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John A., another son of Ahasueras, born June 8th, 1777, married, January 5th, 1800, Catharina, daughter of Jacob Schermerhorn. He died October 12th, 1845, aged sixty-eight years, leaving no issue. He was a Quaker, beloved by everybody, and died deeply regretted by all.
Sarah, a daughter of Ahasueras, married, October 9th, 1763, Wil- liam Lighthall.
Angelica, also a daughter, married Harmanus H. Van Slyck.
Class, another son of John, Sr., cordwainer, married, April 30th, 1757, Lena, daughter of Dirk Merselis. He is said to have been killed by lightning in 1766, while crossing the Mohawk river in a canoe.
John, oldest son of Class, born January 27th, 1760, inarried Catha- rina, daughter of Isaac Vrooman. He lived in Ferry street, directly opposite of the Episcopal church, and died December 15th, 1833.
Nicholas, his oldest son, born March, 1792, was a minister of tlie Reformed Dutch Church, and married Jane, daughter of Colonel Henry R. Teller.
Laurence, another son of John, born February 23d, 1795, was liv- ing until recently, and was a very much respected gentleman in Montgomery county.
Elizabeth, a daughter of John, born November 27tlı, 1785, inar- ried Jacob J. Clute.
Lena, another daughter, born December 11th, 1789, inarried Silas Andrews, a publisher, of Hartford, Connecticut.
Sarah, also another daughter, born September 12th, 1800, married Rev. Aaron A. Marselis.
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Nicholas, a son of Class, born September 14th, 1766, inarried, April 17th, 1795, Saralı, daughter of Petrus Clute. He died Novem- ber 28th, 1845, aged seventy-nine years. She died March 28th, 1872, aged ninety-four years, five months, twenty-one days. They had children.
Dirk, born May 6th, 1797, died September 11th, 1832.
Peter, born June 3d, 1801, father of Richard Marselis, Esq., of Schenectady.
Helena, born August 22d, 1806, died young.
Catharine, born January 22d, 1811, married Jacob F. Clute, Esq., of Schenectady ; died April 12th, 1846.
John, born November 2d, 1816, who recently died and who, with much attachment, occupied the old homestead on Front street.
Dirk, second son of Ahasueras, Sr., born January 5th, 1700, mar- ried, July 26th, 1726, Lysbet, daughter of Jan Baptist Van Eps.
Helena, Dirk's daughter, born March 4th, 1732, married Class Marselis.
Catharine, another daughter, born February 15th, 1736, married Pieter Clute.
Gysbert, also a son of Ahasueras, Sr., born June 4th, 1704, mar- ried, May 31st, 1730, Elizabeth, daughter of Arent Van Antwerpen.
Arent, oldest son of Gysbert, born November 26th, 1732, married, December 23d, 1758, Rebecca, daughter of Jacob Vrooman.
Captain Ahasueras, also a son of Gysbert, born April 12th, 1740, married, September Ist, 1765, Hester, daughter of Nicholas Visscher of Niskayuna.
Takel, another son of Gysbert, born January Ist, 1709, married, March 16th, 1738, Jacomyntje, daughter of Jan Baptist Van Eps.
Isaac, also a son of Gysbert, born June 29th, 1723, married, August 5th, 1748, Sarah, daughter of Wouter Swart. He was a merchant.
Sara, a daughter of Gysbert, born June 9th, 1734, married Jacobus Van Sice.
Class Andrease DeGraff, 1688, left the following well authenticated lineage :
Abraham, the oldest son of Class Andrease, born November 14th, 1688, married, August 17th, 1725, Rebecca, daughter of Abrahamn
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Groot. He lived in the old red house, standing on the margin of the Sacandaga turnpike, near the residence of Phillip R. Toll, Esq., and his burying-ground lies not far from the rear of the house.
In his family Bible, still in tolerable preservation, are transcribed the following entries on the fly-leaf, which entries are well sustained by traditionary history :
" 1746, October 30tlı, Abraham DeGraff and his son William, were taken captive to Canada."
"1747, June 12th, Abraham DeGraff, died at Quebec, in Canada, and was buried there."
" 1748, July 18th, Nicholas DeGraff, (son of Abraham), and twenty- six others, were murdered at Beukendahl by the savage Indians.". .
Nicholas, the oldest son of Abrahamn, born May 26th, 1726, mar- ried Ariantje, daughter of John Schermerhorn. We have seen, by the Bible entry, that he was killed at Beukendahl, when only a little more than twenty-two years old. He left surviving him an infant son, Abraham, who, on the 29th of January, 1774, married Mar- garetta, daughter of William Schermerhorn. Desolate as his father's family was left, Abraham died June Ist, 1810, leaving surviving him the following children :
Elizabeth, a daughter, born July 23d, 1775, married Thomas Chapman.
Tenneke, also a daughter, born November Ist, 1778, married Cor- nelius Viele.
Rachel, another daughter, born March IIth, 1781, died unmar- ried.
Abraham, a son, born December 16th, 1790, died at the advanced age of nearly eighty-eight years.
Lawrence, also a son, born May 25th, 1793, is lately deceased.
All the children of Abraham left numerous descendants, except Elizabeth and Rachel.
Abraham, another son of Abraham, who died at Quebec, born August 24th, 1732, married, August 4tl1, 1753, Rachel, daughter of Johannes Clute. He died January 19th, 1756, leaving an only child, Abraham, born April 20th, 1754.
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Cornelius, another son of Abraham, born November 23d, 1738, married, September 16th, 1769, Rebecca, daughter of Frederick Van Patten. He was for thirty-two years Voorleger of the Dutch church of Schenectady, and stout lungs his old admirers claim for him. He lived on the south side of State street, in a house next west of Mrs. Abel Smith's house and owned the lot on which her dwelling stands. In 1800 he removed to his farm in Glenville, near the location of the Beukendahl massacre, where he died July 11th, 1830, aged ninety-one years, seven months and seven days, having had three sons and three daughters. Albert W. Vedder, Esq., of Glenville, an aged citizen, was one of his grandchildren.
Willian1, also a son of Abraham, Sr., born November 20th, 1734, who was carried, with his father, captive to Canada, never returned. He probably died there, as his father did.
Hester, a daughter of Abrahamn, Sr., born April 18th, 1728, mar- ried Philip Ryley.
Jesse, son of Class Andriese, born August 4th 1688, married, October 20th, 1705, Aaltie Henmon in New York. He was carried away captive to Canada at one time, but returned.
Daniel, son of Jesse, born May 26th, 1708, married, June 26th, 1735, Gezina, daughter of Simon Swits. He died March 12th, 1790, aged nearly eighty-two years. She died January 22d, 1801, aged eighty-eight years.
Jesse, son of Daniel, born January 13th, 1745, married, November 19th, 1774, Rachel, daughter of Abraham Fonda. They had only one child, Daniel, who died young.
Simon, son of Daniel, born April 6th, 1753, married, December 6th, 1779, first, Annatie, daughter of Simon Schermerhorn. She died September 21st, 1783, leaving one child, Gezina, who died young. He secondly married, April 12th, 1787, Jannete, daughter of Harmanus Bradt. Their children were :
Daniel, born August 12th, 1788, who married a daughter of the old surveyor, Josias Swart ; also a son named Harmanus, born Janu- ary 8th, 1791 ; also a daughter named Annatje, born August 23d, 1794, and now the widow of Alexander Van Eps, and residing in Schenectady.
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Simon DeGraff's first wife, Jannete, was a sister of Maus and John Schermerhorn, deceased, aged citizens so long and favorably known in this community.
Isaac, son of Daniel, born November 16th, 1757, married, Decem- ber 19th, 1779, Susanna, daughter of John Baptist Van Eps. He died December 21st, 1844, aged eighty-seven years, one month and five days.
Daniel, oldest son of Isaac, born June 16th, 1780.
John, the second son of Isaac, born October 2d, 1783, died July 22d, 1848. He was several times mayor of Schenectady, was for many years a successful merchant, and one of the firmn of Walton & DeGraff, large contractors with the United States government, both by land and water, to forward supplies, ammunition, stores and necessities to its armies on the frontiers, and its navies on the western lakes. He also served the district in which Schenectady is located two terms in Congress. He died unmarried.
Jesse, another son of Isaac, born January 9th, 1801, married Gerzena, daughter of Harman Vischer of Canghnawaga, Montgom- ery county.
Gezina, oldest daughter of Isaac, born January 13th, 1788, married Abraham Oothout. This was the mother of our much esteemed citizen, G. Lansing Oothout, Esq.
Susanna, another daughter of Isaac, born March 29th, 1793, mar- ried the late Peter Bancker.
Annatje, also a daughter, born March 10th, 1795, married Philip Toll, son of Carl Hansen Toll.
Susanna, a daughter of Daniel, born May 5th, 1737, married Andreas Truax.
Gezina, another daughter of Daniel, born November 6th, 1747, married Colonel Frederick Vischer of Caughnawaga.
Alida, also a daughter, born March 9th, 1750, inarried Johannes Vedder.
Arnout (Arnold), another son of Charles Andreas, born in 1694, married, May 13th, 1715, Ariantje, daughter of Class Vander Volgen. He died March 27th, 1731, after which his widow married Harmanus Vedder.
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Class, son of Arnout, a carpenter, born March 14th, 1716, married, first, Leah Gonsalus ; secondly, married Caty, daughter of Abraham Truax, February Ist, 1754, in Albany.
Manuel, his oldest son, and by his first wife, born February 10th, 1751, married Rebecca Gonsalus. He was one of the first settlers of Amsterdam, Montgomery county. His farm was situated two miles east of that village. He has been succeeded on that farin by his son Manuel, born January 24th, 1789, and he by his son Manuel, the present owner. Manuel, the second, died in Amsterdam, July Ist, 1844, leaving several children. Philip Toll, Esq., of Glenville, mar- ried one of his daughters.
Isaac, also a son of Class Andrese, born August 4th, 1691, mar- ried, August 18th, 1725, Debora, daughter of Jeremiah Thickstone. He was a carpenter and lived on the north side of Front street, a little east of Church street.
Jeremiah, son of Isaac, born October 21st, 1727, married Annatje, daughter of Johannes Quackenbos, and left surviving him several sons and daughters.
John, also a son of Isaac, born April, 1740, married, first, Novem- ber 12th, 1763, Rebecca, daughter of Gerrit Van Vranken ; secondly, married, July Ist, 1769, Annatje, daughter of Harmanus Peek. He left surviving him three sons, respectively named Gerrit, Isaac and Harmanus.
Andries, another son of Class Andries, born in 1699, married Neeltje, daughter of Daniel Van Antwerpen. He left but one child, Lysbeth, who married, February 5th, 1726, Philip Groot.
Antje, a daughter of Class Andrese, born August 27th, 1693, mar- ried Cornelius Christianse.
Sara, another daughter, born January 8th, 1696, married John Marselis.
Eva, also a daughter, married Jacob Van Olinda.
Elizabeth, another daughter, married Nicholas Stensil.
Margarita, also a daughter, married Robert Yates.
Frederick Gerritse, fariner, and Elizabeth Christianse, his wife, were residents of Schenectady in 1687. On September 9th, 1689, he conveyed to Myndert Wemp ten acres of land at Maalwyck and
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Bent's Island, formerly belonging to Benjamin Roberts, always called by the old settlers " Bent Roberts," from which circumstance, the island in the Mohawk, three miles above the city and opposite the Viele farms, was so called.
The lineage of the old war horse Stevens runs as follows :
He was the great grandson of Jonathan Stevens of Connecticut. Nicholas Hendricus, oldest son of Jonathan, born November 10th, 1697, married, May 29th, 1730, Maria Phoenix. They had several children, but all died young and unmarried, except Arent and Johannes.
Arent, the oldest son of Nicholas Hendricus, married, November 20th, 1768, Jennetje DeSpitzer. He died in 1784, leaving surviving him the following named children :
Jonathan, born January 27th, 1770.
Thomas, born March 22d, 1772.
Margaret, born May 18th, 1777.
Maria, born December 31st, 1780.
Hendricus, born April 27tl1, 1782.
Nicholas, born February 26th, 1783, after his father's decease, and died in Schenectady, 18th of October, 1863.
Arent, second son of Jonathan, born July 26th, 1702, married, first, January 3d, 1726, Maria, daughter of William Hall; she died December 23d, 1739, aged forty-two years. He married, secondly, February 4th, 1749, Mary Griffiths, widow of Lieutenant Thomas Burrows of the British army ; she died July 2d, 1794, aged seventy- five years. Arent, himself, died May 15th, 1753. He owned lands, and for some time resided at Canajoharie. He often acted as Indian interpreter, and was also employed by Sir William Johnson in negotiations with the different tribes.
Captain Jonathan Stevens, the oldest son of Arent, born December Ist, 1726, was killed at the battle of Lake George, September 8th, 1755, a few miles from the fort, in a disastrous ambuscade, where the noble King Hendrick, the chivalric and generous Colonel Ephriam Williams, the founder of Williams College, and the brave Captains McGinnis and Stevens, both of Schenectady, fell, alinost side by side.
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It was of the two last that Sir William Johnson, in his official report of the battle and the capture of Baron Dieskaw, wrote : " Maginnis and Stevens fought like lions." Captain Jonathan was only twenty-eight years old when he so desperately lost his life, and was unmarried.
Arent's other children were named as follows :
Catarina, born August Ist, 1729, died August 27th, 1790.
William, born September 10th, 1732.
Nicholas, born November 14th, 1734.
Johannes, born July 31st, 1736.
Jacobus, born December 13th, 1739.
Second set of children :
Maria, born October 20th, 1750, married John Stuart.
Richard, born December 10th, 1752, died in 1800.
Anna, born April 22d, 1755, married Philip Franskel.
The Van Dykes are as follows :
Jacobus Van Dyck, physician and surgeon, son of Cornelius Van Dyck of Albany, also a physician and surgeon, married, October 25th, 1694, Jacomytje, daughter of John Alexander Glen of Scotia, where_ upon, immediately after that, he settled at Schenectady. He was surgeon of the fort there. His house and lot were on the west side of Church street, fifty feet north of State street.
Cornelius, son of Jacobus, born August 28th, 1698, became also a physician and surgeon, and married, first, November 12th, 1721, Maria, daughter of Jan Pieterse Mebie, and secondly, Margaret, daughter of Arent Bratt, March 16th, 1738. He died February 15th, 1759, aged about sixty-one years. He left surviving him several children, viz :
Elizabeth, born September 8th, 1722, married Harmanus Bratt.
Johannes, born May 24th, 1724, removed to Canajoharie.
Jacobus, born March 17th, 1726.
Hendricus, born August 29th, 1731, inarried Engeltje Mebie, daughter of Abraham Mebie, June 8th, 1753.
Jacomyntje, born September 16th, 1733, married Jolin Baptist Wendell.
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Cornelius, born October 8th, 1740, married, February 20th, 1762, Tannake, daughter of Joseph Yates. In the Revolutionary War he was lieutenant-colonel of the First New York Regiment of Conti- nentals, commanded by Colonel Gosen Van Schaick of Albany, and when Van Schaick became brigadier, Van Dyck was its colonel. During the whole war " this veteran First " was distinguished as one of the best disciplined and most gallant regiments of the whole army, and was engaged in many battles. He is but a tame student of history who cannot follow it through the capture of Burgoyne, the stormning of Stony Point, and the final assault on Yorktown. So great was the admiration of General Gates for the heroism of these veterans, that after the surrender at Saratoga, out of his whole ariny he selected Nicholas Van Rensselaer, one of its captains, to carry the intelligence of Burgoyne's capture to the anxious citizens of Albany. Colonel Van Dyck was the grandson of John Alexander Glen of Scotia, and lived in the old Van Dyck residence on Church street. He died June 9th, 1792, leaving no issue surviving him.
Cornelius Van Dyck was with Stevens, McGinnis and others; the bravest that Schenectady gave to her country.
Johannes Ouderkirk, son of Janse of Albany, came to Schenec- tady in 1695, and on the 20th of May of that year inarried Neeltje Class, widow of Hendrick Gardenier. His wife owned a lot of 100 feet front on the north side of Union street, one-half of which is now included in the Dutch church lot, and the other half owned by Aaron Barringer, Esq. To give some evidence of the value of lots for some time after the burning and desolation of Schenectady, this whole lot, then vacant, was valued at fifteen beaver skins, or $48. Ouderkirk left surviving him four daughters. His descendants, it is to be regretted, are not on record.
The descendants of Carel Hansen Toll, 1706, are as follows :
Captain Daniel Toll, the oldest son of Carel Hansen, born July IIth, 1691, married, September 8th, 1717, Grietje, daughter of Sam- uel Bratt. She was born March 24th, 1686; died March 22d, 1743. Captain Toll made his will in 1747, and was killed July 18th, 1748, together with his hired man, Dirk Van Vorst, who were hunting for his strayed horses. They were found barbarously murdered by the
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French and Indians, at a place called the "Klaykuil," about one- third of a mile north of the point of the Beukendahl inassacre. They were the first victims of that heart-rending slaughter.
John, the oldest son of Captain Daniel, born August 13th, 1719, married Eva Van Patten, December 23d, 1742, and died December 31st, 1746, about two years before his father was killed, leaving sur- viving a son.
Carel Hansen, born February 10th, 1746, who married, January Ioth, 1768, Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Ryley. He died August 26th, 1832. She died October 25th, 1839.
Hesther, his oldest child, born July 14th, 1768, married, first, John Teller, May 25th, 1787 ; secondly, Frederick Van Patten.
Eva, another daughter, born October 5th, 1771, married John C. Vedder.
Rebecca, also a daughter, born April Ist, 1778, married David Prime, Esq. She died December 25th, 1867, aged nearly eighty-nine years.
Rev. John Toll, the oldest surviving son, born September 13th, 1780, inarried January 31st, 1802, Nancy,daughter of Barent Myn- ders. He graduated at Union College in 1799, and entered the min- stry of the Reformed Dutch Church. He died on his farm, the old Carel Hansen homestead, October 21st, 1849, leaving surviving him a son, Philip Riley Toll, born February 8th, 1811, and a daughter, Sarah Jane, born September 8th, 1815.
Sarah, another daughter of Carel Hansen, born September 21st, 1783, married Arent Marselius.
Hannah, also a daughter, born March 17th, 1788, married Simon P. Van Patten.
Philip, the youngest son of Carel Hansen, born May 16th, 1793, inarried Nancy, daughter of Isaac DeGraff, and sister of the late Jolın DeGraff. He died August 17th, 1862.
Simon, the second son of Carel Hansen, Sr., born May 8th, 1698, married Hester, daughter of Isaac DeGraff, June 13th, 1731. He died in 1777, and his wife in 1793.
Elizabeth, his oldest child, born October 31st, 1731, married John Fairly.
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Carel Hansen, the oldest son of Simon, born September 2d, 1733, married Maria Kettle, October 2d, 1759. He left one son and three daughters, none of whom seem to have remained in Schenectady county.
Alida, daughter of Simon, born September 23d, 1735, married Johannes Mebie.
Annake, also a daughter, born December 21st, 1737, married Wil- liam Kettle.
John, a son of Simon, born July 24th, 1743, inarried, December 22d, 1764, Catharina, daughter of Arent Veeder. This was the father of our eccentric but respected citizen, Daniel J. Toll, a physi- cian, born, March 3d, 1776, who married, June 20th, 1801, Catalina Wemple. He died April, 1849, leaving no issue.
Jesse, also a son of Simon, born May 18th, 1746, married Maria Viele. He removed to, lived and died in Saratoga county.
Eva, another daughter, born January 15th, 1749, inarried Lodovi- cus Viele.
Daniel, the youngest son of Simon, born October 27th, 1751, mar- ried, July 2d, 1775, Susanna, daugliter of Isaac Jacobse Swits. This was the grandfather of our deceased citizen, Col. Abram W. Toll, and of his active brothers, Charles H. and Daniel Toll, Esq.
Breje, a daughter of Carel Hansen, Sr., born April 18th, 1703, married, November 26th, 1741, Adrian Van Slyck, who was killed at the Beukendahl massacre, July 18th, 1748. This was a grandson of the old proprietor, Jacques Van Slyck.
Lysbeth, also a daughter, born January 29th, 1706, married Pieter Cornee, December Ist, 1734. Cornee was a Frenchman, and a car- penter by occupation. He built the preeckstoel (pulpit) of the Dutch church of 1734 for £20. He owned, in 1738, a house and lot on the south side of State street, where the New York Central and Hudson River railroad now crosses.
The descendants of the famous Johannes Mynderse are as follows :
Myndert, his oldest son, born January 29th, 1706, married, January 15th, 1736, Maria, daughter of Jan Barentse Wemp. He inherited from his father, the premises now 93 State street, and land east of it. He died in 1763.
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Barent, son of Myndert, born February 6th, 1747, married Decem- ber 2d, 1770, Jannetje Van Vranken. He died August 30th, 1815.
Colonel Johannes, son of Myndert, born October 18th, 1741, mar- ried Annatje, daughter of Simon Vedder. He died October 29tlı, 1815, aged seventy-four years and four days. She died March 9th, 1825. He left surviving him, Simon, a son, born June 10th, 1787. He died unmarried.
Barent, another son, (physician), born July 17th, 1790, married, first, Catharine Douw Ten Eyck of Albany ; secondly, Sarah, daugh- ter of Jacob Kip, leaving surviving him one son, naned Aaron. Dr. Mynderse died March 8th, 1860.
Aaron, also a son, born September 3d, 1793, married Anna M., daughter of Rev. Herman Vedder, of Gallatin, Columbia county. He died September 24th, 1834, leaving one son and three daughters.
Gertrude, a daughter of Myndert, born July 11th, 1736, married Peter Van Der Volgen.
Margaret, another daughter, born May 24th, 1744, married Teunis A. Swart.
Margaret, daughter of John, the first settler, born September 28th, 1740, married Pieter Groenendyk.
Rynier (merchant) son of John, born October 6th, 1710, married, March 25th, 1743, Catharina, daughter Lourens Class Van Volgen. His father gave him a house and lot on State street, next east of his brother Myndert's lot ; also a lot on the west corner of State street and Mill Lane, on which stood his dwelling house in 1781. He made his will April 7th, 1784, and died soon afterwards.
John, son of Rynier, born December 25th, 1743, married Catha- rina, daughter of Joseph R. Yates, March 18th, 1758. He died Sep- tember 6th, 1819, aged nearly seventy-six years, leaving surviving him, one son, Joseph, born September 23d, 1770, who died Septem- ber 17th, 1830, aged sixty years, and unmarried ; also one daughter, Catharina, born September 6th, 1772, inarried to Hon. Henry Yates. She was the mother of our late deceased citizen, Stephen Yates, Esq.
Susanna, a daughter of Rynier, married April 18th, 1746, Volekert Veeder.
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Gertrude, also a daughter, married, November 27th, 1748, William Mead, M. D.
Lawrence, another son of Rynier, born October 12th, 1751, mar- ried, December 8th, 1785, Christina, daughter of Nicholas DeGraff. He died August 10th, 1789, leaving two daughters surviving him, nained Margaretta and Catalyje.
Jacobus (James), the third son of Johannes, born April 22d, 1709, married, April 22d, 1743, Sarah, daughter of Robert Yates. He was a citizen inuch esteemed, and a member of the provincial assembly in the years 1752, 1768 and 1769. He owned the lot next west of his brother Rynier's, corner of State street and Mill lane, being the property lately owned by G. Q. Carley, deceased, and now partly occupied by Church street continued. He also owned the lot oppo- site the court house, on Union street, probably inherited by his wife from her father, Robert Yates. He left surviving him two children.
Gertrude, his daughter, born September 8th, 1745, married My11- dert Wemple.
Margaret, another daughter, born May 24th, 1759, inarried John C. Yates.
The Fonda stock from Jellis, who came here in 1700, is as follows :
Douw, the oldest son of Jellis, born September Ist, 1700, inar- ried, October 21st, 1725, Maritje, daughter of the heroic Adamn Vroo- man. He removed from Schenectady in 1751, and settled at Caugh- nawaga. Standing on the flats between the present turnpike and the Mohawk river, was the large stone dwelling with a wing on each side. Here, in October, 1780, with a few domestics, resided this aged wid- ower. His three sons, John, Jellis and Adamn, were living in the neighborhood.
Major Fonda died June 23d, 1791, leaving a son, Douw, aged eighty years ; also a son Henry, who died at Caughnawaga, April 4th, 1815, aged twenty-nine years, leaving a son and a daughter.
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