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Hyde Booklet.Qxd John Hyde and His Descendants: The Otto Branch in Virginia July 2004 Steve Otto Introduction In June 1995 Edson L. Barlow published John Hyde of Long Island, New York, and His Descendants. With great care and detail, the booklet traces the Hyde family of Port Washington back to its founding immigrant, John Hyde, who came to America from England in 1732-33. A copy of Barlow’s work is available at the Port Washington Public Library (PWPL), and for the early Hyde history I have borrowed freely from it. Other sources include the bibles of Edmond & Catherine Hyde, Edmond & Caroline Hyde, and Alice Smith Hyde (currently held by James Nicholas Otto of Mechanicsville, Va.) and the personal papers of Florence May Port Washington Hyde, William is a harbor village located on a Long Hyde Otto, and Island, New York, Sarah Elizabeth peninsula known as Otto (currently both “Cow Neck 6 Peninsula” and the held by Carl Hyde “Gold Coast.” Map: Otto of Richmond, Long Island Sirvaide by Robartte Ryder, Va.). 1674 The document that follows does not try to follow every branch of every Hyde generation. Any- one interested in researching the other Hydes might usefully explore the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, whose issues for 1841-1902 are available online in an unusually accessible format. Instead, I have held steady to the line leading to the Otto branch in Virginia. An exception is the sixth generation, the children of Edmond Hyde, Jr. and Caroline Travers. Here there was a kind of flowering, well documented and leaving an imprint on Port Washington that remains to this day. From time to time, often in the most unexpected places, one comes across an outstanding public library. The Port Washington Public Library is one, and I thank Elly Shodell and Carol Clark for their dedication, expertise, and help navigating the library’s considerable resources. John Hyde + Johanna Bennet The First Generation John Hyde came from England to America in 1732-33 and settled at New York “The story begins with an old writing desk which is City, where he was a clothdresser. According to his daughter Sarah’s baptismal passed down through the record, he was the son of John Hyde. family, generation to He married Johanna Bennet in 1738 at New York City. She was a daughter generation. In that desk, among the old bills, of Robert and Johanna (Stone) Bennet. Robert Bennet, a shipbuilder, was born newspapers and family at Warren Parish, Hampshire, England, in 1684 and was a son of William and heirlooms, is a ‘Copy of Elizabeth (Pinke) Bennet. Manuscript taken from John Hyde’s Bible at Cold- In 1750, while living at Cold Spring, Long Island, John Hyde enlisted in the Springs, New York.’ French and Indian War with Captain Hewlitt at Albany, New York. He was sent The author or copier is unknown and the with others to work on and continue a road between Canada and Louisiana. handwriting seems to When last heard from, he was in Virginia. change between the entries By 1757 his family had not heard from him for several years and believed he for around 1850 and the entries for around 1880.” had died. His wife Johanna went to New York City with her four little children, Edson L. Barlow, leaving many of their family possessions behind to be sold – including, Introduction, John Hyde of possibly, the John Hyde bible referenced in Barlow’s history. Long Island, New York, and His Descendants Together they had four children. The fourth child and second son was William Hyde. William Hyde + Carolina Louisiana Brass The Second Generation William Hyde was born Dec. 8/30, 1749, probably at Cold Spring, Long Island. He was baptized with the name John on April 5, 1750, at St. George’s Church in Hempstead, Long Island. He married Carolina Louisiana Brass on June 1, 1772, at Hempstead, Long Island. They lived at Oyster Bay, Long Island, and were recorded there in the 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820 censuses. Carolina Louisiana Brass was born Nov. 30, 1752, in North Carolina and died Oct. 16, 1823. Together they had 12 children. The third child and second son was Henry B. Hyde. Henry B. Hyde + Jane Smith The Third Generation Henry B. Hyde was born Jan. 15, 1777, probably at Oyster Bay, Long Island. He was recorded at Oyster Bay in the 1810 through 1860 censuses (ship carpenter, 1850; cooper, 1860). He married Jane Smith, born April 28, 1778, in New York. Together they had 12 children. The sixth child and third son was Edmond Smith Hyde. THE OTTO BRANCH IN VIRGINIA u 1 Edmond Smith Hyde + Catherine Mackey The Fourth Generation Edmond Smith Edmond Smith Hyde, youngest Hyde, from the son of Henry B. and Jane Hyde, Mason Collection, Port Washington was born Sept. 16, 1811, and died Public Library. March 13, 1888. He was recorded Mason filed these images together, at North Hempstead, Queens suggesting the County, New York, in the 1840, woman is Catherine 1850, and 1860 censuses. He Mackey. Both images appear to be married Catherine Mackey on rephotographs of Dec. 23, 1832; she was born June older images. 15, 1817, and died June 23, 1876. She was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Mackey. Edmond married again, to Margaret Bigler, on Nov. 9, 1877; there are no known children. A notice in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle refers to either Edmond Smith or his son Edmond, Jr.: “Hog Cholera on Long Island: The hog cholera has appeared in many pens in Port Washington and a number of farmers have lost all their pigs. Henry T. Smith and Edmund Hyde are the principal losers.” (Sept. 3, 1887) Edmund and Catherine Hyde are both buried at the Old Free Church Cemetery at Port Washington. Together they had 12 children. The third child and second son was Edmond Hyde, Jr. Edmond Hyde, Jr. + Caroline James Travers The Fifth Generation Ernest Simon Edmond Hyde, Jr. was born identified these men Jan. 8, 1838, and died July 13, as Edmond Hyde 1917. News clippings refer to (left), son William Hyde (helm), and him as a “descendant of unknown (right), all Colonial ancestors”; “a on the elder Hyde’s prominent bayman who sloop. More likely: Edmond Hyde (left), used his sloop to provide son George Hyde fish for local and city (helm), and son William Hyde markets”; and, with his wife, (right). PWPL, N71 Caroline, as “descendants of the original settlers of Long Caroline James Travers Hyde. Island.” He married Caroline Brooklyn Daily James Travers on May 22, Eagle, Jan. 15, 1916 1858. She was born at Cold Spring Harbor on Sept. 9, 1825, and died Jan. 15, 1916. Her address at the time of her death was 10 Second Avenue, Port Washington. Her first marriage was to Daniel Travers, on May 9, 1850 (he died March 24, 1855), and there were two children: Alice C. Travers [Hults] was born Feb. 14, 2 u JOHN HYDE AND HIS DESCENDANTS 1851; and Ludlow D. Travers was born Feb. 12, 1854, and died in March 1854. Caroline’s parents were Daniel H. (b. Jan. 25, 1798; d. March 4, 1853) and Susan James (b. March 31, 1793; d. May 7, 1875). Edmond Hyde, Jr. was recorded with his parents in the 1850 census, and as a ship carpenter with his own family at North Hempstead in the 1860 census. Together Edmund and Caroline had four children: William Mackey Hyde, George C. Hyde, Daniel E. Hyde, and Charles E. Hyde. William Mackey Hyde The Sixth Generation “Bill Hyde (right), William Mackey Hyde was born May founder of Port 12, 1860, and died Nov. 21, 1927. He News, swaps fish stories with friend.” married Caroline “Carrie” D. Waite PWPL, N375 (b. 1855, d. 1948) on July 2, 1892, in Brooklyn; they had no children. Local historian Ernest Simon recalled, “His wife, known to her family and many friends as ‘Aunt Kad,’ was a good cook and one of her favorite dishes was cooking spiced mussels and preserving them in glass jars. She gave me a jar one time and the mussels tasted delicious.” (PWPL, N375) An avid sportsman, William was a member of the Port Washington Trap [Skeet] Shooting Club, which flourished in the early 1900s. William Hyde was founder, editor, and publisher of the Port Washington News. This newspaper was published every Friday, and a one-year subscription cost $1. The first microfilm article at the Port Washington Public Library is dated January 23, 1903. In the first issue Hyde declared, “It is the intention of the management to make a strong exponent of County, Town and Local affairs, especially the betterment of the community . and it will work hand and hand with those who favor village improvements.” A local history notes: “True to his word, Hyde, member of an old Port Washington family, became one of the most influential and probably the loudest voices in Cow Neck in matters of politics and civic betterment. He supported the Republican Party but was quick to point out what he considered stupidities and had no compunctions about editorializing in news columns. Typical was his reference to opponents of Supervisor Edwin Willets as a ‘certain unprincipled clique’.” (Turn of the Century XII, p. 17) THE OTTO BRANCH IN VIRGINIA u 3 Port Washington Ernest Simon described William Hyde at length in an article that was part of News his series “Port Remembered”: Eddie Hyde, son of “After attending the Port Washington Public School which stood on the George C. Hyde, corner of Mill Pond Rd. and Pleasant Ave., William Hyde took a job in commenced this week to Brooklyn.
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