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ยท David Uzille, the Huguenot. married to Maria, daughter of Philip Casier, had now left the town, and, as did the Casiers afterward, probably went to Staten Island, because his son, Peter Uzille, was living there April 6, 1686, when he married Cornelia Damen, of the Wallabout, a sister of Mrs. Jean Casier. Peter went thence to Bush- wick, near his brother-in-law, Michael Parmentier. but both ultimately removed to Poughkeepsie, Duchess County, where Uzille was living in 1714. His sister, Maria- Magdalen Uzille, born at Harlem in 1662, married, I believe, Jonas Le Roy, of Esopus. Peter Uzille's children were, John, born 1688, of whom no family; Sophia, born 1691, married, 1712, Storm Bratt, of Albany; Cornelia, born 1693, married. 1714, John Becker; Helena, born 1696, married, 1716, William Hooghteeling; Elizabeth, born 1701: Peter, born 1703, and David, born 1708. David, living at Albany, had by wife, Engeltie Vrooman, the following children, viz .: Peter, born 1733; Cornelia, born 1734; Ger- trude, born 1736;, and Adam, horn 1738. Peter Uzille. born 1703, married Anna Ackerson, 1724, and settled at Schoharie. In his will, made on a sick-bed, February 9, 1747, he provided that if his wife should have a son, he was to take half his farm; otherwise to go to his daughters, after his wife's death. To these, viz., Cornelia. Elizabeth. Engeltie, Maria. Annetie, Janneke, and Catherine, the pious father gives this touching counsed: "My loving children, this is the last I shall recommend to you: divide my estate peaceably amongst you all, according to the intent and meaning of my last will and testament, and look upon the poor and help them, love your neighbor. and keep the peace amongst you and with all men, honor your mother and your king, and fear God and keep his commandments." Some of these daughters married Vroo- mans. This name took the form of Zielle and Seely.
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Cresson were deputed to procure a supply of arms and ammuni tion promised from the Manhattans. At the same time the dozen or more soldiers stationed here, together with the settlers (exclu- sive of the presiding magistrates), forty persons in all, were formed into military companies, which, after some time spent in changing and rearranging. the ranks, were duly organized. For officers the eldest and most capable persons were selected. In the first company, Pierre Cresson, in the ripe manhood of fifty- odd years, and still very active, was assigned the chief and respon- sible command of corporal; with Isaac Vermeille, aged sixty- two, as his lancepesade, and Glaude Le Maistre, turned of fifty years, and Lubbert Gerritsen, about forty, as adelborsts or cadets. Of the second company Willem Jensen was made lancepesade, and the cadets were Jan De Weever (the weaver) and Arent Sny- der (or the tailor), by the last probably meant Arent Harmans Bussing. Of the third company, Simon De Ruine, "the Wal- loon," was chosen corporal; Nelis Matthyssen, lancepesade, and Pieter Jansen Slot and Barent Acker, cadets .*
Two days after the munitions of war were received from Heer Van Ruyven, the government officer, to wit: 3 steen stucken (cannon from which stones were fired) ; 5 snaphaanen, or fire- locks; 3 musquets, or matchlocks; 36 flints (called viersteenen or firestones) ; 50 pounds of cannon powder; 10 pounds of fine powder and 15 bars of lead for running bullets. At once the small arms were distributed to such as needed them. On the 16th six more matchlocks were obtained, together with a bundle of match for touching off the matchlocks and cannon. The former were placed in the hands of those still unsupplied. The persons to whom the small arms were given, one to each, were
* The privates were as follows :
Ist Company. Abram Vermeille, Jean Le Roy, Joost Van Oblinus, Aert Pietersen Buys, Johannes Piet'n Buys, Jaques Cresson, Jan Teunissen, Hendrick Karstens, Jan Jansen Slot, Thomas Ottosen. 2d Company.
Jan Schoenmaker, Hans Littou, Abram Littou, Michiel Littou,
Ambrosius De Weerham, Jacob Droogscheerder, Arent J. Moesman, Jan Noorman, Arie Noorman.
3d Company.
Monis Peterson, Jan Cogu,
Roelof Noorman,
Jacob Noorman,
Govert Noorman,
Hans Deen,
Derick De Vries,
Adolph Meyer, Cornelis Aertse Buys, Jean Casier.
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Daniel Tourneur, Jan La Montagne, Michiel J. Muyden, Jaques Cresson and Jan P. Slot, supplied with firelocks ; and Isaac Ver- meille, Abram Vermeille, Pierre Cresson, Jean Le Roy, Glaude Le Maistre and Aert P. Buys, with musquets. Mr. Muyden also took musquets for two of his workmen. The "steen stucken" were properly mounted. Thus prepared to repel an attack, the villagers awaited the course of events, keeping up a strict watch.
New Harlem now became, in fact, a garrisoned outpost to New Amsterdam, and a barrier against Indian raids ; with Stuy- vesant, a cherished object, as before seen, in his anxiety to protect the metropolis. In view of the danger the director and council invited delegates from all the villages to a conference at New Amsterdam on July 6th. Harlem found it safest to keep every man at his post, but answered by letter, promising to detail a force of eight soldiers "whenever the necessity might require it." Troops being needed soon after for an expedition to Esopus, to subdue the Indians and give relief to the settlers there, a part of the regular force at Harlem departed upon that service, accompanied by others who went in response to the urgent call for volunteers which was made through all the villages about New Amsterdam.
The savages at Esopus were soon made to flee before the advance of the resolute Dutch soldiers; but armed parties still kept the warpath, threatening vengeance on the whites and whoever should aid them. It happened during the month of July that the now friendly Wickquaskeeks, apprehending a hos- tile visit from such, left their usual haunts and removed for safety over into the woods near Harlem. The sudden appear- ance of so large a body of Indians, including some eighty war- riors, in the vicinity of the village, caused much excitement there, till the sachem Sauwenarack, with his brother, came to the magistrates and gave the reason of their visit. They brought the pleasing intelligence that the sister of Mr. Mon- tagne had been released from captivity through the interven- tion of the friendly Mohawks, and conveyed to her home: but they also gave this piece of disagreeable news, that the Indians of the Wappinger tribe had warned them that the Esopus Indians were intending, within five or six days, to descend the river, forty of fifty strong, in order to surprise and murder them, the Wick- quaskeeks, and also destroy New Harlem and other settlements about Manhattan. Their message delivered, the chiefs hastened "of their own accord" to New Amsterdam, and repeated it to
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the director-general, with the offer of their services, in the com- mon peril to which all were exposed.
No little anxiety was felt at Harlem for a time, but the talked-of visit was not made, and the movements of the Wick- quaskeeks came to excite no apprehension. The sachem and his people,-a thing they once would have scorned to ask of the white man,-sought permission to fish near the village, which was granted on condition that they should never approach that place with their weapons; and for the purpose of ready identification, in their intercourse with the settlers, they were given copies of the official seal of the West India Company, "printed in wax upon small billets," to be shown upon occasion. Still the magis- trates relaxed none of their vigilance. Another thirty pounds of powder, obtained of the commissary, was distributed, Septem- ber 2d, to the following persons, a pound to each :
Monis Peterson,
Jean Le Roy,
Simon De Ruine,
Jan Cogu,
Hendrick Karstens,
Michiel Littou,
Jan Jansen Slot,
Joh. Pietersen Buys,
Jan Teunissen,
Glaude Le Maistre,
Jan Schoenmaker,
Lubbert Gerritsen,
Arent Snyder,
Jean Frenchman,
Nelis Matthyssen,
Jan La Montagne,
Adolph Meyer,
Jan Pietersen Slot.
Aert Pietersen Buys.
Govert Noorman,
Cornelis Aertsen Buys, Hans Deen,
Jacob Droogscheerder,
Jan Noorman,
Barent Acker,
Daniel Tourneur,
Pierre Cresson,
Pieter Jansen Slot,
Jaques Cresson,
Mr. Willem .*
The public apprehensions were gradually removed by a series of victories over the Esopus Indians, which forced them to submit. But the people of the province were ill at ease. Dele- gates from the villages, met to consider their common dangers, signed, November 2d, an urgent appeal to the West India Com- pany, praying for protection both against the Indians and the
. Jan Schoenmaker and Arent Snyder may have been Dyckman and Bussing; but we have no sufficient proof. By "Mr. Willem," and "Willem Jansen," Jan La Mon- tagne, who makes the record, no doubt means his brother. Fourteen of those enrolled June 12 are not in the above list, viz., Isaac Vermeille, Jean Vermeille, Jean Casier, Arent Moesman, Hans and Abram Littou, Ambrose de Weerham, Jan de Weever, Thomas Ottosen, Dirck de Vries, Arie Noorman, Roelof Noorman, and Jacob Noorman. Gone, we presume, with the forces to Esopus; Moesman certainly had, and he, Casier, and Isaac Vermeille are the only ones known to have returned to Harlem.
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neighboring New England colonies, which latter were now pre- paring to end a long diplomatic warfare with the Dutch author- ities touching their boundaries, by boldly asserting a claim to the whole of New Netherland.
Notwithstanding the ruffled state of public affairs, there was a growing activity at Harlem, as may be judged from the valua- ble accession to the number of inhabitants which the current year (1663) had brought. With most of these, already incident- ally mentioned in the transactions of the year, we have been made acquainted in former pages. Glaude Le Maistre (or Delamater) had removed here, after living about ten years at Flatbush, where he owned a farm and two village lots, which he sold July 31st, 1662. He bought two allotments of land at. Harlem from Daniel Tourneur, who had purchased them of Jacques Cousseau, and subsequently got a patent for them. Johannes Verveelen, previously for several years an innkeeper in New Amsterdam, had come to resume his old business, and to enter immediately upon public life.
But the new arrivals were mostly direct from fatherland. The Vermeille or Vermilye family, six in number, had reached Manhattan early in 1663, via the Delaware River ; the family of Oblinus arriving during the ensuing spring, after a quick pas- sage, and coming direct to Harlem; as did Johannes Buys (though by another vessel, the Rosetree, which left Amsterdam March 15th, 1663), joining his brother, who had preceded him hither some two years .* The younger Oblinus at once entered
* Isaac Vermilye had, as companions on the voyage, Jacque Cossart. Nicholas du Puis. Gideon Merlett, Jean le Conseille. Louis Lacquema, Jacob Kolver, and Jan Bookhoolts, as also Arnout du Toict, these now written Cashow, Depew, Marlett. Conselyea, I,akeman or Lockman. Culver, Buckhout, etc.), all having lived at Leyden, we presume, as we know had Buckbout, Culver and Vermilye; and probably all Wal- loons except Buckhout. Vermilye, with his wife and daughter, Maria (later Mrs. Montanye), and all his fellow-passengers above named, save Culver and Buckhout. joined the church at New Amsterdam, April 1, 1663, no doubt by letter. The wives of Cossart. Du Uuis, and Lacqueman also united. Vermilye came directly to Harlem. Buckhout became "koecherder van de gemente desen stede." The rest made an appli- cation, March 19, 166?, for land and seed grain, and victuals for six months, showing their necessities. Buckhout later owned a farm at Mespat, and left two sons, Capt. Matthias, who sailed a coaster, and Peter, a farmer; and whence come the family of this name. Du Toict was from Lillie, and probably related to David du Toict, of Leyden, son-in-law of Gerard de Forest. By his wife, Madeleine Arnauds, he had a son, Abraham, born 1648, lessee of Pierre Cresson's meadows at Harlem, in 1668; who married Jaunetie, daughter of Jerome Boquet (Bokee), and had a family. He went to New Utrecht and bought a farm, served during the second Dutch rule as a soldier. under Capt. Knyf, in New York, afterward lived at Bedford, but with his wife joined the Bergen church, July 21. 1681. Lakeman brought a wife. Anna du Sauchoy, and children by a second wife, Maria Walters. Two of the children that came over with him were Abraham and Peter, who afterward got grants upon Staten Island, hut Peter Lakeman removed to New York in 1698, when he married widow Jannetie Stavast. Marlett brought his wife and sons, Joshua, born 1647; Paul, born 1654; John, born 1656, and Abraham, born 1658, and settled on Staten Island. The name has now left the Island, but is found in other sections of New York and New Jersey. Cossart brought his wife, Lydia Williams, and 2 children of 18 months and 5 years. They had also Jacob, born 1668: David, 1671; Anthony, 1673. Jacob married, 1695. Anna Maria, daughter of Joh. Caspars Springsteen. He and Anthony, who married. 1696, Elizabeth, daughter of Jan Tymensen Valentine, of Schenectady, were resi-
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the employ of Delamater, but before the year closed his father became a proprietor by the purchase of the allotment of Philip Casier, deceased. Of Oblinus' companions on board the Spotted Cow, Demarest went to Staten Island, Journee and Bogert to Brooklyn, and the Bastiaensen brothers to Stuyvesant's Bouwery, though they all soon after came to Harlem. The Bastiaensens, it may be observed, were the ancestors of the entire Kortright or Courtright family, in the States of New York and New Jersey, and also, through other branches, of the families of Ryer and Michiel (now Mekeel and McKeel,- a Dutch metamorphosed into a Hibernian name!) of Westchester and other counties of our State, and that of Low, in Somerset County, New Jersey, but distinct from the Lows of Ulster County, named in a pre- ceding note. Arent Jansen Moesman,-first met with at Am- sterdam in 1662, acting as purveyor to the passengers about to leave, March 11th, in the merchant ship Golden Eagle, for New Amstel on the Delaware, and in which he also took pas- way to Harlem, as before seen, now returned from the Esopus war, with the credit and profits of some special service rendered. He became the purchaser of a bouwery upon Jochem Pieters and Van Keulen's Hook, the history of which derives interest from its subsequent owners, Delavall, Carteret, and others. Indeed the village was fast filling up, and already showed a disposition to exceed the limits of the protecting palisades. At a court held on December 4th, Derick Claessen, who after quitting the town had again returned, applied for "the house lot lying without the gate"; and Johannes Vermilye also made a similar application. Many, with the returning sense of security, were laying plans for the future.
dents of Brooklyn; their posterity bearing the name Cashow or Carshow. Jacob Cosart, born at Brooklyn, 1701, a son of Anthony, died at Bound Brook, N. J., April 19, 1772. David Cosart, married, 1696, Styntie, born 1677, daughter of Joris Jansen V'an Hoorn, and had, with other children born in New York City, sons George, Jacob, David, John, Francis. He died between 1736 and 1740, in Somerset County. N. J., leaving farms there to his sons George, David and Francis. Conselyea married Phebe Schut, and lived in Bushwick, where his old farm house till late remainfed. He had sons, John, born 1679; Peter, 1688; and a daughter, Margaret, who married Joh. Van Tilburg and Claes Bogert. Culver, whose wife was Sarah, daughter of Peter Hasbrouck, died soon after the birth of his daughter Sarah, and the next year. 1664, his widow married Jacob Jansen Blaeck, from Amsterdam, by whom she had other children. The daughter, Sarah Culver, born 1663, married Peter Losee, of Bushwick; her sister, Gertie Culver, born 1657, married Cornelis Jansen Zeeuw, and their brother, Jacob Culver, (born 1659, at Leyden, died, 1694, in New York), married, 1684. Jannetie, daughter of Joh. Caspars Springsteen, of Brooklyn. Their daughter, Sarah, born. 1686, married David L. Ackerman, of Hackensack; their daughter. Maria, married Joost Springstee, of Newtown, and their son, Johannes Culver, born 1689. married Sarah, daughter of James Way, and Mary, daughter of John Gancel, served as elder at Newtown, and there died, June 12, 1760, leaving several sons. Depew, who was from Artois, was sworn as "beer and weigh-house porter," at New York, June 19. 1665. Here he died in 1691, leaving issue by his wife, Katalina Renard. Jean, born 1656; Moses, 1657; Aaron. 1664; Susannah, 1669, and Nicholas. 1670. From these spring the numerous Depew families of Ulster and Orange Counties and the Minisink Flats.
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By a recent choice of magistrates, confirmed November 17th, the new board consisted of Jan La Montagne, "who for certain reasons," say the Council, "shall yet be continued for one year": besides Daniel Tourneur, Johannes Verveelen, and Jan Pietersen Slot. The religious interests of the village were suffering, and called for their first care. Do. Zyperus had recently taken his leave, probably early in 1663, when his wife transferred her church connection from New Amsterdam to Brooklyn. Chosen at dif- ferent times as an arbiter between parties in litigation, Do. Zyperus had made himself useful outside of his office or special sphere of duty, and had acquired the respect of the community. Disposing of his lands to Sergeant Juriaen Hanel, of Bergen, he removed with his family to Virginia, where he afterward preached many years, in North River Precinct, now Kingston Parish, in Mathews County : having conformed to the Church of England .*
The experiment had evidently proven the inability of the congregation to support a minister, and since the departure of Zyperus, not without much effort had the Sabbath services been sustained. Hence, at the meeting referred to, on December 4th, 1663, one of the magistrates, Mr. Verveelen, was "chosen by a popular vote to inquire for a voorleser," or, in other words, a parish clerk. This office, though akin to that of precentor or chor- ister in the Romish cathedral service and in the Scotch kirk, was in its range of duties quite peculiar to the Reformed Dutch Church. Its incumbent, acting either in place of or as an assist- ant to the dominie, must needs be a person not only of suitable gifts and culture, but of exemplary life and approved piety. Standing before the pulpit, he read the Scriptures at the opening of public worship, whence came his title, voorleser, or forereader. He led the congregation in singing David's Psalms in metre, lining off the verses one by one, as they proceeded, with melodies
* Do. Zyperus' wife was the daughter of Claes Duurkoop; her brother, Jan Duurkoop, and sister, Jannetie, wife of Hendrick Jansen Been, were living at Brook- lyn in 1662, whence. probably on their account, Mrs. Zvperus took her church letter. March 25, 1663. With the departure of herself and husband soon after disappeared also her kindred above named. While here Do. Z. had two children baptized, viz., Cornelius, December 21, 1659, and Hillegond, August 14, 1661; the last named for Mrs. Cornelis Van Ruyven. He is noticed as rector of Kingston Parish in a list of the Virginia clergy, dated June 30. 1680. But this is verified by his old vestry book, now in the custody of the Episcopal Theological Seminary near Alexandria. extracts from which were kindly furnished me by the late principal, Rev. William Sparrow. D.I)., since deceased, and containing all additional that I know of Zyperus in Virginia. The record begins only with November 15, 1679, but the last mention of him, as follows, is suggestive:
"The 27th of June, 1687. The day abovesaid Mr. Mychaell Zyperus, Minister, did promise to give fitt and convenient Glasses for ye Window at ye Gable End of ye New Chappell to be built for ye North River precinct. In witness whereof he hath hereunto sett his hand. M. ZYPERUS."
Interesting thus to take leave of him actively at work rearing the walls of Zion, in that field which he had chosen, and where he probably ended his labors. I strongly suspect that Do. Zyperus' descendants compose the respectable family of Sypher, of Pennsylvania, whose early Michaels-a fact, with others made known to me by Mr. J. R. Sypher, of Philadelphia-seem to favor it.
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long drawn out, but stately and solemn .* In the absence of a preacher his duties were augmented. He then read a sermon from the works of some orthodox Dutch divine, and in a word conducted the entire service so far as belonged to a layman to do. He visited and administered comfort to the sick, and those nigh to death, and, when desired, performed the burial service. He in- structed the children in the Heidelberg catechism, filled the office of schoolmaster, and in addition kept the records and accounts of the church and town. In fact, except the administration of holy ordinances, he performed all the functions of pastor, besides those of chorister, schoolmaster, and secretary. To these were usually added the duties of vendue-master, or public auctioneer.
Jan La Montagne, already acting as secretary, being conferred with and found willing to assume the full office of voorleser, the schepens, after advising with Governor Stuyvesant, prepared the following interesting petition, which was presented through Mr. Verveelen :
To the Noble, Very Worshipful, their Honors and the Director-General and Council of New Netherland :
Gentlemen: Your Noble Worships' petitioners, residents of New Harlem, show with due reverence and submission, that by their saving faith, obtained through hearing the gospel preached and taught, they, too, find themselves for the sake of their salvation compelled, conscientiously, to promote, with increased diligence and zeal, whatever your Noble Worships' petitioner and Commissaries of this village have determined upon and undertaken for the maintaining of public worship and the outward means of grace, to the magnifying of God's Name, the obser- vance of his day of holy rest, and the upbuilding of the body of Jesus Christ. But having seen from Sabbath day to Sabbath day the small and insignificant success of the public gatherings, and believing confi- dently that everything relating to public worship may be brought in better train and all be more properly ordered by the services of a sala- ried voorleser and schoolmaster, to read God's word and edifying ser- mons, keep school, catechise and visit the sick, your Noble Worships'
. Imagine our devout fathers thus gravely singing, in the following words, their favorite 23d Psalm:
1. Myn Godt voed my als myn Herder gepresen; Dies sal ik geenes dings behoeftik wesen. In't groene gras sceliestik hy my weydet: En aen dat soet water hy my geleydet: Hy verquickt myn ziel, die seer is verslegen; Om syns naems wil leyt hy my in syn wegen.
2. Alwaer't schoon dat ick in't dal des doots ginge, En dat my des doots schaduwe omvinge, Ik vreese niet, gy zyt by my gestadig, En gy troost my met uwen staf genadigh. Gy maeckt ryk met goede seer velerhanden Myn tafel voor d'oogen myner vyanden.
3. Gy salat myn hooft met rickend'oly goedigh, En schenkt my den beker vol overloedigh. Gy suit doen dat uwe gunst, O Heer krachtigh, Myn leven langh by my steedsvlyft eendrachtig: Soo dat ick hoop eeuwighlick vast te woonen In Godes Huys, 't welk niet is om verschoonen.
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petitioners, appointed to attend to the public welfare and advantage of the said village, thought it proper, very timely and only their duty, to speak to the community about this matter, that they persuade Jean De La Montagne, a resident of the said place, to undertake such services provisionaily for the least possible salary, and then present themselves before your Noble Worships as patrons of the church of Jesus Christ with this humble and Christian petition, that your Noble Worships may please to consent both to the office and person before named, for the benefit of God's church and not less necessary teaching of the children. But perceiving their present inability and incapacity to give in the afore- said case a full and proper salary, and not having been able to collect for his support more than 24 schepels of grain,* they respectfully request your Noble Worships, that in their usual noble discretion your Noble Worships contribute something toward a decent salary and the greater encouragement of your Noble Worships' very humble petitioners and God's subjects.
Your Noble Worships' most dutiful petitioners and humble subjects, Done New Harlem, I
Dec. 25, 1663.
D. TOURNEUR JOHANNES VERVEELEN. I P mark of JAN PIETERSEN.
To this the following reply was given, January 10th, 1664:
Received and read the foregoing request of the Commissaries of New Harlem, and therewith heard the verbal statement of Sieur Johannes Ver- veelen, at present commissary there, that it is highly necessary that a person be appointed there as voorleser and schoolmaster; therefore the Director-General and Council accept and appoint thereto the proposed person Johannes La Montagne, Junior; and in order that he may attend to these offices with greater diligence, to him shall be paid annually on account of the Company the sum of fifty guilders, according to the state of the treasury.
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