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the county. In 1824 Joseph Ashton Yard mar- ried Mary Woodward, daughter of John Wesley Sterling, by whom he had eight sons and three daughters, all but one of whom, a son, lived to maturity. One of their children was James Sterling Yard, referred to below.
(VI) James Sterling, son of Joseph Ashton and Mary Woodward (Sterling) Yard, was born in Trenton, April 20, 1826, and died in Freehold, Monmouth county, April 29, 1900. He was educated at the 'Trenton Academy, but left school early in order to help his father. He then learned the printer's trade, and in 1849, with Jacob Stults, began the publication of the Hightstown Village Record, his interest in which, however, he soon after sold to Ed- ward Crowell Taylor, and then after various experiences with several newspapers, finally in. 1854 purchased the Monmouth Democrat from Bernard Connelly. From 1855 to 1860 he was postmaster at Freehold. At the out- break of the civil war he served as major in the Third regiment of militia ("First Defend- ers"), and was afterwards connected with all military operations in the county for the rais- ing of troops until the close of the war. From 1873 to 1883 he was commissioner of railroad taxation, and in 1878 was appointed deputy quartermaster-general by Governor McClel- lan. Like his father, he was a zealous Metho- dist, and he was-one of the trustees of Dickin- son college.
September 25, 1856, James Sterling Yard married Adeline Clark, daughter of Daniel Doughty Swift, of Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania. She lived in the house in which Robert Fulton was born, which is still standing. Chil- dren : Emma, wife of William Mills Ivins, of New York city; Mary Sterling, wife of A. Harvey Tyson, of Reading, Pennsylvania ; Daniel Swift, died in 1883, the year after his graduation from Princeton University ; Joseph Ashton, referred to below; Adaline Swift; James Sterling Jr., died in 1877; Thomas Swift, died in 1880.
(VII) Joseph Ashton, fourth child and sec- ond son of James Sterling and Adeline Clark (Swift) Yard, was born in Freehold, Mon- mouth county, February 19, 1866, and is now living in that town. He was educated in the public schools and in the Freehold Institute, and then went into the office of the Monmouth Democrat, in 1885, in order to learn the printer's trade. In 1893 he was taken in with his father as a partner, and on his father's death in 1900 he became editor and manager, which position he has filled ever since. De-
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cember 4, 1886, he became a private in Com- pany E, Seventh Regiment New Jersey Na- tional Guard; promoted corporal, April 2, 1892; first sergeant, January 30, 1894; first lieutenant, February 12, 1894. April 12, 1898, he was appointed first lieutenant Company I, Third Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, Volunteer Infantry, and in that capacity served through the Spanish-American war and was mustered out with the regiment at Athens, Georgia ; appointed first lieutenant Company G. Second Regiment, May 2, 1899; captain, October 2, 1899.
At the close of the war he returned to his duties on the paper at Freehold. He has served two terms as assistant town commis- sioner; is secretary of the Monmouth Battle Monument Commission; is a member of the board of stewards of the Methodist Episcopal church.
June 2, 1897, Joseph Ashton Yard married Emily Stillwell, daughter of James Thompson and Hannah (Shotwell) Burtis, her father being of Freehold, and her mother belonging to a family from Crosswicks, Burlington county. They have one child, Elizabeth, born in Freehold, September 20, 1907.
Peter Garrabrant, the GARRABRANT first member of this family, of whom we have definite information, lived and died in Somerset county, New Jersey. He was a de- scendant of Gerbrand Claesen; the emigrant ancestor of the Gerrebrants, Gerbrantz, Gar- rabrant family, who played an important part in the early history of Bergen, and who mar- ried, August 25, 1674, Marytje, only daughter of Claes Piertersen Cos. A diligent search of the records not only at Trenton but elsewhere, fails to reveal the exact line of descent. Peter Garrabrant married Elizabeth McMurtry. .
(II) Robert, son of Peter and Elizabeth (McMurtry) Garrabrant, was born in Somer- set county, New Jersey, September 19, 1827. He married Mary Anderson, daughter of Aaron and Hannah (Anderson) Pitney; (see Pitney). She was born in Mendham, Morris county, New Jersey, April II, 1831. Children : I. Aaron Pitney, born June 30, 1853; married Dalinda A. Boyter; is now an attorney and real estate dealer in New York City. 2. Clar- ence, referred to below. 3. Ira Forsyth, born February 14, 1863; married Mamie Van Doren ; children : Robert B. and Della.
(III) Dr. Clarence Garrabrant, son of Rob- ert and Mary Anderson (Pitney) Garrabrant,
was born at Mendham, New Jersey, Septem- ber 23, 1856, and is now living at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He received his early edu- cation in the Mendham public schools, and then entered the New Jersey Normal School at Trenton. After his graduation he taught for four and a half years in the schools of Morris county, and during this period, becom- ing interested in the study of medicine, he en- tered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, in October, 1884. He received his M. D. degree March 15, 1886, and immediately began the practice of medicine at New Gretna, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he remained ten years in active general practice. On June 1, 1896, he removed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he has since been in continuous practice of his profession. He is highly rated both as a physician and a citizen. Dr. Garrabrant is a Democrat, with very decided independent proclivities. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. His pro- fessional memberships are held in the Amer- ican Medical, the New Jersey Medical and Atlantic County Medical Associations. He is a Master Mason and of Trinity Chapter No. 38, R. A. M., and a Knight Templar of Atlantic Commandery No. 20, K. T., both of Atlantic City. He married (first) June 13, 1888, Mary Miller, daughter of Zeblous Mathis, of New Gretna, New Jersey, who was born February 5, 1865, and died March 19, 1902, at Atlantic City. He married (second) October 1, 1904, Annie, daughter of Gideon Conover, who was born in Atlantic City, April 19, 1865. Chil- dren, two by first marriage: I. Arthur Ander- son, born at New Gretna, December 13, 1889; now a student at Princeton University. 2. Ralph Pitney, born at New Gretna, July 12, 1895 ; now a pupil in Atlantic City grammar school. 3. Robert Clare, born November 6, 1905 ; died in infancy. 4. Mary Anna, born at Atlantic City, June 19, 1907.
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(IV) Aaron, son of Mahlon and Sarah (Pitney) Pitney, was born in Mendham, Mor- ris county, New Jersey, August 12, 1793. He married Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Lady Letitia Anderson, who was a sister to Judge John Anderson, of Somerset county, and an aunt of Commodore Thomas Anderson Conover, U. S. A.
(V) Mary Anderson, daughter of Aaron and Hannah (Anderson) Pitney, was born in Mendham, Morris county, New Jersey, April II, 1831. She married Robert, son of Peter
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and Elizabeth (McMurtry) Garrabrant, re- pany A, 38th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment, ferred to above.
HULSE The Hulse, Hulsart, Hulshart and Holsaert families are descended from old Dutch families which formed the first inhabitants of Kings county, New Jersey. From there Benjamin Holsaert emigrated to Monmouth county, and in 1717 bought land of Thomas Hankinson, and the same year he and his wife, Annetje Leyster, joined the Marlboro Brick Church, where later on they had several of their children baptized. In 1718 he bought more land in Freehold town- ship, and in all of these deeds he is described as being from New Utrecht, Long Island. His will was dated October 18, 1732, and proved May 20, 1733. Unfortunately the records are too scanty to enable us to trace the descent of all of his descendants, and although there are missing links in the genealogy of the line at present under consideration, there is more than enough evidence to warrant the assertion that Mr. John Wesley Hulse, of Freehold, is a de- scendant of the Benjamin, referred to above.
(I) Edward Hulshart, probably the great- grandson of Benjamin Holsaert and his wife, Annetje Leyster, lived in Freehold township, where he was a farmer. By his wife Hetty he had: Gideon; John Wesley; Joseph G., referred to below ; Stephen ; Sidney ; Anadosia.
(II) Joseph G., third son of Edward Hulshart, was born in Freehold township, Monmouth coun- ty, New Jersey, in 1800, and died there in 1880. After having received a common school educa- tion he learned the trade of a millwright, which he followed until he was forty years of age, and then gave up in order to take up farming, which he pursued until the time of his death. In politics he was a Democrat, and was at one time elected a justice of the peace, but did not qualify. He was a trustee of the Methodist church at Blucball, now Aldelphia. He married Achsah, daughter of John and Mary Bennett, of Jackson township, Monmouth (now Ocean) county, New Jersey. Children, besides two who died in infancy: William Bennett; Gar- rett; Rachael, now dead; Benjamin; James Henry, now dead; John Wesley, referred to below; Matilda; Alice.
(III) John Wesley Hulse, child of Joseph G. and Achsah (Bennett) Hulshart, was born in Freehold township, near the Georgia school- house, October 9, 1846, and is now living in Freehold, New Jersey. Until the breaking out of the war he worked on his father's farm, and then, September 23, 1864, enlisted in Com-
under Colonel (later Senator) Sewell. At the close of the war, June 30, 1865, he was muster- ed out of service, after having been in several skirmishes. It was during this period of serv- ice that he changed his name to its present spelling of Hulse. After his retirement from the army Mr. Hulse returned to Freehold, where he learned the trade of painter, and set- ting up in business for himself he carried on a most successful plant from 1870 to 1892, in which he gave employment to quite a number of men. In 1892 he was elected a justice of the peace, and for the last seventeen years he has continuously filled this office, having been re-elected four times without any opposition For fourteen years he has been a police justice, and for a number of years past he has been a com- missioner of deeds and- a notary public. In politics Mr. Hulse is a Democrat. He is one of the most popular men in the town, and one of the most highly regarded. He was the chief engineer of the fire department in Free- hold for ten years, 1888-1898. He is a mem- ber of James W. Conover Post, No. 63, G. A. R., Freehold, and he held a commission as sec- ond in command of Company E, Second Regi- ment, National Guard, State of New Jersey. In 1867, John Wesley Hulse married Lidia, daughter of John C. Van Cleaf, of Manalapan township. Children, besides two that died in infancy: I. Margaret, born in Freehold, New Jersey, in 1880; married Charles H. J. Clayton, an undertaker of Adelphi, New Jersey; chil- dren-Ada and Ensley. 2. James Burnett, born 1884; a printer in the Record office, at Long Branch ; married Martha Palmer
The common ancestor VANDER VEER of the various lines which spell their names Vander Veer, Van der Veer, Vanderveer, Van- dervier, etc., was Cornelis Jansen, a Dutch farmer, who emigrated to this country in Feb- ruary, 1659, in the ship "Otter." In the will of his father-in-law he is called Cornelis Jan- sen de Seenn, which is the only clue we have as to the particular part of Holland from which he came, as the name on the passenger list of the ship, "Van der Veer," simply means "from the ferry," and is too indefinite a de- scription to be identified with any certainty at the present day. He himself signs his name "Cornelis Janse Vande Veer, and the branches of his descendants at present under considera- tion have adopted the spelling Vander Veer.
(I) According to Teunis G. Bergen, Cor-
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nelis Janse Vander Veer came from Alkmaar, North Holland, to Flatbush, Long Island, where on February 24, 1678, he bought of Jan Janse Fyn for 2600 guilders (a sum amounting to about $1,045) a farm in Flatbush "lying south of the purchaser's farm," from which it is evident that at this time he was a resident of Flatbush. The "purchaser's farm" referred to in the deed was probably the tract of twen- ty-six morgens in that town patented March 12, 1661, by Governor Stuyvesant to "Cornelis Janse," and lying on the north side of the land
of Jan Snediker. In 1678 and again in 1680 his name appears on the lists of magistrates ; and it it also one of the names of the patentees of the town in the patent of 1685. Cornelis Janse Vander Veer married Tryntje, eldest daughter of Yellis (sometimes called Gillis, the English Giles) de Mandeville, who had emi- grated from Voorthuisen, a village near Gard- eren, Holland, in the "De Trouw," February 12, 1659, with his wife and four children. His wife's name was Elsje, Hendricx, and their children were: I. Hendrik, married Annetje Pieterse Scholl. 2. David, married Marytje Van Hoesen. 3. Tryntje, referred to below. 4. Aeltje, married Laurens Jansen de Camp. 5. Gerritje, married (first) Wiert Eppens, bet- ter known as Wiert Epke, the ancestor of the Banta family; (second) Increase Power. 6. Grietje, married Jan Pieterse Meet. 7. Jan. 8. Willem.
Children of Cornelis Janse and Tryntje Yel- liss (de Mandeville ) Vander Veer : I. Cornelis Jr., of Flatbush (q. v.), 1731. 2. Neeltje, mar- ried, August 13, 1685, Daniel Polhemus. 3. Jan, married, January 6, 1695, Femmetje, daughter of Michael Hansen Bergen and Fem- metje, Teunissen Nyssen, the father of the last named being the ancestor of the Denyse and Denise families. 4. Maria, baptized June or July 30, 1682 ; possibly wife of Jan Mon- fort. 5. Hendrikje, baptized May 17 or Au- gust 27, 1684, conjectured to be wife of Jo- hannes Wyckoff. 6. Dominicus, referred to below. 7. Jacoba, baptized in Brooklyn, April 29, 1686; about 1704 married Johannes Will- empse van Couwenhoven, of Brooklyn, who removed to New Jersey. Probably also in addition to these should be added: 8. Jacobus, of Penn's Neck, Salem county, New Jersey, baptized October 29, 1686, died in 1726; wife's name Catharine. 9. Michael, died before 1770; by wife Belitje had seven children. It has also been conjectured that there was another son, Pieter ; but the Pieter Cornelise Vander Veer to whom reference is made was a grown man
in 1653 and 1658, when he bought land and ob- tained a patent in New Amsterdam, so that the conjecture is highly improbable, especially as the only other known occurrence of the name is in Petrus, son of Cornelis Jr. and Jan- netje, and in this case probably comes from the mother's side of the house.
(II) Dominicus, son of Cornelis Janse and Tryntje Yellis (de Mandeville) Vander Veer, was baptized November 16, 1679, in Flatbush, and lived in New Utrecht. He died probably about 1755. His name appears on the Flat- bush records in connection with the salt meadows and the church funds in 1724-27-49; and in 1736 he was sheriff of Kings county. The name of his wife has been variously given, and Teunis G. Bergen says that he was twice married, first to Jannetje - -- , and (second) February 7, 1702, to Maria Margreta Nortlyck 01 Van Orteck. As the Flatbush records as late as 1724 mention the name of his wife as Jannetje, this is undoubtedly wrong; but the fact that Giliam Cornell, of Flatbush, speaks of Dominicus in his will as brother-in-law, the probable explanation of the confusion is that Dominicus married Jannetje, daughter of Simon and Folckertje Van Noortwyck, and sister of Cornelia Van Noortwyck, Giliam's own wife, the confusion having arisen in con- nection with Giliam's only sister Maria, daugh- ter of Peter and Margreta (Verscheur) Cor- nell,
Children of Dominicus and Jannetje Vander Veer, all of whom were baptized at New Ut- recht, although the baptisms of some of them were also recorded at Flatbush: 1. Dominicus Jr., baptized November 3, 1723 ; married, July 2, 1748, Elizabeth Lequire. 2. Catlyntje, bap- tized July 25, 1715 ; said by some to have mar- ried Jacobus Lefferts, although others claim that his wife was Catrina, daughter of Cornelis Jr. and Jannetje Vander Veer. 3. Jannetje, bap- tized June 21, 1719. 4. Jacobus, baptized De- cember 10, 1721 ; married, May 25, 1745, Fem- metje, daughter of Jan Pieterse Strycker and Sara, daughter of Michael Hansen Bergen. 5. Tunis, referred to below. 6. Neeltje, baptized July 9, 1727; married Pieter Lott, of New Lotts, Flatbush. 7. Jeremias, baptized March 30, 1729; married Elizabeth Ditmars. 8. Antje, baptized October 17, 1731 ; probably the Ann Vander Veer who married Cornelius Van Duyn. 9. Jan, baptized August 19, 1733. In addition, the following children have also been assigned to Dominicus and Jannetje : 10. Cornelius, born 1700, removed to Shrewsbury, New Jersey ; married (first ) Jannetje Wyckoff,
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( second) Matye Smock ( Bergen says Matye Schenck). II. Cornelia. 12. Hendrick, mar- ried Neeltje Van Cleef, and is said by some to have removed to New Brunswick, Canada, and by others to have removed to Monmouth county, New Jersey.
(III) Tunis, son of Dominicus and Jan- netje Vander Veer, was born in Flatbush, Long Island, in 1704, and died in Monmouth county, New Jersey, about 1775. About 1723 he married Aeltje, daughter of Gerrit Roelofse and Neeltje Coerts ( Van Voories) Schenck, by whom he had six sons and three daughters, among whom were: I. Tunis Jr., bap- tized April 22, 1739; married Jannetje Nos- trand. 2. Garret, born December 4, 1731, died January 31, 1803; married, April 20, 1756, Jane, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Schenck) Voorhees. 3. David, referred to below.
(IV) David, son of Tunis and Aeltje Ger- ricse (Schenck) Vander Veer, was born in 1748, and married, February 28, 1765, Catha- rine Conover, a lineal descendant of old Gerrit Wolfertse van Kouwenhover. He and his wife settled in Philadelphia, and among their chil- dren was David Jr., referred to below.
(V) David Jr., son of David and Katha- rine (Conover) Vander Veer, was born in Had- donfield, New Jersey, March 26, 1778, and died January 19, 1859. He lived in Philadel- phia, where he carried on a lumber business at the corner of Brown and Broad streets. He was most successful in business, and retired at an advanced age with a great deal of wealth. He was an active and faithful member all of his life to the Baptist church. November 16, 1801, he married Elizabeth, born November II, 1785, died March 9, 1843, daughter of Thomas Morris. Children : I. Ann, born September 6, 1802, died August 31, 1823. 2. Mary, born August 30, 1804, died January 17, 1889 ; mar- ried, March 3, 1825, Abraham Heulings; seven children. 3. Thomas Morris, referred to below. 4. Elizabeth, born April 22, 1809, died 1890; married, January 14, 1829, Edmund Brown. 5. Elenor, born August 24, 1811, died September 26, 1812. 6. William, born Decem- ber 12, 1813; married, February 28, 1844, Mary Teresa Wunder; one son, David Guy. 7. Sarah, born November 27, 1816, died No- vember 4, 1824. 8. David (3rd), born March 27, 1819, died January 21, 1888; married, Jan- uary 20, 1845, Anna Elizabeth, daughter of George and Louisa Hacker. Their two daughters married-Maria Louisa, Joseph D. Robinson; and Ann Elizabeth, Joseph B. Rohrman. David (3rd) married (second),
January 3, 1867, Mary M., daughter of Judge James Moore, of Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, widow of John F. Hansell. 9. Emily Welding, born August 21, 1821, died Decem- ber 26, 1846, married, September 28, 1843, Stephen C. Foulk. 10. John M., born April 4. 1825, died August 23, 1856; married, Feb- ruary 13, 1851, Julia Young ; one son, Edwin, died age five years.
(VI) Thomas Morris, third child and eldest son of David Jr. and Catharine (Conover ) Vander Veer, was born in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, February 1I, 1807, and died at Free- hold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, March I, 1880. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, after graduating from which he began his life work as a tanner and manufacturer of leather. After a time he sold out his leather business and removed to Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, where he bought a farm near the town of Freehold, upon which he lived for several years. After this he opened a general store in Freehold, and con- tinued there in business most successfully for some time. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church in Freehold, and was for many years one of the school trustees of that town. He was a Whig in politics, and later became a Republican. He was also one of the original founders of the Freehold Ceme- tery Association. January 30, 1828, he married Margaret DuBois, born December 23, 1810, died February 17, 1857, daughter of John Henry and Elizabeth (Du Bois) Smock, of Marlboro, Monmouth county, New Jersey. Children : 1. John Henry, born August 21, 1829, died in Florida, 189 -; married (first), January 9, 1861, Lemma A. Rapelye, who died November 26, 1874, leaving six children ; Mar- garet, Elizabeth, Thomas, William, Augustus and Victoria. John Henry married ( second ). May 29, 1877, Lucretia Loomis. 2. Morris, born November 29, 1831, died April 12, 1863, unmarried. 3. David Augustus, referred to below. 4. Elizabeth Smock, born March 6, 1836, died February 2, 1871 ; married, August 2, 1858, A. Cadmus Stryker. 5. Ann, born September 9, 1838, died February 5, 1867; married, August 2, 1858, Rev. A. A. E. Tay- lor, D. D. 6. Mary Heulings, born April 26, 1841 ; married, February 20, 1862, John C. Van Doren. 7. Emily Foulk, born February 7. 1846, died July 16, 1879; married, Decem- ber 14, 1869, Thomas C. Wheeler. 8. Daniel Schenck, born February 14, 1849, died Janu- ary 27, 1850.
(VII) David Augustus, third child and
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son of Thomas Morris and Margaret Du Bois (Smock) Vander Veer, was born in Moores- town, Burlington county, New Jersey, Decem- ber 14, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Freehold, after graduating from which he began life as a clerk in a store. After remaining in this position about three years he went to New York City and entered the wholesale store of Wilson C. Hunt & Company, with whom he remained about six years, and at the end of that time returned to Freehold, New Jersey, at the age of twenty- five years, and went into the general mer- chandise business with two partners, the name of the firm being Patterson, Vander Veer & Company. For about five years this business durationship continued, and then Mr. Vander Veer returned to New York, where he spent a year in the employ of Lord & Taylor. This position he left in order to attend to important business interests which had arisen in Penn- sylvania. These interests demanded his atten- tion for several years, and he then returned to Freehold, where for six years he turned his attention to farming and agricultural pur- suits, having the complete management of the old Schenck farm, now known as the Battle Monument farm. He next removed to Mana- lapan, where for twenty years longer he oper- ated a large farm, and during President Gar- field's administration served as postmaster. In this last place Mr. Vander Veer became widely known and celebrated as a breeder of Jersey cattle, and also as a fruit grower. He was the first charter member of Monmouth County Grange, No. 92, Freehold, being for several years the secretary of the Association, and also a member of the state and of the national granges. He was one of the original members of the Monmouth County Board of Agriculture, and at present is secretary of that organization. For many years he has been an active, enthusiastic and prominent member of the State Horticultural Society, on the executive committee of which he served con- tinuously from 1888 to 1906, in addition to which he has for twenty-three years held the office of vice-president of that society. Among other things for which the state and the country at large owe him a debt of gratitude, is the remarkably creditably showing of the state exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, and also at the World's Fair Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. For seven years Mr. Vander Veer served as a member of the Freehold Rifle Corps. He is a director in the Stokes Brothers Manufacturing Company
of Freehold. In politics he is a Republican, and is a member of the Holland Society of New York, of which from 1888 to 1894 he was the society's vice-president from Mon- mouth county. In early manhood Mr. Vander Veer became a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and was for many years a consistent member of that body, giving to it not only his means but also his time and energy in the offices of deacon and clerk of the consistory. At the present time he is a member of the Presbyterian church in Freehold.
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