Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume II, Part 71

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

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ordered to the Brooklyn front, August 24, 1776, and engaged in the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, in which battle Ma- jor Levi Wells was taken prisoner and con- fined in the old Sugar House in New York, and was a roommate of Colonel Ethan Allen. Major Wells was paroled and appointed by the British and sent home to collect funds for the relief of American prisoners in New York. On December 13, 1776, Connecticut voted £500 to Major Wells to be used in help- ing Connecticut prisoners. Major Wells was exchanged in 1777. In 1780 two regiments were raised in Connecticut; Colonel Levi Wells commanded one of them. In Decem- ber, 1780, Colonel Wells met the enemy at Horseneck, and was taken prisoner, being the second time.

McKEE James McKee was born in Al- bany, New York, in 1822, died February II, 1894, the son of English parents, who died when he was very young. He was adopted by a family named Stewart, and taken by them to Michigan, where he remained until he became a young man. Then he returned to his native state, locating at Gloversville, where in 1857 he began the manufacture of buckskin gloves. In 1890 he admitted his son, James F. McKee, a partner under the name James McKee & Son, and continued in active business until his death. He was a man of great energy and high character. He married Polly Ann, daughter of Francis T. and Elizabeth (Dye) Simmons. Child, James Frank, of whom fur- ther.

(II) James Frank, son of James and Polly Ann (Simmons) McKee, was born in Glov- ersville, New York, August 19, 1859, died from a stroke of paralysis, February 18. 1904. He was educated in the public schools, at the Albany military school and Albany Business College, and after finishing his studies at once engaged with his father in the glove manufac- turing business. In January, 1890, he was admitted a partner and as James McKee & Son continued until 1894, when he succeeded to the business as his father's sole heir. He was a well-known and prosperous manufac- turer and held high positions in his city. He was a member of the first board of aldermen under the city charter, and held very promi- nent rank in the Masonic order, being past master of Gloversville Lodge, No. 429, Free and Accepted Masons, past high priest of Johnstown Chapter, No. 78, Royal Arch Masons, and past eminent commander of the Holy Cross Commandery, No. 51, Knights Templar, having held the latter office for sev-

eral years. In Scottish Rite Masonry he had attained the highest possible degree, the thirty- third, at the time the only Mason of the de- gree in Fulton county. He was also a mem- ber of Cyprus Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was one of the most popular young men in his city and held in the highest esteem. He held membership in the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and was a member of the Eccentric Club. His funeral, after the private rites, was conducted by Charles A. Armitage, of Albany, with all the Masonic rites and ceremonies belonging to a member holding the exalted degree, the thirty- third. James F. McKee married, February 25, 1892, Clara, born May 21, 1864, daugh- ter of John J. and Nancy J. (Sheldon) Han- son (see Hanson VII). One child, Nan Han- son McKee, born April 15, 1896. Mrs. Mc- Kee survives her husband and continues her residence in Gloversville.

(The Hanson Line).

This surname was adopted by the descen- dants of Captain Hans Hendrickse, who early came to Beverwyck (Albany) from Holland. He had a house lot in Albany on Broadway. He made his will February 12, 1694, and was deceased in 1697. He married Eva Gil- lise, daughter of Jellis Pieterse Meyer, of Beverwyck, April 26, 1642, in New Amster- dam. He left children Hendrick, Margareta, Visschee, Johanna and Elsje.

(II) Hendrick Hansen, son of Captain Hans Hendrickse, was a merchant of Albany and a trader. His residence in Albany was on the east side of Market street (Broad- way), next to Bleecker Hall site. He was appointed mayor of Albany, September 29, 1698, by Governor Richard Cote. He was the fifth mayor appointed under the charter granted Albany by Governor Dongan. He also served as alderman, assemblyman, and Indian commissioner., He was a member of the Dutch Reformed church; he was buried at the Dutch Church, February 19, 1724. He married Debora Van Dorn, September 21, 1692. Children: Debora, 1693; Hans (Jo- hannes), born 1695; became the seventeenth mayor of Albany ; Maud, 1697; Nicholas, of whom further; Pieter, 1700; Rykart, 1703; Catherina Ten Broeck ; Jefie, 1705.

(III) Nicholas, son of Mayor Hendrick and Debora (Van Dorn) Hansen, was born September 25, 1698. Before 1725 he settled in the Mohawk Valley at the point known as Tribes Hill, in the towns of Amsterdam and Mohawk, Montgomery county. He was a farmer and owned much land on the north side of the Mohawk river. He married En-

John J. Hanson

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geltje, daughter of Barent Wemp, of Dorp. He had sons Hendrick, Barent and Pieter.

(IV) Hendrick (Henry), son of Nicholas Hansen, of Albany and Tribes Hill, Mont- gomery county, was born in 1730. He settled on lands owned by his father and was a farmer all his life. He married and had issue.

(V) Douw, son of Hendrick (Henry) Han- sen, was born 1769, died 1845. He married, 1793, Katie Kline. They had five children, including a son Peter.

(VI) Peter Hanson (as the name is now written), son of Douw and Katie (Kline) Hanson, was born in 1802, died December 18, 1855. He married, in 1828, Hannah Stoller, born 1805. Children: Sarah, married Charles W. Morrell; Harriet, married John Ham- mond; Margaret, married Joseph Martin ; Andrew, married Florence - - -; Abraham, married Eliza Churchill; Orville, married Almira Mckay ; John J., of whom further.

(VII) John J., youngest son of Peter and Hannah (Stoller) Hanson, was born near Tribes Hill, Montgomery county, New York, in 1835, died March 18, 1897. He was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools, where he obtained a good English education. At the age of eighteen he apprenticed himself to the firm of H. G. and J. Phelps, tin and sheet iron workers, with whom he remained two years. He then worked for a firm in Johnstown one year, finishing his trade in Albany, where he passed one year. Having now mastered the details of his trade and acquired a practical business knowledge, he located in Gloversville, where he opened a tin and sheet iron establishment under his own name and for his own profit. Here he remained in business for forty years, enlarg- ing as business required and adding kindred lines. He was a very successful man and acquired a great deal of real estate and other property. He was held in the highest esteem and whenever he asked for the support of his fellow townsmen for political office, always re- ceived a most flattering response regardless of party. He was president of the village in 1890, the last man to hold that office, and the first elected mayor under the new city charter. In 1875 he was elected to represent his district in the house of assembly and served with honor. He was always a strong Democrat, but was always mindful of the rights of others to their political preferences and had many warm friends and supporters in the opposing party. He married, in 1861, Nancy J. Sheldon, of Mayfield, daughter of Benjamin Sheldon, born November 6, 1805, married, October 7, 1830, Arvilla P. Mer-

rill, born December 18, 1810, died March 15, 1882. They had seven children: Mary, Louise, Rose, Elizabeth, Adelbert, Alexander and Nancy. Arvilla P. Merrill was a daugh- ter of Rufus Merrill, born 1778, died May 13, 1865, and Mehitable (Wells) Merrill, and a granddaughter of Nathaniel Merrill, who enlisted July 8, 1780, in Captain Joseph Brown's company, Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Timothy Bigelow. Children of John J. and Nancy J. (Sheldon) Hanson: 1. Frances Louise, born October 11, 1861 ; married, October 11, 1881, Leonard C. Mills. 2. Clara, born May 21, 1864; married, February 25, 1892, James Frank McKee, and has Nan Hanson McKee, born April 15, 1896 (see McKee II). 3. Florence, born December 25, 1869; married, September 27, 1887, August Klein, born in Vienna, Austria, July 7, 1864, now a mer- chant of Gloversville. He is trustee and di- rector of Ferndale cemetery and has other business interests. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of the Eccentric Club.

Rev. Thomas Hooker was HOOKER born at Markfield, near Leices- ter, England, in 1586. He was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took his degree A.B., 1608, and M.A., 1611, and was chosen one of the fel- lows. He was four years in Chelmsford in Essex, but his intense aversion to some of the ceremonies of the church compelled him to withdraw from the pulpit. He opened a school at Little Baddow, five miles from Cam- bridge, where the famous John Eliot was his assistant, but being still troubled by the eccle- siastical court and placed under bonds, fled to Holland, where he preached the gospel for two years at Delft, from there going to Rotter- dam to assist William Ames. One of the early Massachusetts settlers, George Alcock, had married a sister of the Rev. Hooker, and this increased the attraction the new world already had for him. Privately he got pas- sage in the "Griffin" with the Rev. Samuel Stone and the noted John Cotton, arrived at Boston, September 3, 1633, settling the fol- lowing month at Cambridge, where he was made a freeman, May 14, 1634. In June, 1636, with a majority of his parishioners, he traversed the wilderness to Connecticut, where they founded the city of Hartford. He died July 7. 1647, in his sixty-first year. His widow, Susanna, was a second wife, and not the mother of his older children. He was possessed of a large landed estate and a valu- able library. A clause in his will forbade his

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eldest son John from "marrying and tarrying" in England. Children by first wife: Joana and Mary. By second wife: John, Sarah, Sarah (2) and Samuel.

(II) Rev. Samuel Hooker, son of the Rev. Thomas and Susanna Hooker, was born the year of the American emigration, 1633, whether in England or Connecticut is not re- corded, although it is generally supposed he was born at New Towne (Cambridge), Mas- sachusetts. He entered Harvard College in 1651 and was graduated in 1653. He en- tered the ministry in 1657 and preached at Plymouth, Massachusetts, although not regu- larly settled there. He remained at Plymouth until he removed to Farmington, Connecticut, in 1661, where he succeeded his brother-in- law, Rev. Roger Newton. He was the sec- ond minister at Farmington, where he re- mained until his death in 1697. He was fa- mous as an eloquent preacher, and Mather, in his "Magnolia," says: Thus we have to-day among us our dead Hooker, yet living in his worthy son, Samuel Hooker, an able, faitlı- ful, useful minister at Farmington in the colony of Connecticut. He married Mary, daughter of Captain Thomas Willet, a mer- chant of Plymouth. He succeeded Captain Miles Standish in command of the famous military company of Plymouth. The marriage of Rev. Samuel and Mary Willet was no doubt celebrated in a proper manner, for an account of it is handed down in the Willet family, thus: "And Samuel and Mary did there brew a great bowl of punch." They had nine sons and two daughters, and from these sons came all the Hookers who claim descent from Rev. Thomas Hooker. Children: I. Thomas, died in Hartford, Connecticut, in .1720; married Mrs. Mary (Smith) Lord. 2. Samuel, a merchant ; died at Hartford in 1730; married Mehitable, daughter of Captain Giles and Esther (Crow) Hamlin. 3. William, mer- chant ; died at Farmington, 1689. 4. John, see forward. 5. James, of Guilford, Con- necticut; died 1740; probate judge and deputy ; married Mary Leete. 6. Roger, died April 29, 1698. 7. Nathaniel, merchant and prominent citizen of Hartford; deputy sev- eral years ; married Mary Standley. 8. Mary, married Rev. James Pierpont ; the Pierpont family have a portrait of her that shows a woman of uncommon beauty. 9. Hezekiah, died young. 10. Daniel, graduate of Harvard, 1700; he studied medicine and was licensed to practice ; he became the first tutor of Yale College ; in 1703 was graduated, nominally the second but really the first actual student to graduate ; he was the first B. A. of Yale; he afterward studied law and was admitted to

the bar, but he continued the practice of medi- cine at Wethersfield, Connecticut, only using his legal knowledge in making wills, etc., for his patients ; Dr. Hooker was surgeon of the expedition against Canada in 1711; died 1742 ; married Sarah, daughter of Deacon John and Esther (Newell) Standley. II. Sarah, mar- ried Rev. Stephen Buckingham, graduate of Harvard, 1693; a member of the corporation of Yale College and pastor of the church at Norwalk; she was accounted the most accom- plished woman that ever came to Norwalk; the fame of "Dame Buckingham" is preserved in the annals of the town, and the story of her beauty and stately grace is still remem- bered in the traditions of the place.

(III) John, son of the Rev. Samuel and Mary (Willet) Hooker, was born at Farming- ton, Connecticut, February 20, 1664-65. He became one of the most prominent men of his day. He was judge of the supreme court of the colony from 1724 to 1732; member of the lower house of assembly, 1699 to 1723, and then was elected to the upper. He served twenty-one sessions, of which he was clerk two and speaker six. He was chosen assist- ant in 1723 and rechosen annually for eleven years. He was called to settle disputes be- tween towns, churches, filling other and vari- ous important public trusts. He married, November 24, 1687, Abigail, daughter of Cap- tain John W. and his second wife, Sarah (Fletcher) Standley, of Farmington. Mr. Hooker built his home under the branches of a wonderful elm tree, where it was the center of a generous hospitality for generations. The "Hooker Elm" was a widely known feature of the beautiful Main street of Farmington. When the estate passed to his son Roger he continued the far-famed hospitality of the house and greeted his friends under the beau- tiful tree. Major Roger Hooker died with- out issue in 1830 and the family mansion and famous tree passed into unfriendly hands. The house was rebuilt, and because it inter- fered with a straight path from the front door to the street, the stately "Hooker Elm" was laid low in the dust. A chonicle of those early days thus describes the ending of a Farmington Sunday: "The holiness of the

day was supposed to end at sunset, but not a child in the town dared to stir, until the signal came from Mr. Hooker that the day was ended. When the sun had sunk below the horizon, Mr. Hooker, coming to the door with his pipe in his hand, walked down the path to the gate, leaning over it, resting his arms upon the top. The moment his arms touched the gate, open flew the doors and out came the children with a wild rush and shout

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-Mr. Hooker was at his gate, Sunday was over." Captain John N. Standley, father of Mrs. Hooker, was a man of wealth and high social position who had won distinction as lieutenant and captain in the Indian wars. Children of John and Abigail Hooker: I. Hezekiah, see forward. 2. Abigail, died in infancy. 3. John, died in infancy. 4. John, justice of the peace and an active business man. 5. Abigail, married Nathaniel, son of Captain John and Mary (Moore) Hart. 6. Mary, married Lieutenant Samuel, son of Captain John and Mary (Moore) Hart. 7. Sarah, married Matthew, son of Captain John and Mary (Moore) Hart; married (second) Huit Strong. 8. Joseph, captain of the mili- tia ; he became very corpulent and for several years was unable to attend to any active busi- ness; when the militia paraded it was their custom to march past Captain Hooker's house and salute him as he sat in his big chair by or outside the door ; he married Sarah, dangh- ter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Ashley) Lewis, of Farmington. 9. Ruth, married (first) Cap- tain Ashahel Strong, a prominent lawyer of Farmington; married (second) Solomon Whitman (second wife). 10. Roger, was a favorite son of his father and accompanied him upon his official journeyings about the colony ; he married (first) Mercy, daughter of Captain Josiah and Sarah (Bull) Hart; married (second) Anna, daughter of Captain Martin and Dorothy (Chester) Kellogg.

(IV) Hezekiah, son of Jolın and Abigail (Standley) Hooker, was born in Farmington, Connecticut, October 14, 1688. He removed to Woodbury, Connecticut, where he was a farmer of Bethlehem Parish. He married, December 18, 1716, Abigail Curtis, born 1695, daughter of Captain Josiah and Abigail (Jud- son) Curtis, of Stratford, Connecticut. Chil- dren: Hezekiah, James, see forward, Josiah, Abigail, Mary, William, removed to Greene county, New York; Jesse, Eunice, Asahel ; Sarah, married Captain Timothy Judson, of the revolution.

(V) James, son of Hezekiah and Abigail (Curtis) Hooker, was born at Farmington, Connecticut, January 30, 1728. He removed to Poultney, Vermont, in 1779, and died there June 18, 1798. He married, March 31, 1754, Dorothy Parmalee, of Branford, Connecticut, born May 8, 1731, died at Poultney, April 25, 1814, daughter of Timothy and Desire (Barnes) Parmalee. Children : I. Thomas. 2. Josiah, died July 24, 1776; was a soldier under General Montgomery. 3. James, see forward. 4. Samuel, a farmer of Hampton, New York. 5. David, died young. 6. Sarah, married and removed to the west. 7. David, a soldier of

the war of 1812; he removed to Ridgway, New York. 8. Josiah.

(VI) Colonel James (2), son of James (I) and Dorothy (Parmalee) Hooker, was born at Woodbury, Connecticut, December 25, 1760, died at Poultney, Vermont, August 9, 1844. He was a soldier of the revolution, enlisting in the Eighth Regiment, Connecticut Line, and spent the terrible winter at Morristown, New Jersey, with Washington's army. He was a colonel of the Vermont militia, and ever an earnest advocate of an efficient and thoroughly organized citizen soldiery. He married (first) Lucina Christy, died at Poult- ney, September 2, 1832. Married (second) Chloe (Hickok) Hoyt, widow of Deacon Hoyt, of Castleton, Vermont. Children by first wife: 1. Marquise de Lafayette, see for- ward. 2. Martha Stoddard. 3. Asa Christy, married Bertha Bliss. 4. Emily, married Stephen Ransom. 5. Rev. Herman F .; his widow removed to Mexico, where she had a school for orphan girls. 6. Maria, married William Goodspeed.

(VII) Marquis de Lafayette (commonly called Marcus), son of Colonel James (2) and Lucina (Christy) Hooker, was born at Poultney, Vermont, February 22, 1792, died August 18, 1831. He married Lucinda Bachelder. Children: I. Mary Jeanette, see forward. 2. Lucinda Bachelder, married Charles Cutler, of Guildhall, Vermont; chil- dren : Charles Hooker and Edwin Hervey Cutler. 3. Esther Ann, born in Poultney, No- vember 29, 1829, died March 9, 1830.

(VIII) Mary Jeanette, daughter of Mar- quis de Lafayette and Lucinda (Bachelder) Hooker, was born at Poultney, Vermont, May 30, 1822. She married, October 25, 1848, Judge Francis Norton Mann (see Mann VII).

MANN One of the earliest notices of the family name of Man is found in the Domesday Book, in 1086, where "Wilhelmus Filius Manne" (William, the son of Man) is mentioned as a landowner in the county of Hants, England. In "Our English Surnames" the names Henry le Man and Richard le Man are cited to show the most ancient form of the name of the Man family, but no particulars are given. In "Patronymica Brittanica" it is stated that the name Man signifies in old French "Norman." Also that in Dutch le Man means the man, a hero. Many men of note bore the name in England. In the earliest English records the name is generally written Man. In the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries there appears the names Man and Mann. Most of the fam-

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ilies in this country gradually changed from Man to Mann about the time of the revolu- tion. Burke's General Armory, London, 1844, gives many different coats-of-arms used by the English families. As the American ancestor of the Mann family of Troy, New York, left no records to identify his English family, his family arms cannot be given.

(I) Richard Man, of Scituate, Massachu- setts, was one of the first to bear the name in America. He was not a "Mayflower" pas- senger, nor a soldier in the Rehoboth battle with Indians, as stated by the Rev. Samuel Deane in his "History of Scituate." The first appearance of his name on record is found in Scituate, Massachusetts, as having with thirty- one others taken the "oath of fidelity," Jan- uary 15, 1644. His coming to America may be placed a few years previous to this date. He was a farmer, and one of the original pro- prietors of Scituate. His farm lay along the sea, while north of him was "Mnsquascut Pond," which was later to claim his life. In an attempt to cross this pond on the "iyce" in February, 1655, he was drowned. The ver- dict of the jury that investigated his death was: "Wee find that by coming over the pond from his own house towards the farmes, that he brake through the iyce and was in soe deep that hee could not git out and by reason of the cold of the weather and water made him unable to healp himselfe, neither could any other present aford him any healp, that could healp him out, though they used their best endeavors for the space of about an hour, as is reported to us by the witnesses that saw him in which time he died. This wee find to bee the cause of his death as wee all judge." (P. C. R., vol. iii, pp. 92-93.) He married, in England, Rebecca who survived him and became the wife of John Cowen, the last of March, 1656. Children of Richard and Rebecca Man, all born in Scituate: 1. Nathan- iel, September 23, 1646, died July 20, 1688. 2. Thomas, August 15, 1650; married Sarah and had eight children; he died in 1732, leaving a will. 3. Richard, see forward. 4. Josiah, born December 10, 1654.

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) and Rebecca Man, was born in Scituate, Massa- chusetts, February 5, 1652. He was three years old at the time of his father's death, and only four when his mother married John Cowen. At eleven years of age he was ap- prenticed to Thomas Hinckley, governor of Plymouth Colony from 1681 to 1692, for the term of ten years. He received a grant of land in Connecticut for his services in the "In- dian War," which he deeded to "My well beloved son Nathaniel a tract of land granted

me by ye general assembly of ye Massachu- setts Bay, I being one of the Shounelers (soldiers) in ye former Indian War and es- pecially in ye Narrangansett Sortie Fight commonly so called." This tract lay in Hebron, Connecticut, where the deed is re- corded. In 1703 he sold his farm in Scituate to his brother Thomas and removed to Le- banon, Connecticut, where he died. He owned lands in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and at Le- banon, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Sutton, of Scituate, born 1662, eldest daugh- ter of John Sutton, and granddaughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, a wealthy citizen of Scituate, who settled there prior to 1628, com- ing from Tenterden, Kent, England. Chil- dren, all born in Scituate except the youngest son: I. John, of Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1719. 2. Rebecca, married Isaac Tilden (his second wife), of Lebanon, Connecticut. 3. Hannah, born April 13, 1689. 4. Nathaniel, see forward. 5. Richard, of Lebanon, Con- necticut ; married Mary Culver. 6. Elizabeth, born August 27, 1696. 7. Abigail, married Simon Baxter. 8. Elisha.

(III) Nathaniel, fourth child and second son of Richard (2) and Elizabeth (Sutton) 'Man, was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, October 27, 1693. His father sold his farm on "Man Hill" in Scituate in 1703, and about 1704 removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, where he purchased a farm of one hundred acres, July 6, 1705. Nathaniel had several parcels of land deeded him in Lebanon and in Hebron, Connecticut, where he afterward removed. He married (first) February 1, 1713, Mary Root, daughter of Jacob and granddaughter of John Root, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. She died May 19, 1728. He married (second) March 4, 1729, Mary Sprague, who died October 15, 1735. He married (third) September 5, 1736, Patience Role. He had six children by first wife and two by the second, according to the Hebron records. Children: 1. Joseph, see forward. 2. Nathaniel, married Deborah Tillotson. 3. Benjamin, born March 3, 1717. 4. John, married Margaret Peters, "Aunt of Governor Peters of Hebron," and sister of the Rev. Samuel Peters, D.D., LL.D., graduate of Yale College, author of a "History of Con- necticut" and other historical works. 5. Mary, born June 5, 1723. 6. Nathan, married Eliza- beth Skinner. 7. Abigail, born February 14, 1730-31. 8. Abijah, married Sarah Porter.

(IV) Joseph, eldest child of Nathaniel and Mary (Root) Man, was born April 5, 1713. His birth was about at the time of the removal of the family from Lebanon to Hebron, and there is no record showing in

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Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume II, Part 71

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