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b Elizabeth, m. 1st (5) SYBRANT VAN SCHAICK ; 2d, BENONI VAN CORLAER June 2, 1686.
c Maria, m. (4) ANTHONY VAN SCHAICK.
d Johanna, m. 1st, BARENT LEWIS; 2d, JAN VAN STRUYDEN June, 1694.
Teunis Van der Poel made his will June 17, 1687, in which he mentioned his wife, to whom he left a house in Am- sterdam, Holland, which she devised to her three daughters. Catrina, widow of TEUNIS VAN DER POEL, made a will Decem- ber 11, 1694, in which she refers to the will of her late hus- band ANTHONY CORNELIS VAN DER POEL and to their three children above-mentioned. TEUNIS VAN DER POEL owned half of " Constapel's Island opposite Puerde Hoeck." In 1671 he was one of the magistrates of Albany. He resided in what is now known as Watervliet. He seems to have left no male descendants.
There was a JACOBUS (JAMES) VAN DER POEL married in New York to Margaret Jans July 25, 1693. Also a GERRIT VAN DER POEL, widower, married Deborah Warren, February 12, 1697.
The VAN DER POEL's were originally from Gorichem (Groningen ?) on the Rhine. In the year 1600 they dispersed, one branch going to Amsterdam, in Holland, from which those . in America are descended.
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Wynant Gerritse, son of Gerrit Van der Poel, was in Albany as early as 1657. He was probably born in Holland. He married Tryntje Melgers, and had
2 Cornelia, m. (3) CORNELIS GYSBERTSE VAN DEN BERGH before 1685.
3 * Melgert, m. 1st, ARIAANTJE VERPLANCK ; 2d, ELIZABETH TELLER widow of Abraham Van Tricht, June 29, 1692.
4 Gerrit, m. CATRINA VAN ZANDT.
5 Catryn, m. (2) WILLEM G. VAN DEN BERGH before 1685.
6 Margariet, m. JOHANNES VAN ZANDT about 1683.
Wynant Gerritse Van der Poel resided in Albany until about the year 1694. In 1674 he purchased a half interest in a saw-mill on the cast bank of the Hudson river, on what is now called Wynant's Kill. This property he purchased of Gertruy Pieterse, widow of Abraham Vosburgh. He made two wills, the first in 1694, the second in 1695, the latter was indorsed " The Will of WYNANT GERRITSE VAN DER POEL, late of Albany, now of New York," dated February 29, 1695 ; proved April 17, 1702. He died between 1695 and 1702. By his last will he bequeathed to his son Melgert only six shillings and gave all the rest of his estate to his son-in-law William Van den Burgh.
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Melgert, son of (1) Wynant Gerritse Van der Poel and Tryntje Melgers, married Ariaantje, daughter of Abra- ham Isaacse Verplanck and Maria Vigne (bp. December 2, 1646), and had
7 Melgert, m. CATHARINE VAN ALEN May 17, 1696.
8 Maria.
9 Trinke.
10 Abraham, m. ANTJE VAN DEN BERGHI January 3, 1713.
11 Wynant, bp. October 14, 1683; m. CATHARINA DE HOOGEN or DE HOOGES, August 17, 1706.
12 Gelyn, bp. May 17, 1685.
13 Jacobus (James), bp. March 9, 1687.
14 Hendrick, bp. June 2, 1689.
Ariaantje Verplanck, wife of MELGERT VAN DER POEL, died. He married, 2d, ELIZABETHI, daughter of William Teller, Sr., and Margaret Donchesen, and widow of Abraham Van Tricht (b. 1652), June 29, 1692, and had
* This name where it occurs on the records is frequently spelt " Melchert."
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15 Wilhelm, b. March 19, 1693.
16 Ariaantje, b. November 17, 1695.
Melgert .W. Van der Poel resided in Albany where he probably died before 1700. His house and that of his father fronted the Fort in 1675, probably on the south side of State street.
ELIZABETH TELLER, widow of MELGERT W. VAN DER POEL, made a will February 19, 1720, in which she mentions Margaret (Margareta), wife of (14) Volckert Douw, Maria, wife of (2) John Vinhagen, Magdalena, wife of (9) Abraham Lansing and Helena, all children by her first husband; also Ariaantje, daughter by her second husband MELGERT W. VAN DER POEL. She died in 1720.
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Gerrit, son of (1) Wynant Gerritse Van der Poel and Tryntje Melgers, married Catryna, daughter of Johannes Van Zandt and Jannetje, and had
17 Wynant, b. in New York August 27, 1690 ; d. y.
18 Wynant, b. in New York in October 11, 1691.
Catryna Van Zandt, widow of GERRIT WINANT VAN DER POEL, died April 8, 1709. She resided in Albany in 1708 on the east corner of State and Pearl streets.
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Melgert, Jr., son of (3) Melgert W. Van der Poel and Ariaantje Verplanck, was baptised in Albany ; married Cath- arina, daughter of * Lourens Van Alen, of Kinderhook, and Elbertje Evertse (?), May 17, 1696, and had
19 Elbertje, bp. February 3, 1697 ; m. (7) MARTIN VAN DEUSEN, December 23, 1719.
20 Ariaantje, bp. September 3, 1699.
21 Lourens, bp. January 26, 1701 ; m. ARIAANTJE VAN DEN BERGH, October 29, 1726.
22 Maria, bp. January 10, 1703 ; m. (12) DAVID GROESBECK, Novem- ber 8, 1724.
23 Johannes (John), bp. March 4, 1705; m. 2d, ANNATJE (NAUTJE) STAATS, May 5, 1743.
Dr. S. O. Van der Poel says "Lourens Van Alen was son-in-law of de Bruyn, to whom a large patent on the Hudson river had been granted.
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24 Abraham, bp. February 9, 1707 ; m. ELIZABETHI QUINLEN, October 26, 1738.
25 Jacobus (James), bp. April 17, 1709 ; m. NEELTJE HUYCK, October 16, 1740.
26 Isaac, bp. October 14, 1711 ; m. ANNA
27 Catryna, bp. December 16, 1716.
Melgert Van der Poel, Jr., resided in Kinderhook. After his marriage he removed to Poelsburgh, where he died. His wife inherited large estates from her father Lourens Van Alen.
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Abraham, son of (3) Melgert Van der Poel and Aria- antje Verplanck, married Antje Van den Bergh January 3, 1713, and had
28 Melgert, bp. February 7, 1714 ; m. (14) MARGARITA VINHAGEN.
29 Ariaantje, bp. September 23, 1716 ; d. y.
30 Teuntje, bp. August 3, 1718 ; d. y.
31 Gerrit, bp. June 11, 1721 ; m. CATARINA HOES.
32 Teuntje, bp. November 3, 1723.
33 Maria, bp. November 21, 1725 ; m. PETER M. VAN BUREN about 1746.
34 Ariaantje, bp. June 9, 1729 ; m. BARENT VAN BUREN.
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Wynant, son of (3) Melgert Van der Poel and Aria- antje Verplanck, was baptised October 14, 1683; married Catharina, daughter of Johannes De Hoogen (or De Hooges) of Ulster county, New York, August 17, 1706, and had
35 Johannes, bp. August 3, 1707.
36 Abraham, bp. February 13, 1709.
37 Melgert, bp. March 4, 1711.
38 Ariaantje, bp. March 1, 1713.
39 Margarita, bp. December 25, 1714.
40 Anthony, bp. August 18, 1717.
41 David, bp. August 30, 1719 ; d. y.
42 David, bp. September 27, 1721.
43 Maria, bp. November 4, 1722.
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Lourens, son of (7) Melgert Van der Poel, Jr., and Catharina Van Alen, was baptised January 26, 1701 ; married Ariaantje Van den Bergh, October 29, 1726, and had
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44 Catharina, bp. March 5, 1727.
45 Jacobus (James), bp. July 3, 1737.
46 Jan, bp. March 30, 1740.
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Jacobus (James), son of (7) Melgert Van der Poel, Jr., and Catharina Van Alen, was baptised April 17, 1709; married Neeltje Huyck, October 16, 1740, and had
47 Marytje, bp. October 11, 1741.
48 Catharina, bp. December 10, 1749; d. y.
49 Catharina, bp. May 10, 1752.
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Melgert, son of (10) Abraham Van der Poel and Antje Van den Bergh, was baptised February 7, 1714 ; married (14) Margarita, daughter of (7) Johannes Vinhagen and Maria Van Tricht (bp. May 12, 1723), and had
50 Abraham, bp. July 10, 1748.
51 Maria, bp. June 21, 1752 ; d. y.
52 Jacobus, bp. May 27, 1759 ; m. MARYTJE MULLER, January 27, 1783.
53 Gerrit, b. March 26, 1762 ; m., 1st, MARGARITA WILSON ; 2d, CORNELIA MULLER, about 1785.
54 Maria, b. May 1, 1766.
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Gerrit, son of (10) Abraham Van der Poel and Antje Van den Bergh, was baptised June 11, 1721 ; married Cata- rina Hoes, and had
55 Jannetje, bp. February 9, 1752 ; m. CORNELIS VAN BEUREN, about 1775.
56 Abraham, bp. May 27, 1753.
57 Mattheus, bp. September 22, 1754.
58 Melgert, bp. November 30, 1755.
59 Peter, b. March 22, 1767.
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Jacobus, son of (28) Melgert Van der Poel and (14) Margarita Vinhagen, was baptised May 27, 1759; married Marytje Muller, January 27, 1783, and had
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60 Margarita, b. February 25, 1781.
61 Catharina, b. April 9, 1786.
62 Jerime, b. February 26, 1788.
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Johannes (John), son of (7) Melgert Van der Poel, Jr., and Catharina Van Alen, was born in Kinderhook March 4, 1705; married at the house of Madam Schuyler, " The American Lady," Annatje (Nautje), daughter of Dr. Samuel Staats and Catharine Howarden, May 5, 1743, and had
63 Isaac, b. December 8, 1747; bp. at Albany December 25, 1747 ; Philip Schuyler and Gertruy Lansing, Sponsors ; m. MOYCA HUYCK 1783 ; d. at Chatham, Columbia connty, December 25, 1807.
64 Maria, m. LAURENCE VAN DYCK November 19, 1762.
65 Catharine, m. JOHN PRUYN October 27, 1767.
66 Etje, bp. April 22, 1750 ; sponsors, Isaac Staats and Maria Staats ; m. JOHN VAN VALKENBERGH.
67 Sarah, m. 1st, JOHN VAN ALSTYNE; 2d, COL. JACOB SCHERMER- HORN.
Johannes (John) Van der Poel died in Kinderhook April 11, 1777, and was interred in Poelsburgh. It is supposed he was a widower when he married Nautje Staats, and that his first marriage took place November 8, 1736, to whom is not known. He devised nearly the whole of his estate to his son Isaac.
His wife ANNATJE (NAUTJE), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Staats, was a granddaughter of Maj. Abram Staats, surgeon, who came to Rensselaerwyck with Dominic Megapolensis in 1642.
Major Abram Staats married Catrina Jochemse, daughter of Jacob Wessels, and had
1 Elizabeth, m. 1st, (4) JOHANNES WENDELL ; 2d, JOHANNES SCHUYLER April 25, 1695.
2 Jacob, m. RYCKE
3 Abraham, b. 1665 ; m. (3) ELSJE WENDELL.
4 Samuel, Dr., m. 2d, CATHARINE HOWARDEN.
5 Jochem, m. ANTJE REYNDERS.
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Elizabeth, daughter of Major Abram Staats and Catrina Jochemse Wessels, married 2d, Johannes, son of Philip Peterse Schuyler and Margaret Van Slightenhorst (bp. April 5, 1668), April 25, 1695, and had
1 Philip, b. December 25, 1695 ; killed by the French at Sara- toga November 28, 1745.
2 Johannes, b. October 31, 1697.
3 Margarita, b. Jan. 12, 1701. " The American Lady "; m. her cousin COL. PHILIP, son of Pieter Schuyler and Maria Van Rensselaer, who lived on " the Flats," on the bank of the river at Port Schuyler, above Albany and below West Troy.
4 Catalyntje, b. March 5, 1704 ; m. CORNELIS CUYLER.
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Dr. Samuel, son of Major Abram Staats and Catrina Jochemse Wessels, married 1st (name unknown), by whom he had nine children, four of whom only were born in America, viz. :
1 Catrina, bp. June 16, 1689, in New York.
2 Anna Elizabeth, bp. December 21, 1690, in New York ; m. PHILIP, son of Brant Schuyler, of New York, August 28, 1719.
3 Joanna, bp. January 31, 1694.
4 Tryntje, bp. April 5, 1697.
Dr. Samuel Staats married, 2d, Catharine Howarden, in New York, May 7, 1709, and had 5 Annetje, m. (23) JOHN VAN DER POEL May 5, 1743.
Dr. SAMUEL STAATS was a prominent leader during Leisler's administration of the government, and probably left New York soon after its collapse, and settled in Poelsburgh. His tomb- stone was seen at the grave-yard in that place some years since.
The Hon. AARON VAN DER POEL in a letter to his nephew S. OAKLEY VAN DER POEL, M. D., of New York, dated Jan- uary 17, 1867, says in relation to Annetje Staats :
" JOHANNES VAN DER POEL married on the Flats between Albany and Troy, Annetje Staats, the niece and adopted daughter of ' Aunt Schuyler,' who has been called and distin- guished as the ' American Lady' by Mrs. Grant, of Edinburgh,
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who was with her father, a British officer, stationed at Albany more than a hundred years ago, and who has written a book chiefly laudatory of ' Aunt Schuyler.' On page 203 of the book my grandmother (your great grandmother), is mentioned as Mrs. Van der Polen. She was the daughter of a Doctor Staats who had married, I think, a sister of 'Aunt Schuyler,' and who died at my grandfather's (JOHANNES VAN DER POEL) house, and was buried at Poelsburgh. His headstone was seen there some years ago, but I suspect the old grave-yard is now obliterated."
The Hon. AARON VAN DER POEL was probably wrong in supposing Annetje Staats to have been a niece of "Aunt Schuyler 'The American Lady.'" She was, no doubt, her cousin, some twenty or more years younger, and her daughter by adoption.
Mrs. Schuyler was called " Aunt" by every one, a compli- ment to her great kindness and generosity. JUDGE VAN DER POEL probably received the impression that his grandmother was her niece from this circumstance.
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Isaac, son of (23) Johannes (John) Van der Poel and Annatje (Nautje) Staats, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y., December 8, 1747; married Moyca, daughter of Jacobus (James) Huyck and Elizabeth Van Dyck (b. October 17, 1758), in 1783, and had
68 Anne, b. January 3, 1785 ; d. September 5; 1787.
69 James, b. January 10, 1787 ; m. ANNA DOLL, April 7, 1808 ; d. October 3, 1843.
70 Anne, b. July 30, 1789 ; d. April 3, 1793.
71 Elizabeth, b. January 19, 1791; m. LUCAS J. VAN ALEN, January 16, 1815 ; d. August 23, 1833.
72 John, b. August 24, 1796 ; m. SARAHI W. OAKLEY, January 14, 1823 ; d. October 27, 1851.
73 Aaron, b. February 5, 1799; m., 1st, HARRIET BALDWIN, Septem- ber 3, 1821 ; she died April, 1837 ; 2d, ELLEN MCBRIDE, April 2, 1839.
Isaac Van der Poel was commissioned adjutant of the Seventh regiment (Kinderhook district), October 20, 1775.
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He was removed from this position for disaffection to the American government. He afterwards joined the British forces and commanded a company of Refugees on Staten Island. While acting in this capacity he was taken sick, and it is said through the influence of his mother with her relative General Pieter Schuyler, a pass through the American lines was secured for him. She brought him home, cared for him until his recovery, and returned him to his company on Staten Island.
His estate was confiscated by the government and he was thus rendered almost penniless. He was a man of extraordinary intellect, and of a frank, noble and generous nature, but he never enjoyed a day of peace after the mistaken step he took in the Revolution. After his marriage he purchased a small farm in Chatham over the hill, about a mile and a half from Kinderhook Lake. He died in Chatham December 25, 1807.
MOYCA HUYCK, widow of ISAAC VAN DER POEL, died in Stuyvesant, N. Y., November 20, 1827, and was interred in the Kinderhook cemetery.
Her mother Elizabeth Van Dyck was the daughter of Arent Van Dyck and Heyltie Van Alen. She married Jacobus (James) Huyck, of Pompaonie. She had three children, Arent, Burger and Moyca, who married as above.
Arent Van Dyck was one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the colony. He was a gentleman of education and talents, and the general scribe for the region in which he lived. He was a lineal descendant of Hendrick Van Dyck, who was the attorney-general of the Dutch province of New York, and who came from the West Indies with Governor Stuyvesant. He and Stuyvesant were two obstinate Dutchmen, and seem to have quarreled all the way from the West Indies to New York.
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James, son of (63) Isaac Van der Poel and Moyca Huyck, was born in Kinderhook, January 10, 1787; married Anna, daughter of the Rev. George Jacob Leonard Doll (b. July 19, 1782), April 19, 1808, and had
74 Elizabeth, b. May 22, 1810; m. JOHN VAN BUREN, June 22, 1841 ; d. November 18, 1844.
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75 Susan Christina, b. February 16, 1812 ; m. WILLIAM COOPER, September 10, 1833 ; d. March 30, 1841.
76 Sarah Ann, b. April 26, 1816; m JAMES M. FRENCH, December 2, 1835 ; d. November 30, 1857.
77 Mary, b. June 25, 1818 ; d. April 9, 1821.
78 Isaac, b. May 7, 1821 ; m. SUSAN FOSTER, May 14, 1850 ; d. Decem- ber 28, 1868.
79 Harriet, b. June 6, 1824 ; m. JOSEPH C. Y. PAIGE, September 10, 1844.
Judge James Van der Poel died in Albany, N. Y., October 3, 1843.
ANNA DOLL, widow of JUDGE JAMES VAN DER POEL, died in Albany March 14, 1855.
" For many years previous to his appointment to the Bench, JUDGE VAN DER POEL had acquired a high reputation at the Bar and was prominent in public and professional life among eminent men of Columbia county. As circuit judge of the Third Judicial district of the State he was distinguished for learning, ability and promptitude, for rapid and clear-sighted views of the law and the facts, as he was also in his intercourse with his fellow-citizens for all manly and honorable qualities. But if his public life was honorable and elevated, his domestic life was eminently beautiful. He was truly the venerated and beloved centre of a family circle that appreciated the great and good qualities that shed a lustre over his life and sustained and cheered the long period of his illness. To all indeed who were allied to him by the ties of family or kindred, or who came within the circle of his friendship, he was an object of the highest respect and the warmest attachments."
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Elizabeth, daughter of (63) Isaac Van der Poel and Moyca Huyck, was born in Kinderhook January 19, 1791; married Lucas JJ. Van Alen, January 16, 1815, and had
80 Isaac, b. April 6, 1816 ; d. October 15, 1839.
81 Maria, b. August 17, 1817 ; in. DAVID BIGELOW, June 11, 1844 ; no. ch.
82 James Vanderpoel, b. February 11, 1819; m. SARAH SMITH, of Penn Yan, in June 1848 ; died April 26, 1877 ; no. ch.
83 Elizabeth, b. May 6, 1823 ; d. October 3, 1876.
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84 Lydia Ann, b. March 17, 1825 ; d. November 2, 1876.
84} Helen, b. June 8, 1836 ; m. GEORGE WILSON, April, 1850 ; no. ch.
85 Aaron, b. May 24, 1830 ; m. ANN ELIZA VAN DYCK, January, 1861.
Elizabeth Van der Poel, wife of LUCAS J. VAN ALEN, died August 23, 1833.
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John, son of (63) Isaac Van der Poel and Moyca Huyck, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, New York, August 24, 1796 ; married Sarah W., daughter of Timothy Oakley and Sarah Ketchum (b. in Deer Park, Orange Co., N. Y., May 1, 1797), January 14, 1823, and had
86 Samuel Oakley, b. February 22, 1824 ; m. (342) GERTRUDE LAN- SING WENDELL, December 10, 1850.
87 Aaron J., b. October 24, 1825; m. ADELINE E. VAN SCHAACK, August 3, 1852.
88 James, b. June 28, 1827 ; d. April 30, 1835.
89 Jesse Oakley, b. June 15, 1831 ; d. January 25, 1870.
90 John, b. December 11, 1834 ; m. MARY E. VAN DER POEL, April 5, 1860 ; d. May 29, 1869, at Chicago ; no ch.
91 Sarah Elizabeth, b. March 21, 1838 ; m. 1st, (344) PETER WEN- DELL, March 24, 1859 ; 2d, Major ROBERT L. BURNETT, Decem- ber 16, 1873 ; d. August 11, 1876, in Philadelphia.
John Van der Poel, M. D., resided in Kinderhook where he died October 27, 1851, and was buried in the Kinderhook Cemetery.
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Aaron, son of (63) Isaac Van der Poel and Moyca Huyck, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, New York, February 5, 1799 ; married 1st, Harriet Baldwin, September 3, 1821. She died April, 1837, without issue. He married 2d, Ellen, daughter of James McBride and Hannah Savage, April 2, 1839, and had
92 James McB., b. August 2, 1840; d. December 27, 1860.
93 John, b. August 22, 1842 ; m. EMILY C. NOYES, May 22, 1865; d. April 12, 1866.
, 94 Aaron Ernest, b. February 20, 1846.
Hon. Aaron Van der Poel died July 18, 1870. He served two terms in the legislature of New York, 1825-1829; was
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three times elected to Congress, 1832, 1834, 1838. After his third term in Congress he resumed his profession of law in New York in 1841. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court in 1843, elected to the same office in 1847, and served to January 1, 1850.
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Elizabeth, daughter of (69) James Van der Poel and Anna Doll. was born May 22, 1810; married John, son of President Martin Van Buren, June 22, 1841, and had
95 Anna, b. July 31, 1842 ; m. EDWARD DUER, April 26, 1870.
Elizabeth Van der Poel, wife of JOHN VAN BUREN, died in Albany November, 1844.
JOHN VAN BUREN died at sea returning from Europe, October, 1866.
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Susan Christina, daughter of (69) James Van der Poel and Anna Doll, was born in Albany February 16, 1812; married William Cooper, of Albany (b. October 22, 1800), September 10, 1833, and had
96 Susan Margaret, b. in Albany May 2, 1835 ; m. GEORGE DOUGLAS KRUMBHAAR, of Philadelphia, October 7, 1858.
Susan Christina Van der Poel, wife of WILLIAM COOPER, died in Albany, N. Y., March 30, 1841.
WILLIAM COOPER died in Philadelphia, Pa., September 1, 1856.
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Sarah Ann, daughter of (69) James Van der Poel and Anna Doll, was born April 26, 1816 ; married James M., son of Abel French, December 2, 1835, and had
97 Anna, b. January 4, 1837.
98 James Vanderpoel, b. January 30, 1839 ; d. November 26, 1843.
99 Francis, b. May 3, 1841 ; d. November 28, 1842.
100 Elizabeth Van Buren, b. April 24, 1843 ; d. January 7, 1859.
101 Isaac Vanderpoel, b. September 26, 1845; d. s. February 22, 1879. 102 Julia, b. June 11, 1847 ; d. January 19, 1859.
103 Sarah, b. August 6, 1849 ; d. April 3, 1851.
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James M. French died in Albany July 11, 1855.
SARAH ANN VAN DER POEL, widow of JAMES M. FRENCH, died in Albany November 30, 1857.
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Isaac, son of (69) James Van der Poel and Anna Doll, was born May 7, 1821; married Susan, daughter of Adams Foster, May 14, 1850, and had
104 Isaac, b. June 8, 1851.
105 Mary Keith, b. November 26, 1854; m. (75) MARCUS T. HUN, December 21, 1875.
106 James, b. September 27, 1857.
107 Henry Adams, b. October 28, 1861.
108 Susan, b. August 12, 1866 ..
Isaac Van der Poel died in Albany December 28, 1868.
SUSAN FOSTER, widow of ISAAC VAN DER POEL, and family reside in Albany, N. Y.
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Harriet, daughter of (69) James Van der Poel and Anna Doll, was born June 6, 1824; married Joseph C. Y., son of John Keyes Paige and Helen Maria, daughter of Gov- ernor Joseph Christopher Yates (b. July 8, 1819), September 10, 1844, and had
109 Helen Maria, b. August 25, 1845 ; m. (1843 Talcott Ped.) RICHARD HACKLEY TALCOTT, February 8, 1881.
110 James Van der Poel, b. January 4. 1849 ; d. July 29, 1849.
111 Joseph Yates, b. December 23, 1850.
112 Anna Van der Poel, b. July 6 1854 ; d. April 15, 1855.
113 Leonard, b. March 25, 1856.
Joseph C. Y. Paige died in Albany May 30, 1876.
" He was born in Schenectady, graduated at Williams' Col- lege, Massachusetts, in 1838 ; studied law in the office of Judge Alonzo C. Paige, his uncle, in Schenectady, and afterward en- tered the law office of Charles M. Jenkins and Dudley Burwell in Albany. He held a clerkship in the Albany City Bank until 1861, when he was appointed Chamberlain of the city of Albany, which position he held for eleven years, after which 43
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he became assistant teller of the Albany City National Savings bank, holding that office until his death. Mr. PAIGE possessed an eminently genial and social nature, was a gentleman of culture "and refinement, of sterling integrity and strict probity. He was unostentatious and of an extremely kind nature, well known and highly appreciated. Among the many deaths of prominent citizens that have occurred none are more regretted than that of JOSEPH C. Y. PAIGE."
HARRIET VAN DER POEL, widow of JOSEPH C. Y. PAIGE, and family reside in Albany, N. Y.
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Samuel Oakley, son of (72) John Van der Poel and Sarah W. Oakley, was born February 22, 1824 ; married (342) Gertrude Lansing, daughter of (300) Dr. Peter Wendell and Elizabeth Van Kleek (b. January 15, 1824, in Albany), Decem- ber 10, 1850, and had
114 Wendell, b. October 23, 1851 ; d. August 9, 1852.
115 Samuel Oakley, Jr., b. August 27, 1853 ; m. MARY LOUISA HAL- STED, October 20, 1880.
116 Herman Wendell, b. July 8, 1856.
117 John, b. February 20, 1858.
118 Elizabeth Wendell, b. March 17, 1861 ; d. September 3, 1861.
119 Lewis Morris, b. June 20, 1862 ; d. August 4, 1863.
120 Gertrude Wendell, b. November 2, 1864.
These children were all born in Albany, N. Y.
" Dr. S. Oakley Van der Poel, late Health officer of the Port of New York, was born at Kinderhook, Columbia county, February 22d, 1824. His father was a physician of consider- able local celebrity, and other members of the family have be- come prominent in various departments of intellectual effort and business enterprise. His boyhood and youth were passed in his native place, and much out-door life in that beautiful and healthful district contributed to the development of a vigorous and robust constitution. At an early age he completed his preparatory training in the Kinderhook Academy, and en- tered upon his collegiate course in the University of New York, of which institution the venerable and scholarly Theodore Frelinghuysen was then Chancellor. Bearing its diploma, he returned to begin the study of medicine with his father, and
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after a thorough course at home and in the institution, gradu- ated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the spring of 1845. For the next two years he was associated in business with his father. But he still regarded his labors as only pre- paratory to the real professional career he had marked out, and, in the fall of 1847, went to Paris to pursue his studies with the superior advantages belonging to that brilliant capital. It was a remarkable period. Paris was in the midst of profound agitation. The unpopular ministry of Guizot and the tremb- ling throne of the citizen king were tottering to their fall. This political ferment culminated in the violent revolution of February, 1848, ending in the abdication of Louis Phillipe, and the proclamation of the Second Republic. Dr. VAN DER POEL witnessed these memorable and turbulent scenes, and, as the seething tumult was unpropitious to the calm prosecution of studies, he traveled through the south of France and Italy witnessing at Lyons, Marseilles, Naples, Rome, Florence and Milan, the various acts of the revolutionary drama then ex- citing all Europe. Immediately after the bloody days of June he returned to the French capital and remained for a consider- able period. In the spring of 1850 he settled in Albany where he speedily acquired a remunerative practice, which continued thereafter flattering and progressive. He was soon after mar- ried to Gertrude, daughter of Dr. Peter Wendell, Chancellor of the Regents of the University. In 1857 Governor King appointed him Surgeon-General of the State, and three years later he was chosen President of the Albany County Medical Society, being also re-elected the following year. In 1861 he was again invited to the office of surgeon-general by Governor Morgan. The position proved in this case not one of mere empty honor. The inauguration of the war, shortly after his term began, imposed duties and responsibilities far more ardu- ous, delicate and important than had ever before devolved upon that or any other similar position in this country. It became necessary, without the guide of precedent or experience, to improvise a vast and systematic bureau, meeting every require- ment attaching to the complete medical organization of a great force. There were many militia regiments to be promptly
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