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He married Elizabeth Drabba, in Holland,
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about 1670, and had seven children born in New Utrecht, Kings county, Long Island, New York, as follows: I. Mattie, married David Samulse De Maree, in November, 1705. 2. Christian, baptized in the church in New Ultrecht, May 15, 1687, and was married in January, 1709, to Judith Samuelse De Maree. 3. Majhe, baptized May 4, 1670, at Flatbush. 4. Karl ( Charles), see forward. 5. Christyne, born 1695. 6. Jacobus, who married Antje Kennit or Kenning. 7. Margrietje or Maria, who married Theodore Romain, in June, 1728. Joost and Elizabeth (Drabba) De Baun both died at their home near Hackensack, but we find no record by which we can determine the dates.
(II) Karl (Charles), second son and fourth child of Joost and Elizabeth (Drabba) De Baun, was born in New Utrecht, Long Island, New York, and removed with the family to Hackensack, New Jersey, where he married Janetje Pieterse Harring and had eleven chil- dren born in Hackensack, New Jersey: Yost, Peter, Yan, Jacob, Isaac, Abram, see forward; Christian, Margarietje, Cornelia, Maria, Eliz- abeth.
(III) Abram, sixth son of Karl and Janetje Pieterse (Harring) De Baun, was born in Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, De- cember 10, 1731, and died September 14, 1806. He was married (first) to Bridget Ackerman, who died January 27, 1793, and by her he had ten children, born in Hackensack, New Jersey, as follows: Karl, November 21, 1757, died April 18, 1790; Margaret, November 28, 1767, married Albert Wortendyke, and died April 25, 1860; Abram, January 14, 1770, married Sarah Remsen, died December 9, 1859; Jacob, March 22, 1765, married Ann De Baun, and died December 1, 1853; Yannetie, November 12, 1762, married Peter Smith, and died May II, 1845; Andreas, February 20, 1775, mar- ried Maria Tolman, August 30, 1800, and died February 21, 1848; Sara, August 5, 1782, died July 13, 1793; David, December 7, 1759, mar- ried Antje Forshe, who died in 1836, he died December 13, 1820; John, December 25, 1772, married Altje Smith, and died in May, 1840; Isaac, see forward. Abram De Baun married (second) Lea Van Orden, August 25, 1793.
(IV) Isaac, youngest of the ten children of Abram and Bridget (Ackerman) De Baun, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Decem- ber 9, 1779. He married, June 13, 1807, Eliza- beth Yeury, who was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Van Orden) Yeury, and was born January 12, 1791, and died August 24, 1875.
Her father, John Yeury, was born May 8, 1764, and died March 8, 1840, and her mother, Elizabeth Van Orden, died September 13, 1856. Isaac and Elizabeth (Yeury) De Baun had eight children, born in Hackensack, as follows: I. Abram, February 7, 1809; married, May 15, 1830, Maria, daughter of Johannes and Eliza- beth ( Palmer ) Van Houton. Maria Van Hou- ton was born June 14, 1810, and died January 19, 1895, and her distinguished son, John A. De Baun, was born in Clarkstown, New York. March 6, 1833. He was prepared for college at Rutgers College grammar school and was graduated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Bachelor of Arts, 1852; Master of Arts, 1855. He attended the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1852-55, was or- dained pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, 1855, and resigned the pastorate in 1858 to accept a call from the Dutch Reformed Church at Niskayuna, New York. He was pastor there for a quarter of a century, resigning in 1883 to go to the Reformed Church in Fonda, New York, where he was installed as pastor in 1883. He was elected president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America in 1880, and in 1884 declined the presidency of Hope College, Holland, Michigan. Union Univer- sity conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1877.
He was married, in 1855, to Elizabeth B. Coddington, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. 2. Elizabeth, September 25, 1810; married, No- vember 24, 1832, Nicholas Van Houten, who was born November 9, 1807. 3. Jacob, Janu- ary 20, 1812; married (first) Rachel Brown, who died in November, 1851, and (second ) Emma Hays, May 8, 1864. 4. Maria, June 5, 1814; married Aaron Johnson, and died May 12, 1861. 5. Bridget, August 13, 1816; married John I. House, who was born April 17, 1809. 6. Rachel, January 13, 1819; mar- ried Albert Blauvelt, February 14, 1877. 7. Jane, March 19, 1821 ; married John A. Duryea. who was born in March, 1819. 8. John Y., sèe forward.
(V) John Y., the youngest of the eight chil- dren of Isaac and Elizabeth (Yeury) De Baun, was born in Monsey, Orange county, New York, August 22, 1827, and died at Leonia, New Jersey, February, 1895. He was a pre- cocious child and, fortified by a common school training, bad enough at its best as it existed in the country districts in that day, he, by his inherent force of will and determination, fitted
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himself for the ministry of the Dutch Reform- ed Church, which was no mean achievement when we take into consideration the high stand- ard set by the Classis for its ministers. He does not appear to have attended any college or theological school. He was licensed to preach by the Classis of Hackensack of the True Reformed Dutch Church, April 17, 1855. He had, as his first charge, two churches, one at Hempstead (now Monsey ), Rockland coun- ty, New York, and one at Ramseys, Bergen county, New Jersey, and in these churches he preached alternate Sundays up to 1860. He then became pastor of the church at Hacken- sack and of the one at English Neighborhood (now Leonia). He removed to Hackensack in 1860, and had charge of the two churches for twenty-six years. He also established and edited the Banner of Truth, a monthly church magazine, which continued to be the organ of the True Reformed Dutch Church. He was an eloquent preacher and a self-made man in every way, proving himself worthy of his high calling.
He was married (first) April 8, 1848, to Margaret, who died about 1893, daughter of Abram and Susanna (Van Wart) Iserman. Her father was born March II, 1799, and mar- ried, April 1, 1821, to his wife, Susanna Van Wart, who was born May 6, 1802. Rev. John Y. and Margaret ( Iserman ) De Baun had born to them nine children as follows : 1. Susan Eliz- abeth, February 26, 1850, died August 26, 1852. 2. Martha Amelia, January 24, 1852, mar- ried Eugene A. Van Horn, September 10, 1874. 3. James Demarest, September 30, 1854, died December 8, 1862. 4. Abram, see forward. 5. Edwin, September 14, 1859, died October 17, 1862. 6. Anna, May 14, 1866, married October 22, 1891, C. A. Benjamin. 7. John Zabriskie, De- cember 27, 1867, died December 18, 1874. 8. James Edwin, September 7, 1872, died January 26, 1884. 9. Isaac Calvin, May 6, 1874. John Y. De Baun married (second) Jane Van Houton, who survived him.
(VI) Abram, second son and fourth child of Rev. John Y. and Margaret ( Iserman ) De Baun, was born at Monsey, Rockland county, New York, April 2, 1856. He removed with his parents to Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1860, and was graduated at the Hackensack Academy in 1873. He then took up the study of law in the office of A. D. Campbell, at Hack- ensack, was admitted to the bar of New Jer- sey as an attorney at the June term of the supreme court, 1877, and as a counsellor in 1880. He was a law partner with his preceptor-
at-law, A. D. Campbell, under the firm name of Campbell & De Baun, up to 1893, when he associated himself with Milton Demarest, the law firm of De Baun & Demarest being still in active practice in 1909. He was clerk of the board of chosen freeholders of Bergen county, 1878-95, inclusive, his long term of service in so important an office being an evi- dence of his popularity and the good opinion entertained by the citizens of the county as to his ability and faithfulness. He served as treasurer of the Hackensack Improvement Commission for three years, and has been coun- sel for the Hackensack Mutual Building and Loan Association from its organization in 1887. His legal practice is largely confined to real estate transactions and to the manage- - ment of the estates of widows and minor chil- dren. His fraternal affiliation is confined to the Royal Arcanum and the Legion of Honor.
He was married (first) April 30, 1878, to Mary B. Christie, of Leonia, New Jersey, who died September 30, 1881, and on October 8, 1884, he married (second) Lydia B. Christie, of Hackensack, New Jersey. He had no chil- dren by either marriage.
The ancestry of Judge SINNICKSON Clement Hall Sinnickson, of Salem, who holds dis- tinct precedence as a lawyer, and as a judge has won the commendation of the legal pro- fession and the discriminating public, can be traced back through many generations.
The earliest reference to the family in the Danish Book of Heraldry is of the date 1450, when Duke Adolph, of Schleswig, ennobled Andreas Snnichson for a service rendered in battle. The tradition is that the Duke's horse was shot under him and Andreas hastily dismount- ing gave his own horse to his chieftain. The coat-of-arms is an unsaddled horse and the record goes on to say that the Helm and Blazon was granted by King Christian of Den- mark two years later in 1452.
In 1550 Sonnich Snnichson, a descendant of Andreas, received a patent of nobility from Frederick 2d, King of Denmark, and occupied an estate in Angln, Denmark, named Hestrip. This passed to his son Carlen in 1600. Andres Snnichson, a younger son of Carlen, came to America in 1638, then no longer a young man, and accompanied by his sons Anders and Broor. They landed at what is now Wilmington, Dela- ware, on Christine creek. He did not live long, and in 1640 his son, Anders, crossed the river Delaware to what is now Lower Penn's
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Neck township, New Jersey, and purchased of the Indians a large tract of land then called Obisquahaset, where he settled and established the homestead which has ever since remained in the family and has been the home of many succeeding generations. Broor Snnichson re- mained in Delaware and is the progenitor of a large clan in that state and in Pennsylvania. After the arrival of John Fenwick in 1675 to take possession of his tenth of New Jersey, a large portion of this land so purchased from the Indians was quitclaimed to Anders Son- nichson and much of it now remains in the family.
Next in line came Andrew Sinnickson, 3d, the name undergoing an anglicising change.
Next was Sinnick Sinnickson, who left one son, Andrew, 4th.
Andrew, son of Sinnick Sinnickson, born in 1718; died in 1790; leaving a large property to be divided among his numerous children. His life was active and influential ; he was ap- pointed judge of the court of common pleas under George III. and held the office many years. He was a member of both provincial congresses of New Jersey 1775-76; served as a member of the higher branch of the first state legislature then called the council, and was one of the nine men who pledged themselves for a large sum of money to provide clothing for the New Jersey troops in the field. He had three sons and three sons-in-law who participated in the struggle for independence and rendered efficient aid to the colonists. His son, Thomas Sinnickson, was so active and aggressive that Lord Howe offered a hundred pounds for him dead or alive, and when the representatives of the British government offered to sign a peace treaty in southern New Jersey almost every one in that section of the state was included in the amnesty proclamation, but among the few excluded were the Sinnicksons who were pro- scribed by name. The Thomas Sinnickson above referred to was afterwards a member of the first United States congress.
Colonel Andrew Sinnickson, son of Andrew Sinnickson, married Margaret, daughter of Judge Robert and Margaret (Morgan) John- son. Judge Robert Johnson traced his ances- try to Richard Johnson, born in Guilford Sur- rey, England, in 1649; he became a resident of Salem county, New Jersey, in 1675. Served as a member of the house of burgesses in 1707, and was judge from 1710 till his death in 1719. His son, Robert Johnson, was born in 1694, and married Margaret Sayres. Their son, Robert Johnson, was born 1727; served as
judge and justice of the peace from 1761 to 1780; married Margaret Morgan, of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.
John Sinnickson, son of Colonel Andrew and Margaret (Johnson) Sinnickson, was born 1789, died 1862. He married Rebecca Kay Hall, whose ancestry traces back to William Hall, who came to America and took up his residence in Elsinboro, Salem county, in 1677. In 1709 he was made judge and filled that posi- tion till the time of his death in 1718; he was also a member of the governor's council. He married Sarah, granddaughter of Gregory Clement, one of the regicide judges of Charles I., and the daughter of James Clement, who came to America after the vengeance of Charles II. had wreaked itself in the execution of his father's judges. Of the marriage of William Hall and Sarah Clement, was born William Hall 2d, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Smith, of Amblebury. Their son, Clem- ent Hall, was born 1724, and married Margaret, daughter of Joseph Morris, in 1748. Their son, Clement Hall 2d, was born 1753, and mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Kay, of Gloucester county, and their daughter, Re- becca Kay Hall, was born in 1798, and mar- ried John Sinnickson, in 1826. They were the parents of Clement Hall Sinnickson.
Clement Hall Sinnickson, son of John and Rebecca Kay (Hall) Sinnickson, was born in Salem, New Jersey, September 16, 1834. He acquired his preliminary education in the private schools of Salem, attended the Poly- technic Institute, of Troy, New York, and in 1855 was graduated at Union College with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Civil Engi- neer. On the completion of his literary course he began the study of law with Andrew Sin- nickson, of Salem, and was afterward a student in the office of William L. Dayton, of Trenton. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney, and in 1864 as a counsellor. He located in practice in Salem, and soon gained a large distinctively representative clientage. His arguments were logical, forceful and con- vincing, his preparations of cases exact, and his knowledge of the law is comprehensive and accurate. In 1896 he was appointed by Gov- ernor Griggs to the position of judge of the common pleas court of Salem county, and has since acceptably served in that capacity. He has also been connected with business interests outside of his professional duties, and is now a director of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insur- ance Company of Salem county.
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of the Episcopal church in Salem, and belongs to the Theta Delta Chi, a college fraternity. He also holds membership in Johnson Post, No. 69, Grand Army of the Republic, at Salem, being entitled to a place therein by reason of his three months' service in the civil war. He was commissioned first lieutenant and pro- moted to the captaincy of Company I, Fourth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, and was sent to Fort Runyon, Washington, D. C., where he was on picket duty. He was also vice-presi- dent of the Sons of the Revolution of New Jersey for a number of years. In politics he has always been a staunch Republican, and has taken a very active part in the work of ad- vancing its interest, being recognized as one of the party leaders. He represented his dis- trict in congress for two terms, from 1875 until 1879, two of the most important sessions in its history. He was a member of the Repub- lican state committee in 1880. He is the owner of a part of the original tract of land pur- chased by the family.
Judge Sinnickson married, in June, 1862, Sarah M., daughter of Louis P. and Henrietta (Hancock) Smith. They had two children, both of whom died in infancy.
KENDALL The Kendalls are an English family of much prominence and are definitely traced to the middle of the fifteenth century. It is said by some authorities that the name is derived from the town of Kendall in Westmoreland county, that among its representatives have been many persons of distinction in govern- mental affairs, several branches having coats- of-arms and other insignia of high estate. In the mother country the Kendalls for many generations have been a numerous family in Bedfordshire, Essex, Derbyshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Hertfordshire and as well in other towns and shires in different parts of the king- dom.
(I) John Kendall, progenitor of the Amer- ican family of that surname, was living in 1646 in Cambridge, England, and died there in 1660. Among his children were two sons, Francis and Thomas, both of whom come to New Eng- land. In 1644 Deacon Thomas Kendall, one of the brothers, was a proprietor of the town of Reading, Massachusetts, and was made free- man there in 1648. He married and had a large family of ten daughters, but no sons, hence the New England Kendalls are descend- ants of Francis.
(II) Francis, son of John Kendall, of Cam-
bridge, England, came to New England before 1640, and in December of that year with thirty- one others signed the town orders of Woburn. He had been living in Charlestown, of which Woburn then was a part. It was not an un- usual thing with the early immigrants to Amer- ica to take assumed names in order to avoid vexatious laws and occasionally to avoid the vigilance of parents who frequently objected to the emigration of their sons; and the tradi- tion is that Francis Kendall left home and country against the wishes of his father and in order to get away more easily he took the name of Miles. He was made freeman in 1648, and Sewall in his history of Woburn says that "he was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence." He served as selectman eighteen years, member of the committee for granting town lands and for building the meeting house, tythingman in 1676; but he appears not to have been in full accord with the teachings of the ruling church in the town and on one occasion was fined for disobedience of the church requirements regarding infant baptism. His occupation was that of miller, and the corn mill which he own- ed he left to his sons, Samuel and John. This mill and the land on which it stands has re- mained in possession of the Kendall family to the present time, and the building now or very recently standing on the site was erected by Samuel Kendall in 1700. Francis Kendall died in 1708, aged eighty-eight years. He married. December 24, 1644, Mary, daughter of John Tidd, and by her had nine children, born in Charlestown or Woburn: 1. John, July 2, 1646. 2. Thomas, January 10, 1648-49. 3.
Mary, January 20, 1650-51. 4. Elizabeth, Jan- uary 15, 1652-53. 5. Hannah, January 26, 1654-55. 6. Rebecca, March 2, 1657. 7. Sam- uel, March 8, 1659. 8. Jacob, January 25, 1660-61. 9. Abigail, April 6, 1666.
(III) Jacob, son of Francis and Mary (Tidd) Kendall, was born in Woburn, Janu- ary 25, 1660-61, and spent his life in that town. Some accounts mention that he had twenty or more children, but this doubtless is an error and the result of confusion of his chil -- dren with those of his son, Jacob. The elder Jacob married ( first ) January 2, 1683-84, Persis Hayward, of Woburn, and married (second) January 10, 1695, Alice Temple. He had in all seventeen children: 1. Persis, August 24. 1685. 2. Jacob, twin, January 12, 1686-87 ; died soon. 3. Jacob, twin, January 12, 1686-87. 4. Joseph, December 17, 1688. 5. Jonathan November 2, 1600. 6. Daniel, October 23.
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1691. 7. Ebenezer, November 9, 1695. 8. John, January 6, 1696-97. 9. Sarah, July 18, 1698. 10. Esther, November 20, 1699. II. Hezekiah, May 26, 1701. 12. Nathan, Decem- ber 12, 1702. 13. Susanna, October 27, 1704. 14. Phebe, December 19, 1706. 15. David, September 28, 1708. 16. Ebenezer, April 5, 1710. 17. Abraham, April 26, 1712.
(IV) Joseph, son of Jacob and Persis (Hayward) Kendall, was born in Woburn, De- cember 17, 1688, and lived in that town. He married twice and had nine children, all born in Woburn: I. Jonathan, October 29, 1718. 2. Joshua, March 7, 1719-20. 3. Mary, Janu- ary 6, 1723. 4. Susanna, July 24, 1727. 5. Oliver, July 29, 1730. 7. Jacob, October 9, 1738. 8. Esther, November 25, 1740. 9. Sarah, March 5, 1743.
(V) Joshua, son of Joseph and Susanna Kendall, was born in Woburn, March 7, 1719- 20, and lived in that town. He married (first ) 1745, Esther Buck, and ( second) May 2, 1753, Susanna Johnson, and had nine children : I. Joshua, February 9, 1747. 2. Jonathan, June 4, 1749; died young. 3. Jonathan, September I, 1751. 4. Susanna, January 25, 1754. 5. Benjamin, March 16, 1756. 7. Joel, December 16, 1766. 8. Daniel, August 8, 1771. 9. Will- iam, July 14, 1774.
(VI) Daniel, son of Joshua and Susanna (Johnson) Kendall, who was born August 8. 1771, is supposed to be the Daniel Kendall who lived in Haverhill and was proprietor of a tav- ern in that town. The name of his wife does not appear, and indeed the records of Haver- hill give no account of him or of his family. He had several children, and among them were sons, William, Benjamin, Daniel and James, and a daughter, Anna.
(VII) Daniel (2), son of Daniel ( 1) Ken- dall, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born in Haverhill, November 10, 1808; died in Wis- consin, where the later years of his life were spent. He was a morocco dresser by trade and followed that occupation for perhaps twenty- five or thirty years, first in Haverhill and after- ward in Salem, Massachusetts. He then fol- lowed the sea for a time and made several voyages, later removed to Portland, Maine, then returned to Salem and in the fall of 1859 went to Wisconsin, where he afterward en- gaged in farming until the time of his death. He married Lucy Bray, a descendant of one of the old New England families which was noted for the number of its sons who were seafaring men. Eight children born of this marriage, and only one of them is now living.
(VIII) William Boden, son of Daniel (2) and Lucy ( Bray) Kendall, was born in Davens- port, near Salem, Massachusetts, August 9, 1846. He was a boy of eleven years when his father removed with his family to Wiscon- sin. He lived at home, attended school and worked on his father's farm until he was six- teen years old ; he then went to Iowa and lived there about five years, and then went to Brook- ings county, South Dakota, where he was en- gaged in farming for ten years ; in November, 1887, he removed to Oregon, settling in Lane county, where he remained two years, during which time he served in various official capac- ities in the township, namely: School director, township treasurer and justice of the peace. In 1889 Mr. Kendall came east and took up his residence in Paterson, New Jersey, where he has since resided. For twelve years he was engaged as packer for the firm of McNab & Harlin. He is a member of General Grant Lodge, No. 119, Knights of Malta; Junior Order of American Mechanics; Daughters of Liberty ; Knights of Maccabees ; Shepherds of Bethlehem and the Patriotic Order of Sons of America.
He married, November 26, 1874, Gorden, born May 17, 1858, daughter of Charles K. and Betsy (Robertson) Shaw. Children : I. Bessie G., born September 17, 1875 ; died June 2, 1891. 2. Daniel B., March 10, 1877; died July 9, 1892. 3. Lucy Gage, June 22, 1879; married, June 14, 1904, George H. Drew, of Paterson, New Jersey. 4. William Boden, Jr., April 30, 1881 ; married, November 4, 1903, Christine Dodd. 5. Charles K., June 21, 1890; died April 11, 1891.
This well known English sur- BROWN name has been found in all parts of America since the early days of the colonial period. Several of the immi- grant ancestors who came over during that period were in some manner of kin, but gen - erally the families were not related, although having the same name; and it will be remem- bered that Brown is one of our common Eng- lish surnames which antiquarians tell us are derived from a color. However, the family here under consideration appears to have come into this country independent of any other family of the same name, and appears to have been among the earliest English families in the region which afterward became a part of the Penn proprietary.
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they were not married until their arrival at New Castle. They settled in what afterward became Falls township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, on land surveyed and set off to them under a warrant granted by Edmund Andros, governor general under the Duke of York. This land lay along the Delaware river above the Manor of Pennsbury, and a part of it has re- mained in possession of descendants of George and Mercy Brown even to the present time. There is a tradition in the family that previous to emigrating from England George Brown had paid court to a sister of Mercy, but that she declined coming to America, upon which he offered marriage to Mercy if she would accompany him on the voyage to the new world. She did so and they married when the voyagers landed at New Castle. They were progenitors of a very worthy family and among their descendants have been found many men of prominence in public life. It is said that George and Mercy Brown had fifteen chil- dren, several of whom died in infancy. Eight sons and three daughters survived and grew to maturity. George Brown was born in 1644, in England, and died in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1726. Among his descendants and of near kin to the family of which this article is intended to treat was Gen- eral Jacob Brown, who was so prominently identified with our national military history during the second war with the mother country.
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