would not stay all night. He hath not yet made his minde knowne to my daughter, but is gone to Sudbury to Mr. Willson. I doe veryly believe it will be a mach, and that she shalbe very happy in a good husband.''
The aspirations for this " mach " were not realized. Mr. Coddington, the future Governor of Rhode Island, quickly found another wife, and Bessie Winthrop, the young widow, without a suitor, came over to New England, in the ship Lyon, Capt Pierce, which arrived on the 2d of No- vember, 1 63 1, bringing also the Governor's wife and others of his family. Her marriage with Robert Feake must have occurred not very long after her arrival. It would seerii this connection with the Governor's family quickly brought him into public notice. He was admitted a freeman of the colony in May, 163 1, and on the 4th September, 1632, he was appointed Lieutenant to Capt. Patrick, then chief military officer at Watertown and the neighboring settlements. He held this position until the month of March, 1636. He had his '' homestall " ih Watertown, and was grantee and owner of a number of plots in the same place. He held for several successive years the office of selectman of the town — one of the persons termed '* freemen chosen to order all civill affaires of y* Towne." In 1634-35-36 he was a representative in the General Court from Water- town. On the 3d of September, 1634, he, with Capt. Underbill, Daniel Pat- rick, and others, were appointed by the General Court of Boston to fix upon the site for a fort on Castle Island in the Bay. He appears to have con- tinued to follow the fortunes of Capt Patrick, and in 1639-40 accompa- nied him on his removal to Connecticut. In the month of July, 1640, they united in purchasing from the native Indian proprietors and occupants all the lands between Asamuck and Patomuck Rivers, which subsequently constituted the town of Greenwich, Connecticut Included in this tract was the neck of land called by the Indians, Monakewego, but which then was given the name, ** Elizabeth Neck," in honor of the wife of Robert Feake, being declared in the Indian deed to be her " peticaler perchase." It is said this purchase and settlement were made under the sanction and in the interest of the New Haven Colony ; and the new comers had no sooner begun to erect their dwellings and establish themselves, than their doings were reported to Director-General Kieft at New Amsterdam, who forthwith issued the following nojtification and protest :
" I, William Kieft, Director General of New Netherland notify you. Captain Daniel Patterick, or whom it may concern, that this ground which you claim to take possession of, is within the jurisdiction of New Nether- land, and belongs to their High Mightinesses ; so that hereafter, you may not pretend any cause of ignorance. We order and warn you further not to attempt anything to the prejudice of their High Mightinesses, and in default thereof, we protest against all damages, losses and interests which may accrue therefrom.
•* On the Island Manhattan, in Fort Amsterdam, Oct. 15, 1640.**
The settlers promptly acknowledged receipt of this document, but
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challenged ** clearer proof" that the land on which they lived was ** States' land ; " declaring they would "not do anything in the least which will con- travene their High Mightinesses, the Lords States* rights to any lands of theirs in New Netherland." •
Patrick and Feake persisted and continued for two more years in the occupation of these lands, uncertain, between the strifes of the English and the Dutch, which power to acknowledge ; harassed and threatened mean- while by the treacherous Indians of the neighborhood, until they finally decided to put themselves under the protection of the Dutch. For this purpose Patrick attended in person at Fort Amsterdam and subscribed a declaration, " promising for the future to be faithful to the Noble I^ords, the States, his High Mightiness the Prince of Orange, and the West India Company, or their Governor General of New Netherland, as all honest subjects are bound to be, 'provided they should be protected against their enemies as much as possible and should enjoy thenceforth the same privi- leges that all Patroons of New Netherland have obtained agreeably to the freedoms." This submission was signed by Capt. Patrick alone at F6rt Amsterdam, on the 9th April, 1642^ it appearing that his associate, Rob- ert Feake, was then sick and could not attend so far from home in person^ although it further appears he had commissioned his wife, Elizabeth Feake, to act in his stead.
It is evident that the prestige of the Dutch arms, and the promised protection of the " States," proved but a sorry shield against the neighbor- ing native tribes, who still had their habitations on the adjacent lands, and incessantly avenged their injuries, real or fancied, by their depredations and savage atroaties upon the settlers. These annoyances and dangers continued until they culminated in the final annihilation of the Indians on Strickland's Plain, in February, 1644, by a company of Dutch soldiers sent by Governor Kieft under the leadership of Capt. Underhill. More than a year prior to this date (in May, 1642) Underhill had become a resident of Stamford, adjoining the plantation of Patrick and Feake, and was now acting in the service of the Dutch in their encounters with the Indians, Patrick, who had been Underhiirs early companion in arms, was ignomini- ously assassinated by a Dutch soldier, at the house of his friend, in the month of January, 1644. His death undoubtedly proved a serious loss to his co-proprietor in the Greenwich lands, and not unlikely precipitated the malady which a few years afterward terminated in his ^^ loss of reason'* In the month of October, 1647, we find him in Boston on the point of setting sail for England. What was the occasion or the object of this journey is not apparent. That it was^ necessary, perhaps compulsory, may be in- ferred from some expressions in a letter which he at that time wrote to his fiiends at Stamford in reference to the management and disposition of his estate in his absence, saying he " reserved the whole propriety of his estate '//// he saw how God lifould deal with him in England?* How long he continued abroad is not kno\n^. That he had returned to Greenwich some time prior to the i8th September, 1649, ^^ stated in a letter which Robert Husted and others, then residents at that place, addressed to the Dutch Governor, which is as follows :
** Right Honorable : We the inhabitants of Greenwich do make known & present your honor with a few lines, and to inibrme you with our fare and condition as foUoweth. Our neighbors of Stamford hath always desired
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and endeavored to depoppolate this place of Greenwich, and to leave it without inhabitants, that so the prophit may re down to them selves as might be proved by divers instances ; and now they lay hold upon a new occasion as we apprehend for such an ende Mr. Feke being returned again from Old England ; they make use of his weakness and silliness to wring the land out of Mr. Halletfs hands ; and they stand ready as we think to gain a grant from your honor for such a thing. But we hope your honor will seriously consider before they draw forth such a Bequest from you. We cannot see that Mr. Feake have any right to it, although he joined in the purchase. Yet the former Governor proceded against them and sent the vandragor and souldiers & required them to submit to the government or avoid the place. Mr. Felce always withstood it. . Whereupon when the Governor required their answer, the Captain & Mrs. Feke submitted to them : she having full power of his Ward (or word). Whereupon the Governor judging him unfit to dispose a plantation gave the land to Mrs. Feke as her own for inheritance to dispose of as she preferred ; and she have dis- posed of the land hitherto, and have given out Lots in her own name in fee, never contradicting it to this day. This therefore is our request to your honor, to maintain Mr. Hallett's Hght against them, & in his right, ours ; we having our land from her. If your honor conceive Mr. Feke should be paid for the purchase, Mr. Hallett is willing to be covenanted to him for it ... .
Robert Husted Richard Crabb Tho* Sherwood John Coo.**
Greenwidi Sep. iZ, 1649.
If Robert Feake of Greenwich be identical with the " Robert Feake " whose name appears in a resolution of the House of Commons, adopted on the 4th of March, 1649, approving and directing the issuing of 2i pardon to him and others, then he undoubtedly attained the object of his visit. But what the offence could be for which such pardon was sought is not stated.
What were the opinions of his fellow-townsmen respecting him at this period may be gathered from the following certificates, subsequently pro- cured and used or offered as evidence in an action at law between Tobias Feake and William Hallett :
" This may certify whom it might concern respecting Mr. Robert Feeke
sometime an inhabitant of Greenwich near Stanfort that the
said Mr. Feeke according to the best of our knowledge, being well ac- quainted with him in consequence of great intercourse with him, was a man whose God-fearing heart was so absorbed with spiritual and heavenly things, that he little thought of the things of this life, and took neither heed nor care of what tended to his external property. We moreover considered and regarded him as a man so unsettled and troubled in his understanding and brain, that although he was, at times^ better settled than at others, nevertheless in his last years, and about the time he agreed with his wife, respecting the division of their temporal property, he was not a man of any wisdom, or capable of acting understandingly like any other man in a matter regarding his own benefit, profit and advantage. In like manner we testify that he, as yet on all occasions exhibited a more than ordinary respect towards his late wife, and that he in our opinion was
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more easily to be seduced by her to do whatever she wished than what was wise and reasonable in the opinion of a man who was compos sui^ and as we say his own man
Witness John Bishopp.
Rich<l, Lawe. Francis Bell."
" I think it proper to add what follows, as regards myself individually, for said Mr. Feake living in my family, I could better see his moderation, or want of temper and divorce (?) by which I foresaw that his journey to Greenwich might perhaps tend to his prejudice. I advised him to the con- trary, and he was willing to take my advice, but slipped in haste without vay knowledge to Greenwich, and there did as appears. I and my wife were angry because he went away so far from his property; but he answered and seemed to be well satisfied by himself, giving out that his wife took the children, and therefore needed the property more than he, from which I concluded, — ^although what is drawn up in the agreement does not accord with what is reasonable, — he, nevertheless hath had re- gard to his children and their advantage, in leaving the property to their mother, in which regard as aforesaid may perhaps be observed in a more divine sense that the children possesst a natural and innate right to the property which belonged to their father, although it be that the father, through bad management suffers want. In short through the manage- ment or agreement, he became melancholy, and about foiurteen days after was seriously ill, headstrong and crazy.
Witness John Bishop:'
The succeeding years of the life of Mr. Feake were to him a blank. The darkness which first overshadowed his mental faculties at Greenwich never passed 'till death came to his relief. He found an asylum in the house of Samuel Thatcher of Watertown, Mass., where he died in Feb- ruary, 1662. An Inventory of his personal effects, taken on the i8th of that month, may be seen in Vol. i of Wills in the Probate Office at East Cambridge. His interest in the lands and property at Greenwich had been entrusted by him, prior to his voyage to Erigland in 1647-48, to his wife and to William Hallett. They appear to have sold and conveyed par- cels of these lands to new settlers ; but this region still continued to be the debatable ground between the two rival governments of New Haven and New Netherlands, and the fact that Hallett was found managing the estate in conjunction with Mrs. Feake was made the pretext and occasion of scandalous proceedings against them by the authorities of both powers— the Dutch seizing ?ind attempting to confiscate the property as within their jurisdiction, and the magistrates of New Haven pursuing them with the like rigorous orders and enactments, until they were compelled to abandon the settlement, whence they repaired with the children to Nameag (New London), under the protection of her brother-in-law and cousin, John Win- throp, Junior. Of the interest taken by the latter in the welfare of the family thus thrown upon his charge we have the evidence in the following correspondence with Governor Stuyvesant for the recovery of the property out of the hands of the Dutch authorities :
'* Noble Sir. — I have requested this bearer Mr. Alcott to waite upon you to understand your pleasure concerning the Estate of Mrs. Feakes, who
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being come hither with hir children to inhabit, in respect of their neare relation to me, I am constraned to take such care of them as I can, but being in want of all necessaries, they cannot possibly here have supplies ; & therefore I am bold to request your favor that there may be such pres- ent supplies sent unto them out of the Estate as may prevent those in- evitable wants which will otherwise necessarily fall upon them. How you will please to order the estate for the future, as ihey may have a comfort- able living out of it, I request your speedy detemrination : If considering their residence here jrou plese to remitt the estate over hither I will take the best care I can diat it shall be justly disposed of by the direction of my father & the English magistrates according to the English lawes in that behalf; and because the land whereon they lived at Greenwich might add much to their comfortable supplies, if it were improved to the best & for some other necessary considerations, I earnestly request your favor for William Hallet that you will be pleased to grant him liberty to plant there according to an agreement made by Mr. Feakes with him, and to pass and inhabit within your jurisdiction, as he may have occasion which, if it may be obtained, 1 desire he may have it sent onto him by this bearer Mr. Alcott, by whom also you may please to cause the estate to be conveyed hither if that be your pleasure. And what you shall be pleased to deter- mine, in case Mr. Alcott should be hindered by the weather or other acci- dents from going as he intendeth & only these lines be some other way conveyed, I beseech you to certify your pleasure herein by some other opportunity. And if therein or any other way I may be serviceable to you be pleased to command,
Your Humble Servant
John Winthrop.**
" Noble Sir. — I wrote to you in the winter by one Mr. Olcott, who promised me the delivery with his own hands. I desired him to repair to 'you to know your pleasure .concerning the estate of Mrs. Feakes, but, this week, I understand that he >vent not onward of his intended voyage, but, altering his design my letters were not sent. I am bold therefore again to request your favour concerning hir and the estate that whereas there was an agreement made with William Hallet for the managing of hir estate {whieh Mr. FeakeSy before his going into England told me at Boston that he fully consented tOy knowing him to be industrious and careful^ which I find since her being here to be very true^) that you will be pleased to let the estate be again returned into her hands, not knowing any other way how it can be improved to the comfortable maintenance of hir and the chil- dren^ who for present for want of it are in a necessitous condition \ and also that you will be pleased to grant him liberty to return again within your jurisdiction that he may gather up the scattered estate & improve the land at Greenwich^ which may add much to their comfortable subsist- ence; which lisense under your hand I beseech you to send by this bearer William Cooly, who intendeth shortly to return to me."
The privilege of their return to Greenwich was not accorded them, and Hallett, in the early part of the following year (1649), removed to Long Island — probably to Flushing — taking wi3i him Mrs. Feake and her chil- dren. It is not unlikely this removal was at the suggestion of Winthrop himself, who at this time entertained intentions of settimg nearer New Am-
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sterdam. Lieut George Baxter, writing to him from "Manhataes Isl: July the 15*, 1649, St No.,*' thus addresses him :
" To my Honoured & Worthy Friend, Mr. John Winthrop att Pequotoh, or elsewhere.
Honoured S' — Mr. Hallit being latilie heere, & understanding priu- atelie from him of some speech you have had with him, aboute setling in this jurisdictio, you may please to understand & beleue that I shall readilie and cordiallie doe you what service shall lye in my power j & if you please to come in your owne person before winter, I doubt not but you will have such satisfaction to yo' content that you will be much in- couraged to settle downc amongst vs. For myne owne pte, I ingenuouslie protest your neighbourlie societie will be soe acceptablie welcome unto me, that I shall leaue of my wandring thoughts and fix my station adiacent to you, in cause you settle amongst us ^ and beleue me, S', I haue some in- terest in a place not yet setled, being the same I had discourse formerlie with you aboute, it being uppon Long Isl : and soe commodious that I haue not seene or knowne a better, & shall most willinglie resigne you all my right & indeauour to pcurc you such privlidges as you shall require. Mr. Hallet hath graunted him what he required, and by his incouragem* 1 am boidd to write vnto you, desiring you will please in a line or two to certifie of your instructions therein, and I shall rest
Your very assured friend,
Geo. Baxter."
To this letter was appended the following postscript by Hallett :
** S' :— My friend, after the ensealing hereof, I comeing by accident aboute my occasions, he broake it vp & shewed me the contents, & approveing very well of it, I can doe noe lesse but entreate you, before such tyme as you resolue vppon any other designe, you would please tp take the paines to come heere ; & I am of that opinio you will have such content to expectation & desire that you will settle heere, which will be much to the comfort of your pore kinswoman 6- myself e, I vn- derstand likewijse that in case those Indians that lined under you will come along with you, & under your gouernment, you shall have sufficient to accommodate them, or any number of families you shall thinke meete. Through the Lords mercye, wee are all in good health. By the first oppor- tunitie I shall write to you. In the interim I must remaine your debtor for all your courtesies*
Your unworthy kinsma,
July the 16* (49). William Hallett.**
Mr. Halletf s residence at this time was probably at Flushing. His purchase and settlement at Hell Gate were not made until 1652. Mrs. Feake and the children probably continued to constitute his household. At what date or where the death of Mrs. Feake occurred, we have not ascertained.
Robert Feake left issue, by his wife Elizabedi, the following children :
2. I. Elizabeth.
3. II. Hannah.
4. III. John. -
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5. IV. Robert, bap. in Dutch Church, N. Y., July 17, 1642.
6. VI. Sarali, bap. in Dutch Ch., N. Y., Apr. 14, 1647.
2. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) Feake, supposed b. at Watertown, about 1633, in. in 1659 Capt. John Underbill, then residing at Setauket, his 2** wife. She and her sister Hannah early attached themselves to the Society of Friends, and became active and zealous members of that religious sect She survived her husband, who died at his residence in Killingworlh (Matinecock), L. I., in 1672. She died at the same place in 1674-75, ^^^ ^^^ buried in the ancient burial plot there, beside her husband, where a rude stone at her grave, with the initials E. V. rudely carved upon it, may still be seen.
Issue.
7. I. Deborah, b. Nov. 29, 1659, "^* Henry Townsend, of Oyster
Bay.
8. II. Nathaniel, b. at Oyster Bay, Feb. 22, 1663.
9. III. Hannah, b. Dec. 2, 1666.
10. IV. Elizabeth, b. July 2, 1669.
11. V. David, b. April, 1672.
3. Hannah, dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Fones-Winthrop) Feake, supposed born at Watertown about 1637, came with her mother and her brothers and sisters to Flushing about 1649 ; m. on the 7"* of May, 1656, at that place, John Bowne, from Matlock, in Derbyshire.
He was, at this time, in the 29th year of his age, and his worth and personal attractions were such as to elicit the favorable notice and com- mendations of Capt. Underbill, then living at Southold, L. I., who, writing from that place under date of April 12, 1656, to John Winthrop, Jr.,' at Pe- quot (New London), thus acquaints him with the new engagement : " Sir^ I was latli at Flushing. Hanna Feke is to be married to a verri jentiele young man of gud abillitiy of a lovlifetture and gud behafior.''*
At an early period she had attached herself to the small Society of " Friends," who were then in the practice of holding iheir meetings in the woods. Her husband himself relates that on one occasion he went out of curiosity to look at them when assembled together, and was so powerfully affected with the beauty and simplicity of their worship that he invited them to hold their meetings for the future at his house. It was not long before he joined them himself, " not merely," as he states " from kindness and affection to his wife, but his judgment also was convinced of the truth of the principles they held forth." The history of his subsequent participa- tion in countenancing and entertaining the Quakers, and of the persecu- tion and banishment to which he was subjected in the years 1662-63, be- longs more properly to his individual biography, and is only referred to here for the purpose of identifying the period during which he was sepa- rated from his wife and children. On arriving in Holland and gaining a speedy hearing before a committee of the West India Company, he was promptly set at liberty and reached his home, by way of Barbadoes, in the beginning of the year 1664. His wife now became more and more zealous in religious devotions, and!, claiming to have " received a gift in the minis- try," she, in the earl)r part of the year 1675, left her home to pay a reli- gious visit to Friends in Great Bntain.
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the Society of Friends in England, had previonsly, in the year 1672, in company with other associates, visited this country, and had been a welcome guest in the Bowne ^unily at Flushing. In his journal of this period ap- pears the following entry: **From Oyster Bay, we passed about thirty *• miles to Flushing, where we had a very large meeting, many hundreds of ** people being there ; some of whom came about thirty miles to it. A ^'glorious and heavenly meeting it was (praised be the Lord, God !) and *• the people were much satisfied J'
When Hannah Bowne arrived in England on this her first visit, he was absent from London, possibly during his unjust imprisonment at Worces- ter upon one of the numerous frivolous charges which the magistrates were then accustomed to employ for persecuting the members of this now rapidly increasing Society, accusing them of being fomenters of discord and disturbers of the public peace. In a letter which he addressed at this time to his friends in London, he thus commends her to their attentions :
" My dear ffriends, you may assist Hannah Bowne in her Journey to London & help her forward thither, for shee came from Long Island in New England to see me and friends." . . .
'' I desire thee and some of your woman^s meetings to assist Hannah Bowne when she goes beyond the sea, for she is an honest woman, and I know her well."
This visit was probably of short duration.
From her husband's journal we learn the date of her second visit, in which he records as follows : " The 22* day of the 3"* mo. I went with my dearly belov'd wife on board Andrew Bowne's ship at Staten Island, bound for London. The 24*** day in the morning, -I took leave of my dear wife, and on the 25**^ she went to sea."
In a letter from Flushing, dated i8th of 3d mo., 1675-76, her husband thus addressed her :
" Dear heart, to particularize all who desire to be remembered to thee would be exceeding large ; but this I may say for friends, relations, neigh- bors and people, the like largeness of love for one particular person I have seldom found amongst them, as it is for thee." . . .
This letter is directed " To be left with John Elson, at the sign of the Peele, St John street For my dear wife Hannah Bowne, London, Old England, these.**
In another letter, written her in the 5th month of the same year, he thus opens the prospect of joining her in England:
*' My dearly beloved, I spake a word or two to thee before our parting, that thou mightest give me as clear an account as thou couldest make free to do, by writing of what might be in thy view as to thy travel . . not knowing how it might be as touching myself coming over after thee. Which thing as I was in my work, was daily presented in my mind, until I could no longer delay to speak to Frances and my dear daughter Betsey^ con- cerning their taking the charge of all my business and family, the which they were both very free unto. After to my aged father to know his wil- lingness which was more than I could expect ; so that it now rests on my mind more and more to hasten the despatch of all my summer concerns, and to settle all accounts, and to put all things in the best order I can to be ready for the next good opportunity which may present : so if tidings of thy sudden return, or some^ other thing i^hich I expect not, do not pre- vent, but the Lord make way for it, then I hope in the loth month, if not
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before to be in London where I shall be glad to meet with thee, if the Lord so order it, and from thence to have thy company into my own conn- try after which I know not but I may be free to accompany thee, if the Lord see it good till we come to our dear children again."
On the 31st of the 8th month in that year (1676) John Bowne left his home in Flushing, and arrived in London on the 13th of the nth month. He joined his wife, then in Ireland, and accbmpanied her in a religious ser- vice in that island and through England and Holland. Returning to London, at the beginning of the wint^ of 1677, she was taken sick with a fatal fever, and <Ued at the house of their friends John and Mary Elson, at the Peele Meeting Place in St John Street, London, on the 31st of the nth Month (Jan'y),. 1677-78. Her funeral took place on the second day following, and on the occasion her husband made an address to the assem- bled mourners, which was subsequently written out and recorded in the minutes of the meeting, as his " Testimony concerning his innocent wife and faithful yokefellow, as in the Simplicity of Truth it arose and was spoken amongst Friends when met together to accompany her body to the ground at the house of their dear friends John and Mary Elson at the Peel Meeting-place, London, -a**^ of I2**> month 1677." By permission of Mr. Jacob T. Bowne, of Glen Cove, L, I., a worthy descendant of these ancient Friends, who possesses a complete copy of this rare document, we subjoin the following extracts. Says her bereaved husband : . . . " I fiind myself — having tiiis opportunity— mightily concerned to testify a little of the abun- dance that is in my heart concerning ^y dear and tenderly beloved wife, . to whose charge 1 have not any thing to lay since I first enjoyed her com- pany. To declare a little to you my friends — to ease my heart in this matter — when I first heard of her, before 1 knew her face, a true love was begotten in my heart towards her, and that from her childhood she sought after Heavenly things. Whose face, when I did behold it — as I may say it was GKiX^fdixAXy beaut^ul and amiable > and so it hath continued unto me ; and to all that truly knew her. She was very zealous for the Lord in what she knew in that day, and from the first closing with the thing I declared unto her, she hath been truly faithful unto me until her last minute: as I have often heard her say — the resolution of her heart and the bent of her spirit, was altogether to be subject unto me in all thii^s, which for con- science sake she could do. . . . She was a true and tender mother to her children— (7 I hope are yet remaining of them)— her care over them was sucli that she would never consent to part with any one of them out of her family, except I could describe a place better for their eternal well being. But when the Lord laid it upon her, then she was truly willing to leave both her native country, her husband and children, and all her dear rela- tions; and after some other difficult travels, she was concerned to see friends in the nation of England : which, being accompli^ed in an accep- table time she returned to my own dwelling, where joyfully she was re- ceived of all that truly knew her. But in a little while she declared unto me that when she was upon the seas, it was in her view that she must say : '' Husband, I have come to see thee, but must not tarry,'* which came to pass in some months time. ... At the knowledge of whiclrl could have freely given up all to have accompanied her ; but ... I was made freely willing to part with her, and remain at home with my little ones.
'* But after some time the thing sprang in my heart to make preparation to come for England, and it was made truly easy to me that if the Lord required her traveling in these countries, that I should take the care of her.
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and accompany her if itiwere to the disbursing of half my outward estate. But when I came here I understood she was m Ireland, which place I ex- pected I might find her, in which being accomplished, it lay upon her spirit to visit friends throu^out all the nation, wherein I did willingly ac- • company her to a thousand miles travel ; and afterwards came over to England into part of many countries in this nation — hoping when I came to London the Lord would make her way homeward — but a necessity was laid upon her of further travel in these countries. But it was much with me to press her so far as I durst proceed no further, but I gave up to ac- company wheresoever the Lord might order her, which hath been through HoUand, Friesland and as far as the City of Embden in the Low Countries which was the furthrest place that stood in her view ere she went over. Through all of which I have a testimony in my heart, she was made ser- viceable for the Lord, and particularly at that City ' of Embden, having cleared her conscience to those that were convinced, and they from that established their meeting twice a week which had been long neglected. Through all which countries she was enabled to clear her conscience to them m their own language, in which she had been little exercised, ever since I had the knowledge of her; after which being accomplished, return- ing for England, ' Now,' said she, ' if there was a ship at London, I am ready to return home** * Nay, my dear ' said I, * if there were a ship, I should not now carry thee at this season of the year.* 'O* said she, 'I would scruple no season, if it were the Lord's time.*
f' Now, my dear friends, as the Lord has enabled me, have I in short given you this account for your satisfaction concerning her, though I am well persuaded it need not be spoke to many of you.
*' And thus I can truly say, as I said at first, I have nothing to lay to her, and am satisfied in my own heart, that her garments are clean and without stain. A tender mother to her children, and faithful wife to her husband, and that which passeth all — truly resigned up to serve the Lord to the ut- most of her potver ; — having truly denied all, parted with all, and forsaken all in answer to the Lord's requiring. And now to add a little for the sakes of those who are convinced of the truth to whom this may come — she was always dilligent in what she undertook, ever shy of coming into debtS, and always careful to answer engagements, and perform to every one the thing that was equal upon all accounts. Never willing to make use of things above her ability, but constantly minding that which was de- cent, comely and of good report amongst sober, people ; and when con- cerned in her family to exhort reprove or correct, it was done in tender- ness, wisdom and Godly fear to the teachings of God's witness, and caus- ing the stubborn nature to bow. She could always freely make use of what the Lord did afford her for the service of Truth and the friends there- of; never questioning but the Lord would take care of her and provide for her when she was concerned to leave all her outward acquaintance, and travel upon Truth's account in divers countries where she was a stranger. Always believing that the Lord would take away all scruples, remove all doubts that might arise in any of His faithful people concerning her. And in all the time of the weakness of her body, there was not the least appear- ance of any trouble upon her mind, and some of her last words to me were — *' if the Lord should take me away, remember my dear love to all friends that are faithful, and to my dear children," and not long after she passed away without sigh or groan. Willing submission, faithful obedience, and loving praises be rendered unto God forever, sayeth my souL Amen.
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** And many friends being come together we had a precions meeting, before committing her body to the sround. And now it is the breathing of my 'soul to the lA>rd, that the resiaiie of my lifetime here, I may live her lifey and not only perform the faithful and true care of a loving father, but also keep the dilligent watch of a tender mother unto and over our dear ' children. And so in true tenderness and brotherly love, I dearly salute all faithful friends to whom this may come, and bid you all farewell.
" Your friend and brother in the Truth
*'JOHN BOWNE
*' of Long Island, in New England." ' She was interred in the " Friends*'* burial-place in Chequer Alley, Bun- hill Fields ; but her grave is undistinguished by any stone or monument. She had issue by her husband John Bowne the following children :
12. I. John, b. Mar. 13, 1656.
13. II. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 8, 1658.
14. III. Mary, b. January 6, 1660.
15. IV. Abigail, b. Febuary 5, 1662.
16. V. Hannah, b. April 10, 1665.
17. VI. Samuel, b. Sept 21, 1667.
18. VII. Dorothy, b. Mar. 29, 1669.
19. VIII. Martha Johanah, b. Aug. 17, 1673.
4. John Feake, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Fones-Winthrop) Feake, b. about 1638-39, m. 15th Sept., 1670, Elizabeth, dau. of Matthew Prior, of KillingwoVth (Matinecock^. He was associated at an early date with Capt John Underbill and William Frost in the purchase and settlement of the Matinecock lands ; was an active and prominent member of the So- ciety of Friends, whose meetings for many years were held at his house. His wife died Feb. 25, 1 701-02. He survived her, and died at an advanced age, in the month of May, 1724.
Issue.
20. I. Elizabeth, b. June 9, 1674.
21. II. Hannah, b. Oct 6, 1675.
22. III. Mary, b. April 30, 1678.
23. IV. John, b. July 10, 1679.
24. V. Robert, b, June 22, 1683.
25. VI. Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1685-86.
26. VII. Martha, b. Oct 27, 1688.
27. VIII. Abigaile, b. Aug. 7, 1691.
28. IX. Deborah, b. Jan. 5, 1695.
ABSTRACTS OF BROOKHAVEN (L. I.) WILLS, ON RECORD IN THE SURROGATE*S OFFICE AT NEW YORK.
By Joseph H. Petty.
Coll. William SMrni of St George's Manor who died 18 of Feb. 1 704/5. Inventory of his estate taken and appraised by Timothy and Daniel Brewster & Benjamin Smith on the 23 of May 1705. Martha, his widow, was sworn as to the truth of the inventory 15 Sept 1705. L. 6, p. 122.
Thomas Biggs intestate, late of Brookhaven. Letters of adm. to his son Thomas dated 17 March 1704. L. 7. p. 192.
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WiLUAM Smith of St. George's Manor, 23* Aprill, 1704, in the city of New York. Mentions wife Martha — eldest son Henry — Sarauell Eburne Clarke — Mr. Eburyie — second son William Henry John Wood of Brookhaven deceased — George Wood's lot — Daniell Brewster — 3** son Charles Jeffrey — eldest dau. Martha Heathcote — had houses at York — gr. son William Heathcote — ^youngest daus. Jeane & Gloryana, both under age and unni. — Col. Schuyler, Mr. Abeell, Abraham Whityre — ^Joseph Lee — ^had patents of land from Gov. Fletcher — Wife Martha Exec. — Wits. Matthew Howell, John Johnstone, Gab Ludlow, Sarah Ludlow. Letrs Adm. dated 15 Sept 1705. L. 7. p. 216.
Martha Smith, St George's Manor, 7 Septembej- 1707. Mentions Henry eldest son & Anne his wife— son William Henry under age — ^young- est son Charles Jeoffrey — second dau* Jane or Jean — eldest dau. Martha Heathcote — dau. Gloriana mureson — my three daughters — Thomas Helme — Appoints all her children except Henry, her Executors — Wits. Thos. Helme, Tho. Brewster & Dorothy Wodall. Letrs. dated 23 June, 17 10. Proved 6 June 1710. L. 8, p. 244.
John Roe, Brookhaven, 22 August 1712. Wife Sarah executrix — eldest son John — son Nathaniel— daus. Mary Currin & Elizabeth Mapes — gr. dau. Mary Clark, Wits. Arthur Huthy, Charles Davis, John Max- well. Proved 27 July 1714. L. 8. p. 299.
Charles Jeoffrey Smith, St George's Manor. (Intestate). Lettrs. of Adm. to his brother William Henry Smitn dated January 23, 1715. L. 3, p. 387.
William Nicoll, of Islip, 17 March, 1718/9. Mentions son Benja- min— had property on Shelter Island — son William — son Renselaer — men- tions Capt. John Shaw residing on Shelter Island occupying part of his lands there — Also property in Countyof Albany— dau. Mary Watts — daus. Catherine Francis, Charity — son Edward to remain with his mother till he is ten years old — " all that Farm on Shelter Island late in the possession of Edward Downing deceased and now or late in the possession of Mr. William Richardson " — " I do give Devise and Bequeath the same farm on Shelter Island in manner aforesaid unto M^ Ruth Dwight untill our said son Edward Nicoll shall attain to the age of one and Twenty years ** — son John (under age). Exec'* son Benjamin. — Lands on Shelter Island in posses- sion of Jonathan Hudson. — Wits. John Moubray James Morris Charles White & William Gibb. Proved 27 Aug. 1723, L. 9, p. 492.
Arthur Ffenthy of Brookhaven 30 June, 17 18, Carpenter. Men- tions wife Ann — ^Administrators wife Ann and friends Jonathan Owen and Samuel Thonipson — gr. son Arthur Egerty — son in law Daniel Tour- neur — " Lot that I bought of John Hillouk adjoining to Capt. Joseph Tucker — Wife's son Daniel Toumeur — gr. son to learn a trade — Wits. John Bennet John Thompson Tho. Hulse. Proved (no date). Lettrs. dated 20 April 1719. L. 10, p. 36.
Richard Clark, St. Georges Manor, 25 January, 1724/5. Yeoman. Mentions ** my three Children Richard, Margaret & Anne — son Henry" which I bought of Elias Bayly — two youngest sons James & Ephraim (un- der age) — gr. ch. Aaron and Hannah Howell — daus. Mary and deborah — Speaks of carpenters and coopers tools and loom and weaving tack- ling— wife Mary — ** to my six children namely, Mary, Martha, Deborah, Sarai, James and Ephraim" — Exec'* "my well respected friend John Hulce^ Overseers Major William Smith and John Wood. Wits. Nar
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thaniel Lane Henry Ludlam, John Roberts. Proved 2 April 1725. L. 10, p. 236.
Selah Strong, Brookhaven. Lettrs of Admn. to his iridow Abigail Strong, dated 21 April, 1732. L. 11, p. 266.
Charles Tooker, Brookhaven, Yeoman, i November, 1737. Men- tions wife Abigail — sons Charles, Ruben, Joseph, John and Philip — "Land of Joseph Swisey" — daus. Ruth & Abigail— dau. Mary (under 18). Exec"- wife Abigail and son Charles. Wits. Andrew Miller, Timothy Norton, William Phillips. Proved 27 July, 1738. L. 13, p. 218.
Isaac Willis, Islip "Grangue" Yeoman. Lettrs. of Admn. to his brother Richard Willis dated 3 November, 1736. L. 13, p. 223.
Richard Floyd, Brookhaven, Gent. 27 February, 1738. Mentions son NicoU— Nath* Woodhull— " Land bought of Major William Smith " — son Richard — gr. son Floyd Smith (under age.) — daus Margaret & Charity — gr. son Benjamin Nicoll (under age) — ^gr. dau. Gloriana Mar- gretta Nicoll-^** unto my Grand Daughter Dongan that is to say the Daughter of my beloved Daughter Ruth Dongan Deceased " — '* Pates quash** — " Land belonging to Daniel Brewster Sen'. Exec" sons Richard and Nicoll. Wits. Sam* D Honeur, Zopher Piatt, Isaac Browne. Proved — (date omitted). (The will reads as though the sons Richard and Nicoll were married.) L. 13, p. 225.
Israel Howell, of the Patentship of Moriches, Yeoman. 5 May, 1736. — Mentions son Israel by his first wife — (present) wife Abigail — son David under age — sons Mathew and Nathan (under 15). Exec** wife Abigail *' and my beloved Friends, Israel Parshall of the Totirn of Southold Gent, and Nathaniel Smith of the patentship of Moriches Esq'" Wits. Hugh Gelston, Joseph Peirson, John Mackie. Proved 27 Mardi, 1740. L. 13, p. 388. ,
George Phillips, Brookhaven, Clerk. 18 January, 173^. Men- tions wife Sarah, son William unm. — sons George & John — daus. Sarah, Mary & Elizabeth — Mr. Miller — six small "Sermon Books.** Exec*" wife Sarah. Overseers, ** Coll* Henry Smith Esq' and Deacon Woodhul Esq'.** Wits. Wm Smith, Henry Smith Jun', Gloriana Smith. Proved 5 May, 1 741. L. 14, p. 63.
MosES Burnet, Brookhaven, 3 May, 1740, Yeoman. Mentions son Justus — land bought of James Tuthill — Capt** Robinsons Land — land bought of Thomas Robinson — " I givie unto my well beloved son William Burnet Lain" — wife Jenisha — son William (under age)— oldest dau. Ruth — daus. Jean, Sarah, Dorothy — sons John & Samuel — dau. Anna. Exec" son Justus " and M' Nickols Floyd and Andrew Miller of this Town.'* Wits. Joseph Davis, Joseph Phillipse, Andrew Miller. Proved 10 May, 1 741. L. 14, p. 68.
John Harerd, Brookhaven, Carpenter. * 2 September, 1740. Men- tions wife Margret— dau. Margret (under 15). Exec" wife Margret, An- drew Miller, William Miller. Wits. Mary Terrill, Mary Hallock, Andrew Miller. Proved 27 October, 1741. L. 14, p. 245.
Elisha Clark, ** late of the County of Suffolk." Liettrs. of Admn. to his brother Eliphalet Clark, dated 26 April 1742. (No town being men- tioned in the Record he maybe of some other town). L. 14, p. 284.
William Smith^ "of the Manor of St Georges Esq'." 17 January, 1 74f . Mentions wife Hannah — " my four Maiden Daughters viz' Sarah, Jane, Martha & Hanah" — sons William, Merit & Caleb— dau. Elizabeth
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(miffried.) — ^Ex«cf» wife Hannah & sons William & Caleb-r-Wits Nathahiel WoodhuU, NicoU ffloy'd, Jbsiah WoodhulL Ptoved 26 February, 1742. L. 15, p. 117.
Thomas Hulse Jun' Brookhaven, Yeo. (No date). Mentions wife. Roth — '*and I do will and ordain that if hereafter I shall fortune to have, any Child or ^Children by my said loving wife "-r^eldest son Thomas, " all those things which formerly belonged to his Mother Abigail Hulse de- ceased." Thomas is under 15. Exec** wife Ruth, Overseer Benjamin Brewster, Wits. James Conn, Jonah Hulse Arthur Lebanon. Proved 27. May, 1747. L. 16, p, 126.
Henry Smfth, Junior of Brookhaveii Merdiant, 2:5 March,, 1747.! Mentions wife Ruth — " to my Dear Sister Martha (imm.) — son Charles Jeffry (under age.) — ^wife Ruth and himself had lands in Smithtown-^— dau« Martha (under age) — ^Mr, Seminer at New York — dau. Elizabeth (under age) — brothers William & Gilbert Smith — sisters Mary Smith and Glori- ana Brewster — Exec" wife Ruth and brother William. Wits. Stephen Jayne, Nathaniel Satterly, Ebenezer Jones. Proved 9 Apiil, 1748. l*. 16,
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Amos Willets, Islip, Yeoman, 17 March, 1745/6. Mentibns oldest son Samuel — ^lauds in Huntington-^^^^ons Jacob, Amos, Joseph & Thomas, all under age — blacksii^iiths tools— ^wife Rebeccah — ^youngest son Thomas — Speak» of daus. living but no names. Exec*^ Cousins Richard WiUetts Jun' and Daniel Willetts both of IsHp and Samuel Underbill J" of Oys- terbay. Wits John Moubray, Nathan Smithy Joseph Sexton. Proved 6, June, 1648. L. 16, p. 272.
John Armstrong, Moriches, Labourer, 17 December, 1748. Men- tions wife Mary — eldest son John — daus» Mahitabel & Haner Armstrong — son§ Obedia}! & Nathaniel— Exec" Wife and Nath' Smith. Wits. David Howell, Mary Mathis, Nath" Smith — Proved 10 April, 1749. L. 16, p. 454*
Samuel D'Honneur, Brookhaven, 5 March, 1744/5. Mentions wife Rachall — son John — dau. Johannah-^^' Land I bought of Ickabud War* ner" — ^**my beloved Sister Christian Dewilde "— ** my Couzen Ann De* wit" — Exec** wife Rachall — dau. Johannah and M" Richard: Floy and M' William Nickles Ju*. Wits. Vincint Jones, Benjamin Jones, Seleii Hulse. Proved 18 January, 1749. L. 17, p. 40,
Zacuariah Hawkins, Brookhaven, Yeoman, 11 May, 1737. Men- tions wife Hannah — gr. son Zachariah Hawkins (under i^e) — seconder, son Caleb Hawkins— ** to my only son Zachariah Hawkins" — Exec^ wife Hannah. Wits. Eleser hakengs, Geo. Murison, HsM^nahvHoweh Proved 6 January, 1749. L. 17, p. 58.
Stephen WHrnc, IsHp; 21 March 1749/50^ Mentions youngest dau. Amey White — ♦* unto the five Children *' (two sons & three daus.) " of my Eldest Daughter Ruth Hulls and my Four Daughters Sarah Hulls Mercy Wood, Mary Hoij^U and Amey White ^'—"Ebenerer Hulls my Son m Lawi" Exec" son in law Jeremiah Wood^ Cozen John Mou- bray and Samuel Willets. Wits, David Willets, -^ob Willets, Joseph Foster. Proved 11 April, 1750, L. 17, p. 132.
John Aixbertson, IsUp,^ Miller, 18 March^ 1720. Mentions wife Sarah — son Sahrenos (under age) — four children, Salvenis, Isaac^ Deborah & son Crodos, (all under age.)-r-Exec»* " my Brother John Wood> & Rich- ard Willetes. Wits. Thomas Willets, Joseph Dow, Nehemiah Hearth, David Willets. Proved 3 August^ 1750. L. 17, p. 189*
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Samuel Tompson, Brookhaven, Gentleman, 23 April, 1745. Mentions wife Hannah — son Jonathan — dau. Mary — eldest dau. Sarah----daus. Debo- rah and Susanna — gr. son Samuel son of Jonathan — gr. dau. Mary Tom- son — ^' my five daughters, Sarah, Mary Deborah Ruth & Susan'' (all under age. Exec^. son Jonathan, Daniel Smith and Thomas Strong of Brook- haven. Wits. JohnTooker, Daniel Reeve, Arthur Buckanan. ^Proved 11*** June, 1750. L. 17, p. 200.
" John Haven Senior late of Shelter Island/' But now of the Township of Brookhaven." Yeoman, 23 June, 1750. Mentions eldest son Henry, third son William — land in Southampton— daus. Elinar, Sarah, Phebe, Desire & Mary — ^wife Sarah — two eldest daus. Sarah & Elenor — sons Jona- than & Benjamin. Exec" sons Henry, William, Benjamin & wife Sarah — Wits. Nathaniel Havens, Daniel Brewster Sen', Matthew Swaney. (The will at bottom is date 25 June 1750). L. 17, p. 284. Proved 26 Nov.
Samuel Seward, Islip, 7 September, 1 750. Mentions his ** Mother Ann Seward — ^his brother Eliakim Seward — Exec" Nathaniel Akerly, James Morrice, William Nicoll Jun'. Wits. John Moger, Barny Smith, Eliza- beth Morris, Elizabeth Green. Proved 18 March, 1 750/1. L. 17, p. 378.
John Hulse, Brookhaven, Yeoman 5 June, 1751. Mentions wife Deborah — eldest son John — Nathaniel Satterlys land — Benjamin Jones land — sons Nehemiah & Joseph — Selah Strong — Widow Smiths land — Eleazer Hawkings land — land of Thomas Hulse deceased — ^' adjoining to Paul Hulse in Coram Hills — ^land purchased of M' Thompson— daus. Anna & Jemima Hulse (under age)—" called or known by the, name of Josiah's Lott ** — lands which formerly belonged to Enos Bishop deceased — «M' Winthrops Line" — ^The thflee sons are to be bound out to trades — Exec' Benajah Strong, Overseer William Nicoll Jun'. Wits. Nathaniel Satterly, Richard Floyd Jun', Arthur Buchanan. Proved 22 July 1751. L. 17, p. 429.
John Tooker, Brookhaven 15 June, 1750. Mentions gr. son "Wil- liam Tooker the heir of my oldest son John Tooker deceast " — second son William — third son Anthony — ^land bought of Henry Moger — "hulces. Island " — fourth son Nathaniel — " Commonage formerly William Francis " — fifth son Elifelet — Henry Daytons homestead — Andrew Millers meadow — (wife is living but does not give her name) — " I order my son Nathaniel to have the indenture of Benjamin Gerard with the Lad and to fulfill the Indenture to him"— Exec". Col. Richard Floyd and M' William Nicoll Esq'. Wits. Joseph Goldsmith, Thomas Bayles, James Moger. Codicil dated 16 June, 1751^ same witnesses. Proved 17 February^ 1752. L. 18, p. 76.
Daniel Brewster, Brookhaven, 29 May, 1752. Mentions wife Mary — eldest son Daniel, second son David, third son William — "my Land at a place called Moddys House** — eldest dau. Desire, 2d dau. Mary, 3d dau. Deborah, 4th dau. 'Hannah. Exec'* wife Mary & "my Brother John Brewster and my son Daniel** — Wits. Israel Robinson, Mary petty W"» Smith. All present at the proving 23 July 1752, before Henry Smith, Surrogate. L. 18, p. 271.
Joseph Robinson, Brookhaven. 23 February, 1753. Mentions wife Abigail — sons Joseph & John, ExeC* son John & David Davis. Wits Isaac Robinson, James Tuttill Samuel Emmons. Proved 30* June, 1 753. L. 18, p. 332.
Richard Willets, Islip, Yeoman. " nineteenth day of the third Montli,"
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1750- "far advanced in years." Mentions wife Margret — sons Richard & Daniel — daiL Debora — two daus. in law Mary Wood & Sarah Powell — two gr. children Willets & Mary Kirbe children of his deceased dau. Sarah Kirbe, (under age) — Exec" son Richard & " Cousin Isaac Powell of Bethphage and my Cousen Richard Willets of Jericho." Wits. Mary Willis, John Willis, Minor, Samuel Willis. Proved 3* October, 1753. L. 18, p. 362.
RECORDS OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE CITY OF NEW yORK.— BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS.
(Contmued from VoL X., p. i8i, of Tm Rbcokxx)
Sept' 1 1^. Eleanor, Daughter of Michael Sickles and Mary Bailey, his
Wife, bom Aug* 10***, 1775. Sept' 17*^. Nicholas, Son of George Meservee and Catharine Gruber, his
Wife, bom Aug* 24***, 1775. Sept' 17*. Alexander, Son of Alexander Dean & Elizabeth Lynch, his
Wife, born Aug* 19*, 1775. Sepf 1 7*. Enoch, Son of Daniel Carter and Mary Laurense, his Wife,
bom July 16*, 1775. Sept' 24***. Catherine, Daughter of Robert Stration and Elizabeth Fergu- son, his Wife, bom Aug* 30*, 1775. Sept' 24*. Margaret, Daughter of Andrew McKittrick & Agnes Donaldson,
his Wife, born SeptJ 17*^, 1775. Sepf 26*. Sarah, Daughter of Thomas Arden^ Jun' and Mary Boyle, his
Wife,' bora Sept' 5* 1775. Ocf I*. Charles Lee, Son of Henry Breaker & Lucy Clark, his Wife, bom
July 31* 1775- Ocf I*. Priscilla, Daughter of James Ford and Martha Oakes, his Wife,
bom Sepf 9* 1775.
(186)
Ocf I*. George Washington, Son of John Laboyteaux & Hannah Smith,
his Wife, bom Sepf 17*^, 1775. N. B. So called after his Excellency/
Geor^re Washington, Esq', General & Commander in Chief of the
Continental Army. Ocf a**. William, Son of John Wright & Sarah Johnston, his Wife, bom
Aug* 8* 1775. Ocf 2\ Daniel, Son of John Miller & Mary Kelly, his Wife, bom Sepf 2*,
1775- Ocf 8***. Mary, Daughter of John Kip & Margaret Bratt, his Wife, bom
Sept II* 1775- Ocf 8*. Jane, Daughter of Gilbert Smith & Abigail Vandewater, his Wife^
bom Sepf 29*^, 1775. Ocf 9*. George, Son of Thomas Buchanan and Amy ToWnsend, his Wife,
bom Sepf 7*, 1775. Ocf 15*^. John, Son of Lewis Nichols & Mary Thompson, his Wife, bom
Sepf 3^1775. Ocf 16*^. Sophia, Daughter of John Gilliland & Cathanne Aramena, his Wife, born Sepf 13*, 1775.
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Ocf 22^. Charles, Son of Charles Chetwood & Margaret McKellar/his
Wife, bom Sepf 25* 1775. Ocf 22*. Thomas Putnam, Son of Frederick Putn Tucker and Elizabeth
Norris, his Wife, bom Sepf 5*, 1775. Oct* 29*. John Harper, Son of John Currie and Ann Montgomery, his
Wife, born Sept' 15% 1775. Oct' 29*. James, Son of James Gibson & Mary McKellar, his Wife, bora
Sept' 29* 1775. Ocf 29*. Elizabeth, Daughtet of Peter Winthrop & Hannah Deforest, his
Wife, bom Sepf 13*, 1775. Nov' 5*. James, Son of Alexander Hosack & Jane Arden, his Wife, born
Oct' 23^ 1775. Nov' 5*. Ann, Daughter of Abraham Garrison & Mary Simonson, his
Wife, bom Sept' 2i«', 1775. Nov' 5**. Elizabeth, Daughter of Robert Harpur^ & Elizabeth Cregier, his
Wife, born Sept' i8»**, 1775. Nov' 12^. Mary, Daughter of John Shaw & Elizabeth Long, his Wife,
born Ocf 5*^, 1775.
(187)
Nov' 12* John Keiley, Son of Robert Leycraft & Sarah Kip, his Wife,
bom Ocf 18*, 1775. Nov' 19***. Jane, Daughter of \\^lliam Eddy and Mary Stephens, his Wife,
born Ocf 27*, 1775. Nov* i^^. Edward Johnson, Son of Edward Ross & Isabella Stout, his
Wife, born Ocf i**, 1775. Nov' 19*. Mary, Daughter of James Barjeau^ & Mary Rose, his Wife,
bora Ocf 10*, 1775. Nov* 19**". Margaret Yates, Daughter of John Helms and Mary Dobbs,^^
his Wife, born Ocf 25***, 1775. Nov' 19* Sarah, Daughter of Alexander Lesley & Sarah Tuflfts, his Wife,
bom Ocf 24*, 1775. Nov' 26*. John Martin, Son of George Aim & Abigail Lincoln, his Wife,
born Aug* 18* 1775. Nov* 26^. Alexander Forbes, Son of Benjamin Swam^ & Mary McLean,
his Wfe, born Ocf 22^ 1775. Dec' 3^ John Robinson, Son of Charles Gardner and Susannah Leonard,
his Wife, bom Dec* 3"*. Mary, Daughter of Joseph Derborow & Sophia Hyer, his Wife,
bora Nov* 27*, 1775. Dec' 10*. Ann, Daughter of Walter Moffat & Comfort Ball, his Wife, bom
Nov* 13* 1775. DeC 17*. Estiier, Daughter of John Moore and Mary Van Djrck, his Wife,
bora Nov' 28*, 1775. Dec' 17*. Jacob, Son of Jacob Smith & Mary Peppuiger, his Wife, bora
Nov* II*, 1775. Dec' 17*. Francis, Son of Francis Dougherty & Catharine Kirkpairidc,*
his Wife, born Ocf 12*, 1775. Dec* 17*. Jemima, Daughter of John Hutchins & Abigail Williams, his
Wife, bora Nov' 11*, 1775. Dec* 24*. Mary, Daughter of William Henry & Hannah Lockwood, his
Wife, born Qc^ 28*, 1775.
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Decf 28*^. Jennet, Daughter of Ann Hawkes Ifay and Martha Smith, his
Wife, bora Nov' 3 , 1775. Dec* 30***. Agnes,^ Daughter of John Fleming & Margaret Clousen, his
Wife, bora Dec' ai*', 1775. Dec* 30*. David, Son of Henry Ludlow & Sarah Plowman, his Wife, bom
Nov'24^ 1775.
(188) .
Decf 30*. William. Son of William Oilberi and Mercy Bennct, his Wife,, born Nov' i8^, 1775.
1776.
Jan''' 2*". John, Son of James Van Brakle and Agnes Bennet, his Wife,
born Dec' 13***, 1775. Jan*^ 3<*. Margaret, Daughter of William Murray and Margaret McDou-
gal, his Wife, born Dec' 13^, 1775. Jan"^ 7***. James McKinney, Son of James Smith & Anne McKinney, his
Wife, born Dec' 6*, 1775. Jan'' 7*. Ezra, Son of Prentice Bowen & Esther Livesey, his Wife, born
. Dec' 20* 1775. Jan'' 7^. Catharine, Daughter of James Buckmasier & Sarah Hill, his
Wife, bora Nov* 24*^, 1775. Jan'' 10*^. Amos, Son of Amos Knap & Jane Ogilvie, his Wifp, bora Nov*
2^ 1775- Jan'' 14*. James, Son of Robert Brough and Christian Laudet, his Wife,
bora Dec' 17*, 1775. Jan" 14*^. Sarah, Daughter of Heth Feck & Rachel Rosell, his Wife, bora
Dec'8^ 1775. Jan'' 14*. Isaac^ Son of Elvine Valentine & Abigail Oakley, his Wife, born
Dec' I5^ 1775. Jan'' 14*. William, Son of Thomas Bennei & Judith Calvin, his Wife, bora
Dec' II***, 1775. Jan'' 14. George, Son of George Fowers, & Anna Guest, his Wife, bora
Dec' 7* 1775. Jan'' 14*, Richard, Son of Jacob Far sell & Ann Parsell, his Wife, bora
Dec' 27* 1775. Jan'' 1 7*. John McDougall, Son of John Lawrence & Elizabeth McDou-
gall, his Wife, born Dec' 13***, 1775. Jan'' 20*. Augustus, Son of John Siemon & Susannah Hart, his Wife, bora
Dec 15^ 1775. Jan'' 21*'. George, Son of Elizur Little & Ann Shell, his Wife, born Dec'
28^ 1775. Jan'' 21**. Sarah, Daughter of Benjamin Caywood and Abigail Veal, his
Wife, bora Nov' 2i*S 1775. Jan' 28*. Elenor, Daughter of John McDonald & Sarah McDonald, his
Wife, born Jan'' 26***, 1776.
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Jan' 28*. William, Son of John Feid & Susannah McClcry, his Wife, born
Jan" 16*, 1776. Jan" 29^. Verdine Ellsworth, Son of Riohacd Varian & Susannah Gar-
dinier, his Wife, born Jan" 9***, 1776. Feb" 5*. Maria, Daughter of Dennb Ificks and Ann Bancker, his Wife,
bom Feb" 5*, 1776.
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Fcb*^ 6**». Ebenezer, Son of William Irvin & Sarah Saunders, his Wife, born Jau'^' 27***, 1776.
Feb^ 6* Ann Donne, Daughter of Thomas Barnard & Betty Webber, his Wife, born Jan'^' i*, 1776.
Feb'y 8*. William, Son of Robert Bryson & Mary Watson, his Wife, bom Dec' 15* 1775.
Feb'' 18* John Washington, Son of Jacob Shcurt and Susannah Cole- grove, his Wife, born Jan'' 19***, 1776.
Feb'' 25*^. John Walker, Son of Turpin Holroyd & Susannah German, bom Jan'' 28*, 1776.
Feb'' 25***. Hester, Daughter of Joseph Lee & Hester Conner his Wife, bom Feb'' 14***, 1776.
March 2**. Richard Montgomery, Son of William Malcolm & Sarah Ays- cough, his Wife, born \sic\
March 3**. Margaret, Daughter of Lewis Chadeayne and Sarah Charlotte, his Wife, born Jan'' 13* 1776.
March 3**. John, Son of Ganet Hyer and Ann Macpherson, his Wife, bom Feb'' 19***, 1776.
March 3*. Pamela Woolsey, an Adult. | ^Sanges!"*'^ '''*' handwriting March 10*^. Elizabeth, Dau' of William Douglas^ and Christian HoUin his
Wife, bom Nov' 10*, 1775. March 10*. Elizabeth, Dau' of William Arnold & Mary Sheerwood his
Wife, bom Feb" 12***, 1776. March 10*. Elizabeth, Dau' of John Smithson and Hannah Cochran his
Wife, bom Jan'' 30***, 1776. April I**. Mary, Dau' of James Cobham & Hannah Houghton his Wife,
bom March 8*^, 1776. April I**. Mary, Dau' of William Hannah & Mary Brennon his Wife, born
March 22**, 1776. April i"*. Anna Orr^ an Adult.
(190)
April 7***. Andrew, son of Daniel Mc Alpine & Marg' Devine his Wife, bom
'Feb" 17^ 1776. April 9*. Gilbert, son of William Broome^ & Jane McClain his Wife, born
March 31'*, 1776. April 14***. William, son of John Huthwright & Eleonar Connor, his Wife,
bom March 4***, 1776. April 21"*. Mary, Dau' of Joseph Hallet & Elizabeth Hazard his wife,
born Feb" 19*, 1776. May 12***. Jane Vridenburgh, Dau' of Tho* Collins & Catharine Dealand,
his wife, bom Jan" 12**, 1776. *
May 12*. Hugh Munro, son of Alex' McLean & Ann McKoy (late Widow
Glass) his wife, bom April 18*, 1776. May 19^ Elizabeth, Dau' of Peter Galatian & Elizabeth Wamer his Wife,
born Jan" 17"*, 1776. June 9***. Daniel, son of John Tergie & Sarah Kipp his Wife, bom June
4^ 1776. June 9***. Moses, son of Moses Sheerwood & Elizabeth Mulener, his Wife,
bom May 8*, 1776. June 18***. Ann, Daughter of John McKenzie and Margaret Mcintosh his
wife, born June 14*, 1776,
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June 23^. Hutchit, son of Hutchit Bartlet & Rebekah Green his wife, bom
June 3^ 1776. June aj**. Mary, Daughter of Hezekiah Ivers and Mary Arden his wife,
bom May 22**, 1776. July 21* Chnstopher, son of John Vanarsdalin, and Catharine Mills his
wife, bora July 2**, 1776. July 28* Joseph Banks, an Adult August 1 1**". Susannah, Daughter of Benjamin Kelly & and Jane Prichard
his wife, bom Feb"^ 7*, 1776. October 9***. William, son of John Griffith & Sarah Evans his wife, born
September 13***, 1776. October 31* John Ellis, son of John Hodsden Esq' and Mary Grant his
Wife, bom October 30*^, 1776,
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The following were baptized when the ] Church was despersed, during the war. the time of some of | baptisms unknown.
William, son of Andrew Moodie and Margaret Galloway his Wife, bom March 24***, 1768.
Helen, their Daughter, bom July 2**, 1777,
1778. May -30*^. Martha, Daughter of Col. Ann Hawkes Hay and Mar-
tha Smith his wife, born Nov* 22**, 1777.
1779. May 27***. Mary Scot, Daughter of^D' Charles Mc Knight & Mary
Scot (late Widow Litchfield) his wife born January 29*, 1779, Dec* 21**: William, son of Robert Bruce & Mary I^angley his wife, bom Nov* 24*, 1779.
1 780. June 2^ Lewis Scot, son of Col. A. Hawkes Hay & Martha Smith
his wife, born May 2**, 1780.
1 781. June3**» Isabel, Daughter of John Ramsay & Eliz* Cox (late
widow Marshal) his wife, bom June 2 7*, 1 780. Sepf 13*. Margaret, Daughter of Robert j9rj/r^ and Mary Langley his wife, bom Aug* 29*, 178 1.
1782. Nov* 16*. William, son of Col. Ann Hawkes Hay and Martha
Smith his wife, bom Aug* 26*, 1782.
1783. Aug* lo***. Mary Ann, Daughter of Robert Bruce and Mary Lang-
ley his wife, bom July 19"*, 1783. Ebenezer, son of William Irving and Sarah Saunders his wife, bom
Jan'y 27*^, 1776. John Treat, their son, bom May 26% 1778. Sarah, their daughter, bom June 13*, 1780. John Alexander, son of John Turner & Christian Moncrieff, his
wife born Dec' 15% 1779. Archibald, their son, born Sept' 22**, 1781. William, son of William Arnold & Mary Sheerwood, his wife, bom
October 3**, 1780. Benjamin, their son, bom April 18***, 1 783.J John, son of Robert Gault, and Elizabeth Hallet his wife, bom
April 6*»», 1780. Charlotte their Daughter, bom Sepf 8*^, 1781. Charles, their son, born Febraary 3**, 1783. 1780. ) Ann Sharp, Daughter of Dr. Charles McKnight & Mary Scot, his June. J . wife (late widow Litchfield) bom
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34 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in Niw York. [Jan.,
RECORDS
AM688. den 5 dicto.
Eodem.
Eodem.
den 8 dicto.
4en n dicto.
Eodem.
den ;6 diet. Eodem. den 22 diet. Eodem; Eodem.
Eodem. Eodem. den 25 dicto. Eodem. den 7 May. den 14 dicto. den 16 diet. Eodem.
[449I Eodem.
OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.— Baptisms.
(Continued from VoL X., p. 169, of Thb Rbcord.)
OUDERS. HINDERS.
Jan Jilleszen, Fytie Aeltje. WiUems.
La^ensWesselSyAel- Wessel. tie Jans.
Pieter Jacobszen de Jacob. Groot, Belitje Ali- ens.
Jan Mol, Engeltie Johannes. Pieters.
David Ackerman, Gelyn.
Hillegond ver Plan-
cken. Daniel Pieterszen, Abraham.
Anneken Acker- mans. Jacob Boelen, Catha- Tryntie.
rina Klock. Jan Pieterszen Want, Mcynart.
Marritje Pieters. Isaacq Grae^ Si^n- Simon.
na Simons. Matthys Gerritszen, Gerrit
Catharyn Ho6wart. Comelis TheAnissen, Thetinis.
Neeltje Bogaert.
Petrus de Milt, Maria Antony.
Van der he6l. Comelis Q6ick, Maria Helena.
Van Hoogten. Comelis Michielszen, Neeltje..
NieQe Davids. Fredrick Simonszen, Carel.
Lea Fonteyn. Hermands Borger, Waraar.
Grietje Carsten. Willem Homp, Lys- Brechtie.
beth Claes. Gdiljam Bartholf, Qiiriniis. Martyntie Hendricx. Pieter Van d. Schde- Willem.
ren, Sara Fiedricx.
Wo6terGysbertszver Dorothea. Schtidr, Dorothea Caljers.
GETUYGKlf.
Tobias ten Eyck, Neeltje
Comelis. Aert Elbertszen, Pietertje
Jans. Jacob Pieterszen de
Groot, Aefje de Groot.
Assder^ Hendrickszen, Jan Pieterszen, Mar- ritje Pieters.
Ldcas Tienhoven, Tryn- tie Arents.
Abraham Ackerman, Hil- legond ver Plancken.
Albert Clock,. Tryntie Boelen.
Jacobiis Janszen Keck, Janneken Joris.
Hendrick Jilliszen, Wyn- tie Arents.
Gerrit Thyssen, Grietie Jacobs.
Thednis Gysbertszen Bo- gaert, Geertie Lange- dyck.
Anthony de Milt, Tryntie Kip.
Gerrit Codsynszen, Neel- tie Cornell's.
Abraham Mol, Marritje Davids.
Simon Hanszen, Maria Fredricks.
Jan Langestraten, Mary- ken Arens.
Jan Pieterszen Slot, Jfi- dith Slot
Simon Jacobszen, Catryn Gerrits.
Salomon Fredricx, Tho- mas Franszen, Grietie . Plettenbiirg.
Comelis Janszen op ber- gen, Willemtje
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den 23 diet den X Jto.
den lo d. Eodem. Eodem. den 17 diet
den ao d. den 27 diet den 8 }6L den 12 d. den 22 d.
Eodem.
den 25 d*
den X Adg. den 21 diet den 24 diet
den 28 diet den 2 Sept Eodenu
[450] den 9 Sept
Eodenu
OUDKRS. KINDERS.
Ritehard Atfield, Ma- Anna Elisa-
ria Wessels. beth.
Matthj^s Janszen Breehtie.
Boeckholt,Lysbeth
Elsenwaert George Walgrave, Mary.
Magdalena Riitgers. Thei&nis Dey, Anne- Sara.
ken Scho^ten. Jan Sipken, Elsje Bor- Jan.
gers., Hieronymiis Van Jaeobds.
Bommel, Sdsanna
Moll. Thetinis The6n5szen, Geertie.
Geesje Hendricks. Willem Franszen, Willem.
Janneken Arents. Evert Aertszen, Mar- Maryken.
ritje Hercx. Jan Sprat, Mana de Cornelia.
Peyster. Robbert Barckins, Thomas.
Christyntie Ste-
phens. Esaias Janszen Van Anna.
dyck, Janneken
Lambertsz. de H' Anthony Anthony.
Broeekholt Susan- na Schrick. Hevrdrick Boelen, Abraham.
Anneken Codrt. Victor Bicker, Claes- Victor.
je Blanck. John Henry, Men John.
Henry.
Isaac de Mill, Sara Isaac.
Joosten. Olfert So6rt, Mar- Heyltje.
grietje Cloppers. Evert Hendrickszen, TJrseltje.
Metje Harden-
broeek. Miehiel Farton, Su- MichieL
sanna Leydsler.
de H' Abrah. de Pel^- Catharina. ster, Catharina ae Peyster.
OlTUTOKIf.
Francois Rombodt^ Ael-
tie Wessels. Herman Janszen, Johan«
nes Elsenwaert, Anne- ken Elsenwaert. Pieter de Riemer, Catali-
na Van Vleck. Joehem Kierstede, Lys-
beth Schodten. Wyt Timmer, Janneken
Joris. Pieter de Riemer, Mar-
gareta Meynarts.
Cornelis Hendricxen, Agnletie Barents.
Arie Van den Bogaert, Belitie Arents.
Aert Albertszen, Grietie Wessels.
Abraham de Pej^ter, Cor- nelia de Peyster.
Hendriek Jacobszen, Hester Glieves.
Jan der Val, Cathrina van Cortlant.
de H' Coin* Nieolaes
Bayard, Gabriel Mon-
vielle, J6dith Varleth. Barent Court, AeQe Boe-
len. J65t£s tJitsvelt, Annietje
Blanck. Wilhelm Greffy, John
Thomaszen, Jeanne
Gemert, Pieter de Mill, Styntie
Jans, Maria Joosten. Johannes Clopper, Cata-
lyntje Cloppers. Caspar. Hardenbroeck,
Urseltje D6ytsman.
John Spragg, Robbert
Walters, Catharina
Leydser. John Sprat en Samdel de
Peyster, Jliff*. Jddith
Bayard.
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Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.,
OUDKRS. . KINDKRS.
Eodenu Jan Peeck, Elisabeth Johannes.
V. Inisburff. den i6 diet Hendrick Wessels- Jannetje.
zen ten Broeck, Jan-
netje Breestede. Eodem. Jeams Penser, Lj^s- Elisabeth.
beth de Waron, den 26 diet Tobias Stoutenbtirg, Jan.
Anneken V. Rolle-
gom. Eodem. Pieter Adolf, Janne- Maryken.
ken V. Bors^m. den 7 Oct Pieter Janszen Ha- Grietie.
ring, Grietie Bogart Eodem. Stephanus V. Cortl*, Gysbert.
Getr6yd Schdyler.
Eodem. Ephraim Hermans, Ephraim.
Elysabeth Rodens.
den 10 diet Thammes Meets, Jo- Johanna, hanna de Wit
den 14 diet
Eodem.
Eodem.
den 128 diet
Eodem. den 4 Nov. Eodem. den II diet
den 14 dicto.
[4Si] . den 18 diet
Eodem.
den 31 dieto.
Thomas Franszen,
Try ntie Breedstede. Willem Peerszen,
Grietje Kierszen. Padlfis Van der
Beeek, Sara Sehoti-
ten. Johannes Michiels-
zen, Claesje L6-
lincx. David Provoost,
Tryntie Ladrens. Rip Van Dam, Sara
Van der Spiegel. Hendrick Jilliszen,
Elsje Claes. Johannes Kip, Catha-
rina Kierstede.
Frans.
Lysbeth.
Janneken.
Enoch.
Janneken. Nicolaes. Hendrick. Sara.
Claeck Lock, Kniert- Adriaentie.
je Hendricx. L^cas Tienhoven, Comelis.
Tryntje Bording. Ritzard Hitman, Mar- Jan.
ritie Karseboom. Corfi. Michielszen, Jannetje.
Metje Dircx.
GKTUYGBN.
Johannes Kip, Stisanna
de Foreest Simon Breedstede, Elsje
ten Broeck.
Ambrosids de Waron,
Adriaentie Thomas. Jan Joosten van Rolle-
gom, Geertrdyd Van
Rollegom. H^drick Van Borsdm,
Agnietie Adolfs. Pieter Janszen Bogart,
Grietje Cosyns. Robbert Livingston, Sec- ret* tot N. Albany An-
na Renselaer. Johannes van Br^g, Sam-
tiel Bayard, Helena de
Key. Jan Hendr. de Brfiyn,
Pieter de Riemer, Isaac
de Foreest, Johanna de
Brdyn. Simon Breedsteden, Aef-
je L6cas. Jan Kierszen, Jannetie
Kierszen. Jan Schodten, Anna
Schoiiten.
Enoch Michielszen, Mar- ritje Dircx.
M' Samuel Staets, Johan- na Reynders.
Henricds Selyns, Marga- reta de Riemer.
Isaac Kip, Sara de Mill.
Hans Kierstede, Maria
Montagne, Rachel
Kierstede. Dirck Van der Clyft,
Geesje Hendricx. Tobias Sto6tenb6rg, Saer-
tie Van Fe6rden.
Pieter Jacobszen Marius, Tryntie Michiels.
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OUDBRS. KINDKRS«
EodeoL Jean d(i Fotirt, Jan- Ariaentie,
netje Jans. den 25 dicta Jan Kierszen, Gerrit- Grietje.
je Jans. Eodem. Jan Montagne, An- Abraham.
netje Waldrons. den 23 Dec John Pinkens^ Janne- Jan.
ken Hercx.
den 25 diet Teeikiis Comeliszen, Tryntie. Cathrina Pa&lCis.
OBTUYGBN.
Theunis Idenszen, Anne- ken Claes.
Claes Janszen Van Hey- ningen, Annetje Jans.
Abraham Kip, Adriaentie Ekens.
Evert Aertszen, Johannes Van Vorst, Marritje Hercx.
Balthtis Barentszen, Pie- tertje Idens.
den 10 Jan. Eodem. den 16 diet den 20 dicto.
den 25 dicto. Eodem. den 30 dicto.
Eodem.
£odem.
Eodem,
Eodem. [452] den 3 Feb,
Eodem. den 6 diet Eodem.
A* 1689.
Jacob Meene, Aeltie Anna.
Steems. Willem BAyel, Janne- Willem.
ken Frans. Likias Kierstede, Sara.
Rachel Kip. •
Henr. .de Foreest, Gerrit
Femmetje Flaes-
berg. EVert Arentszen, Jo- Arent
hanna Van Speyck. Anthony Sarlye, Jo- Catalyntie.
syntie Thomas. Qufreen Soor, Sophy Johannes.
Mary de Wit
Jacobus GoMet, Jan- Jacob.
neken Sozard. Jan Dircksxen, Cata- Comelis.
Kna Clopper. R^er Michielszen, Saertie.
Jacomyntie Tibotit, Gerbrant Claeszen, Comelis.
Marritje Claes. Joris Borger, Lysbeth Engelq'e.
Bfirgers, ' Benjamin Blaeck, J&- SamCieL
didiEdsal.
Thomas Cr&ndall, Lydia. Deborade Meyert.
Jsaac de Foreest, Lys- MargareCa. beth Van der Spie*
Mach'telt de Riemer, H.
V. Jasper Nissepadt Cornelia Willems.
Johannes Kip^ Blandina
Kierstede. Asstiertis Hendrickszen,'
S(isanna de Foreest
Arentssen Jsaacszen, An- na Van Hoeck. Jacobiis Cock, Mayken
Herberdinck. Hendrick ten Eyck Jacob
Leendertszen, Johanna
de Wit Charles N&s6ol, Lydia
Willemyns. Alberttis Van de Water,
Tryntie Dircx. Bastiaen Michielszen Jan-
netje Tibo6t Gerrit Hardenbeig, Aelt-
je Schepmoes. Elias Borger, Engeltje
Mans. Jacob Teller,
Wandel I Wes<;eR Christina \ ^^^^els.
Henriciis de Meyert, Samtiel Straets, Janne- ken Van dyck.
Jacob&s Van der Spiegel, Sfisanna de Foreest
Digitized by
38
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. f Jan.,
OUDXRS.
KINDE&8.
den lo d. Eodero.
den 13 diet.
den 1 7 diet
den 24 diet
Eodero. - Eodem. Eodem. den I Mart.'^ Eodem. ^
den 3 dicto. Eodem. '. den 10 diet den 13 diet Eodem.
den lydieto.
den 25 diet
[453],. den 27 dieto.
den 31 dieto. Eodem. Eodem. den 7 Apr.
Dirck ten Eyek, Aef- Marj^ken.
je Boelen. Francois Van der Matthe&s.
Koeek, I^vyntie
de Vries. Jean Le montez, He- Johannes.
lena Fell.
Jacobs Berry, Lys- Debora. ' beth Liicas.
I
Henriciis ten Eyck, Jacob Petronella de Wit Rachel
John Piroo, Metje Pieter.
Pieters. Frans WesseUzen, Geerti.e.
Tryntie Jans. Vincent Montagnie Jan.
Ariaentje Jans Arent Fredrickszen, Comelis.
Sara Koevers. Andries Thomson, Andries.
Marritje Breed-
stede. Isaac Bedlo, Hermi- Comelis.
na Groenendael. Francois Pfiy, Annie Mary.
Elsten. Barent Hyben, Sara Rachel.
Ennes. Hendriek Abrahams- Anna.
zen, Catharina Jans. Gerrit Leydecker, Cornelia.
Neeltje Van der
KtLyl. JacobCis de Beativois, Johannes.
Maria Joosten. Frans Godertis, Re- Catharina.
becca Ennes. Hendriek Van Ren- Maria.
selaer, Catharina
Van Briig. Hendriek Jaeobszen, Hendriek.
Anneken Fellart. Ritzard Hartfort, Do- Ritzard.
rothea Cox. Willem Hellaken, Tryntie.
Tryntie Boelen. Zacharias LaCirens- Maryken. zen, Aeltje Gys- berts.
OETUYGEN.
Hendriek Boelen, Annet-
je Coiirt. Gerrit Hellaer, Mayken
Comelis, en Susanna
Thernmers. Jan Vincent, Hendriek
Jaeobszen, Anneken
Jans* * Samiiel Berry, Aeije L6-
cas.
Johanna Gerrits. Caspar Pieterszen, Aech-
tie Jans. Jan Direkszen Meyer,
Francyntie Sttiltheer. Jan Thomaszen, Annetje
Waldron. Matirits Koevers, Barber
Ltcas. Andries Breedstede, Mar-
ritie Andries.
- % Claes Borger, Catharina
der Val. Alberttis Ringo.
Jilles Provoost, Gcesje Lievens.
Johannes Van Vorst, Aelt- je Coleveet
Albert6s Ringo, Femmet- je Lalrens.
Comelis Joosten, Marga- reta de Riemer.
Abraham de Peyster, Ca- tharina de Peyster.
Stephantis Van Cortlant, Catharina Roelofs.
Jan MAncken, S6sanna Fellart.
Gerrit Leydecker, Neelt- je
Hendriek Boelen, Aefje Boelen.
Marten Clock, Assderds Hendrickszen, Neeltje Gysberts.
Digitized by
i88o.] "Rettris cftht Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
39
/
OUDBRS. KINDKRS.
Eodem. Leonardt Van der Anneken.
Grist, Stymie Else- wart Eodem« Joost Falding, Cathri- Abraham.
na Dtiyts. Eodem. JacobAs Colve, Jan- Johannes.
neken Jans, den 12 diet Andries Meyer, Comelis.
Vro^wtje Van Vorst. den 17 diet. Nicolaes Stdyvesant, Anna. Elisabeth Van Slech- tenhorst Eodem. Johannes Beeckman, Thomas.
Aeltie Thomas.
den 21 diet Joost Stol, Anna Da- Elisabeth.
vids. Eodem. Johannes Van Gelder, Johannes.
Aefje Roos. Eodem. Jacobiis Corneliszen, Margariet
Aeltje Fredricx. ' / den 24 diet Comelis Greyer, An- Marten.
netje Bording. Eodem. Jan Pell, Janneken Samdel.
Joosten. Eodem. Meewes Carsten, David.
GeertrdJ^ Barlels. den I May. Comelis Idensrcn Gerrit.
Van Vorst, Fytie
Gerrits. den 5 dicto. John Crooke, Geer- John.
tniyd de haes. Eodenu JacoB Phaenix, Aeltje Sander.
Van Vleck. Eodem. Jan Berver, Hen- Pieter.
drickie Jans. Eodem. Gerrit D6ycking, Ma- ChristoflfeL
ryken Abeel.
[454] den 5 May Johannes Clopper, Comebs. Margrietje Hagen.
den 9 diet Leendert Albertsz. Jacobus.
de Grafi, Gerritje
Qfiick. Eodem, Jan Evertszen, obyt. Jan.
Engeltje Hercx.
den 19 diet Abraham Ackerman, Lysbeth. Aeltje Van Laer.
GBTUTGEN.
Stoffel Elswart, Anneken Jans.
Jan Andrieszen, Elisabeth Stephens.
Johannes Casparszen, Marie Jans.
MaFcelis Pieterszen, An- neken Van Vorst
Samfiel Staets, Anna St^yvesanl.
Thomas Lafirenszen Po-
pinga, Magdaleentie
Abeel. David Christiaenszen,
Janneken Lievens. Gerrit Janszen Roos,
Hester Van Gelder. Fredricx Arentszen, Jo-
syntie Ver hagen. Pieter Jacobszen MariAs,
Tryntie Bordings. Joost Carelszen, Styntie
Joosten. Aert Elbertszen, Grietie
Wessels. Marcelis Pieterszen, An-
netie Harmens.
Isaac de Foreest, Helena
deKey. . Isaac de Peyster, Catali-
na de La noy. Johannes Martelin, Aeltje
Jans. Gerard4s Beeckman, Be-
litje Byvanck, Celitie
Dfiyckmg. D'. Johannes Kerfbyl,
Anna Hagen, Cathari-
na R6g. Carsten Lti^rszen, Geer-
tie Q6ick.
De H'. Francis Nicols, dep. Gotivernetir, Hie- ronym^ Van Bommel, Marritje Hercks.
AssAer^s Hendrickszen^ Hendrickje WesseL
Digitized by
40
Records of the Reformed Difick Church in New York. [Jan.;
OUBXRS. KINDX&S. OXTUTGXN.
Helena Van Br^g.
Eodenu Comelis Q^ick, Ma- Comelis.
rykcn Van Hoog- ten. den 20 diet Hermann&s Van Gel- Janneken«
der, Te4ntie Tefinis. Eodem. Comelis Van Lange- Rachel.
velt,MaryGrietfelt. den a6 £ct Johannes Hooglant, Johannes.
Anneken Dtiycking. den 31 diet * Jan Jacobszen, Mar- Gerrit
* grietie Genits. den 3 J&n. Simon Claeszen, Claes.
Trj^rie Genits. den 12 diet Francois Rombo6t, Johannes.
Helena Teller, den 16 diet M^ Sam&el Staets, Catalina.
Johanna Reynardts. den 19 diet. Gerrit Hollaerdt Su* Thomas.
sanna Thomas, doi 26 diet. Jan de Vries, Neger, Dirck:
Adriaentie Dircks. den 30 diet Jeremias Kennich, Anneken, Anne Wood. oud3jaren9
Jeremias. Eodem. Bemardus Harden- Anna,
broeck, Elisabeth Coely. Eodem. Egbert Fockenszen, Geesje.
Elsje L4cas. den 7 Jfil. Ide Andrieszen, Ibel Frans.
Goedtbloedt Eodem. Clement Elsewaert, Anna Maria.
Anna Maria Engels. den 10 diet Pieter Jansz. V. Lan- Comelis. gedj^ck^eertje Cor- nells, den 24 diet. Jacob Cdmeliszen Frans. Stille, Marritie Hen- [455] dricks.
Eodenu Jan Janszen Van Catharina.
Flensbtirg, Marga- riet Martens. Eodem. AJbertus Van de Wa^ Margrietie.
ter, Petronel Clop- pers. •
den 1 7 diet Jean de La maistre, Abraham.
Rttje Waldron. den a I diet Pieter Janszen Bo- Mnria.
gaert,Fytie Thyssen. den 94 diet PaCdiis Tiirck, JOnior, Pa61^ Marritie Reyers.
Jan Van Gelder, Senior,
Jannetie Tennis. Laiirens La6renszen, Ca-
tharyn Lievens. Dirck Hooglant, Jan By-
vang^ Catalina Joresy. Pieter Jacobszen, Elsje
Pieters. La^ens Hoist, Hilletje
Hoist Nicolaes Ba5^ard, Rachel
Kierstede. Jan Br6yn, Henricts de Meyert, DeboraMeyert Urbanus Thomaszen, Eli- sabeth Jans. Hendrick Wesselszen,
Janneken Wessels. Jacob de Key, Hillegond
Te(mis.
M'. Sam6el Staets, Anna Hardenbroeck.
Claes Van Heyningen,
Styntie Hendncx. Pieter Jacobszen, Geesje
Idens. Gerrit Leydecker, Neel-
tie Barents. Jacob Comeliszen, Geer-
tie Jans.
Pieter Janszen Van Lan- gendyck, Belitie Hen- dricks.
Pieter de Riemer, Cathri- na de La VaL
Johannes Clopper, Mar- grietie Ver Metden.
Johannes Waldron, Aeltje
Waldron. Thomas Franszen, Tryn-
tie thyssen. Pai^l6s Tiirck, Annetje
Reyers.
Digitized by
l88o.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
41
Eodem. den 28 d
den 29 d Eodem.
den 4 A^. Eodem. den zidict
Eodem. Eodem.
den 14 d. den 18 diet Eodem. Eodem.
den 30 d
Eodem.
den I Sept den 4 diet Eodem. Eodem. Eodem.
OUDBRS. KINDB&S.
Johannes de Peyster, Johannes.
Anna Banckers. Harmen Jansz, To6w Dirckje.
Slager,* Geesje
Sch^drroans. M*. Abraham de La- Johannes.
noy, Cornelia ToL Jan Legget, Catelina RacheL
Tenbroeck.
GBTUYGBN.
Abraham \ Cornelia
Caspar Pieters, Lysbeth SchtLdrmans.
j. de Peyster.
Thymen Franszen,
Hester Plfiviers. Johannes Gardyn,
Dirckje Jans. Cap*. Carel Ix>dwyk,
Margareta Mey-
nards. Robbert Derkins,
Styntje Gosens. Johannes Van Im-
b^g, Margareta
VanSchayck. Heyman Coninck,
Karia Andries. Thomas Herdin, Ca-
tharina Bedlo. Theiinis Herckxen,
Sophia Hendricx. Hendrick Van Bos-
Slim, obyt, Marri-
tie Van der KlyL
Jan Janszen Mayer, Annetje Idens.
Neeltje.
Johannes.
Elisabeth.
Robbert. Rebecou
Jacob. Johannes. Maxgariet. Hendrickje.
Hille o
f
gond V|
Dirckje ) 9
le-JI :kje)!
Claes Van Heynin- Cornelia, gen Janneken Kier- sen. Willem Teller, Jtoior, Willem.
Rachel Kierstede. Willem Hoogstyler, Trezia.
Ariaentie Samdels. Jacob Franszen, Mag- Comelis.
daleentie Cqpelis. Alexander Lam, Lys- Joris.
beth Conincks. JacobAs Janszen Maria.
Kock, Steyntie
Meynarts.
^Ropemaker.
Pieter de Lanoy, Corne- lia de Peyster. Hendrick Hendrickszen
Ten broeck, Geertrtiyd
Tenbroeck. Jacob Franszen, Neeltje
Plfiviers. Jan Vincent, Annetje
Vincent. Sam&el Meynard, Jan
Harberding, Annetje
Everts. Hendrick Jacobszen,
Hester Clyb. Jacob Kip, senior, Re«
becca Idens.
Alexander I^am, Maria Conincx.
Isaac Bedlo, Lysbeth Bedlo.
Marten Hendricxen, Grietie Hendricx.
Gerrit Leydecker, Thy- men Van Bossiim, Jan- neken Van Bosslm.
Pieter Meyer, Comelis ' Van Vorst, Vrouwtie Van Vorst, Pietertie Van Vorst
Jan Kiersen, Sara Van Fe&rden.
M'. Hans Kierstede» He^ lena Teller.
Arent Theymenszen, Geesje Arents.
Thymen Franszen, Mar- ntie.Comens.
Heyman Coninck, Lys- beth Conings.
Reynier Meynartszen, Tryntie Rejhiiiers.
Digitized by
42 Records of Rahway and Plainfield, N. J. [Jan^
RECORDS OF RAHWAY AND PLAINFIELD [NJ.] MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS (FORMERLY HELD AT AMBOY AND WOODBRIDGE). BIRTHS.
Communicated by Hugh D. Vail, Esq.
(Cootiniicd from VoL X., p. 143, of Ttes Rbooed.)
« I^y. Month. Ycftr.
Rohde Dell Daughter of Richard Dell and Elizabeth his
wife was born 28
Mary Hampton Daughter of W" Hamton and Sarah his
wife was bom 27
Ame Hampton Daughter of W" Hamton and Sarah his
wife was bom 29
Benjamin Hampton Son of W" Hampton and Sarah his
wife was bom 20
Vnis Fitz Randolph Daughter of Hartshorn Fitz Randolph
and Ruth his wife was born 30
Sarah Haydock daughter of John Haydock and Mary his
wife was bora. i
Mary Shotwell daughter of Isaiah Shotwell & Constant his
wife was born 23
Jediah Shotwell Son of Isaiah Shotwell and .Constant' his
wife was bom 15
Ebenezor Clark Son of JosepAi Clark and Elizabeth his
wife was bom 19
Elizabeth ^otwell daughter of Benjamin Shotwell and Ame
his wife was bom 17
Thomas Shotwell Son of Benjamin Shotwell and Ame his
¥nfe was bom 10
William Shotwell Son of Benjamin Shotwell & Ame his
wife was bora 27
Lidia Shotwell daughter of Benjamin Shotwell & Ame his
wife was born 27
Abigal Hunt Daughter of Marmaduke Hunt & Elizabeth
his Wife was bora the 23
Gilbert Hunt Son of Marmaduke Hunt & Elizabeth his
Wife was bora 10
James Hunt Son of Marmaduke Hunt & Elizabeth his
Wife was bora 3
Samuel Hunt Son of Marmaduke Hunt & Elizabeth his
Wife was born 23
Peter Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell and Constant his
wife was bora 2
David Haraed son of Jonathan Haraed & Sarah his wife
was born 10
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12 |
1773 |
|
6 f 8 1 |
1770 '772 |
|
3 |
1775 |
|
5 I |
1765 |
|
3 1 |
[776 |
|
9 = |
1773 |
|
3 1 |
1775 |
|
8 \ |
[776 |
|
4 I |
[762 |
|
12 1 |
1764 |
|
4 |
1766 |
|
7 |
1769 |
|
II 1 |
1765 |
|
S 1 |
[767 |
|
9 J |
1768 |
|
13 ] |
1770 |
|
6 |
'777 |
|
8 I |
1767 |
Digitized by
i88o.] Records of Rakway and Plainfield^ N, J. 43
Day. Month. Year.
4 Jacob Harned Son of Jonathan Harned & Sarali his wife
was born 9 7 1 769
Nathanil Harned son of Jonathan Harned & Sarah his
wife was born 30 9.1771
Sarah Harned daughter of Jonathan Harned & Sarah his
wife was bom 5 12 1 773
Nathaniel Harned a Second son of that name and Son
Jonathan Harned & Sarah his wife was bom 5 * 12 1775
William Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wiffe
was bom ^12 8 1754
Isaac Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife was
bom. 16 4 1 756
Maxy Marsh Daughter of William Marsh and Sarah his
wife was bom : 23 2 1758
Samuel Marsh Son of William Marsh' and Sarah his wife
was bom 4.... 6 4 1 760
Susanah Marsh Daughter of William Marsh and Sarah his
wife was bom 11 2 1762
Hugh Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife was
bom 16 10 1763
Sarah Marsh Daughter of William Marsh and Sarah his
wife was born 15 12 1764
John Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife was
bom 9 3 1767
James Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife was
bom 10 9 1768
Mulford Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife
was bom 20 6 1771
Charles Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife
was born 24 5 1773
Gideon Marsh son of William Marsh and Sarah his wife
was bom 28 3 1775
Elizabeth Marsh daughter of William Marsh and Sarah his
wife was born ^ . 24 8 1776
Rachel Marsh daughter of William Marsh and Sarah his
wife was born 15 11 1778
Robert Haydock son of John Haydock & Mary his wife .
was bom.. 4 4 1779
Abel Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell & Constant his wife
was bom 2 2 1779
Abigal Marsh Daughter of Mordeica Marsh and Mary his
Wife was bom 18 8 1779
Charlotte Shotwell daughter of David Shotwell & Eliza- beth his wife was bom 20 3 1780
William Hampton son of William Hampton & Sarah his
wife was bonu 24 12 1 776
Sarah Hampton daughter of William Hampton & Sarah
his wife was bom. . . < 28 8 1779
Thomas L Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell & Constant
his wife was born i 9 1781
James Dell son of Randsd Dell & Ann his wife was born. 25 9 1773
Digitized by
44 Rec0rdi rf Rahway and FiainfieJd, N. /.
Jane Dell daughter of Raadol Dell & Ann his wife was
bom 9
William Dell son of Randol Dell & Ann .his wife was
born 20
Margret Vail daughter of John Vail & Catherian his wife
was bom 5
£dward Vail son of John Vail and Catherian his wife was
bom*. 27
Amos Vail son of John Vail iand Catherian .his wife was
bom 31
Isaac Vail son of John Vail and Catherian his wife was
bom , I
Pkebe Vail Daughter of John Vail and Catherine his wife
was born 17
Nathan Vail son of John Vail and Catherine his wife was
born..., 3
Joel Vail son of John Vail and Catherian his wife was
bom , 7
Samuel Hartshom Shotwell son of David Shotwell &
Elizabeth Shotwelll his wife was born at Rahway
the , 6
Samuel Latham son of Thomas Latham & Miriam his wife
was born , , . . 23
William Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell & Constant his
wife was born 7
Mary Lundy Daughter of Jacob Lundy & Sarah his wife
was bom 26
Margret Shotwell Daughter of Henry Shotwell & Sarah
his wife was born 30
Rachel Shotwell Daughter of W" Shotwell & Elizabeth
. his Wife was bom 1
Catharine Shotwell Daughter of W» Shotwell & Elizabeth
his Wife was Bom 21
Anna Shotwell Da^ighter of W°^ Shotwell & Eliz* his wife
was Born 31
Phebe Shotwell Daughter of W» Shotwell & Eliz* his wife
was Bora , 13
EKzabeth Shotwell Daughter of W» Shotwell & Eliz* his
wife was Bom 27
Elijah Shotwell son of William Shotwell & Eliz* his wife
was Bom 14
John Shotwell son of William Shotwell & Elizabeth his
wife was Bom 29
Grace Shotwell Daughter of Isaiah Shotwell &: Constant
his wife was Bom 21
Miram Copeland Daughter of Coperthwait Copeland &
Margit his wife was bom 14
Mary Marsh daughter of Samuel Marsh & Anna his wife
was born '. 20
Hannah Elston daughter of Samuel Elston & Margret his
wife was born. i
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rjaa., |
|
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ModO. |
Yor. |
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13 |
1776 |
|
I |
1778 |
|
I |
1763 |
|
3 |
1764 |
|
7 |
1766 |
|
8 |
1770 |
|
10 |
1772 |
|
5 |
1777 |
|
I |
1780 |
|
5 |
1783 |
|
I |
1 775 |
|
•3 |
>7«3 |
|
6 |
1784 |
|
8 |
1785 |
|
3 |
1773 |
|
9 |
1774 |
|
8 |
1777 |
|
8 |
1779 |
|
9 |
1 781 |
|
8 |
1783 |
|
5 |
'785 |
|
4 |
1786 |
|
I ] |
1786 |
|
8 |
1786 |
|
5 |
1761 |
Digitized by VjOOQIC
i88o.] ^ Ree&rds of Rahway and Plainfield^ N, /
Day.
Margret Elston daughter of Samuel Elston & Margret his
wife was bom 6
Johil Shotwell & Margaret his Wife their daughter Jane
was bom 3
Sarah «.••••.• 20
Margaret 6
Phebe 17
their son Joseph 14
Twi»s I daughters j^a^d;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;:;: \\
Hannah 15
Rebecca 8
Eleanor » • . . . 28
Ann Shotwell Daughter of Henry Shotwell & Sarah his
wife was Bom ii
Joseph Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell & Constant his
wife was bom 14
Charles Nicols son of Benjamin Nicols & Mary his wife
was Bom 15
Smith Shotwell son of William Shotwell & Elizabeth his
wife was Born 29
Tbos. Pound son of Elijsdi Pound & Isabella his wife was
Bora ; ; 13
Jacob Pound son of Elijah Pound & Isabella his wife
was Bom 6
Margaret Pound Daughter of Elijah Pound & Isabella his
wife was Bom 30
Thomas Brotherton son of W"' Brotherton & Sarah his
wife was Bom 16
Richard Brotherton son of William Brotherton & Sarah
his wife was Bom •...».. 30
Hannah Murray Shotwell Daughter of Henry Shotwell
& Sarah his wife was Bom 14
Sarah ^otwell Daughter of William Shotwdl & Elizabeth
his wife was bom 13
Hannah W Marsh Daughter of Sam^ Marsh & Ann his
wife was bom 10
Abraham Brooke son of Charles Brooke & Amy his Wife
was Bom 20
Thomas Dobson Shotwell son of Henry Shotwell & Sarah
his Wife was Born ^ 17
Edmond Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell & Constant his
Wife was bom 3
Elizabeth Shotwell daughter of Henry Shotwell & Sarah
his Wife was bom % 22
Mary Brotherton Daughter of William Brotherton & Sarah
his Wife was Bom 31
Elizabeth Brotherton Daughter of WilU^un Brotherton &:
Barah his Wife was Bom 7
Mary Laing dau of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Bom... ; • II
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45 |
|
|
Hoodu |
Vew. |
|
13 |
1770 |
|
s 3 I 9 7 8 8 5 8 10 |
177a 1774 1776 1780, 1783 1785 1785 1787 1789 1793 |
|
3 |
1787 |
|
6 |
1787 |
|
4 |
1788 |
|
5 |
1787 |
|
»f |
1784 |
|
I |
1787 |
|
4 |
1788 |
|
2 |
1786 |
|
8 |
1787 |
|
10 |
1788 |
|
3 |
1789 |
|
S |
1788 |
|
6 |
1789 |
|
3 |
1790 |
|
4 |
1791 |
|
9 |
1791 |
|
8 |
1789 |
|
7 |
»79i |
|
8 |
1768 |
Digitized by
46 Records of Rahway and Plainfield^ N. /.
Day.
David Laing son of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Born..... , • II
Joseph Laing son of John Laing & Susannah his wife was
Born ^ 21
John Laing son of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Born 27
Elizabeth Laing dau^ of John Laing & Susannah his Wife
was Born a
Isaac Laing son of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Born 15
Jacob Laing son of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Bom ao
William Laing son of John Laing & Susannah his Wife
was Bom 21
Sarah Laing dau of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Bom 6
Rachel Laing dau of John Laing & Susannah his Wife was
Bom • 9
Anna I^ng daughter of John Laing & Susannah his Wife
was Born 8
Anna Hamed Daughter of Jonathan Hamed & Sarah his
Wife was Bom 12
John Hamed sop of Jonathan Hamed & Sarah his Wife
was Born 16
Rebecca Harned Daughter of Jonathan Hamed & Sarah
his Wife was Born 17
Deborah Harned Daughter of Jonathan Hamed & Sarah
his Wife was born 16
Jonathan Hamed son of Jonathan Harned & Sarah his
Wife was Bom 10
Samuel Marsh son of Samuel Marsh & Ann his Wife was
born 27
Samuel Emlen Shotwell son of Isaiah Shotwell & Con- stant his Wife was bom. 21
Hugh Pound son of Samuel Pound & Katharine his Wife
was Born 3
Anna Pound Daughter of Samuel Pound & Katharine his
Wife was Bom 26
John Pound son of Samuel Pound & Katharine hb Wife
was Bom 10
Elizabeth Pound Daughter of Samuel Pound & Katharine
his Wife was Bom 16
William Pound son of Samuel Pound & Katharine his
Wife was Born ai
Samuel L Pound son of Samuel Pound & Katharine his
Wife was Bom. « 27
Mary Shotwell Daughter of Henry Shotwell & Sarah his
Wife was Bom 6
Miriam Shotwell Daughter of William Shotwell & Eliz- abeth his Wife was Bom 19
|
[Jan.. |
|
|
Mwih. |
Yew. |
|
12 |
1770 |
|
3 |
1773 |
|
3 |
1775 |
|
3 |
1777 |
|
8 |
1779 |
|
13 |
1780 |
|
3 > |
1783 |
|
7 |
1784 |
|
13 |
I78« |
|
3 1 |
1789 |
|
13 |
1780 |
|
3 |
t783 |
|
I ] |
[786 |
|
6 1 |
[788 |
|
10 1 |
[791 |
|
8 ] |
1793 |
|
1793 |
|
|
t773 |
|
|
I77S |
|
|
1779 |
|
|
1783 |
|
|
1783 |
|
|
3 1 |
1786 |
|
S .J |
'793 |
|
9 I |
[7Qt |
Digitized by
iSSo.] Records of St. George's Church, Jlempsieady L. L 47
RECORDS OF ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, HEMPSTEAD, L. I.
BAPTISMS.
COMMUNICATKD BY BENJAMIN D. HiCKS, ESQ.
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Oct 28. Sarah Peterson, adult
" " Thomas, son of the above.
J^n. 24. Sarah Treadwell, Samuel Treadwell, William Treadwell, adults.
" ** Elizabeth, d. of Benjamin and Sarah Treadwell.
" " John Wolley, Joseph WoUey, William Wolley, Benjamin WoUey, Samuel Wolley, adults.
" " Thomas, s. of John and Hannah Wolley.
Jan. 25. James, s., Mary, d., of James and Mary Neuvell.
Feb. 27. John, s., Phebe, d, Anne, d., Sarah, d,, Daniel, s., of Daniel and Pe^e Kissam.
" " Elizabeth Mott, adult.
Mar. 7. Hannah, d, Mary, d., Annie, d., of Adam and Mary Carman.
" " William, s. of Peter and Elizabeth Holmes.
«* " Hannah, d of Israel and Mary Smith.
** •* Ruth, d., Rebecca, d., of Stephen and Mary Smith.
" « Sarah Bedle, adult
April 30. Mary, d., Sarah, d., of William and Kaziah Fowler.
May I. Rebecca, d of Joseph and Phebe Thurston'.
«* " Thomas, s., James, s., of Peter and Margaret Stringham.
May 1 i. Stephen, s. of Stephen and Mary Smith.
" '« Lorada, d. of John and Mary Rowland.
June 19. At Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., Hannah, d. of William and Sarah Bedel.
" " Peter, s. of Peter and Hannah Filkins.
June 29. Benjamin Cornel, adult
July 16. Sarah, d. of Richard and Mary Rhodes.
** " Hannah, d. of the widdow Elizabeth Bunts.
July 20. At Oyster Bay, L. I., Isaac, s. of John and Mary Hewlett
Aug. 3. At Huntineton, L. I., Mary, d. of Edmund Andrews.
** ** Deborah, d of Zophar Rogers.
Aug. 28. William, s, of William and Mary Johnson.
Sep. 13. Mary, d, David, s., Phebe, d., Deborah, d., John, s., William,
s., of John and Elizabeth Allen.
Sep. i6. Isaac, s. of Phebe Gritman.
Sep. 17. At Huntington, L. I., Phebe D., d. of Luke Ruland
Nov. 2. At Fishkill, Mary, d. of Thomas and Phebe Spragg.
^ *^ Elizabeth, d. of Johannes and Ann Young.
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At Fishkill, Phebc, d.^ Anne, d., of Heniy and Anne Southward. Mary, d. of Elias Conklin. Elizabeth, d. of John and Jemime Terbus. Nov. 4. At Beekman's Precinct, Anne, d. of Joshua and Bridget Cham- plin. Sponsors^ Bartholomew and Elizabeth Noxon. Elizabeth, d. of Smon and Penelop Noxon. Sponsors^ Peter and Gertrude Noxon. Nov. 5. At Rumbout, Joseph, Anne, Hannah, Sarah Smith, adults. Anne Wilsey, adult. Elizabeth Scuder, adult «* Phebe, d., Elizabeth, d., of Elizabeth Smith.
William, s., Thomas, %^ of Thomas and Mary Halstead. Nov. 6. At Crum Elbow^ Peter, s., Seaman, s., Phebe, d., Deborah, d., Sarah, d., of James and Sarah Germond. Surity with pa- rents, Isaac Germond, Esq. Nov. 7. At Crum Elbow, Jacobus, s. of Jacobus and Eloner Filkins. Nov. 3. At Crum Elbow, William, s., Mary, d., Sarah, d., Elizabeth, d, of William and Sarah Bedel. James, s., Peter, s., Silus, d., of Peter and Mary Germond. Bernard, s. of Bernard and Mary Filkins. James, s. of John and Elizabeth Germond. Jacob, s., Rhoda, d., Catherine, d., of Henry and Mary Filkins. Margery, d of Christian and Catherine Tobius. Nov. 9. At Crum Elbow, Peter, s., John, s., of John ^d Jerusha Warren.
" " Sarah, d of John and Jane Harris. Nov. II. At Phillips Manor, Mary, d-of Elisha and Diana Merritt Nov. 30. Sarah, d of Philip and Dorcas Allen.
1761.
Feb. 3. Arrabella, d. of Samuel and Elizabeth Pettitt. Feb. 17. Reuben, s. of Henry and 'Sarah Jackson. Feb. 26. At Huntington, L. I., Nathaniel, s. of Samuel and Margaret Allen. " « Stephen, s. of Shubel and Freelove Smith. " " Thomas, s. of Joseph and Deborah Mott. Mar. I. At Huntington, L. I., Bathsheba, d. of Richard and Bathsheba
Rogers. April 12. John, s. of John and Mary Mason. << « Miriam, d. of John and Abigail Mott. " " Phebe, d of Isaac and Phebe Smith. June 5. William Cornell, adult << '' Hannah Cornell, adult. « « Elizabeth, d., Katherine, d, Melanchton, s., of William and
Hannah Cornell. '
" « Stephen, s., Abigail, d, William s., Nance, d, of John and
Hannah Cornell. " " Nelson Cornel, child " " Martha Smith, child
*» " John, s., Calebs s., Mary, d, of Daniel (deceased) and Maiy Cornell.
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June 5. Robert, s., Susanna, d., Jane, d., of Samuel Gardiner.
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July 6. At Huntington, L. I;, Richard, s^ John, s., Griffith, s., of Grifllth
and Martha Thomas. Schoolmaster at Huntington. July 12. Stephen, s, (rf Stephen Thorn.
** " Linnington, s.- of Charles and Hannah* Dorlondt July 27. Elizabeth Hewlett, adult Jane Hewlett, adult Daniel Hewlett, adult. William Hewlett, adult Elizabeth Hewlett, adult
Abigail, d. of Israel and Elizabeth Horsfield, of York Ferry. Aug. 2. At Oyster Bay, L. I., Howard, s. of Bernard and Jane Agin. Sep. — ^ At Oyster Bay, L. I., Thomas Youngs, adult. Nov. 15. At Huntington, L. L, Sarah, d. of Uriah and Mary Wright " " John, s. of Jeremiah and Abigail Rogers. " ** Elizabeth, A of Dennis and Susannah Wright Nov. 23. At Huntington, L. I., Rachel, d. of William and ■ Joanneh Nichols, of Islip, L. I.
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Jan. 31. John, 8. of John Linnington.
Feb. 3. Samuel, s. of Edward and Phebe Spragg.
William, s., Aboer, s., of widdow Hannah Bums. Martha, d. of Edward and Hannali Verity. Pegge, d. of Daniel and Phebe Smith. Elizabeth Spragg, adult. Feb. 4. Adam, s., Philip, s., of George and Sarah Lawrence, of Flushing. Feb. II. Samuel Cornel, adult Charles Cornel, adult. Hannah Cornel, adult Joseph, s., Nancy, d., of Ruth. Howard.
Samuel, s., Daniel, s., Jacob, s., of Joseph and Hannah Cornel. Jane, d. of Samuel and Katherine Cornel. '' << Abigail, d, Rachel, d., of Charles and Abigail Cornel. Mar. 5. Martha, d. of Miriam Smith. " " Joseph Cheeseman, adult. *' Sarah Cheeseman, adult
Joseph, Jr., Cheeseman, adult. " ** Mary Cheeseman, adult '* ** Sarah Cheeseman, adult William Hutton, adiilt.
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Mar. 5. Phebe Hutton, adult. " " Anthony, s., Richard, s., Elizabeth^ d., Samuel, s., of Joseph and Sarah Cheeseman. Mar. 9« Samuel, s. of Samuel and Mary Denton. " " Catherine, d. of Isaac and Margaret Smith.
Deborah, d., Catherine, d., of Timothy and Ann Smith. Betsey, d^, Beekke, d., of Caleb and Margaret Southworth. Mary £., d. of Samuel and Elizabeth Martin. Anna, d. of Isaac and Jemime Forsure^ of Westchester. At Oyster Bay, L. I., Hannah, d. of John and Mary Hewlett Elizabeth, d. of Daniel and Pegge Kissam. Elizabeth Brooks, adult. Sarah, d. of Elizabeth Brooks.
At Fishkill,£)onrad, s. of Conrad and Rosannah Nesstey. Barbary, d. of Philip I. and Ester Shaft * Christian, s. of Christian and Margaret Duper. Katherine, d. of Joseph and Katherine Dolin. Freelove, d., Mary, d., of Elisha and Mary BedelL Joseph, s. of James and Elizabeth Green. Elizabeth, d. of Peter and Elizabeth Bogardus. " «* George, s. of Arthur and Mary Crosby. " " Catherine, d., Sarah, d., of John L. and Catherine Newberger. " " Mary, d. of James and Rachel Weeks. June 9. At Beekmans Precinct, Martine, s. of John and Margaret Smith, of Rurabout. " " Ann, d. of Christian Sackrider, of Nine Partners. June zo. At Fishkill, Hannah, d., Tunchee, d, of John and Catherine
Holland. June II. At Fishkill, Peter, s. of Roger and Rachel McDaniel. June 13. At Nine Partners, John, s. of Peter and Hannah Filkins. " " Eloner, d. of William and Sarah BeedelL ' " ". James, s. of William and Nette Teare. " " Elizabeth, d. of Coleburt and Mary Robinson. " " Margaret, d. of John and Mary Murrey. ** " Henry, s., Catreen, d., of Caleb and Catreen Husted. f* " Hannah, d. of Henry and Mary Filkins. " " Cornelius, s. of Bemerd and Mary Filkins. *< " Darius, s. of Darius and Mary Lobdell. June 14. At Rumbout, Jacob Wright, adult. " *• Lydia, d., Elizabeth, d., William F., s., Joseph H., s., of Jacob and Mary Wright June 30. Thomas D., s. of George D. and Frances Ludlow. July II. Thomas, s. of Israel and Mary Smith. July 1 8. Rebecca, d. of Jonathan and Eloner Gildersleeve. Dec 9. Benjamin, s. of Uriah and Sarah Piatt Dec. 25. Samuel, s. of Samuel (deceased) and Freelove Wood.
1763.
Jan. 13. At Oyster Bay, L. I., Van Wick, s. of John and Mary Pol- hemus. «< << Rhoda, d. of Abraham and Elizabeth Van Wick.
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Jan. 23. At Huntington, Joel, s. of Zophar and Deborah Rogers.
" " Betsey, d of Shubel and Freelove Smith.
Feb. 10. Daniel Rhodes, adult.
" " Mary, d., William, s., Benjamin, s., of Daniel and Miriam Rhodes.
Feb. 1 8. Denton Dozenborough, adult.
" " Elizabeth Dozenborough, adult.
April 10. At Huntington, L. I., Dorcas, d. of Rogers.
NOTES AND QUERI-ES.
Rbnaudbt. — Can anyone give information of James Renandet prior to 17 14? At that date he was married in the Dutch Church, N. Y.^ to Belitie, dau. of Adrian Hoog- landt ; then remored to Philadelphia, where the name is spelled on the Records of Christ Church as Renandett, Renoudet, Rienudet, and RenaudeC. Through his daughter he has descendants in the Edgar, Howland, Leroy, Constable, and Pierrepont famUies.
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Schuyler, — ^F. H. Roof, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., requests information concerning the ancestors of Dominie Jonannes Schuyler, who was pastor of the Dutch Church at Schoharie, N. Y., from 1736 to 1755, at Hackensack, N. J., from 1755 to 1766, and at Sdioharie from 1766 to 1779, when he died.
Van Alstyn. — [Record, X., p. 5a] The Church Records of Kingston, Kaatsbaan, and Coxsackie should be examined. The following entries are taken from the Dutch Church Recordsof Catakill :
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1757 SepL 18 Andries, Hermanb Van Alsteyn Catrina Van Alsteyn.
1761 Jan. 2C Jochem Lammerse, Jacobus ** Lidia '*
1763 Feb. 20 Simion ** •* lidia Larrewa;
1765 Mch. 4 Lambert «* " "
1768 June 12 [no name given] Isack " Enzynvrow
1769 July 29 Margrita Jacobus '* Lidia Van Alsteyn,
1770 Mar. 4 Pieter fiarmen '^ Dina Larrewa.
[No other entries between 1732 and i8oa]
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KiDD, Capt. William. — Mr. De Peyster, in his address on the life and administra- tion of the Elarl of Belloraont, before the New York Historical Society, in November last, stated that Capt. Kidd was the son of the Rev. John Kidd, a Scottish non-con- formist clergyman. What is the authority for this statement ? P. Burke, in his " Cele- brated Naval and Military Trials," p. 21, says his birthplace was Greenock.
There were numerous families of this name in Scotland, one of which was that of James Kidd, of Cragie, ip Forfarshire, the son of Patrick Kidd, and who, according to an inquisition in i6n53jJiad three sons, Patrick, his heir, Gulielmus (William), and Robert. May not our fiunous Capt. K. have been thb Gulielmus t L,
Seymour. — Miss Mary K. Talcott, 133 Sigoumey St., Hartford, Conn., is engaged in the work of collecting material for a ^n«dogy of the descendants of Richard Sey- mour, of Hartford and Norwalk, who died m 1655. All persons interested in the family history are earnestly requested to communicate such information as they may have to tlie compiler.
Shribve. — Can j New York? His wife's . . ....
Day, of the 52d Regiment of Foot, in the British Army. Whose daughter was she, and where was she bom ? miss mary k. talcott,
133 Sigoumey St., Hartford, Conn.
\ anv one give me an account of the family of High Sheriff Shrieve, of irife^s maiden name was Seymour, and she married, 2dly, Capt. Paul
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Noble— Van Brugr.— Can my of the many readers of the Record Ycrify the cor* rectness of the following, or ffive farther information respecting the persons named ?
John NobU^ bom, Bristol, England, 170a Came to New York City, and in 1717 married Catharine van Brugfu He afterwards went to the West Indies, where he died, leaving two daughters, and probably a son. who also died soon after the father ; one of the daughters, .^<ir^, in 1746, married Robert Cumming^ of Freehold, N. J.
Catharine van Brugh was bom in New York City about 1702. After the death of her husband, his uncle. Sir yohn Stokes^ of Stoke Castle, Bristol^ England, sent for the widow and children to come and live with him. After remalnmg some two years in England, and losing one of her children, she, in 1723, retumed to New York. On the 28th of August, 1738, she married the celebrated Rev. fVi/Uam Tennent^ of New Jersey, by license dated 23d August, 1738 (see Lib. L of marriage book, p. 10, in the office of the Secretary of Sute, Albany, N. Y.). Who wen the parents of this Catharine van Brugh-f • A. D. s.
History of Harlbm.— Mr. Riker, whose valuable work upon Harlem is now in press, will be happy to present a copy of it to any person who will furnish him authentic information of the French Huguenots, Gerard Magister and his wife, Madelaine tAdmi' raly after they left Harlem in 1679.
Van Horn.—H. B. Sinks, 311 Wakiut St., Phila., is collecting the genealogy of the Van Horns of this country. .Parties having records will please send copies of same, giving dates of births, deaths, and marriages, also any biographical iketdies. Will publish same as soon as possible.
NOTES ON BOOKS.
Report op the Operations or the Numismatic and ANTiQUARtAN Society OF Philadelphia for the Years 1878 and 1879. Pp. 23. This Society has held nine meetings in each year, and has had one or more essays read at each meeting, besides several addresses. The summary here presented of the topics diacnssed indicates their learned and interesting character.
Report and Collections of the Nova Scotla Historical Society for the Year 1878. Vol I., pp. i4q. This shows an act of incorporation and organisation and inaugural proceedings of a fair character, and commences at once the publication of historical papers of much value, inclnding the joumal of Col. Francis Nicholson in 171a Many of the names printed had, like his, a part of their history in the Colony of New York.
The Family of Coohill, 1377 to 1879, ^^^ "o°^« Sketches of their Maternal Ances* tors, the Slmgsby's of Scriven Hall, 1135 to 1879. By James Henry CoghiU \ pp. 193. Cambridge. Printed at the Riverside Pros. 1879. This is a handsome pattern for a family memorial, with very neat plates, fine white paper, a well bound bool^ and carefully compiled contents. Few families in this country can connect their ancestors so satisfactorily with the families of old England, and produce so interesting an account of them. The author, dating the worl^ in*our city, acknowl* edges *' the services of professional gentlemen in examining records in each of the coun- tries,'* and gives "thanks to Joseph S. 6hester, LL.D., of London, Member of the Council of the Historical Society of Great Britaii^ for valuable information, and also for suggestions and advice which were of great service." We will not repeat the first para* graph of his preface. It expresses ifmat is often experienced, and may well be read by others commencing such a work, and the book itself may also be treated as one fit to be imitated and not easily surpassed, except by an Index. * M.
Other notes or books have to be postponed. The serials deserve partknilar men* tion. The N, Eng, Hist, and Gen, Register^ the Maganine of American ffiHory, the Pennsylvania Maganne of History^ the Genealogist^ of London, are so prominent as perhaps not to need our help. We can only regret our want of space to notice then
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A MEMORIAL SKETCH OF JOEL MUNSELL,
PRIKTBR AMD FUBU8HER.
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In the year 168 1 we find the first notice of Thomas Munsell^ then, and for the residue of his life, a resident of New London, Connecticut, There were several early immigrants bearing this family name, who are said to have located in the eastern part of Connecticut. No authentic account of their English origin has been successfully traced,^ although there is reason to believe they were of the lineage of the Maunsell familyj ori^nating in Sir Philip de Maunsell, who came from Normandy in the tram of William the Conqueror.
Thomas Munsell died at New London in 1712, leaving a widow, Lydia, and four children, viz. : Jacob, Elisha, Mercy, and Deliverance.
Jacob was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Calkins of New London, by whom he had one child, a son, named Calkins Munsell. He married, second, Phebe Loomis, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Drake) Loomis, of Windsor, Conn. He removed, about 1723, to East Windsor. Of the ten children by the second wife, Elisha, born September ^^5> 1723, was the third. He married, on December 29, 1750, Kezia Taylor, and was the father of nine children, whom he catalogued, as they were bom, with the names of the prophets and prophetesses, or other distinguished women of the ancient Hebrews. Hezekiali was the name he selected for his first-bom. He died young, and, the second child, bom January 17, 1753, ^^ East Windsor, was also named Hezekiah, The third son he named for the prophet Joel ; and, his other children all being daughters, received successively the scriptural names Of Miriam, Naomi, Bathsheba, Kezia, and Ruth.
This Hezekiah, the second son, married Irene Bissell, January 24, 1777, and had ten children. He attained the age of ninety-one ^ear% and, at the time of his death, April 14, 1844, was the oldest male inhab- itant of East Windsor. In his life and character he developed tiiose
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remarkable traits of strong Christian principles, unswerving patriotism, and fidelity to his country and the cause of liberty, which were the neces- sary result of the religious teachings in New England homes, and the outgrowth of the Revolutionary era. He is described as tall and erect in person, rigidly temperate and abstemious in his habits, and, even to an advanced age, physically capable of competing with young men in the field. He served in the American Army from 1775 ^^ 1780. He was on guard duty with a company commanded by Col.* George Pitkin at Brookline, and, from the belfry of the meeting-house at that place, wit- nessed the burning of Charlestown. In 1776 he saw more active service in the battle of Long Island, and on the retreat of the Army to New York, Harlem Heights, and White Plains. His memory was very tena- cious of the scenes and events of his long life, and we may assume his youthful grandson had often sat at his feet, and schooled and cultivated his own love for antiquarian lore, in listening to recitals of his grandsire's feats of arms in Revolutionary days.
Joel Munsell, the father of the subject of this notice, was the fourth child of Hezekiah and Irene (Bissell) Munsell, and was born at Windsor, January 14, 1783. He married Cynthia Paine, on the 5th of May, 1807, and removed to Northfield, a settlement in the extreme northern confines of Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River. Here he followed the occupation of a plough and wagon maker, and was called " a man of excellent reputation." His house, a one-story wooden building, was on the main street of the village, nearly opposite the "meeting-house," which stood in the centre of the street. In this house his first child,
Joel Munsell, was bom, on the 14th of April, 1808. He received such inited education only as was afforded by his parents' slender means, and the schools of the village. In a little brochure which he printed and privately circulated in 1875, entitled " Reminiscences of Men and Things m Northfield as I knew Them, from 181 2 to 1825," he described the old meeting-house as it looked to his youthful eyes from " across the way." "A prominent object," writes Mr. Munsell, "to the eye of the traveller, was the old meeting-house, standing in the highway, and surmounted by a gilded rooster. It was traditional among the boys, that, when the brazen fowl heard the ejaculation of the barnyard chanticleer, he crowed
also The pews were square boxes, built high and having
balusters, topped by a rail To accommodate the occupants while stand- ing in prayer, the seats were made to turn up on hinges in sections, to enable the worshipers to lean against the wall or upon the railing. When the pastor pronounced the Amen, straightway there arose a great uproar, produced by letting down the seats, as though they were firing a salute, which much resembled, as nearly as the sounds can be reduced to words, clittery clatter^ bump I whack ! BANG ! So accustomed was the audience to the salute, that the confusion produced seemed to pass unnoticed, ex* cept when some urchin gave unusual emphasis to the report." His first pub- lic occupation was the position of assistant to the sexton of the old meeting- house, in which capacity he prepared the wood and made the fires in the stoves in winter. In the Northfield Social Library he acquired his taste for reading and for books, and early formed the design of learning the art of printing, and of making books. Among the men who had dropped from Burgoyne's army on their way to Cambridge and Boston, after his surrender at Saratoga, and found their way to Northfield, was one named Finks, who
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subsequently settled in Greenfield, and had a son, who set up the printing business there. This was the neighboring town to Northfield, and hither young Munsell went, at an early age, to learn the trade of printer from Mr. Pinks, the English soldier's son. His apprenticeship with lym was probably of short duration, for it appears that in 1825 he was back in Northfield, at his fathei^s house, without a place. It is recorded of him that at this time, late one evening, he learned there was a vacancy in the printing-office of Jonathan A Saxton, who was then editing and publishing, in Greenfield, the " Franklin Post and Christian Freeman." He at once determined to apply for it, and, early on the following morning, walked do¥m to Greenfield, twelve miles distant, and secured the coveted place of "printer's devil." In this office he continued to learn his trade, and, in little more than a year's time, had attained such proficiency as enabled him to fill the highest position in the office.
At the age of eighteen years, impelled by an ambition fqr a wider field, he left his native State and his father's home, and came to the city of Troy, in this State, where he found employment in the office of Tut tie & Richards ; whence, after a brief period, he removed to Albany, where, in 1827, we find him engaged as clerk with John Denio, a book- seller, who had opened a shop at No. 303 North Market street, about oppo- site where the Delavan House now stands. It was while acting as clerk for Mr. Denio that Mr. Munsell, then only nineteen years of age, made his first venture as a publisher. He went out upon North and South Market streets one day and procured one hundred and fifty subscribers for a semi- monthly paper, which he engaged to issue at thirty-seven and a half cents a quarter. He then purchased a small font of type, prepared the copy,, set it up in the store at leisure moments, worked off the paper at nighl on a Ramage press with balls, and, on New Year's morning, 1828, de- livered the edition at the doors of his subscribers in person. It was^ called ^^ Albany Minerva, On the morning of the 12th of February,. 1828, it announced, at the same hour with the daily papers, the death of De Witt Clinton, which occurred on the previous day, at his residence,, comer of North Pearl and Steuben streets.
At the end of the first quarter, Mr. Munsell retired from the Minerva ta accept a situation as a compositor on a daily newspaper, and did not go into business for himself till 1834, when, in connection with Henry D. Stone,. he undertook, at 26 Beaver street, to continue the publication of the somewhat famous paper called the Microscope^ which had been in ex« istence for about ten years. This did not prove a lucrative undertaking for him, and in October, 1836, he purchased a job printing-office from. Thomas G. Wait, at 58 State street, and there laid the foundations of the, business with which his name has been associated for more than forty years. At this calling he worked incessantly, with untiring devotion, allow- ing himself no recreation, and both day and night for many years have found him actively and steadily at his work. The imprints which issued from his press are to be counted by the thousand, and may be found in all the principal libraries of the country. The names of few American print-- ers are better knowa to bibliographers at home or abroad than that of Joel MunselL
The first publication (except the Minerva)^ to which we find Mr. Mun- sell's name attached as the author, is entitled " The Outlines of the His- tory of Printing," but be disclaimed the authorship of this,, saying, it was a.
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tompHation only, and issued merely to circulate as a specimen of printiiig. In the sanie year (1830), he condensed from the Spanish, and issued a book of 32 pages, entitled, ** History of the Conquest of Mexico." Mr. Munsell asserted that this was gotten up to fill a temporary lull in the print- ing business. His pseudonym at this time was Arthur Prynney under which he issued an Almanac for 184 r.
In the y^ar 1840, beginning on the 19th of September, he was employed in printing a daily campaign paper for a local faction of the Whig party.
In i84t, Mr. Munsell printed his first genealogical workj which was a single leaf of two octavo pages, entitled " A History of the Emigration and Settlement of our Predecessors ; " — a compilation by William Gould,' Sen., of Albany, tracing the family of Gould from the year 1664, descend- ants of John Gould, who, with his brothers Thomas and Robert, emigrated frpm Dartmouth, England. It was intended for insertion in the Gould family bibles.' . .>.
In 1842, he printed for E. G. Squier a ladies' magazine, which, how- ever, was short-lived. In the following year Mr. Squier projected a work to be entitled "American Poetry^'* respecting which Mr. Munsell left this laconic memorandum : •* Never completed — never sold— never paid for.'' •Shortly after, a weekly paper was issued from the press of Mr. Munsell, en- titled, *^ The Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate," "devoted to the in- terests of the Africo-American race." It had but a brief existence.
In 1843, M^« Munsell printed his first compilation of importance, en- titled, /'The Every-day Book of History and Chronology." He also assumed, fpr the first time, the publication of " Webster's Calendar, or the Albany Almanac," an annual which had been printed in Albany for sixty years. ' The edition the year previous Had diminished to 4,000 copies, and the former proprietors were on the point of deciding to abandon it alto- gether. Mr. Miinsell, firmly believing he could make it popular, offered to continue it for the residue of his life, even though its sale should entirely cease, and he need only a single copy for himself, and further, to pay a roy- alty for the title on a certain number of copies, so long as the former pub- lisher lived. The offer was promptly accepted, and the promise was faith- fully kept by Mr. Munsell. He at once applied his untiring energies and tact to the work, and the result was that the edition immediately reached 20,000 copies; Und Webster's Almanac continued to be, for the farming cbmmuiiity in the vicinity of Albany, what Thomas' Almanac was for New England. Among the latest publications from the Munsell Press; in November last, was the number "for the year of our Lord 1880." It consists of 36 pag^s. Foi^ty thousand copies of it have been required an- nually for Several years to supply the demand.
In^the ^ar 1844, he printed a little publication with the title, " Pulpit Sketches ; or. Dreams of a Pew-Hold^r." A few copies only were circu* lated, but the publication brought him into difficulties. He was not the author, and his share in the business was unwittingly assumed. He stated that he did not read the nmnuscript, but supposed, from a cursory glance, that it was complimentary to the Albany clergymen, and, without furthei* examination or thought, directed it to be put in type. Not until it was published and for sale at the news-stands did Mr. Munsell comprehend its import. It contained allusions to the Rev. Dr. Campbell, which the friends of that gentleman deeming, libellous, caused a suit to be commenced against the publisher. Mr. Munsell persistently and indignantly refused to
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divulgjB the pame of the author, consdentipusly i^dhering to the principle that to do so would be a violation of what he regarded as a professiona^l secret. He was adjudged guilty of contempt of court, fined $250, and committed to jail till the fine should be paid. At the expiration of a week, however, the fine was paid^ and he was released. The - Rev. Mr. Campbell, the party most interested, became satisfied that Mr. Munsell was innocent of any intentional harm, and tiie two were ever afterwards as cordial and as warm friends as they had been before the occurrence. , In the year 1845^ he made his first venture in undertaking the printing i^fid publication of a local or county history-rSimms' Histpry of Schoharie County, N. Y., an octavo of 672 pages. Two thousand copies of this were printed, and the work was sold at $1.75 per copy. It has now become %p rare that a single copy will bring ejght to ten dollars. ;
The first strictly genealogical work issued from his press was in 1847, when he printed and published " An Account of the Descendants of John Pease, who landed at MarthVs Vineyard in the Year ? 633," a i2mo. of 52 pages. Edition 250 copies. . \
At the cotnmencement of the year 1^48, he printed a small history of the Adam family, being descendants of Jolin Adam,,of Bowfield, in, Ren- frp.'BVshire, Scotland, who emigrated to America in 1 737, . This was an octavo . of 16 pages, of which 110 copies only were printed.
His third venture in this line was in the same year, when he printed ^e ** Genealogy of the Ancestry and Posterity of Isaac Lawrence," by Fred- erick S. Pease, — an octavo of 20 pages. His next publication was the inore elaborate "American Genealogy,'! for Jerome B* Halgate, a 4to of 248 pages, an edition of 250 copies. '
In the year 1846, he also undertook the put)lication of an Odd Fellows»* monthly journal, entitled The Gavel^ of which C. C Burr and John Tanner were the editors. It was adorned with portraits, und lasted during the year. •
. In 1848^ he printed "Select Stories for Children," compiled by himself ; ^so, for. T..P wight Sprague, "The American Literary Magazine," t^x> volumes.
^ Among his publications for 1849, w/is a- small volume of hymns, for Jienry Hayes, of whom he writes : *'.Mr* Hayes was a Methodist pre?cher ^om England He did not have. money to pay for the printing and bind- ing, and after a vain efi*qrt to sell the sacred pieces, he can^e and said he ^as going back to his owi;i country, and expressed much fegretat his in- ability to pay his bill. He seemed to regard the apology as equivalent to cash, and, having unburdened his mind, such a serenity settled upon, his countenance, I 5d not hint that his tender was below par, and he departed in peace." • , .
The same year William Hunt brought out, tihrpugh Mr. Munsell's house, his pretentious work, entitled, ^* American Biographical? Panorama," an Byo volume of 480 pages. Of this gentleman, Mr. Munsell relates : "The fLuthor had been engaged some time at Washington as a reporter ; but, fancying that he was overworked, came to Albany to recreate, and under- dertook publishing^ He entertained a theory that the jHiblic called for quantity rather than quality, and in bis sketches, of individuals, when he lacked facts, he eked opt the desired quantity from a store of scraps o^ sentimental prose and verse, which he had gathered. In. this volume^ he gave a sketch of each of the signers <]|f the Declaration of Independfsncj?,
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and, being desirous of having portraits to accompany the sketches, he gave a young English engraver, just arrived, a carte blanche to produce all of them on wood. Thus commissioned, the artist took a room in Commer- cial Building, furnished it with a barrel of ale and a quantity of tobacco and pipes, and, under the inspiration imparted by these, produced, for the first time on earth, portraits of all the signers ! Mr. Hunt quickly dis- posed of his carefully saved earnings as a reporter, and returned to Wash- ington, where he soon after died."
In 1844, Mr. Munsell had commenced the printing and publishing, for the Rev. Dr. Sprague, of a weekly religious paper, called " The Specta- tor," This was continued for several years. It was an able paper, and was well printed, and attained a wide influeiice in religious circles. It was in connection with the editing of this journal by Dr. Sprague that he re- ceived from Mr. Munsell the hint which proved to be the origin of the great work which he subsequently produced and issued, and which has made his name famous as an American author. One day Dr. Sprague came in with **copy" for the paper, consisting of two well- written bio- graphical sketches. Mr. Munsell suggested to him that they would make a valuable and interesting pamphlet. The Doctor said he would think of , it. Meeting Mr. Munsell in the street soon after, he said to him, ** I have considered that matter, and, instead of a pamphlet, I think I will add to it and make a duodecimo." A few weeks later, the worthy divine met his printer again, and said, " I shouldn't wonder if that book were an octavo." Still later, he was of the opinion that it would be two octavos at least, and perhaps more. And so it proved : for from those two little sketches, written for The Spectator^ grew the " Annals of the American Pulpit ; or. Com* memorative Notices of Distinguished American Clerymen of Various De- nominations, from the Early Settlement of the Country to the Close of the Year 1855, with Historical Introductions/* published in nine octavo vol- umes, between the years 1857 and 1859.
In 1850 Mr. Munsell began the publication of "The Annals of Albany," issuing two volumes during the year. This work was really begun the year previous, under the title of ** The Albany Annual Register, containing a Directory to the Places of Business and Public Institutions of Albany, Contributions to the History and Antiquities of the City, and other Matters of Interest," constituting a volume of 181 pages, with plates and maps. The Annual was printed the second year, but not being well patronized, the two were united, with some new matter, and formed the first volume of the ** Annals of Albany." This work Mr. Munsell con- tinued from year to year, publishing the tenth and last volume in 1859. Notwithstanding the great value of this work to historical students, and to the people cf Albany and the State, it was never appreciated, and proved a pecuniary loss. J3ut, his passion for "antiquarian lore" had now increased to such an extent, that, nothing daunted, he assiduously continued his researches, and, in 1865, issued the first volume of " Col- lections on the History of Albany, from its Discovery to the Present Time, with Notices of its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased." This was a royal octavo, of 529 pages, with plates, and was followed by three others of similar size and style, the fourth and last being issued in 1871. But the inadequate public patronage which he received fell short of supporting the further continuance of the work, notwithstanding there still remained in Mr. MunselFs hands ample materials
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for the purpose. He began this work with great antiquarian enthusiasm, believing, as he himself has said, that " addressed to the retrospective curiosity — the historic instincts — of his fellow-citizens, it would meet with at least an adequate support.*' But he was doomed to disappoint- ment. The whole number of his patrons at home and abroad amounted to only a little over one hundred. Again, this was to him a heavy financial loss. He pathetically, but' modestly, says : •* Had the enterprise of the publisher and editor received a more liberal support, it would have de- lighted him to secure to the work a higher grade of literary labor, to embellish it with more expensive illustrations, and to issue it to his patrons a specimen of sumptuous typography. But it was not to be. As strict economy required, the literary labor devolved almost wholly upon himself. But he will not dwell upon the hours stolen from that repose rendered necessary by the toilsome avocation of the day, and devoted to tuniing over the dusty files of old newspapers, or to the deciphering of the crabbed writings of a past generation. He will not speak of days of rest passed among the tombs, and employed in copying the brief mementoes of those sleeping their last sleep beneath. Nor will he com- plain of these tasks, for they have, indeed, been labors of love. Per- haps, in after years, when his own form has long been mouldering in the dust, some kindred spirits will pleasantly recall his memory, and thapk him for these memorials of the past he has helped to rescue from oblivion. In dreams like these the antiquary finds his cherished, though unsubstantial recompense.'*
We need not wonder at his disappointment, which he unquestionably felt far more deeuly than his- words imply. For thirty years he had labored in this wotk — labor which, so far as pecuniary recompense is concerned, was utterly thrown away, for the amount received scarcely paid for the printing. He did his work faithfully and well. • He made no pretence of writing history, but has simply made available a vast amount of matter, ready-to-hand, for some one who shall come after. As another has said :
" All the world honors the historian who takes great countries in hand, and tells the story of their growth truly and philosophically. But let us bespeak honor for historians of humbler sort — for the compilers of facts worth preserving out of moth-eaten manuscripts, charred relics of town- house fires, old church session records, parish registers, and family bibles — for those who rescue from wreck and ruin the elements of history.*'
In the intervening years from 1850 to 187 1 the house of Mr. Munsell had not been idle in the printing and publishing of numerous other works and periodicals. In this brief article they cannot be more particu- larly noted. Genealogical works, town and family histories, reprints of old and scarce books, catalogues, and other works requiring special care, have been turned out by the thousand, to go broad-cast all over the Union. To Mr. Munsell's individual interposition and aid is due, in large measure, the credit of rescuing, from premature extinction, "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register." With the close of the fifteenth volume of that publication, in October, 1861, after it had lived through a decade and a half of years, it was found its circulation had ceased to yield it an adequate support. The number of its subscribers had diminished to not over five hundred. Many never paid their sub-
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scriprions. The mere cost of printing and of publishing alone was about one thousand dollars for one thousand copies ; apd it had been resolved to discontinue its further issue. In this dilemma, Mr. Munsell volunteered to print and publish it, at his own risk, for twp years, provided the Society would turn over to him the subscription list, and would furnish, without expense, a competent editor for the work, promising to return it at the expiration of that time, with increased and amply supporting subscriptions. .This promise, as in the case of Webster's almanac, eighteen years before, ,Mr. Munsell faithfully succeeded in fulfilling, and ultimately, ^ter havmg re-established it by his own assiduity and zeal, on a safe, self-supporting foundation, returned it to the Society, with the subscription list largely increased. At the dose of the second year of its publication by Mr. Munsell, the Society, through Mr. Deane, their editor, thus expressed its .acknowledgments: **To Mr. Munsell we are certainly under, great obligations. He stepped forward at a time of unusual discouragement, and has carried t)ie Register through a critical period of its existence."
In the year 1876, Mr. Munsell issued a fifth edition of a work compiled by him, entitled ** The Chronology of the Origin and Progress of Paper and Papermaking." This work was so meritorious as to receive a lengthy and appreciative notice ih The PrirUing Times and Lithographer (London) for August, 1879. The writer says; **Mr. Munsell is the proprietor of one of the oldest printing-offices in the States, and one that is honorably distinguished for the excellence of its productions, and the extent of its operations. He is also an antiquary, who has contributed considerably to the elucidation of the early history of the locality in which he dwells. He has further done good service to the literature of transatlantic typography, especially in connection with the new edition of Isaiah Thomas's * His- tory.' Mr. Munsell, accordingly, seems to be one of those useful, enter- prising, industrious citizens, not few on the other side of the Atlantic, who determinedly make leisure from their ordinary avocations to achieve what entitles them to be regarded as benefactors to the community, their pro- fession, and the reading world generally. He says in the * Finale * — a sort of colophon of a decided American tone — * The collector of these dis- junctive conjunctives proposes, with this fifth edition, in the fifty-second year of his t}'pographical career, to let the paj^er manufacture go as it may, without any surveillance of his, with best wishes fpr its prosperity to the end of time.' We trust, however, that this ' envoi* may not really be a final one, and that, at least in some other and cognate line of investigation or research, we may, for many years to come, encounter Mr. Munsell's quaint and eminently useful pen." ,
It m^ay not be out of place to notice here, that for a number of years prior to his death, Mr. Munsell had been collecting materis^l for a chronol- ogy of journalism. Froni England and the United States he had brought together over 10,000 specimen newspapers, no two, hardly, being of the same journal. Most of them have peculiar value, many being first copies, and others copies containing a history of the journals they represent. These he had bound, making in all 100 volumes, and deposited in the Statp Library, From these papers,, and from other sources, he collected and left data, still in manuscript. We can only hope his sudden and une:^- pected death may not prevent its publication. It cannot fail to prove a work of exceeding interest and value, filling, as it will, a place among books of reference, now vacant, or nearly so, since Mr.. Hudson's " Hi?h
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tory of Journalism," interesting and instructive as it is, deals only in a gen- eral way with this great and important subject, and even that work is indebted for much of its interest and value to Mr. Munsell and his collec- tion, as the ill-fated author gratefully acknowledged.
At the inception of the New York Genealogical and Biographical So- ciety, he was elected one of its corresponding members, and subsequently became a life member. To hjs connections with other various historical and public bodies and societies we have not alluded. He was an efficient ^d active worker, and evex freely rendered his co-operation in promoting the objects of such institutions. He was one of the original founders and members of the Albany Institute, and during many of its first dark finan- cial days,, carried it by contributions from his own purse. Every volume of its proceedings, except the first one, was issued from his establishment. He early succeeded Dr. T. Romeyn Beck as its treasurer, and for forty years was annually re-elected to the position, the last election occurring only a few days before his death.
For forty-three years he was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Albany, and was an habitual attendant upon its services, and for over twenty years pa^t had been the honored President of its Board of Trus- tees.
On the 1 7th June, 1834, Mr. Munsell married Jane C. Bigelow, who died at Albany on the 20th anniversary of her marriage, June 17, 1834, in her 42d year. By her he had four children :
L William Augustus, b. May, 1835, residing in Cincinnati, Ohio.
ii, Anna, b. Aug., 1839, ^' J^^^^ io> 1840.
ii^. Julia Anne, b. Feb. 13, 1850; m. William Turner, Jr., Aug. 28,
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iv. Charles, b, Dec, 29, 1852.
He married, second, Sept. 11, 1856, Mary Ann Reid, by whom he had the following children :
V. Francis, b. June 19, 1857. vL Jessie, b. Jan'y 2, 1859. vii. Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 186 1. viii. Mary, b. Dec. 9, 1862. ix. Laura, b. Mar. 15, 1866. X. Emma, b. June 14, 1868.
Mr. Munsell had resided for many years at No. 59 Lodge street, Al- bany, a short distance from his office, a place which he had selected for the purpose of being near his work. Here, after a brief illness, he died, at nine o'clock, on the evening of the 15th of January, 1H80, in the 72d year of his age. Appropriate funeral services were held in the Lutheran Church, on the afternoon of the i8th Januar}', attended by a vast throng of citizens and friends, to whom his name and presence had been so familiar in life. A simple and brief eulogy was pronounced by Dr. Magee, the pastor of the church, and all that remained of our genial and beloved antiquarian friend was borne to its burial in the public cemetery, near the city of his adoption.
In the apt language of another, we may close this imperfect sketch :
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" Such has been the work of Mr. MunselL No living man will ever go over the ground he has ; few, indeed, can do it, the old Dutch records be- ing almost, if not quite, a sealed book to the present, as they will be to future generations. Mr. Munsell has passed away, but his work, more lasting than 'monument of brass or marble, will remain after him as long as the city itself shall stand, and children yet unborn will wonder at the in- difference and neglect with which such efforts as his were treated.**
[The facts regarding the publications issued by Mr. Munsell noticed in this sketch in a few instances have been derived from an article published in the Albany Mirror ^ in November, 1879, which are understood to have been furnished, or their correctness approved, by Mr. Munsell himself. Other sources Of information are Dr. Stiles' History of Ancient Windsor, and Temple & Sheldon's History of Northneld, Mass.]
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY SET- TLERS OF KINGS COUNTY, N. Y.
By Tkunis G. Berg£N.
THE DURYEA FAMILY.
1. JoosT DuRiE DuRYE or DuRYEA, emigrated about 1675 from Man- heim, in the Palatine of the Rhyn, was a respectable French Huguenot, and was accompanied with his wife MagdaUna Le Febre, He settled at first in New Utrecht, where he bought a farm, which he sold Oct. 5, 1681, for 3200 gl. and a new waggon, to Gerrit Cornelisen (Van Duyn), as per page 148 of Liber A A of Flatbush town records. Left New Utrecht and settled on the disputed lands between Newtown and Bushwick, as per Riker's Newtown, where he died about 1727. His name appears on the assessment rolls of Bushwick of 1683 ^^^ 93) ^^^ census of 1698 ; and he took the oath of allegiance in said town in 1687. Had issue : —
Joost. Peter. Jacob, Abraham, Charles,
JaqueSy bp. July 13, 1679, ^-t Flatbush. Antonette, bp. Dec. 11, 1 681, at Brooklyn. Magdalena^ bp. Oct. 19, 1687, in N. Y. Cornelis,
Simon^ bp. Nov. 26, 1693. Philip,
Second Generation,
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2. JoosT (Joosten), m. Ap* 17, 1681, Lena or Helena ... . ; d. 1727. Was a farmer and resided in Bushwick. Issue : —
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15. iii. JIendrick,h^. Nov. 23, 17 18.
16. iv. Folkert.
3. Peter (Joosten), m. Agnietje Nicqut (Luquier), and suppose he set- tled in Esopus (Kingston). Issue : —
16^. Christiaan^ bp. Ap' 17, 1682, of whom no further trace,
4. Jacob (Joosten), bp. Nov. 21, 1686 ; ni. Catrina Polhetnius ; d. 1758. Resided at first in Bushwick, and afterwards in Brooklyn. His Bushwick farm of 100 acres was sold Ap* 15, 1758, by his executors and heirs to Jan De Bevoise. Will dated Feb. 20, 1756. Issue : —
17. I. Joost.
18. ii. DanieL
19. iii. Johannis.
20. iv. Jacob,
21. V. Abraham.
22. vi. Cornelius,
23. vii. Hendrick,
24. viii. Magdelena,
5. Abraham (Joosten), h. 1685, "^- Elizabeth Polhemiusy dau. of Theo- dorusof Jamaica; d. about 1763. Was a farmer in Bushwick. Will da. Jan. 29, 1753, and pro. Feb. 28, 1764. Issue:
25. i. Joost, b. Oct. 8, 1 715.
26. ii. Nelche.
27. iii. DanieL
28. iv. Mothenecha or Magdalena,
29. v. Abraham,, b. Apl. 10, 1720. '
30. vi. Catryntfe, b. Oct. 6, 1 720.
31. vii. Johannes,
32. viii. Elizabeth, bp. July 12, 1724. Z^. ix. Anche,
6. Charles (Joosten), fanner, m. i", Cornelia, dau. of Johannes Schenck ; m. 2^, Mary or Maria Roberson ; d. about 1753. Resided in Bushwick. In his will, proved Sept i, 1 753, he devises his homestead farm to his son Jacob. Issue : —
Joost, Helena, Johannes, Cornelia, Charles or Caret, Elizabeth, Tunis, Derick, Abraham,
7. Jaques (Joosten), bp. July 13, 1679. No further trace.
8. Antonette (Joosten), bp. Dec. 11, 1681, in Brooklyn; m. Luquier.
9. Magdalena (Joosten), bp. Oct. iq, 1687 ; m. Jan Okie or Jan Auke Van Nuyse, and had children : — Isaac, Jacobus and James Van Nuyse.*
10. Cornelis (Joosten), a farmer in Bushwick in 1729. No further trace.
11. Simon (Joosten), bp. Nov. 26, 1693; m. May 20, 1715, Annetje Sprung^ dau. of Gabriel. Was a farmer in Bushwick. Issue : —
43. Simon.
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12. Philip (Joosten), m. Dec. 14, 1714, Belje Goyertsor Oovert^. No further tiace.
Third Generation,
Descendants of Joost Duryea (2) and Lena,
13. MAGDAtENA, bp. May 29, 1705; m. Dec. 31, 1743, Gerret Van Sant of Newtown.
14. JoosT. Suppose m. Antje Terhiuie, probably a dau. of Jan AI- berste, and settled at Six Mile Run, N. J.- Issue: —
44. Suppose Jbost,
15. Hendrick (s. of Joost and Lena), bp. Nov. 23, niS, No further trace.
16. Folkert (s. of Joost and Lena), m. Gerretj^ or Geertruy^ dau. of Nicholas Vechte of Gowanus , d. 1752. Will proved Nov. 17, 1752. Resided in the city of N. Y., and he and his wife joined the Dutch R. Ch. of N. Y., Nov. 20, 1746, on certificate from Brooklyn^ Issue : —
45. Rebecca^ bp. Oct. 2, 1751, in N. Y. No further trace.
Descendants of Jacob Duryea (4) and Catrina-
c^ r 't>''> 17. Joost, b. 1709 ; ra. i»* prior to 1750, Wtllemtje^ dau. of Albert Ter-
IS u;i>w^i|^ j^j^j^^g . suppose he m. a second, third and fourth wife, the last named
Charity, * . . , Was a* farmer and millwright, residing in Jamaica South.
Will proved in 1775. Sept. 11, 1775, Ws estate was advertized for sale by
Jacob Duryea and Albert Terhune, his executors. Issue : —
46. L Ruluf bp. Feb. ii, 1733. Suppose, m. 1758, Jannetje
Amerman.
47. ii. John, bp. 1739-
48. iii. Jacob, bp. Aug. 26, .1750. No further trace,
49. iv. Maria, bp. Mar. 22, 1752.
50. V. Anna, No further trace.
51. vi. Aaron, bp. May 19, 1754. '
18. Daniel, was a farmer in Jamaica, and d. about 1759. Issue : —
52. Daniel, No further trace.
19. Johannes (suppose), m. Oct. 29, 1763, Sara, dau. of Hermanns Barkeloo, of New Utrecht. Residence in N. Y., and Aug. 25, 1766, he and his wife joined the R. D. Ch. of that place. Issue : —
53. i. Autje, bp. Sept. 2, 1764, in N. Y. No further trace.
54. ii. Abraham, No further notice.
55. iii. John, No further trace.
20. Jacob, m. Mar. 21, 1747, Sara Nortstrant, . Was a bolster, and resided at one period in the city of N. Y., where, May 23, 1748, he and his wife joined the R. Dutch Ch. on confession of faith. Will da.
' July 2, 1 793, and pro. Aug. 19, 1793. Issue : —
56. i. Catharine, bp. Ap. 7, 1748, in N. Y. No further trace.
57. ii. Jane, No further trace.
58. iii. Mary or Maria, bp. June, 26, 175 1. Sarah, bp. Nov. 11, 1753. Magdalina, Charles,
Jacob, .
Peter, No further trace.
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21. AsRAtiAM, bp. Feb. 16. 1724; m. Nov. 3, 1763, Elizabeth Lowe, who d. May, 1804, aged 92. Was a merchant in the city of N. Y., en- gaged in the sale of drugs, fish, &c., his store being located opposite the ¥\y market in 1768. Joined the R. Dutch Ch. of N. Y. Will da. Sep. 12, 1796, and pro.