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(first) Priscilla Bennett, (second) Miriam Searles. 3. Joseph, born probably about 1633 ; in May, 1675, married Margaret Sutton, died May 1675. 4. Hannah, born April 3, 1640; married her cousin Joseph Carpenter of Provi- dence, Rhode Island. 5. Abiah, born April 9, 1643. 6. Abigail, twin with Abiah, married John Titus, Jr. 7. Samuel, born probably 1644 ; died 1682 ; married Sarah Readaway.
(IV) John, son of William (3) and Abigail Carpenter, was born about 1628, and died May 23, 1695. He came from England with his father, and when young went to Connecticut, and was there previous to 1746, when he must have been about seventeen years old. For several years he travelled about in Connecticut working at the carpenter trade. In 1660 he bought land at Hempstead, Long Island. He is mentioned in his father's will as is also his son. In May, 1664, he was made freeinan of Connecticut, and in 1663 was chosen towns- man of Hempstead. He was generally known as Captain John Carpenter, in virtue of his office as commander of the Jamaica fusileers, which in 1673 was ordered to defend Fort James, New York, against the fleet of the Prince of Orange. John Carpenter was one of the patentees of the town of Jamaica, Long Island, under the Dongan patent of 1680, with Nehemiah Smith. He was one of the com- mittee to settle the Rev. John Pruden over the church of Jamaica in 1676. His will, Novem- ber 10, 1694 begins "I, John Carpenter now ancient crazy in body and sound of mind." He leaves his carpenter's tools to his sons. He was a man of superior judgment, who did much to assist in the building up of the com- munity. By his wife who was probably Han- nah Hope, he had seven children: I. John, who is referred to below. 2. Hope, whose will was proved March 23, 1712, whose wife's name was Mary, and who was commissioned ensign January 10, 1690, and with his brother Samuel was captain of militia in 1700. 3. William, born about 1662, died February 2, or 21, 1748 or 1749; married (first) probably Sarah -; (second) Elizabeth 4. Samuel, born about 1666. 5. Solomon, born about 1670. 6. Ruth, married a Ludlam. 7. A daughter. name unknown, who married a Rhodes.
(V) John (2). son of John (I) and Han- nah Hope Carpenter, was born in Connecticut, about 1658. His will was proved July 30, 1732. His residence was Jamaica, Long Island. After November 22, 1703, he took the oath as captain of troops at Jamaica. He. was
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assessed in 1683 at £78. His wife's name was Mary. Children: 1. Nehemiah, born about 1685, died April 25, 1821 ; married Elizabeth 2. John, is referred to below. 3. Solomon, born about 1686, died 1772. 4. Jo- seph, born about 1687; married probably Phebe, daughter of Wait Smith. 5. Increase, born about 1688, died about 1776; married a Bergin. 6. Mary. 7. Hannah. 8. Susanna. 9. Phebe.
(VI) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary Carpenter, was born about 1685. He was called "John the Sheriff," to distinguish him from other Carpenters bearing his own name. The title was given him because he served as sheriff of Orange county, New York. At one time he declined. His wife married for her second husband, Mr. Thurston. Shortly after his marriage he removed from Long Island to Goshen, New York, where he died. By his wife Ruth Coe he had nine children : I. Ruth, born about 1720; married (first) Ephraim Marston; (second) Peter Stagg. 2. Daniel, born about 1720, died March 10, 1790; married Susan Thompson. 3. Increase. 4. Isaac, married (first) Susanna (Horton) Little : (second ) Susanna (McKinney) Thomp- son. 5. Temperance, married Jeremiah Curtis. 6. John, referred to below. 7. Benjamin, born about 1750, died 1811 ; married Eunice, sister to J. Stewart. 8. Moses. 9. Susanna, died March 17, 1790 ; married a Howell.
(VII) John (4), son of John (3) and Ruth ( Coe) Carpenter, born June 3, 1730 (or Feb- ruary, 1745, according to another account), died February, 1800. He is said to have repre- sented Orange county in the colonial assembly in 1778, also at one time to have been a judge of the same county. He is sometimes called "John the Distiller." He moved to Washing- ton town, north of Albany, New York, and went into the distillery business, which in those days was considered highly honorable, and accumulated much property. He was a man of knowledge, held many important offices, and was at one time a member of the assembly of New York. He was a successful and prominent business man. January 31, 1779. he married Abigail, born August 29, 1758, died April 21, 1841, daughter of Benjamin and Louise ( Cory) Moore, who survived her husband and after his death married Hezekiah N. Woodruff. This was his second marriage. His first wife, name supposed to have been Frances, bore him three children. The remaining nine were the issue of the second marriage. These children were : I. Margaret, born April 30. 1773. 2. Elinor,
born October 27, 1775. 3. James, baptized September 21, 1777. 4. Cynthia, born May 23, 1782; married Philip C. Schuyler. 5. John Coe, referred to below. 6. Abigail, born Au- gust 21, 1787; married John Sherwood. 7. Susan, born 1795, married Truman Hart. 8. Benjamin, born April 4, 1783, married Char- lotte B. Alden. 9. Mary, born July 28, 1789, married John C. Wynans. 10. Temperance, born June 25, 1791 ; died August 2, 1831 ; mar- ried Sands Higinbothan. Ir. Isaac, born Sep- tember 19, 1793; married (first) Cynthia Sa- mantha Goodwin; (second) Emeline Wood- ward. 12. Elizabeth, born July 19, 1798; mar- ried a Leonard.
(VIII) John Coe, son of John and Abigail (Moore) Carpenter, was born May 4, 1784. He lived at first at Windham, Green county, New York, and later in Fayettesville or Man- lius, Onondaga county, New York. By his first wife - Mead, he had three children. In 1807 he married (second) Hannah Bab- cock, of Coventry, Connecticut, who bore him one more child. Children: 1. John, referred to below. 2. Eliza, born January 1, 1801, mar- ried Asahel Peck. 3. Cynthia, born September 21, 1803, married a Kenney. 4. Sands Coe, born about 1815, married Mary Clark.
(IX) John, eldest child of John Coe Car- penter by his first wife, was born at Windham, Green county, New York, December 13, 1805, died in Woodbury, New Jersey, July 21, 1891. He took to the printing trade while yet a boy, securing an apprenticeship in the office of the Herkimer Herald. He became its acting editor during his apprenticeship, and at the age of nineteen, differing with the opinion of the editor as to the presidential candidates, he bought the balance of his apprenticeship and the paper with it, and transferred his support from Adams to Jackson. The people of Herki- mer county in the election of 1824 sustained the cause of the new editor. In 1826 Mr. Carpenter was induced to remove to Oswego, New York, where he helped to establish the Oswego Palladium, which is yet prosperous and influential and one of the oldest Demo- cratic papers in New York state. The greater part of John Carpenter's younger life was spent in Oswego, which he saw grow from a little village and become a city of considerable commercial importance to the country. It is interesting to note that Mr. Carpenter took the first iron printing press used in Oswego from Albany, New York, on a sleigh. After about twenty years labor on the Palladium (dur- ing which time it did good service for his party,
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being the paper which in the 1840 campaign got from General Harrison and published a famous letter in which he confessed that he had a political committee of three to keep his political conscience and tell what his opinions were on public issue), Mr. Carpenter sold the printing office in order to accept the clerkship of the county, to which he had been elected, but he afterwards for many years contributed to the political columns of the paper.
Throughout his life he was a strict adherent to the old party of Jefferson. His first vote for president was for Andrew Jackson, and his last for Grover Cleveland, and in his old age he expressed himself glad to know that for more than half a century he had never failed to discharge his duty as a citizen in voting at every election. He removed to New Jersey a few years before his death, as he was warned by a second attack of pneumonia that he could no longer stand the Lake Ontario winters, but he so timed his removal as to cast his vote in New York state and become a resident of New Jersey the same day. In 1876, when he had voted for the one-hundredth time, he was elected by acclamation to represent the Oswego district in the Democratic state convention of New York, with a very complimentary resolu- tion by the county convention. He was as unselfish as he was devoted to the party of his preference. When he did not like its candi- dates he supported them for their cause. When his own views failed to prevail he promptly accepted those of the majority as distinct from the regular council of the party. In no other way he believed could a party and its principles be sustained and its policy carried to triumph for the good and glory of the country. From 1852 to 1856 he was a member of the New York Democratic committee. He was a staunch friend and adherent of President Van Buren. When in 1848 Mr. Van Buren started his own personal party, Mr. Carpenter stood almost alone in his section in support of the regular ticket of the New York convention. In fact, Mr. Nathan Robbins, then collector of the port of Oswego, was the only other person at the time in the Democratic county who with Mr. Carpenter supported the regular electoral ticket. Oswego after this used to be a Demo- cratic county, and Mr. Carpenter was several times elected a member of its board of super visors and took a prominent and noble part in the county management.
He was as devoted to domestic duties and to his private affairs as he was to his duties as a citizen. He won warm and universal
esteem as a neighbor. He was unselfishly and untiringly active as long as his eye and hand had strength to labor. Only a few weeks be- fore his death he had helped effectively in the office of the Gloucestor County Democrat, the paper of his son James. The last eight years of his life were spent in comfort at his son's home in Woodbury, New Jersey.
John Carpenter married (first) August 20, 1828, Sarah L., daughter of Andrew Ferrill. M. D., of Herkimer, New York, who died September 14, 1844, having borne him eight children. January 3, 1848, he married (sec- ond) Mary, daughter of Judge Edmund Hawkes, of Oswego, New York, born Decem- ber 16, 1821, who bore him seven children. Children of John and Sarah L. (Ferrill) Car- penter : I. Elizabeth Inez, born November 8, 1829, died July 22, 1830. 2. Harriet Louisa, born February 22, 1832, died April 1, 1839. 3. Ann Eliza, July 12, 1834, died March 20, 1878; married (first) David W. Andrews, (second) Edward Hatch. 4. Catherine Lord, March 2, 1836, died April 18, 1880. 5. Sarah Lucretia, August 30, 1838; married David Davis. 6. John, born August 6, or 27, 1840; lives Clinton, New Jersey. From 1872 to 1874 he was member of the New Jersey assembly, 1883 to 1885 of the New Jersey senate, 1889- 1890-1892 secretary of the senate. Since 1868 he has been proprietor and editor of the Clinton Democrat. He married Sarah Stewart, of New York City. 7. Andrew Israel, July 31, 1842, died September 12, 1859, unmarried. 8. Will- iam Henry, born August 1, 1844; postmaster of Clinton, and partner of his brother John; married Jennie Perry. Children of John and Mary (Hawkes) Carpenter : 9. Infant son, born March 3, 1849, died same year. 10. Ed- ward Hawk, born March II, 1850, lives in Jackson, Michigan ; married Kitty Wilder. II. Mary Louisa, July 14, 1852, died November 3, 1878; married Frank A. Pease, of Oswego; two children. 12. James Dunton, referred to below. 13. Laura, August 3, 1856, died Octo- ber 17, 1892; married Lieutenant Samuel P. Comly, now Admiral, U. S. N., of Woodbury. 14. Harriet Hawkes, born August 2, 1858; married Henry N. Gallagher. 15. Daisy, Sep- tember 13, 1859, died May 21, 1864.
(X) James Dunton, fourth child and third son of John and Mary (Hawkes) Carpenter, was born in Oswego, New York, September 6, 1854, and is now living in Woodbury, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Oswego, after leaving which he went into the printing office of the
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Clinton . Democrat, and learned the trade of printer. Here he worked until March 13, 1879, when he came to Woodbury, New Jersey, and bought one-half interest in the Gloucester County Democrat. Two years later, in 1881, he became the sole owner of that paper, which has been in his possession and under his man- agement ever since. His conduct of the paper 'has been most successful to himself and satis- factory to his subscribers and constituents, so much so, in fact, that the paper now has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the county, and its offices are among the finest equipped in the printing business throughout the state of New Jersey. Mr. Carpenter, like his father, has always been very much interest- ed in politics, and the Democratic party, not only of Gloucester county, but also in the state and nation, owes much to his energetic and statesmanlike efforts in its behalf. That they have recognized this is shown by the offices of confidence, trust and responsibility which they have called upon him to fill. He has been for nearly a quarter of a century the chairman of the Democratic county committee. From 1890 to 1893 he was one of the chosen freeholders of the county from Woodbury, New Jersey, and he has several times been a candidate on the Democratic ticket for the New Jersey assembly. Mr. Carpenter is one of the trustees of the Central Baptist Church of Woodbury, and he is also a member of Woodbury Lodge, No. 54, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of New Jersey.
James Dunton Carpenter married, March 13, 1884, Harriet, born May 15, 1855, daugh- ter of Fish, of Salem county, New Jersey. Children : I. James Dunton, junior, born February 10, 1885; graduated from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, 1909, and is now an attorney in Jersey City, New Jersey. 2. Catherine Grey, born August 3, 1888; now a student at Bucknell University. 3. Edmund Hawkes, born May 28, 1890; now a junior at the University of Pennsylvania. 4. Harriet Martin, born November 11, 1894, at present a student in the high school at Wood- bury.
The first syllable of this VAN WINKLE name, found so often in early Dutch names of New York, is equivalent in English to "of" or "from," and its use arose from the fact that the present usage of surnames had not been adopted in Holland at the time the Dutch immigrants settled New Amsterdam (New
York). An individual was distinguished by adding "from" or "of" to the place of his birth or recent residence. There was also used by the Dutch people the termination "sen" on a name, which signified "son of," and this seems to have been the form employed by the immi- grant of this family. In the feminine this termination was made "se," and so we find the termination indicating parentage. It is spread over a large portion of New Jersey and New York and is now found in many remote localities, in many cases borne by men of distinguished ability, and the family has everywhere manifested the Dutch traits of in- dustry and thrift, which have done so much for the development of this region.
(I) The first of whom we have record of a Christian name was Jacob Waling (often written Waligen), a contraction of Walingsen, meaning son of Waling, who resided in the village of Winkel, in North Holland.1 The time of his arrival is uncertain. He married, at New Amsterdam, about 1645, Tryntje Jacobs. He is supposed to have arrived at Manhattan, New Netherland (now New York City) in 1635, sailing from the port of Hoorn on the ship "Koning (King) David," the skipper being David Pietersen de Vries. The syllable "de" preceding the last name is the Dutch definite article corresponding to the English "the," and the whole surname de Vries means in English "the Free," and corresponds to the English surname "Freeman.'
Jacob Walingen was from Winkel, which is about fifteen miles northwest of Hoorn. After a temporary stop at New Amsterdam he prob- ably continued his voyage on board the same vessel up the Hudson river one hundred and fifty miles to the Dutch settlement of Rens- selaerwyck, subsequently called Greenbush, opposite Albany. It seems that Jacob, who was known in that settlement by the name of "Waelingen," returned to New Amsterdam in January, 1639. The name is found with many varied spellings in the old Dutch records, but the heading of this article is now universally used. It is plain that his father's Christian name was Waling. He is sometimes referred to in New Amsterdam records as "Jacob Wal- ing van Hoorn," that is, from Hoorn. On January 12, 1639, he gave testimony in New
1. We are indebted to Albert Waling Van Winkle, Esq., of New York City, for most of the genealogical information and data contained in this sketch of the first generation of the Van Winkle family.
There is great variety in spelling of Christian names in early generations of this family. In each narrative we adopt the form preserved by that par- ticular branch.
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Amsterdam against David de Vries respecting one Cicero Piere, which shows that Jacob Wal- ing was then a resident of that place. He was chosen one of the board of "twelve men," representatives of the "commonalty of Man- hattan, Breuckelen and Pavonia" (the latter now Jersey City, New Jersey), August 29, 1641, to suggest means to punish the Indians for a murder they had committed. This board was abolished the next year. In 1649 he peti- tioned the Dutch West India Company in be- half of himself and associates for permission to lead an expedition to take up lands and form a Dutch settlement on the "Fresh" (now Connecticut) river. This petition was refused. This was the occasion on July 28, 1649, of a subsequent remonstrance from the inhabitants of New Netherland. May 12, 1650, "Jacob Waelingen" was at Rensselaerwyck with his wife and children, and was about to leave the colony. Efforts were made to retain him by offering him the choice of several farms, but he declined the offer. On October I that year he received permission to remove to Man- hattan, where his son Jacob was baptized in the Dutch Church "in the Fort" on October 16 same year ; and before the end of that year he and his wife were enrolled as members of the Dutch church of New Amsterdam, the first of the kind that was organized in America. It has continued down to the present time, and is now known as the Collegiate Reformed Church, having eight places of worship in New York City. Petrus Stuyvesant, director general, and his council, issued, October 23, 1654, a patent for twenty-five morgans (about fifty-three acres ) of land to "Jacob Walingen van Hoorn." This was situated behind the "Kill van Kol," and is now known as Bergen Point, New Jer- sey. Jacob settled on this land soon after, and was driven from his home with the other set- tlers, by the Indians, in September, 1655. At this time one hundred Dutch were killed, one hundred and fifty were carried into captivity, and over three hundred deprived of their homes, and their grain and cattle destroyed or stolen. On April 17, 1657, "Jacob Walingh" was admitted to the rights of a small burgher, which entitled him to the freedom of trade, and the privilege of being received into the guilds of Manhattan. He died between that date and August 17 same year. On the latter date his widow married Jacob Stoffelsen, of Middle- burgh, the capital of Zeeland. Stoffelsen had lost his first wife, Ides van Voorst, in the spring of 1641. At the time of this marriage, there were living the following six minor chil-
dren of Jacob Waling, who were placed under guardians: I. Grietje, born about 1646 ; mar- ried, August 30, 1665, Elias Michielse (Vree- land). 2. Waling, referred to below. 3. Jacob, born about 1650; married (first), December 15, 1675, Aeltje Daniels; (second), March 26, 1695, Grietje Hendricks Hollings. 4. Jacomyn- tje, born about 1652; married, November 24, 1672, Roelof Stetting. 5. Symon, see sketch. 6. Annetje, born January 2, 1656; married, November 30, 1676, Johannis Steynmets.
March 31, 1668, Governor Carteret granted a confirmatory patent to the former widow of "Jacob Wallingen van Hoorn," and June 17 same year she married Michael Tates (Tades), widower, of Harlaem ; on March 15, 1671, she married Lieutenant Casper Stynmets, of Harsi- mus, a member of the Bergen militia. She died May II, 1677, at Bergen, and November IO, 1677, the title of Tryntje to the six acres of land at Harsimus, used by her for a garden and orchard, was confirmed to Casper Styn- mets. Harsimus is now a part of the Fourth Ward of Jersey City, New Jersey. She was his third wife. The children of Jacob Waling adopted the patronymic "Jacobse," that is, chil- dren of Jacob. The son Jacob settled in Hud- son county, New Jersey, and became founder there of the Van Winkel family. The sons Waling and Symon were two of the fourteen patentees of Acquackanonk, now known as Passaic, New Jersey. Various names were applied to them and their descendants, such as "Waling Jacobse van Winkel," "Waling Jacob- sen van Winckel," "Jacob Walings," "Simon van Winkel," and "Johannes Wallings."
(II) Waling Jacobsen, apparently second son of Jacob Waling Van Hoorn (or van Winkel), was born about 1648, and resided in Bergen, which then described the region about Jersey City. He married, March 15, 1671, Catharina Michielse (Vreeland), evidently a daughter of Michael Vreeland. He was nomi- nated by the people of Bergen, August 15, 1674, under the name of "Walinck Jacobse," for schepen2 of the "Court of Justice at Ber- gen," and on the 3Ist of same month he re- ceived his commission. It was a court with county jurisdiction, and "only honest, intelli- gent persons, owners of real estate, who were
2. A standard Dutch and English Dictionary defines Schepen as "Judge," "Justice." See C. H. Winfield's "History of Hudson County," "Walinck Jacobse:" page 84, Appointment as Schepen. Page 74, Name of Court (see "Ordinance") "A Court of Justice at Bergen." Page 75, "Necessary to choose as Judges, honest, intelligent persons," etc. Page 84, 442, Elias Michielse was a Schepen of this same Court, and Winfield refers to him as "Associate Judge of the Court of Bergen."
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lovers of peace and professors of the Reformed Religion" could be "chosen as judges" of this court. The yearly salary of this position was about $100 of present cur- rency. He was one of those who received an Indian deed from Sachem Captahem for the territory of Acquackanonk, March 28, 1679. June 30, 1682, he lived at Barbadoes Neck and owned land there. The Indian title to Acquack- anonk was confirmed to the Indian grantees by patent from the Lord Proprietors of New Jersey, March 16, 1684. This tract of about eleven thousand acres of land extended from the northerly line of Newark, New Jersey, along the westerly bank of the Passaic river, to the base of the mountain beyond the Passaic Falls at Paterson, New Jersey. "Waling Jacobse" was a member of the general assem- bly of the province of New Jersey, represent- ing Acquackanonk in 1692, and the following year was a representative from Barbaboes Neck. June 30, 1695, the lands of "Wallen Jacobs" at New Barbadoes, Essex county, ad- joined those of Isaac Kingsland. Waling was one of the founders of the Acquackanonk church, now known as the First Reformed Church of Passaic, was elected an elder in May, 1696, and re-elected May 20, 1701. The will of "Waling Jacobsen van Winckel, of Acquackanung, in the county of Essex, farmer," is dated November I, 1707, "in the Sixth year of the Glorious Reign of our Sov- ereign Lady Anne." His wife, "Catharina van Winckele, is sole executrix." He leaves her "All my whole estate during her natural life." Her surname is also spelt in the will "van Winckle" and "van Winckel." "After the decease of my wife, my eldest son Jacob van Winckle shall have paid to him out of my said estate, before any division shall be made, Twenty Shillings." He gives. to each of his three sons-"Jacob van Winckel," and "my second son Machiel (spelt Michael in another place) van Winckel," and "my third son Jo- hannes van Winckel"-a "house lot containing six acres of land." Jacob receives the lot "where he at present lives upon," the lot to Machiel "being the midle side of the three lots :" the lot to Johannes "being the northeast side whereupon the house barn and orchard stands." He also gives to "each of his three sons" "one equal third of his said land, being the southwest side of my land," which "shall be understood only for the five hundred acres of land lying on Passaick river, between the land of Tadus Machielsen and Mr. Kingsland."
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