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(II) Anthony, son of Elias and Hannah (Layton) Truax, was born at Hamilton, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, July 17, 1810. After attaining his majority he removed from Hamilton to Poplar, Monmouth county, where he added various speculative enterprises to his. agricultural pursuits and invested his profits in bank, building, loan and other securities of a similar kind. He was an active Republican, and for twenty years was a justice of the peace in Poplar. In 1850 he was appointed at Free- hold commissioner of wrecks for the Deal dis- trict, and as such had charge of the wrecks on the Jersey coast for five years. He was a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at West Long Branch many years. He married Tenty Ann White, born September 28, 1812. Children : Henry, born August 20, 1835 ; Han- nah, married Matthias Woolley (see Wool- ley) ; Jacob White ; Elias L .; Mary Catharine, married George Taylor; Cornelia, married Charles L. Hulick; Anthony Taylor, referred to below; George W .; Joseph Chattel; names unknown, died in infancy.
(III) Anthony (2), son of Anthony (I) and Tenty Ann (White) Truax, was born at Poplar, New Jersey, October 17, 1847, and is
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now living at 24 Rockwell avenue, Long Branch, New Jersey. After spending a brief period in the public schools in Poplar he as- sisted his father until he became of age, and then refusing a farm which his father offered to give him, he entered the grocery store of his brother at Long Branch, where he remain- ed for three years. In 1851 he opened a gro- cery store in Long Branch on his own account and conducted it successfully until 1892, when he discontinued it and became extensively en- gaged in the hardware trade. In March, 1896, he sold out his hardware establishment and took a rest from active business until Decem- ber, 1899, when he formed a partnership with Isaac H. Cramer under the firm name of Truax & Cramer, lumber merchants and dealers in builders' materials. Mr. Truax is a Repub- lican, and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church ever since he was fifteen years old. At present he is treasurer and president of the board of stewards of that church at Long Branch. He has always taken a great interest in the development and im- provement of the town, and a number of the most substantial business and residential prop- erties are not only owned but were designed by him. He was elected a member of the city council in the fall of 1909. He married (first), in March, 1879, Laura, daughter of Charles Hulick, of West Long Branch, granddaughter of William Hulick, who died May II, 1885. He married (second), in October, 1887, Min- nie Behr, daughter of Frederick and Wil- helmina (Behr) Brinkhantz. Children, all by first marriage: Charles Lincoln, died in in- fancy ; Harry and Chester Maps, both referred to below.
(IV) Harry, son of Anthony (2) Taylor and Laura (Hulick) Truax, was born at Long Branch, New Jersey, July 17, 1881, and is now living in that town. After receiving his early education in the public schools of Long Branch, he graduated from Columbia University Law School with the class of 1906. He then studied law in the office of Hon. John S. Applegate, of Red Bank, and was admitted to the New Jer- sey bar as an attorney in February, 1907, and as a counselor at law in February, 1910. Since then he has been engaged in the general prac- tice of his profession in Long Branch. He is a member of Long Branch Lodge, No. 78, F. and A. M., of New Jersey, and of Standard Chapter, R. A. M., Long Branch. He married, in Long Branch, September 21, 1904, Florence, daughter of Josiah and Eveline (Sickles) Stratton, granddaughter of Branson Stratton,
who was born at Long Branch, February 2, 1885. Child, Margaret H., born June 11, 1907.
(IV) Chester Maps, son of Anthony Taylor and Laura (Hulick) Truax, was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, April 5, 1884, and is now living in that town. He received his early edu- cation in the Long Branch public schools and then graduated from the Chattle high school with the class of 1900, and at that time was the youngest graduate from that school. After this he went into the lumber business in his father's firm, where he remained for four years, at the end of which period he bought up the hardware business of Slocum Brothers, dealers in commercial hardware, paints and house furnishings. Mr. Truax is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of Abacus Lodge, No. 182, F. and A. M., and of the Junior Order of United Mechanics. He is also a member of the Long Branch Board of Trade. He married in Long Branch, October II, 1905, Ada S., daughter of Christian and Anna (Lane) Brehm. Child, Laura Gladys, born May 9, 1907. Children of Christian and Anna (Lane) Brehm: I. Lucinda, married John H. Sculthorpe; children: Chandler B. and Alma Demaris Sculthorpe. 2. Ada S., referred to above.
PRICE The progenitors of this branch of the Price family of New Jersey came direct from Connecticut, and, unlike others of the same name leaving Connecticut, did not first settle on Long Island, afterwards removing to New Jersey. The pro- genitors referred to were among the first white men who settled and established homes in that territory of the then colony of New Jersey, in what was afterwards created into the county of Sussex (1753), and in that portion of its territory subsequently created into the town- ship of Frankford (1797), and then called Papakating, after a stream flowing through this territory.
(I) The names of these progenitors were Robert Price, Samuel Price and John Price, three brothers. They traced their origin and claimed to be of Welsh extraction, and that the name Price was formerly spelt "Pryce." Before coming to what became Sussex county, and while living on Connecticut, the three brothers were engaged as extensive shippers, owned vessels, and were well supplied with worldly goods. The brothers sailed in their own merchantmen, and continued their ship- ping business in New England until their loss
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of valuable cargoes by shipwreck compelled the abandonment of their business.
It is related of Robert that, when a small boy, he and his mother were taken prisoners by the Indians at one of the massacres in the eastern states, and marched off together. She, being somewhat conversant with language of the savages, soon learned from their conversa- tion and gestures that she was to be dispatched, and immediately communicated the intelligence to her son. She told him that he must not cry when they killed her, or they would kill him too. She only marched a few rods further before she was killed. The boy was eventually adopted by one of the squaws as her child, she having lost one of her own a few days previ- ous. Robert lived with the Indians until he was over twenty-one years old, and was then rescued by his friends. It was a long time be- fore he became thoroughly reconciled to civil- ized society, and he sometimes expressed a de- sire to return to the Indians, but the feeling gradually wore away after his release.
John Price remained only a short time in Frankford and returned to Connecticut, and subsequently to seafaring and was never after- wards heard of by his other brothers. Robert and Samuel remained in Frankford, where they had settled. Robert on lands near what is now the "Plains Church," and the former on lands about a mile distant. Samuel died in 1768, aged seventy-five years, and both he and his wife Sarah, who died in 1761, aged fifty- five years, were buried in the cemetery adjoin- ing the "Plains Church," which the Prices laid out and gave as a burial place.
Samuel Price is thought to have been mar- ried prior to his settlement in New Jersey, and left a family of children in Connecticut. Upon his death in Frankford, Sussex county, he left two sons, viz., Zachariah and Francis. Robert, who died after his brother Samuel, was one of the Sussex county committee of safety, Au- gust, 1775. He left children, but most of them went west and, it is well known, settled in Ohio and other western states.
The two sons of Samuel, viz., Zachariah and Francis, took an active part in behalf of the independence of New Jersey as a colony, and actively served the cause throughout the whole period of the war of the American revolution. (See records of New Jersey, adjutant-general's office ).
Francis, son of Samuel, though married, it is claimed left no children surviving him. Zach- ariah, the other son of Samuel, left twelve chil-
dren-six daughters and six sons. The names of the latter are hereafter given.
(II) The aforesaid Zachariah, son of Sam- uel Price, was born in Papakating, Sussex county, New Jersey, September 22, 1743, and died at Frankford, Sussex county, New Jer- sey, in August, 1806. He was a farmer, and a soldier throughout the whole of the Amer- ican revolution, serving as a private in the Sussex county militia, and also in Major West- brook's battalion of state troops. He married Mary De Pew, born in Sussex county, New Jersey, October 20, 1754, died at Frankford, in August, 1816. Children: I. Samuel, born July 1, 1773; died July 25, 1803. 2. Henry, born March 20, 1775; died July 18, 1831. 3. Sarah, born February 15, 1877 ; died Septem- ber 13, 1822. 4. Mary, born December 21, 1779. 5. Zachariah, born January 1, 1781 ; died December, 1806. 6. Elizabeth, born July 26, 1783. 7. Jerusha, born July 26, 1785. 8. Francis, referred to below. 9. Rachel, born August 26, 1789. 10. Johanna, born Septem- ber 10, 1791. II. John, born February 10, 1794; died June 29, 1822. 12. Robert, born October 7, 1796; died July 1, 1798.
(III) Francis, son of Zachariah and Mary (De Pew) Price, was born at Papakating, in Frankford township, Sussex county, New Jer- sey, August 18, 1787, and died in the city of New York, June 2, 1864, aged seventy-seven years. After receiving a district school edu- cation he started in life as the keeper of a gen- eral country store at New Milford, Orange county, New York, but gave this up in order to engage in the real estate business with Ross Winans, of Baltimore, Maryland, and later in New York City, and Hudson county, New Jersey. In 1838-39 he was a member of the New Jersey state council, and one of the judges of the New Jersey court of errors and appeal, from Bergen county. He resided many years at Weehawken, Hudson county, and was the founder of the Weehawken ferry to New York City. He was a Democrat in politics, and was brought up a Methodist, but from religious convictions became an Episcopalian. He mar- ried (first), October 20, 1807, Jane McCamly, of Sussex county, New Jersey, who died April 10, 1833, and (second), March 18, 1840, Maria Louisa (Hart) Suckley, widow of Dr. Suck- ley, and daughter of John and Sarah Hart, of New York City, and a member of a family which included among its ranks John Hart, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Children, nine by first marriage, of whom six died in infancy.
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(IV) Edward Livingston, son of Hon. Fran- cis and Maria Louisa (Hart-Suckley) Price, was born in Waverly place, New York City, December 25, 1844, and is now living in New- -ark, New Jersey. He received his education at Dr. Cattell's Edgehill School, Princeton, New Jersey, at Dr. Woodhull's School, Free- hold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and at Dr. Pingrey's School in Newark. When he was sixteen years of age he entered the Union army as second lieutenant of Company E, Sev- enty-fourth Regiment New York Volunteers, and was shortly afterward promoted first lieu- tenant, serving as such from July, 1861, to April, 1862, when he was promoted by Major General Hooker on his personal staff as ord-
nance officer of Hooker's Division, Third Army Corps, serving as such with the Army of the Potomac, at the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and in the whole of the Peninsular campaign. In August, 1862, he was promoted major of his old regiment, Seventy-fourth New York, with which he served and which he commanded through Pope's campaign in Virginia, and the battles of Bristow Station, Second Manassas and Chantilly. February 18, 1863, he was pro- moted colonel of the One Hundred and Forty- fifth New York Volunteers, at which time he was only eighteen years old. He served with this regiment until January, 1864, and com- manded it at the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. This military record is most remarkable, and is one of which his descend- ants for all time have great reason to be proud. After the close of the war, Colonel Price re- turned home and entered as a student at law the office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, who be- came later an associate justice of the United States supreme court. Here he applied him- self vigorously and earnestly to his work, and in 1866 was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, in company with Garret A. Hobart, afterwards vice-president of the United States, and Andrew Kirkpatrick, later a judge of the United States district court in New Jersey. Colonel Price now located himself in Newark, where he entered upon and has since been continuously engaged in the practice of his pro- fession. His success was marked and imme- diate, and he soon rose to prominence, and for over forty years has stood in the front rank of New Jersey's legal lights. Having a strong power of analysis, a keen discrimination, and a quickly receptive mind, ne grasped with rapidity the essential points in a case, and never loses sight of the weak and assailable points in an argument. He has been connected
with most of the important litigation in eastern New Jersey since his admission to the bar. In 1865, when he had not quite reached his major- ity, but near enough to it for him to be twenty- one years of age when he took his seat, Colonel Price was elected a member of the general assembly, and in 1867 was re-elected to the same position. As a legislator he met the most sanguine hopes of his many friends, and ren- dered a service which gave abundant evidence of his unusual ability in legislative affairs. He is the author of many measures now found upon the statute books of the state, including the law creating the board of street and water commissioners of Newark and Jersey City, which made the wonderful and much needed change in that branch of municipal govern- ment in large cities. The law has stood the test of many courts, and thus far its provisions stand unchanged by a single adverse decision. His broad knowledge of constitutional law made his services especially valuable and Colo- nel Price was regarded as one of, if not the ablest, of the members of the house. For many years he was an active worker and effective speaker on behalf of the Democratic party. For many years he has been a member of the Essex county Democratic committee, and most of the time he has been the chairman of that body. He is especially effective as an organ- izer, and has led his party to victory through many campaigns. He has also been chairman of the Democratic state committee, where his work has been no less efficient. In the Newark municipal campaign of 1896 Colonel Price took a very active part in securing the election of Hon. James M. Seymour to the mayoralty, and it was a fitting and deserving reward that in May, 1896, he should have been appointed to the important position of corporation counsel, and should be reappointed to the same posi- tion by the same mayor after his re-elections in 1898 and 1900. Since his first appointment to that position, Colonel Price's work gave abundant evidence of the wisdom of the choice made by Mayor Seymour. He rendered many written and verbal opinions relating to city affairs which have met with the fullest ap- proval of courts and lawyers, and have the commendation of almost the entire bar. Colo- nel Price not only has abundant learning, gen- eral and legal, and a remarkable acumen, but he is also a politician of rare power and dis- crimination. His personality is commanding and pleasing, and his unfailing courtesy is manifested alike to all, he is easy of approach, possessed of a charitable and sympathetic
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nature, and endowed with all the distinctive characteristics which mark a man as the gentle- man born as well as bred.
Col. Price married (first), June 1, 1864, Emma, daughter of William and Mary Ann Marriott, of Newark, New Jersey, who was born in England, in 1843. He married (sec- ond), April 27, 1887, Frederica Theresa, daughter of Edward C. and Eve Elizabeth Eberhardt, of Newark, New Jersey, who was born in Newark, August 22, 1853. By his first wife the following children: I. Edward Liv- ingston, referred to below. 2. Frances Maria Josephine, born January 24, 1867; married, January 9, 1890, Edward Myer Spear, who was born April 1, 1863; child, Edward Ray- mond, born August 26, 1891. 3. Marie Louise, married Hugh Jones, of Lafayette, Sussex county, New Jersey, and later of Kansas City, Missouri ; two children. 4. Frances M.
(V) Edward Livingston (2), son of Ed- ward Livingston ( I) and Emma (Marriott) Price, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Oc- tober 4, 1866. For his early education he was sent to the Newark public schools, after leav- ing which he entered the employ of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. This was in 1882, and for seven years he remained in the office of the freight department of that railroad. Two years later, in 1889, he entered the United States railway mail service, running as one of the mail clerks between New York and Pitts- burg. Here he remained until 1891, when he accepted a position in the Jersey City Terminal of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which he re- tained until 1894, when he took up his present position in the office of the city comptroller of Newark. In politics Mr. Price is a Democrat, and in religious conviction a Roman Catholic.
Mr. Price married, October 2, 1893, Mary, daughter of John and Mary White, of Orange. Her elder brother and two younger sisters are John, Margaret and Annie White. Children of Edward Livingston and Mary (White) Price: Marian Livingston, born September 3, 1894; Edward Livingston, January 29, 1896; Rodman Francis, March 18, 1903.
At the conclusion of the TERHUNE treaty of peace between the Protestant and Catholic pow- ers in France, made June 24, 1573, the French Huguenots obtained the free exercise of their religious rights in such cities of security as Rochelle, Nimes and Montauban. This excep- tion to continue prosecution made the condi- tion of three hundred thousand Protestants,
who lived outside of these borders, the more unbearable, and resulted in a continuous flow of migrants beyond the French boundaries to Holland and across the English channel to Great Britain.
While it is generally conceded that no great movement was made before October 18, 1685, the date of the revocation of the edict of Nantes, the number then credited to the exodus resultant to the revocation and placed at four hundred thousand, include the steady flow of liberty-loving men and women, who for three generations had been making new homes out- side of Catholic France and who had been re- porting home the advantages they were en- joying in the free air of Holland and the great commercial advantages of England. These migrants included the most industrious, the most intelligent and the most religious of the people of northern France, who found new homes in Holland, Great Britain, Switzerland, Prussia and America. This great loss to France was largely merchants, manufacturers and skilled artisans, who gave the benefits of their superior knowledge, taste and aptitude to create wealth for the wiser governments, who wel- comed these forerunners of prosperity and saw in this influx of population a desirable citizenship, willing to build up and ever reluct- ant to tear down. Among this class of Hugue- not immigrants we find the early settlers of New Amsterdam, who formed the basis on which the commercial greatness of the metrop- olis of the new world was built.
(I) Albert Albertsen (or, as then written. Albertse), immigrant Huguenot ancestor of the Terhunes of New Amsterdam and princi- pally of Flatlands, Long Island, and Bergen county, East New Jersey, came probably from Hunen (Huynen) in Holland, where no doubt his parents had taken refuge. The first record we have of the immigrant is in New Amster- dam (New York), February 16, 1654, when Wolfret Webber brought a suit against Albert Albertse in the burgomasters and schepens court for services of his son, hired by Albertse. who was put on record as a "lientwever" (ribbon weaver), when he first came to New Amsterdam, and attempted to carry on his trade in the Dutch city. He next appears in 1657 as having rented and cultivated a farm on the Nyack or Najack tract in New Utrecht, Long Island, owned by Cornelius Van Werck- hoven and held for the heirs of the estate by Jaques Cortelyou. Here he evidently built a rude home, after the custom of the early Dutch farmers, consisting of a dugout cellar, covered
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by a heavy thatch of rye straw and generally located on a side hill so as to insure drainage and near a spring so as to secure a supply of fresh water. It was such a house that the director-general and council of New Amster- dam forced him to leave, after he had either destroyed or unroofed it, and move his family for safety against the Indians into the village of New Utrecht, where was to be made up of all isolated settlers for mutual protection.
This "garrison village," as they would have called it in New England, was built in 1660, but not until great opposition on the part of the disturbed farmers had been overcome by force of law, as it is recorded of Albert Al- bertse that he was fined fifty guilders by the director-general and council of New Amster- dam for non-conformity with the orders of the government, and when he refused to pay was imprisoned until he agreed to join in the erec- tion of the village of New Utrecht and he be- came the owner of one of the first twelve houses built in the village, which shows that he was not the only tardy or rebellious settler. The same year he became a land owner by pur- chasing fifty acres of land of Jacob Van Cou- wenhoven in the village of Flatlands, for which he was obliged to appear before the burgo- masters and schepens court in New Amster- dam in order to force Couwenhoven to give him a deed as provided in the agreement to purchase. The records of this court show that Albert Albertse was a party in several suits in 1660-61-62 and we note one against Wessel Gerrizen for a gun, sword and heavy belt, loaned Gerrizen at Christmas.
On July 16, 1660, he obtained a deed for a piece of land in Flatlands from Jacob Stend- man, the deed being recorded in Dutch, on page 214, of "Calendar of New York His- torical Manuscript." He sold the lease of his New Utrecht farm to Nathaniel Britton, April 3, 1664, and in 1665 purchased more of the Couwenhoven tract and a tract from Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff and on the Stoothoof land he erected a dwelling house. In 1675 his prop- erty in Flatlands was assessed for £58 sterling. His name, with that of his wife Geertje, ap- pears on the records of the Dutch Reformed Church at Flatlands as members. About this time he joined with Jaques Cortelyou and other residents of Flatlands, including the Gerret- sons, Van Winkles and Speirs in the purchase of the Aquaekanock ( Passaick) patent of five thousand acres of land on the Passaic river in Bergen county, East New Jersey, which pur- chase was the beginning of the settlement that
resulted in the town of Hackensack. The pro- prietors of the Aquaekanock patent received a conformatory patent from the governor-gen- eral and council of East New Jersey in 1685, as recorded on page 118, volume i., of the journal of the government and council.
The family, after settling in Polifly, after- wards known as Hasbrouck Heights, took on the name of Terhune, possibly from the name of Hunen or Huynen in Holland, making it Albert Albertse from Hunon, or Terhune. Al- bert Albertse died in Flatlands, Long Island, in New Amsterdam, 1685, and his widow Geertje in 1693. Children: I. Jan Albertse, see sketch. 2. Heyltje, baptized in New Amster- dam, January 12, 1650. 3. Albert, see for- ward. 4. Annetje, baptized in New Amster- dam, March 6, 1653. 5. Styntje, married Class Jansen Romeyn. 6. Sachie (Sarah), married Volkert Hans Van Nootstrant .*
(II) Albert (2), second son and third child of Albert (I) and Geertje Albertse, was born in New Utrecht, and baptized probably in the Dutch Reformed Church, on the fort at New Amsterdam, August 13, 1651. He was a farmer in Flatlands, Long Island, New York, where he was on the assessment rolls of the town 1675-76, and in 1683 his name again appears for property of thirty-five morgens (seventy acres ). After this time he removed to Passaic · patent, purchased by his father and other resi- dents of Flatlands (or it is possible he was himself the actual purchaser, instead of his father to whom the purchase is credited). His name is on the church records of the Dutch church in Flatlands, together with that of his first wife, as members in 1677, and his name appears on the records of the Dutch Reformed Church in Hackensack, 1689. He was a mem- ber of the New Jersey legislature in 1695-96, according to the records of the governor and council of the state (vol. 4, page 160, N. Y. B and G. Records). His will dated February 16, 1707-08, was proved September 20, 1709, and recorded on page 420 of liber number seven, in office of surrogate of New York. There appears to be no record of the date of his death except that conveyed by the date of his will and the time at which it was proven.
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