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Elizabeth married, October 27th, 1668, Peter Cornelis Low.
BOGARDUS .-- The Bogardus family in this vicinity is descended from Dominie Everardus Bogardus. Soon after he came to this country from Holland, and in the year 1633, he became the first settled minister in the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam. In 1638 he married Anneke Janse, the widow of Roeloff Janse. They had four children, all sons.
Willem, who married, August 29th, 1659, Wyntje Sybrends. After her death he married a daughter of Nicasius de Sille.
Cornelis married Hellena Teller.
Jonas died unmarried, and
Peter married Wyntje Bosch, of Albany.
BRINK .- The ancestor of the Brink family was Lambertse Huy- bertsen, of Wageningen, who sailed for this country in December, 1659, with his wife and two children ; a third was born on the pas- sage. The name of his wife was Hendrickje Cornelis. He after- ward assumed the name of Brink. His children's names were Huybertse, Cornelis, Peter, Jenneke, and Elizabeth.
Cornelis married, April 28th, 1685, Marritje Egberts.
Jenneke married Cornelis Cool, and
Elizabeth married Arien Gerritsen Newkirk.
BRODHEAD .- Captain Daniel Brodhead with his family came over to this country in the English expedition sent out by the Duke of York in 1664 under the command of Colonel Nicolls. He settled in Kingston, and had the command of the English garrison at that place.
His son, Charles Brodhead, married, November 14th, 1693, Maria, daughter of Wessel Ten Broeck. Of their children
Daniel married Hester Wyngaard, of Albany.
Charles married, December 23d, 1725, Maria, daughter of Col- onel Johannes Hardenbergh and Catrina Rutsen.
Maria married, June 27th, 1724, Johannes De Witt.
Wessel married, January 25th, 1734, Katrina, daughter of Louis Du Bois and Rachel Hasbrouck.
Another branch of the Brodhead family is descended from .Charles Brodhead, who came to this country about the middle of the eighteenth century and settled in Shawangunk, Ulster County.
BRUYN .-- The Bruyn family is descended from Jacobus Bruyn, who emigrated to this country from Norway about the year 1660.
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He married Gertruyde Ysselstein, of Columbia County, a lady of German origin, and afterward removed to Shawangunk, Ulster County.
Their youngest son, Jacobus, on the 18th of November, 1704, married Tryntje, daughter of Jochem Hendrick Schoonmaker and Petronella Slecht.
Their son, Sovereign Bruyn, born May 25th, 1726, married Catharine, daughter of Johannes Ten Broeck and Rachel Roosa.
Their son, Jacobus S., born in 1751, was lieutenant-colonel in the Continental line, and resided in North Front Street, Kingston.
BURHANS .- The author acknowledges his indebtedness to Sam- uel Burhans, Jr., of New York, for the facts comprised in the following notes of the BURHANS family. Jacob Burhans, the an- cestor of this family in this country, was a soldier in the company of the director-general in the Netherlandish service at Esopus in March, 1660, and also third on the list at the first organization of the Church in December of the same year. He lost two houses at the burning of Kingston in 1663, and served as schepen in 1666 of the court at Wiltwyck. He died about 1667.
His son, Jan Burhans, sailed for this country in the ship Bon- tekoe on the 16th of April, 1663. In the year 1675 he married Helena Traphagen, daughter of Willem Traphagen. Of their children,
Janneke married Pieter Du Bois.
Hillitje married Edward Whitaker.
Barent married Margariet Jans Matthyesen.
Johannes married Margreit Leg.
Elisabeth married Jan Hendrickse Alberts Ploeg.
Willem married Marritje Ten Eyck, and after her death Cath- arina Cool.
Abraham married Annatje Osterhoudt.
Isaac married Neeltje Westphael.
Samuel married Jenneke Brink.
David married Debora Van Bommel.
Jan was a public man like his father, a soldier, magistrate, and member of the Church. He died before October, 1708.
The above-named Samuel, son of Jan, was the progenitor of the Kingston branch. He was married on the 16th of December, 1720, to Jenneke Brink, daughter of Cornelis Lammertse and Marritje Egberts. Samuel died on the 16th of October, 1732. Of their children,
Helena married Adam Swart.
Annatje married Jacob Elmendorf.
Jan married, on the 2d of December, 1749, Catharine Whitaker,
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. daughter of Edward Whitaker, Jr., and Jacoba Hardenburgh. Of their children,
Edward married Bretje Blanchan.
Samuel married Margaret Jerolomon.
Jan married Maria Dumond.
Jacoba married Matthew Blanchan.
Cornelis married Maria Ten Broeck.
Jannetje married Benjamin Turck.
Petrus married Helena Folant.
Catharine, the wife of Jan, having died on the 6th of February, 1773, he married Sarah Van Aken. Of their children,
Isaac married Neeltje Hermanse, and after her death he married Helen Van Arnham.
Catharine married Peter C. Brink.
Jan and his four sons, Edward, Samuel, Jan, and Cornelis served in the State troops and Continental Army. Edward and Samuel enlisted early and served in the Continental Army during the war. At the close of the war Samuel settled in New Jersey, and is the ancestor of Samuel Burhans, Jr., who has kindly fur- nished the preceding data.
Cornelis Burhans, the above-named son of Jan, on the 16th of August, 1789, married Maria, daughter of Jacob Ten Broeck and Geertje Smedes. Their children were Elizabeth, Jacob, Maria, Catharine M., Ann, and Edward.
CANTINE .- Moses Kantyn was the original representative of the Cantines in this country. He emigrated from Bordeaux, France, to England, and from thence to America.
His son, Pieter Kantyne, on the 20th of September, 1703, mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Matthys Blanshan, Jr., and Margaret Schoonhoven. They had thirteen children.
Moses, the oldest, December 1st, 1739, married Maria Slecht, of Duchess County.
Matthew married, December 9th, 1744, Katrine Nottingham.
The other children were Nathaniel, Abraham, Peter, Daniel, Johannes, Margaret, Elizabeth, Marritje, Cornelia, and Katrina, besides one who died in infancy.
COLE .- There are two branches or Cole families in this country descended from different ancestors.
Barents Jacobsen Cool resided in New York. He had a large ยท family of children, as shown by the baptismal record in New York from 1640 to 1657.
His son, Jacob Barentsen Cool, settled at Esopus and married Marritje Schepmoes. They left numerous descendants.
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The other branch of the family is descended from Teunis Bar- tiansen Cool, who came to this country with his son in 1663 in the ship Spotted Cow. He died the following year, leaving his son an orphan at the age of eight years.
This orphan, Cornelis Teunisse Cool, afterward married Jan- neke, daughter of Lambertse Huybertse Brink and Hendrickje Cornelis. He lived at Hurley, became a large dealer in real estate, and the owner of much property.
CRISPELL .- The ancestor of this family, Anthony Krypel, came with his wife to this country from Artois, in France. They em- barked in the ship Gilded Otter on the 27th of April, 1660. His wife was Maria, daughter of Matthys Blanshan. He was one of the twelve original patentees of the New Paltz Patent, and left a numerous posterity.
DE MYER .-- Wilhelmus De Myer resided in Kingston before 1683. He had a son Nicholas, who died in the year 1769, leaving two sons, Benjamin and Jeremiah. Benjamin died about 1802. leaving two sons, John De Myer and Nicholas De Myer, and two daughters, Elizabeth, the wife of Martin G. Schuneman, and Polly, who afterward married John Souser.
DEPUY .- The ancestor in this country of the DePuy family is Nicolas du Pui, from Artois, France. He set sail in October, 1662, for this country in the ship Purmerland Church with his wife, Ca- trina De Voz, and three children, Nicholas, John, and Moses. He settled on Long Island. The sons Nicholas and John remained in the vicinity of New York. Moses, the youngest son, came and. settled at Rochester, in the county of Ulster. He married Maria, daughter of Cornelis Wynkoop and Maria Janse Langendyck. There is a tradition in reference to his marriage, that he was about to set sail in command of a ship, and pending the loading of the vessel he visited Kingston and met Miss Wynkoop, fell in love at first sight, abandoned his contemplated voyage, and courted and married her. Thus was he drawn in this direction, and became one of the pioneer settlers of the town of Rochester, and one of the original trustees named in the grant of Queen Anne to the town of Rochester in 1703.
There appears to have been a wonderful intimacy and more than friendly feeling existing between his family and that of Jochem Schoonmaker, as indicated by the following statement of marriages. Three of his sons and one of his daughters married in the family of Jochem Schoonmaker and Anna Hussey. as follows :
Moses DePuy, February 14th, 1716, married Margaret Schoon- maker.
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Benjamin DePuy, September 3, 1719, married Elizabeth Schoon- maker.
Catharine DePuy, May 10th, 1722, married Benjamin Schoon- maker.
Jacobus DePuy, August 20th, 1725, married Sarah Schoon- . maker.
DE WITT .- Tjerck Claessen De Witt was the ancestor of this family. The first knowledge we have of him is derived from the records of the Dutch Church in New York City, in which his mar- riage is recorded as having taken place on the 24th of April, 1656, with Barbara Andriessen, from Amsterdam. He is described as coming from " Grootholdt" in "Zunderlandt." That place is supposed to be Saterland, a district of Westphalia, on the southern border of East Friesland. They had a number of children, of whom his oldest son,
Andries, on March 7th, 1682, married Jannatje Egbertsen, daughter of Egbert Meindertse and Jaepe Jans. He lived at Marbletown for some years, and afterward moved to Kingston. IIe died in 1710.
Egbert De Witt, one of his sons, born March 18th, 1699, mar- ried, November 4th, 1726, Mary Nottingham, daughter of William Nottingham and Margaret Rutsen. He settled at Wawarsing and had a family of ten children, nine sons and one daughter.
Mary, the daughter, married General James Clinton and became the mother of De Witt Clinton.
His son Thomas lived at Twaalfskill, and was the direct ancestor of a portion of the De Witt family in Kingston, and of the noted clergyman Dr. Thomas De Witt, of New York.
Johannes De Witt, another son of Andries, born in 1701, married, on the 27th of June, 1724, Mary Brodhead, daughter of Charles Brodhead and. Maria Ten Broeck. They became the ancestors of a portion of the De Witt family in Kingston, and their oldest son was the distinguished " Charles De Witt, of Greenkill."
Du Bois .-- Louis Du Bois is the ancestor of the Huguenot family of Du Bois. He was born October 27th, 1626, at Wierer, in France. Driven from France by religious persecution, he sought refuge in Germany. While at Mannheim, in Germany, he married, October 10th, 1655, Katryn, the daughter of Matthys Blanshan, afterward the distiller at Hurley. He came over to this country and settled in Esopus about the year 1660 ; from thence he removed to Hurley.
In 1667 he and his eleven associates became the patentees of New Paltz. He then removed with his associates and formed the
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settlement at New Paltz. After a residence of ten years in New Paltz he returned to Kingston. He purchased a house on the northwest corner of what is now Clinton Avenue and John Street, and there spent the remaining ten years of his life. What is remarkable, that plot of land, after having been out of the family only two generations in this century, is again in the family and owned and occupied by his descendants.
Louis had a large family of children, ten in number, and many
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of them have been as fruitful as he ; so that they are very numer- ous, and scattered about the Union in every direction.
The Du Bois families in Kingston are the direct descendants of his youngest son, Matthew, who was born in 1679, and married Sarah Mattheysen. He had eleven children. The fifth one of those children was named Johannis and born in 1705. He married Rebecca Tappen, November 16th, 172S. His tenth child was Joshua, and his eleventh child Jeremiah. Those two are the an- cestors of the Du Bois families of Kingston.
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DUMOND .- Walran De La Trimble, a Protestant residing in Paris, had a nephew, Walran Dumont, whom he had adopted as his son. On the revocation of the Ediet of Nantes, in 1685, they both fled to Holland. There the old gentleman remained, and concluded to go no farther. He gave his adopted son one half of the property he had secured on his flight, and told him he was young and must do the best he could. Young Dumont went over to England, and there finding a large company on the eve of embarking for America, he joined them and came over to this country and settled in Kings- ton. Upon the same ship on which Dumont came to this country was a lady on her way here to join her husband, who had preceded her. Upon her arrival she was distressed to find that her husband had only a few days previous been murdered by the Indians. He solaced and comforted her in the best and most effectual manner he could by giving her in his own person the shield and protection of a second husband.
They became the ancestors of the Dumond family in Kingston and its vicinity. By reason of the inaccessibility of the records the writer is unable to give a full genealogical record. This can be stated, however, that Egbert Dumond, who was for a number of years, as well before as subsequent to the Revolution, sheriff of Ulster County, was his grandson.
ELMENDORF .- Jacobus van Elmendorf, the ancestor of this family, resided in Kingston as early as 1667 ; when he came to this country is not known. On the 25th of April of that year he married Grietje, daughter of Aert Jacobsen van Wagonen. Of their children,
Coenraedt married at Albany, June 28th, 1693, Ariantje Gerritse Van den Bergh, widow of Cornelis Martensen Van Buren. After her death, and on November 25th, 1704, at Kingston, he married Blandina, daughter of Roeloff Kierstede and Ikee Roosa.
Geertje, on the 26th of August, 1688, married Evert, son of Cornelis Wynkoop and Maria Janse Langendyck.
Anna married, June 7th, 1695, Matthyse, son of Jan Matthysen Jansen and Magdalena Blanshan.
Jacobus married, September 22d, 1706, Antje, daughter of Cornelis Cool and Jannatje Lambertsen.
The Elmendorf descendants are very numerous, and many of them have received prominent mention in the preceding pages of this history.
ELTING .- One of the Elting families is descended from Jan Elten, who was the son of Roeloff and Aeltje Elten, and was born at Switchelaer, Holland, July 29th, 1632, When he came over to
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this country cannot be stated. He first resided at Flat Bush, Long Island ; from thence he removed to Kingston. While residing there, and in the year 1677, he married Jacomyntje, daughter of Cornelis Barrentsen Slecht. He afterward removed to Hurley, where he died, leaving five children, as follows :
Geertje, who, July 6th, 1699, married Thomas Hall, of Marble- town.
Aeltje, October 26th, 1695, married Aert Gerretse Van Wagenen.
Roeloff, June 13th, 1703. married Sarah, daughter of Abram Du Bois and Margaret Deyo, of New Paltz.
Cornelis. September 3d. 1704, married Rebecca Van Meeteren.
William married Jannatje Le Sueur.
There is another branch of the Elting family which is descended from Roeloff Elting, who came from Holland and settled in Kings- ton. His son, Roeloff J. Elting, married Sarah, daughter of Abra- ham, eldest son of Louis Du Bois, the Walloon, by whom he had three children, Josiah, Noah, and Margaret.
GASHERIE .- Stephen Gasherie was a native of Marinne, France. He came to this country, and on April 30th, 1699, he married at Kingston Engeltje, daughter of Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker and Elsie Janse Breestede. He left two children,
Judick, who married in New York, November 23d, 1723, Lucas Brasier.
Jan, who married, October 13th, 1734, Mary, daughter of Joseph Hasbrouck and Elsie Schoonmaker. They had three children, Joseph, who was the first surrogate of Ulster County under the State government, and Abraham and Elsie.
HARDENBERGH .- One branch of the Hardenbergh family de- scended from Gerrit Hardenbergh, a resident of Albany, whose wife was Jaepje Schepmoes. Their son, Johannes Hardenbergh, moved to Kingston, where he married Catharine, daughter of Jacob Rutsen and Maria Hansen. He was one of the original patentees of the Great or Hardenbergh Patent. He left several children ; one was Johannes and another Leonard. The descendants of this branch of the family are very numerous.
There was another Johannes Hardenbergh, who came from" Holland about 1660 and settled in Ulster County. The writer can- not give any particulars in regard to his descendants.
HASBROUCK .- The Huguenot families of this name descended from two brothers of that name, Jean and Abraham, who came to this country from Calais, France, on account of religious perse- cution.
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Jean and his wife, Anna Doiau, settled at Esopus in 1673. They had four children, Maria, Hester, Elizabeth, and Jacob. Jacob, on the 14th of December, 1714, married Esther Bevier.
Abraham did not arrive in this country until 1675. He landed at Boston, and at once came over to Esopus, and on the 27th of November, 1675, he married Maria, daughter of Christian Doiau. He and his brother Jean were two of the original patentees of the New Paltz Patent. Abraham had five children, Rachel, Joseph, Solomon, Daniel, and Benjamin.
His son Joseph, on the 27th of October, 1706, married Elsie, daughter of Jochem Schoonmaker and Petronella Slecht.
Their son Abraham moved to Kingston, and was the progenitor of the Hasbrouck families in that place.
HOFFMAN .-- Martinus Hoffman, of Sweden, married in New York City, March 31st, 1663, Lysbeth Harmans. She died soon after marriage. He then, on the 16th of May, 1664, in the same city, married Emmerentje De Witt, a sister of Tjerck Claessen De Witt. He was a soldier at Esopus in 1659, and afterward settled in Shawangunk. His son Nicholas, on the 30th of December, 1704, married Jannatje, daughter of Antonie Crispell, one of the New Paltz patentees. They had five children, Martinus, born in 1706 ; Anthony, born in 1711 ; Zachariah, born in 1713; Petrus, born in 1727; and Maria, born in 1730.
Martinus settled in Red Hook. He married for his first wife Tryntje, daughter of Robert Benson, and for his second wife Alida, daughter of Philip Livingston. They had a large number of children.
Anthony married, January 6th, 1738, Catharine, daughter of Abraham Gaasbeek Chambers. He settled in Kingston, and re- sided in the stone house still standing at the corner of North Front and Green streets, which is still in the family of his descend- ants.
Zachariah married - -, and lived in Shawangunk. His daughter Sally, October 28th, 1768, married Cornelius C. Schoon- maker, and his son Zachariah married Lea Newkirk, of Rosendale, October 29th, 1768, and they are the progenitors of the Hoffman family in that vicinity.
HORNBEEK .- Warnaar Hornbeek, one of the early settlers of Ulster County, was the father of eighteen children by two wives. His first wife was Anna, daughter of Anthony de Hooges and Eva Albertse Bratt. His second wife was Grietje Tyssen. He is the ancestor of the Hornbeek family, and his descendants are so numer- ous that the writer is unable to trace them down.
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JANSEN .- Matthys Janse had two sons, one named Jan, who afterward assumed the name of Jansen and became the progenitor of that family. The other son, named Matthys, assumed the name of Van Keuren, and is the ancestor of that family.
The early history of Matthys Janse is enveloped in obscurity. It appears that Director Kieft in 1646 granted him fifty morgans of land at Harlem, but whether he ever occupied it or not is not known. The grant was afterward confirmed to his heirs in 1667 by Governor Nicolls. It is believed that he was a resident of Albany before removing to Kingston. His wife was Margaret Hendricks, and they had four children, one of whom was Jan Matthysen, who, as above stated, assumed the name of Jansen. He married, September 28th, 1667, Magdalina, daughter of Matthys Blanshan, and became the ancestor of some of the Jansen families.
Another branch of the Jansen family is descended from Hen- drickus Jansen, who was one of three brothers who came to this country at an early day. One settled in New Jersey, one in the town of Shawangunk, and the other, Hendrickus, settled in Kings- ton. On the 19th of November, 1724, he married Anneke Schoon- maker, and was the progenitor of one branch of the Jansen family. He occupied the northerly part of the Chambers Patent, and some of his descendants are still in possession.
KIERSTED .- Dr. Hans Kierstede came from Magdeburg, Prus- sian Saxony, in 1638, with Director Kieft to New Amsterdam, and was the first practising physician and surgeon in that place. He married, June 29th, 1642, Sarah Roeloffse, daughter of Roeloff and Anneke Janse. They had ten children, of whom
Hans married, February 12th, 1667, Jannatje Lookermans.
Roeloff married Eycke, daughter of Albert Heymans Roosa and Wyntje Ariens.
Blandina married, November 28th, 1674, Peter Bayard, the sou of Samuel Bayard and Anna, the sister of Governor Stuyvesant.
Lucas, July 18th, 1683, married Rachel Kip.
Catharine married, September 4th, 1681, Johannis Kip.
Rachel, on the 16th of October, 1686, married William Teller, Jr., and in addition to the above there were Anna, Jochem, Jacob, and Jacobus.
From thence is to be traced the Kingston branch of the Kiersted family.
Louw, LOWE, AND LOW .-- Pieter Cornellissen Louw sailed from Holstein February, 1659, in the ship Faith, and came to Esopus, and on the 27th of October, 1668, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Matthys Blanshan. Of their children,
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Cornelis married at New York, July 5th, 1695, Margaret Borsum.
Madeline married Benjamin Smedes.
Antje married Philip Viele, and
Maria married urt Van Wagonen.
The other children's names were Matthys, Peter, Abraham, Jacob, and Johannis.
Through the above-named sons the said Pieter Cornellissen became the progenitor of the above-named family.
MARIUS GROEN .- About the year 1640 Peter Jacob Marius, with his three sisters, emigrated to Holland from Italy. One of his sisters, Mayken Marius, married Jacob Groen, of Hoorn, in Holland. Peter Jacob Marius subsequently came to New Amster- dam, and there engaged in the mercantile business. On the 13th of November, 1655, in that city he married Maria Pieters Beeck, daughter of Pieter Cornelis Beeck and Antje Williams.
He is thus referred to in " Valentine's Manual" of 1858 :
" Peter Jacob Marius may be said to be the surviving represent- ative of the Dutch merchants of New Amsterdam. He carried on business at the same place and pretty much in the same style in which he had been wont to do in the palmy days of the Dutch city. fifty years before the period now spoken of. He outlived his com- panions in the Board of Schepens, and saw another generation of natives of his adopted city grow old and adopt new tastes and habits under the countenance of a foreign nation. Mynheer Marius was a magistrate of New Amsterdam for several years. At that time he was a merchant on the south side of Pearl Street, between the present Whitehall and State streets, and there he continued to reside and carry on business fifty years subsequently. He neither altered his habits of life nor the character or extent of his busi- ness, but vegetated to maturity in a respectable manner, unmindful of the changes which successive years exhibited on all sides around him. Peace be to the memory of the last of the Knickerbockers."
He, together with Nicholas Bayard, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, Anthony Brockholdst, William Nicolls, and Robert Reed, on the 17th of Jannary, 1689, had warrants of arrest issued against them by Jacob Leisler for slandering his government. Bayard and some of the others were arrested and imprisoned, but Marins escaped and went to Holland. After Leisler's death and under Sloughter's administration he returned to this country.
He brought his sister's son, Jacob Marius Groen, who was born at Haesdrecht, in Holland, to this country, and made him his heir but at what particular time he brought him over cannot be stated.
Jacob Marius Groen, on the 15th of May, 1701, married Mary-
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hem, daughter of Captain Sylvester Salisbury and Elizabeth Beeck. They had six children, three sons and three daughters. Their oldest son, Jacob Marius Groen, moved to Kingston and married Katrina Schepmoes. He was the immediate ancestor of the Kings- ton family. He had four sons and one daughter :
Jacob, who married Elizabeth Van Gaasbeek and died with- out issue.
William, who married Margaret Whitaker, and after her death Catharine Kiersted. He left two daughters, Catharine, who mar- ried Benjamin Welch, and Hillitje, who died unmarried.
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