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(III) Joseph,
second son of Isaac and Mary Halsey, was
born at Southampton, in 1668, died April 7,
1725, at Elizabeth, New Jersey, to which he
emigrated in 1694 .His will, dated November
4, 1723, proved April 20, 1725, is recorded
at Trenton, New Jersey, and names his nine
children, of whom mary was the oldest. He
lived at the Wheatsheaf Tavern, about midway
between Elizabeth and Rahway. He married,
probably, elizabeth Halsey. Children: 1.
Mary. 2. Daniel, lived at Elizabeth, new
Jersey and died about 1727. 3. Joshua. 5.
General Joseph, mentioned below. 6.
Elizabeth, born about 1697. 7. Anna, was
over twenty-one in 1723 at the time of her
father's death. 8. Isaac, under age in
1723. 9. Nathaniel, under age in 1723.
(IV) General
Joseph (2) Halsey, third son of Joseph (1)
and Elizabeth (Halsey) Halsey, was born
about 1795, died December 16, 1771.
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His will, dated June 1,
1765, was proved March 25, 1772, and is
recorded in Trenton, the secretary of
state's office. In it he manes his wife,
Abigail, his sons 1. Joseph, 2. Daniel 3.
Isaac; son-in-law, James Miller; daughters
4. Abigail Miller, 5. Rebecca Miller 6.
Sarah Conklin, 7. Hannah Miller, 8. Deborah
Magie, 9. Rachel. He married, (first)
Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Haines;
(second) a woman of the name of Abigail, who
died January 18, 1777, in her seventy-second
year. He and his second wife are buried in
the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, and there
are inscriptions referring to them on
tombstones at Elizabeth, New Jersey. he
lived near the Wheatsheaf Tavern, between
Rahway and elizabeth. Children: 1. Rebecca
Miller, born about 1728, died October 6,
1785. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3.
Sarah, married, 1754, Joshua Conklin, died
may 17, 1776, 4. Daniel, born 1739, died
November 16, 1801. 5. Isaac, born 1741,
died November 24, 1788. 6. Phebe, married
before 1761, Benjamin Crane, of Westfield.
7. Hannah, married (first) before 1772,
Benjamin Miller, married (second) General
William Crane, of Elizabeth, 8. Abigail,
married James Miller, of Piscataway. 9.
Rachel, born 1743, died March 20, 1783. 1-.
Deborah, married (fist) James Magie,
(second) Isaac Meeker, of New Providence.
11. Nancy, married John Hamilton.
(V) Joseph
(3), eldest son of General Joseph (2)
Halsey, was born in 1730, died July 9,
1813. He lived near the Wheatsheaf Tavern
until the time of his marriage, when he
removed to Springfield and was for fifty
years a ruling elder in the church of that
town. He married three times. His first
wife, born i1737, and the mother of all his
children, was Mary Armstrong, daughter of
John Armstrong, a Scotch-Irishman belonging
to Morristown. His second wife, who died
October 7, 1791, was Anna Van Arsdale,
daughter of the Rev. Jacob Van Arsdale, of
Springfield, and he was married to this lady
before 1789, for he then speaks of his wife
as "Anny." His third wife was Elizabeth
Ryerson, who survived him. His will, dated
January 7, 1812 and proved July 21, 1813,
names his sons Isaac, who is to provide for
his "mother-in-law" (his stepmother);
Daniel; John; his grandsons, Smith, Daniel,
Samuel; his grand-daughter, Abigail Burnet,
and others. Children: 1. Joseph, born
about 1751, died 1796 in New York City of
yellow fever. 2. Daniel, married, 1781,
Mrs. Moore, nee Elizabeth Pierson, of
Westfield. 3. Mary, born about 1753,
married Matthias Ross. 4. John, born
October 17, 1755, died May 19, 1827. 5.
Isaac, mentioned below. 6. Abigail, born
May 7, 1760, died October 10, 1784. 7.
Hannah, born October 17, 1761. 8. Rhoda,
born July 9, 1763.
(VI) Isaac
(2), fourth son of Joseph (3) and Mary
(Armstrong) Halsey, was born May 15, 1757,
died April 26, 1820, being buried at
Springfield, New Jersey. He was not of age
when the Revolutionary War broke out, but he
enlisted and served as a private for one
year, being quartered near Canada. He
enlisted in the winter of 1776 for one year,
under Captain Samuel Potter, in the third
battalion, commanded by Colonel Elias
Dayton, and marched to the frontier of
Canada. He was in the battle at Connecticut
Farms, June 6, 1780, and led his company at
the battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780.
He married, January 26, 1778, Sarah Smith,
born November 8, 1760, died July 19, 1847,
daughter of Walter Smith, a Hollander, who
owned a large tract of land at what is now
Short Hills. Children; 1. Mary, born
October 26, 1778, at Springfield, died April
24, 1876, at Newark. 2. David, June 18,
1781, died May 11, 1859. 3. Elizabeth, July
23, 1783, died September 7, 1832. 4.
William, December 21, 1785, died December 6,
1814. 5. Havilah Smith, August 3, 1788,
died June 21, 1868. 6. Isaac, May 1, 1791,
died May 29, 1791. 7. Isaac, December 9,
1792, died December 7, 1797. 8. Joseph
Armstrong, January 15, 1796, died January
27, 1884. 9. Samuel mentioned below.
(VII) Samuel,
youngest son of Isaac (2) and Sarah (Smith)
Halsey, was born at Springfield, Essex
County, October 11, 1801, died July 17,
1884, at Newark, New Jersey. he was for
many years a leading business man of
Newark. He remained at the homestead during
all his youth and early manhood and left
Springfield for Newark to become a member of
the firm of Pierson, Waldron & Halsey, who
were engaged in the southern clothing
trade. In 1848 he retired from this
business and established the leather
manufacturing trade firm of Halsey &
Taylor. Though averse to assume the
responsibilities of public office, he became
an alderman and served in that capacity for
two years. He was a director of the
Firemen's Insurance Company and for a time a
director of the Second Na-
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tional Bank. He
married November 23, 1825, Mary Hutchins,
born April 26, 1803, died May 27, 1882,
daughter of Abraham Hutchings. Children;
1. George Armstrong, born December 7, 1827,
married Caroline Connett, died April 1,
1894. 2. Silas Condit, mentioned below. 3.
Cornelia Utter, born March 18, 1837.
(VIII) Silas
Condit, second son of Samuel and Mary
(Hutchings) Halsey, was born September 26,
1829, at Springfield, New Jersey. When the
family came to Newark, he entered the
private school of the Rev. Dr. Weeks, and
later that of Dr. William Bradley. In 1852
he went to Petersburg with is cousin, Daniel
Halsey, to take care of the southern
business of his brother, returning in 1853.
With Robert M. Hunter and Daniel Halsey he
bought out the large business of John
McGregor and the firm of Halsey, Hunter &
Halsey was formed, which continued until
1875, when he withdrew from it. Governor
Charles S. Olden, August 22, 1862, appointed
Mr. Halsey aide-de-camp to General Cornelius
Van Vorst, commanding the rendezvous at Camp
Frelinghuysen, and he was later appointed
assistant quarter-master-general with the
rank of major. He was sent many times to
the front in Virginia with supplies for the
New Jersey troops and did valuable service
to the state and its soldiers. In 1889 he
was appointed by President Harrison United
States Consul at Sonneberg, the second
largest consulate in Germany. He married
(first), September 13, 1853, Frances Lothrop,
daughter of Charles Thompson Day. She died
October 31, 1866. He married (second),
November 3, 1875, Ella Louise, daughter of
Jesse O. Price, of Elizabeth. Children of
first wife: 1. Frank, born September 1,
1854, died May 8, 1855. 2. Charles Day,
mentioned below. Child of second wife, 3.
Jesse Hildreth, born December 28,
1870.
(IX) Charles
Day, second son of Silas Condit and Frances
Lothrop (Day) Halsey, was born September 20,
1865, in Newark, New Jersey. he was
educated at Princeton, Graduating in the
class of 1886 with the degree of civil
engineer. He served as assistant engineer
of the Pennsylvania railroad, at Jersey
City, from 1886 to 1894. He then formed the
firm of Toler & Halsey, Bankers, New York
Stock Exchange, succeeded in 1901 by the
firm of C. D. Halsey & Company, also
bankers, New York Stock Exchange. He was
one of the charter members of Essex Troop,
now First Troop of New Jersey, and served in
the same in the capacity of sergeant for
eight years. He is a member of the Union,
University, Racquet and Princeton clubs of
New York, and Rumson Country Club of Rumson,
New Jersey. In religion he is an
Episcopalian, and in politics a Republican.
He married, November 20, 1895, at
Burlington, New Jersey, Effie Van Rensselaer
Grubb, born in Burlington, New Jersey, July
3, 1870, daughter of Edward Bird and
Elizabeth Wadsworth (Van Rensselaer) Grubb,
and has three children: 1. Courtlandt Van
Rensselaer, born in New York City, October
11, 1896. 2. Charles Day, Jr., born in New
York City, January 9, 1900. 3. Elizabeth
Van Rensselaer, born in Seabright, New
Jersey, July 15, 1906.
Excerpt from
"The Story of the Bronx, 1639-1912," by
Stephen Jenkins, published by Putnam &
Sons.
A short distance this side of
the Bridge by which the Boston road crosses
the Hutchinson River, a pleasant road leads
down to the right to "Invermere" known in
ancient days as Hunts Landing. There is a
famous strawberry farm on this road a short
distance from the post-road. A few hundred
rods above rattlesnake Brook, the white
Plains road, now called Columbus Ave.,
branches off to the left and passes by the
ancient green in front of old St. Paul's,
its route being over the old Boston road in
1673 for some distance. As it sweeps down
the hill, it passes a gateway guarded by
quaint and imposing white posts. This is
the entrance to the Halsey place, which was
the executive mansion of President John
Adams, in October and November, 1797,
several of his letters being dated from
"Eastchester.' During that year,
Philadelphia, the federal capital, was
visited by yellow fever, and Adams took up
his residence in the Halsey House, then
occupied by his daughter Abigail and her
husband, Col. Wm. Smith. During the
Revolution, the communion service, the Bible
and other valuables presented to St. Paul's
church by Queen Anne, were buried upon this
property and dug up after the war; this was
to prevent them from being looted by the
British, who used the church about half a
mile above the hospital and who frequently
occupied this section in force, so that it
thus became the scene of many a raid and
warlike encounter. At the time of the
Revolution, this house was occupied by the
Vincents, the smith of the village of
Eastchester.
BRINK.
The Brink family of America, except those
who have come with the recent Holland
emigration since 1846, is descended from
Lambert Huybertse Brink, who arrived in New
Amsterdam from Wagening (Wageningen), in the
Neth-
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erlands, in 1659.
Wageningen is a town on the right bank of
the Rhine in Gelderland. It is about twelve
miles from Arnheim. It contains the state
agricultural college and the school for
printing. The Brink family is very numerous
in the Netherlands. The name is found in
various forms, as van den Brink, (of the
Brink); van Brink (of Brink); Ten Brink (the
Brink); Brinklhuis (Brink house); Brink
horst (Brink grove); Brinkenberg (Mount
Brink); Brinkerhoff ( a paved square);
Dolderbrink (valley Brink). The word Brink
means park, square, or village green. The
arms of the family are thus described: "d'argent
au boeuf de guenles, corne d'or, march ant
sur une terrassede sinople. Bourlet et
lambrequens d'argent et de gueules. Cinier:
une corbelle d'or en sortent des flamines de
feit."
(I) Lambert
Huybertse Brink, immigrant ancestor of the
Brink family, arrived in New Amsterdam,
December, 1659, with the "Geelove" (Faith).
The entry upon the ship's books is "Lambert
Huybertse from Wagening (Wageningen), wife
and two children." to these must be added a
son, Cornelis, born on the voyage. In 1662
he leased for five years certain lands at
Hurley, and at the expiration of the lease
in 1667 purchased these and other parcels
there and in Marbletown. His name
frequently appears in the records of the
schout's court in various capacities, and he
is a witness to the Indian treaty made in
Hurley in 1677, upon which the new Paltz
patent is based. His name is also signed as
a witness twice to the renewals of the
celebrated Indian treaty negotiated in 1665
by governor Nichols. He was one of the
protecting burghers at what Governor Nichols
called "the mutiny of the Esopus" in 1667
and one of the inhabitants of the Esopus,
who petitioned Governor Sir Edward Andros in
1680 that a minister be sent there. His
wife and children were captured at the
burning of Hurley by the Indians, June 7,
1663, and held in captivity three months;
and he served as a soldier in Captain Henry
Pawling's company in 1670. On April 27,
1689, he made over to his sons, Huybert and
Pieter, three hundred and twenty-four acres
of land in Hurley, and March 9, 1702, he
conveys to Cornelis Cool, his son-in-law,
sixty-three acres "at Hurley, along the
Esopus." On February 12, 1696, he made and
executed his last will and testament, which
will was proved April 11, 1702. He married,
while in the Netherlands, Hendrickje
Cornelisse. Children: 1. Huybert, born in
Wageningen, Gelderland; married, March 16,
1679, Hendrickkje Swartwout, of Nieu
Albanien (Albany), both residing in Hurley
and married at Hurley. 2. Jannetje, born in
Wageningen; married Cornelis Cool; resided
at Hurley. 3. Cornelis, born at sea on the
voyage to America, baptized in New
Amsterdam, May 4, 1661; married Marijken
Egbertse Meynderse, daughter of Egbertse
Meynderse, and Jaepie Jans. 4. Hendrick,
born in Hurley, baptized at Kingston,
December 5, 1663; married Geesje Jansen. 5.
Lysbet, born in Hurley, baptized in
Kingston, February 14, 1666; married Arien
Gerretsen, October 17, 1686. 6. Gerret,
born in Hurley, married Antje Hoogland. 7.
Pieter mentioned below.
(II) Pieter,
youngest son of Lambert Huybertse and
Hendrickje (Cornelissse) Brink, was born at
Hurley, New York, baptized at Kingston, June
26, 1670. He married Geertruy Marthysen
Teunissen Newkirk. Children: 1. Hendrick,
baptized April 23, 1693. 2. Matheus,
baptized June 9, 1695. 3. Cornelis, born
July 25, 1697. 4. Lambert, mentioned below.
5. Lambertus, January 15, 1702. 6. Antje,
April 2, 1704. 7. Lysbet, August 11, 1706.
8. Gerrit, September 18, 1709. 9. Johannes,
May 1, 1712. 10. Helena, November 7, 1714.
(III)
Lambert, son of Pieter and Geertruy
Marthysen Teunissen (Newkirk) Brink, was
born November 26, 1699. He married Rachel
du Mond, may 14, 1723. She was the daughter
of Walraen du Mond, and Catherine ter Bos,
and was baptized June 5, 1698. Lambert Brink
was the collector of the town of Hurley in
1727. Children: 1. Cornelis, mentioned
below. 2. Catrina, baptized January 22,
1727. 3. Petrus, October 12, 1729, a
soldier of the Revolution. 4. Johannes, May
27, 1733. 5. Johannes, August 14, 1737. 6.
Henderikus, May 18, 1740, a soldier of the
Revolution. 7. Janneken, March 21, 1742.
(IV) Cornelis,
son of Lambert and Rachel (du Mond) Brink,
was born at Hurley, New York, baptized
august 23, 1724, resided in Mormeltown (Marbletown).
He was a soldier in the Revolution, though
over fifty when the war broke out; he was an
elder in the Marbletown church in the years
1761-68, 1779. He married, September 10,
1743, Marretjen Beatty, baptized march 19,
1721, daughter of
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Robert and Bata (Middag)
Bettes (Beatty). Children: 1. John,
mentioned below. 2. Annatje, baptized July
27, 1746. 3. Egbert, April 21, 1751. 4.
Jacob, July 15, 1764.
(V) John, son
of Cornelis and Marretjen (Beatty) Brink,
was born at Rhinebeck, New York, October 1,
1744, baptized at Kingston, 1814. He was
usually known as John Brink Jr. he was a
soldier in the Revolution and served in the
First Regiment, Ulster County militia,
during the Revolution, and also in the
fourth Regiment, and was afterwards a
trooper in Captain Sylvester Salisbury's
Light Horse Company in the same year. He was
at Saratoga at the surrender of Burgoyne.
He resided at Saugerties on the bank of the
Hudson, immediately opposite Clermont, the
home of Chancellor Robert Livingston, and
was in partnership with him in certain
Ulster County real estate transactions. His
son, Robert, was named after the
chancellor. He married Margaret, daughter
of Wilhelmus and Hellitje (Schoonmaker)
Burhans. Children: 1. Andrew, mentioned
below. 2. William, baptized April 25, 1778,
died young. 3. Maria, August 13, 1780, died
April 1, 1858. 4. William, January 5, 1783,
died July 12, 1832. 5. Robert Livington,
November 3, 1785, died April 27, 1852. 6.
James, October 18, 1787, died August 5,
1858. 7. Margaret, May 8, 1790, died June
24, 1870. 8. Ann, February 23, 1793, died
November 28, 1864.
(VI) Andrew,
son of John and Margaret (Burhans) Brink,
was born at Saugerties, New York, December
26, 1774, died July 31, 1832. He was a
soldier in the War of 1812. He commanded
the "Clermont" of Robert Fulton upon her
famous first voyage and for some time
thereafter. He was an elder in the Katsbaan
Church in 1818 and again in 1822. He
married Anna Persen, born may 28, 1786, died
September 25, 1845, daughter of Cornelius
and Elizabeth (Masten) Persen. Children:
1. Margaret, born January 20, 1807, died
April 8, 1886. 2. Eliza, October 30, 1808,
died, unmarred, August 28, 1866. 3. Ann,
September 5, 1810, died May 21, 1901. 4.
Cornelis or Cornelius Persen mentioned
below. 5. Edward, March 24, 1814, died June
7, 1877. 6. Henry, July 26, 1820, died,
unmarried September 2, 1872. 7. John
Andrew, June 13, 1823, died December 12,
1853.
(VII)
Cornelis or Cornelius Persen, son of Andrew
and Anna (Persen) Brink, was born at
Saugerties, New York, June 4, 1812, died
January 1, 1884. He was a farmer, for many
years justice of the peace, and twice
coroner of the county. He was adjutant in
the militia of Ulster County and was a
member of the Reformed Church in America and
often in its eldership. In politics Mr.
Brink was a Democrat. He married Louisa,
daughter of Benjamin C. and Rachel Myer,
(see Myer IV). Children: 1 Benjamin Myer,
mentioned below. 2. Edward, born September
28, 1849. 3. John Andrew, born January 30,
1853, for the last eighteen years of his
life residing in Ormond, Florida, where he
died, unmarried, May 22, 1895.
(VIII)
Benjamin Myer, son of Cornelis or Cornelius
Persen and Louisa (Myer) Brink, was born at
Saugerties, New York, December 12, 1847. He
was educated in the Saugerties schools,
being graduated from the Saugerties Academy,
in 1861. He was a farmer early in life, and
then successively a school teacher,
journalist, editor of the Kingston Daily
Leader, editor of the Kingston Argus,
and editor and publisher of Olde Ulster,
a historical and genealogical magazine,
founded in 1905 and conducted by him to the
present time. Mr. Brink is also author of
"The Early History of Saugerties," published
in June, 1902. He was a director in
Saugerties national Bank from about 1880 to
removal to Kingston, and thereafter until
1895. His political convictions and
affiliations were those of a Democrat, until
1896, but he has since been independent,
with Democratic preferences. In religion,
he is a member of the Reformed Church in
America, the Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church. He does not belong to any clubs,
but he is a member of the Holland Society of
New York. He married (first) at Katsbaan,
town of Saugerties, June 10, 1874, Cora,
daughter of Christian Myer and Mahala (Myer)
Wells, born at Saugerties, New York, July
24, 1843; married (second) at Weehawken, New
Jersey, June 1, 1909, Ella, daughter of John
Henry and Mary C. (Myer) Field, born at
Saugerties, New York, February 6, 1866.
Children by first marriage: 1. Henry Wells,
born July 3, 1875; graduate of Kingston
Academy, 1892; Rutgers College, 1896; New
Brunswick Seminary, 1899; pastor of the
Reformed Church, New Hempstead, Rockland
County, New York, 1899 to 1906; Skokan,
Ulster County, up to the present time,
dating
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from 1906. 2. Louise,
born October 14, 1876; graduated from
Kingston Academy, in 1894 and from Vassar
College in 1898; she was a teacher in Amoy,
China, from 1899 to 1902 but from the latter
date has resided in America. 3. Persen
Myer, born January 30, 1879; graduated from
Kingston Academy in 1896, and from Rutgers
College in 1900; he is a civil engineer by
profession and is now in charge of one of
the departments of Westchester Fire
Insurance Company in New York in the home
office.
(The Meyer or Myer Line).
The surname,
Myer, is German or Dutch, being simply an
anglicized form of the Teuton name, rendered
into English according to the pronunciation
in that tongue.
(I) Christian
Meyer, or Myer, the immigrant ancestor of
the Meyer or Myer family, was born march 14,
1688, died January 5, 1781. He came to
America with the Palatine emigration in
1710, arriving in New York with Governor
Robert Hunter, June 24, of that year. He
became one of the freeholders of Kingston,
was an ardent Whig, staunch patriot and
supporter of the Revolutionary cause, to
which he contributed twenty-five of his sons
and grandsons as soldiers. He married in
1710, Ann Geertruy Theunyes, born May 15,
1690, died January 9, 1766, who came with
him to America. Both are buried in the old
burial ground on the Christian Meyer farm at
Churchland, Saugerties, New York.
Children: 1. Maria Elizabeth. 2. John
Wilhelm, mentioned below. 3. Johan Peter.
4. Anna Christina. 5. Catharina. 6.
Johannes. 7. Catrina. 8. Stephanus. 9.
Christian. 10. Gurtien. 11. Benjamin.
12. Petrus. 13. Tobias.
(II) John
Wilhelm, son of Christian and Ann Geertruy (Theunyes)
Meyer, was born at West Camp, New York,
February 13, 1714, died September 12, 1794.
He was a member of Captain John Persen's
company of foot in the militia of the
corporation of Kingston in 1738. He married
Sarah Newkirk. Children: 1. Christian. 2.
Christina (2), mentioned below. 3. Altien.
4. Henricus. 5. Maria. 6. Johannes. 7.
Petrus. 8. Tobias. 9. Leah. 10. Benjamin.
11. Samuel.
(III)
Christian Myer, son of John Wilhelm and
Sarah (Newkirk) Meyer, was born at
Saugerties, Ulster County, New York, august
24, 1739, died May 31, 1817. At the battle
of Saratoga, he served under General Gates
as an ambulance driver, using his own horse
and wagon, in which he and his brother,
Johannes, had driven to Saratoga. He was
second lieutenant of Captain David Abeel's
company, Eleventh Regiment of Albany
Militia. He married Annatje, daughter of
Captain Tobias Waynkoop. Children: 1.
Cornelius. 2. Jonathan. 3. Hendricus. 4.
Leah. 5. Sarah. 6. Hezekiah. 7. Catharina.
8. Mary. 9. Annetje. 10. Jannetje. 11.
Benjamin, C., mentioned below.
(IV) Benjamin
C., son of Christian and Annetje (Waynkoop)
Myer, was born December 19, 1787, died
September 22, 1830. By occupation he was a
farmer. He married, September 23, 1810,
Rachel. Born November 8, 1783, died may 14,
1855, daughter of Johannes and Leletje
(Snyder) Meyer. Children: 1. Gerrit
Myderse. 2. Louisa, born May 3, 1814, died
July 23, 1890, married Cornelis or Cornelius
Person Brink (see Brink VII).
MONTANYE.
This surname is simply Montagne written
phonetically, that is according to the way
French names so written are pronounced in
English. The name is Norman-French in
origin, having been formerly De la Montagne,
showing it to have been originally borne by
a family whose name had been derived simply
from their proximity to a mountain. The
derivation of names from places and their
peculiarities was common among the French,
particularly among the well-to-do classes.
In America the prefixes "De la" have
commonly been regarded as encumbrances and
been dropped, though they have been retained
in some cases.
(I) Dr. Jean
or Johannes De la Montague, said to be son
of Maison de la Montagne, of Haugesedoc,
France, the immigrant ancestor and founder
of the American family bearing the name, was
born in 1506 in Saintes, Province Santonge,
France and studied medicine in the
University of Leyden. He died in Kingston,
Ulster County, New York, in 1670. While at
Leyden he boarded with his brothers at the
house of Isaac de Forrest, who organized the
first settlement of New York in 1623. The
parents of Jean de la Montagne are thought
to have belonged to the aristocratic class
in France, residing in what is now the
department of Charemte Imperieure, a
province in the western part of France, in
the vicinity of the Bay of Biscay. The
instructor of De la Montagne was the learned
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Heurnius, and he was
registered as a student, November, 19, 1619,
in the Latin style as Johannes Marcetius
Montanus. He was called Dr. Johannes La
Montagne, a Santo, that is of the province
of Santonge. When de Forrest organized the
first settlement of New York in 1623
Montagne was thought to be with him. De
Forrest died a few years after an his widow
and children returned to Leyden. Montagne
married their daughter Rachel in Leyden,
November 27, 1626, and came to New York in
1637. He was councilor for New Netherlands
form 1628 to 1656. Montagne was a welcome
and valuable addition to the colonies, and
proving skillful in his profession, he soon
rose in public favor. He was commander at
Manhattan Island from 1640 to 1645, and was
sent to the defense of Fort Good Hope in
1641. He was a member of the Stuyvesant's
council from 1647 to 1656, and from 1656 to
1664 he was vice-director of Fort Orange.
Two other offices held by him were as member
of the convention of 1653 and commissioner
of fortifications in 1654. At the death of
his first wife, Rachel de Forrest, he
married the widow, Agnes Stam, in 1647. The
children of Jean and Rachel (de Forrest) de
la Montagne were: 1. Jolant, born at Leyden,
died young. 2. Jesse, born at Leyden, died
in 1647. 3. John, mentioned below. 4.
Rachel, born 1634; married Dr. Gysbert van
Imbrock; died 1664. 5. Maria, born on
voyage, 1637; married Jacob Kipp. 6.
William, born 1641; married Eleonora de
Hooges. 7. Gillis, born 1650, died young.
8. Jesse, born 1653, died young.
(II) John,
third son of Dr. Jean and Rachel (de
Forrest) De la Montagne, was born at Leyden
in 1632, died at new York, or New Amsterdam,
as the city was then called, in 1672. In
the records he first appears as Jean Monier
de la Montagne, Junior, later as Jan La
Montagne, Junior. He early joined the
church in New Amsterdam, where in 1652 he
taught school for a few months under an
appointment from the directors in Holland.
Sometime after this he was made commissioner
of accounts, a position which he held for a
bout a year. Entering into a partnership in
trade, with Vincent Pike in 1654, he sailed
for Holland, and returning alone to this
country in 1655, he bought a residence and
arranged for the coming of his wife from
Holland, where he had made her acquaintance
during his trip. On the institution of the
burgher right John's name was the first
enrolled on the list of Great Burghers,
April 10, 1657. That year he was a farmer
of the retail excise, and was made fire
warden, December 23, 1658. He removed to
Harlem in 1660, being chosen deacon, and he
was and he was busy there during the next
winter, when he "bought a horse with a
saddle and bridle for three hundred builders
in good strong current wampum." During the
latter part of his life he served as schout,
secretary and vorleser. He acquired the
property known as the Point, before granted
to his father, but he left the village two
years after, getting permission to build
there. While in Holland, he married (first)
Peternella Pike, daughter of Vincent Pike,
his trading partner, and (second) Maria,
daughter of Isaac Vermilye, June 10, 1663.
His children were: 1. John, born 1655, died
1730; married (first) Annette Waldron,
(second) Elizabeth Blarm. 2. Vincent,
mentioned below. 3. Nicarius, born 1659,
died 1703; married Christina Roosevelt. 4.
Abraham, born 1664, died 1734; married
(first) Rebecca Idens, (second) Aeltee
Hoogland. 5. Jelente, born 1669, died 1725;
married Bosteaen Kortnight. 6. Isaac, born
1669, died 1703; married Ester Van Voorst.
7. Peternella, born 1671; married Peter
See. 8. Johanna, born 1673; married
Johannes Vredenburg. |
