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The mother of Cynthia Herrick was Cyn- thia Brush, who died at Amenia City, Nov. 19. 1815, aged 50. Cynthia Brush was the daugh- ter of Richard Brush, of Amenia, who made his will August 27, 1795, leaving "all real estate to Richard Brush Herrick, the pres- ent youngest son of Benjamin Herrick." The same document mentions his wife Hannah, and is copied in a Greenwich, Connecticut, (leed. Here also is entered his birth record, "Richard Brush had a son Dec. 17. 1727. named him Richard." The Herrick home- stead at Amenia adjoined on the north that of Stephen Reynolds.
Children: 1. Lydia Maria, died in infancy. 2. Lydia Louisa, b. in Amsterdam, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1817; d. in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1876; married Albany, at St. Peter's Church, by Rev. Horatio Potter, April 29, 1841, Dr. Thomas Hun, son of Abraham Hun and Maria Gansevoort, who was born in Albany, Sept. 14, 1808, was graduated at Union, 1821, died in Al- bany, June 23, 1896, by whom five children : 1. Edward Reynolds Hun, born Albany, Apr. 17, 1842; was graduated at Harvard, 1863. married in Troy, N. Y., April 29, 1874. Caro- line DeForest Gale, died in Stamford, Conn., March 14, 1880. 2. Marcus Tullins Hun, b. in Albany, May 22, 1845, was graduated at
Union, 1865, married Albany, Dec. 21, 1875, Mary Keith Vanderpoel (see Van Derpoel Family). 3. Leonard Gansevoort Hun, b. in Albany, May 10, 1848, was graduated West Point, 1869, d. unm. in Somerville, Mass., March 11, 1891. 4. John Hun, b. at Albany, June 10, 1852, d. Aug. 16, 1852. 5. Henry Hun, b. in Albany, March 21, 1854, was grad- nated at Yale, 1874; m. in Albany, Apr. 28. 1892, Lydia Marcia Hand (see Hun Family ). Marcus T. had also by his wife Cynthia Her- rick: 3. Cynthia, b. in Amsterdam, N. Y., in 1819, d. there Mch. 25, 1837, and buried there.
Marcus T. Reynolds married (second) at St. Peter's Church, Albany, N. Y., May 6. 1823, Elizabeth Ann Dexter. She was born in Albany, March 24. 1797, and died at her home, No. 7 Park Place, Albany (where the capitol stands in 1910), on August 30, 1840. Her father was Samuel Dexter, born in Northampton, Mass .. Nov. 14, 1756, removed to Albany between 1790-5. where he was a druggist : died there at No. 56 State street, Aug. 27, 1825, being the son of Ebenezer Dexter, born October 17, 1729, died May 4, 1769, who married, in 1754, Lydia Woods, born Oct. 17, 1736, died Dec. 24, 1774. (See Dexter Family.)
Her mother was Elizabeth Province, born in Northampton, Mass., July 4, 1763, died at her residence opposite the Middle Dutch Re- formed Church, on Beaver street, Albany, October 18, 1846, being the daughter of John Province, born in Glasgow, Scotland, came to America, May 10, 1740, settling in Bos- ton, Mass., died July 6, 1792, who married May 9, 1748, Sarah Prince, born in 1730, died March 11, 1810, and was buried in the Prince tomb in the Granary Burial Ground at Boston (see Prince Genealogy for an- cestors ). Samuel Dexter and Elizabeth Prov- ince were married May 29, 1790.
By his wife Elizabeth Ann Dexter, Marcus T. had: 4. Mary Dexter, born in Amsterdam, N. Y., m. Ang. 14. 1824; d. at 98 Columbia street, Albany, Jan. 29. 1897, buried in Al- bany Rural Cemetery ; married by Rev. Ilora- tio Potter, at St. Peter's Church, Albany, Apr. 29, 1847, Dr. Frederick Cholet Adams, son of John Adams, and his wife Laura Farmer, who was born at Catskill, N. Y., May 25. 1823: Williams College. 1843, died in Albany, Sept. 22, 1862, by whom two chil- dren: 1. Admiral James Dexter Adams, U. S. N., born in Catskill, N. Y., May 4, 1848. married, Vallejo, Cal., May 6. 1873, Margaret Jane Phelps, dan. of Admiral Thomas S. Phelps, has three children. 2. William Rev- nolds Adams, born in Albany, Mch. 7, 1853,
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d. in Albany, Jan. 30, 1855, buried there. 5. Dexter, born in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1828, d. in Albany, Aug. 19, 1906; married in Roch- ester, N. Y., Apr. 19, 1865, Catherine Maley Cuyler, born in Cuylerville, Livingston county, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1845, daughter of Col. William Tremper Cuyler and Nancy Bancker Stew- art (see hereinafter ). 6. Laura, born in Al- bany, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1830; married at her father's residence, No. 25 No. Pearl street, Albany, N. Y., by Rev. Horatio Potter, Feb. 1, 1854, Bayard Van Rensselaer, son of Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer and Harriet Eliza- beth Bayard, and who was born in Albany, Sept. 8, 1833, died in Pau, France, Jan. 12, 1859, by whom two children: I. William Bayard Van Rensselaer, b. at 98 Columbia street, Albany, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1856, died in Albany, Sept. 25, 1909; was graduated at Harvard College, 1880; married in Cam- bridge, Mass., Nov. 3, 1880, Louisa Green- ough Lane, born Nov. 21, 1860, dan. of Prof. Geo. Martin Lane, of Harvard University ; 2. Dr. Howard Van Rensselaer, born at 98 Co- lumbia street, Albany, N. Y., June 26, 1858, Yale, 1881 (see Van Rensselaer Family).
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5. Dexter Reynolds, son of Marcus T. Rey- nolds and Elizabeth Ann Dexter, was born in Albany, N. Y., December 22, 1828, and died at 98 Columbia street, Albany, August 19, 1906. He received his early education at the College Hill Academy in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and continued his preliminary studies at the Albany Academy, which he entered in the fall of 1842, remaining two years, when he was prepared to enter Union College in 1844. Here he joined the Sigma Phi fraternity, and was a classmate of President Chester A. Ar- thur, who was an intimate friend in later years. He graduated July 26, 1848, ranking second in his class of 120, and was honored with the Latin salutatory. Ile attended the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge, Mass., the year of its founding. 1848-9, and was a graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of 1850. He was admitted to the bar at Albany, December 2, 1851, and in 1853 wrote the volume published by Gould, Banks & Co., Albany, 1853, "A Treatise on the Law of Life Assurance." He formed a partner-
ship with Orlando Meads. Afterwards he was in partnership with John Olcott, son of Thomas Worth Olcott, the banker. Later on he was associated with the law firm of M. T. & L. G. Hun, nephews, at 25 No. Pearl street. With his friends, Erastus Corning and J. Howard King, he made a number of visits to Western states on hunting trips, and it was
then he purchased large tracts of land in Jowa equal in extent to nearly half the area of that state. His final sale in closing the in- vestment was 210,000 acres. In the Civil War he was paymaster of the Third Regiment, and went to Richmond, Virginia, under Gen. Fred- erick Townsend, commanding.
llis patented inventions numbered twenty or more, and each of these was among the pioneers of very important lines. lle first gave considerable study to the manufacture of paper from wood pulp at a time such processes were not practical or paying. In 1858 he pub- lished a treatise on the subject. His investi- gation was most thorough, and gave an im- petus to the trade at a time of discouragement.
Among the earliest of his inventions was a typesetter, which he manufactured in Roch- ester, previous to 1875, and followed this with an automatic distributor, which was the first attempt to distribute movable type by machine. In this connection he invented the notching of type. It was placed in a publish- ing house in Albany about 1876, and was dis- countenanced by the printers, who saw their means of support about to disappear through a saving to the employer. The theory of this machine was utilized by a manufacturer of such machines, and a tedious lawsuit for in- fringement resulted, which was finally com- promised. A direct steel and wrought iron process occupied his attention for some twenty years, which led to an experimental furnace erected in the early spring of 1903, which was the first to nodulize fine ores in a revolving cylindrical furnace, which ores had hitherto been of value only when briquetted. This proc- ess, the furnaces now enlarged to over a hun- dred feet, is in general use throughout the country for nodulizing flue dust and magneti- cally separated ores.
Dexter Reynolds married, at Rochester, N. Y., April 19, 1865. Catherine Maley Cuyler (see Cuyler Family), Rev. R. Bethell Clax- ton, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiat- ing. They resided at 20 Elk street, Albany, N. Y. She was born in Cuylerville, Living- ston county, N. Y., December 2, 1845; was educated at a boarding school in Utica, N. Y., died while visiting in Rochester, October 23, 1875, and was buried in the Reynolds lot in the Albany Rural Cemetery. Her father was Col. William Tremper Cuyler, who was born in Albany, December 22, 1802, died in Cuy- lerville, N. Y., December 21, 1864, and was the son of John Cornelius Cuyler (born in Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 5. 1766, died there October 25, 1828), and Hannah Maley (b. Oct. 12, 1769). Iler mother was Nancy Bancker Stewart, who was born in Leicester,
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N. Y., Feb., 1810, died Feb. 3, 1848, and was daughter of John Stewart and Nancy Bancker Clute (born in Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1776, died in Moscow, N. Y., Apr. 28, 1864). Dexter Reynolds and Catherine Maley Cuyler had children-Cuyler and Mar- cus Tullius.
Cuyler Reynolds, son of Dexter Reynolds and Catherine Maley Cuyler, was born at 98 Columbia street, Albany. N. Y., August 14, 1866. At the Albany Academy and a board- ing school in Catskill, N. Y., he received his education, which developed particularly his faculties as a writer, establishing in 1885 the school paper, of which he was made its editor- in-chief. He engaged in newspaper work and followed it some fifteen years, at the same time contributing to more than a score of the better magazines. Turning his attention then to the writing of books, novels and ref- erence works, he produced ten or more, the most valuable of which were his "Classified Quotations," Putnam, 1905, and "Albany Chronicles," 1907, the latter a volume so com- prehensive and copiously illustrated that it is likely to endure and be cited as one of the best authorities of state history. Later he be- came editor-in-chief of the "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs," in four octavo volumes.
By a scientific study and enumeration of the letters of the alphabet as they occurred in books, magazines and newspapers, he ar- ranged a table of the recurrence of letters, which results he set forth in a monograph entitled "The Recurrence of Letters," read be- fore the Albany Institute in 1894, then pub- lished in Paper and Press in 1895, and while it served as a key for the solution of ciphers or secret writing, its more practical use was in its application to the keyboards of type- setting machines, and in this form is univer- sally used.
Much interested in historical research, es- pecially as it concerned his home city, he was made director of the Albany Institute and His- torical and Art Society at its annual meeting in 1899, and continued as such for ten years. He made for this society several of its most noteworthy collections, numbering a dozen or more, at the same time filling the office of librarian. As librarian, he gathered nearly one thousand books written by Albanians, which list composed a biographical catalogue of 114 pages in 1902. The opening of this in- stitution's new building, May 12, 1908, gave him opportunity to originate the novel sys- tem of indexing and the method of keeping the various record books.
In March, 1907, he received the appoint-
ment of director of the New York State His- tory Exhibit for the Jamestown Exposition ; collected and installed it in systematic order, the features of which he set forth in an elab- orately illustrated Catalogue of Exhibit, with the Exposition's Gold Medal as the result. Afterwards he wrote the State's report, a handsome volume, copiously illustrated, and of about five hundred pages, published in 1910.
He was elected to honorary membership in the American Scenic and Historic Preser- vation Society in 1908, and in the New York State Historical Association in 1909. He is also a member of the National Geographic Society, American Historical Association and of the American Copyright League. He has resided all his life in Albany.
He married, at the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, N. Y., Dean Wilford L. Robbins offi- ciating, September 24, 1891, Janet Gray Gould. She was born in Albany, July 22, 1871, and was educated at the Albany Female Academy. Her father was Captain Charles Gould, born in Albany, October 28, 1848, died in Albany, July 4, 1896, who was the son of William Gould (b. in Caldwell, N. J., Nov. 26, 1814, d. in Albany, June 27, 1886), and Sarah Margaret Hartness (b. in Albany, Sept. 24, 1821, d. there, December 12, 1884), and married, in Albany, September 12, 1842. Her mother was Janet Gray, born in Albany, Sep- tember 20, 1850; married, Albany, October 4, 1870, died at Montclair, N. J., April 6, 1910, who was the daughter of Daniel Alex- ander Gray (b. in New York City, in 1817, d. in Albany, Nov. 19, 1880), and Catherine Meyers (born in Hanover, Ger., Aug. 2, 1816, died Albany, Apr. 1. 1880). They had : Kenneth Gray, b. in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1892, educated at the Albany Academy and St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.
Dexter Reynolds had also by his wife Cath- crine Maley Cuyler : Marcus Tullius, born at Great Barrington, Mass., August 20, 1869; prepared for college at St. Paul's School. Concord. New Hampshire, 1882-86; entered Williams College, 1886, Sigma Phi fraternity, and was graduated July 2, 1890. He studied architecture in the School of Mines, Columbia University, and was graduated, 1893, with the degree of Ph.B. He is author of "Housing of the Poor in American Cities," the prize essay of the American Economic Society for 1893, and received therefor the degree of M.A., Williams College, 1893. Ile studied archi- tecture in Paris, Rome, Athens, etc., and re- turning to America in October. 1895, began practicing architecture in Albany, N. Y., and has there continued. His specialty is the de-
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signing of banks, of which he has been the architect of sixteen.
He has collected and compiled the earlier and collateral data presented in the above
genealogical tables, supplementing the work begun by his father, Dexter Reynolds, who began with the descendants of James, the son of John, the son of John the emigrant.
HISTORICAL APPENDIX
ALBANY COUNTY.
The original counties into which the New York colony was divided numbered twelve. The division was made pursuant to the act of 1683. The twelve counties were then named Albany, Cornwall, Dukes, Dutchess, Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suf- folk, Ulster and West Chester.
It may seem strange in these times, but Cornwall county consisted of the district known then as Pemaquid, now in Maine, and Dukes county was composed of some islands off Massachusetts. This was because this land was included in the patent of the Duke of York and Albany. They were detached in 1691, upon reorganization of the govern- ment.
On October 17, 1683, the first "General Assembly of the Colony of New York," chosen by "the planters or inhabitants of every part of the government," met at Fort James in the city of New York, with "free liberty to con- sult and debate among themselves all matters as shall be apprehended proper to be estab- lished for laws for the good of the govern- ment of the said Colony of New York and its dependencyes."
In preparation for this meeting, it was "ordered that the Sheriff of Albany and Ran- celaers Colony cause the freeholders to meet and choose two persons to be their repre- sentatives in the General Assembly, to be holden at the City of New York, October ye 17th, 1683."
Among the acts bearing the date November 1, 1683, resultant of the meeting mentioned, was one "To divide this province and depen- dencyes into shires and countyes * * * for the better governing and settling the courts in the same."
This act having specified the twelve origi- nal counties, defined "The County of Albany to containe the Towns of Albany, the Collony Renslaerwyck, Schonecteda, and all the vil- lages, neighborhoods, and Christian Planta-
cons on the east side of Hudson River from Roelof Jansen's Creeke, and on the west side from Sawyer's Creeke to the Sarraghtoga."
Attention is called to the fact that the names of the original counties were distinctively English in their derivation; but after the Revolution, when new divisions were made so as to split the original into more numerous and smaller counties, the names bestowed were indicative of the Indians who had been associated with certain sections, or else honored the name of American patriots.
Fort Frederick, in Albany.
When the Council held a session at Fort William Henry in New York City, October 1. 1691, the previous Act was confirmed ; but in describing the County of Albany, there was an omission of "the Town of Albany," and a substitution of "Mannor of Ranslaerswyck" for the "Collony of Renslaerwyck," as well as an extension, "to the uttermost end of Sarraghtoga," instead of "to the Sarraghtoga."
At the Council's session held at Fort George, in New York City, May 27, 1717, the area of Albany county was enlarged further by "An Act for annexing that part of the Mannor of Livingston which now lyes in Dutchess County, unto the County of Albany."
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The counties of Dukes, consisting of Nan- tucket, Martha's Vineyard, Elisabeth Island and No Man's Land (now in Massachusetts ) and Cornwall, consisting of Pemaquid and ad- jacent lands and islands (now in Maine), which lands were included in the patent given to the Duke of York, were set off upon the reorganization of the colonial government, about 1691, or soon after the abdication of King James II., and the succession of William and Mary to the English throne.
There were but few changes in the ten orig- inal counties left within the borders of New York until the year 1770. It is surprising what the real extent of Albany county was in those days. It embraced the whole territory lying north of Ulster county, west of the Hudson River, and it took in nearly the whole State, going northward to the lakes and Can- ada ; and north of Dutchess, on the east side of that river, including the entire State of Vermont. Plainly stated, within the bounds of Albany county were the State of Vermont and the fifty counties of the State of New York erected since the 1683-1691 period men- tioned, excepting Putnam, Sullivan, Rockland, and part of Greene and Delaware.
The ten counties formed directly from Al- bany county, and before some of them were again subdivided into other counties, were:
(1) Gloucester, March 16, 1770; included what is now Orange, Washington, Caledonia, Orleans. and Essex, Vermont.
(2) Tryon, March 12, 1772; changed to
Montgomery, April 2, 1784, from which and the wilderness then known only as land of the Indians, the counties west of Greene, Scho- harie, Schenectady, Saratoga, and the Adiron- dack counties have since been formed.
(3) Charlotte, March 12, 1772; changed to Washington, April 2, 1784, from whose terri- tory have since been erected Warren, Clinton, St. Lawrence, Essex and Franklin.
(4) Cumberland, April 4, 1786; covering the present counties of Bennington, Windsor, Windham, Rutland, Addison and Chittenden, in Vermont.
(5) Columbia, April 4, 1786.
(6) Rensselaer, February 7, 1791.
(7) Saratoga, February 7, 1791.
(8) Schoharie, April 6, 1795.
(9) Greene, March 25. 1800.
(10) Schenectady, March 7, 1809.
Albany county, in 1900, was bounded as fol- lows: On the north, by the counties of Sara- toga and Schenectady; on the west, by the county of Schoharie ; on the south, by Greene county, and on the east by Rensselaer county.
The eastern boundary is very marked, being the Hudson river, flowing between Albany and Rensselaer counties, "a line drawn through the middle of the main stream * * with such variations as to include the islands lying nearest to the west bank thereof."
The northern boundary, between Albany and Saratoga counties, "made by a line be- ginning at a point in the middle of the main stream of the Hudson River in the westerly
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boundary of Rensselaer county, opposite to the middle of the most northerly branch of the Mohawk River, and running tlrence through the middle of said northerly branch
of the said Mohawk River, westerly, to a point in said river where it is nearest the north line of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, at Niskayuna."
CITIES AND TOWNS.
ALBANY .- The city was incorporated by patent issued by Lieut .- Gov. Thomas Dongan, July 22, 1686, and is the oldest existing char- tered city in the United States.
Its history, in its wealth of details covering three centuries, is of interest equal to that of any other in the country, and a résumé of it merits attention.
Giovanni de Verrazano, an expert Italian navigator, commissioned by Francis I., to seek a direct route to the East Indies, sailed in 1523, aboard La Dauphine, with about fifty men, from Dieppe, France, and entered New York Bay in 1524; but after making investi- gation, did not pursue his course up the river.
In 1540, a small band of French fur-traders, bent on bartering with the Indians, sailed up the river and erected a stone "castle," or forti- fied trading-post, 26 x 36 feet, on an island at the southern boundary of the present city of Albany. Their records were so meagre that they have not been accorded due fame as the first white men to sail up the Hudson river.
Henry Hudson, an English navigator, was employed by the Dutch East India Co., under contract dated January 8, 1609, to explore the Grande ( Hudson) river, noticed by him on a French map, and he sailed on the Half Moon from the Texel river, Holland, March 25th of that year. He entered New York Bay September 3rd : passed through the Narrows on the 6th, and it is calculated that he reached the site of Albany on September 19th, where he anchored and investigated, until he decided to sail down the river on September 23rd. His record is preserved.
The Lords States-General at The Hague, Holland, on October 11, 1614, granted a li- cense to fur-traders to traffic with natives in New Netherland, who send Hendrik Cor- stiaensen, of Amsterdam, in 1615, and he re- buikls the "castle," which the fur-traders of 1540 had erected on the island immediately south of Albany, calling it Fort Nassau, which was wrecked by the freshet of 1618, and abandoned.
The Dutch West India Co. was incorpor- ated under the seal of Lords States-General of Holland, June 3, 1621, intending to colonize or trade in America. The Walloons, or perse- cuted French Protestants who had fled to Belgium, liked by the Dutch because of their thrift, petitioned this company, February 5, 1622, to be allowed to settle along the Hud- son river. They were given permission in 1623, and in March, 1624, thirty families sailed on the New Netherland, commanded by Captain Cornelis J. Mey, and entered New York Bay in May. They proceeded up the river to the site of Albany; building Fort Orange close to the western shore, in com- mand of which they placed Arien Jorise; but in 1629, the company abandoned sending set- tlers because of the heavy expense.
The Dutch West India Co. having aban- doned the settlement policy, adopts the plan of allowing manorial grants, which is approved by the Lords States-General at Amsterdam, June 7, 1629. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Direc- tor of the Amsterdam Chamber and wealthy pearl merchant of that city, obtained on No- vember 19. 1629, the first concession to estab- lish a colony. He wrote at once to Sebastiaen Jansen Crol, at Fort Orange, to purchase a tract from the Mohawk Indians for him and liis associates. The first lot of colonists sailed on The Unity (de Eendrach) Captain Jan Brouwer commanding, March 21, 1630. On July 27, 1630, Crol bought the tract on which Albany is built, extending it southward by purchases along the west shore from Beeren to Smacks Island, April 30, 1631. The Unity reached Manhattan Island May 24, 1630, and arrived at Fort Orange June Ist. The deed of the Indians, dated August 13, 1630, trans- ferred the land on which Albany is built to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, and in 1631 he formed a partnership with a limited number of Hollanders, who eventually withdrew their interest in the land. Jan Baptist Van Rensse- lacr was the first of the family to come to this country, arriving in 1651, and hecame
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"Director" of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, May 8, 1652. He was the seventh child of Kiliaen, and never was the Patroon. The second Patroon was Kiliaen's second child, Johannes, never came to this country, and died in 1662 or 1663. The third Patroon was Jeremias Van Rensselaer, eighth child of Kiliaen, and he came to America to take up his residence in the Manor, marrying at New Amsterdam, July 12, 1662, Maria Van Cort- landt.
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