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s ^ O N .0 o **. >v5 / ^ ^ ,V ^> 3t * -V l> AN o 0" tP <> V* *£• •>• .** , ,0o. % ^ , '' /-•e. Digitized by the Internet Archive v*- in 2008 with funding from The Library of Congress tp V <S -Ki <£' > \\ ^ '* V* r£- /- * ^ * * A* *v. y o o x ^/ © http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog19newy 7 \ ^o ^ ^ 4 * ^ r -^- ' \ > j ^ <* v W O X ^ ^. ».,. > '. c ^-. ^ V ,\ ^ \v %4 *> o V' THE NEW YORK Genealogical and Biographical DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. ISSUED QUARTERLY. VOLUME XIX., 1888 PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY, Berkeley Lyceum, No. 19 West 44TH Street, NEW YORK CITY. 4123 PUBLICATION COMMITTEE: Rev. BEVERLEY R. BETTS, Chairman. Dr. SAMUEL S. PURPLE. Gen. JAS. GRANT WILSON, ex-officio. Mr. THOMAS G. EVANS. Mr. EDWARD F. DkLANCEY. Press of J. J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Alexander. Mary, Will of, 27. Arms of New York, 1, 160. Beekman Family, 41. Beekman, Tjerck. A Mess Account kept at Valley Forge from 177S to 1780, 126, 173. Betts, B. R-, Notes on the Arms of New York, 1. Betts, B. R. The Berghs of New York, 122. Betts of Guilford, Conn., 164. Columbus, Sg. De Lancey, Edward, F., 21. Earliest Trinity Church Marriages, 147. Eaton, Arthur H. W. William Thome and his Descendants, 153. Evans Thomas G. The Schoonmaker Family of Ulster Co., N. Y., 23. Gallaudet Family, 1 18. Gibson, James, R., Jr. Some Records of the Beekman Family, 41. Hall, William. Jouet of New Jersey, 151. Hayden, H. R. The Oliver Family, 137. Howell, George R. The Arms of New York, 160. Jamaica, N. Y. Parish Register, 153. Johnson, William Alhn. The Johnsons of New York, 67, Jouet of New Jersey, 151. Lyons. James, 150. Mess Account of Tjerck Beekman, 126, 173. of York. : Clark. 170 ; Notes and Queries. —America Heraldica, 131 ; Arms New 175 Letters of Mr. Lincoln, Curio, 131 ; Cutts Genealogy, 36; Grovesteen, 174; - Historical Society, ; 36 ; Mr. Poyer 's Regis. er, 37 ; North Carolina 132 Salter, trait of Columbus, 132; Rietstap's Armorial, 131 ; Rogers, 37; 132; Van Gaasbeck, 174; Willelt, 174. Cyclopaedia of American Biog- Notes on Books. —American Ancestry, i3i ; Appletons' Families, Barn- raphy, 39, 181 ; Athenae Oxonienses. 135 ; Barnstable 182; stable Patriots, 136; Carteret and Bryant Genealogy, 182 ; Conant Family by Genealogical Collections, 130 ; Let- F. E. Conant, 135 ; King's County Club of Cutler, ters from the Far East by De Lancey Floyd-Jones, 39 ; Life Manasseh Brook- 36; Maine Wills, 1640 to 1760, 135; Mesick Genealogy, 1S0 ; North Cleanings. 86 ; Portsmouth field, Mass., by J. H. Temple, 134 ; Notes and Family, Records, 136: Rodman Family by C. H. Jones, 134 ; Sharpless 183 ; Society of the Army of the Tennessee, 136; Society of the Cincinnati, by John Callendar by E. B. Living- Schuyler, 134 ; The Curio, 39 ; the Livingston's of ston, 39, 180; Tristram Dodge, 182; Western Antiquary, 1S1. Obituaries. —Agnew, 179; Bogart, 178; Duer, 133; Elmendorf, 132; Fredenburgh, ;*Morris, ; Perkins, 178. 17S : Homes, 3S ; Kissam, 133 ; Le Roy, 177 179 Oliver Family, 137. Index Subjects. J v of Poyer, Thomas. The Register Book of Jamaica, N. Y., 1710-1735, 1, 53. Proceedings of the Society. 86, 132. Records of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches in the City of New York. Births and Baptisms, 59. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church ill the City of New York. Baptisms, 13, 77. j no, 165. Schoonmaker Family, 22. Stiles, Henry R., 64'. St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, Weddings at, 103. Ten Broeck Family, 69. Thorne, William and his Descendants, 153. Van Gaasbeck, Cornelius H. The Ten Broeck Family, of Ulster County, N. Y., 69. Weddings at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, from 1606 to 1625, 103. Will of Mary Alexander, 27. Willett, Marinus, 76. Wilson, James Grant. Columbus, 89. ^^v^cvW ^ ^^^x^ejt>v^7 ARMS STATE OF NEW YORK_ 1778 . FAC SIMILE OF A m;W YORK REGIMENTAL FLAG OF 1778. THE NEW YORK genealogical ana §iograp|icaI ^temfo. Vol. XIX. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1888. No. .1. NOTES ON THE ARMS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. By the Rev. Beverley R. Betts. A carefully written account of the arms of the State of New York, and of the unfortunate manner in which they have been tampered with and tinkered, was given in the Record for October, 1885. An attempt to controvert this was made by Mr. Homes,* the State Librarian, and the real parent of the abortion which has been substituted for the true arms, respecting which it is only necessary to say that it was for the most part its refutation with it for its irrelevant ; and in point of fact it carries ; writer acknowledges, in the most charmingly ingenuous manner, that "the new commission was informed up to the last moment of all the ob- jections made by the author of the October article." Of course people will be disposed to say, if this were so, if the commissioners really had the benefit of the advice of a competent person, why upon earth did they not act upon it instead of following their own crude and uninstructed fancies ? It may be as well, however, to complete and illustrate the former paper by adding certain notes which will go a little more into detail. It can do no harm to let the people of the State of New York know the mischief that has been done and the loss that they have sustained in being deprived of their hereditary insignia. There are in existence two early paintings of the armorial insignia of the State of New York, which are complete, with arms, crest, supporters and motto, and which give the tinctures. The first is the now celebrated earliest device painting in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, which gives the ; "Per iess. the sky and the sea, the sun rising, all proper." All other drawings give mountains in fess. It is not known when this picture was painted, nor is it known how or why the mountains were added. They were certainly in the arms early in 1778. The second painting is the flag of the Third New York Regiment, commonly called Mrs. Lansing's flag, which was made between 1778 and 1781. A complete and careful blazon of the arms in St. Paul's Chapel was given in the Record, Vol. III., p. 119. The following is the blazon of those in Mrs. Lansing's flag. It * Since this paper was put in type, we have heard with regret of the death of our esteemed and worthy friend, Mr. Homes. —Ed. 2 Notes on the Arms of the State of New Fork. [Jan., was made from the copy of that flag made by Miss Annie Wrightson, which, by the courtesy of Mr. Homes, was given to Columbia College, and which is now in its library. " Per fess the sky in chief and the sea in ; all three mountains in fess, the middle one base ; the sun rising over throughout, all proper. Crest on a wreath argent and azure : On a demi-monde argent, the meridians sable, an eagle rising proper. Sup- porters : Dexter, Liberty, a female figure proper, vested or ; a mantle gules depending behind her secured by a ribbon passing over her breast to her dexter armpit azure, sandalled of the third, holding in her dexter hand her staff leaning against her shoulder and rising above it sable, ensigned with a liberty cap gold ; her sinister foot resting on a royal crown over- turned of die last decorated with pearls proper and turned-up crimson. Sinister, a female figure of Justice proper, bound about the eyes argent, vested or, mantled as Liberty gules, with a like ribbon azure, sandalled of the fourth, in her dexter hand her drawn sword erect, resting against her shoulder proper, in her sinister hand, the arm embowed outward, her scales, the beam sable, the strings and scales gold. Motto. On a scroll argent the word 'Excelsior' sable." That this is a complete and perfect painting of the true arms is clear, not only from the internal evidence furnished by its heraldic accuracy, but from the fact that all engravings, coins and seals made between 1778 and 1SS1 agree with it. There may be in some of them trifling variations in the drawing of the crest and sup- porters and in the number of the mountains, but there is nothing which the merest tyro cannot correct. The oldest known engraving of the arms of New York is the Mischianza ticket, dated May 18, 1778. This contains the sky, the sea, the sun and the mountains. The existence of this was not known to the commission- ers nor to Mr. Homes. If it had been it would have upset their argu- ment, for it is a month older than their imaginary "earliest specimen." One of these tickets is in the possession of Mr. de Lancey. The second engraving in point of age was made in the year 17S7. In the Columbian Magazine for that year, vol. I., p. 715, a copy of which is in the Library of the New York Historical Society, are an engraving and an incomplete and indeed inaccurate blazon of the " Armoiial Bearings of the State of New York." The blazon is as follows : "Argent a sun rising on a hilly countiy proper. Crest, an eagle soaring from a globe proper. Supported on the dexter side by liberty and on the sinister by Justice. Motto. Excelsior." The shield contains the sky, the sea, the sun and five mount- ains, two next to the field and three in fess throughout. The drawing and engraving are well and boldly done.