USA > New York > Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and family history of New York, Volume I > Part 8
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24
134
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
ruption until the present time. and its centennial anniversary was duly celebrated in 1894.
In 1800 the population of the city was abont 60,000, and the cost of eity goverment was $130,000. Stages, the only means of communication, ran to Albany. Boston and Philadelphia. To send a letter for any distance less than forty miles cost eight gents, and for any distance over five hundred miles the postage was twenty-five cents. In politics Jefferson and Aaron Burr were the most prominent. Five years later, the business having
NOTICE.
I HE CO.PARTNERSHIP of LAWRENCE & SCHIEFFELIN, Druggifts, of this city. diffolives this day by mutual agreement. All perfons having any demands against them, are defined to call on Jacob Schief. fein, the proprietor of the State of Drugs and Medicines. No. 195. Pearl-Street, for payment , and those who are indebted to the concern, are requested to make immediate payment to the fund Jacob Sebirfelin, who is au- thonzed to receive all debts that are ouutanding.
New. York, October 18. 1799-
JOHN B LAWRENCE. JACOB SCHIEFFELIN
THE INSPECTED STORE OF
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
No. 195. Pearl Street, near the Fly-Market. one house from the corner : late LAWRENCE AND SCHIEFFELIN,
In addition to the former Stock on hand. is now replenifhed by an extenfive and general affortment of genuine DRUGS and MEDICINES from Europe, and fold as ufual, Wholefale and Retad. on the loweft terms. for cath, country produce, or credit, by
JACOB SCHIEFFELIN, Who hath purchased his Partner's Share in the said Store.
rapidly increased, Jacob Schieffelin took as a partner his son, Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, under the firm name of Jacob Schieffelin & Son. The business became very heavy for those days. They had several buildings filled with drugs and other goods, besides the one they occupied at 193 Pearl street. The newspapers of the time showed that they advertised exten- sively. Their business was not confined to drugs, and they also offered for sale "Muscovado Sugars," coffee, cotton. and among other things appeared "300 barrels of gun powder, 400 casks of brimstone and 100 barrels double refined salt petre." These were very large quantities in those days.
135
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
In 1807 came the greatest wonder of the age. The steam- boat "Clermont" made her first trip, and after that it was possible to be able to start for Albany on Monday and be back on Friday, which seemed little short of a miracle. The com- merce of the United States bad much to contend with. England, with its orders in council, France with her Berlin decrees, and the pirates of the Mediterranean, all contended to cripple the business, and last of all came the war of 1812. From all of these the firm of Schieffelin & Son suffered damage, two of their ships having been seized by order of Napoleon and an- other by the English. For the former they recovered $10.000 and that was all. In 1811 the senior partner retired, and the business, rapidly increasing, was carried on by Henry H. Schieffelin and his brothers, Effingham and Jacob II., under the name of H. H. Schieffelin & Company. Under this name it con- tinned until 1849. After the war of 1812 the business of the country rapidly increased. In 1814 the revenue was $4.415,000. The next year it had risen to $37,695,625.
In 1816 ocean steamships ran to England. The era of cheap daily newspapers soon came. In the great panie of 1837 only the strongest business houses survived, and among these was that of H. H. Schieffelin & Company. The building of the Erie canal in 1825 rendered the "Western Country" tributary 10 New York. The business of the firm had outgrown its place. and the firm removed to Maiden Lane. Their quarters there proved too small, and in 1841 the firm was established at 104-106 John street. It had not only withstood the panie, but the busi- ness had materially increased. In 1848 it absorbed the exten- sive business of Hoadley Phelps & Company and purchased their entire stock. In 1849 Henry H. Schieffelin retired from business, having been for forty years a partner, and for thirty- five years the head of the firm. He was the first vice-presi-
136
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
dent of the College of Pharmacy in 1825-30, and was president in 1861. The business was continned under most favorable circumstances by his four sons, Samuel Bradhurst, Sidney Augustus, James Lawrence and Bradhurst Schieffelin, and under the name of Schieffelin Brothers & Company continued for sixteen years.
Facilities for rapid communication had so increased that it was no longer necessary for customers from distant parts to make their semi-annual visits to New York; they could send their orders by mail or telegraph with assurance of quick re- turns. The year 1865 completed the firm's existence under the name of Schieffelin Brothers & Company. Of these Samuel B. Schieffelin had the chief direction of affairs, and to his energy its success had been largely due. Advantage had been taken of all the improved facilities of modern times, and the effort was soon apparent. In 1853 Asher B. Randolph, and in 1855 John D. Dix became members of the firm. In 1854 the increase of the business rendered removal again necessary, and a large structure, to afford ample accommodation, was erected at 170-172 William street, at the corner of Beekman. It is of brick, six stories in height, with basement, sub cellar and fire proof vaults. Upon removal to this edifice, a department ex- clusively for druggists' sundries, shop ware &c. was organized, and the subsequent growth of the business has abundantly justified this step, which the firm was the first to take. In 1859 William H. Schieffelin (son of Sammel B.), William A. Gellatly and Joseph H. Westerfield were admitted to partnership.
An instance of the enterprise and intelligence of this firm is shown by the promptness with which it embraced the opportu- nity of establishing a new line. When petroleum was discovered an office was at once established at Titusville, Pennsylvania. and the firm was the first to bring petroleum to New York
137
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
as an article of commerce. Like most other business firms, this also suffered from the outbreak of the Civil war, but new avenues of trade were quickly opened, which more than com- pensated for the losses sustained. In 1862 William Henry Schieffelin, son of Samuel B. Schieffelin, went to the front with the Seventh Regiment and afterwards became major in the First New York Mounted Rifles, taking part in the Peninsular campaign. In 1865 the four brothers retired and the style be- came William H. Schieffelin & Company, the partners being William H. Schieffelin, William A. Gellatly, Joseph H. Wester- field and William N. Clark, the last being a grandson of Henry H. Schieffein, and in turn has been succeeded by his son, Henry Schieffelin Clark. In 1875 the firm purchased and absorbed the business of A. B. Sands & Company. In 1880 William S. Mersereau and William L. Brower became partners, and in 1890 William Jay Schieffelin and Henry Schieffelin Clark were admitted to partnership. The former, in 1887. graduated in chemistry at the School of Mines, Columbia College, and con- tinned the study of this science under Professor Baever at the University of Munich, where in 1889 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
In 1882. for the proper manufacture of its chemical and pharmaceutical preparations, the firm erected one of the best appointed laboratories in the country with apparatus and ma . chinery, some of which is the invention of members of the firm. This firm intredneed to physicians the German synthetic remedies and phenacetine, salol, sulfonal and aristol.
In 1898 three members of the firm served as officers in the Spanish war. Schuyler Schieffelin, in the staff of General Greene, taking part in the capture of Manila; William Jay Schieffelin, on the staff of General Hains, taking part in the capture of Gnayama, Porto Rico: and H. Schieffelin Clark who
13s
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
served as lieutenant-colonel of the Two Hundred and Third New York Infantry. In 1903 the business was incorporated with William N. Clark as president. In 1906 he retired and was succeeded by William Jay Schieffelin.
Tlms the business as originally established by Effingham Lawrence in 1781, but purchased by JJacob Schieffelin in 1794, and carried on by him at first in limited quarters on Pearl street, after many changes in personal, yet always under the name of Schieffelin, and always with members descended in a direct line from the founder, still exists after more than a eentury, with greater facilities for its work, and with a well established reputation for honesty and enterprise.
BOGART-DE BOST FAMILIES.
The name of Bogart is connected with our earliest history. In its Latinized form of "Bogardus" it was the name of one of the first and most famous of the ministers of the Dutch elmich in New Amsterdam. In its original form it has been from great antiquity very common in Holland.
Jan Bogart, called Jan Lowwe (a contraction of Lowens), was the Amercian ancestor. He was a native of Sehoender- waert, and a son of Lonens Cornelisen Bogart. With his wife, Cornelia Everts, he sailed from Amsterdam, April 16, 1663, in the ship " Brindled Cow." Their first place of residence in the new world was at Bedford, Long Island, but they afterwards removed to Harlem. They had among other children a son Claas (Nicholas). He married (first) Beeltje Van Sehaich, June 28, 1695; (second) Margaret Conselvea, widow of John Van Tilbury, February 23, 1707. She died September 20, 1742. By the first marriage there were four children, and nine by the second. The second child by the first marriage was Cornelis Bogart, baptized January 14,
139
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
1700. He married Cornelia Van Duyn, daughter of Cornelis Van Duyn, May 1, 1720. He died April 19, 1793, leaving seven children. Cornelis Bogart was a citizen of repute and respect- ability. His residence for long years was the northwest corner of Broadway and Liberty street, which descended to his heirs.
Nicholas C. Bogart, youngest child of Cornelis Bogart. born in 1734, died in 1793. He married Anne, daughter of Myndert Sehuyler, a representative of an ancient and honored family, and at one time mayor of Albany. Her mother was Elizabeth Wessels, of an equally ancient race. They were mar- ried November 6, 1766. By this marriage there were two chil- dren: Captain Cornelius Bogart, born 1768, died unmarried in 1821; and Rev. David Schuyler Bogart, born in 1770.
Nicholas C. Bogart was a shipping merchant and had ex- tensive business with foreign ports. He inherited from his father the ancestral homestead at Broadway and Liberty street. His widow died at Southampton, Long Island, while on a visit to her son, who was then the pastor of the church in that village. His son Cornelius was a captain of an artillery company in his early manhood, and made his home with his brother the great- er part of his life. He was known as a gentleman of good attainments, and very pleasing and courteous in his manners.
Rev. David Schuyler Bogart, son of Nicholas C. Bogart. was born in New York, January 12, 1770. He entered Columbia College at an early age and graduated in 1790. He was a zealous and indefatigable student, and received the highest honors. His researches in the various departments of science and literature seemed to be stimulated and invigorated. not so much by the ordinary ambition of treasuring up the ample stores of knowledge, as by a remarkable and untiring concen- tration of his faculties to the simple discovery and acquisition of truth. While distinguished for his attainments in other
140
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
branches of learning, his greatest employment consisted in in- vestigating the doctrines of Christian faith. He became an expert Greek scholar, and the New Testament in the original was as familiar to him as the translation.
Immediately after his gradnation he commenced the study of theology with Rev. Dr. Livingston, and was licensed to preach by the synod of the Reformed Dutch Church. His first sermon
Rev. David S, Bogart, Mr. Elizabeth Bogart.
was preached in the North Dutch Church in New York, October 14, 1792, from the text "Say ve to the righteous that it shall be well with him." He subsequently preached in the other churches of that denomination. During the first four years of nis ministry, he preached in other cities and in many conntry «Imrehes, with general and increasing popularity. In the fall of 1795 he received a call to the Presbyterian church in South- ampton, Long Island. The congregation was divided, and much dissention existed in relation to the "Halfway Covenant" which
141
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
had caused the resignation of the former pastor, Rev. Mr. Daggett. The call was accepted, and on May 20, 1796, he re- moved with his family to Southampton. Before many months had elapsed, he received a call from the First Presbyterian Church in Albany, and went there in JJanuary, 1797. After preaching for several months, his health became inipaired, and having received a second call to Southampton, he returned and was ordained as minister of that church in the fall of 1798. A revival of religion followed, and the number of communicants was doubled in three months, and for sixteen years he labored there with snecess.
In 1813 he received a call to the Reformed Dutch Churches at Success, and Oyster Bay, on Long Island. Accepting this invitation, he went to the new field of labor. The two churches were fourteen miles apart, and he preached to each alternately for thirteen years. This ardons duty caused his resignation. and he returned to New York in 1826, and preached there and in varions places, supplying vacancies. Infirmities gradually increased upon him, and he died on Wednesday morning. July 10, 1839. He left behind him the well earned reputation of an eloquent, faithful and successful minister of the gospel. His reward is on high. His vast fund of information made him ready for any occasion. It is characteristic of the man, that he frequently went into his pulpit without any idea what his sermon was to be until he opened the Bible and selected a text. This was told us by an aged man in Southampton to whom Mr. Bogart made the statement.
Rev. David S. Bogart married, April 29, 1792, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonas Platt, of Smithtown, Long Island. Her inother was a direct descendant of Richard Smith, the patentes and founder of Smithtown. Their children were: Ann, born May 25, 1794, died 1834: Elizabeth, born December 8. 1795.
142
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
died May 12, 1879; David Schuyler, born 1798, died 1849; Will- iam Henry, born 1800, died unmarried, 1839; Eugene, born April, 1803, died 1847; Alwyn, born December 8, 1805, died February 7, 1860; Alexander J., born April, 1808, died 1870; Orlando M., born December, 1810.
Ann Bogart, the oldest child, married Charles De Bost, of Lyons, France, in 1817. Their children were: 1. Charles, born August 5, 1826, died May 25, 1895. He married Margaret A. Williams, June 1, 1859, and had children: Charles, born March 17, 1860; Estelle, born December 4, 1862, married Joseph Dowd, January 7, 1903; and Helen N., born July 19, 1866. 2. David Schuyler, died unmarried, aged thirty-three. 3. Augustus Brunel, born March 16, 1830, died in Los Angeles, California. March 10, 1905. He married Mary Ludlow Walker, March 16. 1859, and had four children: Leon Depeyre, born February 1, 1860; Marie Louise, born February 12, 1861; Alwyn Bogart, born October 8, 1863: and Richard Walker, born May 6, 1866. 4. Leon Depeyre, born September 24, 1832, died February 11. 1898. Hle married Louise Undlam, daughter of Silas and Eliz- abeth Clem Ludlam, December 8, 1862. Their children are Augustus Brunel, born September 20, 1864, died May 28. 1905; William Ludlam, born April 24, 1870; Louis Leon, born August 6, 1872: and Anita Undlam, born December 31, 1877. died July 30, 1901. 5. Marie Louise, married Rufus Sanger, and had six children.
William 1. De Bost married Clarice Ludlam, November 4. 1897. She was born June 6, 1872, and was daughter of George P. and Annie Kennedy Ludlam. They had two children : Clar- isse Spencer De Bost, born April 12, 1899; and Anita Ludlam De Bost, born April 24. 1903. The Ludlam family are descend- ed from William, Ludlam who was an early settler in South-
143
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
ampton, Long Island. His will, dated 1664, is the first record- ed in the New York surrogate's office.
At a very early age the children of Charles De Bost were placed under the care of their grandfather, Rev. David S. Bogart. They were sent to Southampton, Long Island, which was then a quiet country village, were brought up in reputable families and enjoyed the advantages of an excellent Academic education. They were a part of the village life and a very active part; and in all fun, frolic and mischief as well, the "De Bost boys" were first and foremost. Excellent and well be- haved scholars, ready and willing to earn an honest dollar by helping the farmers in the harvest field, and equally ready and capable of "manning oars" in a whale boat, they were the life of the village. The money thus earned was generally invested in powder and shot, for out of school hours they were inde- fatigable sportsmen, and many a wild dnek and wild goose were the trophies of their unerring aim.
After their school days were ended, and they returned to the city to enter upon the practical duties of life, every sum- mer found them returning like swallows to their old nesting place, and none were more popular than they. Leon Depeyre De Bost was in reality the founder of the "New Southampton." It was his influence and extended acquaintance that brought men of wealth to the place, and he lived to see it transformed from one of the most quiet of country villages to a famous and fashionable resort.
PHILIPSE-GOUVERNEUR FAMILIES.
Among the families who settled in New Amsterdam none was more famous than the one founded by Frederick Flypsen, and from the day when he arrived friendless and obscure. to the time when his descendant embarked on board the British
144
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
fleet after the Revolution, to leave the country and never to return, the family was identified with the highest offices in the Colony, and its members were distinguished not only for wealth but for ability. Vrederick or Frederick Flypsen was according to one account a native of Bolswaert in Friesland, where he was born in 1626. There is evidence that his ancestry were among the nobility of Bohemia, but a claim to a higher nobility
FREDERIK. PHILIPSE. EST!
than kings can bestow is found in the fact that they were among the friends and supporters of the Reformed Religion and ad- herents of the renowned John Huss and Jerome of Prague, and shared in enduring the perseentions which have made their names illustrious as champions of religious freedom.
From their adherence to the cause of the Reformation the family were compelled to flee from Bohemia and they found. as did thousands of others, a refuge of peace and security in
145
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
Holland. A manuscript statement written by John Jay and worthy of the respect due to anything emanating from the honored chief justice is authority for the statement that the founder of this family was born in Bohemia. His mother, be- ing a widow. was compelled to flee with her children to Holland with what little property they could save from the wreck of their estate, and this little, not permitting her to provide for her son Frederick, she bound him to a carpenter and he became an excellent workman. The tradition of the family is that he came to New Amsterdam with Peter Stuyvesant, and if this he true he must have arrived in 1647. The surest proof of the nobility of ancestry is the fact that although he came to this country without any of the advantages of fortune he was re- cognized as the social equal of the highest dignitaries of the Colony, and the favor and assistance he received from them were doubtless the means which in the end made him the richest mar of his day.
Among the early settlers was Adolph Hardenbrook, who came from Holland and settled in Bergen. Among other chil- dren he had a daughter Margaret, who married Pieter Rudolp- hus De Vries, a merchant of New Amsterdam, in 1659. They had one daughter who was baptized with the name of Maria, October 3, 1660. Pieter Rudolphus De Vries died in 1661, leav- ing a considerable estate which descended to his widow and child. In October, 1662, bans of marriage between Frederick Philipse and Margaret Hardenbrook were published. By an antenuptial agreement Frederick Philipse agreed to adopt the child and leave her one-half of his estate unless he had children of his own, in which case he would give her an equal share with them. Although her name at baptism is given as Maria, it is possible that her name may have been changed at the time of Vol. I-10
146
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
adoption, at all events it is certain that she ever bore the name of Eva Philipse and is thus named in her adopted father's will.
By his marriage Frederick Philipse became entitled to a community of property with his wife, but she did not relinquish the sole management of her estate, for which she seemed well fitted by nature. On the contrary she conducted the business of her late husband, and frequently made voyages to Holland in her own ships and acting as her own super cargo.
When the two Labadist missionaries came to New York in 1679, they stated that they sailed "In the small Flute ship called the Charles, of which Thomas Singleton was master, but the superior authority over both ship and cargo was in Margaret Flipse, who was the owner of both, and with whom we agreed for our passage from Amsterdam to New York in New Netherlands, at seventy-five Guilders for each person." By his own exertions and his wife's energy and thrift Fred- erick Philipse soon became one of the richest men of the Colony. In 1679 his property was valued at 80,000 guilders, the highest amount owned by any one person, and that was small in compari- son to the wealth he afterward accumulated. After the death of his wife, which occurred in 1690, his business enterprises became still more extended. He was one of the most extensive tra- ders with the Five Nations of Indians at Albany, sent ships both to the East and West Indies, imported slaves from Africa, and his enemies did not hesitate to charge him with increasing his gains by dealings with the pirates at Madagascar.
In official and political offices he was no less prominent than in his commercial affairs, and by his intimate connections with the governors he obtained advantages not enjoyed by others. He was member of council with all the governors from Edmond Andross to the Earl of Bellemont, a period of twenty years. While at first he resisted the authority of Jacob Leisler.
147
GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
he afterwards recognized him as governor de facto. He was in high favor with Governor Slaughter and his successor, Gov. ernor Fletcher, by whose favor he and his son Adolphus obtained large grants of land. In 1698 he resigned his seat in the council, giving as a reason his advanced age, but possibly to escape re- moval, which seemed probable upon the accession of Earl Belle- mont as governor.
In 1692 Mr. Philipse married Catherine, daughter of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt, (the ancestor of a famous family) and widow of John Dervall. There were no children by the second marriage. The notice of his death is thus recorded by his widow in the family Bible. "Anno 1702. the 6th of November, Satur- day night at 10 o'clock my husband Frederick Philipse died and lies buried in the Church Yard in the Manor named Philips- burgh." Thus passed away a man who was during his long life one of the most prominent personages of his time. He had five children : Eva, the adopted daughter, married Jacobus Van Cortlandt. Philip, born in 1663, and baptized March 18, 1669. Adolph, baptized November 15, 1665. Anatje (or Anna). baptized November 27, 1667, married Philip French. Humbert, who died in infancy.
Philip Philipse, the eldest son, was a youth of delicate constitution, and was sent by his father to Barbadoes to look after a plantation. While there he married, in 1697, Maria Sparks, daughter of the governor of the island. His wife died soon after the birth of their only child Frederick, October 17, 1698. Her husband did not long survive, but died in 1700.
The ancestor of this family was the first of the settlers from Holland to adopt a family name. According to Dutch usage his son. Philip would be known as "Philip Frederick- sen," and his son Frederick in turn would be "Frederick Philip- sen," and so on. It shows the intelligence of the founder of
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.