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| 301 | Col. Heathcote was 1st Lord of the Manor of Scarsdale, a member of the Provincial Governor's Council, and mayor of New York City for 3 terms. | Heathcote, Caleb (I7652)
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| 302 | Col. Josiah Smith was born November 28, 1723 at East Moriches, L.I. in a house erected by his grandfather, Richard Smith II, son of Richard (Bull) Smith of Smithtown. His home was located on property purchased from the Indians secured by a grant from King William and Queen Mary of England in 1697 known as the Moriches Patent. He died May 15, 1786 aged 62 years. His grave is supposed to be in the family burial plot but is not marked. His house is still intact but now on the next street. (Moriches Ave.) #83 on the Osborn Shaw Cemetery Listing | Smith, Joshua "Bull" (I8074)
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| 303 | Commodore Frederick Gilbert Bourne (December 20, 1851 – March 9, 1919)[1] was an American businessman. He was the fifth president of the Singer Manufacturing Company, from 1889 to 1905. He made the business "perhaps the first modern multinational industrial enterprise of any nationality".Early life [edit] Bourne was born on December 20, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of the Rev. George Washington Bourne (1815–1872) and Harriet J. (née Gilbert) Bourne (1817–1907), who was from Portland, Maine.[2] His older sister was Clara Bourne, who married John Loring Whitman.[3] His paternal grandparents were Benjamin Bourne and Mary (née Hatch) Bourne, herself the daughter of Joshua Hatch, a soldier during the American Revolutionary War who was killed near Crown Point after the evacuation of Fort Ticonderoga in 1777.[3] Bourne and his family moved to New York City by 1860, when Bourne was likely around 9 years old. His family was poor, and as a result could not afford to send him to college later on in life.[4] Throughout his childhood, Bourne was fond of mechanical work, history, science, and adventure. He was an avid reader, and had a "veracious thirst for knowledge". By age 11, he was also a member of the choir at Holy Trinity Church.[5] Bourne was educated at public schools in New York before joining the work force at age fourteen.[2]Career [edit] | Bourne, Frederick Gilbert "Commodore" Sr. (I20966)
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| 304 | common ancester. Rebreeca joins the Robert Brewster b 1494 line into the Woodulls. Her husband Nathaniel Woodhulll b 1761 joins the link back to De Ros line and the Magna Carta. | Brewster, Rebecca (I17133)
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| 305 | Cook was graduated from Harvard in 1869, and received a Master's Degree three years later. He studied at the Royal Polytechnic School in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Vaudremer. He was at one time consulting architect for New York City and also served on the Municipal Art Commission. He was President of the American Institute of Architects (Fellow, 1891), of its New York Chapter, and of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. He was also a member of the National Academy of Design (1912), an officer of the Institute of Arts and Letters, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and a member of the Harvard, Century, and MacDowell Clubs. Among buildings designed by firms of which he was a member were the New York Life Buildings at New York, Montreal and Minneapolis, De Vinne Press, the Stadium and other buildings at the Buffalo Exposition, and various branches of the New York Public Library. | Cook, Walter ^ (I9300)
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| 306 | Copied from [Cornelius Otto Descendents 7-18-05.pdf. FTW] Notes on the Otto and Hage Families by Belle Otto Terry (BOT) Note: Louis L Otto, brother of Belle finished manuscript (LLO) John Otto became very deaf and he had a hand tremor (familial palsy). Note 17 Cornelius and Johanna Baker Otto came to West Sayville from Holland in 1852, with their four sons, and settled in West Sayville on Atlantic Avenue. Cornelius was a fisherman. He and his wife were charter members of the Dutch Reformed Church when it was formed in 1860. Three of their sons married three sisters, Nell, Cornelia, and Maria Hage. Many of the descendants of this couple continued to live on the south shore of Long Island. In the late 1920’s and early 193O’s, the women of the third generation, with our Grandma Otto, used to get together two or three times a year for which I called a “Cousin party”. I always hoped there would be one while I was home on vacation. There is in the Hage family line an ability to tell a story well. These parties were hilarious affairs because so many good family anecdotes would be told and retold. Much of what I know about my father’s cousins came from these delightful tea parties. Among those usually present were Grandma Otto, Aunt Anna Tinner, Aunt Nellie’s group (Jane Otto Otto, Westerbeke, Rogers, Mantha, Skinner, and Phanemiller), Josephine Terry Fitzgerald, and Alice Isles, Annie Seerveld Brown and Minnie Dykstra, and my mother (who only married into the family), and sometimes I (BOT) was there. Note 18 John and Cornelia Hage Otto They owned an acre of ground with a house, barn, and old trees facing Greene Avenue and running thru to Greeley Ave. John Otto was “bent on the bay”, but he was also a farmer and cultivated land beside his house. The northwest corner of this land was subsequently sold to his son Louis A. Otto, and became our land at 79 Greeley Ave. The Greeley Avenue edge of the property was lined with silver maples which John Otto had planted. John Otto was apparently a stern and religious father. Morning prayers were held each day while his sons chafed to be out and play. He became very deaf, a problem transmitted to his son John Jr. and his daughter Anna (both totally deaf by age 20), the latter’s son, Herbert Parkhill, and to his other sons Louis and Thomas, both partially deaf by young manhood. John Otto was also the source of the hand tremor which has plagued some of his descendants. He must have been a tall man, since all of his children were tall, even though their mother was short. Cornelia Hage Otto was the daughter of Cornelius and Minna Hage (see note 8), coming to Oakdale with her parents in 1849 at the age of 5. She was a story teller, telling many tales of her childhood (see note 8). After her marriage to John Otto they settled in their home on Greene Avenue. Grandmother wanted to travel, but Grandfather did not, so they didn’t. John Otto died in May, 1905, and Grandmother was free to go. By July she was on her way back to Bruinissee, in Holland, her birthplace, intending a long visit. However, Holland was cold, and Grandmother was cold-blooded, so she soon came back home to get warm. Thereafter she traveled whenever half an opportunity presented itself. If she learned that you planned a day’s trip to New York, she would say “I will be ready”. Ready she was, an hour ahead of time, and fretting because you’re not there yet to pick her up. She spent several summer holidays near the Choptank River in eastern Maryland, where she had been as a girl, reveling in the hot Eastern Shore summer. Grandmother was a stickler for Victorian propriety, but withdrew objections to my pajamas (dreadful innovations ) when convinced the flannel would keep my childish legs warm. She repeatedly made sun bonnets for me to protect me from the sun because I tanned so readily. This she considered woman unladylike; Grandma Otto was a small woman (apparently like her mother), with dark hair. She was a poor cook, having little interest in it. My father went to great lengths after his marriage to avoid eating a meal at his mother’s table. She was a quilt maker, and made fine quilts for each grandchild. However, she made them to fit her own small frame, while her grandchildren were all tall. note 19 John Otto Jr. (1867 -1931) was the eldest son and second child of John and Cornelia Hage Otto. He was afflicted with wanderlust, taking off at an early age. As a telegraph operator he moved all over the west and into some foreign countries. At one point, for a period of 48 hours, he owned the heart of what was to become downtown Seattle, it was One in one poker game and lost in another. After his marriage he settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., and after retirement, in Sayville. note 20 Cornelius Otto and Aunt Rose lived in a house on lower Colton Avenue in Sayville. He never in my (LLO) memory came to our house. He was captain of an oyster steamer for the Bluepoints Company, which owned all of the bay bottom, mainland to beach, from Bluepoint on the east to Nicoll’s Point on the west, and would let no one else catch clams or oysters from it. When he retired from the company they allowed Uncle Case and another retiree to clam on their land (selling the clams to Bluepoint only). One November morning Case and his partner came down to their boat to go out to work. Uncle Case went below into the cabin to light the stove, his partner went to the forward deck to clear anchor and mooring lines. There was a terrific explosion, partner was blown overboard into the water and survived. The cabin structure went straight up into the air, then descended onto Uncle Case, crushing him. Moral: Diesel engines only for me. The following is an excerpt from FTM Book “CHILDHOOD REMEMBRANCES OF OAKDALE, LONG ISLAND, MY BIRTHPLACE By Alimina Hage Terry” “At the Benjamin homestead where the late Jacob Ocker’s house is now on the little hill, Mr. Phillip Benjamin died. The law had just been passed that there would be no burying on the premises so they called on my mother to prepare him for burial. She felt rather timid, but it was only the first of many who came to her and were never refused. This was the first person buried in Union Cemetery of Sayville where now it would be difficult to count them in the seventy-nine years gone by. And so the good work went on in spite of more troubles and anxieties which might have filled the thoughts of a less hearted woman. Not many came to Oakdale in the fifties but after about four or five years went by a man whose name was Mr. Peck came to Oakdale and started a charcoal manufacturing plant midway between Oakdale and Bohemia, bringing several families with him. They loved to be near their work and built themselves little huts made of branches of trees set up in a conical style or shape, covered with sod. They were from ten to fifteen feet high and had no windows or chimneys and resembled a rustic copy of army tents. It proved an unfortunate venture and as their means were limited they suffered much privation. Some were taken sick and as they were unacquainted it was a trying time for them. Mrs. Benjamin and my mother went to their aid, taking a supply of butter, eggs, milk and ham and other necessities to make them comfortable. Silas Hulse took them and they stayed three days to make sure they were on the road to recovery. A short time afterwards our good friends left for the West and were never heard from again. Other families from Brunisse were now coming to Oakdale, some working on the Bay and others employed by my father on the farm. He also employed many Bohemians who held him in great respect, believing “good masters make good servants”; and very true are its words. He had inherited love for peace and all created things, human beings and animals. There were eight sisters, myself being the seventh. Mrs. John Otto and two youngest still living. The older ones had their share of farm work, going for the cows a long distance near the residence of the late F.G. Bourne, who has done so much to beautify Oakdale. It was no uncommon thing to get chased by foxes or snakes. At one time three snakes were sunning themselves under a tree. Thinking them asleep, we passed by but on looking back we saw them coming after us, their tails in their mouths, rolling like a hoop. They pursued us some distance but finally gave up the chase. Things were going on in good order and they had no more longings or homesick feelings for their beloved Brunisse. In receiving papers and letters, they were informed of their relatives welfare and so time went on. By reading the papers they were now interested in the great affairs of the day, such as the laying of the Atlantic cable. No attempt had been made toward the great achievement until 1854, but it had been discussed many years. The laying of the cable was begun in 1857 but not completed until 1858 when a message was sent to Queen Victoria and she returned a message to President Buchanan. Observe what progress has been made with our wireless telegraphy and many other ways of sending messages and the wonderful invention of Thomas Edison. His electrical appliances have given us our electric light and made it possible to utilize electrical power in innumerable branches of industry. They were also interested in the Crimean War where the brave Florence Nightingale did so much to alleviate the suffering of the soldiers. She lived to see the result of her work and her methods adopted in the days when she chose for herself the life of loving service. She died in 1910. The people of Oakdale were the old fashioned Methodists. They would hold meetings in the little red school house which all would attend. They would sit with closed eyes and suddenly rise and shout and were very much in earnest and serious. We attended St. John’s Episcopal Church. Nevertheless we were impressed by their earnestness and our parents never discouraged us. It happened that a Holland family from Rochester, by the name of Otto, came to Oakdale and settled at Great River. It was then called Youngport. A brother, Cornelius Goldsworth, had preceded them a short time before. They also landed at Lakeland and naturally stopped at the old farmhouse to inquire the way to Great River. There were five brothers, John, Edward, Leonard, Thomas, and Henry Otto. There was one sister, the first wife of the late Wolfer Van Popering. At first, they did farm work but the oyster industry was getting so prosperous that they did much better by changing. From the time they reached Oakdale they were frequent visitors at the Hage farm. There were so few families and also none with so many girls so the two oldest married into the Hage family. John and Edward married the two oldest daughters, Neltje and Cornelia. Several years after Henry married Maria. Neltje and Cornelius were now settled and very happy living in Oakdale for many years, afterwards coming to Sayville. The men took to the water and with industry and courage combined they had few disappointments. They were a strong sturdy set of men with wonderful strength, also of character, and with loyalty too their obligations. Some time went by, about ten or twelve years. My father sent transportation for Ira Bebee to come to America, Mrs. Bebee being my mother’s sister. The money reached there but they dated not risk the journey. A few years after they again wished to come but when the money reached there again they dated not come until the third time when they left their beloved Burnisse. Mr. Bebee carried on the oyster business at the foot of Foster Avenue for many years; his sons carried on after his death. My Aunt Hannah was a mild and amiable woman possessing great patience and idolized by her children. She died early in life at her home in Sayville beloved by her friends and relatives. Henry Ocker’s, also with his sons, carried on the oyster business, Jacob doing it so extensively that they named him the oyster king. His brother Frederick also did the work of oystering” .Obituary – John Otto, one of Sayville's aged and most respected residents, died at his home on Green Avenue early on Sunday morning from Bright's disease, in the 74th year of his age. He was a native of Holland, but came to the United States when a young man and forty-eight years ago settled in this village. He at once began the occupation of a bayman and tilled a little farm during spare moments. Being of a thrifty, ambitious nature, he soon acquired sufficient capital to go into the oyster planting business more extensively and was very successful. About ten years ago, however, he retired from the bay, although he was interested in the oyster business for some time thereafter. About that time he assisted his two sons, Thomas and Bertram (Bertrand?) to establish the well-known firm of Otto Bros. who have built up a very prosperous meat, poultry, and provision business in this village and who are also successful coal merchants, having associated with their brother, Lewis, with them in this latter undertaking. In these various enterprises, the elder Mr. Otto took an active interest and until the past six months lent valuable aid. Blessed with a fine physique and a rugged constitution, until last autumn it was his proud boast that he had never been ill a day in his life, and had never taken medicine of any kind. Then his strength began to fail and he gradually grew weaker until in January he was given up by his physicians who thought he could not live through the day, but they did not reckon on his wonderful vitality which enabled him to get up and around again, but a dread disease had fastened upon him and on Sunday morning he passed on to his reward. The deceased was a very religious man, a close student of the Bible and a man of strict integrity. He was quiet and unassuming, but fearless and determined. "When he put his hand to the plow, he never turned back." He is survived by a widow, who like himself was a native of Holland but whom he married 40 years ago. Her maiden name was Cornelia Hage. They have five sons, John E., Cornelius, Thomas N., Lewis and Bertram and one daughter Mrs. Anna Tinner. The deceased also leaves three brothers, Henry and Thomas Otto of West Sayville, and Edward Otto of Yonkers. The funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the M. E. Church of which he was a regular attendant. The pastor, the Rev. H. S. Still, officiating, assisted by the Rev. E. S. Schilstra of the Dutch Reformed Church of West Sayville. Interment was in the Union Cemetery. (Suffolk County News (Sayville, Friday, May 26, 1905 Page: 2) Found on Find a grave- under John Otto, Union Cemetery, Sayville, NY ." | Otte aka Otto, Johannes Sr. (I28522)
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| 307 | Copied from [Cornelius Otto Descendents 7-18-05.pdf. FTW] Notes on the Otto and Hage Families by Belle Otto Terry (BOT) Note: Louis L Otto, brother of Belle finished manuscript (LLO) John Otto became very deaf and he had a hand tremor (familial palsy). Note 17 Cornelius and Johanna Baker Otto came to West Sayville from Holland in 1852, with their four sons, and settled in West Sayville on Atlantic Avenue. Cornelius was a fisherman. He and his wife were charter members of the Dutch Reformed Church when it was formed in 1860. Three of their sons married three sisters, Nell, Cornelia, and Maria Hage. Many of the descendants of this couple continued to live on the south shore of Long Island. In the late 1920’s and early 193O’s, the women of the third generation, with our Grandma Otto, used to get together two or three times a year for which I called a “Cousin party”. I always hoped there would be one while I was home on vacation. There is in the Hage family line an ability to tell a story well. These parties were hilarious affairs because so many good family anecdotes would be told and retold. Much of what I know about my father’s cousins came from these delightful tea parties. Among those usually present were Grandma Otto, Aunt Anna Tinner, Aunt Nellie’s group (Jane Otto Otto, Westerbeke, Rogers, Mantha, Skinner, and Phanemiller), Josephine Terry Fitzgerald, and Alice Isles, Annie Seerveld Brown and Minnie Dykstra, and my mother (who only married into the family), and sometimes I (BOT) was there. THE OTTO FAMILY TREE, For the US only, no Holland information available 28 Based upon information from Cornelia Hage Otto, gravestones in Sayville Union Cemetery, items in the Suffolk County News, and the faulty recollections of descendants. Alvina Hage Terry wrote a long report on early family history and the conditions encountered when they were the first Dutch family to come to the area in 1848, but it does not seem to be available.: indicates no children. The Otto Family Cornelius Otto m. Johanna Baker.(in Holland) (Came to US in 1852) Edward (1829-1907 ) m. Nell Hage (1839-1926) e (1863-1957) m. (1) Frank Nohowel Frank P m.' ? e ( m. (2) William Otto (no relation) Alice m. William Westerbeke William m. ?I child Jean (1888-1958) m. Frank Rodgers : Nellie Frances m. William Mantha Alice m. ? Robert m. ? Josephine m. Skinner Minnie m. Matthew DeGraaf (see DeGraaf family, P.7) Edward m. ? Cornelius m. ? daughter m. Frank Phanemiller George Eleanor Others John (1.20.1833-~.21.190~) m. Cornelia M~ (10.P8.1843-6-3-1931) note 18 Anna (2.12.1864-12.50.1950)m. (1) . . · Parkhill Herbert (! ?-19 ) m. Anna Westerbeke BruceR~3ph a Minnie Marietta m~ John 1867-1927)m. (2] Ernest Tinner :qstep-daughtersManson Proffett J m. Ella St. JohnJohn (1897-1967)J ohnmCornelius (1877-1940) m. Rose Flynn William (died in childhood) m. (1) Jeanette . · Rita ( ) m. Richard Schroeter Jane Anne5 othersGloria m. ?? childrenm. 2) Pearl . . .?page 2 ( The Otto Family 2 O children of John & Cornelia Hage Otto continued / Thomas Nelson (1873-1949) m. Julia Halt (1882-1950) ~r~ 2/ Virginia (8.17.1900-10.16.1974) m. Jewett Holt Smith Virginia ( 2.16.1898-4.14.67 ) Bernice (Blondie) (1906-1915) Julia (1917- ) m.. David C. Wallace Julia Hope m. ~ . .? 3 daughters Bruce ~ ) m. 4 children Louis Alfred (6.$.1875-11.15.1930)m. Belle DeGraff (1876-1937)(.see listing under Degraff Family. page 8) Bertram (18 -19 ) m. Margaret Bennett (18 -196 ) Bertram (190-) m. ( ) Leota :~eonard (1835-1~) m. Jeanette ? (1837-1902) : Thomas (6.10.1840-6.10.1911) m. Hannah (8.6.1852-8.6.1900) Thomas Jr. (1884-1959) m. Josephine ? (1889-1966) ~---Grace (1~S-1950) m. William Tucker Jr. · ~---Eleanor (1874-1956) m. Edward Van Vessel Nellie : Alfred(189 - 19 ) m.....? daughter Nellie : Barbara (1887-1946) m. Cornelius Beebe (1858-1940) Adrianna ( ) m. Frank Strange Ralph ( ) m..Henry (1846-1917) m. Maria Hage i1846-19~?) Lewis (1873-1943) m. Lavinia (1873-1933) Henry (Doodle) m.... Quaak J~/oTZ22 Kwaak? Winnie m. Eugene Flanagan Lillian : Naomi me . · Stanley (1901-1959} m. Deborah Weeks (1902-1949) children? Minnie (1876-1963) m. Mark Clemency (1865-1911) Beatrice daughter page 3, Otto Family Dorothy (1926 children? Lillian (1926- children ? John Peter IX (19Oh -Susan R. (1932-) m. Willard E. Beauchamp) m. David D. Acker) m. Mary Florence (Polly) Hepburn) Catherine H. (1936- ) Priscilla (1939- ) William (18 -19 ) m. Edith ? Leslie (190 - ) m.Alice _(Almina) (18 - 19 ) m. John Terry Josephine (18 -19 ) m. ? Firtzgerald Elizabeth (19107- ) m. (1) . I [ Dorothy I Elizabeth m° (2) . . ?Jack (19127-19) N ~ ?~osephine m. (2) ~&a. Weeks : Bessie (18 -19 )m.. ? . Isles Alice (19 -19 ) m. Ed . . . ? George m. ? children ?The HAGE Family Cornelius Hage ~m, Jacomina (Minna or Minkya) VanVessem Married in Holland, came to Sayville from Bruinisse in 6.6.1849,the first Dutch family to come to the area. Ne11(1839-1926) m. Edward Otto (1829-1907)See the Otto family for descendants. Cornelia (10.28.18h3-~.3.1931)m. John Otto (1.20.1833-5.21.1905)See the Otto family for descendants. Maria(1846-1917) m. Henry Otto (1846-1917)See the Otto family for descendants. Louise (18 -19 ) m. George Howell Note 24 Lillian (18 -19 ) m. John ? several children Amy m. Dennis B. Turner 2 daughters Myra m. ? Guthrie Franklin many others Marion m. ? children? Joanna (3.18.1853-10.24.1921) m. John Seerveld (1850-1929) ~E~ Altoina (Minnie) m. Adrianus (Ben) Dykstra Ben Alma Anna (Annie) m. Walter Brown Helen m. ? Munkelwitz Walter Jr. m. ? Frank m. ? Edward C. (1880-1972) m. ? Lester Addie (18 -191 ) m. John P. Radcliff VII ~ ~g John P° VIII m. Lillian ? Clara (18 -1968) m. Lincoln Work (18 -1968) Why did they immagrate? Emigration to North America The beginning Dutch people settled in North America from 1624 onwards. When in 1664 the English captured New Amsterdam and the colony of New Netherland, the influx of new groups of Dutch people to the continent came to a halt. This did not change until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Why emigrate? An important motive to emigrate at that time were the adverse economical conditions in the home country. The Napoleonic Wars had left the country exhausted. The Secession War with Belgium, the burden of taxation, the potato blight of 1845-47 and the drought that followed it resulted in high food prices, causing grinding poverty in large parts of the country. The working classes in particular had a hard time of it. Even so, there was yet another reason to leave.From 1816 onwards, various government regulations were introduced that had a bearing on religious life. As a response to the government's intervention, a movement developed within the Dutch Reformed Church, pleading for a return to more orthodox beliefs. This resulted in the group's secession form the Dutch Reformed Church. They decided to leave the Netherlands and settle in new communities in America. These communities in the American Midwest exerted a great appeal on the relatives left behind in the home country. Numbers of migrants The size of the stream of emigrants to the New World did not depend exclusively on the situation in the Netherlands. The prospects in America played an important role as well. The outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the attendant economic crisis immediately resulted in a drop in emigration. On the other hand, the Homestead Act of 1862, promising cheap land to immigrants, revived interest.The exact number of Dutch emigrants leaving for North America in the nineteenth century is unclear. Registers of emigrants in the country of origin as well as in the destination country are incomplete and not very well-organized. Robert P. Swieringa calculated that in the period from 1835 until 1880 between 75,000 and 100,000 Dutchmen arrived in their new home country. The peak occurred in the eighteen-eighties. These are considerable numbers seen from a Dutch perspective, though compared with the total of c. 10 million Europeans arriving in the US during the same period, the Dutch share is not very impressive. Emigration for religious reasons A conflict about religious doctrine In 1814, article 133 was included in the first Constitution of the United Netherlands, stating: "The Christian Reformed Religion is that of the Sovereign." The article was removed in 1815 when predominantly Roman-Catholic Belgium became part of the Kingdom. Nevertheless, what is now called the Dutch Reformed Church remained the only recognized protestant denomination in the Netherlands for a long period of time. All governing members of the House of Orange were and still are members of this church.King William I also occupied himself with religious issues. He ordered rules governing church life to be drawn up for the Dutch Reformed Church. On 7 January 1816 these rules, the General Regulations for the Government of the Reformed Church, were approved by Royal Decree. Many protestants saw this as direct interference in their church affairs.After 1816, more government regulations followed that affected church life. The schooling and examining of ministers, for instance, were brought under state supervision. The Secession At the theological faculty in Leiden a group of students actively opposed the government regulations. They found their leader in Hendrik Pieter Scholte. Also after they had graduated and had been appointed as ministers, the group kept in touch and continued their opposition collectively. Among the students were future leaders of emigrant groups such as Albertus Christiaan van Raalte and Anthonie van Brummelkamp.The struggle against the enforced reformation and for the right to remain orthodox broke out after 1834, when minister Hendrick de Cock from Ulrum together with his congregation publicly seceded from the Reformed Church. In a solemn meeting the faithful signed 'the Act of Secession and Return'. Their example was soon followed by many congregations, including those of Van Raalte and Scholte. Ministers in revolt The Dutch government tried to force the secessionists back into the bosom of the Reformed Church. This was done through a special interpretation of the Constitution, by stating that the freedom of religion, included in the Constitution of 1814, applied only to existing denominations. This made it impossible for the secessionists to appeal to the Constitution. When this did not produce the desired outcome, the government proceeded to dig up some old articles from de Code Napoleon, in particular those articles specifying that to organise and hold meetings of more than twenty people, government permission was required. Referring to these articles the police could legally swoop down on church services on a regular basis and arrest the ministers and their followers.After the abdication of King William I (1840) the persecution diminished, and even came to a complete stop after 1848, when a new Constitution was introduced. Nevertheless, for many secessionists this came too late. They had already decided to leave the oppressive conditions in the Netherlands behind them. They wished to establish new communities and found that America offered the most favourable opportunities for this. They were supported and inspired in their aspirations by a brochure entitled: 'Why do we promote emigration to North America and not to Java?'. In this brochure Van Raalte and Brummelkamp justified their choice.To realize their ideals the two militant ministers founded the 'Christian Society for Emigrants to the United States of North America'. In search of freedom The adverse economic conditions in the Netherlands helped to remove any doubts people might still have had about trying their luck elsewhere. In some cases part of a local congregation decided to book their passage, embark and leave for America together. In this way the ministers hoped to prevent the faithful becoming 'distracted'. By acting collectively they could, once they had arrived at their destination, support each other and hear the Gospel together in their mother tongue.This was a variant on the old Dutch proverb 'eendracht maakt macht' (Union is Strength).Thus the ministers' followers settled closely together in the states of the Midwest. Even to date Dutch sounding family names and place-names bear witness to this.The secessionists did not make up the majority of migrants leaving in the nineteenth century. Most of the c. 100.000 migrants trying their luck in America during this period were not involved in the church secession. They dispersed, with or without their families, across the vast continent and merged into the immigrant society. History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The Seceder Movement A new religious movement called the Seceders emerged in 1834 prompted by a deep concern for the creeping liberalism in the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church that was moving away from its deep commitment to Calvinism. The Dutch government attempted to repress the pious Seceder movement and religious persecution led to a great wave of immigration to America. Total congregations settled in the farming regions of the mid-west favoring Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan. They were led by men such as Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (1811-1876) and Henry Scholte (1805-1868), the founder of the Holland Colony of Marion County. Nearly half of the Dutch immigrants between 1845 and 1849 belonged to the dissenting Protestant Seceder movement. Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: Catholic immigrants led by Theodore J. van den Broek In 1848 Father Theodore J. van den Broek (1783-1851) led a large group of Catholic Dutch emigrants who settled in the areas around the communities of Little Chute, Holland Town, and Green Bay in Wisconsin. History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The 'Hungry Forties 'Holland, like many other European countries, suffered from serious crop failures including the potato blight (1845-1849) which led to great poverty, hunger, disease and destitution, referred to as the ' Hungry Forties'. Dutch Immigration to America increased again following the European Revolutions of 1848 as peasants remonstrated against the terrible conditions. The failure of the Dutch revolutionists led to a small wave of political refugees who fled to America. History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The Second Wave of Immigration During the second wave of Dutch immigration during the mid 1800's over 250,000 Dutch immigrants entered the United States - it was called the Great Migration. Among Dutch emigrant family heads, 60% were farmers and agricultural laborers. Holland had been hit by the agricultural revolution and the influx of cheap American wheat leading to a massive decline in grain prices. The flow was halted by the outbreak of the American Civil War. Those who came after the Civil War tended to be individuals who were stimulated by letters from family and friends already established in America. Up to this period there were no immigration restrictions in America. | Otte, Cornelis (I28524)
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| 308 | Cornelius and Jacomina Hage. They were the first Dutch family to come to the Sayville area, arriving in Oakdale on 6-6-1849. they came from the village of Bruinisse, which is on the island of Duiveland in the delta of the Scheldte River below Rotterdam. (In 1953 there was a terrible storm in the North Sea causing bad floods in the river mouths. Bruinisse was washed off the map, and many other island towns were destroyed partially or completely. All village records were lost, but some "county:' records are still available. To avoid a future repetition of this disaster, the government initiated the Delta Project to join the many islands and seal off the estuaries. Cornelius Hage was a farmer for General Ludlow on the latter's estate in Oakdale. He and his family lived there until they moved to a little house on the west side of Railroad Avenue in Sayville, the next house north of the court house which was subsequently built on the NW corner of Railroad Avenue and Swayze Street. The American pronunciation of his name is H a J (long A, soft g), the Dutch pronunciation is something like aw-huh. Cornelius Hage was a very quiet, patient man, married to a little spit-fire of a woman, Minkya van Kaze Aw-huh. He was known for his unfailing answer to her outbursts - the Dutch word for patience. (It sounds like hedeult). He and his wife were charter members of the Dutch Reformed Church in West Sayville when it was organized in 1860. Cornelius Hage had a sister Johanna Maria Hage (1816-1894)who married Petr Henry Okkerse. They lived on Chicken Street(now West Street or Dale Drive) in Oakdale. When the Hage family arrived in Oakdale they must already have had four of their seven daughters. Grandma Otto (Cornelia) remembers going to church services in the little chapel, St. John's Church, still standing in Oakdale, where the slaves of the Ludlow family sat in the balcony. The little girls drove the cows home from pasture to the bay carrying a forked stick to pin down snakes. A huge black snake appeared one day on the kitchen rafter above where Mother Hage was heating a large kettle of water. She dealt with the emergency at once by pushing the snake off the rafter so it fell into the pot. In their first summer the little girls had trouble learning English. The family needed a kitchen knife, so little Cornelia, who had been to school in Holland, went to the Terry store in Sayville. She saw the printed name of her need, and happily asked for a k-nifye, giving it the Dutch pronunciation. She always laughed about the laughter which greeted her efforts, but she got the knife. Apparently while Cornelia was in her early teens she accompanied the Ludlow family to the Eastern Shore of Maryland one summer. As an old lady, she used to tell the tale (which made mine and my brothers pop) of seeing the battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor from the Maryland shore during the Civil War, but a study of dates indicates this could not have been true. When she was telling this story she was old enough to have confused this and other events from her early life. All seven of the Hage sisters married, three of them to three Otto brothers - William and Nell, John and Cornelia, Henry and Maria. Note 23 Cornelius and Jocomina Hage. They were the First Dutch Family to come to the Sayville area, arriving in Oakdale on 6.6-1849. they came from the village of Briinisse, which is on the island of Duiveland in the delta of the Scheldte River below Rotterdam. (In 1953 there was a terrible storm in the North Sea causing bad flodds in the river mouths. Bruinisse was washed off the map, and many other island towns were destroyed partially or completely. All village records were lost, but some,county:' records are still available. To avoid a future repetition of this disaster, the government initiated the Delta Project to join the many islands and seal off the estuaries. Cornelius Hage was a farmer for General Ludlow on the latters estate in Oakdale. He and his family lived there until they moved to a little house on the west side of Railroad Avenue in Sayville, the next house north of the court house which was subsequently built on the NW corner of Railroad Avenue and Swayze Street. The american pronunciation of his name is H a J (long A, soft g), the dutch pronunciation is something like aw-huh. Cornelius Hage was a very quiet, patient man, married to a little spit-fire of a woman, Minkya van Kaze Aw-huh. He was known for his unfailing answer to her outbursts - the Dutch word for patience. (It sounds like hedeult. He and his wife were charter members of the Dutch Reformed Church in West Sayviille when it was organized in 1860. Cornelius Hage had a sister Johanna Maria Hage (1816-1894) who married Petr Henry Okkerse. They lived on Chicken Street (now West Street or Dale Drive) in Oakdale. When the Hage family arrived in Oakdale they must already have had four of their seven daughters. Grandma Otto (Cornelia) remembers going to church services in the little chapel, St. John's Church, still standing in Oakdale, where the slaves of the Ludlow family sat in the balcony. The little girls drove the cows home from pasture to the barn carrying a forked stick to pin down snakes. A huge black snake appeared one day on the kitchen rafter above where Mother Hage was heating a large kettle of water. She dealt with the emergency at once by pushing the snake off the rafter so it fell into the pot. In their first summer the little girls had trouble learning English. The family needed a kitchen knife, so little Cornelia, who had been to school in Holland, went to the Terry store in Sayville. She saw the printed name of her need, and happily asked for a knife, giving it the Dutch pronunciation. She always laughed about the laughter which greeted her efforts, but she got the k~e. Apparently while Cornelia was in her early teens she accompanied the Ludlow family to the Eastern Shore of Maryland one summer. As an old lady, she used to tell the tale (which made mine and my brothers pop) of seeing the battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor from the Maryland shore during the Civil War, but a study of dates indicates this could not have been true. When she was telling this story she was old enough to have confused this and other events from her early life. All seven of the Hage sisters married, three of them to three Otto brothers - William and Nell, John and Cornelia, Henry and Maria. Note 24 Louise Hage, one of Cornelius and Minna Hage's younger daughters, married George Howell. They owned the land on Greeley Avenue immediately north of John Otto's property. They sold it to the Bezant family, who were Bohemians. They subsequently sold the property to our neighbors, Tony and Mammy Vitoch. George and Louise Howell moved shortly after 1900 to a farm in North Carolina near Morehead City. Why did they leave Holland? Emigration to North America The beginning Dutch people settled in North America from 1624 onwards. When in 1664 the English captured New Amsterdam and the colony of New Netherland, the influx of new groups of Dutch people to the continent came to a halt. This did not change until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Why emigrate? An important motive to emigrate at that time were the adverse economical conditions in the home country. The Napoleonic Wars had left the country exhausted. The Secession War with Belgium, the burden of taxation, the potato blight of 1845-47 and the drought that followed it resulted in high food prices, causing grinding poverty in large parts of the country. The working classes in particular had a hard time of it. Even so, there was yet another reason to leave.From 1816 onwards, various government regulations were introduced that had a bearing on religious life. As a response to the government's intervention, a movement developed within the Dutch Reformed Church, pleading for a return to more orthodox beliefs. This resulted in the group's secession form the Dutch Reformed Church. They decided to leave the Netherlands and settle in new communities in America. These communities in the American Midwest exerted a great appeal on the relatives left behind in the home country. Numbers of migrants The size of the stream of emigrants to the New World did not depend exclusively on the situation in the Netherlands. The prospects in America played an important role as well. The outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the attendant economic crisis immediately resulted in a drop in emigration. On the other hand, the Homestead Act of 1862, promising cheap land to immigrants, revived interest.The exact number of Dutch emigrants leaving for North America in the nineteenth century is unclear. Registers of emigrants in the country of origin as well as in the destination country are incomplete and not very well-organized. Robert P. Swieringa calculated that in the period from 1835 until 1880 between 75,000 and 100,000 Dutchmen arrived in their new home country. The peak occurred in the eighteen-eighties. These are considerable numbers seen from a Dutch perspective, though compared with the total of c. 10 million Europeans arriving in the US during the same period, the Dutch share is not very impressive. Emigration for religious reasons A conflict about religious doctrine In 1814, article 133 was included in the first Constitution of the United Netherlands, stating: "The Christian Reformed Religion is that of the Sovereign." The article was removed in 1815 when predominantly Roman-Catholic Belgium became part of the Kingdom. Nevertheless, what is now called the Dutch Reformed Church remained the only recognized protestant denomination in the Netherlands for a long period of time. All governing members of the House of Orange were and still are members of this church.King William I also occupied himself with religious issues. He ordered rules governing church life to be drawn up for the Dutch Reformed Church. On 7 January 1816 these rules, the General Regulations for the Government of the Reformed Church, were approved by Royal Decree. Many protestants saw this as direct interference in their church affairs.After 1816, more government regulations followed that affected church life. The schooling and examining of ministers, for instance, were brought under state supervision. The Secession At the theological faculty in Leiden a group of students actively opposed the government regulations. They found their leader in Hendrik Pieter Scholte. Also after they had graduated and had been appointed as ministers, the group kept in touch and continued their opposition collectively. Among the students were future leaders of emigrant groups such as Albertus Christiaan van Raalte and Anthonie van Brummelkamp.The struggle against the enforced reformation and for the right to remain orthodox broke out after 1834, when minister Hendrick de Cock from Ulrum together with his congregation publicly seceded from the Reformed Church. In a solemn meeting the faithful signed 'the Act of Secession and Return'. Their example was soon followed by many congregations, including those of Van Raalte and Scholte. Ministers in revolt The Dutch government tried to force the secessionists back into the bosom of the Reformed Church. This was done through a special interpretation of the Constitution, by stating that the freedom of religion, included in the Constitution of 1814, applied only to existing denominations. This made it impossible for the secessionists to appeal to the Constitution. When this did not produce the desired outcome, the government proceeded to dig up some old articles from de Code Napoleon, in particular those articles specifying that to organise and hold meetings of more than twenty people, government permission was required. Referring to these articles the police could legally swoop down on church services on a regular basis and arrest the ministers and their followers.After the abdication of King William I (1840) the persecution diminished, and even came to a complete stop after 1848, when a new Constitution was introduced. Nevertheless, for many secessionists this came too late. They had already decided to leave the oppressive conditions in the Netherlands behind them. They wished to establish new communities and found that America offered the most favourable opportunities for this. They were supported and inspired in their aspirations by a brochure entitled: 'Why do we promote emigration to North America and not to Java?'. In this brochure Van Raalte and Brummelkamp justified their choice.To realize their ideals the two militant ministers founded the 'Christian Society for Emigrants to the United States of North America'. In search of freedom The adverse economic conditions in the Netherlands helped to remove any doubts people might still have had about trying their luck elsewhere. In some cases part of a local congregation decided to book their passage, embark and leave for America together. In this way the ministers hoped to prevent the faithful becoming 'distracted'. By acting collectively they could, once they had arrived at their destination, support each other and hear the Gospel together in their mother tongue.This was a variant on the old Dutch proverb 'eendracht maakt macht' (Union is Strength).Thus the ministers' followers settled closely together in the states of the Midwest. Even to date Dutch sounding family names and place-names bear witness to this.The secessionists did not make up the majority of migrants leaving in the nineteenth century. Most of the c. 100.000 migrants trying their luck in America during this period were not involved in the church secession. They dispersed, with or without their families, across the vast continent and merged into the immigrant society. From here to there Flying high above the Atlantic Ocean, it is hard for a modern traveller on his way to America to imagine how people crossed the ocean one hundred and fifty years ago.Emigrants in the nineteenth century crossed the ocean under often atrocious conditions. Nevertheless, millions of Europeans left for the New World, more than one hundred thousand of them from the Netherlands. History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The Seceder Movement A new religious movement called the Seceders emerged in 1834 prompted by a deep concern for the creeping liberalism in the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church that was moving away from its deep commitment to Calvinism. The Dutch government attempted to repress the pious Seceder movement and religious persecution led to a great wave of immigration to America. Total congregations settled in the farming regions of the mid-west favoring Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan. They were led by men such as Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (1811-1876) and Henry Scholte (1805-1868), the founder of the Holland Colony of Marion County. Nearly half of the Dutch immigrants between 1845 and 1849 belonged to the dissenting Protestant Seceder movement. Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: Catholic immigrants led by Theodore J. van den Broek In 1848 Father Theodore J. van den Broek (1783-1851) led a large group of Catholic Dutch emigrants who settled in the areas around the communities of Little Chute, Holland Town, and Green Bay in Wisconsin. History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The 'Hungry Forties 'Holland, like many other European countries, suffered from serious crop failures including the potato blight (1845-1849) which led to great poverty, hunger, disease and destitution, referred to as the ' Hungry Forties'. Dutch Immigration to America increased again following the European Revolutions of 1848 as peasants remonstrated against the terrible conditions. The failure of the Dutch revolutionists led to a small wave of political refugees who fled to America. History of Dutch Immigration to America in the 1800's: The Second Wave of Immigration During the second wave of Dutch immigration during the mid 1800's over 250,000 Dutch immigrants entered the United States - it was called the Great Migration. Among Dutch emigrant family heads, 60% were farmers and agricultural laborers. Holland had been hit by the agricultural revolution and the influx of cheap American wheat leading to a massive decline in grain prices. The flow was halted by the outbreak of the American Civil War. Those who came after the Civil War tended to be individuals who were stimulated by letters from family and friends already established in America. Up to this period there were no immigration restrictions in America. | Hage, Cornelis (I28526)
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| 309 | Daniel and Samuel were mentioned in the East Hampton Town Records, unless Daniel’s name was misread. No mention of him in Robert’s will. | Dayton, Daniel (I13691)
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| 310 | Daniel resided about 1 1/2 miles south of Wallingford on the road to New Haven. His descendants are numerous in Hamden, Wallingford, New Haven, North Haven, and Mr Carmel Center, CT, while many went to Vermont and other states. In 1775 Daniel was Ensign of his company, comp. 10 of Regt. 1, and served 1 May 1775–1 Dec 1775). In 1779 his name appears as a minute man on the alarm list and militia in the parish of North Haven. These were locally known as the ‘household bands’. In 1792 Johnson and Michael Doolittle of Wallingford and Daniel Doolittle of Hamden sell land in Wallingford near Johnson Doolittle’s to their father Daniel. On 9 Jan 1796 Daniel Doolittle of North Haven received land in Wallingford near Johnson Doolittle’s land from his children Giles, Nathan, and Rebecca Doolittle, then residents of Hamden, CT. Daniel served in Capt. Samuel Hull’s Co. for the relief of Fort William Henry, 1757; in Col. Nathan Whiting's 1st Co., 2nd Regt., Apr to Nov 1758; and in Capt. Amos Hitchcock’s 7th Co., 2nd Regt., Apr to Nov 1759. He was commissioned Ensign of the 10th Co., 1st Regt., Conn. Troops, Apr 1775; served in the army from May to Dec 1775, and later was a member of the North Haven militia. | Doolittle, Daniel (iii) < (I13488)
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| 311 | Daniel served in Capt. Street Hall’s Co., NY Regt., 1755, French and Indian War; and enlisted 18 Apr 1758 in Col. Nathan Whiting’s 1st Co., 2nd Regt. He died in hospital at Fort Edward, unmarried. | Doolittle, Michael < (I13487)
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| 312 | David Conklin of Patchogue, husband of Mary Catherine Brown, and William Conklin of Patchogue, husband of Henrietta Albinah Brown, were brothers. Both were carpenters. They built the St. James Episcopal Church in Brookhaven hamlet, among other buildings. | Conklin, William Herbert (I12898)
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| 313 | David Howell was the father of at least eight, perhaps ten children. Most, if not all, of his children are probably by his first wife Abigail. Donnelly records other other uncertainties. Recorded here are the children of which Donnelly appears to be most certain—all assigned to Abigail. | Howell, David Sr. of Southold (I12011)
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| 314 | Della E. Schmidt was likely a "foster" child under the care of William Everett and Lila Swezey. | Schmidt, Della E. ^ (I12364)
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| 315 | Donnelly indicates that Jacob Howell's first wife was probably a Parshall. | Sweezey(), Elizabeth (I12019)
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| 316 | Donnelly Notes: "In accepting [the present] John Howell, of Middle Island in the Town of Brookhaven, as a son of John Howell, of West Mattituck in the Town of Southold, we follow Charles E. Craven, who was probably following Richard M. Bayles, who stated that '..we are fairly supported in the supposition that the John Howell whom tradition says was born about 1718 was the son of John, who was the son of the first Richard and that he was the first Howell of Brookhaven who settled here about 1739, he then being about 21 years old.' On the other hand, this leaves unaccounted for the John Howell, weaver of Southold, who died on 19 Mch 1741, and whose will of 11 Nov Nov 1740, by which he left the use of his dwelling house and furnishings to his wife, Alethea, was proved on 26 Mch 1740/1. She died on 7 May 1751. By her will of 13 Nov 1746, proved on 7 June 1751, she left her estate to her near kinsman, John Benjamin, of Southold, and named her kinsman, James Reeve, executor. This would seem to indicate that John and Alathea Howell had no children; however, since the name of Althea was frequently used among the descendants of John Howell, of Middle Island, it would seem that there must have been some relationship. Further, since Richard Howell left his lands in Brookhaven to his sons, Jonathan and Richard, and Richard had but one son, Richard, it would seem possible that [the present] John Howell, of Middle Island, might have been a son of Jonathan Howel, who apparently removed to Southampton, and regarding whom no further information has been found." | Howell, John > (I11987)
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| 317 | Donnelly: "John Howell was not listed on the Brookhaven Town Assessment, 1775, nor the Census of 1776, so it is likely that he died before the times at which these were taken." | Howell, John > (I11987)
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| 318 | Dorothy Allen was said to have been a "foster" child under the care of William Everett and Lila Swezey. | Allen, Dorothy L. ^ (I12435)
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| 319 | Dr. Gilbert Smith was a Loyalist sympathizer during the Revolutionary War. | Smith, Gilbert "Tangier" (I6098)
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| 320 | Dr. Muirson was noted professionally for his practice of inoculation for smallpox. He was a Loyalist sympathizer during the Revolutionary War and suffered confiscation of his estate after the war. | Muirson, George Jr. (I6116)
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| 321 | During the American Revolution, Benjamin Gildersleeve, a man of 55 years and the father of Daniel, Finch and Roger was forced to take the oath of loyalty before Governor Tryon - and the occupying forces began to demand forage from him. Among the recorded exactions were 40 bushels of Indian corn and 15 bushels of oats in December 1779, and the same again six months later on 1 July 1780. In 1782, an accounting of damages sustained by the inhabitants of Huntington by the British troops and Refugees determined that in all. Benjamin Gildersleeve had sustained losses of upwards of 332 pounds. (George Wallace, Northport News, Sept. 26, 2003) | Gildersleeve, Benjamin (I20950)
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| 322 | E. T. Corwin comments: "This name is given, as there is evidently some confusion between the name Jedediah 1 and Daniel 2. The next Jedediah (namely , namely no. 2), is called, in the letters of administration, given his administrators, in 1799, the son of Jedediah. Yet he and all his brothers and sister are elsewhere called children of Daniel. Hence I have supposed that Daniel, 2, had also the second name of Jedediah, though I have no proof." | Corwin, Jedediah (I5927)
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| 323 | E. T. Corwin notes: "This is, no doubt, the Jacob who signed the agreement to support Congress in 1775 [usually referred to as 'The Association']. He was pastor of the strict Congregational Church at Riverhead, Long Island, November, 1787-1800. This church had been organized in 1785, with a few members, by Rev. Daniel Youngs, with the style of "The Second Strict Congregational Church of Riverhead." Rev. David Wells, nephew of Jacob Corwin, became pastor of this church in 1809. He died in 1821, aged 46. It had no settled pastor after this. It belonged to The Separated Churches of New-England. Those on Long Island formed a convention with the kindred churches of Connecticut, called "The Strict Congregational Convention of Connecticut," and in 1781 published a Confession of Faith and Form of Government, which were republished on Long Island in 1823. This also contains a brief history of their separation. In 1791, "The Strict Congregational Convention of Long Island" was established. The original members were Revs. Daniel Youngs, Jacob Corwin, and Noah Hallock, all of whom had been ordained by the Connecticut Convention. As early as 1793, however, ministerial exchanges began to take place with the other body. On April 2d, 1815, Jacob Corwin organized the Third Congregational church at Brookhaven, Long Island, and supplied it for several years. He also prepared a genealogy of the Corwin family, but his papers were destroyed." | Corwin, Rev Jacob (I4475)
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| 324 | Edmund Fanning was an American Loyalist in the American Revolution. From the Prince Edward Island, Canada, Web Site: "General Edmund Fanning was the second Governor of the Island St. John, then later called Prince Edward Island [Canada] since the creation of the Colony in 1763. Edmund Fanning was born in Long Island in 1737 and died in London, England, on 28 February 1818. He graduated from Yale in 1757 and settled as a lawyer in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he was elected Colonel of Militia in 1763, Clerk of the Superior Court in 1765 and subsequently went to the Legislature. Among the offices held by him was that of Recorder of Deeds and it was alleged that to his abuses of this trust and his exorbitant charges was due to the rebellion of the regulators in Governor Tryon's administration. By his vicious character, "nearly all the estates in Orange County were loaded with doubts as to their titles and new and unnecessary deeds were demanded". Through his actions as Recorder, added to his zeal in quelling opposition to the severe exactions of the government and in bringing the leaders of that opposition to the scaffold, he became obnoxious to the people and, to escape the popular indignation, he accompanied Governor Tryon, who was his father-in-law, to New York as his Private Secretary in 1771. "He subsequently applied to the North Carolina Legislature, through Governor Martin, the successor of Governor Tryon, for reparation for losses from destruction of his property; but the petition was unanimously rejected and the governor was rebuked for presenting it and thus "trifling with the dignity of the House". "In 1774 Fanning received from the British government the lucrative office of Surveyor General as a reward for his services to the crown and his losses in North Carolina. In 1777, he raised and commanded a corps of 460 Loyalists, which bore the name of the "Associated Refugees" or "King's American Regiment". While his regiment was on Long Island, some of his men entered a house, tied the owner of it to a bedpost and held a candle under the ends of his fingers to force him to disclose the hiding place of his money. Fanning was equally severe towards all. During the war he was twice wounded and in 1779 his property was confiscated. He moved to Nova Scotia near the close of the war and was appointed Councilor and Lieutenant Governor on 23 September 1783. Three years later, on 4 November 1786, he was appointed Governor of St. John Island (Prince Edward Island). This office he held for 18 years. "Fanning was made Major General in the British army in 1793, Lieutenant General in 1799 and General in 1808. The degree of A.M. was given him by Harvard in 1764 and by Kings in 1772; the degree of D.C.L. by Oxford in 1774 and that of LL.D. by both Yale and Dartmouth in 1803. His brother, Thomas, of Suffolk County, New York, delivered the address before Governor Tryon in November, 1776 and was deputed to present the submission of the committee of that County. In June, 1778, Fanning was captured and carried off by a party of Whigs." | Fanning, Edmund (I6385)
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| 325 | Edna never married. | Bennet, Edna W. ^ (I16525)
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| 326 | Edna Valentine Bruce relates this entry in the diary of her great aunt, Sally Barteau, who lived next door. In November 1860 she wrote: "Old Mrs. Ellison had a bad fall. She slipped on a step going to the milk house." | Hulse, Elizabeth ^ (I142)
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| 327 | Edward was the only son of Frank H. and Clara Hand, who died young. | Hand, G. Edward (I5770)
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| 328 | Elias Parshall was a ship builder during the greater part of his life. He probably resided at Aquebogue until after the close of the Revolutionary War. It appears from the Census of 1776, that he was then a resident of Southold Tp., and it is probable that he was during the War. In 1779, he was obliged, with others, to flee from the Island to escape the persecution of the British force, as appears from the following: "At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety at Windham the 21st of September 1779 "Present His Excellency the Governor Honble Matthew Griswold Elipht Dyer Wm Williams i v Wm Pitkin Nathl Wales j q "On motion of Elias Parshall, of S.hold on Long Island, representing that he is a friend to the United States, that he had lately built on said island a small vessel of about 20 tons, for trade; that by means of the threats and usage from the enemy, within whose power the inhabitants of said island are, he dared not remain longer on said island, and has therefore brought over part of his family and effects on board of said vessel to this State, which are now in the river at East Haddam, and moving for liberty of landing and safe protection for said effects for his own benefit; and further shewing that Matw Welles of said South Hold, a friend to the States, has also come over from said island in said vessel, with his family and effects, for the same occasion and for safety: Resolved, that the said Parshall be permitted to land his said goods and effects within this State, and that they shall and may remain safe & free from any arrests, in his own care, unless and until other order shall be given concerning them; provided that said effects and goods be under the inspection of Colo. Jabez Chapman, who is to examine and see that no articles are introduced from the enemy and contrary to law, and to make report to his Excellency the Governor in the premises. And the said Parshall is also permitted to bring over the rest of his family, and to be reported accordingly." Subsequently he removed to Patchogue, where he had a ship yard. He also was the owner and captain of a merchant vessel with which he made regular trips between New York and the West Indies. This vessel he commanded in person until after the marriage of his daughter Charity to Capt. Brown, when he retired from active command and was succeeded by his son-in-law. On one occasion his vessel was attacked by pirates, whom he defeated after a vigorous resistance. A set of silver buttons given him by his passengers to commemorate the event are still in possession of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Louretta Neff, of Masontown, Pa. [From James Clark Parshall, 1903] | Parshall, Elias > (I11231)
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| 329 | Elisabeth Post and her husband Thomas Morrow were the founders of the Post-Morrow Foundation. | Post, Elisabeth Wells (I1)
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| 330 | Eliza is of the fifth generation in the Tangier Smith family. | Helme, Eliza (I3603)
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| 331 | Elizabeth is believed to be Daniel's second wife. | Corwin, Daniel (I5906)
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| 332 | Elizabeth is of the fourth generation in the Tangier Smith family. | Woodhull, Elizabeth (I8225)
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| 333 | Elizabeth, as a daughter of Gerald Ludlow and Ruth Grace is inferred by the placement of the gravestones at the Oakland Cemetery, Brookhaven, NY. | Grace, Elizabeth ^ (I17041)
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| 334 | Elmer and Mary were about one and two years old when they both went into convulsions one night and died before medical help could be secured. | Newey, Elmer ^ (I15851)
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| 335 | Elmer and Mary were about one and two years old when they both went into convulsions one night and died before medical help could be secured. | Newey, Mary (I15852)
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| 336 | Emeline's youngest daughter, also named Emeline, was 3 years, 9 months at the time of the 1865 New York State Census, suggest that she perhaps died as a result of complications at childbirth. | Carman, Emeline ^ (I298)
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| 337 | Emil Lengyel is recorded in this database because of the proprietorship by an "Emil Lengyel" in Emil's Tavern or Inn, on Montauk Highway, Brookhaven, in the 1930s. This inn, in the earliest iteration so far documented, was established prior to 1900 and then known as the Cedar Inn. It probably evolved from an early 19th century Hawkins family residence. It has had many tenancies since. It is identified as Brookhaven/South Haven Historic Site Br04.2-S I have so far been unable to specifically identify this Emil. An entry in the 1930 Federal Census—the only entry indexed for an Emil Lengyel in the entire United States—is clearly not the Emil associated with the inn; this latter Emil was a prominent social scientist who specialized in the European theater of WW II and the rise of Nazism. He died in 1985. A search of articles in Suffolk County historic newspapers found several post 1930 entries for an Emil Lengyel living more or less locally, of which only a few seem to be connected to a proprietor of an inn or tavern. The birth and death dates given here, derived from the Social Security Death Index, should be considered provisional. An Emil was found in the 1920 census, living in Brooklyn with his brother John and sister-in-law Anna. This is likely the Emil associated with the SS Death Index entry, and the most likely candidate so far identified as being the proprietor of the inn in Brookhaven. In 1930, John and Anna are living on Montauk Highway in the nearby hamlet of East Patchogue. He was a hotel proprietor, and seems to have been associated with the Dunton Inn in East Patchogue. The census based entries here should also be considered provisional. No appropriate entries in a published genealogical database or compendium have yet been found (30 Dec 2009). | Lengyel, Emil ^ (I12064)
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| 338 | Emilie Wagner is not known to have ever legally married. She had a long personal relationship with her companion, Ellen Learned. The relationship is shown here as spousal.] | Wagner, Emilie (Emily) A. (I7746)
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| 339 | Evelyn Beran notes: Roydon, where Richard and Mary married, is four miles southeast of Ware. On 16 April 1609 was mentioned as son in the will of George Platte of Ware. On 13 July 1629 there was an "Order that Richard Platt of Ware and his apprentice be brought before certain justices, that some order might be taken to end the differences between them." On 25 April 1638 Westminster, England, Richard and Mary Platt signed a final concord to dispose of their lands and houses at Ware, receiving L42 for the premises. Then they prepared to sail for New England, but may have had to stay in or near London for some months while awaiting passage. They appear to have crossed the Atlantic either in the latter half of 1638 or the first half of 1639. It has been stated that the Platt family arrived at New Haven in August 1639, and this may be true, but Richard Platt is not among those who signed the covenant of 22 August 1639, and "Richard Plot" did not join the Church of Milford at New Haven until 29 January 1639/1640. He was a free planter, according to Abbott in Milford, New Haven County, CT, in 1639. His home lot was #38, consisting of 4 acres and one rod, near the corner of the present West Main and Cherry Streets. In 1669 he was chosen deacon of the church at Milford. He appeared on the list of freemen at Milford in October 1669: "A List of the Freemen of Milford [October 1669] ... Richard Platt." In her will dated 9 November 1669, proved 20 November 1669, Sarah (Bryan?) (Baldwin) Astwood of Milford appointed "my beloved brothers Richard Platt and Thomas Wheeler" overseers. Richard Platt and Thomas Wheeler were also witnesses to the will. Since Sarah's maiden name has not been proven, this statement has led to much genealogical speculation as to how she was related to these men -- or were they merely highly esteemed "brethren in the church"? If you look to their descendants rather than their antecedants, another possible explanation suggests itself -- Sarah's grandson Zachariah3 Baldwin (Richard2, Sylvester1) was married to Richard Platt's granddaughter Mary3 Atkinson (Mary2, Richard1). The will of "Richard Platt of Milford in Ye colony of conecticutt" was dated 4 August 1683: It makes the following bequests: I give unto my son John Platt beside what I have formerly given him L26 & foure bibles for his children. I give unto my son Isaac Platt L20 besides what I have formerly given him & for his children three bibles. I give unto my son Epenetus Platt besides what I have formerly given him L20 & for his children three bibles. I give my son in law Christopher Comstocke & his wife beside what I have formerly given him L22 & for his children 3 bibles. I give Samuel Bech [Beach] beside what I have formerly given him L6. I give Hannah & Deborah Merwin two bibles. I give Elder [Daniel] Buckingham L5 toward bringing up his son to be a schollar. I give my son Epenetus L5 toward bringing up his son to be a schollar. I give my son Josia Platt beside what I have formerly given him the meadow on ye far side the creeke by stubby playne, & halfe the pasture or land by ye necke gate, & the land not yet taken in of my division, & halfe the pasture land below the two orchards, & five bibles for his children. I give Josia Whitmore & his sister two bibles. I give my son Joseph Platt's children two bibles. I give my son Joseph Platt all the remainder of my estate, housing, barnes, lands, meadows, corne, cattle, horses, mares, sheep, hogs, movables, he paying the legacyes above named & debts. I make my son Joseph Platt my executor of this my last Will. I desire Elder Buckingham & my son Josia Platt to see this my Will fulfilled, & I give Elder Buckingham & my son Josia twenty shillings apiece for their paynes. [Signed] Richard Platt Daniel Buckingham and Josia Platt, witnesses The Inventory of the estate was taken 13 February 1684 by Samuell Ells, John Streame, and Sylvanus Baldwin. It totaled L547:05:07. (New Haven probate records vol 1, part 2, p. 138). The Platt stone in the Milford Memorial Bridge reads: "DEACON RICHARD PLATT Obit 1684 MARY His Wife." She records parents for Deacon Richard Platt. She cites the following sources: 1. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut Author: John Insley Coddington Abbrev: Coddington Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist Abbrev: Richard Platt Page: 30:236. Parish Registers of Ware, co. Hertford, 1558-1650. Text: Baptisms. 1604 Richard Platte, 6 May 2. Title: Families of Ancient New Haven Author: Donald Lines Jacobus Abbrev: Jacobus Publication: Salem MA: Higginson Book Co., 1994 Abbrev: Families of Ancient New Haven Page: pp. 144-161 3. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut Author: John Insley Coddington Abbrev: Coddington Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist Abbrev: Richard Platt Page: 30:233-238 4. Title: English Ancestry of Richard Platt (1604-1685) and Mary Wood (1605-1676) Author: Douglas Richardson Abbrev: Richardson Publication: Synopsis of article pre-published to Platt list, rootsweb.com, 1998 Abbrev: Platt & Wood Ancestry 5. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut Author: John Insley Coddington Abbrev: Coddington Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist Abbrev: Richard Platt Page: 31:155-170 6. Title: Families of Early Milford Connecticut Author: Susan Woodruff Abbott Abbrev: Abbott Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979 Abbrev: Families of Early Milford Page: pp. 547-551 7. Title: Platt Genealogy in America from the Arrival of Richard Platt in New Haven Connecticut in 1638 Author: Charles Platt Jr. Abbrev: Charles Platt Publication: New Hope, PA: 1963 Abbrev: Platt Genealogy Page: pp. 17-26 8. Title: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, for the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution Author: Donald Lines Jacobus Abbrev: Donald Lines Jacobus Publication: New Haven CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1930-1932 Abbrev: Families of Old Fairfield Page: 1:483-487 9. Title: Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1665-1678 Author: J. Hammond Trumbull Abbrev: Trumbull Publication: Hartford CT: 1852 Abbrev: Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Page: pp. 523-526 10. Title: The Story of the Memorial in Honor of the Founders of the Town of Milford Author: Morris W. Abbott Abbrev: Morris Abbott Publication: Milford CT: 1971 Abbrev: Milford Memorial Page: p. 12 11. Title: Milford Church Records. Admissions, First Church, 1639-1687 Author: Donald Lines Jacobus Abbrev: Jacobus Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16 Abbrev: Milford Church Records 1639-1687 Page: pp. 28-29 12. Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Author: Clarence Almon Torrey Abbrev: Torrey Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985 & 1992 Abbrev: New England Marriages Page: p. 590 Text: Richard Platt (1604-1684, 1685) & Mary Wood (1605-), in Eng; b 1633, 26 Jan 1682/9; New Haven/Milford CT. 13. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut Author: John Insley Coddington Abbrev: Coddington Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist Abbrev: Richard Platt Page: 30:237. Parish Registers of Roydon Text: 1628 Richard Platt and Mary Woode ware maried the 26th of January [1628/9] 14. Title: The Merwin Family in North America Publication: Miles Merwin Association, Milford, CT 1978 Abbrev: Merwin Family Page: p. 1 | Platt, Richard (I6026)
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| 340 | EVIDENCE IS AMBIGUOUS THAT THE PRESENT RICHARD HULSE IS THE RICHARD HULSE OF THE 1810 CENSUS LIVING IN SOUTH HAVEN, AND WHO WAS A CORPORAL IN JOSIAH SMITH'S SUFFOLK COUNTY REGIMENT IN 1776. FURTHER RESEARCH IS BEING CONDUCTED. | Hulse, Richard (I6490)
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| 341 | Except for her immigration with the family in 1634, Christine Rose did not provide any further documentation for Mary. | Rose, Mary (I8767)
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| 342 | Except for her interment record at the Oaklawn cemetery, little definitive information was discovered on the present Gladys Klauber. She may be the wife of Edward Klauber of New York City; if so, there is considerable mention of the family in public records. No connection with George Gustafson also interred in the same plot has been found. | Klauber, Gladys G. ^ (I21179)
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| 343 | Except for his obituary which appeared in the Suffolk County News (Sayville), not other specific information on Frederic B. Hedges has yet been found. He was not found in either the 1880 or 1900 U.S. Census. He may be the Frederic B. Hedges, recorded as a Civil War veteran, a private in Company C, 1st Regiment, New York Marine Artillery (alternate name Hodge). | Hedge, Frederick Borie (I12598)
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| 344 | Except for information found the the records of the Oaklawn Cemetery Association, no other information that can be definitively attributed to the present Nettie (or Nellie) Totten has been found. | Totten, Nettie ^ (I21206)
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| 345 | Except for noting that she immigrated with her parents, Christine Rose provides no further information on Sarah. | Rose, Sarah (I8769)
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| 346 | Except for the mention of his name, William, in connection with a photograph of his daughters, no other mention of him has so far been found in the historical record. | McKeown, William John (I13212)
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| 347 | Family being researched. | Parshall, Lewis ^ (I11230)
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| 348 | Family Note: Peggy Lee Stoll comments: 'After Eunice [birth?], Elbert, Sadie, and Bill's mother was committed to the state hospital, the kids were sent to live with an aunt and uncle--where the girls learned to tat and do fine embroidery--nothing practical. Their dad "got around" and was far too busy to bother with kids--but he did always have a real spiffy car, my dad said--he never met his Grandpa Peterson, but he would see him driving around town in his fine car with pretty girls beside him.' | Peterson, Clarence Elbert < (I2268)
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| 349 | Family Note: Peggy Lee Stoll comments: 'After Eunice [birth?], Elbert, Sadie, and Bill's mother was committed to the state hospital, the kids were sent to live with an aunt and uncle--where the girls learned to tat and do fine embroidery--nothing practical. Their dad "got around" and was far too busy to bother with kids--but he did always have a real spiffy car, my dad said--he never met his Grandpa Peterson, but he would see him driving around town in his fine car with pretty girls beside him.' | Sweezey, Julia Agnes (I2323)
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| 350 | Family note: From the information found in the 1850 through 1880 censuses, it is impossible to fully understand the Stephen Howard household structure. In 1850, the household consisted of Stephen Howard (age 39), Sarah Howard (age 39), a Nancy Cato (age 22) and a Franklin Greene (age 4). In the 1860 census, Sarah no longer appeared, and a Nancy (age 30) and a Franklin (age 13) were recorded with Howard surnames. Stephen Howard's age was recorded as 40. And a Mary Howard (age 9) was now also listed. Also in the same household in 1860 were Paul (age 25) and Ruth (age 30) Smith, perhaps spouses. It seems likely that the 1860 Franklin Howard was the same person as the 1850 Franklin Greene and that he probably had been incorporated into the family as an "adopted" son. Nancy Cato may have become Stephen's spouse (or she also could haveen incorporated into the family as a daughter). While Nancy could have been the mother of Mary, my gut tells me that Mary was a child of Stephen and Sarah, and that Sarah subsequently died. Paul and Mary Smith perhaps were not directly related to the Stephen Howard family, and in the household as boarders. This speculation is how I have recorded the family. Stephen Howard probably died before 1880, as he was not found in that census. | Howard, Stephen ^ (I710)
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