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(III) Lewis (2), son of Lewis (1) and Elizabeth (Weller) Cline, was born in Greenwich township, Sussex (now Warren) county, New Jersey, January II, 1799. He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Garner A. and Ruth Page (Hunt) Cline. Chil- dren: Jacob W., David Page, John, Caleb, referred to below; Ruth, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary.
(IV) Caleb, son of Lewis (2) and Sarah (Hunt) Cline, died June 22, 1899. He married Annie E., daughter of John Howell and Sarah H. (Cline) Boyer, referred to elsewhere.
In the middle of the seventeenth century two brothers, Jan and
STRYKER Jacobus Van Strijcker, received from the States General of the Netherlands a grant of land in the colony of New Amsterdam, on condition that they take out with them to America twelve other families at their own expense. Eight years later, in 1651, the younger brother, Jacobus, with his wife, Ytie Huijbrechts, and his family, emigrated to New Netherlands and founded the Knickerbocker family of the name.
(I) Jan Strijcker, the eldest brother, emigrated in the following year from Ruinen, in the province of Dreuthe, with his wife, two sons and four daughters. After remaining in New Amsterdam a little over a year he removed in 1654 to Mid- wout (now Flatbush), where he was within a year elected schepen, an office which he held most of the time during the succeeding twenty years. He was appointed by Director General Stuyvesant one of the ambassadors from New Amsterdam and the principal Dutch towns of New Netherlands to the lord mayors in Holland, to ask for reinforcements from the fatherland on account of their being driven off of their lands by the English and Indians. He was representative from Midwout .to the landstag of April, 1664, and also to the Hempstead convention in 1665. October II, 1667, he is named as patentee in the Nichols patent, and again, November 12, 1685, in the Dongan patent. October 25, 1673, he was elected captain of the military com- pany at Midwout, and his brother, Jacobus, was given authority to "administer the oaths" and to install liim into office. The following March he was one of the deputies from Midwout to the conference with Governor Colve at New Orange. He married (first), in Holland, Lambertje Seubering, who was the mother of all his
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children. He married (second), April 30, 1679, Swantje Jans, widow of Cornelius de Potter, who died in 1686. He married (third), March 31, 1687, Teuntje Teunis, of Flatbush, widow of Jacob Hellakers, of New Amsterdam, who survived him. Children: Altje, married, May 20, 1660, Abraham Jorise Brinckerhoff; Jannetje, married (first) Cornelis Jansen Berrien, of Flatbush, (second) Samuel Edsall, of Newtown; Garrit Janse, married, December 28. 1683, Stijntje Gerritse Dorland; Angenietje, married (first), April 5, 1656, Claes Tyssen, (second) Jan Cornelise Boomgaert, of Flatlands; Hendrick, died 1689, married, February 11, 1687, Cath- arine Huys; Eijtje, married Stoffel Probasco; Pieter, referred to below; Sara, mar- ried, August 11, 1673, Joris Hansen Bergen.
(II) Pieter, son of Jan and Lambertje (Seubering) Strijcker, was born in Flat- Dush, November 1, 1653, and died there, June II, 1741. He was one of the patentees of Flatbush, named in the Dongan patent of November 12, 1685; high sheriff of Kings county, November 2, 1683; judge of court, 1720 to 1722; captain of foot militia, December 27, 1689. June 1, 1710, he purchased from Aert Matthew and David Aerson, of Brockland, New York, four thousand acres of land on the Mill- stone river, in Somerset county, New Jersey, on which his sons, Jacob and Barent, and four sons of his son, Jan, settled. He married, May 29, 1681, Annetje Barends, who died June 17, 1717. Children: Lammetje, born March 20, 1682, died April 9, 1682; Lammetje, born February 16, 1683, died July 26, 1690; Jan, referred to below; Barent, born September 3, 1686, died July 3, 1690, of smallpox, as did also his sister, Lammetje, above; Jacob, born August 24, 1688, married, probably December 17, 1710, Annetje Vanderbeek; Barent, born September 14, 1690, died October 27, 1746, married, February 16, 1717, Libertje Hegeman; Hendrik, born December 3, 1692, died May 17, 1694; Sijntje, born December 17, 1694, married, March 14, 1717, Aert Vanderbilt; Pieter, born February 12, 1697, died December 24, 1776, married, May 18, 1720, Jannetje Martense Adrianse; Hendrik, born February 18, 1699, died August 19, 1739, married Marijtje -; Lammetje, born December 21, 1700, died Septem- ber 14, 1763, married (first), November 4, 1721, Johannes Lott, of Flatlands, (second) Christiaen, son of Dominie Gulielmus Lupardus.
(III) Jan, son of Pieter and Annetje (Barends) Strijcker, was born in. Flatbush, August 6, 1684, and died there, August 17, 1770. He resided all his life in Flatbush, where he had considerable landed property. He was one of the sachems of the Tammany Society, and in 1715 a member of Captain Dominicus Vandervere's com- pany of Kings county militia. He married (first), 1704, Margarita, daughter of Johannes Schenck, of Bushwick, Long Island, who died in August, 1721; (second), February 17, 1722, Sara, daughter of Michael Hansen and Femmetje (Denyse) Bergen, who was baptized June 2, 1678, and died July 15, 1760. Children, nine by first marriage: Pieter, born September 14, 1705, died December 28, 1774, married (first) Antje Deremer, (second) Catrina Buys, removed to Somerset county, New Jersey, about 1730; Johannes, born February 12, 1707, died before February 7, 1785, married, 1733, Cornelia Duryea, removed to New Jersey, and settled about three- quarters of a mile from Harlingen, and thirteen miles from New Brunswick; Annetje, born December 20, 1708, married Roelof Cowenhoven; Magdalena, born December 19, 1710, married Aert Middagh, of Brooklyn; Margarita, born March 24, 1713; Abraham, referred to below; Lammetje, born February 11, 1716, married (first), 1739, Garret Stoothof, of Flatlands, (second) Jan Amerman, of Flatlands; Jacobus, born September 29, 1718, died before June 13, 1789, married (first) Geertje Duryea, (second) Jannetje - , removed to Franklin township, Somerset county, New Jersey; Margarita, born December 9, 1719, married Jacobus Cornell; Mighiel or Michael, born March 4, 1723, died September 26, 1807, married, May 31, 1751, Hanna or Joanna, daughter of Cornelis and Rebecca (Hubbard) Strijcker, of Gravesend, Long Island; Femmetje, born June 19, 1725, married, May 25, 1745,
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Jacobus Vanderveer, of Raritan; Barent, born November 13, 1728, died before 1768, unmarried; Sara, born June 15, 1731, died before 1768, unmarried; Isaac, born 1732, settled in the West Indies.
(IV) Abraham, son of Jan and Margarita (Schenck) Strijcker, was born in Flat- bush, Long Island, August 4, 1715, and died in Franklin township, Somerset county, New Jersey, April 4, 1777. He removed to New Jersey, May 10, 1740, and was dea- con in the church at Harlingen, May 23, 1763, and again April 23, 1768. He married (first), November 23, 1739, Eitje or Ida Ryder, born November 9, 1719, died Novem- ber 12, 1753; (second) Katriena Cornell, died February 16, 1760, (third), October 16, 1760, Katriena Hogeland, born 1732, survived her husband and married again, July 28, 1778, probably as second wife, Richard or Dirck Longstreet, whom she also sur- vived, he dying December 4, 1795, and she in 1825, at Princeton. Children, six by first marriage, and two by second marriage: Margarita, born April 20, 1741, married (first) Van Arsdale, (second) Abraham Brown; Aeltje, born January 28, 1743, married Philip Van Arsdale; Sara, born August 25, 1745, died September 18, 1821, married, June 8, 1763, John B. Bergen, of Middlesex county, New Jersey; Johannes, born October 18, 1747, died November 29, 1776, married Maria Veghte; Abraham, born August 8, 1750, died September 24, 1750; Abraham, born January 10, 1752, died before December 3, 1827, married (first), December 9, 1775, Cornelia, daughter of Gerardus Beekman, (second), October 28, 1811, Ann Terhune, of Long Island; Ida, born February 17, 1755; Annetje, born January 28, 1758; Christoffel H. (or Christo- pher), born September 28, 1761, died October 18, 1805, married, April 9, 1789, Ruth, daughter of Joseph Cowart, of Imlaystown, New Jersey, and niece of Colonel Na- thaniel Scudder, the only member of the Continental congress killed during the revolution; Peter, referred to below; Kathalyna, born April 21, 1767, died April 2, 1778; Jacob, born June 27, 1768, died May 9, 1814, married (first), December 22, 1791, Belijtje Monfort, (second), July 23, 1797, Mary, daughter of Thomas Skillman; John, died in infancy; Margaret, Althey, or Althea; Sarah, Eidah, or Ida, married Abraham Van Dyke; Catharine.
(V) Peter Stryker, son of Abraham and Katriena (Hogeland) Strijcker, was born in Franklin township, Somerset county, New Jersey, December 6, 1762. He resided at Millstone, Ralstontown, and above Middle Valley, Somerset county, and in 1787 received from his father-in-law eighty-three and one-third acres of land there, being one-third of the old Longstreet farm. He married Christiana, daugh- ter of Richard Longstreet. Children: John, born 1800, died 1875, married Cath- arine, daughter of Conrad Rarick; Peter, referred to below; Sarah, born March 19, 1805, married William Larison; Anna, born March 19, 1805, twin with Sarah; Aaron, born March 21, 1807, married and removed to New York state; Jacob Henry, born May 19, 1809; Permelia, born January 21, 1811; Martin, married Ann, daughter of John Trimmer; Isaac; William, married and removed to New York state; Henry, married Ann, daughter of Lorenz Schleicher; Elizabeth, married William Hartrum; Julia Ann, married Daniel Clausin.
(VI) Peter (2), son of Peter (I) and Christiana (Longstreet) Stryker, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, June 13, 1804, and died in Middle Valley, Morris county, New Jersey, April 22, 1879. He was a carpenter and undertaker. He mar- ried (first) Mary, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Trimmer) Rulison, or Roelof- son, who was born in 1801, and died January 21, 1867; (second) Mary Gerard. Chil- dren, all by first marriage: I. John Vandervoort, born December 25, 1825, died December 28, 1903; married Mary, daughter of George Hager, who died June 22, 1898, aged about seventy-five years. 2. Elizabeth, died April 27, 1893; married Hiram Force, of Spruce Run and Glen Gardner; children: John, an implement dealer, living at Glen Gardner; Jacob, a farmer, living at New Hampton, New Jersey; James, a telegraph operator in Chicago, Illinois. 3. David, living at
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Ironia, Morris county, New Jersey, where he is a farmer, merchant and postmaster; married Joanna Pickel; children: John, Cora and David Rulison. 4. Henry, re- ferred to below. 5. Sarah Ann, died in Elida, Illinois; went to Illinois about 1870, married, in New Jersey, John Mitchell; children: Stryker, Mary, Elizabeth and Jolin Mitchell. 6. Isaac Rulison, born 1831, died June 3, 1893; junior member of building firm of Stryker & Company and Stryker Brothers, Hackettstown; married Margaret Mitchell, who was born March 3, 1825, and died September II, 1904; chil- dren, two died in infancy, and Ella, born July 20, 1857, died July 31, 1886, married Dr. Smith, of Glen Gardner, and left two children: Edward and Grace Smith.
(VII) Henry, son of Peter (2) and Mary (Rulison) Stryker, was born at Middle Valley, Morris county, New Jersey, September 11, 1829, and died in Hackettstown, Warren county, New Jersey, January 21, 1901. He learned the trade of carpenter, and went to Hackettstown in 1851, where he entered the employ of Henry Vanatta, being joined there two years later by his brother, Isaac. About four years later, when Mr. Vanatta became master carpenter of the Camden & Amboy railroad, Henry Stryker and John Marlatt bought up his carpenter business in Hackettstown, and on the outbreak of the civil war, when Mr. Marlatt retired to engage in the butcher business, Mr. Stryker formed a partnership with his younger brother . Isaac, which lasted until the latter's death, and the firm name was changed from Stryker & Company to Stryker Brothers. Henry Stryker was the dominating and aggressive leader in the vast and varied enterprises of this firm, which was noted for its probity, and as the recognized leader of the building industry in Northern New Jersey. Hackettstown, as it stands to-day, was practically built by them, and is a lasting monument to the integrity, if not the profit of the two brothers. The Centenary Collegiate Institute, destroyed by fire about ten years ago, was the largest and most important contract executed by the firm, and the public school building is another monument to the substantial character of their work. Their fidelity to obligations and their conscientious regard for the interest of those they served gave them a widespread reputation of always building better than they promised. During his half century of business activity in Hackettstown, Henry Stryker held the confidence and respect of every one in all relations of life. He met and discharged every duty of man and citizen, and the great solicitude concerning his physical condition during the months of his last illness was an eloquent expression of the esteem in which he was held by all.
He married (first), December 31, 1853, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Allen) Allen, of Hackettstown, who was born May 18, 1825, Blairstown, Warren county, New Jersey, and died in Hackettstown, May 21, 1875. He married (second), May 29, 1877, Julia Nicholls (Phillips) Fritts, widow, of Washington, Warren county, New Jersey, and daughter of Isaac and Grace (Isaacs) Phillips, who was born in Clifton, England, September 2, 1829, and survived her second husband. Children, all by first marriage: I. William Allen, born January 19, 1855; living in Washington, New Jersey; married, December 28, 1880, Annie, daughter of William and Anna (Hance) Shields, and has one child, Jennie Shields, born August 19, 1889, wife of Creed H. Brown, of California. 2. John Vandervoort, born June 26, 1860, died March 2, 1861. 3. Charles LaRiew, referred to below. 4. Mary, born August 5, 1870, now living, unmarried, in Hackettstown.
(VIII) Charles LaRiew, son of Henry and Ann Elizabeth (Allen) Stryker, was born in Hackettstown, Warren county, New Jersey, January 10, 1867, and is now living in Washington, New Jersey. He received his education in the public schools of Hackettstown, and after graduating from the high school accepted a clerkship in Hackettstown in July, 1883. He continued doing clerical work in Hackettstown and in New York City until January, 1888, when he became of age, and then purchased the Star, a weekly newspaper of Washington, New Jersey. Since then, for nearly a
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quarter of a century, he has been editor and publisher of that journal. He has increased its circulation from about eight hundred, when he purchased it, to over four thous- and two hundred in 1910, and by his genius and able management has so improved it that it ranks as the foremost newspaper of Northwestern New Jersey. He is a Democrat in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. He has been president and secretary of the New Jersey Editors' Association, a member of the Washington Athletic Association, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Jersey, ol the Junior A. O. U. M., and of the D. of L. He married in Washington, New Jersey, May 8, 1898, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George Banghart and Sarah Alice (Baird) Bowers, of Washington, New Jersey, who was born there August 12, 1876. Her father is teller of the First National Bank of Washington, New Jersey, and her mother was a native of Oxford township, Warren county. Children: Alice Julia, born July 13, 1900; Sue Baird, December 15, 1901; Charles Henry, December 21, 1903.
SHERRERD Morris Robeson Sherrerd, whose achievements as a civil engineer have given him a standing and prestige in his profession second to none, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1865. He is the son of Samuel and Frances Maria (Hamilton) Sherrerd, and a descendant of an old and prominent New Jersey family, his ancestors having lived since revolu- tionary times in Warren county of that state, where his boyhood days were spent. The family is of English origin and the founder of the American branch was John Sherrerd, who came to this country from the city of London about the middle of the eighteenth century, settling at Pleasant Valley, then Mansfield township, Sussex county, and now Washington township, Warren county. There he owned a large farm and carried on a store and grist and saw mills, being a man of importance in the community. He was twice married and had two sons, Samuel and John.
'(II) Samuel, son of John Sherrerd, succeeded his father in business, and died in 1832, being buried with his father, mother and wife in the old Mansfield burying- ground, near Washington village. He married, November 28, 1793, Ann, daughter of Captain John and Mary Ann (Clifford) Maxwell, who was born November 25, 1771, and died August 4, 1815. Her father, Captain Maxwell, was an officer in the war of the revolution, and she was a niece of General William Maxwell, who com- manded the New Jersey troops in the struggle for independence, and was one of General Washington's most trusted generals.
(III) John Maxwell, the eldest of eleven children of Samuel and Ann (Max- well) Sherrerd, was born September 6, 1794, in Pleasant Valley, on the Pohatcong creek, a short distance below the village of Washington, on the property where his grandfather originally settled. He died at Belvidere, New Jersey, May 26, 1871. His preparatory education was obtained in Basking Ridge, in Somerset county, at a school of some note in those days, of which the Rev. Dr. Finley was master. From this school he entered the College of New Jersey, and was graduated from Nassau Hall in 1812. He commenced his legal studies with his uncle, the Hon. George Clif- ford Maxwell, then a member of congress, reading in Flemington, Hunterdon county, but, his uncle dying during his clerkship, he completed his studies there in the office of the Hon. Charles Ewing, afterward chief justice of New Jersey. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in November, 1816, and immediately formed a partnership in the practice of law with another uncle, William Maxwell, a connection that was sustained until 1818, when he returned to Pleasant Valley, where his father had pro- vided him with a dwelling and an office for his practice. On the creation of the new county of Warren he was appointed as its first surrogate, and in 1826 removed to Belvidere, where he resided until his death. While attending carefully to his official duties he did not neglect the practice of his profession, but continued to give it close attention in the courts other than those of which he was the recording officer. At
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that time communication with the state capital was not convenient and most of the business of the supreme court was transacted by the lawyers resident in Trenton. In consequence of this he did not apply for admission as a counselor until 1831, and was admitted as such in the February term of that year. He continued active in the practice of his profession throughout his entire career and was for a number of years recognized as the leading member of the Warren county bar, being engaged in almost every case that came up for trial. He was noted for sharpness in examin- ing witnesses and for attention to the interests of his clients, often at the cost of lively encounters with his adversaries. As he grew older, however, he felt less in- clination for the rough and tumble of professional life and devoted his attention more to office business. He had early taken a decided stand in religious matters, and as he advanced in age he became more and more devoted to benevolent and Christian enterprises. He preferred the quiet of his own family and the pleasures of social intercourse to the turmoil of politics and he never held office except as sur- rogate. For the same reason he never sought or held a judicial appointment. Mr. Sherrerd married, May 19, 1818, Sarah Brown, of Philadelphia, who died in 1844. Their children were Samuel, John Browne, and Sarah Dutton, who married Dr. Philip Fine Brakeley, eminent in his day as a leading physician.
(IV) Samuel (2), eldest son of John Maxwell and Sarah (Brown) Sherrerd, was born April 25, 1819, in Pleasant Valley, New Jersey, and died in Belvidere, June 21, 1884. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1836, and then studied law with Henry Dusenberry Maxwell, in Easton, Pennsylvania, being admitted to the bar of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. He subsequently engaged in business in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in Botetourt, Virginia, being a pioneer in the iron business in Virginia, although he was too early in the field to reap the benefits of his labors in that branch of endeavor. He practiced law awhile in Scranton and re- turned to Belvidere in 1868. In 1873 he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney, and in 1874 was appointed president judge of the court of common pleas of Warren county, in that state, to fill the unexpired term of the Hon. James M. Robescn, who resigned. Judge Shererd married, May 6, 1847, Frances Maria Hamil- ton. Their children were: Eliza Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Anna Maria Robeson, John Maxwell, Mary Robeson and Morris Robeson.
(V) Morris Robeson, son of Samuel (2) and Frances Maria (Hamilton) Sherrerd was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1865. He is descended through his mother from many leading families of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; the Robe- sons, Paul and Rockhill, of her mother's line, and Fitz Randolph, Manning, Ross and Hamilton, of her father's line.
The Robesons were of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and were of the wealthiest and most influential of the early settlers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Jonathan Robeson, the founder of the New Jersey branch, was a son of Judge An- drew Robeson, chief justice of the province of Pennsylvania, who came to America from Scotland in 1676; the son, Jonathan, was born in Gloucester county, New Jer- sey, afterward lived in Pennsylvania, from whence he moved to Sussex county (now Warren county), New Jersey, in 1741, established the first iron furnace of that section in 1842, and founded the town of Oxford; he was one of the first judges of Sussex county, and his son, grandson and great-grandson each in turn occupied seats on the judicial bench. Maurice, son of Jonathan Robeson, was associated with his father in the iron industry; he married Anne Rockhill, of Pittstown, New Jersey, whose brother, Dr. John Rockhill, married a sister of Maurice Robeson. Morris, son of Maurice Robeson, married Tacy Paul, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; their daughter, Eliza Robeson, married General Samuel Fitz Randolph Hamilton, a prom- inent lawyer of Trenton, and for many years quartermaster-general of New Jersey; he was a descendant of the noted Massachusetts settler, Edward Fitz-Randolph, who
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settled in America in 1630, and whose youngest son, Benjamin, was the ancestor of General Hamilton; Benjamin Fitz Randolph settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where he became a prominent citizen; he was a large landowner, the tract where Princeton College is located having belonged to his estate; part of this land was donated to the college by his son, Nathaniel, and "Old Nassan Hall" was erected thereon. General Hamilton and Eliza (Robeson) Hamilton were the parents of Frances M. (Hamilton) Sherrerd.
Morris Robeson Sherrerd was prepared for college in the Blair Presbyterian Academy, of Blairstown, afterward attending the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1886, with the degree of civil engineer. After a short experience of railroad work he was for two years connected with the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The next two years were spent on municipal work, under the public improvements commission of Troy, New York, as superintendent of construction of sewers and pavements, at the end of which time he left that position to accept that of assistant city engineer of Peoria, Illinois, where he remained for the two follow- ing years. He declined the position of city engineer of Peoria to return to Troy to take up a consulting practice there, having charge of the construction of water works for Mechanicsville, New York, and designing and constructing several other water works and sewer systems in the vicinity of Troy. He was also engaged on sur- veys for the additional water supply of the city of Troy, and in 1893 was appointed city engineer for Troy, under the reorganization of the public works department of that city, by which the powers of the public improvements commission were transferred to the city engineer. He was city engineer of Troy until 1895, when he was ap- pointed to the position of engineer and superintendent of the department of water of the board of street and water commissioners of Newark, New Jersey, in which responsible capacity he served with noteworthy credit and ability for the following ten years.
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