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With the completion of the tunnel under the Dela- ware river, at Camden, connecting New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which now seems assured, there will start a suburban movement that will be felt throughout South Jersey. Our favorable location, splendid climate, excellent railroad facilities, fine educational system. well laid out streets, adequate public utilities, and the advanced intelligence of our citizens, should place Vineland in line to derive great benefits from this movement, and in making public improvements within the next two years I would urge upon Council the keeping in view of this great coming movement of population and bus- iness, that our town may be made so inviting as to secure its full share of the resulting benefits. One of the great needs of Vineland, if we are to expand and prosper, is an increase of high class manufac- turing industries, which will pay good wages, enabling our surplus labor to find steady employ- ment at remunerative compensation and drawing to our community as permanent residents a high class of intelligent artisans, who will be a distinct gain in our town and be the means of increasing the volume of business of our tradesmen in all lines. At the present day no town can hope to expand without manufacturing industries, and I would, therefore, urge upon Council that in co-operation with the business men of Vineland and the Board of Trade, they exert their utmost influence to induce such industries as may be seeking location, and which they consider would promote the welfare of the community, to locate in our midst, present- ing to them our advantages, and extending to them every concession consistent with the safeguarding of the interests of the Borough."
Dr. Sawyer is president of the Vineland Medical Society, and a member of the New York State Medical Society ; member of Vine- land Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and of Eureka Royal Arch Chapter ; of Hobah Lodge, I. O. O. F .; Perseverance Council, U. O. Junior American Mechanics, of which he is senior past councillor ; also president of the Physi- cians' Hospital Association, chairman of the board of trustees, and chairman of the Train- ing School Committee for Nurses and Nurses Home; member of the board of trustees of the Vineland Free Public Library. He is also a charter member of the Vineland Country Club. For a period of six years he served in Company K, Sixth Regiment, New Jersey Na- tional Guard, and attained the rank of sergeant.
On June 5, 1895, Dr. Sawyer married, in Bear Brook, Canada, Isabella Hill, born in Bear Brook, Canada, March 17, 1871, daugh- ter of Alfred and Alice (Walsh) Hill, the former of whom is a well-known resident of Ottawa. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer have had two children : Waldo Alfred, born August 4, 1900, died January 13, 1905, and Lucy Isabella, born November 4, 1904.
The Ten Eyck family which TEN EYCK has been so prominent in the history of the Raritan River Valley and of various counties in New Jersey and Long Island, derives its origin from the little village of Eyck, in Holland. The name was originally Van Eyck, and the change to Ten Eyck appears to have taken place many years before the family came over to Amer- ica. In the present form the name signifies "The Oak," and that tree forms the figure on the family coat-of-arms. So far as known, all members of the name are to be traced back to the one common ancestor, referred to below.
(I) Coenraedt Ten Eyck, the common an- cestor of the family, emigrated to New Nether- land from Amsterdam, about 1650. He bought land in New Amsterdam, on the west side of what is now Broad street, and in 1674 his prop- erty was estimated as worth in modern cur- rency $5,000, quite a large fortune for those days. He became one of the prominent busi- ness men of the town, and his tannery, which was carried on after his death by his sons Dirck, Tobias and Coenraedt Jr., was one of the well-known and prominent landmarks of the old town. He died in 1687. He married (first) Maria Boele; (second), April 15, 1682, Annetje Daniels, widow of Herman Smee- man. Children, all by first marriage : 1. Jacob, referred to below. 2. Dirck, baptized in New Amsterdam, January 26, 1653, died 1711 ; mar- ried Aefje Boele. 3. Maritje, born August 20, 1651 ; married Wessel Ten Broeck. 4. Tobias, January 26, 1653 ; married (first) Aeltje Duy- ckynck, (second) Elizabeth Hegeman. 5. Coen- raedt, November 22, 1654; married Beletje Herricks. 6. Hendrik, April 30, 1656 ; married Petromella DeWitt. 7. Mathys, March 20, 1658; married Janneke Roosa. 8. Margrietje, October 26, 1659. 9. Ambries, January 15, 1662. 10. Metje, April 1I, 1664.
(II) Jacob, eldest child of Coenraedt and Maria (Boele) Ten Eyck, was born probably in New Amsterdam, and some time before his father's death removed to Albany, New York. He was a shoe-maker by trade. He married Gertrey, born April 23, 1664, died February 2, 1736, daughter of Barent Coeymans and the daughter of Anvries DeVos. Children: I. Coenraedt, referred to below. 2. Barent, mar- ried, September 30, 1700, Neeltje Schermer- horn. 3. Hendrik, December, 1680, died Feb- ruary 23, 1772 ; married Margarita Bleecker. 4. Mayken, April 2, 1685 ; married Andries van Petten. of Schenectady. 5. Andries, baptized
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March 25, 1688, died February 27, 1735. 6. Anneken, August 20, 1693, died December 9, 1738; married Johannes Bleecker. 7. Jannetje, March 23, 1701. 8. Geertys, August 20, 1702. 9. Jannetje, December 12, 1705. 10. Marca, May 20, 1708. 11. Johannes, November 27, 1709.
(III) Coenraedt (2), eldest child of Jacob and Gertrey (Coeymans) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, April 9, 1678, and was buried Janu- ary 23, 1753. October 10, 1703, or September 24, 1704, he married Geertje, baptized Septem- ber II, 1687, daughter of Antony and Maria Teunisse (van Poel) Van Schaick. Children : I. Jacob C., referred to below. 2. Maria, born July 3, 1707 ; married Gerrit Bradt. 3. Gerritje, July, 1710, died young. 4. Anthony, Septem- ber 17, 1712. 5. Barent, September 29, 1714, died March 1, 1795 ; married Effie 6. Catrina, January 29, 1716, died November I, 1741. 7. Andries, December 18, 1718; mar- ried Anna Margarita Coeymans. 8. Anna Mar- garita, February 12, 1721. 9. Tobias, May 18, 1723 ; married Juditkje Van Beuren. 10. Ger- retje, July 18, 1728; married Pieter Ganse- voort.
(IV) Jacob C., eldest child of Coenraedt and Geertje (Van Schaick) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, April 21, 1705, and died there September 9, 1763. He was one of the most prominent men of his day in Albany, for many years judge of the court of common pleas, and in 1748 mayor of the town. August 1, 1736, he married Catharina, born February 18, 1710. died November 22, 1790, daughter of Abraham and Caatje (Bleecker ) Cuyler. Children: I. Coenraedt, born November 27, 1741. 2. Abra- ham J., referred to below. 3. Catharina, March 14, 1746. 4. Anthony, September 15, 1749, died June 10, 1849; member of New York convention which ratified the constitution of the United States ,and one of the most promi- nent men of his times; married Hester G., daughter of Jacob and Magdalena (Ganse- voort) Ten Eyck.
(V) Abraham J., second son of Jacob C. and Catharina (Cuyler) Ten Eyck, was born November 29, 1743, and died in October or November, 1824. April 14, 1769, he married Annetje, born July 11, 1746, died November 17. 1824, daughter of Jacob Jr. and Marytje ( Egbertse) Lansing. Children I. Catharina, born November 17, 1769; married Sanders Lansing. 2. Jacob, February 17, 1772, died July 26, 1862 ; married Magdalena Gansevoort. 3. Maria, June 28, 1774; married Charles Bridgen. 4. Abraham, October 23, 1777 ; mar- ried G. Schuyler. 5. Lena, August 26, 1779,
died young. 6. Coenraedt, July 17, 1782. 7. Jeremiah Van Rennsalaer, May 13, 1685, died young. 8. Lena, or Helen, June 13, 1787 ; married Gerrit Y. Lansing. 9. Jeremiah, re- ferred to below.
(VI) Jeremiah, youngest child of Abraham J. and Annetje ( Lansing) Ten Eyck, was born April 3, 1790. He was a farmer of Hillsboro township, near South Branch, Somerset coun- ty, New Jersey, a member of the Dutch Re- formed Church, and a Democrat. He married Elsey, daughter of Harmon and Jane ( Broom) Hoagland ( see Hoagland). Children : I. Abra- ham, referred to below. 2. Harmon Hoag- land. 3. Sarah, married Henry Boice. 4. Ann, married Peter Thatcher. 5. Jane, married Phillip Van Arsdale. 6. Rebecca, married J. W. Kline. 7. Madeline, unmarried.
(VII) Abraham, eldest child of Jeremiah and Elsey (Hoagland) Ten Eyck, was born at South Branch, August 7, 1815, and died in October, 1883. He was educated in the com- mon schools at South Branch, and when while a young man "Worked out" on a farm. Later he bought a plantation, which he managed until his death. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James J. and Alletta ( Voorhees ) Quick. Children: 1. Mary, mar- ried Francis Van Camp. 2. John, now living on the home farm; married Annie Scudder. 3. Elsie, married William McCullough. 4. James Quick, referred to below. 5. Sarah, married Nicholas Kip. 6. Catharine, married D. V. Rynearson.
(VIII) James Quick, fourth child and sec- ond son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Quick) Ten Eyck, was born at South Branch, January 31, 1855, and is now living at Somerville, New Jersey. He received his early education at the common schools at New Center, and at the Flowers private school at Somerville. Before coming of age he worked on a farm, and then went out to Kansas, where he remained for about six months. Returning home, he worked for his father for about three years. He then married, and worked for his father-in-law the next year, and in April, 1885, came to Somer- ville, where he clerked in the grocery store of N. B. Richardson. July 6, 1886, he went into partnership with George Gulick, and they pur- chased a coal and feed business. His partner. died in December, 1897, and he then took en- tire control and built up a large and prosper- ous business, in which he handled about thirty- five hundred tons a year. He disposed of the business in 1909.
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Mr. Ten Eyck is one of the ablest men of the locality in which he lives, and one of the most public-spirited, and his fellow citizens hold him in the highest regard. For five years he has been one of the town commissioners, and for seven years has served on the township committee. A number of times he has refused the office of surrogate. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religious views a Baptist. For five years he was superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school, and for fourteen years treasurer of the church. He has been one of the leading spirits in the organization and man- agement of most of the organizations for the improvement and betterment of the town. He is the last living active corporate member of the hose company, organized in 1888, when with Joshua Doughty Jr., foreman, he was made assistant foreman. Later he became president, and for many years retained that position. He assisted in organizing the Build- ing and Loan Association, of which he became vice-president, director, and for most of the time has been chairman of the valuation com- mittee. For about eight years he has been a director of the Second National Bank of Som- erville. He has been treasurer of the Somer- set Hospital since its organization, and is chair- man of its building committee. He was one of the organizers and for many years president of the Somerville Board of Trade. Refusing at length to serve as such any longer, he was elected vice-president. He was secretary and a director in the Standard Gas and Fixture Company of Bound Brook. Until that cor- poration became absorbed by the trust. For several years he was a director of the Coding- ton Restaurant Company of New York City, of which he was one of the organizers, and he is also one of the organizers of the Somerville Publishing Company and a director of the Somerville Woolen Mill, and Somerville Stove Works.
December 13, 1883, Mr. Ten Eyck married Mary A., daughter of Charles B. and Cath- arine (Ent) Dilts. One child, Charles H., born October 14, 1886.
At the period of the great HOAGLAND Dutch immigration to Amer- ica Hoagelandt was an es- tablished family name of considerable antiq- uity in the Netherlands, since we trace it back at least a century in Zeeland, and Utrecht, and quite as far back in the collateral line of the viscounts and governors of Dormael in Brabant and other places, who claimed descent
from the ancient Lords Hoagelant, the name being derived, like a great majority of sur- names, from a country or locality as its signifi- cation, "Highlands," plainly indicates, must have been plainly written at first van Hoage- land, although the prefix had evidently fallen into disuse long before the immigration to this country. Traces of it, however, are found in the sixteenth century in two or three branches of the family. The family had spread and formed several different branches in Holland before it found its way to America, because those of the name who immigrated came at different times, and from different localities and spelt their name differently. So far as we know now, there were at least four such immi- grant founders in the new world-Cornelis Dirchson Hoochlandt, from Amsterdam, was here as early as 1638; Christoffel Hooglandt, from Haarlem, founder of the family at pres- ent under consideration ; Dirck Jansen Hoog- land, who came out in 1657 from Maerseveen ; and Cornelis Andrieszen Hoogland, who immi- grated from The Hague, in 1658. So far there is no direct evidence of blood relationship be- tween any of these four persons, although the name Dirck, common to three of them, might seem to indicate it.
(I) Christoffel Hooglandt, pioneer founder of the family under consideration, was born in Holland, in 1634, and came from Haarlem to New Amsterdam when but a youth. He was clerk for a mercantile house, and it appears that on coming of age he commenced business for himself. In 1655 his name appears on the records of the burgomasters and schepens court, and he next appears to our notice March 16, 1661, when he united with the Dutch church in New Amsterdam. While yet young, he was regarded as the leading citizen. On the con- quest of the country by the English in 1664, he as schepen took the oath of allegiance, and we find he afterwards filled his place with the best of the citizens. He seems not only to have won the respect and confidence of his asso- ciates, but also to have prospered in his busi- ness, and to have left behind him a large prop- erty. He died February 8, 1684. He married Catharine Cregier, and his widow, October 3. 1688, married `(second) Roelof Mortemse Schenck, of Flatlands, and removed with her younger children to that place, where she was still living September 4, 1704. Children of Christoffel and Catharine (Cregier) Hoog- landt : 1. Dirck, baptized November 1, 1662. 2. Elizabeth, October 29, 1664, died young. 3. Harmonus, January 31, 1666, died young. 4.
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Martin, 1667, probably died young. 5. Christo- pher, November 24, 1667, died 1748; married (first) Sarah Teller, (second) Helena Mideagh. 6. Francis, born April 15, 1672. 7. Jacob, Oc- tober 25, 1676. 8. Harmanus, referred to below.
(II) Harmanus, son of Christoffel and Cath- arine (Cregier ) Hooglandt, was born in New York City, February 18, 1681, and was bap- tized March 22, following. He died at Flat- lands, Long Island, November 8, 1771. He owned and occupied a house near the Flat- land church, and he was also an elder in the Flatbush church, in 1710-12-16. He married (first) Alida, daughter of Jan Van Dyck, who died in April, 1706. June 20, 1707, he married (second ) Adriana Stoothoff, born January II, 1687, died August 18, 1781. Children, all by second wife: I. Christopher, born April 2, 1708, died January 18, 1766; married Neeltja Albertse van Voorhis, and probably also Jan- netje Vechten. 2. Alida, March 19, 1710, died November 6, 1781 ; married Jacobus van Ar- stalen. 3. Joanna, May 5, 1712, died Novem- ber 25, 1764; married Jan Renisen. 4. Gerrit, November 8, 1714, died January 8, 1771 ; mar- ried Jacaminse Gulick, widow of Adrian Hoog- land, of Ameveer. 5. Martinus, referred to below. 6. Catharine, July 15, 1719, died Octo- ber 19, 1785; married Henry Cortelyou. 7. Albert, March II, 1722, died June 4, 1785; married Mary Gulick. 8. Harmanus Jr., Janu- ary I, 1725, died 1806; married Styntjy Van Gelder. 9. Helena, July 20, 1729, died July 5, 1820 ; married Peter Vanderbilt.
(III) Martinus (2) Hoagland, son of Har- manus (I) and Adriana (Stoothoff) Hoog- land, was born at Flatlands, October 27, 1716. He removed to Somerset county, New Jersey, in 1740, where he located on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on the south branch of the Raritan, near Hillsborough, adjoining the farms of his nephew Christopher and his brother Harmonus. He was one of the most prominent men in the church at Neshanic. By his wife Annatje he had : Harmon, referred to below; John, born November 21, 1761, died October 5, 1835, married Sarah Bergen ; Elsie, married -- - Stoothoff.
(IV) Harmon, son of Martinus (2) and Annatje Hoagland, was born in Somerset coun- ty, New Jersey, October 27, 1750. He was a farmer for many years at South Branch, on the road to Flagtown, in Hillsborough town- ship. This farm, afterwards occupied by his son Harmon, is now the property of Thomas Sebring. December 21, 1774, he married Jane
Vroom, born July 26, 1757, died October 18, 1793. He and his wife both joined the church at Neshanic. Children: I. Martin, born No- vember 27, 1775, died August 29, 1777. 2. Sarah, January 2, 1778; married Peter Dilts. 3. Herman, July 26, 1780, died May 17, 1840; married Helena Stryker. 4. Peter, March 15, 1783, died May 17, 1785. 5. Hannah, Novem- ber 21, 1785 ; married Andrew Hagaman. C. Jane, April 18, 1789; married Thomas Davis. 7. Elsey, referred to below. 8. Peter H., Octo- ber 22, 1798; married Christiana Stryker.
(V) Elsey, daughter of Harmon and Jane (Vroom) Hoagland, was born March 17, 1794, and married Jeremiah Ten Eyck (q. v.).
JOHNSON In 1708, at Schreisheim, Ba- varian Germany, a sect was founded by Alexander Mack
and preached by his grandson John Fox, of Germantown, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. Alex- ander Mack was driven by persecution to America in 1729. The peculiarities of the sect are: The practice of true immersion (placing the candidate face down instead of backwards ), with the lying on of hands while in the water. Their administrative officers are bishops, elders, teachers and deacons. The bishops are chosen from among experienced and faithful teachers. In their itinerancy among the scattered con- gregations they preach, officiate at marriages and funerals, and are present at love feasts, communions, ordinations, election of teachers and deacons, and when an officer is to be ex- communicated. An elder is the most proficient teacher in a congregation where there is no bishop. His duties are to appoint meetings, exhort, preach, baptize and to perform all the work of a bishop, when that official is not pres- ent. Teachers are elected from time to time and their duties are to exhort and preach at stated meetings and when requested by a bishop or elder to officiate at baptisms and marriages. The deacons take care of the poor widows and their children and visit, exhort, comfort and reconcile differences that may arise in families or communities. They dress and use the plain speech of the Society of Friends. They do not go to law, are opposed to war, and seldom exact interest for money loaned to their breth- ren. Possibly five hundred churches, twelve hundred preachers and fifty thousand church members would be a fair estimate of their strength.
(I) John Daniel Johnson came from Eng- land to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about the
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close of the eighteenth century, where he was an artificer in wood and iron. He married Mary Nutt and they had three children, born in Philadelphia, probably between 1790 and 1800, as follows: I. Robert Montgomery, see forward. 2. John D., who learned the trade of cabinet-making from his father. 3. Ann, who married James Sutton. Both father and mother died in Philadelphia.
(II) Robert Montgomery, eldest child of John Daniel and Mary (Nutt) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia about 1795. He was brought up to the trade of tobacconist and was engaged in that line all his life. He manufac- tured plug tobacco, much used in the United States navy and by seamen generally, and es- tablished an excellent trade. He was married to Esther Martin, a granddaughter of a revolu- tionary soldier, who participated in the battle of the Brandywine, and with General Mont- gomery at Quebec. The mother of Esther (Martin) Johnson lived to be over one hun- dred and four years old. They had four chil- dren born in Philadelphia, as follows: I. John D., see forward. 2. James, who became asso- ciated with his father in the tobacco business. 3. Charles, who likewise was a clerk and a partner with his father. 4. Robert, who learn- ed the trade of artisan in iron, but when he reached his majority went upon the dramatic stage as an actor and remained in that pro- fession during his entire life. Robert Mont- gomery and his wife Esther (Martin) John- son died in Philadelphia.
(III) John Daniel (2), eldest child of Rob- ert Montgomery and Esther (Martin) John- son, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1825, died in Hainesport, New Jersey, 1875. He was a studious youth and besides taking advantage of the public day schools of Philadelphia, he also attended the night school where he was taught draughting and mechanics, and he went into a machine shop in Lumber- ton, on leaving school, and became a practical machinist and draughtsman. After four years in Lumberton as superintendent of the Lum- berton Iron Works, he went to Hainesport and founded the Columbia Iron Works in partnership with a fellow workman, Richard Dawson, and they operated the plant up to the beginning of the civil war in 1861, when the works were closed and Mr. Johnson enlisted August 12, 1861, in the Federal volunteer army, and was made captain of Company C, Tenth New Jersey Volunteers, which regiment was mustered into the regular service October 16, 1861, and ordered to duty at the national
capital. He was there placed in command of the department of patrol ; was chief of detec- tive department of the provost marshal's office, and he was attached to the command of Gen- eral James S. Wadsworth in charge of the de- fense of Washington, D. C., and military gov- ernor of the District of Columbia, from Janu- ary, 1862, to April, 1863, when General Wads- worth was ordered to take command of the first division of General John F. Reynolds' corps at Chancellorsville. Upon this change in the provost marshal's office, Captain John- son was ordered to Philadelphia on secret serv- ice duty, and his work was of great value to the government during Lee's invasion of the state and the attendant responsibility of keep- ing open the communication between Phila- delphia and Washington and Philadelphia and New York. In September, 1863, he was order- ed to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to prevent riot threatened to occur between the miners and he was on picket duty at the fords of the Upper Potomac until November, 1863, when he was transferred to Mauch Chunk in the district of Carbon, and he was on duty there until April II, 1864, when he was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Army Corps, and he was engaged in the battle of the Wild- erness, May 5-7, 1864, and on May 7 he was captured by the Confederate forces and taken to Camp Sorghum, Columbia, South Carolina, and soon after he was among the Federal sol- diers placed under fire of the Federal guns at Charleston, South Carolina. He was paroled at North East Ferry, South Carolina, March I, 1865, and honorably discharged from the army, March II, 1865, as a paroled prisoner. He was recommissioned March 31, 1865, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was re- mustered in the United States service in May, 1865, and he was mustered out July 15, 1865, with the Tenth New Jersey Regiment at Tren- ton, New Jersey. Home again, he started up the Columbia Iron Works at Hainesport and successfully conducted the business up to the time of his death, December 12, 1875. While in Washington, D. C., he was initiated in the Masonic Order. He was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Phil- adelphia. His political principles were those of the Democratic party, to which he remained true during his entire lifetime.
He was married in 1845 to Catherine, daugh- ter of John and Catherine ( Fisher ) Fox, grand- daughter of Emanuel and Anna Margaret (Mack) Fox, and great-granddaughter of Jus- tin Fox. who came from Germany to German-
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