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(John W. Jordan: "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, p. 1016.)
(II) MICHAEL NEWBOLD, JR., son of Michael and Anne Newbold, was born in England, and died in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1721, leaving a will dated November 29, 1721, which mentions his children, Thomas, Michael, Ann Beetle, Sarah, Barzilla, and Margaret. He came to America with his parents and succeeded to a large part of his father's lands and estate in Burlington County, and purchased other lands there, owning at the time of his death a farm of three hun- dred acres in Springfield Township, upon which he resided; five hundred acres in the upper part of Springfield, and four hundred acres in Hunterdon County. His personal estate amounted to nearly £700, including two negro slaves. Like his father, Michael Newbold, Jr., was a justice of Burlington County, and he also served as an officer under Colonel Daniel Cox.
Michael Newbold, Jr., married Rachel Clayton. (Clayton II.) They had six children, among whom was Sarah, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 1016-17.)
(III) SARAH NEWBOLD, daughter of Michael and Rachel (Clayton) New- bold, was born November 29, 1700. She married Thomas Boude. (Boude II.) (Ibid.)
(The Clayton Line).
The Clayton family has taken its name from "Clayton Manor," in Lancashire, England. Clayton Manor had been given to Robert Clayton, a follower of Wil- iiam the Conqueror, and from whom the Clayton family descend. Descendants of his settled in Yorkshire, in High Hoyland Parish, where they made their home in Clayton Hall.
(H. F. Hepburn: "Clayton Family," pp. 3-23.)
(I) JOHN CLAYTON, American progenitor, and probably a descendant of the Yorkshire branch of the English family to which the Claytons of Pennsylvania and Delaware belonged, located in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was a member of the Society of Friends. His will was dated May 16, 1704, and was proved June 2, 1704; the inventory of his personal estate was £415 5s. and
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included £ 160 in bonds, £70 in furniture, and £82 in cattle. The will mentioned property in Chesterfield purchased of William Betell. In 1677 he purchased land of John Slocum; January 8, 1685-86, he received a patent for two hundred seven- teen acres on Ransom's Neck, Shrewsbury Township. At the same time John Clayton received seven acres of meadow land, bounded east by Sarah Reape, west by Calike Sherrife and George Parker, and south by branch of the Shrewsbury River, and north by his own land. He later removed to Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey.
John Clayton married Alice. They were the parents of seven children, among whom was Rachel, of whom further.
(Salter : "History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, New Jersey," Vol. XVIII. "New Jersey Archives," First Series, Vol. XXI, p. 74; Vol. XXIII, p. 97. Stillwell: "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany," Vol. I, p. 267; Vol. IV, p. 76.)
(II) RACHEL CLAYTON, daughter of John and Alice Clayton, was born at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, the 16th of the 4th month, year not given in records of the Society of Friends of the town in which she was born. She married Michael Newbold, Jr. (Newbold II.)
(Stillwell: "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany," Vol. I, p. 267. Records of the Society of Friends at Shrewsbury, New Jersey.)
(The DePeyster Line).
(I) JOHANNES DEPEYSTER, first of our line in America, was born in Har- lem, Holland, and died in New York about 1686. His ancestors had previously gone to Harlem to escape religious persecution in France. He was in New York as early as 1649, and engaged in commerce, besides taking a prominent part in the life of the city. Johannes DePeyster was one of the six who drew up the first charter of the city during the Dutch regime, and in 1655, 1656, 1658, and 1662, was commissioned a schepen. Under English rule he was elected alderman several times and in 1677 he was deputy mayor. He was a deacon of the Reformed Church and a member of one of the Burgher Corps.
Johannes DePeyster married, December 17, 1651, Cornelia Lubberts. Among their nine children was Johannes, of whom further.
(John Watts DePeyster : "DePeyster and Watts Genealogical References," p. I. Walter W. Spooner: "Historic Families of America," Vol. I, p. 4.)
(II) JOHANNES DEPEYSTER, son of Johannes and Cornelia (Lubberts ) DePey- ster, was baptized in New York, September 21, 1666, and died there, September 25, 17II. He was mayor of New York in 1698. He was a member of the Colonial Assembly and in 1700 was commissioned captain of a troop of horse. Johannes DePeyster married, at Albany, October 10, 1688, Anne Bancker. (Bancker II.) They were the parents of :
1. Cornelia, of whom further.
(Ibid Family data.)
(III) CORNELIA DEPEYSTER, daughter of Johannes and Anne (Bancker) DePeyster, married Matthew (2) Clarkson. (Clarkson II.)
(Family data.)
DEPEYSTER.
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(The Banc'er Line).
The family of Bancker took their name from a family of Dutch sea captains named Banckert, whose ancestral name had been Van Trappen. They were among the "Sea Beggars" prominent in the early part of the long struggle for independ- ence from Spain.
(Howard James Banker : "Bancker or Banker Families of America," pp. 15-17.)
(I) GERRIT BANCKER, progenitor of the family in America, was born in Hol- land and died, probably in America, between November 25, 1690, and May 7, 1691. He is first mentioned in Albany, New York, in 1651. He became a prosperous Indian trader and merchant, residing on the south side of what is now State Street, a little east of Pearl. In 1669, he was one of the fifteen original proprietors of Schenectady and two years later owned a house and lot in Esopus.
Gerrit Bancker married, April 10, 1658, Elizabeth (or Lysbet) Dirckse Van Eps. . (Van Eps II.) They had seven children, among whom was Anne, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 239-42.)
(II) ANNE BANCKER, daughter of Gerrit and Elizabeth (Lysbet) Dirckse (Van Eps) Bancker, was born April 1, 1670. She married Johannes DePeyster. (DePeyster II.)
(Ibid. Family data.)
(The Van Eps Line).
(I) DIRCK VAN EPS, first known ancestor of our line, married Maritie Damen. She married (second), prior to 1653, Henderick Andriese VanDoesburgh, and (third), in 1664, Cornelis VanNess, of Albany. She owned a house and lot on Pearl Street, Albany; property in Schenectady ; and May 8, 1668, she received a parcel of land at Canestigioona (Niskuzuna), opposite the "Great Island" and between the two creeks.
Dirck and Maritie (Damen) Van Eps were the parents of two children, one of them being a daughter, Elizabeth (or Lysbet) Dirckse, of whom further.
(Jonathan Pearson: "History of Schenectady Patent," p. 176. Howard James Banker : "Bancker or Banker Families of America," pp. 240-41.)
(II) ELIZABETH (or LYSBET) DIRCKSE VAN EPS, daughter of Dirck and Maritie (Damen) Van Eps, was a very capable business woman. In the Albany County records is a document by which Maritie (Damen) Van Eps 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 Holland, and after collecting the money she was to reinvest it at the comptoir general in that country. After her husband's death, Elizabeth moved to New York, where she engaged in business. Elizabeth (or Lysbet) Van Eps married Gerrit Bancker. (Bancker I.)
(Ibid. Family data.)
(The Van Schaick Line).
The surname Van Schaick originated from Schaijk, a commune in the North Brabant, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Van Schaijk meaning one "from Schaijk." The name may have been originally Scgadyck, which has a variation,
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Schaayick. This surname also appears as, Van Schaack, Van Schadyck, and Van Scheyk.
(I) CAPTAIN GOOSEN GERRITSE VAN SCHAICK, son of Gerritse Van Schaick, was born in the Netherlands in 1630, and died in 1676. He received a patent for land in the Beverwyck, now Albany, dated April 23, 1652. April 16, 1663, he received a patent for thirty-three morgens, or about sixty-six acres of land in Esopus. In 1664, he and Philip Pieterse Schuyler bought from the Indians the tract which they called Nachtenack, now Waterford, including the island, and a large tract, Halve Moon, or Half Moon, the deed being dated September II, 1665. On July 12, 1674, Schuyler conveyed his interest in these lands to Van Schaick, who in turn gave them by will to his second wife. After his death, his widow exchanged these lands for five hundred and fifty good marketable beaver skins, negotiating with their son, Anthony. Governor Lovelace confirmed the sole title to Anthony Van Schaick for an annual quit-rent of one bushel of winter wheat. Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick obtained means for his large acquisition of land mainly by fur trading with the Indians, and added to his large possessions by the purchase, in 1675, in a partnership with Pieter Lassingh, of Harmen Rutger's brewery, in the eastern end of what was later Exchange Block, Albany, bounded by Broadway, Maiden Lane, and State Street. In 1657, as he was about to marry a second time, he made a contract reserving from his estate six thousand guilders for his four eldest children by his first wife; and, in 1668, being about to sail to Holland, he made a joint will with his second wife, which named the children then living.
Captain Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick married (first), in 1649, Geertie (Ger- trude) Van Nieuwkerk, who died about 1656, daughter of Brant Van Nieuwkerk. He married (second), in July, 1657, Annatie (or Amatje) Lievens. (Lievens II.) Captain Van Schaick had twelve children. Among those of the second mar- riage was Catherine, of whom further.
("Collections of the History of Albany," Vol. IV, 184e, 184f. "New York Genealogical Biographical Record," Vol. II, p. 191. Reynolds: "Genealogical and Family History of New York," Vol. III, p. 1435. "South New York," Vol. III, pp. 1435-37 (1914).)
(II) CATHARINE (or CATHERINE) VAN SCHAICK, daughter of Captain Goosen Gerritse and Annatie (or Amatje) (Lievens) Van Schaick, married Mat- thew Clarkson. (Clarkson I.)
(Ibid. Jordan: "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, p. 897. Virkus: "The Abridged Compendium of American- Genealogy," Vol. I, p. 131.)
(The Lievens Line).
Lievens is probably a Dutch surname, although it is also found in Sweden.
(John O. Evjen : "Scandinavian Emigrants in New York.")
(I) JANSE LIEVENS, Lievense, Liverse, or Levison (otherwise, Lieve Jansen), first appears on record in Long Island in 1655. On September 10, 1655, Janse Lievens, or Lieve Jansen, conveyed to Andries Andriesen a house and plantation consisting of twenty-five morgens lying in the town of Newtown, adjoining Hell Gate (Long Island), and about this time he removed to Beverwyck. This tract on Long Island Lieve Jansen patented February 26, 1654. A copy of this land transaction follows :
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Lieve Jansen declared that he has sold, and Andries Andriesen that he has purchased, a certain plantation belonging to the vendor, scituate on Long Island, beyond Hell Gate, extending on the east side along Simon Josten's land, and on the west side abutting Juriaen Fradel's land, as large and small as appears by the groundbrief thereof, together with the house standing thereon, and all that is thereon constructed, built, set off or planted, and thirteen hogs, old and young, as seen by the purchaser. For which plantation and what is above mentioned the pur- chaser promises to pay the sum of four hundred and ten guilders right down to wit: One hun- dred guilders in merchantable beavers and one hundred and thirty guilders in good current wampum. The purchaser shall also pay all costs, which attend the sale, and conveyance as well as those parties respectively pledge their persons and properties, present and future, submitting the same to all courts and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed by parties with witnesses at Amsterdam in New Netherland the 10th of September anno 1655. LIEVE JANSEN.
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and Stoffel Michielsen as witness, signed in presence of Cornelius Van Ruyven, Secretary.
Janse Lievens married. Among his children were:
I. Harmon, died before 1700; married Maritie Teunise.
2. Annatie (or Amatje), of whom further.
(John O. Evjen : "Scandinavian Emigrants in New York," pp. 297-98. E. B. O'Callaghan : "Calendar of Historical Manuscripts," Part I, pp. 59, 380. Jonathan Pearson: "Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany," p. 74.)
(II) ANNATIE (or AMATJE) LIEVENS, daughter of Janse Lievens, married Captain Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick. (Van Schaick I.)
(Cuyler Reynolds : "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs," Vol. III. p. 992.)
(The Ashmead Line).
Ashmead is an English name, meaning "dweller at the ash-tree, meadow." This name was derived from the Old English aesc plus maed.
(Harrison : "Surnames of the United Kingdom.")
(I) JOHN ASHMEAD, American progenitor, was born in Cheltenham, County Gloucester, England, October 14, 1648, and died in Cheltenham Township, now Montgomery County, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1688. He and his brother-in-law, Toby Leech, came to Pennsylvania in 1682 with their respec- tive families. John Ashmead had been associated with Mr. Leech in the purchase of a large tract of land from William Penn, which was laid out in what became Cheltenham Township, then a part of Philadelphia, and which was named after the English home of the Ashmeads.
John Ashmead married, in Cheltenham, England, October 14, 1677, Mary Currier, daughter of William Currier, of Cheltenham. Their eldest son was :
I. John, of whom further.
(G. Cope and H. G. Ashmead : "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania," Vol. II, p. 138. John W. Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, pp. 506-07.)
(II) JOHN ASHMEAD, JR., son of John and Mary (Currier) Ashmead, was born in Cheltenham, England, July 12, 1679, and died at Germantown, Philadel- phia, October 7, 1742. He was but nine years, five months old when his parents
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died. He married, at Darby Friends' Meeting, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1703, Sarah Sellers. (Sellers-American Line-II.) They were the parents of :
1. John, born in Germantown, May 12, 1706, died there July 30, 1750; married, August 27, 1734, Ann Rush, daughter of James Rush, and aunt of Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
2. Anne, of whom further.
(Ibid. J. G. Leach : "History of the Bringhurst Family . . . ," p. 27.)
(III) ANNE ASHMEAD, daughter of John, Jr., and Sarah (Sellers) Ashmead, was born in Cheltenham Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1707-08, and died at Germantown, Philadelphia, in August, 1760. She married George Bringhurst. (Bringhurst I.)
(J. G. Leach: "History of the Bringhurst Family . ' pp. 27-28. John W. Jordan: "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, p. 1145.)
(The Sellers Line).
The surname Seller, or Sellers, has two possible derivations. One is from the French sellier, meaning a saddle or saddler, and the other is from the occupation "a Cellarer," one in charge of a cellar or storeroom. This name is found in various forms in early records, appearing as del Celer, del Seler, Seller, and Sellers.
(Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Harrison: "Surnames of the United Kingdom.")
(I) ROBERT SELLERS, of Belper, in Derbyshire, died in 1618. His ancestry is traced to a remote period in Derbyshire, where the name first appears in the rec- ords as de Salor, or de Sallow, and by which name the manor held by the family in the twelfth century near the present village of Sawley in Derbyshire was also designated.
Robert Sellers married Mary Francis, daughter of Ralph Francis, of All Saints, Derbyshire. Their son was :
1. Thomas, of whom further.
(F. W. Leach : "Old Philadelphia Families," Vol. III. Family data.)
(II) THOMAS SELLERS, son of Robert and Mary (Francis) Sellers, married Elizabeth. They had six children, among whom was Samuel, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(The Family in America).
(I) SAMUEL SELLERS, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Sellers, and first of his line in America, was baptized at Duffield Church, Derbyshire, England, February 3, 1655, and died in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1732. He was one of the earliest settlers of Darby Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, just on the outskirts of Philadelphia County. A tradition in the family relates that he and his brother, George, built a house which constituted the kitchen part of the old homestead, known later as "Sellers Hall."
Samuel was one of those Friends who, in 1682, established Darby Meeting of Friends, and was one of its most respected and prominent members. He was also prominent in the affairs of the ancient township of Darby; serving as constable in 1688, supervisor of highways in 1692, and fence viewer for several terms from
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1693 to 1716. He acquired by patent, in 1690, one hundred acres of land, lying along the western side of Cobb's Creek, then known as Mill Creek, and south of the present West Chester Road. In 1691 he added seventy-five acres adjoining. He was a weaver by trade and probably utilized the waterpower of Cobb's Creek (where his grandson, John Sellers, later erected a sawmill, gristmill, and worsted mill) for the operation of his primitive looms.
Samuel Sellers married, at Darby Meeting, August 13, 1684, Ann Gibbons, who died January 19, 1742-43, daughter of Henry and Eleanor Gibbons, of Par- wich, Derbyshire. Ann, wife of Samuel Sellers, was an overseer of the Women's Meeting at Darby, Pennsylvania. One of their six children was Sarah, of whom further.
(Ibid. G. Cope and H. G. Ashmead: "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania," Vol. I, p. 194. John W. Jordan: "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, pp. 1220-21. John W. Jordan : "Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography," Vol. XII, pp. 210-11.)
(II) SARAH SELLERS, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Gibbons) Sellers, was born in Darby Township, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1685, and died April 3. 1766. She married John Ashmead, Jr. ( Ashmead-American Line-II.)
(Ibid.)
(The Strickler Line).
According to the family historian, the surname Strickler is probably a variation of the German word Sticker (or Stricker), which means to weave or knit. Seiden -. sticker, a familiar name, is composed of two German words-seiden (silk) and sticker (weaver-knitter)-hence, when Anglicized, it would be "silk-knitter." Probably the best interpretation of Strickler would be "knitter," or strick (knit), with ler added. The name is found in Zurich, Switzerland, to this day.
(H. M. Strickler: "Forerunners-A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families," p. 14. Family data.)
(I) HENRY STRICKLER, American progenitor of his family, died in May, 1761. He arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1737. on the ship "Friendship" from Rotterdam. On November 13, 1747, he appears in a record of a survey of lands. Henry Strickler was later a resident of Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as his will was dated in that town, May 2, 1761. In his will, which was proved May 13, 1761, he mentions his children: John, Jacob, Henry, and two daughters. Henry Strickler and Henry Neave were named executors. One of Henry's children was Colonel Jacob, of whom further.
(H. M. Strickler: "Forerunners- A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families," pp. 394-95. Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Wills, Vol. II, p. 913, in the Manu- script Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.)
(II) COLONEL JACOB STRICKLER, son of Henry Strickler, died in Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, between August 5, 1811, the date of his will, and January 22, 1812, date of its probation. An abstract of his will reads :
Will of Jacob Strickler, Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Dated August 5, 1811. Proved January 22, 1812.
Wife Sarah Strickler.
Children : Henry, Jacob, Joseph, Catharine, Emile, Susanna, Elizabeth, Nancy wife of Spear; Mary wife of Weaver; and Sarah wife of -- McCorkle.
Son-in-law Samuel J. Atlee.
Executors : Jacob Strickler, Christian Brenneman, Andrew Gerber and John Furry.
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He was a pioneer settler in Hempfield Township, purchasing land adjoining Robert Barber on the east in 1740. Among the deeds in that county, also, is one by which he obtained land from the heirs of Henry Strickler in Hempfield Town- ship. It is recorded that at one time Jacob Strickler owned 3,000 acres of land in that community.
Family records state that Colonel Jacob Strickler was an officer in the Revolu- tionary War. His son, Jacob, kept the old ferry house at Marietta; he also returned to the old homestead and erected a very large two-story stone dwelling in 1803, which was in an excellent state in 1883. During the War of 1812, Jacob, above-mentioned son of Colonel Jacob Strickler, raised a company of volunteers and marched to Kennett Square (about ten miles northwest of Wilmington, Dela- ware), Chester County, and thence to "Head of Elk"; he was also a member of the Legislature several terms, a Jacob Strickler being recorded as such in the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1800.
In the census of 1790, Heads of Families in Pennsylvania, Jacob Strickler, of Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, believed to be identical with our Colonel Jacob Strickler, is listed as head of a family of :
2 free white males over 16 years. 2 free white males under 16 years.
7 free white females
Colonel Jacob Strickler married Sarah Wilson. They were the parents of three sons and eight daughters, one of whom was Susan, of whom further.
(H. M. Strickler : "Forerunners-A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families," pp. 394-95. Evans : "History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Census Records of 1790, Heads of Families in Pennsylvania. "Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Wills," Vol. II, p. 1013, in the Manuscript Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. J. H. Beers and Company: "Biographical Annals of Lancaster County," pp. 787-88. A. Harris : "Biographical History of Lancaster County," p. 598. Family data.)
(III) SUSAN STRICKLER, daughter of Colonel Jacob and Sarah ( Wilson) Strickler, was born January 25, 1797, and died July 31, 1864. She married Samuel Nelson Houston. (Houston III.)
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