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When William Penn issued the charter incorporating Germantown, August 12, 1688, all three of the Op de Graeff brothers were named as Burgesses, and Dirck was a Bailiff of the town, 1693-94. He died without issue, 1697, and his widow, Nelcken, died in 1719.
Herman Op de Graeff, eldest of the brothers, removed to Kent county, now Delaware, 1701, died there in 1704. He left one daughter, Margaret, who mar- ried Peter Shoemaker, Jr., son of Peter, who had come from Kreigsheim, Ger- many, and they have left numerous descendants in Bucks and Montgomery coun- ties. Herman is not known to have had male issue.
ABRAHAM OP DE GRAEFF was therefore the ancestor of all who bore the name in Pennsylvania. He was one of the first Burgesses and Bailiffs of Germantown, and was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1689-90-92. In 1709 he purchased a large tract of land in "Van Bebber's Township," a name applied generally to the early settled part of the Perkiomen region of Philadelphia county, from the fact that six thousand six hundred and sixteen acres were taken up there by Matthias Van Bebber, in 1704, and later partitioned among a number of the Germantown families and later German immigrants. The Op de Graeff purchase was located in what became Perkiomen and Skippack township in 1725. Abraham Op de Graeff removed to that section, as several deeds of record of the date 1710 give his residence as "Perkiomy." He died there and was buried in the old Mennonite burying-ground at Skippackville. The one thousand acres of land purchased by the three Op de Graeff brothers of Jacob Telner, agent for the Frankfort Company, by deed dated at Amsterdam, June 11, 1683, was never partitioned between them, though each had conveyed certain portions thereof. The remainder as shown by later deeds descended to Abraham, by right of sur- vivorship, and was conveyed partly by him and partly by his sons and daughters in 1715, after his death Catharine, wife of Abraham, evidently died prior to 1710, as she does not join in deeds of that date.
Issue of Abraham and Catharine Op de Graeff :
JACOB, b. Germantown, d. Skippack, 1750; m. Anneken In de Hoffen; of whom presently ; Isaac, m. Mary Basilher, removed to Chester co. 1732, and is supposed to be the ancestor of the Updegraves, later prominent in York co .; his son, Jacob, who m. Sarah Butler, was father of Sarah Optigrove, who m. Joseph Whittaker, iron master, and ancestor of Gov. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker;
Margaret, m. Thomas Howe, tailor, of Germantown, later of "Parqueomen;"
Anneken, m. Feb. 6, 1710-11, Herman in de Hoffen, brother of Annecken, wife of her brother, Jacob; settled with him at Skippack, with his brother, Eberhardt in de Hoffen, and both are bur. in the old Skippack burying-ground;
Elizabeth, m. Peter Von; but d. prior to 1711; probably without issue.
JACOB OP DE GRAEFF, as his name appears to deeds, though his children seem to have been the first to spell the name in its present form "Updegrave," was possibly the eldest son of Abraham and Cathrina or Tryntje Op de Graeff. As shown by
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the record of his marriage he was born at Germantown ; though according to Gov. Pennypacker's "Settlement of Germantown" he appears of record there as early as 1701, in which year he was fined for "taking a horse out of Custody." On the records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Bensalem appears the following record of his marriage :
"April 29, 1712: Jacob Op de Graeff, Jong Mahn, Geboren in Germantown, an noew voonende op Schepack, met Annechen ten houven, Jong Dochter geboren ten Muhlheim- aender-Roer."
Of the same date we find the record of the marriage of "Peter ten heuven jong mahn, geboren et Muhlheim-on-der-Roer to Sydonia an Leuvenigh jong dochter. geboren at Germantown," and residing in Rocks township. Also the marriage, on February 6, 1710-11, of "Harmenken ten Heuven" to "Annechen Op de Graef;" and on April 1, 1711, of Peter Von, widower of "Elizabeth Op de Graef," to Ger- ritje Jansen. Who this Elizabeth Op de Graef was does not appear, but she was possibly another daughter of Abraham and Tryntje, who having died before her father, and without issue, her name does not appear in the partition of his lands. Evert or Eberhardt in de Hoffen as his name appears on a tombstone in Skippack burying-ground, came from Muhlheim-on-the-Rohr, and was a resident of Ger- mantown, 1699, and possibly much earlier, though probably not as early as the Op de Graeff family, since his children seem to have been born at Muhlheim. Besides Peter, Herman and Annechen, above mentioned, he had a son, Eberhardt, born 1682, died 1746, who with a son of the same name, born 1708, and a wife, Anna Maria, is buried at Skippack. The name became anglicized into De Haven, and is now quite common in various parts of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Jacob Op de Graeff as shown by the record of his marriage was a resident of "Schepack," Philadelphia county, 1712. On June 2, 1713, he was one of the petitioners, among other "People of Skeepack and Adjacent Plantations," for a road from that section to Farmer's Mill, and was also a petitioner for the formation of the township of Skippack and Perkiomen, 1725. In 1721 he purchased land there of Matthias Van Bebber and Hermione, his wife, which in 1740 he conveyed to his son, Abraham. He also owned considerable other land there which he conveyed to his son, Edward. The name of his wife as given in these deeds was Susanna ; whether, since she signed by mark, this was a mistake of the scrivener, or whether he had married a second time prior to 1740, is problematical ; it seems hardly probable that the Dutch name of Annecken could have been corrupted into Susanna. There is little doubt that his sons, Abraham and Edward, were at least sons of Annecken, as Edward, younger of the two, probably was named for his maternal grandfather. Eberhardt (otherwise Edward) in de Hoffen.
The will of "Jacob Op de Graf, of Perqueomin, in county of Philadelphia," dated September 21, 1750, and proven at Philadelphia, October 1, 1750, mentions sons, Abraham and Edward, daughters, Elizabeth, Cathrina, Margaret and Ene- ken, and son-in-law, Richard Gable.
ABRAHAM UPDEGRAVE, eldest son of Jacob and Annecken (in de Hoffen) Op de Graeff, was born at Skippack, about 1714, died there in the winter of 1787-8. In 1740 his father conveyed to him a farm of one hundred acres in Perkiomen and Skippack township, on which he resided and of which he died seized, intestate, letters of administration being granted on his estate, January 5, 1788, to his eldest
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son, Henry Updegrave, his widow, Christine, renouncing. Since the Mennonite denomination to which he belonged kept no record of marriages, the date of his marriage and the maiden name of his wife have not been ascertained.
Issue of Abraham and Christine Updegrave:
Henry, who purchased the homestead of the other heirs in 1791 ;
EDWARD, b. about 1740, of whom presently ;
Beredina, m. John Smith;
Hannah, m. Joseph Tyson;
Susanna, m. John Tyson;
Elizabeth, unm. in 1791;
Mary, m. Nicholas Johnston.
EDWARD UPDEGRAVE, second son of Abraham and Christine Updegrave, born in Perkiomen and Skippack township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, about 1740, removed to Plumstead township, Bucks county, about the time of attaining his majority, and was the owner, at different periods, of several tracts of land in that township, at one time owning and operating a distillery there. In 1776 he was arrested by order of the Bucks County Committee of Safety, on the charge that he had uttered expressions "disrespectful to Congress and the Associators," but when summoned before a committee appointed to investigate the charge, they found that "his remarks had been nothing more than a reflection upon the char- acter of some of the Plumstead Associators," and on taking the oath and making the declaration that he meant no disrespect to Congress, he was discharged. The date of his death has not been ascertained, but he lived to a ripe old age, and was well remembered by his grandson, Joseph Updegrave, of Doylestown, who died about 1894, aged about eighty years. He is described as a typical "Dutchman" in personal appearance, rather short of stature, but heavily built, with short neck, peculiar to those of Holland descent. He was an expert performer on the violin, and frequently officiated at local gatherings as a musician. He was living in 1815 when he was administrator of the estate of his son-in-law, John Closson.
Edward Updegrave married (first) about 1767, Sarah, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Harmer) Mitchell, of Buckingham, and (second) (prior to the convey- ance of his father's lands to his brother, Henry, in 1791) Elizabeth, supposed to have been the sister to his first wife.
William Mitchell, whose daughter, if not daughters, Edward Updegrave mar- ried, became a landowner in Upper Buckingham, Bucks county, about 1740, and in August, 1742, at his request was admitted as a member of Buckingham Friends' Meeting, and taking a certificate from that Meeting to Abington Meeting was mar- ried there in November of the same year to Elizabeth, daughter of George and Anne (Williams) Harmer, and granddaughter of William and Ruth Palmer, of Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia county.
William Harmer, her grandfather, was a son of George Harmer, of Mounden, Parish of Redboren-Chiney, county of Wilts, England, and with his brother, George, came to Philadelphia, 1682, and became a large landowner in the city and county of Philadelphia ; his son, William, married Eleanor, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bevan) Richardson, and granddaughter of Samuel Richardson, Pro- vincial Councillor, and of John Bevan, an account of whom and some of their de- scendants is given in our account of the Bevan and Richardson families in this work
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William Harmer was also the ancestor of Gen. Josiah Harmer, first commander- in-chief of the United States Army, after Washington. He was a member of the Society of Friends and brought a certificate from the Monthly Meeting at Purton, Wiltshire, dated 4th mo. (June) 5, 1682, which was deposited at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. He married Ruth - , who survived him and married John Inglis, 1737, he having died in Upper Dublin about 1733, leaving a will dated Jan- uary 21, 1731-2. William and Ruth were the parents of eight children: Jane, married 1712, John Bradfield, of Buckingham, Bucks county; Elizabeth, married Joseph Townsend, of Byberry, same year; William, before mentioned, married Eleanor Richardson, 1717; George, father of Elizabeth (Harmer) Mitchell ; Ruth, married John Thompson, of Warwick, Bucks county ; John ; Joshua, married Jane Jones, 1726, settled in Springfield township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery, county ; daughter, married Philip Williams, mentioned in his will.
George Harmer, son of William and Ruth, took a certificate from Abington Meeting to Gwynedd Meeting to marry, and on the records of the latter Meeting we find the following, under date of March 26, 1724, "George Harmer, son of William, of Upper Dublin township, Yeoman, married to Anne Williams, daughter of Evan Williams, deceased, of same county, at the house of John Jacobs at Per- queomen ; among the witnesses are John, Joshua and William Harmer ; Joseph and Elizabeth Townsend, John Thompson, and David and Elizabeth Williams." George Harmer was a carpenter, and purchased one hundred and four acres of land at Abington in 1724. The date of his death has not been ascertained.
Evan Williams, father of Anne, wife of George Harmer, was a son of David Williams, of Llansphen, Parish of Llandilwawr, Caernarvonshire, Wales, who brought a certificate for himself, wife and family to Radnor Meeting, where it was recorded May 26, 1693. Evan Williams, "Batchelor," and Margaret Richards, "Spinster," both of Haverford, Welsh Tract, were married at the Public Meeting House at Haverford, July 7, 1697. Margaret Richards was a daughter of John and Susan Richards, who brought a certificate from Dolgelly Meeting in Merioneth- shire, Wales, August 8, 1690. Evan Williams settled on the Skippack, Philadel- phia, now Montgomery county, where he died, leaving a will dated August 26, and proven March 3, 1715-16, in which are mentioned his sons, Lewis and David, and daughters, Anne and Elizabeth. The latter married Matthias Rittenhouse and was the mother of David Rittenhouse, eminent astronomer, and treasurer of Penn- sylvania during the Revolution. Lewis Evans married Jane, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, of Merion, 1723, died at White Marsh 1727. His brother, David, died in Norriton, 1731, unmarried, leaving his estate to his sisters, Elizabeth Rittenhouse and Anne Harmer.
William Mitchell, father of Sarah ( Mitchell) Updegrave, died in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, leaving a will dated October 24, 1760, proven December 9, 1760, by which he devised his real estate to his wife, Elizabeth, for life, then to his children. The widow, Elizabeth Mitchell, neƩ Harmer, who had married (second) Asa Fell, died prior to January 14, 1780, on which date the children made conveyance of the real estate.
The children of William and Elizabeth (Harmer ) Mitchell, as shown by the deed above recited and other records, were :
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Elizabeth Mitchell, single in 1780, but became the second wife of Edward Updegrave prior to 1791, when she joined him in the conveyance of his father's real estate;
Sarah, m. Edward Updegrave, about 1767. and was living in 1780, but deceased prior to 1791:
George, m. Aug. 25, 1776, Susanna Betts, at Wrightstown Friends' Meeting;
William, m. Nov. 14, 1776, Mary Brown, of Buckingham;
Ann, m. John Poole, of Warwick, now Doylestown township, and with him removed to Baltimore co., Md.
The children of Edward Updegrave, all probably by first wife, Sarah Mitchell, were :
Elizabeth, b. May 1, 1769; m. 1788, John Closson, of Plumstead township, Bucks co .;
Sarah, m. Samuel Heiser, and resided near Evansburg, Montgomery co., Pa .; bur. at the Trappe;
Joseph, b. 1778, d. at Doylestown, Bucks co., Aug. 31, 1863; m. Feb. 29, 1814, Elizabeth Gasho, of Upper Providence, Montgomery co .;
Henry, of Plumstead township, Bucks co., who has descendants of the name still resid- ing in that vicinity;
Susanna, an invalid.
CLOSSON FAMILY.
The name Closson, like that of Clawson, Clauson, Classon, Claessen, had its origin in the Dutch custom of attaching "sen" to the father's given name to form the surname of the child, thus the sons of "Claus," the Dutch form of Nicholas, were named "Claussen," or more commonly Classen or Claessen, and when the family had been resident in America for a few generations and became closely associated with the English they adopted the customs of their neighbors, and re- tained a permanent surname, instead of changing with each generation. Two or three branches of the Classon-Clauson family became residents of Pennsylvania during Colonial times, all probably descended from early Dutch emigrants to New Netherlands. Jan Classen was one of the earliest Dutch settlers on the Delaware, residing on or near Burlington Island in 1676, and the following year obtained a grant of land on the Neshaminy, in Bucks county, in the present limits of Bristol township, and obtained permission from the Court at Upland to settle thereon. This land amounting to five hundred and thirty acres was confirmed by Willian Penn, in 1684, to Jan or John Clauson, and descended to his children, all of whom, however, took the name of Johnson, according to the Dutch custom.
Christian Classon, of "Tiacominck" (Tacony), purchased, in 1685, "a parcel of Meadow Ground, being in the swamp adjoining the land belonging to the township of Tiacominck, joining to the River Delaware." This Christian Classon died about 1700, and his widow, Margaret, married Thomas Jones.
The children of Christian and Margaret Classon were:
Claus Classon, b. 1684; m. at the First Presbyterian Church, Phila., Sept. 27. 1714, Anne Lynde ;
Cathrina, b. 1688, d. s. p .; Christina, b. 1690;
John, b. 1692; m. Ann , who d. 1753; had one daughter, Mary, married George Heap, at Christ Church, Sept. 2, 1738;
Cornelius, sometimes confounded with Cornelius Clawson, of N. J., of whom see for- ward;
Elizabeth, b. 1695, d. unm .;
James, b. 1696, d. 1718, unm .;
Christian, b. Sept., 1697, d. inf .;
Gustavus, administrator of James in 1718;
Gertrude, d. nnm .;
Margaret, m. - Skidmore.
Another branch of the Closson family, whose descendants became residents of Philadelphia and vicinity, was founded in this country by Captain Gerrebrandt Claessen, of New Amsterdam, who obtained a grant of land in Bergen county. New Jersey, of Philip Carteret, and died there in 1708, leaving a widow, Mary, who died in 1714, and children : Cornelius ; William ; Nicholas ; Herbert ; Neiltje, wife of John Jurian : Meyfie, wife of Dirck Van Lout ; Mary, wife of Geret Von Wagoner ; and Peter.
William Clawson, supposed to be a son of Gerrebrandt, settled at Piscataway. Middlesex county, New Jersey, where he purchased land as early as 1683. He (lied there in 1724. leaving a widow, Mary, and children as follows :
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Cornelius, eldest son, who d. in Piscataway, 1758, leaving sons: Cornelius, William and Zachariah, the first and last of whom removed to Pa .; and several daughters. The son, Cornelius, m. Anna Burcham, at Chesterfield Meeting, 1728, and brought certificate to Falls Meeting Bucks co., 1733. Their son, Cornelius, m. Jennet Cowgill, and settled in Solebury, Bucks co., and their daughter, Mary, m. Aaron Philips, of Solebury, 1756; Benjamin, of whom we have no further record;
Josias, d. intestate in Somerset co., N. J., 1733;
William, of whom we have no further record;
John of whom we have no definite record;
Gerrabrant, of whom we have no further record;
Joseph, of whom we have no further record;
Thomas, d. in Piscataway, 1761; had children : Brant, William, Richard, d. in Bucking- ham, Bucks co., Pa., 1754, leaving a widow, Alice; John, Josias, Brant, Mary. Eliza- beth, Hannah, Sarah;
Mary, m. - Drake;
Hannah, unm. in 1723.
This narrative has to do with the descendants of one John Closson, who at his death, December 6, 1756, was a tenant on land belonging to Thomas Watson, of Buckingham, lying just over the line of Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in the township of Warwick. Letters of administration were granted on his estate to his widow, Sarah, January 14, 1757, with John Wilkinson and Joseph Sackett, of Wrightstown, as sureties. In her account of the estate, filed March 15, 1758, she is allowed a credit, "for victualling, clothing and school- ing two children, from December 6, 1756, to the date of her settlement ; and for payment of a bond and interest to 'Richard Furman,' amounting to thirty-seven pounds, nineteen shillings, one pence." This Richard Furman was father of Sarah Closson, the widow and accountant, and resided from 1710 to his death in 1757, in "the township of Trenton," New Jersey. He was a great-grandson of
JOHN FURMAN, who is said to have come from Wales to Massachusetts, where he was a freeholder as early as 1631. He was one of the fifty-five original pur- chasers of Middlebury (later Newtown), Long Island, from the Indians in 1656, and died there about 1665, leaving two sons and three daughters. His son, John Furman, born 1631, died 1677, was a freeholder of Newtown, Long Island, in 1666. He left one son, Jonathan, who left no posterity so far as known.
JOSIAS FURMAN, probably eldest son of John Furman, pioneer, appears of record at Middlebury, Long Island, as early as July 6, 1657, and became a free- holder there in 1665. He was Commissioner of Highways in 1700, and died at Newtown, Long Island, 1709, leaving sons : John, Josias, Joseph, David, Samuel, Jonathan, and daughters: Martha and Rebecca. Of these, at least three, Josias, Samuel and Jonathan, located near Hopewell, New Jersey, and left issue there.
JOSIAS FURMAN, second son of Josias Furman, of Newtown, Long Island, born there, or in New England, 1645, died at Hopewell, New Jersey, August 8, 1742, aged ninety-seven years, having either accompanied or followed his son, Richard, to New Jersey, in 1710. He married Sarah Strickland, also of New England ancestry, whose father was likewise an early settler on Long Island, and had issue : Josiah, married Sarah Wood, and was the father of James C. Furman, D. D., and several other children; Richard, above mentioned; Sarah, married Ralph Hunt ; Mercy, married Thomas Burroughs ; Martha, married Edward Hunt.
RICHARD FURMAN, father of Sarah Closson, was born at Newtown, Long Island, and December 18, 1710, purchased of Jasper Smith, of Maidenhead, New Jersey, one hundred acres of land, lying in the townships of Hopewell and Maiden-
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head, near Trenton, New Jersey, and removed thither, later purchasing consider- able other land in that locality. His will, in which he is named as "Richard Fur- inan, of the township of Trenton," bears date February 13, 1751-2, was proven November 8, 1757. He married Sarah Way, who survived him, and they were the parents of six children : Josiah, Jonathan, Francis ; Sarah, married John Closson ; Mary, married a Clark; Elizabeth, married Thomas Kitchin.
From the fact that Richard Furman, whose daughter John Closson married, resided in the immediate neighborhood of Thomas Closson, whose other son, Richard, located in Bucks county, near John, of Warwick, it is assumed that John Closson, of Warwick, Bucks county, was son of Thomas Closson, and mentioned in his will in 1756.
JOHN CLOSSON, June 27, 1746, "aged thirty-two," joined Captain Trent's com- pany for the campaign against Canada, and with that company went into winter quarters at Albany, New York, winter of 1746-7, and was discharged October 31, 1747, "the intended expedition against Canada having been abandoned." He was already a resident of Pennsylvania at the date of his enlistment, and his occupa- tion is given as "cordwainer," the known occupation of John Closson, of War- wick. The theory that Thomas Closson was the father of John, of Warwick, is further corroborated by the fact that both the latter's sons named a son, Thomas, by no means a common name in the Closson family, here or elsewhere. The only two children of John and Sarah ( Furman) Closson, of whom we have any record, were:
William Closson, of Wrightstown, Bucks co., witness to a marriage at Wrightstown Meeting, 1756; was a "cordwainer" in that township, and d. there in 1784; m. at Dutch Reformed Church of Northampton and Southampton, Bucks co., Oct. 23, 1766, Rachel Stout; issue :
Isaac Closson, a carpenter in Wrightstown until 1815, when he removed to War- wick, and in 1820 removed to Brownsville, Jefferson co., N. Y .; m. Oct. 25, 1806, Ruth Tomlinson ;
Thomas Closson, of Wrightstown, had son, Abel, who d. in childhood, May 28, 1814, and possibly other children.
JOHN CLOSSON, b. about 1738, d. in Plumstead township, Bucks co .; of whom presently.
JOHN CLOSSON, son of John and Sarah (Furman) Closson, of Warwick, Bucks county, was born about 1738. The first record we have of him is in 1759, when his name appears on the tax list of Warwick township. Soon after this date he married and settled on fifty acres of land in Plumstead township, Bucks county, where he continued to reside the remainder of his life, living to a good old age ; was buried at Red Hill Church, in Tinicum township. The name of his wife has not been ascertained, but he had the following children :
Elizabeth, b. 1762, d. May 15, 1847; was admitted a member of Wrightstown Friends' Meeting, as "daughter of John Closson of Plumstead," Dec. 2, 1783, and m. there April 14, 1784, Isaiah Warner, of the prominent Warner family of Wrightstown, de- scendant of William Warner, of Blockley, Phila .;
JOHN, b. Dec. 6, 1764; m. 1789, Elizabeth Updegrave; d. 1815; of whom presently ; Rebecca, d. unm .;
Barbara, m. Benjamin Clark;
Martha, m. (first) Jonathan Harker, (second) Jonathan Keller ;
Sarah, m. (first) Samuel Shaw, (second) John Stover;
Mary, m. Andrew Price;
Amelia, m. Jacob Housel:
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Thomas, m. Sept. 8, 1796, before John Reading, Esq., of Amwell, N. J., Elizabeth Naylor, dau. of David, of Amwell;
William, m. at Neshaminy Church, Nov. 19, 1794, Sarah, dau. of George Wall, Esq., a distinguished officer in the Revolution, member of Supreme Executive Council of Pa., Sheriff of Bucks co., etc. William Closson was a merchant in Solebury township, Bucks co., 1797-1805; had nine children, among them George Wall Closson, Treasurer of Bucks co. 1842-4, who has sons living in Bucks co .;
Prudence, m. Jan. 25, 1799, before John Reading, Esq., George Wall, fourth, one of the sons of Col. George Wall, above mentioned, and has numerous descendants in Bucks co .;
Isaac, m. Anna Maria Niece, and had eight children, the youngest being Isaac, of Carversville, Bucks co., b. 1816;
James, m. Mary Tomlinson; d. March 30, 1815, leaving three children: Joseph, Isaiah and Elizabeth.
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