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his church edifice itself used as a court room and a prison. It is even said that at one time he was himself taken prisoner and confined in the Hackensack jail. Through all these trials, however, he seems to have born himself with exemplary patience, and to have left be- hind him at his death the memory of a godly life and of an eminently practical and use- ful ministry. The compiler of this sketch of him has been through life intimately acquaint- ed with his descendants from his own children down through their children and children's children. Especially is the memory very precious of his honored son, Samuel G. Ver- bryck, who during the greater part of half a century down to 1835 led the Dutch singing in the Tappan church. All the dominie's chil- dren are mentioned in his will. The remains of himself and his wife are interred at Tappan. They lie in the graveyard on the west side of the road. The spots are still marked by the original stones. He married, in Hackensack, April 7, 1750, Susanna, daughter of Hendrick and Ariaentje (Westervelt) Van der Linde, who was born April 19, 1723, and died August 16, 1807. Children: Ariaentje, born July 18, 1851 ; Bernardus, born March 1, 1853, married Maria Beem; Hendrick Van der Linde, born January 4, 1755, married Antje Jansen; Jan- netje, born October 19, 1759; Roelof, born February 25, 1766, married Maria Haring; Samuel Gerritsen, referred to below.
(III) Samuel Gerritsen, son of Rev. Sam- uel and Susanna (Van der Linde) Verbryck, died in Tappan, Rockland county, New York, October 3, 1849. When the revolutionary war broke out, Rev. Samuel Verbryck removed to Clarkstown, then known as New Hempstead. His son Hendrick was married and resided in a house that stood on the present site of Mr. S. Conklin's store, and his second son, Samuel G., lived there with him. On the occasion of a parade there under Major Blauvelt, who lived where Cornelius Van Antwerp now re- sides, volunteers for guard duty at Paterson were requested. Several volunteered, but not one of them appeared at the time and place appointed. Samuel G. Verbryck, then only sixteen years of age, and another boy named Abram Martling, offered themselves for this duty, were accepted, received arm and rations. and walked to Paterson, where they remained on duty during two weeks. Subsequently Samuel G., with his brother Bernardus, went to Pulavly to labor on their grandparents' farm. Three days after their arrival they were made prisoners by the "regulars" and
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taken to New York, where they were placed in the "Debtor's jail." They were offered their liberty on condition of taking the oath of alle- giance to Great Britain, but these terms Sam- uel G. refused, and he was kept in prison thir- teen months. In this time he became greatly emaciated, and so ill that he was not expected to live. His second cousin, a Mr. De Bevoise, learning of his condition, asked and received permission to remove him to his home on Long Island. When taken there he was so ill that he was not aware of his removal, but by careful nursing he recovered, and afterward carried on Mr. De Bevoise's farm till he was exchanged, after being three years and three months a prisoner. He returned to his home, but soon enlisted in the American army and was appointed an officer in the Hackensack company, under Captain Ward. While a prisoner on Long Island he became engaged to a young lady named Heylitje Remsen. She sold her interest on some property in Long Island, sewed her money in her clothing and joined her intended husband at Pulavly where they were married. They remained here a year on the Van de Linde farm, and then, on the death of his grandmother, removed to Tappan, where, in November, 1783, they purchased of the United States government a confiscated farm. On this farm he resided until his death, October 3d, 1849. He represented Rockland county in the state legislature for more than twenty years, and was, during more than half a century chorister and sexton of the old Dutch church at Tappan. He married, in August, 1781, Heylitje Remsen. Children : Susanna, born August 4, 1782, married Garret Edwards; Angenietje, born October 14, 1785; Samuel, born September 30, 1787; Remsen, born September 4, 1789, married Elizabeth Oerveelen; Jannetje, born February 7, 1792, married Richard Ellsworth; Femmetje, born March 13, 1795; Maria, referred to below ; John, born July 19, 1801 ; James, April 25, 1805.
(IV) Maria, daughter of Samuel Gerritsen and Heylitje (Remsen) Verbryck, was born at Tappan, Rockland county, New York, June. 17, 1798. She married, December 19, 1821, Samuel, son of John and Phebe (Gesner) Sneden, referred to above.
(The Hetzel Line).
Rev. Heinrich Hetzel, the founder of this family in America, landed in Philadelphia in 1730, being probably brought over to this country as a child, but whether by his parents
or with the household of some other family is uncertain. According to Kneschike's "Lex- icon of German Nobility" he was sprung from an Irish Jacobite family which fled to Ger- many after the battle of the Boyne, July II, 1690. He married Jeanne Riviere.
(II) John, son of Rev. Heinrich and Jeanne (Riviere) Hetzel, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1760. About the time of his marriage he removed to Exeter, Berks county, Pennsylvania. He married, September 14, 1799, Mary, daughter of John and Barbara (Rothermal) Pool or Puhl, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who was born March 20, 1778. Children : Joanna, born September 19, 1800; Hiram Henry and Abner Riviere, both referred to below; Ros- anna, born March 22, 1805; Mary Barbara, twin with Rosanna; John Newton, born No- vember 25, 1806; Cassandanna, born July 12, 1808, died unmarried ; Cyrus, born March 18, 1810; Selima, born July 12, 1812, died May I, 1865, married General Edward C. Williams ; Milton, born July 27, 1814; Cyrus, born August 27, 1815; Paulina, born July 8, 1817; Calvin, born October 29, 1818.
(III) Hiram Henry, son of John and Mary (Pool) Hetzel, was born in Earl township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1802, and died in Dauphin county, Pennsyl- vania, February 23, 1849. He married, in Middle Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1823, Mary, born March 20, 1806, died September 8, 1863, daughter of George and Anne Catharine (Geiger) Hoch- lander. Children: I. Riviere George, born April 20, 1826, died March 26, 1890; married, December 21, 1848, Mary A. Simmons. 2. John, born February 3, 1828, died April 12, 1870; married Ann Mackwalder. 3. Mary Elizabeth, referred to below. 4. Ellen Louisa, born April 1I, 1833; died September 9, 1840. 5. Hiram Hughes, born May 1, 1836; still liv- ing ; married, March 25, 1860, Amelia Geist. 6. Cassandanna, born July 22, 1838; still liv- ing; married (first), November 26, 1857, Charles Rhoads, who died September 28, 1879; he was second lieutenant in the 173d regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; after the war held several government positions and was in charge of Fort Hayes and Fort Dodge, in Kansas, and Fort Sill, in Indian Territory ; Cassandanna married (second), March 28, 1882, Rev. Benjamin Hengst, who died No- vember 13, 1907.
(IV) Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Henry and Mary (Hochlander) Hetzel, was-
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born in Middle Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1831, and died in Red Bank, Monmouth county, New Jersey, June 23, 1904. She married, October 21, 1850, William, son of Samuel and Maria (Verbryck) Sneden, referred to above.
(III) Abner Riviere, son of John and Mary (Pool) Hetzel, was born in Earl township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1803, and died in 1848. He was educated at West Point, where he graduated in the early 1820's and rapidly rose in his profession, that of military engineering, and attained the rank of major. He designed and superintended the construction of the Delaware breakwater. In 1840 he was chief assistant to General Thomas S. Jessup, then quartermaster-general of the United States army, and was sent to Mexico, where he had charge of the quarter- master's department in that country during the war of 1845-1848. At the close of hostilities he came back to the United States, and while on his way to Washington died of cholera at Louisville, Kentucky. He married Margaret Selden. The late Newton Hetzel Davies, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Major Frank Davies, of the United States army, were his nephews.
THOMPSON The Tomson (or Thomp- son, as the name is now spelt), is one of the early families in this country, and its founder un- doubtedly came to Elizabethtown from New
England, where at an early date there were several Thomas Thompsons of record, al- though so far as the writer has been able to discover there is no evidence for the state- ment of Hatfield and Howell that the ancestor of the line at present under consideration was in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1639, and from there went to New London in 1642.
(I) Thomas Tomson was at East Hampton, Long Island, in 1649, where he resided on the west side of the street near Robert Bond and the two Mulfords. He was one of the eighty Elizabethtown associates, and took the oath of allegiance in February, 1665. In 1672 he was one of the Elizabethtown deputies in the pro- vincial legislature, and the year following, when the Dutch reconquered the province, he took the oath of allegiance to the States-Gen- eral. He was active in opposing the arbitrary measures of Governor Carteret, and with his son Hur, Stephen Osborn, Robert and Peter Morse, Nathaniel Tuttle, and John Wilson, the wheelwright, he accompanied William Meeker
in his raid on Pardon's house, and for his patriotism suffered quite a little. In his will dated November 20, 1675, proved September 9, 1676, he names his children but not his wife, whose name is said to have been Mary. Chil- dren : I. Moses, living in Elizabethtown, 1701, and dead before 1710; twice married; second wife, Abiah Roberts of Newark. 2. Hur, died between 1689 and 1694; married Mary 3. Mary, married John, son of James Hinds (or Haines) Sr., and their daughter married as early as 1700, Isaac Whitehead Jr. 4. Aaron, referred to below. 5. Hannah. 6. Elizabeth, born about 1675, died November 13, 1747; married (first) Benjamin Meeker ; probably (second) Samuel Miller.
(II) Aaron, son of Thomas Tomson, was born on Long Island, between 1650 and 1660, and died in Elizabethtown in 1695. He mar- ried, about 1690, Hannah, daughter of John Brown, and widow of Joseph Riggs, of Mil- ford and Newark. In 1697 Samuel Miller was made the guardian of his children. These were: Thomas, ancestor of the Morristown branch; Joseph, referred to below; Aaron, died before 1647; Hannah.
(III) Joseph, son of Aaron and Hannah (Brown) Riggs Tomson, died in July, 1749, in Mendham, whither he had removed from Elizabethtown in 1739. His wife Lydia died December 24, 1749, and between the death of their parents five of their children and three of their grandchildren died of the same epi- demic of "lung fever." Children: I. Phebe, born August, 1718, died April, 1749. 2. Ste- phen, born June 13, 1720, died July, 1750; married. 3. Hannah, born December 3, 1721, died April, 1749. 4. Mary, born November 27, 1723, died April, 1799. 5. Aaron, born December 7, 1725, died April, 1749. 6. Daniel, referred to below. 7. Desire, born November 4, 1731, died July, 1777 ; married James Pit- ney. 8. Rachel, born March 10, 1734, died April, 1749. 9. David, born October 4, 1737, died December 28, 1824; married (first) Rachel Bonnell; (second) Hannah Cary.
(IV) Daniel, sixth child and third son of Joseph and Lydia Tomson, was born in Eliz- abethtown, December 7, 1727, and died in April, 1749. He married Abagail, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Haywood) Byram, who after his death married (second) Benja- min Pitney. Child : Daniel, referred to below. (V) Daniel (2) Thompson, only son of- Daniel (1) and Abagail (Byram) Tomson, was born in Mendham, in 1749, and died there in 1834. He and his sons were tanners and
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shoemakers. He married Penelope Carnes (or Cairnes), who died about 1820. Children : I. Joseph, died unmarried, at about eighty years of age. 2. Nancy (or Penelope), mar- ried Schenck. 3. Abigail, died single. 4. Calvin, born in Mendham, New Jersey ; he bought a farm at Tuckerman's Plains, where he built a tannery, and where he and his wife died ; he married Nellie Byram; two children, one of whom, William, married Rebecca Voorhees. 5. Luther, referred to below. 6. Sarah. 7. Daniel.
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(VI) Luther, eldest son of Daniel and Abi- gail (Byram) Thompson, was born in Mend- ham, New Jersey, March 18, 1781, and died there May 11, 1875. In 1807 he married Rhuhama Chidister. Children: I. Lewis A., born 1809; lives at Kendallville, Indiana ; married, February 25, 1832, Jane Mase, and one of his sons, D. Headley Thompson, vol- unteered during the civil war, was shot in the hip at the battle of Williamsburg, captured and imprisoned in Libby prison and at Belle Isle and Salisbury, and died in Trenton from the effect of his wounds and treatment. 2. John Byram, born 1811 ; married Susan Bras- tow. 3. Emily, born 1814; married Aaron Losey. 4. Albert. 5. Rebecca Ann, born 1821. 6. Calvin, referred to below. 7. Joseph, re- moved to New York City.
(VII) Calvin, sixth child and fourth son of Luther and Rhuhama (Chidister) Thompson, lived in Mendham and Basking Ridge, Somer- set county, New Jersey. He married Margaret Voorhees. Children: Lewis A. (referred to below) ; Joseph W .; Anna; Katharine; Ruhama ; Fannie E., who died April 7, 1890.
(VIII) Lewis A., only son of Calvin and Margaret (Voorhees) Thompson, was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and is now liv- ing in Somerville. He was educated in the Basking Ridge schools, and for five or six years taught school in Bernardsville. In 1877 he removed to Somerville, where he estab- lished an extensive millinery and fancy goods business which he conducted most successfully until 1894. In 1880 he was elected sheriff of Somerset county for a term of three years. In 1883 and 1884 he was president of the board of commissioners of Somerville, and in 1884 he was elected on the Republican ticket as state senator for Somerset county to the New Jersey legislature. He was re-elected in 1887 and again in 1893, and served until 1896, in which year he was chosen president of the senate. It is a fact significant of the estima- tion in which Mr. Thompson is held by the
community that the pluralities by which he was re-elected show each time a remarkable increase over the previous elections, the plur- ality being 89 in 1884, 450 in 1887, and 893 in 1893.
Mr. Thompson was one of the most import- ant, influential and aggressive members of the senate, active in all legislation, and serving on almost all of the important committees. In 1885 he was chairman of the committee on election, and a member of the committees on claims and pensions, on treasurer's account and on the Reform School for Boys. In the following year he was the chairman of the two last mentioned committees, and a member of the committee on railroads and canals, on miscellaneous business, and on printing. In 1887, besides continuing his chairmanship of the committees on treasurer's account and the Reform School for Boys, he served as chair- man of the committees on riparian rights and printing ; and besides retaining his member- ship on the committees on railroads and canals and miscellaneous business, he served as a member of the committee on public ground and buildings. In 1888 he was chairman of the committees on corporations, on treasurer's account, and on printing, and was a member of the committees on railroads and canals, on miscellaneous business, and on engrossed bills ; while in 1889 he served in addition on a com- mittee on lunatic asylums. During his second period of service in 1894 to 1896 he served as chairman of the committees on corporation, on unfinished business, and on the state prison, and as a member of the committees on finance, on agriculture and the Agricultural College, on treasurer's accounts, and on commerce and navigation. In 1896 he served as president of the senate, where he discharged the duties of the office with signal ability and marked im- partiality. He resigned on March 6 to accept the position of clerk in chancery, to which he had just been nominated by the Governor and unanimously confirmed by the senate.
Mr. Thompson's policy was one of modera- tion and he sought the passage of measures which contributed rather to the general wel- fare than to sectional or party profit, and his bold independence and aggression led him to direct his best efforts to substitute for tem- porary party gain the best permanent public good. Of a pleasing personal appearance, he possesses a genial smiling nature, he is popular even with his political opponents, and has been most successful in business, and is one of the largest real estate owners in Somerville.
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December 29, 1869, Mr. Thompson married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Dunham, of Millington, who died October 11, 1883. Chil- dren: 1. May, married Charles Roberts. 2. Bertha, married Edwin L. Decker ; children : Lewis T. and Mary P. Mr. Thompson mar- ried (second) February 20, 1905, Alice G., daughter of Alexander G. and Albina T. An- derson; her father is now clerk of Somerset county.
JACKSON the Newark family of Jack- son here under consideration is of English Puritan stock which settled in the North of Ireland about 1641. The name appears among the Anglo- Norman and English families of the time of Henry II., and is found in the south of Ire- land as early as 1100. Those coming from Ireland to America are included under the title of Scotch-Irish, a name of American origin designating the Protestant emigrants from Ireland, mostly Presbyterians who were driven to this country by the stringent laws repressing manufactures in Ireland, enacted after the accession of William and Mary. In Ireland the family was first in Londonderry, in which county, near Giant's Causeway, there is a place called Jackson Hall ; and a little later in Armagh. In the old cathedral there are still memorials of the family and their armorial bearings. The Jacksons of Forkhill, county Armagh, had for their motto, "Malo mori quam foedari" (Better to die than to be a traitor).
(I) James Jackson, the first of the family in America came from Forkhill, County Armagh, early in the eighteenth century, accompanied probably by his wife and his brother William Jackson. Family tradition says that he paid seventy guineas passage money. After a sojourn in New York or vicinity during which the name of William Jackson appears in the records of the First Presbyterian Church, they removed to Orange county, New York. The records of the town of Goshen show that in 1721 they united with twenty-two others in a grant of property to the town for a church, school house, minister's house and cemetery. James Jackson appears to have signed, at New Marlboro, Ulster county, New York, the revolutionary pledge agreeing to abide by the acts of the Continental Congress, in 1777. There is still in the family a Bible printed at Edinburgh with the inscrip- tion, "I, James Jackson, Senior, do give this Bible to my grandson Peter Jackson as his
real property, the 27th day of September, 1779." His children were: 1. James, 1718- 1795, referred to below. 2. William, born 1720. 3. John, 1722. 4. Anna, 1724; married John Armstrong. 5. Nancy, 1726; married Andrew Miller. 6. Alexander, born 1728, died 1818; married Martha Drake; their son, Rev. Abel Jackson, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield, New Jer- sey.
(II) James (2), eldest son of James (I) Jackson, was born in 1718, and died in 1795. He was one of the early settlers of New Wind- sor, Orange county, New York. A street there is named Jackson avenue for him. He owned vessels (sloops) engaged in Hudson river transportation, and was given the cour- tesy title of commodore. Edgar's "History of Orange County" says, "The Jacksons are cap- tains of their own sloops." By his first wife, Agnes he had children: I. William, born 1745, died 1806; served in the revolution as a captain, first under Clinton, and was pro- moted to major ; he married Mary Booth. 2. James, born 1747, died 1825; also served in the revolution; married (first) Bun- sen ; (second) Elizabeth McCoff. 3. Sarah. born 1754; married James Lattie. He married (second), Maria, daughter of Peter and Anna Berry Roome, of Pompton Plains, and had children. 4. Agnes, born 1775, died 1851 ; mar- ried Hartman Post in 1792; thirteen children. 5. Peter, born 1777, died 1859; see below. He married (third) Margaret Burnett.
(III) Peter, youngest son of James (2) Jackson, by his second wife, Maria Roome, was born at Pompton Plains, New Jersey, at the home of his grandfather, Peter Roome, December 13, 1777, and died in Newark, Feb- ruary 25, 1859. Until the death of his mother in 1781, he lived with his parents at New Windsor, New York, but was then taken with his sister Agnes to Pompton Plains and brought up by their aunts, Hester (Roome) Acton and Deborah (Roome) Spear, neither of them having children of their own. He subsequently entered the store of General William Colfax, who had been captain of Washington's life guard, and, settling at Pompton Plains at the close of the war, had married Hetty Schuyler, a cousin of Adriana Schuyler Van der Linde, who was mother of Peter Jackson's future wife. Later, Peter Jackson opened a store for himself at a place in Pompton Plains, still known as Jackson's Corner. Marrying in 1802, he shortly after- wards moved with his wife to Acquackanonck
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(now Passaic), where he built a store adjoin- ing his own wharf, and following in the same line of business as his father and half brothers, he despatched his vessels to Albany, New York, Virginia, Georgia and the West Indies, supplying the country around as far as New- burgh and Philadelphia with lumber, southern products and general merchandise. He was appointed postmaster of Acquackanonck by President Madison in 1812, holding the office until 1838. In 1839 he removed with his wife and youngest daughter and son to Newark, where his son John P. and two of his daugh- ters were already settled. He continued attend- ing to business in Newark until his sudden death on the train between Newark and Jersey City, in 1859.
May 16, 1802, Peter Jackson married Hes- ter Van der Linde Brinckerhoff, daughter of Adriana Van der Linde, whose father, Dom- inie Benjamin Van der Linde, was the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church to be ordained in America, and Adrian W. Brinck- erhoff, whose father, Col. John Brinckerhoff, of Fishkill, was a friend of Washington, and his home built in 1738, one of "Washington's Headquarters." The wife of Col. Brincker- hoff was Elizabeth Schuyler, great-grand- daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, the first Dutch Governor of Albany. Mrs. Jackson celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth at Newark, January 30, 1882, at the home of her daughter Julia (Mrs. Algernon S. Hubbell), surrounded by children, grandchil- dren and great-grandchildren, and one great- great-granddaughter. She retained her facul- ties till her death in her one hundred and sec- ond year, March 20, 1883. Both Peter Jackson and his wife were members of the South Park Presbyterian Church of Newark.
Children of Peter and Hester Van der Linde ( Brinckerhoff ) Jackson: I. James, born May 4, 1803, died December 15, 1882; for years engaged in business with his father; he mar- ried Mary Stagg, of New York; their son, Abram Stagg, was a well-known lawyer of Jersey City. 2. John P., referred to below. 3. Maria, married Henry Van Winkle, of New York. 4. Eliza, married Amzi Armstrong, a lawyer of Newark. 5. Julia Ann, married Algernon S. Hubbell, a prominent Newark lawyer ; children: George Wolcott, married Cora Churchhill, of Greenwich, Connecticut ; Julia, married Rev. Charles Treat, D. D .; Eliza, lives in Newark; John Jackson, a law- yer in Newark. 6. Jane, married Rev. Samuel W. Fisher, D. D., a Presbyterian minister, and
president of Hamilton College ; children : Hon. William Fisher, of Cincinnati; George; Rev. Samuel Jackson, D. D., Presbyterian minister and president of the Presbyterian Board of Freedmen at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Eliza. 7. William, referred to below.
(IV) John P., second son of Peter and Hester (Van der Linde) Brinckerhoff Jack- son, was born at Acquackanonck, now Passaic, June 8, 1805, and died at Newark, December 10, 1861. He graduated at Princeton College with first honors in the class of 1823, and im- mediately entered upon the study of law at the old Litchfield Law School, under Judges Tappan, Reeve and Gould, and subsequently in the office of Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, in Newark. He was admitted to practice at the bar in 1827, forming a partnership at first with Ashbel W. Corey, and afterwards with his brother-in-law, Amzi Armstrong, with whom he was also for a time associated as editors of the Newark Daily Advertiser. In 1831 he was elected to the New Jersey assembly, and in 1832, being re-elected, was chosen speaker. He was connected from its organization with the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company ; in 1832 he was appointed secretary, in 1836 a director, and in 1849 vice-president and superintendent. In 1839 he was appointed clerk of the county of Essex, filling the office until 1849.
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