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(V) James Mercer, Jr., eldest child of James Mercer and Mary Eleanor Dick (Mercer) Garnett, was born at Elmwood, Virginia, Oc- tober 30, 1794, and died there July 14, 1824. March 7, 1820, he married his first cousin, Maria, eldest child and daughter of James and Maria (Garnett) Hunter, referred to above (see III), granddaughter of William Hunter and Sarah, daughter of William Garnett and Ann Rowzee (see II above). The only child of this marriage was Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, referred to below.
(VI) Muscoe Russell Hunter, only child of James Mercer, Jr., and Maria (Hunter) Gar- nett, was born at Elmwood, Essex county, Vir- ginia, July 25, 1821, and died February 14, 1864. Receiving a classical education, he grad- uated from the University of Virginia, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Loretto, Virginia. In 1850 he was a delegate to the Virginia state constitutional convention, and was a member of the state house of delegates from 1851 to 1856. De- cember 1, 1856, he took his seat as representa- tive from Virginia, in the thirty-fourth con- gress, vice Hon. Thomas H. Bayley, deceased, June 23, 1856, and was re-elected to the thirty- fifth and thirty-sixth congresses, serving until March 3, 1861. He was a delegate to the na- tional Democratic conventions at Baltimore in 1852 and at Cincinnati in 1856, and was one of the members from Virginia to the first Con- federate congress. July 26, 1860, Muscoe Rus- sell Hunter Garnett married Mary Picton, eld- est daughter (only child to reach maturity ) of Edwin Augustus Stevens, of Castle Point, Ho- boken, New Jersey (see sketch of John Ste- vens, of Perth Amboy, and Hunterdon coun- ty), by his first wife Mary, daughter of Rev. Thomas Picton, of Princeton. After her hus-
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band's death, Mary Picton (Stevens) Garnett married (second) Edward Parke Custis Lewis, son of Lorenzo and Sarah (Coxe) Lewis, granddaughter of Lawrence Lewis and Elea- nor Parke Custis, stepdaughter of General George Washington, and great-granddaughter of Colonel Fielding Lewis by his second wife, Betty, daughter of Lawrence Washington. The children of this marriage of Edward Parke Custis Lewis and Mary Picton (Stevens) Gar- nett are: Edwin Augustus Stevens Lewis, born 1870, died September 5, 1906, married Alice Stuart, daughter of General Henry Walker, C. S. A., of Morristown, New Jersey ; Esther Maria Stevens Lewis, married Charles March Chapin; Julia Stevens Lewis, married James Millar Cumming (see Cumming fam- ily), and Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, married Thomas Bloodgood Peck, Jr., of New York City. Children of Muscoe Russell Hunter and Mary Picton (Stevens) Garnett : James Mer- cer and Mary Barton Picton, both referred to below.
(VII) James Mercer, only son of Muscoe Russell Hunter and Mary Picton (Stevens) Garnett, was born in Clarke county, Virginia, July 7, 1861, and is now living at Mount Ver- non, New York. In May, 1896, he married Mary Virginia Teatom, who died March 24, 1908, leaving children : Mary Barton Garnett, born January 1I, 1898; Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, April 11, 1899; and Virginia Garnett, November, 1906.
(VII) Mary Barton Picton, only daughter of Muscoe Russell Hunter and Mary Picton (Stevens) Garnett, was born May 28, 1863, and is now living, unmarried, at 509 River street, Hoboken, New Jersey.
The Dutch settlers who VAN BUSKIRK made up the pioneer immigrants to New Amsterdam included many from the borders of the United Provinces of the Netherlands ; some from England, who had fled from relig- ious persecution ; many from France-Hugue- nots driven from their homes-and some from Denmark, who joined the procession of home seekers or commercial adventurers, hoping to benefit themselves and families by emigrating to the New World.
These settlers were generally able men, skill- ed in trade and mechanics and farmers seeking better soil and better wages. The Dutch polit- ical system, as it obtained in the Netherlands, made the judiciary supreme and denied all arbitrary power either to parliament or people,
to civil rulers or to religious teachers and. taught their people to guard against its exer- cise. As a writer says-"The feudal shell of the Dutch government enclosed the seed of liberty, ready in fullness of time to germinate a most perfect form." In 1624 the Dutch system was established in New Netherlands ; in 1629 the manorial system was introduced,. the patrons having the authority of feudal barons, but no political or judicial changes. could be made without consent of the home government. The privileges of the patrons being found obnoxious to the people, were re- stricted in 1638 and further restricted in 1640. and with these restrictions enforced, the rights of the free settlers proportionately enlarged. The people were settling in communities and forming villages, and on a sufficient number being thus gathered could demand and obtain local government by officers designated by the director-general and his council as in the Netherlands. In the place of government, pro- vision was made for an established church, the law reading-"No other religion is to be pub- licly tolerated or allowed in New Netherlands, save that taught and exercised by authority of the Reformed Church in the United Provinces," but as English colonists had obtained strong foothold on Long Island, the provision became of none effect. In cases of trouble either from the Indians or among the settlers themselves on differences of boundaries of towns or rights of person-the masters and heads of families assembled in the fort at New Amsterdam, and when the freemen convened they gave their opinions on the question before them and ap- pointed twelve men to continue to represent their interests. These representatives did not confine their demands to the questions at issue that brought them in existence as a representa- tive body, but they demanded reforms and new laws and this was the beginning of legislature representatives. This worked so well that Gov- ernor Stuyvesant continued the plan by ap- pointing nine men as "tribunes" of the people to hold weekly courts of arbitration and advise the director and his council. These tribunes soon demanded a burgher government and they were referred to the states-general for decision and a more liberal government obtained. The wisest of the immigrant settlers and those hav- ing the largest interests at stake in grants of lands, size of family or importance in trade and commerce, were made members of these committees and tribunes, as will be seen in the sketch that follows.
(I) Lourens Andriessen came from Hol-
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stein, Denmark, to New Amsterdam, where he arrived in the summer of 1655. His name in the records of the government of New Amster- dam, as administered by Governor Stuyvesant, who had been made governor-general in 1647, appears under the date of June 29, 1656, on a deed conveying a lot on Broad street. He was by trade a turner, and was unmarried at the time of signing the deed. He evidently did not find his trade profitable, as he opened a drapers shop in New Amsterdam. The Dutch had made settlements in East New Jersey, prin- cipally at Bergen across the river from New Amsterdam. In 1664 Charles II., in view of the difficulties between the Sweeds and the Dutch, caused by the determination of Peter Stuyvesant to force the Sweeds to acknowl- edge the Dutch rule, assumed sole jurisdiction, took possession of New Amsterdam and grant- ed all the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers to his brother, the Duke of York, who assigned his grant to Lord Berke- ley and Sir George Carteret, and the region west of the Hudson river was named New Jer- sey, and Philip Carteret was made first gov- ernor, he having been governor of the isle of Jersey under the King. Meantime Lourens Andriessen had crossed the river and settled in Bergen, having purchased a tract of land previously granted to Claas Cortensen, the Norman, at Minkakwa, which tract is now Greenville, New Jersey. On November 20, 1665, he took the oath of alliance to the King. He had up to this time been a foremost man in the community ; he settled at Bergen and con- tinued to hold sway over his neighbors, and in 1673, when the territory was re-taken by the Dutch, and the people expected a confiscation of their lands, as they had sworn allegiance to the King, Lourens Andriessen, John Berry, Samuel Edsall and William Sandford appeared before the council at Fort William Hendrick, August 18, 1673, to request that their planta- tions "be confirmed in the privileges which they obtained for their previous Patrons" and when the question of the support of a school- master and concerning fences came up between the people of the adjacent towns of Pennepogh and Bergen, he again appeared before the coun- cil to plead the cause of his neighbors.
He was made "Recorder and Marker" for Minkakwa, April 6, 1670, and “marker-gen- eral" for the town of Bergen, October 8, 1676, and on the latter date he was also made ranger for Bergen with the power to name deputies. His duties as recorder and marker was to brand all horses and cattle feeding on the
meadows and common pasturage lands, and as ranger "to bring all stray horses, mares and cattle in to a place of safety." He was com- missioned a deputy to the Bergen county court, February 16, 1677, and February 18, 1680, and he was made president of the court, August 31, 1682. He was a member of the council of Governor Carteret after March 18, 1672, for several years. He held the first commission to administer "Crowners quest law" in Bergen county, having been appointed January 18, 1672, to hold an inquest on a child, who had died under suspicious circumstances. On Jan- uary 6, 1676, he purchased, with other residents of Bergen county, a large tract of land which became known as New Hackensack on the Passaic river and on which he resided as early as 1688.
He married, September 12, 1658, while a resident of New Amsterdam, Jannetje Jans, widow of Christain Barenton, and part of the dower she brought to her husband was four stalwart boys, her sons by her first husband, and by her second husband she had four other children. When he settled in New Jersey, he added the name Van Buskirk or Boskirck to that by which he was known in New Amster- dam. The names of the four children of Lourens Andriessen and Jannetje (Jans) Van Buskirk were: I. Andries, baptized March 3, 1660; was a member of the sixth provincial assembly of New Jersey in 1710, and in 1718 was appointed with Myndart Garsabrant to enforce the oyster law. He died in 1724. 2. Laurens, married Hendrickje Van de Linde, and represented Bergen county in the fifth pro- vincial assembly in 1709; his will was dated May 7, 1722, and approved January 4, 1724. 3. Peter, born January 1, 1666; married Trentje, daughter of Hans Hermanse, of Con- staples Hoeck, and they had children ; she died November 7, 1736, and he died July 21, 1738; through his wife he became owner of half of the Hoeck tract of land and he purchased the other half and some of his descendants still occupy part of the land. 4. Thomas, see for- ward. The father and mother of these chil- dren both died in 1694, the mother first and the father a few months thereafter.
(II) Thomas, youngest of the four sons of Lourens Andriessen and Jannetje (Jans) Van Buskirk, was born probably in 1668 in Bergen, East New Jersey. He married Margreitje Hendrickje Van Der Linde; children, born in Bergen, New Jersey: I. Johannes, baptized July 1, 1694. 2. Abraham, baptized March 25, 1700. 3. Peiter, see forward. 4. Laurens,
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married (first) Sarah Terhune, May 7, 1726; (second) Hendrickje Van Buskirk, January 27, 1745. 5. Andries. 6. Isaac. 7. Michael. 8. Fitje, married Andrus Amack. 9. Geutje, March 7, 1715. 10. Margretje, baptized Feb- ruary 17, 1723 ; married John Church.
(III) Peiter, third son of Thomas and Mar- greitje Hendrickje ( Van Der Linde) Van Bus- kirk, was born in Bergen, New Jersey, and bap- tized in the church of that place September 6, 1702. He went to Holland, where he remained up to about 1725, and on his return from Hol- land he located in Bergen county, New Jer- sey, at Teaneck, now known as Englewood. On September I, or October 10, 1727, he mar- ried Marytje Van Hoorn. Children, born in Teaneck, Bergen county : I. John, see for- ward. 2. Cornelius, settled in Bergen county, but later removed to Staten Island, where he married and where his descendants are to be found.
(IV) John, eldest son of Peiter and Marytje (Van Hoorn) Van Buskirk, was born in Tea- neck, Bergen county, New Jersey, April 7, 1738. He lived with his parents on the old homestead and was a farmer. He married Rachel Dey. Children: 1. Peter, lived on the homestead farm at Teaneck. 2. Elsie, married John Ackerman. 3. Jacob, see forward. 4. Elizabeth, married John Bogard. 5. John, set- tled at Teaneck.
(V) Jacob, second son and third child of John and Rachel (Dey) Van Buskirk, was born in Teaneck, Bergen county, New Jersey, about 1780. He learned the trade of carpenter and built a saw-mill on his farm, but devoted himself to farming rather than carpentering. He married Catharine, daughter of Captain Abram Haring, a soldier of the American revolution. Children: I. Sarah, married Ste- phen Lozier. 2. John, removed to Staten Island, where he died. 3. Abram, lived at River Edge. 4. Jacob, see forward.
(VI) Jacob (2), youngest son and fourth child of Jacob (1) and Catharine (Haring) Van Buskirk, was born in Teaneck, New Jer- sey, July 26, 1807, and on reaching his major- ity left the farm and carried on a general coun- try store at New Milford, 1828-50 (approxi- mately). He sold out his business to J. B. H. Voorhis, and with his brother erected a grist- mill, which was subsequently carried on by his sons. He was public-spirited and progressive in his ideas and methods of business and manufacturing. He was a director of the New Jersey and New York Railway Company and of the Bergen County Farmers' Mutual Insur-
ance Company. He married, August 5, 1826, Hannah Voorhees, of Kinderkamack. Chil- dren, born in New Milford, Bergen county, New Jersey : 1. Jacob, see forward. 2. Henry, married Margaret Voorhees, and had three children : A son, who died in infancy; Anna, married John J. Van Wagoner; Maria, who died unmarried. Henry married (second) Christina Van Buskirk and by her had no chil- dren. 3. Eliza Catharine, married Nicholas R. Voorhis.
(VII) Jacob (3), eldest child of Jacob (2) and Hannah ( Voorhees) Van Buskirk, was born in New Milford, New Jersey, July 23, 1827. He attended the district school and was sent to Lafayette Academy, Hackensack, where he paid his tuition by assisting the principal in his classes, and on leaving the academy taught the district school at Closter, New Jer- sey, for a short time, going to Kinderkamack as teacher of a larger school there. He became principal of the Washington Institute, Hacken- sack, which institution he conducted for over three years. His successful experience as a teacher did not dull his keen sense as a busi- ness man, and with his brother Henry he formed the firm of J. & H. Van Buskirk and conducted the milling business in the mills erected by his father, from which they made an excellent business return, but finally sold out to the "Hackensack Water Company Re- organized." He did not enter into public life as a politician and only accepted a single office in the gift of the town, that of overseer of the highways, which position he held for twenty years. He served as postmaster under Presi- dents Lincoln, Johnson and Grant, 1861-77. He was the original promoter of the borough of Delford, and the success of the enterprise is largely owing to his wisdom and business sagacity in placing the claims of the place be- fore the public so as to induce its building up, beautifying its streets and parks, and making it an attractive and inviting place of residence for suburban home-seekers.
He married Ursula, daughter of Peter and Maria S. (Demarest) Peack, of New Milford. Children, born on the old homestead at New Milford: 1. Sarah Maria, married Jacob Van Wagoner. 2. Hannah Amelia, married Huyler Voorhis. 3. Susan Martha. 4. Catharine. 5. Elmira. married Francis H. Waite. 6. Jacob Henry, died in infancy. 7. Peter Edwin, born June II, 1868; died April 27, 1905; married Lillian Maude Hoffman and their child, Jacob Edwin, was born May 1, 1901. 8. Arthur, see forward.
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(VIII) Arthur, third son and eighth child of Jacob and Ursula (Peack) Van Buskirk, was born in New Milford, Bergen county, New Jersey, July 4, 1871. He received his school training in the public schools of Oradell and high school of Hackensack, graduating from the Jersey City Business College, of Jersey City, and from the New York Law School, New York City. He was admitted to practice in the courts of New Jersey in June, 1906, and established à law office in Hackensack. He served as stenographer in the state senate at Trenton, New Jersey, 1901-02, having become an expert stenographer from instruction at the business college and through practice as a court stenographer in the local courts of Hackensack. He also served as private secretary to Senator William M. Johnson in 1900, when Mr. John- son was president of the state senate. He was admitted to membership in the Holland Society as a direct descendant in the eighth generation from Lourens Andriessen (Van Buskirk), New Amsterdam, 1655. His church fellowship is with the Second Reformed Church of Hacken- sack, which has been the church of his fore- fathers from the time they settled in New Amsterdam.
Arthur Van Buskirk married, June 19, 1900, Edith, daughter of Edwin and Juliet L. (Munn) Clark, of Brooklyn, New York. Their first child, Arthur Peack, was born in Hacken- sack, New Jersey, April 28, 1901, and their second child, Dorothy Clark, was born June 21, 1907.
NEVIUS The name of Nevius is peculiar in the sense that wherever it is found it is practically traceable to members of a single family. This family, it has been conjectured, is the famous one of the Roman poet, Gnaeus Naevius, who flourished about 250 B. C. The family is scattered throughout Spain, Italy, France, Flanders, Switzerland, Prussia, Germany, Russia, Swed- en, Denmark, Great Britain and Holland, and while the forms of the name are many, at least two hundred and three being cataloged etymol- ogists tell us that there is no other name which the different forms can represent except the Latin Nevius.
(I) The Rev. Johannes Nevius, or as his name is spelt in Holland, Neeff, is the first member of the American family of whom we have definite information. He was probably the son of Johannes Nevius and Sara Braeckel, and he seems to have been the Johannes de Neef, of Amsterdam, who was at the Univer- sity of Leyden in 1608. Between 1609 and
1619 he fitted himself for the ministry and re- ceived a call from the church at Zoelen. Here he was married and had five of his children baptized. He married, July 25, 1625, Maria, daughter of Peter Becx, a merchant of Cologne. Children: I. Johannes, referred to below. 2. Matthias, baptized August 10, 1628; died 1682 ; became a duly qualified preacher and pastor of Montfoort, where he spent his life, except for a visit which he paid to his brother in America, in 1665. 3. Peter, baptized January 10, 1630. 4. Abraham, baptized July 13, 1631. 5. Sara, baptized October 21, 1632.
(II) Johannes (2), son of the Rev. Johannes (I) and Maria (Becx) Nevius, was born in Zoelen, in the southern Guelderland, just north of Brabant, and died in May or June, 1672, in Flatbush, Long Island. He entered the Uni- versity of Leyden, and about 1651 emigrated to New Amsterdam, where he began business as a merchant, importer and trader. About a year later he married and became one of the most prominent men of his day in the town. September 1, 1653, he was appointed arbitrator, and November 30, 1664, he was attorney for his father-in-law in the celebrated "De Potter Case," and the following year he became a deacon in the Dutch Church in New Amster- dam. December II, 1656, he was made arbi- trator again. In the following year he removed to the Ferry on the Brooklyn side of the river, and was chosen city secretary, a position which he continued to hold even after the English took New Amsterdam. . He then became ferry master about 1670. He married, November 18, 1653, Adriaentje Bleijck, the daughter of Swaentje Jans, whose second husband was Cornelis de Potter. After the death of Jo- hannes his widow retained the ferry, and in 1674 married (second) Jan Aersen, who must not be confused as he sometimes is with Jan Aertsen Middagh. She died sometime between May 2, 1686, and January 4, 1690. Children : I. Johannes, baptized November 8, 1654; died probably about 1664. 2. Sara, baptized Au- gust 27, 1656. 3. Cornelis, baptized Septem- ber 2, 1657. 4. Marie, baptized December 22, 1658. 5. Cornelis, baptized January 19, 1661 ; died between April and October, 1711; mar- ried, April 15, 1683, Agatha Joris. 6. Pieter, referred to below. 7. Sara Catharina, baptized February 16, 1665; died 1722; married, May 2, 1686, Cornelis Pieterse Luyster. 8. Johanna, baptized March II, 1668; died 1734; married, August 10, 1684, Gerrit Elbertse Stoothof. 9. Catharine, born about 1670; married, about 1691, Garret Pieterse Wyckoff.
(III) Pieter, son of Johannes (2) and
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Adriaentje (Bleijck) Nevius, was baptized in Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, February 4, 1663, under the name Petrus, and died at Flat- lands, April 29, 1740. He was the younger of the only two males descendants of the immi- grant who grew to manhood, married and had children. In 1687 he took the oath of alle- giance to the English. In 1689 was elected a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Church ; in 1700 signs a protest against the measuring of lands at Flatlands ; February 19, 1705, was elected town collector of taxes and later in the same year was appointed one of a committee to divide the common lands; took an active part in the celebrated controversy between Dominie Antonides and Dominie Freeman ; in 1713 was captain of the Kings County Company at Flat- lands, and in 1721-30 was appointed commis- sioner of Highways. He lived to be older than any descendant of his father, except the great- grandson of his brother Cornelis Garret Nevius, of New Brunswick, who was born in 1755 and died in 1839. He married, at Flatlands, June 22, 1684, Janetje Roelofse, daughter of Roelof Martinse and Neeltje Gerritse (van Couwen- hoven) Schenck, who was born in 1665. Chil- dren : I. Johannes, born about 1685, died 1703. 2. Roelof, about 1687, died 1736; married, May 3, 1712, Catalyntje Lucasse Van Voorhees. 3. Aeltje, probably born about 1689. 4. Cornelis, born April 23, 1691, died 1759 or 1760; mar- ried Magdallene 5. Marten, about 1693, died about 1766; married, August 27, 1715, Willemptje Lucasse Van Voorhees. 6. Pieter, referred to below. 7. Neeltje, about 1697; married, May 17, 1715, Jan Janse Van Voorhees. 8. Arientje, about 1698, died about 1699. 9. Arientje, about 1700; married, March 6, 1720, Pieter Garretse Voorhees. 10. David, April, 1702; died October 19, 1775; married, March 29, 1728, Margaret, widow of Peter Stoothof, and daughter of Albert Coerte Van Voorhees. II. Johannes, about 1704, died about April, 1750; married, April 10, 1731. Susanna Martense Schenck. 12 to 14. Three, names unknown, died in infancy.
(IV) Pieter (2), son of Pieter (I) and Janetje Roelofse (Schenck) Nevius, was born in Flatlands, July 28, 1695, died in Blawen- burgh (Harlingen), Somerset county, New Jersey, September 16, 1768. In 1715 with his brothers, Marten and Cornelis, he was a mem- ber of Captain Ralph Terhunen's company of Kings County militia, but two years later when he married he removed to Marlborough, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he was a farmer and became a communicant member
of the Dutch Church of Freehold, in which he was in 1719 elected a deacon. Here he lived for about twenty years, and then removed to Blawenburgh, where his brother Marten had preceded him. He married, March 26 or 30, 1717, at Brooklyn, New York, Altje, daughter of Tobias and Elizabeth (Hegeman) Ten Eyck, of New York, who was baptized in Brooklyn, April 29, 1694. Children : I. Petrus, referred to below. 2. Tobyas, born July 23, 1720, died November 20, 1784; married, May 18, 1747, Rebecca Polhemus. 3. Jenneke, De- cember 25, 1722; married (first) Jerome Ker- shaw, and (second), before 1767, Frederick Blaw. 4. James or Jacobus, November 27, 1724, died March 9, 1811; married Leah 5. Elizabeth, July 29, 1727, died De- cember 27, 1741. 6. Johannes, October 8, 1729. 7. Johana, October 12, 1732; married John Sutphen. 8. Sara, October 13, 1734, died April 10, 1760; married, December 1, 1757, Petrus Voorhees. 9. Maria, May, 1737, died July 16, 1747.
(V) Petrus, son of Pieter (2) and Altje (Ten Eyck) Nevius, was born July 31, 1718, died at Middlebush, New Jersey, December 2, 1793. He was baptized at New Utrecht, and both he and his wife are buried in the Pleasant Plains graveyard between Middlebush and Franklin Park. He was a farmer and prob- ably removed to Middlebush, where his wife's parents were living about the time of his mar- riage, and where in 1745 he owned one hun- dred and fifty acres of land. One of the fam- ily has said, "He was an austere old gentle- man and I have heard our grandfather say (who remembered him very well) that his presence was truly awe inspiring. Following the custom of the early Holland immigrants, he always asked a blessing at table with his hat on." He became possessed of a great deal of real estate, a large part of which, some of it in Kentucky, he disposed of before his death. He married, before May 24, 1744, Johana, born January 14, 1725, died January 28, 1794, daughter of Petrus Stoothof. Children : I.
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