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Mr. Tams married, January 14. 1865. Har- riet Warrillow, a daughter of George and Har- riet (Nickson) Warrillow, and eleven children were born to them, two of whom died in in- fancy. Those who attained maturity are: Jane, married Frank Gee. William H., married Ella
Moffatt. George M., married Anna Applegate. Mary E., married H. P. Johnson. Arthur J., married Ida Johnson. Thomas W., married Ada Harrold. Winifred Blaine, married Olive Mor- gan. Raymond R., married Lillie May Swayze. Eugenia M., married Charles Zanker. The moth- er of these children died June 21, 1907.
WILLIAM HENRY TAMS, son of James and Harriet (Warrilow) Tams, was born in Trenton, Mercer county, New Jersey, September 21, 1868. The death of his mother occurred June 21, 1907. He enjoyed the advantages of a good education in the public schools of his native city, and subsequently attended a business col- lege, where he was equipped for the practical business of life. He then entered the employ of his father at the Greenwood Pottery Company, and there his ability enabled him to rise step by step, until he became manager and one of the directors of the Greenwood China Company, of- fices he filled to the great satisfaction of the com- pany since 1890. He married, June 5, 1890, Ella Theresa Moffett, daughter of Elmore Drake and Susan (Darling) Moffett, and they are the pa- rents of one child: James Elmore Moffett, born March 9, 1891. Mrs. Tams, who was born De- cember 10, 1865, at Plainfield, New Jersey, is de- scended from very old families on both paternal and maternal sides.
Jeronomis Trico, the first of the family of Mrs. Ella T. (Moffett ) Tams on the paternal side, of whom we have a definite record, lived in Pa- ris, and had one daughter, Catalyntie, born in Paris, 1605, died September 11, 1689; she mar- ried Joris Jansen de Rapalje, who emigrated from Rochelle, France, in 1623. He was prob- ably a sailor. They had one child, Sarah, born June 7, 1624 or 1625, died about 1685. She was the first white child born on Long Island. She married (first ) Hans Hanse Bergen, in 1639, born in Bergen, Norway, a ship carpenter by trade : moved to Holland and from there to New Amsterdam in 1633; he died in 1653 or 1654. They had one child, Jacob Hanse, baptized at New Amsterdam, September 21, 1653. He married Elsie Frederiks, of the Kreest; her fa- ther was Frederick Tubbertsen, a sailor, born 1600, died 1680: he was burgher and burgho- master in New Amsterdam; married as his sec- ond wife Tryntie Hendriks, of Brooklyn. Jacob Hanse Bergen and Elsie Frederiks had one (laughter, Marretie Jacobse.
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Sarah Rapalje married as her second husband Tunis Guysbert Bogart, who came over from Holland in 1652. They had a child, Guysbert (I), baptized December 5. 1668, married, April 16. 1689. Jeannetie Van Arsdalen. They had a child. Guysbert (2), died 1768, married, Novem- ber 17, 1719, Marretie Jacobse Bergen. They had a child, Guysbert (3), who married Eliza- beth Bodine. and they had a daughter, Sarah, born 1759, married Jacobus Strycker.
The numbers in this line refer to the Strycker family genealogy by William S. Stryker, of Tren- ton, New Jersey.
(I) Jan Strycker was born in Holland, in the year 1615. He emigrated from Ruinen, a village in the province of Drenthe, with his wife, two sons and four daughters, and arrived at New Amsterdam in the year 1652. Leaving behind him all the privileges and rights which might be his by descent in the old world, he sought to start his family on new soil in habits of indus- try and honesty. He was a man of ability and education, for his subsequent history shows him to have been prominent in the civil and religious community in which his lot was cast.
His first wife in Holland was Lambertje Sneb- ering, and by her all his children were born there or in this country. She was certainly living in 1663. Jan Strycker remained in New Am- sterdam a little over a year after his arrival there, and in the year 1654 he took the lead in found- ing a Dutch colony on Long Island, at what was called Midwout, probably from a little village of that name in the province of North Hol- land. It was also called Middlewoods. The modern name of the place is Flatbush.
On the 11th of December, 1653. while still in New Amsterdam, Jan Strycker joined with others in a petition of the Commonalty of the New Netherlands and a remonstrance against the conduct of Director Stuyvesant. The petition recited that "they apprehended the establish- ment of an arbitrary government over them : that it was contrary to the genuine principles of well regulated governments that one or more men should arrogate to themselves the exclusive pow- er to dispose at will of the life and property of any individual ; that it was odious to every frec- born man. principally so to those whom God has placed in a free state or newly settled lands. We humbly submit that 'tis one of our priv- ileges that our consent, or that of our represen-
tatives is necessarily required in the enactment of laws and orders."
It is remarkable that at this early day this in- dictment was drawn up, this "bill of rights" was published. But these men came from the blood of the hardy Northmen and imbibed with the free air of America the determination to be truly free themselves next, on the present state of the country.
To turn from the civil and military man we find him in the first year of his residence at Mid- wout, one of the two commissioners to build the Dutch church there, the first erected on Long Island, and he was for many years an active sup- porter of the Dominie Johannes Theodorus Pol- nemus, of the Reformed Church of Holland, in that edifice.
After raising a family of eight children, every one of whom lived to adult life and married, seeing his sons settled on valuable plantations and occupying positions of influence in the com- munity, and his daughters marrying into the families of the Brinckerhoffs, the Berriens and the Bergens, living to be over eighty years of age, he died about the year 1697, tuli of the honors which these new towns could bestow, and with his duties as a civil officer and a free cit- izen of his adopted country well performed.
(9) His son, Pieter, born November 1, 1653, in Flatbush, married Annetje Barends, May 29, 1681, died June II, 1741. She died June 17, 1717. He was one of the patentees of the town of Flatbush named in the Dongan patent, Novem- ber 12, 1685. He was high sheriff of Kings county, Long Island, commissioned November 2, 1083; judge of the court from 1720 to 1722. On December 27, 1689, we find him a captain of foot militia. His residence in Flatbush, torn down about forty years ago, was a stately Hol- land brick building in quaint Dutch style, with the letters "P. S. 1696" over the doorway, and certainly its appearance indicated a home of gen- uine hospitality. Garret Stryker (528) lives on this property today, it having never passed out of the family. ( See Vanderbilt's Social History of Flatbush, p. 214. )
On June 1, 1710, he purchased of the three brothers, Aert, Matthew and David Aerson, of Brockland, Kings county, New York, the four thousand acres on Millstone river in Somerset county, New Jersey, which they had received by a patent from the proprietors of East Jer- sey, January 9. 1702. This deed is still in exist-
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ence. It does not appear that he ever lived on this property, but his sons, Jacob and Barent, and his grandsons, the four sons of Jan (19), removed from Flatbush and settled in Somerset county, New Jersey.
In connection with this purchase of Jersey land it is well to note that the Dutch land owners in and around New York thought the rule of the British Crown very oppressive. Looking across the harbor they saw the fine farms and the be- nign rule of the proprietors. In the year 1654 Jan Strycker was selected as the chief magistrate of Midwout, and this office he held most of the time for twenty years. The last time we find notice of his election was at the council of war holden in Fort William Hendricks, August 18, anno 1673, where the delegates from the respect- ive towns of Midwout, Bruckelen, Amersfort. Utrecht, Boswick and Gravesend selected him a "Schepen.'
In Dr. O'Callaghan's "Colonial History of New York," Volume II, page 374, we find a let- ter to the Right Honorable Petrus Stuyvesant, Director General and Council of New Nether- lands, from the same Long Island towns just mentioned, "naming Jan Strycker as one of the embassy from New Amsterdam and the prin- cipal Dutch towns to be sent to the Lord May- ors of Hollands; they complain that they will be driven off their lands unless re-enforced from Fatherland."
On the 10th of April, 1664, he took his seat as a representative from Midwout in that great Landtag, a general assembly called by the bur- gomasters, which was held at the City Hall in New Amsterdam, to take into consideration the precarious condition of the country. This meet- ing was presided over by Hon. Jeremias Van Rennselaer, and Governor Stuyvesant was pres- ant at this august and incinorable council. (Sce Mrs. Lamb's History of New York, Vol. I, pp. 205, 206 and 207. Also O'Callaghan's New Neth- erland Register. p. 147.)
Director Stuyvesant. August 28, 1664, ad- dressed a letter to the Dutch towns on Long Is- land, calling upon them "to send every third man to defend the Capital from the English now arriving in the Narrows." This the court of commonalty of the town of Midwout unanimous- ly answered by Jan Strycker that it was impos- sible to comply with his demands, as "we must leave wives and children seated here in fear and trembling, which our hearts fail to do, as the
English are themselves hourly expected there."
He was one of the representatives in the Hemp- stead convention in 1665, and he appears as a patentee on the celebrated Nichols patent, Octo- ber II, 1667, and again on the Dongan patent. November 12, 1685.
On October 25, 1673, he was elected captain of the military company at Midwout, and his brother Jacobus was given the authority to "ad- minister the oaths and to install him into office."
On March 26, 1674, Captain Jan Strycker was named as a deputy to represent the town in a conference to be held at New Orange to confer with Governor Colse "on Monday, of Jersey, and they resolved that at least 'some of their descend- ants should settle there. The exactions of the English in the matter of their town governments, and more especially the establishment of the Church of England among them, made them long to remove further away from their con- querers. Various parcels of land were purchased by companies, and the Strycker family selected the fertile soil of Somerset county for their fu- ture home.
(19) Jan Strycker (son of Pieter Strycker and Annetje Barends) was born August 6, 1684. married (first) Margarita, daughter of Johannes Schenck, of Bushwick, Long Island, in 1704. She died August, 1721. He married ( second) Sarah, daughter of Michael Hansey Bergen, of Brooklyn, Long Island, February 17, 1722. She was baptized June 2, 1678, died July 15, 1760. He died August 17. 1770. He was one of the Sachems of the Tammany Society. He was a member of Captain Domenicas Vandervere's company. Kings County Militia, in 1715. He re- sided in Flatbush and seems to have had con- siderable landed property there. Jan Strycker and Margarita Schenck (his first wife) had a son, Johannes (44), born February 21, 1707, married Cornelia Duryea. 1733. His will is re- corded February 7, 1785. He settled about three- fourths of a mile from Harlingen, thirteen miles from New Brunswick, about half way between the Sourland mountains and the Millstone river. He increased the share of land given him through the estate of his grandfather, Pieter (9), by the purchase of large tracts of land from Dollun Hegeman, March 26, 1750, and from Hendrick Van Dyck. December 22, 1757.
(92) Jacobus, fifth son of Johannes Strycker (44) and Cornelia Duryea, was born September 23, 1742. "The Stryker Book" has it that he
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"never married," but this is a mistake, as he married Sarah Bogart, and had a son, Gilbert Bogart Stryker, born January 20, 1782, died Feb- ruary 3, 1829. Gilbert married Amey Powers, March 29, 1806. John Powers, father of Amey, was born January 7, 1759, in North Carolina, and died March 3, 1831, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He served in the revolution as captain of a company from North Carolina, was at the storming of Stony Point, and was the last survivor of the storming party. He was buried with military honors. He married Elizabeth Hutchins and their daughter Amey was born April 7, 1784, died July 28, 1867. Gilbert Bo- gart Stryker and Amey Powers had a daughter, Ann Bogart Stryker, born February 27, 1819.
Ann Bogart Stryker married William Moffett, of Bordentown, in January, 1840, and died at the age of sixty-six years. They had children: El- more Drake Moffett, born November 10, 1840, died May 7, 1905. He married, September 15, 1863, Susan Darling, and they had two children : Ella Theresa and William Elmore. Elmore D. Moffett was a veteran of the Civil war, having been a corporal of the Thirty-second Regiment of New York Militia in 1862. Ella T. Moffett, born December 10, 1865, married William Henry Tams, June 5, 1890, and had a son, James El- more Moffett Tams, born March 9, 1891. He graduated from the State Normal Schools of New Jersey, June 18, 1907, and entered Princeton University, September 18, 1907.
Peter Wilcockse, the first of the family of Mrs. Ella T. (Moffett) Tams, on the maternal side, of whom we have a definite record, came from Eng- land and settled between the mountains on a hill known at the present time as Peter's Hill, on the north side of Blue Brook, a little above Feltville, January 6, 1736-37. This tract consisted of four hundred and twenty-four acres of land. The Rev. Mr. Hunting, in his "History of the Parish of Westfield, New Jersey," says: "This parish was settled about the year 1720 by the English, and James Badgley and Peter Wilcockse located on the mountains before any persons located be- low, because they abounded in heavy timber." Peter Wilcockse married Phoebe Badgley, sister of James and John Badgley, formerly of Long Island, and they had children: I. Peter, see for- ward. 2. William, married (first) - - How- ell (second) Betsey Hole. 3. John, married Massy Ross ; he died November 22, 1776, at the age of forty-nine years. 4. Stephen, married
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Polly Carter, and lived near Elizabethtown. 5. Sarah, married Joseph Allen, Jr., of Washington Valley.
Peter Willcox, eldest child of Peter and Phoebe (Badgley) Wilcockse, married Betsey Miller, and had children: 1. David, who died in early youth. 2. Noah, see forward. 3. Betsy, married Benjamin Stiles, son of William Stiles. 4. Hannah, married December 5, 1764, John Frazee. 5. Sarah, married her cousin, Ephraim Miller, of Westfield. 6. Polly, married Benja- min Hedges, son of Uriah Hedges, Jr. 7. Jo- anna, married Benjamin Lyon, son of Peter Lyon.
Noah Willcox, second son and child of Peter and Betsey ( Miller) Willcox, married his cousin, Rachel Willcox, daughter of William Willcox, and had children: I. David, married Polly Hedges, daughter of Gilbert Hedges. 2. Will- iam, married Betsey Raddin, daughter of Jeremy Raddin. 3. Joanna, born February 15, 1783, married (first) Reuben Frazee, (second) Ed- ward Page. 4. Cornelius, married Abby Cor- win, daughter of Stephen Corwin. 5. Betty, married Abijah Badgley, son of Jonathan Badg- ley. 6. Noah, see forward.
Noah Willcox, fourth son and sixth and youngest child of Noah and Rachel (Willcox) Willcox, married Lockey Leonard, daughter of John Leonard, and had children: I. Eliza, married Absalom Martin Moffett. 2. Phoebe, see forward. 3. Charlotte, married Dennis Mof- fett. 4. Harry. 5. Caroline, married Samuel Ball, son of David Ball, of Union. 6. John. 7. Albert. 8. Noah. 9. Mary Anne, married Joel Moffett. 10. Amanda, married Samuel Foster.
Phoebe Willcox, second daughter and child of Noah and Lockey (Leonard) Willcox, married (first) Byram Darling, by whom she had chil- dren: I. John, married Elizabeth Gardner. 2. Susan, see forward. 3. Rachel, died young. 4. Clarence, also died in early youth. She married (second) Amos Moffett.
Susan Darling, second child and eldest daugh- ter of Byram and Phoebe (Willcox) Darling, married Elmore Drake Moffett, and had chil- dren : I. Ella Theresa, who married William Henry Tams, as mentioned above. 2. William Elmore, who married Miss Brown.
THOMAS W. TAMS, son of James and Har- riet (Warrillow) Tams, was born in Trenton. New Jersey, September 1, 1879. He attended
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the public and high schools of Trenton, later the State Model School, and finally became a student at Rider's Business College. He entered the en- ploy of the Greenwood China Pottery Company, of Trenton, and now holds the responsible posi- tion of assistant superintendent.
He married, June 18. 1905, Ada Harrold, daughter of John W. and Fanny ( Walker) Har- rold, and they have one child: Edith H., born June 18, 1906.
RAYMOND R. TAMS, son of James and Harriet (Warrillow) Tams, was born in Tren- ton, New Jersey, January 15, 1886. He lias en- joyed the advantages of a most excellent educa- tion, first as a student in the public schools, later at the State Model school, and finally under the preceptorship of a private instructor. Upon the completion of his education he entered the em- ploy of his father in the Greenwood Pottery Company, where he has since been engaged. He gives his support to the Republican party, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church.
He married, June 25, 1905, Lillie May Swayze, daughter of Hugh M. and Harriet Upton (Quick) Swayze. Hugh Menagh and Harriet Upton (Quick) Swayze had children: Eliza Quick, married Percy Gardner Moore; Annie Quick, married Emory Yard Cox; Samuel Lee ; Frank Wilson; Frederick Menagh; and Lillie May, who married Raymond R. Tams as above stated. Hugh Menagh Swayze was the son of Jacob and Mary (Heath) Swayze, who had chil- dren : Joseph, William March, Alfred Theodore, Israel, Ruth, married William Hart; Jacob C., Emeline, John, Mary Matilda, married John Reed, and Hugh M., above mentioned. Harriet Upton (Quick) Swayze was the daughter of William Runkle and Eliza Forman (Woodruff) Quick, and William Runkle Quick was the son of Jacob and Mary (Waldron) ,Quick, who were the parents of Amos; Rebecca Maria, married Harry Stull; Richard Waldron ; Josiah Higgins : Drusilla, married John Wilson; and William Runkle, mentioned above. Jacob Quick was the son of Cornelius and Anna Quick. Eliza For- man (Woodruff) Quick was the daughter of Isaac and Phoebe (Woodruff), who were the pa- rents of : Mary Ann, married Thomas Upton; Peter Forman; Margaret Catherine, married John C. Miller ; Eliza Forman, married William Runkle Quick, as mentioned above; Letitia Ros-
coe; and Hannah Roscoe. Mary ( Waldron) Quick, mother of William Runkle Quick, was the daughter of Derrick and Elizabeth Waldron.
WINIFRED B. TAMS, son of James and Harriet (Warrillow) Tams, was born in Tren- ton, Mercer county, New Jersey. His preliminary education was obtained in the public and high schools of that city, and he then attended a busi- ness college to obtain a practical training for the career before him. At a suitable age he entered the employ of his father at the Greenwood China Pottery Company, in Trenton, and is still actively employed there. He married, October, 1904, Olive Morgan, and they have one child: Olivia, born in August, 1905.
GEORGE M. TAMS, son of James and Harriet ( Warrillow) Tams, was born in Tren- ton, New Jersey, in 1871. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native city, and then became a student at an excellent busi- ness college. He entered the employ of the Greenwood China Pottery Company, in which he has risen to the position of superintendent. He married Anna Applegate, daughter of Thomas Applegate (a sketch of the Applegate family appears elsewhere in this work), and they have one child : Theodore T., born January 2, 1882.
FRANCIS GEE, the well known artist of Trenton, New Jersey, was born in Staffordshire, England, August 2, 1861, son of Edwin and Ann (Keziah) Gee. Mr. Gee's grandfather on his father's side was a carpenter, and followed it all his life. His name was Thomas; he married and had five sons and two daughters: Edward, Thomas, Alfred, Frank, Isiah Harriet and El- len. The grandfather's only brother's family were: Richard, Samuel, William, Joseph. Of this family, Richard was a blacksmith in Longton many years, but later in life engaged in the real estate business, and died a wealthy man at the age of eighty-eight years. The son Samuel was general manager of the Longton Gas Works; William was the manager of the Longton Water Works ; and Joseph was a carpenter. They were all well educated, and reared in the Church of England, but later became Methodists.
The subject's grandfather, Thomas Gee, moved from Longton to Stafford, the county town of Staffordshire. His son Thomas, who became the father of the subject, married Ann Hanks, by
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whom were born the following children: Frank, of whom later ; Frederick, a pattern maker with a shoe firmi in London, England, and is married ; Edwin, also married, and resides in Northamp- tonshire, England, and is the manager of a shoe house. The two sisters, Lucy and Elizabetli, both married men connected with the shoe and leather trade in England. The father did serv- ice in the British army during the Crimean war. The mother still lives in England at an advanced age.
Francis Gee, of this review, was educated in the Episcopal church school of England, and became a painter and artist. In August, 1883, he emi- grated to this country and located in the city of Trenton, New Jersey, where he followed his pro- fession until 1903, when he entered the employ of the Greenwood China Pottery Company of Trenton. Mr. Gee is a member of Christ's Epis- copal Church, and is a stanch Republican.
March 5, 1888, he married Miss Jennie, daugh- ter of James and Harriet (Warrillow) Tams, and they are the parents of two children: Lucy E., born November 24, 1888; Spencer T., born November 14, 1890. Both have attended the State Model School at Trenton.
CHARLES L. ZENKER, one of the ambi- tious and enterprising young men of Trenton, Mercer county, New Jersey, is a descendant of a family which formerly lived in the state of New York, but which came from Germany.
John W. Zenker, father of Charles L. Zenker, was born in Barryville, Sullivan county, New York, and removed to Trenton, New Jersey, many years ago. He has been connected with the police force of the city of Trenton for the past nineteen years, and now (1907) holds the rank of police sergeant. He married Fannie La Faucherie, and among their children was a son, Charles L.
Charles L. Zenker, son of John W. and Fannie (La Faucherie) Zenker, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, June 25, 1881. He received his ed- ucation in the public and high schools of that city, and was graduated from a business college of the same place at the age of seventeen years. He then accepted a position as clerk with the Willitt's Manufacturing Company, in whose service he has remained up to the present time, his ability and conscientious performance of the duties which fell to his share having enabled him to rise to his present position of foreman. He is a mem-
ber of Column Lodge No. 120, Free and Accept- ed Masons ; is a thirty-second degree Mason ; has taken all the degrees in the Scottish Rite Order ; and is a member of Crescent Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and of the Royal Arcanum. He and his family are members of the Hamilton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican.
ALFRED WILLSON LAWSHE, of Tren- ton, who for twenty-five years filled the office of deputy clerk of the supreme court of New Jer- sey, is a representative of a family which was founded in this country by three brothers, Jo- hann, Johann Peter and Christian von Laaschet, who in 1736 arrived in Philadelphia from their native place, Creyfeldt, Prussia, whence they were driven by the wars then in progress. The second of the three brothers, Johann Peter von Laaschet, was the one from whom Mr. Lawshe traces his descent. The history of the von Laas- chet family is closely interwoven with that of the German Baptist or Dunker church, of which they were faithful members. In the course of time the name assumed its present English form of Lawshe.
Aaron Lawshe, a lineal descendant of Johann Peter von Laaschet, was born in Hunterdon coun- ty, and married Cynthia Runyon. They were the parents of a son, Alfred Willson, of whom later.
Alfred Willson Lawshe, son of Aaron and Cynthia (Runyon) Lawshe, was born August 14, 1845, at Mt. Airy, Hunterdon county, and re- ceived his education in the Trenton Academy and the State Model School. He read law with Judge Reed, and graduated from the Poughkeep- sie (New York) Law College. After his return to Trenton he became secretary to A. M. Burt, president of the Trenton Arms and Ordnance Company, and after filling this position for some time was chosen chief clerk to Captain F. H. Bates, Fourth Regiment, United States Infantry, who had been detailed by the United States gov- ernment to take charge of a disbursing office in this city. This positon Mr. Lawshe filled until the close of the war in the most satisfactory man- ner. During his incumbency over six million dollars had been disbursed, and the greatest care was necessary in making up the accounts of the office. At the close of the war, when all the ac- counts of disbursing stations had been audited by the authorities at Washington, it was found that that of the Trenton station was the only one in
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