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96JCNHAL-CK3Y COL-L^CTIOS* ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01779 4493 GENEALOGY 974.7 N424NB 1893 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog24gree THE NEW YORK Genealogical and Biographical feCANTitE LiBRARX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. ISSUED QUARTERLY. VOLUME XXIV., 1893 F- fyM «)'S PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY, Berkeley Lyceum, No. 23 West 44.TH Street, NEW YORK CITY. R : •V 63b»71 Publication Committee Mr. THOMAS G. EVANS. Dr. SAMUEL S. FURPLE. Kev. BEVERLEY R. BETTS. Mr. EDWARD F. DE LANCE? Pres» of J. J. Little & Co.. Astor Place, New York INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Alricks, Peter, of the Amsterdam Colony. Geo. Hannah, 125. Baptisms, Reformed Dutch Church Records, N. Y. C, iS, 71, 117, 162. Baptism?, East Hampton, L. I., 183. Brookhaven. L'. I. Abstracts of Wills, SS, 142. Bucks County, Pa. Extracts from Wills, 81. Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church Records, iS, 71, 117, 162. Darling, Gen. Chas. W. Antoine L'Espenard, 97. Donations to Library, 4S. 96. Covers No. 3 and 4. Du Bois, Abram. Memoir, with Pedigree. S. S. Purple, M.D., 153. East Hampton, L. I. Baptisms, 133. Fairfax Families of America, 38. Fishkill Inscriptions, 26. Genealogy. Crommelin, 67. Genealogy, Quackenbos, 173. Genealogy, Schuerman, 132. Genealogy, Ver Planck, 59, 60. Hannah, Geo. Peter Alricks, 125. Hempstead. L. I. Marriages, 79. Huguenot Builders of New Jersey. J. C. Pumpelly, 49. Islip, L. I. Original Patent of Saghtekoos Manor, 146. In the days of 1S13. A letter from Marie Antoinette Nichols, 179. Kip, Harriet Bayard. Contributor ofletter to her grandmother, 179. L'Espenard, Antoine, and some of his Descendants, 97. Marriages. Baptisms, and Deaths. East Hampton, 1S3. Marriages from Suffolk Gazette, L. I., S6, 159. Marriages, St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., 79. Marriages, St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, 37. Matthes, Susanna. Van and Yon in Dutch Language, 170. Notes and Queries. —Double i in the Holland Language, 149, 194 : Houseal, 46 ; Smith-Jackson, ; Odell, ; Ogden, gi ; Morse Soc, 45 91 ; Schuermans, 45 Turner, 46 ; Starin Coat of Arms. 91 ; Steele-Barnard, 91 ; Ten Eyck, 91 : ; Vail, and South Salem, Kyker, Smith, 148 91 ; Yorktown 45 ; Hance, Wright, ; Harrison, 195 ; Johnson, 195 196, Notices of Books. — Starin Genealogy, 47; Admiral Farragut,47; Kissam Genealogy, 48; Salisbury ; Dutch Family Genealogies, 93 ; Swedish Holsteins in Am., 94 Old Church, Genealogy, ; Paterson, Rev.Blackleach Burritt, ; Planck 150 95 ; 95 Ver Hazelton Genealogy, 151; History and Ger.ea' gy of Ancient \\ indoor, 150; iv Index 0/ Subjects. Upham Genealogy, 151 ; Ganong Genealogy, 132 ; Regular ami Continental Army of the United State.-, 152 ; Gen. Jackson, 152 ; Wellington Genealogy, 152 ; Browned Genealogy, 152 ; Noyes Genealogy, 152 ; Roderick White and Lucy Blakeslee, 152 ; Banta Genealogy, iq3 ; Xorris Genealogy. 19S : Howes Genealogy. 199 ; Bulloch Genealogy, 19-1 ; Davis Genealogy, 199 ; Supplement to History of Windham. X. II., 190; Tomkins Genealogy, 199: Hunnewell and Wells Pedigrees. 200 ; Carmer Genealogy. 200 ; Weaver Genealogy, 200 ; Dinsmore Genealogy, 200 ; Avery Genealogy, 200 ; Gillet Genealogy, 200. Rt. I., Obituaries. —Carey, Henry A., 197 ; DeWitt, Jno. E., ico ; Kip, Rev. Wm. Patterson. 197; Lamb, Martha, 92 ; Learning. J. R., 92 ; Odell, Geo. M., 46 ; Gerrit II., D. Williams, 46 ; Thompson, Gardiner T., 93 ; Van Wagenen, 145 , White, Dr. Wm. T., 196. Paulding, Irving, Halleck, Cooper, Bryant, and associates. Gen. J. G. Wilson, I. Prisoners in Provost Jail, New York, 177S, S5. Proceedings of the Society, 44. 90, 147, 104. Pumpclly, J. C. Huguenot Builders of New Jersey, 49. Purple. Dr. Samuel S. Memoir of Dr. Dubois, with Pedigree, 153. Richards, Eliza F. Crommelin Family, 67. Van and Von. Some facts about Dutch names and titles, 170. Ver Planck, Wm. G. Ver Planck Family, 39, 60. Wills, Brookhaven. L. L, 33, 142. Wills, Bucks Co., Pa., Si. Wilson. Gen. J. Grant. Paulding, Irving, Halleck, et al, I. Wynkoop, Richard. Schuerman Family, 132. Wynkoop, Richard. Quackenbos Family, 173. — : ' : t ^K-W ^ L/'^&^t^o C ' lC ,_^^-'>./^'<V*',^w'^'" „ . '"-s* THE NEW YORK imcalogtcal ai& ^Biographical gecorir. Vol. XXIV. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1S93. No. r. PAULDING, IRVING, HALLECK, COOPER, BRYANT, AND OTHER NEW YORK AUTHORS. An Address Delivered before the New York Genealogical and Biographi- cal Society, Friday Evening, Nov. ii, 1S92. By General Wilson, President of the Society. With steel portraits of Paulding and Halleck. It has been the speaker's peculiar privilege to have enjoyed more " or less intimacy with the Old Guard" of American authors con- nected with what has been called the " Augustan Age of American Lit- erature," which existed in this city during the decade ending in 1840. All those who will be mentioned in this address have deserted the ranks of those De Quincey described as " the not inconsiderable class of men who have not the' advantage of being dead." Madame de Stael used to say that the highest happiness she had experienced was derived from her conversations and correspondence with great and gifted men. Your speaker is fully disposed to share this belief, and he life, that he has had deems it among the happiest circumstances of his the good fortune to enjoy the friendship of so many endnent literary men, described by Chaucer as " On Fame's eternall bead-roll worthie to be fyled." What has been occasionally designated as the " Knickerbocker Litera- ture " may be defined as the poetry and prose produced in New York during the first half of the nineteenth century by Bryant, Cooper, Drake, Halleck, Hoffman, Irving, Morns, Paulding, Poe, Verplanck, Willis, Woodworth, and others, as essayists, historians, novelists, and poets. Tr.e pioneers among Knickerbocker authors were the friends and literary partners, James K. Paulding and Washington Irving, who " Opinions were joint writers of Salmagundi ; or the Whim-whams and of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others," a work which appeared in fortnightly numbers from the Shakespeare Gallery of Longworth. It was continued through twenty parts. In " Salmagundi " the humors of the day are hit off in a collection of sunny and good-natured essays, and in so agreeable a manner that the work is still read with interest after the lapse of eighty-five years. The few poems which appear on its pages were written by William Irving, an elder brother of Washing- ton, and the brother-in-law of Faulding, whose sister he had married. " Cockloft Hall," which figures conspicuously in "Salmagundi," is a " 2 Paulding, Irving, Halleck, Cooper, and Bryant. [Jan., veritable mansion on the Passaic River, near Newark, and was so christ- ened by Irving. It is still in a good state of preservation. Nearly ninety years ago it was a favorite resort of its young owner, Gouver- neur Kemble, Paulding, the lrvings, Captain Porter, father of the admiral, Henry Brevoort, and other merry young blades who made the old mansion gay with their fun and frolic. Kemble, in a note to your " speaker, dated February 6, 1872, says : The old place near Newark, ' in New Jersey, christened Cockloft Hall ' by Mr. Irving, was called Mount Pleasant. The house was built by Nicholas Gouverneur, grand- son of Abraham Gouverneur, who married the daughter of Governor Jacob Leisler. Among the first to make a creditable appearance in the field of American literature was James Kirke Paulding (1779-1860). He was also the first of our writers who could be put forth as successfully refuting those critics—chiefly English —who claimed that there was no nationality in our literature. Nationality is the prominent characteristic of all his writings, which appeared almost continuously during a period of nearly sixty years, commencing with " Salmagundi," in 1807, and concluding with a volume of American comedies. The author of " The " " " Dutchman's Fireside and Westward Ho ! found inspiration at home for his earlier works— when neither American scenes nor American society were supposed to furnish attractive materials — as he continued to do throughout his long career of authorship. Paulding was a man of great intellectual robustness ; strong in his convictions, and inexor- able in his prejudices ; with great clearness of perception, but little inclination to the ideal ; a hearty hater, and a devoted friend ; rejoicing in sarcasm, though free from malignity, both in his books and conver- sation ; never yielding to the illusion oi fancy or feeling, and express- ing himself in language more remarkable for its grave irony and brusque vigor than for its amenity or elegance. No man ever stood up more stoutly or manfully in defence of that " Mother of a mighty race," when assailed from abroad, than did James K. Paulding ; nor did any author born on American soil ever entertain greater contempt for for- eign example or criticism. Between Paulding and his contemporary, Cooper, there were many " strong points of resemblance ; between the author of The Back- woodsman," and his life-long friend and literary partner, Irving, none at all. In addition to his numerous novels and an exceedingly popular Life of Washington, Paulding was the writer of the now forgotten verse " " referred to in Fanny : " 'Twas a dull. Good honest man—what Paulding's muse would call A 'Cabbage head,'" and by another New York bard, who in a couplet, thus elegantly and judiciously determines the relative merits of Homer and Paulding as poets : " Homer was well enough ; but would he ever Have written, think ye, 'The Backwoodsman ? ' Never!" 1S93.] Paulding, Irving, Halleck, Cooper, and Bryant. n No doubt, during his lcng career Paulding " Gave up to party what was meant for mankind," by devoting much of his time and strength to political controversy and to writing anonymous articles and editorials on miscellaneous subjects for the newspapers.