History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 30

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466

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In the Name of God Amen this Tentb day of December Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred & thirty four I Abraham Vreelandt in the Limmits of Newark in the County of Essex and Eastern Devision of New Jersey Yeoman being aged & infirm of Body but of sound & perfect Mind & Memory thanks be Given unto God therefor And Calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed unto Man once to Die do make and Ordain this my Last Will & Testament (that is to Say) first & principally I Give & Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it & my body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in decent Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors bereafter named And as Touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hatb Pleased God to bless me in this Life I Give Devise & Dispose of the same in tbe:

1 N. J. Archives, I., 326.

2 Liber E of Wills, Secretary of State's office, Trenton, f. 168.

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following Manner and Form- Imprimis my Will is that all my just Debts & funeral Charges be fully and Justly paid. Item I Will Bequeath and Devise unto my Son Enock Vreelandt by Name the Sum of one hun- dred & thirty five Pounds & one Shilling the which Sum he hath hereto- fore Receiv'd of me as Borrowed & Receiv'd as may appear by a Bill under his hand & Seal bearing Date the twenty second day of December Anno Dom. 1732. the said Sum I Give to him his heirs & Assigns forev- er, the same to be as his full Legacy out of my Estate (except there should appear to be more for Each of my Children then he his Equal · Proportion.) Item I Give, Bequeath & Devise unto my Son Jacob Vreelandt by Name one Acre & a half of Land at the North East Corner of my Plantation on which he the said Jacob hath built him a house the same with the Improvements made thereupon he Allowing for the Same the Sum of thirty Shillings for the same & to be & Remain to him his Heirs & Assigns forever Item I Give Bequeath and Devise unto my Son Johannes Vreeland a certain Slip of Land Call'd the fish Place Beginning at the North East Corner of the Land of Tunis Pier by Posayack River thence running Northwest with the sd Tunis his Line to the highway, thence Northerly along the highway to the said Posay- ack River on which Tract he the said Johannes hath built him a house bounded on the highway West of the said Posayack River East, he the said Johannes Allowing the Sum of three Pounds for the Same & to be & Remain to him his Heirs & Assigns forever and my will is that he my said Son Johanus shall from Time to Time & at all times hereafter Give free Liberty & Priviledge to all my other Sons for fishing in the Season there- of. Item I Will Bequeath and Devise unto my Son Simeon by Name all that one certain Tract of Land of me the said Abraham Vreeland which I had of the Sons of John Fransoy by Assignment of two Several Deeds of Saill under the hands and Seals of Hendrick Fransee, France Fransee, Barnt Fransee & Abram Fransee bearing Date the Nineteenth day of November Anno: one thousand Seven hundred and thirty [three] Also another Tract of Land Adjoyning to the aforesaid Tract on the Southerly Side thereof Runing from the said Tract to a Place Commonly Call'd & known by the Name of the Long Meadow bounded Northerly with ye aforesd Plantation Easterly with Jacob Vrallmon1 Westerly with ye Land of Thomas Pier & Southerly with the said long Meadow all the several Tracts of Land to be And Remain to him Also one other Tract of Land Laying by the third River formerly belonging to Jacob Vanwinkle junr & Conveyed to me sd Abraham Vreelandt by Simeon Vanwinkle by As- signment of a Deed of Saill bearing date ye 17th day of October Anno. 1715. the whole of ye said Tract ye Meets & Bounds may more at Large appear by the sd Deed of Sail Referrence being thereunto bad, the Sev- eral tracts above mention'd to be & Remain to him ye sd Simeon & to his Heirs and Assigns forever he Allowing for the Same one hundred & thirty & five Pounds. Item I Will, Bequeath and Devise unto my Son Isaac Vreeland one Acre and a half of Land on the West Side of ye Highway begining opposite to a Landing near ye North End of ye Land before Given to my Son Johanus thence Runing Westerly till it Comes just through the Swamp thence Northerly by the West Side of the said Swamp so far as that with a direct Line Easterly to the High- way shall Include the said one Acre & a half Acre of Land the same to be and Remain to him the said Isaac his Heirs and Assignes forever he the said Isaac Allowing for the same the Sum of thirty Shillings. Item I Give Bequeath and Devise unto my two Youngest Sons Abram Vree- land and Hendrick Vreeland three Acres of Land where I now Dwell Bounded Easterly with the Highway and Extending Westwardly so far as to Include the Houses & Barns the same to be equally divided be- tween them the said Abraham & Hendrick as They shall Agree and in Case they Cannot Agree in ye Devision to be Left to two of their Broth- ers to Devide for them and They to Rest Satisfyed with the Devision so made and the same to be and Remain to them their Heirs and Assigns forever They and Each of Them Allowing for ye same the Sum of fifty Pounds a peice. Item I Give Bequeath and Devise unto my only Daughter Derickee by Name the Sum of one hundred and thirty five Pounds to be paid to her by my Executors after my Decease together with the Wareing Appariel Left by her Mother the abovesaid Sum to be paid to her out of my Personal Estate and in Case the Personal Estate shall not Amount to that Sum then the same to be made up to her by my four named Sons Equally and in Case my Personal Estate shall amount to more, then and in such Case the Superplus shall be Equally Devided

among all my Surviving Children Item My Will is and I do hereby Will and Bequeath all the Risidue of my Lands and Meadows Either in the Limitts of Newark or elsewhere to be equally Devided among my five Sons (viz:) Jacob Vreeland, Johanus Vreeland, Isaac Vreeland, Abraham Vreeland and Hendrick Vreeland Each one of them Allowing either in Land or otherwise what is Sett upon their Land or houses be- fore Given to them and Each of them as above Mention'd, And the same after such Devision made to be Equall for Quanty and Quallity and the same to be and Remain to them their Heirs & Assigns forever And my Will is that if any of my abovenam'd Sons shall be minded to Sell his or their Parts or Shares of said Land that then they shall Give the Refusall thereof to their Brethren And in Case one or more of my said Children should be Removed by Death before he or She shall Come to Possess his or her Part and without Issue then and in that Case that Part or Share or Shares shall be Equally Devided among my Surviving Child- ren- And Lastly I Doe hereby Nominate, Authorise and Appoint my Trusty and well beloved Sons Jacob Vreeland and Johanus Vreeland Sole Executors of this my Last Will & Testament and Do also hereby Revoke Disanull and make void all and any other Will and Wills Bequest and Bequests heretofore by me made Willed & Be- queath'd and Executor or Executors by me in any wise Named, Ratti- fying, Allowing & holding for firm and Vallid this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seal the Day & Year first within written.

Signed, Sealed, Publish'd, Pronounced

and Declared by the said Abraham his

Vreeland as his Last Will &

Testament in the Presence of Us

Abraham A Vreeland Mark L. S.

ye Subscribers

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Jo Cooper-Jacob Vanwinkle. William X Williamsee

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Abraham did not wait until his death for the carrying into effect of some of the provisions of his will, for on Dec. II, 1734, he conveyed to his son, Simeon, laborer, "the tract which I bought of the sons of John Frans (French), lately deceased, by two deeds, dated December 19, 1733; also tract by Third River, formerly belonging to Jacob Van Win- kel, junior, and conveyed to me by Simeon Van Winkel Oct. 17, 1715."1

VI. Fytie, bap. Feb. 22, 1680; m. Perigrine Sandford, grandson of Major William Sandford and Sarah Whartman Sandford, of New Barbadoes, Bergen county.2

1 Essex Transcribed Deeds, A, 4.

2 William Sandford, of the Island of Barbadoes, in the West Indies, bought from the East Jersey Proprietors, July 4, 1668, a tract of land ly- ing between the Hackensack and Passaic rivers, extending from their junction about seven miles northerly, to Sandford's Spring (Boiling Spring, now Rutherford); the purchase was made partly in trust for Major Nathaniel Kingsland, also of Barbadoes, and Kingsland took two- thirds of the tract, Sandford reserving the other third. They gave the name New Barbadoes to their purchase. Sandford located at East New- ark (now Harrison), or a short distance north, his settlement being known as Santfort. He was appointed captain of militia, July 15, 1675 ; he was offered a seat in the Governor's Council, in 1669, which he declined, but subsequently served in the Council, in 1683-6. Honors were heaped upon him while holding this office : he was appointed, March 24, 1682-3, one of the justices of the peace of the quorum throughout East Jersey ; also attorney-general ; one of the judges of the court of common right, Aug. 14, 1683, and again on May 27, 1685; and major, Dec. 3, 1683, with "authority to exercise the inhabitants of Aquaninock."-Whitehead's E. J., 116; Winfield's Hudson Co. Land Titles, 324; N. J. Archives, XIII., passim. By will dated Jan. 3, 1690, proved Sept. 1, 1692, he devised all his estate to his wife, Sarah Whartman, and states that they had been married on board the pink Susannah, in the river of Surinam, March 27, 1667. Their children were :

I. Nedemiah, m. Ist, Richard Berry; 2d, Thomas Davis. Her first husband was probably the only son (who left issue) of Major John

1 Urallmon or Joralemon.

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VII. Isaac, b. at Pemmepock, bap. Jan. 14, 1683; m. Trintje Simese Van Winckel, March 23, 1706 ; both lived at Acquackanonk at the time; he was a'member of the Ac- quackanonk church in 1726.

VIII. Enoch, bap. Aug. 4, 1687; m. Maria St. Leger,

Berry of Barbadoes, Gentleman, to whom Gov. Philip Carteret and Council granted, June 10, 1669, a tract of 10,000 acres in Bergen county, "towards the bead of Pesawack Neck, now called New Barbadoes, begin- ning at the East end of Captain Sandford's bounds at the great spring called Sandford's Spring, and thence with the whole breadth of the neck between Hackingsack and Pesawack Rivers, six miles up into the coun- try," including the present village of Hackensack and beyond. The fullest sketch yet published of Major Berry is by Thomas Henry Edsall, now of Denver, Col., in the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Rec- ord, XV., 49-57. Richard Berry probably came from Barbadoes with his father. He was appointed, Dec. 3, 1683, high sheriff of Essex coun- ty, and represented New Barbadoes and Aquickanuc in the Assembly in 1686-7-8, and 1695. By deed June 14, 1682, William Sandford, in consid- eration of the marriage intended between his daughter Nidemia and Richard Berry, conveyed to said Berry and his own daughter Nidemia, "one negro man Wall and his wife Nance, as also at the day of my de- cease an equal part with the rest of my children that shall then be liv- ing."-E. J. Records, A, f. 40. Richard died before his father, whose will (dated May 16, 1712, proved February 16, 1714-15) devised one-tbird of his estate to his son Ricbard's children : 1. Charity ; 2. Richard ; 3. Mary ; 4, Sarah; 5. William. These were the ancestors of the Berry family in this vicinity.

II. Katherine, m. Dr. Johannes Van Inburgh (Van Emburgb). Children-1. Rachel, bap. Nov. 15, 1696, m. Wessel Wesselze, Aug. 12, 1714 ; 2. Willem Sandford, bap. Feb. 26, 1699; 3. Maritje, bap. Dec. 8, 1700, m. Jan Sandford, and had ch. Catryna, bap. June 7, 1724 ; 4. Jo- hannes, bap. March 28; 1703; 5. Cataryna, bap. Aug. 12, 1705; 6. Elizabeth, bap. Jan. 18, 1708; 7. Perregreyn, bap. Dec. 10, 1710, m. Cornelia Provost, and with her joined, in 1740, the Reformed Dutch church of the Navasink, now known as the Brick Church, Marlborough, Monmouth county, N. J.

III. William, m. Mary Smith, Feb. 1, 1696. (The Hackensack rec- ord says "Sara Smidt," but in chronicling the baptism of their first cbild, in November, 1696, gives the mother's name as "Mary Smit.") She was a daughter of Lieutenant Michael Smith, who bad an extensive plantation near Overpeck creek, Bergen county; was lieutenant in Capt. Berry's Foot Company in 1677, and in 1683 was appointed high sheriff of Bergen county ; his wife was Francina Berry, dau, of Maj. John Berry ; she survived Lieut. Smith, and m. 2d, Major Thomas Law- rence. William Sandford's will was dated February 24, 1732 ; witnessed by Jno. Cooper, Gisbert Van Emburgb, Maria Tomasson. Codicil the same month ; witnessed by John Hill, Francis Harrison, Johannes Van Emburgh. Proved April 16, 1733, when John King and Mary Sandford, testator's widow, qualified as executors ; Richard Bradberry, the other executor, did not qualify. Will recorded in E. J. Wills, B, 415 etc. Chil- dren :

I. William, bap. Nov. - , 1696; m. Ist, Rachel Davids; 2d, Cath- erine -. Will dated Feb. 22, 1749 ; witnessed by James Still, John Sandford, John Sergeant; John Low and John Vanderpool, executors. Will proved April 7, 1750 ; recorded in E. J. Wills, E, 408 etc. John Vanderpool refused to act, and only John Low qualified as executor. Will names children :

i. William, to whom testator devised his whole plantation of 300 acres, and 150 acres of meadow ; but in case he died without issue, then to all testator's surviving children. William Sand- ford, jun., died intestate, and letters of administration were granted May 31, 1750, to Samuel Plum of Essex county, princi- pal creditor .- E. J. Wills, E, f. 440.

ii. Mary, m. Samuel Pennington, son of Judah. Issue :

I. Judab, b. 1749; d. May 20, 1785.

2. Rachel, b. 1752; d. July 2, 1753.

3. Anna, b. 1753; m. - Crane ; d. April 15, 1837.

4. Rachel, b. 1754; d. July 8, 1764.

wid., Oct. 22, 1709; she was probably a dau. of Cornelis Janszen and Anna Maria (Jans) Van Horne ; she was bap. July 23, 1681. Enoch was commissioned captain in Col. Parker's regiment in 1724, and appears to have lived at In- ian's Ferry (New Brunswick), in 1732, when he bought a

5. Mary, b. 1756; m. - Williams; d. Jan. 29, 1825.

6. William Sandford, b. 1757; Lieutenant of artillery in the Revolution ; member of the New Jersey Assembly, 1797- 8-9 ; of the Council, 1801-2 ; Governor, 1813-14 ; U. S. District Court Judge, 1815, until his death, September 17, 1826, at New- ark. He was the father of 1. William Pennington, b. 1790; Governor, 1837-43; Congressman, 1859-61 ; Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1860-61 ; d. February, 1862; 2, Aaron S. Pennington, b. January 17, 1800; a leading lawyer of Paterson many years ; d. August 25, 1869. -

7. Nathan, b. - -; d. about 1810.

8. Judah, b. -; will proved June 13, 1785; names no wife or children, but gives bis property to oldest brother, Wil- liam; second brother, Nathan; oldest sister, Anna Crane ; youngest brother, Aaron; youngest sister, Mary; father, Samuel ; youngest brothers, Samuel and Aaron.

9. Samuel, b. 1765 ; d. March 6, 1835.

IO. Aaron, b. 1770; d. December 25, 1799.

iii. Sarah; she was bequeathed her father's Silver Tankard, three cows and a steer calf.

iv. Elizabeth.

v. Frances.

vi. Rachel.

vii. Catherine.

2. Michael, m. Maritie Dey, and had issue : 1. Maria, bap. Dec. 22, 1722 ; 2. Anna, bap. Jan. 25, 1725 ; 3. Johannes, bap. May 13, 1733. This Johannes was perhaps the John Sandford who served as a private in the Revolutionary war, afterwards volunteered in the war of 1812, and who lived at Bloomingdale, Passaic county, and was the father of Peregrine Sandford, of Paterson, for forty years justice of the peace, common pleas judge, etc.

3. John, m. Maritje Van Inburgh, and bad ch., Catryna, bap. June 7, 1724.

4. Peregrine, m. Fytie Vreeland. By will, dated Nov. 6, 1740, witnessed by Jonathan Sergeant, John Cochran and Thomas Turner, and proved June 14, 1750 (recorded in E. J. Wills, E, 438), he ap- pointed his loving brother Michael, his loving friend John Low, and bis loving wife Fytie, executors; the last-named alone qualified. He devised his wbole estate to his wife Fytie for life, or in case of her re-marriage then until his youngest child should come to tbe age of eighteen years, with remainder in equal shares to his five children, namely :

i. Enoch.

ii. William, who lost an arm accidentally, as thus described in the New York Weekly Journal, of Nov. 3, 1739: " We hear from Newark, tbat the Son of Peregrine Sandvoord unbappily got bis Fingers in between the cogg'd Rollers of a Cyder Mill, which drew in his Arm up to the Elbow, before be could be res- cu'd by him that tended the Mill; they were oblig'd to cut off his Arm above tbe Elbow." In his father's will it was provided that William, " being deprived of one of bis arms," was to have £60 laid out for his education.

iii. Jane.

iv. Aphie (or Aghie).

v. Elizabeth.

5. Robert; 6. Richard ; 7. Frankie ; 8. Jenne ; 9. Anne; 10. Mary.

IV. Grace, m. Barnt Cosens. Children-1. Mary; 2. Sarah.

V. Elizabeth ; m. Capt. James Davis.

Mary Sandford, of New Barbadoes Neck, m. Hendrick Dey, b. at Bergen, May 20, 1731. Children-1. Anna. bap. Aug. 26, 1733; 2. Wil- lem, bap. April 1, 1739; 3. Jan, bap. July 26, 1741 ; 4. Elizabeth, bap. June 12, 1743 ; 5. Annaetje, bap. May 19, 1745; 6. Abrabam, b. Nov. 6, 1750 ;

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tract of land at that place for £665.1 He had previously (April 28, 1727) sold for £800 to John Van Nuise, of Flat- lands, L. I., a tract of 100 acres on the present Neilson, Liberty and New streets, New Brunswick.2 He is said to have been connected with the Reformed Dutch church at New Brunswick, 3 although his name is not recorded in the list as given by Dr. Steele.

Enoch Michielse had no children by his second wife; but his third wife, Aafje or Aagtje (he calls her Apke in his will) Van Hoorn, bore him the following :

IX. (Son), b. March 6, 1705.

X. Jacob, bap. March 28, 1705 ; d. in inf.

XI. Fitje, b. Feb. 2, 1707.

XII. Jacob, bap. Oct. 18, 1708; d. March 6, 1732, unm. XIII. Joris, bap. Oct. 18, 1708, apparently a twin with Jacob ; d. in inf.

XIV. Joris (George), b. Sept. 25, 1710; m. Ist, Annetje Van Winkel ; 2d, Annetje Van Wagenen, of Acquackanonk ; d. June 21, 1795. He owned and lived in a house west of Cavan Point, in the present Hudson county; he was appointed judge of the Essex oyer and terminer, Dec. 17, 1744; he was one of the members of the Legislature from Essex county in the 13th and 14th Assemblies, elected in 1743 and 1744, from which it is inferred that he then re- sided in that county; in 1754 he was elected a member of the Assembly from Bergen county. By deed April 14, 1748, Gerret Hennion and Mary his wife, conveyed to Joris Vree- land, of Pemmerpoch, husbandman, a tract of 127 acres at Perekenys, bounded east by Jacob Gerretson, west by Jo- hannes Hennion and Jacob Gerretson and partly by lands of Daniel Hennion ; also a tract of 31 acres at Preakness, and a third tract of 46 acres. He added to his possessions at Preakness on July 1, 1754, on which date John Doremus con- veyed to him a tract of 55 acres which he had bought from Richard Ashfield (one of the East Jersey Proprietors), adjoin-

ing a large tract of Doremus. By deed June 5, 1758, Thom- as Brown, gentleman, of New York, and John Ball and Fytje his wife, of Manachquay, released to George Vreeland, of the latter place, the farm formerly of Lawrence Van Bus- kirk, at Manachquay. 1

XV. Helena, bap. Jan. 14, 1713.

XVI. Elias, bap. March 4, 1715 ; he lived at Pemmero- pogh, and d. April 2, 1747, without issue.

XVII. Benjamin, bap. Dec. II, 1717 ; d. Aug. 26, 1736.

Aghtie Vrelandt, widow of Enoch (Michielse) Vrelandt, in the county of Bergen, gave a deed, June 12, 1731, to her son Jacob and George, for a tract of land on Hudson's river; and on the same day she conveyed to her sons Elias and Ben- jamin, when they should come to the age of 21 years, a tract of 320 acres on Raritan river, purchased by her of Rut. Van Horn. 2

By a deed dated May 14, 1742, Johannes Stegg (Stagg) and Hendrickje his wife, Jacob Stegg, mason, and Antje his wife, all of Bergen county, and Abraham Stegg, of Or- ange county, N. Y., and Marietje his wife, conveyed to Elias E. Vreeland and George E. Vreeland, both of Bergen coun- ty, a tract of 216 acres at New Barbadoes, "beginning at Waling Jacobs his line and running southeast being in breadth twenty chains and in length 108 chains ;" also two- thirds of a tract of meadow conveyed to John Stegg by Bar- tholomew Feurt, Feb. 27, 1707. This tract was conveyed by John Berry to Margaret Stegg, in 1693 ; she conveyed to. her two sons, John and William, Feb. 15, 1698, and they divided the tract equally between themselves, Nov. 12, I7II; William and wife conveyed to John, Dec. 5, 1720; John, by will, dated Dec. 25, 1738, devised half of the tract to his two sons, Abram and Jacob, and the other half to his son George; George conveyed to John his half, Feb. 15, 1739-40; John, Jacob and Abram, with the consent of their respective wives, convey the same as stated above, to Elias.

7. Sarah, h. Feb. 12, 1753. The last two or three children were appar- ently haptized in the neighborhood of Pompton.

Major Sandford was undoubtedly of English descent or birth. There are many families in and about Paterson hearing this name, who are of Dutch descent, their name being originally Zandvoort, the mean- ing being the same in both cases. The Sanfords of R. I. have the arms ermine, on a chief gu., two boars' heads, couped, or; crest, a demi- eagle, displayed. These are the arms of the Sandfords of Northumber- land county, England. The New York Sandfords claim connection with the English, family of Sandford, of Sandford in Salop county, whose arms are : quarterly, per fess, indented, az. and ermine ; crest, a falcon, wings endorsed, preying on a partridge, proper ; motto, Nec temere, nec timide .- America Heraldica, etc., hy E. de V. Vermont, New York [1886], 178.

Major Sandford's widow made her will June 8, 1708, proved June 23, 1719 .- E. J. Wills, A, f. 126. She devised to her dau. Katherine, 300

1 E. J. Deeds, K large, 254.

2 Historical Discourse delivered at the celebration of the 150th Anni- versary of the First Reformed Dutch Church, New-Brunswick, N. J., Octoher 1, 1867, by Richard H. Steele, D. D., pastor of the church. New Brunswick, N. J., 1867, 20, 209 ; Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings Coun- ty, 352-3.

3 Forty Years at Raritan. Eight Memorial Sermons, with Notes for a History of the Reformed Dutch Churches in Somerset County, N. J., by Abraham Messler, D. D., pastor of the church at Raritan. New York, 1873, 206.

acres of woodland and 100 acres of meadow; to William, the farm on which she then lived, 300 acres, with meadow, etc., for life, with remain- der to his son William in fee, and in case of the latter's death then to her son William's sons Michael and Peregrine, her grandsons; to dau. Elizabeth, wife of James Davis, 300 acres of woodland adjoining Cath- arine, with 100 acres of meadow on Passaic river; to dau. Grace, wife of Barn Cosens, £20 N. Y. money; to Grace's daughters, Mary and Sarah, 650 each to be paid them at the age of 18; to Katherine and Elizabeth each {100, "to be paid within three years after my decease, in merchantable cedar bolts at 65 per 100, delivered on ye meadow." Her dau. Nedemiah is left nothing, hut if she or her children by Richard Ber- ry should sue and recover anything from the estate of William Sandford, husband of testatrix, then the costs should be paid by her heirs.

In the hurying ground of Christ Episcopal Church at Belleville, op- posite the ancestral domain of their family, are interred the following Sandfords: Michael Sandford, d. June 29, 1853, aged 81 years, 6 months and 5 days; Gitty, wife of Michael Sandford and dau. of Pe- ter Cadmus, d. Oct. 9, 1816, aged 44 years, 6 mos., 18 days ; Hannah, wife of Michael Sandford, d. March 4, 1837, aged 66 years ; Peter Sandford, d. Jan. 2, 1830, aged 91 years, 10 months, 16 days ; Eleanor Sandford, consort of Peter Sandford, d. Nov. 8, 1828, aged 88 years, 7 months, 17 days; John P. Sandford, d. Jan. 29, 1826, aged 61 years, 2 months, 19 days; Rachel Sandford, wife of Jacob Ogden, d. Jan. 2, 1818, aged 73 years, 2 months, 11 days.

1 E. J. Deeds, I2, 452, 451 and 449.

2 Bergen County Deeds, B, 169, 172.

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and George Vreeland.1 This tract was in the neighborhood of Moenachy, and is still occupied in part by the Vree- lands.

Elias, by will dated Feb. 26, 1747, devised his farm at New Barbadoes Neck to his brother Joris, in fee, on condi- tion that the latter should within three months after testa- tor's death pay to his executors £450; otherwise the farm should be sold and £450 of the proceeds invested for the benefit of his sister Fytje during life, and thereafter to her children. The will was witnessed by Frans Couvenho- ven, Abraham Van Deursen and S. Johnson, and was proved April 25, 1748; the executors named (Michiel Vreeland, son of Hartman Vreeland, dec'd, Johannes Vreeland and Cor- nelius Gerrebrantse, all of Gemoenepagh) having renounced, letters of administration were granted, July 1, 1748, to Isaac Lyon, at the request of Fytje Sandford and children, 2

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 30

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914 Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 466

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466