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(II) Jacob Janse, son of Jan Aertse van der Bilt, was born in New Amsterdam or Flatbush. He was on the assessment rolls of Flatbush from 1675, 1676 and 1683, and took the oath of allegiance to the English crown there in 1687. He married, August 13, 1687, Marretje, daughter of Dirck Janse van der Vliet, and widow of Andries Onderdonk. Children: Jacob, Jr., referred to below; Dirck, baptized April 25, 1696; Antje, married Isaac Symonse, of Staten Island; Femmetje, married Gozen Andriaans, of Staten Island; (probably) John, of Hempstead, died about 1767, married Margaret
(III) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (I) and Marretje (Dirckse-Onderdonk) van der Bilt, was born in Flatbush in 1692, and died on Staten Island, December 14, 1760. He bought a farm on Staten Island in 1718, and was a member of the Morav- ian Church there in 1756. He married Neeltje, daughter of Denyse (or Dionys) Teunessen and Helena, daughter of Jacques Cortelyon, and widow of Claes (or Nicolaas) van Brunt, who was baptized at New Utrecht, September 22, 1689, and died on Staten Island, December 9, 1770. Children: Aris, born February 2, 1716; Denyse, baptized September 22, 1717, settled on the Raritan; Hilletje, baptized March 27, 1720; Jacob, referred to below; Helena or Magdalena, baptized December 25, 1725, married Cornelius Ellis, of Staten Island; John, baptized December 25, 1731; Cornelius, baptized December 25, 1731, married Elenor Van Tile; Ann, bap- tized February 24, 1734; Phebe, born April 27, 1737, married Christopher Gerretsen, of Staten Island; Anthea, born January 3, 1739; Neeltje, baptized September 13, 1742; Adrian.
(IV) Jacob (3) Van der Bilt, son of Jacob (2) and Neeltje (Denyse) van der Bilt, was baptized on Staten Island, February 3, 1723, and died there, October 20, 1768. He married, by New Jersey license dated October 27, 1746, Mary Spragg, of Staten Island. Children: Jacob, referred to below; John, born May 20, 1752, mar- ried Elizabeth Taylor; Dorothy, born July 29, 1754, married William Lake; Oliver, born June 16, 1757; Joseph, born September 16, 1761; Cornelius, born August 28, 1764, died May 20, 1832, married Phoebe Hand, one of their children was Commo- dore Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York City.
(V) Jacob (4), son of Jacob (3) and Mary (Spragg) Van der Bilt, was born on Staten Island, January 17, 1750, and died intestate in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1815. He settled in Hunterdon county about 1780. He married Catharine Children: Jacob, born February 4, 1774; Jacob, born September 2, 1776; William; probably others.
(VI) William Vanderbilt, son of Jacob (4) and Catharine Van der Bilt, lived in Milford, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. From an uncle who died in New York he inherited a large tract of land. He was a Presbyterian and helped to build the
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church in Milford. He married Mary Metler. Children, all are deceased and buried in Milford: Mary, Caroline, Elizabeth, George, Okley, Daniel, referred to below; Levi.
(VII) Daniel, son of William and Mary (Metler) Vanderbilt, was born on the old homestead in Milford, Hunterdon county, in 1826, and died there, August 5, 1896. He received a common school education, and in early life learned the trade of black- smith, which he followed for several years. Afterwards he entered the hotel busi- ness, keeping hotels at Stewartsville, New Village and Buttzville. He was a resident of Phillipsburg for about eleven years, and during that period he served as collector of taxes, constable, and a member of the school board. He also owned a livery stable at Newark, New Jersey, for a few years of this time. In his later years he came to Washington and purchased a farm. Eight years later he retired and moved to his late residence at 141 West Washington avenue, where he died. He is buried in the Washington cemetery. Mr. Vanderbilt was a Presbyterian in religion and a Democrat in politics. He was noted for his devotion to his family. He married, in 1853, Marian K., daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Sinkler) Holden, who was born in Canadaville, Warren county, New Jersey, September 17, 1834. Her father was a resident of Stewartsville; like his father before him, he was a miller and followed his trade all his life. Mrs. Vanderbilt was one of nine children. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of a kind and loving disposition and one of Washing- ton's most respected and beloved old ladies .. Children: 1. Arndt King, born Feb- ruary 3, 1854, married Maria Perkins, who recently died, he and his one child, Har- riet, lived at Lincoln, Kansas. 2. Bertolet, born October 9, 1855, married Carrie Teel, lives at Easton, Pennsylvania. 3. Mary L., born January 17, 1858, married Bartley Bolby, and has one son, Harry. 4. Emma V., born June 23, 1860, married Lewis Creveling, lives in Washington, New Jersey. 5. William B .; referred to below. 6. John E., born December 21, 1864; married Cora has one son, King, this family resides at Abilene, Kansas. 7. Hattie F., born October 16, 1867, died in May, 1899; married George Davis, one son survives her, W. E. Davis, who married Kath- leen Dean Watson, and also resides at 141 West Washington avenue.
(VIII) William B., son of Daniel and Marian K. (Holden) Vanderbilt, was born in Harmony township, Warren county, June 3, 1862. His early life was spent in Phillipsburg and Washington. He was educated in the public schools. At the age of sixteen he went to work in the organ factory of Daniel F. Beatty, taking up the trade of woodworker. After about two and a half years he left this employ and entered that of the Cornish Organ & Piano Company, still as a woodworker. He remained with this company two years, resigning to accept a position with the C. P. Bowlby Organ & Piano Company. After three months he was made superintend- ent of that plant. This position he held for three years, until he purchased the tobacco, cigar and billiard business of John Gaston. He conducted a successful business for four years, and then engaged in the wholesale beer business, his present occupation. He added to this, in 1908, the manufacture of a preparation of his own, "Wild Cherry and Pepsin," and has built up a very successful business. He has several representatives on the road selling his goods. Mr. Vanderbilt has his main office in the Washington National Bank Building. He is a member of the Washing- ton Presbyterian Church. He is a leading Democrat and has always taken a very active part in both county and national politics, having served for over twelve years in the executive committee of Warren county. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and of Lodge No. III, of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of Easton, Pennsylvania. He has never married, but has always stayed with his mother, looking out most devotedly for her comfort. They are both among the most re- spected and best liked people of Washington.
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Joseph Mackey Roseberry was born on the third day of Decem- ROSEBERRY ber, 1852, near Belvidere, New Jersey, and was graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in the class of 1877. His pre- liminary education before entering college was obtained at private schools at Belvi- dere, New Jersey, and at Blairstown Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey. After graduation from college he studied law in the office of J. G. Shipman & Son, Belvi- dere, New Jersey, and was admitted to practice in the courts of New Jersey as an attorney at law in 1880, and later as a counselor-at-law.
He was for a time a Republican and was chairman of the county committee, and later became a Democrat and likewise became chairman of the Democratic county committee. He was for several years and is now county attorney and attor- ney for several municipalities, and has been engaged in some of the most important cases in the State of New Jersey, practicing in various courts. He is impressive as a jury lawyer and strong in presenting the legal aspect of a case to the court and usually wins his cases, evincing intense energy and thorough preparation. He has tried four homicide cases and succeeded in three of them. He has a lucrative prac- tice and has been successful in a financial way, owning iron, timber and farm lands, besides having considerable personal property. He is president of the Buckhorn Springs Water Company.
His family is composed of himself, his wife Mary (White) Roseberry and son Joseph White Roseberry, and all are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Belvidere, New Jersey, of which he is a trustee, and he is also a trustee of the ceme- tery association. He was married, August 15, 1891, at the home of his wife, at Belvi- dere, New Jersey, to Mary White, born near Belvidere, New Jersey, October 20, 1858. Her father was Thomas White; her mother, Rosetta White. Mr. Roseberry's son, Joseph White Roseberry, was born April 29, 1897.
Mr. Roseberry's father was Joseph Mackey Roseberry, who was born at Phil- lipsburg, New Jersey, October 5, 1804, and his mother was Sarah Ann Depue, born at Foul Rift, on the Delaware river, Lower Mt. Bethel township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1815. Children of Joseph Mackey and Sarah Ann (Depue) Roseberry: Michael, born October 8, 1832; John, October 10, 1837; Abraham Depue, September 13; 1840; Catharine D., July 17, 1842; Margaret R. Titman, November 30, 1844; Henrietta Sophia Long, June 29, 1847; Joseph M., De- cember 3, 1852; Mercy Isabella Besson, February 14, 1854; Frank, September 19, 1857.
Mr. Roseberry's great-grandfather, John Roseberry, settled at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, about 1740. He owned about fifteen hundred acres of land, including the land upon which Phillipsburg now stands. . His lands extended from Andover Furnace and. Greensbridge to Marble Mountain and nearly to Uniontown. He married Margaret Phillips, a daughter of William Phillips, in whose honor Phillipsburg New Jersey, was named. Her original ancestor in America was Rev. George Phil- lips, a graduate of Cambridge College, in England, in 1613, who embarked with his family for America, April 12, 1630, in the ship Arabella, in company with Governor Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall and others, and arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, June 12, 1630. He was the founder of the Congregational church in America. His son Zerubabel, born at Watertown, Massachusetts, April 5, 1632, settled at South- ampton, Long Island. Theophilus, son of Zerubabel Phillips, was born in 1653, and settled at Newtown, Long Island, and later settled at Maidenhead, now Lawrence- ville, New Jersey, as early as 1694. His son William settled at or near Phillipsburg, New Jersey, as early as 1735, and his daughter Margaret married John Roseberry. It was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips that founded Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, and another descendant that founded Phillips Academy at Exeter. and it was a member of this family that gave financial aid to Princeton
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College in the severe time of the Revolution. Wendell Phillips belonged to this family; he could at a moment's notice speak with perfection of form and marvelous beauty of thought without any preparation, while Webster, Chatham, Clay, Burke, Fox and Sheridan prepared with great care the periods that charmed their hearers. Wendell Phillips declared that the Phillips family could be traced back to the twelfth century. The Phillips family was distinguished for intellectual qualities and social position.
Michael, son of John Roseberry, had a son Joseph, who in turn had a son Joseph, the subject of this sketch. The wife of Michael Roseberry was Margaret Mackey, daughter of Captain Joseph Mackey, of Company I, First New Jersey Regi- ment of Militia in the Revolution.
The wife of Joseph M. Roseberry, son of Michael Roseberry, was Sarah A. Depue, daughter of Abraham Depue and granddaughter of Benjamin Depue. The latter was a commissary in the war of the Revolution, and participated in the battles of Long Island and Fort Washington, and was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and was a delegate to frame rules and apportion delegates to a constitutional convention in Pennsylvania. He married Catherine, daughter of Colonel Abraham VanCampen, who commanded a regiment of New Jersey troops in the French and Indian war and was the first judge of Sus- sex county, and was the son of Admiral Jan VanCampen of the Holland navy, who commanded the West African squadron. The original Depue (spelled in French Dupuis or Dupuy) ancestor in America was a Huguenot, whose Christian name was Nicolas, who emigrated from Artois, France, in the ship Purmerland Church, and arrived in New York in October, 1662, and bought land in New York City, the site of the present Produce Exchange Building, and in 1674 was named in a list of the wealthiest citizens. He had a son Moses, who was one of the founders, by the charter of Queen Anne, of the city of Rochester, New York, and became the most prominent man in Ulster county, New York. His son Benjamin settled at the Dela- ware Water Gap, where Abraham was born, and later moved to Lower Mt. Bethel township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania.
The original ancestor in America, as far as known, of Mary (White) Roseberry was Alexander White, of Greenwich, now Warren county, New Jersey. His son, Lieutenant William White, with his brother Samuel and Captain John McMurtrie, after the two had their character and reputation certified to by the board of chosen freeholders of Sussex county, joined Washington's army in 1775, then gathering around Boston, Massachusetts. Alexander White's son-in-law, Colonel Joseph Beavers, was at one time colonel of the Second New Jersey regiment of militia in the Revolution, a member of the provincial congress at Trenton, New Jersey, and also a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon county; a son, Colonel Alexander White, the ancestor of Mrs. Roseberry, was said to have participated in the Revolutionary war. The great-grandfather of Mrs. Roseberry on her mother's side was Lieutenant Henry Winter Jr., who served in the Revolution in the First New Jersey regiment of militia.
Conrad Lindenberger arrived in Philadelphia from Germany on LINDABERRY the ship Two Brothers, September 15, 1752. According to Dr. Chambers his children were probably: Henry, referred to - Cool; Caspar, left three children by his wife Anna below; Conrad, married Maria - - -; John, whose will was dated January 28, and proved July 1, 1777.
(II) Henry Lindabury, son probably of Conrad Lindenberger, came with his father to Philadelphia in the ship Two Brothers, and settled in Shamokin, North- umberland county, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Denberger, who was prob- ably also of German origin, although there is a tradition in the family that she was
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brought by her parents to this country from the Scottish Highlands, and entering the employ of Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia, remained there until her marriage. Children: Conrad, born in 1785, married Ann Tiger; Jacob, born July 8, 1788, died March 29, 1860, married Mary Bowman; Harbert, referred to below; Ann, married Tunis Updike; Caspar, born March 29, 1795, died May 27, 1897, married Elizabeth H. Bird; John, married Elizabeth Rodenbaugh; George H., born July 17, 1799, died January 23, 1879, married Mary Hoffman; Eva, married Peter Hockenbury.
(III) Harbert, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Denberger) Lindabury, was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, about 1789, and died in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1874, aged eighty-four years. Like most of his brothers and sisters he removed from Pennsylvania and settled in German Valley. As was his father before him, he was a blacksmith, a Democrat and a Methodist. He married Elizabeth Landers. Children: Caspar, married Fanny Tiger; Adaline, married George Wise; Amanda, married Matthias Apgar; Hiram, married Margaret Seals; Louisa, married John Seals; John, died in infancy; Aletta, married Joseph Burris; Mancius S. H., married Eleanor Wilson; John Reading, referred to below.
(IV) John Reading Lindabury or Lindaberry, son of Harbert and Elizabeth (Landers) Lindabury, was born in Fairmount, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, April 6, 1839, and is now living in Washington, Warren county, New Jersey. He received his early education at White Hall, now Wood Glen, Hunterdon county, and then worked at the trade of blacksmith, until August 5, 1862, when he enlisted in Com- pany H, Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, at which time, through a spirit of fun, he signed his name Lindaberry, which accounts for the change of spelling the name; the son, however, spells the name Lindabury; and served until the end of the civil war. He then worked as a journeyman blacksmith for four years, after which he carried on a carriage and wagon manufacturing business until April I, 1891, when he removed to Washington, Warren county, New Jersey, and opened his real estate office there. During the civil war Mr. Lindabury was engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg, both engagements at Mary's Heights, the battles of Salem Church, Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, Gettysburg, Fairfield, Spottsylvania, Funks- town, Maryland, and others. He was slightly wounded several times, but never taken prisoner. He is a member of Liberty Council, No. 15, Order of United Amer- ican Mechanics; of Warren Council, No. 16, Junior Order United American Me- chanics; of Washington Camp, No. 26, Patriotic Order Sons of America, and of John F. Reynolds Post, No. 66, Grand Army of the Republic. In all of these he has held many important offices. He is a Methodist in religion. Mr. Lindaberry is jus- tice of the peace, having served seventeen years; commissioner of deeds fifteen years, also notary public. He does a general real estate and insurance business. He is a stockholder in the West Jersey Telephone Company, also in the Nevada Gold Mining Company, in Nevada. He has been recorder of Washington borough for the past ten years. He married, at Cokesbury, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, March 5, 1861, Almira, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Hall, who was born near Stanton, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, February 22, 1843. Her brothers and sisters are: Margaret, Charity, Anna, Martha, Susan, Jeremiah, Horace, Jane and Peter Hall. Child of John Reading and Almira (Hall) Lindabury: Albert Augustus, referred to below.
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(V) Dr. Albert Augustus Lindabury, only child of John Reading and Almira (Hall) Lindabury, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, January 15, 1862, and is now practicing his profession in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After going to the public schools for a while he attended a private school in Flemington, New Jersey, where he prepared for Kingston Seminary. Having graduated, he went to the Baltimore Medical College and later to the Philadelphia Medical College. He then went abroad and spent several years studying in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
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He then started in to practice his profession in Scranton. He married Martha Mac- pherson. Child: Mary H., married Romaine Houser, of West Pittston, Pennsyl- vania.
CHRISTINE John Christine, the first member of this family of whom we have
definite information, came to Washington in 1863. Among his children were: Emma, married (first) Charles Nixon, (second) David Kies; Henry; William W., referred to below; Isabelle, married Charles Bab- cock; John; James; Alice, married Whitfield Geary.
(II) William W., son of John Christine, was born in Riverton, New Jersey, August 18, 1850, and died in Washington, New Jersey, September 5, 1910. He was for many years a boatman on the Morris canal; then for several years he was em- ployed as yardmaster in the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western yards at Washing- ton, where, in the spring of 1881, he lost his right hand. He then purchased the mercantile business of Joseph A. Beavers in Washington, which he later removed to 3 West Washington avenue, where he successfully conducted the business for twenty-two years, having, at the time of his death, one of the largest sporting goods stores in Warren county. He was a good citizen, and a member of the Episcopal Church. For several years he served as commissioner of appeals. He was one of the organizers of the Knights of Labor in Washington, and was a charter member of Ute Tribe, No. 80, Improved Order of Red Men. He married, November 5, 1870, Lydia V. Wright, of Washington. Children: Harry, referred to below; Fred- erick; Samuel; William; Rose, married Charles Weller; Florence, married William Main; Theodore; May.
(III) Harry, son of William W. and Lydia V. (Wright) Christine, was born in Washington, September 29, 1871. He received his education in the public schools. In his early life he was engaged on the Morris canal with his father, for about six years; he then entered the employment of Daniel F. Beatty, carrying the mail for several years. His next employment was with the Cornish Organ & Piano Com- pany, in their finishing department; after this he was for five years with the Need- ham Piano Company, and for six years with the H. W. Alleger Organ Manufactur- ing Company. He gave up this line of work to enter the livery business, and pur- chased from the estate of this father-in-law, the business which he had owned. Mr. Christine has one of the best equipped stables in the borough. He is also engaged in the farm and country real estate and fire insurance business, with offices on Belvi- dere avenue. He represents the leading insurance companies and has a good patron- age in this line. He is an Episcopalian in religion, and an independent in politics. He has served four years as borough clerk, and in November, 1908, was elected jus- tice of the peace. He is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics and is State representative of the Daughters of Liberty. He resides at 29 Broad Street, having purchased this house in 1902. Mr. Christine married, on Thanksgiving eve, 1904, Mary E., daughter of Michael Meagher. They have one child, Mary Elizabeth, born February 6, 1911.
JEFFERY Oscar Jeffery, Esq., of Washington, New Jersey, was born in Lock-
port, New York, August 31, 1838. His father, Joseph Jeffery, died, leaving Oscar and a younger brother, Charles Jeffery, by a second marriage. His mother's maiden name was Adeline Brush, and her native place was Sussex county, New Jersey, and she was a descendant of the Brush family which located, about 1650, on Long Island. Her father came to Sussex county, and was engaged in the business of wool carding at the time of his death. Mr. Jeffery's mother dying in August, 1849, he and his brother, Charles, were then taken by an uncle. who lived at. Blairstown, Warren county, where he attended school at what
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is now called Blair Hall. His uncle removed from Blairstown in 1852 to Sussex county, and he attended the public schools there until 1856, when he entered the store of Robert Blair, Esq., at Johnsonburg, New Jersey. After he became a clerk in the store, in 1860, at the suggestion of a friend, he entered the office of David P. Thomp- son as a clerk and, began the study of law. In 1864 he gave up the business in the store and entered the office of Mr. Thompson, in Newton, New Jersey, where he remained until his admission to the New Jersey bar as attorney, in the November term of 1864. In January, 1865, he located at Washington, New Jersey, where he has since resided. He was admitted as counselor in November, 1867, and has had a good degree of success as a lawyer. He has been appointed to various positions in the profession, including special master and supreme court commissioner. Mr. Jeffery is a member of the State Bar Association. He is the author of "Jeffery's Law Precedents," a work that was favorably received and enjoyed an extensive sale, the first edition having been soon exhausted.
In politics Mr. Jeffery has always been a Republican, but only once did he actively seek an office. He was requested to be a candidate for and was appointed postmaster in 1898, holding the office for two terms. This was considered a very fine office of the second class. In 1872 he was elected by the people as trustee of the school, although he was not a candidate and did not expect the honor of election to the office. The following February the schoolhouse burned down and a new school- house was erected in 1873. At that time it was considered sufficiently large, but additions have been annexed until the building now has more than twice its former seating capacity. He was chairman of the Republican county committee in the year of 1878, when Warren county, which has always been a Democratic county, unex- pectedly elected a Republican senator and a Republican sheriff. He has long been connected with the Warren County Bible Society, and is now president; has been one of the board of stewards of the Methodist church of Washington since 1866; a member of the official board since 1865; was superintendent of the Sunday school for ten years, director of the Washington Gas Company, and a member of the board of . trade.
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