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The second medical society was formed December 17th 1829, with Nathan Shelton president, Lucius Kellog vice-president, James C. Townsend secretary, and Austin Chapman treasurer.
About 1853 the present society was formed. It num- bers about 180 members. The officers are: James D. Trask, president; W. P. Overton, vice-president; Dr. Finn, secretary and treasurer.
ODD FELLOWS.
Jamaica Lodge, No. 81, I. O. O. F. was instituted Jan- uary 21st 1843. In 1860 the charter was surrendered
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to the grand lodge; but in 1870 it was restored and the lodge was reinstituted as Jamaica Lodge, No. 247, I. O. O. F., with the following officers: James A. Kilburn, N. G .; Joseph B. Everitt, V. C .; William T. Brush, secre- tary; George L. Peck, treasurer.
The present officers are: John A. Campbell, N. G .; William Dykes, V. G .; James S. Jones, secretary; Lewis C. Buckbee, treasurer. Meetings are held in the lodge room, No. 20 Washington street, Monday evenings.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Jamaica Council, No. 433, was instituted January 28th 1880, by Charles Davis, grand regent of the State of New York. It meets every second and fourth Thursday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall, Jamaica. The trustees are George A. Hicks, George Durland and George W. Sullivan.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
The Long Island Bible Society was formed August Ist 1815. The following is a list of its officers to the pres- ent time: Presidents-Adrian Van Sinderen, Rev. John Goldsmith, Laurens Reeve, John A. Lott, John J. Arm- strong; corresponding secretaries-Revs. David S. Bo- gart, John V. E. Thorne, John Goldsmith, M. W. Jaco- bus, Jonathan Greenleaf, N. C. Locke, John P. Knox, B. F. Stead, Franklin Noble, Cornelius L. Wells; recording secretaries-Revs. Jacob Schoonmaker, Thomas M. Strong, Elias W. Crane, Ichabod Spencer, George A. Shelton, William H. Moore, G. H. Sayres and Rev. A. H. Allen; treasurers-John Titus, Van Wyck Wickes, Hosea Webster, Henry Onderdonk jr., L. L. Fosdick. The Suffolk County Bible Society, formed October 3d 1815, was merged in the Long Island Bible Society in 1826.
The Jamaica Bible Society was formed in 1816, with William Ludlum president, and collected $153 the first year. It has usually raised from $100 to $200 a year, and sometimes over $400.
Charitable Visitation .- There is also a Queens county society for visiting prisons, poor-houses and asylums, of which William H. Onderdonk is president.
The Queens County Sunday-School Teachers' Association was organized June 13th 1872, as auxiliary to the State society. Its meetings are held quarterly, at places con- venient of access by railroad. The officers are: A. H. Downer, president; Adam Seabury, treasurer; Joseph Bernhard, secretary.
MORRIS FOSDICK.
Morris Fosdick, of Jamaica, was born at Springfield in that town November 7th 1814. He received a common school education and entered upon business life at an early age. His father, Morris, was a teacher, land surveyor and conveyancer by profession, and on his death, in 1833, the subject of this sketch succeeded him, beginning to teach at the age of nineteen in the same district where his father had taught for twenty-five years, and continuing to teach there until 1849. During this period his surveys were extensive, reaching throughout the county and beyond its limits. Besides attending to his profession he took an active interest in local and public affairs. He was appointed commis- sioner of deeds in 1838, elected justice of the peace in 1841, re-elected in 1845 and again in 1849, and ap- pointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor Silas Wright in 1846. His acquaintance with the law (although he was never formally admitted to the bar) gave him a large practice as counsellor, and led to his election in 1849 to the office of county judge and surro- gate of Queens county, to which office he was re-elected in 1853. On the separation of these offices in 1857 he was elected surrogate, and re-elected in 1861, his term ending January Ist 1866. He was also a member of the board of education from 1856 to 1865, and has been one of the trustees of Union Hall Academy since 1851. Since his retirement from public life he has devoted his attention to the affairs of the Jamaica Savings Bank, of which he has been the treasurer since its organization in 1866, and to the financial interests of his large clientage.
Morris Fordick
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JOHN J. ARMSTRONG.
John J. Armstrong was born September 6th 1828, in the town of North Hempstead. He received an academic education at the seminary at Hempstead, and was ad- mitted to practice law in November 1849. He began the practice of his profession at Jamaica, where he has re- sided ever since.
He was elected district attorney in November 1859, and was re-elected in November 1862.
He was elected county judge of the county of Queens in November 1865, and re-elected in November 1869, November 1875, and November 1879.
In December 1872 he was a member of the constitu- tional commission (appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate) to prepare amendments to the constitution for submission to the people.
In politics he has always been connected with the Dem- ocratic party.
Judge Armstrong is a man habitually kind and cour- teous, methodical in his habits, and a hard worker-going to his office before breakfast and returning to it after supper to continue his labors in the evening. His suc- cess as a professional man has been worked for and fairly won.
He is a member and elder in the Presbyterian church of Jamaica, regular in attendance at its services, and always ready to contribute labor or money for the church. His temperament is nervous and quick. . His leading charac- teristic is his loyalty: he does not forget his friends-he spares neither time nor labor to serve them. He is free from the taint of intemperance or profanity. He is most careful in speaking of others, having the quality of jus- tice in an eminent degree. He is devoted to his home and family, and toward the poor and unfortunate sym- pathetic and generous.
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THE JOHNSON FAMILY.
The Johnson family, though wearing an English sur- name, is originally of French, and more immediately of Holland extraction. The original relationship between the Rapalje and Johnson families is as follows:
GASPARD COLET DE RAPALJE was born in France, at Chatillon sur Loir, in 1505. He signalized himself during the reigns of Francis I. and Henry II., and was made colonel of infantry, December 22nd 1545. He was a Protestant, and when the king, in 1548, began to enforce with great severity the edicts issued against the Protest- ants he was deprived of his commission and compelled to flee to Holland. There he married the daughter of Victor Antonie Jansen of Antwerp, by whom he had three children, Gaspard Coligne de Rapalje, Abram Colet de Rapalje, and a daughter named Breckje.
VICTOR HONORIUS JANSEN married in 1669 his cousin Breckje Rapalje. They had one son, Abram Jan- sen, who is said to have been a historical painter of con- siderable eminence. There are some of his works in the churches of Antwerp, and his chief work, the " Resurrec- tion of Lazarus," is in the Dusseldorf gallery.
ABRAM JANSEN married, June 15th 1594, a daughter of Hans Lodewyck of Amsterdam, by whom he had three sons-William Jansen de Rapalje, Joris (George) Jansen de Rapalje, and Antonie Jansen Van Salers, which title he acquired from an inheritance left him by one of his grandfather's relations, who resided at Salers, a town of France, in Upper Auvergne.
The elder brother, William, persuaded his brother George to accompany him to America, and they set sail in 1623, with the commercial agent of the West India Company, Peter Minuit, in the ship of Captain Korne- liss Jacobse Mey. William never married, but after having been a successful merchant for several years in New Amsterdam (New York) he died at Gravesend, L. I., at the house of his younger brother, Antonie Jansen Van Salers, who left Holland and followed his brothers to America in 1631.
Joris (George) Jansen de Rapalje settled at the Walle- bocht (Wallabout) and founded Brooklyn. Here was built the first house on Long Island, in which he and his wife lived; and here (June 9th 1625) was born Sarah Rapalje, the first white child of European parentage born in the State of New York.
Antonie Jansen Van Salers, the youngest son of Abram Jansen, was born in Holland, and he emigrated to Amer- ica in 1631. He founded Grave-zande (Gravesend), situ- ated on the southwestern part of Long Island, about twelve miles from the Wallebocht (Wallabout), where his brother George resided. The patent for lands granted to Antonie Jansen bears date August 1st 1639 (see Book I, page 124, Alb. Rec.,, and the tract comprised 100 morgens (a little less than 200 acres), extending along the strand 253 rods, opposite Coney Island. The easterly part of this island is now known as Manhattan Beach, one of the most noted summer resorts in the world.
ANTONIE JANSEN married a Quakeress, by whom he
had four sons: 1, Claes; 2, Pieter (who had four sons- Hans-Pieter, Rem-Jan, Daniel Rapalje, and Jan); 3, Ba- rent (who had three sons-Jan-Barentse, Jeronimus de Rapalje, and Lodewyck); 4, Hendrick, who had four sons: Jan (John), Claes, Barent, and William.
HENDRICK JANSEN, the youngest son of Antonie, settled at Gravesend and married a Stilwell, by whom he had four sons: 1, Jan (John), who settled at Jamaica, L. I .; 2, Claes, who settled at Six Mile Run, N. J .; 3, Barent*, who settled at Gravesend; 4, William, who set- tled at Gravesend.
Hendrick's children changed the Holland name Jansen to the English name Johnson, yet the Holland name was retained for many years in the family records.
JOHN JOHNSON, the oldest son of Hendrick, was born at Gravesend, L. I., December 5th 1705. He married (September 23d 1732) Catalina Schenck, who was born May 7th 1705. They had seven children: 1, Maria, born August 11th 1733, married Douw Ditmars of Jamaica; 2, Catalina, born August 15th 1735, remained unmarried; 3, Elizabeth, born November 21st 1737, married Abra- ham Ditmars of Jamaica; 4, Barent, born April 2nd 1740, married Anne Remsen; 5, Martin, born October 25th 1742, married Phebe Rapalje; 6, Catharine, born Febru- ry 18th 1746, died in infancy; 7, Johannes, born July 25th 1748, died in infancy.
John Johnson held office in the Reformed Dutch church at Jamaica. He died March 27th 1776. His wife died October 5th 1779.
MARTIN JOHNSON, of Jamaica, born October 25th 1742, married (May 10th 1772) Phebe, daughter of George Rapelje of New Lots. She was born February 25th 1754. Their children were: 1, Catalina, born May 14th 1773, married (November 5th 1791), John D. Ditmis of Jamaica, and had children Martin, Dow I., John, Abra- ham, Phebe, Maria, Catalina, and George; 2, Maria, born August 20th 1775, died in infancy; 3, Johannes (John), born February 27th 1777, died in infancy; 4, Maria, born May 10th 1778, married (November 30th 1798) Rem Suydam of Newtown, and had children Phebe, Catalina, John, Maria, Nelly, Martin, Gitty, and George and Henry (twins); 5, Johannes (John), born September 26th 1780, died in infancy; 6, Martin, born March 14th 1782, died in infancy: 7, Phebe, born July 19th 1783, married (De- cember 11th 1800) John I. Duryea, and had children Jane Ann, Maria, Alletta, Martin I., Sarah, Catalina, and John I .; 8, Martin, born September 13th 1785, died in infancy; 9, Elizabeth, born January 25th 1788, married Willett Skidmore and had children Phebe and Samuel; 10, Jannetie (Jane), born May 15th 1790,
* Barent, the third son of Hendrick, was the father of the Rev, John B. Johnson, a noted preacher of the Reformed Dutch Church, who was settled first at Albany, N. Y., and afterward at Brooklyn, where he died in 1803. Rev. John B. Johnson had three children: 1, Maria L., who married the Rev. Evan M. Johnson, rector of St. James's Church, New- town, L. I., from 1814 to 1827, when he removed to St. John's Church, Brooklyn; 2, Rev. William L. Johnson, D. D., who from 1830 to the time of his death (1870) was rector of Grace Church, Jamaica, L. I .; 3, Rev. Samuel R. Johuson, D. D., who was rector at different times of several Episcopal churches, and professor in the Episcopal Theological Semi- nary, New York city.
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died in infancy; 11, Joris (George), born August 30th 1791, married (June 28th 1815) Catharine Snediker and had children Martin G., Catharine, and Phebe; 12, Johannes (John), born May 17th 1794, married (August 22nd 1815) Maria Lott and had children Martin I., Stephen, Phebe, Eldert, George, Maria Ann, Catalina, Henry, Jeremiah, Sarah, Ditmars, and Catharine; 13, Jannetie (Jane), born February 22nd 1797, died in in- fancy.
Martin Johnson, the grandfather of Martin G., died April 27th 1798. Phebe, his wife, died October 27th 1828.
Martin Johnson was earnest in the cause of independ- ence, and was compelled to give up the best part of his house to the British officers, who occupied it while their army was encamped at Jamaica. He and his family were greatly discommoded, but it was better to submit quietly than to object and perhaps suffer more. Martin John- son was an active member and an elder of the Reformed Dutch church, and one of the committee to repair the church edifice after the Revolutionary war, during which it was dismantled by the British soldiers. He was one of the contributors to the fund for founding Union Hall Academy. The first building was erected on the south side of Fulton street, where Herriman's brick row now stands, and was opened May Ist 1792. Here his sons George and John were educated, when Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt, LL.D., was principal, which position he held from 1796 to 1828.
GEORGE JOHNSON, born August 30th 1791, married (June 28th 1815) Catharine Snediker, who was born December 5th 1788. They had three children: 1, Martin G. Johnson, born April 26th 1816, married (May 31st 1859) Margaret T. Nostrand, who was born February 19th 1815-no children; 2, Catharine Johnson, born July 8th 1819, married (May 13th 1856) Elias J. Hen- drickson,* who was born August roth 1812-no children; 3, Phebe Johnson, born January 4th 1824, married (June 19th 1854) George O. Ditmis (who was born July 22nd 1818) and died December 27th 1866.
George O. and Phebe Ditmis had six children: 1, Catharine, born November 26th 1856; 2, Georgianna J., born May 5th 1859; 3, John D., born December 18th 1860; 4 and 5, Martin G. J. (born January 30th 1862, died February 18th 1878) and Margaret N., born January 30th 1862, died in infancy; 6, Caroline Maria, born No- vember 9th 1863, died in infancy.
George Johnson, the father of Martin G., held at dif- ferent times the town offices of supervisor, commissioner of cominon schools, inspector of common schools, inspector of election, commissioner of highways, and assessor. He was an elder in the Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, and one of its most liberal sup- porters. He died May 14th 1865. His wife died December 15th 1858.
A short genealogy of the Johnson family is as follows: Gaspard Colet de Rapalje, from France, married the
daughter of Victor Antonie Jansen, in Holland, by whom he had two sons and a daughter Breckje, who married her cousin, Victor Honorius Jansen, who was the father of Abram, who was the father of Antonie, who was the father of Hendrick, who was the father of John, who was the father of Martin, who was the father of George, who was the father of Martin G.
THE SNEDIKER FAMILY AS CONNECTED WITH THE JOHNSON FAMILY.
Jan Snediker, the common ancestor of the Snediker family, came from Holland to this country as early as 1642, and was among the first settlers of Flatbush, and his name appears in the patent of New Lots, 1667; by his will (1670) he devised his land to his son Gerret. (New Lots was then part of the town of Flatbush.)
Gerret Snediker of New Lots (son of Jan) married Ist, Willemtje Vooks; 2nd, Elstje Denyse; he died in 1694. Children: Jan of Jamaica, Margaret, Christian of Jamaica, Abraham, Isaac of New Lots, Sara, born 1683 (married Adrian Onderdonk); Gerret, and Elstje.
Abraham Snediker of New Lots (son of Gerret), born 1677, married, and had children Abraham, Johan- nes, Gerret, Theodorus, Elizabeth, Altie, and Sara.
Isaac Snediker of New Lots (son of Gerret), born 1680, married Catryntje Janse; died in 1758. Children: Garret, Abraham, Antie, Sara, Isaac, Catryntje (born 1721, married Douwe Ditmars), Jacob of New Lots, Femmetie (Phebe), and Elstje, born 1731.
John Snediker of New Lots married Neiltje, daughter of Johannes Lott, of Flatbush; she was born November 13th 1730. They had a son Isaac I. (grandfather of Martin G. Johnson).
Isaac I. Snediker of New Lots (son of John), born July 17th 1759, married Catharine, daughter of Jacob Rapelje of Newtown. She was born January 18th 1760. They had four children: 1, Jacob, born May 18th 1787, died in infancy; 2, Catharine, born December 5th 1788 (the wife of George Johnson and mother of Martin G.), died December 15th 1858; 3, Nelly, born November 5th 1790, married (October 5th 1815) John E. Lott, of New Utrecht, L. I. (who was born December 16th 1789), had one daughter, Catharine, and died May Ist 1866; 4, Jacob, born November 2nd 1792, married (March 1822) Anne Lott, daughter of Hendrick Lott of Jamaica; no children.
Jacob Snediker belonged to the Reformed Dutch church of New Lots, and was one of its firmest friends and supporters. He died September 20th 1859. His wife died August 22nd 1867.
Isaac I. Snediker (father of Jacob) died February Ist 1804. His wife died September 9th 1796.
The Snediker homestead, on which Jacob Snediker and his forefathers were born and lived and died, is sit- uated on both sides of the New Lots road, at the cross- ing of the New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad and the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad. The house, probably 200 years old, still stands in a good state of preservation This farm originally extended to what
*James Hendrickson, the father of Elias J., was an elder, and one of the pillars of the Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica.
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is now the center of East New York; but Jacob Snedi- ker sold 45 acres of the northerly part to Whitehead Howard, and 69 acres of the middle and easterly part to Abraham Vanderveer. The homestead still belongs to the heirs of Jacob Snediker. It has been in the family 215 years.
THE NOSTRAND FAMILY AS CONNECTED WITH THE JO11NSON FAMILY.
The Nostrand family derives its origin from Hans Jansen, who came to Long Island in 1640 from the Noortstrandt in the duchy of Holstein. He married Janneken Gerrits Van Leuwen, and had four sons-Jan, Gerrit, Peter and Folkert. His sons adopted the name of the place from which their father emigrated, which in the course of time has been changed to the present name, Nostrand. Different branches of the family have in former times lived and their descendants still live in New York, Brooklyn, Flatbush, New Utrecht, Flatlands and New Lots, Kings county; in Jamaica, Flushing and Hempstead, Queens county; and in Huntington, Suffolk county.
Margaret T. Nostrand, the wife of Martin G. Johnson, is the daughter of Timothy Nostrand, who for many years was a merchant in New York. When he retired from business he bought the farm on which his son George now lives, situated on the Brooklyn and Jamaica Plank Road, one mile west of the village of Jamaica, where he died December 21st 1831. Her grandfather, John Nos- trand, owned and lived and died on the homestead farm at Valley Stream, in the town of Hempstead; it descend- ed to his son John Nostrand jr., and there he lived and died; after his death it belonged to his son Foster, who also lived and died there. On this farm Timothy Nos- trand was born, February 8th 1767.
Timothy Nostrand married first (September 27th 1793) Garchy, daughter of John Suydam of Newtown. Their children were: Sarah, born October Ist 1794, married James Bogart, died October 14th 1845; and John S., born March 16th 1796, who died unmarried, February 6th 1836.
Timothy Nostrand married second (September 8th 1804) Catharine, daughter of Stephen Lott of Jamaica. Their children were:
I, Stephen L., born August 31st 1805, married (Janu- ary 30th 1826) Cornelia L. Remsen of Flatlands. They had one child, Catharine Ann, who married Jacob Ryer- son of Flatlands.
2, Garchy (Gitty) Ann, born March 16th 1807, died, unmarried, January 8th 1831.
3, George, born February 5th 1809, married first (March 26th 1846) Mary Bogardus They had one child, Henry L. Nostrand, who married Phebe W., only child of Dominicus Vanderveer of Jamaica. George married second (October 12th 1859) Cornelia C. Van Siclen of Jamaica. No children.
4, Catharine L., born December 31st 1810, married (April 7th 1836) Dr. Richard T. Horsfield of New York. Their children are: Richard T., Timothy N. (who mar-
ried Sophia Frisbie), and Catharine L. (who married John K. Underhill). Catharine L. Horsfield died February 2nd 1879.
5, Margaret T., born February 19th 1815, married (May 31st 1859) Martin G. Johnson. No children.
6, Timothy, born April 21st 1817, married first (Octo- ber 19th 1853) Catharine Lott of New Utrecht (cousin of Martin G. Johnson). Their children were Ellie (de- ceased), J. Lott, T. Foster, Margaret (deceased), and George E. Timothy married, second, Belinda Hegeman of New Utrecht, who survives him. He died December 6th 1878.
All the children of Timothy Nostrand sen. are dead except George Nostrand and Margaret T., wife of Martin G. Johnson.
Timothy Nostrand sen. was one of the most prominent members of Grace Church, Jamaica, and was for many years warden, and for several years, and at the time of his death, senior warden. The following notice of his death appears on the records of the church, January 2nd 1832:
"The vestry have heard with deep regret of the de- cease of Mr. Timothy Nostrand, their clerk, the senior warden of this church, and treasurer, and sincerely con- dole with the congregation with whom he was connected, and with his family, in the great bereavement they have been called to sustain; and we implore the Divine com- passion on them that this afflictive providence may be sanctified to them, and to the church of which he was a member."
He was a member of Assembly of the State of New York, and a trustee of Union Hall Academy. He died December 21st 1831. His wife Catharine died February 13th 1860.
THE DITMARS FAMILY AS CONNECTED WITH THE JOHNSON
FAMILY.
Jan Jansen Ditmars, the common ancestor of the family, emigrated from Ditmarsen in the duchy of Hol- stein. He married Neeltie Douws; obtained a patent March 23d 1647 for 24 morgens, at Dutch Kills, New- town, Queens county; died prior to 1650.
Douw* Jansen Ditmars t resided first at Flatbush, and ' finally settled at Jamaica. He died about 1755. He held office in the Reformed Dutch church, Jamaica.
Abraham Ditmars, of Jamaica, married (June 18th 1725) Breckje, daughter of Abraham Remsen, of New- town, and died on his farm at Jamaica, August 7th 1743. He was the father of Douw Ditmars and Abraham Dit- mars jun., the two brothers who married two sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, the daughters of John Johnson of Jamaica (great-grandfather of Martin G. Johnson).
Douw Ditmars of Jamaica, born August 24th 1735, married Maria, the oldest daughter of John Johnson of Jamaica. They had five children, John D., Abraham, Breckje, and Maria and Catalina, who were twins. He was an office holder in the Reformed Dutch Church. He died August 25th 1775.
* Variously spelled, Douwe, Douw, Dowe and Dow.
+ Spelled Ditmarse, Ditmars, Ditmis and Ditmas.
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John D. Ditmis of Jamaica (son of Douw Ditmars) married (November 5th 1791) Catalina, the oldest daugh- ter of Martin Johnson (grandfather of Martin G. John- son). They had eight children: Martin, Dow, John, Abraham, Phebe, Maria, Catalina and George, who are all deceased except Maria.
Dow I. Ditmis, son of John D., married (April 22nd 1817) Catharine Onderdonk* of Cow Neck (Manhasset). Their children are: George O., John and Jacob Adrian Ditmis, all of Jamaica.
Abraham Ditmis, son of John D., married (April 18th 1827) Katie Onderdonk of Cow Neck (Manhasset). They had one child, Henry O. Ditmis.
John D. Ditmis held the military office of major; he was a member of Assembly in 1802 and 1804, and a State senator from 1816 to 1820, and held the office of surrogate of Queens county. He was a trustee of Union Hall Academy; he belonged to the Reformed Dutch Church. He died March 11th 1853; his wife July 6th 1847.
Abraham Ditmars jr. (son of Abraham of Jamaica), born December 9th 1738, married Elizabeth, the third daughter of John Johnson (great-grandfather of Martin G. Johnson). They had four children-Abraham, born October 6th 1760; Catalina, born September 20th 1762, married Samuel Eldert of Jamaica; John A., born April 9th 1766, and Dow, born June 12th 1771.
John A. Ditmars married Nancy, daughter of Johannes Wyckoff of Jamaica. They had three children - Margaret Ann, A. Johnson and Elizabeth, all deceased.
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