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By his first wife he had four children, and probably others :
(1) Adriaen, bap. March 29, 1692; m. before 1718, Catharina Sanders.
(2) Jacobus, b. -; m. May 18, 1723, Maria Christie.
(3) Johannes, m. December 25, 1726, Johanna Houwert.
The Preakness Posts are descended from one or the other of these two sons, Adriaen or Francoys, of Capt. Adriaen Post, the immigrant.
Cornelius I. Post, who died in 1854, aged nearly seventy-one, whose wife was Hanna Corcoron, and whose married life at least was all, or about all of it, spent in this neighborhood, was at the head of one of the two present Preakness Post lines. His children were :
Jane, Peter C., Cornelius, Elizabeth, James M., Adrian C., and Tunis. The last two were twins. Only three of these will we otherwise mention,-Peter C., James M., and Adrian C.
Peter C. m. Jane Shannon, and had children :
1. James, m. Mary Dutchess.
2. Elizabeth, m. Harvey Dutchess.
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3. Sarah.
4. Samuel, m. Gertrude Gosman.
5. Richard, m. Florence Neill.
6. Hannah, m. Thomas Lloyd.
7. William, m. Lizzie Cass.
8. Carrie, m. William Wallace. .
9. John Staats, m. Mary A. Vail.
James M. Post, son of Cornelius I., m. Catharine Post, (no relative), and had children :
1. James Howard, b. 1848; m. Rebecca E. Smith. Three children.
2. David Evander, (Rev.), b. 1852; m (1), 1881, Harriet M. Wheeler, (d. 1892) ; two children; m. (2), 1893, Kate Ter Wil- leger ; five children.
3. Jacob Judson, b. 1855; m. Nellie Carman; one child.
4. Sarah Hannah, b. 1861; m. Henry Burroughs; two chil- dren.
All these children are living.
Adrian C. Post, another son of Cornelius I., m. Sarah Winters, of Ponds, and had children :
1. Susan, m. Leslie C. Waters.
2. Emma, m. Peter Sanford.
3. Catharine, m. George W. Barnes.
4. James, m. Kittie Sanford.
5. Hannah, m. Charles S. Hinchman.
6. Mary, unmarried.
7. William, unmarried.
8. Adrian C., Jr., m. Lizzie Hudson.
9. Charles, died young.
10. Ada, m. Arthur Kamp.
11. Julia, mn. James Chadwick.
12. Edward, m. Pearl E. Briggs.
Most of these have left Preakness. Several live in Paterson.
The other line of Posts is represented by Henry C. and his son Cornelius H., of Lower Preakness. Henry C. came from Pat- erson. His father's name was Cornelius H., who married Rebecca Bensen. Henry C.'s grandfather's name was Henry, and probably his great-grandfather's name also was Henry. Henry C., born April 13, 1828, m. November 8, 1849, Helen Terhune. Children:
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1. Helen, b. January 29, 1851 ; m. William Atchinson, of Pat- erson.
2. Cornelius H., b. August: 17, 1854; m. Sarah Libbie Van Riper.
3. Schuyler, b. April 11, 1856; dec'd.
4. John H., b. September 19, 1858.
5. Edward Bensen.
James Hinchman, the first of the name in Preakness, came here in 1825, from the town of Vernon, in Sussex County, N. J., and settled on what has since been known as the Greaves place, or Green Brook Farm, which in these days includes, if it did not then include, what was once a part of old Domine De Witt's estate.
James Hinchman was the son of John S. Hinchman, M. D., of Vernon, and before coming to Preakness had been a school teacher.
James Hinchman, after buying the Green Brook Farm, owned it until his death. His wife's name was Susannah Simonson. He was the father of fifteen children, six boys and nine girls, most of whom were born in Preakness. John S. Hinchman, of Preakness, the oldest son, was the only one of the Hinchman boys who made their home here any length of time after their marriage. The names of the boys in this family were, in their order, John S., Will- iam, Joseph, James. Charles, and Henry. James, Jr., lived for a time in the long house on the hill west of the homestead. Charles went to Australia, and was never heard from but once afterwards, which was very soon after he left home. Henry was drowned June 28, 1847, at the age of twenty, in the Shrewsbury River, Monmouth County, while in bathing. He was a carpenter by trade, and was working then at his trade in that part of the State. James Hinch- man, Sr., with several of his family, is buried in the Hinchman family burying ground, across the road from the front of the Preakness Church. The daughters of this man were:
1. Margaret, m. John Stevenson.
2. Kate, m. George Voorhees.
3. Ann, m. James McBride.
4. Susanna, m. William Fleming, who built the house on what has since been known as the Allen place, in the mountain, west of the Green Brook Farm. William Fleming's father's name was Henry, who came from Ireland. His son, and therefore Henry's grandson, Thomas W., is still living in Preakness. Thomas W. married a daughter of James Leigh, of Paterson. Their only daughter, Susie, m. Edgar B. Lupton ..
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5. Mary W., m. John Crompton.
6. Hattie, m. John Greaves, who afterwards bought the home- stead and built largely on it.
7. Pearline, m. - Johnson.
8. Eineline, died young.
9. Carrie, m. Charles Fairweather.
John S. Hinchman, of Preakness, oldest son of James Hinch- man, Sr., after marriage, first settled on the present (1902) R. H. Ackerman place, east of the homestead, and at that time a part of it. Subsequently he bought and occupied what is now the Charles H. Tintle farm, and from which the Hinchman family burying ground was afterwards set off. He also built the house on this place, since rebuilt by Mr. Tintle, although there was a house there before, on about the same spot. John S. Hinchman later bought and moved on the place on Singac Brook, below the parsonage, where he spent the greater part of his life. His wife was Maria Speer. His children were:
Susanna, Martha A., James, Charles S., Henry, and Joseph William.
James and Henry died while young men, of typhoid fever, Mrs. Hinchman, their mother, also dying soon after of the same disease. Susanna, who married Fred W. Clarke, and Martha A., who mar- ried Joseph Le Jeune, both on the same day, June 24, 1870, are likewise dead. Mrs. Clarke left one daughter, and Mrs. Le Jeune two, who all live in Brooklyn. Joseph W. Hinchman, after his father's death, bought and lives on the homestead. He married Anna Bensen, and has one son, Herbert Joseph. Charles S. lives on another place, (the old Ackerman place), which his father also owned at his death, and left to him and his family. He mar- ried Hannah Post, and has children: John S., Mary, Charlotte, Fred, and Theodore.
The Quackenbushes, of Paterson, were once residents of Preak- ness. Peter Quackenbush, Sr., as we will call him, the father of Peter Quackenbush, (the head of the firm of Quackenbush and Company, who have the leading department store of Paterson), was here with his family most of the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He lived at different times on different places,-being a land speculator, buying and improving property and selling it as he had opportunity. He was born in the City of New York July 30, 1803, and died in Paterson, 1882. Peter Quackenbush, Sr., is a de- scendant in the sixth generation of Pieter Quackenbosch, who came
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from Holland, to what is now Albany, N. Y., in 1660. His line of descent from his emigrant ancestor is as follows :
I. Pieter Quackenbosch, born in Holland about 1639, was a graduate of the University of Leyden, and later a divinity student at the University of Groningen; emigrated, about 1660, from Oostgeest, a suburb of Leyden, to America, being accompanied by his wife, Maritje, his infant son, Reynier, and his sister, Maritje Quackenbosch, (who married Marten Cornelisse van Buren, and one of whose descendants was President Martin Van Buren) ; conduct- ed a brick business in Albany ; had ten children, of whom the eldest was :
II. Reynier Quackenbosch, born in Holland about 1658, lived at different times in Schenectady, N. Y., New York City, and on the lands of the "Castigione Patent," of which he was one of the grantees ; married, first, Lysbeth Jane Masten, and second, Claasje Jacobs Stille, and had ten children, of whom the fifth (by his first wife) was:
III. Abraham Quackenbosch, baptized in New York City Feb- ruary 25, 1705 ; m. Susantje Helling ; lived at Tappan, N. Y., and had ten children, of whom the eldest was:
IV. Reynier Quackenbos, born in Tappan January 30, 1730; served during the Revolution in Kay's Regiment of Orange County Militia, and Col. Gilbert Cooper's Regiment of Orange County Militia, and subsequently was Captain in a Haverstraw Precinct Regiment ; m. first, Annetje Van Orden ; second, Sarah Duryea, and had nine children, of whom the youngest was:
V. John Quackenbush, born April 27, 1777; lived in New York City; m. Hannah Ackerman; had two children, of whom the younger was :
VI. Peter Quackenbush, born, as we have seen, July 30, 1803, in New York, where he lived until three years of age, when his father died, and the family removed to Yaupaw (now called Oak- land). While a young man, Peter Quackenbush learned the tan- ner's trade with his uncle, William P. Ackerman, at Clifton, N. J. After serving his apprenticeship, he married December, 1823, Hes- ter Demarest, daughter of David D. and Hannah (Van Saun) Demarest, of Preakness. Soon afterwards, the newly married couple took up their abode in Park street, near Bank street, in Pat- erson, N. J., where the husband started in the leather and findings business, in which he continued for several years. Two children were born to them while living in Park street, Paterson, viz .:
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1. Leah Ann, b. December 13, 1824; d. October 30, 1825.
2. John P., b. August 25, 1827; m. November 26, 1851, Caro- line Van Saun, b. September 29, 1830, d. September 5, 1902.
In 1827 the family removed to Upper Preakness, first on what is now the Ira Roat place, where they resided a year or more, when, the property on the opposite side of the road being in the market, Mr. Quackenbush bought that, tore down the old house on it, and built what afterwards became Barney Sisco's, but is in these days known as Jackson's Hotel. In this house, before they left it in 1834, the family had an increase of three more children :
3. Ann Maria, b. November 23, 1829; m. October 18, 1848, David Stagg, b. September 29, 1822, d. December 12, 1862.
4. David P., (hardware merchant in Paterson), b. September 20, 1831; d. November 23, 1901; m. February 11, 1863, Charity Ann Van Houten, b. September 4, 1837. Sons: Albert, Edwin, Peter, John D., Frank.
5. Elizabeth, b. August 15, 1834; d. March 11, 1868; m. March 30, 1854, Henry T. Van Iderstine.
In 1836, the interval from 1834 having been spent in Paterson, the family moved to the place now occupied by Charles S. Hinch- man, where another child was born:
6. Leah Margaret, b. August 20, 1837; m (1) August 20, 1860, Walter M. Cox, b. September 24, 1837, d. December 2, 1865; (2) December 19, 1866, William Rouchfuss, b. March 23, 1839.
A few years later another change was made to what was then the John Marinus place, but in these days is known as the Barbour place, and occupied by Charles Simonds, where Mr. Quackenbush built the mill that is still there, and where another child was born :
7. Rynier, b. June 17, 1840 ; married.
In 1842, the Quackenbush family left Preakness and went to Paterson, (Jefferson street), where another, their last child, was born :
8. Peter, b. February 24, 1844 ; married.
Five years of Paterson life, however, having passed, they came to Preakness again for about a year, 1847-8, locating at the ma- ternal home, the Demarest, or the old Samuel Van Saun place, in Lower Preakness, in these days owned and occupied by A. Laauwe. Returning to Paterson in 1848, Peter Quackenbush, Sr., after
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thirty-four years more of active operations, ended his days there, with his children and their families settled around him.
Peter A. Smith, son of Albert Smith, of New Prospect, N. J., came to Preakness from New Prospect about 1830. He united with, and for many years attended, the Pompton Reformed Church, where also he served several terms as Deacon ; but on September 4, 1851, with his wife, Sarah Folly Smith, he united with the Preak- ness Church by letter. His death occurred June 8, 1863, at the age of seventy. His wife died July 5, 1880, aged eighty-three years.
Peter A. Smith's children were :
1. Susan, m. William Welch, of Paterson.
2. Anna, m. Martin Mahony, of New York.
3. Peter D., m. Sarah Hammond, of New Prospect.
4. Martha, m. Henry Magie.
5. Albert, m. Ellen Romaine.
6. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Tintle.
Peter D. Smith died, a Christian sufferer, February 6, 1887, aged sixty-four, after serving continuously as Deacon of this Church from the time he was ordained, in May, 1879. He and his wife were received into the Church on confession June 2, 1876. Mrs. Smith is still living.
Albert Smith, who married Ellen Romaine, died, at the age of forty-seven, June 17, 1879. He was struck by lightning and killed just after returning home with his family from church. He was adjusting a tin leader from the roof of his house to a cistern when he was killed.
Two brothers, Henry and Samuel Daniel, came to Preakness from England in 1830. Later, another brother, Peter, came. Some years afterwards, Henry settled on the Birchenough place, as it is now, in Upper Preakness, and Samuel settled in Lower Preakness, and untimately moved near to the present Daniel place, by Ira Mitchell's. Henry married twice. His first wife died soon after he came to this country. By her he had four children: John, James, Hannah, and Elizabeth. His second wife was Janette Torbet, a sister of Francis Torbet, the father of Robert M. By his second wife, Henry Daniel had but one child, a daughter, Mary Jane, who was the first wife of William H. Birchenough.
James Daniel, son of Henry, who at one time lived on the pres- ent Van Orden place, is still living in Paterson, on Hamburg ave-
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nue. Also his sister, Hannah, who married James Dunkerly, is- likewise living in Paterson.
Samuel Daniel, brother of Henry, was the father of John, late- of Lower Preakness, and of several other children. He was forty years old when he came to this country, and his wife was twenty. The widow Daniel is still (1902) living, at the age of ninety-two.
The third brother, Peter, lived on the Preakness Mountain, back of the present Duncan place. He was not married, or if he was, he had no children.
John Stagg, Jr., as he was called, of Lower Preakness, who owned and lived on the present Henry C. Post place, occupied by Peter Macdonald, in an old house a little north of the buildings of to-day, was the sixth child and fourth son of John C. Stagg, of Sicomac, and came to Preakness before 1838.
The first Stagg in this country was Thomas, whose wife's name was Margaret. He is mentioned in a deed as early as June 30, 1682, and again September 26, 1684. On January 14, 1695, ad- ministration on his estate was granted to his widow, he having died intestate. We know of only two children of Thomas and Margaret Stagg, although there may have been others :
1. John, b. at Bergen, East New Jersey ; bap. there March 27, 1674.
2. William, b. at New Barbadoes Neck, N. J., as per marriage records, at Hackensack.
John Stagg, son of Thomas and Margaret, m. (1) March 14, 1697, Maritie Bougart, born on Long Island. (2) November 26, 1698, Neeltie Ver Way.
Children : (Order uncertain).
1. Jan, b. about 1699; m. August 1, 1722, Hendrickje Huys- man.
2. Cornelis, b. about 1701; m. (1) before 1729, Hendrickje Kool. (2) March 7, 1734, Antje Cristie.
3. Thomas, bap. November 14, 1703, at Hackensack; m. be- fore 1727, Sietje Bruin.
4. Abraham, b. about 1705 ; m. June 23, 1732, Maritje Bogert.
5. Neeltje, b. about 1708 ; m. August 28, 1730, Jan Courter.
6. Margaretta, bap. September 20, 1710, at Hackensack; m. before 1727, Peter Sanderson.
7. Isaac, bap. November 2, 1712, at Hackensack; m. Septem- ber 14, 1738, Agnietje Romein.
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8. Jacob, bap. May 22, 1715, at Hackensack; m. August 23, 1739, Antje Vreeland.
9. Jores, bap. October 14, 1717, at Hackensack; m. before 1748, Antjen Idelstein.
10. William, bap. January 24, 1720, at Hackensack.
And possibly a daughter, Elizabeth, b. before 1710.
William Stagg, brother of John, and son of Thomas and Mar- garet, m. October 23, 1697, Magdalena Brower, b. at Brooklyn.
Children : (Order and number uncertain).
1. Thomas, m. December 23, 1721, Feytje Van Gelder.
2. Elizabeth, m. before 1729, John Ackerman.
3. Lea, m. July 8, 1728, Adam Wesenaer.
4. William, m. March 21, 1731, Elizabeth Hervey.
5. Jacob, m. February 3, 1737, Sarah Valk.
6. Nicholas, m. May 13, 1740, Geesje Francisco.
We have no birth or baptism dates of any of the above.
7. Margrietie, bap. March 3, 1723, at Hackensack.
There were undoubtedly other children, possibly a Sylvestia, or Sylvesteen, a female.
Jan Stagg, Jr., son of Jan, and grandson of Thomas, m. Au- gust 11, 1722, at Hackensack, Hendrickje Housman, or Huysman, bap. September, 1704, at Hackensack, daughter of Abram Huys- man and Gerrebreght Terhuyne.
Children :
1. Jan, bap. September 22, 1723, at Hackensack.
2. Maria, bap. February 13, 1726, at Hackensack.
3. Neeltje, b. December 2, bap. December 5, 1728, at Acquack- anonk.
4. Abraham, bap. June 6, 1731.
5. Thomas, bap. September 23, 1733.
6. Jacobus, bap. November 30, 1735.
7. Cornelis, bap. April 2, 1738.
8. Albert, bap. September 28, 1740.
9. Marytje, bap. November 13, 1743.
10. Isack, bap. August 2, 1747.
The last seven baptisms occurred at Hackensack.
We are not particularly interested in any of these except Cor- nelis, the seventh child, who died November 13, 1827. He mar- ried Margreta Banta, widow of Peter P. Demarest, and daughter of Jan Banta and Sara Demarest.
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There were several children born to this couple, but we will pass them over, except John, b. November 14, 1762; d. May 13, 1830. John, or John C. Stagg, as he was called, m. January 16, 1783, Cornelia Van Biarcom, (b. February 11, 1757, d. January 15, 1852), and lived at Sicomac. Children :
1. Cornelius, b. June 28, 1783; d. January 10, 1823 ; m. - Van Winkle.
2. Sarah, b. December 6, 1785; d. May 27, 1850; m. about 1804, David D. Acker, who died August 2, 1827. She was the ma- ternal great-grandmother of John Neafie, of New York. Issue :
(1) Rachel, b. June 3, 1805; d. November 20, 1873; m. April 2, 1825, John Tallman, Jr., b. September 6, 1806; d. April 14, 1847.
(2) John, b. January 14, 1808; d. May 2, 1866; m. May 22, 1830, Mary Elizabeth Travis, b. February 28, 1815, d. November 25, 1871. These were the parents of John Neafie's mother,-his grandparents.
(3) Eliza, b. September 28, 1810; d. November 1, 1898; m. November 12, 1829, Adrian Van Riper, d. about 1846.
(4) Cornelius, b. December 25, 1813 ; d. October 18, 1830.
(5) Cornelia, b. December 20, 1816; died years ago; m. Charles Brush. 1
(6) Margaret, b. August 30, 1819; d. March 22, 1891; m. October 10, 1841, Gilliam Van Houten, b. September 13, 1819, d. May 6, 1863,-killed in the Civil War, while serving as Colonel of the Twenty-first New Jersey Infantry.
(7) David D., b. June 13, 1822; d. March 23, 1888; m. twice,-(1) Maria Vanderbilt, b. about 1822, d. June 5, 1864; (2) Mrs. Julia W. Outcalt Floyd. David D. Acker was the head of the firm of Acker, Merrall, and Condit, one of the two leading gro- cery houses of New York City.
3. Isaac, b. February 20, 1788; d. November 1, 1861; m. Maria Van Houten, (b. at Ponds, October 5, 1791, d. April 29, 1866). Mrs. Ann Osborn, b. Oct. 1, 1812, a daughter of this Isaac Stagg, is still living, in her 91st year, on Broadway, in Paterson, with her daughter.
4. Margaret, b. July 19, 1790; d. March 12, 1846; m. Court Lake, of the Ponds.
5. David, b. October 14, 1792; d. February 8, 1816; m. Trientje Van Houten.
6. John, b. April 24, 1795; d. November 18, 1871; m. Bridget
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Romaine, (b. July 12, 1804, d. October 21, 1877), daughter of Ralph Romaine, from under the High Mountain, (North Hale- don), who was born March 20, 1767, d. March 3, 1852.
7. Jacobus (James), b. December 23, 1797; d. January 8, 1840 ; m. Sally Westervelt. She married second, William Haring.
8. William, b. March 1, 1800; d. August 16 (?). 1859 ; m. Catharine Geroe, sister of Benjamin Geroe, b. August 12, 1804, d. October 29, 1871.
9. Albert, b. September 9, 1803; d. October 7, 1877; married and lived first at Wyckoff, and afterwards at Spring Valley, Bergen County.
The issue of John Stagg, Jr., the sixth of these children, were :
1. David, b. September 29, 1822; d. December 12. 1862; m. Ann Maria Quackenbush. sister of David and Peter Quackenbush. of Paterson.
2. Maria. b. August 5. 1824 ; m. November 28, 1846, Henry K. Berry.
3. Bridget Ann, b. August 26. 1829; d. December 3, 1856 ; m. John N. Jacobus, of Paterson.
4. Cornelia, b. February 3, 1832; m. William H. Hopper, of Upper Preakness.
5. Abraham, b. August 25, 1834; m. (1) Catharine J. Van Winkle; (2) Letitia Van Winkle (sisters).
6. Sarah Margaret, b. October 8, 1836 ; m. Isaac Fredericks, of Paterson. These were all baptized in the Second Totowa Church. The following were baptized in Preakness :
7. Sophia, b. August 27, 1838 ; m. Albert Bensen, of Totowa.
8. John Ralph, b. April 1, 1840; m. Evaline Young.
9. James, b. July 25, 1841; m. Anna Haines.
10. Benjamin, b. December 28, 1843; m. Rachel Bogert.
11. Catharine, b. April 24, 1845 ; m. Edo V. Cadmus, of Dun- dee.
12. Jacob, b. July 12, 1846 ; m. Catharine A. Snyder.
The last six of these were born in Preakness, and three, Maria, Sophia, and Sarah Margaret, have spent all, or a considerable part, of their married life here. John Stagg, Jr., the father of these children, was at different times Deacon, Elder, Sexton, and Treas- urer of this Church.
The Hon. Robert M. Torbet has been a resident of Preakness since 1842. He is one of nine children, most of them born in
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Scotland, whose father, Francis Torbet, of Stony Wood, in that country, emigrated with his family to America in 1836. The fam- ily first settled at Morristown, N. J., and afterwards at Paterson. In 1842, Mr. Torbet came to Wayne Township, on the farm where his son Robert M. still resides. He died in 1879. Robert M., born in 1834, and hence two years old when the family came to America, in 1859, married Miss Mary A. Tintle, of Bloomingdale, N. J., and is the father of two children, Mary F., who married Ira Roat, and Frank T., who married a daughter of William Vernon, of Pater- son. Mr. and Mrs. Torbet are Baptists, but their children are both members of the Preakness Reformed Church, the son Frank T. having served several times as Deacon.
Mr. Torbet has graded and built more of the macadamized roads in Wayne Township than any other one man or company, and perhaps more than all others together. He has also done consid- erable such work in the Township of Manchester, and in the city of Paterson. Otherwise, too, for many years, he has been a public man, filling time after time various township offices, as well as serving two terms in the State Legislature. His son, Frank T., is with him on the farm, and runs it.
Abram Garside, who married Esther Stott, came from Lan- cashire, England, to Paterson, and from there, in 1844, to Preak- ness, settling on the present Melvin Garside farm. The old stone part of the house on this place, in Revolutionary days, was called "the little house in the woods," and some of Gen. Lafayette's of- ficers were quartered in it when he was at the Van Saun house.
Of the children of Abram and Esther Garside, six died in infancy. The others were :
1. Elizabeth, dec'd; m. Capt. Coventry, a veteran of both the Mexican and the Civil wars.
2. Melvin, m (1) Mary Underwood. Two children: Fred, who married and lives in Newark; Mary, died in infancy. (2) Susan C. Beardsley. Three children : William B., Susic C., Mary Esther.
3. Milton, m. Margaret Gall. Children: Elizabeth, m. Wil- lard Hocroft; Mabel ; Jessie, m. James Ratcliffe ; Alexander J.
Thomas Tintle, son of Charles Tintle, of Bloomingdale, N. J., and brother of Mrs. R. M. Torbet, December 6, 1851, married Eliz- abeth Smith, daughter of Peter A. Smith, of Preakness, and after that came to Preakness to live, spending most of his married life on
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the farm known as the Cornelius Folly place, which he bought, and which the family still owns. The place is located on what used to be the old Paterson and Hamburg Turnpike, east of the present Upper Preakness schoolhouse. Some years before Cornelius Folly owned it, the place was owned and occupied by another man by the name of Folly, a cousin of the other, who kept public house there.
Thomas Tintle died January 3, 1897, aged seventy-one years, seven months, and nine days. His children are : Charles H., Peter J., Della, who for two or three years was Church Organist, and Nettie. The Tintles are of Hessian stock.
The first Bensen that we know anything about was Hans, of Tappan, N. Y., who, (or whose father, perhaps), came from Long Island in the latter part of the eighteenth century. This Hans Bensen married a Lydecker, and had at least four sons and two daughters. Two of his sons in time of the Revolutionary War were Tories, and on that account had to remove to Canada, where their descendants remain. David, probably the youngest son, who was born at Tappan, was about nine years of age when Washington's army, in passing through that part of the country, crossed his father's rye field, and so badly cut it up that the query with the family was, as to what they should do the next year for bread; but as the result of what was supposed would be the entire destruction of the crop, that field the following season produced a most enor- mous yield of rye. The family afterwards removed from Tappan to Vernon, near the New York line, in Sussex County, N. J., and resided there a few years, when they again changed their residence to Paterson, or Totowa, locating on the site of where the Laurel Grove Cemetery now is, the house on the place being about where the present entrance to the cemetery is, and where Hans died. The locating of the family at Paterson, or Totowa, must have been in 1787 or 1788, as David was then about twenty-two years old, and he died in 1862, aged ninety-seven years and six months. This would bring his birth in 1764 or 1765. David Bensen, son of Hans, shortly after the death of his father, in 1794 or 1795, married Eliz- abeth Van Houten, and made his home on the corner of Mulberry street and Broadway, in what has since been known as the Mack- lomee (?) house, where at least his first two children were born. His children were: Johannes, b. December 27, 1795; Derrick, or Richard, b. October 28, 1797; Molly, b. February 24, 1800; Re- becca, b. September 4, 1804.
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