Genealogy of the Roll Family Ancestry and Descendants
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GENEALOGY OF THE ROLL FAMILY ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ROLL OF ELIZABETHTOWN TOWNSHIP ESSEX COUNTY NEW JERSEY AND ALLIED FAMILIES OF BROTHERTON-BURROWS-CORY-CRANE-EARL NORRIS-SCHOOLEY-SMITH-VREELAND-WADE WILLSON AND WOOLLEY BY RICHARD TIMBROOK WILSON RIDGEWOOD, BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY 1921 WITH ADDITIONS BY RICHARD JOHN FRANZ 3rd PENSACOLA, ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA TARTING IN 1957, AND INCLUDING DOLAND AND FRANZ FAMILIES 2 ROLL GENEALOGY EXPLANATION The record has been divided into six parts; the first part showing the progenitor of the family, Jan Magelse, his children and their descendents, who appear in the early records, with the exception of those of John Roll 3rd, of Elizabethtown, N.J. who appear in the other five parts, in order that the descendents of the latter's f ive ch ildren may be shown independent of each other or in what is known as the "Tribe System". Two indices have been prspared, one g iv ing the chr istian names of Roll, the other, names of persons who have intermarried with them, both alphabetically arranged. In searching for a name, unless the branch to which it belongs is known, it will be necessary to examine each index. The number after the name in the index is the consecutive number assigned to the person in his branch and generally covers the person's family record. If the person had no issue, the number refers to him as a child under the parents' name. If the index does not show the name sought for, find the name of the parent, and search the list of children appearing thereunder. -I- The number prefixed and suffixed by a dash after the name of a parent indicates the number where the person appears as a child. (Jan-1) Names in parenthesis with figures indicate the pedigree of a parent, showing to what generation the name belongs and giving the name back as far as the progenitor. John-2 The figure after the name of a parent likewise shows to what generation the name belongs. A Roman number preceding the name of a child, indicates its relative position to other children of the same parentage. The following abbreviations have been used: B- Born M- Married UM- Unmar r ied D- Died BD~ Buried Where the abbreviation "BIB." was typed in the original manuscript footnotes have been inserted to refer to certain publications which have been a source of information to the compiler and where used, the full name of the publication with other data will be found in the section designated "BIBLIOGRAPHY" . 3 ROLL GENEALOGY PREFACE The object of the compiler of this record has been to show, as completely as possible, the ancestry and descendants of John Roll who is first recorded as being in the Borough of Elizabethtown, Essex County, New Jersey, between the years 1755 and 1761,1 using as a basis the family history shown in Littell's Family Records of the First Settlers of the Passaic valley, N.J., published in 1851. The record was started in the year 1909, while the compiler was residing in Atlanta, Georgia and at which time he found it desireable to seek information in some complete form regarding the progenitor and descendants of his mother's family, but was unable to do so. Since then considerable time has been spent prosecuting the work and he hopes that his readers will appreciate how difficult is the task of collecting material, compiling and presenting a work of this nature, free from inaccuracies. Every effort has been made to avoid errors and wherever different dates or conflicting statements have been received regarding the same event, careful investigation has followed in order to determine, if possible, the correct statement to be used in the work. As other writers have found, the early public records do not offer a very satisfactory field for the searcher after genealogical data and while some of the information has been gleaned from probate and church records and the publications of other writers (to whom due credit is given hereafter) a great part of the information contained herein has been obtained from private sources. The compiler has not only suceeded beyond his expectations, in securing and recording information regarding the ancestry of John Roll of Elizabethtown, N.J., but has also obtained interesting data regarding the children and their descendants of the progenitor of the Roll Family in America, and while it was only intended to incorporate in this record one branch of the family, the early data relating to the other branches has been shown as it not only has a historical bearing on the branch originally recorded, but is far too valuable to be disregarded and may in some future time prove useful to the descendants of the other branches. 1 BIB. 1 - p. 349 4 ROLL GENEALOGY PREFACE It has always been tradition among the descendants of John Roll of Elizabethtown, N.J., that their progenitor in this country was one Johannes Mangel, that he came from Holland and settled in the northern part of New York State and that one of his ancestors was a burgomaster in his native city in the Province of Utrecht which tradition, with the exception of the latter part, is substantiated by facts obtained from the early Dutch Records as will be noted in the pages which follow. That the family did not remain in the vicinity of Albany is evident from the fact that there are no persons named Mangelse or Roll in a list of Freeholders in the city and county of Albany, N.Y., which included Canostigione, in 17 20 .^ While there are no persons of either these names mentioned in a list of the inhabitants of New York City in 1703® or in a list of the Freemen of New York City between the years of 1633 and 1740,^ or in a History of Land Titles of Hudson County, N.J .9 (excepting John of Cons table Hook, N.J. and refer red to hereinafter) or in the Census of Staten Island in 1706® the early Dutch Records of New York City and Staten Island show they settled in New York City and Northern Division (now Port Richmond), Staten Island, after leav i ng Canost ig ione. It has also been tradition among the members of the family that the surname was originally Mangel and in the course of time and usage, was changed to Roll. That this is true to a certain extent and was due to the peculiar methods and customs of the early Dutch is very clearly shown by D.T. Valentine, a former Clerk of the Common Counc il of New York Ci ty7 of whom it is said "His love of research and accuracy of details give to his writings a well deserved authority,"® and who after an examination of the subject gives the following as the result:® 2 BIB. 37 - p. 26; 49 - p. 32 3 BIB. 49 - p. 611 4 BIB. 52 - p. 366 5 BIB. 46 6 BIB. 53 - p. 149 7 BIB. 70 - p. 686 3 BIB. 70 - p. 686 9 BIB. 70 - p. 764 ROLL GENEALOGY PREFACE A list of Dutch aliases, prepared by Dr. Purple and published by the Holland Society, New York, show the names of many early immigrants as they appear in Baptismal Records of the Reformed Church of New York from 1639-1756 with the surnames under which they became known later on. The dates at the end of each name denote the years in which the baptism of the children of the person mentioned are recorded, and in which his first names, or his first and surnames, are given. In this list, Mangle, son of Jan Mangelse is shown under: JANSZEN Mangle Janssen Rol 1694-1711 It will be noted in the records which follow that the progenitor is first recorded as Jan Mangelse, thereby indicating that he was Jan, son of Mangle, and his children in turn likewise as Mangle Johnson or Janse, John, Johnsen, etc., (Jan being the Dutch for J o h n ) a n d that in following out the custom referred to above they adopted the surname Roll. ^ That there was some foundation for its adoption the writer is confident as certain Staten Island Records show in their index "Mangelse, (Mangles, Mangleson see also Ral)*-5 and those which follow show that the children of Jan Mangelse all assumed the surname Roll about the same time and that they appear not only in the records under their first name and surname, but also under their first two names only**** but so far, he has been unable in his researches, to determine the dominating factor. The foregoing also explains the references in the early Dutch records at Albany, Staten Island and New York City to the surname as Raal, Ral, Rale, Rail, Rol, and Roll, and the spelling of the given name of the individual members in as many different ways. The petition'*'5 of Mangle Johnsen Roll and others in 1713, 10 BIB. 103 11 BIB . 25 12 BIB. 104 - pp. 104, 107, 133, 240, 402 13 BIB. 53 14 BIB. 71 15 BIB . 13 6 ROLL GENEALOGY PREFACE referred to hereinafter, which clearly shows the relationship between the signers and their progenitor enabled the determining of the proper relationship existing between the early members of the family which was indicated by the marriage and baptismal records of Albany, Staten Island and New York City, but which records did not furnish sufficient information to establish the true relationship between the members therein recorded.