Memorial cyclopedia of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 12

Author: Ogden, Mary Depue
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Newark, N.J. : Memorial History Company
Number of Pages: 980

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made a speech to a large assembly in Som- erset county, which was the means of calm- ing passion and promoting obedience to the law, urging with great eloquence and force that the people were not the judges of the constitutionality of a law. He was a sup- porter of General McClellan for President in 1864, and his able and earnest efforts contributed greatly to the success of that ticket in New Jersey. In 1868 he was an elector on the Seymour and Blair ticket. Upon the death of his eldest son he took up his office of State Reporter of the de- cisions of the Supreme Court. For several years he was one of the commissioners of the Sinking Fund. In religious faith he sympathized with the Dutch Reformed Church, of which for many years he was a ruling elder. He was a vice-president of the American Colonization and Bible So- cieties. His degree of LL. D. he received from the College of New Jersey in 1850. Possessing a vigorous constitution and iron frame, he continued to prosecute his pro- fession with undiminshed powers till with- in a very short period of his death, which occurred November 18, 1874.

KINNEY, William Burnet,

Journalist, Diplomat.

William Burnet Kinney was born in Speedwell, Morris county, New Jersey, September 4. 1799, youngest son of Abra- ham and Hannah ( Burnet) Kinney, and grandson of Thomas Kinney, an English baronet, knighted for his scientific attain- ments, especially in mineralogy, and who settled near Morristown, New Jersey, prior to the Revolution. His maternal grand- father, Dr. William Burnet, of Newark, was a physician and a man of diversified talents-soldier. scientist and stateman : he was a descendant of William Burnet, the second colonial governor of New Jersey.

Herein appear the grounds upon which he opposed the measures of the Lincoln ad- William Burnet Kinney, at the age of thirteen, became the constant companion of ministration. During the excitement over the compulsory draft in July, 1863, he his father, who was a colonel in the war

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of 1812, and was on frequent occasions a dispatch bearer. After the war he was ap- pointed to the Military Academy at West Point, but his father's death necessitated his leaving that institution. He received what was equivalent to collegiate instruc- tion from private tutors. He studied law under the preceptorship of his brother, Thomas T. Kinney, and his cousin. Joseph C. Hornblower, and was admitted to the bar. However, he never engaged in law practice, but turned to journalism, as editor of the "New Jersey Eagle," at Newark. After five years he went to New York, where he assisted in establishing the Mer- cantile Library, of which he was given charge, and also became literary adviser to Harper Brothers, then the leading book and magazine publishers. Returning to New- ark, he took charge of the "Daily Adver- tiser," then the only daily newspaper in the State, and united with it the "Sentinel of Freedom" as its weekly issue, and to this he gave such a high literary tone that it wielded greater influence than did any other journal in the State.

In 1843 Mr. Kinney was a Whig candi- date for Congress, but was defeated. In 1844 he was a delegate-at-large to the Whig Convention at Baltimore, and was largely instrumental in procuring the vice -- presi- dential nomination for Theodore Freling- huysen. From 1851 to 1856 he was Minister to Sardinia, in which position he made a most creditable record. He was constantly consulted by Cavour and eminent men with reference to the practical workings of the American governmental system, and his in- fluence was a potent aid in the establish- ment of liberal institutions in Italy. His useful discharge of important diplomatic matters affecting Great Britain won for him special commendation in an official dis- patch from Lord Palmerston. When Kos- suth was about to visit the United States, Mr. Kinney so advised Daniel Webster, our Secretary of State, that diplomatic embar- rassments were avoided. After the expira-

tion of his ministerial term he removed from Turin to Florence, where he made friendly acquaintance with the Brownings and other literary celebrities, and began a history of the Medici family, which he did not live to complete. In 1865 he returned to Newark, and found his occupation in lit- erary work. He delivered a notable ora- tion in the First Presbyterian Church, on the occasion of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Newark. He died in New York, October 21, 1880.

He married (first) Mary Chandler, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, by whom he had a son. Thomas T. Kinney. He mar- ried (second) in 1841, Mrs. Elizabeth C. (Dodge) Stedman. the poetess, by whom he had two daughters.

DOANE, George Washington,

Clergyman, Educator, Poet.

This distinguished man of many gifts was born in Trenton, New Jersey, May 27, 1799. He was graduated from Union Col- lege at the age of nineteen, three years later from the General Theological Seminary in New York, and was ordained deacon in 1821 and priest in 1823, both offices being performed by Bishop Hobart. He aided that prelate as deacon and assistant in Trinity Church, and assisted Bishop Up- fold in the institution of St. Luke's Church. In 1824 he became a professor in Washing- ton (Trinity ) College, and also collaborated with Dr. William Croswell in editing "The Episcopal Watchman." He became an as- sistant in Trinity Church, Boston, in 1828, and in 1830 became rector, succeeding Dr. John S. J. Gardiner, deceased. In 1832 he was elected Bishop of New Jersey, and his consecration took place in St. Paul's, New York. He declined an urgent invitation from Trinity Church, Newark, to take up his residence in that city, "free from paro- chial responsibility." and established him- self in Burlington. There he founded Bur-

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lington College for boys, and St. Mary's Hall, for girls, but he became involved in financial difficulties, and was obliged to abandon the care of these institutions to other hands, and make an assignment of his personal property. A curious chapter of ecclesiastical litigation follows. Three years after his relinquishment of college respon- sibilities, he was brought to trial on charges of dishonest management; on petition of the diocesan convention which had vindi- cated him, the charge was dismissed, but later a second presentment was made, and he was dismissed.

Bishop Doane was a graceful writer, and of his many beautiful hymns, a number are found in the hymnals of various denomina- tions. He also published a volume of poems, "Songs by the Way." He died April 27, 1859. He left two gifted sons- William Croswell Doane, who became Bis- hop of Albany ; and George Hobart Doane, who embraced the Roman Catholic faith, and in 1886 received from the Pope the title of Monsignor.

MATLACK, William,

Ancestor of an Important Family.

The narrative here written is to record something of the lives and achievements of the representatives of several generations of one of the notable old colonial families of New Jersey. The family has been made the subject of narration by various chron- iclers, for its marriage connections have been as notable as is the history of the fam- ily itself, and in the main the accounts of these several writers are in accord.

William Matlack, or as his family name appears in some old records, Macklack, was born in England about 1648, and was one of the colony of Friends who came from Cropwell Bishop, a small village in Notting- hamshire, in the year 1677, in the ship "Kent," Captain Gregory Marlowe, and was sighted off Sandy Hook, August 14, of that year. The vessel followed along the

coast to the mouth of the Delaware river, up which it sailed to Raccoon creek, where her passengers disembarked. The commis- sioners appointed by William Penn and the other Proprietors, and William Matlack with them, took a small boat and went up the Delaware river to Chygoes Island (whereon Burlington now stands) almost surrounded by a creek named for an Indian sachem who lived there. Matlack was the first to leave the boat, just as in later years he was foremost in the work of develop- ment of the region in various other re- spects. He was a carpenter and built, or helped to build, the first two houses in Bur- lington and also helped to build the first corn mill in West Jersey. It is related that as the boat neared the shore Matlack sprang to the bank and the first one to meet him was an Indian chief, between whom and Matlack a friendship was formed that last- ed through life.

He came over to America as an artisan in the employ of Thomas Olive, commissioner and Proprietor, and after serving him four years bought from his former employer one hundred acres of good land between the north and south branches of Penisaukin creek, in Chester township, Burlington county, as afterwards created. It is under- stood that the purchase price of the land thus acquired was his fours years' service and "current county pay." The greater part of this tract is still owned and in the possession of William Matlack's descend- ants.

At the time of his immigration to Ameri- ca William Matlack was a young man less than thirty years old. "He saw a town rise up in the midst of the forest, surrounded by a thriving population, busy in clearing the land and enjoying the reward of their la- bors. His leisure hours were spent among the natives, watching their peculiarities and striving to win their good will. Following the advice and example of the commission- ers, every promise made by him to the aborigines was faithfully kept, and every

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contract strictly adhered to." He and Tim- othy Hancock, with whom he worked in common in many things, "soon found their neighborhood was a desirable one; for new settlements were made there in a short time, and went on increasing until a new meeting of Friends was established at the house of Timothy Hancock by consent of the Burlington Friends in 1685." In 1701 William Matlack purchased about one thou- sand acres of land in Waterford and Glou- cester townships, in Camden county (then Gloucester ) lying on both sides of the south branch of Cooper's creek. In 1714 he gave to his son George five hundred acres of land in Waterford township, being part of the one thousand acre tract purchased of Rich- ard Heritage. In 1717 he bought two hun- dred acres of John Estaugh, attorney for John Haddon, and there his son Richard settled in 1721. In 1714 he gave his son Timothy the remaining part of the Heritage purchase, and on this tract Timothy settled and built his house. The tract of lands owned by William Matlack and his sons, John, Timothy and Richard, extended from the White Horse tavern on both sides of the highway and contained about fifteen hun- dred acres.

William Matlack. immigrant ancestor, married Mary Hancock, and of this event Mr. Clement writes thus: "In 1681 there came from Brayles, a small town in the southern part of Warwickshire, a young man named Timothy Hancock, accompan- ied by his sister, who was about fifteen years of age. Without friends or means, they lived in a very humble manner among the settlers, but the demand for work soon found Timothy employment, and the de- mand for wives did not leave Mary long without a suitor." She married William Matlack in 1682, and they then removed to a tract of land which he had located be- tween the north and south branches of Pen- isaukin creek, in Chester township. Her

brother also located an adjoining survey. and by her he had one child: Rebecca, who is that the Matlack family of New Jersey --- a prolific family indeed-began with Wil- liam and Mary. Just when William died is not certain, but it was after 1720, and he lived to see his youngest daughter the moth- er of seven children. Tradition says that he died in his ninetieth or ninety-first year, "and would have lived longer if his tools had not been hid from him, for he took de- light in having his accustomed tools to work with, and when he could not have them he died." His children were: I. John, married (first) Hannah Horner ; (second) Mary Lee. 2. George, married (first) 1709, Mary Foster ; (second) Mary Hancock. 3. Mary, married (first) in 17II, at Newton Meeting, Jonathan Haines ; (second) Daniel Morgan. 4. William, 5. Richard, married (first) 1721, Re- becca Haines, at Evesham meeting ; (second) in 1745, Mary Cole, at Chester meeting. 6. Joseph, married at Chester meeting, in 1722, Rebecca Haines. 7. Tim- othy, married in 1726 at Haddonfield meet- ing, Mary Haines. 8. Jane. married Irvin Haines. 9. Sarah, married, in 1721, at Evesham meeting, Carlyle Haines.

The last resting place of the first Mat- lack in the New World is not certainly known. It is possible that his ashes ming- led with the dust of the graveyard that his friend Timothy Hancock dedicated on the bank of the north branch of Pensaukin creek where many of the early settlers were buried. But this spot has disappeared and the tombstones that marked their graves have gone to help form the foundations of adjacent buildings. His wife Mary died eleventh month, twentieth, 1728, and is in- terred in Friends' Graveyard at Moores- town, New Jersey. From these two all by the name of Matlack or Matlock in Ameri- ca are descended.

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BAYARD, Colonel John,

Revolutionary Soldier, Jurist.

Samuel Bayard, the founder of this faini- ily in America, although he himself died before his widow and children emigrated, is said to have been the son of Rev. Bai- thazar Bayard, "a French Protestant di- vine and professor." A relationship has al- so been claimed for him with the famous Pierre du Terrail, best known as the Seig- neur de Bayard, or the Chevalier Bayard, the knight "sans peur et sans reproche;" but as the Chevalier died April 30, 1524, unmarried and without issue, the relation- ship if it exists must be collateral. He mar- ried Anna, daughter of Rev. Balthazar and Margaret (Hardenstein) Stuyvesant, and sister to Petrus Stuyvesant, the famous di- rector-general of New Netherlands, whose own wife was a sister to Samuel Bayard, his brother-in-law. The widow, Anna (Stuy- vesant ) Bayard, accompanied her brother to New Amsterdam in the "Princess" in 1647, bringing with her her four children. She was "a person of imposing presence, highly educated, with great business capaci- ty and possessing a somewhat imperious temper, not unlike that of her worthy broth- er." She was also "greatly respected by the public and well known for her many acts of charity and kindness." The most notable instance of this latter was perhaps her com- passionate interference in 1657, in the case of the Quaker Robert Hodgson.

Petrus, son of Samuel and Anna (Stuy- vesant ) Bayard, was born at Alphen, South Holland, about 1635, and died in New Am- sterdam, 1699. He engaged successfully in mercantile pursuits and also in real es- tate. He made his home at the present cor- ner of Broadway and Exchange Place, New York. In 1667 he purchased a large tract of land in Ulster county, New York, and in 1675 obtained a patent from Gover- nor Andros for the land at Bombay Hook, which four years later he purchased from the Indians. He then cast in his lot with a

party of Labardists, and with them pur- chased the four necks of land thereafter known as the Labadie Tract of Bohemia Manor, in Cecil county, Maryland. Petrus Bayard became a member of the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam, and was one of its deacons. He married, November 4 or 28. 1674, Blandina, daughter of Hans and Sarah (Roelofs) Kierstede, who died in 1702. Her grandparents were Jan and An- neke (Jans) Roelofs, the latter the cele- brated widow of Dominie Evarardus Bo- gardus, as whose heiress she received the "Dominie's Bouwerie" which has been the subject of the celebrated Anneke Jans lit- igation for over two hundred years.

Samuel, son of Petrus and Blandina (Kierstede) Bayard, was born in New Amsterdam, in 1675, and died November 23, 1721, in Bohemia Manor, Cecil county, Maryland, whither he had removed with his brother-in-law, Hendrick Sluyter, in 1698. The substantial brick mansion which he built is still in possession of the Bayards, though for a time it passed into other hands and returned to them at a later period through the marriage of James Asheton Bayard and Ann Bassett. He married (first) Elizabeth Sluyter, (second) Susan- na Bouchelle, who survived him and died November 21, 1750.

James, son of Samuel Bayard, came in- to possession of the "Great House" in Bo- hemia Manor at his mother's death, and here spent his life, one of the most influ- ential and active citizens of eastern Mary- land. He married Mary Asheton.

John Bubenheim, as he is better known, Colonel John, son of James and Mary (Asheton ) Bayard, was born in the "Great House," Bohemia Manor, Maryland, Au- gust 11, 1738, and died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, 1807. With his twin brother, James Asheton Bayard, he was sent to the famous Nottingham Insti tution in Maryland, then under the super- vision of Rev. Samuel Finley, D. D., after- wards president of the College of New Jer-

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sey. Subsequently the brothers were placed under the private tutelage of .Rev. George Duffield, the famous Presbyterian theolo- gian. At the age of eighteen the brothers went to Philadelphia, the elder John Bay- ard (who dropped his middle name of Bubenheim) to enter the counting-house of John Rhea, and the younger, James Ash- eton Bayard, to study medicine under Dr. Thomas Cadwalader. John Bayard en- gaged in mercantile pursuits and became one the leading importers and merchants of Philadelphia. Later he entered into partner- ship with his father-in-law, Andrew Hodge. With other prominent business men he pro- tested against the exactions of the British government, and his name appears near the head of the list of those who signed the non-importation agreement of October 25, 1765. When the period of aggression took the place of that protestation, John Bayard was found at the forefront of the struggle. He was appointed a member of the Commit- tee of Correspondence named at the confer- ence of June 18, 1774; was a delegate of the Provincial Convention at Carpenters' Hall, July 15, 1774, to elect representatives to the first Continental Congress; attended the Provincial Convention of January 23, 1775. He early identified himself with the Sons of Liberty. Upon this point a writer has said: "John Adams tells us that Bayard early joined the Sons of Liberty, and in his diary mentions him as one of a committee who, with Drs. Rush and Mifflin, intercept- ed at Frankford, near Philadelphia, the members of congress in 1775 from the north as they came, for the purpose of influencing them to choose Washington as com- mander-in-chief of the army." Adams makes certain other references in his diary of Bayard. These brief ones, are of in- terest as indicating his position in Philadel- phia, socially and otherwise, at the im- portant period in question : "August 31, 1774. Wednesday. Breakfasted at Mr. Bayard's at Philadelphia, with Mr. Sprout, a Presbyterian minister, Sep-

tember 27, 1774. Tuesday. Dined, at Mr. Bayard's with Dr. Cox, Dr. Rush, Mr. Hodge, Mr. Deane, Colonel Dyer. Dr. Cox gave a toast: 'May the fair dove of liberty, in this deluge of despotism find rest to the sole of her foot in America.' " His firm, Hodge & Bayard, engaged in fur- nishing arms to Congress, and the privateer that took one of the first valuable prizes was fitted out largely by him. Among the priva- teers which he was mainly instrumental in equipping were the "Congress," the "Gen- eral Lee" and the "Colonel Parry." John Bayard served upon all three of the govern- ing bodies which successively dominated governmental affairs in Pennsylvania dur- ing the Revolution-the Committee of Safe- ty, the Council of Safety and the Supreme Executive Council.

But he was not alone a legislator or civil executive during the stirring period under consideration. In 1775 three battalions of Associators were organized in Philadelphia, and Bayard was commissioned major of the second, being subsequently promoted to the colonelcy, and saw much active service during the ensuing two years. From his camp at Bristol, December 13, 1776, shortly before Washington's crossing the Delaware, Colonel Bayard thus wrote to the council of safety : "We are greatly distressed to find no more of the militia of the state joining General Washington at this time; for God's sake what shall we do; is the cause desert- ed by our state, and shall a few Brave men offer their Lives as a Sacrifice against treble their number without assistance? For my own part, I came cheerfully out, not doubt- ing we should be joined by a number suffi- cient to drive our Enemy back, with Shame, Despair and Loss. I am far from think- ing our cause desperate, if our people would but turn out. If I thought I could be of any service, I would leave my Battalion and come down for a little while ; for God's sake exert yourselves." Colonel Bayard remain- ed with his command. however, and within two weeks participated in the aggressive

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movements in New Jersey which gave so much encouragement to the American cause. For his services at the battle at Princeton, January 3, 1777, Bayard receiv- ed the personal thanks of Washington. Dur- ing the year 1777 Colonel Bayard divided his time between his military. and civil duties. He was appointed March 13 of that year to the responsible post of member of the State Board of War, and four days later was elected speaker of the assembly, and was reelected the following year. When in September, 1777, upon the approach of the British under Howe, the Continental and State officials withdrew from Philadelphia, Bayard resumed his military duties, and participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. Later, when hostilities were practically discontinued for the win- ter, he again returned to the performance of his executive functions. In an official ca- pacity he visited Valley Forge, and under date of December 4, 1777, thus wrote Pres- ident Wharton concerning the lamentable condition of the colonial troops: "There are above one-third that have neither breeches, shoes, stockings, or blankets and who by these means are rendered unable to do duty, or indeed to keep to the field. It is truly distressing to see these poor naked fel- lows encamped on bleak hills ; and yet when any prospect of an action with the enemy offers, these brave men appear full of spirit and eager for engaging." In 1780 Colonel Bayard served as a member of a committee to report the causes of the falling off in the state revenues ; October 13, 1781, was chos- en to a seat in the supreme executive coun- cil, serving until November 4, 1782; was commissioned a judge of the high Court of Appeals, March 15, 1783; was elected a member of the Continental Congress in 1785, taking his seat November 22, etc. In 1788, having retired from active business, he removed from Philadelphia to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he built a handsome residence in which he entertain- ed many distinguished guests. In 1790 he

was made mayor of New Brunswick, and not long afterward was commissioned judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county. Col. John Bayard married (first ) Margaret, daughter of Andrew and Jane (McCulloch ) Hodge. He married (second ) May . (Grant) Hodgden, widow of John . Hodgden of South Carolina, who died Au- gust 13, 1785. He married (third) Jo- anna, daughter of Anthony and Elizabetlı (Morris) White, who survived her husband twenty-seven years.

Samuel, son of Colonel John and Mar- garet (Hodge) Bayard, was born January I, 1767, and died in Princeton, New Jer- sey, May 11, 1840. He graduated from Princeton College in 1784, and having read law with William Bradford was admitted to the Philadelphia bar November 8, 1787. Subsequently he became the law partner of his preceptor, who was attorney-general un- der Washington. In 1791 he was appointed clerk of the United States Supreme Court. Following the ratification of the Jay treaty, November 19, 1794, he was designated by President Washington as agent for the United States to prosecute American claims before the British Admiralty, and in that capacity he spent four years in London. Returning to America he gave up his resi- dence in Philadelphia, settling first at New Rochelle, New York, where he was commissioned Presiding Judge of West- chester county, and in 1803 removed to New York City, where in 1804 he was one of the founders of the New York Historical Soci- ety. In 1806 he removed again to Prince- ton, where he resided until his death. He served several years in the New Jersey leg- islature, and for a long time was Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county. He was the author of a number of books and pamphlets, among them being an "Abstract of the Laws of the United States," "Notes to Peake's Laws of Evidence;" "Letters on the Sacrament ;" and a "Funeral Oration on the Death of Washington." He married Martha, daughter

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Memorial cyclopedia of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 12

Author: Ogden, Mary Depue Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Newark, N.J. : Memorial History Company Number of Pages: 980

Author: Ogden, Mary Depue
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Newark, N.J. : Memorial History Company
Number of Pages: 980