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The Millar--Du Bois Family The Millar--du Bois Family Its History and Genealogy WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY Eva Miller Nourse 1928 To My Kindred Wherever it may find them This book is dedicated To all who ha,e rendered aid in the gathering o! family records, to all whose enthusinsm and proffered assistance have lightened her task, and to her husband whose 11Il11aggtng interest has made possible the completion o! this work. the writer renders tribute o! sincere and whole-hea."'ted appreciation. -CONTENTS- CHAPTER I. P,\GE History of Our Ancestors in Europe: Causes of Emmigration; Their Descent and Marriage _____ 1 CHAPTER II. \VILLLux' MILLAR and His Descendants _______ 21 CHAPTER III. ABIGAIL' MILLAR ALLE." and Her Descendants _____._34 CHAPTER IV. IsAAc" MILLAR and His Descendants ___ _ ___l9i CHAPTER V. REBEKAH' MILLAR BR.'\NSON and Her Descendants ____303 CHAPTER VI. ELIZABETH' Mn.w\R VAN METER and Her Descendants __352 Index -------------------i5 ILLUSTRATIONS Eva Miller Nourse du Bois Arms and Motto Old du Bois House at New Paltz. N. Y. Ferree Arms "Stone House". Millar Plantation. Virginia. Grave Yard and Vault. Millar Plantation Signatures of Owners by Inheritance. Millar Plantation. Descendants in the \Villiam' Millar Line. Grand children of 'William and Catharine Millar. Descendants in the Isaac Millar line. Homestead of the Van Meters in Holland Van Meter Arms Branson Descendant-James Ward Wood. Living Millar-du Bois Descendants-over eighty- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS On page 372. above "S.. near bottom of page. in:-crt : 0 7. HEXRY' LAXE [Catlzarin-: , Eli:abt:tlz', William' Millar], horn January 15. 1826: .. went to Floyd Co. Va.: practiced Law and married; had one son and one daughter: was Lieut. Col. of 42nd Regiment C. S. A.: ldlled at battle of Cedar Run in Culpepper Co. Va.·• On page 18. line 22, for .. Rebecca ... read "Rebekah". On page 50. last line, for "Rayolds". read "Raynolds". On page 97, line 5 from bottom, for "Hs", read "He... On p:ige 117, line 26. for •·Aaf', read "At... On page 120. line 28. for "'has", read "have". On page 128. line 25. for "seevral", read "several". On page 131. line 14. for "London". read "Loudon". On page 222. line 6. for "1805", read "1804'". as on page 71. On page 281. line 7. for "Maxico··. read "Mexico". On page 333. line 21. for "Sunningham". read "Cunningham". On page 338, line 9 from bottom. for "Irwin:;··. read "Irving"'. On page 391. line 5. right column, for "McCurdy" read "l\IcCurdey". CHAPTER I. Orn .A..~CESTORS. During the past twenty years while the history and family data were being collected, the origin of "\,"illiam l\:lil.hr, our Virginia ancestor, his parentage and nati,e land, at all times constituted the real search and goal .A.t first it was belie,ed he could be traced through court records since he acquired and gave deed in the early days of the Valley of Virginia; however, diligent search among the oldest records failed to yield the slightest clue to anything beyond the time of his own life. Letters were written to Millars found in directories of various cities, and to several of the name in Scotland where this spelling is usual, as is l\liller in England, l\fueller in Germany, Mohler in Holland and elsewhere; but never once did they obtain any trace of or connection with our :Millars or their interests. .A. kinswoman sending her family data in 1916 asked, "In what generation or year was the name changed'!", and added that her father who had lived and kept his memory to an advanced age, believed the name had been something like 'l\Iuellaire' and that he understood the family to have been French. This latter could readily be accounted for by the fact of William l\lillar's wife having been French-but what of the change of name. Now began a new search that resulted in the finding of one )Iuelenaer, whose origin, activities and genealogy con­ stantly followed the trend of immigration during those years, and furthermore were closely associated with the general exodus from Europe, the settlements on the Hudson at New Paltz and Kingston, on into the Protlnces of N cw .Jersey on the Raritan Rh·er. ,nth the du Bois and Van ~Ieter families, the former our ancestors. and the latter as elsewhere stated, OUR AXCESTORS married into, or had close assodation with, eYery generation of the }lilfor family. So closely did the )Iuellcnacr name follow and interbnne itc;elf with the Yan }Ieter's that a real working hypothesis seemed at band and a new impetus sent the writer, her bus­ hand and finally a professional genealogist of large e.~e1-i~nce to plow the field of our effort..; and failures. Howe,cr mueh we baYe to offer of the reeorded aetiri­ ties of .Joost ..:\driensen )luellenaer. from bis emigra­ tion from Holland on through New York into the New .J crsey eommunity. where our ancestor William )Iillar is first d.is­ eovered. and nearly two years later is married, there is yet found no authority for, or reeord of an: change of name; hence the chiseled 1706 upon "\Villiam )lillar·s tomb at the old Virginia plantation, is not only the date of his birth, but must answer here for his origin. }!FFLLEX.-\.ER HISTORY. .After Henr)· Hudson was sent l)y a London company to discoYer a "North vVest Passage" as a short route to China and a grant was made to the West India Co., with Peter 2\-linuit as GoYernor and Director, e,ery effort was made to induee emigration for settlements along the Hudson rh-er. GoYernor LoYelai:e. himself Scoteh-Irish, later on en­ dea,ored to secure from Holland not the poor, but men of means, aristocrats to go into business and settle the lands granted this company." The first emigrants under )Iinuit came from the riYer ,vaal in Guelderland, Holland. The Sommcrsct Hist. Quarterly, Vol. II. p. 153 says: "~o uniformity of ~pelling obtaln!'d, as the names w~re written by English clerks and clergymen, as they sounded. and seldom ~ice alike-, and among the names used for illus• tratlon is .. liulllncr for lieulcnacr." Doc. Hist. or X. Y. notes the~· were usually recorded In church by their Chrlstllln or Baptismal names and only in legal documents used their surnames; On each passenger list of the .-:irious vessels in which Joost Adrlensen came from Holland, he is just so recorded; just as .Toost .Jan Yan Meteren came as Jan Joosten and for years was gene:r:illy so found. OUR ,L.VCESTORS 3 The writer has found no hard and fast rule in this matter. "Gnder ehapter headed, '•First Settlement of New York h~- the Dutch." Doc. Hist. of X. Y.: :n-e lists of ·' Immigrants to X ew Netherland" and on page 55. Vol. III, we find Arriving December 1659 in the "Fnith.. the names "Joost Adriensen, Pynaker, from Deltt·• and further down the list. .. Femmctje Hendricksen, mniden.. This seems the first mention of him and the •'maiden" he later ma1Tied after another ,oyage to and from Holland. The Genealogists notes a.re as follows: ".Joost Aclriensen appears with Gerrit Van S·wcaringen and others in the Dutch settlements on the Delaware Rh-er, arrfring in the ship "Green Eagle" 30 September, 1660; another note states that J oost .Adricnsen & Co. were at Turtle Falls, South Rfrer (the Delaware was so called) April 30, 1658. (Ulster Co. Records p. 29.) Testamentary Disposition of Vermeuler, J oost A.driensen (Yan 11ueler) dated at Wiltwyck, 2 Sept. 1665, was of Pynaker, his wife Femmetje Hendricksen and his little daughter 1Iaritje by said wife shall take possession of the estate gained and acquired by him from her and all such estate as he 1rns in the old country (Vaderfand) as he might inherit. Executors in Wiltwyck, .Albert .Jansen Van Steen­ burg and Roelo:ff Hendricksen, brothers-in-law; they to send any 1Ja1ances to his lawful ,rife and child in the oJd country. Signed ".Joost .A.dryansen." Ulster Co. Probate Records. p. 29. :,;'ote to the above, "Joost Adriensen of Pynaker, Holland, came from Lner• dam. Apr:11 16, 1665 in "Spotted Cow", m. 1st., 20 March, 1663-4. Femmetjen Hendricksen or Mapplaen. Pro,·. Dreuth. Holland, residing in Wiltwych, N. Y. m. 2d. as widower or Femmitjen Hendricksen, and hailing from Op;nen, near Ti~!. Gelderland 28 Oct., lGGS, Elizabeth Willemse Krom, of Pynaker, in So. Holland. near Delft. He m. :::d. as ;,roJenner. Miller. July 9. 1681. Maritje •Heys, "-fdow of Phillip tLieuw nnd daughter or Christion Cnppoens and David Jockemsen. (Christina.. in her will refers to her dau. "lllary:i. Hays m. to Peter Pr.la+ at her death without lnwtul issue, the property not to go to the children or Joost Adriensen dec"d). On Oct. li, 1683 the will or Joost Adriensen dec'd was proven at Fort James before Thomas Dungan, Lt. General and Vice Admiral. and •HIii -n·JJow mu.rrled yet ni;n.ln 3farch 3. I b~4 Capt. P~t,.-r Pran.. b<>m nt L")'<l('n l ~.::,:;. Se-e necords In Albany. Clerk or Appen.lR orrtce, Llb~r A. p, :. tLJeuw. :&. name prominent in New York today, 4 OUR .U.CESTORS Jan Joosten being therein appointed as tutor and overseer, was confirmed as such." N. Y. Sur. of Wills Llber 1·2, p. 279. In Kingston, N. Y. marriage Records p. 503, Joost Adrlensen was married by Hermanns Blom on March 20, 166:l to Femmetje Hendricksen of Holland, reefd• Ing at Wlltwyck (Klngi,ton).
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