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Isaac De Forest, younger of the two brothers who emigrated in 1636, was the common ancestor. Born at Leyden, in 1616, as elsewhere stated, he married at New Amsterdam, 1641, Sarah, daughter of Philippe Du Trieux (Truax), and Susannah De Chiney, Walloons of the early migra- tion, Sarah being born here in the semi-fabulous days of Peter Minuit. The same year De Forest built at Harlem a dwelling and tobacco-house on his plantation, subsequently the site of Harlem village. In 1643 he leased it to John Denton, for raising tobacco on shares, and opened a tobacco wareroom on the Strand, now Pearl Street, in what had been the first church. Coming to own that property, he built there a fine house, "an ornament to the city." In 1650 he sold his bouwery at Harlem to William Beeckman. Later he became a brewer; his malt-house and resi- dence were in Stone Street, north side, near Whitchall. He also had "a hop-garden and orchard at Norman's Bight." He was among the affluent citizens who loaned 100 guilders each for repairing the city defences in 1653. On April 6, 1657, "Isaac De Forest requests by petition the privi- leges of the Great Burgher right, as he has been in this country over twenty years, has built considerably in this city, and performed many ser- vices." The burgomasters deferred his request, but on January 28, 1658, as one of six "suitable persons" recommended by Stuyvesant and council, De Forest was made a Great Burgher. The same year he was elected schepen, having served sundry times in the board of selectmen. In 1664, when the English fleet, which took New York, entered the harbor, among some persons seized was De Forest; released August 31, he afterward swore allegiance. His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674, but his widow not until November 9, 1692. She sold the property "called the
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Old Kerck." June 30, 1682; that in Stone Street was sold by the children May 2, 1693, to Harman Rutgers, brewer, from Albany. Isaac De For- est's children were Jesse, born 1642; Susannah, 1645; Gerrit, 1647; Michael, 1649; John, 1650; Philip, 1652; Isaac, 1655; Hendrick, 1657; Maria, 1666, and David, 1669; of whom, the three elder sons died early. Susannah married, 1665, Peter De Riemer, and Maria married, 1687, Bernard Darby, from London, mariner, and 1706, Alderman Isaac De Reimer, son of Peter.
John De Forest was educated a "chirurgeon," or physician; his brothers were given trades,-Philip a cooper, Isaac a baker, Hendrick and David, glaziers. Dr. De Forest married, June 8, 1673, Susannah, daugh- ter of Nicholas Verlet; bought a house and lot in Beaver Street, February 20, 1682; on October 4, 1687, sold for £6:5, lot No. 4, Hoorn's Hook, to Wm. Presker. See page 371. Of several children, but one survived child- hood. viz., Susannah, born 1676, married Robert Hickman, 1703. Philip De Forest married, January 5, 1676, Tryntie, daughter of Hendricks Kip. and removed to Albany, served as high-sheriff, etc., and died 1727. having had sons Isaac, Jesse, Johannes, David, Abraham; David being ancestor of Colonel Jacob J. De Forest, of Duanesburgh. See Pearson's Albany Settlers.
Isaac De Forest, born 1655. only son of Isaac that remained in New York, married September 4, 1681, Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Van- derspiegel, was serving the Dutch church as a deacon, 1690 and 1696, and 1699 was appointed an overseer of public works. He died within a year or two, his widow, it seems, continuing his business; she furnished pro- visions for the expedition to Canada, in 1711. In 1741, in her Soth year. she changed her church relation to Hackensack, the home of her daughter. Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Antonius Curtenius. Isaac De Forest left nine children, of whom reached maturity: Johannes, born 1684; Sarah. 1686, married John Myer; Margaret, 1689, married Harman Rutgers; Maria. 1694. and Elizabeth. 1697, who. 1732, married as aforesaid. Johanne: D): Forest was a baker. married June 23. 1705, Catharine, daughter of Gerrit Van Ravenstein, and buying property March 22, 1715, in Marketfield Street, resided in New York till his death, July 30, 1757. His children named in his will, December 25, 1746. were Isaac, born 1705; Nicholas, 1710; Johannes, 1711 : Maria, 1718, who married Gerrit Waldron : Lawrence, 1720; Gerrit, 1723; Elizabeth. 1725. Of these, Lawrence married, 1741. Sarah, daughter of Mansfield Tucker; issue Mansfield, born 1746, perhaps others. Isaac became a freeman, in New York, 1734, his brother Nicholas. 1735, and Johannes, 1748; the last probably father of Theodorus, grocer, at Fly Market. who married. 1778. Mary Doughty; issue John, born August :I. 1780; Mary. December 22, 1782: Theodorus, May 1I, 1786, etc. Nicholas married Maria Barker, October 17, 1736, and had a son John. born 1739, probably the sailmaker, freeman 1765, who married, 1768, Jane Albouy; in 1780 a widow, when she married George Scott, mariner. Bernard De Forest. shopkeeper, freeman 1768, apparently brother of the sailmaker, married. 1767. Martha Albouy, in 1773. a widow, and married Nathaniel Harriott, mariner. Isaac, born 1705, removed to Adamsville, Somerset County, New Jersey, died about 1800; issue by wife Maria Brokaw, Maria, born 1740. John, 1743; Catharine. 1745; Abraham, 1749. His son, John, born July 28. 1743, died in New York May 16. 1825, leaving five children by his wife Maria Van Nest, viz., Isaac, born March 3, 1764: Catharine, January 17, 1766; Abraham. April 2, 1774: Lawrence-Vanderveer, May 11. 1782, and John. May 8. 1784; of whom Catharine died November 19. 1846. John died in his 80th year, November 16, 1864, having married Surviah Whitehead: his only child being Mr. Isaac De Foreest, Sr .. of No. 2 Old Slip. Abraham aforesaid married Catharine Fulkerson, and died in his 57th year, August 30, 1830, was father of Richard and Maria; his brother Isaac, who mar- ried Kneertie Wortman, and died March 13, 1808, was father of the late
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Peter and John I. De Foreest, of New York, grocers, and their sisters, Maria, Sarah, Catharine, and Margaret; and Lawrence V., of New York, merchant, who married Jane, daughter of Peter Davis, of Somerville, New Jersey, and died May 7, 1858, aged nearly 76 years, was father of the late Alderman Theodore Romaine De Foreest, M. D., John Abeel De Foreest, and Jane Lawrence De Foreest, the accomplished and lamented Mrs. Dr. Hull, of New York, murdered in her bed, June 11, 1879, by the burglar Cox. Gerrit De Forest, born 1723, called Gerardus, married, 1744, Sarah Hardenbrook, and had issue John, born 1745; Andrew, 1751 ; Ger- ardus, 1753; Theodorus, 1756, etc., of whom Theodorus married, 1779, Susannah Leggett. Gerardus was a shipwright, married Rachel Kings- land, and died April 19, 1802, in Harrison Street, leaving his widow, who survived many years, and sons John, Gerardus, and David, besides seven daughters, of whom Sarah, the eldest, married Hugh Fairley. John was father of Cornelius V. and Charles S.
Hendrick De Forest, born 1657, married July 5, 1682, Phebe, daugh- ter of Barent Van Flaesbeek, and settled at Bushwick, Long Island, was commissioned justice of the peace 1698, in 1705 bought land at and removed to Madnan's Neck, and died in 1715, having issue Barent, born 1684; Sarah, 1686; Gerrit, 1689; Henricus. 1691 ; Susannah, 1693; Phebe, 1695; Maria, 1696, and Jesse, 1698; of whom Susannah married Abraham Kon- ing, and Phebe married Henry Cole. Several of the sons returned to New York. Henricus was probably the sea-captain, of 1747. Barent mar- ried, 1708, Catalina, daughter of Anthony Sarley, and 1723 Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius Verduyn. He was teacher of the Dutch church school, serving as late as 1726, in which year he probably died. His widow died March 1, 1736. His children, save some who died in infancy, were, so far as known, Henricus, born 1712; Phebe, 1714, married Benjamin Stout; Sarah, 1717; Catalina, 1720, married Hendrick Van Beuren; Cor- nelius, 1725. Cornelius married Antie Van Winkle. Gerrit married, 1716, Cornelia Waldron; he died October 14, 1744, she May 9, 1772; issue Sarah, born 1719. married Hendrick Vandewater; Henry, 1722; Phebe. about 1725, married Andrew Gewara : and Gerrit, 1731. Henry, last named, was perhaps the blockmaker. made freeman 1770, and Gerrit, the store- keeper at Fly Market, 1776. Henricus, born 1712, freeman 1734. married that year Susannah, daughter of Benjamin Bill, and widow of William Golding, and was a printer in King (now Pine) Street, in 1753. His widow sold part of the property August 2, 1766. His children known but in part: his daughter, Susannah, married, 1754, Samuel Brown, stationer, and daughter Caroline, married, 1759, Richard King, mariner. Jesse married, June 14, 1719, Teuntie Titsoort. He died April 12, 1755; she September 3, 1761. Their children who reached maturity were Abraham, born 1722: Henricus, 1724, and Margaret, 1732, who married Captain William Long. Of these, Henricus, blacksmith, married Elizabeth Young, and died prior to August 21. 1772, when administration on his estate was granted his widow. Abraham, hatter, married, in 1744, Elizabeth Myer; in 1758 went out as master-at-arms in the privateer Peggy; in 1760, 'I and '2, com- manded companies from New York against the French, on the frontiers. His wife died April 6, 1761. Captain De Forest removed to Dutchess County, and was living in 1774. His children were Jesse, born 1745; Elizabeth, 1746; Peter, 1748; Anna, 1752; Abraham, 1754; Henry, 1756; Cornelia, 1758, and Deborah, 1759.
David De Forest, born 1669. removed to Stratford, Connecticut, sub- sequent to 1693, where he married in 1696. His wife was Martha. her maiden name Blagge, as says tradition, with probable truth. Evidently she was related to Edward, Samuel, and Benjamin Blagge, of New York, but not a sister, as we conclude from the will of their father, Captain Benjamin Blagge, dated June 6, 1695, and other records. David died in April, 1721, his widow (after a second marriage) in 1740, aged 63 years.
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For a list of his male descendants, who have mostly lived in Connecticut, see Bronson's History of Waterbury. His children were Mary, Sarah, Martha, David, Samuel, Isaac, Edward, Henry, Elizabeth, and Benjamin. The last, born 1716, married Esther Beardslee, and was father of Benjamin, born 1749 (who married Mehitable Curtis), father of Ben- jamin, born 1780 (married Alma Southmayd), father of John De Forest, M. D., of Watertown, Connecticut, whose wife was Lucy S. Lyman. His only child is Mr. Erastus L. De Forest. Said Benjamin, born 1749, was father of David C., born 1774, founder of the "De Forest Fund," of Yale College, and whose son, Carlos M. De Forest, born 1813, removed to Troy, Pennsylvania, where his children now reside. Hezekiah, born 1745, a son of Benjamin, born 1716, was father of Samuel A., of Stratford, born 1784, died 1852, who settled in Danby, Tioga County, New York, and was the father of Mr. Charles De Forest, of Waverly. Samuel De Forest, born 1704, son of David and Martha, was father of Joseph, born 1731, whose son Gideon removed to Edmeston, Otsego County, New York, died in 1840, and had sons Abel B., Lee, Cyrus H. (of Buffalo), Charles A., and Tracy R. De Forest. Nehemiah, born 1743, a brother of Joseph, was father of Lockwood, born March 5, 1775, who married Mehitable Wheeler, and began business as a merchant in Greenwich Street, New York, in 1816, but three years later, with his son William, founded the well-known mercantile house of De Forest & Son, at 82 South Street. Mr. Lock- wood De Forest died November 28, 1848. His sons, like himself, nearly all merchants and enterprising business men, were William W., George B., Alfred, Frederick L., James G., Henry G. (lawyer), and Frederick L., 2d. His daughters were Mary L., who married Roger Sherman Skinner, of New Haven; Susan, who married Daniel Lord; Eliza, who married Samuel Downer; Jane, who married Burr Wakeman; Ann, who married Simeon Baldwin; Sarah, who married Walter Edwards, and Louisa, the wife suc- cessively of Samuel Woodruff and Thomas F. Cock, M. D.
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Dr. Johannes La Montagne, prominent in the affairs of New Nether- land, has a relatively important place in Harlem history, as is set forth in the preceding pages. We give briefly the sequel of his life; then notice his descendants. Derick Corssen Stam, supercargo in the vessel which brought the De Forests over, had a brother Arent, whose widow. Agnes, a daughter of Gillis Ten Waert, was wooed by the Doctor, after the death of his wife, Rachel De Forest. As Arent had been lost at sea (see page 150), it proved an obstacle to their union, but this was overcome, as is shown by the following proceeding of July 18, 1647: "Mr. Johannes La Montagne appeared before the council, and requested leave to marry Angenietie Gillis Ten Waert, widow of Arent Corssen. Being fully per- suaded that he perished, as the Lords Directors have written, that they had left nothing untried to learn about him, but were entirely ignorant of his fate; therefore if Mr. La Montagne, and she Angenietie, have no scruples regarding it, they are at liberty to marry." Two months later they were married.
* We cannot follow here the various spellings of this name which occur. but ob- serve the form Montanye, as most accordant with modern usage, and with its original. the Latin Mons, in French Montagne, Mountain; see page 48. The change of the o. in some branches, to a and i, seems unfortunate. After he came to this country. Dr. Montanye, previously signing his name "Mousnier de La Montagne," invariably wrote it "La Montagne," omitting his family name Mousnier or Monier, which, how- ever, was sometimes used by all his sons, and even grandsons, before it was finally dropped. (See p.p. 79, 591.)
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Montanye was commended for his discreet rule as vice-director at Fort Orange, which lasted till 1664; much of his official correspondence with Stuyvesant is preserved. He prudently swore allegiance to the new government, but from this date is lost sight of, and probably accompanied his old friend Stuyvesant on his errand to Holland in 1665, to defend his course in surrendering the country to the English. There is reason to conclude that Dr. Montanye died abroad in 1670. He had eight children, viz., Jolant, born 1627; Jesse, 1629; John, 1632; Rachel, 1634; Maria, 1637; William, 1641; Gillis, 1650, and Jesse, 1653. The last two died young, as had Jolant. The first Jesse was commissary of stores, 1647, but died soon after. Rachel married Dr. Gysbert Van Imbroch, and Maria married Jacob Kip, whose descendants have been locally prominent .*
William Montanye (he styled himself De La Montagne) joined the church at New Amsterdam October 2, 1661, when he came to Harlem. Called to be voorleser at Esopus, he held that office till 1678; from 1668 adding the duties of secretary. He married May 19, 1673, Elenora, daugh- ter of Anthony De Hooges, and that year drew 300 guilders from the Orphan Chamber, at Leyden (whence derived is left to conjecture) ; to obtain which he chose as guardians his cousins, Panhuysen and Du Toict, the sons-in-law of Gerard De Forest.t Leisler made him high sheriff of Ulster County, December 24, 1689. He had removed to Mombackus, town of Rochester, and was living 1695. His children were Rachel, born 1674, who married Harman Decker; Johanna, 1676, living 1699; William, 1678; Maria, 1680, married Nicholas Westfall; Johannes, 1682; Jesse, 1684; Eve, 1686, married Derick Krom, and Catharine, 1688, who married John Bevier. Ulster County records are strangely silent as to William's sons.
John Montanye was born at Leyden, and first appears as Jean Monier De La Montagne, Jr., later as Jan La Montagne, Jr. He early joined the church at New Amsterdam, where, in 1652, he taught school a few months, under an appointment from the directors in Holland; then was made com-
* Dr. Gysbert Van Imbroch, descendants of whom, in New York and New Jersey, write their name Van Emburgh and Van Amburg, was a physician; had a sister, Barbara, the first wife of Thomas Verdon; see p. 164. In 1655 Van Imbroch, then for two years a shopkeeper at New Amsterdam, was permitted "to make a lottery of a certain number of bibles, testaments and other books." His marriage probably took place at Fort Orange, whither he went to live, Rachel being his second wife. They removed to Wiltwyck or Kingston, joining the church by letter, December 16, 1662 (see pp. 200, 202) and here Van Imbroch practiced medicine, being one of the schepens from 1663 till his death, August 29, 1665, his wife having died October 4, 1664. Their children were, Elizabeth, born 1659; Johannes, 1661, and Gysbert, 1664; all of whom removed to New York. Elizabeth married John Peeck. Gysbert, shoe- maker, came to New York in 1686, married. 1688, Jannetie, daughter of Peter Mesier, and acquired property; see Deeds N. Y. 26, 327, and Albany, 14, 11. He had nine children; some died in infancy. See N. Y. Corp. Manual for 1863, p. 825, and 1864, p. 829. Johannes Van Imbroch was "doctor of physic;" married, in 1687, Margaret, daughter of Arie Van Schaick, and later Catherine, daughter of Capt. William Sand- ford, of Bergen County, N. J., where Dr. Van Imbroch then lived, and where he made his will, June 6, 1729, proved September 13, 1742. He had sons and daughters, the former, Gysbert, William and John. His daughter, Mary, married John Sand- ford; Catherine married Richard Gibbs, of New Brunswick, and Elizabeth married Jacobus Bertholf, 1729.
t We, Commissaries of the Court at Kingston, do certify that before us has appeared William Monier de La Montagne, son of the elder deceased Johannes Monier de La Montagne, begotten by Rachel de Forest; that said William Monier de La Montagne has given to Mr. Gabriel Monvielle, merchant at New York, a bill of ex- change for three hundred guilders Holland money, reckoned at twenty stivers per guilder: And that Mr. Monville or his order may receive the same, therefore the above named William Monier de La Montagne by these constitutes and makes, even as he is himself authorized and fully empowered to do, his guardians or friends, Sieur Johannes Panhuysen and Mr. David du Toict, living in the city of Leyden, on his behalf and in the constituent's name, to take up from his money due from the Orphan Chamber of the said city, the betorenamed three hundred guilders, and to deliver the same according to the bill of exchange, to Mr. Gabriel Monville or to his order, promising to hold good that which they shall do in the premises. In witness whereof, we with our own hand, as also the Hon. Commissaries, Cornelius Wynkoop and Joost Adriaens, have subscribed this on the date, 27th March, 1673, at Kingston, in the Esopus .- Esopus Records.
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missary of accounts. Entering into trade with Vincent Pikes, in 1654, Montanye, about midsummer of that year, sailed for Holland, and while there (as noticed page 94) married Peternella Pikes, two years his junior. Returning alone to this country, he bought a residence on Marck- velt-steeg, from his uncle De Forest, September 26, 1655, preparatory to the coming of his wife, who soon arrived, with her infant, John, born at Amsterdam, and there baptized, at the Walloon church, October 21, 1655. On the institution of the burgher right, Montanye's name was the first enrolled on the list of Great Burghers, April 10, 1657. That year he was Farmer of the Retail Excise, and was made a Fire-warden, December 23, 1658.
One of the first, if not the first, to take up land at the proposed New Haerlem, in which enterprise he felt a special interest, owing to the proximity of his father's lands, Vredendal, he sold his home on the Marckvelt-steeg to Johannes Verveelen, June 27, 1659, and removed hither, being chosen deacon in 1660. He was living here the next winter, when he bought "a horse, with a saddle and bridle," for 300 guilders, "in good strung current wampum." His next appointment was that of schepen of the new village, where all his interests centred, after the sale, February 14, 1662, of another house and lot, adjoining one owned by his father in Beaver Street. His service as schout, secretary, and voorleser, has been duly noticed. Having lost his wife, he married, June 10, 1663, Maria, daughter of Isaac Vermilye, Dominie Selyns officiating; the bride's sis- ter, Rachel, being also married to John Terbosh. How Montanye acquired the property known as the Point, before patented to his father, as also its history till sold to Bogert, has been stated in the general history of the town, to which it properly belongs. As Montanye left the village within two years after getting permission to build on his Point (see page 236), but remained "in the jurisdiction of New Haerlem," it may be inferred that he put up buildings there, yet neither the bill of sale nor deed to Bogert mention any. They may have been destroyed. He or Bogert built the stone house whose ruins have disappeared within the last fifty years; it stood nearer the Mill Pond, and westerly a little from the late farm house, torn down by S. B. McGown, Esq., when about to erect his present dwelling. It antedated the late house, itself considerably over 100 years old, and built in the early childhood of Samson Benson, born 1736.
In May, 1670, Montanye dropped the Jr. from his name, indicating his father's decease. He himself died in 1672. His widow surviving another husband (see page 350), was buried November 23. 1689. Mon- tanye had children, John, born 1655; Vincent, 1657; Nicasius, 1659; Abra- ham, 1664; Jelante, 1667; Isaac, 1669; Peternella, 1671, and Johanna, 1673. Jelante married Bastiaen Kortright; Peternella married Peter See, and Johanna, posthumous, married Johannes Vredenburgh .* For Abraham and descendants, see page 591. Nicasius, named for his god-father, Hon. Nicasius De Sille, joined the Labadists at Bohemia Manor (see page 359). and was of those who shared the lands in 1698. He then returned to New York and bought a lot on Broadway, June 10, 1702. His only children, Samuel, born June 2, 1698, and Jesse, born November 21, 1699, were baptized June 26, 1703, near which date Nicasius died. His widow, Christina, a daughter of Nicholas Martensen Roosevelt, married John
* Peter See was son of Isaac and Maria, named p. 371, and father of Isaac See, born 1703, who married Eve Foshay. October 5, 1734. Their son, Peter. born March 20. 1737. married, June 20. 1765, Sophia De Kevere, and died October 18, 1800; issue, Isaac, born July 12, 1766: John, April 18, 1768; Abraham. April 16, 1770: Jacobus, Jan- uary 1, 1772; Catrina, November 21. 1774: Maria, June 22, 1780, and Leah, Octo- ber 13, 1784. Tohn, last named, inarried Maria Seaman, December 2, 1797. and re- moved to New York. Their children were. John D .. born September 20, 1709; Isaac. July 14, 1801; Clara, August 2, 1803; Eliza Ann, January 13, 1806; Mahala, June 7, 1809: Barney, January 27. 1812: David, November 16, 1813; George Comb, August 24, 1818; Catherine, October 7, 1820, and Maria, August 4. 1822. Isaac, last named. married Grace Sands Hudson, July 10. 1821, and died December 25, 1829, being father of Rev. John L. See, D.D., Rev. Wm. G. E. See, and Rev. Isaac M. Sec.
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Hammell; they sold said lot February 26, 1704, and are traced no further. Isaac Montanye, usually called Isaac Monier De La Montagne, on April 26, 1679, when 10 years old, was bound by his mother for 3 years to John Dyckman, who was to clothe him and send him "to the day or evening school." When grown up he served as a soldier in His Majesty's fort at New York, under Captain Leisler. In 1696 he married Hester Van Voorst, from Albany, and died in 1703; the next year his widow married Alexander Phoenix. Isaac left issue Sarah, born 1696; Johannes, 1698; Jacobus, 1700, and Isaac, 1702. Sarah married 1717 James Mackintosh, and 1730 Samuel Van Naamen. Jacobus was in New York 1738; Isaac, not named, appears to have gone to New Jersey; neither traced further. Johannes, born 1698, remained in New York, married, February 7, 1726, Susannah, daughter of Harman Bussing. She died April 27, 1736; he on September 26, 1762. Their children were Sarah, born 1726, married Daniel Brand; Isaac, 1729; John, 1730; Hester, 1733, married Captain Lazarus Peperall, and Harman, 1736, the last a mason, and living 1763. His brother John, painter and glazier, married 1760 Catharine White, and died in 1772, his widow, in 1814, aged 87 years. John left issue, Susannah, born 1763, married William Gibson; John, 1766, not in his mother's will, 1811, per- haps he who died April 1, 1802; and Catharine, 1768, who married William Gamble. Isaac, born 1729, died April 26, 1814, in Cedar Street, had by wife Anna Speer, sons Isaac, born 1763; John, 1765, and Harmanus, 1769, besides daughters. Harmanus was a house-carpenter, married, November I, 1794, Anna Tabele, and lived in 1798 at 46 Cortlandt Street. Isaac and John, like their father, were masons; the first married, September 18, 1785, Sarah Stitcher, had known issue John, born 1786, and Ann, 1788, and lived in 1798 at 34 Lumber Street. John, born February, 1765, mar- ried Mary Weldon, May 3, 1788, and died December 13, 1820; issue that reached maturity, Catharine, born December 18, 1790, married J. Wyck- liffe Donnington, printer ; Isaac, August 8, 1793; William, November 14, 1796; Abraham, March 8, 1799; and Ann Maria, November 2, 1803, who survives. William, lapidary, who married Elizabeth Marshall, and died February 3, 1842, aged 45 years, was father of William H. Montanye, coffee and spice dealer, 62 Barclay Street.
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