The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the county of Kings and the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1683 to 1884 Volume I, Part 73

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed. cn; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893; Proctor, L. B. (Lucien Brock), 1830-1900. 1n
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1114

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Connected with the schools of the town are extensive libraries, containing not less than 2000 volumes. From one to two hundred volumes are distributed weekly to those living in the town.

HON. WM. B. RUGGLES is Superintendent of Public Instruction, Albany, New York. MR. C. WARREN HAMILTON, of New Lots, is the present School Com- missioner of the Rural District, Kings County, which position he has held for the past fourteen years.

Societies .- New Lots abounds in socicties. There are literary, beneficiary, singing and church societies, shooting, yachting, turning and bowling clubs.

Among the beneficiary societies are Progressive Lodge K. of P., Continential Lodge K. of P., Em- pire Lodge No. 1 and Friendship Lodge No. 2 of the Order of Heptasophs, or Seven Wise Men, organized 1861 ; Tyrian Lodge and Von Mensch Lodge F. and A. M .; St. Michael's Kranken Untersetzungs Verein, connected with St. Michael's German R. C. Church ;

Rainbow Lodge I. of C. F .; Bumber Guard; Eintrecht Lodge, organized 18th of October, 1868 ; Herman's Sons; Louis M. Hamilton Post G. A. R .; Wilhelm Tell Lodge; K. of H .; Christine Frauen Lodge, Order Ger- mania; Knights and Ladics of Honor Lodge, Eastern Star Lodge; Saxonia Lodge, organized August, 1870, Order Germania; Evergreen Section, Order of Hepta- sophs ; Ivy Division, Sons of Temperance ; Court Littlejohn, Forresters ; Sons of St. George; and the Mutual Sick Aid Benefit Society. All of these organizations give their members an allotted sum each week they are ill, and see that the members are proper- ly interred after death. Some of them pay benefits to widows. There is also a co-operative building society, which is somewhat of a social nature.

Among the LITERARY and SOCIAL societies are the Shamrock Literary Association ; the Young Men's Catholic Lyceum Association ; the Musical and Lite- rary Coterie, Oxford Social, and the Irving Social. The singing societies are the Concordia, Harmonie, Concordia Gemischter Chor, and the Frochinin. The bowling clubs are the Empire, Ours, Standard, United, Nameless, Athletics, Leisure Hour, Pastimes, Manhat- tan, East New York, the Lady Washington and the Lexingtons, the latter two being ladies' clubs.

The yachting clubs are the New Lots Yacht Club, Commodore William Busch, and the Fleetwood Yacht Club, Commodore P. H. Reid, Jr.

The sportsmen's club is the Glenmore Rod and Gun Club, of Long Island; president, Geo. U. Forbell.

The principal church societies are the Ours, connect- ed with the Episcopal Church, which is a social or- ganization of young people who contribute a large amount annually for the support of their church ; the Social Union and the Mite Society of the Baptist Church and several aid societies connected with other churches.

The CONCORDIA SINGING SOCIETY is the oldest Ger- man society in the town. It was first organized in 1855, under the name of the Harmonia Singing Society, but was re-organized on the 28th of August, 1859, as the Concordias. The first meeting was held at the house of Mr. Charles Heitkamp, when Mr. Fran- cis Miller was chosen president and Prof. Hermann Kiesling as leader. Its membership comprises the most prominent and wealthy German citizens, and the Concordias ranks first among the societies of the town. Masquerades, concerts and pic-nics are annually given by the society, which are always of the highest order and well attended, adding largely to the receipts of the treasurer. The funds, however, are not entirely used for the benefit of the members. Large sums are an- nually donated to charitable institutions. In 1871, the society sent over $200, for the relief of the sufferers from the Chicago fire.

Prof. Kiesling continued as leader of the society un- til his death in 1866, when the services of Prof. August

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Bishoff were secured, to whose able leadership the suc- eess of the society is largely due. As an offshoot to this society is the "Concordia Gemischter Chor." This society is in a very flourishing condition, numbering about 90 members. Meetings are held weekly at the large hall of Emil Sehillien on Atlantic avenue. The following are the officers : President, Henry Thiele ; Vice President, Frederick Brohmer ; Secretary, Wil- liam Lutz ; Treasurer, Emil Schillien.

PROGRESSIVE LODGE, No. 21, K. OF P .- one of the oldest lodges of the order in this State, was first insti- tuted at Williamsburgh, Kings County, Oct. 11, 1870. After several years of prosperity, adverse circumstances set in, and finally, in 1878, its charter was surrendered. For two years every effort was made to resuseitate the lodge, but without avail, and its friends gave up in de- spair. At last, however, through the indefatigable energy and perseveranee of Deputy Grand Chancellor W. H. Bowlsby, M.D., he having previously purchased the paraphernalia of the lodge on his own account, an arrangement was effeeted by which the original eharter was reclaimed and the place of meeting changed to East New York, where it was reinstated on the 7th day of March, 1881, by Grand Chancellor O. M. Shedd, assisted by D. D. G. C. Bowlsby, with the following list of officers : P. C., Henry Martin ; C. C., William H. Bowlsby, M.D. ; V. C., Matthew Cooper ; P., Rev. B. F. Reeve ; M. of E., Daniel Sanders ; M. of F., Joseph Woolison ; K. of R. S., A. A. Phillips ; M. A., Ed. H. Wood ; I. G., Henry Thule ; O.G., James Mo- sette ; Physician, W. H. Bowlsby, M.D. The wisdom and foresight of this arrangement was demonstrated by the subsequent prosperity and growth of the lodge, which now numbers 150 members, representing all of the professions and the best citizens of the town. The following is a list of the present officers : A. A. Phillips, Jr., P. C .; Henry Martin, C. C .; William Stoothoff, V. C .; Joseph I. Elsegood, D. D., Prelate ; James Moore, K. of. R. S .; Daniel Sanders, M. of E .; R. Dillman, M. of F .; C. Bolton, M. A .; William HI. North, I. G .; B. C. Hastings, O. G .; Trustees : M. A. Brown, A. Snelling and Geo. R. Provost ; Dr. Francis Miller, Medical Examiner. This lodge meets weekly.

CONTINENTAL LODGE, No. 85, K. OF P., was organized May 31, 1872, with the following charter members : William B. Howard, C. C .; Geo. H. Paterson, V. C .; Matthew Cooper, Prelate; E. R. Groves, K. of R. and S .; John Orsborn, M. of F .; Louis J. Willis, M. of E .; John E. Graring, M. at A .; Alex. R. Paterson, I. G .; Peter G. Kennedy, O.G. This lodge is in a very flour- ishing condition, numbering about 140 members. Meet- ings are held every Wednesday evening. The present officers are as follows : P. C., Geo. E. Johnson ; C. C., Ed J. Burrows ; V. C., John E. Grinsfield ; P., John W. Simpson ; M. of F., Wiliam Searsby ; M. of E., Jacob C. Bennett ; K. of R. and S., Elijah S. Searby ;

M. at A., William H. Johnson ; I. G., David Souther- land ; O. G., Benjamin Waters.

TYRIAN LODGE, No. 618, F. AND A. M., was instituted at East New York, June 13, 1867, with the following eharter members : William Magee, Joseph Welsh, Michael Murphy, Herman Martens, Thad. L. Lewis, Francis Sanzer, Samuel W. Palmer, Louis Altenbrand, Geo. Loomis, W. E. MePherson, Joseph Altenbrand, Joseph Baker, Joseph Kaufman, and Fred D. Hart. Past Masters: William Magee, 1866, Under Dispensa- tion ; Joseph Welsh, 1867 ; H. M. Smith, 1868 ; Geo. W. Palmer, 1869 ; Charles F. Corby, 1870-71-72 ; Geo. W. Palmer, 1873-74 ; C. H. Chamberlain, 1875 ; John McGeehan, 1876 ; Geo. W. Palmer, 1877; Chas. II. Chamberlain, 1878 ; H. M. Smith, 1879 ; E. N. Rieh- ards, 1880-81 ; Fred W. Hancock, 1882-83. The lodge at present numbers about 90 members.

VON MENSCH LODGE, No. 765, F. AND A. M., was in- stituted at East New York, on the 11th of November, 1875. It is an offshoot of Tyrian Lodge and comprises among its members some of the most prominent and worthy German citizens of the town. The following are the charter members : Dr. Francis Miller ; Peter Fisher ; Nicholas Hoffmann ; George Pflug ; Bernard Braun ; Bernhard Midas ; Dr. C. A. Beckert ; George Diseter ; John C. Kehrweider ; John Haubt ; G. W. Ehrhardt ; Morris Reichmann ; J. Banzer ; Jacob Kiendl ; Henry Bienhauer ; Daniel Sutter ; William Jensen ; Henry Haubt ; Morris Hamburger. The char- ter was delivered on the 21st of June, 1876.

Past Masters : Dr. Francis Miller, 1875, Under Dis- pensation ; Gustave Dettloff, 1877 ; Gustave Ehrhardt, 1879; Jacob Kiendl, 1881. Gustave Dettloff is the pres- ent Master, and much of the sueeess of the lodge is due to the untiring energy and zeal of this brother. The other offieers of the lodge are as follows: S. W., Ern- est Sehnoppe ; J. W., August Klaus ; Secretary, John C. Kehrwieder ; Treasurer, Peter Fischer ; S. D., Fred A. Schwichs ; J. D., William Jensen ; Tyler, I. O. IIatfield.

The lodge numbers about forty members. Meets twiee a week at the Masonie Hall, corner of Atlantie and Butler avenues, East New York.

RAINBOW LODGE, No. 409. U. O. S. B., installed July 23d, 1874, at Bernet's Hotel. The first officers were : John Broeeher, Noble G .; Philip Midas, Vice G .; Ernest Fuehs, See .; Louis Allecke, Fin. Sec .; Anton Kirsehner, Treas .; Charles Broeeher, Conductor. The Mother Lodge is "Soerates," No. 223, of Williamsburg, which presented to the new lodge a cheque for $403.25 as a starter. The present Noble Grand is Louis Buek. Meetings are held weekly at Ferchand's Hall, cor- ner Liberty and Wyekoff avenues.

WARTBURG HOME FOR THE AGED AND INFIRM WAS organized in 1876, under the direction and control of the different German Lutheran Dominations of the ". cities of New York and Brooklyn, is largely maintained

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by subscriptions from these denominations. Its object is, as its name implies, to furnish a home for the aged and infirm. Extensive brick buildings have just been completed on Fulton avenue, corner of Sheffield, East New York. The grounds are extensively laid out and beautifully embellished and everything is done to meet the wants and comfort of the inmates of the Home. There are at present forty inmates, while the buildings have ample accommodation for sixty. The following is a list of the officers: Pres., William Hauff; V. Pres., Joseph Birkner ; Treas., E. C. Korner ; Sec., Rev. E. Bohm.

Connected with the Home is a hospital, was estab- lished in 1881, under the name of the Lutheran Hospi- tal Association of New York City and vicinity, sup- ported by subscriptions from the membership. The buildings are ample, and are pleasantly situated on East New York avenue, corner of Johnson. The grounds are beautifully laid out and planted with trees and shrubbery. The following is a list of officers : Pres., Jacob Morsh ; V. Pres., J. Titjen ; Treas., Wil- liam Dick ; Sec. Rev. E. Bohm.

Both institutions are under the medical supervision of Albert Furgang, M.D., of East New York.

Post Office .-- In 1837 a post office was established in the village of East New York. It was located in a country variety store, on the Jamaica Plank Road, near the present site of the dry-goods establishment of Mr. Adolph Bookman. This store was kept by Edwin M. Strong, appointed the first postmaster. An old shoe-box, carefully partitioned off, served as a receptacle for letters, which did not exceed half a dozen per day. Mr. Strong retained the place for many years. He was succeeded by Mr. Philip H. Reid. As the business of the office had considerably increased, Mr. Reid removed the office to his grocery store, at the corner of Fulton and Sheffield avenues, East New York, where ample accommodation was provided. After nine years of faithful service, Mr. Reid was succeeded by Mr. Samuel Wagoner, who removed the office to the cor- ner of Liberty and Van Siclen avenues, after which it was located on the corner of Atlantic and New Jersey avenues. Mr. Wagoner held the office about four years ; when Mr. Reid was again appointed, and the office removed to the corner of Atlantic and Ala- bama avenues. In 1869, Mr. Miles A. Brown, the pre- sent incumbent, was appointed. During Mr. Brown's term of office, many needed improvements have been

made. Letter-boxes have been located in various sec- tions of the town, and a daily delivery of mail matter by a carrier, established.

In 1879, a neat and substantial two-story brick build- ing was crected, on Pennsylvania avenue, by Geo. D. Pitkin, Esq., a large property owner in the town, to be used as a post office, and appropriately fitted up for the purpose.

There are at present four arrivals and four depart- ures of the mail each day. About twelve hundred letters are daily received at the office and about the same number sent out.

The East New York Savings Bank, of New Lots, L. I., northwest corner of Atlantic and New Jer- sey avenues, was incorporated by the Act of Legisla- ture passed May 8th, 1868, and commenced business May 1st, 1869, with the following officers : Gilliam Schenck, President ; Williamson Rapalje, Vice Presi- dent ; Louis Altenbrand, 2d Vice President ; Charles J. Hobe, Treasurer and Secretary ; John C. Schenck, Attorney & Counsel. Trustees : Stephen L. Vandeveer, Ditmas Jewell, Williamson Rapalje, Isaac C. Schenck, Christopher I. Lott, John J. Sackmann, Henry L. Wyckoff, John S. Andrews, Frederick Middendorf, Gilliam Schenck, Philip H. Reid, Adolph Bookmann, Charles J. Hobe, Peter J. Bergen, C. Francis Colyer, William Kramer, James McGuire, John C. Schenck, Horace A. Miller, Williamson Rapalje, Jr., Louis Altenbrand, Martin Bennett, Jr., Joseph Schluchtner, J. Wyckoff Van Siclen, C. Washington Colyer, Whit- son Colyer, Henry Ringshauser.

Its present officers are : Isaac C. Schenck, Pres .; Gustave Dittloff, Vice Pres .; Louis Altenbrand, 2d Vice Pres .; Charles J. Hobe, Treas. and Sec .; John C. Schenck, Attorney and Counsel. The law has been changed so that thirteen trustees only are required, who are as follows ; Williamson Rapalje, John S. Andrews, Peter G. Bergen, Christian Middendorf, Isaac C. Schenck, Charles J. Hobe, John C. Schenck, Louis Altenbrand, Martin Bennett, Herman Brome, C. Francis Colyer, C. Washington Colyer, Henry Rings- hauser.

The business of this bank has been so judiciously managed, that its ratio of surplus to deposits compares favorably with any in the State. Its officers point with satisfaction and pride to the following figures.

Amount of Deposits, Sept. 1st, 1883, $306,000. Sur- plus, $33,000.

BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAMSON RAPALJE.

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WILLIAMSON RAPALJE .- The numerous and reputable family of Rapalie is descended from that of de Rapalie, which, as early as the eighteenth century, possessed large es- tates in Bretagne, and ranked among the arriere-ban of the French nobility. Some of its members were distinguished as military leaders in the crusades, others for political emi- nence and professional talents; but, in the religious wars of the sixteenth century, being known as Protestants, they became the victims of Papal animosity and were expelled from France. Joris Jansen de Rapalie, one of this proscribed Huguenot race from Rochelle in France, was the common ancestor of all the American families of this name. He came to this country with other colonists in 1623, in the Unity, a ship of the West India company, and settled at Fort Orange, now Albany, where he remained three years. In 1626 he removed to New Amsterdam and resided there till after the birth of his youngest child. On June 16, 1637, he bought from the Indians a tract of land computed at 335 acres, called Rennegaconck, now included within the town of Brooklyn, a part of which purchase was the present site of the U. S. Marine Hospital. Here Joris Rapalie finally lo- cated and spent the remainder of his life. He was a leading citizen, acted a prominent part in the public affairs of the colony, and served in the magistracy of Brooklyn. He died soon after the close of the Dutch administration, his widow, Catalyntie, surviving him many years. Daniel, his young- est child, was born in the city of New York, Dec. 29, 1650,

and May 27, 1674, married Sarah, daughter of Abraham Klock. He was a man of high respectability and an elder of the Brooklyn church. He died Dec. 26, 1725, and his widow Feb. 28, 1731. Their children were Joris Daniel, Catharine, Annetie, Mary and Sarah. Daniel was born March 25, 1691, and married Oct. 17, 1711, Aletie, daughter of Johannes Cornell, at which time he lived in Brooklyn ; but he after- wards removed to Newtown, where he died March 19, 1737, his wife having died May 20, 1736. They had ten (10) children, of whom Daniel, the eldest son, bought the paternal farm in 1745, and became a leading man and a magistrate of Newtown. Johannes, the second son, was the father of Major Daniel Rapalje, who was born in 1748, and married Agnes, daughter of Johannus Bergen, and became a farmer at New Lots. About this time, by a Dutch perversion, the i in the final syllable of Rapalie was changed to j, which is still adhered to. On the opening of the Revolution lie espoused the whig cause, served as a lieutenant in the Kings county troop of horse, and was in exile during the war. He died at New Lots in 1796. His children were John, Daniel, Simon and Michael. John married Charity, daughter of Abram Van Sickelen, and had issue, Cornelia, wife of Stephen I. Lott,and Daniel I. Simon Rapalje married Helen, daughter of Nicholas Williamson. Their children were Williamson, the subject of this sketch, now occupying the old homestead of Major Daniel Rapalje on the New Lots road; Daniel, who died when a young man; and Eliza, wife

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of Walter Brown of Flushing. Simon Rapalje was a carpen- ter by trade, and owned a farm of about 60 acres. He brought his son Williamson up as a farmer, giving him, in addition to the common school, the advantages of the cele- brated Erasmus Hall Academy at Flatbush, at the time when Mr. Craig was principal. When young, Williamson exhibited quite a taste and talent in drawing, with a special liking for faces and portraits. At the age of 20 he married · Ann, daughter of John Vanderveer, April 10, 1823. Their children were : Simon, born Feb. 1, 1824, died May 9, 1827; Margaret Ann, born Sept. 10, 1825, still living with her father; John, born March 16, 1827, died June 14, 1828; Helen, born May 27, 1829, died May 16, 1869; Simon, born Aug. 5, 1831; John Vanderveer, born April 4, 1833, died Oct. 9, 1833; Williamson, born Sept. 8, 1834; Daniel, born April 20, 1836; Eida Vanderveer, born Sept. 20, 1838, died Nov. 16, 1842; Eliza, born Jan. 26, 1841; Henry Lott, born Aug. 15, 1843; Eida Vanderveer, born June 11, 1846, died July 31, 1852. Williamson Rapalje, Jr., married Elizabeth Meserole Schenck, daughter of Isaac C. Schenck, Oct. 12, 1859. They have had one child, Catharine Ann, who was born Feb. 8, 1864, and died July 26, 1866. Eliza Rapalje married James, son of John Wil- liamson, of Flatland, March 25, 1863. Their children were James Rapalje, born Dec. 18, 1869; Maria, born June 16, 1875. Their father was born April 2, 1837, and died Dec. 4, 1875. Mrs. Williamson and her two children are now living with her father on the old homestead. Simon Rapalje married Sarah Emmons Schenck, daughter of Gilliam Schenck, Oct. 19, 1865. Henry Lott Rapalje married Sarah E., daughter of Henry Eldert, Oct. 13, 1869. Their children : Annie, born Nov. 8, 1870; Henry Williamson, born March 5, 1873; Daniel Lott, born Feb. 13, 1876; Cornelia, born Feb. 25, 1879.

Daniel Rapalje and Alice, daughter of Rev. Alvin Ostrom, were married June 19, 1878. Their children have been born in Amoy, China-Ernest Harold, born April 27, 1879, and Herbert DeWitt, born Aug. 6, 1880. In early life Daniel displayed a love for study and an aversion to becom-

ing a farmer. His father therefore, with the excellent judgment that has characterized all his acts through life, told him to make his own choice of a life pursuit. Accord- ingly he chose a classical education and went to Rutgers college, at which he graduated. It is interesting here to notice the cropping out of the religious element in this family of Huguenot descent. While other young graduates were electing to be lawyers, physicians and engineers, Daniel put these worldy allurements all behind him, and chose the laborious self-denying life of a missionary. After his college course, he entered the Theological department at Rugters, graduating from that also. Then offering his services to the Foreign Missionary Society, he was sent to Amoy, China, where he has labored most successfully for the past twenty years. During this time he has made two visits to his old home, on the latter of which he was married. His wife is the daughter of an old college friend, who also went to China as a missionary, where she was born, so she is working in and for her native land.

Ann Vanderveer, wife of Williamson Rapalje, was born November 11, 1803, and died January 25, 1868. Mr. Rapalje was born June 4, 1803, and still enjoys very fair bodily health, and the full possession of his mental gifts. His life has been active, useful, and successful. Good sense, a vig- orous understanding and a most practical executive ability, joined with and controlled by a constant sense of right and justice, have been his controlling characteristics. In the ex- ercise of these his townsmen have insisted on his serving as assessor for many terms in years gone by. In the Reformed Church, of New Lots, he has always been a leader, and for a long term an elder, which place he still fills. Politically, Mr. Rapalje has always been a Democrat. His sons have succeeded him as farmers, in which calling they are famed as being the largest and most successful in the town. They have built large and elegant houses on the old homestead, adding to the many attractions on the old New Lots road. Such families as the one of which this is an imperfect record, are the safe-guards of any country of which they are €

citizens.

STEPHEN LOTT VANDERVEER lives on the old farm, which has been the homestead of his ancestors for several genera- tions. His house, originally built by his grandfather, and which he has enlarged to its present spacious proportions and fine appearance, stands in New Lots, near the lines which divide that town from Flatbush and Flatlands. His farm of 109 acres was originally well wooded, but has for many years been devoted to market gardening, familiarly called "trucking. " He was born Feb. '22, 1826, and married Jane Alletta Kouwenhoven Feb. 20, 1850. Their children have been five boys and two girls. For several years his sons have managed the farm, his own industry and enterprise having resulted in a handsome competence, which he uses and enjoys much more sensibly than too many farmers who find no pleasure except continued digging in the old rut. He enjoys fishing and sailing, in proof whereof he owns a yacht, to whose soothing embrace he regularly devotes during the sailing season whole days of solid comfort. Although never a politician or an office holder, Mr. Vanderveer has always acted with the republican party. In religious matters he has been a consistent and representative member of the Reformed church of New Lots, serving for the past 20 years as its treasurer. In his school-boy days he improved the advantages of his district school and of several terms at the Jamaica academy, when the distinguished instructor, John

W. Brinkerhoff, was at its head. Mr. Vanderveer is a thick set, solidly built man of phlegmatic temperament, a picture of contentment and good health. He has a decided taste for antique relics in furniture and art, specimens of which adorn his attractive home. His wife is also active and well preserved in body and mind, and to all appearances they have many years before them in which to enjoy and to benefit their family and their friends.

The family genealogy is as follows : Cornelis Janse Vander- veer, or " from the ferry," farmer, emigrated to this country from Alckmaer or Alkmaer, a province in North Holland, in the Netherlands, in the ship Otter, in Feb., 1659. Settled in Flatbush. Feb. 1677-8 he purchased of Jan Janzs, a farm. He married Tryntje Gillis De Mandeville, and had children, Cornelius, Neeltje, Maria, Hendrick, Jan, Dominicus and Michiel.

Jan Vanderveer married Femetje, daughter of Micheal Hanson Bergen, January 6, 1695. Had issue : Katrina, bap. March 29, 1696; Femetje, married Jacob Sebering, and Jan, born July 7, 1706, died Oct. 31, 1779, who married Cor- nelia Lott, April 29, 1732, born April 20, 1714, died Oct. 31, 1789. Had issue : Catrina, born Dec, 3, 1733, died young; Femmete, born April 4, 1737, died Feb. 26, 1808; Catrina, born Jan. 22, 1740, died April 3, 1829; Jan, born Oct. 25, 1745, died Dec. 7, 1808, married Gretye Eldert, May 25, 1765,

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born Aug. 13, 1747, died March 13, 1825. Had issues : John, born May 19, 1766, died May 6, 1817, married Ann Lott, Aug. 11, 1791, born March 4, 1768, died Feb. 6, 1818; Johannes, born Nov. 22, 1768, died March 30, 1833 (single); Femmete, born Nov. 27, 1770; Cornelia, born April 5, 1775, died April 21, 1829, married Abraham Duryea; Treyntje, born May 6, 1779, died April 3, 1829 (single) ; Sara, born Feb. 11, 1782, died May 5, 1860, married Johannes Eldert. Children of John and Anne Vanderveer : John, born Aug. 11, 1792, died March 4, 1861, married Eida Suydam, April 23, 1818, born June 28, 1795, died Feb. 5, 1873; Stephen, born June 20, 1796, died Oct. 13, 1799 ; Ann Vanderveer, born Nov. 11, 1803, married Williamson Rapalje, April 10, 1823; have children living Jan., 1881-Margaret Ann, Simon, Williamson, Henry L., Eliza, and Daniel, now a missionary. Children of John and Eida Vanderveer : John J., born March 24, 1819, died Nov. 30, 1837, married Eliza E. Dubois, April 16, 1867, had

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The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the county of Kings and the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1683 to 1884 Volume I, Part 73

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed. cn; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893; Proctor, L. B. (Lucien Brock), 1830-1900. 1n Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : W. W. Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1114

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed. cn; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893; Proctor, L. B. (Lucien Brock), 1830-1900. 1n
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1114