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The Howell family was formerly a prom- of this family who attained high judicial inent factor in the business affairs of South- honors : ampton. Captain Stephen Howell was born Judge Abraham T. Rose, son of Dr. Sam- uel H. Rose, was born in Bridgehampton, in 1792, and died April 29, 1857. He graduated at Yale College in 1814, and became a success- ful practicing lawyer, residing through life in his native village. He was county judge and surrogate of Suffolk county from July, 1847, to January, 1852, and from January, 1856, until his resignation, in the month wherein he died. In 1848 he was an elector to choose a president of the United States. in the good old town in 1744, and died there in 1828, was one of the first to erect a storehouse in the village. He was a stanch patriot in the Revolution and fought in the battle of Brook- lyn, seemingly ending, however, in that disas- trous engagement, his military career. In 1785 he became prominent in the whale fishery busi- ness and he and his sons, Lewis and Silas, made considerable money rapidly. Latham may also be regarded as the founder of Sag Harbor's industries, he having established there a candle-making factory. Although he was a man of many progressive ideas and of shrewd business instincts and his endeavors added greatly to Southampton's prosperity.
A family named Miller was long prominent in East Hampton. They were descended from John Miller, one of the first settlers. In 1717, Eleazer Miller, the grandson of this pioneer, was born and developed into quite a famous character. He was elected a member of the Assembly in 1748 and continued to hold the office for twenty-one years, when, in 1769, after a warmly contested election he was defeated by no less a personage than Gen. Nathaniel Wood- hull. Eleazer's son, Burnet, was clerk of Huntington for many years, served in the As- sembly and in Congress and was supervisor for eleven years prior to 1776. He secms to have been lost sight of in the course of the Revolutionary war, probably removed to some place up the Hudson.
Hubbard Latham, of Connecticut, settled in Southampton in 1760 and was for many years one of its most active citizens. He was a dealer in real estate as well as a speculator in marine ventures and gathered together quite a fortune. He left a large family which is still represented in the village.
The Rose family, still represented in North Sea, Southampton, are descended from Robert Rose, who settled in the township in 1644.
Judge H. P. Hedger wrote the following interesting sketch of the career of a member
He was a man of varied and almost uni- versal genius, of generous and kindly im- pulse, poetic temperament and magnetic elo- quence ; where others by slow and laborious effort achieved the mastery he by intuition looked through the complication of mechanics, science, literature, music and the practical arts. Hosts of ardent friends admired, loved and served him; crowds thronged the place where and when he was expected to speak. Fluent in expression, graceful and commanding in gesture and action, fertile in fancy and inven- tion, versed in all the springs of human nature, winning and persuasive in manner, his pres- ence was a poem and his speech was music. Almost at will he carried courts, jurors, wit- nesses and crowds to his own conclusions, and in his own inimitable way. One of his con- temporaries remarked that industrious appli- cation would make a good lawyer, but only genius like his would make a man an advocate. Unquestionably as an advocate and orator he was of the highest rank in his time.
When the dark shadow of the inevitable hour gathered around him, professing his un- doubting faith in Jesus Christ, and regret and repentance for errors past, he was received on the Sabbath in the church at his residence, and partook of the sacramental elements at the hands of the elders. When his malady ob- structed his wonderful and attractive utter- ances he commended to us the 116th Psalm as expressing his experience and undying hope. The tramping feet of the living thousands may
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move on unconscious of the memory of the other thousands gone before; yet age after age the remembrance of this gifted man, of his wonderful eloquence and his generous heart, will live in the traditions of generations to come, transmitted by those who have gone as he has gone.
These random notes and delvings into the family history "out on Long Island" must here close. We have lingered with the subject lov- ingly and reverently so as to bring out the characteristics of each and in most cases their special claim to remembrance, but the subject might be indefinitely extended, for such fam- ilies as the Mulfords, the Hewletts, the Day- tons, the Brewsters, the regiment of Smiths, and a host of others are at hand-enough to fill many volumes. But we desire to close this chapter with a biographical sketch of a man who was for years a tireless student of Long Island genealogy and whose works are a de- light to the antiquary and an inspiration to the historian-Teunis G. Bergen, of Bay . tions. He was a delegate to the national Demo- Ridge. This sketch was written by his life-long friend, Dr. Stiles, the historian of Brooklyn.
Teunis G. Bergen, farmer, statesman and antiquary, was born in the town of New Ut- recht, October 6, 1806. He was the eldest child of Garret Bergen and Jane Wyckoff, his wife, He clearly traced his ancestry to Hans Hansen Bergen, a native of Bergen, in Norway, who came over to the New Netherlands with Wou- ter Van Tweller, the second director of the colony. Bergen's wife, whom he married in 1639, was Sarah, the daughter of the Wal- loon emigrant, Jan Joris Rapalye, who came to this country in the ship Unity in 1623 and settled in Albany, afterwards removing to New Amsterdam, and thence (1635) to the Waleboght on Long Island. Sarah was her- self a historic character, being the first white female child born within the limits of the pres- ent state of New York-at Albany. Thus, from a stock not originally of the Netherland blood, but which became afterwards thoroughly in- corporated with the first Dutch settlers of this county, sprang this most distinguished Dutch
scholar. His early youth was mainly spent be- tween work upon his father's farm at Gowan- us, and at the common school of the district. As youth merged into manhood, he applied himself to the study and practice of surveying, in which he soon became proficient. To the main duties of an active life he added those of a farmer ; and, not forgetting those he owed to the community in which he resided, he faith- fully discharged such as were imposed upon him by the choice of his fellow-citizens, as sol- dier, civilian and statesman. He held the po- sition of Ensign, Captain, Adjutant, Lieut .- Colonel in the militia; and, finally, that of Colonel of the 24Ist Regiment, N. Y. S. N. G. He was supervisor of the town of New Utrecht for twenty-three years in succession (April, 1836, to April, 1859) ; and from 1842 to 1846 was chairman of the board. He was a member of the Constitutional State Conven- tions in 1846, 1867 and 1868, and was repeat- edly a member of the Democratic state conven- ocratic Convention held at Charleston, S. C., in 1860, and vigorously opposed the resolutions oi that body which caused the breach between the northern and southern Democratic party. The last and most notable public office which he held by the choice of his fellow citizens was that of representative in Congress from the Second Congressional District, in 1864, when he was elected by a majority of 4,800 over his opponent, the "Union" candidate. In that session of the House of Representatives his party was in the minority ; but, true to his Dutch principles, he stood firm to his party to the completion of his term of service. The pages of the history of the county of Kings bear frequent witness to Mr. Bergen's many public services in behalf of the interests of the county and of its several towns, as well as of the city of Brooklyn. That he was so fre- quently called upon, in these public affairs, was a most striking tribute to his ability, industry and integrity.
On his retirement from public and profes- sional duties, he devoted his leisure hours to
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those antiquarian and genealogical investiga- tions which possessed, for him, so great a fas- cination. These investigations ran most nat- urally in the lines of Dutch (and Kings Coun- ty Dutch) ancestry and history. In the ear- lier years of his life, spent among the hills and by the waterside at Gowanus, and at New Ut- recht, he knew no language but the Dutch- not as spoken nowadays, but with the idiom and pronunciation of two hundred years ago- and corrupted, in a measure, by the gradual introduction of the English. By education, he soon became versed in the English language; but he never ceased to cultivate the language of his boyhood, which he lived to see almost eradicated, in this county, as a spoken lan- guage. It sometimes seemed to his friends as though he thought in Dutch, but spoke in Eng- lishi; and there was always a certain peculiar accent to his pronunciation, especially when a little excited, as if both tongues wrestled at his lips for precedence. By birth, and education and study he was admirably qualified to de- cipher the Dutch records, both public and pri- vate, which he frequently had occasion to con- sult. His pure character and great experience as a land-surveyor in the settling of town- boundaries and private estate-lines among the old Dutch families of the county, also gave him access to many ancient documents and sources of information which would have been closed to any other person. So that he early becanie an expert in all that related to the Dutch and their descendants, not only in the county, but upon Long Island and even in New Jersey. In the history of the Dutch families of Long Island he was not only (with the ex- ception of Riker) the first gleaner, but he was by far the most thorough, exhaustive and au- thoritative. His untiring and self-sacrificing researches into the almost obsolete records of the ancient Dutch churches of Long Island and New York have unearthed numerous and important materials for the use of modern his- torians; while his discoveries, in out-of-the- way places, of many of the detached birth, bap- tismal and marriage records, and the restora-
tion of the same, have conferred inestimable benefits upon the genealogist and antiquary. His published writings were numerous and im- portant. Scattered through the volumes of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Rec- ord will be found valuable papers on Records of Births of the Society of Friends, Gravesend, L. I., commencing 1665; the Van Dyke Fam- ily; Marriage Records of Gravesend, con- mencing 1664; a List of Deaths in Captain Grant's company in 1762; the Montfoort Fam- ily; Pioneers of the Revolutionary War; the Martense Family ; Contributions to the History of the First Settlers of Kings county ; Memor- ials of Francays D' Bruynne; the Van Duyn Family. Some of these formed portions of "A Register of the Early Settlers and Free- holders of Kings county, N. Y., from its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700, with Bio- graphical Notices and Family Genealogies," which was published in 1881, a few weeks after his death. Before this, however, in 1866, he had issued "The Bergen Family," an octavo of 298 pages ; in 1867, the history of his wife's ancestry, "Genealogy of the Van Brunt Fam- ily," in 80 octavo pages. But the crowning glory of his well-spent life, so far as family history is concerned, was a second edition of his "Bergen Family," so improved and aug- mented as to embrace, by regular descent and intermarriage, a large portion of the Dutch population of southern New York and eastern New Jersey ; forming a handsome illustrated volume of .658 octavo pages. In 1878 ap- peared his "Genealogy of the Lefferts Family," 1675-1878, an octavo of 172 pages. In 1877, also, at the 200th anniversary celebration of the Reformed Dutch church of New Utrecht, he delivered an "Address on the Annals of New Utrecht," of great historic value; and which was printed for private circulation by the consistory of the church. He left, also, in manuscript, "A History of New Utrecht," which antiquarians are hoping to see issued, in due time, by competent hands. He left, more- over, translations of several important manu- scripts relating to Kings county matters.
CHAPTER LVII.
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
THE LONG ISLAND CAMPAIGN-DUTCH NAMES OF PLACES AND PERSONS -HISTOR - ICAL GLEANINGS AND DOCUMENTS-EARLY NINETEENTH
CENTURY DESCRIPTIONS.
N this chapter we propose to present some documents, extracts, and addi- tional details which will help to elu- cidate several of the earlier passages of this work, and also to present specimens of the work of the earlier historians of Long Island, all of which will be found of interest to the general reader of the local history :
CAPITULATION BY THE DUTCH TO SIR RICHARD NICOLLS.
These Articles following were consented to by the Persons here under subscribed, at the Governour's Bowery, August the 27th, Old Style, 1664.
I. We consent That the States-General, or the West India Company, shall freely injoy all Farms and Houses, (except such as are in the Forts,) and that within six months they shall have free Liberty to transport all such Arms and Ammunition as now does belong to them, or else they shall be paid for them.
II. All Publique Houses shall continue for the Uses which they are for.
III. All people shall continue free Deni- zens, and shall injoy their Lands, Houses, Goods, wheresoever they are within this Coun- try, and dispose of them as they please.
IV. If any Inhabitant have a Mind to re- move himself, lie shall have a Year and six Weeks from this day, to remove himself,
Wife, Children, Servants, Goods, and to dis- pose of his lands here.
V. If any Officer of State, or Publique Minister of State, have a Mind to go for Eng- land, they shall be transported Fraught free, in his Majesty's Frigotts, when these Frigotts shall return thither.
VI. It is consented to, that any People may freely come from the Netherlands, and plant in this Colony; and that Dutch Vessels may freely come hither, and any of the Dutch may freely return home, or send any Sort of Mer- chandize home in Vessels of their own Coun- try.
VII. All Ships from the Netherlands, or any other Place, and Goods therein, shall be received here, and sent hence, after the man- ner which formerly they were, before our com- ing hitler, for six Months next ensuing.
VIII. The Dutch here shall injoy the Lib- erty of their Consciences in divine Worship and Church Discipline.
IX. No Dutchman here, or Dutch Ship here, shall upon any occasion be pressed to serve in War against any Nation whatsoever.
X. That the Townsmen of the Manhattans shall not have any Soldiers quartered upon them, without being satisfied and paid for them by the Officers; and that at this present, if the Fort be not capable of lodging all the Soldiers, then the Burgomasters, by his Of- ficers, shall appoint some Houses capable to receive them.
XI. The Dutch here shall injoy their own Customs concerning their Inheritances.
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XII. All Publique Writings and Records, which concern the Inheritances of any People, or the Reglement of the Church or Poor, or Orphans, shall be carefully kept by those in whose Hands now they are, and such Writ- ings as particularly concern the States-Gen- eral, may at any Time be sent to them.
XIII. No Judgment that has passed any Judicature here, shall be called in Question ; but if any conceive that he hath not had Jus- tice done him, if he apply himself to the States- General, the other Party shall be bound to answer for the supposed Injury.
XIV. If any Dutch, living here, shall at any Time desire to travaile or traffique into England, or any Place, or Plantation, in obedi- ence to his Majesty of England, or with the Indians, he shall have (upon his Request to the Governor,) a Certificate that he is a free Denizen of this Place, and Liberty to do so.
XV. If it do appeare that there is a pub- lique Engagement of Debt by the Town of the Manhattoes, and a Way agreed on for the sat- isfying of that Engagement, it is agreed that the same Way proposed shall go on, and that the Engagement shall be satisfied.
XVI. All inferior Civil Officers and Mag- istrates shall continue as now they are, (if they please,) till the customary Time of new Elections, and then new ones to be chosen by themselves; provided that such new chosen Magistrates shall take the Oath of Allegiance to his Majesty of England before they enter upon their Office.
XVII. All Differences of Contracts and Bargains made before this Day, by any in this Country, shall be determined according to the Manner of the Dutch.
XVIII. If it do appeare that the West In- dia Company of Amsterdam do really owe any Sums of Money to any Person here, it is agreed that Recognition and other Duties pay- able by Ships going for the Netherlands, be continued for 6 months longer.
XIX. The Officers Military, and Soldiers, shall march out with their Arms, Drums beat- ing, and Colors flying, and lighted Matches; and if any of them will plant, they shall have fifty Acres of Land set out for them ; if any of them will serve as Servants, they shall con- tinue with all Safety, and become free Deni- zens afterwards.
XX. If at any Time hereafter the King of Great Britain, and the States of the Nether- land, do agree that this Place and Country be
re-delivered into the Hands of the said States, whensoever his Majestie will send his Com- mands to re-deliver it, it shall immediately be done.
XXI. That the Town of Manhattans shall choose Deputyes, and those Deputyes shall have free Voyces in all publique Affairs, as much as any other Deputyes.
XXII. Those who have any Property in any Houses in the Fort of Aurania, shall (if they please) slight the Fortifications there, and then enjoy all their Houses, as all People do where there is no Fort.
XXIII. If there be any Soldiers that will go into Holland, and if the Company of West India in Amsterdam, or any private Persons here, will transport them into Holland, then they shall have a safe Passport from Colonel Richard Nicolls, Deputy-Governor under his Royal Highness, and the other Commissioners, to defend the Ships that shall transport such Soldiers, and all the Goods in them, from any Surprizal or Act of Hostility, to be done by any of his Majestie's Ships or Subjects. That the Copies of the King's Grant to his Royal Highness and the Copy of his Royal High- ness's Commission to Colonel Richard Nicolls, testified by two Commissioners more, and Mr. Winthrop, to be true Copies, shall be delivered to the Hon. Mr. Stuyvesant, the present Gov- ernor, on Munday next by Eight of the Clock in the Morning, at the Old Miln ; and these Ar- ticles consented to, and signed by Colonel Rich- ard Nicolls, Deputy-Governor to his Royal Highness ; and that within two Hours after the Fort and Town called New Amsterdam, upon the Isle of Manhatoes, shall be delivered into the Hands of the said Colonel Richard Nicolls, by the Service of such as shall be by him there- unto deputed, by his Hand and Seal.
John De Decker, Nich. Verleet, Sam. Megapolensis, Cornelius Steenwick, Oloffe Stevens Van Kortlant, James Cousseau,
Robert Carr, Geo. Cartwright,
John Winthrop, Sam. Willys, Thomas Clarke, John Pinchon.
I do consent to these articles,
RICHARD NICOLLS.
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The division of Long Island by the Treaty of Hartford, in 1650, is given below :
TREATY OF HARTFORD, 1650.
Articles of agreement made and concluded at Hartford, upon Conecticut, September 19, 1650, between delegates of the Commissioners of the United English colonies, and the dele- gates of Peter Stuyvesant, governor-general of New Netherlands-concerning the bounds and limits between the English United Colo- nies and the Dutch province of New Nether- lands.
We agree and determine as follows:
That upon Long Island, a line run from the westernmost part of Oysterbay, and so in a straight and direct line to the sea, shall be the bounds between the English and the Dutch there, the easterly part to belong to the Eng- lish, and the westernmost part to the Dutch.
The bounds upon the main to begin upon the west side of Greenwich Bay, being about four miles from Stamford, and so to run a westerly line twenty miles up into the country, and after, as it shall be agreed by the two gov- ernments of the Dutch and New Haven, pro- vided that said line run not within ten miles of Hudson's River, and it is agreed that the Dutch shall not, at any time hereafter, build any house or habitation within six miles of the said line. The inhabitants of Greenwich to re- main (till further consideration thereof be had,) under the government of the Dutch.
That the Dutch shall hold and enjoy all the lands in Hartford that they are actually in pos- session of, known or set out by certain marks and bounds, and all the remainder of the said lands, on both sides of Connecticut River, to be and remain to the English there.
And it is agreed, that the aforesaid bounds and limits, both upon the island and main, shall be observed and kept inviolable, both by the English of the United Colonies and all the Dutch nation, without any encroachment or molestation, until a full determination be agreed upon in Europe, by mutual consent of the two States of England and Holland. And in testimony of our joint consent to the several foregoing conditions, we have hereunto set our hands this 19th day of September, 1650.
SIMON BRADSTREET, THOMAS PRINCE, THOMAS WILLET, GEORGE BAXTER.
CAPTAIN MULFORD'S TROUBLE, 1717.
Captain Samuel Mulford, of 7 East Hamp- ton was the eldest son of one of the first set- tlers of that town and was born in 1644. In 1705 he was elected a member of the Assembly and held that office until 1720. Mr. Pelletreau in a biographical sketch of this sturdy patriot, says :
The greatest grievance of Captain Mul- ford's fellow townsmen was a tax which, with- out shadow of law or justice, had been levied by the governor upon the products of the whale fishery, he demanding a tenth as a right of roy- alty. Against this unjust demand the people, with Mulford at their head, rose as one man. In a memorial addressed to the king he recounts the facts that the taking of whales by the peo- ple continued "above fifty years before the captors heard of any duty for so doing until of late," and that it was looked upon as "an imposition contrary to the law of the colony."
It also seems that Captain Mulford and his two sons and Colonel Richard Floyd, of Brook- haven, "had been arrested on an action of trover for converting the Queen's goods to their own use," and that this case had been "carried from court to court to the number of fifteen or sixteen courts." The case against Colonel Floyd was, that Captain Theophilus Howell's company of Southampton had a license to take whales, obliging themselves to pay one-twentieth part of all they gained. This party killed a whale and brought it ashore, and in the night a strong east wind drove it along shore about forty miles. The owners of the whale put it into Floyd's hands to try out, and he was prosecuted by the governor for the whale. The defense that was made by Cap- tain Mulford is an example of careful reason- ing which before an unprejudiced tribunal could not fail to command respect ; but judg- ment was given against him, and in every pos- sible way he was annoyed by persecutions and penalties.
On the 2d of April, 1714, he made a speech in the Assembly, "putting them in mind of some ill measures I was informed were taken." This speech was printed, and brought down upon the devoted head of its author the wrath of the royal governor. Suit was instituted against Mulford in the supreme court, and as it was in the power of the governor to prolong the matter it kept him away from his home, and deprived him of the opportunity of attend-
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ing to his personal affairs. Conscious of the injustice the Assembly united in a petition that the prosecution might be dropped and Captain Mulford permitted to return to his native town. With that tenacity of purpose which distin- guished him through life hie resolved to make the journey to England, and there to present his wrongs in person to the king and council and demand redress. A voyage across the Atlantic at that time was something that called for the vigor of early manhood, but it was un- hesitatingly undertaken by this man, whose head was whitened by the frosts of seventy years, but whose spirit was unconquered. To conceal his departure he made his way to Bos- ton to embark, and duly arrived at London. Unaccustomed to the sights and sounds of crowded cities, and with none to urge his case or assist his claim, Samuel Mulford stood in England's capital, unknowing and unknown. The attendants of court had no attentions for the plain man from a distant colony, who canie unannounced by the voice of fame and un- accompanied with the pomp of power. At length, by one of those singular circumstances which, insignificant in themselves, sometimes turn the tide of human events and set at naught all human calculations, attention was drawn to his case, and justice obtained for his cause. His unsophisticated appearance ren- dered him a conspicuous and suitable subject for the operations of the light-fingered gentry, and the contents of his pockets were quickly transferred to their own. It would seem as if the proverbial Yankee sharpness must have been early developed in this clime and prompt- ed him to have several fishhooks sewn into his garments in such a manner that the next hand that was introduced into his pocket re- ceived an invitation to remain that it was found impossible to decline. This amusing affair was quickly noised abroad; it was men- tioned in the newspapers at the time, and from an unknown individual he became the topic of the hour. His case was examined before the council, his information duly appreciated, the tax on oil ordered to be taken off, and he re- turned to his constituents with his efforts crowned with well merited success. At his return he took his seat in the Assembly. The hatred of the governor was not appeased; the old subject of the speech was revived, and by the vote of a subservient house he was expelled from his seat. It is needless to say that the people of Suffolk county did honor to them- selves by immediately re-electing him to the
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