Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume I, Part 39

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 656


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born May 3, 1683, see forward: John, born December 7, 1685, married Susannah Hut- ton; Joseph, born April, 1687, died young ; Thomas, born November 8, 1692; Abraham, born February 27, 1698, married Mary Smith Knowlton, September 20, 1722; Elizabeth, born September 15, 1702; David, born May 15, 1707, married Esther Howard, February 25, 1731.


(V) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1) and Deborah (Jewett) Knowlton, was born May 3, 1683. He married Mary Bennett, publication of which was made February 13, 1703. Children: Mary, born June 3, 1704; William, born February 8, 1706, see forward ; Nathaniel, born June 30, 1708, married Mary Fuller; Jeremiah, born July 13, 1712, died young; Jeremiah, born August 2, 1713, married Sarah Allen, July 24, 1735, and re- sided at Concord, New Hampshire; Martha, married Dr. Flint.


(VI) William, son of Nathaniel (2) and Mary (Bennett) Knowlton, was born at Ips- wich, Massachusetts, February 8, 1706, died in Ashford, Connecticut, March 13, 1753. He was a "housewright." He moved to West Boxford, where he married Martha Pinder, a granddaughter of John Pynder, an English soldier who subscribed to advance the cause in King Philip's war. The publication of their marriage was on February 13, 1728. After marriage, he removed to Ashford, Con- necticut, 1748, where he purchased a farm which he divided among his sons. Children : Lucy, died young: Lucy, born February 20, 1736, married Deacon Abijah Brooks, of Ashford, Connecticut ; William, born Decem- ber 23, 1738, married Mehitable Eaton, of Ashford; Daniel, born December 23, 1738, see forward; Thomas, born November 30, 1740, married Anna Keyes, April 5, 1759; Na- thaniel, born May 9, 1746, died young ; Mary, born May 9, 1746, married Ezekiah Tiffany, of Ashford; Sarah, married Joshua Kendall, of Ashford ; Priscilla, died unmarried.


(VII) Lieutenant Daniel, son of William and Martha (Pinder) Knowlton, was born December 23, 1738, and was baptized in the West Parish of Boxford, Massachusetts, De- cember 31, 1738. He was but two years old when his father removed to Ashford, Con- necticut. When only nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the colonial regiments for ser- vice in the French and Indian war, together with his brother, Thomas. From the start he distinguished himself for bravery and daring, particularly as a scout. On one occasion, while in Captain John Slapp's company, in Lord Loudon's expedition to Fort Edward, between March 15 and October 17, 1757, he


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saved the life of his companion, Israel Put- nam, who was about to fall at the hand of an Indian swaying a tomahawk above him. In June, 1758, he served in Colonel Elea- zer Fitch's third Connecticut regiment at Crown Point. About this time he captured three bloodthirsty desperadoes. From May 7 to December 30, 1761, he served as sergeant in Captain Robert Durkee's company, and from March 17. to December 4, 1762, in Cap- tain Hugh Ledlie's company, engaged in the Crown Point Expedition. He married, No- vember 3, 1763, Elizabeth, daughter of Ma- nassah Farnham, of Windham, and Keziah (Ford) Farnham. She was born at Wind- ham, March 10, 1742. Children : I. Daniel, born December 17, 1765; married, April 4, 1793. Betsy Burchard; died February, 1834. 2. Elizabeth, born March 24, 1768: married Frederick Chaffee, of Ashford. 3. Nathaniel, born December 24, 1770; married Sarah Leach, November 25, 1798. 4. Manassah, born December 24, 1770, see forward. 5. Eph- raim, born October 3, 1773; married Jemima Farnham, of Ashford. 6. Martha, born Feb- ruary 24, 1777: married Charles W. Bran- don, of Ashford. 7. Keziah, born February 9. 1781 ; married, January 3, 1805, Amasa Lyon. 8. Hannah, born April 19, 1783 ; mar- ried Daniel Knowlton.


(VIII) Manassah, son of Lieutenant Dan- iel and Elizabeth (Farnham) Knowlton, was born at Ashford, Connecticut, December 24, 1770, died at Greenbush, New York, January 21, 1841. He was a thrifty, industrious, solid, benevolent man, whose advice to young and old brought to him in the later years of his life the honored name of "Father Knowlton." It is related that he so closely resembled his twin brother, Nathaniel, that his mother had to excite the boys to laughter in order to dis- tinguish them apart. When twenty-one years old he settled in Greenbush, New York, across the Hudson river from Albany. He made considerable money as a farrier during the war of 1812, when innumerable cavalry Officers were wont to draw up before his place on the old Rensselaer and Columbia turnpike. In 1798 he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty-two acres of what was formerly the Van Rensselaer Manor grounds. He declined to unite with any church until about eight years previous to his death, when he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. On June 8, 1808, he was commissioned lieu- tenant in Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Staats' regiment, and was promoted to captain, Feb- ruary 29, 1812. He married (first) Lydia Burton, of Schodack, New York, who died ยท July 15, 1806; married (second) Elizabeth


Card, of Greenbush, New York; married (third) Clarissa Cogswell, of Greenbush. Children : Oren, born September 17, 1794, died young ; Ephraim, born December 9, 1795, died January 5, 1824; Isaac, born May 7, 1797, died May 23, 1883, married Rachel Whitbeck ; Orendia, born February 20, 1799, died October, 1861, married Benjamin Brad- bury, February 20, 1818; Almyra, born Feb- ruary 1, 1801, died September 10, 1827 ; Ma- ria, born October 13, 1802, died February 9. 1830; George Washington, born January 16, 1804, see forward ; Parmelia, born August 16, 1805, died young.


(IX) George Washington, son of Manas- sah and Lydia (Burton) Knowlton, was born January 16, 1804, died at Albany, New York, October 11, 1884. He entered upon a mer- cantile career at an early age, and in 1833 associated himself with his brother-in-law, un- der the firm name of Knowlton & Rowe, as rectifier of spirits and oil merchants. They were the first to manufacture and to use as an illuminator the old "burning fluid." He sold out his interest in 1841, and retired to his place in Greenbush, residing later at Nas- sau and Castleton, finally returning to Albany to spend his last days. He married Sybil Anne Rowe, born November 15, 1812, a de- scendant of the Rhenish German Rowes (Rauh), a member of which family, Johannes Rauh, settled in the Nine Partners Tract, in Dutchess county, New York, about 1705. She died in Albany, August 20, 1897. Children : Mary Louisa, born March 26, 1833, see for- ward ; George Henry, born November 2, 1835, married, September 15, 1863, Ellenore Ross, of Terre Haute, Indiana ; Charlotte A., born April 9. 1838, died February 15, 1842 ; Fran- cis F., born July 17, 1847, died July 18, 1864.


(X) Mary Louisa, daughter of George Washington and Sybil Anne (Rowe) Knowl- ton, was born in Greenbush, Rensselaer coun- ty, New York, March 26, 1833, and was a resident of Albany, New York. in 1910. She obtained her education at the East Green- bush and Nassau academies, and Tyler's In- stitute, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Imbued with a tense feeling of patriotism and inter- ested in the history of her ancestors, she was one of the most active originators of the Knowlton Family Association. Her city resi- dence has been at No. 328 Hudson avenue, Albany, for thirty-five years, and at Castle- ton, New York, she has a summer home known as Glenwood, where she owns about one hundred acres of attractive land. She married, at Nassau, New York, September 29, 1852, Edwin Henry Griffith, of that place.


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After marriage, she removed with him to Cas- tleton, where her husband founded the Na- tional Bank of Castleton. In 1874, owing to the failure of his health, she went with him to Denver, Colorado, where their youngest child Grace died, February 6, 1875, and real- izing he could not long survive, they returned to Albany, where he died May 16, 1875 (see Griffith IV).


PACKER John Packer, having obtained a grant of land in the southern part of Connecticut, emigrated from England about the year 1651 and set- tled in the town of Groton, Connecticut. He shortly became one of the largest and most influential of the planters in the struggling colony. In time he became the father of twelve children, seven being sons.


(II) James, youngest son of John Packer, was born in 1681, died April 24, 1765. Like his father, he made his mark in the commu- nity by industrious management, becoming noted among the large planters and leading a life which made him highly respected. He had twelve children.


(III) James (2), eldest son of James (I) Packer, was born in Groton, Connecticut, in 1734. In middle life he removed with his family from there to Guilford, Vermont. Among his children were James, born August 17, 1760; Jeremy, born about 1762; Eleazer, see forward.


(IV) Eleazer, son of James (2) Packer, was born in Groton, Connecticut, June 26, 1770, and died in Peachem, Vermont, March 29, 1864. He was one of the earliest, in fact the second, of those who settled in New- ark, Vermont. He cleared a tract of what was then a virgin forest in the wilds of Ver- mont, and built thereon a log cabin, where he took up his residence and commenced farming. About the year 1801, this tract of land liad come into the possession of James Packer, eldest brother of Eleazer, who ef- fected a change of property with him, Eleazer taking the lot of land in Newark, Vermont, and turning over to James his own farm in Guilford. About two years after he had erec- ted this crude habitation he brought thither his wife and little ones from Guilford to dwell there with him. Shortly afterwards, others seeing he had acquired a piece of favorable property which he had converted into a com- fortable and paying estate, came to settle there, and when a sufficient number had fol- lowed his lead the town was organized. He and two others, James Ball and John Sleeper, were chosen selectmen. Eleazer Packer was made the first justice of the peace for the


place, which was a recognition of his promi- nence, and in 1811 was chosen the first rep- resentative to the general assembly. To his credit as a pioneer it is recorded that he sol- emnized the first marriage at the place, mar- rying Philemon and Sally Hartwell, June 28, 1812, at Newark, Vermont. As he continued to prosper he cleared still more acres of land thereabouts. Pushing back farther and far- ther the line of wild forest, he increased the proportion of his crops, built a larger and more commodious residence, and moved into it from the modest one which had sheltered him when he made his start. Here he lived for half a century and was permitted to see his cultivated acres increase from the small, original clearing to a large, well-managed and prosperous farming estate. As the town grew, schools were established, a church (the Metli- odist Episcopal) of which he became an hon- ored and devoted member, was organized, and the entire machinery of the town came into existence under his eye and was largely aided by his ability and willingness to further such important public movements. In all the res- pective advances he is known to have borne a conspicuous part, and not infrequently it was he who furnished the intiative for the various steps. That he thoroughly enjoyed the con- fidence and esteem of his fellow-townsmen is sufficiently evidenced in the fact that he was chosen to represent his town in the legisla- ture of Vermont for fifteen consecutive years and was justice of the peace there for no less than two-score years. He might have con- tinued much longer to serve the public in the former office had he not relinquished the de- sire on account of the demands upon his time by increasing home duties. Serving the town for so lengthy a period as a justice, fastened upon him the familiar sobriquet of "Squire," which he seemed to appreciate and favor as a sign of cordial friendship, and wherever he was known he was mentioned with that dis- tinguishing title prefixed to his name. Eleazer Packer married, at Leyden, Massachusetts, March 16, 1796, Abigail Potter. Children : I. Philura, died 1824; married Curtis Newell. 2. Electra, died 1824. 3. Horace, born March 9, 1801, sce forward. 4. Elcazer, born 1803; died April 3, 1806. 5. Austin, born April 28, 1805. 6. Osman (twin of Austin). 7. David, born February 20, 1808. 8. Eli Wing, Jan- uary 5, 1811. 9. Josephine, March 30, 1814. 10. Rebecca Barney, July 23, 1817. John Quincy Adams, 1820.


(V) Horace, son of Eleazer and Abigail (Potter) Packer, was born in Newark, Ver- mont, March 9, 1801, and died at Burke, Ver- mont, October 19, 1868. As his father and


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grandfather before him, he was to follow large agricultural pursuits. He owned and lived upon an extensive farm in his native town, but his health becoming somewhat im- paired, he preferred to remove to Burke, where he died at the age of sixty-seven. He married Hopestill Whipple Brown, daughter of Josiah Brown, of Kirby, Vermont. After his removal to Burke, Horace Packer, with his son, H. H. Packer, engaged in the manu- facture of boots, and shoes, and continued in this business during the remainder of his life. Among the town offices which he held was that of town excise agent, a position which he retained from the date of his appointment to his death. Children: 1. Electra, died in infancy. 2. Halsey, died young. 3. Eli Elea- zer, born July 30, 1834, see forward. 4. Mary C., born June, 1837, died June, 1852. 5. Mar- tha J., born May, 1840, died March, 1854. 6. Horace H., born September 9, 1843, died April 13, 1904. Was veteran of civil war, prominent in Grand Army and Masonic cir- cles ; was in the boot and shoe trade forty years, first with his father, afterward alone till death ; married (first) Carrie Kahill; (sec- ond) Mary W. Whillock. The last named is now living at West Burke, Vermont. 7. Esther M., born 1846, died 1852. 8. Arianna, born 1849, at Newark, Vermont, died at Be- thel, Maine, 1884; married H. W. Bishop, a jeweller, who died 1882; after his death his widow was appointed postmistress of Bethel, and retained the office until the time of her death.


(VI) Professor Eli Eleazer Packer, son of Horace and Hopestill Whipple (Brown) Packer, was born in Newark, Vermont, July 30, 1834, and in 1910, was principal of School No. 12, Albany, New York. He received his earliest education at the Shelburne Falls In- stitute, in Shelburne, Franklin county, Mas- sachusetts, from which he graduated in 1855, and later attended the academy at St. Johns- bury, Vermont, for two years. He developed a strong inclination to become an instructor and taught for two years in Vermont schools, after which, in 1858, he removed his field of effort to New York state, teaching for seven years in the schools and the academy at Whitehall, New York, then throughout five years in the Union School of Cohoes. In 1870 he was called to Albany to become the principal of its Public School No. 12, one of the largest in that city, with six hundred pu- pils under his care in 1910. He ranks among the most prominent of Albany's educators, and many hundreds of the city's best men of business owe much to him for the strengthen- ing of character under more than common


solicitude of one in his position. He has con- tributed frequently to educational periodicals, and is forceful in utterance as he is decisive in his thoughts. He has always been much interested in music, particularly that of the church organ, and was for a considerable time organist at Whitehall and afterward at Co- hoes. He is an attendant of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, of which he has been a dea- con for more than twenty years. His resi- dence is at No. 486 Madison avenue, Albany, New York. He is a member of Masters Lodge, No. 5, Free and Accepted Masons, of Albany, New York. He visited Europe in 1901 and spent the summer. He has visited nearly every state and territory in the United States. In politics he is a Republican.


Professor Packer married, at Sutton, Ver- mont, July 8, 1858, Emily Hill, of that place ; daughter of Amos Hill and Mary Smith, and was born July 27, 1833, at Sutton, Vermont, and died at Albany, March 19, 1905. Chil- dren: I. Clarence Hill, born at Whitehall, April 2, 1859 ; married, at Jackson, Michigan, December, 1883, Nellie Beebe, daughter of the cashier of National Bank at Jackson, Michigan, by whom: Mabel Packer, born at Jackson, Michigan, November 23, 1884, mar- ried, October 8, 1909, Roy Kenney; Ethel, born at Jackson, Michigan, June 13, 1888, died at Toledo, Ohio, April, 1908; Charles Horace, born at Jackson, Michigan, July 12, 1890 ; Orlow, born at Jackson, Michigan, No- vember II, 1892; Edwin Eli, born at Toledo, Ohio, August 20, 1895; Helen, born at To- ledo, Ohio, August 26, 1897; Laura Belle, born at Toledo, Ohio, October 2, 1900. 2. Anabel, born at Whitehall, August 12, 1860; married Clarence A. Draper, of Toledo, Ohio, October 25, 1886. For nearly thirty years Clarence A. Draper was a prominent busi- ness man of Toledo, being in partnership dur- ing this long period with M. Nugent. Early in 1910, the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Nugent retaining the store and furniture bus- iness, and Mr. Draper taking an equivalent value in property gained outside the busi- ness.


HUN The descent of the Hun family in America is traced to Harmen Hun. He resided in Amersfoort, a town in the province of Utrecht, Holland, situated on the Eem river, some twenty-six miles southeast of Amsterdam. He had a son named Thomas, and a daughter called Wen- deltie. This fact is set forth in the Notarial Papers (page 103) on record in the office of the clerk of Albany county, New York, wherein she is mentioned as Wendeltie Har-


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mense, or in actuality, Wendeltie, daughter of Harmen Hun, and sister of Thomas.


Thomas Hun had a grandson named Har- men Thomase, who is mentioned in the docu- ment above referred to, which reads: "On July 5. 1661, his son Harmen and his wife Catalyntie Berck (spelled Bercx in Pearson's "First Settlers of Albany") gave a power of attorney to collect a certain sum of money from Angenitie Cornelisen, of Amsterdam, in Holland, belonging to the aforesaid Catalyntie as an inheritance from the late Tryntje Jan- sen van Rechter, her mother, late wife of Cornelis Stoffelse Bul, of Amsterdam, and also from her brother, Hendrick Berck, a cer- tain sum on an obligation," dated on March 8, 1656; also, to close up the estate of Wen- deltie Harmense (maiden lady), late aunt, or father's sister, of the above-named Harmen Thomase, she being dead at Alckmar, Hol- land.


(II) Thomas, son of Harmen Hun, resided at Amersfoort, Holland, and had a son named Harmen Thomase. It is not known what other children, if any, he might have had.


(III) Harmen Thomase, son of Thomas Hun, came to this country from Amersfoort, Holland. He married Catalyntie Berck in 1661 (or, Pearson, 1662). She was born in 1625, and was the widow of Dirck Bensingh, (Bensing, Bensen), and the daughter of Cor- nelis Stoffelse Bul and his wife, Tryntje Janse van Rechter (widow of Samuel Berck), of Amsterdam, Holland. When she married Hun she had had five children by Bensingh. He and his wife made a joint will in 1663, and she died April 14, 1693. Children : I. Weintie, born February 9, 1662, died Febru- ary 19, 1662. 2. Weintie, October 29, 1663; married, September 11, 1692, Rutger Mel- cherts Van Deusen, son of Melchert and En- geltje (Van Schoenderwoert ) Van Deusen. 3. Thomas, November 1, 1666, died November 9, 1667. 4. Thomas Harmense, see forward.


(IV) Thomas Harmense, son of Harmen Thomase and Catalyntie (Berck) Hun, was born in Beverwyck, New Netherland, (Al- bany, New York), October 2, 1668, died January 12, 1716, Albany. He married, November 20, 1692, Mayeke (Maaike, Mary) Oothout, daughter of Jan Janse and Hendrickje (Van Ness) Oothout. She died October 14, 1759. Children: I. Ca- talyntie, born September 4, 1693 (Pearson, baptized September 3, 1693) ; married, No- vember, 1726, John G. Lansing ; died October, 1727. 2. Johannes, October 10, 1695, see for- ward. 3. Harmen. November 23, 1697; (Pear- son, baptized July 21, 1700) ; died young. 4. Cornelis, June 9, 1700, (Pearson, baptized


July 21, 1700). 5. Hendrickje, September 12, 1702, (Pearson, baptized August 20, 1702) ; married, December 20, 1724, Pieter Schuyler. 6. Dirck, September 7, (Pearson, September 17), 1704; married Margaret Cornelia Ho- gan. 7. Rutger, March 15 (Pearson, bap- tized March 16), 1707. 8. Adrian, June 15, (Pearson, baptized July 24), 1709; married, August, 1733, Phoebe Smith; died January II, 1737. 9. Harmen, September 15, 1712; married, December 6, 1735. Elsje Lansing.


(V) Johannes, son of Thomas Harmense and Mayeke (Oothout) Hun, was born in Albany, New York, October 10, 1695, died there January 22, 1776, and it has been said that he was buried in the churchyard of the "Middle" Dutch Reformed Church on the south side of Beaver street. It may be that the remains were re-interred there; but it is probable that they were interred, as all men of prominence connected with the Dutch church of that period in Albany were, in the Dutch Church which stood at the intersec- tion of Broadway and State street, (between 1656-1715, of timber, and 1715-1805 of stone) and when it was taken down in 1805, that the street might not be hampered in traffic, the material was employed in the construction of the new church, above referred to, on Beaver street, and the cornerstone of the new edifice laid on April 30, 1806, so that at his death in 1776, it is unlikely that he was buried there directly, although it is shown that his remains were removed from the church lot in 1803, by his grandson, Abraham Hun, to the vault which he had erected on a lot on Chestnut street, between Hawk and Swan streets. When regrading took place, this vault was abandoned, and the bodies therein removed to the Buena Vista farm at Normanskill, reached in 1900, by following Delaware ave- nue to the creek. The bodies were, about the time of this latter date, reinterred in the Hun lot in the Albany Rural cemetery. He married, May 4, 1725, Anna, daughter of Francis and Elsie (Gansevoort) Winne. She died March, 1759. Children: I. Thomas, born June, 1726, died December 14, 1731. 2. Elsie, May 16, 1728, died January 4, 1732. 3. Elsie, March 18, 1733; married, May 19, 1757, Philip, son of Johannes Janse and Geer- truy (Schuyler) Lansing ; eight children. 4. Thomas, see forward.


(VI) Thomas (2), son of Johannes and Anna (Winne) Hun, was born in Albany, New York, February 28, 1736, died there No- vemher 17, 1802. He was agent for Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer and was a surveyor. He built a house on the east side of Broad- way, (then Market street) fifty feet south of


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Maiden Lane, demolished in 1845. He mar- ried, in Albany, August 27, 1761, the Rev. Eliardus Westerlo officiating, Elizabeth Wen- dell, born in Albany, September 2, 1738, daughter of Abraham and Geertruy ( Bleeck- er) Wendell. Children, born in Albany: I. Annetje, September 15, 1763, died in Penn Yan, New York, October 17. 1848; married, Albany, May 19, 1795, Rev. John Bassett ; five children. 2. Abraham, see forward.


(VII) Abraham, son of Thomas (2) and Elizabeth (Wendell) Hun, was born in Al- bany, New York, February 17, 1768. He died . there, January 29, 1812, and was placed in his own vault on Chestnut street, between Hawk and Swan streets .. He graduated from Columbia College, immediately afterward took up the study of law, and forming a part- nership with Rensselaer Westerlo, half broth- er of the Patroon of the Van Rensselaer Man- or, acted as agent for Stephen Van Rens- selaer until his death. He resided in his house on the east side of Mar- ket street (later Broadway), which was situated about fifty feet south of Maid- en Lane, which site was later built upon when the Stanwix Hall Hotel was erected, and he also owned a well cultivated farm of about three hundred and seventy-five acres extending along and northward back from the Normanskill creek (at the end of Delaware avenue in 1900), which place he called "Bue- na Vista," after the battle in which General Taylor figured. On the brow of the hill, he built a summer residence, which his son Thomas reconstructed in 1852, at about the same time the farm was reduced to about twenty-five acres. He married, in Albany, Sep- tember 22, 1796, Rev. John Bassett officiating, Maria, daughter of Judge Leonard and Maria (Van Rensselaer) Gansevoort. She was born in Albany, New York, February 17, 1778, died there. October 19, 1813, and was buried in her husband's vault, as mentioned. Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth, born January 13, 1798, died Albany, June 9. 1804. 2. Maria, July 23. 1800. died April 1, 1801. 3. Elizabeth, July 1, 1804; married, Albany, April 4, 1833, Bernard S. Van Rensselaer; died Albany, July 1, 1834. 4. Ann Maria, Albany, Oc- tober II, 1807, died October 27, 1807. 5. Thomas, see forward.




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