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A picture of the old Freer homestead, a typical French structure of stone, is published in the "New Paltz History," p. 348. It is the north- ernmost of the old stone houses on Huguenot street. At last accounts it was still occupied as a residence, in a good state of repair, and not much changed from the time of its build- ing, except that the great beams have been cut down, and there is no longer a great fireplace. The house is forty feet in length and thirty- five in width, including a small frame addition in the rear.
Hugo Freer married (first) Mary Hays, and (second) Jannitje Wibau. Children : 1. Hugo, married, in 1690, Mary LeRoy : in 1715 lie and his sons, Hugo, Isaac and Simon, obtained a patent for twelve hundred acres of land near the Paltz patent, and here Isaac settled, and his descendants have owned the land to the present time ; children of Hugo: i. Hugo, born in 1691, married Bridget Terpening ; ii. Isaac, 1693, married Mary Deyo, daughter of Pierre. the patentee ; iii. Jonah, married, in 1727, Catlı- arine Stokhard, a native of Germany ; iv. Simon, married, in 1720, Mariten Wamboon. 2. Abra- ham, mentioned below. 3. Isaac, born in 1672, died August 9. 1690. 4. Jacob, baptized June 9, 1679; married, in September, 1705, Antje Van Wegen, of Marbletown ; owned land and probably lived at Bontecoe ; children : Jannetje, born 1706; Sarah, 1709; Hugo, 1711; Hend- rick, 1712; Abraham and Isaac, twins, 1714: Jacob, 1717 ; Marritje and Annetje, twins, 1719 : Antjen, 1721 ; Jacob, 1723; David, 1726; Cor- nelius, 1729. 5. Jean, April 16, 1682: mar- ried Rebecca Wagener, about 1707 ; resided at Kingston; children: Sara, born in 1708; Ger- rit, 1711 ; Jannitje, 1714: Marytje, 1716; Jacob, 1719; Rebecca, 1726, thus showing the adop- tion of Dutch names in the French families in the third generation. 6. Mary, married Lewis Veille, and lived at Schenectady, New York. 7. Sarah, married Teunis Clausen Van Volgen, of Schenectady.
(II) Abraham, son of Hugo Freer, or Frere, was born as early as 1670. In 1705 he resided in Bontecoe, south of the present schoolhouse. opposite the piece of lowland called the "Half Moon." Abraham's name appears in the list of those who built the first stone church in 1720. In the list of freeholders, in 1728, his name does not appear. He probably moved away, as, in 1723, we find he has transferred his two seats in the church to his brother, Hugo Freer. He married, in 1694, Aagien Titesort.
Anthony Freer A PIONEER OF CORTLAND
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The list of births of his children is taken from the "New Paltz History." Some of them were baptized in the Kingston church, and it is possi- ble that these should be given as dates of bap- tism, not of birth, though there would be but a difference of a few days. Children: 1. Hugo Abraham, married, in 1720, Marytje DeWitt. at Kingston. 2. Maeltje, born May 5, 1696, at New Paltz. 3. Abraham, father of Colonel John Freer, October 31, 1697; married, in 1720, Janitje DeGraff. 4. Solomon, mentioned below. 5. Willem, January 14, 1700; married, in 1729, Maryanette Van Kuykendall, of Mini- sink. 6. Jelena, January 16, 1704. 7. Phillipus, August 16, 1706. 8. Sara, October 12, 1707. 9 .. Naritje, September II, 1709. 10. Jacomyntje, November 4, 1711. II. Aagien, April 11, 1714. 12. Johanna, November 13, 1715. 13. Cat- ryntjen, January 11, 1719.
(III) Solomon, son of Abraliam Freer, was baptized in the Kingston church, October 23. 1698. Moses Quentin and Rachel Hasbrouck were sponsors. In the Kingston church rec- ords his name is sometimes spelled Zalomon. He married. September 22. 1721, Klaartje Westvall. He lived at Minisink, New York. All his children, as given below. were baptized in the Dutch church, at Kingston, New York. Solomon Freer was on the list of those who signed the "Association Test," at the beginning of the revolution, and the history of Kingston shows that the house and barn of Solomon and the houses and barns of Jon's. (Johannes ), Abm. (Abraham) and Anthony, his sons evi- dently, were destroyed by the British, in the burning of Kingston, in 1777. Of the tract of five thousand acres of land given by Robert R. Livingston, to reimburse the patriots who lost their property, we find that the heirs of Solo- mon Freer received lot 5, class 8. Children, according to Dutch church records at Kings- ton : Aagien, baptized July 29, 1722 ; Johannes, January 26, 1724: Mary, October 10. 1725; Petrus, August 20, 1727 : Annatjen, October 5. 1729; Johannes, November 19, 1732: An- thony, mentioned below : Rachel, December 19, 1736; Abraham and Jacob, twins. December 24, 1738; Samuel, mentioned below : Sarah, November 6, 1743.
(IV) Anthony, son of Solomon Freer, was baptized at Kingston, November 3, 1734, in the old Dutch church, and Anthony Slegt and Neeltjen Bogart were sponsors (No. 4696). In 1790, according to the first federal census, he was living at Rochester, Dutchess county
(not the present Rochester, in western New York), and had three males over sixteen and two females in his family, besides owning two slaves. No other Freers were at that time in Rochester. With his brother Samuel, mentioned below, he was surety on a bond of administra- tion for his nephew, Samuel S. Freer, in 1787. He was trustee of the Kingston schools in 1788. His father, himself and brothers Jo- hannes, Abraham, Jacob and Samuel signed the "Association Test" in Kingston. Gerrit and Jan, the only others of the Freer family to sign, may have been nephews. His house was burned during the revolution, as mentioned above, and he was one of the grantees of the Livingston land, in class 8, receiving lot 5. He was lieutenant in Captain John Hardenburg's company, and first lieutenant of Captain Bo- gardus' company, from Ulster county, in the revolution, in 1776.
He married, October 30, 1761, Yannecke Low, daughter of Johannes and Abbtjen Low. Child : John (Johannes), see forward, baptized in the Kingston church, March 16, 1769, with the mother's parents for sponsors (7377, P. 359. Domine Cock, Conferentie). After the Dutch fashion he appears to have used his father's name for a middle name.
(IV) Samuel, son of Solomon Freer and brother of Anthony, was baptized at Kingston, January 24, 1742; Samuel Wels and Maryjen Osterhout, sponsers (p. 258). He was trustee of the Kingston school, 1794-95, 1798-99 and 1805. He signed the "Association Test" in 1775. He married Sarah Roosa. In 1790, at Kingston, the census shows Jacob and his son Garret, John and his son Garret as heads of families ; also Samuel with three sons under sixteen and five females and two slaves. Sam- uel Freer became famous as a newspaper edi- tor. In 1792 William Copp started The Farm- ers' Register, but soon abandoned it. Shortly afterward, with Samuel Freer, he began to publish The Rising Star. Copp soon withdrew and Freer continued the paper. Freer was considered rich as fortunes went in those days, and he had one ambitious son, Samuel S. Freer, who was destined to be Ulster county's first editor of importance. In 1798 Samuel Freer and his son, Samuel S. Freer, established the Ulster County Gasette, which continued until 1822. The elder Freer died a few years after the paper was established, and the son carried on the enterprise until he had exhausted the family fortune and retired to die in poverty.
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It is hardly necessary to remark, writes a local historian, that men did not enter the newspaper business in those days to make money. Their motives were a mixture of that strange vanity which yearns to see its thoughts in print, and of that nobler emo- tion which leads men to abandon hope of material prosperity in order to advocate the political and re- ligious principles they hold dear. The Gazette was from the first to last an organ of the Federalist party. The younger Freer was one of the most vigorous writers of his day, and so vigorous that he was fined upon one occasion for expressing his in- mnost sentiments regarding the Supreme Court.
Alexander Hamilton was his lawyer. The first of the week he used to spend in getting out his paper, the remainder of the week in distributing it himself through Ulster county and vicinity, traveling on horseback and stop- ping whenever he had a chance to argue with anti-Federalists.
In spite of his being so bellicose politically, he was extremely agreeable in business matters, as is shown by the fact that he delivered the out-of-town circulation of his rival, the Plebaan, along with his own, until hoth papers hired a post-rider in common.
The Ulster County Gasette, containing an account of the death of Washington, was re- produced years afterward in New York City, and many of these copies, preserved in all parts of the country, have been supposed to be originals. Children of Samuel and Sarah Freer : Samuel S., born about 1765 : Jannetjen, baptized March 23, 1775 (pp. 41-42) ; Claertje, Febru- ary 10, 1777: Petrus, December 9, 1781 : An- thony, April 17, 1785 (named for his brother. who, with his wife, was sponsors).
(V) John Anthony ( Johannes), son of An- thony Freer, was born in Rochester, New York, March 2, 1769, baptized in Kingston, March 16, 1769, as stated above. He died in Cortland, New York, March 15, 1826. He started, with his wife and three children, No- vember 1. 1802, for what was then Homer, New York, in Onondaga county, traveling through Kingston, Albany, Utica and Pompey 1fill. Their household goods were loaded on a cart and they were accompanied by a hired man. Reaching Homer, November 13th, they located on lot 74. Snow had fallen and the family found shelter at the house of N. Knapp and remained there until their log cabin was built. After the family was settled Mr. Freer returned to Rochester for the remainder of his goods. Heavy snowstorms, however, pre- vented him from returning to his new home until Christmas, and, in the meantime, his fam-
ily would have suffered but for the assistance of neighbors. He worked hard and cleared what proved to be an excellent farm, and, in the course of time, became a well-to-do farmer. He and his wife were two of the six charter members of the Presbyterian church, organ- ized in Cortland. April 16, 1825. The site of his log house is now the athletic field of the State Normal School, at Cortland.
He married, January 15, 1794, Rachel De- Puy, of Rochester, New York, born February 15, 1775, died February 17, 1852, daughter of Joseph and Mary DePuy. Children : Maria, born December 7, 1795, married Lyman Mal- lery, she died March 28, 1845; Anthony, Att- gnist 21, 1797, died September 12, 1871 : Joseph DePuy, February 3, 1800, died June 14, 1800 ; Elias, January 29, 1802, died April 2, 1803 : Joseph DePuy, September 17, 1803, died June 13, 1850; Jane Low, August 2, 1805, died March 12. 1883; Rachel Catherine, July 15, 1807, died January 27, 1891; John James. mentioned below : Sarah Rebecca, January 30. 1812, died May 12, 1899, married James W. Sturtevant ; Stephen Decatur, mentioned below.
(\1) John James, son of John Anthony ( Johannes ) Freer, was born in Cortland, New York, November 11, 1809, died October 30, 1884. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. For ten years he resided on the homestead and conducted the farm. After farming for a few years at Solon. Cort- landville and Harford he removed to Cortland, where he was employed by A. S. & D. Freer, general merchants, transporting goods from Binghamton, New York, and Scranton, Penn- sylvania, before the railroad was built. In partnership with his son, Watts S. Freer, he had a grocery business at Blodgetts Mills, and he built the store occupied later by J. Hubbard, in that town. After he retired from business he made his home, until he died, with his son. Watts S. He was a man of strong and vigorous physique and enjoyed uniformly good health. He was enterprising and persevering in business, and always successful in his under- takings. In politics he was a Democrat, and he served the town of Harford as supervisor. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church.
He married ( first) Alice Mary Whitney. born September 3. 1820, died July 24, 1851. daughter of James Whitney. He married (sec- ond) Sarah ( Metzger) Tarbell, of Freetown, New York, born in 1816, died in 1903, daugh-
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ter of Jonas Metzger, and widow of Simon Tarbell. Children by first wife: I. John .A., mentioned below. 2. Watts S., born October 31, 1843, died in 1905, proprietor of the Hig- gins Hotel, at Higginsville, Cortlandville, New York; manufacturer of cider and vinegar : married Mary A. Tarbell, daughter of Simon and Sarah ( Metzger ) Tarbell, granddaughter of Daniel Tarbell. 3. Francis D., of Virgil. New York. 4. Henry DePuy, of Taughannock, New York. 5. Child, died in infancy. Chil- dren by second wife : 6. Alice J., married Henry Hall, of Virgil. 7. Charles D., born 1855, died 1857. 8. Joseph D., January 8, 1857, lives at Cortland. 9. Ella N., married Frank Burt, of Blodgetts Mills. 10. DeWitt J., born in 1877. died in 1879.
(VII) John Anthony, son of John James Freer, was born in Solon, New York, Decem- ber 27, 1840. He left his native town when very young, and removed, with his parents, to Cortland and Harford, where he attended the public schools in winter. In summer he work- ed on his father's farm. He lived in Harford from 1855 to 1857, and then returned to Cort- land to work in the store of his uncle, Anthony Freer, attending school at the same time. In 1862 he was one of the fifteen students of Cortlandville Academy to enlist in the civil war. He joined Company M. Tenth New York Cavalry, and served to the close of the war, being mustered out in June. 1865. His regiment was in the Army of the Potomac and took part in thirty-seven different engagements where artillery was used. It was under fire over one hundred times. He was wounded at Aldie, Virginia, and at the battle of Gettys- burg, and was on the picket line when Lee sur- rendered. He took part in the great military parade and review in Washington, in 1865, at the close of the war. At the time of his dis- charge he was regimental commissary sergeant. His discharge was dated June 25, 1865. He immediately returned to Cortland, and, in July. 1865, bought thirty horses and mules, in part- nership with his uncle, Stephen Decatur Freer. He was employed as clerk in the hardware store of Chamberlain & Benton, in Cortland, for seven years. In 1871 he went west and bought a ranch in Woodston, Owl Creek town- ship, Kansas. In 1883 he returned to New York state and conducted a fruit farm at Ithaca for a year. In 1884-85 he was in partnership with H. M. Kellogg, in the hard- ware business in Cortland; in 1887 he went
to Ithaca and was associated with his brother, Henry DePuy Freer, in the hotel business until 1897. In the spring of 1898 he went west again and spent a year in Colorado. Since 1899 he has been in the employ of Wickwire Brothers, in their factory at Cortland. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He was a trustee of the township, bridge commissioner and a jus- tice of the peace while living in Kansas. He has traveled extensively and has been in no less than thirty-seven of the states of the Union. He is a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons, and of Grover Post, No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he has been junior and senior commander.
He married, in June, 1867, Mary E. ( War- ren ) Hyde, born at Schenectady, New York. November. 1836, daughter of Rev. Ira D. Warren, born in Albany, New York, a Meth- odist minister, and of Eliza (Caldwell) War- ren. By her first husband, Asher Hyde, she had: Ida, Hattie, Ira and Mary (twins) ; the daughter, Mary Hyde, married W. H. Lewis. and had three children : Ethel. Hattie and Doro- thy. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Freer : 1. Burr B., born in Cortland, March 20, 1871, general agent of the Oil City Tubular Boiler Works, with offices in New York City : married Della Smith, and has a daughter Kathryn. 2. James Sturtevant. born in Chanute, Kansas, March 17, 1877, president and general manager of the Electric Engraving Company ; married Borgia Wang, of Chicago, and has a daughter Eleanor.
(VI) Stephen Decatur, son of John An- thony ( Johannes) Freer, was born in Cortland, New York. August 18, 1815, died July 14. 1887. He attended school, as a boy, at the "Four Corners," one mile south of the village, and. for one year, was a student in the high school. At the age of seventeen he became clerk in the postoffice then kept by Canfield Marsh, and was afterward apprenticed to learn the trade of hat-finishing. In 1834 he became clerk in the store of General Randall, located on the south- west corner of Main and Tompkins streets. In 1837 he entered the employ of his brother Anthony, in the foundry business, and, in 1838, was admitted to partnership, under the firm name of A. & S. D. Freer, and the firm con- ducted a foundry and a large hardware store until 1861. The hardware store was sold to Chamberlain & Benton. In the meantime Ste- phen D. Freer had engaged in the coal busi- ness. at the time of the opening of the S. B. & N. Y. railroad, in 1854, and he continued in
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that business until 1865. He became a partner in the firmn of Sears, Freer & Cottrell, organ- ized in 1864, manufacturing flaxseed oil in the old paper mill. In 1873 he resumed the coal business and continued in it the remainder of his life. This last venture was a decided suc- cess. In 1874 he purchased the large frame building, then at the corner of Railroad street and the S. B. & N. Y. railroad, where he con- tinued in business until 1883. In August, 1883. he moved to the new buildings, just completed by him, on Pendleton street, opposite the Cort- land Wagon Company's works. These build- ings were at that time and are still reckoned as the finest in this section.
He was one of the strongest and most influ- ential business men of the county. As chief officer of the County Agricultural Society he was responsible, in a large measure, for the purchase of the grounds and erection of the temporary buildings in 1858. He was at the head of the society again in 1862 and 1863. For many years he was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church. He married, in 1841, Sarah Maria DePuy, of Accord, U'lster county, New York, daughter of Joseph DePuy. She died March 26, 1898. Children : Stephen DePuy, mentioned below ; Joseph D., born Feb- ruary 28, 1845; Mary E., June 7, 1847: Will- iam C., June 2, 1849.
(VII) Stephen DePuy, son of Stephen De- catur Freer, was born in Cortland, July 25. 1842. He attended the public schools of his native town and Berkshire Academy, at Owego. New York, and Troy Polytechnic School, grad- uating from the civil engineering course. He became a skillful machinist in the meantime. For several years he was employed in the works of the Yale & Towne Lock Company, of Stamford, Connecticut, and afterward in a machine shop at Middletown, Orange county, New York. Within the past few years he has been in the employ of Wickwire Brothers, in their factory at Cortland. He was third assist- ant engineer at the Middletown State Insane Hospital, and, for a time, was a marine engi- neer on a Long Island sound steamboat. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has repre- sented his party as delegate to various nomi- nating conventions, and as inspector of elec- tions. He is a member of John L. Lewis Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Cortland ; of Elon Encampment, and the Canton. He is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church.
He married, January 21, 1870, Julia M.
Buckingham, of Riverhead, Long Island, born 1848, died April 29, 1880, aged thirty-two years, daughter of George and Catherine (Adams) Buckingham. Children: 1. George B., men- tioned below. 2. Antoinette, born in 1872, died in infancy. 3. Robert Ross, mentioned below. 4. Maria, 1875, died in infancy. 5. Harriette K., July 29, 1878; married Charles Keeler, of New York City. 6. John Anthony, April 16, 1880, died in infancy.
(VIII ) George Buckinghanı, son of Stephen DePuy Freer, was born in Cortland, New York, December 8, 1870, educated in the public schools there, and at the State Normal School, of Cortland. He was employed for several years by the Cortland Carriage Goods Com- pany. He learned the machinist's trade and also that of printer. For the past six years he has been in the advertising department of the Cortland Daily Standard. In politics he is a Republican, and he has held the office of in- spector of elections in Cortland, and taken a prominent part in the affairs of his party. He is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted Masons. He is an active member of the Baptist church, the Sunday school of which, for several years, he was secretary, and of which he is at present assist- ant secretary.
He married, April 8, 1893. Ida J. Bush, of Slaterville, Tompkins county, New York, born August 22, 1875, daughter of Benjamin and Charity M. ( Monroe) Bush, granddaughter of Solomon Bush, who was a hotelkeeper in Slaterville, in the early days of the town. They have one son : Paul Sturtevant, born June 13. 1894.
(VIII) Robert Ross, son of Stephen De Puy Freer, was born September 30, 1874, in Cort- land, New York. He attended the State Nor- mal School until lacking one term of gradu- ating, 1893, and from that year until 1896 studied art at the National Academy of De- sign, New York City. He engaged in general accounting work for three years; was with Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, as head of office force, remaining four years; was supervisor of the home offices of National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, one year ; from 1904 to 1906 was engaged in factory systematizing in Connecticut ; in 1906 went with Miller & Franklin Company ( Business Economists), of Boston, and, in 1909, became their district manager, with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1911 he engaged in busi-
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ness under his own name, in the profession of scientific management, covering production engineering, cost accounting, factory organiza- tion and systematizing. He married, July 24, 1897, Jane Bell, daughter of John and Martha (Coulter ) Neill, of Brooklyn. Children : Ruth DePuy, born February 2, 1903, in New York City, and Robert Decatur, born January 16, 1906, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
William Gould was born in 1687, GOULD died February 23, 1723. In 1717 he moved to New Milford, Con- necticut. He is regarded as the founder of that branch of the Gould family now repre- sented at Binghamton, New York, being the first ancestor of whom they have any record. He married (first), November 28, 1706, Abi- gail Desbrow, who died in 1714; (second), in 1717, Mary Atkin. Children by first wife : William Annis; Job, see forward. By second wife : Samuel, Abigail, Mary.
(II) Job, son of William and Abigail ( Des- brow) Gould, was born in Milford, Connecti- cut, in 1711, died February 27, 1795. In 1760 he removed to Sharon, Connecticut, and bought a farm near Arnenise Union, New York, but finding that the title was not good he took in- stead a farm on Sharon Mountain. He mar- ried, in 1735, Sarah Prindle, and their children were : Abigail ; Rachel ; Job, see forward ; Will- iam ; Sarah ; David, born November, 1747, died April 19, 1824, married Mary Brewster ; Annis. (III) Job (2), son of Job (I) and Sarah ( Prindle) Gould, was born in 1738, died April 19, 1795. He married Ruth - -, born 1733. died 1803. They were the parents of one child : Lyman, see forward. The following epitaph was inscribed on the tomb of Job Gould Jr. :
Sacred to the memory of Job Gould, Jr., who died April 19, 1795, aged 57.
O, painful thought, yet we must know The grave's the place where all must go. If dear, good, wise and just they be, Yet death's their lot as here we see.
(IV) Lyman, son of Job (2) and Ruth Gould, was born December 23, 1764, died in West Troy, New York, April 22, 1831. He married Sally, daughter of David and Sarah (Day) Downs. David Downs was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1737; died in Sharon, Connecticut, December 13, 1813. He served in the revolutionary army, as captain in
the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrall, in 1776. He was taken prisoner, May 19. 1776, at the affair of the Cedars, Canada. The regiment having been raised on continental basis to serve in the Northern Department, under General Schuyler, for the year 1776, its term expired January 19, 1777. It reënforced the troops besieging Quebec, under Arnold and Wooster, and, after the retreat from that posi- tion, in April, 1776, was stationed at Ticon- deroga and in the vicinity, where the men suffered severely from smallpox. Two com- panies of the regiment, commanded respec- tively by Captains Downs and Stevens, were engaged in the affair of the Cedars, forty miles above Montreal, and Captain Downs, as men- tioned above, was captured with Captain Ste- vens and nearly all the men of their respective companies. Captain Downs was magistrate of his town, and, for thirteen sessions, was a member of the continental legislature. Sarah Day, wife of Captain Downs, was descended from Robert Day, who was born about 1604. in England, and, in 1634, sailed from Ipswich, with his wife Mary, in the ship "Elizabeth." He settled in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts. Shortly afterward his wife died and he married ( second) Editha Stebbins, sis- ter of Deacon Edward Stebbins, of Hartford. His son, Thomas (1) Day, married, October 27, 1659, Sarah Cooper, and they were the parents of a son, Thomas (2), born March 23, 1662. He had a son. Thomas (3), born Octo- ber 26, 1689, first of Colchester, Connecticut, later of Sharon, Connecticut, who married, for his second wife, Mary Wells. They had a daughter Sarah, who became the wife of David Downs, as mentioned above.
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