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This property is now owned by the children of Benjamin and Rebecca (Summerill) Black, the latter having inherited the property from her father. When his children were still young, William Summerill lost his wife, and soon after her death he left the township of Penn's Neck and settled in Pittsgrove, Salem county, where he married a widow by the name of Elwell. Here he remained for the rest of his life, and died at an extremely advanced age. By each of his wives he had two children -two boys by the first, and two girls by the second. These children were: I. Joseph, set- tled in Wilmington, Delaware, and engaged in the shipping and blacksmithing business. He had two sons and two daughters. The daugh- ters married sea captains ; the sons engaged in business in Philadelphia, but failed and moved into the interior of Pennsylvania, where they founded the branches of the family now found there and further west. 2. John, referred to below. 3. A daughter. 4. Another daughter, married Newkirk, and became mother of Garrett and Mathew Newkirk, the famous merchants of early Philadelphia.
(II) John, younger son of William and Mary Summerill, was born in Upper Penn's Neck, Salem county, New Jersey. He owned and lived on the property that his father pur- chased when he first settled in New Jersey. The old mansion house in which he and his father lived was burned during the war of the revolution by a marauding party from the British fleet that was lying in the Delaware river opposite Helm's Cove. There is now a large iron pot in the possession of the Sum- merill family that was in the old family man- sion when it was burned. John Summerill died while comparatively a young man, and left a widow, four sons, and two daughters. His widow lived for many years after his death, carried on the farm, and raised and edu- cated her family of six small children. She never married again. His wife was Naomi, daughter of Thomas and Hannah ( Procter ) Carney. Her father, Thomas, was one of the Irish emigrants who came over about the same time that William Summerill did, and settled between the mouth, on the Delaware river, of Bout creek and Heuby creek, his lands ex- tending back to Game creek. He married the daughter of John Procter, one of the largest landholders in Salem county at that day, and he died May 16, 1784, and was buried in St. George's churchyard, Churchtown, Lower Penn's Neck. His children were: Thomas Jr., died unmarried in 1778; Peter, who died
leaving two daughters; Naomi, referred to above; and Mary, married Henry Jeans, and whose only child Mary married Joseph Stout, a descendant of the famous Penelope Stout of Monmouth county. Children of John and Naomi (Carney) Summerill: 1. John Jr., re- ferred to below. 2. Joseph, married Mary Linmin; children: William, and Mary, who married Stephen Straughn. 3. Thomas, mar- ried Elizabeth Borden. 4. William, died young, unmarried. 5. Mary, married (first) Mr. Clark,-(second) John Holton. 6. Rebecca.
(III) John Jr., son of John and Naomi (Carney ) Summerill, was a successful agricul- turist and at his death was the owner of a large quantity of excellent land in the town- ship of Upper Penn's Neck. He lived to be nearly four-score years, and when he died left four sons and three daughters. By his mar- riage with Christiana Holton, he had nine chil- dren: I. James. 2. Josiah; both died young. 3 Naomi, married Robert, son of James and Elizabeth Newell. 4. Garnet, who lived on the property formerly owned and occupied by Peter, son of Thomas Carney, the immigrant. His wife was Mary Borden, of Sharpstown. 5. William, who lived at Upper Penn's Neck, and by his wife, Hannah Vanneman, had sons Josiah and Daniel Vanneman. William was a judge of the Salem county court and one of the directors of the Canal Meadow Company, an enterprise projected as early as 1801, and which after several vicissitudes was finally completed many. years later and added three- fold to the fertility and profits of the lands drained by it. 5. Ann, married Elias Kaighn, of Camden, New Jersey. 6. Rebecca, referred to above, married Benjamin Black. 7. Joseph Carney, who is referred to below. 8. John (3d), died in 1865, aged sixty-two years, eleven years after his father. In early life he was an active politician ; as a young man was elected to the state legislature, and was later chosen state senate. By his wife, Emily Parker, he had two sons-John (4th), and Joseph Car- ney, both of whom lived at Helm's Cove, and both of whom are now deceased.
It is a singular circumstance connected with the Carney and Summerill families, that Naomi (Carney) Summerill's descendants, now, after the lapse of over a century, owned the larger part of the landed estate that belonged to her father, Thomas Carney, Sr., the emigrant.
(IV) Joseph Carney, son of John and Chris- tiana (Holton) Summerill, was born at Penn's Grove, New Jersey, February 4, 1821. and died in that place, February 16, 1882. He was a
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Methodist clergyman, and during a long life in the ministry, proved himself one of the most faithful and efficient servants of that de- nomination. He married Sarah Jane, born April 10, 1824, daughter of Daniel Vanneman, a large landowner and store-keeper at Penn's Grove, New Jersey. Her father was the son of John and Charity Vanneman; her grand- father the son of Andrew Vanneman, and her great-grandfather the son of Peter and Re- becca (Pitman) Vanneman, of Salem county, New Jersey. Her ancestry goes back to the early Swedish occupancy of the Delaware. Children of Joseph Carney and Sarah Jane (Vanneman ) Summerill: 1. Hannah Vanne- man, married James White, of Harrison town- ship, Gloucester, New Jersey ; children : Sam- uel Henry, James Stratton and Sarah Sum- merill. 2. Christiana Rogers, born at Clayton, New Jersey ; married Rev. William R. Rogers ; children : William Harlow, and Sarah Jane. 3. Emma Louisa, married William Diver, of Penn's Grove; children: Joseph Summerill and William Rogers. 4. Joseph John, referred to below. 5. Thomas Carney Jr. 6. Daniel Vanneman, born at Pennsville, New Jersey ; married Eleanor Johnson, of Penn's Grove, is now an attorney in Camden, New Jersey.
(V) Joseph John, oldest son of Rev. Joseph Carney and Sarah Jane (Vanneman) Sum- erill, was born at Haleyville, Cumberland coun- ty, New Jersey, July 23, 1859, and is now living at Woodbury, Gloucester county, New Jersey. For his early education he attended the public schools at Harrisonville. He was then sent to the school at Mullica Hill, Gloucester county. and still later to a private school kept by George D. Horner. He was then prepared for college at Pennington Seminary and enter- ed Princeton University in the fall of 1878, but owing to trouble with his eyes was obliged to leave college before his graduation. After a rest his eyes became better and he took up the reading of law with Messrs. Bergen & Bergen, a law firm in Camden, New Jersey. Subsequently he entered the law school of the University of Virginia, and after leaving that institution took up the courses at the Albany Law School, Albany, New York. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in the November term of the supreme court, 1887, and as a counsellor in the November term, 1890. In his practice he has made a specialty of corporation and real estate law. and has built up a large successful and lucrative practice at Woodbury, New Jersey, where he h office and his home. In politics Mr.
Summerill is a Democrat with independent proclivities. He is a member of the New Jer- sey Bar Association, and of the Gloucester County Bar Association, and a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He has never held any public office.
Rev. Joseph John Summerill married, Sep- tember 17, 1890, Althea M., daughter of Charles W. Simpers, of Cecil county, Mary- land. They have three children: 1. Joseph John Jr., born August 8, 1891, now at the William Penn Charter School. 2. Gertrude Rittenhouse, born December 14, 1893, now at Miss Hills' private school, Philadelphia. 3. Charles West-Leigh, born February 1I, 1909.
There are several traditions MERSELIS regarding the racial origin of this family, and it may be said that not all chroniclers of its history are agreed in respect to the manner of spelling the surname now generally recognized and written as Merselis. Nor is this surprising when we consider the fact that those sturdy old Holland Dutch immigrants came to America without family names and when finally such were adopted they frequently were spelled phonetic- ally rather than in accordance with established family custom. A. A. Vosterman Van Oyen, keeper of the Heraldic College genealogical archives of the Netherlands, in one of his publications says "although the ancestor of the family known to us and belonging to the Danish nobility was born at Hamburg it seems, however, that the family originated from some other place, very likely Denmark. Several patrician families of this name lived in Bel- gium, whose coat armour, however, not only differ each from the other, but also do not show any comparison with the different branches raised to the Danish nobility." J. B. Rietstap, in his "Coat Armor of the Nether- land Nobility," mentions a coat of arms as follows : "in silver an elephant in natural color upon a meadow whereon are three trees: the one in the middle is placed before the elephant. This animal carries upon his back a tower, from which a female rises in red or seen from aside. The crest is the elephant with the tower and female." He claims this to be a coat patented to a Van Marselis September 17. 1643. The first Van Marselis of the Nether- lands to whom the American branch can trace its ancestry in unbroken line is
(I) Jan Van Marselis, born in the early part of the year 1500, married N. N. Van der March. Their son
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(II ) Jan Van Marselis married Dina Van Duffel d'Elswith. Their son
(III) Gabriel Van Marselis, resident at Commissary of the King of Denmark at Ham- burg, married Anna Ehrmit d'Ermitage, and died at Hamburg, July 20, 1643. They had four sons-Gabriel, Pieter, Leonard and Sil- lius, and one daughter.
(IV) Pieter Van Marselis, son of Gabriel and Anna Ehrmit (d'Armitage ) Van Marselis, was born in Hamburg, in the early part of 1600. He represented Russia at the court of Denmark and was elevated to the Danish nobility September 17, 1643, and granted the coat of armor described by Rietstap in his "Coat Armor of the Netherland Nobility." He was progenitor of the American branch of the Van Marselis family. He left Amsterdam, Holland, in April, 1661, with his wife and four children ( aged respectively twelve, six, four and two years) and with two servants, in the Dutch West India ship "Beaver" (or "Bever") and arrived at New Amsterdam (New York) May 9 same year. The ship's register shows that he paid two hundred thirty- two florins passage money for his family of eight persons, from which it is evident that our immigrant ancestor was possessed of good- ly means as well as being a person of conse- quence. He soon removed to Bergen, New Jersey, settled there, and died in 1682. His wife died there in 1680. The place where he settled was then a Dutch hamlet and Indian trading post on the hill between the Hudson river and Newark bay, in the Indian county of Scheyichbi, in the New Netherlands. There he acquired lands and became a planter. He was appointed schepen (alderman) of Bergen county, August 18, 1673, during the reoccu- pation of New Netherlands by the Dutch, and as a mark of honor was buried under the Dutch Church of Bergen, at his death, Septem- ber 4, 1682. On August 20, 1682, he conveyed property to his son-in-law, Roeloff Van Hou- ten.
In this connection it is well to mention that this Pieter Van Marselis is identical with him of whom Riker records as Pieter Marcelisen, or Peter Marcelis, and who, according to the same authority, was born in Beest, near Leer- dam, province of Utrecht, Holland; and he is the same Pieter Marcelisen referred to by Neafie, himself a descendant of Pieter, and who says in his historical narrative that Pieter "might have been born in Leerdam, but when he came to America he was from the village of Beest, near the town of Buren, in the prov-
ince of Gelderland," and also that at least three of his children were born in Beest. Riker also notes that he is said to have been Van Beest, which means "from Beest." It may be stated here that this Pieter Van Marselis dropped the prefix Van from his name.
According to Harvey, the historian of Ber- gen county, the children of Pieter Marcelisen were James, Jannetje, Pieter, Merselis, Eliza- beth and Hillegond. Mr. Labaw says "the name and sex of the first one we do not know ;" that the second was called Marcelis (always called Marcelis Pieterse) ; the third Jannetje, who married Roelof Helmigse Van Houten ; and the fourth Neesje Pieterse, who married Gerrit Gerritsen, Jr. But Mr. Labaw takes account only of the four children of Pieter who accompanied their parents to America. A more recent and perhaps more accurate ac- count of the children of Pieter Van Marcelis is as follows: I. Hessil Pieterse, married (first) Lysbot Kuper, (second) February 6. 1714, Magdelena Bruyn. 2. Marcelis Pieterse (see post). 3. Jannetje Pieterse, married Sep- tember 3, 1676, Helmigh Roelofer Van Hou- ten, ancestor of all the American Van Hou- tens. 4. Neesje Pieterse, married May II, 1681, Gerrit Gerritse Van Wageningen, and became ancestor of the Van Wagoner and Garritse families.
(V) Marcelis Pieterse Van Marselis, sec- ond child of Pieter Van Marselis, or Mer- celisen, is accorded progenitorship of the Preakness families of the Merselis surname. He died October 23, 1747, aged ninety-one years, hence was born about 1656. He mar- ried, May 12, 1681, Pieterjie Van Vorst, daugh- ter of Ide and Hieletje (Hulda) Jans. She was baptized in 1659 and died September 3. 1744. Children (perhaps others of whom ap- pears.no record ) : I. Elizabeth, baptized April 18, 1682; married, April 21, 1701, Adrian Post, Jr. 2. Hillegontje, born September 27. 1684; married, May 30, 1707, Harpert Garra- bant. 3. Pieter ( Peter), (see post). 4. Edo, baptized September 15, 1690 (see post). 5. Annetje, born March 24, baptized April IO, 1694. 6. Catreyna, born November 17, or 18, baptized December 6, 1696; married, April 17, 1737, Reynier Van Geisen. 7. Leena, born August II, baptized August 27, 1699 ; married. before 1731, Dirck Van Giesen; lived in old stone house still ( 1902) standing on Totown avenue, Paterson. 8. Jannetje, born about 1701 ; married, November 26, 1717, Johanna Van Zolingen.
(VI) Pieter Van Marselis. son of Marcelis
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(or Merselis Pieterse) Van Marselis, was bap- tized July 17, 1687, and died April 1, 1770. He married, December 3, 1717, Janneke Prior, who was baptized at Bergen, January 24, 1699, and died October 3, 1779. Children (bap- tismal names of several unknown) : I. Mer- selis, born September 7, 1718, died October 28, 1800; married before 1754, Elizabeth Vlier- boom, born October 5, 1730, died February II, 1823 ; ten children. 2. Child, died in infancy. 3. Daughter, born October 29, 1730. 4. Pieter, baptized April 15, 1723, at Bergen ; married in New York, May 5, 1750, Hannah Elsworth. 5. Andries, born February 14. 1725. 6. John, born about 1727 : married in New York, Au- gust 30, 1755, Beletje Van Wagonen. 7. Edo, born January 27, 1729 (see post ). 8. Child, died in infancy. 9. Child, name unknown, born October 15. 1732, probably died in infancy. IO. Antje, baptized March 4, 1735. II. Jo- hannes, born January 17, 1737. 12. Jenneke. October 26, 1740, baptized Hackensack, Janu- ary 4, 1741 ; married Gerrit Sip. 13. Rachel. 14. Mary. 15. Elizabeth.
(VII) Edo Van Merselis, seventh child of Pieter and Janneke ( Prior) Van Merselis, was born January 27, 1729, and died October 12, 1799. He is said to have been the first Merselis to settle in what afterward became Wayne township, where he had a large and valuable tract of land which after his death was divided into several small farms ; his old homestead is still owned by his descendants. He made a public donation of land for a burial-ground and meetinghouse site. He married, April II, 1754. Ariantje Sip, born May 30, 1732, died at Preakness, May 20, 1813, daughter of Ide and Antje (Van Wagonen) Sip. Children (may have been others of whom no record ) : I. Antje, born March 28, 1755, died April 19, 1805; married, before 1776, Simeon Van Winkle, born April 4, 1752, died December 23. 1814. 2. Jannetje, born about 1757 ; mar- ried ( first ) before 1776, Adrian Van Houten, ( second ) before 1780, Enoch J. Vreeland. 3. Pieter, born May 24, 1759 (see post ). 4. Edo, born about 1760 (see post ). 5. Cornelius, born March 14, 1763. died October 21, 1840; married, before 1790, Maria Post, born Au- gust 29, 1765, died November 15, 1841 ; chil- dren: i. Arriaentje (Harriet), October 16. 1790; ii. Catherine, September 28. 1792; iii. Edo C., March 18, 1795, died November 2, 1834: iv. Antje, October 4, 1798; v. Peter C., born 1814 or 1815, died August 30, 1891 ; they may have had other children. 6. John, born September 9, 1764, died September 7, 1841;
married, at Acquacknonk, February 13, 1790, Jannetje Van Riper, died January 3, 1856; chil- dren : i. Classje, December, 1790 ; ii. Arreynentje, August 2, 1797 ; iii. Edo, March 30, 1800, died July 13, 1813. 7. Catlyntje, born about 1770, died July 26, 1818; married, July 23, 1792, Isaac Van Saun, of Lower Preakness. 8. Arreyantje, married, about 1797, John Parke, 9. Gerrit, born October 1, 1777 ( see post).
(VIII) Pieter Marselis, third child of Edo and Ariantje (Sip) Van Marselis, was born in Bergen May 24, 1759, and died in Paterson, May 4, 1827, in the old stone house which had been built by his brother Edo. He married, before 1787, Jannetje (Hettie) Van Winkle, born December 12, 1766, died October 4, 1844. Children : I. Edo Peter, born December 20, 1787 (see post ). 2. John P., born August 25, 1795 (see post ). 3. Jane, born June 26, 1801, died July 27, 1869 ; married, January 21, 1821, Richard Powlison; children: i. Peter, born October 28, 1825, died January 16, 1844; ii. Jane, born January 13, 1822, died January 8, 1896: married, December 20, 1838, John Kip, and had Peter J., Richard, Clara Jane and Jane Amelia Kip.
(IX) Edo Peter Merselis, son of Pieter and Hettie (Kip) Merselis, was born December 20, 1787, and died April 8, 1852. He married, May 23, 1811, Hetty Kip, born March 19, 1792, died July 20, 1875. Children : I. Peter, born February 27, 1812 (see post ). 2. Catherine, born March 26, 1819, died September 22, 1822. 3. Catherine, born March 25. 1825; married, December 21, 1843, Cornelius Van Riper ; chil- dren : i. Clara Jane, May II, 1845; ii. Edwin Merselis, August 1, 1846; iii. Hily Catherine, February 10, 1848; iv. Hily Elizabeth, Septem- ber 8, 1892: v. Edo, September 15, 1854.
(1X) John P. Merselis, son of Pieter and Hetty (Kip) Merselis, was born August 25, 1795, and died July 28, 1857. He married, April 30, 1818, Hily Garretse, born November 6, 1801, daughter of John Henry and Polly (Vreeland) Garretse. John Henry Garretse married, June 19, 1800, Polly Vreeland, born July 10, 1784, daughter of Elias and Elizabeth Vreeland. John P. and Hily (Garretse ) Mer- selis had children : 1. Peter J., born December I. 1826, died July 2, 1889 ; married, December 18, 1845, Jane Sip, born September 13. 1826, died December 25, 1894, daughter of John Sip, and his second wife, Arianna Merselis, and sister of Gettie Sip, first wife of Peter Mer- selis. Peter J. Merselis had two children who grew to maturity: i. John Edwin, born De- cember 24, 1846; married, October 30, 1878.
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Anna, daughter of Peter P'. and Catherine Maria (Ackerman ) Kip (and had Jennie Sip, born November 8, 1880; married, January 21, 1908, Dr. A. DeWitt Payne) (and has child) ; ii. Hily, born March 26, 1853. 2. Maria, mar- ried, December 29, 1836, Edo Kip.
(X) Peter Merselis, son of Edo P. and Iletty (Kip) Merselis, was born in Paterson, February 27, 1812, and died at Clifton, New Jersey, February 11, 1881. He lived in the old stone house in Paterson where his father had lived and which was built by his father's brother, Edo Merselis. In 1836 he removed to Clifton, lived there until 1848, then returned to the old home in Paterson, but soon after- ward went back to Clifton and spent the re- maining years of his life there. He married (first), January 12, 1832, Gettie Sip, born May 16, 1813, daughter of John and Arianna (Merselis) Sip, and sister of Jane Sip, who married Peter J. Merselis. Peter Merselis married (second) Julia Bogardus, born May 9, 1824, died April 2, 1899, daughter of Rev. William R. Bogardus, who was born February 24, 1789, died February 12, 1862, and mar- ried Charlotte Wiltsie, born December 29, 1788, died February 3, 1861. Rev. William R. and Charlotte ( Wiltsie ) Bogardus had children : i. Stephen, born March 1, 1818, died February 22, 1853, married Catherine Beng ; ii. Julia, mar- ried Peter Merselis; iii. May, born November 20, 1825. Peter Merselis by his first wife had five children, three of whom grew to maturity, and by his second wife had six children : I. John Henry, born in Paterson, October 27, 1832. 2. Edwin, born August 28, 1841 ; lived in old homestead in Clifton ; received his edu- cation in public schools in Clifton and Pater- son, and engaged in farming pursuits until 1902, when he retired and now lives in Passaic ; married, November 9, 1870, Anna Jane Van Riper, born March 29, 1846, died November 3, 1892, daughter of Waling and Eleanor ( Brinker- hoff ) Van Riper. Children: i. Gertrude, born March 14, -, died aged eight days ; ii. Gertrude (2d), born December 15, 1873 ; married, No- vember 12, 1901, Richard T. Doremus, born February 12, 1871, son of Henry P. and Rachel ( Terhune) Doremus ; one child, born Decem- ber 14. 1905, died in early life. 3. Hily Ann, born July 28, 1844; married, October 20, 1875, George V. De Mott, of Clifton, born in Ber- gen, April 27, 1822. 4. Elizabeth, born Au- gust 7, 1853. 5. Mary Bogardus, born Au- gust 5, 1856. died young. 6. William Bogardus, born June 22, 1859; was employed for a time in hardware store in Paterson, and afterward
became connected with Chatham National Bank of New York; married, November 7, 1888, Jane Boyd, born August 25, 1868, daugh- ter of Uriah Van Riper and Catherine ( Post) Van Winkle; children: i. Harold Bogardus. born May 13, 1890, died April 30, 1893; ii. William Bogardus Jr., born May 28, 1895 ; iii. John Gaston, August 21, 1897. 7. Catherine, born August 15, 1861; married John W. De Mott (see De Mott). 8. Mary, died young. 9. Stephen, born September 24, 1867 ; educated in Clifton and Paterson public schools, and entered Chemical National Bank of New York, and is still in the employ of that institution ; married (first) Minnie, born October 16, 1869, daughter of Henry C. and Hattie (Young) Baker ; children: i. Ralph Clinton, born April 26, 1894, died September 4, 1895; ii. Stephen Allen, born October 3, 1896. Stephen Merselis married (second), October 21, 1903, Bessie, born October 2, 1874, daughter of Theodore and Catherine Elizabeth (Kip) Van Winkle ( see Van Winkle) ; one child by second wife: Frederick Walton, born November 26, 1906.
(VIII) Edo Marselis, fourth child of Edo and Ariantje (Sip) Van Marselis, was born about 1760, and it is he who is mentioned in a preceding paragraph as having built the stone house "across the Passaic," near the opposite end of the new bridge, at the entrance to Laurel Grove Cemetery, above Paterson. He married, about 1786, Helen Van Houten, born November 24, 1761, died July 15, 1821. Chil- dren : 1. Mary, born January 6, 1787 ; married Henry Godwin. 2. Arrianna, married (first) John Van Winkle, (second) John Sip. 3. Edo, born October 30, 1790 (see post). 4. Cornelius, born November 7, 1796: married (first) Elizabeth Van Saun, (second) Mrs. Jane Benson, (third) Margaret Van Saun. 5. Jane, born April 15, 1794; married Cornelius Van Wagoner. 6. Peter Edo, born December 17, 1800, died July 1, 1881 ; married, May 28, 1822, Jane De Motte, died June 8, 1865; chil- dren: i. Mary Manderville, born May 21, 1823, died May 10, 1885, married October 4, 1846, John I. Ackerman ; ii. Henry, born April IO, 1826, died October 21, 1905, married No- vember 7, 1845, Catherine Van Winkle; iii. Edwin, born January 1, 1828, married Sep- tember 18, 1862, Amelia M. Kent; iv. John Cornelius, born August 26, 1831, died Decem- ber 16, 1878, married, February 18, 1861, Frances Roe ; v. Peter, born December 14, 1834, died April 20, 1863 ; vi. Helen, born April 15, 1837 ; vii. Jane, born June 8, 1840, died March 22, 1866.
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Of the children of Peter Edo and Jane (De Motte) Merselis, John Cornelius, fourth child, born August 26, 1731, married Frances Roe ; children: i. Max De Motte, born August 9, 1863. married, June 28, 1894, Mary Wester- velt, daughter of Casper J. and Emma ( Smith ) Westervelt (son of James and Margaret ( Bogart) Westervelt) and had Helen, died young ; Eleanor, April 3, 1897 ; John Cornelius, March 7, 1899; Westervelt De Motte, Decem- ber 20, 1901 ; Marguerite, August 16, 1905 ; ii. Frank Albertus, born October 7, 1866, mar- ried ( first) 1899, Louise C. Masters, died 1894, leaving one child, Gertrude C., born May 30, 1890; married (second), June, 1898, Lilian Guthrie, and had Catherine, born August, 1903; iii. Roe, died single; iv. Jessie, died single ; v. Ernest, died single.
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