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(IV) Joseph, eldest child of Ephraim and Martha (Vail) Horton, was born in 1708 in Southold, and made his home in that town. His wife is supposed to have been Deliverance Reeves, and their children born there were: 1. Joshua. 2. Benjamin. 3. Joseph. 4. Mary. 5. Martha. 6. Lydia, died young. 7. Lydia, and 8. Deliverance.
(V) Joshua (2), eldest child of Joseph and Deliverance (Reeves) Horton, was born in 1733 in Southold. He married, about 1750, Asenath Mapes. Children born in Southold: 1. Joshua. 2. Havens. 3. Gilbert. 4. William. 5. Deliverance. 6. Permela, and 7. Asenath.
(VI) Joshua (3), eldest child of Joshua (20 and Asenath (Mapes) Horton, was born September 22, 1751, in Southold, died November 11, 1811, in that part of Phillipstown, New York, which is now Putnam Valley. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Early in life he went to Orange County, New York, where several members of the Horton family settled, and resided in the precinct of Goshen, which included the present town of Warwick. In 1775 he enlisted as a Revolutionary soldier in the Fourth Regiment Orange County Militia, commanded by Colonel (afterwards General) John Hathorn, of Warwick, Captain Charles Hathorn's company. About 1777 he removed to that part of Phillipstown which is now Putnam Valley, then a part
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of Dutchess County, and there again enlisted as a member of the Second Regiment Dutchess County Militia, commanded by Colonel Abraham Brinkerhoff. The locality where he lived is spoken of in the early history as Hortonville, and has been more recently known as Horton Hollow. He married about 1777, Phebe Rumsey, born January 15, 1760, in Goshen, New York, died September 8, 1807, in Putnam Valley. Children: 1. Isaac. 2. John. 3. James. 4. Cyrus and 5. Jasper.
(VII) Cyrus, fourth son of Joshua (3) and Phebe (Rumsey) Horton, was born June 1, 1784, in Horton Hollow, died there February 13, 1832. For some years he was a merchant in New York City, but abandoned this business because of impaired health and returned to the paternal homestead in Putnam Valley. This comprised over two hundred and twenty-five acres of land, and he was a successful farmer and regarded as a highly useful member of the community. He served many years as justice of the peace, and exercised a wide influence, being a vestryman of the old church at Van Cortlandville. He lived and died in the same house where his father had lived and died. He married, September 27, 1809, Mary Mead, born May 23, 1791, died May 27, 1842, probably a descendant of the Greenwich, Connecticut family of Mead. Several of their children died in childhood. Among the surviving were: 1. Frances (Mrs. Abijah Lee), died at Port Jervis, New York. 2. Jane, married (first) an Armstrong and (second) Osborn Baxter, and resided at Cold Spring, new York. 3. Harriet, became the wife of Husted Fountain, and resided at Riverside, California. 4. Ezra James, of whom further.
(VIII) Ezra James, son of Cyrus and Mary (Mead) Horton, was born July 20, 1826, at Horton Hollow, died May 9, 1893, at Peekskill. When a youth he was a student of the Peekskill Military Academy, and for two years he attended the New York University with a view to preparing for the ministry, but was obliged to abandon this because of an impediment in his speech. He then taught school at West Point, where he continued for several years. He then became a merchant at Peekskill in partnership with William McChain, under the firm name of McChain & Horton, which arrangement continued until the death of the former. Mr. Horton then engaged in the newspaper business establishing the Highland Eagle at Peekskill, which he sold in 1851 on account of impaired health and retired to a farm in Garrison, New York. Ten years later, at the opening of the Civil War, he again entered the newspaper field as editor and proprietor of the Highland Eagle, changing the name to the Highland Democrat. This he sold in 1872 and moved to White Plains, where he established the Westchester News which is now published under the ownership of E. B. Long. After a short time he sold the paper and became private secretary of Francis Kernan, United States senator from New York, subsequently filling a like relationship with Congressmen Clarkson N. Potter and Waldo Hutchins. While in Washington he was a member of the editorial staff of the Washington Post. In partnership with William H. Doty he was for some time editor of the Port Jervis Gazette, and later purchased the Newburg Daily & Weekly Telegraph which he conducted with the assistance of his son, Cyrus William. In 1887 he became the owner and editor of the Eastern State Journal of White Plains, which is now controlled by his son. Mr. Horton was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party and was a warm personal friend of Governor Samuel J. Tilden, Dean Richmond, Clarkson N. Potter, Gouverneur Kemble, and many other prominent workers of the Democratic party in New York and elsewhere. He exercised great influence in framing opinion and action in his section, and was widely respected as an upright citizen. He served as vestryman of St. Peter's church of Peekskill, and was ever active in promoting the moral as well as material interests of his home county. He was a member of the National and State Editorial Associations. While in college he affiliated with the Psi Theta Upsilon fraternity, and was subsequently a member of the Alumnae Society of New York University. He was an active member of the Masonic fraternity having attained the Royal Arch degree.
He married, at Cold Spring, September 8, 1859, Sarah Davenport, born February 26, 1830, at Cold Spring, died November 24,
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1901 in Peekskill. She was the only child of Esquire William Davenport, of Cold Spring, by his second wife, Euphemia (Penny) Davenport. The Davenport family is a very old one in this country, being descended from Thomas Davenport, born 1682, died December 30, 1759, at Cold Spring, where he built the first house in the town about 1755. He had two wives. The children of the first wife being sons, 1. William, and 2. Thomas, and 3. One daughter. By the second wife, there was one daughter. William, eldest son of Thomas Davenport, resided on his homestead, where he was burned out in 1760, and immediately built another house near the same site. He had a son Thomas, and daughters, Marybee (Meribah) and Elizabeth; the elder daughter married Thomas Sutton and the junior Solomon Cornell. Thomas, only son of William Davenport, was born April 11, 1750, at Cold spring. He had a son William, and daughters Sarah and Elizabeth. The elder daughter married John Snouck and the junior Jonathan Hustis. The son William married for his second wife Euphemia Penny, and they were the parents of Sarah Davenport, wife of Ezra James Horton. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Horton: 1. Rushmore Davenport, died at the age of one year. 2. Cyrus William, a lawyer of Peekskill. 3. Euphemia, died on the day of birth. 4. Linda E., died when six months old. 5. Walter, died at the age of three years. 6. Annie Woolsey, wife of Howard N. Simpson, lives in New York City. 7. Leila Southard, resides in Peekskill. 8. Charles Davenport, of whom further. 9. Ezra James, resides in Peekskill. 10. Clarence Frost, was a successful civil engineer, and was employed by the provincial government under the United States in the Philippine Islands, and died of fever while in that service. 11. Arthur, died December 27, 1872.
(IX) Charles Davenport, fourth son of Ezra James and Sarah (Davenport) Horton, was born September 6, 1868, in White Plains. After studying under a private tutor he was a student at the Peekskill Military Academy. He subsequently entered Columbia University and graduated from the School of Arts in 1887, receiving the degree of A. B. He pursued the course of Columbia Law School from which he was graduated in 1889, with the degree of LL. B. He also graduated in the same year from the School of Political Science. While pursuing his law course he was a clerk in the office of Develin & Miller, lawyers, of New York City, and was admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie at the age of twenty-one years in 1889. He practiced law with his elder brother at Peekskill four years, and in 1803 entered a legal partnership with John M. Digney, ex-county clerk at White Plains. When his father retired from the editorial charge of the Eastern State Journal he succeeded him and is now the owner and publisher of that paper. The first five-story building in White Plains was then constructed by him as the home of the newspaper. He is a member of the New York City Bar Association, Westchester County Bar Association, State Bar Association, the Reform and Democratic clubs of New York City, and the Tammany Society. He is a Knight Templar, has attained the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry, is a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of Foresters, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Royal Arcanum and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
QUICK-SHAY. John Quick, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, married Mary Pedrick. The quick family is of English origin, and was in New York State before the Revolution. Child of John and Margaret (Pedrick) Quick: Andrew, of whom further.
(II) Andrew, son of John and Margaret (Pedrick) Quick was born in North Salem, New York, where he lived as a farmer. Child: Thomas of whom further.
(III) Thomas, son of Andrew Quick, was a farmer in Somerstown, New York, and died at the age of seventy-two. He married Anna Knapp, of North Salem. Children: 1. Lydia Ann, born March 27, 1814, married John Smith (see Smith I). 2. Clarissa, of whom further.
(IV) Clarissa M., daughter of Thomas and anna (Knapp) Quick, was born in Somerstown. She married William Henry Shay, being his third wife. Her husband
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was a contractor and builder in New York City. They have no children.
SMITH. John Smith, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in New York City, died in Peekskill, new York, in 1891. In early life he lived on Ann Street, New York, and he was educated in that city. Removing to North Salem he remained there about thirty years, and followed farming. In Peekskill he was a molder by trade. He entered into the business of manufacturing soap and afterward into that of roofing and contracting. In religion he was a Methodist. John Smith married Lydia Ann, daughter of Thomas and Anna (Knapp)) Quick, born in North Salem, March 27, 1814. Children: 1. Alice, died in infancy. 2. Mary O., married William Tillotson. 3. John, of whom further.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Lydia Ann (Quick) , was born at North Salem, and in early life he came to Peekskill, New York. He attended the public schools and the Peekskill Military Academy, but at the age of sixteen he left school and enlisted in company A, Sixth New York Heavy Artillery. Being several times promoted he reached the rank of second lieutenant and served three years until he was mustered out at the conclusion of the Civil War. After the war he engaged with his father in the roofing and contracting business, in which line he is still occupied. He married Mary Henry, daughter of David Sand Tate, born at Verplanck's Point. She was educated in private schools in Peekskill. Children: 1. Frederick Allan, of whom further. 2. John Archibald, married Irene Montross. He graduated from the college of Physician and Surgeons of New York; is a physician; resides at Saranac Lake, New York.
(III) Frederick Allan, son of John and Mary Henry (Tate) Smith, was graduated in 1890 in the Peekskill Military Academy. After finishing his education he entered the post office at Peekskill, where he remained for five years. He then engaged in the roofing and contracting business with his father, and he has continued in that line until the present time. He is the director of the Peekskill National Bank. Mr. Smith has been twice elected receiver of taxes in the town of Cortlandt, village of Peekskill, serving in all for five years. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Peekskill Military Academy. His fraternal affiliations are: Peekskill Lodge, No. 744, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a charter member; Cortlandt Lodge, No. 34, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past master; Mohegan Chapter, No. 221, Royal Arch masons, in which he is past high priest; he is also a member of the committee on transportation of the Grand Chapter of the State of New York; the Fraternal Union of Anointed High Priests, and Peekskill Council, No. 55, Royal and Select Masters, of which he is right illustrious deputy master. Mr. Smith is likewise a member of the Sons of Veterans, the Highland Boat club, the Croton Paint Club, the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of American Wars, and ex-president and foreman of the Cortlandt Hook and Ladder Company. He married Lillian G., daughter of Lyman Hall. Her father was born at No. 33 Thompson Street, New York City, February 12, 1829. The Hall family are Episcopalians. Child of Frederick Allan and Lillian G. (Hall) Smith: Donald Hall, born November 6, 1898.
BUSHNELL. Francis Bushnell, the founder of this family was born in England and emigrated to America in the ship "St. John," which sailed from London, May 20, 1639, and arrived in New Haven, between July 10 and 15, of the same year. He was therefore a member of the third party of emigrants who settled the new colony of New Haven, and was one of the original founders of the town of Guilford. June 1, 1639, while still on shipboard, he and other members of Mr. Whitfield's company, which was composed mainly of emigrants from Kent, Surrey and Sussex, signed the document now known as the "Fundamental Agreement." In his "History of the colony of New Haven," Mr. Edward E. Atwater says of Francis Bushnell: "He was the ancestor of David Bushnell, who in the time of the war of the American Revolution invented the first submarine boat and submarine torpedo,
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the 'American Turtle'; also of Cornelius S. Bushnell (1829-1896) of New Haven, Connecticut, who after a great deal of work succeeded in inducing President Lincoln to order the contract to be made for Ericson's 'Monitor,' and was very prominent in preparing ways and means for its construction." By his wife, Rebecca Francis Bushnell, had six children; four born in England; among them: 1. Sarah, married the Rev. John Hoadley, returned to England with her husband and died in Rolvenden, County Kent, July 28, 1668. 2. Francis, of whom further. 3. Rebecca, married John Lord, of Hartford.
(II) Deacon Francis (2) Bushnell, son of Francis (1) and Rebecca Bushnell, was born in England, died at Saybrook, Connecticut, December 14, 1681. He emigrated with his father to Guilford, and later settled in Saybrook. His wife's name is unknown. Children: 1. William, of whom further. 2. John, born in 1614, settled in Boston. 3. Richard, died in 1658; settled in Norwich, Connecticut. 4. Rebecca, died in 1646-47. 5. Sarah, baptized in November, 1625. 6. Probably Isaac G., of Boston, supposed to be the man referred to by Governor Winthrop in his journal was "Goodman Bushnell."
(III) William, son of Deacon Francis (2) Bushnell, was born in England, 1612, died in Saybrook, Connecticut, 1683. He is most probably the "Lieutenant William Bushnell" referred to in the earlier records. He married Rebecca, sister to the Hon. Robert Chapman. Children: 1. Joshua, born May 6, 1614. 2. Samuel, born in 1645; married, probably October 7, 1765 (?), Patience Rudd. 3. Rebecca, born October 5, 1646. 4. William, of whom further. 5. Francis, born January 6, 1649. 6. Stephen, born January 4, 1653. 7. Thomas, twin of Stephen. 8. Judith, born in January, 1655. 9. Abigail, born in February, 1659. 10. Lydia, born in 1661. 11. Perhaps also Daniel.
(IV) William (2), son of William (1) and Rebecca (Chapman) Bushnell, was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, February 15, 1648. He married (first) October 12, 167-, Rebecca --------, and (second) June 7, 1705, a widow, Sarah Bull. Children, all by first marriage: 1. Sarah, born March 1, 1672-3. 2. Ephraim, born February 14, 1675. 3. William, of whom further. 4. Esther, born in 1683.
(V) William (3), son of William (2) and Rebecca Bushnell, was born April 3, 1680. He married (first) Catharine, daughter of John Jordon, and (second) April 6, 1701, Mehitable Chapman. Children, all by second wife: 1. Nehemiah, born April 22, 1702. 2. William, born October 26, 1703. 3. Stephen, born April 29, 1708. 4. Lydia, born July 6, 1712. 5. Stephen, born 1714. 6. Hezekiah, born in 1717. 8. Mehitable, born February 28, 1720. 9. Sarah, born January 31, 1729. 10. Mary, born October 27, 1730. 11. Elizabeth, born February 24, 1733. 12. Susanna, born in 1735. 13. Abigail, twin of Susanna.
(VI) Gideon, son of William (3) and Mehitable (Chapman) Bushnell, was born in 1720. He married, in 1753, Temperance Chapman. Children: 1. Lucinda, born May 6, 1754; married Haws Higgins. 2. Gideon, of whom further. 3. Dowd, born May 5, 1763; married Lucy Joyce. 4. Jedediah, born November 26, 1769; married Elizabeth Smith. 5. Temperance, married Daniel Spencer. 6. Salome, married Amos Skinner.
(VII) Gideon (2), son of Gideon (1) and Temperance (Chapman) Bushnell, was born in 1756, died January 8, 1830. He married, November 1, 1786, Nancy Hurd, who died in 1843. Children: 1. Julia, born July 29, 1787, died February 16, 1863; married, in November, 1807, Oliver Stevens; of Killingsworth, Connecticut. Children: i. Nancy, ii. Gideon, iii. Benjamin, iv. Anson. 2. Pope, born February 11, 1789, died January 19, 1881; married January 3m 1812m Sally, daughter of Gideon and anna (Beach) Hurlburt, who was born march 26, 1788, died January 11, 1883, and who was one of the celebrated Hurlburt triplets. Children: i. Julia Ann, born July 3, 1813, died august 7, 1842, ii. Henry Hurlburt, born March 14, 1815, died May 1, 1836, iii. Susan Eliza, born march 19, 1817, died November 7, 1818, iii Sidney Morton, born April 20, 1819, died may 27, 1819, iv. Laura Elizabeth, born September 2, 1821, died June 15, 1848, v. Catharine Lucy, born February 11, 1824, died March 25, 1868, vi. Hurd Gideon, born July 2, 1828, died March 12, 1852. 3. Henry, born November 30, 1790, died Au-
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gust 25, 1820; married April 17, 1819m, Eliza Stewart, who died March 4, 1880, child, Henrietta, born April 12, 1820, died unmarried. 4. Campbell, born June 17, 1792, died December 17, 1839; married, February 28, 1819, Catharine Van Valkenburg; children: i. Mary, born November 19, 1820, ii. William Henry, born June 4, 1823, iii. Anna. 5. Alvah, born February 18, 1794, died October 25, 1863; married, April 11, 1819, Melinda Lapham; children: i. Julia, ii. Edwin, born March 8, 1824, died January 24, 1899, iii. Emma. 6. Anson, born august 16, 1795, died November 18, 1819. 7. Daphne, born June 20, 1798, died June 28, 1856; married Joseph A. Hubbard, of Salisbury, Connecticut; Children: i. Alonzo, and ii. Frederick. 8. Orsamus, of whom further. 9. Albert, born July 12, 1804, died November 13, 1863; married January 21, 1828, Ann lee, of Salisbury, Connecticut; children: i. Charles, ii. Hezekiah, iii. Alvah, iv. Orsamus, v. Henry, vi. George, vii. Mary, viii. Albert. 10. Eliza, born September 6, 1807, died in 1809.
(VIII) Orsamus, son of Gideon (2) and Nancy (Hurd) Bushnell, was born April 20, 1801, died august 11, 1858. He was admitted tot he New York bar in 1822, and shortly afterwards entered into partnership with the late William M. Everts. This partnership was dissolved in 1837, when Mr. Bushnell became general counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance company, a position he held until his elevation to the New York bench in 1851. In 1856 he retired from the active practice of his profession, and removed to Montrose, Westchester County, New York, where he purchased a large tract of six hundred acres of land, comprising all of what is now known as Montrose Point. Mr. Bushnell was a personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas, and with him engaged in large real estate transactions in what is now known as the "Bushnell Addition," Chicago, Illinois. Out of this tract Mr. Bushnell made a gift to the city of Chicago of a large portion of Lincoln Park. The Chicago speculations, however, proved disastrous and Mr. Bushnell lost the greater part of his fortune through them. He married, February 9, 1835, Mary, daughter of Peter Bussing (see bussing V). Children: 1. Orsamus, died in 1904; married mary Scudder; child, Herbert A., living in Matawan, New Jersey. 2. Anna; living in Washington, D. C., married Nathan C. Platt; children: i. Stanley, ii.Kathaline. 3. Edmund B., died in La Grange, Cook County, Illinois, November, 1911; married and had children: 1. Edmund B., 2. Estelle Louise. 4. Eliza, deceased; married Augustus M. Srciba; child, George D. 5. Mary, died in Montrose, New York, in 1887; married (first) John Gibson, (second) William D. Cragin. 6. James Freeland, of whom further.
(IX) James Freeland, son of Orsamus and mary (Bussing)( Bushnell, was born January 9, 1848, died November 3, 1902. He was a merchant at Montrose, Westchester county, New York, throughout his entire active life, being engaged in the hay and coal business there from 1871 to 1902. He took an active and prominent part in politics and was the Republican leader for twenty-four years. he married, may 25, 1871, Emma, daughter of David S., and Catharine Tate. Child, Nathan P., of whom further.
(X) Nathan P., son of James Freeland and Emma (Tate) Bushnell, was born in Montrose, Westchester County, New York, January 3, 1874, and is now living at Peekskill, New York. He received his early education in the Oakside and Peekskill schools and was graduated in Columbia University, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1893, and his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895. Shortly after his marriage, he settled in Peekskill and has been practicing law there ever since. For one year he was the police justice of Peekskill, and at one time he was counsel of the municipality for the town of Cortlandt. He is affiliated with Cortlandt Lodge, No. 34, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is master in 1912; Mohegan Chapter, No. 221, Royal Arch Masons; and Peekskill council, No. 55, Royal and Select Masters. He is an active member of and counsel to the Peekskill Board of Trade, and a director of the Peekskill Hospital. He has been a director of the Westchester County Bar Association for the past eight years and is council to its grievance committee, in 1911-12. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, a trustee of the Spring Court Library, an ex-president of the Hook and Ladder Club, and an ex-president of the Travellers Club, a literary society of Peekskill. He is a ruling elder of the First
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Presbyterian Church, of Peekskill. He married, June 29, 1890, Margaret, daughter of Jeremiah Barmore. Child, Marjorie Reubenia, born February 28, 1901.
(I) Arent Harmans Bussing, the founder of this family, is called simply Arent Harmans in the Dugen patent to the town of Harlem. By his first marriage he obtained the property he built a house and barn, where he lived throughout his life and to which he added the three Demarest gardens on the east side of the town. He served often in the magistracy and bore office in the church. When he died, in 1718, he owned one hundred and twenty-seven acres of land. he married (first) May 24, 1673, Susanna, daughter of Claude Le Maistre, the ancestor of the Delameter family and his second wife, Hester Du Bois. She was born in 1660, died in 1677. He married (second) March 31, 1678, Eva Lubberts. Children, three by first marriage: 1. Peter, born in 1672, died in 1737; married, June 7, 1799, Rebecca Vermileje. 2. Harman, born in 1675, died in 1676. 3. Harman, of whom further. 4. Dirck, born in 1679, died young. 5. Margaret, born in 1681, living in 1726; married, about 1708, Laurens Cornelissem Kortright. 6. Susannah, baptized February 23, 1684; unmarried in 1718. 7. Engeltje, born in 1686; married, May 10, 1706, Abraham Meyer. 8. Elizabeth, born January 5, 1693, died before December 9, 1727; married (as first wife) Matthew Benson. 9. Geesje, baptized September 2, 1694; married, November 15, 1718, Teunis de la Montanye. 10. John, born about 1697, died before 1732; married, September 2, 1723, Metje Kortright. 11. Mary, born about 1700; married, September 17, 1722, John M. Harlingen.
(II) Harman, son of Arent Harmans and Susannah (Le Maistre) Bussing, was baptized March 12, 1677, died July 29, 1762. He married, January 27, 1707, Sarah, daughter of Isaac Selover. Children: 1. Susannah, born in 1798, died April 27, 1736; married, February 7, 1726, John M. Montanye. 2. Isaac, baptized February 5, 1710, died August 4, 1757; married, August 19, 1737, Elizabeth Tilly. 3. Anna, baptized October 12, 1712, died October 19, 1731; unmarried. 4. Eve, baptized September 4, 1715; married, July 9, 1738, James Marr or Man. 5. Arent, of whom further. 6. Jacobus, baptized February 12, 1721; married Anna Bisschop. 7. Abraham, baptized October 7, 1724 , died in 1798; married in 1749, Elizabeth Mesier. 8. Sarah, baptized May 14, 1727; married September 7, 1760, Reynier Nack.
(III) Arent, son of Harman and Sarah (Selover) Bussing, was baptized February 16, 1718, died February 17, 1781. He married, April 29, 1749, Sarah Roome. Children: 1. Sarah, baptized April 29, 1750, died may 26, 1812. 2. Harmanus, of whom further. 3. Mary or Maria, baptized January 15, 1752, died February 15, 1822; married (first), February 15, 1774, Ellis Wool, and (second), June 12, 1787, Simon Van Antwerp. 4. Anna, born October 10, 1753; married, March 30, 1775, William Hyer. 5. William, born January 10, 1756, died March 2, 1836; married (first), December 3, 1788, Mary Clark, and (second), March 18, 1792, Susan Odell. 6. Hester, born October 13, 1761, died October 29, 1764. 7. Peter, born March 13, 1764, died October 9, 1764. 8. Peter, born May 18, 1766, died November 16, 1794; married, November 10, 1792, Catherine Weldon. 9. Hester, born October 29, 1768, died October 15, 1769.
(IV) Harmanus, son of Arent and Sarah (Roome) Bussing, was born December 19, 1751, died may 28, 1845. He married, October 6, 1787, Alida Fort. Children: 1. Rebecca, born November 23, 1788, died November 19, 1790. 2. Aaron, born September 8, 1790, lost at sea. 3. John, born September 12, 1792; married Mary Brown. 4. Peter, of whom further. 5. Sarah, born February 1, 1797, died August 22, 1879; married, July 31, 1816, Roswell Granger. 6. William, born November 10, 1799, died March 28, 1860; married (first) ------- Long, (second) ----------- Winegar. 7. Jane, born September 6, 1802; married, October 18, 1827, David Johnson. 8. Mary Ann, born March 10, 1805; married, December 29, 1835, Edwin B. Chamberlain. 9. Harman, born august 22, 1806; married (first) May 20, 1836, Catharine Schuyler, (second) May 21, 1840, Margaret Schuyler. 10. Abraham, born August 22, 1808, died August 25, 1808. 11. Harvey Hyer, born July 10, 1812, died April 25, 1860; married, September 17, 1839, Avilda Hilton.
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Peter, son of Harmanus and Alida (Fort) Bussing, was born September 14, 1794. He married and had children: Mary, married, February 9, 1835, Orsamus Bushnell. (See Bushnell VIII); Harvey.
WHITE. M. M. White, son of Nathan White, of Spencer, Massachusetts, and a descendant of John White, lived in New York City. He was an iron and salt manufacturer and in connection with the former enterprise was associated with the Globe Iron Works. He married Sophia Draper, a daughter of Hon. James Draper, of Spencer, Massachusetts. They had one son, Albert Moore, of whom further.
(III) Albert Moore, son of M. M. and Sophia (Draper) White, died in 1869. He married Helen B., daughter of James Wright and Euphemia (White) Bedell, born April 7, 1849. (See Bedell V.) There are no children.
(I) Stephen Bedell, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, lived at Hempstead, Long Island. He was probably the grandson or great-grandson of John James Bedell, of Hempstead in 1657-58-59, who was probably the original emigrant. Stephen Bedell married Ruth -----------. Children: 1. William. 2. John. 3. Reuben. 4. Ephraim, of whom further. 5. Daniel. 6. Abigail, married ------ Swarthart. 7. Elizabeth, married ------- Bawtus. 8. Ruth, married ------------ Rushmer.
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