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(III) Stephen, son of Joseph and Jane (Wright) Hand, born February 8, 1676, died
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in Guilford, Connecticut, August 14, 1755. He married (first) November 6, 1700, Sarah Wright, died September 18, 1706. Children : Joseph, died young ; Joseph (2), of further mention ; Mary, born October 30, 1704, mar- ried Josiah Meigs; Sarah, September 9, 1706; Stephen. He married (second) No- vember 16, 1708, Sarah, daughter of Abra- ham Pierson, of Killingworth, Connecticut. Children : Stephen, born June 13. 1710; Abi- gail, October 20, 1712, married Daniel Brad- Iey.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Stephen and Sarah (Wright) Hand, was born in Guilford, Con- necticut, January 10, 1703. He married, Au- gust 31, 1731, Hannah, daughter of Na- thaniel Holabird. Children : Sarah, died young ; Sarah (2), died young ; Samuel, born February 5, 1736; Sarah (3), March 30, 1744, married William Throop; Joseph, of further mention; Hannah, December 28, 1753, married Jared Leet.
(\) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and Hannah (Holabird) Hand, was born April 15, 1749. He married, May 8, 1771, Pru- dence Wright. Children : Luman, Stephen, Prucia, Sarah, Arminda, Elizabeth, Huldah, Josiah, of further mention.
(VI) Josiah, son of Joseph (3) and Pru- dence (Wright) Hand, was born about 1790. He married Jane Pierson and had issue.
(VII) Julia, daughter of Josiah and Jane (Pierson) Hand, was born 1827. She mar- ried Edward (2) Ogden (Hogben).
The early spelling of this name MABEE was Mebie, and in that form was borne by Jan Pieter Mebie, the Dutch ancestor, who was of Schenectady, New York, at an early date. His home lot in the village was on the east side of Church street, next door to the Dutch church. He also had farm land on the Third Flat on the south side of the Mohawk, eight miles above Sche- nectady. The house on the farm, known as the "Old Mebie House," was built or at least its stone walls date from 1670-80, and is doubtless the oldest house in the Mohawk Valley. In 1697 Rode, a Mohawk Sachem, called Dirk by the settlers, with the consent of all the other Indians, granted eighty acres on both sides of Schoharie Creek to Jan Pic- ter Mebie, who married Anna Pietrese, daugh- ter of Pieter Jacobus Borsboom. He made his will, April 3, 1725, died April 8, following. Children : Pieter, of further mention; C'ath- erine, married Arent Samuelse Bratt, died 1773, aged eighty-two years, two months, sev- enteen days ; Annetje, baptized April 16, 1693, in Albany, married Helmers Veeder; Abra-
ham, baptized June 26, 1695: Elene. No- vember 10, 1697, married Pieter Danielse Van Antwerp; Jacob, baptized May 5, 1700, died April 18, 1755; Maritje, married Cor- nelis Van Dyck; Margaret.
(II ) Pieter, son of Jan Pieter and Anna P. (Borsboom) Mebie, was baptized in Albany, New York, January 20, 1680. He settled on the north side of the Mohawk river on "Arent Mebie's Kill," just north of the stone bridge on the New York Central railroad. Ile mar- ried, November 12, 1721, Susanna, daughter of Arent Vedder. Children baptized : Anna, October 26, 1722, married Abraham Van Ant- werpen ; Sara, March 21, 1725, married Abra- ham Yates; Johannes, January 19, 1728; Arent, 1729; Margarieta, April 15, 1733; Marietta, October 13, 1734; Hermanus, Oc- tober 9. 1737; Maria, April 13, 1740; Petrus, November 14, 1742; Rebecca, October 6, 1745, married Simon Van Antwerpen.
(IH) Jan (Johannes), son of Pieter and Susanna (Vedder) Mebic, was born Janu- ary 10, baptized January 19, 1728, died No- vember 24, 1796, and was buried in the Fifth Flat. He married, December 13. 1755, Alida. daughter of Simon Toll, a revolutionary sol- dier who served under Colonel Philip Schuyl- er, First Regiment, and in the Fourteenth under Colonel John Knickerbocker. Children baptized : Susanna, May 2, 1757; Simon, Au- gust 2, 1761, died young ; Pieter, August 5, 1764, "a practitioner of physic"; Hesje, No- vember 9. 1766; Simon, August 13, 1769. The family residence had up to 1705 been in and around Schenectady. In that year "John Mabie was granted eighty acres of land in the town of Glen, and in 1722 a tract of six hundred acres was granted to his brother Peter ( Pe- trus)." Jan and Peter are believed to have been the first permanent white settlers in the town of Glen, Tryon county, now Montgom- ery county, New York.
( IV) Simon, son of Jan and Alida (Toll) Mabie, was born July 21. 1769, at Westina, Albany county, and baptized August 13, 1769. In 1799 he was a resident of the town of Charleston, with his wife, Susannah. About 1797 he and his brother Pieter built the first sawmill and carding machine in that section. (This is now the town of Glen. Montgomery county.) In 1799 Jan (John) sold his land there, and probably returned to Schenectady. He served in the revolutionary war as a pri- vate of the Second Regiment, Albany county militia, Colonel Abraham Wemple command- ing. He married Susannah Nexsen, and had issue : Catherine G., George J. W .. Jacob S. G. and Elias A. N.
(V) George James Warner, son of Si-
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mon and Susannah (Nexsen) Mabee, was born in the town of Charleston, Montgomery county, New York, February 16, 1814, died September 25, 1870. He was educated in the public schools, and became a merchant of New York City with a home in Brooklyn. He was a member of the wholesale drug firm of Williams, Mabee & Clapp, whose place of business "at Old Slip" was totally destroyed in the disastrous fire that devastated New York City in 1835. Later he engaged in the same business under his own firm name. He married Margaret Tiers Nostrand, born Feb- ruary 7, 1818, died September 27, 1900, daughter of Foster and Christianna (Tiers) Nostrand, of the old New York family. Chil- dren: 1. Foster Nostrand, born December 6, 1839, educated in the public schools, enlisted in the Seventh Regiment New York Volun- teers, April 18, 1861, went to the front with his regiment and served through three cam- paigns and is a member of the Seventh Regi- ment Veteran Association. For eighteen years he was chief paymaster for the Erie railroad with headquarters at Owego, Tioga county, New York, which is still his legal home. Since 1896 he has been statistician of the New York state department of excise, created in that year. He is a member of the Masonic order, in which he holds high posi- tion ; is past master of Friendship Lodge, No. 153; past high priest of Jerusalem Chapter, No. 47, both of Owego; past eminent com- mander of Malta Commandery, No. 21, Bing- hamton : past grand commander of New York State Grand Commandery, Knights Templar; thirty-second degree Mason of Corning Consistory; a charter member of Mecca Temple, New York City, and past grand sword bearer of the New York Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Politi- cally a Republican, and in religious faith an Episcopalian. He married Sarah Elizabeth Campbell and his children: Susan Campbell and Marian Bowers. 2. Edward Tiers, born March 22, 1841, died August 12, 1843. 3. George J. W., born October 26, 1842, resi- dent of Denver, Colorado. 4. Emily Tiers, born May 8, 1844, married George Cronyn, whom she survives, a resident of Brooklyn, New York. 5. Julia Bach, born April 5, 1846, married Edward Schofield, and resides in Brooklyn, New York. 6. Douglass William, of further mention. 7. Addie Tiers, born December 27, 1851, died January 16, 1897. 8. Maggie Nostrand, born September 12, 1853, died October 21, 1862. 9. Courtland Bab- cock, born July 21, 1855. 10. John Allston, born May 25, 1857, died September 13, 1899. II. William Marsh, born January 30, 1859.
(VII) Douglass William, son of George James Warren and Margaret Tiers ( Nos- trand) Mabee, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 5, 1848. He was educated in the public schools, and entered business life as a clerk in his father's wholesale drug house in New York City. For several years he was ticket agent for the Erie railroad at Bing- hamton, New York. After his marriage he became manager of the estate of his father-in- law, George West, of Ballston Spa, New York, and now resides at Saratoga Springs. He is a member of Saratoga Lodge, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks of Sarato- ga; Knights of Pythias, of Ballston Spa; member of Saratoga Club, Eutopian Club of Ballston and the Republican Club of New York City. He is vice-president of the Adi- ondack Trust Company, of Saratoga, direc- tor of the First National Bank of Ballston Spa, director of the National Folding Box & Paper Company of New Haven, Connecti- cut. He married, October 13, 1875, Florence Louise, daughter of Hon. George and Louisa West, of Balston Spa. Children: 1. Louisa West, married William P. Boone; they have- three children: Douglass M., John Rowan, Florence Mabee. 2. George West, married' Blanche Aiken Wiley. 3. Douglass Walter, married Edna L. Marvin ; they have one child, Edna Louise. 4. Alfred Lounsbury. 5. Flor- ence Jane, married C. H. R. Compton ; two. children: William R. and Douglass M. 6. David Walton. 7. Margaret Nostrand.
ODELL The Odell family, so long occu- pying a prominent place in the county of Westchester, New York, descend from William Odell, who was of Concord, Massachusetts, 1639. He came to New England with the Rev. Peter Bulkley, who was rector of the parish of Odell in Bed- fordshire, England, 1620. William Odell' died at Fairfield, Connecticut, June, 1676, and from his sons John and William the West- chester family spring. The family have been. eminent in war, politics and business.
Jonathan Odell, the Patriot, great-grandfa- ther of William Odell, owned a large estate. in the town of Greenburg, Westchester coun- ty, and lived in the old Stone Inn, still stand- ing on the roadside at Albottsford just below Irvington. This old Odell Inn at Albottsford was erected by Captain John Harmse prob- ably as early as 1693. It is noted as having been the building in which a session of the provincial assembly was held August 31, 1776. Jonathan Odell served in Colonel Sam- uel Drake's regiment, Westchester county- militia, as did many of his sons and nephews ..
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He was held a prisoner in the old Sugar House Prison at New York City for a time and suffered much loss of property from the depredations of the British General Vaugh and his troops. Jackson Odell, also a soldier of the revolution, was probably a brother of Jonathan. The line of descent is thus traced. (I) William Odell, of Concord, Massachu- setts.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) Odell, married . Vowles.
(III) John, son of William (2) Odell, married Johanna Turner.
(IV) Johannes, son of John Odell, mar- ried Johanna Vermilye.
(V) Jackson, son of Johannes Odell, born in Westchester, New York, about 1735, served in the revolutionary war under Colonel Van Cortlandt. He lived and died in his native county, married and left a son, Jackson.
(VI) Jackson (2), son of Jackson (1) Odell, was born in Van Cortlandt, Westches- ter county, New York, in 1770, died there in middle life. He was a farmer. He married and had children : 1. John, of further mention. 2. > tate, to the management of which he now de- William, a farmer of Peekskill, New York; married Hattie Ten Eyck. 3. Gilbert, mar- ried Kate Foster. 4. Nathan, lived and died a farmer of Westchester county; he married and had issue. 5. Sarah, married Hiram Booth.
(VII) John (2), eldest son of Jackson (2) Odell, was born in Van Cortlandt, West- chester county, New York, in 1790, died near Peekskill, New York, in 1845, and is buried with his wife in the old Van Cortlandt church- yard. He was a farmer, a Whig and member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He mar- ried Nancy Foster, born in 1800, died in 1866, daughter of Robert and Martha Foster, both of Westchester county, where they died, leav- ing children : Nancy, Kate, Phoebe, Charlotte, Ruth, Robert, John and James, all of whom lived to mature years, married and reared families. Children of John and Nancy (Fos- ter ) Odell: I. Isaac, died unmarried at the age of twenty-two years. 2. Sarah, married jacob Lent, of Peekskill, New York, both now deceased ; children : Arthur and Martha, both married and have families; residence Peeks- kill. 3. Martha, married Elias MacLean, and lived in Peekskill, where they died, leaving Jane, who married Captain L. C. Trott. 4. John W., of further mention.
(VIII) John W., son of John (2) and Nancy (Foster) Odell, was born on the Odell farm near Peekskill, New York, September 10, 1839. He grew up on the farm, and was educated in the schools of Peekskill. He was reared to habits of industry, and at the age of
eleven years was self-supporting. These liab- its of industry and thrift contributed in a large measure to his success in after life. He was not contented with a farmer's life, and leaving home hegan teaming and trucking. In this manner he secured a foothold in the business world, and made many friends who were disposed to help a young man of such energy as he displayed. In 1876 he sold his teaming outfit and came to Albany. Ilere he secured an appointment as special deputy sheriff and held that office eleven years. He saw an opportunity to increase his capital and purchased a small restaurant, which he oper- ated for six years, when he disposed of it at a good profit. His next venture was in a large restaurant at Troy, New York, which he did not long operate, selling out and re- turning to Albany where he purchased the Globe Hotel Restaurant. Here he success- fully continued the catering business for ten years, then retired after eighteen years spent as a caterer. During these years he had pros- pered and he invested his profits in real es- votes his entire attention. He owns several apartment houses and other business renting dwellings in Albany and has other business in- terests. He is a member of the Masonic or- der, belonging to Lodge, Chapter, Temple and Consistory, being a thirty-second degree Ma- son. Politically he is a Republican. He mar- ried (first) in Peekskill, Theodosia Hadden, born in Peekskill Valley, 1849, died in 1886, without issue. He married (second ) in Al- bany, Sarah Coleman, born in Leicestershire, England, daughter of John and Fannie (Tur- ner) Coleman, of old English families. She came to the United States in 1879, and is an earnest member of the First Methodist Fpis- copal Church of Albany, as is her husband. He served as steward for several year- and since 1906 has been trustee. A handsome memorial window in the church is the gift of John W. and Sarah Odell.
The Dorrs are an ancient English
DORR family. Joseph Dorr, ancestor, came to America from England in 1670, took the oath of fealty at Pemaquid, purchased land in Boston in 1674, afterward removed to Roxbury, where he died.
The family in Albany herein traced descent from Edmund, son of Joseph Dorr, born in England, died in 1734, at the age of eighty- six years. He came to America in 1674, landed in Boston, later settling in Roxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston, where he be- came selectman and influential in town affairs. He married (first), 1679, Elizabeth Howley,
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of Roxbury, born 1656, died 1719, in Rox- bury. He married (second) Elizabeth D. Clapp, born 1669, died 1773. Children, all by first wife: 1. Edward, born 1680, died in in- fancy. 2. Ann, died in infancy. 3. Edward, died in infancy. 4. Edward, died in infancy. 5. - -, unmarried. 6. Edmund, born 1686, died in infancy. 7. Ebenezer, June 7, 1688, died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, February 25, 1761 ; married and left numerous descend- ants. 8. Rev. Joseph, 1690, died March 9, 1760; a graduate of Harvard College, was ordained to the ministry and settled over the church at Minden, Worcester county, Massa- chusetts, for forty years. His son, Joseph (2) Dorr, attained local eminence and left a notable posterity. He had several daughters all of whom married clergymen. 9. Edmund, of whom further. 10. Harbottle, born May II, 1696; married and settled in Boston; chil- dren : Susannah, born January 24, 1725, died unmarried ; Harbottle (2), born January 24. 1729, died unmarried. 11. Elizabeth, married Scutt. 12. Clarence, born July 17. 1700; married, July 8, 1725, a daughter of Edmund Weld, and had six children.
(II) Edmund (2), ninth child of Edmund (I) and Elizabeth ( Hawley) Dorr, was born in Roxbury, October 19, 1692. He settled in Lyme, Connecticut, where he died November 21, 1776. He married, in Lyme, September 24, 1719, Mary, born April 24, 1794, daugh- ter of Matthew and Phoebe (Hyde) Gris- wold, of Lyme, both prominent families of early Connecticut. Children : 1. George. born August 4, 1720; was a lawyer and magistrate of Lyme for thirty-three years, and attorney for the king for thirty-three years; died 1786. 2. Rev. Edward, born November 2, 1722, a graduate of Yale College; married Helena, daughter of Governor Talcott, of Connecticut ; he settled in Hartford, where he was pastor of the First Church ; died there October 20, 1772, without issue. The Rev. Dorr is buried in the old Centre Church cemetery. The stone covering the Rev. Dorr's grave is a table monument, on which is cut the following in- scription :
"Here lies interred the body of The Rev- erend Edward Dorr, the late Learned and Pious Pastor of the first church of Christ in Hartford, who departed this life Oct. 20th Anno Domini 1772 in the 50th year of his age and 25 of his ministry
And Jesus said I am the Resurrection and the Life."
3. Matthew, of whom further. 4. Elizabeth, born 1725: married (second) Dr. Elisha Tracy, of Norwich, Connecticut. 5. Mary,
born 1727, died July 6, 1742. 6. Eve, born 1733; married George Griffin, of East Had- dam, Connecticut. 7. Deborah, born 1739, died 1768, unmarried.
(III) Matthew, third son of Edmund (2) and Mary (Griswold) Dorr, was born in Lyme, Connecticut, 1724, died at Athens, Ohio, 1801. He married (first) November 4, 1747, Elizabeth Palmer. She died about 1775. He married (second) Lydia Wood, died at Athens, Ohio, 1815. By first wife he had seven sons and three daughters; by sec- ond wife three sons and two daughters.
(IV) Elisha, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Palmer) Dorr, was born in Lyme, Connecti- cut, March 27, 1764, died in Albany, New York, April 30, 1843. He came to Albany when a young man and became a furrier and dealt in furs and skins, many of which he bought of John Jacob Astor, a business he was engaged in until his retirement through ad- vancing years. He was surrogate of Albany county, 1808-10, and an incorporator and di- rector of the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank. He was a member, deacon and elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany and a potent force for good in the city. He mar- ried, in Albany, Elizabeth Brouer, born 1776, died September 19, 1837. She was also a worker in the First Presbyterian Church. Children : 1. Palmer, born November 4, 1797, died July 30, 1840; unmarried ; a graduate of Middlebury College, Connecticut ; a physician of Albany. 2. Cornelius, born July 30, 1799, died September 17, 1820; unmarried ; he was admitted to the bar, but died before establish- ing a practice. 3. Harriet, born December 25, 1802, died March 31, 1819. 4. Alfred, born March 27, 1806, died April 17, 1849; grad- uate of the United States Military Academy at West Point; married Mary C. Milderber- ger, died December 18, 1836, in her thirty- fourth year ; children : i. Harriet, died in child- hood; ii. Elizabeth, married James Dempsey, of Albany, and left two sons, William James and Elisha Dorr Dempsey, both of Newark, New Jersey : iii. Ellen R., born July 20, 1834, married William Livingston Ostrander, of Hudson, no issue. 5. Edmund, of whom further. 6. Elisha (2), born July 9, 1810, died October 2, 1882.
(V) Edmund (3), son of Elisha and Eliza- beth ( Brouer ) Dorr, was born in Albany, New York, August 11, 1808, died October 10, 1881. Ile was educated in Albany and for many years was a commission merchant of that city. He, together with Arthur Root, of Albany, were promoters of the board of trade of Albany. He was an energetic, prosperous and public-spirited man, highly regarded in his
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city. He was a Presbyterian. and a Repub- lican but never active in political affairs. He was married in New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 26, 1836, by Rev. Dr. Howe, to Maria M. Englehart, born in New York. November 11, 1815, died near Albany, New York, June 7. 1888, a woman of strong mentality and high character, a member of the Presbyterian church and interested in many good causes. She was a daughter of George and Margaret (Hartell) Englehart, of New York City, the former of whom was a wholesale leather mer- chant of New York City, with Jacob II. Loril- lard, who was his cousin. She was a grand- daughter of George Englehart, who was twice married, one of his wives being Mary Loril- lard of the well-known Lorillard family of New York and New Jersey. Children of Edmund and Maria M. Dorr: 1. Margaret Elizabeth, born March 19, 1838, on Ferry street, Albany, New York, then a noted resi- dential street. She was educated in Albany private schools and Female Academy, and with her sister resides at Glenmont, near Al- bany, unmarried. 2. Emma Lorillard, born April 3, 1840, at the northeast corner of Swan and Lydins streets, now Madison avenue, Al- bany, the old home there being yet a land- mark. She was educated in private schools and Female Academy, and now has her home in the most beautiful surroundings overlook- ing the Hudson Valley. The sisters are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church, and are women of culture and refinement.
This family has for several BARCKLEY generations been prominent in the history of the town of Guilderland and Albany county, where the pioneer of the family settled prior to 1790. Michael Barckley, born in Germany, came when a young man to America, perhaps then the United States, settled on a farm in Guil- derland, where he married and died in middle life. He was a member of the Dutch Re- formed church. He had a son Evert.
(H) Evert, son of Michael Barckley, was born in Guilderland about 1785, died there in 1816. He was a farmer and a member of the Reformed church. He married Gertrude Wal- «Iron, born April 27, 1793, died March 28. 1864. Children : Henry. of whom further ; Henrietta, born 1814, died unmarried at the age of sixty-seven years. She survived her husband and married (second) Dr. Jonathan Johnson, an early practitioner of Guilderland. By her second husband she had children : Ade- line, born 1818, died unmarried: George Young, born 1820, married Mrs. Ella Corbett, now of Binghamton, New York; Elizabeth,
born 1822, unmarried: Line Ann, born 1824, unmarried.
( III ) Henry, only -on af Evert and Ger- trude ( Waldron) BareKles, Was born in the town of Guilderland. Alone county, New York, in 1812. He learned the trade of black- smith, which he followed i carly life. Ile later purchased a farm in the town of Knox near the village. In 1856 he opened a gen- eral store, but continued the operation of his farm. He conducted a prosperous mercantile business, and accumulated a substantial for- tune. He was prominent in the politics of his town, being a Whig and later a Republican. He was town clerk, supervisor and postmas- ter for many years. He was a man of -ter- ling character and held in universal esteen. He was an active member of the Reformed church which he served as elder. He was a big-hearted, generous soul, and none were turned away empty-handed that appealed to him for aid. He was a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and took a deep interest in that order. He married in Guilderland, Magdalene (or Madeline ) Liv- ingston, born 1814, died in Knox, December 6. 1900, daughter of Aaron and Nancy ( 11al- linbeck) Livingston, lifelong residents of the Helderberg region, where they died in old age. faithful members of the Presbyterian church. Children of Henry and Magdalene Barckley: 1. Michael, born in Knox in 1840, educated in the public schools, and grew to manhood on his father's farm; when the civil war broke out he was active in raising a com- pany and went to the front as lientenant of Company K. Seventh New York Heavy Ar- tillery : at the battle of Cold Harbor he was wounded by a bursting shell, taken to a mili- tary hospital at Washington, D. C., where he died from the effects of his wound, 1864: he was unmarried ; his memory is preserved in Altamont where Michael Barckley Post, Grand Army of the Republic, is named in his honor. 2. Edward Livingston, of whom further.
(IV) Edward Livingston. econd son of Henry and Magdalene ( Livingston ) Barek- ley, was born on the farm in Knox, June 9. 1842, died October 3, 1905. Ile was educated in the public schools and at Knox Academy. Hle grew up on the farm, and at an early age became his father's trusted assistant, both in farm management and in the store. this ac- quiring a thorough business education that stood him well in the heavy responsibilities of his later life. Years before his father's death ledward I. had assumed full control of both store and farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres, later becoming owner of both anl con-
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