Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 80

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 660


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( H) Abraham Janse. son of Jan Martense and Dirkje Harmense Van Alstyne, born 1650, owned and cultivated the homestead farm at Kinderhook, deeded him by his father. This land as well as the deeds of conveyance has ever since been in the possession of his descendants. The name of his first wife is not recorded. He married (second) January 17. 1694. Maritic Van Deusen. Children: I. Janneke, born March 15, 1685, died May 31. 1727. 2. Jan, born May 22. 1687: buried September 27, 1738; married Elizabeth 3. Jacob, born September 8. 1680, see forward. 4. Johannes, born August 26, 1604. 5. Matthews, born June 14. 1696. 6. Dirkje, born December 4. 1698. 7. Sander. born January 5. 1701. 8. Abraham, born An- gust 15. 1703. 9. Lena, born November 18, 1705. 10. Isaac, born January 28, 1708; bur- ied July 6, 1746: married Maritje Van den Bergh. January 23. 1728. 11. Dirkje, born April 30, 1710. 12. Catryntje, born Octo- ber 12, 1713. 13. Jacobus, born April 21, 1717. 14. Marten, born May 3. 1719.


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(III ) Jacob, son of Abraham Janse Van Alstyne, was born at Kinderhook, New York, September 8, 1680. Ile was buried Novem- ber 4, 1730. He married, October 10, 1722, Pietertje Van Iveren ( alias of Myndertse), born August 22, 1703, daughter of Myndert and Saartje (Bratt) Van Iveren. Children : I. Jannetje, born November 22, 1723. 2. Rinier, born April 4. 1725. see forward. 3. Sara, born June 4. 1727. 4. Maria, born July 27, 1729.


(I\') Rinier, son of Jacob and Pietertje (\'an Iveren) Van. Alstyne, was born at Kinderhook, New York, April 4, 1725. He settled near Blooming Grove, town of North Greenbush, Rensselaer county, which he bought from the Rensselaers. He married, November 5. 1748, Cornelia Van Den Bergh, born May 24, 1724, daughter of Matthias and Cathalyna (Van Deusen) Van Den Bergh. Children: 1. Jacob, born May 28, 1750. 2. Catalyntje, born March 17, 1751. 3. Mat- thew. born June 3, 1753, see forward. 4. Pietje (Peter), born August 30, 1776.


(V) Matthew, son of Rinier and Cornelia (Van Den Bergh) Van Alstyne, was born June 3, 1753. He served in the revolution as a member of Tryon county, first regiment, militia ( Land Bounty Rights). He married, March 31. 1782, Rachel De Forest, born March 23. 1764, daughter of Marten and Tan- neke (Winne) De Forest, a descendant of the early DeForest family of Harlem and New Amsterdam. Matthew Van Alstyne lo- cated in the town of North Greenbush, Rens- selaer county, on the homestead farm. Chil- dren: 1. Marten. 2. Cornelia, horn Feb- ruary 3. 1788. 3. Rinier, see forward. 4. Peter, lived a mile north. 5. Cataline, mar- ried Martinus Lansing. 6. Antoinette, mar- ried John R. DeForest. 7. Catherine, married John R. Fonda.


(VI) Rinier (2), son of Matthew and Ra- chiel (DeForest ) Van Alstyne. lived on homestead in Rensselaer county, New York. He married Catherine Whitbeck, born about 1700, died March 28, 1880. He died August 14, 1865. Children: 1. Matthew, see forward. 2. Catherine, married John K. De Forest. 3. Catalina, married William P. Whitheck.


(VII) Matthew (2), son of Rinier (2) and Catherine (Whitbeck ) Van Alstyne, was born December 11. 1812, died October, 1886. He married Rachel De Forest, born March 18. 1819, died July 29. 1877. Children: Ri- nier, see forward; Frank Pruyn ; Van Dyke ; Elizabeth : Ann, married Dr. Ten Eyck ; Isa- bella.


(VIII) Rinier (3), son of Matthew (2) and Rachel (De Forest) Van Alstyne, was


born March 22, 1845, died October 30, 1877. He married, December 8, 1869, Alice Cath- erine Brownell, born December 21, 1847, daughter of Edwin and Catherine ( Whit- beck) Brownell. Child, Matthew, see for- ward.


(IX) Matthew (3), son of Rinier (3) and Catherine (Brownell ) Van Alstyne, was born at Bath-on-the-Hudson (Rensselaer ), New York, October 9, 1870. He was educated at Troy Academy, finishing his studies at Al- bany high school. He at once entered upon an active business that has continued without interruption, with the Albany Belting & Sup- ply Company. He is an energetic, capable man of business and has fairly won the im- portant position he occupies. He is a mem- ber of the First Dutch Reformed Church of Albany and in political preference a Democrat. His clubs are the Fort Orange and Albany Country. He married at Albany, December 14, 1899, Adaline Yerks, born in that city, Janu- ary 1, 1875, daughter of George Wilbur and Adaline Maria ( Benjamin ) Yerks, of Albany. George W. Yerks was born at Unionville, Westchester county, New York, February 4. 1848, died at Albany, August 9, 1903, son of William H. and Mary A. (Clark ) Yerks. Mary A. was a daughter of Amos and Eliza- beth ( Van Wart ) Clark. Through both Clark and Van Wart lines, she was of splendid rev- olutionary stock. George W. Yerks was edu- cated at Amenia and finished at Claverack Academy. After graduation he entered the employ of the United States government. He came to Albany and established in the fancy grocery business on Broadway, under the firm name of Benjamin & Yerks, in 1877 becoming sole proprietor. In 1878 he admitted a part- ner under the firm name of George W. Yerks & Company. He held offices of honor and trust in the city ; was trustee of the Madison Avenue Reformed Church and a member of the Fort Orange Club. He married, July 8, 1868, Adaline Maria, born in Cleveland, Ohio, died in Albany, New York. October 30. 1900, (laughter of George Whitman and Adaline (Powell) Benjamin. George Whitman Ben- jamin was born in Williamstown, Massachu- setts, and was a descendant of Governor John Webster. Ilis mother was a Seymour of Hartford. Connecticut, and descended from the famous English house which hears the title of Dukes of Somerset. Adaline ( Yerks) Van Alstyne was educated at Albany Female Acad- emy and St. Agnes School, and is a member of the Albany Country Club, the Mohawk Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, and the Society of Graduates of St. Ag- nes School. Child of Matthew and Adaline


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(Yerks) Van Alstyne: Wilbur Yerks, born in Albany, December 16, 1904.


The early Havilands of HAVILAND England were of French birth, the original name be- ing De Havery. The earliest records state that three brothers of that name emigrated from France to England. While crossing the Channel it was agreed that the first to see land should say, "Have I Land" and that became their English-surname. The Havilands of Flushing, Long Island, descend from William Haviland, who came from England and set- tled first at Newport, Rhode Island. He was freeman there, May 17. 1653, and a commis- sioner to the general court at Portsmouth, May 21, 1656. He removed to Flushing, Long Island, New York, in 1667, where he pur- chased one hundred acres of land on what is now Little Neck. He married, while in New- port, Hannah, daughter of John and Horod (Long) Hicks. They had four sons, Joseph, Benjamin, John and Jacob.


(II) Benjamin, son of William and Han- nah (Hicks ) Haviland, was born at Newport, Rhode Island, 1654. He settled with his father William, at Flushing, Long Island. He mar- ried and had three sons: Benjamin, John and Isaac.


(III) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) Haviland, was born in 1698. He married Charlotte Park and settled at Rye, Westches- ter county, New York. His will, dated May 21, 1759, was proved January 1, 1761 (see Westchester county Wills, Pelletreau). Chil- dren : ( sons all mentioned in will ) Benjamin (3). Roger, Thomas, Daniel, Solomon, Isaac. John, Sophia, Charlotte, Althea, Sarah, Abi- gail and Mary.


(IV) Roger, son of Benjamin (2) and Charlotte (Park) Haviland, was born in 1725. Lot No. 16 is in the town of South East, Putnam county, New York. A branch of the Croton river, called Quaker brook, runs through it, and in the beautiful val- ley Roger and his brother Daniel settled. the place being known as "Haviland Hollow." The old Quaker burying ground and church (now deserted) is on ground given by Dan- iel, who is buried there with his wife. His children were: Roger (2), Nathaniel, Edward. Sarah, Charlotte, Abigail and Abel.


(V) Roger (2), son of Roger (1) Havi- land, was born in 1765. He married and had four sons : David, Solomon, Joseph and Roger.


(VI) David, son of Roger (2) Haviland. was born April 13. 1785. He lived a farmer's life until his death, which occurred April 6.


1871, near Glens Falls, New York. He married (first) Rosetta Lapham, and by this marriage had one child, Hannah, Upon the death of his first wife he married (second) Anna Hoag and had the following children : Rosetta, Lovina, Charlotte, David J., George and Sarah Ann. The death of his second wife again left him a widower, and he married (third) Hannah Anthony, having children as follows: Mason, William ( both dying during childhood) ; Abbie A., married Calvin Mason ; Roger E., of further mention.


(VII) Roger E., youngest son of David and Hannah (Anthony) Haviland, was born August 20, 1842. He always lived near Glens Falls, New York, dying there June 29, 1883. He was a leading member of the Society of Friends, being an elder of the church and occupying one of the high seats in its meet- ings. By occupation he was a farmer, and was a man of quiet tastes and highly respected in the neighborhood. He married, September 15, 1869, Ellen Gardner, born near Evans Mills, Jefferson county, New York, March 7, 1849. dying at South Glens Falls, New York, June 21, 1896. She was a daughter of David and Persis Gardner, and both of her parents had also been actively identified with the Friends church. Children: 1. Hannah, born July 4. 1870; married Madison S. Gardner, and is now living at Union Springs, New York, with children: Nellie E., Roger W., Phoebe. 2. Clarence D., born March 19, 1873 ; married Elizabeth Wauful, lives at Leraysville, New York, and has three children: Harold, Elmer and Arthur. 3. Theodore R., of further men- tion. 4. A. Gardner, born November 28. 1881 : married Daisy Everetts, lives at South Glens Falls, New York, and has a daughter. Hazel.


(VIII) Theodore R., son of Roger E. and Ellen (Gardner) Haviland, was born near Glens Falls, New York, February 15. 1877. Ile was educated at the Glens Falls Academy, from which institution he graduated in 1894, but continued his studies there, taking ad- vanced work until June, 1895. In the fall of that year he removed to Gloversville, New York, where he began his legal education 1111- der the preceptorship of William S. Cassedy, with whom he remained one and one-half years, and then entered the law office of Frank Talbot, where he completed his course of study of law. He was admitted to the New York state bar in September. 1900, but did not sever his con- nection with Mr. Talbot's office until January I, 1902, when he opened an office in Glovers- ville and began the practice of his profession alone, and so continues. In the fall of 1901 he was elected justice of the peace, commenc-


Judge Samuel S. Huntington


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ing his duties January 1, 1902, but after hold- ing that position six months he resigned as such to take the office of city recorder, to which he was then appointed to fill an unex- pired term. He was thereafter twice elected to the same office, retiring December 31, 1907. He was admitted to practice in both the dis- trict and circuit courts of the United States in December, 1908. In January, 1909, he was appointed the Gloversville city attorney, and in 1910 was reappointed as such. He is a member of the state, county and city bar as- sociations, and stands high in his profession. He is a member of the Masonic order, the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ec- centric Club. In religion he was for a num- ber of years a member of the Friends church at South Glens Falls, New York, but since making Gloversville his home has united with the Congregational church. He married, Sep- tember 6, 1899, Lula, born September 4, 1876, at South Glens Falls, New York, daughter of Benjamin B. and Mary (Putnam) Brush. Children : Roger B., born November 29, 1900 ; Florence P., born December 4, 1909, died May 3, 1910.


HUNTINGTON Simon Huntington, the ancestor of the Hunting- ton family, was born in England. He married Margaret Baret. In 1633 he. with his wife and son, emigrated to America. He died on the voyage and was buried at sea.


(II) Simon (2), son of Simon (I) and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, was born in England in 1629. He married Sarah, daugh- ter of Joseph Clark, of Windsor, and later of Saybrook, Connecticut.


(III) Deacon Joseph Huntington, son of Simon (2) and Sarah (Clark) Huntington, was born at Norwich, September, 1661, died December 29, 1747. He was one of the found- ers of Windham, Connecticut. He married Rebecca Adgate, born June, 1666.


(IV) Nathaniel, son of Deacon Joseph and Rebecca (Adgate) Huntingtor, was born at Norwich, September 1, 1601. He married Mehitable Thurston. Children: Enoch, of further mention ; Samuel, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, president of the colonial congress, and afterward gov- ernor of Connecticut.


(V) Rev. Enoch Huntington, son of Na- thaniel and Mehitable (Thurston ) Hunting- ton, was born December 15. 1739. He grad- tiated from Yale in 1759: studied for the min- istry and was ordained and installed over the First Church of Middletown, January, 1762, and there spent his life. He was considered


during his collegiate course a man of remark- able talents and his classical and general scholarship subsequently justified the decision. Ile won the Berkely premium of his class. In the pulpit he was very popular. He took a great interest in politics during the revolu- tionary period, and many of his sermons and addresses of that day were printed and have been preserved. He married, at Windham, Connecticut, July 17, 1764, Mary, born Oc- tober 14, 1744, daughter of Samuel Gray.


(VI) Judge Samuel Gray Huntington, son of Rev. Enoch and Mary ( Gray) Huntington, was born at Middletown, Connecticut, May 21, 1782, died at Troy, New York, July 5, 1854. He graduated from Yale in 1800, taking the Berkely premium. At a meeting of the Rensse- laer county bar, held the day after his death, ample testimony was given of his ability and great worth; we quote from the resolutions passed at that time. "Resolved, That the bar of this city, by the death of the Honorable Samuel G. Huntington, have lost their oldest member, a lawyer and a scholar ; a man thor- oughly bred to his profession, and ever ready to impart to others that knowledge which his careful training, advanced age and varied ex- perience had given him. Resolved, That the extent and variety of his classical and legal learning, may well awaken the emulation of us, his survivors."


In seconding the resolutions, Hon. D. L. Seymour spoke as follows: "We are again assembled to take appropriate notice of the death of one of our members. The oldest member of the Rensselaer bar has fallen. Al- though past three score years and ten, yet such had heen the vigor and animation of his declining years, that his sudden demise af- fected us almost as if he had been struck down in the full strength of manhood. We feel deeply this sudden providence, and as brethren of the legal profession feel that the bar of our County has sustained a loss, and that we individually mourn the loss of a friend." Samuel Gray Huntington was the son of the Reverend Enoch Huntington, and like most of the youths of his native State. received the rudiments of a thorough educa- tion in the excellent school, then and still lib- erally and carefully sustained by the able leg- isolation of that State. After leaving the com- mon school he passed through the education preparatory to admission to a collegiate course, and was admitted to Yale College, where he graduated with the honors of that ancient Uni- versity, in 1800. Judge Huntington left col- lege with a thorough classical education and at once entered upon the study of law. in the office of his brother, Enoch (2) Huntington,


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then a practicing lawyer of good standing in his native town. After the usual period of study he was admitted to the bar of Middle- sex County. It is profitable to dwell for a mo- ment upon this period of his life. He had selected the law for his profession, and in making that choice he doubtless felt that the legal profession yielded to no other in dignity or importance. That the first object of the young lawyer, whether he consulted his repu- tation or his fame, was to master not only the forms, precedents and superficial structure of the science, but its first principles, its very fountain opening up through the social and political condition of man and disclosing the necessary wiles regulating his rights of per- son and property. At that day, too, the great lights of the bar and bench of his native State beckoned him onward in a course of honor- able distinction in his profession. Such men as Reeve and Swift adorned the bench, while Pierpont Edwards, Goddard, Daggett, and Gould, shone at the bar. Entering upon the practice of his profession with such an excel- lent preparation and under such incentive his success was almost certain. He had already attained a reputable standing among the younger members of the bar of his native State when, about the year 1806, he removed to New York State, and settled in Waterford. Sara- toga County. Here he soon rose to eminence as a lawyer, and ranked among the ablest of the many distinguished men who have graced the bar of that County. He removed to Troy in 1825. For many years his professional business here was among the largest and most lucrative. His counsel was sought in the most important cases, particularly in those relating to real estate. In this branch of the law he was master, as well from his intimate ac- quaintance with the decisions of the English Courts as from the fact that the period of his practice reaching to upward of half a cen- tury, embraced that space in the history of our country during which not only the system of our law of real estate, but in fact almost the entire body of American common law, had been formed. When he commenced prac- tice there was no American Commentator on the law, and the reported cases, either in Con- necticut or New York, did not exceed half a dozen volumes. Under the administration of Governor Clinton, he was appointed to the office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Rensselaer County, and discharged its duties with great ability and impartiality. Ilis de- cisions always commanded respect, as they were felt to be the result of an honest convic- tion of the right of the case in a mind guided by patient research and stored with legal lore.


In the death of Judge Huntington, his breth- ren of the bar mourn the loss of one in whose counsels they have often confided, whose legal acquirements did honor to their profession, whose professional relation to them all was kind, courteous and honorable, and whose so- cial intercourse so often helped to strip labor of its drudgery, relieved life of its tedium, and to strew our pathway with pleasant, harm- less trifles and gay flowers."


He married (first ) Mary Johnston, of Mid- dletown. He married (second) June 23, 1825, Janette C. Cheever, who died November 4. 1856. Samuel G. Huntington had a daugh- ter. Sarah Sayr, born in Waterford, New York : married, November 30, 1841, John H. Whitlock, of Troy, New York.


One authority defines the name TERRY Terry thus: "Not the tearful one,' as some entomologists have it, but a corruption of Theodoric, the personal name."


Mr. Ferguson in his "Teutonic Name Sys- tem," classes together the old German names Tarro. Terra, Torro, ninth century Terri, the English names Darr, Darrow. Door, Dorey, Dorre, Tarr, Tarry, Terry, Torrey, and the French names Dary, Dorre, Dor, Dore, Tarie, Terray, Terre, and he derives these from the old Norse word doerr, meaning spear, probably from the Sanscrit root tar. Mr. Samuel Terry, of New York City, has made investigation and thinks it originated among the early French, where under the form of Therry it was not an uncommon personal name, and through the Franks coming to be regarded as French, and is now sometimes found there as a family name in this form and as Therry, and also Terry. The earliest information of the founder of the family in this country is an agreement formed by Wil- liam Pyncheon and Samuel Terry, October 15. 1650, whereby the latter is to receive a cer- tain amount for his services, and he taught the trade of linen spinner, he binding himself to be diligent in service. Signed by Samuel Terry, Benjamin B. Cooley (his mark), and William Pyncheon, witness Richard Maund and John Benham. Hon. William Pyncheon was in England in the spring of 1650 and there made the contract, and doubtless it was then that he took into apprenticeship the boy Samuel Terry, who may have been of Barnet, a village eleven miles from London. He may have been an orphan whom Mr. Pyncheon had known, and it is unlikely that he would have taken such a boy for less than the entire time of his minority, accordingly he was probably born about the year 1633 or 34. Mr. Pyn-


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cheon returned to England, and was relieved of the contract.


Samuel Terry, born about 1633, in Eng- land, arrived in America about 1650, was of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1654, and was granted land, January 7, 1654, consisting of ten acres on "Chuckapee Plain" on condition that he remain in the town five years. In 1658 he forfeited it by leaving. He was granted land at Wononaco town, 1664, and land at Fresh Water Brook (now Enfield) in 1665. Ile was granted thirty acres of upland, along by his meadow land beyond Chicopee Plain in 1670. He with others was assessed two loads of firewood for the use of their pastor. In 1678 he was appointed a surveyor of high- ways. His name and that of his son Samuel appear in a list of persons, who took the oath of allegiance, December 31, 1678, and Janu- ary I, 1679. He married, January 3, 1660, Ann Lobdell, and the town settled with him for his claim to the land before mentioned by making him a grant a little further south. In May, 1684, his wife died, also his adopted child, Johny Matthews. In 1685 he was one of a town committee to establish boundaries between Springfield and adjoining towns, and the records speak of him as Sergeant Samuel Terry. In 1690 he married Sarah, widow of John Scott, and daughter of Thomas and Mar- garet Bliss. In 1693 he made an agreement to teach the art of weaving to his stepson, Ebenezer Scott, whence it appears he still practiced it himself. He was also chosen con- stable this same year. He and his wife parted in 1694, and she died September 27, 1705. In 1730 the administration of his estate was granted to his sons, Samuel and Thomas, and in the record he is called "husbandman," "for- merly of Springfield." This was doubtless the year of his death. He signed his name in a free hand, as one much in the habit of writing, so probably he was better educated than most men of his time. His children were: Samuel, Ephraim, died young, Thomas, Mary, Rebec- ca. died young, Ephraim, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Ann. The line herein traced descends from this family through Enfield. Connecticut, but it has been impossible to get the connec- tion from public records. The absence of any vital statistics, in nearly all the state of New York, in early days renders it extremely diffi- cult to trace any line in this state without the aid of private records.


(I) Horace G. Terry was a farmer near the present village of Alton, in Wayne county, New York. He is mentioned as residing near the pioneer church in that section, but no rec- ord can be found showing his wife and family.


(II) Griffith Pritchard, son of Horace G.


Terry, was born at . Alton, Wayne county. New York. He married Eleanor Lasher. Chil- dren : Horace Gerry and Charles Thaddeus.


(111) Ilorace Gerry, eldest son of Griffith Pritchard and Eleanor ( Lasher ) Terry, was born in Albany, New York, August 9, 1859. Fle was educated in the public schools of Al- Lany, finishing his studies at the high school. After completing his years of study he en- tered the employ of the Albany Banking and Loan Company and later was for two years with the New York Central Railroad Com- pany. In 1881 he entered the employ of II. F. Hemingway & Company, and in 1896 was admitted a partner under the firm name of Hemingway, Terry & Company and engaged in the wholesale oyster trade. Later the firm became Clark, Hemingway, Terry & Company, continuing the same lines. The firm was re- organized as the Albany Oyster Company and as such transacts a large business. Mr. Terry is a member of the Aurania Club of Albany, and in politics is a Republican.


He married, July 15. 1884, Jessie L., daugh- ter of Barnard and Mary (Le Clair ) Winne, of Albany. Children: Katherine, married Percy S. Brown ; child, Priscilla, born July 4. 1910: Griffith Pritchard : Charles Thaddeus.


(III) Charles Thaddeus, son of Griffith Pritchard and Eleanor ( Lasher ) Terry, was born in Albany, New York, September 16, 1867. He was educated in private and public schools of Albany, was graduated from Wil- liams College. A. B., class of 1889 ; Columbia University Law School, LL. B., 1893, Uni- versity of Berlin, Germany. 1890. He began the practice of law as junior partner of an old established firm in New York City, contin- ving two years, then partner of a law firm of three for six years, then practiced alone. From 1893 to 1895 he was prize lecturer on Practice and Pleading under the New York Code of Civil Procedure, at Columbia Law School; regular lecturer on same 1896-1001, and since then Professor of Law. In 1903. as counsel for the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers, he conducted sev- eral test cases and succeeded in having the New York state restriction law declared un- constitutional. During the administration of Governor Iliggins he was appointed by the governor commissioner of New York state on "U'niformity of laws in the United States." In 1905 he was elected secretary of the Na- tional conference of uniform law commis- sioners. Ile is shade tree commissioner of the Tree Planting Association of New York City and actively interested in that movement. lle is a member of the New York City and State Bar associations : American Bar Asso-




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