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many acres to the original amount of land. L. Roosevelt Pardy is an enthusiastic mem- ber of the local Grange, and holds office in same. He takes an active interest in public affairs, and is considered a representative, public-spirited citizen.
(The Roosevelt Line).
The name of Roosevelt, which has the beautiful English signification of Rosefield. has been identified with the history of New York since the middle of the seventeenth century. The ancestor mentioned below is the only one known to have emigrated to America in an early day. The family be- came famous in New York City in early times for their keen busines- qualities, and many became millionaires. The family has likewise boasted many famous lawyers, doc- tors and statesmen, and former President Roosevelt has made a name for himself throughout the civilized world. The records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City have shown the name for more than two and one-half centuries, and here were recorded the births and marriages of the earliest ancestors, as for two or three generations few of them moved away from Manhattan. Although authorities differ as to the time of emigration of the first of the family, it was probably in the year 1651. Those were troubleus times for the colony of New Amsterdam, as the following two years the people were alinost constantly in arms on account of the war between the Dutch and English. The Dutch an lother traders were forbidden to Bade with the New England savages, and food was scarce. Soon after New Amsterdam was given a burgher government. In 1055 the colony awoke one morning to find the town in the possession of Indians: Stuyvesant made peace with them by giving themi presents. The Roosevelt family intermarried with the Schuylers, Bogarts, and many other fami- lies, who later became the first anse series of New York City. The family obtain I a
from Chatham street to the East river, lying between Pearl. Roosevelt ( which obtained its name from the family ) and Catherine streets: this was originally known as Rut- gers Old Farm. In June, 1788, the family furnished one member of the Poughkeepsie state convention to consider the adoption of the constitution of the United States.
( 1) Claes Martenzsen von Rosenfelt emi- grated from Holland to New Netherlands about 1650-51. and brought with him his wife. Jannetje Samuel-Thomas. The rec- ords of the births of their children are found in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York. " He was admitted to this church. December 4. 1679. His children were: I. Christiaen, baptized October 23. 1650, died in infancy. 2. Elsje, baptized February II. 1652: married Hendrick Jillish Meyert. 3. Anna Margariet, baptized August 29. 1654; married Heymans Allerste Roosa. 4. Chris- tina, baptized July 30. 1656: married ( first) Nicalsie de la Montague: (second ) John Ilammel. 5. Nicholaes. 6. Anna, baptized September 10. 1662 : married Jan van Daef- sen de Vries, from Haarlem, Holland.
( II) Nicholaes, only son of Claes and Jannetje ( Samuel-Thomas ) von Rosenfelt. spelled his name Roosevelt, and was baptized October 2. 1658; he was born in September that year. He removed to Esopus ( now Kingston, Dutchess county ). New York. prior to 1680, as April 5 of that year he. with other burghers of Esopus, petitioned for a minister of the Gospel. In 1690 he returned to New York City with his family. and his e cenpation is given as "bolter". Ile was admitted as freeman August 23. 1608. In 1700-01 he was an alderman of the Leis- lerian party, and, although he was a burgher of what was known as the "major right". he took the side of the common people of the colony against the mother country. He served as alderman from 1698-1701. and in 1715 became alderman of the West Ward. Nicholaes Roosevelt died July 30. 1712 He married. December o. 1682. at large tract of land in the city, evening the Reformed Dutch Church of New York,
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Heyltje Jans Kunst, born February 24, 1004. daughter of Jan Barentsen Kunst and wife, Jakeyntje Cornelius Albanien. Jan Barentsen was a house carpenter and work- man, and was a passenger in the ship "Gilded Beaver", which came to New Neth- erlands in 1658. The record of his mar- riage, which took place in America, con- tains the following: "14 March, Pinkster Monday, 1663. Jan Barentsen, of Alekmaer, Noort Hollant, widower Janietjen Ariens, and Jakemyntje Cornelis, of Woerde in Holland. j.d. first publication of banns 29 April". Children of Nicholaes Roosevelt and wife: 1. Jannetic. baptized November 11. 1683. at Old Dutch Church of Esopus. 2. Margaretta, October 11, 1685, at Esopus. 3. Nicholaes. 4. Johannes, March 3. 1689. at Esopus. 5. Elsie. January 1. 1691, at New York. 6. Jacobus. February, 1692, at New York. 7. Rachel, March 21, 1693. in New York, died in infancy. 8. Sarah. 1696, at New York. 9. Rachel, April 23. 1699. at New York. 10. Isaac, February 28, 1701. at New York, died young.
( III ) Nicholaes (2), oldlest son of Nicho- laes (t ) and Heylje J. ( Kunst ) Roosevelt, was baptized August 28. 1687, at the Old Dutch Church at Esopus, New York. March 20, 1738-39. Nicholaes Roosevelt. gold- smith, was admitted freeman. He was a good craftsman and became well-to-do. He married. February 1, 1710, at the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City. Sarah Fullman, who, in signing the records at the baptism of her children, wrote her name also as Follemans. Volleman and Solleman. Children : Catherina, baptized at New York. January 10, 1711 ; Hilletje, March 29. 1713: Nicholas.
( IV) Nicholas (3). only son of Nicholaes (2) and Sarah ( Fullman ) Roosevelt, was baptized February 6. 1715, at the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City. He be- camne first lieutenant of the Corsicans. a company of militia organized before 1775. They wore a red tin heart on their short green coats, containing the words "God and
Right", and on their small round hats, which had a cock on one side, around the crown the motto "Liberty or Death". He also enlisted in the Albany company of militia. First Regiment. He was admitted a free- man in 1740. and in 1738 he and his wife were admitted to the Reformed Dutch Church of New York. Mr. Roosevelt mar- ried (first ) June 4. 1737. in the Reformed Dutch Church, Catherina Comfort. baptized August 18. 1717. daughter of Gerardus and Catherina (Burger ) Comfort, who were married in the same church March 24. 1713; she died about 1750, and he married ( sec- ond ) November 23. 1754. also in the Re- formed Dutch Church, Elizabeth Thurman. baptized May 9, 1725. daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Wessels ) Thurman, who were married. also in that church, October II. IȚI9. By his first marriage Mi. Roose- velt had three children: Catherina. baptized in New York. March 22. 1738: Sarah. July 18. 1740: Gerardus Comfort. September 8. 1742. By his second marriage his children were : Elizabeth, baptized February 6. 1757. in New York, died young : Nicholas; Elizabeth. February 24. 1762.
(\') Nicholas (4), son of Nicholas (3) and Elizabeth ( Thurman) Roosevelt, was baptized October 11. 1758. in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City. He lived in Stillwater, New York, and married Betsey English: children : John. Betsey, George, Solomon. Rufus and Jacob.
(VI) Solomon, third son of Nicholas (4) and Betsey ( English ) Roosevelt, was born November 17. 1778. at Fishouse, row a part of Saratoga. New York, and died March 15. 1832. at Chazy. New York. He married ( first ) November 29. 1798. Elizabeth Willy, or Wiley, daughter of Stephen Wiley, born May 16, 1780, died February 27. 1820. He married ( second) Hester Ann, daughter of Sylvanus Smith, of Clinton county, born at Chazy. New York, September 6. 1796, and died April 19. 1893. at the age of ninety- seven, at Syracuse, New York. By his first marriage Mr. Roosevelt had nine children.
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and by his second marriage three. They were: Stephen, born September 5. 1799; Betsy, February 18, 1801 : Lydia. February 26, 1803; Jacob, May 16, 1805; Solomon, April 27, 1807; Delia, July 10, 1809; Lou- isa, May 3, 1812 : Caroline, April 12, 1814; John H .; Sarah, December 4, 1824; George W., July 20, 1826; and Warren, October 10, 1831.
(VII) John Henry, fourth son of Solo- mon and Elizabeth (Wiley) Roosevelt, was born February 24, 1817. He married (first) Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Dennis and Mary (Lambert ) Traey, of New York; (second) Mary Cornell. By his first mar- riage he had three children, and by his sec- ond eight : 1. Mary Eliza. 2. Henry J., re- sided in Little Silver. New Jersey. 3. Caro- line, born May 6, 1842. married (firsto) John T. Hayes; (second) Wayne Smothers, of Eureka, Michigan. 4. Edward. of Ashley. Ohio. 5. Edith L., born October 7. 1852: married Isaac Cravens, of Paulding, Ohio. 6. Grant, of Ashley, Ohio. 7. Charles. N. Delia. 9. Frank. 10. Lydia. married John Jay Cox, of Paulding. Ohio. II. Eliza Grant.
(VIII) Mary Eliza, oldest daughter of John Henry and Elizabeth Ann ( Tracy) Roosevelt, was born February 17. 1840, at Albany, New York, and married, July 7. 1863. Solomon Barber Pardy, of Beekman- town. ( See Pardy III ).
The surname Crowhy is if CROSBY very ancient English origin It is derived from tvo Eng- lish words. cross and by (bury, burgh or borough). meaning the town of the eras. and has been in use ir in the time when sur- names were first adopted in England. I: the time of Richard HI one of the name of- cupied Crosby House in Lordou, and that city still has a street by the name. It is also embalmed in no less than eight places in England, namely: Or by-upop-Edlen. near Carlisle, in Cumberland in : with the villages of High and Low Cross ; andler
village in the western division of Cumber- land; Crosby-Garrett and Crosby-Ravens- worth, in Westmoreland; a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire: a village in Lincolnshire; and Great Crosby and Little Crosby, suburbs of Liverpool. In 1204 Ode de Crosseby was constable of Tikehall in Yorkshire, and as early as 1220 we find Simon de Crosseby in Lancashire, where he was a landholder. The name Simon has continued in frequent use among his de- scendants to the present day, and he was undoubtedly the progenitor of the American family. Several settlers named Crosby came to New England early enough to be classed among the pioneers, and from them sprang a hardy race of frontiersmen who were industrious workers in peace and hard fighters in the wars with French and In- dians. Still later generations of Crosbys have been foremost in business and profes- sional life, in philanthropic endeavor and every worthy line of effort. The name has been especially prominent in the medical profession, and has been closely associate ! with institutions of learning, notably Har- vard and Dartmouth. Having first been used as a place-name, it was easily adopted as a surname by one coming from the "crosstown" or "town built by the cross."
( I) Simon Crosby, perhaps a brother of Thomas of Cambridge and Rowley. em- barked from England in the ship "Susan and Ellen". April 13, 1635. being then twenty-six years old. with his wife And. agel twenty-five, and infant son Thomas. eight weeks old. He settled in Cambridge. Massachusetts, where he was a husbandman an! was a proprietor as early as February S. 1636. Ile was admitted a freeman in that year. and served as selectman in 1636 and Ings. He had several grants of land. and his estate, later known as the "Brattle place". passed into the hands of Rev. Will- iam Brattle, his residence being at what is new the corner of Brattle street and Brattle smmare. He died in September. 1630, at the early age of thirty-one years, leaving
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sons, Thomas, born in England; Simon, born in 1637 in Cambridge; and Joseph, ' having been made October 23. 1759, dis- 1639, at the same place. The widow mar- ried, in 1646, Rev. William Thompson. min- ister at Braintree, and became the second time a widow at his death. December 10. 1666. She died October 8, 1676.
(II) Thomas, eldest son of Simon and Ann Crosby, was prepared for college by liis step-father, and entered Harvard with the latter's son, William. He was born in England, probably in March, 1635, and was reared in Braintree. He graduated from Harvard College in 1653. and was minister of the church at Eastham, Massachusetts. from 1655 to 1670. He subsequently en- gaged in business, became a successful man of affairs, and died in Boston, June 13, 1702. Nearly all of the name in southeast- ern Massachusetts are his descendants. His wife's baptismal name was Sarah, and they had children : Thomas, born April 7. 1663 : Simon, July 5. 1665: Sarah. March 24. 1667: Joseph, January 27. 1669; John and a twin who died at birth, February 11, 1671 : William, March, 1673: Ebenezer, March 28. 1675: Anne, Mercy and Increase ( triplets ). April 14-15. 1678; and Eleazer, mentioned below.
( 111) Eleazer, youngest child of Thomas and Sarah Crosby. was born March 30. 1680. He resided in Harwich, Massachu- setts, and his death occurred after October 23. 1759, which is the date affixed to his will. October 24. 1706. he married Pa- tience. daughter of John. Jr., and Sarah ( Merrick ) Freeman. Children: Kezia. born May 6, 1708: Rebecca, May 12. 1709; married Ebenezer Hopkins: Eleazer, Janu- ary 5. 1710-11: Silvanus. November 15. 1712: Phebe. December IS, 1714: married a Clark ; Sarah, December S. 1716, died July 31. 1724; Isaac, October 18. 1719: Mary, November 28. 1722: Sarah. March 18. 1725-26; married a Yates: Patience. Octo- ber 29, 1728 : married a Paine : Ennice, died January 29. 1731-32. Mrs. Patience Cro-by died January 28, 1731-32. The will
of Eleazer Crosby, previously referred to as
closes the fact that he married again; that the baptismal name of his second wife was Esther, and that she bore him one son, Prince. In this document he mentions all of the above named children except Mary and Eunice, who were then dead.
(IV) Captain Prince, only son of Eleazer and Esther Crosby, was probably born in Harwich, but a careful research of all avail- able records relating to this family fails to reveal the date of his birth. Like most of the young men of Cape Cod. he adopted a seafaring life, and, becoming a master mar- iner. commanded a merchant vessel plying between Massachusetts and Cuba. His death occurred during one of his voyages and he was buried at sea. Information at hand states that Captain Prince Crosby mar- ried a beautiful Spanish lady, who after her husband's death went to reside in New Hampshire, and that they had a son Jere- miah. The latter was the first of this branch of the Crosby family to settle in Lewis county. New York.
(V) Jeremiah, son of Captain Prince Crosby, was born in New England and was reared in New Hampshire, whence he re- moved, in 1800, to Lewis county, New York, where his son was born.
(VI) Hopkins, son of Jeremiah Crosby. was born in Lewis county, New York, and there became a successful farmer. He mar- ried Mary Porter. of the same vicinity. whose parents also came from New Eng- land. Some years after marriage Mr. Crosby's health began to fail, and he sought a change of climate. With his wife and four small children he proceeded to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where he began farm- ing on a small scale. The change greatly benefited his health, and by industry and self-denial he was able to add to his hold- ings and achieved success in life.
(VII) .Dr. Alexander H .. eldest son of Hopkins and Mary ( Porter) Crosby, was born October 18, 1836, in Martinsburg.
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Lewis county, New York. He was reared as the result of the blows dealt him on the on his father's farm. and his early education head. was obtained mainly at home and by his Dr. Crosby always keeps abreast of the times, and made a careful study of new dis- coveries and theories advanced in his pro- fession. Ilis skill in surgery was many times called into use, and he won a reputa- tion throughout the northern part of the state for his knowledge and achievements. He is a man of strong character and inflex- ible will, and is pre-eminently a self-made man. Dr. Crosby has for many years be- longed to the County Medical Society, in which he has held all the offices, and has served several times as delegate to the State Medical Society. He takes a keen interest in public affairs, and espouses the cause of the Democratic party. In 1875 hie was elected to the state assembly. During 1877- 78 Dr. Crosby represented the second con- gressional district in the state central and executive committees, and in 1881 he was again chairman of the county committee. He used his influence for the lowering of tolls and all other measures he considered for the best interests of his constituents. As a member of the committee of public health. he worked for the suppression of certain manufactures, and labored hard toward the passage of a bill regulating the location of these obnoxious factories in New York City. In 1870 he again received the nomination of his party for a seat in the assembly. and al- though defeated he ran several hundred votes ahead of his ticket. He is a mem- ber of Trinity Episcopal Church of Low- ville, and for many years served as vestry- man. He is a liberal supporter of religious and charitable institutions, and interested in the welfare of the poor. In 1880, upon the appearance of diphtheria in the town of Greig. Dr. Crosby investigated the cause. which was purely a local one, and this was the fact that many of the poorer class of people in the town were eating diseased po- taitees. This action was greatly appreciated by the authorities, and gained him cor siler- able prestige among his fellow doctors. He own efforts. There were few educational advantages in the neighborhood where he lived, but he had a natural taste for learn- ing, and made the most of his opportunities. He was a wide-awake, ambitious youth, and beeame desirous of studying for the medical profession. This was a brave undertaking. and attended with many difficulties: during most of the time while he was studying med- ieine he added to his meagre finances by beginning, at the age of sixteen years, teach- ing school. Alexander Crosby was sent first by his parents to a private school near home, and afterwards attended school at Wallsboro, Pennsylvania, one year; two years at Mansfield Seminary, and the acad- emy at Lowville, New York. Afterwards he spent some time in the office of his uncle. Dr. Lyman Buckley, of Oswego county, New York, and later in the office of Dr. James T. Peden, an eminent physician and surgeon of Martinsburg. Lewis county. Later he took a course of medical lectures at Albany Medical College, and received a license for the practice of medicine. He began his practice in January, 1862. in Mar- tinsburg, New York. the county seat of Lewis county, and in March, 1867. he re- moved to Lowville, which then became the county seat. Dr. Crosby built up a large practice. and won the confidence and esteem of the entire community. He took a high place in his profession, and because well known through his testimony in many mur- der trials, where his word was taken as con- elusive in many contested opinions as to the cause of death in the various cases. The first case of note in which Dr. Crosby testi- fied was one concerning the mupler of a man who was subject to epilepte fits, and. although the defending lawyer contended that his death was the result of epilepsy. there being no fracture of the skull of blood vessels broken. Dr. Crosby proved to the sat- isfaction of judge and jury that he tet death
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was appointed by the state board of chari- ties as a member of the visiting committee for Lewis county, and in this position he did much to better the condition of the inmates of public institutions and the securing of more comfort for these unfortunates.
Dr. Crosby married. February 23. 1864. Addie M., daughter of Nathan Macoy. of Martinsburg. Mrs. Crosby died March 16, 1907, and Dr. Crosby married ( second ) November 24. 1908. Grace. daughter of Franklin B. Rugg. of Lowville.
STODDARD Various conjectures have been promulgatedregard- ing the origin of this name. One which is evidently quite myth- ical relates that there was a William Stod- dard, knight, cousin of William the Con- queror, who came from Normandy. Eng- land, in 1066. As the cousins of William the Conqueror are pretty well accounted for, this idea should receive but little weight. There may be soine color to the theory that the name arose from the occupation of its bearer, who was the standard bearer, and was called de la Standard ( of the Stand- ard). which could be easily modified, as is practically every English name into the pres- ent form. It is found with a great variety of spellings in the English and early New England records, such as Stodder. Stodart, Stoddert, Stodherd. Stothers. Stodhart and Stodhard. The name is undoubtedly of northern origin and is well represented in the Scottish Lowlands. In that section of the world stot is a word used for ox. and the stotherd was one who cared for the uxen. just as the shepherd cares for the sheep. For some generations there was a rather prominent family of this name in London. England. Several were very early in New England. Anthony Stoddard being found in Boston, about 1630, and three John Stod- dards in various sections, one at New Lon- don and another at Wethersfield. Though there can be little doubt the immigrant an- cestor of this family was related to the
others,' no evidence appears to establish the fact.
(I) Ralph Stoddard, born about 1666. probably in England, lived for a short time in Boston, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Groton, Connecticut, where he died December 17, 1753. at the age of eighty-seven years. In 1695 he purchased the south grant of the John Gadger lands in the northern part of Groton, in the vicin- ity of Gale's Ferry, the present town of Led- yard. In 1872 the site of his settlement was still in the possession of a descendant in the neighborhood and was known as Stoddard's Landing. Groton continued to be a part of the town of New London until 1705. In the vicinity of Ralph Stoddard were Robert and Thomas Stoddard; one be- ing in the neighborhood of Norwich and the other at what is now New London, and the records of business transactions shows them to have been mutually interested, but there is no evidence that they were related. He married. about 1696. Mary Ames, of Bos- ton, born 1664, died February 3. 1728. aged sixty-four years, and was the first person buried in the old cemetery at Gale's Ferry. Children: Ralph. mentioned below ; Mark. born February 14. 1702; Mary, July 20. 1705. There were perhaps others, but these are all shown by the records.
( II ) Ralph (2), eldest child of Ralph ( I) and Mary ( Ames ) Stoddard, was born May 31. 1697. in Groton, and died there as the result of sunstroke. August 24. 1744. He was a farmer, residing all his life in Groton. He married. January 3. 1722. Hannah Les- ter. born 1681. daughter of Andrew and Lydia (Bayley) Lester. formerly of Gloucester, Massachusetts. After his death she married a Williams. Children: Ralph, mentioned below : Mark, born May 1. 1725; Hannah, May 4. 1727 : Wait. July 14. 1729; Jonathan. October 9. 1731 : Mary, December 12, 1733; Eunice, March o. 1736; Priscilla, March 12. 1738: Esther. May 1, 1741 : El- kanah. August 5. 1743.
(III ) Ralph (3), eldest child of Ralph
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(2) and Hannalı ( Lester) Stoddard, was born July 30, 1723. in Groton, where he was a farmer and passed most of his life. IIe was commander of a company in Colonel Beebe's regiment of the revolutionary army, enlisting September 8, 1776. and was dis- charged November 17 of the same year. His son Ralph was a sergeant and his sou Vine an ensign in his company. He mar- ried, April 3, 1746. Susanna Elderkin, widow of Isaac Avery. Children: Vine. born February 27, 1749; Ralph, mentioned below: and Elisha, all born in Groton. There may have been others. In 1781 Vine Stoddard was an ensign in the provisional regiment in Groton.
(IV) Ralph (4), son of Ralph (3) and Susanna ( Avery) Stoddard. was born in Groton, Connecticut, February 4. 1751. died February 4. 1831, in Harrisburg. Lewis county, New York. About 1794 he re- moved to Westfield, Massachusetts, where he lived a few years, and in 1803 emigrated to New York. The "Black River Country" in the state of New York was opened up to settlement about 1796, and in 170; Leyden was settled; a few settlers came to Lowville. June 2. 1797. Several went to this new country from Westfield at this time and also at the beginning of the new century. Ralph Stoddard lived to see the unbroken wil ler- ness cleared and well settled. . He married Charlotte, daughter of Samuel Newton, and they had sons George A. and Wait S. T.
(V) George A .. son of Ralph :11 Charlotte (Newton) Stoddard, was born May 4. 1772, in Groton, Connections, dial June II. IS44. He was the seventh weather of Harrisburg. New York, and the of the earliest of Lewis county, removing there from Westfield. Massachusetts, where he had spent some years. He married, OG- tober 28, 1703. Temperance . Men, who was born in April. 1772, and they cleared and proved their title to a large farm per llar- risburg. New York, where they reared a large family. The two elle-t of the r ' !-
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