New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 22
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog22gree ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01779 4378 GENEALOGY 974.7 N424NB 1891 THE NEW YORK Genealogical and Biographical T DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. ISSUED QUARTERLY. VOLUME XXII., 1S91. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. Berkeley Lyceum, No. 23 West 44TH Street, NEW YORK CITY. R INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Additions to the Library, 62. 1 13. 162. Archibald Thomson and Jacoba Schuurman, by Richard Wynkoop, 66, 132. Augustine Herrman, I. Griffin Southold, L. I., 191. Cleveland. Edmund J. Jasper of Count of Paris 100. Grossman Family, 77. De Witt Family, 3. Dexter Family, 6. his American Ancestry, n;.\ Dix, Morgan.' Mr. f. J. Astor and Early Explorations of the North American Coast, 163. E.ti.011, A. 11. W. Stephen Thorne, the Loyalist, 174. Evans, Thomas G. The De Witt Family, 3. James De Peyster Ogden, 150. [asper Griffin, 191. John Jacob Astor, 115. John Jordan Latting, 102. Le Moine, T. M. Gen. Richard Montgomery, 65. Crossman Family, Latting, J. J., and W. N. Howard. The 77. Letters of George Washington, 149. Mahlon Dickerson, 21. Members of the Society, 63. Montgomery, Gen. Richard, 65. New Jersey's Revolutionary Flotilla Men. S9. Alexander Hamilton. ; Ancient Chair. Notes and Queries. — Albany Records, 155 ; 57 Centena- 56 ;• Augustine Herrman, 57; Baird, 106; Bishop Provoost, 207; rians, 56, 105, 159; Columbus Statue, 56; Dutch Titles. J05, 159; Du Val!, Genealogical Irqui- Letters. ; Fitz-Greene Halleck, 20S ; 105 ; Fillmore 105 Price, 20S : Judge Paterson, Kter- ries, ; George Bancroft, John 57; 207 105 ; Burial Ground. stede. 106; Memorial History of" New York, 159, 207 ; Old of the Society. 20S ; Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution, 156 ; Proceedings Families, ; Thomson and Schuur- 104, 155 ; Queries— Bleecker and other 156 Van der Voort, 157. man Families, 157 ; University of Groenigen, 156: Bartows :n Notes on Books. —Adam and Anne Mott, by Thomas C. Cornell, 112 ; of Industry, by James Parton. England, by Evelyn P. Bartow, 62 ; Captains Eliot's 112 ; Cosmopolitan, 61 ; Dows or Dowse Family, by A. M. Dows, 61 ; Indian Bible, 59; Epochs of American History, by R. G. Thwaites, 113; by Family of Bispfiam, by William Bispham, 162 ; Francis Champernowne, Blaydes, ; Gen. C. W. Tuttle, 60 ; Genealogica Bedfordiensa, by F. A. 59 His- Hartford, Conn., by Goodwin, ill ; Washington, 57 ; Goodwins of J. J. Journal of tory of the American Episcopal Church, by S. D. McConnell, 60 ; Mon- Sarah Howland, 112; Livingstons of Callendar, by E. B. Livingston. 61 ; Millennial Cele- umental Inscriptions of St. Mary's, Lewisham, 162 ; Quarter Raymond^ 61 ; bration of Taunton, Mass.. 61 ; Raymond Family, by Samuel Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. , iv Index of Subjects. edited by S. S. Purple. 60 ; Registers of the Dutch Church of Kingston, N. V. no; Richard Henry Dana, by Charles Francis Adams, 60; Scotch-Irish in of America, 112 ; Seton Pr.rbroath, in ; Torrey Family, by D. Torrey, 161 ; Van Benschoten, 57 ; Vital Records of Rhode Island, 113 ; Wilton Registers, transcribed by J. If. Spencer, Or. Obituaries. — Fisk, roS : King. 160 ; Patting. Lazarus, 57, 57 ; no ; Sewell, 58 ; Thompson, no; Wemple. 209; Wiley, no. Pumpelly, losiah C. Mahlon TJickerson, 21. V. Pruyn, J. L. The Pruyn Family, 13. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York. Baptisms, 7, Si, 141. 1S3. Records of the S. P. G. Extracts from, by R. R. Hoes, 115. Stephen Thome, the Loyalist, 174. Thompson, Frederick D. The Thompson Family of Suffolk County, N. Y., 33 Van Wagenen, Gerrit II. The Van Wagenen Family, 151. Voorhees, Philip R. New Jersey's Revolutionary Flotilla Men, 89. Webster, Daniel, A Buckeye Cane, 51. Weddings at St, Mary's, Whitechapel, London, 52, 75, 204. THE NEW YORK (ienealffmcal Hittr IMogrnufjiral Hecorir. Voi. XXII. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1891. No. 1. AUGUSTINE HERRMAN. Augi'stive Herrman was born in Prague in or about the year 1605. He was the son of Augustine Ephraim Herrman, an honored citizen, a merchant in the Kohlmarket, and his wife Beatrice, a daughter of the patrician family of Redal. Little is known of their earlier history. The elder Herrman, a Protestant, involved himself in political complica- tions which led to his outlawrv in 161S. His further history is unknown, but his wife and son were living in Amsterdam in 1648. Augustine Herrman appears to have enjoyed an excellent education. He was a Latin scholar and was well versed in literature. He spoke the languages of Germanv. France, Spain. Holland and F.ng'and. He was skilled also in drawing, mathematics and geometry. He appears to have been a youth of energy and enterprise. At an early age he entered the service of the Dutch West India Company. In the course oi his duties, he visited Corsica, Sardinia and the Antilles. Herrman mentions in a letter to Governor Stuyvesant, in 1654. that he had begun the trade in tobacco in Virginia in 1629. From this trade the Dutch West India Company de- rived great benefit, which, indeed, it appears to have acknowledged in the same year by something very like a modern vote of thanks. About 1633 Herrman appears to have been in high favor with Van Twiller, the gover- nor, or director, of New Netherlands, and to have accompanied, in some official capacity, the expedition sent by Van Twiller to the South or Dela- ware River, under the command of Arent Corssen. For the next ten years his life is involved in much obscurity ; though, from what can be learned from tradition, it appears to have been active. It is believed that he visited Brazil and Surinam, and returned for a short time to Holland. The first positive information, however, about his movements is of his arrival in New Amsterdam from Curacoa, in 1643, in the ship Maechtvan Enckhuyen, under the command of Captain Laurens Corneli^sen. There he established himself as agent for the great Amsterdam firm of Peter Gabry &. Co. His place of business was next door to the factory of the West India Company. He built up a large and miscellaneous trade in groceries, ship's stores, furs, cotton, tobacco and even slaves. In Virginia his brother-in-law George Hack was his agent and correspond- ent. His sister Anna Hack at one time sent him the somewhat incon- gruous consignment of some boards, a horse and a negro. Herrman also acted as a banker, and occasionally as a lawyer. His efforts in the latter capacity, however, do not appear to have been crowned with much success, for his two clients both lost their suits. He was, nevertheless, a man of great energy and ability, and left no honorable means untried 1 2 Augustine Herrman. [Jan., to earn a livelihood. He made large purchases of land, among others about 30,000 acres at what is now South Amboy, and an extensive tract in New Jersey opposite Staten Island. In 1650 he planted indigo in his Bowery, or country place, on Manhattan Island, and sent some of the crop 10 Hpllaud, where it was highly approved. He acted also as agent for in the others the purchase of land. At about same time ( 1 65 1 ) he bought land between the Raritan and Passaic Rivers for Adrian Van Werkhausen. a patrician of Amsterdam, who proposed founding a colony there. Soon afterward he bought, together with Adrian Vanderdonk, the Yonkers on the Hudson River. Certain maps printed in 1650 bv Nicholas Jan Visscher were made by Herrman ; and the first drawing of New Amsterdam, which is also his work, is found in the book which con- tains the maps.* It is not necessary to enter into the controversies between the successive Dutch governors and the colonists further than to say, that, while the former were attempting to make their authority absolute, the latter in- sisted upon the great principles of representation and of taxation through their representatives. Herrman, who was one of the Council of Nine, + appears to have set his face against the arbitrary acts of Stuy- vesant, for which he, together with Vanderdonk, was imprisoned. They were, however, soon released, and thenceforward became the leaders of the popular party. After the death of Vanderdonk in 1653, Herrman appears 10 have sulTered very harsh treatment at the hands oi Stuvvesant. His business was broken up, his houses and lands were seized, and he was forced to withdraw from the colony. This persecution, however, if it were such, does not appear to have been of iong duration, for in the same year, 1653, ne appears to have returned, to have satisfied his creditors, and to have settled his affairs. The disputes between the governor and the people, however, were by no means at an end ; and Herrman, who was the champion of the colonists, seems to have enjoyed their unbounded confidence. He was a man of resolution, of energy, of observation and experience. His eloquence gained the attention of the people, and his abilities commanded their respect. Although no friend of Stuvvesant, he appears to have been treated with respect and confidence by the Director, for he was one of the commissioners who were sent by him to New England and Virginia in 1653 and 1654 to settle the relations between the New Netherlands and the English colonies. Herrman returned to New- Amsterdam in the early part of the latteryear, and resumed his business, which he carried on with great success, and soon became one of the richest men in the colony. In January, 1659, Herrman, who had always been fond of travelling, undertook a long voyage to Curacoa, Martinique, St.