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United States", ed, de Luxe Supplementary Page 9), his commission is dated July Ist, 1776. He was at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, under General Mercer, August 14th, 1776, at Fort Lee, August 20th, 1776 (American Archives), was a dele- gate to the Associated Battalion Convention at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 4th, 1776 (Penna. Archives), was major of Colonel Gibbons' Battalion (7th) May 17th, 1777, in 1779 was major of Lieutenant Colonel Garland's Battalion (5th) this made him virtually lieutenant colonel-May 10th, 1780, was commis- sioned major of Lieutenant Colonel Garland's First Battalion. He was an active Whig during the Revolution. (See Futhey's "History of Chester County", also Culbertson's "History of the Culbertson Family"; Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 2, pp. 506-507, Vol. 5, pp. 184-186-208-210). (Pennsylvania Archives Vol. 13, pp. 262-266, vol. 14, pp. 66-90-116-118-119). He was an elder of the Brandywine Manor Church and among the first trustees. Another connection, David Denny (Captain) married when about seventy, Patty McClure. They were the parents of Mrs. Doctor Alexander K. Gaston, who was a real daughter of the Revolu- tion, a member of the Quaker City chapter. She died in Philadelphia, April 3, 1900. She was educated at the Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem and was a popular and unique character in patriotic circles. The issue of John (3) Cul- bertson and Sarah Denny, his wife, follows: I. John, born January 27, 1762. He and wife Isabella, died near Meadville, where their grandson Hayes Cul- bertson resides. 2. William, born September 18, 1763, died March 26, 1826. 3. Elizabeth, May 9, 1767, died May 2, 1815. She married Samuel Mackelduff, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. 4. Margaret, January 7, 1771, died January 23, 1820. 5. James, born April 9, 1773, died in Urbana, Ohio. 6. Samuel, March 8, 1780, died February 28, 1859. He married October 8, 1810, his cousin Mrs. Susan Myers Harrison, daughter of George Harrison, Jr., whose wife was Jane Denny. Samuel was a magistrate of Chester county, under Governor Snyder. He was known as the "Marrying Justice", he having united fifty couples in one year.
Margaret Culbertson, second daughter and fourth child of John (3) and Sar- ah (Denny) Culbertson, was born January 7, 1771, died January 23, 1820. She married James Lockart, and was the mother of Margaret Lockart, wife of Samuel McCroskry Pinkerton and mother of Samuel S. S. Pinkerton (see Pin- kerton and Lockart).
(The Dorlan Line)
The Dorlan family of America with all its branches bearing modified forms of the family name, sprang from two emigrants from Holland, Jan Gerretse and Lambert Janse Dorlandt. They may have been cousins, or much more likely father and son, but could not have been brothers as the father of one was Ger- rit and of the other Jan. The family name is variously spelled Dorlandt, Dor- lant, Dourland in the Dutch, and Dorland, Dorlan, Dorlon, Durland, Darling and Durling in the English. On this continent, whatever the spelling, they trace to these two Jan and Lambert. Their parents may also have come to this coun- try but there is no record of their having done so. A list of the early Dutch, Huguenot and English families with whom the Dorlands intermarried would almost exhaust the English language. The widow of a Dorland became the wife of the grandfather of President Mckinley and a Dorland was the husband
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of a cousin of President Pierce, but it must not be inferred that the Dorlands were ambitious, for they were, as a rule, plain and unpretentious folk, caring chiefly for a competence and the independence of thought and action, which us- ally goes with that. Though few of them have been conspicuous in the rolls of military fame, or pre-eminent in civil life, by reason of notable public acts "the family has contributed a full quota of the sum total of sound and substantial American citizenship." Incidentally few Dorlands have been unable to write their own signatures and none of them is known to have been a criminal. The Pennsylvania Dorlands are the descendants of Lambert Janse Dorland, who was baptized March 26, 1681, in the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn, New York. Among the descendants are the Pinkertons of east and west Penn- sylvania, also Horatio George Fisher of Huntingdon, a member of Congress in the '70's. The Dorland's had part in the Revolution and a large number served on the American side. In the Civil War, the family also divided, the greater num- ber, however, being on the Union side. In the Revolution, sixteen Dorlands are known to have fought for the Colonies and five were Tories. In the War of 1812, ten were engaged on the American side and two on the British. In the Civil War, there is a record of over fifty who served under the Stars and Stripes and six under the Stars and Bars, these six mostly from Mississippi. (See "Stephen Quinnon").
Jan Gerretse Dorlandt was the first Dorlan immigrant to this country of whom there is certain record and the progenitor of the larger branch of the family in America. He came to the New Netherlands from Holland in 1652. He became prominent in local affairs, commissioner of and collector of Brooklyn. He set- tled first near Fulton Street Ferry, then on a farm of forty acres at the eas- tern end of Bedford. The present Fulton street, Brooklyn, runs past the old farm site.
Lambert Janse Dorlandt, the younger of the two emigrants from Holland and founder of the smaller branch of the family, came to America eleven years after Jan Gerretse Dorlandt, having arrived at New Amsterdam on April 16, 1663, in the ship "Bontekoe" ("Spotted Cow"), a vessel of the Dutch West In- dia Company, plying between that port and Amsterdam in Holland. We give a translation from the original book of accounts of the Dutch West India Com- pany in the New York State Library at Albany. "Lambert Janse Dorlandt de- bet. For freight and fare, when he arrived here on the 16 of April 1663, on the ship Spotted Cow, 39 gulders". He was unquestionably a man of culture and education and of much more than average force of character. He bore him- self well in all the relations of life in his day and generation. He filled worthily, many posts of trust and responsibility, confided to him by his fellow pioneers both civil and political and his name is honorably identified with the early his- tory of Kings and Richmond counties, and of the infant colony of New York. There is reason to believe he was born in 1639-40, which would make him twen- ty-three at the time of his immigration. He is believed to have died in 1720 aged seventy-nine. In the period between 1663 and 1720, he resided about eigh- teen years in Brooklyn, thirty-four years on Staten Island and five years in Somerset county, New Jersey. He married Hermina Janse Peters, a daughter of Janse Peters. So far as known, he was never but once married. His re- mains, with those of his son Gerrett Janse, Gerrett's children and grandchildren
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rest in the family burial ground, just beyond the barn on the old Dorland home- stead two miles south of Harlingen, New Jersey. His grave is marked by a flat field stone and decked with the loving sculpture of one, doubtless of his own blood. The cuttings on the stone picture, the outline of a ship, with masts and rigging, on the highest mast is a flag, between the masts are remains of the ini- tials L. D. and the figures 79. It is believed that the markings were designed to symbolize his emigration over seas in the "Spotted Cow". The issue of Lam- bert Janse Dorlandt follows: Gerrett Janse; Mary (Marretje) ; Elsie (Elsje) ; John (Jan) see forward. (See "The Dorland Family" John Dorland Creamer, editor ).
John (Jan) Dorlandt, believed to be the youngest son of his parents, Lam- bert Janse and Hermina Janse (Peters) Dorlandt, was baptized March 20, 1681, in the Reformed Dutch Church at Brooklyn, New York. He died after 1749. He married about 1699 Mary (Marretje) surname unknown, who died before 1718. He married (second) about 1718, Barbara Aukes Van Nuys, who was baptized April 12, 1685, in the Reformed Dutch Church at New Utrecht, and died after 1746. John Dorlandt was a cordwainer or shoemaker, and later a farmer. He resided early in life in Brooklyn, removed thence in 1706 or 1707 to Staten Island and in 1726 to Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, where he died. Few traces of his career on Staten Island can be found, but on May 16, 1715, he became involved with others in a controversy over the shad fisheries. In Philadelphia county, he settled at Morehead Manor on a farm of 210 acres. This ownership is mentioned in an old official document. His first wife, Mary, he married in Brooklyn, they had at least two children. The exact date of his second marriage is unknown. Although two of the children were baptized in the Brooklyn Reformed Dutch Church, and six in the Staten Island church, the bap- tismal records of only the last three contain the name of the mother Barbara Aukes, leaving it in doubt whether the preceding three were the children of Barbara or Mary. Most of the children were married in the Presbyterian Church at Abington, Pennsylvania, and the grandchildren in the Presbyterian church at Philadelphia, so it is believed they were members of that faith at Abington, though he had been reared in the Dutch Reformed Church. It is not known where he or his wife are buried, probably in the Abington Presbyterian churchyard. John Dorland's issue is as follows: John (Jan), Cornelia, Lambert, George (Joris), Jacob, Isaac, Hermina, Eve and Abraham.
George (Joris) Dorland, fourth child and second son of John Dorland, was baptized April 17, 1711, in the Reformed Dutch Church at Port Richmond, Stat- en Island, and died in 1756. He married, January 1, 1735, in the Presbyterian Church at Abington, Catherine Whiteman, who died later than 1757. He was a farmer and resided in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia county, Pennsyl- vania. Letters of administration upon his estate were granted his widow Cath- erine, August 4, 1756. Issue: Nathan (see forward) ; Catherine, Mary and George Jr. (Penna. Archives 2nd Ser. vol. ix, p. 187).
Nathan Dorlan, eldest son and child of George and Catherine (Whiteman) Dorland, was born about 1736, and died before February 13, 1817. He was a farmer and resident of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He is understood to have been lame, which accounts for his not entering the Revolutionary army as did his brother, George, and others of his kinsmen. He was in full sympathy with
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the cause of the colonies and fed the American soldiers that passed his farm. He married (first) in Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, October 4, 1768, Es- ther McCroskry, daughter of James and Jane (Smith) McCroskry (the same family to which Samuel A. McCroskry, M. D., of Carlisle, Pa., and his son Bishop McCroskry, first Episcopal Bishop of Michigan belong). His second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Culbertson, widow, who died in 1820.' James McCros- kry, father of his first wife, lived at Brandywine Manor, Chester county, Penn- sylvania. Issue was as follows: Nancy (see forward), George, Samuel, John, Isaac, Joseph, Hannah, Hester, and Catherine. (Penna. Archives vol. ix, p. 335).
Nancy Dorlan, first born of Nathan and Esther (McCroskry) Dorlan, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1775, died in Rockville, same county, March 2, 1855, and is buried at Brandywine Manor. She was married in 1803 by Rev. Nathan Grier to John White Pinkerton, a teacher and soldier of the war of 1812 (see Pinkerton).
(The Lockart Line)
Margaret Lockart, mother of Samuel S. S. Pinkerton, is descended from an ancient and honorable family of Scotland. The first of the family with whom this record deals is James Lockart "Yeoman", of Abington township, Philadel- phia county, Province of Pennsylvania, who left a will dated March 29, 1733 (original in possession of Mr. Pinkerton). In it he bequeathed "Messuage and tenement plantation and 210 acres of land" in East Caln township, Chester coun- ty, Pennsylvania, to his children Patrick, Jacob, Jane Richardson and Susanna Cooper. His wife Alice to have the property as long as she remained single. "If she happens to marry" she is to get her third of rents, etc., and at her death to go to his son Patrick.
The Lockarts were farmers for several generations and at one time owned most of the land for a mile and one-half on both sides of the turn-pike in East Brandywine township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, from the Old Washington Inn to Guthrieville.
Patrick Lockart, (also styled yeoman), son of James and Alice Lockart, re- sided in East Caln township, Chester county, Province of Pennsylvania. In his will, he styles his wife "Jeane". This is all that is known of her name. His will is dated May 8, 1781 (an old copy of will is possessed by S. S. S. Pin- kerton). In it he bequeaths ten pounds each to daughters Elizabeth Mary, Mar- garet and Susanna when they shall reach age twenty-one. To his son Robert, the remainder. "To an unborn child, if a female ten pounds, if a male the land purchased from brother Jacob". This latter bequest gave rise to a fam- ily controversy and law suit, and an opinion on the will of Patrick Lockart, will dated May 8th, 1751, by an attorney, T. Ross, of West Chester, Pa., the opinion dated May 15th, 1766, is among the original documents owned by S. S. S. Pinkerton.
Robert Lockart ("yeoman"), son of Patrick and Jeane Lockart, resided in East Caln township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He died in 1788. He mar- ried Phoebe Bailey. His will is dated January 24, 1788. (Mr. Pinkerton has the original). He was a captain of the Seventh Battalion Chester county mili- tia, Colonel William Gibbon's fifth company. (See Pennsylvania Associators
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and Militia p. 90-Penna. Archives, vol. 14, pp. 90-119). He took the oath of allegiance, July 28, 1777 (original in possession of Mr. Pinkerton). He devises in his will 355 acres of land inherited from his father Patrick which he divided in lots numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. "Phoebe, my wife, to have lot No. 5 as long as she remains my widow". Sons: James, has lot No. I, David No. 6, Robert No. 4, William Nos. 2 and 3, Jacob No. 5 after death or marriage of the mother ; daughters Jane and Sarah forty pounds each. His first born Ruth, is not mentioned. She was probably deceased at the time will was made.
James Lockart, son of Robert and Phoebe (Bailey) Lockart, was born May 29, 1768. He was a farmer and contractor-lived in the Stone house now standing (later known as the Stephan Marshall place,) near the Washington Inn where three roads intersect the Lancaster Pike in East Brandywine town- ship. It was first called Buttertown, then Washingtonville, now Wild Brier-he built a section of the turnpike, bridges, culverts, etc., the company failed and in after years in the sixties his heirs received payments from time to time from a Mr. Fahenstock of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who was called sequestrator, ap- pointed for that purpose-all toll gates are now abandoned. He married, March 16, 1797, Margaret Culbertson, of Brandywine Manor, born January 17, 1771, died January 23, 1820. James is buried at Brandywine Manor, Chester county, Pennsylvania. His tombstone says: "died February 31, 1835". This, of course, is an error of the engraver and should read: January 31, 1835, aged sixty-six years, two months and two days. This agrees with other known facts, notably : Administration papers were taken out February 21, 1835. He left no will. James and Margaret (Culbertson) Lockart had nine children, only two of whom ever married. These two, Sarah and Margaret, married two Pinkertons, brothers, Nathan and Samuel. Issue : I. Robert, born December 22, 1798. 2. John, No- vember 7, 1799, died January 28, 1825. 3. Captain James Lockart was the First Burgess of the Borough of Downingtown elected May 28, 1859. (Semi-Centennial Celebration of "Downingtown as a Borough 50 years" May 28 to June 2, 1909. History by Charles H. Pennypacker of West Chester, Pa.). James, born Febru- ary 13, 1801, died in Downingtown, Chester county, Penn., December 12, 1861. 4. Phoebe, June 19, 1802, died May 8, 1881. 5. Sarah, September 1I, 1804, died August 23, 1876. She married Nathan Dorlan Pinkerton and had issue. 6. Eliz- beth, September 18, 1805, died December 10, 1888. 7. Margaret, April 19, 1807, died September 7, 1885 (see forward-Mrs. Samuel McCroskry Pinkerton). 8. Robert, June 3, 1809. 9. Isabella Culbertson, October 3, 1810, died October 10, 1838. All these died in Chester county, except Sarah, who died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Margaret Lockart, fourth daughter and seventh child of James and Margaret (Culbertson) Lockart, was born in Honey Brook township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1807. She was married March 15, 1835, by the Rev. John Nathan Caldwell Grier, D. D., LL.D., to Samuel McCroskry Pinkerton. She died at Coatesville, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1885, and is buried at Brandywine Manor, Pennsylvania (see Pinkerton).
(The Smith Line)
Jane Smith who married James McCroskry, of Brandywine Manor, had a daughter, Esther McCroskry, who married Nathan Dorlan. Their daughter,
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Nancy Dorlan, married John White Pinkerton, grandfather of Samuel Stan- hope Smith Pinkerton. Jane Smith sprang from the same stock and parentage as Rev. Robert Smith, born in Londonderry, Ireland. In 1723 he came to America with his parents who settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania. Robert was educated at the school of Rev. Samuel Blair in Faggs Manor. He was pastor at Leacock and Pequea in 1757. He was a prominent preacher of the Presbyterian church, a trustee of Princeton College, and an excellent teacher. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair, his preceptor, May 22, 1750, and had issue eight children, the eldest of whom was Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of Princeton College in 1795, who was born in Pequea, Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1751, and died at Princeton, New Jersey, August 21, 1819 (see "Universities and their Sons" vol. 1, 47; "History of the Coll. of N. J." (Princeton, ) vol. 2, p. 122; N. E. Hist. Reg., vol. 15, p. 360). (Samuel Stanhope Smith Pinkerton is named after this distinguished divine and educator.) He was a tutor at Princeton for some years and had under his care Aaron Burr and George Washington Parke Custis, the adoptea son of President Washington. Letters are preserved that passed between Doctor Smith and the President concerning the young man's education. In 1795 he was chos- en president of Princeton to succeed his father-in-law, John Witherspoon. He was president of the college from 1795 to 1812. During Doctor Smith's term as president there, was graduated from the college two men who afterwards be- came Presidents of the United States, one who became vice-president, nine United States senator, twenty-five members of the House of Representatives, four cabinet ministers, five foreign ministers, eight governors of States, twenty- one presidents of colleges or professors of distinction. Samuel Stanhope Smith married Ann Witherspoon, daughter of John Witherspoon, the noted Scotch Pres- byterian clergyman, once president of Princeton University, signer of the Dec- laration of Independence and member of the Continental Congress, and had is- sue, nine children : I. Eliza (Betsey), born March 30, 1776, married T. W. Pin- tard. 2. John Witherspoon, born April 5, 1778, he was appointed United States
District Attorney at New Orleans, Louisiana, January 4, 1841. 3. Ann Maria, born May 7, 1782, married Thomas Callender. 4. Harriett, born March 21, 1784, died in childhood. 5. Susan Frances, born June 23, 1785, married D. C. Salomons. 6. Mary Clay, born August 30, 1787. 7. Robert Blair, born March 23, 1789. 8. Caroline, born March 23, 1792 (unmarried). 9. Frances (Mrs. Provost). The second son of Rev. Robert Smith was Rev. William, born May 10, 1752. The third son was Ebenezer, born January 18, 1754 (see Bellas). He was a physician and entered the service of his country during the Revolu- tion, served as surgeon's mate under hospital surgeons, James Tilton and George Monroe of the Continental staff. He was with the latter in camp on the Ash- ley river, South Carolina, in November, 1782, served until the close of the war. He resided afterward at Wilmington, Delaware, where he engaged in the prac- tice of his profession. He died and is buried there. He was one of the original members of the "Society of the Cincinnati". The fourth son of Rev. Robert was John Blair Smith, born June 12, 1756. The first daughter, Nancy (Agnes), born July 24, 1758. The fifth son was Robert Smith, born August 10, 1761. The sixth son was Isaac, born August 13, 1764. The second daughter and eighth child was Elizabeth Sarah, born August 15, 17 -. A daughter of Doctor Sam-
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uel Stanhope and Ann (Witherspoon) Smith, Mary Clay Smith, married Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and their son Hon. John C. Breckinridge became vice-pres- ident of the United States under Buchanan in 1856 and was the Democratic presidential candidate opposed to Lincoln in 1860.
For the record of Rev. Robert Smith's children, see Rev. P. T. Timlon's dis- course on Leacock Presbyterian Church (1741-1854) November 23, 1854. A statue of John Witherspoon, father of Ann, (Mrs. Doctor Samuel Stanhope Smith) stands in the city of Washington. It was unveiled in 1909 by John Witherspoon Withers, a lad of seven years, a descendant in the seventh gen- eration.
LUTHER CURRAN DARTE
The Revolutionary ancestors of Luther Curran Darte are Elias Darte, his grandfather, Ensign or Second Lieutenant Gideon Leete and Elijah Cone, all serving from Connecticut.
Elijah Cone was a private of Captain Holmes' company, Fourth Battalion of General Wadsworth's brigade under Colonel Seldon. This battalion was raised in June, 1776, to reinforce Washington in New York. They served in New York and on Long Island. They were caught in the retreat and panic of Sep- tember 15th, when New York City was abandoned and suffered some loss. They were with Washington's army until December 25, 1776, when their terms ex- pired. On January 1, 1781, Elijah Cone enlisted in Sheldon's Dragoons for a term of three years. He enlisted from East Haddam, Connecticut, and gave his occupation as a "Weaver". He had a previous short term enlistment in the First Regiment, Connecticut Line, dating from July 1, 1780, to December 13, of the same year. Elijah Cone was born in the year 1723, died in 1793. Gideon Leete, a great-grandson of William Leete, Colonial governor of Connecticut from 1676 to 1683, was a commissioned officer of the Seventh Regiment of Connecti- cut Militia, Colonel William Worthington. In 1780 he was on the rolls as en- sign. Elias Darte was one of the defenders of Fort Griswold, when the traitor Arnold invaded Connecticut and made his memorable attack upon New London, September 6, 1781. The name of Elias Darte is upon a list of the prisoners car- ried off by the British. As he was wounded in battle he was not long detained by the British. His experience did not diminish his military ardor at least, for on April 1, 1781, he enlisted in a company of Matrosses, commanded by Captain Benjamin Durkee. They were attached to the Provincial Connecticut Regiment and served until the expiration of their term, April 1, 1782.
ELIAS DARTE was born at New London, Connecticut, died August 27, 1828. He married Ruth, daughter of Timothy Morley, who was born in the year 1774, died February 6, 1841. They had issue.
ALFRED DARTE, son of Elias and Ruth (Morley) Darte, was born at Bolton, Tolland county, Connecticut, July 14, 1810, died at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1883. He left Connecticut in the year 1829 and settled in Dundaff, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. He taught in the county and town schools for a number of years. During intervals in his teaching he built the Meredith saw mill, one of the first buildings erected in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. In 1844 he began the study of law, although at the time he was married and had a family of children to support. It was necessary at that time, under the rules of the court of Susquehanna, for an applicant before being admitted to the bar to have read and remained for at least one year in a lawyer's office. This Mr. Darte could not afford to do with his family responsibilities so heavily pressing him. To avoid the rule he went to the state of Kentucky where he passed the necessary legal examination and was admitted to the bar of that state. Upon presentation of his certificate of admission to the Kentucky bar he was admitted to practice
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in the courts of Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. In the year 1845 he moved to Carbondale, Luzerne county (now Lackawanna county) where he began the practice of his profession, continuing there in active legal business until his death. His continuous term of practice was interrupted by his military service during the Civil War. He had always been interested in military affairs and held the rank of colonel in the Pennsylvania troops. When the war broke out he enlisted, and on April 18, 1861, he was commissioned a captain of Company K, Twenty-Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. These first troops were only called for three months service, and on August 1, 1861, they were mustered out. Captain Darte's son, Alfred Darte, Jr., was a first lieutenant in his father's company. On October 30, 1861, Captain Darte was commissioned captain of Company M, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, serving until December 4, 1862, when he resigned his command on account of wounds re- ceived at the battle of Antietam. His son Alfred was again in his father's com- pany, serving as second lieutenant. On the resignation of Captain Darte, Lieu- tenant Darte was promoted and commissioned captain of the company.
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