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34. Tryntie (Cathrina), born January 15, 1717. married Klaas ( Nicholas) Pieterse, had four children.
35. Adolph No. 3. born March 20. 1720, married Lena Ridnaer. had four children.
36. Annatie, baptized May 20, 1722.
JACOB (8) HAD ISSUE BY HIS SECOND WIFE:
37. Jacob, baptized July 30, 1726.
38. John, born December 21. 1728, removed to Fishkill, N. Y.
39. Margrietje. born October 25, 1730.
Adolph (9) made his first purchase of land in 1715. when he bought from Samson Benson Lot No. 2 of 1691, his father, as we have seen. having drawn No. 4 of the same tract. Adolph eventually acquired Nos. 1, 3: as also the several parcels beyond the highway to the westward. originally Nos. 8 to 14. First Divis- ion, laid out to Captain Delavall's heirs and others, and forming the 84 acre tract. afterward sold. with Lot 3, etc., by his son Adolph, to Charles Duryee, and purchased soon after by William Molenaor. To specify: Adolph bought several lots in the 84 acre tract in 1733 ( see page 484), and in 1740, No. 14, from John Lewis. He had already built on his No. 2 of 1691. and in 1747 bought No. 3 from Aaron Bussing. In 1748 he got from his mother's estate No. 16. Third Division, and by pre-arrangement with Abraham. No. 1 of 1691, which gave him Nos. 1, 2, 3 in that tract. These lands, excepting the "homestead." or Lots I. 2 of 1691. fell to Adolph third under his father's will, dated May 10. 1760. and proved May 5, 1762.
ADOLPH (9). (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
40. John. 1717, married Antie Waldron, July 11. 1761, had three children, and died in 1767. Succeeded to the homestead of 28 acres. On August 10. 1768, his brother Adolph. .
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as executor, sold the homestead (the rights of dower having been released) to Rev. Martinus Schoonmaker, then pastor at Harlem.
41. Adolph, born 1718, married Maria Bussing. September 12, 1740, had eight children. He added Nos. 9. 10, First Division, and some other parcels of land, in addition to those described above.
42. Ann ( Anna), born 1720, married William Waldron, August 24, 1744.
43. Isaac, born 1721, deceased.
44. Abraham, born 1723. deceased.
45. Margaret, born 1725, married John Sickels, 1745.
46. Peter (Petrus). baptized October 22, 1729, married Mary Bunn (Maria Bon), April 16, 1762, had one child.
47. Mary (Maria), baptized August 9, 1724, married Benjamin Vandewater. 1750.
48. Sarah, born 1731, married Elias De Grush, Jr., October 17, 1761.
49. Bregie, born 1733, married John Low, June 22, 1765.
Jacob (12), by lease and release from Simon Johnson and others, trustees of Elias Pipon, dated February 11, 12, 1741. Jacob Myer came to own that part of the Delavall estate called the Six Lots, with two-thirds of the adjacent Carteret Lot. This pur- chase. with the adjoining Lot No. I. New Lots, which Jacob re- ceived from his father. gave him that large square tract since known as the Myer farm, bounding upon the Harlem River, its lower angle on 128th Street just west of 7th Avenue ; its upper angle on 139th Street. a little east of 6th Avenue. The fine large tract on the heights which Johannes Myer had gotten from Bre- voort came. as we have seen. to be vested in Jacob, and reached ( where intersected by the Bloomingdale branch of the Kings- bridge Road) from just below 136th Street to 139th Street. His son. John, added the Bussing lot. next north. 28 acres, by deeds (lated 1790 and 1791. Jacob Myer, at forty years of age. was a prominent man in the town, and at a later period its treasurer. He died November 25. 1758. leaving all his property to his widow, who survived till 1765, when his son. John, born 1731. came in possession. either under his mother's will. or as heir-at-law. John provided in his will for an unmarried sister, Rebecca, who lived with him.
JACOB ( 12). (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE :
50. John. born 1731. married Eve. daughter of John Dyckman, had five children.
51. Rebecca, who died unmarried.
John (15) was constable in 1740-1. In the division of their
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inheritance, between him and his brother Jacob, John obtained the "Three Lots," which he and wife sold, October, 1755, to John Sickels, and which subsequently formed the well-known Richard Harrison and Gabriel Furman tracts. John Myer's home was afterward on the west side of Kingsbridge Road, near Breakneck Hill (on Lot 16, First Division, reaching from 140th to 145th Streets, and part of Lot 9 of 1691, in the rear, in all about 20 acres, which had fallen to his share), and here he kept a public house till his death, in 1773. at about the age of 57 years. A second wife, Amy -? , survived him.
JOHN (15), (SON OF JOHANNES), HAD ISSUE BY HIS FIRST WIFE:
52. John, Jr .. married Susannah Bussing, December 15, 1785.
53. Adolph, baptized November 27, 1743, deceased.
54. Catherina, baptized June 28, 1752, married Jonathan Ran- dell .* July 5. 1770. had thirteen children.
HENDRICKUS (23), (SON OF HENDRICK). HAD ISSUE: 55. Henricus, baptized August 4. 1736, deceased.
Johannes (25). (son of Hendrick), became a wealthy New York merchant, and having outlived his second wife ( Helena Rutgers, widow of Hon. John Morin Scott), and attained to near 90 years. as one who knew him informed us, died August 31. 1807. He had issue :
56. Henry R., of New York, merchant, 1774. , 57. Anna. baptized August 10, 1748, married Thomas Sowers, of New York, June 23, 1769. He "Capt. of Engineers in His Majesty's service," who died 1774.
58. Mary, who married Henry Bowers, Jr., January 8, 1772. He of Swansea. Mass. Mrs. Bowers inherited her father's estate under his will.
Abraham Myer (26). baptized December 8. 1716, married Mattie Kortright, sister of Arent's wife. in 1740. He succeeded to his father's lands, having sold his farm on Montanve's Flat. (See page 488.) Abraham served as deacon. He died in 1772, his wife. Mattie, surviving, and also five children. The first three. with the widow and executor. Adolph Myer, conveyed the 42-acre tract, April 20, 1773, to John Bogert. Jr., whose heirs sold it to Lawrence Benson.
. Jonathan Randell came from Greenwich. Connecticut, being by trade a car- nenter. After his marriage he lived for some time upon Harlem Heights, but on November 29, 1784, purchased Randell's Island for £2,400. and by his energy and in- dustry as a farmer paid for it in ten years. Here he resided, greatly respected, till his death at the age of 88 years, January 17, 1830. Leaving this fine property to his heirs, these sold it, five years later, to the Corporation of New York, for $50,000.
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ABRAHAM (26), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE :
59. Abraham, born 1741, married Agnietie Roome, June 29, 1771. Was a weaver.
60. Lawrence, born 1742, married Engeltie, daughter of Samuel Waldron, November 16, 1766, had one child. He a blacksmith.
61. Margaret, born 1744.
62. Engeltie, born 1745.
63. Bregie, born 1747.
By Arent Myer's (27) will, made November 23, 1773, and proved September 21, 1784, he left half his estate to his grand- children, Arent and Susannah Bussing, and half to his grand- daughter, Susannah Waldron.
ARENT (27), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
64. Engeltie, born 1736, married Peter Waldron, January 24, 1765.
65. Margaret, born 1737, married Abraham Bussing, December 27, 1764, by license, and Bussing's bondsman was no less a person than George Clinton. afterward Governor. 66. Arent, born 1739, deceased.
67. John, born 1741, deceased.
ADOLPH (35), (SON OF JACOB), HAD ISSUE :
68. Jacob, born January 19, 1744.
69. Anatje No. I, born October 12, 1746, died young.
70. Anatje (Anna) No. 2, born September 8, 1748.
- 71. Catherina, born July 31, 1752.
JOHN (40), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE:
72. Mary (Maria), born 1762, baptized February 17, 1762. 73. Catherine, born 1764.
74. Adolph, born 1766.
Adolph (41), (son of Adolph). was an elder at Harlem, and signed the articles of union in 1772 which healed the divisions in the Dutch church. He occupied his lands, aforesaid. till the Revolution, when, being a Whig. he retired to Dutchess County, and, at the close of the war. concluding to remain there, traderl farms, May 1, 1784, with Charles Duryee, of New York, mer- chant : as shown by the deed from Duryee to Myer, for his lands in Rombout Precinct, given, as it states. "by virtue of a mutual exchange of farms"; the fact of said exchange being also cor- roborated by the late Simeon De Witt .*
* William Molenaor, in some records called Miller, this being the English of his name, was a descendant of Joost Adraens Molenaer, who was born at Pynacker, a
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ADOLPH (41) HAD ISSUE:
75. Adolph, born 1741.
76. John, born 1742.
77. Mary, born 1743.
78. Peter, born 1745.
79. Isaac, born 1747.
80. Anna, born 1749.
Twins.
81. Gertrude, born 1749. 5
82. Elizabeth, born April 18, 1751. married John Backhouse, April 12. 1770, had four children.
PETER (46), (SON OF ADOLPH), HAD ISSUE: 83. Adolph, baptized March 2, 1763.
John Meyer (50) was many years town clerk, we believe the last holding that office here. He married Eve, daughter of John Dykman, who died in her 78th year, November 1, 1800. He died, aged 86 years, February 23. 1817. From Johannes, if not from Adolph, the ancestors down, this branch of the family all occupied the old stone house which stood, till of late. at the north- ern angle of Lot 4 of 1691, at the junction of the two roads : or to otherwise locate it, about a hundred and fifty feet west of 8th Avenue. on the lower side of 131st Street.
JOHN ( 50). (SON OF JACOB ), HAD ISSUE:
84. Jacob. born April 23, 1757, married Cornelia -?. June 15. 1780, had five children, and died ()ctober 29. 1813. . 85. John Dyckman. born December 25. 1759. married Catherine Ackerman. December 19, 1782. had four children. and died May 4, 1802.
village three miles cast of Delft, and came to this country in the ship Faith, which sailed from Amsterdam. December 23. 1660. At Esopus, where he went to live. he married. May 20, 1663, Femmetie Hendricks. from Meppel. On June 7, ensuing. the Indians rose against the white settlers and killed and wounded many. carrying others into captivity, among whom was Molenaer's wife. She was soon ransomed. and a year later their first child. Marritie, was born. Joost married a second wife. Lysbeth, daughter of William Krom. October 28. 1668. having first, on September 2. made his will. By this wife he had issue, Jane. born 1672, who married Jellis de la. Grange, of Albany: Adrian. born 1075: William, 1678, and Henry. 1681. He served as deacon. and from 1672 to 1678 as schepen. On July o. 168t. he married his third wife. Maria, daughter of Jacob Hayes, and widow of Philip Leeuw, or Lyon. By this wife he had a daughter, Sarah, horn 1682. Removing to a farm in Bushwick. of jo acres, he and his wife joined the church at New York. May 30. 1683. but he died that same year this will being admitted to probate at Kingston, October 17. 16831. and the next year his widow married Capt. Peter Praa. (See Annals of Newtown. page 382, and Stiles' Brooklyn, volume ii. page 321, etc. ) Adrian Molenaer married at Kingston. in 1700, Anna de la Grange. Did he not settle on the Raritan? William Molenaer married. 1704. Gertrude. daughter of Caspar and Maria Springsteen, and died in Newtown, "an aged man." May 11, 1753. His son David, who married Catherine Meserole, was the father of William Molenaor, born 1754. the first of the mame at Harlem. The latter, then living in Bushwick, bought the Adolph Myer farm, April 1. 1790. He died in 1812. leaving by his wife. Mercy, issue. David, William DeWitt C .. and Catherine, wife of Charles W. Gordon. Dr. William Molenaor, long a prac. titioner at Harlem. married but left no children. now living: his brothers have deceased. We remember the old Molenaor house. while yet standing. but in ruins. It stood in a hollow, on the north side of 124th street, 200 feet west of 8th avenue.
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86. Peter, born August 9, 1761, married Mrs. Sarah Westervelt (Banta), had three children, and died March 4, 1834. 87. Abraham, born January 20, 1767, died single, April 2, 1819. 88. Garret, born March 20, 1775, married Jane Bogert, December 18, 1799, had three children, and died January 6, 1860. Resided at Hackensack, N. J.
LAWRENCE (60), (SON OF ABRAHAM), HAD ISSUE:
89. Samuel, a carpenter, who married Mary, daughter of Captain John Waldron, had one child. He removed to Claverack, N. Y. Last of the family to occupy the ancient stone house, removed by Judge Ingraham when 125th Street was opened, the well remaining on the south side of the street, and in use until a few years ago (1881).
This house stood on the Tourneur home-lot, bought by Abra- ham Myer in 1713, and which Samuel sold to Alexander Phoenix, March 27, 1806, with the old church lot joining it on the easterly side ; his father, Lawrence, holding that the fee of the last-named lot (whereon the first church had stood) was in his father, Abra- ham Myer, and passed by devise to his children. These two lots have since formed the Eliphalet Williams plot. There was a house of later construction on the adjoining farm lot, probably built by Johannes De Witt before the Revolution, which was burned in 1811, and on whose site Nathaniel G. Ingraham erected the present Judge Ingraham house.
JACOB (84), (SON OF JOHN). HAD ISSUE:
90. Peter, who married Margaret Van Bussin.
91. John, who married Mary Amanda, but died without issue.
92. Phebe, who married Francis Swords, but died without issue.
93. Marcy, born April 5, 1781, married Smith Valentine, but died August 18, 1802, without surviving issue.
94. Eve. who married first, Frederick Dyckman, had three chil- dren. She married second, Edward Riker.
JOHN DYCKMAN (85), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE : 95. John, born September 9, 1783, married Elizabeth Johnson, had five children. Lived at Leonia, N. J.
96. Gilbert, born September 14, 1785, married Mary Delancey Hammond, June 8, 1841, had five children. 97. Hannah, born June 25, 1794, married David D. Meyer, No- vember 30, 1814, had three children.
98. Peter, born November 15, 1800, married May A. Totten, had three children.
PETER (86), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
99. Eve Maria, who married Capt. Joseph P. Dean, no issue.
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100. Cornelia Frances, who married John G. Dietz, no issue. She deceased.
IOI. Abraham Dyckman, who married - Kehoe, had two chil- dren.
GARRET (88), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE :
102. John G., born August 30, 1800, married Ellen Kip, Novem- ber 3, 1825, but died without issue, March 15, 1834.
103. Harriet, born June 7, 1803, married first, John C. Z. Ander- son, November 26, 1823, had five children. She married second, Robert C. A. Ward, September 2, 1841, and died October 23, 1873, without issue by second husband.
104. Eve, born June 11, 1807, married Adolph W. Campbell, Sep- tember 28. 1826, had seven children, and died April 17, 1854. Buried at Hackensack, N. J.
SAMUEL (89), (SON OF LAWRENCE), HAD ISSUE: 105. Abraham.
JOHN (95), (SON OF JOHN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE : 106. Maria. 107. John, born February 10. 1810, married Amelia Purdy, June 14. 1831, had three children, and died May 5, 1887. He of Boonton, N. Y.
108. Livingston.
109. Catherine, who married George Doremus.
IIO. Eve, born 1819, married Daniel Riley, no issue. -
GILBERT (96), (SON OF JOIN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE: III. Amanda Fitzallen. born October 2, 1819, married De Witt C. Hays, had seven children, and died March 3, 1890.
112. Harvey Elliot, born May 27, 1822, married Eleanor A. Pomeroy, had two children. He deceased.
113. Rachel Hammond, born May 27. 1822, married Jeremiah Bush. 1844, had one child, and died 1845.
114. Catherine, born March 6, 1824, unmarried.
115. Henrietta, born December 2, 1828. unmarried.
PETER (98). (SON OF. JOHN DYCKMAN), HAD ISSUE : 116. E. George, who married Charlotte -?.
117. James S. (M. D.).
118. Rebecca S.
ABRAHAM DYCKMAN ( 101). (SON OF PETER). HAD ISSUE: 119. Mary Matilda, who married Dr. William T. Lusk. 120. Anna Maria, who married Orlando Lines.
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JOHN (107), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE :
121. John, born May 5, 1832, married Sarah Whitehead, October 22, 1854, had five children, and died October 22, 1879. Resided at Boonton, N. J.
122. Emory, born August 8, 1846, died December 8, 1847.
123. Oscar W., born December 13, 1835, married Louisa A. Briggs, July 31, 1859, had three children.
HARVEY ELLIOT (112), (SON OF GILBERT), HAD ISSUE : 124. Charles A., born 1851, married Ella Hays, had two children. 125. Nellie M., who married Richard H. Lippincott, had three children.
JOHN (121), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE :
126. Ellis G., born November 26, 1855, married Frances Beddon, October 14, 1880, have four children.
127. Oscar, born January 1, 1858, died in February, 1862.
128. Enoch G., born January 21, 1862, single.
129. John, born December 16, 1865, married Bertha Jacobus, November 7, 1895, had two children. She died April 6, 1901.
130. Harry, born September 16, 1872, died March 30, 1894. OSCAR W. ( 123). (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
131. Emory Wallace, born April 17, 1863, married Lena L. Pat- terson, October 8. 1889, had two children.
132. Amelia P., born July 30, 1864. unmarried.
133. Helen B., born December. 16, 1873, married Arthur H. Tem- ple. June 7, 1899, no issue. He died May 23, 1903.
CHARLES A. (124), (SON OF HARVEY ELLIOT), HAD ISSUE : 134. W. H. H., born 1881.
135. Charles A., Jr., born 1889.
ELLIS G. (126), (SON OF JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
136. Alivia, born 1881, died December 15, 1901.
137. John, born August 25, 1890.
138. Caroline, born July 8. 1896.
139. Sarah, born October 31, 1897. JOHN (129), (sox or JOHN), HAD ISSUE:
140. Florence, born March 28, 1897.
141. Marian J., born April 3. 1899.
EMORY WALLACE ( 131). (SON OF OSCAR W.), HAD ISSUE: 142. Oscar P., born July 25, 1890.
143. Lois Nye, born January 10, 1894.
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NAGEL.
John Nagel has no descendants of the name at Harlem, though yet to be found in Rockland County and other localities .* The name is now oftener written Nagle or Naugle, the last ex- pressing its original sound. Jan Nagel, born in Holland, 1645, having been "a soldier in the service of the honorable West India Company," up to the surrender to the English, in 1664, then quit the service and retired in disgust to Harlem, with avowed inten- tion to leave the country. He saw fit to remain, but was slow in becoming reconciled to the English rule. His first essay as a free- holder and marriage, August 27, 1670, with Rebecca Waldron (see page 267) require no further notice. On the division, in 1677, of the lands bought jointly with John Delamater (see pages 272. 495), Nagel took lot No. 6, Jochem Pieters' Flat, with out- garden No. 13, and half the meadows. In 1679 he bought the adjoining garden, No. 14. with the dwelling-house on it ( see page 353), which he may have occupied thereafter. On August 16, 1678, he bought a third lot on Jochem Pieters. (See Appendix E.) His acquisitions at Spuyten Duyvel have been noticed, pages 341, 343. In 1675 Nagel was chosen deacon; and he seems to have been a man of sterling principles. Owing probably to his known dislike of the English government, his nomination for office was several times rejected by the Mayor's Court, but at length he was confirmed as constable in 1677. and later served twice as com- missioner. He died in 1689. The next year his widow became the wife of Jan Dyckman, then of Spuyten Duyvel, and there they were married. Their marriage contract, made at Harlem. May 12, 1690, says: "As it is found by the testament of Jan Nagel that his surviving children should receive the exact half of his estate, part of which is lying here at this dorp, and the other part at Spuyten Duyvel. but, as is thought, the part of the aforesaid estate lying at the dorp is the greater part ; yet Rebecca Waldron assigns to her children by Jan Nagel, deceased, all that is situated
* Jan Gerritsen Hagel-Hagel is often written for Nagel in our early records, a mistake easily made-was a passenger by the ship Faith, which left Amsterdam Decem- ber 2 ?. 1660, bringing also the Molenaor and Bush ancestors. Prior to this date our Nagel is not named, while another Jan Nagel of that period, whom we shall presently notice, had just died, and therefore was not the passenger referred to. Was this passenger our Nagel? As against it. apparently. Nagel calls neither of his sons Gerrit, but his eldest. Barent, which would indicate that his own patronymic was Barentsen, judging from common usage. In such case, and considering his .relations to the Waldrons, he might be taken for a brother of Tanneke Barents Nagel. B .t. on the other hand. those relations may have been alone due to his marriage with Rebecca Waldron, and the child's name. Barent, have come from her brother Barent. Further. we notice that Nagel. though a church member. is not enrolled on the very full register extant, either as Ilagel. Nagel, or Barentsen, while the name Jan Gerrit- sen occurs twice, at the same date with those of persons uniting, from Harlem, in 1670 and 1673. The presumption is that one of these was Nagel, and renders probable his identity with the emigrant of 1660. But with the uncertainty as to our Nagel's patronymic. whether Gerritsen or Barentsen-or again, since he called his second son John, whether he may not have been a son of Sergt. Jan Nagel. hereafter mentioned- we will not assume to decide the question.
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and lying at this dorp." These lands, for a time, stood in the name of her son Barent.
Jan Nagel (1), born in Holland, about 1645, married Re- becca Waldron, August 27, 1670, had ten children, and died in 1689.
JAN (1)* HAD ISSUE:
2. Barent No. I, baptized July 23, 1671, died young.
3. Jannetie, baptized November 2, 1672, died young.
4. Jan (John), baptized February 24, 1675, married Magdalena Dyckman, January 2, 1708, had seven children, and died in 1763.
5. Anna Catherina, baptized November 29, 1676, married Jo- hannes Berck, December 4, 1702.
6. Barent No. 2, baptized December 18, 1678, married Sarah Kiersen, 1708, had seven children, went to Rockland
. Jan Nagel-not ours, for he, as well as Dyckman, had a contemporary of like name was also a soldier; but nothing is found to prove a relationship between the two Nagels, or any intercourse between the families. Sergt. Nagel was from Limborg, and is called an Oosterling. After five years or more of military service at New Amsterdam, he married Grietie Dircks, in 1652. It may be that he had a former wife in Europe, as in his marriage record the customary mention whether he was a young man or widower is omitted. It was usual for persons coming out as soldiers to leave their family at home. His present wife was a daughter of Dirck Volkertsen, Norman, of Bushwick, and her uncle, John Vinge, was the first male person born in the State of New York .** Grietie was the young widow of Nagel's fellow-soldier. Sergt. Jans Hermans Schut, married but three years before, and lately murdered by the Indians, leaving her with a child, Phebe, born 1651, afterward wife of the Con- selyea ancestor. (See page 204.) By Nagel she had two children, viz .: Juriaen, born 1653, and Christina, born 1655. Nagel was enrolled as a burgher, April 13, 1657, but died soon after, and in 1658 his widow married Barent Gerritsen. Christina married William Aertsen, of New York. Juriaen Nagel, born in New York, but living at Bushwick, married, 1679, Jannetie, daughter of Philip Langelaan. That year Mrs. Nagel joined the church at New York, as did Juriaen in 1683, when they went to live there, but subsequently returned, and, in 1695, transferred their connection to the Bushwick church. Nagel, in 168g, and 'go, served 22 months as a soldier under Leisler. How his independence revolted at the official exactions of his time appears from an incident in Stiles' Brooklyn, volume ii., page 352, where he is called Hagell. He served as deacon at Bushwick, and took part in building the new church there in 1706; then owning a farm of 95 acres. He died in 1732. His children were John, born 1679, died young; Philippus, born 1682; Margaret, born 1684, who married Conselyea and Covert; Jacobus, born 1687; Benjamin, born 1690; John, born 1695, and Cornelia, born 1697, who married Andries Stockholm. In Lieutenant Philippus Nagel the military taste still showed itself. He settled in Flatbush, and was super- visor in 1719, constable 1731, etc. By his wife Anna, whom he married in 1703, he had sons Juriaen, Cornelius and Philip, besides daughters. Philip was long a judge of Kings County, and county treasurer. He died May 11, 1797, aged_84 years. (See Strong's Flatbush.) Some of his family early migrated to Bucks County, Pa., and have descendants in and about Philadelphia.
** Is there not room to distrust the accuracy of the Labadist travellers as to John Vinge's age? (Dankers and Sluyter's Journal, page 114) inasmuch as he-and an older sister, Rachel, born in Europe, and afterward wife of Cornelis Van Tienhoven- were minors and yet to be educated and put to trades, on the date of April 30, 1632, when their mother, Adriana Cuvilly, contracted a second marriage with Jan Jansen Damen. (New York Colonial Manuscript, volume i., page 6.) On the assumption that John's birth was as early as 1614. eleven years must have transpired (a remark- able interval if there were families here thus early) before a girl was born, that girl being Sarah Rapelye. Our opinion is that Gulian Vinge came over with the first Walloon colonists in 1623, and that his son John was born in that or the ensuing year. It might otherwise have been rather stale news which was sent to Holland, September 23. 1626, that "the women also have borne some children here." (Colonial History New York, volume i., page 37.) What has been said on page 117 must be our apology for alluding to this matter. V'inge was an ancestor of Gulian C. V'erplanck.
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