Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume II, Part 60

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866- ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 716

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ward Madison Square) Presbyterian Church. He was a man of the deepest piety, and most gentle, loving and sympathetic nature. He was most happy in his married and home life. He married, September 12, 1824, in New York City, Catherine, daughter of Reu- ben and Abigail (Wilsey) Munson (see Mun- son VI). Children: I. Isabella, born Febru- ary 9, 1826, died January 28, 1900; was wife of John Sherwood, also deceased. 2. Marcellus, born September 23, 1827, died in New York City, January, 1902; he was a prominent business man of the metropolis and became very wealthy ; married, November 15, 1855, Frances White, who recently died, leaving a vast fortune to his heirs. 3. Jos- eph Wilfred, born January 9, 1829, died De- cember 28, 1905; for thirty years he was en- gaged in New York in the foreign shipping and commission business ; he married Florin- da Morton, who died March 20, 1871. 4. Isaac Smithson, D.D., born September 24, 1830, died July 3, 1899; he became a minis- ter of the Gospel and was the beloved pastor of Christ Church, Utica, New York, later was rector of St. James Episcopal Church at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he died; was an author of considerable note. 5. Reu- ben Munson, see forward. 6. Mary Barlow, born December 26, 1834, died September 21, 1884: married Colon F. Brown. 7. Abigail Ann, born February 23, 1836; wife of Fred B. Wightman, a prominent attorney of New York City. 8. Catherine, born July 8, 1838; received fatal injuries from fire, December 9. 1850. 9. Martha Jane, born July 14, 1840. died September 15, 1893: was widow of Na- thaniel Cowdrey, a very wealthy man of New York City, who died in 1885. 10. Caroline Adelia, born September 18, 1843, married John Lefoy Brower, a prominent business man of New York City.

(IV) Reuben Munson, fifth child of Rob- ert Milham and Catherine (Munson) Hart- ley, was born in New York City, May 15. 1832. He was educated in the schools of that city until reaching seventeen, when he was sent to the town of Florida, Montgomery county, to live and complete his education at the Amsterdam Academy. He became inter- ested in country and farm life. and later pur- chased a farm in the great Mohawk Valley, and has ever since lived this life and followed the occupation of an agriculturist. He has inherited the tastes and virtues of his excel- lent father and mother, and his life has been full of good works. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed church, and in politics is a Republican. He married, March 8, 1858, Jane Vanderveer, born June 16, 1831. Chil-

dren: I. Mary B., born March 14, 1859; married Horace Walrath, a successful farmer of Montgomery county, New York, near Mi- naville, Florida; child, Jennie H. Walrath, born June 15, 1902. 2. Robert Milham, born January 12, 1862; is an enterprising farm- er of the town of Florida. He was educated in the common schools and Amsterdam Acad- emy. For about three years he was book- keeper, in the broom shop of D. A. Devendorf, at Fort Hunter. He was supervisor of the town of Florida from 1891 to 1898, and has held other town offices. He was one of the Charter Members of Tienonderoga Tribe, No. 176, I. O. R. M .; a charter member of the Montgomery County Historical Society, and has been one of its trustees since its incorpora- tion; historian and vice-president of the Society for four years, and at present is pres- ident. He is a natural-born antiquarian and collector. His museum contains valuable col- lections of U. S. stamps and coins, geological and mineral specimens, and civil war relics. His largest collection is local Indian relics,. which number over 5,000 specimens. Another most interesting collection he has personally made, is a large and unique collection of Brit- ish and American numbered buttons found upon the battle grounds and camp sites of the revolutionary war. He is considered an au- thority upon local history and Indian relics, and has literary and artistic tastes. He mar- ried, March II, 1897, in town of Glen, Mont- gomery county, Fannie Pierce, born January 18, 1870. 3. Garret Vanderveer, born Janu- ary I, 1863, resides in Florida, where he is engaged in farming. He attended the local district school and later Amsterdam Academy. He has a mechanical turn of mind, is inter- ested in numismatics, Indian relics, etc., and has a large collection. He married, Septem- ber 26, 1888, Clara Luke, born April 11, 1871; children : Abby May, born October 23, 1889 ; Elmira, August 21, 1892.

(The Vanderveer Line).

The Vanderveer American ancestry begins with Cornelis, who married Catherine Mande- ville and came from Alkmaar, Holland, to. America, February, 1659, in the ship "Ot- ter," and settled at Flatbush, Long Island. (II) Dominicus, son of Cornelis Vander- veer, settled on Raritan river, New Jersey, was born in 1679.

(III) Tunis, son of Dominicus Vander- veer, was born in 1704. He married Alche. Schenk.

(IV) Jacob, son of Tunis Vanderveer, was. born in 1728; he married Alche Wichoff.

(V) Garrett, son of Jacob Vanderveer, was born in Montgomery county, New York,

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1765, died in 1813. He married, in 1789, Rachel Covenhoven.

(VI) Jane, daughter of Garrett Vander- veer, married Reuben M. Hartley (see Hart- ley III).

(The Munson Line).

The English Monsons belonging to the peer- age have a recognized history extending through five centuries. According to Burke, John Monson was living in 1378. From him sprang William Monson, of Lincolnshire, England, who died in 1558. It is from this fine old English family that Thomas Mun- son, the American ancestor and immigrant, sprang.

(I) Thomas Munson, born about 1612, died May 7, 1685, first appears in America at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1637, performing service in the Pequot war. He was a pioneer settler of New Haven, Connecticut, where he was chosen one of seven townsmen, May 3, 1657. He was a carpenter by trade, held many civic offices, was deputy, member of the plantation and jurisdiction courts, ser- geant of the train band, lieutenant and cap- tain in the standing army of the colony. He fought in King Philip's war, and was promi- nent in the church. His wife Joanna bore him two daughters and a son Samuel.

(II) Samuel, son of Thomas and Joanna Munson, was baptized "ye 7th 6mo 43" (see First Church records) and died in 1693. He was a shoemaker and tanner. He was a free- man in 1667 of New Haven, and one of the founders of Wallingford, where he was chosen townsman and appointed ensign. He was a schoolmaster, a musician, rector of Hopkins grammar school, and held many of the town offices. He married Maria Bradley, who bore him ten children.

(III) Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel (I) and Maria (Bradley) Munson, was born February 28, 1669, died November 23, 1741. He was town clerk of Wallingford, treasurer, lister, school committeeman, fence viewer and townsman. He had much land and property. He married (first) Martha - --; (second ) Mary, widow of Caleb Merriman. He was the father of thirteen children, eight by the first wife and five by the second.

(IV) William, fourth child of Samuel (2) and Martha Munson, was born October 13, 1695, died July 21, 1773. He was of Wal- lingford, now Cheshire, Connecticut. He mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Curtis, of Wallingford. Their children were eight in number.

(V) Peter, fourth child of William and Re- becca (Curtis) Munson, was born November 22, 1735, died February 3, 1830. He was

a freeman of Cheshire, Connecticut, chosen December 21, 1771 ; one of a committee of eleven to "procure clothing and other articles for the soldiers of the Continental army." He entered the revolutionary army, was soon taken sick, and was discharged for that rea- son. Another authority says he was a drum major and captured by the British, but soon set free. He married Elizabeth Hall, who bore him nine children.

(VI) Reuben, fifth child of Peter and Eliz- abeth (Hall) Munson, was born September 28, 1799, died at Flushing, Long Island, Sep- tember 29, 1846. He lived for a time in Virginia and Maryland, but for nearly fifty years resided in New York City. He was an extensive manufacturer of tortoise shell and horn combs. He traded extensively with Mexico. He was very successful, became wealthy, and lived in great style. In his later years he retired to a large farm at Flush- ing, Long Island, where he ended his days. During the war of 1812 he helped to fit out the privateer "Saratoga." He was in com- mand of troops during that war, stationed at Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was prominent in New York City public affairs ; he was alderman from the tenth ward 1813-20, and a member of the state legislature, 1820- 22. He was one of the founders of the House of Refuge. "He was remarkable for kindness and benevolence, for love of truth, love of justice, and love of peace." He mar- ried Abigail Wilsey, born July 21, 1781, at Rhinebeck, New York, and died April 23, 1865, at Williams Bridge, New York. They had fourteen children, one of whom, Cather- ine, born September 23, 1804, and died Sep- tember 7, 1873, married Robert M. Hart- ley (see Hartley). "She was of medium stature, in person inclined to roundness, of blonde complexion, light hair, an expressive countenance, enlivened by blue eyes. Her do- mestic virtues were most exemplary, industry and economy were conspicuous in the care of her family." She is buried in the family lot at Greenwood, Brooklyn, New York.

Of the ancient Anglo-Norman

CLIZBE family De Clisbe, we learn from the researches of John Fries, chronicler and antiquarian of the Scottish Border, that this house was originally of the Chateau De Clisbe, Val de Loire, Normandy.

In the suite of William the Conqueror, three knights of the family-Richard, Robert and Jolin De Clishe-passed over to England. where, for distinguished valor in the battle of Hastings (October 14, 1066), they were

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granted crown lands upon the Scottish border, south of Berwick Demesne.

These they still held in the time of Henry V., when at the battle of Agincourt (Octo- ber 25, 1415) one of the house, Lee Ira De Clisbe, commanding the Northumberland Ar- chers, two thousand in number, having charged on and routed the left wing of the French army, was, at the close of the battle, highly commended by King Henry in the presence of the assembled knights of the whole army. And the king presented him with a shield of gold bearing the family's ancient armorial quarters, and a new motto: "Sans Peur"-in Norman French, signifying "without fear."

In the time of Charles I. (1625), the family by lopping the prefix "De" from their name thenceforth was anglicized to Clisbe. This is also borne in the deeds and charters of the Manor of Yeardly, and Manor of Nechells Green granted them by Henry V. On these estates they lived in opulence and high respect, up to the time of the revolution in 1642, when Robert Clisbe was so severely wounded in a cavalry charge upon a body of His Maj- esty's horse (probably at the battle of Edge- hill, October 23, 1642) that he died on the field. On account of his participation in this action, two of his sons-and heirs-Ira and John Clisbe, were cited before a military com- mission in the court of Bromwick, Warwick- shire, to take an oath of submission and allegiance to the king's officers in the Mid- land counties. This the two brothers defiantly refused to do, averring that rather than sub- mit to the arbitrary dictum of a self-elected, unconstitutional court, they would leave the country for foreign lands forever. Being hence heavily mulcted in money and estates, they immediately took their departure from the old Manor of Nechells Green, Warwick- shire, and thence from Bristol, England, ac- companied by Henry Clinton, Knight of War- wick, and several eminent yeoman families, neighbors, set sail for the Colonial Province of York (New York). This branch left at home at the old Manor, an uncle, named Ira Clisbe, noted for having brought over to Eng- land, while serving the Commonwealth as consul at Tangiers, Morocco, six thorough- bred Arabian stud horses, which, crossing the fine hunting stock of the time, produced some of the fastest racers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and from which blood has descended the races Hamiltons and Lex- ingtons of Kentucky. As the grand jury of Warwickshire, subsequent to the emigration of the brothers, Ira and John, ordered a res- titution of the fines which had been imposed

upon them for "contumacy" in the court of Bromwick, severely censuring that court for its arbitrary sentence and execution, the Cliz- bes were granted lands by a royal commission upon what was called the York Grant (1664) in the states of New York and Connecticut. This is described in an old manuscript found by Anthony Barclay, of Barclay street, New York, British consul-general, among a num- ber of old British government papers entitled "Records of the Blood Stock-Colonial Fam- ilies." There is also another old manuscript history of the family which proved that more recently a branch settled in the state of Mich- igan. The paper was handed to Colonel Cliz be, of the ordnance department, Britain, many years ago by a distinguished gentleman. Gen- eral Cass, of Detroit, Michigan, and these two documents, connecting the Clizbe family in America with that of that ancient name in England, were deposited in the archives of Aston Hall, county of Warwick, in the pos- session of James Watt, Lord of Manor of Aston.

(I) James, son of either Ira or John Clizbe (Clisbe), was born about 1670, died before 1712. He was of Newark, New Jersey, in 1694. "At Newark Town meeting March 5, 1693-4, James Clizbe and nine others were admitted as Plantee" (Newark Town Rec- ords). He was of the family heretofore de- scribed and came from Scotland or the Border country of England, in company with Robert Young and Samuel Nesbit to Newark about 1685. He married Elizabeth Burrell and had a son James and a daughter Mary, and prob- ably other children.

(II) James (2), son of James (I) and Elizabeth (Burrell) Clizbe, was born in New- ark, New Jersey, in 1696. He married and reared a family, among them a son Samuel, see forward.

(III) Samuel, son of James (2) Clizbe, was born May 8, 1721, it is thought in New- ark, New Jersey, died in September, 1774. He married Jane Baldwin, born in 1722, died May 12, 1809. Children: I. James (3), mar- ried Lucy Crane ; died October 24, 1787. 2. Samuel, married Elizabeth -; died Au- gust 20, 1816, "aged 61 yr 9 m 15 d." (from tombstone). 3. Jonathan. 4. Rhoda. 5. Han- nalı. 6. Mary, born about 1749, died 1795; married Deacon Isaac Alling. 7. Rachel, born about 1752, died 1777; married Jonathan Crane. 8. Joseph, see forward. 9. Eunice, born 1760, died 1764. Up to and including this generation the family had been farmers of Essex county, New Jersey. They next appear in the Mohawk Valley.

(IV) Joseph, son of Samuel and Jane

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Hannah Haas (or Hass)

is incorrect. It should be Glass.

Hannah Glass is burried in

Quincey, Mich. Aug. 19,1865.

She went to Michigan after the death of her husband. He died in Prattsburg, N.Y. Sept. 17, 1850

information from: Mrs Charles A. Baker 1502 Oakland Barkway Lima, Ohio. 1967

r, an Cor- arney l and tober ırried attor- Octo- , who min- New ember born chil- , died ember arried Nellie, k; iii. April

29, 1861 ; iv. Kev. ira jay, vuin june 16, 1836, professor of Theology and Bible His- tory at Alma College, Alma, Michigan; v. Eliza M., twin of Rev. Ira J., died December 22, 1875. He married (second) Eunice Hay- ward, born September 14, 1833, died January 8, 1909; children; vi. Emily, born December 23, 1861, died April 12, 1862; vii. Charles S., born May 30, 1863, a machinist and mu- sician of local note; married, June 30, 1896, Minnie Neff, born July 18, 1866; children :

Helen N., born June 18, 1904, and Charles S., born May 8, 1906; viii. Ellis Il., born June 3, 1868, died May 12, 1909, unmarried ; for some years a prominent house furnisher under contract, and a well known genealogi- cal researcher; ix. Avery K., born June 4, 1870. teller in the City National Bank of Amsterdam; married Mazie G. Almy, born October 2, 1882.

(V) Darius, fourth child of Joseph and Hannah (Roberts) Clizbe, was born in New Jersey, November 8, 1786, died November 20, 1869, at his residence on the farm near Amsterdam. He was a successful farmer ; his estate was situated in Amsterdam, and is now the property of his son Samuel J. He served in the American army during the war of 1812-14 and afterward received a pension for his services. He married Mary Jones, born January 17, 1790, died June 7, 1854. Children : 1. Marcus W., born May 15, 1814, died March 3. 1896; married, December 10, 1844, Emily Van Dyke, born January II, 1822, died March 26, 1897. 2. Hannah M., born August 9, 1817, died in April, 1893; married, February 6, 1845, James F. Birch, born February 17, 1819, died November 6, 1905. 3. Cyrus, born March 14, 1819, dieď April 26, 1836. 4. William, born June 2, 1821, died December 14, 1838. 5. Louise J., born August 6, 1823, died December 24, 1880; married, in October, 1846, Alexander Scott, born in Scotland, October, 1815, died Sep- tember 4, 1885. 6. Charlotte, born July 13, 1827, died December 7, 1838. 7. Samuel, J., see forward.

(VI) Samuel J., youngest son of Darius- and Mary (Jones) Clizbe, was born in Am- sterdam, Montgomery county, New York, February 1, 1831. He succeeded to the own- ership of the farm on which he has since lived and cultivated. Like his ancestors he is a Presbyterian in religion. Politically he is a Republican, which has been the family politics since the organization of that party ; previously they were Whigs and Abolitionists. He married, in Jersey City, New Jersey, De- cember 18, 1860, Mary Antoinette Chamber- lin, born in Glenville, Schenectady county, New York, January 27, 1837, died near Am- sterdam, September 4, 1889. She was a woman of fine education and for many years an instructor in the schools. She was a daugh- ter of Lewis and Rachel (Van Dyke) Cham- berlin, both born in New York state of Dutch ancestry, and granddaughter of John and Lucretia (Sutphen) Chamberlin, of Dutchess county, New York. There were nine children in the Chamberlin family, two of whom are yet living-Mrs. Rebecca Ely, of Schenectady,

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granted crown lands upon the Scottish border, south of Berwick Demesne.

In the time of Charles I. ( 1625), the family by lopping the prefix "De" from their name thenceforth was anglicized to Clisbe. This is also borne in the deeds and charters of the Manor of Yeardly, and Manor of Nechells Green granted them by Henry V. On these estates they lived in opulence and high respect, up to the time of the revolution in 1642, when Robert Clisbe was so severely wounded in a cavalry charge upon a body of His Maj- esty's horse (probably at the battle of Edge- hill, October 23, 1642) that he died on the field. On account of his participation in this action, two of his sons-and heirs-Ira and John Clisbe, were cited before a military com- mission in the court of Bromwick, Warwick- shire, to take an oath of submission and allegiance to the king's officers in the Mid- land counties. This the two brothers defiantly refused to do, averring that rather than sub- mit to the arbitrary dictum of a self-elected, unconstitutional court, they would leave the country for foreign lands forever. Being hence heavily mulcted in money and estates, they immediately took their departure from the old Manor of Nechells Green, Warwick- shire, and thence from Bristol, England, ac- companied by Henry Clinton, Knight of War- wick, and several eminent yeoman families, neighbors, set sail for the Colonial Province of York (New York). This branch left at home at the old Manor, an uncle, named Ira Clisbe, noted for having brought over to Eng- land, while serving the Commonwealth as consul at Tangiers, Morocco, six thorough- bred Arabian stud horses, which, crossing the fine hunting stock of the time, produced some of the fastest racers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and from which blood has descended the races Hamiltons and Lex- ingtons of Kentucky. As the grand jury of Warwickshire, subsequent to the emigration of the brothers, Ira and John, ordered a res- titution of the fines which had been imposed

upon them for "contumacy" in the court of Bromwick, severely censuring that court for its arbitrary sentence and execution, the Cliz- bes were granted lands by a royal commission upon what was called the York Grant (1664) in the states of New York and Connecticut. This is described in an old manuscript found by Anthony Barclay, of Barclay street, New York, British consul-general, among a num- ber of old British government papers entitled "Records of the Blood Stock-Colonial Fam- ilies." There is also another old manuscript history of the family which proved that more recently a branch settled in the state of Mich- igan. The paper was handed to Colonel Cliz be, of the ordnance department, Britain. many years ago by a distinguished gentleman. Gen- eral Cass, of Detroit, Michigan, and these two documents, connecting the Clizbe family in America with that of that ancient name in England, were deposited in the archives of Aston Hall, county of Warwick, in the pos- session of James Watt, Lord of Manor of Aston.

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(Baldwin) Clizbe, was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 27, 1756, died near Amsterdam, New York (at a suburb called Rockton, now ward eight of that city), January 27, 1840. He served in the revolution as private of the Essex County Regiment New Jersey Militia, as did others of the family. Many years after his marriage he left Newark, and in 1799, with his family, sailed up the Hudson to Albany, from whence by land they pro- ceeded to Amsterdam, where they settled on Chuctenunda creek at Rockton, where some years previous his brother-in-law had estab- lished a mill. Here he lived the remainder of his days. With the aid of one or two others of the same faith he organized the second United Presbyterian Church of Am- sterdam and almost the first in the county. They erected a church and his descendants have usually adhered to the tenets of the Presbyterian creed. He was a Whig political- ly. He married, in Newark, New Jersey, Hannah Roberts, born December 23, 1756, died June 15, 1829. Children, all born in New Jersey: I. Jonathan, September 16, 1779; married Hannah Haas (or Hass), born June 29, 1789. They went into the north- west territory and were pioneer settlers of Michigan, where they died. 2. Delilah, Oc- tober 5, 1781 ; married Volkert Vedder, an early settler of Montgomery county. 3. Cor- nelia, February 20, 1784; married Barney Stiles, of Amsterdam, where they lived and died. 4. Darius, see forward. 5. Ira, October 30, 1788, died November 14, 1840; married Eliza M. Camp. He was a practicing attor- ney in western New York. 6. Clarissa, Octo- ber 9, 1793 ; married Rev. Marcus Ford, who for over forty years was a Presbyterian min- ister of the Gospel in Broome county, New York. 7. Ellis, April 2, 1797, died December 13, 1878 ; married (first) Ruth Gillette, born August 7, 1797, died January 12, 1859; chil- dren : i. Ellen, born November 13, 1824, died September 13, 1855; ii. Celia, born November 19, 1825, died December 24, 1889; married Charles Bartlett ; children : Ellen and Nellie, unmarried, of Poughkeepsie, New York; iii. Robert N., born June 13, 1832, died April 29, 1861; iv. Rev. Ira Jay, born June 16, 1836, professor of Theology and Bible His- tory at Alma College, Alma, Michigan; v. Eliza M., twin of Rev. Ira J., died December 22, 1875. He married (second) Eunice Hay- ward, born September 14, 1833, died January 8, 1909; children; vi. Emily, born December 23, 1861, died April 12, 1862; vii. Charles S., born May 30, 1863, a machinist and mu- sician of local note ; married, June 30, 1896, Minnie Neff, born July 18, 1866; children :

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Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume II, Part 60

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866- ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 716

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866- ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 716