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BUSH.
Hendrick Albrachtsen Bosch, the founder of
this family, was born in Leyden, Holland,
and emigrated to New Amsterdam, in the ship
"Faith", in December, 1658, with his wife
and two children. He was a sword cutler by
trade, and died in New York City, after
April 23, 1701, the date of the writing of
his will, in which he speaks of himself as
of "great age and other bodily
infirmities". His house in New Amsterdam
was on the north side of Pearl Street, the
second lot east from the corner of Broad
Street. He married (first) in Leyden, Anna
Maria Rembach, (second) Maria,
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daughter of Gerrit
Eshuysen, and (third) Egberthe, daughter of
Dirck Hage Bruynsen, who died September 9,
1728. Children: 1. Albert, referred to
below. 2. Child, died in infancy. 3.
Dorothea, baptized in the Dutch Church in
New Amsterdam, May 1, 1661; married Isaac
Caparse Halenbeck, of Albany. 4. Gerrit,
born in 1663, died in infancy. 5. Gerrit,
born in 1665, died in infancy. 6.
Hillegond, baptized November 3, 1666;
married, April 18, 1699, Lodowijck
Ackerman. 7. Cornelia, baptized May 29,
1762; married, April 3, 1697, Pierre Gerard
Cavalier. 8. Hendrick, baptized December
2, 1674; married September 9, 1698, Maria
van der Beeck. 9. Samuel, baptized February
28, 1677. 10. Joshua, baptized May 10,
1678.
(II) Albert,
son of Hendrick Albrachtsen and anna Maria (Rembach)
Bosch, was born in Leyden, died in New
Amsterdam before April 23, 1701, as he is
mentioned as deceased in his father's will.
November 19, 1686, he was granted the water
lot opposite the property owned by his
father, it being the lot east of Fraunces'
Tavern. He married, May 1, 1668, Elsje,
daughter of Jeuriaen Blanck. Children: 1.
Jeuriaen, baptized January 20, 1669;
married, October 16, 1693, Geese anna Bruijn.
2. Hendrick, baptized September 10, 1670.
3. Anna Maria, baptized May 5, 1672;
married Edward Marshall. 4. Justus,
referred to below. 5. Catharine, baptized,
June 11, 1677. 6. Margaret, baptized April
12, 1679. 7. Albertus-Conraedus, baptized
July 23, 1681, married, July 17, 1703,
Maria Yaets. 8. Casparus, baptized August
25, 1683.
(III) Justus
Bush, son of Albert and Elsje (Blanch)
Bosch, was baptized in the Dutch church in
New Amsterdam, October 28, 1675, died in
Westchester county, new York, between June
25, 1737, and December 4, 1738, the dates of
the execution and the proving of his will.
He married Annetje Smith van Boswijck, who
died between October 6, and 30, 1745, and
from the signature to her will we get the
first record of the modern spelling of the
name as "Bush." Children: 1. Annatje,
baptized July 3, 1698, died young. 2.
Justus, baptized December 3, 1699; ancestor
of the Greenwich, Connecticut, branch of the
family. 3. Geertje (later corrupted to
Charity) baptized October 30, 1701; married
William Smith. 4. Elizabeth, baptized
December 3, 1703; married, May 13, 1726, Jan
Abrahamsen. 5. Henricus, referred to
below. 6. Annatje, baptized May 11, 1708;
living unmarried in 1745. 7. Albertus,
baptized June 11, 1710; married January 22,
1739, Catharina Smith. 8. Johannes,
baptized June 1, 1712. 9. Bernardus,
baptized December 15, 1714. 10. Isaac,
baptized March 2, 1718. 11. Abraham,
baptized February 17, 1720; married Ruth
Lyon, the ancestor of the Westchester county
branch of the family.
(IV)
Henricus, son of Justus and Annetje Smith(
van Boswijck) Bush, was baptized in the
Dutch church in New York City, July 3,
1706. According to family tradition he is
the ancestor of the family, but the records
at present accessible are not sufficient to
the question positively, as his brothers
Albertus, Johannes, Bernardus and Isaac also
removed from Westchester county and the
branches descending from them have not yet
been discovered. One of these brothers,
however, had a son Henry, referred to below.
(V) Henry,
probably the son of Henricus, and certainly
the grandson of Justus and Annetje smith
(van Boswijck) Bush, settled on what is
known as the old Donovan place in Hempstead,
now Sloatsburg, Rockland County, New York,
in 1760. He served as a soldier in the
Revolution. One family tradition states
that he came to Sloatsburg from Greenwich,
New Jersey, but this is manifestly an error
and arises from a confusion of the South
Jersey town with the Connecticut town of the
same name where Henry's uncle, Justus, had
settled. The records of Greenwich,
Connecticut, also prove that Henry could not
have been the son of Justus, but must have
been his nephew. He married Rachel De Graw.
Children: 1. Rachel. 2. March. 3.
Rebecca. 3. Margaret. 4. Samuel. 5.
John. 6. Peter, referred to below. 7.
Henry. 8. William.
(VI) Peter,
son of henry and Rachel (De Graw) Bush, born
in Sloatsburg, Rockland County, New York,
November 11, 1783, died at Greenwood, now
Arden, May 14, 1836. He was a contractor
and worked throughout all that section of
country, and was at one time an iron
manufacturer at Arden. He married (first)
in 1806, Mary Smith, born May 2, 1778, died
November 4, 1815. He married (second) in
1816, Abigail Smith. Children by first
marriage: 1. Matilda, born January 16,
1807, died October 28, 18666; mar-
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ried November 5, 1829,
Cornelius Van Valer, 2. Mary Ann, born May
2, 1809, died May 23, 1894; married,
December 23, 1829, Thomas Lewis. 3. Henry,
born June 4, 1811, died July 16, 1856. 4.
James S., referred to below. 5. Margaret,
born November 27, 1814, died May 19, 1881.
Children by second marriage: 6. Elizabeth,
born March 13, 1817, died December 26,
1852. 7. Samuel Gurnee, born September 19,
1818, died unmarried, April 19, 1850. 8.
Peter B., referred to below. 9. Nathaniel
Drake, born October 29, 1821, died October
20, 1897; was architect for the New York
City Police Department for a number of years
prior to his death. 10. Rachel, born
August 1, 1823; married John Knapp,
September 21, 1843, died July 26, 1846.
11. Sarah, born November 20, 1825; married
William H. Weygant, February 23, 1847; died
April 10, 1859. 12. Eleanor, born October
20, 1827, married Alexander Thompson,
February 19, 1856, died January, 1904. 13.
Cornelius V., born November 5, 1829, died
unmarried, November 19, 1853. 14. Arminda,
born December 7,1831, deceased; married John
W. Rea, March 19, 1854. 15. Phebe, born
July 11, 1833; married Charles Woodall,
February 10, 1870, died September 25, 1878.
16. Hudson MacFarlan, born March 28, 1836;
married Martha C. Ford, February, 1864, died
July 4, 1912.
(VII) James
S., son of Peter and Mary (Smith) Bush, was
born at Southfield, Orange County, New York,
December 25, 1812, died at Arden, October 4,
1898. He was educated in the public schools
of Orange County, and was a farmer until
1838 when he was appointed a keeper at Sing
Sing Prison. Three years later he made
assistant warden, but in 1843 he returned to
his farm at Arden where he passed the
remained of his life. For over twenty-five
years he furnished the furnaces at Sterling,
Southfield, and Greenwood, New York, with
limestone. He was a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and one of the
originators of the Republican Party in
Goshen, new York. He marred, January 3,
1843, Eliza J., born at Sing Sing, August
21, 1824, died at Arden, April 8, 1897,
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Griffin)
Minerly , of Sing Sing, New York.
Children: 1. James H., born November 6,
1843, died January 8, 1896; married May 156,
1868, Alice Hance. 2. Elizabeth, born
March 26, 1845, died April 8 1897; married
James S. Hollenbeck. 3. Matilda V., born
March 26, 1847, died February 28, 1880;
married, October 5, 1868, David M.
Hollenbeck. 4. Mary. born December 21,
1849, died January 5, 1850. 5. George H.,
born February 14, 1851; married November 4,
1874, Emily Cooper. 6. Peter B., born June
23, 1853; married Margaret Conklin, June 23,
2878. 7. Hudson G., born May 7, 1857;
married, October 15, 1879, Mary A. Weyant.
8. Reeves D., born June 23, 1860; married,
December 1, 1889, Mary A. Grady. 9.
Gillmore O., referred to below.
(VIII)
Gillmore O., son of James S. and Eliza J. (Minerly)
Bush, was born at Arden, Orange County, New
York, March 3, 1863, and is not living at
Tuxedo, New York. He received his education
in the district schools of Orange County,
and at the Paterson Business College, and
then he went to Newburg, New York, and
worked on the construction of the West Shore
Railroad until 1881, when he went to
Ansonia, Connecticut, and worked at the
trade of machinist. In the spring of 1886
he settled permanently in Tuxedo, and on the
following May 1st was appointed a
policeman,. He served as such for four
years and then resigned, but six month
later, May 1, 1891, he was appointed to the
position of chief of police of Tuxedo, which
he has held ever since. He was the first
collector of taxes for the new town of
Tuxedo, and served as such for three terms.
In 1889 he was appointed by President
McKinley postmaster of Tuxedo and served in
that position for twelve years. Since 2886
he has been deputy sheriff of Orange
County. He is a member of Ramapo Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Suffern, New
York, and when Lorillard Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Tuxedo, was formed he
was transferred and became a charter member
of that lodge. He married, April 10, 1894,
Harriet, born August 8, 1872, daughter of
George W. Dater, of Sloatsburg, New York.
Children: 1. Adrian Dater, born May 24,
1896. 2. Esther M., July 27, 1901. 3.
Gillmore, O., February 24, 1907.
(VII) Peter
B., son of Peter and Abigail (Smith) Bush,
was born at a place called "Shore" hear
Caldwell Landing on the Hudson River, New
York, June 8, 1820, died March 6, 1913, at
Harriman, formerly Turner's, New York. He
was educated in the district schools of
Orange County, and assisted
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his father in various
pursuits. When his father died he undertook
the management of the homestead farm at
Greenwood, now Arden, and prior to 1862 he
bought out the interests of the other
heirs. In the same year he also bought the
Van Valer farm of one hundred and
twenty-three acres of land in Monroe
township, and on this farm he lived up to
the time of his death in the ninety-third
year of his age. He marred Harriet, born in
1834, died April 25, 1900, daughter of David
and Mary (Townsend) Ford. Children: 1.
Minnie R., born September 21, 1859. 2.
Horace G., referred to below. 3. Samuel G.,
born November 27, 1864, married, April 7,
1892, Carrie Ball, children: i. Harried
Ford, ii. Inez, iii. Mildren, iv. Howard S.
(VIII)
Horace G., son of Peter B. and Harriet
(Ford) Bush, was born in the town of Monroe,
Orange County, New York, March 13, 1863, and
is now living on the homestead in Harriman,
Orange County, New York. he received his
education in the district school of Orange
County, and then assisted his father in his
agricultural pursuits until 1892, when he
undertook the active management of the farm,
which he still continues, doing a highly
prosperous dairy, fruit and general farming
business. He is a Republican in politics,
and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
During 1906 and 1907 he was the Republican
supervisor for the town of Monroe, and
formerly a member of the board of education
of Harriman. He is a member of Standard
Lodge, No. 711, Free and Accepted Masons, of
the town of Monroe. He married, January 27,
1897, Mary T., born in Monroe, August 31,
1874, daughter of Asahel and Sarah
(Thompson) Smith, of the town of Monroe.,
Children: 1. Florence, died in infancy. 2.
Peter B., born August 21, 1901. 3. Horace
S., August 22, 1903. 4. Charles A., August
22, 1912.
PATTERSON.
Josiah Patterson, the first member of this
family of whom we have definite information,
was the son of John Patterson, of the town
of Monroe, Orange County, New York, where he
was born in 1824, and where he died in
1897. Josiah Patterson was for many years
in the employ of the Peter B. Parrott Iron
Company, and on the death of his
father-in-law, who was the superintendent of
the Peter Lorillard estate, now Tuxedo Park,
succeeded him to that position, which he
held for over fifty years. He was a member
of Goshen Lodge, Free and Accepted Mason, of
New York. He married Maria, daughter of
Benjamin and Maria M. (Schultz) Van Schaick.
Children: 1. J. Frank, born in 1862, now
living at Towanda, Pennsylvania; married
Mary Reed. 2. Charles s. referred to
below. 3. Maria, born in 1866; married C.
S. Chapman, of Ridgewood, New Jersey. 4.
Fanny, born in 1876; married Thomas G.
Barbour, of Ridgewood, New Jersey.
(II) Charles
S., son of Josiah and Maria (Van Schaick)
Patterson, was born in Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, New York, January 25, 1864, and is
now living there. He received his education
in the common schools of Orange County, and
then became connected with the Tuxedo Park
Association, of which his father was the
superintendent. He was assistant
superintendent for twelve yeas, and when his
father died he succeeded to this father's
position as superintendent, which he has
held ever since. He was a member of the
Monroe Lodge, Free and Accepted Mason, of
New York, until the formation of Lorillard
Lodge at Tuxedo, when he withdrew and became
a charter member of that body,. He is a
member of Suffern Chapter, Newburg
Commandery, Mecca Temple, of New York City,
a trustee of the Tuxedo Free Library and
director of the Goshen National Bank of
Orange County, of the Erie & Montgomery
railroad, of the Goshen and Deckerstown
railroad, of the Tuxedo Park Association, of
the Tuxedo Electric Light Company. He is a
Republican in politics, and has served and
still is supervisor of the town of Tuxedo, a
position he has held for fifteen yeas. He
married Edith, born in 1874, daughter of
George W. Dater, of sloatsburg. Child,
Mary Van Schaick.
ROSE. This
rather prevalent and beautiful surname is
not easy to account for. The rose has in
all ages been regarded as the "Queen of
Flowers", and as such has ever been
associated with poetry and symbolism. It
may have become a surname from the device of
the original bearer whether
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displayed upon a
patrician banner or on a sign post.
Salverta mentioned a noble family of Poland
in the twelfth century who were known to
have adopted their surname, Rose, from the
device on their shield, and he adduces other
instances of a similar practice. The roses
of Nairnshire, Scotland, settled there from
the time of Alexander III, originally wrote
themselves De Roos, signifying something of
a Dutch origin. Hugh Rose, of Geddes, by
marriage with the heiress of Byset, acquired
the lands of Kilravock, and had a crown
charter of the barony from King John Baliol.
The water-Bougets, borne by the ancient
Lords of De Roos of Hamlake, are found in
the arms of many families of Ross and Rose,
showing at least a presumed community of
origin and name. In the Hundred Roll of
England we find De La Rose, the meaning of
which is not clear. In the same record Fil'
Rose is also met with, so that Rose must
have been a personal name. In Ireland and
often in Scotland Rose and Rush are in many
cases derived from the ancient surname
O"Ruis, anglicized Ross and Rush (see "O'Hart's
Pedigrees", Vol. I). To Ross is attributed
other origins. In Doomsday Book there was
in Kent, England, a tenant called Anschibil
de Ros, and in Buckinghamshire another named
Ansgobus de Ros. These probably came from
Ros, a commune in the arrondissement of Caen,
France. it is sometimes of local British
origin. The barons Ros or Rose of Hamlake,
county Yorkshire, England, sprang from one
Peter, who in the reign of Henry I, assumed
his surname from his lordship of Ros. There
are several town in North and South Britain
of the name of Ross, and surnames, Ross and
Rose, have sometimes been derived from
these, which are probably from the Gaelic or
Erse word "Ros", meaning "a promontory". In
some cases the name had reference to the
complexion of the original bearer and may
have been a modification of the word meaning
"red" in various languages, as, Le Rous,
Rufus, Ruadh. There is no doubt that in
many cases Rose is simply a modification of
Ross. Ferguson claims that Ross is Teutonic
in origin, driving it from Old Saxon "hros",
Old Norse, :hross", etc., meaning "a
Horse". Skene maintains, however, that the
name is Gaelic in origin. "It is well
known" he says, " that the surname Ross has
always been rendered in Gaelic, Clan Aurias,
or Clan Gille Aurias." Here in America both
Ross and Rose are often derived from the
Dutch surnames, Roosa and Roos. It is not
improbably that Rose, in the case of the
family here dealt with, is derived from one
of these Dutch surnames, the trodden being
that it is of Holland decent.
(I) Jacob
Rose was born about the time of the
Revolutionary War, and was an agriculturist
of Ulster County, new York. Little is known
regarding the details of his life, but he
was a successful farmer, and was a man of
character and ability. He gathered together
a considerable competency, as represented in
the property he owned, and engaged to some
extent in vary commercial pursuits.
(II) John,
son of Jacob Rose, was born in Ulster
County, New York, in the early years of the
nineteenth century, died at Poughkeepsie,
Dutchess County, New York, at the age of
seventy-nine. He owned a goodly number of
acres, operated a farm, and at the same time
carried on the work of a blacksmith's shop.
He married Sybil, born in Ulster County, New
York, daughter of John Beaver. John Beaver
was one of the proprietors of the town of
Esopus, New York, and was a very wealthy man
in his day. He married a Miss Clark, who
came from an old New England family. Mrs.
Rose, who was a devout member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died at the age
of eighty-two. Children: 1. Hilend. 2.
Oscar. 3. Sally. 4. John C., mentioned
below. 5. Reuben. 6. Benjamin. 7.
Levi. 8. Frances.
(III) John
C., third son of John and Sybil (Beaver)
Rose, was born at Esopus, Ulster County, New
York, October 4, 1828, died in 1896. He was
one of the leading examples of the self-made
men of Orange County, and was proprietor of
the village and brickyards of Roseton, which
were situated about six miles north of the
city of Newburg on the West Shore Railroad.
His success was largely the result of his
idea that barges for transporting brick
could be constructed ina cheap and east
manner, and this plan he successfully
carried into effect. He owned sixteen brick
machines and had a bank of the finest clay
for the purpose. He was educated at the
district schools of his home neighborhood.
He continued to reside in Dutchess County
until 1865, when he removed with his family
to Haverstraw, where he embarked in the
manufacture of brick in partnership with his
brother, Hi-
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lend Rose. A year
later he sold out his interest and engaged
in the construction of barges for the
transportation of brick. the first barge
thus made was called the "Silas G. Mackay"
and the second "Hilend C. Rose", after which
many others were built in rapid succession.
In the year 1875 Mr. John C. Rose resumed
the manufacture of brick at Haverstraw where
he had six machines, and this plant he
continued to operate uninterruptedly until
1882, in which year he sold out. He was
then compelled through failing health to
travel in Europe for part of a year,
receiving great benefit. In the year 1883
he once more embarked in business near
Newburg, where he purchased a large tract of
land, buying out various parties, until he
owned nearly three hundred acres. His
sixteen brick machines had a capacity of
twenty-four thousand bricks per day each,
and the two engines which ran the same were
of one hundred and one hundred and seventy
horse power respectively. On an average
about forty million bricks were turned out
of the factory annually, the larger number
of them being shipped to New York City by
barges. After locating at Newburg Mr. rose
secured a postoffice, which was called in
his honor Roseton, and his son, Hilend C.,
was appointed first postmaster. Another
son, Albert, became an incumbent of the
postoffice. In 1884 the firm of Rose &
Company was incorporated with a capital of
ninety thousand dollars, Mr. John C. Rose,
being president and treasurer, and his son,
Hilend C., being vice-president, and
secretary. Mr. John C. Rose was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in which he
held various offices and was superintendent
of the Sunday School. He was active in the
ranks of the Prohibition Party; was a
trustee of the national funds, chairman of
the county committee, and helped to nominate
candidates for different offices of
importance.
He married
(first) Phoebe Myers, who died in 1879,
daughter of William Myers, a farmer in the
county. the marriage took place in 2856 in
Dutchess County, new York. He married
(second) at Marlboro, Ulster County, New
York, in the year 1873, Martha, daughter of
John B. and Maud (Barclay) Bailey. He
married (third) Martha Miller, Children by
first marriage: 1. Addie J., married Dr.
Seidler, of Newark, New Jersey. 2. Albert
Duane, deceased, married Madeline Sturter.
3. Hilend C., mentioned below. 4. Joseph
H., mentioned below.
(IV) Hilend
C., son of John c. and Phoebe (Myers) Rose,
was born at Haverstraw, New York, August 3,
1860, died September 22, 1894, at Newburg,
Orange County, New York. He was educated in
the public schools of Haverstraw, and by a
private tutor, Professor Davison, of
Yonkers, New York, an uncle of his future
wife. Early in life he became associated
with his father in the brick business, and
in 1883 he became a partner of his father
and began the manufacture of brick at what
is now Roseton. He was at one time
president of the company. He sold out his
interests in 1892 to the Rose family on
account of failing health. It was due
largely to his perseverance and skill that
the business of the company was built up to
its high standard at the time he retired in
1892. He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church (Union) at Newburg, and young as he
was at the time of his death was already a
well known and respected figure in his
community. He married, December 23, 1889,
Emma, daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Margaret
(West) Davison, of Nyack, New York, where
Dr. Davison was a well known and prominent
physician. There were two children of the
marriage: 1. Sybil, who died in infancy.
2. Hilend Clark, who is now attending the
Hotchkiss School.
(IV) Joseph
H., youngest son of John C., and Phoebe
(Myers) rose, was born at new Hamburg, New
York, September 2, 1865. He was educated in
the public schools of Haverstraw, and at the
Mountain Institute, Haverstraw. He became
associated with his father early in life in
the brick business and this continued until
the death of his father in 1896, when he
succeeded him as president of the firm. He
continued in this capacity until the year
1903, when he retired from active business
life. Mr. Joseph H. rose is a director of
the Newburg National Bank. He is a member
of the City and Powelton clubs; Hudson River
Lodge, No. 607, Free and Accepted Masons;
Highland Chapter, No. 52, Royal Arch Masons;
Hudson River Commandery, No. 35, Newburg;
and the Elks, No. 247. Mr. Rose married,
June 13, 1891, Mabel, daughter of Samuel
Corwin, of Marlboro, New York. There had
been one child of the marriage, Joseph H.
Jr.
RHINELANDER.
The surname is German in origin and in
its original form was written
"Rheinlander". Its obvious meaning was "a
native of the Rhineland", and it was
probably applied centuries ago to the
original bearer after he had emigrated to
the region around to some other German
speaking part of the European continent. It
is quite easy to surmise how such a surname
arose, being akin to its origin to family
names in German like "Englander", meaning
"the Englishman", "Spanier", meaning the
"Spaniard", the French "Allemand", meaning
"the German", and "Scott" meaning the
"Gael", and so on. It is obvious that the
name Rheinlander is German in origin, as the
family lived on the Rhone for centuries
before the French annexed it in the time of
the Louis, and it could only be a person
bearing the distinct and different national
characteristics of that region. In the same
way the surname "Scott" though English
itself must have been applied in the case of
the original bearer to one, who though
living in England, had come from some Gaelic
speaking part of what is now the United
Kingdom, and bearing the characteristics of
the Gael, for through Roman and mediaeval
times the term "Scoti" or "Scots" was
applied to the inhabitants of Ireland and of
Scotland indiscriminately, the singular form
"Scotus", meaning either "Irishman" or
"Scotsman" in old Latin. Names therefore
like Rhinelander and Scot, the one in
German, and the other in English, have an
exactly parallel origin, being at first a
sobriquet to distinguish a particular
individual, being then applied to his
children, and so becoming permanent and
hereditary. The name of Rhinelander has
been conspicuously identified with the past
two hundred years of New York's history.
(I) Philip
Jacob Rhinelander, the first of the
Rhinelander family in this country, was born
near the town of Ovberwesel, on the Rhine,
over which district France at that time held
sovereignty, and died about 1737, at New
Rochelle, Westchester County, new York. He
arrived in new York in the year 1686,
following the troubles arising from the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and
finally settled in New Rochelle, where he
acquired considerable property. His
children were: 1. Philip Jacob. 2.
Bernard, among whose children were: i.
William, born in 1745, married Hester Devaux
and had a daughter called Mary Magdalen, and
ii. Jacob, born October 27, 1740, dying
without issue, iii. William, mentioned
below.
(II)
William, son of Philip J. Rhinelander, was
born in New Rochelle, Westchester County,
New York, in 1718, died in New York City, in
1777, being buried in Trinity Church yard.
William Rhinelander established himself as a
merchant in New York City, and he is the
ancestor of the members of the Rhinelander
family who have been prominent. He
purchased and long resided in a house on
Spruce Street upon land which is still in
the possession of the family and which is
the oldest Rhinelander property in New
York. He was in the shipping and real
estate business, and established the
precedent of investing his estate in city
realty. He married Magdelan, daughter of
Stephen Renaud, of New Rochelle.
(III)
William (2), son of William (1) and Magdalen
(Renaud) Rhinelander, was born in New York,
in 1753, died in 1825. He was the trustee
of the family estate, and his like ancestors
and descendants was an extensive land
owner. He was his father's partner, while
the latter was in business, succeeding him
when he died, and continued his policy of
investing in city realty. In 1790 he
purchased the Cuyler sugar house in new
York, which was sold under forfeiture,
having been used as a British prison during
the Revolution, and succeeded in adding
greatly to the family fortunes as a buyer of
real estate. He married, in 1785, Mary,
daughter of Christopher and Mary (Dyer)
Robert, sister of Colonel Robert, a
Continental officer in the Revolution, and
great-granddaughter of Daniel Robert and
Susanna (Du Gailean) Robert, Huguenots, who
emigrated to America in 1686. She was also
the aunt of Christopher Rhinelander Robert,
who founded Robert College in
Constantinople. Children: 1. A daughter,
married Horatio Gates Stevens. 2. A
daughter, married Robert J. Renwick. 3.
Philip, married Mary Colden Hoffman. 4.
John Robert, married but left no issue. 5.
Frederick William whose son and grandson of
the same name were well known New Yorkers,
6. Bernard, married Nancy Post.
(IV) William
Christopher, son of William (2) and Mary
(Robert) Rhinelander, was born in New York
in 1790, died in 1878. The large estate
which e inherited was greatly
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increased by his
skillful management and wisdom in making
investments, his course being to follow the
family policy of holding and improving city
real estate. While the War of 1812 was
going on he served as quartermaster in
Colonel Stevens' regiment, and was
afterwards lieutenant. When in New York he
resided at 14 Washington Square. He
married, in 1816, Mary, daughter of John and
Mary (Pixton) Rogers, and granddaughter of
John Rogers, who married Mary Davenport,
sister of Benjamin Franklin. Children: 1.
Mary Rogers, married Lispenard Stewart. 2.
Julia, remained unmarred. 3. Serena,
remained unmarried. 4. William, mentioned
below.
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