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(II) Adrian, son of Jan Cornelissen
Vermeule, was born about 1665-68 in Holland,
and was educated with the ministry in view.
He joined the church in Vlissengen, October
1, 1686. His friend, the Rev. Guillaem
Bertholf, who married Adrian's cousin,
Martuintie Henddricx Vermeule Verwey, was a
famous evangelist and church organizer, and
was for many years the pastor at Hackensack,
New Jersey. In May, 1688, he had a child
baptized at the New Amsterdam Church.
Bertholf returned to Holland to be ordained
at Middleburgh, and persuaded his friend,
Adrian Vermeule, to visit this country.
They arrived about 1694, and Vermeule, being
an educated man, was induced to remain and
accept the position of voorleser and town
clerk at new Harlem, where he witnessed a
document in 1699. He served as town clerk
and voorleser until 1708. Some of the New
Harlem town documents are sealed with
Adrian's private seal, bearing the Vermeule
coat-of-arms. In 1707 the church at Bergen,
New Jersey, invited him to settle there as
teacher and voorleser, which he did,
officiating for the first time, February 8,
1708. In the absence of a settled clergyman
he conducted the religious service, acting
every Sunday morning at Bergen and on
alternate Sundays in the afternoon at
Communipaw and Harsamus. He was teacher,
both secular and religious, and on May 11,
1708, laid he cornerstone of a new stone
building to accommodate the secular school.
This was first occupied in its finished
state, October 3, 1710. For his services
Adrian received a salary of about six
hundred florins per year, and from December,
1712, to April 28, 1717, he also kept the
journals of the deaconry, for which he
received an additional annual recompense of
twelve florins. He evidently had some
considerable private means in addition,
however, and was not dependent upon his
salary. He was a brother-in-law of Dirck
Cadmus, of Pamrapaught, and they remained
fast friends until Adrians' death. He died
in the latter part of 1735 or early part of
1736, and during his twenty-seven years of
service at Bergen seventy-nine members were
added to the church. He married, or
published the bans of some fifty couples,
stood at the side of sixty-nine death beds,
and comforted many of the ill and sorrowing
members of that early settlement. In 1735
he purchased a large tract of land in
Plainfield, New Jersey, on which his two
sons settled and where his descendants
continued for several generations.
He married
(first), May 30, 1690, at Vlissengen,
Holland, Dinah Swarts, who had one child
that died in infancy in 1692. The death of
his wife and child probably caused the loss
of health and need for diversion which led
to his visiting America with Dominie
Bertholf in 1694, for it was this, and not
permanent settlement, which he had in mind
when he came. He married (second), at
Bergen, July 1, 1708, Christina Fredericks
Cadmus, born at Bergen, and their three
children were born there, viz.: 1.
Frederick, May 20, 1709, 2. Leuntje, April
8, 1712, 3. Cornelius, mentioned below. The
elder son died unmarried July 13, 1796. He
resided with his brother on the plantation
purchased by their father at Plainfield.
(III)
Cornelius, junior son of Adrian and
Christina Fredericks (Cadmus) Vermeule, was
born April 2, 1716, at Bergen, died March
15, 1784, at Plainfield. He was a member of
the provincial congress and council of
safety in 1775 at the outbreak of the
Revolution. He was a devout man and an
elder of the Raritan Church, at Van Vechtens
Bridge, but also an active man of affairs
and an ardent patriot. His four sons served
in the militia during the Revolutionary War,
and his first born, Adrian, no
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doubt as a punishment
for the father's patriotism activities, and
to his great grief, was captured by the
British in January, 1777, and died a
prisoner in the Sugar House in New York two
months later. Washington occasionally
visited the homestead, and the officers of
one of his regiments were the guests of
Cornelius one entire winter. That Washington
and his officers were not unmindful of this
experience is evidenced by the act that in
1799, when war with France was threatened,
the government purchased a part of the
Vermeule plantation for a permanent camp,
and by the further fact that in 1814, a
grandson, Cornelius, was entertained at
Mount Vernon by Judge Washington (the
General being then dead) and has left an
interesting account of his visit. Cornelius
prospered, his plantation grew to full one
thousand two hundred acres, and was manned
by a goodly company of slaves.
He married
Mary Marcelis, born 1720, died May 1, 1766.
Children: 1. Adrian, born February 21,
1766, died March 9, 1777. 2. Garrity,
September 4, 1744, died August 27, 1864. 3.
Eder, January 4, 1748, died April 5, 1828.
4. Frederick, February 8, 1751, died March
13, 1830. 5. Christine, November 4, 1754,
died November 4, 1779. 6. Cornelius,
mentioned below. 7. Dinah, September 25,
1759, died February 10, 1825. The last name
married Richard Field and died without
issue. The other daughters died unmarried.
(IV) Captain
Cornelius (2) Vermeule, fourth son of
Cornelius (1) and Mary (Marcelis) Vermeule,
was born June 30, 1757, at Plainfield, died
there October 11, 1823. He remained upon
the homestead plantation, which he called
"Warren Plains," after General Joseph
Warren, whom he greatly admired, and for
whom he also named a son. He enlisted in
the Somerset militia when eighteen yeas old,
became captain and won the hand of his
colonel's daughter. The regiment fought at
Monmouth, and its service was most arduous
during the war. A letter from Colonel Dirck
Middagh's daughter says that for months her
father was scarcely at home at all. He
spent a goodly fortune in the cause of his
country. Captain Cornelius Vermeule
remained with his company until 1802, when
he resigned after twenty-seven years'
service.
He married,
February 14, 1781, Elizabeth, daughter of
Colonel Richard Middagh, born 1764, who died
July 9, 1849. Children: 1. Richard Middagh,
born January 27, 1783, died February 8,
1861. 2. Dinah, January 26, 1785, died
October 17, 1867. 3. Cornelius, January 27,
1787, died January 15, 1859. 4. Margaret,
1789, died December 17, 1856. 5. Frederick,
1791, died January 30, 1865. 6. Isaac
Davis, mentioned below. 7. Judith Middagh,
September 30, 1795, died February 22, 1881.
8. John Marsellis, August 8, 1800, died
March 15, 1877. 9. Field, September, 1803,
died February 26, 1877. 10. Warren, March
1, 1806, died March 9, 1861. All of these
married and left issue except Frederick.
He gave all
of his large family a liberal education. Of
his seven sons, four were physicians. Drs.
Richard M., Field and Warren practiced in
New York when the Bowery was the fashionable
quarter, and Dr. John Marcellis in
Plainfield. His son, Cornelius, for a time
a professor at Rutgers College (1814), was
for many years pastor of the Reformed Church
at Harlem, another, Frederick, was educated
for the ministry, but his health failed.
His daughter, Judith M., a woman of much
literary ability, became the wife of Rev.
Dr. James Philips, a professor at the
University of North Carolina, and the mother
of Rev. Charles Phillips, also a professor
there; Samuel Phillips, a prominent lawyer
of Washington, D. C., and solicitor of the
court of claims, following the Civil War;
and Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a historian
and poet who received a degree of LL.D., an
honor then unusual for a woman. Judith M.
Vermeule, after her father's death, pleaded
earnestly with his executors for the release
of his slaves in New Jersey. Her pleased
are still extant, yet thirty-five years
later, in her old age, she found herself, by
environment and all natural ties, a
Confederate, on the side of the south,
although one son espoused the northern
cause. That through this unusual and trying
experience her thoughts went back to her
girlhood home at Plainfield is evidenced by
some touchingly reminiscent letters to her
northern kin, from whom she was for several
years cut off by the war. Captain Cornelius
Vermeule's other daughter, Margaret, married
John Clarkson, and became the mother of Dr.
Cornelius Vermeule
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Clarkson, a prominent
New York City physician, and Dr. Frederick
V. Clarkson, who also practiced in New
York. The foregoing is certainly an unusual
professional record for a single family of
children.
(V) Isaac
Davis, fourth son of Captain Cornelius (2)
and Elizabeth (Middagh) Vermeule, was born
at Warren Plains, September 7, 1793, died
near by, at New Market, December 7, 1822.
He married, January 30, 1818, at Fieldville,
New Jersey, Mary field, born December 8,
1796, daughter of Dennis Field, and a sister
of Judge John D. Field. Her's was a
prominent family of that part of New
Jersey. He set up his home near the
homestead, at Warren Plains, but died four
years afterward of typhoid fever. He is
described as a well educated, tall young
man, of striking appearance. Children: 1.
Dennis Field, born December 29, 1818. 2.
Adrian, mentioned below. 3. Mary Elizabeth,
January 2, 1823.
(VI) Adrian
(2), second son of Isaac Davis and Mary
(Field) Vermeule, was born October 13, 1820,
at New Market, New Jersey, died May 15,
1903, at New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was
an architect and builder at Plainfield and
New Market. Later he purchased a large and
beautiful tract of land known as Landing
Farms, near New Brunswick, and brought it to
a high state of cultivation. It is still in
the possession of the family. He also
carried on a coal and grain business at New
Brunswick, was a director of local banks and
corporations, and was charged with the
settlement of several estates. He was long
an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Bound
Brook, and later in the Second Reformed
Church of New Brunswick. He was a man of
uncompromising integrity, a wise counselor,
a genial friend and neighbor, although never
a candidate for public office. The loss of
his father while he was an infant, rendered
still worse by the fact that but little of
his grandfather's property came to his
mother, constituted a serious handicap, but
he overcame it by perseverance, acquired a
good education before reaching manhood, and
won the respect and confidence of the
community in which he lived.
He married,
June 3, 1852, at Six Mile Run, New Jersey,
Maria Veghte, born there April 6, 1825,
daughter of Nicholas and Cornelia (Beekman)
Veghte, and connected with the oldest Dutch
stock of America. Children: 1. Georgiana.
2. Dennis Field. 3. Cornelius Clarkson,
mentioned below. 4. Cornelia. 5. Adrian,
all of whom are still living. The daughters
and youngest son are unmarried. The elder
son married Amy Kline Field and has
children: Edyth and Roy Field.
(VII)
Cornelius Clarkson, second son of Adrian (2)
and Maria (Veghte) Vermeule, was born
September 5, 1858, at New Brunswick, New
Jersey. he was fitted for college at the
Rutgers Preparatory School, following which
he spent four years as a student in the
engineering course at Rutgers college, new
Brunswick, graduating in June, 1878, with
the degree of B. S. and receiving the degree
of C. E. for progress in his profession
three years later. After graduation he was
immediately employed on the New Jersey State
Survey, of which he became engineer in
charge in 1879. This work he completed with
marked success in 1888. It was pioneer work
of its kind in this country, and its
successful organization and execution by so
young a man as Mr. Vermeule then was,
attracted much favorable comment. He has
continued with the State as consulting
engineer to the present time, and has
investigated and reported upon water supply,
water power, drainage, inland water ways,
the effect of forests upon streams, the
improvement of harbors and other matters
referred to him, in a long series of
valuable official reports. He is widely
known as an authority in hydraulic and
sanitary matters. Since 1888 he had
conducted an extensive engineering practice,
with an office in New York City, operating
throughout the New England, Middle and
Southern States, and in Cuba. After an
arduous campaign in Havana and Washington in
1908, he persuaded the government to
rehabilitate important works of sanitation
at Cienfuegos, Cuba, which work had been
seriously interfered with by the
insurrection and intervention of two years
before. He founded York Cliffs, a summer
resort in Maine in 1892. While leading an
active, practical life, Mr. Vermeule finds
time for literary culture and historic
research. He is a public-spirited supporter
of all municipal, state and national
measures for sanitation or other
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economic or social
betterment. He is independent in politics.
He resides at East Orange, New Jersey, and
is identified with the Presbyterian Church.
He is a member of the Century Club and the
Holland Society of New York, the New England
Society of Orange, the New Jersey Historical
Society, the Newark Board of Trade, and the
American Water Works Association.
He married,
June 7, 1888, in New York City, Mary
Caroline Carpenter, born in Newburg, New
York, daughter of Colonel Horatio and Alida
Carpenter Reed. Colonel Horatio Reed served
through the Civil War with distinction, and
became colonel of the Fifth United States
Artillery. At the close of the war his
regiment garrisoned Fortress Monroe, when
Jefferson Davis was in custody there, and
between his and the Davis family a mutual
regard resulted. He was subsequently a
Pasha in the Egyptian Army, which position
he was compelled to resign on account of ill
health. His children were: 1. Mary
Caroline, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin,
died young. 3. William Warren. Children of
Cornelius C. Vermeule: i. Cornelius
Clarkson and ii. Warren Carpenter. Both are
now engaged in preparation for college at
Cartaret Academy, Orange, New Jersey.
GRIFFIN.
There appears to have been a large number of
early settlers in America bearing the name
of Griffin. Savage's "Genealogical
Dictionary" mentions seventeen emigrants of
this name who arrived in America between the
years of 1641 and 1700.
The ancestry
of the Griffin family to whom this sketch
refers, can be traced to Major Jasper
Griffin, who was born in Wales, in 1648. He
settled first in Essex County,
Massachusetts, in 1670, and the records show
that in 1674 he was a resident of
Marblehead, Massachusetts. He brought with
him to America the griffin coat-of-arms, on
which is inscribed the motto, Semper
paratus--"Always Ready", and in
consulting the biographies of several
descendants of Jasper Griffin it is a
noteworthy fact that the family motto has
invariably been lived up to.
In 1675,
Jasper Griffin, with his wife and three
children, removed to Southold, Suffolk
County, Long Island, where he acquired a
large tract of land. He was a farmer of
considerable importance and was appointed
major of the provincial troops. A street in
Southold still bears his name, and it was
here that he died, April 17, 1718.
Among the
children of Jasper Griffin was a son Edward,
who was married at Southold, and had
children who settled near White Plains,
Westchester County, New York. among them was
John Griffin, who left numerous
descendants. Of these, Charles Griffin, who
married Mary Brewer, is the direct
descendant of George Griffin, the principal
subject of this review. The children of
Charles and Mary (Brewer) Griffin were: 1.
Cornelius. 2. Charles. 3. William. 4.
Milton. 5. Nelson, and 6. Edward.
Milton
Griffin, fourth son of Charles, was born in
Westchester County, New York, July 13,
1812. In early manhood he moved Dutchess
County, locating at New Hamburgh, New York.
Here he operated and owned the largest lime
kilns along the Hudson river, distributing
his products in his own vessels to the
various water markets. He married, Mary E.,
daughter of John and Elizabeth De Groot,
descendants of an old French Huguenot family
of Ulster County. Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Griffin were devout Methodists, and
contributed liberally to the cost of
building the Methodist Episcopal Church at
New Hamburgh. In their family were 1.
Austin, 2. Maria, 3. Jennie, 4. Gertrude, 5.
Mamie, 6. Lewis, 7. Milton, and 8. George.
George, son of Milton and Mary E. (De Groot)
Griffin, was born at New Hamburgh, New York,
in 1854, and died at his home in Dutchess
County, may 29, 1910. After completing his
studies at the public schools he located on
Staten Island, where with Lewis St. John he
was extensively engaged in the shipbuilding
business, in which he achieved an unusual
degree of success. Mr. Griffin married, in
1880, at Staten Island, Miss Catherine Wait,
and the following children were born: 1.
Mamie, who married Austin B. Hitchcock, of
the town of Wappinger. 2. Eloise, married
Jacob T. Tompkins, of the town of Fishkill.
3. Bessie W.. 4. George L., all now
living. In 1897 Mr. Griffin decided to
retire from active business life, and
removed with his family to his native county
of Dutchess, where he
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engaged in the
cultivation of a farm until the close of his
life as noted above.
HOLLISTER.
It is not possible to state outright the
derivation of the family name of Hollister.
There is a variety in the explanation, none
of which may be selected as the correct one
with certainty, but nevertheless they do
explain. One forms the name "holly" and
"terra", meaning a land where the holly-tree
abounds, and this is pointed out as a fair
reason, for in Somersetshire, England, where
such trees do grow abundantly, there is a
place called Hollister. On the other hand,
such a combination is a hybrids, yet hybrids
in name and words do exist and not
uncommonly, too. "Holly" is an English
word, while "terra" is of the Latin. In
olden times the name was also written "holester",
and that would indicate a derivation from
"Holy", (Saxon "halig".) with the other
Saxon word "Steora", being the common affic
"ster", a director--hence "halig-steora", a
Holy Guide. Corresponding in sound with the
work Hollister is "holster", (Saxon "Heolster"),
a hiding place, or recess. To go back
several centuries in the history of this
family, fraught with changes of
pronunciation continuously, it is truly
difficult to reach a decision. We can only
discuss the derivations of the sounds in the
same manner as we would point out antecedent
nationalities by gazing upon a face.
The arms used
by the Hollister family in America are:
Sable, between a greyhound courant bendways
and a dolphin, hauriant in base, argent,
three roses gules; on a chief of the second,
two slips of strawberry fructed proper.
Crest; An arm in armor, embowed between
two sprigs of strawberry, as in the arms,
and holding a branch of holly, proper.
Motto: Fuimus, et sub Deo Erimus.
Ina coat-of-arms owned by Hon. Gideon H.
Hollister, the armor is sable, but striped
or; the greyhound is argent, as is the
dolphin, except the back, tail and fins,
which are or. The crest rests on a wreath
of gules and argent.
The Hollister
family is of Anglo-Saxon stock, long settled
in England. It cannot be said that they
were confined to any particular part of the
kingdom, but those of whom there has been
handed down a good record lived in
Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and
Wiltshire.
The earliest
mention of the name has been found in the
sixth year of Queen Elizabeth, between
November 17, 1563, and November 17, 1564.
This entry in the English records shows that
Henry, Lord Berkeley, sold the fourth part
of his manor to Almondsbury,
Gloucestershire, to John Hollister and
others. There is a will on file, made by
John Hollister, a merchant of Bristol, of
the same name and almost the same period as
of the first of the name in America, dated
July 29, 1575. The parish register of
Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire, in the year
1584, gives the marriage of one and the
burial of another of the name, and it almost
certain that the progenitor came from that
parish.
(I) John
Hollister is the ancestor of the family in
America. It is believed that he was born in
England in 1612, and to have emigrated to
this county about 1642. He probably sailed
from Bristol. It is certain that he was
educated and of good family, for immediately
upon arrival he became one of the most
prominent and influential men of
Wethersfield and the Connecticut colony.
His name first appears in the records of
that colony as a juror of the particular
court held March 2, 1642, which goes to
establish the fact that he was a settler at
that time. He was admitted freeman in 1643;
was a deputy in 1644, again in April, 1645,
and represented the town of Wethersfield
many times thereafter until 1656. His name
appears as a juror in June, 1646. With
Thomas Coleman and Nathaniel Dickerson, he
was appointed for Wethersfield, October 3,
1654, to join with the deputy-governor to
press men to Wethersfield for an expedition,
probably against the Indians, who were then
at war against the settlers of that
neighborhood. He was appointed by the
general court, in February, 1656, to give
"the best and safe advice to the Indians, if
they agreed to meet and should crave their
advice." His name first appears on the
records as Lieutenant Hollister in March,
1658-59, when he applied to the general
court as to the charges of the church at
Wetherfield against him for which he had
been excommunicated. The quarrel is spread
upon the record as follows:
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"By this
time, the church of Wetherfield had again
become ripe for dissensions. Probably
within two years after the death of Mr.
Smith, but at what precise date is not
known., the Rev. John Russell was called and
ordained there, so far as appears, without
opposition. The first part of his ministry
was quiet and seemed to promise well for the
future. But the Hartford controversy
gradually extended into the church and some
other elements of a very combustible
character were made to feed the flames.
Among other things, Mr. Russell appears to
have been a witness in a lawsuit, and to
have testified in a way that was extremely
animadverted upon by Lieutenant John
Hollister, a prominent member of the
church. Mr. Russell held the views with Mr.
Stone of Hartford in relation to church
government and discipline, and without
giving the offending member an opportunity
to have a hearing, or even the benefit of a
vote in the church, he privately
excommunicated him in 1656, and afterward
refused to give his reasons for such summary
proceeding when they were demanded by Mr.
Hollister. Had Mr. Russell been anxious to
test the practical workings of his plan of
church government, he could hardly have
chosen a more favorable subject than one of
Captain Mason's military officers, a
gentleman of undoubted probity, and
experienced member of the general court and
a man not likely to be outdone by Mr.
Russell in the steadiness of his purposes
and the obstinacy of his resistance.
Besides his own natural force of character,
Hollister had married a daughter of Richard
Treat, Esquire, one of the most formidable
opponents in the colony, and could bring
into the quarrel an array of names that the
general court would hardly treat with
contempt. The whole town was of course
thrown into a state of excitement, at this
unusual war waged between a clergyman
against a member of his church. * * *
* The quarrel ended with the removal of
Mr. Russell to Hadley, with his adherents,
where he spent the remainder of his days.
Lieutenant
Hollister was appointed collector in
Wethersfield, March 14, 1660. He was a
large land-holder there, especially in he
part of the town on the east side of the
Connecticut River, later on known as
Glastonbury. It was the first portion of
the town laid out by survey for the colony,
and was intended to give each occupant a
fair portion of meadow and upland. These
were called "Naubuc Farms". And Lot 34, from
the Hartford line southward, was originally
set off for Matthew Mitchell, who removed to
Stamford. It contained about nine hundred
acres. One-third of this came into
possession of Lieutenant Hollister, and he
also acquired the next lot to the south,
adjoining the Treat farm of his
father-in-law. A considerable portion of
the land remained in possession of the
Hollister family until as late as 1884, but
when Charles Hollister died it was sold.
The house in which he lived was built in
1675, and was known as "the old Red House",
located on the west shore of Roaring brook,
facing the south, on the road leading to
Rocky-Hill Ferry. It is a large, commodious
house, with an upper story projecting over
the lower by a few inches, according to the
architectural style of colonial days. The
finishing of the "rest room" is particularly
handsome, adorned with panels and moldings
which are unusually fine for a house built
at that time. The outside is ornamented by
brackets or corbels carved in the corner and
doorposts. The ancient well was covered
over about the year 1800, but in 1885 was
once more put into service.
Lieutenant
John Hollister married Joanna, daughter of
Hon. Richard Treat Sr., and his wife
Joanna. His death occurred at Wethersfield,
Connecticut, April, 1665; she died in
October, 1694. His will was drawn April 3,
1665, and was probated June 1, 1665.
Children: 1. Elizabeth, married Samuel
Wells, in 1659, and although she is not
mentioned in her father's will, three of her
children received legacies. 2. John, see
forward. 3. Thomas, born in Wethersfield,
in 1649, died there, November 8, 1701;
married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of John
Lattimer; married (second) Elizabeth, widow
of Amos Williams, about 1690. 4. Joseph,
died August 29, 1673-74, unmarried. 5.
Lazarus, born in 1656, died September, 1709,
unmarried. 6. Mary, born in Wethersfield;
married John Wells. 7. Sarah, born in
Wethersfield, died December 8, 1691; married
(first) Rev. Hope Atherton; married (second)
Lieutenant Timothy Baker. 8. Stephen, born
in Wethersfield in 1658, died at Greenbush
(Rensselaer), New York, of camp distemper,
about October 2, 1709; married (first) in
1683, Abigail Treat; married (second)
between 1702 and 1709, Elizabeth, widow of
Jonathan Reynolds and daughter of John
Coleman, both of Wethersfield, Connecticut.
(II) John
(2), son of Lieutenant John (1) and Joanna
(Treat) Hollister, was born in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, about 1644. He was one of the
principal men of Glastonbury, where he died
November 24, 1711.
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From what is known of
his life he must have possessed largely the
very belligerent spirit of his father, for
he was engaged in the noted lawsuit which
continued over several years between
Hollister and Bulkley, over the boundary
line of certain lands. This controversy
finally resulted in a re-survey of all the
"lots", from the Hartford line to Nayaug, by
order of the general court, and which has
been preserved in the state archives, which
papers are most important to the place. He
married, November 20, 1667, Sarah, daughter
of William and Sarah (Marvin) Goodrich.
Children: 1. John, born August 9, 1668;
died December 13, 1741; married (first) his
cousin, Abigail Hollister, June 7, 1693;
married (second) Susannah ----------. 2.
Thomas, see forward. 3. Joseph, born, July
8, 1674, died at Glastonbury, Connecticut,
July 9, 1746; married (first) Ann --------,
November 27, 1694; married (second) Sarah
---------. 4. Sarah, born October 25, 1676,
died at Glastonbury, October 15, 1715;
married, January 5, 1699, Benjamin Talcott.
5. Elizabeth, born March 30, 1678, died in
infancy. 6. David, born November 20, 1681,
died December 27, 1753; married Charity
-----------. 7. Ephraim, born March 15,
1684, died in 1733; married, April 1, 17087,
Elizabeth Green. 8. Charles, born July 29,
1686, died before November 11, 1711. 9.
Elizabeth, married, in Berlin, Connecticut,
February 16, 1715, Dr. Joseph Steele. 10.
Mary, married Captain Robert Welles.
(III) Thomas,
son of John (2) and Sarah (Goodrich)
Hollister, was born in Wethersfield,
Connecticut, January 14, 1672, died in
Glastonbury, Connecticut, October 12, 1741.
He resided most of his life in Glastonbury,
where he was a deacon of the church, and on
the records he is known as "the weaver." He
married Dorothy, daughter of Joseph and
Phillis (Lyman) Hills, (or Hill). She was
born about 1677, died October 5, 1741.
Children: 1. Josiah, born in Glastonbury,
Connecticut, June 7, 1696, died January 3,
1749; married January 18, 1718, Martha
Miller. 2. Dorothy, born October 17, 1697;
married, January 3, 1717, Abram Fox. 3,
Gideon, see forward. 4. Charles, see
forward. 5. Elizabeth, born December 17,
1703; married, October 14, 1731, William
Miller, of Glastonbury. 6. Hannah, born
December 26, 1705, died October 12, 1712.
7. Thomas, born January 13, 1707, deed in
Eastbury, Connecticut, September 17, 1784;
married, January 1, 1734, Abigail Talcott.
8. Ruth, born October 13, 1710; married
Nehemiah Smith, of Hartford. 9. Rachel,
born July 27, 1712; married Joshua Talcott,
of Bolton, Connecticut, died at Bolton,
March 10, 1807. 10. Hannah, born February
16, 1714; married William House, of
Glastonbury. 11. Eunice, born in
Glastonbury; married, November 27, 1733,
Thomas Loveland Jr. 12. Susannah, born in
Glastonbury; married, May 4, 1741, Benoni
House. 13. Elisha, born in Glastonbury, in
1722, died November 12, 1800; married
(first) about 1748, Experience Robbins, of
Wethersfield; married (second) about 1766,
Penelope Graves, widow of Elihu Dwight.
(IV) Gideon,
son of Thomas and Dorothy (Hills or Hill)
Hollister, was born in Glastonbury,
Connecticut, September 23, 1699, died in
Eastbury, Connecticut, February 15, 1785,
where he was buried. He removed from
Glastonbury to Eastbury, taking up his
residence in the house built there by his
father, and which was still standing in
1882. He was appointed a lieutenant of
militia in 1736, and was a deacon of the
church. He married, in 1723, Rachel Talcott,
born in Glastonbury, October 6, 1706, died
there, June 13, 1790, daughter of Nathaniel
Talcott. Children: 1. Gideon, born March
1, 1728, died January 12, 1812; married
(first) a daughter of Stephen Hollister;
married (second) Esther Case, of East
Hartford. 2. Mary, born in 1730; married
Benjamin Strickland. 3. Nathaniel, see
forward. 4. Jemima, born in 1734; married
---------- Brainard, a farmer. 5. Rachel,
born in 1738; married (first) November 25,
1762, Jonathan Holden; married (second)
-------- Holmes. 6. Israel, born in 1741,
died February 28, 1818; married Sarah
skinner, of Colchester. 7. Elizabeth, born
in 1743; married, November 20, 1777, John
Howe. 8. Hannah, born March 1, 1745, died
March 30, 1840; married, December 2, 1767,
Ralph Smith, of Chatham, Connecticut. 9.
Ann, born March 1, 1745, (twin of Hannah);
married Elisha Howe. |
