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them out. To give liberally was the least of her well doing. She felt that the poor and ignorant needed far more than money - the hopeful advice, the foresight, the experience and the trained judgment of those in higher stations in life, and she, therefore, habitually sought to make her charities not merely a relief, but also an education in a better and more thrifty mode of life. At an early day she purchased and fitted up, and has since maintained, a sort of model tenement house, to be allowed to hire and occupy apartments in which came to be esteemed by the worthy poor a privilege and an object of ambition. Here she watched over them, encouraged them to form habits of neatness, order and economy, taught them to make small savings, and thus built up in them a sense of self-respect and of independence. To the very last and after she had given up all other cares in life, her thoughts and anxieties still followed " her poor," as she tenderly called them. She also labored, with some partial success, to establish in the neighborhood of poor and working people reading rooms and a place of cheerful and comfortable resort for them during the long evenings of winter. Surely such a life cannot fail of the benediction, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
But it was not among the poor alone that the influence of her character was felt. No lady in this city has done more to promote intellectual tastes and habits of good reading through- out the wide circle of her friends. The Ladies' Book Club in this city owes its establishment and success largely to her con- stant care of it and her sound judgment in the selection of books.
But after all, admirable as she was in her life and example, her friends were bound to her by more tender and endearing ties. To have her for your friend was no common privilege. It was not lightly given, but when given it was something worth having and something for one to try to be worthy of. It was to be believed in, to be trusted with a generous con- fidence, to be ever met with a smile and kind welcome, to know that your character and motives were in friendly keeping, that your successes would be rejoiced in and your errors and failures
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lovingly sorrowed for, and that among all the changes and chances of life you had a friend who would sympathize not less in your sorrows than in your joys.
Although during her latter years her intercourse with gen- eral society was more and more restricted by her increasing deafness, her buoyancy and sprightliness of nature never wholly forsook her, but threw a brightness over the comparative quiet and seclusion of her life. Great as is our loss, there is much to comfort us in our bereavement. The world has been the better and the happier for her life, and she leaves us remem- brances that will abide with us and be a blessing and consola- tion till we shall be called to join her again. M.
THOMAS HUN, M. D., now Dean of the Faculty of the Albany Medical College, was born in Albany. Losing his parents at an early age, le and his sister were brought up by their maternal grandparents - Judge and Mrs. Leonard Gansevoort, Jr. Asa very small boy he attended a school kept by an English gentleman and lady, Mr. and Mrs. Upfold. In 1818 he entered the Albany Academy, where he remained until he had completed his whole course of academical preparation for college. He was decided in character, intelligent, studious and always main- taining a good standing in his classes. The academy was then as it still is, one of the best classical and mathematical schools in the country, and young HUN left it in the autumn of 1824 and entered the junior class of Union College at the age of sixteen, with more than usual preparation for liis college course. In college he had for his chum the late Prof. Isaac W. Jackson. Here he fully maintained his character for intelligence and scholarship, and graduated with honors in 1826, taking his degree of A. B.
Immediately after leaving college he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Platt Williams, then a prac- titioner of considerable eminence in Albany. In 1827 he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania and in 1830, having completed its full course of medical studies, received from that institution the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then returned to Albany and began the prac- tice of his profession in connection with Dr. Williams. On
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the outbreak of the cholera, early in the summer of 1832, a cholera hospital was organized in Albany and Dr. HUN was appointed one of its physicians. He continued in this position, discharging the duties with marked skill and fidelity, until the disappearance of the cholera and the closing of the hospital in the autumn of that year. In the spring of 1833 he determined, with the view of the better prosecution of his studies, to go to Europe, and he went accordingly, and with the exception of two brief visits, during that time to this country, he remained abroad, residing chiefly in Paris, until 1839.
During the six years of his stay abroad, he availed himself of the opportunities thus afforded him for a wide and liberal range of studies bearing more or less upon his profession. For the first two or three years he gave himself rather to the broader and more general lines of scientific and professional study than to those relating to practice. But after his last visit to this country, and when he had decided to return home and resume the practice of his profession, he devoted himself exclusively for several years, to attendance on the hospitals and all the varied means that Paris offered to students for acquiring a knowledge of practice.
The Albany Medical College had been incorporated and organized in 1838, and Dr. HUN, previous to his return home, had been invited to accept in it the professorship of the Insti- tutes of Medicine. On his return he accepted the appoint- ment and entered upon its duties. His inaugural address ex- cited much interest and admiration from its philosophic treat- ment of his subject and its large grasp of principles as well as from its lucid style and its clear and forcible illustrations. His lectures and instructions as professor were always regarded, especially by the best class of pupils, as most interesting and instructive, and added much to the reputation of the college. He continued to hold this class until 1858, when he resigned it and devoted himself wholly to his private practice, which had become large and of the best kind.
On the incorporation of the Albany Hospital in 1848, Dr. HUN became one of the board of Consulting Physicians. Sub- sequently, on the organization of St. Peter's Hospital in this city, he held the same position on its medical staff. In 1862 14
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he became the president of the State Medical Society, and as such delivered an inaugural address which attracted much attention from the profession from the boldness of its position and its opposition to the traditional ideas of medical theory and practice. He maintained that neither medicine nor the physician, although both were important in their place, ever cured disease. That the curative power was in Nature alone. That the function of the physician was not to cure, but to preside over, watch and aid the efforts of nature to cure, by recognizing the true character of the disease, its course, its processes and effects, also the accidents and dangers to which it is liable, and thus be able to secure, as far as possible, such favorable circumstances, aids and conditions as may be most contributory to the restorative powers of nature. On the re- organization of the Albany Medical College in 1876, Dr. HUN was unanimously called to be the Dean of the Faculty, but he declined undertaking with it the duties of any professorship. Dr. HUN's natural tastes and tendencies have always inclined him more to a studious and contemplative life than to an active and practical one. He has a rare power of abstract thought, and philosophical studies, especially in the line of metaphysical and ethical investigation, have always had much attraction for him. He has, nevertheless, been a careful observer of what was going on in the world around him, and has had very decided views in regard to all such matters. In his profession he has always been regarded as a skillful and successful practitioner, and in the knowledge and treatment of pulmonary diseases, no physician in Albany has ever stood higher in the confidence of the profession and of the public. As a practitioner he has been especially noted not only for his sagacity and accuracy in the diagnosis of disease, but also for his calm far-sighted wisdom and his large comprehension of the constitutional tendencies, habits and other circumstances specially affecting the case and calling for consideration in its treatment. M.
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Peter Freeman, son of (43) John Smith Hun and Margaret Freeman, was born May 20, 1792; married Maria T. Griffin in 1819, and had
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79 Freeman, b. September 11, 1820.
80 Mary F., b. April 11, 1822; d. August, 1851.
81 Margaret, b. April 16, 1824.
82 Catharine Matilda, b. December 21, 1826.
83 John Thomas, b. December 15, 1829; d. in 1858.
Peter Freeman Hun died in Newburgh in 1847.
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Edward Reynolds, son of (61) Dr. Thomas Hun and Lydia Louisa Reynolds, was born in Albany April 17, 1842; married Cornelia De Forest, daughter of John B. Gale and Elizabeth V. S. Wells, of Troy, N. Y., April 29, 1874, and had
84 Lydia Louisa, b. July 8, 1875.
85 Elizabeth Gale, b. November 5, 1876.
86 John Gale, b. November 21, 1877.
87 Catharine, b. January 21, 1880.
Dr. Edward R. Hun died in Stamford, Conn., March 14, 1880.
OBITUARY.
(Dr. EDWARD R. HUN.)
The many friends in this city and elsewhere of Dr. EDWARD R. HUN have been deeply pained to learn of his unlooked-for death, which took place early on Sunday morning last, at Stam- ford, Conn., where he had been staying for some time past for the benefit of his health. From almost the very outset of his professional life, he had a very large, laborious and responsible practice, and the zeal and devotion which he brought to it were so unremitting and exhausting that his friends have for many years feared that he was laboring beyond his strength, which was never very great. Several years since he was thrown from his carriage and received a stunning blow upon the head and a general shock to his system, to which he himself attributed much of his subsequent feeble health. About a year ago he found his health so much impaired, that he came to the conclusion to withdraw from practice, only temporarily as he then thought, and to seek rest and restoration in absence from home. Accom- panied by his wife, he spent the spring of last year in Florida, but his stay was not attended with the benefit he expected, and he resorted during the summer to the more bracing air of the
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northern part of this State, and for the last few months he has been at Stamford, where he died. Until almost the time of his last and fatal attack, it was fondly hoped by himself and his friends that his health was slowly improving by this exemption from care and labor, and that in due time he would be able again to return to his professional work. Very recently, how- ever, he found himself not quite as well as he had been, and on Friday last he had been to New York to consult his phy- sician, and soon after his return he was suddenly struck down by apoplexy and became at once wholly unconscious and remained so till the time of his death. He had not yet quite completed his 38th year, and for so young a man his pro- fessional career had been quite a remarkable one. Probably no other physician in this city had ever had at so early an age so large and responsible a practice. From the very first, his abilities and acquirements were recognized, not less by his pro- fessional brethren than by the public, and. he at once took his place in the very first rank of his profession. Those who have known his parents will be at no loss to know whence the rare qualities of his mind and character were derived. Muclı as he owed to his advantages of education at home and abroad, and to the hardly less valuable privilege of constant intercourse with a father eminent for learning, wisdom and experience in the same profession, he nevertheless owed even more to his own remarkable natural endowments and aptitudes for his pro- fession. He had an almost feminine quickness of perception and great facility in acquiring knowledge. What cost others painful effort, he caught on the wing and made his own. He had remarkable sagacity and accuracy in diagnosis. In detect- the characteristics of disease, his power seemed to be intuitive and to reach its results at a glance, rather than by any slow process of examination and reasoning. His maternal grand- father, who was one of the most eminent members of the Bar of this State, was distinguished in a different sphere for very similiar qualities of mind. Dr. EDWARD R. HUN's nature was an ardent and sympathetic one, and in a case of any interest and importance he would throw himself into it unreservedly, and with all his heart and mind. At such times he showed not only untiring vigilance, but great fertility of resource.
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There was about him in a marked degree that indescribable something that inspired confidence. He was a man of great kindness of heart, faithful, affectionate and of a high standard of integrity and honor. He had in a rare degree the faculty of winning the love and confidence of children, and of estab- lishing pleasant relations with them. To the old, the poor and the lowly he was always especially gentle and considerate, having ever for them a kind and cheering word, which, if he could do them no other good, left them the better and happier for his coming. While in the fullness of his powers, and be- fore the disease which overcame him had begun to throw its shadow over the brightness of his spirit, his presence was like a gleam of sunshine in a sick-room; and many a household in this city will mourn the loss of their warm-hearted friend not less than of their trusted and devoted physician.
This is not the place to speak of the traits that made the charm and happiness of his domestic life, nor of the unfailing love and fidelity that watched over him through all the long course of his declining health. Nor may we now dwell upon the quiet and unostentatious, but firm and decided religious faith and principle that underlay and gave its tone to his whole character. Now that he has gone from us and our anxieties for him are at an end, we can fall back upon the impressions of his honorable, useful and benignant life, which remain to us as a pleasant and cherished remembrance. Such lives are not to be measured by the number of their years, but rather by the good work well done which they have fulfilled M.
TESTIMONIALS OF RESPECT.
ACTION OF THE FACULTY OF THE ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE.
At a meeting of the Albany Medical College, held in the College Library, Monday evening, March 15, 1880, the follow- ing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted :
. WHEREAS, We have received the sad news that Prof. E. R. HUN, M. D., died at Stamford, Conn., the 14th of this month ; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the loss of EDWARD R. HUN, M. S., Professor of Nervous Diseases, is one deeply felt by his brother pro-
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fessors, and that they hereby tender their heartfelt sympathy to his family in their affliction.
Resolved, That by his death the Albany Medical College has lost an able professor and the profession at large one of its most earnest workers.
Resolved, That we attend the funeral in a body ; that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the deceased, forwarded to the Board of Trustees, entered upon the minutes of the faculty and published in the daily papers.
C. S. MERRILL, M. D., A. VANDERVÉER, M. D, & Committee. J. S. MOSHER, M. D.,
ACTION OF THE STAFF OF THE ALBANY HOSPITAL.
At a special meeting of the Staff of the Albany Hospital, held Monday evening, March 15, 1880, Dr. Joseph Lewi was made Chairman, and Dr. William Hailes, Jr., Secretary pro tem.
Dr. Lewi officially announced the death of Dr. EDWARD R. HUN, a member of the Staff, and in appropriate terms spoke most eulogistically of the deceased, saying that he was one of the most promising of our rising men in the medical profession, and that in his acquaintance, extending over a period of years, he had always found him to be a true friend, an able physician and a courteous gentleman.
Dr. F. C. Curtis moved that a committee, composed of Drs. Lewi, Boyd and Hailes, be appointed to draft resolutions ex- pressive of the feelings of the Staff. The committee reported :
WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst, by sudden death, our esteemed and lamented colleague,
Resolved, That we have heard with profound sorrow the death of our confrere Dr. EDWARD R. HUN, who was stricken down in the midst of his usefulness, and called from earth, just after passing the threshold of his professional career.
Resolved, That in his death we have lost an able adviser and associate, and the institution one of its most efficient friends and officers.
Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympathy to his sorrowing family in this, the hour of their deep affliction, and mingle our grief with theirs at his untimely departure.
(Signed.) DR. JOSEPH LEWI, Chairman.
DR. JAMES P. BOYD, JR.,
DR. WM. HAILES, JR., Secretaries pro tem.
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MEDICAL STAFF OF THE CHILD'S HOSPITAL.
At a meeting of the Medical Staff of the Child's Hospital, held Monday evening, March 15, 1880, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted :
WHEREAS, We have just received the saddening information of the sudden death of our associate EDWARD R. HUN, M. D .; therefore be it
Resolved, That by the death of Dr. E. R. HUN, the Child's Hospital has lost one of its ablest physicians and a valued friend and counselor.
Resolved, That we tender to the family our most earnest sympathy in this their great loss, and mourn with them in their bereavement
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family, forwarded to the Board of Managers, and published in the daily papers.
JAMES W. COX, M. D., - T. MARKLEY TREGO, M. D., Committee. LEWIS BALCH, M. D.,
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Marcus Tullius, son of (61) Thomas Hun and Lydia Louisa Reynolds, was born in Albany May 22, 1845 ; married (105) Mary K., daughter of (78) Isaac Vanderpoel and Susan Foster, December 21, 1875, and had
88 Ellen Vanderpoel, b. February 25, 1877.
89 Mary Vanderpoel, b. April 2, 1882.
Marcus T. Hun resides in Albany, is a member of the bar. He was formerly Deputy Attorney-General, and is now Reporter of the Supreme Court of this State.
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Leonard G., son of (61) Thomas Hun and Lydia Louisa Reynolds, graduated at the Military Academy, at West Point, with high honors, at the head of his class. After serving in the Army some years le resigned his commission and com- menced practicing law in Albany, where he is in partnership with his brother MARCUS T. HUN.
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Henry, son of (61) Thomas Hun and Lydia Louisa Reynolds, has received his degree of M. D. ; he has been pur- suing his medical studies in Europe, and is now a practicing physician in Albany.
FEMALE BRANCH OF THE HUN FAMILY.
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Weintie, daughter of (2) Harman Thomase Hun, was born October 29, 1663; married (81) Rut Melcherts Van Deusen in 1692.
(See Van Deusen.)
Catalyntie, daughter of (6) Thomase Harmense Hun and (4) Mayeke Oothout, was born September 4, 1693; mar- ried (39) John G. Lansing, November, 1726. (See Lansing.)
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Elsie, daughter of (8) Johannis Hun and Anna Winne, was born March 18, 1733 ; married (97) Philip Lansing, May 19, 1757.
(See Lansing.)
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Judith, daughter of (14) Adrian Hun and Phoebe Smith, was born February 19, 1734-5 ; married Uriah Carl or Carrel, and had three children ; probably lived in Greenbush.
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Maritie, daughter of (15) Harmen Hun and (65) Elsie Lansing, was born September 3, 1736; married Cornelius Van Beuren, December 23, 1758, and had
90 Elsie, b. November 25, 1759; m. NICHOLAS VAN RENSSELAER, November 20, 1780.
Maritie Hun, wife of CORNELIUS VAN BEUREN, died March 21, 1817.
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Jane, daughter of (15) Harmen Hun and (65) Elsie Lan- sing, was born June 1, 1739; married, Ist, Volkert Van Vechten, November, 1762; 2d, (106}) Thomas Lansing, October 28, 1792.
(See Lansing.)
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Catalyntie, daughter of (15) Harmen Hun and (65) Elsie Lansing, was born December 15, 1749, at 3 A. M. ; mar- ried (101) Isaac Bogart, December 1, 1773.
(See Bogart.)
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Cornelia, daughter of (21) Willem Hun and Sarah De Forest, was born May 28, 1763; married John, son of Isaac Fonda and Susannah De Forest, October 13, 1783, and had
91 Sarah, b --; m. JELLIS WINNE; d. November 5, 1834.
92 Isaac, b. May 7, 1786; m. MARTHA TOWNSEND, February 14, 1811; d. March 15, 1853.
93 Maria, b. July 3, 1788; m. CHARLES DE KAY TOWNSEND, Decem- ber 10, 1807; d. November 12, 1835.
94 William.
95 Stephen, b. ---; m. LUCINDA TANNER.
96 Cornelia.
John Fonda died in 1814.
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Cathalina, daughter of (35) Dirck Hun and (246) Annetje Lansing, was born March 19, 1783; married (289) Harmanus (b. February 20, 1781), son of (226) Cornelius Wendell and (252) Anna Lansing, April 21, 1812. (See 289 Harmanus Wendell.)
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Elsie, daughter of (35) Dirck Hun and (246) Annetje Lansing, was born March 27, 1785; married Charles New- kirk (b. October 10, 1790), May 15, 1817, and had 15
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97 Anna Maria, b. February 12, 1819; m. WILLIAM CLARK, January 5, 1836; d. October 31, 1854.
98 Charles C., b. May 12, 1821.
99 Gertrude Lansing, b. June 18, 1823; m. LIVINGSTON K. MILLER, December 18, 1850.
100 Catharine V. D., b. February 5, 1826; m. DAVID H. PAIGE, June 5, 1850; d. March 17, 1851.
101 Ellen H., b. September 9, 1829; d. August 1, 1843.
Charles Newkirk died March 20, 1852.
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Mary F., daughter of (43) John Smith Hun and Mar- garet Freeman, was born April 24, 1791; married William H. Falls (b. 1790), March 20, 1821, and had
102 Adeline, b. December 28, 1821; d. April 17, 1823.
103 Margaret, b. April 15, 1823.
104 William A., b. November 14, 1825.
105 De Witt C., b. March 17, 1828; m. GEORGIANA F. GANNEUR, February 20, 1855.
106 Cornelia Hun, b. April 19, 1830; m. JAMES W. BINGHAM, Decem- ber 20, 1854.
107 Charles Augustus, b. September 7, 1832.
108 Theodore, b. June 9, 1835.
William H. Falls died in New York city, in January, 1861.
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Cornelia Van Emberg, daughter of (43) John Smith Hun and Margaret Freeman, was born April 28, 1795 ; married James Wheeler, of Warwick, Orange County, N. Y., in 1830, and had
109 Mary Elizabeth, b. October 18, 1830; m. J. AMHERST WINNER. 110 John James, b. March 8, 1832; m. HARRIET WINNER.
111 De Witt C., b. March 27, 1834; m. CLARA CURTIS, December 30, 1858.
112 Franklin, b. August 26, 1836.
113 Edward, b. in 1838.
LANSING.
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Gerrit Frederick, son of Frederick Lansing, of the town of Hassel, in the Province of Overyssell, came to New Amsterdam with three sons, and probably to Rensselaerwyck about 1650. He had also three daughters, all his children having been born before leaving Hassel. They were
2 Gerrit, b. -; m. ELSJE, daughter of WOUTER VAN WYTHORST.
3 Hendrick, b. - -; m. LYSBET ; d. July 11, 1709.
4 Johannes, b. -; m (2) GEERTJE VAN SCHAICK, widow of HENDRICK COSTER, in 1678.
5 Altje (Alida), b. -; m. GERRIT VAN SLIGHTENHORST.
6 Gysbertie, b. - -; m. HENDRICK ROSEBOOM, 1679 ?
7 Hilletje, b. - ; m. STORM VAN DER ZEE (BRADT). He died about 1679.
Gerrit F. Lansing was probably dead before the 3d of October, 1679, as on that day the above-named children made a joint conveyance of property.
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Gerrit, son of (1) Gerrit Frederick Lansing, was born probably in Hassel ; married Elsje, daughter of Wouter Van Wythorst, and had
8 Gerrit, b. -; In. CATHARINE SANDERS GLEN, widow, August 21,1692.
9 Abraham, b. 1663; m. MAGDELENA VAN TRICHT, November 28, 1703.
10 Johannes, b. January 1, 1675; m. HELENA SANDERS, September 20, 1704. He died August 10, 1771, æ. 97 years, 6 months and 10 days.
11 Susanna, b. -; m. MATTYS NACK, July 24, 1698.
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12 Isaac, b. May 14, 1677; m. (14) JANNETJE BEECKMAN, June 27, 1703.
13 Jacob, b. June 6, 1681 ; m. HELENA GLEN about 1710.
14 Myndert, b. -; d. s.
15 Wouter, bp. August 12, 1683.
16 Elizabeth, bp. January 20, 1689 ; d. September, 1730.
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Hendrick G., son of (1) Gerrit Frederick Lansing, was born, probably, in Hassel; married Lysbet, and had
17 Libbitie, b. -; m. DANIEL BRADT, April 18, 1697.
18 Jacob, b. -; m. HELENA PRUYN, September 27, 1701; d. October 17, 1756.
19 Hendrick, Jr., b. -; m. (see 167 Bogaert) JANNETJE KNICKER- BACKER, March 4, 1704.
20 Alida, b. July 3, 1685 ; m. ISAAC D. FONDA, December 18, 1708.
21 Maria, b. - -; m. HYBERT GERRITSIE, October 20, 1693.
Hendrick G. Lansing was in Albany as early as 1666. He died July 11, 1709.
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