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Hendricus, the oldest, born November 10th, 1697, married, May 29th, 1730, Maria Phoenix of New York. He resided there, and 011 his decease left two sons surviving him, viz : Arent and Johannes.
Arent, the youngest son of Jonathan, born July 26th, 1702, mar- ried, first, Maritje, daughter of William Hall, February 3d, 1726 ; second, Mary Griffiths, widow of Lieutenant Thomas Burrows, Feb- ruary 4th, 1749. Arent died May 17th, 1758. For more than twenty years before his decease he acted as Indian interpreter, and was often employed by Sir William Johnson in negotiations with the different tribes. He had by his two marriages six sons and four daughters, respectively named Jonathan, William, Nicholas, John,
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Jacobus, Richard, Catrina, Maria, Lea and Anna. There is only proper room to particularize one of them.
Jonathan, his oldest child, born December Ist, 1726, who, as first lieutenant under Captain William McGinnis, with eighty-nine inen of Schenectady, was at the battle of Fort George, September 7th, 1755, where both officers were killed, and the company then deci- mated ; this was the preliminary ambush fight with Baron Dieskaw, where the great King Hendrick and the gallant Colonel Ephraim Williams (the munificent founder of Williams College, and after whom it was named) were killed. According to Sir William John- son's official report, the Schenectady officers and men "fought like lions."
Jonathan Stevens was less than thirty years of age and unmarried, at the time he was killed. Captain McGinnis married Margaret, daughter of Peter Veeder, February 21st, 1751, and left an only child, Alexander, who died February 13th, 1770.
The descendants of William Teller, ninth proprietor, are as follows :
John, the oldest child of William Teller, born in 1641, settled in Schenectady as early as 1659, and on the 18th of August, 1686, married the daughter of Captain Johannes Wendell of Albany. In 1690, on the burning of Schenectady, he was carried away captive by the French and Indians to Montreal, but was ransomed and returned after several month's detention. In 1700 his father, Wil- liam, in consideration that John had sustained heavy losses by the destruction of Schenectady in 1690, conveyed to him 'his bouwery and farm at that place. John died May 28th, 1725, aged about eighty-four years, leaving three sons and three daughters, viz :
William, born October 4th, 1695, was married on the 5th of March, 1731, to Catharine, daughter of William Van Allen of Albany. He lived on the Teller bouwery, No. 5, next west of Tel- ler's Killitie and died April 25th, 1757.
John, second son of John, died unmarried.
Jacobus, third son of John, born July 15th, 1698, probably died unmarried.
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Margaret, a daughter of John, born February 19th, 1693, married Jacob Schermerhorn.
Maria, another daughter, born December 25th, 1700, married Abraham Glen of Scotia.
Anna, also a daughter, born February 20th, 1704, inarried Har- inanus Veeder.
John, son of William, Jr., married Jane, daughter of John Dela- mont.
Jacobus, also a son of William, Jr., married Maria, daughter of Joseph R. Yates. In 1764 he was an Indian trader in company with John and Henry Glen, and was killed by the Indians at Detroit, September 27th, 1784. This was the father of William Teller, a talented and prominent lawyer of Schenectady, who died July 19th, 1815, aged forty years, and who was the first surrogate of Schenec- tady county.
William, also a son of Williamn, Jr., married Helena, daughter of Jacobus Van Eps.
Thus, from the line of his son, John Teller, the blood of the old proprietor, William Teller, circulates through several channels in this cominunity.
Catalina Bradt, widow of Arent Andreas, sent down the following posterity so that the blood of the old proprietor, Arent Andries, still courses in the veins of many of Schenectady's sons and daughters.
For, of their remaining children, Aeffie, (Eve) inarried Nicholas Van Patten, who came to Schenectady in 1664, and in 1668 pur- chased the bouwery of Cornelise Van Esselstyne, lying next west of the farm of Ryer Schermerhorn, who was his brother-in-law. This farın remained in the Van Patten family for several generations. They each lived to an advanced age. He died October 3d, 1728, aged eighty-seven years and five months ; she died January 23d, 1728, aged seventy-eight years. In 1690 he was appointed a justice of the peace by Leisler.
Arent, the oldest son of Nicholas, April 10th, 1703, married Jan- netje, daughter of Philip Coyn of Albany.
Andries, another son of Nicholas, December 26th, 1712, married Muike, daughter of Jacob Ten Eyck of Albany.
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Nicholas, also a son of Nicholas, Sr., April 20th, 1712, married Rebecca, daughter of Simon Groot, Jr.
Deborah, another daughter of Nicholas, Sr., April Ist, 1700, mar- ried Cornelius Viele, Sr., who was the first Viele settled at Maalyck, on the north shore of the Mohawk river, about two iniles above the Reforin church in Scotia.
Catalynje, also a daughter of Nicholas, Sr., November 8th, 1694, married Teunis Dirkse Van Vechten of Lunenburg (now Athens), Greene county.
Gertrude, also a daughter of Nicholas, Sr., April 17th1, 1687, mar- ried Lourens Class Van Der Volgen. At the destruction of Schenec- tady, in 1690, he was carried away captive to Canada by the Indians, with whom he remained several years-so late as 1699-acquiring a perfect knowledge of their language. After his return he was appointed interpreter of the province for the Five Nations, at a salary of £60 per annum, which office he held until his decease in 1740.
Harriet, another daughter of Catalina Bradt, and widow of Helmner Otten, in July. 1676, married Ryer Schermerhorn, son of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn. Their immediate children have been hereinbefore noticed. But it is deemed proper to note some particulars about their grandson, a son of their son John, named Ryer, who was a inan of remarkable perseverance, energy and determination.
Ryer Schermerhorn was born on the 24th of September, 1716. June 8th, 1746, he married Maria, daughter of Corset Vedder, and secondly Maria, daughter of Ryckert Van Vranken, June 8th, 1750. He died March 6th, 1795, and had always resided at Schuylerberg (the Mills).
Richard, son of Ryer, born March 9th, 1755, married Annatje Van Vechten. His daughter Maria, July 18th, 1779, married Douwe J. Clute, and his daughter Helena, November 8th, 1781, married Nioholas P. Clute.
Maria, a daughter of Ryer, born November 10th, 1752, married Peter Van Guysling, in 1770.
Gerrit, a son of Ryer, born October 23d, 1763. On May 18th, 1787, married Mariatje, daughter of Arent Schermerhorn, Jr. He
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died in Rotterdam, March 24th, 1848, in his eighty-fifth year, leav- ing the following children : Jacomyntje, born August 10th, 1790; Maria, born March 27th, 1792 ; Jacob, born May 28th, 1794 ; Cath- aria, born September 27th, 1796.
Engeltie, a daughter of Ryer, born August 11th, 1762, married Class Schermerhorn. She died October 6th, 1834, aged seventy- three years, one month and twenty-five days.
Bartholomew, another son of Ryer, born August 24tlı, 1757. On the Ioth day of July, 1785, inarried Annatje, daughter of John Tel- ler. He died at his country seat in Rotterdam (the Mills), July 16th, 1845, aged eighty-seven years. His wife died May 4th, 1844, in her seventy-seventh year.
Ryer, their oldest son, was a printer, born December 8th, 1786. He married Gertrude Abel, and died November 11th, 1850.
John, their second son, born October 12th, 1787. On the 6th of April, 1806, married Gertrude, daughter of Andries Van Patten. He died February 29th, 1872.
Bartholomew Teller, born March 26th, 1807.
Andrew Vedder, born April 18th, 1809.
Ann Maria, born December 18th, 1811.
William, born June 30th, 1814.
Angelica, born February 25th, 1819.
Barnardus Freeman, born February 4th, 1812.
Abram Van Patten, born July 9th, 1823.
Simon - -, born October 4th, 1824.
James -, born February 17th, 1827.
Bartholomew, their son, was born December 8th, 1789.
Jane, their daughter, born April 16th, 1792, married Nicholas Viele of Glenville. She died November 17th, 1860. He died November 24th, 1861.
Maria, a daughter of Bartholomew Schermerhorn, Sr., born July 26th, 1794, died April 5th, 1816.
Annatje, also a daughter, born August 14th, 1799, married Jacob DeForrest, Jr., of Rotterdam, and died April 27th, 1851, aged fifty- two years.
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Bernardus Freeman, also a son of Bartholomew, born December 22d, 1801, died suddenly, August 25th, 1871, at a religious meeting in the First Dutch Reformed church of Schenectady.
Catherine, a daughter of Bartholomew, born October 9th, 1804, married James B. Schermerhorn of Rotterdamn.
Eliza Margaret, the youngest daughter of Bartholomew, born October 13th, 1811, married Martin DeForrest of Schenectady, Sep- tember 19th, 1832.
It has been said that Ryer Schermerhorn, the father of Bartliolo- mew, and grandson of the first Ryer, was a man of remarkable per- severance, energy and determination. An illustration cannot be out of place at this point. It is handed down by well established autho- rity, that shortly after the termination of the Revolutionary War, when the long contested suit of Ryer Schermerhorn against the Trustee of the Schenectady Patent was pending in our Supreme Court, Ryer Schermerhorn, the plaintiff, was unexpectedly informed by his counsel, Judge James Duane, that certain documents, then in the hands of one Appel, at New York, must be in court at Albany, within eight days from that time, or his cause would be greatly endangered. Bear in mind there were then no telegraphs, no steamli- boats, no stage routes, miserable roads, only a weekly mail, the sloops took generally two weeks, sometimes three, to accomplish the distance between Albany and New York. Nothing daunted, Scher- merhorn started single-handed, in a canoe from Albany, went to New York, procured the necessary documents, and on the morning of the first session of court, much to the surprise and gratification of his counsel, delivered him the desired papers. This certainly would be called something of a feat for a young man of the present day.
Samuel Bradt, another son of Arent Andreas and Catalina, mar- ried Susanna, another daughter of Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck.
Arent, their oldest child, built and resided in the ancient brick house, now standing southwest of the first lock above the city. He married Catrina, daughter of Jan Pieterse Mabie. She died in 1773, aged eighty-two years, two months and seventeen days. They had five sons and five daughters. Their youngest child, Angelica, born
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August 26th, 1733, married Daniel Campbell of Schenectady.
Margaret, a daughter of Samuel, born April 26th, 1686, married Captain Daniel Toll, who, on the 18th of July, 1748, was murdered by the French Indians, at a place (in the present town of Glenville), called the Cleykuil, less than half a mile north of Beukendahl, where, on the same day, Nicholas DeGraff and twenty-four others were killed by the French and Indians. They had two sons and five daughters. Their second daughter, Elizabeth, born January 14th, 1721, married the Rev. Cornelius Van Santvoord. Their youngest daughter, Gertrude, born August 7tlı, 1729, inarried Jellis Clute.
Jacobus, second son of Samuel, born January 3d, 1695, married Margaret, daughter of Johannes Clute. They had five sons and three daughters. Their daughter Bata, born January 30th, 1732, inarried Abraham Watson.
Catalyntje, another daughter of Samuel, born December 21, 1701, married Jacobus Van Slyck, September 2d, 1732. He was colonel and commanding officer at Schenectady in 1754. He was a member of assembly in 1750 and 1771. He left two sons, Harmanus, born August 5th, 1733, and Samuel, born March 17th, 1738; and two daughters, Gertrude, born November Ist, 1734, and Jannetje, born June 13th, 1736. This last married Philip Riley.
Susanna, also a daughter of Samuel, born January 2d, 1704, mar- ried Bartholomew Vrooman, March 11th, 1726.
Andreas, another son of Samuel, born October 28th, 1705, inar- ried Anna DeGraff of Esopus, January 29th, 1743.
Samuel, son of Samuel, born April 30th, 1707, married Catharia, daughter of Arent Van Patten, October 10th, 1732. They had four sons and six daughters.
Ephraim, also a son of Samuel, born February 12th, 1712, mar- ried Clara, daughter of Philip Borsie, and widow of Cornelius Viele, Jr., in May, 1751. They had three daughters of whom Susanna inarried David Siger ; Cornelia married Martin Van Benthuysen and Margaret married Nicholas Van Patten.
Dirck Bradt, another son of Arent Andrease and Catalina, born in 1661, married Maritie, daughter of Jan Baptist Van Eps. He inher- ited his step-father's, Van Bockhoven's farm in Niskayuna (Van Bock-
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hoven was the third husband of his mother, Catalyntje). They had three sons and four daughters. Catalina, born June 27th, 1695, mar- ried in 1725, William Berrit. Maria, born September 22d, 1698, mar- ried Rykert Van Vranken. John, born May 22d, 1704, married, Feb- ruary roth, 1732, Margaretta, daughter of Gerrit R. Van Vranken. Dirck, born July 20th, 1710, married, November 5th, 1732, Annatje, daughter of Arent D. Van Antwerpen.
Catalina, this venerable woman, the daughter of Andreas DeVos, deputy director of Rensselaerwyck and Veeders, hereinbefore noticed, was thrice married. First, in 1648, to Arent Andrease Bradt, to whom she bore all her children, except one to her second husband, Van Ditmars. Arent Andrease dying in 1662, on the 12th of November, 1664, she married Barent Jans Van Ditmars, who, with his son Cor- nelius, their only child, was killed at the massacre in 1690. Corne- lius had married Catharina, a daughter of John Alexander Glen of Scotia, who, after his death, married Gerrit Lansing, Jr. In 1691, Catalina married Class Janse Van Bockhoven, her third husband. He made his will January 11th, 1698, devising his whole estate equally to the six Bradt children of his wife Catalina. She survived him and died in 1712, aged about eighty-four years.
It has been stated that Andries Arent Bradt (brewer, son of Cata- lina), and one of his children, were killed at the massacre in 1690 ; but he left two children surviving him, Bathsheda, a daughter subse- quently married to Charles Burns, and Captain Arent Andrease Bradt, a son, who, under then existing laws of the colony, was the right of his grandfather, Arent Andries, one of the first settlers of Schenec- tady.
There are no means of ascertaining accurately when Captain Andrees was born, but with the knowledge that his father, Arent Andrees, was killed in 1690, at the age of thirty-seven years, and that Captain Bradt was married March 4th, 1705, to Jannetje, daugh- ter of John Hendrickse Vrooman, (brother of the heroic Adam Vrooman, the bold defender of his home in 1690), it is quite safe to assume approximately that he was born about the year 1680, and, as he died in 1767, he must have been, at the time of his death, about
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the age of eighty-seven; tradition hands it down as about ninety years.
Captain Bradt was one of the most remarkable citizens of Schenec- tady's olden time, and was distinguished for marked decision and probity of character. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1745, and a trustee of the township of Schenectady from 1715 to 1767, when he died, (a period of fifty-two years), being for many years sole surviving trustee. Well knowing the legal difficulties and contentions which had previously existed, through the claims of Ryer Schermerhorn, his relative and a former surviving trustee, to ownership, to prevent a recurrence of such claims and litigation, he, with great care and solemnity, executed a will of date March 11th, 1765, which was admitted to probate at Albany, November 19th, 1770.
It became the sheet-author of Schenectady's common land inter- ests in subsequent legal conflicts with Ryer Schermerhorn, and a fictitious set of trustees, appointed by him as the successor of his father, John, and his grandfather, Ryer, Sr., the old surviving trustee.
Captain Bradt built and occupied, until his death, an ancient house with a brick front, standing on the north side of State street, near Washington avenue (on his ancestral village lot), being the building once occupied by Mr. J. W. McMillan for his marble works. Its appearance was truly venerable. Its unpretentious Dutch gable fronting on State street was erected of brick said to be imported from Holland. The building was deep in proportion to its frontage, its pitch-pine timbers were immense, and apparently not affected by age, unless as they seem hardened and solidified. It was taken down a few years ago.
This was unquestionably the oldest building remaining in the city of Schenectady, but precisely when erected, cannot now be determined. Old settlers have long called it the oldest dwelling, and unless it be the Scotia mansion, erected by John Alexander Glen, in 1713, (Mr. Glen was thirty years older than Captain Bradt, and a contemporary with him), the Bradt building was probably the oldest dwelling standing in the former province of New York, unless we
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also except the old Pemberton building standing on the corner of North Pearl and Columbia streets, in the city of Albany, believed to have been erected in 1710, now taken down.
The following is the lineage from Jan Barentse Wemple, four- teenth proprietor. He was an inhabitant of Beverwyck as early as 1643. Having purchased the interest of Martin Maurice Van Slyck in 1662, he recovered, as joint owner with Martin Maurice's brother, Jacques Cornelise, a patent for the Great Island, lying immediately west of Schenectady, which interest was subsequently owned by Swear Teunise Van Velsen, who had married Wemp's widow. Wemp also had a house lot in the village, on the west side of Wash- ington street, a little north of State street, with a front of 200 feet on Washington street, running down with equal width to the strand on the main Bennekill. He died in 1663, and left the following named children surviving him, viz :
Myndert, born in 1649, married Deborah, daughter of Evert Janse Wendell of Albany. He was appointed a justice of the peace of Schenectady, by Leisler, in 1689. He was killed in the massacre of February, 1690, and his son John, with two of his negro slaves, was carried into captivity. This son John, after his return, married Cat- alina, daughter of Ryer Schermerhorn, June 15th, 1700, and sec- ondly, on the 16th of October, 1709, married Ariantje, daughter of Isaac Swits. He was one of the trustees of the Schenectady patent.
Barent, the second son of Jan Barentse, born in 1656, married Folkje, daughter of Symon Volkertse Veeder. He was appointed captain of a company of infantry, by Leisler, in 1690, and died in 1705, leaving a numerous family of children, from whom many of the inhabitants of this valley are descended.
Maria, his daughter, born in 1688, married Hendrick Vrooman.
Engeltie, his daughter, born in 1695, married Nicholas Hansen.
Margaret, his daughter, born in 1697, married Simon V. Veeder.
Anna, a daughter of Jan Barentse, born in 1653, married Captain Alexander Glen of Schenectady, a son of Alexander Lindsey Glen of Scotia.
Alida, another daughter, married Jan Cornelise Van der Heyden of Beverwyck.
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Jacques Cornelius Van Slyck was the fifteenth and last proprietor. He was possessed of a large landed interest, made his will on the 8th day of May, 1690, and died soon afterwards, aged fifty years, leaving a widow, Margaret, daughter of Harman Janse Ryckinan of Albany, who, on the 21st day of February, 1692, married her brother-in-law, Adam Vrooman, who so gallantly defended his dwelling, when his wife, Angelica (the sister of Margaret), with her infant child, were killed, and two of his sons, Barent and Walter were carried into captivity.
Harman, the oldest son of Jacques, born March 26th, 1704, mar- ried Jane, daughter of Adam Vrooman. He was captain of a Sche- nectady company in 1714, and Indian trader in 1724. He received a grant of three hundred morgans of land, at Canajoharie, from the Mohawks, because " his grandmother was a right Mohawk woman," and " his father born with us at Canajoharie." He also inherited a farm from his father on the first flat. He left a numerous family of children, and made his will November Ist, 1731. He died December 20th, 1734, leaving to his sons, Adam, James and Harmanus, one- half of his 2,000 acres of land at Canajoharie, known as Van Slyck's patent.
Cornelius, second son of Jacques, born on the 10th day of Febru- ary, 1696, married Clara Janse Bradt of Albany. He lived upon the first flat.
Hendrick, son of Cornelius, born June 6th, 1729, inarried Cath- arina, daughter of Cornelius Slingerland ; they had one child, Clara, who married Johannes J. Vrooman.
Anthony, son of Cornelius, born November 19th, 1730, married Margaret Van Slyck; they had one child, Cornelius, born 12th of April, 1731, who was the father of Harmanus Van Slyck, formerly a sheriff of Schenectady county. This Harmanus married Annatje, daughter of John Haverly, October 28th, 1798, and was the father of Anthony H. Van Slyck, born June 22d, 1800, who was, for one terni, sheriff of Schenectady county, and died January 6th, 1810. He married Wemple Haverly.
Adrian, son of Cornelius, October 17th, 1736, married Jannetje Viele; for his second wife, Bregie, daughter of Carel Hansen Toll,
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November 26th, 1741. Adrian was killed July 18th, 1748, in the Beukendahl massacre. Their daughter Clartje, November 7th, 1742, married Anthony Van Slyck.
Harmanus, son of Cornelius, August 16th, 1729, married first, Lydia, daughter of Harmanus Vedder; secondly, in 1738, Sarah Vischer. He was an Indian trader. He left surviving him four sons and six daughters, of whom his daughter Elizabeth married Gerrit Van Slyck, and his daughter Maria married Peter Symonse Veeder.
Cornelius, son of Cornelius, trader, March 11th, 1733, inarried Jannetje, daughter of Abraham Truax. He left surviving him several children, of whom his daughter, Gertrude, married John Lanı- bert, the renowned schoolmaster of Schenectady, who taught the boys of a generation, now all passed away, how to become inen. Some of his pupils subsequently became distinguished as men of mark in church, law and state.
Albert, son of Cornelius, September 17th, 1733, married Sarah, daughter of Jan Danielse Van Antwerpen. They had three daugh- ters, viz : Clara, Agnes and Lena.
Peter, son of Cornelius, August 30th, 1734, married Angelica, daughter of Dominie Reinhard Erickson, pastor of the Dutch church of Schenectady from 1728 to 1736. They had three sons and four daughters, of whom their son Cornelius, March 30th, 1764, married Catarina, daughter of Peter Veeder; and their son Adrian married Annatje, daughter of William Lighthall. Their daughter Clara married John Steers, and their daughter Annatje married Johannes Barhydt.
Col. Jacobus (James), son of Captain Harman, the oldest son of Jacques, was born May 28th, 1704. He married Catalina, a daughter of Samuel Bradt, September 2d, 1732. He was commanding officer of Schenectady in 1754, a mieinber of the provincial assembly in 1750, also in 1771. His son Harmanus, born August 5th, 1733, married Anna, a daughter of Alexander Glen, September 26th, 1767. His daughter Annatje, married Philip Ryley.
Adam, another son of Captain · Harman, born March 5th, 1721, married September 19th, 1747, Catharina, daughter of Jan Baptist Van Eps, and their son Harmanus married Maria, a daughter of Isaac
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Vrooman, December 5th, 1771, by whom he had a son named Adam, who removed to Montgomery county.
Adam also left a daughter, a sister of Harmanus, named Helena, born August 5th, 1759, who married Samuel Thorn, Esq. They were the parents of Jonathan Thorn, a gallant lieutenant in the United States navy, who distinguished himself under Decatur in the war with Tripoli ; and was one of the daring party that retook and destroyed the frigate Philadelphia under the guns of the Tripolitan batteries. He lost his life in the command of the exploring expe- dition sent out by John Astor to the Columbia river. (For particu- lars, see Irving's history of that memorable adventure.) They were also the parents of Herman Thorn, the millionaire of New York, and several other much-respected children.
Marten, the third son of Jacques Cornelise, married, March 23d, 1701, Margaret Gerritse Van Vranken. They had several children, viz : Jacob, Margaret, Ariantje, Susanna and Petrus, the last born October 30th, 1709, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse De Graff, April 9th, 1738. He was a captain in Colonel Abrahanı Wemple's company of the Revolutionary War.
During the eighteenth century there came to Schenectady these men whose names were gathered by Prof. Pierson from the church records of Schenectady and Albany, and to whose distinguished ser- vice the historian, Judge Sanders, has rendered just and generous tribute.
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