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and was one of the contributors to the society library in 1761 During the Revolution he adhered to the Royal cause, and his property was confiscated. He went to England and died at Southampton, 1804.
He married, June 13, 1750, Catherine, daughter of John M. Evers. The children who survived him were: John Bayard, lieutenant-colonel in British army. Alida, wife of Johnson. Catherine, wife of Roberts. Samuel Vetch. William. Robert. Mary, afterwards Lady Arnold.
William Bayard, Jr., was a prominent merchant and mem- ber of the firm of Le Roy Bayard & Co. He was director of Banks of Amercia, president of Savings Bank at its beginning in 1819. President of Chamber of Commerce, governor of New York Hospital, trustee of Sailors' Snug Harbor, chairman of Greek Committee, member of New York Society Library and of St. John's Society, and one of the owners of Tontine Coffee House. He lived at 43 Wall street, but died at his residence in State street, September 18, 1826. He married Elizabeth. daughter of Samuel Cornell, October 4, 1783. His children were: Susan, wife of Woolsey Rogers. Catherine, first wife of Dun- can P. Campbell. Maria, second wife of Duncan P. Campbell. William, married Catherine Hammond, no issue. Justine, wife of Joseph Blackwell. Robert. Harriet, wife of Stephen Van Rensselaer.
Of these children, Robert Bayard was the last of the name in New York. He resided for a time in LeRoy, New York, but returned to the city where he died February 4, 1878. in his eighty-first year. He married Elizabeth, only child of James and Ruth ( Hunter) MeEvers. Her mother married Mr. MeEvers at a very early age. Being seized with a fatal consumption, she went to Europe with her husband, died in Rome, and was buried in the same cemetery where rest the remains of the poet
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Keats, and at the foot of the pyramid of Cains C'estins. Robert Bayard left three children: William, born February 16, 1821, died May 25, 1842, without issne. Rath Hunter, born June 22. 1822. married Alexander Spers Brown. Elise JJustine, born August 16, 1823, married Fulton Cutting, whose sons, William Bayard Cutting and Robert Fulton Cutting, are well known citizens.
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Residence of William Bayard.
The residence of William Bayard was situated in that por- tion of New York known as the village of Greenwich. Here he had a fine tract of three acres, fronting the river. This he purchased before 1770. After the Revolution it was confiscated and sold to Dr. Charles MeKnight. It was probably purchase. 1 from him by William Bayard, Jr., and it was his country seat. It was in this house that Alexander Hamilton died after his
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fatal duel with Aaron Burr. In 1833 the heirs of William Bayard, Jr., sold the house and land to Francis B. Cutting for abont $50,000. In April, 1835, it was divided into one hun- dred and twenty-five lots and sold at anction for $225,000. Streets were extended through it and the place where the Man- sion stood is now 82 Jane street. A New York newspaper of 1775 contains the following notice.
"Last Sunday week, (June 10, 1775) the House of Will- iam Bayard, Esq. at Greenwick, was struck by Lightning, which occasioned considerable damage. In several apartments large Pier glasses were broken, and a quantity of silver plate con- tained in a chest was pierced and otherwise affected without doing the least injiry to the chest."
SCHIEFFELIN FAMILY.
The family of Schieffelin can be traced back to the thir- teenth century, when it had large properties in Germany, and founded a chapel in Nordlingen, at a place called the Wine Market, in the year 1269. There was a branch of the family existing in Switzerland in the middle of the fifteenth century. and it has been claimed, seemingly with little authority, that the Swiss was the elder branch. However this may be, Conrad, the son of Franz Schieffelin, of Nordlingen and Nuremburg (for in 1476 the latter kept up residences in both places), mi- grated to the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, and, in considera- tion of his near relative, the Lord Syndic Besancon Hnges, he was admitted to citizenship February 14, 1518, gratis, and he- came possessed of the Fief de la Moliere, July 6. 1527. He left descendants prominent in the cantonal affairs of Switzer- land for several generations. In 1543 Hans Leonard Schieffelin, second nephew of Conrad, being the son of his brother, Hans Leonard, also moved from Germany to Switzerland, making Freiburg his residence. A picture painted in 1538 is still ex-
Lieut. Jacob Schieffelin.
Mrs. Hannah (Lawrence) Schieffelin.
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tant, representing the elder Hans Leonard Sehieffelin and his two sons worshiping the Paschal Lamb, which is also the erest of the family in this country. The first of the family to visit America was JJacob Schieffelin, of Weilheim an der Teck, in Germany. He came in 1732. The family had a dwelling in Weilheim, and a seat in the country, with the perpetnal right vested in the family of sending the eldest son to the college. Jacob Schieffelin died 1749, and in the same year his son, also named Jacob, came over to Philadelphia and settled in this country, bringing with him his family Bible, printed in 1560, which is still in possession of the family.
Jacob Schieffelin (2d) was born in 1732. He remained in Germany till 1749, when he came to America, and reached Philadelphia on the same day that his father died. He mar- ried, September 16, 1756, Regina Margaretta Kraften Ritschaurin. Their children were: Jacob, born August 24, 1757; Melehoir, born August 16, 1759; Jonathan, born July 16, 1762; and Thomas. The father of this family was a merchant in Philadelphia, but was also engaged in business in Montreal. He died in Philadelphia in 1769.
Jacob Schieffelin, (3d), the oldest son, married, Angust 13, 1780, Hannah, oldest daughter of JJohn and Ann ( Burling) Lawrence. He died at his residence in New York, April 16, 1835. His wife survived him, dying October 3, 1838. Their children were: 1. Edward Lawrence, born September 13, 178-, died at Lyme, Connecticut, October 5, 1850. He married, January 1, 1802, Susan Anna, daughter of Alexander Stewart, and had one child, Edward Anna, who married, in 1830, Frank Nicoll Sill, who died 1848. She then married Dr. John Noyes, who died 1854. After his death she married Captain S. Chad- wick, of Lyme, Connecticut, and died, leaving no issue. 2. Henry Hamilton, born June 20, 1783. (See post.) 3. Anna
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Maria, born April 11, 1788, married. April 4, 1808, Benjamin Ferris. 4. Effingham, born February 17, 1791. He married, September 9, 1813, Mary, daughter of Casper Samler, and died at East Chester, July 14, 1863, leaving a son Edgar. 5. Jacob, born April 20, 1793. 6. John Lawrence, born February 25, 1796; married. August 19, 1844, Mathilde Therese Bowen, and died at New Haven, April 22, 1866, leaving one child, Mary T., wife of Henry I. Sayers, of New York. 7. Richard Lawrence. born November 9, 1801.
Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, second son of Jacob and
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Schieffelin Coat of Arms.
Hannah (Lawrence) Schieffelin, married, April 19, 1806, Maria Theresa, daughter of Dr. Samuel Bradhurst, who died May 22, 1872. Their children were: 1. Mary Theresa, born January 14, 1807, married in 1827, William N. Clark. 2. Henry Maun- sell, born August 7, 1808. He married. in 1835, Sarah Louisa, daughter of David Wagstaff; no issue by this marriage. He married second, June 14, 1859, Sarah M. Kendall, of Maine. He died at Alexandria, Egypt, July 23, 1890. Their children were: Fanny, born September 16, 1860. (who married, October 12, 1881, Ernest Howard Crosby, and has two children, Margaret Eleanor, born April 25, 1884, and Maunsell Schieffelin, born
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February 14, 1887), and Mary Bradhurst, born July 18, 1862, died mumarried. 3. Samuel Bradhurst, born February 24, 1811. 4. James Lawrence, born in 1813. 5. Philip, born in 1815, mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Townley Haines. He died about 1889, leaving one child, Maria Theresa, who married Rev. William T. Sabine. 6. Sidney Augustus, born in 1818, resided at Geneva ; married Harriet Schuyler, and died in 1894, leaving two sons and three daughters. 7. Julia, born in 1821 ; married in 1840, Clement Remington. She died September 15, 1871. 8. Bradhurst, who was twice married, and had two children, Laura G. (who married in 1875, David Barton Cush- ing), and Emily. 9. Eugene, born in 1827, an artist of distinc- tion. He married Catharine, daughter of Valentine G. Hall.
Jacob Schieffelin, fourth son of Jacob and Hannah (Law- rence) Schieffelin, removed to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, about 1830. He married Elizabeth Chapman, and died Decem- ber 27, 1880. His widow died JJanuary 27, 1881, aged eighty- four. Their children were: 1. Clinton, born February 16, 1823. 2. Alfred, born September 23, 1827. 3. Elizabeth, born May 23. 1829. 4. Laura, born September 2, 1831. married O. B. Lowell. died September 18, 1866. 5. Cornelia, born February 4, 1834. 6. Jacob B., born March 25, died July 7, 1836. 7. Edward Girard (his twin brother), born March 25, 1836. 8. Jacob. Jr., born April 18, 1838. He married, February 1, 1866, Emily T. Ryan (born July 23, 1843), and had four children: Lila Gertrude, born November 11, 1868; Edward Effingham, born September 21, 1872; Thomas Lawrence, born July 31, 1874, and Jay Hoyt, born April 22, 1876. 9. Hannah Lawrence, born March 6, 1840.
Clinton Lawrence Schieffelin, the oldest son of the above family, settled in Oregon. In 1880 he removed to East Los An- geles, California, where he died, April 15, 1884. He had wife
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Jane, and children, Lafayette, died young; Edward L., born October 8, 1847, the discoverer of the mines at Tombstone, Arizona ; Albert Engene, born Angust 27, 1849; Jane Elizabeth. born September 2, 1851; Effingham L., born November 5, 1857; Charlotte, born November 27, 1859, married Edward Dunham; Richard Charles, born April 26, 1862; Jacob, died young; Theodore, born October 6, 1867, died September 17, 1881; Jay L., born July 11, 1870.
Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, youngest son of Jacob and Hannah (Lawrence) Schieffelin, married, August 3, 1833, Mar- garet Helen, daughter of Captain George Knox McKay, United States Artillery. He died November 21, 1889. Their children were: 1. Sarah Sophia, born June 22, 1834, married, January 30, 1858, Rev. Cuthbert Collingwood Barclay, Rector of All Saints Church, New York (who died February 7, 1863). She died without issue, March 5, 1886. 2. George Richard, born July 27, 1836. (See post.) 3. Helen Margaret, born May 7, 1841, married, June 21, 1869, William Irving Graham, and has two children, Helen M. and Julia Irving. Mr. Graham died August 21, 1871. His widow married, April 7, 1875, Alexander Robert Chisolm, and had one son, Richard Schieffelin Chisolm.
George Richard Schieffelin, the only son of Richard Law- rence and Margaret Helen (MeKay) Schieffelin, married, May 19, 1866, Julia Matilda, daughter of Honorable Isaac C. Dela- plaine. Their children are: 1. Julia Florence, married. December 4, 1888, Joseph Bruee Ismay, of Liverpool, now president of the International Mercantile Marine Company. Their children : Mar- garet Bruce, Thomas Bruce, Evelyn Constance and George Bruce. 2. Margaret Helen, married, December 10, 1890, Henry Graff Trevor. Their children: George Schieffelin. Margaret Estelle, Louisa Stephanie, Henry Graff and Helen Lispenard Stewart. 3. Matilda Constance, married, January 13, 1900,
Richard Lawrence Schieffelin.
George R. Schieffelin.
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Charles Bower Ismay. 4. Sarah Dorothy. 5. George Richard Delaplaine. He married, April 5, 1904, Louisa, daughter of Charles Scribner. They have one child, George MeKay.
Jacob Schieffelin (3d) at the age of seventeen accompanied his father to Montreal, and remained there for awhile in a mercantile house. Shortly after he went to Detroit and engaged in business. At the commencement of the American Revolu- tion he received a commission as first lieutenant in a company raised in Detroit, and was part of an expedition organized by Governor Henry Hamilton for the purpose of proceeding down the valley of the Mississippi to attack New Orleans. then under Spanish control, England being at that time at war with Spain. The expedition reached and captured Fort St. Vincent (now Vincennes, Indiana). After holding this place for some time. they were in turn attacked and defeated by a force organized in Virginia, and led by Colonel George Rogers Clark. The en- tire garrison was captured, including Governor Hamilton and Lieutenant Schieffelin, and were taken as prisoners of war to Williamsburg, Virginia. The greater part were released on parole, but Lieutenant Schieffelin, with some others, refusing. were placed in close confinement. He, with a fellow officer, man- aged to escape, and reached Chesapeake Bay. Finding an open boat they reached the sea and were picked up by a vessel As they spoke the French language fluently, they had no difficulty in passing themselves off for shipwrecked French sailors, and were landed in New York. Lientenant Schieffelin at once called upon Sir Henry Clinton, the commander of the British forces, who was then residing at No. 1 Broadway, and narrated his adventures and stated his position. General Clinton relieved his immediate wants by paying him one hundred guineas, and also reappointed him as an officer in a regiment called " Amer- ican Royalists," which he was then organizing. In this, as in
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many other cases, Venus baffled the plans of Mars. The young lieutenant had fallen in love with Hannah Lawrence, the daugh- ter of a prominent Quaker merchant, who, true to the prin- ciples of her sect, refused to marry unless he resigned from the army. This he promptly did, and they were married by the chaplain of the fort, and the marriage was registered in Trin- ity Church. This was also contrary to Qnaker discipline, and the yonng bride was promptly "read out" of the Friends Meet- ing, but between the parents of the bride and the new son-in- law there was ever the kindest of feelings. Almost immedi- ately after the marriage, the young couple embarked on board a small sailing vessel bound for Quebec, and a full account of the tempestnous voyage of several weeks is very graphically narrated in a journal kept by the young wife, and which is one of the treasured heirlooms of her descendants. From Quebec they went to Niagara and Detroit, a long and tedions as well as dangerous journey of two months, which can now be made in twelve hours. He was appointed secretary of the Province of Detroit, and also engaged in business and purchased several tracts of land which may be seen on old maps of that city. He also purchased from the Indians a large tract, seven miles square, opposite Detroit. The deed, with the marks of the Indian Sachems, is still preserved, but as the grant was never confirmed by the British government it failed to be of any benefit to the purchaser or his descendants. After remaining there some years he returned to Montreal, where he engaged in business as an auctioneer, and remained until 1794, when he returned to New York, and with his brother-in-law, John B. Lawrence, founded the firm of Schieffelin & Company, which still exists in well merited prosperity. On February 1, 1797, he leased from William Walton the famous Walton mansion at No. 326 Pearl street. This was one of the finest houses in the
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city, and the annual rent was "$400 New York Currency," or $1,000. There was a clause in the lease which provides that "if the said William should be married and desire the use of the house" the lease should cease. This contingency evidently occurred, for Mr. Schieffelin relinquished possession. He then leased from the heirs of Dr. Gerard William Beeckman the house on the upper corner of Pearl street and Sloat Lane (now Hanover street), and here his youngest child, Richard Law- rence Schieffelin, was born in 1801. While living in this house he had as a near neighbor the famous General Moreau, their equal ability to converse in the French language being a bond of union between them. Mr. Schieffelin purchased for a coun- try seat a large tract of land on the Hudson river and extend- ing east to the old Post road. His house stood in the middle of the block, between what is now Amsterdam and Eleventh avenues, and at 143rd and 142nd streets. The eastern part of the tract he sold to General Alexander Hamilton, a name famous in our nation's history, and upon it was erected the noted Hamilton Grange, which still stands, an interesting relie of the past. The negotiations for the sale and purchase, in the hand- writing of Hamilton, are still preserved, and a fac simile is here given. In 1809 Mr. Schieffelin, with his brothers-in-law, Jolm B. Lawrence and Thomas Buckley, purchased several tracts and laid out the village of Manhattanville. A map was made, but that was completely superseded by the general map of the city. Of the original streets only two (Lawrence and Man- hattan streets) vet remain. Schieffelin street, with the others. have disappeared. To his country seat at 143d street. Mr. Schieffelin gave the name of "Rocca Hall." During the latter part of his life he lived at No. 107 East Broadway, and he died there April 19, 1835, leaving what was then considered a large fortune. His remains rest in a vault at St. Mary's Church,
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which he founded in 1823, the church edifice, which is situated on Lawrence street, having been erected in 1832.
His son, Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, was a man who had a knowledge of almost every science and art, and was also a linguist of distinguished ability. He seems to have been one who, if he had concentrated his abilities and mental power upon one object, would have made his name famous. He graduated from Columbia College in 1802, made an extended tour in Eu- rope, and was present at the coronation of the Emperor Napo- leon. He studied law, but soon abandoned the profession for mereantile pursuits. The place of business of the firm, estab- ished by his father and continued by him, was on John street, opposite Cliff street, and the buildings vet remain. He died about 1865. His youngest son, Eugene, died in August, 1906.
Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, the youngest child of Jacob. graduated from Columbia College in 1818, and at the time of his death was the sole survivor of his class. He studied law with his brother-in-law, Benjamin Ferris, who was a noted lawyer in his time. They formed a partnership, from which Mr. Schieffelin retired in 1843. In 1815 he was president of the Board of Aldermen. He was especially interested in the state militia and held a commission as Brigadier-General. He was connected with many organizations of a business and char- itable nature. For many years he was Senior Warden of St. Mary's Church, and was for sixty-six years a representative in the Diocesan Convention, and was one of the vestrymen of St. Thomas Church. He possessed great literary ability, and was a frequent contributor to newspapers upon the enrrent ques- tions and topics of the day. His country seat was at what is now 92nd street, on the Hudson river. This region was at that time as much "country" as can be found now one hundred
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miles from New York. His eity residence was No. 18 East 22nd street, and he died there November 21, 1889.
George Richard Schieffelin, only son of Richard Lawrence, graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1855. He studied law with Augustus Schell, a noted lawyer and poli- tician, and at one time Collector of the Port of New York. He remained in this office three years, and since then has been engaged in legal practice on his own account. He is one of the original members of the Society of Colonial Wars, and is a member of the Society of War of 1812, Corresponding Seere- tary of the New York Historical Society, Member of the Colo- nial Order, Senior Warden of St. Mary's Church, and Presi- dent of the Parochial Fund of the New York Diocese.
Mr. Schieffelin may be said to be one of the founders of the village of the "New Southampton," Long Island. In 1880 he went there with William H. Schieffelin and Colonel Siebert, having very little previous knowledge of the place now so popu- lar. He was so favorably impressed with the locality that he and his friends purchased land and erected large and elegant mansions the same year. Mr. Schieffelin still makes this his summer residence, and is one of the founders of the Village Improvement Society, of which he has been president, then a vestryman of St. Andrew's Dune Church, president of the Southampton Club, and one of the best known as well as useful members of the city colony.
To one of the members of this honored family a more than passing notice should be given. Edward Lawrence Schieffelin was one of the most venturesome of men, and a most determined explorer. He was one of the first company to ascend and ex- plore the Yukon river, in Alaska. While in Arizona he started on a prospecting journey in search of gold. The country was swarming with hostile Indians, and his departure was aceom-
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panied with the comforting assurance of his comrades left behind, that he would "find his tombstone," but nothing more. His search, however, was rewarded by the discovery of the richest mines in the country, to which, in recollection of the fate predicted, he named "Tombstone," a name now famous. He was a perfect specimen of physical manhood, six feet four inches in height, and with long locks that flowed upon his shoulders. He died some years ago, but the fame of his discovery still remains.
The Arms of the Schieffelin family are thus described :
Tierce per fess sable and or, on three piles, two conjoined with one between transposed invected.
Counter charged as many cross erosslets of the first.
Crest, a holy lamb passant, erowned with a glory, bearing cross staff and pennon proper.
Motto. Per fidem et constantiam.
Sammel Bradhurst Schieffelin, son of Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, was born February 24, 1811. He married. in 1835, Lucretia Hazzard. Their children were: William Henry, born 1835. Alice Holmes, born 1838, married, in 1858. Russell Steb- bins. Mary Theresa Bradhurst, born 1840, married, 1863, Gen- eral Charles Cleveland Dodge.
Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin was the author of several well known works: "Foundations of History," an illustrated volume on the early history of the world, also " Milk for Babes." and other catechisms and religious manuals.
William Henry Schieffelin married, 1863, Mary, daughter of llon. John Jay, a representative of a most honored and distinguished family. Their children are: Eleanor Jay, Will- iam Jay, Samuel Bradhurst, John Jay and Geoffrey. The three last died in early years.
William Jay Schieffelin was born in 1866, married, Feb-
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WILLIAM JAY SCHICFFELIN. SAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN.
WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN, JR.
WILLIAM H. SCHIEFFELIN.
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ruary 5, 1891, Maria Louisa, daughter of Colonel Elliot F. and Margaret (Vanderbilt) Shepard. Their children are: William Jay, Jr., Margaret Louise, Mary Jay, John Jay, Lonise Van- derbilt, Bayard, Elliott and Barbara.
Eleanor JJay Schieffelin married Theodore Munger Taft in 1903.
In 1794 New York City was not yet a place to boast of. On all the east side, which was the most thickly settled portion, there was but one store built of brick; this was on the corner of Front street and Gouverneur Lane. The City Hotel in Broadway was in process of erection on the spot where had stood the mansion of James De Lancey, who had been lieutenant- governor in Colonial days, and where the Boreel building stood, which has been taken down recently. In the same year the noble steeple was being added to St. Paul's Church, which had been erected in 1765. Sonth street did not then exist, and al- most all the shipping lay at the docks on the East river between the Battery and Peck Slip, for the North river front was con- sidered too much exposed. The whole number of vessels that cleared the port during that year was 2,389. There were few houses north of Grand street.
In 1798 the yellow fever carried off 2,760 victims, and the population of the city was reduced to 15,300 persons. The place of business of Jacob Schieffelin and his father-in-law, John Lawrence, was at 195 Pearl street, nearly opposite the Fiy market at the foot of Maiden Lane. Of the two partners Jacob Schieffelin was the more prominent, for he had seen more of the world. He engaged in the shipping business, and his first venture in 1795 cleared him what was then a fortune of $25,000. Subsequent events, well known to history, made shipping a precarious business, and Mr. Schieffelin went on with the drug business, in his own name, which has continned withont inter-
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