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• • 5f \0^, c ^\. i./ /^^\ %,* .^^/r, \^/ z^^--. *«^^^« ..V 0* 5 V o V n '^^'^Digitizedb/the^ Internet A v*' :W *-^^ ' ^'^''-^ •?- - ^ ^M,- in 2008 with funding from ^v o .-^"'' The Library of Congress ^-^'5^.:;^,"'^^ ^•i'i'.'^"'^ °o /.>;i^.\ 0°*. < http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog15newy / THE NEW YORK r:,r.M^ nr.Tr.AL and BIOGRAPHICAL il^ "ixyi T.,-rvRFSTS OFo AMERICAN r)EVOTED TO THE INTERESTS Genealogy and Biography. ISSUED QUARTERLY, VOLUME XV., 1884. PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY, Avenue, No. 64 Madison MOTT MEMORIAL Ha^ New York City. 4119 PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. SAMUEL S. PURPLE, JOHN J. LATTING :HARLES B. MOORE, JAMES GRANT WILSON HENRY R. STILES, Mott Memorial Ball, 64 Madison Avenue. INDEX TO SUBJECTS. Alexander, James, Esq., Copy of Letters to and from, by Miss Elizabeth C. Jay, 130. American Branch of the Pruyn Family, by John V. L. Pruyn, Jr., 17, 97. Ancestor of Assistant Bishop Potter, of New York, 43. Ancestry and Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, by William Remsen Mulford, g. Anniversary Meeting of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 138. Antiquity and Origin of the Livingston Family, by E. Brockholst Livingston, F. S.A. Scot., 15, 105, 159. Berry, John, Deputy Gov. of New Jersey, and his Family, by Thomas H. Edsall, 49. Biographical Sketch of Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, LL.D., by John V. L. Pruyn, Jr., 97. Biography of Deputy Gov. John Berry, of New Jersey, by Thos. H. Ed?all, Esq., " 49. of Jonathan S. Lawrence, M. D., by Dr. George H. Butler, " 179. of Col. Ricliard NicoU, by Edward Holland NicoU, 103. " of Hon. John Stevens, of Perth Amboy, by Richard F. Stevens, 145. Baptisms of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York, 23, 81, 1 14, 162. Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers of the French Protestant Church in New York City, Notice of, 139. Butler, George H., M. D., his Biographical Sketch of Jonathan S. Lawrence, M.D., 179. Dutch Church (Reformed) of the City of New York, Records of Baptisms in, 23, 81, 114, 162. Dwight, Rev. Benjamin W., his Account of the Rogers Lineage, 150. Edsall, Thomas H., his Account of Deputy Gov. John Berry, of New Jersey, 49. Epitaphs of the Floyd Family at Setauket, L. I., by William Kelby, 41. " in Hunt's Point Cemetery, by Genl. James Grant Wilson, 42. Floyd Family Epitaphs at Setauket, L. I., by William Kelby, 41. French Protestant Church in New York City, Notice of Registers of, 139. Genealogy of the Berry Family of N. by Thomas H. Edsall, 52. " J., " Hart and Hooker Families, by Mrs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, loS. " " Moore Family of Southold, L. I., by Charles B. Moore, " 57. " Pruyn Family, by John V. L. Pruyn. Jr., 17, 87. " " Rogers Family, by Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight, 150. " " Willi? Family of L. I., by Benjamin D. Hicks, 170. Hicks, Benjamin D., Marriage Records of St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., 77, III, 176. Hicks, Benjamin D., Genealogy of the Willis Family of L. I., 170. Holland, Knighthood and Nobility of, by James Riker, 49. Hunt's Point Cemetery, Epitaphs in, by Genl. Jas. Grant Wilson, 42. Lnmigrants to New Netherland, List of, by Van Brunt Bergen, 33, 72. Jay, Miss Elizabeth Clarkson, Copies of Letters to and from James Alexander, Esq., 130. Kelby, William, his Collection of Floyd Family Epitaphs at Setauket, L. I., 41. Knighthood and Nobility of Holland, by James Riker, 49. List of Early Immigrants to New Netherland, by Van Brunt Bergen, 33, 72. Livingston Family, Notes on the Antiquity, etc., of, by E. Brockholst Livingston, F.S.4. Scot., 15, 105, 159. iv Index to Subjects. Marriages in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches of the City of New York, 30, 89, 132. Marriages in St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., communicated by Benjamin D. Hicks, 77, III, 176. Moore Family of Southold, L. I , by Charles B. Moore, 57. Mulford, William Remsen, his Ancestry and Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, 9. New Netherland, List of Early Immigrants to, by Van Brunt Bergen, 33, 72. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Anniversary Meeting of, 138. Nicoll, Col. Richard, Deputy Gov. of New York, Biography of, by Edward Holland Nicoll, 103. Notes on Books. Miscellanea Marescalliana, "Evacua- — 44 ; Pollock Genealogy, 45; tion Day," 1783, 45 ; Humphrey Family in America, 45, 144 ; The Townshend Family of Lynn, 46 ; Book of the Wilders, 46 ; Memorial of Zachariah Allen, The Papers and Biography of Lyon Gardiner, 1795-1882, 46 ; 1599-1663, 94 ; Historical Account of the Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniver- sary of the Organization of the First Church of New Canaan, Conn., June William 20, 1883, 95 ; Memorial of Daniel Tyler, 95 ; Records of Spooner, of Plymouth, Mass., and his Descendants, Vol. L, 1S83, 96; Windsor Farms; A Glimpse of an Old Parish, 1883, 140; The Halls of New England, Genealogical and Biographical, 1883, 141 ; Proceedings of the New England Genealogical and Biographical Society, January 2, 1884, 141 ; Some Records of the Dyer Family, 1884, 141; History of the First Church in Hartford, Ct., 1884, 142; Our French Allies . in the American Revolution, 1778-1782, 142 ; Acadia: A Lost Chapter in American History, 1884, 143 ; Memorial Biographies of New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. HL, 1856-1859, 143; Ralph Waldo Emerson : A Paper read before the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographi- cal Society, 1883, 143; Sketch of the Life of Samuel F. Pratt; with some Ac- count of the Pratt Family, of 1874, 143 ; The Deaborns, 144 ; History Chicago, Vol. L, 1884, 144 ; Centennial of the Incorporation of Charleston, S. C, 18S3, 178; Genealogical Records of the Carpenter Family [1883], 178. and Queries. —Anniversary Meeting of the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographi- :al Society, 138 ; British Flag, 92 ; Book, Couitly, 94, 138 ; Beach, 138 ; Brock- A'ay, 92 ; Coggeshall Family Reunion, 138, 177 ; Cogswells in America, 92, 138 Correction, 161, 177; Davis, 41; De La Noy, 178; Floyd Family Epitaphs at Setauket, L. I., 41 ; Gilley, 139; FLart, 177; Hawley, 138; Hayden, 92 Hunt's Point Cemetery, 42 ; Index to Names, 178; Johnston Family of Jamaica 1., Knowlton, W. 139; 139; Lintol-Trotler, 93 ; Ludlum, 193; Mathews, 44 Merritt, 177; Moffit-Miller, 93 ; New Barbadoes Neck, 139; Nicoll, 177; Pot- ter, Quency, Registers of the French Protestant of 43 ; 93 ; Church New York City, 139; Schuyler, 140; Seaman Family, 140; .Sloo, 140; Smith, 94, 140; Stoughtenburgh, 178 ; Van Tienhoven, 178 ; Van Vleck, 178 ; Voorhees and Van Voorhees, 140 ; Woolsey, 94. Obituary of George C. Arnold, 180; Rev. C. S. Henry, 180; W. H. Hunt, 96; Dr. Philip L. Dr. Jones, 48; Jonathan S. Lawrence, 179; Charles J. Palmer, 47; Eliza S. Quincy, 48 ; Schuyler Van Rensselaer, 96. Phelps, Mrs. Almira Hart Lincoln, her Account of the Hart and Hooker Families, 108. Pruyn Family—American Branch, by J. V. L. Pruyn, Jr., 17, 97. Registers of the French Protestant Church of New Y'ork City, Notice of, 139. Riker, James, on the Knighthood and Nobility of Holland, 69. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Y'ork City, Baptisms, 23, 8i, 114, 162. " " Presbyterian Church in New York City, Marriages, 132. " 30, 89, " St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., Marriages, iii, 176. " 77, " French Protestant Church in New York, Notice of, 139. Rogers Lineage, by Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight, 150. Stevens, Richard F., Sketch of Hon. John Stevens, of Perth Amboy, 145. St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., Marriage Records, by Benjamin D. Hicks, 77, in, 176. Wilson, Genl. James Grant, Collection of Epitaphs in Hunt's Point Cemetery, 42. THE NEW YORK Vol. XV. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1884. No. i. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, HIS ANCESTRY AND WRITINGS. By William Remsen Mulford. The publication of a "Life of J. Feniuiore Cooper" has drawn con- siderable attention to that already justly celebrated author. The work, while commencing in a strain rather commendatory of the graceful and natural novelist, becomes toward the middle and conclusion not only acrimoniously critical but is found to contain, here and there, quite a tinge of bitterness. Nor is this work calculated to advance the dignity of one of the greatest American authors and certainly one of the sub- stantial foundation-stones upon which the fair superstructure of American literature so securely rests. We think that Prof. Lounsbury would have shown better taste only to have referred to the disagreements between the novelist and the press in a general way, instead of dealing so minutely with all the unjust and violent remarks that were made in the heat of battle. The result of the repetition of these has been to give rise to false im- pressions of Cooper's origin and antecedents, two very important ingre- dients in any man's biography, and leads to the opinion that Mr. Cooper had a reprehensible weakness for an ancestry which he could not claim, and that so abjectly miserable was the condition of the stock from which he sprang that he was unable, or, as it is more unkindly conjectured, unwill- ing to name his own grandfather ! Now, first of all let it be understood that Cooper came of the ordinary "good" American family. Let us get rid at once of the incorrect notion that he did not. Instead of having come from such gross obscurity James Fenimore Cooper was descended in the fourth generation, from (i) James Cooper, of Stratford-upon Avon, Warwickshire, England, who was born in 1661, and "in 1683 bought a lot on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia (oppo- site the marble Custom House)," and who was identified with various pur- chases of land.