Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 62

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590

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(VII) Angelo (2), eldest child of Angelo (I) and Annie (Wise) Zabriskie, was born in' Paterson, February 7, 1886. He attended the public schools of Paterson. He then took up the study of dentistry by entering the Balti- more College of Dentistry, where he was grad- uated D. D. S. in 1907. He established him- self in the practice of his profession in Pater .. son, in which he met with immediate success and rapidly gained friends as well as practice among the very best class of people, and prom- ises to make his mark in the profession through his thorough mastering of the science and the skill which practice gives to his art. He makes his home with his widowed mother at 38 Tem- ple street, Paterson.

ZABRISKIE (V) Stephen Zabriskie, sixth son and ninth child of Al- bert (q. v.) and Metje ( Ack- erman) Zabriskie, was born in Paramus, Ber- gen county, New Jersey, January 13, 1801. He was brought up on his father's farm and fol- lowed that vocation during his entire life. He married Sarah Westervelt, January 1, 1824, and they had two children: I. David W., see forward. 2. Albert S., born about 1832: died 1902, in Suffern, Rockland county, New York,

where he was a practicing physician. He mar- ried (first) Elizabeth Winter, by whom he had no children, and (second) Maria C. Wan- maker, by whom he had three children: Mary, Catherine and Nellie.

(VI) David W., eldest child of Stephen and Sarah (Westervelt) Zabriskie, was born in Paramus, February 6, 1826. He was a farmer and lived upon the homestead farm at Paramus, where he died May 3, 1888. He married (first ), January 23, 1845, Maria Van Wagner, who died December 7, 1848, leaving no sur- viving children. He married (second), Octo- ber 6, 1849, Catherine, daughter of John H. Hopper, by whom he had two children, born on the homestead farm in Paramus: I. Sarah, November 6, 1850; died unmarried, March 5, 1871. 2. Nelson, see forward.

(VII) Nelson, only son and second child of David W. and Catherine (Hopper) Za- briskie, was brought up on his father's farm, attended the public school at Paramus, and the University of the City of New York (New York University) ; he was graduated from the law school connected with the university, where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1875. He then served two years in a law office, and was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established himself in practice. At the present time (1909) he has law offices at 45 Broadway, New York, and ranks among the leading attorneys and counsellors at law in that city. He was a gen- erous supporter of the Pringle Memorial Home for Aged Men at Poughkeepsie, New York, and served as secretary of the corporation. He married (first), June 20, 1894, Viola C. Betts, of New York City, and by this marriage had two children, born in New York City: I. Viola, October 18, 1896. 2. Gladys, February 22, 1899. His first wife died November II, 1904, and he married (second), December 5, 1906, Harriet R., daughter of Charles R. and Martha (Wandell) Stillwell, and their son Nelson Jr. was born January 18, 1908.

(V) Simeon Zabriskie, fourth ZABRISKIE son and sixth child of Al- bert (q. v.) and Metje (Ack-

erman) Zabriskie, was born in Paramus, New Jersey, September 20, 1794. He mar- ried Mary Suffern, and among their children was Simeon Templeton, see forward.

(VI) Simeon Templeton, son of Simeon and Mary (Suffern) Zabriskie, was born in Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, Feb- ruary 13, 1847. He was educated at the public and private schools of Hackensack, and on

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leaving school engaged in commercial pursuits in connection with the lumber trade at Passaic, New Jersey. "Brown" Ackerman had in 1812 established a lumber yard on the wharf of the Passaic river in that town, and he was succeed- ed by Peter Jackson who was followed by the firm of Post & Anderson, and this firm was the predecessor of Anderson Brothers, with whom Mr. Zabriskie learned the business. In 1876, with W. S. Anderson, of the late firm of Ander- son Brothers, the firm of W. S. Anderson & Company was formed, of which firm Mr. Za- briskie was the junior partner. The business was continued in the same yard established in 1812 by Brown Ackerman, and on the death of WV. S. Anderson in 1887 the business was re- organized as the Anderson Lumber Company, with Simeon T. Zabriskie as secretary and treasurer, later becoming president of this cor- poration, which was still in active operation in 1909, with Mr. Zabriskie still holding the office of president. The little yard of Brown Ackerman on one side of the Passaic river had been enlarged to meet the requirements of in- creased patronage, and in 1909 had a dockage of two thousand feet fronting on either side of the river which was spanned by the Passaic county bridge and connected with the yards were six hundred feet of railway track on which lumber was switched to and from the main line of the Erie railway. The yards are in both Passaic and Wallington, and the trans- portation is largely by vessels on the Passaic river. Besides lumber, the company deal with all sorts of building material. The company also operate large planing mills at Wallington, New Jersey, and the rapid growth of the suburban towns in Bergen and Passaic coun- ties offered an excellent market. Mr. Zabriskie is one of the most prominent and enterprising business men in the city of Passaic, a member of the board of trade, and connected with many local enterprises calculated to advance the business interests of the city and adjacent country. His line of direct descent from the ancient family of Sobieski-John III., king of Poland, 1674-96, through Alberdt, a brother of James Sobrieski, and cousin of the king of Poland, who established himself in Amster- dam, Holland, and came thence in 1662 to New Amsterdam, and thence became a great landed proprietor in Bergen county, New Jersey, gave Simeon T. Zabriskie a right to claim royal lineage and membership in the Holland Society of New York. A study of the prominent Hol- land names interwoven with this Polish exile, who found a home in Holland and subsequently

in New Jersey, in the marriages of successive generations, is one of interest heightened by the labyrinth of property into which the gene- alogist finds himself involved. Simeon T. Za- briskie married, April 19, 1871, Anne Euphe- mia Westervelt, born April 7, 1847, daughter of Rev. Samuel D. and Katherine (Earle) Westervelt, and their only child, Fred Temple- ton Zabriskie, was in the seventh generation from Alberdt, the immigrant.

(VII) Fred Templeton, only child of Sim- eon Templeton and Anna E. (Westervelt) Za- briskie, was born in Hackensack, March 26. 1872. He was prepared for college in the best preparatory schools of New York City, and was graduated at Columbia University, A. B., 1893, and at the New York College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons connected with the uni- versity, M. D., 1895. He established himself in the practice of his profession in New York City, to which place his parents had removed, and while in the full tide of success in his pro- fession to which he had devoted his best ener- gies and most careful study, after a medical career of ten years of brilliant success, he be- came a victim to disease which he had so suc- cessfully fought in the cases of his numerous patients, and he died unmarried, November 5, 1905.

ZABRISKIE (VI) John Beekman Za- briskie, son of Albert (q. v. ) and Heyltje (Van Buren ) Zabriskie, was born September 18, 1815. He married Patience Morgan, and lived in New York City. Children : Edward, William Cum- mings, J. Albert.

(VII) Edward, eldest son of John Beekman and Patience ( Morgan) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, August 31, 1842; died there, September 27, 1897. At the time of his death he was connected with the Manhattan Ele- vated Railroad in New York City, having been with the same since its organization. He mar- ried, December 24, 1862, Mary Eliza, born in Butler, New York, August 1, 1842, died in New York City, May 6, 1897, daughter of Abram and Sarah Jane (Stone) Conklin. Chil- dren : 1. George Henry, born October 1, 1863. at New York City; died April 1, 1864. 2. John William, see forward. 3. Mary Jane, May 17, 1867, at Matawan, New Jersey ; died unmarried, June 6, 1902.

(VIII) John William, second son of Ed- ward and Mary Eliza (Conklin) Zabriskie, was born in the town of Union, Keyport, New Jersey, January 16, 1866. He was educated

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in the public schools of New York City, where his father was engaged in the railroad business, and in early manhood entered business as a clerk in the stationery and job printing busi- ness. In 1894 he became associated with the firm of Sears & White, No. I William street, New York City, and in 1905, when the busi- ness was incorporated under the name of the W. W. White Manufacturing Company, he was made secretary of the corporation. He early developed musical talent as a vocalist, and for over thirty years has been identified with church music in New York, being attach- ed to the choirs of several of the promi- nent Protestant Episcopal churches of New York and Brooklyn. He sustained solo parts, and was also heard in concerts, musicales, etc. His fraternal affiliation is with the Royal Ar- canum as a member of Our Council, No. 252, of New York City, and with the Ancient Order of United Workmen through Compass Lodge, No. 35, of New Jersey. He married, July 7, 1902, Grace M., daughter of Ezra and Mary (Many) Merritt, and they made their home in Brooklyn, New York, where their children were born: I. Helen Mabel, May II, 1903; died May 18, 1903. 2. Mary Helen, April 17, 1906. 3. Grace Adele, March 31, 1908. In 1909 they removed to New Jersey where they reside at Hudson Heights, Bergen county.

ZABRISKIE (VII) William Cummings Zabriskie, second son of John Beekman (q. v. ) and Heyltje (Van Buren) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, November 18, 1844, and died in that city, November 13, 1889. He engaged in the pro- duce commission business in New York City. He married Marion Hastings, and they had three children: I. William Hastings ; see for- ward. 2. Edson Morgan, born April 10, 1870. 3. Elmer Thomas, February 8, 1878.

(VIII) William Hastings, eldest child of William Cummings and Marion (Hastings) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, August 5, 1870. He was graduated in the public schools of the city, and on leaving the grammar school he was employed as a clerk in a whole- sale commission house. In 1892 he resigned this situation to take a position in the county clerk's office of Bergen county, New Jersey, as a deputy county clerk. He remained in this position up to 1899, when he resigned to organ- ize the North Jersey Title Guarantee Company of Hackensack, New Jersey, and accepted the position of general manager of the corporation. Under his management the business proved

satisfactory, and in 1902 he was elected secre- tary of the board of directors, which position he was holding in 1909. He was elected treas- urer of the consistory of the Second Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack in 1902, and is still the custodian of the finances of the church. He was elected a member of the Holland Soci- ety of New York City. Mr. Zabriskie married, June 22, 1898, Genevieve A. Byrd, and their children were born in Hackensack, New Jer- sey: I. Kenneth Hastings, June 7, 1900. 2. Marjorie Horton, March 9, 1903. 3. Marion Byrd, January 16, 1906. These children are in the ninth generation from Alberdt, the immi- grant, 1662, and Machtelt (Van der Linde) Saboroski, original settlers in Bergen county, New Jersey, where they married December 17, 1676.

(VII) John Albert Zabriskie, ZABRISKIE third son of John Beekman (q. v.) and Patience (Mor- gan) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, July II, 1847. He engaged in the decorating and painting business in New York City, and was still engaged in that business in 1909. He married Martha, daughter of George and Mary (Lyon) Knox, August 15, 1867, and they had three children : George Albert ; John Thomas, and Edward Cornell, all further mentioned below.

(VIII) George Albert, eldest child of John Albert and Martha (Knox) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, December 7, 1868. He was educated in the public schools of New York City, and on leaving the grammar school engaged in the grain and flour business, and in 1883 was made a member of the New York Produce Exchange. He is still (1909) an active flour merchant, and a director in various commercial enterprises. His fraternal affilia- tions included the Masonic fraternity, in which he became a thirty-second degree Mason, and he was made by right of inheritance a member of the Holland Society of New York. Mr. Zabriskie is unmarried.

(VIII) John Thomas, second child of John Albert and Martha (Knox) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, August 8, 1870. He engaged with his father in the painting and decorating business in New York City. He married Bessie Stimson Haines, of Waterbury, Vermont, October 4, 1898.

(VIII) Edward Cornell, third child of John Albert and Martha (Knox) Zabriskie, was born in New York City, October 20, 1873, and in 1909 he was principal in the New York

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public school system. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1893, and was a post-graduate student in Teachers College, and in Columbia and Harvard Uni- versities. His collegiate honors included mem- bership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. Mr. Zabriskie married Gertrude Isabel Quintard, daughter of Edward Augustus and Mary (Skiddy) Quintard, on June 29, 1897, and they have two children: George Albert, born May 1, 1898, and William Isleworth, born October 9, 1899. These children are in the ninth generation from Albert Saborowski, the immigrant who came from Poland to New York City in 1662.

SUTPHEN On the right bank of the Yssel, at its junction with Berkel, in the Netherlandish province of Guelderland, and by rail twenty miles south of Deventer and nineteen north- east of Arnheim, lies the fortified town of Zut- phen, with its church of St. Walburga, dating from the twelfth century and containing sev- eral interesting monuments of the counts of Zutphen ; its chapter house, preserving a small but very valuable library of medieval manu- scripts and books ; its tanning, weaving, oil and paper manufactures, and its trade in grain and timber floated down from the Black Forest by the Rhine and the Yssel. At one time Zut- phen belonged to the Hanseatic league, and had an extensive foreign trade. It has played a most important part in the making of the be- ginnings of modern Germany and Holland, was more than once besieged, and it was be- fore this town that September 22, 1586, Sir Philip Sidney received his mortal wound and gave his cup of water to the dying soldier. From here also came many of the pioneers of New Netherland, and among these the founder of the Sutphen, Sutphin, Sutfin and Sutvan families, so long identified with New Jersey history and progress.

(I) Dirck Janse van Zutphen (that is, Dirck, son of Jan), from Zutphen, came to New Netherland in 1651 and settled first at New Amsterdam, where he remained but a short while, removing to Flatbush, Long Island, where he made his home for a number of years, married and had several of his children baptized. The dates of Dicrk's birth and death are unknown. His will, recorded in volumes preserved in the office of the New York surro- gate, liber 7, folio 319, is dated September 4, 1702, and was proved October 29, 1707. June 21, 1681, he sold his farm at Flatbush to

Denyse Theunise for four lots of woodland lying together at Yellow Hoek (i. e. Bay Ridge), New Utrecht, Long Island, and situ- ated on the north side of land belonging to Rutger Joesten van Brunt, and subject to a lease of three and a half of the lots to Gerrit Stoffelse. As a bonus to the trade, Denyse Theunise also agreed to build for Dirck a boat eighteen feet long, wood measure, and a barn and barrack on the lots. (See Flushing rec- ords, liber AA, folio 155). This New Utrecht farm, on which Dirck spent the remainder of his life, included lots 7 to 10, Bay Ridge, and is at present bounded by 7Ist and 79th streets, Second avenue and New York bay. In 1686 Dirck's name appears among the patentees of New Utrecht in the charter granted to the town by Governor Dongan, and the following year (1687) he took the oath of allegiance to the English crown, stating that he had been a resident of New Netherland thirty-six years. In 1698 the census of New Utrecht states that his household consisted of himself, his wife and eight children, besides three negro slaves worth £30 each. The last reference to him in the records is in 1706, when he was assessed for 164 acres of land in New Utrecht. By his will he devised his New Utrecht farm to Jacobus, his eldest son, who was to buy up and pay off the interests of his brothers and sisters in the property, who in 1718 sold this farm to Jan Pietersen for f300, but after making the sale he found out that according to the terms of his father's will he could not give a valid title until his brother Dirck Jr. was twenty-one years of age; consequently Jacobus bought back the place for £280 and held it until 1724, when, the conditions of the will being fulfilled. he made another sale of the property to Pieter- sen. The reason for this sale was the fact that all of Dirck Janse's surviving sons removed about 1716 or 1717 to Freehold, New Jersey, one of them, however, Abraham Dirckse, stop- ping on the way at Staten Island. In conse- quence, the Sutphen name disappeared from the records and history of New Netherland and New York, although the blood continued to be represented by several of Dirck's daughters and their descendants.

Towards the latter part of his stay at Flat- bush, Dirck Janse van Zutphen married Lys- beth, daughter of Jan van Nuyse, of their eleven children, some were baptized at Flat- bush, the others at New Utrecht, of whom eight reached maturity and married, and three died in infancy or childhood. These children were : I. Hendrikje, baptized December 18, 1681,

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at Flatbush ; witnesses : Jan Aukerz and Evertje Jans his wife. She married (first) Pieter Turckse; (second) Benjamin, second child and eldest son of Jan van Cleef, the emigrant, and Engeltje, daughter of Louwerens Pieterse. By her second marriage. Hendrikje Dirckse had children : Lysbeth, Johannes, Dirck, Marytje, Dirckje, Benjamin, Nelke, Louwerens, Helena, Joseph, Elsje, and Antje. Her descendants are almost all of them in New Jersey. 2. Jacobus Dirckse, referred to below. 3. Jan Dirckse, baptized December 18, 1685, at Flatbush, by Dominie Varick ; died young. 4. Jan Dirckse (2d), baptized at Flatbush, February 6, 1687; married Engeltje Bennet; in 1709 became a member of the Dutch Church at Freehold, New Jersey ; children, all baptized in Freehold : Jan, married Catryntje Langstraat; Agnietje, wife of Jan Wilmse ; Anneke, wife of Andriaes Voorhees ; Isaac; Elizabeth, wife of Mattheus Laen ; Benjamin, married Eyda van Meteren. Geertje Dirckse was baptized in the Flatbush church, and died young. Dirck Dirckse mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Aert Teunisse van Pelt; left New Utrecht after his marriage; was a member of the Dutch church at Free- hold, 1713-31 ; children: Dirck, married Jan- neje Voorhees ; Aert, married Maria Schenck ; Jan, married Neeltje van Pelt; Petrus; and Abram. Guisbert Dirckse is referred to below. Abraham Dirckse, baptized at New Utrecht, September 25, 1696; married Mayke (or May- rytje) Barkelow ; settled first on Staten Island, and about 1720 at Freehold, New Jersey ; chil- dren: Grietje; Elizabeth; Abraham; Maria ; Antje; Jannetje; Abraham (2d) ; Jacob; Cor- nelius ; Antje (2d). Of Isaac Dirckse noth- ing more is known. Elsje Dirckse married Herman Gerritse. Elizabeth Dirckse, born April 6, 1699, married Daniel Lake.

(II) Jacobus Dirckse, second child and eld- est son of Dirck Janse van Zutphen and Lys- beth Janse van Nuyse, was baptized at Flat- bush, January 20, 1684. He inherited from his father the home plantation, and remained on it a number of years, becoming one of the important personages in New Utrecht, where he was made in 1713 a deacon in the Dutch church, which position he retained until 1717, when he removed to Freehold, New Jersey, whither his brothers, Jan, Dirck, Guisbert and Abraham, had already gone. As has been already related he sold his father's plantation in 1718 to Jan Pietersen, bought it back again six weeks later, and resold it to the same buyer in 1724. In all these deeds he is styled "late of New Utrecht, now of Freehold, New Jer-

sey." In 1721 his name appears upon the list of the members of the Dutch Church at Free- hold; and on documents he signed his name "Jacob van Zutvin," or "Jacob Sutvin."

About 1716 Jacobus Dirckse married Nelke Bennet ; children: Jan Sutphen, baptized Jan- uary 20, 1717, in Flushing, died young ; Dirck Sutphen, referred to below ; Jacobus Sutphen, born 1720; William, twin with Jacobus; Jan Sutphen, baptized in Freehold, October 18, 1722, married Marytje Cowenhoven; Antje Sutphen, born 1725; Isaac Sutphen, baptized May 22, 1730, married Jannetje Barkelow ; David Sutphen, born 1732.

(III) Dirck Sutphen, second child and son of Jacobus Dirckse and Nelke Bennet, was born in Freehold, New Jersey, in 1719, and died in Monmouth county, in 1796. In 1776 there were in Freehold township among the taxpayers three Dircks, a Cornelius, and an Abram Sutphen. These were Abram and Dirck Sutphen, sons of Dirck Dirckse, son of Dirck Janse van Zutphen; Cornelius, son of Abra- ham Dirckse; Dirck, son of Guisbert Dirckse, and Dirck, son of Jacob Dirckse. When the Declaration of Independence was signed Dirck Dirckse's Dirck was sixty-four years old, Guis- bert Dirckse's Dirck was sixty, and Jacob Dirckse's Dirck was fifty-seven, being young- est of the three. Consequently it is most prob- able that he is the "Derrick" Sutphen who was sergeant in Captain Waddell's company, first regiment of the first establishment, and later sergeant of Captain Smock's artillery com- pany. In Captain Walton's troop of light dra- goons are found the names of three of his sons as privates-Joseph, John and David. Dirck Sutphen's will, written January 7, 1795, when he was seventy-six years old, proved July 21, 1796, at Freehold, is historically a very inter- esting document from the fact that it proves the tradition of the family that the battle of Monmouth was fought over the three farms which belonged to Dirck's sons. It is as fol- lows :

"In the Name of God Amen. I Dirck Sutphen son of Jacob Sutphen, in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, being in good health and of sound mind and memory do make and constitute this my last Will and Testament. To my dear and beloved son Joseph Sutphen I give and bequeath that part of my lands on which he now lives, be- ginning at an appletree standing in the fence along the road that leads from the bridge near Mr. Wood- hull's schoolhouse to Mary Perrines thence from the said appletree nearly north in a straight line to a mapletree marked for the purpose at the brook that runs along the north side of my land thence

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from said mapletree down the brook to Henry Per- rines land thence from the brook nearly a south course along the line between Henry Perrines land and mine to the South East corner of the said Per- rines land and the North East corner of my wood- land thence from said corner nearly west along Henry Perrines line to the mouth of the lane that leads to his house then southerly and by west along the said Perrines line to three hickory sap- lings standing together and marked for this pur- pose thence nearly east as the trees are marked for the purpose to my cleared land again thence along the fence to the road before mentioned and thence Easterly along the road to the appletree marked as the beginning corner. I also give and bequeath to my said son Joseph the bed with all its furniture which usually stands in the room called the Byroom. To my beloved son Daniel I give and bequeath the bed with all its furniture on which I have usually slept. To my beloved son John I give and bequeath the clock and the bed with all its furniture which usually stands in the stair room. To my beloved son David I give and bequeath £100 the bed on which he has usually slept with all its furniture, the weavers shop and the looms which he has commonly used together with all its utensils. To my beloved daughter Naomi Tone I give and bequeath the cupboard which usually stands in the by room. To my beloved daughter Rebeckah Sutfin I give and be- queath £100 also the bed on which she has usually slept with all its furniture and the cupboard which stands in the common room. The residue of my estate I give and bequeath to my two sons John and David. To my dear and beloved children, Mary Van Arsdalen, Daniel Sutfin, Sarah Freeman Joseph Sutfin John Sutfin Naomi Tone David Sutfin and Rebeckah Sutfin I give and bequeath all my re- maining moveable estate. I constitute and appoint my sons Daniel and David with my son-in-law Jacob Van Artsdalen the executors of this my last Will and Testament. And now my dear and beloved children my last words to you are live in peace and love with each other and may the God of peace and love dwell with you Amen."

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Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 62

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 590

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590