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(Reynolds Family Association:)
HOOGHLANDE (HOOGLAND).
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(Crozier : "General Armory.")
ABEELE (van den ) ( ABEEL)
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(Rietstap: "Armorial Général.
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She was seventy-four years of age at the time of this visit. Children:
I. Sara, born at Fort Orange, June 9, 1625, died about 1685; married (first) Hanse Han- sen Bergen; (second) Teunis Gysberts Bogart; was the first white child born in the New Netherlands.
2. Marritje, born March II, 1627; married, November 18, 1640, Nichael Paulus, in New Netherlands.
3. Jannetje, born August 16, 1629; married, December 21, 1642, Remmet Janszen Van Jeversen.
4. Judith, born July 5, 1635; married Pieter Pieterson Van Nest. ( May have been second marriage.)
5. Jan, born August 28, 1637, died. January 25, 1663; married, April 16 or 26, 1660, Maria Fredericks, of the Hague; was a deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn.
6. Jacob, born May 28, 1639, killed by the Indiatis.
7. Catalyntje, born March 28. 1641 ; married, August 16, 1664, Jeremias Jansen Van Westerhout.
8. Jeremias, born June 27, 1643; married Auna, daughter of Tennis Nyssen, or Denyse ; occupied the ancestral home at the Wallabout; schepen of Brooklyn in 1673 and 1674; justice of the peace in 1689 and 1690.
9. Annitie, born February 8, 1646; married (first), May 14, 1663, Martin Ryerse, from Amsterdam; (second), January 30, 1692, Fransz Joort.
10. Elizabeth, of whom further.
II. Daniel, boru December 29, 1650, baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church, January I, 1651, died in Brooklyn, December 26, 1725; married (first) Sarah Clock; (second) Tryntie Alberts.
(J. Riker : "Annals of Newtown," pp. 267-68. T. G. Bergen: "Early Settlers of Kings County," pp. 117, 233-34. F. Allahan: "Ancestry of Leander R. Crall," pp. 284-85. Stouten- burgh : "Documentary History of Oyster Bay," p. 445. J. Dankers and P. Sluyter : "Jour- nal of a Voyage to New York, 1679-80," in "Long Island Historical Memoirs," pp. 341, 342. "Dutch Reformed Church of New York: Marriage," pp. 12, 13.)
(II) ELIZABETH RAPALJE, daughter of Joris Janssen and Catalyntje (Trico) Rapalje, was born March 26, 1648. She married Dierck Cornelise Hooglandt. (Hooglandt II.)
(Ibid.)
(The Abeel Line).
The Abeel family is of Dutch extraction and belongs to that group of early pioneers of Fort Orange, now Albany, New York, from which place they dispersed to various places in that State and in New Jersey.
(I) STOEFEL (or CHRISTOPHER) JANSE ABEEL was a master carpenter in Beverwyck, New Amsterdam, from 1653 to February 3, 1655. A part of his will follows :
appeared before Adrian Van Elpenden, Notary Public resident in New Albany, Stoefel Jan- sen Abeel and Neeltje Jansen, joined in matrimony, being both in good health. They leave all estate to the survivor for life and then to their children, Magdalen, aged seventeen, Maria, aged fourteen, Johanes, aged eleven, and Elizabeth, aged seven. The said Magdalen is already married and has had given to her one bed and fifty whole Beavers. They exclude the Lords Orphan Masters from all Management, and do not desire them to meddle with the government of the children. The survivor and their brothers in law Cornelis Vander Pool, and Adrian Gerrits Popendorf are made overseers. (This will was proved October 14, 1681, and dated December 4, 1678.)
Stoefoel (or Christopher) Janse Abeel married Neeltje Janse Croon. Children (mentioned in parents' will) :
I. Magdalen.
2. Maria.
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3. Johanes.
4. Elizabeth, of whom further.
(Francis Bazley Lee: "Genealogical Memorial History of the State of New Jersey," Vol. IV, p. 1411. Howard James Banker : "A Partial History and Genealogical Record of the Bancker or Banker Families of America," pp. 247, 266, 274, 280, 285.)
(II) ELIZABETH ABEEL, daughter of Stoefel (or Christopher) Janse and Neeltje Janse (Croon) Abeel, was born March 23, 1671, and was buried March 20, 1734. She married Evert Bancker. (Bancker II.)
(Ibid.)
(The Van Eps Line).
(I) DIRCK VAN EPS married Maritie Damen. She married (second), before 1653, Henderick Andriese Van Doesburgh. She married (third), in 1664, Cornelis Van Ness, of Albany, New York. She owned a house and lot on Pearl Street, Albany, property in Schenectady, and on May 8, 1668, received a parcel of land at Canestigivona (Niskayuna) opposite the "Great Island," and between the two creeks. In Albany County records is a document by which she empowered her daughter, Lysbet Dirckse Van Eps, wife of Gerrit Bancker, her agent, to collect a loan of 3,500 guilders with interest. Lysbet was then planning a journey to Hol- land and, after collecting the money, she was to reinvest it at the comptoir general in that country. By her first husband, Dirck Van Eps, Maritie Damen had two children, one being Elizabeth (Lysbet), of whom further.
(Jonathan Pearson: "History of Schenectady Patent," p. 176. Howard James Banker : "A Partial History and Genealogical Record of the Bancker or Banker Families of America," pp. 240-41.)
(II) ELIZABETH (LYSBET) DIRCKSE VAN EPS, daughter of Dirck and Maritie (Damen) Van Eps, was a very capable business woman. After the death of her husband she went to New York, where she engaged in business. She married Gerrit Bancker. (Bancker I.)
(Ibid.)
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BAILLES (BAYLIES).
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The Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry of Marion Grant Baylies ( Mrs. Rob- ert Poole) Hooper, of Philadelphia, traces to forbears who had to do with laying the foundations of the American Republic. The name of Baylies was a nickname evidently meaning "the son of Bailey," that is, the bailiff. The Baylies of New England were of English Quaker ancestry, and the rank, education and position of the family on their first appearance in this country were elevated.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Mary Baylies Allen: "Remi- niscences of the Baylies and Richmond Families," p. 12.)
(I) THOMAS BAYLIES, son of Nicholas Baylies, was born in the parish of Alve Church, County Worcester, England, where the records of the Baylies family have been preserved for centuries. He was born in 1687 and died March 5, 1756. The family record states that Thomas Baylies, with his son, Nicholas, and daugh- ter, Esther, sailed from London and arrived in Boston in June, 1737; he soon returned and the following year came over with his wife and daughters, Mary and Helen, and they settled in Attleborough Gore, now Cumberland, Rhode Island. Thomas Baylies became associated in the iron industry with Richard Clark & Company, of Boston, Massachusetts. The original document dated London, August 9, 1738, was later in the possession of Rev. Henry Baylies. It was an "indenture," written in duplicate on a single sheet and then indented, or separated between the copies by cutting in and out, the edges corresponding with each other in this way for identification. Thomas Baylies and his sons, Nicholas and Thomas, Jr., were styled "iron masters" in the Taunton records. After managing the Attleboro iron works several years, Thomas Baylies was requested by the provincial government to make cannon balls and other munitions of war for the Louisburg Expedition. His principles as a Quaker forbade that, so the works were seized and he fled to Rhode Island, but later returned to his son, in Taunton, Massachusetts, where he and his wife died.
According to family and church records, Thomas Baylies married, at the age of nineteen, after the manner of the Quakers, Esther Sergeant. (Sergeant II.) There has been preserved in the family a copy of the marriage form which was dated "the fifth day of the fourth month commonly called June, in the year accord- ing to the English account one thousand seven hundred and six." The document bears the parents' names as well as those of the bride and groom-Nicholas Baylies and Thomas and Esther Sergeant. Following these signatures are the names of thirty-eight witnesses. Thomas and Esther ( Sergeant) Baylies lived some years, before their emigration to America, in Colebrook Dale, Shropshire, England. They were the parents of :
I. Thomas, born in 1715, died July 21, 1756; unmarried.
2. Ann; married Richard Wycherly, of London, and lived there.
3. Hannah; married William Mould, of London, and lived there.
4. Esther ; married Captain Holmes, who was lost off Cohasset Rocks in 1743.
5. Nicholas, of whom further.
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6. Mary; married Colonel Ezra Richmond.
7. Sally; married Mathew Baker.
8. Helen; married (first) Peter Walker, who died in 1762; (second) Rev. John Lyon.
(Mary Baylies Allen : "Reminiscences of the Baylies and Richmond Families," pp. 5-8. S. H. Emery: "History of Taunton, Massachusetts," pp. 3-4. "Taunton, Massachusetts, Vital Records," Vol. III, p. 29.)
(II) NICHOLAS BAYLIES, son of Thomas and Esther (Sergeant) Baylies, was born in Colebrook Dale, Shropshire, England, May 19, 1719, and died July 26, 1807, aged eighty-nine. In his boyhood he lived in Solihull, Warwickshire, and later in Shropshire. He came with his father to America in June, 1737. After his marriage, he lived awhile in Uxbridge, then, upon the death of his father, he removed to Dighton. According to Hon. William Baylies, LL. D., of West Bridgewater, grandson of this Nicholas Baylies, Esq., who died in 1807, he repre- sented the town of Uxbridge in the General Court as early as 1758. Also, after his removal to Taunton he represented that town in the same body for the political years 1781-82 and 1786-87. He was well known in his day as one of the ablest politicians in Massachusetts, and, though English born, was a most efficient sup- porter of America against British encroachments and through the Revolutionary struggle. In 1757, Nicholas Baylies removed to Taunton, Massachusetts, with his family and there conducted the iron business of Bollan and Laughlon for many years. He served in the Revolutionary War; he was in the list of men drafted in December, 1776, for three months' service under Captain Dean ; a private in Cap- tain Edward Blake's company, Colonel Mitchel's regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel James Williams, Brigadier-General Godfrey's brigade; he marched to Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the alarm of August 2, 1780, service eight days.
Nicholas Baylies married, in 1738, Elizabeth Park, who died February 8, 1791. Her wedding dress passed into the hands of a great-grandchild who described it as "a heavy light blue brocade silk, with large figures of Chinese pagodas upon it. My great-grandfather, Nicholas Baylies, was married in a peach-bloom silk coat with linen-cambric ruffles on his hands and bosom." They were the parents of :
1. Nicholas, born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, November 15, 1739, died there January 19, 1831; married for times.
2. Frederick, born in 1741, settled in Southbridge, Massachusetts.
3. William, born in 1743, died in 1826; graduated at Harvard College in 1760; an emi- nent physician.
4. Adolphus, born in 1745.
5. Thomas Sergeant, of whom further.
6. Gustavus, born in 1752.
7. A daughter, born in 1754.
8. Hodijah, born September 17, 1756, died April 26, 1843; graduated at Harvard College in 1777; served in the Revolution as lieutenant and major, and was an aide of General Washington.
(M. B. Allen: "Reminiscences of the Baylies and Richmond Families," pp. 9, 11, 12, 14, 17-19. Emery : "History of Taunton, Massachusetts," pp. 4, 5, Biographical Section, "Taunton, Massachusetts, Vital Records," Vol. II, p. 28; Vol. III, p. 29. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," Vol. XX, p. 86. "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," Vol. I, p. 828.)
(III) THOMAS SERGEANT BAYLIES, son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Park) Baylies, was born October 18, 1748, and died October 30, 1835. He settled in
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Dighton, Massachusetts, and was engaged in farming. He also assisted his father in the manufacture of iron at the Baylies plant on the Three Mile River in Westville. He was a man of great influence in town affairs; was representative to the General Court for three years, and one of the selectmen for several years.
Thomas Sergeant Baylies married (first), March 30, 1769, Bethiah Godfrey. (Godfrey V.) He married (second), two or three years after the death of his wife, Bethiah, at Taunton, Massachusetts, May 16, 1804, Deborah Barnum, daugh- ter of Rev. Caleb Barnum, seventh minister of Taunton, Massachusetts. The chil- dren of the first marriage were :
1. Thomas, born September 15, 1770.
2. John, born May 9, 1772.
3. Polly, born April 23, 1774; married William Andrews, of Dighton.
4. George, born March 31, 1776, died in 1811, "at the early age of thirty-five years."
5. Horatio, born January 28, 1779; married Rhoda Pratt, of Dighton.
6. Henry, born August 25, 1781 ; married Deborah Walker.
7. Charles, born July 1, 1783, died August 24, 1830; married Keziah Rounds.
8. Clarissa, born July 6, 1785, died in infancy, January 29, 1786.
9. Dr. Alfred, born September 16, 1787; was a well-known physician; married (first), intentions filed December 18, 1813, Rebecca D. Sproat; married (second) Frances A. Williams.
10. Nicholas, of whom further.
11. John, born May 19, 1796, died in 1863; married Mary Shaw, of Taunton.
(A. D. Hodges, Jr .: "Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family of New England," Third Edition, p. 121. M. B. Allen : "Reminiscences of the Baylies and Richmond Families," pp. 20, 27-29. "Taunton, Massachusetts, Vital Records," Vol. II, pp. 45-46; Vol. III, pp. 29, 39. "Town of Dighton Bicentennial, 1712-1912," p. 67.)
(IV) NICHOLAS BAYLIES, son of Thomas Sergeant and Bethiah (Godfrey) Baylies, was born in Dighton, Massachusetts, May 6, 1791, and died in Baltimore, Maryland, November 4, 1859. In boyhood, he went to Boston and entered the store of George Baylies. At the age of eighteen he removed to Baltimore and became a clerk in the house of Nathan Tyson, a flour and corn merchant, later entering into partnership with a son of Mr. Tyson, and continuing in business until a few years before his death. He married, December 21, 1820, Susan, or Susan- nah, Stone. (Stone III.) They were the parents of thirteen children, the youngest of whom was William Thomas, of whom further.
(M. Baylies Allen : "Reminiscences of the Baylies and Richmond Families," pp. 20, 28-29.)
(V) WILLIAM THOMAS BAYLIES, son of Nicholas and Susan, or Susannah (Stone) Baylies, was born May 29, 1847, and died December 21, 1924. He mar- ried, March 29, 1871, Josephine Tilden Grant. (Grant V.) Children :
I. Marion Grant, of whom further.
2. Sarah Stone, a graduate of Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, and an active mem- ber of Psi Chapter, Delta Gamma Fraternity; is unmarried.
3. William Thomas.
4. Josephine Tilden, died March 23, 1913.
(Family data.)
(VI) MARION GRANT BAYLIES, eldest child and daughter of William Thomas and Josephine Tilden (Grant) Baylies, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Bryn Mawr School in her native city and entered Goucher College as a special student. She is greatly interested in music and has a cultivated apprecia-
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tion of that and of other arts. She is a member of the social service and woman's board of Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. In the right of patriotic ancestors she is affiliated with the Colonial Dames of America, in which she is a member of the Patriotic Observance Committee and the Stenton Mansion Committee; and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a member of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Marion Grant Baylies married, October 21, 1896, at Christ Church, Baltimore, Robert Poole Hooper, born in Baltimore, July 15, 1872, son of James Edward and Sarah (Poole) Hooper, and grandson of William Hooper, who came to this coun- try from Londonderry, Ireland, during 1800. Robert Poole Hooper is president of William E. Hooper Sons; a director of the Philadelphia National Bank, and of Jefferson Hospital ; vice-president and member of the Art Club and of the Hunt- ingdon Valley, Union League and Philadelphia Country clubs. Children, born in Philadelphia :
I. James Edward, born August 24, 1897, educated at Chestnut Hill and at Princeton Uni- versity, from which school he received a war certificate. He was an ensign and lieutenant (junior grade), in the United States Naval Reserve Forces. James E. Hooper is vice-president of William E. Hooper Sons and Company, of Baltimore, Maryland. During the World War he was commander of the Submarine Chaser 239. He is a member of the Elm Club of Princeton University, the Princeton Club (Phil- adelphia), Elkridge Kennels, and Merchants' Club of Baltimore, Lhirondell and Baltimore clubs, and the Society of Foreign Wars. James Edward Hooper married, June 19, 1919, Mildred Walker Anderson, born in Louisville, Kentucky, daughter of Lawrence L. Anderson. Mrs. James E. Hooper is a member of the Colonial Dames of America and actively identified with the Junior League and the Garden Club. They are residents of Ruxton, Baltimore, Maryland. Children: i. James Edward, Jr., born March 9, 1920. ii. Lawrence Lewis, born November 26, 1924.
2. Josephine Grant, born September 7, 1899; member of the Colonial Dames of America : graduated from Miss Irwin's School in Philadelphia, in 1917. During the World War she served as a member of the Emergency Aid; married, September 24, 1927, William Spencer Service, son of Dr. Charles A. Service, of Bala, Pennsylvania. Child: i. William Spencer, Jr., born October 30, 1930.
3. Robert Poole, Jr., born March 5, 1901, educated at Chestnut Hill Academy and Princeton University, graduated in the class of 1922; played on the 'varsity football team for three years; a member of the Princeton Club and Cap and Gown Club of Princeton University ; married, October 1, 1924, Consuelo Isobel Lee, daughter of Albert Lee, of San Juan, Porto Rico. Mrs. Robert P. Hooper, Jr., is a member of the Junior League. Children : i. Virginia Lee, born October 7, 1925. ii. Robert Poole, 3d, born September, 1926.
(Family records.)
(The Grant Line).
Grant as a surname was derived from the French word grand, "great" or "valorous," and the ancestor of all the Scottish Grant families is said to have come from Normandy in 1066. One of the Grants was sheriff of four counties in Scot- land from 1214 to 1249. A Richard Grant was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1229. The families were ardent supporters of Robert the Bruce, but at the time of his accession they were not a numerous clan. "The Country of the Grants" is in Strathspey, Invernesshire. Grant Castle is one of the finest old seats in Scotland.
(Harrison : "Surnames of the United Kingdom." Family records.)
(I) ROBERT GRANT, first of the line of whom we have record, was born in Scotland. He was steward of the estate of one of the noble families of Scotland. He married the heiress of the estate, who was a Catholic. He was a Protestant,
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and presumably for this reason the mother of the heiress called upon the church to pray a curse upon her daughter and son-in-law and all their progeny in such form that they should never be able to retain any property. The daughter was disin- herited, in-so-far as it was possible, as the estate was entailed. Robert Grant and his wife had a child, Robert, of whom further.
(Family records.)
(II) ROBERT (2) GRANT, son of Robert Grant, was born in Scotland. He died shortly after he became of age, while he was crossing the Firth of Forth on his way to claim the estate, which was his by right of birth. He went into the gunwail of the boat, where he was kicked and killed by his horses, who were in charge of a groom employed by the Catholic family who were anxious to avoid his succession to the estate.
Robert (2) Grant married Helen MacDonald, of Old Aberdeen, on the River Dee, who had a brother, James MacDonald, a broker of Edinburgh. Children :
1. James, of whom further.
2. Margaret, born in 1781 ; married a Brough, of Edinburgh, and had six children, among them James and Elizabeth.
3. Marion, died unmarried, in Glasgow.
(Family records.)
(III) JAMES GRANT, son of Robert (2) and Helen ( MacDonald) Grant, was born in Scotland, July II, 1779, and died in Ellsworth, Maine, March 17, 1850. Upon the death of his father, his mother was left to bring up the three very young children. She was very ambitious for them, and was particularly anxious to have James come into possession of his estate when he reached maturity. She left him one day, when he was still a baby, in the care of his nurse, a Catholic girl, who was supposed to be under the supervision of the heiress' relatives. When she returned home, she found her baby James unconscious, and burned almost to death, at the foot of a long flight of stairs. She worked over him with the greatest care and patience and only her constant attention saved his life. The nurse had disappeared and they never heard of her again. The baby's hand was so deformed and twisted from the burns that the lawyers who were interested in him and his inheritance, recorded descriptions and drawings of his burns and the attending circumstances, for they considered that his hand would identify him at any time in after years. From that time on his mother and his interested relatives took even greater care to conceal him from his Catholic grandmother's family.
Mrs. Grant lived with her children in a very quiet part of Edinburgh. James was sent to school by his relatives, as his mother was not able to give him the kind of education she wished him to have. There he became the most intimate friend and companion of Lord Henry Brougham, who refers to him as J., or J. G., in his "Memoirs," when he speaks of the blood compact they made as boys, and its results. James Grant later related to his children facts which also appeared in Lord Brougham's "Memoirs," which they regarded as the result of their intimate boyhood friendship. They each seem to have had similar sensations regarding the other at critical times of their lives.
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