First to My Mother, Born" Margaretta Dorland, for Whose Gratification My Researches Into the Family History Were Begun
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FIRST TO MY MOTHER, BORN" MARGARETTA DORLAND, FOR WHOSE GRATIFICATION MY RESEARCHES INTO THE FAMILY HISTORY WERE BEGUN, AND NEXT, TO ALL THE DORLAND KINDRED WHOSE CO-OPERATION HAS BROUGHT THEM TO FRUITION, THIS VOLUME IS AFI'ECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. THE DORLAND COAT-OF-ARMS. ARMS: Gules, guttee argent, a fesse nebulee <if the last.-" Ency clopredia Heraldica" and Burke's" Encyclopredia of Heraldry." RECORDS OF THE DORLAND FAMILY IN AMERICA Embracing the Principal Branches DORLAND : DORLON : DORLAN : DURLAND : DURLING In the United States and Canada SPRUNG FROM Jan Gerretse Dorland!, Holland Emigrant, I652 AND LambertJanse Dorlandt,Holland Emigrant, 1663 BY JOHN DORLAND CREMER PUBLISHED FOR THE FAMILY WASHINGTON, D. C, BYRON S. ADAMS 1898 Copyright, 1898, by JoHN DORLAND CREMER. CONTENTS. Page Tm,: DORLAND ARMS •. Frontispiece INSCRIPTION . iii PREFACE .. ix LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS xiv GENJtRAL REVIEW OF THE FAMILY. I (I) JAN GERRETSE DORLANDT, Emigrant 1652, and His Posterity: PRELUDE SKETCH-JAN GERRE'l'SE DORLAND'!', Brooklyn, N. Y. 35 (a) GERRICT GERRETSE DORLAND'!' (1655), Brooklyn . 43 (a2) CHARLES DORLAND'!' (1685), Jamaica, N. Y., and Children . • . 46 (b2) GERRET DORLAND'!', JR. (1686), Boundbrook, N. J., and Children . (c2) JOHN DORLAND']' (1688), Oyster Bay, N. Y., and Posterity. 47 (dz) HERMINA DORLAND'!' (1695) . 68 (e2) CORNELIUS DORLANDT (1696), Staten Island and New Jersey, and Children . 68 (f2) ANNA DORLAND'!' (1704) . 69 (b) ELIAS DORLAND'!' (1656), Hempstead, N. Y.. 70 ( a2) EUAS DORLAND 2D ( 1682), Hempstead, and Posterity . 7 5 (b2) JOHN DORLAND (1686), Hempstead, and Posterity . 88 (c) SAMUEL DoRLANDT (1658), Long Island ......... 148 ( 2) SAMUEL DORLAND, JR. (1680), Hempstead, and Posterity . • . 148 ( d) CHRISTINA DORLAND'!' ( 1660 ), STRYCKER, Flatbush, N. Y. 164 vi Contents. Page (a2) LAMME'l'JE STRYCKER (1684), WYCKOFF and VAN VOORHEES, New Brunswick, N. J.,and Children. 165 (b2) JORN STRYCKER, Middlebush, N. J., and Children. J65 (c2) ALICE STRYCKER. 166 (d2) GERTRUDE S'l'RYCKF;R. 166 ( e) GERTRUDE DORLANDT ( 1662 ), Pn,TERSON, New York . 167 (f) REM DORLAND'!' (1670), Jamaica. ... 167 ( a2) JANE DURLAND ( !704 ), VAN ARSDALEN' Flatlands, N. Y ....................... 167 (b2) F'EMMETJE DURLAND (1707), EMANS, New Utrecht, N. Y., and Children ....•.......... 167 (c2) ANNA DURLAND (1707), VAN PELT, New Utrecht, and Children . ( d2) REM DuRJ:,AND, JR. ( 1709). (e2) GERRE'l' DURLAND (1713) .. (g) MARY DORLAND'!' (1672), SEUBRING (h) ANNA DORLAND'.r (1674) . ( i ) ELSIE DoRLAND'.r ( 1678) . ( j) JOHN DORLANDT (1681), Brooklyn and Somerset Co., N.J. 170 (a2) JORN DORLANDT,JR. (1703), Jamaica, and Posterity. 171 (b2) CATHARINE DORLANDT (1705), PETERSON. • . 173 ( c2) GERRET DORLAND'.r ( 17-), Jamaica, and Posterity . 174 (II) LAMBERT JANSE DoRLANDT, Emigrant 1663, and His Pos terity: PRELUDE SKETCH-LAMBERT JANSE DORLANDT, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Somerset Co., N. J. 175 (a) GERRET JANSE DORLAND'.r (1666), Brooklyn and Somerset Co. 191 (a2) GERRE'.r DORLAND (1707), Somerset Co., and Posterity 193 (b2) ABRAHAM DORLAND ( 1709 ), Somerset Co., and Posterity . 212 Contents. vii Fage ( c2) LAMBICRT DORI.AND ( 1712 ), Somerset Co., and Posterity 217 ( b) MARY DORLANDT ( 1672) . , . , . 219 ( c) ELSIE DORLANDT ( 1677 ), MICRRICI.L, Staten Island. 219 ( a2) ELSIE MERRICLL ( 17o8) . 221 ( b2) RICHARD MERREI.I. ( 1709) . · · . 222 ( c2) RICHARD MERRELL ( 2) ( 1712 ), Staten Island, and Pos- terity ......... 222 ( d2) LAMBERT MICRRELI, ( 1721) . (e2) SUSANNA MERREI.I. (1724) .. (d) JOHN DoRLANDT (1681 ), Staten Island and Philadelphia Co., Pa............ 232 (a::i) JOHN DORLAND, JR. (1701), Philadelphia Co.. 237 (b2) CORNICLIA DORLAND (1705) ....... 2 37 ( c2) LAMBERT DORLAND ( 1707 ), Philadelphia Co., and Posterity . · . 238 ( d2) GEoR_GE DORI.AND ( 17u ), Philadelphia Co., and Posterity . 239 ( e2) JACOB DORI.AND ( 1714 ), Philadelphia Co., and Children 250 (f2) ISAAC DORLAND (1717), Philadelphia Co., and Hunting- don Co., Pa., and Posterity . 250 ( g2) HICRMINA DoRJ:,AND ( 1720 ). WOOD and HAI.I., Phila- delphia Co., and Huntingdon, Pa. • . 278 (h2) EVE DORLAND (1720), BRITTAIN, Philadelphia Co. 279 (i2) ABRAHAM DORI.AND (1725), Philadelphia Co., and Children 280 MILITARY SERVICE: WAR OF THE REVOI,UTION : American Side . • British Side . viii Contents. Page WAR OF 1812: American Side . British Side Crvu, \VAR: Union Side Confederate Si<le . AUTHORITIES CONSULTED MEMORANDA MAPS. (BY HERBERT w. ELMORE.) LONG ISLAND, STATEN ISI,AND, AND NORTHERN NEW }ER· SEY. facing 6 ORANGE AND DUTCHESS COUN'.l'IES, N. Y .. facing 48 PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, CANADA • . facing 96 EAS'.l'ERN PENNSYLVANIA . facing 232 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA . facing 252 PREFACE. "The form achieved smiles on the aspiration, And dream is deed, and Art is justified. * * * Still hoarded lives what seemed so spent and wasted, And echoes come from dark or empty years."-Bayard Taylor. "For we learn upon a hint, we find upon a clew, We yield an hundred-fold; but the great sower is Analogy. There must be an acrid sloe before a luscious peach, A ball of rotting flax before the bridal veil, An egg before an eagle, a thought before a thing, A spark struck into tinder to light the lamp of knowledge, A slight suggestive nod to guide the watching mind, A half-seen hand upon the wall, pointing to the balance of Comparison." -Martin F. Tupper. HIS b@k is produced pi-im11ril:Uor tp.e_ use and i11formation ?! T the family. Embodying as it does the essence of numberless f~eyrecords, cherished in hundreds of households, with per sonal biographies and domestic particulars of little concern to the out side world, it partakes of the character of private papers, and bespeaks for itself the consideration usually accorded to such. In a rational consideration of family history one need not go to the length of transplanting here the ancestor-worship of the Chinese, or to the depth of rummaging the tombs of the dead for a decoration wherewith to distinguish the living. On the other hand, genealogies are surely not idle or unprofitable if, in linking us with the past, even though a dead past, they serve to reanimate it with such color of life as enables us the better to interpret the present and anticipate the future. The simple duty apparent and welcome to open minds and uncorrupted hearts is to know who and what our ancestors were, in actual life, for filial reasons and for the sake of the knowledge itself, if not for our own sake. From a discriminating study one must arrive at the conviction that, after all, social radiance can in reality emanate only from one's own light, and not from the reflected beams of an ancestor. With some appreciation of this philosophy I have pursued my re searches as to the DORI.ANDS, and have considered them in a spirit respectful, if not reverential. I have found little to their discredit, and much to their credit; and what I have found has been set down impartially and without favor, except that proportionately more space Preface. has been devoted to the emigrants and their immediate successors than to their later descendants, to the end that the memory of those remote, in preference to those more recent and readily accessible, might at once be rescued from threatened oblivion. The family history presents a great diversity of experience: and this experience and the chronicles of the several branches, including their individual life-records, their present and past distribution, and their varied vicissitudes in successive epochs, constitute the theme of this volume. There may be a touch of pathos in the circumstance that a majority of these life-records are compressed within the brief epitome of birth, marriage, and death. But it is not to be inferred that these meagre life-marks are all that can be given: they suffice to suggest and recall to those who knew the subjects in the flesh, all needful particulars. Probably in every home circle where exists the vacant chair, its de parted occupant- " Named softly as the household name of one whom God hath taken"- has been keenly missed ever since, and in many such cases anything more than a mere mention would be distressing surplusage. As to other individuals, gone hence to the undiscovered country long ago, further details are presented, measured by the means of information at hand and the evident merits of the subjects. Regarding certain of these individuals, from the special interest attaching to them, every pertinent scrap of information has been gladly availed of. Where gaps occur and particulars are wanting in families of the present generation, the reader will understand either that these particulars are not deemed essential or else that they could not be supplied without undue difficulty and delay, The space afforded by the wide margins a;cr blank pages at the end will permit the addition of personal annotations from time to time, to eke out the text and record later memoranda. John Quincy Adams remarked truly that "posterity delights in details." To minister to the enjoyment of the DORI,AND posterity l have essayed to supply, by way of coloring, such details as will convey a concrete idea of the life and surroundings of our ancestors, and of the important events associated with them and their times. The method of statement devised in the genealogical schedules is a departure from the conventional form, but it seems to offer some advantages over the accepted method in that it presents at a glance the membership of each family circle and at the same time preserves Prqace. xi a lineal continuity. It evolved itself naturally from the necessities of the work, and it is hoped that it will be found self-explanatory and more satisfactory than the usual form. The posterity of the emigrants is here traced, contrary to the usual custom, in the female as well as the male lines, wherever practicable ; and it is hoped that this feature also may commend itself to the reader.