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1. FHL 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 (Self-publilshed, 100 copies; 1999) p. 273, “THE FAMILY OF VERPLANCK AND ITS CONNECTIONS WITH VAN LAER”:
“GENERATION 1
Isaac Verplanck
The existence of Isaac Verplanck is known to us strictly by his name, and that is through the revelation by his son's name as previously explained in how the Dutch continually used the "fathers name" in the following generation.”
GENERATION 2
Abram Isaacson Verplanck
Abram Isaacson Verplanck was the owner of land called Paulus Hook, which is now Jersey City. His deed was dated 1640. He is frequently named in the official publication, “The Documentary History of New York.” A special article referring to him is found in "O'Callaghan's History of New Netherlands," Vol. 1, page 185. He is known to be the father of Abigail who married Aryan Van Laer.”
GENERATION 3
Abigail Verplanck
As already shown she married Aryan Van Laer, and that essentially is all that is known of her. She lived in Brooklyn, New York and had died before 1672, when her husband remarried. We do know that this Verplanck family of which she was a part is a very interesting one. It has furnished several men of distinction, exactly how she is related to each of these individuals, I did not bother to determine. We do know that they were one and the same family of Verplanck.
-Daniel C. Verplanck. Was a member of Congress from 1803-1809, afterwards he served as a Judge. His estate at Fishkill had been in the possession of the family since 1682, and the house was still standing in the 1960's. This house at one time was the headquarters of Baron Steuben, during the American Revolution; it was also in this house that Colonel Lewis Nichols proposed to Washington to accept the crown. (Source: APPLETON'S CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, Vol. VI, page 281; this also has a photo of the Verplanck house.)
-Gulian C. Verplanck. 1786-1870 was a Professor of moral science and divinity, president of many literary and charitable societies, and member of Congress from 1825-1833. He was a state Senator 1838-1841; Vice Chancellor of the University of New York from 1855 until his death. He was the author of many esteemed works.
-Isaac A. Verplanck. 1812-1873, was a distinguished jurist and judge.”
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-42:
“THE FAMILY OF VERPLANCK.
ISAAC VERPLANCK. The existence of this progenitor is only known to us through the revelation by his son's name, as already explained.
ISAACSEN VERPLANCK, was the owner of Paulus Hoek (or the site of Jersey City) at one period, about 1640. He is frequently mentioned in the official publication, the Documentary Hist. of New York. A special note on him is found in O'Callaghan's Hist. of New Netherland, Vol. I, p. 185. His daughter.
ABIGAL VERPLANCK, as already shown, married Ayran Van Laer; and that is all we know of her.”
3. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D-15:
“… the first comers were the family of Van Lieuwen, in 1652, in the year when Van Tromp was parading the English Channel with his broom aloft, seven years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant to the Directorship of the Province, and two years before the organization of the first congregation on Long Island. Next came the Longstreets, in 1657, five years later, and two years after the building of the church at Flatbush. Then arrived the family of Lanen van Pelt, in 1666, the year before the English seizure of the province, and fourteen years before the organization of the church at New Utrecht.
Although the family of Van Lieuwen preceded the Longstreets by five years, and the natural course of historical statement would therefore demand that account be first given of them, yet the logical arrangement of a genealogical narrative requires that the Longstreets be given precedence: they are the main branch, and any other course would beget confusion.
By way of preliminary, a statement in respect to Dutch names is needed. They then made but little use of family names. Many of them had none. Even in the most formal and important documents men are frequently designated by their Christian names alone; and that, where they were possessed of patronymics. It was, however, the custom to add to a man's own Christian name that of his father. These peculiarities cause much trouble, in tracing genealogies. There is one drawback on this difficulty, however, which is that the name of a person, as written, usually gives the Christian name of his father; thus Stoffel Dircks, means Stoffel the son of Dirck; Thys Janse means Thys the son of Jan. The terminations used for this purpose were various, but principally these: s, z, es, se, ces, en, sz.”
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