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<71Z&>H EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS

MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

GEORGE C. BEEKMAN.

MOREAU RROS., PUBLISHERS,

FREEHOLD, N". J. Second Edition Printed, 1915. 1233693 PREFACE.

When the publication of these articles on the Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth was begun in The Freehold Transcript,

I had no idea they would develop to such Length. Several of the articles written for the weekly issues of this

newspaper read all right therein, but now, gathered together in hook form, they appear fragmentary and disconnected. A great deal of time and labor by more than one person has been devoted to gathering material from public records, family papers, tombstone inscriptions, and other original sources of

information. Much of this is comprised in short notes and small type, and, by putting these compilations in hook form

they will be accessible for reference. For there is much work to be done before a full genealogy can be written of either the Conover, Hendrickson, or Schanck families. The illustrations are chiefly old dwelling houses erected by the early settlers or their sons. The buildings are disappear- ing before the march of improvement and the decay of time, and

in another generation not one will probably he left. Some are of the Dutch style of architecture, others of the English, but they show the radical difference of the two races in character.

1 have been unable to procure the likeness of any of our pioneer settlers, and therefore was compelled to select persons of the present generation, who bear in form or features a strong family resemblance to their parental ancestors. These selec- tions have been made by myself, and solely for the above reason. Among these pictures are four members of different generations of the same family, all closely connected by ties of blood. Each generation shows a marked difference, yet a

( family likeness can he detected in all of them. (i. '. I'».

Freehold, X. .1., August 7, L901.

RECORDS OF THE CONOVERS, SCHENCKS AND VANDERVEERS.

Roelof Martense Schenck In. in Amersfoort, Province of Utrecht, Hol- land, in 1619. and came to New Amster- He names in dam with his brother Jan. and sister Annetje. in 1650. In 1660 he married Neeltje, daughter of Gerrit Wolphertse VanCouwenhoven, who was a son of Wolfert Garretson VanCouwenhoven. who came from Amersfoort aforesaid to America in 1630 with the Dutch emigrants who settled Rensselaerwick. near what is now Albany in the state ot New York. Soon after his marriage t.) Neeltje Gonover (as the name is now spelled) he settled permanently at Flatlands, Long- Island, where his wife had been born. His will was made September!. 1704. Aug Book

..... with other int. rn ttion i i mlng him and many of his d< ic< ndants, is pub lished in a book compiled by Capl A. D. Schenck U. S. A., published in 1S83 and entitled "Ancestry and Descendants of Rev. William Schenck." The will of his son Garret, who settled in Monmouth county, N. J., is also published in this work: it was executed January 12, 1739, proved October 7th, 1745, and is now on r rd in the office of Secretary of the state of New Jersey. Roeloi' Martense Schenck devised all his real .state to his eldest son Martin, who married June 20th, 1686. Susanna Abrahamse I'.rinckerhotT He bequeaths to his two youngest sons. Garret and Jan. and to his six living daughters, Jonica, Maryke, Margaretta, Neeltje Maykj and Sara, and the two children of his a aseJ daughter Ann-itje sixtj and a half pounds each, and makes thtse legacies thai geable upon the r.-al estate devised to his eldest son. His two sons, Garret and Jan, settled in Monmouth county about 1695. Their names appear in our court and other public records soon after this date. They and their wives were among the first communicants of the Marlboro Dutch church, as now called. Garret Schenck married Neeltje Coerten Van- Voorhees at Flatlands, L. L, and died September 5, 1745. on the farm known as the Rappleyea farm at Pleasant Val- EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS Of MONMOUTH.

Peter Wicoff gave their ear marks to lid be ight be recorded." "Garret Schenck, his ear marks, a Neither do I know of any of this fork on top of left ear and a piece cut name who has been convicted of any aslope of the upper or foreside of the infamous crime. Their family history right ear, making the ear both shorter is remarkably free from all dishonor- and narrower. Recorded to his son." able stains. While none of them have "Cornelius Couwenhoven, his mark is achieved fame as authors, ministers, a fork on the right ear and a small cut presidents, generals, or millionaires, in on the underside of the left ear. yet on the other hand they have gen- Recorded to his son." erally occupied respectable positions, "Peter Wicoff, his ear mark is a hole led useful lives, and been good citizens. through the rig-tit ear and a piece cut That is, the Conovers are not found at aslope off the upper or foreside of the either extreme of the social scale but left ear, making the ear both shorter on the safe middle ground. During the and narrower." stormy days of the Revolution I do not "April 25. 1698, John Schenck, his ear know of a single Conover, Smock, mark is a crape of the top of the near Schenck, or Vanderveer in Monmouth ear and a half penny on each side of county who was a Tory. On the con- same ear." trary, so far as I can learn, they were Second. Albert Williamse VanCou- all sturdy, uncompromising patriots. wenhoven, born at Flatlands, L. I., Dec- Many of them, like Captain Jacob Cov- ember 7, 1676, married there about 1701 enhoven. Colonel Barnes Smock. Cap- Neeltje Schenck and died in Monmouth tains John and William Schenck and county July 7. 1751. Tunis Vanderveer, did yeoman service Third. Jacob Williamse VanCouwen- both in council and battle for their hoven, born at Flatlands, L. I., January country. During the late war of the 29, 1679, married there November 12, rebellion the records of our state show- 1705, Sarah Schenck and died at Middle- that over 50 Schencks and over 70 Con- town, Monmouth county. December 1, overs, served in the New Jersey reg- 1744. iments. I, therefore, can sincerely say Thus a very clase relationship, both that I do not know of any family of by blood and intermarriage, existed be- Dutch descent who have a better right tween the two Schenck brothers, and the to celebrate the year 1930, the tricen- three Conover brothers who first settled tennial of their residence in America here, and who are the ancestors of all (now only 32 years off) than .the Con- who now bear those names in Mon- overs and their kinsmen among the mouth county. Smocks, Schencks and Vanderveers. The name VanCouwenhoven, .-•s the They can then sing with gusto and Dutch language yielded very slowly but truth the following verses and no one surely to the English tongue, under- can question their right to do so, or the went several changes both in spelling propriety of such a tricentennial jubilee. and pronunciation. Our early court and church records show some of these Ye sturdy Dutchmen, now arise, changes. The "Van" was dropped and of the ancient times. spelled Couwenhoven or Kowen- •For singing name for to go: next Coven- We're going hoven. Then Cowenhoven, When this fair land on every hand hoven or Covenoven. and finally Con- Was peopled by the Dutch, over. And all the rest however blest. This family have been in America They did not count for much. centuries. As the original nearly three Of centennial celebrations. progenitor came here in 1630, another We've had some two or more; generation, or 32 years from present These upstarts of an hundred years. date, will complete this period since the But one find in their score. Conover tree was first planted in the And tho' they boast a mighty host, new world. Very few families in the "Four Hundred," brave and fair: United States of Netherland blood can We quietly look in History's book to find them there. show such an ancient lineage, about And fail which there can be no doubt. Neither Chorus. can any family show greater fidelity in I am a Van, of a Van, of a Van. of a Van. their obedience to the Scriptural in- Of a Van of a way back line: feature junction "to increase and multiply in On every rugged Ancestral glories shine. the land." If all the male and female all our band in kinship stand. Garritson And descendants ol Wolphert With all that's old and fine. VanCouwenhoven now in the United I'm a Van. of a Van. of a Van, of a Van, St.-iU-s coul. 1 be gathered together in Of a Van of ;i way back line. TRAITS OF CONOVER CHARACTER. FANCIFUL ORIGIN OF THE NAME.

I have sometimes heard the inquiry, Although this old "VanCouvenhoven" what does "Covenhoven" mean in the name has been often changed, yet the Low Dutch language? genuine Conovers retain in a marked This question I cannot answer, al- degree the physical and mental char- though many years ago. I heard a acteristics of the Batavian and Frisian gentleman of this family give the fol- race from which they spring. That is, lowing explanation: where they have not intermarried too He said that in the early settlement often with French, Irish, English or of Long Island, a Hollander with a long other foreign people. jaw-breaking name, had taken up his The real Couvenhoven, whose Dutch residence near Gravesend. His nearest blood is unadulterated, is generally a neighbors were English people, who fine looking specimen of the "genus had followed Lady Deborah Moody from homo." Robust and well proportioned Massachusetts Bay. They were unable in person, square shouldered and deep to understand his Dutch talk any better chested, with ruddy complexion, light than he understood their foreign blue eyes and sandy hair. Bluff in speech. Neither were they able to pro- manner, sincere and frank in expression nounce his name. Near his house he of his opinions, honest in his dealings had erected on four posts an old fash- and grim and tenacious in resolution. ion Trickery, deceit and show he detests, common in Monmouth county fifty years and would rather be underestimated ago. They had a level brick bottom, than overestimated by other people. He some three or four feet wide, and eight wants the substantial things of this or ten in length. This was arched over life and not the mere show or appear- with brick. Light dry fuel, like old ance of things. That is, he would choose fence rails, was placed in the oven and anytime a square meal of pork and fired. When the wood was consumed potatoes, rather than a fine or fashion- and the oven thoroughly heated, the able suit of broadcloth, with jewelry bread, pies or other things to be baked, to match, on an empty stomach. Such were shoved in with a long handled are some of the traits of the genuine iron shovel. The door was then closed Couvenhoven. if a true descendant of until the articles were thoroughly done. the first Hollanders of this name. And This Hollander also owned a cow. which there ought to be many genuine Con- had been brought over from his old overs in Monmouth. The late Rev. Gar- sea-home, and was a highly prized ani- ret C. Schenek told the writer that mal in those early days. One cold win- there have been 150 marriages in Mon- ter's night, a pack of hungry wolves mouth county since 1700 where both approached very close to his dwelling. the bride and groom were of this name. Their fierce howling frightened the The three brothers who settled here, cow. so that she broke out of the shed, must have been men of marked individ- and ran wildly around the house. uality, great vigor, and force of char- on acter. For a century after their settle- four posts she kicked Thi ment, or in 1800. their respective des- dent was talked about by the English cendants were spoken of as three sep- neighbors who, unable to pronounce his arate or distinct branches or families. name, described him as the man whose The late Samuel Conover, who was cow kicked over, or went over the oven. twice sheriff of Monmouth county, often This was soon abbreviated into "Cow- remarked that there were three kinds and-oven," or "Cow-n-hoven." This is of Conovers, and distinguished as the doubtless a fanciful explanation. Like "Lop-eared" Conovers, the "Big-foot" those given by Washington Irving in Conovers and the "Wide-mouth" or his Knickerbocker History of New 'W< Con York, of the meaning or origin of Dutch The lop-eared variety were so called surnames, based on the erroneous idea, because of their protuberant ears, set that Dutch names have a meaning like at right angles with the head. They English words of "idem sonans." were1 noted for their up-to-date farms. :

EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS'OF MONMOUTH. substantial building's and good strong overs, were generally tall and wiry fences. Their crops in the rear of their men. Polished and polite in manners, farms were as well cultivated and look- smooth and pleasant in speech, and ed as good as those next to the public very well groomed in appearance and highway, for none of them liked •'Pres- dress. Fond of fast horses and elegant byterian" farming, as they called it. carriages, of fashionable clothing and They liked to set a good table with full expensive jewelry. This variety of the in and plenty on it, and the "wayfaring Conovers were also very successful man." if half decent in looks, who hap- horse trading, in running for office and pened to come along at meal time, was also occasionally in "bucking the tiger" never denied a seat at their table. when led into it by bad company. In The "Big-foot" Conovers. although fact they were at home in any business sadly lacking in the standard of beauty which required diplomacy or extra which prevails in the Celestial empire, finesse. are nevertheless a fine looking people. How this description given by Sheriff Some of the most handsome men and Sam Conover tallies with the real facts most beautiful women ever raised in the reader can judge for himself. I Monmouth county can be found among merely repeat the current gossip with- the different generations of the big- out vouching for its accuracy. Although foot variety. They. too. liked good big 1 can safely say that so far as success- farms, solid and comfortable buildings ful horse trading and office getting for man and beast, with well filled goes, nobody has ever beat the Couven- barns, well stocked cellars and smoke hovens in Monmouth county, unless it houses, with true friends and neighbors is the Hendricksons. Schencks. Smocks to gather around the blazing fire, and or Va ?ho lly mi'- partake of the good cheer of their iths Cone homes. The "Wide-mouth" or "Weasel" roll-

THE WILL OF JAN SCHENCK, AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.

Soul .Ian Schenck. who settled on and and first of all I give and recommend my gave it. and my owned the farm now owned by Edgar into the hands of God that Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in in Holmdel township, was a Schenck like and decent manner at the dis- side Christian VanCouwenhoven on his mother's cretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned, He likewise married an own cousin, nothing doubting but at the General Resur- Sarah Couwenhoven, who was a sister rection I shall receive the same again by the of the three brothers of this name, who mighty power of God; and as touching these wordly things and Estate wherewith it has all married Schenck wives and settled pleased God to bless me in this life. I give. in county. Monmouth Devise and Dispose of the same in manner and executed September 7th, His will was form following. Viz: Imprimis I Will and A. D. 1746. proved June 3rd, 17?:i. and positively Order that all my Debts and Funeral is now on record in the office of Secre- charges be paid and fully discharged in con- tary of State at Trenton. N. .1.. in Book venient time after my Deceas9 by my Exec- hereafter mentioned. Item: I give and V ,',{ Wills, pages 262, etc. utors bequeath to Sarah, my dearly beloved wife The following is a true copy of this (and hereby order that she shall have) the full and sole use and possession and benefit of In the name of God Amen all and singular my Estate Real and Personal The seventh day of September in the twen- after my decease of what nature or kind soever to be tieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord or wheresoever the same may be found George the Second by the grace of God over belonging to me. by any way or means what- Great Britian King. etc. Annoq Domni one ever the usi benefits and profits thereof, and thousand seven hundred and fourty-six, I, every part and parcel thereof to be received by John Schenck. Sen.. 6f Middletown in the and belong unto her for and during her natural County of Monmouth and Eastern Division of life. That is to say for the support of herself the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in and maintenance of my loving son John wife's health of body and of sound and perfect mind Schenck, so long as my above said therefore life shall continue. Item : I give, be- and memory thanks be given to God : natural calling unto mind the mortality of my body queath and Devise unto my aforesaid son, John aforesaid and knowing that it is appointed for all men Schenck, after the decease of my once to Die. do make and ordain this my last loving wife. Sarah Schenck. all and singular will anil Testament. That is to say Principally my Lands and Tenements, meadows and Rights DANIEL SCHENCK JOHN L. SCHENCK

JOHN C. SCHENCK DANIEL P. SCHENCK

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

to Lands and meadnws thai 1 shall die posses- queathed to him) the sum of Ten pounds to be sed of or that shall by any way or means be- paid to him by my Executors in convenient

long unto me at the time of my decease ; the time after my Decease. And lastly I do here- same immediately after the decease of my by make, ordain, constitute and appoint my aforesaid wife, to he received held possessed beloved wife, Sarah Schenck. and my loving and Enjoyed by my said son, John Schenck. Son. Roelof Schenck. Executrix and Executor his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their of this my last Will and Testament hereby own proper use. benefit and behoof forever. utterly disallowing, revoking and disannulling He performing, fulfilling and paying what is all and every other former Testament, Wills. hereinafter by me appointed for him to pay Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in and discharge as legacies to his brothers and any wise before named willed and bequeathed. sisters a.s follows: Viz: It is my will and ratifying and confirming this and no other to desire and I do hereby order that my said son. be my last Will and Testament. John Schenck, shall pay unto my two sons, In witness whereof I have here unto Set my Roelof and Peter, and their seven sisters in Hand and Seal, this day and year above writ- eiiual portions the sum of four hundred and ten. JAN SCHENCK. [L. S.] fifty pounds current money of the Province This Will contained in two half side sheet of aforesaid at eight shillings the ounce: the one paper, the one of fourty-seven lines, the other half in two years and the other half in five of fourty-one lines without any alterations or years after the Decease of the longest liver be interlinations was signed, sealed and pronoun- it either me or my wife : that is twenty-five ced l.y the said Jan Schenck. to be his last Will pounds to eacn of my said nine children at two and Testament in Presence of Roelof Couven- of years and twenty-five pounds more to each hoven. Garret Schenck, Tho. Craven. , them at the end of five years after the decease The foregoing is a true copy Executed by of the longest liver of us two : that is me and THO. BARTOW. my wife. I do further order and it is my will and desire that the fifty pounds that falls to Jan Schenck and his wife my daughter Sarah be equally divided between were buried in the old my said Daughter Sarah and all her children, Schenck and Couvenhoven as well as those she had by Johannes Voorhees, burying- ground, which lies at the cor-"

as those she had by Hendrick Voorhees : also ner of the farms of Edgar Schenck. in case of the Death of either of my two sons Theodore R. Thorne and Henry Con- over, about half a mile from Holmdel them should die before they have received their village and near the turnpike to Key- part of the said sum of four hundred and fifty port. This graveyard las lately been pounds, then my will and desire is and I do hereby strictly charge and order that the share cleared up and put in order by .Mrs. or part thereof that should be paid to such so Lydia Hendrickson Schenck Conover, Dying shall be by my said Son John, paid to daughter of the late Daniel P. Schenck, the Heirs of their Body or Bodies them surviv- and widow of Dr. Charles A. Conover of ing: also it is my will and desire that after Marlboro. It was a very creditable the decease of the longest liver of us two : that work for which she deserves my said sm John shall have his outfit of my commen- movable Estate in quantity and quality equal dation. She has also devoted much time with his Brothers and Sisters as they had of and labor to tracing up an accurate me when they left me, and if any of my mov- record of the descendants of Jan able Estate be then left, I will and devise it Schenck from church records, inscrip- may be equally divided between all my chil- tions on old tombstones, and private dren. And in case my said Son John Dies be- family papers scattered through many fore he is seized and possessed of the said Es- farmhouses in tate in fee simple, then I give and bequeath the Holmdel and the adja- s?.me to my two sons and seven daughters, viz: cent townships. She has thus- completed that the whole Estate given as above said to a genealogy which can be depended on my said Son John shall be said to the highest foi tccuracy. I am indebted to her for bidder anmn-jsl my children, and the money nearly all the dates of births, deaths thence arising shall he equally Divided amongst and marriages contained in this paper. .ht...' She has accomplished a work which will and fifty pouncs is to he Divided in every respect what- be more appreciated in the future than ever. But it is my Will and Desire anything though she had erected a costly mon- herein contained to the contrary notwithstamf ument of marble over their graves. She ing that my said Son John at the time of his has honored the memory of a virtuous, Decease have issue of his Body, lawfully be- hardy and industrious race of men and gotten altho it be before he is in actual pos- women, who laid the foundation 'if the session : that if his Ex. shall perform in every solid respectability and prosperity particular what is herein by me ordered : that then the whole Fstate given to him as afore- which their descendants have so long said shall be and remain to his lawful Heirs etojoyed in Monmouth county and else- and assigns forever. Item: I Give and be- where in i lie United States when thej queath unto my Son. Roelof Schenck. the sum have settled. of Ten pounds money at eight shillings to the Some of the descendants of the two ounce with interest, to Barr him of further Schenck brothers settled Claims to my Estate or part thereof either who here over Real or Personal as Heir-at-Law or otherwise two centuries since, like Hen Robert C. Schenck .if Ohio, Admiral Findlay EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

Schenck and others, have left names homestead farm in Pleasant Valley. famous all over our country for ability John Schenck, by his wife, Nellie and patriotism. Bennett, who was born November 29, Jan Schenck by his wife. Sarah Cou- 1728. and died June 1st, 1810, had fol- wenhoven, had the following children: lowing children all born on the farm in Roelof, b. February 21, 1692, married Pleasant Valley:

Get ' daughter of Sheriff or ('apt. 'John Schenck. b. June 10. 17 52. Daniel Hendrickson; d. January 1!'. 1766. Chrineyonce, b. September 18. 1753. died Sarah, b. 1696, married May IS, 1721, young. Johannes Voorhees of New Brunswick, William, b. March 30, 1755. X. .1. Second husband, Hendrick Voor- Ida, b. February 1. 1757. hees of Freehold township. Sarah, b. February 13. 1759, married Altje, baptized May 25. 1705. married Ruliff, son of Hendrick Schenck and Chrystjan VanDooren. d. 1S01. Catharine Holmes, her own cousin. Dec- Rachel, b. February in, 1709, is said ember 22. 1774: d. April 13th. 1811. to have married a F.oone of Kentucky. Chrineyonce, b. December 20. 176". Maria, b. August 8, 1712, married married November 20, 1793, Margaret Jacob VanDooren and died October 31. Polhemus; d. March 15. 1840. 1756. Peter or Ogburn. b. May 27. 17C3, Leah, b. December 24th, 1714, married married Anna Ogden. December 17th, 1735, Peter Couwen- Nellie, b. January 13, 1765, married hoven and died March 14. 1769. October 20, 1785, Joseph H. Holmes: William, baptized April 13, 1718. died died June 5, 1838. young. Annie, b. November 15, 1766. married Jannetje, baptized April 12, 1719, mar- December 28, 1786. Denyse Hendrickson. ried Bertiardus Verbryke, who is said Marv. b. January 23. 1769: d. May 12. to have settled at Nesharainy, 1'a. 1772. John. b. June 27, 1722, married June Daniel, b. April 1. 1771. married Octo 28, 1750, Nellie Bennett; d. December ber 13. 1793, Catharine Smock: d. Aug- 24, 1808. ust 9, 1845. Antje. b. married Arie VanDooren. Marv, b. April 19, 1775. married John Peter, b. married first Jannetje O. Stillwell, March 25. 1806: died Sept- VanNostrand, second. Jannetje Hend- -iber 1864 rickson. John, to whom the father devised all his real estate, lived and died on the

DUTCH TENACITY AS SHOWN BY THEIR LOVE FOR THEIR CHURCH.

Roelof Schenck. the eldest son of Jan sit,. o£ the Brick Church, about two or Schenck and Sara Couvenhoven, his three hundred yards south of the public wile, had no real estate devised to him road, which now passes by the Brick under his lather's will although he was Church, and about 500 yards east of appointed one of the executors. The the railroad track. The buildings are reason of this was that he had acquired now all gone. The lands owned by a large tract of land at and in the him in this vicinity are now cut up into vicinity of ivjiat is now Bradevelt sta- several large and valuable farms, some tion. Marlboro township, then a part of of win, h are still owned and occupied Freehold township. The younger son by his descendants on the female side. John, had doubtless remained at home Rev. Theodore W Wells in his mem- working on his father's farm. He was orial address at Brick church, speaks of 28 years old when he married Nellie this Roelof Schenck. and states he was Bennett. When his father's will was called "Black Roelof" and noted for his executed he was unmarried, while the great physical strength. He was also eldest son Roelof. had been married ill person who selected the site of the some thirty years, and had eight chil- church edifice, where it has remained to dren and also grandchildren at this this day. by carting the first load of time. building stones tn the spot, tin page His dwelling house stood near the ::os in "Old Times in Old Monmouth" EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF .VOXMOUTH. are several references to this Roelof Schenck, who was quite a noted business man in his day and active in church work.

The first two Schenck brothers. Gar- I. brutal and ret and Jan. were anions the first or- isting these ganizers and supporters of the Dutch s. hoods and church in Monmouth county. Their nth as could names appear on the early record.-, both herds of the as elders and deacons. surrendered The majority of their descendants nd the glor- down to the present day have generally O it. A rcs- sustained this church or the churches' n of this de- which have sprung: from it. ted to this They have been married, their children baptized and their funerals sol- emnized by the clergymen of the Dutch church. Many ot them sleep then- last sleep in the yard adjacent to the Brick Church, as the tombstones show. Rev. Theodore W. Wells has given us a full history of the successivi pastors of this church, but the history oi tin- congregation is yet to be written. When it is. the Schencks and their kinsmen among the Hendricksons, Vanderveers, (•movers and Smocks, will occupy the Lnd the rom the pen progress and prosperity of the Dutch an account church in America is due to the stabil- it Schodack the ity and tenacity inherent in Dutch . X. Y. The character, rather than to any excellency in the church government or its polity, and ability of its trained clergymen. In fact the clergymen of this denom- ination committed a great blunder when they dropped the name "Dutch" and called themselves the "Reformed Church." This name is applicable to the Episcopalians. Quakers or any other of the many protestant sects, and has no particular meaning. Instead of resisting the detraction, ridicule and abuse, which originated in

England, and was has.-, I on conflicting interests, commercial rivalries and national prejudices, which prevailed during the reign of Charles II, and which saturated all English literature they justly deserve ever "i thai period, they weakly yielded to pairs the extravagant clai it. This denunciation of Holland and the Republican government and citizens of that country was increased, through the bitter malice and rank partizan

feeling which prevailed in England tin- tirst se t side of during the reign of William of Orange. the Hudson mouths V- M ucauley in his history of England of Kinderhi has shown, ev.-ry effort was madi bj the adherents of the Stuart dynastj md the papists to stir up English hate and

pi i ice, by denouncing a rid i idiculing the "Dutch" in order to overthrow their "Dutch King" and the Stadholdei 01 EARLY DITCH SETTLERS OE MOXMOCTH. near the site of the present burying Protestant religion holds its own firmly ground. This was the origin of the imbued in the mind of the Hollander. church now in existence at Mutzeskill, "It is a singular fact that when a which is either the third or fourth Reformed Dutch church is established, edifice. it is there to stay. In very few instan- "It was regularly incorporated in ces has a Dutch church been abandoned 1788 by the name of 'The Ministry. when once fairly established in the Elders and Deacons of the Reformed f thH Protestant Dutch Church at Schodack.' "it lives, prospers and holds its own In 1810the church edifice was removed although surrounded by Catholics. back from the Hudson river about two Methodists, Episcopalians, and other and a half miles to Mutzeskill. where it persuasions. The Dutch church did its ill lins. full share and more in spreading" the "The Hollanders were then, as their cause of our Saviour from 1637 to 1785 descendants are now. firm, reliable tha )the Christians— few or no infidels among colony of New York. them. The descendants of these men "Time has rolled on, but still the dis- are today more free from cant, hypoc- tinctive mark of the Hollander remains. risy and "isms" than are the descend- The church at Schodack Landing may ants of the English. Comparatively be said to be the mother church of the few, if any of Holland descent, stray Dutch churches on the east bank of away from the path of rectitude and the Hudson river." virtue or the protestant faith of their This account comes from a man fathers; while the English become whose judicial experience, associations Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and English descent place it above all Catholics, and frequently what all suspicion of bias or partiality. By sim- decent people despise, skeptics or relig- ply changing name of church and loca- ious reformers, which is another name tion, it is applicable to the First Dutch for hypocrites or infidels. Such has church of Monmouth county, as well as been the experience of those who have other old churches in New Jersey of observed the fate of the Dutch, Pres- byterians, Methodists and Baptists of The same kind of people founded and the vicinity of which I speak. sustained them, and the same results "One of the reasons why the Holland- have followed. Our forefathers from ers have so long retained and main- Holland had real practical faith and tained their foothold and standing in trust in God. They believed He cared the valley of the Hudson and also along for them in the wilderness of the New- the Mohawk is because of their ten- World, surrounded by the fierce .Mohawk acity and firmly fixed moral and relig- warriors, the perils, diseases and hard- ious principles, temperate habits and ships of their pioneer life, as He had in homely and disinterested virtues. They their memorable struggle of 80 years do not run about, emigrate from place with Spain and the popish hierarchy. to place, and are not continually on the This church of their fathers had been go, jump and run. They are not yearly born "amidst perils, tears and blood:" movers, are not easily moved from their its countless martyrs were subjected to fixed residences, but are stable in all all the cruelties and tortures Spanish their ways. malice, treachery and bigotry could "The residence of the Hollander can inflict or the inquisitors could invent, be very readily distinguished from that and their deeds of courage, sacrifice of other nationalities, because his resi- and endurance have never been excelled dence once selected, the location be- in the annals of human history. The comes his home and at once he sets to persecution of the Puritans in Engl nd work to improve it. Buildings, fruit or of the Presbyterians in Scot) nd trees, gardens and shrubbery are put were but child's play compared to the up. planted, looked after and cared for. wholesale massacres and tortures of "The fences are in a still betin con- the Dutch people by that Spanish Nero, dition, and the farm is mote carefully Philip II. and that fiend incarnate, the cultivated than the farms of those who Duke of Alva. Instead of weakly are moving from place to place and yielding to the abuse, ridicule and de- who never, as it were, live anywhere traction which had been heaped "it Of long. The Hollander has been trui "Dutch." "The Shepherds of the Church" to his country's principles of liberty should have repelled with indignation and religion and he has steadily ad- the mere suggestion of dropping' the hered to the Reformed Dutch church "historic name." Instead of being here in the State ol New York. The ashamed they should have gloried in A

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

his dwelling house near this spot. He also married the daughter of Daniel Hendrickson, who was one of the principal "From out the sea. O Motherland, organizers of the Dutch church of Our fathers plucked thy billowy strand; Monmouth county, and one of its earli- As from the deep. 2lde His e and the name of Where treasures sleep. Catha VanDyke, appear The pearl rewards the daring hand. s of this church as And when far angrier billows broke, Hendrickson came Of bigot hate and war's fell stroke. from Long Island tied on the Our sires withstood farm now owned by his great-great This sea of blood, grandson. Hon. William Henry Hend- With hearts no tyrant's hand could rickson at Holland in Holmdel town- yoke. ship. He was the first person of Hol- The thrift that wrought, like Moses' rod. land descent to hold the office of high A path where man had never trod: sheriff of this county, and he was also That highway kept. an officer of the county militia. He was very active in all church work, and often conducted service on the Sabbath in absence of any regular clergyman. The late Rev. G. C. Schenck had in his possession a -sermon printed in Dutch Where commerce sped language With boundless tread. which had been written and And art bloomed forth in beauteous delivered by this Daniel Hendrickson. flower. Roelof Schenck married Geesie. one of his daughters, and Jonathan Holmes A land where knowledge grew for all Where conscience knew no gyve or married Tuniche. another daughter. thrall; Their names also appear among com- Where exiled bands municants of this church on pages 86- From other lands. 87 of Wells' memorial address. Roelof Bore truth, that made old errors fall. Schenck and Jonathan Holmes, his sons- That land can well afford to be in-law, were appointed executors of his The theme of Irving's pleasantry; will and settled up his estate. Hen- And toss the jest drick, a son of Roelof Schenck. married From off its crest. Catharine, a daughter of Jonathan off it the sea. As tossed mocking Holmes, his own cousin, and his and Ou. hearts untraveled high expand. her children were therefore doubly the To read thy record strangely gram.; grandchildren of this Daniel Hendrick- With tongue aflame. We call thy name. Roelof Schenck nd his wife, And proudly own thee. Motherland." Geesie —Vedde Hendrickson, toge ter with their son. Hendrick Schenck ind his wife, Cath- Roelof Schenck arine Holmes, ar all buried in the lands around what Schenek-Couwenhc en burying ground Brick church, but Holmdel township.

ROELOF SCHENCK AND HIS DESCENDANTS.— WOMAN OF GREAT BUSINESS CAPACITY.

Roelof Schenck, by his wife, Geesie EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OE MO.XMOt ~TH.

Holmes and Tuniche Hendrickson. his wife, and died August 24, 1766, at the early age of the dwelling house so long as she lived. thirty-five years. Catharine Holmes, his wife, This will was evidently made while the was born May 11. 1731, died May 12, 1796. It testator was sick and just before his is said she married a second husband, one death. John Schenck, of Penns Neck. The injustice of some of the provisions made trouble, and it is a Roelof Schenck made his will April warning that an important matter like 10, 1765, proved March 3. 1766, and is the making of a will should not be de- now on record in Secretary of State's ferred until a man is on his death bed. office at Trenton in Book 1 of Wills, To make a fair and judicious will re- page 93, etc. quires all the faculties of a well man. He describes himself as a resident of When a man's mind is clouded by sick- Freehold township, which then included ness and his time is short, it is impos- that part of Marlboro township where sible to make a will which is just to all he resided. He gives to his grandson. concerned. Such wills generally make Ruliff, his land at the Point. To his trouble. The devise of all his real and grandsons, Ruliff and Cornelius, the personal estate to his son Ruliff. was plantation he bought of Peter Voorhees. further subjected to the payment of To his daughter. Nelly Couwenhoven, £160 to each of his four daughters, as one hundred acres of land near the they came of age. He appoints his church. All the rest of his lands called uncle, John Schenck. of Middletown Timber Neck, he devised in fee to his township, and Daniel Holmes and Oba- son, Hendrick, subject to payments of diah Herbert of Freehold township, legacies amounting in all to eleven executors. The same persons witness hundred and twenty pounds as follows: his will as witnessed his father's will To his granddaughter, Geesie Schenck. the preceding year. £280. To his six grandchildren, the On the fly leaf of an old English Bible children of his daughter, Catharine still in existence, and which the writer Couwenhoven, viz: Simon DeHart, has seen, is this inscription: Geesie DeHart, Jacob Couwenhoven. "Ann Holn Ruliff Couwenhoven, Mary Couwen- hoven and John Couwenhoven, £280, share and share alike. To his three grandchildren, the children of his daughter, Sara VanMater, £280, share and share alike. To his daughter. Nelly Couwenhoven, £280. He also speaks in this will of the children of his deceased Between the Old and New Testament son, John. Hendrick Schenck. his son, is a record of the births of the children and Garret Couwenhoven and Peter of Hendrick Schenck and Catharine Holmes, his wife, as follows: Couwanhoven, two of his sons-in-law, are appointed executors. The will is "Rulif Schenck was born April 17. 1752." Cornelius witnessed by William Tice. "Sarah Schenck was born May 26. 1755." iho\ id John Tice. "Mary Schenck was born March 17. 1757." This Roeloi Sell, nek was a noted man "Jonathan Schenck was boi n July 19. 1761." in his day and did considerable business "Catharine Schenck was born March 7. for others in the way of settling es- 1762." "Eleanor Schenck was born March 17, 1764." tates, etc. He served as foreman of "Ann Schenck was born June 14. 1766." the grand jury at the October term, 1751, of our county courts, and his name Of these children Sarah and Jonathan also appears quite frequently in public died young. matters. Ruloff Schenck. the only surviving Hendrick Schenck. his son, died with- son, married December 22, 1771. his in a year after his father. His will was own cousin. Sarah, daughter of John made August 23, 1766. proved September Schenck and Nellie Bennett, his wife, 12. 1766, and is recorded in Secretary of of Pleasant Valley, and died October 12, State's office at Trenton in Book 1 of 1800. His wife was born February 1:1. Wills, page 105, etc. 1759, and died April 13, 1811. Thej are He devises to his only son. Ruliff. all buried in the old Schenck and Couwen- his personal and real property, subject hoven burving ground heretofore des- to use by his wife of half profits of his cribed. real and all profits of his personal prop- Mary married Jacob Couwenhoven, erty Until all his children arrive at age. who was known as "Farmer Jacob" on After this a fixed amount has to be account oi his well cultivated and pro- paid annually to the widow, and she ductive farm. It is said that he was EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH. the most handsom >f the day containing 190 acres. This is the same Monmouth county. farm which Htndrick S. Conover, son Catharine remained single. of Tunis Conover, inherited and which Eleanor was married January 27. he sold to John McClellan within the 1797. by Rev. Benjamin Bennett to of George Crawford of Middletown Village now owned by a the la and died there May 17. 1850. Her hus- Hendrickson of 1 band was born December 5, 1758, and Catharine Holmes Schenck, the died July in. 1834. They are both inter- widow, is said to have been a woman red in private family burying ground of great energy and business capacity. on the Crawford homestead at Nut- She made her will December 12, 1705. swamp. It was proved May 31, 1796, and is on Ann married Jonathan or John record in secretary of state's office at Holmes and died without issue. Trenton. Eleanor Schenck and her husband. She gives her only son, Ruliff. (to George Crawford, had the following whom his father had devised nearly all children, all the homestead in born on his property) five shillings. The above Village: Middletown homestead farm of 190 acres, she devises in fee to her three youngest Mary, born January 12. 1800, married Nov- daughters. Catharine, E'eanor and Ann ember 20. 1817, William W. Murray, and is share and share alike. buried by the side of her husband in grave- She gives bet- yard of Baptist church at Middletown Village. eldest daughter. Mai y. wife of Ja.-ob Ann, born February 22, 1801. married Feb- Couvvenhoven, £200. She gives to her ruary 12th. 1833. by Rev. Doctor Milledoller to daughters, Catharine and Eleanor, her Rev. Jacob TenBroeck Boekman : died at two negro slaves, Jack and Jude, and she born always homestead where was and had her old negro, Brom. who is to be kept lived. May 18. 1876 ; interred by side of her on the farm and supported for life by her two daughters. Her negro Adaline. born February 16, 1803, married woman, Elizabeth, John Lloyd Hendrickson and is buried by her she gives to her daughter. husband in private family burying mound on Am Holmes. Her large looking glass the farm where she lived and died at Middle- and a smaller one with all her tables town Village. are given to Catharine ai:d Eleanor, and Eleanor, born January 26. 1805, died Dec- her third looking glass to her daughter, ember 22, 1823, unmarried; interred by her Ann. All residue of her movable prop- father and mother in Crawford burying erty is to be equally divided between her three youngest daughters, whom In Book K of Deeds, pages 380, etc.. she also appoints executrices. Monmouth clerk's office, is the record This will is singular for that period of a deed from John Schenck, surviving because of the appointment of females executor of Hendrick Schenck. deceased, to settle the estate. She must have to Catharine, the widow of Hendrick held advanced ideas on the rights of Schenck, deceased. This deed is dated women. Daniel Herbert, Thomas Her- February 25, 1785. and consideration bert and Daniel Peacock were subscrib- named therein as £1,000. The land is ing witnesses to the will. Her daughter described as situated in Freehold town- Catharine never married but occupied ship (now Marlboro) and as part of a the homestead farm until her death. tract of land formerly belonging to She also became the sole owner of the Roelof Schenck, deceased, and by him farm. A deed dated January 13, 1816, devised to his son, Hendrick. After a recorded in Rook Y of Deeds, pages particular description by chains and 811, etc.. Monmouth clerk's otlice. shows links, a general description is given that Ann Holmes, one of the three as one hundred and ninety acres, daughters to whom the mother devised bounded northwardly by Ruliff this farm, had died intestate and with- Schenck's land, westwardly in part by out children, leaving three sisters. Mary lands belonging to Dutch congregation Couwenhoven. Catharine Schenck and and in part by lands of James Van- Eleanor Crawford and the children of Kirk, southwardly by Jacob Couwen- their brother Ruliff Schenck, who had hoven's lands and eastwardly by ' iarret died October 12, 1800. as her heirs at Couwenhoven's lands. Thus it appears law. By the above deed Eleanor Craw- that the widow, although cut off by her ford and husband released all their in- husband's will from all interest in his terest in said real estate to Catharine real estate except the use of one room Schenck. This Catharine Schenck died in the dwelling house, yet in 20 years unmarried June 5, 1816. and is interred thereafter, obtained the absolute own- by her father and mother in the ership of that part of his real estate on Schenck-Couu enhoven burying ground. which the house and outbuildings stood. Pleasant Valley. Her will was mad- EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OE MOXMOI TH.

May 7, 1316, proved July 1, 1816. and is of her sister, Mary Couwenhoven. She recorded in .surrogate's office of Mon- also devised to him the 190 acre home- mouth county in Book B of Wills, page stead farm together with all residue 10, etc. She gives to her four nieces, of her real and personal property, in Mary, Ann, Adaline and Eleanor, daugh- fee subject to payment of above lega- ters of her sister, Eleanor Crawford, cies. She also appoints her nephew. all her beds, bedding, wearing apparel Hendrick Couwenhoven. sole executor. and household furniture except a Dutch This Hendrick Couwenhoven was mar- cupboard, to be equally divided between ried March 31, 1805, to Ann B. Crawford. them. She gives her nephew. Garret, One of his daughters. Rebecca, married son of her sister, Mary Couwenhoven, Tunis Conover and was the mother of $500. She gave her four nieces above William I. Conover, who still (1898)" named $700 each to be paid in one year owns and resides on the farm where after her decease. She gives the Dutch his parents lived, in the township of cupboard to her nephew. Hendrick, =on Marlboro, near the Brick church.

CHRINEYONCE SCHENCK AND HIS DESCENDANTS. PROBASCO AND POLHEMUS FAMILIES.

Chrineyonce Schenck was a man well tion, he abruptly stopped. Turning to known throughout Monmouth county in the court, he pointed his finger at Mr. his day. Many ancedotes are told of Schenck and said in an angry tone. his peculiarities and of his grim ways, "May it please the Court, there is but and great physical strength. His voice little use to argue this case to a sleep- was very deep and gruff, and when ing juror." In an instant Chrineyonce angry or in earnest, it deepened into a Schenck sprang to his feet: raising roar, or as an enemy remarked, "Like himself to his lull height he thunde-ed the savage growl of a bear with a sore out in his deep gruff voice: "I am not head." He was very bluff and open in asleep. I have heard all the evidence the expression of his opinions, and in and have made up my mind from it as his likes and dislikes. His grim man- my oath requires, and I want you all to ner and gruff words were, hoivi understand, that no lawyer by his wholly superficial for no man was i smooth gab can persuade me to find a kind and considerate to his wife. verdict for a scoundrel." Angry and than he. disconcerted by this vehement explos- ?ell nhenticated told o ion, Mr. Stockton not only lost his by iwyer who v sye wit temper, but the thread of his argument ness of the incident. He was fore and after stumbling along for a few of a jury impanneled in a very im minutes in an incoherent manner he sat tant civil case tried in the Freehold down. court house. Among the prominen Another anecdote is related of Chrin- lawyers employed by the plaintiff wa eyonce which shows his great bodily one of the Stocktons from Trenton o strength and the mighty grip of his Princeton. The defendant was a poo right hand. He was attacked by a large man and had some unknown and young- and savage bull dog. As the brute attorney to represent him. The plain- sprang at him he seized him by the tiff was a man of great wealth, and throat, and lifting him clear of the notorious for his shrewd and unscrup- ground held him out at arm's length ulous methods of getting other people's and choked him to death. property. Mr. Stockton was selected to As the family records show Chriney- sum up the case and had, of course, the once Schenck and his son, John ('.. mar- closing speech. After speaking an hour ried Polhemus wives. This family is with great ability and eloquence, tear- also of Dutch descent, although like ing the arguments of his young oppon- Lupardus, Antonides. etc.. they hear a ent all to tatters, he noticed that the Latin name. In that case you .".n gen- foreman of the jury was leaning over erally find that the family is descended in his chair with his arm upraised and from a clergyman of tin- Dutch church. his head resting on his open hand with his eyes closed. Thinking he was asleep of Amsterdam. It was quite common and provoked by his supposed inatten- for scholars in that age to select a Front view of old dwelling on the farm of Garret Schanck, settler, in Pleasant Valley, N. J.

Photograph taken by Mrs. L. H. S. Co

Photograph taken by Mrs. L. H. S. Conove

EARL V PI TCH SETTLERS OF .VOXMOUTH.

Latin name, which expressed what and tied" and "tied and rode." "What their surname meant in Dutch. is that, grandma?" her little grand- The Polhemus family in Monmouth children would ask. "Well, my dears," . and Somerset counties are descendants she would say, "we all liked to go to ol' Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, church, but the roads were poor and who had been a minister at Itamaca in roundabout; no bridges over the Brazil before coming- to the New Neth- streams and swamps, mere bridle paths. erlands in 1654. He preached at Flat- Father let my sister and myself have a bush in the morning and at Brooklyn horse to ride. One would mount and and Flatlands in the afternoon of each ride about a mile, while the other Sunday until 1660. When Brooklyn ob- walked, then she would dismount and tained a minister in 1665 Dominie Pol- tie the horse to a tree and walk on. hemus ceased to be connected with the When the other sister came up to the church at Flatbush, and removed to horse she would .intie him get on ind Brooklyn where he died June 9th. 1675, ride on a mile before the sister who the worthy and beloved pastor of that was walking, then dismount, tie the

church. ,:il' I .Ml Among the freeholders and residents ing- and riding they reached the church, of Flatbush. L. I., published on page and in the same way returnirg home." 147, Vol. 3, O'Callagan's Documentary- This was to "ride and tie." History of New York, we find in tin- Hon. Daniel Polhemus VanDorn. year 1698 the name of Daniel Polhemus whose mother was a daughter of Daniel who is credited with six children, and Polhemus, who owned and lived on the Sloffel or Christopher Probasco, who homestead at Phalanx, in Atlantic also had six children. These two names. township, says he often heard his Probasco and Polhemus. have long been grandfather tell the story of his father, identified with the agricultural progress Tobias Polhemus' incarceration in tin- of that territory now included in At- old sugarhouse prison during our revo- lantic township, this county. They lutionary war. It happened that Garret have stood in the front ranks of the Wyckoff of this county, was a prisoner successful and prosperous farmers of at the same time. He was a warm this county in the years gone by. The friend of Tobias Polhemus. It hap- appearance of the buildings and or- pened that he had often entertained at chards on the old Polhemus homesteads his home a peddler who resided in New at Scobeyville and the Phalanx today York city. This man hearing of their bear silent, but undisputable testimony wretched situation managed to intro- to their industry, economy and intelli- duce from time to time pro\ isions to gence. Generally speaking the past Garret Wyckoff, who generously shared generations of this family have been them with .Mr. Polhemus. This timely zealous and consistent church members. supply barely saved them from star- As I understand, a son of Daniel Pol- vation. So emaciated did they become hemus above mentioned at Flatlands, that Mr. Polhemus, when released, could named Johannes, married in Brooklyn. span his waist with his two hands. He Annatie. daughter of Tobias TenEyck. said more Americans were killed by- and settled on a tract of land at what disease and starvation in this prison •is now Scobeyville. Their names appear and the prison ships than fell in battle among the early communicants of the from bullets of the enemy. Marlboro Brick church. They had three Among the citizens of this county sons, Daniel, Tobias and John. Tobias who have borne the Polhemus name, removed to and settled in Upper Free- were two who commanded extraordin- hold township and is the ancestor of ary respect and regard, Dr. Daniel Pol- all now bearing this name in that part hemus, who practiced medicine at Eng- of our county. lishtown and died there March 1, 1X58, Daniel married Margaret, daughter of and Henry D. Polhemus, who was Sur- Albert Cowenhoven and Neeltje, his rogate ol this county frcm 1833 to 1848. wife, hereinbefore mentioned and had David S. Crater, our present Surrogate, three sons, John. Albert anr Tobias, told the writer that the records show- lohn Polhemus married Mary, daughter that he was strict, accurate and meth- of Cyrenius VanMater and Abigail odical; in short, one of the best surro- Leffert his wife, and one of their gates the county ever had. He was a daughters, Margaret, married Chriney- man of fine appearance, very pleasant once Schenck above mentioned. She and gentlemanly and almost idolized by lived to a great age, and was very fond the people of Monmouth county. He of talking about her youthful days. She belonged, however, to the Somerset would often tell how she and her sister ranch. went to church. She said they "rode The reade the names EARL V DUTCH SET/LEA'S OE MO.XMOrTH.

•Tobias" and "Daniel" appear from generation to generation as Christian names. This fact was noticed over a century ago by some unknown rhyrr.n- ster, who put his observations into the following doggerel, which has been remembered because it expresses a truth, although the poet's name is forgotten:

Ruliff, Schenck you may kr

Gar re

Tobias or Daniel, without feathers or fuss. Marks the kind and gentle Polhemus. Simon and Peter a Wyckoff does show, Nor will they deny 'till a rooster doth crow.

ind future g-en- o use those old names, is uncertain, for we are living in a transition age when change seems to be in the very air. Old customs and well established principles are over- turned for the mere sake of change or something new. Chrineyonce, son of John Schenck and Neeltje Bennett, his wife, married Nov- ember 20, 1793, Margaret Polhemus, who was born March 11, 1766, and died Jan- uary 13, 1857. Their children were:

Mariah, b. February 2, 1795, married Garret Rezo Conover, a well known farmer who lived near Edinburg in what is now Atlantic township. She died December 5, 1830. John C, b. June 2, 1797, died August 22, 1799. Ellen and Eliza were twins, b. March 2. 1799. Eliza died in infancy. Ellen married Jonathan I. Holmes and died September 17, 1877. Margaret, b. May 12, 1800, died March 10, 1835, unmarried. John C, b. June 6, 1803, married Margaret Polhemus and died August 13, 1858. Daniel Polhemus. b. May 12, 1805, married first November 30, 1831. Lydia H. Longstreet, who was born December 18. 1809. and died

April 7. 1838 : married second Mary Conover, October 10, 1843. She was born June 8, 1822, died April 4. 1890. He died December 29. 1864. Abigail, b. April 28, 1808, died May 30. RULEFF SCHENCK AND HIS DESCENDANTS. SOME OF THEIR PECULIAR TRAITS.

the Wyckoff. who still owns the farm where iiy his father lived, adjacent to Holmes R. and Catherine Holmes, his wife, mar- Conover's farm. ried December 22, 1774. his first cousin, John R.. who married Mary Jane Van- Sarah, daughter of John Schenck, who Kirk, and Hendrick R., who married lived and died on the homestead farm Anna Gussie VanWickle. The last two in Pleasant Valley. Ruliff Schenck sons died childless. lived and died on his farm adjacent to John R., b. May 3, 1781, married Mar- Bradevelt station, and was buried in garet, daughter of Roelof P. Soher.ck the Schenck Couwenhoven burying and Elizabeth Gordon, his wife; died g-round. His children were: August 14, 1858. Nellie, b. Augu.-t 24, 1775. married Because of his stout, broad and bar- January 18 1795. Thon.as Shepard or rel like form he was called "Chunky Shephtrd. They removed to and settled John Schenck." He was also famous in Ohio. for his original ideas, independent Hendrick. b. June 13, 1777. died single ways, mechanical skill and inflexible December 27, 1812. resolution. One of his daughters mar- .Mary. b. June 15, 1779, married July ried Hon. William Spader of Malawan. 1. 179S. Elias Conover, died December at one time lay judge of the Monmouth IT, 1851. She was buried by her hus- county courts and well and favorably band and sons in the yard of Brick known throughout this county. He left church. They were the parents of three three sons surviving him. John, Daniel sons, viz: and Providence, who lived on the home- John E., who owned and lived on the stead farm he devised to triem. None farm lying west of Marlboro Brick of them married. They were men who church, formerly the parsonage farm thought and acted for themselves with- of this church. out regard to the usages and customs After his death his .-on. Daniel P. of other people. Strictly honest and Conover, owned and occupied it. He truthful in their dealings, they gave was well known to present generation employment to many men and made and only died lately. their money out of the soil. They were Hendrick E.. who lived the latter part a great deal better and more useful of his life in the town of Freehold, citizens than many of the "Quid Nur.cs" was well known to all our citizens for who talked about them behind their his quiet, unobtrusive manners and his backs and anticipated the judgment of irreproachable life and conduct. He Heaven on them after they were dead. owned two of the finest farms in Marl- Some of the people who thus condemned boro township, one of which includes them, had beams as big as a "telephone the famous "Topanemus" burying pole" in their eye compared with the ground. He left only one son. John B.. mote in John's. Daniel's and Provi- a licensed lawyer of this state and at dence's eyes. one time chosen freeholder of this Jonathan R.. b. December 15. 1782. township. He was also an elder of the married Sarah Peacock, died January Presbyterian church of Freehold. leav Eli Ruliff E. Conover lived and died lived and died on his father's farm in on his farm in Marlboro township, now Marlboro township. Many anecdotes owned and occupied by his son. Holmes are also told of this Jonathan R. R. Conover, u ho married Ada B., the Schenck. daughter of John Buckelew and his Katherine, b. November 25, 1785. nnr- wile. Mary A. Griggs. Ruliff E. Con- ried December 16. 1806. Peter VanKirk; over had three other sons whc are now died March 31. 1871. John VanKirk. deceased. Tiny were: who now owns and occupies the farm Elias R., who married Mary Ann adjacent to "Old Scots Burying Ground" Wyckoff and lelt one son. Peter and who married a daughter of the late EARL V HUTCH SETTLERS OE MOXMOUTH.

John Segoine of Smithburg, is a grand- A German from New York City not son. knowing his character, came one day Sarah, "b. August 16, 1787. married on his farm with dog and gun. Mr. January 6. 1807. Garret I. Conover, died Schenck, hearing a report of the gun, August 16. 1875. went to him and told him to go off, as Jacob, b. August 12. 1789, died Nov- he allowed no shooting on his farm. ember 15. 1790. The German refused to go, whereupon Jacob, b. September 13, 1793, died un- he was told that if he shot a single married December 22, 1859. He devised bird or rabbit on that farm he would his farm which lay between the farms be shot. This threat was greeted with of his two brothers, John R. and Tylee, a laugh of derision and to show his to the two youngest grandsons of his utter contempt, he proceeded at once sister Mary, wife of Elias Conover, viz: to shoot and kill a robin. Hardly had Hendnek R. and Holmes R Conover. the report of his gun died away when Holmes R. quit claimed to his brother Mr. Schenck fired a load of shot in his Hendrick, who devised it to his widow legs. As he fell Mr. Schenck said 'Now in fee simple. She now owns it. you know how a bird feels and if you Lydia, b. June 25, 1795, married April ever shoot another on these premises I 4, 1815, Garret Schenck. They removed will shoot higher." The Kound was to and settled in the state of Ohio. not serious. Dut after this the wild Anne, b. November 26, 1797. married game was not molested on that farm. September 27, 1811, J. Schuyler Waller, The lightning struck and burned his died May 8, 1874. barns Cor two successive years. He Tylee, b. October 27, 1799, married then erected small barns in different Eleanora. a daughter of John Schuyler fields all over his farm. When the next Schenck, died June 24, 1854, leaving thunder shower came over he stood in two daughters surviving him, both of his doorway and shaking his clenched whom married Asher H. Holmes, who hand at the sk> exclaimed "Strike now occupies the homestead farm in away, you can't hit more than two this Marlboro township. The house which time." Some of his superstitious neigh- Tylee Schenck built is still standing bors talked a great deal about this in- and is very pleasantly situated on a cident and accused him of defying knoll, on the west side of the turnpike "High Heaven" and forthwith adjudged from Freehold to Matawan. The barns him to be a "very wicked man." Mr. and outbuildings are among the best Schenck was a man of strong rugged in the county, and kept cleaner than sense and knew tnat electricity like the some people's dwellings. The dwelling winds and frost, was an element of house and grounds are particularly nature and when he thought he had noticeable for the neat and orderly con- circumvented their destructive forces dition they always present. John R. he naturally exulted over it. It is also Schenck, Jonathan Schenck and Tylee said that he succeeded in inventing "a Schenck are all buried in the yard of perpetual motion machine." I cannot the Brick church. Hendrick Schenck say as to this, although he was remark- and Jacob Schenck are buried in the ably skillful and ingenious in the use old yard in Pleasant Valley where their of tools. This talent seems a natural forefathers are all buried. one with the Schencks. As much so as The house in which John R. Schenck singing or music is a talent with a lived was planned and built by him and Smock, and physics or medicine is with is yet standing. It has probably been a Vanderveer. talked about and excited more curiosity Very few Smocks but are natural than any dwelling house ever erected in singers or musicians, or as was said by this county. The stairway was construc- another many years ago: ted from a solid log and the whole house put together in the most durable and "A hardy Smock who cannot sing solid manner. A great fence some Is rare as a bird without a wing. twelve feet high surrounded the house. A brass bell that will not ring." The palings were fastened with bolts of his brother. and screws. Among- the stories told Schenck, is the following: While John R. Schenck never meddled Jonathan R. had a tombstone made and put up in other people's business, neither did He all complete except he permit anyone to interfere with him. with inscriptions death. He selected a He strongly objected to any one shoot- the date of his spot on his farm for its location. ing or killing birds, rabbits or other quiet would often go out and look at it. game on his premises. He insisted that He One day a neighbor came along and life was as dear to them as to the had put up a tombstone hunters who killed them. asked why he I'lmtoaruph taken in 1899. : EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

before he was dead': "For begad you see. when I die my boys may get at loggerheads and then the rascally lawyers will get them into law, and use up all my property, and so you see poor old Jonathan won't get any tombstone, at all, at all, you see, for begad, unless

1 put it up myself and so make sure of

The third surviving son of .Ian Schenck and Sara Couwenhoven. his wife, as heretofore stated, was Peter. By his first wife. Jannetje VanNostrand or VanOstrandt. he had the following children:

Willi; EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOU'IH.

House cleaning two or three times a tury many of our school teachers were year was a solemn and important work, Irishmen. They were paid by the par- especially so, if it was suspected that a ents of the children. It was greatly to bed-bug had effected an entrance into their interest to have all the children the domicile. Then the "huisvrouw" sent it was possible to get. This Irish was up in arms. An angry frown mar- teacher taught school at or near the red her usually placid features and her old Tennent church. Benjamin Van- clattered all day like the Cleaf lived some two or three miles tongue # machinery in a grist mill, giving com- from the school house and had a large mands, orders, and urging "all hands" family of boys and girls, all of whom to the work of hunting out and exter- were under eighteen years of age. The minating the pestiferous insects. The Irishman had no personal acquaintance house, from foundation to turret, was with him. but hearing about his family deluged with floods of water and soap- called at his residence in order to per- suds, so that the men folks had no dry- suade him to send his children to his place where they could place their feet. school. A colored man, who had long They thereupon retreated to the barn been a slave in Mr. VanCleafs family, or wagon house to get a little peace Kl upon his inquiring and comfort, from the fierce rushing to for the maste the house, was in-

and fro of the angry vrouw and the formed that he 5 not at home. Think- ceaseless clatter of her tongue. The ing he could I something from the bed clothes were also inspected with a old negro the Irishmanman slipped a silver microscopic eye. The bedsteads all shilling in his hand, a d then taken apart, the furniture all moved, how he could induce Mi the carpets all taken up. and beat and boss, to send his ehildre beat and beat, and then hung on a line outdoors for the free winds to blow 'Villi go 1 see c away what little dust there was left. Mr. Va In short, the whole house was turned topsy turvy and there was no rest, peace or comfort for anybody, but more especially for the unfortunate bed bug, who wished he had never been born. After the whole house had thus been deiuged and scrubbed, if the vrouw still suspected there was yet a solitary bed bug lurking in a deep crack of the floor or walls, she brought up her heavy artillery in the shape of scalding water and bed-bug poison, and poured that into his hiding place, until the miser- able insect gave up the ghost. Then and not till then, did "order reign in Warsaw." After the whole house had been thoroughly swept and garnished and white wash applied from cellar to garret and the furniture all polished and varnished, returned to its usual place, were the "men folks" allowed any peace or comfort. The long exile was then over and once more the "good man" of the house could comfortably sit in his chair by the chimney corner and smoke his pipe. Among these families the real "boss" was the vrouw. The very name "huisvrouw" means the "woman of the house or home." Her authority was absolute in the home. No one dared to dispute her ,

•of the family and only entitled to the name. had wives of unadulte same usage. Dutch blood, on the farms ol M The huisvrouw with her store of county during the past genera household linen, her heavy blankets, and were truly described as follovi home woven, her patchwork quilts, with more colors than Joseph's famous coat, "She will do him good and not evil ; and many other household articles were days of her life." alsc to "She seeketh wool, and flax, and w her daughter in housekeeping. willingly with her hands." The parlor was the trap in which many a roystering, devil-may-care, hot- headed young Dutchman was caught in the marriage noose and compelled to settle down as a sedate, meek and docile married man. Thenceforth he was ruled by the vrouw and his mother-in-law. Yet his lot was by no means an un- "She looketh well to the ways of her house- happy one. The great majority of the hold, and eateth not the bread of idleness." Schencks, Conovers, "VanCleafs, Van- "Her children arise up, and call her blessed: Ilrockles. Culicks and others of the Van her husband also, and he praiseth her."

THE SIX CONOVER BROTHERS AND FOUR CONOVER SISTERS.

In one of my former articles I inadvertently stated that the three Conover Joris,. or Gtor.L-e, who mairied Alletta Luy- brothers who married Sehenck wives ster. or. as spelled on Brick church records, were the only original settlers of this Altige Luyster, where they became communicants in 1731. name. I should have said that they were the only brothers who married in he had elev the Sehenck family, and were likely the first ones to come here with the Altje. b. Dec. 14, h; i;r,, l.-ll ("1'1','li two Sehenck brothers. As a fact there VanAertsdalen. were six Conover brothers and four Neeltje. b. Dec. 7, lied John Pis sisters, who were all born in Kings erse Wyckoff. county, Nassau Island, as Long Island Peter, b. Feb. 12, 1671, married Patience, was then called, and removed to Mon- daughter of Elias Daws. mouth county. Cornelius, b. Nov. 20, 1672, (according to They were the children of William Teunis G. Bergen), married Margaretta Sehenck. Sent. S, 1700. According to inscrip- •(ierritse Cowenhoven, who resided for a tion on his tombstone in the Schenck-Couwen- in Brooklyn. number of years He was hoven burying ground. Pleasant Valley, he a magistrate there in the years 1661-62- died May 16. 1736, aged 64 yrs„ 5 mos„ 17 64, and a deacon of the Dutch church in days. This would place his birthday back in 1663. From there he removed to Flat- 1671. As his brother Peter is said to have lands. His name appears as a resident been born in 1671, there is a mistake either and freeholder of that place, on the in .Mr. Bergen's record or in the tombstone record. His wife. Maragreta. as spelled on assessment rolls of 1675-83-93. He was her tombstone, died Dec. 6, 1751. need 73 yrs.. also an elder of the Dutch church there 9 mos., 27 days. in 1677. Nov. 1. 1709. he sold his farm Sarah, b. Jan. 6, 1675. m. Jan Sehenck. at Flatlands to his son William, and is Albert, b. Dec. 7, 1676. m. Neeltje Sehenck. supposed to have spent his declining Jacob, b. Jan. 29, 1679, m. Sarah Sehenck. years among his ten children in .Mon- Jan. b. Apr. 9. 1681. m. Jacol.a VanDerveer. mouth county. Annatie. b. Apr. 13, 1683. m. Aert William- William Gerritse Couwenhoven was Will. am. b. Mar. 7. 1686, m. Annatie Lucasse born in year 16:16. He married for his first wife Altj.-. daughter of Joris Jacomina. b. Dec. 28, 1689, m. Elbert Wil- Dirckse Brinckerhoff. en 12th of Feb- ruary, 1665, In married his second wife, Garret, William and Altje were the Jannetje, daughter ..I pieter .Monfoort. only ones who did not come to Mon- By his first wile lie had two sons. mouth county. Cornelius, Jacob and EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OE J/O.XWOCTH'.

Albert came first, then Peter. Jan and In Book H of deeds, page 1.72, Mon- Joris. Sarah and Neeltje, of the daugh- mouth Clerk's office, is record of a deed ters came first, as their names appear dated May 6, 1729. from John Antonides, among' the communicants of the Brick miller, and Johanna, his wife, of Free- church as early as 1709, while their hold township, to George Couwenhoven, sisters, Annatie and Jacomina appear yeoman, of Middletown township, for 105 acres in Freehold township. This Joris or George Couwenhoven, who is about all the definite information the married Alletta or Altje Luyster, al- writer has of Joris Couwenhoven. though the eldest of all the sons who As to the other five brothers, who came to Monmouth, was the last one to took up their residence in Monmouth come. He evidently had children born county the records are clear and cer- before he took up his residence in this tain. I will take them up in the order county. The Brick church records show of their respective ages. the baptism of the following children Peter Couwenhoven married Patience, of George Couwenhoven and his wife, daughter of Elias Daws, and is said to Aletta Luyster. have settled somewhere in what is now Manalapan township. His Dutch Bible. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 18, 1725. She married a very precious book to him, is now in May 7. 1747, John Smock, and died May 7, the possession of Mrs. Lydia H. S. 1812. She and her husband are inteired in the Smock burying ground, on the farm for- Conover, who has kindly furnished me merly owned by Peter R. Smock, the father with names and dates of births of his of ex-sheriff Rulief P. Smock, in Holmdel children as follows:

Hannah or Johanna, b. Sept. 26. 1695, m. John, a son of Rev. Vincentius Antonides. a Dutch clergyman, sent out by Classis of Amsterdam to supply the churches in Brook- Mary. b. Mar. 20, 1748. lyn. Flatbush and Flatlands. The quarrel be- I endrick, b. Dec. 31, 1749. tween him and Rev. Bernardus Freeman, who Joris. b. June 9, 1751, died young. had been commissioned by Lord Cornbury as Joris, b. Dec. 22, 1754. pastor of these same churches fills many pages Neeltje, b. Nov. 21. 1756. of the early history of teh Dutch chu Sara, b. July 30, 1758. Kings county. L. I. Caterina, b. Apr. 27, 1760. Jane, b. July 28. 1697. married Johannes, b. Jon. 19. 1764.

Roelif, b. Nov. 20. 1769. Alice.' 1 In E of Deeds, page 226. Mon- Book Schenck. office, is record of a deed mouth clerk's William, b. July 11. 1703. m. Mary Calyer or dated Dec. !>, 1712, from Capt. John Colyer and died May 3rd. 1777. Mary, his Bown. merchant, of Middletown town- wife, died January 30, 1777, in her 70th year. ship, to Johannes Smock, late of Staten Both were buried in Tennent church cemetery. Island, New York, for 230 acres in Mid- Altje. b. May 21. 1705. m. Jan. 16. 1730.- dletown township and four acres of Her cousin. William Williamson, who was born Feb. 18, 1709, died April 22. 1788. He was a at Shoal Harbor. Ramen- salt meadow son of Aert Williamson and Annetie Couwen- essin brook is. called for as one of the rife. boundaries of the 230 acre tract. fe as 'Ensign Elias," Joris Couwenhoven had the following was born Sept. 12th. 1707. m. Williamsi-e. children baptized alter Elizabeth, wife daughter of John Wall, died Dec. 25. 1750. His of John Smock: wife died March 24th. 1759. aged about 58 years. Both are interred in the Schenck-Cou- Cornelius, bapt. July 2. 1727. wenhoven burying ground. Pleasant Valley. Daughter, not named, bapt. Jan. 1, 1729. Neeltje. b. Sept. 2, 1709. Peter, baptized Mar. 31. 1731. Peter, b. June 27. 1712. married his cousin. Leah. Janse Schenck. and removed to state of We also find in these records a Garret New York. Couwenhoven and his wile, Sarah Trap- Anney, b. Sept. 29. 1714. m. John Longstreet, hagle (Traphagen). had a son named son of Adriaan Langstraat and Christina baptized Jan. 13. Joris, baptized Oct. 26. 1746. Aletta Janse, his wife. He was 1712. married Anne Couwenhoven Dec. 17. Luyster appears as sponsor. As this and Garret Couwenhoven cannot be ac- 1746. counted for among the children of the Pieter Couwenhoven, the lather of other brothers, and the coincidence of these ten children, made his will March name also agreeing with Joris Couwen- 1.7. 1743. It was proved April 2::. 1777. hoven's family, we think it reasonable and is on record at Trenton. X. J., in to say that he was a son of Joris Cou- Book F of Wills, page 279. etc. He wenhoven and his wife. Aletta Luyster. names in this will his wile. Patience. born prior to their removal to Mon- his sons Peter. William and Elias. whom mouth county. he also appoints executors, and his EARL Y DC 71// SETTLERS OF MOXMOUI/I.

daughter Hannah Antonides, Jane ion of this meeting, that in case i shall Williamson, Mary Schenck, Aeltje Wil- pear hereafter to be cor.s'stent wit liamson and Ann Long-street. He was eral opinion of the trading town commercial part of our countryma an active member of the Dutch church entire stoppage of importation and t and served as elder in 1711-21. I do from and to Great Britain and the V not know where he is buried. until the slid Port Bill and other His son Elias, called "Ensign Elias," pealed, will be really conducive to who married Williamsee Wall, was the and preservation cf North Americ father of Col. John Couwenhoven, who liberties, they will yield a cheerful acquiesence •was born March 8, 1734, married Elea- same to all their' brethren in this" province. nor Wyckoff and died April 21, 1803. RESOLVED moreover. That the inhabitants He is interred in yard of Marlboro Brick of this township will join in an association church. He represented Monmouth with the several towns in the county and in county in the Provincial Congress of conjunction with them, with the several coun- this state and was a member of Council ties in the province (if as we doubt not, they of Safety during years 1775-76. He see fit to accede to this proposal) in any measures that may appear best adapted to the weal seems to have been one of the trusted and safety of North America and her loyal leaders of the people in Monmouth county, at the very beginning of the stormy days of our Revolutionary war. of the The following resolutions representing ippointed as a committ the views ol the patriots in Freehold Freehold township to carry said township are closely associated with lutions into effect. Among ther his name, if indeed he was not the pears the names of Hendric Smock author and mover of them. and Capt. John Couwenhoven. It required great courage and devo- A month later still stronge resolution to the people's cause for a man at tions were passed, and we find his name that time to speak out so plainly. again among the committee. Also in

i' the proceedings > the Congress of New- At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabi- Jersey of the years 1775-76 we find his tants of the township of Lower Freehold, in name prominent. He was the great the county of Monmouth in Jersey, on New Hc Cha Monday, tie Oth .lay of June. 1771, after notice judges of our county KE6ULVED, That it is the unanimous opin- resided on the old Cou- ion of this meeting, that the cause in which stead farm in Marlboro the inhabitants of the Town of Bostjn are now suffering, is the common cause of the whole

some Kendal find posiiive me -sures for the public sifety be speedily entered into, there is the discharge of just reason to fear that every province may in private and public dutie

turn share the same fate with them ; and that, ent and reliable in his busir therefore, it is highly incumbent on them all to unite in some effectual means to obtain a The writer for several y repeal of the Bcs on Port Bill, and any other brought in close contact with that may follow it, which shall be deemed sub- versive of the rights and privileges of free learned to respect him for i bo:-n Americans. And that it is also the opin- cellent traits of mind and he

ODDITIES AND PECULIARITIES OF THE DUTCH PEOPLE AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN MONMOUTH.

To understand the character and but v peculiarities of the different races and people who settled these United States, it is necessary to consider the nationality from which each one springs. Children of the same parents often differ greatly in appearance and conduct. Sometimes they inherit the physical or mental traits of a remote progenitor. EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

very k to see the faults tinct and marked characteristics than have been of tl „ow Dutch." "It- the Hollanders. They belong to a very and failings can call me an ancient race, whose known history goes this is not true. expression very the days of Julius Caesar and Englishman," is back to English writers, In the battle of Pharsalia the often used by eer Pompey. substitute Dutchman Batavians took a prominent part, as we except you must The for Englishman. But it shows their fror i;..i contempt and landers are a people who have ever act- animus and the lofty thought Tor themselves. They scorn. ed and pen of have never been imitators or syco- The following is from the Esqt.iros, entitled, phants. On the contrary, they are truly Henri Alphonse "Dutch at Home." "It has long been said to be the oddest people in Europe. how naturally a pipe hung Everything in Holland is different from remarked mouth; and most local in other countries. Even from a Dutch what it is hygenic conditions morsel of territory is neither habits are based on their foggy sky of water nor dry land. Only by the most of climate. Beneath the Netherlands, a necessity was felt herculean labors has it been wrested the produce smoke against smoke. It is from the ocean, and by unceasing vigil- to a sort of local homeopathy. Some ance is it preserved from the constant writers have asserted that assaults of the waves. The reader, physical befogged the intellect; therefore, can easily see how likely it tobacco smoke hastily but this observation is contradicted oy is for strangers, who travel who live in a climate of through the country to make many mis- the Dutchmen, smoke and whose minds are more pre- takes in describing or understanding positive and clear in their details, people. We are all apt to esti- cise, such a any other people. mate others by our own experience. than those of Holland we find what thinkers The venal man loudly asserts that "In born in periods of moral agitation never "everj man has his price." The honest plaus- attain and what Dante sought—peace. man falls an easj victim to the wayside "confidence man" It is not rare to notice in little ible talk of the "Pax Intran- The English writers and those of the hostelries, the inscription, tibus." We might say that life is like same school in America, often describe the water in their canals, it does not the Dutch as a plegmatic people, as flow. Be it illusion or reality, it seemed slow, sluggish or torpid. It is true us that the hours strike here more that they are a quiet, grim and taciturn to slowly than in France, and are ushered people. It would be strange if they with a song. The whole ehar- when we recall the wonderful into life were not, is found in the cti i of old Holland achievements of the little country, L solemn peals, in those aeolian voices about the size of New Jersey, and ever the fathers heard, and which the of inundation. "That beats which in danger hereafter hear. Dutch" has become a proverb, when sons will the "At Utrecht, a thoroughly protestant skillful or remarkable work has some town, the chimes played a hymn accord- been done. The love of truth and jus- As ing to the Reformed ritual. This Pur- tice is said to be a national trait. itan gentleness, the notes of which the there is less crime in Holland, a fact beels dash out in the air harmonizes her population, than in according to with the calm and reposed hues of the European country. They have anv other scenery. The gardens which border the prized liberty and indepen- especially water are kept up. gravelled and raked industry, so noticeable in dence. That with extreme care, and trees loaded where even the dogs are train- Holland, with fruit otter pleasing variety to the based on this intense ed to work, is slightlv monotonous character of the love of "independence." verdure." According to this French as was said of old by the They know, writer, contentment and peace prevail that there < an be wise king of Israel, people of this land, and each permanent independence among the no true and trying to exceed or beat his The primeval curse one is not without industry. neighbor, or discontented because some continues that man must earn still one else lias a few more dollars than bread by "the sweat Oi his lasting he has. Peace, quiet and contentment, by spoils taken in Wall brow" and not while easily mistaken for, are vers or watering railroad stocks or street different from the apathy and stupidity patent medicines. To avoid, however, exagger- which come from ignorance and slug- the charge of partiality, or excitement and the writings gishness. The bustle, ation, I will quote from Am, Englishman, . liich ife ,,i a Frenchman and an nations for the writers of both of these EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. and sure walk and talk, although mod- EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF JJU.XMOUTH. of the Dutch people to co-operate in Eugene. It profited by the great league assuming- the French rule, the conta- which William III constructed from the gion of French Democratic ideas might vantage ground of the English throne. have ended in absorbing Holland per- Queen Elizabeth and Valois and the manently in the French republic. Bourbon Kings of France had all helped Bonaparte's dynastic ambition opened in its struggle for existence against their eyes to the fact that they were Philip II but the nationality, too, was regarded as a conquered nation and constantly on the alert and ready. were in chains to a tyrant, who sought Generally it has been the heart and to aggrandize himself at the expense of soul of the international combinations his wife, his friends, his allies and his for resistance to a crushing monopoly country. of powers in Europe. European liber- For the uplifting of himself as Em- ties owe yet more to the uncontrollable peror he abolished the Bataviain repub- Dutch love of independence than Dutch lic and after four years of his brothers' independence owes to European succor. mock reign incorporated the province The Dutch race are not especially con- of Holland as part of his empire. Up ciliatory, any more than is supposed to to this time Holland troops and Holland be the English. Frequently it has officers, like VanDamm, hid served him shown itself harsh, as Belgium found faithfully. In his disastrous invasion between 1814 and 1830. Englishmen of Russia some- of the Holland regi- have had cause to accuse it of commer- ments had perished almost to a man in cial rapacity and exclusiveness. Its the performance of duty. Thencefor- handful of people and morsel of terri- ward it was a mere question of time tory ever in danger of being swallowed when the deceived and betrayed people up by the sea, has ever been throughout of Holland would throw off the yoke a palpable and visible unit, which it of this Corsican soldier, and assert has been impossible for European coun- their independence. The field of Leipsic tries to ignore and entirely possible for gave them this opportunity. A month them to obey." later the Dutch nation declared itself This tribute from a foreign English- once more free and summoned the man shows certain characteristics of Prince of Orange home to lead the the Dutch and which their descendants movement. Circumstances then aided in America should naturally possess. Holland in its deliverance and in shak- The Dutch farmers of the Transvaal in ing off the French yoke which the Hol- Africa have exhibited the same spirit landers themselves had originally coin their determined efforts to preserve operated in adjusting. Coincidences their independence, and the Dutch set- were equally favorable when its troops tlers of Monmouth showed the same marched with those of Marlborough and spirit during our revolutionary war.

CORNELIUS COUWENHOVEN OF PLEASANT VALLEY AND HIS CHILDREN.

Cornelius Couwenhoven seems to as the Navesinks, and who occupied have been the first one of this name part of what is now Monmouth county. who actually settled in Monmouth The Dutch authorities hearing of this, county, but there is evidence that one sent an officer and a few soldiers in a or more of this family had long been vessel to prevent it. When the boat familiar with the territory and the In- reached the southern point of Staten dian inhabitants. As early as 1663 we Island, opposite the mouth of the Rar- hear of a Jacob Couwenhoven, who itan river, they met Jacob Couwenhoven owned a small sloop and who traded in a small sloop. He informed them with the Indians for venison and furs. that he had been out trading for ven- The trade with the Indians for peltries ison, also that a number of the Nave- and furs was very profitable and ex- sink and Raritan Indians had gathered tensively carried on by the early Dutch at a place about three miles up the Rar- settlers. The Albany records contain itan, and that the English, in an open an account of an attempt made In 1663 s:oop, the day previous had gone up the by certain of the English people at river to meet them. From this it appears Gravesend and other Long Island towns that Jacob Couwenhoven had made for- to purchase lands of the Indians, known mer trips across the bay and was well HP ',*: WWBBWBBBHwi

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EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. enough acquainted with the Indian in- "William, born July 20, 1700, married first habitants to distinguish those who Jannetje, daughter of Peter Wyckoff. and lived in what is now Monmouth county Williampe Schenck, his wife. Second Antje. daughter from those who lived on the Raritan of Daniel Hendriekson and Catharine VanDyke, his wife, and widow of William, son river. It is more than probable that of Jacob Couwenhoven. the ownership of ' vessel property and the continuance of this traffic with the He died November 10, 1755. leaving a Indians would remain in the family. will dated September 29. 1755, proved The emigration of the Dutch people December 22, 1755, and recorded in Book from King's county. Long Island, to F of Wills, page 305, etc., secretary of Somerset. Middlesex and Monmouth state's office. He appoints his brother counties between 1695 and 1730 was Roliph. and his son-in-law. Matthias quite large. -Several vessels have must "Cownover," as he spells the name, ex- transport their house- been employed to ecutors. He speaks in this will of his effects, agricultural implements hold father-in-law, Peter Wyckoff. He signs the water. and stoek over the will 'William C. Kouwenhoven" and Cornelius Couwenhoven, it is said, describes himself of Carroway, Middle- owned a sloop which he named the town township. As stated before "Car- "Carroway." It sailed between the roway" was the name of his sloop and East River and some landing, either up he called his place by the same name. Matawan or Waycake creek. His son, He only names one son, Cornelius, and \\ illiam, afterwards owned the boat and two daughters, Williamtic and Cathar- no doubt made trips from the Mon- ine, in this will. mouth shore to New York and Kings county whenever there was a necessity Roe'.eff, born April 12, 1710, married Sarah, for thi daughter of Cornelius Voorhess, and Maritje kept up with the old people and goods Ditmars, his wife, and died December 12. 1789. and passengers transported back and In Book G of Deeds, forth. I think it likely that sometimes page 31. Mon- mouth clerk's office, the first settlers, prior to 1709, may is a record of a have had some of their children bap- deed from Alexander Laing of Scotland, i ;icat Britain, to Hendrick tized in the Dutch churches of Kings VanVoorhies county. There was no regular Dutch of Flatlands, Kings county, Nassau Is- land, for such church minister in Monmouth county was then the name of Long Island. tract ujntil 1709, and, although there may A of land at Topan- emes. Freehold township, have been an occasional visit by a containing 250 licensed clergyman, there was no such acres is conveyed by this deed. I think this Cornelius Voorhees was a brother thing as regular services. It is to be of the remembered that our early Dutch set- Hendrick VanVoorhies named in the deed and actually tlers lived on isolated clearings with who settled on this land, but I am not certain. the primeval forest all around them. There were no schools for their chil- Annetje. dren. They learned to speak the Dutch Jannetje, married in 1731. Aris. son of John family intercourse. Th.- language from Vanderlilt and Ida Suyca wife. children also would hear the uncouth talk of the negro slaves, the broken One of the earliest records we have of English of the wild Indians, and the the Suydams in Monmouth is in Book talk of the ignorant Englishman or G of Deeds, page 74; a deed dated April Frenchman who occasionally visited 1st, 1729. from Thomas Williams to their home. Thus they gradually fell Hendrick Suydam of Flatbush on Long- into a dialect which was impure Dutch, Island, for a tract of lund in Freehold mingled with many English words township. Then in the same book of wrongly pronounced and wrongly spell- deeds, pages 139-1 11. from Lewis Morris ed. Take the christian names of the of Manor of Morrisania, in Province of children bor.i after 1700 as spelled in Xew York, to Ryke Hendrickse, Domin- their wills or private family records, icus Vanderveer, Daniel Polhemus, and you can see how far they had drift- Jacob Hendrickse. Auke Leffertse, ed away from the correct Dutch spell- Stephen Coerten and Johannes Polhe- ing of their own names. We can hardly mus, all of Kings county on Long Is- conceive today the many disadvantages land, lor a tract of land known as "Fif- our pioneer settlers labored under. teen hundred acre tract," bounded on Cornelius Couwenhoven by his wife. one side- by Swimming river, dated May Margaretta Schenck, had the following 17. 1709. This Jacob Hendrickse and children: Ryke Hendrickse were really Suydams. EARL V nUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOCTH.

different but in accordance with the Dutch cus- VanCleaf name is spelled many This tom, they were given their christian ways. VanCleaf, VanCleve, etc. time names and their father's christian name deed, however, shows about what In with "se" or "son" annexed. This clear- this family came into the county. appears from a deed recorded in Book G of Deeds, page 50. is record of a ly John Book H of Deeds, page 211, Monmouth deed dated December 6, 1718, from City, to Jacob clerk's office, dated June 6, 1727. where- Johnston of New York is spelled) in Ryk Hendrickson Suydam of Flat- Sutvan (for so the name L. I., for a bush, Kings county, L. I., conveys to yeoman, of Kings county, John VanMeeteren (VanMater) of Mid- tract of land containing 333 acres at a dletown township, Monmouth county, place called "Wemcougak in Freehold Topanemus Brook, Middle N. J., all that tract of land in Middle- township." town township bounded west by Domin- Brook and John Craig line are called description. icus Vanderveer, east by Anken Leffert- for as boundaries in the a "Van son, south by Swimming river and north This "Sutvan" was no doubt spelled in by heirs of Quryn (Kriin) VanMeeteran Sutphen." for so the name is (VanMater) and known as No. 4. con- old records of Kings county. L. I. taining 152 acres. Daniel Polhemus of con- baptized December 21. 1710. Flatlands, L. I., by a separate deed Mary, veyed his share to Johannes Polhemus. The first Dutch church of Monmouth had been regularly organized with a stated pastor, one Joseph Morgan, in 1709, and so we have a record of the In Book H of Deeds, page 325 we find children baptized from this time. record of a deed dated December 23, 1689, from John Reid of Hortencia, Rachel, baptized November 2, 1712. county, to Richard Salter of Margaret, baptized De ember 5. 1714. Monmouth mar- same county for part of Hortencia. The Jacometje. baptized Noiember 23. 1717, November 26, 1741, Jan Roelefse Schenck. tract begins where west Branch comes ried into Hop brook at a place called Pro- we The youngest child by this marriage montoria; on page 327 of same book paternal deed was named Geesie after her find record of assignment of same grandmother. She married May 9. 1765. Richard Salter to Adrian Bennett from Aurie, son of second Jacob VanDorn and and Jacob VanDorn of "Gawamis," Van- April Maria Schenck, his wife. Aurie county, L. I. This is dated Kings Dorn was born September 14, 1744, died 1697. 2, July 14, 1830. Again on page 329 of Book H of record of a deed from Aria Deeds is baptized June, 1720, married Dec- his wife, of Free- Caterina, Bennett and Barbary, 1741, Daniel Hendricksjn. VanDorn ol ember 22. hold township, to Jacob Cornelius Couwenhoven, the father ot February If. 170,, same township, dated these thirteen children, made his will the undivided one-half of and conveys November 22, 1735, proved June 22, 1736. in Freehold township. a 200 acre tract recorded in office of secretary of state jrner of Albert Cow- page 107. besinr it Trenton in Book C of Wills, land and beiiiK mentions the names of all of the Bennett and Van- He ises cc-nveved to said above children, but the spelling differs May 17, 1700. Dorn by John Bowne considerably from mine. For instance tract adjacent to this also Also another he spells "Jacomintje" "Yacominsky." conveyed to them by John Bowne. 1 Bennett and "Jannetje" "Yannikie." am not sure whether this Aria the Bennett He devises to his son William was the same person as Adrian by however, land sold to him by William Bowne or another. The above deeds deeds dated March 1, 1704, and January the time when the VanDorns and show 1705, one for 94% acres, and the Bennetts came into this county and the 20, other 62 acres, and also 120 acres re- place they came from on Long Island. leased to him by Daniel Hendrickson. Garret Schenck. John Schenck and Peter Wyckoft, dated July 10, 1716. son his wife married July 2, 17 41 Benjamn,. Cornelius Couwenhoven and Neeltje. butpnm. of Benjamin VanCleaf and Hank are buried in the Schenckj-Couwenhoven his wife. burying ground. The inscription on his tombstone shows that he died -May 16, Book H of Deeds, page 222, is a In 1736 aged 64 years. 5 months and 17 May 4. 1725. from record of a deed dated Margaretta Schenck. township to Law- days. His wife, John Job of Freehold years. 9 of died December 6. 1751. aged 73 rence VanCleve and Isaac VanCleve records the months and 27 days. Bravesend U I. On our old ALBERT COUWENHOVEN AND HIS TWELVE CHILDREN.

Albert Couwenhoven came from Flat- early Dutch settlers were in the habit lands, L. I., to Monmouth county, and of visiting- once or twice a year their settled on in the township of lands old homes in Kings county. L. I. And Freehold (now Marlboro) where Mr. mariag-es likely occurred between the Selah Wells now resides. We find his young people here with the young name and that of his wife, Neeltje or people in Long Island. The Dutch gen- Eleanor Schenck, daughter of Roelof erally preferred to marry among their Martense Schenck, and his second wife, own people, and it was not often that Annetje Wyckoff, among' the commun- any of them were caught by the icants of the Brick church in 1709. His daughters of Heth," or the sons of the Dutch Bible is still in existence with Philistines. dates of the births of all his sons and daughters entered in his own hand- Margaret, b. February 15, 1711, married writing. He had the following- children: December 8. 1731. Daniel, son of Johannes Polhemus. He was born in 1706 and died September 26, 1763. She died William, b. March 7, 1702, married Libertje, June 7, 1780. daughter of Benjamin VanCleaf and Hank Sut]. hen, his wife. She was baptized May 19, Both a tig- grou Polhe cobeyvi tic tot He settled in what township, and left a Sar: b. Ju 1714. ied May 19, the office of the Secre 'I'V "I' of Bet in VanClea

an. I Han!. Sutphen. Ins wife was baptized June 3, 1711. Ruliff, b. September 8, 1703. married Antje, Peter, b. October 12. 1716, married daughter of Jan Strycker and Margaretta May 19. 1740, Wiliampe. daughter of Hendrick Schenck. his wife. She was baptized Decem- Voorhees and Jannetje Jansen. his wife. She ber 20. 1708. was born January 25, 1722, died August 12. Antje. b. 21, 1705. married August Abraham 1803. He died October 1. 1771 : interred in Polhemus. supposed to he of the Somerset yard of Marlboro Brick church. county or Lone: Island people. Nell: b. 1-et.i- n;i. di< Jannetje. b. September 30. 1707, married lie.l Joseph Coernel. Scher rying ground, Altie. b. January 20. 1709, married Hen- e 16, 1721, married drick, son of Hendrick Hendrickson. He was N 8. 1742. Sarah, daughter of Hendrick Van- born November 11. 1706. and died July 28, Voorhees and wife aforesaid, 178.1. Jan, b. February 18, 1723, married October 19, 1744, Catherine, daughter of Hendrick c; .Mon- In Book of Deeds, page 59, VanVoorhees and wife. mouth county clerk's office, is record Corneilus A., b. October 29, 1728, married in of a deed from Tunis Covert of Free- 1750 Antje. daughter of William Williamson hold township, to Cornelius VanBrunt and Antje Couwenhoven, his wife. She was and Hendrick Hendrickson of New born September 13. 1730. and died September 14. 1757, and was buried in Wyckoff I ill Utrecht of Long Island, for 203 1/2 acres grave yard, near Freehold. and 96% acres in Freehold township. He married for his second wife, July 12, 1770, Mary Logan, On pages 61-62 of same book is record who was born August 9. 1748, and died Mav of 1, a deed dated May 1719. from Abra- 2, 1831. ham Emans of Freehold township, to Hendrick Hendrickson and Jaques The Denys of New Utrecht, L. I., fur a tract of 96 acres in Freehold township. It therefore appears that there were other Hendricksons who purchased land in Monmouth county, besides Daniel and William who came here prior to 17iiu given h( and settled on lands at what is now see. .nd « Holland in Holmdel I. .unship. The and Com !

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOUTH. had a son named Cornelius, born May Anna, Jane, Alice. Margot. Sarah. Peter, Jar- 18, 1771. who married Elizabeth, a ratt, John and Cornelius), after the death or daughter of Harmon Conover and widowhood of my dearly beloved wife, all my Phoebe Bailey, his wife, died December whole estate, both real and personal, as goods, chattels, lands and tenements, to be equally 20, 1814. He was also buried in the divided amongst them (my eleven dearly he- Sehenck Couwenhoven burying ground. loved children aforementioned) (viz: William. His oldest son was named John C. Con- Ruluf. Anna, Jane. Alice. Margot. Sarah. over, born November 10, 1797, married Peter. Jarratt, John and Cornelius, to them December 3, 1820, Elizabeth, a daughter and each of them and their heirs and assigns of John A. Vanderbilt and Mary Mac- forever) so that each of them or each of their Kildoe. She was born September 11. whole estate above mentioned. 1804, and died January 30, 1860. He my as I giv was the last owner of the Albert Cou- U-lmud Willi. Of shil wenhoven homestead. He died Nov- ift I at.kimwledging him to be my ember 26. 1832. and this farm then to be paid to him in a con- passed out of the family. r my decease. I likewise Albert Couwenhoven and his wife, ake ad ordain my dearly beloved the parents of the above named twelve wile. Eleanor, and my well beloved kinsman, children, were buried in the Sehenck William Covenhoven, son of Cornelius Coven- and Couwenhoven burying ground. He hoven, my only and sale executrix and executor of this my last will and testament. And left a last will which is herewith given. I also hereby utterly disallow, revoke and dis- it is will of his son Cor- Following the annul all and every other former testaments, nelius. wills, legacies and executors by me in any way before this time, named, willed and be- WILL OF ALBERT COUWENHOVEN. queathed, ratifying and confirming this, and other to be last will and testament. In the name of God Amen. I, Albert Coven- no my hoven, of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and province of East New Jersey, yeoman, be- and seal this sixth day of September, in the ing, thro' the abundant mercy and goodness of year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- God, tho' very sick and weak in body, yet of dred and forty-eight (1748). a sound and perfect understanding and mem- Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Albert Covenhoven, as his last will presence of us, the sub- ment, and desire it may be received as such. and testament in the Imprimis: I most humbly bequeath my soul scribers (viz:) to God, my maker, beseeching his most gracious acceptance of it thro' the all sufficient merits and mediation of my most compassion- for ten yea .1 ,-, he ate Redeemer, Jesas Christ, who gave himself signing and sealing it an atonement for my sins, and is able being forgot to be mentioned." to be ALBERT COVENHOVEN. Jan Covenhoven, IL. S.] God by Him ; seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them, and who I trust, will Matteys Piterson, not reject me, a returning penitent Sinner, William Williamson. for Be it remembered that on the third day of of Lord one thousand and confidence I render up my soul with com- October, in the year our wit- fort, humbly beseeching the most blessed and seven hundred and forty-eight, the within glorious Trinity, one God, most Holy, most nesses, Jan Covenhoven, llatteys Piterson and Merciful and Gracious, to prepare me for the William Williamson, personally came before time of my dissolution, and then to take me me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove to himself into that peace and rest and incom- wills and qualify executors in New Jersey, and Evangelist parable felicity, which he has prepared for all they being duly sworn on the Holy that love and fear his Holy name. Amen did depose that they were pre Bless:-<1 be God. Albert Covenhoven, the testator testament and Imprimis: I give my body to the earth, sign and seal the within written and declare the from where it waB taken, in full assurance of heard him publish, pronounce at its resurrection from thence at the last day. same to be his last will and testament and testator of sound As for my burial, I desire it may be decent, the day thereof the said was without pomp or state, at the discretion of my mind and memory to the best of their know- executrix and executor hereinafter named, ledge, and as they believed, and that they in who. I doubt not. will manage it with all each signed as a witness requisite prudence. As to my wordly estate, BARTOW;. it is my will, and I do hereby order, that in THOS. time the first place all my just debts and funeral Be it also remembered that at the same within charges to be paid and satisfied out of my leanor Covenhoven, the executrix movable estate. imed, personally came before me and was performance Item: I give and bequeath unto Eleanor, vorn to the due execution and my dearly beloved wife, all my whole estate, both real and personal, for her own proper use, benefit and behoof, as long as she remains THOS. BARTOW. my widow and no longer. Probate granted by Governor Belcher in the Item: I give and bequeath unto my eleven lual form. Dated Oct. 3rd. 1748. well beloved children (viz: Willii Kalul THOS. BARTOW. Pr. Reg'sr. EARLY ULICH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

The wife of Albert Covenhoven was Neeltje. my Will are to be Taken & Esteemed To be. Dutch for Eleanor or Nelly, daughter of Roelof And one feather Bed & furniture In Lieu of Schenck of Flatlands, L. I., by his second her Dower or Thirds— Item I Give and Be- wife, Annetje Wyckoff. queath To my Daughter Sarah an Out Sett Equal in Vallue To the Out Sett I Gave my WILL OF CORNELIUS A. COVENHOVEN. Daughter Neil To be Delivered to her by my In the name of God Amen This Eleventh Executors out of my Moveable Estate at the Day of September In the year of Our Lord Time of My Decease. Item— I Give Devise & One Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety- Bequeath To my Son Cornelius Covenhoven all three I Cornelius Covenhoven of The Town- Remainder of My Estate Boih Heal & ship of Freehold in The County of Monmouth Per Whe To & State of New Jersey Yeoman Being In health of Body and of Perfect Sound & Dis- fills all the other Matters & poseing Mind and Memory Praised be Al- joined him in this My Wi mighty God for the Same, Considering the Covered Waggon & Hors -s frailty of Nature and Knowing it is appointed Remainder of My Horses I for all men To Die Do Make & Ordain This Moveables That I may have and Negroes at My Last Will and Testament In the following the time of My Decece To be Equally Divided Manner and form First I Recomend My Soul amongst my Children. To wit: William. Nelly. To God Who Gave it Trusting for Salvation Allice, Cornelius & Sarah or their Children) In & Through the alone Merits of My Ever Item it is My will That my said Son Cornelius Blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ and as to my Do pay the sum of Six Hun. lied pounds money Body I rerorrend it To the Earth To be In- aforesaid In Manner foiling To Wit To allow terred at the Discretion of My Executors here- a Good & Sulhrient Support out of said sum inafter named Nothing Doubting but at the for my Son Albert And after the Decease of General Resurrection I Shall Receive the same my Self, my wife and my Son Albert. What- again by the Mighty Power of God And as ever Part of said Six I undred pounds Shall Touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it be Remaining Shall he Equally Divided Be- Hath Pleased God To Bless me in This Life I tween my four Children William. Nelly. Allice Do order. Give & Dispose of The Same in the & Sarah or their Children And Lastly I Do following Manner Imprimis I Do order That Hereby Nominate. Constitute & appoint My my E>ecutors Do pay all my Just Debts & brother in Law, Stoffel Logan & my friend Funeral Expenses Out of my Moveable Estate Tobias Polhemus, Executors of this my Last which I may Leve at the time of My Decease will & Testament Utterly Revokeing & Dis- —Item I Give & Bequeath To my Loveing Wife annuling all other Wills by me heretofore Mary Dureing her Widdowhood a Comfortable Made Rattifying & Confirming this & no Liveing as Usual With My Son Cornelius on other to be my last Will & Testament Note the My said Farm and have the Use of one Room word (form) and the word (of) & the word with a Fire Place and Fire wood Brought to (Sarah) being Interlined Before Sealing & her Door one Good Feather Bed & Furniture Delivery hereof and One Negro Woman Named Jane so Long CORNELIUS A. COVENHOVEN. as She shall Remain My Widdow and in Case Signed Sealed pronoumed & Declared To be my Said Wife Should Remarry my will is that his Last Will & Testament In the Presence of my said wife have the sum of fifty pounds Garret Covenhoven paid her by me Son Cornelius Current money Ruth Covenhoven of the City of New York as all Moneys in this Joseph Throckmorton

JACOB COUWENHOVEN AND HIS ELEVEN CHILDREN.

Jacob Couwenhoven married at Flat- two or more of the six Conover broth- lands, L. I., November 12, 1705, Sarah ers. For one boat of this kind would Schenck, who was baptized in the be amply sufficient to transport all Dutch church at Brooklyn, December their families, goods, chattels and 18, 1685. She too was a resident of stock, from the shore of the East river Flatlands. and the couple had doubt- over to Monmouth county, and also to less known each other from earliest take back such peltries, venison and childhood. Jacob Couwenhoven received Mther articles they had to sell and for such education as the schools in Brook- which a demand existed in the New lyn at that time could give, and also York markets. such as he could pick up from chance Jacob Couwenhoven. by his wife. associations with the traders, mer- Sarah Schenck. had the following chil- chants, sailors and emigrants who fre- dren, all of whom are supposed to have quented tin harbor of New York. Like been born in his dwelling house which his brother Cornelius he is said to have stood on the north side of the street owned a sloop, which made trips from through Middletown village, somewhere Brooklyn across the bay to the Mon- between the location of the present mouth shore. It is likely that this was Baptist church and the Hartshorne the same boat and owned jointly by burying ground. EAKLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MO.XMOCTH.

Jannetie, b. December 10, 1706. er-in-law) and Tunis Denyse, or Denise. Annetje, b. February, 1708, married John, His widow married for her second hus- son of Daniel Hendrickson and Catherine Van- band Peter Janse Dyke, his wife. Schenck, as has been already mentioned, together with the Daniel Hendrickson, a son of this names of her children by this last hus- couple, married Nelly or Eleanor Van- band Mater. She was born August 4, 1735, Jacob, and died February 12, 1828, and is bur- b. February 1. 1714, married Decem- ied in the Hendrickson burying ground ber 21, 1742, Margaret, daughter of William Couwenhoven and Arriantje Bennett, on the farm of the late George Craw- his wife. The marriage license was granted N,,\e!alier ford Hendrickson in Middletowp vil- 16, 1742. lage. A son of this last couple, John, Garret, b. November 5, 1713, married Octo- born June 13, 1773, married Mary, ber 12, 1744, Neeltje. or Eleanor, daughter of daughter of John Lloyd, and died in Roelof Schenck and Geesie Hendrickson. his January, 1807. He was the father of wife, died December 9, 1797. the late Charles I. Hendrickson, of He owned John Lloyd Hendrickson and Daniel quite a large tract of land in what Hendrickson. who owned the farm now is now Marlboro and Holmdel townships. Part of occupied by the Morfords at the east- this land is still (1898) in the ownership ern end of Middletown village and and occupation of his lineal male descendants. opposite to the farm owned by his The two farms near Taylor's Hills in brother. John Lloyd Hendrickson. in Holmdel his lifetime. township, where Daniel D. Conover and Garret Rezo Conover lived about 40 years ago and William, b. February, 1710, married Antje. where their sons now daughter of Daniel Hendrickson and Catherine live, is part of the tract. The family VanDyke, aforesaid. burying ground is on the farm owned by Daniel D. Conover and near the She was baptized December 30, 1711. dwelling house. It is especially notice- The records in secretary of state's able for the care, neatness and good office at Trenton, show that letters of taste which it always shows. Here administration on his estate were id hi ife granted October 17. 1742, to his widow, id a n Is ried. Ann, his brother Ruliph. and his brother-in-law, William Hendrickson. The Peter, b. December 14. 1718. died January Brick Church records show that he had 14. 1719. two children baptized, viz: Daniel. Peter, baptized May 29. 1720. married Cath- March 30. 1737. and Jacob, October 14, erine, daughter of Roelof Janse Schenck and Geesie Hendrickson. 1739. His widow married March 17. his wife, and at that time widow 1744, for her second husband William, of Simon DeHart. son of Cornelius Couwenhoven, of Garret and Peter Couwenhoven are Pleasant Valley, and who has been the two sons-in-law named as execu- heretofore mentioned as "William C. tors in Black Roelof Schenck's will. Kouwenhoven of Carroway." By this Also see pages 317-18, Old Times in Old last marriage she had three children, (1st) Cornelius, baptized April 7, 1746. married Mary, daughter of Hendrick Hendrickson and Neeltje Garretse Schenck, his wife, and died October 10, 1806; (2nd) Catherine, baptized April Martin, as spelled in will but Matthias else- 16, 1749; (3rd) Williampe. who married where, b. 1725. married Williampe. daughter Martin or Matthias Couwenhoven, a of "William C. Kouwenhoven of Carroway," brother of her mother's first husband and Antje Hendrickson. his second wife, and and hereinafter particularly described. the widow of his oldest brother, William. This Matthias Couwenhoven lived on Ruliph, b. March 1, 1712. married August 12, a farm on the 1741, Jannetje, daughter of Daniel Hendrick- right side of the road son and Catherine VanDyke, his wife, afore- from Ogbourna Corner t.> Middletown

The church records show the following children baptized: Sarah, baptized February 21. 1742; Daniel. January 15, 1744, and Catherine, February 16, 1746. Letters of administration on his estate The Matthias Conover interred in the were granted to Peter Couwenhoven, Saptist church yard at Middletown and (brother) William Hendrickson, (broth- .hose tombstone shows that he died House of Daniel Polhemus Schanck on his farm in Pleasant Valley. N. J. Photosraphed in summer of 1900.

Part of Schanek-Covenhoven Cemetery in Pleasant Valley. N. J. Photographed by Mrs. L. H. S. Conover in the winter of L900.

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September 28, IS 12. aged 80 years. 2 Matthias owned the lands on the op- months and 5 days, and the Ruliph posite side of this highway. The pri- Conover, interred near him. who died vate family burying ground of the Con- June 12, 1873, aged over 85 years, are overs on this land supports this claim. I believe descendants of the above Jacob owned the farm of the late named Matthias Couwenhoven. John Eastman. There was also another child named Garret owned what was in after years Sarah but I can find no record of her known as the farm of "Farmer Jacob except in her father's will. Conover" and the farms of Daniel D. Jacob Couwenhoven made his will Conover and Garret Rezo Conover, near July 5. 1743. He appoints his sons. Taylor's Mills in Holmdel township. Ruliph. Garret and Jacob, executors, The last two are still (1898) in family and they all qualified. He mentions in ownership. his will six sons, Martin, (Matthias) John owned the farm known as the Ruliph, Jacob, Garret, Peter and John, Murray homestead in Middletown vil- one daughter. Sarah, three grandsons, lage together with lands adjacent, now Daniel Hendrickson and Jacob Hen- part of the Morford farm and of John drickson and Daniel Couwenhoven, -and S. Hendrickson's farm. one granddaughter, Sarah Couwen- Peter owned the "Garret VanDorn hoven. This grandson. Daniel Hen- farm" on the south side of Middletown drickson. 1 think became sheriff of street, now owned by the son of the Monmouth county during the revolu- late Azariah Conover. tionary war. He was the grandfather Jacob Couwenhoven is said to have of the late Charles I. Hendrickson who been a large, well proportioned man, owned the farm on the north side of bluff and straightforward in manners Middletown street, between the lands and hospitable and obliging to all who of the late Dr. Edward Taylor and the sought shelter under his roof or aid at Murray homestead, now owned by his his hands. It will be noticed that there son, John S. Hendrickson. were several marriages between his Jacob Couwenhoven in his will des- children and Daniel Hendrickson's cribes himself as a yeoman and a resi- children. This man was quite a near dent of Middletown. I have not been neighbor, living where his great grand- able to find out where he was buried. son. Hon. William H. Hendrickson, now He owned a large tract of land, and it lives at Holland or the Luyster neigh- is likely he was buried somew here borhood, as sometimes called. upon that as was then the custom. Garret, one of Jacob Couwenhoven's According to tradition current sons, married Netty or Eleanor, daugh- among the descendants of his son. Car- ter of Black Roelof Schenck, and had ret, at Taylor's Mills, he provided all the following children: of his seven sons with a farm. Of course such traditions are verv uncer- Jacob, b. June 19, 1746, married April 25, tain and unreliable, but they some- 1771, Mary, daughter of Hendrick Schenck and Catherine his wife. times contain a few grains of truth. I Holmes, do not know whether there is any He was known as truth in this tradition, but only repeat "Farmer Jacob." and the farm he lived on was consider- what is said. And this is the story handed down among the descendants ed the model farm of that day in Mon- mouth county. He left sons, of his son Garret, who as everybody two Hen- drick, who married knows, are among the most respectable Ann B. Crawford and whose descendants citizens of Monmouth county, and are named in "Old Times in old Monmouth." Garret, whose everyday word is better than a who married Alice, daughter of Tobias good many people's oath on the Bible. Hendrickson and Rebecca his They have been informed and so under- Coward, wife, of Upper Freehold township. stand from talk of their forefathers, A daughter of this couple that Jacob Couwenhoven's seven sons named Rebecca H., born in 180S, married owned and occupied the following Thomas Meirs farms: and was the mother of Collin B. Meirs. born September 7. William had the farm where Daniel 1833, on the old Meirs homestead in I'pper Freehold township, G. Conover lived, and now or lately and who was auditor of Monmouth owned by Edward Hopping in Middle- county for seven years, and now one tov. ii township. Ruliph owned of the first citizens of Upper Freehold lands where the late township. Ezra Osborne lived and the farm adjacent on the west or north side of the Ruleph. b. Novembr R. 1747. married June highway from Halm Hollow to the John 22. 1773. Anna, daughter of Garret Coertse Golden farm. Schenck. and Nelly Voorhees. his wife. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS Oh MONMOUTH.

village. Sarah, b. January 3, 1749, married John Dorn homestead at Middletown Lloyd and died September 8, 1773. January 31, 1874. She and her husband are buried in the Episcopal church yard She is buried in the Conover family at Middletown aforesaid. burving ground on the Daniel D. Con- Garret VanDorn died childless and in- of over farm near Taylor's Mills. .One testate. He was well known through- her daughters. Mary, married John out Monmouth county, being gentle Hendrickson. son of Daniel Hendrick- and placid in disposition, without an wife, be- son and Eleanor VanMater, his enemy in the world, he was respected the fore mentioned. She is buried in and liked by all who knew him. He Mid- Hendrickson burying ground at left a large estate with no debts be- dletown village and the tombstone at yond funeral expenses and charges of her grave states that she died July 11, his last sickness. Yet this estate has 24 1865, aged 92 years, 8 months and remained unsettled down to the pres- of the late days. She was the mother ent day. It is the "Jarndyce vs. Jarn- Charles I. Hendrickson of Middletown dyce" case of Monmouth county. It village. shows how an estate involved in no law suits and no debts, can be dragged Daniel G., b. January 20, 1750, married Feb- through the courts for years. A true 17S6, Margaret Refeau, (often spelled ruary 9. history of this estate would be of great Rezo). She was born February 23. 1763, and interest, not only to the relatives in- died December 26, 1823. terested but to the public at large, so Daniel G. Conover lived and died on that we all might know "how not to the homestead farm near Taylor's Mills do it," while making great pretension and is buried in the family burying of doing, settling and distributing. A ground on this farm. After his death more honest man never lived than Gar- the land was divided between his two ret VanDorn and no man ever left sons, Daniel D. Conover and Garret property freer from all claims and liti- Rezo Conover, whom many persons now gation than he. Yet the estate became alive remember. Garret married as be- entangled and has been left unsettled, fore stated. Mariah Schenck. Daniel although more than forty years have D. married May 26, 1825, Mary, daugh- passed away since administration was ter of Garret G. Vanderveer, and died granted to Williampe, his widow. She, October 22, 1861. He was a genial, of course, depended on and wholly hearty man and endeavored to make trusted others to do the business. everything pleasant to all with whom he came in contact. His hospitality The seventh child of Garret Couwenhoven was unlimited, if the roof of his house and NeeltjeSchenck, his wife, was Mary, born was left. His widow, who was born April 5, 1756, died young. Garret, b. September 15, 1758, died unmar- February 21, 1806, is stfll living on the homestead with their son. Garret. She ried. John, b. May 23, 1760, married August 22. is remarkably active and hale for one Schenck Wil- 1778. Jane, daughter of Garret Coertse so near the century mark. Hon. and Nelly Voorhees, his wife, died May 11. liam V. Conover, who occupied the farm 1802. He was buried in the yard of the Marl- left him by his father, Tylee Conover, boro Brick church. His widow married Aug- on the north side of the Shrewsbury ust 20. 1812. her second husband. John H. river, opposite Red Bank, and who died Schenck, and died November 5, 1836. grandson of the a few years ago, was a John Conover am above named Daniel G. Conover and Margaret Reseau, his wife

Gachey. b. February 5. 1753. married first Hendrick P., son of Peter Albertse Couwen- Elias. b. August 10. 1779, married July 1. hoven and Williampe Voorhees. his wife. 1798, Mary, daughter of Ruliff H. Schenck Anne, b. May 21, 1754, married July 13. and Sarah Schenck, his wife. 17S5. Isaac, son of second Jacob VanDorn, and Maria Janse Schenck, his wife, and died June They were the parents of John E.. 11, 1843. Ruliff E. and Hendrick E., already She and her husband are buried in mentioned in a former article. the Episcopal church yard at Middle- Garret I., b. March 31. 1785. married Jan- town village. They were the parents born May uary 6, 1807, Sarah, daughter of Ruliff H. of Garret VanDorn, who was Schenck and Sarah Schenck, his wife, died 31, 1789. He married Williampe, daugh- May 12, 1829. ter of Hendrick P. Couwenhoven and Gachey Couwenhoven. his wife, above He owned and occupied the farm mentioned, his cousin. She was born where Gideon C. McDowell now lives January 1st. 1793. and died on the Van- in Marlboro township. EARLY DUTCH SETTLEUS OE MONMOUTH.

Jane, b. September 10, 1789. married Octo- The years, they come and go, my 23, Gordon, son of The years, they come ber 1805, Jonathan R. and go ; Eiekiel Gordon, and died June 1, 1831. Her And raven locks, and tresses br< husband was born March 16, 1785, died May

Sarah.' b. — married March 14. 1803. Albert 'its tri: VanDorn. Nelly, b. — married December 7, 1796, George Morris. There were two other children who died young. There v> ere, of course, other descendants of Garret Couwenhoven and Neeltje Schenck. his wife, but I have not the dates of their births, marriages and deaths and therefore do not name them. but the record I give will enable all who can go back to their grandfathers, to fix their family descent without any mistake. Garret Couwenhoven, the progenitor of this line of Conovers, is said to have been a hearty, whole- souled man. That he resembled in a marked degree his father, and because of his tall well proportioned form and his handsome appearance, attracted notice wherever he went. He is also said to have taken great interest in and care of his children; that he endeavored to train them to habits of sobriety, economy and industry, and judging by results after all these years his descendants seem to have profited by his efforts, for with very few ex- spti the hav

present day. As his children grew up and left the old homestead to make their way in the world, he is said to have advised them In plain words, but in the spirit and intent expressed in the following verses:

"You're going to leave the ho "You're twenty-one today. And the old man will le sorry, Jacob, To see you go away. You've labored late and early, Jacob

And done the best you could ; I ain't a going to stop you, Jacob, I wouldn't if I could. THE YOUNGER OF THE SIX CONOVER BROTHERS AND HIS CHILDREN.

This was the youngest of the six sey, in Book F of Wills, pages 392, etc. Conover brothers, who removed from He names in this will seven sons, viz: Flatlands, L. I., to Monmouth county, William, Garret, Cornelius, Peter, John. N. J. Jacob and Dominicus. He appoints as In Book G of Deeds, page 162, Mon- executors his son Garret, his cousin mouth county clerk's office, is the rec- Roelof Schenck, (Black Itoelof) and his ord of a deed dated October 3rd, 1705. cousin Garret, son of Koert Schenck; from John Bowne, merchant of Middle- only his son Garret qualifies. This will town township, to John Covenhoven. is witnessed by David Williamson, Cor- yeoman of Flatlands, Kings county, L. nelius Couwenhoven and Elbert Wil- I., for the consideration of £300 two liamson. tracts of land, one containing 94 acres All his sons except Garret removed and the other 215 acres, in the town- from Monmouth county to Penns Neck ship of Freehold, (now Marlboro) and and from there his sons, Cornelius, conveyed. In the description it is Peter and Jacob, emigrated to the state stated that these two tracts lie to- of Kentucky. Peter is said to have gether and are bounded on the east by removed from Kentucky to the state lands of Jacob VanDorn and Aria of Illinois. It is also said that he had (Adrian) Bennett. On page 165 of the a daughter Tryntje, who removed with same book of deeds is record of a deed her three brothers to Kentucky. Dom- dated October 15, 1709, from Jacob inicus married Mary Updyke. His will, VanDorn of Freehold township to John dated January 23, 1778, at Princeton, Covenhoven of the same place, for a N. J., is on record in Book 20 of Wills, tract of 38% acres, adjacent to the two page 194, etc., at Trenton, N. J. He tracts above mentioned and between names in this will the following sons: them and other lands of said VanDorn. John, William, Garret, Levi and Peter. These two deeds show that John Coven- He devised his farm at Penns Neck to hoven had removed from Long Island his sons, Levi and Peter. and was actually settled in Monmouth The records of Marlboro Brick church county some time between 1705 and show only the following children of 1709. The lands described in the above Jan Couwenhoven baptized:—Trinke, deeds, or the greater part of them, have baptized, October 30, 1709; Cornelius, of been continuously in the possession baptized April 6. 1712; Peter, baptized the descendants of Jan Couwenhoven December 5. 1714; Jan, baptized April from that date to the present year of 12. 1719; child un-named, baptized June our Lord, 1898. 7, 1724. well and Peter G. Conover, the known Garret, his youngest son as supposed, highly respected farmer of Marlboro was born on the old homestead in Marl- township, was born, lived and died on boro township April 27. 1726, and re- homestead. He was a grandson this sided there until his death, November of the said Jan Couwenhoven. John 1, 1812. He is buried in the yard of the Lyall Conover. now owns and oc- who Marlboro Brick church, and his age. cupies these lands, and who is one of inscribed on his tombstone, is 86 years the first farmers of Monmouth county, and 6 months. He married first Neeltje, late Peter G. Conover. is a son of the daughter of Benjamin VanMater and Lafayette Conover and Stacy P. Con- Elizabeth Laen, his wife, and had by over, lately deceased, who owned and her five children. He married second occupied valuable farms in the same Antje, daughter of Peter Janse Schenck vicinity, were also sons of Peter G. and Jannetje Hendrickson, his wife. She Conover and great grandsons of the died April 5, 1803, aged 49 years. 7 original settler, Jan Couwenhoven. months and 2 days. By his second wife made his will Nov- Jan Couwenhoven he had the following children: ember 23, it was proved December 29, office of 1756, and is on record in the married Hon. the secretary of the state of New Jer- Ruins of the old Krist mill of Cornelius Covenhoven at Carroway, near Keyport, N. J.

Photographed July,

Photographed July, 1898.

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Mr. Schenck at one time represented Lafayette, who married Elizabeth, daughter Monmouth county in the New Jersey of William Schenck and Abbey Polhemus, his Assembly. He lived and died on the wife. farm now (1898) owned and occupied by his youngest son, Lafayette Schenck. William Schenck was a son of Roelof in the township of Atlantic. He was P. Schenck, or Long Ruly, as called, also the father of the late Rev. Garret and a brother of Antje Schenck who Conover Schenck, the well known cler- married Garret Conover above men- gyman of the Dutch church, and who tioned, the grandfather of Lafayette died only a few years ago. As Eleanor Conover. Conover was, on her mother's side, a descendant of Jan Schenck, and her Stacy P.. who married Ellen L., daughter of husband, Lafayette Schenck, was a Daniel P. Schenck. Garret, married Mary L. Hulse, (formerly descendant of Garret Schenck, the Hulshart.) Dominie was a lineal descendant of Charles, died young. the two Schenck brothers who lirst Ann Eliza, married David Baird. settled in this county. Eleanor, married Alfred Conover. They are the parents of the well known lawyer. John Jane, b. November 9. 1789. L. Conover of this county. Ann, b. September 1790, married first Wil- Emma, married Ferdinand Hyers. liam Schenck, second Theodore Rue. John, b. December 17, 1791, married Ann Three other children. Amanda, Jane Smock. and Eugene, died young Peter G-. b. January 2, 1797. married Nov- In this connection I might say that ember 10, 1819, Charlotte, daughter of John Garret Conover by his first wife, Neel- Lyall, and died May 21, 1886. tje VanMater, had a son named Garret married During his long life of nearly four who Mary, daughter of the third Garret score and ten years he lived in peace Schenck. He owned and lived with all men and was respected by on the farm where the late John everybody for his integrity. His name W. Herbert lived in Marlboro township, is mentioned in a case decided by the adjacent. I think, to the farm of the supreme court of New Jersey back in late Stacy P. Conover. He built the the year 1825. This decision is found brick house yet standing where Judge in Third Halstead, New Jersey Reports, Herbert lived until his death. Another pages 90 to 116. His name is brought Garret H. Conover, son of Hendrick P. in through his marriage in the Lyall and Ghacey Conover, his wife, owned family and in a brief account of this and occupied the adjacent farm where family and some of their connections. Joshua Smith now lives, and a Garret I. It seems to have been an important Conover owned and occupied the farm case, for the decision fills thirty-six where Gideon C. McDowell resides. solid pages of this book. Four of the This Garret I. Conover was a son of greatest lawyers of that day in New John G. Conover (a brother of farmer Jersey appear for the parties. Robert Jacob Couwenhoven). born May 23, Stockton and George Wood for the 1760, and married August 22, 1778, Jane, plaintiff, and Garret D. Wall and L. H. daughter of Garret Koertse Schenck Stockton for the defendant. George and Nelly Voorhees, his wife, and who Wood subsequently obtained a national died May 10, 1802. Garret I., the son, reputation as a lawyer. was born March 31. 1785, married a This case turned upon the construc- daughter of Ruliff H. Schenck and died tion of the will of Eleanor Lyall. who May 12, 1829. His brother Elias, born had bequeathed a farm of 108 acres at August 10, 1779, was the father of Hen- Nut Swamp, Middletown township, to drick to Fenwick Lyall. Fenwick Lyall sold the people of Freehold, and who died and conveyed this farm to Richard only a few years since and hereinbefore Crawford for the sum of $4,390. After mentioned with his brothers, John E. Fenwick's death it was claimed that and Ruliff E. he only had a life right under his These three farmers all had the same mother's will. The Supreme court in walnut tree for a beginning corner. their long opinions sustained this con- The people of this vicinity in speaking struction. Fenwick Lyall and John of these three Garret Conovers, made Lyall are interred in the Lippitt bury- up a simple little rhyme which serves ing ground at Middletown village. to identify and distinguish them. It Peter G. Conover, by his wife, Char- ran thus: lotte Lyall. had the following children: The farrrs of the Garret Conovers. three: A. Bishop Garret H.. Garret I. and Garret G„ All butted up to a walnut tree. —

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The walnut tree, I understand, was and Cornelius Vanderveer of Flatbush. cut down a few years ago and a slab Kings county. L. I., for a tract of 350 from it presented to all the descendants acres in Freehold township. The Mid- of the three Garrets who could be dle brook of Topaneir.es, the South reached, as a relic. brook of Topanemes and the line of Jacoba Vanderveer, the wife of Jan John Baird's lands are mentioned in Couwenhoven and ancestress of this the description. The above named Conover line, was born at Flatbush, L. Tunis and Cornelius Vanderveer were I. She was baptized April 29, 1686, and sons of Dominicus Vanderveer. These was a daughter of Cornelius Janse Van- deeds show when and how the Vander- derveer and his wife, Trintje, daughter veers first came into Monmouth county. of Gillis DeMandeville. Cornelius Janse Tunis Vanderveer, above named Vanderveer came from Holland to grantee, married about 1723, Aeltje, America in the ship Otter, February. daughter of Garret Schenck of Pleas- 1659. In 1677-8 he purchased a farm ant Valley, and settled on part of the at Flatlands, L. I., where he settled. above tract. It has been in this family One of his daughters, Neeltje, married ever since. David Arthur Vanderveer, Daniel Polhemus. He also had a son, who now owns and occupies it, is a Dominicus, baptized November 16. lineal descendant of Tunis VanDer- 1679. This Dominicus Vanderveer was veer and Altje, Schenck, his wife. They associated with Daniel and Johannes had a son Tunis, born April 19, 1739. Polhemus, Auke Lefferts or Leffertson, He had a son John, born April 4, 1763, Ryck Hendrickson Suydam, Jacob married February 18. 1789. Anna Hendrickson Suydam and Stephen Bowne. They were the parents of ten Coerten in a purchase of a tract known children. Among them were Joseph I., as the 1500 acre tract on Swimming- born January 9, 1790, and married Jane river from Lewis Morris in 1709. This Smock; and David I., born April 19, Auke, or Aukey Lefferts was the prog- 1806. married February 13, 1828, Mary, enitor of the Leffertscn or Lefferts daughter of William Covenhoven and family in Monmouth county. He was Janet Davis, his wife. Joseph I. Van- born April 4, 1678, married May 29, derveer was a wellknown and a very 1703, Marytje TenEyck, a sister I think, popular man through Monmouth coun- 1 of Joh-nnes Polhemus wife. He died ty, "Uncle Josey Vanderveer." as he November 26, 1769, and is interred in was generally addressed. He had two the Polhemus family burying ground or three horses stolen ene night from at Scobcyville. Of these purchasers his stable. Single handed and in his only Johannes Polhemus and Auke everyday clothes he started out the Leffertson actually settled. The old next morning to find them. His pur- deeds for the purchase and subsequent suit led him through the state of New transfer from Daniel Polhemus to Jersey, city of Philadelphia, lower Johannes Polhemus are still in the pos- counties of Pennsylvania into the state session of the Polhemus family at Pha- of Maryland, where he found and cap- lanx, Atlantic township. In Book I of tured the thieves and brought his Deeds, pages 450, Monmouth county horses back home. His courage, per- clerl-'s offi-e, is record of a deed from severance and determinaticn shown in Cornelius Vanderveer of Middletown this adventure was talked of and told of Free- township to John Covenhoven for many years afterwards. His broth- township, dated September 18. hold er, David I. Vanderveer, lived and died Vander- 1789. In this deed Cornelius on the old homestead in Freehold town- of Domin- veer states that he is a son ship. His death occurred July 23, 1884. for the consider- icus Vanderveer and He left four children surviving him: ation of £1332 he conveys a tract of In township, ly- 330 acres Shrewsbury Hannah Matilda, married February 5. 1851, ing on both sides of the public road David C'ark Perrine, who was born at Clarks- leading from Tinton Falls to Colts burg, Millstone township, October 20, 1816. Neck and between Swimming river and Fall river or brook, being a part of the He was the well known merchant of Manor of Tinton, conveyed by Edward Freehold who made the "Big Red Antill and Anne, his wife, to Cornelius Store" famous in this part of New Jer- Vanderveer, March 27, 1741, the grand- sey. Their only son, David Vanderveer father of said Cornelius, the grantor Perrine, the leading merchant of Free- in this deed. hold, has deepened and widened the There is also record of a deed dated business his father established. June 2, 1712, in the Monmouth county clerk's office from Stephen Warne of Willi Cm. over, July 22, 1831. Middlesex county to Tunis Vanderveer Photograph taken by Mrs. L. H. S. Cono

Old house on Murray homestead in village of Middletown. N. J., pied and owned by Jacob Covenhoven during the latter Dart of the eighteenth century.

Photographed in the summer of 1900 by Mrs. L. H. S. Cono'

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

we find they have held to the present day the lands in Monmouth county on which they first settled. This speaks John D., b. September 28, I Slit;, married well for their stability, conservatism November 30, 1859, Jane Ann. daughter of and contentment with thing's as found. John Henry Vanderveer and Jane Smock, his No family in Monmouth can show a wife. better record in this respect. In this David Arthur, b. June 23. 1844. married I November 2, 1865, Eleanor G.. daughter of connection may add the late Col. Elias Tunis Vanderveer Schenck. Conover of Middletown. and Joseph Conover. father of the late William W. He resides on the old homestead Conover of Red Bank, and of Sidney where his forefathers settled nearly Conover, are descendants of the above two centuries ago. Thus both in the named Jan Couwenhoven and Jacoba history of Jan Couwenhoven and of the Vanderveer. his wife. Vanderveer family in which he married

REASONS WHY THE NEW YORK HOLLANDERS MIGRATED TO NEW JERSEY.

It may seem strange why the Van- of Orange. Everything in England was Dorns, VanPelts, VanAmacks, (Aum- in confusion, and they had no informa- ocks) VanSiclens, (Sickles) and other tion or time to consider the affairs of Dutch people left the towns and vil- a little colony like New York some lages of New York, and the society of three thousand miles away. When the their relatives and friends between news of this great revolution was re- 1690 and 1720, when there was so much ceived in New York, the old officials unoccupied land close by, just as fertile who had been appointed under King and cheap as that in Monmouth, Mid- James were naturally supposed to be dlesex and Somerset counties, N. J. his adherents. The Dutch population Monmouth county at that time was were well satisfied to have a man of reached from Long Island by sailing their own race and country, like Wil- vessels, generally small sloops. They, liam of Orange, as their sovereign. In of course, were dependent on the winds fact, for the first time since the pirat- and tides. In calms or contrary winds ical seizure of New Netherlands, in the a sloop might be two or three days in interest of this same King James, then making the passage. In the winter known as the Duke of York, were the when the bay was covered with float- Dutch people really satisfied with Eng-

ing ice or disturbed by violent storms, lish rule . no passage was possible. At suggestion and with support of The few people who then resided in many of the Dutch and English people, Monmouth county were of a different particularly those in Kings county. L. race and language and had nothing in I., and New York City, a man named common with these Dutch people from Jacob Leisler was chosen to administer Long Island. The country here was temporarily the government of New little more than a howling wilderness. York until communication could be had No roads which deserved the name, but with the government of Great Britain. mere tracks through the primeval^ for- This, of course, would require from ests over the old Indian paths, 'very four to five months with the sailing few bridges, no schools or churches of vessels of that time. their language and faith. In short, An Englishman named Richard In- none of the conveniences of civilized goldsby, who had been identified with life. the old officials appointed under King To understand this migration it is James, backed by the aristocratic necessary to take a brief glance at the clique who had previously controlled political and social conditions of affairs the provincial government, attempted in the province of New York. Just be- also to rule. In this they were de- fore 1690 the great revolution had oc- feated by the Leisler party and some curred in England, which drove King of the leaders, like Nicholas Bayard, James into lasting exile, and placed on had been imprisoned. Jacob Leisler the throne of Oreat Britain the Stad- was a plain, sincere man, without any holder of the Dutch Republic, William experience in political intrigue or du- EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOl'TH.

plicity. He was also without ability conclusion with this packed tribunal, to manage public matters of such mag- refused to sanction the farce by a "plea nitude or at such a critical period. He of guilty" or "not guilty," but stood was, however, a zealous protestant and "mute" as it was then called. an enthusiastic supporter of William This so-called court, with indecent of Orange, the revolutionary king. haste, found them guilty and sentenced He took every possible way to have them to death by hanging, mutilation King William and Queen Mary proof their corpses and confiscation of all claimed the legitimate sovereigns of their property. Sloughter, however, Great Britain at all the principal vil- seems to have had a little idea of what lages and towns of New York. On the was proper, for under date of May 2nd, 4th of March, 1690, he sent an order to 1691, he writes to Lord Inchiquin in one John Langstaff or Longstreet of England. After informing him of the East Jersey, directing him with the aid "conviction of Leisler and his accom- of the principal freeholders and inhab- plices" by a court of Oyer and Termin- itants of the place to proclaim William er, adds "I am not willing to proceed and Mary king and queen of England, but upon extreme necessity and until Scotland, France and Ireland, accord- his majesty shall have information and ing to the form used, at chief towns of his pleasure be known." If Sloughter East Jersey, with all the solemnities had pursued this course the colonial usual on such occasions. This was history of New York, and his own done at the villages of Middletown and memory would have been saved from a Shrewsbury, some time in the month disgraceful stain. of March, 1690, for they were the prin- The arch conspirators, however, well cipal towns in this part of East Jersey. understood that a review of Leisler's This action on the part of Leisler case by intelligent and disinterested proves the utter falsity of the charge men. would defeat their vindictive pur- afterward trumped up by his enemies, pose. They at once took measures to that he was the ringleader of a Dutch change the governor's intention. We plot to subvert the English govern- have no sure means of knowing what

ment. , Finally on the 19th of March, private representations they made' to 1691, an Englishman named Henry him, although many grave and scandal- Sloughter duly commissioned as Royal ous rumors and reports were circulated Governor, arrived in New York. He among the people. We have, however, was entirely unacquainted with the the records of their public proceedings, people and the true situation of public made up by them in the best shape they matters. He naturally fell into the could put it. The following is their hands of the old English politicians and record, on the 11th of May. 1691, at a relied on them for all information. council held at Fort William Henry, Many of these men were the bitter pol- New York: itical and personal enemies of Leisler. "Present: Governor Henry Slough- They looked upon him as an upstart ter, Frederick Phillips. William Nicolls. and the leader of the common people Nicholas Bayard, Stephen VanCortlandt who had pushed himself forward, con- and Oabriel Monville, of the council." trary to usage, precedent or aristo- Then they go on to say that Governor cratic connections. Sloughter inquires "what is best lor At their suggestion, made for a sinis- the peace of the country, as he was ter purpose. Sloughter appointed In- about to go to Albany" (then a trip of goldsby to demand from Leisler the about two weeks). With one voice, surrender of the fort and the disband- showing previous collusion, they re- ment of his military forces. Surprised plied, "that to iirevent insurrection in at such a messenger and suspecting a the future and to preserve the gover- trick. Leisler at first refused but finally nor's authority, it was absolutely nec- when convinced that the new governor essary that the death sentence against had really deputized him, he surrender- Leisler and Millbourne be forthwith ed up the fort without any resistance. executed." Leisler, his son-in-law. Jacob Mill- At this time there was not the least bourne, and several of his principal danger of insurrection yet with this officers, were at once arrested and bold lie, they induced the governor to thrown in prison. Sloughter. who was sign the death warrant. Two days a mere thing of putty, was persuaded later, such was their haste, May 16. ,by these conspirators to call what was 1691, Jacob Leisler and Jacob Mill- designated a special court of Oyer and bourne were strangled to death in the Terminer to try these prisoners. Leisler city of New York. They both met their and Millbourno. knowing that their death like christians and brave men. conviction and death was a foregone Thev asserted their innocence to the EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOUTH.

last and declared that what they had prisoned and convicted with him. Many done was for the protestant religion of these men were alarmed. If Leisler and in the interest of King William and Millbourne could thus be executed and Queen Mary. Thus was consum- and their property seized what securi- mated one of the darkest crimes in the ty is the re for any of us'? was a natural annals of the State and colony of New inquiry. The young men about to leave York. home and make a settlement elsewhere We cannot now realize the deep looked around to see if there was some anger and lasting resentment aroused place Where they would be safe, where among the friends and supporters of laws would be equitably administered Leisler, particularly in Kings county, and where there would be lull liberty L. I., where he had a numerous following. Jer the These men never forgot or forgave The had offered liberal the aristocratic clique which with bit- terms to all persons who would settle ter malice and false pretenses had on their lands, for without inhabitants hunted these men to death. It affected their lands were worthless. Some of and influenced the politics of New York these proprietors, like the merchants down to the revolutionary war, when in London, were influenced solely by the "dangerous Democratic ideas," mercenary considerations. Others, like which Ingoldsby spoke of in one of his William Penn and Robert Barclay, by philanthropic and conscientious mo- of the Leisler troubles, were trium- tives. Robert Barclay of Aberdeen. phant. The whole case, however, came Scotland, had been made governor of before the English government a few New Jersey. He was famous as a years later. In 1695 an act was passed scholar and writer and for his philan- by the House of Lords and Commons thropy. He was a son of Robert Bar- and approved by the King, righting clay, who at one time had served as a this foul injustice so far as was possi- soldier under Gustavus Adolphus of ble. This act is entitled 6 i- 7 William Sweden, but in after years became a 111. Anno 1695. The following is the convert to the Friends. He is cele- last section of the act. brated by John G. Whittier in h

~~CONFLICT BETWEEN LEWIS MORRIS AND THE PEOPLE OF MIDDLETOWN.~~

Jacob VanDorn, as the name is now Indians and also procured a legal title spelled, with his brother-in-law, Arie from the proprietors of East Jersey for (Adrian) Bennett, removed from what this tract of land prior to his transfer is now a part of Brooklyn, then known to Salter. as Gowanus, to Monmouth county in Under date of April 2, 1697. Salter the year 1697 or 98, just two centuries assigns this deed to "Adrian Bennett ago. He married about 1694 Marytje, and Jacob VanDorn of Gowanus, Kings (Maria or Mary) a daughter of Arian county, Island of Nassau," (Long Is- Williamse Bennett and Angenietje land). This assignment is recorded in VanDyke, his wife, who then resided at Book H of Deeds, page 32 7. and was a Gowanus. Jacob VanDorn became a very singular method to convey real communicant in the Dutch church of estate. The number of acres is not Brooklyn in 1695. Our records in the stated. It appears that Bennett, Van- Monmouth County Clerk's Office show Dorn and Salter were thrown together that John Reid, a Scotchman, who was by this business transaction and that quite prominent in public affairs of Salter must have gained the good will this county between 1690 and 1720. and and friendship of those two men by his who was a faithful agent for some of fair and kind treatment of them; for the Scotch proprietors, conveyed to only a year or two later we find Ben- Richard Salter, by deed dated Decem- nett and VanDorn resisting the sheriff ber 23, 1689, recorded in Book H of of the county, John Stewart, and pre- Deeds, page 325, part of his land called venting him from arresting Salter. Our Hortencia. lying principally in what is court records show that for their ac- now Marlboro township and likely run- tion in this matter they brought upon ning over into what is now Holmdel themselves the vengeance of the notor- township, for Freehold township in ious Lewis Morris of "Tintern Manor." 1689 had not been set off from Middle- as he or his uncle, the first Lewis Mor- town township. In this deed it is stated ris, had named it. This place is now that the lands conveyed begin where known as Tinton Falls, in Monmouth "West Branch comes into Hop brook at a place called Promontoria." John The Jtes of the Reid, who was an intelligent and prudent man, had doubtless satisfied the EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. entered at the instance of, and no doubt of five pounds, money of this province. dictated by, Lewis Morris himself, for breach of the peace and terror of the kii liese people. Signed in behalf of the rest a in « clerk, Drummond, also a Scotch- JOHN REID, rWeman. man, had just been appointed and he had no experience in making- up the court records. The following is a cor- nd hon< rect copy of this record:

~~"A Court of Inquiry held at Shrewsbury for the county of .Monmouth, the 27th day of August. 1700. Lewis Morris, President. Samuel Leonard, \~~

~~Jedediah Allen, ! Justices. honest men, who Samuel Dennis. [' in a plain unoster Anthony Pintard. ) commanded the r The Grand Jury of Inquiry' for present ser- pie of Middletowr~~

John Reid. (a Scotchman). Jeremiah Stillwell, Alexander Adams John Slocum. Thomas Webley, Thomas Hewett, Patrick Cannon, : Abiah Edwards. James Melven. ; John West, Peter Embiey, * John Leonard Samuel Hopenge. William Layton. William Hoge.

TIl.s. rked ith ('') Sr.it,-!, n After taking the oath Lewis Morris charged them. We have no record of what he said, but judging by his other writings, when angered, it was a violent harangue for the jury to indict Jacob VanDorn, Arie Bennett and the other persons who had resisted his pet sheriff, John Stewart, also a Scotchman. The jury were almost, outside of John Reid, the foreman, and the other Scotchman, made up of his retainers and henchmen in Shrewsbury township. The justices, also, who set with him had all been lately appointed at his suggestion by the Scotch governor. An- drew Hamilton. In plain words this jury was packed by Lewis Morris for the express purpose of indicting Jacob VanDorn, Adrian (Arie) Bennett and others of the Middletown people. They soon returned the following indictment, which had probably been drawn up by Lewis Morris himself and given to some of his agents on this grand jury. The following is a true copy of this indictment:

"August ye 27th. 1700. — We, jurors presen Richard Salter, John Bray. James Stout, David Stout, Benjamin Stout, Cornelius Compton William Bowne, Thomas Hankinson, Jacob VanDorn, Arian Bennett. Thomas Sharp, jamin Cook. Robert James. Thomas Estill Samuel, a servant of Salter, for riotously as- sembling on the 17th of July and assau John Stewart, Hi:-di Sheriff, and Henry Leon- ard, in the path near house of Alexandei Adatrs and beat and previously wounded these said persons, took their swords from them, carried them away and kept them to the value EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

ilton [he then resided at Burlington City] who tinctly informed to this immediately came effect and had to them, [at Tinton FallsJ. warning of what would happen They pressed about fifty men [Morris' hench- and what did happen at men in Shrewsbury township and his Middletown village Scotch on the contingent around Freehold, likely] and came 25th of March, 1701, on 19th of July [only two days after Sheriff This record of that court as it stands John Stewart and Henry Leonard had been on the minutes in the clerk's office was thrashed] in arms [with suns and other wea- •idently entered at the dictation of pons] to Middletown [the village] and came to Lev Mm lis rho the the ordinary [the tavern presiding or public house, judge of the which then stood where George Bowne's county courts. This rec- dwell- ord ing now, 1898. stands] and there inquired for represents the people of Middle- said Salter and one Bray [John Bray]. Then town as breaking up this court, taking they marched off [went back to Tinton Falls Governor Hamilton | and the county The people of Middletown [township] were as- officials prisoners, out of sympathy sembled to the number of about 100 [another with a self confessed pirate, who had account says about 150 men] but without arms, only served under the notorious Capt. Kidd. sticks [mild term for clubs] yet had it and in order to not been for the persuasion of some much in rescue him from the the public favor there would have been broken officers of the law. This was a grave heads if not further mischief, the said justices and serious charge and one very likely having persuaded the person in the sheriff's to be noticed and punished by the hands Eng- to give security for his good behavior lish government. Piracy, however, was the day before this meeting. In this position an offense outside of the things stand in this county and jurisdiction of we believe that the throughout the province, including the Scotch, Monmouth courts as it occurs on the high there is six to one against owning Col. Ham- seas and it is cognizable only ilton Governor, and almost all bitterly against in Admiralty courts. So Lewis Morris Morris, whom they look upon as the first man failed to bring upon the people of Mid- [as indeed he was] that opposed government. dletown the vengeance ANDREW BOWNE, of the home RICHARD government. He however, sent a cer- HARTSHORNE, tified copy of the court One of ye Council." record to the English government backed up by a Some of our local Newark historians long communication. He also wrote have in their one-sided efforts to eulo- about the same time to the Bishop of gize Lewis Morris, spoken in a slight- London saying that the people of Mid- ing way of Captain Andrew Bowne. dletown were the "most ignorant and There is no evidence to justify this in wicked people on earth and have no our early records. He was a plain, out- such thing as church or religion among spoken, sincere man who always stood them." He also, a short time after his four square in his tracks. He could captivity at Middletown, went to Eng- not cajole or natter like Lewis Morris land, in order to accomplish his vindic- when he wanted favors, neither could tive or ambitious designs. he abuse in bitter fashion his oppon- Jacob VanDorn and Arie Bennett, al- ents, like Morris. He had no such com- though indicted and harassed for some mand of vituperative language, but time by the officers, were never brought what he said he meant, and he was al- to trial, for the proprietors of New ways consistent. Those who knew him Jersey surrendered the next year (1702) best (his neighbors of Monmouth coun- their right of government to the Eng- ty) respected him, while Lewis Morris lish crown. Lord Cornbury and other was detested for his arbitrary and un- new officials came into power who ig- scrupulous efforts to further his own nored entirely all the old disputes and interests even when he sat as judge of quarrels. our county courts. He was constantly This old record, while unexplained, in law suits, during the years running throws a dark shadow on the charac- from 1692 to 1698, and his influence and ters of Jacob VanDorn and Arie that of his cousin, Lewis Morris, of (Adrian) Bennett, but when real facts Passage Point, who was also a justice, are understood, it appears that they gave him a decided advantage over the stood up manfully without regard to people he sued. The attempt of Gov- consequences to protect their friend, ernor Hamilton and Lewis Morris to Richard Salter, and resist the tyran- overawe and intimidate the people of nical and illegal acts of a usurping Middletown by an armed body of men governor and his pretended officers of failed. It ought to have been evident the law. It speaks well for their res- to them that the people of Middletown olution, courage and intelligence. would not submit. They were dis- JACOB VAN DORN AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Betw :en 1697 and 1701. Jacob Van- diec Dorn became the sole owner in fee of 675 acres of land in what is now Holm- del and Marlboro townships. This tract lies west of Pleasant Valley, and was joined on the east by lands of Jan Schenck and on the west by part of lands of Albert Couwenhoven. It runs from the southwest corner of Pleasant Valley over to what is now called Hillsdale, near Bradevelt station and the Brick church. This is a small valley running- west from Pleasant Valley. Jacob VanDorn's land included all this valley and ran up into the hills on each side. It was covered with the primeval forests and undrained swamps when he settled there. At the north- west corner of the original 675 acres is a tract of woodland now (1898) owned by Hon. Daniel P. VanDorn of Free- hold, which has come down to him by descent from the first Jacob VanDorn, the pioneer settler. Jacob VanDorn erected his first dwelling, probably a log cabin, on the rising ground or knoll where the residence of the late Thomas Ely stands. just west of the mill pond and on the north side of the road from Holmdel to the Brick church. Over this road the VanDorns, Scheneks, Couwen- hovens and Hendricksons, of Pleasant Valley and vicinity, travelled every Sunday to attend services at the First Dutch church for over one hundred years. After a few years the log house gave way to a more substantial and convenient dwelling, erected on the same site. Here Jacob VanDorn lived and died. On the stream which Mows down from the hills, only a stone's throw east from his residence. Jacob VanDorn built a dam and erected a grist mill as early as 1714, if not earlier. This mill was a great con- venience to the settlers for lour or five miles around, and it shows that Jacob VanDorn was a practical, energetic man. who understood the needs of that community. This mill remained on the same site until 1829. when Sheriff John J. Ely, who was then the owner, erected a new mill about 200 yards further dov the .'her re- i-:i> EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MO.XMOCTH. signed to and occupied by his fourth son. Jacob VanDorn. and on this he lived and brought up his family. The eldest son, Jacob, who afterward owned and resided on the eastern half of the VanDorn homestead and ran the mills, married three times and had fifteen children. His first wife, Arriantje Couwenhoven. was baptized September 25, 1746, and was the daughter of Jacob Jacobse Couwenhoven, and Margaret Couwenhoven, his wife, who was a daughter of William Couwenhoven and Arriantje Bennett. By this wife Jacob Couwenhoven had the following children:

John, married November 25. 9, Ann Van- Brunt. Jacob, married September 2 799, Cathar- ine Schenck. Margaret. married February 18, 1798, Schuyler Schenck. Mary, who died unmarried, and always retained a room in the dwelling house where Thomas Ely lived, and where her father died.

~~By his se Smock, EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

iness and perfection from all sins, and Wilhelm (William) VanDorn, born never boasted of being Pilgrims or the about 1701. married Altje. daughter of sons of Pilgrims, and above earthly Cornelius Couwenhoven and Margaret things with all their hopes fixed on a Schenck, his wife, of Pleasant Valley, crown of gold and harp in Heaven, yet and died young without children. His they tried to live without wronging widow married for her second husband other people in w^ord or deed, to im- Cornelius Middach. prove and build up the country and Jacobus (Jacob) VanDorn, born Jan- start their children on an honest and uary 21. 1703. baptized in Brooklyn industrious path in life. April 27th, 1703. married first Marvtje. daughter of Jan Schenck and Sarah Christyjan. (Chl'istain) baptized September Couwenhoven. his wife. This made 17, 1699, married Altje, daughter of Jan three sisters of this Schenck family Schenck and Sarah Couwenhoven, his wife. who married into this VanDorn family. Marytje She was baptized May 25th, 1705. and Schenck was born August 8, died at Middlebush, Somerset county. 1712, and died October 31, 1756. N. J., in 1801. It is said that when 95 Jacob VanDorn married a second years old she rode every Sunday when wife, Rachel. daughter of Garret the weather permitted to the Dutch Schenck and Neeltje Voorhees, his wife, church at New Brunswick six miles also of Pleasant Valley, and a cousin from her home. to his first wife. She was at this time Christian VanQorn removed from the widow of Guysbert Longstreet of Monmouth to Somerset county about Squan (Manasquan). Jacob VanDorn 1723. He purchased a tract of 525 acres died February 26. 1779, on the western in the north side of the present Amwell half of his father's lands, containing road at Middlebush. He let his young- about 317 acres. He had by his first er brother, Abraham, who also came at wife seven sons and three daughters a later date to Middlebush. have 166 of whom more hereafter. acres on the north of the 359 acres Augenietje. baptized March 29, 1705, which he retained. married about 1729, William Wyckoff, Abraham VanDorn is said to have who lived near Monmouth court house served as sheriff of Somerset county. or Freehold village. This couple had 20 consecutive years, and was highly five sons and six daughters. One of respected for his business qualities. In their sons, Jacob Wyckoff, born 1730. 1752. while Rev. John Leydt was pastor and died March 5, 1812, married Sarah of the Dutch church at New Bruns- Couwenhoven, granddaughter of Jacob wick. Christain and Abraham VanDorn Couwenhoven of Middletown. and \vho were both in the consistory, one as dea- is named in his will. She was born con and the other as elder. They fol- 1733 and died August 25th, 1796. Their lowed in their father's steps. He was son William, was a colonel in the Rev- the first deacon of the Dutch church in olutionary war and was the father of Monmouth, when the church was or- Nathaniel Scudder Wyckoff, one of the ganized in 1709, and his son Abraham principal farmers and land owners in was the first child baptized after the what is now Manalapan township, dur- installation of Joseph Morgan, the pas- ing the early part of the present cen- tor, by Rev. Bernardu.s Freeman, from tury. Another son of William Wyckoff Long Island. and Augenietje VanDorn was Peter Christain VanDorn. by his wife, Altje Wyckoff, who was a guide or aid to Schenck. (sometimes spelled Alchy) General Washington at the battle of had 17 children, all of whom grew up, Monmouth, and was also the grand- married and had large families, except father of the famous "Chevelier Henry one named Roelof. At the time of her Wyckoff," once editor of the Democrat- death. 1S01. Altje Schenck VanDorn ic Review. Some of the descendants of had 17 children, 129 grand. 200 great this William Wyckoff and Augenietje grand and six great great grandchil- VanDorn settled in Louisiana and dren, in all 352 descendants. For the other? at Easton. Pa. The late Col. names of Christain VanDorn's children, Wyckoff who fell at the head of his whom they married and where they regiment in the battle of Santiago, settled, and some account of their des- Cuba, is said to be a descendant of this cendants, see an article by Hon. Ralph Easton branch. Voorhees. on the VanDorn family in Katrintje (Catharine), born 1707. Somerset county in August. 1873. num- married a Cornelius Wyckoff, supposed ber of "Our Home," a monthly maga- to be from Long Island or Somerset zine then published by A. V. D. Honev- county. man at Sotnerville, \. J., pages 337 to Brom, (Abraham) baptized October 20. 1709. bring the first child baptized I

~~EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.~~

in the Dutch church of Monmouth. His will made in 1715. and afterward can- father was a deacon at this time. He celled by him: removed to Somerset county, N. J., and "In name of God, Amen. I, Jacob VanDorn settled on the north part of the tract of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth and purchased by his brother, Christain Eastern Division of the Province of New Jer- VanDorn, at Middlebush. He became sey, Yeoman, this 28th day of May, A. D. 1745, being sheriff of Somerset county, and one of very weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, the leading and influential men of that do make, ordain and constitute this my last will and testa- day. Whom he married I am unable to say, but it is said he married a For- Imprimis: I resign my soul into the hands of God, my great and glorious Creator, who gave it Peter, baptized September 2. 1701, me, and my body to the earth in hopes and was drowned at Shoal Harbour, of a glorious resurrection at the last day through the merits of my blessed (now Port Monmouth) when a young redeemer. Jesus Christ our Lord, to be buried at the dis- man and unmarried. cretion of my executors Isaak hereinafter mentioned. (Isaac) baptized March i3, And as for my temporal estate, which God, in 1715. He remained a bachelor and mercy hath given to me, my will and desire lived near the old VanDorn homestead is that my funeral charges first be paid, and and carried on a tannery, shoemaker all my other just and lawful debts discharged and the shop and country store. remainder to be disposed of as follows. Jacob VanDorn, the fourth son above Item : I give named, owned and occupied under his as she shall ren father's will, about 317 acres, the west- of the farm I n. ern longing to it half of the tract next to Hillsdale. ; and if she should marry again. He built the dwelling house where I give unto her £100 of this currency at 8 Elisha Holmes resided until his death. shillings the ounce to be levyed out of my movable estate. In 1715, while sick, he executed a will Item: I give unto my eldest son named now in possession of Hon. Daniel P. Jacob, three and one quarter parts of my es- VanDoren of Freehold. tate it : being divided into sixteen equal parts He afterward recovered and lived (viz: all my estate both real and personal). Item I give many years, or until 1779. He had : unto my second son named other children born after this date, so John, three sixteenths parts of my estate, both he cut off his signature this from will Item : I give unto my third son named Wil- and so cancelled it. He probably made liam, two and three quarters of sixteenth a later will. With exception of his parts of my estate, both real and personal. signature the paper remains unaltered. Item: I give unto my fourth son named It shows, however, exactly what chil- Isaac, two and one half of the sixteenth parts dren he then had, what disposition he of my estate, both real and personal. intended of his property and also what Item: I give unto my daughter named Sarah, two and one quarter friends he trusted to look after his of the sixteenth parts of my estate, both real and personal. minor children and carry out his wish- Item: I give unto my youngest son named es. In short, he speaks for himself in Aure. two and one quarter of the sixteenth this will and I think it important that parts of my estate, both real and personal. My a copy should be preserved in print. It will and desire also is, that if any of the will interest his numerous descendants above named children should die, having no now residing in many states of legitimate issue, their portion to be equally our divided union. between the surviving children. My will and desire is that my executors True copy of second Jacob VanDorn's hereinafter named, and I give them full power and authority, if my widow should marry again, so to dispose of the remainder of my "In the grave yard of Old Scots burying estate, as may be by them esteemed the most ground we find a tombstone inscribed "Ele- advantageous for my children. And if any of anor, wife of Abraham VanDorn, daughter of my said children be under age at that time to Jonathan and Margaret Forman, who died bind them out to such trades as they shall May 22, 1733, aged 20 years." Jonathan For- see most suitable, paying each their several man married Margaret Wyckoff and became a portions as soon as they shall arrive at the communicant of the Dutch church in 1714. His age of twenty-one years, or as the payments wife no doubt brought up her children accord- shall come in, if they shall sell the said estate ing to Dutch manners and customs and so the Item: I do hereby nominate, ordain and Forman children, like the Holmes, became constitute Roelof Schenck. the son of John Dutchmen through intermarriage with a more Schanck. and William Wyckoff of said Free- vigorous and sturdy race. I think his .laugh- hold, executors of this, my last will and testa- ter Elinor married this Abraham VanDorn. who removed to Somerset county, but he lost Siene.i. tie, the her almost as soon as he married her. according to the inscription on this tombstone. JOHN BRAY, ISAAC VAN DORN. JACOB SC1.ENCK. EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Jacob VanDorn had by his first wife, son and Williamptje Schenck, his wife.- Jan- Maritje Schenck, the following chil- netje Williamson was baptized July 12, 1758. dren, all of whom were raised on the Peter VanDorn lived in the home his father built and occupied western part of the homestead tract: his lands and raised a large family of seven sons and four daughters. Among his sons was one named William who Jacob, born January 15, 1731, died October married a daughter of Daniel Polhemus at 19. 1761, unmarried. Phalanx, purchased a farm in the present John, born January 6, 1733, married about township of Marlboro about 1816, where he his cousin, Augnitje. of Rnelnt 1756, daughter resided until his death. He left surviving him Schenek and Engeltje VanDorn, his wife. He one son, Hon. Daniel P. VanDoren, now. removed to and settled at Peapack about 1760, (1898) residing in Freehold, and who still and had sons Jacob. William and Roelof, and owns his father's farm, and one daughter, a daughter Ann. Jane, who married the late John Rue Perrine, 3. 1736, William, born December married who was among the first farmers of Manal- Lone-street first Rachel, daughter of Guysbert apan township during the greater part of his of Squan. (now Manasquan) and Rachel life. Schenck, his wife. She died about 1765 and Ann, born October 27. 1756. married Lewis. he afterward married Mary Hunt. He re- son of Thomas Thompson, who then owned the moved to Peapack and had sons. Jacob and old stone house on the west side of the turn- Gilbert, and perhaps others. He died October pike from Freehold to Smithburgh. (now El- 1816. ton, formerly Clayton's corner). This prop- nary I'l. 739. and died Oct- erty was owned by Achsah Hendrickson. wife of Enoch Hendrickson. for many years. Since Sarah. born February '20th. 1741, her death one Hartman has bought it. The about 1761, John Antonides of Dutch Lane, at private family grave yard of the Thompsons Freehold, ten children. East and had is on the farm. Aure. (sometimes mistaken for Aaron) This Lewis Thompson was a zealous born, September 14. 1744, married May 9, and active loyalist during; the revolu- 1765. Ghacy. youngest daughter of Jan Roe- lofse Schenck and Jacomyntje Couwenhoven. tionary war. In courting and visiting She was born February 14, 1748. and died his wife near Pleasant Valley he had February 3. 1820. She was named after her become familiar with all the roads and father's mother, Geesie Hendrickson. wife of byways and also with the customs and Black Roelof Schenck. but as the younger gen- habits of the Dutch settlers there. erations lost knowledge of the Dutch language they would spell Dutch names according -Children of Peter VanDorn and Jannetje to sound, so "Geesie" became "Ghacy," (Jane) Williamson, his wife. •Antie" became "Onehee." "Altje" "Alchy." Mary, born February 21. 1778, married Rulif etc.. etc. This couple had known each other Smock. from childhood, for the homesteads lay near Jacob, born October 13, 1779, married Gitty other. Aure and Ghacy. or each VanDorn Jane Schenck. Geesie Schenck, his wife, removed to Peapack Elbert, born November 14. 1781, married large family and settled there. They raised a Sarah Cowenhoven. of children. General Earl VanDorn. who was Williampe. born April 3. 1784. married Dr. killed in the Confederate service during the Benjamin DuBois, son of Dominie DuBois. war of the Rebellion, was a descendant of this Ann, born January 30, 1786, died young. couple and not of Aaron, son of Christain John, born November 28, 1787, married VanDorn, as erroneously stated in a foot Mary Cowenhoven. note to one of Judge Voorhees" articles in William, born March 2, 1790. married Cath- "Our Home" magazine of Somerville. N. J. arine Polhemus, died September 2, 1850. His See foot note on page 339 of "Our Home." in wife died the day previous. Both were buried the year 1873. at the same time in the yard of Br Mary, born November 3. 1746, married John """ Isaac, born July 13. rried Eleanor Schenck of Penns Neck. He was a captain in Hankinson, died August 16, 1858. the Revolutionary war. Peter, born April 15. 1794, married first Isaac, born March 14. married July 3. 1752, Catharine DuBois, second Elizabeth VanDer- 1784. Anne, daughter of Garret Couwenhoven veer. He died February 20. 1877. and Neeltje or Eleanor Schenck. his wife, who Arthur, born July 29. 1797, married Harriet was born 21. 1754, died 11, May and June VanCleaf. 1843. Isaac VanDorn died at Middletown vil- Jane, or Jannette, born April 29, 1799. mar- lage where he lived, on the farm his only son. ried Klisha I olmes. She died September 27. Garret VanDorn. lived and died on, as has 1837. aged 37 years, 7 months and been heretofore mentioned. She was buried by her husband i Schenck Peter, born July 4, 1755, married January 9. Couwenhoven yard. 1777, Jannetje. daughter of Elhert William- Sarah, born May 31. 1803. m ied Pierson Hendrickson. who carried on EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOCTH.

Captain John Schenck, the famous Van Doren Marriages From Brick Church partizan leader, resided on an adjoining Records. farm, now occupied by his grandson, Joseph VanDoorn and Femmetje Wyckoff, David Schenck, and near the Van-

Dorn's. A reward of fifty guineas had :. Dec. 29. been offered for his capture or death 1721. by the British. There were, several mid- Arie (or Aure) VanDoorn and Geesie (Ghacy) Schenk. May 9. 1765. raids by the Tories and night made Catharine VanDoorn and Hugh Newel. Nov. to capture him. Three differ- British 1, 1773. ent times these bands surrounded his Isaac VanDoorn and Anne Covenhoven. July house between midnight and daybreak 3, 1785. to capture him. He generally slept Jacob VanDoorn and Gitty Schenck. Feb. 4. out in the woods or if in his house he 1802. had scouts outlying who brought him Williampe VanDoorn and Benjamin DuBois. enemy. Feb. 16. 1803. instant word of the approaching Albert VanDoorn and Sarah Covenhoven. On one of these occasions the Tories March 14, 1803. were guided or led by this Lewis John VanDoorn and Mary Covenhoven, Jan. Thompson, who had married among his 30, 1809. near relatives and neighbors. Knowing William VanDoorn and Catharine Polhemus. the country. Thompson managed so 181c Arthur VanDoorn and Harriet VanCleaf. well that Captain Schenck barely es- Jan. 6, 1817. caped in his night clothes from a rear Peter VanDoorn and Catharine DuBois. window and concealed himself by lying down in a wheat field behind his house. VhiiIVhu-m Holr Feb. It was in June and the wheat stalks 1819. were high enough to hide a man lying- Garret VanDoorn and Willampe Coven- but so near was he that he hoven. Feb. 24. 1821. down, Sarah VanDoorn and Pearson Hendrickson. plainly hear them talk and their could Aug. 7. 1823. threats to his wife, and recognized this Margaret VanDoorn and Joseph D. Vander-

Lewis Thompson. When war ended 1 v:i Lewis Thompson with his wife removed Peter VanDoorn and Elizabeth Vanderveer, to Nova Scotia. After remaining there Jan. 26. 1836. many years and learning that the old Jacob VanDoorn and Eliza Jane VanMater. died away, Dec. 5. 1837. bitterness and anger had David VanDoorn and Mary H. Crawford, they came back to visit their relatives. Dec. 25, 1824. While visiting his wile's people at Holmdel he went one day into a country store kept by one of his wife's rel- From Inscriptions on Tombstone in Private atives. While there Captain John Family Burying-ground on the Daniel D. happened to enter. As soon Schenck Covenhoven Farm Near Taylor's Mills. as his eye fell on Thompson, he turned Mary VanDoorn, d. March 16, 1877. 88 yrs.. to the storekeeper, saying "Either that Tory rascal must go out or else I will. VanDoorn. d. June 25. The same roof can never cover us both, Her husband. John 1864. 76 yrs., 6 mos., 27 days. I shall never step foot and if I go out Peter Covenhoven, d. Feb. 12, 1857. 54 yrs., on your premises again if I live a hun- 10 mos. dred years." His wife, Sarah VanDoorn. d. Aug. 6. 1873. Knowing that Captain Schenck would do just what he threatened, and that he would lose the custom of his large fam- he turned to Thompson ily connections, From Christ Church (Episcopal) Grave Yan saying "You must get out of my store Middletown Village, N. J. and never enter it again." So Thomp- Isaac VanDorn. d. May 7. 1831 ; age 79 yrs son left. He died before his wife, leav- 1 days. - ing several sons and daughters. One of moil., 12 His wife. Anne Garretse Covenhoven. < lawyer and settled his sons became a June 11. 1843: age 89 yrs.. 21 days. at Somerville, N. J. His mother went Their son. Garret VanDorn. b. May 31. 1781 there to live with him after her hus- d. Aug. 6, 1856. band's death, and died there at an ad- His wife. Williampe Covenhoven. b. Jan. 31, 1874. vanced age. 1791 ; d. Jan. William, son of Isaac and Anne VanDori d. Mar. 1. 1S17. age 21 yrs.. 8 mos.. 4 days. Mary VanDorn. daughter of Isaac and Ann VanDorn. d. Mar. 13. 1805; age 17 yrs.. mos.. 22 days. Jacob, son of Isaac and Anne VanDorn. t May 30, 1808; age 22 yrs.. 8 mos.. 4 days. EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

From Brick Church Cemetery. break down in Peter public, and cry like a VanDoorn, Sen., d. Apr. 18, 1834 ; age child while attempting 78 yrs., 9 mos., 14 days. to console the His a family wife. Jane Willemsen. (daughter of El- °£„ late,y bereaved bert by death.,? The Willeinsen and Will. nip.. Srheiirk) d Jan writer heard him in the 28. ' Pulpit a 1845: agt 8b yrs.. i! mos.. ':; days short time before his decease. Peter VanDoorn, • The one d. Feb. 20. 1877 ace 82 idea which ran like a thread yrs., 10 mos.. 5 days. itiiMuun his discourse, His wife. Elizabeth was that the Vanderveer, d. Mar. 2 mystery of life was as 1862. age 59 yrs.. 12 days great as the mystery of death, and that v i 5 both were 8:b - Mar- controlled by the i3^v r/o^tf thTw^ii1 2 Creator. That the S highest W e I , Or HankinSOn wisdom as well as practical I80™ d ' "' M ar. 2 8:T8 8 8 ^ " judgment in everyday life, dictated en- Peter A. VanDoorn, d. Jan. 17. t r ust or 1876 ; age 71 ''? faith in the Creator, yrs.. 5 mos., , , who 20 days. did all things well, His wife. and had promised Elizabeth Kernaghan, d. Mar 5 evenln S time it should 1869 : age 58 yrs.. be 5 mos., 23 days. f- t+" x barah fight. I cannot recall his VanDoorn. wife of John Patterson, d words which ° C 3 ' seemed prophetic ''- : au e 22 of the - yrs 1 mo end so ' " - 24 days. soon William;V..'r, to come to VanDoorn, d. Sept. 2, 1850. b. Mar him, when he lay cold and 1790. still in his parsonage at Middletown t fe. Catharine Polhemus, b. July 16 His ideas, however, were identical 1797 Sept. 1, 1850. with those expressed in the following verses- st was a double funeral. In death they were unit* life. •We The fine mon. at it is. Dear, this sleep so graves tells briefly the story the awful calm, the cheeks Among the well known and honored citizens of I Monmouth who have borne not lift again, though we the VanDorn name was Rev. Luther Halsey VanDorn, a lineal descendant of te solitude of peace, that Christain VanDorn and Altje Schenek his wife, of Somerset county, heretofore spoken of. He was pastor of the old Tennent church seventeen years. The children he baptized and the young- what sphere, the couples he married, are now old men loved who and women scattered through the town- ', our loved and lost, if they ship of Manalapan and those adjoining should come They remember, however. Should come and ask Dominie Van- — us "What is life'" Vs Plain, earnest ways and talk. could say. id the interest Life is i ystery, as deep as ever death he took in all be; that concerned their welfare. After he Yet, oh 1 how sw« left ife Tennent he had charge of two live and see. churches in New York City, and then Then might they was called to a church at Montville. N. -those vanished ones, ana blessed is the thought; J. In the latter years of his life when bo Death is sweet his head was silvered to us. Beloved, though we and his shoulders may tell you naught; bowed with the infirmities of age. he te t0 the Qulck thiS mystery " " ' was pastor of the Dutch church at Mid- of "Death - Ye dletown village, in this county. Here may not tell us if ye would, the mystery of Breath. he "died in harness." While a man of reserved and rather stiff manners out- The child, who enters Life, comes not with wardly, he had a kind and sensitive knowledge or intent. heart, keenly So those alive to ingratitude, who enter Death, must go as little slights or insults, and very sympath- children sent; Nothing is etic lor the troubles and known— but I believe that God is sorrows of overhead. others. While he had his own share of And as life the is to the living so death is to the troubles, cares and trials which Dead." fall on a country minister of this de- nomination and also of domestic afflic- tRev. Luther L". VanDorn was sixty-two tion, he bore them with that reticence years old when called as pastor of the .Middle- town and dislike of every public exhibition Dutch church. It was through his request that the of either joy or grief, hereditary in his new parsonage was erected on family and race. the opposite side of the street from the church When trouble and edihce. and he was the first pastor to occupy others— his par-- it. In October, 1876, he was suddenly lsl.1 ind rhbo railed away and his wife followed him February markably tender "C, and sympathetic in his 1881. Both are interred in Fairview ceme- efforts to tery. console and comfort them, It was his wish to end his days and be buried but in a very plain and homely manner.' in Monmouth county, for here his fore- •atheis The writer once saw him, when an had lived, and mimen.us kinsmen sleep old '--* sleep man and a little beneath the soil of this county while before his death ind SOME ACCOUNT OF LEWIS MORRIS AND HIS DOINGS IN MONMOUTH COUNTY.

The names of Jacob VanDorn. Daniel these outrageous and rebellious acts Hendrickson and Arie, Aure or Adrian were committed for the sole purpose of Bennett appear prominently on the releasing a pirate, one of Capt. Kidd's first records of the First Dutch church men, from the custody of this court. of Monmouth, not only as the organ- John Johnstone, a Scotchman, who a izers and first communicants in 1709, few years before had been presiding but as the deacons and elders, at this judge of the Monmouth courts, and who time or a few years after. The fact was a zealous partizan of Governor that Daniel Hendrickson had served as Andrew Hamilton, wrote the following sheriff of this county, and had also con- •tt.' the ducted religious services among his own people, prior to the coming of March 26, 1701. Joseph Morgan as a regular pastor, To the Council of New Jersey: would indicate that he was a trusted Honorable Gentlemen. —Yesterday Governor Hamilton, with four of leader of the Dutch settlers, and a man the justices of this judgment and integrity county, met at Middletown. for holding the in whose good Court of Sessions, as appointed by the acts of they confided. assembly of this province, when they had There is. however, another record, opened court, and begun the trial of one, who which, if facts therein stated are really confessed himself, one of Kidd's men. several facts, casts an ugly stain, not only on of the people of Middletown, who for that pur- their characters as professing chris- pose, had appointed a training of the militia, and being in arms, came where ordinary law abiding cit- into the house tians, but as the court was sitting and forcibly rescued the izens. prisoner. The governor and justices commend- The minutes of the Court of General ed the sheriff and constables to keep the peace, Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the and in the scuffle two of the foremost of the years 1700 and 1701 now in the Mon- fellows were slightly wounded. There being mouth county clerk's office, contain en- seventy or eighty men. and the governor and only accusing Jacob VanDorn justices, without force, they were by this mul- tries not titude made prisoners, them, Bennett as has here- and are by kept and Arie (Adrian) under strict guards. This is not a thing which tofore been stated, but also accusing happened by accident, but by design. For Daniel Hendrickson with refusing to some considerable time past there, some of the serve as grand juror, defiance of the ringleaders kept, es I am informed, a pirate judges to their faces, or, as the record in their houses, and threatened any that would offer to seize him. Gentlemen, I thought it has it, open contempt and misbehavior my duty to inform you of this, and to beg your in court. These men, also as residents and assistance to help the settling our peace or to of the old township of Mlddletown. take the government upon you until his maj- members of the militia, and from their esty's pleasure be known. sympathies and associations, are fur- I am, your honors, most humble servant, ther implicated in the general charge JOHN JOHNSTONE. against the citizens of this township of Monmouth, East Jersey, March 26, 1701. breaking up bv violence, a court which convened at Middletown village March The gravamen of the 25, 1701, making prisoners of Andrew Dr. Johnstone's letter, as u that Hamilton, the governor of New Jersey. in the court record of this occurrence, Thomas Gordon, the attorney general. is that the Middletown people were ,ewis Morris, president of the council, associated and in sympathy with sea and presiding judge of the Monmouth robbers, and committed all this high courts, together with the associate handed ruffianism to aid a pirate to judges and the county officers, and escape from the faithful officers of the keeping them under guard at Middle- law, whom they illtreated and impris- there town four days. During this time 1, while the criminal was set at lib- was no head to the government of New erty. Jersey, and no officers to administer Lewis Morris, soon after, in a corn- the law in Monmouth county. That all EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Ilimliinl. makes the same charge: That "Their endeavors had the effect they pro- posed the wicked people of Middletown were as appears by the several records (No. 1. guilty of rank rebellion, for the pur- 2, 3, 4. 5) now laid before your Lordships, And to consummate pose of delivering- a pirate from the the work so well begun and successfully carried on, they did on the clutches of the law. It was very com- 25th of March, 1701, rescue a pyrate, one of mon in that age for the politicians and Kidd's crew, from the bar, seize the governor others interested, to accuse the high and justices as by record No. 6, does more at otiicials of the American provinces on large appear." the Atlantic coast and the West Indies, of harboring or protecting pirates and This "record No. 6." was a certified illegal traders and sharing in their copy from the minutes of the sessions plunder. See Vol. II N. J. Arch., pages of Monmouth county, of the court held 150-55, 277-89, and 358-62. at Middletown village March 2.5. 1701. The following is from a communica- which had been written up after their tion of Edward Randolph to authorities four days captivity at Middletown had in England dated March 24. 1701. (the ended, under supervision of Hamilton day before the outbreak at Middletown and Morris. Morris further writes: village). Speaking of East Jersey and West Jersey he writes "They are all in "I have laid before your Lordships the truth confusion for want of government, and of fact, as your Lordships, by comparing the humbly pray to be taken under his names of the petitioners of East Jersey with majesty's immediate protection and the names in the records of the several riots government. Thev likewise receive committed in the province, will find these riots to be made by those persons and harbor pirates." who are now t your petitioners. Especially, that remarkable in all The ideas are very similar riot, or rather rebellion, committed on the these communications and records and 25th of March, and by record No. 6 appears, looks like concerted action. The Ran- which I now lay before your Lordships as a dolph letter is dated one day before and complaint, and beg those persons may have the Johnstone letter one day after the an exemplary punishment." Middletown people captured the governor and his officers; but as it re- We thus see that Lewis Morris not quired some six weeks for a sailing only took the trouble of making a voy- vessel to reach England in that day. it age to England, but used all his ability was easy to antedate a letter two or to bring the heavy hand of the English three days, and then perhaps it might government on the Middletown people be a week or two before it could be as rebels and abettors of piracy. He sent. persisted with indefatigable malice in Lewis Morris that same spring went his efforts to punish them, even after to England, and carried with him a certified copy of the record from the minutes now in our clerk's office. It was a well settled maxim of the Eng- lish law, that the facts set out in a court record must be accepted as true. -Morris, therefore, calculated that his charge against the people of Middle- town would be received as true by the government in England, and he would this uprising at Middletown. that after also be on hand to influence their ac- Lewis Morris was taken prisoner, he tion. He must have felt keenly the was tied to the whipping post in front indignities to which he had been sub- of the block house, with a bunch of jected, for he -was a very proud and rods fastened on his back. egotistical man. The excitement and Lewis Morris had also grossly libeled feeling which prevailed at the Peace the people of this part of Monmouth in ting in Middletown some hundred and sixty odd years later, was tame don, who was a man of influence with alongside of this attack on the gover- the English government, and by virtue nor of the province and the officers of of his office in the Church, a member of the county. the House of Lords. This letter is pub- We find Lewis Morris of Tinton Falls lished in full on pages 8 and 9 of in London the following summer. He Whitehead's eulogy of Lewis Morris, sends a communication to the Lords of entitled "Papers of Governor Lewis

~~Trade dated at London, August I. 1701. Among other matters he writes:~~

~~fVol. N. J. Arch.. pa«e 360. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

"Middletown was settled from New York and state, and in nearly all the other and New England. It is a large township. states of our union, it becomes impor- religion There is no such thins as a church or tant to understand the characters and most amongst them. They are, perhaps, the interests and feelings of the leaders of the world. ignorant and wicked people in the contending parties and factions of meetings on Sunday are at the public Their that time. house, when they get their fill o£ rum and go in this way can we ascertain to fighting and running of races." Only whether these charges are true, or only Capt. Andrew Bowne, a Baptist, to- trumped up for political ends or ,o gether with many others of this sect, gratify private vengeance. It is also a had met for religious services for many very interesting and important period years previous to this time. Richard in our colonial history, for it ended the Hartshorne, a consistent Quaker, and Proprietary government and brought others of this belief, are all included in about a new era in our history. this sweeping condemnation. So are When the last of the perfidious and Garret and Jan Schenck, Peter Wyckoff. false-hearted Stuarts was kicked out Daniel Hendrickson, Jacob VanDorn of England, and the Dutch king of and the Couwenhovens, who had all "Glorious Memory" ascended the throne brought over from Long Island to Mon- the principles of religious toleration mouth, their brass clasped Dutch which had long prevailed in the repub- in everyday Bibles, and tried to follow lic o-f Holland, together with personal of life the teachings therein. Some liberty, were established for the first these old Bibles are yet in existence time in England and her colonies, by and the pages show by the wear, that constitutional law. It was the great they were in everyday use for many of 1688. the most important was revolution years, or until the Dutch tongue era in English history. lost by their descendants. The commercial interests of Holland Mon- The first pioneer settlers of had long demanded the suppression of mouth from Rhode Island and Grave- and the interests of the great had piracy, send, were men and women who merchants of England, whose commerce of New been persecuted and driven out was then next to the Netherlands, de- their conscientious William England, because of manded it for the same cause. Quaker con- adherence to Baptist and of Orange used all his power in this of them victions. It is true that many direction, and caused laws to be enact- were dead at this time, but their chil- English Parliament of the and ed bv the dren had become men and women most severe character against this footsteps. tried to follow in their crime. Morris rep- j ,_ Knowing all this. Lewis In obedience to these laws and the the resented to the great Prelate of earnest efforts of William of Orange to were the Church of England, that they enforce them, the Lords of Trade sent of all most degraded and evil-minded the following order to the New Jersey the inhabitants of this earth, and ot proprietors and their officials in control course would naturally associate with provincial government: "That oppose of the cut-throats and robbers, and Pirate or Sea-Robber be anywhere as no such a godly and good churchman sheltered or entertained under the sev- Lewis Morris. erest penalties." This order was dated pirates to es- This charge of abetting "February 9th, 1696-7 ||." some three a cape from the officers of the law was before "Moses Butterworth," one high years most serious one. Piracy was a Captain Kidd's men. came to New English law of crime and punishable by Jersey. Capt. Kidd with death on the scaffold. At this period, and for many years short time had been arrested only a thereafter, merchant vessels bound for accused of before. Assisting a man distant seas were manned and armed being a "Red Seaman," as they then for there was often become like men-of-war, called pirates, to escape was to more fighting than trading. The waters and liable an accessory to the crime, the East Indies and the China and a court of to same penalty. To break up coasts swarmed with ferocious repre- Malay and imprison the judges, who and savage pirates. No ship in those sented the King of England, was rank waters was safe from capture crime far-off rebellion and an unpardonable unless well armed and manned with a like treason. crew of fighting men. accu- lars-e In view of these dark and evil Morocco, Algiers, and other barbar- against the pioneer settlers of northern coast ol sations whose ous powers on the the old township of Middletown. descendants are now found among the Archives, p. 134-136. most respectable citizens of this county IIVol. II. N. J. EARL V />/"/( II SI I TLER. OF MONMOl III

~~Africa had long made piracy a busim ss. :s and sharir The capture and enslavement of white Christians was a legitimate and profitable enterprise, according to their coiit~~

The Netherland republic had for a long- time previous to the landing of their Stadtholder and his Dutch troops at Torbay, tried to suppress these sea- robbers of the .Mediterranean, while Charles II of England had encouraged and aided them to injure the commerce cf Holland. After 1688. under the rule of the Dutch king, common sense and common honesty began to guide the policy of the English government for the first time, since great Cromwell's death. The maiitime nations of Europe, jealous of each other, and rivals in commercial colonization, were in this age almost

l In Id pi- used to prey on each otl ships. These privateer merchant vessels \\ hen le Pa or Indian oceans, or along the An ican Atlantic coast, did not li. suat. attack and capture vessels of anot nation, even when at peace, if t thought the spoils warranted the r News in those days traveled slot and even if such atrocities were he of from the other side of the wo witnesses to the facts would be la ing for "Dead men tell no tales.' The American coast, particularly Spanish Main, as called, was a lavo cruising ground for these half-pirs and half-privateers or armed illt trading ships. Under the strong resolute guidance of the Dutch Is from the vantage ground ol the E lish throne, the old policy of the r land republic was thoroughly and ergetically supported by England, root out and exterminate- these pi of trade and commerce V Th< reac of colonial history will remembei I common it was in this agi to ac<

~~colonial officers with harbouring : EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

his Excel! the bel ned per- at Middletown village in the case of sons and Moses Butterworth, Capt. Kidd's man, time discover, belonging to them or any as he admitted? such people, who, I am sensible are a If he confessed his guilt there was no pest among mankind. necessity for any examination to ascer- Your Most Humble Servant, tain if there was probable cause to de- ANDREW HAMILTON, prive him of his liberty. And why bind May, 1700. over a "self-confessed pirate" to appear before a county court at a remote This letter proves that Hamilton place In the woods, as Middletown vil- knew that the courts of New Jersey lage was then situated, when it could had no jurisdiction over this crime. just as well have been done before Only admiralty courts could try offen- Hamilton himself at Burlington. ces committed on the high seas like His duty at the most in such crimes piracy, and the governor of New York was merely that of a committing mag- was vice admiral and there was admir- istrate. And what necessity was there alty court in that province. For this for Hamilton as governor to preside reason the New Jersey officials were formally at the remote courts of Mon- ordered to send all pirates taken in mouth, when Lewis Morris or Capt. this province to Bellomont, the New Samuel Leonard, two of his council, York governor. This is just what were fully capable of transacting all Hamilton writes he will do. and this the court business. All these questions was his only duty in the premises. The can be answered, and the old settlers county courts of Monmouth had no of Middletown, like Daniel Hendrick- more jurisdiction over piracy or other son. Jacob VanDorn, William Hen- crimes committed outside of its terri- dricks, and others cleared of this accu- tory, than they have today. Only crim- sation that they broke up a court to inal offences committed within the rescue a "Pyrate" and were "the most county boundaries can be tried in the ignorant and wicked people in the county courts. world." Besides, Hamilton resided at Bur- This "pirate business" was a device lington, in Burlington county, and any or scheme of Lewis Morris, Hamilton, examination to see if there was prob- Leonard and others to throw blame on able cause to believe him guilty and so their political opponents, and put them hold him, could have been taken before fals 'hole a justice of that place. In the above politicians call it. They also wanted four cases Hamilton does not bind any to hide the real issues involved, and of the four men to appear before the particularly such questions as would high court of Common Right at Perth cause the proprietors to lose the right Amboy or any of the county courts of of government over New Jersey. This sessions. Neither does he take any ex- pirate. Moses Butterworth, was "a good amination before a justice or himself, enough Morgan" for their purposes, but but writes that in pursuance of King like all other frauds and deceptions William's orders he will deliver up the they overreached themselves. when four pirates to Governor Bellomont of New York. This was all he was re- ind quired to do and all he could do 'in such cases. Hew then, can we explain his action SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF LEWIS MORRIS OF MONMOUTH AND ELSEWHERE.

Andrew Hamilton had served as gov- lands, build cabins, plant ernor of New Jersey from 1692 to 1697, stock and crops from wil when he was superseded by Jeremiah themselves from the sav require.l Basse, an Englishman. The proprie- the hardest physical labor with their tors wrote from England that Hamilton few and rough tools. Nearly every- was dismissed, not for any fault, but thing was done by the hardest physical because all Scotchmen were debarred toil. For the most part they were un- By a late act of parliament, from hold- educated men and women, yet they had ing- offices of trust or profit in an Eng- to organize townships, enact local laws, lish colony. establish courts and elect officers. They The people of Middletown were very had no go betweens like clergymen, jubilant over this news, for they had physicians, undertakers, and lawyers, long been governed, much to their dis- but did their own praying, their own gust, by Scotch officials. They not only doctoring, and burying- their own dead. regarded the Scotch as foreigners, but After all this trouble, expense and felt that they had been transferred hardship, they are suddenly told that wrongfully to the control of these their patent is worthless, and some strangers. These Scotch officials also people whom they had never heard of. represented the proprietors and pushed not ..nly own their lands but have the them for "quitt rents." right to govern them. That these new The Middletown people had not only and strange owners of the soil, and the procured a patent for the territory of rulers of the inhabitants thereof, are Monmouth with right of local govern- called Proprietors, "such a name as we the age of simple creatures never before heard Duke of York (for of" they frankly say. They tire called in Nicoll's instructions) but th.y had upon to swear allegiance and obedience actually paid out their hard cash, ami to th.se "unheard-of" rulers, and to occupied the lands before any notice pay them rent for their lands and bet- was given of the transfer of New Jer- terments. Nobody offers to repay them sey I" Berkeley and Carteret. lor th. money laid out for the Indian The pioneers of Monmouth had ex- till., the true American lords of the pended £369%, or $1,847 in buying out soil. Their time, labors, and improve- the Indians' title to part of what is now ments are all ..wned by somebody else, Monmouth county. If this money had and th.y are required to pay rent to been put out at interest at 6 per cent, and the interest invested each year from 1667 to 1898. it would now amount to more than the assessed valuation of the real estate in "Newasincks, Navar- umsunk and Pootapeck Necks." as they called the lands so bought of the red men. of the Lord Propri

~~Besides, $1,817 was a large sum of pay rent for the It money for men living in the wilderness render due obedi~~

..I the new world in I hat day t.. raise. Money was then very hard to get. They were also obliged to make many jour- neys through Rhode Island and Long Island, to persuade men to subscribe for these expenses and to migrate to ation of in- this region, and so make up the num- ie American ber their patent required. is that they They were subjected to trouble and expense of transporting their families, lod defend stock and goods across the water. To Their trea survey, lay '>ut lots and roads, clear dame falls EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Charles Stuart, and his false-hearted York, who fostered, upheld and pushed brother known In history as the Duke on George Jeffrey, the judicial whole- John of York, and later as James II of Eng- sale murderer, Tom Boilman. and "the three land. Richard Nicolls had full author- Graham of Claverhouse, hesitate at such a ity from the Duke of York to grant the heroes of his reign," Monmouth patent under his general in- small matter as ante-dating a transfer Atlantic. structions. The principal under such of wild lands across the circumstances was bound by the acts James II, not his tools and creatures, the horrors which of his agent, before the authority was is responsible for revoked, and before notice was had of followed Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. any transfer by the principal. The and which followed his efforts to estab- this false- Duke of York made the transfer or lish prelacy in Scotland. So for assignment of New Jersey to Berkeley hearted, cruel tyrant is responsible and Cartaret, after Nicolls had sailed the proprietary government of New from England, and before any notice Jersey and their ownership of the soil. of their successful robbery of the New The last has been a curse and a wrong Netherlands from the Dutch in time of to our people in Monmouth county from the peace. Berkeley and Cartaret had the day it was granted, down to never expended a single cent or did day within our memory, when they sold one stroke of work for this land. They land under Shark river at public sale the were the sycophants and toadies of for a song, and took up lands on next to Belmar, Spring Lake, and Charles II, and his boon companions in coast titles by whole- his midnight orgies and daylight adul- other places, clouding sale, and selling them for insignificant compared to their real Every principle of equity demanded sums of money, value. Yet we find certain American that Nicolls' grant, followed by actual of the New England type purchase from the true owners, and historians try to justify Charles II. "The settlement, without notice of a secret who king can do no wrong." for he rules by prior transfer, if such was the fact, divine right, seems ingrained in the should have been upheld, if there was minds of people who worship aristoc- any justice in the laws of England. racy and royalty. "These be thy gods. in any equity court of It would today Dudes and Dudesses!" Today, how- these United States. It is very ques- ever, such superstitious, slavish, and whether the grant to Berkeley tionable snobbish ideas have no influence with Cartaret was really prior in point and sensible people who have any con- Charles II and his brother. of fact. science and respect the right of their respected neither the rights James II, fellow men and their own manhood. their own subjects in England, or of of When Governor Basse arrived in East else, except the King of France anybody Jersey, he appointed two of the leading of Rome. To antedate a and the Pope and trusted citizens of Middletown. charter of this kind would be a small Andrew Bowne and Richard Besides, who would Capt. trifle in their eyes. Hartshorne, members of his council. question it or call them to ac- dare Lewis Morris of "Tintern Manor" was Surely not the poor people in count? "left out in the cold." This was a sev- of America three thousand the wilds ere blow to his pride and ambition. He The character of Charles miles away. was that kind of a man who would II been truly portrayed by Gilbert has either "rule or ruin." His very signa- of Salisbury, who lived Burnet. Bishop handwriting is any indication book called ture, if during his reign, in- the shows that he had a high com- ,,i character, "History of His Own Time." He This slight, to- infamous opinion of himself. pares Charles to Tiberius, the gether with the appointment of his Emperor of Rome. But what could be who political opponents, Bowne and Harts- expected of a so-called King, up all the Crom- horne. to the council stirred dragged the poor bones of Great He became a bitter suspended gall in his body. well from the grave, and opponent of Governor Basse. Cromwell was and bold them on a gibbet. When He now arraigns the proprietors in the look him in the alive he never dare severest manner, telling some very un- takes a con- face, but when dead he palatable truths, and alleging that his corpse. temptible savage revenge on •.Nothing they say or do can be depend- such an act would A man who would do ed upon or believed." This Lewis not hesitate to rob a friendly nation of Morris made more history in East Jer- their territory, or his own subjects of sey between 1695 and 1716. than any their rights, by dating back a docu- other man during those years. He was ment like the charter of New Jersey. certainly a remarkable man. To under- Neither would a man like the Duke of early nm // sev /lees oe moxmoi e//.

his sayings and doings, for there is much of both in our county and colonial records. We cannot understand the while in office. history of these times unless we under- On page 73 of Book C of Deeds, Mon- stand Lewis Morris. He was a nephew mouth clerk's office, we find one Ben- of one Lewis Morris who had served as jamin Hicks, who with others had been Captain of a troop of horse under indicted for same offense, giving infor- Cromwell, the greatest Englishman that mation against Lewis Morris and others ever lived. After the Stuarts were for "running of races and playing at restored he emigrated to the island of nyne pins on ye Sabbath Day." No ac- Barbadoes, and from there removed to tion however, was taken against the New York in 1673. He or his brother newly fledged justice, but Hicks and Richard, then deceased, had acquired a his comrades were fined five shillings large tract of land in what are now each for "racing and playing nyne pins .Shrewsbury and Atlantic townships. on ye Sabbath." He started an iron foundry at Tinton In 1691 we find Lewis Morris sitting Falls with bog ore. He left Monmouth as one of the associate judges of the in 1686 and died in 1691. on his planta- Monmouth courts. John Johnstone, a tion near Harlem, N. Y., afterwards Scotchman, being president judge, and called by his nephew, Lewis Morris, the Capt. Samuel Leonard acting as pros- "Manour of Morrisania." He was very ecutor, or as then called "His Majes- fond of calling his wild lands "Manors." ty's attorney." It gave him consequence, he doubtless In 1692 Morris was appointed by Gov- thought, for a grand name goes a long ernor Hamilton a member of the Coun- way with people, who cannot distin- cil of New Jersey. This was an influ- guish between words and their real ential position and gave Morris access lgs ith. to, and influence with, the men . who At a court held at Middletown village then ruled New Jersey. He seems to in September. 1686, Lewis Morris is ar- have ingratiated himself into the con- rested and brought before the court, on fidence of Hamilton and his Scotch sup- a charge made "on oath of a negro porters, for he soon became Hamilton's woman named Franck." The offence or right-hand-man and trusted lieuten- crime is not stated. This omission, to- ant. From this time onward he was gether with the fact that Morris did one of Hamilton's most zealous and not stand any open trial, would indi- faithful partisans. cate that it was a scandalous or dis- We now find a third Lewis Morris graceful accusation. Instead of fight- turning up as a justice of the peace in this county, and sitting along side of the other Lewis Morris in our county Governor Gawen Laurie, and removed courts. He is described in the old rec- the complaint to the next court of Com- ords as "Lewis Morris of Passage mon Right at Perth Amboy. I do not Point," (afterwards known as Black know what the records of this court Point.) I think these two men were show in October, 1686, but would not cousins, but am not sure of it. At all be surprised if it was quietly consigned events they were close and intimate to the "Tomb of the Capulets." A poor' friends. "Lewis Morris of Tintern negro wench, doubtless a slave, could Manor." as member of the council had not follow up such a case against a sufficient influence to have his friends man like Lewis Morris, however griev- in Monmouth appointed to office. ous her wrongs. The records of a court held at Mid- The next entry is at a court held at dletown village, September 1694, show Middletown village March 22. 1687: that Lewis Morris of Passage Point is "Lewis Morris' commission as justice indicted because "he, with several of of the peace is read." his negroes did feloniously take away This appointment made him one of the hay of William Shattock." As the associate judges of the Common usual there is no trial, for the indict- Pleas and General Quarter Sessions of ment is removed by habeas corpus to the peace, according to the laws of the Court of Common Right. "Lewis England. Morris of Tintern Manor" entered into From this time until 1746. or about bond for "Lewis Morris of Passage 60 years. Lewis Morris was a very con- Point." It does not appear that Shat- spicuous man in political affairs of East tock ever got back his hay or received Jersey. No man either in colonial or any other satisfaction. state history, had a longer political life The grand jury of this court also or more bitter quarrels and antagon- present Lewis Morris of Tintern Manor isms. He reached the highest position. "for fencing in the highway." Al- >/' A./A7 ) DUTCH SETTLER. MONMOUTH.

though present on the bench, the two made in September, 16! i.. thine. Morrises and the other judges order done. During a part thi, that a summons issue for his appear- from 1692 to 1699 Lev Morris had ance at next court. At the next court considerable private civil litigation held at Middletown village March 27, with several of the citizens of the 1695, we find both Lewis Morrises on county. Capt. Andrew Bowne and the bench, as they were very punctual Richard Hartshorne were judges of the in their attendance. Lewis Morris of county part of this time, but they did Passage Point is arraigned on an in- not permit Morris to have his way in dictment "for striking Nicholas Sarah everything. They learned from their several blows." The Honorable Lewis intercourse with him to distrust him, Morris of Passage Point did then in- and he had but little influence with form Honorable Lewis Morris of Tin- the l.-r 1696. tern Manor and other justices "how (.'apt. Bowne and Richard Hartshorne matters stood." for so the record has were also judges of the Court of Com- it, and then without hearing Nicholas mon Right held at Perth Amboy in Sarah, or any evidence or trial, "the in- 1698-9. At a court of Common Right dictment was dismissed by the bench." held at Perth Amboy May 11, 1698, Gov- Thereupon the two Lewis Morrises ernor Jeremiah Basse, presiding and "did desire to withdraw and go home, Capt. Bowne and Richard Hartshorne by reason of their families being sick." with four other judges also sitting on Which request was granted, and so the bench. Lewis Morris came into they went out. mounted their horses court and insolently demanded by what and rode out of Middletown, doubtless authority they held court. The judges laughing and joking on their way home replied "By the King's authority." to Shrewsbury, over the fruitless This Morris denied. The Court then efforts of poor Nicholas Sarah to take ordered his arrest for open contempt. the law of a "big Lewis Morris." At Lewis Moris defied them to arrest next court, Lewis Morris of Tintern him. and said "He would fain see who Manor is again presented by the grand darst lay hold on him." Thereupon, a jury for "fencing in ye highway that constable took hold of him but he re- goes to Freehold and Middletown." Al- sisted, and tried to draw his sword or though present on the bench, the court hai lied. orders a summons issued for him to The judges fined him £50 ($250) for appear and answer at next court. "his denying the authority of the court The fates at this time step in and re- and open contempt" and ordered him lieve the people of Monmouth of one committed to prison until paid. The Lewis Morris, for "he of Passage Point fine. 1 think, he paid, but it did not was murdered by his negroes." The quiet but rather spurred him on to surviving Lewis Morris, however. more insolent measures. proved himself an able bodied and ro- He, and his political allies, Thomas bust Morris, and gave the Middletown Gordon and George Willocks go people all the trouble and fighting they through East Jersey, holding public wanted. At next court in March, 1696, meetings and denouncing in the sever- Thomas Gordon, a Scotchman, who pro- fessed to be a lawyer, is appointed prosecutor. He was one of Lewis Mor- ris' political and perhaps personal friends. When the presentment against Lewis Morris for "fencing in the high- To the Sheriff of the county of Middlesex, was called up. Cordon coolly way" deputy, or either of them : and de- under sheriff or turned to the people present, Whereas we are informed that Lewis one, before he manded a fee from some Mo rris of Tinton. in the county of Monmouth, would try this indictment. As Gordon d province aforesaid. Ger n April well knew, no individual would volun- the said province, sed- with others and endeavor to teer in such a case, or pay such a fee itiously assemble The records then go subvert the laws of this province and did by as he demanded. words. aBperge the it 1 i i and reproachful "there was no one to prose- in ious on to say governor of said province, contrary to the Morris, so the pre- cute the said Lewis peace of our Sovericn Lord the King, and the sentment was quasht." laws in such cases made and provided. These At a Court held at Shrewsbury in are therefore to will and require, and in His com- September. 1698, Lewis Morris is again Majesty's name, strictly to charge and presented for fencing in the hie.hu. i> Swimming Ri\ betw - "ii "Tii ind Vol. III. N. J. Arch., p. 476-7. 479 and 480-81.

~~' 481-82. court. Tii.' tVol. III. N. J. Arch., p. earl ) />/// MONMOUTH.~~

man. I you, to take into your custody the sai.1 calm. Your is not day yet out. and it is i Lewis Morris, and him to convey to the jail your power to follow the things that make f< there safely to keep, until of your county, and peace, and if you do not. at your door will 1 he shall stive sufficient security in the sum of the consequences. Our friends will not suff. three hundred pounds ($1,500) for his appear- us to be putt upon [imposed on]. Farewell. ance at the Court of Common Right to be held GEORGE WILLOCKS. at Perth Amboy the second Tuesday of Octo- LEWIS MORRIS." ber next, then and there to answer the prem- May 16 at one in the afternoon. 1699. !; ises; and in meantime to he of good behavior towards His Majesty and all his liesre people. Hereof fail not at your peril, and for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given under our hands and seals May 11, in the eleventh year of the reign of our Soveristn Lord, William the Third of England, A. D. 1699, at Perth Amboy in province aforesaid. ANDREW BOWNE, JOHN ROYCE. RICHARD HARTSHI IRNE, Tl OMAS WARNE. SAMUEL DENNIS.

On the 12th of May, 1699, or the next day after the date of the above warrant, the grand jury of Middlesex county presented Lewis .Morris. George time to avoid arrest. Lewis Morris and Willocks. and Thomas Gordon for a George Willocks had procured a sloop breach of the laws of this province, to lay off the shore at Perth Amboy. according to that act. entitled, 'For the As soon as Willocks had delivered the better maintaining of and upholding letter he went on board of this vessel, the authority of this province.' 1 By where Lewis Morris awaited him. Then order of the grand inquest. Ephraim they sailed along in front of Amboy, in Andrews, Foreman." lull view from the building where th. Lewis Morris and George Willocks Council and representatives were as- were both arrested under these pro- sembled, firing guns and making other ceedings, and locked up in the County defiant demonstrations, and so went off jail of Middlesex, then at Woodbridge. down th.- bay. It is no wonder that the They were "in durance vile." how- Provincial law-makers recommended a ever, not many hours, for on the night bill to suppress insurrection. HH Soon of May 13, 1699, between 2 o'clock and alter this .Morris wrot,- the letter pub- 4 o'clock, when people sleep the sound- lished on pages 191-86 Vol. 111. N. J. est. Isaac Whitehead, with many other Archives. On page 19.". he writes "you "Malefactors and Disturbers of the were very hott in binding us to our King's Peace," as the indictment states, good behaviour." This shows that it "did assemble with clubs, staves, and was addressed to Capt. Andrew Bowne other weapons at Woodbridge, and did and others ol lb.- Council, and alter his with a beam break down the door, and arrest, lor there is no date on the let- did seditiously break into the common ter. jail and released two prisoners, Lewis This letter is well worth reading, for Morris and George Willocks, imprison- it shows how abusive and personal ed tor high crimes and misdemeanors" Morris could be. and the stinging way and let them out and set them at lib- he had oi saying things. It is a fair erty. S This imprisonment and his de- specimen of his ability in vituperation liverance in the night by a mob of his when so disposed. friends, did not cool Lewis Morris Colli. affairs were now in such eon- down, for only three days later, he and fusion and disorder, that Governor George Willocks write the following Basse lost heart, and to get away from impudent letter to the judges of the the threatening danger, made an ex- Court of Common Right, who had sign- •use that he had important business in ed the above warrant: — England, and so sailed away, throwing the whole burden of his broken and wne. Mr. John Royse, disjointed administration on the si I nd company, etc. .lers of guiet but honest and sturdy Sirs. We are now able (God be thanked) to Andrew Bowne of .Monmouth, treat with you. any way you think fit. If you who was had valued either your own or the welfare of appointed Deputy Governor. Capt. the government, your procedure had been more

~~Vol. N. .1. rch., p. 483 { Vo N. J. Vol. Ill N. J.~~

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Bowne assumed the duties, and with Monmouth, putting his old friends, lis strong- common sense managed to principally from Shrewsbury township, get along, without any other opi-.i out- in their places, for he could not be ex- breaks of a serious nature. pected to select justices from "the Governor Basse left New Jersey for most ignorant and wicked people on England in June. 1699. but before he earth," and his political opponents, got back, another too. sudden change oc- He had Governor Hamilton appoint curred, which put him out of office, and Gawen Drummond, a Scotchman, once more put Lewis Morris in on the top place of James Bollen, the old county wave of political power in East Jersey. clerk. Dr. John Stewart, a resident of "Vae Victis," his opponents perhaps what is now Eatontown township, thought, also when they learned of this up- a Scotchman, high sheriff neaval in place of in political matters. Daniel Hendrickson: Samuel Leonard Governor Basse must have reached and three other residents of Shrews- England some time in the early part or bury township were commissioned jus- August. 1699, or perhaps in the latter tices of the peace. They were all new part of luly. for it depended very much officers, with the exception of Capt. upon favorable winds. Leonard, who was a practical politician He no doubt reported truly to the of experience. The first court in Mon- proprietors how disorder and anarchy mouth to meet after their appointment reigned rampant in East Jersey, and was on the fourth Tuesdav of March that the "Unruly Scots." led by Lewis ensuing, after Hamilton's arrival in Morris, were the cause thereof Th.-re December, 1699. In the meantime the must also by this time, have been plen- people of Middletown had become well ty of written communications coming informed as to Hamilton's defective over from East Jersey, tilled with con- commission, and that he had not been flicting accusations and complaints. approved by King William. was The proprietors themselves were split U still believed among the English set- ; and cliques. Thinking tlers of Middletown, as has already that Ha ex- been mentioned, that all oerienct mill Scotchmen s governor, were debarred by English law from could calm the troubled political holding offices over "true born Britons." waters, part of the proprietors on the Although this was a mistake, yet it was 19th of August. 1699, commissioned an honest belief, founded on their feel- nim governor at East Jersey. This ings and prejudices and on former in- commission lacked the provincial seal structions from the proprietors them- of East Jersey, and was without the selves. Now they beheld to their great signatures of many proprietors who indignation and astonishment, a whole opposed Hamilton. Neither did they horde of Scots placed over their heads get King William of England to ap- for them to render obedience to. prove Hamilton's appointment, as the Lewis .Morris and other leaders of the laws of England required. Scotch party, had in Basse's adminis- Nevertheless, with this illegal and tration set an example of defiance and defective commission, Andrew Hamil- violence, and they were considered cap- ton sailed for America and arrived in able of any lawless or desperate act to New Jersey in December, 1699. With grasp power or accomplish their ambit- the aid of Lewis Morris. Thomas Gor- ious designs. For was it not proved by don. George Willocks. and his other old fhe written declarations of three honest political followers, he published his Quakers of Shrewsbury township, that commission, and took charge of the Lewis Morris had said openly in their government of New Jersey, before the presence at the house of Abraham people ^knew of these defects in his Brown in that township, that he had commission. He at once appointed taken an office from Governor Hamil- Lewis Morris president of the council ton, and would enforce his authority or and Capt. Samuel Leonard of Monmouth "spill the blood of any man who resist- likewise a Capt. member. Andrew ed him!" That he had no scruples of Bowne was relegated to private life. conscience like Quakers; that he "would Thus Lewis Morris ranked next to the go through with his office though the governor and had more influence with streets run with blood." * than him any other man in the colony. Those bloody and savage threats by He was in power and authority, and no the president of Hamilton's council doubt his incarceration in remembered were, of course, carried to the people the prison Woodbridgre and his mid- of Middletown, and stirred up the belief night escape. that Hamilton and his party would stop He used his power mercilessly and "turned down" all the old officials in Vol. III. N. J. Arch., p. 485. >/' EARL ) PI T( 7/ SE TTL LA'S t MONMOL TH. at nothing to enforce their authority. the mistake was in the certified copy, It also aroused their anger and sent by Morris to England, but if this strengthened their determination not to was so, a note should have been made submit to a Scotch usurper and his of this error in the archives. bogus officials, for so they regarded The minutes of the court of general them. Under such hot indignation, in- quarter sessions of the peace, now tense excitement, and wild rumors, (1809) in Monmouth clerk's office, show Daniel Hendrickson, John Ruckman, that this court was held at Middletown John Bray, Samuel Forman. Eleazer village March 26. 1700. Cottrell and other Middletown citizens, None of the citizens or residents of were summoned to serve on the grand .Middletown township are represented jury at the first court, where Lewis on the bench. They are all from Shrews- Morris and the newly appointed jus- bury township appointed by Hamilton, tices, were to sit. This court met at subsequent to December, 1699. Middletown village, March 26, 1700, and CAPT. SAMUEL LEONARD. held court in the second story of the President. block house, which stood on the knoll JEDEDIAH ALLEN. where the Episcopal church now stands. SAMUEL DENNIS, The stocks and whipping post stood in ANTHONY PINTARD, front, next to the six-rod road, which Justices. ran through Middletown village from west to east, as it does now, except that ned, Ui. •w justices it has been greatly narrowed at the a the panel west end of the village. In Vol. II, N. iy Dr. John .1. Archives, pages 364-5-6, appears what purports to be a true copy of the ser Cottrell is first called, and he this s. minutes of court. The compiler I I" rve as grand juror, be- has made an error of one year in the lli.- justices have no legal auth- date. • hold court, being appointed by- The date is given as March 26. 1701, ping Scotchman. That Hamilton but according to the original minutes it approved by the King of Eng- now in the Monmouth county clerk's nd had no right to commission office, which anyone can see. who will The court answered this ogee- is 26, look, the true date March 1700. s' ordering "the sheriff to take This mistake in the archives throws 1 into custody" for open con- confusion on the order of events and is Then Richard Salter, an Eng- an inexcusable one. The compilers )fes might have known from the language arose and protested against the arrest of the record itself, that there was an of Cottrell. He denied the legal right error in the date. The first two lines of the men then on the bench to hold state that "the Commissions of the Jus- court, that it was a bogus court created tices were read." This was only done when newly appointed justices took their seats for the first time on the bench. There were no newspapers or i.-lm The s shut up printing presses, and the only way of Salter by ordering the iff to arrest giving public notice was by oral an- him. and so his stre f eloquence nouncements to the people. Besides the ceased to flow. records of the court held March 25th, Then James Bollen, the old clerk, was 1701. which is published on the preced- called on to deliver up the records and ing page, and which the compiler must papers of the clerk's office to the new have read, states that all the justices clerk, Gawen Drummond. BoJJen flatly were made prisoners and kept under refused to do so. because of the serious strict guard from the 25th to the 29th questions about the legality of their .ii March, 1701. How then could a court appointment, and whether they were ;> have been held while they were cap- lawful court, but still will give them lives, or how could they have ordered up. so that they may go on with the their captors fined and taken into cus- bus tody? Accuracy and truth are the first and last requisites in historical records, £10,000 ($50,000) so and such a mistake made in a record sutler financially, if now on file in the Monmouth clerk's they are only sham office, right under the nose of the com- usurping governor, thr lbt the nis associates appea 111.'! quandary. They do EARL V />! -TCI I S1-: I TLERS OF Ah WMOUTH.

do. Without grand jurors and the others, as has already been detailed. court records, no legal business can be At the next court in Shrewsbury in transacted. To gain time and consult September, 1700. following the above as to the best course, court is adjourned incidents, we find Lewis Morris sitting lor two hours. Lewis Morris is not as presiding judge and the others ai- present on the bench, but he may have re. 1> named, sitting as his associates b. en within convenient distance for on the bench. tsult his Arie (Adrian) Bennett is brought be- he is with them at fore the court to answer an indictment their two hours' consultation. or si nt for assault and battery on the High in his opinion as to what should be Sheriff and Henry Leonard. Bennett done. At the expiration of the two admitted that he was present wnei, hours, the justices again open court, they "beat and wounded the sheriff and although Lewis Morris puts in ap- no cracked their swords" but that he "did pearance on the bench. They have not assist with his own hand-. made up their minds as to their proper The court orders him committed to policy or course of action. Thej ordi r the sheriff's custody, until he Cottrell and Salter discharged from gives security in £100, to appear at the next Sheriff Stewart's custody. They knew court. Another court is held in if they committed them to jail, that it Shrewsbury by Morris and his justices was in Middletown village and in the on the 17th of October, 1700. It seems enemy's camp, and that they would at to have been one of Morris' special once be released. Neither did they dare courts. John Tilton is committed to order the sheriff to take them to an- sheriff's custody for signing a seditious other place, as they saw from the t< in- paper. ner of the people, tnat it would be re- Thomas Gordon the sisted by force, as did happen later. Scotch lawyer, is pies Therefore to gain time and avoid actual nt, and he informed the court that he violence, they release the two men, but had some money for Cornelius Conip- ton of order Cottrell nned £3 and Salter £15 Middletown, "one of those rioters (he being a lawyer who should know and fellons" who refused to be arrested better), and that the sheriff should and brought before the court. The make their fines by seizure and sale of court orders Gordon "not to pay over their personal property, and to have this money until Compton was cleared the money in the court to be held at by law." As tliis never occurred Gordon Shrewsbury on the fourth Tuesday in must -=till hive the money. Joseph September next. Clark is i committed to common gaol They also fine Daniel Hendrickson, f"i oi i Eii- nth, or pay a fine- of 20 John Bray, John Wilson. Jr.. Moses hillings for refusing to assist the jus- Lippet, and other Middletown men. for tices of tie peace to "apprehend certain refusing to serve as grand jurors, or, as the record has it "contempt and mis- Garrett Boels is also committed to behavior before this court" in the sum gaol, unless he gives security in £20 for of forty shillings each ($10.00) and or- his appearance at next court to be held der the sheriff to levy on their goods at Middletown on the fourth Tuesday and sell them, and have the fines before of M irch next, and all this because next court in September Finding that Boi Is put his mark or cross to a "sed- the people will not recognize them as a court, and that no business can be done, Thomas Webly, "for contemptuous they adjourn court, mount their horses and reproachful words in court" and and ride over to their homes in Shrews- otherwise misbehaving himself in the bury township. There must have been pri si nee ol the justices, is ordered to an interesting conference at Morris' pay a line of five shillings immediately. house in Tinton Falls that evening, for the use of tlu- poor, or be put in the about the "bad and wicked people of stocks for two hours. Mr. Webly pre- Middletown." ferred to pay the five shillings at once. The attempt of Sheriff Stewart to col- Here it would be interesting to know- lect the fines from Salter, John Bray when and how Thomas Gordon paid the and others, led to resistance, and then money to the "poor." It perhaps got other warrants of arrest were issued by mixed up with "Compton's money." the Morris justices. The sheriff and Then comes High Sheriff Stewart, his deputy, Henry Leonard, in attempt- with another sad and unhappy coming i" serve them and capture Salter plainl about the bad men over in Mid- and Bray, was set upon July 17. 1700, dletown. He tells the court that Gar- and badly beaten by Salter. Jacob Van- rett Wall. James Bollen and Arie Doren, Arie (Adrian) Bennett and (Adrian) Bennett, whom the court had EARL) />/ TCTI SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

.1 24th last, had Eorciblj i scapi from, run away and stayed away, so that he self-confesse was unable to obey the orders of the The follow honorable court, and have their bodies record of tl before the court of the Common Right at Perth Amboy. Whereupon the sheriff is again ordered to have them before »he court at Middletown on .March 25th next. further attei The high sheriff also reported more perverse and ugly conduct on the part of the Middletown people. That the fines imposed on Richard Salter, Daniel Hendrickson, John Bray and others by the court on the 26th of March. 1700, for their "contempt and misbehavior.' before the faces of the court, he, as high sheriff, had been unable to collect. The court again ordered him to make the said fines out of their respective goods and chattels, and have the money before the next court. No jury is called and no other business is done except as above. Morris and his friends had full and sufficient warning and notice, that the Middletown people would not submit to and obey the courts as then constitu- ted. When Hamilton and Morris with their little army of 50 armed men had marched through Middletown village the preceding July, they had been res- olutely met by 100 or more determined men. who meant tight, il a single blow had been struck. They, therefore, knew what was likely to happen and what did happen at the next court at Mid- dletown. t To make a diversion they got a man named Butterworth to admit that he was a pirate, and had been one of Kidd's crew, and bound him over to appear at the court in Middletown on March 25, 1701. I should be glad to know the names of his bondsmen, if any. It was what in modern slang is called a -'set up job." They wanted to raise a new issue which would receive favor in England. They knew the de- ficient and illegal nature of Hamilton's commission, and that they had no chance in those questions. It would only hasten the day when the right of government would be taken from them and vested in the English crown. This they wanted to avoid. Those records were framed under the supervision of Morris. Hamilton or Gordon, some time after the occurrence. The records of the court of March »5, 1701, could not have been written up in the minutes until after expiration of th.-ir foui daj

tSee letter of July 30, 1700. N. J. Arch.. Vol. II, p. 329-31, threateninu arrest of Morris and Hamilton. EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. in the rescue, but were resisted and assaulted themselves, and the examination of the prisoner torn to pieces. In the scuffle both Richard Borden and Benjamin Borden were wounded. But the endeavors of the court were not effectual in retaking the prisoner. He was rescued, carried off and made his escape.!} And the people, viz: Capt. Saftie Grover, Richard Borden, Benjamin Borden, Obadiah Holmes, Obadiah Bowne. Nicholas Stevens, George Cook, Benjamin Cook. Richard Osborne, Sam- uel Willett, Joseph West, Garrett Boulles, (Boels), Garrett Wall. James Bollen, Samuel r'ornian, William Winter. Jonathan Stout, .lam. s Stout. William Hendricks. John Bray, William Smith. Gershom Mott, Abner Heughs. George Allen, John Cox, John Vaughn, Elisha Lawrence, Zebulon Clayton, James Grover, Jr.. Richard Davis. Jeremiah Everington. Joseph Ashton, with others to the number of about 100. did traitorously seize the governor, the justices, the king's attorney, and the under sheriff and the clerk of the court, and kept day the 25th of Maren 'till Saturday, following, being the 29th of the same month, and then released them. GAWEN DRUMMOND, Clerk.

The !ll,.\ Drd itair name of the progenitors of many of the most reputable families in our county and state, and elsewhere in the United States, in this year 1899. They are ited irt record, being- guilty of rank rebellion for the mere purpose of enabling- a strange pirate to escape. We never hear of this man afterwards, nor is there any previous mention of him, nor are his bondsmen ever called upon to pay, because of his departing from the court without leave. After serving the purpose of Lewis Morris' juggling, he van- ishes like a ghost. Governor Hamilton and his council send a complaint of this outbreak at Middletown to King William, above their own signatures. This complaint is dated in May, 1701, and directed to "The King's Most Ex- cellent Majesty. The humble petitions of the governor and council of your majesty's province of East New Jersey." The following extract relates to the Middletown affair:

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?dibly of the unju nd further lg. your majesty's liege subjects have Hat heads i purchased their lands at their own proper costs and Dockwra further writes, that they charges, by virtue of the aforesaid licenses: yet the said proprietors, governors King William of have fully informed or agents, without any pretended process of the true situation of affairs, and that law, have given and granted the greater part Hamilton will be rejected. He adds of said lands by patent to several of the said that "we, that have said less, have proprietors and others, as to them seemed fit. struck the mark and done more t.. rid And notwithstanding their pretence to gov- you of a Scotch yoak." He saya that ernment, yet they left us, from the latter part of June, 1689, to the latter part of August, "the surrender of the proprietory government of New Jersey to the English that had Crown will take place or occur in about two months," and concluding to giv writes "I shall be pleased with the ex- our defence, or magistral change for an English gentleman to execution. And during tl govern an English colony." said proprietors have go najesty's province, they ha' The following petition was sent to William of Orange, the King, signed by the Native Pay John Ruckman, Arie Dennett. Jacob VanDorn, Garret Wall. Andrew Bowne, Daniel Hendrickson. Samuel Porman, John Bray and many others of the residents of Middletown township. Their names will all be found on pages 325 to II, N. J. Arch. Tins petition 328, Vol. ves have sold and disposed < shows partially their side of the case to them seemed meet, they, th for the consideration of the govern- s, have disposed of the same t ment of England. forced them who had the proj rty "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: which the said nativt The remonstrance and humble petition of resented, and often complained Your Majesty's loyal subjects, inhabiting in justly be feared) wait only for an opportunity your Majesty's Province of East New Jersey to revenge it upon the inhabitants of this your majesty's province. That whereas Y-'nn- Majesty's humble Peti- And further, to manifest the illegal and tioners did remove and settle themselves in the arbitrary proceedings of the said proprietors said Province of East New Jersey: and by in contempt of Your Majesty's laws, and virtue of a license from Hon. Col. Richard against their own knowledge signified in a Nicholls. Governor of said province under his

then Royal Highness, the Duke of York, to Jersey), wherein they say as followeth : "We purchase lands of the Native Pagans, did ac- have been obliged against our inclinations to cording to said license purchase lands of the dismiss Col. Hamilton from the government, said natives at their own proper costs and because of a late act of parliament, disabling charges. And whereas since, his said Royal all Scotchmen to serve in places of public Highness did sell and transfer all his right trust or profit. And obliging all proprietors and interest in the said province of East New of Colonies to present their respective gov- Jersey to certain proprietors; by whose lic- approbation. So ense several others of Your Majesty's loyal have appointed friend. J, subjects have since also purchased lands at ucceed Col. Han their own proper costs and charges of the ,i..,l

native Pagans of the same place : whereby ind ed of.' they humbly conceive they have acquired and Notwithstanding which letter they have gained a right and property to the s-iid Ian. Is superseded the said Jeremiah Basse (whom so purchased. Yet notwithstanding, your Maj- they wrote was approved by Your Majesty) esty's loyal subjects are molested, disturbed and have commissioned the said Col. Hamilton and dispossessed of their said lands by the again without Your Majesty's royal appro-

said proprietors or their agents, who. under bation, although removed before, by them ; pretense and color of having bought the gov- as a person disabled by law. Who now by ernment with the sail, have distrained from, virtue of their, the said proprietors, commis- and ejected several persons, for and under sion only, would impose himself upon us as pretence of quitt rent and Lord's rent, where- governor. And when in government, before by Your Majesty's liege subjects have been Basse, sued and put to great trouble and charges, them continued about a year, after the 2">th u and have been compelled to answer to vex- March. (1697), without taking the oath en atious actions, and after they have defended joined by law". And does now presume to ex their own rights, and obtained judgment in ercise government, not having legally take their favor, could not have their charges, as. the said oath or having Your Majesty's roya according to law, they ought to have but have The said propr of npt of Your Majesty's EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

Even the proprietory title to the soil has caused trouble and great loss to Your Majesty's province, (being both places the people of this state from the time of the greatest trust, next to the governor). it began, until within the memory of And one of the same nation to be clerk of the Supreme court of this Your Majesty's prov- the present generation, when they sold ince, which may be of ill consequence in rela- lands covered by Shark River for a tion to the act of trade and navigation, and mere song, and clouded the titles of to the great hinderance of Your Majesty's msny valuable tracts of real estate on loyal subjects, (the power of government be- the coast of Monmouth county. The ing chiefly in the hands of natives of Scot- Legislative investigation of the East land) from informing against any illegal or Jersey proprietors in 1881-2 fraudulent trading by Scotchmen or others in shows how this province. greedy and unscrupulous their methods We. Your Majesty's loyal subjects, laboring under these and many other grieveances and Suppose the proprietors had con- i.|.]iressioiis by t!it- proprietors of this Your trol of the state governrr and the Majesty's province of East Nev appointment of judges, as 700, what nble l'S:..h before chance would the people 'e in the Your Majesty (the fountain of justu imploring your maj usly idicate their rights. This pleased according to rincely wisdom. ince or consideration alone take into consideratio will show the justice of the resistance under the present proprietors, {if the right of made by our fore-fathers to their one- Government is invested in them) and that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to of the law. Many of the proprietors give your royal orders to said Proprietors, speculators in real estate and ac- that with Your Majesty's royal approbation, were motives. they commission for governor a fit person, tuated wholly by mercenary uualified according to Law, who as an indif- Government, law, justice, as well as ferent judge may decide the controversies title to the soil, were so many invest- arising between the proprietors and the in- ments, out of which money was to be habitants of this Your Majesty's province. made. Like the railroad and other cor- which at present And settle all the differences porations of today, they controlled gov- they labor under. And Your Majesty's peti- the hard cash out tioners as in duty bound shall ever pray, etc." ernment to squeeze of the people. Then follows signatures of over 200 The breaking up of the court at Mid- citizens, many of them residents in the dletown held by a usurping governor old township of Middletown. Here we and his bogus justices, was the right have an explanation of some of the thing to do at the right time. Richard causes which induced the people of Salter, Samuel Forman, John Bray. Middletown to resist Hamilton and Daniel Hendrickson. Jacob VanDorn Mori-is. set forth in their own words. and the others, deserve the praise and It is very different from the cause given gratitude of posterity for their stern by Morris and Hamilton in the court and persistent resistance. It destroyed record of March 25th, 1701. These men the government of these wrangling and had some common sense, and from their contending factions, and relieved the conduct in other matters, were influ- peopl. from much injustice and wrong. enced by righteous principles, yet Mor- Is it any wonder that the pioneer set- ris would make the government in tlers of Middletown issued the "first England believe, that they made them- Declaration of Independence" and re- selves criminally amenable to law. corded it in their township book against solely to rescue a strange pirate. the unfair and monstrous government The government by the proprietors by the proprietors? Such a name as we was an ill-constructed and inconsistent simple creatures "never heard of be- one, just what we might expect to fore." they write down in their records. emanate from such scoundrels and tyrants as the reigning Stuarts, who USee report of committee on modern doings never did anything right, except by of the N. J. proprietors among New Jersey mistake. legislative documents of 18S2. t

~~JAN GYSBERTSEN METRN AND HIS FAMILY.~~

Kreijn, son of Jan Gysbertsen Metrn as he spelled and wrote his name, wa, born in Bommel, in the Netherlands March 10. 1650. When a boy of 1 It, however. years, or in 1663, he came over with hi father to New Amsterdam. Althougl the father wrote his name as spelle( above, yet in old records of Kings coun ty. I,. I., and on the records of the Firs Dutch church of Monmouth and in ou county clerk's office, the name is spellec VanMetra, VanMetere. VanMetteren and in several other ways. Jan Guys bertsen. the father, seei-.s to have bee! better off financially than most of tie Holland emigrants. We find h lorn fortably settled at New Utrecht. L I. and one of the magistrates c,i that tow i 1673. He dea. .huri-h 1683. It has been thought li\ ?rs that he Var ,-ho sed first edition of the Bible to be printed the English language. This book w printed at Zurich in 1536. and was great and expensive work. It thought that VanMeteren made t translations himself, but employed ; English scholar named Miles Coverda iper printing. guard against errors in the translation Through VanMeteren the English people had access to the Scriptures in their native tongue. They have, however, never exhibited any gratitude, and gave VanMeteren but scant credit for this costly and beneficial work. Kreijn Janse VanMater is mentioned as a resident of New Utrecht, and among those who took the oath of allegiance to the English government in 1687; the length of his residence in America is then stated as 24 years. 4 In a census of Kings county taken in 1698. his name is spelled "Cryn Jansen" and he still resides at New Utrecht and has a family of four children. There is a tradition in the VanMatei family, that "Jan Guysbertsen Metrn," the father, refused to take the oath of allegiance in 1687, and soon after went back to his native land. That he had urged his son very strongly to accom-

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did. for in all the world there was no a communicant in our Dutch church in 1721, such man. she thought. An English and she in 1740. when her sister, Francyntje. visitor on one occasion thoughtlessly wife of Tunis DeNeis, (Denise) also joined the church. Gilbert VanMater owned lived remarked in her presence that "Kreijn" and on the farm where Gideon C. MacDowell now was a "queer, harsh name." "Nodings resides near Old Scots burying ground in the queer." exclaimed the old lady in her township of Marlboro, but formerly a part of broken English, which became more so Freehold township. S I do not know where he when she was excited. "Kreijn von died or where he is buried. g"oodt name, footer as effer \ as. Just Engeltje. (Angelina) b. September 30. 1696. like de singing of de birdts. ven der m. John Anderson. Benjamin, sprink veather comes, and der coldt b. January 22. 1702: m. Eliza- beth, daughter of Jacob Laen (Lane) and vinter avay." ever dwelt go So she Elizabeth Barkalow. his wife. Both were fondly on the husband of her youth members of Dutch church in 1737. He died until the summons came for her. She July 21. 1775. aged 73 years. 5 months and 29 died in peace with a smile on her lips. days, according to inscriptions on his tomb- for at last she would meet her Kreijn stone in the VanMater cemetery. Cornelia, in the "land of the leal." never again to b. May 24. 1704: m. Hans (John! VanCleef. part. The old generations of the Van- Syrenus. (Cyrenius) b. August 28, 1706, m. Maters were noted for their faithful Abigail, daughter of Auke Leffeits and Maria attachments to wife, children and kins- TenEyck. his wife. Abigail was born March men. They labored and planned, as 15, 1708: d. August 25. 1785. aged 77 years. 5 their wills show, to provide comfortable months and 10 days. Cyrenius VanMater died homes and maintain and guard against December 28, 1787, and is buried by the side of his wife in the VanMater graveyard. His misfortune, those near to them by ties age on the tombstone is given as 80 years. 4 of blood. months. Kreijn Janse VanMater and Neeltje Joseph, b. in Monmouth county February 5 : VanCleef had the following children: bap. Aug. 13, 1710: m. December 1. 1734, Sarah, daughter of Roelof Schanck and Geesie Jan, b. April 26. 1687. died young. or Ghesye Hendrickson. his wife. Sarah John, b. April 17. 1688. at New Utrecht. L. Schanck was born May 22. 1715. and died, I.; m. October 17, 1718. Ida. daughter of Ryck according to inscription on her tombstone in

Hendrickse VanSuydam ; d. January 10, 1731, the VanMater cemetery, September 1, 1748, in Monmouth county. He was a communicant aged 33 years. 3 months and 9 days. Her hus- in our Dutch church in 1713. and his wife in band rests by her side and his headstone states 1731. % that he died October 15. 1792. aged S2 years. Ydtje.(Ida) b. August 24. 1691. m. Jan. a 8 months and 10 days. Joseph VanMater and son of Adrian Bennett and Barbery, his wife. Sarah .Schanck. his wife, became members of Communicants in Dutch church in 1731. She the Dutch church in 1737. and were said to died September 13. 1774. They had the follow- have been activ in ing and perhaps other children: (In all and lived consistent lives. Their children and baptisms hereafter spoken of in these articles, grandchildren always spoke of them with if no church is named it is to be understood affection and reverence. that the dates are taken from the records of The following is a certified copy ol" the First Dutch church of Monmouth). A Kreijn Janse VanMater's will as filed child unnamed, bap. January 14. 1724 : Kryn- jans. bail. February 27. 1726: Neeltje, b. Nov- ember 29. 1728: m. June 28. 1750. John, rles Hubs to Guysbert youngest son of Jan Schanck and Sara Cou- VanMetra and Benjamin VanMetra of Middle- wenhoven, his wife, of Pleasant Valley, and town township, dated April 19. 1727, consid- died June 1. 1810. I er husband. John eration £365 for a tract of 148 1£ acres in Schanck. was born June 22. 1722: d. December Freehold township: hounded southerly by Van- 24. 1808. Their children have been mentioned Cleef's land, northerly by lands formerly in a former article on the Schencks. Thomas Combs, northerly and easterly by Gysbert. (Gilbert) b. February 24. 1694: m. other lands of said Hubs. In same book p. Maijke. (Micha) daughter of Daniel Hendrick- 127, etc., is a deed from Isaac Forman and son and Kaatje VanDyke. his wife. He was Elizabeth, his wife, of Freehold township, to "Benjamin VanMatre and Syrenus VanMatre." | In Book H of Deeds, p. 211. etc.. Mon- dated April 4, 1730. consideration £900. for

mouth clerk's office, is recorded a conveyance 25H acres in Freehold township : bounded from Ryk Hendrickse Suydam of Flatlands, southerly by Burlington road, east by lands Kings county. Island of Nassau, to John Van- formerly of Aaron Forman. west and north

Meeteren (VanMater) of Middletown township, by lands formerly Robert Barclay's : and three for a tract of land in Middletown township other tracts adjacent to above. In Book I of "bounded west by Dominicus Vanderveer. east Deeds, p. 35. etc., Benjamin VanMatre and by Auken Leffertsen, south by Swimming Cyrenus VanMatre convey to this Gilbert Van- River, and north by heirs of Quryn VanMeet- Mater by deed dated September 1, 1735, for eren. (Kreijn VanMater). and known as No. i moderation of £535. one-half part of a tract 4. containing 152 acres and thirteen fifty- of land in Middletown township on which said sixtha parts of an acre, being the seventh part Gilbert VanMater then resided, being the lands of a tract said Suydam with others bought of above mentioned conveyed to them by Isaac Col. Lewis Morris. EARL V 1)1 Till SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

in the office of the Secretary of State within the Space of Three Years Next after at Trenton. It was not proved until the Decease or Remarriage of my Wife, pay March 21, 17211, or nine years after his unto my daughter Yda or her heirs, the Sum decease, although Benjamin VanCleef, of Seventy-five pounds, that then I give and devise One full the testator's brother-in-law, and one and Equal fourth part of my real estate to him my said Son Ghilbert, his of the executors swore to it May 25. Heirs and Assignes forever, and if my Son 1720. This was not sufficient in law to Benjamin, shall, within the space of Three admit lo probate. The law of New Jer- "tears Next after the decease or Remarriage of sey, then as now. required the oath of my Wife, pay unto my Daughter Angeltye. or her Heirs a subscribing witness, that it was ex- the Sum of Seventy-live pounds, then I Give and Devise ecuted by the testator according- to the One full and Equal fourth part of my Real Estate to him. my said Son requirements of the statute in such Benjamin, his Heirs and Assignes forever. And cases made and provided. if my Son Sirinus shall live to the age of Twenty One Years, and shall within three I Kryne VanMatre of Middletown In the years after the Decease or Remarriage of my County of Monmouth and Eastern Division of Wife, or at the Age of Twenty-One Years, the province of New Jersey, Yeoman. This Six which shall last happen, pay to mv Son John & Twentyeth Day of April In the 6fth Year of or his I eirs the Sum of Seventy five pounds, the Reign of our Soveraigne Lord George over then I give and Devise One full and equal Great Brittain. &c. King. Anno dom. One fourth part of my Real Estate to him my said Thousand Seven Hundred and Nineteen, Being Son Sirinus his Heirs and Assignes forever. in good and perfect health and of a Sound And if my Son Joseph shall live to the Age of Mind and disposing .Memory, (praised be the Twenty One Years And shall within Three Lord for the same) Doe Make and Declare Years after the Decease or Remarriage of my this to be my Last Will and Testament, in Wife or at the Age of Twenty One Years Manner and forme as followeth, viz: First which shall last happen, pay to my daughter and principally I Recommend my Soul to the Sum of Seventy five Almighty God that gave it, and my Body to then I Gi' Devi: Ren the earth from whence it was taken, to be Durth pat Buryed in sjch Decent and Christian like manner, as to my executors hereafter named shall seem Meet and Convenient ; and as touching such Wordly Goods, as the Lord In his

Infinite and Rich Mercy I far beyond my De- serts) hath been pleased to bestow upon Me, 1 Give and dispose of the same as followeth My Will is that all my Just Debts be Well and truly paid and satisfied within some convenient time after my Decease, Out of my Per- sona! Estate by my Executors hereinaftei

My Will is that my Son John VanMatre shall have and keep that Fifty one pounds which I formerly paid to Rak Hendrickse for and towards a plantation for my said Son John, without being accountable to my Ex- ecutors for the same or any part thereof. My will is that at the time of the Marriage of my Daughter Yda she shall have two Cows and fifteen pounds, and my daughter Angeltje her d fifteen pounds, and My Daughter (',„-

ws and fifteen pounds to be deli vert ?m out of my personal Estate by my ltors. I Give and Bequeath to my loving Wife Neeltje VanMatre, the use of my plantation. and the Use of the Remainder of my personal Estate, for and during the time that she shall remain my Widow ; and after her decease or Remarriage My Will is. that the personal Es- tate that she has the use of. be Equally divided Amongst all my Chill, I, en. Namely John. Yda. Ghilbert. Angeltje. Benjamin, Cornelia. Siry- nus. and Joseph. I Give and Devise my whole Real Estate whatsoever and wheresoever, after the Death or Remarriage of my wife, which shall first happen, to my fowr Sons Namely Ghilbert VanMatre. Benjamin VanMatre. Sirynus Van- Matre and Joseph VanMatre. as followeth. viz: My Will is that if my Son Ghilbert shall EARL ) DUTi II SI I ILERS OE MOXMOCTH.

>ach of their knowledge & that they also saw 4.—Jannetje. b. October 29. 1724; m. Aart, ye other Evidences subscribe their names In son of Guysbert Sutphen and Geertrury Van- presence of ye Testator. Sworne ye day & Pelt, his wife. He was bap. April 13, 1718. year above sd before Me John Barclay, Surro- This couple had the following children bap-

Memorandome: yt on ye 25th day of May, Guisbert, bap. August 20, 1743 ; Jan. Nov- 1729, Benjamin VanCleve one of ye Executors ember 3. 1745; Geertje, February 14. 1748. In the within mentioned Last Will & Testament 5.—Neeltje, bap. August 14, 1728: m. John

~~of Kyahn VanMatre, Deed, Personally Ap- VanLieu, I no other knowledge).~~

peared before John Barclay, Surrogate, Auth- 6. —Marya, b. January 7. 1731 : m. first, orized & Appoynted to take ye Prohate of Peter Lefferts, second. John Bennett. By Last Wills & Testaments was Duely sworne Peter Lefferts she had

to the Execution thereof. Sworn ye day & Maria, bap. August 3, 1750 ; m. Barnes J. yeare Above Written before Me Smock: d. January 27. 18S2. aged 71 years, 10 JOHN BARCLAY, Surg't. months, according to her tombstone in the Lefferts and Logan graveyard on the old Gar- ret Schanck farm near Vanderburg in Atlan- tic township. Her husband, known as Capt. Suy.lam, had el lnl.lr Barnes J. Smock of the Monmouth militia during the greater part of our Revolutionary war, 1.—Cryn Jans. b. September 28, 1718: m. and at its close as Col. Smock, was born Jan- about 1750, Marya, daughter of Guysbert Sut- uary 29. 1756: d. January 30. 1834, aged 78 phen and Geertrury VanPelt. his wife. years and 1 day, according to the inscription Cryn-jans VanMater d. in 1766. They had on his tombstone, is buried by her side.f

~~the following children : Krinjans. bap. February 14. 1762.~~

~~John. bapt. August 19. 1753 : m. Elizabeth John, buried in Lefferts and Logan grave- Hance or Hons. yard. Tombstone gives date of death Nov. 8. Engeltje, bapt. March 31, 1755. 183S, aged 74 ife.~~

Guysbert. bapt. July 31, 1757 ; married a Zilpha, is buried by his side. Widow Clayton. Lefferts. I think he is the Leffert Lefferts Anne, b. 1759, died young. who owned and resided on a farm in Upper Isaac, bapt. November 2. 1760. wnship during the middle part of Neeltje. bapt. February 2. 1766. the 2.—Ryck (Richard) b. April 16, 1720; m. Engeltje. b. March 31. 1755. Micah or Martha Osbourne. and had the fol- 7.— Eyda (Ida) b. February 12. 1733; bap.

lowing children : March 14 following: m. Benjamin, son of Jan Eyda, (Ida) bapt. June 9, 1751, at Presby- Derrickse Sutphen and Engeltje Bennett, his terian church of Freehold. On pages 132-3 of wife. He was bap. November 14. 1758. 8. Symmes History of Old Tennent church, date —John b. February 7, 1735 : died young.

of baptisms of several of Ryck's children are 9.—Cornelia or Catharine, b. July 4. 1737 : given. Mr. Tennent. the pastor, has entered m. Stoffle (Christopher) Logan, and d. Jan- on the records that Ryck VanMater stated the uary 19. 1806 : buried in Lefferts and Logan reason for coming to him, instead of going to yard. Her husband's tombstone gives date of the Dutch Dominie was "that his wife could his death November 11. 1823: age 89 y, 3 mos, not speak Dutch." This was true, for his wife 13 d. They had the following children: belonged to the English family of Osbournes Sarah, b. April 11. 1760; m. John L. Ben- iided Ma for nett; buried in Lefferts Logan graveyard Tombstone gives date of death March 6. 1833, age 72 y, 10 m, 22 d. I er husband died Nov- ember 27, 1843, aged 86 y, 7 m, 27 d., accord- Jannetje. (Jane) bapt. April 15, 1753. ing to his tombstone.

~~John, bapt. August 24. 1755 ; m. Sarah Hen- Eyda. b. 1760. died young.~~

~~drickson. Eyda. b. , and perhaps others. Catharine and Mary (twins) bapt. June 22, 10.— Cornelius, bap. August 14, 1739.~~

1758. 11. — Geertje. bap. November 27. 173! : m. William, bapt. June 22. 1760. about 1764, Aart VanDerbilt. and had the Eleanor or Nelly, bapt. Feb. 13, 1763: m. following children baptized: Jacob Schenck. Hendrick, January 20, 1765. Ida. August 16, 1767. I am under the impression that one ..i more of their children became own- Jeremiah and Joseph, (twi Dec. 16 ers of a tract of land on the south side lM at.'!' of Wreck Pond in the present township

~~,.i Wall, but then Shrewsbury. I am,~~

prove this. The son William, baptized June 21', 1760, married Martha Ward. His will is recorded in Rook C of Wills, mi- where th< y settled. Bi sides, man; p. 136, Monmouth Surrogate's office. It of their descendants who emigrated t< was dated Much 28. 1828. and proved other parts of New Jersey and othe August 31. 1829. states, adopted different ways of spell ing their surnames, as VanMeter, Van ry 14. 722. ha Feb. Ma YanMei n. VanMi EARLY />/ TCH SETTLERS OF MONMOl ///

t Colonel Barnes J. Smock's will is recorded in Book C of Wills, p. 310, etc., JMonmouth Surrogate's office. It is dated October 17. 1832, proved February 10. 1834. He describes himself as a resident of Middletmvn township. He gives Philip Tunison. son of his sister Rebecca. $200. To children of his sister, Eleanor Longstreet. $300. To Catherine Wil- burt and Phoebe Stephen, children of his sister, Sarah Smock. $200. To John Lefferts, brother of his deceased wife. $500 ; to children of his sister, Phoebe Longstreet. $500. The residue of his estate is EARL) DUTCH SETTLER'S OF MOXMOC'TH.

Hendrick. or Tarry, bap. September 11. 1737. at eight shillings per ounce, for her outset, went to England with his brother Daniel, if she marry within the term of six years. after the Revolutionary war. and was in If she should not in six years, then at the England at the time of his brother's death. expiration of six years to be paid to her out Since then nothing was ever heard of him. so of my estate, the aforesaid fifty pounds and

Joseph, bap. September 30, 1739. m. Cath- Item. My will is that my son John shall arine, daughter of James Kearney of Chin- pay to my daughter Nelly the sum of fifty lueroras. as the region about Keyport was pounds money es aforesaid for part of her then called. She was b. July 26. 1752. and legacy, on or before six years after my death. died May 10. 1807, aged 54 years. 9 months Item. My will is that my son Hendrick and 20 days, and is buried by her second hus- shall pay to my daughter Nelly the sum of band, Rulif VanMater, in the VanMater cem- fifty pounds, money as aforesaid, for part of her legacy on or before seven years after my decease. Octo- Item. .My will is that my son Joseph shall pay to my daughter Nelly the sum of fifty pounds, money as aforesaid, for the last part The following is a copy of the will of of ' her legacy on or before the term of " eight Gilbert VanMater. father of the above years after my decease. Item. I give and bequeath to my youngest seven children: daughter. Catharine, my negro wench Maryann and horse and saddle, and, when she marries, Will of Guysbert (Gilbert) VanMater. three cows and fity pounds in money as afore- In the name of God. Amen. I Gisbert Van- said for her outset; but if she shall not marry Mater of Freehold, in the County of Monmouth within the term of six years then the fifty and the Eastern division of the Province of pounds and three cows to be paid to her out New Jersey, being weak in body but of sound. disposing mind, and memory; considering the Item. It is my will that my son John shall uncertainty of this life, do make this to be my pay to my daughter Catharine, the sum of Last Will and Testament. In manner follow- fifty pounds money aforesaid, on or before the term of nine years after my decease, for And first recommending my Soul into the part of her legacy. hands of Almighty God. who gave it; into Item. It is my will that my son Hendrick whose Kingdom notwithstanding my own un- shall pay to my daughter Catharine the sum worthiness, I hope to be received through the of fifty pounds money aforesaid, before nine merits and intercession of my blessed Savior, years after my decease, for part of her legacy. and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. My body I will Item. It is my will that my son Joseph to be buried at the discretion of my Executors shall pay to my daughter Catharine the sum hereinafter named. of fifty pounds money as aforesaid, on or be- And as touching such temporal estate wherefore the term of ten years after my decease with it has pleased Ood to bless me in this for the last part of her legacy. life. I will, devise and dispose of the same in I mean in the whole, to be paid to my the following manner, and form: daughters two hundred pounds in cash each, First I will that all my just debts be duly as before described already. and truly paid in some convenient time after Item. In case either of my daughters should my decease, by my three youngest sons, John. lose their negro wenches, which I have given Hendrick and Joseph. them, either Matt or Maryann (but not

Item. I have already given to my two eldest Sally t then I give either Pegg or Betty, as sons. Cyrenius and Daniel VanMater, a planta- they shall see cause to chose, or both if they tion I formerly owned at the Scotch Meeting should die, they said Matt and Maryann. That House, and to my eldest son Cyrenius. a U before my said daughters should marry, or negro wench —Nann—and my long gun for either of them: but if married and then die. his birthright, and other goods and chattels; then no other in their stead or after the ex- and to my son Daniel his negro Frank and other goods and chattels. I have already Item. I give, devise and bequeath the re- given my two eldest sons what I intend to maining part of my negroes to my youngest give them. Secondly I give, devise and be- three sons, John. Hendrick and Joseph, to be queath to my three youngest sons, John, equally divided amongst them, as my executors Hendrick and Joseph, all my real estate, lands, shall see fitt, excepting them already given. and meadows whatsoever, and rights of lands Item. I give devise and bequeath all my which I am now seized and possessed of, in- household goods within doors, equally to be terested in or entitled to, and to their heirs, divided amongst my three youngest sons and executors, administrators, and assigns for- two daughters, to be divided in six years after ever. To each an equal third in quantity, and decease equally. in quality, to be divided by my executors here- Iter m

their power to board them at their discretion son, his wife, was baptized May 2. 1779. shall see at such place and places as they Mary, baptized, , died unmarried in cause, out of my estate, until -they marry or 1813. leaves will dated April 19, 1808. proved until their legacies become due. Sept. 25. 1813, recorded in book A of wills, p. Item. My will is that, if either of my 662, Monmouth Surrogate's office. She des- daughters should die without issue of their cribes herself as the daughter of Cyrenius bodv, then the other to be heir. VanMater. a miller. She mentions Cyrenius. Item. My will is if either of my sons die son of her brother William VanMater, and without issue of their body, the others of my Mary, daughter of her sister Micha. wife of sons to be their heirs and the said lands to Samuel Tilton. She devises all her property fall to them living. in fee to Cyrenius Tilton, son of her sister And lastly I do hereby nominate, constitute Micha. John W. Holmes and Micha Tilton and appoint my two eldest sons. Cyrenius and are appointed executors.

Daniel VanMater. both of the County of Maykee (Micha) born . married Samuel Monmouth aforesaid, to be executors of this Tilton. My Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking Phoebe, born December 21, 1773. married all former wills by me in anywise heretofore January 20. 1791, Hendrick, son of Garret made, and declaring this to be my Last Will Hendrickson and Catharine Denise, his wife, and Testament. In witness whereof I have died, March 12, 1836. t hereunto put my hand and sea! the day of October in the year 1758. Phoebe VanMater and Hendrick Hen- GISBERT VANMATER. (L. S.) drickson, aforesaid, had the following children: The copy is in possession of Mrs. Margaret Fick. wife of ex-sheriff Fick of New Brunswick, Middlesex county, N. J. She was a daughter of Joseph 1800. VanMater and Margaret Rapelje, his William Heard, b. Sept. 22, 1795, d. Aug. 9, 1855, buried in wife, born July 6, 1860, and grand- homestead yard aforesaid. daughter of Holmes VanMater and Eleanor, b. Dec. 7, 1797. d. June 22. 1806. Garrett, b. Feb. 21. 1800, d. June 3. 1866, m. Micha. his wife, (daughter of Gilbert Angelina, daughter of Wynant Bennett of testator, VanMater, grandson of above Long Island, who was barn July 13, 1813, d. who resided on Long Island.) Sept. 24, 1876. Both buried in Long Island. I do not know whether the will was Cyrenius. b. Mar. 30, 1802, m. Sept. 18, 1823, admitted to probate, but presume it Ida. daughter of Joseph VanMater and Ida was, or else the devisees and legatees Hendrickson. his wife. d. May 17. 1870, buried on homestead farm at Holland aforesaid. therein named were, VanMater like, Denyse. b. July 4, 1804. their father's wishes with- governed by Elinor, b. May 11. 1806. out regard to any legal compulsion. For Catharine, born—no record. the court records of Monmouth county show that the VanMaters have seldom William VanMater, born November engaged in litigation, either among 27, 1772, by his wife, Mary Hendrick- themselves over family settlements, or son, had the following children: with their neighbors. I do not know Cyrenius, b. July 1, 1798; m. Elinor Hen- of any divorce or criminal suits among drickson ; d. Dec. 18. 1882. the past generation of the family. They Rulif, b. , who went West and settled have minded their own business and let

~~b. 10. ; others alone. Neither have they courted Gilbert, July 1802 m. Sarah Taylor : popularity for the sake of office or d. Feb. 6, 1881.~~

Garret, b. . m. Harriet Hopping : d. at honors, but if anything have been re- Chapel Hill in 1879. leaving two children. tiring and modest in their claims and assumptions. They have as honorable t A marriage license was granted to Garrett record as any family in the county, Hendrickson, (son of Hendrick Hendrickson considering their numbers and the long and Neeltje Garretse Schanck, his wife) and time they have resided in Monmouth. Catharine (daughter of Tunis Denise and Francyntje Hendrickson, his wife) Cyrenius, the eldest son named in the December 1755. Garrett Hendrickson died December above will, was a miller and farmer. 8, 18, 1801, aged 67 years, 10 months and 10 By his wife, Meary Heard, he had the days, according to his tombstone in the Hen- following children: drickson burying ground on farm of late Sen- ator W. H. I.endrickson at Holland in Holm- John H., born (there is no record, he may del township. His wife, Catherine Denise. is have died young). interred by his side. She was born May 8,

Gilbert, born , died single in 1807. 1732. baptized June 4th following, and died Leaves a will recorded in Book A of Wills, September 8. 1771. aged 39 years. 4 months. p. 194. Surrogate's office of Monmouth. It is Hendrick, their son. and Phoebe VanMater. his dated May 6 and proved May 12, 1807. wife, are also buried in this graveyard. Hen- William, born Nov. 27. 1772, married Dec- drick died June 6, 1837, aged 72 years, 10 ember 24, 1797, Mary, daughter of Garret months and 7 days. Phoebe, his wife, died Hendrickson and his second wife, Lena Van- Mar. 12, 1836. aged 62 years, 2 months and 2 Liew, and died May 9, 1844. Mary Hendrick- EARL V DUTCH SETTLER'S OE MO.XMOLTU.

John H. and Mary. John H. VanMater is married Catharine Kearney, or Karney. now a practicing physician of good standing as they spelled it. The descendants of at Atlantic Highlands. Garret VanMater left this couple became known as the will codicil. last was dated Dec. a and The "Kearny VanMaters." and were noted 13, 1878 ; proved Sept. 6, 1879 ; recorded in for the book M of wills, p. 494, Monmouth Surro- marked difference in their char- gate's office. acters, from the past generations of the Elinor, b. 1815. family, and from the descendants of Catharine, b. : m. William Story. the other branches. They had the following children; Daniel, second son of Gilbert Van- Mater, and Micha Hendriekson, married Rulif, bap. July 16. 1775.—no other record.

Mary Conover aforesaid, and had the Joseph Kearney, b. ; m. Sept. 10, 1794, following children: Ida Hendriekson. daughter of Garrett Hen- driekson and Lena VanLieu. his sceond wife. Tryntje. (Catharine) b. Ap. 5, 1756; m. He owned and resided on a farm west of Colts Aug. 14. 1774. Henry Disbrow and had three Neck and on the south side of the turnpike sons and one daughter Mary, who married to Freehold, nearly opposite the Thomas Ryall Rev. Henry Polhemus. One of his sons. John farm, formerly known as the Stoutenburg H. Disbrow, married Sarah VanMater, his cousin.

Sarah, b. Aug. 13, 1759 ; m. Benjamin Van- Mater July 12. d. Sept. 5. 1840; buried 1778. Joseph K. VanMater, by his wife, Ida in VanMater yard by her husband. Hendriekson, had the following chil- Gilbert, b. June 7, 1762 : m. Margaret Sprague. widow of a Rapelye on Long Island. dren: He removed to Brooklyn and lived on Long Island until his death. July 6. 1832. He had Ida. b. May. 1795. m. Sept. 18, 1823, Cyren- six daughters and two sons. One of his ius Hendriekson of Pleasant Valley, and were daughters. Sarah, b. Aug. 15, 1793, m. her the parents of the late I enry D. Hendriekson. cousin, John Henry Disbrow. above mentioned. so well known to the present generation of Another daughter. Micha, b. Aug. 21. 1795. m. people in this county, and of Catharine, wife Holmes, son of Chrineyonce VanMater and of the late Joseph L. Tunis, who owned and Huldah Holmes, his wife. Holmes VanMater resided on a farm near Wickatunk and died resided on the Academy farm in the village a few years ago. of Holmdel and was famous for his fast and James Kearny, b. Nov. 11, 1807, m. Eliza- thoroughbred horses. beth VanMater and died childless on Nov. 25.

Micah, b. Jan. 20. 1764. m. first Daniel Pol- 1850. His will is dated March 24, 1849 : proved hemus who died Jan. 29. 1820. aged 57 years, Dec. 12, 1850, and recorded in Book F of and married second George Clark. Wills, p. 44. He leaves all his personal and Nelly, b. July 20, 1766, d. in infancy. real property equally to his three sisters. Ida. wife of Cyrenius Hendriekson, Ann K. Van- Jan or John, third son of Gilber Mater and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Prohasco. VanMater and Micha Hendriekson, mar Ann K., b. May 11, 1815, m. Benjamin Van- ried Elizabeth Carrol, Carle or Kerl< Elizabeth, b. Feb. 1, 1820. m. Joseph Probas- least daughters. and had at two co and had the following children by him: The fifth son of Gilbert VanMater an James K.. Robert. Johanna. Hulda. Mary Micha Hendriekson was Joseph, wh Jane. Hendrick and Cyrenius.

DANIEL AND HENDRICK VAN MATER WHO JOINED THE KING'S ARMY. Daniel and Hendrick. two of the sons called the New Jersey Royal Volun- of Gilbert VanMater and Micha Hen- teers, but were popularly known from driekson, and named in his said will, the color of their uniforms as the enlisted at the beginning of the Rev- "Greens," or "Skinner's Greens." Many olutionary war in the first battalion of of the men who thus joined the British Skinner's brigade. commanded by army were conscientious and honorable Elisha Lawrence of Upper Freehold men and carried on war in an open, township, and who was the last col- soldier-like way. They were widely onial sheriff under King George III in different from the Refugees at Sandy Monmouth county. The majority of Hook, the Pine Robbers, and other des- Americans who belonged to this com- peradoes who took advantage of the mand of Col. Lawrence's were doubt- unsettled times to plunder and murder. less natives of this county, which then The people, however, who suffered from included Ocean county. They were their depredations were not in any con- EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOL TH. dition of mind to make a distinction be- these men had la lished in captivity tween the Americans who sided with nearly four years rid it may be that the British. some of them w« not exchanged or One of the sisters of these two Van- released until the ir closed, Maters had married a Bainbridge who Daniel VanMat and his brother belong-ed to an intensely loyal family, Hendrick, had all hope and one of their brothers, Joseph, had ernment aid outside of grants of land married a Kearny, a family likewise in Canada, dashed to the ground. Like strong on that side. They were also other American loyalists who had been socially intimate with Col. Blisha Law- seduced by the fine and extravagant rence, the Ex-Sheriff, with Ex-Sheriff promises the English are so prone to John Taylor of Middletown, and other make, when they need help or favors, old colonial officials who had sworn they found only coldness and ingrati- allegiance to the king- of Great Britain. tude on the part of the high-caste It was perhaps these social, family and Englishmen, misnamed "nobility." who political influences which carried them acted and spoke for the government, away from their Dutch kindred into the and who really control the government ranks of the enemy. The same extrav- of Great Britain for their class inter- agant promises of royal approbation, ests. The following extract from the honors and reward, were doubtless proceedings of the British House of made to them, as to other Americans n June 19. 1820, sho\ what by the British officials and ag-ents to help and ;ward they got, g-et them to enlist. thing. Mr. Will At the close of the Revolutionary war the membt :-s. speaking of t :lai they found themselves stripped of all the Ar their property, their families broken up nore than 30 year and scattered, and themselves exiled accrued. Three-fourths of the claim- from their homes and friends. They ants are dead, and many of them died went to England. I think, with Col. of broken hearts." Mr. Lockhart, an- Elisha Lawrence, in order to get some other member, said, "The American recognition from the English govern- Loyalists have never received any com- ment for their services and losses, for, pensation for their losses." according to Lawrence's affidavit here- Daniel VanMater died in London, inafter printed, he was in London at England. October 8, 1786. without re- the same time, and it was evidently ceiving any compensation except a made to help Daniel VanMater with his grant of land in bleak Nova Scotia. I claims against the government. This doubt also the truth of the tradition affidavit is otherwise historically im- handed dc e VanMa portant, because it shows that Colonel that he w ied ig- the he Lawrence, with part or all of his com- and great men who lie in Westminster mand, was in Monmouth as early as Abbey. I think he had lost and suffered December, 1776, arresting prominent enough for the English government, to entitle him to this honorable grave, but people were disorganized, with many he bore a Dutch name, and was a non-committal among them. Lawrence stranger from over the seas, and why seems to have met with no resistance should they care to bury his poor corpse in capturing the "rebels," as they were when he was no longer of any service called. This. too. helps explain the to them? In the eyes of the so-called letter written by Hendrick VanBrunt "nobility" or the Brahmin caste of nnd others to Governor Livingston of Sngland, he was no better than a dead New Jersey, printed on pages 261-3 of dog who had fetched and carried for "New Jersey Revolutionary correspon- them in his lifetime. This letter is dated September dence." The following papers which belonged 15. 1780. In it they write that the cap- to him were probably sent to his chil- tivity of some of them has lasted near- dren by his brother, Hendrick Van- ly four years. This would agree with Mater. after his death: the time Lawrence says he was in Mon- mouth county taking prisoners, viz., [Addressed) December, 1776. Among the Monmouth "General Burch. Commandant etc.." officers named in captivity in 1780, we [Endorsed] rind Major Hendrick VanBrunt. Col. "Referred for inquiry to the police." Auke Wyckoff, Capt. Jonathan Holmes. S. B. Lieut. James Whitiock, Lieut. Tobias [Below] "This matter is one that must be Polhemus. Capt. Jacob Covenhoven, Col. decided after troops are gone." John Smock. Capt. Barnes Smock and D. MATKEWS. Mayor. Henry Smock. It seems that some of :

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MO.XMOl Ltl. writings of Gen. Burch and Mayor Mathev well acquainted with Thomas Leonard and of New Yo John Longstreet, Esqrs. Thinks them to be "General h. Commandant of the City of iio.,,1 judges of land and particularly acquaint- New York, ed with Mr. VanMater's land, and from their The humble memorial of Daniel VanMater characters, thinks that the greatest credibility most respectfully showeth may be given to their testimony. And fur- Whereas your humble memorialist hath a ther saith that Mr. VanMater was esteemed cousin in New Jersey, who was brought up in an Honest Man, as far as this Deponent Know- our family. Built a schooner for his own pri- eth. As to the value of Mr. VanMater's mov- vate use, and she was impressed in the Pro- able estate the Deponent cannot pretend to vincial service in order to carry the cannon say. Ke Knew he had many Negro Slaves and and sick to Brunswick. The British took the a considerable stock on his farm of all kinds, said schooner and converted her to their own and in particular it was a general received service, where she has remained until lately, opinion that Mr. VanMater's horses were some and now is in the hands of Captain Nailler, of the best in the country. by the name of Schooner Pool. Your humble COL. ELISHA LAWRENCE. memorialist claims the said schooner by a. London, March 2nd. 1785. deed of gift from under the hand of his cousin [Endorsed] Copy of Col. Elisha Lawrence's Cornelius Covenhoven. Now your humble deposition. memorialist prays, as she never was condemned and made a prize to the British, that the In a letter from Cyrenius VanMater General will grant an order that said Captain to his brother, Daniel VanMater, dated Nallier shall deliver up the said schooner to March 28, 1785, he speaks of the death your humble memorialist, or show cause why of "Rike VanMater" about January 1. he detains the said Schooner Pool in his pos- 1785. On the inside page is a letter ad- session. Your humble memorialist shall be in duty bound to ever pray dressed to Harry VanMater (Hendrick DANIEL VAN MATER. was his baptismal name). This is also May ye 20th, 1783. * signed "Your Affectionate Brother, Cyrenius VanMater." These letters are As this claim was returned to him, it folded in the old fashioned way and appears, they did not or could not re- addressed to turn his schooner. Soon after this he Mr. Daniel VanMater have sailed for England to push must in London, at Jacob Taylor's his claims there. The following affi- Pimlico, near the Queen's Pallace No. 25. davit shows that he was in London in This would show that Daniel and his youngest brother Henry or Hendrick. were both in England at that time. AFFIDAVIT OF COL. ELISHA LAWRENCE. Another letter is dated at Brooklyn, Elisha Lawrence maketh oath that he has February 17th. 1786. from Gilbert Van- known Mr. Daniel VanMater, late of Mon- Mater and addressed to Daniel Van- mouth county. New Jersey, in North America, Gilbert heads the let- many years previous to the late rebellion in Mater, London. America. That Mr. VanMater has always ter "Honored Father." and expressed a shown the strongest attachment to his Majes- strong wish that he should return and ty's Person and Government. That in Decem- live with his children. That the sep- ber 1776, this Deponent was ordered into the aration of so worthy a father "is much Mr. VanMater was said County of Monmouth. felt by your family in general and in rendering every assistance to very active in particular by your affectionate son, the Troops, and disarming and taking Rebels prisoners. That he with some others took Gilbert VanMater." Tunis Vanderveer. a Rebel Captaint of Militia In another letter from the same son. and some Privates and brought them unto this dated "Hampstead South. May 26, 1785." Deponent. That this Deponent as Sheriff of he speaks of having returned to farm- to Mr. the said County of Monmouth, sold ing and is doing well. He begs to be farm he possessed at VanMater part of the excused from going to England on ac- the commencement of the Rebellion, as will count of the expense and inconvenience. appear by the titles, and is well acquainted with the land, and thinks it was worth about The letter is directed to "Mr. Daniel that time at least £8.00 ($40.00) per acre. VanMater, at Pimlico, London." New York currency. This Deponent is also In another letter from Gilbert, dated Brooklyn, October 11. 1786. he speaks * The English army evacuated New York in of living in Brooklyn and in the same the month of November, 1783. business as when his father left. He This is a mistake about Tunis Vanderveer t of his grand- being a rebel captain. He was a sergeant, and also speaks of the death lived where his great-great-grandson^ David father, Conover, in New Jersey about Arthur Vanderveer, now lives in two months before from a stroke of the township. He was a bold, resolute palsy. The letter is addressed to patriot. He was in the British pi is Daniel VanMater York at the same time Gai Wyckoff was to left at the New York coffee house. London They were released at the same time be there. Capt. Townsend. and came home together, as they were quite by favor of near neighbors. DANIEL, HENDRICK AND CHRINEYONCE VAN- MATER'S ESTATES CONFISCATED.- DEATH OF FENTON, THE PINE ROBBER.

In the clerk's office of Monmouth Executions are similar writs against county. Book A of Executions, begin- Chrineyonee. son of Joseph VanMater, ning- in back part of book, is the record and Sarah Roelofse Schenck, his wife. of 110 executions against Monmouth The first seems to be for going within county land owners who joined the the British lines and the last for join- British army, or were detected going ing the King's army. within their lines. Chrineyonee, it is said, carried on the On page 11 of this book is an execu- mill now known as Taylor's Mills, near tion against Daniel VanMater. and on the old VanMater homestead, in Atlan- page 31 a similar one against his broth- tic township, but they were owned by er, Hendrick VanMater. Under these his father Joseph, who did not die until executions all their real estate was 1792. He was also interested with his seized and sold to the highest bidders. cousin, Daniel VanMater, in the owner- The following is a true copy of the ex- ship of several schooners, which carried ecution against Daniel VanMater. They hogshead staves, corn meal and flour all follow same form. to the West Indies, and brought back to Perth Amboy or New York, sugar. Muiimouth County, ss. molasses, rum. wine and other tropical The State of New Jersey to Samuel Forman. products. The fear of the loss of these Joseph Lawrence. Kenneth Hankinson. and vessels and their lucrative trade, may Jacob Wikoff, esqrs. Commissioners duly ap- have influenced in their political pointed for the said County, on the part and them behalf of said State to take and dispose of, for stand, thinking the English govern- the use and benefit of the same, the estates of certain Fugitives and offenders in the said The bold and out and out stand taken County, or to any two or more of them. Greet- by these three VanMaters, named in ing. above executions. for the Whereas, lately, that is to say of the term of English October, in the Year of Our Lord, seventeen Crown, and because of their social hundred and seventy-nine, in the Court of standing, and the bitter feeling it Common Pleas held at Freehold in and for aroused among their nearest relatives said county of Monmouth, before the Judges of among the Covenhovens, Schencks, Van the same Court, final judgment was had and Dorns. Hendricksons and others, who entered in favor of the said State of New Jer- lived all around them, and could not sey, pursuant to law, against Daniel Van- Mater, late of the Township of Freehold on understand how a true Dutchman of an Inquisition found against the said Daniel republican antecedents. could take VanMater for joining the Army of the King sides with the English King, their of Great Britain, and otherwise offending course was bitterly condemned. The against the form of his allegiance to the said impression prevails today among the State, etc.. and returnable to the said Court. people of Monmouth, that all the Van- as may fully appear of record. You are Maters were Royalists. This, however, therefore commanded and enjoined to sell and dispose of all the estate. Real of what nature is incorrect and not the fact. Like or kind soever, belonging to or lately belong- many other families, they were divided ing to the said Daniel VanMater. within the in their allegiance. There were more said County of Monmouth, according to the VanMaters who served faithfully on the direction of "An Act for forfeiting to and American side than on the British, but vesting in the State of New Jersey, the real " as the VanMaters are not given to estate of certain 'Fugitives and Offenders' blowing their own trumpet, these pa- made ami passed the eleventh day < .f December, A. D. 1778. triots have been forgotten or over- Witness John Anderson. Esq., Judge of the looked. siitl Court at Freehold afd. the 22nd of For instance, Cornelius VanMater was a captain in the first regiment of Monmouth militia. Benjamin VanMater Recorded May 15. 1779. was a private in Capt. Barnes Smock's artillery company. Chrineyonee. son of Cyrenus VanMater and Abagail Lefferts. EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. his wife, and Cyrenius, son of Benjamin could shake. Masterful and cruel in VanMater and Elizabeth Lane, his wife, his disposition, he exacted unquestion- served in Capt. Waddel's company. It ing obedience from the half savage was through the instrumentality of denizens of the pine woods, whom he William VanMater, born June 22. 1760. dominated and led. and a son of Richard VanMater, that On the 23rd of September, 1779, Wil- the chief of the Pine Robbers was liam VanMater, a lad of some 18 years killed. of age, had been sent by his father on This was no less a person than Lewis an errand to Longstreet's Mills, in the Fenton, who for several years had vicinity of what is now Our House headed those banditti, and perpetrated Tavern. He rode there on horseback many robberies, murders, and other early in the morning. When within a crimes. So daring- and ferocious had mile or two of what 'is now Our House been many of his atrocities, that he had Tavern, but then a dense pine woods, become what in our day is called a his bridle was suddenly grabbed by "Holy Terror," to the people of Mon- John Fenton, a brother of Lewis, who mouth. was hidden behind a big pine tree close On page 351 of Barber & Howe's His. to the roadside. Lewis Fenton and Coll. of N. J. is an account of the death DeBow then came out of the woods of this Fenton. While generally cor- partially intoxicated. They pulled Van rect, there are some errors in the de- Mater off his horse and began to search tails of this narrative, as I have heard his pockets, while John Fenton un- the story. buckled and took the saddle off the It was not Burk. who helped Fenton horse. Finding no money on his person. rob and beat VanMater, but one DeBow. DeBow began to strike and kick him. for Stephen Burk. alias Emmons, with and finally knocked him down. Then, "Zeke Williams" and "Stephen West" picking up his musket which had a had been killed at Wreck Pond Inlet. bayonet affixed, he made a vicious by a party of militia under Capt. or lunge at his throat, as he lay on the Major Benjamin Dennis, in January. ground. VanMater threw up his arm 1779, and Capt. Dennis had brought to fend off the thrust, and the bayonet their corpses to Freehold for recog- pierced the fleshy part of his arm. At nition, and to secure the reward offered this moment a wagon with five or six by Governor Livingston. To avenge the men in it, was seen coming up the road death of these three men, Fenton way- from the direction of the Shark River laid Capt. Dennis in July, 1779. while salt works. The miscreants at once traveling from Coryel's Ferry to his left their victim and retreated into the home in Shrewsbury, and brutally mur- woods, John Fenton taking the saddle dered him. Thomas Burk. alias Em- with him. Freehold in the mons, had been hung at VanMater, who was young and active, at once sprang up, leaped on his August, following the murder of In horse and rode off bareback on a run. his gang mur- Capt. Dennis, Fenton and After going nearly a mile he people, Thomas Farr dered two aged tore shir and his wife, in their own home, not far bound up the wound in his arm. It the Yellow Meeting House in from then occurred to him that he had heard Freehold township. Wainright, Upper that Lee's rangers or light dragoons, collector, was also found mur- a tax were stationed at Freehold to protect about this time on the south side dered the people. Smarting under the indig- of the Manasquan river. This was nities to which he had been subjected, also laid to the Fenton gang. he at once resolved to ride there, ami So great was the terror caused by lodge his complaint against the rob- his ferocity, cruelty, and daring, that This he at once did, running his Governor Livingston about this time, bers. horse all the way to Freehold. He fell offered a reward of £500 ($2,500) for in with a sergeant of the rangers to Fenton, and smaller sums for his abet- whom he told his story. This man had and followers. tors heard of Governor Livingston's $2,500 This large reward is evidence of the reward for Fenton. dead or alive He dread he inspired, and how difficult it at once went to Major Lee and obtained was to induce anyone to hunt him down permission to take three of the soldiers pine lairs and swamps. It seems in his and go after Fenton. from concurrent testimony that he was a desperate and dangerous man. quick A large farm wagon ,vith horses was and active as a panther in his move- procured, two barrels w ere set in front.

~~: in ments, cunning and deep in his plans, and ( of hay placed the with a coolness and nerve no danger body. The thr soldiers with loaded EARL ) DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOl 1 1L~~

and cocked muskets by their sides, were They reached there without any moles- ordered to lie down behind the barrels, tation; and great was the rejoicing and were covered over with the hay, when the news of Fenton's death went so that they could not be seen, and over the county. I suppose Governor were instructed that when they heard Livingston paid the $2,500 reward to the sergeant strike his foot against the these soldiers for killing Fenton. There barrel, they were to rise up and shoot ought to be records in the State House any person, whom the sergeant had his at Trenton to show this and who they pistol pointed at. Two bottles filled were. It would be interesting to know with applejack were also procured, one their names. the sergeant placed in his pocket; the At all events William VanMater did other he gave to VanMater to carry. more for the people of Monmouth when He also took off his uniform and dress- he effected the slaying of this arch ed himself in an old suit borrowed from fiend of the pines than his three cousins a farmer. A board was placed across ever did for the Royal sde. The many "the two barrels, and. with two loaded stories told generation after generation pistols under his coat, the sergeant about the three VanMaters who joined took his seat by VanMater on this the army of King George, and fought board. The whole rig resembled the against their own kinsmen, has also usual teams or wagons of the farmers added to the popular belief, that the going after salt to the Shark Hiver whole family were the worst kind of salt works. VanMater was directed to Tories. drive to the place where the robbers Such tales grow and are exaggerated had attacked him. They reached the each generation. Great injustice and spot early in the afternoon but found wrong has in this way been done to no one there. the VanMaters, who. as a rule, have The sergeant then ordered VanMater been conscientious and honorable men, to drive on a slow walk down the road and have contributed much by their leading to the Shark River salt works. industry and ability, to the agricul- This he did. and when they had gone tural progress of Monmouth county, about two miles, a hoarse call came particularly in introducing blooded and from the woods to "Halt." Out strode fast horses and other stock. the robber chief, a cocked rifle in one As a great writer has said: hand and a big horse pistol in the other, and another in his belt. He was still "Rashly, nor oft-times truly, doth man pass on his brother under the influence of liquor and more judgment ; reckless than usual. Addressing Van- For he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind. Mater with a vile oath, said "After the licking you got. how dare you show justice was meted by the sword. your rabbit face around here?" Then, When the spear avenged the wrong, and the noticing the barrels, he asked "Have lot decided the right. you got any rum in them bar'ls?" "I have got some in a bottle," replied When the footsteps of blinded innocence were tracked by burning ploughshares VanMater. "Hand it out dam quick, And the still condemning water delivered up then," commanded Fenton, "or I'll blow the wizard to the stake ; your head off." The young man passed For we wait, like the sage of Salamis. to see the bottle to him; he put his pistol back what the end will be. in his belt, let the butt of his rifle drop Fixing the right or the wrong, by the issues to the ground, and seizing the bottle. of failure or success. ised to hi mnuth. the

Judge not of things by their events : neither of gurgled down his throat, the sergeant character by providence ; fired his pistol at gave the signal, and And count not a man more evil, because he is the broad breast of the desperado, who was only three or four feet from him. For the blessing of a little covenant, lie not in The ball struck him and he turned half the sunshine of prosperity. around, letting the bottle fall, and made But pain and chastisement, the rather show the wise Father's love." an effort to raise his rifle. At this moment the three soldiers, who had Nov hav con risen, fired, blowing off the top of his the patriotic side, of a raid int head. A few seconds later, the report from countv. bv a part of th or a gun was heard off in the woods. Monmouth brigade under Cortland Sknner. Th Thinking it was a signal, and that the gang might attack them from the three VanMaters served under him nd probably in this raid. This thickets, they threw the corpse of the were robber into the wagon and started back count says: "It is acknowledged their favor that they behaved rema on a run towards the Court House. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OP MONMOUTH. ably well to the persons of our people." "The next day they embarked again. There was a wide difference between They have taken off 40 cattle, 60 sheep, these regular troops under reputable with loss of one man killed, and a officers, and the whale boatmen from number deserted. Their loss in wounded Long Island, the mongrel crew from is unknown. the Refugee camp on Sandy Hook, and "Loss on our side. 1 killed, 3 or 4 the bandits of the pines. wounded. This story is given as an item of news "They burned two houses, but it is fresh from Monmouth county, in the acknowledged in their favor that they issue of the New Jersey Gazette "of behaved remarkably well to the persons June 27. 1781. (See files of this news- of our people. By their coming out in paper in the State Library): such force it was expected their aim "On Thursday last a body of 1,000 was to have penetrated further into the men, New Levies, British, and foreign county. To prevent which the militia troops, under command of Cortland of the neighboring counties were called Skinner, made an incursion into Mon- upon, and it was truly surprising to mouth county. They arrived at Pleas- see with what spirit and alacrity they ant Valley about 11 o'clock a. m. The Hew to arms, and were crowding down militia by this time were beginning to from every quarter to the assistance of collect, and a pretty severe skirmishing their brethren on this occasion, when was kept up the remainder of the day, accounts of the hasty retreat of the in which our people behaved with great enemy, rendered their further services spirit. unnecessary." "They began their retreat about sun- This was evidently a foraging party down, and made no halt till they got to after beef and mutton from Staten Is- Garrett's Hill, where they continued land or New York city, but it was a during the night. During the night one very strong force for our militia of of our gallant officers made a descent Middletown township to fight, and com- upon them and rescued a number of stolen sheep.

~~ESCAPES OF DANIEL AND CHRINEYONCE VAN- MATER, ROYALISTS. -THE PINE ROBBERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

There are also two stories told of Daniel and Chrineyonce VanMater, re- and along in peated generation after generation, the afteri f light horse- during the long winter evenings around men surr ided the use and cap- the firesides in many of our farm tured Daniel VanMa He was al- houses; and these tales have added to lowed to mount one of his horses, and the belief that all the VanMaters were surrounded by armed horsemen, was devoted Royalists. As has already escorted to Freehold to be lodged in been stated, Daniel and his brother jail. They reached the court house Hendrick (Harry), were born and raised about dusk, and rode into the yard on the farm, near the Old Scots bury- which was in front, and then inclosed ing ground, only it included more of by a stout and high board fence. A the adjacent lands. These and other sentinel was placed at the gate while lands belonging to them were confis- they awaited the coming of the sheriff, cated and sold under the executions who happened to be away. Thinking aforesaid. After serving in the New that their prisoner, who still sat on his Jersey Royal Volunteers, or "Greens," horse, was entirely safe within this a year or two, Daniel became very anx- yard, they paid but little attention to ious to see his sister Catharine, who was him. VanMater gradually walked his then unmarried and kept things to- horse over close to the court house, so gether at the homestead. He accord- that the whole width of the yard was ingly came over from Staten Island between him and the front fence. It one night in the fall of 1778. and man- was now quite dark, when VanMater aged to reach his old home undetected. suddenly started his horse on a dead Next day one of the young negroes run for the front fence, which is said thoughtlessly mentioned to a patriotic to have been fully six feet high. His JOSEPI

~~! VanMa Elean~~

EARL Y Dl 'TCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOUTH. horse, accustomed to the fox chases of top of the hill and looked back, he saw those days, leaped like a deer, and went his pursuer was now gaining on him, over that fence like a bird. It was a and not over 500 yards behind him. wonderful jump, and done so quickly flourishing his sabre and showing in in the gloom of evening, that before the every move his deadly purpose. Just as light horsemen could recover from their Chrineyonce passed over the crest of astonishment, the rapid beat of his the hill, he met a boy on a fine horse horse's hoofs was heard on a dead run with a bag of meal in front, coming going down the road, and 'his wild towards him. Riding close up to him whoop of triumph sounded through the he caught him by the collar, and lifted darkness. They knew it was hopeless him off of the horse, at the same time to follow him on his blooded horse, and tossing off the bag of meal. He at so VanMater escaped, and was never once changed horses and went on a run afterwards seen in Monmouth county. towards Sandy Hook. When the Colts The whole county rung with his daring- Neck man reached the top of the hill jump and escape, and the story has and saw VanMater skimming away on been told over and over down to this a fresh horse, he swore many bitter day. oaths, but gave up the chase. Chriney- Another well authenticated story is once reached Sandy Hook, and from told of Chrineyonce VanMater, who is there went to New York and joined Col. said to have carried on the mills at the Lawrence's battalion of the New Jersey place now known as Taylor's Mills, in Royal Volunteers, and for this the sec- Atlantic township. He had a slave ond execution on page 99. Book A of called Tommy, who was very faithful Executions, in clerk's office, was per- and of whom he thought a great deal, haps issued against him. His father, and made careful provision for "his however, in his will, made provision comfortable maintenance in his old age. that Chrineyonce's children should have A small party of militia was sent to what he left, if there was any likeli- arrest him, but Tommy saw them be- hood of confiscation. This last execution fore they reached the house, and gave was not recorded until February 4, 1784. him warning when the party was Gilbert VanMater seems also to have about a quarter of a mile away. been on the patriotic side. The follow- Chrineyonce at once mounted one of ing news item appears in the June 14, his best horses, and started down the 1780, number of the New Jersey Gazette, road which led to the Refugee camp on then printed and published at Trenton. Sandy Hook. Among the militia was a N. J. resident of Colts Neck, and a bitter a letter from M.ui ith personal enemy of Chrineyonce. He it Ju was mounted on a very fine and fast horse, and armed with a sabre and "Ty, with his party of about 20 Blacks and pistols. Whites last Friday afternoon, took and carried As soon as the militiamen discovered oil Prisoners, Capt. Barnes Smoek and Gilbert that their "bird had flown." they start- VanMater. at the same time spiked up the iron ed in pursuit, for VanMater was not four pounder at Capt. Smock's house, but took no ammunition. Two of the artillery horses over a quarter of a mile ahead of them. and two of Capt. Smock's horses were they reached Ogbourn's corner taken When off. The above mentioned Ty is a negro who without gaining on him they all gave bears the title of Colonel, and commands a ui> the chase, except the Colts Neck motly crew at Sandy Hook." man, who swore he would have him or his corpse. Brandishing his sabre and Although this is a brief notice, it striking his horse now and then with involves quite a long explanation in the flat side, he kept right on in Van- order to understand it. Tye, who was Mater's track, for he intended to cut a mulatto, and a runaway slave, was him down or shoot him. They passed acquainted with all the bypaths and through Middhtown village like a flash, woods in this part of Monmouth. Ho but when VanMater began to mount the had led his men through the woods, and high hill, which lies east of the inter- by unfrequented paths, and had taken section of the Red Bank road with the Capt. Smock by surprise. The spiking road from Middletown to the High- of the cannon was to disable the gun lands, he discovered that his horse was and prevent an alarm. showing signs of distress. Chrineyonce It has often been asked, why the was a large, heavy man, resembling Sandy Hook Marauders and the Pine physically his maternal grandfather. Robbers passed by the rich and fertile and was noted for his great bodily farms around Shrewsbury and Eaton- strength, but his great weight was tell- town villages, so much nearer to them, ing on his horse. When he reached the and went to a more distant region like EARL \ 1U TCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Colts Neck and Pleasant Valley. enemy was making a raid somewhere The reason was that this was the in Middletown township. Every man very heart of Monmouth county, where among the associated patriots seized his the most active and resolute patriots rifle or musket, swung his powder horn lived. Around Shrewsbury they were and bullet pouch over his shoulders and lukewarm, to say the least. This Pleas- often barefooted and in his shirt sleeves ant Valley region was known among would spring on his horse, and ride as the Tories of Monmouth as the "Hor- fast as the horse could run, over to nets' Nest," a name given at a later Capt. Smock's house. Therefore, even date to the Democracy of the old town- in the middle of the night, if a scout ship of Middletown. Capt. Barnes brought word to Capt. Smock that the Smock lived on the farms where Charles enemy was landing from their boats at Lloyd lived, and the one now owned by ilatawan creek, Navesink, Shoal Har- the children of John J. Crawford, de- bor creek (now Port Monmouth), or on ceased, lying on the north side of Hop the Middletown side of the Shrewsbury Brook and west of the road from Holm- river, the cannon was fired. In a few del village to the bridge over this minutes, from all around, armed men stream. This last farm was afterwards would come, riding in on horseback, owned and occupied by his son Barnes. and at once a troop was formed to meet In Stryker's book, "Officers and Men the coming raiders, sometimes by am- of New Jersey in the Revolutionary bush, and sometimes by a wild tornado War," he is described as Capt. Barnes charge on horseback. This explains the Smock of an artillery company. The swiftness with which the many raids of other Barnes Smock was captain of a the enemy were met and repulsed, al- light horse company. The last Barnes though the newspapers of that time do Smock was often called "Leggy" Barnes not report one-fourth of the fights, on account of his long legs, for he was skirmishes, and raids through this part a man of great size. They were both of Monmouth. The rich farms with designated as captains during the Rev- their cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and olution. On the tombstone of the last well stocked cellars, smokehouses and Capt. Barnes Smock in Lefferts-Logan barns, constantly attracted the Refu- graveyard, his name is inscribed "Col. gees from Sandy Hook, foraging par- Barnes J. Smock." ties from Staten Island, the crews from The residence of Capt. Smock near the British transports and men of war Hop Brook was the rallying place for in the Lower bay, who craved fresh the Middletown patriots to meet. A provisions like chickens, milk, butter, circle of about four miles drawn etc., after their long voyage across the around, with Capt. Smock's dwelling ocean, living on salt provisions. The as the center, would take in the greater spiking of this four pounder by Tye part of the most active and zealous of and his gang was a serious matter, and the patriots in old Middletown town- so was the kidnapping of Capt. Barnes ship. This region was well called the Smock with Gilbert VanMater, who "Hornets' Nest," for their stings meant doubtless helped him load and dis- death to the Tories. The four pounder charge this cannon. was placed here, and used as a signal The people of this vicinity were well gun. On any ordinary day or night, called "Hornets." and Col. Tye knew the boom of this cannon could be heard enough not to bring them about his for miles around. The Schancks, Hen- ears, for he got safely back to Sandy dricksons, VanDorns. Smocks, Hyres, Hook with his two prisoners and four Holmeses. and Covenhovens. through horses. Only two or three years prev- Pleasant Valley could hear it. The ious the people of this vicinity were Hulsarts.(Hulses), VanKirks. Wyckoffs. slow moving, good natured, kind heart- DuBoises, VanCleafs, Covenhovens and ed farmers, as many of their descen- Schancks who lived in the vicinity of dants, who still live on these lands, are old Brick Church could hear the report. today. They had no military training, So the boom went westward among and knew nothing of war or camp life, lives and the Strykers, VanSicklens (Sickles). but were men of peaceable I Wyckoffs, Voorheeses. VanDerveers and kindly deeds. Conovers, living through what is now After three years of war had passed Marlboro township. It went roaring- these quiet and hospitable farmers had southward to the Scobeyville and Colts become a stern faced, haggard band of Neck neighborhoods, among the Van- desperate men. In that time many of Brunts, VanDerveers, Lefferts, Bennetts, them had fathers, brothers, or sons, VanSutphens. Polhemuses, Conovers and who had starved to death in the British VanSchoicks. The report of this four prisons of New York. Others, who had pounder was a notice to all. that the EARL ) 1)1 TCH SETTLERS OF MO.XMOI TH. S3 skeletons, and told horrible and ghast- This, too, after marching all day and ly tales of Cunningham's brutality, of the preceding night, and going into slow, lingering- death, with insults and battle without rest or food. The militia cruelties superadded to embitter the of Somerset county, and Monmouth had dying hour. When they heard these come under the eyes of General Lafay- things, they thought it was easier to ette, and he remarked that "for cool- die fighting, than to suffer death by ness and bravery they exceeded all his inches amidst such horrors. expectations of the militia." Others of them had seen a father, But it had required a baptism of fire, brother, or son suddenly shot down misery and wrong for three years, to while at work in his field by a hidden stir up their quiet blood and easy na- assassin in an adjoining thicket. ture, and bring them up to this pitch of Others again had seen a father, while savage desperation and wild fury. Gil- working near his home to provide for bert VanMater and others of this name wife and children, suddenly shot down, on the patriotic side had endured and and then bayonetted before the eyes of suffered with the rest, and therefore, his horror-struck wife and terrified I contradict the current story, which children. Others again had come home has so long been told, that all the Van- from the battles of Brandywine. Ger- Maters were Royalists. mantown, or other scenes of conflict, and found their wives and daughters an old Bible, much dilapidated, mouse dishonored and gibbering idiots, their eaten, and torn, now in possession of Asher H. their stock gone, and often houses and Holmes, his threat grandson, who resides on the outbuildings burned to the ground. Tylee Schanck homested in Marlboro township: While these outrages cannot be "John Watson and Hope Taylor, joyned in charged on the Regulars, British and Bonds of Holy Matrimony ye 15th of Decem- Royal American troops under honorable ber, in the year of our Lord, 173 7-8." (1738). Then follows births of three children officers, yet they can be on many of the by this marriage, but names are torn off. On the next whale-boatmen from Long Island, the page, (first entry) : Refugees on Sandy Hook, and the out- "Asher folmes and Sarah Watson were mar- laws of the pines. These wrongs and ried on Thursday. 21st day of February, 1771." sufferings had changed the quiet farm- Then follow births of several sons and ers of Pleasant Valley, into a band of daughters, and, finally: tierce and desperate men to whom fight- "Asher Holmes departed this life June 20, ixiis. aged 68 yrs.. 4 mo., and 4 da. Sarah ing became a joy, if he could only kill, Holmes, widow of Asher Holmes, departed this kill, and kill these and demons who life Sept. 11, 1830." had wrecked his life. Col. Asher Then follow two entries, copied from some Holmes' regiment was made up prin- other records, as follows: cipally of these farmers, and, at the "Sarah Salter, daughter of Samuel Holmes, battle of Germantown, they stood and died January 14, 1757." held their ground after the regular "Samuel Holmes departed this life February 1760." troops had twice broke and run. * 20. I understand that Col. Asher Holmes is buried in the yard of the Baptist church at • See letter from Col. Asher Holmes to his Holmdel village, but I have never made a per- wife, written after the battle of Germantown. sonal examination of this cemetery. Asher in Monmouth and published Democrat. Asher Holmes Conover. who owned and occupied a Holmes native of the old township of was a farm in the township of Freehold, about a a occupation. Middletown, and farmer by He mile and a half from Old Tennent church, and first sheritT of Monmouth county was the under who died last spring, and his brother. Peter H. our republic, a staunch patriot, a brave man. Conover. who also owns a farm in this same and a good officer, although he had no mil- vicinity, are great grandsons of Col. Asher Holmes. The fo GARRETT VAN MATER; HIS CHARACTERISTICS AND DISPOSITION.

There is another VanMater. hereto- and treasured up many facts. He was fore named along with the descendants an observant man and understood hu- of Gilbert VanMater and Micha Hen- man nature well. For the mere pleas- drickson, his wife, who, I think, de- ure of argument, he would often take serves particular notice. This was Gar- sides contrary to his real convictions. rett VanMater, the fourth son of Wil- In these wordy tournaments he was liam VanMater and Mary Hendrickson, very earnest and vehement, and a his wife, born during the early part of stranger hearing him, would think the present century, and who died at some of his opinions highly reprehen- his home on Chapel Hill, Middletown sible. Garry made no distinction be- township, in 1879. He was well known tween the man in his shirt sleeves and to many people still (1899) living, and the man who wore a clerical gown. familiarly addressed and called Garry They were all men in his eyes, with VanMater. In his youth, without any their sins, foibles and weaknesses, for advantages of education, save such as he had no bump of veneration. As he could be had in the rough country was always plainly dressed and looked schools of his boyhood days, he engag- like a country farmer, people often ed in business at Hoboken, N. J. By misjudged him. Country ministers, or steady and persistent industry and his some young tbeologian, fresh from the natural good judgment, he amassed artificial life and training of a sectar- quite a fortune, according to his modest ian seminary or college, would some- desires. Instead of spending all the times tackle Garry, upon hearing him years of his life in piling up dollars, he make some heterodox remark, as he came back to his native county to enjoy stood in a crowd on a platform await- country life, before age had impaired ing a train, or in some other public his strength and interest in the world. place. Much to Garry's delight, he He purchased a tract of five acres, would call the plain, ignorant old farm- known as the Cornelius Mount proper- er, as he thought, to book for such un- ty, on one of the lofty eminences of orthodox opinions. Then the ball would that range of hills called the Navesink open, much to the entertainment of the Highlands, and commanding a magnif- bystanders. The clerical champion icent view of Raritan Bay, from the would strike at Garry with his book cedars of Sandy Hook to the two Am- knowledge, his cut and dried sectarian boys at the mouth of Raritan river. Here, where he could see the mingled damnation. Whereupon. Garry, with glories of earth and sea and sky at one his ready wit, shrewd practical sense, glance, he took up his abode, and lived and knowledge of the world would give until the end came in 1879. Garrett it back, in his high pitched voice, in a VanMater was a domestic man and neg- way to make all the bystanders roar lected no step which would promote the with laughter. After afew years Garry comfort and welfare of his wife and became known, and none of the min- children. The careful provisions in his isters cared to tilt with him. They al- will to guard them from the misfor- ways had business somewhere else, tunes of life, testify to his care and when Garry wanted to argue with them. foresight in this particular. He pos- The young farmers of Middletown town- sessed a logical mind, with the hard, ship, who attended the debates at practical sense of the Hendricksons, his Headden's Corner schoolhouse many mother's people, and the sensitive na- years ago, will remember the zest and ture and buoyant disposition of the interest which Garry took in these VanMaters. His laugh was hearty, wordy combats. Although a great deal spontaneous and contagious. Any one older than any of them, he seemed a who ever heard Garry laugh will re- companion, for his heart was always member it. He was fond of argument young, and he liked young company. and reasoned well, for he was a natural His high spirits, hearty laugh, and the debater "wayback from Debaterville." vehemence with which he debated a Although no scholar or bookman, he question, made him the life and soul of this debating society. He served Lonely crave of Michael Fields, by the side of the public road, ] Vanderburg. He was killed in a skirmish with the British near place on June 28, 1778. Col. Asher Holmes, with a part of his renin made an attack on the baggage train, but were repulsed with the los this man killed and several wounded. Four of the British soldiers one drummer boy were killed in the attack. The division of the Br army in charge of the baggage train began their march from Free at 3 o'clock A. M. on June 28, 1778, and by daylight must have several miles on their road. Garret Smock, who participated in attack, stated the above farts t.i K. ('. Smock, his grandson.

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~~EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

the jury, "Ladies in silks and laces. made a good juryman, for the "axe- Lunching with lips agleam. grinders" could never hoodwink or de- Know you aught of the places ceive him. He loved justice and hated Yielding such fruit and cream all the intensity of wrong, with deep South from your harbor-islands, his nature. Any abuse of even a dumb Glisten the Monmouth hills beast in his presence excited his anger, There are the Ocean Highlands, and he would then express himself in Lowlands, meadows, and rills. ianguage more forcible than polite, for ,-ith hi Berries in field and garden. nothing more. There was nothing Trees with their fruitage low, Maidens (asking your pardon). theatrical, deceitful or subterranean Handsome as cities show. about him. He carried his "heart on his sleeve," as the saying is. Although at Know you that night and mornii times rough in his words, he was truth- A beautiful water Fay. ful and faithful to principle and friends. Cover'd with strange adorning He was hospitable to those he liked, Crosses yon rippling bay? and nothing pleased him more than to Her sides are « te and sparkling. have visit his home. He had a very them She whistles home. the shore : pie The Behind her hail s darkling, magnificent view from the rear piazza part before. seemed to harmonize with his broad, liberal, and charitable ideas. For the eye could take in at a glance, not only the whole expanse of Raritan Bay, but the lofty hills of Staten Island on the north west, the spires and steeples of New Come with n ;, ladies ; cluster York rising beyond the grim forts at Here on ti the Narrows, with the white beach and Look at her background of green pines of the Long Changing 'ith the changing year. Island shore, stretching away eastward until lost in the Atlantic ocean. Here, lonths to woo her, rawberries seated on his piazza, Garry VanMater flings passed many hours gazing at this pleasant and grand view. The great ocean steamers with their pennants of trail- Killine Iilt richest casket, ing smoke, the ships, schooners, and Handing her everywhere other vessels with their snowy canvas, Garnets in crate and basket. coming in from distant lands, or going Knowing she soon will wear down to the great ocean, afforded in- Blackberries, jet and lava. exhaustible subjects of thought and Raspberries, ruby and red ; speculation to one of his observant and Trinkets that August gave her active mind. From the foot of the lofty Over her toilet spread. eminence on which his dwelling stood, the land sloped gradually away to the After such gifts have faded. bay shore, and lay like a picture be- Then the peaches are seen. neath his eye. The well cultivated gar- Coral and ivory braided. Fit for an Indian queen. dens, fields and farms, the comfortable farm houses nestling amidst orchards And September will send her and vineyards, afforded a marked con- Proud of her wealth and bold. trast to the blue water of the bay, and Melons glowing in splendor. what looked like fairy land beyond. Emeralds set with gold. The dock at Port Monmouth, the steam- So she glides to the Narrows, boat lying by it. taking in the products Where the forts are astir ; of this region from a long train of Her speed is a shining arrow's; farm wagons, made a scene of anima- Guns are silent for her. tion and life, and just distant enough to lend enchantment to the view. I often think the same ideas must have passed through Garry VanMater's mind, when he gazed on this beautiful and All of her jewels down. scenery, as those expressed animated Whence she gathers her riches. by Steadman in "Alice of Monmouth:" Ladies, now would you see? Leaving your city riches. Wander awhile with me." DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMIN VAN MATER AND ELIZABETH LANE, HIS WIFE.

Benjamin VanMater, * third surviving prior to 1786. for about that time Garrett J. son of Kreijn VanMater, and Elizabeth Couwenhoven married his second wife, Antje Schanck. Lane, his wife, their children and some Jacob, b. March 12, 1732 ; m. Neeltje. of their descendants: daughter of I endrick Hendrickson and Neeltje Gar- retse Schanck, his wife. She was bap. Sept. b. Sept. 8, 1730 ; m. Neeltje (Eleanor) t 30, 1740. Jacob VanMater died April 20, 1775. Janse Couwenhoven. and was his 1748. Garrett aged 43 yrs., 1 mo. and 8 days, according to She died first wife as already mentioned. his tombstone in VanMater graveyard. His widow was about 35 years of age at date of his death and may have married again. s In book I of deeds, page 255. Monmouth Cyrenius, bap. July 29, 1737 ; m. first, county clerk's office, is record of a deed from Anne, daughter of Arie John Hartshorne and Lucy, his wife, to VanDorn and Antje Janse Schanck. his wife. Benjamin VanMater. dated March 4. 1761, She died June 1, 1765. aged 27 yrs. 3 mo., according to her head- (consideration $2,600) for a tract of 27 1 acres stone in VanMater graveyard ; m. second, in Shrewsbury township, beginning on north- April 6. 1766, Cobatje or erly side of Hockhockson branch of lalls Cobauchee Couwen- River. Also, on page 252 of same book a deed Cornelius. bap. April 28, from Thomas Lemming and Hannah, his wife. 1744 ; m. December 3. 1767, Sarah, daughter of Cyrenius to Benjamin VanMater. dated August 3, 1770, Van- Mater and Abagail Lefferts. for Id acres in Shrewsbury township, bounded his wife. She was born Octoher on Pine brook and Tintern brook in part. 3, 1748 ; bap. October 23 of same year, and died February 25, 1824, This deed is witnessed by Cyrenius VanMater. aged Benjamin Couwenhoven and Cornelius Van- 75 yrs . 4 mos., 22 days according to tombstone in Mater. VanMater yard. Cornelius VanMater is buried by her side and date of his death old Dutch Bible was brought by Neeltje t An given as March 30, 1797, aged 52 yrs., 1 mo.. the Conover family when she VanMater into 16 days. He was captain of a company of of Garrett Couwenhoven. It was first wife Monmouth militia during the early part of and is now in has remained there ever since the Revolutionary war. John Lyall. son of the late Peter possession of Sarah VanMater. widow of Cornelius, made ('.mover. The follow G. her will February 20. 1824, proved March 10. this Bible: 1826 ; recorded in Book B of Wills, p. 386. etc.. 'Crinjam \ an.Mater deyed March. Monmouth Surrogate's office. She describes herself as the widow of Cornelius VanMater. 10 January 1761." "Jon Lyle She bequeaths to her g>randniece. Eleanor Jacob Lain dyed 21 Nov. 1761. "My father Hendrickson, (daughter of John Hendrickson Elizabeth Bennett dyed 1( "My daughter and Mary Lloyd, his wife, and granddaughter

' of Daniel Hendrickson and Eleanor VanlUaler, son Jacob VanMater dyed April 20 "?ilj his wife.) and to Elizabeth Weathers and 775.' Anna Scott, widow of James Scott, all her VanMater dyed July 175- •Benjamin wearing apparel to "be equally divided between 73y. 5m. 29d." the three by her friend, Jane Lefferts." She Cyrenius VanMater son "My grandson also directs her son-in-law and executor, dyed July 30. 1,75- Cornelius VanMater. Jacob B. VanMater, to give each of them $10 years 25 days." to purchasa black clothes. All her silver entries evidently made The following spoons and plate and residue of her personal Garret Couwenhoven: hv property is given to her son-in-law, Jacob B. "William Schanck b. March 3. 1789." VanMater. in fee, and he is made sole ex- "Nelly is born 8 Sept. 1730." "I married with Nelly VanMater in 1748.' Elizabeth, b. September, 1748 : m. November daughter Jacoba is born 10 sept 1749. "My !>. 1762, William, son of Jan Bennett and Ida b. 25 Jan. 1753." "Benjamin VanMater. his wife: died August 10, 1769. 25 Dec. 1755." "Catharine, b. They had a child named Ida bap. July 28. 1766, dyed 28 Aug. 17,5. "John. b. Sept. 1, 1769. "Garrett B. 28 Sept. 1770." names and The last five entries give us Jacob VanMater by Neeltje Hendrick- births of children of Garrett Couwenhoven by The son, his wife, had the following- chil- his first wife Neeltje (Nelly) VanMater. been dren: eldest daughter Jacoba is said to have designated by the last syllable of he, name "Coba." or as the Dutch expressed it. Cobatje. pronounced in English. "Cobauchee." EARL ) 1)1 "TCH SETTLERS OF MOSMOT1H.

Daniel VanMater ; d. May 31, 1817, aged 60 1792. Ida Bennett. S and died about 1800, leav- yrs., 4 mos. and 3 days, according to inscrip- ing two children, a son and daughter. His tion on his tombstone in VanMater yard. His widow married for her second husband. James wife is buried by his side and her tombstone Smith. states that she died September 5. 1840. aged Agnes, b. 1769 ; m. Jacob Smith.

~~81 yrs., 23 days. Jacob, bap. Hay 19, 1772 ; m. Feb. 13, 1804,~~

~~Neeltje, bap. Oct. 18. 1761 ; m. first, Conrad Mary Vanderveer.~~

~~Loveheld ; sec 1, Jacob Holmes. Cornelius, bap. Sept. 5, 1773; m. June 18.~~

~~Elizabeth, bap. April 30, 1764 : m. Daniel, 1797. Orpah Taylor. son of Johannes Polhemus and Mary Van- Garrett, bap. Aug. 25. 1776; m. Betsey Lake.~~

~~; d. Elizabeth, Mater, his wife October 23, 1813, aged 49 bap. May 10, 1778 : m. John W. Bennett.~~

Hendrick, ; d. unmarried Mary, or bap. March 6, 1766 Polly, bap. April 23, 1781 ; d. in November 20. 1840, aged 74 yrs., 9 mos. and 14 days, according to his tombstone in Van- Nelly (Eleanor) bap. Sept. 9, 1781; m. Mater yard. He left a will dated August 1, William WyckolT, and had following children, 1829; proved February 20, 1841; recorded in viz: John, b. Aug. 20, 1800; Mary, b. March C of Wills, p. 322, Monmouth Surrogate's 1, 1802; Garrett, b. Feb. 28. 1804: Cyrenius, office. He gives his nephew Henry, son of his b. Oct. 9. 1807 : Charles, b. Aug. 23, LS09 : and brother Benjamin, six silver spoons and an Sarah, b. Oct. 17, 1811. eight day clock and all his wearing apparel. Catharine, bap. Dec. 7, 1783 ; m. June 24, Residue of his property to be divided in six 1802, Matthias Golden. equal shares. Two shares to his nephew Dan- Peter, bap. Oct. 15. 1786 : m. Lavinia iel, two shares to his nephew Henry, one Beasley. share to each of his nieces, .Maria and Eleanor. Sarah, bap. April ljL 1790; m. Joseph Lake. daughters of his brother, Benjamin, "Not John C, bap. April 5. 1793. doubting." he says in the will, "but what they I do not know who this last son married. will contribute a support to their aged mother, Cyrenius VanMater, father of the above 14 for whom I ever entertained the most un- children, made his will Oct. 13, 1800; proved feigned respect and friendship, and also their Feb. 28. 1801. and recorded in Book A of two brothers, Jacob and Gilbert, who have Wills, p. 623. in Monmouth surrogate's office. exercised towards me innumerable acts of He gives to his two sons, Benjamin and Arie kindness, but whose misfortunes may require (Aaron) by his first wife. Anne VanDorn, all assistance and protection of my legatees." the goods and chattels received from their Daniel and Henry, his two nephews, are ap- mother and says that he gives them no more pointed executors. because they are well provided for by their The will is witnessed by James Nevius, mother's relatives. Joseph H. VanMater and Catharine Nevius. He then gives to his second wife Cobatje. use of all his property during her widowhood. Cyrenius, second son of Benjamin He then devises, subject to use of widow, to VanMater and Elizabeth Lane, his wife, his two sons. Garrett and Peter, the farm he by Anna VanDorn, his first wife, had bought of Edmund Williams, formerly the John Tilton farm, to be equally divided be-

Benjamin. bap. June 27. 1762; m. Sept. 11. 1787. Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius Van- S One of William VanMater's children was Mater and Sarah VanMater, his wife. She Elizabeth, or Betsy, born Feb. 16, 1794; m. Jan. 11, 1816, William Lake, son of Capt. was baptised Oct. 9. 1768 ; d. March 16. 1795. aged 26 yrs., 6 mos. and 16 days, according John Lake of Colts Neck. Soon after this to her tombstone in VanMater yard. Benjamin marriage, he removed to Freehold where he lived. he one VanMater d. March 14, 1825. Here had son. William I'enry. :illed b. Oct. 19, 1817. He then moved to New York City, where he followed his trade as a Aaron I hap. April 30, 1764; m. April 7. 1785, Mary, daughter of Albert Polhemus and Altje carpenter until about 1833. when he came hack and took up his residence at Morrisville (Alchy) VanMater, his wife, and died Sept. 2. 1835. leaving only one daughter. Anne, bap. nnty. Whi: New York had two sons born. John Bennett Dec. 20, 1785, who m. Joseph H. VanMater. about 1824 the famous horseman of Monmouth county. Joseph T.. b. Sept. 26. 1830. His eldest son. William Henry, followed the sea and physically was as fine a' specimen of the American sailor as ever trod the deck of a ship. He. however. contracted hasty consumption, which carried him off in the morn of his manhood. He is buried in the yard of the old White Meeting House in Holmdel township. The second son. John Bennett, was drowned while shad fishing t Daniel Polhemus died June 22, 1831, aged in the North River. Joseph T. Lake, the 71 years, according to his tombstone in Pol- youngest son. has resided in Freehold nearly hemus burying ground at Scobeyville, Mon- all his life and is still (1S99) living. He served mouth county. He had the following children during the war of the Rebellion as Captain of by his wife. Elizabeth VanMater: Jacob, b. Company E, 29th Regt. N. J. Vols., and came

~~June 28, 1795 ; Abbie, b. Dec. 19, 1797 ; m. home with the respect and good will of all of~~

~~William Schanck. John. b. Jan. 17, 1801 : d. his men, for he looked after them like a young. John, b. May 7. 1803. and Daniel, b. July 26, 1806. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.~~

tween them. Gilbert b. Dec. 18. 1787: bap. March He bequeaths to Chrineyonce 23. |j and Elizabeth, 1788 ; d. May 11. 1850. children of his deceased son William Van- Maria, b. Feb. 15. 1790 ; bap. Mater, and to May 2 follow- Sally Ann and Cyrenius Smith, ing d. ; unmarried May 18, 1867. children of his deceased daughter Agnes, who Henry, b. October 8, 1791; bap. Dec. 11 married Jacob Smith, $500 to be equally div- d JU ',e 6 1841 HC mal' ried Cath " ided between them when they become of age. Vri'n^'s ~ B ' ' ' All residue of his estate he devises to his seven children. Jacob. Cornelius, Elizabeth BennetJ, Eleanor Wyckoff. Catharine Van- Mater, Sarah VanMater and John C. Van- It would puzzle one to Mater, after their mother's define the use has ended, relationship of the share and share alike. His son above six children, Cornelius and or state the his friend Tylee Williams, are appointed ex- exact relation of each to the other. Benjamin, eldest son of Cyrenius Van Cornelius, third son of Benjamin Van Mater by his first wife, Anne VanDorn. Mater and Elizabeth Lane, his wife, married as already stated, Elizabeth. married Sarah VanMater, and had the daughter of Cornelius VanMater and following children: Sarah VanMater, his wife, and had the following- children: Elizabeth, b. Aug. 30, 1768 ; bap. Oct. 9, fol-

lowing ; m. Sept. 11, 1787, Benjamin Van- John, b. Nov. 11, 1800; m. Jane, daughter of Mater ; d. March 16. 1795. William I. Conover (who resided in what is Cyrenius, bap. Sept. 15, 1771 : d. when a boy. now Manalapan township) and d. Sept. 16, Abagail, bap. May 14, 1780; m. Dec. 22, 1868. on his farm at Colts Neck which lay on 1800. Jacob B. VanMater ; died Aug. 25, 1802. the south side of the turnpike. He had the following children, viz: John, who m. Mary Benjamin, eldest son of Jacob Van- E., daughter of Hon. William P. Forman. who Mater and Nelly Hendrickson, married for many years was one of the lay judges of Sarah VanMater and had the following the Monmouth county courts and who resided children: in Millstone township on the farm now owned by his son, Hon. Peter Forman. John C. Van- Mater served as collector of Atlantic town- Jacob B., b. Feb. 13, 1779: bap. April 4, ship many years and died only following; m. Abagail recently. VanMater, Dec. 22, Benjamin, who married Ann Eliza Sherman : 1800 ; d. Dec. 2, 1836. aged 57 yrs., 9 mo., and William, who married Kate Stillwell, and 9 days, and is buried in VanMater yard. His Eliza, who married Foster VanKirk of Mercer wife, Abagail, is interred by his side and her county. age given as 22 yrs., 10 mo. Eliza Ann, b. June 30, 1804 ; m. March 9. Daniel, b. March 3. 1782 ; bap. June 20. fol- 1824, Hon. Thomas G. Haight of Colts Neck, lowing ; d. May 10, 1852. and d. about 1881. They were the parents of Hon. John T. Haight, who was .collector of \\ This son of William VanMater, Chriney- Monmouth county several years and elected once, enlisted as a soldier in the war of 1812. clerk of the county after a memorable strugg'e and, while at Trenton. N. J., awaiting orders, at the primaries and ballot box. I e died in was taken with a fever which proved fatal. office greatly mourned by his numerous friends. He died unmarried. His sister, Elizabeth or )7 ; d. young. Betsey, married William Lake, as stated above. DESCENDANTS OF CYRENIUS VAN MATER AND ABAGAIL LEFFERTS, HIS WIFE.

Cyrenius VanMater, fourth surviving son of Kreijn VanMater, and Abagail Margaret, b. March 11. 1766: m. Nov. 20, Lefferts, or Leffertse, his wife, had the (93, I Imneyonce Schanck of Pleasant Valley, following children: Cyrenius, died young. Chrynjans (Chrineyonce). bap. March 20, Neeltje, died young. 1730 ; m. his cousin Eleanor, daughter of Jos- John. b. July eph VanMater and Sarah Roelofse Schanck, 20, 1776; d. unmarried Nov. 26. 1814, aged 38 yrs., 4 mos. 6 days. his wife; d. Sept. 11, 1785, aged 54 yrs„ 9 Eleanor, b. August 4, in 1735 ; bap. Aug. 17. mos., 17 days, according to his tombstone sum,- yi.ar : in according the VanMater burying ground. to marriage licence dated Nov. 14, 1758, and on file in office of Mary, b. March 7, 1733 ; m. Nov. 16, 1758, the secretary of state Johannes (son of Daniel Polhemus and Mar- at Trenton, Daniel, son of John Hendrickson and garet Albertse Couwenhoven, his wife). He Annetje IJa.ol.se I Couwenhoven. Daniel was was born Oct. 28, 1733; d. March 24, 1820. born July 3 1735 and d. Nov. 17, 1S09. He His wife Mary VanMater. d. Sept. 27. 1809. and his wife are both buried in family burying Both are interred in Polhemus cemetery at ground on the faun which he owned, and which is still Scobeyville, N. J. They had the following (1899) in ownership of his descendant, children: Daniel, b. April 17. 1760: m. Eliza- situated on s.uth side of street at eastern end of beth VanMater: d. June 22, 1831. His wife Middle- town village, next to so-called died Oct. 23. 1813, aged 49 years. Both are Presbyterian graveyard. This burying ground is interred in the Polhemus yard." near and sight from the dwelling house on this Abigail, b. May 3. 1762 ; m. Cornelius Suy-

dam : d. June 7. 1801. aged 39 years; buried in above yard. I do not know where her husband iag-e i.l. i. ks is put dov n'sidi * The Polhemus family burying ground is on of Middlesex county. He was then the old homestead at Scobeyville, in Atlantic holding some clerkship at Perth Am- Monmouth county, N. J. The fol- boy, at that time the npt,. take fron the seat of government of East Jersey. ton, list.. nes in the fall of 1S9S by Mrs. Lydia They had the H. S. Conover: following children: Daniel J. Polhemus. d. Sept. 26. 1763. aged Anne. b. Feb. 57 yrs. 14, 1761 ; bap. April 26 same year Margaret Couwenhoven, wife of Daniel J. ; m. Charles DuBois. and died June 26. Polhemus, died June 17. 1780, aged 70 yrs. 1798. Her husband was born Feb. 25, 1757 John Polhemus, son of Daniel and Margaret d. Sept. 8, 1804, at Middletown village. Both Polhemus, d. March 24, 1820, aged 89 yrs. above family cemetery. Cyrenius, b. Mary, his wife, (daughter of Cyrenius Van- May 3. 1766 : d Mater and Abigail Lefferts) d. Sept. 27, 1809, 93. aged 76 yrs. Iary. daughter of John Lloyd and Sarah Cou John Polhemus, Jr., son of John and Mary. mo., d. Nov. 26. 1814. aged 38 yrs.. 4 6 days. I and daughter of John Polhe and Mary Tobias Polhemus, son of Daniel and Mar- VanMater I d. June 7, 1801, at garet Polhemus. d. Aug. 24. 1826, aged 82 yrs. Hannah Polhemus (daughter of Daniel Pol- Mary, his wife, (daughter of Garrett Gar- hemus and Margaret Couwenhoven) d. Oct. 29. retse Schanck and Jannetje Williamse Cou- 1792. aged 54 yrs. wenhoven) d. July 17. 1826. aged 69 yrs. Aukey Lefferts, d. Nov. 26, 1769. aged 92 yrs. 1, 1826. Daniel T. Polhemus. d. Oct. Mary TenEyck, his wife, d. Sept. 1, 1732, Catharine Couwenhoven, (his first wife, daughter of Cornelius Couwenhoven and Mary Hendrickson) d. June 20. 1797. 62 yrs. Sarah VanDyke, second wife Daniel T. Mary Lefferts. d. June 28, 1S00. aged 94 yrs. Polhemus. d. Feb. 7. 1857, aged 88 yrs. Colonel Auke Wikoff. d. April 16. 1820, aged Daniel J. Polhemus, d. June 22. 1831, aged 72 yrs. 71 yrs. The tenant of the last grave was one of the Elizabeth VanMater, wife of Daniel J. Pol- brave and trusted leaders of our Revolutionary hemus. d. Oct. 23. 1813, aged 49 yrs. sires. He was Lieut. Col. of 3rd Regt.. Mon- Alkey VanMater (widow of Albert Polhemus mouth militia, and a stern, unyielding enemy and wife of William Bennett) d. Oct. 24, 1804, of caste and royalty, as embodied in and per- aged 64 yrs. petuated by the government of Great Britain. Daniel A. Polhemus, d. Jan. 29, 1820. aged The Wyckoffs of Monmouth county were all 57 yrs. Micha Clarke, his wife . stilling patriots and several of them rendered Abigail Suidam. wife of Cornelius Suidam KARL) UL'ICII SETTLEKS OF il/OXMOL 111

of Charles wenhoven. his wife: died in Jan. 1807. leaving liam W. Murray. The corner one daughter. Eleanor, and three sons, Daniel DuBois' lot is called for as one of the J., Charles J., and John Lloyd, surviving. monuments in this deed, and also as a monument fixing the north line of the Du- Middletown street. The DuBois lot was hter, afterwards owned by John easier, who Du- for many years carried on the black- Bois and Peter DuBois, surviving- them. smith business in Middletown village. The two sons both died in early man- His shop stood on the opposite side of hood unmarried, and are buried by the street from this lot on which his their parents in above yard. Eleanor residence stood. DuBois, the only surviving- child afore- Daniel J. Hendrickson. the son of said, was b. Aug. 19. 1792; m. Jan. 12. John and grandson of Daniel Hendrick- 1812. William H., son of Capt. Hendrick son. received as his share of his grand- Hendrickson, who owned the old Hen- father's estate, a farm at the eastern drickson homestead at Holland, in end of Middletown village on north Holmdel township, and d. Sept. 25, 1879. side of street, and about opposite to his aged 87 vrs.. 1 mo., 6 days. She was the brother, John Lloyd Hendrickson's farm mother of Hon. William Henry Hen- on the south side. It is now in pos- drickson, one of the honored citizens of session of the Morfords. It passed out this county, who recently died on the of the ownership of Daniel J. Hendrick- old homestead at Holland, which he son prior to his death. He died Dec. owned and occupied all his life. Daniel 24. 1845, aged 48 years, 11 months, ac- Hendrickson. the husband of Eleanor cording to inscription on his tombstone VanMater and maternal great grand- in Episcopal churchyard of Middletown father of the late Hon. William H. village. Charles J. Hendrickson was Hendrickson, made his will Aug. 4, well known to the present (1899) gen- 1809. It was proved Dee. 29 of same eration, as an honorable man and a year and is on record in Monmouth sur- good citizen. He died only a few years rogate's office in Book B of Wills, p. ago at his residence on his farm, lying 316. In this will he speaks of the farm on north side of the street through on which he then lived, and the one Middletown village. For particular de- allotted to his son John Lloyd, as called tails of his life see biography and pic- the "Stout farm." He gives to his ture in Ellis' history of Monmouth widow, Eleanor VanMater. and to Mary county. son Lloyd, the widow of his deceased John Llovd Hendrickson. m. Dec. 16. John, use of all his property so long as Adeline, daughter of George charges 1822. they remain unmarried. He Crawford by his second wife. Eleanor and edu- them with care, maintenance Schanck. and d. Sept. 25. 1845. at his Daniel. cation of his three grandsons. residence on the homestead farm afore- he states John Lloyd and Charles, who said. He left one son George Crawford, death of are now living with him. At and one daughter Mary L.. surviving the two widows, all his real estate was him. The son died unmarried on the to be equally divided between his said where he was born and had Hen- homestead three grandsons, sons of John always lived. Oct. 12. 1875, aged 46 gives legacies drickson. deceased. He 6 mo., 4 days, and is interred in son yrs.. to Eleanor, the daughter of his plot on this farm. A brief but daugh- family John, and to the children of his truthful sketch of his life and char- Williams. ter Anne DuBois. Tylee acter, accompanied by a steel engraving Joseph Taylor and Mary Lloyd, widow which hardly does him justice, for he appointed ex- of John Hendrickson, are had a strong, intelligent face with reg- son ecutors. Daniel Hendrickson. his ular well marked features, can be seen Charles DuBois. John, and son-in-law, in Ellis' history. When he passed away of about 20 owned together a tract he left a good name as an upright man. acres near central part of Middletown considerate and charitable to the poor, village, on north side of the street. By obliging to his neigh- Monmouth and helpful and Book O of Deeds, page 739. bors. He wronged no man; but dealt in deed dated July 3. 1804, recorded truly and fairly with all. so that no con- clerk's office. Daniel Hendrickson reproach rests upon his memory, al- on veys to his son John, certain lands though he never made any profession. north side of Middletown street, and Taylor and between lands of Edward Altje (Alice) fourth child of Cyrenius Van- last Jacob Covenhoven's lands. The Mater and Abigail Lefferts. bap. Oct. 7. 1737 : and premises were afterwards known as the m. first Albert, son of Daniel Polhemus Murray homestead, and owned by was then a George Crawford Murray, son of Wil- s,o',mi.' William Hrnn.-tt, who' EARL ) DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOL ///.

widower. having first married Elizabeth, children of Benjamin Cooper and Sarah daughter of Benjamin VanMater and Elizabeth iMater. his wife, £1,400 ($7,000). To chil- Lane. Altje VanMater d. Oct. 24. 1804. She li of Rev. John Croes. Jr., and Eleanor had the following children by her second hus- iMater, his wife. £1,400 ($7,000). To band. William Bennett, viz: Elizabeth, b. June. 1773; John, b. Dec. 1774: Albert, b.

~~July 1776 : and Cyrenius. b. Aug. 1779. free, both male : The fifth child of Cyrenius VanMater and~~

Abigail Lefferts was Sarah, b. Oct. 3 ; bap. Oct. 23. 1748: m. Dec. 3. 1767. Cornelius, son of Benjamin VanMater and Elizabeth Lane and d. Feb. 25. 1824. aged 75 yrs.. 4 mo., 22 days, buried by her husband in VanMater yard. Her will, recorded in B. of Wills, p. 386. Monmouth surrogate's office, and the names of her children, have been heretofore

~~Chrynjans (Chrineyonce) the ori- son of Cyrenius VanMater and Abigail Left'crts. by his wife Eleanor VanMater. had two children, viz:~~

Joseph C, b : m. Feb. 28 Cath- arine. daughter of his cousin VanMater and Huldah Holmes, his wife. She was born Jan. 9. 1784; d. Jan. 20, 1804. She was a bride for only one year, and Joseph C. VanMater never married again. This is the Joseph VanMater about whom so many storier are told, ss to the ownership of land, stock and negro slaves. He was called "Big Joe Van- Mater" on account of his size, and to distinguish him from others of the same name.

~~Abigail, b. May 7. 1775 ; died in infancy.~~

Joseph C. VanMater lived at what is now called the Phalanx, in Atlantic township, and owned an extensive tract of good farming: land running- from the vicinity of Tinton Falls on over to the lands owned by his maternal grandfather, Joseph VanMater, in the vicinity of Holmdel and Colts Neck. He also owned nearly one hundred adult negro slaves. Joseph C. VanMater executed his will January 20, 1825. It was proved before Peter C. Vanderhoef, surrogate of M..nmouth county. Dec. 31, 183*2, by oaths of Gilbert B. VanMater and Henry VanMater, two of the subscribing witnesses. Daniel T. Polhemus was the third witness to this will. It is recorded in Book C of Wills, pp. 300-3.

He gives to Joseph, son of Holmes Van- Mater. "my silver tankard." To Joseph I". Holmes, son of Daniel Holmes, $50 to buy a silver tankard. He gives to Mary Lloyd. Rhoda Holmes and Eleanor Croes. all his mother's wearing apparel, and to Eleanor Croes a chest of drawers belonging to his mother, Eleanor VanMater. He bequeaths to Sally Thompson $100. To John Bennett, son nf "my uncle William Bennett." £100 ($500). To Albert Bennett and his brother Cyrenius Bennett each £100 ($500). To Charles and Catharine, children of William and Mary Lloyd. £1.100 ($7,000) to be paid to them when they arrive at age. To Rhoda Holmes, daughter of his uncle Chrineyonce VanMater. £1,400 ($7,000). To Louisa VanMater £1.400 ($7,000). EARL) DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. clung to their old home. It is said that had belonged to the family." This after "Big- Joe's" death the road from brought upon these two men. all the what is now the Phalanx to Colts Neck, helpless and indigent ones of this es- was black with these newly freed tate, as well as those of their grand- negroes, and they wandered back and father and father. There are people forth, perplexed and bewildered with now living, who remember Joseph H. the great change. For it was hard to VanMater when he drove over to church find another home, where the "black at Holmdel on Sundays. Not only his people" would be treated as part of the immediate family, but crowded in with family, and where there was another the whites, in a big carryall, would be man. like lonely, but good-natured and all the colored people who wished to generous-hearted "Big Joe" VanMater. go to church. This burden of the Many of them sought homes and shelter negroes, together with heavy legacies from Joseph H. and Holmes VanMater, charged in the will of "Big Joe" made the devisees and legatees of the de- a heavy financial load for his devisees ceased. For in his will he strictly to carry. For the land brought in no charges them to take care of the "black income except as farmed and the profits people of my family" and "those which were then small.

~~THE LONG AND INTERESTING WILL OF JOSEPH VANMATER.~~

Joseph VanMater. the fifth and Creek and brook, and southerly by lands lately youngest son of Kreijn Janse, and the property of James Kearney, deceased. The Sarah Roelofse Schanck. his wife, had witnesses are Gilbert VanMater. Joseph Throck- the following children: morton and Cyrenius VanMater (miller). The lveyance by a wife directly to her husband. as in this deed, is considered illegal void Eleanor, or Neeltje, b. Oct. 4. 1735: bap. and by the artificial rules of law. The courts have June 20, 1736 ; m. her cousin Chrineyonce, son solemnly adjudged that of Cyrenius VanMater and Abigail Lefferts, as a man and wife are one person in law, already mentioned. and therefore cannot make a contract with each other. This, too, in Ruloff. (named for his maternal grand- face of the experience of mankind that the marital father) b. March 2, 1738, bap. April 23 ensu- relation is formed and continued by mutual ing : m. Catharine Kearney, then the widow of Joseph VanMater, as set forth in a former and bear and forbear. article. She was the daughter of James The third child of Kearney of Chinqueroras, as the region about Joseph VanMater and Sarah Roelofse Schanck. Cyrenius, Keyport was then called. Ruloff VanMater d. was b. Aug. 1740; bap. Sept. 21. following, and d. Dec. 10. 1817. aged 79 yrs. 9 mo.. 8 days, ac- Dec. 23. 1745, aged 5 yrs., cording to inscription on his tombstone in 5 mo., according to his tombstone in VanMater cemetery. VanMater yard. His wife is interred by his side, and her headstone informs us, she died Catharine, b. March 15, 1743 : bap. May 6 May 10, 1807, aged 54 yrs., 9 mo.. 20 days. following and d. unmarried Aug. 27, 176:',, aged The above couple had only two children, both 20 yrs.. 5 mo.. 12 days, as we are informed by daughters, viz: Sarah, who married Benjamin her headstone in family burying ground. Cooper, and Eleanor, who was married Oct. Chrineyonce, b. Jan. 23, 1747 : m. about 1772 13. 1812. to Rev. John Croes. Jr., by Rev. luldah, daughter of Obadiah Holmes and Christ church John Croes. Si-., then rector of Catharine Remsen, his wife, and d. March 24, Brunswick. N. J. In Book I of Deeds, at New 1803, aged 56 yrs., 2 mo., 1 day, as stated on p. 214 Monmouth clerk's office, is record of a deed dated July 23. 1787. consideration £820 Cyrenius, b. Dec. 23, 1750 ; d. in infancy. 4-5 current money of New York, from Cath- Only three of the above six children sur- arine VanMater, wife of Ruloff VanMater. vived to grow up and marry, viz: Eleanor, Jacob Tice. and Anna his wife. James Holmes, Ruloff and Chrineyonce. These are the three and Margaret his wife. Henry Chappe, and mentioned in the will of Black Roe'off Schanck. Sarah his wife, legatees of James Kearney, as the three children of his Sarah Middletown township, to Ruloff Van- daughter, late of VanMater. Mater. They quit claim and convey to him four-fifths of a tract of land in Middletown Joseph VanMater, the father of the above township, lying at a place called Brown's children, lived on and farmed the old home- Point, beginning at the very point, thence up stead, where Kreijn Janse first settled. The Matawan Creek 32 chains to Whingson Creek, family graveyard is on these premises, and re- etc. After particular description by chains served forever for that purpose, by the will of and links, comes this general description. A this Joseph VanMater. The following is a true tract of 520 \2 acres bounded northeasterly by copy of the will of Joseph VanMater and cod- the Bay, northwesterly by Matawan Creek, icil, as same are recorded in the office of the and WingBon Creek, easterly by Luparticong surrogate of Monmouth county: EARL V DL TCII SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

JOSEPH VAN MATER'S WILL. unto my son Ruloff the fruit of the westerly half of my orchard four In the name of God, Amen ; I, Joseph Van- years after my de- mater of the township of Middletown, in the cease, from the first of September untill the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, middle of November yearly, I also give unto being of a sound disposing mind and memory, my son Ruloff the sum of Five hundred pounds thanks be given to Almighty God, therefore pi oiklamation, to be paid to my said son duly considering the mortality of my body, Ruloff as shall be herein after ordered and directed and knowing it is appointed for man once to devises or gifts are to my die. do make and ordain this my last Will and son Ruloff 1 fore Testament, in manner and form following, Thirdly.— I give a bequeath unto my Crincyonce that is to say, principally and first of all. I Vanmat give and recommend my soul into the hands forever, these folio of lands (to ail of God. &c, and as for my body I recommend my farm or plantation whereon I it to the earth, to be buried in a christian live, called my homestead farm, except like and decent manner at the discretion of parts thereof as are devised to my son my executors hereinafter named, &c, and as iff, also all that lot of land whereon Wil- touching such wordly estate wherewith it hath Arnold lately lived, beginning at a tree ke.l pleased God to bless me with in this life, I fL M.I as may appear by a deed of give, devise and dispose of the same in man- under the hand and seal of John Taylor, ner and form following:- -My mind and will reby order all my just debts " .!..« and funeral char;. e we!! and truly paid, lying at Shrewsbury River, which I in same convenient time after my decease by cht of Thomas Shepherd, as also the one il half of my upland or stacking place at Secondly. I gi\e and dew-o I" my beloved son Rulolf Vanmater. all that piece or lot of ny lands wheresoever the same may lay wood saplin marked on three sides, on the herein disposed off: also I give unto my land and meadow beginning at a small butten- Crineyonce one silver Tankard and six south side of Hop brook in the line thai pari v spoons now in my possession, as also

Ruloff; theme northerly across the meadow ai. and her two suns, Sam and Robbin and along said Ruloff's line till it comes to a ditch. the remainder of my negroes, that shall ..n the north side of said meadow; the be herein otherwise disposed of, I also give

~~easterly down the .lit. li p. a small oak saplin marked on three sides, standing on the bank w. .on, apparr. II. also the one equal half~~

~~of said ditch ; thence southerly across the meadow, as the fence now stands, on the of all westerly side of a road, to the mouth of a and pe~~

gully on the southerly of brook ! given hi side Hop ; thence up said gully untill it comes opposite the middle of the bank, thence westerly a'otig the middle of the bank to said Ruloff Van- to illdred pou ve and devise to my son Ruloff Vanm fter my dece

~~1 that tract of land called the Barren I: r Nelly, the : \e hundred pounds hich was taken up between me the my decease, both iseph Vanmater and Benjamin Vanm Rulolf and to my~~

~~Holmes, as also one euual half of my upland or stacking place at Little Neck, also all that~~

~~tract or lot of I I land which the said i Vanmater bought "f Joseph Holmes, adjoining :e after my decease, land formerly Peter Tilton. Also that small do hereby order, the~~

lott of land lying to the Northward of my : to be taken out of farm and said Ruloff's farm next to Obadiah Holmes, Beginning at a poplar tree standing in the line between me and my son Ruloff, marked on two sides with the letter (R), on the east side from thence, easterly about ten r onjny- paces to a small run of water, thence north-

~~erly down that stream until if eoo.es to II,,,, ie land~~

~~, to be~~

Ruioir, De Ihe and Jersey, and my negro devised to my said son which devises or one silver tankard and si* gifts is to them and each of them, their in his possession, as also heirs and assigns forever, provided he my wealing apparell, I also said son cannot hold and enjoy the same, nor Ruloff the one equal half of my f enter into the peacable possession thereof at any time before the children shall arrive to stock ..f creatures of all kinds. I al: the age of twenty-one. then the gifts and de- EAKLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

~~ts to remain good to the children this my last Will and Testament, ratifying~~

s and assigns forever ; but in a this and no other. Crineyonce can hold and enjoy th In Witness Whereof I the said Joseph Van- any time before the children arri mater have hereto set my hand and seal this age of twenty-one, and no law 1 twenty-fifth day of September in the year of t him from the same, then its n- our Lord one thousand seven hundred and that every of the devious ami bequests given ety. Signed sealed published, pre

to my son Crineyonce, remain good to him . declare id Jo to his heirs and assigns forever. Item— I give unto my daughter Nellie Van- off mater and to her heirs and assigns, all my JOSEPH VANMATER ( L. S.} household furniture not heretofore disposed off, CYRENIUS B. VANMATER, BARNES SMOCK. one silver tankard and six silver spoons now WILLIAM VANMATER. in her possession, as also my negro woman Be it known unto all men by these presents. called Roseatt and the said Roseau's female that I, Joseph Vanmater of Middletown in the children, and all her grandchildren, I also County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey give unto my only daughter Nellie, the sum of Yoeman, have made and declared this my last Five pounds proclamation money, to hundred will and Testament in writing, bearing date be paid her one year after decease, by my my the Twenty-fifth day of September in the year said son Crineyonce as above enjoyned him ; I of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and also give unto my three children Ruloff, ninety, I the said Joseph Vanmater do by Nelley and Chrineyonce, all bonds, bills my these presents contained in this Codicil, con- noats and book debts and all other of my firm and ratify my said will only that part I intend to alter. I give and bequeath unto my equally divided fce- ready disposed off. to be son Ruloff the sum of Five hundred pounds now in his possession, in lieu of a legacy of but if Criiu-yonee cannot the five hundred pounds, ordered to be paid bequ him my said son Ruloff by my son Crineyonce. of any hindrance whatever, then it is my will I give unto my said son to the children of my and I do give the same farming utensils, and stock of son Crineyonce, to be disposed off by him to his to them their heirs children as before directed, fhirdly. —I give unto my only daughter and assigns forever : Also it is my Will and I Nelley VanMater, all my notes, bills, bonds allott and apart and give one chain do set and cash, except the five hundred pounds given square of land where there is now our family's to my son Ruloff, all which devises and gifts burying place, to remain forever for the fam- and ily of the Vanmaters to bury their dead their heirs and assigns. And whereas Hen- for other use whatever. no drick Hendrickson, Esq.. is nominated and I nominate constitute And Lastly, do hereby appointed an executor in my last Will and appoint only daughter Nelly Vanmater, and my Testament, I do hereby make null and void all Vanmater. Hendrick Hendrick- my son Ruloff ecutor w my last will and son, Esq., and William Crawford, = Executors of my will and Codi. * William Crawford, one of the in VanMater s will, was tne named Joseph ly affection. .shl paternal grandfather of the late James G. i.f Middletown. Crawford of Holmdel township, who was the The name Crawford is spelled in Books A. father of who married Joseph H. Holmes, Ann, B. and C of Deeds, Monmouth clerk's office. as mentioned hereafter. Crafford, Crawfford, and other ways. This William Crawford was a son of George John Crawford, Jr., is named as a grand jury- is his will probated Crawford and named in man in year 1393 in the minutes of the Mon- on at Perth Amboy May 10, 1745, and now mouth courts. This would show he was then record in the Secretary of State's office at at least 21 years of age. Trenton. In Book C of Deeds, pages 111-12 is record The above testator was not the son of John of a deed dated May 8, 1691, from Sadler to Crawford, the pioneer settler of this name, as Jobs. John Crawford and George Crawford has been heretofore supposed. This fact is appear as subscribing witnesses to its execu- established beyond any doubt, by a deed dated tion. They, together with Gideon Crawford, Feb. 29, 1723, from George Crawford to Nich- were sons of John Crawford. Sr.. the pioneer olas Still-well, conveying six acres, and record- settler. This George is said to have migrated ed in Book H of Deeds, page 86. Monmouth to and settled in one of the southern counties county clerk's office. It is stated in this deed of New Jersey, or in one of the eastern coun- that this six acres is a part of a tract granted ties of Pennsylvania. to John Crawford, the grandfather of said The John Crawford, Jr.. to whom the real grantor, by patent dated Dec. 3. 1687, from estate was conveyed by his father, according to the Proprietors. This patent is recorded in tradition, married the daughter of Henry or Book B. page in office 211, of the Secretary of Moses Lippet. and besides his eldest son State of New Jersey. George, had Richard. William, Samuel. John In Book A of Deeds, page 36, Monmouth and Andrew. Several of these sons removed clerk's office, is record of a deed dated Aug. 3, to other parts of New Jersey and Pennsyl- 1691, from John Crafford. Sr.. to John Craf- vania and there settled, according to family ford EARL V DITCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. and parcell of my said will and Testament. sp.n to Mou- and all things contained and mentioned therein be faithfully performed, in as full and ample manner in every respect as if the same were so declared and set down in my said will. In witness whereof, I the said Joseph Van- mater have hereunto set my hand and seal the Seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety

~~Sealed and delivered in presence of JOSEPH VAN MATER (L. S.) DANIEL SCHENCK. JOSEPH VAN MATER. his JOHN X WOLLEY.~~

Probated in Monmouth County Surrogate's ottiie January 20. 1821. and recorded in Book B of Wills, page 221. etc. Joseph VanMater and Sarah Schanck. his wife, were both members of the First Dutch Church of .Monmouth, and were particular to have all their children baptized, as records of the church now show. They were very regular and punctual in performance of all church duties. Their descendants have very generally followed their example lin. deacons EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

Daniel Holmes was elected sheriff of hold to Englishtown. about three-quarters of a Monmouth county in 1828. and a mem- mile east of the latter place. He was a ber of the council of New Jersej in ituiet, but pleasant and obliging man. His old 1832. He was a very popular and influ- neighbors in this vicinity still cherish his memory, and speak of ential man in the Democratic party of him as a kindlv neighbor and a good and charitable man. that time. A likeness of him his He died and May 13, 1S74. son, Joseph H.. with biographical Gilbert H.. b. June 12, 1820 ; m. Sarah, sketches appear in Ellis' History of daughter of John W. Holmes and Deborah his wife. Monmouth county. Rhoda VanMater, Gilbert I . VanMater. too. was a his wife, died June 20, 1838. faithful adherent to the church of his fathers, Only one son of Daniel Holmes and and in his unobtrusive and modest way tried to live a Christian life. He removed a Rhoda VanMater, his wife, lived to number of years ago from Monmouth county to a plan- grow ui). This was Joseph H. Holmes, tation in the state of Virginia, where he is born July 28, 1821; married September still (is»9) living and highly respected for his 19, 1818. Ann. daughter of James ' I. gentlemanly manners and honorable conduct,

I 'row ford of Crawford's Corner in rated a large Holmdcl township: died November 28. the VanMa Red 1892, and is buried on the homestead. meadow lies in His wife. Ann Crawford, was born which front of the Dr. Cook September 1. 1821. died and June 6, 1894. road crosses this meadow and the stream. The Joseph H. VanMater and Ann Van- road then was laid over this dam and a bridge Mater. his wife, had the following- chil- spanned the flood gates. Thesa mills acciden- dren, all born on the original VanMater tally caught fire and were entirely destroyed. homestead, now occupied by William They were at the time full of wheat and other grain and wholly uninsured. It entailed a heavy loss on Mr. VanMater. Catharine, b. Feb. '2, 1822; m. Jesse A. Huldah Holmes, b. Sept. 14. 1810: Feb. d. Dennis. They were the parents of Holmes 1812. VanMater Dennis, who now owns and resides Huldah Holmes, b. Oct. 15, 1812: d. single on the Smock farm, near East Freehold. Feb. 27. 1868. Daniel H„ b. Feb. 25. 1824 ; m. Frances L. Aaron S., b. Aug. 17. 1814 : m. Sept. 28. Dennis. 1843, Ann, daughter of Peter R. Smock and Daniel H. VanMater represented Monmouth Catharine Ilendriekson, his wife. county in the New Jersej Assembly in 1869-70 William C. b. Oct. 20. 1816; d. Feb. 4, He now resides on his farm which lies just 1817. west of Marlboro village. Like his forefathers William P.. b. March 6, 1818; d. 1822. he is a staunch and I 'ough supporter of the Joseph C. b. Nov. 18. 1S21 ; d. 1822. old Dutch church, wherein he has served as Mary Polhemus. b. Feb. 14. 1822. and is deacon and elder. Hon. Daniel H. VanMater still US99) living. Mary Polhemus VanMater has one son and three daughters. beer William H.. b. Nov. 5. 1828 ; d. young. for many years taught a class of girls in the Augustus, b. June 28. : Holmdel 1830 m. M. E. Dutch Reformed church. Many Rapplije. matrons now residing in Holmdel township Margaret, b. Oct. 15. 1832. are indebted to Miss Mary VanMater. not only Cha S.. b. Apri for religious instruction, but the example of Huldah. April her gentle and refined manners has exerted a good influence.

~~Eliza Ann, b. Jan. 9. 1824 ; d. June 30. 1840. Joseph I., b. July 20, 1825; m. Eliza M.. daughter of Daniel Ayres of Brooklyn Heights.~~

Elizabeth, b. Sept. 1841; m. a Mr. Gorselin Joseph I. like VanMater. ma-y others of Long Island. of this branch, has been a zealous mem- Catharine, b. Aug. 19. 1843; m. W. C. ber of the Holmdel Dutch church, serv- i-ft'erts. ing both as deacon and elder. Holmes, b. July 20, 1845. Holmes VanMater owned and resided Jacob, b. Feb. 17. 1S47. b. at one time on one of the best farms in Paul. Aug. 29. 1849 ; m. Lou Kirby of Imlaystown. N. J. Monmouth county. At least it was so John Henry D.. b. July 11. 1851; m. Eliza, considered, and was known as the daughter of Daniel P. Schanck and Mary Con- Academy farm. It embraced more land over, his second wife, and now (1899) owns

~~than it does now. By Micha VanMater, and resides . on the old VanCleef farm near his wife, he had the following children: Wickatunk station, in Marlboro township.~~

Joseph H., b. Aug. 27. 1852 ; m. a Miss Joseph H., b. Nov. 23, 1818; m. Margaret, Johnson of Spotswooil, Middlesex county. daughter of Paul Rapelje and Catharine Van- Gilbert and Augustus, twins, b. March 5, Mater. his wife, (daughter of Gilbert Van- 1855. Gilbert d. young. Mater and Margaret Sprague. his wife.) Gilbert, b. Oct. 20, 1858. This Joseph H. VanMater owned and resid- Margaret, b. July 6. I860: m. ex-Sheriff Fick ed on the farm now occupied by Edward Smith of New Brunswick. N .1 THE HULSES OR HULSEHARTS OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES.

The men and women bearing above priated lands." Cornelius Salem bv deed names are very numerous in Monmouth dated June 5th. 1718. conveyed his in- and Ocean counties. They are all des- dividual half of said tract to'"Benjamin cendants of "Benjamin Holsaert" and Holsaert." described in said deed as a "Annetie Luyster" his wife, as their cordwainer by trade, and a resident of records of names are spelled on the New Utrecht. Kings county, L. I. Bv the Dutch church of Monmouth, where this agreement said tract is equally they became communicants in 1717. divided, the southermost half to be the A writer on the early migration of separate property of Holsaert, and the the Dutch from Long Island to Somer- northermost half to belong to Mark set county. N. J., says that Benjamin Salem. Holsaert settled there. This is a mis- This name has been spelled in several take, originating from the fact that different ways. Persons who write the people of Kings county, L. I., in their names today "Hulse" had parents those times spoke of their relatives and who wrote the name "Hulshart." Among- friends who had migrated to New Jer- the many marriages of this familv rec- sey as "gone to the Raritans." orded in Books A and B of marriages The territory south of Raritan Bay in our county clerk's office, the follow- as well as that through which the Rar- ing have been selected to show this itan river flows went with them under fact: this one name. In this generation Rar- Samuel Hulshart to Mary Em! itan is the name of one locality in Somerset and one township in Mon- Tunis Hulshart to Margatv Covenhoven. January mouth. Sloops carried the early set- 5. 1797. John Hulse, son of William, to Elizabeth tlers with their goods and stock from Harvey, daughter "f William I arvey. June l!i, the Brooklyn shore of the East river 1S05. down the upper bay, through the Nar- William Hulse was married to Sarah For- rows into Raritan Bay, until they man, April 18. 1799, by Rev. John W...«lhull, reached the south end of Staten Is- D.D. land; here the settlers going to Middle- Ezra Havens was married to Mahala Hulse. both of Howell sex or Somerset counties sailed up the township. May 3, 1814, by Raritan river, while those coming to .Monmouth continued on the same course landing up Matawan or Waycakfi creeks. In the family records kept in "Our county records show that some of the old homesteads in Kings this name i sometimes spelled Hulst and Hulz. The county, they were often put down as owing entry from minutes No. 6 of Mon- pemoved to the "Raratons." Modern uth Sessions. 1775-1783, shows one of these writers on family genealogies have seen these entries, and jumped at the OCTOBER TERM. 1778. conclusion that "Raritan" was the same region or place it is now. Some per- John Longstreet, Esq., sons who settled in Monmouth, like Joseph Lawrence. Esq., Derrick Barkalow and Benjamin Hols- Peter Forman. Esq.. Denise Denise. aert, are said to have settled along the Esq., Judges. Raritan river in Somerset county. ppellant. ads. The State. An agreement and deed recorded in Appeal fr lilitia fine, £18.15 under tl Book E of deeds, p. 340, etc., Monmouth iubstitution. clerk's office, shows beyond any doubt, It appearing that the Appellant when called, that Benjamin Hulse. (to us the modern was employed at a salt works which boils at name), first settled in Monmouth. A least 1000 gallons of salt water for the pur- Mark Salem and Cornelius Salem of pose of making salt, and as the Legislature of Freehold township purchased together the State of New Jersey passed an act the 11th a tract of 230 acres in same township day of December, 1777, for the exempting one (now Marlboro), generally described in man from Military Duty for every 500 gallons of salt water boiled as aforesaid, and sub- said deed as bounded "E. by 'Hopp a stitute hired in his stead. Ordered that said Brook.' Gravel Brook. N. by W. bv fine of eighteen pounds and fifteen shillings be Thomas Hart's land and S. bv unappro- remitted and entirely set aside." EARL i DITCH SETTLERS OE MOXMUCTH.

Margaret Yetman, widow, by Rev. Benjamin as name is spelled on headstone, is in- DuBois. terred by them. She was born Decem- Sidney Hulshart married to Ben- was Ann ber 24, 1792, and died August 12, 1883. nett, both of Freehold township Feb. 24, 1820. John Holsart's will is recorded in Thomas Hulshart was married to Anndoshe Book of Wills, 173, Hulshart April 23, 1824. by John D. Barkalow, E page Monmouth elder of the Independent Methodist church. Surrogate's office. He gives 'his wife Stephen Hulshart to Jane Matthews, Dec. Mary, and his daughter Maria, full pos- 29. 1829. session of his lands, stock and house- Joseph G. Hulshart, Esq.. was married Jan- hold goods as long as they live to- uary 19. 1832. to Agnes M. Ely Bennett, by gether and his widow remains unmar- John Barkalow, etc. D. elder, ried. All his weaving apparatus he gives The last couple were the parents of to his son-in-law, Elias Sickles, John W. Hulse, Esq., one of the jus- his watch to his grandson, John Hol- sart Sickles, if tices of the peace of the township and but he dies under age, police justice of the town of Freehold. then to his brother, DeWitt Sickles. He Justice Hulse has abbreviated his name directs 150 acres to be run off so as to take in all the buildings on his home- to the first syllable of his f; iv othe the stead farm and devises it in fee to his 5ted daughter Mariah. The remainder of his lands is to be equally divided between and served as a Union soldier until the his daughter Mariah. and his daughter close of the Civil War. He has served Hannah, wife of Elias Sickles. He pro- one term as justice of Freehold town- vides for his colored man Jack and orders ship, and gave such satisfaction by his that he shall be maintained on the fair and impartial decisions that he homestead out of his estate. His daughter was elected to his second term without Mariari, and "trusty friend" opposition. In his physical appearance John Statesir, are appointed executors. Henry D. Polhemus, J. M. Hartshorne. he Is a fair type of the old generations of this family and also seems to have and R. S. Hendrickson are the witnesses. The will is 27, 1838, their usual mental traits. For the Huls- dated June and harts have ever been a plain and unpre- proved January 27, 1847. tentions people, without those meddle- 'Squire Holsart had another daughter not in this will, . some propensities, overweening self- named Eleanor. She conceit and insatiable curiosity which married Daniel, son of Daniel Barkalow make the descendants of certain people and Annttje Luyster, his wife, and they to settled in such unmitigated nuisances to their removed and Western New neighbors. Justice Hulse has in his York or Ohio. Elias Sickles, married possession a letter dated August 16, who Hannah Holsart. in will, re- 1830. written and signed by "John Hol- and named above sided near the village of Marlboro sart" as he spells his name, who is and 1830 also one of this family. was a deacon in and elder in 1844 of the Dutch church. He is a descend- It is addressed to "John Barcalow." then overseer of the poor of Freehold ant of the "VanSiclin" or "VanSikkele." township, and the grandfather of Wicoff family who settled in the vicinity of Barkalow, the present overseer of the Gravesend, L. I. The name on the old records of is poor of this township. He signs him- Monmouth Dutch church spelled in the latter way; see page 87 self in this letter as a justice of the of Wells' Memorial Address at Brick peace of Middletown township. The church. letter is well written and words cor- Elias Sickles by Holsart. his rectly spelled. This man lived and Hannah wife, had eight children. One of his died on his farm which lay about a Willempe, married Peter mile west of Colts Neck. This part of daughters, Antonides, who has always lived and Middletown was taken off when Atlan- carried on a blacksmith business at tic township was formed. He married Freehold, his father, Peter Mary, daughter of Tobias Polhemus of East where Upper Freehold township, and was one Antonides, t and grandfather, John An- tonides. also lived and carried on same of our soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and was with Col. Asher Holmes He nib.- IMS. at the battle of Germantown. He died December 6. 1846. aged 87 years, 6 months, 27 days, according to the inscription on his tombstone in yard of fPeter Antonides is buried in old trr:i\ i-vani Marlboro Brick church. His wife, Mary near East Freehold, called erroneously the Wyrkoff burying ground. His tombstone states died February 13. 1851, aged Polhemus. he died Dec. 6, 1828, aged 53 yrs. 5 m. 16 d. 3 Their un- 84 years, 10 months, days. Mary Lloyd, his wife, died March 3. 1836. married daughter, "Maria P. Holsairt." aged 56 yrs. 11 m. 26 d. JOHN W. HULSE. V.'K'oFF BARKALOW, of the Peace of Freehold Town if the Poor of Freehold Townshi

~~JOHN R. LONGSTREET, MARY MIERS. Son of Gilbert Lonpstreet, of Upper Freehold Wife of John R. Lonnstreet. Township, Monmouth County. N. J. daughter of Garret Conover Hendrickson. his wi~~

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. was a son of Peter Antonides and Mary IV1..-II Lloyd, his wife. She was a daughter of Ur •bels David Lloyd. Mr. Peter Antonides, al- or rebel sympathizers with all his though now over four score years, is heart. He is still a bachelor, for like as straight and erect as a flag staff, a celebrated judge of Monmouth county supple and quick and able to shoe a used to remark, he believes a "man is horse and do other blacksmith work as never satisfied until he gets as bad off well as any other young- man in this as possible, as is the case when mar- county. One of his uncles, Vincent, or ried." So he has escaped the marriage Vincentius Antonides, removed to and noose and rejoices in single blessed- settled in Ohio during the early part of ness. He is Dutch clear through on this century. It is said he has raised a both sides, and sometimes remarks that large family there. not a drop of mongrel or English blood The grandson, John H. Sickles, named beats in his heart. in Squire Holsart's will, and to whom The Hulsharts have generally follow- the watch is given, is still living. He ed agricultural or kindred pursuits and was a Union soldier in the war of the have been as a rule good citizens.

~~THE AUMACKS OR AUMOCKS OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES.~~

The name of "Teunis Amak" and Deboogh (Debow) by deed dated March Lena Lain (Lane), his wife, appear as 11, 1739, conveys a tract of 100 acres in members of the Monmouth Dutch Freehold township to "Theunis Amack" church in 1723, while his brother. who is described as a weaver, and resi- "Stephen Aumack" and Jannetie Janse, dent of Monmouth county. Bartlet his wife, are entered on the church Brook and Long Brook are mentioned * records five years later. as part of the boundaries of this tract. ]| Abraham Emans t (Emmons), a resi- "Thunis Amack" is named among the dent of Freehold township, conveys to grand jurors impannelled by Sheriff Hendrick Htndrickson and Jaques H. Hindus Verbryck at April term, Denys (Denise) of New Utrecht. L. I., 1735. and Stephen Amack among the by deed dated May 1. 1719, ninety-six grand jurors impannelled by Sheriff and a half acres of land in Freehold James Stevenson at April term, 1744. \ township, bounded east by Bartlett In Book H of Deeds, page 275, is the Brook, west by lands of Thomas Cooper, record of a public Highway laid out on south by lands of Samuel Dennis and June 14. 1740, by the surveyors of the north by lands formerly William Scott's. highways. "Theunis Amack's" lands This tract is described as beginning at and "Stephen Amack's" mill are named William Layton's. formerly John Scott's in this return. They also make "void" corner. % The grantor and grantees (vacate) a 2-rod road laid through the named in this deed, all join in a deed Amack's, Tunis Denis (Denise). Gilbert dated May 5. 1730, conveying this same V.i n:Mater, Judah Williams, Thomas land to Stephen Aumack. Emans joins Borden, and Nathan Tilton's lands. This in order to cure a defect in the former record shows that the two Aumack deed. "Theuny Amack" and "Peter brothers lived near each other on this Jansen," as they spell their names, are new road, and that Stephen Aumack witnesses to this second deed.g Solomon operated a grist mill. Teunis Aumack married Lena, a daughter of Jacob -Wells' Memorial Address at Brick Church, Thysen Laen (Lane) and Elizabeth page 87. Barkalow, his wife, and had the lAbraham Emans and Hendrick Emans. wno following children baptized: settled at Six Mile Run, Somerset county. N. in 1703, were sons of Andrews Emans. who J., Jannetje, Nov. 24. 1723. came to America in 1661 and settled at Grave- Child unnamed. August 8, 1725. send. L. I. This name in Monmouth county Elizabeth. August 5, 1733. is spelled Emmons. Margaret, wife of now Afhie. August 17. 1735. Emans. was a member of the above Abraham Jan. April 15, 1738. Dutch church in 1713. See Wells' Monmouth Mathys. August 2, 1742. Memorial Address, page 85. {Book G of Deeds, page 61. etc., Monmouth [Book H of Deeds, pau'e 237, Monmouth 114, Monmouth •ords. 'Minutes of Monmouth courts. 1735-1744. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Teunis and Stephen Aumack were General into a declaration of war born at Flatlands, L. I., and were the against England. Such an attack must sons ot Theunis Janse VanAmach, of cause war as a child might know. This that place. He is named among the in England would be reprensented as a citizens who took the oath of allegiance defensive war, and so, the Protestant in 1687. and he is then put down as party would be compelled, nolens vol- having been 14 years in America.** The ens, to stand up for their country. name is there spelled as VanAmach. I As Charles II and his secret instiga- do not know how many children he tor, Louis XIV expected and intended, had. The name was first spelled in this capture of the Dutch colony in Monmouth "Amak" and "Amack." America, together with an attack on In Book A of Marriages, page 59, is their African trading posts at about record of a marriage, where the parties the same time, and the seizure of Dutch were both of this family, and it shows merchant ships, compelled the States how unsettled they were a century ago tieneral to declare war against Eng- in the spelling of this name. land. The successes of the Dutch ad- "Teunis Aumack to Mary Aamach, mirals at sea, together with other Nov. 26, 1801," is the way it is entered. troubles, led the English Parliament to According to tradition Theunis Janse interfere with the purposes of then- VanAmach was a marine on one of King'. A hollow peace was patched up, Admiral Cornelius Evertsen's or Jacob but the English puppet of the French Binckes' ships, when they compelled monarch, held to the same resolution to the English to haul down their flag- destroy if possible, the Holland Repub- over New York in 1673. The red. white lic. It oecame necessary, however, to and blue of the Netherlands Republic educate public opinion, and inflame the waved over New York and New Jersey passions of the English people, in order for about a year. VanAmach. then a to overcome the opposition of the Pro- testant leaders. Pamphlets and other came attached to the daughter of a writings were circulated, filled with the Dutch settler who lived in Brooklyn. most outrageous accusations against Either his term of enlistment expired, the Dutch. or he was discharged, for when the A roorbach was circulated through fleet sailed away, he remained and be- England that Admiral VanTromp. as came a resident of Flatlands, where he they called him, after defeating the raised a family. He is therefore the English fleet in the late war, had hoist- progenitor of all the Aumacks and ed a broom at his masthead and cruised Aumocks in Monmouth and Ocean up and down the English coast, to show counties. that he had swept the English ships This family can therefore look back from the seas. to one of the Dutchmen who wrested This canard was well calculated to the New Netherlands from the English arouse the patriotism and wrath of the in 1673. and helped fight in the mem- English masses, and make them sup- orable war of that year, as their pro- port any alliance, even with the Turks. genitor. This conquest of the New to punish such insolence. There was Netherlands was not a secret, treacher- no one in England to contradict this ous attack, without a declaration of lie, so it run its lull course, and arous- war. but a fair conquest after announced the English people to bitter anger ed hostilities. England and France with and fury against the Dutch. Admiral the German Provinces of Munster and bra iff ith- Cologne, had combined in an alliance to out the bravado of the French or the wipe out the Republic of Holland trom cant and hypocrisy of the English. He the map of Europe. It is true, there was no more likely t" perpetrate such was a party in England opposed to this a puerile, fantastic and idiotic act, than alliance and war, but they were made General Grant was to stick a peacock up principally of the old Republicans leather in his hat, and strut around

and Roundheads , who had followed with it, after the surrender at Appo- Cromwell. They knew King Charles mattox. Nevertheless, every charge II was a papist at heart, and this al- against the Dutch was believed without liance was really a blow at the Pro- any question. No one ever asked how testant religion, and to restore the it was possible to see a little broom, Roman Hierarchy to its old power over fastened high up among the ropes and the world. Charles II had attacked and sails of a ship's mast, two or three seized the Dutch colony of New York miles off at sea from the English coast. in 1661. in order to provoke the States Like the story of the Dutch drinking intoxicating liquors before suing into >VoI. O'Call. Doc. Hist, of N. Y., p. 661 action, it was a lie cut out ol the whole — ;

~~EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

cloth. At that time and for many generations after, it was the custom of the English navy to serve out grog- to their sailors before going- into action. JOHN DRYDEN." It was supposed to give them courage, es what he calls a prologue yet in this, as in many other things, in verse as follows: they charged all their vices on the "As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners' hands. Dutch, while they arrogated all the vir- Court the rich knave that gripes tues to their mort- themselves. gag'd lands. It would have been far more in ac- The first fat buck of all the Season's sent. cordance with the truth, to have label- And keeper takes no fee in compliment led it Cockney or British courage, in- The Dotage of some Englishmen is such. stead of Dutch. Not only were such To fawn on those who ruin them— the Dutch. roorbachs industriously circulated, but They shall have all, rather than make a war With those, who of the plays were written and acted in the same religion are. The Streights. the Guiney Trade, theatres of England, showing the Dutch the Herrings up in the most odious light. Nay to keep Friendship, they shall pickle you. Even the famous John Dryden devot- Some are resolved not to find out the cheat. ed his talents to composing such a play, Hut cuckold-like, loves him who does the feat: What injuries which was acted to crowded houses, so'ever upon us fall, still, Yet the same religion answers all : and excited the fury and hatred of the Religion wheedled you to Civil War, lower classes, so that private citizens Drew English blood, and Dutchmen's now would of Holland were mobbed in the streets

of London. This play was written and Be gull'd no longer, for you'll find it true. acted long before the open alliance be- They have no more Religion, faith— than you: tween France and England was con- Interest's the God they worship in their State. summated, yet there are several pas- And you. I take it, have not much of that. Well, monarchies may own Religious name, sages in it which point to it. and show But States are Athiests in their very frame. that Dryden was either conversant They share a sin. and such proportions fall with the plans of the king, or else That like a stink, 'tis nothing to 'em all. wrote the play under particular in- How they love England, you shall see this day: structions. Straws, it is said, show No map shows Holland truer than our Play: View then their falsehoods, rapine, which way the wind blows, and this cruelty : play coming from a man like John And think what once they were, they still would be: Dryden, shows that it was one of the Rut hope not either language, plot, or art. methods used to educate public opinion, 'Twas writ in haste but with an English heart : and shut the mouths of the Protestant And let's, hope, wit in Dutchman would be or peace party. This play, called Am- As much improper as would honesty. boyna. met with great success. The Aiub.. theatres were crowded to overflowing a. or the English by the people, and it seemed to move Merchants." them as much as the play of Uncle The boyna. with a dialogue Tom's Cabin influenced the people of between the the North, the of Dutch Governor and his fiscal, in which they other, in Abraham Lincoln. A strong appeal to congratulate each dam- the feelings will often move the masses aging the English East India company more strongly than the best argument to an immense amount, and then set- addressed to their reason. The copy of The fls the oi "Amboylia" which I have, was printed carry in London, England, during the latter part of the 17th century. It begins with a personal address to the "Right Hon- orable Lord Clifford of Chudleigh," who appears to have been high treasurer of England and one of Dryden's patrons. As a specimen of fulsome flattery, and snobbish sycophancy it is unequalled. Dryden says that this play was "con- ned illi

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"I pretend not by it (the play) to make any of manner return for your favors : and that I only give you a new occasion for exercising your goodness to me. in pariliiniiig tin- failing!. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

English Merchant—"Not g gentlemen, Dutch Governor and his fiscal then ar- you have stolen the arms < best families ranged a treacherous plot against the in Europe, wanting : and te. you make English. They falsely accuse them of hold with the first of Div attril trying to capture the Dutch fort, and call'd yourselves the 'High and Mighty ;' though, let me tell you, that besides the blas- put them to horrible tortures to elicit phemy, the title is ridiculous, for. 'High' is no a confession. Scene opens and shows more proper for the Netherlands, than 'Might' the English tortured in the most fiend- is, for seven little rascally Provinces, no big- ish manner by fire and water, while the ger in all than a Shire in England. But for Dutchmen joke and laugh at their suf- my main theme, your ingratitude to England. ferings. The Governor remarks, as We have set you up and you undermind our they burn the English Power and Circumvent our trade." merchant, that he will light his Dutch Fiscal— "Yes, and good reason, if our pipe just where the "wyck" is fed with fat; that interest requires it ; hut-ides you give one of English the names of the 'Almighty' to your high men "the tobacco tastes divinely after being in England, by calling them Lords, and so so fired." make the vulgar people worship them, as After torture, the English captain is Deities or Human Gods." put to death, and the play closes with English Merchant— "That leads me to your a scene in which the Dutch are feasting religion, which is made up of interest ; at home ye tolerate all worships in them who can pay arM making merry over a division of for it, and abroad you were latterly so civil to the wealth of the murdered English. the Emperor of Pegu (Peru) as to offer sac- Then follows an "Epilogue" as Dryden rifices to his idols."— calls it. as follows: Dutch Fiscal "Yes, this is all true, and you were such precise fools it." English — as to refuse To one well-born, th' affront is worse and more. English Merchant "For frugality, we con- When he's abus'd and baffled by a Boor: fess we cannot compare with you. Our English With an ill-grace the Dutch their mischiefs do. live like merchants noblemen, while you gen- They've both ill nature and ill manners too. tlemen, if you have any, live like Boors. You Well may they boast themsalves an ancient are the mill horses of Mankind ; a pickled her- nation. ring is all your riches. You have good title to For they bred cheat all Europe, for you cozen your own fashion : backs and bellies." And their new Comn Dutch Fiscal—"Yes, this is all true." Only from honor and civility. English Merchant— "Your liberties are a Venetians do not more uncouthly ride greater cheat than any of the rest. You are Than did their Lubber State mankind bestride. ten times taxed people in more than any Their sway became "em with as ill a mien. Christendom. You flatter our Kings and ruin As their own paunches swell above their chin : their subjects." Yet is their empire no true growth but humor. Dutch Fiscal—"You English are so honest, And only two kings touch can cure the that we Dutch can easily fool you in name of our Protestant religion." As Cato did his Afric fruits display : English Merchant "I prophesy the day will So we before your eyes their Indies lay. come, when some English king will see through All loyal English will like him conclude your hypocricies and frauds and protect the Let Ca?sar live and Carthage be subdued. honest and true-hearted English, against the rascalities of the Dutch, and resume the fisher- This is a clear and plain effort to ies of the seas, and the riches of the East educate public opinion in England, so that an alliance with France against the Some light scenes and dialogues are Holland would be popular among This play is well con- next introduced to relieve the gravity English masses. anger and pride, of the play. Then an English woman, trived to stir up their for that very purpose. pale, weak, and in tattered garments, and was intended fell in with the policy and purposes appears on the stage. She tells a hor- It II, and can see why rible story, how she and her husband of Charles we favorite of the court and had been on an English ship, and by Dryden was a treachery certain Hollanders had mur- patronized by the high officials. and acted in dered the English crew and plundered This play was written of London several years the ship. That she and her husband the theatres alliance between England had escaped in a small boat, and after before the Holland was con- terrible suffering her husband died, but and France against aggressive movement she was rescued by a noble English summated by an captain. Then follow scenes in which against the Republic. great outrages are perpetrated by a son of the Dutch Governor, and the English Captain, Towerson, fights with Kings refer to and kills him in a fair duel. The —

~~EFFORTS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND TO CRUSH HOLLAND REPUBLIC.~~

Louis XIV of France was one of the most astute and able of the king's of Europe. His zeal and devotion to the The annals of the human race record Roman Hierarchy is proved by the ban- but lew instances where moral force ishment of half a million of his protes- has so successfully defied every distant subjects from France. These ref- ity for 3d repelled :h de ugees were known as French Hugue- perate odds by invincible heroism, nots. As Macaulay, Dickens, and other "At sea, where greatly superior num- truthful historians of England have bers were on the side of the allied shown, Charles II was a mere puppet fleets of France and England, the un- of this champion of Rome. Behind both tiring courage of the Dutch would not stood the priests, dictating and urging consent to be defeated. On land the a union which would restore, as they dikes were broken up and the country thought, the church to its old authority drowned. The son of Grotius, con- and power in the world. Their object cealing his anger, at ignominious pro- was to crush the Protestant Republic posals of the French, protracted the of Holland. They were not only here- negotiations till the rising waters tics but republicans, setting a bad ex- could form a wide and impassable moat ample to Christendom. Their great around the cities. At Groningen, men. prosperity and wealth also excited jeal- women and children worked on the for- ousy and alarm. This Republic so near tifications. Fear was not permitted to the territory of France and England the women. William of Orange (after- was a continual menace to the exis- wards King of England), was advised tence of monarchies. If people without by Arlington, one of the great Virgin- a king could prosper so, what necessity ian proprietors, to seek advancement was there for royalty and an aristo- and gain for himself, by yielding to cratic or Brahmin caste, to uphold it. England: 'My country,' calmly replied Kingcraft and priestcraft were there- the young man, 'trusts in me. 1 will fore in hearty agreement to wreck this not sacrifice it to my interests, but if " upstart Republic. These "seven ras- needs be, die with it in the last ditch.' cally little provinces," as Dryden put The landing of the British troops in big Ens -h sill Holland could only be prevented bv The two great monarchies of France three naval engagements. The veteran and England could easily wipe Holland DeRuyter and the younger VanTromp, off the map of Europe, everybody a son of the old Admiral, had been bit- thougnt. The two Catholic Bishops of ter enemies. The latter had been dis- the German Provinces of Munster and graced on the charge of the former. Cologne also joined this alliance with June 7. 1673. at the battle of Soulsbay, England and France to destroy Holland. where the Dutch with 52 ships of the This fact alone would show that behind line engaged an enemy with 80, De- this alliance of nations stood the Roman Ruyter was successful in his first man- Hierarchy. Our American historian. oeuvers, while the extraordinary ardor Bancroft, thus describes this great and of VanTromp, plunged him headlong most eventful contest: into danger and he could not recover. "Charles II had begun hostilities as a The frank and true hearted DeRuyter, pirate, and Louis XIV did not disguise checked himself in his career of vic- his purpose of conquest. tory, and turned to the relief of his "With armies amounting to 200,000 rival. "Oh, there comes grandfather to men, to which Holland could oppose no the rescue!" shouted VanTromp in ecs- more than 20.000, the French monarch tasy. "I will never desert him, as long invaded the Republic. Within a month as I breathe." The issue of the battle Holland was exposed to the same des- was uncertain. June 14. seven days perate dangers she had encountered a later, a second battle was fought, and century before, while the English fleet, Hi. advantage was with the Dutch. hovering off the coast, endeavored to About three weeks after the Dutch cap- land English troops into the heart of the the wealthiest of the provinces. Ruin iblf lflict : ! ! !

EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH. place near Helder. The enthusiasm of and fear they inspired with the gibbet, the Duloh mariners dared almost infin- hot pitch and dismembered corpses ite deeas of valor. hung up at nearly every cross road in The noise of the artillery boomed England. along the low coast of Holland. The This victory of the Dutch made the churches on the shore and the dikes deliverance of the English by William were thronged with people, praying to of Orange possible. The hand of Prov- the God of Battles to give victory to idence was never more signally dis- the risht cause and their country. The played in the history of states and na- contest raged and exhausted, and was tions than in the defeat of these power- again renewed with unexampled fury. ful nations by "seven little rascally Victory was with DeRuyter and Van- provinces, all told no bigger than an Tromp. The British fleet retreated and English shire." to use Dryden's expres- pur Thi sion. It was a year big with future English Parliament to refuse Charles events in the history of Christendom II further supplies. This led to peace and the world, as subsequent results with England, although war went on show. with Prance. At one time affairs seem- The sacrifices, services, and patriot- ed so hopeless, with the great French ism of William of Orange * in this war army in the heart of the country, and wth England, France and the two Ger- the mighty allied fleet on the coast it man provinces, together with those of was resolved with inflexible Dutch res- his great grandfather, Willam the olution, to defend the country to the Silent in the Spanish war. have made last, and. if all failed, to take to their their names venerated in Holland, as ships, and sail to some other part of Washington's is in America. the world, and there found a new coun- The descendants of the Dutch in the try and so preserve the liberties of United States claim all three as their which Europe was unworthy. worthy trio of heroes, and worthy of About a month after the defeat of each other to stand in eternal union the allied fleets, or between the 7th and and glory. For all three, one as much 13th of September, 1673, Capt. Knyff as the other, they feel a veneration and and Lieut. Snell with a company of gratitude which words cannot express. Dutch mariners from one of Admiral The following song, so popular in Hol- Evertsen's ships which lay in the North land, gives but a feeble echo of what is River before New York, came over in in the hearts of all who prize justice, a sloop to Monmouth county, landed at independence and liberty for "the Fris- Waycake creek, and marched up to ians shall be free as long as the winds Middletown village and administered of heaven blow!" the oath of allegiance to the States General of Holland to the citizens there We leven in Nederland vrij en blij.t hoezea and then went to Shrewsbury and did Wars zijn we van elke dwingelandij. hoezee the same. The people with exception Vervloekt zij eeuwig het vreemde juk. of a dozen or so who were absent, took Op vrijheid, rrijheid zijn we tuk. VIVAT ORAN.IE. HOEZEE! the oath of allegiance. So our people of Monmouth were a part of the little Netherland Republic and entitled to some share of the glory which belonged to their mother country at this time. Oi-anjt'khmt lijn we dus op en top! If this alliance had succeeded in crush- Oranje boven. Oranje voorop ing Holland, there would have been no VIVAT ORANJE. HOEZEE! Stadtholder with his Dutch army to Oranje blijv, Nederlands toeverlaat, h deliver the Protes- land at Torbay. and Alleen met Oranje ons Nederland staat tants of England from the tyranny of Lang leve Oranje ! mi Wit en Blaauw! James II. The great revolution of 1688 would never have occurred. James II. VIVAT ORANJE. HOEZEE! backed by the subtle brain and strong arm of Louis XIV would perhaps have tVrij en Blij means Free and Happy. crushed protestantism in England, as Bishop Burnet thus describes William of completely as Louis XIV had done in Orange France by revoking the Edict of Nantes. "I had occasion to know him well, having For after the failure of Monmouth's observed him very carefully in a course of 16 rebellion, the spirit of the English peo- The savage and "He believed in the truths of the Christian ple seemed crushed. religion very firmly, and expressed a horror of brutal punishments inflicted by Jeffrey atheism and blasphemy. and Kirke hardly called forth a whim- "He was constant in his private prayers and per of protest, so abject was the terror in reading the Scriptures. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

"His indifference to the form of church gov- David he may be called "The man of God's ernment and his being zealous for toleration, right hand whom he made strong for himself.' together with his cold behavior towards the He received, however, in his life time little clergy, pave them generally an ill opinion of else than calumnies, abuse and ingratitude him. He loved the Dutch, and was much from the nation he served so well. He once beloved among them ; but the ill returns he remarked to Lord Halifax, when speaking of the English nation, their jealousies the treatment he had received from the two of hi: per great parties of England, that all the difference .ind. id had he knew between them was 'the Tories would nated them, which he did cut throat in the morning and the Whigs in conceal, though he the afternoon." Subsequent generations and effect i upon his business. posterity in England have acknowledged his 'Watching over the court of France, and great services and abilities, but in a grudging bestirring himself against their practices was spirit and without any heartiness, as though the prevailing passion of his whole life. I jealous of the contrast between their native considered him a person raised up by God to born monarchs and this Dutchman from over resist the power of France and the progress of the sea. Macaulay, who is of Scotch ancestry, tyranny and persecution. has done him justice but even he thus des- "The series of five Princes of Orange that cribes him: 'His manners, (when King of was now ended in him was the noblest succes- England) were altogether Dutch. Even his sion of heroes we find in any history. And countrymen thought him blunt. To foreigners the 30 years from lo72 to his death in which he often seemed churlish. In his intercourse he acted so great a part, carry in them so with the world he appeared ignorant or negli- many amazing steps of a glorious and dis- gent of those arts which double the value of a tinguishing Providence that in the words of

~~THE BARKALOW FAMILY.~~

Alter the New Netherlands were their children baptized. For this reason seized in 1664 by the English Govern- it is now difficult to trace the Barkalow ment the public records were kept in family. This name. too. in changing the English language. Many of the from the Dutch to the English lan- scriveners who wrote legal papers like guage, has been spelled in many differ- wills, deeds, etc.. were ignorant of the ent ways, as VanBerculo, VanBurkalow, Dutch language, so they spelled and Borckelloo, Berkelue. etc. wrote Holland names, like the Indians, The original emigrant from Holland from sound. They also made many sur- was William Janse Barkelo. He came names from the Dutch custom of call- to America at an early date, and settled ing a person by his christian name fol- permanently at Flatbush. Long Island, lowed bv his father's christian name, where he raised a family of several with z. s. se. or sen. affixed. Thus if girls and boys. Among the list of per- Derrick Barkalow had a son named sons taking the oath of allegiance to Pieter, he wou.ld be called Peter Der- the English government in 1687, and ricks, or Derricksen. If the latter had published on page 661. vol. 1. O'Callag- a son Jan. he would be known as Jan han's Documentary History of Xiu Pietersen, or Pieterz. If he called his York, we find the name of William son Hendrick; he would be designated Williamsen Borcklo, who is put down' as Hendrick Jans, or Jansen. The Eng- as born in America, and a resident at lish conveyancers would often write that date of Platlands. Also, Jan Wil- these names according to above custom liamsen Borcklo, also a native and then in deeds and other legal documents, resding at Gravesend, L. I. Elizabeth which went on permanent record. In Barkalow, who married Jacob Thysen two or three generations such names Laen (Lane), and whose name is found would become fixed and unchangable. among the original members of the according to the English custom, to Monmouth Dutch church in 1709, is identify persons and families and keep supposed to be one of his daughters. land titles straight. This is the reason One of his younger sons. Conradt, set- why several family surnames have orig- tled in Somerset county of this state as inated from one Dutch progenitor. It early as 1714, and is the ancestor of the often makes it very difficult and in "Barcalows" there, as they generally some cases impossible, to trace family- spell their names. I have, however, an connections, especially if they frequent- original receipt in my possession given ly changed their residence and neg- 130 years ago. which is signed by "Dan- lected to keep a family record or have iel Barricklo." It is his genuine si&na- EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

ture and shows another of the many tance perhaps was the cause. His name ap- ways the name has been spelled. The pears as a landowner in Upper Freehold town- following is a true copy: "1770, April ship in an assessment made in 1755. while his two 25, then received from Cornelius Ten- brothers, Daniel and Cornelius, are named as freeholders Broeck the sum of the same year in Lower Freehold. seventeen pounds, Cornelius, bapt. Nov. 17, 1717 ; m. Nov. 10. light money, being in full for a yoke 1743, Jannetje, daughter of Stephen Aumack of oxen, I say, received by me. Daniel and Jannetje Janse, his wife. He purchased a Barricklo." Another son of the first large tract of land in the southern part of emigrant who was born at Flatbush, 1'YrrlmM lip. It lay on both sides of Long Island, and learned the weaver's between Freehold and Howell trade was Derrick. He married on was partly bounded by Squan i lived and died, but I do not Long Island, September 11, 1709, Janetje know where he was buried. A number of his VanArsdalen, and soon after removed descendants have owned and lived on part of to Monmouth county, for both of them these lands down to the present day. He and are named as members of the Dutch his descendants drifted away from the Dutch church here in 1711. He seems to have church, because of the distance, I suppose. been among the active workers in this The last recorded connection with the church in which his father had been zealous church, and was made an elder in 1739. a member and prominent officer was the baptism of He died in 1741 before all his children a daughter named Jannetje. June 27. 1756. He had arrived at age. The minutes of had three sons baptized before, viz ; Derk. the Monmouth courts show that he was April 16, 1745: Stephanus July 24. 1748. and on the grand jury in January term of Johannes March 24. 1751. His name appears 1735. and several times afterwards. His as a grand juror at a court held at Freehold name is here spelled "Derk Barkelo." July 1781. He and his two sons. Stephen and John, were members of the league for protec- In Book E of Deeds, page 336. etc.. tion and retaliation formed by the patriotic Monmouth clerk's office, is record of a citizens of Monmouth during the dark and deed from Thomas Foreman and Mary, terrible days of the Revolution. See page 373 his wife, of Freehold township, to of Barber & Howe's Hist. Coll.. of N. J. His "Derrick Barcalow" of same township, son Stephen, is said to have been one of the dated April 15. 1719. conveying in fee most active and resolute of the men who served under Col. 90 acres in same township. It is gen- Asher Holmes. He was in the erally described as bounded on the battle of Germantown and distinguished himself by his coolness and courage. This north by the Burlington road, south story was re-published by the late Edwin and west by John Oakerson's lands, and Salter on page 24 of Old Times in Old Mon- east by two ditches and a run of water. mouth, and is entitled "Jersey Blue at the Passequenecke brook is also mentioned Battle of Germantown. Barkalow of Old Mon- in this description. It was part of a mouth." Stephen Barkalow must have prized tract conveyed to Thomas Foreman by his gun highly for in his will on record in the Monmouth Surrogate's office it is the first deed from John Oakerson dated Mav 1, article mentioned. He bequeaths this gun and 1710. accouterments to Stephen, son of his son Jacob Laen and John Sutven (Sut- David. phen) are the witnesses. Daniel, bapt. Jan. 1. 1720 : m. Oct. 17. 1744. The records of the Monmouth Dutch Annetje, daughter of Johannes Luyster and church show that Derrick Barkalow Lucretia Brower.f his wife, who was baptized and Jane VanArsdalen. his wife, had April 8. 1725. Daniel Barkalow had only one the following children baptized: of his children baptized. This was Jannetje. Dec. 29, 1745. I e died June 28. 1795. aged 7-f ys.. 6 mos., 12 d.. according to his tomb- Alke (Aeltje) Oct. 1. 1710: m. Jan. son of stone in the old graveyard at East Freehold. Jan Pieterse Wyckoff and Neeltje Williamse Maria, bapt. Aug. 5. 1722 : m. about 1743, Couwenhoven, his wife. first Abraham Sutven, (Sutphen) ; had two Elizabeth, bant. May 11. 1712: about m. children baptized: Antje, May 6. 1744, and 1735, Ryck Suydam. Her name is entered on Jacob, June 17, 1749. Married second. Anthon- church records as a communicant in 1740, as ius Holzart (Hulshart) about 1754, and had follows: "Elizabeth Borckloo, wife of Reik one child Jacques, bapt. Oct. 30, 1756. Zedam." She had the following children bap- Helena, bapt. Dec. 17, 1723 : m. Isaac Voor- tized: Elizabeth. Dec. 20, 1736; Ryke. Sept. hees. and had a child Derrick, bapt. June 22. 10, 1738, and Jannetje. May 24. 1741. 1755, who removed to Ohio, and was grand- Wilm (William) bapt. Jan. 16, 1714 : m. father of Hon. Daniel Voorhees of Indiana, the Dec. 2. 1737, Aeltje, daughter of Aert (Arthur) famous orator known as the "Tall sycamore of Williamson* and Annetje Couwenhoven. his the Wabash." Another son. David, born Dec. wife. Only two of their children were bap- I, 1757. removed to Somerset county. N. J. tized: Jannetje Sept. 4, 1738. and Aert, Aug.

10. 1740. Soon after this last date he removed Janeka (Jannetje) bapt. Jan. 21, 1727 ; m. to Upper Freehold and settled on a tract of about 1755, Isaac Sutvan, and had one child. land there, where he lived until his death Lea. bapt. May 16. 1756. sometime in 1766. After removing to Upper Freehold he seems to have lost all connection Wi .-West Si-t - with the church of his forefathers. The dis- EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Upper Freehold, and had several sons and daughters, but I am unable to give the names of all of them. Tobias Polhemus, a citizen of Upper Freehold, made his will November 26, 1780. It was proved January 22. 1781. and recorded at Trenton, N. J. He mentions his daughter Sarah as wife of grantoi was tie n residing on this prop- "Ort" (Aert) Barkalow and a grandson erty. The Jacob Couwenhoven named named Tobias Barkalow. This Ort in the deed was well known throughout Barkalow 1 think, is the same person Monmouth county as "Farmer Jacob." heretofore named as baptized August His will was proved Nov. 15, 1825, and 10, 17 In, as Ai-rt (Arthur). In Book P recorded at Freehold in Book B of of Deeds, p. 62. etc., Monmouth records, Wills, p. 466, etc. He devised his prop- is record of a deed dated April 17. 1767. erty equally to his two sons. Hendrick from Arthur (Aert) Barkalow to Rich- and Garret, who were his only children. ard (Derrick) Barkalow, his brother. He and his wife, Mary Schanck, are Both are described as residents of Upper buried in Schanck-Couwenhoven ceme- Freehold, and the lands conveyed are tery. Pleasant Valley. Garret, his situate in that township, beginning at younger son. married Alice, daughter of a stake 12 links from southwest corner Tobias HendricksonS and Rebecca of a plantation formerly belonging to Coward his wife, and removed to Upper Leffert Leffertson. deceased, and is Freehold township. He perhaps resided bounded on one side by Doctor's creek. on this farm which Arthur Barcalow After a particular description by chains sold to his father. and links, tne following general boun- Garret Couwenhoven's wi'l was prov- daries are given: 215 acres bounded ed January 14, 1832. and recorded at southerly by lands of Richard James Freehold in Book C of Wills, p. 247. and Michael Mount; easterly by lands His sons-in law, James Ivins and of Joseph Grover and Luke DeWitt, Thomas Meirs are named as executors. northerly by lands of Elisha Lawrence, He and his wife are interred in yard of and westerly by other lands of said "Old Yellow Meeting House" known in Arthur Barkalow. early days as "the Crosswicks Baptist In Book Q of Deeds, p. 28. is recorded Church." His headstone gives date 1. 1805, Ann a deed dated April from of his death as Dec. 21. 1831. aged 56 Tapscott, (late Ann Barkalow) and yrs., 7 rr.., 1 d. Alice Hendrickson his Tapscott. her husband, James James wife, is buried by him. She died Au- Baird and Joseph James, executors of gust 20, 1855, aged 80 yrs., 5 m., 7 d. (Derrick) deceased, Richard Barcalow, Their son Jacob, who died when 28 Upper to Potts of of Freehold, Thomas years old. and their daughter Cath- For consideration of same township. a arine, wife of William Meirs who died $13,129.80, a tract in that township is when 20, are interred near them. conveyed, and described as being a part of a larger tract conveyed to William T the name in U pper Freehold, purchased Barcalow, deceased, by deed dated April those lands which descended to his 3d, 1761. from heirs of Leffert the children from Joseph Aplin. William Leffertson.* deceased. It is therein Miller, and the heirs at law of Leffert stated that William Barcalow had died Lefferson. The above is all the know- intestate, and the lands described in ledge I have of the "Barcalows" who this deed to Potts, descended to his son have lived in that part of Monmouth Arthur as an heir-at-law. That Arthur Barcalow had paid certain sums to his brothers and sisters, and also by deed dated April 17. 1767, (deed aforesaid in "In Book E of Deeds, p. 334. etc.. Monmouth Book P. p. 62. etc.). quit claimed to his clerk's office, is a record of a deed from John brother Richard (Derrick) the tract Lawrence and Rachel his wife, of Freehold township, to "Aert (Arthur) Williamson of conveyed to Potts. The said now Flatlands in Kings county, on the island of his will dated Richard Barcalow by Nassau," dated January 3, 1718, for 370 acres March 14, 1803. directed his executors in Freehold township, and described as the to sell this tract containing 218.83 acres. most part of a tract called "Cooper's Neck." Ann Tapscott. the widow of said and beginning at a corner of land formerly Richard but now wife of James Tap- Governor Laurie's, and bounded S. W. partly by lands of Nicholas Lake and partly by lands scott joins in the deed with executors to formerly Isaac Bryans ; S. E. by the "brook relinquish her thirds or dower right. that parts it from Colts Neck :" E. by lands In Book M of Deeds, p. 283. etc.. Mon- of Peter Nevins (Neviusl. and N. E. by unsur- mouth records, is a deed showing that veyed lands. "Deficit Barkeloo," William Law- EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. rence. Jr., and Ruleph Schenck are witnesses. William D. Hendrickson [son of Daniel Hen- William Lawrence, Jr., seems to have done drickson and Elizabeth Stephenson, his wife I considerable conveyancing for the people at d. Jan. 14, 1823. aged 30 y, 2 m, 15 d. that time and later. His spelling of Dutch Peter Luyster, b. June 18. 1806. [son of names in deeds and wills, etc., had much to John P. Luyster and Annie Couwenhoven. his do with making sev wife] d. Dec. 1. 1875, aged 68 y, 8 m. His spelling went oi Miranda Suydam [wife of said Peter Luy- in the course of tim v-'Ulde ster] d. Oct. 24, 1855, aged 47 y, 6 m. 24 d. cedent for later Sarah Luyster [daughter of Peter Luyster Aert Williamson and Annetje his wife be- and .Miranda Suydam, his wife] d. May 22, came communicants in the Dutch church of 1S50. aged 19 y. 6 m, 21 d. Monmouth in 1717. John P. Luyster [son of Peter Luyster and tThe following inscriptions were taken by Miranda Suydam, his wife I d. Mar. 26. 1858. Mrs. Lydia H. S. Conover in June, 1899, from aged 17 y, 10 m, headstones in the family burying ground of John C. Luyster [son of Cornelius Luyster] the Luysters at Holland, in Holmdel township: d. Oct. 28, 1847. aged 75 y. 11 m. 21 d. Johannis Luyster, [son of Cornelius Luyster Catharine [wife of John C. Luyster afore- and Sarah Catharine Nevius. his wife] d. Jan. 18, 1864. aged 77 y. 11 m, 26 d. ~" 29, 1756, aged 64 y, 10 m. 7 d. ">. 2. 1800. aged 36 y. 2 Lucretia Brower [wife of above and daughter of John Browerjd. Apr. 12, 1771. aged 83 y, 4 m. Johannis Luyster was born at Flat- bush, L. I.. March 22. 1691 ; m. Lucretia Brower April 10. 1716. His grandfather. d. Apr. 28. 1826. aged Peter Cornelius Luyster, imigrated from Hol- land in 1656 and settled at Flatbush, L. I. Sarah Luyster [daughter of above and wife of Ryck Suydam] d. Sept. 7, 1764. aged 47 Snyder, d. March 9. 1816. aged 39 y. Johannis Luyster. Jr.. [son of Johannis Luy- ster and Lucretia Brower above] d. Sept. 7, Snyder, d. Sept. 13, 1815. aged 36 y. 1766. aged 43 y. 3 m. 13 d. Lucretia Luyster [daughter of Johannis

Luyster and Lucretia Brower ] d. Mar. 26, 1792. aged 65 y, 6 m. 26 d. Cornelius Luyster [son of Johannis and Lucretia Luyster aforesaidl d. Oct. 7, 1792, d. Oct. 7, 1835. aged aged 71 y, 9 m, 24 d. Arinthia Couwenhoven [daughter of William Jacob H. Aun Vpril 6. aged 7S Couwenhoven and Arinthia Bennett, his wife y, 9 m, 2 d. and first wife of Cornelius Luyster aforesaid I Francinkey. wife of Jacob H. d. Apr. 16. 1769. aged 46 y. 1 m. 2 d. Feb. 21. 1832, aged 39 y. 11 m. ; Margaret VanDerbelt [daughter of Aris Eleanor Stephenson d. Feb. 24 aged Janse Vanderbilt and Jannetje Cornelise Cou- wenhoven and second wife of Cornelius Luy- JLeffert Leffertson was a son of Auke Lef- ster aforesaid], d. Nov. 24. 1816. aged 85 y. ferts and Mary TenEyck. his wife. Baptized October 14, 1711, married Jannetje. daimhter Sarah Vandert d. May 19. 181 of Aert Williamson, and died on his farm in y. 3 16 Upper Freehold township, August 4. 1755. His Peter Luyster [son of Johannis Luyster and daughter Mary married Tobias, son of Johan- Lucretia Brower, aforesaid] d. Feb. 12. 1810. nes Polhemus and Annetje TenEyck, his wife. aged 90 y, 9 m. 7 d. His son, Auckey Leffertson, married Sarah, Anne Luyster. [wife of Peter Luyster afore- daughter of Garret Garretse Schenck and Jan- said] d. Nov. 23, 1799. aged 73 y. 10 m. 15 d. netje Covenhoven, his wife. This last couple in of Brick Lucretia. | daughter of Peter and Anne Luys- are buried yard church. Marlboro. ter aforesaid] d. Dec. 29, 1838. aged 78 y. Tobias Polhemus of Upper Freehold, made 4 m. 16 d. 0, proved January John P. Luyster d. Sept. 11, 1848, aged 84 y. rded 9 m„ 12 d. John. Nathaniel and Joseph ; grandson John, Anne Couwenhoven h. Sept. 18, 1764, daugh- son of his son Daniel ; son Leffert or Lefferts : ter of Matthias and Williampe Couwenhoven], daughter Sarah, wife of Ort Barkalow ; Tobias wife of John P. Luyster, d. Nov. 6, 1853. aged Barkalow. grandson : daughters Hannah. Cath- 88 y.. 1 m. 18 d. Anne Luyster d. Nov. 1, 1862. aged 69 y.. and Arthur. 3 m. 20 d. STobias Hendrickson was a son of Guisbert Willemiw Luyster b. Aug. 7. 1791, [daugh- (Gilbert! Hendrickson and Elizabeth Polhemus ter of John P. Luyster and Anne Couwen- his wife, of Upper Freehold township. Eliza- hoven his wife], d. Dec. 12, 1875, aged 84 y.. beth Polhemus was baptized August 13. 1710, 5 m. 3 d. and was a daughter of Johannes Polhemus and Jane Luyster d. Sept. 12, 1862, aged 60 y., Annetje TenEyck. his wife. Tobias had been his Tobias 5 m. 28 d. named for maternal grandfather. 12. daughter TenEyck of Brooklyn. L. I. Sarah Luyster, b. July 1795. I of John P. Luyster and Anne Couwenhoven. Tobias I endrickson and Rebeka Coward, his his wife], m. May 8. 1816, William D. Hen- wife, lived and died on a farm in Upper drickson ; d. Oct. 15. 1821. aged 26 y.. 3 m. 3 d. Freehold, and are buried in yard of "Old Yel- EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Inscriptions on tombstone of Tobias Hen- the "Crosswicks Baptist church." It was or- drickson gives date of death May 25. 1811. ganized in 1766 by certificate from the Baptist aged 7(1 yrs. 11 mos, 2 d. His wife died June congregation of Middletown. 6. 1815, aged 72 yrs, 7 mos. 10 d. Two of Joseph Holmes. Jonathan Holmes and 39 their sons are also buried here, viz: Samuel other members of Middletown Baptist church and Gilbert. residing in and about Crosswicks, desire to Samuel Hendrickson died March 13. 1813. organize a church there and are authorized to aged 14 yrs. 1 m. 3 d. His wife. Alckey, died constitute a church and are dismissed from March 2. 1828. aged 58 yrs, 1 m, 17 d. this congregation of which they are members Gilbert Hendrickson died February 21, 1837, in full communion. Signed at Middletown. aged 72 yrs. 6 mos, 13 d. His wife Allis

April 5, 1766. Part for whole: (Alice I died January 23. 1852. aged 84 yrs. 2 m. JAMES PEW. Gilbert, a son of the last couple, married JOHN CHASEY. Alchey (Aeltje) Conover, a sister of the well GEORGE TAYLOR. known Samuel Conover. twice sheriff of Mon- RICHARD CRAWFORD. mouth county. He owned and died on the ABEL MORGAN. farm near Sutphen's Corner in Freehold town- JAMES MOTT, upied by his youngest

~~GAREET WALL. Gilbert I b i.d t u\ , leading OBADIAH HOLMES. far of Freehold township. THOMAS GROVER. EDWARD TAYLOR.~~

~~RECORDS OF DANIEL AND CORNELIUS BARKALOW, SONS OF DERRICK.~~

sart and Mary Polhemus his wife, and Daniel and Cornelii !. lived and died in removed to Western New York or Ohio, Freehold township, Daniel left a will and there settled. I do not know of recorded in secretat ' of state's office at any descendants of these three sons Trenton. In Book ? of deeds, p. 640. now living in this county. etc., is record of a deed dated April 10, Cornelius, the third son of Derrick 1806, from Nicholas Barcalow, and Jane Barkalow, the first settler of this name, his wife, and Daniel Barcalow, both of had three sons, Derrick, Stephen and Freehold township. to Catharine Throck- John, who were baptized in the Dutch idow. of Middletown Point. church as already mentioned. All the Matawan). c Dnveying 4 62-100 Barkalows now (1900). residing in n Freehold to\ ,'nship. It is noted Freehold. Atlantic and Howell town- in this eonveyai the grantors get ships are descendants of either Derrick title to this lam nder will of their or Stephen. I cannot learn anything of father. Daniel B; low. dated Febru- the youngest brother, John.

ary 11, 1791. and : as heirs-at law of Derrick lived and died on lands which their brother, Derrick Barcalow. de- came to him from his father, in the ceased. southern part of Freehold township. It therefore appears from this deed He was a weaver by trade and seems to that Daniel Barcalow and Annetje Luy- have carried on that business. After his ster his wife, had three sons. Derrick, death one of his sons, John D.. common- Nicholas and Daniel. ly known as "Preacher Barkalow," Derrick is buried by his father in carried it on until about 1835 or 1840. the old cemetery near East Freehold. His book of accounts is still in exist- His tombstone states that he died July ence, and it may interest some people 28, 1801, aged 23. y. 10 m. 17d. to learn what were the usual charges Nicholas Barcalow was married Jan- for weaving. I have copied two entries uary 14, 1806, to Jane Williamson by from his book as follows: Zenas Conger, an elder of the Independ- ent .Methodist church, according to 1825 March SI. Derrick Barkalow. Sr.. To John D. Barkalow, Dr entry in Book A of marriages in Mon- To weaving 10^ yds. cotton and wool at office. I not mouth county clerk's do 10 cents yer yd, $1.00 find any mention of his name after the 1829 Nov. 15. I.enry Barkalow year 1806. and therefore presume that To John D. Barkalow. Dr he had removed from this county. To weaving 15^ yds. all wool at 1 shil- Daniel the remaining son. married Eleanor, daughter of Squire John Hol- EARL) DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

charges that John D. Barkalow car- April 12, 1751, and ried on was the firstborn several trades or occupations. child of Matthias There are charges Couwenhoven and for making- and Williampe his wife. Williampe was mending boots and shoes, cutting and daug-hter and only surviving child of making- clothing for men, selling dry William Cornelise c.uwenhoven by his goods and groceries, meats, grain and first wife Jannetje Wyckoff. a vegetables besides doing daughter day's work in of Peter Wyckoff and Willemptje hay and harvest, making cider, chop- Schenck his wife, who are named among ping cord wood and other work. John the organizing members of the Mon- D. Barkalow seems to have been what mouth Dutch church .in 1709. Jannetje they call a "jack of all trades." Wyckoff died June 22. 1743. and is bur- A great many of the Barkalows seem ied by her father in Schanck-Couwen- to have dealt with him, and the follow- hoven cemetery. Her husband mar- ing names appear on his account books: ried March 17. 1744, for his 1816-17, John Barkalow, second wife Sr„ Cornelius Antje, daughter of Ex-Sheriff D. Barkalow and Derrick Daniel C. Barkalow- Hendrickson, and then the 1818-19, Cornelius widow of S. Barkalow, Peter his cousin William Jacobse Couwen- Barkalow. John Barkalow, Sr., John J. hoven. and had two children by her, Barkalow, Daniel Barkalow and Mat- viz: Cornelius, baptized April 7, 1746. thias Barkalow. Between 1820 and and Catherine, baptized April 16, 1749. 1830, Cornelius D. Barkalow, Stephen Derrick Barkalow and Sarah Couwen- Barkalow, John S. Barkalow, Henry hoven his wife lived on the farm in Barkalow, Matthias the Barkalow, and southern part of Freehold township, Derrick Barkalow, Sr. which came to him from his father. He John D. Barkalow seems to have liv- devised part of these lands to his son. ed and carried on these various occupa- John D„ who lived and died there. tions in the dwelling house One where his of his daughters, Alice, married Wil- son-in-law, William B.Hulse now (1900) liam B. Hulse, September 27. 1852, and lives in Freehold township. she and her husband now The account book from (1900) reside which above on and own this farm. Mrs. William items and names were taken began Au- B. Hulse has in her possession an old gust 14, 1816. and on the first page of Dutch book printed at Amsterdam, Hol- this book, in the handwriting of John D. Barkalow, is the following- motto: wenhmen and "Deal justly with all, speak evil of daughter of Jacob Jacobse C.ni- none." wenhoven and Margaret Couwenhoven, his wife I. died May 4. 1780. aged 33 yrs. 8 m, 23 Derrick, eldest son of Cornelius d. Bar- Eleanor, (sscond wife of above Jacob and kalow and Jane Aumack his wife, was daughter of John Smock and Elizabeth Janse baptized in the Dutch church April 7, Couwenhoven. his wife), died April 26. 17RS, 1745; married March 28, 1775. Sarah aged 31 yrs. 5 m, 28 d. daughter of Matthias Couwenhoven* Jacob Janse Couwenhoven owned and ran and Williampe VanDorn mills near Holmdel village, and mar- Couwenhoven his wife, ried for of his third wife Eleanor or Nelly Middletown township. She was born .scher, If he ast wife iterred here "Matthias (sometimes called Martin or Mar- tenus) Couwenhoven, was youngest child of Couwenhoven, (first wife of Matthias Jacob Couwenhoven and Sarah Schanck, his lover, and daughter of Cornelius Roe- wife. He is buried by his parents in Couwen- ne Teunise Denise. hoven burying ground, situate on that part of Golden 12. 1820, aged 40 farm which lays on south side of the yrs. 9 m, 6 d. old highway from Mi.ldletown village to Og- Matthias W. Conover and his second wife, bourn's corner, called in early times "Plain Anne Schenck, are buried in yard of Dutch Dealing" road. The following inscriptions church at Middletown village. Sarah Tice. wife of John Tice. died October 28, 1771, aged 58 yrs. Catharine Tice, wife of John Tice, died Nov- Jacob Couwenhoven (son of William Gar- ember 24. 1785, aged 37 yrs, 2 m, 13 d. retse Couwenhoven and Jane Montfort his Sarah, relict of John Nivison. died Novem- wife), d. June 4. 1744, aged 65 y, 4 m, 6 d. ber 2, 1837. aged 80 yrs. Sarah, (wife of above and daughter of Roe- Jacob Couwenhoven, (son of Jacob Jacobse lof Martense Schanck and Annetje Pieterse Couwenhoven and Margaret Couwenhoven, his Wyckoff. his wife) died November 1, 1727. wife), died January 31, 1774. aged 31 yrs, 3 aged 41 y, 9 m, 3 d. m. 17 d. Matthias Couwenhoven, (son of above) died Sarah Sedam (wife of above), died March October 22, 1765. aged 40 yrs. 7 m, 18 d. 31, 1806, aged 57 yrs, 4 m, 28 d. Williampe, his wife, does not appear to be William Couwenhoven, (son of above) died buried here. She was then about ::s years ..1.1. March 29. 1778, aged 3 yrs, 8 m, 2 d. A number of persons "have been buried '.., here ,'la Janse Cou- without any monument to mark their graves. EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOl TIT land, in 1710, which once belonged to Williamptje Schenck, but they have Sarah Couwenhoven, the wife of Der- been "stuck" on the spelling of this rick Barkalow. It contains the New name as you or ] might easily be. Testament, Psalms of David set to The Dutch Testament must have been music, and the Heidleberg catechism. given to Williampe, the only surviving Il is finely bound in morocco, and at child, when she was old enough to ap- preciate her mother's Bible. She was .clasps and a ring. This silver, however about 17 years old when her father has been removed by some vandal who married his second wife. Her marriage thought the old silver worth more than license in secretary of state's office is the book. The name "Jannatie Wyck- dated July 27, 1749, as follows: Mat- off" is written on the front page, Show- thias Couwenhoven to Williamtee Cou- ing that it once belonged to' her and wenhoven." After her marriage she was perhaps a wedding present from her has taken this book to her new home on parents, when she married William the Middletown hills. She has made Couwenhoven. The following family only one entry in it, that of the birth records appear in this book: of her first born child as follows:

Jannatie Wyckoff is born January 20. 1702. 751. my daught* William Kouenhoven is tte-boren in het Jaer 1600. July 20. Thi He has inadvertently written 1600 for 1700, as the new century had just begun, and he had not become accustomed to 1700.

~~Cornelius Kouenhoven born November 1723. Williamtee Kouenhoven born July 24, 17~~

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EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MO.XMOTTH. probably a son of John Barkalow, Sr.. hold town, but no monument marks his and Cornelius C, then a boy of about grave. He left three sons as follows: sixteen years, and a son of Cornelius S. First. Derrick C. who married April Next follow devises of other portions 12, 1825, Deborah Francis, and lived and of his real estate to his sons Matthias, died on the homestead in Freehold John D. and Peter. They are each township, leaving three sons and one given a life interest with fee to their daughter. James Barkalow, the pre- resoective children, share and share sent active and obliging janitor of the alike. Thomas Strickland, his son-in- Monmouth court house is one of his law, and his four sons are appointed sons: Hugh and Conover Barkalow are executors. James VanNote, Cornelius the other two. J. Barkalow and Thomas Coward are Second. Matthias C. who was mar- the subscribing witnesses. ried November 5. 1835, to Elizabeth or Cornelius D., the eldest son, married Bessie Emmons by John D. Barkalow. October 6, 1800. Mary Harbert or Her- an elder of the Independent Methodist bert, and lived and died on the lands church. He left two sons and three left to him by his father. He is daughters surviving him, viz: Cornelius said to have been buried in the old Bap- M„ who was also married by Elder tist cemetery* on the outskirts of Free- John D. Barkalow, February 5, -860. to Deborah Chambers, and carried on 4 The Baptist cemetery was the site of the his trade as carpenter in the town of first "meeting house" or church erected by the Freehold until his death. He served as township. Baptists in Freehold a soldier in the civil war, and was an The Burlington Path as called by the first obliging neighbor and a good citizen. settlers, and later the Mount Holly road, followed the old Indian path from South Jersey. Garret, the second son of Matthias C, It passed through Freehold on same course as married Rebecca Miller, and is stii'l Main street does now from Dutch Lane road residing in Freehold township. His until you reach the corner opposite the Pres- three daughters were: Mary Eliza, who byterian stone church or about where the married Matthias, a son of Elder John Alfred Walters stands. Here house erected by D. Barkalow; Kate, who married Wil- the old highway curved easterly and passed between the "old Quay house" now occupied liam Jones and removed to Ohio; and by William M. Moreau and this cemetery. Just beyond this old house the road curved back to Third. Henry, married Eleanor, daugh- present lines of the Smithburg turnpike and ter of John Errickson, and had only one to West Freehold. About ran as present road child born August 23. 1835, and named here too, where the road curved westerly, and James J. He married Roxanna, a quite near the house the road forked ; the easterly branch running off to "Richmonds daughter of John Garrets of New Mills." or what is now the village of Blue Egypt, Ocean county, and has always Ball. The "Quay house." so called, was erect- resided in the town of Freehold. For ed prior to the Revolution, and at the battle of many years he carried on the under- of Mmimouth was occupied by a number taking business in Freehold, and be- British officers. well known throughout Mon- The peculiar appearance of the house arises came is still this from the fact that when erected it faced mouth county. He in year squarely the old Burlington path, and what is 1900, active, alert, and as fond of a now the rear was then the front. The Baptist practical joke or a little fun as ever, in church faced the Blue Ball road. The congre- spite of the sad and solemn occupation gation was composed principally of farmers, of his life. I am indebted to him for who came from the country for five or six part of this family history. miles around. As soon as the church was built the people Matthias, the second son of Derrick began to bury their dead in the adjacent yard. This church was finally torn down or removed, and a new edifice erected on the lot where the "And sadly sighs the wandering win< present church stands in the town of Freehold. Where oft in years gone by While .walking with a friend through this Prayer rose from many hearts to Hir cemetery one Sunday in summer, and examin- The Highest of the High. ing the inscriptions, I thought of those Sun- The sun that shone upon their path. days when the people from "far and near" Now gilds their lonely graves gathered here for worship, and the following The zephyrs which once fanned their verses occurred to me as very descriptive of The grass above them waves. the great change "O! could we call t "Thou hast been torn down, old church! Who'd gathered here in va Thou hast forever passed away. Who've careless roamed where And all around this lonely yard Who'll never meet again. The mossy tombstones lay. How would our very souls be The worshippers are scattered now Who knelt before thy shrine. And silence reigns where anthems rose In days of Auld Lang Syne.' (plZcx* (P^la^/c^^^

~~EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

Bark; i Sarah Couwenhoven, his Gilbert Hendricksonf and Allis (Alice) wife, was married September 18, 1808. Wyckoff, his wife, of Upper Freehold to Elizabeth Jeffrey, by Zenas Conger, township. His wife was born October elder of 29, an the Independent Methodist 1793. and died January 11. 184 8. He church. He resided on a farm in Wall died December 31, 1876. They are both township and raised his family there. buried in the Baptist cemetery. Close When Quite young he became interested to his grave is a cedar tree, so near that in the religious organization called the the branches extend over his grave. It Independent Methodist church, and was is the only cedar in this burying ground. appointed as elder. He was very active I thought it an appropriate and em- and zealous in preaching and trying to ble itic lont of thi iff. spread the tenets of this sect. Through should be allowed to remain as a his efforts and those of another elder memorial of "Preacher Barka- named John Saplin Newman, a meeting- low' he was called, who spent his house or chapel was erected at what is life and means in trying to do good iv now Glendola, and services held there his unpretentious and homely way to every Sunday. He also was instru- the people residing through our South- mental in getting another small house 'iii pines. He had no artificial educa- of worship built near Our House Tavern tion or training so as to wind adroitly in Howell township, and another just through the difficulties of life, pleasing- west of Colts Neck. He also compiled all and offending no one. He had no and had printed and bound at his own to expense a hymn book 'of 272 pages, con- No .-id-. such composed by him. The copy which I t Gilbert Hendrickson whs a son of Tobias saw was well but plainly bound in Hendrickson and Rebecca Coward his wife, of leather and fairly printed on good Upper Freehold township. He is named in - paper. This book must have cost Mat- Tobias will recorded in Book A of Wills, page thias Barkalow much labor, time and 430, at Freehold. Gilbert I endriekson lived and died on his money. The last two hymns in this farm in Upper Freehold and is buried in yard of old Yellow Meeting house, book are of his own composition and as heretofore mentioned. His will was proved acrostics, his that giving own name and March 4. 1837, and recorded in Book D of of his wife. The following is a true Wills, p. 60, etc. William Barcalow. Wesley copy of the one which spells his name Wilbur and Daniel Barcalow are the witnesses. He mentions his wife "Allis" (Alice) and ten children, among whom are Elizabeth, wife of John D. Barkalow, and Gilbert. HYMN NO. 296. C. M. His son Gilbert married December 26. 1821. Alchey (Alice) a daughter of Richard Conover ACROSTIC. and a sister of the well known Samuel Con- over, twice sheriff of Monmouth county. He My Saviour, my Almighty fr bought and resided on a farm near Sutphen's

Attend my humble cries : Corner in Freehold township, now owned and Thy succor and salvation senc occupied by his youngest son. Gilbert Hen- drickson. He had three other sons, viz: Rulif S., James Conover and Richard Conover, who Hear all my cries for Zion's peace, are now deceased. His daughter Alice was the In power thy word attend, first wife of Tunis Denise. one of our leading A blessing send to all that pray and well known farmers of Freehold township. Salvation to the end. Gilbert Hendrickson died on the farm where his son Gilbert now, (1900). lives. January 31. Break ev'ry bar through which I groan. 1847. aged 48 yrs.. 10 mos., 28 d.. and is And full deliverance send; buried in old Baptist cemetery. His wife Ransom'd from all malignant foes. rests by him. She died October 27, 1880. aged Kept safe unto the end. 78 yrs. 4 mos, 28 d. She was the second child of Richard Conover, who owned and lived on And may my pilgrimage below. the farm adjacent to the farm on which her Like conquering Zion end. son Gilbert now lives. James Conover was the O'er-coming all. through faith, may I. eldest. Aaron, his third child, married Fran- With all the holy stand. cyntje Conover. Eliza, the fourth, married Joseph Hornor. who carried on the wheel- wright business at West Freehold Whether this hymn was given out to many years ago. Samuel, the fifth, was the popular congregation I any to sing, am unable "Sheriff Sam" of Monmouth county who hung to say. Donnelly. William R„ the sixth child, lived John D. Barkalow, the third son of and died on the homestead now owned and Derrick and Sarah Couwenhoven, his occupied by his two sons, Miliard and Frank. Richard, the youngest, married a Miss Van- wife, was born October 5, 1789, married Note, and lived and died on his farm at Burnt March 2, 1811. Elizabeth, a daughter <.r Tavern (now Ely). EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MOXMOCTH.

its. chiii 1 ml ln-ai. iful weighs over 200 pounds. Like his tecture to impress the popular mind. grandfather, the preacher, he has given He officiated at funerals, married people careful attention to the poor of this and preached, without salary or reward township who have come under his save such gifts as gratitude might charge, doing for them in many instan- evoke. He talked to the people in a ces what a father would do for a child. plain, unlettered way, as men talked in This consideration, kindness and atten- everyday business. He could tell no tion which he has shown to these un- pathetic or amusing anecdotes or play fortunates have given him the reputa- the actor in the pulpit, so as to draw a tion of being one of the best overseers crowd. He simply told the plain truth that Freehold ever had. as he read it in his Bible, and would The fourth and youngest son of Der- "add no more." rick Barkalow and Sarah Couwenhoven He frequently held what were called was Peter. He married August 30. 1818. "wood meetings," where his words and Abigail Longstreet. and lived and died in township of Freehold. natural as the forest around him. On Matthias and John D. Barkalow were Sundays even when very old he would both elders of the Independent Meth- often walk six or ten miles to preach at odist church. I am not familiar with some out of the way place in the pines. the purpose or history of this sect. In The people to this day remember and the preface to his hymn book Matthias often talk about "Preacher Barkalow," Barkalow laments "immoderate attach- for so he was generally called. ment to particular opinions or modes of He was Overseer of the Poor in Free- worship or ceremonies, instead of doing hold township from 1830 to 1840. He justice, loving mercy, and speaking the was then elected justice of the peace plain truth." "That harmony among for this township. His commission as professing christians can only come justice is dated October 30, 1843. and from having in their hearts a sincere signed by Governor Daniel Haines. love for God. This will make them His dockets are in existence and show- resemble God in trying to do good to that he had not over six or seven con- their fellow men." In closing, he says. tested cases during his five years' term. "The day is fast approaching when Nearly all the cases are marked settled, Jesus will make all the different de- and his total fees in each case was nominations one." "Then the children about 75 cents. Also as elder of the of God will be a mighty host against Independent Methodist church he kept the workers of darkness." a careful record of all marriages, fu- Several letters are in existence from nerals and baptisms, beginning in 1812 Eldc- Samuel Stanton of Mt. Pleasant. and ending in 1873, when he was over Wayne county. Pa., Elder Samuel fourscore years of age. His books show Croaker and others to Matthias Bar- 286 funerals attended, and 191 couples kalow, giving an account of general married. The last entry is very feeble meetings in Pennsylvania. Genesee and tremulous. Only part of these mar- county. N. Y„ and elsewhere. riages are recorded in the clerk's office, The following circular was found for in many cases no money was left to among Elder Barkalow's papers. In it pay the clerk's fee for recording. The they speak for themselves, and as it only record, therefore, of many mar- was part of the history of those days riages is that in his book, now in. pos- now forgotten, I think it should be session of his son-in-law, William B. published just as spelled and punct- Hulse. uated: One of his sons named Wicoff, CIRCULAR LETTER. (Wyckoff, the surname of his wife's mother) married Elizabeth, a daughter Dearly Beloved Brethern: of James Vannote, and died when a We, the members of the Methodist young man, leaving one child also nam- Independent or Free Brethern Church. ed Wicoff. who was born April 17, 1839. as instituted in the state of New Jersey, He is the well known overseer of the being assembled in general meeting or poor of Freehold township. As will be irly agr ible seen from this genealogy he is of un- ious appointment. Do feel it our duty mixed Dutch blood on both sides clear to lay something before you to in- back to the first settler from Holland courage you to stand fast in the glor- on Long Island. In his personal ap- ious Gospel Freedom, and not be en- pearance he shows all the physical tangled in any yoke of bondage either characteristics of the Hollander. He stands six feet in his stockings, and Son makes free is free indeed, and. EARLY DITCH SETTLERS OE MOA'MOUTH.

consequently, constitute a part of the not against us are on our part and Lord's heritage, who are baptized into from the best information that we can one body and made to drink into one gether our main object is one; namely: spirit. Shurely. dear Brethern. it is holiness of heart, a pure church and a not the will of our God, who has begot consistant government. From this con- us again to a lively hope in Christ sideration we can see no just reason Jesus thro' sanctification of his spirit why the various branches of the church and belief of the truth, that we should in these United States should not be feel the iron arm of oppression from brought together in one happv union, any who, though assuming to them- &c. selves spurious titles through an over- And now. dear brethern. in order that such a union should be brought about seperate from the body of the people the conference have appointed our whom they represent; which power, brother elder, Jesse Oakley, a mission- "when vested in the hands of one or more ary in behalf of this branch of the individuals, is seldom relinquished for church of God; whose common resid- the benefit of community, which ever dence is when not traveling, in Broom render those under such representa- street, city of New York, who in con- tives in clanger of Ministerial oppression junction with brother R. Cuddy of the and drowns the idea that al men are same place, are hereby impowered to brethern, or that God ou*. of one flesh form a union with any branch of the and blood hath made all nations. Sure- church of God at any time previous to ly, dear brethern, if this superiority, the session of our next yearly confer- one over another, accompanied with ence meeting to be held, the Lord will- men's traditions confounds the pure ing, on the 5th of October, 1821—at language of the GOSPEL OF CHRIST Long Branch in the township of Shrews- and keeps many of us who profess bury county of Monmouth state of New to be followers of the meek and lowly Jersey, at which time and place we Jesus, at sword's point;—hence it is, we solicit all those branches of the church who are now in union with us or that high time to forbear building babels may at any time hereafter form a' union of party to rend the seamless coat or with us or intimate a desire to form a Jesus? But raise a standard against union with us, to send delegates to rep- such corruptions as split and divide resent them in the aforesaid conference. those whom the Lord hath united—for N. B. our quarterly conference meet- our Saviour has prayed that we might ings will take place at the following all be one as He and the Father is one. Hence it is. dear brethern. that every- First at Long Branch on Saturday thing which millitates against love and before first sabbath in January. 1821. a general union amongst christians, Second. At Colt's Neck on the Sat- must consequently spring out of the urday before the first sabbath in April, eoruptions of the day in which we live: 1821. For scripture informs us that the mul- Third. At the Free Communion Chapel titude that believed were of one heart in Howell on Saturday before the first and one soul; hence it is that love to sabbath in July. 1821. God and one another breathes the pure Temporary Quarterly meeting to be spirit of the Gospel and constrains the held when and where it may be most world to believe there is reality in the expedient to fill up the vacancies. &c. religion of Jesus. Hence it is. dear Signed in behalf of the conference brethern, that we congratulate you on this 10th day of October in the year of the glad news that light is now burst- our Lord 1820. ing forth in the different states, while JESSE OAKLEY, Pres't. many have taken a decided stand. MATTHIAS BARKALOW, Sec'y. On the part of Gospel freedom and scripture holiness, praying for a re- The second son of Cornelius Barka- ciprocation in preaching the word of low and Jannetje Aumack, was named God and the adminstration of the holy for his maternal grandfather, Stephen sacrament—we also learn by a pamphlet Aumack, who was a miller by occupa- lately published in N. York that a de- tion. It is likely that he learned how- to operate a grist mill when a boy in shortly appear which can bid God we his grandfather's mill, for we find him speed out of love to souls and a desire engaged in this business through life. for the universal spread of the Gospel His mill was located on Squan brook, of Christ in all the earth; hence we about where the Wyckoff mills are now would praise God that they that are situated in Howell township. Thev EARL Y DUTCH SET/ LEA'S OF MONMOUTH. were formerly known as the "old Bark- death, September 15, 1854. I am in- alow mills." Stephen Barkalow was formed that one of his daughters born in April, was baptized July 24, named Margaret was married in this 1748, and lived on his property near county October 11. 1828, to Robert this mill. He married twice. The Havens, by John Saplin Newman, an christian name of his first wife was elder of the Independent Methodist Ann, who died July 16, 1799. His second church. This, however, may be a mis- wife Wfis Margaret, who died April 2, take. William, the second son, learned 1854. the business of a miller in his. father's In Book P of deeds, p. 599, in the mill. When a young man he was either Monmouth County Clerk's office, is employed in or rented the grist mill record of a deed dated March 9. 1805, lying east of Colts Neck, and in that from Stephen Barkalow and Margaret, part of Atlantic township which was his wife, of Howell township, to Wil- taken off of Shrewsbury township. They liam Barkalow of the same tow.nship, were formerly known as the "Jake Pro- which shows that he must have married basco Mills" to distinguish them from again in a few years after his first the first Probasco mills, which are wife's death. Stephen Barkalow was a located west of Colts Neck. During the soldier of the Revolution, and distin- present generation they have been guished himself by his cool courage at known as the Snyder and Mulinbrink the battle t>f Germantown where the mills. While living here he married a Monmouth militia under Col. Asher daughter of Thomas Parker, who resid- Holmes was engaged. He died March ed near Smithburg, in Freehold town- 15, 1825, and is buried in the yard of ship. He was the father of Charles Bethesda church, near Blue Ball. His Parker, sheriff of Monmouth county, will dated January 29, 1825, proved and grandfather of Joel Parker, twice April 6th. 1825. is recorded in Book B. governor of New Jersey. Rev. John p. 433. etc.. Surrogate's office of Mon- Woodhull. D.D., married them and he mouth county. Samuel Forman. John has thus entered it on record in Mon- Hulsart and Jonathan Errickson are mouth county clerk's office in Book A the witnesses. of marriages: "William Barkalow of His first bequest is to his grandson Shrewsbury township, to Lydia Parker Stephen, son of his son David. He gives of Freehold township. February 1. to him "his gun and all the accrutre- ments." This was the weapon he car- William Barkalow died August 16, ried during the war and spoken of in 1849, aged 77 years, 7 months. 28 days, the story republished by Edwin Salter according to his headstone in the yard in Old Times in Old Monmouth. He of the old Baptist cemetery at Freehold. evidently prized it highly, in thus first Hi Wi naming it in that solemn hour when a Barkalow. His wife is interred by him man executes his will and realizes that and the date of her death given as Oct- he can take nothing out of this world ober 4, 1834, aged 61 yrs. 10 mos, 8 d. except the good will of immortal minds. They had three children to grow up and He next mentions Mary Sagers and marry, two dausrhters and one son, viz: John Sagers. two of his grandchildren, Ann, the eldest married Job Emmons, and then ordered all his property sold who owned and lived on the farm in and proceeds divided in eight equal the township of Freehold which lies shares, and gives one share to each of between the farm now owned by Nathan his children who are named, I presume, J. Conover and the farms of Koert and in order of their ages, as follows: John, Elisha Schanck. sons of Henry Schanck, William, Cornelius. Richard, David and deceased. This old Emmons farm was Jane. One share to the three daughters considered one of the best farms in of Hannah Sagers, so they have their Freehold township. mother's share between them, and one Amy. the second daughter, married share to his grandson, John Sager, Daniel D. Denise. She was his second equally with his children. He also gives wife. to his grandson Stephen, son of David Thomas Parker, the only son. was Barkalow. his silver knee and shoe- born near Colts Neck March 21. 1811: buckles. From the fact of possessing married. November 3. 1830. Ann. daugh- such ornaments he must have taken ter of John Woolley of Long Branch, some pride in his personal appearance. (born November 9. 1808, died October His sons William and Cornelius, and 1st, 1891.) Thomas P. Barkalow died his grandson John Sagers, are appoint- August 11, 1872, and was buried in ed executors. Maplewood cemetery at Freehold. He John, his eldest son. removed to New left lour children, of whom more here- York city, where he lived until his a f ter. EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Cornelius S., third of igan. son Stephen He is still living and it is sa Barkalow,. was born February 22, 1774. has accumulated a very large fortun married August 11, 1799, Jedidah Er- Cornelius S., named for nd- rickson, (born July 8, 1780. died Mav 6. father, was born February £ 1860), and died February 8, 1842: buried now deceased. in Kethesda church yard. He lived and 1..I11 lge.St died on the farm now. (1900) owned lue Ball, and occupied by Wilson Hendrickson ius S.. the in Howell township, about a mile south md dese more than a passing of Buckshootem bridge. In Book O of notice. Like his great grandfather, Deeds, page 974, Monmouth County Stephen Barkalow. who distinguished Clerk's office, is record of a deed from himself at the battle of this Cornelius Barkalow and Jedidah, Germantown. so this descendant, by his cool his wile, of Howell township, to his courage and activity distinguished brother Richard Barkalow, of the same himself in several battles during the late township, dated September 29, 1804, and civil war. He enlisted in conveys one equal undivided third part Company A. 14th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, of a tract of 30 72-100 acres in same when he was about 21 years old. township. It is described as beginning {f will be seen from the Barkalow at a sapling on the north side of Polly genealogy, he was almost of unmixed Pod brook: and where Polly Pod brook Dutch blood, for the Erricksons, al- and Haystack orook empty into Mete- though of Swedish origin, are neverthe- teecunk river, is called for in the boun- less a kindred race to the Hollanders. In daries. Cornelius S. Barkalow and Jed- liis physical appearance he bore a idah Errickson, his wife, had the fol- general resemblance to his cousin. lowing children: \\ icofl Barkalow. Standing full six feet Hannah Stout, born April 1, 1801, died in height, with broad, square shoulders, and May 22. 1803. . . deep chested, with a natural mil- Hannah, bor- September 22, 1804: itary carriage, he attracted attention married January 19, 1826. to Jesse Cow- wherever he went. He was made first drick by James M. Challis, pastor of sergeant July 31. 1862. of Company A, Upper Freehold Baptist church; died then commanded by Austin H. Patter- July 20. 1871. Jess,- Cowdrick died May son: was promoted to first lieutenancy 21, 1857. aged 57 yrs. 7 mos, 27 d. This September 10. 1864, and captain of Com- couple had thirteen children, of whom pany I, December 1 of the same year. only one. the wife of Brittain C. Cook, Brevetted Major for gallant and meri- who keeps the well known hostelry at torious services before Petersburg April Toms River, is now living. Among their 2. 1865, to date from April 2 of that children was Cornelius, born October year. See pages 663. 668 and 1712, Rec- 8. 1826, and was associated with Brit- ord of Officers and Men of New Jersey tain C. Cook in keeping this hotel. John in the Civil War. 1861-1865. Brought B., born December 17, 1828, and David, up on a Monmouth county farm with born January 13, 1831. only such education as our country Cornelius C, bom August 24, 1812. schools could give, yet he made as gal- married first March 29. 1837, Catharine, lant and heroic an officer as any ever daughter of John Errickson: married turned out by West Point. Naturally second, January 4, 1863, Angeletty Clay- good natured and kind of temper, with ton, a widow, and daughter of William a jovial, fun loving spirit, he at the Bennett. Cornelius C. Barkalow is now, same time was very considerate of the 1900, in his eighty-eighth year, but in feelings of others and always ready to full possession of all his mental facul- extend a helping hand to those in ties. I am indebted to him for this in- trouble or need. Those traits made formation about his near relatives. The him one of the most popular men in the ( dates he furnished me from two family 14th regiment. His rapid promotion Bibles in his possession. He now. 1900. was due to his zealous discharge of lives on the old Havens farm near Blue duty and his cool courageous conduct Ball, which he bought a number of in battle. years ago. Prior to this he lived on the At the battle of Monocacy in Mary- old homestead of his father mentioned land, July 9, 1864. he was shot through above, and now occupied by Wilson the body just below the heart, and lefl Hendrickson. Cornelius C. Barkalow by unconscious on the field as our men fell his first wife. Catharine Errickson. had back before the Confederates. Then three sons, but no children by his last occurred an incident well worthy of remembrance, for it shows thai gTat M: :::9; rried itude and chivalry sometimes flourished in rebel hearts as among the knights of EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

old. That even in the wild frenzy of around, but Barkalow was the only one battle where men seek to slay, that in- who received treatment from the rebels fluenced by gratitude they can turn and it was due to his generous and from slaughter and try to save life in- " ind attention to those rebel prisoners. stead of destroying- it. I have this account from Colonel Austin H. Patter- son and John H. Hurley, both of whom STATE OF NEW JERSEY, are still living, and both had personal , County of Monmouth. ss - knowledge of the facts. f John H. Hurley, being After the battle of Antietam Captain duly sworn, on his oath saith that he was A. H. Patterson with part of his com- a private in Company A, 14th N. J. Vols. pany was detailed to conduct some That he was in battle of Monocacy rebel prisoners to Fort Delaware and on the 9th of July, 1864. That he was deliver them to the officer in charge. wounded by a rebel sharpshooter so badly that Cornelius S. Barkalow was one of the he could not walk and non-commissioned officers selected for was left on the battlefield as the this duty. These prisoners were taken soldiers fell back. That Cornelius S. Barkalow. then by railroad to the city of Baltimore, and an orderly sergeant, was also in from there transported in a steamboat wounded same fight. That a ball to this fort. Captain Patterson stated passed through his body just below to me that these rebel prisoners were his heart and he lay near this deponent. in most wretched condition from want That as this deponent of food, exposure, and from vermin. lay there a force of the Confed- Some of them too were suffering from soldi .-ho. malarial fever and so emaciated that whom, recognized said Cornelius S. 'Barkalow, they looked like living skeletons. as said Barkalow had before Others, wretched and despondent, had that time shared part of his rations with rebel made no effort to relieve their persons some prisoners who were half starved. from vermin, and had holes eaten in That said rebels saw con- their necks and backs. While on the dition of said Barkalow, that unless he cars they could do nothing for them, bled externally he would die. That but at Baltimore Sergeant Barkalow some of them went to said Barkalow managed in some way to have suitable and passed a silk handkerchief through nrovisions. with some medicines and the wound and caused it to bleed exter- delicacies, and clean shirts sent to the nally, which deponent thinks saved his steamboat on which they were to em- life. That said rebels treated him with bark. On their passage Barkalow went great consideration and pains, but did among them in his frank and friendly nothing for this deponent. That they way distributing provisions to those left said Barkalow and this deponent who could eat, and medicines and deli- there and we were taken off by our cacies to the sick, and clean shirts to people afterwards. This deponent further saith one all. When the Confederates were de- that said Barkalow was livered at Fort Delaware they all shook of the best and bravest of the under hands with our men and expressed officers of said regiment. That he was great thanks for the kindness shown. always full of fun and jokes and did all could to his comfortable Now at the battle of Monocacy it hap- he make men pened that among the Confederates was and to see to their wants. That every- an officer who had been among those body in the regiment liked him and prisoners and had been exchanged. He respected him. at once recognized Barkalow as he lay JOHN H. HURLEY. unconscious on the battlefield. He or- Sworn and subscribed before me this dered a private to go for a rebel sur- 16th day of May, 1899. geon whom he knew and who was near JOHN W. HULSE, Justice of the Peace. at hand. The surgeon came at once The testimony of above soldier is that and was requested by the rebel officer of every man in this regiment. He to examine Barkalow. This he did and recovered from this wound but before through found that the ball had passed it was entirely healed he was back with his body just beneath his heart, and his regiment and served until war that he was bleeding internally. A silk closed, when he came back to his handkerchief was torn in strips and father's farm. He died from blood one of these strips passed through this poisoning, caused by what was thought wound so as to cause the blood to run a trifling wound in his foot. His death out. He was' treated with the greatest occurred only three weeks after his care and it was this which saved his marriage. He was buried in the yard life. Other wounded soldiers lay of the old Bethesda church, near Blue EARLY DUTCH SEJ JLERS OF MO.XMOl TH.

Ball, and his grave there will always ig hi The be honored by the people of Monmouth two brothers, as many people now liv- county. His name will always be re- ing will remember, were plain, prudent, membered and cherished. II" the flow- and reliable men, just what they ap- ers, strewn each Decoration Day on his peared to be without cant, quack or grave, had the faculty of speech they pretentions. David, the fifth and youngest son of Stephen Barkalow, was born December 22. 1780; married March 2. 1805, Mary Borden, (born April 6. 1785, died April 25, 1862) and removed to Wayne county. he far

~~laisies that star the early fields Apri For chubby hands to hold, .nd buttercups which God has sen gur To be the babies' gold. I ha lfor Jane, the daughter of Stephen Barka-~~

lut we. higher fate is ours ; a low, and who is named in his will. Cor- Ordained from bud to bloom, nelius C. Barkalow informed me that 'o lie amidst the green, young gr; Above a soldier's tomb. she married one Stoffel (Christopher) Probasco and removed with her husband to the state of Ohio and there settled. Neither do I know anything of the Sagers family in which the daughter Hannah married. And when the tattered tiaus are raised Thomas P. Barkalow, the only sur- He fought and died to keep. viving son of William S. Barkalow and We feel a stir, through tangled growth, Lydia Parker, his wife, seems to have A thrill from hearts that sleep. learned the miller's business in his father's mill at Colts Neck." Soon after And when the dew falls silently. his With throbbing drums gone by. marriage to Ann Woolley he pur- We are on guard, we flowers, and proud. chased and moved to a farm near the Upon his grave, to die." village of Toms River. He also bought the mill which his grandfather Stephen, The fourth son of Cornelius S. Bark- owned on Squan brook, now known as alow and Jedidah Errickson. his wife, Wyckoffs mills. After residing on the was John C. born February 16, 1820. farm at Toms River a number of years married Mary Irwin, a sister of the he removed to Forked River in Ocean known squire, Levi G. Irwin, who died county, and became associated with his a few years ago. John C. Barkalow cousin, Stout Parker, in the business of died at his residence in the village of building schr for the 5till!4 Colts Neck, June 28, 18il2. His trade and in shipping cord wood to the was proved July 19. 1892. and recorded New York and other markets. In 1858 at Freehold in Book V of Wills, page he bought at Sheriff's sale the famous 372, etc. His wife and one son, Wil old hostelry in Freehold known as the liam, survives him and still reside a Union hotel. Prior to and during the Colts Neck. war of independence it was called the Richard. (Derrick) fourth son o "White Hall Tavern." John Longstreet. Stephen Barkalow, married Februar a zealous loyalist, owned and conducted 14, 180V, Margaret, a daughter of Alex this tavern when the war began. He ander Low. a prominent citizen of Free- was active in raising a company for the hold at that time. Richard Barkalow battalion of Jerseymen which Sheriff and Margaret Low, his wife, were the Elisha Lawrence commanded in Skin- parents of two sons, William D. and ner's brigade, and was made a captain Alexander L.. and two daughters, Mary or lieutenant in the British army. If Ann and Cornelia, who died unmarried. this old part of the Union hotel could The two sons lived together in a house have spoken many interesting and ex- on the right hand side of the Blue Ball citing tales could have been told of turnpike on the outskirts of Freehold those days which tried men's souls. town and were strongly attached to Our county records show that on an each other, but not in any demonstra- inquisition taken June 9, 1778. John tive way. Longstreet was found guilty of joining William D. died unmarried, but his the king's army. Judgment was en- brother married Rebecca A., widow of tered and execution issued directing William Emmons and died leaving one seizure and sale of his real estate. The EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MONMOUTH.

White Hall *> tavern was purchased at still resides in the old home on Main this sale by Major Elisha Walton. The street in Freehold, where her father deed to him is dated June 10. 1779. and and mother lived the last years of their recorded in Book R of Deeds, page 558, lives. etc.. Monmouth county clerk's office. Eleanor Laird, born March 20, 1840; From this time on down to 1834, when married December 25, 1861, Joseph Still- Barzillai, son of Daniel Hendrickson well Conover, who. prior to his death, and Elizabeth Grover, his wife, became was associated as a partner with Hon. the owner and landlord, there were sev- George W. Shinn in a general country eral different owners and landlords and store at Freehold. Mr. Conover was a the name was changed to the "Union very affable and pleasant man and pop- Hotel." From 1844 to 1850 it was run ular with the people. She married in by the well known Nathaniel S. Rue, 1875, Mr. Charles L. Holmes, and died who is still living- at an advanced age April 25. 1900, leaving three children in the township of Upper Freehold. by her first and one by her second hus- About 1842 an addition was put up be- band surviving. tween the old building and South street During the period when Mr. Bark- which was used until 1856 for a gen- alow conducted the Union hotel there eral country store, but in that year it was but one railroad running from was made a part of the hotel by Sheriff Freehold, that to Jamesburg. Stages Holmes Conover and John Vanderveer ran to Toms River, Long Branch and Carson, who were then the owners. The Keyport. The sound of a bugle early deed from Sheriff Samuel Conover to in the morning and about sunset in the Thomas P. Barkalow was dated March summer, announced the departure and 23, 1858, and is recorded in Book G 6 of arrival of the Keyport stage. The fare Deeds, page 126, etc. Mr. Barkalow to New York city by stage and steam- carried on the hotel business here until boat was fifty cents, or about half what November 18, 1865. when he sold the it is today. During the first week of property for .$14,000. It then included the regular terms of our county courts all the land in the rear of the buildings the Union hotel would be overcrowded along South street as far as the rail- with jurymen, witnesses, and persons road track. This part of the property with law business on hand. The over- was covered with sheds, barns and flow were lodged at various private ible The thi ird houses about town but they all boarded was about where the front of the brick at the hotel. Mr. Barkalow personally store now stands from South street. looked after the comfort of each guest September 11, 1886, the hotel was des- and presided at the regular meals. He troyed by fire which started in the ad- was a man of rotund, portly figure, joining building. The Belmont hotel broad, square shoulders and ruddy com- now stands on the site of this old build- plexion. Of courteous address and dig- ing. nified manners he was the very ideal of Many changes in methods and cus- a landlord. The stirring times of the toms of the old fashioned taverns have great rebellion began and ended during taken place since the day when Mr. his occupation of this tavern. Barkalow was the landlord. I now The political excitement and discus- know of bat one hostelry conducted in sions, enlistment of men and later the the old way and that is the one at draft, the departure and arrival of Toms River of which the well known officers and men from the front, news Brittain C. Cook is landlord. of battles, men killed or wounded, and When Mr. Barkalow moved to Free- the thousands of wild rumors gave un- hold in 1858, he brought with him his usual animation to the daily occur- wife and two daughters. He had the rences at such a public house. The first following children: meeting of the citizens of Freehold to Lydia. born August 21. 1831; married enlist men for the three months service George Cowperthwait, who came of the under President Lincoln's call for 75.000 well known Quaker family of this name men was held in the room adjacent to in West Jersey. Mr. Cowperthwait re- the bar-room. The Freehold news- sided at Toms River and for many papers of that date give an account of years conducted a general country store this meeting and the names of the men at that place. who enlisted. One tall thin fellow en- William, born December 27. 1833, died listed that evening who wore a pair of young. new and heavy cowhide boots. Some John Woolley, born February 12. 1835; one inquired what he got such boots married Mary Catherine Conover. at for. He very earnestly replied "to Forked River, N. J. stamp the bowels out of the d Elizabeth, born July 11. 1837. and EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. the report eame back that this ehap Iiaci hardly an evening passed but what they hidden behind a big log. So the rebels were occupied. The war, politics, law never suffered any from those boots. suits, horse races and horse trades, in- During this period Mr. Richard Davis, terspersed with stories and anecdotes generally called "Uncle Dick;" Mr. were the principal subjects of conver- Thomas M. Vanderveer and his son, D. sation. Governor Parker, Dr. John Augustus Vanderveer, Lewis Hoffman, Vought, A. R. Throckmorton, Sheriff Rev. Wilbur F. Neil, the young and pop- Sutphen. Sheriff Sam Conover, William ular rector of St. Peter's church, and V. Ward, Joseph D. Bedle, and many several other bachelors and widowers others of our leading citizens, dropped boarded and lodged there. in nearly every evening. Their stay The utmost harmony and good feel- would be short or long, according to ing prevailed among them for there persons present and the subject dis- were no "lady boarders." They all be- cussed. A wonderful change in the came warm friends of Mr. Barkalow social relations of Freehold has taken and family. While there was no glit- place since then. The adjacent room ter, tinsel or pretensions, yet every- was used for public meetings, trials of thing was substantial and comfortable justices court cases, auctions, etc. Mr. and kept scrupulously clean and neat Barkalow was respected by everybody. under the watchful supervision of Mrs. Good natured, frank and consistent in Barkalow and her daughters. Domestic his dealings, he had no enemies. Gen- affairs in a private home could not have erous and kind hearted, he had many moved along more quietly and orderly. friends. I never heard a profane or In the fall and winter the bar-room was vulgar word fall from his lips, nor any a kind of social club for the business harsh criticism or condemnation of and professional men of Freehold. Well others behind their backs. In many supplied with cushioned seats along the solid qualities of heart and head Thomas whole side next to South street, and P. Barkalow, the landlord of the Union comfortable armed chairs with a great hotel, had few equals and no superiors stove in the center of the bar-room. among the people of Freehold.

~~THE HENDRICKS OR HENDRICKSON FAMILY.~~

Daniel and Wilm Hendricks, as they corded between Daniel Hendrickson and wrote their names and were called "John Gibbonson" as name is spelled, of among their own folks, were brothers Flatbush, Kings county, L. I., of the one and sons of Hendrick Hendricks by his part, and William Whitlock of Middle- first wife. They came from Flatbush, town, Monmouth county, of the other in Kings county, Long Island, to Mon- part. It seems they had on September mouth county, about 1692 or 1693, and 22d. 1692. leased of Whitlock 104 acres settled on a tract of land at what is of land, described as partly bounded by now Holland in Holmdel township. This Mahoras brook, and they now agree to land has been in the continuous owner- pay him £25 in yearly installments until ship and occupation of the descendants whole is paid by 10th of March. 1697. of Daniel Hendricks, the pioneer settler, and Whitlock agrees to convey it when down to the present year 1900, or over whole sum is paid. Daniel Hendrickson two centuries. conveyed 28 acres of this tract to Gy- The late Hon. William Henry Hen- bertsen or Guisbertsen as name is drickson, who twice represented Mon- spelled, who with Ester his wife, by mouth in the New Jersey Senate, was deed dated December 22d, 1701, conveys born, lived, died and was buried on this it to John Ruckman. This Guisbertsen homestead farm, as his father, grand- was the progenitor of the Giberson father, and great-grandfather, (who family as name was afterwards spelled, was the youngest son of the first settler) and I think was really a VanPelt. had been before him. I therefore take In Book I of Deeds, p. 166, Secretary up Daniel Hendricks and his posterity of State's office, Trenton, N. J., is the before his brother William, because the record of a deed dated Mav 16, 1698. latter has no descendants living in this from John Whitlock and Mary his wife, vicinity. late of Middletown township, but then We find Daniel Hendrickson first of Freehold, to Daniel Hendrickson. mentioned in Book C of Deeds, p. 78. in conveying 104 acres for the consider- our county clerk's office. An agreement ation of £164. This land is described as dated September 23, 1693, is here re- situated at Strawberry Hill, now occu- EARLY DU1CH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

pied by Daniel Hendriekson, bounded ink. The 200 south by lands late of William Whit- acres and lays next to bay. The second lock, east by lands of Thomas Whit- tract contains 70 acres and is situate on lock, north by a small run coming- from west side of "Conescunk Neck." The the hills, and west by another small third tract is made up of several pieces brook; which 104 acres John W'hitlock of meadow containing in all 50 acres. with other tracts of land got from the Minutes of Monmouth county courts proprietors of East Jersey by patent labelled No. 1. 1688-1721. show that dated January 20, 1676. Also another Daniel Hendriekson was a grand juror tract bounded northerly by James at March term, 1699. He was again Wall's land, westerly by John Whit- summoned to serve on grand jury March lock's land, southerly by land late Wil- 26. 1700, when the new judges appointed liam Whitlock, and east by Mahoras by Governor Andrew Hamilton, took brook. Also 13 acres of salt meadow at their seats for the first time. As has Shoal Harbor, bounded north by the been already explained Daniel Hen- creek. driekson with many others of the Mid- In this same Book I of Deeds, p. 184, dletown people refused to serve or to etc.. is record of a deed dated February recognize the authority of these judges. 5, 1706, from Thomas Cooper of London, For this he was fined $10 and the England, a merchant, to Obadiah Bowne, sheriff was ordered to make the money Garret Wall, Gershom Mott, James by seizure and sale of his personal Hubbard, James Grover, James Cox, property. His brother. William Hen- Jaseph-eox>Riehard Stout. Daniel Hen- dricks, is named among the men who dricks, Obadiah Holmes, William Law- broke up the court March 25, 1701, and rence, James Lawrence and Benjamin held Governor Hamilton, the county Lawrence, all of Middletown township, judges and other officers prisoners for in Monmouth county. Cooper, for the four days. The surrender by the Pro- _ consideration of £260 conveys to them prietors of the right of government to one lull equal half propriety, or 4 8th the English crown in 1702. brought part of all lands taken up or to be about an entirely new condition of taken up in the Eastern Division of the affairs, and settled for a time their old Province of New Jersey, excepting only losit 5,000 acres already taken up by said iel Hendricks ippointed Cooper in right of first division, and 86 acres taken up in right of second divis- of said half propriety or 48th part ion " Teuntje Thysa Laen VanPelt, the mother of said Eastern Division of New Jersey. of Daniel Hendrickson's wife, came to Amer- and which are already sold by said ica with her father and settled at New Utrecht. Thomas Cooper. He also conveys by L. I. Her brother Guisbert married Jannetje this deed 600 acres of land at Barnegat, Adraanse Lambersen, and removed to Mon- his or in what is now Ocean county. mouth county. He wrote name was known as "Gisbert Laen." and he and his fi On page 1 4 . etc., of this same Book wife are among the organizing members of is record of a deed from I of Deeds, the Dutch church in 1709. He had the follow- Obadiah Bowne and rest ' of grantors except Daniel Hendricks, to aforesaid Adraan, b. . married Marytje Smak said Daniel Hendricks, dated February (Smock). 5, 1706. It recites that said grantors Janntje. b. , died single. with said Daniel Hendricks, purchased Wilhelmyntje. bap. Sept. 16, 1677 ; married William Hendricks, the brother of Daniel of Thomas Cooper one-half propriety or 1 endrickson. Her name appears as "William- of the undivided Eastern Div- 48th part pe" on records of Dutch church in 17C9. ision of New Jersey, and also 600 acres Mathys. bap. Aug. 23. 1679 ; died young. this deed of land at Barnegat; and by Catalina. bap. April 24. 16S1 ; married Elyas they convey to said Daniel Hendricks, DeHart. his' heirs and assigns, a tract of 141 Matthys. bap. March nil. 16S3; married Antje. acres and right to take up 184 acres daughter of Garret Schanck and Neeltje Voor- more under the second and third div- hees his wife, of Pleasant Valley. Cornelius, bap. April 3. 1685. isions. They also convey to him 21 Mary. bap. March 3. 1689 : married Ferdin- acres of land and marsh at Barnegat. and VanSiclen. I 376. In this same Book of Deeds, p. Joost (Joseph i. .lied single and was blind. is record of a deed dated December 7. Maikan or Moyka married Stoffle Longstreet 1700, from Richard Hartshorne arid and they were the parents of Stoffle Longstreet Margaret, his wife, to Daniel Hendriek- who settled in Upper Freehold township. Hansen of Dover, in New Hampshire, son, John Schenck, Garret Schenck. Tobias conveyed to Gilbert Lane of New Utrecht, L. Cornelius Couwenhoven, Peter Wr yckoff, I., 200 acres in Shrewsbury township, by deed in Monmouth county, all of Middletown. dated March 30, 1699, recorded in Book D of conveying to them three tracts of land Deeds, p. 128. Monmouth county clerk's office. at a place called by the Indians "Con- In Book E of Deeds, p. 344, etc.. Gilbert L»ne Dwelling house on Hendnc-kson homestead at Holland, N. J. The original part was built by Daniel Hendrickson, the first settler, between 1700 and 1720 ; remodeled and enlarged by the late Hon. William H. Hendrickson.

~~EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

one of the constables of Middletown Pleased Almighty God (far Beyond my Des- township in 1704-5 and three years later erts) to bestow upon me I give Devise & Dis- sheriff of the county. He was the first pose of ye Same in Manner & form following Viz. IMPRIMIS Will is Netherlander to hold this office. We my that all my Just Debts be justly and truly payd also find him and his wife, and his by my Execu- tors hereinafter named and for That end & brother William and wife among the purpose my Will is. and I do by These Pres- organizing members of the Dutch ents give To my Three Executors, or in case church in 1709, and a few years later of Death or Refusal to any two of Them full he was an Elder. He was also ap- power to sell and Dispose of my Two Largest pointed captain of the militia of Mid- Lotts of Wood Land on Conescunk Neck & dletown township. my Land at Barnegate & Right to Property, pt I give and Devise to my Son Hendrick the Daniel Hendrickson married in Brook- Plantation on which he Dwells, formerly Ben- lyn Catherine, daughter of Jan Janse jamin Stouts, and the full halfe of all my VanDyke and Teuntje Thyse Laen Van- Lotts of Meadow at Conescunk, on condition Pelt, his wife. Daniel Hendrickson died that he pay the Sum of Three hundred Pounds in January, 172S, leaving his widow and to my Seven Daughters in such Payments & at 11 children surviving. Such Times as hereafter expressed viz. That he pay to my daughter Catharine the Sum of The following is a certified copy of thirty seven pounds Ten shillings at ye Time his will recorded in Book No. 2 of Wills, of her Marriage or ye Age of Twenty one p. 431, etc. The scrivener who wrote it Years which shall first happen & to my Daugh- was evidently ignorant of the Dutch ter Jonayfye the sum of Thirty seven pounds language as he has given the English Ten shillings at ye Time of her marriage or names for some of the children, while ye age of Twenty One years which shall first happen & ye Remaining Two hundred Twenty he has spelled others according to five pounds by equal parts to my Seven Daugh- sound. is Tryntje Dutch for Catherine, ters Namely Ghesye. (Geesie) Teuntye, (Teun- but in writing the name of Daniel Hen- tje) Maykije. Catharine, Anne Francis (Fran- drickson's wife he spells it "Taytye." cyntje), & Janayfye (Jannetje), the first Pay- ement to commence four Years after my De- ceass to Eldest so IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.—I Daniel my Daughter & on yearly Hendricks of Middletown in the county of the Like Sum to ye Next oldest till ye Seven Monmouth and Eastern Division of ye Prov- Daughters hath Received ye same. That Then ince of New Jersey Gent. This Sixteenth day I Give & Devise the sd Lands and Meadows of November in the Year of our Lord one to my Son Hendrick Hendricks his heirs & Thousand seven hundred & Twenty Seven, be- Assigns for Ever, pt I give and Devise to my ing very Sick & weak of Body but of a Sound Son John the plantation whereon he Dwells Mind and Disposing Memory (Thanks be to that I purchased of Stephen Warne, on con- God for ye Same & calling to mind ye uncer- dition That he pays the sum of five hundred tainty of this present Life knowing That it is pounds to my Daughters as hereinafter expres- appointed for all Men once to Dye) Do make sed viz That he pay to my Daughter Anne ye & declare this to be my Last Will & Testament Sum of Thirty Seven pounds Tenn Shillings at as followeth v"izt. first and principally I rec- ye Time of her Marriage or ye age of Twenty ommend my Soul to Almighty God that gave one Years which shall first happen and ye it and my Body to ye Earth from whence it Remaining Two hundred Sixty two pounds was taken to be buryed at ye Discretion of my Tenn Shillings by equal parts to my Seven Executors heroin after named and as Touching Daughters above named, the first payment To Such Wordly Goods and Estate as it hath Commence Four Years after my Decease, to my Eldest Daughter, and so on Yearly the Like sum to ye Next oldest till ye Seven ii Middletown township, conveyed to his son Daughters have received ye same. That then Lane, Matthias 460 acres which Alexander I Give & Devise the said Plantation to my Innes had deeded to him April 28, 1709. Gil- Said Son John his Heirs & Assigns forever, bert his will Nov. proved Lane made 7, 1720 ; pt. I give and Devise to my Son William ye May 27. 1727. and recorded at Trenton in Book Remaining half of My Salt Meadow Lotts at B of Wills, 66, etc. his wife Jane, p. Names ' <;n< scunk & to him his heirs and Assigns for- all his children. dauediter and Speaks of his ever and my Will is That the fee simple of the Willimea, who married William Hendrickson. Three Hundred Acres of Land I Lately pur- as deceased, and also her husband as dead. chased from ye Executors of Obadiah Bowne Gilbert Lane had a brother Peter, who set- Deced be settled & Confirmed to my said Son tled in Monmouth, and was known as Peter William his Heirs & Assigns forever on con- Tysen. In Book E, p. 314, etc.. Monmouth dition That he pay ye Sum of four Hundred county records, is a deed dated October 6, pounds to my Daughters as herein After Ex- 1709. from John Bowne to Peter Tysen and pressed viz : That he pay to My Daughter Derrick Tysen of New Utrecht, and John Francis iKranrvntje) the sum of Thirty Seven Tysen of Brooklyn, L. I., for 750 acres at pounds Tenn shillings at ye Time of her Mar- Wiquetunk. This property was afterwards riage or the Age of Twenty One Years which conveyed to Roelf Schanck. See page 313 shall first happen and ye Remaining three "Old Times in Old Monmouth "Some of this hundred Sixty-two pounds Ten Shillings by family removed to Bucks or Lancaster county, equal parts to my Seven Daughters Above Tysen. Pennsylvania, and retained the surname named the first payment to commence Six Those who remained here spelled their names Years after my Decease to my Eldest Daughter Pietersen "Tice." The Lane, Tysen or Tice, and so on Yearly the Like Sum to ye Next Giberson surnames are all derived from a and oldest till ye Seven Daughters have Received VanPelt progenitor. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOL'TH.

the Same. pt. I give and bequeath to my Lov- Credits of ye said Deced, and ye Administra- ing Wife Tayte the use of my Homestead tion of Them, also ye hearing of Account, Cal- 4 plantation & three parcels* of Land more, the culation or Reckoning and the final Discharge One I purchased of Jarat Wall, one of John and Dismission from ye Same unto me Solely, Wall & a parcel adjoyning to Wallens Land, and not unto any Other Inferiour Judge are and my Salt Meadow at Shoal Harbor with Manifestly known to belong, and the Admin- the use of my Personal Estate for & During istration of all & Singular ye Goods chattels the Term of her Widowhood, if the Same con- & credits of ye said Deced, & his Last Will tinue Not Longer than That my Youngest Son and Testament in any Manner of Ways Con- Daniel Attain ye Age of Twenty One Years. cerning was Granted unto, Hendrick Hendricks. If at That Time she be my widow unmarryd Roeleff Echank & Jonathan Holmes, ye Exec- my Will is that ye Said Lands be Equally utors In the sd Last will & Testament Named Devided between her and my Said Son Daniel Chiefly of well & Truly Administring the During her Widowhood and at the Expiration same, and of making a True and perfect In- thereof, I give and Devise all ye Lands and ventory of all & Singular ye Goods Chattels Meadow I have herein jiven her the use of to and Credits of ye said Deced and Exhibiting my Said Son Daniel His heirs & Assigns for ye same into ye Registry of ye Prerogative Ever on condition that he Pay to my Seven Court in ye Secretary's office at on or before Daughters the Sum of Three hundred & fifty ye Twentyeth day of June next Ensuing & of Pounds VIZ fifty Pounds to my Eldest Daugh- rendering a just & True Account when there- ter within One Year after he is of the age of unto required. twenty One Years and Lawfully possessed of IN TESTIMONY whereof I have caused ya the whole Plantation, and so Yearly fifty PREROGATIVE SEAL of ye sd Province of Pounds to ye Next Eldest till ye Seven Daugh- New Jersey to be hereunto Affixed at Burling- ters have Received their fifty Pounds a Piece, ton in New Jersey Afd. ye 22d Day of Feb- and Personal Estate Equally to all my Chil- ruary in ye First Year of our Reign dren, pt. I give and Devise to my Nephew JAMES SMITH Secry. Daniel Hendricks a smali Lott of Land I have in Amboy purchased of Stephen Warne VIZT Geesya. b. Oct. 9. 1696, at Flatbush, TO Daniel Hendricks, the Son of my Brother L. I.; m. 1714, Roelef, eldest son of Jan William Hendricks his heirs and Assigns for- Schenck and Saartje Couwenhoven, his ever, pt. I give & Devise Two Small Parcels wife, of Pleasant Valley, in what is now of Upland at Conescunk called ye Landing and Landing Lotts, Equally to my four Sons Name- Holmdel township. She died September ly Hendrick, John, William & Daniel and To 20, 1747, and was buried in Schenck- their heirs & Assigns for ever as Tenants in Couwenhoven cemetery. Her headstone common pt. and Lastly I do Nominate & ap- is still in a state of good preservation, point my sun Hendrick Hendricks and my and gives her age 50 yrs. 11 mos. 11 d. I_ons in Law Rocleff Schank and Jonathan Her husband is buried by her, and his Holmes, Junr., Executors of this my Last f 73 yrs., 10 mos., 28 days. Will and Testament to see ye Same executed. age given as IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto Roelef Schenck became a communicant Sett my Hand & Seal the Day & Year first in the Dutch church of Monmouth coun- Above Written Signed Daniel Hendricks with ty in 1715, and his wife 32 years later a (Seal) SIGNED. SEALED and PUBLISHED or in 1747. Her brother, Daniel Hen- by Daniel Hendricks as his Last Will & Tes- drickson. and his wife, Catrina Cou- tament in ye Presence of Cornelius Wyckof. wenhoven, her sister Jannetje, then Johannis Leiister (Luyster). Cornelius Dooren and (Doom). William Lawrence Junior. the widow of Roelef Couwenhoven. WILLIAM BURNET, Esqr., Captain General joined the church at the same time. See & Governour in Chief of ye Provinces of New page 87 of Wells' address at Brick Jersay, New York and Territories thereon de- church. Six of Daniel Hendrickson's pending in America, and Vice Admiral of ye daughters became members of this same &c, KNOW YE That in ya County of church, or all except Catharine. Geeyse Monmouth in ye Province of New Jersey, The her Twenty Ninth day of January one Thousand Hendrickson and Roelef Schenck, seven hundred & Twenty Seven, The Last Will husband, had the following children: and Testament of Daniel Hendricks Late of Sarah, b. May 22, 1715; m. Dec. 1. Middletown in ye County of Monmouth yeo- 1734. Joseph VanMater. (b. Feb. 5, L710, Deced, was proved before man LAWRENCE (1. Oct. 15, 1792) and died Sept. 1. 1748. SMYTH who is Thereunto by me authorized aged 33 y, 3 mos, 9 days, according to and appointed for That purpose, having while inscription on her headstone in family he Lived and at ye Time of his Death. Goods, Chattels & Credits in Divers places within This burying-ground on old VanMater home- Province, by .Means Whereof ye full Dispos- stead in Atlantic township. The names ition of all & Singular ye Goods Chattels & of her children have heretofore been published in genealogy of the VanMater family. Katrinje, bap. March 19, 1717; died young. mouth." Jonathan Holmes was the eldest son of Kalrya, (Catharine) bap. Dec. 21, 1718; Obadiah Holmes and Alice Ashton, his wife. m. first, Simon DeHart; second. Peter, He was known as Jonathan Holmes, Jr., to son of Jacob Couwenhoven and Sarah Jonathan distinguish him from his uncle, Sol,. ,,ok. Ins wife. The marriage lic- Holmes, Sr., who is buried in old Topanemes ense of last couple is recorded in office graveyard. Pleasant Valley. N. J., between 1730 and ]

~~Photographed in 1900 by Mrs. L. H. S. Co~~

~~Photographed by Mrs. L. H. S. Conover in summer of 1900.~~

EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. of the secretary of state at Trenton. dren of his son Joseph, deceased. His It was granted July 27. 1749. The daughters named in this will were Alice names of her six children by these two VanBrkkle, Catherine Schenck, and husbands appear on page 310 of "Old Mary. Obadiah Holmes, the lather of Times in Old Monmouth." Jonathan Holmes, Jr., was the eldest Jan. b. January 22, 1720; m. Nov. 26. son of Jonathan Holmes and .Sarah, 17-11, Jaconmyntje, daughter of Cornel- Borden, his wife, and was born July 17. ius Couwenhoven and Margaretta 1666. at Gravesend, on Long Island. Schenck, his wife, of Pleasant Valley; They were probably staying with Capt. died June 27. 1740, aged 29 y, 5 mos, 5 John Bowne who lived there, and who days, according to his headstone in had married Lydia Holmes, a daughter Schenck-Couwenhoven cemetery. His of Rev. Obadiah. The settlement at wife is not buried by him. She may Middletown in Monmouth county was have married as second husband. being effected, and Jonathan Holmes. Daniel, bap. Hay 26. 1723; d. Sept. 20. with his family, remained at Gravesend 1747. until his dwelling-house could be built Neeltje (Eleanor), b. Sept. 10. 172 1; and made ready for occupation. The m. Oct. 12, 17 11. Garret, son of Jacob next year, 1667, we find this Jonathan Couwenhoven and Saartje Schanck. his Holmes among the first officers elected wife. (b. Nov. 5, 1716, d. Dec. 9. 1797). in the township of Middletown. and died Nov. 25, 1800. She is buried Jonathan Holmes, whose name ap- by her husband on Conover homestead pears so prominently on our first rec- near Taylor's mills, Atlantic township. ords from 1667 to 1684, was born in The names of her children have been 1637 in England, and came with his heretofore given in the Couwenhoven lather to America in 1639. He was the genealogy. firstborn and eldest son of a man fam- Hendrick, b. July 29. 1731, married ous in the annals of the Baptist church, his cousin Catharine, daughter of Jon- and who was a zealous preacher of this athan Holmes, Jr., and Teuntje Hen- faith at Newport, R. I., from 1652 to his drickson his wife. Their marriage lic- death in 1682. Capt. John Bowne. who ense was granted Feb. 28. 1749. He was the leading spirit of this colony died on his farm near Brick church, from Gravesend to Monmouth, had mar- Marlboro township, August 24, 1766, ried his daughter, and he doubtless lent aged 35 yrs, 25 days, according to his him his name and influence to make headstone in Schenck-Couwenhoven this enterprise a success. His name ap- yard. He left one son Rulef. and four pears on Nicolls patent of 1665 as one daughters surviving. A strange coin- of the patentees, but he never removed cidence attends Hendrick's will and his here. Two of his sons. Jonathan and father's will. They have same sub- Obadiah. represented him and his inter- scribing witnesses, were proved same ests. The latter, however, only remain- year, and are both recorded in Book I ed a short time, for we find him resid- or Will- at Trenton. N. J. ing on Staten Island and a Justice of Engelt.ie. bap. April 28, 1732. died the Peace there under Jacob Leisler. young. The troubles arising from his connec- Teuntje. (Antonia) bap. in Brooklyn. tion with this man led him to remove April 9, 1699; m. 1715. Jonathan to Salem county, N. J., where he lived Holmes, Jr.. eldest son of Obadiah the rest of his life. Jonathan Holmes Holmes and Alice Ashton, his wife. remained in Monmouth until 1684. and Teuntje was the first of the seven then returned to Rhode Island, where daughters of Daniel Hendrickson to join he remained until his death in 1713. the Dutch church. This was in 1737. His will was proved Nov. 2nd of that Her husband. Jonathan Holmes. Jr.. was year, and is recorded at Newport. R. I. so called to distinguish him from his He devised all his real estate in Mon- uncle. Jonathan Holmes. Sr.. and Jona- mouth county equally to his sons, Oba- than Holmes, minor. diah and Jonathan, who both settled, Jonathan- Holmes. Jr.. made his will lived and died here. Obadiah married Sept. 6, 1766; it was proved Nov. 2, 1768. Alice Ashton. as already stated, and and recorded at Trenton in Book K of Jonathan Holmes. Jr.. was his firstborn Wills, p. 264. The witnesses are Obadiah and eldest son. Jonathan Holmes, the Holmes, Obadiah Holmes, Jr.. and Asher first settler, was one of the trusted Ho He ibes leaders, next to Capt. John Bowne. both Jonathan Holri of Freehold town- in industrial, religious and civil matters ship." He devises all his-realhi estate t.> of the early colonists. Hi- was a deputj his sons. William and JJames, (baptized to tlie first general assembly which met Jacobus). He also men at Elizabethtown in 1668. The next athan, John. Daniel. Sa year he was dismissed for refusing to EARL )' DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOL Til. take the oath of allegiance to the Pro- Marlboro. They were the parents of prietors. Soon alter Governor Carteret Asher Holmes, (b. Feb. 22, 1740. d. June sent commissioners to the people oi 20, 1808) who was first sheriff of Mon- Monmouth demanding their submission mouth county under our Republic. He and obedience to the Lords Proprietors was Colonel of our county militia and as they grandiloquently 'called them- of state troops, ami was eiiE^-ol in selves. The people of Shrewsbury man- the battles of Germantown, Princeton aged to evade committing themselves. and Monmouth. He also represented The people of Middletown spoke out il-ii ith the 786- boldly and frankly, and their answer is 88. The officers of our Monmouth mil- recorded in full in the old Town Book itia during the Revolution were neither of Middletown. It is well worth Trad- professional soldiers nor literary or ing-, as it is the first public declaration learned men. They never made any for popular rights against government efforts to perpetuate the memory of by favoritism and caste put forth on their deeds, and never claimed any par- this American continent. Tradition re- ticular credit for doing what they ports that Jonathan Holmes, who had thought was their plain duty. There- been rejected as a deputy for refusing fore, when we find any writing by them to take the oath of allegiance and fidel- det tlii ity to the Proprietors, framed this an- memorable war. we should especially swer. Neither the proclamation of prize it. The following letter was writ- Charles I. King of England, ordering ten by Colonel Asher Holmes to his wile them to submit, nor this threat of Gov- alter the battle of Germantown. merely ernor Cartaret that they would be pun- to assure her of his safety, and without ished as "mutineers" or rebels, sinus any idea it would be treasured up and to have intimidated them. It is a preserved for other generations. strong, honest and sensible declaration Camp on the Mountain near Perkamie ,ii their rights, and shows what a dif- Creek. 29 miles west of Philadelphia, thin, as ever since, has existed ference Oct. 6. 1777: between the people of the two original DEAR SALLIE: townships. The day before yesterday there was Holmes' son Obadiah, mar- Jonathan a general engagement. The first part 16!I6 Alice, (b. 1671, d. 17161 ried in of the day was much in our favour. We daughter of James Ashton and Deliver- ,lr,,ve the enemy for some miles. Gen- Throckmorton, his wife. Obadiah arice eral How. had given orders for his died April 3, 1715, leaving a Holmes army to retreat over the Schuykill 171 t, proved April will dated Dec. 21. River: but the afterpart of the day was recorded at Trenton in "D" 17. 17i:.. and unfavorable to us: our line of battle ,,1 etc. He mentions Jon- Wills, p. .£65, was broken, and we were obliged to athan, Obadiah, James, Samuel, Joseph i.t rea I and John, six sons, and Deliverance, near Germantown. wife of Joseph Smith, and Mary, wife of The battle was by different div- James Mott, two daughters. H. gives This attack was made quarters, nearly at his homestead farm at "Ramnessin," on isions in different morning being- Hop Brook, in present township of the same time, but the against us. and Holmdel, to his son John, and his lands very foggy, was much to the thickness at Crosswicks, (now Upper Freehold) the severe firing added prevented our seeing to his son Joseph, whose descendants of the air, which great disadvantage to have owned and resided on it to this far. therefore a militia and the Red day. us. The Jersey * and the Our present chosen freeholder from Coats under General Forman. Upper Freehold township, Joseph Maryland militia with some 'Listed Smallwood, were on Holmes, now owns this homestead and troops under Gen. th. hit wing of the whole army. We is a lineal descendant of this son of first made Obadiah Holmes, to whom he devised drove the enemy, when we the thickness of the these lands, obadiah Holmes was sheriff the attack, but by got into our rear. There- of Monmouth in 1699, and one of the fog. the enemy our front, and then leaders of the people in breaking up fore had to change place. . proper Governor Hamilton's court at Middle- , treated to a Gen. McDougall's 'Listed men then tow ii. March 26, 1701. Obadiah's son Samuel, (b. April 17. Feb. 23, 1760), married Dec. 7. 1704. d. in, wera the 1731. Huldah. daughter of Gershom red hunting Mott and Sarah Clayton, his wile, and smoke of battle might lived and died on a farm called "Scots- nistaken for the British who also lats. and thus cause confusion. EARL V DUTCH SET ILEA'S OF MOSMOLTH. formed to the left of us and Gen. whose names appear on the old records Green's 'Listed men to the right of us, of the Monmouth Dutch church. but they all gave way except the Mon- There must have been much talk and mouth Militia, and Gen. Forman's Red holding up of hands in amazement Coats stood firm, and advanced upon among the good brethren of the Baptist the British Red Coats, who were at faith, that these descendants of the least three times our number, to a fence sturdy Rev. Obadiah Holmes should be where we made a stand. The fire was sprinkled and not immersed. There very severe and the enemy ran. must have been many earnest appeals They brought a field-piece to Are on made to their father against this woe- us with grapeshot, but our Monmouth ful departure from the true faith. The men stood firm until their ammunition only reply Jonathan Holmes, Jr., could was nearly exhausted, and the enemy make, I suppose, was "When a woman advancing around our right flank. Gen. will, she will, and when she won't, she Forman then ordered us to retreat, won't." Teuntje, however, was never which we did in pretty good order until able to bring her husband clear over, our Continental troops broke and ran as Margaret Wyckoff had done with the second time, and this running Jonathan Forman, but she turned her through our men broke them entirely. "Holmes" children into good "Dutch- Our Jersey Brigade suffered very much men." by storming a strong stone house in The records of our Dutch church Germantown, which first stopped our show that Jonathan Holmes and Teuntje progress, and I believe was one great Hendrickson. his wife, had the follow- cause of breaking our line in that quar- ing children baptized:

I have seen Brother John Holmes, Obadiah, bapt. Oct. 28, 1716, died unmarried in 1752. records in the office of the Sec- I 'apt. Mott, Capt. Burrows and Bostwick The and most of our Monmouth officers. We retary of State show that letters of administration on his estate was granted to his broth- are all well. Since the battle our army er, Joseph Holmes, Jr., Oct. 17, 1752, Book B is in good spirits although our duty of Wills, p. 69. has been very severe. The night before Daniel, bapt. April 9, 1721, m. 1752. Leah, the battle our men marched all night (b. 1736, d. March 15, 1813) daughter of James and had very little sleep the night Bowne and Margaret Ncwhuld, his wife. Both after. Providence seems to have pro- are buried in yard of Hoimdel Baptist church. Jonathan, bapt. July 19. 1722. married Sarah tected our Monmouth Militia in a par- Potter in 1758, and was a merchant in New ticular manner, as we have lost very York city in 1752. He may have been the few. if any killed, and not many "Jonathan Holmes" called "Minor." wounded, although the enemy was with- Joseph, b. , m. June. 1752, Sarah, daugh- in 120 yards of us in the hottest of the ter of James Mott and Mary Holmes, his wife, Are, and their field piece firing on us and was engaged with James Mott, Jr., in with grapeshot a great part of the time. mercantile business in New York city. He died in 1763. James Mott and James Mott. Jr., I have escaped without being hurt, al- appointed administrator of Joseph Holmes, I exposed to the though was much Sept. 22, 1763, Book H of Wills, p. 293, Sec- retary of State's office.

John, b. ; m. 1764, Catharine Brown, was associated with his brother Jonathan in To Mrs. Sarah Holmes. business in New York city in 1752. In 1763 he resided at and operated a grist mill at Forked River in what is now Ocean county, This letter is directed but then part of Monmouth. During the Rev- "To Mrs. Sarah Holmes in Fr olutionary war his dwelling was plundered by forwarded by Mr. Logan." a party of refugees. He left three nd had numerous descendants

Teuntje, the second child of Daniel of these followed the water J captain Hendrickson, was an earnest and active of vessels in coasting trade. Alice, bapt. March 30. 1730; m. 1749, John member of the Dutch church, while her VanBrakle. d. May 19, 1796. his husband, Jonathan Holmes, like all Catharine, b. May 11, 1731; d. May 12, 1796. family, was a zealous believer in the aged 63 years. 1 day. according to the inscrip- tenets of the Baptist faith. The baptism tion on her headstone in Schenck-Couwen- by immersion was one of their most hoven yard, where she is buried by her first important doctrines. Neither did they husband. Hendrick Schenck. She left a will, recorded at Trenton, N. J. She married first believe in infant baptism. Teuntje in 1749. Hendrick, son of Roelof Schenck and Hendrickson must have been a woman Ueesey Hendrickson, his wife, who died August of great resolution, for she had her 1766. She ir ried ad. Jo children baptized in the Dutch church et Schenck Neeltje Voorhees, his and taught the Heidelberg catechism. ird wife. He died Feb. Her children are the only Holmeses EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Bradevelt i and was buried by his father of Nathan Stout. To his brother, Samuel Schenck-Couwenhoven yard, Holmes, he gives the interest yearly on There wen lildren by the last marriage. $3,750 for life, and at his death to his son, Jonathan, if living. If James, bapt. Jacobus, May 1, 1737. dead, then Samuel, bapt. July 8, 1739. $750 of principal to Samuel's two

William, b. , died in 1776. Letters of daughters, Mary and Catharine, and the his remaining $3,000 to Daniel and John, his hrutliiT. Daniel H.. ln-.es, Feb. 2S, 1776. See sons of his brother, John S. Holmes. Book M of Wills, p. 29, Secretary of State's To Jonathan, son of his brother, office, Trenton. Joseph Holmes, $500, and to Nelly, daughter of Catharine Holmes, the seventh child his brother Joseph, $125. To Joseph, of Jonathan Holmes, Jr., and Teuntje son of David Crawford, $62.50, and to Hendrickson, his wife above mentioned, Joseph Covert, son of Daniel Covert, by her first husband, Hendrick Schenck, $62.50. had seven children, of whom five lived To Jonathan Holmes, son of his to grow up, viz: one son, Ruliff, and brother Samuel, his clock, sideboard, four daughters, Mary, Eleanor, Cathar- silver tankard, best horse he has, his ine and Ann. Her youngest child, Ann, fusee and implements belonging to it. was born on her farm near what is now Orders all legacies paid in gold or Bradevelt station, June 14, 1766, and silver. Directs Daniel and John, the married Jonathan Holmes, son of Sam- two nephews to whom he gives all his uel Holmes, and Mary Stout, his wife. real estate, not to sell it, but keep same Samuel Holmes (b. Oct. 4, 1726; d. Aug. in Holmes family forever. 26, 1769) was a son of Jonathan Holmes, John S. Holmes named in this will Sr., by Rebecca Throckmorton, his sec- married Sarah, daughter of Col. Daniel dnd wife. They are both buried in old Hendrickson who commanded the Third Topanemus grave yard. This Jonathan Regiment of Monmouth militia during Holmes, son of Samuel Holmes and the Revolution, and was speaker of Mary Stout, his wife, married Ann General Assembly of New Jersey in Schenck, as above stated, and died 1784. John S. Holmes also represented without children, Nov. 16, 1814. His Monmouth county in General Assembly will is dated January 6, 1810, proved during years 1810-11 and 1813-14. His Nov. 22, 1814, and recorded at Freehold son Daniel married Rhoda VanMater, as in Book A of Wills, p. 685, etc. has been mentioned in VanMater rec- He first orders that one-quarter of ords. This Daniel Holmes was a mem- an acre of land on the farm where his ber of the constitutional convention of brother, John S. Holmes, then lived, and 1814. "where the burying ground now is" The following paper has the genuine shall be a burying- place for the Holmes signatures of John S. Holmes, Col. family. He then gives to his brother, Asher Holmes, and others who have John S. Holmes, the use of all his real been mentioned in these articles. It estate, and at his death to go to his also shows that they appreciated edu- two sons, Daniel and John, or the sur- cation and good schools and made an vivors of them in fee simple. This is effort to have an academy or high the same farm in Pleasant Valley where school established in Holmdel: ex-Sheriff Daniel Holmes lived, and "On condition that the acre of ground, where his son, the late Joseph H. this day sold by Obadiah Holmes unto Holmes, lived and died. The Holmes us the undersubscribers, for erecting an family still own it. academy; that if it should fail of suc- Jonathan Holmes then made the fol- cess, then if its ever convenient to any lowing bequests: To his sister Lydia, other use, we engage to pay said Oba- wife of Garret Stillwell, $250; to the diah Holmes or his lawful representa- children of his sister Parmelia, wife of tives, the further sum of fifty pounds John Stillwell, $250: to his brother, for said lot. This we engage in case Stout Holmes, $375. This brother mar- that either us or our heirs shall convert ried first Elizabeth Pintard. second it to any other purpose. Witness our Mary Ogbourns, widow of Samuel Bray. hands this twenty-fourth day of Dec- One of his daughters, Alice, married ex- ember, seventeen hundred and ninety- Judge Joseph Murphy, and was the three. mother of Holmes W. Murphy, who ASHER HOLMES, BARNES SMOCK, served two terms as clerk of Monmouth THOMAS LLOYD. DANIEL KETCHAM. county and represented this county in JOHN I. HOLMES. JOHN S. HOLMES. Genera] Assembly during the years BARNES H. SMOCK, CHRINETONCB 1880-81. He was associated with the VanMATER. GARRET HENDRICKSON writer as partner in law business for Wi several years. HEN. HENDRICKSON, Jonathan Holmes also gives by this JARRET STILLWELL, will $375 to his sister Catharine, wife WILLIAM BRITTON." {&*jf^&s6>**<>', «^l^^{flh~£f*.^'^4^r^A«^^

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Garret Hendrickson, who has signed salvation by Jesus Christ." above, was Lieut. Garret Hendrickson "My son Obadiah: Consider that Oba- in Capt. Wm. Schenck's company, and dlah was a servant of the Lord and Barnes Smock commanded an artillery tender in spirit, and in a troublesome company during- the revolution. Hen- time hid the prophets by 60 in a cave." drick Hendrickson, who signs as wit- ".My son Samuel: Remember that ness, was one of the county judges and Samuel was a chief prophet of the Lord, part of time presiding judge, as out- ready to hear his voice saying "Speak court minutes from 1790 to 1800 show. Lord, for thy servant heareth." As the Holmes family has always "My daughter Martha: Remember been prominent in this county and have Martha, although she was cumbered numerous relatives, there are many with many things, yet she loved the who will feel interested in the following Lord, and was beloved of him, for He extracts from a letter written by the loved .Mary and Martha." Rev. Obadiah Holmes to his wife in "My daughter Mary: Remember Mary 1675: "If she remains in the land of the chose the better part, that shall not be living, after my departure" to use his taken away, and did hearken to the own words. After speaking of the Lord's instructions." "comfort their children have been.'' he "My son Jonathan: Remember how writes: "Wherefore make use of that faithful and loving he was t.. David, he is pleased to let thee enjoy. I sin- that servant of the Lord." make use of it to thy present comfort. "My daughter Lidiah: Remember Thou art but weak and aged, cease from how Lidiah's heart was opened, her ear a thy labors and great toil and take bowed, her spirit made willing to re- little rest and ease in thy old age. Live ceive and obey the apostle in what tin- on what thou hast, for what the Lord Lord required, and was baptize.], and hast given us, I freely have given thi e, mtertained and refreshed the servants for thy life, to make thy life comfort- of the Lord." able; see thou doeth it, so wherefore "Let your conversation in life be remain. long as house, land and cattle squared by the Scriptures, ami thej thyself, at thy death. Make much of and will direct you how to behave toward remains be disposed then what may God and man. And next to- loving and to will. now, according my And my fearing the Lord, have you. a most I love as own soul. dear wife, whom my dear and tender respect to your faith- I thee to the Lord, who hath commit ful, careful, tender hearted, loving, a gracious merciful God to us all been aged mother. Show your duty in all doubting will our days. Not once He things. Love her with high and cheer- be gracious to thee in life or death, and ful love and respect, and then make will carry thee through this valley of sure you love one another. Let it con- tears, with his own supporting hand. Sorrow- not at my departure, but rejoice good examples to others. Visit one in the Lord, and again I say rejoice in another as often as you can, and pul the Lord of our salvation. And in one another in mind of the uncertainty nothing be careful, but make thy re- of life, and what need there is to pre- quests to Him. who only is able to sup- pare for death. Take counsel one of ply thy necessities and to help thee in another, and if one see cause to advise time of need. Unto whom I commit or reprove the other, hearken to it and thee for counsel, wisdom and strength, take it well. Be ye content with your and to keep thee blameless to the com- present condition and portion God giving of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom eth you. and make a good use of what be all glory, honor and praise, forever yon hive, by making- use of it to your and ever. Fare Thee Well." comfort for meat, drink and apparel, it Extracts from a letter to all his chil- is the gift of God. And take care to dren: Alter urging them to seek the live honestly, justly, quietly, with Inv- kingdom of God and his righteousness, alid peace with all men. etc., and forget he says: "And now my son Joseph: not to entertain strangers according to Remember Joseph of Arimathea was a your ability, etc." man. and a disciple of Jesus, and good OBADIAH HTJLLMES. was bold and went boldly and asked The 17th day. 10th month, 1675." the body of Jesus and buried it." John: Remember what a "My son Hendrick, the eldest son of the pion- loving and beloved disciple he was." eei settler, was born in 1700; married "M\ daughter Hope: Consider what 17:'.".. Neeltje, daughter of Garrei a peace of God hope is, and court after Schenck and Neeltje Voorhees. his vs ife, that hope that will never be ashamed, of Pleasant Valley, and died intestate eternal life .-10(1 but the hope of 1 hath February 21, 753, ago. I fifty years, ac- EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMl I ill.

lording to his headstone in the family and died in the old Dutch built farm- burring ground on the old Hendrickson house, still (1900) standing, on the homestead at Holland in Holmdel town- farm where Cyrenius Hendrickson lived ship. His wife is not buried by him, as and died in Pleasant Valley, afterwards she married in 1761 Elias Golden and is owned and occupied by his only son, probably buried by him on the Golden Henry Denise Hendrickson, well known homestead. Administration on his es- to our present generation of people in tate, at request of the widow, was this county. Garret Hendrickson was a granted March 20. 1753, to his brothers, lieutenant in Capt. William Schenck's Daniel and William, and his brother-in- company of militia during the Revolu- law. Garret Schenck. See Book F of tionary war and rendered good service Wills, page 107, Secretary of State's to his country. office at Trenton, N. J. He had the fol- The following extract from the New- lowing children: Jersey Gazette of June 28, 1780. speaks Tryntje, baptized April 3, 1726; died of him, although by mistake his name in infancy. is printed "Henderson" instead of Hen- Daniel, born November 11, 1727; mar- The nffic by ried in 1767, Mary Schenck, (see license name of Henderson in the Middietown in Secretary of State's office) and died militia. Thomas Henderson of Free- without surviving children March 2nd, hold, was a lieutenant-colonel and a 1776, aged 48 years. 3 months, 21 days, physician, and is said to be the writer according to his headstone inscription of those letters from Monmouth county in homestead yard. His wife is not published from time to time in this buried by him. which would indicate newspaper. Our county records show- that she has married again. His will is that a pension was granted to Garret recorded at Trenton in Book M of Wills, Hendrickson and Walter Hier (Hyres) page 16-17. He describes himself as for wounds received in a skirmish on "Daniel Hendrickson, Jr.. of Middietown June 21, 1780. The United States gov- township." He gives his wife Mary ernment at a later date placed Garret £1400, with household goods and a Hendrickson on the pension roll for negro girl. All his real estate is devised this same injury. "Letter from Mon- in fee equally between his two broth- mouth county dated June 22, 1780. Yes- ers, Garret and Hendrick. He bequeaths frerdav morning a party of the enemy £100 to his sister, Nelly VanMater, and consisting of Tye with 30 Blacks. 26 the same amount to his sister, Mary Queen Rangers and 30 Refugee Tories Couwenhoven. and £20 to his sister Ann. landed at Conascung. They got be- with a negro man. To James Schenck. tween our scouts undiscovered, and a cow and calf. This will is dated Feb- went to James Mott's, Sr., and plunder- ruary 18, 1775. proved March 12. 1776. ed his and several neighbors houses of His two brothers. Garret and Hendrick. almost everything, and carried off the divide the lands so devised between following persons: James Mott. Sr.. them by quit claim deeds, recorded in James Johnston. Joseph Dorsett. Book I of Deeds, page f> 2. Monmouth Joseph Pearce. William Blair. James County clerk's office. Walling. Jr., John Walling, son of Neeltje, baptized January 4. 1734; Thomas. Phillip Walling. James Wall. died young. Matthew Griggs, several negroes and a Garret, born January 22. 1734, died great deal of stock; but all the negroes December 2. 1801, and is buried by his except one, and a great deal of stock first two wives on the homestead. He were retaken by our people. Capt. married first, according to license Walling was slightly wounded and a granted, December 8, 1755, and on rec- Lieut. Henderson (Hendrickson) had ord at Trenton, his cousin, Catharine, his arm broken. Two privates supposed daughter of Tunis Denise and Fran- mortally and a third slightly wounded (born cyntje Hendrickson, his wife, in a skirmish we had with them on May 8. 1732, died Sept. 8. 1771). Mar- their retreat. The enemy acknowledge (born ried second. Lena, or Helena, loss of seven men. but we think it more Sept. 26, 1753. died Jan. 1, 1785) daugh- considerable." ter of Denise VanLieu. or VanLieuwen. and Ida Wyckoff, his wife. Married It appears that there was hand to affidavit third. Nelly, daughter of Arie VanDoorn hand fighting, for in an on and Antje Janse Schenck, his wife, and record in the Monmouth clerk's office then the widow of Hendrick Smock. to support Hyres' claim for pension, it cutlass She died February 11, 1834, aged 01 is stated "that he received a years, 10 months, 8 days, according to wound while boldly fighting." Doctor and Doctor Thomas Henderson, hi i- headstone in Schenck-Couwenhoven Barber cemetery, Garret Hendrickson lived (writer of these letters) certify that EARLY 1)1 nil SETTLER. >/ MO.XMOriil.

creek . Hendnek> and swamps near Way.akr i. . u ight mji. Williampe, born February 2. l.t.l; ies received in this fight on June 21, married first, November 9, 1778', Aaron 1780. See page 303 of Old Times in Long-street; second. Dr. Pitney, and Old Monmouth, although there is a died October 21, 1837. typographical error here, for the month Elias, baptized September 29, L765; is printed January instead of June. married Gitty, who died May 10, 1805. In this and several other raids the when only nineteen years old, accord- landed enemy at Conescunk. The reason ing to headstone in homestead yard. He of this was the of this depth water at died childless July 28. 1805, aged 40 place near the which shore enabled years, and is buried by her. He also to off their them get boats at any stage served during the Revolution in light of the tide. At other places the flats horse company. would be bare for a considerable dis- Hendrick Hendrickson. tance or water too shallow to float the father of these three children, served as their barges at low tide. Captain John one of our county judges years, Schenck is said to have led our forces many and part of the time was presiding- and pressed close upon them until they judge of the embarked. So closely were they pressed Monmouth courts: see Nos. 7, 8 and 9 of court minutes of that they abandoned nearly all the Monmouth county. Denise Denise, I. cattle, sheep and hogs they had taken, Garret Cov- enhoven, John Covenhoven, and all the negro slaves except one. Peter Schenck and While their last boat was within Peter Wyckoff were associate judges with him part of this time. musket shot from the beach an officer As a judge he was fair and stood up in the stern of the boat and impartial, with strong sense. In addi- deliberately aimed and fired at Captain common tion to lands he inherited Schenck, who had come down to the from his father, he got 200 acres water's edge. The bullet whistled close under will of his brother Daniel. to his head. "They shoot as n they He also purchased of John wanted to kill a body," said the grim Covenhoven 130 acres, and years farmer, "but two can play at this some later 150 acres more, adjacent to work." Then seizing a gun from one his farm in Pleasant Valley. of his men he walked into the water up He also bought 37 acres of adjacent to his armpits and carefully aiming, land from Garret Schenck, and so became the fired at the man who still stood up in owner of some 600 acres of as good land as the stern of the boat. He was seen to there was in Pleasant Valley. fall back but how badly hurt was never As his sons died childless, this learned. large and valuable farm passed out of Hendrick. the fifth child of Hendrick the Hendrickson name under his will dated Hendrickson. and Neeltje Schenck, his July 12, 1811. proved November 28. 1811. wife, was born April 23, baptized June recorded at Freehold in Book of Wills, 457. 5, 1737, and died October 11, 1811, ac- A page etc. He devised cording to his tombstone in family yard all his real estate to his grandson, John Longstreet, on homestead farm. He married first, subject to the comfortable maintenance of his widow for life. according to license granted, March 7. This 17T.7, Lydia. daughter of Ensign Elias devise passed into the Longstreet fam- Couwenhoven and Williamsee Wall, his ily one of the finest and most produc- tive in wife, (born March 11, 1738; dit-J March farms Pleasant Valley. He 16, 1805) married second, Helena Long- gives to his daughter. Williampe Pit- street, October 18, 1806, according to ney, interest on £342, then in hands Of marriage records in Monmouth clerk's Aaron Pitney. He gives Anne Seabrook and Lydia office. I think she was a widow, and Smock £600 each. To his the daughter of Joseph Covenhoven and grandson. Hendrick Longstreet, £5, to Hannah, his wife. She was born Nov- Aaron Schenck, son of Obadiah Schenck and Nelly Longstreet, £500. ember 28. 1754, died October 3, 1820. Hendrick Both wives are buried by him in home- Longstreet. his grandson, and friend stead yard at Holland. By his first wife Denise Hendrickson, are appointed ex- he had the following children, but none ecutors. by his second wife. The sixth child of Hendrick Hen- Hendrick, born November 13, 1758, drickson and Neeltje Schenck. his wife, baptized February 18, 1759: died unmar- was Mary, born December 6. 1740, married. November 8, 1803. He served in ried January 13, 1767. Cornelius (b. light horse company during Revolution Feb. 11. 1746. d. Oct. 10. 1806). son of and was also the schipper or boss of a William Cornelise Couwenhoven and crew of whaleboatmen, whose boats laj Ann, ij,- Hendrickson. his second wife. con.,:, in the hd ravines near Ma tn « :i n She died January 3, 1806. and is buried EARL Y pr/CH SETTLERS <>E MOXMOTTl/.

by her husband in Schanck-Couwen- hoven cemetery. meats, hams, corned beef, butter, and Tryntje, (Catharine) bap. September all other kinds of provisions they could 30. 1710: died young. lay their hands on. They also took Neeltje, bap. September 30, 1740. mar- clothing, blankets, and cooking utensils. ried 1756, Jacob VanMeter (b. March 3. .Mrs. Garret Hendrickson's silk dress 1732, d. April 20. 1775). already men- was taken and used to wrap up hams. tioned in VanMater records. After loading up with all kinds of Antje, bap. October 7. 1744, married plunder they started back for the Hook. David Hansen VanNostrandt, who was In the meantime Captain Schai.ck was bap. September 18. 1737. gathering his men and succeeded in William, bap. December 18. 1748. died getting thirty mounted men ready in young. about an hour after the Refugees had Garret and Hendrick Hendrickson started. The deep snow and unbroken owned some of the best farming lands roads with the heavy loads made the which could be found in Monmouth progress of the Refugees slow. They county. They were well stocked with were overtaken and a lively skirmish cattle! sheep and swine. The hams and ensued in which three of them were bacon made by them were of the best. In the fall an abundant supply of The rest escaped. One of them cut a smoked meats, salted provisions, and horse loose from among the teams and other things to eat and drink, were rode off. All the plunder was retaken. laid away in cellar, smoke house and Our people lost one man killed. This garret. This is the reason why so many- was young Thompson who had given raids were made through Pleasant the alarm. On their return they were Valley. The last of these expeditions attacked unexpectedly by a detached occurred February 8. 1782. Forty refu- party of Refugees consisting of sixteen gees from Sandy Hook under command men under command of Shore Steven- of a Lieutenant Steelman who belonged son. Captain Schanck at once ordered down in Cape May county, came up a charge before they could reload their during the night and surrounded Garret guns. They at once threw down their Hendrickson and his brother Hendrick's arms and asked for quarter. In the houses before daylight. This was confusion, however eight of the first directly after a heavy snowstorm and prisoners got away, leaving only four I suppose these men on the Hook were who with Stevenson and his sixteen in a state of starvation and ready for men made 21 prisoners. any desperate adventure to get provis- Lieutenant Garret Hendrickson by ions. They succeeded in taking Hen- Catharine Denise, his first wife, had the drick Hendrickson and his two sons, following children: Hendrick and Elias, with all women Hendrick, baptized March 20. 1757, folks and negro slaves, and Garret died young. Hendrickson with his people, and John Franeyntje, baptized March 18. 1758: Covenhoven, his family and servants on married William Forman. Both buried adjacent farms, prisoners and placed in yard of Old Tennent church. She them under close guard. A young man died June 19, 1815. and her husband named William Thompson at Garret January 31, 1823, aged 71 years, 5 Hendrickson's house, managed in some months, 5 days. way to escape undiscovered and hur- Denise. born November 12, 1761, died ried off to Captain John Schanck's home March 7. 1830. He married December where he gave the alarm. They seized 28. 17S6. Anne, (born Nov. 15, 1766: died five woodsleds on these different farms. Aug. 6, 1858) daughter of John Schenck On two they fastened hay shelvings and Nelly Bennett, his wife, of Pleasant with boards nailed against the sides Valley. Both are buried on homestead and on the bottom. On the other three farm at Holland. they placed the bodies of farm wagons. Hendrick. born July 10. 1764; married Then they hitched two teams or four January 20, 1701. Phoebe VanMater; horses to each sled, for the snow lay died June 6, 1837. Both are buried on deep and the roads were unbroken in homestead farm at Holland. Names of many places. They put two barrels of their children have been heretofore apple whisky in one end of the hay given in VanMater genealogy. shelvings and barrels of pork in the Neeltje, baptized August 10. 1766; other, and between five live sheep. married John, son of Hendrick Brower Barrels of flour, corn meal, potatoes, and Abigeltje Hunt, his wife. and all the poultry they could kill was Catharine, born April 8. 1768; married placed on the other shelving. The other September 18. 170 1, Peter, son of Hen- EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MOXMOUTH.

drick Brower and wife aforesaid. She chased of Stephen Warne and which he died August 8. 1822, and is buried in had given to him by will. Here the homestead yard. following children were born: By his second wife, Helena VanLieu. Daniel, born July 3. 1735; married in he had the following- children: 1758 Eleanor VanMater (b. Aug. 4, Ida. baptized March 19, 1775; married 1735, d. Feb. 12. 1828). He died Nov- September 10, 1791, Joseph K. Van- ember 17, 1809, and is buried in family Mater, already mentioned in VanMater yard on farm of late George Crawford records. Hendrickson, his great grandson, at east Daniel G„ baptized June 1, 1776; mar- end of Middletown village and still ried December 21, 1797, Sarah, daug-hter owned by this family. Names of his of Cornelius Albertse Couwenhoven and children have already been published in Mary Logan, his wife They removed the V: to some other part of New Jersey. b. baj Mary, baptized May 2, 1779; married December 24, 1797. William VanMater. whose children have been already tion of his estate wen- granted October named in VanMater articles. 11. 1710. to his eldest brother Hendrick, Lydia, born October 9, 1781; married to his brother-in-law William Couwen- Stephen Crane and died May 4, 1851. hoven, and Henry Disbrow, see Book ag-ed 69 years, 6 months. 25 days, ac- C of Wills, page 335, secretary of state's cording to her headstone in homestead office, Trenton, N. J. 1 do not know burying ground at Holland. Her hus- whether his widow survived him or not. band is not buried by her; T do not She would have right of administration, know where he was. but as she is not named, it would seem Anne, baptized December 7, 1783; that she had died prior to her husband. married October 3, Maijke (Micha) fifth I 1799, Garret Terhune. the child, mar- Denise Hendrickson and Anne ried Geysbert VanMater (b. Feb. 24. Schenck, his wife, named above, had the 1694). Names of their children have following children: been heretofore published in g-enealogy Garret D., born July 7, 1787; died of the VanMaters. October 12, 1861. He married March 23, Tryntjc (Catharine) sixth child, is 1808, Jane, daughter of Capt. Hendrick the only one who married and removed Hendrickson and Francinke Covenhoven from this county and the only one of his wife. One of their daughters, Cath- the seven daughters who did not join arine, born April 20. 1815. married the the church in this county. She married late William Henry Sickles of Red one Henry Dusberry or Dusenberry and Bank. Another daughter, Adaline, married John Vanderveer Carson, now Jersey or some other colony. She, how- (1900) residing in Freehold, and the ever, while visiting her parents in Mon- parents of the Carson Brothers, who mouth, had three of her children bap- have so long carried on the butcher's tized in the Dutch church, viz: business here. Antje. baptised December 19, 1736. Catharine, born October 8, 1801; mar- Her brother John Hendrickson and his ried December 24. 1821. Peter R. Smock, wife, Annetje Couwenhoven, appear as and died September 9, 1890. Both are sponsore on church records. buried in Smock burying ground near Anne, baptized December 24, 1738. Holmdel village on the farm where Her brother, Hendrick Hendrickson and Peter R. Smock lived and died. They his wife, Neeltje Schenck, are sponsors. are the parents of ex-Sheriff Ruliff P. William Hendrickson. baptised Octo- Smock, now a resident of Freehold. ber 12. 1743. Her brother. William John Schenck. born Mav 9, 1807. mar- Hendrickson. and his wife, Mary Long- ried Ellen Hyres. street are sponsors. This is all the re- John, the second son and fourth child cords given us of Catharine, where she of Daniel Hendrickson, the pioneer lived and when and where she died settler, was born about 1702; married is unknown. about 1734, Annetje, (born in February William the third son of Daniel Hen- 1708) daughter of Jacob Couwenhoven drickson and Catharine VanDyke. was and Saartje Schenck, his wife. The baptized. November 6, 1709. married parental homestead of these young about 1731. Mary or Maria (bapt. May people in a direct line over the meadows 6, 1702) daughter of Stoffie Langstraat and hills were less than a mile apart. and Maicken or Moyka Laen his wife. They had know each other from their His wife's name appears as a communi- earliest childhood. After his marriage cant on records of Dutch church in 174T John settled on a farm in county of as "Maria Langstraet, wife of Wilm Middlesex, which his father had pur- Hindriekson." They had the following EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. children: the Republic has forgotten their graves. Catharine, baptized August 8, 1732, In Book M of Deeds, pages 161-165 in maried Jacob, son of Rem Remsen of Monmouth County Clerk's office is rec- Brooklyn, N. Y. He was born in 1719, ord of two deeds from Daniel Hendrick- died 1784. Their marriage license in son of Shrewsbury township. Both Secretary of State office at Trenton was deeds are dated April 30, 1791. One granted, August 11, 1747. "Catharine conveys to Cornelius Luyster of Middle- Hendrickson of Monmouth County to town, ten acres of land, being part of Jacob Remsen, Sr., of New York." the lands which William Hendrickson, They have one child baptized in our late of the township of Middletown. church May 6. 1750, and named William died seized of and which said Daniel His maternal grandparents were put Hendrickson claims title in part as an down as sponsors. heir-at-law of his father, William Hen- Daniel, baptized December 25, 1736, drickson. aforesaid, and in part by a married in 1756, Catharine (b. Jan'y 29. quit claim deed from Catharine Hen- 1738.) daughter of Rutgers VanBrunt drickson, (Remsen) daughter of said and Elizabeth Voorhes, his wife, of William Hendrickson deceased, as one New Utrecht, L. I. This Daniel Hen- of his heirs at law. The ten acre tract drickson was a land surveyor and was is described as beginning at a maple very prominent during the war for tree on the west side of Mahoras brook, independence as Colonel of the 3rd Reg- adjoining Luyster's land and the north- iment of the Monmouth militia. These east corner of Daniel Hendrickson's two children are the only onesWilliam cleared land. Hendrickson and Maria Longstreet, his The second deed conveys to Peter wife had. William Hendrickson died Luyster a tract of woodland containing intestate in 1783, and the records in the 20 acres, which William Hendrickson Secretary of State's office show that died seized of. and goes on to set out letters of administration were granted Daniel's title as in first deed. This to their son Daniel, October 27, 1783. I land is described as beginning at the do not know where he or his wife are corner of the ten acre tract conveyed buried but would not be surprised if it to Cornelius Luyster, and runs along was somewhere in the vicinity of Tin- line of this lot to Mahoras brook, and ton Falls, as his son Daniel, then re- along said brook, etc. sided there. Colonel Daniel Hendrick- In Book L of Deeds, p. 97, etc., Mon- son by Catharine VanBrunt. his wife, mouth county clerk's office, is record of had the following children: a deed dated April 4, 1797, from Colonel William, baptized July 31. 1757, died Daniel Hendrickson of Shrewsbury young. township to Daniel Hendrickson. Jr.. t Elizabeth, baptized July 16. 1758, of Upper Freehold, and John S. Holmes married Richard McKnight, Captain of of Middletown. in which it is set out Monmouth militia during Revolution. that said Daniel Hendrickson. Sr.. be- William, baptized January 11, 1761. ing justly indebted to several persons died young. in the sum of £1,720 ($8,600), and the Daniel, born 1763, married Elizabeth, said Daniel Hendrickson. Jr.. (his son) daughter of Barzillai Grover and Theo- and John S. Holmes, (his son-in-law) dosia. his wife, of Upper Freehold. being engaged jointly with him, said Marv, baptized March 17, 1765. Sarah, born March 9. 1767. married tin Book M of Deeds, page 473. etc.. Mon- (b. Nov. 29, 1762. d. John S. Holmes, mouth county clerk's office is record of a deed Aug. 15. 1821) son of Samuel Holmes from Jacob Hendrickson and John Pothetaus, wife. to Gar- and Mary Stout, his , of John Polhemus. deceased, Daniel Hendrickson and Nicholas Wyckoff of Upper Freehold, dated March Polhemus. VanBrunt represented Shrewsbury 18. 1794. which sets out that John Upper Freehold, deceased, was seized township in the Provincial Congress of late of of 21:: 6S-100 acres in Upper Freehold, by deed Jersey, in 1775. In minutes of New from James Holmes dated May 1. 1732. and of the Com- Provincial Congress and that said John Polhemus. hy his will dated Jersey, for mittee of Safety of New June 7, 17S8. authorized and directed his ex- as vears 1775-6. his name is frequently ecutors to sell the land generally described mentioned. After the Revolution he bounded westward by Daniel I "endrickson's represented Monmouth county four land in part and in part by Joel Clayton. Timothy Hankins. and Amos Miller : easterly years in the General Assembly and in by said Garret Wyckoff's land, and northerly of the House. I can- 1784 was Speaker by John Britton's mill pond and brook below he is buried or date not find out where sai.l pond. This deed is witnessed by Daniel of his death. Like Captain Joshua Hendrickson. Jr.. and Samuel Imlay. and it Huddy, Captain Chadwick, and some shows where Daniel Hendrickson, Jr., lived in others that served the people faithfully, Upper Freehold. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH

Daniel Hendrickson, Sr., for the pay- at ment of said sum, he thereby sells and conveys all his real estate to them to secure them for these liabilities, etc. In same Book L of Deeds, p. 100, etc., is record of another deed from Daniel Hendrickson, Sr., of Shrewsbury township, to Daniel Hendrickson, Jr., of Upper Freehold, John S. Holmes and John Holmes of Middletown township. Catharine Remsen, widow of Jacob Remsen of New York city, and Rutgers VanBrunt of Kings county. L. I. This deed dated April 5, 1797, sets out that Daniel Hendrickson, Sr., grantor, being justly indebted to Daniel Hendrickson, Jr., of Upper Freehold, 'John S. Holmes and John Holmes of Middletown, Cath- arine Remsen and Rutgers VanBrunt of New York, does sell and convey them in settlement of said indebtedness all his real estate, consisting of several tracts of land at and near Tinton Falls in Shrewsbury township. Then follows description of these lands and state- ment: That the first two tracts at Tinton Falls, on which grist and saw mill stands, he claims title under a deed from Tunis Vanderveer dated May 10, 1773. The third tract by deed from John Morris dated May 25, 1783. and fourth tract by deed from Nicholas VanBrunt dated May 1. 1784. Like many other officers of the Rev- olution he served his country at a sacrifice. The seven years of war and confusion ruined his business. The raids of the refugees of which he was a victim two or three times, caused him great loss. The depreciation of the continental currency had also depreci- ated the value of his real estate, and there was no sale for real estate except

-John S. Holmes left a will. |.n.v..,l \ngust 25. 1821, recorded at Freehold in Book B. p. 257. etc. Provides for his wife Sarah. Gives $7,500 to each of his four daughters, together with his jurist mill and carding machines, viz:

Mary, who married Albert VanBrunt ; Cath- arine, who married Daniel H. Ellis of Free- hold ; Emma, who married George Taylor of Freehold, and Eleanor, who married Charles rlasbr6uck. All residue of his property, both real and personal, he gives to his two sons, Daniel and John H. in fee. ACCOUNT OF A RAID OF TORY REFUGEES IN THE YEAR 1779.

The following account of a raid on tenant-colonel, one major, two captains Col. Daniel Hendrickson at Tinton Falls and other persons of lesser note. They by a party of refugees is taken from destroyed a considerable magazine of files of the New Jersey Gazette now in powder and arms. With their prisoners our state library in Trenton: and such stores as they could carry or "On June 9, 1779, a party of about 50 bring off, Hutchinson took charge of, refugees landed in Monmouth and while Moody and his men remained in marched to Tinton Falls undiscovered, the rear. They were pursued by double where they surprised and carried off their numbers. Moody with his sixteen Col. Daniel Hendrickson, Col. Wyckoff, men made a stand and kept up such a Capt. Chadwick, Capt. McKnight with sharp fire on the rebels as to hold them several privates of the militia, and back, while Hutchinson moved on with drove off sheep and horned cattle. About the prisoners and plunder. thirty of our militia hastily collected After Hutchinson had got a considerable distance ahead. Moody and his repulsed with loss of two men killed men would fall back. When they and ten wounded. Loss of enemy un- reached another good place thev would known." make another stand, until in this way Thomas Chadwick and Richard Mc- they reached Black Point (now Sea- Knight were both captains of the Mon- bright). Here they transported their mouth militia and the latter was a son- prisoners and plunder over the inlet. in-law of Col. Daniel Hendrickson. The rebels were reinforced by ten men Auke Hendrickson was a miller by oc- and made a determined attack, in which cupation and a lieutenant in Captain Captain Chadwick and Lieutenant Auke Peter Wyckoff's company from Upper Hendrickson were shot dead. Moody Freehold. At this time he was employed says there was something peculiarly in Col. Hendrickson's grist mill at Tin- shocking in the death of the rebel cap- ton Falls. Col. Hendrickson had col- tain. He was shot through by Moody lected quite a magazine of powder, arms while with most bitter oaths and and other military stores at Tinton threats of vengeance, after having once Falls for the use of our county 'troops. missed fire he was again leveling his Besides he had ground a large quantity gun at him. That after three men were of flour and meal for use of the Amer- killed and a number of others lay ican army. It is said that he had bor- wounded, the rebels raised a flag of rowed from his relatives, Mrs. Cathar- truce and asked for cessation of hostil- ine Remsen and his father-in-law, Van- ities to remove their dead and wounded. Brunt, in New York, £1,000 ($5,000). This was agreed to on condition that which he had used in the purchase of they were allowed to remove and take these stores. The spies of the enemy away all their plunder. Moody says had carried information to the refugees their goods and stores taken were sold on Sandy Hook and hence this raid, for £500 ($2,500) and the money all div- which entailed great pecuniary loss to ided among the men who were with him Col. Hendrickson. in this raid. The notorious James Moody in an ac- Moody may have had only 16 men of count of his career, dictated by him and his own and six of Hutchinson's when published in London, England, after the he started but he had at least fifty close of our Revolutionary War, gives when he reached Tinton Falls before his version of this raid. daylight. They found our men in bed He says that on June 10, 1779, he was and wholly unprepared. They threw a at Sandy Hook and in command of six- large quantity of powder in the mill teen men. There he asked a friend pond and broke the guns. They seized named Hutchinson, who had six men all the horses and wagons they could and some guides, to assist him on an find at Tinton Falls and vicinity and expedition against the rebels in Mon- loaded them with a large quantity of mouth county. stores, meal and flour from the mill, They started from Sandy Hook for together with all the provisions and Shrewsbury village and eluding the goods of value they could find. They rebel guards reached a place called the drove off all the sheep and cattle on Falls undiscovered, and surprised and the farms around there, besides slaugh- made prisoners, one colonel, one lieu- tering several hogs, whose carcasses EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS <>/•' MOXMOl'TH. they took off in one of the wagons. in unknown and unmarked graves. They collected all this plunder and Surely this is a reproach and a shame moved off down the road towards to the people of Monmouth county. Shrewsbury village before our militia Daniel Hendrickson, son of Col. Dan- could gather. Then not over thirty men iel Hendrickson and Catharine Van- were in our force when they began Brunt, his wife, married Elizabeth, their pursuit. They overtook the rear daughter of Barzillai Grover. He re- guards commanded by Moody in person sided in Upper Freehold township and somewhere in the vicinity of what is carried on a grist mill located on Doc- now Fair Haven. He, however, had all tor's Creek in that township. I think his prisoners stationed close by his this mill was at Red Valley, although men, so that our people could not fire, without endangering their lives as had the following children: much as those of the refugees. William, born June 2, 1782. married Thus holding back our force he al- and removed to one of the western lowed Hutchinson with his train of states. wagons, cattle and sheep to get well in Barzillai, born February 19, 17 8-1. advance. Then falling back, still with married Elizabeth Horsefull. He owned the prisoners as shields to his men, he and conducted the Union hotel at Free- slowly followed. In this way they hold during the thirties of last century. reached Black Point. There our people Daniel, born May IS, 1786, died un- had ten more men to join them, and married. His will was proved Septem- made a sharp attack on their flank ber 18. 1862, and recorded in Book G while they were getting their plunder of Wills, page 470 at Freehold. Makes over the inlet. In the confusion Cap- a bequest to his sister Theodosia, wife tain Chadwick and Lieutenant Auke of Forman Hendrickson, and if chad, Hendrickson broke loose from the to her daughter Eliza, wife of Jacob enemy and ran over to our men. Lieu- Ellis. He gives to George Imlay $100, tenant Hendrickson was a man of fiery and residue of his property to his nep- temper and Captain Chadwick also was hews, Enoch Hendrickson and Richard very excitable and passionate under M. Hendrickson. provocation. The tantalizing and un- Joseph, born March 14, 1788. fair way in which they had been used James G., born February 11). 1791, and treated while prisoners, by Moody married March 3, 1813, Hannah Morris. had exasperated both to the verge of Samuel, born July 26. 1793, married insanity. As soon as Lieutenant Hen- Phoebe Mount. drickson reached our line he grabbed a Theodosia, born November 2. 1795, musket which had been discharged, and married Forman, son of Jacob Hen- at once turned and ran towards Moody drickson and Elizabeth Mount, his wife. with loud threats and imprecations for Richard Hov. ell. born November 2,

course, ! i his cowardly usage. His gun, of 1 7 r> . married Lyde Perrine. missed fire and he was shot down by Katharine, born June 29, 1797. mar- Moody. Captain Chadwick, who had ried Peter Imlay. also turned on them, was killed at the John B., born January 26. 1799. mar- same time by some of the other refu- ried Parmilla Grover. gees. Enoch, born April 7, 1802, married Some ten of our men were also Achsah Parker. wounded which made any further effort 31, 1803, married flag of truce was raised and Pierson, born July useless. A This agreed allow the removal of August 7, 1823, Sarah VanDorn. Moody to Tinton our dead and wounded provided they last son resided many years at he carried on a country were permitted to carry off all their Falls, where plunder. Like Captain Joshua Huddy. store. Captain Dennis, Lieutenant Whitlock, Elizabeth Hendrickson. the mother of and many other patriots of our Revolu- these ten boys and two girls, made her tion, who gave up their lives for Amer- will January 27, 1843. proved December ican independence. Captain Chadwick 6. 1851. recorded at Freehold in Book F and Lieutenant Auke Hendrickson lie of Wills, page 107, etc. CHILDREN OF DANIEL HENDRICKSON AND CATHARINE VANDYKE, HIS WIFE.

Annetje. (Ann) the eighth child of two children, a son and daughter, viz: above named parents, was baptized Cornelius, born February 11, baptized December 30, 1711, married 1732, Wil- April 7, 1746; married January 13, 1767. liam, son of Jacob Couwenhoven and Mary (born December 6, 1740. died Jan- Saartje Schenck, his wife. Their names uary 3, 1860), daughter of Hendrick appear as communicants on records of Hendrickson and Neeltje Schenck, his the Dutch church in 1741 as follows: wife and heretofore mentioned. He "Wilm Couwenhoven and Antje Hen- died October 10, 1806, aged 60 years, 7 drikze, his wife." months, 27 days, according to his head- They had three children, viz: stone in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard. His will is recorded in Book A of Wills Saartje (Sarah) born in 1733, married at Freehold. Jacob, (born 1730) son of William Wyckoff By Mary Hendrickson he had follow- and Agnes VanDorn. his wife. Their license ing four children: was granted January 7. 1754. She died August 25, 1796. and her husband .March 5. 1812, ac- Anne, baptized December 6. 1767 ; married cording to their headstones in Tennent church October 13, 1785, Abram VanHorne.

Nelly, baptized February 24, 1771 : married Daniel, baptized March 30, 1737, married December 14, 1790, Cornelius VanHorne. August 23. 1757, Helena, daughter of George Lydia, baptized December 20, 1778 : married Taylor, and died December 26. 18(18, according January 22, 1807, Daniel Polhemus .if Mid.il- to inscription on his tombstone in Lippet and sex county, N. J. Taylor burying ground on the old Daniel J. William Hendrick, baptized June 1782. Ilendrickson farm, now owned by the Morfor.ls 2, died unmarried September 26, 1805, and is at east end of Middletown village. An old buried by his father, grandfather, and great- Bible with name of "Rebecca Covenhoven" grandfather in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard. written on front leaf, as owner, contains the following family record: Catharine, the only daughter, was "Daniel Covenhoven. born January 27, 1737. baptized April 16, 1749; Helena Covenhoven, his wife, was born Feb- married Jan- ruary 10. 1737, married August 23, 1757. uary 15, 1767, Nicholas VanBrunt. son Anne Covenhoven, their daughter, was born of Nicholas VanBrunt and Geesye Hen- July 9, 1758. about nine o'clock in the fore- drickson, his wife, whose names appear as communicants in records of the Rebecka Covenhoven. born March 27, 1761. Dutch church in 1731. This Geesye in the afternoon. about five o'clock Hendrickson was a sister of Daniel and William Covenhoven. born April 7, 1763. William Hendrickson. the pioneer about five o'clock in the morning. George Covenhoven, born December 13, 1767, settlers. Nicholas VanBrunt was Sher- about three o'clock in the afternoon. iff of Monmouth county in 1778. He Daniel G. Conover and Sarah Ann Cooper removed all the prisoners in our county were married December 16. 1818." jail to Morris county before the British Jacob, third child, was baptized October 14, army reached Freehold in June, 1778. He and Colonel Daniel Hendrickson to the Provincial Con- William Conover, as name is now were deputies Shrewsbury spelled, the father of above three chil- gress of New Jersey from active dren, died intestate in 1742. Letters of township in 1775. He was an administration on his estate were and zealous patriot during the Revolu- tion Captain in the militia. granted October 17. 1742, to his widow, and a Couwenhoven, his wife, Ann. his brother Ruliph, and his broth- By Catharine er-in-law, William Hendrickson. The he had following children: widow, however, did not remain long in Cornelius, baptized July 23, 1769. mourning for she married March 17. Nicholas, baptized August 4, 1771. July 1744. William Couwenhoven, (born Antje, baptized May 8. 1774. 20, 1700: died November 10, 1755) son of Mary, baptized June 25. 1775. Cornelius Couwenhoven and Margaret Hendrick. baptized April 5, 1778. Schenck. his wife, of Pleasant Valley. Daniel Covenhoven, baptized April 30, 1780 : He, too, had lost his first wife. Jannetje died young. Wyckoff, baptize.! September 28. 1781. Wyckoff and buried her by his father Sarah Daniel Conover. baptize. 1 Nmemlicr IS. 1787. in the Schenck-Couwenhoven cemetery. lly thi •ond marriage the si,. Xii-h.. .

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years after the close of the Revolution- ary War, sold his farm near Tinton anil one ot tin- most energetic and active ot Falls to Col. Daniel Hendrickson and the patriotic leaders. On account of his swarthy complexion he was called Black David removed with his family to Cherry Valley, York, where he lived the New Nuis or Denyse baptized January 4, 1738, rest of his life. Francyntje, (Frances) the ninth child Jannetje (Jane) born August 19. baptized of Daniel Hendrickson and Catharine October 2, 1740, married Cornelius R.. (horn VanDyke, his wife, married 1731, Teunis July 29, baptized September 11. L740, did July 12, 1796) son of Roelof Cornelius Couwenhoven (born June 15, 1704, died June 10, 1797), and Sarah Voorhees, his wife. Their license son of Denyse Denyse and Helen Cor- was granted December 5, 1758. She died telyou, his wife, of New Utrecht, L. I. March 26, 1799. and is buried by her husband She was his second wife, as he first in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard. This couple married Catharine, a daughter of Hen- had ten children, three boys and seven daugh- driek VanDyke, by whom he had one ters, who all married well. * Fammetje daughter named Helena, born March 14. (Phoebe) born August 11, baptized September 4, 1743: married October 19. 1728; married April 17, 1759. Samuel 1765, Rev. Benjamin DuBois, the famous pas- Forman (born November 13, 1713; bap- tor for over 50 years of the Monmouth Dutch

tized February 13, 1714; died January church. He was 1 18, 1792), a son of Jonathan Forman died August 12, Fi-.... and Margaret Wyckoff, his wife. She 1SH». and is buried by her husband in yard of died January 20, 1789, and is buried by Marlboro Dutch church. Denyse, baptized December 22, 1745 : mar- her husband in old burying ground at ried April 17, 1768, Margaret, daughter of Mt. or Freneau station. Pleasant Richard and Sara Francis, who died April 18. Teunis Denyse married for his third 1770. aged 22 years, 10 months, 24 days, ac- wife, December 2, 1779, Rachel, daugh- cording to her headstone in Topanemus bury- ter of Garret Sclienck and Neeltje Voor- ing ground where she is interred by her par- hees, his wife, and the widow of Geis- ents. He married for his second wife Cath- arine, daughter Garret Garretse Schenck bert Longstreet and Jacob VanDorn. It of and Jannetze Williamse Couwenhoven. his was the third venture of both in the wife. She was baptized September 5. 1756. lottery of matrimony. History not only Denyse Denyse was a major of our militia and repeats itself with nations, but with also a judge in our county courts during and individuals, for we have today in Mon- subsequent to the Revolution. mouth county a lineal descendant of Daniel, baptized May 15, 1748, married first Teunis Denise, who not only bears the April 18, 1771, Jane Schenck, who was born same name, but has been married three in 1754; married second, Mary Stillwell. Bur- times and whose second wife was also a Hendrickson. ::; Marriages of the ten children of Cornelius R. his wife, Tunis Denyse made bis will April 2, Couwenhoven and Jane Denise. from records of the Dutch church. 1792. proved January 16. 1798, and rec- Francinke, to Hendrick Hendrickson, May orded in Book 37 of Wills, page 350 at 13, 1781. Trenton. N. J. His son Daniel and son- Teunis to Hannah VanBrockle. March 19, in-law, John Forman, are named as ex- 1783. ecutors. His sons-in-law were among Sarah, to Robert Ashton, June 21, 1783. the most influential and prominent of Mary, to Samuel Forman. March 12. 1789. the patriots during the revolution. Rulif, to Sarah Vanderveer, January 12, Francyntje Hendrickson and Tunis Catherine, to John Vanderveer, April 7, Denyse, her husband, had the following 1791. children: Margaret, to Teunis Hobburt (Hubbard) January 5, 1797. Tryntje. (Catharine) born May 8, 1732: died Eleanor, to Caleb Stillwell, December 10, September s. 1771. married Garret Hendrick- son, (born January 22, 1734 : died December 2, Jane, to Matthias or Martin Covenhoven. 1801) who has already been mentioned in a March 10. 1804. She was his first wife and former article. died December 12, 1820, aged 40 years, 9

Eleanor, baptized May 26. 1734 ; married John Forman, (born 1731. died 1811) son of Cornelius R-, to Mary Stoutenburg. March Samuel Forman and Mary, his wife. Their 9. 1807. license was granted May 2. 1752. John Forman Cornelius R. Covenhoven died April 11, 1817, served as one of our county judges. She died aged .13 years. 1 1 months, x days. Mary Stout- in 1796. enburg, his wife, died April 29. 1861, aged 74

Anna, born June 16, 1736 ; married June 16, years. 24 days. They were the parents of 1757, David Forman, (born October 1, 1733; Holmes Conover, who married Caroline, died March 30, 1812) son of Jonathan Forman daughter of James G. Crawford, and died May and Margaret Wyckoff. his wife. Their license 22. 1860. aged 52 years, 4 months, 13 days. He was granted June 9, 1757, according to records was sheriff of Monmouth county. I is wifa in secretary of state's office. She died Septem- died August 28, 1843. aged 24 years. Burieo. ber 9. 1798, and is buried in Tennent church in Schenck-Couwenhoven cemetery, but after- yard. David Forman was Brigadier General ward removed to Holm EARLY PU1CH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

led in old yard near East Freehold. boats were kept well up Raritan river. Mary, born July 9, 1750; married July 31. The usual crew of a whaleboat on the 17(17. John S'chenck, the famous leader of our patriot side was fifteen men, of whom militia during the Revolution. He was born one steered and gave commands while AuRust 28. 1745. and died August 28. 1834, on the the farm in Pleasant Valley where his grand- others rowed. Picked men of great son, David Schenck. now resides. She died physical strength and endurance were July 15, 1S29. Both were first buried in selected. The least sign of cowardice Schenck and Couwenhoven yard, but with on part of a man led to his instant dis- many others have been since removed, or missal from the crew. They were rather what little was left of their bodies has trained to row without noise and could been removed and their tombstones set up in the Holmdel cemetery. propel the boat at the rate of twelve miles an hour. Each man was armed John Schenck, who married this with a cutlass and pistols, and the boat youngest daughter, was next to Gen. supplied with a few pikes and hooks David Forman, his brotherin-law, one on long poles, a few grappling irons, of the most active and daring of the lanterns and heavy blankets. officers of our county militia. So troub- These boats were about thirty Ceet lesome was he that the enemy offered in length with flat bottoms to float in a reward of fifty guineas for his cap- shoal water, wide in the centre with ture or death. high sides to carry big loads, and point- An attempt to capture the notorious ed on both ends. They were called tory, mayor of New York city, David whaleboats, but altogether different Matthews, by some Monmouth men led from the small boats used in the whale by John Schenck and William Marriner, fishery. They were built of cedar or was perhaps the primary cause of this some other light wood so that they offer. This was a very bold move and could be lifted from the water and car- failed of success through the absence ried over land by the crew and conceal- of Mayor Matthews from home that ed in some swamp or ravine up in the night. He had been accidentally de- woods. These boats were originally tained in New York city. built to carry on a secret traffic with the enemy and smuggle goods back and The kidnapping of prominent patriots forth. A whale boat loaded with butter, in Monmouth by raiding bands of refu- eggs, poultry and other farm truck, in gees was of frequent occurrence, and summer, and hay, grain, firewood, etc., their treatment as prisoners of the in winter, slipping out of the inlets, or harshest kind. It is said that Cunning- rivers on our coast were safe from cap- ham often boasted in liquor, when that ture on the ocean or bay unless inter- he used up rebels had more by starva- cepted by the whale-boats of the pa- tion and neglect than the whole British triots. Coming back with the specie or army had killed by their bullets and other valuable goods after trading with bayonets. At all events reprisals or the enemy, they were valuable prizes retaliations of some kind were the only- means left to compel decent treatment ports loaded with munitions of war and and of prisoners. exchange According- other supplies for the British army in ly it resolved was to capture David occupation of New York were constant- Matthews two or three other and prom- ly coming and going out of Raritan inent loyalists w^ho resided at Flatbush, Bay. A constant demand existed for L. I., within and the lines of the British fresh provisions on part of the people army. John Schenck had a number of within the British Im.s and there was relatives living in the vicinity of Flat- a constant traffic I" supply .Irs demand. bush, and when a boy had often visited them so well and became acquainted this region back of Middletown Point, with the country and roads. Marriner as Matawan was then called, who had presented this to of plan the council two whale-boats hid in the ravines safety who sanctioned it. southeast of the village. These men Nearly every neighborhood through were seen by John Schenck and agreed which a large stream or creek flowed to help him and Marriner in their raid. into Raritan river, and from Cheese- The first cloudy or dark night was quake creek to Compton's creek along agreed on. This happened the second the Bayshore had its association of Saturday in June. 1778. Eleven of the men to own and man what was called regular crew met Marriner and Schenck a whaleboat. Raritan Bay was wholly at Brown's Point late in the afternoon. ided guns of the British The boat was taken from its hiding people were obliged place and launched in the Creek a little up in some swamp after sunset. The sky was overcast rge barges or gun with clouds and there was .very indi- EARLY DUTCH SIC TILERS (>/ MOXMOUTH. cati Jrty red 1, 1712) a son of Jacob Couwenhoven directly across to Staten Island, and and Saartje Schenck, his wife, their guided by the lights which shone out nearest neighbors. She had known him from the houses on land skirted the from her earliest recollections. They shore until they reached the Narrows. had played and romped together, sung Here they rowed across and landed Dutch nursery songs and followed the some distance above what is now Fort customs and usages which prevailed at Hamilton. Leaving two men in charge that time among their own people. The of the boat and guided by John Schenck same characteristics, manners and us- they went over to Flatbush. They ages marked them as those described reached here about midnight and effect- by Miss Gertrude Defferts Vanderbilt in ed a noiseless entrance into the dwell- her book called "The Social History of ing of Mayor Matthews. The women Flatbush and the Manners and Customs were placed in one room under guard, of the Dutch in Kings County. L. I." but the mayor was not at home. They They were the children of these Long took however, four of his negro slaves. Island people and were like them in all At the next house they captured a respects, for the "Dutch were not given Major Monerieff and a Mr. Bache. With to change but were stable in all their these two white men and four negroes ways." It was not until the Revolu- they got back to their boat without ex- tionary war tore up the foundations of citing the least alarm. They rowed society and government, that there was back and reached the mouth of Mat- any great change in families and class- awan creek with their six prisoners by es. Up to this time the Dutch language daylight next morning. A newspaper was generally used in family infer- of that day in speaking of this raid tile The says they traveled over fifty miles between six o'clock Saturday night and brought up in Pleasant Valley. Holmdel six o'clock next morning and behaved township, who can remember when with the greatest prudence and bravery. children, of hearing and singing the This spiriting away of prominent men words of the following Dutch nursery at night from their homes within the song which Miss Vanderbilt has pub- British lines naturally aroused great lished in her book: alarm. No one felt safe or secure against capture and same treatment as Trip, a trop, a tronjes, they gave the American prisoners. De Varkens in de boonjes, Their fears made them more humane. De Koejes in de Klaver. De paarden in de haver, is account of Following the British De eenjes in de waterplass. the Flatbush raid from the journal of So groot myn Kleine Claus-was." Lieut. Col. -Stephen Kemble. published in N. Y. Hist. Collection for year 1883, These lullabies and a few words like Vol. 1. pages 151-2. "stoep," "Mickey." "paas." "skipper" "Sunday, June 14, 1778. About 2 and "baas" (boss) are the last linger- o'clock this morning, a party, said to ing echoes of the mother tongue once be about 20 men, some armed, others spoken by those old settlers in Mon- not, with faces blacked, took off Major mouth who came from Kings county on Moncreiffe and Mr. Bache. Attempted Long Island. the Mayor. Mr. Matthews' house, but it There is a wide difference in the being well fastened, and a shot being spirit and sentiment expressed in these fired, which they apprehended might lullabies of the Dutch, from those of give the alarm, induced them to go off, the English, or Mother Goose melodies' with the two first mentioned gentle- as called. men, supposed into Jersey, but at this The former represented people and time no certain account can be g-iven. animals comfortable and contented, All else is quiet." pleasant associations and memories, In this account the Mayor is left out and cheerful and sunny prospects. Or as though he was home and his house they inculcated some lesson of indus- fastened, but the truth is he was not try, economy, faithfulness or other at home, and if a shot had been fired everyday virtue. Their saint Santa it would have created an alarm as the Claus was jolly and benevolent, always British sentinels were posted all around doing generous and kindly acts. But for Flatbush was within their lines. childhood and youthful days soon pass. Jannetje. (Jane) the tenth child and On the 12th of August A. D. 1741, Jan- youngest of the seven daughters of netje Hendrickson married Ruliph Cou- Daniel Hendrickson. was born and wenhoven. Their marriage license is brought up on the homestead at Holm- published in full on page 34 of Wells' del. She married Ruliph. (born March Memorial Address at Brick Church. It EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

was signed by Lewis .Morris so prominent in the early history of Monmouth retary of State between 1748 and 1772. county, but at that time Governor of New Jersey. These licenses are all Elizabeth, Monmouth, John Vanderbilt. recorded in secretary, of state's office at Staaten Island. 20 May 1754. Catharine. Monmouth, Trenton and in annexed note is a list Jacob Remsen. Sr., New York. 11 Aug. 1749. from the records of all licenses issued Mary, Monmouth, Corn's Conover, Mon- in to the Hendricksons and Hendricks mouth. 12 July 1767. Monmouth county, between 1748 and Neeltje, (widow) Monmouth. Elias Golden, 1772. Jannetje and Ruliph Couwen- Monmouth. 30 July 1761. hoven .her husband, had three children, Abram, Kings Co., Anna van Kirk, Mon- viz: mouth. 23 May 1759. Albert. Monmouth. Johanna Mills, Mon- mouth, 3 Sarah, bapt. August 12. 1742, married in Jan. 1755. Coonradt. 1763 Benjamin (baptized October 10. 1742) Monmouth. Mary English, Mon- son of Benjamin VanCieaf and Helina or mouth, 18 June 1759. Neeltje Couwenhoven, his wife. Cornelius. Monmouth, Mary Thorn. 28 Jan. 1767. Daniel, baptized January 15, 1744. No other knowledge. MnMI. sr\, Kleaimr van Mater. Mon- Catrina. baptized Feb. 16. 1746, married 1758. Daniel, jr., Monmouth. February 28, 1765, David (baptized September Mary Schenek, Mon- mouth. 2 Sept. 1767. 25, 1748) son of Tunis Vanderveer and Aeltje Garretse Schenek, his wife. This couple had Garret. Monmouth, Catharine Denice, Mon- mouth. 8 Dec. a son Tunis, who married December 12. 1792, 1755. Margaret, a daughter of Rev. Benjamin Du- Hendrick, Middletown. Sara Thomson. Mid- dletown, 3 April 1751. Hendrick, Monmouth. Ledy Conover. Mon- mouth. 7 March 1757. Ruliph Couwenhoven died intestate Jacob, Monmouth, Elizabeth Mount. Mon- in 1746. Letters of administration on mouth, 2 May 1771. his estate were granted same year to Tobias. Rebecca Coward. 21 March 1762. his brother, Peter Couvenhoven, and William, Charity Robinson. Monmouth. 21 his brothers-in-law, William Hendrick- son and Tunis Denise. Monmouth, Mary Douglas, 22 Apr Jannetje, however, did not remain a Wil Monmouth, Rachel Longstreet, 2 widow long, for the next year, 1747, she Feb. 768. married Peter, a son of Jan Schanck Hendricks, Abraham, mmouth. Mar and Saartje Couwenhoven of Pleasant Wykoff. Monmouth. 17 Dec. Valley. He had lost his first wife, Jan- Hendricks, Coonradt, R netje VanNostrand or Ostrandt and was Knott. 17 June 1763. ready for another. By Peter Schenek Hendricks, John, Monmoi she had following children: 31 Oct. 1759.

Roelef P., known as "Long Ruly" born Dec- ember 27. 1748, baptized January 22, 1749, married Elizabeth Gordon (born December 8, 1757, died August 15, 1837) and died November Jannetje, to Roelof Covenhoven. Aug. 26, 1814. Both buried in Tennent church yard.

Jannetje. born June 1, bapt. July 28, 1751 ; Daniel, to Catherine Covenhoven. Dec. married December 5. 1769, John Walter (born June 11, 1730, died October 11. 1775, according to his headstone in Schenck-Couwenhoven cemetery) and died January 5. 1774. A son of ' this couple named John Walter, is buried by them in above yard and his headstone gives date of his death October 13. 1837. aged 66 Lydia Vanderbilt, March 2 years and 11 months. 785. Antje, baptized September 30, 1753, mar- Cathari Cornelius VanDerhove, Nc ried Garret Janse Couwenhoven. She was his second wife and died April 5, 1803. according to her headstone in yard of Marlboro Brick Church. Her children have been already named in Conover genealogy. John, to Mary Lloyd. Nov. 27. 1793. Leah, baptized November 9. 1755. married Ida. to Joseph Kearney VanMater. Sept. 10. November 30. 1775. John, (baptized August 26. 1794. 1750) son of Benjamin VanCieaf and Neeltje Catharine, to Peter Brewer. Sept. 18. 1794. or Helena Couwenhoven, his wife. William, to Elizabeth Vanderrype. Nov. 26. Francyntje. baptized March 7, 1762. married 1797. February 5. 1803. William Nicolas. Mary, to William VanMater. Dec. 24, 1797. Neeltje. baptized June 17. 1759. No other Catherine, to Jacobus Hubbert (Hubbard) May 2. 1798. Anne, to Garret Terhune. Oct. 3, 1799. Hetldriek Lydia. to Hendrick Brewer. March 16. 1802. EARLY DUTCH SET /'LEA'S OF MONMOUTH.

Daniel Hendrickson and his wife Catherine, with his eldest sister Geesye, William H„ to Eleanor DuHois. Jan. 2, 1812 and youngest sister Jannetje, joined Pierson, to Sarah VanDorn, Aug. 7, 1823. the Dutch church of Monmouth to- Cyrenius, to Ida VanMater. Sept. 18, 1823. gether in 1747. From this time to his death Daniel Hendrickson was very zealous and active in church work. In his own home he conducted regularly family worship Pace 8 William, to Hannah Middleton. Feb. by reading the Scrip- 7, 1796. tures and prayer, and when requested, Page 35— Daniel, to Sarah Covenhoven. Dec. at the houses of his neighbors. Some- 21. 1797. times when the regular minister was Page 40— Cornelius, to Catherine Reynolds, absent or sick he would conduct the both of Freehold township. Sept. 26, 1799. services on Sunday from the pulpit. It Page 45—William, to Eleanor Emmons, both is said that he could preach almost as of Freehold township, April 4, 1800. Page 59— Cornelius, to Anne Smith (widow) good a sermon as the pastor himself. April 11, 1802. A sermon written by him and printed Page 59— Hendricks. John, to Christianna in the Dutch language was in the pos- VanDeventer, Aug. 15, 1802. session of the late Rev. Garret C. Page 69— Hendrickson, Joseph, to Catherine Schenck. whose first wife was his great- Anderson, hoth of Freehold township, Nov. 20, granddaughter. The Dutch settlers of 1803. Monmouth while not demonstrative, Page 96— Peter, to Catherine Cox, both of theatrical, or noisy in Upper Freehold township, Dec. 19. 1807. their religion or Page 85—Hendrick, of Middletown, to worship were nevertheless firm and Helenah Longstreet of Shrewsbury township, practical believers in an everyday Prov- Oct, 18, 1806. idence. Page 88—Samuel, to Deborah Combs. Dec. "Trust in the Lord with all thine 6, 1803. heart, and lean not unto thine own Page 89—William, to Ruth Horsefull. June understanding," was a real conviction 3. 1804. in Page 148- Jacob, to Sarah Vanderveer. Feb. their minds. Daniel Hendrickson 18. 1810. voiced these convictions and sentiments Page 148—Tobias, to Idah Conover, Feb. 10, so often, that he became known as 1813. "Dominie Dan'll Hendrickson" and was Page 160—James G.. to Hannah Morris, called "Dominie" to the dav of his March 3. 1813. death. Those of his numerous des- Page 161— Daniel, to Deborah Tilton. Jan. cendants who have followed in his foot- 12, 1813. steps have lived died on Page 209—William, to Sarah Luyster. May and who and 8, 1816. this fertile farm with its healthful sur- Page 215— Joseph, to Elizabeth Hendrickson, roundings, and beautiful scenery, and June 1. 1816. enjoyed the good will of their neighbors have good reason to say as "Dom- Daniel, the eleventh and voungest inie Daniel" did in his day: child of the first Daniel, was born, "Except the Lord build the house, lived, died and was buried on the home- they labor in vain that build it; except stead at Holland in the present town- the Lord keep the city, the watchman ship of Holmdel. which was devised to waketh but in vain." him by his father. He was born Jan- "They that trust in the Lord, shall be uary 5, baptized May 5, 1723, married as Mount Zion, which cannot be re- December 22, 1743, Catherine (born moved but abideth forever." June 2, 1720, died May 5. 1810,) the "The sun shall not smite thee by youngest child of Cornelius Couwen- dav, nor the moon by night." hoven and Margaretta Schenck his wife, "The Lord shall preserve thee from and died intestate June 24, 1788. The all evil. He shall preserve thy soul." records in our secretary of state's office "The Lord shall preserve thy going show that letters of administration on out. and thy coming in from this time his estate were granted to his widow, forth and even forever more." July 31. 1788. Daniel Hendrickson by Catherine The headstones at their graves in the Couwenhoven his wife, had following family burying ground on the old children: homestead, give their names, dates of Daniel D., born October 29. baptized death and respective ages. Their son December 9. 1744: married Elizabeth Hendrick, grandson William H. and (born June 21, 1763, died July 30, 1836.) great-grandson, the late Hon. William a daughter of Daniel Stephenson or Henry Hendrickson. who all lived and Stevenson, who owned the farm which died on this farm, are interred in this lay adjacent to the Hendrickson home- same burying ground. stead at Holland on the north, ana EARL V 1H1CH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH. being the same farm the late Hon. purchase a location for the church William B. Hendrickson lived and died edifice. He was also on the committee on. Through this marriage he acquired to oversee the work. His will was the Stevenson farm for in the division made August 18. 1851. proved June 24, of the real estate of his father no share 1858, and recorded at Freehold in G of was allotted to him. He probably had Wills, p. 133, etc. He gave the use of all the land he wanted and took his all his property to his widow for life share in the personal property of his and at her death he devised all his father. During the Revolutionary war lands together with his personal prop- he commanded a troop of light horse- erty and "cider house and distillery" on men and rendered good service to the the farm to his son. William B. Hen- patriotic side. He has sometimes been drickson. This devise is subject to confounded with his cousin. Colonel payments of certain sums to his eight Daniel Hendrickson, who commanded living daughters and the children of the 3rd Regiment of Monmouth militia his daughter. Martha Winters, deceased, and resided at Tinton Falls. Like other and children of his son. Daniel B. Hen- officers of our militia he suffered great drickson, deceased. pecuniary loss through the neglect of Captain Daniel D. Hendrickson by his private business and devoting his Catherine Bedle. his wife, had three time and means during the seven years' sons and ten daughters. One of the sons war to the American cause. He died and one daughter died young, the others November 23. 1836. and was over ninety- grew up and married. Only one of this two years of age. He and his wife are large family is now living, viz: Hen- buried on the farm where he lived. rietta, who married Daniel, son of There are only four graves in this James Wilson, who now (1901) owns family burying ground which is near and occupies the Wilson homestead. the residence of the late Hon. William Mrs. Henrietta Wilson is still living on B. Hendrickson. viz: these two and this farm adjacent to the one where she their son, Daniel D. and his wife. Cath- was born and raised. erine Bedle. Daniel B„ one of Captain Daniel's Daniel D. Hendrickson and Elizabeth sons, was married and settled on a farm Stevenson, his wife, had two sons, viz: at Nut Swamp where he died when a Daniel D. and William D. The latter young man, leaving one son, Joseph A. married May 8, 1816, Sarah, (born July Hendrickson, who now (1901) owns 12. 1795, died October 15, 1821,) daugh- and resides on this farm, and is one of ter of John P. Luyster and Anne Cou- the prominent and respected farmers of wenhoven, his wife. He died January Middletown township. 14, 1823, aged 30 years, 2 months, 15 William B., to whom the homestead days, according to his tombstone in the was devised, was born February 10, Luyster family burying ground at Hol- 1830, married November 24, 1852. Cath- land. His will is recorded at Freehold erine, daughter of Joseph S. Applegate. in B of Wills, p. 316, etc. He left sur- Esq. He represented Monmouth county viving two children, both daughters: in the Assembly in 1872-3 and was one one of them named Anne Luyster, mar- of the influential citizens of Middletown ried James Madison Burrows, the other township. A sketch of his life and a Elizabeth Stephenson, married Joel fair likeness can be seen in Ellis' His- Stout. Daniel D., the other son, was tory of Monmouth county. He died on born April 22, 1786, married Catherine, the farm where he was born and al- (born September 28, 1787. died January ways lived, a few years ago. leaving 12, 1859) daughter of Thomas Bedle. two children, a son and daughter. Cor- and died May 15. 1858. and was buried nelius, second son of Daniel Hendrick- on the farm where he was born, lived son and Catherine Couwenhoven. his and died. He was a Captain of a com- wife, was born August 28. baptized Oct- pany of militia of Monmouth county, ober 11. 1747, married March 24. 1784, which during the war of 1812 was sta- Lvdia (baptized November 22, 1761. died tioned at Sandy Hook, and was gener- October 22. 1822) daughter of Cornelius ally known or called by the people VanDerbilt and Margaretta Lamberson. "Captain Daniel Hendrickson." He was his wife.* and died October 10. 1802. He also active in the erection of the Dutch and his wife are buried in family yard church at Middletown village in 1836. on the old Hendrickson homestead at At the first meeting of those friendly Holland. He served during the Revolu- to the erection of a Dutch church in tion in his brother's. Captain Daniel Middletown village, held at the tavern Hendrickson's troop of light horsemen of William Wilson in this village, Feb- and also under Colonel Asher Holmes. ruary 25, 1836, he was appointed chair- After his father's death in 1788, his man of the committee to select and share in real estate was arranged by EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Cath< ind Hendrickson. was baptized November brothers Daniel D. and Hendrick. The 22. 1761. and died young and unmar- principal tract deeded to him lay north ried. of the present Daniel Wilson farm and As the father of these children died east of Mahoras brook and extended intestate June 24, 1788, the three sur- well down toward Harmony school viving sons and daughter by amicable house. arrangement among themselves divided His son, Daniel C, was born January the real estate. 11, 1785, married January 12, 1813, to ;tc. Deborah Tilton, by Rev. Benjamin Ben- ord nett, died 7, 1863. is and September He of a deed executed August 6. 1789. from buried on the homestead farm at Hol- Daniel. Cornelius, and Hendrick Hen- land. Cornelius also had two daugh- drickson. the three sons to their sister ters, who were both baptized June 15, Catherine Hendrickson. It is recited 1788, viz: first Margaret, who married. therein that the grantors and grantee May 31, 1809, Daniel Herbert, died April are the only children and heirs-at-law 5, 1883. Daniel Herbert died October of Daniel Hendrickson of Middletown 6. 1836. aged 57 years, 3 months. 2 days. township, who lately died intestate. Both are buried in yard of Middletown That they have agreed among them- Dutch church. Second Catherine, born selves as to shares of each in the real January 8, 1788, married Murphy Tilton, estate of their father and by this deed died September 24, 1881. and is buried the three sons convey and quitclaim to in family yard on homestead. their sister Catherine, her heirs and Daniel C. Hendrickson and Deborah assigns forever, the following described Tilton had a son Cornelius, born April lands and premises, situate in said 1814, of 17. married Mary, daughter township of Middletown. The tract first John G. Taylor and Elizabeth Couwen- described begins at an apple tree stand- hoven, his wife. Also a son, Daniel T.. ing at the southeast corner and begin- born in 1822, married Deborah Ann ning of a line settled by releases be- Morris, and died March 26, 1857, aged tween Johannes Luyster and Daniel 35 1 28 years, month. days, according Hendrickson, dated April 11, 1745. Then to ipti ird follows a particular description by of church. Middletown Dutch chains and links, and that it is the The third child and only daughter of westermost part of the home tract Daniel Hendrickson and Catherine Cou- "whereon said Daniel Hendrickson did wenhoven, his wife, was Catherine, born August 8, baptized September 30. The general de i,.t. 1753, and died unmarried on the homestead where she always lived. March bounded southerly in part by Luyster 1st, 1835, aged 81 years, 6 months, 23 land and in part by a branch of Maho days, according to inscription on the as brook and Colonel Daniel Hendricl headstone at her grave in the home- son's land; westerly, in part by lat stead burying ground. Her will record- formerly John Bowne's * ei deed at Freehold in C of Wills, page 4 59, etc., is verv voluminous for she remem- • John Bowne was the eldest son of Obadiah bers with some kind of gift nearly all Bowne and had one son Andrew, and two her nephews and nieces. The fourth daughters, Lydia and Catherine. His daughter Catherine, married William, son child of the second Daniel Hendrickson of George Crawford. His son Andrew, died unmarried. was Hendrick, born 2, baptized May I is will was proved January 13. 1776. and June 12, 1758, married May 13, 1781. recorded in Book M of Wills, page 10. etc.. at Francinke. (b. Nov. 18. 1763. d. March Trenton, N. J. He devised all his real estate 26, 1845.) daughter of Cornelius R. to John and William Crawford, sons of his Covenhoven and Jane Denise, his wife, sister Catherine, subject to payment of £250 who have been mentioned in a former to their sister, Esther Crawford. Residue of his estate is left to John. William, and Esther article. Hendrick died December 1, Crawford, the three children of his sister. 1840, aged 82 years, 6 months, 29 days, Catherine Crawford. William Crawford. Rob- and is buried on the homestead where ert Hartshorne, and Garret Wall of Mount he always lived. fifth William, the and Pleasant, were appointed executors ; will is youngest child of the second Daniel witnessed by William Hendrickson. Richard Crawford and Safety Bowne. John and Wil- liam Crawford divided the real estate so left, * Cornelius VanDerbilt was a son of Aris and John Crawford became owner of the part VanDerbilt and Jannetje Cornelise Couwen- next to the Hendrickson homestead and which hoven. his wife. He died August 18, 1800, John Bowne had owned in his life time. John aired 69 years, 3 months, 7 days, according to Crawford was the father of the late James G. inscription on his tombstone in yard of Middle- Crawford of Crawford's Corner. Holmde. town Dutch church. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

ceased, now John Crawford's and in provea py affidavits of Colonel part by Asher Colonel Daniel Hendrickson's Holmes before Hendrick Hendrickson, land; northerly, by a brook coming one of the judges of the Court of from the Com- hills and Humphrey Wall and mon Pleas of Monmouth county on Feb- John Stillwell's lands, and easterly by ruary 10, 1792. the east-most line named in this par- In this same book K of deeds, page ticular description first given. It is 71, etc, is a record of the deed from then stated that part of the said land Daniel. Hendrick, and Catherine was purchased Hen- of John Whitlock by- drickson to Cornelius Hendrickson, Daniel Hendrickson, the elder, by deed dated August 26, 1789, -with same wit- dated May 16, 1698, and the other part nesses and proof of execution before by deed from Garret Wall, dated Dec- Judge Hendrick Hendrickson. Several ember 29, 1709. Four and one half acres tracts are conveyed by this deed. First of fresh meadow lying on the north a tract of 119 acres and in the particu- side of a neck of woodland and convey- lar description given, the "southwest ed by John Wr all to Daniel Hendrickson corner of the milldam where it joins the the elder, by deed dated May uplands" and "middle of floodgates" .-..-tifth.- of were called for as monuments. Then meadow at Shoal Harbour, are also follows a general description as 119 conveyed to Catherine Hendrickson by acres more or less, bounded easterly by thi d.'ed. lands of John Taylor. Esq.. northerly by Catherine Hendrickson, however, did Aumack's now Edward Taylor, deceas- not retain this land long, for on April ed, land, westerly in part and in part 1st, 1800, by deed of that date and for northerly, by lands formerly Daniel the consideration of $2,000, she con- Stevenson's now in possession of Daniel veyed all the above premises to her Hendrickson, Junior, and in part by brother, Hendrick Hendrickson. This Mahoras brook as it now runs, which deed is recorded at Freehold in L of tract of land was deeded by John Tay- deeds, p. 571. etc.. and gave Hendrick lor. Esq., t to Daniel Hendrickson. de- the ownership of all the original home- ceased, by deed dated August 10, 1763, stead owned by the first Daniel and together, with half part of grist mill devised by him to his youngest son, built by said Daniel Hendrickson, and Daniel. Hendrick Hendrickson by his the right and privilege of digging and will left all these lands to his grandson, carting off earth for use in making, the late Hon. William Henry Hendrick- mending and repairing the mill dam son, so well known to the present gen- from southwest of said milldam forever. eration of our people in Monmouth Also a tract of 157 acres near "Whak- county. ake" and four and one-half acres of salt By deed dated August 26, 1789. rec- meadow on east side of "Whakake orded in same book K of deeds, page Creek." Half of 36 acres situate a mile 67, etc., Daniel. Cornelius and Catherine south of "Sandy Hook" (Raritan) "Bay" Hendrickson convey and quitclaim to and one and one-half miles southwest Hendrick Hendrickson the eastermost of Point Comfort: 50 acres on north side part of the homestead on which their of public road from Middle-town to deceased father lived.' In particular Perth Amboy. and six and one-half description first given the "Southwest acres of salt meadow at Shoal Harbour, corner of a mill dam" and "the middle are likewise conveyed to Cornelius of the floodgate" are called for as mon- Hendrickson by this deed. No share uments. Then follows a general des- in his father's land is conveyed to Dan- cription as 154 acres bounded southerly iel who at this time owned and occupied and easterly by Luyster's land and in the Stevenson farm. The father may part easterly by Mahoras brook; north- have advanced money to him to pur- erly in part by John Stillwell's line and chase this land or he may have taken a small brook coming from the hills, his share in personal property or in and in part by the lower edge of the money. upland bank on south side of the meadow on said brook; westerly, by the tJohn Taylor. Esq. was appointed sheriff, first in 1751, and office to westermost line named in the particular held 1754. when Robert description. Cummings succeeded him. He was again appointed sheriff of Monmouth county in 1757 for Six and four-fifths acres of salt three years. At the breaking out of the Revo- meadow at Shoal Harbour was also lutionary war he was one of the judges of our conveyed, and then reference to chain county courts. He was also one of the Peace Commissioners appointed of title same as in above deeds to Cath- by Admiral Howe on erine. These two deeds were witnessed the part of the British government. In 1792 he sold his farm at Middletown by William Crawford. Village to George John Covenhoven Crawford and a few years after removed to and Colonel Asher Holmes and were Perth Amboy where he died. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

Hendriek Hendrickson by Francinke Hendrickson. The following clause also Couwenhoven, his wife, had the follow- appears in his will: "I do hereby re- ing children: serve one acre of land on the farm Catherine, baptized March 14, 1782, where I now live to be used as a bury- married May 23. 1803, Garret Lane, and ing ground for the Hendrickson family resided with her husband at Piscata- and their connections. which said way, Middlesex county, N. J. She had graveyard is to include the present the following children: graveyard and as much land on each side of it as shall make said acre." A Hendriek Hendrickson. bap. 3. 1807. June codicil is added August 1, 1836, in Eliza Jane, born Sept. 22, 1809. which he directs that the widow and William Hendrickson, > twins born Sept. 24, children of his deceased son William, John, born April 21, 1814. shall reside with him and no charge be made against them for maintenance. William H.. born January 28. 1787. In his will he orders his grandson, Wil- married January 12, 1812, Eleanor (b. liam Henry to pay to his sisters. Sarah Aug. 19, 1792, d. Sept. 25, 1879.) daugh- Ann. Francinke, and Mary, $2,000 each. ter of Charles DuBois and Anne Hen- William Henry, son of Hendriek Hen- drickson, and already mentioned among drickson. married January 12. 1812. the descendants of Daniel Hendrickson Eleanor DuBois, and had the following and Eleanor VanMater, his wife. Wil- children: liam H. Hendrickson died February 9, William Henry, born June 3. 1813. 1831, and was buried on the homestead. married first. February 28. 1839, Eliza- 'He left a will proved before Peter C. beth Woodward: married second. Mrs. Vanderhoef. Surrogate, April 2, 1831, Rebecca P. Fields, widow of Thomas and recorded in C of Wills, page 194, Fields. He twice represented Mon- etc. As his father was living at this mouth county in New Jersey Senate and time he left no real estate, only per- was one of the leading and respected sonal property. He mentions in this citizens of Monmouth county. A very will the gold watch which once be- good likeness and full history of his longed to his brother-in-law, Peter life appears in Ellis' history of Mon- DuBois. mouth county. Jane, born March 6, 1792, married Sarah Ann, born April 14, 1816, mar- March 23. 1808, Garret D. Hendrickson. ried, October 21, 1834, Rev. Garret C. (b. July 7. 1787, d. Oct. 12. 1861) and Schanck (b. September 14. 1806. d. Sept- died August 5. 1875. Both buried in ember 17, 1888.) and died February 20, family yard on homestead farm at Hol- 1843. Both buried In yard of Marlboro land. Their children have been named Brick church. in a former article. Charles DuBois, born April 21, 1818, Hendriek Hendrickson made his will died October 31 1834. December 9, 1834, proved December 21, Francinke, born August 18. 1822, mar- 1840. and recorded at Freehold in D of ried March 4. 1840, George W. Cox, and Wills, page 310, etc. He provides for died April 29. 1854. Buried by her hus- his widow, Francinke, and mentions his band in yard of Yellow Meeting House, daughters, Catherine Lane, and Jane, Upper Freehold. wilt- of Garret D. Hendrickson. "The Mary, born October 1, 1825. married farm of 296 acres where I now live" December 25. 1856. Henry Corlies, (born with all stock, etc., on same, he devises October 20, 1821. and son of Benjamin in fee to his grandson. William Henry W. Corlies.) She died in August. 1898. WILLIAM HENDRICKSON, OR WILM HENDRICKS, AS WRITTEN, BROTHER OF DANIEL.

Wilm Hendricks, as he wrote his to Waykake." This road return is pub- name, was a brother of Daniel Hen- lished in full on page 266-7. Old Times drickson, the first settler at Holland, in Old Monmouth. in the present township of Holmdel. I Some forty years ago the remains of think Hendrick Hendricks, the father an old dam, extending about half across of Daniel and William, lived in Mon- the meadow, could be seen a few hun- mouth between 1694 and 1706. Our dred feet south of the dwelling house court minutes for this period show that where Joseph Dorsett lived until his one Hendrick Hendricks served on the death, and where George Dorsett, his grand jury and also on a coroner's father, had lived before him. The lied thr track of the New York and Long Branch by the sea on Sandy Hook beach. Afte] railroad run a little distance north of above dates no Hendrick Hendricks ii this place. The banks on both sides of named on our public records as residen the Mahoras meadow south of this old of this county until Daniel's eldest soi dam are quite high. The east bank arrived at age. Hendrick Hendrick: curves around to the west so as to was a widower and married again abou make a natural dam half the width of 1706, Helen Cortelyou. the widow o the meadow. The Mahoras brook which Nicholas VanBrunt and of Dionysi flows north along the west bank of the Denyse. After this marriage it is saic meadow makes a turn opposite the re- that he lived with his wife on lands a mains of this old dam and for a short New Utrecht, L. I., which her father distance flows westerly and then turns northerly along the farm of the late Hon. William B. Hendrickson. It only in our county records as one of the needs a short dam across this narrow persons who broke up Governor Hamil- neck of the meadow to unite the east ton's and Lewis Morris' court at Mid- and west banks, and so dam up the dletown village, March 25. 1701. as has waters of Mahoras brook. In the divis- been already related. In Book I of ion deeds, between the children of the Deeds, page 219, Secretary of State's second Daniel Hendrickson executed in office, is record of an agreement be- 1789 and heretofore mentioned, this tween William Hendricks and Jarret dam and floodgates are referred to as Wall of Middletown, Monmouth county, monuments in the description. dated June 17, 1703, fixing division line The fact that the deceased father had between their lands. The beginning of erected a mill and conveyance of half the line is fixed at mouth of William of same to the son Cornelius, is men- Hendricks' ditch on west side of Ma- tioned in the deed to him. I think that horas brook and to run due west from here is the site of the first grist mill this point to west side of Hendrickson erected in Monmouth county. The old land. On page 152 of court minutes of Town Book of Middletown township Monmouth under date of December 6, contains records of the contract be- 1709, William Hendrickson with others tween the first settlers in 1668 and one appears before the court as a committee Robert Jones, of New York, to put up from Dutch church to present Joseph and operate a grist mill. It was to be Morgan as their pastor. He is also built at a place called by the Indians mentioned in these same minutes in "Choncis Sepus." The early settlers record of two public highways laid out had oxen and a few horses, and were by the commissioners. The first under obliged to select a place on some stream date of September 27, 1705. of a highway with sufficient water to run a mill. from Middletown to the county line Mahoras brook is the ojily stream near towards Amboy. "William Hendricks the village of Middletown with sufficient mill" is named as on line of this road. water for this purpose. The banks on In the return of another road laid out each side at this place favored the con- April 2, 1706, the beginning is at "Wil- struction of a short dam. The hills liam Hendricks' mill" and running were then covered with dense forests thence "direct to Cocowders' brook, and beneath were vines and under- where Walter Wall's path went over, brush, so that the storm water was and then to Ruckman's path which goes held from running off rapidly. All the Z

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streams carried a greater volume of witnesses: His brother Daniel Hen- water and the meadow or lowlands had drickson, and friends. Peter Wyckoff not been filled up or raised by the and StofMe Longstreet are named as ex- washings from the banks and hillsides ecutors. .He does not mention his wife. after they were cleared and plowed. Willimpe, and I therefore infer that she The Mahoras brook drains an exten- had died prior to this time (1711). He sive region and during heavy storms an mentions Guisbert (Gilbert) as his eld- immense amount of water flows down est son and gives him four shillings from the hills. Robert Jones erected a extra on this account. He gives his mill at this place in 1669, for on May youngest son Daniel, £20 more than the 24, 1-670, town lot No. 33 is transferred others. This is the nephew Daniel Hen- to him, which indicates that he must drickson also mentions in his will, giv- have completed his part of the contract. ing him a small lot of land at Perth He did not, however, operate it long, Amboy which he purchased of Stephen for soon after we find James Grover in Warne. possession of the mill and running it. William Hendricks also speaks in his I think Daniel Hendricks purchased the will of his daughters, but does not property of Whitlock and Wall on ac- name them or any other sons except count of the close proximity of this Gilbert and Daniel. He states, how- mill. He was a man of more than ordi- ever, that all his children are minors. nary intelligence and energy for we Gilbert Lane, his father-in-law. in his find him a constable and then sheriff in will dated Nov. 7, 1720. proved May 17, less than fifteen years after he settled. 1727, and recorded at Trenton in Book This, too, among strange people of a B of wills, p. 66. etc., speaks of his different race and language. It was grand-children "born of my daughter doubtless his ownership of the adjacent Williamea Hendrickson, late deceased, lands which enabled him to secure this formerly the wife of William Hen- mill site for his brother William. At drickson, likewise deceased, and gives all events this same family held it from them their mother's share in hisestate. 1705 until the close of the century, as These orphan children of William Hen- the deeds of 1780 inform us. A miller dricks and Williamptji Lane, his wife, and blacksmith were two of the most who were all under age in 1711 were: important men in a new settlement. A Guisbert, Geesye, Hans (John), Jannetje great demand existed in early times, as (Jane), Hendrick and Daniel. As their the settlements were pushed to west father ran a grist mill on Mahoras and south, for men understanding these brook, it is likely that these boys all trades. learned the business of a miller, for we William Hendricks married Willimp- find some of them or their children fol- tje, (baptized at Flatbush, L. I., Sept- lowing this business at a later date in ember 16, 1677,) a daughter of Guisbert other parts of New Jersey. I do not Thys Laen VanPelt and Jannetje now know of any descendents of these Adrianse Lambersen, his wife, who are four sons residing in the old township named among the organizing members of Middletown. They all removed to of the Monmouth Dutch church in 1700. other parts of this'county or state and His name, however, on church records to Bucks and Lancaster counties in is entered "Gisbert Laen' - for the Van- Pennsylvania. Some retained the name Pelt was dropped. At a later date the of "Hendricks" and others the "Hen- name was spelled "Lane," which sur- drickson" surname. name has been retained by his descend- Guisbert, the eldest son. married about ants to this day. One of his daughters, 1728, Elizabeth (bapt. Aug. 13, 1710.) "Moika" (Micha) married Stoffel Dirck- daughter of Johannes Polhemus and sen Longstraat of Flatlands, L. I., who Annetje TenEycU, his wife, who have also removed to Monmouth county, and been heretofore mentioned. She was a were the parents of Stoffel Longstreet sister of Tobias and Johannes Polhemus. (baptized December 25, 1713, died 1784) who also settled in Upper Freehold who was the first settler of this name township probably soon after Guisbert in Upper Freehold township and lived Hendrickson settled in that vicinity. there until his death. William Hen- This part of Monmouth together with dricks died in April or May of 1711. be- adjacent territory in what was then Bur- r .ri any of his children had arrived at lington and Middlesex counties, went is 2 age. His will dated April and ndei I name of Crosswicks, now proved June 14 of the year 1711, and confined in one small village. recorded at Trenton. N. J., in Book I Nottingham township was then in of Wills, page 326, etc. Cornelius Doom Burlington county. Part of this town- (VanDorn), William Brudenseck and ship was taken off '( Burlington ami Barnes Lambersen are the subscribing called Hamilton township when M.-r.-.-r EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

county was formed in 1838. I think during her natural Life and to have any Gilbert Hendrickson settled in this one of the rooms in the house where part of Burlington, but now Mercer I now live that she shall Choose with county, somewheres near Yardville. every necessary thereunto belonging He devised this plantation or farm to with the use of one Negro Wench with his youngest son, David Hendrickson, all other necessaries of life found her who I believe lived and died on it. as long as she shall remain my Widow, I should not be surprised to learn that and it is my will that all the Estate Gilbert Hendrickson operated a grist that my Wife shall have at her death mill in the vicinity of his farm. This shall be equally divided between my however is a conjecture. As his father six sons hereafter mentioned or the helped organize the Dutch church in Survivors of them. 1709; so Gilbert helped the first Pres- ITEM I give and bequeath unto my byterian church at Allentown. As will Son William the sum of One hundred be seen from his will he remembers pounds Besides his Equal part with the this church with the gift of £10 or fifty Rest of my Sons that is to say with dollars, which was a considerable sum himself & John & Daniel & Tobias and in those days. Gilbert Hendrickson, Cornelius & Jacob and it is" my desire like his father, read his Dutch Bible and that he may be Contented with the pro- accepted its teachings when he read portion of my Estate with what he al-' therein. ready had. "Who is among you that feareth the ITEM I give and Bequeath unto my Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his ser- son David all the Plantation whereon I vant, that walketh in darkness and hath now dwell which I purchased by Sun- no light? Let him trust in the name of dry Surveays now adjoining together to the Lord, and stay upon his God." him his Heirs and Assigns for ever "I. even I he that comforteth am you; together with four horses three cows who art thou, that thou shouldst be twelve sheep Waggon plows Harrows afraid of a man that shall die, and the Gears He paying to my Six Sons above son of man which .shall be made as named three hundred pounds in three grass?" Years after my Decease and fifteen "And focgettest the Lord, thy maker, pounds Yearly unto my Widow as above that hath stretched forth the heavens said during her Natural Life and make and laid the foundations of the earth?" such provisions for her as is Bequeath- "Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be ed her in this Will. not dismayed; for I am thy God. I ITEM it is my will and do Bequeath will strengthen thee; yea I will help to Margaret Emley my Granddaughter thee; yea I will uphold thee with the one hundred pounds four years after right hand of my righteousness." my decease to be paid by my Son David. He believed in the word of God and ITEM It is my Will and I do Order trusting in the "righteousness" of God, that that Dot of Land lying at the and not his own goodness, he passed North East Corner of the Plantation away from this earth in March or April formerly Abraham Tilton's lying upon of 1777, leaving his wife surviving and Doctor's Creek to be sold by my Exec- seven stalwart sons. He mentions no utors And the Money arising from the daughter in his will, but a granddaugh- sale thereof to be Equally Divided ter, Margaret Emley. He therefore may amongst my Six Sons above mentioned have had a daughter who married an to them their heirs and Assigns for Emley and died prior to date of this ever. will. His descendants are numerous ITEM it is my will & I do Order that and will be interested in his will where if either of my said sons should die he speaks for himself. without issue that his part and portion The will and inventory of Guisbert herein bequeathed him shall be equally Hendrickson: —In the name of God, divided amongst the Survivors that amen, I Gisebert Hendrickson of the have Issue to them their heirs and township in the county of Burlington Assigns for ever. in the Western Division of the Province ITEM it is my Will and I do order of New Jersey, being weak in body but that all my Moveable Estate be sold of Sound Mind and Memory Blessed be Except what is already Bequeathed in God, do this Eleventh day of Novem- this Will and after all my just debts ber, in the year of Our Lord one thous- and funeral Charges are paid that then and seven hundred and Seventy-Six I the Overplush be Equally Divided do make and publish this my last Will amongst my Six Sons above mentioned and Testament in manner and as fol- that is William, John. Daniel. Tobias. loweth that is to say FIRST I give and Cornelius, & Jacob all as aforesaid to Bequeath unto my beloved Wife Eliza- them their Heirs and Assigns for ever. beth the sum of fifteen pounds Yearly And I do hereby ordain and appoint my EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE iMO.XMOl'TH.

Wi Her on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty ' Tobias Hendr God doth declare and say that he was lawful Execut present and saw Guisbert Hendrickson & Testament. Item it is my Will and the Testator in the within will named I do Order that my Executors first of Sign and Seal the same & heard him all do pay to the Elder of the Pres- Publish pronounce and declare the byterian Church of Allentown ten within Writing to be his last Will & pounds for the use of said church I do Testament And at the doing thereof he hereby revoke all other Wills by me was of sound and disposing mind and heretofore made. IN WITNESS Where- Memory as far as he knows and as he of the said Guisbert Hendrickson have Verily believes and that Margaret Ma- to this my last Will and Testament set galiard and William Reynolds were also my Hand and Seal the day and year present at the same time and Signed above written. their Names as Witnesses to the Will Guisbert Hendrickson (SEAL.) together with this Deponent in the Signed Sealed and Delivered by the presence of each, other and-in the pres- said Guisbert Hendrickson as and for ence of the Testator. his last Will and Testament in the Sworn the 28th day of April 1777 at presents of us who were present at the Burlington before Robt Burcham. signing & Sealing thereof. The foregoing Will being prov'd probate was Granted by his Excellency Tobias Polhemus Govr. Livingston unto William Hen- Margaret Magaliard (w) her mark drickson and Tobias Hendrickson Ex- William Reynolds. ecutors in the sd. Will named being first Tobias Polhemus. one of the witness- sworn truly to perform the same ex- es t to the within will being first sworn hibit a true Inventory and render a true Accot. when thereto lawfully re- t The old wills now on record in Secretary quired Given under the Prerogative Seal of State's office at Trenton, N. J., were origin- the day and Year aforesaid. ally recorded at Burlington, for West Jersey Cha. Pettit Regrr. and numbered. While in East Jersey they were recorded at Perth Amboy and books lettered. Thus there are two sets of books covering the same period of time. Some of the Monmouth county wills, although in East Jersey, are recorded at Burlington, as is shown in this

~~WILLIAM HENDRICKS AND WILLIAMPTJE LAEN HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.~~

1. William, eldest son of Guisbert, soldier of the Revolution. married according to license granted 4. Tobias, fourth son, married accor- February 22, 1768, Rachel Longstreet. ding to license dated March 21, 1762, In Book I of deeds, page 496, Mon- Rebecca Coward, and died May 23, 1811. mouth Clerk's office, is record of a deed aged 70 years, 10 months, and 2 days, dated February 2, 1778, from William according to his headstone in Old Yel- Hendrickson and Rachel, his wife, of low Meeting House cemetery. His will Upper Freehold, to Gilbert Longstreet is recorded at Freehold as heretofore of the same township. The grantors mentioned with some of his descendants convey for £4,000 a tract of land in that in Barkalow genealogy. township which Stoffel Longstreet had 5. Cornelius, fifth son, is supposed to deeded to William Hendrickson, and be the same person named in marriage "Peter Wecoff's" land, Albert Couwen- license granted January 28, 1767, to hoven's lands, and Doctor's Creek are Cornelius Hendrickson and Mary Thorn called for as monuments. of Monmouth county. No other know- 2. John, second son, married Novem- ber 14, 1763, Anna Cox, and resided in 6. Jacob, the sixth son, married ac- what is now Ewing township, Mercer cording to license dated May 2. 1771, county. Elizabeth Mount, and died July 24, 1831, 3 Daniel, third son, was born about aged 72 years, 6 months, 12 days, ac- 1737; married Ann Stewart, and settled cording to his headstone in the Old somewhere near what is now Hamilton Yellow Meeting House cemetery. His Square. He was a zealous patriot and wife is buried by him. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS Of- MONMOUTH.

7. David, the seventh and youngest are his words. His nephew, Jacob Hen- son, to whom his father left the home- drickson of Upper Freehold, and his stead, which lay. I think, in what was brother, John Polhemus of Middletown. then Nottingham township, Burlington are appointed executors. The will is county, but now part of Mercer county, witnessed by Garret Wyckoff, Robert lived and died on this farm, but I have Imlay, and Samuel Imlay. It thus ap- no dates of his marriage or death. pears that the Polhemuses, Hendrick- One of the maternal uncles of these sons. Longstreets, and Wyckoffs, set- seven sons was John Polhemus. who tlers in Upper Freehold, were closely lived in Upper Freehold township and connected by blood or marriage. died there without children. His will . Jonathan Holmes, the soldier of the is dated June 7, 1788. proved 1793, and Revolution, by his wife. Lydia Throck- recorded at Trenton, N. J., in Liber. 33 morton, had a son Joseph, born 1772. of Wills, p. 234. This John Polhemus married Mary Bruere, and died July 16, married Alice, daughter of Joseph 1815. His youngest son, Joseph, born Holmes and Elizabeth Ashtont his wife, November 24, 1810. married Martha Ann of Upper Freehold. She died April, Miers, and died August, 1897. They 1788, according to her headstone in were the parents of Joseph Holmes,- our Yellow Meeting House cemetery, aged present Chosen Freeholder from Upper 61 years, 10 months. Her husband died Freehold township, and who still (1901) September 15, 1793, aged 72 years, and owns and resides on old Holmes home- is buried by her. In his will he names stead in that township. The Joseph his wife's cousins. Elizabeth and Sarah, Holmes who died July, 1777, and the daughters of Jonathan Holmes, and progenitor of the Upper Freehold Elizabeth, daughter of John Holmes, Holmes family, was a delegate to the and Elizabeth Wyckoff, daughter of Provincial Congress of New Jersey and Peter Imlay. He also mentions his own a member of the Council of Safety in sister, Catherine, who married Matthias 1775-76. He was one of the most en- Laen (Lane). (They are named as ergetic and trusted of the patriot lead- members of Dutch church in 1750). If ers of Monmouth county and his death she is dead he orders legacy paid to at the very beginning of the war was a her children. He mentions children of great loss. Col. Elisha Lawrence, who his brothers, Daniel Polhemus, Tobias raised a battalion of Jerseymen to serve Polhemus and Cornelius Polhemus, and in the English army and who was very children of his sisters, Nelly Couwen- active on the royal side, was a near hoven and of Elizabeth Hendrickson. neighbor to Joseph Holmes. There were "II v brothers' and sisters' children." other very bitter and malignant Tories among his near neighbors. His dwelling on one occasion was attacked by t Joseph Holmes v the Refugees and plundered. Obadiah Holmes and Ashton. his wife, William Hendricks and Williamptje and their son named will to whom he Laen. his wife, and their children: devised his lands at cks (Upper Free- I leesye, or Gezina, as spelled on page hold vicinity). Joseph Holmes was born in Ash- S7 of Wells' address at Brick church, 1699 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of John ton, and lived on his farm inUpper Freehold, where she and her husband are put and died in July, 1777. He is buried in Ash- down as members of the Dutch church ton graveyard. His will is recorded in Liber. in 1743, married Matthias Peterzon, or 19, page 7. He had the following seven child- Pietersen and was the second child of ren: Allis (Alice) born June 10, 1726, married William Hendricks. In the record of Polhemus, died without issue April 1, John the baptism of his children, her name is 17SS. buried by her husband in Yellow Meeting William- 13. sometimes entered as "Geesye house cemetery : Obadiah. born October se," meaning Geesye, the daughter of young ; 1728 ; James, born March 6, 1732. died Marv, horn September 17. 1733. married Peter William. Imlay: Joseph, born December 3. 1736, married Matthias Pieterson, her husband, was Phoebe Wardell. died August 31, 1809, leaving a son of Peter Thys Laen VanPelt, and only one child, a daughter, (his will was proved Barbara Houlton. his wile. He was Free- September 16. 1809. and recorded at known as Matthias, son of Peter, and hold in A of Wills, page 317. I e leaves so Pieterson became his surname. Some £300 to Baptist church of Upper Freehold) ; it is Slid, removed Jonathan, born December 4, 1738. married of his descendants, in Lydia Throckmorton, died August 4, 1777. from to Hunterdon and Somerset counties exposure and hardships in American army this state, and others over into Bucks during the war (he was a captain or lieuten- and Chester counties, Pa. ant), buried in Yellow Meeting House cem- Matthias Pieterson and Geesye Hen- March 29. 1744. etery by his wife: John, born dricks had the following children: married Deborah Leonard, died August 10, Barbara, baptized May 26, J717. 17S3. (his wife died May 6, 1811. also buried Peter, baptized November 23. 1718. in Yellow Meeting House cemetery.) EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OE MOXMOCTH.

William, baptized January 13, 1723. of Gilbert Hendrickson and Elizabeth Mary, baptized January 10, 1733. Polhemus, his wife, already mentioned, Daniel, baptized June 17, 1738. and residing in what was Nottingham Hans (John) the third child of Wil- township, Burlington county, but now liam Hendricks, married Sarah Hosier, Ewing township, Mercer county. and died March 25, 1789, aged 89 years, Elizabeth, baptized August 25. 1734, according to his headstone in yard of married according to license dated May Marlboro Brick church. His wife is 20, 1754, and recorded in office of Sec- interred by him and date of her death retary of State at Trenton, N. J., John given as March 31. 1782, aged 80 years, Vanderbilt of Staten Island, N. Y., and 24 days. On page 86 of Wells' address died August 13, 1760, aged 26 years, 1 her name is spelled "Sarah Meser" and month, 13 days, according to her head- she became a communicant in 1731. stone in Brick church cemetery. She John Hendricks, as he wrote his name, left two sons, who are the executors made his will May 18, 1785, proved April named in her father's will made 25 15, 1789, and is on record in Trenton in years later, or in 1785. Under this will Book 30 of Wills, page 178, etc. He or- they sold and. conveyed away his real ders his executors to sell his land at estate, as appears from deeds recorded Imlaystown, Upper Freehold township, in Monmouth Clerk's office. and one half of his mill where his son, William, baptized December 25, 1736, Abraham Hendricks, now lives in that married, according to license granted township, and all other lands owned by December 21, 1756, Charity Robinson of him. He gives his old Dutch Bible and Monmouth county and died before his £10 to his son Abraham. He mentions father, leaving four children surviving. his granddaughter Charlotte, and four One child named Charity, died Decem- children of his deceased son William. ber 23, 1761. and is buried in Brick He also mentions his grandsons, Jacob church cemetery with a headstone giv- and John Vanderbilt, children of his ing her name and age. He also had a deceased daughter Elizabeth. He speaks son John, baptized November 19, 1757, of two children of his son Conradt, ap- who was his firstborn. As no others points his son Abraham Hendricks, and are buried in Brick church yard it is his two grandsons, Jacob and John likely that they removed to some other Vanderbilt, executors. The will is wit- place or colony. nessed by Mary Vanderbilt and Lewis Conradt. baptized August 27. 1738. Forman. Seven of the children of John married first, according to license dated Hendricks and Sarah Mosier, his wife, June 18, 1759. Mary English. She died are buried in the yard of the old Brick October 26. 1762, aged 27 years, leaving church at Marlboro. All have the Hen- one daughter, Elizabeth, baptized at dricks surname. Some of his descend- Tennent church November 22, 1761. He ants removed to Easton, Pa., and to married for his second wife Mary Rockingham and other counties in Vir- Knott. This license is dated June 17, ginia. 1763. During the Revolution he sided By Sarah Mosier he had the following with the King and enlisted in the com- children: pany raised by Capt. Thomas Crowell Johannes, baptized April 8, 1733, mar- which served in the battalion under ried, according to the license granted Col. Elisha Lawrence, the ex-sheriff or October 31. 1759, Phoebe Smith, and last of the Kings' Sheriffs in Monmouth died, according to his headstone, July county. This battalion was in Skinner's 13. 1760, aged 28 years, 5 months, 1 day. Brigade and was stationed much of the His will is dated July 2, 1760. proved time on Staten Island. On page 12 of July 26, 1760, and recorded at Trenton Book A of Executions in the Monmouth in Book 9 of wills, page 258, etc. He Clerk's office is record of an execution described himself as a resident of Mid- issued May 1, 1779, against Thomas dlesex county. New Jersey. I think it Crowell of Middletown township who was in that part of Middlesex county had been found guilty under an inquis- taken off in'1838 to form Mercer county. ition of joining the King's army. On He mentions his wife Phoebe, but had the next page, No. 13, is record of an no children. He gives his brother Wil- execution against Conradt Hendricks, liam, six shirts and two beaver hats, who had also joined the King's army. and to his brother Guisbert (Gilbert) The real estate of these men was sold the remainder of his wearing apparel. under these executions. They, how- He also mentions his brother-in-law, ever, never returned to this county, so John Vanderbilt. The will is witnessed far as I can learn. They may have by John Hendricks, Andrew Forman removed to Nova Scotia. and Lewis Forman. This John Hen- Guisbert (Gilbert), baptized May 2i, dricks, the witness, I think was a son 1741, died single March 25, 1785, aged EARL Y DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

44 years, 1 n Hendrick. June 20, 1730, and Albert. his headston. July 16. 1732. There may have been at Marlboro. other children born and not baptized. Mary, baptized April 7, 1744, married Hendrick. according to license granted Thomas Hendricks, who, I think, resid- April, 1751, married Sarah Tomson or ed somewhere near Hopewell, N. J. She Thompson. Both are put down as res- died November 5, 1768, aged 24 years, idents of "Middletown township. They according: to her headstone in Brick had the following children baptized: church cemetery. Her husband is not Hendrick, May 3, 1752: William, Feb- buried in this yard and I do not know ruary 26, 17.j7: Albert, July 8. 1759; what became of him or whether she Arrinthia, September 6. 1761. Albert, left any children. the second son of Hendrick, married, Sarah, baptized June 28, 1747, died according to license dated January ::. single February 28. 1772. 1755, Johanna Mills. Both are named

Abraham, born , married, accord- as residents of Monmouth. This couple ing to license dated December 17. 1754, had the following children: Mary, daughter of William Wyckoff Hendrick, born June 27, 1756; Altje, and Agnes VanDoren, his wife. She was born July 12, 1758, Elaxander Clark, as born October 1, 1733. and died February his christian name is spelled on church 12, 1796, and is buried in Brick church records, and had seven children bap- cemetery. Abraham Hendricks may tized between 1776 and 1794. viz: Re- have been the oldest of the eight chil- becca, November 29, 1761: Catherine. dren of John Hendricks, but there is September 21, 1766; Mary, August 2.".. no record of his birth or baptism unless 1768; Nelly, February 3, 1777; John. the "Old Dutch Bible," which his father February 3, 1777; William, February 3, mentions in his will, be found. Neither 1777; Sarah. April 22, 1778. I do not do I know where Abraham died or know of any of the male descendants where he was buried. He seems to have of Hendrick Hendrickson and Altje resided in Upper Freehold and run a Couwenhoven, his wife, now residing in grist mill at or near Imlaystown or Monmouth county. 1 think some of A Her Dur lg the Rev he them settled in Gloucester and Salem was an earnest and energetic patriot counties and others removed to New and a soldier. York and Pennsylvania. Daniel, the I have no information or knowledge youngest son of William Hendrickson of his children, if any. His father's and Willaimpe Laen. his wife, is so selection of him as executor and gift of named in his will and is also named in family Bible to him leads me to think the will of his uncle, Daniel Hendricks, he was the oldest son. Jannetje, the published heretofore in full. He re- fourth child of William Hendricks and moved from this county. Willaimpe Laen. his wife, married I find Daniel Hendrickson running a Christopher Warmsley, and moved to grist mill on the Millstone river, in some other part of New Jersey or some Somerset county. N. J., in the year 1741. other colony. She had, however, three This may be the same person. His of her children baptized in our Dutch grandfather, Hendricks Hendricks..!,. church while visiting her parents, viz: uiih Peter Cortelyou, StolTel Probasco, William, baptized May 3, 1719, and two Thepdon Polhemus, Hendrick Lott. ,- others unnamed, one October 2.".. 1721. Jacques Cortelyou, Dionje Denyse. and and the other April 16. 1732. Cornelius Wyckoff, purchased in 1701. Hendrick. the fifth child of William of John Harrison ten thousand acres of Hendricks, was born November 11. 17"6. land in Franklin township. Somerset J married about 1728, Altje, daughti i oi county, N. J. This land extended from Albert Couwenhoven and Neiltje Millstone river over to the old Indian Schanck, his wife, and died July 28, path which ran from the tails of the 1783, aged 76 years, 8 months. 6 days. Delaware River across New Jersey to His wife was born January 20, 1709. a point about three miles from the Her father and mother are both buried mouth of the Raritan river. Here the in Schanck-Couwenhoven yard, and river was crossed and the path ran dates of their deaths from headstone over to Mount Pleasant and from there inscriptions show that the printed state- to Crawford's Corner, and from there ments heretofore given are incorrect. over the hills by the residence of Daniel Albert Couwenhoven died September Hendricks, the pioneer settler to Ruck- 13. 1718. aged 72 years, 9 months, and 6 man's Hills at Middletown village, and days. Neiltje Schanck. his wife, died here intersected the old Indian path July 27, 1751, aged 70 years. 6 months, from Freehold to the bay shore and to and 4 days. Hendrick Hendrickson and Sandy Hook. \.ln. Couwenhoven, his wife, had two The eight purchasers divided this sons baptized in the Dutch church, viz: trad int.. eight pints. Now Daniel EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOXMOUTH.

Hindrickson, the youngest .sun of Wil- "Let those who will, claim gentle birth. liam, had an opportunity to learn the And take their pride in Norman blood. miller's business in his father's mill on The purest ancestry on earth. Mahoras brook, heretofore mentioned. Must find its spring in Adam's mud. And all, His uncle Daniel, left him by will a though noble now or base, From the same level small lot of land at Perth Amboy. This took their rise. And side by side with loving would indicate that Daniel had removed grace. Leaped crystal clear from Paradise. to this town or vicinity at the mouth of the Raritan river. His grandfather, "Among our Hendrick, sires no high born chief. owned lands on the Millstone Freckled his hands with peasants' gore; River which afforded a good site for No spurred or coronetted thief, grist mills, a business which he under- Set his mailed heel upon the poor. stood. Neither is Daniel Hendricks, the No! We are come of a purer line. With nobler hearts within youngrest son of William, named in any the breast ; of our county records after the probate Large hearts, by suffering made divine We draw our lineage of his uncle Daniel's will. There is a from the oppressed. probability from these considerations "There's not a great that the miller of this name on the -Mill- soul gone before. That is not mentioned in our clan. stone river in 1741 may have been this Who, when the world took side with po Stood boldly on the side of man. This concludes the family records of All hero spirits plain and grand," some of the Dutch settlers of Monmouth Who for ages ope the door. county. I have not written these arti- All labor's dusky monarchs stand cles to gratify any foolish family pride Among the children of the poor. or vanity, or to instill notions of superiority; for "birth is an accident," and parents to children. The plodding, in- To stand behind the Or buckle his spurs before dustrious, and economical habits of our the fight. We. too. have our ancestral claims Low Dutch ancestors are worthy of remembrance and imitation. Their ardent love of liberty, independence, and truth was a mighty factor in the establish- ment of this great Republic. Their des- "And is not this a family tree.

Worth keeping up from age to age ; of right and duty to carry forward their Was ever such ancestry beneficent work, until mankind is freed Gold-blazoned on the herald's page? In old Monmouth let us still. from caste kings, priests and all other Maintain our race and title pure. forms of hereditary bondage or oppres- The men and women of heart and will sion. The following lines by Lowell The people who endure." express the truth: I

~~ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.~~

Page 2, column 1, line 25 :—Date of Albert named were other Scotchmen besides those VanCouwenhoven's death should be Sept. IS, marked with a star. 1748. Page 44, column 1, line 4 :—After "Jacob- Page 2, column 1, line 30 :—Date of Jacob insert "Couwenhoven." VanOuuwenhoven's death should be June 4, Page 44, column 2, line 36 :—After "Engelt- 1744. je" insert words "the second child of Jacob Page 6, column 2. lines 19 and 20 :— Strike VanDorn and Marytje Bennett." out "or Ogburn" after "Peter" and substitute Page 46, column 1, line 12:—Date of Peter's "Rhoda Ogbourn" for "Anna Ogden." baptism should have been "Sept. 2. 1711." Page 10, column 2, line 43 :— Date of Cath- Page 48, column 2, line 5:—Date of Antje arine Schenck's birth should be March 17, 1762. VanDorn and Jan Clerk's marriage should be Page 11, column 1, line 4: — Elleanor 1744. Schenck's marriage to George Crawford should Page 48, column 2, line 40:—Date of David be January 27. 1799. VanDorn and Mary H. Crawford's marriage Page 15. column 2. line 8:— Insert after should be 1844. :— "John R." "the third child of Ruliff and Page 68, column 1, line 32 "That he died Sarah Schenck." in Monmouth county" is uncertain. le is Page 20, column 1. between lines 29 and 30: said to have been an Indian trader in the —Insert "Aletta, born about 1752 ;" a child Shenandoah Valley, Va. omitted. Page 79, column 2, line 54: — Substitute Page 25, column 2, lines 24 and 26 :—Date "better" for "little" before "covenant." of Roeleff's birth should be Oct. 5. 1706, and Page 109, column 2, lines 36 and 37:— his death Aug. 20, 1786. The dates printed should have said that John left children but I were dates of his wife's birth and death. have no definite information about them. Page 26, column 2, line 36:—"Cathei Page 112, column 1, lines 9 and 10 of foot was married to Daniel Hendrickson, Dec. 22, note :—The Burlington path began to diverge from Main street about where residence of late Joel Parker stands, and not where the Pres- byterian stone church stands. 1739. Page 139, column 1, lines 66 and 57: —Sub- stitute for "son" of Samuel For- Page 30, column 2, lines 49 and 50 :—For "grandson" "Antje Hendrickson, his second wife,"

139, 1, last 1 strike out stitute "Jannetje Wyckoff, his first wife." Page column in "Brigadier General of our Monmouth J 37, column 2, line Col. Elias Con- Page 9:— and substitute "Sheriff of Monmouth c< nty.' over and Joseph Conover are said to be del Page 140, column 1. line 15:—Strike out cendants of William VanCouwenhoven, the "Gen." and substitute "Sheriff" before "David only brother who remained on Long Island, Formal." and one or more of his sons settled at Penns : Page 144, column 2, on line 37 —After word Neck or vicinity, and it is claimed was the township, add "and another son named Edgar progenitor of the above named persons and who served with credit during the great rebel- not John Couwenhoven as stated. I do lion as a soldier of the Union." which version is correct. know Page 154, column 2, line 18:—After date Page 41, column 1: —Among the juryr "July 12, 1758" insert word "married." INSCRIPTIONS TAKEN FROM HEADSTONES IN SCHENCK-COUWENHOVEN CEMETERY, PLEASANT VALLEY.

Albert Couwenhoven, b. December 6, 1676 ; 3, 1858, aged 79 y.. 9 m., 29 d. Son of Capt. d. Sept. 13. 174S. acred 72 y., 9 m.. 6 d. Son of ohn Schenck and Mary Denise. William Garretse Couwenhoven and Jannatie Elleanor Schenck, b. Jan. 16, 1783; d. July Monfort. Daniel I Neeltje Sehenek. b. Jan. 28. 16S1 : d. July 27. 1751, aged 70 y., 6 m.. 4 d. Wife of Albert Couwenhoven and daughter of Roelof ^far- tense Schenck and Annetje Wyckoff.

~~Neltje Couwenhoven, b. Feb. 7. 1719 ; d. Apr. 22, 1738. aged III y„ 2 m.. 15 d. Daugh- ter of Albert and Neltje Couwenhoven.~~

Christopher, b. Feb. 21. 1774 ; d. Mar. 16, 1775. aged 1 y.. 25 d. Son of Cornelius Al- bertse Couwenhoven and Mary Logan. John, b. June 1. 1777: d. Apr. 4. 1783, aged 5 y., 10 m.. 3 d. Son of Cornelius Albertse Couwenhoven and Mary Logan.

~~Cornelius C. b. May IS. 1771 ; d. Dec. 20. 1814, aged 43 y.. 7 m.. 2 d. Son of Cornelius Albertse Couwenhoven and Mary Logan.~~

~~John C, b. Nov. 10, 1799 : d. Nov. 26, 1852. aged 54 y.. 16 d. Son of Cornelius C. Coven- hoven and Elizabeth Covenhoven.~~

Elizabeth, b. Sept. 11, 1804 ; d. Jan. 30, 1860, aged 55 y., 4 m.. 19 d. Daughter of John VanDerbilt and Mary McKildoe, and wife John C. Conover. Cornelius I., b. Mar. 11. 1826: d. Oct. 1852. aged 27 y., 6 m., 20 d. Son of John C. Conover and Elizabeth Vandel'bilt.

Emily, b. Aug. 13. 1830 : d. Feb. 14, 18! aged 25 y.. 6 m. Wife of Charles K. Buth and daughter of John C. Conover and Eliza- beth Vanderbilt. Isabella, d. Aug. 31, 1S5S. aged 4 y., 5 m.. 5 d. Daughter of Charles K. Butler and Emily Conover. Aaron, b. Nov. 29. 1838; d. Mar. 4, 1840, aged 1 y.. 3 m.. 5 d. Son of John C. Conover and Elizaheth Vanderbilt. Eliza, b. Feb. 19, 1824: d. May 9, 1827. aged 3 y., 2 m., 20 days. Daughter of John C. Conover and Elizabeth Vanderbilt.

Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1792 ; d. Nov. 1, 1801, aged 9 y.. 9 m., 18 d. Daughter of Cornelius C. Covenhoven and Elizabeth Covenhoven. Sarah Jane Honce. wife of Henry D. Smock, d. Jan. 7, 1860, aged 24 y., 2 m., 15 d. Jacob, son of Isaac and Caroline Smock, d. July 18. 1826, aged 2 y„ 8 m.. 7 d. William I. Schanck, d. Aug. 12. 1860, aged 55 y., 8 m. Denice D.. son of David K. and Jane Schenck. aged 10 m.. 2 d. Jane, wife of David K. Schenck, and daughter of Denice Schenck and Margaret Polhemus, d. Apr. 5, 1823. aged 31 y.. 3 m., 28 d.

Elizabeth Covenhoven, b. Mar. 7. 1769: d. Nov. 16, 1837. Wife of Cornelius C. Coven- hoven and daughter of Harmen Covenhoven and Phoebe Baylee. Daniel I. Schenck, b. Dec. 26, 1778; d. Oct. EARL ) DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.

1775. aged 57 y„ 2 m., 11 d. Son of Garret R. Jane, born Apr. 29. 1799; d. Sept. 27. ls:i7, Schenck, I., and Nelke Voorheese. aged 37 y.. 4 m., 28 d. Wife of Elisha Holmes Nelly, daughter of Capt. John Schenck and and daughter of Peter VanDorn and Jannatie Mary Denise. d. Sept. 23, 1773. Williamson. Garret G. Schenck, II., d. Sept. 29, 1797, Arintha, b. Nov. 24, 1798; d. Oct. 30, 1854, aged 53 y.. 11 m„ 5 d. Son of Garret G. aged 55 v.. 11 m. Second wife of Elisha Schenck and Jannetje Couwenhoven. Holmes and daughter of Schuyler Schenck and

~~Sarah Couwenhoven. b. July 23, 1744 ; d. Margaret Covenhoven.~~

Nov. 16. 1805. aged 61 y., 3 m.. 24 d. Wife of Sarah, d. June 30, 1768, aged 13 y.. 1 m., Garret G. Schenck, II., and daughter of Rulif 4 d. Daughter of Hendrick Schenck ana C. Couwenhoven and Sarah Voorheese. Catharine Holmes.

~~Rulif C. Schenck, b. Feb. 28. 1778. d. Mar. Daniel Conover, b. Dec. 20, 1742 ; d. Feb. IS, 26, 1815. Son of Garret G. Schenck and 1821, aged 78 y„ 1 m.. 28 d.~~

Sarah Covenhoven. Jacob Conover, b. Nov. 25, 1779 : d. Sept. 9. Anne Schenck, d. Mar. 25, 1807, aged 42 1846, aged 66 y„ 9 m.. 14 d. v., 5 m., 25 d. Daughter of Garret G. Schenck, Ensign Elias Covenhoven, b. ir, Sept. 1706 ; III., and Sarah Couwenhoven. d. Dec. 25. 1750. aged 44 y., 3 m.. 13 d. Sen Garret G. Schenck, III., d. Aug. 25. 1779, of Peter Couwenhoven and Patience Daws. aged 16 y., 5 m.. 30 d. Son of Garret G. Willemsee, b. Mar. 24, 1709; d. Mar. 24. Schenck and Sarah Covenhoven. 1759, aged 50 y. Wife of Ensign Elias Cou-

Garret R. Schenck, b. Oct. 27, 1671 ; d. Sept. wenhoven, and daughter of John Wall and 5, 1745, aged 73 y., 10 m.. 8 d. Son of Rolof Mary Hubbard. Mr.rtense Schenck and Neeltje Garretse Cou- Catharine H.. b. Mar. 17. 1762: d. June 5, 1816. Daughter of Hendrick Schenck and Neeltje Voorheese, b. Oct. 1. 1675. d. Aug. Catharine Holmes.

1. 1750. acred 74 y., 10 ra., 4 d. Wife of Garret Rulif H.. b. Apr. 17. 1753 ; d. Oct. 12. 1800. R. Schenck and daughter of Koert Voorheese. aged 47 y., 5 m.. 5 d. Son of Hendrick Garret G. Schenck, b. Nov. 2, 1712; d. Aug. Schenck and Catharine Holmes. 20. 1757. aired 44 y.. 11 m. Son of Garret R. Sarah, b. Feb. 13, 1759: d. Apr. 13. 1811. Schenck and Neeltje Koerten Voorheese. aged 52 y„ 2 m. Wife of Rulif H. Schenck

Janetje Couwenhoven, b. Oct. 6, 1714 ; d. and daughter of John Schenck and Neltje Feb. 14, 1792. Wife of Garret G. Schenck and daughter of William W. Couwenhoven and Hendrick. b. June 13. 1777 : d. Dec. 12. 1812. Antie Lucasse Voorheese. Son of Rulif H. and Sarah Schenck.

~~Mary, d. Jan. 29, 1758, aged 1 y. Daughter Jacob, b. Sept. 13, 179.3 ; d. Dec. 22, 1859. of Garret Jacobse Covenhoven and Neeltje Son of Rulif H. and Sarah Schenck.~~

~~Rolfese Schenck. Johnathan, b. July 19, 1761 ; d. Apr. 4, 1771. Aarie VanDoorn, d. Dec. 4, 1748, aged 52 y., Son of Hendrick Schenck and Catharine 8 m. Son of Jacob VanDoorn and Marytje Holmes.~~

Bennett. Rolof, b. Feb. 21, 1602 ; d. Jan. 19, 176S, Jacob, d. Sept. 9. 1785, aged 52 y.. 9 m., 9 aged 73 y., 10 m., 28 d. Son of Jan Schenck d. Son of Aarie VanDoorn and Antje Jan and Sarah Couwenhoven.

Schenck. Gesye. b. Oct. 9, 1696 ; d. Sept. 20. 17 17. aged Elleanor VanDoorn. d. Feb. 11, 1834, aged 50 y.. 11 m.. 11 d. Wife of Rolof Schenck 91 y.. 10 m.. 8 d. Widow of Hendrick Smock and daughter of Daniel Hendrickson and and Garret Hendrickson and daughter of Aarie Catharine VanDyke. VanDoorn and Antje Schenck. John, b. Jan. 22, 1720: d. June 27. 1749 Mary Jane, daughter of Elisha and Jane aged 29 y„ 5 m., 5 d. Son of Rolof SchencK Holmes. and Gesya Hendrickson. daughter of Sheriff Ann Golden, daughter of Elisha and Jane Daniel Hendrickson. Holmes. Hendrick. b. July 29. 1731. d. Aug. 24, 1766. Daniel, son of Elisha and Jane Holmes. aged 35 y., 25 d. Son of Rolof Schenck and Isaac, son of Elisha and Jane Holmes. Gesye Hendrickson. Peter, son of Elisha and Jane Holmes. Catharine, b. May 11. 1731: d. May 12. 1796. Joseph, son of Elisha and Jane Holmes. aged 63 y.. 1 d. Widow of John and Hendrick John Walter, d. Oct. 11. 1775. aged 45 y„ Schenck. and daughter of Johnathan Holmes And Senniche Hendrickson. daughter of ex Jane, d. Jan. 6. 1774, aged 22 y.. 7 m.. 5 u. Sheriff Daniel Hendrickson. Wife of John Walter and daughter of Peter Cornelius R.. b. July 29. 1740. d. Jul> 12, Janse Schenck and Janatie Hendrickson. 1796. aged 55 y., 11 m., 14 d. Son of Rulif C. John, d. Oct. 13, 1S"37, aged 66 y., 11 m. Couwenhoven and Sarah Voorheese.

Son of John Walter and Jane Schenck. Jane, b. Aug. 19, 1740 ; d. Mar. 26, 1799. John Schuyler, d. Jan. 4, 1838, aged 7 y., 5 aged 5S y.. 7 m.. 7 d. Wife of Cornelius R. m.. .'2 .1. Son of Charles O. and Sarah E. Covenhoven, and daughter of Tunis Denise Walter. and Francinka Hendrickson. Cornelius, d. Dec. 9. 17S9. aged 3 m.. 5 d. Teunis. b. Mar. 10. 1761; d. Oct. 30. 1787, Son of Abraham VanHorn and Anne Coven- aged 26 y.. 7 m.. 20 d. Son of Cornelius R. Covenhoven and Jane Denise.

Samuel Bowne. died Mar. 11. 1799, aged 77 William C, born July 20. 1700 : d. Nov. 10. y. Husband of Patience (Eliase) Covenhoven. 175.-.. aged 55 y.. 3 m., 21 d. Son of Cornelius Alfred Theodore, d. Oct. 15. 1803. aged 1 y.. Couwenhoven and Margaratta Schenck 9 in.. 26 d. Son of Conover and Elizabeth Jannatie. b. Ja 26, 1743 Bowne of New- York. F.lisha Holmes, d. June 17. 1866. aged 69 y.. 11 m.. 4 d. Son of Joseph Holmes and Nelly Willempe Schen The Burrowes house, at Middletown Point, where the company was formed described by Major S. S. Forman. Here. also, occurred the raid of "the Greens" in the early June morning, the

-Oth, 177.S. The object was to capture the son. Major John, at home for a few hours. He was alarmed in time to jump from his bed, reach the lower story. es:ape through a window, swim the creek and find safety through his knowledge of the country. The picture to the right shows the fine old hall of the Burrowes house. The chair on the first landing marks the spot where Mrs. Burrowes was met and sabred by the brutal officer for refusing her shawl to bind the wounds of a raider — a wound resulting in blood poisoning and death in very early life. The burning of the mills owned by Burrowes & Forman is recorded in local histories. The taking v of John Burrowes, Sr., to a prison ship, seizure of of i the two prominent Tories Middletown by Colonel Henderson and William Wikoff, bringing them to Mon- mouth jail as hostages, and that se- curing Burrowes' release.

~~1PPENDIX.~~

~~1806, aged 60 Couwenhoven C. Covenhoven Hendrickson.~~

~~Mary. b. Dec. 6, 1740 : d. Jan. 3. 1806. aged EARL V DUTCH SETTLERS OF MOSMOTTIT~~

~~d. Wife of Capt. John Schenck and daughter Covenhoven Hendrickson. of Teunis and Francinke Hendrickson Denise. Hendrick H. Longstreet. b. May 7sr,. .].~~

~~David Schenck. b. May 10. 1783 : d. Apr. 23, Feb. 26, 1860. Son of Aaron and Willempe 1872. Son of Capt. John and Mary Denise Hendrickson Longstreet.~~

Schenck. Nelly S. Longstreet. b. Apr. 4. 1783 ; d. Sarah Smock, d. Feb. 2, 1832, aged 32 y., 2 Sept. 27. 1803. Wife of Obadiah Schenck and m. Wife of David Schenck and daughter of daughter of Aaron and Willempe Hendrickson George and Margaret VanDeventer Smock. Longstreet.

John Schenck, b. June 26, 1828; d. Feb. 5. Ann Longstreet. b. Mar. 29. 1812 ; d. May 1859. Son of David and Sarah Smock Schenck. 28, 1814. Daughter of Hendrick and Mary Jane Schenck. d. April 23. 1791, aged 1 y., Holmes Longstreet.

~~7 m.. 11 d. Daughter of Capt. John and Mary John I. H. Longstreet, b. Feb. 22. 1826 ; d. Denise Schenck. June 14. 1851. Son of Hendrick and Mary~~

~~William Schanck. d. Mar. 5, 1844 ; aged 71 Holmes Longstreet.~~

~~y.. 8 m., 21 d. Son of Capt. John and Mary Hendrick H. Smock, b. Dec. 1, 1805 : d. Oct. Denise Schenck. 8, 1841. Son of Barnes B. and Lydia Long-~~

~~Garret G. Smock, b. Oct. 31, 1815 ; d. Jan.~~

~~George <> Unlock. May 1788 ; d. Apr. Sche II. .In~~

~~Sarah Smock, b. Jan. 17. 1793; d. Apr. 13. ). Dec. 13, 1S27 ; d. Sept. 1832. Wife of George G. Smock. 1, 1851. Wife of Daniel S. Conover, and~~

~~John O. Stillwell, b. Apr. 25, 1763 ; d. Nov. daughter of Johnathan I. and Ellen Schenck 17. 1847.~~

Mary Schenck. b. Apr. 19. 1775 ; d. Sept. 29, Joseph Holmes, b. Mar. 29, 1822 : d. Aug. 1864. Wife of John O. Stillwell and daughter 22, 1825. Son of Johnathan I. and Ellen of John and Nelly Bennett Schenck. Schenck Holmes.

Capt. Daniel I. Schenck. b. Apr. 1. 1771; Elleanor Hendrickson. b. May 20. 1824 : d. d. Aug. 9, 1845. Son of John and Nelly Ben- Feb. 28. 1844. Wife of John S. Longstreet nett Schenck. and daughter of Garret D. and Jane Hendriek-

Catharine Smock, b. Mar. 7, 1775 ; d. June 8. 1839. Wife of Capt. Daniel I. Scl Peter Schenck. d. June 6. 1837, aged 71 y., daughter of Hendrick and Nelly iDnrn 10 d. Son of John and Nelly Bennet Schenck. Smock. Rhoda Ogbourne. d. Aug. 21. 1848, aged 83 John Schenck. d. Dec. 8. 1798. aged 4 y., 9 y.. 1 m.. 24 d. Wife of Peter Schenck. m., 12 d. Son of Capt. Daniel I. and Catharine Rhoda Schenck, d. Jan. 28, 1821, aged 20 y.. Snmck Schenck. 5 m.. 4 d. Daughter of Peter and Rhoda John S. Schenck, d. Jan. 18, 1833, aged 22 Ogbourne Schenck. d. Son of Capt. Daniel I. and y., 4 m.. 29 Sarah Schenck, d. Dec. 22. 1823. aged 27 y.. Smock Schenck. Catharine 20 d. Daughter of Peter and Rhoda Ogbourne 1753 ; d. Oct. Aaron Longstreet, b. June 9. Schenck. 19. IMin. aged 57 Willempe Hendric Feb. John P. Schenck. d. Feb. 10. 1863. 6 m.. 23 d. Son of Peter and Rhoda Oct. 21. 1837. Wife of Aaron Longstreet ani y.. daughter of Hendrick Hendrickson and Lydii Ogbourne Schenck.

~~SCHENCK-COUWENHOVEN MARRIAGES FROM RECORDS OF FIRST DUTCH CHURCH OF MONMOUTH COUNTY.~~

~~Schenck and Daniel Denise. Apr Nelly Schenck and Derk Sutphen. Feb. 1 Jane~~

Garret Schenck and Neltje Voorhees. O. Rulif Schenck and Sarah Schenck, Dec 1774. John VanCleaf. Nov Mary Schenck and Aert Sutphen, Nov. 5 Lea Schenck and 44. VanMater. Aug. Ellener Schenck and Edmund Harris. Ja Sche nd Mary 77S. 4, 1765. Geesye Schenck non (Ariel Van- Willi: and Marya Tyse (Ticel 1778. Doom. May 9, 176 Dec. 20. Buckalew. June Cornelius Schenck Margaret Taylor Roelof Schenck and Martha 1779. July 3. 1765. 28. Kort Schenck and Rebecca Rogers, Jan. 20 Nelly Schenck and Joseph VanCleaf. Dec. 176'67. Mary Denise. July 31 John Schenck and Nelly Schenck and Joseph Holm Oct. 785. Mary Schenck and Tobias Polhemus. Oct. Schenck and Denyse Hendr 21. 1768. Anne Jane Schenck and John Walter. Dec. 5. APPENJy/X.

Garret Schenck and Ja iKirk. Dec. 12, Jacob Couwenhc nd Margaret Couwen oven, Dec. 21. 17. Rulif Schenck and Sarah MacMullen, Feb. Sarah Couwenh' and Arie Laen. Ma: 7. 1743. Nelly Schenck and Thomas Shepherd, Oct. Catharine Couv, en and Daniel Hen 22. 1790. rickson. Dec. John Schenck and Polly Quackenbush. Feb. and Antje Hendrick 24. 1791. son. (widow) Mar. 17, Geeshe Schenck and Isaac Harris, May 5, John Couwenhoven and Catharine Voorhees. 1791. Oct. 19. 1744. Teunis Schenck and Altie VanDeveer, Dec. Arintha Couwenhoven and Cornelius Leister. 13, 1792. ILuyster) May 19. 1746. Nelly Schenck and Garret Denise. Jan. 16, Catharine Covenhoven and David VanDer- 1793. veer. Feb. 28. 1765. Peter Schenck and Sarah Shepherd, Oct. 26, Albert Covenhoven and Patience Coven- hoven, Dec. 1. 1765. Nelly Schenck and Thomas Shepherd, Jan. Jane Covenhoven and Peter Longstreet, Dec. 19, 1795. 3. 1765. Rulif Schenck and Sarah Bennet, Jan. 28, Cobatje Covenhoven and Cyrenius VanMater. Apr. 6, 1766. Denye Schenck and Margaret Polhemius, Cornelius Covenhoven and Mary Hendrick- Oct. 31, 1798. son, Jan. 13. 1767. Daniel Schenck and Ellener Schenck. Feb. Sarah Covenhoven and Joseph Thompson, 10, 1801. Feb. 19, 1767. Gitty Schenck and Jacob VanDoorn. Feb. Cornelius Covenhoven and Mary Logan, July 4, 1802. El'enor Schenck and William Denyse, Feb. Nelly Covenhoven and Barrent Smock. July 23. 1802. John Schenck and Sarah Laen. Dec. 20, 1802. Ghasie Covenhoven and Hendrick Coven- Francyntie Schenck and William Nicolas. Feb. 5. 1803. Oct. Ellener Schenck and Daniel Stoutenburg, Oct. 13. 1805. Catharine Covenhoven and Samuel Buckalue. Mary Schenck and Joseph Dorsett. Oct. 27, Jan. 26. 1775. 1805. Roelof Covenhoven and Altje Voorhees, Feb. Mary Schenck and John Stilwell, Mar. 25, I, 1775. 1806 Sarah Covenhoven and Derrick Barkalo. atharine Schenck and Peter VanKirk, Dec. Mar. 28, 1775. Agnes Covenhoven and William Remsen. K. Schenck and Anne VanCleaf, Dec. Mar. 18. 1778. Aeltje Covenhoven and Mathys Laen. Apr. Schenck and John Whitlock. Feb. 20, 29. 1778. 1810. Anne Covenhoven (widow) and Benjamin Schenck and Mary Schenck, Jan. Griggs. Nov. 26, 1778. 1811. Geartrury Covenhoven and Jacob Allen. ick Schenck and Sarah Schenck, Dec. Jan. 14, 1779. William Covenhoven and Mary Wall. Nov. Schenck and John S. Walter. Sept. 27, 4. 1779. 1814. Jane Covenhoven and Abraham Golden. Nov. Jonathan G. Schenck and Ellener Schen 25. 1779. Feb. 9, 1815. Sarah Covenhoven and Johannes DeGiaef. Garret Schenck and Lydia Schenck. Mar. 9. 1780. 1815. Nelly Covenh l and Hendrick Williamsen, Jane Schenck and Aaron Lane, May 15, 1! Mar. 23. 1780. Catharine Schenck anil Joseph Combs, I Lea Covenho and William Combs. Aug. 23. 1816. 31. 1780. David Schenck and Sarah Schenck, Nov. Francinke Covenhover nd Hendrick Hen- drickson. May 13. 1781. Elisha Schenck and Idah Schenck. Dec. nhoven and Joseph Willet. 1818. Feb. 1782 Garret Schenck and Sarah Ann Schen 1820. Wil

~~Sarah <\, id John es VanClef,~~

~~Aeltje Couwenhoven I widowl Middah. Feb. 3. 1740. Pieter Albertse Couwenhoven Voorhees, May 19. 1741.~~

~~Helena Couwenhoven and E Cleaf. July 2. 1741. Roelof Couwenhoven and Jam son. Aug. 12. 1741. EARL V /TV, // SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

Covenhove Anne Ebenezer Conover and Mary LerTerson, Dec. 3, 1785. 17, 1807. and John Willct. Ja Mary Conover and John VanDoorn. Jan. 30. 19, 17S6. 1809. Jacob Cov Elizabeth Conover and John G. Taylor. Mar. Dec. 13. 1781 8, 1809. Mary Covt d Thomas Shields. Mar. Jane Conover and Stacey Prickott, June 15,

Teunis Covenhoven : nd Martha VanDerlme:. Rulif Conover and Pamilla Wallen, (Wal- )ec. 7. 1788. ling) July 17. 1809. Garret Covenhoven and Mary Covenhoven. John Conover and Ann Smock, Feb. 8, 1814. George Conover and Mary Dubois. June 19. Roelof Cov' hoven and Sarah VanDerveer. 1815. in. 12. 1789. Peter Conover (widower) and Patience Mary Covenhoven and Samuel Forman. Mar. Scott. June 12, 1816. Jacob Conover and Elleanor Smock, Nov. John Covenhoven and Anne VanBrunt, Nov. 13. 1816.

~~. 17S9. Elleaner Conover and Daniel West. Dec. 6, Nelly Covenhoven and Cornelius VanHorn 1817. 790. Cath ne Covenhoven and John VanDer-~~

~~794. APPENDIX.~~

Catharine Schenck and Jacob I. Covenhoven John H. Schenck and Jane Conover, (widow) ept. 26, 1799. lug. 2, 1812. De Lafayette Schenek and Nelly Covenho .en L'i. hraim Loree Schenck and Nelly ('.mover. lee. 17, 1805. lent. 15, 1812. Sarah Schenek and Garret Conover, Jan. 6 Marya Schenck and Troley Conover, Dec. 9. 807. James Schenck and Anne Conover, Dec. 21 Mary Schenck and Garret Conover, Dec. 11, 809. Peter Schenck and Nelly Conover. Apr. 3 Ar'intha Schenck and William Conover, Feb. 811. William Schenck and Anne Conover, Mai 'Anne Schenck and Martinus (Matthias! '.onover, (his second wife} Apr. is. 1822.

~~TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS,~~

Old Tennent Cemetery. Tennent. N. J. Anna Denise, wife David Forman, a 1849. ageo 61 y. daughter of Teunis Denise and Francin Margaret Covenhove Benjamin Hendrickson. d. Sept. 9. 1798. aged 63 y. W. Covenhoven. d Fe William Forman. d. Jan. 31. 1S23. aged 3 m.. 26 d. Peter y.. 5 m„ 5 d. Forman. Esq., Francinka Hendrickson. wife William F< man. and daughter of Garret Hendrickson a ii.. 10 d. Catharine Denise, 19, Uiamsen. wife Peter Forr y.. of Aert Willemsen and An John ,'en, d. Nov. 3. 1821. aged 79 y. Nov. 6. 1771, aged 51 y.. 1 iven, wife John Covenhoven,

Nov. 1 1. aged 86 y. John Covenhoven. Jr., son of John and Mary Covenhoven, d. Oct. 3. 1804. aged 29 y. aged 17 6 d. Elizabeth Hendrickson, wife of John R. Daniel Schenek, d. Nov. 15, 1831, aged 26 y. Covenhoven and Jane De Joseph L. Covenhoven, elder of this church, aged 41 y.. 20 d. d. Apr. 3, 1853, aged 71 y.. 2 m., 17 d. Margaret Covenhoven, wife Daniel D. Coven- Gertrude Covenhoven, wife Joseph L. Coven- hoven. d. Oct. 2. 1882, aged 83 y. Jan. 19, 1853, aged 75 y., 6 m. Garret B. Covenhoven, son of Benjamin Charles Cove son of Joseph L. and Covenhoven. d. Dec. 18, 1824. aged 63 y.. 11 Gertrude Covenho d. Jan. 6. 1838. aged 22 y.. 8 m., 16 d. lan. wife Garret B. Covenhoven. 3 Rulif P. Schenck, d. Apr. 8, 1854. aged 18 eter Forman and Elleanor Wil- y.. 10 m„ 16 d. ts, 184(1, aged 78 y., 1 m.. 29 d. j. Conover, son of Garret and Rulif R. Schenck, b. June 20, 1784 : d. June 28, 1860. oven. d. May 22. 1S34. aged 46 David Covenhoven. d. Sept. 20. 1822, aged 62 y. erbert, wife Benjamin G. Con- Esther Covenhoven, wife David Covenhoven. 15. 1863. aged 78 y.. 11 m., 1 d. d. July 1, 1829. aged 61 y. \\i Conover, d. Feb. 22. 1837, aged Ann Covenhoven, daughter of David and Esther Covenhoven, d. Mar. 2. 1868. aged 73 Catharine Covenhoven, daughter of Garret B. Covenhoven and Lydia Forman. d. Nov. William Covenhoven, d. Aug. 12, 1852, aged 13. 1830. aged 40 y.. 26 d. 78 y.. 1 m.. 20 d. Mary F. Covenhoven. daughter of Garret B. Jane VanDeveer. wife William Covenhoven. and Lydia Forman Covenhoven. b. Dec. HI. and daughter of David VanDeveer and Cath- 1795: d. Sept. 1. 1883.

~~arine Covenhoven, d. Jan. 16. 1858. aged 83 Allice Conover. b. Oct. 18. 1800 : d. May 18.~~

~~Jacob Conover. d. Dec. IXifi. aged Robert Covenhoven, d. Apr. 1, 1826. aged 4 5 y. Ellen L. VanDevere, wife Jacob John M. Covenhoven, d. Sept. 13. 1828, aged~~

. Sept. 24, 1846, aged 29 y„ 9 m., 70 y., 7 m. Wycof Conover, d. May 3. 1833, a ged 19 Ann Covenhoven, wife John M. Covenhoven, d. Aug. 24. 1855, aged 91 y., 2 d. Ely Conover, wife of Wycof Conover. d. r Elizabeth Conover. wife Joseph Preston, d. 11, 1880, aged 90 y.. 2 m. Feb. 24, 1871, aged 57 y., 7 m.. 15 d.

William B. Covenhoven. d. Aug. 15, 1 Rulif Vandevere. son David Vandevere and aged 55 y., 2 m., 12 d. Son of Benja Catharine Covenhoven, d. Sept. 13. 18111. aged Covenhoven. Elleanor Forman, wife William B. Gov Catha of Rulif hoven. daughter Peter Forman and Ellea Vandev, Willemssn. d. Aug. 20, 1823. aged 71 y. EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OE MO.XMOI TH'.

~~Sarah Covenhoven, wife Garret H. Coven- oven, d. Mar. 15, 1856, aged 71 y., 11 m. Joseph W. Covenhoven, d. May 2, 1819, aged~~

~~Richard Cono 81 y„ 5 m., 12 ( Hannah Cono' d. Sept. y., 6 d. Mary Conover~~

~~Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Imlaystown, N. J.~~

~~James Holmes, d. Mar. 6, 1825 ; aged 20 y.. 7 m.. 29 d. Sarah Bruere, wife of John H. Bruere and daughter of Joseph and Mary Holmes, d. June 20, 1831, aged 23 y.~~

~~John H. Bruere, b. July 13, 1803 ; d. Sept. 15, 1864. Joseph Holmes, son of Joseph and Mary~~

Holmes, b. Nov. 24, 1800 : d. Aug. 1. 1897. Deborah lolmes, wife of John Holmes, d. May 6, 1811, aged 64 y.. 6 m.. 24 d. John Holmes, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Holmes, d. Aug. 10. 1783; aged 39 y., 5 m. Jonathan Holmes, d. Aug. 4, 1777 (or 1,) aged 38 y.. 8 m., 2 d. Lydia Holmes, d. Feb. 14. 1783, aged 38 y. Joseph Holmes. Esq.. d. Aug. 31, 1809. aged 72 y., 8 m. Phoebe Holmes, wife of Joseph Holmes, d. Feb. 25. 1786. aged 49 y., 6 m. Joseph Holmes, d. July 16. 1815, aged 43 y.. 5 m.. 16 d. Mary Holmes, wife of Joseph Holmes, d. June 28, 1833, aged 59 y.. 3 m., 25 d.

Forman Hendrickson. b. 1836 ; d. 1889. Elizabeth Clover, widow of Daniel Hendrick- d. No iged y.. 10 n Gilbert Giberson, !1, 1843, y.. 2 m.. 29 d. Rachael Giberson, wife of Gilbert Giberson, d. June 23. 1833, aged 80 y„ 3 m. Allice Holmes, daughter of Jonathan and Lydia Holmes, d. Mar. 16. 1790, aged 14 y., 3 m., 2 d. Mrs. Eliza Ellis, consort of Rowland Ellis. a merchant of Philadelphia: d. May 9, 1798, aged 20 y.. 4 m., 9 d. John Polhemius. d. Sept. 15, 1793. aged 72 y. Allis Holmes, wife of John Polhemius and daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Holmes, d. Apr. 10, 1788. aged 61 y.. 10 m. Sarah Throckmorton, daughter of John and Sarah Throckmorton, d. Mar. 8, 1805. aged

~~Peter Wykoff. d. July 1864. aged 48 y.,~~

~~Harriet Wykoff. widow of Peter WykolT. d. Mar. 31, 1861, aged 51 y., 10 m.. 14 d. John Salter, d. Aug. 29. 1723, aged 28 y..~~

~~Samuel Yendrickson. son of Tobias APPE EARLY DUTt '// SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

~~and daughter of Cornelii Harmon APPL \/>/\~~

~~the c .~~

~~EARL Y PV1CH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH.~~

77. November 8th, Mr. Samuel Painton to Miss Mary Snyder. Sar 78. On the above same day. William R. Cottrell to Miss Lucy Woodward. 107. October i9th. Mr. Calvin H. Gardiner 79. December 24th, John Henry Mount to of city of New York, to Miss Content Bills. Miss Nancy Boude. 108. November 8th, Mr. Joseph W. Lewis of Freehold, to Miss Mary Ann Macelvey of SO. June 17th, Mr. Isaac Lobb of the city the township of Howell. of New York, to Miss Catharine Hamilton of the city of Trenton, Hunterdon county. New 109. February 28th, Mr. Anderson Chambers to Miss Amy Matthews. 81. '28th, Mr. Stephen I ulshart to Miss 110. March 26th, Mr. John J. Errickson of Sarah Matthews, both of Monmouth county. Freehold, to Miss Sarah Ann Youngs of Howell. New Jersey. 111. August 12th. Mr. John L. Patterson 82. September 17th, Mr. Miles Reynolds to to Miss Mary Hannah Clayton. Miss Lydia Cottrell. 112. August 13th. Mr. John Patterson to 83. October 7th. Mr. Joseph VanCleaf to Miss Mary Ann Patterson.

Miss Martha Lawrence, ( Blackpeople) 113. November 5th. Mr. Matthias C. Bar- 1830. kalow to Miss Elizabeth Emmons. 84. Capt. Garret P. Hyers to Miss William- 114. December 5th, Mr. Abram Lefinge of pe Conk, both of Monmouth county, New the city and county of New York, to Miss Catharine Bills of the township of Freehold. 83. July 21st, George W. Bennett to Miss 115. Married on the 28th day of August, Annjeletty Clayton. 1836, Mathias Applegate to Miss Margaret 86. September 22nd, Joseph L. White to Emmons, both of the county of Monmouth. .Miss Lydia Patterson. December 31st, Robert Ireland to Miss 1831. M:. May 28th. Tunice V. Voorhees to Miss Elean 88. September 24th. John Boude to Miss Sarah Voorhe

~~October 28th, C< melius D. Clayton to Miss Eli:~~

90. Married on 30th October. 1831. Mr. David 119. July 30th, John Loker Miss D. Matthews to Miss Mary Emmons, both of Clayton. Monmouth county, N. J. 120. November 12th, Mr. Aaron Borden to Miss Sarah Ann Emmons, both of township 91. January 19th, Mr. Joseph G. Hulshart, of Howell. Esq.. to Miss Agnes M. Ely Bennett, t 1838. 92. August 23rd, Mr. Benjamin Matthews 121. January 1st. Mr. Hampton Herbert to Miss Rhoda Ann Lewis. to Miss Mary Kernaghan. 93. September 29th, John J. Applegate to 122. March 31st. Mr. William Allen of Miss Esther Hankins. Eastville. Upper Freehold to Miss Ann Hen- 94. October 12th. Mr. Jacob Miller to Miss drickson of Freehold. Ann Matthews. 123. May 12th, Mr. Jacob Patterson to Miss

95. December 1st, Mr. William Donaldson Caroline Lorkerson ; both of Monmouth county. to Miss Eliza Bills. 124. June 19th, Mr. Garret Voorhees to 96. 6th, Mr. William Stoney of the town- Miss Rebecca Ann White. ship of Middletown. to Catharine Matthews of 125. October 15th. John Boud to Miss Sarah the township of Freehold. VanKirk. 1833. 126. November 3rd. David Southard to Miss 97. January 19th, Mr. John Reid to Miss Rhoda Emmons. Ann Hulshart. 127. December 16th, John J. Clayton to 98. 23rd. Mr. Charles J. Mathews to Miss Miss Esther Emmons. Sarah Ann Robbins. 128. Married, 26th of January, 1839. Mr. 99. 31st, Mr. David T. Thompson to Miss James T. Thompson to Miss Amy Ann Hen- Mary Anderson. drickson, both of Freehold township. 100. May 5th. Mr. Francis Duncan of 129. February 7. Mr. Moses Patterson to Howell, to Miss Margaret Kernaghan of Free- Miss Elea White; both of Howell township. hold. 130. 9th, Mr. John W. Reynolds to Miss

101. May 19th. Mr. William Clayton to Susan Cottrell : both of Freehold township. Miss Eleanor Voorhees. 131. March 31st, Mr. Jacob Horner to Miss 102. May 25th, Mr. James J. Clayton to Sarah Applegate. both of Upper Freehold Miss Alice Ann Covenhoven. 103. On same day. Mr. Samuel Forman 132. April 3rd. David Hulsart of Freehold, Matthews to Miss Jane Boud. all of Freehold. to Miss Lydie .lane Patt.-rso,, of Howell town- 104. Married on the 1st day of January. ship. 1834. Mr. Henry Reynolds to Miss Hannah 133. 29th, Mr. Elias J. Anderson to Miss

~~Ann White. Hannah Cottrell : both of Freehold township. 105. At same time and place, Mr. John 134. November 14. Mr. Job M. Kerr to Miss~~

~~Ann Shutts : both of the county of Monmouth. 1840. 135. April 29th. Mr. Jonathai to Miss rah VanNote. 136. December 19th, Mr. Cor Miss Nancy White. I~~

~~APPENDIX.~~

~~rluck. both of Jacks~~

~~138. January 2nd, David Clayton to Miss junty.~~

Lettia ; Voorhess both of the county of Mon- of of Mil mouth. st. me, county of 189. April 24th, Hendrick I ulshart to Miss 163. October 9th, Edward W. Worth of t Esther Patterson. township of Freehold, to Miss Hannah Warn HI). June 19th. Mr. Joseph Voorhees to of the township of Howell. Miss Rachel Lucas. 1852. 141. October 23rd. Mr. Daniel Hankins to 164. January 8th. Michael Lewis to Mi Miss Hannah Ann Clayton. Sarah C. Maxson. both of the county of Mo 142. Married on the 18th of November. 1841. Mr. Lloyd Robbins to Miss Maria Hall : both 165. May Hi, William H. Williams to Mi of the township of Howell. Catharine Brewer, both of the township Murllior..UKh. Monmouth county. 143. June 12th. Mr. Orsen Miner to Miss 166. Married. 20th day of June. 1852, M Esther Applepcate. David Errickson to Miss Catherine Emmoi 114. August 21st. Samuel Lake of Mon- both of Freehold township. mouth county, N. J., to Frances Ann Mount 1854. of state of New York. 167. 115. October 16th. James Britton Patterson

147. April 22nd, Hendrick Oakerson of 9. October 18th. Mr. Vpplc^at.' Mercer county, to Miss Catharine Leiya Clay- Rhoda Hulshart. ton of Monmouth. N. J. 0. October 28th, Mr. William Ayres of 148. August 5th. Thomas Debow to Miss township of Howell to Miss Catharn Phebe Hankins ; both of the township of intia of the township of Ocean. Freehold. 149. December 2nd. John H. Barkalow of A pi the township of Freehold, to Miss Martha Worden of the township of Dover.—All of Monmouth county. N. J.

~~:,il. I rch 18th. John M. Cla of~~

of the towr 173. February 5th, Willi He, Ann Reynolds, both of the t Hot of the township of Maualapan. to Miss Eliza 1845. Chambers of the township of Freehold. 152. May 26th. Mr. William Thompson to 174. At same time and place, Cornelius M. Miss Mary AppleKate. Harkolow to Miss Deborah Chambers, both of 153. October 5th, Mr. William Lake of the Freehold township. township of Howell to Miss Mary Ann Painton 175. September 4th. Tunis Emmons of the of the township of Freehold. township of Howell, to Miss Mary E. Hulshart 154. Married on 2nd day of December, 1845, ' ' of Freehold. Mr. Joseph Lake of the township of Howell, 176. No lth. .la to Miss Lydia Menill of the same township. 1846. 155. Mr. Warington Fields of Yellow Hook. Long: Island, state of New York, to Miss 177. March 81st. Edward Stephens to Miss Sarah Lake of the township of Howell, Mon- »rEaret Cottrell, both of Freehold township. mouth county. N. J. 178. Married. Ausrust 24. 1861. William H. 156. June 20th, James C. Hankinson of lis of Freehold township, to Miss Mary H. the township of Freehold, to Miss Adaline Wolcott of Thompson of the same township. 179. Ar Applegate to Mil 157. November 29th. David D. Appleeate Amy Char ehold township. to Miss Caroline Dey. both of Freehold town- nallwood of towi ship. 1847. 158. March 20th, Mr. Robert Graham to Miss Amy Ann Thompson, both of the town- th. Archibald AppleKc ship of Millstone, county of Monmouth. .old. to Miss Hannah , 1849. ip of Millstone. 159. Mr. Thomas Conk to Miss Eleanor Finch, both of Freehold township. 1850. 160. January 20th, Hiram Cottrell of Jack- son township to Miss Nancy M. Worth of the township of Dover. 161. March 2nd. John Hendrickson to Miss :

~~EARLY />C/~~

182. May 3rd. John H. Hulshart of the township of Freehold, to Miss Jane Ann Boud sbury. both of the city of the township of Howell. 1864. 183. January 20th, Joseph F. Can- of 188. April 21st. Gorden Reynolds of Free- Hightstnwn, Mercer county, to Miss Sarah hold township, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Rey- Elizabeth Bowne of Jackson township, Ocean nolds of Jackson township, Ocean county. 1869. 189. 184. November 27th, James McLaughlin October 20th. George W. Cottrell of and Miss Amelia Cottrell, both of Freehold Howell township, to Miss Margaret A. Voor- township. hees of Jackson township. Ocean county. 1872. 185. 8th, David Clayton and December 190. November 6th, John H. Barkalow of Elizabeth Baikal. >w. both of Freehold Miss the township of Lacey, Ocean county, to Ellen Pharo of Stafford township. Ocean county.

~~Hir Huls~~

~~TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS.~~

Presbyterian taken June Conover Derek Barcalow, d. Nov. 10, 1803, aged 58 y., 6 m., 22 d. Sarah, wife of Arthur Barcalow and daughter of Tobias Polhemus, d. Jan. 7, 1799. aged 54 y., 2 m., 27 d. Jol Ha APPENDIX.

~~June 2, 1844. aged S2 y.. 10 m., 23 d. EARL Y /)(/( H SETTLERS OE MOXMVI "EH.~~

Harmen Covenhoven, son of William ant 1786. aged 60 y. Chrystenah Laen Couwenhoven, d. Jan. 4 Mary, wife of William I. Schenck, d. July. 18(14, a:,'ed 63 y.. 7 m. 1829. aged 70 y. Phoebey Baley, wife of Harmen Covenhoven Garret A. Schenck. son of Albert Schenck. d. Feb. 2, 1832, aged 87 y., 9 m.. 16 d. d. Mar. 8, 1794, aged 41 y. Elias C. Schenck. son of Joseph and Mai-pa William Kouwenhoven, (son of William anc ret (Covenhoven) Schenck, d. Nov. 5, 1800 Margaret Garretse Schenck Kouwenhoven), d aged 6 y., 7 m., 17 d. Oct. 17. 1777. aged 35 y„ 4 m.. 9 d. Elizabeth Schenck, daughter of Joseph and Mary, wife of John Slayback, d. Mar. 1829 Mar-rai-et Covenhoven Schenck, d. May 5, 1785. aged 7 m. Williar Schenck, d. July Joseph Schenck, son of Jan Garretse Schenck aged 67 d. Oct. 25, 1822, aged 66 y., 5 m.. 5 d. Margaret S. Schenck. d. July 19. lsK:;. aped His wife, Margaret Kovenhoven. dauehtel 61 y. of William and Elizabeth, d. July 18, 1804 William Kovenhoven, b. Dec. 2. 17C.7 : 4 aged 38 y., m., 8 d. Sept. 24. 1838, aged 70 y., 3 m.. 8 d. Anney Schenck, d. Oct. 25, 1776, aged 6 y. His wife, Mary Grover; d. Jan. 4. 1,' 2 m.. 20 d. aged 38 y., 9 m., 6 d. Margaret Schenck, d. Aug. 5. 1816, aged 70 y Mary Schenck. d. Sept. 12, 1769, aged 2 y. Joseph Grover, d. Mar. 26, 1856. aged 81 8 m.. 14 d. 9 m„ 16 d. Garret Schenck, d. May 11. 1810, aged 68 y His wife. Ruth, daughter of Harmen Cov Jacob Schenck, son of Roelof (the brewer) hoven and Phoebey Baley. d. Mar. 12, 18 (and Engeltie VanDorenl Schenck, d. Dec. 19 aged 85 y., 8 d. THE MONMOUTH ASSOCIATORS.

~~BY JAMES STEEN.~~

No county in the State of New Jersey of the 436 names subscribed nearly one- suffered more during the Revolution half served either in the Continental than did Monmouth, and in no county Army or in the Monmouth Militia be- did the citizens respond more nobly. fore the war was concluded. Every part The proximity to the shore and readi- of the county was represented, and the ness of access by boat from New York Committees of Safety of the various rendered it peculiarly the prey of the townships are represented among the British. There was super-added to that, names of those who were not only will- a lawless element even more irrespons- ing to associate but also to have that ible and regarding- less the rules of fact advertised in the New Jersey Ga- warfare, than the guerillas in our late Civil War. Tories and refugees, well acquainted with the county and knowing the inhabitants, preyed upon the Moiimoutli Articles of aged and infirm who had property that Association. they could take or destroy, and com- Whereas from the frequent incur- sions and depredations of the enemy rages. shooting children and old men (and more particularly of the refugees) and hanging women, burning houses in this county, whereby not only the and barns, and destroying animals and lives but the liberty and property of other property that they could not con- every determined Whig are endangered, veniently carry off. they, upon every such incursion, either Notwithstanding, many of her able burning or destroying houses, making bodied men were in the Army, the large prisoners of, and most inhumanly treat- proportion of those that remained were ing aged and peaceable inhabitants, to be found in the Militia. The Tories and plundering them of all portable and pine robbers had no compunction property, it has become essentially nec- against invading and destroying homes essary to take some different and more that were occupied only by the women effectual measures to check said prac- and the feeble. So obnoxious did they tices, than have ever yet been taken; become, aided as they were by the more and as it is a fact, notorious to every cowardly neighbors of the patriots, one, that these depredations have al- who while committing no overt act, ways been committed by the refugees were in league with Tories and re- (either black or white) that have left fugees, that the Monmouth patriots this country, or by their influence or were forced to take action against procurement, many of whom have near traitors in their midst. Hence it is that relations and friends, that in general there has come down to us a document, have been suffered to reside unmolested which while it adds to the history of among us, numbers of which, we have the county a valuable chapter, is also a full reason to believe, are aiding and roll of honor for the descendants of accessory to those detestable practices. those who thus banded themselves to- We, the subscribers, inhabitants of the gether in their country's defense. It county of Monmouth, actuated solely was in the spring of the year 1780 that by the principles of self-preservation, the patriots of Monmouth, tried beyond being of opinion that the measure will measure by repeated outrages and rob- be strictly justifiable en the common beries, and realizing the assistance the principles of war, and being encour- non-combatant Tories still living un- aged thereto by an unanimous resolve molested in their midst were rendering of the honorable the congress, passed the refugees, Tories and pine robbers, the 30th of Oct., 1778, wherein they in resolved on redress by retaliation. The the most solemn manner declare that document which follows is unique, and through every possible change of for- THE MONMOUTH ASSOCIATORS. tune they will retaliate, do hereby sol- Also we do request, that the associators emnly associate for the purpose of re- will meet at the courthouse on Satur- taliation, and do obligate ourselves, our day, the 1st' of July, at 1 o'clock in the heirs, executors and administrators, and afternoon for the purpose of electing every of them jointly and severally, to a committee of nine men, as before all and every of the subscribers and mentioned, to carry the said association their heirs, &c, to warrant and defend into effect such persons as may be appointed to assist this association in the execution Asher Holmes Lewis Carlton thereof; and that we will abide by and Joseph Johnston Matthias Mount John VanSchoick Matthew adhere to such rules and regulations Anderson Willi Andrew Clark for the purpose of making- restitution John Smock Cornelius Barkalow to such friends to their country as may Joseph Holmes William Rue hereafter have their houses burned or John Nivison Henry Berry broke to pieces, their property wanton- John Brown Peter Emmans Elisha Walton ly destroyed or plundered, their persons Henry Drake Daniel Denise Da\id Sutphin made prisoners of whilst peaceably at E. Leconte John John Holmes, sen. their own habitations about their law- Garrit Covenhovi Thorn Rutliffe Schenek ful business not under arms, as shall Thomas Joseph Clayton Samuel Elliot hereafter be determined on by a com- VanDerveer mittee of nine men duly elected by the Garrit Wikoff Tunis associates at large out of their num- John" Schenek (capt) VanDerveer rules regulations shall nlel L ne ber; which and John Covenhoven . gf % , , be founded on the following principles, Moses Sheppard i^?he? Seabrook William Hulsart Richard Fippmger Peter VanDoru FIRST For every good subject of John Schenek (lieut) — Joseph Willet Jacob *>™nh county, . this state residing within the Benj'n Covenhoven Jacob Bennit that shall become an associator, and Jacob VanPelt Timothy Gordon shall be taken or admitted to parole by Wm. Schenek (lieut) Adam Strieker any party or parties of refugees as John Willet John Tilton aforesaid, that shall come on the er- Alex. VanTenycke William Sanford Lewis Gordon rand of plundering and man-stealing, Benj. VanCleve Barnes Smock (lieut) Matthias Conovev the good subject not actually under or Peter Johnston Elias Longstreat taken in arms, there shall be taken an James Hampton Stephen Fleming equal number of the most disaffected Harmon Sneider George Taylor and influential residing and having Jarrit Stilwell John Chasey property within the county, and them George Hymes Joseph Bowne Alwood Samuel Pease confine within the Provost jail and John Hendrick Sneider Jonathan Forman treat them with British rigor, until the Samuel Pearse Peter Longstroet good subjects of this state taken as Joseph VanCleve - Peter VanDerhoof aforesaid shall be fully liberated. Eliaa Conover Patrick Bailey SECOND — For every house that William Sneider David Forman shall be burned or destroyed, the prop- Henry Strieker Joseph Wooley Solomon Combs Jacob Allen erty of a good subject that enters with Robert Laird Tunis Vanpelt shall made this association, there be David Rhea, jr (adjt) Samuel Clayton full retaliation upon or out of the prop- William Schenek John Sutphin erty of the disaffected as aforesaid. Samuel Dorsett John VanBrocle THIRD—That for every article of Berryan Covert James Mash property taken as aforesaid from any William Anderson Isaac Staates William Covenhoven Abra'm Hendrickson of the associators, being good subjects, Godfrey Warner Hendrick Hyer the value thereof shall be replaced out Samuel Carhart Matthias Roberts of the property of the disaffected as Daniel Hill Benjamin VanMater aforesaid. We do also further asso- Jonathan Forman Hendrick Wiliamson ciate for the purpose of defending the John Sutphin Corn. Covenhoven frontiers of this county, and engage William Lane Walter Vanpelt Samuel Hayes Lambert Johnston each man for himself that is a subject John Ludlow Rulif Covenhoven will turn out at of the militia that we Lewis Perine Stout Holmes all times when the county is invaded, John Reid Hendrick Vanpelt and at other times do our proportionate Richard Postens Burrowes Norris part towards the defence thereof. We Aaron F. Welsh John Moore the associators do hereby direct that a John Baird David Forman A. Zutphin of this association be, as soon as William Forman copy Joseph Broom completed, transmitted John Morford the signing is John Rue John Smith Hunn to the printer of the New Jersey Ga- William Dewinnev Kenneth Hankinson zette, for publication, and that the David Baird Edward Moore original be lodged in the clerk's office. David Hance Joseph Fleminer Thomas Stihvell Joseph Covenhoven Benjamin M'Donald John Emmons Ezekiel Lewis David Brookes John Willson Richard Russel John Walton « James English Jacob Woolcott Joseph Combs Ebenezer Kerr David Lloyd William Hilsey William Postens Corn. T. Vanderhoof Daniel Ketcham Cornelius Clark, BS Moses Mount Nathan Nivison Lewis M'Knight Jacob Quackenbush Job Throckmorton David Baird James Reid James Green (capt) Matthew Rue John Longstreet Isaac Johnston Joshua Huddy James Sickles John Boman Robert Francis Cornelius Sutphin James Runnels Peter Tanner Tunis VanDerveer John Emmans Nicholas VanBrunt Joseph Sutphin Joseph Vannoort John Reid John Schenck Joseph Morford Hendrick Voorhees Jacob Vanderveer Manasseh Dunham Robert Sharp Daniel Emmons Richard Chew — William Aumack James English Peter Quackenbush Wm. A. Covenhoven Jacob Covenhoven James Tapscott Joseph Johnston David Vanderveer John Campbell Jacob Lane Samuel Dennis John Covenhoven Josiah West Onkey Leffertson John Berry Albert Covenhoven Thomas Morris John Freeman Abraham Emmans John Cooke Thomas Henderson Jacob Wickoff Richard Tice John Errickson John Johnston Daniel Hendrickson Tunis VoorheeB Matthias Tice John Truax James M'Knight John Barkalow William Bowne William Craig John M'Mullin Daniel Randolph Benj. Covenhoven David Craig Francis Herbert John Antonides Joel Bedel Adam Boice, sen. Barnabas Bennet Thomas Erickson John William Rowler John Hulsart Simermore Abraham Vangelder Thomas Barber Aaron Sutphin John Wilkinson Moses Robbins William Johnston Peter Gordon William Hendrickson John VanCleve Nicholas Cottril Thomas Walling Benjamin VanCleve George Clinton Richard Laird William Wilbert John Hampton William VanSchoick Samuel Bray Jonathan Clayton John Johnston Daniel Griggs David Covenhoven s Smith Jar es M'Chesney John Clark, B. S. David Smith Eleazer Cottril Hamptc n Ebenezer Hart James Smalley Alburtus Showber Reic Charles Gilmore William Willcocks James Hoagland Jacob Degroof William Jenkins John Freeman John Vanderveer Samuel Forman Hend'k Covenhoven George Crookshank Edmund Robinson John Covenhoven Abra'm Hendrickson Henry Rue Ja?cb Tilton Jonathan Clayton John Schenck Turis Vanderveer Cornelius Schenck Reuben Potter Derrick Sutphin Charles Postey James Craig Samuel Hingry John Nivisink, Jr Jai, es Holmes Dollance Hagerman Richard Rogers William Lewis Jacob Lane Joseph Emley Garrit Vanderveer Jacob Pippenger Alexander Clark William Brown Moses Laird Andrew Mains John Craig John Brindley Nicholas Clark Humphrey Willet Thomas Chadwick Arthur Williamson David Craig Joseph Knox Hendrick Vounk John Rouse John Morford Samuel Rogers Thomas Smith John Jewell Derrick Sutphin Thomas Seabrook William Brindley John Yeatman Jonathan Pew- Her.drick Smock Richard Sutphin John Aumack Aaron Buck Jonathan Enobly Tunis Forman Benjamin Sutphin Anthony Holmes (Embly?) Joshua Studson Michael Johnston Joseph Goodenough Stephen Barkalow John DeGraff Alexander Eastman Richard Pool Peter Forman William Covenhoven William Wikoff San Craig John Tilton George Brindley William Covert William Voorhees David Ray William Benjamin Tilton Currin Richard Marlat Nathaniel Thomas Cottrill Scudder Abraham Sutphin James Herbert John Tilton, Hugh Newell Jr Elil Cha Josiah John Perine James Dorsett Holmes Abel Aikin Peter Peter Smith Vounk Jos.ph Vanderveer Craig John Feid Garrit VoorheeB Henry Vanderbilt Corn Stew F.lisha Shepherd Aaron Cornelius John Covenhoven Davis Hance David Crawford Alt Timothy Cornelius xander Low Hughes M'Mulli William William Michael Cheeseman Gordon Sweetman Thomas Edwards Jonathan W. Albert Timothy Reid Laird Hendrickson Dorsey John Chadwick The mas West Koert Schenck, Jr. Cornel's Covcnhov Cornelius Lane John Jamison Ken'th Anderson, sen Richard Poling Wm. Williamson, jr Michael Jaques Denise Zehulon Baird Errickson Peter VanCleve John Davison James Vankirk John lCIev John Morlat Samuel Daniel Herbert James M'Duffee Hen Hend'k VanDerveer Henry Perine Richard Jeffrey Barzulla Baird Ephraim Buck Nehemiah Tilton George Casler John Aumack John Parent William Shelft Gilbert Shearney David Gordon (capt) Wil John M'Connill John Anderson Wil Koert VanSchoick —

~~THE MONMOUTH ASSOCIATORS.~~

The number of signers to this asso- "N. J. Gazette, March 5, 1783—Where- ciation is 436. as the time of the Committee of the It must have been an earnest and de- Associators of retaliations of the termined set of men who met that day County of Monmouth expires; and it in Monmouth Court House—Memories being necessary for a new one to be of the battle, recollections of wrongs, chosen, as there remains some business many and wicked, thronged their minds unsettled: The associators are request- and doubtless were recalled in conver- ed to meet at the Court house on 15th sation. The committee of nine were March, as well to determine on said duly appointed, and while we do not business and to be prepared for future read in the papers of the day, much or depredations. anything of their forceful retaliation, By order of the committee still they doubtless accomplished much Kenneth Hankinson, in the way of redressing wrongs and Feb. 18, 1783 Chairman. inspiring a healthy respect for the rough and ready justice of Monmouth Kenneth Hankinson, who signed the patriotism. The only other notice the foregoing, was a captain in Col. For- writer has found appears in the Now man's battalion, "Heard's Brigade," Jersey Gazette of March 5th, 1783, and June 16th, 1776, and also captain in the has a grim significance, which was First Regiment of Monmouth, 1717. His doubtless appreciated by the Tory sym- son, James Hankinson, was the father pathizers throughout the county. It of Governor William A. Newell's mother. is as follows: