Ill I a* .^V/Jl'« **« c* 'VSfef' ^ A* ,VyVA° <k ^ °o ** ^•/ °v™v v-^'y v^-\*° .. http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog12newy .or ..V" *7yf^ a I*'. *b^ ^ *^^ oV^sua- ^ THE NEW YORK ical and Biographical Record. Devoted to the Interests of American Genealogy and Biography. ISSUED QUARTERLY. VOLUME XII., 1881. PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY, Mott Memorial Hall, No. 64 Madison Avenue, New Yopk. City. 4116 PUBLICATION "COMMITTEE. SAMUEL. S. PURPLE, JOHN J. LATTING, CHARLES B. MOORE, BEVERLEY R. BETTS. Mott Memorial Hall, 64 Madison Avenue. , INDEX TO SUBJFXTS. Abstracts of Brookhaven, L. I., Wills, by TosephP H Pettv a« ,«9 Adams, Rev. William, D.D., lk Memorial, by R ev ; E £' &2*>» •*"•*'>D D 3.S Genealogy, 9. Additions and Corrections to History of Descendants of Tames Alexander 17 Alexander, James and his Descendants, by Miss Elizabeth C. Tay n3 60 11 1 .c- ' 5 > Genealogy, Additions * ' ' 13 ; and Corrections to, 174. Bergen, Hon. Tennis G, Brief Memoir of Life and Writings of, by Samuel S. Purple, " Pedigree, by Samuel S. Purple, 152 Biography of Rev. William Adams, D.D., by Rev E ' P Rogers D D e of Elihu Burrit, 8 " 5 ' by William H. Lee, 101. ' " of Hon. Teunis G. Bergen, by Samuel S. Purple M D iao Brookhaven, L. I., Wills, Abstracts of/by Joseph H. Pe»y, 46, VoS^' Clinton Family, Introductory Sketch to History of, by Charles B. Moore, 195. Dutch Church Marriage Records, 37, 84, 124, 187. Geneal e n a io C°gswe 1 Fami 'y. H5; Middletown, Ct., Families, 200; pfi"ruynu vV family,Fa^7v ^49; %7Titus Pamily,! 100. ' Genealogy of the Adams Family, by John J. Latting 9 lexa " der a hy MisS Elizab^h C. °f £? ^ .?. F™? * Jay, 13, 60. in, ice of Kip Families of Kingston and Rhinebeck, N. Y., by"' Gerrit H Van Waee nen, 29. ' ' *" ° of the Titus Family in America, by Rev. Anson Titus, Jr., 92. Hicks, Benjamin D. Marriage Records of St. George's Church, 45, 78, 141. Illustrations in Volume XII .-Portrait of Rev. • William Adams, D.D., face pan c Portrait of Elihu Burrit, face page 101 ; Portrait of Hon. feunis (i. Ber/enc hceuu- c page 149. *-"-'i> "! Inventories of Estates of Suffolk Co., L. I., from 1670 to 1692, 132. Jay, Miss Elizabeth Clarkson. Descendants of James Alexander, 13, 60, in, 155. Kip Families of Kingston and Rhinebeck, N. Y., by G. H. Van Wagenen, 29. Latting, John Genealogy of J. the Adams Family, 9. Lee, William H. Reminiscences of the Early Life of Elihu Burrit, 101. Marriage Records of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches NY 12 1 u " of the Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y., -,7 8d I2a 1N7"' <jeor e s .. °\.- S Church, Hempstead, L. I., 45-7S, 141. Moore, Charles II List of Inventories of Suffolk Co., L. I. nV introductory Sketch / ot Clinton ramily, 195. Index to Subjects. j v Notice of, Genealogy of the Family of Solo- Notes on Books.—The Jarvis Family, 51 ; of the Arnold Family, Notice of, mon Drowne, M.D., Notice of, 51 ; Genealogy of, Family, Notice of, : Act and Bull, Notice 51 ; Genealo- 51 : The Crosby* 51 gies and Necrology of the Irish Settlement on the Delaware, 52 ; Notes and Que- Genealogica et Heraldica, Notice of, ries, London, Notice of, 52 ; Miscellanea 52 ; of, Genealogy, Notice of, ; Historical The Genealogist, Notice 52 ; The Keys 52 Collections of Essex Institute, Notice of, 52 ; New England Historic Genealogical Magazine of American History, ; Pennsylvania of His- Register, 52 ; Magazine 52 Y., Notice of, 201 Peirce Genealogy, tory, 52; Early Annals of Harlem, N. ; Notice of, 202; The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1S81, Notice of, 202. Bartow, Bayard-Cornell, Notes and Queries.—Akerly Family, 99 ; Alexander, 200 ; 99 ; end, 201 ; Wolstan Brockway, 145 ; Van Tienhoven, 50 Obituaries.—Hon. Teunis G. Bergen, 148 ; Lillian C. Buttre, 146 ; William C. Fowler, Osgood, George S. Phillips, 146; Capt. James F. Gibbs, 147 ; Rev. Samuel 148; 100. Pedigree of Bergen, 152. " of Wyckoff, 153. Petty, Joseph H. Asbtracts of Brookhaven, L. I., Wills, 46, 198. Presbyterian Church Marriage Records, 32, 134. Purple, Samuel S. Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of Hon. Teunis G. Bergen, of New Utretcht, L. I., 149. Race in Genealogy and the Chinese Emigration, by Thomas J. Rush, 53. Records of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, N. Y., Marriages, 32, 134. " of the Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y., Marriages, 37, 84, 124, 187. " of St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., Marriages, 45, 78, 141. Reminiscences of the Early Life of Elihu Burrit, by William H. Lee, 101. Rogers, Rev. Ebenezer P. In Memoriam of Rev. William Adams, D.D., 5. Biographi- Rush, Thomas J. -Anniversary Address before the New York Genealogical and cal Society, 53. Sprat Family Bible, Copy of Marriages, Births, and Deaths from, 174. St. George's Church Marriage Records, by Benjamin D. Hicks, 45, 78, 141. Titus Family in America, Genealogy of, 92. Van Wagenen, Gerrit H. The Kip Families of Kingston and Rhinebeck, 29. Wyckoff Pedigree, by Samuel S. Purple, 153 ^r /^f^^^<^ THE NEW YORK foeakgial rtntr fiiograplucal gUtortr. Vol. XII. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1881. No. 1. Rev. WILLIAM ADAMS, D.D., IN MEMORIAM. {With Portrait). By Rev. Ebenezer P. Rogers, D.D. (Read before the New York Historical Society November 2, 1880.) It has been no less truly than beautifully said, that '-it is one of the finest instincts of our nature which prompts us to honor the dead." And. that "while the palace may be envied, and the hovel may be scorned, the grave is alike revered, whether adorned with sculptured marble, or decked with a simple flpwer." Many hands will unite in rearing the " sculptured marble " above the tomb of William Adams. It will be ours to lay with trembling but loving fingers a " simple flower " upon his honored grave. He belonged to a family distinguished for generations for learning, patri- otism, and religion. Two Presidents of this Republic, John and John Quincy Adams, with him were descended from Henry Adams, of Devon- shire, England, who, we are told was driven from his native land in [632 by persecution, and who settled in the town of Braintree, Mas-. When the war for American independence broke out, John Adams, the grandfather of William, was an officer in the American army from the town of Canter- bury, Conn. His son John was educated at Yale College, where he graduated in 1795, a classmate of Jeremiah Day, long the honored presi- dent of that venerable university, and he was the father of the subject of the present memorial. John Adams became one of the most distinguished educators of his day, remarkable for his love of letters, his thorough scholar- ship, and his zeal and success in the high calling to which his lite was de- voted. For many years he was at the head of one of the most celebrated of the institutions of New England, Philipps Latin Academy, Andoyer, Mass.. where he won both for himself ami tor the institution a high classical reputation, which was acknowledged by Yale College, in the conferring upon him the title of LL.D. in 1854. He lived to the advanced a ninety-one years, spending the last thirty years in thi S I where he devoted twenty years to the establishment of Sunday-schools ior 1 Adams, D.D., in Memoriam. [Jan., (5 Rev. William the children of his adopted State, of which he was instrumental in estab- lishing nunc than five hundred before his death. His eldest son, Rev. John R. Adams, following the example of his grandfather, of revolutionary memory, gave his services to his country in irk days of die rebellion, and as a chaplain in the army, by his self- shattered his constitution and shortened si. i nicing labors and exposures, his life. The mother of William Adams was Elizabeth Ripley, a lineal descend- ant of Governor Bradford, of Mayflower memory, a fine type of a Puritan wife and mother, who left the deep impress of her strong mind and devout heart on the character of her distinguished son. He was bom in Colchester, Conn., January 25, 1807, but was soon car- ried by his parents to Andover, where his boyhood was spent. There he was prepared for Yale College by his distinguished father, and after graduating in 1830, one of the foremost among men who have achieved a high reputa- tion as scholars and divines in the literary and religious world, returned to Andover, and passed his theological course at that famous "School of the Prophets." His professional life was commenced in Brighton, Mass., in the min- istry of the Congregational Church, but after three years, in consequence of the delicate health of his wife, he accepted a call to the Broome Street Presbyterian church in this city, afterward the Madison Square church, where the great portion of his life was spent. He soon rose to the highest rank in his sacred calling, adorning it with the high culture of the scholar, the pure and exalted character of the citizen, and the fervent piety of the Christian. Of a dignified and noble presence, a graceful and polished deportment, and affable and courteous manners, he was a marked man in all companies, commanding the respect and admiration of the best society, for his ripe and varied learning, his broad and enlightened philafithropy, his re- fined and pure character, and his exalted patriotism. In his chosen and sacred calling he adorned the pulpit with the charms of learning, the graces of rhetoric, and the triumphs of eloquence, no less than with the power of truth, the force of logic, the pathos of sincere emotion, and the fervor of pure devotion.