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West Brighton, of which, together with Francis G. Shaw, Au- gustus Prentice and James Simonton, under the name of trus- tees, he was one of the incorporators. His long connection with the life and prosperity of Richmond county, together with the prominent part which he has always taken in its every aggres- sive movement, have won for him a lasting place in its history.
BLAKE .- This family is of English origin; the date of their arrival or settlement on the island is not known, though it was probably about or just anterior to the middle of the last cen- tury; like most of the other families of the same nationality, they were decided royalists during the revolution. The first name of the family we find on the records is that of William, who married Mary Woglom, and had the following children: John, born September 28, 1763, died September 30, 1852; Wil- liam, born April 21, 1766, died January 16, 1852; and Edward, born 1773, died December 14, 1845.
John married Tabitha Merrill, and died childless; William married Ann Corsen, and had the following children: Daniel, (deceased), William (drowned), Richard C. (still living in Illinois), Edward and George. Edward was the father of Mrs. Margaret Minott, of West New Brighton.
John, usually known as Captain John W. Blake, owned and occupied the now valuable property corner of Mill and Manor roads, West New Brighton, extending westward on both sides of Cherry lane, and embracing the site of the dye works of Barrett, Nephews & Co.
William owned and occupied the property on the Little Clove road, subsequently owned by D. Porter Lord. Daniel, son of William, deceased, was the father of Daniel, captain of the police force of the county.
BOGART .- This family is of Dutch extraction. The name was originally written Bogaert. The earliest mention of the name in the province occurs in an assessment roll of Breucklen (Brooklyn), dated 1673, where Theunes Gisbertse Bogaert is named, having the largest assessment on the roll. We find him again assessed in 1683. In 1715 we find the name of Simon enrolled among the militia of Kings county. Our theory is that this Simon had a brother Tunis, and that they were sons of Gysbert, for, in the assessment mentioned above, he is rated for three polls (himself and two sons); that these sons married
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Simon Bogaert and Margarietje Ten Eyck had the following children: Elisabet, baptized October 18, 1719; Margareta, bap- tized December 3, 1722; Simon, baptized May 19, 1726; Gysbert, baptized January 19, 1729; Sarah, baptized February 13, 1732, and perhaps others.
Tunis and Catharine Hageman had the following children: Isaak, baptized November 21, 1718; Adrian, baptized Decem- ber 18, 1720; Abraham, baptized April 21, 1723; Maria, baptized March 28, 1725; Cornelius, baptized March 2, 1729, and per- haps others.
Simon (probably son of Simon) and Martha, his wife, had the following children: Mary, born December 4, 1746; Simon, born June 19, 1754; Richard, born February 22, 1757.
Isaac and Rachel had a son John, born October 14, 1770; also a son Simon, who was the father of Timothy C. Bogart, near the Four Corners.
BRAISTED .- Though this name has been identified with the county for a century and a half, the earliest notice of it in the old church records, is that of William and Christina Bouw- man his wife, who had a son Johannes, baptized in 1715, and a son Andries, August 18, 1719. In the county records we meet with him as having purchased land in 1730. Johannes, or John, son of William, married Trintje Haughwout, and had a son Jan, or John, baptized August 18, 1741, and a son Peter, bap- tized August 15, 1743. We then lose trace of the family for thirty years ; then it appears again in the name of Egbert and Rachel his wife, who had a son Egbert, born May 6, 1773. The next and only remaining notice we have of the family in the last century is the marriage of John and Nantchie (Anna) Mart- ling, daughter of John Martling, February 14, 1790. The family is now represented by Capt. J. Braisted, of Edgewater, and a family or two at Watchogue.
BRITTON .- This family is of French descent, and their name was originally written Breton, another example of the change of French names into English. The earliest mention of the name in connection with the island, is that of Captain, some- times called Colonel Nicklos, who was born in 1679, and died January 12, 1740.
The following is a copy of the inscription npon the tomb- stones of Colonel Nicklos Britten and his wife .
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on Long Island, the one a Ten Eyck, the other a Hageman, and then purchased land and removed here.
" Here lies ye Body of Col. Nicklos Britten, aged 61 years, Deceased Jan. 12, 1740.
Here lies a man of tender hart Unto the poor in every part He never sent the poor away Which well is nown unto this Day."
" Here Lyes ye Body of Frances, wife of Col. Nicholas Brit- ton, aged 66 years, Deceased May ye 7, 1748.
This Woman who is buried here This county has nown for many a year A loving mistress, a faithful wife A Tender mother all her Life."
These stones are still standing in the Moravian cemetery.
William was defendaut in a suit at law October 3, 1680. Nathaniel was plaintiff in a suit in July, 1681, and again in a suit with Lewes Lakerman in the same year. These two last named were adults when "Col. Nicklos " was an infant, but the consanguinity between them cannot now be ascertained. There was another William, a son of Nicholas, probably Col. Nick- los, born October 11, 1708. There was a Joseph, perhaps a brother of William, who had a son James, baptized April 23, 1707. and a daughter, in 1708. There was also a Richard, who purchased land in 1694.
Nathaniel made his will in 1683, but he was still living in 1695; he was probably the same individual who was a party to the lawsuit alluded to above. Nathaniel and Esther Belleville had a daughter, baptized April 9, 1732. Nathaniel and Mary his wife, had the following children : Joseph, born November 15, 1760 ; Richard, born March 22, 1766 ; William, born Sep- tember 19, 1768. Samuel and Mary had the following daugh- ters : Addra, born July 7, 1771; and Mary, born July 31, 1773. Nathaniel and Catharine had a daughter Mary, born April 4, 1775 ; at her baptism, the father was also baptized. Samuel and Polly Latourette married May 24, 1797.
The present representative of one branch of the family is J. A. H. Britton, Esq., of New Dorp; his father was Nathaniel, whose place of interment is marked by the marble monument at the southwest corner of the Church of the Ascension. Na- thaniel was born in 1764 or 1765; he was twice married; his first wife was a Vau Buskirk, of Bergen, and they were the parents
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of Debora, wife of Joshua Mersereau, born August 4, 1782, died March 26, 1840; Cornelins, born July 1, 1785, died April 3, 1867; he resided at Fresh kill for many years before his death.
Abraham, born August 20, 1787, died Angust 26, 1866, resided on the Clove road in Castleton, and was the father of Henry and Abraham, both deceased, who resided on the paternal pro- perty. Nathaniel, Jr., born in 1792, died February 13, 1841, owned and resided on the property on the east side of Broad- way, West New Brighton, extending the whole length of that highway. He had also another son, John. Nathaniel's second wife was Margaret Bedell, who was born January 5, 1768, and died September 21, 1849; she was the mother of J. A. H. Britton, Esq., as before mentioned.
BURBANCK .- Abraham, John and Peter Burbanck, and two sisters, names unknown, came from the Netherlands, Holland, in the ship "Caledonia;" the vessel was partly wrecked on the passage and the sisters were lost. The brothers landed in New York in the seventeenth century, and Abraham settled on Staten Island. John went to New England, and was made freeman in Rowley, Mass., May 13, 1640. In his will of April 5, 1681, he mentioned his wife Jimima, and his children John, Caleb and Lydia. Peter went to Old England and was never heard from. They were of French and German stock; Abraham married a French lady, name and date of marriage unknown.
Abraham, son of Abraham the first, was born November 20, 1745, died May 12, 1823, married and had children as follows: Jacob, born April 9, 1771, died September 14, 1854; Abraham, born 1780, died 1838. The dates of births and deaths of Isaac, John, Peter, Rebecca and Mary Ann are unknown.
Descendants of Jacob Burbanck, son of Abraham the second: Jacob Burbanck was twice married; he married Ann Wandel who was born July 7, 1772, and was married by Mr. Eaton at New Windsor July 14, 1793. He married Lucy Hennell in 1830. She died November 16, 1865. No children by the second mar- riage. Had children by the first wife as follows: Ann, born May 3, 1794, died November 29, 1854; Abraham, born Angust 13, 1797, died August 26, 1797; Jacob Lockman, born June 22, 1799, died April 6, 1885; John William, born April 4, 1806; Aletta Eliza, born December 6, 1809.
Ann, danghter of Jacob and Ann Burbanck, married Abra- ham Egbert, born April 26. 1791, and was married by Rev. John
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C. Beekler, December 23, 1815; had children as follows: Jacob Burbanck Miles, born December 8, 1816, died August 14, 1879; Ann Eliza, born April 12, 1818: Margaret Jane, born Jamary 25, 1820, died March 21, 1873; Abraham Edward, born October 12, 1821; Stephen Henry, born December 8, 1823, died February 11, 1865: Rebecca Maria, born March 30, 1826; Catherine Han- nah, born Jannary 29, 1828; James, born September 4, 1830.
Jacob Burbanck Miles Egbert, first son of Abraham and Ann Egbert, was twice married; his first wife was Maria Simonson, his second wife Catherine Simonson, sisters, both of Clifton, Staten Island. The first wife had children as follows: Mary Elizabeth, born November 4, 1845; James and Lavina, dates of birth not known; they reside at Clifton. By the second wife, he had sons Cornelius and Chester.
Mary Elizabeth Egbert married James J. Garretson October 1, 1868, and has children as follows: Mary Elizabeth, born An- gust 8, 1869, George Jacob, born March 8, 1871; Margaret Cor- sen, born January 28, 1873; Alice May, born November 10. 1874; Irene, born February 4, 1877; Ella, born September 12, 1878; Sarah Louise, born October 10, 1880; Arthur, born Sep- tember 13, 1882; Susie Bird, born March 27. 1884; Jessie, born March 27, 1884; Henry, born June 14, 1885.
James Egbert, son of Jacob Burbanck Miles Egbert, married Saralı - -, has children and resides at Clifton. Staten Island. Lavina Egbert, second daughter of Jacob Burbanck Miles Egbert, married William Rase and has children.
Ann Eliza Egbert, first daughter of Abraham and Ann Egbert, married Nathan Britton, have children: Anna and John.
Margaret Jane, second daughter of Abraham and Ann Eg- bert, married Nathaniel Swaim, had children: a son George and a daughter who died in infancy.
Abraham Edward, second son of Abraham and Ann Egbert, married Mary Jane Burgher. They have one daughter Mari- anna, who married Franklin, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and they have one daughter named Mabel. Abraham Edward re- sides at Stapleton, Staten Island.
Rebecca Maria, third daughter of Abraham and Ann Eg bert, married John Barnes. No children.
James, fourth son of Abraham and Ann Egbert, married Amelia Laforge. Has children as follows: Pauline, Alice,
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Herbert, (Elizabeth and Percy died). James Egbert resides at Tompkinsville.
Abraham Burbanck, the third son of Abraham Burbanck, second, married Catherine Honghwout, and had children as fol- lows: Margaret, born 1806; married Nicholas Youngman; Catherine, born 1808; Charlotte, born 1820 (by second wife), married Mink of Albany, N. Y .; Richard C., born 1822, married Catherine M. Douglas, and had children as follows: Margaret, Louisa, Emma, Sarah and Catherine; George, married Catherine Relyea, and resides in Albany, N. Y .; Joseph; Ann, married George Holt, of Chicago, Illinois.
Isaac Burbanck, son of Abraham second, married Sarah Eg- bert, and had children as follows: Mary Ann, married Vincent Bodine, and had two sons, Jacob and Vincent. Her husband died. She then married Stephen Martling, and had two daughters. She died and her second husband married her sister Sarah Jane, and she had children, Elizabeth and Mary Ann. Isaac Burbanck had three children: Mary Ann, Sarah Jane and Edward.
Edward, son of Isaac and Sarah Burbanck, married and has a son Edward married and living at New Dorp.
Elizabeth Martling, first daughter of Stephen and Sarah Jane Martling, married James Vreeland of New Dorp; has children and resides at New Dorp.
Mary Ann Martling, second daughter of Stephen and Sarah Jane Martling, married - Bogart.
John Burbanck, son of Abraham the second, married, and had children as follows: Ann, Mary, Daniel, Henry, John and Catherine.
John and Peter Burbanck, sons of Abraham second, reside at New Brighton.
Rebecca Burbanck, first daughter of Abraham second, mar- ried Austin Barton, had children : Sarah, and one, name not known. Sarah married --- Conklin, living at Patchogue, Long Island, and has one daughter.
Mary Ann Burbanck, second daughter of Abraham second, married John Deeker.
Jacob Lockman Burbanck, second son of Jacob and Ann, married Martha Washington Graham, August 4, 1830. Born June 1, 1799; died December 5, 1879. Was married by Rev. John Ernest Miller, and had children as follows: Elizabeth
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Anderson, born July 29, 1831; George Edgar, born June 27, 1833, died December 30, 1834; Margaret Ann, born January 31, 1836; Frances Lonise, born July 19, 1838, died July 4, 1880; William Dudley, born September 14, 1841, was married May 17, 1870, to Susan Jane Wood, of Pleasant Plains, who was born October 18, 1840, and has children as follows: Jacobson Lockman, born May 10, 1871; William Dudley, born May 1, 1874; George Graham, born August 1, 1877; Mary Eleanor Wood, born June 18, 1880; David Morris Ware, born April 19, 1883, died January 24, 1884.
John William Burbanck, third son of Jacob and Ann, was twice married; his first wife was Gertrude Egbert, and his sec- ond wife Ann Egbert, sisters. Ann died December 19, 1878; had children as follows: By first wife, Hiram A., Ferdinand and and Mary Adelaide; by second wife, Evelina, Anna and John Alfred. John William resides at Castleton Corners, and is the oldest living descendant of Jacob Burbanek the first.
Hiram A. Burbanck, son of John William and Gertrude, married Mary --- , and had one son, John William, and a daughter, who died, Hiram resides with his father at Castle- ton Corners.
Evelina Burbanck, daughter of John William and Ann, mar- ried William Alston, and has one son, Theodore.
Anna Burbanck, daughter of John William and Ann, mar- ried Sylvester Cobb, and has children Mabel and Edward,
John Alfred Burbanck, son of John William and Ann, died March 28, 1873.
Aletta Eliza Burbanck, second daughter of Jacob first and Ann, married Samuel Wood, and has children as follows: Cath- arine Ann, Ellen, Jane Louisa, Benjamin, Jacob, Augustus B., and Beekman.
Samuel Wood died, and his widow resides at City Island, Westchester county, New York.
Catharine Ann Wood, daughter of Samuel and Aletta E. Wood, married Joseph Brown, and has children and grand- children, resides at Astoria, N. Y.
Ellen Wood, daughter of Samuel and Aletta Eliza Wood, married Benjamin Van Clief, had one son Charles, now living at West New Brighton, married and has children. His parents are dead.
Benjamin Wood, son of Samuel and Aletta Eliza Wood, mar-
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ried and has children and grandchildren residing at Astoria, N. Y.
Augustus B. Wood, son of Samuel and Aletta Eliza Wood, married and has children and grandchildren, residing at City Island, Westchester county, N. Y.
Samnel Burbanck. Jacob Lockman Burbanck's cousin, resides at South Beach, and his son, Samuel Burbanck, resides at New Dorp.
BURGHER, BURGER .- These, at the present day, are two dis- tinct families, who write their names as above.
Johannes Burger, from Giesman, came over in the ship "Stettin," September, 1662; but where he settled is not known. There was an Elias Burger and Susanna Whitman, his wife, who had a son Nathan, baptized February 23, 1724, and this is the first record of the name in the county.
Colonel Nicholas Burgher was born January 23, 1768, and died May 23, 1839; he was the father of Matthias, John, James G., David and several other children. John was the father of David Burgher, of Edgewater, the present representative of the family spelling their name with an h.
"The other family, who eschew the h, and adhere to the origi- nal orthography, are of comparatively recent connection with the island.
David D. Burger was born in South Carolina in 1777, and settled on Staten Island in 1814, where he died in February, 1831. He left several sons, of whom Nicholas, of Four Corners, and Samuel, of Bull's Head, survive.
BUSHI .- This name, written Bosch in the Dutch records, is found here early in the last century. This family was never very numerous nor prominent, consequently the notices of its members are very few.
Joshua, or Josiah, had a son Samuel, baptized 1706; Nicholas and Elizabeth Drinkwater had the following children: Edward, baptized November 24, 1728; Barent, baptized September, 1734; Nicholas, baptized July 13, 1740. Garret had a daughter Mary, baptized September 30, 1787, and a daughter Elizabeth, baptized August 30, 1789. Joseph and Mary Johnson were married De- cember 10, 1792. Lambert and Mary Stillwell were married January 27, 1795. The family name, though not as old as some others on the island, was in the province at an early date. Among the emigrants who came over in the ship "Fox" in
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August, 1662, we find the name of Jan Bossch from West- phalen.
There was another family of this name descended from John Bush, an Englishman, who fought at Bunker Hill on the side of the Americans, and subsequently took up his residence on Staten Island, where he married, and had at least one son, whose name was William, who was the father of the late Mr. John Bush, of Watchogue, Northfield, and of Mrs. S. D. Ken- nison, of West New Brighton.
BUTLER .- This was another of the royalist families which was here before and during the revolution. The earliest men- tion of the name in the church records is in 1732, when James and Sarah Carem had a son John, baptized March 26. In St. Andrew's records we find the following : Henry and Balaesha (Baletta) had a son James, born May 8, 1759 ; and a son Na- thaniel, born March 23, 1768. Thomas and Mary had a son James, born October 19, 1758, and a son Antony, born Novem- ber 17, 1769. John and Rachel had a son Daniel, born October 29, 1758. John and Mary had a son Henry, baptized March 11, 1776. Thomas and Susan had a daughter Maria, baptized May 13, 1790. Thomas and Mary Herod married December 20, 1789. Daniel and Elizabeth Pray married December 29, 1807.
The family is at present in part represented by Mr. Talbot Butler, of Port Richmond, whose father was Thomas, and mother Eleanor Crocheron, daughter of Abraham. Thomas had several brothers-James, John, Elias and Henry, and they were the sons of John and - Kingston his wife. Thomas was twice married, his second wife being a widow Blake, maiden name Wood.
CANNON .- On Staten Island the name is usually accented on the last syllable. The family was here as early as 1680, but it was never very numerons or prominent ; its members appear to have been of a retiring nature, and are never found mentioned in any official character, except in one instance where one of them held a minor military office. Andreas (Andrew) was plaintiff in a suit in 1680, and was probably the progenitor. We find no further mention of them until John and Maria Egbert liad a son Abraham, baptized May 7, 1741 ; a daughter, April 22, 1746, and a son Jacobus, July 19, 1748.
David and Aeltje (Alida) Prall had the following children : A daughter, baptized May 2, 1753 ; a son, Arent, baptized No-
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vember 2, 1754 ; a son, David, January 29, 1758, and a son, An- dries, August 26, 1759.
David is also mentioned in 1755 as owner of a slave.
Andrew and Mary Wright were married in December, 1795.
CHRISTOPHER .- The original of this name is Christoffel, which is the Dutch for Christopher. The earliest mention of the family occurs in a church record, as follows : Barent and Anna Cath- arina Stilwell had the following children baptized : Nicklaas, August 4, 1703 ; Catharyna, April 23, 1706, died yonng ; Re- becka, April 20, 17 --; Maria, -- , 1710; Susanna, January 11, 1719; they had twin children, Catharina and Barent, baptized August 13, 1716.
This Barent is mentioned in the county records as having sold land in 1704. Stoffel also sold land the same year. Catharine Christopher, widow of Albert Rykman, had a posthumous child, Albert, baptized October 26, 1729.
Hans (John) and Jane Arrowsmith had the following child- ren baptized : Johannes, April 16, 1732 ; Barnt, April 14, 1734; Joseph, August 8, 1736 ; Richard, September 30, 1739. Nicolas and Christina Bowman had a son, Barnt, baptized November 27, 1726, and a daughter, September 26, 1731.
Richard (above) and Esther his wife, had the following child- ren : John Garrison, born September 18, 1770 ; James Grover, born August 30, 1772; Joseph, born May 9, 1775. Joseph, son of John, had a son, Joseph, who was father of Capt. Richard Christopher, of West New Brighton.
COLE .- We have nowhere found the slightest allusion to the origin of this family, but an individual of the same name was on the island before the beginning of the last century ; in the county records we find the name of Abrahani Cole as having sold land in 1695, which, of course, he must have purchased at an earlier date. In the church records we find no further men- tion of the name for more than half a century, though the name of Abraham appears to have been perpetuated.
Abraham and Hannah had a daughter Ann, born May 11, 1762 ; a son Abraham, born March 6, 1766, and a son John Be- dell, born July 31, 1770. Peter and Susannah Latourette had a son Henry, born February 6, 1765. Richard lived in the county in 1766, and Cornelius in 1772. Cornelius and Ann Dyelland were married in May, 1766. Stephen and Ann had a daughter Ann, born July 22, 1768; a son Stephen, born Septem-
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ber 11, 1771: a son John, February 5, 1775, and a daughter Mar- garet, who married Samuel Holmes. Stephen, the son, married Jane Merserean, October 16, 1796, and John, the son, married Mary Winant, April 1, 1797. Isaac and Esther, his wife, had a sou Edward, born April 8, 1770. Richard and Mary Spragg were married in October, 1774, and had a son Abraham, born March 6, 1775. John and Catharine, his wife, had a son Abra- ham, born April 6, 1775. Cornelius and Frances Cole were mar- ried November 11, 1797. John and Eliza Drake were married December 24, 1801. William, the pioneer of Methodism on Staten Island, was born in 1769, and died in 1843. Abraham, born -, 1751, died February 19, 1798.
ABRAHAM COLE .- Isaac Cole, the great-grandfather of the subject of this biography, and one of the earliest residents of Staten Island, was an extensive farmer and land owner at Prince's bay. Among his children was a son, Abraham, who inherited a portion of the ancestral estate, and followed farm- ing pursuits. He married Abagail Johnson, and had children : William, Ann, Isaac, Lydia, Abraham, Esther and Phoebe. Abraham, of this number, was born in 1778, and died in 1833. By occupation a sea-captain, his voyages were chiefly to south- ern ports, where for many years he engaged in trade. He mar- ried Ann, daughter of David Johnson, of Staten Island. Their children were : Johnson, Isaac, Abraham, Susan Ann, Harriet. Mary, Jacob W. and Abagail. Of these Abraham was born September 23, 1810, on the homestead adjacent to the old church at Woodrow, Staten Island. After enjoying such ad- vantages as the schools of the neighborhood afforded he became interested in his father's pursuit, and at the age of twenty-one took command of a packet-schooner sailing for southern ports. He gradually acquired by thrift a considerable interest in the vessels he commanded, and continued thus employed until 1856, when, retiring from the perilous life of a mariner, he es- tablished near Tottenville, Staten Island, the coal and lumber business, now successfully conducted by his sons. Here he was actively engaged during the remainder of his life, his sons being admitted to a partnership, and later assuming entire charge of the increasing trade. Mr. Cole was, on the 30th of September, 1840, married to Ann M., daughter of Cornelius Disosway, of Staten Island. Their children are : Cornelius, married to Harriet K., daughter of James C. Robinson ; Jacob
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