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Sacred to the memory of Harman Wendell, son of John H. and Cathalina Wendell, who departed this life on the 11th day of July, 1810, aged 20 years, 5 months and 11 days.
To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, And shed a silent, sympathetic tear; Here sleeps the ashes of a duteous son Whose gen'rous soul made virtue's wrongs his own; Pious, serene, beneficent and kind, He lived respected, and he died resigned, His weeping relatives their loss deplore, Alas! their joy, their solace is no more.
No more! O yes, he lives, and seems to say, Come, kindred friends, come hither, haste away ; Parents, dry up your tears, your grief restrain; Sisters and brothers, weep, but not complain. Go, reader, go; be merciful and kind; Love God and man, and happiness you'll find.
Harmanus A. Wendell, who died on the 15th day of July, A, D., 1819, aged 75 years, 2 months and 9 days. Jane Maria Wendell, daughter of John and Catharine Wendell, who departed this life the 23d day of August, 1798, aged 1 year, 9 months and 23 days.
Here are deposited the remains of Maria Wendell, daugh- ter of Harmanus I. and Barbara Wendell. She died the 26th day of Dec. 1826, in the 55th year of her age.
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Catharine Wendell, daughter of Jacob H. Wendell and Gertrude Lansing, who died Dec. 11, 1813, aged 24 years and 10 months.
Here rests a female, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason and with sober sense; Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinced that virtue only is our own.
David P. Winne, born Feb. 12, 1779, died June 6, 1843. Rachel Winne, born August 9th 1782, died April 13th, 1849.
Mary Winne, daughter of David P. and Rachel Winne; she departed this life March 7, 1817, aged 3 years, 2 months and 21 days.
Cornelius, son of David P. and Rachel Winne, died Sept. 22, 1819.
Here are deposited the remains of Barbara Wendell, re- lict of Harmanus I. Wendell, she died on the 30th day of April [Obliterated.]
Elizabeth Wendell, wife of Barnard Staats, who departed this life [Obliterated.]
Sacred to the memory of Philip Van Vechten Wendell, son of Harmanus A., and -Catharine Wendell, who died Oct. 21, A. D., 1816, aged 26 years, 4 months and 23 days.
Here are deposited the remains of Ann Wendell, daughter of Harmanus Wendell. She died the 8th day of Jan. 1829, in the 62d year of her age.
Rebecca V. Z., daughter of John D. W. and Julia Wem- ple, died June 27, 1838, aged 17 months and 19 days. Gertrude Wendell, relict of Jacob H. Wendell, who died on the 18th May, 1827, aged 68 years, 8 months and 18 days.
Jacob H. Wendell, who died on the 23d March, 1826, aged 71 years, 5 months and 2 days.
Caroline Fidelia Welsh, daughter of Samuel Welsh and grand daughter of George W. Welsh, who died Dec. 9, 1830, aged 2 years, 8 months and 14 days.
William Henry, son of Peter I. and Maria Wemple, who died Feb. 20, 1833, aged 4 months and 18 days.
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Elizabeth, wife of Jeremiah Whalen, born March 18, 1785, died April 27, 1848.
Charlotte Agusta Whitney, born Dec. 27, 1831, died Jan. 27, 1832, aged 13 months.
Stephen Whitney, born August 18, 1833, died Sept. 18, 1834, aged 16 months.
Henry Z. Whitney, born August 4, 1825. died Oct. 8, 1847.
Armenia Whitney, wife of William Whitney, born March 14, 1802, died August 16, 1852.
Calm and sweet be her rest, Till he bids her arise, To welcome her loved ones. In yonder bright skies.
William Whitney, born Dec. 14, 1820, died March 6, 1854.
E Pluribus (76) Unum.
Walter Whitney, died July 18, 1846, in the 87th year of his age. Anah, wife of Walter Whitney, died Jan. 30, 1845, in the 86th year of her age.
Edward Willett, who departed this life April 23, 1810, aged 59 years and 5 months.
John Fryer Willett, who departed this life Sept. 21, 1806, aged 21 years, 9 months and 28 days.
Edward Willett, born Oct. 12, 1786, died May 14, 1815, Margaret Cooper, wife of Edward Willett, born 24th Dec. 1788, died July 29, 1846.
Ann Eliza, daughter of Edward and Margaret Willett, born March 31, 1808, died Feb. 26, 1847.
Sarah, widow of Edward S. Willet, who departed this life Dec. 30, 1831, aged 70 years, 10 months and 8 days. -
Cathaline, wife of Elbert Willett, died May 15, 1823, aged 88 years and 11 months.
At length, the Christian's race is run, A glorious prize he now has won, With the angelic hosts now fixed, In joy continued and unmixed.
Edward S. Willett, jr., born Oct. 23, 1838, died June
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26, 1842; John C. Willett, born March 22, 1842, died June 8, 1841; Sarah Willett, born April 1, 1845, died April 17, 1845, children of Edward andElizabeth Willett.
Daniel Winne, who departed this life the 4th Jan. 1819, aged 49 years and 22 days.
. Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh.
Maria, wife of Levinus Winne, who departed this life March 29, 1824, in the 77th year of her age.
David D. Winne, son of Daniel D. and Mary Ann Winne, died April 31, 1832, aged 2 years, 1 month and 19 days. Also, Rachel Ann Winne, daughter of Daniel D. and Mary Ann Winne, died Dec. 9, 1839, aged 1 year, 2 months and 9 days.
Levinus Winne, who departed this life Dec. 6, 1825, in the 81st year of his age.
Ann Eliza, wife of Wm. B. Winne, who died Oct. 28, 1849, in the 37th year of her age.
Charles Agustus, died April 29, 1846, in his 5th year. Also Ann Eliza, died Feb. 12, 1850, in her 4th year. Children of Ann Eliza and Wm. B. Winne.
Sarah, wife of John W. Winne, and daughter of William and Rebecca Diamond, who departed this life Nov. 15, 1830, aged 23 years, 11 months and 9 days.
Tho' low in earth her beauteous form decayed, My faithful wife, my loved Sarah is laid,
To name her virtue ill befits by grief,
What was my bliss can now give no relief, A husband mourns, the rest let friendship tell, Fame spreads her worth a husband knew it well.
Myndert Winne, who departed this life April 18, 1831, aged 24 years, 11 months and 18 days.
In memory of Cornelius S. Winne, who departed this life Dec. 27, 1825, aged 33 years, 10 months and 5 days.
Mrs. Huldah Wilson, died Sept. 3, 1841, aged 36 years.
Anna E. B. Wickoff, born August 27, 1822, died May 12, 1845.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
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Huldah Witt, daughter of Andrew and Mary Witt, of Chester, Mass., who died Sept. 22, 1813, aged 19 years, 3 months and 24 days.
Daniel Wood, died March 13, 1836, aged 73 years. In life he kept the faith, and died in hope.
Hannah Woodbury, who died April 6, 1845, aged 73 years.
Her end was peace.
Eunice Woodbury, who died February 9, 1848, aged 42 years.
Capt. Samuel T. Woodhall, jr., of Wading river, Long Island, died August 14, 1834, aged 23 years, 3 months and 3 days.
Here lies the body of Jacobus .Wynkoop, who departed this life the 4th of May, 1795, aged 74 years.
You that pass by, behold the scene and weep,
Beneath a father and mother sleep.
True, as the scripture says, man's life's a span ; The present moment is the life of man."
Alida, wife of Mr. Jacob Wynkoop, who departed this life Oct. 16, 1794, aged 58 years and 5 days.
James I. Wynkoop, departed this life April 25, 1843, in the 52d year of his age.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
Cathalina Wynkoop, who died June 15, 1838, aged 68 years.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. This was erected by her son Robert.
Daniel Yates, who departed this life June 29, 1802, aged 27 years, 9 months and 20 days.
Judeth Yates, who departed this life Feb. 5, 1805, aged 77 years, 11 months and 28 days.
Anne Yates, wife of Abraham I. Yates, who departed this life Nov. 22, 1804, aged 70 years, 9 months and 25 days.
Sarah Yates, daughter of Christopher A. Yates, who died 6th day of Feb, 1794, aged 22 years, 1 month and 21 days.
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Catharine Yates, who died the 16th day of March, 1791, aged 52 years, 3 months and 24 days.
Christopher A. Yates, who died the 8th day of Nov. 1809, in the 71st year of his age.
Sacred to the memory of Rachel Van Zandt, widow of Henry Yates, who departed this life April 5, 1846, aged 80 years, 7 months and 27 days.
Sarah A. M. J. Yates, who departed this life Feb. 10, in the year of our Lord 1805, aged 71 years, 1 month and 24 days.
Hosanna to that sovereign power that new creates our dust.
The body of Mrs. Mary Yates, wife of Peter W. Yates, Esq., lies here entombed. She died on 23d day of Nov., An. Dom. 1794, aged 45 years.
Eve Young, widow of Peter Young, who departed this life March 31, A. D., 1826, in the 74th year of her age. Sarah and Catharine Young, daughters of George and Eliza Young: Sarah died 16th June, 1825, aged 2 months and 25 days; Catharine died Oct. 19, 1828, aged 5 years, 6 months and 24 days.
Thomas Young and George Young, jr., sons of George and Eliza Young. Thomas departed this life 19th Jan., 1829, aged 2 years, 3 months and 4 days ; George departed this life 4th April, 1829, aged 8 mos. and 4 days.
Sacred to the memory of Peter Young, who departed this life 26th Sept. 1813, aged 63 years, 11 months and 7 days.
Margaret Bassett, wife of John Young, deceased, who. departed this life Sept. 4, 1800, aged 66 years.
[The person employed to copy the foregoing inscriptions was. directed to follow strictly the orthography of the stonecutters, but it is feared that errors have been committed in some cases, though it is: hoped none will be found of a very serious nature. ]
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FIRST WHITE WOMAN IN ALBANY. [From N. Y. Col : MSS. XXXV.]
CATELYN TRICO aged about 83 years born in Paris doth Testify and Declare that in ye year 1623 she came into this Country wth a Ship called ye Unity whereof was Commander Arien Jorise belonging to ye West India Company being ye first Ship yt came here for ye sd Com- pany ; as soon as they came to Mannatans now called N : York they sent Two families & six men to harford River & Two families & 8 men to Delaware River and 8 men they left att N: Yorke to take Possession and ye Rest of ye Passengers went wth ye Ship up as farr as Albany which they then Called fort Orangie When as ye Ship came as farr as Sopus which is & way to Albanie; they lightned ye Ship wth some boats yt were left there by ye Dutch that had been there ye year before a tradeing wth ye Indians upon there oune accompts & gone back again to Holland & so brought ye, vessel up; there were about 18 families aboard who settled themselves at Albany & made a small fort; and as soon as they had built them- selves some hutts of Bark: ye Mahikanders or River In- dians, ye Maquase : Oneydes : Onnondages Cayougas, & Sinnekes, wth ye Mahawawa or Ottawawaes Indians came & made an Covenants of friendship wth ye s1 Arien Jorise there Commander Bringing him great Presents of Bever or oyr Peltry & desyred that they might come & have a Constant free Trade with them wch was con- cluded upon & ye sd nations come dayly with great mul- tidus of Bever & traded them wth ye Christians, there sd Commanr Arien Jorise staid with them all winter and sent his sonne home with ye ship; ye sd Deponent lived in Albany three years all which time ye sd Indians were all as quiet as Lambs & came & Traded with all ye free- dom Imaginable, in ye year 1626 ye Deponent came from Albany & settled at N : Yorke where she lived afterwards for many years and then came to Long Island where she now lives.
The sd Catelyn Trico made oath of ye sd Deposition before me at her house on Long Island in ye Wale Bought this 17th day of October 1688.
. WILLIAM MORRIS, Justice of ye pece
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HOFFMAN-KNICKERBOCKER. ALB.
JESSE BUEL.
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Eulogy on the Effe and Character OP ' JESSE BUEL.
Pronounced before the New York State Agricultural Society, at their Annual Meeting, on the 5th February, 1840.
BY AMOS DEAN, EsQ.
The treasures of the republic are to be found in the worth, the virtues, the intelligence, and the integrity of the citizen. He alone sustains the burdens, as he re- ceives the benefits, of all our institutions, our frames of government, our plans of policy.
The mere citizen, uncontrolled by higher powers, and unaided by adventitious circumstances, has been, in truth, but a recent actor in the affairs of our world. The great instruments of change in the political condition of nations, have been principally the slave and the subject. In the revolutions that have waited upon human affairs, we have witnessed almost every thing dominant in its turn. The despot, the demagogue, the monarch, the aristocrat, have each and all had their day of trial and of triumph. Let the honest, intelligent, unpretending citizen now have his. He claims it in view of his im- portance in our social, civil, and political edifice; in virtue of the policy and spirit of our institutions; and in consequence of the many examples of real worth and merit which he is enabled to bring forward.
Among the most prominent of these, is the name of the late esteemed and lamented Jesse Buel; a name which must ever furnish a fitting theme for eulogy wherever intelligence is prized, or well directed industry respected, or high moral worth meets with its due ap- preciation. Since the last annual meeting of your society, he, who so justly constituted its pride and its ornament, has passed from among us. It has been deemed proper
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at this time and place, to pay a tribute of respect to his memory; and surely, if his name and deserving worth be any where entitled to consideration, it is here and by you.
In reference to his individual history, I propose to be brief and general, conscious that although the partiality of friends may dwell with deep and intense interest on minute particulars, yet that the attention of the public generally ought rather to be directed to such facts as may instruct by their practical application to the common affairs of life.
The subject of these remarks was born in Coventry, in the state of Connecticut, on the 4th day of January, 1778. He was the last born, and the last that has died, of a family of fourteen children. His father, Elias Buel, held the commission of major in the war of our revolu- tion, and was a fair sample of the plain, unassuming, straight-forward character of the New England farmer.
As an instance in proof that the end of the good man is peace, it deserves to be mentioned, that the advanced years and declining strength of this excellent sample of New England's earlier population, together with his aged consort, received for the last five years of their lives their stay and support from the filial affections of their youngest child ; until, fully matured, and at the advanced age of eighty-six years, they both left this world, and as if their union had become indissoluble by bonds that had been tightened by nearly three-fourths of a century, they left it within the brief period of six weeks of each other.
From early boyhood, Judge Buel seems to have had the direction of his own course; his parents wisely leaving to his own disposition and inclinations, the choice of that which should mainly constitute the business of his life. In this it is to be hoped they have many imitators. Let young, unsophisticated nature always speak its own language, and follow its own original bias, and success will be likely to reward its exertions. When he had arrived at the age of twelve years, the family,
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including himself, moved from Coventry to Rutland, Ver- mont, and two years afterwards, when he had completed the age of fourteen, he became an apprentice to the printing business, in the office of Mr. Lyons, in Rutland.
When the youth, possessing the qualities that are to. enoble the future man, has silenced all mental debate by his irrevocable determination as to what particular pur- suit or calling the great energies of his life shall be devoted, he immediately applies himself with unwearied ardor and assiduity, to carry into full effect his firm, high,. undeviating resolve.
The young apprentice distinguished the first four years of his term by a close. assiduous, and unremitted attention to the attainment of the printing art. At the end of that period, such had been his devotion to business, that he had acquired as perfect a knowledge and mastery of the routine and all the details of that art, as are ordi- narily acquired by others during the entire term of their apprenticeship. Conscious of the sufficiency of these attainments. and entertaining a realizing sense of the immense value of time, especially to the young, he suc- ceeded, at the expiration of the. first four years, in pur- chasing of Mr. Lyons the unexpired three years of his regular term, and thus at the age of eighteen he was ' ready to exchange the apprentice for the journeyman; and to earn, in the latter capacity, sufficient to pay the expense of the exchange. IIe immediately found his way to the city of New York, and was there laboring as a journeyman during the desolating ravages of the yellow fever. He subsequently worked as a journeyman with Mr. McDonald of this city, and was a short time at Waterford and Lansingburgh, until June 1797, when he formed a connection in business with Mr. Moffit, of Troy, and commenced the publication of the Troy Budget. This was continued until September, 1801, when, at the age of twenty-three, he married Miss Susan Pierce, of Troy, and immediately removed to Poughkeepsie, where in connection with Mr. Joiner, he commenced the publi- cation of a weekly paper called The Guardian. This
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was contiued about a year; after which, he entered into another copartnership, and commenced the publication of the Political Banner. This last proved to be an unfortunate business connection ; and after about a year's continuance, either through the mismanagement or dis- honesty of his partner, he found himself reduced to utter bankruptcy.
'I his is, I am sorry to say, rather a common history ; and many, thus situated, abandon hope, and yield them- selves up to fatal despondency. Not so Judge Buel. With the unshaken assurance of success which naturally results from the firm determination to deserve it, he saw, with apparent indifference, the slow, labored, and rather scanty accumulations of some six or seven years suddenly swept from him; and read, in this lesson of mutability, at least the chance of elevation, as well as depression, in individual condition. He never, for one moment, lost confidence in the general integrity of men, nor in the ultimate success of industry and application. He left Poughkeepsie and removed to Kingston, where he estab- lished a weekly paper called the Plebian. Here he con- tinued during the period of ten years, from 1803 to 1813, applying himself with diligence and activity to his busi- ness. During a part of this time, he sustained with reputation the office of judge, in the Ulster county court ; and. by his persevering industry, and well directed application, he not only retrieved his losses, but also acquired some considerable real and personal estate.
In 1813, his reputation as an editor and a man having made him favorably known to the public, he was induced, through the exertions of Judge Spencer and some others, to remove to the city of Albany, and to commence the Albany Argus. The succeeding year, he was appointed printer to the state, the duties of which, together with the editorship of the Argus, he continued to discharge until the year 1820; at which time he sold out with the determination to abandon the printing business.
It is worthy of remark, that while engaged in this busi- ness he always performed himself the labor essential to its successful prosecution. He was always the setter of
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his own types, and, until he came to Albany, the worker of his own press. Is there not something, in the very nature of the printing art, that tends to originate and perpetuate habits of severer industry than any other occupation or calling ?
After disposing of his printing establishment and business, he purchased a farm of eighty-five acres of land near the city of Albany, which then helped to compose that tract of land lying west of the city, and appropriately denominated the Sandy Barrens. That which, for some years past. has been so extensively and favorably known as the Albany Nursery, then lay an open common, unimproved, covered with bushes, and apparently doomed to everlasting sterility. These un- promising appearances, which to a common mind would have presented insuperable obstacles, served to increase the efforts, rather than damp the ardor, of Judge Buel. Difficulties, hindrances, obstructions, were with him every day familiars. His mind had been, in some mea- sure, formed under their influence. He recognized and acted on the doctrine, that where God has done little, it is incumbent on man to do much; and that nothing in this world is ever lost by courting situations that require the expenditure of unremitted effort. Man was made to labor, both corporeally and mentally, and his happiness in life depends, much more than he is generally aware of, on the strict obedience which he yields to this primal law of his being.
On this farm he continued to reside until the time of his death. Under his untiring and well directed industry, the most unpromising indications soon disappeared, and as a practical commentary upon the truth of his agri- cultural doctrine, and in proof that he in reality practiced what he preached, it may be mentioned that the same acre of land, which in 1821 he purchased for $30, is now worth, at a moderate estimate, $200.
While residing on the farm, since 1821, he has several times represented the city and county of Albany in the popular branch of the legislature of this state; has been
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for several years, and was at time of his death, a regent of the university; and in the fall of 1836 received the whig support as their candidate for the office of governor of the state of New York.
On the political course of Judge Buel, I do not design to enlarge. He was a believer in the old fashioned doctrine, that office, instead of being made for men, should be made by them; that it conferred far less privileges than it imposed duties ; that it was a trust re- posed, and the incumbent a trustee, and responsible for the proper performance of the trust; that instead of operating as a license to live and fatten on the public spoil, without the necessity of labor, it imposed the severe obligations of more incessant effort, and of acting under deeper and heavier responsibilities; and that it was no further honorable than as an indication of trust and confidence on the part of those whose intelligence and moral worth were the vouchers for its value. The introduction of many modern improvements, is tending to render that doctrine somewhat antiquated, and to diminish the number of its adherents.
Mere political pre-eminence is, at best, extremely equivocal. It may be ennobled by the solid qualities of the statesman, or debased by the crafty arts of the politician. Its highest attainable summit has been not inaptly compared to the apex of a pyramid, which can be reached by the soaring eagle, or the crawling reptile. The durable reputation of Jesse Buel depends on that which politics can neither give nor withhold; which is at a high remove above the little tricks of little men ; which · is far beyond the reach of the aristocrat, and above the highest possible conceptions of the mere demagogue. It reposes. on that strong sense of obligation which a people feel themselves under to a high and gifted mind exerted for their benefit. It is the grateful homage rendered by mind to mind; the most desirable, the most enduring, the most esteemed, of earthly homage. It arises from the feeling of benefits conferred on the one side, and received on the other. It serves to connect the
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great mass of man with the few master spirits who are pioneering onward in advance of their age. The highest mere political distinctions dwindle into insignificance, when compared and contrasted with this highest attain- ment of a laudable ambition. To those acquainted with the arcana of politics, it will be sufficient to observe, that Jesse Buel never merged the man in the politician; that he never gave up his independence of thought, of expression, or of action ; and that he preserved throughout that perfect integrity of purpose, that never, through his whole life, ceased to be the guide of his action. To those ignorant of such arcana, I can only say, that,
" Where ignorance is bliss, 'twere folly to be wise."
It is in the labors of Judge Buel in the advancement of agricultural and horticultural pursuits, particularly the former, that the people of this union have a deep and abiding interest. He retired to his farm at the age of forty-three; a period of life when the mind has at- tained the full maturity of its varied powers. He carried with him a sound body, the result of a good original constitution, of strictly temperate habits, and much active exercise in the prosecution of his business; and a mind well stored with valuable information, of a character the most available for the common uses and purposes of life. So far as his pecuniary circumstances were concerned, he might, at this period of time, have been justified in dispensing with further labor either of body or mind. He was no longer compelled to act under the spur of necessity. But his ready perceptions, and accurate feel- ings, convinced him of a truth, which others are often doomed to acquire from a sad experience-that a life of labor is, of all other kinds of life, the last that should be terminated by an age of inactivity. Men violate the laws impressed by God upon the condition of things, when they assign to their declining years an inglorious ease in the expenditure of that fortune, which the suc- cessful industry of their manhood had accumulated. There is also in all highly gifted minds, that are endowed
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