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13. Roeliff, born June 12, 1743. His death was brought about by an accident in his early man- hood, and his grave on the homestead was the first in what is now called Cedar Grove cemetery.
14. Isaac, born November 12, 1744, was the owner of mills at Neshanic, where he lived and died. He married Sarah Opie, and had children : William, Abram, Maria, Sarah, Aletta and Grace.
15. Cornelius, born September 25. 1746. He was a farmer at Middlebush, and died a sudden death while on his way home from church, De- cember, 1834. He married Elizabeth Wyckoff. of Millstone, and had children: I. John, who early removed to western New York. 2. Sarah, who also removed to western New York. 3. Cornelius, married Maria Brokaw, and lived in Middlebush.
16. Joseph, born June 15, 1748, owned mills at South Branch, where he died. He married Sarah van Derbilt, and had children: J. van Derbilt. Joseph, Ann, Maria, Sarah, Peter and Aletta.
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17. Benjamin, born July 22, 1751. He lived on the homestead of his father at Middlebush. He married (first) Sophia van Dyke, of New Brunswick ; and (second) Dinah Ditmars, of Mill- stone. He had children: 1. Alche. 2. Sophia. 3. Abram. 4. Joseph, who was famous for his muscular powers, and had few equals in farming. He presented the congregation at Middlebush with an acre of land, upon which the church was erected, and in this labor he personally ex- celled all the other workmen in the amount and quality of the work accomplished. His son, John, who died in August, 1871, at Middlebush, was remarkable for his good qualities. At his death he devised five thousand dollars to Rutger's Theological Seminary to assist in educating in- digent students. 5. Lena. 6. Christian. 7. Ben- jamin, married Phoebe Kline, resided at New Germantown, New Jersey, and died in April, 1872.
(IV) Abraham van Doorn, sixth son and tenth child of Christian and Alche (Schenck) van Doorn, was born December 30, 1738, and lived and died at Griggstown, where he owned a farm, store and mills. On the day after the battle of Princeton, General Washington and his staff came to his house for rest and refreshment. He mar- ried Ann van Dyke, daughter of Francis van Dyke, of Amwell. Their children were :
I. Ann, born April 19, 1769, married Lucas van Derveer, and had children: Abram, Schenck, Peter, Nancy, married Dr. Andrew Hagaman ; and Abby.
2. Abraham, born June 8, 1771, died August 13, 1832. He married Catherine Terhune, daugh- ter of Garret Terhune, Esq., of Millstone, and had children: Ann, Garret T., Magdalen, John, Abram, Duryea, William, Wilhelmina, Jacob.
3. Isaac, born July 9, 1773, died August, 1863. He was an eminent divine in his day. He mar- ried, 1800, Abigail Halsey, daughter of Luther Halsey, who was for seven years an officer in the Revolutionary war, enlisting from Princeton College ; and a sister of Rev. Abraham O. Halsey, of Philadelphia, who died some years ago. When she married she put aside mourning for General Washington, in order to don bridal gar- ments. Her children were: 1. J. Livingston. 2. Sarah Ann, married a Mr. Kingsbury. 3. Julia Ann, married Professor Jucho, of Brooklyn. 4. Luther Halsey, who was pastor of the old Ten- nent Church in Monmouth county for seventeen years, and then had charge of two churches in
New York city, and is now pastor of the Re- formed church of Montville, New Jersey. 5. William Howard, was pastor of the First Re- . formed Church in Williamsburg, Long Island, for ten years, and has since preached in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago. He is an author of note in the religious world. 6. Lucilla, mar- ried Thomas E. Blanche, Esq., of Piermont, New York. 7. Adelaide, author of "The Old Parson- age," which portrays the religious life of her father, married Rev. Robert Davidson, D.D., 8. Abbey H., married Erskine Stansbury, and had children : Abraham; Caroline F., who married Rev. Mr. David; and four others who died in early life.
4. Sophia, born January II, 1776, married Fred- erick Stryker, and had children: Abram, Sophia, John and Catherine.
5. Jacob, born April 9, 1778, see forward.
6. Maria, born February 23, 1783, died Jan- mary 12, 1865. Married Peter S. Nevins, Esq., and had children: 1. Abraham van Doren, who died of cholera at Point Coupee, Louisiana, Jan- mary, 1849. 2. Elizabeth S., married Dr. John Honeyman.
7. John, born August 3, 1784, and died in early manhood.
8. William, born July 14, 1787, died in youth. 9. Elizabeth, born May 31, 1788.
10. Sarah, born July 7, 1791, died April 8, 1870. She married William Veghte, and had children: Mary, William, living in Somerville, Sophia, Anna, Edward, Sarah.
II. John Boyd.
(V) Jacob van Doren, son of Abraham (4) and Ann (van Dyke) van Doren, was born April 9, 1778. He married (first) Maria Boyd; married (second) Peternella Veghte. Had chil- dren : Sophia. Alletta, married Rev. John P. Knox, who, since her death in 1852, has printed a volume commemorative of her useful life. John Boyd, see forward.
(VI) John Boyd van Doren, son of Jacob (5) van Doren, and Maria Boyd, his wife born at Raritan, in 1820, married Garretta Voorhees, lived for a number of years at the family home- stead in Raritan, known as "Water Prospect," adjoining the Frelinghuysens. He purchased a handsome place at Franklyn Park, known as "Woodside," and lived there several years, and in 1865 removed to Princeton and purchased of the heirs of Dr. Jacob Scudder the property on Snowden Lane, which is still owned by the fam-
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ily. He is the oldest living member of the Prince- ton Agricultural Society ; he was for over thirty years an elder and trustee of the First Presby- terian Church of Princeton. He and his wife had two children: Ella, married the Rev. J. Q. A. Fullerton, and P. A. V. van Doren, see forward.
(VII) P. A. V. van Doren, only son of John (6) and Maria (Boyd) van Doren, was born at Franklyn Park, Somerset county, New Jersey, October 22, 1859. He was prepared for col- lege at the Princeton Preparatory School, entered Princeton University, maintained a credible stand- ard of scholarship, taking first senior prize for oratory in Whig Hall, and was graduated with the celebrated class of 1879. He did some private tutoring for some two years after graduation, and was then entered as a law student in the offices of Anthony Q. Keasby & Sons, Newark, New Jersey. He attended the law lectures at Columbia Law School, and was with the firm for several years, finally as managing clerk. In 1887 he went to California, and becoming very much in- terested in the country located in Pasadena, where he practiced law. He was elected recorder of the city of Pasadena, and served for a term of two years. At the close of this term he returned east, and at the solicitation of his family began practicing law in the Prudential Building, New- ark, New Jersey. Upon the death of his cousin, Jolın F. Hageman, Jr., in 1893 he was prevailed upon by various corporations to return to Prince- ton and take up Mr. Hageman's practice there. He has remained in Princeton ever since, doing a general practice, making a specialty of real estate law and the care and management of estates, at the same time representing numerous corpora- tions. He organized the syndicate which re- sulted in the purchase of "Springdale" from the Stockton family, which makes Princeton the first University to have a championship golf course, and will in the end make Princeton University richer by two hundred and forty acres of very valuable land.
He is a member of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, and has for many years been its treasurer; he is also a member of the board of trustees of the Princeton cemetery, which is known as the "Westminister of Amer- ica," and also acts as treasurer of the board. He is also counsel for the borough of Princeton.
RICHARD STOCKTON FIELD. Robert Field, the pioneer ancestor of the Field family, traced his ancestry in a direct line to John Field, a distinguished astronomer, who lived in the fifth and sixth years of Philip and Mary's reign. In recognition of the service he had ren- dered to the cause of science he received in 1558 a patent from the Crown authorizing him to bear as crest over the family arms-"a red right arm issuing from the clouds and supporting a golden sphere." This has been the crest of the Field family in America, the seal brought from England being in the possession of Major Edward Field, United States army, son of Hon. Richard Field, of Princeton, New Jersey. Robert Field came from England in 1644 to the colony of Massachu- setts. and the following year removed to Flush- ing, Long Island. The name of his wife is un- known.
The next in line of descent was Robert Field, Jr., born in 1694, married Mary Taylor, daugh- ter of Samuel and Susanna Taylor. Their son, Robert Field, born in 1723, died 1775. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Oswald and Lydia Peale. Their son, Robert Field, born in 1775, died 1810. He lived at White Hill, county of Burlington, on a plantation which had been in the family from the first settlement of West New Jersey. He married Abigail, daughter of Richard and Annis (Boudinot) Stockton, the former named having been one of the signers of the Declara- tion of Independence. Robert Field graduated at Princeton in 1793. Their son, Richard Stockton Field, was born at White Hill, Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey, December 31, 1803. He grad- uated at Princeton in 1820, studied law with his uncle, Richard Stockton, of Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey. He was a distinguished mem- ber of the New Jersey bar, a member of the con- vention that framed the new constitution for the state, was attorney general of New Jersey, was ap- pered term of John R. Thomson in 1862, and was afterwards appointed United States district judge by President Lincoln. In politics he was an ardent Whig and later a Republican. He married, in 1831, Mary Ritchie, daughter of Robert and Mary Ritchie, who bore him three children : Helen, widow of Francis Stevens Conover ; Annis, married Professor Charles Mc- Millan and is now deceased; and Edward, now deceased, was major in the United States army.
Francis Stevens Conover, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, November 24, 1822, traced his an-
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cestry to Wolfert Garretson van Cowenhoven, emigrant from Amoorsfort, near Utrecht, in Hol- land, 1630, with the colonists who settled Ren- sellaerwich, near New Albany. In 1636 he pur- chased from Indians large tracts of land on the west side of Long Island called Flatlands. He was the father of three sons-Jacob, Pieter and Gerrit-who were living in 1656.
Gerrit Van Cowenhoven, son of Wolfert G. Van Cowenhoven, purchased more land on Long Island and remained there until his death in 1644, prior to his father's decease. He married, in 1635, Altje Cool, daughter of Cornelius Lam- bertson and Altje ( Brackenjie) Cool or Cole, who bore hin four children-two sons and two daugh- ters-William, Jan, Neltje, and Maritje. His widow married Elbert Elbertson Stoothoff.
William Van Cowenhoven, son of Gerrit and Altje (Cool) Van Cowenhoven, born 1636, mar- ried, 1660, Neltje, daughter of Joris Brinker- hoff, and after her death married, 1668, Jannetje Montfort.
Peter Van Cowenhoven, son of William and Jannetje (Montford) Van Cowenhoven, born 1671, died 1755, after moving to Monmouth coun- ty, New Jersey. He married, 1695, Patience Davis, of Gravesend, Long Island.
Elias Van Cowenhoven, son of Peter and Patience (Davis) Van Cowenhoven, born Sep- tember 12, 1707, was in the British army under George II, serving as ensign. He died in 1759. He married Williampee Wall, granddaughter of Major James Hubbard, of New York.
Peter Cowenhoven, son of Ensign Elias and Williampee (Wall) Van Cowenhoven, was born in 1732 in Flatlands, Monmouth county. He was a paymaster in the American army during the Re- volution. He married Hannah Forman, daughter of Captain John Forman. James Cowenhoven, son of Peter and Hannah (Forman) Cowen- hoven, was born June 9, 1765. He became a mer- chant in New York, the first of the family to go into active business. He changed his name, adopting Conover as a contraction of Cowenhoven. His brother, Colonel John Cowenhoven, kept the family name, and won distinction in the Revolu- tion. James Conover married, in 1790, Mar- garetta Anderson, daughter of Thomas Anderson and Lady Letitia They were the parents of eleven children.
Thomas Anderson Conover, son of James and Margaretta ( Anderson) Conover, was born April 17, 1791. He entered the navy and at one time
commanded the "Constitution." He was a mid- shipman, in command of a gunboat in the battle of Lake Champlain, and among others was given a sword by congress for "gallant conduct" in the fight. He married in 1821, Elizabeth Juliana Stevens, daughter of John and Rachel (Cox) Stevens, of Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jer- sey, and of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, respect- ively. Commodore Conover died at South Am- boy, New Jersey, in 1864, leaving five children.
Francis Stevens Conover, eldest child of Thomas Anderson and Elizabeth Juliana (Stev- ens) Conover, was born in New York, Novem- ber 24, 1822. He was a member of the first class to graduate at Annapolis, class of forty. He went with Commodore Perry on his famous ex- pedition to Japan in 1852, and was also in the Mexican war. He resigned from the navy in 1857, but offered his services during the Civil war and was put in command of the "Isaac Smith." He was taken prisoner at Stony Inlet, kept a prisoner for three months, and was then exchanged. He moved from South Amboy to Princeton, 1862, and resided in the old Bain- bridge house on Bayard's lane which his father had purchased. He served two terms as mayor of Princeton, was treasurer of Trinity Episcopal Church, and for many years served as transfer agent in the office of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. He married, May 15, 1856, Helen Field, daughter of Richard Stockton and Mary (Ritchie) Field, aforementioned. Their chil- dren were:
Richard Field, born November 20, 1858, in South Amboy, New Jersey, married, 1895, Corn- elia Granger Fitzhugh. He graduated at Prince- ton College in 1880, and studied law with Vice- Chancellor Frederick W. Stevens. Mary Field, born January 31, 1860, in South Amboy, New Jersey, married Willard Hall Bradford, in 1895. Francis Stevens, Jr., born April 14, 1861, in South Amboy, New Jersey, graduated at Princeton in 1883. Juliana, born August 6, 1862, in Prince- ton, New Jersey. John Stevens, born July 26, 1864, in Princeton, New Jersey, graduated at Princeton in 1885. He married, 1897, Mary Richmond Greene, daughter of Samuel Dana Greene, who took command of the "Monitor" when Captain Worden was wounded. He is an engineer in the General Electric Company. Ed- ward Field, born July 3, 1871. Thornton, born March 19, 1875.
J'enque a. Dennis.
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VALENTINE ARNHEITER, one of the old- est residents of Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey, who was actively engaged in business in that town for a period of fifty years, held the responsible position of president of the borough council for ten years, and who is now ( 1906) living in retirement, is a representative of the first generation of the Arnheiter family to make its home in this country.
Anton Arnheiter, father of Valentine Arnheiter, was a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and was a farmer by occupation. He was a man of prominence and influence in his town, and was a member of the borough council. He married Katherine Bursinger, born in Germany, daugh- ter of Philip Bursinger, also of Germany.
Valentine Arnheiter, son of Anton and Kather- ine ( Bursinger) Arnheiter, was born in Heppen- heim, a city located on the river Wieser, Hesse- Darmstadt, Germany, August 12, 1828. His edu- cation was a good one and acquired in a private school in Heppenheim, Province of Hessen. At the time of the liberal movement and general up- rising in Germany in 1848-49, young Arnheiter, in company with such men as Carl Schurz and others of note, was compelled to leave the coun- try, as they were radically opposed to the govern- ment principles. He came to the United States in 1849 and established himself as a tailor in the city of New York. Three years later he removed to Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey, where he opened a tailoring establishment in the house in which he resides at the present time, and in which he conducted his business for fifty years, retiring then to well-earned rest. At the time of his retirement he was the oldest tailor in that line of business in the city of Princeton. He was actively identified with the civil, military and other public matters of importance in the com- munity. He was an ardent worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and as before stated held the office of president of the borough coun- cil for ten years. Was lieutenant of the governor's guard, a military company at Princeton during Governor Olden's administration; lieutenant in the New Jersey Rifle Corps; lieutenant in the Continental Guards. He has also served as treasurer of Princeton Lodge, No. 38, Free and Accepted Masons, for a period of thirty-five years. He has earned the esteem and respect of all in the community for his sterling business qualities, his public spirit, and his readiness to assist those less fortunately situated than himself.
He married, February 5, 1853, Bridget Keefe, born in Ireland, and they have children. I. Catherine Elizabeth, born November 20, 1853, married James Mulholland, and had one son, James Valentine Mulholland; the mother, Cath- erine Elizabeth (Arnheiter) Mulholland, died July 8, 1882. 2. Charles Joseph, born June 28, 1856, proprietor of a tailoring establishment in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Mary Hasel, and has three children : Lillie, Charles and Mary Arnheiter. 3. Caroline R., born September 4, 1860, married, after the death of her sister, Cath- erine Elizabeth, James Mulholland, and has one son, Robert Emmett Mulholland. 4. Valentine George, born January 17, 1864, married Clara McLean, of Long Branch, New Jersey.
FERGUS A. DENNIS, pastor of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, Kingston, New Jersey, and counsellor-at-law of Princeton, was born in that city, August 1, 1857, son of Joseph Dennis, who was by occupation a mason, and followed that call- ing until 1882, when he was appointed janitor of the Theological Seminary of Princeton, a posi- tion which he held to the close of his life. Joseph Dennis married Cornelia B. Snook, who was one of a family of eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis were the parents of four sons and one daughter. Two sons and the daughter are de- ceased. The surviving children are: Fergus A., of whom later; Henry C., born September 6, 1858, and now connected with the Mercer Rubber Company, making his home at Hamilton Square, New Jersey. He married Alice Hutchin- son, and they have three children : Carrie V., wife of George S. C. Reed ; Harold, and Willard. Joseph Dennis, the father of Fergus A. and Henry C. Dennis, died August 22, 1892.
Fergus A. Dennis, son of Joseph and Corn- elia B. (Snook) Dennis, received a good educa- tion in the public schools of Princeton, after which, for six and a half years, he taught in the schools of Mercer and Somerset counties. He then read law with William J. Gibby, who was for a number of years county superintendent of schools in Mercer county. In June, 1880, Mr. Dennis was admitted to the bar as an attorney and in 1895 as a counsellor. He has ever since practiced his profession in Princeton. Since 1888 he has been pastor of the Kingston Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Mercer County Bar Association, and affiliates with Nassau Lodge, No. 106, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
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lows, having served, in 1895-6, as grand master of the order in the state of New Jersey. He was state counsellor of the Junior Order United American Mechanics in New Jersey from 1897 to 1898. He also belongs to Princeton Council. Royal Arcanum. Politically he is a Republican. Mr. Dennis married, June 29, 1881, Anna Potts, daughter of Wilson H. and Lucy E. (Potts) Applegate, and they were the parents of the following children : Charles A., born April 17. 1882, with United States Express Company, Tren- ton. Edith W., born September 19, 1884, teacher in public school, Princeton. Meta R., born Jan- uary 21, 1886, teacher in public school, White Horse, New Jersey. Crowell Marsh, born March 21. 1887, sophomore class, Princeton University. Mabel A., born August 16, 1889, attending State Normal School, Trenton.
PROFESSOR CYRUS FOGG BRACKETT, M. D., LL. D., of the Henry Chair of Physics at Princeton, was born June 25, 1833, son of Jolin and Jemima (Lord) Brackett. The following is the line of ancestry through which he has de- scended.
The name it is claimed by some genealogists, was originally spelled Brockett. The family came from Wales to England and Scotland. Eng- lish history tells of a "William Brockett, an en- lightened instructor at Cambridge College who received the honors of Knighthood." With Gov- ernor John Winthrop there sailed from Yar- mouth, England, about nine hundred persons, most of whom came from the old city of Bos- ton, England. Many of them were high-born, graduates of Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Among them were four brothers by the name of Brackett, Richard Brackett, who settled in Brain- tree, Massachusetts, now Quincy ; Peter Brackett, who settled in Connecticut ; William and Anthony Brackett, who went to Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, with Captain John Mason, in 1631. Eben- ezer Brackett, whose remains lie buried in the old Quincy burying ground near Boston, Massa- chusetts, came to this country prior to 1630, and from him are descended all the New England branches of this ancient family bearing the name of Brackett. On his tombstone appears the fol- lowing inscription :-
"Ebenezer
Nathaniel Brackett.
He held many offices of church and State."
(Taken from "Brackett" Genealogy at Lenox Library.)
(I) Anthony Brackett, a selectman, gave lands to church purposes in 1640. He died 1696. His name appears on a petition to King Charles II, king of England, for the removal of Governor Cranfield in 1683. He had at least five children, including Thomas Brackett.
(II) Thomas Brackett, son of Anthony Brackett (I), was born about 1640. He married Mary Mitton, of Falmouth, Maine. He came to old Falmouth, now Portland, Maine, prior to 1662. He was killed by the Indians, August II, 1676, at Clark's Point, and his wife, Mary (Mitton) Brackett, and their children were car- ried off by the Indians ; she died within a year from exposure. There were twenty others capt- ured at the same time. The children of Thomas Brackett finally returned to Piscataqua River, now Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The children of Thomas and Mary ( Mitton) Brackett were : Joshua, born 1671 ; Samuel, born April 27, 1672 ; Sarah, born 1673; Mary, born 1674. These chil- dren were all born at Falmouth, Maine.
(III) Samuel Brackett, son of Thomas Brackett (2), born April 27, 1672, settled at Ber- wick, Maine. After his father was killed by the Indians he, with the remainder of the family, were taken captives and carried to Portsmouth, where his grandfather, Anthony Brackett, was still residing. Later he was sent to Berwick, Maine. He was married in Kittery in 1694 to Elizabeth Botts. Samuel died April 27, 1752. Their children were: Samuel, born 1695 ; Beth- sheba, Hannah, Dorothy, Elizabeth and Mary.
(IV) Samuel Brackett, son of Samuel Brack- ett (3), was born at Berwick, September 6, 1695, died at the same place, January 31, 1785. He married (first), at Berwick, August II, 1720, Sarah Emery, by whom he had children: John, Isaac, Samuel, James, Joshua, Jacob, Joseph and Sarah. For his second wife he married Miss Abigail Copp, who died September. 1789. By this union were born : Bethsheba, Joseph and Olive. Samuel and Abigail Brackett were among the charter members of a church at Berwick, Maine, founded in 1755. He was a deacon and elder.
(V) Samuel Brackett, son of Samuel Brack- ett (4), was born August 5. 1724, died June 2, 1881. He married Mehitable Ricker, and they were the parents of ten children, including Na- thaniel.
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(VI) . Nathaniel Brackett, son of Samuel Brackett (5), was born January 13, 1751, died April 10, 1842. He married Sally Chadbourne, of Berwick, and they settled at Lyman, Maine. Their children were: Nathaniel, born 1777; Is- aac, born 1782; Phebe, born 1784; Mehitable, born 1786; John, born July 7, 1789; Mary, born 1792.
(VII) John Brackett, son of Nathaniel Brackett (6), was born July 7, 1789. He mar- ried Patience Brackett. He was the father of a number of children including a son, John Brack- ett.
(VIII) John Brackett, son of John Brackett (7), was born ahout 1813. He married Jemima Lord, whose father was the Rev. Wentworth Lord, who served in the revolutionary army and was present with Washington at the surrender of the British forces.
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