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(VIII)
Nicholas Lansing, second son of Johannes (2)
(John) and Sarah (Lansing) Blauvelt, was
born March 12, 1817, at Orangeburg, died
April 12, 1879, at Nanuet. The farm on
which he lived, one mile south of Nanuet
village, was devised to his wife by her
father, John Hogenkamp. This farm is now
in possession of her heirs, who still
preserve the old deeds conveying the farm to
her ancestors. One tract was conveyed by "Frederickus
Blauvelt of the county of Orange in the
Province of New York Yeoman", to Mindert
Hogenkamp by deed dated June 5th
"in the 28th year of the reign of
our sovereign Lord George, the second, by
the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and
in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand
seven hundred and fifty-five". Another
tract of one hundred and twenty-seven acres
which became a part of the farm was conveyed
October 16, 1784, by Daniel Graham, Esq.,
"commissioner of Forfeitures for the Middle
District of said State, appointed in
pursuance of an act in the Legislature of
the State, entitled an act for the speedy
sale of the confiscated and forfeited
estates passed the 12th day of
May, 1784" to John Hogenkamp, first. This
latter was also known as John M. Hogen Kamp,
and was a captain in the Revolutionary
Army. Fifty acres of the farm were
conveyed, December 6, 1796, by Cornelius M.
Demarest to John M. Hogen Kamp, Esq. The
executor of the estate has also in his
possession an original deed of a tract of
land on the "Hackensack Hill", containing
eighty-six and one-half acres, made by
Myndert Hogen Kamp to Myndert Hogan Kamp
Jr., dated June 25, "in the 12th
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George II by the Grace of God, of Great
Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, etc., Annoq. Domini 1739."
This will was proved before Cornelius Cuiper,
one of the magistrate judges for our
inferior court of common pleas. The deed is
proved by Johannes Blauvelt, subscribing
witness, and recites that he made oath on
the Holy Evangelis of Almighty God, that he,
Myndert Hogen Kamp signed sealed and
delivered the instrument to Myndert Hogen
Kamp Jr. The original will of Myndert Hogen
Kamp, dated May 5, 1783, is also preserved
with other papers. Nicholas L. Blauvelt
married Eliza Hogen Kamp, born November,
1822, at Nanuet, died March 11, 1902.
Children: 1. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 17,
1841; married Alonzo B. Smith. 2. John
Hogen Kamp, mentioned below. 3. Charles
Edwin, born April, 1847, lived at Cresskill
and New York City. 4. Peter Herring, born
November 3, 1849. 5. Gerrit Melancthon,
February 15, 1854.
(VIII) John
Hogen Kamp, eldest son of Nicholas Lansing
and Eliza (Hogen Kamp) Blauvelt, was born
October 25, 1843, at Nanuet, where he grew
up, attending the public schools until he
was fourteen years of age. Following this
he was a student at the public school of
New York City, and at the College of the
City of New York, from which he graduated in
1863, receiving the degree of A.B. and
subsequently that of A.M. He took up the
study of law with Howard C. Cady, and
subsequently with Spear & Nash, later Owen,
Nash & Gary, and was admitted to the bar in
1870. Following his admission he opened an
office in New York City, and has ever since
been engaged in practice there, making a
specialty of surrogate, real estate and
commercial matters. He is now administrator
of the estate of Eliza (Hogen Kamp)
Blauvelt, and resides in Brooklyn Borough,
New
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York City. He is a
member of the Law Institute, and of Grace
Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York.
Mr. Blauvelt has given close attention to
business, has thus built up a large and
lucrative practice, and gives little
attention to public affairs, although he is
an earnest supporter of the Republican party
in political matters.
He married
(first) June 3, 1874, in New York City, Kate
Fisher, who died April 27, 1886, in
Brooklyn. He married (second) September 2,
1806, Harriet Barnes Salisbury, who died
August 8, 1905, in Brooklyn. Children:
Fanny Jackson, born July 20, 1875' wife of
Professor Raymond Clinton Reed' children:
Raymond D., Katherine and Helen. 2.
Clarence Hogen Kamp, February 13, 1879;
sergeant in Squadron C, of Brooklyn;
unmarried.
BLAUVELT.
(V) Cornelius Blauvelt, son of Johannes
Gerritse and Antye (Quackenbos) Blauvelt,
was born at Tappan, January 9, 1744, details
regarding his life, but he lived for the
greater of it at Tappan, where he was much
regarded, and was a leading man in the
community, he married Sarah Demarest.
(VI) David
C., son of Cornelius and Sarah (Demarest)
Blauvelt, was born at Tappan, February 10,
1773, died January 30, 1835. He married
Maria Demarest, born April 10, 1770, died
May 12, 1843. Children: 1. Richard
Demarest, mentioned below. 2. David, born
at Tappan, Bergen county, New Jersey,
November 17, 1819, 3. A daughter, who died
in 1824, aged nineteen. 4. Another
daughter, who died July 6, 1887, aged
eighty-eight. 5. James D., who died in
1891, at an age almost approaching ninety.
6. Cornelius D., who died aged eighty-two.
(VII)
Richard Demarest, son of David C. and Maria
(Demarest) Blauvelt, was born in 1802, died
at Newark, New Jersey. he was educated in
the public schools, and when a boy started
in to learn the furniture business in New
York. Later he opened up a store and
started in the same business on the Bowery.
He made the manufacture of chairs his
specialty and in this he was very
successful. He was a Whig in politics,
though he never held nor aspired to hold
public office. He and the member of his
family were accustomed to attend the
services of the Dutch Reformed and the
Baptist churches. He was for twenty-one
years in the Seventh Regiment of the New
York S. M. under Captain Riblets. He
married, in 1828, Mary, born in 1805 in New
York City, daughter of Vincent and Sarah
(Schneider) De La Montanye. The children
were: 1. Mark Baker. 2. Richard De La
Montanye. 3. Sarah Perret. 4. George
Washington, mentioned below. 5. Amelia.
(VIII)
George Washington, son of Richard Demarest
and mary (De La Montanye) Blauvelt, was born
in New York City, February 22, 1836. He
educated in the public school, and after
completing his studies worked at various
positions until he went into the employment
of the city of New York, in the service of
which he was engaged for thirty-two years,
working in the department of repairs. He
was shifted around until he became the
general foreman of repairs in the borough of
Manhattan. He was with his family
affiliated with the Baptist Church. He
married, abut the year 1865, Julia Gomperts,
born in New York City, September 21, 1836.
There were eight children of this marriage,
the last five being dead. The children
were: 1. Benjamin Lewis, mentioned below.
2. Laura 3. Bertha. 4. Mary. 5.
Julia. 6. Blanche. 7. George. 8.
Clarence.
(IX)
Benjamin Lewis, eldest son of George
Washington and Julia (Gomperts) Blauvelt,
was born in the city of New York, October 5,
1867. He educated in the public school of
the city, which he attended for a number of
years , and then went to the College of the
City of New York. He was graduated from
that college as a civil engineer in 1891.
While pursuing the profession of civil
engineer during the day he studied law at
night at the New York Law School and was
admitted to the bar in 1900. He has been
doing law business ever since, engaging in
general practice. Mr. Blauvelt is director
of the Washington Heights Bar Association
and of the New York County Lawyers'
Association. He is also a member of the New
York Law School alumni. He, like all the
members of his family, is a member of the
Episcopal Church.
He married,
in New York City, June 21, 1898, Bessie
Keene, born on Staten Island in 1874,
daughter of Thomas and Nellie (Keene)
Kilvert. Thomas Kilvert was born in
Manchester, England, he was a lawyer in New
York City., His wife, Nellie (Keene)
Kilvert.
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was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania. The children of Thomas and
Nellie (Keene) Kilvert were: 1. Charles.
2. Bessie Keene, married Benjamin Lewis
Blauvelt. 3. Nellie Beatrice.
BUTLER. The
family of butler is said to be Irish or
Norman-Irish in origin, although there are
in Cheshire and Yorkshire several old
established families of the name. They may,
however, have been branches of the great
Irish family. The surname is said to be
derived from the French form with he same
meaning. "Botiler", meaning a wine merchant
or butler. The king's butler or pincerna
regis was an officer of considerable
importance, answering to the collector of
customs in modern ports. The origin of the
great Irish family of Butler is a vexed
one. They have been variously deducted from
Herveins, a companion of William the
Conqueror--from the illustrious De Clares--
and from a brother of Thomas a Beckett, the
archbishop of Canterbury. The name,
however, is a corruption of the Norman
French term applied to the office of the
King's butler, which was conferred upon
Theobald, surnamed "le botiler", by henry
II.., and remained hereditary in his
descendants for many generations. In those
centuries the upper class of England were
French-speaking, and were largely Norman in
blood, and the surnames dating from that
time are either purely French in origin, or
are Anglo-Saxon terms that have been given a
slightly French turn.
The ancestors
of the Butlers, on the paternal side,
crossed to Ireland in the twelfth century,
and south alliances with the Milesian houses
of their own station, transmitting the
family name to their descendants in both a
Norman and a Gaelic form. In the thirteenth
century what is now called Tipperary was
formed into the "county palatine of Ormond
under the Butlers, who thus become so
powerful, that different branches of them",
says "O'Hart's pedigrees", "furnished many
of the most distinguished families in
Ireland". The butlers were earls,
marquises, and dukes of Ormonde. Their war
cry, which also became their motto, as in
many Gaelic families, was "Butler Abu!", and
"aboo" being the Irish or Gaelic work for
"victory". their arms according to the
description given in "O"Hart's Pedigrees"
were: Arms: Or, a chief indented azure.
Crest: Ina ducal coronet, or, a plume of
five ostrich feathers; ar, a falcon arising
out of the last. In the case of the English
families bearing the name the patronymic has
probably been derived ina similar way from
the Norman French work denoting
occupations. Possibly too in American there
are families of French origin among the
Butlers, whose name was originally "Botiler",
which become anglicized into Butler.
(I) Justice
Butler, ancestor of the Butler family, lived
in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was
probably born about 1760. He was in all
likelihood a descendant of Deacon Richard
Butler, who came to this country in 1633,
supposedly from Braintree County, Essex,
England. Richard became a freeman at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, may 14, 1634, and
a member of the Rev. Thomas Hooker's church
at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1642. With his
brother, William, he was among the first
settlers at Hartford, receiving sixteen
acres of land there in the first division.
He was a deacon in the first church there
and occupied successively the positions of
juror, clerk of the general court. He lived
in Hartford on the south side of the Little
River, and owned a house, lot and other
lands in Weathersfield. He was twice
married the name of his first wife remaining
unknown, and he married (second) Elizabeth
Bigelow, before coming to Hartford. She
died February 26, 1656; he died August 6,
1684. The inventory of his estate amounted
to six hundred and fifty-four pounds,
fifteen shillings. They had eight children,
five of them sons, all born at Hartford. It
is probable that Justice Butler was sprung
from one of these sons of Richard Butler,
though the most diligent research up to the
present has not succeeded in established the
connection. Justice Butler married Lucy
Davis.
(II) Henry,
son of Justice and Lucy (Davis) Butler, was
born in New Haven, Connecticut, about 1785.
He continued to live in New Haven, where he
appears to have made a prominent figure in
mercantile circles. Later he lived in
Richmond, Virginia. He married, in 1807, at
New Haven, Rebecca, born in New Haven, in
1788, daughter of Samuel Green, born in
1744, born in 1744, died in 1799, and his
wife, Abigail (Buell) Green born in
Killingworth, Connecticut, in 1749, died in
Rich-
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mond, Virginia, in
1819. Abigail Buell was descended in the
fourth generation from William Buell, the
American pioneer, and patriarch of the
family. William Buell, Bewelle or Beville,
was born in Chesterton, Huntingdonshire,
England, about 1610. Emigrating to America
as early as 1630, he settled first in
Dorcester, Massachusetts,. And then in 1635,
joined the first company that went westward
to found the town of Windsor. He died in
Windsor in 1681. His son, Samuel Buell, was
born in Windsor in 1641, and after 1664
lived in Killingworth, where he died in
1720. In the old records he is especially
set down as "gentleman", was an extensive
land owner, and was honored by his fellow
citizens by election to many positions of
trust and responsibility. By his marriage
in 1662 to Deborah Griswold, who was born in
1646, died in 1710, Samuel Buell allied
himself to another of the great colonial
families of Connecticut. His wife was a
daughter of Edward Griswold, of Windsor,
brother of Governor Matthew Griswold. The
Griswold family is descended from Humphrey
Griswold, of Greet, Lord of the Manor.
Their ancestors came originally from
Cambridgeshire, where they were established
as early as 1135. The grandparents of
Abigail Buell, and the ancestors in the
fifth generation of Rebecca Green, were
Benjamin Buell, of Killingworth, who was
born in 1686, died in 1725, and Hannah
Hutchinson, of Hebron, whom he married in
1710. Her parents were John Buell, born in
Killingworth in 1717, died in 1752, and
Abigail (Chatfield) Buell, daughter of John
Chatfield. Several of the sons of Henry and
Rebecca (Green) Butler have occupied
commanding positions in the commercial and
professional life of New York City. The
eldest son, George B., who was born in New
Haven, Connecticut, in 1809, died in New
York in 1886, is still remembered as one of
the proprietors of the New York Journal
of Commerce, and secretary and attorney
of the Hudson River Railroad Company. His
son, George Butler, was the distinguished
artist, one of the foremost American
painters of his generation. Charles E., is
mentioned below.
(III)
Charles E., son of Henry and Rebecca (Green)
Butler, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in
1818, died in the city of New York, May 1,
1897. He began the study of the law in 1836
in the office of Jonathan Prescott Hall, in
New York City. When he was twenty-four
years old in association with William M.
Evarts, he founded the law firm of Butler &
Evarts, whose successors are now the firm
of Evarts, Choate & Sherman. Retiring from
professional work in 1879, he spent most of
his time after that upon his estate in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He married
Louisa Clinch, sister of Cornelia clinch,
who became the wife of Alexander T. Stewart,
the great merchant prince. Mrs. Louisa
(Clinch) Butler died in 1852. Children:
1. Prescott Hall, mentioned below. 2.
Maxwell Evarts. 3. Rosalie, died in 1897.
4. Helen C. 5. Virginia. 6. Lillian,
married John Swann.
(IV)
Prescott Hall, son of Charles E. and Louisa
(Clinch) Butler, was born on Staten Island,
New York, March 8, 1848. He obtained his
preparatory education at Reid and Hoffman's
school at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and
was graduated at Harvard College in 1869.
Having studied law in his father's office he
was admitted to the bar in 1874, and entered
his fathers' firm, then Evarts, Southmayd &
Choate. He was successful from the outset
and rated as a lawyer of thorough learning
and sound qualities. At an early age in his
practice he acquired a reputation excelled
only by the oldest members of the bar. His
connection with the firm was lifelong, and
during his extensive practice he had charge
of many important cases and delicate trusts,
which were always managed with skill and
fidelity. A man of kind heart, strong
sympathies, and generous impulses, he was,
when occasion demanded, courageous and
resolute in the support of any cause or
movement which he considered to be right.
He was a man who made many friends and held
their warm respect and regard permanently.
Mr. Butler was a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, and the
New York Law Institute. He was also a
member of the University, Century, Racquet,
Metropolitan, Riding, New York Yacht,
Players, Harvard and Knickerbocker clubs.
He died at his residence, No. 22 Park
Avenue, New York City, December 16, 1901.
He married, June 2, 1874, at St. James,
Smithtown, Long Island, Cornelia Stewart,
daughter of Judge John Lawrence and Sarah (Nicoll)
Smith. Mrs. smith was a granddaughter of
Jacob Clinch. Mr. and Mrs. Butler estab-
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lished a home at St.
James, Long Island, situated on Stony Brook
Harbor, and known as "Bytharbour".
Children: 1. Lawrence Smith. 2. Charles
Stewart, mentioned below. 3. Susan L.,
married Francis C. Huntington, former rector
of Grace Church in the City of New York.
(V) Charles
Stewart, son of Prescott hall and Cornelia
Stewart (Smith) Butler, was born in the City
of New York, December 3, 1876. He received
his preparatory education at St. Paul's
School, Garden City, Long Island, and at St.
Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts.
Later he went to Harvard College, from which
he was graduated in 1899, attending later
the Harvard Law School, and the New York Law
School. He was admitted to the New York
bar in 1903, and has since been in practice,
having an office at No. 32 Nassau Street. In
1908 he formed a partnership with William M.
Seabury, which was terminated in 1910, by
Mr. Seabury going west for his health. In
1903 Mr. butler joined Troop A of Squadron
A, and has remained a member ever since
except for a brief period. He has always
been a Republican in politics, and an
Episcopalian in religion. He is a member of
the Downtown, University, Harvard, Seawanaka
and Church clubs.
WAIT. THE
Wait family is of French origin, and the
name was spelled Wight. They were among the
earliest settlers of the Isle of Wight, and
were obliged to surrender the island to the
Romans in the year 43. Though the name was
found in other counties of England, the
ancestors of the American branch were
identified with Somersetshire, where Samuel
Wait was a gentleman of good position and
estate.
(II) Samuel
(2), second son of Samuel (I) Wait, fo
Somersetshire, England, was according to the
English law of primogeniture, left to his
own resources when his elder brother,
Thomas, came into the estate. Entirely
dissatisfied with this arrangement, Samuel
Wait, whose means exceeded $50,000,
emigrated to America in 1821, and settled in
Newburg, New York, and later in Montgomery,
Orange County, New York, where he purchased
a farm of one hundred and forty-eight acres
near Neelytown, afterwards purchasing other
farms and becoming a large property owner.
The early part of the nineteenth century
saw, in England, that great religious
awakening led by the Wesleys, which gave
rise to what is known in this country as the
Methodist Episcopal church. Among the
converts made by that great and ardent
spirit, John Wesley, was Samuel Wait, who
like many another threw himself heart and
soul into the movement and became one of
that great army of lay preacher through whom
the faith was spread. He brought his
religious enthusiasm with him to the new
country, and was the founder of the
Methodist church at Montgomery, in which
place he resided until his death. He
married, prior to leaving Somersetshire,
England, Mary Walsh of that county. Their
sons were: 1. Edward. 2. Samuel. 3.
John. 4. William Thomas, the first two
named having been importers of cattle and
sheep, importing the first Southdown sheep
in America, and the third having been a
large real estate owner in Newburg. Their
daughters were: 5. Mary, married Charles
downing, of Newburg, New York, the noted
pomologist. 6. Emma, married a Mr.
Bradbury, a broadcloth manufacturer of
Lyons, Connecticut. 7. Flora, married a
Mr. Bagg, a planter and slave holder of
Kentucky. 8. Sarah, married a Mr. Smith, of
Montgomery, New York.
(III)
Thomas, son of Samuel (2) and Mary (Walsh)
Wait, was born in Newburg, New York, 1821,
died at Montgomery, New York, 1903. He
married in 1846, Mary, born in 1826,
daughter of Johannes Mould, of Montgomery,
New York, and granddaughter of Christofel
Mould, of Revolutionary fame. Fourteen
children were born to them, nine of whom
lived to mature years: 1. Martha, married
Chauncey Brooks. 2. Charles d., married
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Emily L. (Rawlins) Wait
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Anne E. (Knapp) Wait
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Wesley Wait.
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Eliza Seymour. 3.
Mary E., married Hiram Hawkins. 4. George
W., married Cornelia Kidd. 5. Alida,
married Ira Green. 6. Effie, married
Charles Hill. 7. Wesley, of whom further.
8. Sarah, married Frank E. Eager of
Holland, Michigan. 9. Anna, unmarried.
(IV) DR.
Wesley Wait, son of Thomas and Mary (Mould)
Wait, was born at the old Wait homestead in
Montgomery, Orange County, New York, May 15,
1861. His early education was gained at one
of the many excellent private boarding
schools on the Hudson near his home. After
he left school he went to New York City and
there took up the study of medicine and
dentistry, where after only eight months'
study he was made first assistant to the
college professor. He finished the required
four-year course in dentistry in eighteen
months. In 1884 he left New York City and
opened an office in Goshen, New York, where
he remained for eighteen months. He then
went to Chicago, Illinois, remaining,
however, but a short time returning to
Newburg, New York, where he began the
practice of dentistry which he has carried
on with ever increasing success to the
present time. Dr. Wait has always been a
student of physics, and has marked
mechanical talent. He is the inventor of
various electrical appliances in successful
use. His device for the interlocking of
large steel girders without the use of bolts
or rivets was put to the test at Columbia
University in 1911, and showed one hundred
per cent of practical advantage over the old
method. He was the delegate of New York
State for three years to the International
Association of Manufacturers and Inventors,
now known as the Manufacturers'
Association. Dr. Wait has also contributed
to the technical magazines a number of
scientific articles in several fields of
natural science, and has lectured upon those
topics before audiences at Colombia, Lehigh
and other universities. Dr. Wait is an
attendant of the First Presbyterian Church
of Newburg. He was a Republican in
political belief, but is now a member of the
National Progressive Party.
Dr. Wait
married (fist) at Goshen, New York, in
1885, Emily s daughter General John A.
Rawlins, of whom further. They had one
child, Lucile, married John S. Bull, of
Newburg, New York, and they have three
children: 1. Stephens M. 2. John A
Rawlins and 3. William. Mrs. Wait died
March 25, 1897. Dr. Wait married (second)
in 1905, Anna E., daughter of Samuel Trevor
Knapp, of New York City, and a great niece
of Uzal Knapp, who was the last survivor of
General Washington's life guard, whose
remains are interred in Washington's
headquarters, Newburg, New York (see Knapp
VI). Mrs. Wait was widely known for her
charitable work. She was a most devout
Christian and an enthusiastic missionary
worker, a member of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, new York City. she was
deeply interested in the remodeling of St.
Luke's Hospital at Newburg, giving upwards
of $50,000 to that purpose, erecting the
south wing as a memorial to her father.
Samuel Trevor Knapp. She died in February,
1912.
General John
Aaron Rawlins, father of Emily S. (Rawlins)
Wait, was born at East Galena, Illinois,
February 13, 1831, son of James Dawson
Rawlins, a native of Madison County,
Kentucky, who removed to Missouri, and from
there to East Galena, and a descendant of
Robert Rawlins, an early settler of
Maryland.
The family
removed to Guilford, Illinois, where John A.
Rawlins attended school and assisted with
the work of the farm and in burning
charcoal. He attended Mount Morris
Seminary, 1852-53, studied law in Galena,
1854-55, practiced in partnership with Isaac
David Sheean, 1858-61. He was elected city
attorney for Galena in 1857; was a Democrat
candidate for presidential elector in 1860,
and held a series of joint discussions with
Allen C. Fuller, the Lincoln and Hamlin
candidate for elector from his district,
which gave him a local reputation as a
public speaker. On the firing of Fort Sumter
in April, 1861, he aided in arousing the
people of Illinois to the dangers that
threatened the Union, and in recruiting the
Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteers. He was
appointed aide-de-camp to General Grant, who
had been attracted to him by hearing him
speak at Galena in favor of maintaining the
Union, and although the youngest member of
his staff, was promoted assistant
adjutant-general, with the rank of Captain,
September 15, 1861. The only time he was
absent from staff duty during the entire war
was in August and September, 1864, when on
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Sick leave. He was
promoted rapidly, being made major, April
14, 1862; lieutenant-colonel, November 1,
1862; brigadier-general of volunteers,
August 11, 1863; brevet major-general of
volunteers, February 24, 1865;
brigadier-general, United States Army, and
chief of staff, March 3, 1865, and brevet
major-general, United States Amy, march 13,
1865. General Grant characterized him as
"more nearly indispensable to me than any
officer in the service." He was appointed
secretary of war in President Grant's
cabinet, March 9, 1869, and held the office
until his death, in Washington, D. C.,
September 9, 1869. A statute of bronze was
erected to his memory in Washington.
General
Rawlins married (first) June 5, 1856, Emily,
daughter of Hiram Smith, of Goshen New
York. He married (second) in 1863, Mary E.,
daughter of S. A. Hurlburt, of Danbury,
Connecticut.
VAN ETTEN.
This is one of the numerous Dutch names
which was derived from the place of resident
of the family. All the names beginning with
"van" are place names, indicating the town
in Holland from which the ancestor came.
Many names having this form were changed
after arrival in this country by the
occupation of the individual, such as
Smith. The Terhune family took its name in
this country from the fact that one of its
members either maintained a fine garden or
lived near one. The ancestor was called
Albert Albertsen. The history of the old
Dutch names is very interesting and easily
followed when one is familiar with the
habits and characteristics of the pioneers
of New Amsterdam (New York). the family of
Van Etten has been identified with the
history of this state from a very early
period and has since been conspicuous in New
Jersey and other states.
(I)
Jacob
Jansen, the son of Jan, came from Etten in
north Brabrandt, and settled at Kingston,
New York. Van Etten means from Etten. He
married, at Kingston, December 28, 1664,
Annatje Adrianse, of Amsterdam (daughter of
Adrian). After 1675 he lived in Marbletown,
and his youngest child was born at Hurley in
1688. Children: 1. Jan, mentioned below.
2. Sytie, married Jan Evertsen, and lived
in Marbletown. 3. Adriaen or Arie (Aaron)
resided near Kingston, where all this
children were baptized. 4. Petronella,
married Albert Roosa, and lived at Hurley.
5. Pieter, also resided at Hurley. 6.
Heiltje, born at Marbletown, married William
Van Vredenberg, and lived at Kingston. 7.
Tietje, married Evert Roose, of Hurley. 8.
Geeseje, married Jacob Decker, of Marbletown.
(II) Jan,
eldest child of jacob Jansen and Annatje (Adrianse)
Van Etten, was baptized January 3, 16666, at
Marbletown. He resided in Hurley and
Rochester, Ulster county, new York. He
married, about 1692, Jannetje, daughter of
Arien Roosa, and granddaughter of Albert
Heymanse Roosa, of Hurley. Children: 1.
Arien, baptized august 15, 1693. 2. Aeltje,
married Anthony Westbrook, of Kingston, and
resided in Ulster County, New York, until
about 1730, when they removed to the present
town of Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey,
and have descendants now living in Port
Jervis. 3. Jacob, mentioned below. 4.
Marytje, married Cornelis Ennis, of
Marbletown. 5. Annetje, married Broer
Dekker, of Napanoch. 6. Ariaantje, married
Aard Middag, and settled soon after marriage
in the Minisink country. 7. Rebecca,
married Henry Bont, of Claverack, New York.
8. Rachel, married Ritsert (Richard) Kittel,
of Hurley, and settled in the Minisink
country prior to 1750. 9. Lea, married
Thomas Keeter, and lived at Hurley. 10.
Cathrina, probably married Frans Kool. |
