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Margaret, a daughter of Douw, and sister of Mary Jellis, born in 1764, married John R. Yates, Esq., brother of Robert Yates, long a distinguished chief justice of the Supreme Court of the State of
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New York, and himself many years Surrogate of the County of Schenectady.
Margaret Fonda was the mother of the late Giles F. Yates, and the grandinothier of Mrs. Austin A. Yates.
Margaretta, a daughter of Douw, born November 10th, 1734, mar- ried Barent M. Wemple.
Peter, another son of Jellis, the first settler, born March 6th, 1711, married, June 27th, 1735, Maria, daughter of Daniel Van Antwerpen, and left only one child, born October 19th, 1736, named Rachel.
Abraham, also a son of Jellis, Sr., born July 17th, 1715, married, first, July 30th, 1746, Maria, daughter of Abram Mebie ; secondly, February 22d, 1755, Susanna, daughter of Alexander Glen; and thirdly, November 22d, 1774, Rachel Vrooman, widow of Abraham Weinp. Abraham Fonda lived in the house No. 27 Front street, built by himself in 1752, and now occupied by his great grandson, Nicholas Yates, Esq. He died February 13th, 1805; aged nearly ninety years.
Rachel, his oldest child, born September 14th, 1748, married Jesse De Graff.
Rebecca, another daughter, born June 7th, 1757, married, first, Nicholas. Yates; secondly, Cornelius Van Vranken. She died March 7th, 1846, aged eighty-nine years.
Jellis A. Fonda, a son of Abrahamn, born October 27th, 1759, inar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Yates. He held the com- inission of lieutenant in Van Schaick's regiment, which he resigned for a captaincy in Colonel Willet's Independent Corps, under whom he served to the close of the war. He was for many years clerk of Schenectady county, and died August 27th, 1834.
Alexander Glen Fonda, his son, born August 17th, 1785, was a graduate of Union College, and for many years a physician in Schenectady. He died March 4th, 1869, aged nearly eighty-four years.
Christopher, another son, died at Clairborne, Alabama, August 26th, 1845.
Jane Helen, a daughter of Jellis, born March Ist, 1795, married
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Rev. Nathan N. Whiting, and died at Williamsburgh, N. Y., April 3otlı, 1852.
Jacob Glen Fonda, another son of Abraham, born August 29th, 1761, married, April 4th, 1784, Aletta Willet, in Albany. He was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court as attorney, but abandoned that profession soon after 1800, and removed to his farin in Glenville. He was for many years employed as deputy clerk of Schenectady county, and died on his farm in West Glenville, Decem- ber 8th, 1859, aged ninety-eight. His son, Elbert Willet, born March 4th, 1794, is still living.
Jacob, another son of Jellis, Sr., born February 11th, 1722, inar- ried, first, April 29th, 1748, Maria, daughter of Nicholas Van Patten; secondly, November 4th, 1758, Margaret Fort, widow of Peter Bosie. He died in 1813, aged about ninety-one years.
Rachel, his oldest child, born October 10th, 1748, married Philip Viele.
Rebecca, another daughter, born December 26th, 1753, inarried Gerrit Van Antwerpen.
Major Jellis J., the only son of Jacob, born January 13th, 1751, married, first, November 5th, 1774, Maria Mynderse ; secondly, Cat- rina, daughter of Hendricus Veeder, in 1783. This was the heroic Jellis J., of the Revolution, one of the earliest, most stirring and unhesitating patriots of Schenectady. On the first report of a shot from Lexington, this young brave, who had already tasted inilitary life, just married, and surrounded by the comforts of considerable wealth, immediately raised and commanded the company of Sche- nectady minute men, numbering more than 100 men. It is impos- sible in a short notice like this, to follow him in his varied exploits. He was always ready for duty, and prompt at the post of danger. I will illustrate, by one incident, the estimation in which his bravery was held. In 1777, when Sir William Johnson, with his Scotch retainers, had fortified themselves in "Johnson Hall," Generals Schuyler, Ten Broeck and Herkimer, with a large body of militia, went there to reduce them. When, out of the whole number, Gen- eral Schuyler selected Captain Fonda, from his known fearlessness of character, to command a forlorn hope of 200 mnen for the assault,
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of which his company of minute inen formed one-half. The assail- ing forces were without cannon. But when this brave officer in the lead, under the eye and direction of the noble Schuyler, shouted on his column to the assault, with undaunted dash (for Fonda was in deadly earnest), Sir John immediately lowered his flag and surren- dered without firing a gun. Fonda was ever afterwards called, wherever known, one of the most fearless of men.
Major Jellis J., died in 1839, aged about eighty-eight years. His wife Catrina died October 19th, 1828, aged nearly seventy-four years.
His son Jacob, born March 22d, 1786, died in 1817, leaving a son, whom I can trace no further.
. Henry V. Fonda, another son, born August 20th, 1788, a graduate of Union College, and a successful legal practitioner at Schenectady, died March Ist, 1824, unmarried.
Gerrit, also a son, born November 5th, 1790, was married and had several children. After his father's decease he moved west.
Christopher, his youngest son, born August 28th, 1795, was a grad- uate of Union College, and was admitted to the bar. He died unmarried in the year 1832, while temporarily engaged in some business south, in or near Baltimore.
Helena, a daughter of Jellis, Sr., born April 22d, 1705, married Pieter Brower.
Eva, another daughter, born October 16th, 1707, married Josepli Yates.
Sarah, a third daughter, born May 3d, 1713, married Jacobus Van Vorst.
The Quackenbos line from old Johannes of 1701, is as follows :
Pieter, son of Johannes Pieterse, married, November Ist, 1701, Neeltje, daughter of David Marinus. In 1773 he purchased lands of Edward Collins, on the Mohawk river, and removed into what is now Montgomery county. He died July 20th, 1748, and was the ancestor of the numerous Quackenboses west of Schenectady.
David, son of Peter, born June 21st, 1702, married, May 11th, 1723, Annatje, daughter of Captain John Scott of the British army, the patentee of lands, running from Auries creek to the Yates and Fonda line, near the present village of Fultonville, containing many
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thousand acres. According to tradition, David Quackenbos was a man of fine personal appearance, and, for the times, of marked intel- ligence.
Johannes, also a son of Johannes Pieterse, born January 4th, 1702, married, June 26th, 1731, Helena, daughter of Frederick Clute ; secondly, February 12th, 1755, Helen, daughter of Jacob Van Olinda. He died in 1760.
Frederick, son of Johannes, Jr., born December 21st, 1737, inar- ried, December Ist, 1768, Maria Sitterly.
Francina, a daughter of Johannes, Jr., born December 25th, 1733, married Issac Van Vranken.
Bata, another daughter, born October 19th, 1735, married Claas DeGraff.
Annatje, also a daughter, born July 24th, 1748, married Jeremiah DeGraff.
Abraham, also a son of John Pieterse, born November 3d, 1710, married, January 11th, 1740, Bata, daughter of Pieter Ouderkirk. He died in 1761. His son, Johannes, born February 11th, 1750, died July 28th, 1839, aged eighty-nine years ; his daughter Matilda, born August 29th, 1761, married John Wood.
Isaac, another son of Pieterse, born January 25th, 1713, married, October 27th, 1737, Rebecca, daughter of Dirk Groot.
Annatje, his oldest child, born July 6th, 1738, married Albert H. Vedder.
Bata, another daughter, born August 2d, 1747, inarried Frederick Bratt.
John, the only son of Isaac, born August 9th, 1750, married Eliza- beth, daughter of Cornelius Groot of Niskayuna. He lived at the junction of Lafayette and Liberty streets, where he owned a large section of land. He died July 28th, 1839, aged eighty-eight years, eleven months and nine days. His wife died May IIth, 1835, in her seventy-ninth year. Maria, his only surviving child, born March 18th, 1799, married Abraham Oothout Clute, Esq., still a living link of Schenectady's precedent days.
Gerardus, another son of John Pieterse, born March 11th, 1721, married Elizabeth Van Vorst, April 25th, 1747.
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John G., son of the above, born September 9th, 1759, married Annatje Shannon.
Sarah, a daughter of Gerrit, born February 7th, 1762, married Richard Van Vranken, Jr.
Matilda, another daughter, born September 30th, 1764, married Peter Huyck.
Rebecca, also a daughter, born August 6th, 1769, married Andrew Huyck.
Angelica, another daughter, born December 27th, 1771, married Joseph Carley, February Ist, 1789. These last were the parents of the late Gerardus Q. Carley, one of our distinguished merchants.
Thomas Davids came to Schenectady in 1700. On the 14th of December, 1701, he married Catarina, daughter of Johannes Klein, and on the 14th day of May, 1731, his son, Ludovicus, married Maria, daughter of Peter Clement.
Philip Bosie came to Schenectady in 1702, and September 2d, 1704, married Margaret Bratt.
Peter, the son of Philip, born June 30th, 1722, married, June 10th, 1749, Margaretta, daughter of Nicholas Fort of Niskayuna.
Maria, a daughter, born March 24th, 1751, married Fraus Veeder.
Gertruy, another daughter, born December 26th, 1753, married Jesse Peek.
The descendants of Caleb Beck, 1703, are as follows :
Anna, his oldest daughter, born October 7th, 1704, married Jacobus Van Vorst.
Elizabeth, another daughter, married John Fairly, who owned the lot on the east side of Church street, next south of his father-in-law's lot.
Engel, also a daughter, born December 15th, 1715, married Isaac Abram Truax.
Margaret, another daughter, married in 1751, John W. Brown, one of the first founders and a prominent member of the Episcopal church in Schenectady.
Caleb, the only surviving son of Caleb, Sr., born May 24th, 1714, married, November Ist, 1747, Elizabeth, daughter of Abrahamn
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Truax. He was an attorney-at-law of considerable prominence, and died December 9th, 1787, aged nearly seventy-four years.
Anna, his oldest daughter, born October 6th, 1748, married Peter Van Guysling.
Angelica, another daughter, born April 5th, 1761, married Andrew Van Patten.
Caleb, the only surviving son of Caleb, Jr., born October 22d, 1758, studied law with his father, but never practiced ; his fortune was comfortable and his tastes were literary. In 1788 he was princi- pal of the Schenectady Academy, and died in October, 1798. His wife died August 23d, 1853. On the 26tli of August, 1790, he mar- ried Catharine Theresa, the accomplished daughter of the Rev. Dirk Romeyn, and in his short married life of nine years, he left surviv- ing him the following named sons, who all became distinguished in the various departments of science, law and military affairs, but are now resting from their labors in death.
Theodorick Romeyn, oldest son of the last Caleb, born August IIth, 1791, died with a world-wide reputation as a man of science. He was the author of " Beck's Medical Jurisprudence."
Abraham, the second son, born October 2 Ist, 1792, after practicing law for some years in Schenectady, removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and rising high in his. profession for so short a residence, died there in 1821.
John Brodhead, the third son, born September 18th, 1794, died at New York in 1851. He was a distinguished physician and professor in the New York Medical College.
Nicholas Fairly, the fourth son, born November 7th, 1796; died June 30th, 1830 in Albany. He was a lawyer of excellent reputa- tion, and was at the time of his death adjutant-general of the state of New York, and had been since 1825.
Caleb Lewis, (commonly written Lewis C.) M. D., born October 4th, 1798, and died in 1852. He was professor of chemistry and natural history in Rutger's College, New Jersey, and is the author of several literary writings, and particularly of a folio volume of the mineralogy of New York.
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The Clements (Peter, 1707) are as follows :
Johannes, a son of Peter, born September 24th, 1732, married, July 24th, 1760, Jannetie Bradt.
Peter, a son of John, born February 22d, 1761, married Alida, daughter of Gerrit Veeder. They had sons named Gerrit, John and Arent, and daughters Jannatje, Annatje and Maria.
Joseph Clement, the brother of Peter, sold his one-half of the Maalwyck farın to Carel Hansen Toll for £400, March 17th, 1712. He married Anna, daughter of Jacobus Peek.
Jacobus, his son, born November 23d, 1718, married, February 27th, 1747, Jannetje Van Woert.
Johannes, another son, born July 27th, 1723, married, December 30th, 1753, Rachel Rudcliff of Albany.
Lodovicus Cobes, another son, born November 30th, 1725, married Catalyntje Pootınan.
The numerous Van Vrankens that to-day people Niskayuna are as follows : As we have seen, this grand old Holland stock came to the New Netherlands at a very early date. The ancestor of all the Schenectady stock was Claas Gerritse, the first Van Vranken that settled in Niskayuna, and left the following lineage :
Gerrit, son of the above named Gerrit Claas, born October 3d, 1708, married, July 7th, 1738, Marytje, daughter of Johannes Fort.
Abraham, son of Gerrit, born July 6th, 1750, married Gertruy Gout. He had one child, Elizabeth, born August 2d, 1790.
Rebecca, daughter of Gerrit, born April 4th, 1739, married Johan- 11es DeGraff.
Johannes, another son of Gerrit, born October 25th, 1743, married, April 16, 1776, Gertrude Van Vranken.
Ariantje, his daughter, born August 19th, 1781, married Andrew Yates.
Rebecca, another daughter, married John D. Fort.
Gerrit, also a son of Gerrit, born May 7th, 1741, married, January 9th, 1771, Gertruy Visscher. He died November 16th, 1785, leaving several children.
Pieter, another son of Claas Garritse, born December 3d, 1721,
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married, May 3d, 1748, Neeltje, daughter of Dirck Groot. He died in 1809, having had the following children :
Nicholas, born April 2d, 1749.
Gerrit, born April 2d, 1758.
Cornelius, born July 6th, 1760.
Dirk, born January 19th, 1762.
His daughter Elizabeth, married Eldert Tymesen, March 5th, 1779.
Isaac, also a son of Claas Gerritse, born May 21st, 1726, married, February Ist, 1754, Claartje Bradt ; secondly, he inarried, September 12th, 1757, Francina, daughter of Johannes Quackenbos.
Claas, son of Isaac, born August 5th, 1759, married February 14th, 1785, Rachel Boom. He died September, 1839, aged nearly eighty years.
Isaac, the son of Claas, born July 6th, 1789, married Maria Van Antwerp, and died August 30th, 1858, aged seventy years.
Jacob, another son of Claas Gerritse, born June 22d, 1729, married, July 17th, 1758, Margarita, daughter of Cornelius Pootman.
Claas, son of Jacob, born February 15th, 1761, inarried Eva, daughter of Cornelius Peek. He died July 20th, 1837, in his seventy- seventh year, and she died October 30th, 1837, in her seventy-seventh year. Jacob, their son, born March 15th, 1784, died May 24tl1, 1861, aged seventy-seven years, two months and nine days.
Abraham, also a son of Claas Gerritse, inarried, November 19th, 1742, Debora, daughter of Samuel Cregier.
Claas, his son, born September 4th, 1743, married Gertrude Groot, and lived on his father's homestead farm on the Consaul road.
Ariantje, a daughter of Claas Gerritse, born October 30tl1, 1710, married Peter Clute.
Magtelt, another daughter, born April 30th, 1712, married Frans Bovie.
Maria, also a daughter, born December Ist, 1723, married Johannes Claase Fort.
Rykert Claase, the second son of Claas Gerritse, the first emigrant, married Hillegenda -. He owned a house and lot in North Pearl street, Albany, which he sold in 1684, to Johannes Wendell.
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He and his brother Gerrit, in company with Van Boekhoven, in 1672, purchased land in what is now the town of Clifton Park.
The Yateses, of English in name and origin, have by intermarriage become almost entirely Hollandized. All of the old stock in this valley came from Joseph Yates, who came over with Nichols, the English commander to whom Stuyvesant was compelled to surren- der. Yates came to Albany and was pensioned as a soldier of the king. He seems to have been purveyor of Fort Orange, as he inakes most earnest plea for his pay for wood, furnished to Fort Orange. Yates in Albany May 20th, 1730. Here will be traced only the Schenectady lineage of this old soldier of the king. Joseph was the progenitor of a numerous race now surviving in Albany, Montgomery and Schenectady counties and scattered from them all over the United States.
The Schenectady descendants of Joseph can be therefore traced as follows :
He left surviving him six children : Christoffel, born April 16th, 1684; Robert, November 4th, 1688; Selia, born May 7th, 1693; Joseph, born March 17th, 1698, and Abraham, born March Ist, 1704.
Robert, son of the above Joseph, born November 4th, 1688, set- tled at Schenectady in 1711, and on the 15th day of February, 1712, married Margaret, daughter of Claas De Graff. He was a merchant and also had a tan-yard on Mill Lane. He died March 4th, 1748, in his sixtieth year. His grave is in Vale Cemetery not far from State street entrance.
Joseplı, son of Robert, born July 12th, 1714, married, September 5th, 1737, Maria, daughter of John Dunbar.
Robert, the oldest son of Joseph, born March 17th, 1738, married, in 1765, Jannetje Van Ness in Albany, where he settled as an attor- ney-at-law, and became a member of the committee of safety, during our Revolutionary struggle for independence, and was a devoted patriot. He was a member of the convention that adopted the state constitution in 1777; was one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of this State and eventually its chief justice. He was a member of the Federal Convention of 1787, and of the State Convention called to ratify the Federal Constitution. He died Sep-
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tember 9th, 1801, aged sixty-three years, five months and twenty-four days. He left surviving one daughter, Maria, married to James Fairly, for many years clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and in the Revolutionary War was an aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben ; and three sons, one of whom, John Van Ness Yates, was a talented lawyer, residing in Albany, and was Secretary of State for the State of New York from April 24th, 1818, to February 14th, 1826. He died January 10th, 1839.
Nicholas, another son of Joseph and Maria Dunbar, born Decem- ber 20th, 1752, married Rebecca, daughter of Abraham Fonda. He lived at No. 5 Church street. After his death his widow married Cornelius Van Vranken. Nicholas left surviving him four sons, respectively named, Abraham Fonda, Robert N., Isaac Glen and Joseph.
Abraham, born February 7th, 1788, after his marriage, removed to Oswego county, and died there, leaving no offspring.
Robert N., born November 11th, 1789. During the War of 1812 this young man was appointed lieutenant in a rifle regiment of the United States army, and stationed at Fort Erie in Canada, when that fort was in possession of the Americans, under command of General Edmund P. Gaines, who sent him out from the fort at the head of a reconnoitering party, which was attacked by the enemy. In the skirmish he repulsed the enemy, but at the sacrifice of his own life. His body was brought back to the fort and forwarded to Schenec- tady for interment, where it is now deposited in the old Dutch church burying ground, sleeping with honor beside those of his pat- rioțic ancestors.
In the report of his death to the war department, General Gaines regrets his loss, and gives him the character of a brave, promising and excellent officer.
Isaac Glen Yates, born August 23d, 1793, married a daughter of Frederick Rees of Glenville. He had several daughters and only one son, named Jacob, who removed to and settled in Illinois. Isaac was accidentally killed in Michigan, by falling from a railroad car while on his way to visit that son.
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Joseph Yates, the youngest son of Nicholas, was the father of Nicholas A. Yates, and of Arthur Yates, scenic artist of the New York Central, and Hansen Yates of Front street.
John, also a son of Joseph and Maria Dunbar, born June 12th, 1760, married Margaret, daughter of Jellis Fonda of Caughnawaga. He was the second surrogate of Schenectady and held the office for many years, until his decease in 1826.
Joseph, his oldest son, born October 4th, 1786, died June 12th, 1837, unmarried.
Giles Fonda, also a son, born November 8th, 1798, died unmar- ried. He was an attorney-at-law and an accomplished antiquarian. He succeeded his father in the office of surrogate, and held it for twenty years.
Jane, a daughter of John, born in 1794, married Giles Yates, Esq., and died July 20th, 1848.
Elizabeth M. Yates, born December Ist, 1808, married John I. Yates, Esq., who died December 3d, 1851. This was the mother of Mrs. Austin A. Yates and Miss Elizabeth M. Yates, preceptress in Union school.
Elizabeth, a daughter of Robert, the first Yates who settled at Schenectady, born Jannary 7th, married Ephraim Smith.
Maria, another daughter, born January 25th, 1718, married Gerrit Van Antwerpen.
Sarah, also a daughter, born August 19th, 1721, married Jacobus Mynderse.
Joseph, the grandson of Joseph the ancestor, and son of Christoffel (Christopher) of Albany, married, January 17th, 1730, Eva, daughter of Jellis Fonda, and settled in Schenectady in 1734. He owned a large plantation reaching from Aesplaus Creek to Freeman's bridge, and was the largest slave owner in the county.
Christopher, his oldest son, born July 8th, 1737, commonly called Colonel Stoeffel, married, October 16th, 1761, Jannetje, daugliter of Andreas Bradt. He was a surveyor by profession ; served as a cap- tain under Sir William Johnson, and was wounded; lieutenant- colonel of Second Regiment of New York under Colonel Abraliam Wemple ; detached as assistant deputy quartermaster-general under
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Phillip Schuyler, and as a member of his staff retired with him at Saratoga when Gates took command. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of the Committee of Public Safety and of the first Board of Regents. He died in 1785.
Joseph, his eldest son, born November 9th, 1768, inarried, first, September 30th, 1791, Ann, widow of James Ellice ; secondly, Maria, daughter of Jolın Kane, of Schenectady, and thirdly, Elizabeth De Lancey, daughter of Jolin De Lancey, Esq., of Westchester county. He was originally an attorney-at-law of extensive practice ; was the first mayor of Schenectady, a state senator in 1807, judge of the Supreme Court in 1808, governor of the state in 1823-24, and died March 19th, 1837, full of honors, and with a distinguished reputation for industry and integrity. He had three children, all daughters.
Helen Maria, the oldest, born September 28th, 1797, married Colonel John K. Paige, and died January 25th, 1829, before the decease of her father.
Anna Alida, another daughter, born September 14th, 1806, mar- ried Jolın D. Watkins, a citizen of Georgia.
Jane Josepha, also a daughter, born November 6th, 1811, married Samuel Niel of New York.
Henry, also a son of Colonel Christopher, born October 7th, 1770, married Catharine, daughter of Johannes Mynderse, October 24th, 1791. He was an attorney-at-law, for several terins a state senator, and at one time a member of the council of appointinent, a man of excellent business qualifications and habits. He died in Albany March 20th, 1854, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Mrs. Yates died in New York September 28th, 1841, aged sixty-nine years.
Henry Christopher, his oldest son, born June 13th, 1799, graduated at Union College in 1818, and died May 12th, 1847, unmarried.
Edward, another son, born October 21st, 1801, graduated at Union College in 1819, and died in 1833.
Stephen, also a son, born July 12th, 1805, graduated at Union Col- lege in 1825, and died June ist, 1875.
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Charles, another son, born March Ist, 1808, graduated at Union College in 1829, and died September 26th, 1870.
Mary, a daughter, born August 17th, 1795, and Jane Anne, another daughter, born February 29th, 1816, married Edward Satterlee of Albany. Bothı daughters are now deceased.
Andrew, another son of Colonel Christopher, born January 17th, 1773, married, first, Mary Austin ; secondly, Hannah A. Hocker, who died October 22d, 1859, aged seventy-six years. Dr. Yates was a man of inuch study and literary attainments. He was a minister of the Reformed Dutch Church, esteemed as possessed of eminent piety, as a true friend of feeble churches and organization. Without great sensational eloquence, he was a sound divine, and often preached with great power. While teaching he was always engaged, more or less, in preaching the gospel. He graduated from Yale College in 1793 and studied theology under John H. Livingston, D. D., S. T., Professor. He was professor of Latin and Greek in Union College from 1797 to 1801; pastor of the East Hartford Congregational church from 1801 to 1814; professor of Mental and Moral Philoso- phy in Union College from 1814 to 1825, and principal of the Polytechnic at Chittenango from 1825 to 1836. He died at Day, Saratoga county, while on a visit to his sister, Miss Yates, October 14th, 1844, in his seventy-third year.
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