History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 198

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1170


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The road leading from the union school-house of Three-Mile Run to George's road was eettled originally by the Williamsone and Suydame. From the intermarriages which have taken place between their deseend- ants, it has been called "Consins' Lane."


THE BARCALOW FAMILY.


In 1766, on the south side of the road leading from Six-Mile Run to Kingston, and between the Nine- and Ten-Mile Runs, is located, on the eurveyor's map, the house of Daniel Barenlow.


William Jans Van Barkelo emigrated at an early period from Zutphen, in Guilderland, and finally eettled in Flatinnds, L. I. About the com- meneement of the last century a young married couple, each mounted on a pony, with perhaps u pack-horse or two, started from Long Ieland on an exploring expedition in New Jersey in search of a new home. After crossing the Raritan at the fording place at New Brunswick, they followed the road laid on the old Indian path towards the Delaware. They crossed a stream called by the whites and Indiane Nine-Mile Run.


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They there resorted to a green, shady spot, where they rested themselves and their animals, which to then was so Inviting that here they located, built a house, and settled for life. Some of their descendants have suc- cecdad them on the property dowo to the present day. The young couple were Conrad Barkelow (son of William Jans Van Barkolo, before uien- tioned) and his wife. The number of their children is not koown.


Conrad's son, Daniel, succeeded him on the homestead and reured n large family. His sons were Farrington, William, Cornelius, and Chris- toffel ; the daughters were Catharine, Elizabeth, Anu, and Rebecca. They were models of sobriety, Industry, economy, and perseverance.


Daniel's son, John, lived many years at Dayton. He was a mian of business and much respected. He had children and died there. Farring- ton lived for many years at Rhode Hull. Christoffel married a Miss Reekman, of llarlingon, livod some years lo Middlebush, and moved to Buaking Itidge. He had children and died there.


Elizabeth, ona of the daughters, married Heury Van Dyke; they lived and died at Mapleton. Ann married Simon Duryea, of Blawenburg, and loft no children. Catharine married Moses Whitlock and had many children. Rebecca, the youngest, married Willlum Swaim, and had two childron.


There was a Direk Harkelo and Janetie Van Arsdale, his wife, who settled on the Raritan in 1717. In 1745 there were a Daniel and a Far- rington Barcalow living along the east side of the Millstone Itiver, about half a milo or more above Blackwell's. One of them married a daughter of Abraham Voorhees, of Middlebush, who owned 300 acres and was ono of the first settlers along thut part of the Six-Mile Run, lying on both aldes of It. After the death of Voorhees, tha son-in-law, Daniel or Far- rington,ª came into the possession of that part lying next to the river, containing about 150 neres of land. Col. Farrington and Cornelius Bar- calow, who lived In Middlebush, word the children of either Daniel or Farrington. Cornelius had no descondants, moved to the West lato In life, and died there. Farrington the colonel was noted for his military talonts, had o largo family of children, of which Widow Ellen Show, Goorge Washington, and Cornelius aro living at East Millstone, and Jemima, widow of John King, at Spring Lake, III. Culver Barcalow, son of William Barcalow, and grandson of the colonel, lives ut Somerville.


THE WYCKOFF FAMILY.


Poter Claos Wyckoff camo from Holland in 1636; he bought land at Flatbush, L. I. In 1653 he superintended the farm and stock of Director Stuyvesant. He was a ninglstrato In Flatbush in 1655, 1658, 1662, and 1663. His wife was Grietje, daughter of Hendrick Van Ness. One of hia sons, Cornelius I'reterse Wyckoff, umrried Gertrude Simona, daughter of Simon Van Arsdalen, Oct. 13, 1678. He was one of the Dutch company which purchased 10,000 acres at Middlebush in 1701. Tho deed for his share of the land, given by his partners, bears dato June 1, 1703, and convoya 1200 ucres lying across the central part of the township from tha county line at Three-Milo Run to tho Millstone River. Tradition saya ho had eight sons, four of whom ho settled on these Innda, each having 300 acres. Their names wore Juhu, Peter, Simion, and Jacob. John had his home In Mid lobush, whore Samuel Garretson now lives, and his ohlest son, Cornelius, was born there, being the first child born In the acttlement. John had six children,-four sons and two daughters. Cornelius, the ellent, kept the homestead, which remained In his family until 1800. John, the second son, built along the Millstone on the rear of the farm. It has remained in the family, William Wyckoff, one of his descendants, now living thereon, in an elegant building erected by him In 1872. Simon Bottled nt Three Mile Run. John Vllet, Jr., a son of the owner of the adjoining tract, married one of his daughtera, nudl upon the death of their parents a part of the farm of Simon was united to that of Vliet. After the death of Jolin Vliet, Jr., his widow held the prop- orty; she afterwards married John Van Cleef. They romalned upon the farmi, and after their death their son, Johu Van Cleef, Jr., bought the tract whore hia grandson, Ralph Voorhees, Jr., recently Hved. The sons of Simon settled In the neighborhood of White House, and have become a numeroua family. Jacob settled at Three-Mile Run also. He died quito young, leaving two sons, Cornelius and Jacob. They inherited hin lunds, Cornelius living where Abm. J. Suydam now lives, lle died young, leaving one daughter, Idla, who married Denice Van Lfew and lived upon the proporty. It remained in the family until 1850 or IN51.


" In the old baptiamul book of the congregation of Six-Mile Run wo find that, in 1766, Isune Voorhees and his wife, Helena Barcalow, had a child baptized (when the church was at the brook ) nadied Davil. Sho was doubtless a granddaughter of Conrad, the first settler, and the mothar of David, tha brave Hovulutionary soldier, and father of Its C. Voorhoes now residing in New Brunswick.


Jacob, Jr., took the homestend of his father. He left three daughters, who inherited hia landa. Frances, wife of Aaron Hageman, had the homestead, which is atlil held by hor helrs. Peter settled at Middlebush, where he lived and died. He left six sons and four daughters. Ilis oldest son, Cornelius, settled balow New Brunswick, and is the ancestor of the Wyckoffa in that vicinity. Aurt, or Arthur, and Juha settled at or near Cranberry, and foundod the families of that name arvund there. l'eter, Jr., left two daughters. Jacob left no children. Simon, the fifth son, after his father's death, bought the farm, living where his father did. Simon Jeft four sons, the oldest of whom, Christina, settled west of Albany, N. Y. Tha second son, Peter, Jivod in New York, und hia do- scoudanta now live nt Brooklyn. The two youuger sons, Jacob and Sinton, upon the death of their father, bought the farm, Jacob taking tho ronr, and building where his sou, Cornelius W., now lives, and Sloion taking the homestead, where he lived, and which at his death was pur- chased by his son, Jucob, now living therooa. His brother, Simon, ro- sides nt Fairview, III., Joseph on a faras at Woodhull, Mich., and Chris- tlan at Lamington, Somerset Co., N. J.


The Cornelius above alluded to, who was the first white child born at Middlebush, was affected with a sovera rheumatism, which caused him much stiffness and juin. He had a friendly ladian livlog in front of his residence, across the road and brook, In a little hut. This Indian told Cornelius at a certain time that he "looked very bad, and If bo did not get help soon he would live but a short tina." " What can I do for it ?" asked Wyckoff. "I think I can euro you," said tho ludinn. At length he submitted to the Indian's course of treatment, who took his patient to a little sod structure built in the alde of a hill by a pond of water, where ho applied the meaua aocessary to produce an extraordinary perspiration. Ho then cut a hole in the ico of the brook, and into this Wyckoff was plunged. The lodian now brought him out, wrapped him up in a blan- ket, carried him to the house, put him to bed, and then heaped blankets over him until, as it was told, " tho perspiration ran down the bedposts." The patient became antirely well, and lived many years afterwards.


Tradition says that Mrs. Simon Wyckoff was bitton by a rattlesoako the first night she and hor family wore in their new house. The Indians aleeping along the brook immediately profferod their friendly nid; one of them applied their usual remedy, and she was speedily cured of the effect of the bite.


Simon Wyckoff, at the brook, died in 1765. Ha had eight childron,- viz. : Joha, Cornelius (lived and died near tho White House), Moycha, Aultie, Margaret, Grietia (married Joha Vliet), and a daughter (married - Addis). In his will, recorded In the same year, he left his son Joha a silver tankard, marked with the letter W. To the daughters named and the grandchildren of - Addlis, tha father of Capt. Simon Addis, each a negro woman and thirty pounds in mouey, his executors to sell his real and personal estate and divido the proceeds among his children, his grundchildren to receive one-eighth part. Their names wera Juha, Sinion, Gaertie, and Marin. Ile also gives to his wifo one silver tankard, marked with the letter W, and appoints bis soo Cornelius, and his sons- In-law, Fulkort Van Nostrand nad Cornelins Vnu Horn, as his executors.


It is supposed that John settled on that part of the tract of 400 neres where Theodoro Skillman now lives, and that Jacob, who married I.c- meche Stryker, was hls son, who by his will appointed Lemeche his execu- trix, and, in case of her death, his son Cornelius and John Stryker to be the executors.


Jacob's willow, Lemetie, married Minna Van Voorhees, of Naw Bruns- wick (great-grandfather of Hon. Ralph Voorbeen, who died la 1878), and lived there nutil his death, alemnt 1736. After the death of Minnn, Lo- metio roturned to and resided on the farm, and was living in 1745.


Jacob had three sons-Cornelius, Jacob, and Garrett-and two daughters, -Guertio and Styntie, the wife of William Hyer. Jacob was doubtless the one who lived on the place in 1766, as described on the map of that date, whose daughter Auntlo married a Lupardus, who succeeded his Inther-in-law on the place, and whose widow married David Fleet. Frances married Aaron Hageman. Tha farm just described bas had the following owners : Siown Wyckoff, hisson John, his son Jacob, hia grand- bon Jacob Lupardus, David Fleet, Johu Skillman, and lastly Theodoro Skillman, now residing thereon.


Some time after the death of Simon Wyckoff the old homestend cama intu the possession of Jacob Wyckoff, Eeq., thon of Aaron and Frances Hageman, who In 1802 took the old house down and built a new one on the property, where Sarah, the widow of hla wo l'eter, now lives.


Aaron Hageman and Frances, hals wife, a daughter of Jacob, Esq., had eleven children. In Elm Ridge cemetery we find the tomhetonce of two pairs of twine ; the first died in 1785, tha other in 1700. Also Aaron It the same year, aged six montha; Jacob in 1793, in his eloventh year ; Ag- uca in 1754, jo ber third year; Gitty, lu her sixty-third year, who bad


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lived single. Peter, the busband of Sarah De Hart, now living on the homestead, died April, 1869.


Benjamin married, first, Cynthia, daughter of Peter G. Voorhees, of Middlebush, who died about 1835. He afterwards removed to Columbua, in Wisconsin, married a second time, and died there in 1860, aged eighty- two. Wyckoff married Catharine De Hart, of Ten-Mile Run, moved to Fairview, Ill., and died there about 1868, aged seventy-eight.


The Wyckoff homestead has had the following owners : Simon Wyckoff, Jacob Wyckoff, Esq., Aaron Hageman, William Williamson, John Wil- liamson, Peter Hageman. It is now owned and resided on by his widow, Sarah Hageman, who is a daughter of John De Hart, formerly of Blaw- enburg.


The farma of Mrs. Peter Hageman, Theodore Skillman, Abraham Tot- ten, and Daniel Polhemna are all parts of the original tract.


THE WILLIAMSON FAMILY.


The first of this name was a Lawrence Williamson, who with his wife, Sarah, was a member of the Dutch Church at New Brunswick at its or- ganization, in 1717. and in which he was an elder in 1719. In what part of the congregation he lived is not known. There was also a William, an elder there in 1750. There was a Jacobus living in the neighborhood of Ten-Mile Run in 1735, and a William in this section, who had several children baptized in the old Six-Mile Run church, at the brook, at an early date. Whether they were connected with William, whose history is here given, is not known. William Williamson may have been the elder who was elected in the church at New Brunswick in 1750. He was a true patriot, a captain in Col. Neilson's regiment of State troops, an in- timate friend of Gen. Washington, of whom it is said that he sometimes quartered him at his house. He died in 1799, owning n large tract of land, commencing where Isaac W. Pumyea lives, at the line between lands of William A. Williamson and the late Ephraim Van Tine, and running in the old path to the line formerly of the De Harts, and extend- ing from the path to near George's road, and including a tract of 100 acres in Somerset Connty, containing in all about 640 acres. These lands were devised to his six children by hia will made Sept. 7, 1779, and were divided by commissioners,-George Van Neste, Simon Addis, and John Stryker. The division was as follows:


1. To Isaac, born in 1759, who married Ann Van Harlingen and lived on that part of the tract now owned and resided on by William A. Wil- liamson. Isaac died in 1835, aged seventy-six ; his wife, Ann, died in 1837, aged seventy-nine.


2. To William, born 1762, married Ann Suydam, lived where G. J. Rink lives. One of his sons, Abraham, married Eliza, daughter of William Scott. She has survived him, and livea in the village of Franklin Park. William's daughter, called Nettie, named after her grandmother, Ange- netie, residee with Peter S. De Hart near Elm Ridge cemetery, on land formerly owned by Capt. Williamson, and separated from the original tract by the Franklin and Georgetown turnpika. William belonged to a troop of horse in the Revolution.


3. To John, born in 1764, married, first, Maria Bennett, of Pennsylva- nia, second, Elizabeth, widow of Rem Garretson and a daughter of Hen- drick Veghten. They had nina children. John lived on that part of the Williamaon tract now owned and resided on by Martin Johnson. One of bis sona, William, married Catharine Lowden. William was born in 1791, and died in 1850. Catharine diad in 1869, aged eighty-four. Their daugb- ter, Gertrude Ann, married John F. Babcock, of the New Brunswick Fre- donian. John, son of William and Catharine, owns and lives in the house which his father built, where he lived and died, and which was erected on the old foundation of the house In which Simon Wyckoff, one of the first settlers of that section, lived and died.


4. To Antie, or Ann, born 1770, married Abraham Meaerol. They lived and died on that part of the tract now owned by Abm. D. Voorhees. The old buildings, with their surroundinge, have all disappeared, except the old well and its eweep.


5. To George, who married Ida Pumyea, daughter of Peter Pumysa, Sr., of Six-Mile Itun. The 100-acre tract in Somerset County was allotted to him by the commissioners. He afterwarda purchased, built, lived, and died on the property near George'a road now owned by Banjamin F. Ruckman. He died io 1830, aged sixty-two; hia wife, Ida, in 1842, agad seventy-Blx.


6. To Jane, who married John Pumyea, and who lived and died on that part of tha tract where their son, William, who married Sarah Tuniaon, lives. John was born in 1771, and died in 1852; his wife, June, was born in 1780, and dled in 1859. Their children were Agnes, Peter, Ida, Wil- · liam, John, Ann, Isnac W., and Mary.


Isaac W. Pumyea, who married Catharine Van Dyke, lives on the prop- erty formerly owned and realded on by his uncle, Georga Williamson,


who there followed blacksmithing previous to 1800. Hia ahop stood across the road, on the northerly corner of his brother Isaac'a land. A tradition in the Williamson family states that the captain's father'e name was William and that he owned an immense tract of land, extending from the Millstone River to Lawrence's Brook, containing several thou- sand acres.


THE VLEET FAMILY.


Adjoining the property of Simon Wyckoff on the south waa that of John Vliet. The first emigrant of the Vliet family to this country appears to" have been Dircka Jane Vander Vliedt. The name has been variously written Vleet, Van Vliet, Fleet, Van Fleet, etc. Ha was doubtless the great ancestor of them all.


Dircks Jaus appears to have come from Rylevelt to New Amaterdam aa one of the soldiers in the ship " Spotted Cow," in April, 1660. In April, 1663, his wife, Grietie, with two children, arrived in the same vessel, and the family settled in Flatbush. He married, first, Lyntie Aertson ; second, Grietie Van Kirken. His children were Hendrick, Jans, Maria, Gaertia, and Garret. The father, mother, and Jons (or John) were members of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatbush in 1680. His son Jobn was born in Wellen, and married, Dec. 2, 1683, Grietia Van Kirken, of Buer- malzen, in Guilderland. He belonged to a troop of horse in Kinga Co., L. I., of which Daniel Remsen was captain, and Ryck Sudam lieutenant. With his father he took the oath of allegiance in 1687.


In 1717 the son, John Vliet, bought of Theodore Polhemns, of Jamaica, L. I., a tract of land lying at Six-Mile Run,# part in the county of Somer- sat and a part in the county of Middlesex, commencing at the path, a few yarda east of the present house of Henry P. Cortelyou, and running nearly a northeasterly course to a marked tree to the middle-line (now Middlebnsh) road; then in a northerly course along the same to a marked tree in the line of Peter Cortelyou; then along his line to a marked tree at the brook, in front of the house of the present Henry Lewis, to the path; then following the same to the place of beginning; being 44 cbaine in width, containing 500 acres more or less, being lot No. 6 of the Harrison tract.


Jobn soon removed to and built a houaa on the land, shout 300 yarda from the path. The house stood until after the Revolution. Previoua to that time a new one was built on the opposite side of the dell, which was enlarged by John Van Cleef in 1812, and is the one now occupied by Ralph Voorhees, Jr. He had six children,-viz., Gretie, John, Derrick (died young), Sarah, Bebecca, and Maria. Grietie married Simou Wyckoff, another daughter, Fulkert Van Nostrand; and Maria, Adrian Hage- man. John married Gretie, a daughter of Simon Wyckoff.


According to his will, recorded in Trenton in 1754, he ordered that hia land be divided into six equal parts, and that each child have a part. To his wife Gretie he left his honsehold gooda, and they, after her death, to be equally shared by his children.


After the death of John Vliet, Sr., his son John, wbo had purchased the brawery of his father with all that pertained to it, came into possession of the farm, and was called John the Brewer, and he, in 1736, sold the brewery for £50 to his son John the Weaver, it being the custom at that time to call men after their occupation. John the Brewer had formerly owned and resided on the farm now owned by Peter Hoagland, at Ten- Mile Run, Middlesex Co.


Nearly all the first settlers along the Indian path, from the Ford to Rocky llill, were descendants of those who emigrated from the Nether- lands and settled on Long Island. John Vliet was the only one horn be- yond the sea.


After the death of John Vliet (the firat eettler), his son John'a wife, Gretie, the daughter of Simon Wyckoff, came in possession of the prop- arty of her father-in-law. About this time it appears that Lucas Voor- haea, or his father Jaques, purchased from the rear part of the farm 125 acres, un which he built the mill at the Middlebush road, Tha Vlaet tract of 500 acres, which was purchased for £800, was then reduced to 375 acres, and remained thus for nearly a century after.


John Vleat, Jr., had three children,-John, born 1745, and afterwarda removed to Sussex County ; Simon, born 1747, married Ann Terhune, and lived and died at Lamington; Gretie, born 1750, married Aaron Dean.


# The different streams crossing the old path gava name to the placaa by which they are called according to their several distancea from the ford- ing-place at the Raritan. Hence the name of Mila Run, Three-Mila Run, Six-Mile Run, Nine- and Ten-Mile Run. Except the Mila Run, the distancee of the others are incorrect. The Six-Mile Run could have been no more than five miles from the river by the path. These namce wers given, with their distances, hy travelera and their Indian guidea, doubt- lesa long before the places named were settled hy the whitee.


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After the death of Jobn Vleet, Jr., his widow, Gratie, married Jolin Vau Cleef, Sr.


John Van Cleef, Sr., married, second, tho widow Emmons, whose maiden name was Sarah (a daughter of William Vun Duyn, of Raritan). Ile dled In May, 1811, In the eighty-first year of his ago. Sarah died Jan. 7, 1805, in her seronty sovonth year. After the death of his father, John Vao Cleef loherited all his real estate, and his three sisters the per- sonal. The farm now containa 412 acres.


John Van Cleef, Jr., married Sarah Van Dyke, Oct. 4, 1791. He died Nov. 28, 1847, In the eighty-sixth year of his nge; Surah died March 25, 1742, ngeil seventy-two. Hle died intestate. His children were Margaret, born Doc. 16, 1794 ; Surah, boro April 4, 1800, married Balph Voorhees (born June 20, 1796), of Middlebush ; Garretta, born April 27, 1802, mar- ried Abraham Quick, of North Brauch (born 1800), Ilis land was divided between his three daughters, cach part containing 137 acres. Saralı drow by fut the part containing the buildings, Margaret the middle part, and Garretta that part which Henry Garretson now owna and residen on.


In former thies it was a custom with parents in their willa to leave on extra ahure of their estates to one of the sons, so as to enable him to re- tain the homestead in the family from generation to generation. The custom has changed. There aro but four of the old homesteads from New Brunswick to Franklin Park, on both sides of the old Indian path, now owned by descendants of those who first settled on them.


The Vleet homestead has had the following owners : John Vleet, Sr .. hla daughter Gretie, John Van Cleef, Sr., John Van Cleef, Jr., his daughter Saralı, and Ralph Voorlices, Jr., recently removed tu Middle- buslı.


THE VAN LIEW FAMILY.


From the burying-ground across the old road whore Henry Oakason reshiles, in 1766 lived Johannes Van Liewen, a son of Frederick Van Liewen, or Van Laver, as lo was called at that time by the Dutch. llis father came from Holland and settled at Jamaica, L. I., in IG70. He was a son of llendrick Vuo Liewen, in Hollatul, of French extraction. Hen- drick, of Januden, Juhoritod a sharo of his father's estato in Holland after his docenso.


Frederick married llelena, a daughter of Jaques Donice, of the Nar- rows, Long Island, where he kept n ferry in 1703, his boats plying be- tweon that and Staten Island, and fu the prosecution of his business was accidentally drowned. Ills mother was very prebably a daughter of Jaques Cortelyon, who came from Holland and sottled at New Utrecht, L. [., in 1652, the grent ancestor of the Cortelyous jo America.


From ancient records preserved and found at the Van Llow home- atond we have the following names and dates : Frederick Van Liew, son of Frederlek Hendrickson, the emigrant, died Nov. 27, 1756; Helena Denice, his wife, died March 6, 1784, aged eighty-four. Their children were Dinah, born 1718, married - Veghten, died Nov. 22, 1700; Helena, born Oct.15, 1724, married Rem Ditmars, of Millstone, died July 6, 1778; Maria, born March 17, 1724, married - Duryen, Oct. 26, 1701; Frederick, born Feb. 5, 1727, married - llendrickson, lived at Middlebash, wns succeeded by his son Frederick, grandson Frederick, and ho by P. S. Brokaw on the homestead. His land extended from the Middlelmab road about half-way to Millstone. On Ita enstern corner the Middlebush church was built, in 1834. He died May 25, 1768. Nice, or Denice, born Jan, 7, 1734, married Ida, widow of Jacob Wyckoff, of Three-Mile Run, died Oct. 17, 1777. She was n daughter of John Stryker, of Six-Mile Run. Coruolina, born April 10, 1736, married Ann Van Liewon, livod at Millstono where the tuveront the canal bridge has been kopt since abont 1836. Enst Millstone is built on the western part of his land. It extended eustwardly on the south side of the Amwell road to where it joined the land of hils brother Frederick, of Middlebush. On tha homeatend he was succeededl by Henry Disborough, then by Henry's son John, then by John Wyckoff, Sr., and afterwards by his son John V. C. The present owner la Howell. Cornellus and his wife were members of the Reformed Church of Millstone in 1725; he died Jan. 29, 1777. Johannes, bern April 16, 1736, Hvod on the homestead, married Dorothy Lott, and died Oct. 10, 1794 ; she died Oct. 9, 1813. The date of their father's settlement at Thirvo-Jlile Ran, on lot No. 1 of the Harrison tract, Ja not definitely known. He married Helene Denice, 1715. He was the largent land and stockowner In the township of Franklin. Frederick Van Ilew, of Middlebush, was a great-grandmon of Frederick (21) ; ho married Maria, a daughter of l'eter Voorhees, who survives him and is living with her daughter, Eliza McKracken, at Batavia, Ill. Ho died in 1835 or 1830.




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