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(11I) Gilbert, eldest son of William and Mary (Livingston) Robertson, was born in
the town of Greenwich, Washington county, New York, August 24, 1778, died at his home in Argyle, New York, February 10, 1865. He inherited the homestead farm on which he resided. He married in Argyle, New York, October 1, 1804, Elizabeth Dow, born near the river Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, February 5, 1781, came to America in 1802, died at Argyle, February 13, 1852. Children : I. Mary L., born July 24, 1805, died February 15, 1828 ; married James Small and had issue. 2. Jeanette, April 24, 1807, died February 28, 1855: married Thomas Reid and had issue. 3. Hon. William D., January 31, 1810, died July 6, 1897 ; married Jeanette Shaw and had issue. He served in the state legislature and was president of the Greenwich Bank and of the Greenwich and Johnsville Railroad Company. 4. Margaret Ann, February 8, 1815. died July 20, 1844; married David Law, son of Robert I. and Anna (Small) Law ; their only daughter died September 9, 1866. 5. Gilbert, see forward. 6. Eliza, January I, 1817, died May 1, 1851; married William Lendrum, son of George and Mary (Robin- son) Lendrum ; they had issue.
(IV) Hon. Gilbert (2), son of Gilbert (I) and Elizabeth (Dow) Robertson, was born in Argyle, Washington county, New York, Feb- ruary 8, 1815, died April 23, 1896, in Troy, New York. He received his early education in the public school, prepared for college at Cambridge and Herkimer academies, and at age of eighteen entered Union College, from which he was graduated in 1837. For the two years ensuing he taught school in Columbia county, New York. In 1839 he entered the law office of Cady & Fairchild at Salem, re- maining until 1840, when he located in Troy, entering the law office of Hayner & Gould. In 1843 he was admitted to the bar and com- menced the practice of his profession, which he continued until his death. He was always a friend of the public school system, and in 1843 was elected to the school board of Troy. He saw the defects of the old system, labored and brought about the needed reforms and had the appropriations for schools doubled. He was early connected with the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and in 1847 was president of the association, after having served as corresponding secretary. In 1847 he was appointed by the governor a justice of the peace, and in 1848, this office having become elective, he was chosen for the position, serving until 1853. During this time he was also police justice. In 1851 he was elected recorder, serving until 1856. By virtue of that office he was presiding officer of the common council. In 1852 he was one
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of a committee to sell the Troy and Schenec- tady railroad, which was successfully accom- plished. Russell Sage, who was a director of the company, was an associate on the com- mittee. In 1859 he was elected county judge and re-elected in 1863. He was an eminently fair and impartial judge, and distinguished for these very essential traits. December 29, 1869, he was appointed United States assessor of internal revenue of New York state by President Grant. In 1873 he was appointed postmaster of Troy by President Grant, was reappointed in 1878 and again April 4, 1882, by President Arthur. He was succeeded in 1886 by the Democratic appointee of Presi- dent Cleveland, Edward Dolan.
Judge Robertson gave the city a most satis- factory, business-like administration of the post office. During his three terms he intro- duced many improvements in the service and the increased facilities were so well appre- ciated that almost every business firm in the city, regardless of party, petitioned for his retention. During this period he was the leader of the Republican forces in the county ; he was a born leader and thorough organizer and built up the party to a strength and power it has never since known. Originally a Whig, he joined at once with the Republican party, and as early as 1856 was chairman of the county committee and with the exception of one term held the office for twenty years. He was also a member of the state executive com- mittee, and at state conventions, by his diplo- macy and tact, often averted open rupture. He was a member of the state board of medi- ation and arbitration appointed in 1886 by Governor Hill, and held the office until his death. During his long public career he con- tinued his legal business, having several part- ners at different times, his last being Samuel Foster, who had been a partner in his earlier days. He was a man who wielded great power but never abused it. He was loved by his friends and respected by those in oppo- sition to him. His integrity was never ques- tioned nor assailed either in political, profes- sional or business life. As a citizen, lawyer, official or politician, the people had confidence in him, and that confidence was never be- trayed. As a social, genial companion he exercised a power among his associates rarely equalled. He was of magnificent physique, and very fond of horseback riding; mounted on a fine horse, he made a figure long to be remembered.
He married in Troy, June 10, 1852, Ange- line, born March 22, 1832, in Troy, daughter of Dr. Joseph and Rachel (Mitchel) Daggett. Children: I. Gilbert Daggett, born March 14,
1853 ; married Annie Louise Eames, May 18, 1880, in Worcester, Massachusetts. 2. Mary Elizabeth, September 5, 1854 : unmarried. 3. William, November 13, 1857, died November 21, 1857. 4. John Livingston, March 27, 1869; unmarried. Mrs. Judge Robertson survives her husband and resides in Troy, New York.
SCHERMERHORN This family was es- tablished in the Mo- hawk Valley by Ja- cob Janse Schermerhorn, born in 1622, in Waterland, Holland, though in 1654 his father was a resident of Amsterdam, Holland : died at Schenectady, 1689. At an early day Jacob Janse came to Beverwyck, where he became prosperous as an Indian trader and brewer. In 1648 he transgressed the law against sell- ing arms and ammunition to the Indians. He was tried by order of Governor Stuyvesant and sentenced to banishment for five years and the confiscation of his property. Several leading citizens interfered in his behalf and succeeded in having the banishment clause of the sentence revoked, but his property was totally lost. These proceedings against Jacob Schermerhorn formed later a ground for com- plaint against Stuyvesant to the States Gen- eral. He made his will May 20, 1688, and devised property worth 56,822 guilders (about $23,000), so the old pioneer soon retrieved his fortunes. His estate was considered very large at that time, and was exceeded by few except the patroons and men of high official rank. He married Jannetje Segers, a daugh- ter of Cornelius Segerse Van Voorhoudt. He made his will May 20, 1688, and soon after died in Schenectady. He mentions in his will children : Ryer, see forward ; Symon ; Helena, married Mynder Harmeuse Van Der Bogart; Jacob; Machletdt, married Johannes Beek- man; Cornelis; Jannetje, married Caspar Springstein; Neeltje, married Barent Ten Eyck ; Lucas.
(II) Ryer, eldest son of Jacob Janse and Jannetje Segers (Van Voorhoudt) Schermer- horn, settled in Schenectady. He was one of the five patentees of the patent granted in 1684, and in 1700 was the sole survivor of the original owners of the township. Three of them, Myndert Wemp, Jan Van Epps and Sweer Terenise Van Velsen, were killed, Feb- ruary 9, 1698-99, and the fourth, William Tel- ler, died at Albany in 1700. There were about eighty thousand acres of land in the Schenec- tady patent, all of which now came under the charge and management of one trustee, save the few farms that had been granted before. This one man power soon became distasteful to the people, who petitioned for a new char-
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ter which should give them power of choosing five trustees to hold office three years. The new charter was granted, but Schermerhorn paid no attention to it nor to his newly ap- pointed fellow trustees. He still continued to act as sole "trustee for the town in receiving rents, issues and profits thereof, and in prosecuting suits of law in his own name only, without giving any account thereof"- this too in spite of his suspension from office by the governor. The secret of his stubborn persistence in the duties of the trusteeship was the fact that the first patent of 1684 was still binding, and he, as the sole survivor of the trustees, was vested with all the authority and power originally granted to the five trus- tees named in the first patent. The fee of the land was in him, his "heirs, successors and assigns," and could only be alienated by death or release in due form. The second charter was amended and on May 25, 1714, Schermer- horn appeared before the governor and coun- cil "and after a full hearing of all matters" against him, was suspended from "acting fur- ther as trustee of the said Towne"; but he continued obstinate, disregarding the demand of the new trustees for an accounting to them of his official acts. They then commenced suit against him in the court of chancery, he and his friends in turn instituting counter suits in the same court. These several suits and others continued down to the death of the second Ryer Schermerhorn in 1795, a period of nearly one hundred years, and were only settled by the New York legislature passing an act, March 26, 1797, which took all powers and duties in relation to the common lands, conferring them upon the mayor, alderman and commonalty of Schenectady. A commis- sion was appointed under the act who finally determined all claims and closed their ac- counts, August 10, 1798. In 1690 Ryer Schermerhorn was a member of the provincial assembly from Albany county and justice of the peace; in 1700 he was appointed assist- ant to the judge of the court of common pleas. He was a man of unusual ability, firm will, undaunted courage, great strength and powers of endurance. His mills on the Schuy- lenburg Kil, together with farm No. 4 of Van Cuyler's "Bouwery," was held in the family two hundred years. He made his will April 5, 1717, and died February 19, 1719, leaving two daughters and three sons, all of whom had families. He married, July, 1676, Ari- antje Bratt, widow of Hulmer Otten, who had left a daughter, Tryntje (Catherine), and also property in America and Holland. This caused special contracts and agreements at the time of second marriage, safeguarding
her interests. Children mentioned in Ryer Schermerhorn's will: 1. Jan (John, Johan- nes), inherited the homestead. 2. Catatina, married Johannes Wemp. 3. Janneke, mar- ried Volker Simonse Veeder. 4. Jacob, see forward. 5. Arent, 1693.
(III) Jacob, son of Ryer and Ariantje (Bratt-Otten) Schermerhorn, died July 4, 1753. He inherited "8 morgans (sixteen acres) of the Hindmort Bouwery, 21512 morgans of woodland," and a lot of land in the village of Schenectady. He married, Oc- tober 20, 1712, Margarieta, died May 22, 1741, daughter of Johannte Teller and grand- daughter of William Teller, the first settler of the name in New Amsterdam and a trader in Albany for fifty years, removing from thence to New York in 1692. He was one of the five associate trustees with Ryer Schermer- horn under the famous first patent of Sche- nectady, and the last but one to survive. Chil- dren, baptized: Ryer (2) ; Johannes; Jaco- bus, see forward; Willem; Arent; Andries; Simon ; Susanna, married John Visger.
(IV) Jacobus, son of Jacob and Margarieta (Teller) Schermerhorn, was born January 3, 1720, died July 28, 1782. He was a farmer and owned land in different parts of the town. He married, September 4, 1762, Annatje P. Vrooman, died September 7, 1770, daughter of Peter Vrooman. Children: Jacob, born July 21, 1763, died April 26, 1787, and Jo- hannes (John), see forward.
(V) John, son of Jacobus and Annatje P. (Vrooman) Schermerhorn, was born January 29, 1765, died January 7, 1814. He married Catherine Bratt (Bradt), born June 29, 1764, died September 13, 1817, daughter of Jacobus and Elizabeth Bratt, a descendant of Arent Andriese Bratt, an early settler of Schenec- tady in 1662, and his wife, Catalyntje De Vos, daughter of Andries De Vos, deputy director of Rensselaerwyck (Albany). Children: I. Jacob I., see forward. 2. Elizabeth, born De-
cember 3, 1790, died in childhood. 3. An- natje, June 16, 1792, died in infancy. 4. Eva, died in infancy. 5. Jacobus Bratt. 6. An- natje (2), July 7, 1798, married Anthony Van Slyck. 7. Elizabeth (2), died in in- fancy. 8. Simon, April 23, 1802. 9. Arent Bratt, May 4, 1804. 10. Peter Vrooman, May II, 1806, died May 26, 1853, married Catha- rine Clute.
(VI) Jacob I., son of John and Catherine (Bratt) Schermerhorn, was born in Rotter- dam, New York, March 26, 1789, died there April 20, 1849. He inherited part of the old Schermerhorn estate and added to it by pur- chase. He was a farmer, a strong Democrat, and was a member of the Reformed Dutch
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church, as had been his ancestors. He mar- ried Maria Vedder, died August 19, 1832, aged forty-five years. Children: John J., Simon J. (see forward), Catherine, Anna, Sarah, Alida.
(VII) Simon J., son of Jacob I. and Maria (Vedder) Schermerhorn, was born Septem- ber 26, 1827, in the town of Rotterdam, Sche- nectady county, New York, on the homestead farm which had been in the family for seven generations. It adjoins the old Arent Bratt estate on which still stands the ancient brick house built by Arent Bratt in 1684, the oldest building in the county. Simon J. was a farmer and ably conducted all his business operations, brought his farm to a high state of cultivation, erected a substantial brick resi- dence in 1857, and constructed new and ample farm buildings. He was a loyal Democrat and in 1862 represented his party in the New York state legislature. He served on the county board of supervisors, and as school commissioner. He was well known, respected and very popular. He declined many public offices, although with him nomination meant election, for he never had an opposing candi- date, so well satisfied were even his political opponents of his ability, honesty and fairness. In 1892 he represented his district in con- gress, where he warmly supported President Cleveland and his policies. He was a great admirer of the president and a warm friend- ship existed between them. He early con- nected with the Second Dutch Reformed Church of Rotterdam, which he faithfully served during his lifetime, and for many years was an elder. He married, February 4, 1857, Helen, born 1837, daughter of Har- mon and Eleanor Veeder. Her father, Har- mon, died in the "Woestine" July 31, 1851. Mrs. Helen (Veeder) Schermerhorn was an active worked in the church with her husband and his true "helpmeet" all through life. Chil- dren: I. Jacob Edwin, died at the age of three years. 2. Mary Veeder, January 6, 1860. 3. Sarah, March 19, 1862, married William C. Marlette ; they have one son, John Schermerhorn. 4. John, July 12, 1863, mar- ried Matilda W. Turnbull. He died January 27, 1890. 5. Alice Augusta, January 23, 1865. 6. Andrew Truax, December 7. 1866. 7. Ja- cob I., died in infancy. 8. Simon, see for- ward.
(VIII) Simon, youngest son of Simon J. and Helen (Veeder) Schermerhorn, was born on the homestead farm in Rotterdam, Sche- nectady county, New York, April 3, 1874. He married, November 10, 1897, Julia A. Camp- bell, born June 22, 1876. Child: Simon John (2), born February 2, 1902.
(The Veeder Line).
Simon Volkertse Veeder, born 1624, belonged to the ship "Prince Maurice," in 1644, when that ship plied between Amster- dam, Holland, and New Amsterdam. He bought a lot in the latter city, sold it in 1654 for thirty beaver skins, removed to Beverwyck and thence to Schenectady in 1662. He owned a "bouwery" on the "Great Flat," and a village lot on the north corner of State and Ferry streets. He also owned land on the Norman's Kill. In his will he mentioned seven children: Pieter, Gerrit, Johannes, Volkert, Volkie, married Barent Janse Wemp; Geesie, married Jan Hendrickse Vrooman; Magdalena, married William Ap- pel.
(II) Johannes, son of Simon Volkertse Veeder, was a farmer on the Norman's Kill farm and he also bought a share in the patent of Jan Hendrickse Van Bael in the same sec- tion. He married (first) November 19, 1697, Susanna, daughter of Myndert Wemp; (sec- ond) Susanna Wendell, of Albany, June 3, 1718. He had eight children, of whom Myn- dert was the sixth.
(III) Myndert, son of Johannes and Su- sanna (Wemp) Veeder, was baptized April 30, 1705. He married, December 19, 1733, Elisabeth Douw, of Albany. He had eight children, all baptized in Albany.
(IV) Johannes, eldest child of Myndert and Elisabeth (Douw) Veeder, was born July 29, 1734 ; baptized thirty days later ; died Septem- ber 26, 1793. He was one of the "Woestine" of Rotterdam, Schenectady county. He mar- ried Lena, daughter of Pieter Vrooman, July 6, 1759. She was born August 18, 1734, died December 20, 1813. They had five children : Pieter Vrooman, see forward; Margaret, born October 22, 1763; Myndert, September 14, 1769, died June 12, 1833; Annatje, October 30, 1771, married Frederic Bratt, died June 20, 1794 ; Elisabeth, baptized April 16, 1775.
(V) Pieter Vrooman, eldest child of Jo- hannes and Lena (Vrooman) Veeder, was born November, 1760. He made his will De- cember 18, 1823, and spoke of his wife Jane and sons John, Harmon and Myndert, and daughters Helen, Nancy, Margarct, Susanna and Maria. He died and was buried in the "Woestine" October 9. 1814. He married, July 28, 1789, Jannetje, born 1766, died March 13, 1848, daughter of Jan Baptiste Van Eps.
(VI) Harmon, son of Picter Vrooman and Jane (Van Eps) Veeder, was born December 29, 1797, died July 31, 1850. He was a man of education and of brilliant intellectual quali- ties. He was a zealous member and liberal supporter of the Dutch Reformed church
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and a Whig in politics. He was a farmer of the town of Rotterdam all his active years. He married, in Florida, Montgomery county, New York, Eleanor Truax, born March 24, 1808, died May 21, 1904, aged ninety-six years, one month and twenty-seven days, daughter of Abraham and Maria (Swart) Truax, a descendant of Teunis Cornelise Swart, of Schenectady, and Philip Du Trieux, who was in New Amsterdam as early as 1624. Abraham Trnax was born June 29, 1789, died May 26, 1862, son of Andries and Susannah De Graaf Truax. This was another of the oldest Mohawk Valley families. Andries Truax's first wife was Elizabeth Van Vran- ken, born February 4. 1758, died December 15, 1777, daughter of Rycker Van Vranken. She left no issue. Children of Harmon and Eleanor (Truax) Veeder: I. Mary, born April 4, 1833, died June 14, 1909; married Rev. James Gilmour, a minister of the Pres- byterian church, and a professor of learning, died December 18, 1885. They were the par- ents of seven children, four of whom yet survive. 2. Helen, born in the "Woestine," March 20, 1837; educated in the seminary at Schenectady ; she married, February 4, 1857, Simon J. Schermerhorn (see Schermerhorn), whom she survives, a resident of the old Schermerhorn homestead in Rotterdam; she gives little evidence of her seventy-three years, has an unusually retentive memory, is greatly beloved and tenderly cherished. 3. Dr. Andrew, born April 27, 1842 ; graduated from the Albany Medical School, Doctor of Medicine ; located at Pittsburg. Pennsylva- nia, where he practiced successfully until his retirement. He married Elizabeth Brown. Children: i. Harmon W., married Mary, daughter of Charles G. Ellis. She died, leav- ing one daughter, Mary E. ii. Anna Gertrude, married James Burke, of Erie. Pennsylvania. iii. Julia Dayton, died unmarried.
CONSALUS This name, also written Gonzalez, Consaulus, Gon- saulus. Cunsaulus, Gonsaul and Consaul, is a familiar one in the annals of early Schenectady county and the Mohawk Valley.
Emmanuel Consaul was in Schenectady as early as 1684. In 1767 two by that name were living neighbors near the North Manor line, probably on what is now known as the "Con- sanl Road." The earliest definite record is of Johannes Consaulus, of "Nistigioene," who married Machtelt, daughter of Johannes Hemstrat, in Albany, April 20, 1765. Their children, born in Schenectady, New York, were : Johannes, Emmanuel, see forward.
Machtelt, Annatje. Those born in Albany were: Sarah, Bastiaan, Francyntje, Engeltie, Bata and Mattheus. Just what the connection is between the Gonzalez family first of Sul- livan county, New York, and the Consaul family of Schenectady, does not appear, as the names of even the same family were writ- ten in different ways. The Consalus family of Troy descend from a Spanish Huguenot an- cestor, Don Manuel Gonzalez, who is be- lieved to have been the first permanent white settler of Sullivan county. He had sons who perpetuated his name. Don Manuel is said to have come from Holland in his own ship.
(II) Emmanuel Gonzalez, who was a direct descendant of Don Manuel Gonzalez, probably a son, was of Ulster county, New York, where in 1728 his name and that of his sons appear in a list of the freeholders of the town of Kingston (see Documentary History of New York, vol. iii, p. 970). About 1763 a proclamation was issued offering a reward for the apprehension of Jacobus Gonzalez and six others, all of Dutchess county, New York, charged with high treason (Dunlaps History of New York, appendix cxc III). This Ja- cobus was no doubt a grandson of the first Don Manuel and brother of Joseph, and this proclamation may have induced Joseph to re- move from Dutchess county into the wilder- ness north of the Mohawk.
(III) Joseph, son of Emmanuel Gonzalez, married Margaret Dutcher, of Dutchess county, New York, who was a direct descend- ant in the fourth generation of Anneke Jan- sen, of Trinity Church litigation fame. Jo- seph had taken up his abode in the extreme southwestern corner of Saratoga county, in what is now known as the town of Charlton. Previous to the revolution he had lived on the friendliest terms with the Indians. On the breaking out of the war, however, the Gonzalez family, almost the only one in that sparsely settled section that had openly es- poused the cause of the colonists, became ob- jects of especial hate to the Tories, particu- larly to the Scotch residents of Charlton who were generally on the side of the King. The family of the daring pioneer Joseph con- sisted of his wife and four sons; Emmanuel, the oldest, was a man of great strength and had frequently bested the Indians, which fur- ther incited the hostility of the Indians and Tories. In April, 1782, a party of St. Regis Indians who were returning from their winter hunting and fishing in the Adirondacks, came nearly a hundred miles south to destroy the Gonzalez family before returning to Canada. ' Whether they were prompted by the Tory ele- ment or to avenge their rough handling by
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young Gonzalez, has never been ascertained. Joseph, the father, with the farm hand, the eldest and two youngest sons, were turning a summer fallow in a field, while the mother, daughter and second son, David, were at the house. As the Indians came up Joseph ex- tended his hand in friendly salutation. The Indian responded with a blow from his toma- hawk which killed him instantly. At the same time the Indian seized the two sons, and the hired man, Emmanuel, by main strength broke away, fleeing towards the nearby woods. As he was scaling the first fence he was again seized, but again broke away, although he was shot through the hand. As he leaped the last fence that separated him from the woods he received a shot that killed him instantly. Joseph, the youngest son, aged twelve, suc- ceeded in reaching the house in the meantime, and David at once put his mother, sister and brother in a wagon and escaped to Crane's Village, three miles away. This David went west and is the progenitor of those of that name, among whom is Rev. Frank Gunsaulus, of Chicago, Illinois. The Indians scalped Jo- seph and Emmanuel, placed their scalps on a pole, and taking John and the hired man, started on the long march to Canada. The sufferings of the trip cannot be told, but they finally reached the capitol of the St. Regis nation, where John had his face painted and head shaved and was compelled to carry the scalps of his father and brother through the camp. This massacre broke up the Gonzalez family. Rebecca, the eldest daughter, had previously married Emmanuel De Graff, of New Amsterdam. The mother and younger children removed to Schenectady, where the mother died soon after, broken-hearted over the fate of her son John. A granddaughter of David married Commander Constable, of the United States navy. The history of John continues in next generation.
(IV) John, son of Joseph and Margaret (Dutcher) Gonzalez, was a lad of fifteen when forced to take the terrible march to Canada. He was compelled to "run the gauntlet" and forced into the British service, but he bore all his trials with true "Yankee" fortitude. He was employed in making car- tridges, but he mixed the powder with char- coal, saying: "None of these shall ever harm my countrymen." Although peace was de- clared about a year after his capture, he was kept in captivity for two years longer, obtain- ing his release in 1785. He had become a favorite with some of the British officers who offered him land in Canada if he would re- main. He was now eighteen, but he pluckily replied : "All the land I want from you is
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