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his grandfather. Comthis Philip-, who was killed at the battle of Ori kany, The son Wil- liam was the next proprietor and be handed it down to his son Cornelin . father of Anna, wife of Alfred De Graff. Children . Edith, married Fred S. Haslett : Howard Nyeve for- ward ; Florence, unmarried.
(VIII) Howard A., only son of Alfred and Anna ( Phillips ) De Graff, was born at "Da- nascara Place," town of Mohawk, Montgom- ery county, New York. He received his early education in the public schools, prepared for college at Union Classical Institute, entered Union University, where he graduatel. class of 1899. After leaving college he engaged in the banking business in Fonda. He is vice- president of the Fultonville National Bank and director of the Glen Telephone Company. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed church. He is a member of Fultonville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and his college fraternity is Alpha Delta Phi. He married Elizabeth K., born September 15. 1884, daughter of James L. Northrup, of Johns- town, and granddaughter of Charles M. Knox.
This branch of the Parker PARKER family in New York state de- scends from Alexander Parker, a native of the north of Ireland, where he married and has issne.
(II) William Henry, son of Alexander Parker, was born in the north of Ireland, where he grew to manhood. The family were members of the Presbyterian church in which faith William II. was reared. He was as- sociated with the organization of Orange men and in full sympathy with his Protestant brethren. He came to the United States, and settled in Hudson, Columbia county, New York. He had little capital, but by close econ- omy managed to get a small sum saved with which he purchased a team and did general teaming. He soon became engaged in the ice business, teaming during the day for others, hauling and storing his ice at night. In this way he soon became well established and continued a most successful career, dying possessed of a large estate. Ile was not only a man of great industry, but of unusual busi- ness ability as well. He was upright and hon- orable in his business dealings, holding the respect and confidence of his townsmen. Ile continued his membership in the Presbyterian church until death, and affiliated with the Re- publican party. He married (first ) Agne Mckague. Children: 1. Phoebe, died in 1907 ; married Albert I amsure. 2. John, de- ceased. 3. Annie, resides in Chicago, Illi- nois ; widow of John Lee ; children: Henry,
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Alice, John, Benjamin and Alexander. 4. Samuel M., of further mention. He married (second) Ellen Maney. Children : 5. William H. 6. Edward M.
(III ) Samuel McKague, fourth and young- est child of William Henry and Agnes (Mc- Kague) Parker, was born in Hudson, New York, where he died January 13, 1908. He was educated in the public schools and at Hudson Academy. After finishing his stud- ies he was engaged with his father in the ice business until the retirement of the lat- ter, when in company with his brother John he succeeded to the business to which they added a coal yard. The brothers continued in business as partners until the death of John Parker, when Samuel M. continued alone un- til his death in 1908. He was a prosperous and efficient man of business and possessed of considerable real estate in his city. He adhered to the family religion and was a con- sistent member of the Presbyterian church of Hudson. In political belief he affiliated with the Democratic party. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the Fraternal Or- der of Eagles.
Mr. Parker married, in Hudson, Eliz- abeth Frances, daughter of Allen J. Race, of Hudson. Children: 1. Allen J., born in Hud- son where he is engaged in the livery busi- ness ; married Mary Powers. 2. Edith May, married William H. Clapp, of Hudson, con- nected with the office of the county clerk of Hudson county ; child, Dorothy Elizabeth. 3. Ada Ella. 4. Hilda Belle. Allen J. Race, father of Elizabeth Frances (Race) Parker, was born in the north of Ireland in the same parish the Parkers lived. He married Sa- mantha, daughter of William H. and Frances (White ) Tunner, and had issue. He was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Race, who for many years kept the old tavern on the turn- pike between Humphreyville and Greenport, called the "Race Inn." This was a famous and popular resort where many dances and suppers were given in the early days.
BROWN Of the parentage, birthplace, and early history of Chad Brown nothing definite seems to be now known. Accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and son John, then eight years old, and perhaps his younger sons, he emigrated from England in the ship "Martin," which ar- rived in Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1638. Ile did not long remain in Massachusetts, but soon removed to Providence, Rhode Island, where he at once became a leader in the col- ony and one of its most valued citizens. In the north burial ground stands a stone marked
In memory of CHAD BROWN Elder of the Baptist church in this town. He was one of the original proprietors of the Providence Purchase,
Having been exiled from Massachusetts for conscience sake. He had five sons, JOHN, JAMES, JEREMIAH, CHAD and DANIEL, who have left a numerous posterity. He died about A.D. 1665. This monument was erected by the town of Providence.
Descendants of Chad Brown have been con- spicuous in early and subsequent Rhode Isl- and history. They have served the colony and state in every public capacity including the high office of governor. Brown University owes not only its name, but its early life to the family generosity. John and Moses- Brown had much to do in founding the free school system in Providence. They were suc- cessful business men in each generation and equally prominent in the church and the pro- fessions. Far beyond the confines of Rhode Island they have scattered and made honored names. The Browns of Coxsackie descend through Daniel Brown.
(II) Daniel, fifth and youngest son of Chad and Elizabeth Brown, may have been born after the family arrived in America. He was a resident of Providence, but died while tem- porarily at Newport, September 29, 1710. He married, December 25, 1669, Alice, born 1652, died after 1718, daughter of Benjamin and' Elizabeth (White ) Hearnden. Daniel Brown was a farmer living "on the neck." Children : I. Judah, of further mention. 2. Jabez, of Providence, married Ann -. 3. Sarah, born October 10, 1677, died after 1744; married, April 4, 1700, married Thomas Angell, ances- tor of James B. Angell, graduate of Brown University, now editor of Providence Daily- Journal; president of the University of Ver- mont ; president of the University of Michi- gan ; United States minister to China; was appointed by President Cleveland a member of the commission to consider questions con- nected with the United States right of fishing in waters adjacent to Canada and Newfoundland. Jeremiah, a
brickmaker and innkeeper of Smithfield, Rhode Island ; married,
December 8, 1715, Sarah Tucker. 5. Hallelujah, died 1771 ; married, August 31, 1702, James Olney, and had eight children, one of whom; Mary,. married Arthur Fenner. She was a won- derful woman. Her husband was sickly for many years and unable to do business. She-
Hisam Brown
Richard 9. Buckle
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acquired and continued the business and kept the family of twelve children in affluence. Her eleventh child, Arthur Fenner, was the popu- lar governor of Rhode Island, 1790-1805. His son, James Fenner, was elected governor 1807-II, re-elected in 1824, serving until 1831, elected again 1842, serving until 1844. He was United States senator from 1805 to 1807, resigning to become governor. 6. Hosanna, married Mary Hawkins. 7. Jonathan. 8. Daniel (2), a cooper of Providence : married Mary Sprague.
(III) Judah, eldest son of Daniel and Alice (Hearnden) Brown, died January 18, 1734. He lived in Providence and Scituate, Rhode Island. He married Hannah who died after 1745. Children: Joseph, Deborah, Abigail, David, Hannah, Elisha, Phoebe.
(IV) Joseph, eldest son of Judah and Han- nah Brown, was born in Rhode Island. He settled in the town of Malta, Saratoga county, New York, where he died aged about eighty years. He married a Miss Chase and had issue.
(V) Josiah, son of Joseph and (Chase) Brown, was born in Malta, New York, 1800, died June 22, 1888. Ile married (first ) Betsey Ashley ; (second) Ruth Pettit. (VI) Hiram, son of Josiah and Betsey (Ashley) Brown, was born in Malta, Sara- toga county, New York, September 20, 1830, died at Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, June 13, 1900.
Hiram Brown was educated in the pub- lic schools where he acquired a good knowl- edge of the English branches. He taught school for two years, and then removed to New York, where he was clerk in a grocery store. In 1856 he made permanent location in Coxsackie, first engaging in coal trade, later in a general lumber business. He was an energetic, prosperous man of business and stood well in his community. He was a strong supporter of the cause of Prohibition, and to its upbuilding devoted much time and money. For forty years he was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, serving on the official board and as superintendent of the Sunday school. He was not a mere money maker, but devoted himself in a large degree to the service of his brethren. His life teemed with kindly deeds and he left a well-cherished memory.
He was married December 25, 1854. to Phoebe, born January 16, 1836, daughter of Richard F. and Elizabeth (Gritman ) Buck- bee, of Dutchess county, New York. (see Buckbee IV). She survives her husband and lives a quiet life in her Coxsackie home. She has no children.
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This family settled first in Westchester and Dutchess counties, New York. Their origin is difficult to determine as the name is evi- dently a corrupted form of another surname. The Bockee family of Dutchess county have as branches claiming common origin, Buckey. Bocke, Bowker, Bockes and Barikes. The surname Buckbee may come from a descend- ant of Matthias Buquet. The first of mention in Dutchess county annals is Israel Buckbee, of Stanford, born about 1740, died 1820. Ten of the name Buckbee served in the revolution from New York state. but the family identi- fication is impossible. Israel had sons.
(II) John, son of Israel Buckbee, of Stan- ford, Dutchess county, New York, died 1821. He married Nancy Cole. His descendants settled in the town of Chatham, Columbia county, New York.
(II) Richard, son of Israel Buckbee, was born in Stanford, Dutchess county, New York, about 1780. He continued his residence in Stanford, until 1837, when he removed to. Washington county, New York. settling near Sandy Ilill. He later removed to Saratoga county, New York, where he died in 1848. He married Phoebe Boyce.
(III) Richard Ferguson, son of Richard and Phoebe ( Boyce) Buckbee, was born in Dutchess county, New York, 1808, died in Coxsackie, Greene county, New York, 1874. He was educated in the public schools. After the removal to Saratoga and Washington counties, where he followed the occupation of a farmer, he finally located in Coxsackie where he engaged in the lumber business, continu- ing until his death in 1874. lle married Eliz- abeth Gritman, and had two children: 1. El- zada. married Gilbert Fitchett, and had' one daughter, Julia F., wife of Dr. A. Beach and has one son, Richard B., married Claribel Newberry. 2. Phoebe, see forward.
(IV) Phoebe, daughter of Richard F. and Elizabeth (Gritman) Buckbee, was born Janı- ary 16, 1836, married. December 25, 1854. Hiram Brown, born 1830, died 1900 ( sce Brown VI).
PATTERSON
The ancestor of this
branch of the Patterson family in America was James Patterson, born in Scotland about 1633. lle was one of the prisoners of war taken by Cromwell, probably at the battle of Worcester, September 3, 1651. These prison- ers were sold as bonal servants by the English government and a large number of them were sent to New England in the ship "John and' Sarah" of London, Captain John Green, Mas-
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ter. They embarked November 6, 1651, sailed about November 14, 1651, and arrived at Bos- ton in the May following. In 1658 James Patterson was a resident of Billerica, Massa- chusetts, where he received a grant of land from the town followed by sixteen other grants issued between the years of 1658 and 1685. He was admitted a freeman, April 18, 1690. At a meeting of the selectmen and committee held October 8, 1675, an order from the honorable council sent them was read "twelve garrison's were formed in Bil- lerica." "They appoint James Paterson's house for garrison, etc." His will was dated May 12, 1701, and he died in Billerica, July 14, 1701, aged about sixty-eight years. He married, May 29, 1662, Rebecca Stevenson, before married to Thomas Dantforth, Esq. She was born about 1642, daughter of An- drew Stevenson, of Cambridge, Massachu- setts. Children : Mary, James, Andrew, John, Joseph, Rebecca, James and Jonathan.
(II) Andrew, son of James and Rebecca (Stevenson) Patterson, born in Billerica, Massachusetts, April 4, 1672, was a mariner and tradition says "was lost at sea." He was alive March 27, 1707, as appears by deeds. He married, 1697, Elizabeth Kebbe, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. She died in Reading, Massachusetts, June, 1738. Child : James.
(III) James (2), son of Andrew and Eliza- beth (Kebbe) Patterson, was born in Med- ford, Massachusetts, October 5, 1707, died at Princeton, Massachusetts, May 4, 1766. He was a blacksmith and in 1730 purchased a homestead in Sudbury where he resided till 1763, he later was of Princeton where he died. He married, October 14, 1730, Lydia, born in Lexington, daughter of Deacon Jonathan and Abigail (Reed) Fisk. Children: Jona- than, David, Andrew.
(IV) Andrew (2), son of James (2) and Lydia (Fisk) Patterson, was born in Sud- bury, Massachusetts, April 14, 1742. He later lived in Princeton and then removed farther west. He married (first) in Worcester, Mas- sachusetts, October 21, 1761, Elizabeth Bond, who died September 13, 1772, aged thirty- six years. He married (second) Mrs. Anne Russell, a widow. Children of first wife: Sa- rah, James, died young. Children of second wife: David and perhaps others,
(V) David, son of Andrew (2) and Anne (Russell) Patterson, was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, August 31, 1778. He married and had a son Levi.
(VI) Levi, son of David Patterson, was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, in 1800, died in Ohio. He removed to Ohio where he
was postmaster and a man of prominence. He married Abigail Chapin, of the Massachusetts Chapin family, so largely interested in the Boston and Albany railroad. Children: Au- gusta, who married Theodore Kline, and Da- vid Chapin.
(VII) David Chapin, son of Levi and Abi- gail (Chapin) Patterson, was born at Mt. Washington, Massachusetts, February 17, 1829, died August 2, 1907, at Newark, New Jersey. He resided in Hudson, New York, where he was engaged as a contractor. Dur- ing the civil war he enlisted in the Forty- ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer In- fantry, and served in the quartermaster's de- partment for one year. He was a Democrat in politics, and a Universalist in religious be- lief. He married Catherine Ann Doty, eighth child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Sanford) Doty, of North Egremont, Massachusetts, later of Milan, New York, where Catherine Ann was horn, a direct descendant of Edward Doty, who came in the "Mayflower," and his wife, Faith (Clarke) Doty. The descent is through Isaac, fifth son and seventh child of Edward and Faith, who lost his father when he was six years of age. Isaac settled at Oyster Bay, Long Island, where he owned a great amount of land. He married Eliza- beth England and had six children. Their son Samuel, born at Oyster Bay, married Charity, daughter of Jarvis Mudge, and had eiglit children. Their son Charles, born at Oyster Bay, about 1730, removed to the town of Clinton, now Hyde Park, Dutchess county, New York, in 1755, where he died 1803. He is buried in the Quaker burying ground but was not a member of the Friends Meeting. He married Sarah Baker and had nine chil- dren. Their son Samuel (2), born in Clin- ton, Dutchess county, New York, in 1764, died at Milan, New York. He married (first) Sarah Shaw; (second) Mrs. Rebecca Copper. nail. Ten children by first wife, three by second. Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and Sarah (Shaw) Doty, married Elizabeth San- ford and had ten children. Their daughter Catherine Ann, born in Milan, New York, June 12, 1833, married David Chapin Patter- son, and died at Hudson, New York, 1899. Children: I. Agnes, married Rector Stickles; children: Lloyd and Blanche. 2. Merritt Smith. 3. Imogene, married William Reitz and lives in New Jersey. 4. Nettie, married (first) Arthur Holley and (second) Luther Shute. 5. Ezbon, married (first) Meda Pierce, child Edward; married (second) Julia Martin.
(VIII) Merritt Smith, son of David Chapin and Catherine Ann (Doty) Patterson, was
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born at North Haven, Massachusetts, No- vember 18, 1853. He received a good educa- tion, and joined his father in the contracting business which he still continues in Iludson, New York. He is an energetic, successful business man and held in highest esteem. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans and affiliates with the Democratic party. He is an efficient member of the Hudson board of health and deeply interested in all that per- tains to the public welfare. He is prominent in his party and is frequently a delegate to county and state conventions. He married, January 20, 1888, Elizabeth Perks, born in London, England, September 28, 1862, dicd in Hudson, May 25, 1910. Children: 1. Da- vid Chapin (2), born January 24, 1889, at Hudson, educated in public and private schools, now associated with his father in bus- iness. He is a Democrat and member of Christ Episcopal Church, having been a mem- ber of the choir of that church since he was a boy. 2. Florence Beatrice. 3. Imogene Blanche. Mr. Patterson is best known as Smith Patterson, that being his business and ·official signature.
The Dubois families of Ulster
DU BOIS and other Hudson river coun- ties in New York state are the .descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois, Walloons and Huguenots. Louis was born October, 1626, in the province of Artois in Wicre, a hamlet about twenty miles south- west of the ancient city of Lille ; son of Chris- tian Du Bois. Little is known of his early life ; he was possessed of some education and was reared a Protestant. While young he re- moved to Manheim in the Palatinate of Ger- many. October 10, 1655. he married Cather- ine Blanjean (or Blanshan), daughter of a burgher of that ancient city. They had two children born in Germany. In 1660 with his wife and two children he came to New Neth- erland. He first settled at Esopus near or in what is now the village of Hurley, where he ·engaged in trade. In the Indian war of 1663 when Esopus was destroyed, his wife and three children were carried off by the sav- ages, but were subsequently recaptured by a pursuing party, including Louis Du Bois. In 1677 he with eleven other Huguenots and Frenchmen, like himself, obtained from Goy- ernor Andros a patent for a large tract of land which now lies in the Valley of the Wal- kill in the town of New Paltz; removed there with the other patentees, and began the life of a pioneer. A church was founded and un- til 1689 Louis remained in New Paltz, re- :moving in that year to Kingston, New York,
where he died about 1695. He left a nu- merous progeny and descendants yet own and till the soil, first brought under cultivation by their sturdy faithful Huguenot ancestor. Chil- dren: 1. Abraham, born in Manheim, Ger- many, was one of the twelve patentee, of New Paltz and the last survivor. lying October 7. 1731, aged about seventy-four years ; he mar- ried Margaret Deyo. 2. Isaac, born in Man- heim. Germany, was one of the patentees of New Paltz, where he died June 28, 1690, aged thirty-one years : married Marie Hasbrouck. 3. Jacob, the first child of American birth, born in Kingston, October, 1661 ; he settled upon one of his father's farms at Hurley ; married Gerilje Gerritsen, daughter of Ger- rit Cornelissen, son of Cornelius Van Nieuw- kirk. 4. Sara, married Joosl Jansen. 5. Da- vid, married Cornelia Varnoye. 6. Solomon, married Trintjn Gerritsen, sister of Jacob's wife. He was a very large land owner in Ulster and Greene counties, New York, and in Pennsylvania : one tract of three thousand acres in the Walkill Valley he gave to his son Cornelius (subject to certain payments ) ; he was also an official of the French church at New Paltz and held many public trusts. 7. Rebecca, born 1671, clicd young. 8. Rachel, born 1675, died young. 9. Louis, born 1677, married, 1701, Rachel Hasbrouck. 10. Mat- thew, born 1679; married Sarah Mattheyson ; he inherited half of his father's Hurley farm and his house and lot in Kingston where he was living in 1706.
Jacques Du Bois, a near relative and per- haps a brother of Louis Du Bois, born in the same neighborhood as Louis, came to Eso- pus fifteen years later than his kinsman. The letter of church membership from the Wal- loon church at Leyden, Holland, which he took with him when leaving that city, is dated April 15, 1675. as is evidenced by the church records still extant. Ile must have died after his arrival as his widow, Pieronne Bentyn, married (second) prior to December, 1677. On leaving Leyden in 1675 Jacques had put on record a power of attorney to sell his house in that city which would in licate that he had been a resident there some time. He is de- scribed in the Leyden records as a manufac- turer of gros-grains, coarse grained fabrics of cloth and silk. Ife left three sons of tender years: Jacques born in Leyden where he was baptized in the Protestant church of the Wal- loons, by the name of Jacobus, in March, 1005: John. baptized July, 1671; Pierre (known as Pieter), born at Leyden, March 17, 1674. being but three years of age when his mother again married. Jacques also left daughters, Maries, Jean and Anne. Louis and Jacques
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Du Bois are the ancestors of all who bear the name who trace early Huguenot ancestry. Louis left seven sons to perpetuate the name, Jacques but three, one of whom it is thought never married. The name is not a frequent one and is invariably borne by men and women of worth. It is an eminent name in the Hudson Valley, representatives being found in the profession and in business. Many served in the continental army and fought for the land that gave their ancestors asylum from religious persecution.
Peter (Pierre), son of Jacques Du Bois, is the ancestor of the Dutchess county family, from whom the Columbia county family de- scend through the following generations :
(HI) Peter (Pierre), son of Jacques Du Bois, married Jeannette Beuhans and had is- sue.
(III) Jonathan, son of Peter Du Bois, mar- ried Ariantje Osterhout, and had issue.
(IV) Cornelius, son of Jonathan Du Bois, married Charity Griffin and had issue.
(V) Cornelius (2), son of Cornelius (1) Du Bois, married Deborah Payne and had is- sue.
(VI) Richard, son of Cornelius (2) Du Bois, married Harriet Brink and had issuc. (VH) Charles, son of Richard and Harriet (Brink ) Du Bois, was born in Columbia county, New York, August 3. 1843. died May 3. 1881. He was educated in the public schools, and after completing his studies learned the trade of a smith, making a spe- cialty of carriage smithing. He lived an hon- orable. useful life, and died universally re- gretted by his friends and neighbors in King- ston, where he had been in business many years. He was a Democrat in politics, and a faithful, consistent member of St. John's Episcopal Church of Kingston. He married Catherine S., daughter of Robert Merritt, born at Clermont, Columbia county, New York, married Hannah Hover, and had a family of ten children. Children of Charles and Catherine S. Du Bois: I. Harriet Louise, married George Edward Race. 2. Albert, born March 12, 1868, resides in New York City. 3. Mary Frances, died in infancy. 4. Charles Royal, born June 8. 1875. resides in New York City. Mrs. Catherine S. ( Mer- ritt ) Du Bois survives her husband and re- sides in Hudson, New York, which city is the home of her only daughter, Mrs. Harriet Louise Race.
William Wood was
WOOD-ALDRICH born in England in 1582. Ile emigrated to America from Mattock, Derbyshire, Eng-
land, in 1638, with his wife Margaret, and' settled at Concord, Massachusetts, where he filled some of the important offices of the town and died May 14, 1671. His wife died September 1, 1659. Children : Michael and' Ruth.
(H) Michael, son of William and Margaret Wood, was born in England and came to. America with his parents in 1638. He was. a farmer and said to have had an interest in the Concord Iron Works. His wife's name was Mary. He died suddenly, May 13, 1674. Children, born in Concord: Abigail, April 10, 1642; John, Nathaniel, Mary, Thomson,. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
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