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3801 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents are Independence Taylor and Julia A. Taylor.

2. Robin Adair reports nickname may be "Suzie".

3. Censuses:
1920 US: New Harmony, Washington, Utah
Independence Taylor, Head, Male, 65, Wdr
Susie Adair, Daugh, Fmale, 37, Md [Nickname for Sarah.]
Carrie, Gdaugh, 12, Sngl
Joseph W., Gson, 6, Sngl
Mark, Gson, 4 8/12, Sngl
Riley, Gson, 1 ½, Sngl

BIOGRAPHY:
1. FHL book 779.248/N1-H2g "The Harmony Valley - and New Harmony, Utah, History and Memories," compiled by Sheldon B. Grant and Kay Daun. Pace Edwards:
Pp. 121-122: "Independence [Taylor] was always called 'Uncle Penn.' His only known residence in New Harmony was the house across the street from Tom and Vilo Pearce's home (now owned by Mike and Alex Ashby) and south of the Post Office. Uncle Penn owned a six-acre lot east of his home and about 40 acres north of the cemetery and below the dry field ditch... He also owned another 20 acres on the south side of Lower Joe Lee Creek... Edmund Carbine Grant owned ground west of Uncle Penn's. These two men were not only neighbors but also true friends. Their lots joined on the north, and their stables, barns, and stockyards were less than 100 yards apart. They traded work on their places in town and on the farms on Joe Lee Creek, a tradition that carried to the third generation. Sheldon Grant said, "Grandfather would farm out his grandsons to help this good man." He remembers working on Uncle Penn's farm, riding a horse, weeding, irrigating, cutting corn, and other farm chores. Uncle Penn's granddaughters would also ride the horse to help with the crops. Through marriage, Uncle Penn and Edmund Carbide Grant also became related when Edmund married Emily Adair, a sister to Joseph Adair who had married Uncle Penn's daughter, Sarah Adelia Taylor... Independence Taylor died March 21, 1942... [and is] buried in New Harmony Cemetery. Their home recently sold, but the Adair family still own the property to the east. None of the Adairs presently live in New Harmony, but they are hoping to get the property they own annexed into the town of New Harmony for a subdivision.
Pp. 134: Edmund Carbine Grant was born September 11, 1858, in Kaysville, Davis County, Utah, to George Roberts Grant and Mary Adelia Carbine. His only sibling, a sister, died as an infant. When his father, George Roberts Grant, went to California and left him with his mother, Mary Carbine Grant, she married William Warren Taylor. Edmund was about five or six years of age when he moved to New Harmony with his mother and stepfather. StepChildren sometimes have a hard time being accepted by their new parent. Edmund was the oldest boy in the family, but there was friction between him and his three half-brothers and stepfather. It was perhaps inevitable that he would leave home while still a young man. Edmund had excellent skills in handling and caring for horse teams. By the time he was ten years old he was driving them, and by age 15 he could handle them as well as anyone and better than most. When he left home it was only natural for him to go into the freighting business, He was very good at it and enjoyed the excitement of the lifestyle it represented. John D. Lee had been called to Arizona to start a lumber mill in the early 1870s. Edmund C. Grant and John D. Lee became very good friends. It was in Arizona that he went to work for Lee. John D. Lee became a father figure to young Edmund. Edmund said to many of his grandchildren, 'A finer, more outstanding, square-shooting man I have never known.' If anyone ever made derogatory remark about John D. Lee, Edmund would bristle and say, 'Humph! I do not believe it.' Edmund met and married Emily Jane Adair on February 4, 1885, in Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. Ther first child and son, Edmund LeRoy Grant, was born there on November 21, 1885. Their remaining seven children - Eleanor, Emily Adelia, George Albert, Pansey, Floyd, Rosamond, and Gladys - were born in New Harmony. After moving back to New Harmony, Edmund continued to do what he liked best for several years - freighting. He made regular trips to Lund, Utah, (before the railroad came into Cedar City), and to Cedar City, Hurricane, St. George, or anyplace else where he could find work. It was an honorable profession and was much in demand at that time. The omnipresence of semi-trucks and trailers on modern highways indicates that it still is. On one trip Edmund camped for the night and began to prepare his evening meal. He always fed, watered, and blanketed his horses before attending to his own needs. Another teamster came by and asked if he could camp with him. 'Sure, it's a free country,' Edmund said. 'Take care of your horses. Supper will soon be ready, and you are welcome to eat with me.' After the meal and the remaining camp chores were completed, the two men talked for a time around the campfire. Edmund then suggested that they roll their beds together. 'It's going to be a cold night, and we will keep warmer that way.' The man replied, 'You don't want to sleep with me, I'm lousy.' 'Good Hell - so am I!' Edmund exclaimed. The next morning he really was. When he reached home, his wife washed and ironed all his clothes and the bedding and eventually got rid of the lice! After he slowed down in the freighting business, Edmund Grant managed several sheep herds for Wilson Imlay in the Hurricane valley and other places. Later he ran a small farm south of New Harmony. He continued to do some freighting, primarily for himself and his friends. He also did all the work that any other pioneer did, although on a smaller scale. He taught his boys and grandchildren the value of work early in their lives. He know horses - his first love - and taught his children and grandchildren about livestock raising. Edmund and Sidney Goddard were good friends and spent time together at Goddard's ranch eight miles north of New Harmony. He was a hard worker, a good father, husband, and grandfather, and a true friend. He rode his pinto horse saddled until he couldn't saddle it anymore. Then he led it to a big log on his place and rode the horse bareback. He was still riding when he was close to ninety years old."
Pg. 136: "Emily Jane Adair was born December 28, 1865, at Washington, Washington County, Utah to George Washington Adair and Emily Prescinda Tyler. She married Edmund Carbine Grant on February 4, 1885, in Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. Emily's maternal grandfather was Daniel Tyler. He was a pioneer, and educator, and was prominent in both the Church and community. Daniel was well versed in church doctrine, and exercised the spiritual gifts of prophecy, speaking in tongues, and the interpretation of tongues many times throughout his life. Before his baptism he was slow of speech, but afterwards he was blessed with a fluent tongue. Daniel had close associations with the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum. He was a member of Zions Camp and suffered mobbing and expulsion with the Saints. He also attended the School of the Prophets and was a member of the Nauvoo Legion. He filled several missions for the church, and was one of the men who responded to President Brigham Young's call to serve in the Mormon Battalion with the United States Army. Thirty-six years later, at the insistence of his comrades and with the encouragement of President John Taylor, Daniel compiled what came to be recognized as the accepted history of that incredible adventure."
Pg. 142: Sidney C. Goddard and LeRoy Grant, son of Edmund and Emily Adair Grant were partners in two adjoining ranches. Sidney never married. He died at age 67. "Sidney left his ranch to Emily Adair Grant. Her son, LeRoy, lived on the ranch and operated it along with his own property. When Emily Grant died, the ranch became property of Emma G. Neilson. By this time the Goddard name had been dropped and it was called the Grant ranch. It is still called the Grant Ranch on signs and maps, although it is no longer the property of any Grant descendant. A. Cannon Huntsman, a son-in-law of LeRoy and Sadie Grant, now owns and operates that part that belonged to LeRoy."
Pg. 143:"Joseph Welton Adair, Sr. was born November 6, 1881, in Washington, Utah, [Kerry's note - error: should be Nutrioso, AZ] to George Washington Adair and Emily Presinda Tyler. He was a brother of Emily Jane Adair. He married Sarah Adelia (Susie) Taylor who was born Nov. 6, 1882, in New Harmony to Independence and Julia Anner Taylor. Soon after Joseph and Sarah Adelia married, they moved to Farmington, New Mexico. All their five children were born there. Farmington is a farming and livestock area located on the San Juan River. They lived there for about 22 years. Eventually their longing for the area where they were born and raised and the aging of their parents brought them back home. They sold their holdings in Farmington, and with team and buggy, wagons, horse, mules, and an Angora goat herd, they covered the 600-mile journey to New Harmony, arriving during the summer of 1925. The Angora goat business was booming in New Harmony at the time. A total of 10,000 head were owned in the Valley, and Joseph Adair owned 1,000 of them. He summered them in the East Mountain area and wintered them on the Arizona Strip. Joseph and his two oldest sons, Joseph and Mark, were with the herd most of the time. They used two riding mules named Tom and Betty. Joseph W. Adair, Sr. died Nov. 9, 1926. The load of caring for the goat herd then fell fully upon Joe, Jr., age 18, and Mark, about 15. The children at that time ranged in age from six to 22 years. The two youngest children, Ruth and Riley, were in school in New Harmony. In 1933, when Lurene Pace Taylor moved into the Max Pace home, Susie Adair and her family moved into the home of Independence Taylor to care for her aging father. Uncle Penn was 79 years old at the time. Susie Adair eventually married Randell Lunt. When Independence Taylor died, his home lot and other property near town became her property. When Susie died, the property became owned by Ruth and George Smith. Both Joseph Adair, Sr., and Sarah Adelia Taylor Adair Lunt are buried in the New Harmony Cemetery."

BIRTH:
1. Per burial citation and per obituary.

MARRIAGE:
1. Per Family Search "Utah, Marriages, 1887-1966".

2. Second marriage to Randle Wilson Lunt. LDS Family Search shows her name as Sarah Ann Taylor Adair at time of second marriage. LDS Ordinance Index reports him born 8 Nov 1864 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah to Henry Lunt and Mary Ann Wilson and death as 24 Oct 1951; his first wife as Catherine Jennette Gibson whom he married 16 Dec 1885 in SGEOR temple. Another wife to Randle is shown as Nancy Chatterly Pendleton with a guessed marriage date of about 1887. There seems to be several spellings of Randle including Randal, Randel, Randell. Online ordinance index indicates marriage date guess of about 1888 or 1889.

DEATH:
1. Utah death certificate, state file #48-270035: Sarah Taylor Adair Lunt, d. 23 May 1949 at New Harmony, Washington, Utah, b. 6 Nov. 1882 at New Harmony, age 66y 5m 17d, housewife, parents Independence and Julia Anar Taylor both born at Kaysville, UT, married to Randall W. Lunt, died from coronary thrombosis, had heart disease for 10 years, bur. 27 May at New Harmony Cemetery.

2. Date per burial citation below.

BURIAL:
1. Per online "Utah State Historical Society Burials Database: "Sarah Adelia Adair Lunt, b. 6 Nov 1882, d. 23 May 1949, bur. in New Harmony Cemetery. Her second husband is shown in same database as "Randal W. Lunt, d. 19 Oct 1951, bur. Cedar City Cemetery, B-17-03-07.

OBITUARY:
1. The newspaper "Salt Lake Tribune," Tues. May 24, 1949, page 21:
"Sarah T. A. Lunt. New Harmony, Washington County - Mrs. Sarah Taylor Adair Lund, 66, wife of Randall W. Lunt and native of this community, died suddenly at her home here Monday at 7:15 a.m. of a heart ailment.
Mrs. Lunt was born here Nov. 6, 1882, a daughter of Independence and Anar Taylor, pioneer residents of New Harmony. She resided here until 1909 when she was married to Joseph W. Adair and moved to Farmington, N.M. Mr. Adair died following their return to New Harmony in 1925.
She was married to Mr. Lunt July 3, 1931, and the couple resided in Cedar City until 1941, when they moved to New Harmony.
She is survived by her husband; five sons and daughters, Mrs. Carrie Chamberlain and Mrs. Ruth Alice Smith, Los Angeles; Joseph W. Adair Jr., New Harmony; Riley T. Adiar, Fort Lyon, Colo., and Mart T. Adair, Idaho Falls, Ida; 12 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in New Harmony ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Marion Prince, bishop. Burial will be in New Harmony cemetery, directed by Southern Utah mortuary of Cedar City."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per 3 Jan 2002 gedcom of Robin Adair; email: robadair@thegrid.net. He is descendent through Daniel Tyler Adair. 		Taylor, Sarah Adelia (I602)
 
3802 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living (I2756)
 
3803 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents are Joel Hills Johnson and Janet Fife. The book "History of Iron County Mission - Parowan, Utah, comp. by Mrs. Luella Adams Dalton, chapter 18: "Johnson's Fort (Enoch). Joel Hills Johnson, another great colonizer was born 12 Jan 1802 at Uxbridge, Mass. As a boy he lived in VT, KY, and NY. He invented and patented the machine for cutting shingles that was used throughout the US and Canada. In the fall of 1830 he moved his family to Amherst, Ohio, where he met some Elders of the LDS Church. He was baptized in June, 1831. He was a special friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith and was with him when the Word of Wisdon was given him. He came to Utah in Oct. 1848 and located at the North of Mill Creek Canyon, where he served as Bishop of that Ward, as Justice of Peace, and a member of the legislature of the State of Deseret in 1848 - 50. He was called to the Iron Co. Mission in the fall of 1850, sending his two older sons with outfits loaded with farming tools, seeds and an iron mill saw. Joel H. Johnson came in the spring of 1851 with his family and cattle. He was elected as one of the first City Councilmen. He went farther southwest with a group exploring the Country, and when they came to the green grassy meadows at (Enoch) he put out his arms and said - 'Mine, all mine.' The summer of 1851 he was called by George A. Smith to take his family to Johnson's Spring and build a big stockade to help take care of the cattle from both Parowan and Cedar. It was called Johnson's Springs. After the Fort was built it was called Johnson's Fort... The Fort was 10 rods square and the walls were made of large adobes of the heavy clay surrounding the place. The bottom of the wall was 2 1/2 feet thick and 18 inches at the top and was 9 feet high. Five adobe rooms were built in a row on the west side of the Fort. The fort wall answered for an outside wall of the rooms. A two story dwelling house was built in the southwest corner of the Fort. All windows and doors were on the inside walls of the room. A large two-story building was built in the southeast corner of the Fort with portholes to be used in defense agaist the Indians. This builing was called the Bastion. The building was large enough so all living in the Fort could gather there for protection in time of danger. Sheds and corrals were built on the east side of the Fort. On the west and north sides were built a granary, blacksmith shop, and chicken coop. All of these buildings mentioned, even to the corral, were inside the Fort. On the north side of the Fort was a big high gate made of large logs. On the south side was an opening about 6 feet high and 4 feet wide for people to go in and out. This led to the ditch of water that ran by the south side. These two openings were the only ones in the Fort. A well was dug in the center and this water was used for drinking and sometimes culinary purpposes. On the outside of the Fort, on the west side, an apple orchard was planted and a space reserved for a vegetable garden. Another orchard was planted on the east side. These orchards were planted by the men who built the Fort. No better variety of apples were grown anywhere than these two orchards produced. On the south side of the Fort, was the farm which was irrigated by water from the Springs in the meadows on the east. On the north were many acres of good grass pasture land. Cottonwood trees were planted on the south, east and west sides of the Fort. This was an ideal place for dairying... Joel H. Johnson was the first presiding elder at Fort Johnson. He was succeeded by Labon D. Morrell, who in turn was succeeded in the spring of 1857 by William Dalley who presided until 1859, when the little settlement of Johnson's Fort was almost broken up. No regular Church organization existed for some time... Joel H. Johnson in the meantime sold his interests in the Fort and moved up on the east bench of Johnson's Springs settlement. He left for a mission to the states the spring of 1857, being gone three years. In 1861 he moved again down to Virgin, on the Virgin River. He was sent up North Creek about six miles to build a saw mill, where he planted a large orchard, vineyards, etc. In July, 1866, he sold out and moved back to Virgin City. In March, 1868 he decided to move again, this time to Bellevue. In 1880 he again pulled up stakes and moved to form a settlement northeast of Kanab; it was named Johnsons. Joel H. Johnson was a man of great faith and he left a numerous posterity. He is our poet laureate. He wrote 1,001 hymns and sacred songs, among them "High on the Mountain To,' "The Glorious Gospel Light," "All Hail the Glorious Day." He said he was going to beat David the writer of th Biblical Psalms who wrote 1,000 psalms, and he wrote 1,001 hymns..."

2. FHL film 1035515, item 16, p. 147: "A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio and Members of Zion'a Camp" contains an index of property records that were owned by Joel H. Johnson in Kirtland. There are 12 listings for between 35 to 40 acres total in T-sec 1-018 and 1-033.

BIOGRAPHY:
1. From FHL film 485343 – Federal Writers Project – WPA by Mabel Jarvis, St. George, UT. Excerpts from the Journal of Joel H. Johnson:
P. 70. "April 25 [1878] To day I married my daughter Margaret, by my wife Janet, to David Frederick
'God bless and Preserve them
From folly and Strife
With Bountiful Increase
And Pleasure through life.'"
P. 78. "June 5, 79. Started for Hillsdale in company with my little son Ezekial who drove my carriage and also with my Son-in-law David Frederick, who drove a team for me loaded with dried fruit and dry goods which I took over to pay for work on the mill, but when I came there I was told by my son Seth that on account of the extreme drouth at Johnson and vicinity, President Snow had released my son Sixtus from the office of Bishop at Johnson and advised him to move his flocks of sheep, goats and cattle into Arizona and told him that I had better go with him if I still wanted to go."
P. 85. "Jan. 7th [1880] Today I received the news of the death of my daughter Margaret (by my wife Janet). She was the wife of David Frederick Jun. She died in child bed Dec. 19th, 1879, aged 29 years and nine month. Born on the 19th of March 1850. She was a kind, faithful and affectionate young woman. Her child, a daughter, still born, at Hilldale, Iron County, Utah. To Maggie:
'Go Maggie to thy rest in peace
And join thy kindred there
For thou hast found a sweet release
From every toil and care - -

Thy friends will greet thee there with joy
Who have long gone before
Where peace and love without alloy
Shall reign forever more - -

Or till the Resurrection morn
When Christ again appears
And all the dead the Earth return
To dwell a thousand years - -

With honor then we all shall meet
Our daughters, sons and wives
Our glory then will be complete
Crowned with eternal lives.'"

2. Margaret is mentioned in the following excerpt in the biography of Ellen DeGraw per the book "Life History of Jacob, Sophia DeGraw Family," by Ruby Henson Behrman Packer, 5947 S. 3650 W., Roy, Utah, 801-985-7100, microfilm copy FHL film 573528: "When David Ira Jr., was 24 years old he married Margaret Johnson 25 Apr 1878 in Hillsdale, Garfield, Utah. She was the daughter of Joel Hills Johnson and his third wife Janet Fife. (Source: Taken from FHL film 485343 UX Federal Writers Project UX WPA by Mabel Jarvis. Excerpts from the Journal of Joel Hill Johnson, pg. 70.) Her father, Joel, wrote in his journal on Margaret and David's wedding day: 'God bless and Preserve them, From folly and strife, With Bountiful Increase, and Pleasure through life.' Her father, Joel was born 23 March 1802 in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Her mother, Janet was born 17 Feb. 1828 in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland. Joel is well known for his poetry and hymns. 'High on a Mountain Top' is a hymn that is still popular today. David and Margaret were living in Hillsdale, Utah. Joel had moved to Southern Utah, when on Jan. 1, 1889 he received the news of the death of his daughter, Margaret (by his wife Janet). His daughter died at the age of 29 years and nine months. He said that she was stillborn at Hillsdale, Iron, Utah. They both died 19 December 1879. (Source: Taken from the Journal of Joel Hill Johnson.) His next journal entry was this poem. He must have called Margaret (Maggie). To Maggie:
Go Maggie to thy rest in peace
And join thy kindred there
For thou hast found a sweet release
From every toil and care.
Thy friends will greet thee there with joy
Who long have gone before
Where peace and love without alloy
Shall reign forever more.
Or till the resurrection morn
When Christ appears
And all the dead to earth return
To dwell a thousand years.
With honor then we all shall meet
Our daughter, sons, and wives
Our glory then will be complete
Crowned with eternal lives.'
Joel Hills Johnson discovered the little town of Hillsdale. The town is located between two hills so Joel named the town 'Hillsdale' after himself. The town was about five miles long and about equal distance from his mill. He later gave the mill to his sons, Nephi and Seth and moved to southern Utah. Hillsdale's elevation is 6,700 feet, and is located between Panguitch and Hatch. In 1872 there were about thirty families living there. Hillsdale had the first school house and Joel Hills Johnson was the first school teacher (Source: Taken from 'History of Garfield County' by Daughters of Utah Pioneers, pg. 255.) In 1880 Ellen DeGraw Mathis was a divorcee with three children living in Hillsdale with her brothers, Moroni, Jacob, Willis and her mother, Sophia. They lived just a couple of houses from David Ira Frederick. (Source: 1880 US Census for Hillsdale, Iron, Utah.) David Ira was 25 years old, his occupation 'laborer', living with David Ira, 78 years old, gardener (his father)..."

3. The book "No Place to Call Home, the Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities," 2005, Edward Leo Lyman and Susan Ward Payne, editors, had the diaries of Caroline through 1857 in San Bernardino, California. Caroline had known George and Hanna Winner in San Francisco. She had also known Ebenezer and Jane Hanks who later adopted David's sister Martha. David and Caroline Crosby arrived in Beaver in late 1858 and there they remained the rest of their lives - she died in 1883. David, Jr. lived with the Crosbys for four years after the death of his mother in 1859. With Caroline's past history of keeping Children, it is regrettable she didn't document the years David was with her. It appears the relationship was a good one and their reacquaintance was welcoming. The first big trip they made was the one to the St. George temple the last of June 1878. Here is the passage of their return from the later unpublished part of her journals as given me by Sue Payne May 2006:
[1878] "Mon July 1st we bade goodby to our St G friends, and left for home. We found the roads about the same as we left them only a little more dusty. We had rain going down, but none in coming back. The 1st night stoped in Bellview, at bro Bays, They treated us with much kindness, and let us have some fruit to bring home. I called at Joel Johnsons, his first wife Susan was not home, saw Janette, and her daughter Margaret who has latly married David Fredrick, the boy who lived with us. July 2nd we arrived in Cedar city put up at sister Spikings, found her rather poorly. Put up team at bro Lunts, Mr C- took his supper there. 3rd we came to Buckhorn springs put up with Martha Hyat, who was there keeping house for her sister while she came to visit her mother and friend in Beaver."
[1878 in Beaver, Utah] "Sun Sept 1st, I felt rather feeble Laid down awhile. I feared I should not be able to attend the Pm meeting. But after taking a little dinner I felt some better and so crowded myself out. I felt bad at my stomach, and prayed that partaking of the sacrament might relieve me, and my prayer was answered, in so much that when the meeting closed, I was feeling quite well. ^At 5 pm there was baptising J Cooms was rebaptised. I was pleased to hear it^ Pm called old bro Frederick, and his son David, who lived 4 years with us when a small boy. He is now a married man, lives in Bellview. Kane county. Utah. David had been north, and found his father and was taking him south with him. He is 77 years old, but very smart, and still works on."
Another entry a year later: [1879] "June Frid 6th came to Bellview called at Joel Johnsons, took dinner with his wife Janette. Her daughter Maggie had married David Frderick, and lived in the same house. They were very kind. We brought a woman and two children from there to St George by the name of Carlin, a daughter of Joseph Jo.[sic] Her husband paid us 2 dolls. She seemed an interesting woman. Arrived at Leads put up at George Crosby's, we were treated..."

BIRTH:
1. Per father's journal account cited above.

MARRIAGE:
1. Per father's journal account cited above.

DEATH:
1. Per father's journal account cited above; died at time of birth of stillborn child.

2. Not in Utah State Historical Society Burial Index on the web.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per research work by Daisy Van Wagoner (Jones), P.O. Box 190, Cleveland, Utah 84518 (875 W. 1st North), Phone 435-653-2255. Daisy is descendant of David Frederick through daughter: Cynthia Julia Fredericks. 		Johnson, Margaret (I1078)
 
3804 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents are Josiah Goodrich and Sarah Porter, whose ancestry is well established and which I do not follow.

2. FHL book 929.273 W462c "History and Genealogy of the Wells Family. Some Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Wells of Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut, who had come from Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1712. Supplementing: "The History and Genealogy of the Wells Family" by Philip L. Cobb, 1897"; compiled by John. L. Cobb, 1999, pp. 9-12:
"Edmund Wells. Second son of Edmund and Mary (Howell) W. of Hebron, CT and Cambridge, NY, born 30 Aug. 1746, Hebron, CT; was town clerk of Cambridge, NY: 1777-1781, 1789-1805; in the Revolutionary War, he served as private and sergeant; VanWoert's regiment, Albany Co., NY militia; was a Yale College graduate 1768; m. Feb. 1770, Hebron, CT (Bailey's "Early CT Marr.") to Welthia Ann Goodrich, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Whiting) G. of Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, b. 24 Sept. 1750 at Wethersfield, and died 11 Sept. 1814 in 65th yr., in Cambridge, Washington Co., NY; he died 17 Sept. 1826 at the Wells's homestead, Cambridge, where buried 26 Sept., age 80 yrs. and 7 days, in the cemetery on the Turnpike, south of the village of Cambridge...
Refer: Notes: Hist.: Washington Co., NY, by A. Fitch (1809-1879): 839, 1131; "Hist. and Gen.: Wells Fam.," by P.L. Cobb 1897: 3, 3a, 3b, 4; Wash. Co., NY deeds; BB: 206-7 (Apr. 8, 1830); "Hist.: Wash. Co.. NY," 1878: 68, 116, 150, 253, 255-7, 266, 271; "Cambridge. NY Cem. Inscrip., comp.," P.L. and L.B. Cobb 1913; "Hebron. CT vi. rec.," Bailey's "Early CT Marr.": I.G.I.: NY State as of Apr. 1988, CT as Mar. 1992; "Welles Fam.," by A. Wells 1876: 224-7; "Brewster Gen.," by E.C.B Jones 1908: 448 (Dunlap); "Records: Prot. Presby. Congreg., Cambridge. NY (N.Y.G. and B. Soc., ed.: R.W. Vosburg 1916, reprint: 1994); Hall's "Bradford Gen."1951: 111, 400 (Goodrich, Whitting)."

3. Society of Mayflower Descendants has a proven pedigree of Edmund Henry Wells through Elizabeth Whiting back to the Mayflower passenger William Bradford:
Elizabeth Whiting
b. Hartford, CT, bp 8 Aug 1725, MF 16:2:9; MF 19:153; MF 22:94, 371
d. prob Hebron, CT, aft 16 Oct 1780, MF 22:371
m. Wethersfield, CT, 10 Jun 1747, MF 22:371
married to Samuel Goodrich
b. Wethersfield, CT, 1 Nov 1721, MF 22:371
d. Hebron, CT, 16 Nov 1773, MF 22:371
Wealthy Ann/Wealthian Goodrich
b. Wethersfield, CT, 24 Sep 1750, MF 22:372
d. Cambridge, NY, 11 Sep 1814, Desc of Thomas Wells (Jones, MMS) 4 (no pars); J D Wells Fam Rec 15 (no pars)
m. Hebron, CT, 22 Feb 1770, Early Ct Marr 3:92 (no pars); JD Wells Fam Rec 15 (no pars); TAG 46:181 (no pars); Asa Fitch Papers 2:59 (no pars)
married to Edmund Wells Jr [Edmund Wells - Mary Howell]
b. Hebron, CT, 30 Aug 1746, Hebron/Barbour 18:274; Asa Fitch Papers 2:59 ("10 Sep 1744"); JD Wells Fam Rec 15 ("10 Sep 1746")
d. Cambridge, NY, 17 Sep 1826/8, Wells MMS 4; A Fitch 2:59; JD Wells Fam Rec 15 (80y & 7d)
Edmund Henry Wells
b. Hebron, CT, 14 Dec 1771, VR 1:44(no mo); JD Wells Fam Rec 17
d. Cambridge, NY, 2 Apr 1813, JD Wells Fam Rec 17 (pars)
married to Hepzibah Buell
 		Goodrich, Samuel (I2958)
 
3805 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents are Richard and Cynthia Bygraves listed in the 1880 census at Ingham, Ingham, Michigan. That census reports:
Richard Bygraves, 53, farmer, Eng Eng Eng.
Cynthia, wife, 43, keeping house, MI Can Can.
Alvin, son, 21, at home, MI Eng MI.
2 Aug 2003 Ordinance Index shows a family submitted by LDS member in 2003 with temple work in progress is the same family as follows even though their accuracy of submitted dates is poor:
Richard Bygraves, b. 1830 MI, m. 23 Jan 1853 MI, d. 1907.
Cynthia Aseltine.
Alvin Bygraves, b. 12 Jul 1859 MI, d. 11 Dec 1929.
Emma, Abt 1861 MI.
Alvira Olive, Abt 1863 MI.
Alta, Abt 1865 MI.
Robert, Abt 1867 MI.

2. Censuses:
1880 US: Ingham Township, Ingham, Michigan, p. 290a, household 25, family 25:
Mathew D. Fredrick, 51, farmer, NY NY NY.
Harriet O. Fredrick, 57, wife, PA PA PA.
(Next house):
Clarence Fredrick, 27, farmer, MI NY PA.
Emma Fredrick, 26, wife, keeping house, MI Eng MI.
Ermy[?] Fredrick, 7, MI MI MI.
(Two houses away):
Andrew P. Frederick, 29, farmer, MI NY PA.
Josephine Frederick, 28, wife, NY NY NY.

1900 US: Ingham Township, Ingham, Michigan, p. 61, household 247, family 255:
Mathew D. Fredrick, head, Apr 1818, 82, m. 14 years, farmer, NY NY NY.
Olive Fredrick, wife, Jan 1831, 69, m. 14 years, mother of one child non-living, NY VT VT.
Jessie King, S.G. Daughter, Sep 1879, 22, m. 1 year, MI NY NY.
Babie King, S.G.G. Daughter, Jan 1900, 5/12, MI MI MI.
Cora B. Rossellir, S.G. Daughter, Mar 1881, 19, Single, MI MI NY.
Claude King, S.G. Son, May 1877, 23, m. 1 year, farm laborer, MI MI MI.
George Swan, boarder, Sep 1816, 83, widower, capitalist, NY VT VT.
(Next door):
Clarence E. Fredrick, head, Oct 1851, 48, m. 27 years, farmer, MI NY PA.
Emma Fredrick, wife, Oct 1853, 46, m. 27 years, 2 total children both living, MI Eng MI.
Edna H. Fredrick, dau., Jan 1888, 12, MI MI MI.
Richard Bygraves, father-in-law, Jan 1827, 73, widower, capitalist, Eng Eng Eng. [Note I also found Bygrave family in 1860 census in Ingham, Ingham, MI, p. 74.]
(7 houses away is the family of Gilbert Rossettir who may or may not be a relative of Cora B. above.)
(In Lansing 3rd Ward, Ingham, MI, p. 135, on Main Steet, family 251):
Andrew C. Frederick, head, Oct 1849, 50, married 26 years, house carpenter, MI MI MI.
Josephine, wife, Nov 1852, 47, m. 26 years, no children ever born to her, NY NY NY.

3. Found 2 Aug 2003 database "sheilamaynor2" on Rootsweb.com Worldconnect with same information I have plus additional on Bygraves family.

BIRTH:
1. Location per marriage record, date per census.

MARRIAGE:
1. Marriage from Ordinance Index extracted records per FHL film 0976572 (Record of marriages 1838-1917, Ingham Co., MI, County Clerk): Mathew D. Frederick, age 67, b. Monroe Co., New York, m. 8 Aug 1886 at Ingham Co., Michigan to Olive Rossetter or Swan, age 54, of Orleans County, New York. Sealing of spouses 12 Nov 1986 JRIVE. Same extraction has: Andrew P. Fredricks, age 23, of Ingham Co., MI marrying Josephine Cannon, age 21, b. at Sweden, Monroe, New York, m. on 14 Sep 1873 in Ingham Co., MI, sealed 1 Nov 1986 JRIVE; Clarence E. Frederick, age 20, b. in Ingham Co., MI marrying Emma Bygrove, b. Ingham Co., MI, age 18, on 18 Aug 1872 in Ingham Co., MI, sealed 31 Oct 1986 JRIVE.
 		Bygrave, Emma (I3586)
 
3806 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents given with Ordinance Index are Peter Young and Eve Fox. In son William's christening record, she is recorded as Moria Jing per transcription of Ordinance Index extracters - could it be Jung? Another christening record for Margaretha notes Margaret Yong.

2. From the book "Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly B. Penrose, v. 1, p. 281, Birth/Baptism: "Frederick, Jacob and Maria/Maragrita (Young):
Willem, b. 1777, bapt. 16 Apr 1777 (DRC:42) Sponsors: Willem Yong and Rachel Yong.
Eva, b. 4 Apr 1782, bapt. 12 May 1782 (DRC: 62) Sponsors: Peter Fredk. and Alida Fredk.
Maragriet, b. 12 Jan 1785, bapt. ? Feb 1785 (DRC:71) sponsors: Jacob Bossert and Maragrita Bosserd.
Lodowyk, b. 23 May 1791, bapt. 26 Jun 1791, bapt. 26 Jun 1791 (DRC:98) Sponsors: Hendrick Severs and his wife.

3. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Book "First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, Records of Baptisms, Vol. II, 1754-1777":
A. 1770, Maart 11, Pieter, Parents: Jacob Frederick and Margarit Jong; Sponsors: Pieter Jong and Sophia Jong.

4. Censuses:
1810 US: The following are all of the Fredericks in Montgomery County, New York. The columns are first male then female 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45+, and then other free persons and slaves:
Johnstown Township, p. 16, all right next to each other with the first two being 7 names apart from the second group of three:
Philip Frederick, 1-1-0-0-1; 1-1-0-0-1-0-0
Eve Frederick, 0-2-0-0-0; 1-0-0-0-1-0-0
Jacob Frederick, 0-0-2-0-1; 1-0-0-0-1-0-0
George Frederick, 1-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0-0-0
William Frederick, 2-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0-0-0
Florida Township [which follows Johnstown Township], p. 34:
Sarah Frederick, 0-0-1-0-0; 0-0-0-0-1-0-0
Minden Township, p. 96:
Polly Frederick, 2-0-0-0-1; 1-0-1-0-1-0-0

5. From my visit in Sep 2007 to the Montgomery County NY Archives from the book "A Genealogy of this Branch of the Young Family in America from 17271912," by Daniel S. Young and John J. Ven Der Veer, 1912, pp. 6 -13: Genealogy [contains several generations, but I only transcribe the first couple of generations]: Peter Young m. Eve Fox. Children:
a. William, m. Rachel Gardinier.
i. Peter
ii. George, m. Mary McKinney
iii. Peter
iv. Eleanor
v. William
vi. Eve
vii. Jacob
viii. Elizabeth
ix. H. Smith
b. George, m. Eleanor Saltz.
c. Margaret, m. Jacob Frederick.
i. William
ii. Lawrence
iii. Peter
iv. Hannah
d. Sophia, m. William Serviss.
i. Eve, m. William Porter.
ii. Elizabeth
iii. Mary
iv. Margaret
v. Philip
e. Marcia, m. Thomas Carr. [Erroneous: should be Caine.]
i. Thomas, Jr.
f. Peter Warren, b. 1734, d. 20 Oct 1820, m. Margaret Servoss.
i. Peter, b. 12 Dec 1776, d. 31 May 1853, m. Sarah Servoss, 23 Dec 1797.
ii. Elizabeth
iii. Margaret.
 		Young, Maragrita or Maria (I1870)
 
3807 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents may be William Holland and Mary Ann Weyman per one IGI entry on Familysearch. The publication "Laurens County Kinfolks Volume 1 Book 2," by Richard W. Fowler, indicates parentage as William Holland, b. 15 Feb 1757 in Frederick Co., MD, m. 26 Feb 1781 in MD, d. 21 Nov 1822 in Laurens Co., SC and Mary Ann Weyman, b. abt 1755, d. 1836 in Laurens Co., SC.

2. Censuses:
1850 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, family 1300, pg. 157 of 159:
James Adair, 69, farmer, $6000.
Eliza Adair, 67.
Henry H. Adair, 30, farmer.
Elizabeth Green, 38.
Elizabeth Simpson, 14.
Elizabeth Adair, 26.
William, 2.
Isaac, 7/12.
Next door neighbor is Robert Adair, age 48, and family and two houses further is Edmond Adair, age 35 or 38.

1860 US: Clinton Post Office, Laurens Co., South Carolina, p. 239, 6 Aug 1860, family 1919:
Jas. Adair, 79, farmer, $5,200, $25,000, SC.
D. Adair, 77, SC.
Mary Martin, 25, SC.
Next door neighbor is Robert Adair, age 53. There are several other nearby Adairs who could be their children.

3. Article "Some Arkansas Confederate Veterans with South Carolina Roots," from the "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 30, p. 149: "In 1911, the State of Arkansas sent extensive questionnaires to the state's resident Confederate pensioners. These men were asked to name parents, grandparents,a nd in laws..."
"Leander Benjamin Ramage, born December 25, 1829 in Laurens District, South Carolina, son of John Daniel Ramage and the grandson of Benjamin and Nellie Ramage. His mother was Nancy Adair, daughter of James Adair and Dellia Holland."
[My note: James Adair and Nellie Adair Ramage were brother and sister.]

4. The publication "Laurens County Kinfolks Volume 1 Book 2," by Richard W. Fowler, gives the following family: "James Adair, Jr. (son of James, gson of John) was b. 15 Oct 1781 and d. 6 Jun 1862. He m. Delilah Holland, dau. of William Holland and Mary Weyman. (Eliza in 1850 census.) Children:
A. Nancy Weyman Adair, b. 1805; d. 1877. She m. John Jewel Ramage, son of Benjamin Ramage and Eleanor [of my database; John and Nancy are first cousins].
B. Robert James Adair, b. 2 Jun 1807; d. 6 Apr 1864 in Laurens Co., SC. He m. (1) Sarah Jacks, d. of Isaac Jacks and Anna Whitten. He m. (2) Minnie Copeland, d. of Leisel Copeland and Lena Hollingsworth.
C. Elizabeth Adair, b. 17 Jun 1810; d. 17 Oct 1823 in Laurens Co., SC.
D. Edmond Adair, b. abt 1812. He married Susan Dillard.
E. Henry Adair, b. abt 1818. He m. Elizabeth Pitts."

BIRTH:
1. Variant birthplace could be of "Cabin John,, Frederick, Maryland" according to one patron submitted entry in the LDS IGI. Note that in the 1860 census, Delilah does note her birth state as South Carolina.

BURIAL:
1. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/9708/ahcem.html: HOLLAND-LEAK-Adair BURYING GROUND. This burying ground is on the highway from Clinton to Newberry, miles from Clinton on the left side of the road (going toward Newberry) near the railroad track in Laurens County, South Carolina.
Adair, James S.; Oct. 15, 1771 - June 6, 1862.
Adair, Delilah A.H., wife of James Adair; Nov. 29, 1783 - Jan. 18, 1864.
Simpson, Hannah, wife of Nathan Simpson, daughter of Jas. & Delilah Adair; Nov. 7, 1816 - Dec. 8, 1884.
Adair, William, son of Jas. & Delilah Adair; Oct. 1822 - Oct. 1841.
Adair, James Henry, son of Jas. & Delilah Adair; Aug. 4, 1820 - April 1, 1865.
Adair, Isaac; July 31, 1818 - Aug. 9, 1863.

2. Http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/9708/hcem.html. Holland Cemetery is on the top of a steep bank on the right of the road 4 1/2 miles north of the center of Clinton in Laurens County, South Carolina. It is on Highway 56. Located near the top of the hill on the south side of Duncan's Creek. The highway cut in to the cemetery. Buried within are:
HOLLAND, Thomas. Feb. 12, 1762 - Oct. 3, 1815. Note: Marker erected by John Bryan, son-in-law. Actual inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Thomas Holland born Feb 12, 1762 and departed this life Oct 3, 1815."
HOLLAND, Jane. May 30, 1765 - Aug. 25, 1830. Note: Marker erected by John Bryan, son-in-law. Actual inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Jane Adair Holland born May 30, 1765 - and departed this life July 25, 1830."
Relations also buried there include:
a. Aseneth, consort of Samuel Copeland, and daughter of Thomas and Jane Holland, died Feb. 1, 1823, age 28 years.
b. Elizabeth Adair, daughter of James and Delilah (Holland) Adair, June 17, 1810 - Oct. 17, 1822.
 		Holland, Delilah A. or Eliza (I3727)
 
3808 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents of Dveire are unknown. Considering her name, my best guess for now is as a child of Levin and Dwuare due to similarity of names.

2. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. He indicates references by codes, which pertain to the original source and file held in his database, which I have not seen. Sources are PC for Piltene Cemetery records and YL is Len Yodaiken (Israeli researcher hired by Harold Hodes). In regards to this individual:
Name variations: Dvorah, Dveire
YL013 shows spouse Arensen.
PC007 shows d. 26 Jul 1864.

3. Len Yodaiken in his paid research report "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepaja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, indicates "Dvorah Herzenberg, d. 1864, m. Uriah Ahronson, and they had a child named Bernard Ahronson."

BURIAL:
1. Website http://www.balticgen.com/cemeteries/All%20Latvia%20cemetery%20list-by%20town.pdf accessed 12 Jan 2009 showing Piltene Cemetery Gravestone inscriptions: "Dveire Arenson geb. Herzenberg d. 26.07.1864."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 		Herzenberg, Dvorah or Dveire (I4005)
 
3809 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents per website below are John and Rebecca Banner. Two sons are listed for this couple: Thomas and Benjamin Banner. John Banner married second Mary Tylden. Children for Benjamin and Sarah Clinch are also listed as well as children for Thomas.

2. Mentioned in father's will per Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/extr2.html#clinch Extracts from Kent Wills:
Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Vol.98 folio 205 Probate 10 Feb 1769 William Clinch of Stockbury, yeoman, will dated 9 Jan 1769 Daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Hales Daughter Sarey, wife of Benjamin Bannor Stephen Hales, Joseph Fuller [typo: will reads James Fuller] Sons Thomas (executor), John and William Witnessed by Thomas Wyles, Robert Terry and Ann Terry.

3. Website of Roy L. Hales accessed 4 Jan 2016 ; Roy is a descendant of William Clinch, son of Stephen Hales and Ann Clinch:
"Generation One
John Bannar (1700 - March 27 1768) married Rebekah Tilden (1700/01 - Mar 27 1763) in Stockbury on October 22, 1723. They lived in house #10 in the lands beyond the church, or South Green, in the Overseers accounts (which date from 1731). John Banner's assessment was 13 shillings, 6 pence. While many of the surrounding farms are more valuable, John was both owner and occupant. His name was soon scrawled across many pages as the parish overseer. He was farming in the adjoining parish of Bredgar by 1731 and had three parcels there in 1741. The Seven Years War brought prosperity to farmers and John was renting an additional three properties in Stockbury by 1765. The accounts mention he paying labourers wages of between £2 and £6. He also distributed a pair of gloves, a coat and waste coat, allotments of wood and gave a shift to Elizabeth Knight. John and Rebekkah Banner were buried in Stockbury's graveyard, and their tombstone says:
"Here leith the body of
Rebecca, Wife of John Bannar
Who departed this life on March 31st 1763
Aged 62 years
Left 3 sons and 2 daughters Eliza, Thomas, John, Bennet and Rebecca
Seven of their sons buried here ye place
Also leith the body of John Bannar of this Parish Yeoman
Died March the 4th 1768 Aged ..."
As you can see in the section below, the Bannar's lost six of their 13 children. This is heart rending, but not unheard of in an age when practices like washing your hands before delivering a baby were unheard of:
Elizabeth Bannar (c Sept 28 1724) married William Young on Oct 22, 1744
John Bannar (c Mar 20 1725/26)
Thomas Bannar (c Mar 5 1727 - June 8 1780) married Elizabeth Goodhew (d/o James & Elizabeth) in Stockbury April 12 1766
William Bannar (Aug 10-18, 1731)
John Bannar (c 21 June 1732) served as witness for his father's will and at his brother Benjamin's wedding.
William Bannar (c 21 June 1732-Sept 24 1735)
Mary Bannar (c Sept 28 1735)
Robert Bannar (c Sept 12-26 1737)
William Bannar (c Apr 9 - May 11 1738)
Benjamin Bannar (1738-Dec 8, 1808) - biography follows
Tilden Bannar (c Sept 16 1739 - Jan 6 1740)
David Bannar (c Dec 7 1740)
Rebekkah Bannar (c Oct 9 1743 - Mar 1 1773) married John Featherstone in 1770 (story described in Benjamin's section)
[Image of John Banner's Will (1768).]
Generation Two:
Benjamin Bannar (1738-Dec 8, 1808) married Sarah Clinch (1742- Feb 1810) on 4 Apr 1768. The bride's fathers, William Clinch, and Benjamin's brother John Clinch [typo for Bannar] were witnesses.
Benjamin and Sarah both lost their fathers in 1768. Benjamin's died a little more than a week before their wedding and William Clinch two months after it.
As you can see from the will above, Benjamin and his brother John were to care for their youngest sister Rebekkah. She married John Featherstone, the last witness to that will, on July 2, 1770. He was a smallholder with a house Bredgar, and additional land in Stockbury, who had been fined £10 for poaching in 1762. (Helen Allinson, Bredgar, p 59). Rebecca gave birth to their only child, in Bredgar on 25 Aug 1771. The baby died and, on November 18, 1771, so did Rebekkah. Featherstone was sent to the prison hulk "Caphias" eight years later. A "single woman" by the name of Ann Williamson declared she was the father of her two children. John denied this, but according to the Bastardy Act of 1733, her word was sufficient proof. The court ordered provide a weekly maintenance of 1 shilling, 6 pence. John Featherstone refused, preferring imprisonment to providing for her. He gave his house and lands to his younger brother Stephen, on condition that he took in their mother and gave her £10. Then John Featherstone went off to the hulk. He was never heard from again. (Allinson, pp 58, 59)
The 1778 assessment for repairs to St Mary Magdalene church, in Stockbury, includes 2/- to Benjamin Bannar
Benjamin Bannar renting three parcels in South Green during 1781, the assessments totalled that year was £8, 12 shillings.
At the time of his death, in 1808, Benjamin owned, or rented, 110 acres in South Green, a tenement in Pett's farm, 42 acres in Bredgar, 10 acres of woodland in Borden's wood," 4 acres of meadowland called Anne's Field.
He was also Stockbury's parish Church warden in 1778, 1786, 1789, 1803-5.
As you can see on the left, Benjamin Banner was one of the eleven Stockbury freeholders allowed to participate in "the Poll for Knights of the Shire, to Represent the County of Kent in Parliament." The electors gathered on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on June 28-30, 1790. Benjamin was one of those who voted on the first day. There were three candidates, only two of which could represent the county. Sir Edward Knatchbull and Filmer Holywood were elected. The last election Benjamin could have voted in took place in 1806, when Knatchbull and William Holywood were sent to parliament. [Website has referenced image.]
Sarah Quaif[sic: typo for Clinch] died in 1808 and Benjamin followed her a little more than a year later. Their tombstone says:
"Sacred to the Memory of Sarah
Wife of Benjamin Banner of this parish
Who died on 6th February 1808 Aged 66 Years
Also the above Benjamin Banner Who died on 5th of December 1810 Aged 70 Years"
Children:
John Bannar (c 20 May 1769 - Feb 1810) - biography follows
Ann Bannar (c 23 Sept 1770-14 May 1777)
Sarah Bannar (1 May 1773-25 Aug 1773)
Benjamin Bannar (28 Aug 1774-26 Oct 1774)
Mary Bannar (2 May 1776-15 May 1777)
Tylden Bannar (c April 1779-6 July 1829) married Ann. church warden 1811.
Elizabeth Bannar (c 14 April 1782)
Rebecca Bannar (c 30 Jan 1784) married William Rayner on 11 Dec 1807
Richard Bannar (1790) married Frances Goodwin on 18 May, 1812"

BIRTH:
1. No record found in Stockbury looking at Parish, Bishop's, and Archdeacon's Records. Those who purport Benjamin was christened 27 Jul 1740 in Stockbury. A birth of 1738 does not look accurate either. The parish records have christened to John and Rebecca Banner as follows:
Thomas 8 Mar 1726/7
William 9 Apr 1738
Tilden 16 Sep 1739
David 27 Dec 1740
Rebekah 2 Oct 1743
Assuming an age of about 25 or older at the time of the 1768 marriage, Benjamin would have been born 1743 or earlier. The age on his 1810 tombstone was 70 which calculates to 1740, which looks to be erroneous in the above sequencing. This being the case, he would probably more likely have been born early 1742.

2. Concerning the tombstone inscriptions:
If Sarah's age of 66 was accurate, then she would have been born right on top of her brother James (17 Oct 1742). On the other hand there is a large gap of no children recorded from James to the next child Thomas in 1748 where Sarah more realistically fits. If her age is off, then there is certainly the possibility of the same for her husband Benjamin who if we believed the inscribed age of 70 would be born on top of David Banner in 1740. The only gap I see in that proximity is rather tight but workable in early 1742.
Both the church records and monumental inscriptions are excellent sources, but they appear conflicting and I am thinking the church records would trump since they were recorded at the event whereas the ages may be from a faulty memory of surviving relatives.

MARRIAGE:
1. Stockbury Church Records: Benjamin Bannor and Sarah Clinch, botp, marr. 4 Apr 1768 by banns with WIlliam Clinch and John Bannor as witnesses.

DEATH:
1. Tombstone inscription from FHL book 942.23/S7 V3s "St. Mary Magdalene Stockbury Monumental Inscriptions." Note is appears the reported ages are a bit loose since if they were correct, their births would conflict with siblings whose christening dates are established in the Stockbury Church records. Interestingly the christenings for both of them were not recorded even though their siblings were:
"Sacred to the Memory of Sarah
Wife of Benjamin Banner
of this Parish
who died 6th February 1808
Aged 66 years
Also the above Benjamin Banner
Who died the 5th of December 1808
Aged 70 years"

2. Note that his mother's tombstone lists her children still living at the time of her death. One of the names is Bennet, which apparently was the name they used for Benjamin.

BURIAL:
1. Internet Find My Past's "Kent Burials Transcriptions": Benjamin Banner, bur. 10 Dec 1808 at Stockbury, Kent, England.

2. There is a variance in the tombstone that reports a death date of 5 Dec 1810 (aged 70) and the church's burial record that reports 10 Dec 1808. I have confirmed the burial entry in the Stockbury Parish record FHL film 1473718, it. 2. Perhaps there is a transcription error in the tombstone reading.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Rootsweb.com 17 Jun 2007 Worldconnect database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis  		Banner, Benjamin (I1193)
 
3810 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents reported as Christen Jensen Hov and Else Andersdatter.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per family group sheet prepared by Wanda Roos and Eva M. Gregersen with copies in possession of Wayne Westergard and Kerry Petersen. Generally they source parish and/or census records. 		Christensen Hov, Anders (I1638)
 
3811 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parish map of Kent with origin dates on file.

2. Censuses:
1840 US: Quincy First Ward, Adams, Illinois, related families:
P. 6a:
Stephen Hales, males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1; 40-50:1//females 15-20:1; 40-50:1. [Stephen, his wife Mary Ann, Henry W.(12), George (18), {not sure who the 30-40 male and the 15-20 female would be unless it was Charles, age 23 and not over 30, and his new bride Julia Ann, under age 20 - either way it would live Stephen, age 20, unaccounted for}. I do not find Charles or Stephen separately in same census.]
P. 7a:
John Ellis, males 20-30:1//females 15-20:2. [Not sure who the second female would be.]
P. 15a [2nd Ward]:
Joseph Horne, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1.

BIOGRAPHY:
1. "Stephen and Mary Ann Hales," taken from the personal records of O.J. Sanders, 112 Leslie, Salt Lake City, Utah: "Stephen Hales and Mary Ann Hales were both born in Kent County, England. They migrated to America in the year 1832. Eleven children were born to them...Seven grew to maturity, the other four died when small. They were William, Hannah, Elias, and Caroline. Elias died in a ship while enroute to America and was sorrowfully concealed in watery grave. They landed in York, Canada, now Toronto, Canada on 16 June 1832. They resided there until 1837. The wonderful message of the gospel first came to them and received a hearty welcome in the hearts and souls of the Hales family. It was given by Orson Pratt to Mary Isabella. Orson was then called away on business but told the people that his brother Parley would be at the next meeting to further explain the message of the new gospel. All of the family of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales were there and were greatly impressed and happy with the message of Mr. Pratt. They left their respective churches and attended the Mormon meetings altogether. They joined the church in the year 1836 and in 1838 they moved with Saints to Jackson Co., Missouri. They were driven from Missouri to Nauvoo, Illinois. Here they aided in converting the swamps into then the largest and most beautiful city in the state of Illinois. They also endured with the saints the sorrows and troubles incident to the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. The Exodus from Nauvoo found the Hales family ready and willing to move on to the unknown west to face the desert, Indians, and privations and exposure rather than to forsake the religion that they knew to be true. While crossing the plains, the family was called upon to endure the greatest sorrow that could come to a family that of parting with their wife and mother, who became very ill and died. She was buried on the plains."

2. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales.

3. Stephen Hales' lots in Nauvoo included [map in my files from Nauvoo Visitor's Center]:
a. Blk. 28, lot 1 W/2 (part) in Wells Subdivision in center of block between Wilcox/Green and Warsaw on the south side of Mulholland (4 blocks from Temple). This lot was purchased from Joseph and Mary Isabella Horne for $250 on 10 Feb 1846. It was subsequently sold to George Johnston of Adams County for $250 on 23 May 1846 by Stephen and Mary Ann Hales.
b. Blk. 6, Lot 39, N acre of E/2 of S/2, 1/2 acre in Kimball 1st Subdivision between Brigham and Winchester on south side of Sidney.

4. Nauvoo List of Members shows Stephen and Mary Ann with Stephen, Jr. arriving in Nauvoo after 1841.

5. See daughter Mary Isabella's, son Charles Henry's, daughter Harriet's, son George's, and son Stephen's biography notes for more detailed history in England and Canada and later conversion of Stephen and his family to the LDS church.

6. Sylvia Barlow, great granddaughter tells this story of her mother Harriet, Stephen's daughter, as compiled by Kenneth Hales, "Windows: A Mormon Family," (1985), pp 39-40, as copied at Nauvoo Visitor's Center: "In June of 1832 the family, then consisting of the parents; five boys, Charles, George, Stephen, Henry William, and Elias, and two girls, Isabella and Harriet, emigrated to Canada. They sailed on a ship and the voyage took them eleven weeks...had the sad experience of seeing...Elias, buried at sea. They settled in Toronto, Canada. Here the family joined the Mormon Church. When they were first invited to attend a Mormon meeting the father agreed to go to the service but he said he would soon knock that into a cocked hat. However, before the service was over he knew that he had found the truth. Soon after this the whole family was baptized. In the spring of 1838 they started by team to join the body of the saints at Far West, Missouri, arriving in the fall of the same year. While at Far West they endured the persecutions by the mobs with the rest of the Saints. It was here they met the prophet Joseph Smith. After their expulsion from Missouri they moved to Quincy, Illinois. In 1842 they moved to Nauvoo where they lived until the expulsion of the Saints by the mob. Harriet's father and mother joined them commence the journey across the plains. One day the oxen strayed away, and Harriet's father went in search of them. He became fatigued and reaching a spring of water, drank from it. It was later learned that the water was poisoned, and it caused his death. His wife, Mary Ann, started the journey, but she also died while crossing the plains."

7. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by the daughters of Utah Pioneers speaks of Mary Ann Hales Hales Thompson,... m. #1 Stephen Hales 31 Aug 1816 at Rodmersham, Kent, England (he died 5 Oct 1846 at Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa), children:
Charles Henry, 17 Jan 1817
Mary Isabella, 20 Nov 1818
Stephen, IV, 17 Oct 1820
George, 30 Oct 1822 (twin)
William, 30 Oct 1822 (twin - died at age 10[this may be an error and 1825 is the usually accepted date of death])
Harriet, 10 Jun 1824
Hannah, 5 Jun 1827 (died at 6 months)
James, 23 Jun 1828 (died at age 1)
Henry William, 7 Aug 1829
Elias, 30 Oct 1831 (died as an infant)
Caroline, 1833 (died as an infant)
...Mary Ann married her first cousin, Stephen Hales on Aug. 31, 1816 in England. She was blessed with 11 children, but buried 5 of them while they were still young. Times were tough in England and they chose to seek a new life in the New World. They left England in June of 1832 and crossed the ocean by sailing vessel. They settled in Scarborough (Toronto), Canada and purchased a small farm. It was here they heard the Gospel message of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Parley P. Pratt...In the Fall of 1838, Mary Ann's family traveled by oxteam to Far West, Missouri where many of the Saints were located. They suffered the persecutions from the mobs. After their expulsion from Missouri, Mary Ann's family stayed close to her and settled in Quincy. Her husband went back to help other Saints escape. They moved to Nauvoo, Illinois by 1841 where her family helped build the city and the temple. She and Stephen received their Endowments in the Nauvoo Temple during the short time it was open. On Oct. 5, 1846, Stephen died from drinking spring water which had been poisoned by the mob..."

8. Several Daughters of the Utah Pioneers biographies exist all based upon the same information I already have cited herein. They are as follows:
A. History of Stephen Hales Written by Mona N. Cook his Great, Great Grand-daugther Camp Heritage Uinta County, Wyoming
Stephen Hales III was born 10 Sept. 1791 at Stockburg, Kent, England. He was the son of Stephen Hales II who was born in 1763 in Stockbum, and Margaret Nichols Harbour. He was the Grandson of Stephen Hales I, {born in] 1927 of Boxley, Kent, England and Ann Church [born in] 1730 of Stockburg.
Stephen was the second of three children. His father died when he was four, and there is no record of a step-father.
At the age of 25 he rmarried Mary Ann Hales, a grand-daughter of Stephen Hales I and Sarah Well, a second wife. Mary Ann was born on the Isle of Shippey.
The family had moved around, and brothers and sisters were born in four different locations in Kent, England.
To this union ten children were bom. As of 31 August 1916, six of them had reached maturity. They are Charles Henry, Mary Isabella, Stephen, George (a surviving twin), Harriet, and Henry William. Three of the others were buried in England. One small boy was buried at sea as they were crossing to Canada in 1832. The family left England for religious freedom and probably partly due to the industrial revolution (machinery taking over much of the work done by hand). They setled near Toronto in a place called Scarborough, and it was here their oldest daughter married. Also, it was here that they heard the Mormon religion taught which impressed them so deeply that the entire family was baptized, including a newly married daughter, Mary Isabella H. Horne, in 1836.
Two years later, in the Spring of 1838, they joined others to travel to Far West Zion - the home of the Saints. Enroute they were joined by others from other places in Canada and the Eastem United States, making up a caravan of 200 wagons traveling. [They were] just awhile behind the last of the Saints leaving Kirtland, 529 strong.
In the Missouri area [which] they were headed form, there was a growing bitterness to the strange-mannered Saints. They came by wagon, walking, or horseback, and overnight had cabins built and fields planted, and planned a place for a temple. "That looks permanent!" people said. They wanted their voting to remain slave-oriented and there were northerners and foreigners, so they were determined to run them out. The Prophet Joseph Smith had had a vision in 1831 concerning the new Zion home for the Saints [which would be] in Missouri, so settling elsewhere seemed unthinkable. Contention brewed, growing worse after the expulsion of the Saints from Independence, Jackson County, Missouri. The Saints had crossed the river and gone north into Clay and Caldwell Counties... When the financial panic of 1837-38 caused the great Saints in Kirtland [to leave that place], they arrived in Missouri, over five hundred strong, followed ten days later by 200 wagons from Canada and [the] Eastern states. Mob violence erupted again. The State Militia was called to settle matters peacefully or the fighting could have led to a Civil War then and there. Missouri was a big hotbed of dissension. They had driven over 11,000 Mormons from Jackson County by {the] summer of 1838, making 15,000 in northern Missouri. The lawless element found much opportunity to plunder.
The new Governor, Govemor Boggs, gave no help. Mobs had driven all outlying settlements into the city of Far West. At the Haun's Mill Massacre, 17 were killed. All of these people were crowded into a small frontier town, causing sanitation and water problems along with the political and religious oppositions. General Lucas massed [the] State Militia within firing distance of Far West and sent word they [the Mormons] were to: (1) give up their leaders, (2) give up all their property for damages that they (the Mormons) had done, (3) that the balance should leave the State under the protection of the militia, and (4) that they must give up arms of every description. The Prophet Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight and George W. Robinson went to negotiate and were all taken as prisoners. The following moming, the militia was marched out of Far West by Captain Hinckle, (who had possesion of the arms delivered to him by the Mormons). The city was now at the mercy of the mob which was augmented by those dismissed from General Lucas's militia.
The night of November 1st, a court martial was held at the Lucas Camp and it was decided that the prisoners were to be shot at sunrise as an example. General Doniphan, who received the orders, refused to obey. But the prisoners and [the) Mormons expected the worst.
With all hope of relief gone, and their leaders in prison, Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball came to the front to unite the members for withdrawal.
Non-members appealed to aid and as the activity grew, Brigham Young and Heber C.Klmball had to flee.
These are the events experienced by the newly joined Hales family. This family, being teenagers, weren't harrassed as other [were] but they were in the exodus from Missouri and made their way to Quincey, [IllinoIs], where they farmed, helped to build Nauvoo, and the temple. Here, four of the children married, and three sons joined the Nauvoo Band and Nauvoo Legion.
After the temple dedication, they all had their temple work done. The youngest boy went with Dad and Mom (December 31,1834.)
Through their faith, they saw marvels we only hear or read about, but I don't know if their children's children retain a very strong abiding faith in their church and all it's leachings.
Stephen Hales lived to be one of the Mormon people to witness the loss of their beloved Prophet and leader. He was one to strongly support Brigham Young in his leadership, preparing the people to bring the herd of cattle from outside Nauvoo to safety, as his family's families were driven from Nauvoo. He and others with this responsibility had their own skirmishes with opposition, in which he suffered loss of health which didn't return. He was buried at Fort Madison, Iowa on the 5th of October, 1846, seven months after the expulsion from Nauvoo, leaving his young families and one seventeen-year-old son, to care for his wife.
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B. History of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales and their son Charles Henry Hales. Written by Crista ell Hales Simons, Great Grandaugnter of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales, Sugarhouse Camp, Salt Lake County:
Stephen was born September 13,1791, Kent County, Rainham England. MaryAnn Hales was born inShepney, Oct. 11, 1798. They imigrated to America in 1832, landing in Toronto, Canada June 16. 1832, where they resided till 1837. Ten children were born to them as follows:
1st. Charles Henry (my grandfather)
2nd. Mary Isabelle
3rd. Stephen
4th. George
5th. William
6th. Harriet
7th. Hanna
8th. Henry William
9th. Elias
10th. Caroline
Seven grew to maturity - Elias dying at sea, June 1, 1836, they first heard the gospel, they also being the first Hales to receive the gospel. It was given first by Orson Pratt to Mary Isabelle Hales Hom, a daughter. Orson was called away on business but told the people his brother Parley Pratt, would be at the next meeting and give them more light and knowledge of the gospel.
At this meeting, every one of Stephen and Mary Ann's children were present, all being so impressed with the Gospel Message, they left their respective churches and attended the Mormon meetings in a group and he and his entire family were converted and baptized during the year 1836. In 1836, they moved their family with the Saints to Jackson County Missouri. They were driven from Missouri and from there, they went with the rest of the Mormon exiles to Nauvoo Illinois.
Here they aided in converting the deadly swamps into then, the largest and most beautiful city in illinois. "Nauvoo the Beautiful."
They also endured with the rest of the Saints the sorrows incident to the Martyrdom of the Prophet and his brother, Hyrum. Grandfather's family and the Smiths were intimately associated, Grandfather knowing the prophet well.
The exodus from Nauvoo found the Hales family ready to move to the unknown west to face the desert Indians; Privations, etc., rather than forsake the religion they knew to be true. They helped to build the Nauvoo Temple, and Stephen and Mary Ann had the Priviledge of taking out their endowments in 1845.
Their oldest child, Charles Henry, who is my grandfather, was born June 17, 1817, in Rainham, Kent County, England. He was fifteen years of age when his father imigrated to America, being old enough to realize the sacrifices made.
While living in Nauvoo, Charles Henry played in the Nauvoo band, and was a member of the Nawoo Legion. In Quincy, Illinois, he met Julia Ann Lockwood and later married her Oct. 31, 1839.
One child, Eliza Ann, was born to them at Quincy, Illinois. Julia A., George, Gillet, and Isabelle were born at Nauvoo, and Charles Henry and Joseph at Garden Grove.
With these six children they crossed the plains with [an] ox team, in the early 1850's, leaving home and farm behind. During the journey to Utah, the family was called upon to endure the greatest sorrow that could come to a family, the death of their mother and father (Stephen and Mary Ann Hales) who were buried on the plains. Charles Henry's family arrived in Salt Lake, Sept. 1852. The following February, John T. Hales was born to them, he being the first Hales born in Utah.
In the spring of 1854, Charles Henry and his family moved to Big Cottonwood. Here Frederic and William were born. For five years they lived there and farmed. Grandfather helped to build the old Paper Mill which still stands as a relic of the past.
In 1856, grandfather had rented a farm and put in crops. Just as plants began to make the fields green, the terrible grasshoppers came, destroying the crops as they did all over Utah. But through faith and prayers, their crops were saved by the Sea Gulls, which God sent to their rescue.
In 1858 they moved to Spanish Fork. Here three more children were born: Josephine, Hyrum, and Harriet. Grandfather took a second wife, Francis Brunyer (my grandmother). They married Saturday, April 18. 1857. Of this union, thriteen children were born as follows:
1st. Lucy Elmina Hales, born April 23, 1858.
2nd. Mary Ann, born November 13, 1859.
3rd. James Lawrence, born August 31,1861.
4th. Charles Alma, born April 19, 1863.
5th. Caroline Elmira, born May 7,1865.
6th, Franklin Henry, born July 21, 1867.
7th. Harmon Brunyer, born August 13,1869.
8th. Edward Moroni, born September 22, 1871.
9th. Joseph Mathew, born July 21, 1873.
10th. Richard Smith, born April 23, 1875.
11th. Sarah Jane, born September 22, 1877.
12th. Hannah Pamelia (Minnie), born June 19, 1879.
13th. Daniel Wells, born October 26, 1880.
Charles Henry was a mason by trade, and farmed. He was a leader and a promotor of education. Before schools were started, he taught his own children how to read and write. He served as City Councilman and was a member for many years, serving as President and Vice President of the Board, and at one time, Superintendent of the store. He contracted and built the City Hall, the Co-op store, oldest school house and many other public buildings. Many homes shall stand as monuments to his memory.
Grandfather was an eamest and willing church worker and helped wherever he was needed. He was a member of the Spanish Fork Choir. At the age of eight years, in the absence of the leader, he led the Choir in the Church of England. During the trouble with the Indians, grandfather and his two sons served as home guards and in the World War, his grandsons and great grandsons fought for world freedom, two of them making the supreme sacrifice.
Charles Henry injured his foot while driving a team and wagon. Although his foot was hurt, he walked to Provo to a meeting. I remember my grandmother, Francis Brunyer, telling my father she had a dream about the three of them (meaning Charles Henry, his first wife, and herself), and that something was going to happen to one of them. It happened to grandfather, and he did not live so very long after this.
Grandfather was also a firm believer in the paying of tithes.
He related to us one time that while making camp fire in the canyon one night, he saw three personages in white, and each time he turned his head to look at them, one disappeared until all three had gone. He always regretted that he did not have the strength to speak to them.
Grandmother cooked for her family of 13 in a large kettle over a fireplace until the oldest child. Lucy Elmina, taught school, and bought her first cook stove. They baked in a brick oven outside and had to clean the snow off the oven before baking the bread, but made delicious bread in this oven with an even brown.
We cannot fully appreciate the inconveniences and difficulties endured by our ancestor pioneers in building this wonderful state and proclaiming this most wonderful Gospel.
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C. History of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales and Family. Written by Vinita Holoyck. Great Granddaughter. Mary Siome Camp. Cassia County Company. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.
Stephen Hales and Mary Ann Hales, my great grandparents were both born in England. Stephen in Rainham. Kent County. Sept. 131791. Mary Ann in Shepney on October 11, 1798. This couple migrated to America in the year 1832.
Eleven children were born to them. their names being Charles H., Mary Isabell. Stephen, George, William, Harriet, Hannah, James, Henry William, Elias, and Caroline. Seven grew to maturity. The other four died when small. Elias died in a ship enroute to America and was sorrowfully concealed in a watery grave.
They landed in York, Canada; now Toronto, Canada; June 16, 1832 - Here they resided until 1837.
It was June 1, 1836, so far as we are able to learn that the wonderful message of the Gospet first fell on the ears and received a hearty welcome in the heart and soul of any Hales. It was given first by Orson Pratt to Mrs. Mary Issbell Hales Horn.
Orson Pratt was then called away on business, but told the people that his brother, Parley, would be at the next weekly meeting to further explain the message of the new gospel.
At this meeting all the family of Stephew and MaryAnn Hales were present and they were impressed and happy with the message of Mr. Pratt; so much that they left their respetive Churches and attended the Monnon meetings all together.
It was just a short time thereafter that the whole family joined the church. Thanks to our God that they had heart and courage to accept the great truth, which has been handed down to the generations now living.
The year they joined the church was 1836, and in 1838 they moved with the Saints of Jackson County, Missouri. They were driven from Missouri and from there they went with the rest of Mormon exiles to Nauvoo, Illinois.
Here in Nauvoo they aided in converting the deadly swamps. It was then the largest and most beautiful city of the great state of Illinois. They also endured with the rest of the Saints the sorrow and trouble incident of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum.
The exodus from Nauvoo found the Hales family ready and willing to move on to the unknown West to face the desert Indians, privations and exposure, rather than to forsake the religion they knew to be true.
While crossing the plains the family was called upon to endure the greatest sorrow that could come to a family - that of parting with their wife and mother. In some manner our great grand­parent became ill, died, and was buried on the plains.
Charles Henry Hales, the eldest son of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales, and my grandfather, met Julia Ann Lockwood in Quincy. Illinois and married her October 31,1839 (or October 30, 1839). One child was born at this place, Eliza Ann. Julia A., George Gilbert (Gillett), and Isabell were born at Nauvoo. Charles Henry, and Joseph L. were born at Garden Grove, Iowa.
They left Garden Grove, Iowa, in the spring of 1852, and landed in Salt Lake September 1852, where John T. Hales was born in February 1853, he being the first Hales born in Utah.
They lived in Salt Lake the winter of 1853, then moved on a farm in Big Cottonwood in the spring of 1854. Here two children were bom, Frederic and William. They remained at Cottonwood until the year 1858, when they moved to Spanish Fork where three more children were born: Josephine, Hyrum, and Harriet.
Grandfather Hales took a second wife. Her name was Francis Brunyer (or Brunger). Of this union thirteen children were born.
Farming was the principal occupation and he was also a Mason by trade.
He was very prominent in the building of Spanish Fork, being School Trustee for ten years. He was a member of the Spanish Fork Choir for 35 years, also a member of the Spanish Fork Co-op Board for a number of years.
He contracted and built the City Hall in the fall of 1876. He took an active part in Church affairs and was always ready to help for the betterment of the Community.
He died July 1, 1889.
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D. History of Stephen Hales. Written by Ora May Sorensen Wilson, His 3rd Great-Grandfther.
Stephen Hales was born 13 September 1791 at Stockbury, Kent, England, the first son and second child of Stephen Hales and rMargaret Nickols. His older sister was Elizabeth, christened 6 June 1790, Stockbury, Kent, England, and younger brother was Lawrence, christened 5 May 1793, Stockbury, Kent, England. He, Stephen was christened 23 October 1791, at Stockbury, Kent, England, as the son of Stephen Hales and Margaret Hales. Stephen Hales, the father, married Margaret Harbour, a widow, at Stockbury, Kent, England on 9 September 1789. Evidently Margaret Nichols married a first husband named Harbour.
Stephen Hales grew up in the Kent County area and experienced all the hardships of England during this period of time. He was married to Mary Ann Hales, date unknown, and they lived in Rainham, Kent. England. They were first cousins because their fathers were half brothers.
Mary Ann was born 11 October 1798 at Shepney, England, a daughter of Henry Hales and Hannah Kidney. Henry Hales was the son of Stephen Hales and Sarah Wells (she was a second wife, married 6 May 1766 at Stockbury, England).
Stephen and Mary Ann were the parents of eleven children. The first ten were born in Rainham, Kent, England and the last one was born in Canada.
Their children were: [Children listed.]
Stephen Hates was a religious man by nature, and belonged to the Methodist faith; however, his wife, Mary Ann, attended the Church of England. The children, according to his daughter, attended the Methodist Church with their father who was faithful in the performance of his religious duties, although he never became a very enthusiastic Methodist. In the year 1832, there was great excitement in the town where this family lived. There were favorable reports being sent from Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), and great inducements were held out to those interested in going to this country. Stephen and Mary Ann caught the spirit of going, and began to make preparations for leaving England. Before arrangements had been completed for them to go, however, letters were received from Upper Canada, picturing, in glowing terms, the advantages of that country. Stephen Hales changed his mind immediately and made arrangements to emigrate to the town of York, afterwards called Toronto, Canada. Accordingly, on the 16th day of April, 1832, this family, consisting of parents, five sons and two daughters, bade adieu to England. They had a tedious voyage of six weeks across the ocean, and the mother, Mary Ann, was sick during the entire voyage. During the passage across, there were three deaths on board, one of the three being a son, Elias, whom they consigned to a watery grave.
The ship anchored at Quebec in May, and after a tedious passage up the St. Lawrence River by steamer, they landed safely at the town of York, 16 June, 1832, thankful that they were at the journey's end. They were in a strange land and to their dismay found that the cholera was raging fearfully in that region; but through all of those trying scenes the Lord preserved this family in good health.
In the spring of 1833, they moved to the country, about eight miles out of town. to a place located in the township of York, and in the spring of 1834, the entire family attended a Methodist Camp Meeting in the neighborhood. This family was active in the Methodist faith but somehow were always searching for something more. In June of 1836 their daughter lsabella and her new husband, Joseph Horne, attended a meeting about a mile fromtheir home where a man professing to be sent of God was holding a cottage meeting. This man was Elder Orson Pratt, an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her husband were very much impressed with the message of this man. Another meeting was appointed for the following week, and Elder Pratt told them, that business called him away, but his brother, Parley P. Pratt, would be there to preach in his stead.
Isabella took her father, Stephen Hales, and his entire family to hear this preacher at this Mormon meeting. Elder Pratt told them that God was an unchangeable being, the same yesterday, today, and forever - and taught them the gospel in its purity; then shoed from the Bible that the gospel was the same in all ages of the world; but man had wandered from God and the true gospel, and that the Lord had sent an angel to Joseph Smith, restoring to him the pure gospel with its gifts and blessings. Stephen Hales was so delighted with this sermon that he left the Methodist Church immediately and attended the Mormon meetings. In a short time, his family had received this gospel and were baptized into the faith. This made quite a stir among the Methodists in the area. The Hales family were very talented people. They had above average singing voices and most members played a musical instrument. They were missed by the Methodists. One of the class leaders from the Methodist Church came to converse with them and used every argument he could to convince them that Mormonism was false, but to no avail. 'Well," said he, "there are none but children and fools who join them," and he left the family to their fate. All of the family was baptised in the years 1838, 1839, and 1840.
In March of 1838, a small band of Saints started from Canada to gather with the Saints in the states. The Hales family, along with their married daughter, were in this group. The roads were very bad as the frost was coming out of the ground. Consequently, the women drove the teams while the men walked to make the loads lighter. On arriving at Huntsville, one hundred miles from Far West, they found several families of Saints, and stayed a short time with them. These Canadian Saints reached Far West in August of 1838, and received their full share of the privations incident to settlement of that city; and also a full share of the exposure, sickness, and peril incident to expulsion of the Saints from Missouri. This family also went through the hardships at Quincy, Illinois. From Quincy, the family, which now included several daughters-in-law, moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they assisted in converting an unwholesome swampland into a beautiful city. Members of this family were in the Nauvoo band and were also members of the Nauvoo Legion. All assisted in the building of the beautiful temple.
Stephen Hales was ordained a High Prist on 8 October 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois. Stephen and Mary Ann also received their washings and anointings and endowments in this temple on 31 December 1845. Several of their children had this privilege also.
When the Saints were driven from Nauvoo early in 1846, the Hales families were among them. Some of them crossed the Mississippi River, then covered with ice, in their wagons. Preparations were made by the families to travel west to a new home where surely there would be peace and happiness.
It is believed that Stephen Hales died not far from Nauvoo on 5 October 1846. He was buried at Fort Madison, Iowa. He was fifty-five years old. His hopes and dreams carried him to a place out west where the Saints of God could live in peace. His dreams were not realized; however, his love of God and his search for the true gospel of Christ made it possible for those of us who are Children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, to enjoy the many privileges of being his descendants. We enjoy all the things he hoped for. May we ever honor this great name and always remember who we are. We can truly be thankful that he was willing to give his all, even his life for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May we be worthy to be numbered among his posterity.
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9. Mentioned in "Sketch of the life of Henry William Hales, son of Stephen and Mary Ann Hales. I was born August 7, 1829, at Rainham, Kent, England. In the year 1832, my father and family immigrated to Canada. We settled in Toronto where my father, mother and my oldest brother, Charles, and sister, mary isabella embracd the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in the year 1837. The sring following we started by team to gather with the saints at Far West. We stayed at Kirtland for about three weeks to let the teams recruit, and then headed for Far West. It was there that I first saw the Prophet Joseph Smith when he was betrayed into the hands of the mob by Colonel George Hinckle, when with the other prisoners he was sentenced to be shot without being given a hearing. We were expelled form the state with the rest of the Saints and went to Quincy, Illinois, and remained there until 1841 when we moved to Nauvoo where I heard the Prophet Joseph preach and prophesy and say, "Thus, sayeth the Lord, God," and hear him say he had finished his work and had turned the burden of the Church over to the Twelve Apostles, and they had to round up their shoulders and bear off the Kingdom or they would be damned for he gave them all the keys, powers, and authority he held to build up the Kingdom and htey had to do it. He had laid the foundation and they had to build it up.I saw him when he was going ot carthage and heard him say he "was going like a lamb ot the slaughter, but he was as calm as summer's morniing. He had a conscence void of offense towards God and all men and it would be said of him, "he was murdered in cold blood." I saw him and Hyrum lying in their coffins - I know they were men of God.
I received my endowments at the Temple in Nauvoo, and was ordained a Seventy June 29, 1845 in Nauvoo. I was a member of the 29th Quorum. I was with the first that crossed the Mississippi to leave Nauvoo and come west, and joined the camp at Sugar Creek in Iowa and continued with the camp to Garden Grove and helped to build the houses and fields for those that were not able to go on that season, then went back to Nauvvo to help my father to start west. We went up to Fort Madison where father and I were taken sick. My father died there. I was just getting around when the mob came and made war on the Saints that were left. We could hear the cannons distinctly. We went that fall to Garden Grove where we lived the following winter. We then returned to Fort Madison and got work. I returned to Garden Grove the next year to take care of our stock. My mother got married to Brother William Thompson. I took the teams and moved them to Garden Grove where we remained until 1850 when I married Eliza Ann Ewing, May 19. In the spring of 1851 we started for Salt Lake. My mother died on the plains and was buried at the Ancient Bluff ruins. We arrived in Salt Lake City about September 21. I first built a house at Little Cottonwood and lived there until the spirng of 1853 when I went to Cedar Valley and made my home. During the Indian trouble, I helped to build two forts and participated in all the Indian troubles and through the grasshopper war when flour could not be bought for money at any price. January 11, 1857, I married Sarah Jane McKinney. I was then called to the city to be in readyness to go to Echo Canyon if wanted. I was there when the U.S. Commissioners came to investigate the trouble between the people of Utah and the U.S. Government, and stayed there until the trouble was settled. I remained in Cedar Fort until the fall of 1859 when I went to Big Cottonwod Canyon and stayed until 1861, when I moved to Weber Valley and made a farm at Enterprisse, Morgan County. Here I was chosen to be counselor to Bishop Charles Peterson and also chosen a county commisioner and laid out most of the roads. During high water the Weber River cut my farm in two and carried about ten acres of the best land away.
Soon after,the railroad took a strip, so my farm was ruined. The grasshoppers took six crops and the railroad cut off the water ditch so we could not get water for irrigating purposes until 1873. I then sold and moved back to Cedar Valley and rented a farm and ran a stock ranch until the fall of 1877, when we moved to Laketown, Millard County, and entered and fenced a quarter section of land and farmed and raised stock and sheep until we moved to Deseret and made my present home. May 22, 1889 (or '87) I was ordained a High Priest at Fillmore, and was a presiding Elder of Laketown when we moved to Deseret. I was appointed one of the committee of three to complete the Deseret meetinghouse and continued until it was completed. I was set apart as counselor to Bishop Milton Moody, and continued in that calling until the reorganization of the ward November 22, 1898, and was counselor to Frank Hinckley until I resigned on account of ill health and could not see to be out after night. I was ordained patriarch by J.W. Taylor, Reed Smoot and Ira N. Hinckley, J.W. Taylor being mouth.
I had the privilege of entertaining President Wilford Woodruff and wives two different times, also Owen Woodruff and wife at the same time. Also President Lorenzo Snow and wife Jennie and son LeRoy, also President Joseph F. Smith a number of times, two of his wives and two of his sons, Hyrum M. and Joseph F., Jr. Of the Apostles, George Q. Cannon, Francis M. Lyman and wife, Anthon Lund, Heber J. Grant, John M. Taylor, Reed Smoot and wife, George Teasdale, Orson F. Whitney, Charles W. Penrose of the First Seven Presidents of the Seventies, B.H. Robert, Rulon S.Wells, Joseph McMurin.
My wife Eliza had 9 children, 40 grandchildren.
My wife Sarah Jane had 15 children and 15 grandchildren."

10. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File and Susan Black's entry in her book "Early LDS Members." Includes also several of the DUP biographies noted above as well as the following from the study "Baptisms for the Dead," p. 1511: Lists Stephen Hales, Sr. as a proxy, b. 10 Sep 1791 at Stockbury, Kent, England, to Stephen Hales and Margaret (Mary Ann) Waterman, m. Mary Ann Hales, 31 Aug 1816 at Rodmersham, Kent, England, d. 5 Oct 1846 at Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa. Served as baptismal proxy for his mother Margaret Hales on 9 Dec 1840. Book gives her bio info as Margaret Waterman, b. Oct 1769 in Stockbury, Kent, England with three spouses: John Harbour, m. 15 Oct 1784 at Rodmersham; Stephen Hales, m. 9 Sep 1789 at Stockbury; and James Nichols, m. 13 Nov 1797 at Stockbury. She is bur. 15 Dec 1817 at Stockbury. At this early date, the baptism probably occurred in the Mississippi River since the Nauvoo temple font was not dedicated until late 1841. Later after this baptism, the Church decided that only same gender could be baptized for same gender. Book lists sources as Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead, Book A70; Quincy Branch Record #1753, p. 22: Family Search; and Ancestral File.

BIRTH:
1. Per endowment record cited below.

CHRISTENING:
1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury: Stephen Hales, son of Stephen and Margaret, chr. 23 Oct 1791.

2. FHL film 1473718 item #2, Parish Records of Stockbury: Stephen Hales, son of Stephen and Margaret, chr. 23 Oct 1791.

MARRIAGE:
1. FHL film 1473708 Rodmersham, Kent, England Parish Records: "Stephen Hales of this parish, bachelor, and Mary Ann hales of this parish, spinster, were married in this parish by banns with consent of ___ this 31 day of May in the Year 1816 by me Thos. Wilson, Curate. This Marriage was soleminzed between us [signed] Stephen Hales and the mark (X) of Mary Ann Hales. In the presence of Ann Kitney, Marg Nichols, the mark (X) Laurance Hales."
The witnesses appear to be Stephen's mother Margaret (Waterman) Nichols in her third marriage, Stephen's younger brother Lawrence Hales, and Ann Kitney who will marry Lawrence in 1817.

DEATH:
1. Per DUP biography of wife cited above.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website . 		Hales, Stephen (I1820)
 
3812 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parish map of Kent with origin dates on file.

2. The Hales Newsletter, Summer 2004 Vol. 8 No. 2 [See much more lengthy citation with father Jacob Hales]:
"Our Hales family appeared in East Malling on January 10th, 1692. That was the day that Jacob Hales married Elizabeth Penny... Jacob was not in the parish overseer's accounts for 1700, 1715 or 1728, yet we know the couple had money, for Elizabeth received an inheritance of £40 when she married. Jacob may have been a tradesman.
Two of Jacob's sons returned to Boxley: John and Jacob. It may be that they returned to the Hales home that was left when the property was purchased in Yalding in the 1500s, or perhaps some relatives were still living at Boxley or there was some Hales property there.
John Hales of Boxley, son of Jacob of Yalding, would have been 30 when he married Mary Foster at Frinsted in 1724. Based on the headstone inscription at Boxley, Mary was born in 1700 and would have been 24. While it is stated that this Mary Foster was "of Frinsted," I have not been able to discover a Foster family there. However, about three and a half miles to the east of Frinsted lies the parish of Lynsted. In the records of Lynsted there is a Foster family which lists the death of Mary, daughter of William Foster of Frinsted in 1699. Other members of this family are also referred to as being "of Frinsted." The next year this family named another daughter Mary when she was christened in 1700. I believe this is the Mary Foster that married John Hales.
While the parish churches of Lynsted and Frinsted are only three and a half miles apart, the actual farms where they lived might be somewhere in-between and they may have attended both the Lynsted and Frinsted parish churches.
Most likely John Hales of Boxley had a reason to be in the Frinsted area. It may have been because he had an ancestor or other relative there to visit. The reason is yet to be found.
Jacob Hales of Boxley, son of Jacob of Yalding, followed his brother John to Boxley and married ten years later. Neither of these two sons named a son Jacob (or James – the Latinized form of Jacob), and both called their firstborn girl Elizabeth. This probably indicates something of their relationship to their father. The oldest daughter is named after their mother, but the oldest son is not named after their father."

MARRIAGE:
1. John Hales widower from Boxley married Sarah Foreman widow from Towne Sutton (now called Sutton Valence) by licence at St. Nicholas Church Rochester on the 21st, July 1738.

DEATH:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website : noted as age 62 at time of death.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website .

2. Parish records of East Malling, Yalding, Frinstead, and Boxley by correspondence; Research done by Raymond E. Stokes, record agent of Cobbam, Kent, England for the Hales Genealogical society, Kenneth Glyn Hales, sec.; Monumental inscriptions of Boxley dated 1912 by correspondence; August 1972. (1951 Chateau court, Walnut Creek, CA 94598) 2. Correspondence form England, 1 Feb 1951; Frinstead P.R.; Bishop Transcript of frinstead and Parish registers of Boxley by correspondence Gen. soc. FS.; submitted by Gen Soc ECS/DMA, Elizabeth R. Izatt, 293 E. 3rd So., Logan, UT 3. Added by: Robert L. Hales, 266 So. Main St., Nephi, UT of 5 Jul 1962. 		Hales, John (I1875)
 
3813 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parish map of Kent with origin dates on file.

CHRISTENING:
1. FHL film 1473718 item #2, Parish Records of Stockbury: "Stephen son of Stephen & Ann Hales August 7th 1763."

MARRIAGE:
1. Stockbury Parish Record (FHL film 143718, it. 2):
Banns for the year 1789, p. 23, entry no. 116.
Stephen Hales of this Parish and Margaret Harbour of the same Widow
Published the following three Sundays by Thos. Frank, Vicar: 23 Aug 1789, 30 Aug 1789, and 6 Sep 1789.

2. Stockbury Parish Record (FHL film 143718, it. 2): "Stephen Hales of this Parish and Margaret Harbour of the same were married in this church by banns this ninth day of September in the year 1789 by Thos. Frank (Vicar). This marriage was solemnized between us: The marks [X] of Stephen Hales and Margaret Harbour. In the presence of John Crisfield and John Sneller."

3. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury: 13 Nov 1797, James Nichols and Margaret Hales were married by banns the 13th of November 1797."

4. FHL film 1473718 Parish Records for Stockbury, Kent has this same marriage as the Archdeacon's Transcript and it identifies James Nichols as a batchelor and Margaret Hales as a widow. The marriage was done in the presence of John Nicholls and Willm. Newman.

BURIAL:
1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury: Stephen Hales, Jan. 17, 1794.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. 18 Dec 2002 website .

2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis . 		Hales, Stephen (I1824)
 
3814 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parish records for Skyum began 1719.

2. Joyce Cupit uses variant name of Johanne Laursdatter Dybdahl.

BIRTH:
1. Calculated from age of 46 years given with death record.

DEATH:
1. FHL film # 053026; Bedsted Parish Records, 1707-1765, book 1.

2. Per Joyce Cupit: "Bedsted Kirkebog 1750: 28 Jan døde Peder Sadelmagers enke [widow] Johanne Lufidsdatter, 46 aar."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Archive Record family group sheet as originally submitted by Mrs. Wanda Roos, R.D. 1 Box 651B, Sandy Utah. She mentions James Christian Westergard as 3 ggson and source as church records for Bedsted by Eva M. Gregersen.

2. Per gedcom dated 6 Jan 1999 of Wayne Westergard, 785 W 1300 South, Woods Cross, Utah 84087, phone 801-295-2906.

3. Joyce Cupit's website 25 May 2002. 		Lauritsdatter, Johanne (I1609)
 
3815 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biographical sketch of Thomas Barber included in the book "Great Migration," which is a highly dependable modern research publication (see Thomas' notes for full transcript):
"Thomas Barber...
First Residence: Windsor...
Church Membership: Either he or his wife was a member of the Windsor church since their children were baptized there...
Estate: ...A will, written or not, is implied in the probate of Thomas Barber, but none has been found.
On 4 February 1662[/3], the distribution of Thomas Barber's estate was as follows: "to John and Sarah jointly as their father willed," the house and barn and all the home lot, land over the river, half the 24-acre lot, half the marsh, and to John a cow, as well as £20 more to John and Sarah. Thomas Barber's share comprised "a mare that he claims as a gift from his father," half his father's tools, the 14-acre upland lot, half the out lot, half the marsh, and his proportion, being £33 15s "Sam[ue]ll Barber" received £33 15s, as did "Mercey" and "Josias." "And what the estate amounts to more than the inventory when debts are paid shall be distributed betwixt the four younger children Thomas, Sam[ue]ll, Mercey and Josias and if any child die before they come to age sons 21 years daughters 18 years the portion of the deceased shall be divided amongst the survivors equally" [RPCC 263]. (The land owned jointly by Sarah and John is more fully detailed in the holdings of Timothy Hall, Sarah's husband [WiLR 1:87].)
On 4 February 1662/3, "Samuell Barber manifesting his desire thereto was then placed an apprentice unto his brother Thomas until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years [RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Mercey Barber with her consent and desire is placed with Lt. Walter Filer and his wife until she be eighteen years of age unless she marry before" (RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Josias Barber according to his desire is placed with Deacon John Moore until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years" [RPCC 262]. On 30 January 1664[/5?], "Mercy Barber made choice of Lt. Walter Fyler to be her guardian" [RPCC 264]...
Children:
i John, bp. Windsor 24 July 1642 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Springfield 2 September 1663 Bathsheba Coggins [CTVR 10; Grant 25].
ii Thomas, b. Windsor 14 July 1644 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 17 December 1663 Mary Phelps [Grant 25; CTVR 10], daughter of William Phelps [GMB 3:1446].
iii Sarah, bp. Windsor 19 July 1646 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; at Windsor 26 November 1663 Timothy Hall [Grant 62].
iv Samuel, bp. Windsor 1 October 1648 (Grant 25; CVR 33]; m. (1) Windsor 1 December 1670 Mary Coggins [CTVR 12; Grant 25 (surname of bride not .given)]; m. (2) Windsor 25 January 1676[/7] Ruth Drake [CTVR 14; Grant 25].
v Mercy, bp. Windsor 12 October 1651 (published as "Mary" [CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 8 July l669 John Gillett [CTVR 12; Grant 40], son of Jonathan Gillett [GMB 2:768].
vi Josiah, b. Windsor 15 February 1653/4 [CTVR 40]; m. (1) Windsor 22 November 1677 Abigail Loomis [Grant 74; CTVR 14]; m. (2) by 12 March 1701/2 Sarah (___) Drake, widow of Enoch Drake [Manwaring 1:551].
Comments: ...Grant, in his list compiled 17 August 1677, reported that "Thomas Barber Snr." had six children born in Windsor [Grant 90]..."

2. FHL book 929.273 B233bd, "The Connecticut Barbers, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut," 2nd Ed., Donald S. Barber, p. 6-8: "Samuel, bapt. 1 Oct 1648 at Windsor, d. there 12 Mar 1708.9; md. (1) Mary Coggin, b. Taunton, MA abt. 1647, d. Windsor 19 May 1676, dau. of Thomas and Joan (___) Coggin, and sister of Bathsheba who m. Samuel's brother John Barber. Samuel md. (2) Ruth Drake, b. 1 Dec 1657, d. Windsor 13 Nov 1731, dau. of John and Hannah (Moore) Drake. After his parents' death just after his 14th birthday, Samuel was placed (4 Feb 1662) in the home of his brother Thomas until age 21. At about the time of his marriage, Samuel apparently went with his brother to Simsbury, but must have returned to Windsor soon, because all of his family's vital records were recorded in Windsor. He lived in a house on the original Barber tract, nearly opposite the Windsor Cannery on Poquonock Ave. This house was first occupied by his brother John, but was transfered to Samuel when John moved to Springfield. (Sources: 1909 Barber Gen; Barbour Indes; CT Hist Soc: LB Barour Manuscripts; Early Coggins, English and American, by Geo. E. McCracken.) children of Samuel and Mary, born in Windsor:
a. Thomas, b. 7 Oct 1671, bur. 31 Oct 1673.
b. Samuel, b. 26 Jan 1673/4, d. Windsor 1 Feb 1722/3, m. (1) Hepzibah 'Ziba' Brown, b. Windsor 19 Nov 1664, d. 20 Dec 1711, dau. of Peter and Mary (Gillett) Brown. Samuel m. (2) Windsor 18 Jun 1713, Martha Ponder of Westfield, MA, b. 1677/8, d. Windsor (Bloomfield Church rec.) 6 Aug 1758. Samuel lived in Poquonock (in the norhtwest part of Windsor), one mile north of the Baptist Meeting House. [9 children listed for this couple.]
Children of Samuel and Ruth born at Windsor:
a. John Drake, b. ??25 Jan 1676/7, died young. This birth date is probably incorrect since it is the same as the marriage date of Ruth to Samuel. Probably John Drake was born a bit later, and was the first child of Ruth, and was named for her father John Drake.
b. William, b. 1678, m. Esther Brown.
c. Mary 'Mercy', b. 1680, d. 27 Aug 1719, m. Windsor 22 Jul 1696 Peter Brown, b. Windsor 12 Mar 1666/7, d. there 6 Mar 1739, son of Peter and Mary (Gillette) Brown; res. Windsor. Mary died on the day her twins were born. Peter was perhaps a grandson of Peter Brown of Plymouth, MA, and of the Mayflower; however, the Mayflower Society thinks there is not enough proof to allow this connection, and will not allow this to be a valid connection. [7 children of this couple listed.]
d. Hannah, b. 4 Oct 1681, d. before 1708.
e. Joseph, b. 1681, m. (1) Hannah ___, m. (2) Mary Loomis.
f. Ruth, b. 24 Jul 1683, d. 2 Aug 1747, m. Windsor 18 Apr 1706 William Phelps, b. 4 Feb 1668/9, d. 1733, son of Timothy and Mary (Griswold) Phelps, res. Windsor. [Lists 3 children for this couple.]
g. David, b. 12 May 1686, m. Hannah Post.
h. Benjamin, b. abt 1690, m. Hannah Lewis.
i. Elizabeth, b. abt. 1690 (Barbour Index states 9 Feb 1684/5), m. Windsor 10 Nov 1709 Daniel Loomis, b. 15 Nov 1682, d. 1754, son of Daniel and Mary (Ellsworth) Loomis. Eliza. and Daniel lived 2 1/2 miles south of Windsor Center which would place them in the Deerfield section of present day Windsor. Samuel's will of 21 Feb 1708/9 left 25 pounds each to Elizabeth, Mindwell, and Sarah, when they become 18 years of age. This would mean Elizabeth was born after 1689. [7 children of this couple are detailed.]
i. Mindwell, b. 3 Dec 1691, d. 3 Dec 1712.
j. John, b. 1696, m. Jane Alvord.
k. Sarah, b. Windsor, 28 Aug 1698, d. Westfield, MA, 4 Jan 1741/2, m. (1) Windsor ('both of Windsor') 17 Oct 1717 Stephen Palmer, b. Windsor 20 Jan 1686, d. there 17 Nov 1720, son of Timothy and Hannah (Buel) Palmer. Sarah m. (2) 5 Oct 1729 Isaac Phelps III, b. Westfield, MA, 26 Jan 1692/3, son of Isaac and Mary (Maudsly) Phelps. Sarah lived in Poquonock with her first husband Stephen, and at Westfield with Isaac. [9 children detailed of Sarah and Stephen.]"

3. FHL book 929.273 B233w, "Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909," John Barber White:
Pp. 15-19: "The Hartford Probate Records contain the following regarding the settlement of Thomas Barber's estate: 'Barber, Thomas, Windsor, Invt. ₤132-14-00; taken 10, Oct. 1662, by Benj. Newberry and John Moore. 'Court Record, Page 187 - 4 Feb., 1662-3, Invt approved. Samuel was placed with his brother Thomas Barber to learn a trade; Mercy (Mary) Barber was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife until 18 years of age, unless she marries before, with her Master's and Dame's and eldest brother's approbation; Josias Barber was placed with Dea. John Moore until 21 years of age to learn a trade; Thomas Barber doth engage to take Samuel Barber's portion and after two years from the present to allow 6% simple interest per annum. John Barber took Josias' portion upon the same terms. Page 188 - 6 Jun 1662, Dist. to John and Sarah jointly. House and Home lot as their Father willed - 126-13-04. To Thomas Barber by Gift & his portion - 13-00-00. To Samuel, Mercy & Josias each - 36-15-00. By Capt Newberry, Deacon Moore, Sgt. Alvord.' He died on Sept. 11th, and his wife Joan on Sept. 10th, 1662. Children: John, bp. 24 Jul 1642; Thomas, b. 14 Jul 1644; Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646; Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648; Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; Josiah, b. 15 Feb 1653. In the Hartford Probate records it will be observed that the name of the fifth child of Thomas and Joan Barber is given as Mercy instead of Mary, as shown above. Also some records seem to indicate that she married a Hale, but the Gillett family records furnish conclusive evidence of her marriage to John Gillett. It is possible that in the records showing the name of Hale, her marriage was confused with that of her sister Sarah's to Timothy Hall, as a confusion of the names Hale and Hall is quite common."
Pp. 23-29: "Samuel Barber, bp. Oct. 1, 1648; m. 1st, Dec. 1, 1670, Mary Coggins, who d. May 19, 1676. He m. 2nd, Jan. 25, 1677, Ruth Drake, dau. of John and Hannah (Moore) Drake, who was bp. Dec. 6, 1657. John Drake, the father of Ruth, was descended from the illustrious English family of that name, shich had its seat at Ashe. In England the name has long been borne by many distinguished as navigators, clergymen, martyrs, and authors. Among the foremost of these English families is that which has its seat at Ashe, Co. Devon and from it descended the greater portion of the Drakes of Massachusetts and Connecticut. (Book has extensive genealogy for Drakes starting from John of Exmouth of 1360 to Ruth's parents John, b. about 1635 [who] m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Moore.] Children, by the first marriage; born at Windsor:
a. Thomas, b. 7 Oct 1671, bur. 31 Oct 1673.
b. Samuel, b. 26 Jan 1673; d. Windsor 1 Feb 1722/3, m. Martha Ponder.
c. John Drake, probably died young.
By 2nd marriage:
a. William, b. 1678, m. Esther Brown.
b. Hannah, b. 4 Oct 1680-1, probably d. young, as she is not mentioned in either her father's, mother's or sister Mindwell's wills.
c. Joseph, b. 1681, m. Mary Loomis.
d. Ruth, b. 24 Jul 1683, m. William Phelps.
e. Mary.
f. Elizabeth, b. 9 Feb 1684/5), m. Daniel Loomis.
g. David, b. 12 May 1686, m. Hannah Post.
h. Sarah, b. 28 Aug 1688.
i. Benjamin, b. abt 1690, m. Hannah Lewis.
j. Mindwell, b. 3 Dec 1691; unmarried.
k. John, b. probably about 1694, m. Jane Alvord.
The dates of birth of the children of this family, as given by the best authorities, are greatly at variance with the clear and unmistakable evidence contained in the father's will. Stiles' 'Ancient Windsor' gives the birth of a son John, but places him as the son of the first wife. In Samuel Barber's will, dated Feb. 21, 1708-9, it will be observed that he makes provision for his son John when he shall come to the age of 21 years. Now, if this son John had been born in 1676, he would have been at least 32 years old at the time the father's will was written, whereas it is evident from that document that he was the youngest son. Further, John Barber, the son of Samuel, was married in 1717, at which date, had he been born in 1676 he would have been 41 years old, and his wife, Jane Alvord, born in 1698, would have been 21 years younger than he; all of which is, to be sure, a possible situation, but hardly a probable one, in those days of early marriages. The New England Gen. and Hist. Reg., Vol. V, page 64, makes mention of John Drake Barber, son of Samuel and Ruth, b. Jan. 25, 1676. This is the only record found of John Drake Barber. From all this evidence, the conclusion seems inevitable that if there was an older son John, he must have died young; and as to the confusion regarding the date of his birth, it is not improbable that he was the son of the first wife. At all events, the son John who was living at the time of the father's death was a younger Child, and in all probabilities the youngest son, born presumably about 1694. The dates given above as the dates of birth of Elizabeth and Sarah are undoubtedly incorrect, as in his will, their father Samuel provides that they and their sister Mindwell shall be paid ₤25 each when they shall be 18 years of age, so that they must have been under 18 years of age when the father's will was made, and hence born after 1690. Stiles' 'Ancient Windsor' gives Sept. 25, 1704, as the date of birth of the daughter Mary, but in the record of the Brown family, the same authority states that she married Peter Brown in 1696, or eight years before the date of her birth. In the Appendix of the volume mentioned, Dr. Stiles calls attention to this discrepancy. It will be seen, by reference to the wills heretofore mentioned that there was a daughter Mary belonging to this family; that she was married prior to the making of her father's will, in Feb., 1708-9, and in her sister Mindwell's will she is specifically mentioned as the wife of Peter Brown. Hence she was evidently one of the older children. In Samuel Barber's will he makes unconditional bequests to his son Benjamin, which would indicate that he was of age at the time the will was made, and hence must have been born prior to 1690, as given in the above record."
Transcript of will for Samuel Barber, Sr., follows with mention of wife Ruth, grandson William (son of his son William deceased, son David, son Joseph, son Benjamin, son John when he shall be 21 years of age, and three daughters Elizabeth, Mindwell, and Sarah all under age 18. He also mentions his older married daughters Mary and Ruth. His wife Ruth and his son-in-law William Phelps were executors. Will dated 21 Feb 1798/9, inventory March 1709, and proven 4 Apr 1709. Source is Hartford Probate Records.
Transcript of will for Mindwell Barber follows with mention of her brother Joseph as executor. Mentions her siblings Samuel, William, David, Joseph, Benjamin and John, Elizabeth wife of Daniel Loomis, Mary wife of Peter Browne, Ruth wife of William Phelps, Sarah, and William Barber son of William Barber deceased. Inv. Feb. 1712/13. Source Hartford Probate Records.
Transcript of will of Ruth Barber, widow of Samuel Sr., follows with mention of her children Benjamin, John, Sarah Barber, Joseph, son-in-law Samuel Barber, grandson William, and daughters: Mary Brown, Ruth Phelps, Elizabeth Loomis and Sarah Barbour (Barber). Will dated 13 Nov 1716, inv. 30 Nov 1731, proved Dec. 1731. Source Hartford Probate Records.

4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Thomas, first of name in New England, came to Windsor 1635, with the Saltonstall party under Mr. Francis Stiles; was then ae. 21 years. The Court at Hartford, 28 Mch., 1637, 'ord. that Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach George Chapple, Thomas Cooper and Thomas Barber, his servants, in the trade of a carpenter, according to his promise, for their service of their term, behind 4 days in a week only to saw and slit their own work.' He was made freeman 1645; was a soldier in the Pequot fight (see p. 69, Vol. I.); 1648, dft. in Ct.; Sgt. Barber, for his disorderly conduct striking Lieut. Cook, was adjudged to forfeit his office and pay £5. He rem. to Simsbury, where he contracted to build the first meeting house. He m. Jane ___, 7 Oct 1640 (Old Ch. Rec.); he d. 11, she d. 10 Sept., 1662 (Col. Rec.). Land gr. W. prob. 1640 (see p. 151, Vol. I.) Ch. (Old Ch. Rec.):
A. John, bp. 24 July 1642.
B. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644.
C. Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646.
D. Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648.
E. Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; m. a Hale; set. Suffld. [No Hale in book.]
F. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653.

5. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Samuel (son of Thomas), m. (1) 1 Dec 1670, Mary Coggins, who d. 19 May 1676 (Col. Rec.); m. (2) 25 Jan., 1676-7, Ruth (dau. John) Drake (O.C.R.), who d. 13 Nov 1731 (W.C.R.); he owned Half-way Covenant in W. church 12 Oct., 1671(O.C.R.); res. at W. on the paternal homestead, which he bought of his bro. John, 1671; contrib. 2s. 6d. to the Conn. relief fund for the poor of other colonies, 1676; rem. to Simsbury. W. Rec. say Sam'l, Sen. d. 12 Mch 1708; if so, he must have ret. to W. in his later days.
A. Ch. by 1st mar. (O.C.R.):
a. Thomas, b. 7 Oct 1671; bu. 31 Oct 1673.
b. Samuel, b. 26 Jan 1673, m. Martha Ponder of Westfield, 18 Jun 1713; she prob. the Martha (wid.) d. Aug., 1758, ae. about 80 (Why. Ch. rec.).
B. By 2d. mar.:
c. John, b. 25 Jan 1676, m. Jane Alford, 24 Jul 1717.
d. Hannah, b. 4 Oct 1681. - O.C.R.
e. Ruth, b. 24 Jul 1683; m. Wm. Phelps; sett. W. near where Wm. Cook res. 1859.
f. Elizabeth, b. 9 Feb 1684; m. Daniel Loomis; res. W. near where R.W. Loomis res. 1859.
g. David, b. 12 May 1686 (Col. Rec.); m. Hannah Post; sett. at Hebron on ld. giv. him by his fath.
h. Sarah, b. 28 Aug 1698; m. (1) Stephen Palmer; sett. Poq., W.; m. (2) a Phelps; rem. to Wstfld.
i. William, m. Esther Brown, 5 Nov 1700; res. Poq., W.; d. 17 Jul 1704.
j. Mary, b. 25 Sep 1704; m. Peter Brown; sett. W. near where Julius Ransom res. 1859.
k. Mindwell, d. unm'd 3 Dec 1712 (W.R..); her bro. Joseph app. adm'r on her est. 17 Mar 1713; est. £61, 11s.
l. Joseph, m. Mary Loomis, 6 May 1708.
m. Benjamin, m. Hannah Lewis, 30 Jun 1720; sett. Poq., W., near William Barne's res. 1859.

6. Mentioned in the will of brother-in-law John Gillett per "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," Vol. I, by Charles Wm. Manwaring, P. 452: "Page 121.
Gillett, John, Windsor. Invt. £140-14-06. Taken 5 December, 1682, by John Loomis sen., John Moore. Legatees: The Widow, Mercy Gillett, John age 9 years, Thomas 6, Samuel 5, Benjamin 2, Mercy born 30 January last.
Court Record, Page 69 - 4 April, 1683: Adms. to the Widow, Mercy Gillett, with Jonathan Gillett, Peter Browne, John Barber & Samuel Barber to be Overseers."

7. Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary," p. 113: "Samuel Barber, 1 Oct 1648, Windsor, s. of Thomas, by first w. Mary had Thomas, b. 7 Oct 1671; Samuel, 26 Jan 1674; and by sec. w. a dau. of John Drake, prob. Hannah, had John, 25 Jan 1677; and Hannah, 4 Oct. 1681."

8. FHL book 929.273 B695bo "Ancestral Lines, Third Edition," compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd [Santa Clarita, CA; 1998], pp. 69-70:
"Thomas1 Barber, born perhaps in Bedfordshire, England, in 1614, died in Windsor, Connecticut, 11 Sept. 1662.
On 7 Oct. 1640 he married Jane or Joan, whose last name is not known. It has been said that she was a daughter of one of the first Dutch settlers of the Connecticut River Valley, and was the first white woman to land in Connecticut. She died 10 Sept. 1662, the day before her husband...
In 1641 he was granted about 600 acres in an area known to the Indians as Massaco. In the town meeting at Northampton, Mass., 24 June 1661, it was voted to ask him to move there, but apparently he chose not to do so. When he died at Windsor a little over a year later he left an estate valued at £132.14s. The probate records showed that his daughter Mercy (Mary) was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife, and Josias (Josiah) was placed with Deacon John Moore.
Children, born in Windsor:
i. John2, bapt. 24 July 1642; d. Suffield, Mass. (now Conn.), 17 Jan. 1712; m. (1) Springfield 2 Sept. 1663 Bathsheba Coggin, m. (2) 1 May 1669 Mrs. Hannah (Gardner?) Bancroft.
ii. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644; d. Simsbury, Conn., 10 May 1713; m. 17 Dec. 1663 Mary Phelps.
iii. Sarah, bapt. 19 July 1646; m. Windsor 26 Nov. 1663 Timothy2 Hale.
iv. Samuel, bapt. 1 Oct. 1648; d. 1709; m. (1) 1 Dec. 1670 Mary Coggins, m. (2) 25 Jan. 1677 Ruth3 Drake.
v. Mary, bapt. 12 Oct. 1651; m. 8 July 1669 John2 Gillett.
vi. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653; d. c. 1731; m. (1) 22 Nov. 1677 Abigail Loomis, m. (2) 5 Nov. 1701 Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Drake."

9. FHL book 929.273 D789td (film 1321147) "The Descendants of John Drake of Windsor, Connecticut," comp. by Frank B. Gay (Rutland, VT; 1933), pp. 18-19:
"Ruth Drake (John2, John1), born Dec. 1, 1657, at Windsor, Conn.; married Jan. 25, 1676, at Windsor, as second wife, Samuel Barber, baptized Oct. 1, 1648, son of Thomas and Jane Barber. Samuel Barber married (1) Mary Coggens, Dec. 1, 1670. They had Thomas, born Oct. 7, 1671, who died Oct. 1673, and Samuel, born Jan. 26, 1673. Mary, wife of Samuel, died May 19, 1676. Samuel barber's will was dated Feb. 21, 1708/9, proved Apr. 4, 1709, Inventory ₤598/04/10. Ruth Barber, widow of Samuel, made her will Nov. 13, 1716. It was proved Dec. 1731. She died Nov. 13, 1731.
Children of Samuel and Ruth (Drake) Barber:
I. William, b. - -; d. 1704, leaving son William.
II. Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 1681; not mentioned in will of father or mother.
III. Ruth, b. July 24, 1683; m. William Phelps, Apr. 18, 1706.
IV. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 9, 1685; m. Daniel Loomis, Jr., Nov. 10, 1709.
V. David, b. May 12, 1686.
VI. Joseph, b. - -.
VII. Benjamin, b. - -.
VIII. John, b. - -.
IX. Mindwill, b. - -; d. unm., Dec. 3, 1712.
X. Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1698; m. Stephen Palmer, Oct. 17, 1717.
XI. Mary, b. - -; m. Peter Brown, July 22, 1696.
Children mentioned in wills of both father and mother.
Samuel Barber died Mar. 12, 1708/9."
 		Barber, Samuel (I2186)
 
3816 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biographical sketch of Thomas Barber included in the book "Great Migration," which is a highly dependable modern research publication (see Thomas' notes for full transcript):
"Thomas Barber...
First Residence: Windsor...
Church Membership: Either he or his wife was a member of the Windsor church since their children were baptized there...
Estate: ...A will, written or not, is implied in the probate of Thomas Barber, but none has been found.
On 4 February 1662[/3], the distribution of Thomas Barber's estate was as follows: "to John and Sarah jointly as their father willed," the house and barn and all the home lot, land over the river, half the 24-acre lot, half the marsh, and to John a cow, as well as £20 more to John and Sarah. Thomas Barber's share comprised "a mare that he claims as a gift from his father," half his father's tools, the 14-acre upland lot, half the out lot, half the marsh, and his proportion, being £33 15s "Sam[ue]ll Barber" received £33 15s, as did "Mercey" and "Josias." "And what the estate amounts to more than the inventory when debts are paid shall be distributed betwixt the four younger children Thomas, Sam[ue]ll, Mercey and Josias and if any child die before they come to age sons 21 years daughters 18 years the portion of the deceased shall be divided amongst the survivors equally" [RPCC 263]. (The land owned jointly by Sarah and John is more fully detailed in the holdings of Timothy Hall, Sarah's husband [WiLR 1:87].)
On 4 February 1662/3, "Samuell Barber manifesting his desire thereto was then placed an apprentice unto his brother Thomas until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years [RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Mercey Barber with her consent and desire is placed with Lt. Walter Filer and his wife until she be eighteen years of age unless she marry before" (RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Josias Barber according to his desire is placed with Deacon John Moore until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years" [RPCC 262]. On 30 January 1664[/5?], "Mercy Barber made choice of Lt. Walter Fyler to be her guardian" [RPCC 264]...
Children:
i John, bp. Windsor 24 July 1642 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Springfield 2 September 1663 Bathsheba Coggins [CTVR 10; Grant 25].
ii Thomas, b. Windsor 14 July 1644 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 17 December 1663 Mary Phelps [Grant 25; CTVR 10], daughter of William Phelps [GMB 3:1446].
iii Sarah, bp. Windsor 19 July 1646 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; at Windsor 26 November 1663 Timothy Hall [Grant 62].
iv Samuel, bp. Windsor 1 October 1648 (Grant 25; CVR 33]; m. (1) Windsor 1 December 1670 Mary Coggins [CTVR 12; Grant 25 (surname of bride not .given)]; m. (2) Windsor 25 January 1676[/7] Ruth Drake [CTVR 14; Grant 25].
v Mercy, bp. Windsor 12 October 1651 (published as "Mary" [CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 8 July l669 John Gillett [CTVR 12; Grant 40], son of Jonathan Gillett [GMB 2:768].
vi Josiah, b. Windsor 15 February 1653/4 [CTVR 40]; m. (1) Windsor 22 November 1677 Abigail Loomis [Grant 74; CTVR 14]; m. (2) by 12 March 1701/2 Sarah (___) Drake, widow of Enoch Drake [Manwaring 1:551].
Comments: ...Grant, in his list compiled 17 August 1677, reported that "Thomas Barber Snr." had six children born in Windsor [Grant 90]..."

2. "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography": Entry for Donn Barber, pg. 368: "The American family was established by Thomas Barber, an Englishman, who settled at Windsor, Conn., in 1634 and married Jane Coggin. From them the line of descent is through their son Josiah and his wife Abigail Loomis."

3. FHL book 929.273 B233bd, "The Connecticut Barbers, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut," 2nd Ed., Donald S. Barber, p. 8-9: "Lt. Josiah Barber, bapt. Windsor, CT, 15 Feb 1653/4, d. there 14 Dec 1729,m (1) there 22 Nov 1677 Abigail Loomis, b. Windsor, 27 Mar 1659, d. there 19 Feb 1700/1701, dau. of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Moore) Loomis. Josiah m. (2) Windsor ('both of Windsor') 5 Nov 1701, Sarah (Porter) Drake, b. 5 Sep 1655, d. Windsor, 13 Dec 1730, dau. of John and Mary (Stanley) Porter, and widow of Enoch Drake. After his parents' death, Josiah at age 9 was placed (4 Feb 1662/3) in the home of Dea. John Moore until age 21. After their marriage Josiah and Abigail lived in the south part of Windsor, near the Connecticut River, in the section of Windsor which is now called Wilson. Josiah was a wheelwright. He was captain of a military company and did some 'Indian fighting.' In his will when the inventory was taken in 1729 Josiah left an estate of 817 pounds. (Sources: 1909 Barber Gen; Barbour Index; CT Hist Soc: LB Barbour Manuscript; Stiles: Windsor; Jerijah Barber Manuscript; Lure of the Litchfield Hills.) children of Josiah and Abigail born at Windsor:
a. Abigail, b. 12 Mar 1678/9, m. Windsor 4 Dec 1701 Cornelius Brown, b. at Windsor 30 Jul 1672, d. there 26 Jan 1747/8, son of Peter and Mary (Gillett) Brown. Josiah's first cousin Samuel Barber married Hepzibah Brown, Cornelius' sister. [9 children detailed for this couple.]
b. Elizabeth, d. 2 Apr 1717, m. Windsor 20 Apr 1704 Enoch Drake, b. 5 May 1683, d. Bloomfield, CT, 17 Nov 1776, son of Enoch and Sarah (Porter) Drake, res. Wintonbury (now Bloomfield). [Other wives of Enoch Drake and 6 children of Elizabeth and Enoch detailed in book.]
c. Josiah, b. 1685, d. Dec 1729.
d. Rebecca, b. 11 Apr 1687, d. 22 May 1768, m. Windsor 23 Jan 1706/7, Nathaniel Drake, b. 1685, son of Enoch and Sarah (Porter) Drake,res. Windsor. Rebecca's sister Elizabeth, above, married Nathaniel's brother Enoch. [4 children detailed for this couple.]
e. Nathaniel, b. 6 Apr 1691, m. Mary Filley.
f. Jonathan, b. 4 Jun 1694, m. Rachel Gaylord.
g. Aaron, b. 20 Jul 1697, m. Mary Douglas."

4. FHL book 929.273 B233w, "Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909," John Barber White:
Pp. 15-19: "The Hartford Probate Records contain the following regarding the settlement of Thomas Barber's estate: 'Barber, Thomas, Windsor, Invt. ₤132-14-00; taken 10, Oct. 1662, by Benj. Newberry and John Moore. 'Court Record, Page 187 - 4 Feb., 1662-3, Invt approved. Samuel was placed with his brother Thomas Barber to learn a trade; Mercy (Mary) Barber was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife until 18 years of age, unless she marries before, with her Master's and Dame's and eldest brother's approbation; Josias Barber was placed with Dea. John Moore until 21 years of age to learn a trade; Thomas Barber doth engage to take Samuel Barber's portion and after two years from the present to allow 6% simple interest per annum. John Barber took Josias' portion upon the same terms. Page 188 - 6 Jun 1662, Dist. to John and Sarah jointly. House and Home lot as their Father willed - 126-13-04. To Thomas Barber by Gift & his portion - 13-00-00. To Samuel, Mercy & Josias each - 36-15-00. By Capt Newberry, Deacon Moore, Sgt. Alvord.' He died on Sept. 11th, and his wife Joan on Sept. 10th, 1662. Children: John, bp. 24 Jul 1642; Thomas, b. 14 Jul 1644; Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646; Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648; Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; Josiah, b. 15 Feb 1653. In the Hartford Probate records it will be observed that the name of the fifth child of Thomas and Joan Barber is given as Mercy instead of Mary, as shown above. Also some records seem to indicate that she married a Hale, but the Gillett family records furnish conclusive evidence of her marriage to John Gillett. It is possible that in the records showing the name of Hale, her marriage was confused with that of her sister Sarah's to Timothy Hall, as a confusion of the names Hale and Hall is quite common."
Pp. 30-32: "Josiah Barber, b. Feb 15, 1653; m. 1st, Nov. 22, 1677, Abigail Loomis, who was b. in Windsor, Mch. 27, ___; bp. Apr. 1, 1659. She d. Feb. 19, 1700-1, and he m. 2nd, Nov. 5, 1701, Sarah, widow of Enoch Drake, and dau. of John and Mary (Stanley) Porter, who was b. Sept. 5, 1655, and d. Dec. 13, 1730. According to some authorities he d. Dec. 14 or 24, 1733, but according to the Hartford Probate Records final settlement of his estate was made Aug. 3, 1731. Children all by first wife Abigail Loomis:
a. Abigail, b. 12 Mar 1678; m. Dea. Cornelius Brown.
b. Josiah, b. 1685; possibly d. in 1729; not mentioned in his father's will, hence must have d. first.
c. Rebecca, b. 11 Apr 1687 or 1690; m. Nathaniel Drake.
d. Nathaniel, b. 6 Apr 1691; m. Mary Filley.
e. Jonathan, b. 4 Jun 1694; m. Rachel Gaylord.
f. Aaron, b. 20 Jul 1697; m. Mary Douglas.
Abigail Loomis, mother of the above family, was a sister of Mary Loomis, who m. Joseph Barber. [Will of 'Lt. Josiah Barbour, wheelwright' of Windsor follows with mention of his wife Sarah, eldest son Nathaniel, son Jonathan, son Aaron, and daughters: Abigail Brown and Rebecca Drake, grandchildren Elizabeth Drake and Hannah Drake. Will dated 1 Apr 1726, inv. 7 Jan 1729-30 by Jacob Drake, Job Loomis and Timothy Loomis.]"

5. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Thomas, first of name in New England, came to Windsor 1635, with the Saltonstall party under Mr. Francis Stiles; was then ae. 21 years. The Court at Hartford, 28 Mch., 1637, 'ord. that Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach George Chapple, Thomas Cooper and Thomas Barber, his servants, in the trade of a carpenter, according to his promise, for their service of their term, behind 4 days in a week only to saw and slit their own work.' He was made freeman 1645; was a soldier in the Pequot fight (see p. 69, Vol. I.); 1648, dft. in Ct.; Sgt. Barber, for his disorderly conduct striking Lieut. Cook, was adjudged to forfeit his office and pay £5. He rem. to Simsbury, where he contracted to build the first meeting house. He m. Jane ___, 7 Oct 1640 (Old Ch. Rec.); he d. 11, she d. 10 Sept., 1662 (Col. Rec.). Land gr. W. prob. 1640 (see p. 151, Vol. I.) Ch. (Old Ch. Rec.):
A. John, bp. 24 July 1642.
B. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644.
C. Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646.
D. Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648.
E. Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; m. a Hale; set. Suffld. [No Hale in book.]
F. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653.

6. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, pp. 264-265:
"Abigail Loomis, m. Josiah Barber 22 Nov 1677. She d. 9 Feb 1700-1. Windsor. Children:
A. Abigail, b. 12 Mar 1678, m. Deac. Cornelius Brown 4 Dec 1701. He d. 26 Jan 1747.
B. Josiah, b. 1685.
C. Rebecca, b. 11 Apr 1690.
D. Nathaniel, b. 6 Apr 1691, m. Mary Filley 2 Jul 1711.
E. Jonathan, b. 4 Jun 1694, m. Rachel Gaylord 4 Aug 1720.
F. Aaron, b. 20 Jul 1697, m. Mary Douglass 2 Feb 1724."

7. Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary," p. 113: "Josiah Barber, Simsbury, m. 22 Nov 1677, Abigail, d. of Nathaniel Loomis, had Abigail, b. 12 Mar 1679."

8. FHL book 929.273 B695bo "Ancestral Lines, Third Edition," compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd [Santa Clarita, CA; 1998], pp. 69-70:
"Thomas1 Barber, born perhaps in Bedfordshire, England, in 1614, died in Windsor, Connecticut, 11 Sept. 1662.
On 7 Oct. 1640 he married Jane or Joan, whose last name is not known. It has been said that she was a daughter of one of the first Dutch settlers of the Connecticut River Valley, and was the first white woman to land in Connecticut. She died 10 Sept. 1662, the day before her husband...
In 1641 he was granted about 600 acres in an area known to the Indians as Massaco. In the town meeting at Northampton, Mass., 24 June 1661, it was voted to ask him to move there, but apparently he chose not to do so. When he died at Windsor a little over a year later he left an estate valued at £132.14s. The probate records showed that his daughter Mercy (Mary) was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife, and Josias (Josiah) was placed with Deacon John Moore.
Children, born in Windsor:
i. John2, bapt. 24 July 1642; d. Suffield, Mass. (now Conn.), 17 Jan. 1712; m. (1) Springfield 2 Sept. 1663 Bathsheba Coggin, m. (2) 1 May 1669 Mrs. Hannah (Gardner?) Bancroft.
ii. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644; d. Simsbury, Conn., 10 May 1713; m. 17 Dec. 1663 Mary Phelps.
iii. Sarah, bapt. 19 July 1646; m. Windsor 26 Nov. 1663 Timothy2 Hale.
iv. Samuel, bapt. 1 Oct. 1648; d. 1709; m. (1) 1 Dec. 1670 Mary Coggins, m. (2) 25 Jan. 1677 Ruth3 Drake.
v. Mary, bapt. 12 Oct. 1651; m. 8 July 1669 John2 Gillett.
vi. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653; d. c. 1731; m. (1) 22 Nov. 1677 Abigail Loomis, m. (2) 5 Nov. 1701 Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Drake."

9. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
"NATHANIEL Loomis. b. Eng., c1626; d. 19 Aug 1688; will dated 17 Aug 1688; m. 24 Nov 1654 ELIZABETH MOORE, d/o John; she m/2 John Case, and she d. 23 Jul 1728, aged 90. Children: Elizabeth b. 7 Aug 1655, m. John Lee; Nathaniel b. 20 Mar 1657, m. Elizabeth Ellsworth, d/o Josiah; Abigail b. 27 Mar 1659, m. Josiah Barber of Simsbury; Josiah b. 17 Feb 1661, m. Mary Rockwell; Jonathan b. 30 Mar 1664, m. ___; David b. 11 Jan 1668, m. Lydia Marsh; Hezekiah b. 21 Feb 1669, m. Mary Porter; Moses b. 15 May 1671, m. Joanna Gibbs; Mindwell b. 20 Jul 1673, Jonathan Brown; Ebenezer b. 22 Mar 1675, m. Jemima Whitcomb; Mary b. 5 Jan 1680, m. Joseph Barber; Rebecca b. 10 Dec 1682, m. Josiah Rockwell. (Savage sv Nathaniel Loomis, Hezekiah Loomis.)
(William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

DEATH:
1. Per the book "Barber Genealogy" cited above: "According to some authorites, some say he died either be 14 or 24 Dec 1733, but according to the Hartford Probate Records, final settlement of his estate was made 3 Aug 1731." The existing tombstone confirms a death date of 24 Dec 1733.
 		Barber, Josiah (I2184)
 
3817 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biographical sketch of Thomas Barber included in the book "Great Migration," which is a highly dependable modern research publication (see Thomas' notes for full transcript):
"Thomas Barber...
First Residence: Windsor...
Church Membership: Either he or his wife was a member of the Windsor church since their children were baptized there...
Estate: ...A will, written or not, is implied in the probate of Thomas Barber, but none has been found.
On 4 February 1662[/3], the distribution of Thomas Barber's estate was as follows: "to John and Sarah jointly as their father willed," the house and barn and all the home lot, land over the river, half the 24-acre lot, half the marsh, and to John a cow, as well as £20 more to John and Sarah. Thomas Barber's share comprised "a mare that he claims as a gift from his father," half his father's tools, the 14-acre upland lot, half the out lot, half the marsh, and his proportion, being £33 15s "Sam[ue]ll Barber" received £33 15s, as did "Mercey" and "Josias." "And what the estate amounts to more than the inventory when debts are paid shall be distributed betwixt the four younger children Thomas, Sam[ue]ll, Mercey and Josias and if any child die before they come to age sons 21 years daughters 18 years the portion of the deceased shall be divided amongst the survivors equally" [RPCC 263]. (The land owned jointly by Sarah and John is more fully detailed in the holdings of Timothy Hall, Sarah's husband [WiLR 1:87].)
On 4 February 1662/3, "Samuell Barber manifesting his desire thereto was then placed an apprentice unto his brother Thomas until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years [RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Mercey Barber with her consent and desire is placed with Lt. Walter Filer and his wife until she be eighteen years of age unless she marry before" (RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Josias Barber according to his desire is placed with Deacon John Moore until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years" [RPCC 262]. On 30 January 1664[/5?], "Mercy Barber made choice of Lt. Walter Fyler to be her guardian" [RPCC 264]...
Children:
i John, bp. Windsor 24 July 1642 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Springfield 2 September 1663 Bathsheba Coggins [CTVR 10; Grant 25].
ii Thomas, b. Windsor 14 July 1644 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 17 December 1663 Mary Phelps [Grant 25; CTVR 10], daughter of William Phelps [GMB 3:1446].
iii Sarah, bp. Windsor 19 July 1646 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; at Windsor 26 November 1663 Timothy Hall [Grant 62].
iv Samuel, bp. Windsor 1 October 1648 (Grant 25; CVR 33]; m. (1) Windsor 1 December 1670 Mary Coggins [CTVR 12; Grant 25 (surname of bride not .given)]; m. (2) Windsor 25 January 1676[/7] Ruth Drake [CTVR 14; Grant 25].
v Mercy, bp. Windsor 12 October 1651 (published as "Mary" [CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 8 July l669 John Gillett [CTVR 12; Grant 40], son of Jonathan Gillett [GMB 2:768].
vi Josiah, b. Windsor 15 February 1653/4 [CTVR 40]; m. (1) Windsor 22 November 1677 Abigail Loomis [Grant 74; CTVR 14]; m. (2) by 12 March 1701/2 Sarah (___) Drake, widow of Enoch Drake [Manwaring 1:551].
Comments: ...Grant, in his list compiled 17 August 1677, reported that "Thomas Barber Snr." had six children born in Windsor [Grant 90]..."

2. FHL book 929.273 B233bd, "The Connecticut Barbers, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut," 2nd Ed., Donald S. Barber: "Sarah Barber, bapt. 19 Jul 1646 at Windsor; md. Windsor 26 Nov 1663 Timothy Hale, b. about 1642, d. Suffield, CT, 26 Jul 1689, probably son of John and Dorothy (Royle) Heald of Concord and Springfield, MA. John Heald came from Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cheshire, Eng. to Concord, MA. It is also possible that Timothy was son of Thomas and Jane (Lord) Hale of Hartford. Timothy and Sarah lived at Windsor and Suffield. (Sources: Barbour Index; Hale, House; Correso: Angela Cosby.) children of Sarah and Timothy:
a. Sarah Hale, b. 9 Apr or Aug 1665; m. John Rising, b. Salem, MA, 1660, son of James and Elizabeth (Hinsdate) Rising, res. Suffield. they had 9 children. A son of Sarah and John, John Rising, was taken as a child from Deerfield, MA, during the Deerfield Massacre in 1704, and brought to Canada. he married another English captive there in 1715, and they had a large family that married into the French community there.
b. Timothy Hale, b. 12 Dec 1667,m. Hannah Barber, dau. of John Barber, Jr. and Joanna Miller of Springfield. This Springfield John Barber family ws not related to the Windsor Barbers.
c. John Hale, b. 24 Aug 1670; d. Windsor 1708/9.
d. Thomas Hale, b. 26 Aug 1672; m. (1) Experience Burt; m. (2) Mrs. Abigail (Warner) Ferry; res. Springfield (Longmeadow).
e. Samuel Hale, b. 3 Jan 1673/4; d. Suffield 1748, unmarried.
f. Daughter, b. 28 Nov 1675, d. young.
g. Josias Hale, b. 22 Sep 1678; m. (1) 1705 Sarah Harmon; m. (2) Hannah (Seymour) Pomeroy; res. Suffield.
h. Hannah Hale, b. 24 Sep 1680; m. John Remington, res. Suffield.

3. FHL book 929.273 B233w, "Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909," John Barber White:
Pp. 15-19: "The Hartford Probate Records contain the following regarding the settlement of Thomas Barber's estate: 'Barber, Thomas, Windsor, Invt. ₤132-14-00; taken 10, Oct. 1662, by Benj. Newberry and John Moore. 'Court Record, Page 187 - 4 Feb., 1662-3, Invt approved. Samuel was placed with his brother Thomas Barber to learn a trade; Mercy (Mary) Barber was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife until 18 years of age, unless she marries before, with her Master's and Dame's and eldest brother's approbation; Josias Barber was placed with Dea. John Moore until 21 years of age to learn a trade; Thomas Barber doth engage to take Samuel Barber's portion and after two years from the present to allow 6% simple interest per annum. John Barber took Josias' portion upon the same terms. Page 188 - 6 Jun 1662, Dist. to John and Sarah jointly. House and Home lot as their Father willed - 126-13-04. To Thomas Barber by Gift & his portion - 13-00-00. To Samuel, Mercy & Josias each - 36-15-00. By Capt Newberry, Deacon Moore, Sgt. Alvord.' He died on Sept. 11th, and his wife Joan on Sept. 10th, 1662. Children: John, bp. 24 Jul 1642; Thomas, b. 14 Jul 1644; Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646; Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648; Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; Josiah, b. 15 Feb 1653. In the Hartford Probate records it will be observed that the name of the fifth child of Thomas and Joan Barber is given as Mercy instead of Mary, as shown above. Also some records seem to indicate that she married a Hale, but the Gillett family records furnish conclusive evidence of her marriage to John Gillett. It is possible that in the records showing the name of Hale, her marriage was confused with that of her sister Sarah's to Timothy Hall, as a confusion of the names Hale and Hall is quite common."
P. 23: "Sarah Barber, bp. July 19, 1646; m. Nov. 26, 1663, Timothy Hall. They settled on a part of her father's land in Windsor, but afterwards (1679) removed to Suffield, where the name frequently occurs, especially in the older records as 'Hale.' Children:
a. Sarah Hall, b. Apr. 23 or Aug. 9, 1665.
b. Timothy Hall, b. Dec. 12, 1667.
c. John Hall, b. Aug. 24, 1670.
d. Thomas Hall, b. Aug. 26, 1672.
e. Samuel Hall, b. Jan. 3, 1673.
f. Daughter, b. Nov. 28, 1675; d. young.
g. Josias Hall, b. Sept. 22, 1678.
The old church records also show that Hannah, dau. of Timothy Haile was baptised at Windsor, Mch. 28, 1678. this may have been another daughter belonging to this family."

4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Thomas, first of name in New England, came to Windsor 1635, with the Saltonstall party under Mr. Francis Stiles; was then ae. 21 years. The Court at Hartford, 28 Mch., 1637, 'ord. that Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach George Chapple, Thomas Cooper and Thomas Barber, his servants, in the trade of a carpenter, according to his promise, for their service of their term, behind 4 days in a week only to saw and slit their own work.' He was made freeman 1645; was a soldier in the Pequot fight (see p. 69, Vol. I.); 1648, dft. in Ct.; Sgt. Barber, for his disorderly conduct striking Lieut. Cook, was adjudged to forfeit his office and pay £5. He rem. to Simsbury, where he contracted to build the first meeting house. He m. Jane ___, 7 Oct 1640 (Old Ch. Rec.); he d. 11, she d. 10 Sept., 1662 (Col. Rec.). Land gr. W. prob. 1640 (see p. 151, Vol. I.) Ch. (Old Ch. Rec.):
A. John, bp. 24 July 1642.
B. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644.
C. Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646.
D. Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648.
E. Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; m. a Hale; set. Suffld. [No Hale in book.]
F. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653.

5. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 3.63: "Timothy Hall (Sheldon 'Doc. History Suffield' says this is written 'Hale' in Suffield Record), m. Sarah (dau. of Thomas) Barber, 26 Nov 1663 (Old Church Record); had the east half of his father-in-law's lot, upon which he built. The lot extends across Pleasant St. to the Hillyer lot, and he added at the N. end the orig. Humphrey Hyde's lot lying N. of Pleasant St., making the Hall lot to bd. E. on Silver St. He was adm. to Windsor Church 28 Apr 1672 (O.C.R.); his wife owned the Half-Way Cov't at Windsor 5 Jul 1668. (O.C.R.) He contributed 5s. to the Conn. Relief Fund for the Poor of other Colonies, 1676. Abt. 1679 he sold this place to Job (s. of John, Jr.) Drake and removed to Suffield, where his house was on High St., and where he d. 1689. The name (as Hale) has until a short time been common in Suffield. Children (born in Windsor. - O.C.R.):
A. Sarah, b. 23 Apr (O.C.R.), 9 Aug 1665 ('Col. Rec.').
B. Timothy, b. 12 Dec 1667.
C. John, b. 24 Aug 1670.
D. Thomas, b. 26 Aug 1672.
E. Samuel, b. 3 Jan 1673.
F. ___, dau. b. 28 Nov 1675, bp. 5 Dec, d. acc. to O.C.R., bef. 1678.
G. Josias, b. 22 Sep, bp. 29, 1678.
H. (Prob. the Hannah, dau. of Timothy Haile of Windsor, bp. here 28 Mar 1683 ['Westfield Ch. Rec.'} was another daughter of his family.)"

6. FHL book 929.273 B695bo "Ancestral Lines, Third Edition," compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd [Santa Clarita, CA; 1998], pp. 69-70:
"Thomas1 Barber, born perhaps in Bedfordshire, England, in 1614, died in Windsor, Connecticut, 11 Sept. 1662.
On 7 Oct. 1640 he married Jane or Joan, whose last name is not known. It has been said that she was a daughter of one of the first Dutch settlers of the Connecticut River Valley, and was the first white woman to land in Connecticut. She died 10 Sept. 1662, the day before her husband...
In 1641 he was granted about 600 acres in an area known to the Indians as Massaco. In the town meeting at Northampton, Mass., 24 June 1661, it was voted to ask him to move there, but apparently he chose not to do so. When he died at Windsor a little over a year later he left an estate valued at £132.14s. The probate records showed that his daughter Mercy (Mary) was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife, and Josias (Josiah) was placed with Deacon John Moore.
Children, born in Windsor:
i. John2, bapt. 24 July 1642; d. Suffield, Mass. (now Conn.), 17 Jan. 1712; m. (1) Springfield 2 Sept. 1663 Bathsheba Coggin, m. (2) 1 May 1669 Mrs. Hannah (Gardner?) Bancroft.
ii. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644; d. Simsbury, Conn., 10 May 1713; m. 17 Dec. 1663 Mary Phelps.
iii. Sarah, bapt. 19 July 1646; m. Windsor 26 Nov. 1663 Timothy2 Hale.
iv. Samuel, bapt. 1 Oct. 1648; d. 1709; m. (1) 1 Dec. 1670 Mary Coggins, m. (2) 25 Jan. 1677 Ruth3 Drake.
v. Mary, bapt. 12 Oct. 1651; m. 8 July 1669 John2 Gillett.
vi. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653; d. c. 1731; m. (1) 22 Nov. 1677 Abigail Loomis, m. (2) 5 Nov. 1701 Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Drake."
 		Barber, Sarah (I2183)
 
3818 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biographical sketch of Thomas Barber included in the book "Great Migration," which is a highly dependable modern research publication (see Thomas' notes for full transcript):
"Thomas Barber...
First Residence: Windsor...
Church Membership: Either he or his wife was a member of the Windsor church since their children were baptized there...
Estate: ...A will, written or not, is implied in the probate of Thomas Barber, but none has been found.
On 4 February 1662[/3], the distribution of Thomas Barber's estate was as follows: "to John and Sarah jointly as their father willed," the house and barn and all the home lot, land over the river, half the 24-acre lot, half the marsh, and to John a cow, as well as £20 more to John and Sarah. Thomas Barber's share comprised "a mare that he claims as a gift from his father," half his father's tools, the 14-acre upland lot, half the out lot, half the marsh, and his proportion, being £33 15s "Sam[ue]ll Barber" received £33 15s, as did "Mercey" and "Josias." "And what the estate amounts to more than the inventory when debts are paid shall be distributed betwixt the four younger children Thomas, Sam[ue]ll, Mercey and Josias and if any child die before they come to age sons 21 years daughters 18 years the portion of the deceased shall be divided amongst the survivors equally" [RPCC 263]. (The land owned jointly by Sarah and John is more fully detailed in the holdings of Timothy Hall, Sarah's husband [WiLR 1:87].)
On 4 February 1662/3, "Samuell Barber manifesting his desire thereto was then placed an apprentice unto his brother Thomas until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years [RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Mercey Barber with her consent and desire is placed with Lt. Walter Filer and his wife until she be eighteen years of age unless she marry before" (RPCC 262]. On the same day, "Josias Barber according to his desire is placed with Deacon John Moore until he accomplish the age of twenty-one years" [RPCC 262]. On 30 January 1664[/5?], "Mercy Barber made choice of Lt. Walter Fyler to be her guardian" [RPCC 264]...
Children:
i John, bp. Windsor 24 July 1642 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Springfield 2 September 1663 Bathsheba Coggins [CTVR 10; Grant 25].
ii Thomas, b. Windsor 14 July 1644 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 17 December 1663 Mary Phelps [Grant 25; CTVR 10], daughter of William Phelps [GMB 3:1446].
iii Sarah, bp. Windsor 19 July 1646 [Grant 24; CTVR 33]; at Windsor 26 November 1663 Timothy Hall [Grant 62].
iv Samuel, bp. Windsor 1 October 1648 (Grant 25; CVR 33]; m. (1) Windsor 1 December 1670 Mary Coggins [CTVR 12; Grant 25 (surname of bride not .given)]; m. (2) Windsor 25 January 1676[/7] Ruth Drake [CTVR 14; Grant 25].
v Mercy, bp. Windsor 12 October 1651 (published as "Mary" [CTVR 33]; m. Windsor 8 July l669 John Gillett [CTVR 12; Grant 40], son of Jonathan Gillett [GMB 2:768].
vi Josiah, b. Windsor 15 February 1653/4 [CTVR 40]; m. (1) Windsor 22 November 1677 Abigail Loomis [Grant 74; CTVR 14]; m. (2) by 12 March 1701/2 Sarah (___) Drake, widow of Enoch Drake [Manwaring 1:551].
Comments: ...Grant, in his list compiled 17 August 1677, reported that "Thomas Barber Snr." had six children born in Windsor [Grant 90]..."

2. FHL book 929.273 B233bd, "The Connecticut Barbers, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut," 2nd Ed., Donald S. Barber: "Mary (Mercy) Barber, bapt. 12 Oct 1648 at Windsor, d. Suffield, CT, 29 Mar 1725; md. (1) Windsor ('both of Windsor') 8 Jul 1669 John Gillett, b. Windsor 5 Oct 1644, d. there 1682, son of Jonathan and Mary (Dolbere) Gillett, the emigrant. Mary m. (2) 14 Jun 1683 Capt. George Norton of Suffield, bapt. Salem, MA, 28 mar 1641, d. 15 Nov 1696, son of George and Mary (Machias) Norton; (George was first married to Sarah ___, who d. in 1682). After her parents' death when she was 9 years old, Mercy was placed by the court (4 Feb 1662/3) in the home of Walter Fyler until age 18, unless she were married sooner (which she was). (Sources: Corresp: Betty Simonson; IGI:CT; CT Hist. Soc.: LB Barbour Manuscripts; CT Hist. Soc.: Fellows Gen; CT Hist. Soc: Norton Manuscript; Barbour Index; Stiles: Windsor; Windsor Hist. Soc: DFAW.)

3. FHL book 929.273 B233w, "Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909," John Barber White:
Pp. 15-19: "The Hartford Probate Records contain the following regarding the settlement of Thomas Barber's estate: 'Barber, Thomas, Windsor, Invt. ₤132-14-00; taken 10, Oct. 1662, by Benj. Newberry and John Moore. 'Court Record, Page 187 - 4 Feb., 1662-3, Invt approved. Samuel was placed with his brother Thomas Barber to learn a trade; Mercy (Mary) Barber was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife until 18 years of age, unless she marries before, with her Master's and Dame's and eldest brother's approbation; Josias Barber was placed with Dea. John Moore until 21 years of age to learn a trade; Thomas Barber doth engage to take Samuel Barber's portion and after two years from the present to allow 6% simple interest per annum. John Barber took Josias' portion upon the same terms. Page 188 - 6 Jun 1662, Dist. to John and Sarah jointly. House and Home lot as their Father willed - 126-13-04. To Thomas Barber by Gift & his portion - 13-00-00. To Samuel, Mercy & Josias each - 36-15-00. By Capt Newberry, Deacon Moore, Sgt. Alvord.' He died on Sept. 11th, and his wife Joan on Sept. 10th, 1662. Children: John, bp. 24 Jul 1642; Thomas, b. 14 Jul 1644; Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646; Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648; Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; Josiah, b. 15 Feb 1653. In the Hartford Probate records it will be observed that the name of the fifth child of Thomas and Joan Barber is given as Mercy instead of Mary, as shown above. Also some records seem to indicate that she married a Hale, but the Gillett family records furnish conclusive evidence of her marriage to John Gillett. It is possible that in the records showing the name of Hale, her marriage was confused with that of her sister Sarah's to Timothy Hall, as a confusion of the names Hale and Hall is quite common."
Pp. 29-30: "Mary Barber, bp. Oct. 12, 1651. In the 'Hartford Probate Records' the name is given as Mercy. She m. July 8, 1669, John Gillett, son of Jonathan Gillett, the Emigrant. He was b. in Windsor, Oct. 5, 1644. Children:
a. Thomas Gillett, b. Jan. 7, 1671; bp. 'ye 14;' d. young.
b. John Gillett, b. Aug. 6, 1673; d. July 4, 1699.
c. Thomas Gillett, b. July 18, ___; bp. 23, 1676.
d. Samuel Gillett, b. Feb. 16, 1678.
e. Nathaniel Gillett, b. Oct. 3, 1680; bp. in Hartford, Oct. 30, 1681.
f. Mercy Gillett, b. Jan.31, 163; (Old Church Records state b. Oct. 30, 1682, Hartford.)
John Gillett, the husband of Mary Barber, was the son of Jonathan Gillett, the Emigrant, who with his brother Nathan came to Dorchester, Mass., with the Rev. Mr. Wareham. An interesting relic in the possession of a descendant of the Gillett family is a bible brought from England by Jonathan Gillett. This bible is of the Geneva edition of 1599, which is known as the 'Breeches Bible' for the reason that the fig leaf garment worn by our first parents is translated 'breeches' instead of 'apron' as in the King James version. In the Gillett family this particular copy is known as the 'Bear Bible' from the fact of its once having been used to prop open a window, and a bear in trying to effect an entrance through the opening, clawed the leaves, making marks which still remain."

4. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 50: "Barber, Thomas, first of name in New England, came to Windsor 1635, with the Saltonstall party under Mr. Francis Stiles; was then ae. 21 years. The Court at Hartford, 28 Mch., 1637, 'ord. that Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach George Chapple, Thomas Cooper and Thomas Barber, his servants, in the trade of a carpenter, according to his promise, for their service of their term, behind 4 days in a week only to saw and slit their own work.' He was made freeman 1645; was a soldier in the Pequot fight (see p. 69, Vol. I.); 1648, dft. in Ct.; Sgt. Barber, for his disorderly conduct striking Lieut. Cook, was adjudged to forfeit his office and pay £5. He rem. to Simsbury, where he contracted to build the first meeting house. He m. Jane ___, 7 Oct 1640 (Old Ch. Rec.); he d. 11, she d. 10 Sept., 1662 (Col. Rec.). Land gr. W. prob. 1640 (see p. 151, Vol. I.) Ch. (Old Ch. Rec.):
A. John, bp. 24 July 1642.
B. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644.
C. Sarah, bp. 19 Jul 1646.
D. Samuel, bp. 1 Oct 1648.
E. Mary, bp. 12 Oct 1651; m. a Hale; set. Suffld. [No Hale in book.]
F. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653.

5. Ancestry.com's "The Great Migration Begins, Sketches, Preserved Puritan" has the following listing of children for the emigrant Jonathan Gillett. [See his notes for full quotation from which this small portion is taken.]:
"Children:
i Jonathan, b. about December 1634 [TAG 15:210]; m. (1) Windsor 23 April 1661 Mary Kelsey [Grant 39], daughter of William Kelsey [TAG 68:209, 210, 215]; m. (2) Windsor 14 December 1676 Miriam Dibble [Grant 39], daughter of Thomas Dibble.
ii Cornelius, b. say 1636; m. by 1659 Priscilla Kelsey, daughter of William Kelsey [TAG 68:214; Grant 39].
iii Mary, b. say 1638; m. Windsor 15 July 1658 Peter Brown [Grant 33-34; TAG 33:215]. (Because of the tight chronology between the date of marriage of the parents and the known birthdate of the fourth Child, Coddington suggests that Cornelius and Mary may have been twins [TAG 15:211].)
iv Anna, b. Windsor 29 December 1639 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 29 October 1663 Samuel Filley [Grant 37].
v Joseph, bp. Windsor 25 July 1641 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 24 November 1664 Elizabeth Hawkes [WiVR].
vi Samuel, bp. Windsor 22 January 1642/3 [Grant 39]; no further record.
vii John, b. Windsor 5 October 1644 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 8 July 1669 "Marcy Barber" [CTVR 12; Grant 40]. John Gillett d. in 1682 [Manwaring 1:307] and his widow m. (2) Windsor 14 June 1683 George Norton [CTVR 52], son of George Norton. She was the daughter of Thomas Barber [Manwaring 1:94], and had been taken in by Walter FILER after her father's death [RPCC 262, 264].
viii Abigail, bp. Windsor 28 June 1646 [Grant 39]; d. Windsor 1648 [Grant 81].
ix Jeremiah, b. Windsor 12 February 1647/8 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 15 October 1685 Deborah Bartlett [WiVR Barbour 117], daughter of Benjamin Bartlett.
x Josiah, bp. Windsor 14 July 1650 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 30 June 1676 Joanna Taintor [Grant 42, 76].
Bibliographic Note: George E. McCracken surveyed the literature on the Gillett family in 1979, providing some brief commentary on the relative reliability of the many publications [TAG 55:170-1]."
Sources:
DTR: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883).
TAG: The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+).
Grant: "Matthew Grant Record, 1639-1681" in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 (Hartford 1930).
WiVR: Windsor Vital Records, typescript, Connecticut State Library (1918-29).
WiVR Barbour: Windsor Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
CTVR: Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut..., Edwin Stanley Welles, ed. (Hartford 1898).
Manwaring: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700, Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904).
RPCC: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987).
WiLR: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut)."

6. The book "The 'Mary and John," chapter "The Passengers," p. 37:
"Jonathan and Nathan Gillett were the sons of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, co. Somerset, who died in 1641. Jonathan Gillett came to America with his brother in 1630, but returned to England to marry March 29, 1634, at Colyton, co. Devon, Mary Dolbere, who was b. 7 Jun 1607, and d. 5 Jan 1685, dau. of Rawkey and Mary (Mitchell) Dolbere. Mary Dolbere is thought to have been a relative of Rev. Warham. (Jacobus, Donald Lines: 'The American Genealogist,' v. XV, p. 209. New Haven, Conn., 1938-39.)
In a bible belonging to the Gillett family is the following: 'My Grandfather Gille(tt) came into new englan the secon time in June in the yeare 1634 and Jonathan his sonne was born about half a years aftur he cam to land.'
Jonathan Gillett was made a freeman in 1635, moved to Windsor in 1636, and died there 23 Aug 1677. Children:
A. Jonathan, 1634-5 Sep 1708; m. 22 Apr 1662, Mary, 1634-18 Apr 1676, dau. of William Kelsey; m. (2) 1676 Miriam Dibble, d. 1687. Children: Mary, Jonathan, William, Thomas, and Samuel.
B. Cornelius, b. 1635; m. Priscilla Kelsey.
C. Mary (twin), m. Peter Brown.
D Anna, b. 29 Dec 1639; m. 1663, Samuel Filley, 1643-1711.
E. Joseph, b. 25 Jul 1641; killed in King Philip's War; m. 1664, Elizabeth, 1647-1725, dau. of John Hawkes. Children: Joseph, 1664; Elizabeth, 1666; Mary, 1667; Jonathan, 1669-1692; John, 1671; Nathaniel, 1673; Hannah, 1675.
F. Samuel, b. 22 Jan 1642.
G. John, b. 4 Oct 1644; m. 1669, Mary, dau. Thomas Barber.
H. Abigail, 1646-1649.
I. Jeremiah, 20 Feb 1647-1 Mar 1692; m. 1685, Deborah Bartlett. Deborah m. (2) Samuel Adams.
J. Josiah, bapt. 15 Jul 1650; m. 1676, Joanna Taintor."

7. 20 Mar 2008 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bart/Gillet.htm:
"John Gillett born 5 Oct. 1644 in Windsor, married Mercy/Mary Barber 8 July 1669 in Windsor, died shortly before 5 Dec. 1682 in Simsbury (Windsor?). Mercy was baptized 12 Oct. 1651 in Windsor, died 29 Mar. (31 Dec.?) 1725 in Suffield, CT. She was a daughter of Thomas & Jane (Joan?) Barber. She married (2) Capt. George Norton 14 (20?) June 1683 in Windsor. John inherited from his father 6 acres of land without the west bounds of Windsor. The inventory of the estate of John Gillett of Windsor was taken 5 Dec. 1682 by John Loomis, Sen. It was valued at £140-14-06. Legatees were widow Mercy Gillett, John age 9, Thomas age 6, Samuel age 5, Benjamin age 2 and Mercy born 30 Jan. last. Widow Mercy Gillett was appointed administratrix with Jonathan Gillett, Peter Browne, John Barber and Samuel Barber to be overseers. [Manwaring, Charles W., "A Digest of Early CT Probate Records, 1677-1687," 121.]
John and Mercy had 7 children all born in Windsor, one of whom, Samuel Gillett, was born 16 Feb. 1677/8, married Rebecca Bancroft 22 Jan. 1701/2 in Suffield, CT, died in 1739 in Granville, MA, buried in Suffield. Rebecca was born 23 Feb. 1680 in Springfield, MA. She was a daughter of Thomas & Margaret (Wright) Bancroft of the Springfield, MA, region with residence at the "lower wharf" now Enfield, CT. Samuel & Rebecca Gillett's eldest son John Gillett born 16 Jan. 1704/5 in Suffield, Hampshire Co., MA (now CT), but now of Nowarck in Providence of East Jarsey in America, Dish Turner, conveyed to Nathll Copley of Windsor, Hartford Co., Conn., Shipwrite, land in Suffield & Bedford, Hampshire Co. that came to me from my father Samuel Gillet formerly of Suffield but late of Bedford (now Granville) deceased (Springfield, MA, Deed Book H:229). [NEH&GR, 1947-1948), 101:46 & 285-286 & 102:237.] So here we have a second cousin of my Elijah Gillet also living in Newark, NJ in 1734/5! Note that their early home towns of Suffield and Enfield are only about 5 miles apart and that the ages of John and Elijah are only about 1½ years different.
Another son of John & Mercy was Thomas Gillet, the great-great-grandfather of William Hooker Gillette, who had Gillette Castle built on the Connecticut River near Hadlyme 1914-1919. [Priest, Alice L., "The Brothers Jonathan & Nathan Gillett & Some of their Descendants" [Mrs. William C. Clark, "William Hooker Gillette, Actor and Playwright," TAG (1968), 45:225-228.]"

8. The book "Gillette Families, Some of the Descendants of Jonathan Gillet and Nathan Gillet," comp. Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, 1955, p. 19 [Note that the date given for the marriage of Mary to George Norton is incorrect; Mary's death date is uncertain; does not mention the first Thomas child nor Nathaniel (who she confuses with a non-existent Benjamin (even though they clearly show in the colonial records as noted in Jay Holbrook's manuscript of original sources as transcribed separately in these notes).]:
"John Gillet (son of Jonathan), b. 5 Oct 1644, Windsor, Conn, d. 1682, ae. 38 years (inv. of estate taken 5 Dec 1682); m. 18 Jul 1669 at Windsor, Conn., Mary Barber, dau. of Thomas and Jane (Coggin) Barber. Bp. 12 Oct 1651 at Windsor, Conn., d. 31 Dec 1725 at Suffield, Conn., She m (2) at Windsor 14 Jun 1682, Capt. George Norton of Suffield.
Children:
Benjamin Gillet, b. 3 Oct 1680; m. Elizabeth Austin, 6 Sep 1705.
Thomas, b. 31 May 1678; d. 11 Jun 1708; m. 21 Nov 1700, Martha Mills; m. (2) 26 Feb 1704, Hannah Clark d. 20 Feb 1709.
John, b. 1673; d. 1699. Unmarried.
Samuel, b. 16 Feb 1677-8 at Windsor; d. 1739, Granville, Mass., m. 22 Jan 1701-2, Rebecca Bancroft, b. 23 Feb 1680, dau. of Thomas and Margaret (Wright) Bancroft.
Mercy, b. 31 Jan 1682; m. 24 Dec 1702, Jacob Adams of Suffield, born here abt. 1681; d. 28 Oct 1756, son of John Adams8. Article from the Gillette family file at the Windsor Historical Society by Gary Boyd Roberts entitled "Genealogies of Conn. families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register," vol. II, Baltimore, 1983, Gen. Pub. Co., Inc., pp. 43-44:
"John Gillett (son of Jonathan), of Windsor, Conn., born there 5 Oct 1644, died in 1682, shortly before the Dec. 5th inventory of his estate. He married in Windsor, 8 July 1669, Mercy Barber, baptized there 12 Oct 1651, died in Suffield, Conn., 29 Mar 1725. Mercy (Barber) Gillett married secondly, in Windsor, 14 June 1683, Capt. George Norton of Suffield.
Children, born in Windsor:
Thomas, b. 7 Jan 1671; d. by 1676.
John, b. 6 Aug 1673; d. unm. in Windsor 4 July 1699.
Thomas, b. 18 July 1676.
Samuel, b. 16 Feb 1677/8.
Nathaniel, b. 3 Oct 1680 and bapt. in Hartford, Conn., 30 Oct 1681 (last record of his name). No Nathaniel was included among John's children in the 1682 probate. Was there a change or error in names and Benjamin became the permanent name; or twins and Nathaniel died?
Benjamin, b. in 1680 (?); named in 5 Dec 1682 probate as John's son, aged two years.
Mercy, b. 30 Jan 1682; m. in Suffield, 24 Dec 1702, Sergt. Jacob Adams of Suffield, son of Jacob Adams.
('Robert Adams Genealogy,' by Adams, 1900. 'Connecticut Probate Records,' Manwaring, vol. 1, p. 307: Gillett, John, Windsor. Inventory ₤140-14-06. Taken 5 Dec 1682 by John Loomis sen. & John Moore. Legatees: The Widow, Mercy Gillett, John age 9 years, Thomas 6, Samuel 5, Benjamin 2, Mercy born 30 January last. Court Record, p. 69: 4 April. Adms. to the Widow, Mercy Gillett, with Jonathan Gillett, Peter Browne, John Barber, & Samuel Barber to be Overseers.)

9. FHL book 929.273 B695bo "Ancestral Lines, Third Edition," compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd [Santa Clarita, CA; 1998], pp. 69-70:
"Thomas1 Barber, born perhaps in Bedfordshire, England, in 1614, died in Windsor, Connecticut, 11 Sept. 1662.
On 7 Oct. 1640 he married Jane or Joan, whose last name is not known. It has been said that she was a daughter of one of the first Dutch settlers of the Connecticut River Valley, and was the first white woman to land in Connecticut. She died 10 Sept. 1662, the day before her husband...
In 1641 he was granted about 600 acres in an area known to the Indians as Massaco. In the town meeting at Northampton, Mass., 24 June 1661, it was voted to ask him to move there, but apparently he chose not to do so. When he died at Windsor a little over a year later he left an estate valued at £132.14s. The probate records showed that his daughter Mercy (Mary) was placed with Lt. Walter Fyler and his wife, and Josias (Josiah) was placed with Deacon John Moore.
Children, born in Windsor:
i. John2, bapt. 24 July 1642; d. Suffield, Mass. (now Conn.), 17 Jan. 1712; m. (1) Springfield 2 Sept. 1663 Bathsheba Coggin, m. (2) 1 May 1669 Mrs. Hannah (Gardner?) Bancroft.
ii. Thomas, b. 14 July 1644; d. Simsbury, Conn., 10 May 1713; m. 17 Dec. 1663 Mary Phelps.
iii. Sarah, bapt. 19 July 1646; m. Windsor 26 Nov. 1663 Timothy2 Hale.
iv. Samuel, bapt. 1 Oct. 1648; d. 1709; m. (1) 1 Dec. 1670 Mary Coggins, m. (2) 25 Jan. 1677 Ruth3 Drake.
v. Mary, bapt. 12 Oct. 1651; m. 8 July 1669 John2 Gillett.
vi. Josiah, b. 15 Feb. 1653; d. c. 1731; m. (1) 22 Nov. 1677 Abigail Loomis, m. (2) 5 Nov. 1701 Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Drake."

10. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 5:49-64. These pages have a five generation descendency listing of all the descendants of Jonathan Gillet and Mary Dolbair. I only transcribe my own descendency line which is the seventh child:
"7 John Gillett- b. 5 Oct. 1644, Windsor. m. Mercy Barber, 8 July 1669, Windsor (1651-1725) dau. of Thomas Barber (emigrant). She m. (2) Capt. George Norton, 1683. John d. 1682. Windsor p. 50 says Mary Barber bpt. 12 Oct. 1651, m. ___ Hale. res: Suffield. (Gillett-19)
7.1 Thomas Gillett- b. 7 Jan. 1671, Windsor. d. by 1676
7.2 John Gillett Jr.- b. 6 Aug. 1673, Windsor. d. 4 July 1699, Windsor, unmarr.
7.3 Thomas Gillett- b. 18 July 1676 (Gillett p. 19 says 31 May 1678), Windsor. m. (1) Martha Mills. She d. without children. m. (2) Hannah Clark, 26 Feb. 1704 (1686-1709) Windsor, dau. of John Clark & Mary Crow (D. Clark-34). He d. 11 June 1708. Children of Thomas Gillett & Hannah Clark (2) (NER 101:285)…
7.4 Samuel Gillett- b. 16 Feb. 1677/8, Windsor. m. Rebecca Bancroft, 22 Jan. 1701/2, Suffield, dau. of Thomas Bancroft. She was b. 1680. He d. 1739, Grnaville, Mass. (Gillett-23) Children of Samuel Gillett & Rebecca Bancroft (NER 101:286).
7.4.1 Samuel Gillett, Jr.- b. 13 Sept. 1702, Suffield. m. Anna Pierce, 13 Apr. 1727. He d. Granville, Mass.
7.4.2 John Gillett- b. 13 Jan. 1704/5, Suffield.
7.4.3 Nathaniel Gillett- b. 10 May 1707, Suffield. m. Phebe ___. Children of Nathaniel Gillett & Phebe ___. (NER 101:286)…
7.4.4 Hannah Gillett- b. 19 June 1709, Suffield. m. Joseph Kent, 26 Feb. 1728/9, Suffield (b. 1710), s. of John Kent & Abigail Winchell of Suffield. He m. (2) Elizabeth Palmer, 1748. Hannah d. 2 Nov. 1746, Suffield. Six children.
7.4.5 Thomas Gillett- b. 16 Apr. 1711, Suffield. m. Elizabeth Barlow, 2 June 1744 (1719-1806). He d. 10 Apr. 1791, Granville, Mass. (Gillett-1955, 23, 34, 48) Children of Thomas Gillett & Elizabeth Barlow. (Gillett-23) [Note: The author lists only one child, which is of course very incomplete.]
7.4.5.1 Zadoc Gillett- b. 12 Aug. 1753, m. wid. Rebecca Tyron (1758-1840). He d. 14 Mar. 1816, Granville, Mass. Two children (1781-1784). She d. Shesequin, Bradford Co., Pa. (Gillett-34)
7.4.6 Gardner Gillett- b. 23 June 1715, Suffield. m. Mary Rowe, 27 Jan. 1740/1. Res: Dutchess Co., N.Y.
7.4.7 Rebecca Gillett- b. 21 Sept. 1718, Suffield.
7.5 Nathaniel Gillett- b. 3 Oct. 1680, Windsor. (Windsor-290)
7.6 Benjamin Gillett- b. 1680, Windsor. m. Elizabeth Austin, 6 Sept. 1705 (1684-1752), dau. of Capt. Anthony & Esther Austin. (Gillett-21) (Benjamin's b. 3 Oct. 1680 in Gillett-22) Children of Benjamin Gillett & Elizabeth Austin (Gillett-21)…
7.7 Mercy Gillett- b. 21 Jan. 1682, m. Jacob Adams, Jr. (1681-1736), s. of Jacob Adams & Anne Allen and gr. s. of Robert & Elinor Adams of Newberry, Mass. Res: Suffield, Conn. Children of Mercy Gillett & Jacob Adams, Jr. (NER 101:47)…"

MARRIAGE:
1. Manuscript from the Windsor CT. Historical Society Library of Jay Mack Holbrook entitled "Conn. Colonists - Windsor 1635-1703" has the following listings for Gillets. I am not sure what the references refer to, but they appear to be a compilation of mentioned names in original sources. I have rearranged the entries to be chronological rather than alphabetical as presented by the book compiler.
Gillet, John; marriage to Marcy Barber, 8 Jul 1669; CHS930:40.
Gillet, John; marriage to Marcy Barber, 8 Jul 1669; WEL898:12.
Gillett, John 644; household size 2, 7 Mar 1670; WYL924:194; spelling Gyllet.
Gillet, Marcy; marriage to George Norton of Suffield, 14 Jun 1683; WIN638:59 [widow of John Gillet].
Gillet, Mercy; marriage to George Norton of Southfield, 14 Jun 1683; WEL898:52 [widow of John Gillet].

2. Marriage to ___ Hale:
A. Some undocumented family histories show that Mary may have been married to a ___ Hale as a third marriage after Norton; however the following quote clearly shows she died with the surname Norton. The following concerns her son Thomas.
From the Gillett family file of the Windsor Historical Society, an article entitled: "The Brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett and Some of Their Descendants," comp. by Alice Lucinda Priest, B.L., of Brookline, Mass., pp. 61-62:
"Thomas Gillett (son of John, grandson of Jonathan), of Windsor, Conn., was born 18 July 1676 and baptized the 23rd... There is no known record of a third marriage, though one seems probable. The following 1726 probate record proves that Thomas was then alive, and might suggest a third marriage about 1716.
Northampton, Mass., Probate Records: Book 4, p. 154. Receipt of Thomas Gillet of Windsor, dated 13 April 1726. 'I Thomas Gillet of Windsor have Rec'd of my Hon'd Mother Mercy Norton late of Suffield Dec'd in her life time ye following particulars as part of my portion of share of her estate viz Thre Pounds ten shillings in Money By ye hands of John Gillet in ye year 1724 And also keeping of my Child, providing it with all necessres from ye age of three months until it was seven years old - 6 yr. 9 mo. @ 2s, 6 p per week - as part of his double portion of his mother est. this 13 Apr. 1726.'
B. FHL book 929.273 B233w, "Also some records seem to indicate that she married a Hale, but the Gillett family records furnish conclusive evidence of her marriage to John Gillett. It is possible that in the records showing the name of Hale, her marriage was confused with that of her sister Sarah's to Timothy Hall, as a confusion of the names Hale and Hall is quite common."
C. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, does not have any genealogies for "Hale".
D. The daughter of Benjamin Gillett (a son of John Gillett and Mary Barber), Mercy, b. 16 Dec 1710; m. in Suffield, 7 Sept 1736, Joseph Hale.

3. From the newsletter "Gillett Pride 'n' Joy," vol. 10, no. 2, sourced family tree by Barbara Delgado, 1939 Republic Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92627, copy from the Gillett family file at the Windsor Historical Society:
References:
MJ5=Mary and John, vol. 5, no. 2.
NEH=New England Hist. and Gene. Reg., vol. 100.
Wivr=Windsor, CT. Vital Records.
TAG=The American Genealogist, Vol. #.
FC=The Gillett Family by Flora Clark.
BA=Bertha Aldridge's Book.
SH=Stiles History of Windsor, CT.
GS=Gravestone.
Suvr=Suffield, CT. Vital Records.
Quote: "John Gillett, b. 5 Oct 1644 (Wivr) (record says s/o Jonathan Sr.), b. Nov 1682 (NEH101), m. 8 Jul 1669 m. (Wivr) Marcy Barber (Wivr) (Called Mary and Mercy in other records), ba. 12 Oct 1651 (NEH101), d. 31 Dec 1725 (GS), bur. Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, CT rear of church as Mercy Gillett Norton. She m. 2nd 14 Jun 1683 (Wivr) George Norton of Suffield (Wivr) (Suvr says Mercy, wid. m. Geoge Norton 20 Jun 1683) d/o Thomas Barber and Jane (BA)."

4. From the book "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," p. 304 for the Gillett family: "Gillett, John (-1682) & Mary/Mercy Barber (1651-), m/2 George Norton 1683; 8 Jul 1669; Windsor, CT."

5. Mentioned in the will of her husband John Gillett per "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," Vol. I, by Charles Wm. Manwaring, P. 452: "Page 121.
Gillett, John, Windsor. Invt. £140-14-06. Taken 5 December, 1682, by John Loomis sen., John Moore. Legatees: The Widow, Mercy Gillett, John age 9 years, Thomas 6, Samuel 5, Benjamin 2, Mercy born 30 January last.
Court Record, Page 69 - 4 April, 1683: Adms. to the Widow, Mercy Gillett, with Jonathan Gillett, Peter Browne, John Barber & Samuel Barber to be Overseers."

6. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 1:32-33:
"JONATHAN GILLETT - b.a. 1600, England, d. 29 Aug. 1677, Windsor, Conn. m. Mary Dolbiar, 29 Mar. 1634, St. Andrews Church, Colyton, Devon, England (1607-1685), dau. of Rawkey Dolbiar & Mary Michell of Cadhayne, near Colyton.
Jonathan Gillett came on the "Mary & John" in 1630, either alone or with his younger brother, Nathan. He returned to England to marry and then sailed back to New England soon after. He was the son of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, Somerset in 1609, who d. 1641. He served in the Pequot War in 1637 and moved his family from Dorchester, Mass. to Windsor, Conn. in the summer of 1639. He was the Constable of Windsor in 1665 and in 1671 he was granted land in Simsbury, Conn. for his service in the Pequot War. Estate: 273 pounds.
Ten children (1635-1650) (NER 100:275), 75 grandchildren, and 243 great-grandchildren identified.
Children:
1. Jonathan Gillett, Jr.-b.a. 1635, Dorchester, Mass., d. between 1694 & 1698. m. (1) Anna Kelsey, 23 Apr. 1661 (1634-1676), dau. of William Kelsey, the emigrant. m. (2) Miriam Dibble, 14 Dec. 1676, Windsor, dau. of Thomas Dibble. Estate: 360 pounds. Four children by first wife (1665-1673) (NER 100:275), and six by second (1678-1685), and 13 grandchildren.
2. Cornelius Gillett-b.a. July 1636, Dorchester, Mass., d. 26 June 1711, Windsor, Conn. m. Priscilla Kelsey, who d. 1772, dau. of William Kelsey, the emigrant. Estate: 44 pounds. Nine children (1659-1678) (NER 100:277), and 28 grandchildren.
3. Mary Gillett-b. 1638, Dorchester, Mass. m. Peter Brown, 15 July 1658, who d. 1691, called the son of Peter Brown of the Mayflower (1620) but this has been disputed. He bought land in Windsor in 1658 and moved to the Josias Ellsworth place in 1664. Estate: 408 pounds. Eleven children (Windsor-118) and 61 grandchildren. One of his descendants was John Brown, the Abolitionist.
4. Anna Gillett-b. 29 Dec. 1639, Windsor, Conn., d. 4 Jan. 1711. m. Samuel Filley, 29 Oct. 1663, Windsor (1643-1712), s. of William Filley, the emigrant. He moved to Simsbury, Conn., 1669. Twelve children (1667-1683) (Windsor-250), and 26 grandchildren.
5. Joseph Gillett-bpt. 25 July 1641, Windsor, Conn., d. 18 Sept. 1675, killed by Indians at Bloody Brook, near Deerfield, Mass. m. Elizabeth Hawkes (1646-1681), dau. of John & Elizabet Hawkes. Moved from Windsor to Deerfield, 1675. Seven children (1664-1675) (NER 101:46), and 19 grandchildren.
6. Samuel Gillet-bpt. 22 Jan. 1642, Windsor, Conn., d. 19 May 1676, killed in the fight at Turner's Falls, Mass. m. Hannah Dickinson, 23 Sept. 1668, Hadley, Mass. (b. 1648), dau. of John Dickinson. She m. (2) Stephen Jennings, 1677. The year after Samuel's death, Hannah remarried, became pregnant and was captured by Indians in the attack on Hatfield, Mass., along with her daughter Mary (age 5) and son Samuel, Jr. (age 4). When the authorities refused to pursue the Indians, her husband, Stephen Jennings and Benjamin Waite, set out toward Canada to recover the captives. After traveling thru the winter they arrived in Canada in January, 1678 and negotiated a ransom with the French. There, Hannah had a daughter she named Captivity, and she returned to Deerfield, with her other two children and the captives in June. Four children (1669-1674) (NER 101:46), and 14 grandchildren.
7. John Gillett-b. 5 Oct. 1644, Windsor, Conn., d. 1682. m. Mercy Barber, 8 July 1669, Windsor (1651-1725), dau. of Thomas Barber, the emigrant. She m. (2) Capt. George Norton, 1683. Seven children (1671-1682) (NER 101:46), and 29 grandchildren.
8. Abigail Gillett-bpt. 28 June 1646, Windsor, d. 1648.
9. Jeremiah Gillett-b. 12 Feb. 1647, Windsor, Conn., d. 1 Mar. 1692, Windsor. m. Deborah Bartlett, 15 Oct. 1685, Windsor (b. 1666), dau. of Benjamin Bartlett & Deborah Barnard. Four children (1686-1692) (Fyler-30).
10. Josiah Gillett-bpt. 14 July 1650, Windsor, Conn., d. 29 Oct. 1736, Colchester, Conn. m. Joanna Taintor, 20 June 1676 (1657-1735), dau. of Michael Taintor of Branford, Conn. (See NER 4:169). Res: Windsor and Colchester, Conn. Eleven children (1678-1701) (NER Apr. 1893, p. 168), and 53 grandchildren.
References:
Gillett & Allied Families, by L. S. Gillett, 1930.
Gillett Family in Conn., Vol. 1.
Gillett Families, by B. B. Aldridge, 1955. TAG 42:160 (English Wills).
TAG 56:129 (Nathan)
NER 100:272 (Genealogy).
NER 101:43, 153, 237, 283 (Genealogy).
NER Apr. 1893, p. 168 (Genealogy).
TAG Apr. 1971 (Dispute French Ancestry)."

DEATH:
1. From the Internet 4 Jul 2008 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kathycamp/Inscriptions/Page008.htm Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions, 1660-1937. This list of inscriptions, town of Suffield, was copied in 1934, under the auspices of the F.E.R.A. and the W.P.A. sponsored by the Connecticut State Library, as compiled under the supervision of Charles R. Hale, State Military Necrologist, assisted by Miss Mary H. Babin, Secretary. Hartford, Connecticut, December 1937. The following list of Nortons are grouped together and include Mercy Gillett Norton and George Norton:
Norton Harry Daniel son of John J. & Annie L., born June 2, 1880, died Sept. 27, 1929.
Norton Captain George died Nov. 15, 1696.
Norton Sarah wife of Captain George, died June 23, 1682.
Norton Mercy Gillet wife of Captain George, died Dec. 31, 1726.
Norton George son of Captain George & Sarah or Mercy, died Feb. 13, 1742, age 70 yrs.
Norton Hannah Younglove wife of of George, died Nov. 23, 1715.
Norton John son of George & Hannah, died April 30, 1788, age 77 years.
Norton Rebecca Sheldon wife of George, die May 14, 1793, age 79 yrs.
Norton Daniel son of John & Rebecca, died Jan. 17, 1814, age 63 yrs. (Revolutionary War Marker.
Norton Lucy King wife of Daniel, died Aug. 21, 1831, age 78 yrs.
Norton Daniel W. died Jan. 23, 1874, age 74 yrs.
Norton Mindwell Peace wife of Daniel W., died Mar. 17, 1857, age 56 yrs.
Norton Emily L. daughter of Daniel W. & Mindwell Peace, born Jan. 19, 1842, died May 7, 1910.
Norton August F. Knowles 2d wife of Daniel W., died Feb. 15, 1876, age 75 yrs.
Norton Lucy K. died April 29, 1867, age 37 yrs.
Norton Emily daughter of Daniel & Lucy King, born Oct. 7, 1795, died April 10, 1888.
Norton John Hughes son of Daniel W. & Mindwell Peace, born Mar. 26, 1839, died Sept. 11, 1922.
'Captain George Norton with his wife Sarah & son George removed from Ipswich, Massachusetts, among the pioneers to Suffield in 1674. Children of Captain George & Sarah was George. Children of Captain George & Mercy Gillett were George, Thomas, Nathaniel, Sarah, Allis, Abigail, Freegrace, Joanna& Elizabeth. Children of George & Hannah were George, Nathaniel, Hannah, Thomas & John. Children of John &Rebecca were: Rebecca, John, Huldah, Asa, Elijah, Rachel, Sarah, Apphia, Daniel, & Seth.' "

2. Mary's death date is reported variously as 29 Mar 1712, 29 Dec 1725, or 31 Mar 1712. I have only seen documentation in regards to 31 Dec 1725 from the gravestone as quoted above. The year has to be after 1724 per the the quote from her son Thomas Gillett as follows:
"Northampton, Mass., Probate Records: Book 4, p. 154. Receipt of Thomas Gillet of Windsor, dated 13 April 1726. 'I Thomas Gillet of Windsor have Rec'd of my Hon'd Mother Mercy Norton late of Suffield Dec'd in her life time ye following particulars as part of my portion of share of her estate viz Thre Pounds ten shillings in Money By ye hands of John Gillet in ye year 1724 And also keeping of my Child, providing it with all necessres from ye age of three months until it was seven years old - 6 yr. 9 mo. @ 2s, 6 p per week - as part of his double portion of his mother est. this 13 Apr. 1726."
(Source from the Gillett family file of the Windsor Historical Society, an article entitled: "The Brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett and Some of Their Descendants," comp. by Alice Lucinda Priest, B.L., of Brookline, Mass., pp. 61-62.)

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, "Gillette Families, Some of the Descendants of Jonathan Gillet and Nathan Gillet, 1572-1800"; Collection entitled, "Genealogy and Local History," by University Microfilming, Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Microfiche no. G-1135; Public Library call no. GEN-R 929.3. 		Barber, Mary or Mercy or Marcy (I1990)
 
3819 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biography of William Spencer from the book "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of William Spencer for full citation):
"William Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Migration: 1631... Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 11 October 1601, son of Gerrard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:162]...
Associations: William Spencer was brother of Thomas Spencer of Cambridge and Hartford, and of Michael Spencer and Gerard Spencer of Lynn [TAG 27:79-87, 161-65]..."

2. Partial excerpt from the biography of Thomas Spencer from the book "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full citation):
"Thomas Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Migration: 1633..
Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 29 March 1607, son of Gerard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:162]..."

3. "The American Genealogist," 27:161: "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Donald Lines Jacobus:
"Gerard Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, co. Bedford, 20 May 1576, died before 1646; married at Upper Gravenhurst, Co. Bedford, 10 Nov. 1600, Alice Whitbread or Whitbred (see 32:129), who belonged to a family of some prominence. An account of her family is reserved for a later chapter. It seems quite possible that Gerard and his family moved from Stotfold some years before the emigration of his sons to New England; perhaps to London, where his brother Richard had become a prosperous haberdasher.
Children, recorded at Stotfold
i. William, bapt. 11 Oct. 1601.
ii. Elizabeth, bapt. 31 Oct. 1602; m. ___ Tomlins.
iii. John, bapt. 22 Jan. 1603/4 almost certainly d. young or without issue before 1646, since neither he nor his heirs are named in the will of his uncle Richard which gave a large legacy to each of his three surviving brothers and the same amount to the children of his deceased brother William.
iv. Henry, bapt. 11 Aug. 1605; bur. 20 Oct. 1607.
v. Thomas, bapt. 29 Mar. 1607.
vi. Richard, bapt. 11 Dec. 1608; bur. 6 May 1614.
vii. A son, bur. 24 Mar. 1609/10.
viii. Michael, bapt. 5 May 1611.
ix. Gerard, bapt. 25 Apr. 1614."

4. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, pp. 55-57:
"Chart II. The Near Relatives of Alice Whitbread who Married Gerard Spencer of Stotfold, Beds. - Parents of the Five Spencer Siblings who Came to New England about 1630:
-Thomas Whitbread (b. ca 1522)
-John (b. ca. 1548 Upper Gravenhurst, Beds. = Eleanor Radcliffe. Children all b. Upper Gravenhurst:
-Elizabeth
-William (ca1573-1640) = Elizabeth ___. Children b. Upper Gravenhurst: Henry (b. 1601) = Eliz. Farnell; William (1602-1602); John (1603-1621); Elizabeth (1605); Henry Whitbread; Thomas (b. 1607) = Joan Carter; Sibyl (b. 1610) = Caesar Lucas; William (b. 1612) = Joan Cooper. [Note that the author continues with another generation or two from children of this family.]
-Henry (b. ca 1576) = Elizabeth Leventhorpe. Children b. Cardington, Beds.: Henry (b. 1605) = Eliz. Whitbread; John (unm.); Elizabeth (b. 1607); Eleanor = Robt. Sheering; Mary; Ann = Samuel Baker; Frances.
-Alice = Gerard Spencer
-Francis (b. 1581)
-John (b. 1584) = Mary Newman. Children b. Elstow, Beds.: Eleanor 9b. 1616) = William Newman; William (1617-ca 1660) = Eliz. Peck; John (b. 1617 - twin); Judith (b. 1619 = Wm. Edwards; Mary (b. 1622), and Thomas (b. 1624).
-Judith (b. 1591) = Richard Poulter"

5. TAG 127[July 1956]:129-142 "The Whitbread Family of Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England," by Clarence Almon Torrey:
"John(2) Whitbread (Thomas-1), born probably about 1548, was a resident of Upper Gravenhurst as early as 1571, and appears to have been the John Whitbred (as the name is written in the parish register) who was buried 28 Nov 1598. Diligent search has failed to bring to light a will or other probate record and no deeds to or from him have been found.
He married Eleanor (or Ellenor as her name appears in the probate record). She was of Elstow in her nuncupative will (given below) which was probated 18 April 1629, and was probably then living with her youngest son John, who had settled in Elstow. But she was the "widow Whitebread" who was buried at Upper Gravenhurst 20 Nov 1628, probably in the churchyard near her husband's grave.
There is reason to believe that Eleanor was related in some way to a promenet Radcliffe family. On 1 Aug 1611, Sir Edward Radcliffe of Elstow, Knt., for 32 pounds, conveyed to John Radwell of Kempaton, ploughwright, a messuage or tenement in Elstowe, giving a covenant of assurance against Dame Isabel Radcliffe, late of Elstowe, deceased, his mother. And the same date, John Whitbred of Elstow, husbandman,for 20 pounds, gave to John Radwell assurance of quiet enjoyment of the same premises against "Elner Whitbread fo Eluestowe," his mother. (Publications for the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 4:22-23)
Sir Edward Radcliffe was son of Sir Humphrey Radcliffe, who died 13 Aug 1566, aged 57, by his wife Isabel Hervey, who died 8 May 1594. Eleanor, a generation younger than Isabel, does not appear on the Radcliffe pedigree in the Visitation of Bedfordshire, 1566. Sir Edward presumably was giving assurance against any incumbrance tha tmight have been placed on the property by his mother Isabel, or perhaps against claims of her creditors or heirs, so the property may have an inheritance from the Hervey family. It has not been learned how Eleanor was related to the Radcliffes or Herveys.
"The last will and testmt, or Ellenor Whitebread last of Elstowe deceased uttered by her in her life time and since her death put into writings as followeth. The said Ellenor Whitebread beinge of pfect memorie did in the prsence of William Whitebread and Henrye Whitebread utter her minds touchings the disposing of her worldlie goods as followeth vizt. Imprimis she gave unto Willia' Whitebread her eldest sonne her silver measure and after his decease to his eldest sonne Henery Whitebread and after his decease to his eldest sonne Willia' for to be a standard for ever unto the heire of the Whitebreads. It' she gave unto Willia' Whitebread her godsoone a silver spoone. It' she gave unti Henery Whitebread her godsonne a silver spoone and unto Ellenor Whitebread her goddaughter his sister a silver spoone and a porridg pot. It' she gave unto Willia' Spencer a silver spoone beinge my godsonne. It' she gave unto Ellenor Whitebread her goddaughter unto John Whitebread a silver spoone & a porridgpot. It' she gave unto Ellenor Chapman her godaughter (sic) a porrigpott if ever she do come for it. It' she gave unto John Whitebread her godsonne a silver spoone. It' she gave unto Thomas Spencere xlvj s. viij d. It' she willed her sonne John Whitebread to pay all her debts and to be her Executor." (No signatures or date) Probate: 18th April to Executor named. (Copy of the Will of Ellenor Whitbred of Elstow 1629, Bedord Archdeaconry Court, 1628/9, No. 122.)
The manner in which Eleanor left her silver measure to be a standard forever to the heir of the Whitbreads suggest that she was a woman of great family pride, even though not of great wealth, and accords with the belief that she may have belonged to a family of a somewhat hight social status than her husband's family was in her generation. Her eldest son William by 1639 styled himself a gentelman, and it is possible that some part of his landed property may have been inherited from his mother.
The recorded marriage of Alice Whitbread in 1600 to Gerard Spencer, the known baptisms of her Spencer children, and the fact that two of them, William and Thomas received legacies in Eleanor's will, one of them being her godson, make it certain that Alice belongs in the family of John and Eleanor Whitbread. Furthermore, William Whitbred and Gerrard Spencer sold to John Whitbread 11 messuages, 1 pigeon house, 11gardens, 11 orchards, 200 acres arable, 200 acres meadow, and 60 acres pasture, in Shillington, Over Gravenest, Nether Gravenest, Flitton, Silsoe, Elstoe, Kempston, and Stotfolde, Easter, 9 James I (1611). (Feet of Fines for Beds. P.R.O., CP. 25 (2) 270.)
In listing the children, we have assumed that the Whitbreads baptized at Upper Gravenhurst between 1571 and 1591 belonged to John and Eleanor. However, the register at that period fails to state the parents of children christened, and the assumption may not be entirely correct, since it is possible that Henry Whitbread (No.4 of the First Line) may have lived in this parish during part of that period. Of the children listed below, William, Henry, Alice and John are considered positively proved as belonging to John. The others seem likely. Judith had not long been married when Eleanor made her will and probably had no children by then to be remembered as godchildren; and the name Judith appears in the family in the next generation (see 5, iv, below.) In additon to those listed, a Thomas buried 6 June 1585 and an Ellen buried 11 June 1585 may have been young children of John.
With the above caution, the children, probably all born in Upper Gravenhurst, were:
i. Elizabeth (3), bapt. 28 Sept. 1571; no further record.
ii. William, b: (say ca. 1573); m. Elizabeth (unknown).
iii. Henry, bapt. 9 Jan 1575/6; m. Elizabeth Leventhorpe
iv. Alice, b. (say ca.1578) m. 10 Nov 1600, Gerard Spencer (supra, 27:84). Four ofher sons came to New England and all left decendants.
v. Francis, bapt. 30 Apr 1581; no further record.
vi. John, bapt. 8 Nov 1584; m. Mary Newman
vii. Judith, bapt. 6 June 1591; m. 23 July 1626, Richard Poulter."
 		Whitbread, Alice (I1962)
 
3820 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biography of William Spencer from the book "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of William Spencer for full citation):
"William Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Migration: 1631... Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 11 October 1601, son of Gerrard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:162]...
Associations: William Spencer was brother of Thomas Spencer of Cambridge and Hartford, and of Michael Spencer and Gerard Spencer of Lynn [TAG 27:79-87, 161-65]..."

2. Partial excerpt from the biography of Thomas Spencer from the book "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full citation):
"Thomas Spencer
Origin: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Migration: 1633..
Birth: Baptized Stotfold, Bedfordshire, 29 March 1607, son of Gerard and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer [TAG 27:162]..."

3. Gerrard's brother Richard identifies him as deceased in his Sept. 1646 will, but mentions Gerrard's children Jarrad, Thomas, Michael, William (deceased) and Elizabeth, who is the widow of ___ Tomlyns.

4. The book "Spencer Family Record of the Springfield, VT. and Evansville, Wis. Spencers. (Descendants of Garrard Spencer of Haddam, Conn. Emigrant of 1630," by William Henry Spencer, New York, Tobias A. Wright, 1907, children of Michael Spencer:
"John Spencer, bap. April 20, 1557, at Edworth; d. before 1645; m. and left a son Daniel who was a grocer in London.
Michael Spencer, bap. May 27, 1558, in Edworth; buried April 15, 1560.
Johan Spencer, bap. Aug. 20, 1564, in Edworth.
Ann Spencer, bap. July 24, 1566, in Edworth.
Michael Spencer, bap. Aug 30, 1566, in Edworth.
Alice Spencer, bap. Aug. 30, 1566, in Edworth.
Thomas Spencer, bap. March 12, 1571.
Gerat Spencer, bap. May 20, 1576, in St. Mary's Parish, Stotfold, where his seven sons from one of whom we are descended, were born. He d. before his brother Richard's will in 1645.
Richard Spencer, bap. July 9, 1580, in Stotford; lived in London. It was through the discovery of the will of Richard's with its bequests to his nephews, the emigrants, by Ray T. Spencer, that we trace our lineage. The will was proven June 8, 1646.
Catherine Spencer, m. ____ Bland; d. before her brother's will; left two daughters."

5. "The American Genealogist," 27:161: "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Donald Lines Jacobus:
"Gerard Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, co. Bedford, 20 May 1576, died before 1646; married at Upper Gravenhurst, Co. Bedford, 10 Nov. 1600, Alice Whitbread or Whitbred (see 32:129), who belonged to a family of some prominence. An account of her family is reserved for a later chapter. It seems quite possible that Gerard and his family moved from Stotfold some years before the emigration of his sons to New England; perhaps to London, where his brother Richard had become a prosperous haberdasher.
Children, recorded at Stotfold
i. William, bapt. 11 Oct. 1601.
ii. Elizabeth, bapt. 31 Oct. 1602; m. ___ Tomlins.
iii. John, bapt. 22 Jan. 1603/4 almost certainly d. young or without issue before 1646, since neither he nor his heirs are named in the will of his uncle Richard which gave a large legacy to each of his three surviving brothers and the same amount to the children of his deceased brother William.
iv. Henry, bapt. 11 Aug. 1605; bur. 20 Oct. 1607.
v. Thomas, bapt. 29 Mar. 1607.
vi. Richard, bapt. 11 Dec. 1608; bur. 6 May 1614.
vii. A son, bur. 24 Mar. 1609/10.
viii. Michael, bapt. 5 May 1611.
ix. Gerard, bapt. 25 Apr. 1614."

6. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A.
"Michael Spencer, born probably 1530-1535, living in 1599; married first, at Edworth, Beds, 20 Jan. 1555/6, Agnes Limer, who was buried at Edworth, 23 Feb. 1561/2; married second, about 1563, Elizabeth ___, who was buried at Stotfold, Beds, 18 Nov. 1599, as wife of Michael Spencer, signifying that he was then alive.
The division of Michael's children between the two wives is somewhat different from what might be inferred from the Rev. Mr. Holding's book, because of the discovery of the burial of the first wife, Agnes, early in 1562. The name of the mother is not stated in the Edworth baptisms, but Elizabeth is stated as mother of the two children, Gerard and Richard, who were baptized at Stotfold. We therefore assume that Elizabeth was mother of the other children who were born after 1562 and before the birth of Gerard in 1576, though it remains possible that there was a second, unknown, wife between Agnes and Elizabeth.
The removal of the family from Edworth to Stotfold occurred between 1571 and 1576.
Children by first wife, born at Edworth
i. John, bapt. at Edworth, 20 Apr. 1557.
ii. Michael, bapt. at Edworth, 27 May 1558 bur. 15 Apr. 1560.
iii. Anne, bapt. 24 July 1560.
Children, the last two certainly, the others probably, by Elizabeth:
iv. Joan, bapt. at Edworth, 21 Aug. 1564.
v. Alice, bapt. 30 Aug. 1566.
vi. Catherine, m. ___ Bland, and had daus. Sarah and Anne. Either she or one of her sisters was mother of Elizabeth who m. Edward Terry.
vii. Thomas, bapt. 12 Mar. 1571.
viii. Gerard, bapt. 20 May 1576 the first of the children baptized at Stotfold, and recorded as "Gerat," but his name is spelled Gerard at the baptisms of his own children.
ix. Richard, bapt. 9 July 1580; d. at London at the end of May or beginning of June 1646. His will, dated 17 Mar. 1645, codicil 29 May 1646, proved 8 June 1646, calls him "gent." (Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," 514-515). To Thomas Spencer, copyhold lands in St. Michael Parish near St. Albans, co. Hertford. To Daniel Spencer of London, grocer, son of brother John Spencer deceased, eight messuages in parish of St. Margaret Lothbury in London. To Sarah Bland and Hannah Bland, daus. of sister Katherine Bland deceased, and to Elizabeth Tomlyns, widow, dau. of brother Jarrard Spencer deceased, a messuage in Grace Church Street, with remainder to said Sarah Bland. To said Daniel Spencer, lands in Kent and Essex, he to make certain payments to Anthony Spencer and Jarrard Spencer, sons of brother Thomas Spencer deceased, and to the two children of Margaret Spencer deceased, now in or near London and at the disposing of Elizabeth Carter their aunt. To Jarrard Spencer, Thomas Spencer and Michaell Spencer, sons of brother Jarrard Spencer deceased, ₤50 apiece, and another ₤50 to the children of William Spencer, son of said brother Jarrard Spencer deceased, to be divided equally between them and to be paid to their guardians. To Thomas Martyn and Mary his wife, now dwelling with me. To Edward Terrey, vintner, my kinsman, ₤130 which he oweth me by bond, and ₤30 to him and Elizabeth his wife, my sister's daughter. Residue to Daniel Spencer, who is named executor. Witnesses: John Norburie, William Norburie."

7. "The American Genealogist," 27:161: "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Donald Lines Jacobus:
"There were other Spencer families in New England, not to mention the South, who were unrelated, so far as known, to the four colonist sons of Gerard Spencer of Stotfold, Bedfordshire, and since they have never been confused so far as we know with the Stotfold family, there is no need to discuss them here.
However, we may mention that one George Spencer came to New England about 1636, was in trouble in New Haven in 1640, and the following year was hanged for an offence under the Mosaic Law which New Haven had set up in place of the common law of England. George Spencer testified that he knew Roger Alling [Allen] in England. Furthermore, a "Goodman" Spencer was steward of Capt. Lamberton on the voyage over, but dying on the passage was succeeded as steward by Roger Ailing. He left an only daughter in the hands of Mr. Fowler and "Goodman" Tapp. This was Hannah Spencer, who seems to have been raised in Milford, Conn. She married, 2 May 1661 Benjamin Jones, and left a son Benjamin and descendants.
Since both of these New Haven Spencers were acquainted with Roger Ailing, who was a native of Kempston, co. Bedford, and since there were Spencers in Kempston, it seems likely that they came from that vicinity. Descendants of Hannah (Spencer) Jones might do well to seek her origin there. We have not pursued this line of investigation further, as there is no proved connection between the Spencers of Stotfold and those of Kempston, and we have touched upon the matter here solely because of the clue to a Bedfordshire origin for Hannah and to forestall any possible attempts to identify her as a member of the Stotfold family."

8. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, partial excerpts from pp. 79-80, 85:
"When we seek to define the status of the Spencers at Edworth in the mid-1500s, it seems clear that they were still in the "tenant" category. In Rev. John Holding's study, he found that the farm operated by the Spencers was held under a leasehold arrangement from the lord of the manor (in this case the PARRYS). A careful reading of ANNE (Merrill) Spencer's will (widow of JohnC) shows that there was no mention of the distribution of land or tenements to her oldest son. Holding calculated that the leasehold at Edworth would expire in the year 1575. Anne died in 1560, so apparently her son's operation of the farm was safe for another fifteen years. We know that MichaelB did serve out the remaining years of the lease, but by 1573 he had located at STOTFOLD, a short distance south of Edworth.
Just what lease or ownership arrangements the Spencers had at Stotfold has not been revealed in the literature, but presumably it was another leasehold. MichaelB and his wife Elizabeth still had several small children at this stage and indeed their last three children (including GerardA born at Stotfold There was at least one other living son (ThomasA, b. 1571), so it seems unlikely that GerardA (b. 1576) would have inherited a leasehold. In any event, GerardA and Alice Whitbread had all of their children born at Stotfold.
In the sequence of events mentioned above, it would appear that leases were the predominant pattern of land usage at least by the parents and grandparents of GerardA Spencer (b.1576) Rev. Holding notes that GerardA in 1615 conveyed a lease to his brother, ThomasA, (b. 1571) and quote "conveying them next year to the same". This may have marked the year when GerardA and Alice Spencer moved from Stotfold, but their new location has never been ascertained. Apparently they did not move to co. Essex as was once believed since a careful search of the records in 1993 in Braintree and nearby towns revealed no clue as to their presence in that region. At this time in the family's history, the children ranged in age from one to fourteen years."
"...This vast expanse of time brought us from Thomas1 of Badby down through HenryH, ThomasG, RobertF, and JOHNE Spencer. The "E" generation ended about 1500 with the death of JOHNE of South Mylls, Beds. His children, however had survived the internal struggles of the 1500s for the possession of the English Crown.
The children of JOHND Spencer of South Mylls and CHRISTIAN BAKER came on the scene in time to witness the attack on the Catholics by Henry VIII (1509-1547) and the great religious struggle of that period.
The life spans of the children of JohnSpencer of South Mylls (ca 1500-1568) (William, Robert, JOHN) and ETHELREDE BAKER coincide almost exactly with the reign of Henry VIII to the mid-1500s. It was during this period also, that we note the shift of the family from SOUTH MYLLS to EDWORTH. JohnC (later the husband of ANNE Merrill) was the first born at EDWORTH shortly before Henry VIII ascended the throne in 1509.
The Spencer occupation at Edworth extended on for another three-quarters of a century to about 1576. The last Spencer to be born at Edworth appears to have been ThomasA Spencer in 1571. His unborn siblings (KatherineA, GerardA, and RichardA) were born at STOTFOLD. Thus, those who lived at Edworth survived the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547), EdwardVI (1547-1553), and much of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). It was during this period that the Spencers in generations "C" and "B" of Edworth were exposed to the great religious convulsions under HenryVIII and the restraints implosed under Elizabeth I against the rising Puritan forces.
When GerardA (b. 1576) (father of the Four Brothers) was born at Stotfold, Elizabeth was in the middle of her reign and the great battle against the Spanish Armada (1588) took place when GerardA was only twelve years of age. When GerardA and Alice Whitbread were married at UPPER GRAVENHURST in 1600, Elizabeth's long reign was coming to a close and Puritanism had become a widespread influence in the life of the average Englishman. During the years that Gerard and Alice's children were born (1601-1614), James I (1603-1625) had come to the throne and the struggle against the Puritans was intensifying. Charles I (1625-1649) continued to oppress the Puritans and by 1630 the stage was being set for a great Civil War between the religious and political factions.
We can now see that the Four Spencer Brothers were young men who had arrived on the scene at a critical juncture in English history. It is clear from the record that neither they nor their parents were in a solid position of land ownership. Indeed, this Spencer line for generations seemed to be in the "tenant" class. Consequently, Gerard and Alice's children easily could have looked to America for the "great salvation" and the acquisition of a promised one hundred acres of free land for each emigrant."

9. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, partial excerpt of full transcript in the notes of the earliest Spencer, pp. 53-55, 57-60:
"Vital Records for the Early English Generations of the New England Spencers.
I. The OVERALL VIEW.
In an earlier chapter, the authors presented a broad sweep of the early Spencer generations in England leading to the "Five Siblings of Bedfordshire" who came to New England about 1630.
The review included the Spencers of South Mylls, Bedfordshire, as well as the closely related Spencers of Cople, Beds. The latter group included the Spencers of Virginia who came to America about a generation later than the new England Spencers.
In listing the vital records for the early English generations we shall follow the sequence of generations as depicted in the "Holding-Phillipps " Chart of the authors' earlier article.
An overall view of the Spencer descendants from JohnC Spencer and Ann Merrill may be helpful in visualizing those Spencers who came to New England alongside their near uncles and cousins who remained in England. The relationships are depicted in Chart I. These cousins were descended from uncles JohnA (b. 1557), ThomasA (1571-1631) as well as their aunt, CatherineA (b. 1573), all of whom were siblings. Of course, none of the members of the "A" generation came to America and only the sons and one daughter of GerardA undertook this monumental task. (Please keep in mind that the English generations are labeled in reverse as "A", "B', "C", etc. back to the earliest identified ancestor in generation "I". For those who came to America, the numbering begins with generation "1", then "2", etc. up to the late 20th century which may be generation "12" or even "13").
We also have a chart (No. II) showing some of the ancestral lines of the Whitbread family since Alice Whitbread was the mother of the "Five Spencer Siblings" who came to New England about 1630. The Whitbread family became famous in England as the founders of the Whitbread Brewery enterprises and which today has become so well known as the sponsors of the Whitbread round-the-world yachting races.
CHART I: The near relatives of the five Spencer siblings of Bedfordshire who came to New England about 1630:
-JohnC Spencer (1505-1550) = Anne Merrill (d. 1560)
-MichaelB (b. 1531) = Agnes Lymer (d. 1562); = Eliz. (d. 1599)
-John (b. 1577 Edworth) children b. Baldock, Beds.: Daniel = Sarah Audley; Francis = Margaret Roberts.
-Michael (1558-1560 Edworth)
-Anne (b. 1560 Edworth)
-Joan (b. 1564 Edworth)
-Alice (b. 1566 Edworth)
-Thomas (1571-1631 Edworth) = Margaret Spencer (?). Children b. Stotfold, beds.: Gerard (b. 1601) = Joan Hills; Anthony = Katherine Hills; Thomas; Richard; Margaret (d. 1635) = Simon Spencer.
-Catherine (b. 1573 Edworth) = ___ Bland
-Gerard (b. 1576 Stotfold) = Alice Whitbread. Children b. Stotfold: William (1601-1640) = Agnes Harris; Elizabeth (b. 1602) = Timothy Tomlins; John (b. 1604); Henry (1605-1607); Thomas (1607-1767) = Ann Derifield, = Sarah Bearding; Richard (1608-1614); a son; Michael (1611-1653) = Isabel ___; Gerard (1614-1685) = Hannah Hills, = Rebecca Porter Clark. [Note that the pedigree continues with another generation from the children William, Thomas, and Gerard.]
-Richard (1580 Stotfold-1645)
-John (1533-1560)
-Gerard (ca 1543-1577) = Ellen Whysson. Children b. Biggleswade, Beds.: Richard, Agnes, Joan, a child (b. 1567).
-William (b. ca 1545)...
II. The Vital Records of the Early Generations in England [KP note: I delete all generations prior to JohnC since it is unproven conjecture.]
-JohnC Spencer of Edworth; b. ca 1505; m. Ann Merrill (d. 1560); d. 1558.
The Family of JohnC Spencer of Edworth (JohnD, JohnE, RobertF, ThomasG, HenryH, ThomasI) and Ann Merrill.
-MichaelB Spencer of Edworth, Beds.; (The first of the Spencers at Stotfold, Beds); b. 1531 at Edworth; m. (1) Agnes Lorimer (Limer), 22 Jan 1555/56 at Edworth. Agnes bur. at Edworth, 23 Feb 1562; m. (2) Elizabeth ___ in 1563; Elizabeth bur. at Stotfold, 18 Nov 1599; d. after 1599. Probably bur. at Biggleswade, Beds.
-JohnB Spencer of Edworth; b. ca 1533 at Edworth; d. ca 1560.
-Gerard Spencer, b. ca 1543 at Biggleswade, Beds. (perhaps earlier); m. Ellen (Helen) Whyston (Whysson), 10 July 1568 at Edworth, Beds. Ellen was the dau. of Wm. and Elizabeth Whyston; d. ca 1576 at Biggleswade. Will dated 8 July 1576 and proved 20 May 1577.
-WilliamB Spencer of Edworth; b. ca 1545 at Edworth.
The Family of MichaelB Spencer (b. ca 1531) and Agnes Lorimer (d 1561/62 and Elizabeth ___; (The first three children were by Agnes Lorimer).
-JohnA Spencer (MichaelB, JohnC, JohnD, JohnE, RobertF, ThomasG, HenryH, ThomasI). (Holding states that JohnA may have settled at Baldock, Beds, where several of his children were baptized); bapt. 20 April 1557 at Edworth, Beds.
-MichaelA Spencer; bpt. 27 May 1558 at Edworth, Beds.; bur. 21 April l560 at Edworth.
-Anna Spencer; bapt.) 24 July 1560.
-Joan Spencer; bapt. 21 Aug 1564 at Edworth. AliceA Spencer; bapt.) 30 Aug 1566 at Edworth.
-Thomas Spencer; bapt. 12 Mar 1571 at Edworth; m. Margaret Spencer (?) who was bur. 19 Dec 1635 at Stotfold. (So identified by Jacobus. Holding identifies Margaret as the daughter of Thomas who married a Spencer); d. 1631.
-Katherine Spencer; b. 1573 at Stotfold, Beds. m. ___ Bland; d. Before 1645. (Katherine had daughters Sarah and Hannah Bland). It appears that Katherine was the first child baptized at Stotfold after the family had moved from Edworth. Some records indicate that GerardA was the first of the children born at Stotfold.
-Gerard Spencer (the father of the Five Spencer Siblings who came to New England about 1630); bapt. 20 May 1576 at Stotfold; m. Alice Whitbread of Upper Gravenhurst, Beds, on 10 Nov 1600. Alice was born at Meppershall, Beds, ca 1580 She died in May of 1646. She belonged to a family of considerable prominence. Gerard moved from Stotfold sometime before his children emigrated to New England. Possibly Gerard moved to London, but this is not confirmed; d. before 1646.
-RichardA Spencer; b. (bapt.) 9 July 1580 at Stotfold. m.?; Will dated 17 Mar 1645; codicil dated 29 May 1646; proved 6 June 1646.
Donald L. Jacobus made the following comments on the Family of MichaelB Spencer: "The division of Michael's children between the two wives is somewhat different from what might be inferred from the Rev. Mr. Holding's book because of the discovery of the burial of the first wife, Agnes, early in 1562. The name of the mother is not stated in the Edworth baptisms, but Elizabeth is stated as mother of the two children, GerardA and RichardA, who were baptized at Stotfold. We therefore assume that Elizabeth was the mother of the other children who were born after 1562 and before the birth of GerardA in 1576, though it remains possible that there was a second, unknown, wife between Agnes and Elizabeth."

10. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, partial excerpt of full transcript in the notes of the earliest Spencer, pp. 62-63:
"The Family of GerardA Spencer (b. 1576-d.before 1646) and Alice Whitbread (1580-1646) of Upper Gravenhurst, Beds.
-William1 Spencer (GerardA, MichaelB, JohnC...). (The oldest of the Four Brothers who came to New England about 1630); bapt. 11 Oct 1601 at Stotfold, Beds.; m. Agnes HARRIS, 1633, Stotfold, Beds. Witn.: Agnes Pratt. (IGI A034); d. 1640 at Hartford, CT.
-Elizabeth1 Spencer (Also an emigrant to New England, perhaps a year prior to her four sibling brothers); bapt. 31 Oct 1602 at Stotfold, Beds.; m. Timothy TOMLIN (Timothy and Elizabeth were first at Salem, then first settlers at Lynn, MA).
-Henry Spencer; bapt. 11 Aug 1605 at Stotfold, Beds.; bur. 20 Oct 1607.
-Thomas1 Spencer (Second oldest of the Four Brothers); bapt. 29 Mar 1607 at Stotfold, Beds.; m. (1) Ann Derifeild (Derifall), Ann b. ca 1610; m. (2) Sarah Bearding (BARDING) at Hartford, CT, 11 Sept 1645. Sarah d. before 1674; d. 11 Sept 1687 at Hartford, CT.
-Richard Spencer; bapt. 11 Dec 1608; bur. 6 May 1614.
-Michael1 Spencer (Third oldest of the Four Brothers); bapt. 5 May 1611 at Stotfold, Beds.; m. ISABEL ___; d. 1653 at Lynn, MA.
-Gerard1 Spencer (Youngest of The Four Brothers); bapt. 25 April 1614 at Stotfold, Beds.; m. (1) Hannah Hills (Hannah d. before Gerard made his Will in 1683 and perhaps much earlier); m. (2) Rebecca (Porter) Clark after 1677. She was the dau. of John and Anne (White) Porter of Windsor; d. 1685 at Haddam, CT."

11. FHL patron and Spencer descendant John Hedman of Utah hired the professional services of Legacy Family History, Inc. to review the family of Gerard Spencer (bp. 1576), which was quite jumbled up in Family Search. They produced a report dated 20 Jul 2016, which John graciously posted as a "Memory" on Family Search on Gerard's page. The report reviewed the various published accounts and Stotfold Parish records of this family, which all confirmed that Gerard was married to Alice Whitbread with whom he had several known children baptized in Stotfold, Bedfordshire between 1601 and 1614. Nothing new was found in this research from most previously published accounts, nor were parish burial records found for either Gerard or his wife Alice. In confirming the family's vital data in the parish records, the researcher reported the following additional family belonging to a Gerard Spencer in Stotfold, who the researcher assumed was the same man who had previously married Alice Whitbread. The report was as follows for which I, Kerry Petersen, have added some additonal comments in [ ]:
"While none of the histories mention it, marriage records of Stotfold reveal that Gerard Spencer married a second time after Alice’s death. He and Johanna Hills were married on 4 August 1628 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. Further research is needed in Stotfold’s parish records, because Family Tree shows Alice’s burial date as 20 November 1628, which is a few months after Gerard’s marriage to Johanna Hills. This burial date may be incorrect, because it does appear that the marriage of Gerard and Johanna pertains to your ancestor, Gerard Spencer (b. 1576). Stotfold’s christening records reveal seven children for Gerard and Johanna, as follows:
1. Ann Spencer. Family Tree claims she was baptized 14 January 1631 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, although no christening record was found for her in FamilySearch’s databases. [Note: The research firm surprisingly missed the Stotfold records for Anne bp. 14 May 1629 and Elizabeth bp. 14 Jan 1630/1 and bur. Sep. 1632.] [Father reported as "Gerard Spenser" for both daughters.]
2. Ursula Spencer. Baptized on 18 April 1633 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. [Father reported as "Gerard Spenser."]
3. Mary Spencer. Baptized on 11 September 1635 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. [Parents reported as "Gerard and Joan Spenser."]
4. Sarah Spencer. Baptized 21 July 1639 and died 31 July 1639 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. Twin of Elizabeth Spencer. [Parents reported as "Gerard and Joan Spenser."]
5. Elizabeth Spencer. Baptized on 21 July 1639 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. Twin of Sarah Spencer. [Parents reported as "Gerard and Joan Spenser."]
6. Richard Spencer. Baptized on 5 November 1643 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. [Father reported as "Gerard Spencer.]
7. John Spencer. Baptized on 4 April 1646 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. [Father reported as "Gerard Spenser."]"
In analyzing the above conclusion of a second marriage for the Gerard who married Alice Whitbread, the research conclusion seems hasty, unsupported, speculative at best -- and probably not realistic. The more likely solution is that there was a different Gerard married with Joanna Hills for the following reasons:
1. The researcher did not address the problem of the duplication of the child's name Elizabeth in both sets of families. The Elizabeth born 1602 in the first marriage with Alice was alive until at least March 17, 1645/6 as shown in the entry for Timothy Tomlins (her husband) in "The Great Migration Begins," by Robert Charles Anderson. Even though not impossible, it would be very unusual for Gerard to then name two different daughters with the same name Elizabeth, 1631 and 1639, in the second set of children; twice because Elizabeth 1631 died in 1632.
2. The researcher did not address the March 17, 1645[/6] will of Gerard's brother Richard Spencer, Gentleman, who apparently died without a wife or children in London. An abstract of this will is found in the book "The Thomas Spencer Family of Hartford, Connecticut in the Line of Samuel Spencer of Cromwell, Connecticut 1744-1818," comp. by Frank Farnsworth Starr for James J. Goodwin, Hartford, Conn., copy in Connecticut Historical Society Library, Hartford, CT, pp. 6-8. "Jarrard" (Gerard) was mentioned as "deceased" in conjunction with Richard making bequests to the five surviving children of Gerard and Alice -- Jarrad, Thomas, Michael, William (deceased), and Elizabeth who was the widow of ___ Tomlyns. Note that these are all the surviving children of Gerard and Alice and even though some were residing in British Colonial America at this date, Richard was detailed enough to have also included the immigrants in his bequests. Richard also lists the various children of his other siblings besides those of Gerard. What is missing from this will is any mention of any of the children of the second family of the Gerard who married Johanna Hills. From the will we also know that Gerard was deceased at the latest on March 17, 1645/6. The last child with Joanna was born in April 1646 -- while it is possible that the child was born posthumously to Gerard's death, it seems unlikely that while Richard was so detailed and generous with all of the other children of Gerard, he would have been so callous as to have not mentioned a single one of the many children the same Gerard supposedly had with Johanna who would have all been minors and in more need of Richard's generosity than Alice's children who were all adults and spread over two continents.
3. The researcher does make mention of the fact that there are no confirmed entries of the burials of Gerard or of Alice (Whitbread) Spencer. In a subsequent report dated Aug. 29, 2016, by the same researcher which is also attached as a "Memory" to Gerard Spencer, the researcher further states that no confirmed date was found for Alice and that all reports thus far are simply manufactured by rookie family historians. If Johanna Hills was really a second wife in Stotfold, where both sets of children were baptized, then Alice's death would be in the same parish. The most likely scenario, as some Spencer books allude to, is that the first Gerard and Alice had moved away from Stotfold. The additional research report is as follows:
"First, there was a question as to the death date of Gerard’s first wife Alice and his marriage date to his second wife Johanna Hills. In Family Tree, it showed that Alice died on 20 November 1628 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, yet Gerard supposedly married Johanna Hills a few months prior, on 4 August 1628 in Stotfold. Parish registers of Stotfold were examined, and Gerard’s marriage date and place to Johanna Hills was confirmed as 4 August 1628. Yet no burial record for Alice was found on or near 20 November 1628. This date must be in error, since Alice would have died before her husband remarried. A cemetery record was found for Alice on Find A Grave, which claims she died on 14 April 1628 in Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, yet was buried at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, England.12 This burial date makes much more sense, but Elstow is 57 miles north of London, making a London burial seem unlikely. Nevertheless, burial records of St. Mary Whitechapel were searched to see if this could be right. Alice Spencer was not found in them.13 She was likewise not found in Elstow’s burial records, though they seem to be missing all entries for the year 1628.14 But a burial date of 14 April 1628 in Elstow makes sense with known information about the family. An e-mail was sent to the Find A Grave contributor to see if she has documentary evidence of the burial location in Whitechapel. She responded and said her information came from various family trees on the Internet, all of which have questionable or no documentation.
4. If both Gerards were in fact the same man, then Gerard would have married Johanna Hills at age 46 and the last child would have been born just a little over a month of his 70th birthday. Though not impossible, it is not a pattern of age one finds in this area and era for man to be having such an extensive additional family.
Conclusion:
Even though there is no dispute in the construction of the two families, the thesis of one Gerard being both men seems to weigh heavily on the unlikely or conjectural side. The more likely solution would seem that they are two different men, but probably related as cousins due to the similarity of the name. In fact, further extraction into the baptisms of Stotfold reveals another Gerard Spencer, bapt. Sept. 20, 1601, to a father named Thomas Spencer, who is the brother to both Richard and Gerard. (See https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3Aspen*~%20%2Bbatch_number%3AP00377-1&treeref=L84V-N68&offset=0).
In following this line of reasoning, at least two publications indicate that it is correct that the Gerard, son of Thomas bp. 1601 is the man who married Johanna Hills. This same Gerard is also mentioned as a son of Thomas in the 1645/6 will of Richard cited above indicating he was very much alive at that time. Surprisingly, the hired researcher quoted above made mention of the publications in the schedule of sources consulted for the report; however, their analysis was too narrow to pick up on the more accepted and likely solution. The two publications are as follows:
1. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, partial excerpt of full transcript in the notes of the earliest Spencer, p. 61: "Gerard Spencer; b. (bapt.) 20 Sept 1601 at Stotfold; m. Joan Hills on 4 Aug 1628 at Stotfold. Joan was bur. at Stotfold on 12 Aug 1649. (Four Children)."
2. "The American Genealogist," 27:161: "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Donald Lines Jacobus: "Thomas Spencer, baptized at Edworth, co. Bedford, 12 March 1571, buried at Stotfold, co. Bedford, 13 June 1631, as "Thomas Spencer, gent."; marriage not found. It would seem possible that the "Margaret Spencer, widow," who was buried at Stotfold 19 Dec. 1635 was the widow of Thomas, but the Rev. Mr. Holding identifies her as the daughter of Thomas who had married a Spencer. Children ... ii. Gerard, bapt. at Stotfold, 20 Sept. 1601; m. there, 4 Aug. 1628, Joan Hills, who was bur. at Stotfold, 12 Aug. 1649. Children, recorded at Stotfold: [8 children listed bapt. 1629-1646.]
 		Spencer, Gerard (I1905)
 
3821 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the biography of William Spencer from the book "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of William Spencer for full citation):
"William Spencer...
Migration: 1631
First Residence: Cambridge
Removes: Hartford 1639 Estate: ...In his nuncupative will, dated 14 March and 4 May 1640 and 4 March 1640/1, William Spencer bequeathed that the estate that he hath in New England, and also that which may come to his wife hereafter, that is, any part of his wife's portion if any do come, that all the estate be divided as followeth: ...to my wife one third part of all my estate ... to my son Samuel one third part ... to my two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth one third part ... the children to be brought up with the improvement of the whole estate that I leave both to my wife and Children. Also my mind is my Cousin Matthew Allyn, my brother John Pratt and John Taylcoate, that these three parties or any two of them shall have the oversight of my estate, and in case that they shall see in their judgement the estate to be wasted, that they shall have power to take the children and their portions [blank] for their bringing up, and to pay the children their portions that remain at the several times above written. Also my mind is that my wife shall have no power to alienate or make sale of my house or any part of my land I leave without the consent of two of the parties that are to oversee my estate [CCCR 1:449-50; Manwaring 1:36-37]... It was agreed that if any of the children died before they came of age, "the survivor & survivors shall receive it at the time when it should have been paid to the deceased, if he or she had lived, and if they all die before the said time, then it shall be paid to Agnes Edwards or her lawful attorney of the said Agnes, the mother of the said Children" [Manwaring1:37]. The estate of William Spencer, deceased, was brought to court 24 June 1650 and, "with the information of the overseers in the presence of Thomas Spencer, brother to the said William, with the consent of the wife of William Edwards, they do judge that £30 is as much as the estate here will bear to be sequestered for the use of the children, which is to be paid to them according to the will of the said William Spencer ... provided also that whatsoever shall be paid here or in England of any estate due to the wife of the said William Spencer while she was the wife of William Spencer, or that shall come from Concord, two thirds thereof shall be and remain to the proper use of the children aforesaid" [RPCC 85-86]... Death: Hartford after 4 May 1640 [Manwaring 1:36-37] and probably before 22 May 1640 [Aspinwall 141]. Marriage: By about 1633 Agnes Harris, baptized Barnstaple, Devonshire, 6 April 1604, daughter of Bartholomew and Elizabeth (Collamore) Harris. She married (2) Hartford 11 December 1645 William Edwards [TAG 63:33-45]... Bibliographic Note: In 1988 Douglas Richardson ably demonstrated the identity of Agnes Harris, wife of William Spencer [TAG 63:33-45]."

2. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "William Spencer son of Gerald and Alice bp. Oct 11, 1601 (Eng), died 1640, mar. Agnes who m. William Edwards. Early member 1st Church [of Hartford]. Name on Founders Monument [of Hartford]. Children:
Sarah, b. 1636, m. John Case.
Samuel, B. 1639, m. Sarah.
Elizabeth, m/1 William Wellman m/2 Jacob Joy.
Cambridge 1631; brother of Thomas; freeman Mass. March 4, 1632-3; deputy for Newtown May 1632, May 1634, March 1634-5, March 1635-6, Sept 1636, May 1637, Sept 1637, March 1637-8; chosen Lieut. for Newtown March 1636-7; one of the founders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. and had other evidences of the public favor bestowed on him. Removed to Hartford 1639; where his home lot was about where the Union depot now stands. Was deputy in August and Sep. 1639, and appointed with Wyllys and Webster to revise the laws of the colony; townsman 1640; inv. ₤291-12-2. He appoints "my cosin Matthew Allyn, my brother John Pratt" and John Talcott to be overseers of this estate. Will dated March 4, presented May 4, 1640."

3. The book "The Thomas Spencer Family of Hartford, Connecticut in the Line of Samuel Spencer of Cromwell, Connecticut 1744-1818," comp. by Frank Farnsworth Starr for James J. Goodwin, Hartford, Conn., copy in Connecticut Historical Society Library, Hartford, CT, pp. 11-13:
"William Spencer...
In his will, which is dated May 4, 1640, and was probated March 4, 1640-1, he mentioned his wife, son Samuel, daughters Sarah and Elizabeth, and appointed 'my Cosen Mathew Allen, my brother John Pratt and John Taylcoate... shall haue the Ouersight of my Estate.' (Conn. Colonial Records, vol. 1, pp. 449, 450, 451.)In the inventory of his estate there is mentioned 'land yet remayneing at Concord in the Bay.' (This was probably part of the grant of '300 acres of ground beyond Concord by the 'Alewife Ryver' made to him by the General Court of Massachusetts in May, 1638. Mass Conlonial Records, vol. 1, p. 228.)
June 24, 1650. 'This Courte taking into Consideracon the estate of William Spencer deceased with the Information of the ov'seers In the presence of Thomas Spencer Brother to the said William, with the Consent of the wife of William Edwards: they doe Judge that 30t is as much as the Estate here will bare to bee Sequestered for the use of the children w'ch is to bee paid to them according to the will of the said William Spencer, provided that sufficient security bee given in to the satisfaction of the ou'seers for the payment of the debts of the said William Spencer, and the aforesaid sum of 30t to the said children as aforesaid: And provided allso that whatsoever shall bee paid here or in England of any Estate due to the wife of the said William Spencer while Shee was the wife of William Spencer, or that Shall come from Concord: two thirds thereof shall bee and remaine to the propper use of the children aforesaid. (Conn. Particular Court Records, vol. 9, p. 10.)' [Note: widow of William Spencer married William Edwards.]

4. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 167-68:
"William1 Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, Beds, England, 11 Oct. 1601, died at Hartford, Conn., 1640; married Agnes [probably Tucker], who married second, William Edwards, by whom she became ancestress of the noted Tucker family.
William's will, 4 May 1640, mentions cousin Matthew Allyn and brother John Pratt. The reason for concluding that his wife Agnes was a Tucker is stated in New York Gen. and Biog. Record, 71:220, and we understand that investigations are now in progress to prove that she was daughter of Richard and Agnes (Wyatt) Tucker, which would make her a relative of Matthew Allyn's Wyatt wife; and she may have been sister of John Pratt's wife, thus explaining the terms used in Spencer's will.
Children:
i. Elizabeth2, b. ca. 1633; m. (1) in 161i9, William Wellman, who d. at Killingworth, 9 Aug. 1671; eight children; m. (2) 23 May 1672, Jacob Joy, who d. 1690, son of Walter and Deborah; four children. [see 37:7]
ii. Sarah, b. ca. 1635; d. at Simsbury, 3 Nov. 1691 ae. 55; m. before 17 Aug. 1656, John Case, who d. 21 Feb. 1703/4; ten children. He m. (2) Elizabeth (Moore) Loomis.
iii. Samuel, b. ca. 1638; d. ca. 1716."

5. FHL book 929.273 Sp33 "The Spencers of the Great Migration," by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer (Gateway Press, Baltimore; 1997) vol. 1, partial excerpts about Agnes Harris from pp. 134-140 (see husband's notes for the full transcript):
"William1 Spencer (1601-1640), AN EARLY LEADER IN NEW England, and HIS WIFE, Agnes HARRIS (1604-), ANCESTRESS of The EdwardS Family of CONNECTICUT...
Agnes HARRIS Spencer and William EdwardS.
There have been several published reports on the chronology of Agnes HARRIS, wife of William1 Spencer, who after the death of her first husband, married William Edwards on 11 December 1645 in Hartford, Connecticut. Agnes Harris was a native of Barnstaple, county Devon, England, where she was born 6 April 1604, daughter of Bartholomew and Elizabeth (Collamore) Harris. A descendant of Agnes Harris (Donald C. Bergquist) believes it likely that she came to New England in 1632 on the "Charles". C.E. Banks in his passenger list, notes that the Allyn relatives of Agnes Harris "probably" were on board the "Charles", including Mathew Allyn, his wife Margaret Allyn (a cousin to Agnes) and children Mary and John Allyn. Banks did not list Agnes Harris as a possible passenger.
We need to examine the chronology for William Spencer to seek an answer for the time of arrival of Agnes Harris in New England. From the detailed records of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the name of William1 Spencer first appears in the listings of the General Court (governing body of the MBC) on 9 Jan 1632. William's name does not appear again until March of 1634 in the Court meeting at Newe Town (Cambridge). According to Tepper's "Passengers to America", William Spencer and John Spencer (Ipswich) were on the "Mary and John" which left England on 24 March 1633 (C. E. Banks gives the year 1634 but this probably was due to the confusion of listing some dates 1633/34). In any event, William was back in England for perhaps a year and apparently returned to Newe Towne in the summer of 1633. It was not until nearly a year later (March 1634) that his name again appears in the General Court records. One might speculate that William's trip to England was a matrimonial mission related to Agnes Harris. We wonder immediately how he was acquainted with a female from Devonshire in the far southwest of England while William originally came from eastern England.
Some writers have speculated that Agnes Harris may have come to New England with the Mathew Allyn family in 1632 on the "Charles". If such had been the case, Agnes easily could have established contact with William Spencer. If this is a possibility, why would William have made the long trip back to England in 1632 and 1633? Such speculation now can be laid to rest. Of course we are still left with the mystery as to how William and Agnes became acquainted in the first place since she was a native of southwest England and William had been born and raised far to the east in co. Bedfordshire.
As we noted earlier, William Spencer and Agnes Harris had three children: Elizabeth2 Spencer (ca.1633-) who married William Wellman in 1649 and later Jacob Joy; Sarah2 Spencer (ca. 1635-1691) who married John Case; and Samuel2 Spencer (ca.1636-) who married Sarah Meakins. All three children were born at Newe Towne before the family moved to Hartford, which probably occurred in 1638 or 1639. William Spencer died a short time later in 1640. In a later section, we will review the background of William's land transactions and his official duties in Hartford.
A few years ago (1988), R.S. Pitkin outlined the remarkable line of descendants coming down from William Edwards (second husband of Agnes) and Agnes Harris Spencer-Edwards. Perhaps we first think of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), the great New England theologian who was a great grandson of Agnes Harris. The descendants from Jonathan present a remarkable picture. Jonathan had daughters Esther (1732-1758) and Mary (1734-1807) as well as son Timothy (1738-1813). Mary Edwards was the wife of Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), 8th President of Yale (1795-1817). Esther Edwards was the mother of Aaron Burr (1756-1836), Vice President of the U.S. (1801-1805). Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.
Aaron Burr's sister Sarah (1754-1797) was married to Tapping Reeve (1744-1823), Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court) 1814-1816.
Jonathan Edwards' son Timothy was the gr gr grandfather of Edith Kermit Carow (1861-), wife of President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
A gr grandson of Elizabeth Edwards (1697-1733), sister to Jonathan, was Gideon Tomlinson (1780-1854) who was the 8th governor of Connecticut, 1827-1831.
The lines descending from Agnes Harris Spencer-Edwards certainly have few parallels in American history. This remarkable lineage impels us to look more closely at the history of William Edwards (1618-1680) and the limited accounts of his ancestry.
McCracken states that William Edwards was baptized at St. Botolph's, London, 1 Nov 1618, son of the Rev. Richard and Anne Edwards. McCracken seems somewhat uncertain of the identification, but if true, there would have been a fourteen year spread between widow Agnes Harris Spencer (b. 1604) and William Edwards (b. 1618). Since their son Richard was born in 1647, this would have placed his mother's age at 43 when the son was born.
Goodwin states that "Mrs. Ann Edwards, the mother of Mr. William Edwards, was married in England to her second husband, Mr. James Cole, who together with her son William Edwards, then a young man, and Abigail Cole, daughter of James Cole, by his first wife, came early to New England, and were among the first settlers of Hartford. Mr. James Cole died in 1652, leaving a will."
Manwaring presents a copy of this will showing that James Cole left nearly all his possessions to son Daniel Cole and daughter A big all Cole. However, provision was made for his wife Ann to have limited shelter and income from the estate. William Edwards was almost excluded from the will excepting for the bequest of a few tools.
The Cole family indeed was among the very early settlers of Hartford. Confirmation of this fact is found in some of the first notes written by William Spencer at the annual town meeting in Hartford of 23 December 1639. William made a list of "the names of such inhabitants as have a right in undivided lands." Among the 95 names were William Spencer 40, John Talcott 90, William Andrews 30, Robert Day 14, James Cole 10, Thomas Hooker 20, and William Parker 12. It is apparent from this range of numbers, that James Cole was somewhat low "on the totem pole."
"...There are very few other references to James Cole and his stepson William Edwards in Love's History of Hartford. As noted earlier, James Cole was a Hartford land owner as early as 1639, three years after the founding of the city. How the Cole family came to New England is clouded in mystery. None of the usual sources for passenger records (Tepper, Banks, Coldham, Winthrop) offer any clues to this family's passage. There is no record of prior residence at Newe Towne (Cambridge) as was true for so many of the first settlers at Hartford in 1635 and 1636.
Goodwin gives a death date of James Cole as 1652. Manwaring gives a date of November 1652 for the probate of the will. In the same legal records, William Edwards was listed as a "cooper" in Hartford in 1654. In May 1668, William Edwards filed suit in behalf of his wife Agnes (Harris) Spencer-Edwards against Nathaniel Bearding (father of Sarah) for "illegal possession of land belonging to said Edwards on the east side of the Great River, for a surrender of said land." In March 1673, Richard Edwards (b. 1647), only son of William and Agnes, acted as attorney for his mother in a suit against Daniel Arnold.
The Connecticut Census of 1670 lists Mrs. Cole, William Edwards, and Richard Edwards all of Hartford.
In 1684, William Edwards conveyed a tract of land to Thomas Lord which originally had been acquired by William Spencer (first husband of Agnes) in 1639. This land consisted of four tracts in the Middle Ox Pasture owned by four of the original settlers. (Goodwin gave William Edwards death year as 1672, so we have a conflict in dates. Also, Love's history shows William Edwards being paid two shillings in 1679 for the burial of a prisoner.
We can close the story of Agnes Harris Spencer-Edwards and her second husband, William Edwards, noting that William did not play any significant role in the history of Hartford. Indeed, he is barely mentioned in the most prominent book on the history of the city. He was a cooper by trade, but otherwise seemed to hold no public or civil office of any consequence. This is perhaps all the more surprising from a genetic viewpoint considering the illustrious descendants who followed him.
Footnote:
Subsequent to the completion of this chapter on William Spencer and Agnes Harris, an important entry was found in the IGI (Microfiche A0034) that seems to provide definite proof that William and Agnes Harris were married in Stotfold, Beds, in 1633. The actual entries were listed as his marriage to Agnes Pratt and also to Agnes Heane or Hearn. We believe that the entry of Agnes Pratt perhaps was as a witness and that the name of Heane or Hearn were misspellings of Harris. Possibly the misspellings also may be the result of the misreading of the old English script or of a faded manuscript. Douglas Richardson (TAG, 1988) was the first to identify the name of Agnes Harris as the wife of William Spencer, but the confirmation of place and date of marriage is especially interesting.
The fact that the marriage was in Stotfold, Beds, also may indicate that the parents of William Spencer (Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread) still remained at the site of the old homestead in Beds.
References
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BERGQUIST, Donald C. "A Visit to Barnstaple, County Devon". Le Despencer, Vol. 16, May 1992.
DeFOREST, L.E. "Moore and Allied Families". 1938.
Goodwin, N. "Genealogical Notes - Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts". Gen. Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1982.
LOVE, W.D. "The Colonial History of Hartford". Connecticut Printers, 1935.
McCRACKEN, G.E. "Tucker-Wyatt-Allyn-Pratt. The Wife of William1 Spencer and William Edwards". The American Genealogist, Vol. 42. No. 2.1966.
MANWARING, C.W. "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records". Vol. I. Hartford District, 1635-1700. R.S. Peck & Co., Hartford, 1904.
Paige, L.R. "History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877". The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1877.
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RichardSON, D. "The English Origin of Agnes Harris of Hartford, Conn. Wife of William1 Spencer and William Edwards". The American Genealogist 63:33-45. 1988.
Spencer, Henry C. "Lieut. William Spencer, Gentleman of New Towne, Mass. and Hartford, Conn. (1601-1640)". Le Despencer, Vol. 10, April 1986.
TEPPER, M. "Passengers to America". Gen. Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1980.
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6. The book "The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants…," by Gary Boyd Roberts (Baltimore, 2008), pp. 548-49:
"1. Hugh Capet, King of France, d. 996 = Adelaide of Poitou
2. Edith of France = Rainier IV, Count of Hainault
3. Beatrix of Hainault = Ebles I, Count ul'Roucy
4. Alice of Roucy = Hildouin IV, Count of Montdidier
5. Margaret of Montdidier = Hugh I, Count of Clermont
6. Adeliza of Clermont = Gilbert de Clare
7. Richard de Clare = Adeliza de Meschines
8. Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford = Maud de St. Hilaire
9. Aveline de Clare = Geoffrey FitzPiers
10. Hawise FitzGeoffrey = Sir Reynold de Mohun
11. Alice de Mohun = Robert de Beauchamp
12. Sir Humphrey de Beauchamp = Sybil Oliver
13. Sir John Beauchamp = Joan de Nonant
14. Sir John Beauchamp = Margaret Whalesburgh
15. Elizabeth Beauchamp = William Fortescue
16. William Fortescue = Matilda Falwell
17. John Fortescue = Joan Prutteston
18. Joan Fortescue = Thomas Hext
19. Thomas Hext = Wilmot Poyntz
20. Margery Hext = John Collamore
21. Henry Collamore (brother of Peter) = Margaret Blight
22. Elizabeth Collamore = Bartholomew Harris
23. Agnes Harris of Conn. = (1) William Spencer; (2) William Edwards.
Sources: AR7, lines 106, 151, 246, 246B, 246E, TAG 63(1988):33-45, TG 9(1988):6-9, 27-30 esp., and for Anthony Collamore, unpublished research of Douglas Richardson of Salt Lake City, based partly on VD, pp. 216-17, Charles Hatch, "Genealogy of the Descendants of Anthony Collamore of Scituate, Massachusetts" (1915), pp. 9-25, and the Northam, Devon, parish register; "(Journal of) North Carolina Genealogy" 16 (1970)1537-52 and "BLG" (1952), pp. 638, 1685-86 (de Carteret), Colin G. Winn, "The Pouletts of Hinton St. George" (1976), p. 23 and tabular pedigree opposite p. 120, and VD, pp. 598 (Pollard), 484 (Hext). For William Blackmer/Blackmore of Mass., whose parentage lacks proof, see M.L. Holman, "The Scott Genealogy" (1919), pp. 265-66."

7. The periodical "The American Genealogist" 63[1988]:33-45, "The English Origin of Agnes Harris, of Hartford, Conn., Wife of William1 Spencer and William1 Edwards," by Douglas Richardson:
I. The Identity and Origin of Agnes Harris
For many years, the genealogical world has been ignorant of the identity and English origin of Agnes, wife successively of William1 Spencer and William1 Edwards, both of Hartford, Conn. Evidence from American sources suggested that she was born sometime around 1605, probably in Devonshire, England, that she was related in some manner to Matthew Allyn, an early settler at Cambridge, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., and that she must have been related to John Pratt of Hartford, Conn. (this final clue proved illusory). Agnes married first, probably in Cambridge, Mass., William Spencer; in 1639, they moved to Hartford, Conn., where, after Spencer's premature death in 1640, she married second, by 11 Dec. 1645, William Edwards of Hartford, who was born in 1618 and was considerably younger than his bride. Agnes was last known to be alive in 1680, and probably died soon after. She was survived by children born to both marriages. (For Agnes and her husbands, see Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, "Hale, House and Related Families" [Hartford 1952] pp. 527-29, and the citations therein.)
A number of suggestions have been made about Agnes's maiden name, but no conclusive evidence has ever been produced. The problem was last discussed at length by George E. McCracken, then editor of "The American Genealogist," in his article "Tucker-Hyatt-Allyn-Pratt: The Wife of William Spencer and William Edwards" (TAG 42[1965]:65-76), which made use of the studies of the Spencers by Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG 27(1951]:79-87, 161-95, 28[1952]:57-83, see also 32[1956]:129-42), of the Edwardses by Elizur Yale Smith (NYGBR 70[1939]:104-10, 71[1940]:218-24, 323-33, 72[1941]: 56-61, see also 62[1931]:116-20 and 70:269-70) and of the Tuckers by Roderick Bissell Jones (undated clipping from Hartford Times ca.1939). Dr. McCracken's article investigated a plausible theory that Agnes was a Tucker, a hypothesis which he carne to reject. The article, which ends without proposing an alternative theory, served as a springboard for my own work.
The central clues to Agnes's identity are found in the will of her first husband, William Spencer, and in a 1765 biography of her great grandson, the celebrated Puritan theologian, Jonathan Edwards.
A. Evidence from the Will
Agnes' first husband, William Spencer, was baptized on 11 Oct. 1601 in Stotfold, co. Bedford, England, the son of Gershom and Alice (Whitbread) Spencer (TAG 27[1951]:84, 162). He first appeared in New England in 1632, at "Newe Towne" (which became Cambridge in 1638), Mass., where he was among the first settlers. He almost certainly met Agnes there, probably at the home of her kinfolk, Matthew and Margaret (Wyatt) Allyn, and we speculate that Agnes immigrated as a servant in their household. William Spencer was a Cambridge selectman in 1635, Town Clerk 1631-35, Deputy or Representative to the General Court 1632 and 1634-37, Lieutenant of the first Cambridge Train-Band in 1637, and one of four original members (1639) of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Lucius R. Paige, "History of Cambridge, Mass." [Boston 1877], hereafter Cambridge Hist., pp. 8, 11, 17, 21, 32, 36, 43, 397, 460, 468, 659). In 1639, he moved to Hartford, Conn., where he was Selectman, Deputy (1636-40), and part of a committee charged with revising the laws of the colony (Cambridge Hist. p. 659).
William Spencer died suddenly in 1640, leaving a nuncupative (i.e., oral) will, the recorded copy of which is dated both 4 March and 4 May of that year. The will appears in "Public Records of Connecticut'' (Hartford 1850-90) 1:449 and in Charles W. Manwaring, "A Digest of Connecticut Probate Records (3 vols. [Hartford 1804-6] 1:36). It contains two clauses of significance to the problem of Agnes's origin:
Imp[rimis]: [William Spencer's] will is that the Estate that he hath in New England and also that wch may com to his wife hereafter, that any p[ar]te of his Wifes portion yf any doe come that all the Estate be dyvyded as foloweth...
Also my mynd is my Cosen Mathew Allen, my brother John Pratt and John Taylcoate [i.e.; Talcott), that these three Partyes or any two of them shall haue Ouer sight of my Estate...
The first clause of William Spencer's will states that his wife was still due her "portion," perhaps in an inheritance of some sort in England, and implies that, if it could be obtained, it was of sufficient worth for provision to be made for it in his will. Ten years later, in 1650, the court itself gave consideration to the matter. After setting aside £30 for the use of the three Spencer children, ordered that "whatsoever Shall bee paid heere or in England of any Estate due to the wife of the said William Spencer while Shee was the wife of William Spencer ... two thirds thereof Shall bee and remaine to the proper vse of the Children aforesaid." The wording of the court order suggests that Agnes was expecting a settlement or inheritance that involved certain sums of money. Hence, Agnes was probably form a family of better than average circumstances.
We now turn to the second and more important clause cited above from William Spencer's will. In that clause, his "cosen" Matthew Allyn of Windsor, Conn., and his "brother" John Pratt of Hartford. George McCracken analyzed this clause with care and concluded that since Spencer, whose origin is known, had no apparent relationship with Allyns or Wyatts and since he had no sister or half-sister who could have married John Pratt (whose origin is known), any relationship between William Spencer and Matthew Allyn or John Pratt must have come through Spencer's Agnes wife or through the wives of Spencer, Allyn, or Pratt (TAG 42:66-69). Complicating the problem is that, in this period, the term "brother" could be used to connote a spiritual relationship, i.e., a brother in the church. (Later investigation showed that that was apparently the case with William Spencer's reference to John Pratt.)
William Spencer called Matthew Allyn his "cosen," a term that was used broadly during this period and could even designate a kinsman of remote degree. As already noted, if Spencer and Allyn were kin to each other, the relationship must have come through Spencer's wife Agnes or through the respective wives of the two men. Thus, if we know the origin of Matthew Allyn and his wife, we would have a place to start looking for Agnes's origin.
Fortunately, the English origin of both Matthew Allyn and his wife has been known for some 90 years. In 1897, Francis Olcott Allen revealed their origin and published extracts of the pertinent English records in NEHGR (51:212-14; see also my expanded and corrected series of Allyn records TAG 57[1981]:115-19). Matthew Allyn, the immigrant, was baptized at Braunton, co. Devon, on 17 April 1605, the youngest of six children of Richard Allyn the elder of Braunton by his wife, Margaret Wyatt. Matthew Allyn married at Braunton on 2 Feb. 1626/7, another Margaret Wyatt, who was one of the six children of John Wyatt, gentleman, and his wife Frances Chichester of Braunton, where this Margaret had been baptized on 8 March 1594/5 (she was some ten years older than her husband). Since both Matthew and Margaret (Wyatt) Allyn were natives of Braunton, co. Devon, it seemed that Braunton and its environs would be a good place to start a search for William Spencer's wife Agnes.
B The 1765 Biography of Jonathan Edwards
Apparently, Roderick Bissell Jones and Elizur Yale Smith independently discovered the significance of a passage from Samuel Hopkins' biography of the famous theologian and leader the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758): "The Life and Character of the late Reverend, Learned and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards" (Boston 1765) (undated "Hartford Times" clipping ca.1939; NYGBR 71[1940]:220). The following quotation from page 2 of Hopkins' work appears in George McCracken's TAG article (42:69):
"The father of Mr. Richard Edwards [grandfather of Jonathan] was Mr. William Edwards, who came from England young and unmarried. His wife was Mrs. Agnes Edwards, who also came out of England, had two brothers, in England, one of them mayor of Exeter, and the other of Barnstable [sic]."
This passage is of singular importance; it not only gives us a direct clue to Agnes's identity, it also supports the hypothesis that Agnes was from Devonshire, like her probable kinsman, Matthew Allyn, and it supports the conclusion that Agnes was probably from a better-than-average family background, if her two brothers were in fact English mayors. The passage, however, is not contemporary with the events it describes, and we must be prepared for the possibility that tradition had altered some of the facts it reports.
Both Roderick Bissell Jones and Elizur Yale Smith examined the lists of mayors for Barnstaple and Exeter, co. Devon, to see if the lists produced the names of two men who might have been brothers of Agnes. Only one surname appeared on both lists during the appropriate time period: James Tucker, mayor of Exeter in 1638, and Walter Tucker, mayor of Barnstaple in 1639. Both Jones and Smith reported this information, and Jones prepared an ancestor table of Agnes which made her a daughter of the Rycharde Tooker who married Angnis Wyott in Barnstaple on 30 Jan. 1609/10.
That Agnes was probably a Tucker was generally accepted until Dr. McCracken investigated the problem further. In his TAG article, he showed that the two Tucker mayors were not siblings and that there was nothing to connect Agnes with either or to connect Matthew and Margaret (Wyatt) Allyn with the two mayors or with Rycharde and Angnis (Wyott) Tucker.
At this stage, I commenced my own research. I initially decided to see whether the immigrant Matthew Allyn or his wife Margaret Wyatt might have had a suitable kinswoman named Agnes in either of their families. I obtained a microfilm of a modern transcript of the Braunton, co. Devon, Parish register; it revealed that the given name Agnes was extremely popular in this area of Devonshire during this period. With so many available women named Agnes, this did not appear to be the best approach to solving the problem.
Next, I reasoned that the tradition that Agnes had had two brothers who were mayors of Exeter and Barnstaple might be only partly correct. Maybe just one of her brothers was a mayor. If so, the Barnstaple mayor seemed the more promising candidate as Barnstaple lies just six and a half miles east of Braunton, where Matthew and Margaret Allyn originated; Exeter is on the south side of Devon, much further from Braunton.
Although I felt as if I were looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack, I obtained a list of the early Barnstaple mayors from the clerk of the Barnstaple Town Council, and I began a search to see if any of the mayors during the appropriate time period might have had a sister Agnes of a suitable age. In this search, I was greatly aided by the fact that the parish registers of Barnstaple from 1538 to 1812 have been published in book form (Thomas Wainwright, ed., "Barnstaple Parish Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials" (Exeter) and that all early baptism and marriage records have been abstracted for the LDS International Genealogical Index (IGI).
After considerable cross-checking, I came up with only one suitable candidate: Richard Harris, who was mayor of Barnstaple in 1648. He appeared to the Richard Harris baptized at Barnstaple in 1608, son of Mr. Bartholomew Harris, a Barnstaple merchant, and Elizabeth his wife. The IGI showed that this Richard Harris had an older sister Agnes baptized at Barnstaple on 6 April 1604, for whom I was able to find no marriage or burial record. The IGI indicated that Bartholomew Harris and Elizabeth Collamore were married in 1586/7 at nearby Braunton, home parish of the immigrants Matthew and Margaret Allyn. The dates, names, and places certainly looked good, but how was I to prove that I had the right Agnes?
The obvious answer was to try to find all probates for members of this immediate Harris family to see if Agnes (___) (Spencer) Edwards might be mentioned. Inasmuch as Agnes's first husband, William Spencer, was expecting his wife to receive an estate or settlement in 1640, the likelihood seemed good that Agnes might be mentioned in an English will.
All Probate records of the diocese of Exeter (including the episcopal consistory, principal registry, and archdeaconries of Exeter and Barnstaple) were destroyed when a German bomb hit the probate registry in 1942. Fortunately, the Oswyn Murray Collection (hereafter Murray Coll.) at the Family History Library (until recently the Genealogical Library) in Salt Lake City preserves abstracts of some of these lost records, and some Harris wills were proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (hereafter PCC).
On 22 Nov. 1615, administration on the estate of Bartholomew Harrries of Barnstaple, yeoman, was granted to his wife Elizabeth; her bond of the same date was supported by William Collamore of "Tawton Epi[scopi]," (i.e., Bishops Tawton), yeoman (Exeter, Barum [i.e., Barnstaple] Archdeaconry, in Murray Coll. 8/36).
The wills of Bartholomew's widow Elizabeth (Collamore) Harris, of the daughter Priscilla Harris, and of their son Richard Harris provided the evidence that the right Agnes had at last been found. In her will dated 15 Sept. 1647 and proved 27 Jan. 1648[/9], Elizabeth Harris left a bequest to her daughter Agnes Edwards' children (PCC 9 Fairfax); and Priscilla Harris of Northam, co, Devon, in her will dated 8 Jan. 1650[/1] and proved 12 Sept. 1651 left a bequest of £20 to her "sister Agnes liveing in New England," and if Agnes was deceased, the money was to go to Agnes's children (PCC 173 Grey). The third significant will was that of Agnes`s brother, Richard Harris of Barnstaple, co. Devon, dated 10 Jan. 1664[/5] and proved 2 May 1665; in it, he left his "sister Edwards" £10, and, if his daughters died without issue, a one-half interest in his manor and advowson of Exbourne, co. Devon, was willed to his sister Edwards's eldest son (name not given). Abstracts of these three significant wills and of other relevant probates are given in the appendix to this article. (Other abstracts of the will of Priscilla Harris appear in Waters p. 766 and in George Sherwood's "American Colonists in English Records," 2nd ser. (London 1933] p. 131, but since Priscilla did not provide the last name of her sister "Agnes... in New England, their discovery did not lead to Agnes's identification.)
Taken together, these wills prove that Agnes Harris of Barnstaple, co. Devon, married by 1647 a man with the surname of Edwards, that she was living in New England in 1651 and that she was still alive in 1665. These facts, of course, fit the life of Agnes, wife of William Spencer and of William Edwards; the only pre-1700 Edwards wife named Agnes in New England was the wife of William Edwards of Hartford, Conn. (Clarence Almon Torrey, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" [Baltimore 1985] pp. 243-45). (The name Agnes was interchangeable with Ann or Anna; Torrey does include several Edwards's wives named Ann(a).)
The tradition that reported that Agnes's other brother was a mayor or Exeter was only partly correct. Agnes Harris had a brother named George Harris who became a wealthy merchant of Exeter; although he himself was not mayor of Exeter, his father-in-law, John Marshall, was mayor there in 1615-16. (John Marshall wall kindly identified for me by Charles Fitch-Northen of Paignton, Devon, England; another Marshall son-in-law, Thomas Trowbridge was an immigrant to New England [for the Trowbridges, see TAG 18(1942):129-37; Mr. Pitch-Northen's ancestor table and royal line for Thomas Trowbridge in TAG 57(1981):31-33 will be superseded by his article projected for a future issue of "The Genealogist"].) It seems likely that the "portion" Agnes was hoping to receive was from the will of her brother George Harris (dated 24 Jan. 1628(/9?), codicils dated 1 April 1629 and 27 June 1635, proved 22 Aug. 1635); he left "To my own loving mother Elizabeth H[arris] widow, all a estate in certain houses called Heales houses & £400 to be bestowed on her other children" (my emphasis)) (PCC 87 Sadler abstracted in Murray Coll. 8/36).
Finally, I made another attempt to link Agnes Harris to Matthew Allyn or to Allyn's wife, Margaret Wyatt. I hope to discuss Agnes's more distant ancestry in another article; here I need only mention that Agnes Harris and Margaret Wyatt may be fifth cousins through their common descent from the Portescue family of Whympston in the parish of Modbury, co. Devon. But there is also a distinct possibility of a link between Agnes's maternal grandfather, Henry Collamore and Margaret Wyatt. This link would apparently pre-date the Braunton parish register and thus would be extremely difficult to prove. Recently, however, I located a chancery proceeding dated 1502-3 which seems promising ("List of Early Proceedings Preserved in the Public Record Office, London," 4 [printed as Lists and Indexes No. 29]:91).
The defendants in the case were William Wyot and Thomasyn his wife, executrix of Pyers (or Peter) Colamour of Aysshe Rogus, co, Devon. The plaintiff was William Lugge, who sued to get performance on the settlement of his marriage to Pyers Colamour's daughter Johanne. Although I cannot be certain, Pyers Colamour may have been an ancestor of Agnes Harris's grandfather, Henry Collamore. A(y)sshe Rogus (more commonly called Ash Barton) is in the eastern side of the parish of Braunton, in close proximity to Luscott in the same parish, where Henry Collamore was reared (for A[y]sshe Rogus, see J.E.B Gower, et al., "The Place-Names of Devon" [Cambridge 1931] Pt. 1:32).
II The Harris Family of Barnstaple, co. Devon
1 (Mr.) BARTHOLOMEWA HARRIS was born say 1560, place unknown; he was buried at Barnstaple, co. Devon, on 10 Oct. 1615. He married at Braunton, co. Devon, on 18 Jan. 1586/7 ELIZABETH COLLAMORE, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Blight) Collamore of Bishops Tawton, co. Devon. She was baptized at Bishops Tawton on 2 Sept. 1566 and was buried at Barnstaple on 7 Dec. 1647.
Following their marriage, Bartholomew Harris and his wife settled in Barnstaple, co. Devon, where he was a merchant. Prior to 1599, Bartholomew appeared in the parish records without the honorific designation of "Mr." Starting in 1599, and in all parish records thereafter, the courtesy titles of "Mr." and "Mrs." were applied to him and his wife. In 1597, George Peard was elected Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, co. Devon, in place of Bartholomew Harris, "a choice mislyked by the Earl of Bath," who claimed the right to nominate one member ("Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association," hereafter Rep. & Trans. Devon Assoc., 72:257).
According to the list of mayors provided by the clerk of the Barnstaple Town Council, Bartholomew Harris was elected Mayor of Barnstaple in 1602. As mayor, his duties were wide, since he was ex officio a justice of the peace and of gaol delivery, clerk of the market, escheator of the town, general warden of orphans, and general overseer of the poor. As chief magistrate, he stood responsible to the Privy Council in London and before the Lord Lieutenant locally. In addition, he had to receive and entertain a steady flow of dignitaries. There were, for instance, twice yearly visits of the justices of assize, the occasional appearance of the Lord Lieutenant, and visits of county magnates as well as commissioners from London, all of whom had to be suitably entertained. Moreover, the mayor was expected to bear the expense of journeys to London, of messengers to be sent there, of tours of inspection of municipal property and of clerical assistance. As part of his duties in regulating the economic life of the community, he also had to supervise various subordinates who handled day-to-day routine of the markets. (For further particulars on the duties of a Devonshire mayor of this period, See Wallace T. MacCaffrey, "Exeter 1540-1640" [Cambridge, Mass., 1958] pp. 43-47.)
Sometime prior to 1610, Bartholomew Harris was named as one of the trustees of the town grammar school in St. Anne's Chapel, and in that year, Harris and the other trustees conveyed some 42 properties to Penticost Dodderidge and William Shapleigh (Rep. & Trans. Devon Assoc. 80:157).
During this period, there was a strong tendency for a few families to monopolize the office of mayor. Thus, Bartholomew Harris was possibly related to the John Harris (died 1602) who served at Mayor of Barnstaple in 1578 and 1596, and to the Richard Harris (died 1637), who served as mayor there in 1608 and 1626. The wills of both John and Richard Harris have survived. John Harris's will was dated 6 Feb. 1600/1 and proved 31 Jan. 1601/2 (PCC 2 Montague) and Richard Harris's will was dated 8 May 1637 and proved 10 Oct. 1637 (PCC 130 Goare). The wills and parish records make it clear that John was Richard's father and that there was apparently some relationship between these two men and Bartholomew Harris, for John named Bartholomew one of his executors. Unfortunately, John Harris's will does not specify the exact relationship, and further research has not clarified the matter.
On 22 Nov. 1615, administration of the estate of Bartholomew Harries [sic) of Barnstaple, yeoman, was granted to Elizabeth his wife; the bond (also dated 22 Nov.) was signed by Elizabeth Harries of Barnstaple, widow, and by [her brother] William Collamore of Tawton Epi[scopi], yeoman. The inventory was taken the previous day by [Bartholomew's father-in-law] Henry Collamore of Tawton Bishop, by the latter's sans John, Thomas, and William Collamore, and by Matthew Tooker of Barnstaple, fuller (Exeter, Barum Archdeaconry [abstracts of the destroyed papers appear in Murray Coil. 8/36]). His widow Elizabeth Harris left a will dated 15 Sept. 1647 (proved 27 Jan. 1648/9), which mentioned her four surviving children and several grandchildren (see appendix).
Children (HARRIS) of BartholomewA and Elizabeth (Collamore), all baptized at Barnstaple, co. Devon:
i. GEORGE bp. 15 March 1588/9; d. prob. Exeter, co. Devon, 28 June 1635 (second codicil to will); m. St. Mary Arches, Exeter, 19 June 1621, ALICE MARSHALL, dau. of John and Alice (Bevys) of Exeter. (Alice's sister, Elizabeth Marshall, m. St. Mary Arches, 26 March 1627, Thomas Trowbridge, later of New Haven, Conn.) George Harris became a merchant at Exeter. His widow Alice m. (2) Sowton, co. Devon, 5 Jan. 1636/7 George Warren, gent., and was living as late as 28 April 1648, when she and George Warren presented her son's will to be proved. George and Alice (Marshall) Harris had only one child; Bartholomew of London, who d.s.p., leaving a will dated 30 Nov. 1640 and proved 28 April 1641 (PCC 45 Evelyn, as abstracted in Murray Coll. 8/36). On his death the manor and advowson of Exbourne, co. Devon, acquired by his father, went to his father's youngest brother, Richard (below).
ii AGNES bp. 2 Jan. 1590/1; bur. Barnstaple 28 Aug. 1593.
iii PRISCILLA bp. 9 Dec. 1592; bur. Northam, co. Devon, 2 Aug. 1651; unm. She left a will dated 7 Jan. 1650[/1] and proved 12 Sept. 1651 (PCC 173 Grey).
iv JOHANE (or Joan) bp. 9 Dec. 1595; d. prob. bef. 15 Sept. 1647, the date of her mother's will, in which she is not mentioned; almost certainly m. ___ STRAWBRIDGE and had a son Bartholomew who was named in the will of his grandmother Elizabeth Harris (1647) and of his uncle Richard Harris (1665). The latter document says that Bartholomew Straubridge was than living in Somersetshire.
v JOHN bp. 12 Nov. 1597; living 8 May 1605, when he was named in the will of his great uncle, John Collamore of Braunton, co. Devon (proved 1606 [FCC 12 Stafford]); apparently d. bef. 24 Jan. 1628[/9?], the date of his-brother George's will, in which he is not mentioned, nor is he mentioned in any later family wills.
vi PHILLIP bp. 1 Dec. 1599; bur. Barnstaple 7 Feb. 1599/1600.
vii PHILLIPA, bp. 15 Dec. 1600; bur. Barnstaple 14 Sept. 1682; m. (1) by 30 Nov. 1631 WILLIAM BAKER, yeoman, bp. Barnstaple 24 Oct. 1585, son of George Baker, Mayor of Barnstaple, by his wife Joan Witheridge. According to a chart of the Harris family in the family files in the Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter (chart bequeathed in 1939 to the Exeter City Library by the Rev. Treasurer J.F. Chanter, M.A.), William Baker left a will dated 15 June 1645 and proved 22 Feb. 1647/8. Phillippa m. (2) Barnstaple 22 Oct. 1648, as his third wife, JOHN GREAD, brewer, who served as Mayor of Barnstaple; he was bur. Barnstaple 4 May 1670, leaving a will dated 15 Sept. 1669 and proved 25 June 1670 (PCC 75 Penn). Philippa had four children by her Baker marriage, of whom only one survived to adulthood, Priscilla (bp. 1636), who m. John Fairchild (Harris chart).
viii ELIZABETH bp. 28 Nov. 1602; bur. Barnstaple 25 April 1635; unm.
ix AGNES bp. 6 April 1604; living Hartford, Conn., 1680; m. (1) prob. Cambridge (then "Newe Towne"), Mass., WILLIAM1 SPENCER; m. (2) Hartford, Conn., 11 Dec. 1645 WILLIAM1 EDWARDS, b. 1618.
x RICHARD bp. 30 April 1608; bur. Barnstaple 1 Feb. 1664/5; m. (1) Barnstaple 15 April 1638 REBECCA DOWNE, bp. 15 March 1616/7, dau. of Nicholas Downe, Mayor of Barnstaple, bur. there 12 Jan. 1656/7. He m. (2) Barnstaple 22 July 1657 ELIZABETH MARTIN, bp. 9 Oct. 1622, dau. of John Martin, Mayor of Barnstaple, by his wife Amy Doddridge, bur. there 15 Dec. 1698. A merchant and Mayor of Barnstaple, Richard Harris carried on trade with New England, as shown by the Port Books in the Public Record Office, London (NGSQ 77[1983]:185, 290). Richard had at least eight or nine known daughters born to his two marriages, but only one survived to adulthood, Elizabeth (1660-1688), who m. Arnoll Beare. After her father's death, she inherited the manor of Exbourne, co. Devon, which was in turn inherited by her only child Elizabeth Beare (1683/4-1712), who m. the Rev. Francis Tucker of Landkey, Devon. Following Elizabeth (Beare) Tucker's death, the manor was inherited by her only child and heir, Elizabeth Tucker (1705-1765), who m. Philip Lethbridge of Barnstaple. The descent of the manor is given in the chart of the Harris family, cited above.
xi MARY bp. 20 Jan. 1609/10; living 15 Sept. 1669 when she is mentioned in the will of her brother-in-law, John Gread; (1) Barnstaple 12 Aug. 1647 JOHN GRIBBLE; m. (2) Pilton, co. Devon, 5 May 1652, JOHN THORNE. By her first marriage, Mary had one child that died in infancy.
Appendix: Abstracts of Harris Probates
BARTHOLOMEW HARRIES of Barnstaple, co. Devon, yeoman. 22 Nov. 1615, Administration of the estate of Bartholomew Harries of Barnstaple, yeoman, granted to Elizabeth his wife. Inventory taken 21 Nov. 1615 by Henry Collamore of Tawton Bishop [and] John, Thomas, & William Collamore, his sons, & Mathew Tooker of Barnstaple, fuller: £202. Bond signed 22 Nov. 1615 by Elizabeth Harries of Barnstaple, widow, & William Collamore of Tawton Epi[scopi], yeoman, in £400. Witnesses: John Dyre, Henry Rowcliff. (Exeter, Barum Archdeaconry [original destroyed by enemy action in 1942], abstract in Murray Coll. 8/36)
GEORGE HARRIS of Exeter, co, Devon, merchant. Will. 24 Jan. 1628[/9?]. Weak in body. To be buried in St. Peter's Church, Exon. [i.e., Exeter]. To son Bartholomew H[arris], according to custom of said city, 1/3 part of my estate & house wherein my own mother dwells in Barnstaple after the death of my mother & my wife to whom I give said houses for life; remainder to said son; remainder to brother Richard H[arris]. To my own loving mother Elizabeth H[arris] widow, all my estate in certain houses called Heales house & £400 to be bestowed on her other children. To Mr. Lewis Palmer of Barnstaple, merchant, £10 to cover all claims in respect or any passage or intercourse betwixt us two. If my son die underage, his portion to be divided between my Mother Elizabeth H[arris] & my brother Richard H[arris]. To worthy friend John Lynne Esq., now mayor of this city, £50, praying him to assist my wife in all affairs about my estate. To my uncle William Collamore of Tawton £20 out of the sum due to me from him by bond. To John Collamore of "Lyskett" for love & kindred £10. To respected friend James Calthropp, of Exon., public notary, £10. To poor of Exeter £10, & of Barum [i.e., Barnstaple] £10. Residue to well beloved wife Alice H[arris], whom I make my executrix. Overseers: well beloved friends John Lynne & Mr. Robert Walker & my cousin John Collamore. Witnesses: Jas. Calthropp, Thomas Bridgman.
Codicil. 1 April 1629. To my brother Richard H[arris] £200, & if he die before me being now beyond the seas, my son to have it, & if he die underage, my executrix to employ it in pious uses. To my uncle John Collamore £20.
Codicil. 27 June 1635. George Harris of Exon., "Marchant," lying sick on his bed of the sickness whereof he died the Sunday following being the 28 June: I give my Manor of Exbourne & all my houses in Barnstaple to my son Bartholomew but my wife shall have the profit of the manor for 10 years after my death & grant estates according to the custom. Witnesses: George Potter, Rawling Pincombe, Nathaniel Truslowe.
Proved 22 Aug. 1635 by Alice Harris, oath coram mag[ist]ro [i.e., before the magistrate; Roberto Parsons. (PCC 87 Sadler as abstracted in Murray Coll. 8/36)
BARTHOLOMEW HARRIS of the City of London, "Marchant," son & heir of George H[arris] late of Exon. Marchant, decd. Will. 30 Nov. 1640. In perfect health. To my brother George Warren £300 & to the other children of my mother £200 each. To my brother-in-law Thomas Warren & my two sisters Hester & Grace Warren £20 each. To my uncle Richard H[arris], £5 for a ring & to his children £3 each. To my grandmother Mris. Elizabeth H[arris] 40s. for a ring. To all my aunts, the sisters of my father George H[arris] decd. 40s. each & to their children 20s. each. To my uncle James Marshall & my aunt Susan Lamb £3 each for rings. To all the children of my uncle Marshall & aunts by the mother's side 30s. each. To my uncle Peter Beavis Esq. £5 for a ring. To the poor of parish of St. Mary Arches in Exon, where I was born £5. Residue to go to my dear mother Alice Warren & my father-in-law George Warren, whom I make my executors. My uncle Peter Beavis Esq. who was instructed by my father George H[arris] decd. in the purchasing of certain lands, Advowson & patronage of the church of Exbourne as appears by deed dated 18 April 1633. Wherein he doth acknowledge the trust &c. to convey over to my executors all that my estate for such term of years as is yet to run. Witnesses; Edw. Sleighes[?], Geo. Mawhood, Sam: Hunch, John Pigeon.
Proved 28 April 1641 by Alice George Warren. (PCC 45 Evelyn, as abstracted in Murray Coll. 8/36)
ELIZABETH HARRIS, widow, of Barnstaple, co. Devon. Will. 15 Sept. 1647, 23 Charles [I]. Weak of Body. To poor of Barnstaple £4. To be expended for my funeral & mourning clothes L20. To my son Richard Harris my best "Ciprus" chest, "my little Ciprus Chest with my smale Scriptorye." To my son Richard Harris & his wife & my daughter Phillipp Baker 40s. apiece to be bestowed on them in "three severall gold rings." To my daughter Agnes Edwards' children £30. To my grandchild Priscilla Baker £10 at age of 21. To my grandchild Bartholomewe Strabridge £10 at age of 24. To my grandchildren Marie & Elizabeth, the daughters of my son Richard Harris, £8 apiece. Residue to my daughter Priscilla Harris, whom I make sole executrix. Overseer: [blank]. Signed by mark. Witnesses: William Broock, Tobias Cooper.
Proved 27 Jan. 1648[/9], London, by Priscilla Harris, daughter & Executrix. (PCC 9 Fairfax)
PRESCILLA HARRIS of Northam, co. Devon, spinster. Will. 7 Jan. 1650[/1]. To poor of Northam £4. To poor of Barnstaple £4. "I give and bequeath unto my sister Agnes liveing in New England twenty poundes And unto her children thirty poundes equally to be devided amongst them And if my said sister Agnes be not liveing at the time of my death Then my will and meaning is that her Children shall also have the twenty poundes given her equally to be devided also amongst them." To my sister Mary Grible £10 and also my two dwelling houses in Budporte in Barnstaple. To my cousin Priscilla Baker £20 "and also one of my gold rings that which hath deaths head stamped or cut in it." To my cousin Bartholomew Strabridge £10. To my brother Richard Harris's eldest daughter my chain of gold. To my cousin Rebecca Harris my silver salt and one of my gold rings. All of my wearing apparel to my sister Phillip Greed & sister Agnes & sister Mary & cousin Priscilla Baker. To my master & mistress Leigh, to their son-in-law Mr. John Berry, unto my brother-in-law John Greed & sister Phillip his wife, & unto Master John Thomas 30s, apiece to be bestowed in gold rings by my executor. To Mr. William Berry & his sister Honor 10s. apiece to bestow in rings & unto all the rest of their brothers & sisters I give 5s. each. To Bartholomew Shapton the younger 30s. & unto his two sisters & brother John Shapton 10s. each. To my godchildren "Priscilla Anthony Davids daughter" & John Barry 5s. each. All the rest of my godchildren 2s. each. To every one of Mr. Leighe's servants 2s. 6d. Touching the money which Master William Leighe owes me: he or his now wife shall keep the same for two years after my death without paying interest. Executor to pay legacies out of that money. Residue to my brother Richard Harris, whom I make sole executor. £20 to be bestowed in my funeral by my executor. Signed by mark. Witnesses: John Barry, Richard Bartlett.
Proved 12 Sept. 1651, London, "before Sr Nathaniel Brent Doctor of Laws Master or Keeper of the Prerogative Court" by oath of Richard Harris, brother of the deceased and executor. (PCC 173 Grey)
RICHARD HARRIS of Barnestaple, co. Devon, merchant. Will. 18 Jan. 1664[/5], 16 Charles II. "[T]he unprofitable servant of god being weake of body..." To be interred "without any funerall pompe whatsoever." For my manor of Exbourne, co. Devon, I empower my executors to grant estate in that tenement thereof with George Bent to be determinable 2 lives, according to my agreement with him. I give the said manor & right of patronage of the church of Exborne [sic] to my daughters & the heirs of their bodies. "[A]nd for default of such issue I give and devise the one moyety of the said Mannor and Advowson unto the eldest sonne of My sister Edwards and the heires of his body lawfully to be begotten ... and for default of such issue I give and devise the said moyety unto each and every other sonne of my sister Edwards one after another successively as each and every of them shalbe in seniority and precedency of age..." The other moyety of said manor & advowson unto eldest son of my cousin Priscilla Fairchild of Barnstaple [if his heirs fail, to each son of Priscilla successively in seniority, & then to heirs of her body (i.e., daughters of Priscilla)]. In the failure of heirs of my body, my executors shall forever take one rent, charge of £10 out of my said manor of Exborne for relief of the poor in the almshouse in Barnstaple built by gift of Mr. Penrose late deceased. To my dear wife Elizabeth Harris, my messuage, farm, & tenement called Portsmouth or situated in Portsmouth in the Parish of Landkey; after her decease, said messuage [etc.] to my daughters & the heirs of their body. For default of such issue, one moyety thereof to "the eldest sonne of my sister Edwards" [same provisions for succession as for the manor of Exbourne]. The other moyety to eldest son of my cousin Priscilla Fairchild [same terms]. In the failure of heirs of my body, £10 yearly rent from said messuage [etc.] called Portsmouth to go toward relief of the poor in aforesaid almshouse. My farm & tenement called Wastacobb in parish of Landkey, & farm & tenement called Whittamoores in parish of Bishopps Towton, & my tenement called Hole in parish of Barnstaple unto my wife for life "if my respective estates therein soe long shall continue and indure." After her decease, said farms [etc.] to my daughters. If my said wife brings writ of dower against any of the "Mannors messuages and heirditaments whereof I have bin seised," all the devises and gifts to her herein shall be void. To my cousin Priscilla Fairechild, house & tenement in Barnstaple where my brother Dreade now dwells, for the term of threescore years to be "accompted" from the deaths of my brother & sister Greade "if the said Priscilla soe long shall happen to live." To my sister Greade £10. To my sister Thorne £10. To my sister Edwards £10. To my father Martin, brother Martin, brother Watts & his wife, Brother Slatt[?] and his wife, my sister Mary Downe, my sister Katherine Downe, my cousin Martin Blake, & my cousin Jonathan Hammer 40s. apiece to be bestowed by them in mourning rings. To my brother Downe £30 & to his son Nicholas Downe £10. To Mr. Eyres, minister of Pilton, £1 to be bestowed in a ring. To my cousin Mary Downe, daughter of my sister Mary Downe, £1 to be bestowed in a mourning ring. To my cousin Bartholomew Straubridge in "Sommersetshire" £10. To my servant Robert Chichester £5 & to my servant Hest: Slowman £2 10s, & to Margaret Ax £2. To Johan Davy & to Margaret Cornish of Barnstaple 20s. apiece. To my executors £50 to be employed toward relief of poor in almshouse aforesaid. Residue to my daughters equally to be divided. Executors: loving friends my aforesaid brother Mr. John Downe, my cousin Mr. William Wescombe, my brother John Greade, Mr. Thomas Dennys, & Nicholas Dennis of Barnestaple, and I request that "they bee as helpfull and assistant unto my deare wife and children after my decease as possibly they can..." To each of them besides John Downe (who has already been given a legacy] 40s. each to be bestowed in a ring. To my dear wife, my house & garden during her life where I dwell in Barnstaple & all household goods in said house. Witnesses: John Cure, John Swayne,
Proved 2 May 1665 by Nicholas Dennis armiger, John Downs, William Westcombe, & John Bread, the executors. (FCC 50 Hyde)"

8. FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 548-50:
"WILLIAM1 SPENCER, eldest child of Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbred, bpt. Stotfold, Co. Bedford, England 11 Oct 1601; d. Hartford, Conn., spring 1640; m. AGNES HARRIS, d/o Bartholomew Harris and Elizabeth Collamore. Agnes m/2 at Hartford 11 Dec 1645 William Edwards, bpt. St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London 1 Nov 1618, s/o Rev. Richard and Anne (___) Edwards. William Edwards and Agnes (Harris) Spencer had a son Richard Edwards, b. Hartford 1 May 1647; d. there 20 Apr 1718; m/1 Elizabeth Tuttle, divorced; m/2 Mary Talcott. Agnes d. aft. 1680. (Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Fam., pp. 527-9.)
William Spencer was brother of Thomas Spencer of Hartford, Michael Spencer of Lynn, Mass., Gerard Spencer of Haddam, Conn., and John Spencer of Newbury, Mass., who d. in England without heirs. (TAG 27:84 (1951) "The Four Spencer Brothers, Their Ancestors and Desc.," by Donald Lines Jacobus.) The ancestry of Agnes Harris can be traced to Hugh Capet, King of France (Gary Boyd Roberts, Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, p. 445.)
William Spencer was at Cambridge, Mass., in 1631; was a freeman of Massachusetts 4 Mar 1632/3; deputy for Newtown May 1632, May 1634, Mar 1634/5, Mar 1635/6, Sept 1636, May 1637, Sept. 1637, Mar 1637/8; chosen Lieutenant for Newtown Mar 1636/7; one of the founders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. He removed to Hartford in 1639, where his home lot was about where Union depot now stands. He was deputy in Aug and Sept 1639, and appointed with Wyllys and Webster to revise the laws of the colony.
SPENCER, WILLIA. Invt. £231.12.02
A coppy of the will & testament of Willia Spencer, late of Hartford, deceased, prsented in Court vpon oath by John Taylcott & John Pratt, of the said towne. A noate of the mynd and will of Willia Spencer, for prsent. the 4th of May, 1640.
lmprs. His will is that the estate that he hath in New Ingland, and also that wch may corn to his wife hereafter, that is, any prte of his wifes portion yf [if) any doe com, that all the estate be dyuyded [divided) as followeth:
I give to my wife one third pile of all my estate.
I give to my sonne Samuell one third prte:
I give to my two daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth, one third partte.
The children to be brought vppe wth the improvement of the whole estate that I leave both to my wife and children.
Also my mynd is, my Cosen Matthew Allyn, my brother John Pratt, and John Taylcoate, that these three partyes or any two of them shall have the Oversight of my Estate; and in case that they should see in theire judgement the Estate to be wasted, that they shall haue power to take the children and their portions (___) for their bringing vppe, and to pay the Children their portions that remayne at the severall tymes above written.
Also my mynd is, that my wife shall have no power to alienatt or make sale of my howse or any prte of my land I leave wthout the consent of two of the prtyes that are to ouersee my Estate.
These last three lines were added subsequently in the hand writing of Secretary John Allyn. The distribution of the estate appeares in the Records the perticular Courte, the 24th June, 1650, fol. 10, and the Coppyes of the bills given to the Courte for the payment of the £30 to the children are in the Booke of Records of Lands for the Severall townes, at ye other end of it. The original bills are vppon fyle of wills & Inventories.
(Manwaring, Conn. Probate Recs., 1635-1650, pp. 36-7.)
i ELIZABETH2 SPENCER, b. c1633; m/1 1649 WILLIAM WELLMAN, who d. at Killingworth 9 Aug 1671 (will made 14 Mar 1668/9, proved 16 Sept 1671). She m/2 Killingworth 23 May 1672 JACOB JOY, who d. Fairfield 1690, s/o Walter and Deborah Joy. Children (WELLMAN): Mary b. c1650, m/1 Thomas Howard of Norwich, m/2 William Moore; Martha b. c1652/3, m. Clement Minor; Benjamin b. c1654, d. young; Elizabeth b. c1657, m. John Shether; William b. c1661, m/1 Elizabeth (___), m/2 Elizabeth Griswold, prob. widow of Isaac Griswold; Sarah b. 16 Oct 1665, d. young; Samuel b. 19 Jan 1667/8, d. young. Rachel b. c1670. Children (JOY): Deborah b. Killingworth 23 Feb 1672/3, m. Andrew Ward; Jacob b. Killingworth 14 Mar 1674/5, d. young; Walter b. Killingworth 14 Aug 1677, d. young; Mary b. Killingworth 17 Sept 1680, m. Peter Ward. (TAG 37:7-8 (1961) "William Spencer's Daughter Elizabeth, The Wellman Family," by George E. McCracken.)
ii SARAH SPENCER, b. c1635; d. Simsbury, Conn., 3 Nov 1691, aged 55; m. bef. 17 Aug 1656 JOHN CASE. See The Case Line.
iii SAMUEL, SPENCER, b. c1638; d. Hartford, Conn. c1716; m. SARAH ?RICHARDS, who d. 24 Apr 1706. Children: Samuel b. c1668, d. 26 Mar 1748, m. Hepzibah Church, d/o Dea. Edward Church of Hatfield, Mass.; Sarah b. c1671, m. Joseph Easton of Hartford, s/o Joseph Easton of the same; Hannah b. Jul 1674, m. Caleb Stanley Jr., of Hartford; Elizabeth b. c1676, m. Lt. Nathaniel Marsh of Hartford; Rachel b. c1678, m. Capt. Joseph Cook of Hartford; Mary b. c1681, m. Capt. Cyprian Nichols; Abigail b. c1684, m. Joseph Symons; Agnes bpt. 20 Nov 1687, m/1 Nathaniel Humphrey, m/2 John Hubbard. (TAG 27:165-6, "The Four Spencer Brothers, Their Ancestors and Desc.," by Donald Lines Jacobus.
(Goodwin, p. 310-11; Barbour, p. 556; see also Anderson's The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 16 		Harris, Agnes (I4428)
 
3822 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“MOICA (Mayke) bp. 3-6-1716 (as per Marlboro Register) not to be confused with the Moica dau. of #5 Dirck who m. Rinear Van Sickle and had a child as late as 1771. Symmes (History of Old Tennent Church, by F. R. Symmes) states that she m. John Little, a judge in the Monmouth County courts. (May be same as Johannes Leek). Children see to have been:
i. Mercy (Mary) b. 4-5-1739 m. Daniel Schenck 6-21-1759 (H&GM IV, p. 240) ii. Elizabeth bp 6-3-1749 (Old Brick Church Register).” 		Leek, Johannes (I5630)
 
3823 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“ANNE b. ca. 1718 (Bergen). Probably the Anne who m. Samuel Osborn, Jr. as his first wife 7-5-1740, and had: i. Samuel ii. Mercy iii. Catherine (?)” 		Langestraet, Anna (I5629)
 
3824 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“MOICA (Mayke) bp. 3-6-1716 (as per Marlboro Register) not to be confused with the Moica dau. of #5 Dirck who m. Rinear Van Sickle and had a child as late as 1771. Symmes (History of Old Tennent Church, by F. R. Symmes) states that she m. John Little, a judge in the Monmouth County courts. (May be same as Johannes Leek). Children see to have been:
i. Mercy (Mary) b. 4-5-1739 m. Daniel Schenck 6-21-1759 (H&GM IV, p. 240) ii. Elizabeth bp 6-3-1749 (Old Brick Church Register).” 		Langestraet, Moica or Masy (I5628)
 
3825 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “This old Monmouth of ours: history, tradition, biography, genealogy, and other anecdotes related to Monmouth County, New Jersey,” by William S. Hornor (Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1974) “The Longstreet (Langstraat Family),” pp. 127-28:
“The Longstreet Family.
This substantial family springs from THEOPHILUS LANGSTRAAT (1), of Holland, through a son, Dirck, (2), who came to America in 1657. The Anglicised form of the name sufficiently indicates its original meaning and derivation.
DIRCK STOFFELSE LANGSTRAAT (2), son of Theophilus (or Stoffel) (1), came to America in 1657, eventually settling in Shrewsbury Township. (It may be noted here that among the Dutch the syllables, s, se, pe, and sometimes, te were used to indicate the paternity of the individuals to whom they were assigned, apparently as middle-names. Often the original last names, were dropped and only the "middle-name" retained. Thus we have the families of Hendricks, Laen, Giberson, and Tysen, all proceeding from an original (probably VanPelt), through several brothers who were respectively christened Hendrick, Laen, Gilbert, and Matthias, or Tice.) Dirck Longstreet married first, Catherine VanSiddock, and, secondly, Johannah Havens, widow of Johannis Holshart. His children were: Richard (3), of Shrewsbury; Adrien (or Aaron,) (4); Theophilus (or Stoffle), (5); Samuel (6); and, Classje (7)
ADRIEN, or AARON. (4), son of Dirck (2), was born in 1677 and died in 1728. He was a cordwainer, and lived in Freehold Township. He married, in 1707, Christina (or Stanchke) Janse. Their children were: John (8); Derrick (9); Stoffle (10); Katherine (11); Nelly (12); Winifred (13); Maria (14); Arinche (15), and, one other child (16), perhaps Christopher, who died in 1758 leaving children, Court (91), and Christine (92), both under age at the death of their father. Of these last Christine is said to have married John Saunders, from whom she was divorced by Legislative Enactment in 1780.
THEOPHILIS (OR STOFFLE) (5), son of Dirck (2), was born in Flatlands, Long Island, and died on his farm on the Manasquan River, in New Jersey, about 1741. He married Moyka, daughter of Gilbert Lane. She died about 1753. Moyka is, I think, the equivalent of the English Mercy. Their children were: Richard (17), of Squan, whose children are said to have been Derrick (42), born September 1745, and Anne (43), born June 1, 1748; Gilbert (18); Aury (19); Stoffel (20); Yonica (21); Catherine (22), who is supposed to have married William Chamberlain Jr.; Mary or Maria, (23), who married William, son of Daniel and Catherine Hendrickson; Sarah (24); Moika (25), who married and had children: and, Anne (26).
GILBERT LONGSTREET (18), son of Stoffel (5), lived at Squan, where he died in 1756 or 1758. His wife is supposed to have been Rachel, daughter of Garret and Nelly (Voorhees) Schenck, who married, secondly, Jacobus VanDorn. Their children were: Rachel (44), who died in 1765, having married William VanDorn, who married secondly, Mary Hunt; Garret (45), of Squan; Gilbert (46); Moyca (47); Nely (48); Jane, or Ouicha (49), married John Lake; and, Elizabeth (50).
AURY (OR AARON) LONGSTREET (19), son of Stoffle (5), was of Rocky Hill, near Princeton. One authority says that he married Catherine, daughter of Samuel Osborne, of Squan, who died before 1759. Another, makes her to have married John Longstreet. The name of his wife needs confirmation, as do those of his children, which have been given as: Moyka (51); Aaron (51-1/2); Richard (51-1/2); and, Lydia (52), bp. 6-10-1759.
STOFFLE LONGSTREET (20), son of Stoffle (5), was baptised 12-25-1713, and died 1784. He is said to have married Abagail, daughter of Thomas and Patience Woolley, who was born 3-17-1717, and to have been father of at least one child, Samuel, (41-1/2), who died 12-21-1829, at the age of 94.”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“AWREY (AURY) bp. at Marlboro, NJ, 11-6-1710, m. (1) Catherine Osborn, dau. of Samuel Osborn and Katherine Pullion, of Shrewsbury, (See will of Samuel Osborn, dated 5-21-1754). He m. (2) Lydia Hull (NJA 22:242), d. 1793. His will dated 8-20-1791 (#8221L), proved 6-11-1793, reads in part:
In the name of God Amen, I Awrey Longstreet of the County of Middlesex Corporation of New Brunswick and Eastern Division of the State of New Jersey, Yeoman, being in perfect Health of Body and sound and disposing mind and memory many thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other his manifold mercies to me and as it is appointed to all men to die I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say my principally and first of all, I give and commend my Soul into the hands of almighty God who gave it and my Body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching my Temporal Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give and bequeath the same after the following manner and form, viz...
Awrey gave his "beloved wife Lydia ... one feather bed and furniture for same and likewise my riding-chair and harness ... and my negro Caesar"; Awrey made bequests to the "two sons of my eldest daughter Moica, John Reid and Aaron Reid"; he gave his clock to his son Christopher; to his son Aaron he gave his smith tools and "all that part of my land situate and lying on the east side of the brook on which Thomas Van Dyke formerly built a saw-mill"; he gave his daughter Ann, wife of William Surtis, 120 pounds of "prock" money; to "the children of my son Derick Longstreet deceased, 100 poounds; to three children of "my deceased son James in the followin manner, viz. to his two sons cornelius and Aaron 100 pounds and to his daughter Helena 50 pounds"; to his daughter Lydia, wife of Mather Van Dyke 100 pounds and also "twelve acres of woodland lying on Rocky Hill in the County of Middlesex on the easterly side of the Great Road" ... He appointed as executors" Samual Longstreet, Christopher Longstreet and Aaron Longstreet, all of them my sons". Awrey's residence in Middlesex County, at Rocky Hill, was doubtless due to "the tract at Raritom" bequeathed him by his father (see will #1001M). The exact location of this property has not be determined. In 1766 a re-survey of the Somerset-Middlesex County line was made, and a preserved copy shows "Longstreet Road" on the Middlesex County side of the line, next to Rocky Brook, just west of Kingston and Millstone River. We do not know how early Awrey occupied his tract in what, after 1700, was created into South Brunswick Tp, an area about seven by eight miles and in which area came to be settled the towns of Kingston, Rocky Hill and Cranbury (History of Middlesex County, NJ, by Wall and Pickersgill, I, p.52). Awrey is listed as a freeholder there in 1748 (First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, NJ, by M.J. Monnette, p.358). There is a deed which he signed as "arre" in Lib. H-2, p.398, in 1754. In the Trenton State House are many "Retables" or tax lists on which Awrey (listed as "Aaron") owned 350 acres of improved land valued at 70 pounds, 7 horses, 15 head of cattle, 10 hogs and one slave. In 1786, his taxes were three pounds, o-half shilling and two pence. His farm suffered some damage from the British during the Revolution, evidence of which may be seen in a claim which he filed 10-19-1782 (see file in Trenton State House) and which asserts that in December, 1776, the British took away 5 loads of oats, some tanned calf-skins, one pair of stockintgs, worsted rope, 6 barrels of apples, 3 loaves of bread, and "one day with horse and wagon".
Awrey Longstreet, being sworn, saith that the above inventory is just and true to the best of my knowledge and that he was knowing to the British troops and their adherents during part of the above damage and that he has just reason to believe that they did the remainder and that he has not received any satisfaction for any of the articles.
The order of birth of Awrey's children is difficult to determine. Only one baptismal record has been found and that seems to be for his eighth and last child (probably the only child born of his second marriage). He names in his will Moica as eldest daughter and refers to her first. Her com. inscr. (Topanemus Cem. near Marlboro) shows that she was b. 5-15-1755. His second named child in the will is son Samuel and if this is the Samuel bur. First Presbyterian Churchyard at Cranbury, he was b. 1738. The inscr. reads "died 12-21-1829 in the 91st year of his age". If, as seems most probable, the Aaron bur. in the Presbyterian Churchyard at Kingston is Awrey's son, the he was b. 1741 (SAR application papers #36022 and #45468). The cem. inscr. reads that he d. 5-25-1829 in 88th year; the worn stone bears marks which well may have been "junior", an appelation found frequently in the records of the time for this son of Awrey. The daughter Ann who m. William Burtis 3-15-1764 was, therefore, not born much later than 1746. The son James has a son b. 1777 (as per cem. enscr. in Onondage Vallen, N.Y.) who m. a wife who was pb. before 1755; therefore James was in all likelihood b. of Awrey's first marriage.
In the light of such data as we have, the following is proposed as the order of birth of Awrey's children:
-Moica b. 5-15-1735 -Samuel b. 1738 -Christopher -Aaron b. 1741 -Ann b. ca. 1745 -Derrick b. ca. 1747 -James b. ca. 1750 -Lydia bp. 6-10-1759 (as per entry in Symmes "History of Old Tennent Church", p 214 which reads: "Aaron of Rocky Hill had baptized Lydia").” 		Hull, Lydia (I5627)
 
3826 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “This old Monmouth of ours: history, tradition, biography, genealogy, and other anecdotes related to Monmouth County, New Jersey,” by William S. Hornor (Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1974) “The Longstreet (Langstraat Family),” pp. 127-28:
“The Longstreet Family.
This substantial family springs from THEOPHILUS LANGSTRAAT (1), of Holland, through a son, Dirck, (2), who came to America in 1657. The Anglicised form of the name sufficiently indicates its original meaning and derivation.
DIRCK STOFFELSE LANGSTRAAT (2), son of Theophilus (or Stoffel) (1), came to America in 1657, eventually settling in Shrewsbury Township. (It may be noted here that among the Dutch the syllables, s, se, pe, and sometimes, te were used to indicate the paternity of the individuals to whom they were assigned, apparently as middle-names. Often the original last names, were dropped and only the "middle-name" retained. Thus we have the families of Hendricks, Laen, Giberson, and Tysen, all proceeding from an original (probably VanPelt), through several brothers who were respectively christened Hendrick, Laen, Gilbert, and Matthias, or Tice.) Dirck Longstreet married first, Catherine VanSiddock, and, secondly, Johannah Havens, widow of Johannis Holshart. His children were: Richard (3), of Shrewsbury; Adrien (or Aaron,) (4); Theophilus (or Stoffle), (5); Samuel (6); and, Classje (7)
ADRIEN, or AARON. (4), son of Dirck (2), was born in 1677 and died in 1728. He was a cordwainer, and lived in Freehold Township. He married, in 1707, Christina (or Stanchke) Janse. Their children were: John (8); Derrick (9); Stoffle (10); Katherine (11); Nelly (12); Winifred (13); Maria (14); Arinche (15), and, one other child (16), perhaps Christopher, who died in 1758 leaving children, Court (91), and Christine (92), both under age at the death of their father. Of these last Christine is said to have married John Saunders, from whom she was divorced by Legislative Enactment in 1780.
THEOPHILIS (OR STOFFLE) (5), son of Dirck (2), was born in Flatlands, Long Island, and died on his farm on the Manasquan River, in New Jersey, about 1741. He married Moyka, daughter of Gilbert Lane. She died about 1753. Moyka is, I think, the equivalent of the English Mercy. Their children were: Richard (17), of Squan, whose children are said to have been Derrick (42), born September 1745, and Anne (43), born June 1, 1748; Gilbert (18); Aury (19); Stoffel (20); Yonica (21); Catherine (22), who is supposed to have married William Chamberlain Jr.; Mary or Maria, (23), who married William, son of Daniel and Catherine Hendrickson; Sarah (24); Moika (25), who married and had children: and, Anne (26).
GILBERT LONGSTREET (18), son of Stoffel (5), lived at Squan, where he died in 1756 or 1758. His wife is supposed to have been Rachel, daughter of Garret and Nelly (Voorhees) Schenck, who married, secondly, Jacobus VanDorn. Their children were: Rachel (44), who died in 1765, having married William VanDorn, who married secondly, Mary Hunt; Garret (45), of Squan; Gilbert (46); Moyca (47); Nely (48); Jane, or Ouicha (49), married John Lake; and, Elizabeth (50).
AURY (OR AARON) LONGSTREET (19), son of Stoffle (5), was of Rocky Hill, near Princeton. One authority says that he married Catherine, daughter of Samuel Osborne, of Squan, who died before 1759. Another, makes her to have married John Longstreet. The name of his wife needs confirmation, as do those of his children, which have been given as: Moyka (51); Aaron (51-1/2); Richard (51-1/2); and, Lydia (52), bp. 6-10-1759.
STOFFLE LONGSTREET (20), son of Stoffle (5), was baptised 12-25-1713, and died 1784. He is said to have married Abagail, daughter of Thomas and Patience Woolley, who was born 3-17-1717, and to have been father of at least one child, Samuel, (41-1/2), who died 12-21-1829, at the age of 94.”

3. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

4. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

5. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

6. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“AWREY (AURY) bp. at Marlboro, NJ, 11-6-1710, m. (1) Catherine Osborn, dau. of Samuel Osborn and Katherine Pullion, of Shrewsbury, (See will of Samuel Osborn, dated 5-21-1754). He m. (2) Lydia Hull (NJA 22:242), d. 1793. His will dated 8-20-1791 (#8221L), proved 6-11-1793, reads in part:
In the name of God Amen, I Awrey Longstreet of the County of Middlesex Corporation of New Brunswick and Eastern Division of the State of New Jersey, Yeoman, being in perfect Health of Body and sound and disposing mind and memory many thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other his manifold mercies to me and as it is appointed to all men to die I do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say my principally and first of all, I give and commend my Soul into the hands of almighty God who gave it and my Body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching my Temporal Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give and bequeath the same after the following manner and form, viz...
Awrey gave his "beloved wife Lydia ... one feather bed and furniture for same and likewise my riding-chair and harness ... and my negro Caesar"; Awrey made bequests to the "two sons of my eldest daughter Moica, John Reid and Aaron Reid"; he gave his clock to his son Christopher; to his son Aaron he gave his smith tools and "all that part of my land situate and lying on the east side of the brook on which Thomas Van Dyke formerly built a saw-mill"; he gave his daughter Ann, wife of William Surtis, 120 pounds of "prock" money; to "the children of my son Derick Longstreet deceased, 100 poounds; to three children of "my deceased son James in the followin manner, viz. to his two sons cornelius and Aaron 100 pounds and to his daughter Helena 50 pounds"; to his daughter Lydia, wife of Mather Van Dyke 100 pounds and also "twelve acres of woodland lying on Rocky Hill in the County of Middlesex on the easterly side of the Great Road" ... He appointed as executors" Samual Longstreet, Christopher Longstreet and Aaron Longstreet, all of them my sons". Awrey's residence in Middlesex County, at Rocky Hill, was doubtless due to "the tract at Raritom" bequeathed him by his father (see will #1001M). The exact location of this property has not be determined. In 1766 a re-survey of the Somerset-Middlesex County line was made, and a preserved copy shows "Longstreet Road" on the Middlesex County side of the line, next to Rocky Brook, just west of Kingston and Millstone River. We do not know how early Awrey occupied his tract in what, after 1700, was created into South Brunswick Tp, an area about seven by eight miles and in which area came to be settled the towns of Kingston, Rocky Hill and Cranbury (History of Middlesex County, NJ, by Wall and Pickersgill, I, p.52). Awrey is listed as a freeholder there in 1748 (First Settlers of Piscataway and Woodbridge, NJ, by M.J. Monnette, p.358). There is a deed which he signed as "arre" in Lib. H-2, p.398, in 1754. In the Trenton State House are many "Retables" or tax lists on which Awrey (listed as "Aaron") owned 350 acres of improved land valued at 70 pounds, 7 horses, 15 head of cattle, 10 hogs and one slave. In 1786, his taxes were three pounds, o-half shilling and two pence. His farm suffered some damage from the British during the Revolution, evidence of which may be seen in a claim which he filed 10-19-1782 (see file in Trenton State House) and which asserts that in December, 1776, the British took away 5 loads of oats, some tanned calf-skins, one pair of stockintgs, worsted rope, 6 barrels of apples, 3 loaves of bread, and "one day with horse and wagon".
Awrey Longstreet, being sworn, saith that the above inventory is just and true to the best of my knowledge and that he was knowing to the British troops and their adherents during part of the above damage and that he has just reason to believe that they did the remainder and that he has not received any satisfaction for any of the articles.
The order of birth of Awrey's children is difficult to determine. Only one baptismal record has been found and that seems to be for his eighth and last child (probably the only child born of his second marriage). He names in his will Moica as eldest daughter and refers to her first. Her com. inscr. (Topanemus Cem. near Marlboro) shows that she was b. 5-15-1755. His second named child in the will is son Samuel and if this is the Samuel bur. First Presbyterian Churchyard at Cranbury, he was b. 1738. The inscr. reads "died 12-21-1829 in the 91st year of his age". If, as seems most probable, the Aaron bur. in the Presbyterian Churchyard at Kingston is Awrey's son, the he was b. 1741 (SAR application papers #36022 and #45468). The cem. inscr. reads that he d. 5-25-1829 in 88th year; the worn stone bears marks which well may have been "junior", an appelation found frequently in the records of the time for this son of Awrey. The daughter Ann who m. William Burtis 3-15-1764 was, therefore, not born much later than 1746. The son James has a son b. 1777 (as per cem. enscr. in Onondage Vallen, N.Y.) who m. a wife who was pb. before 1755; therefore James was in all likelihood b. of Awrey's first marriage.
In the light of such data as we have, the following is proposed as the order of birth of Awrey's children:
-Moica b. 5-15-1735 -Samuel b. 1738 -Christopher -Aaron b. 1741 -Ann b. ca. 1745 -Derrick b. ca. 1747 -James b. ca. 1750 -Lydia bp. 6-10-1759 (as per entry in Symmes "History of Old Tennent Church", p 214 which reads: "Aaron of Rocky Hill had baptized Lydia").” 		Langestraet, Aaron or Aurie (I5626)
 
3827 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“SARAH b. ca 1705, bp. 11-26-1710. Probably m. William Logan and had:
i. Mary who m. Cornelilus Cowenhoven” 		Langestraet, Sarah (I5625)
 
3828 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush. 		Sutphen, Dirck (I5624)
 
3829 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
"MARIA (MARY) bp. 5-6-1702 according to Bergen (Register of Early Settlers in Kings County, Long Island, New York, By T.G. Bergen). The "Old Brick Church" records two baptisms by parents Maria and Willem Hendrickse which seem to belong here:
i. Catherine bp. 9-15-1732 ii. Daniel bp. 11-25-1736” 		Hendricksen, William (I5623)
 
3830 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

5. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
"MARIA (MARY) bp. 5-6-1702 according to Bergen (Register of Early Settlers in Kings County, Long Island, New York, By T.G. Bergen). The "Old Brick Church" records two baptisms by parents Maria and Willem Hendrickse which seem to belong here:
i. Catherine bp. 9-15-1732 ii. Daniel bp. 11-25-1736” 		Langestraet, Maria or Mary (I5622)
 
3831 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)” 		Anderson, Elias (I5621)
 
3832 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

3. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“CATHERINE prob. the Katrina (Karyntie) Langestraet who m. Jan Sutven and had 5 children bp. at Marlboro:
i. ___ bp. 4-10-1726 ii. Maria bp. 5-21-1732 iii. Jannetje bp. 8-25-1733/4 iv. Christopher bp. 3-6-1737 -v. Christopher bp. 6-17-1738” 		Sutphen, Jan (I5620)
 
3833 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

2. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush.

3. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“CATHERINE prob. the Katrina (Karyntie) Langestraet who m. Jan Sutven and had 5 children bp. at Marlboro:
i. ___ bp. 4-10-1726 ii. Maria bp. 5-21-1732 iii. Jannetje bp. 8-25-1733/4 iv. Christopher bp. 3-6-1737 -v. Christopher bp. 6-17-1738” 		Langestraet, Catherine (I5619)
 
3834 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

2. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

3. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“JONICA (JANE) m. (1) William Osborn, (2) Peter Knott of Deal, NJ (Stillwell Genealogy, By J.E. Stillwell, IV, 153; 8, 69). Her will is dated 10-10-1774. Order of birth of children is uncertain:
i. Maycah m. 11-16-1749 ii. Richard iii. Catherine m. S. Osborn iv. Stauffel” 		Langestraet, Jonica or Jane (I5618)
 
3835 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D-41:
“Moica Lanen Van Pelt, married Stoffel Langestraet as stated. Their first child was baptised Apl. 25, 1697; so that Mayke was probably married in or near the end of the year 1695, and must have been born about the year 1675. She was therefore probably her father's oldest child. Her will is of record in New Jersey, is dated April 8, 1752; and was probated March 13, 1753; so that she must have died between those dates. See Appendix 2.”

3. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

4. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

5. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

6. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“DIRCK (RICHARD) bp. 4-25-1696 in the Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn, L.I. (Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey, By Barker and Howe, I, 79). Bergen (Register of Early Settlers in Kings County, Long Island, New York, By T.G. Bergen) states that Dirck m. Jonica (Jane) and was probably dead at the time of his father's will (1739) but upon what grounds is not apparent. It seems more likely that this is the "Richard of Shrewsbury" who wrote will #2659M, dated 12-23-1759, proved 4-18-1761. The descendants who supplied data for Ogden (Encyclopedia of New Jersey Biography, by Mary B. Ogden), if they were well informed, made this identification. Richard, in his will, refers to his wife "my well-adored Alice". She seems to have been dau. of Samuel Osborn (1680-1754) of Shrewsbury, whose will #2307M, dated 3-21-1754, names his fourth child as "Alice Longstreet". Richard also refers to a plantation at Manasquan which his father "bought of John West and by his will gave to me" (Will #1001M).
Richard named as his children: eldest son then living, Samuel; two younger sons, Awrey and Richard; three older daughters, viz. Catherine, Moica and Mary; daughters Alice and Ann; two grand-daughters by eldest son Stophel deceased, viz. Catherine and Alice.
The Second Book of Shrewsbury Friends Record, under date of "1767, 9, 12 mo" lists as witnesses at a wedding in Manasquan what are probably four of the above children, viz. Anne, Else, Catherine, Samuel.
The order of birth of Richard's children is not established by baptismal records (save for the last two which are to be found in the Parish Record of Christ Church in Shrewsbury.)
-Catherine -Moica b. ca. 1730 -Stophel -Samuel -Mary -Awrey -Alice (perhaps b. 1-13-1742) -Richard bp. 12-13-1745, aged 3 mos. -Anne bp. 6-17-1748, aged 2 weeks, 3 days” 		Langestraet, Dirck or Richard (I5617)
 
3836 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "AMERICAN WEEKLY MERCURY," dated 14-21 of February 1726-27 the following extract is taken:
"Langestraet, Theophilus from Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December 1726. Theophilus Langestraet of Shewsbury in the County of Monmouth aged nearly sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, he shot down six of them with one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His Will dated 1 December 1739, was probated on 1 March 1741; meaning he probably died toward the date of probate. In his Will he refers to himself as "THEOPHILUS," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. It is interesting to note that although he refers to himself as "Theophilus Longstreet," he signs his name on the legal document as "Stoffel Langestraet." The Will of his wife was dated 8 April 1752, and it was probated 13 March 1753; again she must have died toward the later date. These Wills named ten children, their four sons, and six daughters.
WILL OF STOFFEL LANGESTRAET
In the name of God amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of the province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given unto almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in tis my time of health, make ordain and constitute this, my last Will and Testament, in the manner following: That is to say,
First and principally, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the hands of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the almighty power of God. As touching my temporal estate, wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease, I give, devise and bequeath the same after in the following manner and form:
I give unto my beloved wife Mercy (Moica), the use of any fire room of my house which she shall choose, two feather beds and furniture, and as many household goods as will be sufficient for her to keep house with all during the time she remains my widow, and during the said time I order my sons to find her sufficient firewood cut an carted to her door, and a milk cow for winter and summer. An if she sees cause to keep one of the Negro wenches, my will is that she have which one she pleases of them during my said wives life; with this provision, that said Negro wench at her decease shall be reckoned and esteemed as part of my personal estate. What I have herein given my wife is given to her instead of her thirds or dower.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son, Richard Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him, his heirs and assigns forever my old gun and the sum of fifty pounds out of my personal estate.
I give, devise and bequeath to my second son, Gilbert Longstreet, the plantation whereon he now lives and has possession of also on the North side of the Manasquan River, to him the said Gilbert, his heirs and assigns forever. My will is I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all my tract of land on the North side of the river and joining to my said son, Gilberts plantation, and all land and meadow on the south side of the river, equally to be divided between my said sons Richard and Gilbert, to them, their heirs, and assigns forever.
I give devise and bequeath to my third son, Aury Longstreet, all that tract of land and meadow at Raritom whereon he now lives and has in possession to him the said Aury, his heirs, and assigns forever.
I give, devise, and bequeath to my fourth son, Theophilus Longstreet, all my land and meadow in said town and Long Branch and Raccoon Island, being in my own possession, to him the said Theophilus, is heirs and assigns forever. And my best horse, him having the choice.
All the rest of the lands and meadows, where so ever situate, I give devise and bequeath to my said four sons to be equally divided in four parts to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
And I hereby order that my said four sons pay unto their mother yearly during her widowhood the sum often pounds yearly, that is fifty shillings a year apiece.
The entire residue of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed, I give to my four said sons equally between them, share and share alike. My will is that my said four sons shall equally among them pay unto my six daughters, namely: Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica, and Anne, the sum of six hundred pounds, that is one hundred pounds apiece to each of my said daughters, and that will be one hundred and fifty pounds for each of my said sons to pay to their sisters. And that my said sons pay unto the sum of fifty pounds apiece within a year after my decease and so on in that proportion yearly until their one hundred and fifty pounds is paid, and that they pay their eldest sisters first. Lastly, I constitute and make my four sons executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed and I do hereby disannul and make void all former will or wills by me made. IN WITNESS whereof, I the said Theophilus Longstreet to this my last Will and Testament contained on one sheet of paper have set my hand and seal this first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven-hundred and thirty nine, and in the thirteenth year of His Majesty King George II reign, etc. 1739
Memento: I give to my eldest daughter, Yonica, my old loom, this being done before signing, sealing and publishing.
STOFFEL LONGSTREET (seal) Signed, Sealed and published, and declared by the said testator to be the last Will and Testament in presence of John Little Thomas Wainwright, John Seares, Jacob Dennis, NOTE: There are neither razures nor interlineations in the original nor record foregoing.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, that John Little and Thomas Wainwright, two of the within witnesses, personally came before me, Thomas Bartow, duly authorized to prove Wills, qualify executors etc. in the eastern division of New Jersey, and they being duly sworn on the Evangelists, did dispose that they were present and saw Stoffel Longstreet, the testator named, sign and seal with instrument, and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And that at the same time, John Seares, and Jacob Dennis, the other subscribed witnesses were present and that each signed his name as witness in the Testator's presence. THOS. BARTOW
BE IT ALSO REMEMBERED that at the same time Richard Longstreet, Gilbert Longstreet, Aury Longstreet, and Theophilus Longstreet, the Executor's within named, personally came before me and were sworn to the due execution and performance of the within Will and Testament according to law. THOS. BARTOW. LEWIS MORRIS, Esquire
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the same, etc. To all whom these presents shall come, GREETING: Know ye that at Perth Amboy on the first day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and forty one, the Last Will and Testament of Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury, etc. deceased, was proved before Thomas Bartow..."
WILL OF MOICA (VAN PELT) LONGSTREET
In the name of God, amen. I Moica Longstreet of the township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and eastern division of New Jersey, widow, but being in reasonable health of body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to almighty God for that and all others of his manifold mercies to me. Done in this my time of health, I make, ordain and constitute this, my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is to say,
FIRST and principally, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching my personal estate wherewith it shall please God to bless me with at the time of my decease.
I give, devise, and bequeath the same after the following manner and form: I give all my wearing clothes and all my household goods and all the goods that my son Stoffel Longstreet gave to me at the time he sold the plantation to be equally divided amongst my daughters. To be equally divided amongst them, namely Jeane, Catren, Mary, Sary, Masy, and Anne, to them and their assigns I give devise and bequest unto my drafters as follows; that is to say the remaining part of my estate after my decease after all my just debts be paid for, to be put out at interest. And the interest to be given to my daughters, that is to say to them that has the most need of it. That I leave to the discretion of my Executors. And in case that my Executors sees an occasion for to make use of the principal for the support of my daughters, or for any part of it, I leave it to their discretion. And further, it is my will that if my Executor sees that any of my daughter's children, that is the female kind, is not capable for to relieve themselves, nor for anybody to relieve them, then my Executors, at their discretion may relieve them. And my will is that after the decease of all my daughters, that if there be any estate left in the hands of my Executors that they are desired to keep it at interest as aforesaid mentioned, and use as aforesaid mentioned, that is to let my children's children have it that is the female kind. I leave it to be distributed as my Executors see fit.
My Will is further that if my Executors think that these children are capable of taking care of themselves, that then it may be divided amongst the survivors, equal to them and their assigns. Lastly, I constitute, and make my son, Gilbert Longstreet, John Little and William Hendrickson my Executors of this my last Will and Testament to see. the same performed. And I do hereby disannul and make void all former Wills or Will made by me. In witness thereof, I Moica Longstreet, to this my Last Will and Testament contained 248 on one sheet of paper, here set my hand and seal this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and fifty two. In the twenty-fifth year of His Majesties Rein King George II, 1752.
Moicae "X" Longstreet Her mark
(Source: REGISTER OF THE PEROGATIVE COURT, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; Will of Moica Longstreet; Recorded in Libber F, page 105) ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. FHL film 946267 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection" Family Records, Book 4 = sb 71, vol. 4, pg. 93:
"May 1, 1761, Stoffil Longstreet and wife conveyed to James English, Jnr., of Allenton, etc. Miller." for ₤913, the mill property at Allentown containing 34 acres, as described on page 15, June 26 1766, "Letters of administration upon the goods, chattels and credits which were of James Englash, late of Upper Freehold in the county of Monmouth, etc., Miller, were granted to his widow, Catharine English," June 1, 1767. The mill property at Allentown, 34 acres, was sold by sheriff as te property fo James Englaish, deceased, in the hands of Catharine Englsih, his widow and administratrix, at suit of Stoffil Longstreet for ₤1000, and Charles McKnight for ₤674, to John Rhea, for ₤925. (Page 16)."

3. FHL film 946272 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection" Family Records, Book , Deeds in Upper Freehold Township of Monmouth Co., compiler numbers:
3253: Deed of Stoffil Longstreet, miller, to Samuel Allen, Jan. 27, 1759, for land in Allenstown of 200 acres.
3255: Deed of Stoffil Longstreet and Abigail his wife to Thomas Lawrie, Dec. 4, 1759, for land in Allenstown of 14.7 acres.
3257: Release of Stoffil Longstreet to Samuel Allen. March 9, 1761. Size not mentioned.
3288: Deed of Stoffil Longstreet, yeoman, & wife Abigail of Upper Freehold to James English Jr., miller, of Allentown, 1 May1761, for land in Allentown of 34 acres. Recorded Burlington, Book Y, Deeds, page 12.

4. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 251-53:
“Stoffel Radical Longstreet
Born: 14 July 1712 in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Christened: 25 December 1713 at the Dutch Reformed Church in Freehold and Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Married: Abigail Wooley in 1743
Died: 31 August 1782 in Allentown, Monmouth County, New Jersey
CHILDREN:
-Daniel Longstreet. Never married.
-Gilbert Longstreet. Married: Helen Hankinson, had one daughter named Hannah; he died in 1787
-John Longstreet. Married Lucy Tapscott, had six children
-William Longstreet. Of whom we follow hereafter
-Mary Longstreet. Married Elisha Wall.
-Lydia Longstreet
He was born Stoffel Langestraet, son of Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet on 14 July 1712. As with his father before him (who used the name Theophilus) he acquired another name that he used on several documents, "Radical." He was baptized on Christmas Day, 25 December 1713. At the age of thirty on 16 December 1743 he married Abigail Wooley, who was pureblooded English as well as Quaker. He of course was of pure Dutch descent and religion. Her being of English descent is probably what immediately prompted the sudden change in the spelling of the name from Langestraet to Longstreet.
He settled in Allentown, in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. The Dutch, originally settled this county with which the Longstreet's were so thoroughly identified through many generations, And eventually by the English immigrants, who moved in about 1664. It was established as a county in 1675, and during 1684 it was considered the wealthiest county in the whole province, paying the greatest amount of taxes.
It was easily accessible from New York, and offered a safe anchorage for the vessels within Sandy Hook. When Stoffel sold his plantation he gave both money and goods to his mother, and in her later years she mentions the generosity of his gift in her Will. It was in Allentown that Stoffel Longstreet died on 31 August 1782. His funeral text was the 44th verse of XXIV Matthew:
"Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh" The hymn sung was the 90 Psalm, 1st part... but from what hymnal is not known. I find it interesting that the details of his funeral were recorded in the family Bible ... Very similar to the details surrounding the Camfield's death's in England. (Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergen, Chapter - Langestraet; STOFFEL LONGSTREET'S BIBLE)
His wife survived him by nearly four years, dying on Thursday, 25 May 1786.
His Will is as follows: WILL OF STOFFEL LONGSTREET JR.
“In the name of God, amen. I Stoffel Longstreet of Upper Freehold, in the County of Monmouth, and Province of New Jersey, being of sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following:
First and principally, I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God and I body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor and Executrix hereafter named. And for such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with I give and dispose of the same in the following manner:
IMPRIMIS: I will and order that all my lawful debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied by my Executor and Executrix as son after my decease as conveniently may be.
ITEM: I give to my eldest son, John Longstreet, five pounds lawful money of New Jersey and no more.
I give to my wife Abigail Longstreet all the remainder estate, real and personal during her life with privilege to dispose of any part of the above real and personal estate.
To my daughter Lydia Longstreet, William Longstreet, and Mary Longstreet equal after the decease of Abigail, my wife.
I give the whole of my estate that then may be to the above named William, Lydia, and Mary Longstreet to be divided equally between them by my Executor and hereafter mentioned and two persons chosen by the Legatees jointly, and in case either of the Legatees shall die without issue then their part of my real and personal estate shall equally divided between the two then living. And further, in case either of the two shall die without issue also then the whole will fall to the one living. And it is my will that in case all three of the above mentioned Legatees shall die without issue that ten the whole of my estate be divided among the rest of my children then living.
Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my wife, Abigail Longstreet, my Executrix, and my son Gilbert Longstreet my Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and I utterly hereby revoke and disallow all former and other Wills by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy nine. 1779 N.B.
Present, signed and sealed STOFFEL LONGSTREET
Published, pronounced and declared by the said Stoffel Longstreet to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us: William Lloyd, Esek Cox.
(Source: WILL AND TESTAMENT OF STOFFEL LONGSTREET, Register of the Prerogative Court of the State of New Jersey, Monmouth County; taken from the original record LIBBER 26 of Wills, pages 355, etc.)”

5. The book “This old Monmouth of ours: history, tradition, biography, genealogy, and other anecdotes related to Monmouth County, New Jersey,” by William S. Hornor (Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1974) “The Longstreet (Langstraat Family),” pp. 127-28:
“The Longstreet Family.
This substantial family springs from THEOPHILUS LANGSTRAAT (1), of Holland, through a son, Dirck, (2), who came to America in 1657. The Anglicised form of the name sufficiently indicates its original meaning and derivation.
DIRCK STOFFELSE LANGSTRAAT (2), son of Theophilus (or Stoffel) (1), came to America in 1657, eventually settling in Shrewsbury Township. (It may be noted here that among the Dutch the syllables, s, se, pe, and sometimes, te were used to indicate the paternity of the individuals to whom they were assigned, apparently as middle-names. Often the original last names, were dropped and only the "middle-name" retained. Thus we have the families of Hendricks, Laen, Giberson, and Tysen, all proceeding from an original (probably VanPelt), through several brothers who were respectively christened Hendrick, Laen, Gilbert, and Matthias, or Tice.) Dirck Longstreet married first, Catherine VanSiddock, and, secondly, Johannah Havens, widow of Johannis Holshart. His children were: Richard (3), of Shrewsbury; Adrien (or Aaron,) (4); Theophilus (or Stoffle), (5); Samuel (6); and, Classje (7)
ADRIEN, or AARON. (4), son of Dirck (2), was born in 1677 and died in 1728. He was a cordwainer, and lived in Freehold Township. He married, in 1707, Christina (or Stanchke) Janse. Their children were: John (8); Derrick (9); Stoffle (10); Katherine (11); Nelly (12); Winifred (13); Maria (14); Arinche (15), and, one other child (16), perhaps Christopher, who died in 1758 leaving children, Court (91), and Christine (92), both under age at the death of their father. Of these last Christine is said to have married John Saunders, from whom she was divorced by Legislative Enactment in 1780.
THEOPHILIS (OR STOFFLE) (5), son of Dirck (2), was born in Flatlands, Long Island, and died on his farm on the Manasquan River, in New Jersey, about 1741. He married Moyka, daughter of Gilbert Lane. She died about 1753. Moyka is, I think, the equivalent of the English Mercy. Their children were: Richard (17), of Squan, whose children are said to have been Derrick (42), born September 1745, and Anne (43), born June 1, 1748; Gilbert (18); Aury (19); Stoffel (20); Yonica (21); Catherine (22), who is supposed to have married William Chamberlain Jr.; Mary or Maria, (23), who married William, son of Daniel and Catherine Hendrickson; Sarah (24); Moika (25), who married and had children: and, Anne (26).
GILBERT LONGSTREET (18), son of Stoffel (5), lived at Squan, where he died in 1756 or 1758. His wife is supposed to have been Rachel, daughter of Garret and Nelly (Voorhees) Schenck, who married, secondly, Jacobus VanDorn. Their children were: Rachel (44), who died in 1765, having married William VanDorn, who married secondly, Mary Hunt; Garret (45), of Squan; Gilbert (46); Moyca (47); Nely (48); Jane, or Ouicha (49), married John Lake; and, Elizabeth (50).
AURY (OR AARON) LONGSTREET (19), son of Stoffle (5), was of Rocky Hill, near Princeton. One authority says that he married Catherine, daughter of Samuel Osborne, of Squan, who died before 1759. Another, makes her to have married John Longstreet. The name of his wife needs confirmation, as do those of his children, which have been given as: Moyka (51); Aaron (51-1/2); Richard (51-1/2); and, Lydia (52), bp. 6-10-1759.
STOFFLE LONGSTREET (20), son of Stoffle (5), was baptised 12-25-1713, and died 1784. He is said to have married Abagail, daughter of Thomas and Patience Woolley, who was born 3-17-1717, and to have been father of at least one child, Samuel, (41-1/2), who died 12-21-1829, at the age of 94.”

6. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

7. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D21-D22:
“STOFFEL LONGSTREET, son of Stoffel Dircksen, was born on the 14th of July, 1712, and was baptized December 25th, 1713. On the 16th of December, 1743, he married ABIGAIL WOOLEY, a singular marriage -- one of pure Dutch descent and religion, the other pure English and a Ouakeress. He settled near Allentown, in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth county. This county, with which the Longstreets were so thoroughly identified through three generations, was originally settled by Dutch, Scotch, and some English immigrants, who moved thither about the year 1664. It was established as a county in 1675; during and about the year 1684 it had come to be the most wealthy county in the province, paying the greatest amount of taxes. It was easily accessible from New York, and offered a safe anchorage for vessels within Sandy Hook. Here Stoffel Longstreet passed his life, and here he died on August 31, 1782. His funeral text was the 44th verse of XXIV Matthew: Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh.” The hymn sung was the 9oth psalm, first part, common meter; but from what hymnal is not known. His wife survived him nearly four years, dying on Thursday, May 25, 1786. (“Early Settlers,” above; also Family Bible of Stoffel’s own.) His will may be found herein as Appendix No. 3. His children were as follows:
1. Daniel; never married.
2. Gilbert; married Helen Hankinson; died in 1787. Had daughter, Eleanor.
3. John; married Lucy Tapscott. (Children: Stoffel, William, John, Daniel, Abigail, and …”
4. William, of whom hereafter.
5. Mary, married Elisha Wall.
6. Lydia.”

7. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush."

8. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET, (Daniel Perrine and His Descendants, by H.D. Perrine), b. ca. 1666, probably in Flatlands, L.I. and moved to Monmouth County, N.J. sometime near 1700. The "American Weekly Mercury" of Feb 14-21, 1726/7 is quoted in the N.J.A. 111:118 to the effect that Theophilus (or Stoffel) Langstraat from "the Shrewsbury in East Jersey" on Saturday, Dec. 31, 1726, "aged near 60 years met with seven swans flying over a meadow and shot down six of these with one shot". The achievement may well be inaccurately reported but it does give us the birthdate for Stoffel Dircksen. Bergen is our authority for the statement that he m. Mayke Laanen, dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Amsterdam, and that he was a deacon of the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church in 1698, and "removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where his descendants abound to this day".
12-1-1739 "in the 13th year of His Majesty King George the Seconds Reign" proved at Perth Amboy, 3-1-1741, executors being his sons Richard, Aury and Theophilus. The will begins with these words:
“In the name of God Amen. I Theophilus Longstreet of the town of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth and eastern division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, being in good health of body and of sound and dispensing mind and memory, thanks be given to Almighty God for that and all other manifold mercies to me, do in this my time of health ordain and constitute this my last will and testament, in the manner following, that is to say, first and principally I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently buried ... nothing doubting but at the general resurrection to receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
The will is signed: STOFFEL LANGSTRAAT. (Apparently the one drawing the will for him, used "Theophilus" as equal to "Stoffel".
In the will, Stoffel refers to his "beloved wife Mercy" (Mayke), to eldest son Richard to whom he gave a plantation on the north side of the Manasquan River, to "second son Gilbert", to "third son Aury" to whom he gave a tract "at Raritom", to a fourth son Theophilus, and bequeathed 100 pounds each to his daughters Yonica, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, Moica and Anne.
Stoffel's wife Mayke also wrote a will which has survived, signed by her with her mark, 4-8-1752 and proved 3-13-1753. She named of the sons only Stoophel and Gisbert. Mayke herself is named in her father's will of 11-7-1720 as "wife of Stoffel Langstraat". Her father signed his will as "Gilbert Lane", but his formal Dutch name was Gysbrecht Tuysz Laanen Van Pelt. In (Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:115-6) we read that Mayke's father moved to Monmouth County about 1700. He had a ... (Printing error)
It is not possible to establish accurately the dates of birth of the children of Stoffel and Mayke, save for those whose names are entered in the Register of the "Old Brick Church" of Marlboro and which are marked with an asterisk (*) below. The date for the birth of Dirck (Richard) is in the Register of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The presumed order of birth of the children is as follows:
-Dirck (Richard) bp. 4-25-1696 -Jonica -Catherine -Mary bp. 5-6-1702 (Bergen) -Sarah bp. 11-26-1710* -Gisbert bp. 11-26-1710* -Aurie (Awrey, Aaron) bp. 11-26-1710* -Stoffel bp. 12-25-1713* -Moica bp. 5-6-1715* -Ann b. ca. 1718 (Bergen)”

9. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“STOPHEL (CHRISTOPHER) b. 7-14-1712, bp. 12-25-1713 in the Old Brick Church at Marlboro, m. 12-16-1743 Abigail Wooley, dau of Thomas Wooley, d. 8-31-1782. Abigail was b. 5-17-1717 BS S, 5-25-1786 (Descendants of Allen Breed (Breed Family Record), By J.H. Breed). Stophen is the progenitor of the Southern line of Longstreets. He lived in Upper Freehold Tp where, on the "Retables", he is listed as "Stofil". A number of deeds executed by him are in the files at the Trenton State House. Prior to 175 he lived in Shrewsbury Tp. Symmes in his History (supra) noted that Stophen "was one of the first trustees of the Old Tennent Church which was granted a royal charter 2-21-1750. He was the son of "Theophilus" and his wife Mercy Lane, and was bp. in the Dutch Reformed Church in Long Island (in this, Symmes seems to err). He m. Abigail Wooley Dec. 1743 and moved to Allentown, 1756, where he bought a grist-mill, concluded Symmes. The list of children found in Mayes' small history of the Southern branch does not agree entirely with the list named in Stophel's will (#5252N) dated 11-19-1779. Daniel was probably deceased by that date and is not named in the will. But Daniel is named as a son in a deed by Stophel (See Bk g-3, p. 332). The children of Stophel and Abigail:
-John b. 1744 according to cem. inscr. at Jacobstown, NJ. -Daniel -Gilbert -William b. 10-6-1759 (cem. inscr. Augusta, Ga.) -Mary -Lydia”

MARRIAGE:
1. FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, Book F, "Reccords in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N.J.; Bonds for Licenses of Marriage, compilation p. 2, entry 1741 [The compiler notes that between the years 1727 to 1791, the law required the filing of a bond to assure that there was no lawful impediment to potential marriage such as consanguinity, another marriage, etc. He notes that these bonds were found in a pile with many lost but many did survive and are now bound. The compiler includes a select few in his compilation[:
"Dec. 16, 1743, Stophel Longstreet and John Little, Junr., both of the county of Monmouth, &c, yeomen, sureties for said Stophel Longstreet, and Abigail Woolley of the same county, spinster."
Another entry but I am not sure for which Stophel (p. 4, entry 1756):
"Dec. 17, 1748, Stophel Longstreet, yeoman, and Richard Houlst, Carpenter, both of the county of Monmouth, &c, sureties for said Stophel Longstreet and Elizabeth Bills of the same county, spinster." 		Langestraet, Stoffel Radical (I5601)
 
3837 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt from the book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51 (see entry for Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet for the full transcript of this partial excerpt):
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Children:
-Dirck (Richard) Langestraet. Baptized in Brooklyn, New Jersey on 25 April 1697; he lived to be 99 years old.
-Jonica (Jane) Langestraet. Born about 1698 in New Jersey.
-Catherine Langestraet. Born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen of New Jersey in 1720; married a second time to Elias Anderson on 30 March 1761 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Maria (Mary) Langestraet. Baptized 6 May 1702 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Baptism recorded a second time on 30 Dec 1711 in Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Same child listed with same parents. Married #1 William Hendricksen of New Jersey. Married #2 Dirck Sutphen, (brother of Jan Sutphen) of New Jersey.
-Sarah Langestraet. Born about 1705 in New Jersey. Baptized along with her brother Gisbert on 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, and New Jersey.
-Gisbert (Gilbert) Langestraet. Baptized 26 November 1710 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Birth date was approximately 1707; He married Rachel Schenck; He died 1758 in New Jersey.
-Aaron (Aurie) Langestraet Baptized 26 November 1710, along with his brother and sister, Gisbert and Sarah, at The Dutch Reformed Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey; he married Lydia Hull on 6 May 1754 in New Jersey.
-Stoffel Radical Langestraet (Longstreet). Of whom hereafter there is much data, as we are descended from him.
-Moica (Masy) Langestraet. Baptized 6 March 1716 in Monmouth County, New Jersey in the Dutch Reformed Church; married Johannes Leek (Also recorded as "John Little") in 1736 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
-Anna Langestraet. Born 1718 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day. ...
(Source: EARLY SETTLERS OF KING COUNTY, by Bergan, Langestraet Chapter; ANNALS OF CLASSIC LIFE AT BERGEN, by Taylor, pages 78-90; FAMILY BIBLE OF STOFFEL D. LANGESTRAET)”

2. Mentioned in husband's will: NJ Archives, Calendar of Wills 1751-1760; pg. 204-5; made 20 Apr 1755; Inv taken 13 Nov 1758. "1755, Apr 20. Longstreet, Gisbert, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co. Wife, Rachel. Children - Garret, Gisbert (both under age), Moyca, Nelley, Jane and Rachel. Real and personal estate. Executors - James Irons, Sr, Garret Scanck and John Longstreet, Sr. Witnesses - Koert Schenck, Garret Schanck and Nelley Schanck. Codicil of August 31, 1757, provided that a part of the bequest, given to dec'd daughter Jane, alias Onicha, be give to grandson Guisberd Lake, mentions children of dec'd daughter Moica and a daughter Elizabeth. Witnesses - Moses Richards, Thomas Ellison and John Lake. Proved Nov 8, 1758. Lib G, p 4" "1758, Nov 13. Inventory, ₤1265.15.10, incl. bills, bonds, book debts and cash, ₤704.18.4; 320 bush. of Indian corn. ₤32; 3 Dutch books, 10s; others 12s; half a book called "the Confesions," ₤1; two looking glasses, 16s; 2 negroes, ₤100; made by Thomas Ellison, Ebenezer Cook and David Johnston, with James Irons, Jr, as clerk."

3. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D17-D21:
“STOFFEL DIRCKSEN LANGESTRAET was born about 1666.
About 1695 he married MOICA, (called by way of pet name MAYKE or Maicken) LANEN VAN PELT, daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt, of New Utrecht. He was a deacon of the Flatlands church in the year 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and probably his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled on the Neversink Hills (some accounts say at Deal) in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day.
From the "American Weekly Mercury," of date February 14-21, 1726-7, the following extract is taken:
"Langstreat Theophilus.-From the Shrewsbury in East Jersey, on Saturday, the last day of December, 1726, Theophilus Longstreat, of Shrewsbury in the county of Monmouth, aged near sixty years, he met with seven swans flying over a meadow, who shot down six of them at one shot, such a shot was never known amongst us."
His will, dated December 1, 1739, was probated March 1, 1741; and he therefore died about the latter date. In that will, he calls himself "Theophilus," an erroneous interpretation of his proper name of Stoffel, or Christopher. He signed his name "Stoffel Langstrat." The will of his wife was dated April 8, 1752, and it was probated Mar. 13, 1753; so that she must have died about the latter date. These wills name some of their children, but not all of them. (See Appendix 1, and Appendix 2.) Those children, so far as now known, were as follows:
1. Dirck (Richard), baptized in Brooklyn, April 25, 1697. (Dirck married a wife named Jane, or Jonica. He died Dec. 4, 1795, in his 99th year. We find this mention of him in "The Historical Collections of New Jersey," on page 351: "The following account of an incursion of the British into this township in the American Revolution, is contained in a published letter, dated Kildare, Monmouth Co., April 9, 1778: 'About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last, about 10 o'clock, on the south side of Squam inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, etc., stripped the beds, etc., of some people there, who I fear wished to serve them; then crossed the river, and burnt all except Dirrick Longstreet's. After this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river, and set fire to two salt-works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave In sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation; indeed, they jumped in their fiat-bottomed boats with such precipitation they sunk two of them." At the time of this fortunate escape, Dirck was 82 years of age.)
2. Jane (or Jonica), born about 1698.
3. Catherine, born about 1700; married Jan Sutphen, of New Jersey, about 1720.
4. Mary (or Maria), baptized May 6, 1702; married first Wm. Hendricksen, of New Jersey; and second, Dirck Sutphen.
5. Sarah, born about 1705.
6. Gisbert (or Gilbert) born about 1707; baptized November 26, 1710; married Rachel Schenck; died in 1758.
7. Aaron, baptized Nov. 6. 1710; married May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull.
8. Stoffel, of whom hereafter.
9. Moica, baptized March 6. 1716; supposed to have married Johannes, Leek.
10. Anna born about 1718.
Having brought the family history down to the middle of the last century, and reached the period when the name assumed its English form of LONGSTREET it may be helpful and interesting to interrupt the course of the narrative in order to consider what manner of people these were and after what fashion they lived. History tells us something of the traits and habits of their friends and neighbors.
"In their family intercourse, and among themselves in their business matters, they continued to use the Dutch language. Several of the old people do so to this day. Their frugal mode of life, their severe and constant bodily labor, their-economical habits, were proverbial. For many generations, their word was their bond, a verbal contract being deemed sufficient. If they toiled hard and earned money they studiously endeavored to save it by prudent investment. They indulged in no costly dress or equipage, and in home-spun garments, neat, clean and whole, they visited the market-place and the sanctuary. The avails of the family toil, in spinning flax and wool, in weaving and coloring, were constantly seen in the ordinary dress, and in the many articles for family use. Goodly stores of domestic linens and woolens were sure to be found in every well-regulated family.
"Nor were they apt to be long retained in the piece, as they came from the weaver's hands, or from the fulling and dressing mills. They were at the earliest convenience of the industrious mother and her active daughters, manufactured into appropriate garments for every member of the family. So far did these provident arrangements extend that in the event of a death, the habiliments for the corpse need not be sent for, or hurriedly put together. The well stored cases or old fashioned clothes-press, contained them all. We have seen on some occasions, the beautifully plaited and well crimped garments brought forth meet the painful exigency. From the same bountiful stores, when the daughters went forth in the new relation of wives, and commence house keeping, their mothers industry, and their own early labors, were well attested by the goodly supply of personal garments, with bedding of every description, and in more recent times, with beautiful domestic carpeting, of their own spinning and coloring.
"It was, however, common for the youthful husband and wife to have their home, for the first year of married life under the roof of her parents.
"With the young people of both sexes, the custom long prevailed of riding on horse-back. Especially about the seasons of the holidays at New York, Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide. In the evening rides, going in pairs, a beau and a belle mounted on the same animal, the latter seated behind the former, with firm, grip holding on to him who had sought her company. Go where you might, you were sure to see, near the parental dwelling, the huge stepping-block, with its convenient and wide notches, well cut in, serving for steps by which to ascend to its even top, as a firm foundation on which for the sprightly girl to stand until the well-kept steed should be brought up, and thence to spring into her seat; and on which, on returning, to alight It is only within the last twenty-five years (written 1856) this once favorite mode of youthful pleasure-riding, gave way to that of companies of two pairs each, in a substantial wagon, and which, in still later days, has been superseded by the most tasteful buggy. On marriage occasions, long processions of wagons or sleighs, filled with the mirthful escort of 'the happy twain made one,' told of the nuptials, wherever they went, the whole company singing by the way. If they did not possess the luxuries of the neighboring city of New York, or indulge in its extravagances, the people did possess and enjoy their home comforts, and were well content.
"In the old churches the number of the first psalm was set with movable figures suspended at the sides of the pulpit. These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience, that as they had sat so patiently through the one, they, would proceed with a second. The collections during the service were taken in velvet bags attached to the ends of long poles, with a small alarm bell fastened to the end. When a coin was given the bell rang; if it passed through a pew silently, it showed that nothing had been contributed by the persons in that pew. It required experienced dexterity to handle them well, to avoid the pillars and the bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their foot-stoves, and to replenish them at a house near by.
“In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was one to furnish the persons invited to funerals, with tobacco, pipes and liquor -- a custom which was sadly abused. This was happily abandoned about 1815. Funeral sermons do not appear to have been used in this church in olden times." (Authorities: “Early Settlers of King County,” Bergen, Langestraat; “Annals of Classes, etc., of Bergen,” Taylor, pp. 78-90; “Pamphlet of Consistory.”

4. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“GISBERT (Variously spelled Guysbrecht, Gysbrecht, Guisbert, and finally Gilbert), b. ca. 1707, bp. 11-26-1710 (Old Brick Church), m. Rachel Schenck, dau. of Garret Reolofse and Neeltje Coerten (Van Vorhees) Schenck (The Rev. William Schenck: His Ancestors and His Descendants, By A.D. Schenck, 40). He was a resident of Shrewsbury Tp, in 'Squan, and is probably the Gllllytsbrecht Longstreet who was appointed a Justice in Monmouth County on 6-6-1751, and on 3-16-1756 (New Jersey Archives, 22:242). His will (#2301M), dated 4-20-1755, proved 11-8-1758, refers to his wife Rachel, sons Garret and Gilbert (minors), and to daughters Moyca, Molley, Jane and Rachel. The order of birth is not known:
-Garret -Gisbert -Moyca -Nelle -Jane -Rachel -Elizabeth”
 		Schenck, Rachel Garretse (I3071)
 
3838 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

BIOGRAPHY:
1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. he was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina.I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."

MARRIAGE:
1. Date and place are my estimates only.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 		Hirschman, Amalie (I3987)
 
3839 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39, [KP. Lists wife and 9 children - see his notes.]
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 2 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Kerry Petersen 28 Feb 2011 and is report no. Nr. 3-P-272, 2816, 1927 N, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007. Complete transcript is in the notes of Edouard/Elias Ocipovitch Herzenberg and the following is but a partial transcript:
"...1.3.4. Jossel (Joseph), son of Lemchen Herzenberg, born in ca 1809 (aged 33 in 1842, aged 59 in 1868). His wife Zippe was horn in ca 1808 (aged 60 in 1868). The family of Jossel Herzenberg was registered in the petty bourgeois oklad in Pilten till 1851. In 1851 he with his family was registered as a merchant of 3rd guild in Piltene. Since 1862 and at least till 1877 Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg and his family was registered in the merchant oklad of Goldingen (see merchants list of Goldingen for 1868). His sons... [and daughter]:
1.3.4.5. daughter Hanna (sic), born in ca 1843 (aged 25 in 1868). In the merchant's list there is a note that she married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Recorder's error: Hanna looks to correct for our Anna b. ca. 1843, but the note should have referred to Anna's younger sister Therese b. 1846]...
The records of the archives fond "Latvian Interior Ministry, Administrative Department, i.e. - the file on the naturalization of Therese Herzenberg, set up in 1924-1925, as well as the records of the archival funds "Collection of Passport of Riga Prefecture" and "Riga City House Registers" contain the following information:
Therese (Taube) Herzenberg, daughter of Joseph Herzenberg was born on November 10 of 1846 in Piltene (see her photos from the Latvian passports issued in 1925 and in 1928). According to the information in the file of naturalization Therese lived in Piltene till 1867, when she married to Abraham (Abram) Herzenberg, son of Elias, born in ca 1840 (the marriage records of the Jewish community in Mitau for 1865-1868 do not contain information on their marriage). (Obviously, Hana, daughter of Joseph Herzenberg, which was registered in the merchant's lists for 1868 and Therese is one and the same person). Since 1867 till 1902 the family of Therese Herzenberg lived in Jelgava at Katolu Street 18 in their own house. Abraham Herzenberg died on April 25 of 1900 in Jelgava. Since 1902 till 1905 she lived in Riga. Since 1905 till 1918 Therese Herzenberg lived in St. Petersburg with her children. During October revolution Therese with her son left for Finland and Berlin, and in 1924 she returned to Latvia. Therese had at least nine children, five of them lived in Latvia. Four children lived abroad. In 1924 Therese lived in Jelgava at Katolu Street 1, in 1925 she lived in Liepaja at Gimnazijas Street 4. Since April of 1926 Therese Herzenberg lived in Riga at Kr. Valdemara Street 33, apt. 38, since September 12 of 1927 in Riga at Kr. Valdemara Street 20, apt. 1. She died on April 4 of 1931 in Riga...
KP Note: Attachments included per my description...
6. Image of "The Latvian passport of Therese Herzenberg, née Herzenberg, issued in 1925." Includes a couple of long pages of Russian not specifically interpreted but probably summarized by the researcher above.
7. Photos:
- "Therese Herzenberg, dau. of Joseph Herzenberg, b. Nov. 10, 1846, Piltene (1925)."
- "Leonhard Taube, b. Jan 27 of 1869 in Mitau (1930)."
- "Eugenia Taube daughter of Eduard Herzenberg, b. March 9, 1878 in Moscow (1925)."

3. Data from a copy captured of Peter Bruce Herzenberg's website of London, England, since relocated to South Africa (website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007). See more on his research and data in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg in this database. Source for this individual is HL for Leonardo Herzenberg. In regards to this individual:
HL 103/020 shows b. Mitau.

4. The following is a link to the website (accessed 19 Mar 2020) of Erik Sprohge, the son of Paul Richard Sprohge and Hedwig Herzenberg: https://www.foltzgallery.com/artist/erik-sprohge
Kenny Petersen spoke with him on 16 Mar 2020 and notes the following:
"Just found and spoke to Erik Sprohge. He remembers a lot. Was born in Latvia.
esprohge@att.net
713-774-5083
He welcomes either of your calls or emails. Has albums and stories.Such as that Abraham Herzenberg was mayor in Mitau/Jeligava. And a street car went to their estate with the name Herzenberg on it. Also that Theresa (Edouard's sister) was very bright. But upset that son Ludvig (Luda the murderer - because maybe joined mafia in Marsellas(sp?)), lost all the family money in a year after his father's death. Also that Alfred Herzenberg brought his mother Mery to America. And that Alfred has a daughter Jeannie, whose son David Post is currently very interested in family history work (about 50yrs old)."

BIOGRAPHY:
1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"...Of the sisters of my grandmother on my mothers side I have already mentioned aunt Therese, the "Grand-duchess of Kurland," (42-43). Great aunt Fanny I believe to have still seen in Pilten, and great-aunt Ralchen alias Roche I saw often when I was a student in Riga in the years 1903-1905."

2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"...GREAT-UNCLE Abraham Herzenberg, Mitau, and descendants.
[39] Uncle Abraham in Mitau was the youngest son of my great-grandfather Elias Lemchen Herzenberg. My grandfather Naftali was the second oldest, and I will write more about him later. The second youngest was Uncle Hosias, whom I did not know. When I went to the Russian front in 1916, while passing through Warsaw on the way to Minsk, I spent an hour in his house. But I no longer remember anything. Of his sons I knew Heinrich and Leopold very casually. Heinrich married Lilly Herzenberg, the window of Meisel and lived in Riga. Uncle Abraham I still knew, he died young in 1901, I don't know how old he was, but he was already then a multiple grandfather. But he was young in comparison with the usual age limit of that [40] generation, which was about 85 years. I was more friendly with his children than I was with my fathers's siblings. In part this was that they were closer to my age, especially the younger ones, partly because one could correspond with them, which was impossible with my fathers siblings.Uncle Abraham was married with aunt Therese Herzenberg. He was the brother of my grandfather, she the sister of my grandmother. He the uncle of my father, she the aunt of my mother, so we were doubly related.
As a thirteen year old boy my father once took me along to Mitau to the house of uncle Abraham; when I was 15 I was there a second time and he had died shortly before that, relatively young, perhaps fortunate for him since he did not have to experience the breakup of his home. It [41] was a typical Buddenbrook fate, but completed in one generation.
Uncle Abraham may have studied in Mitau. When I first saw him he was the head of the Abraham Herzenberg department store in Mitau. He was the representative of Finish textile factories. He must have been very well to do, probably the richest of all the brothers. The house was old, huge, with three stories. On the lower level was the store, storage rooms, dining room, kitchen, yard, and a giant garden. It was fall, and along with Harry, Clara, and Roberta we picked ripe pears from towering pear trees. The house was run by the old traditions. All unmarried employees down to the last apprentice lived and ate in the house. Imagine, Uncle Abraham, aunt Therese, 10 children, the various nannies and teachers [erzieher], among them the old limping french aristocrat Madame Dupin de Saint Andree,[ 41] the employees and the apprentices, thus having around 20 people at the table, and in addition always visitors, either family or commercial travelers. One finds such a thing in old books, and it made a very great impression on me. I was even more impressed by the sons who took photographs and gave me lots of copies of family pictures to take along. Unfortunately the copies were not fixed. They kept getting darker until all outlines disappeared; only too late did I discover why, and could no longer save the pictures. A single group picture had been fixed, and is in the album. Aunt Therese was a very energetic, able, and smart woman. Just like uncle Abraham she stood out from the circle of her siblings. One did not deal with the Balts, [43] but with the peaks of the Russian administrative aristocracy. Half joking, half mocking, aunt Therese was called the "Grand Duchess of Kurland." Even when she was older, when there was no trace of the earlier wealth, when she travelled around as a stranger in various pensions in Germany, Russia, and Sweden with more poor than good support from her children, she still carried herself regally. She was no longer pretty, squinted, and had some beard hair, but her speech, her posture, and her appearance, wearing the mourning clothes she had worn for 30 years after uncle Abraham's death, made a deep impression on everyone she met.
When Uncle Abraham died the eldest son, Leo, was married in Petersburg. Also the daughter Fanny. Laura and Alice were married in Moscow, and Sophie in Mitau. At home were Ludwig, [44] in the firm, Harry who was still in the gymnasium, and the two girls, Roberta, of my age, and Klara, a little older. Ludwig, whom the mother worshipped, took over running the business. Harry entered the business as an apprentice. Ludwig decided on moving the business to Riga, why I don't know. The beautiful old house in Mitau was sold. Everything in Mitau was liquidated. Instead of the princely living in Mitau, aunt Therese moved into an old dark rental house on the Schwimmstrasse in Riga. I believe she had no happy time there. I don't know how Ludwig ruined the business so quickly. It ended when I was on a vacation trip to Germany in the summer of 1904, when I received the news from my father that I should visit aunt Therese in Berlin. [45] I met her, with Klara and Roberta, in a shabby room of a pitiful pension near the Elsasser gate. They had just had lunch, which consisted of a can of sardines with bread. The firm Abraham Herzenberg in Riga had failed. They had lost everything, and had fled to Germany, and were totally dependent on the support of children and siblings...
From the Mitau germ cell [keimzelle] Abraham's children first spread to the triangle of Mitau, Petersburg, and Moscow. Due to the world war they wandered to Germany and France. Of the 15 grandchildren I mentioned, I know the locations of a very few. Julius' children in Houston, Fanny's daughter in Palestine, Laura's son in Saigon. I have no idea of the whereabouts of the children of Leo, and Alice. Harry's were last in Vienna, Sophie's daughter in Riga, Runkel's children in Warsaw, Robert in Stockholm, and Lenka in Marseille. Scattered over half the globe, with almost no relationship, and the parents were such a close bunch of siblings."

3. The following undated paper was written late 1969 in Nice, France by Catherine Werblovsky Olympieff (also known as Ekaterina Werblovskaya Olympieva) at the request of Patrick Landau through his aunt Alice Nikitina. Patrick's father, Vladimir Landau, even though he was Catherine's cousin, had less knowledge on the family then Catherine. Catherine was the granddaughter of Edouard and Rebecca Herzenberg. The letter was written a couple of years before Catherine's death after she entered into an assisted care facility in Nice. The paper was recently found among personal items previously gathered about 1969 by her daughter Irene Nadia de Lanskoy Petersen. Portions of the letter were written in three languages: English, French, and Russian. Irene, in transcribing the letter, notes that the letter was hard to follow and to make sense of. Irene's transcription dated 31 Jul 2007 with her notes added in [ ].
"What concerns the father and mother of our mother's: Mother's father: Edouard Ocipovitch Herzenberg [or Gerzenberg] Edward son of Joseph Herzenberg born: in Mitava [or Mittau] not far ___, Baltic Provinces - not far from Riga. He died at 76 years of age (had diabetes and malaria) from lung congestion after flu. His wife was his cousin.
Rebecca Herzenberg also married a first cousin. I am not sure of the name of her father; she died in Moscow when I was 6 years old (70 years ago). [Death would be approximately 1899?]
They were probably married in Mitawa and came to Moscow young, because all their children were born in Moscow. The eldest 1) Elizabeth 2) Sonja [or Sonia] (Sofia) mother of Manja or Mania who now lives in Moscow, who had a sister Nadja or Nadia who was born in Moscow. Sonia's husband was Adolf Schneider - son of Aaron Schneider - who had 3 more sons: Nicolas, Alexander, Serge and a daughter Elizabeth Schneider. She got married with Martin Behr (English nationality); they had two children and lived in Moscow. Mrs. Elizabeth Behr died in London (after the Russian Revolution she lived in France, later in England.) Her brother Adolf Schneider was a brother-in-law of our mother's of course.) [This is a repeat of the above.] The Behrs had 2 children. Elisabeth Behr died in London (probably her husband Martin Behr died before.) Mrs. Behr's daughter Olga died in London about a year ago [1968-69?], her brother George Behr still lives in London is married (has 1 daughter who is married too and has 2 boys, 8 and 7.
So my mother Elisabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward and Rebecca Herzenberg born in Moscow like her sister Sonia, the next sister Flora born in Moscow. Flora, married Joseph Offenbacher, had one son Lotar (my first cousin as well as yours). She, her husband, and son died in Germany during the war of Hitler (son Lothar). [Irene notes that another family account says that Lothar committed suicide on account of the war.] [His father] Joseph Offenbacher had an older brother Vasily [William or Wilhelm] Offenbacher who married a cousin of our mother's - Fanny, daughter of Abra[ha]m (whom all children of Edward Herzenberg used to call Uncle Abraham.) He was the husband of Grandfather Edward Herzenberg's sister Theresa. His family name was also like all: Herzenberg. Theresa Herzenberg had many children - daughter Fanny, sons Ludwig, Harry, and 2 other sons and another daughter Sophia married to another Herzenberg (all those marriages were between cousins) who had three children, Robby (Robert) who lives in Sweden and 2 daughters Clara and Roberta (died in Riga - Bolshevik Revolution). [I am not sure if Clara and Roberta are correct for this family grouping.] After Flora Herzenberg, the 4th daughter was my Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg-Landau]. Then there was another one Genga (Eugenie) married Harry Taube from Riga - were killed by Hitler's army. She was the 5th daughter of Edward Herzenberg. The 6th was Lilja [Lilia] (1st wife of Uncle Max Landau - died in Davos, Switzerland from TB.) Then was another daughter Milja, died very young (she was the 7th daughter). The youngest daughter Tonya [Tonia] died in Moscow. Then there were two brothers, the oldest Ivan (John) married a French young girl from Mussidan, Dordogne, France. She was daughter of the Mayor of that town. Died in the north of Russia where - she was sent sick and was sent with her to Mourmansk (north of Russia). Uncle Vanja's [Vania, Ivan, John all same name wife Lydia died there [note her maiden name was Lydie Buisson]. Uncle Vanja died too in Bolshevik Revolution. Their 3 children: Micha (Michel) died probably in Moscow; his brother Andrei (Andre) Herzenberg and Suzanne Hindzee (Herzenberg) - 1st husband (French) Volant. She has a daughter in Toronto married in Toronto (Alja [or Alice Nikitina] knew her) who has two children, boy and girl. The father's family name is A. [Albert?] Statter - wife Lydie (Suzanne's daughter) - son Albert. [Irene's note: last known address was 33 Stonegate Road, Toronto, Canada, M8Y-1V8; phone 416-251-6295.]
There was yet other families related to us through our mother's. It was a well known dentist. His name was Kovarsky. His wife was the cousin of our mother's. They had a lot of children - 3 brothers Misha (Michael), Leva (Leon), 2 daughters Choura (Alexandra). Chura who now is same age as Suzanne [Herzenberg Hindzee] - the only one alive. I forget the name of the eldest brother deceased. Manja (Mania) in Moscow knows more about that family. What was the name of the mother cousin of our mother's-probably it was yet another of the Herzenberg family. As Alja [Alice Nikitina] will be going to Moscow she will be able to find out more form Manja [Mania]. Then there was yet another family related to the wife of our grandfather through the husband or wife Idelson. There was a girl Lisa Idelson and her brother. I think that Manja must know something about them. They lived in Moscow. I used to go see them with my mother when I was about 8 or 10 years old.
Now George Behr has written from London thanking me for my sympathy condolences on account of the death of his sister Olga Behr. She must have been older than 78 years. he thought that his aunt on his father's side, Nina Karlovna died in Moscow, as well as his cousin Leija, but I think it is relatives on the side of his father Bahr, and the cousin is perhaps of the Schneider family (it is possible that the cousin is still living). All these people lived in Moscow.
Now what concerns the Packschwer family. The one that came to see you with the Vietnamese wife has passed away. His name was Julien Packschwer born in Vitebesk, Russia. He was 72. His younger brother Saveijn (Sahva) engineer in London named himself Packshaw, died in England 3 weeks before Julien, leaving a widow (2nd marriage) and 2 children. It was the death of his younger brother that caused reaction on Julien Packshwer. He died 3 weeks after him. He was found on a street in Nice, France with a cerebral hemorrhage-fell in the street. Police took him to the hospital St. Rock where he died at 19 hours in the evening and remained in a coma. His car 2 CV (small) stayed in the parking where he had left it. It was only his Vietnamese wife [Mado] returning from Saigon 1 month after his death that was able to retrieve that car from the parking. Yet another day or two, it would have been impounded. But as it was the widow herself then came. They did not charge her anything. But as the car was her husband's-she has to wait by inheritance law to be able to sell it and divide up in 4 parts to his children. The eldest son of another marriage Leon is an eye doctor in Paris, then 3 other children. Oldest Robert in Montreal, CA; another son in ___ was in the navy for 3 years. The oldest was in the Air force, married a girl from Morocco - they are going to have a child soon. The daughter Irene married, has a little boy, the husband is serving in the military; they live in Cayrons near Vence, France in the Packshwer house. The widow/mother Mado inherited ¼ of the sum, the children ¾ divided in 4 for each of the 4 children. Through a real estate in Vence, Julien's house of 1000 sq. meters is worth 18 million francs. If the children keep the house, they will in turn need to give on fourth of the cost to the widow who also has the right to half of his monthly pension of 30,000 francs. She came to see me day before yesterday and told me all these details. So here you have it-the relatives. The mother of the Packshwer father was 1st cousin of our mother's through the daughter of the sister of our grandfather Edward Herzenberg maiden name Theresa Herzenberg died in Nice, born I think in Mitawa [Mitau], Baltic Provinces. She was buried with her husband in Nice at the Caucade cemetery.
Now I add what George Behr wrote from London that his wife Janet has seen Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg] in Monte Carlo, then he wrote about his cousin in Moscow who he thinks has passed away (he is going to find out about it from Manja-he asked their address in Monaco). She was the daughter of the oldest sister Polina Aronovna of his mother. Here is what concerns that family... [Balance of letter missing]."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 		Herzenberg, Therese or Taube (I3974)
 
3840 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39, [KP. Lists wife and 9 children - see his notes.]
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP: Report summary says she is second wife and marriage date is unknown. I estimate the two youngest children are hers and the older four are from the first marriage to an unknown wife.]
- son Abraham, aged 9,
- son Lemchen Leonhard, aged 4,
- dau. Fanny, aged 8,
- dau. Ida, aged 6,
- dau. Charlotte, aged 2-3/4,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 1,
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Kerry Petersen 28 Feb 2011 and is report no. Nr. 3-P-272, 2816, 1927 N, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007. Complete transcript is in the notes of Edouard/Elias Ocipovitch Herzenberg and the following is but a partial transcript:
"The recruits' enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871, the revision lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten, set up on August 15 of 1851, the merchant's lists of Goldingen for 1868, 1874, 1875 contain the following information about Herzenberg family (we would like to draw your attention to the fact that very often the age of person was determined by their outward appearance and was stated in some documents rather approximately)...
1.3.4. Jossel (Joseph), son of Lemchen Herzenberg, born in ca 1809 (aged 33 in 1842, aged 59 in 1868). His wife Zippe was horn in ca 1808 (aged 60 in 1868). The family of Jossel Herzenberg was registered in the petty bourgeois oklad in Pilten till 1851. In 1851 he with his family was registered as a merchant of 3rd guild in Piltene. Since 1862 and at least till 1877 Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg and his family was registered in the merchant oklad of Goldingen (see merchants list of Goldingen for 1868). His sons...
1.3.4.3. son Jacob, born in ca 1830. His 2nd wife Dorothea, born in ca 1845 (aged 23 in 1868), died in 1902. In 1899 he was transferred from the membership of merchant of Goldingen to the petty bourgeois oklad of Goldingen. In 1901-1906 he was registered as a 2nd guild merchant of Goldingen. Jacob had at least eleven children…
KP Note: Attachments: Image of revision list of Jewish families belonging to Pilten as of Aug. 15, 1851, showing oklad (tax) numbers: #362 Jossel Lemchen Herzenberg, his sons: #363 Ruben, #364 Laser, #365 Jacob, #366 Levin, and #367 Elias. Researcher includes interpretation comment: "They were transferred from the membership of petty bourgeois oklad of Pilten to the 3rd guild merchant of Pilten in 1851."

3. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. His source HL is Leonardo Herzenberg. In regards to this individual:
Name variations: Jacob (Yaaqov)
HL 103/011 shows b. Goldingen, Latvia.

4. Received 30 Apr 2009 a copy of the following from Irene Gottleib Slatter entitled "Archival Reference about Brenson Family. It was prepared for Nina Kossman Dec 2006 and is report no. 3-K-7622; 7794N by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007. The following is only a partial transcript concerning this individual; please see the notes of Isidor Brenson within this database to see full and complete transcript including sources and documentation:
"The records of the archival fonds "Collection of Passports of Riga Prefecture," "Riga City House Registers," the birth records of the Jewish community in Mitau for 1854-1855, 1857-1858, 1862, 1864-1883,1886-1889, 1892, 1895, 1900, 1902-1904, the marriage records of the same community for 1854, 1856-1868, 1872-1873, 1875, 1884, 1886-1887, 1889-1891, 1893, 1895-1897, as available at our archives (the birth marriage and death records for other years have not survived), the birth marriage and death records of the Jewish communities in Riga for 1854-1905, the revision lists of the Jewish families belonging to Mitau for 1834, 1858, 1887, the recruits' enlistment register of the Jewish families belonging to Mitau for 1845, 1875, for Pilten for 1848 contain the following information:
"..We suppose that Klara's father was Robert (Ruben), son of Joseph (Jossel) Herzenberg a merchant from Pilten, born in ca 1826 (aged 22 in 1848, see Appendix No. 4) and mother Emilie (Amalie), daughter of David Kahn, born in ca 1830, died in 1903. Robert Herzenberg lived in Mitau and had his firm 'Robert Herzenberg,' he died before 1887 (the death records of the Jewish community in Mitau, as available at our archives do not contain information on his death).
Ruben had at least two brothers Laser and Jacob (unfortunately, females (daughters) were not registered in the recruits's enlistment registers of Pilten). His parents: father Joseph (Jossel), son of Lemchen Herzenberg was born in ca 1809 (aged 39 in 1848), mother Zippe (the age is not stated). His grandparents: Lemchen, son of Joseph Herzenberg, born ca 1780, died in 1840. He belonged to the Jewish community in Pilten at least since 1834, his wife Schore (the age is not stated)...
REFERENCE:
fond 5024, inventory 2, files 331, 351, 375, inventory 1, file 88.
fond 2942, inventory 1, files 4109, 2130.
fond 630, inventory 2, files 220, 221.
fond 4349, inventory 2, file 6.
fond 445, inventory 1, files 2035, 2038.
fond 2996, inventory 9, file 520, inventory 12, field 14498, inventory 7, files 25343, 25280, inventory 2, files 41162, 41163, 41164, 41171, 41175, 41185, 41186, inventory 15, file 4449, fond 472, inventory 5, files 628, 826, 1574.
Enclosure: genealogical table - 1 table, copies of the documents - 26 sheets.
Director: N. Rizovs, Head of Department: I. Veinberga., Researcher: J. Polovceva."

5. The Latvian Archives is online and I have reviewed all Registers for Pilten. Registers are in German and I indicate what I don't understand. I extracted all Herzenbergs of which the following excerpts apply to this family:
"
-Image 17. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1834 and the second 1842; presumably if missing in the second column then probably deceased in the interim. Family #38:
-31 Lemchen Joseph Herzenberg, 54, - (Died in 1840 at age 61.)
-his wife Schore (no ages)
-32 his son Leiser, 13, 21
-33 his son Joseph, 25, 33
-34 his son Ruben, 8, 16
-35 his son Laser, 5, 13
-36 his son Jacob, 4, 12
-Image 73. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1834 and the second 1848; presumably if missing in the second column then probably deceased in the interim. List # 33, Family #10:
-31 Lemchen Joseph Herzenberg, 54, - (Died in 1840.) [Also additional comment needing translation with the year 1846 in it.]
-32 son Laser, 13, 27
-33 son Joseph, 25, 33
-his wife Zippe
-34 his son Ruben, 8, 22
-35 son Laser, 5, 19
-36 son Jacob, 4, 18

BIOGRAPHY:
1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
Great Uncle Jacob I saw a few times in Goldingen. He had several sons, of whom I knew only the youngest - Robert. He was a pharmacist, but we lost touch still before the first world war. He also had 11 daughters, known as the "elves" (eleven and elf are the same word in German). From the time I was with him in Goldingen I only remember the dinner table with the many, many girls; oddly enough they all became dentists. One of them married a dentist Friedman from Tashkent, the son of a [?] [Kantonisten] (Dubnow, Weltgeshichte odes Judishen Volks IX, p 191 ff.) I never heard anything more from the others."

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 		Herzenberg, Jacob (I3968)
 
3841 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP: Report summary says she is second wife and marriage date is unknown. I estimate the two youngest children are hers and the older four are from the first marriage to an unknown wife.]
- son Abraham, aged 9,
- son Lemchen Leonhard, aged 4,
- dau. Fanny, aged 8,
- dau. Ida, aged 6,
- dau. Charlotte, aged 2-3/4,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 1,
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?),
- his wife Rebecka, aged 25,
- dau. Betty, aged 2,
- dau. Sahra, aged 1,
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Kerry Petersen 28 Feb 2011 and is report no. Nr. 3-P-272, 2816, 1927 N, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007. Complete transcript is in the notes of Edouard/Elias Ocipovitch Herzenberg and the following is but a partial transcript:
"The recruits' enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871, the revision lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten, set up on August 15 of 1851, the merchant's lists of Goldingen for 1868, 1874, 1875 contain the following information about Herzenberg family (we would like to draw your attention to the fact that very often the age of person was determined by their outward appearance and was stated in some documents rather approximately)...
1.3.4. Jossel (Joseph), son of Lemchen Herzenberg, born in ca 1809 (aged 33 in 1842, aged 59 in 1868). His wife Zippe was horn in ca 1808 (aged 60 in 1868). The family of Jossel Herzenberg was registered in the petty bourgeois oklad in Pilten till 1851. In 1851 he with his family was registered as a merchant of 3rd guild in Piltene. Since 1862 and at least till 1877 Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg and his family was registered in the merchant oklad of Goldingen (see merchants list of Goldingen for 1868). His sons...
KP Note: Attachments: Image of revision list of Jewish families belonging to Pilten as of Aug. 15, 1851, showing oklad (tax) numbers: #362 Jossel Lemchen Herzenberg, his sons: #363 Ruben, #364 Laser, #365 Jacob, #366 Levin, and #367 Elias. Researcher includes interpretation comment: "They were transferred from the membership of petty bourgeois oklad of Pilten to the 3rd guild merchant of Pilten in 1851."
I received the following later by email from the Archive's lead researcher in reponse to interpretation of the 1851 register page copy that was included with the report:
"Jossel, son of Lemchen Herzenberg (oklad Nr. 362 in the register for 1851) (in our report Nr. 1.3.4.) His children:
-Ruben (oklad Nr. 363 in the register for 1851) (in our report Nr. 1.3.4.1.),
-Laser (oklad Nr. 364) (in our report Nr. 1.3.4.2.),
-Jacob (oklad Nr. 365) (in our report Nr. 1.3.4.3.),
-Levin (oklad Nr. 366) (he was not mentioned in our report, he was not registered in the recruits' enlistment registers for 1842, 1848), obviously Levin was born in time period 1831-1837,
-Elias (oklad Nr. 367) (in our report Nr. 1.3.4.4.).
Since March 9 of 1851 the family of Jossel, son of Lemchen Herzenberg and the family of a widow Schore Herzenberg [wife of Chone Joseph whose family is also on the same page] were registered as merchants of 3rd guild in Pilten."

3. Data from a copy captured of Peter Bruce Herzenberg's website of London, England, since relocated to South Africa (website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007). See more on his research and data in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg in this database. Sources for this individual are HL for Leonardo Herzenberg and FA fo Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes). I am unsure what LS stands for.
In regards to this individual:
Name variations: Yosef, Jossel b. Lemchen, (Ossip) (Jossip).
FA001 shows b. 1801 in Piltene, d. in Piltene.
HL003.
LS176.

4. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s):
Aizpute-Hasenpoth
Jelgava-Mitau
Kuldiga-Goldingen
Liepaja-Libau
Piltene-Pilten
Talsi-Talsen
Ventspils-Windau

5. Received 30 Apr 2009 a copy of the following from Irene Gottleib Slatter entitled "Archival Reference about Brenson Family. It was prepared for Nina Kossman Dec 2006 and is report no. 3-K-7622; 7794N by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007. The following is only a partial transcript concerning this individual; please see the notes of Isidor Brenson within this database to see full and complete transcript including sources and documentation:
"The records of the archival fonds "Collection of Passports of Riga Prefecture," "Riga City House Registers," the birth records of the Jewish community in Mitau for 1854-1855, 1857-1858, 1862, 1864-1883,1886-1889, 1892, 1895, 1900, 1902-1904, the marriage records of the same community for 1854, 1856-1868, 1872-1873, 1875, 1884, 1886-1887, 1889-1891, 1893, 1895-1897, as available at our archives (the birth marriage and death records for other years have not survived), the birth marriage and death records of the Jewish communities in Riga for 1854-1905, the revision lists of the Jewish families belonging to Mitau for 1834, 1858, 1887, the recruits' enlistment register of the Jewish families belonging to Mitau for 1845, 1875, for Pilten for 1848 contain the following information:
"..We suppose that Klara's father was Robert (Ruben), son of Joseph (Jossel) Herzenberg a merchant from Pilten, born in ca 1826 (aged 22 in 1848, see Appendix No. 4) and mother Emilie (Amalie), daughter of David Kahn, born in ca 1830, died in 1903. Robert Herzenberg lived in Mitau and had his firm 'Robert Herzenberg,' he died before 1887 (the death records of the Jewish community in Mitau, as available at our archives do not contain information on his death).
Ruben had at least two brothers Laser and Jacob (unfortunately, females (daughters) were not registered in the recruits's enlistment registers of Pilten). His parents: father Joseph (Jossel), son of Lemchen Herzenberg was born in ca 1809 (aged 39 in 1848), mother Zippe (the age is not stated). His grandparents: Lemchen, son of Joseph Herzenberg, born ca 1780, died in 1840. He belonged to the Jewish community in Pilten at least since 1834, his wife Schore (the age is not stated)...
REFERENCE:
fond 5024, inventory 2, files 331, 351, 375, inventory 1, file 88.
fond 2942, inventory 1, files 4109, 2130.
fond 630, inventory 2, files 220, 221.
fond 4349, inventory 2, file 6.
fond 445, inventory 1, files 2035, 2038.
fond 2996, inventory 9, file 520, inventory 12, field 14498, inventory 7, files 25343, 25280, inventory 2, files 41162, 41163, 41164, 41171, 41175, 41185, 41186, inventory 15, file 4449, fond 472, inventory 5, files 628, 826, 1574.
Enclosure: genealogical table - 1 table, copies of the documents - 26 sheets.
Director: N. Rizovs, Head of Department: I. Veinberga., Researcher: J. Polovceva."

6. Ancestry.com's "Latvia: Courland Registers and Family Lists, 1845-1874" in partnership with JewishGen lists the following from Kuldiga: "Jiseph, b. abt 1809, record year 1871, father Lemchen, family number/oklad: 219/725."

MARRIAGE:
1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen.

BURIAL:
1. Website http://www.balticgen.com/cemeteries/All%20Latvia%20cemetery%20list-by%20town.pdf accessed 12 Jan 2009 showing Piltene Cemetery Gravestone inscriptions: "Joseph b. Osher Hertzenberg died 78 years old in 565.."
Osher is a nickname for Lemchen.

SOURCES_MISC:
1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 		Herzenberg, Joseph or Yosef or Jossel (I3954)
 
3842 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Kerry Petersen 28 Feb 2011 and is report no. Nr. 3-P-272, 2816, 1927 N, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007. Complete transcript is in the notes of Edouard/Elias Ocipovitch Herzenberg and the following is but a partial transcript:
"The recruits' enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871, the revision lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten, set up on August 15 of 1851, the merchant's lists of Goldingen for 1868, 1874, 1875 contain the following information about Herzenberg family (we would like to draw your attention to the fact that very often the age of person was determined by their outward appearance and was stated in some documents rather approximately)...
1.3.4. Jossel (Joseph), son of Lemchen Herzenberg, born in ca 1809 (aged 33 in 1842, aged 59 in 1868). His wife Zippe was horn in ca 1808 (aged 60 in 1868). The family of Jossel Herzenberg was registered in the petty bourgeois oklad in Pilten till 1851. In 1851 he with his family was registered as a merchant of 3rd guild in Piltene. Since 1862 and at least till 1877 Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg and his family was registered in the merchant oklad of Goldingen (see merchants list of Goldingen for 1868). His sons...
1.3.4.2. son Laser, born in ca 1829. His wife Amalie, born in ca 1834. In 1875 he was registered as a merchant of Goldingen. They had at least ten children. According to the 1st All Russian census for 1897 the family of Laser Herzenberg lived in Goldingen at Mitauskaya Street 11...
KP Note: Attachments: Image of revision list of Jewish families belonging to Pilten as of Aug. 15, 1851, showing oklad (tax) numbers: #362 Jossel Lemchen Herzenberg, his sons: #363 Ruben, #364 Laser, #365 Jacob, #366 Levin, and #367 Elias. Researcher includes interpretation comment: "They were transferred from the membership of petty bourgeois oklad of Pilten to the 3rd guild merchant of Pilten in 1851."

3. Data from a copy captured of Peter Bruce Herzenberg's website of London, England, since relocated to South Africa (website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007). See more on his research and data in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg in this database. Source given is HL wihich is for Leonardo Herzenberg. In regards to this individual:
Name variations: Eleazar, Leizer, Laser (Lasar) (Lazar), Leiser.
HL 103/013, b. abt 1848 at Goldingen, md. Amalie Hirshman.

4. Originally we had different children assigned to Eleazer and Amalie until we received the Archival report above. Peter Herzenberg on his comprehensive Herzenberg listing had shown six different children as of 2010 in his family group 4.11a: Isaac 1863, Samuel 1867, Bernard, Herman 1870, Edward 1875, and Leo 1878 (listed as #5.17 - 5.22). Peter sources his information back to Leo Herzenberg, but Leo's information conflicts with other information of Leo's found in the "Leonard Herzenberg Memoirs." The memoirs follows the merchant's lists very closely. I made the correction 30 Nov 2011. The Memoirs read:
"GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. he was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."

5. Ancestry.com's "Latvia: Courland Registers and Family Lists, 1845-1874" in partnership with JewishGen lists the following from Kuldiga: "Lasar Herzenberg, b. abt. 1829, record year: 1871, father Joseph."

6. The Latvian Archives is online and I have reviewed all Registers for Pilten. Registers are in German and I indicate what I don't understand. I extracted all Herzenbergs of which the following excerpts apply to this family:
"
-Image 17. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1834 and the second 1842; presumably if missing in the second column then probably deceased in the interim. Family #38:
-31 Lemchen Joseph Herzenberg, 54, - (Died in 1840 at age 61.)
-his wife Schore (no ages)
-32 his son Leiser, 13, 21
-33 his son Joseph, 25, 33
-34 his son Ruben, 8, 16
-35 his son Laser, 5, 13
-36 his son Jacob, 4, 12
-Image 73. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1834 and the second 1848; presumably if missing in the second column then probably deceased in the interim. List # 33, Family #10:
-31 Lemchen Joseph Herzenberg, 54, - (Died in 1840.) [Also additional comment needing translation with the year 1846 in it.]
-32 son Laser, 13, 27
-33 son Joseph, 25, 33
-his wife Zippe
-34 his son Ruben, 8, 22
-35 son Laser, 5, 19
-36 son Jacob, 4, 18
 		Herzenberg, Eleazer or Leiser (I3944)
 
3843 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP: Report summary says she is second wife and marriage date is unknown. I estimate the two youngest children are hers and the older four are from the first marriage to an unknown wife.]
- son Abraham, aged 9,
- son Lemchen Leonhard, aged 4,
- dau. Fanny, aged 8,
- dau. Ida, aged 6,
- dau. Charlotte, aged 2-3/4,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 1,
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?),
- his wife Rebecka, aged 25,
- dau. Betty, aged 2,
- dau. Sahra, aged 1,
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

MARRIAGE:
1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen.
 		Zippe (I3900)
 
3844 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."

DEATH:
1. Email from Konnor Petersen 8 Dec 2024 with death notice of this individual. Posted on FamilySearch. The source is an online Russian-language newspaper from Riga in January 1936: https://www.hoover.org/press/hoover-launches-landmark-russia-abroad-digital-collection#:~:text=The%20Hoover%20Institution%20Library%20%26%20Archives,Russian%20diaspora%20between%201917%2D1992.
A rough translation of the obituary:
"Death for Dora Lazarevna Herzenberg
1937.04.20
Burial in Kuldiga
Lists sisters: Sara Lur'ye (Lurie?), born Herzenberg: Roza Tubin, born Herzenberg; and nieces - presumably Sar and Roza's daughters
 		Herzenberg, Dohra or Dorothea (I3263)
 
3845 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."
 		Herzenberg, Sara (I3262)
 
3846 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."
 		Herzenberg, Eduard (I3137)
 
3847 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. 2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."
 		Herzenberg, Rebecka or Bertha (I3136)
 
3848 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."

3. In Kuldiga (formerly known as Goldingen, my mother and I stayed the the "Roberts Herzenberg" apartment on the main pedestrian thoroughfare the night of Oct. 8, 2016. I believe this apartment to have belonged to Robert Herzenberg, son of Eleazer and Amalie (Hirschman) Herzenberg, who would have been about 47 when he built it circa 1915. The proprietor of the apartment rental is trying to contact the elderly descendant of Robert who sitll is alive and lives in Israel. Hopefully, I will be able to contact her for more information. Here is some communication from Mr. Vaitkus who we met and owns the apartment rental business. He is very interested in helping find out more about the history of the original Robert Herzenberg:
Email from roberts vaitkus 8 Oct 2016:
"Thank you for the time and the privilege to meet with you both. Thank you also for the amazing amount of the work and energy you have put to create the historical database of Herzenberg family tree line. I contacted my wife Aiga yesterday night telling what awesome people I have met. She and her sister will summarize all the detailed information about Robert Herzenberg we have at the moment and send it to you as soon they come back from UK. Please say hi to your Mom and I thank both of you for being willing to discover your legacy in such a adventurous way. I pray that God would open doors to people and places which will let you dig deeper than 5th generations back! Have a wonderful trip to Vilnius! With much love, Roberts Vaitkus +371 27710100.
The following are my comments and observations:
Photos of the apartment are are available on the Airbnb website https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6864313 accessed 13 Oct 2016. It was built by Robert Herzenberg in about 1915 and included three floors. The bottom floor contained commercial space including a pharmacy and restaurant. A restaurant remains to this day. The building is owned by a Herzenberg descendant who is an elderly lady now living in Israel. The city also owns half the building as well probably due to past Communist confiscation prior to Latvia's Independence around 1990. The current proprietor leases the apartment and has renovated the main apartment on the top floor into a very highly-rated bed and breakfast. It is the apartment that Robert himself lived in and features a round room in a turret. Among original furnishings is cooking brick cooktop for cooking by charcoal or wood. The building was quite elegant in its days but the Communists put into it the poorest of poor family who were very rough on the building. It is being slowly restored. The apartment commands the best view on the best corner of the best street in Kuldiga which is called Liepajas Iela. This area is a favorite tourist destination for tour buses since it is the best preserved old village/town in all of Latvia. It was spared from the destruction of both World Wars and the ugly Sovietization that is so common in the Baltic Republics. The entire street was more or less built by the Jewish inhabitants and even the synagogue remains to this day. It is only a half hour drive from Piltene where all Jews first lived in Latvia before spreading throughout the country. Latvia in those days was under the domination of Sweden who persecuted the Jews. Piltene was owned by the Danes who were tolerant to the Jews. This area was the ancient center of the Duchy of Courland of the Livonian Order of the Teutonic Knights. In 1795 the Russian Tsar conquered Latvia and it remained Russian until modern days.
In another email from Roberts dated 19 Oct 2016, he provides the following information. He also provides some historical photos of the building, which I have since posted on Family Search in Robert Herzenberg's file. He notes [Kerry's comments in brackets]:
"I forwarded your e-mail to my wife and her sister [who do some historical research], so we have collected the information about Robert Hercenberg, which is not that much as I expected. Hope you can get something useful out of it.
Robert Herzberg - born in 1867, 09.11. in Kuldiga
Sofia Herzberg - born in 1875, 07.07. in Kuldiga
Georg Herzberg - born in 1901, 26.02. in Kuldiga
Leo / Leopold Herzberg - born in 1908, 02.09. in Kuldiga
The whole family before World War II lived in Kuldīga.
Herzberg Robert (Age of 74) and Sofia Herzberg (Age of 68) in the year of 1941 were sent out to the farm/field work on Kuldiga parishes.
Jacob Herzberg (buried on 9 March 1912). He has been an honorary citizen of Kuldiga. For many years he was a teacher of Jewish school, Jewish religious teacher, religious teacher of grammar school. Founded the Talmud - Torah school, which he led until 1911. [KP: Appears to be a separate Herzenberg from the family above -- not sure where he fits in.]
"[Photos of Robert Herzberg building:] Apartment house with shops Liepaja Street 8 is one of the most architecturally impressive buildings in the old town of Kuldiga. Owner Robert Herzberg built it in 1913 (the year number can be seen in the entrance door transom openwork metal grid) in place o fan old wooden house. Buildings spatial form and the artistic image corresponds to the later stages of Art Nouveau. The first floor occupied by shops. In turn, wing against the Katolu (now Raina) street in the interwar period was Birger E. pharmacy. Eduard Birger (born in 1864. Nurmuiza pastor's family) in 1913 bought Kozaka pharmacy on Baznicas and Policijas street corner in Kuldiga. Since it was located very close to Grabes pharmacy (Baznicas St. 20), in the same year he moved it to Herzberg house on the corner of Liepajas and Katolu street. Pharmacy was closed on 18th of November 1939, due the pharmacy owner repatriation. In late 20th century in the building' ground floor was opened the cafe "Staburadze". Also, now the building houses a café with the same name, as well as apartments."
In another email from Roberts dated 12 Nov 2016:
"About Israeli woman Hana May [descendant of Robert Herzenberg] ... I got her daughter's e-mail: maynoemi@yahoo.de, her full name is Noemi May and we have been communicating via her e-mail. So please feel free to connect with her." [I sent an email but no response yet.]
Update: Per email dated 28 Aug 2017 from Neomi May , whose mother has a part interest in the Robert Herzenberg building in Kuldigas:
"Unfortunately I can't add to the information about the Herzenberg family ... I only know that between May and Herzenberg families there existed a close friendship, especially between the young peaple.You should ask the Museum of the History of Kuldiga, maybe they can give you some more information. The only person, who would know about the relationship, was my father Leo May, but he died 2009, also unfortunately I have no one I could ask. My father told only that between May and Herzenberg families was a close friendship, but nothing about any relationship. It would be very interesting for me to learn more about Jewish families in Kuldiga ... If you would contact us 10 or 15 years ago, my father would have told you much more ... He loved his birth town very much and went every year to Kuldiga, there were a lot of memories. My Mother and I go every year for 5 or 6 weeks to Latvia. My mother is born in Riga.She survived as a refugee, but her parents were both killed in the Holocaust.My father told her a lot about his childhood in Kuldiga, showed her houses of friends and relatives too. We are actually in Kuldiga and my mother showed me the place where was the house of the Herzenberg family before. Unfortunately the house doesn't exist any more, only the place in the Jelgavas street. I am very sorry, that I am not able give you more information."

4. See the above note about the Robert Herzenberg apartment in modern Kuldigas. Concerning the Robert of the Robert Herzenberg apartment in modern Kuldigas. I had previously had some reservations whether or not I had linked them them correctly to the known line of Herzenbergs with him being the son of Eleazer Herzenberg and Amalia Hirschman. There was the possibility that Robert could also be the son of Jacob and Dorothea (___) Herzenberg; however, the Yad Vashem Holocaust website seems to prove the connection. The "Pages of Testimony" were submitted in the mid-1950s by a "relative" named Lea Zindel Shemin. I am not sure of what the relation may be, if any. They were part of a total of 13 Pages submitted by this same person. On Robert's Page, he is mentioned as the son of Ema, which would be Amalie Hirschman who married Eleazer Herzenberg, the brother to my great-grandfather Edouard Herzenberg. In the 13 Pages of Testimony, Lea also submitted pages for Adolf and Tekla Mai, born 1885 and 1890 respectively; also included was a daughter of this couple, Anna Mai, b. 1916. The May family is part owner of the current Robert Herzenberg building in Kuldiga. With this connection to the May family, that would tie them to the Robert and Sofia Herzenberg I had in my database.
The website of all 13 Pages of Testimony of Lea Zindel Shemin is at:
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&advancedSearch=true&sln_value=Zindel_Shemin&sln_type=synonyms&sfn_value=Lea&sfn_type=synonyms
Each page gives more details on each individual. There are two additional Herzbergs in the 13 Pages:
-Leopold, b. 1908 in Kuldiga. We had previously known of him as a son of Robert and Sofia/Zofia, but not what happened to him. He died in the Holocaust.
-Sara, age [about] 70, wife of Yitzkhak (Isaac) Herzberg, born Jacobstadt, Jekabpils, Zemgale, Latvia. Jekabpils is in the southeast of Latvia whereas Kuldigas was in the northwest. She would be the same generation as Robert and Sofia. Apparently there is a family connection, which would appear to be that Isaac, her husband, was the brother of Robert. I currently have Isaac, b. abt 1856 in Kuldigas, in the database but with an unknown wife. This would then add another person to our database. Apparently Isaac may have died before the Nazi occupation making Sara most likely a widow at the time of the Holocaust.

BIRTH:
1. NFS accessed 2 Dec 2011 gives a birth date of 16 Sep 1868 in Kuldiga; it apparently was submitted around 1988 by patron of the Family Search. No source is given. I believe he is most likely the same man as above who owned the Kuldiga building, who has a slightly different birth date of 9 Nov 1867. If for some reason it later proves that they are different men, then the next best candidate is the Robert of about the same age, son of Jacob and Dorothea Herzenberg. Jacob was the brother of Edouard Herzenberg (see Leopold Herzenberg's notes in Jacob's file).

DEATH:
1. Holocaust Yad Vashem website: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=567350&ind=6 accessed 8 Aug 2017:
"Robert Herzberg was born in Goldingen, Latvia to Ema. He was age 60. He was a merchant. Prior to WWII he lived in Goldingen, Latvia. During the war he was in Goldingen, Latvia. Robert was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted by his relative, Lea Zindel Shemin."
Note: I had an Israeli translate the relationship of Lea in the 1950s. He responds: "I looked at most of the POTs and it seems like this Lea is, or was, a relative. The word for relative (karov) is underlined in most of them at the end."
 		Herzenberg, Robert (I3133)
 
3849 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."
 		Herzenberg, Moritz (I3121)
 
3850 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Partial excerpt per formal report of the Latvian Archives prepared 28 Feb 2011 for Kerry Petersen; report includes photo copy of the original of the attached with the following interpretation by the researcher:
"The lists of merchant of Goldingen for 1868:
2nd guild merchants.
- Joseph, son of Lemchen Herzenberg, aged 59,
- his wife Zippe, aged 60,
- 1st son Laser, son of Joseph, aged 39,
- his wife Amalie, aged 34,
- son Leonhard, aged 16,
- son Isack, aged 12,
- son Eduard, aged 9,
- son Moritz, aged 6,
- dau. Johanna, aged 14,
- dau. Rebecka, aged 12,
- dau. Rosa, aged 5,
- dau. Sahra, aged 3,
- dau. Dohra, aged 1-1/2
- 2nd son Jacob, aged 37,
- his wife Dorothea, aged 23, [KP. Lists wife and 6 children - see his notes.]
- 3rd son Elias Eduard, aged 30 (?), [KP. Lists wife and 3 children - see his notes.]
- daughter of Joseph - Hanna, aged 25, married to Abraham Herzenberg from Pilten. [KP. Summary report indicates the name Hanna is an obvious error for Theresa as shown on other documents.]"

2. Email from Konnor Petersen 8 Dec 2024 with death notice of the sister of this individual. Posted on FamilySearch. The source is an online Russian-language newspaper from Riga in January 1936: https://www.hoover.org/press/hoover-launches-landmark-russia-abroad-digital-collection#:~:text=The%20Hoover%20Institution%20Library%20%26%20Archives,Russian%20diaspora%20between%201917%2D1992.
A rough translation of the obituary:
"Death for Dora Lazarevna Herzenberg
1937.04.20
Burial in Kuldiga
Lists sisters: Sara Lur'ye (Lurie?), born Herzenberg: Roza Tubin, born Herzenberg; and nieces - presumably Sar and Roza's daughters.

3. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"Great Uncles on Mother's Side...
GREAT-UNCLE LAZER I had met [64] in Goldingen, also his wife Amalie Hirschman. They had a beautiful house in Goldingen with a huge orchard, and it was said of the aunt that she made the workers sing songs during the harvest so they would not snack on the fruit. That counted in those days as the peak of avarice. In those days, in the country, one "stos" (about a liter) of berries, whether blueberries, strawberries, or Johannberries sold for a kopeck, around a penny, and other fruit was similarly cheap. Their children were Leonhard, Isidor, Edward, Moritz, Robert, Johanna, Bertha, Rosa, Sara, and Dorothea. I knew only Moritz, who carried on the father's business in Goldingen. He was married to Rosa Steinberg and had a single daughter Lina. I also met one of the daughters, I no longer know which one; She was very pretty [65] and well educated, but even more conceited [sehr gebildet, aber noch mehr eingebildet], and when I was in her home still as a student she behaved very haughtily. That happened because the families of the great-uncle were mostly very wealthy, and looked down on the generation of my parents who already found the fight for existence much more difficult, as if they were poor relations."
 		Herzenberg, Rosa (I3120)
 

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