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(III) John (3), son of John (2) Talcott, was born in Braintree, county Essex, England, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in March, 1660. By the death of his father in 1604 he was left a minor and only son. He emigrated to America with the company of the Rev. Mr. Hooker, in the ship "Lion," Captain Mason master, which sailed from England, June 22, and arrived at Boston, September 16, 1632. He settled first in New Town (now Cam- bridge) where he was admitted freeman No- vember 6, 1632. May 14, 1634, he was one of the representatives of the general court, having the previous February been chosen also select- man of Newtown. He became the "fifth greatest proprietor of houses and lands" in Newtown, owning four houses in the west end and keeping in repair thirty-six rods of public fence. When Rev. Mr. Hooker removed his company to the Connecticut river, John Tal- cott sold his Newtown possessions and re- moved to Hartford, having previously sent there a carpenter who built him a house which was the first house built in Hartford, and was on the ground where later the North Church was erected. Here he took an active part in the affairs of the town, and was for many years its representative in the general court, and it was owing to him that the colony en- gaged in the Pequot war. He was also one of the chief magistrates of the colony until his death. He married Dorothy, daughter prob- ably of Mark Esq. and Frances (Cutter) Mott, of Braintree, county Essex, England ; (see Mott). Children: 1. Mary, died about
1655 ; married, June 28, 1649, Rev. John Rus- sell. 2. John, died July 23, 1688; married (first) October 29, 1650, Helena Wakeman; (second) November 9, 1676, Mary Cook. 3. Samuel, referred to below.
(IV) Captain Samuel, son of John (3) and Dorothy (Mott) Talcott, was born probably in New Town (now Cambridge) Massachu- setts, about 1634, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, November 10, 1691. He gradu- ated from Harvard College in 1658, and was made freeman of Connecticut in 1662. His father settled him on land he had bought in Wethersfield, and here from 1669 to 1684 he was commissioner, and from 1670 to 1684 deputy to the general court, of which he was the secretary during the October session of 1684 in the absence of Colonel Allyn. May 16, 1676, he was appointed one of the standing committee who had charge of all affairs aris- ing between sessions of the court. The fol- lowing year he was chosen lieutenant of the train band, and two years later lieutenant of the troop. October 16, 1681, he was elected captain of the Hartford county troop. From 1683 until his death, except during the admin- istration of Andros, he was assistant. He was also one of the original proprietors of Glas- tenbury, and was the scholar of the family. From him and his brother John Talcott are descended all persons of the name in America. He married (first) Hannah, daughter of Eli- zur and Mary ( Pynchon ) Holyoke ; ( see Holy- oke) ; (second) August 6, 1679, Mary
who survived him and died January 5, 1710- II. Children: I. Samuel, born 1662; died April 28, 1698; married Mary Ellery prob- ably. 2. John, born 1663; died young. 3. Hannah, born 1665; died July 23, 1741 ; mar- ried, November 25, 1686, Major John Chester, of Wethersfield. 4. Elizur, born July 31, 1669; married Sarah 5. Joseph, born Feb- ruary 20, 1671 ; died November 3, 1732 ; mar- ried, April 5, 1701, Sarah Deming. 6. Benja- min, referred to below. 7. Rachel, born April 2, 1676; died November 22, 1702; married, March 21, 1700, Peter Bulkley; no children. 8. Nathanael, born January 28, 1678; died January 30, 1758; married, March 18, 1703, Elizabeth Pattin.
(V) Deacon Benjamin, son of Captain Samuel and Hannah (Holyoke) Talcott, was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, March I, 1674, and died in Glastenbury, Connecticut, November 12, 1727. He settled in Glasten- bury, where he built his house in 1699, on the farm given to him by his father's will. It
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was a large wooden structure situated on the main street of the town, was well fortified, and was used as a place of refuge during the frequent attacks of the Indians. The bullet marks on it could be distinctly seen until its removal in 1854. The property is still owned (1910) by some of his descendants. He mar- ried, January 5, 1699, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister; (see Hollister). She died in childbed, October 15, 1715, and he married (second) the "wife" re- ferred to in his will. Children, all by first marriage: 1. Sarah, born October 30, 1699; died July 15, 1743; married, November 28, 1717, Jonathan Hale. 2. Benjamin, referred to below. 3. John, born December 17, 1704; died August 25, 1745 ; married, 1731, Lucy Burnham. 4. Hannah, born October 16, 1706; died February 6, 1796; married, January 30, 1729, Benjamin Hale. 5. Samuel, born Feb- ruary 12, 1708; died September 26, 1768; married, October 5, 1732, Hannah Moseley. 6. Elizur, born December 31, 1709 ; died Novem- ber 24, 1797; married, December 31, 1730, Ruth Wright. 7. Mehitable, born July 17, 1713; died April 20, 1781 ; married Hezekiah Wright. 8. Abigail, born October 10; died October 28, 1715.
(VI) Benjamin (2) son of Deacon Benja- min (1) and Sarah (Hollister) Talcott, was born in Glastenbury, Connecticut, June 27, 1702, and died in Bolton, Connecticut, March 9, 1785. He was a farmer, and lived on land in Bolton which he had inherited from his father. He married (first) August 26, 1724, Esther, daughter of John and Mindwell (Pom- eroy) Lyman, of Northampton, Massachu- setts, who was born February 15, 1698. He married (second) Deborah Gillett. Children, five by first marriage: I. Benjamin, referred to below. 2. Joseph, born January 31, 1728; died June 10, 1789 ; married January 9, 1753, Eunice Lyman. 3. Caleb, born August II, 1730; died young. 4. Caleb (2d), born 1732; died in April, 1802 ; married, March 27, 1759, Martha Parsons. 5. Esther, born July 24, 1736; died May 23, 1808. 6. Lucy, married Benjamin Wells. 7. Sarah, married John Carver. 8. Seth, born December 26, 1742; died 1826; married, April 21, 1763, Anna White. 9. John, married Sarah Stimson. 10. Phebe, married Hezekiah Wells. II. Anna, married Elkanah Porter. 12. Deborah.
(VII) Deacon Benjamin (3) son of Benja- min (2) and Esther (Lyman) Talcott, was born in Bolton, Connecticut, June 10, 1725, and died there, on land inherited by his father,
April 18, 1811. He married, March 15, 1753, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Smith) Lyman, of Coventry, Connecticut, who was born May 10, 1730, and died Sep- tember 3, 1810. Children: I. Benjamin, born May 9, 1754; died February 1, 1829; married, October 31, 1782, Jerusha Olmstead. 2. Eli- jah, born June 22, 1755; died February 8, 1826; married, November 17, 1779, Rebecca Olmstead. 3. Samuel, born April 7, 1757; died May 26, 1813; married, September 8, 1791, Sarah Smith. 4. Phineas, born Decem- ber 14, 1758; died December 17, 1835; mar- ried, November 26, 1789, Hannah Kellogg. 5. Elizabeth, born December 6, 1760; died 1846; married Theophilus Griswold. 6. Daniel, born July 29, 1762 ; died November 10, 1807; mar- ried (first) Betsey Keeney; (second) Abigail Holt. 7. Jacob, born February 9, 1766; died November 27, 1835; married, October 21, 1795, Anna Carpenter. 8. Rachel, twin with Jacob ; died September 24, 1805 ; married, De- cember 3, 1788, Samuel Howard. 9. Olive, referred to below. 10. Esther, born May 7, 1770; died February 17, 1813; married Alex- ander Keeney. II. Alvan, born November 2, 1773; died November 22, 1835 ; married, No- vember 8, 1797, Philamela Root.
(VIII) Olive, daughter of Deacon Benja- min (3) and Elizabeth (Lyman) Talcott, was born in Bolton, Connecticut, January 20, 1768, and died at Vernon, Connecticut, May 19, 1829: she married David Smtih, (q. v.).
(The Mott Line).
Thomas Mott, of Braintree, county Essex, England, was the owner of Sheme Hall, Lex- enden hundreds, and of other real estate in 1599. He married Alice Mead.
(II) Mark, son and heir of Thomas and Alice (Mead) Mott, was born in Braintree, county Essex, England, April 25, 1549, and was buried there December 14, 1637. He married Frances Gutter, who was buried in Braintree, February 23, 1615. Children : I. Frances, married Francis Forward, of Hart- ford, England. 2. Thomas, married a daugh- ter of John Bend. 3. Andrian, baptized March 29, 1758 ; married (first) Jane Wade (second) Catharine Kempe. 4. Mark, married Nancy Tichburne ; took orders and received D. D. degree. 5. John, married Alice Harrington. 6. James. 7. Dorothy, referred to below. 8. Sarah, married (first) Robert Tenborough, (second) Sir John Henley. 9. Dorcas.
(III) Dorothy, daughter of Mark and Frances (Gutter) Mott was born in Braintree,
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county Essex, England, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, after September 22, 1669. She married John Talcott (q. v.).
(The Holyoke Line).
Edward Holyoke, of Tamworth, county Suf- folk, England, resided in Lynn, Massachusetts, as early as 1630, and was admitted freeman tliere in 1638. He removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, and after remaining there for a while returned to England and died at Rum- sey, where he owned a large estate, May 4, 1660. He married, June 18, 1612, Prudence, daughter of Rev. John Stockton, of Alchester and Kingholt. Children : I. Edward, died December 30, 1631, aged thirteen years. 2. John, died 1635. 3. Elizur, referred to below. 4. John, died April 24, 1641. Elizabeth, mar- ried George Keyser. 6. Ann, married, Octo- ber 17, 1643, Thomas Putnam. 7. Mary, mar- ried, February 10, 1647, John Tuttle. 8. Sus- anna, married, September 12, 1656, Michael Martin. 9. Sarah, married Andrews.
(II) Elizur, son of Edward and Prudence (Stockton) Holyoke, was born in Tamworth, county Suffolk, England, and died in Spring- field, Massachusetts, February 6, 1676. He was a prominent man in the Massachusetts colony, and held various offices of trust under the government. He married (first) May 20, 1640, Mary, daughter of Hon. William Pynch- on, one of the original settlers of the Massa- chusetts Bay colony, a patentee under the charter of Charles I., March 4, 1629, and the same year chosen assistant magistrate by the general court of the colony in London. He emigrated in 1630, settled in Roxbury, was later chosen treasurer of the company, and be- came one of the original settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, returned to England in 1652, and died at his country seat at Wraisburgh on the Thames, in October, 1662. He was twice married, and by his first wife, who died before he left England, he had among others Mary, died October 26, 1657, as referred to above. Elizur Holyoke married (second)
Stebbins, widow of John Maynard, and also of Robert Day, of Hartford. Children, all by first marriage: 1. John, born August 27, 1641, died October 8, 1641. 2. John, born August 5: 1642 ; died February 6, 1712. 3. Hannah, referred to below. 4. Daughter, born dead, May 21, 1646. 5. Samuel, born June 9, 1647 ; died October 31, 1676. 6. Edward, born Au- gust 8, 1649; died June 16, 1708. 7. Elizur, born October 13, 1651 ; died August II, 17II ;
married, January 2, 1678, Mary, daughter of Jacob Eliot. 8. Mary, born November 14, 1656; died July 14, 1678; married James Rus- sell.
(III) Hannah, daughter of Hon. Elizur and Mary ( Pynchon ) Holyoke, was born in Spring- field, Massachusetts, June 9, 1644, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, February 2, 1678. She married November 7, 1661, Captain Sam- uel Talcott (q. v.)
(The Hollister Line).
The Hollister family of Bristol, England, is as old as the reign of Henry VIII. John Hol- lister, a descendant of this family, was born in Glastonbury, England, in 1612, and settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1642, and was admitted freeman May 10, 1643, at Weymouth, Massachusetts. In the latter colony he was representative to the general court the same year. He returned later to Wethersfield, where he held the office of representative to the gen- ral court of the Connecticut colony from 1655 until his death in April, 1665, and where he became engaged in a church controversy with Rev. John Russell, which resulted in the re- moval of the latter to Hadley. He married Joanna, daughter of Robert Treat Sr., who died in 1694. Children: 1. John, referred to below. 2. Stephen, married (first) Abigail Treat, (second) Elizabeth, widow of Jonathan Reynolds. 3. Thomas, married (first) Eliza- beth Latimer, (second) Elizabeth Williams. 4. Joseph, died August 29, 1674. 5. Lazarus, born 1656 ; died in September, 1709. 6. Mary, married John Wells. 7. Sarah, died December 8, 1691 ; married (first) Rev. Hope Atherton, of Hartford, (second) Timothy Baker. 8. Elizabeth, married Samuel Wells.
(II) John (2), son of John ( I) and Joanna (Treat) Hollister, was born in Wethersfield, between 1642 and 1644, and died in Glaston- bury, Connecticut, November 24, 171I. He married, November 20, 1667, Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah ( Marvin) Goodrich, who died in 1700. Children: I. John, born August 9, 1669 ; died December 13, 1741 ; mar- ried Abia, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Hollister. 2. Thomas, born January 14, 1672; died October 12, 1741 ; married Dorothy Hill. 3. Joseph, born July 8, 1674; died in July, 1746; married (first) Ann -; (second)
Sarah :4. Sarah, referred to below. 5. Elizabeth, born March 30, 1678; died in childhood. 6. David, born November 21, 1681 ; died December 27, 1753: married Charity
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-. 7. Ephraim Green. 8. Charles, born July 29, 1686. 9. Elizabeth, married Dr. Jo- seph Steel.
(III) Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Goodrich) Hollister, was born in Wethers- field, Connecticut, October 25, 1676, and died in Glastonbury, Connecticut, October 15, 1715. She married January 5, 1698, Deacon Benja- min Talcott (q. v.).
In his "Annals of Newtown,"
RIKER James Riker says, "The Rikers were originally a German family, located at a very remote period in lower Sax- ony, where they enjoyed a state of allodial independence, at that day regarded as consti- tuting nobility. They there possessed the estate or manor of Rycken, from which they took their name, then written von Rycken, indicating its territorial derivation." This would favor the proposed etymology of the name as from the German "Reich," meaning "kingdom," or "realm;" but in the Dutch forms of the name we do not find as we should the Dutch "van" corresponding to the French "de" and the English "of," but the Dutch "de," an entirely different prefix corre- sponding to the English "the ;" as in Holland, the name assumes the various forms of de Rycke, de Ryk, de Riecke, etc., which would support the other proposed derivation as from the same root as the German "Reiche," mean- ing the "rich."
One of the lords of the above mentioned manor and a valiant knight was Hans von Ryken, who with his cousin Melchior, the latter a native of Holland, participated in the first crusade in 1096, heading a band of 800 crusaders in the army of Walter the Penni- less. In this ill-fated expedition Hans per- ished, but his cousin lived to return home. From this period also, if not actually in com- memoration of this event, comes the coat-of- arms, which has generally been adopted by the Riker families in this country, namely : "Azure, a white rose between three six pointed stars, or; Crest: a white rose between two horns ; Motto: Honor virtutis praemium ("Honor is valor's reward"). In addition to this coat, several others have at different times been granted to different members of the family.
Another famous member of the family, who is generally believed to be great-grand father of the founder of the branch in this country, was Jacob Simonsz de Ryk, a "man of noble blood, who held a position of considerable
wealth and importance in Amsterdam, where for more than two centuries his ancestors had occupied places of public trust and honor. When the Duke of Alva, the ferocious emis- sary of King Philip II. of Spain, began his bloody reprisals for the uprising of the Nether- landish nobles, a number of Frisians left Fries- land and Groningen, the greater part of them joining Count Hendrik van Brederode at Amsterdam. Several of these, in August, 1567, were captured, imprisoned and executed, and the remainder took to the sea, harassing Spanish commerce and the coasts of Holland, which it kept up for the next four or five years, more or less supported by William the Silent, Prince of Orange, who finally appointed as their leader the Count de la Marck, who initiated the long struggle for independence known as the "Revolt of the Netherlands," by the capture of Briel, April 1, 1572. This band of adventurers received the name of Water-Guezen, or Sea Beggars, by which they have ever since been known. One of the cap- tains who took part in the capture of Briel was Jacob Simonsze de Ryk, and immediately after, with Nicolaas Bernard and Eloy Rudam, he was despatched to England to spread the news of the conquest among the exiles and to request assistance in men and money. In this he was successful, but as he had entered an English harbor contrary to the royal decrees, his ships were seized and he himself was brought before the Queen, where he made so successful a defense that Her Majesty told him simply, "not to cause any disturbance in her realm, and to depart immediately for home." Consequently, a few days later, De Ryk set sail with his three ships and more than five hundred auxiliaries. Off the head- land of Dover he fell in with a party of fugi- tives from the town of Flushing, which had just succeeded in expelling their Spanish gar- rison and were in need of aid in order to pre- serve their new and hardly won liberty. Assembling a council of war, De Ryk and his companions determined to change their destin- ation from Briel to Flushing, where they arrived April 10, 1572, just in time to prevent the city's falling again into the hands of the Spaniards and to hold the town until fresh reinforcements made the independence of the place certain. Leaving Flushing. De Ryk went to Zuyderhoof, where he was informed that the Spaniards were at Zandyk, intending to attempt retaking the town of Veer. Attack- ing and defeating these forces, De Ryk now rendered such important services in rescuing
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the city that he was appointed as a reward for his efforts, Admiral of Veer, and in this capacity rendered invaluable aid to the cause of his country's freedom. Being captured dur- ing the unsuccessful expedition upon the city of Tholen, he was one of five prisoners of war for whose ransom William of Orange held as hostage the Spanish general Mondragon, whose forces were defeated before Middle- burg.
(I) The earliest representative of the family in this country, and the founder of the branch int which we are interested, was Gysbert or Guisbert Rycken, who is said to have come to New Amsterdam from Holland in 1630, in one of the earliest of the vessels of the West India Company, and to have received extensive grants of land in different places, the most extensive being at Newton, Long Island, which is said to have been a mile square and to have included the island now bearing his name. Very little is known concerning him, and the records which mention his name are few and scanty. March 31, 1639, he entered into an agreement with Jan Jacobsen respecting the use of a farm and some cattle, the record of which is preserved in the regis- ter of the provincial secretary of New Amster- dam (vol. i, p. 90), and three months later this contract became the subject of court proceed- ings which were finally.referred to arbitrators to settle. He died leaving a son Abraham and one daughter. In the old Riker burying- ground at Newton, Long Island, is a monu- ment bearing the following inscription: "The grave of Abraham Riker, son of Abraham and Margaret Riker ; born 1655, died August 20, 1746, in the 9Ist year of his age; and in mem- ory of his grandsire, Guisbert Riker, a native of Holland, who came to America in 1630, obtained a patent for land at the Bowery bear- ing date 1632." Around this monument are grouped the graves of generation after gener- ation of the Rikers, and the inscriptions on the tombstones form a very interesting chap- ter of the family history.
(II) Abraham, only son of record of Gys- bert Rycken, was born in 1619, and died in 1689. He seems to have accompanied his father from Holland, and about six years after the latter had received his patent for his Newton land, to have obtained a grant from the West India Company of a tract of land adjoining for himself, which he had patented to him two years afterwards by Governor Kieft. The grant to his father was in 1632, that to himself in 1638, and his patent is dated
August 8, 1640, signed by William Kieft, director-generall. February 26, 1654, he re- ceived the ground brief of a farm which turned out afterwards to be included in the grant that had been previously made to the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam for an "Armen Bouwerie." June 3, 1655, Rev. Dr. Johannes Megapolensis, the Dutch minister at New Amsterdam, and Johannes de Peyster. deacon and schepen of the city, appeared before the council and stated in behalf of the board of overseers of the poor, "that said board had some time ago bought for the behalf and best of the poor a certain bouwery situate on the other side of Hellgate, and that the Honorable Director General Petrus Stuyves- ant had given to the board a piece of land near the said bouwerie, which annex they intended in time to turn into a new plantation or bou- werie, when God's blessing had increased their stock of cattle." They had discovered, how- ever, that "this piece of land or a part of it had afterwards been given to one Abraham Rycken, but as the said Abraham Rycken is a poor man who has no more than he can earn with his hands, they are neither able nor will- ing to disturb him; yet they have cause to remonstrate, because the said Abraham Rycken closed up and fenced in a public road, which had been in use as such for many years, to the great prejudice and disadvantage of the said bouwerie of the poor. They request there- fore most respectfully, that the said Abraham Rycken be directed and ordered to remove the posts and rails or palisades erected by him and to make the road and then leave it as it had been formerly and long before he came there. They give also to understand, that the small island obliquely opposite the said Poor Farm, commonly called Huelicken, or Borger Jorissen Island, would be very suitable, useful and profitable to their board for the pastur- ing of their pigs and cattle, and requested therefore that if it had not been given to others it might be given and granted to the board for the benefit of the poor." To this petition the council replied "that a committee shall be appointed to proceed and inspect the road closed up by Abraham Rycken ; as to the island, it had been granted away a long time ago." The island referred to was Hewlett's or Suyster's Island, called "Huelicken," because acquired by "huewelyck," or marriage. To the above incidents may be traced the origin of the name "Poor Bowery," by which the old Riker plantation at Newtown has been known for centuries. August 19, 1664, Gover-
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nor Peter Stuyvesant patented to Abraham Rycken the whole of his Long Island property, which included not only what he had procured for himself, but also Riker's Island and the other tracts of his father Gysbert Ryken, and three years later, after the surrender to the English, Governor Nicolls, December 24, 1667, confirmed the patent.
In 1642, in company with Jan Pietersen, from Amsterdam, Abraham Rycken obtained a patent to a house and lot "next door to Mas- ter Heyl," at what is now the northwest cor- ner of Bridge and Broad streets. April 4, 1642, Pietersen and Rycken sold this land to Michel Piquet, a Frenchman from Rouen, Normandy, who in turn leased it August 28, 1645, to Teunis Craie. November 20, 1642, Pietersen and Abraham Rycken procured patent for another lot containing fifteen rods near Fort Amsterdam, which was apparently sold to Mighiel Paullussen, as May 6, 1645, Abraham Rycken obtained a judgment in his favor from the court in an action he had brought against that person for the price of the land. February 4, 1646, he obtained a third patent for "a lot on the Graft on Man- hattan Island, next to Adriaen Vincent and Laurens Petersen and heretofore occupied by Peter the Italian." This man was Pietro Alberts, and the tract extended along the east- erly side of the ditch that ran down the middle of the present Broad street and gave it its name of Heere Graft, in remembrance of the street in old Amsterdam bearing the same name. The Broad street frontage of the two lots owned by Adriaen Vincent and Abraham Rycken was about two hundred feet, and extended from the north corner of the present South William street to a narrow crossroad, later known as Prinse street, and which some- what widened exists to-day as an easterly extension of Beaver street. January 29, 1651, Abraham Rycken sold one half of his lot to Jochem Beeckman, a shoemaker; and on the other half, upon which as early as 1647 he had built a house, he seems to have lived himself, or rather to have kept the property as his town house and the centre of his trading operations, spending at least part of his time after 1655 on his farm on Long Island. Previous to this date the latter property had been occupied by William Hutchinson, who held it under a lease dated July 2, 1643.
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