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ADULT SERVICES DEPT.
THE FERGUSON LIBRARY

SEP 17 1990

MORRIS COUNTY

CO/VTEl\'TS

MAJOR JOH:\ BERRY

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SA\11.:EL BERRY A:'\D CA THAL Y:'\TJE
MARTE:'\SE R\'ERSO:'\

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The Ryerson Family
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SEW YORK I:'\ 1704

MART~

BERRY

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'1ARIA R00\1E

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The Roome Family and the Van Geldcrs

JACOB BERRY A:'\D '1ARGARET '1EAD

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The Mead Family, and the Mandcvilles

JACOB BERRY

A~D

SARAH R00'1E

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The Roome Family Revisited
The Couners and the Youngs

PETER J. BERRY

III.

THE BERRY FAMILY
OF NEW JERSEY

Brian J. L. Berry

A~D

HARRIET WEBB

PETER BERRY, WHO '1IGRATED TO
PES~SYLVA:\lA, A:'\D '1ARY A. \ULLER
THEODORE BERRY

A~D

A\1A:'\DA HO:'\TZ

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MORRIS COUNTY

CO.VTEl\'TS

MAJOR

JOH~

BERRY

SAMLEL BERRY A~D
MARTE~SE RYERSO~

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CA THAL Y~T JE
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The Ryerson Family
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SEW YORK

MARTT'.\ BERRY

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A~D

1704

MARIA ROOME

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The Roome Family and the Van Gelders

JACOB BERRY

A~D

MARGARET MEAD

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The Mead Family, and the Mandcvilles

JACOB BERRY

A~D

SARAH ROOME

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The Roome Family Revisited
The Courters and the Youngs

III.

THE BERRY FAMILY
OF NEW JERSEY

Brian J. L. Berry

PETER J. BERRY ASD HARRIET WEBB

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PETER BERRY, WHO MIGRATED TO
MARY A. MILLER

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PES~SYLVA~IA, A~D

THEODORE BERRY ASD

AMA~DA HO~TZ

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The Berry Family

MAJOR JOHN BERRY
The Berry Family of New Jersey has a
common immigrant ancestor: The stirpes was
Capt. John Berry [2,816], who came from
In a
Christ Church Parish in Barbados.
petition of 7 July 1674, he mentioned "the
highly prized pledge of an honorable name,
which I esteem far more than all riches," and
it is suggested that he was of the ancient
Devonshire Berry family whose ancestor
Ralph de Bury possessed Berry Narbor in the
early thirteenth century. It is probable that
the rank of Captain was one he had held in
one of the annies of England. In 1642 there
was a Capt. Berry in the 7th Regiment of
Charles I, and a Capt. Berry of the Horse was
in General Fairfax's army.
(Thomas H.
Edsall , "Deputy Governor John Berry, of New
Jersey, and
his
Family,"
New
York
Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol.
15 (1884), pp. 49-57). He was clearly a man
respected in Barbados. He is mentioned in
the 11 July 1652 will of Thomas Kempson,
was named overseer in the 16 Apr. 1665 will
of Edward Peers, was remembered as a friend·
by Ralph Hutchinson , cooper, in his 24 Mar.
1670 will. Jacob Mayle also made a gift to
his friend Capt. John Berry, praying that "my
carkus is to be buried decently if I die on
shore."
On 10 June 1669, Capt. Berry took a Land
Patent for 10,000 acres -- -all the lands
between the Hackensack and Saddle Rivers,
extending from the Sandford Patent as far
north as Cherry Hill in Bergen Co. -- from
Philip Carteret, Governor of New Jersey and
the Council of East Jersey. The same year he
bought three other tracts : on 12 June 1,500
acres along the Palisades of the Hudson River
adjacent to his friend, merchant Samuel
Edsall, and extending a mile inland to
Overpecks
Creek;
2,000
acres
at
Schraalenburgh; and another 2,000 acres on
the upper Saddle River.
In 12 N. Y. Col. Doc. 492 there is mention of
3 bushels of wheat due from "Captain John
Berry, Mr. Edsall, and others" on a patent for

lands on the Delaware dated 1667. He and
Edsall
afterwards
owned
together
the
extensive tract "Chiepiessing" in the bend on
the Delaware on the Pennsylvania side,
between Trenton and Burlington, which they
had purchased from Secretary Matthias
Nicolls. Their bond, dated 21 Aug. 1669, to
Nicholls for "3000 weight of good sound
merchantable tobacco, to be delivered at the
Weigh House" in New York before 1 Jan .
1670.
This bond, preserved in Albany,
describes Capt. Berry as "of the island of
Barbados, Merchant."
Capt. Berry's lands included all of what is
now Lodi Township, N.J., but in July 1669 he
bought lots in the village and town of Bergen,
and this is where he settled, becoming one of
the region's wealthiest citizens. As a man "of
good estate" he was made a member of the
Council of East Jersey by Gov. Carteret in
1669, and he held his seat as long as Carteret
was Governor.
In January, 1670, he purchased two parcels of
land in New York City. The same month he
went to Barbadoes, and returned in July
following.
Captain Berry continued to reside in Bergen
for several years, while he cultivated his
plantations by the aid of negros, who he may
have brought from Barbados. In 1673, he had
removed to one of his plantations, as his
house in Bergen was made the "prison for ye
province" until one could be built for that
purpose.
On the death of Captain Richard Morris in
1672, Captain Berry was appointed trustee of
the estate, which descended to his infant son
Lewis Morris, afterward the Chief Justice.
In 1672, when Governor Cartaret went to
England to lay before the Lords Proprietors
the grievances of himself and Council at the
attempted usurpation of their authority by the
Assembly and Captain James Canaret, he
appointed Captain Berry to be Deputy
Governor
during his absence from the

The Berry Family

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_Province. While so acting he received a letter
from the King confirming the authority of
himself and the Council in the government of
East Jersey.
When, however, the Dutch
Commanders retook New York in the summer
of 1673, and their authority was "quietly reestablished over _ New Jersey," the rule of
Governor Berry was suspended.
During the Dutch reoccupation (1673-74)
Captain Berry and his neighbors, Sandford
and Edsall, were confirmed in their
plantations and goods, but denied "the
privileges obtained from their previous
patroons." This denial referred, no doubt, to
their official positions and emoluments as
members of the late government. Captain
Berry held no office under the Dutch, but on
the return of English rule, resumed his place
in the Council. There had been harassment:
In 167 3/4 Claes A. Toers, Schoet (Constable)
of Bergen Co. , entered a suit against Capt.
Berry for stealing hogs, a charge which was
treated with scorn by Capt. Berry in the
subsequent proceedings.
In 1676 he was made President of the Bergen
Court of Judicature, and in 1677-78-79, was
President of the County Coun. From 1675 to
1681 inclusive, he was Captain of the Bergen
Foot Company.
In 1680 he was appointed by Cartaret to
succeed him in the government of East Jersey,
and afterward continued in the Council until
the sale of the Province to the "Twelve
Proprietors," in 1682.

province of East Jersey for the new "Twentyfour Proprietors," and Captain Berry was
appointed "to bee of the
Councill."
He took the oath of office
February 28, 1683, and on March 1st attended
the first meeting of the Council, William
Penn, one of the proprietors, being present.
On the 24th he was appointed a Justice of the
Quorum, and in August was commissioned
Justice of the "Court of Com ' on Right. " On
December 3d he was appointed Major for the
County of Bergen, and the same day "Chief
Ranger for the County of Bergen and
Corp'ac'on."
Major Berry was reappointed to the Council
by Governor Lowrie in 1684, by Governor
Lord Campbell in 1686, and by Governor
Hamilton in 1687.
His last recorded
attendance at a meeting of the Council was in
May, 1687, although he was a member of that
body for some years later, probably until
1692.
In 1696, Major Berry donated one morgen of
land for a church, and subsequently, in 1712,
confirmed the gift by deed absolute, "for the
consideration of love and good-will toward hi s
loving friends and neighbors of the township
of Hackensack,
New
Barbadoes,
and
Hackquakenong." On this plot was erected in
1696 the First Reformed Dutch Church of
Hackensack, and a pan of the plot now forms
a large portion of "the Green" or Park, on the
west.
Among the old memorial stones
contributed to the first edifice, according to
the Dutch custom, and now set in the walls of
the present building, is one of free-stone in its
easterly side, having the initials J.B. in
monogram above the date "Anno 1696" within
a shield. This was, no doubt, contributed by
the subject of this sketch.

At this time he was residing at the west side
of his plantation lying between the Hudson
and Overpecks Creek, adjoining that of Mr.
~dsall. There was a "good house thereon and
a good quantity of land cleared and improved
by 20 negroes or more." He had formerly
cultivated certain "old plantations" which were
"to the East at Hudson River's side" -- [at the
locality now known as Fon Lee].

In 1702 Major Berry was recommended by
Lord Clarendon for membership of the
Council of Governor Lord Cornbury; but he
does not appear to have been appointed.

In December,
1682, Deputy Governor
Rudyard assumed the government of their

During a few years after the beginning of the
century Major Berry had controversies about

The Berry Family

some
parts
of his
extensive
landed
possessions.
For a time before 1709 he
resided in New York City; but in that year he
had returned to live at this plantation. He
continued to reside there until his death,
which occurred at an advanced age. His will
was dated 16 May 1712, and proved 16
February 1714/5; in the early part of which
year it is probable that he died. The DuBuryBerry Family genealogy says he was 96 when
he died -- i.e. b. c.1618.

Francina, Hannah, and John W ., and then on
p. 71 Cornelius Jan, Jacobus (James), Samuel,
John, Maria Klaas, and Elizabeth. This work
also says he had a brother Thomas who m.
Mary Bresser and had a son, Thomas , bp. in
New York 25 Nov. 1668.
From the available sources, we can piece
together his supposed family:
2,816.1

The abstract of his will is as follows :
1712 -May 16. Berry, John , of Bergen Co.; Will of.
Children of son Richard Berry -- Charity, Richard, Mary,
Sarah and William; daughter Francina Lawrence and her
chi ldren, two sons of deceased granddaughter, Mary, by
W illiam Sandford, grandson Monteith Noel and children of
grandson Richard Hall by Anne Evets, Land in Bergen
County, at New Barbados ; personal property. Executors -son-in -law, Thomas Lawrence and wife Francina.. with
grandsons William Sandford., John Edsall and Samuel Moore
as assistants. Witnesses -- Yost de Groot, Gerrit de Groot
and Thomas Lawrence.

Proved 8 Feb . 1714/15
Lib. 1 p . 354 Bergen Wills

John appears to have been taking care of
som.e of his grandchildren; presumably, he had
set out his sons from his estates at an earlier
time. The bequest of his personal estate does
contain the following clause, however:
"excepting such particulars as I have given
my Executors (hereinafter named) orders to
deliver to divers of my relations as are
expressed in a schedule bearing date with
these presents, signed by me in the presence
of the witnesses to this my will." At one
time, there was a schedule allocating his
personal effects to "his relations."
There has been much dispute about who these
relations were. The History of Hudson and
Bergen
Counties
says
(p.
99)
"he
died.. .leaving a large family of children
among whom were John, Mary, Samuel,
Richard, Francis, and Francina. Most of these
remained in Bergen County, where their
descendants are still numerous." The quite
unsatisfactory Du Bury-Berry Family lists as
his family
(pp.68-70) Sarah, Richard,

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2,816.2

m . Dr. John Springham in Barbadoes. She
d. before her father, who devised one-sixth
interest in his Bergen estates "to the
children of my daughter, Sarah Springham
of Barbadoes." One of these children was
Hannah, bp. 25 July 1678 in St. Michael's
Parish, Barbadoes.
Richard b. 1662, came with his father from
Barbadocs. He was High-Sheriff of Essex
Co., NJ . 1683-4, and a Deputy "for New
Barbadoes and Aquickannuc" in the
Assembly 1686-8 and again in 1695 . He
m . Nedemiah, dau . of Capt. Will iam
Sandford in 1683, and d . in 1703. His
father devised one-third of his estate to
five of Richard 's children. There also was
a son John, to whom Nedemiah released
her Dower Rights to remarry a Mr.
Davies.

Sarah

1690-1, January 2.
Will of William
Sandford of East Jersey :
Wife Sarah, formerly known as Sarah
Whartman "while some Considerable
Reasons Engaged us to Consaile om
Marriage, " children Katherine, Peregrine,
William, .Grace, Elizabeth, Nedemia, wife
of Richard Berry, (son of Capt. John
Berry). Real and personal estate. The
Andrew
wife
executrix
with
Col.
Hamilton, James E . Mott, both of East
Jersey, Gabriel Meenviele and William
Nicholls of N.Y. as assistants. Witnesses
Patrick Falconer, Jolm Browne.

Proved 3 Jan ., probaled 12 Sept . 1694.
1695, August JO. Deed:
Richard Berry and wife Nedemia to his
father, John Berry, for a piece of land,
swamp and meadow, S.E. of the main
creek, part of the father's deed of gift of
13 June 1683; consideration 220 acres on
New Barbados Neck, adjoining Hendricus
Kip and sold by John Berry to Garrett
Lydicker; 64 acres adjoining W alleing
Jaeobson; consideration 64 acres between
Thadus Michaels and gran tor.

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The Berry Family
"Know all Men by These Presents that I
Nidemia Davis, of New Barbadoes in ye
County of Essex & Eastern Division of
New Jersey for Divers Good Causes &
Reasons me Thereunto Moving but more
Especially for and in Consideration of ye
Sum of Fourty Pounds Current Monney of
New York to me paid by my Son John
Berry of ye Town, County and Division
aforesaid have Remiseed Released &
Made over to him ye sd said John Berry
his heirs and Assigns for Ever all my
Right of Dower belonging or any Manner
of wayes appertaining to me of ye Estate
of my former Husband Richard Berry late
of Barbadoes deceased and doe by These
presents Remisee Release and for Ever
quite Claim unto any Parcell or part of
any of ye Estate of the said Richard Berry
Either Real or Personal for Ever and doe
by These Presents give unto ye said John
Berry quiett and Peaceable Possession in
and to Every Part and parcell Thereof
without any Maner of Leu Hindrance or
Mollestation by from or under me or by
means or procurement without any more
pretence of Right Claim or Demande of
me for Ever hereafter.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett
my hand and Seall in Newark this Twenty
Ninth Day of May in ye Year of our Lord
Anno Dom one Thousand Seven Hundred
and Eight. -- Nidimea (sic) Davis .
Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presents
of us John Cooper, Samuel Cooper. May
ye 29th. 1708 . Then received of my Son
John Berry ye Sum of fourty pounds
above Mentioned in full upon all accounts
of my Dowery. I say Received by me,
Nidimia Davis. -- Mrs. Florence E."

Will of John Berry, eldest son of Richard
Berry. 1749, June 12:

Issue:

1.

2,816.3

2,816.4

2,816.5

John W. Berry. who married
Prudence Andrews .
2.
Samuel Berry.
3.
Phillip Berry b . 1720; d. 1793.
Married
1743
(1 )
He lena
Degraw, (2) Catlina Van Winkle .
4.
William Berry b. 1730. Married
Elizabeth Stratton 1755.
Abraham Berry.
Will proved
5.
1787 .
Married
Annetjie
Outwater.
6.
Mary Berry.
Francinab. c.1643, m . twice, first to Lt. Michael
Smith (High Sheriff of Bergen Co. under
the twenty-four proprietors) and second,
c.1686, to Major Thomas Lawrence. She
d. in 1737 at age 94.
Hannah m. three times: (1) Richard Hall, owner of
the ship Nevin, whose estate was adm .
1681 after he drowned; (2) Thomas Noel,
of New York. merchant, who she m . in
1691, he purchased a Bergen Co.
plantation from his father -in-law and on
14 Oct. 1701 became mayor of New York
City, but he d. in 1702; and she m . (3) 14
Apr. 1704, Charles Wolley of New York,
merchant. Charles and Hannah returned to
England c.1710.
two mentions have been found of John
John
Berry, Junior, one under date of 18 May
1671, when he served as a juror in a case
tried at Elizabethtown, NJ. ; and the other
in Charles Wolley ' s power of attorney of
14 June 1708, which authorized his wife
to collect claims against (inier alia) "John
Berry, Junior, and John Berry, Senior."
John apparently m. Rutjie _ _ , and had

a son, Samuel, b. 8 Feb. 1700.
on assessment roll in Brooklyn, 16 75, and
the tax list al Midwout. NJ. 1676.
from South River, m. 22 June 1688 to
2,816.7
Elizabeth Lucas, widow of Jan Stevens, in
New York . Had dau. Deborah bp. 17 Feb.
1689, Aefje bp. 6 Mar. 1692, Samuel bp.
22 Mar. 1696, Walter b. 1697, d. 1769, m.
Jemina van Pelt and had Walter, m . 1758
Margaret Connelly.
2,816.8 Samuel [1,408] of Flushing, Long Island, m.
Catherine Martense Ryerson 31 Mar. 1690.
See next section.
2,816. 9 Maria m. William Sims.
2,816.10 Klaas
m. (1) Hendrick Mandeville, and (2)
2,816.11 ElizaBrand Jacobus.
beth
Jane
2,816.6

Cornelius Jan
Jacobus
(James)

Berry, John, of Bergen Co., yeoman; Will
of. Sons, John, Samuel, Phillip, William
and Abraham, my lands. Sons John and
Samuel, the land I bolfght of my
grandfather Berry. Wife to have goods
and live in the place. Daughter Mary £25.
Witnesses -- Thomas Richardson, Gerrel
Van Voorsl and George Vreeland.
Proved 19 Nov. 1767
1767, Nov. 19. John and Samuel Berry,
of New Barbados appointed Administrators
with Will annexed.
1767, Nov. 26. Inventory £644.3.0 made
by John Vreeland and Hendrick Kip.
Lib. 1 p. 275

SAMUEL BERRY AND
CATHALYNTJE MARTENSE RYERSON

Richard's family included Charity, Richard.
Mary, Sarah, and William, plus John
Berry, Sr. b. 1683; d. 1767.
Married
Maria Braetbury (Bradbury) in 1709.

Several authors have claimed that Samuel
Berry [ 1,408] was a son of Capt. John Berry,
but this has never been proven. ["The Berrys

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of N. Y. and N .J. are main I y descendants of
Capt. John Berry, an early settler in Bergen
Co. NJ." Teunis G . Bergen, Register of the
Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island,
N.Y.]
He first appears in the record at
Flatbush, Long Island, when he married
Cathal~· ntje Martense Ryerson [1,409] on 31
Mar. 1690.
At that time, Flatbush was a
haven for refugees from Indian depredations ,
from such locations as Staten Island, the
Bronx, and New Jersey. (Mrs. T.H. Giddings,
Berry and Related Families, typescript, 1975).
The marriage as recorded in Brooklyn reads:
"Samuel Berry, born in Vlissengen, to
Catalynte Martense, born in Brooklyn, with
con sent of Annetje Rapelje , the bride ' s
mother. " (Albert W . Ryerson, The Ryerson
Genealogy. Chicago: privately printed, 1916).
If he were just of age when he married, hi s
birth would have been c.1669, coinciding with
Capt. John Berry ' s arrival from Barbados, and
hi s birthplace would have been Flushing, L.I.
-Samuel Berry is found in the 1693
Asses sment Roll of Brooklyn, and in the
Brookl yn 1698 Censu s. Some of his children
are found baptized in the records of the Dutch
Reformed Church at Brooklyn. He almost
certainly had a brother James, for one James
Berry was honored in 1691 as godparent of
the first child born to Samuel and Cathalyntje.
The discu ssions of Capt. John Berry ' s family
do include a James (Jacobus) who m.
Elizabeth Lucas, wid. of Jan Stevens, in New
York 22 June 1688. He was an associate
with Schuyler and Brockholst in the purchase
of land in New Jersey in 1695, and on 7 Dec .
1701 he was one of the partners of his
brother-in-law, Joris Ryerson, in the purchase
of the large tract of land in New Jersey called
the "Pacquanac Patent."
By 1700 he had
settled on a hill called Steckbergh in Pompton
Plains, NJ., where he d. in 1702.
After his death, Catalyntje remarried on 12
June 1703, at Pompton Plains. By her second
husband Paulus Vanderbeek Jr. she had four
additional daughters: Catalina, 1704; Maria,
1706; Sarah, 1708; and Elizabeth, 1711. On 4
Aug. 1710 John Johnson conveyed to a group

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including George Ryerson and Paulus VanDer
Beck 1,069 acres in Pompton Plains , part of
which Paulus conveyed to his stepson Martin
Berry when he m. in 1720.
Samuel and Catalyntje had six children :
1,408.1
1,408.2
1,408.3

1,408.4

1,408.5
1.408.6

Deborah hp. 28 Jul. 1691, d. unm . in 1775 .
Martin b. 1693 ; see next section .
Johanna bp. 22 Dec . 1695. m . in 1725 Peter
Pieterse Roome, son of Peter W illcmsc
Roome and Hester Van Gelder .
Samuel b. 6 Apr. 1695, bp. IO Apr. Returned to,
and settled in Brooklyn.
He m . ( 1)
Jacomyntje Van Duyne, d.s.p ., and (2 ) 10
June 1744, Jacomyntje Van Pell, by whom
he had Samuel, Walter and Jemin a. He d.
17 Jan . 1769.
Paulus b. at Pompton Plains in 1700, m . Annctje
Suydam and had Paulus, Samuel and John .
Sarah
b. 1702, d.s.p .

In 1752 Martin , Paul , Samuel and Samuel Jr.
"Berey" were listed as freeholders in
Poquannock Twp. Morris Co. The 1778-80
Rateables for Saddle River Twp. lists Martin
and Martin Jr., Peter and Peter Jr. , Samuel
and Samuel Jr., Jacob , Henry, and an
otherwise unidentified Titus Berry.

The Ryerson Family
Cathalyntje Martense Ryerson was the dau .
of Martin Reyerszen [2,818], who arrived in
America with his brother Adriaen c.1646 from
Amsterdam , taking up their abode in
Breuckelen on the Island of Nassau (now
Brooklyn , N.Y.).
Adriaen m. Annetje
Martense Schenck 29 July 1659, and on 14
May 1663, Marten "Van Amsterdam " m.
Annetje Joris de Rapelje (2,819], j.d. Van
Breuckelen (Ann the daughter of George de
Rapelje), j.d. (a young maiden of Brooklyn) ,
in the Protestant Refonned Dutch Church of
Brooklyn.
One Catalina Jeronymus was a
witness to the ceremony. They were married
by Dominie Selyns, who came from
Amsterdam in 1660 and took charge of the
"Breuckelen" Church.
Marten was on the
Brooklyn assessment rolls 1675, '76 and '83, a
member of the Brooklyn church in 1677,
magistrate in 1679, constable in 1682, and
was named in the patent for Flatbush in 1685,
to which place he is said to have removed.

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Marten and Annetje had eleven children:
2,818. l

Marritje bp. 16 Nov. 1664, m. Paulus Turck Jr. of

N.Y .
2.81 8.2

Joris

2.818.3

Ryer

2,818.4

Calhal ynlje

2,818.5

Sarah

2,818 .6

(Mary) 16 May 1688.
bp. 19 Sept. 1666, d. 1749, m. lwice.
(George)
bp. 1669, d . 1751, m. Rebecca Van Der
Scheuren .
bp. 3 Jan . 1671, m . (1) Samuel Berry 31
Mar. 31 Mar . 1690, (2) 12 June 1703
Paulus Vanderbeek Jr.
bp. 30 May 1673, m. 6 Dec . 1691 Gerrit
Burger (Bergen).
b. 1675, m. Abraham Van Duyne.

Geerlje
(Charity)
2,818.7 Jacobus b. 27 Dec. 1677. d. c.1749.
2.818 .8 Helena bp. 1679, m . Jan Aukese (Van Nuys).
bp. 2 Apr. 1682.
2,818.9 Syntje
(Cynlhia)
2.818 .10 Corneliusbp. 1684, m. Sarah Jorise.
b. 2 Aug . 1675, d . 1749, m. Jannetje
2,818 . J J Frans
(Jane) Dey.

Marten Reyerson (Martin Ryerson) died about
1687, and his widow married again, on 30
Jan. 1692, Joost Franz (Joseph Francis), who
came to this country from Amsterdam in
1654. At the time of his marriage to Annetje
he was a widower, his first wife having been
Geertje Aukese Van Nuys.
Annetje · s parents were Joris Jansen de
Rapelje [5 ,638] and Catalina Tricot [5,639].
Joris Jansen de Rapelje came from Rochelle,
France, in the ship New Netherlands, the first
ship sent out by the West India Company.
He was married either just prior to his
journey, upon the voyage , or shortly after his
arrival. At any rate the lady who became his
wife came on the ship with him. Her name
was Catalina Tricot. She was a daughter of
George Tricot [11,278] and was born in
Paris, France, in 1605. They were destined to
become the parents of the first white child
born in the colony, Sarah Rapelje, who was
born at Fort Orange (now Albany) in the year
They had ten other
1625 on 9 June.
offspring, viz:
5,638. l

Sarah

5,638.2
5.638.3
5,638.4
5,638.5

Maria
Janetje
Judilh
Jan
(John)

b. 9 June 1625, m. (1) Hans Hansen
Bergen, (2) Tunis G. Bogert.
b. 11 Mar . 1672. m . Michael Vandervoort.
b. 18 Aug . 1682, m. Rem. Vanderbeek.
b. 5 July 1635, m . Peter Van Nt!st.
b. 28 Aug. 1637, m . Maria Frederickse
Lubertson.

5,638.6. Jacob
5,638.7 Catalina
5,683.8 Jcronimus
5,638.9 Annetje
5,638. JO Elizabeth
5,638.11 Daniel

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b. 28 May 1639, shot by the Indians.
b. 28 Mar . 1641. m . Jeremias Westerhout.
b . 25 June 1642, m. Anna Deni se.
b. 8 Feb. 1646. m . (1) Marten Reyerszen,
(2) Joost Franz .
b. 28 Mar. 1648, m . Dirck Hooglandl.
b. _ , m . Sarah Klock .

Joris Jansen de Rapelje, with his wife ,
Catalina, first settled, in 1623, at Fort Orange ,
where his first child was born. He remained
at Fort Orange about three years and then
removed to New Amsterdam, where he
remained nearly twenty-two years, occupying
and owning a house and a lot on the north
side of the present Pearl Street, and abutting
the south side of the fort, and for which he
received a patent on the 18th of March, 1647.

NEW YORK IN 1704
In 1704, a widow from Boston made an
unusual journey from that city to New
York and back, via Connecticut, on
horseback, she set down her experiences in
a journal that was originally published in
1828, and republished in 1901 by the
Norwich Academy in a limited edition
entitled The Private Journal of Sarah
Kemble Knight. Her description of New
York in 1704 came just a couple of years
after Samuel Berry moved from Brookl)'n
to Pompton Plains in New Jersey:
The Cittie of Xew York is a pleasant, well compacted
place, situated on a Commodius River wh is a fine
harbour for shipping. The Buildings Brick General)·,
very stately and high, though not altogether like ours in
Boston. The Bricks In some of the Houses are of dh·ers
Coullers and laid in Checkers, being glazed look very
agreeable. The Inside of them are neat to admiration, the
wooden work, for only the walls are plastered, and the
Sumers and Gist are plained and kept very white scowr'd
as so ls all the partitions If made of Bords. The fire
places have no Jambs (as ours hu·e) But the Backs run
nush "1th the walls, and the Hearth is of Tyles and is a~
farr out Into the Room at the Ends as before the fire, wh
is Generally Five foot In the Low'r rooms, and the peice
over where the mantle tree should be Is made as ours
with Joyners work, and as I supose Is fasten'd to Iron
rodds inside. The House where the Vendue wa~, had
Chlmne)' Comers like ours, and they and the hearths
were laid ".1h the finest tile that I e\•er see, and the stair
cases laid all with white tile which is ever clean, and so
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were making Great preparations to Recei ve their
Go\'enor, Lord Cornbur~· from the Jerseys, and for that
End raised the militia to Gard him on shore to the fort.
The~· arc General~· of the Church of England and han a
:\cw England Gentlemen for their minister, and a ver)·
fine church set out with all Customary requsites. There
are also a Dutch and Dhus Con venticles as they call
them , ,·iz. Baptist, Quakers, &c. The)' are not strict In
keeping the Sabbath as In Boston and other places where
I had bin, But seem to deal with great exactness as farr
as I see or Deall with . The~· are sociable to one another
and Curteos and CMll to strangers and fare well In their
houses. The English go \'ery fasheonable In their dress.
But the Dutch , especially the middling sort, differ from
our women , in their habitt go loose, where French muches
arc like a Capp and a head band In one, lca\1ing their
ears bare, which are sett out w•h Jewells of a large size
and man~· In number.
And their fingers hoop't with
Rings, some with large stones in them of many Coulers ali
were their pendants in their ears, which You should sec
ver~ old women wear
well as Young.

Refonned Church after it was organized rn
1736.
He had nine children , all bp. in
Pompton Plains:
704.1
704.2
704.3
704.4

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ha\'e Vendues very· frequently and make their
Earnings ' 'eQ· well by them , for they treat with good
Liquor Liberall~· , and the Customers Drink as Liberally
and Generali~· pa~· for ' t as well , b~· paying for that which
the)· Bidd up Briskly for , after the sack has gone
plentiful!~· about, tho' somcthimes good penny worths are
got there. Their Diversions in the Winter is Riding Sleys
about three or four :\-tiles out of Town, where they ha,'e
Houses of entertainment at a placed called the Bowery,
and some go to friend s Houses who handsome!)· treat
them. "1r. Burroughs cary 'd his spouse and Daughter
and m)·self out to one '1adame Dowes, a Gentlewoman
that lived at a farm House, who gave us a handsome
Entertainment of fin or six Dishes and choice Beer and
mctheglin , Cyder, &c. all which she said was the produce
of her farm. I believe we mett SO or 60 sla~·s that day --they fl~· with great swiftness and some are so furious that
they·'Jc turn out of the path for none expect a Loaden
Cart. :\or do they spare for any diversion the place
affords, and sociable to a degree, they' r Tables being as
free to their :\aybours as to themseh·es.
Ha, ing here transacted the affair I went upon and some
other that fell In the wa)·, after a fortnight's stay there I
left :\ew-York with no Little rcgrett, and Thursday, Dec.
21, set out for '.\ew Haven w'h my Kinsman Trowbridge ...
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Catalyna b . 15 Jul y 1721. m . Johanni s Ryerson , a
cousin, son of Ryer and Rebecca Ryerson .
Samuel b. 8 Sept. 1722, m. Catalyna Berry , prob.
a cousin .
b . 21 Jan. 1724, m . John Burgua.
Hester
b . 19 Mar. 1725, d. 12 Feb. 1769, m .
Pieter
Susanna Jones 15 June 175 1 in Morris Co .
Had Elizabeth (6 Jul y 1752) m . John T.
Henning; Maria (8 May 1755) m. John
Van Hunting ; Peter (25 Dec. 1758,
Bergen. Totowa Old Dutch Church);
Henry P. (6 May 1761 ) m . Susannah
Alyea and had Henry (1788). Henry
(1780), David (1795 ), Susanna (1 798) and
Maria (1800), bp. at Pompton Plains
Church. Peter J. m . (1 ) Margaret Kubling,
and (2) Maria Noacse. He d . 1805 . A
Peter Berry m . Ca ty Piau 21 Jul y 1810 in
Morris. He may have been Peter Jr. 's son .
b . 21 JlUle 1726, m . Eli zabeth (Elsie)
Martin
Ryerson Mandev ille. Had (bp. at Pompton Plains:
William (1781 ). Henry (1 784 ), Fietje
(1787), Maria (1791 ), Elisabeth (1800) .
b. 1728, d. young .
Maria
b. 26 May 1730, d . Mar. 1812 unm .
Sara
Hendri - b . 4 Dec. 1731, d. 4 Dec. 1731. m. Kezi ah
De Mott. Had Samuel (1 770), John
kus
(Henry) (1 776), Janet (1782) at Pompton Plains.
[352] b. 1734, m . Margaret M ead, sec
Jacob
below.

Martin ' s will, proved 1784, mentions his wife

Carren (presumably his second), sons Samuel,
Peter, Martin, Henry and Jacob, and dau s.
Catlina, Hester, and Sarah. Catrena, his wife,
received "one hundred pounds and one negro
wench named Lease."
Son Samuel "one
hundred pounds and three pounds for being
my eldest son." Son Peter "that place he now
possesses." Son Martin "that place he now
possess with five acres of land laying by
Stoney bruck.
Sons Henry and Jacob "my
old place I now possess and live in, the land
to be divided between them. Henry to have
the northernmost with the improvements
thereon and Jacob to have the southernmost
Each of the daughters
part of the land."
received fifty pounds. Thus Henry, next to
the youngest son inherited the homestead. A
very poignant inclusion in the will is "the
negro Harry is to chues one of my five sons
whome he will live with and thay are to
mentane him as long as he lives. The rest of
the slaves and the stock that is on the fann
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MARTIN BERRY AND
MARIA ROOME

Martin Berry [704] was bp. in 1693, and on
15 Apr. 1720 m. Maria Roome (705], dau. of
Pieter Roome and Hester Van Gelder. The
records of the R.P. (Collegiate) Dutch Church
of New York City call him Mattheus Berry of
Morris County, NJ.
They resided at Pompton Plains, New Jersey,
where he was a deacon of the Dutch

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704. Marti
Berry

1,408. Sa11uelL2.816. Capt. John
Berry
Berry
2. 817. Francina
1,409. Cathalyntj12.8J8. Hartin
Reyerszen
Martense
Ryerson
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Jansen
Joris de
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,638 .

705. Maria
Roo11e

1,410. Pieter
Willemse
Roome

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and in my possession with the farmer's tools
shall be divided among my five sons as nare
as possible. "
To own one slave was
con sidered a position of wealth ~ Martin owned
many. The plantation was in the Berry family
for four generations passing from father to
son each time . In 1862 the homestead and 34
and l /2 acres was sold for the first time and
went out of the Berry family .
His house survives (see attached pictures) and
is preserved on the National Register of
Historic Places.
The United
States
Department of Interior recorded the Martin
Berry House in the Library of Congress in
1939 on the "Historic American Buildings
In 1972 the Landmark Search
Survey."
recognized the Martin Berry House and
entitling it to a State sign . The Martin Berry
house was placed on both the State and
National Registers of Historic Places in 1973.
In 1975 during preparations to celebrate the
country·s Bicentennial, the Martin Berry
House was chosen as one of the ten
significant historical sites to receive the first
Morris County Heritage Commission markers.

The Roome Family and the Van Gelders
There are three sources of infonnation on the
Roome family: Peter Roome Warner, Family
of Pieter Willemse Roome and his wife Hester
Van Gelder, (typescript, 1883); Howard S.F.
Randolph , "The Roome Family," New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record (Oct.
1933, pp. 3.-:. 8-341); and P.R. Warner,
Descendants of Peter Willemse Roome (1883),
all of which were consulted in completing
what follows.
Pieter was the son of Willem Jansen Roome
[2,820] , who m. Jannetje Jans [2,821] in the
Netherlands bef. 1658. Their child, Jan, was
undoubtedly born in 1658, at Werckendam, a
village in the province of North Brabant. On
25 April 1659, he set sail from the
Netherlands in De Moesman (The Market
Gardener), under Captain Jacob Jansen Staet,
with his "wife, nursing child, and maid
servant."
In the passenger list he called

MARTIN BERRY HOUSE
BUILT BY MARTIN

BERRY

(1693-1784) SON OF THE
FIRST FAMILY TO SETTLE
POMPTON PLAINS. ONLY PREREVOLUTIONARY BUILDING
SUBSTANTIALLY UNALTERED

IN PEQUANNOCK TOWNSHIP.
MORRIS COUNTY HfRITAGf COMMISSION
NEW JERSEY Rr:GISTrR or l'ISTORIC PLACES
NATIO~AL Rr:GISTER OF Hls:rORIC PLACES

"Willem Jansen, fishennan, from Rotterdam ."
The list also states that he "lives at Fort
Orange. " No evidence has been found to
show that he lived at Fort Orange, unless the
references to Willem Jansen in 1660, in the
"Court Minutes of Fort Orange and
It is
Beverwyck, 1657-60" refer to him .
known that he lived at Communipaw, N.J. , in
1660, for his second son Pieter was born there
in that year. He may have been the Willem
Jansen who was a ferryman between Bergen
and Manhattan in 1661-2. Sometime after the
birth of a third son, in 1663, his wife died,
and he married again in 1676. The record
reads: "Willem Janszen Romen, Wedr. Van
Jannetje Jans, en Marritje Jans, Wede. Van Jan
Theuniszen, woodende op 't Versche water"
(living at the Frest Water). The banns were
published 19 March 1676, and the marriage
took place 12 April.
Marritje Jans had at least one son by her first
husband recorded among the baptisms of the

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1664.
No children were born to Willem
Jansen Roome and Marritje Jans. No trace
has been found of their deaths. Children:
2,820.1

Jan

2,820.2
2,820.3

Pieter
Jacob

b. 1658, Werckendam, Brabant, m . 12
June 1684 Maryken Bastiens, w.p. 5 May
1720.
bp. 20 Oct. 1660. See below.
bp. 1 Aug . 1663, living 11 Feb. 1692, and
was evidently wanted by the authorities,
for his brother Jan Willemse Rome filed a
petition on that date: -- "States that in
April last he entered into a recognizance
before Col. Joseph Dudley, Chief Judge,
for the appearance of his brother Jacob
Williamson Romen at the Supreme Court
of Judicature held in October last. That
since the date of the said recognizance the
Assembly passed their Act of general
Indulgence for all crimes committed. The
petitioner therefore conceived that his
brother (who since departed this province)
was indemnified and his recognizance
void, and therefore did not attend the said
Supreme Court; and now, the petitioner
being imprisoned until he shall satisfy the
penalty of the said recognizance (which is
by reason of His meane Estate Impossible)
he prays that he may be released from him
confinement" (A.J.F. van Laer N.Y.
Colonial Manusripts-38 :70).
Jacob Roome had died before 23 Dec.
1717, when an act was passed for "Paying
and Discharging several Debts due from
this Colony to the Persons therein named"
in which is the following item: -'To Peter Romen his Exec'rs or Assigns,
the quantity of thirty three ounces & five
pennyw 't of Plate afores 'd, for Service
done in ffort & Comp'e afores'd, by his
Brother Jacob Romen, dec'd."
There is nothing to show that Jacob ever
married.

Pieter Willemse Roome [1,410], bp. at
Communipaw, NJ. 20 Oct. 1660, m. 26 Nov.
1684 Hester Van Gelder [l,411] at the
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in New
York City. Like his brother Jan, he was also
a carpenter, for on 5 Sept. 1711, he petitioned
for his pay for making coffins for 250
Palatines. His wife died 17 April 1729, and
he followed within a month, on 15 May 1729.
They had ten children.
1,410.l
1,410.2
1.410.3
1,410.4

Jannetje
Janneken
Maria
Willem

bp. 27 Sept. 1685, d. inf.
bp. 14 Aug. 1687, d soon after 1703.
(705] bp. 20 Oct. 1689, m. Martin Berry.
bp. 17 Apr. 1692, m. Sarah Turk in 1714.

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Johannes bp. 22 July 1694, m . Susannah Le
Chevalier in 1717.
1,410.6 Ariaentje b. 18 Oct. 1696, d. urun.
1,410.7 Jacob
bp. 17 Feb. 1699, d. soon after 1703.
1,410.8 Hester bp. 9 Feb. 1701, m . (1) Theophilus
Elsworth. (2) Nicholas Anthony.
1,410.9 Pieter
(1,416] bp. 24 Feb. 1703, m. Anna Berry.
1,410.10 Anna
bp. 13 May 1705, m. Barend Bosch in
1726.
1,410.5

Hester was the dau. of Johannes Van Gelder
[2,822] and his wife Janneken Montentack
(Jane Montmorency) [2,823].
He was b.
c.1640 in the Netherlands, and d. c.1697 in
New York (Arthur P. Van Gelder, "Van
Gelder Families in America," New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record, Jan.
1944, pp. 15-18).
In 1662, the year that his first child was born,
Johannes presented to the Council a petition
for a license to keep a school "for teaching to
read, write, and cipher." This was granted 21
Sept. 1662. The Records of New Amsterdam
from 1653, the year municipal government
was organized with a Schout (Sheriff),
Burgomaster (Magistrate), and Schepens
(Councillors), to 1674, show that in 1662 he
was plaintiff in a suit for 3 guilders, 16
stivers and his wife, Janneke Van Gelder, lost
a court case in which she was defendant; in
1663 he was sued by Isaac Grevenraat for
default; in 1664, when the English took New
Amsterdam from the Dutch, Johannes swore
allegiance. At that time he was referred to as
attorney and was defendant and plaintiff in
suits and twice curator for estates.
In 1665 he was assessed 1 florin and was
listed as a grain measurer and a resident of
Marketfield Alley; in 1666 he acted as judge
in a court case; in 1670 he was again
appointed Grain Measurer; in 1672 he
obtained judgement as paver in a street-repair
case; and in 1674 he owned "third class land"
to the value of about two thousand dollars on
the east side of Broadway between Beaver
and Wall streets, then known as part of the
marketfield. The Minutes of the Common
Council show that in 1676 he was assessed
0:6:3 and taxed one-half penny and the
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"Markett Field & Broadway." In 1684 he
acted as funeral director. At this time John
Van Gelder and his wife, Janneken
Monterack, were listed as members of
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, commonly
called the Dutch Church, and as residents of
Marckvelt (Marketfield) Street.
Johannes and his wife, their daughter, Hester
Roome, and her family, resided in 1686, at 1
Breede Weg and at another time at 16 Breede
Weg. On 12 July 1689, Jan, or possibly his
son, Jan, is recorded as the chief actor in a
liquor raid; with him were soldiers from the
fon at the Battery which was then under the
control of Joseph Leisler of Leisler Rebellion
fame.
In 1693, he appeared as a witness in a coun
case and at baptisms up to 1696. From 1695
to 1699, this Johannes or his son was assessed
various amounts, presumably representing a
house and other real estate located in the
West Ware, the amounts ranging from five to
twenty-seven pounds.
He and Janneken had 9 children, all bp. in the
N.Y. Dutch Church:
2,822.l
2,822.2
2,822.3
2,822.4
2,822.5
2.822.6
2,822.7
2,822.8
2,822.9

Hester

bp. 26 Jan. 1662, m. 26 Nov. 1684 Pieter
Willemse Roome.
Johannes bp. 27 Aug. 1664, m. 19 May 1686 Aefje
Roos.
Herm- bp. 5 Sept. 1666.
anns
Eliz.abeth bp. 11 Jan. 1669, m. 22 May 1690
Andries Marschalk.
Maria
bp. 28 Jan. 1671, m. 24 July 1689 Andires
Jorisz.en Alst.
Abraham bp. 13 Dec. 1673.
Cornelia bp. 2 Feb. 1676, d. inf.
Cornelia bp. 25 Dec. 1678, m. 22 Oct. 1701 Philip
Daly.
Emmer- bp. 29 Dec. 1680, m. 31 Oct 1699 Jacob
entia
Hassing.

Johannes probably died in 1697 as on Oct.
10th of that year Tanneken was recorded as a
widow at the baptism of Maria Van Gelder;
she was still living in February 1703 when
she was a witness to the baptism of Pieter
Roome.

JACOB BERRY AND
MARGARET MEAD
According to Garret C. Schenck, Early
Settlements
and Settlers
of Pompton,
Pequanoc and Pompton Plains (handwritten
mms at the New Jersey Historical Society,
n.d.) Jacob Berry [352], b. 9 Jan. 1734, d. 13
Mar. 1814, m. 30 June 1764 Margaret Mead
[353], and by her had 9 children (bp. at
Pompton Plains):
352. l
352.2
352.3
352.4
352.5
352.6
352.7
352.8
352.9

Mary
Jacob

b. 16 Oct. 1765, d. 16 Oct. 1765.
[176] b. 25 Mar. 1767, m. 9 Dec. 1794
Sarah Roome, d. 1 Mar. 1844.
Maria
b. 16 July 1769, m. Giles J. Mandeville, d.
10 Sept. 1863.
b. 9 Sept. 1771, m. David Peer.
Sarah
Eliz.abeth b. l Jan. 1774, m. John Ray.
Hester b. 22 Feb. 1776, m. Philip P. Schuyler, d.
2 Jan. 1859.
Margaret b. 17 Apr. 1778, m. 15 Dec. 1803 James
C. Jacobus.
Rebeckahb. 6 Oct. 1783, m. 24 Mar. 1803 Moses
Day, d. 22 Mar. 1817.
Martin J. b. 22 Sept. 1785, m. 29 Sept. 1810 Ann
Hennion, d. 18 Jan. 1859. Had Margaret
(1811) and David (1817).
Martin kept
the hotel in Pompton Plains.

The Mead Family and the Mandevilles
Schenck goes on to say that the Meet or
Mead family were among the Dissenters from
England who took refuge in Holland and
migrated thence to Nonh America. Pieter
Meet [2,824] and his son Jan Pieterse Meet
emigrated from Amersfoon in the Province of
Utrecht to New Amsterdam, where they
appear in the records as early as 1681 and
again in 1687.
In 1689 the son was a
resident of Flatbush on Long Island. Pieter
Meet's first wife is not known, but he m. (2)
Geertje Mandeville, by whom he had no
known children, and he d. c.1697. She then
m. (2) Increase Power.

Jan Pieterse Meet [1,412] m. 11 May 1687
Grietje (Margaret) Mandeville. He, along
with the Mandevilles, Benys and Ryersons,
became interested in purchasing land in the
Pompton Valley, and he subsequently settled
in the southern part of the valley, at
Pequannock. He sold land at Flatbush Feb.

The Berry Family

22. Theodor
Barry

. Peter·---.--'V'I, Peter J.
Berry
Berry

176. Jaco1352. Jaco~704. Martin--see previous chart
Berry
Berry
Berry
705. Maria--see previous chart
Roome
353. Margaret
706. Jaco
Mead

1412. Jan
Pieterse
Meet

tje
Moulyn

177. Sara
Roo11e
9. Harriet

Nebb

354. Samuel

Roo11e

Mandeville

708. Peter
R0011e

1416. Peter
Roo11e

709. Sarah
Berry

1417 . Anna
Berry

mo.

1

2_3. Aaand1:6.
Bentz
7.

2824. Peiter
Meet
Jansen
de Mandeville
2827. Elsje
Hendricks
2832. Pieter
Nille11se
Roo11e
2833. Bester
Van Gelder

1 1 1

355. Annl710. Bermanus
Courter
Courter
5. Mary ~90. Charles
Miller
Miller
91. Catherine

17

711 .

Sus~

Young

Ja~2840.

Courte
1421. Marytje
Arianse
1422. Pieter

de Jong

Jan-5680.
Courte
2841. Neeltje---5682.
Janse
Buys

Bar11en
Courter
Jan
Petersen
Buys

18

The Berry Family

1692/3, and was a patentee in New Jersey in
1695. Jan and Grietje had seven (7) children:
1.412.1
1,412.2
1,412.3
1.412.4
1,412.5
1.412.6
1,412.7

Peter

b. 20 Oct. 1689, m. widow Jennetje
Brown, d. 1747.
Johannis b. 25 Mar. 1691, m. Mary DeLaushop, d.
1765.
Jacob
[706] b. 18 Jan. 1693, m . Maritje Moulyn.
Christo- b. 27 Oct. 1695.
pher
Elsje
b. 1697.
Isaac
b. 31 May 1700, d. young.
Giles
b. 14 Oct. 1702, m. Jannetje _ _ .

Jacob Mead (706] and Maritje Moulyn
(707] had eight (8) children:
706.l
706.2
706.3
706.4
706.5
706.6
706 .7
706.8

John

b . 31 Jan. 1724, m. Margaret Slote, d. 26
Feb. 1809.
Henry
b. 1735, m. Maria Jacobus.
Elizabeth b. 16 June 1739.
Margar- b. 19 Nov. 1740, m. 30 June 1764 Jacob
etta
Berry.
Maria
b. 6 Jan. 1742.
Jacob
b. 29 May 1743.
Jacob
b. 19 Aug. 1744.
Maria
b. 16 Feb. 1746.

Grietje Mandeville was the dau. of immigrant
Jillis (Yellis, Giles) de Mandeville and Elsje
Hendricks.
According to Weltha B.
Woodward's Genealogical Record of the
Mandeville Family (Waterloo, N.Y.: by the
author, 1962), Jillis, the founder of the family
in this country is traced as early as 1657 at
Voorthuizen, a village near Garderen in
Holland. His father's name was Jan, perhaps
that Jan Jansen who in 1627 was Candidate
at the Reformed Church at Koolwyck, also
near Garderen, and died at the latter place in
1657. He came to America in the de Trouw
(Faith), 12 Feb. 1659, with his wife and four
children of 1 , 5, 6, & 9 years.
The
childrens' names are not given, and Yellis is
called Gilles Jansen VanGarder. (Garderen in
the Veluwe, Guelderland, Holland). He paid f
50 for the passage of his wife and himself,
and f 10 for each child; or 90 guilders in all.
Jillis lived for a time in Long Island. Two of
his children were from New Amersfoort
(Flatlands).
He was perhaps that Gilles
Jansen rated ther in Sept. 1676, for 10
Morgens of land, etc.
(New York f?utch
Marriages 1, 61 & 93; Doc. Hist. of New

York).
Riker states that Yellis De Mandeville bought
a farm at Flatbush (probably the land in the
jurisdiction of Hempstead, valued ~bove a.11
his other possessions, devised by will to his
son Hendrick), and afterwards received a grant
of 30 acres at Greenwich, N.Y., laid out 5
Dec. 1679; patented 30 Dec. 1680.
No lands granted or sold to Yellis de
Mandeville are recorded in the Flatbush
Records, but many Dutch patents and Indians'
Deeds were destroyed or sent to England after
1664. No New Amsterdam Records mention
tiim but we find Gilles Janszen Mandiviel and
his wife Elsie Hendriex as members of the
New York Dutch Church, 31 May 1677, and
Jillis, Elsie and Grietie Mandev~el living
above the ancient pond Kalch-Hock m 1686.
The Mandeville estate extended from below
14th Street to 21st Street, though not parellel
to either, and from the Hudson River to
Warren Road. This part of Manhanen Island
was known as Greenwich, Sappokaniken,
Shappanaconk or New Nordwyck.
Yellis Mandeville sold to David Mandeville,
doubtless his son, on 14 May 1700, 53
Morgens of land (126 acres), . including the
Greenwich bowery then occupied apparently
by the said David Mandeville, and apparently
meadows ont the west side of the Hudson
River. The land was described in a grant
from Governor Nicolls, and in a deed of
Johannes Van Broughen and Jacob Veranger
to Jacob Vandegrift; the latter sold same to
Yellis Mandeville, 2 June 1679.
Yellis and his wife Elsie, were sponsors at a
baptism 16 Mar. 1701, and his will w~s
proved 22 of May, following (1701 ), by his
widow.
This will, dated 15 Sept. 1696,
signed Yeelise de Mandevill~, mentions all ~is
children eldest son Hennck, son David,
daughte;s Tryntje, no wife of Cornelis Jansen
de Seenn; Aeltie, now wife of Lowren
Johnsen; Gerritie, now wife of Pieter Me~t;
Griettie, now wife if John Meet. Elsie, hiw

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19

wife, to be sole executrix, after her death their
sons Hendrick and David. The original will
may be found in the Surrogate's Office in
New York City. The signature only is in Mr.
Mandeville ' s handwriting, and bears an
unidentified heraldic seal. (The seal is an
elaborate and costly cutting. The shield is
charged with an animal which under a power
magnifying glass, resembles a horse rampant.
A Plumed helmet surmounts the shield, the
plumes forming the mantling on either side.
There is no crest).

eight (8) children:

Mrs. Woodward adds the following note:

176.7

b. 22 Sept. 1796, m. Harriet Webb.
b. 7 Feb. 1799, m. Benjamin Roome.
b. 3 Apr. 1801, d. 2 Mar. 1866, m. Ellen
McKinley. had Samuel R. (1825 ), Sarah,
Laura, Eliza, Martin R., William L.G ..
Eleanor.
Samuel b . 8 June 1804, m . Mrs . Catharine
J.
(Gillilan) Middlemiss.
Had Sophia,
Samuel J., James T., Sarah R., Kate G. ,
John G .• and Addie H.
John
b . 25 Jan. 1807, d. 14 July 1849 of
cholera, unm.
Jacob
b. 25 Mar. 1810, m. Margaret Wessels.
Had John W., Sarah, Jacob L., Mary L. ,
Martin E., Anne, Peter, and Theodore E.
William b. 4 Aug. 1812, d. 4 Sept. 1812.

176.8

Margaret b. 5 June 1815, m. William G. Smith.

176. l
176.2
176.3

176.4

176.5
176.6

Peter J.
Anna
Martin
R.

E.
"In a letter received 22 Aug. 1959 by me from Mrs .
Anna Belle (Mandeville) Lehman, of 484 Maple
Street, West Lafayette, Indiana, wife of William H.
Lehman, and the dau. of Samuel Denton Mandeville
is the following : "Gillis sometimes spelled Yellis
Mandeville or Gillis Jansen De Mandeviile fled
from Normandy into Holland at the time of the
"Nantes Order, " about 1640. Married a Dutch girl
Eliza Hendrick .
Four children were born in
Holland . Came to America in 1659. Two more
children were born in America.
Gilles (Gillis)
purchased a fann of 30 acres on Manhatten and
Long Island.
This property was left to David
Mandeville who was born in this coW'ltry. From
David the New York branch is descended . A third
son settled in Peekskill, N.Y., and from this branch
the North River Branch is descended.

The

eight

children

of Jillis

and

Elsje

(Hendricks) Mandeville were:
2,826.1
2,826.2
2,826.3

2,826.4
2,826.5
2,826.6

2,826.7
2,826.8

Hendrick b. c.1650, Guilderland, m. 18 July 1680
Annetje PieterseScholl, d. 1712 in NJ.
Tryntje b. c.1652/3, m. Cornelius Jansse Seen.
Jan
b. c.1655
Bergen
(Johannis)
William m. Elizabeth
Aeltje
m. Laurens Jansen DeCamp.
Gerritje m . (1) Wien Eppens 15 Sept. 1681, (2)
Pieter Jansen Meet. (3) 24 July 1699
Increase Power.
Grietje [1,413) m. 11 May 1687 Jan Pieterse
Meet. Settled at Pacquenac, N .J.
David

The Roome Family Revisited
Sarah Roome also was descended from Pieter
Willemse Roome and Hester Van Gelder, via
their son Pieter Roome [1,416), bp. 24 Feb.
1703, and his wife Anna Berry [ 1,417), who
hem. c.1725. Anna was of Morris Co., N.J.,
but I have been unable to identify her parents.
They settled in Pompton Plains, and had:
1,416.l
1,416.2
1,416.3
1,416.4
1,416.5
1,416.6
1,416.7
1,416.8
1,416.9

Samuel
Catalyna
Peter
Hester
Jacob

m . Margaret Kool 19 Nov. 1755 .
bp. 10 Nov. 1728, m. N. Slingerland.
[=708) b. 17 Dec. 1732, m. Sarah Berry.
m. John Acton.
m. (1) 11 Sept. 1755 Sarah Spier, (2)
Hannah Morse.
Anna
m. Abraham Gerritse 24 Sept. 1753.
Deborah b. 1737, m. Henry B. Spier.
Mary
b. 16 June 1739, m. James Jackson .
m. Sarah Kidney 12 Oct. 1766.
Paul

Peter Roome [708) m. Sarah Berry [709] on
7 May 1752 and they are known to have had
two children:
708.l
708.2

Samuel

[=354] b. 15 Oct. 1754, d. 30 Apr. 1837,

Sarah

m. Anna Couner 11 June 1774.
b. 17 July 1768, m. Giles W. Mandeville.

Sarah Berry's parentage is unknown.

JACOB BERRY AND
SARAH ROOME

Samuel Roome [354] and Anna Courter

Jacob Berry [176), b. 25 Mar. 1767, d. 1
Mar. 1844, m. Sarah Roome [177) 9 Dec.

354.1

1794, resided at Pompton Plains and they had

[355) had six children:

354.2
354.3
354.4

(176) b. 25 May 1775, d. 8 Mar. 1860, m.
Jacob Berry 9 Dec. 1794.
John
b. 7 Jan. 1777, m. Catherine Jacobus.
Susannahb. 29 J\Dle 1779, d. 4 Dec. 1779.
Susannah b. 17 Jan. 1781, m. S.H Van Ness.
Sarah

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The Berr)' Family

354.5

Peter

354.6

Maria

b. 15 Feb. 1786, m. Maria Berry, dau. of
Samuel Berry and Susannah Courter.
b. 25 Mar. 1792, m. Gilliam Terhune.

The Courters and the Youngs
According to John H. Greene, The Courter
Family (typescript in the New Jersey
Historical Society Library, n.d.), the Courter
family was descended from Harmen Courter
[5,680] who was b. in 1610, arriving in New
Amsterdam from Voorthuysen in Gelden on
the De Trouw ("The Faith "), Capt. Jan Jansen
Bestavaer, on 12 Feb. 1659. He evidently
followed his brother Guert, who had come to
the New Netherlands before 1645 as a soldier
in the Dutch West India Company. Harmen
was accompanied by . his wife, and by five
children aged 17, 9, 8, 6 and 5 (Holland
Society Year Book, 1902, p. 9). The oldest
child was his son Jan; two of the other
children were the two daughters Ryckje and
Guertje, referred to in his brother's Will. The
names of the other two children are unknown,
and we do not know whether there were other
children. The difference between Jan ' s age,
seventeen, and the age of the next oldest
child, nine years, might indicate that Harmen
married twice and that there might be other
older children by the first wife.
Following the ship arrival record, the next
documentary evidence of Harmen was an
affidavit made by him 14 Feb. 1664, at which
time he resided at New Utrecht (now part of
Brooklyn) L.I. (Documents of the Colonial
History of New York, Vol. II, pp. 480-1).
Later in that same year, the British took
control of the New Netherlands, and many of
the Dutch settlers moved westward to New
Jersey. Herman followed his brother Guert to
the Dutch settlement at Bergen, taking the
oath of allegiance there 22 Nov. 1665. Later,
he was mentioned in his brother's will. Guert
owned property extending "to the lands of
Hannen Courter."
Jan Courte [2,840] was evidently the only
son of Harmen Courten, aged 17 in 1659.
The first mention of him by name is in the
Records of New Amsterdam, Court Minutes

(Vol. IV, pp. 10, 17, 23, 67 and 87) in the
1662 case of Siex von der Stighelen vs . Jan
Jansen the younger, when it is reported that a
note for 350 gilders had been given to Jan
Courten (Johannes Cortten). Other references
to Jan Harmensen in three other cases appear
in the Court Minutes (Vol. V, p. 332; Vol.
VI, pp. 210, 212, 218, 221 and 304). In the
Documentary History of New York (Vol. II, p.
471) the list of his property liable to
assessment is given under date of 20 Sept.
1676 as follows:
"JAN COERTEN, Middlewout: 4 polls, 4 cows, 3
hogs and 95 Pounds."

He m. Neeltje Janse Buys (Boice) (2,841],
dau. of Jan Petersen Buys (5,682] who came
to New Amsterdam from Beest in March 1663
(Holland Society Year Book for 1886, p. 154),
on 23 Jan. 1684 (Records of the Flatbush
Dutch Reformed Church - also recorded in the
Records of the Bergen Dutch Reformed
Church, 1 June 1684).
Jan is next located in the neighborhood of
Hackensack and Aquackenock, New Jersey,
where he probably located soon after the
death of his uncle and father. The records of

the

Hackensack Dutch

Reformed

Church

commence with the year 1686, and on 26 Jan.
1686 record the baptism of Jan Koerte and
Neeltie Beus. He d. before 1699, when his
wife remarried in the same church:
"Married 25 March 1699 SIAQUE VIGOOR,
widower of CATR YN PISIAER and NEELTIE
BUYS, widow of JAN KOERTE."

In addition to Jan, Jan and Neeltje had two
other sons, Harme and Guert.
Jan Courte [ 1,420] was, as noted, bp. 26 Jan.
1686. His marriage is also entered in the
records of the Hackensack Dutch Reformed
Church:
"Apr. 8th, 1711, JAN KOERTE, young man, and
MARYTIE ARIANSE, young woman, both born
and living at Ackenggenonck."

By Marytie, who d. bef. 1730, he had six
children:
Johannis (b. c.1712), Hendrick,

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Peter, Neeltje, Hennanus (b. 1720), and Ayre
(b. c.1722). He then remarried (Records of
the Aquacknock (Passaic) Dutch Reformed
Church):

His second wife "CATY COURTER" died in
1817, and her Will is filed in the Office of
the Surrogage of Morris Co., NJ. in ~ook B
of Wills, Fol. 193. In this Will she divides
her property as follows:

"Registered 27 June 1730 JAN COURTE, widower,
and NELLETTIE STEG, young woman. Both live
here. _Married 28 Aug . 1730."

They had two sons, Jacobus (bp. 1739 and
Abraham (bp. 10 Jan. 1742.).
The next generation is that of Hermanus
Courter [710], b. 25 May 1720 and d. 10
Feb. 1812. He moved from Aquackenock to
Pompton Plains and bought 140 acres in the
"Tewaughow Tract" on 23 Apr. 1749,
adjoining the lands of Goline Doremus, John
Francisco and Paulus Van Der Beck. He
married, first, Susanna Young [711] on 1
July 1745; she was born 12 Feb. 1727 and
died 31 May 1787. The marriage is entered
as follows in the records of the Pompton
Plains Dutch Church :

"l{l. to the Congregation of Pompton Plains and 1/2
to the Congregation of the Fairfield Dutch Church."

In the Public Library in Paterson, NJ. there is
an old Dutch Bible once the property of
Hennanus Courter which was presented to the
library by Miss F.A. Thompson and her sister
Mrs. James Gerrans, two of his great
grandchildren.
This bible was apparently
published in 1637. The title page is missing,
but there is the following inscription:
"Horomonus Courter, his Bible, February Ye 11 ,
1778."

This bible contains the record of the births of
Hennanus, his wife Susannah and their eight
children. It gives the death of Hennanus as
follows:

"Married l July 1745 HARMANUS COERTE
(young man) and SUSANNA JONG (young woman)
both born and living at Tawacha. Morris Co."

He and his first wife became members of the
Pompton Plains Dutch Reformed Church in
1755. After her death he married Caty __·_,
who survived him. His will made in 1812
and proved 12 Feb. 1812 is filed in the Office
of the Surrogate of Morris Co., NJ. in Book
"A" of Wills, Fol. 346. The tombstones of
Hennanus and Susanna are standing in the
burying ground of the Pompton Plains Dutch
Reformed Church, and read as follows:

21

"Horomonus Courter departed this life Feb. 10,
1812, Aged 91 years, 9 months, 10 days ."

Family:
710.1
710.2
710.3
710.4
710.5
710.6
710.7
710.8

Jolm

b. 20 Nov . 1745, bp. 5 Jan. 1746.
b. 9 Feb. 1748, bp. 13 Mar. 1748, m.
Jannetje Jacobus.
b. 19 Oct. 1753, bp. 3 Dec. 1752, m.
Henry
Leeya Mandeville.
Anna
b. 22 Mar. 1755, m. 11June1774 Samuel
Roome, d. 18 Apr. 1838.
b. 22 Feb. 1757, m. Henry Kip.
Sarah
Susanna b. 2 Nov. 1759, m. Samuel S. Berry.
Eliz.abethb. 16 Sept. 1764, m. Casper Dod.
Mary
b. 1765, m. David Mandeville.
Peter

"HERMANUS COUTER, died Feb. IO, 1812, age
91 years, 8 mos., and 16 days."

Susanna Young was the dau. of Pieter de
Jong [ 1,422], who, when he came to America,

"SUSANNA, wife of HERMANUS COUTER, died
May 31, 1787, age 69 years, 8 mos. and 19 days."

worked first at Pacquenac for Hendrick
Mandeville. After his marriage he settled on
the west side of the Pacquenac River at
DeMott Old Fields, later moving to
TeWackaw. He and his first wife had five
children:

In 1811 (when he was 91 years of age) he
conveyed to his son Henry 72 acres of land in
Aquackenock, NJ., pan of which Henry and
his wife immediately reconveyed to Daniel
Shoemaker. By his will he disposed of a
large amount of property among his children
and grandchildren.

1,422.1

Maritje

1,422.2 Pieter
1,422.3 Antje

b. 1715, m. 1738 Nicholas Jones, d. 31
July 1796.
b. 1718, m. 18 June 1744 Maretje Slott.
b. 1720, m. Cornelius Doremus.

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Tiu Berry Family

1,422.4
1,422.5

Elizabeth b. 1725, m. Goline Doremus.
Susannah [711] b. ] 2 Feb. 1727, m . 1 July 1745
Hermanus Courter, d. 31 May 1787.

PETER J. BERRY AND
HARRIET WEBB
Peter J. Berry (88], b. 22 Sept. 1796, d. 27
May 1878, m. Harriet Webb [89] 26 Oct.
1822. They had eight (8) children, according
to Schenck:

The date of Anna Courter's birth and
baptism are given in the records of the
Pompton Plains Dutch Reformed Church:
"ANTJE. born 22 March, bp. 18 May 1755 (child
of) HARMANIS and SUSANNA COERTE:
sponsors.
JACOBUS
and
MARRITJE
JACOBUSSE."

88.1
88.2
88.3
88.4
88.5
88.6
88.7
88.8

She married Samuel Roome on 11 June 177 4,
The
and she died on 18 Apr. 1838.
tombstones of Samuel and Anna are standing
in the burying ground of the Pompton Plains
Dutch Reformed Church.
They state that
Samuel died 30 Apr. 1838, age 85 years, 6
months and 15 days, and that Anna, his wife,
died 18 Apr. 1838, age 83 years and 27 days.

Jf.iltE

William W.

Mary F.
Sarah A.
Harriet d . young.
Peter
[44] b. 8 Apr. 1829.
Jacob
Samuel B .
Harriet A.

I believe that Peter [88.5=44] was the
immigrant to Pennsylvania. The birth date
comes from his great-granddaughter Ilie
Fairchild.·

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The Berry Family

PETER BERRY AND
MARY A. MILLER
Peter, initially recorded as Peter Berry [44],
and in his latter years as Peter Barry, appears
in successive U.S. censuses in Denison Twp.,
Luzerne Co., Pa., beginning in 1860:
1860:

Peter Berry

Mary A. Berry
Jacob Berry
Lewis Berry
Emily Berry
William Wright
1870:

Peter Berry

Mary A. Berry
Jacob Berry
Lewis Berry
Theodore Berry
Martha Berry
Henry Berry
Thomas Berry
1880:

Peter Berry

Mary A. Berry
Irvin
Marshall
Henry
Simon
Richard
1900:

Peter Barry
Mary Barry

Irwin Barry
Richard Barry
Also nearby:
Jacob Barry
Martha Barry

Jesse Barry
G. Cleveland
Barry
John W. Barry
Nettie M. Barry

30, laborer, born in New Jersey,
real estate worth $350, personal
property worth S 100.
26, born in Pa.
6, born in Pa.
4, born in Pa.
2, born in Pa.
56, laborer, born in Pa.

George H. Barry
Carrie C. Barry
Lillie J. Barry
Elena K. Barry
Harold C. Barry
Clyde P. Barry

17, b. May 1883.
15, b. May 1885 .
11, b. Sept. 1888.
8, b. June 1891.
5, b. Feb. 1895 .
2, b. Apr. 1898.

Marshall Barry
Reba Barry

36, b. May 1864.
11, b. Dec. 1889.

23

And:

By 1910, the family had moved to White
Haven, and the listings for Peter and the
separate households in which his sons Irvin,
Richard, Marshall and Theodore resided were:
Barry, Peter, head, 81, married first time 60 years,
born in Pa., parents, born in Pa., rented house.
Barry, Mary Ann, 76, married first time 60 years,
mother of 13 children, 8 living, born in Pa., parents
born in Pa.

41, laborer, real estate value
Sl,500, personal property value
$150, born in Pa.
36, keeps house, born in Pa.
16, born in Pa.
15, born in Pa.
9, born in Pa .
2, born in Pa.
4/12, born in Pa. in January
5, born in Pa.

Barry, Irvin, head of house, 45, married first time
for 8 years, born in Pa., father born in New Jersey,
mother born in Pa., lumberman, rented a house.
Barry, Myrtle, wife, 29, married first time for 8
years, born in Pa., parents born in Pa.
Barry, Nettie Margaret, 7, daughter, born in Pa.

52, Stationary Engineer, cannot
read or write, born in Pa.,
parents born in Pa.
48, wife, cannot write, born in
Pa., parents born in Pa.
15, son, laborer, born in Pa.
14, son, laborer, born in Pa.
10, son, at school, born in Pa.
4, son, born in Pa.
1, son, born in Pa.

Barry, R ichard, head, 32, married first time for 8
years, born in Pa., father born in New Jersey,
mother born in Pa., teamster-lumbering .
Barry. Minnie, wife, 35, married first time for 8
years, mother of 4 children, all living, born in Ohio,
parents born in Pa.
Barry, Charlotte, daughter, 6 born in Pa.
Barry, Richard, 2, born in Pa., son.
Barry, Charles, 3, born in Pa., son.
Barry, Margaret, 1, daughter, born in Pa.

71, b. July 1828, m. for 50
years, b. in Pa.
61, b. Mar. 1839, m. for 50
years, had 14 children of whom
8 lived.
35, b. Jan. 1865.
21, b. May 1879.

Barry, Theodore, head, 49, first marriage, 29 years,
born in Pa., parents born in Pa., foreman at powder
mill, owned home, mortgaged.
Barry, Amanda, wife, 48, first marriage, 29 years,
mother of 9 children, 8 living, born in Pa., parents
born in Pa.
Barry, Lena, daughter, 19, born in Pa., reeler in silk
mill.
Barry, Clyde, son, 12, born in Pa.
Barry, Ruth. daughter, 9 born in Pa.

46, b. Nov . 1853, m. for 22
years, father born in New Jersey .
48, b. May 1852, m . for 22
years, had 7 children whom 4
lived.
17, b. Sept. 1882.
15, b. Mar. 1885.
10, b. Dec. 1889.
5, b. Aug. 1894.

And:
Theodore Barry
39, b. Mar. 1861.
Amanda M. Barry 38, b. Aug. 1861, m. 19 years, 8
children of whom 7 lived.
Frank W. Barry
19, b. Apr. 1881.

Fish, Clara, head of house, 49 single, born in Pa.,
parents born in Pa., merchant, novelty store,
working on own account, can read and write.
Barry, Marshall, brother-in-law, 42, married 2nd
time for 7 years, born in Pa., parents born in Pa.,
spoke English, teamster in lumbering business, on
own account, can read and write.
Barry, Matilda, sister, 52, married first time for 7
years, no children, born in Pa., parent born in Pa.
Barry, Reba, niece, 20 single, born in Pa., parent
born in Pa., reeler at silk mill.
Barry, Carl, nephew, 16 born in Pa., parents born in
Pa., not working.

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According to their tombstones at Laurel
Cemetery, White Haven, Pa. "Father" Peter
Barry was b. in 1829 and d. in 1913;
"Mother" Mary A. Barry was b. in 1834 and
d. in 1919. Her father Charles Miller [90] d.
aged 77 yr. 11 mos., and mother Catherine
Miller [91] d. aged 77 yr. 9 mos. (no years of
death specified).

44 .13

Mrs.
Ilie
Fairchild,
Peter's
greatgranddaughter, provided a list of thirteen of
the fourteen children born to Peter and Mary
Ann. To this list, I have added supplementary
marriage certificate and tombstone data. She
also gives Peter's birth date as 8 Apr. 1829
and that of Mary as 17 Mar. 1834.

A number of deeds relating to Charles and
Catherine Miller survive. They appear in the
1860 and 1870 censuses for Denison Twp.:

44.1
44 .2

44.3
44.4
44.5
44.6
44.7

44.8

44.9
44.10
44.11
44.12

Sarah
b. 29 Oct. 1851 .
Almedia
Jacob R. b. 2 Nov . 1853, d. 1919 (Laurel Cem ..
White Haven tombstone), m . Martha J.
Cochran (1851 -1929). Name of wife from
dau . Nettie ' s marriage certificate to Fred S.
Jones Jr. , 28 Aug. 1915.
Lewis
b. 17 Mar . 1855.
George
Emiline b. 23 Aug. 1858.
Theodore [22] b. 19 Mar. 1861. m . Amanda Hontz
(23] . See next section.
John
b. 10 Aug . 1863.
Aaron
Thomas b. 19 Jan . 1865, d . 1947 m . Myrtle N.
Irvin
_ _ (1882-1943), according to their
tombstones in Laurel Cemetery, White
Haven, Pa.
Marshall b. 3 Aug. 1867 . Marriage license
Almiran application:
Marshall Berry, b. Dermison Twp., 3 Aug.
1867; residing
White
Haven,
Pa. ;
occupation -fireman; was m . before,
dissolved by death.
MaJilda Fish, b. White Haven, Pa., 17
June 1857; residing White Haven, Pa.; m .
16 May 1903 by Rev. J.W. Buckley,
White Haven, Pa.
Henry
b. 18 Jan. 1870.
Eudora b. 23 Mar. 1872.
Lucy
b. 23 Mar. 1874.
Elizabeth
Simon
b. 14 May 1876. Marriage license
Manes
application:
Simon Barry, b. Dennison Twp .. Pa.• 14
May 1875; residing Wright Twp.. Pa. ;
occupation -laborer.
Cora Morrison, b. Wright Twp., Pa., 27
Sept. 1877; residing Wright Twp., Pa.,;
consent of M.A. Barry, mother of Simon
Barry, residing at Wright Twp., and Ph.
Morrison, father of C. Morrison, Wright
Twp.; m . 17 Mar. 1897 by Rev. Stephen
Jay. Ashley, Pa.

Richard b. 16 Nov . 1879. Marriage license
Oliver
application:
Richard S . Berry, b. Moosehead, Luz. Co.,
Pa., 16 Nov. 1879; residing White Haven,
Pa.; occupation - fireman .
Minnie E. Deterline, b. Nevada, Ohio, 6
July 1879; residing White Haven, Pa.;
occupation -teacher; m . 26 Nov . 1902 by
Rev. Browning, East side. Carbon Co., Pa.
Richard d. 1962, and Minnie 1949 (Laurel
Cemetery tombstone inscriptions).

1860:

Charles 52. tavern keeper and farmer , value of real
Miller estate $500, value of personal property
$600, born in Pa.
Catherine51, born in Pa.
Miller
Charles 13 born in Pa.
Miller
Rachel 11, born in Pa.
Miller
Amanda 5 born in Pa.
Miller
John A. 24, teamster, born in Germany.

1870:

Charles 62, farmer, real estate worth S5.000,
Miller personal property worth Sl,000, born in
Pa.
Catherine 60, born in Pa.
Miller
Netty
female, 15, born in Pa.
Miller

Heart

Cory

9. born in Pa.

George

The deeds are these:
Vol. 61. page 49
Dated 11 May 1854
Dermison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land for
$2.00 to George Bush. Harvey Lloyd, Charles
Berger, Joseph Pryer, William Fish, and George
Fox, directors of Dennison Township.
Land was next to the German church and to be used
for the building of a school. Mary Ann Berry acts
as a witness to the deed.
Vol. 65, page 502
Dated 14 Feb. 1856
Dermison Township
Charles Miller and wife, Catherine sell 130 acres of
land to Theodore Bonham for $200.
Vol. 83, page 475
Dated 31 July 1857
Dermison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land to Jacob
Miller for sum of S 1.00

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The Berry Family

According to their tombstones at Laurel
Cemetery, White Haven, Pa. "Father" Peter
Barry was b. in 1829 and d. in 1913;
"Mother" Mary A. Barry was b. in 1834 and
d. in 1919. Her father Charles Miller [90] d.
aged 77 yr.- 11 mos., and mother Catherine
Miller [91] d. aged 77 yr. 9 mos. (no years of
death specified).

44.13

Mrs.
llie
Fairchild,
Peter's
greatgranddaughter, provided a list of thirteen of
the fourteen children born to Peter and Mary
Ann. To this list, I have added supplementary
marriage certificate and tombstone data. She
also gives Peter's birth date as 8 Apr. 1829
and that of Mary as 17 Mar. 1834.

A number of deeds relating to Charles and
Catherine Miller survive. They appear in the
1860 and 1870 censuses for Denison Twp.:

44.1
44.2

44.3
44.4
44.5
44.6
44.7

44.8

44.9
44.10
44.l 1
44.12

Sarah
b. 29 Oct. 1851.
Alrnedia
Jacob R. b. 2 Nov. 1853, d. 1919 (Laurel Cem ..
White Haven tombstone), m. Martha J.
Cochran (1851 -1929). Name of wife from
dau . Nettie 's marriage certificate to Fred S.
Jones Jr., 28 Aug. 1915.
Lewis
b . 17 Mar . 1855 .
George
Emiline b. 23 Aug . 1858.
Theodore[22] b. 19 Mar. 1861 , m . Amanda Hontz
[23] . See next section.
John
b. 10 Aug . 1863 .
Aaron
Thomas b. 19 Jan . 1865, d . 1947 m. Myrtle N.
Irvin
_ _ (1882-1943), according to their
tombstones in Laurel Cemetery, White
Haven, Pa.
Marshall b. 3 Aug. 1867. Marriage license
Alrniran application:
Marshall Berry, b. De1U1ison Twp., 3 Aug .
Pa.;
1867; residing
White
Haven,
occupation -fireman; was m. before,
dissolved by death.
MaJilda Fish, b. White Haven, Pa., 17
June 1857; residing White Haven, Pa.; m.
16 May 1903 by Rev. J.W. Buckley,
White Haven, Pa.
Henry
b. 18 Jan. 1870.
Eudora b. 23 Mar. 1872.
Lucy
b. 23 Mar. 1874.
Elizabeth
Simon b. 14 May 1876. Marriage license
Manes application:
Simon Barry, b. Dennison Twp., ~.• 14
May 1875; residing Wright Twp., Pa.;
occupation -laborer.
Cora Morrison, b. Wright Twp., Pa., 27
Sept. 1877; residing Wright Twp., Pa.,;
consent of M.A. Barry, mother of Simon
Barry, residing at Wright Twp., and Ph.
Morrison, father of C. Morrison, Wright
Twp.; m . 17 Mar. 1897 by Rev. Stephen
Jay, Ashley, Pa.

Richard b . 16 Nov . 1879. Marriage license
Oliver
appl ication:
Richard S. Berry, b. Moosehead, Luz. Co.,
Pa., 16 Nov . 1879; residing White Haven,
Pa. ; occupation - fireman.
Minnie E. Deterline, b. Nevada, Ohio, 6
July 1879; residing White Haven, Pa.;
occupation -teacher; m. 26 Nov. 1902 by
Rev. Browning, East side, Carbon Co., Pa.
Richard d. 1962, and Minnie 1949 (Laurel
Cemetery tombstone inscriptions).

1860:

Charles 52, tavern keeper and farmer, value of real
Miller estate $500, value of personal property
$600, born in Pa.
Catherine51, born in Pa.
Miller
Charles 13 born in Pa.
Miller
Rachel 11, born in Pa.
Miller
Amanda 5 born in Pa.
Miller
John A. 24, teamster, born in Germany .

1870:

Charles 62, farmer, real estate worth S5.000,
Miller personal property worth $1,000, born in
Pa.
Catherine 60, born in Pa.
Miller
Netty
female, 15, born in Pa.
Miller
Cory
9, born in Pa.
George

Heart

The deeds are these:
Vol. 61, page 49
Dated 11 May 1854
DeIUlison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land for
$2.00 to George Bush. Harvey Lloyd, Charles
Berger, Joseph Pryer, William Fish, and George
Fox, directors of Dennison Township.
Land was next to the German church and to be used
for the building of a school. Mary Ann Berry acts
as a wibless to the deed.
Vol. 65, page 502
Dated 14 Feb. 1856
DeIUlison Township
Charles Miller and wife, Catherine sell 130 acres of
land to Theodore Bonham for S200.
Vol. 83, page 475
Dated 31 July 1857
Dermison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land to Jacob
Miller for smn of $1.00

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Vol. 127, page 149
Dated 21 Nov. 1866
Dennison Township
Property of Charles Miller is being sold by Sheriff.
Property contains a "two story frame house, 2 frame
barns, a shed, a blacksmith shop, and other out
buildings," sold for $527.
Vol 165, page 507
Dated 3 Mar. 1873
Dennison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine "in consideration
of the within deed from John Brown and wife, and
George Brader and wife to said Catherine Miller
hereby accept the within deed in settlement of the
care of Chas . Miller and wife to John Brown and
others . Com. Pa. Luz. co . No . 971, Aug . 1871."
Vol. 173, page 401
Dennison Township
Catherine Miller buys back land that her husband
lost in sale for sum of S600.
Vol. 220, page 268
Dated 9 Mar 1880
Dennison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land to
Thomas Blake of Wilkes-Barre for the sum of SI .00
with stipulation that their son Thomas Miller and
his heirs have the right to use at all times in
common with Blake the water upon and flowing
through land .
Vol. 221, page 426
Dated 24 Nov. 1880
Dennison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land to
George L. Berry for sum of $300. Land was
conveyed to Catherine Miller by Ann. W . Emley,
27 Aug. 1868.
Vol. 233, page 334
Dated 29 June 1882
Dennison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell 10 acres of
land to Thomas Blake of Wilkes-Barre for sum of
$1.00. Their son Thomas retains right in common
to use water on land.
Vol. 237, page 343
Dated 15 Apr. 1881
Dermison Township
Catherine Miller, wife of Charles Miller, sells land
to Mary Ann Barry, wife of Peter Barry of
Dermison Township for sum of $1.00.
Vol. 237, page 345
Dated 15 Apr. 1881
Dennison Township
Catherine Miller wife of Charles Miller sells land to
Mary Ann Barry wife of Peter Barry of Dennison
Township for sum of $1.00.
Vol. 237, page 365
Dated 30 Sept. 1882
Dermison Township

Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land to
Emma Miller wife of Charles T . Miller for sum of
$1.00.
Vol. 257, page 584
Dated 22 May 1883
Dennison Township
Charles Miller and wife Catherine sell land to
Rachel Wenner wife of Benjamin Wenner for sum
of Sl.00.
Vol. 288, page 298
Dated 11 Nov . 1889
Dermison Township
Emanuel David acting as administrator of estate of
Catherine Miller late of Dennison Township sells
part of her land for debts . Sum of Sl,270.
Vol. 309, page 206
Dated 9 May 1892
Wright Township
Jacob Miller and wife Catherine of Dennison
Township, Peter Barry and wife Mary Ann of
Dennison Township, Benjamin Wenner and wife
Rachel of Easton, Pa., Emanuel David and wife
Andretta of Easton, Pa., Charles T . Miller of
Ashley, Luzerne County - all Grantors, sell land to
Emeline Smith of Hazleton for sum of SlOO. All
parties are heirs of Catherine Miller. (Notice the
will of Catherine Miller does not mention her son
Charles T., but he does sign off the above deed.)
Vol. 403, page 76
Dated 16 May 1901
This Indenture, Made the Sixteenth day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
one (1901).
BETWEEN Benjamin F. Wenner
and Rachiel his wife, and Emanuel David and Retta
his wife, all of Easton, Northampton County,
Penn'a, and Peter Barry and Mary A. Barry his wife
of White Haven, Luzerne Co\Dlty State aforesaid,
Thomas Miller and Mary his wife, of Fairview, and
Jacob Miller and Catharine his wife, of Turmell,
County and State aforesaid, and Emiline Smith
(widow) of Elmira New York, being all the heirs
and legal representatives of Charles Miller late of
Denison Township, deceased, of the first part, and
Richard Barry and Irvine Barry, of the Borough of
White Haven, Cmmty of Luzerne State of Penn'a, of
the second part,
WITNESSETH, That the said
parties of the first part, for an in consideration of
the sum of One Dollar lawful money of the United
States of America, well and truly paid by the said
parties of the second part to the said parties of the
first part, at and before the ensealing and delivery
of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged have granted, bargained, sold,
aliened,
enfeoffed,
released,
conveyed
and
confirmed, and by these presents doth grant,
bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release, convey and
confirm, unto the said parties of the second part,
their heirs and assigns,
ALL their right, title and
interest that they now have ever had or may have in
the One hundred and thirty two (132) acres of land
siblate in the Township of Denison, County of
Luzerne, State of Pennsylvania, which became

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vested in Charles Miller by County Commissioners
Deed dated the 12th day of December A.D. One
thousand eight hWldred and eighty one (1881) and
recorded int the Office for the large appear,
TOGETHER, with all and singular, the buildings,
improvements, woods, ways, water courses, rights,
libe.rties,
privileges,
hereditaments
and
appurtenances, to the one belonging, or in any wise
appertaining, and the reversion and reversions,
remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits
thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof, AND
ALSO, the estate, right, title, interest, property,
possession. claim and demand whatsoever, both law
and equity, of the said part of the first part, of, in,
and to the said premises with appurtenances:
TO
HA VE AND TO HOLD the said premises, with all
and singular the appurtenances, to the said parties of
the second part, their heirs and assigns, to the only
proper use, benefit and behoof of the said parties of
the second part, their heirs and assigns forever.
AND the said Benjamin F. Wenner' et al (grantors)
their heirs, executors, and administrators, doth by
these presents covenant, grant and agree to and with
the said parties of the second part their heirs and
assigns forever, that they the said Benjamin F.
Wenner al grantors their heirs, all and singular the
hereditaments and premises herein above ascribed
and granted, or mentioned and intended so to be,
with the appurtenances, unto .the said parties of the
second parties heirs and assigns, against them the
said Benjamin F. Wenner et al (grantors) their heirs,
and against all and every other person or persons,
whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same
or any part thereof, Shall and will warrant and
forever Defend.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
said parties of the first part to these pressents have
reunto set their hands and seals, Dated the day and
year first above written.

Signed, Sealed and Deliverd
in the presence of
Wimess as to B.F. Wenner & wife
T.H. Stevens
John Brunner
John Brunner
Daniel Heimbach as to
Peter Bary and Mary his wife,
Thomas Miller and Mary his wife,
and Jacob Miller and Catherine
Miller his wife

Benjamin

F.

Wenner

(Seal)
her
Rachel X Wenner (Se a
1)
mark
Emanuel David (Seal)
Rena David (Seal)
his
Peter X Barry (Seal)
mark
her
Mary X Barry (Seal)
mark
his
Thomas X Miller (Seal)
mark
his
Mary X Miller (Seal)
mark
Jacob Miller (Seal)
her
Catherine X Miller
(Seal)
mark
her
Emiline X Smith (Seal)

27

mark
Wimess, Mrs Wm Nelson, Mrs. W. Hackett,
State of Penn'a )
County of Northhampton)ss.
On the twenty fifth
day of May ANNO DOMINI, 1901, before me,
John Brunner An Alderman in and for said County
duly authorized to take acknowledgement personally
appeared Emanuel David and Retta his wife and in
due form of law acknowledged the foregoing to be
their act and deed, and desired the same might be
recorded as such; and the said Retta David being of
full age, and separate and apart from her said
husband by me thereon privately examined, and the
full contents of the Deed being by me first made
known unto her did thereupon declare and say that
she did voluntarily and of her own free will and
accord, sign, seal and as her act and deed, deliver
the same without any coercion or compulsion of her
said husband.
Witness by hand and Official seal the day and
year aforesaid,
John Brunner, Alderman, (Seal of
Alderman)
State of Penn'a )
County of Northampton)ss.
On the 23rd day of
May ANNO DOMIN1, one thousand nine hundred
and one, before me the undersigned Alderman in
and for the County of Norhampton, personally
appeared Benjamin F. Wenner and Rachiel his wife,
and in due form of law acknowledged the foregoing
to be their act and deed, and desired the same might
be recorded as such, and the said Rachiel Wenner
being of full age, and separate and apart from her
said husbandby me thereon privately examined, and
the full contents of the Deed being by me first
made known mlto her did thereupon declare and say
that she did voluntarily and of her own free will
and accord, sign, seal and as her act and deed,
deliver the same without any coercion or
compulsion of her said husband.
Witness my hand and Official seal the day and
year aforesaid,
TA Stevens, Ald, (Seal of Alderman)
State of Pennsylvania)
County of Luzerne)ss
On the 29 day of May
ANNO DOMINI, 1901, before me, a Justice of the
Peace personally appeared Peter Barry and Mary his
wife, and in due form of law acknowledged the
foregoing Indenture to be their act and deed, and
desired the same might be recorded as such, and the
said Mary Barry being of full age, and separate and
apart from her said husband by me thereon privately
examined. and the full contents of the Deed being
by me first made .known unto her did thereupon
declare and say that she did voluntarily and of her
own free will and accord, sign, seal and as her act
and deed deliver the same without any coercion or
compulsion of her said husband.
Wimess my hand and official seal the day and
year aforesaid.
Daniel Heimbach, Justice of the Peace,
(Seal of J.P.)

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State of Penn'a )
On the 29th day of May,
County of Luzerne)ss.
ANNO OOMINl, one thousand nine hundred and
one before me a Justice of the Peace personally
appeared Thomas Miller and-----Miller his wife and
in due form of law acknowledged the foregoing to
be their act and deed, and desired the same might
be recorded as such, and the said-----Miller being of
full age, and separate and apart from her said
husband by me thereon privately examined, and the
full contents of the same being by me first made
known unto her did thereupon declare and say that
she did voluntarily and of her own free will and
accord, sign, seal and as her act and deed deliver
the same without any coercion or compulsion of her
said husband.
Witness my hand and Official seal the day and
year aforesaid,
Daniel Heimbach. Justice of the Peace,
(Seal)
State of Penn 'a )
County of Luzerne)ss.
One the 31st day of May
ANNO OOMINl, one thousand nine hundred and
one before me a Justice of he Peace personally
appeared Jacob Miller and Catharine Miller his wife
and in due form of law acknowledged the foregoing
Indenture to be their act and deed, and desired the
same might be recorded as such; and the said
Catherine Miller being of full age, and separate and
apart from her said husband by me thereon privately
examined, and the full contents of the Deed being
by me first made known unto her did thereupon
declare and say that she did voluntarily and of her
own free will and accord, sign, seal and as her act
and deed, deliver the saame without any coercion or
compulsion of her said husband.
Witness my hand and official seal the day and
year aforesaid,
Daniel Heimbach, Justice of the Peace,
(Seal)
State of New York )
County of Chemung )ss .
On the 10th day of
June ANNO OOMINJ, 1901, before me, Notary
Public in and for said State and County, personally
appeared Mrs. Emiline Smith and in due form of
law acknowledged the annexed Indenture to be her
act and deed, and desired by her the same might be
recorded as such.
Witness my hand and Official seal the day and
year aforesaid,
William Hackett., Notary Public,
Recorded, August., 26th, 1901,

Catherine Miller d. 9 Jan. 1887. Her will was
recorded 7 Feb. 1887, and lists Mary Berry as
an heir. The death certificate says that her
father was b. in Monroe Co., gives her
mother's maiden name as Miller, b. in White
Haven.
White Haven, of course, close to
Monroe Co.
In the name of Alrnight God Amen I Catharine Miller of

Denison Township Luzerne County State of Pennsylvania
being weak of body but of sound mind memory and
understanding thanks be to the Almighty God for it., do
publish and declare this to be my last will and testament
revoking all others. 1st. I recommend my soul into the hands
of Almighty God. my maker hoping through the merits of
Jesus Christ my savior to recline full pardon of all my sins.
2nd. It is my will and I do order that all my debts and
funeral charges be paid first by my Executor. 3rd. I give and
be.queath to my beloved husband Charles Miller the residue
of my Estate real and personal for his soul use and benifit
during his life after which I will that it shall be di vided
equally among my children as follows, to wit, Emiline Smith,
Jacob Miller Mary Berry, Thomas C . Miller, Rachal! Grass,
Andretta David. 4th. I desire and with that the funeral
expenses of my dear beloved husband shall be paid out of my
estate before there is a division made among my children .
5th. I do hereby appoint and constirute
to
be Executor of this my Last will and testament, as witness
my hand and seal the eighteenth day of June in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred seventy eight (1878 ).
6th . It is my will and last testament that the fifty acers now
in possession of my son Jacob be held and owned by him .
7th. I hereby constitute and appoint my soninlaw Eamuel
David and Thomas B. Blake to be the Executors of this my
last will and testament.
her
Catherine X Miller (Seal)
Alterations made before
signing Tho. Blake
mark
signed & sealed in presence of}
Hetta S. Blake
}
Thomas B . Blake }
It is my will that Ascher Smith and Jacob Miller shall act
with Emauel David as my Executors her
Catherine X Miller (Seal)
Hetta S. Blake
mark
Registers Office Wilkes Barre Pa., 7 Feb. 1887
Luzerne County, S.S.
This day before me Samuel W . Boyd Esq. Regi ster
of Wills in and for the County aforesaid personally came
Hetta S. Blake one of the subscribing witness to the above
and foregoing last will and testament of Catharine Miller
Luzerne County and State of Pennsylvania deceased who
being duly sworn according to law says that she was present
and saw and heard Catharine Miller testarix, sign, seal,
publish pronounce the foregoing instrument of writing as and
for her last will and testament., and that at the time of so
doing she was of sound mind, memory and understanding to
the best of her knowledge and belief, and that she did sign
her name as a subscribing witness in the presence of Thomas
B. Blake and in the presence and at the request of the said
testatrix
}
Sworn and subsribed before
}Hena S. Blake
me the day and year above written
}
Samuel W . Boyd
Register
}
per J.M. Schappers Deputy
Registers Office Wilkes Barre, 7 Feb. 1887, Luzerne
County, S.S.

This day before me Samuel W . Boyd Esq. Register
of Wills in and for the County aforesaid personally came
H.W. Blake who being duly sworn according to law says that
he was well acquainted with Thomas B. Blake late a resident
of the City of Wilkes Barre in the County of Luzerne State of
Pennsylvania who was one of the subscribing witnesses to the
Last Will and Testament of Catharine Miller late of the
Township of Denison Luzerne County and State of

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Pennyslvania deceased, that he is familiar with the
handwriting of said Thomas B. Blake having frequently seen
him write his own name as well as other matters, that the
said Thomas B. Blake is now deceased, that he has carefully
examined the signature of Thomas B. Blake to the aforesaid
Last Will and Testament dated the 18th day of June A.O.
1878 and verily believes the same to be in the own proper
handwriting of said Thomas B . Blake
Sworn and subsribed before
}
me the day and year above written
}H.W . Blake
Samuel W. Boyd
Register
}
per J.M . Schappers Deputy
}
Commonwealth of Penna }
}S .S.
Luzerne County
This day before me Samuel W . Boyd Esq. Register
of Wills in and for the County aforesaid, personally came
Hetta S. Blake one of the subscribing witnesses in the above
and foregoing last will and testament of Catharine Miller late
of Luzerne County and State of Pennsylvania deceased who
being duly sworn according to law says that Thomas B.
Blake in the said will named as one of the Executors thereof
is now deceased . That the name of Thomas B . Blake one of
the subsribing witnesses to said last will and testament is in
the proper handv.Titing of said Thomas B . Blake now
deceased with which handwriting the said affiant is well
acquainted and that his name as a subscribing witness to the
said last will and testament was subscribed thereto in the
presence of the said affiant at the requ~st and the presence of
the said Catharine Mill er the testatrix
}
Sworn and subsribed before
me this 7th day of Feb. 1887
}Hena S. Blake
}
Samuel W. Boyd
Register
}
per J.M . Schappers Deputy
Filed 7 Feb. 1887
And now to wit; 7th day of Feb. 1887 Having
considered the testimony offered in this case and filed the
same record I do adjudge the foregoing writing to be duly
proved as the last will and testament of the said Catharine
Miller now deceased, and as such I do enter the same of
record according to law.
Samuel W . Boyd Register

-

In conformity with the above will and probate
thereof letters Testamentary thereon were this 7th day of
February AD. 1887 granted unto Emauel David he having
first been duly sworn to well and truly administer the goods
and chattels rights and credits which were of Catharine Miller
deceased according to law
Date of death 9th Jan. 1887 }
at 6 O'Clock P.M .
}
Given under my hand and seal of the Registers
Office this 7th day of Feb. AD. 1887.
Samuel W. Boyd Register

So far, I have not been able to trace Charles
and Catherine Miller's ancestry. Ilya Fairchild
gives Charles's birth date as 28 Nov. 1807
and Catherine's as 23 June 1810. She also
provided the following family and birthdates:
90.1
90.2

Emeline b. 26 Oct. 1829.
Jacob
b. 28 Oct. 1830.

90.3
90.4
90.5
90.6
90.7
90.8

Mary
b.
Ann
Thomas b .
Rachel b.
Alvaretto b.
Mary
b.
Ann
Charles b.
Jr.

17 Mar. 1834.
20
12
31
19

Apr. 1847.
Sept. 1849.
July 1855.
July 1857.

9 Mar. 1859.

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The Berry Family

THEODORE BARRY AND
AMANDA HONTZ

Theodore Barry (22] was b. 19 Mar. 1861.
He m. Amanda Hontz (23] in 1880, and they
had nine children, eight of whom were living
in 1910. In 1898 he was a teamster, but by
1901 had become a "Boss at a Powder Mill."
His son Harold ' s 1915 marriage certificate
says that Theodore was a carpenter. In a
deed made 12 Aug. 1918 (copy attached) he
transferred the property he owned in White
Haven to his children for $1 .00. The transfer
was probably precipitated by Amanda's death.
The eight known children were:
22.l
22.2
22.3

22.4
22.5
22.6

22.7
22.8

Frank
William b. Apr. 1881 , m. Eva Lena.
George H.b. May 1883, m . Claribel Fair.
Carrie
Elizabeth b. 15 May 1885, m . Robert Elias Morrison
on 24 Dec, 1901 at White ·Haven, Pa. (by
Rev . J.W . Romberger).
She d. 2 May
1958 and he d. 10 Feb. 1949.
Lillian J. b. Sept. 1888, m . Carl Whitcraft.
Elena K.
(Lorene) b. June 1891, m . Max Miller.
Harold C.b. Feb. 1895, m . Blanche Daneker 24
Nov . 1915 at White Haven (by Rev. L.F.
Brown). He d. 1976 and Blanche 1985
(Laurel Cemetery tombstones).
Clyde P. b. 30 Apr. 1898.
Ruth
b. 12 Apr. 1901 at Church St., White
Haven, m . Alben S. Snyder 15 Apr. 1919
at White Haven (by Rev . W.R. Faus).
She was a mill hand.

They are mentioned in a 1918 deed:
~S DEED, Made the Twelfth day of August in the year

Nmeteen Hundred and Eighteen (1918),
BETWEEN Clyde
B8ll')'., Lena Miller and her husband Max Miller, Carrie
Momson and her husband Rohen E. Morrison. Harold Barry
and his wife, Blanch Barry. all of the Borough of White
Haven, PeTUlsylvania. and Frank William Barry and his wife
Eva Lena Barry of Penobscot, Pennsylvania, George Barry
and his wife Claribel Fair Barry, Lillian Barry Whitcraft and
Carl Whitcraft, of Columbus Kansas. Albert Snyder and his
wife Ruth Barry Snyder of White Haven, Penna. Granters,
AND Theodore Barry, of the Borough of White Haven,
Luzerne, County, State of Pennsyv lania, party of the second
part, Grantee,
WITNESSETH. That in consideration of
One Dollars in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, the said grantor do hereby release and
quitclaim to the said grantee,
ALL those certain two lots
of land situate in the Borough of White Haven, Luzerne
co~ty State of Pennsylvania. numbered in the plan or plot of
said Borough. 81 and 83, and lying on the west side of
Church Street; and on the Nonhside of the intersection of

Pine Street. Containing in Front or breadth on said Church
street. fifty feet each. and in length or depth to an all ey, one
hundred and ninety feet, bounded on the Nonh by lot No. 85
on the east by Church street; on the South by Pine street; on
the West by an alley . Being the same lands and premises
that by sundry conveyance became vested in Amanda Barry
by deed from John H. Halsey dated the 11th, January 1916
and recorded in the Office for the recording of deeds in and
for Luzerne county in deed book no. 509 page 404 reference
there unto being had the same will more fully and at large
appear.
SECOND: All that certain lot pie.cc or parcel of
land situate in the Township of Denison, Luzerne County
State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows to
wit:
BEGINNING at a comer in the west line of the tract
of land in the warrantee name of Jesse Fell, Thence south
along the line of Jesse Fell and Thomas Poulton tracts two
hundred perches to a comer in the west line of the Thomas
Poulton tract, and the Nonheast corner of the Meredith
Clymer tract; Thence west along the Meredith Clymer tract
three hundred and sixty perches, more or Jess, to the
northwest comer of the Meredith Clymer tract; Thence north
along the lines of the Richad Parker and William Parker
tracts, two hundred perches to the Southwest comer of the
William Gray tract in the East line of the William Parker
tract; Thence east three hundred and sixty perches more or
less to the place of Beginning. Excepting the part conveyed
by John Brown et al . to Joseph Schultz by deed date.d 7 Feb.
1989 and recorded in the Office aforesaid in deed book No .
280 Page 539. The tract herein conveyed containing about
four hundred acres more or less. Being the same land and
premises that by sundry conveyance became vested in Mary
A. Barry et al. by deed from Charles F. Wharen, attorney
dated the 14th day of January 1915. Recorded in deed book
504 Page 241 Reference thereunto being had the same will
more fully and at large appear.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
said grantors have hereunto set their hands and seals the day
and year first above written.
Clyde Barry (SEAL)
Lena Miller (SEAL)
Sealed and Delivered in the
presence of
Thos. W . Ricker as to Clyde Barry.

Max Miller (SEAL)
Frank William Barry
(SEAL)
Ruth Barry. Lena Miller, Max Miller, Eva Lena Barry
(SEAL)
Frank W . Barry. Eva L. Barry.
Robt E. Morrison, Carrie Morrison; George Barry (SEAL)
Harold Barry and Blanch Barry,
Claribel Fair Barry
Alben Snyder and Ruth Barry Snyder
(SEAL)
Lillian Barry Whitecraft
(SEAL)
Carl Whitcraft (SEAL)
Alben Snyder (SEAL)
Ruth Barry Snyder
State of Pennsyvlania.
(SEAL)
Robert C. Morrison
ColD'lty of Luzerne
(SEAL)
Carrie Morrison
(SEAL)
Harold Barry (SEAL)
Blanche Barry (SEAL)
On this 12th day of Feby. A .O. 1919. before me a Justice of
the peace. residing in White Haven. Pa. came the above
named Clyde Barry, Lena Miller, Max Miller, Frank Barry,

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Pennyslvania deceased, that he is familiar with the
handwriting of said Thomas B. Blake having frequently seen
him write his own name as well as other matters, that the
said Thomas B. Blake is now deceased, that he has carefully
examined the signature of Thomas B. Blake to the aforesaid
Last Will and Testament dated the 18th day of June A.O.
1878 and verily believes the same to be in the own proper
handwriting of said Thomas B. Blake
Sworn and subsribed before
}
me the day and year above written
}H.W. Blake
Samuel W. Boyd
Register
}
per J.M. Schappers Deputy
}
Commonwealth of Penna }
Luzerne County
}S.S.
This day before me Samuel W. Boyd Esq. Register
of Wills in and for the County aforesaid. personally came
Hetta S. Blake one of the subscribing witnesses in the above
and foregoing last will and testament of Catharine Miller late
of Luzerne County and State of Pennsylvania deceased who
being duly sworn according to law says that Thomas B .
Blake in the said will named as one of the Executors thereof
is now deceased . That the name of Thomas B . Blake one of
the subsribing witnesses to said last will and testament is in
the proper handwriting of said Thomas B. Blake now
deceased with which handwriting the said affiant is well
acquainted and that his name as a subscribing witness to the
said last will and testament was subscribed thereto in the
presence of the said affiant at the requ~st and the presence of
the said Catharine Miller the testatrix
}
Sworn and subsribed before
me this 7th day of Feb. 1887
}Hena S. Blake
}
Samuel W. Boyd
Register
}
per J.M . Schappers Deputy
Filed 7 Feb. 1887
And now to wit; 7th day of Feb. 1887 Having
considered the testimony offered in this case and filed the
same record I do adjudge the foregoing writing to be duly
proved as the last will and testament of the said Catharine
Miller now deceased, and as such I do enter the same of
record according to law.
Samuel W. Boyd Register

In conformity with the above will and probate
thereof letters Testamentary thereon were this 7th day of
February A.O. 1887 granted unto Emauel David he having
first been duly sworn to well and truly administer the goods
and chattels rights and credits which were of Catharine Miller
deceased according to law
Date of death 9th Jan . 1887 }
at 6 O'Clock P.M .
}
Given under my hand and seal of the Registers
Office this 7th day of Feb. A.D. 1887.
Samuel W. Boyd Register

So far, I have not been able to trace Charles
and Catherine Miller's ancestry. Ilya Fairchild
gives Charles's birth date as 28 Nov. 1807
and Catherine's as 23 June 1810. She also
provided the following family and birthdates:
90.l
90.2

Emeline b. 26 Oct. 1829.
Jacob
b. 28 Oct. 1830.

90.3
90.4
90.5
90.6
90.7
90.8

Mary
b.
Ann
Thomas b.
Rachel b.
Alvarettob.
Mary
b.
Ann
Charles b.
Jr.

17 Mar. 1834.
20 Apr. 1847.
12 Sept. 1849.
31July1855.
19 July 1857.
9 Mar. 1859.

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Eva Barry, James Morrison, Carrie Morrison, Harold Barry
and Blanch Barry and acknowledged the foregoing Dee.cl to
be their act and deed, and desire.cl the same to be recored as
WITNESS my hand and official seal the day and
such.
year aforesaid .
State of Kansas,

)
)
)SS:
)
Cherokee County, )

Thos. W . Ricker. Justice of the
Peace (SEAL J.S.) My
commission expires First Mon.
Jan. 1920

Be it rememberd, That on this, the 5th day of March A.O.
1919 before me the undersigned, Notary Public, in and for
the County and State aforesaid, came George Barry and
Claribel Fair Barry, his wife, and Lillian Whitcraft and Carl
Whitcraft, her husband, who are personally known to me to
be the same persons who executed the within irtstrument of
writing, and such persons duly acknowledged the execution of
the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixe.d my Notarial seal the day and year
last above written.
State of Penna.

Luzerne County.

)
)SS :
)
)

E.R. Pattyson, Notary Public
(SEAL of N.P.) Term Expires
15 January 1923.

On this 20th day of August 1923, before me a Justice of the
Peace residing in the Borough of White Haven, Pa. personally
appeared Albert Snyder and his wife Ruth Barry Snyder and
-acknowledged the foregoing deed and desired the same to be
recorde.d as such.
WITNESS my hand and seal the day
and year aforesaid.

Recorded 23 August 1923.

Thos. W . Ricker, Justice of the
Peace (SEAL of J.P.) Com.
Expires 1st Mon. Jan. 1926.
L.W.
COMP. BY.

Theodore d. 16 Dec. 1921. His will of 26
Sept. 1919 was not probated until 1954.
In the name of God Amen:
I, Theodore Barry of sound mind and memory, and realizing
the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death. do make
this my last will and testament. hereby revoking any former
wills by me made.
First: It is my will that all my just debts be paid, as soon
after my demise as convenient, including my last sickness and
burial expense.
Second: after which it is my will that all my property both
real and personal be divide.cl between my eight children share
and share alike: - Who are named as follows:
Clyde Barry, my son;
George Barry, my son;
Frank Barry, my son;
Harold Barry, my son;
Carrie Morrison, nee Barry, my daughter;
Lillian Whitcraft. nee Barry, my daughter;
Ruth Snyder, nee Barry, my daughter;
Lorene Miller, nee Barry, my daughter.

31

Third: It is my will that my son George Barry act as
Executor of this my last will and testament, without bond .
Witness my hand this 26th day of September 1919
Theodore Barry
Witness (unreadable)
Witness (unreadable)
Register's Office, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 30 September 1954
Personally came Carrie Morrison, Executor of the estate of
Theodore Barry of the Borough of White Haven, Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania, deceased, who being duly sworn
according to the law says that J.R. Carter and A.E. Pattyson,
whose signature appears as a subscribing witness to the last
Will and Testament of Theodore Barry, decease.cl. is not
readily available to prove the signature of the testor because
both witnesses were residents of the state of Kansas and it
cannot be ascertaine.d whether they are living or dead .
Dated: 30 September 1954
Petition in the mauer of Probate of the Orphans ' Court for the
County of Luzerne, in the Commonwealth of Penns ylvania.

In the matter of Probate of the Last Will and Testament of
Theodore Barry, White Haven Borough, deceased.
The Petition of Carrie Morrison, 211 Susquehanna Street,
White Haven, Pa. respectfully showth that she is not the
Executor name.cl in the last Will and Testament of Theodore
Barry, age 64, dated the 26th day of September 1919.
That said Theodore Barry was a citizen of the Unite.cl States
and resident of Luzerne County, state of Pennsylvania, and
departe.d this life at Main Street. Boro of White Haven in th e
County of Luzerne and state of Pennsylvania on the 19th day
of December 1921.
The dece.dent was not remarried nor had any children born to
or adopted by him since the date of his will.
The said testator was possessed of real estate to the value of
$300.00 on interest in land located in Dennison Township,
Pa.
Dated: 30 September 1954
Register's Office, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 30 September 1954
This day before me came Frank Barry and Lorene Miller who
being duly sworn. according to law say that they were well
acquainted with Theodore Barry late a resident of Borough of
White Haven, in the County of Luzerne, State of
Pennsylvania who was a testor of a last Will and Testament
offered for probate, that they are familiar with the
handwriting of the said Theodore Barry having frequently
seen him write his own name as well as other matters. That
they carefully examined the signature in the afore said last
Will and Testament dated the 26th day of September 1954
and verify the same to be in the handwriting of said
Theodore Barry.
Signe.cl: 30 September 1954

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Who were Amanda Hontz ' s parents? Ruth
Snyder, Theodore and Amanda's one surviving
daughter, says that Amanda was born in
Lehighton , Carbon Co. and that she and her
siblings were orphaned at an early age. Her
father was killed in a rock fall, and her
mother died from an unknown cause.
Amanda was raised by a Steigerwalt family .
Her siblings included a Lucy who m. a
Fogelman and moved to Ohio, Henrietta who
m. a Hershner and lived in Andreas, Pa., and
Reuben Hontz who may have lived in Wilkes
Barre.
Ruth also said that her older sister Elena's
middle name was Krewson and that she was
told that Krewson was an old family name.
Whether a Krewson was the wife of one of
the male Hontz forebears or whether
Catherine Miller was a Krewson we do not
know.

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INDEX
The Berry Family of New Jersey
Acton
Hester 19
John 19
Alst
Andires Joriszen 16
Maria 16
Alyea
Susannah 10
Andrews
Prudence 6
Anthony
Hester 15
Nicholas 15
Arianse
Marytie 20
Aukese
Helena 9
Jan 9

Barry
Amanda M . 23, 30
Blanch 31
Blanche 30
Carl 23
Carrie Eliz. 30, 31
Carrie C. 23
Charles 23
Charlotte 23
Claribel F. 30, 31
Clyde P. 23, 30, 31
Elena K. 23, 30, 33
Eva 30, 31
Frank W. 23, 30, 31
G. Cleveland 23
George H. 23, 30, 31
Harold C . 23, 30, 31
Irvin 23
Irvine 26
Jacob 23
Jesse 23
John w. 23
Lena 23
Lillian J. 30, 31
Lillie J. 23
Lorene 30, 31
Lucy 33
MA. 24
Margaret 23
Marshall 23
Martha 23
Mary Ann 24, 26, 27, 30
Matilda 23
Minnie 23
Myrtle 23
Nettie M. 23
Peter 24, 26, 27
Reba 23
Richard 23, 26
Ruth 23, 30, 31
Theodore 30, 31, 33

Bastiens
Maryken 15
Beck
Paulus V mDer 7
Bergen
Gerrit 9
Hans Hansen 9
Sarah 9
Teunis G. 7
Berger
Charles 24
Berry
Abraham 6
Addie H. 19
Amanda 24
Ann 16
Anna 15, 19
Anne 19
Annetje 7
Annetjie 6
Capt. John 2, 4, 7
Catalyna 10
Cathalyntje 7, 9
Catharine 19
Catherine 6
Catlina 6
Catren IO
Caty IO
Charity 5, 6
Cora 24
Cornelius Jan 6
David 10, 16
Deborah 7
Deputy Gov. John 2
Eleanor 19
Elisabeth 10
Eliza 19
Elizabeth 5-7, 10, 16
Ellen 19
Emiline 24
Emily 23
Eudora 24
Fietje 10
Francina 6
Francis 5
George L. 26
Hannah 5, 6
Harriet A. 19, 22
Helena 6
Hendrilrus 10
Henry 10, 23, 24
Hester IO, 16
Irvin 23
Jacob 10, 16. 18, 19. 22.

23, 24
Jacobus 6. 7
Jacomyntje 7
James T. 6, 7, 19
Jmet 10

Jemina 6, 7
Johanna 7
John A. 5, 6, IO, 19, 24
John G. 19
John
19
Kate G. 19
Klaas 6
Laura 19
Lewis G. 23, 24
Lucy E. 24
Margaret 6, 10, 16, 19
Margaretta 18
Maria 6, IO, 15, 16, 20
Marshall A. 23, 24
Martha J. 23, 24
Martin E. 7, 10, 12, 15,
19
Martin J. 16
Martin R. 19
Mary 5, 6, 16, 23, 28
Mary F. 22
Mary L. 19
Matilda 24
Mattheus IO
Minnie E. 24
Myrtle N. 24
Nedemiah 5
Paulus 7
Peter J. 10, 19, 22, 23
Phillip 6
Pieter IO
Prudence 6
Rebe.ckah 16
Richard 0 . 5, 6, 23, 24
Rutjie 6
Samuel B . 5-7, 9, IO,
20, 22
Samuel J. 19
Samuel R. 19
Samuel S. 21
Sara 10
Sarah Alrnedia 5-7. 16,
19, 22, 24
Simon M. 23, 24
Sophia 19
Susanna 10, 21
Susannah 10, 20
Theodore E. 19, 23, 24
Thomas I. 5, 23, 24
Tin.is 7
Walter 6, 7
William E. 5, 6, 10, 19
William L.G. 19
William W. 22
Bestavaer
CapL Jan 1. 20
Beus
Neeltie 20

w.

Blake
H .W. 28, 29
Hena S. 28, 29
Thomas B. 26, 28, 29
Bogert
Sarah 9

Tunis G. 9
Bonham
Theodore 24
Bosch
Anna 15
Barend 15
Boyd
Samuel W . 29
Bradbury
Maria 6
Brader
George 26
Braetbury
Maria 6
Bresser
Mary 5
Brown
Jennetje 18
John 26, 30
Rev . L.F. 30
Browne
John 5
Brunner
John 27
Burger

Genit 9
Sarah 9
Burgua
Hester IO
Jolm 10
Bush
George 24
Buys
Jan Petersen 20
Neeltje Janse 20
Cartaret
Capt. James 2
Caner
J.R. 31
Carteret
Philip 2
Clymer
Meredith 30
Cochran
Martha J. 24
Coerte
Antje 22
Harmanis 22
Harmanus 21

Susanna 22
Coenen
Jan 20

The Berry Family
Connelly
Margaret 6
Cooper
John 6
Samuel 6
Cortten
Johannes 20
Courte
Abraham 21
Ayre 21
Hendrick 20
Hermanus 21
Jacobus 21
Jan 20, 21
Johannis 20
Neeltje 21
Nelletjie 21
Peter 21
Courten
Jan 20
Courter
Anna 19, 21, 22
Caty 21
Elizabeth 21
Guert 20
Guertje 20
Harmen 20
Henry 21
Hermanus 21. 22
Horomonus 21
Jan 20
Jannetje 21
John 21
Leeya 21
Mary 21
Peter 21
Ryckje 20
Sarah 21
Susanna 21
Susannah 20, 22
Couter
Hermanus 21
Daly
Cornelia 16
Philip 16
Daneker
Blanche 30
David
Andrena 28
Emanuel 26-28
Emauel 29
Rena 26, 27
Davis
Nidemia 6
Day
Moses 16
Rebeckah 16
de

Bury

Ralph 2
de Jong
Antje 21
Elizabeth 22
Maretje 21
Maritje 21
Pieter 21
Susannah 22

de Mandeville

David 18, 19
Eliza 19
Elsie 18
Elsje 18
Giles 18
Gillis J. 19
Hendrick 19
Jillis 18
Tryntje 18
Yeelise 18
Yellis 18
de Mendeville
Henrick 18
De Mon
Hendrikus 10
Keziah 10
de Rapelje
Ann 7
Annetje Joris 7
Catalina 9
George 7
Joris Jansen 9
de Seenn
Cornelis J. 18
DeCamp
Laurens J. 19
Degraw
Helena 6
DeLaushop
Mary 18
Denise
Anna 9
Deterline
Minnie E. 24
Dey
Jannetje (Jane) 9
Dod
Casper 21

Falconer
Patrick 5
Faus
Rev. W.R. 30
Fell
Jesse 30
Fish
Clara 23
Matilda 24
William 24
Fogelman
Lucy 33
Fox
George 24
Francis
Joseph 9
Francisco
John 21
Franz
Annetje 9
Joost 9
George
Cory 24
Gerrans
James 21
Gerritse
Abraham 19
Anna 19
Giddings
T.H. 7
Gillilan
Catharine 19
Gov. Lord Campbell 4
Governor Hamilton 4
Governor Lowrie 4
Governor Nicolls 18
Grass
Rachall 28
Greene

Elizabeth 21

John H. 20

Doremus
Antje 21
Cornelius 21
Elizabeth 22
Goline 21, 22
Dudley
Col. Joseph 15
Edsall
John 5
Samuel 2, 4
Thomas H. 2
Elswonh
Hester 15

Hacken
William 27, 28
Hall
Hannah 6
Richard 5, 6
Hamilton
Col. Andrew 5
Harmensen
Jan 20
Hassing
Jacob 16
Heart
John A. 24
Heimbach
Daniel 27, 28
Hendrick
Eliza 19
Hendricks
Elsje 18, 19
Hendriex
Elsie 18
Henning
Elizabeth 10
John T. 10
Hennion
Ann 16

Theophilus 15
Emley
Ann

Eppens

w.

26

Genitje 19
Wiert 19
Evets
Anne 5

Fair
Claribel 30

Fairchild
Ilic 24
Ilya 29

Hershner
Lucy 33
Hontz
Amanda 24, 30, 33
Reuben 33
Hooglandt
Dirck 9
Elizabeth 9
Hutchinson
Ralph 2
Jackson
James 19
Mary 19
Jacobson
Walleing 5
Jacobus
Brand 6
Catherine 19
Elizabeth 6
James C. 16
Jannetje 21
Margaret 16
Maria 18
Jacobusse
Jacobus 22
Marritje 22
Jans
Jannetje 12
Marritje 12, 15
Jansen
Jan 18
Willem 12
Jay
• Rev. Stephen 24
Jeronymus
Catalina 7
Johnsen
Aeltie 18
Lowren 18
Johnson
. John 7
Jones
Fred S. 24
Maritje 21
Nicholas 21
Susanna 10
Jong
Susanna 21
Jorise
Sarah 9
Kempson
Thomas 2
Kidney
Sarah 19
Kip
Hendrick 6
Henry 21
Sarah 21
Klaas
Maria 5
Klock
Sarah 9
Knight
Sarah Kemble 9

Koerte
Guert 20
Harme 20

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The Berry Family

Jan 20
Marytie 20
Neeltie 20
Kool
Margaret 19
Kubling
Margaret 10
Lawrence
Francina 5, 6
Maj . Thomas 6
Thomas 5 ·
Le Chevalier
Susannah 15
Lehman
Anna Belle 19
William H. 19
Leisler
Joseph 16
Lena
Eva 30
Lloyd
Harvey 24
Lord Clarendon 4
Lubertson
Maria F. 9
Lucas
Elizabeth 6, 7
Lydick er
Garren 5
Mandeville
Aeltje 19
Anna 19
Annetje 19
David 18, 19. 21
Elizabeth 6, 10, 19
Elsje 19
Gerritje 19
Gerrtje 16
Giles J. 16
Giles W . 19
Grietje 16, 18, 19
Hendrick 6, 19
Jan Bergen 19
Jillis 19
Johannis 19
Leeya 21
Margaret 16
Maria 16
Mary 21
Samuel D. 19
Sarah 19
Tryntje 19
William 19
Yellis 18
Mandiviel
Gilles Janszen 18
Marschalk
Andries 16
Elizabeth 16
Martense
Annetje 7
Cathalyntje 7
Catherine 6
Mayle
Jacob 2
McKinley
Ellen 19

Mead
Elizabeth 18
Henry 18
Jacob 18
John 18
Margaret 10, 16, 18
Margaretta 18
Maria 18
Maritje 18
Meenviele
Gabriel 5
Meet
Christopher 18
Elsje 18
Geertje 16
Gerritie 18
Gerritje 19
Giles 18
Grietje 18, 19
Griettie 18
Isaac 18
Jacob 18
Jan Pieterse 16, 18, 19
Jennetje 18
Johannis 18
John 18
Maritje 18
Mary 18
Peter 18
Pieter J. 16, 18, 19
Michaels
Thadus 5
Middlemiss
Catharine 19
Miller
Alvaretto 29
Amanda 24
Catharine 29
Catherine 24, 26-28, 33
Charles 24. 26-29
Charles Jr. 29
Elena K. 30
Emeline 29
Emma 26
Jacob 24, 26-29
Lena 30
Lorene 31
Mary Ann 27, 29
Max 30
Netty 24
Rachel 24, 29
Thomas 27-29
Montentack
Janneken 15
Monterack
Janneken 16
Monttnorency
Jane 15
Moore
Samuel 5
Morris
Capt Richard 2
Lewis 2
Morrison
Carrie Eliz. 30, 31
Cora 24
James 31

Robert E. 30
Morse
Hannah 19
Mott
James E. 5
Moulyn
Maritje 18
Nelson
William 27
Nicholls
William 5
Nicolls
Matthias 2
Noacse
Maria 10
Noel
Hannah 6
Thomas 6
Outwater
Annetjie 6
Parker
Richard 30
William 30
Patty son
E.R. 31
Peer
David 16
Sarah 16
Peers
Edward 2
Penn
William 4
Piatt
Caty 10
PieterseScholl
Annetje 19
Pisiaer
Catryn 20
Poulton
Thomas 30
Power
Geertje 16
Gerritje 19
Increase 16, 19
Pryer
Joseph 24
Randolph
Howard S.F. 12
Rapelje
Anna 9
Annetje 7, 9
Catalina 9
Daniel 9
Elizabeth 9
Jacob 9
Jan 9
Janetje 9
Jeronirnus 9
Judith 9
Maria 9
Sarah 9
Ray
Elizabeth 16
Jolm 16
Reyerson

Marten 9

Reyerszen
Adriaen 7
Annetje 7, 9
Cathalyntje 9
Cornelius 9
Frans 9
Geertje 9
Helena 9
Jacobus 9
Jannetje 9
Joris 9
Marritje 9
Marten 9
Martin 7
Rebecca 9
Ryer 9
Sarah 9
Syntje (Cynthia) 9
Richardson
Thomas 6
Ricker
Thomas W. 30, 31
Rome
Jan Willemse 15
Romen
Jacob 15
Jacob Williamson 15
Willem Janszen 12
Roome
Anna 15, 19, 21 , 22
Ariaentje 15
Benjamin 19
Catalyna 19
Catherine 19
Deborah 19
Hannah 19
Hester 7, 10, 12, 15, 16,
19
Jacob 15, 19
Jan 12, 15
Janneken 15
Jannetje 12, 15
Johanna 7
Johannes 15
John 19
Margaret 19
Maria 10, 15, 20
Marritje 15
Mary 19
Maryken 15
Paul 19
Peter 19, 20
Peter Pieterse 7
Peter Willemse 7
Pieter Willemse 10, 12,
15, 16, 19
Samuel 19, 21, 22
Sarah 15, 16, 19
Susannah 15, 19
Willem Jansen 12, 15
Roos
Aefje 16
Rudyard
Deputy Governor 4
Ryerson
Albert w. 7
Catalyna 10

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Cathalyntje 7
Catherine 6
George 7
Johannis 10
Joris 7
Martin 9
Rebecca 10
Ryer 10
Sandford
Capt. William 5
Elizabeth 5
Grace 5
Katherine 5
Monteith N. 5
Nedemia 5
Nedemiah 5
Peregrine 5
Sarah 5
William 5
Schappers
J.M . 28, 29
Schenck
Annetje 7
Garret C. 16
Schultz
Joseph 30
Schuyler
Hester 16
Philip P. 16
Seen
Cornelius J. 19
Tryntje 19
-Selyns
Dominie 7
Shoemaker
Daniel 21
Sims
Maria 6
William 6
Slingerland
Catalyna 19

N. 19
Slote
Margaret 18
Slott
Maretje 21
Smith
Ascher 28
Emeline 26
Emiline 27, 28
Francina 6
Lt. Michael 6
William G. 19
Snyder
Albert S. 30, 31
Ruth 30, 31, 33
Spier
Deborah 19
Henry B. 19
Sarah 19
Springham
Dr. John 5
Sarah 5
Staet
Capt. Jacob J. 12
Steg
Nelletjie 21

Stevens
Jan 6, 7
T.A. 27
T.H. 27
Stratton
Elizabeth 6
Suydam
Annetje 7
Terhune
Gilliam 20
Maria 20
Theuniszen
Van Jan 12
Thompson
F.A. 21
Toers
Claes A. 4
Tri cot
Catalina 9
George 9
Turck
Marritje 9
Paulus Jr. 9
Turk
Sarah 15
Van Amsterdam
Annetje 7
Marten 7
Van Brough en
Johannes 18
Van Der Beck
Paulus 21
Van Der Scheuren
Rebecca 9
Van Duyne
Abraham 9
Geertje 9
Jacomyntje 7
Van Gelder
Abraham 16
Aefje 16
Arthur P. 15
Cornelia 16
Elizabeth 16
Emmerentia 16
Hermanns 16
Hester 7, 10, 12, 15, 16,
19
Janneken 15, 16
Johannes 15, 16
Jolm 16
Maria 16
Van Hunting
Jo}m 10
Maria 10
Van Ness
S.H. 19
Susannah 19
Van Nest
Judith 9
Peter 9
Van Nuys
Geertje Aukese 9
Jan 9
Van Pelt
Jacomyntje 7
Janina 6

Van Voorst
Gerret 6
Van Winkle
Catlina 6
Vandegrift
Jacob 18
Vanderbeek
Catalina 7
Catalyntje 7
Cathalyntje 9
Elizabeth 7
Janetje 9
Maria 7
Paulus Jr. 7, 9
Rem 9
Sarah 7
Vandervoort
Maria 9
Michael 9
VanGarder
Gilles Jansen 18
Veranger
Jacob 18
Vigoor
Siaque 20
Vreeland
George 6
Jolm 6
Warner
Peter Roome 12
Webb
Harriet 19, 22
Wenner
Benjamin F. 26, 27
Rachel 26, 27
Wessels
Margaret 19
Westerhout
Catalina 9
Jeremias 9
Wharen

Charles F. 30
Whartrnan
Sarah 5
Whitcraft
Carl 30, 31
Lillian 30, 31
Wolley

Charles 6
Hannah 6
Woodward
Weltha B . 18, 19
Wright
William 23
Young
Susanna 21

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