THE ANCESTORS OF TWO SISTERS

Records of the Ancestors of HELEN ROBINA CORTELYOU and CAROL VAN ZANDT CORTELYOU

Press of BROWN PRINTING SERVICE LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 1954

PREFACE

Many books have appeared through the years, showing descent from people of one surname in each case. Usually the number of de­ scendants increases rapidly with each generation and the percentage of the blood of any one strain tends to become microscopically small. As "Teddy" Roosevelt once stated with characteristic vigor, "It's like stirring a drop ·of champagne into a hogshead of water!"

However that may he, the compiler conceived the idea of doing what has not been done he£ ore, at least as far as public print is concern­ ed. Rather than follow one line downward, how much more interesting to follow all lines backward when and as far as this can he done without too much difficulty and expense.

Please note that the number of ancesters, or ancestral stations, will double with each move backward. But sometimes an ancestor will appear more than once in the same generation. 111 every case, the mother will always appear with double the number of the son or daugh­ ter, and the number of the father will be the mother's number less one. So, for instance, Charles Haines Manley, IV-5, has the parents, Charles l\ilanley, V-9, and Martha Felicia Haines, V-10. To work down toward the present, divide the mother's number by 2; the son's or daughter's number is IV-5. Or add 1 to the father's number then divide by 2.

Please note that this hook was gotten together chiefly for the two granddaughters. It is not primarily for the general public. However, the compiler does think that the general public can have a lot of pleasure in working out lines as has been done here. With time and patience a large amount of interesting material can be gotten together.

5105 Underwood Avenue John V. Cortelyou Omaha 3, N ehraska Spring, 1954

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Chapter I

THE TWO SISTERS

More than twenty years ago a beginning had been made in assem­ bling data concerning the ancestors of the older of the two sisters.·

Helen Robina Cortelyou was born on the west coast of Florida, at Tampa, on March 15, 1930. Somewhat later, the family moved to Wilkes Barre, Penn., then to_ Miami, where Helen's sister, Carol Van Zandt Cortelyou, was horn. Later a move was made to Washington, D. C., the father of the two girls having joined the navy. Later they moved to Omaha, then to Washington, where the father of the sisters served in the U. S. Navy again. With the ending of the war, the Cortelyous moved to Omaha once more.

In due time the older sister entered Kansas State College, at Man­ hattan, Kansas. She was graduated in 1952, receiving the B. S. degree with high honors. She was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and to Mortar Board, honor societies. Earlier she had joined Kappa Kappa Gamma, a social sorority of which her mother and her three Cortelyou aunts are also members.

The younger sister was born on the east cost of Florida, at Miami, on May 24, 1939. In due time the family moved to Omaha, where Carol is now attending Central High School, the "Omaha High School" from which her grandfather Cortelyou was graduated in 1893.

Chapter I is very small, it must be admitted. But the book is still in its infancy, so of course Chapter I is short.

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Chapter II

THE PARENTS

11-1. RUSHTON GARDNER CORTELYOU (son of John Van Zandt Cortelyou, 111-1) was born May 18, 1906, at Manhattan, Kansas, and married on June 2, 1939, at Manchester, New Hampshire, Margaret Helen Manley. Rushton Cortelyou was graduated from Manhattan (Kansas) High School in 1923, and from Kansas State College, at Manhattan, in 1927, with high honors and with the degree, B. S. in Civil Engineering. At K. S. C. he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi ( scholarship fraternity), So­ ciety of Civil Engineers, Mortar and Ball, and to Phi Delta Theta ( a social fraternity) • · He entered the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administra­ tion in the fall of 1927 and was graduated with the M. B. A. degree in the spring of 1929. He became assistant auditor at Maas Brothers department store, at Tampa, Florida, in 1929 and remained with them till December, 1935, when he became controller at Pomeroy's department store at Wilkes Barre, Pa. Later he became controller at Burdine's department store at Miami, Florida and remained with them till the fall of 1942. Rushton Cortelyou joined the U. S. Navy Reserve in the fall of 1942 with the rank of lieutenant. He was released to inactive duty on December 31, 1945, being at that time a lieutenant commander. On August 26, 1946, he became affiliated with the Fairmont Foods Company as economist, stationed at the main office in Omaha, Nebraska, and became assistant treasurer in 1947. On March 1, 1950, he became treasurer of Fairmont Foods Company. He and his family reside at 5109 Underwood Avenue, Omaha 3, Nebraska. II-2. MARGARET HELEN MANLEY ( daughter of Charles Henry Manley, 111-3) was horn June 12, 1906 at Junction City, Kansas, and married on June 2, 1929, at Manchester, N. H., Rushton Gardner Cortelyou. She was graduated from Junction City High School in 1924 and attended Kansas State College at Manhattan during the years 1924-'25 and 1925-'26. She joined the K. S. C. chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and later became a member of P. E. 0. Children of Rushton Gardner and Margaret Helen (Manley) Cortelyou: Helen Robina, horn March 15, 1930, at Tampa, Fla.; and Carol Van Zandt, horn May 24, 1939, at Miami, Florida.

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Chapter III

THE GRANDPARENTS

111-1. JOHN VAN ZANDT CORTELYOU (son of John Gardner Cortelyou, IV-1) was horn Sept. 19, 1874, at Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J ., and was hapt. Jan. 30, 1875, by the pastor of the Harlingen Re­ formed Dutch Church. He married on August 24, 1904, at Fairmont, Nebraska, Grace Isabel Rushton. In the spring of 1884, in his tenth year, "Van Zandt" Cortelyou journeyed with his mother, his brothers and his sister from his birth­ place in New Jersey to their new home in Ewing, Holt County, Nebraska. His father had preceded them to that small frontier town. In the fall of 1890, the family moved to Omaha. John V. Cortelyou was graduated from Omaha High School (later known as Central High) in June, 1893. He entered the University of N ehraska in the fall of 1893 and was graduated in 1897 with the A. B. degree and with honors ( Phi Beta Kappa) . The next two years he taught in the Humboldt, Nebraska, high school. During the year 1898-'99 he was also superintendent of schools at Humboldt. In the summer of 1899, he bought the stock of the campus book­ store in Lincoln and starting with September he managed that store and also carried graduate work at the University. At the end of that college­ year, the University regents closed the book-store and that act left the manager of the store without an income hut with full time to carry on his studies. He was awarded the A. M. degree in June, 1901. On June 22, he took passage on a Hamburg-American steamer from Brooklyn to Hamburg, Germany, and then spent a month walking up the Rhine from Bonne with two young men from Philadelphia, who had been fellow-passengers on the Bulgaria. In the fall of 1901, he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg. He carried English philology as his major subject and Romance philology and Germanic philology as his minors. After three years of study there, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree with high honors (magna cum laude). His extended thesis, a hook of 126 pages, entitled "Die altenglischen N amen der Insekten, Spinnen- und Krustentiere," was published in Heid­ elberg, Germany, in 1906. The title would read in English: "The Anglo­ Saxon Names of the Insects, Spiders and Crustacea." Before leaving Heidelberg, John V. Cortelyou was elected head of the newly-formed Department of German at Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kansas. In 1916 the department was enlarged to embrace also French and Spanish, and was then called the Department of Modern Languages. 10 THE GRANDPARENTS

With the coming of Henry J. Waters as the new president of Kansas . State College in 1909, Mr. Cortelyou was appointed editor of the college catalogue. He got out the 1909 catalogue and all later catalogues till he left the College in the spring of 1934. In 1922, he was elected secretary of the "K. S. A. C. Stadium Corporation," and the job of collecting funds and paying bills was his until he left in 1934, at which time there were no outstanding bills in connection with the building of the stadium. These two extra lines of work, catalogue and stadium, were in addition to a full teaching load. In the spring of 1934, J. V. Cortelyou's thirtieth year of service with the college was drawing to a close, and he had an important deci­ sion to make. He liked his work at the college, even though more and more extra work seemed to be heaped on his shoulders as the years passed. But he had long ago planned to prepare and publish a genealogy of the Cortelyou family and if that was to be done, the summer of 1934 seemed the time to get started in earnest. It would be a full-time job. Finally, he decided to resign his college position. He told President Farrell of his plans and then gave an announcement to the Manhattan Mercury. The Mercury gave the Cortelyou's a full column on the front page of the April 9th issue. In April 11, 1934 issue of The Kansas Industrialist, official publi­ cation of the college, somewhat more than the first column of the first page was given to the Cortelyou resignation, and some extracts from that are given below. "Doctor Cortelyou is an excellent representative of an increasingly rare and exceedingly valuable type of college professor. He exemplifies a gentility of mind and spirit that too seldom is encountered in American colleges and universities. He possesses a rare combination of business acumen and intel­ lectual and moral culture. A valuable and respected member of several financial and industrial organizations, including a large centralized creamery company, he also is intelligently appreciative of the poetry of John Milton. He plays an excellent game of golf and interests himself in other sports and he also writes and speaks in clear and correct sentences. In short, he exemplifies genuine culture. "We regret exceedingly his leaving, hut we assure him and his family of our great appreciation and best wishes. "Doctor Cortelyou is chairman of the college catalogue committee and of the faculty loan fund committee, and a member of the committee on admissions. He has been secretary of the Memorial Stadium corporation since its form­ ation, and is largely responsible for keeping Kansas State athletics free from the burden of stadium debt, which has crippled such activities at many schools, through adoption of the policy of not building unless funds for pay­ ment were on hand or could reasonably be anticipated. "Doctor Cortelyou is at present a director of the local chamber of commerce. In his early years on the college staff he served for a two-year period as manager of athletics." THE GRANDPARENTS 11

Dean Babcock of the division of general science made the following statement: "I am genuinely sorry that Doctor Cortelyou is to leave. His teaching work has been of an extremely high order, and he holds the affection and admi­ ration, I am sure, of every student who has had work under him and of all who know him." Mr. and Mrs. Cortelyou moved in June, 1934 from Manhattan, Kansas to Lincoln, Nebraska. In April of 1950, they moved to Omaha in order to he near their son and his family. In the fall of 1942, John V. Cortelyou published The Cortelyou Genealogy, a book on which he had been working for many years. This is an octavo volume of 606 pages. The New York Genealogical and Bio­ graphical Record, vol. 74, pp. 90 and 91, reported: "This record of Jacques Cortelyou and his descendants is an unusually fine genealogical work ••• It is apparent in many ways that this excellent volume is the result of years of painstaking work by a man who is a thorough and intelligent genealogist."

111-2. GRACE ISABEL RUSHTON (daughter of Joseph Howard Rushton, IV-3) was horn May 24, 1877 at Plano, Illinois, and married Aug. 24, 1904, at Fairmont, Nebraska, John Van Zandt Cortelyou. The pastor of the Fairmont Methodist Church performed the ceremony at the Rushton house. Her mother's letters give the following concerning Grace Rushton when she was a small child: Oct. 12, 1881. "Joe has to he away so much. If it were not for Grace, I don't know what I should do .•. She wipes some of the dishes for me and has learned to make the figures up to 8. She is making a doll's quilt. She retains all her fondness for big words. She told me this morning that she was alarmed at some noise." (Age now 4 years, 4 months, and 18 days.) Jan. 1, 1882. "Grace feels a great deal older since the silk handkerchief came at Christmas." Oct. 1882. Grace feels very happy at having her name published in the Bulletin this week in the list of pupils neither absent nor tardy. Her school work seems to agree with her. She seems perfectly well." While still rather young, Grace Rushton was the winner of a district oratorical contest. She was awarded a gold medal. This was one of those contests sponsored nationally by a Mr. Demarest in support of prohibition. Grace Rushton was graduated from the Fairmont, Nebraska, high school in 1891. She later attended the University of Nebraska and was graduated in 1900 with high honors (Phi Beta Kappa, first election). She did graduate work there in the year 1900-'0l. She taught in the Falls City, Nebraska, high school during the school year 1901-'02, and 12 THE GRANDPARENTS in the Leadville, Colorado, high school ( the highest school in the · world") from the fall of 1902 till Christmas of 1903, at which latter date she had become ill with typhoid fever. As soon as she was able to take the trip, she was brought back by her mother to her parents' home in Fairmont. After her marriage in 1904 and her move to Manhattan, Kansas, in September of that year, Grace (Rushton) Cortelyou transferred her membership from the Methodist church to the Congregational church. And she joined the Domestic Science club, the oldest social organization for women in Manhattan. When she and her husband moved to Lincoln in 1934, she joined two organizations for women, Sorosis and the Tues­ day Morning Chili. She was active in both these clubs till she was in­ valided by two paralytic strokes in the fall of 1942. In the ~umrner of 1929, Grace (Rushton) Cortelyou was a member of a conducted party which toured Europe. She was accompanied hy her three daughters and also by her husband, who had lived in Germany during the three-year period, 1901-'04, and had accompanied her father, mother, ,and sister in the summer of 1913 to England, Scotland, and parts of the continent, with special stress on England. In 1929, the five Cortelyous mentioned motored to Montreal, where they stored their car, and on Friday, June 14, started their voyage across the Atlantic. On the 18th, at breakfast time, a large ice-berg appeared· nearby on the left, white in the early morning light. And an hour later a large berg showed up on the right. The vessel was stopped for some hours because of ice-bergs and fog. The steamer arrived at Havre about 9:30 the evening of the 23rd. The morning of June 24, Mr. Maury, a young Frenchman who had taught in Texas, came aboard and took charge of the party of which the Cortelyous were a part. They went by train to Paris. Six days later they boarded a crowded train for Brunnen, Switzerland. After a day at Lucerne, the party went on to Fluelen and saw the spot where William Tell is reported to have shot an apple off his son's head with an arrow. Here Grace Rushton Cortelyou sprained an ankle, and her hus­ band bound it up. The Cortelyous proceeded with the rest of the party to Andermatt, where Mrs. Cortelyou was put to bed at once. The ankle seemed to give little trouble after that; no break was made in travel plans. On July 3, the party took busses and had a wonderful drive over the mountains by the Furka and Grimsel passes. A stop was made at the Rhone Glacier, where some members of the party walked a short distance in a tunnel under the blue ice. "Alpine roses" were seen. On July 4, the party was taken in four autos to Trummelsbach. Here a wild goat, a Gemsbock, appeared on a nearby cliff. On the 5th the party went by street-car to the Castle of Chillon. After this, the travellers proceeded to Marseilles, then Monte Carlo, Genoa, Milan, and Rome. They arrived in Venice on the 18th. On the 21st, the party was taken to the station in four gondolas, took the train to Maestri and there entered a new 23- passenger Studebaker bus for the rest of the trip to Holland. THE GRANDPARENTS 13

On the 23rd, the party had an early breakfast in Italy, had a lovely drive through the hills to Innsbruck ( in Austria) , then after lunch drove on to Munich, Germany. On the 28th they reached Rothenburg just be£ ore noon, and proceeded presently to Heidelberg, which was reached at 6. Here John V. Cortelyou called by appointment on Dr. Johannes Hoops, the professor under whom he had pursued his major study in the 1901-'04 period. He found this visit very satisfying. Children of John Van Zandt and Grace Isabel (Rushton) Courtelyou: 1. Rushton Gardner, b. May 18, 1906, at Manhattan, Kansas; m. June 2, 1929, at Manchester, N. H., Margaret Helen Manley. Their children: Helen Robina and Carol Van Zandt. 2. Helen Van Zandt, b. July 18, 1908, at Manhattan, Kansas; m. Aug. 28, 1937, at Lincoln, Nebr., Joseph Earl Presson. Their children: Joseph Van Zandt and- Clark Cortelyou. 3. Mary Josephine, b. Sept. 29, 1910, at Manhattan; m. Sept. 29, 1932, in New York, N. Y., Dr. John Howard Rust. Their children: Mary Van Zandt, Milbern James, and the twins, John Henry and Joan Helen. 4. Dorothy Margaret, b. July 5, 1914, at Manhattan, Kansas; m. Nov. 26, 1938, at New Rochelle, N. Y., Neal Johnson Hardy. Their children: Neal Johnson, Jr., Rushton Van Zandt, and Margaret Cortelyou.

111-3. CHARLES HENRY MANLEY (son of Charles Haines Manley, IV-5) was horn Jan. 27, 1874, in a log house in Milford Town­ ship, Davis ( now Geary) County, Kansas; married August 28, 1901 in Junction City, Kansas, Mary Keeshan; and died April 13, 1949, in Junction City, Kansas. "Charley" Manley was one of the first pupils in the old Franklin school at Third and Madison Streets, Junction City, attending first grade there just after the school building was compieted. He was graduated from Junction City High School and in 1889 and 1890 attended Kansas State Agricultural College. He also attended Spaulding Business College in Kansas City in 1891. Mr. Manley's first venture in business was in 1891, when he began working in the farm loan and insurance department of the Central Na­ tional Bank. During his eleven years at that job, he sold real estate all over the section around Junction City. And he became acquainted with practically all the rural population of Geary County. In later years he recognized in younger generations family resemblances to people he had served in those early years. He greatly enjoyed his work as a real estate agent. In 1902, Charles Henry Manley and his father bought the Tribune and he settled into the newspaper business. He bought his father's inte­ rest in 1910, and renamed the Tribune the Junction City Republic. It was then lo~ated upstairs, over the Racket Store. He operated it there 14 THE GRANDPARENTS for eleven years but in 1912 moved it to the basement of the Pennell· building, where it has been published since that time. Mr. Manley was always an ardent booster for Junction City and its trade territory. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce from March, 1929, to March, 1930, and was president and secretary of the Rotary Club. He was superintendent of the Universalist Sunday School for fifteen years and acted as moderator in that church for a long time.

111-4. MARY KEESHAN (daughter of Thomas Keeshan, IV-7) was born September 16, 1876, in Little Rock Arkansas. She married Charles Henry Manley on August 28, 1901, in Junction City, Kansas. Children of Charles Henry and Mary (Keeshan) Manley: 1. Winston Reuel, b. Dec. 8, 1902, at Junction City, Kans.; m. in 1947, Olive Neilson, of Alhambra, Calif., who was h. Dec. 29, 1906, at Marysville, Kansas. 2. Robina Marian, b. Aug. 28, 1904, at Junction City, Kans.; m. Philip Edward Hedges, who was b. Nov. 26, 1900. 3. Margaret Helen, b. June 12, 1906, at Junction City, Kans.; m. June 2, 1929, in Manchester, Mass., Rushton Gardner Cortelyou. 4. Carol Keeshan, b. July 21, 1912 in Junction City Kansas; d. there the same day. 5. Charles Sherwood, b. Oct. 21, 1913 in Junction City, Kansas; m. in Junction City, Kansas, Loma Doom. Two children. THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 15

Chapter IV

THE GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

IV-1. JOHN GARDNER CORTELYOU (son of James Garretson Cortelyou, V-1) was born Jan. 13, 1849, at Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J. He married Oct. 20, 1869 at Blawenburg, N. J ., Mary Van Zandt. He died July 8, 1901, in Los Angeles, California, while visiting there. John Gardner Cortelyou spent his boyhood on his father's farm at Harlingen, N. J. In due time he became a student at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., and there he joined Delta Upsilon, a social frat­ ernity. While getting an education at Rutgers he also "got religion." He was not quite 16 years old when he wrote the following letter:

N. Brunswick, Nov. 22nd, 1864 "My Dear Parents: I hope you will not think it queer because I write so soon after seeing you and I know you will not when I send you tidings of very great joy. I have chosen Jesus as my hiding place at all times and a refuge from the Evil One. My eyes are opened unto the marvelous Light of the Gospel and I hope that I may live to serve my Redeemer all the rest of my life. By the Grace of God I will live to His Glory and the promotion of His Kingdom to whom be ascribed all the praise for ever and ever."

Then follows a longer paragraph which includes: "I think I shall try to learn the Greek alphabet Friday and Saturday."

He closes the letter as follows: "No more at present from your obedient and loving son John Gardner"

The next important date for him was September 2, 1868, when he and Mary Van Zandt became engaged. He recorded in his diary: "The day was splendid and we agreed to go to the Pennington Sunday School picnic. About 10 a. m. we started from Blawenburg, went through Mount Rose, and reached the grounds in good time. Only a few were there whom we either knew or cared to know, for we were entirely wrapped up in each other. I even forgot to water my horse. Near night we agreed to go to Trenton and did so . . . We took supper and after that we walked around town and down to the river to take a row. We did not go home until late and rode nearly all the way on a walk via Pennington . • . Before we reached Pennington we were talking of getting married. After we reached (her) home, we sat a long time in the buggy before I left for home, the happiest man in Jersey."

On October 20, 1869, John Gardner Cortelyou and Mary Van Zandt were married in the Dutch Reformed Church of Blawenburg at 3 o'clock 16 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS in the afternoon. This was a double ceremony; Steven Voorhees Van Zandt, brother of Mary, and Lizzie Kelly were married at the same time. A wedding trip followed for the two couples, including a trip by train to Philadelphia and Washington and a boat ride past Alexandria and Mount Vernon to Richmond. When at Richmond, on Monday, Oct. 25, the two men walked five miles into the country "looking for farms on Nine-mile road." Mr. Cor­ telyou wrote: "I shot a buzzard flying over my head with my 7-shooter Smith and Wesson." On Tuesday, "we saw a man who told us he had been in the rebel service and had received $5 Confederate money per day and had had to pay $60 per pound for butter and $75 for one pound of coffee and other things in proportion." "Mary and I took a walk and I bought several sporting articles, for I wanted them badly-Powder horn, shot-pouch and caps." On Thursday, "we saw a passenger boat on the canal drawn by four large, heavy horses." The men liked none of the farms that they saw for sale. On November 1, the newly-married couples returned to Princeton and Gus Van Zandt drove from the farm and took them home. The story of the wedding-trip ends: "I had $2 left of the $175.60 with which I had started." John G. Cortelyou bought the home farm from his father, on terms, and began farming for himself. This farm was situated halfway between the Reformed Church at Harlingen and Sourland Mountain, on which his two older sons later gathered persimmons and chestnuts after the first heavy frosts. From John G. Cortelyou's diaries, we learn of some of his exper­ iences while a farmer. Extracts follow below:

On Sept. 19, 187 4, a son was born named John Van Zandt after :Mary's grandfather. Oct. 19. Ellie Hoagland came here at noon to work for $2 a week. April 1, 1875. Total property (net), $5,218. April 25. Elected Sunday School superintendent. Oct. 5. Went to Somerville and made six entries for the Fair: beets, beans, onions, timothy seed, sow and pigs, sow and heifer. Oct. 5. Took first premium on all entries except calf. Feb. 2, 1876. Settled up for interest for the year. Father took $1800 from my note on account of land dropping in value since I bought this farm. April 1. Retrospect, 1875-6. We acknowledge God's blessing of life, health, love, and harmony, and still feel our entire dependence upon Him, who THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 17

promised seed time and harvest should not fail. Net worth, $5,956.00. This includes home farm of 148 acres, worth (gross) $14,800.00, and 13 acres of woodland. April 7. Exchanged our piano for a Mason and Hammond organ. November 7. I voted for Tilden and Hendricks. April 1, 1877. Retrospect, 1876-7. This year has been the worst in my memory and older men do not remem­ ber a worse one .•• I superintended the Pleasant View Sunday School during the year and was elected Master of the Grange for 1877. March 1, 1883. Received the Brush farm (the adjoining farm, up the brook) and am to pay the claims on it, which now amount to $3,500.00. March 29. Pressed butter and shipped it (to New York City) Nov. 15. Started for_ New York and bought tickets for Chicago. Nov. 21. Arrived at Omaha at 10 a. m. Nov. 29. Left Pittsburg (on return trip) at 8:35.

A move from the staid and sober East to the "Wild West," which is so rich in promise, has been decided on. And preparations for the change must he made. The diaries continue:

Jan. 14, 1884. At New York with Martin (Van Zandt) and ordered a safe of Marvin Safe Company. Feb. 14. Sale of personal property, 11 :45 to 7 :45. F eh. 29. Mary and I went to Somerville and had our teeth fixed. March 8. Took the boys to Somerville and bought clothes, &c. Garrie, suit, $5; Van Zandt, suit, $7; Garrie's coat, $4.50. March 10 to 14. At Trenton Business College. March 18. Had pictures of children taken, at Somerville. March 23. At 9 :50 p. m. left Trenton with Mr. Ege. March 26. We arrived at Lincoln, Nebr., at 1 p. m. and went to Harvard next day. April 1. We left Harvard for O'Neill, via Lincoln. April 2. We put up at the Elkhorn House at Ewing. April 3. We rode out into the country and were highly pleased. We deter­ mined to locate a bank here. April 4. Bought two houses and lots. April 8. Bought a business lot and a building to be moved onto the same and to be fitted up as a bank building. April 27. Car of goods (of the Cortelyou and Van Zandt families) and the hank safe arrived. 18 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS

April 30. Moved goods to the houses. May 6. The family started from New Jersey. May 9. The family came. I met them at Clearwater. (Martin Van Zandt and his family were with them.) May 15. The bank opened and deposits were $3,501.00.

Cortelyou, Ege and Van Zandt was the firm name under which the Bank of Ewing operated. The Van Zandt concerned was Martin N. Van Zandt, brother-in-law of John G. Cortelyou, and the Ege was Ralph Ege, brother of Mrs. Martin Van Zandt. These three men were owners of the bank, with Mr. Cortelyou acting as president. Mr. Ege did not take active part in the business; he remained in New Jersey.

On March 21, 1887, Mr. Cortelyou sold his 121.57 acre farm at Harlingen, N. J ., described as "beginning at a stone in the middle of the road, leading from Harlingen road to the mountain", etc. The consid­ eration was $6,224.38 or $51.20 an acre. The deed was signed: J. Gard­ ner Cortelyou.

In the summer of 1890, John G. Cortelyou sold his interests in the bank at Ewing, Nebraska, and moved to Omaha,·where he started a real estate and investment business. Shortly after this be became cashier of the Dime Savings Bank. In 1893 the Dime Savings Bank was one of hun­ dreds of banks in the nation to be swept away in the general depression. Mr. Cortelyou noted in his diary: Many country banks are failing (July 8, 1893) . Ten banks failed in the last three days (July 19).

Mr. Cortelyou now re-entered the real estate and investment field.

John G. Cortelyou and his wife were in their younger years mem­ bers of the Reformed Dutch Church at Harlingen, N. J. He was a deacon from 1873 to 1875 and clerk during the same years. On Dec. 15, 1885, he and his wife were dismissed by letter to the Methodist Church at Ewing, Nebraska, the only church in that frontier village at that time. After removal to Omaha in 1890, they became members of the First Methodist Church of that city and he was elected church treasurer. It was through his efforts largely, that their fine edifice, which had just been completed and was not entirely paid for, was saved to the congre­ gation in those days of financial distress. The new treasurer, equipped with many photographs and a convincing belief in his cause, took the train for Milwaukee and procured an insurance company loan of $40,000, which was to be repaid in easy installments. THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 19

A PUBLISHER

In the early '90's, Mr. Cortelyou and many others became great admirers of the new pastor of the First Methodist Church of Omaha, Frank Crane. Probably for this reason mostly, Mr. Cortelyou became a publisher. His diary proceeds:

Talking with J. W. Shank about buying the Omaha Christian Advocate (Jan. 6, 1894). (Mr. Shank was owner and editor.) Closed deal for the Omaha Christi~ Advocate. Elected member of the publication commission of the Omaha Christian Advocate, also treasurer of its hoard of directors, as well as director of the Methodist Publishing Company (Jan. 15). (Frank Crane was appointed editor-in-chief.)

But Mr. Cortelyou did not remain a publisher very long. His diary proceeds: "Sold Advocate" (July 17.)

A son recalls his father's great relief when the father succeeded in re­ turning the Advocate to J. W. Shank!

THE METHODIST HOSPITAL

John G. Cortelyou was a· prime mover in the group which estab­ lished the Methodist Hospital of Omaha, one of the largest and best hospitals of that city. On March 6, 1894, he was elected a trustee of the Methodist Hospital for a three-year term. And on March 20, 1894, he was elected president of the hoard of trustees.

FIRE ESCAPES

Another important field is mentioned briefly in the diary: Looking up Pratt's fire-escape (June 1, 1895). Organized Fire Escape Company (Pratt and Arnold Automatic Fire Escape), June 11. Arrived at Hot Springs S. D. (July 31). Went to Soldiers Home and there tried the fire-escapes (31st). Shipped two fire-escapes to Hot Springs (Aug. 30) • Sold two to the Methodist Hospital, Omaha (Aug. 30). 20 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS

This fire escape was both ingenious and practical. It consisted of a cable wound around a roller, the roller to be fastened inside a room or hallway above an outside window. A belt at the end of the cable was to be fastened under the arms of the user and this person, who stepped out or was placed outside the window, descended to the ground at a uniform speed. Then the belt was unsnapped and would rise automati­ cally and quickly for the next escapee. But unfortunately the interest of the public could not be awakened and the project died a natural death.

THE ROTARY DUPLICATOR

When the inventor of the rotary duplicator brought his crude model from Stella, Nebraska, to Omaha, John G. Cortelyou, who had along with business sense, also an aptitude with machinery, bought a controlling interest in the invention. He helped to develop the machine, to start it well on its way to the commanding position it now occupies in its field. Some details are quoted from diaries: Arranged to absorb the H. W. Lowe Company (rotary duplicators) by giving $12,500 of stock of the Stationers Specialty Company and $500 (April 9, 1896). Trying to get duplicators to work 07th). Working on duplicators as usual (May 5). Sold first duplicators (14th). Slow but steady progress was made, as shown: In office, making inks (July 18). Working on impression rollers (21st). Machines doing fine work (23rd) . Working on new model of duplicator (Aug. 20). Got a new ink, blue No. 2, and then ran more than 4000 good copies (Sept. 12). Contracted for 25 large machines (22nd). Working on duplicators and rollers (Nov. 26). In office and at work on new machines (Dec. 28). Shipped machines to Santa Fe R. R. Company (Feb. 19, 1897). Had contracts for 3000 machines signed and delivered (Aug. 7). Left for New York to sell foreign patents (July 11, 1899). Sold (in New York) my half interest in foreign Rotary Neostyle for $6,000 {14th).

BUSINESS ABROAD

Mr. Cortelyou crossed the Atlantic in 1898. No doubt he was quite willing to share the benefits of the Rotary Duplicator with our English cousins. His diary states: Sailed for London at noon on White Star SS Majestic (May 18, 1898). Went to Hotel Cecil, London (May 26). Left on the Mohawk of the Atlantic Line (June 16). Arrived at dock, New York (27th). He remarked later that the English were too slow to suit him. He had talked to a prospect who seemed agreeable to the proposition pre­ sented but suggested that their next meeting be two weeks from that day. For an up-and-coming Yankee that was too long a wait! THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 21

CALIFORNIA LAND

While he was out in Califomia investigating the oil business, John G. Cortelyou also became interested in land that might be irrigated. His diaries state some details: "Arranged to go to the desert to take up some land, 640 acres (Sept. 25, 1900) . I bought water stock of Imperial Land Company for 306 acres in Section 6 and 320 acres in Section 9 ( Oct. 6) . Arranged to buy $25,000 stock of Imperial Land Company when I return to Omaha (Oct. 6)."

The land mentioned was in the Imperial Valley and was some 50 feet below the level of the Pacific Ocean. The purchase turned out well, much better than Mr. Cortelyou could have imagined it would. The value of the lettuce crop alone, in the valley, December to March, 1953, amounted to $17,500;000.

OIL BUSINESS

The growing oil business in California proved to he an irresistible lure. The diary relates: "Left for Los Angeles (Sept 6, 1900). Met Garrie (his oldest son) at the Los Angeles station ( Sept. 10) . Drove out to the oil wells and around the city. On oil exchange and bought some stock (13th). Bought more Union Jack stock at 2 3/4 cash and now have $25,000 {14th). Arranged to buy 10 acres of oil land with well on it in Kem River district, land that we had seen ( Oct. 18) . Managed to catch the Santa Fe train for home (19th). Organized Golden Rod Oil Company (Nov. 24th). Golden Rod directors' meeting; we put the stock up to $1 a share (Feb. 25). Telegram from Garrie that well flowed, (Feb. 26th). Garrie wires that first well at 1000 feet; 409 feet saved (March 23). Arrived at Bakersfield and went to oil wells (June 11). Boiler broke down and men all idle (21st). Spencer and I went to Bakersfield to get 3 1/2 inch boiler tube. I am suffering with bronchitis and some fever (21st)."

The last entry in the diary, written June 27, reads: "Got 7 5/8 casing out of No. 2 and swedged it. Started 9 5/8 cutter in the well before night. In No. I, air-pump down 860 feet. Gas bursting out at night." The illness which John G. Cortelyou had been battling for a long period got the better of him at last. He died in Los Angeles on July 8, 1901. Some months before his death he had inhaled a tiny cinder, which lod­ ged in his lungs. This later resulted in hemorrhages, which cost him his life at the early age of 52 years, 5 months, and 25 days.

IV-2. MARY VAN ZANDT (daughter of James Van Zandt, V-3) was horn on Dec. 20, 1847, at Blawenburg, N. J. On October 20, 1869, 22 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS she and John Gardner Cortelyou were married at Blawenburg. She died July 7, 1911, at Los Angeles, California. As a girl in her teens, Mary Van Zandt learned to draw and to paint. She played the organ and the piano, and she had a lovely alto voice. Her children could testify that she was an excellent cook also. One of her especially fine products was crullers, sugar-coated doughnuts. Almost every Sunday dinner included an extra-good rice pudding. Her sons never tired of their mother's rice puddings and seldom have they tasted in more recent times any rice-pudding that could compare favorably with those prepared every week by their mother. She co-operated in church work. She was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church and for many years was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mary Van Zandt was about five feet six inches tall, and had lovely auburn hair. This auburn coloring of the hair was passed on to her children in varying degrees. The mother of nine children, she was almost constantly busy for many years. But when her youngest child neared maturity, she was able to relax to a greater degree and to enjoy her family and her surround­ ings more than be£ ore. Her lovely California home was an ideal place for leisure and quiet enjoyment and apparently it gave her much satisfac­ tion. Following an unusually happy afternoon spent among her roses, she passed away in her sleep. The children of John Gardner and Mary (Van Zandt) Cortelyou were James Garretson (born Aug. 4, 1871), Phebe (born Jan. 21, 1873 and died Jan. 22, 1873), John Van Zandt (born Sept. 19, 1874), Cath­ ryn Sarah (born Feb. 2, 1877 and died July 24, 1950), Louis Van Zandt (born May 27, 1879 and died May 26, 1952), Spencer Van Zandt (horn Feb. 17, 1881), Willis A. (horn Jan. 3, 1883 and died March 28, 1902), Raymond (born April 30, 1885 and died May 30, 1893), and Herman Polhemus (born Oct. 9, 1887).

IV-3. JOSEPH HOWARD RUSHTON (son of George Rushton, V-5) was born March 30, 1849, in Manchester, England. He was mar­ ried March 25, 1875 at Lisbon, Ill., to Minnie Julia Putt. He died Jan. 2, 1922 in Omaha and was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. Joseph Howard Rushton was brought across the Atlantic by his mother when he was two years old. They reached Morris, Ill., in May, 1851. His father had preceded them. In the winter of 1864, Joseph's father felt the necessity of giving his son more work to do, since he had become 15 years old, so he rented THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 23 a 160-acre farm in Grundy County, Illinois, and bought two more horses. From that time on, Joe became a "full hand" on the farm. From 1866 to 1869 he spent his time either in school or in tending cattle. During the three winter months he attended the White Willow school, a mile and a half from home. In the fall of 1869 he wanted to attend the Lisbon school, seven miles away, but his father had no money and didn't want his son to leave the farm to go to school. The farm had been so wet that Joe had had nothing to do there. His mother wanted him to go to school but pleaded in vain for the boy. Finally a neighbor woman, an _old friend, won the father's consent on April 6, 1869. The hoy went to Lisbon and secured a place to board and room. On Sept. 16, he walked to Lisbon with his books under his arm and enrolled in the school. He attended that school until the following April and got hack home about the time he was 21 years old. His father, a typical English­ man in ideas, believed that the service of his son belonged to him and since Joseph had taken six months of his time, the young man was sup­ posed to work for his father six months after he became of age, and he did that. In the summer of 1870, Joseph got the idea of going to Jennings Seminary at Aurora. He had no money but borrowed $75 from a kind blacksmith and went. He and three other young fellows rented a house in Aurora and '~hached." Their living, including rent, cost each of them about $1.50 a week. The money borrowed from the blacksmith disappeared very rapidly and there was only one way to replenish it, and that was to teach school. He secured the Booth school, about 3½ miles northeast, that winter. The term was four months and the pay was $37.50 a month. The school opened with about £orty pupils. The four months passed very rapidly and very happily. Each day after school Joseph walked two miles to a farm where a close friend of his lived, Tom Green, with whom he "bached." It cost him about 50 cents a week to live in that way, so when he got his pay of $150 most of that sum was left, and he attended Jen­ nings Seminary again in the spring. He attended school till the end of the term in June, then worked £or his father on the farm in summer. In the fall of 1871 he went back to Jennings Seminary again, having paid his friend the blacksmith with money received from his father and having then borrowed more money from him. During the early part of the term Joseph had been asked to teach the Booth school again, four months, at $45.50 a month this time. About November 1 he was taken sick and the doctor called from Lisbon pro­ nounced it typhoid fever. Joseph had a pretty serious time of it hut finally the fever broke and a month from the time he had taken sick he began to teach again. This was against doctor's orders and was very risky in his weakened condition. 24 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS

At the school that winter he had 55 pupils and it was a very active, prosperous and enjoyable school. He boarded with the Booth family, about 40 rods from the school-house, paying $2 a week for board from Sunday night till Friday night. "They were a glorious family, hospitable and generous," said Joseph Rushton many years later. On March 30, 1869, Joseph Rushton had attended a social enter­ tainment in the Congregational church in Lisbon and there first saw Minnie Julia Putt. That was the day he became 20 years old. It was the custom there for a young fellow to take a young lady some place on July 4. So Will Putt, Minnie's cousin, whom he knew pretty well, fur­ nished a carriage and Joseph furnished a team and they took Sarah McGrath and Minnie Putt to the celebration at Aurora. During the fall term, Joseph corresponded with Minnie and the acquaintanceship was kept up during the winter. At the end of the spring term, 1872, they had become engaged. In the summer of 1872, Joseph worked on the farm at home and saved all the money he could get. By borrowing more money from the blacksmith, his friend, he was able to attend Jennings Seminary all three terms. Joseph told his daughter, Ali~e, many years later: "At the close of the spring term I was loaded down with debts that had to be paid. I was engaged and had nothing in sight for a living, had only a meager education and no one seemed to want it. I wrote that spring to about 100 boards of education and only three showed any interest in my application."

Finally he was elected principal of the Plano, Illinois, schools at $80 a month for nine months. He was never before in a graded school and now he was to take charge of one that had six teachers beside the principal. The high school had closed in June with only one pupil. The principal had been a lamentable failure and his pupils had soon found it out. But in the fall so many pupils came in that an assistant had to be added. Joseph Rushton was made superintendent and his assistant be­ came principal. The school grew; three more rooms were added. During his second year in Plano, he was married to Minnie Putt of Lisbon, Ill­ ~nois. He was re-elected at the end of the year and his wife taught as his :'lSSistant in the high school. For a long time Joseph Rushton had desired to study law, and during his last years of teaching he had studied elementary law-books. In June, 1879, he declined re-election and moved to Aurora, Illinois. His salary when he left Plano had been $125 a month for nine months. He began the study of law formally in the office of Captain A. C. T .:11:le. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1880, having been examined in Chicago before the Appellate Judge and two assistant judges. He then became a partner of Captain Little and the partnership continued till June, 1881. THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 25

In 1876, Joseph Rushton had purchased a 160 acre farm in York County, Nebraska, part of the Union Pacific land grant, at $5 an acre. This was his first real estate investment. In the spring of 1881 he be­ came interested in the West, especially in Nebraska. So in April, 1881, he took a trip to Nebraska. He visited York, Fairmont and Hastings, then returned to Illinois, still undecided. But by the latter part of June he had made his decision. The household goods were packed and ship­ ped to Fairmont. The latter part of July, the goods having arrived, he rented a house and his wife and his daughter Grace came to Fairmont. He opened up a law office at once and the first year of practicing he earned a gross of $2000. He followed the law business and real estate and collections for about four years, till 1885. In March, 1884, a Mr. Stuart came to Fairmont and organized a creamery on a stock plan. There were about 100 individual stockholders with a capital stock of about $5,000. Joseph Rushton took $200 worth of stock. After paying for his stock he "forgot" about it till some time in the fall, when a notice was received stating that the creamery company was in financial straits. The company had been losing money all season and had many debts and no liquid assets. In fact, the entire property was worth only the debts, possibly even less. In the fall of 1884, Joseph Rushton was selected as a director of the Fairmont Creamery Company. There were many meetings and it became evident that the stockholders would not stay by the company and the enterprise would fail. Joseph Rushton proposed to four other men that the five of them take the prop­ erty and obligate themselves to pay the debts. This was agreed to and Joseph Rushton took 25 shares of the total of 100 and was elected secretary. He became intensely interested in the development of the industry and spent an undue amount of his time studying the industry as a local matter. The butter-maker was a very capable man but he lacked force. He was the only person who had any practical knowledge of the creamery business. In 1886, E. F. Howe applied for the position of butter-maker. He was hired and was paid $75 a month, big pay in those days. The next year Mr. Howe purchased 10 shares of the stock from one of the original five. In 1889 the Chase bank went bankrupt and Irving Chase, treasurer of the Fairmont Creamery Company and holder of 35 shares of Com­ pany stock, left for parts unknown. The Creamery Company was ser­ iously embarassed for a time but pulled through. In 1897 Wallace Wheeler, president of the Company, died and Joseph H. Rushton, who had been secretary, succeeded him in the presidency, Mr. Howe becom­ ing secretary. Mr. Rushton remained president till April, 1921, when the condition of his health moved him to give up the presidency and 26 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS become chairman of the board of directors, which office he held to the · time of his death. In 1884, the Fairmont Creamery Company started out with total assets of $5,000. In 1885, they had no net capital. But in 1918, capital and surplus amounted to $3,700,000. On July 31, 1947, this company, which J. H. Rushton had saved from extinction in the early days, had a total net worth of $24,000,000 and was doing a business of $100,000,000 a year. It is now known as the Fairmont Foods Company and has branches in many states. In the summer of 1913, Mr. and Mrs. Rushton and daughter Alice, accompanied by J. V. Cortelyou, took a European trip. The party left Boston on the Franconia of the Cunard line. They landed at Liverpool and on the 20th went to Chester. The next day they proceeded to Man­ chester, in which city Mr. Rushton was born in 1849. The two men spent a day on a trip to Accrington, where Mr. Rushton's parents had lived. On the 26th the party proceeded to Edinburgh. The next stop was Glasgow with a side-trip to Ayr. They enjoyed an auto-trip in the lake country, then went to Torquay on the south coast and spent five days in that charming place. After a coaching trip, the party returned to London and liked the sight-seeing there. But Mrs. Rushton broke a wrist when getting off a motorbus and had to have her arm put into splints and a sling. After that they travelled by subway rather than bus. They saw Windsor Castle and stopped briefly at Stoke Pogis. The party crossed the channel and in Paris put up· at Hotel St. James and D'Albany. Mr. Rushton left Paris with a business associate to go to Brussels and Holland. Among the places visited by the other three was the old fairgrounds. The three left Paris on August 6 and at Cologne were met at the station by Mr. Rushton. The party was much impressed by the great cathedral. From there the trip up the Rhine was made by steamer and was especially enjoyed by Mr. Rushton. The next day the party went on to Heidelberg, where they saw the castle, the duelling grounds, etc. From Heidelberg they saw in turn Lucerne, Zurich, Munich, Dresden, Nuremhurg, and Berlin. In Berlin they hap­ pened to see the Zeppelin airship at close range. After that they saw Hamburg. On August 26, they boarded the Cleve/,and at Cuxhaven for America. On the whole trip Mr. Rushton was interested chiefly in seeing how business and industry were carried on while Mrs. Rushton had her chief interest in cathedrals, art-galleries, and scenery, and in observing how the people dressed and lived.

IV-4. MINNIE JULIA PUTT (daughter of William Putt, V-7) was born Sept. 24, 1854, at Morris, Illinois; was married March 25, 1875, at Lisbon, Illinois to Joseph Howard Rushton; and died May 2, 1934, in Omaha, Nebraska. She was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha. THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 27

She lived in Morris, Ill., from birth till 1856, at Northport, Mich., from 1856 till 1867, at Lisbon, Ill., from 1867 till 1875, at Plano, Ill., from 1875 till 1879, at Aurora, Ill., from 1879 to 1881, at Fairmont, Nebr., from 1881 till 1908, and thereafter at Omaha, Nebraska. Minnie Julia Putt took an examination for a teacher's certificate and began to teach before she was 16 years old. She kept a diary for a short time and here follow some extracts from it: Monday, Jan. 2, 1871. Commenced school again this morning. Had two new scholars and a very full school. One boy is 18 but seems to be ready to mind. Am very tired tonighL Tuesday, 3rd. Another new scholar today, a big Norwegian, 16 years old. I never saw such persons to learn as these Norwegian scholars. I have 11 of them in my school and six negroes, a mixed population. Thursday, 5th. Miss Knox has taught 17 or 18 terms and thinks it very pleasant work. So do I. Saturday. 7th. I have such a longing to see the treasures of the Old World but I dread the ocean. Monday, 9th. I am reading Mrs. Stowe's "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands" and am in raptures over it. Tuesday, 17th. A hard day in school. I am very tired tonight. Monday, 23rd. A hard day in school. Mr. Gill went this afternoon and I never saw children act so. I'm going to have order if I don't hear a lesson. Tuesday, 24th. The school was much more orderly today, though there is still plenty of room for improvement. Monday, April 10. Commenced school again with just five scholars. This afternoon I had seven. I had no difficulty in occupying the time.

Regarding M;~nie Julia Putt, a niece expressed herself as follows: Words fail when it comes to telling of the life of Minnie Putt Rushton. She carried her end of the load. During those days of depression ( 1893-'95) , if it had not been for her help and sacrifices, it would have been an impos­ sible task for her husband to have built and financed the organization of the Fairmont Creamery Company. Children of Joseph Howard and Minnie Julia (Putt) Rushton were Grace Isabel (born May 24, 1877), Maud Alida (born June 17, 1884), George Howard (born Jan. 23, 1890), Raymond Wright (born Sept. 28, 1892), Arthur Lyell (born Sept. 28, 1894), and Alice Louise (born July 30, 1897).

IV-5. CHARLES HAINES MANLEY (son of Charles Manley, V-9) was born Aug. 7, 1850 at Black Rock, a suburb of Buffalo, N. Y. He married, 1st, Dec. 4, 1872 in Junction City, Kansas, Marion Isadore 28 THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS

Jones. She died Feb. 23, 1916. He married 2nd, Jan. 1 or 2, 1918 at Emporia, Kansas, Mrs. Jane Rundle, whom he had known slightly since she was a girl. She died of cancer within a year. He married, 3rd, on Jan. 6, 1919 at Rockford, Ill., Mrs. Nettie Stearns, who had been a room­ mate of his first wife when they attended college at Appleton, Wisconsin. Mr. Manley died April 10, 1929 at Junction City, Kansas. Charles' education began very early. One day, when he was two years old, he ran into his father's store dressed only in a red flannel union suit. A clerk pulled a sliver of tobacco off a plug and gave it to the small boy to taste. Later on, he had his first boots with red tops. Going to the butcher's with Bridget one day, with full confidence in the boots he waded into a snow-drift. He stuck fast and she had to pull him out. Charles H. Manley was graduated from grammer school in Buffalo in 1864 and attended high school until the Christmas holidays. That was the last of his schooling. He began selling papers when the news came of the Battle of Bull Run and kept at it during the Civil War. On August 16, 1869 he left Buffalo to work on Mrs. Mary Jones' farm in Rock County, Wisconsin, for $18 a month. Here he worked until the country school opened, when he got a school in a Norwegian district about a mile and a quarter from Mrs. Jones' farm. He agreed with her that he would do chores and pay $1 a week for his board. He was paid $30 a month for teaching and had to teach every other Satur­ day in addition to the regular Monday to Friday stretch. During the winter he became engaged to Marion Jones, the widow's daughter. When he asked Mrs. Jones for her consent, she said the only thing she had against him was his liberal religious views. When March came he had $100 saved and had determined to start for Kansas. He arrived in Junction City on March 3rd, 1870. He bought 117 acres of railroad land on the Republican River across from Alida and took up an 80-acre homestead adjoining, in his mother's name, for he was not yet of age. His mother and sister Anna came on as soon as school was out in Buffalo. He got $4 a day for putting up hay for the Fort Riley contractor. In the fall he got a school in Morris County. Christmas was on Monday that year. He let school out a bit early on Friday and walked home-16 miles to Junction City and 7 miles from Junction City to the homestead by crossing the Republican River on the ice. In June of 1872, his mother married again and gave him the home­ stead. He sent for Marion I. Jones, to whom he had been engaged for nearly three years. They were married in Junction City by the Congre­ gational minister.

"In April, 187 4," he records, "with $40 in cash, we once more tackled the homestead proposition. I bought $5 worth of garden seed and ten bushels of corn for the ponies. We lived on the $30 remaining until August, when the THE GREAT GRANDPARENTS 29

grasshoppers came. I bought a cow of a neighbor, working out the pay at $1 a day. We had milk but certainly did not indulge in any luxuries. When the grasshoppers came in August, the drought had already killed most of the com in the county. I had about 3½ acres of com in a slough, good roasting ears. I got a couple of sacks full out of this but the hoppers got the rest. The grasshoppers ate everything green. They ate onions out of the beds, leaving saucer-like depressions. They ate peaches, leaving the stones sticking on the limbs of the trees. I had some small cottonwood trees started from slips, very thrifty, and they ate the bark and girded the limbs where these joined the trunk. "When the grasshoppers came, I owed nothing but $5 for a pair of boots, for which I was certainly glad. It was obvious that something had to be done. I cut and hauled 17 cords of wood (for Fort Riley) at $3.50 a cord. I taught four months of school in District No. 1 (Lyons) at $40 a month. I had about 40 scholars. All the families but three were German. Every­ thing was taught from ABC's to algebra. I had to attend teachers· institute and take an examination at Abilene during the Christmas holidays." "In the spring of ·1875 I returned to the homestead. During the summer I did well at selling sewing-machines. In the fall we had some hoppers and they laid the ground full of eggs, which we knew might hatch in the spring and eat the spring crop. I sold the homestead for a trifle, then hitched the horses to a covered wagon in October and made the long trip to Clinton, Wisconsin, 615 miles in 30 days. "The next summer I returned to Junction City. In September I sent for my wife and children, rented a four-room cottage on First Street for $2.50 a month. I went out on the road selling sewing machines." But brighter days were ahead. He served one term as probate judge in the early 80's and, starting in 1900, was clerk or president of the school board for 44 years. In 1884, Mr. Manley was associated with a Mr. Pierce in the bank­ ing and mortgage business and in that year his salary was advanced to $1000 a year. In 1894 he was made cashier of the Central National Bank and was finally made vice-president. Mr. Manley's narrative continues: "Sumner Pierce died in the holiday season of 1904. The management of the bank fell on me during his illness and proved too much of a strain. In January I was told I had Bright's disease and the doctor advised me to get out of business. I finally sold my interests in both the Central National Bank and the Union State Savings Bank." This retirement took place nearly 25 years before his death. Mr. Manley was permitted to know personally seven generations of his family: greatgrandparents, grandparents, parents, his own genera­ tion, his children, his grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. This privilege comes to few people.

IV-6. MARION ISADORE JONES (daughter of Henry Jones, V-11) was born Oct. 15, 1851 at East Aurora, N. Y.; married Charles 30 THE GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

H. Manley on Dec. 4, 1872 in Junction City, Kansas; died F eh. 23, 1916 in Junction City, Kansas. She lived at or near Buffalo, N. Y., from birth till 1866, at Clinton, Wisc., from 1866 till '72, and in Geary County, Kans., from 1872 till her death, in 1916. She was always interested in literature and was always definitely and positively for what she thought was right. The first winter after her marriage she taught school in the house. She had five or six pupils. Children of Charles Haines and Marion Isadore (Jones) Manley, all of whom were living at the time of their father's death: 1. Charles Henry, horn Jan. 27, 187 4, in Geary Co., Kansas. 2. Nettie Ermina, h. Feb. 14, 1876, in Junction City, Kans. 3. Rufus Sumner, h. Sept. 27, 1878, in Junction City. 4. Samuel Adams, h. July 12, 1880, in Junction City. 5. Martha Florida, h. Jan. 14, 1882, in Junction City. 6. Lester Bryant, h. Nov. 6, 1883, in Junction City. 7. Alma Theodosia, h. Sept. 12, 1887, in Junction City. 8. Anna Robins, h. May 30, 1890, in Junction City. 9. Marion Isadore Jones, h. April 29, 1893, Junction City.

IV-7. THOMAS KEESHAN (son of Michael Keeshan, V-13) was born April 7, 1846 at Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. He married August 6, 1875, at Little Rock, Arkansas, Robina Gibson. He died at Junction City, Kansas, on August 20, 1943. In a Junction City newspaper of April 9, 1942, there is an article from which the foil owing extracts are taken: One of Junction City's most remarkable men, Thomas Keeshan, was 96 years old Tuesday but a stranger would miss his age by 15 or 20 years, so spry, alert and erect is he. Mr. Keeshan is a native of Queens County, heland. He was in London much of his earlier life and travelled extensively over the continent with his par­ ents before the "call of the road" became too insistent. Sailing for South America as a youth of around 16, Mr. Keeshan talked with some other young men aboard ship and wound up in New York City during the early days of the Civil War. He spent several weeks debating which side in the conflict was right, Union or the South. He joined the Union forces and started a military career which was to he his life for 40 years. He retired after a colorful army career 45 or 50 years ago and is now listed in the army directory as the oldest living retired man in the U. S. THE GREAT-GRANDPARENTS 31

Junction City was a trading post when Mr. Keeshan came to Fort Riley some 65 years ago. The family lived in Fort Leavenworth after that but then returned more than 50 years ago to Junction City. After his retirement, Mr. Keeshan purchased a floral business in Junction City and he and his family have operated the business since. He visits the green house daily and still helps with work around the place. He was night fireman in his 80's until he was persuaded to give up such hard work. Of slight builds somewhat frail looking, Mr. Keeshan surprises one with a booming, commanding voice. His neat appearance, good manners, and scholarly manner make up for what physical proportions he lacks.

Mr. Keeshan's rank, when he retired from the army in the early 90's, was commissary sergeant. Thomas Keeshan liked men with brains and manners. In the army he would watch for such men. He would tutor them himself as far as he could, then lend them money and send them to some one who would take them on from where he left off. Then he would get them to West Point. Through the years many of the children of these men would come to see him and to thank him in person for the help he had given their fathers. Thomas Keeshan was raised a Catholic hut left the Church. He was a mason for more than fifty years.

IV-8. ROBINA GIBSON ( daughter of Robert Gibson, V-15) was horn April 23, 1859, at Glasgow, Scotland. She and Thomas Keeshan were married August 6, 1875, at Little Rock, Arkansas. She died March 18, 1944, at Junction City, Kansas. The children of Thomas and Robina (Gibson) Keeshan were Mary (h. Sept. 16, 1876), Thomas Henry (h. Oct. 7, 1878), Robina (h. July 14, 1881), Walter Edward (h. Oct. 14, 1883), Lucy Margaret (h. May 19, 1886), and Harold Hawley (h. March 6, 1887).

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Chapter V

THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

V-1. JAMES GARRETSON CORTELYOU (son of Abraham H. Cortelyou, VI-I) was born Nov. 11, 1816, at Ten Mile Run, N. J., and was baptised Dec. 23, 1816, at Six Mile Run, N. J. He married Jan. 3, 1843, in Somerset Co., N. J., Cornelia Polhemus. He died Feb. 19, 1892, at New Brunswick, N. J., and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New Brunswick. James Garretson Cortelyou lived at Ten Mile Run from birth to 1843, the year of his marriage, at Harlingen from 1843 to 1869, and at New Brunswick fro~ 1869 till his death. He was named as one of the three men of Harlingen, who, in 1854, "were sufficiently interested and well-to-do to constitute stockholders of a $300,000 capitalized bank," the Bank of New Jersey, incorporated in New Brunswick. He sold his farm at Harlingen, Somerset County, in 1869 or shortly thereafter to his eldest son, John Gardner Cortelyou. In April, 1874, according to his son's diary, he "traded his place for a farm near N. Brunswick and will move on Friday" (April 25th). Probably it was on this farm that he spent his last years. The son's diary mentions the Harlingen farm, on April 1, 1876, as "the home farm of 148 acres, worth $14,800." A year later, this record occurs: "Father gave me my note for $2,000, so that the farm, woodlots, shed, and pew, cattle (13), etc. cost us $12,000." Times were hard in those years and a considerate father had made conditions much easier for his son, who had a wife and three small children to support. James Garretson Cortelyou was a very active member of the Re­ formed Church and served as an elder for many years. He belonged also to the Masonic fraternity.

V-2. CORNELIA POLHEMUS (daughter of Isaac Polhemus, Vl-3) was born Jan. 26, 1816, in Somerset County, N. J. She married Jan. 3, 1843, James Garretson Cortelyou. She died May 24, 1893, at New Brunswick, N. J., and is buried beside her husband in Evergreen Cemetery at New Brunswick. Cornelia Polhemus lived with her brother, Peter Polhemus, on the farm after her husband's death and until her own, a little more than a year later. Children of James Garretson and Cornelia (Polhemus) Cortelyou 34 THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS were Abraham (born Dec. 26, 1844), Phebe Ann (born July 11, 1846) ,­ John Gardner (born Jan. 13, 1849), Luther (born Dec. 23, 1851), and Peter J. (born May 25, 1857).

V-3. JAMES VAN ZANDT (son of John Van Zandt, VI-5) was born at Blawenhurg, Somerset Co., N. J. on March 11, 1821. He mar­ ried Sept. 7, 1842, at Blawenburg, Catharine Nevius. He died at Blaw­ enburg Feb. 7, 1900.

James Van Zandt first purchased of Garrett Van Zandt a farm of 72 acres, near Blawenburg, and in 1860 added 100 acres of the old homestead of his father. In 1860 he erected a large brick residence with outbuildings. "He has confined his labors strictly to the cultivation and improvement of his farm, and is regarded as one of the model agricul­ turalists of Somerset County. He is a gentleman extremely modest and unassuming in manner, devoted to his home and family, and by his manly Christian life has earned a place among the most respected rep­ resentative men of his vicinity .. " (History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, p. 849.)

A grandson has very pleasant memories of his grandfather. He recalls a certain autumn day, about the year 1882, -when he and his older brother were wandering around at the county fair, taking in the strange sights and sounds. Unexpectedly they found their smiling grandfather standing be£ ore them. In answer to his question, they said they were getting along fine. He handed out a quarter-a big sum for boys in those days-told the boys to have a good time. They went straight to a fruit stand and very soon disposed of their purchase of half-a-dozen bananas. Then they continued their rambles and somewhat later found they were again facing their smiling grandfather. Now history repeated itself, even as to the bananas. But there were no had after-effects, for a hoy's stomach, and especially a farm boy's stomach, will stand a lot of mistreatment.

This grandson remembers also the "large brick residence" men­ tioned above. The plans for that house were made largely or entirely by the grandfather and the bricks used in building the house were made there on his farm. In the center of the house there was a circular stair­ way, at the top of which was a cupola with small windows of blue glass. The boy was sure there could be no grander house in the whole world than this marvelous house where Gran'pa Van Zandt lived. This farm lies down the hill from Blawenburg and on the far side of Rock Brook. It was bought about the year 1905 by the State of New Jersey and is the site of the State Epileptic Institution. The old house still stood at last reports. It contains the offices of the institution. The group of cottages, known as the village, is a short distance away. THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS 35

V-4. CATHARINE NEVIUS ( daughter of John Martin Nevius, Vl-7) was born May 8, 1821 near Blawenburg, N. J. She married James Van. Zandt on Sept. 7, 1842, at Blawenburg. And she died at Blawen­ burg, N. J., on Dec. 30, 1889. Children of James and Catharine (Nevius) Van Zandt, all horn at Blawenburg, were: John Nevius ( born Aug. 17, 1844) , Stephen Voor­ hees (born Nov. 14, 1845), Mary (horn Dec. 20, 1847), Augustus Ber­ nardus (born Jan. 11, 1850), Martin Nevius (horn Aug. 14, 1852), Edgar Laing (born Jan. 6, 1855), Theodore Romeyn (horn April 29, 1857), and James Spencer (born Dec. 22, 1859).

V-5. GEORGE RUSHTON (son of George Rushton, Vl-9) was h. Jan. 22, 1823, at Stonefold, near Accrington, England, and d. Aug. 14, 1897, at l:,ishon, Ill. He m. Sept. 17, 1846, at Accrington, England, Isa­ bella Hoyle, who died in 1876. On March 27, 1877, he married Sarah Ann Goostrey, who was horn May 8, 1846, not far from Stockport, England, and died Aug. 14, 1908, at the Rushton home, Lisbon Twp., Kendall Co., Ill. By the second marriage, there were three children: James Weller (b. Apr. 5, 1878), William Goostrey (b. June 8, 1880), and George Lord (h. Jan. 20, 1886). George Rushton lived at Accrington, England, from birth till 1849, and in Illinois from 1849 till his death. He wore wooden clogs till he was twenty years old. He was a laborer in the quarries at Stone£ old, near Accrington, England. Though he had very little schooling and in his youth could hardly write, he was quite proficient in reading. He was an earnest attendant at church services, especially at Episcopal church services. He liked to mingle with religious people. Later he became identified with religious people almost entirely. Later he mingled with old school Baptists and acquired a vast amount of general education through read­ ing religious books, such as the Bible, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and the works of Calvin, John Gadsby, and William Warburton. After his marriage, he and his wife lived at her father's house and he labored in the quarry. His wife taught school and took care of the house and of her father. Having heard glowing reports of America and desiring to improve his condition, George Rushton made up his mind to migrate to the United States. He left England in October, 1848. He arrived in New York about Christmas time, stopped on Staten Island for some time, and in the spring of 1849 he went on to Chicago. From there he went to Morris, Grundy County, Ill., where quite a number of English people had settled. His wife and small son arrived from England in May, 1851. The family lived for a while ten miles north of Morris hut they soon 36 THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS moved to a place on Root Ridge, where there was a stone quarry. George Rushton handled the stone quarry and lived on this ridge from the fall of 1851 till the spring of 1857, worked the quarry and farmed.

In the spring of 185 7 he purchased an 80-acre piece of land in Seward township, Kendall county, for which tract he promised to pay $500. It was prairie land with no house or fences. In the winter of 1857 he built a small one-story house and outbuildings and commenced to break up the raw land. This was the year of the great depression. He had no capital and nothing coming in from the new farm except that which came from milking cows, making butter, and selling chickens and eggs.

At this time George Rushton had signed a note of $500 as a matter of friendship. In the fall of 1859 the note matured. George had secured the note by chattel mortgage on his horses and wagon and since the man for whom he had signed the note was unable to pay, the horses and wagon were taken. George's young son Joe remembered all his life the time when the constable came in his father's absence and took horses and wagon. He remembered the great despair that he and his mother felt when they were left on the farm alone and had nothing to work with.

That day Joe's father sold the land and with the money gotten from the sale he bought a team of horses, a wagon, and farm tools and paid off certain debts that had accumulated. He rented a farm on the Aux Sable and moved onto it in 1861. The Civil War broke out that spring. George was a strong anti-slavery man and was deeply interested in the stirring politics of the time. He took little Joe with him to Ottawa to the great Lincoln-Douglas debate, which made a deep and lasting im­ pression on the boy's mind.

In the fall of 1865, George Rushton purchased 100 acres in Kendall County for $2000. There were no buildings on the land and only 30 or 40 acres were broken. It was a wet piece of land and not very desirable at that time, without drainage. The small cash payment on the land and the cost of building absorbed all his cash and all he could borrow and the land was mortgaged for a large part of the purchase price. He had excellent credit and was not afraid to use it.

The years 1866, '67, and '68 were pretty fair years and he raised pretty fair crops, broke some land and drained it, and made some money. But in the year 1869 it began to rain in April and continued almost without interruption until September. It was Illinois' wettest year and George Rushton had the wettest farm. He had only slough grass. The only way he could secure groceries and other supplies was by milking cows and selling the butter, and by raising chickens and selling the eggs. THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS 37

V-6. ISABELLA HOYLE (daughter of George Hoyle, VI-11) was horn Jan. 10, 1823, at Accrington, Lancashire, England. She mar­ ried George Rushton at Accrington, Sept. 17, 1846. She died Nov. 5, 1876, in Lisbon Township, Kendall County, Illinois, and was buried in the Lisbon Cemetery. After her mother's death, Isahella Hoyle became the home-maker and housekeeper of the family. She got considerable education, largely self-acquired. While the others worked in the mill, she attended the house and looked after their little farm-lot, where they kept a few cows and chickens. Also she taught a small private school. She was consider­ ed a fairly well-educated young woman. Her son Joseph stated that she was very quiet hut persistent. She was a Methodist hut after her mar­ riage became a Baptist. Isahella resided. at Accrington from birth till 1851. In the winter of 1851 she left England with her infant son Joseph in a sailing vessel to join her husband in the United States. She was seven weeks on the water in passing from Liverpool to New York, and seven weeks in going from New York to Morris, Illinois, partly by train and partly by canal boat, making 14 weeks in transit. She arrived in Morris May, 1851. She resided in Kendall and Grundy Counties, Illinois, till her death. Children of George and Isahella (Hoyle) Rushton: Thomas Henry (h. Sept. 17, 1847), Joseph Howard (h. March 30, 1849), George Hoyle (b. Sept. 7, 1852), William Gadsby (b. Oct. 20, 1854), Edwin (b. March 6, 1858), and Robert Lyon (b. Aug. 29, 1861).

V-7. WILLIAM PUTT (son of Francis Putt, Vl-13) was horn Oct. 22, 1831 at Torquay, England, and was baptised Nov. 6, 1831 in Old Torre Church ("Saint Savior's", Episcopal), Torquay. He married, 1st, on March 31, 1851, at Exeter, England, Harriet Brewer, the mother of his children. He married, 2nd, May 12, 1895, Mrs. Aheliza (McOm­ ber) Hogoboom. William Putt died Sept. 25, 1914, at Fairmont, Nebr., and was buried in the Fairmont Cemetery. William Putt attended school until he was nine years old, then when 13 went to school again for three months, according to his daughter Isabel. In early boyhood, William became a member of the first temper­ ance society established in England, the Rechabites, and his heart was in the cause as long as he lived. He was trained as a carpenter in England. He worked at that trade all his life and delighted in doing skilled work. William and his bride came to America, starting in May, 1851. They came in a sailing vessel and the voyage lasted six weeks. They 38 THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS landed at Castle Garden, N. Y. While they were at Castle Garden, . Jennie Lind (the "Swedish Nightingale") gave one of her wonderful concerts to the waiting multitude and it was a treat to be remembered £or a lifetime. William and Harriet came west to Morris County, Illinois, and set­ tled there. In 1856, on account of the malaria then prevalent in Illinois, the family moved to Northport, Michigan. In 1867 they moved back to Illinois and made their home at Lisbon. In F ehruary, 1883, they moved to Fairmont, Nebraska. William bought a farm northwest of Fairmont and lived on it for several years. Then he moved into Fairmont, where he resided the rest of his life. About July 30, 1890, William Putt started by train for Washington, D. C., and New York City. On August 6, he left New York on the City of Chester of the Inman line and on the 15th landed at Queenstown, Ireland. On the 20th he was in Dublin. On the 27th he was in Torquay ( on the south coast of Devon, England) and on Sept. 23 he wrote from Torquay: "I find many folks who know me!" On Oct. 11, he wrote from London stating that he had been to Exeter and Portsmouth and would leave soon for Liverpool. On Oct. 17 he wrote that he would sail the next day on the Servin, of the Cunard line for New York. His visit in the land of his birth gave him complete satisfaction. It was a great experience for him. All his life William Putt was a close observer and a constant reader. His active mind was always on the alert for more knowledge. He was a great worker. He maintained that he "would rather wear out than rust out" and his wish was granted, for he was busy at work when he was stricken. For more than 50 years William Putt was a member of the Metho­ dist Church. He believed in practical Christianity and no good cause ever appealed to him in vain. He was always ready to help, to work, and to give.

V-8. HARRIET BREWER ( daughter of John Brewer, Vl-15) was horn July 3, 1822 at South Tawton, Devonshire, England. She mar­ ried March 31, 1851, at Exeter, England, William Brewer. She died "instantly" on F eh. 3, 1882, at Lisbon, Illinois and was buried in the Lisbon Cemetery. Harriet was baptised in the Episcopal Church on July 27, 1822, and was confirmed in that church. On July 25, 1872, she and her daughter Minnie united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lisbon, Illinois. "She was ever a devoted wife and mother, a true friend, and an earnest Christian." Children of William and Harriet (Brewer) Putt: Eliza (b. Sept. THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS 39

24, 1852), Minnie Julia (b. Aug. 28, 1854), Charles Fremont (b. Aug. 13, 1856), William Otto (b. May 21, 1858), Lida E. (b. Dec. 11, 1859), Francis H. (b. May 4, 1862), and Isabella Ella (b. Sept. 20, 1864).

V-9. CHARLES MANLEY (son of Seth Bryany Manley, V-17) was born June 22, 1828, in Hardwick, Mass. He married on Dec. 4, 1849, at Black Rock (suburb of Buffalo), N. Y., Martha Felicia Haines. He died April 27, 1859, at North Buffalo, N. Y. When he married, Charles Manley had been keeping hooks for a ship chandler for some time. About 1850 he became interested in a grocery in a three-story brick building with a residence adjoining. He induced his wife's father to come and run the grocery, occupying the living rooms over the store. Mr. Manley and family occupied the ad­ joining building. He now built a comfortable two-story brick house farther east. There were double parlors with marble mantels over open grates, and a bathroom. They had no lamps with chimneys then nor kerosene hut burned lard or sperm-oil or the more modest tallow-candle. He buillt a good ham and kept a good driving-horse. They moved into the brick house in the winter of 1852 or 1853. About 1855, Charles Manley sold his store and went into business with his father in North Buffalo. It was a regular country store, having for sale drygoods, groceries, salt meats, and hardware. It was on the Erie canal on the north side and they had considerable trade from the canal boatmen. Mr. Manley was a man of irregular habits and must have been under a hard strain through the panic of 1857. He was in _the city so late one stormy night in the winter of 1858 that he had to tramp home four miles in the storm and was taken sick. He lingered into the spring and died. in April.

V-10. MARTHA FELICIA HAINES (daughter of Nathan Reyn­ olds Haines, Vl-19) was born June 3, 1827 at Rochester, N. Y. She married on Dec. 4, 1849, Charles Manley. She died Jan. 14, 1888, at Junction City, Kansas. When her husband died in April, 1859, Mrs. Manley was unable to save the business. She gave it up and took her children home to her father's house. Finally she got a position as teacher in a primary school in Buffalo. In the spring of 1866, through change in administration, she lost her position. But there came another change of administration and she got her position back. In June of 1872, she married, 2nd, Isaac Henry Brothers, a farmer living about three miles from her homestead. She then wrote her son, Charles Haines Manley, asking him to come hack and take as a gift the 40 THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS homestead, team, wagon and harness. Her daughter Anna was to have the railroad land. The children of Charles and Martha Felicia (Haines) Manley were Charles Haines (born Aug. 7, 1850), Samuel Adams (born Sept. 19, 1851), Anna Elizabeth (horn May 16, 1853), Cynthia Lulu (born Feb. 3, 1855), and Minnie May (born Aug. 27, 1857).

V-11. HENRY JONES (son of Isaac Jones, V-21) was born in March, 1798, on Grey lock Mountain, Mass. He married in July, 1828, Mary Alma Mott. He died about January 1, 1854. Henry Jones lived at Black Rock (North Buffalo), N. Y. He was of early Welsh-Puritan, English, and Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was a devout Methodist. Love of country characterized him and his wife. He read aloud to his children the history of the long struggle for independence with as much emotion as he exhibited at family prayers or in his fervid church meetings.

V-12. MARY ALMA MOTT (daughter of John Mott, Vl-23) was born in February, 1813 in Oriskany, N. Y. She outlived her husband. She was of Huguenot, English, and (remotely) "North River Dutch" descent. She had a phenominal memory. The children of Henry and Mary Alma (Mott) Jones were Harriet Pamelia, Porter (died in the Civil War), a Son (b. in 1833), Amanda Theodosia (b. Oct. 19, 1835), Benjamin, William, Three( whose names and dates are unknown), Helen Ermina, Marion Isadore (a daughter, b. Oct. 15, 1851), and Mary (born in the spring of 1854).

V-13. MICHAEL KEESHAN (son of _____ Keeshan, VI-25) was horn about 1824, probably, and in Ireland. Dates not available. He married, probably about 1845, Margaret Mullin. Place and date of death not available. According to newspaper accounts, Michael Keeshan was a soldier in the Crimean War. In the battle of Alma, a ball from Russian lines took off an arm, severing it from his body at the shoulder. He picked up the arm, according to report, and carried it off the battlefield. Though he and his family were Catholics, he took his family to England to live because of what he considered the "domination of the priests" in Ireland. THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS 41

V-14. MARGARET MULLIN (daughter of __ Mullin;VI-27) was born about 1825, probably. Data not available. It is reported that she was an only daughter and had five brothers. According to report, she was descended from Huguenots, who later set­ tled in Ireland. She became a Catholic. Children of Michael and Margaret (Mullin) Keeshan were Thomas (born April 7, 1846), John (born in 1848), and also four other sons and two daughters.

V-15. ROBERT GIBSON (son of __ Gibson, VI-29) was born June 12, 1818, at Kilmarnock, Scotland. He married on Oct. 31, 1845, in Scotland, Mary Jamieson. No further data are at hand.

V-16. MARY JAMIESON (daughter of __ Jamieson, VI-31) was born on April 14, (year not stated), at Glasgow, Scotland. Further data are lacking. Children of Robert and Mary (Jamieson) Gibson included Robina (born April 23, 1859, at Glasgow) • Doubtless there were also other children.

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Chapter VI

SOME OF THE 32 GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

Vl-1. ABRAHAM H. CORTELYOU (son of Hendrick Cortelyou, VII-I) was born Oct. 12, 1780 at Ten Mile Run, N. J.; was baptised Nov. 12, 1780, at Six Mile Run, N. J.; married 1st, March 2, 1814, Dinah Garretson, and, 2nd, Dec. 21, 1825, Johannah Polhemus ( 1797- 1874) ; and died June 2, 1854, at Ten Mile Run, N. J. Abraham was a farmer and lived at Ten Mile Run, N. J. He and his two wives were buried in the Ten Mile Run Cemetery. The will of "Abraham Cortelyou of the Township of Franklin, County of Somerset" gives "unto all my Children as they shall severally arrive at the age of twenty-one years, $1000 each, of which sums my oldest three sons have already had theirs." He mentions "my farm whereon I reside, containing about 129 acres of Land, together with 15 acres of Woodland, out of my 24 acre Swamp lot lying in South Bruns­ wick, Middlesex County." He mentions also "my Western Lands." His will was signed Oct. 14, 1847 and was probated June 16, 1854.

Vl-2. DINAH GARRETSON (daughter of James Garretson, VII-3) was born May 10, 1791, and died Feb. 17, 1824. Children of Abraham H. and Dinah ( Garretson) Cortelyou: Henry (b. April 6, 1815), James Garretson (b. Nov. 11, 1816), Abraham or Abram A. (b. Aug. 29, 1820), and Magdalen (b. July 28, 1823).

Vl-3. ISAAC POLHEMUS (son of Daniel Polhemus, VIl-5) was born April 7, 1789, and was bapt. May 21, 1789 at Harlingen, N. J ., He married 1st, Oct. 26, 1811, in Somerset Co., N. J., Phebe Montfort, and after her death he married Sarah --, who survived him. He died March 22, 1847, at Harlingen, N. J. Buried in the Reformed Church Cemetery at Belle Mead, N. J. Isaac Polhemus of Montgomery Township, Somerset Co., N. J., was listed as a slave-holder in 1816, 1818, 1820, and 1822. He was living in Montgomery Township at the time of his death. He was a farmer. An article in Our Home, page 98, states: "The Polhemus family in this section have long been noted for their industry, skill and success in agricultural pursuits especially as grain and stock raisers. In the mat­ ter of good buildings also, they have taken a great pride." 44 SOME OF THE 32 GREAT3 GRANDPARENTS

VI-4. PHEBE MONTFORT ( daughter of Bemardus Montfort, · VIl-7) was bapt. at Harlingen, N. J., Sept. 20, 1795. She married Oct. 26, 1811, Isaac Polhemus. She died Oct. 15, 1841, "aged 45 years and 2 months." She and her husband were buried in the Harlingen Reform­ ed Church cemetery at Belle Mead, N. J. Children of Isaac and Phebe (Montfort) Polhemus were Cornelia (b. Jan. 26, 1816), Harriet (b. Oct. 31, 1817), Daniel (b. April 13, 1820), Margaret (b. Jan. 26, 1823), Henry (b. Nov. 18, 1825), Peter Garrison (b. July 6, 1828), and Isaac (b. March 22, 1832).

VI-5. JOHN VAN ZANDT (son of Bernardus Van Zandt, VIl-9) was born June 10, 1791, at Blawenhurg, N. J.; was baptised July 31, 1791, at Harlingen, N. J.; married Nov. 20, 1817, Anna Voorhees; died Jan. 2, 1881, at Blawenhurg, N. J., and was buried in the Blawenburg cemetery. John Van Zandt's educational advantages were only such as the district school afforded, hut he was intelligent and fond of reading and in his later years he was well informed. He was a prominent member of the Dutch Reformed Church at Harlingen until he and a few of his neighbors founded the Reformed Dutch Church at Blawenburg. He was one of a most excellent building committee, who by their liberality, zeal and personal labor erected a handsome and substantial church edifice. He cherished the welfare of that church with the greatest ardor. He served in the office of elder and deacon at various times. He and his wife succeeded to the Nevius farm in 1850 by will of his father and they resided there until their decease. John Van Zandt received a "second sight" and read without glasses. In his old age he took great interest in every new project and invention. Frances Van Zandt wrote in January, 1934: "Great-grandfather Van Zandt used to walk to the postoffice each morn­ ing majestic in a silk hat and carrying his gold-headed cane, a gift of his children at the fiftieth anniversary of his wedding. When he could no longer walk, they took him to the postoffice in a wheel-chair."

Vl-6. ANNA VOORHEES (daughter of Stephen Voorhees, VI-11) was born Sept. 28, 1797; married Nov. 20, 1817, John Van Zandt; died Jan. 16, 1881, and was buried in the Blawenburg, N. J ., Cemetery. History of Hunterdon and Somerset County, page 849, states: "She was a lady of lovely disposition and unaffected piety." SOME OF THE 32 GREAT3 GRANDPARENTS 45

And Frances Van Zandt wrote in 1934: "Father's grandmother was Anna Voorhees, a fine-featured, beautiful old lady, always in a wide-skirted, black silk gown and a dainty white lace cap." Children of John and Ann (Voorhees) Van Zandt were James (b. March 18, 1821), Stephen Voorhees (b. 1823), Sarah (b. Nov. 17, 1825), Augustus Bemardus (b. July 19, 1828), Catherine Joanna (b. 1831), and Anna Eliza (b. Sept. 8, 1839).

VI-7. JOHN MARTIN NEVIUS (son of Martinus Nevius, VII-13) was born Dec. 6, 1780, at Blawenburg, N. J. He married Jan. 6, 1801, Mary Ski11rnan. He died Oct. 24, 1843, at Blawenburg, N. J. John M. Nevius was a farmer and resided on the homestead, one mile southeast of Blawenburg. His middle name, Martin, was added after he grew up. He attended the Reformed Dutch Church at Harlingen, Somerset County, N. J., and was a deacon of that church in 1814. On March 7, 1823, he manumitted "Mollie", a slave, and on May 12, 1828, he freed "Caty", a slave aged 36. · His farm was later owned by his son, Martin.

VI-8. MARY SKILLMAN ( daughter of Thomas SkiHroa.n, VII-15) was born Feb. 22 or March 22, 1779, and was baptised on April 11, 1779, at Harlingen, N. J. She married on January 6, 1801, John Martin Nevius. She died on May 11, 1856. The children of John Martin and Mary (Skillman) Nevius were Sarah (b. 1802 and d. 1882), Eliza Ann (b. 1805 and d. 1882), Martin (b. 1809 and d. 1876), Mary (b. 1810 and d. 1870), Joanna (b. 1815 and d. 1852), and Catherine (b. 1821 and d. 1889).

VI-9. GEORGE RUSHTON (son of ______Rushton, VII-17) was born about 1791, probably at Stonefold, near Accrington, England; married about 1812, probably at Stone£ old, Mary Lord; died at an unknown date, probably at Stonefold, England.

VI-10. MARY LORD (daughter of __ Lord, VII-19) was born about 1791, probably at Stonefold, Lancashire, England; married about 1812, George Rushton; date and place of death not known. Children of George and Mary (Lord) Rushton: Mary Ann, Alice, Elizabeth, George ( b. Jan. 22, 1823, at Stonefold) , and James. 46 SOME OF THE 32 GREAT3 GRANDPARENTS

Vl-11. GEORGE HOYLE (son of ______Hoyle, VIl-21) was born about 1790 in Lancashire, England; married about 1815 at Chor­ ley, Lancashire, Mary Parker; died April 12, 1878 and was interred at the great Harwood Church on April 17th, 1878 in the 88th year of his age. George Hoyle was of Brinscall at the time of his death. He was a dyer by trade and he made a specialty of dying Turkey­ red handkerchiefs at Sir Robert Peel's factory in Accrington, England. He was a very industrious worker, very faithful, careful and thrifty. He accumulated during his lifetime about a thousand pounds, or $5000, beside educating three children fairly well as times went then. George Hoyle was firm, set in his ways, prudent, upright, and puri­ tanical, according to his grandson, Joseph Rushton.

VI-12. MARY PARKER (daughter of __ Parker, Vll-23) Data concerning Mary Parker and her ancestors are lacking. Children of George and Mary (Parker) Hoyle: Jane (h. 1817, probably), Isahella (b. Jan. 10, 1823), and John (h. 1825).

Vl-13. FRANCIS PUTT was born about· 1773 at Blackawten, near Dartmouth, Engla..-r1d .. By his first wife he had two or more children~ and by his second wife, Sarah Medway, whom he married in Torquay, he had seven children. He died about 1864 in Torquay, England. Francis Putt lived practically all his life in Torquay. He was a carpenter and son of a carpenter. He taught the carpenter's trade to all his sons though not all of them followed that trade. He was in great de­ mand as a builder. He had considerable property at one time but he became addicted to drink and lost his property. Three of his sons became members of one of the earliest total abstenence societies and were tem­ perance workers the rest of their lives.

Vl-14. SARAH MEOW AY, second wife of Francis Putt, was born in 1790 or 1791. She died at the age of 65 and was buried March 6, 1856 (Record of Mary Magdalene Church, of Torquay). Children of Francis and Sarah (Medway) Putt, all born in Med­ way, England: Mary Anne (b. Jan. 14, 1817 or 1819), Richard Hing­ ston (b. Nov. 26, 1820), Francis (b. Oct. 27, 1822), John (b. Nov. 27, 1824), Sarah (b. Jan. 23, 1829), William (b. Oct. 22, 1831), and Robert (who died of hums when a child).

VI-15. JOHN BREWER. Data as to his birth and death, and as to his parents are almost entirely lacking. The date of his birth was SOME OF THE 32 GREAT3 GRANDPARENTS 47 around 1780, probably. He married about the year 1800, at South Taw­ ton, Devonshire, England, Mary Jordan. He was still living in 185 7. John Brewer, according to report, was a bookkeeper in the South Tawton Quarry Works. His rank was stated in 1857 as "labourer." John and Mary Jordan Brewer were fine, upright, God-fearing people, steadfast Episcopalians. They were not well-to-do; they had a large family, none of whom had much of a chance for an education.

Vl-16. MARY JORDAN (daughter of Thomas Jordan, VIl-31). Data as to her birth and death and as to her ancestry, aside from the name of her father, are not reported. Children of John and Mary (Jordan) Brewer: Thomas, Ann, Mary, Elizabeth, Agnes, Eliza, Harriet, Thirza, John, and Jane.

VI-17. SETH BRYANT MANLEY (son of Josiah Manley, VIl-33) was horn June 14, 1798, at Hardwick, Mass.; married May 12, 1824, Cynthia Jordan; and died after 1864, probably at Buffalo, N. Y. Some years before 1840, ~e went west to Buffalo, N. Y. From a Yankee peddler he had become a country store-keeper.

Vl-18. CYNTHIA JORDAN (daughter of __ Jordan, VII-35). Information as to date and place of her birth are missing. She married in 1824, Seth Bryant Manley. It is believed that she died in 1858. Children of Seth Bryant and Cynthia (Jordan) Manley were Martha Ann (h. 1826) and Charles (horn June 22, 1828).

Vl-19. NATHAN REYNOLDS HAINES (son of James Haines, VIl-37) was horn Jan. 11, 1801, probably in New York City. He mar­ ried June 22, 1822, at Rochester, N. Y., Orella Adams. His father taught him the cooper's trade, but before he was of age Nathan bought his time of his father. After he was married, he paid the balance due, $160. Though Nathan Reynolds Haines had very little schooling, he taught himself, especially in mathematics, until he was much better edu­ cated than many well-schooled men. Both he and his wife taught school at Rochester, N. Y. About 1841, they felt the call of the West and moved to Black Rock, a suburb of Buffalo, N. Y. They made the move on a passenger boat on the Erie Canal. All his life Nathan found enjoyment in books. · 48 SOME OF THE 32 GREAT3 GRANDPARENTS

VI-20. ORELLA ADAMS (daughter of Samuel Adams, VII-39) · was horn March 8, 1801, in Vermont; married June 22, 1822, Nathan Reynolds Haines. When Orella was 18 years old, she moved west. With a brother she travelled to Rochester, N. Y ., where she taught school, and married. Children of Nathan Reynolds and Orella (Adams) Haines: Samuel Adams (b. May 6, 1823), and Martha Felicia (h. June 3, 1827). VI-21. ISAAC JONES. Data as to his birth and death, and the place and date of his marriage are lacking. Isaac Jones inherited the upland farm taken by the Jones family about 1570. This was in Massachusetts, probably. He served two years in the Revolutionary army. VI-22. HANNAH HENRY. Data as to her birth and death, and the place and date of her marriage are lacking. It is reported that she was a relative of Patrick Henry. Children of Isaac and Hannah (Henry) Jones: Seth, Henry (h. in March, 1798) , and at least five others. VI-23. JOHN MOTT. Place and date of birth not found. Three marriages? the last wife being Naomi Daggett. John Mott died at age 77. "John Mott supposed himself to be still a Quaker, although he had lost his birthright by marrying out of the society, until the following hap­ pened. One bitterly cold Sunday he was forced to defend his family ( wife and three children) from six marauding Hessian soldiers. They broke down the barricaded door with axes, but were without firearms, as was the case with John Mott. But he took up tongs and poker and as a result three fled and the remaining three were cast over the doorsill dead~ One of the two little girls hidden in the cellar never forgot the tumult overhead, though she lived to be nearly 100 years old. The fol­ lowing morning Mott went to Valley Forge and received from Washing­ ton's own hand a lieutenant's commission. With no more delay than was needed for the burial of his wife and babe, he recruited and equip­ ped a company at his own expense. Thereafter he spent all his possessions in the service of his country, through five years and eight months. He never applied for a pension, although forced to support his third family by learning and practicing the tailor's trade."-Above is from introduc­ tion to a hook of Poems, 1854-1896, by Amanda Jones. VI-24. NAOMI DAGGETT, born at Rome, N. Y., or thereabouts. Third wife of John Mott. Children of John and Naomi (Daggett) Mott: Eight children, of whom Mary Alma was the youngest. SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS 49

Chapter VII

SOME OF THE 64 GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

VII-I. HENDRICK CORTELYOU (son of Hendrick Cortelyou, VIII-I) was born Oct. 10, 1736, at Six Mile Run, N. J. He married Nov. 23, 1759, Anna or Johanna Stoothoff. He died Oct. 31, 1800 at Ten Mile Run, N. J ., as a result of an accident. Hendrick and his wife resided at Ten Mile Run and were buried there. They attended the Six Mile Run Dutch Reformed Church and all their children were ·baptised by the pastor of that church. In these records of baptism, Hendrick's first name appears as Hendrick in all cases except in 1780, when it is recorded as Handrick. In the records of baptism of his first two children his last name is written Cortel j ou hut in all other cases the modem form is recorded. After the close of the Revolution, a claim by this Hendrick amount­ ing to 27 pounds, 7 shillings and 6 pence, for damage sustained from the enemy, was allowed.

Vll-2. ANNA or JOHANNA STOOTHOFF ( daughter of Elbert Stoothoff, VIIl-3) was horn Nov. 12, 1742 and was baptised Nov. 5, 1743, at Six Mile Run, N. J. as Anecke. She married Nov. 23, 1759, Hendrick Cortelyou. She died Dec. 12, 1809, aged "67 years and 1 month." In the entries covering the baptism of their children, at Six Mile Run, her name is given three times as Johanna, and once each as Johan­ nah, Anna, Anny, Ante, Annate, Annaty, Annatye, and Annaetje. She was a witness at a baptism at Six Mile Run in 1778 and her name is stated in that record as "Ante Stootoff." On her tombstone at Ten Mile Run her first name appears as Johannah. Children of Hendrick and Anna ( Soothoff) Cortelyou: Hendrick (h. Aug. 8, 1761), William, Jacques, Sarah, Albert, Peter, John, Har­ mon, Ann, Jaques, and Abraham H. (h. Oct. 12, 1780) . See Cortelyou Geneawgy for fuller details.

Vll-3. JACOBUS GARRETSON (son of Jacobus Gerritsen, VIIl-5) was born in 1745 or earlier, in Somerset County, N. J. He mar­ ried, probably in the spring of 1768, Helena---· The date of his death has not been found hut it was after 1792. 50 SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS

Jacobus Garretson and his wife lived in Hillsborough Township; Somerset Co., N. J., about five miles south of Millstone. Of his ~hildren, the first and sixth were baptised at Harlingen and the others were baptised at Millstone. His first name is given in records of baptism of his children as Cobus ( 1768) , J acobes ( 1778) , and Jacobus ( 8 times) . His surname appears in the earlier period as Gerresse ( 1778) , Gerrison ( 1770) , Ger­ ritsen ( 1776) , Gerretsen ( 1768 and 1781) , and Gerritson ( 1772 and 1774) . But when the last three children were baptised his name was recorded as Garretson. "Jacob Garrison" was a member of one of the "several companies of Militia of the county of Somerset" in October, 1782.

VII-4. HELENA--· (Family name and descent not found.) She was born about 1746, probably in Somerset Co., N. J. Record of her death has not been found; her last child of whom we have record was born in 1793. In the records of baptism of her children, the first name of Mrs. Jacobus Garretson appears as Lena seven times, and once each as Lana, Leentie and Magdalena. The last form is probably a mistake made by the preacher or the clerk when the baptism of the son, Stephanus was recorded. The name appears as Helena in History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counti,es, page 825. Children of Jacobus and Helena ( ______) Garretson: Jacobus ( or Cobus), Rem, Sara, Helena, Samuel, Johannes, Stephanus, Peter, Dyna, and Idah.

VII-5. DANIEL POLHEMUS (son of Hendrick Polhemus, VIII-9) was baptised April 22, 1746 at Harlingen, N. J. He married on May 16, 1771, Cornelia Veghte. He died Feb. 23, 1814 in his 68th year, and was buried in the Belle Mead Cemetery, near Harlingen, N. J. Daniel Polhemus was of Montgomery Township, Somerset Co., N. J ., as stated in his will, dated Oct. 6, 1813. He and his family attend­ ed the Reformed Dutch Church at Harlingen, and most of his children, possibly all of them, were baptised there. In the records of these bap­ tisms, his family name appears as Pelhemes ( five times) , Perhemels (twice) , and Pohemels (once) . His sons Garret and Daniel used the form Polhemeus, in 1814.

VIl-6. CORNELIA VEGHTE (daughter of Garret Veghte, VIIl-11) was born in 1749, doubtless in Somerset Co., N. J.; married May 16, 1771, Daniel Polhemus; died Sept. 13, 1831, near Harlingen, N. J. and was buried in the Belle Mead Cemetery near Harlingen. SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS 51

In the records of baptism of her children, only her first name is stated, once as Cornelia and seven times abbreviated, as Cnelia. On October 27, 1784, "Cornelia Veghte, wife of Daniel Polhemus", was "received on con£ ession of faith as member of the congregation of Suurlandt," later known as the Dutch Reformed Church of Harlingen. Children of Daniel and Cornelia (Veghte) Polhemus: Henry (b. l\rlay 31, 1772), Garret, Peter, John, Martha, Abraham, Elizabeth, Isaac, Cornelia, and Magdalene (hap. March 31, 1793, as Magdalena).

VIl-7. BERNARDUS MONTFORT (son of Elbert Monfort, VIIl-13) was born Dec. 4, 1768 and was baptised Feb. 12, 1769 at Har­ lingen, Somerset Co., N. J. He married be£ ore 1793, Adriana Voorhees. He died June 16, 18"52, and was buried in the Vaughn Cemetery, Blaw­ enburg, N. J. Bernardus Montfort lived near Harlingen, N. J ., where he attended church services in the Dutch Reformed Church. His first name is stated in records of baptisms as Bardenardus (1769), Bernardes (1793, 1795), and Bernardus (1798). And his sur­ name appears as Mefor ( 1769), Menfore ( 1793), Minfore ( 1795), and lVlinf ort ( 1798) . On his tombstone his name is stated as Bernerdus Montfort, and on his wife's stone it appears as Bernardas Montfort.

VIl-8. ADRLANA VOORHEES (daughter of John Voorhees, VIIl-15) was born Oct. 20, 1768, and was baptised at Harlingen, N. J., Nov. 4, 1768, as Ary ante. She married, probably in 1791 or 1792, Ber­ nardus Montfort. She died Feb. 14, 1826. Burial was in the Vaughn Cemetery at Blawenburg. Her first name is stated in the records of baptism at Harlingen, N. J ., as Aryante ( 1768) , Arreanthe ( 1793) , Areanthe ( 1795) , and Ade (1798). In her father's will it is given three times as Addie, and on her tombstone the form is Ady. These last forms (Ade, Addie, Ady) are diminutive or familiar forms, whereas the others are more conventional. Children of Bernardus and Adriana (Voorhees) Montfort: Marga­ ret ("Merregrita"), Phebe, and Elbert.

VIl-9. BERNARDUS VAN ZANDT (son of Nicholas Van Zandt, VIII-17) was born March 3, 1768, at Blawenburg, N. J.; was hap. April 17, 1768, at Harlingen, N. J.; married Jan. 7, 1790, Sarah Sutphen; died Nov. 7, 1850, at Blawenburg, N. J ., and was buried in the Blawen­ hurg Cemetery. 52 SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS

Of Bernardus Van Zandt, The History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, page 848, reports: The marked ability of Captain Bemardus Van Zandt in the management of his farm and the excellent qualities of his wife attracted the attention of her uncle, James Nevius. He had no family and lived alone upon an adjacent farm and finally in 1809 persuaded his niece and her husband to leave the old homestead and live with him. He died about two years afterward, leaving his large farm by will to Captain Bemardus, subject however to the payment of certain legacies. They remained on the Nevius farm as long as they lived.

The Nevius Genealogy states that the Nevius farm willed to Bemar­ dus contained 291 acres, and that under the terms of the will Bernardus was to pay the nominal price of $20 an acre for it.

Vll-10. SARAH SUTPHEN ( daughter of John Sutphen, VIII-19) was born Jan. 28, 1772; married Jan. 7, 1790, Bernardus Van Zandt; and died Jan. 18, 1840. She was buried in the Blawenburg, N. J ., Cemetery. The History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties mentions the "excellent qualities" of Sarah Sutphen and characterizes her as "a most amiable lady." Children of Bernardus and Sarah (Sutphen} Van Zandt: John (h. June 10, 1791), Nicholas, Joanna ( or Hannah), Lucretia, Leah, Maria ( or Mary) , Sarah Ann, Margaret, Eliza ( or Elizabeth) , and Cornelia ( h. about 1815) .

VII-11. STEPHEN VOORHEES (son of Gerrit Coerte Voorhees, VIIl-21) was horn Feh. 21, 1771, married about January, 1797, Sarah Hageman; died Dec. 11, 1851. In the records of baptism of his first two children, his name is writ­ ten "Stephen Voorheese". He resided at or near Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J.

VII-12. SARAH HAGEMAN (daughter of Joseph Hegeman, VIII-23) was born Sept. 28, 1775, and was baptised Oct. 29, 1775, at Harlingen, N. J.; married about January, 1797, Stephen Voorhees; died April 1857, probably at Harlingen, N. J. In the records of baptism of her first two children, her name is stated as "Sarah Hagaman." Children of Stephen and Sarah (Hageman) Voorhees: Ann (h. Sept. 28, 1797), Joseph Hageman, Nelly, John H., Garret S., Joseph Hageman (2nd), Stephen (h. Apr. 16, 1816). SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS 53

VII-13. MARTINUS NEVIUS (son of Petrus Nevius, VIIl-25) was born Feb. 21, 1751, at Middlebush, N. J.; was baptised March 17, 1751, at Six Mile Run, N. J.; married Oct. 20, 1773, Sarah Stoothoff; died Jan. 10, 1820 and was buried near Blawenburg, N. J. Martinus Nevius was a farmer, whose farm was one mile east of the village of Blawenburg, N. J. In "A List of the Ratables of the Westring Precinct of the County of Somerset", July, 1784, "Martines N efeaus" is assessed on 152 acres of land, 3 horses and 7 cows. He was in the Revolutionary War and probably was the same as "Martin Nephies" of Capt. Duryea's Co. 1st Bat. of Somerset. His will of May 18, 1813, probated Jan. 27, 1820, includes this interesting provision: To son John "all my fire arms and swords," eight­ day clock, etc.; also "the choice of my slaves, one male and one female."

VIl-14. SARAH STOOTHOFF (daughter of Johannes Stoothoff, VIll-27) was horn Aug. 21, 1756, probably at Six Mile Run, N. J. She married Oct. 20, 1773, Martinus Nevius. She died Nov. 11, 1830, prob­ ably at Blawenhurg, N. J. On Aug. 14, 1800, "Martin N evious and his wife Sarah Stotehoff" were received as members in full communion of the Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church. Children of Martinus and Sarah (Stoothoff) Nevius: Joanna (b. March 4, 1776) and John Martin (b. Dec. 6, 1780) .

VIl-15. THOMAS SKILLMAN (son of Thomas Skillman, VIIl-29) was born Feb. 10, 1756, near Harlingen, N. J. He married Jan. 23, 1777, Elizabeth Stryker. Thomas was a Revolutionary soldier. He was a farmer and a man of affairs. He and his family lived near Rocky Hill, N. J. His children were baptised in the Reformed Dutch Church at Harlingen, N. J. In the records of baptism of his children, his first name is given as Tammas five times and Tomes once. In the last two records he is record­ ed as Thomas. His family name is written Schelman five times, as Seil­ man once, Celman once, and in the last two records we have the form now used, Skillman.

VII-16. ELIZABETH STRYKER (daughter of Hendrick Stryker, VIII-31) was born in 1759. She was baptised at Harlingen Feb. 11, 1759, as "Lisabet." Married Thomas Skillman Jan. 23, 1777, and was still living in 1797. 54 SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS

On Oct. 27, 1784, Elizabeth Stryker, "wife of Thomas Skil1man, Jr.", was received as a member of the Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church. In the records of baptism of her children in the Harlingen church, her name is stated as Elesebet ( 1779) , Elisabet ( 1786) , Elissabet ( 1790) , Elizabeth ( 1797) , Lisabet ( 1782) , and Bette ( 1780) . Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stryker) Skillman: Mary, Hendrick, John, Catharine, Thomas, Abraham, Elizabeth, and Anna.

Vll-33. JOSIAH MANLEY (son of Ichabod Manley, Vlll-65) was born in 1761; married in 1789, Elizabeth Bryant. He died Feb. 6, 1844, aged 82, at Hardwick Mass. Josiah Manley removed to Hardwick in the autumn of 1794, taking with him his father and mother~

VIl-34. ELIZABETH BRYANT (daughter of Seth Bryant, VIIl-67) was born in 1766; married in 1789, Josiah Manley; and died at Hardwick, Mass., March 17, 1846, aged 80 years. Elizabeth was an aunt of William Cullen Bryant. Children of Josiah and Elizabeth (Bryant) Manley: Zerby (b. Feb. 24, 1790), Ichabod, Lilly Stafford (a son), Lilly Stafford (2nd), Seth Bryant, and Benjamin Paige.

VIl-37. JAMES HAINES (son of ___ Haines, VIIl-73) was born April 23, 1777, and died about 1863. The name of his wife and place and date of their marriage are unknown to the compiler. James Haines was a cooper. The family was descended from a Hollander, who deserted from an English man-o'-war in the time of William and Mary and settled in West­ chester County, N. Y.

VII-38. The name of James Haines' wife and data concerning her have not been found. Among the children of James Haines was: Nathan Reynolds Haines, born July 11, 1801.

VIl-39. SAMUEL ADAMS (son of __ Adams, Vlll-77) was born July 7, 1761, at Boston, Mass. He married on July 7, 1783, prob- SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS 55 ably at Dublin, N. H., Juliana ( or Anna) Stone. He died on Sept. 7, 1847, in Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. After the Revolutionary War, in which he served in the Marine Corps, Samuel Adams moved to Vermont, where he settled and improved a farm near Lake Dunmore. He was of Leicester, Vermont, at the time of his marriage. Late in life, he moved with his son Samuel to Cuyahoga, Ohio. Samuel Adams was a man of courage and enterprise. His first calf died, which in that new country was a considerable loss. When he walk­ ed across the yard with the skin in his hand, his wife asked: "What will you do now, Samuel?" He answered: "Start a tannery." And he did. Many farmers in those times tanned hides for their own shoes.

VII-40. JULIANA (or ANNA) STONE (daughter of Silas Stone, VIIl-79) was born July 25, 1765, in Dublin, New Hampshire. She mar­ ried July 7, 1783, Samuel Adams. She was an aunt of Lucy Stone Blackwell, who was an active asso­ ciate of Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe in the early woman's suffrage agitation. Samuel and Juliana (Stone) Adams had eight sons and three daughters, who lived to maturity, including Orella (b. March 8, 1801) and Samuel ( who moved with his father to Ohio) .

VII-45. EBENEZER MOTT (son of __ Mott, VIII-89) was born about 1730 ( ? ) and in due time married Sarah Collins. He was of Mount Pleasant, Hunterdon County, N. J. He was of Huguenot ancestry but a Quaker, as were his father and his paternal grandfather. Both he and his wife were memorialized, old Quakers have said, in "The Lives of the Saints." Each of the several sons was given, on leaving home, 16 J oes and two half-Joes-a Joe being a Portuguese gold coin worth about $9. A spinster daughter inherited the homestead property, willed to "that one who should remain a Quaker."

VII-46. SARAH COLLINS (daughter of __ Collins, VII-91) was born about 1730, it is supposed. She is reported to have been an English Quakeress, who had great celebrity both at home and in America as a preacher of singular sweet­ ness and power. 56 SOME OF THE 64 GREAT4 GRANDPARENTS

Children of Ebenezer and Sarah (Collins) Mott included John ( who was born about 1755, it is supposed) .

VIl-47. __ DAGGETT. His full name and dates are unknown to compiler. He was a drum-major in General Wolfe's army at the Battle of Quebec. (This information is from the preface to Amanda T. Jones' Poems, 1854-1906.) One of the children of the above Daggett and his wife was Naomi, who was born at or near Rome, N. Y., probably about 1755. SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS 57

Chapter VIII

SOME OF THE 128 GREAT-GREAT-GREAT­ GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

VIII-I. HENDRICK CORTELYOU (son of Jaques Cortelyou, IX-I) was horn at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y., April 18, 1711. He married, 1st, on Aug. 3, 1731, Antie Alhertse Van Voorhees, by whom he had five children. He married, 2nd, Catarina Hooglandt, by whom he had eight children. Hendrick died at F:rank1in Park, N. J ., before March 5, 1777, at which date his will was probated. Hendrick Cortelyou removed from Long Island and settled at Ten Mile Run, N. J. He lived there on land inherited from his father, de­ scribed in his father's will as "that lot of land in the county of Somerset, in New Jersey, bounded southeast by the road, southwest by land of Daniel Grigg, northeast by Elbert Stoothoff, northwest by Peter Cortel- iou, and containing 300 acres." · The children of his first marriage are mentioned below, under Antie Albertse Van Voorhees. The children of Hendrick's second mar­ riage were Antie (b. Sept. 16, 1743), Adriana, Hermanns, Altie, Helena, Arianty, and Johanna (b. Aug. 23, 1756). Their mother was Catarina Hooglandt, who was born July 15, 1719, daughter of Harmanus Hoog­ landt, ·of Flatbush, who was horn Feh. 18, 1681. In his will, which was signed April 4, 1774 and was proved March 5, 1777, Hendrick referred to himself as "Henry Cortelyou of County of Somerset and Province of East New Jersey, yeoman." The will states: "I give and bequeth to my beloved wife Catharine the Sum of 100 Pounds New York Currency to her and her Heirs besides the 300 Pounds, a legacy left her by her Father. I give and bequeth to my son Hermanns the sum of 100 Pounds money at Eight Shi1lings per ounce . . • I give and bequeath to my son Jaques for his Progenitor or Birth Right the Sum of three pounds money at Eight Shillings per ounce., and to my two Daughters yet unmarried an outset equal to those of my daughters which are already married."

He appointed his four sons executors. He signed the will "Henry Cortelyou." In the latter part of 1782, Henry's son Harman filed a claim, amounting to 31 pounds and 10 shillings, because of damages sustained by Henry from the British during the Revolution. This circumstance reminds us that, in a single lifetime, this Henry (Hendrick) spanned the whole period from the early life at the Narrows to the Revolutionary War. 58 SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS

VIII-2. ANTIE ALBERTSE VAN VOORHEES ( daughter of Al- · bert Coerte Van Voorhees, IX-3) was born April 15, 1711; married August 3, 1731, Hendrick Cortelyou; and died March 18, 1742. The children of Hendrick and Antie Alhertse (Van Voorhees) Cor­ telyou were Jaques (h. Aug. 20, 1732), Albert (b. Nov. 17, 1734), Hendrick (b. Oct. 10, 1736), William (b. Dec. 14, 1738), and William, 2nd (h. Sept. 5, 1740).

VIll-5. JACOBUS GARRITSEN or GERRITSEN (son of __ Gerritsen, IX-9) was horn about 1710 and married before 1733 Sarah Koerte. He died before June, 1746. Jacobus and his wife must have lived at or near Somerville, N. J ., as their son Samuel was baptised by the pastor of the Reformed Church of Somerville. The will of Jacobus, made Dec. 23, 1745, states that he was of Som­ erset County, N. J ., yeoman. The will provided that his son Jacobus was to have the home plantation, in Somerset County, if he was of age at the time of marriage or decease of the widow ( his mother) , and he was to pay his sister, Sara, 200 pounds. The will was proved June 3, 1746. The inventory of the estate, made June 5, 1746, totaled 492 pounds, 11 shillings, and 3 pence, and included 30 acres of wheat ( value 30 pounds); negroes-man "Toom" (50 pounds) and girl "Pegge" (40 pounds); a Dutch testament with silver clasps (3 shillings). The obli­ gations amounted to 27 4 pounds.

VIII-6. Sara, born about 1713. Her family name is not stated but probably was Koerte, as her husband's will refers to his hrother-in­ law, John Koerte. Children of Jacobus and Sara ( Koerte) Garretson were Samuel (hap. June 24, 1733 and apparently died young), Jacobus and Sara.

VIIl-9. HENDRICK POLHEMUS (son of Hendrick Polhemus, IX-17) was born about 1724 on the homestead near Harlingen, Somer­ set Co., N. J.; married about 1745, Marretje Van Der Beeck; and died near Harlingen, N. J., near end of 1768, probably. His will was signed Feb. 7, 1767 and was proved Jan. 17, 1769. Provisions of the will of "Hendrik Polhemus" were: Wife to have the goods she brought and to he maintained out of the farm. Son Daniel to have "the farm I live on." The farm over the river to he sold. The six daughters to have 25 pounds each. SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS 59

VIII-10. MARRETIE VAN DER BEECK (daughter of -Van Der Beeck, IX-19) was horn about 1725; married about 1745, Hendrick Polhemus; died near Harlingen, N. J., after 1768. The children of Hendrick and Marretie (Van Der Beeck) Polhe­ mus were Daniel, Eleanor, Anna, Margaret, Dorothy, and two daughters referred to hut not named in their father's will.

VIll-11. GARRET VEGHTE (son of __ Veghte, IX-21) was horn about 1720, probably in Somerset Co., N. J.; married about 1741, Elizabeth ___ ; died at Griggstown, Somerset Co., N. J., May 11, 1778, or about that time. In a document which he wrote as his will, Garret mentioned him­ self as "of Griggstown, on the Millstone River, Somerset County." He mentioned "The plantation where my son Garret now lives" and directed that it he sold along with "the lot in the great swamp."

VIIl-12. ELIZABETH __ (daughter of __ IX-23) was horn about 1720, probably in Somerset Co., N. J.; married Garret Veghte about 1741; and survived her husband. The children of Garret and Elizabeth ( __) Veghte: Garret, b. about 1744; Henry (Hendrick), b about 1746; Cornelia, b. in 1749; Peter, hap. April 1, 1750; Maria, hap. Dec. 15, 1751; Johannes, hap. July 7, 1754; Jannetje, hap. July 2, 1758, Magdalena, hap. July 2, 1758; Martha, h. about 1760; Elizabeth, hap. Sept. 26, 1762; and Nicholas, hap. Dec. 25, 1764. Most of the children were baptised at Six Mile Run, N. J.

VIIl-13. ELBERT (or ALBERT) MONFORT (son of Peter Mon­ fort, IX-25) married about 1759 Margaret Van Zandt (probably). He moved to Somerset County, N. J.

VIll-14. MARGARET ("MARGRITA") Van ZANDT, probably, b. about 1759. The following were children of Elbert and Margaret (Van Zandt) Monfort: Marya (hap. Nov. 16, 1760), Belete (hap. June 19, 1763), Petrus (hap. March 22, 1767), and Bernardus (hap. Feb. 12, 1769).

VIIl-15. JOHANNES VOORHEES (son of Jacobus Janse Van Voorhees, IX-29) was horn June 11, 1739, and was hap. Aug. 12, 1743, at Harlingen, N. J. He married, 1st, Dec. 16, 1761, Femmetje (Phebe) 60 SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS

Van Liew, the mother of all his children, and, 2nd, Mrs. Johanna Pol­ hemus, whose will was proved Jan. 6, 1818. Johannes Voorhees's will was dated Oct. 26, 1793, and was proved Aug. 8, 1794, so his death took place probably in June or July of 1794. Johannes Voorhees and family lived near Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J. Probably he is identical with "Jan vorhes the smith in blaunburg" (present Blawenburg), who bought one place in pew No. 1 (men's places) in the Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church. In the baptismal records of his ten children, his first name is stated four times as Johannes, three time as Yohannis, once as Y ohanns, and twice as Hannis. The family name is given nine times as Vorhes and once, in 1871, as Voorhes.

VIIl-16. FEMMETJE (or PHEBE) VAN LIEW was born Dec. 16, 1736; married Dec. 16, 1761, Johannes Voorhees; and died after November, 1783. In the records of baptism of eight of her children, her name is stated as F emmete. At the baptism of her first two children, however, the name is stated as Lente and Madlente, a strange_ situation. Possibly she was too ill to appear and a sister represented her. Or she may have liked Magdalen better than Femmetje and have used the former name for the first two baptisms, later becoming more conservative and using the name given her at birth. The children of Johannes and Femmetje (Van Liew) Voorhees were Peter (b. Nov. 7, 1762), Albert or Gilbert, Maria, Adriana, John, Abram or Abraham, Leah, Garret, Elizabeth, and Femmetje.

VIll-17. NICHOLAS VAN ZANDT (son of Bernardus Van Zandt, IX-33) was born Dec. 25, 1737 at Blawenburg, N. J.; married Lucretia Van Brunt, probably in the spring of 1759; died in 1805, at Blawenburg, Somerset Co., N. J. In the records of baptism of his children, his first name is spelled Nicklas three times, Niclas three times, and Neclas four times. His last name is recorded as Van Sant eight times, Vansant once, and Vant once. Nicholas succeeded to the homestead on the death of his father, and continued to reside there the rest of his life.

VIIl-18. LUCRETIA VAN BRUNT (daughter of ______Van Brunt, IX-35). The year of her birth was probably 1738 or 1739. It is likely that her marriage to Nicholas Van Zandt took place early in the SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS 61 spring of 1759. Her will is dated Nov. 4, 1823 and was proved June 16, 1824, hence she died in May of 1824, p~obably. In the records of baptism of her children she was mentioned as Gesse 6 times, as Gesye twice, and as Gessje and Gesce once each. The children of Nicholas and Lucretia (Van Brunt) Van Zandt, all baptised at Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J., were Margaret (hap. Apr. 6, 1760), John, Lucretia, Bernardus, Jane, Nicholas, Garret, Henry, Isaac, and Belete (hap. Sept. 7, 1783).

Vlll-19. JOHN SUTPHEN (son of Guisbert or Gilbert Sutphen, IX-37) was born in 1732 near Marlborough, Monmouth Co., N. J. He married, probably in 1753, at Blawenburg, N. J., Johanna Nevius. The date of his death is riot reported. After his marriage, John Sutphen lived in Blawenburg, N. J. He occupied half of the estate of Pieter Nevius. He was a carpenter and an undertaker. In the records of baptism of his children, his first name is recorded the first four times as Yohannis and the last two times as Hannis. His last name is stated five times as Setphin and once as Sitphin.

Vlll-20. JOHANNA NEVIUS ( daughter of Pieter Nevius, IX-39) was born Oct. 12, 1732 at Marlborough, Monmouth Co., N. J. She mar­ ried John Sutphen, probably in 1753. It is probable that most of her Ii£ e was spent at Blawenburg, N. J. In the records of baptism of her children, her name is recorded in all cases as Annate. The children of John and Johanna (Nevius) Sutphen, all baptised at Harlingen, Somerset Co., N. J., were Gilbert (hap. June 23, 1754), Alche or Alte (hap. Sept. 8, 1756), Peter (hap. March 22, 1761), John (hap. Dec. 4, 1763), Elizabeth (hap. July 27, 1766), and Sarah (hap. March 25, 1772) .

VIIl-21. GERRIT VOORHEES ( son of Coert Gerritse Voorhees, IV-41) was born May 15, 1739; married Ann Beekman about January, 1760; and died Nov. 16, 1816. He resided at Neshanic, Somerset County, N. J. The Harlingen Reformed Church records of April 29 and 30, 1766 state: "Gerrit Voorhees and his wife, Hannaatj e Beekman, were received as members." 62 SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS

All their children were baptised at Harlingen. In the records of baptism, Gerrit's first name is stated as Gerret seven times, as Gerrit once, and as Garrit once. His last name is given as Vorhes seven times and as Voorhees once.

VIII-22. ANN BEEKMAN ( daughter of Gerardus Beekman, IX-43) was born about 1740; married about January, 1760, Gerrit Voorhees; and died December 26, 1825. In the records of baptism of her children, her first name is stated as Annate seven times and as Anna twice. The children of Gerrit and Ann (Beekman) Voorhees were Coert (hap. as Kart, Oct. 4, 1761), Gerardus, Nelly, John, Catherine, Stephen, Abram, Ann, and Maria (hap. as Marya, July 2, 1780).

VIIl-23. JOSEPH HEGEMAN (son of Andrew Hegeman, IX-45) was bapt. at Harlingen, N. J., Jan. 14, 1743; married about January, 1761, Hannah Van Arsdalen; died after 1790, in which year he was elected a deacon in the Harlingen Dutch Reformed Church. Joseph and his wife lived at or near Harlingen, Somerset County, N. J ., as all five of their children mentioned here were baptised in the Dutch Reformed Church of that place. Joseph served as deacon and elder in the Harlingen church at various times, in 1763, 1772, 1781, 1783, and 1790. In the records of baptism of his children, Joseph's first name is stated as Yoseph, Y osep, Yosip (twice) , and J osep. His last name was recorded as Hageman (once) and Hegeman (£our times) .

VIII-24. HANNAH VAN ARSDALEN (daughter of _____ Van Arsdalen, IX-47) was born about 1740, probably; married about 1761, Joseph Hegeman; died after June, 1781, possibly much later. The records of the Harlingen church include the following: "Suurlandt, lune 7, 1781. Hanna V: Arsdalen, wife of Joseph Hegeman, ( and others) were received at our consistory meeting as members." In the records of baptism of her children her name is stated in all cases as "Hanna." The children of Joseph and Hanna (Van Arsdalen) Hegeman were Joseph (hap. Nov. 29, 1761), John, Alida, John (2nd), and Sarah (hap. Oct. 29, 1775). SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS 63

VIll-25. PETRUS NEVIUS (son of Pieter Nevius, IX-49) was born July, 31, 1718, and was baptised Sept. 21, 1718 at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y. He married (before May 24, 1744) Johannah Stoot­ hoff. He died Dec. 2, 1793; his tombstone states "aged 75 years, 4 months, 3 days." He was buried in the Pleasant Plains graveyard, between Middlebush and Franklin Park, N. J. Petrus Nevius was a farmer and moved to Middlebush, probably at the time of his marriage, his wife's parents living in that vicinity. In 1745 he owned 150 acres of land there. Then and all through his life he was well known as "Petrus" Nevius, and he so signed his name. At the time of his death, Petrus owned 657 acres of land in Somer­ set County, which he devised by will to his three sons, also 20 acres known as part of the "Great Swamp" in Middlesex County. He also purchased, in 1772, · 1000 acres in the township of Penryn, Gloucester County, N. Y., ( now in Vermont) , on the west side of the Connecticut River. He possessed also 1000 acres situated, his will states, "in Cain Tucke, in the county of Jefferson and state of Verginea." He was there­ fore, at the time of his death, the owner of at least 2,677 acres of land, most of it, of course, wild and at least 2000 acres of which he had never seen, but it made him a pretty large land-owner. Petrus lived on his homestead farm of 450 acres, between Middle­ bush and Six Mile Run. A letter states: He was an austere old gentleman and I have heard my grandfather say that "his presence was truly awe­ inspiring. Following the custom of the early Holland immigrants, he always asked a blessing at table with his hat on." The will of Petrus Nevius was signed July 27, 1790 and was pro­ bated F eh. 3, 1794. He named as executors his sons, Petrus, Martines and David.

VIIl-26. JOHANNAH STOOTHOFF ( daughter of Petrus Stoot­ hoff, IX-51) was born Jan. 14, 1725, and died Jan. 28, 1794. Her tomb­ stone, in the Pleasant Plains Graveyard, states that she died at the age of 69 years and 14 days. The children of Petrus and Johannah (Stoothoff) Nevius were Peter F. (b. June 2, 1749), Martinus (b. Feb. 21, 1751), Wilhelmina (b. about 1756), and David (b. June 2, 1758).

VIIl-27. JOHANNES STOOTHOFF (son of Elbert Stoothoff, IX-53) was born July 6, 1726. He married in 1750 or earlier Sarah, whose family name in unknown to the compiler. He died Jan. 25, 1798 and burial was in the Voorhees-Nevius burying-ground south of Middle­ bush, N. J. 64 SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS

Apparently Johannes and his wife attended the Six Mile Run church. All of their five children were baptised there. The will of "Johannis Stoothof" of Six Mile Run, Somerset County, N. J. was made on June 23, 1793 and was probated on March 5, 1798. This will gives: 1. Wife, "Sary," interest of 500 pounds (in hands of son Albert) during her life; also choice of furniture and Dutch cupboard. 2. Son, Albert, home farm, and two woodlots in the Great Swamp, Middle­ sex County; also the 8-day clock, all arms, ½ of weaving looms, ½ of farm utensils, and ½ of the sheep. 3. Land purchased from Abraham Duryea to he sold. Daughters (named) each ¾ part; also each 100 pounds (paid by son Albert) • 4. After wife's decease, residue to he divided between the son and the four daughters.

VIII-28. SARAH __ was horn April 24, 1724 and died June 24, 1809. Burial was in the Voorhees-Nevius burying-ground near Middlebush, N. J. Children of Johannes and Sarah ( __) Stoothoff: Johanna (hap. Nov. 18, 1750), Jenneke (hap. in December, 1753), Sara (hap. Sept. 12, 1756), Anna (hap. Oct. 12, 1760), and Elbert or Albert (hap. Aug. 19, 1764). ·

VIII-29. THOMAS SKILLMAN (son of Isaac SkiUman, IX-57) was born in 1727 at Newtown, Long, Island; married in 1751, at or near Harlingen, Somerset County, N. J., Mary Beekman; died in Decem­ ber, 1809 in his 82nd year at or near Harlingen; and was buried in the Beekman burying ground at Griggstown, N. J. When Thomas was about three years old, his father moved to Har­ lingen. Thomas lived in that vicinity the rest of his life. In the records of baptism of his children, Thomas Skillman's first name is recorded as Tammis six times, as Tamm.us once, as Tomas twice, and as Toomas once. His last name was written Skilman seven times, and as Sklman, Scilman, and Schilman once each.

VIII-30. MARY BEEKMAN (daughter of Gerardus Christopher Beekman, IX-59) was born about 1733; married in 1751, Thomas Skill­ man; died in June, 1819 in her 86th year; and was buried in the Beek­ man burial ground at Griggstown, Somerset Co., N. J. On Oct. 27, 1784, "Maria Beekman, wife of Thomas Skillman" was received as a member of the Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church. SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS 65

The children of Thomas and Mary (Be~kman) Skillman were John, Gerardus, Thomas, Ann, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Catharine, Joseph, Cor­ nelius, and Mary. All of the children were baptised at Harlingen, N. J.

VIll-31. HENDRICK STRYKER (son of Barent Stryker, IX-61) was born in 1732; married about 1758, Catharine Hegeman; died March 21, 1786, probably near Harlingen, Somerset County, N. J. Henry and his wife were buried on the farm where Abraham Stryker lived, half a mile from Sourland Mountain and two miles fom Harlingen. In the records of baptism of his children, his first name is spelled Henderrick three times, Henderrik three times, Hendrik twice, and Hen­ drek and Hendrk once each. In all cases last name is spelled Stryker. In April, 1766; Hendrick was chosen as one of the three church­ wardens of the Harlingen Reformed Church to serve for two years. In April, 1774, he was elected a deacon. In May, 1782, and again in May, 1783, he was elected one of the two elders.

VIIl-32. CATHARINE HEGEMAN (daughter of __ Hege­ man, IX-63) was born in October, 1725; married about 1758, Hendrick Stryker; died May 23, 1817.

In the records of baptism of her children at Harlingen, N. J ., only her first name is given and it is spelled in various ways, as follows: Cat­ ryna ( three times) , Catrina (four times) , Cattrina (twice) and Catrinte (once). The children of Hendrick and Catharine (Hegeman) Stryker were: Elizabeth (hap. Feb. 11, 1759), Alida, Anna, Gertrude, Catharine, Lu­ cretia, John, Paul, Henry, and Alida (hap. Dec. 23, 1781). All were baptised at Harlingen.

VIII-65. ICHABOD MANLEY (son of Nathaniel Manley, IX-129) was born Dec. 26, 1709; married June 25, 1739, Experience Phillips; died Jan. 11, 1799, at Hardwick, Mass.

VIII-66. EXPERIENCE PHILLIPS (daughter of John Phillips, IX-131) was born April 5, 1723; married June 25, 1739, Ichabod Man­ ley; died in 1805 at Hardwick, Mass.

The children of Ichabod and Experience (Phillips) Manley were Josiah, Mary, Nathaniel, Freelove, Elemuel, Arodea, Reuben, and Reuben (2nd) . 66 SOME OF THE 128 GREAT5 GRANDPARENTS

VIIl-67. SETH BRYANT (son of __ Bryant, IX-133) was born about 1740, probably. He married about 1764, Elizabeth French.

VIIl-68. ELIZABETH FRENCH (daughter of __ French, IX-135) was born about 1742, probably. She married about 1764, Seth Bryant. Seth and Elizabeth (French) Bryant had a daughter Elizabeth (horn 1766) and probably other children also.

VIIl-79. SILAS STONE (son of Ebenezer Stone, IX-157) was born April 29, 1728, at Framingham, Mass. He married Jan. 26, 1749 or 1750, at Sherborn, Mass., Elizabeth Russell. He died about Oct. 24, 1777, at Lansingsburg, N. Y. When Silas was eleven years old, his father died and the boy's share of the estate was only 40 pounds, 12 ~billings and 2 pence. He inherited no real estate. After his marriage in 1750, Silas lived about three years in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and about twelve years in Natick. In 1765 he removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, where he bought a large farm. On this farm he resided the remainder of his life. In the spring of 1757, elaborate preparations were made in New England for the invasion of Canada. As a preliminary measure the whole male population capable of bearing arms was organized in two classes, the actives and a reserve or "alarm" list. At this time Silas Stone was living with a wife and five children in Natick, where he enrolled on the "alarm" list, dated April 19, 1757, in Capt. John Coolidge's company of that town. During the Revolution, Silas Stone performed active service in the American army, although then in his fiftieth year. At the critical time of General Burgoyne's invasion of New York from Canada, Silas Stone enlisted May 9, 1777, in Capt. Samuel Blodgett's Company, Col. Nathan Hale's Second New Hampshire Regiment and served through the Sara­ toga campaign, which resulted in the surrender of Burgoyne's army on Oct. 17, 1777. Silas Stone died about a week later, while in a portion of the American forces returning from Saratoga to Albany.

Vlll-80. ELIZABETH RUSSELL (daughter of Jonathan Russell, IX-159) was born Oct. 7, 1730, at Sherborn, Mass. She married Silas Stone on Jan. 25, 1749 or 1750. In 1816, she died at the age of 86. In her old age, Elizabeth (Russell) Stone lived with her eldest son, Amos, at Shoreham, Vermont. It was there she died. SOME OF THE 128 GREATS GRANDPARENTS 67

The children of Silas and Elizabeth (Russell) Stone were 13 in number: Silas, Amos, Elizabeth, Silas (2nd) , J eduthan, Ebenezer, John, Judith, Juliana ( or Anna) , J udathan, Eli, Mary, and Prudence.

VIIl-89. JOSEF MOIT (or LOUIS MOTI, if his father's name was Josef) was born about 1723. He fled from France to America with his father and settled with the latter at Mount Pleasant, Hudson County, N. J. There they "dropped an aristocratic prefix and soon joined the Quakers."

VIII-90. We have no information as to his wife. Among the children of Josef ( or Louis) Mott and his wife was Ebenezer (Vll-45), who was born about 1761 and in due time married Sarah Collins, an English Quakeress.

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Chapter IX

SOME OF THE 256 GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT­ GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

IX-1. JAQUES CORTELJOU (son of Jaques Corteljou, X-1) was born about 1660 at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y.; married, 1st, Oct., 1685, Marretj e Hendrickse Smack, who died April 7, 1705; mar­ ried, 2nd, Jan. 10, 1706, Altie ( Altj e) I. Boerman; died May 3, 1731, at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y. Jaques resided on his father's tract at New Utrecht. He was living there in 1687, when the British authorities ordered all residents to sign the oath of allegiance to the King of England. In signing the oath, Jaques Corteljou, Junior, stated that he was a native. That is, he was born in America. Jaques Corteljou not only co-operated with the church people, as his father had done, but he was also a member of the church and was active in its service. On March 27, 1689, Jaques joined the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church on confession. In 1695, Jaques paid twelve guilders to the Reformed Dutch Church of New Utrecht in memory of his mother. Jaques was a deacon of the New Utrecht church in 1696, and an elder in the years 1701-03, 1718-20, and 1722. Jaques name was on a petition sent in 1702 by the elders of the Dutch Church ... to call a minister out of the province or from Holland, to instruct them in their mother tongue, as their minister had died. Jaques Cortel j ou was older but less venturesome than his brother Pieter. The Dutch towns on Long Island were his world, for the most part. And it may be guessed that the Dutch characteristics of his mother predominated in him. That the second-generation Jaques was unable to speak English, is indicated by a petition which he filed with the colonial authorities on April 29, 1714. He prays "to be relieved from the obligation of acting as constable for the town of New Utrecht, to which he has been malic­ iously chosen; he being unacquainted with the English dialect." During his life-time the first Jaques Corteljou and his sons operated a ferry for wayfarers who wished to cross the Narrows. As time went on and the second-generation Jaques and Pieter continued to operate the ferry, they found themselves subject to regulation as a public utility. 70 SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS

The children of Jaques and his first wife, Marretj e Hendrickse · Smack, were Aeltie, Geertj e, Neeltj e, Geertj e (2nd) , Helena, Jaques, Hendrick, and Neeltj e (2nd) . In this hook, however, we are not partic­ ularly interested in Jaques' first wife and her children. Our line of ancestry runs through Hendrick, son of the second wife, named below.

IX-2. ALTIE I. BOEHMAN (daughter of __ Boerman, X-3) was horn about 1676 probably, and as his second wife she married Jaques Corteljou on Jan. 10, 1706. She died in 1732. The children of Jaques and Altie I. ( Boerman) Cortel j ou were Marye ( or Marie) , Jaques, Hendrick, Dyna, Marretie, Frederick, and Aeltie.

IX-3. ALBERT COERTE VAN VOORHEES (son of Coerte Stevense Van Voorhees, X-5) was horn about 1670; married, 1st, about 1692, Sara Willemse Cornel, who died in 1736; married, 2nd, May 15, 1743, Willemtje Suydam; married, 3rd, Dec. 1, 1744, Ida V anderhilt; and died about 1748. Albert Coerte Van Voorhees took the oath of allegiance in Flatlands in 1687 as a native, and was ensign of militia in flatlands in 1691 and 1700. In 1699 he bought of his brother Gerrit Coerte the latter's interest in Anthony Jansen's patent, and on Feb. 12, 1702-3, the interest of Barent Joosten, thus becoming the sole owner. He was on the assessment roll of New Utrecht in 1723. On Aug. 6, 1718, he obtained liberty from the freeholders and inhabitants of Gravesend to erect a mill on a creek known as De Bruyne's Creek, which mill, afterwards known as Voorhees, mill, was used for many years in grinding the grits of the surrounding farms. His will was dated May 14, 1747 and was probated April 14, 1748. He signed his name "Albert Coerten."

IX-4. SARA WILLEMSE CORNEL ( daughter of Willem Cornel, X-7) was born about 1670 at Flathush, Long Island; married about 1692, Albert Coerte Van Voorhees; and died in 1736. Children of Albert Coerte and Sara Willemse ( Cornel) Van Voor­ hees were Coert, Elizabeth, Maria, Margaret, Altie, Neeltj e, and An tie ( who was horn April 15, 1711).

IX-5. GERRET ELBERTSE STOOTHOFF (son of Capt. Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff, X-9) was hap. May 4, 1653. He married, 1st, Willem- SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS 71 tje Pieterse Monfoort, and 2nd, Aug. 10, 1684, Johanna Nevius. He died in 1730, aged 77. Gerrit was known as "Maj or" Stoothoff. By his father's will he received Bergen's Island (now known· as Bergen's Beach), Flatlands. He resided all his life at Flatlands, Long Island, having 140 acres there. On Jan. 13, 1690, he was commissioned Lieutenant of Horse, Kings County Militia. In 1698, his name was on the census of Flatlands, the family listed as "11 persons, 7 white and 4 black." In 1705, he was on · a commission to divide common woodlands at Flatlands as a Justice. In 1711, he was named as an elder of the Flatlands church. And in 1713, he was a Field-Major in the Kings County Regiment.

IX-6. JOa\NNA NEVIUS (daughter of Johannes Nevius, X-10) was hap. March 11, 1668 in New Amsterdam; was married Aug. 10, 1684 to Gerret Elbertse Stoothoff; and died in 1734 in Flatlands, Long Island, N. Y. Children of Gerret Elhertse and Johanna (Nevius) Stoothoff: Elbert, Adriana, Aeltj e, Johannes, Sara, Helena, Johanna, Cornelius, Petrus, Wilhelmus, and Gerrit ( or Garret) . A bill for liquors, etc., furnished at the funeral of Johanna, was rendered by her son Wilhelmus in 1735. This curious account is as follows:

For one Barrel of old beer ______._Pounds 1. 4s. 12 gallons wine at 5s. 3. 0 10 pair Gloves at ls. 6d. 0. 15 1 lb. allspice 0. 2 ¼ lb. cinnamon ___ 0. 5 1 gross Pipes 0. 3. 6d. 3 Gauze handkerchiefs at 5s. 0. 15 5 pair Gloves at 2s. 6d. 0. 12 6d. 6 glasses 0. 3 28 lb. sugar 0. 10 3 gall. Rum 0. 9 Ferriage 0. 10. 3d. Coffin 0. 15 Burying 0. 12 ------Pounds 9. 16. 3. (The social standards and customs must he ohserved!-J.V.C.)

IX-17. HENDRICK POLHEMUS (son of Daniel Polhemus, X-33) was baptised Oct. 6, 1700, in Brooklyn, N. Y. The name of his wife and the dates of his marriage and his death have not been found. 72 SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS

Hendrick Polhemus settled in Somerset County, N. J. He was living at Harlingen, N. J., in 1731. He owned a tract of 708 acres, extending from the Millstone River to Harlingen, bought by his father in 1728. It is reported that he built a log house on this land, which he inherited from his father. The records of the Harlingen Reformed Dutch church show that Hendrick Polhemus ("Hendrek Polhemes") subscribed 5 Pounds toward the building fund of the church. This was more than the average subscription. Among the children of Hendrick Polhemus and his wife were Hen­ drick (b. about 1724) and John (b. at Hopewell, N. J., May 25, 1738).

IX-29. JACOBUS JANSE VAN VOORHEES (son of JanStevense Van Voorhees, X-57) -was hap. March 24, 1691, in Brooklyn, N. Y.; married, 1st, Maria, and 2nd, Nelly. His death took place at Blawenburg, N. J ., doubtless, but the time of his death is not known. It was after Aug. 19, 1759. In the records of baptism of his children, in the Harlingen Dutch Reformed church, Jacobus's first name is stated at Jacobus, Cobus, and Kohus, once each. And his last name is recorded as Van Voorhees in 1743, and later as Vorhes (twice) . He purchased, March 10, 1742, 200 acres of land at Blawenhurg, Somerset County, N. J., being part of a tract bought from Nicholas Lake in 1738. He settled on this land. J acohus J anse Van Voorhees had at least six children, of which the first two, Auke and Johannes, were sons of Maria. It is not clear whether Maria or Nelly was the mother of the next two: Abraham, horn June 15, 1748, and Jacohus, or James. The last two had as their mother Nelly ( named Nelte and Nelli in the records of baptism) .

IX-30. MARIA ---· First wife of Jacobus. Vital statistics concerning her are lacking. Children of Jacobus Janse and Maria ( ___ ) Van Voorhees: Auke ( or Okey) , horn about 17 41, and John, who was hap. Aug. 12, 1743, at Harlingen, as "Yohannes-" There may have been other children of this marriage. See above.

IX-33. BARNARDUS VAN ZANDT (son of Johannes Van Zandt, X-65) was horn Oct. 3, 1700, and was baptised Nov. 3, 1700, in New York City (not in Holland, as stated in SCHQ, Vl-47). He married, date unknown, Belitj e Laton, who survived him. He died between March 19, 1778, the date of his will, and Oct. 16, 1778, when it was proved. SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS 73

On Feb. 23, 1739, Bernardus was a witness to the will of Thomas Skillman at Newtown, Long Island. Later he moved to Montgomery Township, Somerset Co., N. J. In his will he states his residence as Blawenhurg, Somerset Co., N. J. In the records of the Harlingen Reformed Church we find the following: Nov. 11, 1767. At our consistery meeting Bernhardus van Zandt and his wife Beelitje Lattin were received as members by certificate.

IX-34. BELITJE LATON (LATTIN, LATTING), wife of Bernar­ dus Van Zandt. Name of her father, and dates of her birth, baptism, marriage, and death are not at hand. We know that she survived her husband. Children of Bemardus and Belitje (Laton) Van Zandt: Johannes, Garret, Barnardus, Nicholas, Wyandt, Isaac, Marritye, and Margrietye. ( Order of the births of the children is somewhat uncertain.)

IX-37. GUISBERT SUTPHEN (son of Dirck Janse Van Sutphen, X-73) was born Oct. 16, 1693, at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y.; married about 1715, Geertruy ( i.e., Gertrude) Van Pelt; died Aug. 18, 1763, at Marlborough, north of Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J. Guisbert ( or Gilbert) removed from New Utrecht, his birthplace, to Monmouth Co., N. J ., in 1709, when he was about 16 years old, ac­ cording to Early Germans in New Jersey, p. 512, though another source states that he spent the greater part of his life at New Utrecht. After this move he lived on his farm at Marlborough, N. J. Early Germans in New Jersey states that he was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold, N. J.

IX-38. GEERTRm- VAN PELT (daughter of Aert Teunisse Lanen Van Pelt, X-75) was horn April 10, 1693 at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y.; married about 1715, Guisbert Sutphen; died March 24, 17 48, at Freehold, N. J. Children of Guisbert and Geertruy (Van Pelt) Sutphen: Derick, Aert, Guisbert, Elizabeth, Peter, Neeltje, John, Jacobus, and Mary.

IX-39. PIETER NEVIUS (son of Pieter Nevius, X-77) was born July 28, 1695 and was hap. Oct. 30, 1695, at Flatlands, Long, Island, N. Y. He married March 25 ( or 30), 1717, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Altye Ten Eyck. Brooklyn records give the date of his marriage as March 30 but in the Bible of his son Tobias it is entered as March 26. Pieter died Sept. 16, 1788 at Blawenhurg, N. J. 74 SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS

When a young man, at Flatlands in 1715, Pieter Nevius was a mem­ ber of Capt. Ralph Terhunen's company of Kings County militia. The year of his marriage, 1717, he removed to Marlborough, Monmouth Co., N. J ., where he was a farmer. There he became at once a communicant member of the Dutch church (known as the church of Freehold) and in 1719 was elected a deacon. It is probable that he lived at Marlborough for twenty years, as he must have left for Blawenburg, Somerset Co., N. J ., after 1737. His ninth child, Maria, was baptised at Marlborough and no subsequent baptisms of his children are recorded there. The spellings of the Nevius surname at Marlborough are "Niefies," "Nefies," "Neevius," etc. Pieter Nevius spelled the name as here given. Pieter followed his brother Martinus to the vicinity of Blawenhurg, ("Sourland", now Harlingen), in Somerset County, N. J. At Blawen­ burg, Pieter became the owner of 700 acres of land, on a part of which tract James Van Zandt later lived. In 1749, Pieter Nevius was chairman of the building committee of the Sourland (Harlingen) Reformed church. He himself subscribed 8 pounds and 2 ~hi11ings to the fund, one of the most generous subscriptions. The will of Pieter Nevius of Blawenburg was signed on Jan. 2, 1767 and was probated on Nov. 24, 1768. ·

IX-40- ALTJE TEN EYCK (daughter of Tobias Ten Eyck, X-79) was baptised in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 29, 1694; married at Brooklyn, March 26 or 30, 1717, Pieter Nevius; and died near Blawenhurg, N. J ., after April, 1737, possibly long after that time. Children of Pieter and Altje (Ten Eyck) Nevius: Petrus (b. July 31, 1718), Tobyas, Jenneke, James, Elizabeth, Johannes, Johanna, Sara, and Maria (b. May 1737).

IX-41. COERT GERRITSE VAN VOORHEES (son of Gerrit Coerte Van Voorhees, X-81) was born probably about 1695; married April 13, 1716, Neeltje Hegeman; and died before July 24, 1750. He resided at Gravesend, Long Island. His will was dated Jan. 3, 1746 and was proved July 24, 1750. In it he mentioned his wife Neeltje and his children Stephen, Garret, Adrian, Eva, Maria, Anne, Lucrecia, Catherine, Neeltje, Sarah and his deceased son, Isaac. His brother-in-law Teunis Bogart was mentioned also.

IX-42. NEELTJE HEGEMAN (daughter of Joseph Adrianse Hegeman, X-83) was born about 1694; married April 13, 1716, Coert SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS 75

Gerritse Van Voorhees; and died after 1738, perhaps much later. Her son Gerrit was born March 15, 1739.

IX-43. GERARDUS CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN (son of Chris­ topher Beekman, X-85) was baptised Aug. 6, 1707, in New York City; married about 1729, Catharine Van Dyke; died between Aug. 4, 1777 ( date of his will) and April 21, 1778 ( when his will was probated). Gerardus Beekman settled on land along the Millstone River, not far from Griggstown, Somerset County, N. J. He lived there till his death.

IX-44- CATHARINE VAN DYKE (daughter of Jan Van Dyke, X-87) was born April 12, 1708; married about 1729, Gerardus Chris­ topher Beekman; and died before Aug. 4, 1777. She was not mentioned in her husband's will. Children of Gerardus Christopher and Catharine (Van Dyke) Beek­ man: Christopher, John, Gerardus, Abraham, Mary, Ann, Catharine, Magdalen, and Cornelia. The sons are here mentioned first, as is the case in their father's will.

IX-45 .. ANDREW HEGEMAN (son of Denys (?) Hegeman, X-89) was born about 1720; married about 1741, Maria __ ; died at Blawenburg, N. J. after 1785. In the records of baptism of his children, Andrew's first name is given as Anderies (twice) , Andres, Anderris (twice) , and Andrias, which stand for Latin Andreas, or English Andrew. At various times, "Andries Hegeman" was deacon and elder in the Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church. His will, dated Jan. 28, 1784 and proved Dec- 27, 1786, states that his residence was Blawenburg, Somerset County, N. J. His will states: "My wife and my son Roelof to have possession of the plantation during her lifetime." Apparently Roelof is the youngest of the children, at least youngest of the boys.

IX-46. MARIA __ ( daughter of __) was born about 1718; married about 1741, Andrew Hegeman; and she was still living in January, 1784. Children of Andrew and Maria ( __) Hegeman: Joseph (hap. Jan. 14, 1743, at Harlingen, N. J.), Denise, Maria, Andreas, Johannes, Jacobus, Gerret, Mary, and Roelof. (Andreas was hap. April 29, 1750 at Six Mile Run) . Probably all the others were baptised at Harlingen. 76 SOME OF THE 256 GREAT' GRANDPARENTS

IX-49. PIETER NEVIUS. Same as IX-39.

IX-50. ALTJE TEN EYCK. Same as IX-40.

IX-51. PETRUS GERRITSE STOOTHOFF (son of Gerrit El­ bertse Stoothoff, X-101) was born about February, 1700; married May 11, 1723, Margaret Albertse Van Voorhees; probably his death took place late in 1727 or early in 1728. Petrus was living in Kings County, N. Y., in 1724. On Jan. 4, 1723 or 1724, Christopher Cod wise sold "for and in consideration of the sum of 38 pounds current money of the Province ( of New York) to (him) in hand paid by Petrus Stoothoff (of Kings County upon Nassau Island in the province of New York) , yeoman, • . . a certain negro boy called Port Ryall." Petrus Stoothoff was of Somerset County, N. J ., when he made his will. This will, drawn up on April 20, 1727, and proved March 13, 1728 or 1729, left his real and personal property to his two daughters, Sarah and Johanna. The inventory of his personal estate was valued at 118 pounds, 12 shillings, and 10 pence, and comprised the following: A pair of silver buckles, 9 shillings; a book, called Mr. Freeman's, 5 s.; another book, "The Spiritual Life," 3 s.; a Dutch New Testament with silver clasps, 14 s.; other books, 7 s.; and a young negro man, 40 pounds. Doubtless this "young negro man" is the "certain negro boy called Port Ryall", now worth two pounds more and probably more than two pounds heavier than he was three years and some months earlier.

IX-52. MARGARET ALBERTSE VAN VOORHEES ( daughter of Albert Coerte Van Voorhees, Xl 03) was born about 1700; married May 11, 1723, Petrus Gerritse Stoothoff. After the death of Petrus, she married, 2nd, on March 29, 1728, David Nevius of Middlebush, N. J., by whom she had seven children. She died April 23, 1787, "aged 87 years and 2 months." Children of Petrus Gerritse and Margaret Albertse (Van Voorhees) Stoothoff were Sarah and Johanna.

IX-57. ISAAC SKILLMAN (son of Thomas Ski11roan, X-113) was born in 1706, on Long Island, N• Y.; married there about 1726, but wife's name not positively known. The date of his death has not been found. SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS 77

The first public account of Isaac Skillman is found in the deed given at the sale of his farm of 24 acres at Dutch Kills on Nov. 25, 1729, for 140 pounds. In this document he was described as a cordwainer (leather worker, shoemaker) . He and his brother John bought from their father and the father's other heirs a tract of more than 500 acres "lying at Raritan, N. J." This tract was on the Millstone River below Rocky Hill and stretched upward toward Sourland Mountain. Isaac Ski1Iman built his house, very much in the wilderness then, on the upper or western portion of the tract near the present village of Harlingen. A sidelight on the conditions prevailing in the Harlingen neighborhood at that time is shown by the report that Isaac's children "were laughed at in Harlingen because they did not speak Dutch."

IX-58. HULL, or BEEKMAN, wife of Isaac SkilJman. "Just who Isaac Ski11man's wife was, we do not know. By one tra­ dition she was a Hull from Black River (small stream near Peapack, N. J.) and was an English woman. There ·were Hulls in the Peapack locality. By others it was thought that Isaac's wife was a Beekman." The facts are not established. Children of Isaac Ski11m:m and wife were Thomas, Benj aroin, Isaac, and Jacob. Thomas was born in 1727 at Newtown, Long Island.

IX-59. GERARDUS CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. Same as IX-43.

IX-60. CATHARINE VAN DYKE. Same as IX-44.

IX-61. BARENT STRYKER (son of Pieter Stryker, X-121) was born at Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1690; married Feb. 16, 1717, Libertje Hegeman; and died Oct. 27, 1746, at Three Mile Run, N. J.

IX-62. LIBERTJE HEGEMAN ( daughter of __ Hegeman, X-123). She was born about 1693, probably; married Feb. 16, 1717, Barent Stryker; died in June, 1758, doubtless at Three Mile Run, Somerset County, N. J. The children of Barent and Libertje (Hegeman) Stryker were Peter, John, Jacob, Barent, and Hendrick. 78 SOME OF THE 256 GREAT' GRANDPARENTS

IX-129. NATHANIEL MANLEY (son of William Manley, X-257) was horn May 27, 1684 at Weymouth, Mass.; married about 1708 or 1709, Hannah Leonard; and died April 21, 1753.

IX-130. HANNAH LEONARD (daughter of Isaac Leonar~ X-259) was horn in 1680 at Bridgewater, Mass.; married about 1708 or 1709, Nathaniel Manley; and is reported to have died April 21, 1753. The children of Nathaniel and Hannah (Leonard) Manley were Ichabod (h. 1709), Hannah (h. 1711), Rebecca (h. 1714), Elizabeth (b. 1716) , and Mary (b. 1720) .

IX-131. JOHN PHILLIPS (son of __ Phillips, X-261). Dates of birth, marriage, and place and date of death are unknown to compiler.

IX-132. REBECCA __ Dates of birth, marriage and death are unknown to compiler. It would seem that she was married about 1720. Among the children of John and Rebecca ( · ) Phillips was Experience, who was horn April 5, 1723, and died in 1805 at Hardwick, Mass.

IX-157. EBENEZER STONE (son of Nathaniel Stone, X-313) was horn April 16, 1688 in the sparsely populated region adjoining Sudbury, Mass. ( where his birth is recorded) , which in 1700 became the town of Framingham, Mass. He married May 10, 1721, at Concord, Mass., Prudence Pratt. He died in April, 1739 at Framingham. From his father, Ebenezer inherited by deed and by will various lands in Framingham, and 1735 he bought of his father-in-law, Joseph Pratt, a fifty-acre farm, which he made his homestead. On Sept. 17, 1723, Ebenezer Stone and his wife were admitted to full communion in the· Framingham church.

IX-158. PRUDENCE PRATI (daughter of Joseph Pratt, X-315) was horn on April 22, 1698, in Framingham, Mass. She married, 1st, on May 10, 1721, Ebenezer Stone. She married, 2nd, on July 17, 1746, at F,-amingham, as his second wife, Daniel Bigelow, who was horn in 1691 and died in 1752. And she married, 3rd, on May 10, 1753, at Framingham, as his second wife, Ezekiel Rice, who was horn Oct. 14, 1700. SOME OF THE 256 GREAT6 GRANDPARENTS 79

The children of Ebenezer and Prudence (Pratt) Stone, all born and recorded in Framingham, were Ebenezer, Joseph, Phineas, Silas, Pru­ dence, Sarah, and Hannah.

IX-159. JONATHAN RUSSELL (son of __ Russell, X-317) was born about 1700, and about 1725, he married Mary Coolidge. Jonathan Russell was selectman at Sherborn, Mass., for ten years and deacon of the church there for seventeen years.

IX-160. MARY COOLIDGE (daughter of __ Coolidge, X-319) was born about 1703, probably at or.near Sherborn, Mass. The children of Jonathan and Mary (Coolidge) Russell included Elizabeth, who was· born at Sherborn, Mass., Oct. 30, 1730.

IX-177. LOUIS (or JOSEF) MOTI. He was born about 1690 (?) . He was a Huguenot, who fled from France with his son J osef--or the father may have been Josef and the son Louis. He settled with his son in Mount Pleasant, Hunderton County, N. J. They dropped an aristocratic prefix in their name and "speedily foregathered with the Quakers."

IX-178. The name of the wife and mother have not come down to us. There was at least one child, a son, as mentioned above.

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Chapter X

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X-1. JAQUES CORTEUOU (son of Jaques Corteljou, XI-1) was born about 1625, at Utrecht, Holland; married probably in 1656, in New Amsterdam (New York City), Neeltje Van Duyn; died between Feb. 28 and July 27, 1693, doubtless at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y. Jaques Cortelj~u (also spelled Corteljau) sailed to America in 1652 as tutor of the two sons of Cornelis van Werckhoven, one of the city fathers of Utrecht, Holland. He was first mentioned in the New Amster­ dam records of 1654, in a letter of Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant dated June 13. In July of 1654 he was appointed schout (sheriff) but refused the appointment because of limitations put upon him. In 1657 he was appointed surveyor-general of the colony- In this year too he left New Amsterdam and took up his residence on Long Island. He founded "a Town on Long Island on the Bay of the North River," and "in mem­ ory of the old Dutch city which was his birthplace he named this village New Utrecht." Jaques was appointed Vendue Master May 4, 1672. He was a justice of the peace for many years, beginning with 1675. He was judge, court of common pleas and sessions, appointed in 1689. He was also appointed captain of militia. Though Jaques' interests were many, his main oc­ cupation was as surveyor-general of the colony. See The Cortelyou Genealogy, p. 7 to 67, for a fuller statement of his activities. In 1679 two men came from Friesland, a northwestern province of Holland, representing the Labidists, a sect which sought relief from per­ secution. They visited Jaques Corteljou four times and in their journal mention him as follows: "Jaques is a man advanced in years. He was born in Utrecht, but of French parents, as we could readily discover from all his actions, looks and language. He had studied philosophy in his youth, and spoke Latin and good French. He was a mathematician and sworn land-surveyor. He had also formerly learned several sciences, and had some knowledge of medicine. The worst of it was, he was a good Cartesian (follower of Descartes) and not a good Christian, regulating himself and all externals by reason and justice only. Nevertheless he regulated all things better by these principles than most people in these parts do who bear the name of Christians or pious persons."

X-2. NEELTJE VAN DUYN (daughter of Cornelis Van Duyn, XI-3) was born at Nieuwkerk in Zeeland, Holland, probably about 82 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS

1630; married Jaques Corteljou in New Amsterdam, probably in 1656;· died in New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y., before December, 1695. In 1649 Neeltje Van Duyn emigrated from Nieuwkerk, Holland, to New Amsterdam with her brother, Gerret Comelise, who became the common ancestor of the Van Duyn family in America. In March, 1679, Neeltje became a member of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Utrecht. Children of Jaques and Neeltje (Van Duyn) Cortelyou: Unnamed child (b. and d. in 1657), Jaques, Comelis, Pieter, Helena, Maria, and Willem.

X-5 COERT STEVENSE VAN VOORHEES (son of Steven Coerte Van Voorhees, Xl-9) was born in 1637 at Hees, near Ruinen, Holland; married before 1664 Marretje Gerritse Van Couwenhoven; died after 1702, probably at Flatlands, Long Island, N. Y. Coert's name appears on the assessment rolls of Flatlands of 1675 and 1683. He was a member of the Dutch Church of Flatlands and was deacon in 1677. He was a magistrate in 1664 and captain of militia in 1689. He was with Elbert Elhertse Stoothoff a representative of Flat­ lands in the General Assembly held at the City Hall of New Amsterdam on April 10, 1664 and was also a delegate to the Convention held March 26, 1674, at New Orange to confer with Governor Colve. He took the oath of allegiance in Flatlands in September, 1687. He signed his name "Koert Stevensen" and, at times, "Koert Stev­ ensen Van Ruinen."

X-6. MARRETJE GERRITSE VAN COUWENHOVEN ( daughter of Gerrit Wolfertse Van Couwenhoven, Xl-11) was baptised April 10, 1644 on Long Island; married before 1664, Coert Stevense Van Voor­ hees; died between 1702 and 1709, on Long Island. Children of Coert Stevense and Marretje Gerritse (Van Couwen­ hoven) Van Voorhees were Steven, Marretj e, Albert, Gerrit, Altj e, Neeltj e, Cornelis, Annatie, and Johannes.

X-7. WILLEM GULJAMSE CORNEL (son of Geljam or Guil­ liamse Comelise, Xl-13) was born at Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y., about 1630, probably; married Margarita Polhemius; and died be£ ore 1702. Willem Comel resided in Flatbush, Long Island. In accordance with a Flatbush patent, he was alloted a houwery in the said town SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS 83 amounting to 26 morgens ( 54.6 acres) . His name appears on the assess­ ment rolls of Flatbush of 1675 and 1683, on Governor Andros's patent of New Lotts of 1677, as a magistrate of the town from 1659 to 1664, and as a member of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatbush in 1677. He signed his name "Willem Guljamse."

X-8. MARGARITA POLHEMIUS (daughter of Johannes Theo­ dorus Polhemius, XI-17) was born about 1655, at Flathush, Long Island, probably. Children of Willem Guljamse and Margarita (Polhemius) Cornel were Johannes, Pieter, Marike ( or Maria) , Catharine, Cornelis, Rachel, and Sarah.

X-9. ELBERT ELBERTSE STOOTHOFF (son of Elbert Stoot­ hoff, Xl-17) was born in Holland about 1620; married, 1st, Aug. 27, 1645, Altje Cornelisse Cool; m-, 2nd, July 21, 1683, Sarah Roelofse, widow of Cornelis Van Rossum of New York; died in 1686 or 1687 in Amersfoort, later known as Flatlands, Long Island, N. Y. Elbert migrated from Nieuw Kercken in Zeeland, Holland, or from Nieuwkercken in North Brabant, Holland, about 1637. At first in the employment of Governor Van Twiller and the Patroon Van Rensselaer, and finally settled in Flatlands, Long Island, where he took the oath of allegiance in 1687. He was for many years a magistrate of Flatlands and the largest land-holder, having purchased Van Twiller's and Van Cowenhoven's interest in the patent for the flats or plains. He was a member of the committee appointed by the colonists to vindicate and protect their rights, and was one of the representatives in the Hempstead Convention of 1665. On the conquest of the colony by the Dutch in 1673, he was appointed by Governor Colve captain of militia (for Amersfoort). He owned what was known as Crooke's Mill, which mill was in operation as early as 1674. His will, not recorded, is dated Dec. 18, 1686. He signed his name "Elbert Elhertsen."

X-10. ALTJE CORNELISSE COOL (daughter of Cornelis Lam­ bertsen Cool, XI-19) was horn about 1620 probably; married, 1st, Gerrit W olfertse Van Cowenhc;>ven, who died about 1644 or 1645; m., 2nd, Aug- 27, 1645, Elbert Elhertse Stoothoff; d. before July, 1683. Children of Elbert and Altj e (Cool) Stoothoff: Gerret, Elbert, Helen or Heilte, and Achye or Aegge. 84 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT GRANDPARENTS

X-11. JOANNES NEVIUS (son of Johannes Neeffius, Xl-21) · was horn about February, 1627, at Zoelen, Holland; was hapt. March 14, 1627; married Nov. 18, 1653, Adriaentje Bleijck; and died about June, 1672, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Joannes emigrated from Holland and settled at first on High (Pearl) Street in New Amsterdam in 1650 or 1651. In 1654 and '55 he was a schepen of New Amsterdam. In 1657 he was assessed at the ferry 15 guilders toward the salary of Domine Polhemius. And in 1658 he was secretary of the Burgomaster's court in New Amsterdam. In 1660 his name and his wife's were on the list of members of the Reformed Dutch Church as removed to the ferry, Brooklyn. In 1664 he took the oath of allegiance to the English in New York. In 1670 he held the position of ferryman .. He signed his name "Joannes Nevius". See also page 103.

X-12. ARIAENTJE BLEIJCK (daughter of __ Bleijck, Xl-23) was horn about 1630, apparently in Batavia in the East Indies; married, 1st, Nov .. 18, 1653, Joannes Nevius, after whose death she married, 2nd, Jan Arisen Middagh. The children of Joannes and Ariaentje (Bleijck) Nevius were Johannes (hap. Nov. 8, 1654), Sara, Cornelis, Maria, Cornelius, Peter, Sara Katherine, Johanna, and (supposed) Elizabeth and Catharine. See also page 104.

X-33. DANIEL POLHEMUS (son of Johannes Theodorus Pol­ hemius, XI-65) was horn about 1650, probably at Itamarca, Brazil; married, 1st, Aug. 13, 1685, Neeltje Van Der Veer; married, 2nd, Cornelia ---· He died in 1730 or earlier in New York City. Daniel spent most of his married life in Flathush, where he took the oath of allegiance of 1687. His name is on the patent of 1685 and on the assessment roll of 1693. He was cornet of horse in 1690, and was captain of militia. On Dec. 19, 1702, he purchased of the heirs of his father the home• stead farm of I 04 acres at Flathush. On Dec. 28, 1702, he sold for 202 pounds twenty morgens of land at Flathush, also one-fourteenth of the hrewhouse in Flathush. Late in life, Daniel seems to have changed his residence to New York City. He and his wife Cornelia joined the Reformed Dutch Church of that city on certificate from Long Island. Daniel signed his name "Daniel Polmes." SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS 85

X-34. NEELTJE CORNELISSE VAN DER VEER (daughter of Coinelis Jansen Van Der Veer, XI-67) was born about 1654; married Daniel Polhemus on Aug. 13, 1685. She joined the Reformed Dutch Church June 28, 1685. The children of Daniel and Neeltje Cornelise (Van Der Veer) Pol­ hemus were Johannes, Katharina, Cornelius, Jacob, Daniel, Marya, Hendrick, Abram, and Margaret.

X-57. JAN STEVENSE VAN VOORHEES (son of Steven Coerte Van Voorhees, XI-113) was born in 1652 in Holland. He married, 1st, March 17, 1678, Cornelia Rinierse Wizzelpenning, and, 2nd, Oct. 8, 1680, Femmetje Auckes Van Nuyse. He died in 1735. Jan Stevense Van Voorhees emigrated from Holland with his father in 1660. His name was on the Flatlands, Long Island, assessment rolls of 1675 and 1683, and he took the oath of allegiance at Flatbush in 1687. Jan bought of Aucke J anse Van N uyse for 300 guilders the land at "Pardegat," which Aucke J anse had bought of Bartel Claessen. In 1700 he signed his name "Jan Stevens."

X-58. FEMMETJE AUCKES VAN NUYSE ( daughter of Aucke Janse Van Nuyse, XI-115) was born about 1655, probably. She mar­ ried Oct. 8, 1680, Jan Stevense Van Voorhees. The date of her death has not been found. Children of Jan Stevense and Femmetje Auckes (Van Nuyse) Van Voorhees: Aucke, Willemtje, Jan, Jacobus, Roelof, Albert, Abraham, and Lucas. It is supposed but not certainly known that the last four are sons of Jan and F emmetj e.

X-65. JOHANNES VAN ZANDT (son of Adam Wensel Van Zandt, XI-129) was born in Arnheim, Gelderland, Holland, and was probably the one-year-old child who was brought to America by his parents, when they emigrated in 1658. Hence he was born about 1657. He moved to Albany with his mother and step-father, and probably both his marriages took place there. The name of his first wife is un­ known. The Bible record states that she had a daughter Ytje (Ida) and died in childbirth. It is probable that Johannes married first about 1677-78 and that his wife died in 1679-80. He married, second, on Oct. 20, 1681, Margaret Vanderpoel. He died Oct. 16, 1724. "Johannes Van Sandt" and his wife "Margariet Van Sandt" were members of the Dutch Church at Albany before 1683. 86 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS

In April, 1693, "Johannes van Sandt was paid 6 guilders for doot kissie voor bi,ddende I ongen". This has been interpreted as "small coffin for beggar hoy." The boy was apparently an orphan and a pauper, who was buried by the deacons at the expense of the poor fund. Johannes van Sandt was evidently a carpenter by trade. Some time between April and September, 1693, Johannes Van Zandt and his wife and family moved from Albany to New York City, for on September 1, 1693, they presented their letters from the Albany Church to the New York Church. On April 14, 1702, Johannes Van Zandt was paid for work done at Fort William Henry. His daughter Jannetje was married in New York on May 12, 1704, and his daughter Catherine was married at Newton, Long Island, on January 16, 1712; so it seems probable that between those two dates Johannes Van· Zandt and his family moved again, from New York City to Newton, Long Island. There he died on Oct. 16, 1724, "of consumption." His will is dated at Newtown, Sept, 23, 1724. In it he calls himself a "yeoman," mentions his wife, Margaret, his sons, Wynant, Isaac, and Bemardus, and refers to the "rest of my sons and daughters," hut does not give their names. The will was proved on November 9, 1724.

X-66. MARGARET VANDERPOEL ( daughter of Wynant Van­ derpoel, Xl-131) was born at Albany about 1665. She married Oct. 20, 1681, as his second wife, Johannes Van Zandt. She died at Newton, Long Island, on Oct. 26, 1724, "of a sore leg." Children of Johannes Adamse and Margaret (Vanderpoel) Van Zandt were Jannetje, Wynant, Jannetje (2nd), Adam, Johannes, Cath­ arine, Isaac, Margaret, Maria, Bemardus, and Comelis. The first 6 were baptised at Albany, and the last 5 at New York.

X-73. DERICK JANSE VAN ZUTPHEN (son of Jan Van Zut­ phen, Xl-145) was born at Tongerle, Holland, in 1645; ·married on Long Island in 1680, Lysbeth Janse Van Nuyse; died, probably at New Utrecht, Long Island, N. Y. and in 1707. His will was dated Sept. 4, 1702 and was probated Oct. 29, 1707. Derick J anse came from Zutphen in Gelderland, Holland, about 1676 and settled at first probably at New Amsterdam and afterwards in Flatbush, Long Island. He moved to New Utrecht about 1680. On June 21, 1681, he traded his Flatbush farm to "Denyse Theunise", receiving in payment four lots of woodland lying together SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS 87 at Yellow Hoeck (Bay Ridge), New Utrecht. To these premises he prob­ ably finally moved. Denyse, in addition to the land, agreed to build for Zutphen a boat 18 feet long, "wood measure", and a barn and barrack on the lots. Derick took the oath of allegiance in New Utrecht in 1687, stating that he had been a resident of New Netherland 36 years. In 1706 he was assessed for 164 acres in New Utrecht. He signed his name "D. J s. Sutphen."

X-74. LYSBETH AUCKES VAN NUYSE (daughter of Aucke Jansen Van Nuyse, Xl-127) was born about 1655-60; married in 1680, Derick J anse Van_ Sutphen; died, probably in New Utrecht, after March, 1699. Children of Derick Janse and Lysbeth Auckes (Van Nuyse) Van Sutphen were Hendrickje (hap. Dec. 18, 1681), Jacob, Jan, Dirck, Geertje, Guisbert, Isaac, Abraham, and Elizabeth (hap. Apr. 6, 1699).

X-75. AERT TEUNISZ VAN PELT (son of Teunis Jansen Lanen Van Pelt, Xl-149) was born about 1663. ESKCo, p. 358, states that his father came over in 1663 with wife and six children, and lists Aert as the fifth child, hence he must have been born about 1660. However, Aert listed himself as a "native", when he took the oath of allegiance in New Utrecht in 1687. He married Sept. 10, 1686, Neeltje Janse Van Tuyl. He died after 1699, on Long Island, N. Y. Aert Van Pelt was on the assessment roll of New Utrecht, of 1693, and was named in the census of 1698. He was a magistrate in 1698, and was a lieutenant of militia in 1705. He was assessed in 1706 for 80 acres of land in New Utrecht. He had bought land at Millstone, N. J., in 1702. Aert made his mark " A V P" to documents.

X-76. NEELTJE JANSE VANTUYL (daughter of Jan Van Tuyl, Xl-151) must have been born about 1665, probably in New York City; married Sept. 10, 1686, Aert Teunisz Van Pelt; died after 1696, prob­ ably at New Utrecht, Long Island. "Neeltje van Tuyl" was listed as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church in New York in 1696. The children of Aert Teunisz and Neeltje Janse (Van Tuyl) Van Pelt were Petrus, Jan, Neeltje, Greetje ( or Margaret), Geertruy, Catlyn, Lysbet, and ( it is supposed) the Aert who was baptised in Brooklyn and married Annetje Voorhies. 88 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS

X-77. PIETER NEVIUS (son of Joannes Nevius, XI-153) was born in New Amsterdam (New York City), probably in January, 1663; was bapt. Feb. 4, 1663, in the New Amsterdam Dutch church; married June 22, 1684, Janetje Roelofse Schenck; died April 29, 1740. Though baptised Petrus, he was always known as "Pieter." He was nine years old when his father died. There is every evidence that, while his older brother assumed burdens at home, he was favored and sent to school. He became a man of good education, of strong, forceful person­ ality, and of much influence. He was known through life as "Captain Pieter" from his rank in the militia. He lived in Flatlands, Long Island. Pieter's name was on Domine Van Zuuren's list as a member of the Flatland's church in 1677, and he was a deacon in 1689. He signed his name "Pieter Nevyus."

X-78. JANETJE ROELOFSE SCHENCK (daughter of Roelof Martinse Schenck, Xl-155) was born in 1665 at Flatlands (later a part of Brooklyn) and married on June 22, 1684, Pieter Nevius. The date of her death has not been found. The children of Pieter and Janetje Roelofse (Schenck) Nevius were Johannes, Roeloff, Aeltje, Comelis, Martinis, Pieter., Neeltje, Arientje, Ariaentje, David, Johannes, and three later children.

X-79. TOBIAS TEN EYCK (son of Coenraet Ten Eyck, XI-157) was baptised Jan. 26, 1653, in New Amsterdam (New York City). He married, 1st, Jan. 30, 1678, Aeltje Duycking, who was hap. Sept 23, 1657 (daughter of Evert Duycking and Hendrikje Simons). She died in 1682 or 1683 and he married, 2nd, April 12 or 27, 1684, Elizabeth Hegeman. By his first wife he had three children: Coenraet, Maria, and Hendrickj e. By his second wife he had seven children; see below. He died in New Amsterdam before Dec. 20, 1700, on which date his will was proved. Tobias Ten Eyck was a shoemaker and a tanner. After his father's death, he carried on the latter's business with the help of his brothers, Dirck and Coenraet. He lived in 1686 in "Langs Street" (Pearl Street between Hanover Square and Wall Street) . Tobias was constable in 1683. In 1691 he was a corporal in Captain William Merritt's Company of Militia. Tobias signed his name "Tobyas ten Eyck." In his will, signed Nov. 29, 1699, and proved Dec. 20, 1799, he philosophized: "I, Tobias Ten Eyck, considering the fraility of human Ii£ e, the certainty of Death, and the uncertain hour of the same, the more SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS 89 so because God Almighty has visited me with a severe wound in the leg," etc., etc.

X-80. ELIZABETH HEGEMAN ( daughter of Adrian Hegeman, XI-159) was born about 1663, at Flatbush, N. Y.; married April 12, 1684, as his second wife, Tobias Ten Eyck. In the record of her mar­ riage, her name is stated as "Eliz Hegemens." "Elizabeth Hegeman, h. v. Tobias ten Eyck" is listed as a member of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York, Feb. 27, 1684. After the death of Tobias, she married Jacobus Kronkheyt, son of Hark Siboutsen and Wyntie Theunis. Children of Tobias and Elizabeth (Hegeman) Ten Eyck were Annetje (b. May 10, 1685), Coenraet, Adriaen, Catharina, Aeltje, Jacob, and Margariete.

X-81. GERRET COERTE VAN VOORHEES (son of Coert Stevense Van Voorhees, Xl-161) was horn in Flatlands (later a part of Brooklyn) after 1660; married, 1st, Mensje Janse; 2nd, April 26, 1685, Willemtje Pieters; died in 1704. Gerret was a member of the Flatlands Dutch Church in 1677. He took the oath of allegiance in 1687 as a native, and was on the census of Flatlands in 1698. On Dec. 11, 1693 he bought Anthony Janse's patent for 38,750 guilders and in 1699 conveyed his interest in the same to his brother Albert Coerte. Gerret's will, dated Oct. 1, 1702, was probated Sept. 23, 1704. He signed his name "Gerret Koerten." Children of Gerret Coerte Van Voorhees, as mentioned in his will: Marytie ( or Marike) , Coert, Altie, Peter, Hendrick, Stephen, and Gertie.

X-82. MENSIE JANSE or WILLEMTIE PIETERS. The compiler does not know which wife of Gerret Coerte Van Voorhees was the mother of Gerret Coerte Van Voorhees (IX-41), nor has he found the parentage of either of the two wives.

X-83. JOSEPH ADRIAENCE HEGEMAN (son of Adriaen Hegeman, Xl-159 and 165) was born about 1649, probably at Amster­ dam, Holland; married Oct. 21, 1677, in the Dutch Church at Flatlands, Femmetje Rems or Remsen; and died about 1725 on Long Island, N. Y. 90 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT GRANDPARENTS

Joseph emigrated from Amsterdam with his father about 1650 or 1651. He was living in Flatbush as early as 1658, where he later owned a farm of 40½ morgens (about 90 acres). In 1677, he was a member of the Dutch church of Flatbush, and in 1690 was an elder. He took the oath of allegiance in Flathush in 1687. He was appointed Comet of Horse in 1689. In 1690 he opposed the Leislerian faction. He was on the census roll of 1698. in 1710 with others he bought the Harlingen tract in Somerset County, N. J. He signed his name "Joseph Hegeman."

X-84. FEMMETJE REMSEN (daughter of Rem Jansen Vander­ beeck, XI-167) was born August 1, 1657, probably at Albany, N. Y.; married Oct. 21, 1677, Joseph Hegeman; died at Flatbush, L. I, prob­ ably in the year 1745. A word as to Femmetje's surname. Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck was the common ancestor of the Remsen family. His descendants dropped the family name, Vanderbeeck, and, as was the custom of the time, assumed their father's given name. Ren1Sen means "son ( or daughter) of Rem." The children of Joseph Adriaense and Femmetje (Remsen) Hege­ man were Jannetje (born Oct. 24, 1678), Adrian, Elizabeth, Rem, El­ dert, Joseph, Catharine, Frans, Peter, Neeltje, and Francis (b. about 1695). Compare Depew Chronology and Ancestry, p 187.

X-85. CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN (son of Gerardus Willemse Beekman, Xl-169) was born Jan. 4, and bapt. Jan. 16, 1681, at Flat­ lands, Long Island; married Jan. 28, 1704, in New York, Maria De Lanoy; died in May, 1724. He was a merchant in New York City and lived in Flatbush, Long Island. However, he left Flathush and settled on a farm at Six Mile Run, Somerset Co., N. J. At Six Mile Run he lived, no doubt, on land which his father had given him, "tract No. 3." His death took place in New York City, to which place he had gone to procure machinery for a mill, which he intended to build on the Sourland brook, running through his land. Christopher's will was dated May 6, 1724 and was proved June 19, 1724.

X-86. MARIA ( or MARY) DE LANOY ( daughter of Abraham De Lanoy, Xl-171) was born in 1681. The license for her marriage was dated Jan. 25, 1704 and she married Christopher Beekman on Jan. 28, 1704. Children of Christopher and Maria ( De Lanoy) Beekman were Cornelia, Gerardus, Cornelia (2nd), Magdalena, Adrian, Magdalena (2nd), Abraham, Christopher, Maria o.r Mary, Catharine, and Emeline. SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS 91

X-87. JAN VAN DYCK (son of Carel Janse Van Dyck, XI-173) was hapt. at New Utrecht, Long Island, Nov. 19, 1682; married June 6, 1706, Annetje Verkerk; died Dec. 8, 1764. His will was dated April 12, 1757, and was proved Jan. 25, 1765. Jan was of Shrewsbury at the time of his marriage, and at the time he wrote his will he was "of the Corp­ oration of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, N. J."

X-88. ANNA VERKERK (daughter of Roelof Jansen Verkerk, XI-175) was hapt. Jan. 20, 1694 as "Annatje"; married June 6, 1706; and was still living in April, 1757, when her husband signed his will. Children of Jan and Anna (Verkerk) Van Dyck, mentioned in Jan's will were John, Roelof, Matthias, Simon, Isaac, J acoh and three daugh­ ters: Tuentje, Catharine, and Ann.

X-97. PIETER NEVIUS (son of Joannes Nevius) Same as X-77.

X-98. JANETJE ROELOFSE SCHENCK. Same as X-78.

X-99. TOBIAS TEN EYCK. Same as X-79.

X-100. ELIZABETH HEGEMAN. Same as X-80-

X-101. GERRET ELBERTSE STOOTHOFF (son of Elbert Elhertse Stoothoff, XI-201) was horn in 1646 or early in 1647, probably in Flatlands, Long Island. He married, 1st, Willemtje Pieterse Mon­ foort; married, 2nd, Aug. 10, 1684, Johanna Nevius. He died March 30, 1730. He signed his name "Gerret Stoothoff." Gerret was commissioned major by Governor Slaughter. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1677. He took the oath of allegiance in Flatlands in 1687. His name was on the assessment rolls of Flatlands of 1683, also on the census rolls of 1698. He signed an anti­ Leislerian petition to the king in 1701. Gerret's will was dated Feb. 25, 1729, hut was not recorded.

X-192. JOHANNA NEVIUS (daughter of Joannes Nevius, XI-293) was horn in New Amsterdam (New York City); was hap. in the New Amsterdam Church on March 11, 1688; married on Aug. 10, 1684, at Flathush, Gerret Elhertse Stoothoff. She died in 1734. 92 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS

The children of Gerret Elbertse and Johanna (Nevius) Stoothoff were Elbert, Adriana, Aeltje, Johannes, Sarah, Helena, Johanna, Cor­ nelis, Petrus, Wilhelmus, Garret.

X-103. ALBERT COERTE VAN VOORHEES. Same as IX-3.

X-104. SARA WILLEMSE CORNEL. Same as IX-4.

X-113. THOMAS SKILLMAN (son of Thomas Ski11roan, XI-225) was born in 1671, at Dutch or Maspeth Kills, N. Y.; married in 1693, Annetje Aten. His will was signed Feb. 13, 1739 and was probated July 4, 1740. On May 11, 1703, Thomas's name was signed to a petition with others, "inhabitants of Helgate N eek." In 1714, he was commissioner of highways at Newton. He was a joint owner, with five others, of a plot for a school-house, May 20, 1721. This building ·.,fas at Middletown ( near Dutch Kills) on the road from Hallett's Cove to N e~'ton Village. He was a member of the first board of trustees of the Dutch Reformed Church of Newton, chosen in 1736. His family home, which had been his father's, was at Dutch. or Maspeth Kills.

X-114. ANNETJE ATEN (daughter of Adriaen Hendrickse Aten, XI-227) was born about 1672, probably at Flatbush. She married Thomas Skillman in 1693, and she outlived her husband. Annetje Aten Ski11roan was a communicant member of the New­ town Reformed Dutch Church in 1741. Children of Thomas and Annetje (Aten) Skillman were Peter (hap. in Brooklyn, March 4, 1694), Elizabeth (twin with Peter), Jan, Mary, Mercy, Annatje, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Benjamin, and Joseph.

X-117. CHRISTOPHER BEEKMAN. Same as X-85.

X-118. MARIA DELANOY. Same as X-86.

X-119. JAN VAN DYKE. Same as X-87.

X-120. ANNA VERKERK. Same as X-88. SOME OF THE 512 GREAT7 GRANDPARENTS 93

X-121. PIETER STRYKER (son of Jan Stryker, Xl-241) was born Nov. 1, 1653 in Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y.; married May 30, 1681, Annetje Barends. He died June 11, 1741, in Flatbush. He moved from Flatbush to Somerset Co., N. J.

X-122. ANNETJE BARENDS (daughter of Barent Joosten, XI-243) was bapt. Nov. 2, 1659, in New Amsterdam; married on May 30, 1681 in Flatbush, Pieter Stryker. She died in Flatbush on June 17, 1717. The children of Pieter and Annetje (Barends) Stryker were Lam­ metj e, Lammetj e (2nd) , Jan, Barent, Jacob, Barent (2nd) , Hendrick, Syntie, Pieter, Hendrick (2nd) , and I ~amroetje (3rd) .

X-257. WILLIAM MANLEY (son of __ Manley, Xl-513) was horn about 1630-1640, doubtless in England; married about 1675- 76, probably at Brocton, Mass., Rebecca ---· He died Dec. 2, 1717, at Weymouth, Mass. William was one of three brothers who settled at Brocton, Mass., in 1653. He served in the army while a resident of Weymouth. He took part in the campaign of 1690. He settled in Easton, Mass., as early as 1694-

X-258. REBECCA ------· Her family name and the date and place of her birth have not been established. No doubt she was of English ancestry. She died at Easton, Mass., on April 12, 1712. The children of William and Rebecca ( __) Manley were Sarah, William, Thomas, Nathaniel, and Rebecca.

X-259. ISAAC LEONARD (son of ______Leonard, XI-517) was born about 1650, probably at or near Bridgewater, Mass.; married about 1675, Deliverance ______; date and place of death not found. They resided at Bridgewater after their marriage.

X-260. DELIVERANCE ------· Data regarding her have not been found. Among the children of Isaac and Deliverance ( ____ ) Leonard was Hannah, who was born in 1680 and died April 21, 1753. Doubtless there were also other children.

X-313. NATHANIEL STONE (son of John Stone, Xl-625) was born May 11, 1660 in the then unincorporated wilderness region which 94 SOME OF THE 512 GREAT GRANDPARENTS

in 1700 became the town of Framingham, Mass., the record of his birth being entered at Sudbury. He married April 25, 1684 at Sudbury, Sarah Waite. He died at Framingham between June 23 and Nov. 3, 1732, aged 72 years. Nathaniel Stone was given by his father lands and a house, which were near the modem Saxonville Mills in Framingham, within the limits of which town he apparently always resided. He was one of the objec­ tors in 1698 to the incorporation of F:raroingham as a new town, which incorporation was effected two years later. On June 11, 1711 this Nathaniel Stone and his sons Nathaniel, Jr., Ebenezer, and John, were among 16 signers of a petition to Governor Joseph Dudley for liberty to buy 4000 acres of land at Magunkook from the Natick Indians. This petition was unsuccessful but a few years later, in 1715, this property was acquired by the trustees of the estate of Governor Hopkins of Connecticut. Nathaniel Stone was a selectman of Framingham in 1706, 1707, 1715 and 1726.

X-314. SARAH WAITE ( daughter of John Waite, Xl-627) was horn May 11, 1660 in Malden, Massachusetts. She survived her husband. Children of Nathaniel and Sarah (Waite) Stone: Nathaniel, Ebe­ nezer, Jonathan, Isaac, John, John (2nd) , Mary, Sarah, and Hezekiah. Doubtless all of them were born in Framingham.

X-315. JOSEPH PRATT, born about 1670, probably at Framing­ ham, Massachusetts. He married in 1697 or earlier, Hannah Provender.

X-316. HANNAH PROVENDER, horn about 1673, probably at Framingham, Mass., and married in 1697, or earlier, Joseph Pratt. One of the children of Joseph and Hannah (Provender) Pratt was Prudence, who was born April 22, 1699 in Framingham, Mass. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 95

Chapter XI

SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT­ GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

XI-1. JACQUES CORTELLOU, horn in Utrecht, Holland about 1590; married on April 14, 1612 in Utrecht, Holland, Elsken Hendricks. He died before Dec. 7, 1663, doubtless in Utrecht.

Xl-2. ELSKEN HENDRICKS, horn probably in Utrecht, Hol­ land, about 1590; m. on April 14, 1612, Jacques Cortellou; died in Utrecht, Holland, Dec. 7, 1663. She was buried in St. Nicholas Church in Utrecht. Children of Jacques and Elsken (Hendricks) Cortellou: Abraham (hap. Dec. 13, 1612), Jeanne (m. June 6, 1636), Jenneken (m. Feb. 5, 1637), Judith (m. May 25, IMO), Jaques (h. in Utrecht, about 1625), Pierre (m. May 3, 1663), and Judith (m. Blaysius Pailhot; d. Nov. 9, 1684).

XI-3. CORNELIS VAN DUYN, horn in Holland and remained there. His son and daughter went to America at the same time. We know this man's name from the fact that his son used "Cornelis" as his middle name.

XI-9. STEVEN COERTE VAN VOOR HEES (son of Coert Alberts van voor Hees, XII-17) was horn at Hees in the province of Drenthe, Holland in 1600; m. (1st) in Holland a woman, name un­ known, who bore him all his children; m. (2nd), before 1677, on Long Island, Willempie Roelofse Seuhering, who was b. 1610 and d. 1690; he died at Flatlands, Long Island, Feb. 16, 1684. Steven emigrated from Holland in April, 1660 in the ship Bontekoe ("Spotted Cow") with his wife and all his children except two. On Nov. 29, 1660, he purchased 9 morgens of cornland, 7 morgens of woodland, 10 morgens of plainland, and 5 morgens of salt meadow in Flatlands, Long Island, for 3000 guilders, also the house and houseplot lying in the village of Flatlands, with the brewery and all the brewing apparatus, kettle house and casks, with the appurtenances. 96 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

He and his second wife were members of the Dutch Church of Flat­ lands in 1677. His name appears on the assessment rolls of Flatlands of 1675 and 1683, as a magistrate in 1684, and on a patent of 1667. The children of Steven Coerte and his first wife were Hendrickj e, Merghin, Coert, Lucas, Jan, Albert, Altje, Jannetje, Hendrickje, and Abraham.

XI-11. GERRET WOLFERTSE VAN COUWENHOVEN (son of WoHert Gerretse Van. Couwenhoven, XIl-21) was horn in Amersfoort, Holland in 1610; married at Flatlands, Long Island, about 1645 Altie Cornelise Cool; died at Flatlands about 1645. He emigrated with his father in 1631. He was one of the eight men representing the people who, Nov- 3, 1643, memorialized the States­ General for relief i1 c·onsequence of their forlorn and defenceless condition.

_ XI-12. ALTIE CORNELISE COOL (daughter of Comelis Lam­ bertson Cool, XIl-23). She m. (1st) Gerret Wolfertse Van Couwenhoven and after his death she m. (2nd) Elbert Elhertse Stoothoff. Gerret Wolfertse and Altie ( Cool) Van Couwenhoven were the parents of four children, all born at Flatlands.

Xl-13. GELYAM CORNELISE, born about 1620; married about 1648, wife's name unknown. He died before July 17, 1666. Gelyam, the common ancestor of the Flathush and Kings County families of Cornell, emigrated to this country early, was probably a Huguenot; settled at Flathush. On August 9, 1658, he procured from Director Stuyvesant a patent for a plantation in Midwout (Flathush). In 1661, he and his son "Pieter Geliamse" bought a houwery in Flatbush on the west side of the high­ way, 600 rods in length and 48 rods and 8 feet in width, amounting to 48 morgens and 480 rods; also two pieces of salt meadows of 5 morgens; two pieces of plain land of 5 morgens; two house or building plots on the west side of the highway . . . with the houses and barns thereon; also 2 black draw-oxen, 3 milk-cows, a wagon, plow, iron chain, and a cramp-iron to hold saw-teeth when filing-all for the sum of 4500 guilders. The surname of his descendants for more than a century was pro­ nounced Cornale, with the accent on the e, hut later changed to Cornell. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 97

Xl-14. Name of Gelyam's wife has not been learned, and we have no data concerning her. Children of Gelyam Cornelise: Pieter, Willem, Cornelis ( supposed to belong here) , Jacob, and Maria.

XI-15. JOHANNES THEODORUS POLHEMIUS (son of Theo­ dorus Polhemius or Polhem, Xll-29) was born about 1598, probably in Westphalia, Germany; married probably at Olinda, Brazil about 1640, Catharina Van Der Werven or Van Werven; died in Brooklyn, N. Y ., June 8, 1676. Johannis Theodorus Polhemius was the common ancestor of the Polhemus family in America. He is reported to have prepared himseH for the ministry in the Reformed Church in .colleges in Switzerland, the Rhineland and Holland. He was called to serve at Meppel in Drenthe, Holland and was there ·from 1628 until 1630. Then he served at Witten in Westphalia until 1635. On Dec. 3, 1635 he offered his service to the Classis of Amsterdam, which held ecclesiastical authority in the territories of the West India Com­ pany. He joined a large Dutch expedition, which on Jan. 23, 1637 landed at Pernamhuco, at the eastern extremity of Brazil. For fully 17 years the Rev. Johannes served without interruption the Dutch Reform­ ed Church in Brazil (1637-1654), first until 1645 at Olinda, then on the island of I tamarca. However, Dutch Brazil was not properly backed by the West India Company and was finally reconquered by the Portuguese; the last hold­ ing of the Dutch capitulated on Jan. 25, 1654. Three months time was given to the remaining Dutch to decide whether to go or to embrace the Roman Catholic faith and stay and keep their property. ( Only one family remained, as far as known.) In April, 1654, there were 16 Dutch ships in the harbor and the Portuguese governor allowed the Dutch Brazilians to leave on these. Fifteen of those ships, on one of which were the wife and children of Rev. Johannes Polhemius, reached Holland safely. Mr. Polhemius him­ self was one of many on the 16th ship. This ship was captured by a Spanish privateer not long after leaving port. But the Spanish privateer with its prize was in turn captured by the French man-of-war, the ship St. Charles. The St. Charles freed the prisoners and convoyed the Dutch ship and its passengers to New Amsterdam, where they arrived in September, 1654. At this time the young congregations on Long Island were in need of a minister. They regarded the coming of Dominie Polhemius as an unexpected answer to their prayers. He was duly called and installed as a minister of the churches of Midwout and Amersfoort. There and in Brooklyn he served until his death. He had served the Dutch Reformed 98 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

Churches in Germany, Holland, Brazil and New Netherland for about · 55 years.

Xl-16. CATHARINA VAN DER WERVEN (or VANWERVEN) was born about 1615 probably, and probably in Holland; married, probably about 1640 at Olinda, Brazil, Johannes Theodorus Polhemius; died at Flathush, Long Island, after Dec. 25, 1680 and before Dec. 19, 1702. Possibly her parents were Pieter and Elizabeth Van Der Werven of Olinda, Brazil. After she and her children were taken to Amsterdam, they had a long wait before being taken to Rev. Polhemus. The Directors of the West India Company wrote to Gov. Stuyvesant, June 30, 1656:

"The wife of Domine Polhemius goes over on the ship Gulden Otter. We gave her permission, as to all other private parties, to go there as cabin pas­ sengers, the Company paying the fare for her and her children on condition, that the amount shall he deducted from the salary earned by her husband in Brazil." "She is a very worthy matron and has a great desire to join her husband (in Flathush). She has struggled along here (in Amsterdam) in poverty and great straits, and has always conducted herself modestly and piously."

The children of Johannes Theodorus and Catharina (Van Werven) Polhemius were Theodorus, Lammetie, Anna, Daniel, Margarietje, Ad­ riana, Elizabeth, and Catarina. Most of these, possibiy all, were horn in Brazil.

Xl-17. ELBERT STOOTHOFF, horn about 1590 at Nieuw Kerck­ en in Zeeland or at Nieuw Kerken in North Brabant, Holland, We are not informed as to his wife. His son Elbert became the common ancestor of the Stoothoff family in America.

Xl-19. CORNELIS LAMBERTSE COOL, horn in 1639 or earlier in Holland; married, probably in New Amsterdam, Altie Brackhonge; and died before September, 1644 at Gowanus, Long Island. He was the first of the Cool family to come to America. He lived first in New Amsterdam but on May 17, 1639, he bought land at Gow­ anus, Brooklyn, paying for it "300 Carolus guilders at 20 Stuyvers the guilder,': and doubtless moved to Brooklyn.

Xl-20. ALTIE BRACKHONGE. Information as to her birth and death is lacking. She married, 1st, Thomas Badie; m., 2nd, Cornelis Cool; and m., 3rd, (banns Sept. 9, 1644), William Bredenbent. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 99

The children of Cornelis Lambertse and Altie (Brackhonge) Cool were Altie, Peterje, and Lambert.

XI-21. JOANNES NEEFFIUS (son of __ Neef£, XII-41) was born about 1594 at Amsterdam, Holland. He married Maria Becx at Zoelen, Holland, on July 25, 1625.

Joannes was a student at the University of Leyden, Holland in 1608. Sometime between 1609 and 1619 he fitted himself for the ministry. "On June 13, 1619, Johannes Neeffius arrived at Zoelen upon the writ­ ten invitation of the noble Lords of Zoelen and after an examination of his gifts ... was elected to the pastorate." On Jan. 1, 1634, the Rev. "Johannes Nevius", as he then wrote his name, was called to Venlo, Limburg.

XI-22. MARIA BECX (daughter of Peter Becx, XII-43) was born at Cologne, Germany, we suppose, and probably about 1600 or later; married Joannes Neeffius July 25, 1625 at Zoelen, Holland.

The children of Joannes and Maria (Becx) Neeffius were Johannes (hap. Mar. 14, 1627), Matthias, Peter, Abraham, and Sara (hap. Oct. 21, 1632).

Xl-23. · BLEIJCK. Date of birth and names of parents missing; married Swantj e Jans; died early.

XI-24. SWANTJE JANS. Date of birth not found; married, 1st, ___ Bleijck, who died young; married, 2nd, Cornelis de Potter; and after the latter's death she married, 3rd, April 4, 1669, Pieter Delaney.

After the death of her second husband she joined the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam. Her will was dated March 3, 1676.

The children of Cornelis and Swantje (Jans) Potter were Adriaen­ tje, Cornelise, and (supposed) Elizabeth, Zwantje, and David.

XI-65. JOHANNES THEODORUS POLHEMIUS. Same as Xl-15.

Xl-66. CATHARINE VAN WERVEN. Same as XI-16. 100 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

XI-67. CORNELIS JANSE VANDERVEER (son of Jan Cor- · nelise Dominicus, XIl-133) was bapt. March 3, 1625 at Wemeldinge in North Holland; married at an unk..11own date Tryntje Gillis de Mande­ ville; died be£ ore F eh. 22, 1703. The family name of Cornelis at his birth was Dominicus, and he was also known later as Cornelis J ansz de Seeuw ( the man from Zee­ land) . His father died when Comelis was still young and he contracted debts through unsuccessful ventures. Finally he decided to emigrate and in February, 1659, he boarded the good ship Otter. ilis name on the passenger list appeared as Cornelis J ansz Van der Veer ( from the ferry). Too had that he dropped the good old name Dominicus! He bought land in Flatbush. His name appears as a magistrate of Flathush in 1678 and '80, and on the patent of said town of 1685.

Xl-68. TRYNTJE GILLIS de MANDEVILLE (daughter of Gillis Jansz Mandeville, XIl-135) was born in Holland probably, about 1652- 53. She outlived her husband. The children of Comelis Janse and Tryntje Gillis (de Mandeville) Vanderveer included Neeltje, Jan, Dominicus, Maria, Hendrickje, Jac­ oba, and apparently three others who died as infants.

XI-97. PIETER MONFOORT was born about 1605, probably at Amsterdam, Holland; married Jan. 12 or 17, 1630, at Amsterdam Sarah de Plancken ( or Blank) ; and died Jan. 4, 1661 at Brooklyn. Pieter Monfoort was the common ancestor of the family in America. He came from Holland at an early period. The first reference to him in colonial records is dated Dec. 15, 1639, when he entered into a contract to make a plantation and build a house. On May 29, 1641, he obtained a patent for a plantation at the W allahout in Brooklyn, on which he resided. The size of the plantation was stated as 25 morgens. Pieter Monfoort was a magistrate of Brooklyn in 1658, and was a -. deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church at the time of his death.

Xl-98. SARAH DE PLANCKEN (or BLANCK) was horn about 1610, probably at Amsterdam, Holland; married Jan. 12 or 17, 1630 Pieter Monfoort. After his death she married, 2nd, Jan. 1, 1663, at Brooklyn, Lambert Janse Bosch~ who was from Ootmarsen, in the province of Overysel, Holland. It seems that Sarah did not accompany her husband, Pieter Mon­ foort, to New Amsterdam hut came over after he had become established here, probably in the 1643-'45 period. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 101

The children of Pieter and Sarah Mon£ oort were J annetj e, Jan, Pieter, Sarah, and Willemtj e.

XI-99. PIETER CORNELISE LUYSTER (son of Cornelis Luy­ ster, XII-197) was horn about 1630 probably, in Holland; married, 1st, Aeltje Tyssen; m., 2nd, about 1670, Jannetje, daughter of Jan Snediker and widow of Reynier Wizzelpennenk; died in 1695.

Pieter Cornelise Luyster emigrated in 1656, according to Riker. He was a carpenter. He resided at first in Flatlands and afterward in Newtown, Long Island. He was a magistrate of Flatlands in 1660, '61, '62 and '64. He was a member of the Flathush church in 1677 and was on the assessment rolls of Flatbush in 1683.

XI-100. AELTJE TYSSEN (daughter of Tysor Matthias----, XII-199) was born about 1632 probably; married about 1652 Pieter Comelise Luyster; died about 1667. The children of Pieter Cornelise Luyster were Tys ( or Matthias), Gertien, Marretje, Jan, Cornelis, and Wilmien. It is assumed that all these were children of the first wife though one or two of the last may have been by the second wife.

XI-113. STEVEN COERTE VAN VOORHEES. Same as Xl-9.

XI-115. AUCKE JANSEN VAN NUYSE (son of Jan Van Nuyse, Xll-229) was born about 1625, probably. It is believed that the place of his birth was N uis, a village in the province of Groningen, Holland. . He married, 1st, Magdalena Pieterse; m., 2nd, about December, 1666, Elizabeth J anse, widow first of Christopher Shaets and then of Jan Claesen; m. 3rd, Geertje Gysbrechts, widow of Jan Jacobse. He died in 1698 probably, as his will, which was dated May 15, 1694 was pro­ bated in 1698.

Aucke Jansen Van Nuyse, the common ancestor of the Van Nuys family in this country, emigrated from Holland in 1651. He was a car­ penter and resided at first in New Amsterdam, where he sold his house and lot on May 6, 1653. In 1661 he resided at Brooklyn Ferry. But in 1665 he was living in Flatlands, and in 1669 in Flatbush. He was build­ ing the church in Flathush in 1654 and 1660. Aucke was appointed schepen by Governor Colve in 1673. His name appears on the assessment roll of New Utrecht in 1675. In 1687 he took the oath of allegiance at Flatlands. 102 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

XI-116. MAGDALENA PIETERSE was born about 1627 prob- · ably, and doubtless was the mother of most of Aucke's children. The children of Aucke Jansen Van Nuyse were Annetie or Anneken, Geertruyd, J anneke, Jan, Abagail, Pieter, Jacobus, F emmetj e, and Y de. Which one of Aucke's wives was the mother of Femmetje, an ancestress of the TWO SISTERS of Chapter I, is not definitely known.

XI-129. ADAM WENSEL VAN ZANDT was born about 1630, probably at Amhelm in Gelderland, Holland; married about 1652, prob­ ably in Gelderland, Holland; died in 1658 in New York City or on the trip across from Holland.

XI-130. JANNEKEN JANS was horn in Gelderland, Netherlands, probably about 1631; married Adam Wensel Van Zandt in Holland about 1652; married, 2nd, April -5, 1659, Isaac Abrahamse; date of death unknown. Children of Adam Wensel and J anneken (Jans) Van Zandt were Catharina (b. about 1654) and Johannes (h. about 1657).

XI-131. WYNANT GERRITSE VAN DER POEL (son of Gerrit Van der Poel, XII-261) was born in 1620, probably in Holland; married in 1642, Tryntje Melgerts; and died in 1699. Wynant settled in Albany in 1654 and resided there until about 1694. In 1674 he purchased a half-interest in a saw-mill on the west bank of the Hudson River, on what is now called Wynant's Kill. On Dec. 23, 1683, he was one of the two witnesses at the baptism of his grandson, Wynant Van Zandt, at Albany. By his last will he gave to his son only six shillings and left the rest of his estate to his son-in-law, William Van den Burgh.

XI-132. TRYNTJE MELGERTS (daughter of Melgert __ ) was born about 1621, probably; married in 1642, Wynant Van der Poel; and died after September, 1691. Wynant Gerritse Van Der Poel and his wife had seven children.

Xl-149. TEUNIS JANSEN or "TONIS JANSEN LANEN VAN PELT", as written by himself, from the land of "Luyck" ( now Liege, Belgium, emigrated in 1663 on the ship Rose-Tree with his wife and six children. He married, 1st, Margaret ("Grietje") Jans and he m., 2nd, Aug. 6, 1696, Gertrude Jans, widow of John Otto. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 103

On April 7, 1670, Teunis bought 57 morgens of land at Bushwick. He sold this property and bought land at New Utrecht in 1675, '78, and '80. He took the oath of allegiance in 1687. He was known as Tunis the fisher, his principal occupation being fishing, probably.

Xl-150. MARGARET ("Grietje") JANS, Tennis's first wife, was born at Liege, probably. She and Teunis had six children before their coming to America, and two more after their coming, born at or near Brooklyn. Dates are lacking.

XI-153. JOHANNES NEVIUS (son of Johannes Nevius, XIl-305) was born at Zoelen, Holland, about February, 1627 and was baptised there March 14, 1627. He married in New Amsterdam (New York City), Nov. 18, 1653, Andriaentje Bleijck, of Batavia, East Indies. He died at The Ferry, Brooklyn, in 1672. In 1646:- when Johannes registered from Kampen at the University of Leyden, he was a resident of that place and probably lived there till he emigrated to America. About 1651, possibly 1650, Johannes Nevius came to America. The first record of his presence in Manhattan is on March 3, 1652. He was then present at the baptism of Hendrick, son of William Beekman, at the Dutch Church in the Fort, and his name is entered on the record as a witness. He probably began business as a plain merchant; Valentine says he "was in early life engaged in mercantile pursuits." On December 8, 1654 he became a city Schepen. On January 31, 1655 he was again named Schepen. The Schepens were to receive 250 guilders ( $100) a year but there is no record that they ever were paid. This office was one bestowing high honor and great resepectability. The holder of the office was entitled to be addressed as "My Lord" and on all public occasions occupied a high seat. In 1655 he was a deacon in the Dutch Church. The year 165 7 brought Johannes the office of City Secretary, with plenty of labor, some honor, and small profit. He remained in this office till 1665, after the English took over. Besides being City Secretary and Recorder, Johannes was Vendue Master. He must have conducted all public sales. It is also quite clear that during the period of his office he continued to act as Public Writer, as he had opportunity. These duties, added to those of Law Librarian, probably kept his days, if not his nights, busy. 104 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

On March 2, 1655, Johannes purchased a house on the north side · of present Pearl Street, between Broad and Whitehall, facing the water front. On July 22, 1658 he sold this property. No doubt the reason for the sale was that the City Secretary was well housed in the Stad Huis (City Hall) and did not need this property any longer. On Sept. 6. 1664, the English took New Amsterdam. But Johannes Nevius still held his position as Secretary at a salary of "200 guilders seawant currency." Johannes was a good Dutch and Latin and probably French schol­ ar, hut he had no use for English. Probably too the new regime under Mayor Willett was not as pleasant to his soul as under Governor Stuyve­ sant. A minute of June 27, 1665, reads: "Johannes Nevius rising up requests his dismissal because he cannot at present support or maintain his family, since he has no other income than that received from the City and he cannot bring the emoluments to so much: The Court having considered the request discharged the petitioner from his service."

About the year 1670 Johannes and his family were on the Long Island side of the East River, in charge of "The Ferry" between that point and New York. The spot was known as "The Ferry" from the very early days, because it was at the point where· most of the travel to New York across the river began. Joannes died sometime in, or near, the month of May or June, 1672. On September 27, 1671, he was still living and then qualified as an executor. On June 10, 1672, his wife signed the petition to hold The Ferry house as "widow."

XI-154. ADRIAENTJE BLEIJCK, of Batavia, East Indies. Year of her birth was probably 1636. Her mother was Swantje Jans. Of Adriaentje's father we know nothing further than that his surname was Bleijck. Adriaentje became a widow in 1672, and in 1674 she married Jan Aersen, as his second wife. By him she had four children: Helena, Aert, Mattheus, and David. She died between May 2, 1686 and Jan. 4, 1690. Children of Johannes and Adriaentje (Bleijck) Nevius were Johan­ nes, Sara, Cornelis, Marie, Cornelis, Pieter ( or Petrus) , Sara Cathrina, Johanna, and Catherine.

XI-155. ROELOF MARTINSE SCHENCK (son of Martin Schenck, XIl-309) was born about 1630 in Amersf oort, province of Utrecht, Holland; married, 1st, in Flatlands, in 1660, Neeltje Gerretse Van Couwenhoven; m. 2nd, in 1675, Annetje Pieterse Wyckoff; and SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 105

m., 3rd, Nov. 19, 1688, Catharine Cregier, widow of Stoffel Hooglandt; died between Sept. 4, 1704 ( date of will) and Aug. 3, 1705 ( will proved). On Jan. 29, 1661, he obtained a patent for 23 morgens at Flatlands. On April 3, 1674 he bought 200 acres in the same town. In 1687 he took the oath of allegiance in Flatlands. In 1662, '63, and '64 he was a magistrate of that town. In 1665, its representative in the Hempstead convention; in 1685 sheriff of the county; in 1689 and '92 a justice of the peace.

XI-156. NEELTJE GERRETSE VAN COUWENHOVEN (daugh­ ter of Gerret Wolphertse Van Couwenhoven, XIl-311) was hap. Sept. 20, 1641; m. 1660, Roelof Martinse Schenck; died before 1675. Children of Roelof Martinse and Neeltje (Van Couwenhoven) Schenck were Martin, Annetje, Janetje, Marika, Jan, and Gerret.

Xl-157. COENRAET TEN EYCK was born about 1622, probably near Amsterdam, Holland. He married, 1st, in Holland about 1644 Maria Boele, who died before 1682; married, 2nd, April 15, 1682, Annetje Daniels, who had been widow of Joseph Waldron and later widow of Herman Seemans, whom she had ma.med in 1668. Coenraet died in New Amsterdam between Sept. 4, 1686 ( date of his will) and Apirl 5, 1687 ( when his will was proved) . The surname Ten Eyck is a contraction of te den Eyck "at the Oak" and probably indicates his place of residence in a place so identified near Amsterdam. The date of his arrival in America is not definitely known. A lot on the west side of the Common Ditch (Broad Street) between the Common Highway and the Old Ditch Road was granted to him in 1651. He was accompanied to New Amsterdam by his wife Maria and three eldest children-Jacob, Dirck, and Maria. Coenraet Ten Eyck was a shoemaker and tanner and seems to have prospered in his business, since a valuation made in 1675 "of the best and most affluent inhabitants of the city," lists him as worth 5,000 florins, a very substantial sum for that day. In 1653, Coenraet held the office of Lance Corporal in the Burgher Guard, and he became a Small Burgher in 1657. He held numerous appointive positions. In February, 1664, Coenraet showed his patriotism by subscribing 200 florins to a fund for the defence of the City. In the same year he was one of the first to sign the remonstrance against Governor Peter Stuyvesant's course in determining to defend the city against the English, and in October he swore allegiance to the King of Great Britain. 106 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

Coenraet was a member of the Reformed Dutch Church and at · various times an elder and a deacon. In 1680 at a meeting called to consider the best way to raise money for the building of the New Church recommended by the Governor, he voted for a "Free will or Guift," rather than a "Puhlick tax." Coenraet early became interested in real estate, bought and sold many parcels of land, and in 1675 he and three other tanners and shoe­ makers, known as the Association of Shoemakers, owned property on Broadway and Maiden Lane, eastward to about the present William Street, on which their tan pits were located. In Domine Selyn's record, compiled in 1686, he is listed as living on the Breede Weg (Broadway) with his second wife, Annetj e Daniels. In his will Coenraet makes the sole heirs of his Common Estate, his seven surviving children, "gotten by my deceased wife, Maria Boele, ... head for head and each in equal proportion." He leaves his eldest son, Jacob, for his birthright 100 guilders or 12 Pieces of Eight. His four sons were appointed executors.

XI-158. MARIA BOELE was born in Holland, probably near Amsterdam, and probably about 1624 or 1625. She died in New Amster­ dam (New York City) before 1682. Children of Coenraet and Maria (Boele) Ten Eyck: Jacob, Dirck, Maria, Margariet, Tobias, Coenraet, Hendrick, Matthys, Margariet (2nd), Andries, and Metje.

XI-159. ADRIAEN HEGEMAN (the common ancester of the Hegemen family in America) was born about 1625, in Holland; married about 1648, Catharine Margits; and died in April, 1672, on Long Island, New York. Adriaen Hegeman emigrated about 1650 or 1651 from Amsterdam, Holland. About 1653 he was living in New Amsterdam. On April 25, 1661, he obtained a patent for 50 morgens, with plain and meadow land in addition, in Flatbush, to which place he moved. He also appears to have obtained a patent for another plantation of 24 morgens in Flatbush. Adriaen was a magistrate of Flatbush in 1654 and 1658, in 1660, and in 1663. He was schout fiscaal of the five Dutch towns in 1661. He was secretary of Flatbush and Flatlands, 1659 to 1661; of Flatbush, Flatlands, Brooklyn and New Utrecht, 1662 to 1665; secretary of Flat­ bush in 1671; and auctioneer.

Xl-160. CATHARINE MARGITS (daughter of Joseph Margits, XIl-319) was born about 1628, probably in Amsterdam, Holland; mar- SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 107 ried about 1648, Adriaen Hegeman; died in 1690, probably in New York City. On April 29, 1688, Catharine joined the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City, to which place she seems to have moved. Children of Adriaen and Catharine (Margits) Hegeman were Joseph, Hendricus, Jacobus, Abraham, Denyse, Isaac, Benjamin, Eliza­ beth, and John.

Xl-161. COERT STEVENSE VAN VOORHEES. Same as X-5.

Xl-162. MARRETJE GERRITSE VAN COUWENHOVEN. Same as X-6.

Xl-165. ADRIAEN HEGEMAN. Same as Xl-159.

Xl-166. CATHARINE MARGITS. Same as Xl-160.

Xl-167. REM JANSEN VANDERBEECK, the common ancestor of the Remsen family, emigrated from leveren in Westphalia ( or, by another account, from Coevorden in Drenthe in the Netherlands) . He married Dec. 21, 1642, Jannetje, dau. of Jores Jansen Rapalie; died in 1681. He was a blacksmith by trade. He resided for some time at Albany, where several of his children were born, and where he was nominated for commissaris in 1655, and sold his house and lot in 1660. He obtained a plantation at the Wallabout adjoining that of his father-in-law prior to 1643, on which he finally settled. He signed his name "Rem Jansen" and "Rem Y ansen."

Xl-168. JANNETJE JORISE RAPALIE ( daughter of Joris Jan­ sen Rapalie, XIl-335) was born Aug. 18, 1629, probably in New Am­ sterdam. She married Dec. 21, 1642, Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck. Date of her death not found. Children of Rem Jansen and J annetj e Jorise ( Rapalie) V ander­ beeck (all known as Remsen): Annetje, Hillitje or Belitje, Jan, Joris, Rem, Hillitj e, Catalina, F emmetj e, Anna, Jacob, J eronymus, Daniel, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jeremias and J annetj e.

Xl-169. GERARDUS WILLEMSE BEEKMAN (son of Wilhel­ mus Beekman XII-337) was hap. Aug. 17, 1653, in New Amsterdam; 108 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS married Aug. or Oct. 29, 1677, in Flathush, Long Island, Magdalen· Aheel; died in Novemher, 1724. Gerard Beekman was a physician. He settled in Flatbush, and in November, 1678 he was elected a deacon of the Reformed Dutch Church of that place. In 1685, he was a colonel in the militia and a justice of the peace. He took the oath of allegiance as a native, in 1687. He was a member of the Colonial Assembly from Kings Co. in 1698 and '99; member of the Colonial Council and its president, and acting Governor in 1709 and 'I0.

XI-170. MAGDALEN ABEEL (daughter of Stoffel Janse Abeel, XIl-339) was horn at Albany, N. Y. in 1653 or 1657; married in Flat­ hush, Long Island, Oct. 29, 1677, Gerardus Beekman; died Oct.20, 1745. The children of Gerardus and Magdalen (Aheel) Beekman: Chris­ topher (hap. Jan. 16, 1681), Adrian, Willem or Wilhelmus, John, Cath­ arine, Gerardus, Abraham, Henry, Comelis, Marytie, and Martin.

XI-171. ABRAHAM DELANOY, born in 1642. He married Cornelia Jacohse Toll, widow of Evert Duyckingh. Abraham died in 1702. He was a Corporal in the Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam.

XI-173. CAREL or CHARLES JANSEN VAN DYCK, emigrated from Amsterdam in 1652; m. June 27, 1680, Lysheth Aards Vander Hard; died at Shrewsbury, N. J. in 1734. Carel Van Dyck was on the assessment rolls of New Utrecht of 1675 and '83; magistrate in 1683 and '84; and took the oath of allegiance in 1687. Assessed in New Utrecht in 1706 for 80 acres. From New Utrecht he removed to Shrewsbury, N. J.

Xl-174. LYSBETH AARDS VANDER HARD, emigrated from Nieuwkoop in South Holland; married June 27, 1680, Carel Jansen Van Dyck. Children of Carel and Lysheth Aards (Vander Hard) Van Dyck were Geertje (hap. May 8, 1681), Jan, Engeltie, Nelke, Aert, Thomas, and Elizabeth.

Xl-175. ROELOF JANSE VERKERK (son of Jan Janse Verkerk, Xll-349) was horn in 1654 at Buren in Gelderland, Holland; married Aug. 7, 1681, Catharine Simons of Brooklyn; still living in 1718. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 109

He emigrated in 1663 with his father. In 1681 he was a member of the New Utrecht church. He took the oath of allegiance in 1687 in Flathush. In 1706 he was assessed for 110 acres in New Utrecht. He signed his name: "Roelof Ver Kerck."

Xl-176. CATHARINE SIMONS was of Brooklyn when she m. Roelof Verkerk, Aug. 7, 1681. The children of Roelof and Catharine (Simons) Verkerk were Annetje, Annetje (2nd), Sybrech, Jan, Mary or Mayke, Jannetje, and Sara.

Xl-193. JOANNES NEVIUS, hap. March i4, 1627. Same as Xl-153.

Xl-194. ADRIAENTJE BLEIJCK, b. in 1636 (?). Same as Xl-154.

Xl-195. ROELOF MARTINSE SCHENCK Same as Xl-155.

Xl-196. NEELTJE GERRITSE 'VAN COUWENHOVEN. Same as Xl-156.

Xl-197. COENRAET TEN EYCK. Same as Xl-157.

Xl-198. MARIE BOELE. Same as Xl-158.

Xl-199. ADRIAEN HEGEMAN. Same as Xl-159.

Xl-200. CATHARINE MARGITS. Same as Xl-160.

Xl-201. ELBERT ELBERTSE STOOTHOFF. Same as X-9.

Xl-202. ALTJE CORNELISE COOL. Same as X-10.

Xl-203. JOANNES NEVIUS. Same as Xl-153.

Xl-204. ADRIAENTJE BLEIJCK. Same as Xl-154.

Xl-225. THOMAS SKILLMAN (son of ______Skillman, XIl-449) was horn in 1641 or about that time, probably at or near 110 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

London, England; married in 1669, probably at Newtown, Long Island; Sara Petit; died about 1697. He was a soldier under Col. Richard Nicolls in the expedition of the Duke of York, ordered by the King Feb. 24, 1664. They sailed from Portsmouth on May 15, 1664, and dropped anchor in the harbor of New Amsterdam on August 18. Thomas Skillman was with his commander on the Guiney, the chief of the three (possibly four) very small vessels that brought the adventurers to these shores. After the surrender of New Amsterdam to the British, he remained in this country. On Feb. 19, 1665, at Elizabeth Town he took the oath of allegiance to King Charles II. But he did not stay at that first New Jersey settlement; next year, in the Nicholls Patent, dated Jan. 23, 1666, he is named as an "inhabi­ tant and freeholder" of Newtown, Long Island. Then very shortly he took up soldiering again, was one of the 25 men sent apparently as a special contingent by the Governor to chastise the Indians who, three years previously, had perpetrated the Wiltwyck massacre. The names of Thomas Skillman and companions are stated. Some of them, the savages having been punished, settled down and made their future homes in that region so recently harried. To these 25 men the Governor had promised a land bounty of ten acres each at Esopus. But Thomas did not stay or enter upon his small estate there. He received his dis­ charge as a soldier and we note that he was given "14 oz. of plate for service at Albany under Captain Lewis.".

XI-226. SARA PETIT (daughter of John Petit, XII-451) was born about 1646, probably at Stratford, Conn; married, 1st, in 1669, Thomas Skillman; married, 2nd, about 1700, Cornelis Breese; date of death not found. Children: Thomas, b. 1671, Elsje, Sara, and Lijsbet.

XI-227. ADRIAEN HENDRICKSEN ATEN came from Does­ burg, Holland, in 1651, being then 36 years old. Settled at Flatbush, Long Island. He married Lysbet Thomas, widow of Guysbert Lubbertse. March 27, 1680, he bought a house plot in Flatbush. He took the oath of allegiance in Flatbush in 1687. He was chosen constable in 1665.

Xl-228. ELIZABETH ("Lysbet") THOMAS m., 1st, Guysbert Lubbertse; m., 2nd, Arien Hendrickson Aten, as he wrote his name. Children: Jan (b. 1652), Thomas, Annetje, Maritje, Paul, Hen­ drick, and Helen. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 111

XI-233. GERARDUS WILLEMSE BEEKMAN. Same as XI-169.

XI-234. MAGDALEN ABEEL. Same as XI-170.

XI-235. ABRAM DELANOY (or LANOY). Same as XI-171.

XI-236. GERTRUID LOT. Same as XI-172.

XI-237. CAREL JANSEN VAN DYKE. Same as XI-173.

XI-238. LYSBETH AARDS VANDER HARD. Same as XI-174.

XI-239. ROELOF JANSEN VERKERK. Same as Xl-175,.

XI-240. CATHERINE SIMONS Same as XI-176.

XI-241. JAN STRYCKER (son of __ Strycker, XIl-481) was horn in 1615, in Holland, probably in the province of Drenthe. Hem., 1st, in Holland, Lamhertje Seuhering, who became the mother of all his children. After her death, hem., 2nd, April 30, 1679, Swantje Jans, the widow of Cornelis de Potter of Brooklyn. Swantje d. in 1686, and he m., 3rd, on March 31, 1687, Teuntje Teunis, of Flatlands, widow of J acoh Hellakers. Jan Strycker died be£ ore 1697. Jan Strycker emigrated in 1652 from Ruinen in the province of Drenthe, Holland, and was among the first settlers of Flathush, Long Island, of which town he was a magistrate most of the time from 1654 to 1673. He was a representative of Flatbush in the Hempstead Conven­ tion of 1665. He took the oath of allegiance in Flathush in 1687. On a declaration he made in 1679 he is styled "armorer."

XI-242. LAMBERTJE SEUBERING ( dau. of ______Seubering, XII.:484) was horn in Holland, probably about 1618; married in Hol­ land, probably about 1636, Jan Strycker; was still living in 1663 hut died before April, 1679, at Flatbush, Long Island. Children of Jan and Lembertje (Seuhering) Strycker were: Altje, Jannetje, Gerrit Janse, Angenietje, Hendrick, Eytie or Ida, Pieter, and Sara. The first six of these were horn in Holland, the last two in Flat­ hush, Long Island. 112 SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS

Xl-243. BARENT JOOSTEN was born about 1633 probably, in Holland; married Dec. 7, 1658, probably in New Amsterdam, Cytie, Seytie, or Eytie Laurens. Place and date of death not found; his name is recorded in the census of 1698. Barent emigrated to America in 1652, from Holland, from "Wit­ mont in Emberland." He was listed as a "ridder" (a horseman or knight) . He settled in Bushwick, Long Island, of which place he was a magistrate in 1663 and 1664. His name was on the New Utrecht assess­ ment rolls of 1675, 1683, and 1693. He was constable in 1683, '86 and '87. He took the oath of allegiance in New Utrecht in 1687. And his name is found in the census list of 1698. He made his mark "B. J." to documents.

Xl-244. CYTIE, SEYTIE, or EYTIE LAURENS ( ancestry not found) was horn about 1640 probably; married Dec. 7, 1658, probably in New Amsterdam, Barent Joosten. Place and date of her death not found. Children of Barent and Eytie (Laurens) Joosten: Annetie (hap. Nov. 2, 1659, in New Amsterdam), Joostje (hap. Dec. 26, 1661, in Brooklyn), Joost (hap. Jan. 7, 1663, Broo~yn), and Geertruyt (hap. May 11, 1664, in Brooklyn).

Xl-625. JOHN STONE (son of Gregory Stone, Xll-1249) was born at Nayland, County Suffolk, England, probably in 1618, and was hapt. July 31, 1618. He married in 1639 Anne -----· He died at Cambridge, Mass., May 5, 1683 and was buried in -the old Cambridge Cemetery. John Stone accompanied his father to New England in 1635 and presumably spent the remainder of his minority with his father in Watertown and Cambridge, Mass. On becoming of age in 1639, he married and was then evidently advanced by his father a portion of his patrimony, with which he established himself in the new town of Sud­ bury, Mass. John lived here about seven years. The Sudbury Records mention in 1640 three grants of meadow, in what is now Wayland, to John Stone. In 1646 he sold all his property in Sudbury, and in 1647 he remov­ ed up the Sudbury River into the then primeval wilderness. He built a house at Otter Neck in what is now Framingham, being the first settler within the limits of what later became this town. This whole region for the next thirty years was inhabited by less than a dozen families and was legally within no town. But the inhabitants attended Sudbury Church and are mentioned in the records of that town. SOME OF THE 1024 GREAT8 GRANDPARENTS 113

At the time John Stone first settled at Otter Neck in 1647, he simply squatted on the land with no written title either from the Colony govern­ ment or from the Indians. But on May 15, 1656, he secured a deed from the Indians to about a dozen acres of land in what is now Saxonville. This transfer was at once confirmed by the General Court, which also granted him 50 additional acres adjoining. On Dec. 13, 1661 he bought the Corlett farm of 200 acres. John Stone acquired in all nearly 1000 acres covering much of the present Saxonville. Living in an unincorporated region during the 25 most important and active years of his life (1647 to 1672), John Stone was not promi­ nent in the public affairs of Sudbury, the town with which he was asso­ ciated, except that he served as town clerk in 1655 and was for some years one of the deacons in the Sudbury Church. After the death of his father in 1672, he re~oved to Cambridge, inheriting his ·father's home­ stead there. And in 1682 and 1683 he was chosen a deputy for that town to the Massachusetts General Court. On November 15, 1682, he was elected one of the two ruling elders of the Cambridge Church, a mark of the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow townsmen.

Xl-626. ANNE ______survived her husband, John Stone. From such evidences as are now available, it seems likely that she was a sister of Nanthaniel Treadway and that her mother was a sister of Edward Howe. Children of John and Anne ( __) Stone: Hannah (b. June 6, 1640), John, Daniel, David, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, Tabitha, Sarah, and Nathaniel.

Xl-627. JOHN WAIT.

Xl-628. MARY HILLS, wife of John Wait.

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XII-17. COERT ALBERTS of Voorhees (son of Albert of Voor­ hees, XIII-33) . He lived on his estate before the village of Hees, south of Ruinen, in the province of Drenthe, a part of ancient Friesland. His children: Steven, Hilbert, Jan, Albert, Wesvel, and two daughters (names unknown). ·

XII-21. WOLFERT GERRITSE VAN COUWENHOVEN, who emigrated in 1630 from Amersfort, Holland in the ship Union as Over­ seer of Farms for Kiliaen Van Rensselaer. He lived later in Flathush and in New Amsterdam, and was one of the "Eight Men."

XII-29. THEODORUS POLHEMIUS or POLHEM, born about 1570. The name of his distinguished son, Johannes Theodorus Pol­ hemius (XI-15), shows clearly that this man's first name was Theo­ dorus. We have no further direct information about him, but we know that he was descended from the old Von Polheim or Von Polhem family in Germany. The immediate ancestors of Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemius lived in Rhineland and Westphalia, having been located there since the last part of the 13th century. ( See N. J. Geneal. Magazine, Vol. 3, pp. 102-105 for further information.)

XII-37. LAMBERT COOL, probably remained in Holland.

XII-133. JAN CORNELISSE DOMINICUS was hap. March 3, 1625.

XIl-134. NEELTJE KEMPE, born about 1627.

XII-135. GILLIS DE MANDEVILLE, of Garderen, Holland.

XII-136. ALTIE PIETERS, wife of Gillis De Mandeville. 116 SOME OF THE 2048 GREAT' GRANDPARENTS

XIl-261. GERRIT VAN DER POEL, horn in 1590 at Gorcum or Gorinchem, in South Holland. He married, about 1616, Cornelia Wynant.

XII-262. CORNELIA WYNANT was horn about 1594. Children: Teuriis, Wynant, Jacobus, Cornelia, and Gerrit.

XII-305. JOHANNES NEVIUS, horn about 1594; married July 25, 1625, Maria Becx, of Cologne; died after 1633.

Some time between 1609 and 1619 he fitted hiroseH for the ministry and received a call from the church at Zoelen. On the records of the church in his own handwriting, is inscribed the following:

"On June 13, 1619, Johannes Neeffius arrived at Zoelen upon the written invitation of the noble Lords of Zoelen, and after an examination of his gifts, twice repeated, by the Lord of L>elen •.• was elected to the pastorate in the presence of Johannes Scroyen, pastor at AvesaeL"

On Jan. 1, 1634, the Rev. "Johannes Nevius" was called to Venlo, Limburg, a town of about 10,000 inhabitants, about 50 miles southeast of Zoelen. We have no further word.

XIl-306. MARIA BECX, horn about 1600; daughter of Peter Becx, of Cologne; m. July 25, 1625, Johannes Nevius.

Children of Johannes and Maria: Johannes (hapt. March 14, 1627), Matthias, Peter, Abraham, Sara, and possibly others.

XIl-309. MARTIN SCHENCK VON NYDECK was horn in Does­ hurgh, province of Utrecht, Holland, Aug. 7, 1584. He married Maria Margaretta de Bockhorst. They came to New Netherlands with their children, probably in the ship de V alckener, which sailed from Holland in March and arrived in New Amsterdam July 28, 1652. He was now 65 years old and appears to have taken no active part in the afiairs of the family after their arrival.

Xll-310. MARIA MARGARETTA DE BOCKHORST, who was born in Holland and married her husband there, probably at Amers­ f oort. Children of Martin and Maria Margaretta: Roel of, Jan or Johan­ nis, and Annetje. SOME OF THE 2048 GREAT9 GRANDPARENTS 117

XIl-311. GERRET WOLPHERTSE VAN COUWENHOVEN, born about 1610, in Amersfoort, Holland; m. Altie Cornelise Cool; died about 1645. He was a member of the Representative Body of Nieuw Utrecht known as the "Eight Men," 1643.

XIl-312. AELTIE LAMBERTSE COOL (dau. of Cornelis Lam­ hertse Cool, XIIl-623), born about 1615 in Holland; outlived Gerrit and m., 2nd, Elbert Elhertse Stoothoff.

XIl-319. JOSEPH MARGITS, of Amsterdam.

XIl-335. JORES JANSEN RAPALIE was horn about 1600; came from Rochelle in France in 1623 on the ship Unity with his wife; lived in turn at Albany, New Amsterdam, and Brooklyn; died before the death of his wife. · Jores removed from Albany ("Fort Orange") in 1626. Here in the occupancy of a homestead on the north side of present Pearl Street he resided for more than 22 years until after the birth of his youngest child in 1650. During a portion of these years he was an inn-keeper. In August, 1641, he was one of the twelve men representing Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Pavonia, chosen for the purpose of deliberating upon measures necessary to he adopted to punish the Indians for the murders they had committed. About 1654 he removed his permanent residence to his farm at the "Waal-hoght." This farm had been purchased by him from the Indians in 1637.

XIl-336. CATALYNTIE TRICO (dau. of Joris Trico, of Paris) was born in Paris, probably, about 1605; married about 1620, Jores Rapalie; died at the "Waal-boght" on Sept. 11, 1689, aged 84 years. The Labidist travellers visited her in 1679 and mention her in their journal. "The aunt of De la Grange is an old Walloon from Valencienns, 74 years old. She is worldly minded, living with her whole heart as well as body, among her progeny, which now numbers 145 and will soon reach 150. Nevertheless she lived alone by herself, a little apart from the others, having her little garden and other conveniences, with which she helped herself."

Stiles say of her : "Thus peacefully and pleasantly passed the later years of this "mother of New York", who with her mission fulfilled, still active and with habits of industry begotten by her pioneer life, now reposed contentedly amid the love and respectful attentions of her kindred and her descendants." 118 SOME OF THE 2048 GREAT9 GRANDPARENTS

XII-337. WILHELMUS HENDRICKSE BEEKMAN (son of Hendrick Beekman, XIIl-673) was born April 28, 1623, at Hasselt, Over­ yssel, Holland; married Sept. 5, 1649, Catalina de Boogh; died Sept. 21, 1707. He emigrated in 1647 with Gov. Stuyvesant to New Amsterdam. He held the office of schepen of New Amsterdam.

XII-338. CATALINA DE BOOGH (dau. of Frederick Hendricks De Boogh, XIII-675) m. Sept. 5, 1649, Wilhelmus Beekman. Children of Wilhelm us and Catalina ( or Catharine) were Maria 1 --ap. June 26, 1650) ,Henry, Gerardus, Cornelia, and John or Johannes.

XII-339. STOFFEL JANSE ABEEL (son of Jan Aheel,XIII-677) was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1621. He married Nov. 22, 1660, Neeltje Janse Kroom ( or Croom), a native of Holland. He died in 1684. Both the father and the mother of Stoffel, or Christopher, fell victims to the great plague, which scourged all Europe in 1633. Soon after his mother was taken ill, she sent for a trustworthy neighbor and friend, into whose keeping she placed all the ready money she had, with instructions to keep it until Stoffel should become of age. He was placed in charge of the master of an orphanage, and grew to manhood well equipped for the duties of life, having been taught in the meantime the trade of carpenter. When the boy reached his majority, his mother's faithful friend delivered to him the amount of money entrusted to her along with the accumulated interest. With this little fortune he purchased a stock of hardware and started for America. He settled in Beaverwick, now Al­ bany, about 1647. His name first appears in the records of that town in the conveyance of a piece of property, April 23, 1652. In 1665, as a master builder, Stoffel erected the First Reformed Dutch Church, which took the place of the crude log house in which the first settlers had wor­ shipped. The same year he sailed to Holland to receive a legacy left to him by a deceased great-uncle. The passport was made out to "the Honorable Stoffel Jans Abeel." In the year 1667, Stoffel Abeel was elected deacon of the church, and a vote of thanks was tendered him for faithful service as treasurer of the poor fund. He was a magistrate of Albany and filled other impor­ tant positions.

XII-340. NEELTJE JANSE KROOM (or CROOM) (dau. of Jan Kroom, XIIl-679) was born about 1630 m Holland. She married Nov. SOME OF THE 2048 GREAT9 GRANDPARENTS 119

22, 1660, probably in Albany, N. Y., Stoffel Janse Abeel. Apparently she died about September, 1681, as the joint will of husband and wife was proved Oct. 14, 1681, and Stoffel did not die till 1684. Children of Stoffel and N eeltj e were Magdalena, Maria, Johannes, and Elizabeth.

Xll-349. JAN JANSE VERKERK (son of Jan Verkerk or Ver­ kerken, XIll-697) was horn about 1630 in Gelderland, Holland; mar­ ried in Holland about 1652, Mayke Gishertse; died in New Utrecht, Long Island, in 1688. In Holland, Jan had lived at Buurmelzen, a town on the river Linge near Buren, in Gelderland. He emigrated in 1663 with his wife and five children and settled· at New Utrecht, Long Island. He was listed on the New Utrecht assessment rolls of 1675, '76, '83, and '93. He was a magis­ trate in 1679 and 1684. He took the oath of allegiance in 1687. His will was dated 1688.

XIl-350. MAYKE GISBERTSE (dau. of--Gisbert or Guys­ hert, XIII-699) was horn in Gelderland, Holland, about 1631, and mar­ ried there about 1652, Jan Janse Verkerk. She died at New Utrecht, Long Island, probably after 1698. Children of Jan Janse and Mayke ( Gisbertse) Verkerk: Roelof, Aerd or Aert, Geertie, Barendj e, Cornelis, Jan, Barend, and (supposed) Hendrick.

XII-449. _____ SKILLMAN, born about 1610-15, probably in or near London, England. Name of wife and date of marriage unknown. One son was Thomas, founder of the Ski11man family in America. The Skillmans of England were of Dutch stock originally. Their paternal forebears came to Britain from the Low Countries, some of them hundreds of years be£ ore the Duke of York Expedition set sail from Portsmouth harbor for America. Flemings, we know, flocked early into England. We find Adam Skileman at Norwich in 1299. There were others of the name at various points, especially scattered through those shires of England, from Kent northward, bordering on the German Ocean. There were Londoners of the name for centuries and the ances­ tors of these Skillmans were Dutch. So the Ski11mans of America, though not strictly Dutch, were really at the outset more Dutch than English.

XIl-451. JOHN PETIT, of Newtown, Long Island. He was at Stam£ord, Conn. early and had children recorded to him before 1650. 120 SOME OF THE 2048 GREAT9 GRANDPARENTS

He was in Roxbury in 1639 and at Stratford in 1651. He probably soon· removed to Stamford, and then to Newtown, L. I.

Xll-452. SARAH SCOFIELD. She was mentioned as John's widow in an inventory dated May 4, 1676. They married in 1669. There were three daughters ( Sarah, Mary, and Bethia) and two sons.

XII-1249. GREGORY STONE (son of David Stone, XIII-2497) was horn in 1592 in the parish of Great Bromley, County Essex, Eng­ land, and was baptised there April 19, 1592. He married (1st) on July 20, 1617, at Nayland, County Suffolk, England, Margaret Garrad. He married (2nd) about 1627, perhaps at Dedham, County Essex, Mrs. Lydia Cooper. Gregory died Nov. 30, 1672, and was buried in the Cambridge, Mass., graveyard. Of Gregory's early years, we know only that he secured enough education to he able to read and write, accomplishments acquired by only a minority of the yeomanry and husbandmen of his time. After his marriage, he resided at Nayland until 1635, in which year he emigrated to New England. He brought with him his second wife, Lydia, six children and two step-children. At first he located in Watertown, Mass., hut after 1637, he removed to Cambridge, Mass. The records of Deacon Gregory Stone reveal a fine type of the Puritan of his day, a man of vigorous physique and vitality, of uncom­ promising convictions and strict integrity, fearing nothing but his God, not ambitious for wealth or power hut by thrift acquiring a comfortable estate and always ready to serve his fellow men in local aff~, in which they looked to him for probity, good judgement and impartiality; a devout, honest and esteemed member of his community.

Xll-1250. MARGARET GARRAD (dau. of Thomas Garrad, XIIl-2499) was baptized at Nayland, County Suffolk, England, Dec. 5, 1597; married at Nayland, July 20, 1617, Gregory Stone; was buried at Nayland, Aug. 4, 1626. Children of Gregory and Margaret ( Garrad) Stone: John, Daniel, · David and Elizabeth. SOME OF THE 4096 GREAT10 GRANDPARENTS 121

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XIIl-33. ALBERT van voor Hees, grandfather of the emigrant. His children were . Coert, Steven, Hendrick, Luytgen, Jan, Hilbert, Wesvel, Gertien, and Merghen.

XIll-41. GERRIT VAN COUWENHOVEN, father of the emi­ grant. He remained in Holland.

XIll-265. CORNELIS DOMINICUS, father of the emigrant. He remained in Holland, and died before 1629.

XIIl-617. PETER SCHENCK VAN NYDECK, horn in 1547.

XIIl-618. JOHANNA VAN SCHERPENZEEL, ho01 about 1550, married Peter Schenck Van Nydeck.

XIIl-645. WOLFERT GERRETSE VAN COUWENHOVEN, common ancestor of the Couwenhovens and Conovers in America.

XIIl-669. JAN RAPALIE remained in Rochelle, France, no doubt.

XIIl-673. HENDRICK BEEKMAN (son of Gerard Beekman, XIV-1345) was horn at Cologne, Germany, Sept. 14, 1585. He married three times. He died at Wesel, Dec. 2, 1642.

He was Secretary of the City of Hasselt, Overyssel, and in 1629 the States General appointed him Superintendent of Magazines in the Cities of Hasselt and Wezel. 122 SOME OF THE 4096 GREAT10 GRANDPARENTS

XIII-674. MARY BAUDERTIUS (daughter of William Bauder- - tius, XIV-1347) was born in 1600; married Hendrick Beekman as his 2nd wife, Jan. 24, 1621; and died Sept. 17, 1630, at Berge. Hendrick and Mary (Baudertius) Beekman had seven children.

XIIl-675. FREDERICK HENDRICKS DE BOOGH.

XIIl-2497. DAVID STONE (son of Simon Stone, XIV-4993) was born in Great Bromley, County of Essex, England, about 1540. He mar­ ried, 1st, July 10, 1566, Elizabeth Hewit, who died about 1582, and married 2nd, about 1584, Ursula --· He resided at Great Bromley and lived there as late as 1597. The children of David and Ursula were Simon (bapt. Feb. 9, 1585- 86) , Ursula, Mary, and Gregory.

XIIl-2499. THOMAS GARRAD, baptized March 14, 1561-62 at Nayland, County Suffolk, England, was married to Christian Frende.

XIII-2500. CHRISTIAN FRENDE was horn at an unknown date, probably in County Suffolk. Names of her parents not known. She was buried Jan. 31, 1626-27. Margaret Garrad, daughter of Thomas and Christian, was baptized Dec. 5, 1597, at N ayland, which is northwest of Great Bromley. SOME OF THE 8192 GREAT11 GRANDPARENTS 123

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XIV-529. DOMINICUS JANS, horn about 1525 in Holland.

XIV-530. MAYKEN JANSZ VAN SCHULE of Goes, Holland. She married Dominicus Jans (above) and they had seven sons. She died before 1585.

XIV-1233. DERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK, horn about 1520.

XIV-1234. ANNA VAN BERLAER, horn about 1522. She and her husband, Derick (above) , had at least one son, born in 1547.

XIV-1289. GERRIT VAN COUENHOVEN, horn about 1550.

XIV-1345. GERARD BEEKMAN (son of Cornelius Beekman, XV-2689) was horn at Cologne on the Rhine, May 17, 1558; married Agnes Stunning, at Cleves. He died at Emmerich, Jan. 31, 1625. Gerard Beekman studied divinity at Frankendael in 1576, 1577, and 1578, and was conversant with the Latin, French, Italian, and Ger­ man languages. After completing his education he travelled extensively through Europe.

XIV-1346. AGNES STUNNING, horn Jan. 13, 1557 and died at Muehlheim, March 10, 1614. Children of Gerard and Agnes (Stunning) Beekman were Harmon, John, Catharine, Margaretta, and Hendrick.

XIV-1347. WILLIAM BAUDERTIUS. He was horn in 1600, and died Sept. 17, 1630 at Berge. He was the pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Zutphen, Holland. 124 SOME OF THE 8192 GREAT11. GRANDPARENTS

XIV-1553. DERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK. Same as XIV-1233.

XIV-1554. ANNA VAN BERLAER. Same as XIV-1234.

XIV-1857. GERARD BEEKMAN. Same as XIV-1345.

XIV-1858. AGNES STUNNING. Same as XIV-1346.

XIV-1859. WILLIAM BAUDERTIUS. Same as XIV-1347.

XIV-4993. SIMON STONE (son of David Stone, XV-9885) was born in Great Bromley, County of Essex, England, about 1507 and resided there at the time of his death in 1557. Evidently he acquired considerable landed property there. He was a church warden of Great Bromley, a mark of local distinction. Simon Stone was ancestor of the Stones of America.

XIV-4994. AGNES --· Her surname before marriage has not been discovered. Simon Stone willed "to my wife Agnes my lands called Hunts" ( and other property) "for the term of her life." Three of their children are mentioned: John, "Davy", and Richard. SOME OF THE 16,384 GREAT12 GRANDPARENTS 125

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XV-1059. JANS VAN SCHULE VAN GOES, horn about 1560 in Holland.

XV-2465. DERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK (son of Derick Schenck Van Nydeck, XVI-4929) was born about 1520 and married Maria Van Galen.

XV-2466. MARIA VAN GALEN, horn about 1522 probably.

XV-2689. CORNELIUS BEEKMAN, born about 1530, it is sup­ posed, and doubtless in Cologne. He married Christiana Huygens, probably about 1555 ..

XV-2690. CHRISTIANA HUYGENS, born about 1632 probably. She married Cornelius Beekman about 1555. She died Dec. 4, 1606. Cornelius and Christiana had sons Engelbert and Gerard.

XV-9885. DAVID STONE (son of Simon Stone, XVl-19,969) was born about 1480, probably, in Great Bromley, County Essex, England. Name of his wife and date of his marriage are unknown. It is believed that he died in 1543, at Kirby-le-Soken, County Essex, England. As eldest son and termed "Davy Stone" he was an executor of the will of his father and inherited his father's estate in Great Bromley called "Goodenes." As "David Ston" he was a witness to the will of "Robert Blaynyng of Moche Bromley", dated Sept. 22, 1533. He was a witness to the will of "John Hubberde of Mytche Brumley," dated Feb. 7, 1536-7. About 1540 he removed from Great Bromley to Kirby-le­ Soken, a parish about six miles to the eastward, where his name appears on the records as "Davye Stonne." This is the last mention found anywhere of David Stone.

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XVl-4929. DERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK (son of Dieder­ ick Scheck Van Nydeck, XVll-9857) married Aleid Casters, of Aerzen. He died at Blynheek on Aug. 3, 1525. He was Lord of Afferden, Blynheek, and W alheek. He had two morganatic wives, Catrina Rutten and Gerritj e Burgen, both natives of Aerzen. ·

XVl-4930. ALEID CASTERS VAN AERZEN, wife of Derick Schenck. Derick and Aleid had the following children: Derick, Peter, Hen­ drick, Johan, Maria, Winend, Aleid, and Margaretha.

XVI-6209. DERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK. Same as XVI-4929.

XVI-6210. ALEID CASTERS VAN AERZEN. Same as XVl-4930.

XVl-19,715. JOHAN VAN BUREN. Dates not found.

XVl-19,716. Wife of Johan Van Buren, name unknown.

XVl-19,969. SIMON STONE (son of John atte Stone) was born in Ardleigh, County Essex, England, about 1450. He married about 1479 Elizabeth--· His children were David, Walter, Michael, and Wil­ liam, all born in Great Bromley, County Essex, England. Simon Stone held an estate of the Manor of Bovills in Ardleigh called "Walles," and an estate in the adjoining parish of Great Bromley called "Goodenes," where he settled and resided. Hence£ orth £or five generations and during nearly 15~ years the ancestors of the Stones in America lived in Great Bromley. Simon Stone's will was probated Feb. 10, 1510-11. 128 NEARING THE END OF OUR JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

Here follow some extracts from the will of Simon Stone ( only slightly modernized as to spellings) : "In the name of God, Amen. The xij day of May the year of ower Lord God anno MCCCCCVI, I, Symond Stone of Moche Brymley and of the diocese of London, being in hole mynde, make my testament and last wyll in this forme followyng. Fyrst, I hequeth my soule to God Almyghty, to ower Lady, Sent Mary, and to alle Saynts and my body to he heride in the ·chirche of Moche Brymley aforesaide. Item, I hequeyth to hye awter there for my tithes negli­ gently forgotyn a cow or ellys vi shillings viij pence for yt. Item, I hequeth to the warke of poulys (SL Paul's Cathedral, London) xij pence ••• Item, I order and make my executors EJi:iaheth my wife, Davy my son, and John Bradfyld and Sir Willm Fareway parson of Brymley aforesaide supervisor of this my testment and last wyll. Also I wyll that Davy Stone my son have my tenamet called Godewyns with alle my appertenaunce to the same he­ longyng to hym his heyrs and assigns and for evrymore after this condition that the saide Davy shall pay to his moder duryng her lyf yerely vi sbi1lings viij pence and after her disses I wyll that he kepe or cause to he kept a yerely ohyte (memorial service) by the space of xx yers to the valure of x shillings for the welth of my soule, my wyfs soule and all cristen soules • • • The residue of all my goods not hequethyd I gyf and hequeth to Elfaaheth my wyf and to Davy Stone my son to dispose of as they thynk most pleasor to God and helth to my soule.

The context of the above will indicates that Simon Stone was a prosperous and substantial yeoman, and his direction that he be buried in the church is significant of his superior local position, as only the landed gentry and the very wealthiest of the yeomanry secured burial within the rural church edifices, all others being buried in the church­ yards.

XVll-9857. DIEDERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK (son of Henrick Schenck Van Nydeck, XVIIl-19,713) married Adelheit Van Buren. He died in August, 1487, at Mai. He was Lord of Afferden and Blynbeek, and half of W albeek and W achtendonk, and was Marshall of Cleve.

XVIl-9858. ADELHEIT VAN BUREN (daughter of Johann Van Buren, XVIIl-19,715) was heiress of Aerzen and Belden. The children of Diederick and Adelheit were Win end, Johann, Roelman, Derick, Hendrick, Petronella, Otto, Thomas, Aleid, Anna, and Liesbeth.

XVIl-12,417. DIEDERICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK. Same as No. 9857.

XVIl-12,418. ADELHEIT VAN BUREN. Same as No. 9858. NEARING THE END OF OUR JOURNEY INTO THE PAST 129

XVII-39,937. JOHN A'ITE STONE was horn about 1420 and died in 1487. He was married about 1445 hut the name of his wife has not been learned. He was the first member of the Stone family who occupied a small estate in Ardleigh, which for over four centuries was called "Barons." In 1473, John Deryfall, yeoman, of Ardleigh, County Essex, was summoned to answer John Stone of the same place, yeoman, for debt for use of a part of a croft of land, parcel of Barons in said Ardley.

During the lifetime of John Stone or Atte Stone, the use of the prefix "atte" before the family surname went out of general use.

The children of John Stone were Walter (horn about 1445) , Simon (horn about 1450 and was the ancestor of the Stones of America), John (horn about 1455), and George (horn about 1460).

XVIII-19,713. HENRICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK, died Dec. 8, 1452.

XVIII-19,714. ALEIDE VAN GOEN VAN KELDENBROCK, wife of Henrick.

XVIII-19,715. JOHAN VAN BUREN.

XVIII-19,716. ALEID VAN ARENDAHL, wife of Johan Van Buren.

XVIll-24,833. HENRICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK. , Same as No. 19,713.

XVIII-24,834. ALEIDE VAN GOEN VAN KELDENBROCK. Same as No. 19,714.

XVIII-24,835. JOHAN VAN BUREN. Same as No. 19,715.

XVIIl-24,836. ALEID VAN ARENDAHL. Same as No. 19,716.

XVIll-79,873. WALTER ATTE STONE. He was horn about 1390 at Ardleigh. His name is found in a record of Dec. 3, 1416, also in a record of June 2, 1431. 130 NEARING THE END OF OUR JOURNEY INTO THE PAST

XIX-39,425. HENRICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK was living in 1346.

XIX-39,426. AELIDE RA YDE, heiress of Walheck, wife of Henrick.

XIX-39,427. ALLARD, Lord van Keldenhrock.

XIX-39,428. ANNA MONFOORT, wife of Allard.

XIX-49,665. HENRICK SCHENCK VAN NYDECK. Same as No. 39,425.

XIX-49,666. AELIDE RAYDE, wife of Henrick. Same as No. 39,426.

XIX-49,667. ALLARD, Lord van Keldenbrock. Same as No. 39,428.

XIX-159,745. WILLIAM ATTE STONE, of Ardleigh, County Essex, England. He was horn about 1365. Only three records of Wil­ liam have come to light, the first in a lawsuit in 1398, the next as a juror at a court held in 1415, and the last in a court roll record after his death in 1431.

XX-319,489. __ atte STONE (grandson of Walter atte Stone, XXIl-1,277,953). First name not identified. He was born about 1338.

XXl-639,977. __ atte STONE (son of Walter atte Stone, XXIl-1,277,953). His first name has not been identified. He is believed to have been born about 1310. Nothing is known about his family.

XXIl-1,277,953. WALTER atte STONE. He was of Little Bentley, County Essex, England. He was born probably as early as 1285. It is possible that he may have been the first to assume the name but it is believed more likely that it was his father or grandfather who did so. His name appears at Little Bentley as taxed 18½ d. in 1320 and as taxed 14½ d. in 1327. (Other surnames similar to "atte Stone" are Atwood and Townsend, the last-named being from "atte Towns End.") INDEX

A Cornel, Sara Willemse, 70 Willem, 82 Abeel, Magdalen, 108 Gel yam ( Cornelise) , 96 Stoffel Janse, 118 Cortelyou, Helen Robina, 5 Jan, 118 Carol Van Zandt, 5 Abrahamse, Isaac, 102 Rushton G., 7 John V., 9 Adams, Orella, 48 John G., 15 Samuel, 54 James G., 33 Abraham H., 43 Aersen, Jan, 104 Hendrick, 49 and 57 Aten, Annetje, 92 Jaques, 69 Adriaen Hendricksen, 110 Jaques, 81 Jaques, 95 B Cregier, Catharine, 105 Croom, see Kroom, 118 Barends, Annetje, 93 Barent Joosten, 112 Baudertius, Mary, 122 D William, 123 Daggett, Naomi, 48 Becx, Maria, 99 and 116 Peter, 116 De Bockhorst, Maria Margaretta, 116 Beekman, Ann, 62 De Boogh, Catalina, 118 Mary, 64 Frederick Hendricks, 122 Gerardus Christopher, 75 and 77 De Lanoy, :Maria ( or Mary) , 90 Christopher, 90 Abraham, 108 Gerardus Willemse, 107 and 108 Wilhelmus, 118 De Mandeville, Tryntje Gillis, 100 Hendrick, 121 Gillis J ansz, 115 Gerard, 123 Cornelius, 126 De Plancken, Sarah, 100 Bleijck, Adriaentje, 84, 99 and 104 De Potter, Cornelis, 99 Boele, Maria, 106 Dominicus, Jan Cornelisse, 115 Cornelis, 121 Boerman, Altie, 69 and 70 See Van Der Veer. Brackhonge, Altie, 98 Doom, Lorna, 14 Brewer, Harriet, 37 and 38 Duycking, Aeltje, 88 John, 46 and 47 Brothers, Elizabeth, 54 F Seth, 66 French, Elizabeth, 66 C Frende, Christian, 122

Collins, Sarah, 55 G Cool, Altje Cornelisse, 83 and 96 Cornelis Lambertse, 96, 98 and 117 Garrad, Margaret, 120 Lambert, 115 Thomas, 122 132 INDEX

Garretson, Dinah, 43 Joosten, Barent, 112 Jacobus, 49 and 50 Jacobus, 58 Jordan, Mary, 47 Cynthia, 47 Gerritson, Jacobus, 50 Thomas, 47 Jacobus, 58 Gibson, Robina, 31 K Robert, 41 Gisbertse, Mayke, 119 Keeshan, Mary, 13 Thomas, 30 Goostrey, Sarah Ann, 35 Michael, 40 Kempe, Neeltje, 115 H Koerte, Sarah, 58 Hageman, Sarah, 52 Kroom (or Croom), Neeltje Janse, 118 See also Hegeman. Haines, Martha Felicia, 4, 39 and 40 Nathan Reynolds, 47 L James, 54 Laton, Belitje, 72 and 73 Hardy, Neal Johnson, 13 Laurens, Cytie, 112 Hedges, Philip Edward. 14 Leonard, Hannah, 78 Hegeman, Joseph, 62 Isaac, 93 Catharine, 65 Lord, Mary, 45 Neeltje, 74 Andrew, 75 Luhhertse, Guysbert, 110 Denys, 75 Lihertje, 77 Luyster, Pieter Cornelise, 101 Elizabeth, 89 Comelis, 101 Joseph Adrianse, 89 Adriaen, 106 and 107 Hendricks, Elsken, 95 M Henry, Hannah, 48 Manley, Margaret Helen, 7 Charles Henry, 13 Hills, Mary, 114 Charles Haines, 27-30 Charles, 39 Hoyle, Isahella, 35 and 37 Seth Bryant, 47 George, 46 Josiah, 54 Huygens, Christina, 126 Ichabod, 65 Nathaniel, 78 William, 93 J Margits, Catharine, 106 Joseph, 117 Jamieson, Mary, 41 Medway, Sarah, 46 Jans, Swantje, 99 Dominicus, 123 Melgerts, Tryntje, 102 J anse, Mensje, 89 Monfoort, Pieter, 100 Anna, 130 Jones, Marion Isadore, 27-30 Henry, 40 Monfort, Albert or Elbert, 59 Isaac, 48 Willemtje Pieterse, 70 INDEX 133

Montfort, Phebe, 44 Presson, Joseph Earl, 13 Bernhardus, 51 Provender, Hannah, 94 :Mott, Mary Alma, 40 John, 48 Putt, Minnie Julia, 22 and 26 Ebenezer, 55 William, 37 Josef or Louis, 67 Francis, 46 Mullin, Margaret, 40 and 41 R N Rapalie, Jannetje J orise, 107 Joris Jansen. 117 Neilson, Olive, 14 Jan, 121 Nevius, Catharine, 35 Rayde, Aelide, 130 John Martin, 45 Rundle, Jane, 28 Martinus, 53 Mrs. Johanna, 61 Rushton, Grace Isabel, 11 Petrus, 63 Joseph Howard, 22 Johanna, 71 George, 35 Pieter, 73 and 76 George, 45 Johannes, 84 Pieter, 88 Russell, Elii.abeth, 66 Johanna, 91 Jonathan, 79 Joannes, 99 Johannes, 103 Rust, John Howard, 13 Johannes, 116 s p Schenck, J anetje Roelofse, 88 Roelof Martinse, 104, 105 Parker, Mary, 46 Schenck van Nydeck, Martin, 116 Petit, Sara, 110 Peter, 121 John, 119 Derick, 126 Phillips, Experience, 65 Diederick, 127 John, 78 Diederick, 128 Henrick, 129 Pieters, Willemtje, 89 Henrick, 129 and 130 Altie, 115 Scofield, Sarah, 120 Pieterse, Magdalena, 102 Seubering, Willempie Roelofse, 95 Polhemus, Cornelia, 33 Lamhertje, 111 Johanna, 43 Isaac, 43 Simons, Catharine, 109 Daniel, 50 Skillman, Mary, 45 Hendrick, 58 · Thomas, 53 l\Irs. Johanna, 60 Thomas, 64 Hendrick, 71 Isaac, 76 Margarita, 83 Thomas, 92 and 109 Daniel, 84 Johannes Theodorus, 97 and 99 Smack, Marretje Hendrickse, 69 Theodorus ( Polhemius or Polhem), 115 Stearns, Mrs. Nettie, 28 Pratt, Prudence, 78 Stone, Julianna or Anna, 55 Joseph, 94 Silas, 66 134 INDEX

Stone (con't) Van Berlaer, Anna, 123 Ebenezer, 78 Nathaniel, 93 Van Brunt, Lucretia, 60 and 61 John, 112 Gregory, 120 Van Buren, Johan, 127 David, 122 Adelheit, 128 Simon, 124 Van Couwenhoven, David, 126 Marretje Gerritse, 82 Simon, 127 Gerrit Wolfertse, 96 John, 129 Wolfert Gerretse, 115 Walter, 129 Gerrit, 121 William, 130 Walter, 130 Van der Beek, Marretie, 59 Rem Jansen, 90 and 107 Stoothoff, Anna or Johanna, 49 Sarah, 53 Vanderhilt, Ida, 70 Johannes, 63 Petrus Gerritse, 76 Vander Hard, Lysheth Aards; 108 Gerrit Elbertse, 70 and 91 Vanderpoel, Margaret, 86 Elbert, 98 Wynant, 102 Elbert Elhertse, 83 and 109 Gerrit, 116 Jan, 111 Strycker, Elizabeth, 53 Van Der Veer, Neeltje Comelisse, 85 Comelis J anse, 100, Hendrick, 65 Jan Comelisse Dominicus, 115 Barent, 77 Pieter, 93 Van Duyn, Neeltje, 81 and 82 Jan 111 Comelis, 95 Stunning, Agnes, 123 Van Dyke, Catharine, 75 Sutphen, Sarah, 52 Jan,91 John, 61 Carel Janse, 108 Guisbert or Guilbert, 73 Van Galen, Maria, 126 Dirck J anse (Van Sutphen) , 86 Jan (Van Sutphen), 192 Van Goen Van Keldenhrock, Aleide, 129 Suydam, Willemtje, 70 Van Liew, F emmetje, 59 and 60 Van Nuyse, Femmetje, 85 T Lysbet Auckes, 87 Aucke Janse, 101 Ten Eyck, Altje, 74 Tobias, 88 Van Nydeck, Derick Schenck, 124 Coenraet, 105 See Schenck Thomas, Lysbet, 110 Van Pelt, Geertruy, 73 Aert Teunisse, 87 Trico, Catalyntie, 117 Teunis Jansen Lanen, 102 Joris, 117 Tyssen, Aeltje, 101 Van Scherpenzeel, Johanna, 121 Van Schule, Mayken Jansz, 123 V Van Schule Van Goes, Jan, 126 Van Aerzen, Aleid Casters, 127 Van Tuyl, Neeltje Janse, 87 Van Arendahl, Aleid, 129 Van Werven or Van Der Werven, Van Arsdalen, Hannah, 62 Catharina, 98 INDEX 135

Van Voorhees, Antje Albertse, 57 Veghte, Cornelia, 50 Albert Coerte, 70 Garret, 59 Margaret Alhertse, 76 Verkerk, Anna, 91 Coert Stevense, 82 Roelof Jansen, 108 Jacobus Janse, 72 Jan Janse, 119 Jan Stevense, 85 Gerrit Coerte, 89 Voorhees, Anna, 44 Steven Coerte, 95 and 101 Stephen, 52 Coert Alhertse, 115 Gerret Coerte, 61 Albert of Voorhees, 121 Coert Gerritse, 74 Van Zandt, Mary, 15, 21 and 22 James, 34 w John, 44 Bemardus, 51 and 52 Wait, Sarah, 94 Nicholas, 60 . John, 114 Bemardus, 72 Johannes, 85 Wizzelpenning, Cornelia, 85 Adam Wensel, 102 Wyckoff, Annetje Pieterse, 104 Van Zutphen, Derick Janse, 81 Wynant, Comella, 116