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1. “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”
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. Apparently at least two Osborn siblings married two Longstreet siblings or perhaps four married four; per “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
A. “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..."
B. “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)..."
C. “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 (?)”
D. “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."
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