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Hudson Lodge, No. 787. Beurvubat and Pro- tective Order of Elks: the Modern Wood- men : Patrons of Husbandry: Claverack Grange, and the Order of Dutch Arms, of Claverack. He married, in 1886, Bertha Bashford, born in the town of Taghkanick, Columbia county, New York, February 25, 1866, daughter of Henry and Caroline ( Shel- don) Bashford, both deceased, leaving chil- dren : Bertha, married George H1. Finch, no issue. Amy, married ( first ) Reuben Sheldon, and had son John, who married Bertha Mil- ler and has a daughter Myra; she married (second ) Edgar Sickles; children: Calvin and Harriet.
(The Hayes Line)
George Ilayes, pioncer ancestor, was of Windsor, Connecticut, cuning from Scotland as early as 1680, beit then about twenty- eight years of age. Ile settled in Windsor, Connecticut. In 1798 he removed to the ham- let of Salmon Brook, in that part of Sims- bury now town of Granby. Ile married ( first) Sarah , who died at Windsor, March 27, 1683, leaving a son George, born March 26, died April 3, 1683. He married (second ) August 29, 1683, Abigail Dibble (also writ- ten Dibol. Dible, Deble and Deeble ). George Hayes died at Simsbury, Connecticut, Sep- tember 2, 1725, his second wife, their five sons and six daughters surviving him.
(II) William, third son of George and Abi- gail (Dibble) Ilayes, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, June 13, 1697. Married (first) September 4, 1723, Joanna Lee, who died De- cember 27, 1748: married (second) a wife, name unknown ; by first marriage he had four sons and five daughters.
(III ) William (2), son of William FIT and Joanna (Lee) Hayes, was born April 5. 1725. Married ( first ) Elizabeth Holcombe ; (sec- ond) January 15, 1761. Rachel Lewis. He is on the church covenant at Salmon Broek among the earliest members as William Hayes, Jr., and served in the revolutionary war in a Connecticut regiment. He had nine children.
(IV) William ( 3), son of William (21 and Elizabeth (Holcombe ) Hayes, was born at Simsbury, Connecticut, 1750, died at Fist Nassau, Rensselaer county, New York, 1800. He removed to New York abont 1785- Mar- ried, before 1776, Ele ner Boughton, and had nine children.
(V) Harry, seventh child of William (3) and Eleanor (Bonghton) Haves, was born in East Nassau, Rensselaer county, New York, October, 1792, died October, 1840. He was a farmer of Na san, where he married. in 1811, Eunice, born in Stephentown, Rensselaer
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county, died at East Nassau, April, 1872, daughter of Silas and Olive (Swetland) Bail- ey ; seven children.
(VI) Olive, youngest child of Harry and Eunice (Bailey) Hayes, married, February 10, 1849. George W. Finch, of Ancram, New York (see Finch III).
The families of Wademan WADEMAN and McNab were early settlers in Albany county, where their descendants are still numerous. They have been agriculturists for many gen- erations and men and women of both char- acter and substance.
(I) John J. Wademan was born in the town of Guilderland, Albany county, New York, April 9. 1815. died in the town of Bethle- hem, same county, in 1903. He was an ener- getic, successful farmer, and notwithstanding his many years retained his activity to the very last. He was a man of upright charac- ter and honorable in all his dealings, and was respected wherever known. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and served on the official board. He was a Whig and later a Republican, supporting that party with all his energy. He married, in Guilder- land, Elizabeth Ostrander, of the same town, born, of Dutch ancestors, Jannary 15. 1819, died 1902, in her eighty-fourth year. She was an active Methodist and an earnest Chris- tian. Children: 1. John H., born October 24. 1838. died February 15, 1894; he was a farmer of the town of New Scotland, and died on his farm in the Helderbergs. He married Margaret Warner, who survives him, a resident of Schenectady : children: i. Etta. deceased, married Burton Albright : ii. Anna, married James Campbell. 2. Aaron, see for- ward. 3. Mary F., born July 27, 1842, died February 12, 1878, unmarried. 4. William J., born August 28, 1848, died May 16, 1874. (II) Aaron, second son of John J. and Elizabeth (Ostrander) Wademan, was born on the farm in New Scotland, Albany county, New York, that was owned and operated so long by his father, July 13, 1841, dicd there August 27, 1900. He was educated in the town schools, and always lived on the farm. In his younger days he assisted his father. and at the death of the latter inherited the farm. He made many improvements during his lifetime, and brought the land under a high state of cultivation. He developed the fruit department of the farm and planted or- chards of the best varieties suited to the soil and climate, added to the home and buildings, and left the farm one of the best improved in the town. He was well known, and bore the
best of reputations as a man and a neighbor. He was a capable business man, which fact added to his industry brought him a good de- gree of this world's goods. His genial na- ture won him many friends, and he died deeply regretted. He was a Methodist and a Republican. He married, December, 1861, in the town of Berne, Albany county, Hannah McNab, born in Berne, April 14, 1842. She survives her husband and owns the homestead farm which she makes her home. She is a daughter of Jasper and Maria (Pier) Mc- Nab. both born in Berne. Jasper McNab, born August 16, 1812, died June 26, 1894, in New Scotland. He was a farmer and a mem- ber of the Reformed church. His first wife, Maria Pier, died aged thirty-five years. She was a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Sever- son) Pier, both of Scotch parentage. Jasper McNab was a son of Hugh and Angelica (Hallenbeck) McNab, of Berne and New Scotland, the former being of Scotch, and the latter of Dutch ancestry. They were mem- bers of the Presbyterian church, and lived to be very old. Jasper and Maria McNab had children: Sarah J., see forward; Jacob, died young ; James, died young ; Hannah M., mar- ried Aaron Wademan; Mary E., died aged twenty years; Jacob (2), married and resides in New Scotland; six children ; Helen, died in childhood. Jasper McNab married (second) Angeline Radley Wright; children: Ellen, twice widowed ; lived at Feurabush ; died No- vember 20, 1910; Carrie, married Kenney Parish, of New Salem, New York: Amos, a teamster of the town of Colonie: Alida, mar- ried Lewis Pier, a farmer of Bethlehem : John P., a bill clerk in Albany ; married; no children. Children of Aaron and Hannah (McNab) Wademan : I. Elizabeth, born June 16, 1864, in New Scotland; married William, son of James H. Coughtry ; children: i. How- ard, died aged nineteen years : ii. James, lives with his parents ; iii. Harold, died aged twelve years ; iv. Minnie A .: v. Frank: vi. Harriet. 2. Minnie, born in New Scotland. 1866; re- sides at home. 3. Emma, born 1868; married Frank Martin, a farmer of Feurabush; child, Catherine.
Sarah J., eldest child of Jasper and Maria (Pier) McNab, was born in the town of Berne, Albany county, New York, May 26, 1836. She married (first) Durham Nelson, a farmer of the county, who died leaving two children, Celestia and Jasper Nelson. She married (second) Hezekiah Van Buren, by profession a carpenter, a cousin of President Van Buren ; children: Anna, married Oscar Haswell, of Delmar: Hattie, died in infancy. She married (third) Henry A., son of David
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Mallary. He was a prosperous business man of Bethlehem. By a first marriage to Ellen Bullock he had six children, of whom Thomas. Anna, Henry and Hiram are living. Sarah J. Mallary survives her husband, and resides in Delmar, New York.
STEWART Also as Stuart, this family name has been familiar in Scotch and English history for centuries. The founder of the Mont- gomery county family was Donald Stewart, born in Scotland, of an ancient branch of the line. He emigrated to the United States about the year 1800, settling on a farm in Mont- gomery county, town of Amsterdam, on what is known as the "Ridge Road." He married Elizabeth - and reared a family of three sons. all of whom met violent and accidental deaths on the farm after they had attained manhood. The founders both lived to old age. Children: 1. Is only remembered by the familiar name of "Captain"; he was tin- married, and met his death from a fall from the hay mow of his father's barn. 2. Archi- bald. when at the age of twenty-one and un- married, came to his death from a kick by a horse he was leading. 3. Damon, see for- ward.
(II) Damon, son of Donald and Elizabeth Stewart, was born in 1792, on the homestead farm, which he afterward inherited and on which his long and active life of ninety-two years was passed. He met his death also in a violent manner. September 12. 1884. He was riding an unruly horse which threw him, death resulting immediately. His unusual ac- tivity may be inferred from the fact of his attempting to ride a fractious horse at his then age of ninety-two. He married, in Amster- dam, when he had attained the age of almost sixty. Effie -, an orphan, born in Kings- boro, New York, died June 19, 1899. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were members of the Presbyterian church. Children: 1. Jane E., born January 21, 1852; married James O'Brien, of Amsterdam, and has a daughter Mary, born in 1884. 2. Mary, born May 25, 1853 : married Rev. Williard Scott, a minister of the Presbyterian church, now superannu- ated, and has a daughter Marion, aged seven- teen. 3. Archibald, see forward. 4. Sarah. born March 5, 1857 : married Horace Cowling. of Johnstown, New York. 5. John, born May 5, 1859: married Marilla Cole: children : Duncan, Raymond, Harry, Hattie, Marian and Marguerite. 6. George H., born AApril 6. 1862: a farmer of western New York. 7. Maggie D., born August 21, 1865: married L. II. Van Anthrop, of Johnstown, New
York : children: George / 21, Laurent Yates and Pearl.
(III) Archilo11, eldest son and third child of Damon and Effie Stewart, was born March 5, 1855, on the homestead farm, where his father and two uncles met violent deaths, and which has descended to him, the third in di- rect line and ownership. He has devoted his life to agriculture and has achieved success. He owns the homestead farm of one hundred and eighteen acres, with attractive building -. and another of one hundred acres in another locality. He is a well-known and much re- spected man in his community. His political preference is for the Republican party. He married, December 10, 1892, in Amsterdam. Jennie, born in Monmouth county, New Jer- sey, December 28, 1876, daughter of John and Jennie (Dey) Howland. John Howland lived in Monmouth county and died there in 1879, at the age of twenty-seven. llis wife, Jennie (Dey) Howland, was born in New York City. died in Monmouth county, New Jersey, Jan- uary 18. 1877, aged twenty-three. Jennie Howland, their only child, being early left an orphan, was reared in Charlton, New York. by friends and kinsmen. Mr. and Mrs. Archi- bald Stewart have one child, Irving, born No- vember 12, 1907.
COONLEY The Coonley family of Cox- sackie. New York, was orig- inally a Dutchess county family living in the town of Clinton, near the old stone meeting house. The American an- cestor and emigrant was John Coonley, born in Germany, who with his young wife came to America in 1760. The family tradition is that the young couple ran away to get married and chose America as the place where they would begin their married life. They had a quick voyage over, but when almost within sight of the shores of America a storm drove their vessel far out to sea and delayed their landing several weeks. They settled in Dut- chess county, New York, where John died in 1810. They had sons: Solomon, George. John. David. Samuel and Frederick. John Coonley, the father, is buried in the old stone church graveyard in the town of Clinton.
(II) Jacob, son of John Coonley, the emi- grant, was born in Clinton, Dutchess county, New York, July 30, 1763, died March 15. 1818. Ile continued his residence in Dutchess county. where he marrie | |first) Elizabeth Brill, February 14. 1702 Ile married (ser- ond) Elizabeth Ilam She died June 15, 1827. Children by second wife: Catherine. horn February 19. 1795, married Benjamin Wil- bur ; Abigail, February 14, 1797. married
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Humphrey Mosher and removed to Mills, Bradford county, Pennsylvania ; Elizabeth, born July 28, 1799, married John W. Bedell, and removed to New Baltimore, New York ; Frederick, of further mention.
(III) Frederick, only son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Ham) Coonley, was born in Clin- ton, Dutchess county, New York, October 31, 1802, died 1892. He remained on the Dut- chess county farm with his parents until after his marriage in 1826. He removed to the town of Greenville, Greene county, New York, where he purchased a farm at the south end of the Prevost patent. He brought his farm to a high state of fertility and became one of the prosperous men of the town. He con- tinued his residence there all his after life, and when overtaken by years spent a quiet life amidst its congenial surroundings. He was a man of untiring energy and was highly respected for his many good qualities. He married (first) January 21, 1826, Anna Maria, daughter of Joseph Haight. She died De- cember 28, 1830. He married (second) April 2. 1835, Eliza Griffin, died July 23, 1878. By first marriage he had two sons: 1. Jacob, born November 1, 1826, married Alvira, daughter of Jonathan Yeomans ; children : Adelaide, married John Stevens, and had two daughters : Zallah and Hattie; Eliza ; Annie. 2. Platt, of further mention. By second marriage he had seven children : 3. Henry, born May, 1836. died 1857. 4. Theodore, born April 3, 1838, married Augusta Goff, and had a daughter Susan. 5. Maria, born April 17, 1840, mar- ried Pierce Stevens. 6. Mary E., born April 25, 1842, died 1859. 7. Dr. Edgar D., born July 12, 1844, married Amelia Durland : chil- dren : Frederick, Mary E., Carleton. 8. Lor- enzo, born January 12, 1847, married Sarah A. Smith. 9. Charles A., born August 29, 1849, married Ella Roe ; child, Henry G., born November 28, 1878.
(IV) Platt, second son of Frederick and Anna Maria (IIaight) Coonley, was born in Greenville. Greene county, New York, Au- gust 28, 1828. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Greenville and a private school at Freehold, Greene county. He remained on the home farm with his father until 1866, when he removed to Coxsackie, where he first conducted a meat market, later added a gro- cery store, continuing until 1883. In that year he became interested in river transpor- tation, a business he has ever since continued. He became associated with the Reed & Powell Transportation Company, of which he was for several years treasurer and is now presi- dent. He was elected president of the Cox- sackie National Bank in 1870, an office he
now fills. He was elected trustee of the vil- lage corporation, 1871-72: supervisor, 1872; sheriff of Greene county, 1873-76, proving a most popular and efficient official. He was appointed postmaster of Coxsackie by Presi- dent Garfield in 1881, but resigned in 1883. He is a Republican in politics, and a vestry- man of Christ Episcopal Church. He mar- ried Kate, daughter of James Kent and Eliza Mosher Adams, of Troy, Pennsylvania.
James Kent Adams was born in 1811, died 1895. Eliza (Mosher) Adams was born in Stanfordville, Dutchess county, New York, died in Troy, Pennsylvania, 1886, daughter of Humphrey and Abigail (Coonley ) Mosher, the latter a daughter of Jacob and grand- daughter of John Coonley, the emigrant from Germany. Humphrey Mosher was a son of David and (Haight) Mosher, who had children : Humphrey, Stephen. Mary and David. The progenitor of the Mosher family of Dutchess county, New York, is David Mosher, who was born in England, came to America prior to the revolution. He had sons: Jonathan, born 1755, died 1843 : mar- ried Catherine Green, served in the revolution- ary army, and later settled in the town of Coeymans, Albany county ; David, born 1760, settled in Dutchess county, where he married. His son David married Haight, and they are the parents of Humphrey Mosher and grandparents of Eliza Mosher, who married James Kent Adams. Their daughter, Kate Adams, married Platt Coonley, of Coxsackie, New York. They have no issue.
(V) Gerrit (5) Lansing, son LANSING of Gerrit (4) Lansing (q. v.), married (first) Annatje Yates ; (second) Wyentje Van Den Bergh.
(VI) Gerrit J., son of Gerrit (5) and Wyentje (Van Den Bergh) Lansing, was born August 24, 1752, died in Charlestown, Montgomery county, New York. He mar- ried, April 15, 1787, Mary Van Dusen, born January 10, 1762, died May 2, 1842. Chil- dren : Leah, Helena, Jacob, Cornelius, Helena, Gertrude, Noah and Garrett.
(VII) Gerrit (6), son of Gerrit J. and Mary (Van Dusen) Lansing, married, Octo- ber 11. 1828, Rebecca Van Vechten Mount. They lived and died in Montgomery county. She was a daughter of Matthias Mount and a granddaughter of John Mount, the pioneer of the family in the county, coming from New Jersey, where the family originally settled. They settled in the town of Glen, where they owned and improved large farms. Children of Garrett and Rebecca V. V. (Mount) Lan- sing, all born in Charlestown: 1. Mary, mar-
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ried Isaac Schuyler. 2. Douw V., a farmer of the town ; married Linda Houghtaling and has a son Eugene. 3. Dr. Benjamin, a lead- ing physician of Rhinebeck, New York, where he died ; he married (first) Mary Barrington, who bore him a daughter Molly, now de- ceased : married (second ) Jennie -; chil- dren ; Frederick and Florence ; his widow sur- vived him and married Bromley. 4. Jennie, married Philip J. Schuyler ; resides on a farm near Syracuse, New York : no issue. 5. Garrett J., resides on the old homestead of the Lansings in Montgomery county, town of Charlestown; married Amanda lloag; chil- dren : Helen, married John Ingersoll, a farmer of Glen, and Frank II. 6. Matthias Mount, see forward. 7. Helen, married Rev. John Mclaughlin, a minister of the Church of Christ; she survives him, a resident of Charlestown. 9. Dr. Zachary Taylor, died un- married at the age of thirty-five. 10. Horace Greeley, a prominent attorney of the city of Brooklyn, now deceased ; married Franc Mc- Masters, who resides in Brooklyn, with daugh- ters, Florence and Jennie, teachers in the city public schools.
(VIII) Matthias Mount, sixth child of Gerrit (6) and Rebecca Van Vechten (Mount) Lansing, was born in Charlestown, Montgomery county, New York, October 10, 1842. When he was thirteen years of age he went to live with his grandfather, Matthias Mount, in the town of Glen, where he was educated and grew to manhood. He suc- ceeded to the ownership of the Mount farm of one hundred and ten acres of fertile land, where he has since lived and carried on the business of a general farmer. He has been successful in his undertakings, and is one of the substantial men of the town. He is a Republican in politics, and a deacon of the Christian Church at Randall. He married, in Randall, town of Root, Mrs. Helen M. Yates, born in Onandaga county, New York, No- vember 7, 1840, daughter of Lewis and Cor- nelia (Van Valkenburg ) Lounsbury. They have no issue.
Lewis Lounsbury, father of Mrs. Matthias M. Lansing, was a son of Lewis and Lucy (Howe) Lounsbury ; he was born in Ulster county, New York, July 6, 1813, died Novem- ber 21, 1895. Ile became a noted surveyor and civil engineer. While following his pro- fession in Onandaga county, New York, he married and settled a few years later at Ran- dall, Montgomery county. Ile was a promi- nent · politician and business man of that county. He was past warden of New York City, superintendent of canals and held other less prominent positions ; for many years he
owned a line of packets that operated on the Erie canal. Ile married (first ) Cornelia \ an Valkenburg, born in Schenectady, died at Randall. Children: 1. Helen MI., married Matthias M. Lansing. 2. John L., born No- vember 29, 1842, now deceased ; married (first) Helen Wires: (second) Kate Seeber, of Oneida, New York ; both wives are de- ceased : by the second wife he had sons : Louis E. and George Williard, now real es- tate brokers of Mc Allister, Oklahoma. 3. George II., for many years cashier at the New York City post office : now decease 1 ; he married Jennie Bartlett, of Jersey City, New Jersey, who bore him Georgia B. and I.rank B., the latter of Waverly, New York, mar- ried Lenna Beekman.
This branch of the lansing LANSING family setled in or near Co- hoes about 1760. They de- scend from Gerrit Lansing, the founder, and date in the Mohawk Valley from about the year 1650. Many of the family are now liv- ing on land that is part of the original grant from the King or his representatives. For detailed genealogy see the Lansings of Al- bany, Troy and Cohoes. The particular branch of the family that is here considered is closely allied with the Fonda family of Al- bany county, descendants of Jellise Dounse Fonda, who was in Beverwyck as early as 1650. In a later generation the only child and daughter of a wealthy Fonda married a Lansing, thus uniting two large estates. The descent of Alida M. Lansing from Gerrit Lansing, the founder, is through eight gener- ations, she being the ninth.
(VI) William, son of Hendrick ( Henry ) Lansing, was a farmer of Cohoes, where he lived and died. He married Alida Fonda. Children: Henriette, Sarah, Maria. Down, Isaac, Jacob, William and Abraham Fonda.
(VHI) Abraham Fonda, youngest son of William and Alida (Fonda ) Lansing, was born in Fonda, August 10, 1803, died there, June 6, 1883. He was educated in the public schools, and was all his life a farmer, owning a large estate just outside the present limits of the city of Cohoes. He was a member of "The Boght" Dutch Reformed Church, lo- cated about two miles from Cohoes on the bend of the river, which gave the name "The Boght." He married. December 8. 1823. Jane Fonda, born December 8, 1802, diedl June 6, 1883, only daughter of Douw .A. and Derrica A. (Lansing) Fonda. By this marriage all the property of Deuw .A. Fonda came into possession of the Lansings upon his death, Jane being the sole heir. Children: 1. Abram
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Fonda, born October 2, 1824. 2. William H., September 20, 1826, died December 19, 1903. 3. Richard Down, January 3, 1829, died April 30, 1891. 4. Henry Truax, August 20, 1831, .died August 20, 1832. 5. Jacob, September 28, 1833 ; died June 30, 1888. 6. Sarah Ann, February 11, 1836, died August 28, 1889. 7. Alida M., born March 16, 1839: resides in Cohoes, the last survivor of the nine children of her parents. 8. Isaac, May 22, 1842, died March 2, 1881. 9. Emily Jane, May 18, 1845, died April 14, 1855. The Douw A. Fonda farm was situated west of Cohoes and is now all included in the city limits. The City Park on Columbia street was also included in the farm.
(The Fonda Line).
(V) Abraham Douw Fonda, lineal descend- ant in the fifth generation from Jellise Dounse Fonda, the founder of the family in America, was born 1733, died October 10, 1799. He was a farmer of the town of Watervliet, as then constituted, a member of the Dutch church, and a man of considerable property. He married, August 20, 1771, Hendrica Lan- sing, who died February 7, 1840, aged ninety- one years, five months. Children : Douw, died in infancy. Sara, born November 7, 1773. Alida, December 28, 1775. Douw Abraham, see forward. Anna, died in infancy. Anna (2), October 14, 1781, died March 28, 1831. Maria, January 10, 1784.
(VI) Douw Abraham, son of Abraham Douw and Hendrica (Lansing) Fonda, was born October 13, 1776, died May 15, 1868. He married Derrica A. Lansing and had an only child, Jane, born December 8, 1802.
(VII) Jane, only child of Douw Abraham and Derrica A. (Lansing) Fonda, married Abraham Fonda Lansing.
PITTS This family is of English ancestry and was founded in America by John Pitts, son of Berwick Pitts, ·of Lyme, Regis county, Dorset, England, a small seaport of the southern coast. Here John was born in 1668 and came to America in 1695, settling in Boston, where he was a successful and prominent merchant. He mar- ried Elizabeth Lendall, of Duxbury, Massa- chusetts, granddaughter of James Lendall, of England, who died in 1652. His will was witnessed by Miles Standish and John Alden. John Pitts had a son James, who graduated at Harvard in 1728, and rose to a high posi- tion in the colony. He was a noted patriot and with his sons, John, Samuel and Lendall, at his side, equally devoted to the cause of liberty, walked the stormy path of the revo- lution when failure led to the scaffold, the axe
or the gallows, and success led to liberty, free- dom and glory. It was a family noted in the annals of early Massachusetts, where Pitts street, Pitts wharf and Pitts tomb are vet to be found. The family is now scattered, but few if any are to be found in or around Bos- ton who can justly claim descent from James. There is no record to connect the New York family of Colonie, Albany county, with the Boston family. They trace five generations to William Pitts, of Chatham, Columbia county, who was son of Joseph. There were several of the name resident of the town of Chatham, where their descendants are still to be found.
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