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Mr. Wellman married Pamela Bullock, born September 14, 1798, daughter of Jon- athan and Dorcas, usually called Tabitha, (Cody) Bullock, the granddaughter of Jonathan Bullock, of English descent. (See Bullock VI.)
Barnabas and Pamela (Bullock) Well- man were the parents of nine children, all born in Ashville, Chautauqua County, New York: I. Henry, married Alvira Pierce, a farmer of Three Rivers, Michi-
gan. 2. Malinda, died aged ten years. 3. 'Alfred, married Thedoca Covey; he was a farmer living near Three Rivers, Michi- gan. 4. Matilda, died at the age of thirty ; unmarried. 5. Barnabas, married Harriett Phelps; he was the owner of a lumber mill at Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York. 6. Delila, married (first) Israel Millard, deceased; she married (second) Seymour Millard, an oil man at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and a brother of her first husband. 7. Rachel, married Alpheus Alexander, a farmer in Har- mony, Chautauqua County, New York. 8. Bebe, of whom further. 9. Lucinda, mar- ried (first) A. Herrick, deceased; she married (second) Nathaniel Smith, a farmer of Harmony, Chautauqua County, New York.
The Wellmans are a well-known family in Chautauqua County, New York, num- bered among the first rank citizens. Among them are a number of notable pro- fessional and business men, and this name stands foremost in the community.
Bebe Wellman, daughter of Barnabas and Pamela (Bullock) Wellman, married Oscar Oburg. (See Oburg II.)
(The Bullock Line).
Arms-Gules, a chevron ermine between three bulls' heads cabossed argent, armed or.
Crest-Five Lochaber axes sable encircled by a ribbon or.
Motto-Nil conscire sibi. (Conscious of no wrong.)
From Berry's "Essex" the Bullock pedi- gree is traced in the following manner : Richard Bullock, temp. Henry III.
Gilbert Bullock.
Robert Bullock, temp. Edward I.
Gilbert Bullock.
Robert Bullock, died in 1405, was of County Berks.
Thomas Bullock, married Alice Yead- ing.
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Robert Bullock, of County Berks, mar- of second marriage: 7. Israel, born July ried Eleanor.
Gilbert Bullock, married Margaret Nor- ris.
Thomas Bullock, Esquire, of County Essex, in 1566; married Alice Kingsmill. Their children were Richard, Thomas, John, George, John, and William.
(I) Richard Bullock was born in Essex County, England, in 1622, and died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, November 22, 1667. He was in Rehoboth as early as 1643 and left the town soon after 1644. The Colonial records show that he was made a freeman in May, 1646, but do not indicate his residence at that time. In 1656 he removed to Newton, Long Island, but soon went back to Rehoboth and resided there until his death. He was one of the fifty-eight landed proprietors of Rehoboth. On June 22, 1658, "at a town- meeting lawfully warned, lots were drawn for the meadows that lie on the north side of the town, in order as followeth, according to person and estate." Richard Bullock drew No. 19, and he bought the governor's lot valued at two hundred pounds. His name appears on the records of the town in 1643, and he came there it is said with Roger Williams. The town records recite : "30th of the 11th mo. (January), 1650, quoted to agree with Richard Bullock to perform the office of Town Clerk ; to give him 16 s. a year, and to be paid for births, burials and mar- riages besides." He married (first), at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, August 4, 1647, Elizabeth Ingraham. She died January 7, 1659-60. He married (second), Sep- tember 21, 1660, Elizabeth Billington. Children of first marriage: 1. Samuel, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth, born Octo- ber 9, 1650. 3. Mary, born February 16, 1652. 4. Mehitable, born April 4, 1655. 5. Abigail, born August 29, 1657. 6. Hope- still, born December 26, 1659. Children
15, 1661. 8. Mercy, born March 13, 1662. 9. John, born March 19, 1664. 10. Rich- ard, born March 15, 1666-67.
(II) Deacon Samuel Bullock, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Ingraham) Bul- lock, was born in Rehoboth, Massachu- setts, August 19, 1648, and died there March 10, 1717-18. He lived at Rehoboth, and in 1710 he was a member of a com- pany of Rehoboth militia. He married (first), November 12, 1673, Mary Thur- ber, who died in 1674. He married (sec- ond), May 26, 1675, Thankful Rouse. Child of first marriage: 1. Mary, born October 5, 1674. Children of second mar- riage: 2. Ebenezer, born February 22, 1676. 3. Thankful, born June 26, 1681. 4. Samuel, born November 7, 1683. 5. Israel, born April 9, 1687. 6. Daniel, born in 1689. 7. Richard, born July 1, 1692. 8. Seth, of whom further.
(III) Seth Bullock, son of Deacon Samuel and Thankful (Rouse) Bullock, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, September 26, 1693, and was living in 1758. His residence was at Rehoboth. He married, about 1718, Experience, surname unknown. Children: I. Cordila, born November 3, 1719. 2. Hezekiah, born June 13, 1722. 3. Benjamin, born June 26, 1725. 4. Experience, born June 18, 1728. 5. Hannah, born January 4, 1730. 6. Seth, born May 26, 1733, served in the French and Indian War (1758). 7. Jonathan, of whom further. 8. Shubael, born March 31, 1738. 9. Rebeckah, born July 7, 1739. IO. Ann, born November 23, 1741. II. Barack, born December 9, 1744.
(IV) Jonathan Bullock, son of Seth and Experience Bullock, was born in Reho- both, Massachusetts, February 17, 1736, and died of quinsy in the army during the French and Indian War. He married, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, December 9, 1758, Bebe Bowen, who was born in Re-
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hoboth, Massachusetts, April 22, 1739, daughter of David and Hannah Bowen. They were the parents of Jonathan, of whom further.
(V) Jonathan Bullock, son of Jonathan and Bebe (Bowen) Bullock, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, December 27, 1759, and died in Panama, Chautauqua County, New York. His name is on the list of Captain Cole's Company during the Revolution for fifteen months' service. In 1790 he was of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and in 1797 removed to Ontario County, New York. He married, January 28, 1788, Tabitha Cody, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Whitney) Cody. (See Cody III.) Children: 1. Jonathan, born November 7, 1788, died in Panama, New York, in 1885. 2. Bebe, born March 8, 1790, died in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, in 1878. 3. William, born August 6, 1794, died in Busti, New York. 4. Pamela, of whom further. 5. Joseph, born April 18, 1803, died in Ontario County, New York, in young manhood. 6. Alfred, died young. 7. Mary P., died young. 8. Shubael, died young.
(VI) Pamela Bullock, daughter of Jon- athan and Tabitha (Cody) Bullock, was born September 14, 1798, died in Ashville, Chautauqua County, New York, in 1874. She married Barnabas Wellman. (See Wellman line.)
(The Codey-Cody Line).
Arms-Argent, three piles engrailed sable, on each a cross pattée fitchée or.
which became the Manor of Thomaston and later by partition the Manors of Gre- nan and Dangin. Peter Mc O'dy L'Erce- dekne was the son of Thomas, son of Red- mond, son of John. This last John was a descendant of Sir Stephen L'Ercedekne. Peter Mc O'dy became Lord of the Manor of Bawnmore. He died without issue, but the heirs of his brothers came into the Manor. The contraction of the original form doubtless gave birth to the present forms of Codey and Cody.
(I) Joseph Cody, who was born prob- ably in Ireland, died in Hopkinton, Mas- sachusetts, prior to 1782. In 1727 three men, William McNall, John Lawson, and James Shearer came from Ireland to America and began a settlement in Con- necticut which they called "Union." From time to time other families from their country joined them until in 1734 there were nineteen families. This was the only Irish settlement in Connecticut. Some time before 1732 came Isaac, Joseph and John Cody. Before long John and Isaac removed to Hopkinton, Massa- chusetts. Isaac married there, but re- turned to Union, Connecticut, where he died. John, too, removed from Hopkin- ton, but Joseph settled there in 1738 and spent his life there, dying some time before 1782. He married before 1720, Mary, surname unknown. Children: I. Joseph, of whom further. 2. Lucy, born about 1725 ; married John Nutt. 3. Mary, born about 1728; married Nathan Jef- fords. 4. Philip, born about 1730; mar- ried Abigail Emerson. 5. Jerusha, born about 1733; married John Death. 6. Jonathan, born 1735, died September 26, 1807. 7. Isaac, born in 1739.
The patronymic Mc Cody is a corrup- tion of the name Mac Odo, designating a family founded in Kilkenny, Ireland, early in the thirteenth century, by Mac Odo L'Ercedekne, a Norman. Sir Stephen (II) Joseph Cody, Jr., son of Joseph and Mary Cody, was born in 1720, and died in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 26, 1818, aged ninety-eight years. He L'Ercedekne married one of the daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Fitz-Anthony, thereby acquiring lands in Leinster. The land was the ancient Manor of Ogenti, lived in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, served
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in the French and Indian War (1754- 1763), was in the expedition to Crown Point and in the expedition to Fort George, and served also in the Revolution for forty-three days. He married, in Hop- kinton, Massachusetts, November 3, 1748, Mary Whitney, who was born October 4, 1731, and died December 5, 1816. Chil- dren: I. Mary, born July 26, 1749. 2. Sarah, born September 3, 1751. 3. Joseph, born December 3, 1753. 4. Sarah, born December 7, 1756; married William Fan- ning. 5. Hannah, born January II, 1759. 6. Tabitha, of whom further. 7. Esther, born October 15, 1766. 8. Elizabeth, born September 7, 1769. 9. John, born Decem- ber 2, 1774.
(III) Tabitha Cody, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Whitney) Cody, was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, August 13, 1763. She married, January 28, 1788, Jonathan Bullock. (See Bullock V.)
ADRIANCE, John P., Manufacturer.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, when manufacturing assumed such new and large proportions in the United States, no one industry at Pough- keepsie, New York, did so much to create a good name at large for the city as did "The Buckeye," the plant of Adriance, Platt & Company, where harvesting machinery was built. For stability, sound policies, broad and progressive administration, Adriance, Platt & Com- pany had a wide reputation and one which honored not only the corporation itself, but gave prominence to the community in which it did its work.
The roots of this great establishment are traceable to the business activities in Poughkeepsie of John Adriance, who, having owned an iron foundry, became in- terested in newly invented machines for
mowing and began about 1850 to build a machine which he called "The Forbush."
Meanwhile, John Adriance's son, John P. Adriance, had been engaged in busi- ness in New York, but he, like his father, saw the potential importance of machin- ery for harvesting and began to build mowers at Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1859 John P. Adriance moved his business from Worcester to Poughkeepsie, New York, occupying at first as a factory the Red Mill at Mill and Smith streets, and then erecting a large new building on the shore of the Hudson, adjoining the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. In this latter location his output grew to its great ultimate extent and value, and his standing in the world of industry became of the highest rank.
(I) John P. Adriance and his father were members of a Dutch family estab- lished in America in the first years of the colonies. About 1646 Adrian Reyersz settled at Flatbush, Long Island. He is supposed to have been the son of Reyer Elberts, of Utrecht, and had a brother, Martin Reyersz, also of Long Island. The descendants of Martin Reyersz be- came known by the patronymic : Ryers- Reyerson, while members of Adrian Reyersz family have borne the surname Adrianse-Adriance.
Adrian Reyersz married, in 1659, An- natie Schenck, daughter of Martin Schenck, lived a useful and respected life at Flatbush, and died in 1710. In the line which John P. Adriance, of Poughkeepsie descended from, Adrian Reyersz, of Flat- bush, the second and third generations were resident on Long Island, the fourth and Fifth at Hopewell, Dutchess County, New York, and the sixth (John P. Adri- ance's father) at Poughkeepsie. After Adrian Reyersz and Annatie Schenck, his wife, came :
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(II) Albert Adrianse, born 1663, mar- ried, 1689, Catalina, daughter of Rem and Jannetje (de Rapalie) Vanderbeck.
(III) Rem Adrianse, born 1690, died 1730; married Sarah Brinckerhoff, daugh- ter of Joris and Annetje (Bogart) Brinckerhoff.
(IV) Abraham Adrianse, born 1720, on Long Island, died 1765, in Dutchess County, New York; married, 1751, Fem- metje Van Kleef.
(V) Abraham Adriance, Jr., who changed the spelling of the name, was born (Post.) 1766, died 1825; married 1788, Ann Storm, daughter of Goris and Maritje (Concklin) Storm.
(VI) John Adriance, born 1795, died 1873; married, 1817, Sarah Ely, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Tarpenning) Harris.
(VII) John P. Adriance, born March 4, 1825, died June 18, 1891 ; married, in New York City, June 13, 1848, Mary Jane Ruthven, daughter of Isaac L. and Mari- on Erskine (Ruthven) Platt. Their chil- dren were: I. Isaac Reynolds, a sketch of whom follows. 2. John Erskine, a sketch of whom follows. 3. James Ruth- ven, born June 8, 1856, died April 21, 1879. 4. Marion Ruthven, born August 18, 1858; married, January 12, 1887, Silas Wodell; died March 24, 1917. 5. Harris Ely, born February 18, 1861. 6. William Allen, born February 6, 1864. 7, Francis Henry, born December 16, 1866.
John P. Adriance, after passing through the schools of Poughkeepsie, went to New York City in 1845 and entered the hard- ware business in the employ of Walsh & Mallory, a firm which shortly sent him to Manchester, New Hampshire, in charge of a branch store. Mr. Adriance soon succeeded to the store at Manchester, but, in 1852, returned to New York City where he formed a partnership with
Samuel R. Platt and Samuel W. Sears to deal in wholesale hardware. In 1854 Sears, Adriance & Platt bought the patent rights in the Manny mower for the New England States and began to manufacture mowers at Worcester, Massachusetts. Then, in 1857, John P. Adriance saw a mower, patented by Aultman & Miller, of Canton, Ohio, tried out at Syracuse, New York, in a competitive test of such machines, and was so impressed with its excellence that he acquired the patent rights, named the machine "The Buckeye" in honor of its original connection with Ohio, and began making mowers of this model at Worcester. In 1859 this busi- ness at Worcester was removed to Pough- keepsie, as stated above. Four years later (1863) the firm of Sears, Adriance & Platt was dissolved, Mr. Sears retaining the hardware department and a new firm -Adriance, Platt & Company-being or- ganized to build harvesting machinery, with Mr. Adriance as president, Samuel R. Platt as vice-president and Isaac S. Platt as treasurer. Mr. Adriance re- mained in active connection with Adri- ance, Platt & Company until his death in 1891.
No citizen of Poughkeepsie ever had a more respected place in the community than John P. Adriance. His ability to develop and maintain a large industrial establishment, which ability was based on good judgment and strength of moral principle, was supplanted by a quality of character and personality which endeared him to large numbers of people. Kind- ness was innate with him. The inner side of the story of business in the Pough- keepsie of his day would, if told in full, show many men carried by him through temporary financial stringencies ; while in private life he helped many families to carry on, and to charitable and philan-
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thropic work was a generous contributor. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and in politics was a Republican. The Adriance Memorial Library building in the city of Poughkeepsie was erected by his children in memory of him and of his wife.
The Adriance family arms are regis- tered in Holland, whence the members who planted that stock in American life emigrated in the seventeenth century. In the "Ryerson Genealogy" and history of the Knickerbocker families of Ryerson, Ryerse Adriance and Martense, all de- scendants of Marten and Adriaen Ryerse (Reyerzen), of Amsterdam, Holland, the description of the family coat-of-arms is given as follows :
Arms-Quarterly, one and four, sable a tree withered and eradicated argent; two and three, argent; three halberds bendways, and in bend sin- ister, the middle one longer than the others, sable; the blades vert; surtout argent; a martlet or.
Crest-A swan rousant.
ADRIANCE, Isaac Reynolds, Man of Varied Activities.
I. Reynolds Adriance was born in Man- chester, New Hampshire, January 12, 1851, the son of John P. and Mary Jane R. (Platt) Adriance. His education was received at the F. B. Warring School at Poughkeepsie and at the Churchill School at Ossining, New York. It was not long after he left school that he became associ- ated with the firm of Adriance, Platt & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery, of which his father was the president. The desire to master the de- tails of anything and everything worth while that came to his hand accounted in no little degree for his rapid and merited rise in the councils of the great family concern. He was advanced to treasurer of the company and occupied that office
until Adriance, Platt & Company was absorbed by the Moline Plow Company, of Moline, Illinois, January 18, 1913. Thereafter Mr. Adriance confined his attention to his personal and financial affairs, which were numerous enough to make large demands upon his time and energy.
Mr. Adriance, when a youth of seven- teen, enlisted in Company A, 21st Regi- ment, New York State National Guard, and eight years later, or in 1875, through successive promotions, he was made captain of his company. His interest in military affairs remained one of his hob- bies all through life, and although he was on the retired list when the Federal Gov- ernment determined that this country should cast its lot on the side of the allies in the World War, Mr. Adriance quickly came forward and offered his services to the War Department. He was appointed mustering officer for Dutchess County, and in this capacity he mustered into the Federal service all the National Guard units of the district. Throughout the war Captain Adriance was a tireless worker and a generous contributor to the drives for funds for the Government and the welfare organizations.
On the cultural side of Mr. Adriance's nature his commendable leaning toward literature had its most visible example in his rich collection of books, among which were many volumes privately printed for a limited number of sub- scribers. For virtually half a century Mr. Adriance made public exhibit of his book- lover's spirit by continuous association with library work, and on his death he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Adriance Memorial Library, a posi- tion he had held since the founding of that institution. Previous to the opening of the Adriance Library, which was given
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to the city of Poughkeepsie by the chil- dren of the late John P. Adriance, I. Reynolds Adriance was chairman of the library board of the Board of Education of that city, and in years of continuous service he was dean of city office holders. In October, 1898, the Adriance Library was opened to the public, and with this event, as well as with the conception of the initial plans, Mr. Adriance was inti- mately connected, having from the very first given of his best in an advisory capacity.
In 1891 Mr. Adriance became actively associated with the Merchants' National Bank of Poughkeepsie as a director of that institution. Four years later he was elected vice-president and filled that posi- tion until 1897, when he was advanced to the presidency of the bank, which office he held until 1911. From 1911 to 1916 he once more served as vice-presi- dent, and from 1916 to 1921 he served his second term as president. After that Mr. Adriance became chairman of the board of directors and continued as such until the time of his death. He was a director of the Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company and later of the United States Fire Insurance Company when the latter absorbed the former. He was a director of R. U. Delapenha & Company, a trustee of Vassar Brothers' Hospital, a trustee of the Holland Society of New York, and an officer in many charitable insti- tutions. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Army and Navy Club of New York City, the Dutchess Golf and Country Club, and the Amrita Club, of Poughkeepsie, of which latter organization he was president in 1890.
Mr. Adriance married, April 27, 1876, Ada Ferris Campbell, daughter of Henry Livingston and Emmeline (Collins) Campbell, of Unionvale, Dutchess County,
New York. The Campbell family have resided in Dutchess County since the Revolutionary War; Captain Archibald Campbell, of the Argyle clan, having come to this country as an officer in the British army. He married Jane Munroe, of Long Island, and was killed during the war at a skirmish near White Plains, New York, in 1776. His two sons were educated in England, but Archibald, Jr., returned to this country and made his home on his father's estate at Pawling, New York. He was well known through- out the country, giving his attention largely to the management of his proper- ty, but also being a very efficient magis- trate for one not professionally a lawyer. He was possessed of such extensive legal knowledge that he became County Judge. He married Elizabeth Livingston Mit- chell. His death occurred in 1847, leaving a widow and ten children. One of his sons, Duncan, married Amanda Ferris, and lived on the family estate at Pawling, where he upheld the traditions of his fore- bears. He died in 1892. His only son was Henry Livingston, who married Emmeline Cordelia Collins, and settled on the Collins estate in the town of Unionvale. Mr. Campbell engaged in farming, and became a well known and respected citizen of the community. He died in 1894, survived by his widow and three children ; Duncan ; Ada Ferris, who married I. Reynolds Adriance ; and Eliza- beth Borden, who married Albert Adri- ance Simpson, of Poughkeepsie. The Campbell family of which Mrs. Adriance is a member, is entitled to bear arms:
Arms-Quarterly, Ist and 4th, gyronny of eight or and sable, (for Campbell) 2nd and 3d argent, a lymphad, her sails furled and oars in action sable, flag and pennants flying gules (for Lorne). Behind the escutcheon are placed saltire- ways, a baton powdered with thistles, on the top thereof an imperial crown, and thereon the royal
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crest of Scotland; and a sword proper, hilt and pommel or. Upon the escutcheon is placed the coronet of his rank.
Crest-Upon a wreath of the colors, a boar's head erased or.
Supporters-On either side of the escutcheon a lion guardant gules.
Mottoes-Above the crest : Ne obliviscaris. (Means: Do not forget.) Below the arms : Vix ea nostra voco. (Means : I scarce call these deeds of our ancestors ours.)
To Mr. and Mrs. Adriance were born two children: 1. John P., born August 2, 1891; educated at Hill School, Potts- town, Pennsylvania; Yale University, class of 1913, degree of Ph. B .; a director of the Merchants' National Bank, Pough- keepsie; a director of R. U. Delaphenha & Company ; member of the Yale Club of New York City, Dutchess Golf and Country Club, of which he is secretary and treasurer, and a member of the Am- rita Club. 2. Marion Campbell, educated at The Misses Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, New York; married, June 8, 1918, Edgar Voorhees Anderson, and has two children, Edgar Adriance Anderson, born April 25, 1919, and Adriance Campbell Anderson.
I. Reynolds Adriance relinquished his many sided service at his home in Pough- keepsie, April 16, 1923. Mourning for his loss extended far beyond the limits of the city of his residence. Organiza- tions with which he had been affiliated and the local press, in resolutions, edi- torials and news comment, paid sincere and cordial tribute to his memory. This memorial would be incomplete without the inclusion of these testimonials from the voice of the people.
"The Poughkeepsie Eagle-News" said editorially :
The death Monday morning of I. Reynolds Adri- ance brought to a close a career of very real use- fulness to the community in which he had lived. His was a life filled with a wide variety of inter-
ests, business and civic, and while he had given up a good deal of business activity during the last few years, his loss will be keenly felt not only by his associates, but by the city at large.
Mr. Adriance will be remembered for his serv- ices to the Merchants' National Bank and for his interest in the Adriance Memorial Library, the president of whose board he had been since its organization in the "go's." A great lover of books himself, he did his utmost through the library to make good reading available to the people of Poughkeepsie, a service which everyone who has been benefited by it should fully appreciate. And his work with the library will continue to bear fruit in the years to come. In a business way, Mr. Adriance was a conservative of the best type. Being conservative isn't always popular, but every city needs men of the type as a steadying influence, for they prevent many a mistake.
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