(IV) John Ketcham, son of Edgar and Matilda (Smith) Evans, was born at Otisville, Orange County, New York, June 20, 1864.  He attended the district school and graduated in 1880 from Otisville Academy.  For the next four years he worked as clerk in various stores.  From 1884 to 1893 he conducted a mercantile business at Howell's Depot, Orange County, New York.  In 1893 he removed to Bloomingburg, and opened a store carrying a full line of dry goods and notions, groceries, shoes, clothing, crockery, flour and feed, lumber, coal, grass seed, wagons and sleighs, house furnishings, hardware, farming implements, harness, robes and whips, glassware, woodenware and silverware, watches and jewelry, stationery, postcards, souvenirs, etc.  He served for ne year as town clerk of Wallkill, Orange County, New York.  In 1908 he was nominated for assemblyman from Sullivan County, but was defeated by forty-five votes.  In 1911 he was the only Democrat on the county ticket who survived the Republican headslide, receiving a plurality of 583 votes.  As a legislator he has initiated and succeeded in having passed a number of bills, among them being one appropriating $1,200,000 to build what is known as Route No. 4, now chapter 238 of the laws of New York State of 1910, and one pertaining to the Delaware River Boulevard from Port Jervis to Hancock, chapter 260, laws of 1910.  He is a member of the Hoffman Lodge, No. 412, Free and Accepted Masons; Middletown Chapter, No. 240, Royal Arch Masons; Cyprus Commandery, No. 66, Knight Templar; Mecca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Middletown Shriners' Association; in Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree, and is a life member of the four Scottish rite bodies comprising the Consistory of New York; is a member of Launcelot Lodge, No. 269, Knights of Pythias; Mamakating Camp, No. 10, 194, Modern Woodmen of America, and Bloomingburg Grange, No. 1,971, Patrons of Husbandry. 

          He married, May 18, 1887, Jennie Beakes, daughter of William Thompson and Sarah (Norris) Shearer, who was born November 25, 1867.  Her father had a farm of one hundred and sixty acres at Bloomingburg.  Children: 1. Sadie Shearer, born June 2, 1888.  2. Florence Madeline, born in October, 1893.  Both are living at home.

BROWN.    John Brown, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, came from Hopkinton, England, and settled in Hopkinton, Rhode Island.  He was a manufacturer of foundry supplies.  His wife's name is unknown.  Child:  1. John, referred to below.

          (II) John (2), son of John (1) Brown, was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island.  He was a farmer.  He married Susanna Palmer, of Hopkinton, Rhode Island.  Children:  1. James.  2. John, referred to below.  3. George.  4. Francis.  5. Henry M.  6. David.  7. Amy,

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twin with Amy died in infancy.  8. Sally.  9. Ruth.  10. May.  11. Betsy.  12. Dolly. 

          (III) John (3), son of John (2), and Susanna (Palmer) Brown, was born December 25, 1768, in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, died in 1819.  He moved with his father's family, while he was young, to Schoharie County, New York.  Later he owned and managed several farms situated between Sloansville and Esperance.  He was a prominent Democrat, and a member of Episcopal Church.  He married, Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Perry, of Newport, Rhode Island.  After his daughter's marriage Edmund Perry left Rhode Island and settled in Schoharie County, New York.  Children:  1. John Sheldon, referred to below.  2. Henry.  3. Susan, married (first) Dr. Beach; (second) --------- Mather.  4. Perry.  5. Nancy, married Nathaniel Hare.  6. Meribeh, married Levi Totten.  7. Phoebe, married Daniel Dana.  Phoebe was one of the twins, the other died in infancy.  8. Eliza, married Daniel Beach.  9. Palmyra, married -------------- Barker and lived in Vermont.  Three others died when young.

          (IV) John Sheldon, son of John (3) and Elizabeth (Perry) Brown, was born August 6, 1807, in Schoharie County, New York, died in 1890, in Cooperstown, New York.  He attended a private school.  He inherited from his father a four hundred acre farm which he managed himself. He was a member of the Episcopal Church.  He held the office of sheriff from 1843 5o 1847.  He enlisted in the New York State Militia in 1830, was made a general, and was discharged in 1850.  He bought a hotel in Cooperstown, New York, called the Empire House, and conducted it successfully for fifteen years.  He then sold the hotel and returned to Schoharie County, where he lived a few years, and then moved back to Cooperstown and retired from business. He married December 12, 1830, in Leesville, (now Morgansville), Lucy Ann, daughter of Nathan Brewster and Lucy (Hoxie) Lee.  Her paternal grandparents were Solomon and Ann (Brewster) Lee.  Children of John Sheldon and Lucy Ann (Lee) Brown:  1. Eliza Lee, born June 6, 1834, died January 20, 1851, unmarried.  2. John E., September 15, 1835, married (first) Martha Antisdell, (second), in Washington, D. C., in 1879, Mary Kennard, now lives in Washington.  3. Helen Louisa, September 20, 1839, died June 9, 1859, unmarried.  4. Lucy Hoxie, twin of Helen Louisa, married in 1866, Edwin M. Harris.  5. Phoebe Dana, March 10, 1841, married Joseph G. Cooke., living in Cooperstown.  6. Sarah Elmira, August 28, 1842, died February 25, 1844.  7. Jesse Beech, June 21, 1844, unmarried .  8. Florence Elizabeth, November 13, 1850, married, in 1881, Leonard F. Whitbeck, child; Lee Field Whitbeck, born December 19, 1882, he was graduated from Yale University and is a civil engineer; he is unmarried. 

WILLETS.     Richard Willets, the founder of this family, died in 1664 or 1665.  He is said to have come from the west of England, and was in Hempstead, Long Island, by 1657.  Here he held the offices of surveyor of highways and townsman.  He married, before 1650, Mary, daughter of William and Jane Washburne, among the earliest settlers at Hempstead.  Children;  1. Thomas, of whom further.  2. Hope, born in September , 1652, married Mercy Langdon.  3. John, born in July, 1655.  4. Richard, born in February, 1660, married (first), March 25, 1686, Abigail Bowne, (second), May 15, 1690, Abigail Powell.  5. Mary, born in April, 1663, died in 1687; married, in 1686, John Fry. 

          (II) Thomas, son of Richard and Mary (Washburne) Willets, was born in May, 1650, died at Secclague, now Islip, Long Island, in 1710.  He married Dinah, daughter of Richard and Deliverance (Cole) Townsend.  Children:  1. Isaac, died in June, 1736; married, in 1716, Clement Hallock.  2. Amos, of whom further.  3. Richard, married (first) Sarah Hallock, (second), in 1740, Margaret (Hallock) Powell.  4. Thomas, born in 1683; married (first) Catharine Hallock, (second) Rachel Powell.  5. Mary, died in 1739; married, in 1691, Thomas Powell.  6. Elizabeth, married John Underhill.  7. Hannah, married Samuel Underhill.  8. Sarah.  9. Dinah. 

          (III) Amos, son of Thomas and Dinah (Townsend) Willets, died in 1748.  He married (first), in 1713, Mary, daughter of John and Abigail (Sweezey) Hallock; (second), in 1719, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas

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and Martha (Jones) Whitson, born in 1699.  Children, first two or three by first marriage:  1. Samuel, married, in 1742, Jane Powell.  2. Ruth, married, in 1743, Richard Willets.  3. Mary.  4. Catharine, married Jacob Underhill.  5. Sarah, married John Willis.  6. Jacob, of whom further.  7. Amos, married, in 1754, Rebecca -------------.  8. Joseph, born in 1728, married, May 7, 1755, Hannah Titus.  9. Jemima, married Willian Jarvis.  10. Martha, married, November 13, 1755, Thomas Prior.  11, Hannah, born in 1734, married Walt Powell.  12, Thomas, born in 1738, died in 1813, married, in 1762, Leah Seaman. 

          (IV) Jacob, son of Amos and Rebecca (Whitson) Willets, was born April 19, 1723.  He married, in 1741, Hannah, daughter of John and Margaret (Hallock) Powell, born August 17, 1725.  Children:  1. John, born November 3, 1745.  2. Job, born September 10, 1746, married Deborah Udah.  3. Jacob (2), of whom further.  4. Daniel, born May 24, 1753, died in 1825, married Martha Seaman.  5. Henry, born October 13, 1755.  6. James, born May 1, 1759, married, in 1784, Johanna Titus.  7. Thomas, born September 12, 1760.  8. Samuel, born January 1, 1763, married Hannah Seaman.  9. Phebe, born January 14, 1765, married (first) Stephen Titus, and (second), George Townsend.  10. George, born May 10, 1769, married Mary Madge.

          (V) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) and Hannah (Powell) Willets, was born January 20, 1750, died in 1830.  He married and had children;  1. George, of whom further.  2. Jacob, married Deborah Rogers.  3. Rachel, married Josiah Kip.  4. Ann, married Isaac Secor.  5. Phebe, married Samuel Lewis.  6. Amy, married William Griffin. 

          (VI) George, son of Jacob (2) Willets, was born in 1784.  He married Jemima Secor.  Child:  1. George (2), of whom further.

          (VII) George (2), son of George (1) and Jemima (Secor) Willets, was born May 10, 1823, died at Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York, June 1, 1910.  He married, in 1850, Charlotte Hoad, of Dodds Ferry, Westchester, County, born October 11, 1825, died at Scarsdale, September 21, 1867.  Both were buried at White Plains, Westchester County, New York.  Children:  1. Mary, born in 1860, married John Burtis, of Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York, who died there September 11, 1892, at the age of thirty-eight.  Child: 1. Hazel Mary, born June 3, 1889, died December 8, 1905.  2. George Jacob, of whom further.

          (VIII) George Jacob, son of George (2) and Charlotte (Hoad) Willets, was born June 12, 1851, died June 24, 1901.  He was educated in the public school.  He had a farm of about one hundred and fifty acres, at Scarsdale; but selling this farm to Thomas Simpson, of New York, he became a horse and cattle trader.  He held the office of highway commissioner and was on the board of supervisors.  At first he attended Quaker meetings, later the Episcopal Church.  He married, in 1883, Sarah Ann, daughter of Thomas H. and Ann (Theal) Purdy, of Harrison, Westchester County, New York, born in 1855, died August 18, 1892.  Children:  1. Lottie, born august 6, 1885, died February 1, 1887, buried in Rural Cemetery at White Plains.  2. Sarah Bertha, of whom further.  3. Geraldine, born June 27, 1890; educated at the public schools, graduated in 1906 from the high school at white Plains, and entering Barnard College, in New York City, which is a branch of Columbia University, she graduated there with honors in June, 1911. 

          (IX) Sarah Bertha, daughter of George Jacob and Sarah Ann (Purdy) Willets, was born May 6, 1888.  She has attended the grammar and high schools of White Plains, where she resides. 

DORN.     Alexander J. Dorn, of Holland ancestry, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, settled in Florida, Montgomery County, New York, in the early part of the nineteenth century.  He married Sarah Casey.  Children:  1. George.  2. John, referred to below.  3. Robert C.  4. Alfred T.  5. Cornelius O.  6. Mary Antoinette. 

          (II) John, son of Alexander and Sarah (Casey) Dorn, was born August 17, 1816, in Montgomery County, New York, and moved to Schoharie County, in 1836.  He was a farmer, and a deacon and elder in the Presbyterian Church.,  He married (first), December 31, 1837, Abigail Dean, born April 15, 1821, died January 21, 1844.  He married (second), march 16, 1845, Jane Dean.  Children, two by fist marriage:  1. William Edgar, born March 4, 1840.  2. Robert

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Solomon, referred to below.  By second marriage:  3. Alexander, born August 11, 1850, died September 16, 1850.

          (III) Robert Solomon, son of John and Abigail (Dean) Dorn, was born in Esperance, Schoharie County, New York, and lived there all his life.  He was a Republican.  He married, December 23, 1868, Frances Arealia, daughter of David and Elinor Maria (Burton) Merkell, who was born September 17, 1840, (see Merkell); child:  David Robert, referred to below. 

          (IV) David Robert, son of Robert Solomon and Frances Arealia (Merkell) Dorn, was born March 31, 1871, in Esperance, Schoharie County, New York.  He attended the district school and graduated from the Cobleskill High School in 1892, and the Albany College of Pharmacy in 1894.  He spent two years as clerk with Massachusetts druggists, then received a civil service appointment as a pharmacist at the Clinton State prison, Dannemora, New York, filling that position for four years.  In 1901, he moved to Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York and stated in business for himself.  He is a member of the Young Men's Club.  In politics he is a Republican, also a Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner, having been an officer in Otsego Chapter, No. 26, Royal Arch Masons.  He married, March 28, 1899, in Cobbleskill, New York; Gazena, daughter of Andrew and Christina (Loucks) Cross, who was born July 9, 1867 (see Cross). 

(Merkell Line)

          Peter Merkell, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, died in 1780, came to Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, in 1713, and was "Kneiskern's dorf," Albany county (now in Schoharie County), New York, in 1769.  He served in Captain jacob Sternbergh's company in 1767, and in the American Revolution as private in the Second Regiment, Tryon company militia, and in Captain Jacob Klock's company, Seventh Regiment of Militia.  He was killed while participating ina raid of Sir John Johnson's two miles east of Lower Schoharie Fort.  Child:  1. Jacob Peter, referred to below.

          (II) Jacob Peter, son of Peter Merkell, was born in Schoharie County, New York, in 1776, and was only four years of age at the time of his father's death.  He married, in Chatham Four Corners, Columbia County, New York, Sarah Delaney Westover.  Children:  1. David N., referred to below.  2. Isaac, unmarried.  3. John, married Laura Hare.  4. Sarah, married Charles L. Miller.

          (III) David N., son of Jacob Peter and Sarah Delaney (Westover) Merkell, was born May 12, 1806, died November 9, 1891.  He married, May 13, 1841, Elinor Maria Burton, who died October 7, 1856.  Children:  1. Elinor Adelia, born June 16, 1842, died September 15, 1873, unmarried.  2. Frances Arealia, referred to below.  3. Marcus David, born October 5, 1849, unmarried. 

          (IV) Frances Arealia, daughter of David N. and Elinor Maria (Burton) Merkell, was born in Esperance, Schoharie County, New York, September 17, 1846, and married, December 23, 1868, Robert Solomon, son of John and Abigail (Dean) Dorn, referred to above.

(The Cross Line)

          Lemuel Cross, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, (date of birth, marriage, and where born not known), married Sarah Cluff (Clough); died at Bowman's Creek, Montgomery county, New York, in 1795.  Children:  1. Joseph C., born February 15, 1779, married Sally Swarthout.  2. John C., 1788, married Polly (Elizabeth) Swarthout.  3. Salem B., married Mary Flint.  4. Lemuel, referred to below.  5. Elizabeth, married Shubert Welton.  6. Hannah, married James Farquarson.  7. Susan, married Joseph Welton.  8. Sally, married Joseph Rice.

          (II) Lemuel Cross, Jr., son of Lemuel and Sarah Cluff (Clough) Cross, was born october 7, 1781, in Connecticut, and died June 26, 1854, at Raymond, Racine County, Wisconsin.  He married, October 8, 1803, Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Sidney) Loucks, who was born march 17, 1789, and died February 4, 1868.  Children:  1. Peter Sidney, referred to below.  2. Andrew.  3. Renselaer.  4. Jeremiah A.  And other children.

          (III) Peter Sidney, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Loucks) Cross, was born october 3, 1896, in Sharon, Schoharie County, New York, died August 8, 1876.  He was a farmer.  He was captain of the general training.  He married, February 9, 1825, in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York,

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Jane, daughter of Jeremiah and Eva (Schaeffer) Brown, died November 8, 1882, who was born October 31, 1803.  Children;  1. Nancy, born March 3, 1827, died October 31, 1877, married Augustus C. Smith.  2. Andrew, referred to below.  3. Lemuel, born February 23, 1834, died April 27, 1909, married three times, (first) Evelyn Thompson, born April 30, 1830, died May 24, 1876, (second), Ages Lloyd Freeman, died September 1, 1893, (third), Theresa Hard, living.  4. Augustus, born February 9, 1840, lives in Sharon, Schoharie County, Yew York, married Ruth Myers,  5. Philip Wieting, born April 2, 1842, died June 10, 1897, married Sophia Hallenbeck.  6. Adelaide, born February 7, 1840, married Abraham B. Borst.  7. Adela, born June 3, 1847, died in infancy.  8. John Brown, born April 2, 1842, died in infancy. 

          (IV) Andrew, son of Peter Sidney and Jane (Brown) Cross, was born April 13, 1831, and died August 3, 1896, in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York.  He attended the district school in Sharon, and worked on his father's farm until 1858, when he moved to Carlisle, Schoharie County New York, where he owned a farm.  In 1874 he moved to Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York, where he was the pioneer truckman of that place.  He was a deacon and a trustee in the Lutheran Church.  He married Christina, daughter of Peter and Eliza Catherine (Snyder) Loucks, who was born May 23, 1831, and died January 7, 1905.  Children;  1. Alonzo Welton, born October 4, 1852, died in infancy.  2. Louis W., born June 10, 1865, died in infancy.  3. Gazena, referred to below. 

          (V) Gazena, daughter of Andrew and Christina (Loucks) Cross, was born in Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York, July 9, 1867.  She married, March 28, 1899, David Robert, son of Robert Solomon and Frances Arealia (Merkell) Dorn, referred to above. 

(The Loucks Line)

          Those in the Untied States, who bear the name Laux, Loux, Lauck, Laucks, or Loucks, descended from a common ancestor, the father of Philip and Nicholas Laux, Palatinates who came to the American colonies in the emigration of 1710.  The origin of the family is recorded in the ancient chronicles of the region on either side of the Pyrenees, in the extreme southeast of France, the head of the family as traced being Inigo Lope du Laux Seigneur de Biscaye and Count of Alva, who had two sons, one of them, Guillaume Sache du Laux, being the founder of the house or family from whom all those bearing the name of Laux descend.  The family was rich and powerful, holding high and important offices in the state.  In later generations many of the member of the several families became Protestants and suffered in consequence. 

          The Huguenots forefathers of Philip and Nicholas Laux settled in the Palatinate of the Rhine, in Hesse-Darmstadt and Hesse-Nassau, their parents or grandparents going there previous to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settling during the religious war known in history as the "Thirty Years War."  Germany had barely begun to recover from the effects of the war, which was more severely felt in the Palatinate than in any other part of the Fatherland, when the Wars of Louis XIV, of France began, and life was again made a horror for the inhabitants.  On the advice of the leading generals of the French king, the Palatinate was ordered to be destroyed, and soon but the blackened ruins of cities, towns and hamlets remained.  To flee from such horrors and escape the vengeance of the French king, who was particularly bitter against his Protestant subjects who had fled from his tyranny, is why thirty thousand palatinates went to London, England, for the kind hearted English Queen Anne had invited the distressed Protestants of Germany to make their home in her American colonies.  In this company were Philip and Nicholas Laux, with their families.  Of these many went back to Germany, and several thousand were sent to Ireland, where they found homes in County Limerick.  Thousands perished at sea and on shipboard from fever and want of food.  Four thousand, among them Peter and Nicholas Laux, left England in ten vessels on Christmas day, 1709, and after a perilous voyage of six months arrived at New York, June 14, 1710.  Out of the four thousand, seventeen hundred died at sea, and while in the act of landing.  The remaining twenty-three hundred were encamped in tents on Nutting, now Governor's Island, New York harbor.  In the late autumn, fourteen hundred were taken one

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hundred miles up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor, where they were shamelessly treated by Governor Hunter and associates.  As Queen Anne had expended £10,000 to bring them to America, they were expected to repay the government under a contract, by making tar, pitch and raising hemp (naval stores) in America for a certain period.  This plan proved a failure and the Palatinates again became desperate, for they were suffering for the necessities of life.  The Palatinates were men of honor and willing to carry out the terms of their contract, but the forest and the soil were not suitable for the production of naval stores.  They moreover showed their devotion by enlisting in the Canadian Expedition of 1711, fully, one-third of the able-bodied men serving in that campaign.  They were to receive wages the same as the other soldiers, their families were to be taken care of, and the arms they fought with were to be retained on their returned.  Many lost their lives in the campaign, and the survivors found their families in a famished condition on their return, no food having been given them by the colonial government, as promised.  Their arms were also taken away.  Then their hatred of wrong and injustice burst forth and they determined to break away from the spot where treachery and starvation seemed their only portion.  When in London they had met a delegation of Mohawk Indians who had promised them land in the Schoharie Valley, and the land had been conveyed to the Indians by Queen Anne for that purpose.  Remembering this, they petitioned Governor Hunter that they might settle on the land promised them by the Indians.  He refused ina great fury, saying, "Here is your land where you must live and die."  But now fully aroused to their danger they began deliberate preparation, and late in 1711 one hundred and fifty families, among them Philip Laux and family, quite the scene of their misery and started to Schoharie, sixty miles northwest of Livingston Manor.  They had to make their way through a roadless wilderness, without horse to draw or carry their belongings.  They harnessed themselves to rudely constructed sledges on which they loaded their baggage, children and sick and delicate women, and dragged them over the snow.  They were three weeks in making the journey, suffering greatly from cold and hunger.  After their arrival their situation was but little improved, and but for the kindness of friendly Indians all must have perished.  But their indomitable courage and energy enabled them to survive the winter, and a year later found them housed and the cultivation of land well under way.  The vindictive animosity of Governor Hunter, however, still pursued them, and after a sojourn of ten years in the Schoharie Valley the greater part left for permanent homes in more hospitable regions, the majority going to the Mohawk Valley, where they became prosperous.  Many of the descendants of Philip Laux are found there to-day, wealthy and influential.  A branch settled in Pennsylvania, including Conrad Weiser, a son of John Conrad Weiser, whom Governor Hunter threatened to hand for being "disobedient and mutinous."  Many of the Laux family served in the colonial wars and in the Revolution.  They served with Herkimer at Oriskany, and the Revolutionary rolls teem with the family name in its various forms.  They were prominent in the War of 1812 and the great Civil War.

          (I) Philip Laux bought land at Middleburg and in the town of Sharon, Schoharie County, upon which his descendants are yet settled.  He had four sons:  1. Peter.  2. Cornelius.  3. Andrew.  4. William, referred to below.  Andrew was a well known local musician, and chorister of the Lutheran church at Schoharie.  Both Philip and Nicholas Laux were among the Palatinate volunteers for the expedition against Quebec in 1711.  They belonged to the Haysbury company that was formed in Livingston Manor. 

          (II) William Loucks, son of Philip Laux, the emigrant, settled in Middleburg.  He was the only Tory in his family except most of his sons.  When Johnson invaded the valley in 1780, all the Loucks buildings were burned except his, which was made a resting place and supply station.  He had by his first wife, 1. Andrew and 2. Peter of Sharon, 3. Jeremiah of Middleburg, and a 4. daughter who married John Ignored (2) of Schoharie.  By his second wife, he had 5. John W.  6. Jacob.  7. Henry.  8. William.  9. David.  10. Mrs. Storm Becker, and 11. Mrs. William Borst.

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born May 13, 1764, died April 19, 1847.  He married (first) Margaret Sidney, January 17, 1788, who was born 1760, died 1818; married (second) Anna Sealy, September 13, 1818, died April 4, 1842, aged 76 years.  Children:  1. Elizabeth (referred to above), and 2. Catharine.

          (III) Peter, son of William Loucks and his first wife, settled with his brother in Schoharie County, New York, about 1765.  Peter was a farmer and an energetic business man.  The Sharon historian says:  "He had clearer views upon political matters than his brother Andrew, especially during the 'struggle for liberty.'" This would indicate hat Peter was a Patriot and Andrew was a Tory.  Peter erected a house in 1802 from timber that had been prepared to build a church, but a controversy arose that ended in the church being built at Lawyersville.  The lumber was then sold at auction and purchased by Peter Loucks.  The house still stands.  Children:  1. Johannes.  2. Hollis.  3. Daniel.  4. Sarah, married Joseph w. Van Schaick. 

          (IV) Johannes, son of Peter Loucks, lived at Beaver Creek, Ulster County, New York, and died in 1789.  He married Elizabeth ------------.  Children: 1. Johannes (2), referred to below.  2. Jans Jury.  3. Peter.  4. Maria.  5. Catharine.  6. Neeltje.

          (V) Johannes (2), son of Johannes (1) and Elizabeth Loucks, was probably born in West Camp, Ulster county, New York, and died in 1814 or 1815.  He moved from Ulster County to Schoharie County, New York, and was one of the first settlers of New Rhinebeck, Schoharie County, New York.  He was a farmer.  He married Elizabeth Davenport.  Children:  1. John.  2. John George, referred to below.  3. Neeltie (Nelgey).  4. Nicholas.  5. Jacob.

          (VI) John George, son of John (or Johannes (2), was born October 17, 1772, in Sharon (formerly New Rhinebeck), Schoharie County, New York, and died May 23, 1856, in Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York.  He worked on his father's farm until 1803, when he moved to Carlisle and bought a farm in the wilderness.  He cleared a lot and built a house, later clearing the whole farm.  His wife helped build the house, leaving their child ina cradle of twigs and branches in the woods.  He married (first) in February, 1795, Mary, daughter of John McCarty, who died June 12, 1790.  He married (second) in February, 1801, Leah McCarty, sister of his first wife, who die March 4, 1861.  Children, all by second marriage:  1. Peter, referred to below.  2. Elizabeth, married Daniel Burhans.  3. Leah, born October 2, 1806, married Benjamin Snyder.  4. Mary, married George Burhans.  5. Nancy, born in 1817, died February 1, 1836. 

          (VII) Peter, son of John George and Leah (McCarty) Loucks, was born July 7, 1802, in Sharon, Schoharie County, New York.  While young he worked on his father's farm and attended school in the winter.  Later he moved to Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York, where he retired from active business life.  He was a prominent Democrat, justice of the peace, and poormaster for a number of years, and a deacon in the Lutheran Church of New Rhinebeck.  He married, January 4, 1825, Eliza Catharine Snyder, who was born January 31, 1805.  Children:  1. John, died in infancy.  2. Lavina, born November 21, 1825, died october 25, 1911, married, February 11, 1847, John Burhans, born April 4, 1817, children: i. Judson, ii. Andrew, iii. Melvin, iv. Peter, v. Romeyn, vi. Walton, vii. Christina referred to below. 

          (VIII) Christina, daughter of Peter and Eliza Catherine (Snyder) Loucks, was born May 23, 1831, in the old homestead at Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York, and died January 7, 1905, at Cooperstown, New York.  She married Andrew, son of peter Sidney and Jane (Brown) Cross, referred to above. 

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