ISAAC KOOL (COOL Or COLE)

r-E" cA* csii a.k^ i^a t 3^ ISAAC KOOL (COOL or COLE) CATHARINE SERVEN, MARRIED OCT. 15, 1764, AT (then Tappan^ Rockland pan of orange) Co.^ N . Y. THEIR DESCENDANTS COMPLETE TO MAY I, 1876. ALSO THEIR AMERICAN ANCESTORS FROM THE SETTLEMENT OK NEW YORK CITY. COMPILED FOR THE FAMILY REV. DAVID COLE, D.D., (Pastor the of Reformed Church of Yonkers, N. Y. ,) ONE OF THEIR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. -*• f NEW YORK: L JOHN F. TROW & SON, PRINTERS. 1876. *^^^(^^(C^%^^^ X^^t^/^^^n^^ >^ c?c^^^^ ISAAC KOOL (COOL or COLE) AND CATHARINE SERVEN, MARRIED OCT. 15, 1764, AT Tappan^ Rockland (then part of orange) Co., N'. 1. THEIR DESCENDANTS COMPLETE TO MAY I, 1876. ALSO THEIR AMERICAN ANCESTORS FKOM THE SETTLEMENT OK NEW YORK CITY. COMPILED FOR THE FAMILY BY REV. DAVID COLE, D.D., (Pastor of the Reformed Church of Yonkers, N. }'.J ONE OF THEIK GKEAT-GRANDCHILDREN. NEW YORK: JOHN F. TROW & SON, PRINTERS. 1876. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S76, By Rev. DAVID COLE, In ;he Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. ^i/(: ; 1^ GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. Introductory Statement to the Family. Remarks on Holland Names. York City) from Chronicles of Holland from 1579 to 1621 ; of New Amsterdam (now New 1609 to 1674; and of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America from 1619 to 1700. Isaac Cole and Catharine Serven. PART I. —Their American Ancestors from the settlement of New Amsterdam, compris- ing one Holland-born and three American-born generations. This part also contains a beginning of the genealogy of the Holland Meyer family in America (continued in Part III). PART II. —Themselves, forming the fourth, and their immediate children—fifteen in number—forming the fifth American-born generation. This part also contains the genealogy of the Serven family in America. PART III. —Genealogies of the families of Wood, Shatzel, Blauvelt, Van Houten, Forshee, Meyer (continued from Part I), Palmer, Bogert, WyckofF, and Van Deventer, which have interlocked with the Cole family in marriage. Also personal sketches of the husbands and wives of those of Isaac Cole and Catharine Serven's children who married. PART IV. —Descendants of Isaac Cole and Catharine Serven complete to 1S76, with dates of birth, baptism, marriage, profession of religion, and death, as far as they could be procured; also occupations, war record, etc., etc. Tabular Summary of the Generations. List of Post-oftice addresses of the living brought into view in this work—showing State, County and Ofhce in full in every case. Index of Names to be found in the entire record. PORTRAITS. of I hoped to find for this work a portrait of each of the fifteen children Mr. and Mrs. Cole, and of each of the husbands and wives brought into the family by marriage with these children. Unfortunately, however, seven of the children, like the parents, had passed away without leaving these precious memorials. Yet eight portraits of the children have been found, viz., those of Bridget, Anna, David, Isaac, Margaret, Philip, Catharine, and Sarah, and four of the husbands, viz., those of Daniel H. Blauvelt, Jonathan Palmer, Benjamin Wood, and Henry G. Bogert. These have been cheerfully contri- buted for the work, and they serve greatly to enrich it. To them have also been added, at my solicitation, several portraits of the living, from various branches of the family. I had hoped to increase the number of these, but have not been able to do so, owing in part to the cost of the portraits, and in part to the reluctance which some manifest to personal appearance in the book. I take pleasure in saying, that the portraits, after having been first brought out by the usual step of photographing, were prepared and printed for this book by what is called the Albert-type process, invented by Joseph Albert of Munich in 1868, and introduced into this country in 1870, by Mr. Edward Bierstadt, of 58 and 60 Reade Street, New York. : INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT TO THE FAMILY. far I have often been asked why I undertook this work. When it was in it. advanced I found that some had been suspecting me of selfish motives There are traditions in the family that an estate in Holland, long ago grown to immense proportions, is waiting for us. Perhaps it is not surprising that, in our time, when so many interested persons are seeking to lash the descendants of early settlers to fever-heat on the subject of supposed estates awaiting claimants in the fatherland, one studying his family lines should be suspected of having an eye to pecuniary results. I have only to say that, small- often as I have heard of the traditions spoken of, I have never felt the est interest in or concern about them. My only motive to what has been an exceedingly laborious, but ever a growingly delightful work (the fruits of Avhich I have now the very great pleasure of submitting to all the living whose names are herein registered), has been pure love of my family, be- give cause I am theirs and they are mine. The following statement will interesting information to all who are concerned Isaac Kool and Catharine Serven had fifteen children. The mother her memory is a lived till I was nearly ten years old. I knew her well, and a spell upon me yet. Three of her children died before I was born, and fourth when I was about three years old. The other eleven I have personally seen. One of them died when I was thirteen, and all the rest lived till of a little I was more than twenty-five years of age. In August, 1852, as one pur- party of relatives, I travelled through the State of New York for the pose, in part, of visiting five of them, at that time still living at advanced included age in the counties of Fulton, Steuben (that part of it which is now the first in Schuyler) and Genesee. It was in that year, when standing for in Broadalbin, time at the side of my great-grandfather Isaac Cole's grave family Fulton Co., that I originally conceived the thought of compiling this for record. The difficulties of the undertaking, however, proved so great as living a long time to baffle my effort. The aged members of the family then had not taken pains to preserve far back lines. The present living family is scattered through most of the Northern and some of the Southern States of our Union, and even Canada besides (See list of post-offices at the close of almost equally the book). It seemed almost impossible to trace the past, and 6 Introductory Statement. impossible to get at the present. Yet as years rolled on, and I kept my pur- pose ever in view, facts accumulated upon my note-book, and clews presented themselves which more and more encouraged me to go on. My own personal memories and knowledge of large numbers, both of the dead and of the living, were very extensive. When I had been for twenty years gathering data as I best could, in 1872 I took up the work with the energy of strong hope, and from that time (as leisure would allow amid laborious professional responsibilities v^^hich have never been slighted) I have given a lai'ge amount of toil to it, studying the Holland language, reading documents (private and public, written and printed) bearing upon the history of New Amsterdam, examining records of Avills and deeds, searching church and family records, and carrying on letter correspondence in ever}^ direction. For the American ancestry of Isaac Cole and Catharine Serven I am indebted to various volumes (prepared and published under both public and private auspices) relating to New Amsterdam, now New York City, and also to the baptism, marriage, and member records of the now ancient Reformed Churches of New York (Collegiate), Kingston, Hackensack, Tappan, and Schraalenburg. The records of Tappan (both of the regular congregation from 1694 to 18 16, and of an irregular congregation in existence from 1767 to 1778 only) I have with my own hand, at great labor, transcribed into readable English? and indexed. Those of Kingston and Hackensack I have personally ex- amined with the most careful scrutiny. For what I have from the records of Schraalenburg I am indebted in part to James W. Quackenbush, Esq., of pastor Hackensack, N. J., and in part to the Rev. G. A. Haring, present of the church. The records of the New York Collegiate Church had been printed in the successive volumes of Valentine's " Manual of the Common Council of New York" —those of marriages in the volume for 1862, and those of baptisms in the volumes for 1863 and 1864. They are now undergoing publication in a much fuller and better form in the " New York Genealogical and Biographical Record." All these resources I had for pursuing the ancestry of Isaac Cole and Catharine Serven, and for bringing the line down to include themselves. In following the family down from this pair, through their fifteen children (thirteen only of them left descendants), I further transcribed and indexed the church records of Clarkstown from 1749 to 1795, and thoroughly searched those of Kakiat (now "West New Hempstead"), Franklin Street, New York City (known as the Nordi West Reformed Church), and Broadalbin (now Presbyterian). I was able also in many cases to find Family Bibles with Family Registers. Some of these even contained a few dates of previous generations.

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