The Vermilyea Family (Vermilya, Vermilye, Vermilyea, Vermilyer) DESCENDANTS of JOHANNAS VERMELJE
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THE VERMILYEA FAMILY (VERMILYA, VERMILYE, VERMILYEA, VERMILYER) DESCENDANTS OF JOHANNES VERMELJE NEW YORK 1662 - 2003 COMPILED BY SANDRA VERMILYEA TODD VERMILYEA GENEALOGY 1 FIRST GENERATION 1 Johannes Vermelje1, (Immigrant), born 1631/2 at Leyden, Holland, son of Isaac and Jacomina (Jacobs) Vermeille, married August 27, 1670 at New York City, New York Aeltie Waldron who was born in 1651, died at Yonkers, New York in 1734. He was one of the original Patentees of Manhattan Island. Source Codes #10, #175, #149 and #404. He died 1696 at Fordham, lived at Harlem until old; wrote his name Vermelje: brewer, Court Messenger, Magistrate; member Leislers Council and sentenced to death, but finally pardoned after 15 months in jail and an English court heard the evidence (they were really patriots); then apparently moved to Fordham, Westchester County, as his last 2 children Johannes and Johanan (John and Hannah) are not recorded as being baptized in the Dutch Church at New York, as all the others were; in fact the only record of them seems to be the 1698 census of Fordham which lists "widow Vermillion" with five children including those two. The others apparently married or working away from home; in 1690 was a witness on Louis Morris's will; married August 27, 1670 Aeltje Waldron; daughter of Resolved Waldron. Riker says he became rich in farms at Yonkers, but he never lived in Yonkers nor owned a farm. Johannes Vermilye's worth was recognized by an appointment to command a military company in 1663. Later he served two terms as Magistrate. His house occupied a spot nearly central of the block between First and Second Avenues and 122nd and 123rd Streets. He was born in 1632 at Leyden. Coming to New Amsterdam in ripe man hood and uniting in his character the sterling traits of the French and Dutch, he was made Court Messenger in 1665, and Constable in 1667, being for this year also farmer of the excise; previous to which he had set up a brewery. August 27, 1670, then holding the position of Magistrate, he married Aeltje, daughter of Resolved Waldron; when he probably built upon land procured some years before, but which is first taxed in 1671. Mr. Vermilye took a leading part both in civil and church affairs. In the Political Crisis of 1689, he was chosen one of the committee of Safety, which on June eight of that year appointed Captain Jacob Leisler to be "Captain of the Fort" and on August sixteenth, signed his commission as "Commander in Chief" of the province. Taking a seat in Leiser's Council Dec. 11th, ensuing, he was sent soon after upon a embassy to New Haven He continued a member of the Council till a sudden end was put to Leisler's rule by the coming of Col. Slaughter, March 20,1691, by whose orders Liesler and his council (Vermilye included) were "committed to the guards" on a charge of high treason. The execution of Leisler and Milbourne, but two months later, seemed to Vermilye and his fellow prisoners similar fate. But after a painful suspense of seventeen months they were liberated by Governor Fletcher, on his arrival, and were pardoned by the King Feb. 20, 1693. Vermilye surviving this trying ordeal but a short period, as he was deceased in March 1696, his widow sold out his lands at Harlem in 1715 to her nephew, John Delamater, and died at Yonkers in 1734. From Source Code #10 The Vermelje and Waldron Families were members of the Harlem Reformed Dutch Church (also known as the Harlem Collegiate Reformed Church). Both Johannes and Resolved (Aeltie’s father) served as Elders. In 1686, they were among the financial contributors and contract signers for construction of a stone church; referred to as the second church, a replacement for the first church, a plain rough, 2-storied, timbered structure built between 1665-1667. The corner-stones were set with considerable ceremony on March 29, 1668; the first stone being laid by Resolved Waldron and the second by Johannes Vermelje. The first service was held on September 30, 1686. During the Revolutionary War, the church was destroyed; the only surviving relic is its steeple bell, forged in Holland in 1734. See additional information on the history of the settlement of New Harlem and related articles in Source Code #374, Volume V, Number 2; Volume V, Number 1; Volume IV, Number 2; 2 FIRST GENERATION Volume III, Number 2; Volume II, Number 4 and Volume II, Number 2. Children: *2. Rebecca. *3. Sarah. *4. Rachel. 5. Abraham, born 1677, baptized December 19, 1677, died infant. *6. Abraham. *7. Isaac Corssen. 8. Maria, born in 1684 at Harlem, New York, baptized April 13, 1684, married Peter Kierse in 1704. Source Code #40. 9. Jacob, born November 24, 1686 at Harlem, New York, baptized November 24, 1686, died young. Source Code #40. *10. John/Johannes. *11. Hannah. VERMILYEA GENEALOGY 3 SECOND GENERATION 2 BUSSING Rebecca Vermilye2, (Johannes1) born 1671, baptized December 17, 1671, married June 7, 1700 Peter Bussing son of Arent Harmanse and Susannah (Delamater) Bussing,who was born in 167_ and died in 1737 at Yonkers, New York. Source Codes #10 and #363. They lived in Westchester County, New York until about 1781 when he moved to Harlem, New York after the death of his father. He was a large landowner and is mentioned in many land transactions in New Harlem. At his death he left his Harlem house and lands to his son Aaron. He also had acquired land in Fordham, for at his death he left to his sons Peter and Abraham each a farm at Fordham. His mother-in-law, Aeltie V., appointed him executor to her 1730 will, along with his brother-in-laws Isaac and Johannes. Children: I. Sarah, born 1702, married Elias Slater, had seven children. II. Aaron, born 1703, married Maria Meyer, died 1784. They had seven children. III. Nancy, born May 6, 1704, married May 29, 1724 Daniel Pierce who was born in 1702 at Albany, New York. Children: (1) Joseph; (2) Elizabeth; (3) Jerimiah; (4) James; (5) Emanuel; (6) Catherine; (7) Daniel; (8) Reuben; (9) Thomas; (10) Samuel; (11) Elisha. Source Code #239, posted by Barbara Leland. IV. John, born 1705, married Mary Bruyn, died 1732. They had three children. V. Alexander, born 1706, married Effie Weed. VI. Peter, born 1707, married Helen Benson, died 1782. They had four children. VII. Aeltie, born 1710, married Jacob Meyer, died1765. They had two children. VIII. Abraham, born 1714, died 1737. IX. Susannah, born 1716, married Benjamin Benson, had six children. 3 DOLSEN Sarah Vermilyea2, (Johannes1) born 1673, baptized October 4, 1673 at New Harlem, New York, married August 28, 1696 Teunis son of Jan Gerritsen and Garitje (Kray) Dolsen who was born September 5, 1664 at Harlem, New York August 30, 1766 at Dolsontown, Orange County New York. In some writings Teunis is referred to as Tuenis Van Dalsen, son of Jan Gerritson Van Dalsen of Warwick, New York. Source Codes #10, #62, #143 and #480. Teunis, son of Captain and Gerritee (Kray, also known as Grey) ) Dolson, who was born in 1664 in New Harlem is credited with being the first male child born after Manhattan was ceded to the English by the Dutch. (Note: This indicates he was born in September or October of 1664.) He married Sara Vermilye, daughter of Captain John Vermilye, in New Amsterdam (New York) in 1696 and later lived in Westchester County and advancing to different localities up the Hudson River, finally locating in and about Goshen, New York, where is established the town of Dolsontown. He resided here until his death, 30 August 1766, at the age of one hundred and two years. The Dolsons of Orange County, New York, are his descendants. Some of his children were baptized at Poughkeepsie and others at Fishkill. The first house at Dolsontown was a log house loopholed for musketry and this was followed by a stone house which was used as a fortification as well as the block house when the Indians were troublesome and during the French and Indian War of 1756. 4 5 SECOND GENERATION SECOND GENERATION Source Code #482, page 59. Children: I. Johannas, born 1697, married about 1729 Elizabeth Buys. Children: (1) Maria, born1731; (2) Johannis, born 1735; (3) Isaac, born 1739; (4) Abraham, born 1741; (5) Samuel, born 1744; (6) Peter; (7) Sally; (7) Betsey. II. Aeltie, born July 16, 1699. III. Jacob, born in 1700 in Westchester County, New York, married January 12 1733/ 34 at Fishkill, New York, Maria, daughter of Pieter Buys who was born before 1713 at Fishkill, New York, died in 1775 at Marlboro, Orange County, New York. Children: (1) Teunis II, born October 16, 1735 at Marlboro, Orange County, New York, married in 1751 Rachel Cuyper who was born in 1735 at Loonenburg, Athens County, New York. Children: (1) Catherine, born November 22, 1757 at Loonenburg (now Athens), Greene County, New York, married November 14, 1780 at Easton, Pennsylvania Henry, son of Henrich and Anna Marie (?) Bush who was born November 25, 1760 at Easton, Pennsylvania, died April 6, 1839 at Peruville, Tompkins County, New York. She died May 3, 1836 at Peruville. They did have children; (2) Johannes, born 15 May 1737; (3) Isaac, born 27 May 1739; (4) Aeltie, born 28 April 1745; (5) Jacob, died about 1775. IV. Abraham, born _________, married Marytje Slot. Children: (1) Jannetje, born 1739; (2) Margaret, born 1740; (3) Abraham, born 1741; (4) Aeltje, born 1743; (5) Marytje, born 1745. V. Isaac, born ___________, married Polly Hussey.