Commemorative biographical record of Dutchess County, New York, Part 51

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1354

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Renderhill Bredd

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died in the year 1866 at the age of eighty-one years. His father lived until 1869, and died in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Mr. Budd stayed on the farm until the estate was sold and settled up, and then, in 1875, moved to the farm of his father-in-law, who died in that same year in the eightieth year of his age. On this farm Mr. Budd still lives, and although in his seventy-fourth year he is active, both physically and mentally. Mr. Budd lays his activity to the fact that he has always abstained from the use of tobacco and spirituous liquors in any form. Mr. and Mrs. Budd have two sons : Prof. I. S., a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, and is now residing in the city of Newburgh, en- gaged in the profession of music; and Matthew V. B. Budd, who owns a farm adjoining his father, and is living at home at the present time.

SKETCH OF ENGLISH HISTORY OF BUDD FAMILY .- Baron Gene Budd, a great soldier and commanding officer under Charles the Great, who established the great empire. Charles gave him a large body of land on the coast of what is called Normandy. Here he ruled like a freeman, and he and his descend- ants were in many battles. They were called French when the Normans invaded that part of France, and they fought till they were over- come and slain, only a few men left, and their land taken by the conquerors. Some scattered; but William Budd remained and worked on the seashore, at a place called Rye. His sons and grandsons were in time allowed their land, and they became soldiers. Here William the Great came when his barons wished to slay him; but Richard Budd gathered his men and protected him till the Duke, through his assistance, was able to check the insurgents and bring them to a better understanding. During the Norman Conquest three sons of William Budd crossed over to England, and are supposed to have named the town of Rye, County of Sussex, England, leaving men there for certain occasions. The father of Richard settled back in Normandy, and inherited his father's feudal rights.

The Duke rewarded Richard Budd by giv- ing him greater possessions. His son John inherited them, and when Edward of England died he was the first to muster his knights and soldiers and land at Rye, England, to defend the claim of William of Normandy to the throne of England, and in the great battle 18

which took place it is claimed by our ancestors that his valor turned the tide of battle, in which the Saxons were defeated. After this battle William the Great was made king of England. John Budd married a sister of Will- iam the Great, and was made Earl of Sussex. John Budd and his descendants built up Rye, but the town and all the records were burnt in the wars which followed. They held positions of soldiers and knights. They married in the Nevils, Brownes, and Montagues, and during the war of the Red and White Roses many of them were slain with the brave Earl and Lord Montague, their cousins, who fell at Barnet with axe and sword in hand after piling heaps of slain around them. Edward the Fourth having secured the crown, the descendants of the Nevils, Budds and Brownes found no favor with him or his reigning heirs, and many of their large estates were confiscated.

John Budd resolved to find freedom in America, and made the first settlement in Rye, Westchester county. It was on the past re- nowned history of the Budd family in France that Joseph Bonaparte, Count Survillers, ex- King of Spain, while visiting Col. John Budd, at Budds Lake, Morris Co., N. J., claimed the aged sire to be of high French blood, and everything went along smooth enough with them until Joseph's daughter happened to find a picture of Napoleon on horseback, being led by the Russian bear, which had been placed in some room unknowingly to the Colonel. The Countess brought the picture to her father, in tears, and Joseph, finding the Colonel in the dining-room, threw the picture at his head, and soon the blood was high on both sides, Bonaparte claiming the Colonel a traitor to his great French ancestors, and the Colonel claim- ing Joseph to be a coward by deserting his brother Napoleon in his great trial; and that he knew nothing of the picture, it having been placed in the room by some summer visitor who had recently left. The hot blood did not abate in the quarrel, and the Colonel ordered Joseph Bonaparte to leave the house and premises without delay, which he did and re- turned to Bordentown, never to visit the lake again.

PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE BUDD FAMI- LY IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY. Thomas Budd was blown up in the " Ran- dolph," while engaging a British frigate during the Revolutionary war. John Budd, the first son of Daniel Budd, was born April 5, 1762, in

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the town of Chester, and at the age of sixteen years entered the Continental service under George Washington. He had charge of a bat- tery when the British were advancing on Springfield, and kept the enemy in check un- til the militia gathered in force, which was about the time the " Red Coats" (as he called them made a charge on his guns. Secing that he could not save them, he ordered his horses to be cut loose, and under their fire and shouts of Yankee curses to halt, made good his re- treat. The militia having gathered, the Brit- ish got the worst of it, and the guns were re- covered. At the battle of Monmouth he took part on that hot day, and was made colonel. Joseph Budd was a captain in the war of 1812, commanding his company at Sandy Hook, N. J., and other places of defense. Daniel Budd, born July 27, 1722, was assessor of the township of Roxiticus, N. J. , and a captain in the reserves of the Revolutionary war. James Budd re- sided in Burlington, and was a member of the Colonial Assembly in 1668. He was drowned in the Delaware at Burlington, N. J., in 1692. Gilbert Budd was a surgeon in the British navy for thirty years. He returned to this country after the Revolutionary war, and lived with his cousin, Col. Gilbert Budd, of Mamaro- neck, N. Y., till his death, which occurred in 1805, when he was aged eighty-five years.

AMERICAN HISTORY OF BUDD FAMILY FROM 1632 .- John and Joseph Budd came to this country in the year 1632. They arrived in New Haven in 1639 as one of the first plant- ers of that place [New Haven Col. Rec., Vol. 1 -7-425.] He removed to Southhold, L. I., from there to Ryc, Westchester Co., N. Y., in 1661. In 1663 John Budd was deputy from Rye to the General Court of Connecticut. Ile was the first proprietor of Apawquamus, or Budd's Neck, purchased of the natives Sachem, Shamrocke and other Indians. The original conveyance is on the records of Westchester county, dated November 8, 1661, and was so large a grant of land that the other proprietors of Rye were jealous, and they petitioned the General Court assembled at Hartford (now Connecticut, not to confirm; but John Budd's influence was such that he retained his pur- chase. He left sons, John and Joseph, and his will dated October 13, 1669, bequeathed to his son John all his portion of the mills on Blind brook, and to Joseph all of Budd's Neck. Joseph Budd's influence with the Crown ob- tained a patent dated the 20th of February,

1695; but, owing to deficiencies in the bound- ary line between New York and Connecticut, the Courts refused to act on this patent, and it was not until 1720 that it was confirmed under the great seal of the Province of New York. The patentees then yielded yearly to the Governor, on the fast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the annual rent of one pound and nineteen shillings. This was under George I.

Lieut. John Budd married Catherine Browne, a descending relative of Sir Anthony Browne, the founder of the Montague family and Henry V of England. Licut. John Budd left two sons, John and Joseph, and two daughters, Judith and Jane. Lieut. John Budd died 1670. [M. 3 Hartford, Vol. 1-425 contains his will. ]

Joseph Budd, the second son of John Budd (1), was known as Capt. Budd in 1700. He was a prominent officer in 1701, and justice of the peace from 1710 to 1716 and from 1720 to 1722. In 1720 he obtained a patent for the tract purchased by his father known as Budd's Neck. He died in 1722, and left children: John, Joseph, Elisha, Underhill.

John Budd, son of Joseph, is mentioned in the records of Rye, from 1720 to 1745. He inherited the estate on Budd's Neck, which he sold in 1745, mostly to Peter Jay. Gilbert Budd, born in Westchester county, in 1736, grandfather of Underhill Budd (subject of our sketch), married Deborah Searls, born June 14, 1738; children: Underhill, Seeley, Elijah (1), Mary P., William, Gilbert (1), John, Gil- bert (2) and Elijah (2). Elijah Budd, father of Underhill, married Abigail Sebring; chi)- dren: Isaac S. (died in his seventy-fourth year), Van Benschoten (died in his eighty- fourth year), John J., Jacob (died in his cighty- fifth year), Tunis G., Matthew, Margaret (died in her seventy-eighth year), Maria M. (died in her seventy-sixth year), Underhill. Amelia A. and Edward. The father, Elijah Budd, died in his eighty-ninth year; the mother, Abigail (Sebring), died in her eighty- first year.

PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF TO-DAY .- James H. Budd, who was congress- man, and is now Governor of California; Jo- seph Budd, judge of Superior Court, Stockton, Cal. ; Oliver H. Budd, who is now serving his second term in the Legislature; James Budd, Jo president of the Agricultural College of Iowa; W. H. Budd, lawyer, New York City; Will-

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iam Budd, lawyer and senator, Mt. Holly, N. J .; Joseph K. Budd, banker, St. Louis; Dr. Henry Budd, Geneva, N. Y., and others.

H ENRY B. BEVIER. The Bevier family has been so long and so prominently identified with the leading interests of this re- gion that to be ignorant of its history "argues one's self unknown." From the days of the Huguenot pioneer, Louis Bevier, one of that little company of exiles who came to America in 1660, to the present time, the bearers of this name have been distinguished for the pos- session of those qualities which constitute good citizenship, and many have held positions of honor in the public service.

Henry B. Bevier, our subject, is a well- known druggist and apothecary of Matteawan, Dutchess county, born August 31, 1857, at Napanoch, N. Y., the son of Dr. Benjamin R. Bevier and his wife, Ellen M. Bange. His education was obtained at his native place, in the public schools, and at the Van Vleck Sem- inary. At an early age he entered the employ of Alexander A. Taylor, a druggist at Summit, N. J., and while there he passed the examina- tion before the State Board of Pharmacy, obtaining a license to follow his chosen calling. Later he was employed as a clerk in Newark, N. J., and other places; but in 1877 he went to Matteawan, where he purchased the drug store of Daniel Y. Bayley, which he has since conducted. His business is now very ex- tensive, and he is the proprietor of Bevier's Expectorant and Bevier's Malaria Pills, reme- dies whose effectiveness has given them an immense sale, especially in the eastern and middle States.

Like all of his family, he is public-spirited and takes great interest in local progress. He was elected coroner on the Republican ticket in November, 1894, for a term of three years, having a majority over his competitor of more than 2,000 votes. As a member of the board of education he has done mnuch to maintain the efficiency of the Matteawan schools. He is a trustee of the Matteawan Savings Bank, and a member of various social and fraternal societies-the Matteawan Club, the F. & A. M., Beacon Lodge No. 283, Newburg Chapter, and of the order of Foresters, "Court Queen," of Hudson.

ily of Matteawan, and daughter of the late Monroe Brown and his wife, Mary Jones Brown. They reside on the corner of Schenk avenue and Ackerman street, and their pleas- ant home is gladdened by two sons, Benjamin, born in 1888, and Monroe, born in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Bevier attended the Presbyterian Church, and are prompt to lend their sym- pathy to any worthy cause.

Mr. Bevier is of the tenth generation in di- rect descent from the Huguenot exile, and Conrad Bevier, his great-grandfather, who was an officer in the Revolutionary army. Dr. Benjamin R. Bevier, his grandfather, one of the most prominent physicians of his day, was born September 10, 1782, and died at Napa- noch, New York, June 17, 1866. As a prac- titioner, he was distinguished for the rapidity and accuracy of his diagnoses in difficult cases, his fidelity to his patients, and his genial man- ner. The latter excellent quality both his son, Dr. Benj. R. Bevier, Jr., and his grandson, Henry B., inherit to a remarkable degree. He traveled mostly on horseback, and may be said to have lived nearly forty years in the saddle. In a civil capacity, his life was full of labors, and honors. He had a remarkably sound judgment, abundant executive resources, unflinching integrity, and correct and system- atic business habits. When only thirty years of age, Gov. D. D. Tompkins signalized his respect and esteem for him by making him one of the judges of the Ulster county court, which office he soon resigned, as it interfered too much with his professional work. He was twice a candidate for Congress in his district at times when the Old Whig party, with which he was connected, was some 3,000 in the mi- nority, and was defeated in one instance by only one hundred and fifty, and in the other by only six votes. He subsequently served the county several terms in the State Legis- lature, and was also supervisor of his town.

On February 5. 1807, he married Cathar- ine E. Ten Eyck, and reared a family, among whom was Dr. Benjamin R. Bevier, Jr., our subject's father, who was born January 21, 1828, at Napanoch, and after completing his literary studies at New Paltz Academy and the Dutchess County Academy, studied medicine in Poughkeepsie with Drs. Cooper and Hugh- son, and later at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, graduating in 1849. He has ever since followed his profes-

On September 14, 1887, he was married to Miss Kate Brown, a member of a leading fam- | sion in his native town, and is still in active

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practice. He is a leading member of the Ul- ster County Medical Society, and takes a prominent share in local progress, having rep- resented his town in the board of supervisors, and served two terms as county coroner. On June 12, 1850, he was married to Miss Ellen M. Bange, and has had six children, of whom two died in infancy. The surviving four are: Mary B., the wife of Prof. Brainard G. Smith, of Hamilton College; Henry B., the subject of this sketch; Conrad B., a licensed pharmacist, now in his brother's employ; and Irene, who is at home.

trade becoming much depressed he was obliged to make an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. The entire property was sold, and he was left in his old age, after a life of unre- mitting toil, with very little means. He was one of the kindest, best and most unselfish of men, always considerate in regard to the wel- fare and happiness of his family and friends. He was honest and upright in all his transac- tions, and set an example in his life which all would do well to imitate.

The maternal grandfather of our subject, the late Frederick Bange, was born in Holland in 1801, and came to this country when he was ten years old. Immediately after his ar- rival he was apprenticed to Squire White, of Hartford, Conn. He was afterward a clerk for Mr. Solomon Porter, and while in his em- ploy accumulated $1,000, with which he en- gaged in the crockery business, importing his goods from England. In time, he made a William Scutt, our subject's father, was a farm laborer by occupation, and the greater part of his life was spent in the towns of Pine Plains, Northeast and Amenia, Dutchess coun- ty. Always industrious, thrifty and steady in his habits, he was held in great esteem by all who knew him, and without being a member of any Church he gave evidence in his daily life of high morality. Politically he was a Democrat. He married Hannah Strever, a descendant of an old Holland-Dutch family, of Columbia county. Fourteen children were born to this union. The father died in 1887, in his ninety-first year, and the mother in April, 1 840. large fortune, and then began a shipping busi- ness between New London, Conn., and the West Indies, sending out horses and mules, exchanging them for sugar and molasses. While in this business, he became involved through the failure of those whom he had assisted, and with that strict integrity that had always characterized him, he paid every cent of his indebtedness, and began a new financial life as a poor man. In striving to obtain what was due him from a sea captain who had de- frauded him, he was obliged to go to Mexico, and while there formed the plan of engaging in the hide and wool trade. Assisted by friends in New York, he fitted out a vessel, and later The subject of our sketch attended the schools of Amenia during boyhood, acquiring a good education for the time, and he devoted to his studies the same energy which has made his business career such a notable success, while his subsequent reading has kept him well informed on current topics. At the age of nineteen he left school and began work on a farm; but after four years of this, having de- cided to learn the blacksmith's trade, he went to Chenango county to work with John Tryon, to whom he hired for one year at $4 per month. In the following year, 1844, they formed a partnership which lasted one year, when Mr. Tryon moved to the West. A new firm was then organized under the name of Moon, Dodge & Scutt, Mr. Scutt paying fifty dollars and be- several vessels, of which he became the owner. Thus began a trade which has made many fortunes. Mr. Bange regained his lost com- petence in this trade, and then retired, buying a country seat on the Passaic river at Newark, N. J., where he resided for several years. He was induced to buy the tannery at Lackawack, Ulster county, N. Y., and this was conducted several years by his son Henry. Then he purchased real estate and water power at Napanoch, N. Y., upon portions of which Forges were built, where railroad axles and bar-iron were manufactured. He made the iron for the Niagara and Ohio suspension bridge. In 1852 he built the Napanoch Blast Furnace, and opened the iron-mine, which he operated for four or five years, but the iron . coming an equal partner. After three years J OHN SCUTT, a prominent business man and manufacturer of Millerton, Dutchess county, is a native of the county, born at Pine Plains, February 21, 1821. His ances- tors on the paternal side came from Germany in the early part of the last century, settling in Columbia county, N. Y., where his grandfa- ther, John Scutt, and his father, William Scutt, were born, the latter in the year 1777.

John Seut

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with this firm he moved to Chenango Forks, and formed an equal partnership with Myron Hollister, remaining one year. In 1849 he opened a shop of his own at Gallatinville, and in the spring of 1854 moved to Northeast Cen- ter, where he engaged in the same business for two years. In September, 1856, he purchased his present shop at Millerton, from Paine & Fuller, and began the business of wagon-mak- ing and blacksmithing, employing three wagon- makers and five blacksmiths. In 1861 he built a furnace for the manufacture of plows and castings, and for general custom work, and as this was the only furnace in the vicinity he speedily secured a large trade. He bought the patterns of the Eddy plow, of the "Rough and Ready," in Washington county, and has since manufactured and sold several in all parts of the county. Success has attended all his en- terprises, and he has won a high standing in business circles.

In 1843, Mr. Scutt married Miss Julia Ann Eddy, of the town of Pine Plains, and has had six children: Charles, a prosperous young painter of Millerton; Jane, who married Edgar Drum; and four who have died-Melinda, John R., Adelbert and William-the latter passing away in infancy. The mother died April 8, 1890, and is buried at Pine Plains. Mr. Scutt is one of the pioneer members of the Republican party, voting that ticket in 1856, and has been an influential worker in local affairs. He held the office of supervisor in 1886, 1887 and 1890, has been justice of the peace for thirty-two years, and has lately been re-elected for another term. He became a Freemason in 1858, and has taken great in- terest in the work of the order, having held every office in Webatuck Lodge, No. 480.

spring of 1717.

CHARLES S. VAN KLEECK. The Van- Kleeck family originated in Holland, and the first of the name to emigrate to this coun- try was Baltus (the great-great-great-grandfa- ther of our subject), who came to New York City in the seventeenth century, locating on the land whereon Trinity Church now stands. It is not known in what year he came to Pough- keepsie, but he built the first house in 1702, and was the largest landholder in the country. He represented the county in the 16th and 17th Colonial Assembly, and died in the He had six children: Barent;

Johannis, born in 1680; Lawrence, who died in 1769; Peter, Sarah and Elizabeth.

Col. Barent Van Kleeck ( who was a colonel in the French and Indian wars, married An- toinette Palmatier, and six children were born to them: Baltus (born in 1707), Michael, Ahaznerus, Peter, Catherine and Sarah. Peter married Antoinette Frear, the daughter of a French Huguenot, and their family comprised eleven children: Barent, Simon, Antoinette, Levi, Jeremiah, Henry, Peter P., Deborah, Mary, Trientje and David. Three sons were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, two of them being killed in the battle and buried in unknown graves. Barent, the father of these, bought 1, 640 acres of land in the town of Lagrange.

Peter P. Van Kleeck, youngest child of this branch of the family, was the grandfather of our subject, and was born in the town of La- grange August 21, 1757. He was the young- est son, and when the other boys enlisted in the army he remained at home to work the farm and care for his aged parents. At that time many farmers in the town were called on to carry provisions to the troops, and he among the rest was engaged in that occupation. On one occasion he was sent with his load to Wash- ington's headquarters at Newburg, and it be- ing a severely cold day Gen. Washington came out and invited him to go into the house and get warm. He did so, and the General gave him a glass of wine, after which they spent nearly two hours together in conversation. He afterward fought in the battle of White Plains in the Revolution.

Peter P. Van Kleeck was married three times. His first wife was Miss Meddaugh, who bore him two children: Deborah and Sarah; Sarah died. His second wife was Emily Sabin, whose children were: John, Si- mon and Syrena; for his third wife he married Charlotte Sickles, of Albany, whose father, John Sickles, was a captain in the Revolution- ary war. Of this union four children were born: Catherine, Levi, George and Andrew J.

Andrew Jackson Van Kleeck, the father of our subject, was born May 22, 1829, on the old homestead in the town of Lagrange, which had been the birthplace of his father and grand- father before him. When he was four years old his parents removed to Poughkeepsie. Here he lived until thirteen years of age when he commenced sailing on the ocean. At the age of eighteen he was fireman on the " Chris- tian City," and when twenty-eight he became

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engineer on the " Empire. " a vessel plying be- tween New York City and Albany. This oc- cupation he followed until he was thirty years of age, when he returned to Poughkeepsie and worked at the mason's trade for ten years. He then bought the homestead farm in Lagrange town, and there remained the rest of his life. When a boy he attended the old Dutchess County Academy at Poughkeepsie, and was a man of much intelligence, well posted in cur- rent events. For nine years he was a member of the volunteer fire department at Pongh- keepsie, and he was a member of the Mason's Union. The old homestead farm was surveyed in July, 1768, and the father of Andrew helped to drive the stakes. This property, which originally contained 1,640 acres, was later divided up into four farms.

Andrew J. Van Kleek was married Novem- ber 6, 1851, when he was twenty-two years old, to Abigail A. Alverson, and the following children were born to them: Susie E., Edgar (who died January 14, 1857), John P., Mary, Gaius Andrew, Minnie (who died December 15. 1866), Charles Swift, and Katherine Ethel (who died August 15, 1875). Of these, Susie E. is the wife of Fred Mulcox; John P. mar- ried Florence Teats, and they have three chil- dren-Raymond, Clifton and Leola, only one of whom is living.

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Commemorative biographical record of Dutchess County, New York, Part 51

Author: J.H. Beers & Co Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1354

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1354