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The Bergen Bloomers, submitted by Robert Bloomer submitted in 2007 - Robert John Bloomer RBloo17022@aol.com 801 465-3057 801 3104062 Author and Compiler of the Bloomer Family in America 1634-1988

AARON E. ACKERMAN, of Hackensack, is of the seventh generation from David Ackerman, the first of the family in America (see sketch on page 53). He was born at Saddle River, Bergen County, September 6, 1836, and is a son of Peter Ackerman and Eliza Eckerson, and a grandson of Albert Ackerman and Eliza, his wife. This Albert served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Aaron Ackerman's maternal grandparents were Aaron Eckerson and Matilda Westervelt. As will be seen, Mr. Ackerman is of Dutch extraction on both sides of the family tree. He was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, remaining on his father's farm until he reached the age of seventeen. He then entered the employ of Conklin & Post, of Schraalenburgh, as a carpenter, and continued with that well known firm for about twenty-three years. On the death of Mr. Post he became a partner with Peter L. Conklin, the senior member of the old firm. The new firm of Conklin & Ackerman continued in business eight years, or until 1882, when Mr. Conklin retired after an active life of forty years. Mr. Ackerman succeeded to the business, which he still conducts, and which is one of the oldest of the kind in East Jersey, having been in continuous existence for nearly sixty years. And under his able and energetic management it has not only retained but greatly increased its old-time prestige and usefulness. The buildings and other carpenter work which he has erected in Hackensack and vicinity would, if enumerated, make a list that would fill a good sized volume. Mr. Ackerman is a man of acknowledged ability and integrity, and both in business and social relations has always enjoyed the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Enterprising, patriotic, and public spirited, he has taken from the first a deep interest in municipal affairs, and liberally encourages every worthy project. He served three years and one month in the War of the Rebellion, becoming a second sergeant, and is a prominent member of the Second Reformed Church of Hackensack. He married Miss Abigail Wygant, and they have two daughters: Nellie, born in 1863, and Fannie, born in 1871. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 55.

JOHN N. ACKERMAN is a descendant in the direct line from David Ackerman, the first American ancestor of the family. Southeast of Rotterdam, in Dutch Brabant, twenty-four miles from Breda, is the City of Bois-Le-Due, called by the natives Hertogenbosch. It is now the chief town of North Brabant, and was built and strongly fortified in the eleventh century, though it was a place of some note much earlier, being near the Maas River and the great highway built by the Romans in their later conquests in Northern Europe. In the seventeenth century there was much heath land to the south and west of it which has since been reclaimed. Agriculture and manufacturing were then, as now, the main employments of the people, Tilbury, the nearest city, being noted for its extensive cloth manufactories. The city contains the chapel and church of St. John, built in 1260 and rebuilt in 1312, one of the oldest and best preserved edifices in Northern Europe. From the city a road leads almost direct to the renowned battlefield of Waterloo. Near Bois-Le-Due, in about 1620, was born David Ackerman, the son of a farmer and the progenitor of the Ackerman family in Hudson and Bergen Counties. Growing to manhood, he married in 1644, and engaged in tilling the soil until the stampede to the New World, caused by religious persecution and the threatened war with Spain and England drew him into its vortex. Being an ardent Protestant, he could not brook the fanatical domination of Romanism and when in August, 1662, the power of the state could no longer protect him in the exercise of his religious liberty, he, with many of his neighbors, including the Storms, Terbosches, and others, whose descendants have since become a numerous host in Bergen County, embarked with their families on board the Dutch West India ship "Fox" (Captain Jacob Hays), and on September 2, following, landed at New Amsterdam. David had with him his wife and six children-the latter aged respectively twenty, eighteen, sixteen, twelve, eight, and six years. It has been said "it may be doubted whether he survived the voyage"; but there is little reason for such doubt. It is true that the emigrant list published is a list of those who sailed from Holland ports, not of those who actually arrive at New Amsterdam. It is likewise true that the records make no further mention of either David or his wife. But these facts furnish no ground to doubt their arrival on our shores. The first family abode was in the Markvelt Stegg. In 1668 the family nucleus was at New Harlem. Whether David or his wife were living at the time of the removal to Harlem, whether Elizabeth on her marriage and removal to Harlem took her brothers with her, are at best subjects of conjecture. David may have died at the Markvelt Stegg residence, or he may have removed to Harlem and died there. However this may be, as no public records of deaths were kept, the date of his death and that of his wife, as well as her name, are facts which are likely never to be ascertained, except by accident. Of the children, Ann was the first to break the family circle by her marriage in 1664, and subsequent removal up the Hudson. Elizabeth followed her example in 1668, uniting in marriage with the somewhat renowned Kier Walters (ancestor of the Kiersens), who, however, died two years later. Lawrence was a youth of untiring energy and persevered in everything he undertook. In 1669, being then only nineteen, he hired a portion of what was then called the Archer farm at Harlem. In 1679 he married Greetje Egberts and remained at Harlem until 1685, during which time two daughters were born to him. David, the eldest son, went to New York, where, in 1680, he married Hellegorid Ver Planck, and remained there until 1686, during which time several children were born to him. Lodowyck, who seems, at first, to have been rather a wild boy, went to Kingston, N. Y., where, in 1681, he wooed and wedded Miss Jemeke Blaeck, by whom he had at least two children. After his removal to Bergen County his wife died and he married Hillegorid Bosch, by whom he had two children. Abraham, the youngest of the children, married, in 1683, at New York, Aeitje Van Lear, by whom he had six children before his removal to New Jersey, and four more in New Jersey. Lawrence and David were the first of the family to remove to Bergen County in 1686. Lodowyck and Abraham followed in 1694. They all settled on large tracts of land between the Hackensack and Saddle Rivers, and also west of the Saddle River. The family became very numerous both in Bergen and in what is now called Passaic County. Numerous members of the family have been the most active and influential in the county, and have been honored with town, county and State offices. Others have been important factors in religious work, and have attained eminence in various branches of learning. Lawrence Ackerman was buried at Wyckoff or Oakland. His children were John and James. John Ackerman, son of Lawrence, married Catherine Romaine. Both are buried at Wyckoff or Oakland. Their children were Lawrence, Nicholas, and James. Nicholas Ackerman, son of John, was born January 24, 1796, died June 1, 1869, married Polly or Maria Snyder, who was born in 1801, died March 24, 1877. Their children were John N., born January 28, 1818; Abraham, born August 27, 1830; and George. John N. Ackerman, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Franklin Township, Bergen County, N. J., January 28, 1818, and is now one of the oldest residents of Hackensack. He is the eldest son of Nicholas Ackerman and Polly or Maria Snyder, a grandson of John Ackerman and Catharine Romeyn, and a great-grandson of Lawrence Ackerman. He was educated in the public schools of Franklin Township. He left home at the age of fifteen, and for two years worked at the trade of carriage making. Since then he has earned his own livelihood. When seventeen he went to New York City and learned the carpenter's trade, mastering every branch. In 1837 he returned to Hackensack, N. J., married Rachel R. Vanderbeck, and engaged in business as a manufacturer of sash, doors, and blinds, which he followed with marked success until 1896, a period of fifty-nine years. He then retired to enjoy in private life the fruits of a long and honorable career. Mr. Ackerman has resided in Hackensack since he established himself in business there in 1837, and from the first has taken an active interest in the growth and development of the town, and all those public matters which appeal to the progressive spirit of a patriotic, energetic citizen. Though never aspiring to office, and as a rule avoiding political life, he was for ten years a Justice of the Peace, and in this and other minor capacities has displayed great ability, sound judgment, and commendable enterprise. Mr. Ackerman was married, June 14, 1837, in Hackensack, to Rachel Ryerson Vanderbeck, born February 7, 1806, died June 26, 1891, a descendant, like himself, of one of the old Holland Dutch families of Bergen County. Their children are George J. Ackerman, born March 27, 1839, and Mary R. Ackerman, born September 27, 1845. George J. Ackerman, oldest child of John N. and Rachel R. Ackerman, married Julia A. Groesbeck, December 24, 1863. She was born November 24, 1842, and died April 11, 1886. They had one child, George Groesbeck Ackerman, born November 6, 1867, who married, September 27, 1893, Emeline Inglehart, of Watertown, N. Y., who was born December 3, 1869. They have one child, Alison Groesbeck Ackerman, born October 13, 1806. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 53-55.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, M. D. Occasionally we find an American born with royal lineage, but very seldom do we find that lineage traceable through both the English and French royalties to the earliest rulers of the Norman-French dynasties. The subject of this sketch furnishes such an instance. From Charles Martel to Charlemagne, touching the English line in Matilda, the wife of William the Conqueror, and again in the Welsh line, in the marriage of Sir John Ap Adam to Elizabeth De Gournai and from there to Sir William Adams, Lord Mayor of London in 1630, whose brother Henry, the immediate ancestor of John and Samuel Adams, the line continues,in unbroken links to the present Dr. Adams. Still further, Ruth Wadsworth, a descendant of John Alden and daughter of the first president of Harvard College, was the great-grandmother of the doctor. Thus allied with royal blood on the other side of the water, this family of such honored distinction in American statesmanship and literature, gains for itself a greater renown where there are no thrones to mount or titles to augment the name. Rev. John Quincy Adams, the father of Dr. Adams, was a distinguished clergyman of the Baptist church in the city of New York. It was here Charles Francis Adams was born March 18, 1857. A course in the public schools of New York was followed by a three years' course in Mount Washington Institute. He then engaged in business, in which he continued three years. In 1874 he entered the Hudson River Institute at Claverack, N. Y., and in 1877 was graduated from the school with honors. Entering Brown University immediately after this, he was graduated cum laude in the class of 1881. His medical studies were begun in the New York Homoepathic College, from which he was graduated with high honors in the class of 1884. Upon the completion of his medical studies Dr. Adams settled in Hackensack, where he has not only attained to eminence in his profession, but, during the fourteen years' residence here, has also maintained the honor and dignity of the family name. Upon the declaration of war with Spain, Dr. Adams, who was one of the assistant surgeons of the Second Regiment, N. G., N. J., at once went out with his regiment. He was soon promoted to be regimental surgeon, with the rank of major, and served with distinction until the close of the war. James Van Valen, History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1900

THE ALLEN FAMILY of Bergen County is descended from Peter Garrets Van Halen. The name is probably derived from Haelen or Haalen, a town in Belgian Limbourg, from which place the family originally hailed. The name has gone through several forms: Haelen, Halen, Aelen, Alen, and Allen. Peter Van Halen was the son of Gerret Van Halen, of the City of Rotterdam, in Holland, where Peter was born about 1687. He came to America in 1706 and settled in the Paramus section of Bergen County, where, on the 11th of August of that year, he married, at Hackensack, Tryntie Hendricks Hopper. He purchased lands on the west side of the Saddle River, where he resided and reared a large family of children, whose names were Henry, 1706; Garret, 1798; William, 1710; Andrew, 1712; Maritie, 1714; Willempie, 1716; Lea, 1718; Rachel, 1723; Andrew, 1725; and John, 1727, all baptized at Hackensack. The descendants of these by the name of Allen and Van Allen are very numerous in the western part of Bergen County. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 107.

GEORGE H. ATWOOD. In full view of the White Hills of Mount Washington stands '"Sugar Hill," in the town of Lisbon, N. H., where George H. Atwood was born, on November 9th, 1838. He was the seventh son of Moses K. Atwood, a wheelwright and maker of fine sleighs and carriages. The family ancestors came from England at an early period, and both father and mother were pious and devoted Christians. Upon the death of his father, the mother was left with nine children, and shortly after this, George H., then but eight years of age, went to live with Joseph Clark, who owned a good-sized farm at Carroll, N. H. Mr. Clark had no children, and young Atwood worked on the farm, and during the winter and school terms did the chores and attended the village school. He spent the evenings in reading, and frequently engaged in the village debating society. At the age of thirteen he professed conversion, and was baptized in a pond, fed by mountain springs, at Whitefield, N. H., and united with the Baptist Church. In 1857, Mr. Atwood's real business career began when he became a clerk in his uncle's jewelry store, at Littleton. N. H., continuing in that business until he came to New York, in 1863, where he engaged with the old linen collar and cuff house of Bennett. Strickland & Fellows, as entry clerk, and was rapidly advanced to bookkeeper, then to cashier, and, in 1868, to the position of manager and credit man of the New York house, a place he has occupied with honor to the house for the past thirty-six years. During these years he has managed the credits of the New York house, had charge of the salesmen and directed the affairs of this extensive business through successive changes of firms, the present firm of Fellows & Company being really the oldest collar and cuff manufacturers in the United States, having been established in Troy, N. Y., in 1834. In all his transactions he enjoys the confidence of his employers in the highest degree. In 1864 Mr. Atwood was made a Mason in Sagamore Lodge No. 371, New York City, and became Senior Deacon, Senior Warden and Worshipful Master in rapid succession, the lodge greatly prospering under his brilliant administration. The lodge presented him with a gold watch and chain upon his retiring from the mastership. He was made a Royal Arch Mason in 1865, in Phoenix Chapter No. 2, New York, and was immediately elected Principal Sojourner of the Chapter. He was also made a Knights Templar in Palestine Commandary No. 18, New York, in 1865, under a dispensation of the Grand Commander, being given all the degrees at one conclave, and was at the next conclave elected Prelate of the Commandary, filling the office with marked ability for years. During 1865-6-7, while visiting Hackensack and when Pioneer Lodge was young, he attended the lodge meeting, conferred degrees, installed officers and gave valuable counsel. His membership is now with Pioneer Lodge No. 70, F. & A. M. of Hackensack as a Past Master. In 1865 he became a boarder at the Hackensack House, kept by A. Van Saun, and on December 22nd, 1866, was married to Miss Lucy Sheldrake, eldest daughter of the late George H. Burt of Hackensack, where he has since resided. Six children have been born of this marriage, three boys and three girls, all living. Early identifying himself with the interests of the town, he became one of the founders of the Public Library and Reading Room and one of its first trustees. Taking the lead he arranged for a course of popular lectures for its benefit, which netted them $350. So anxious was Mr. Atwood for the financial success of this cause that he personally sold lecture tickets on the trains. He 1869 he was a member of the choir in the Second Reformed Church, Dr. George H. Fisher, pastor. Being a Baptist, in May, 1870. he started a subscription to build a Baptist Church, and personally secured $1500 before any one else had raised a dollar, and on the third of July a church was organized with eleven members who received the right hand of fellowship by Deacon DeWolfe and his wife, the only surviving members of a church that existed in Hackensack about thirty-five years prior to that time, Mr. Atwood being one of the eleven organizers. Ground was broken on September 7th of that year and on December 30th following the present church edifice was dedicated. He has labored zealously in both church and Sunday school ever since, holding the various offices of trustees, clerk and deacon in the church while he has been a teacher in the Sunday school for twenty-nine years, and three times elected superintendent, which position he now holds. In 1873 he was President of the New Jersey Sunday School Convention, comprising thirty-five schools. Mr. Atwood has been a liberal and cheerful giver to Home and Foreign Missions, and to every good and benevolent work. James Van Valen, History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1900

ABRAM I. AURYANSEN, of Hackensack, whose career as a locomotive engineer dates from 1852, is the son of John and Elizabeth (Auryansen) Auryansen, and was born in Closter, Bergen County, N. J., April 5, 1822. His first American ancestor was Lambert Arianse, who came from Holland to America in 1682, and became one of the original patentees of the Tappan patent. Most of his descendants adopted the name of Smith and are scattered principally throughout Rockland County, N. Y. Lambert Arianse (or Auryansen) married in New York, in April, 1682, Margaretta Gerrets Blawvelt, a daughter of another of the Tappan patentees, and resided in Rockland County. Two of his sons, John and Arie (Aaron), who married respectively Margaretta Meyers and Cornelia Naugle, settled near Closter, Bergen County, N. J. The subject of this sketch is descended from Arie (Aaron) Auryansen and Cornelia Naugle, who had children John, Resolvent, Vroutie, Garret, Ann, and Maria. Mr. Auryansen’s paternal grandparents were Daniel and Tiny (Cole) Auryansen, Daniel being a son of John Auryansen. His maternal grandparents were Garrett and Elleanor (Van Valen) Auryansen and his great-great-grandfather Aaron Auryansen, above mentioned. Mr. Auryansen received his educational training in the public schools of Harrington Township in Bergen County, and in hard work and study developed those traits which have marked his long and honorable career. As a boy he exhibited unusual mechanical genius and a strong inclination for that line of industry, and leaving school at the age of seventeen began to learn the trade of blacksmith. In 1843 he engaged in this business for himself and followed it with great success for eight years, leaving it in 1851 to accept a position as fireman on the Erie Railroad. In 1852 he was promoted to locomotive engineer, and in this capacity has ever since been in active service. He is one of the oldest and best known engineers on the Erie system, his career on that road covering a period of forty-eight years. His profession has always been of a nature which precluded his entrance into public and political life, yet he has from the first taken a deep interest in local matters, and in Hackensack, here he has so long resided, he has exerted no small influence upon the general welfare. As a member of the Dutch Reformed Church he has been active in the support of those movements which benefit a town and its people. He is a loyal, public spirited citizen, a firm friend, and a man of unswerving integrity. Mr. Auryansen married Cornelia Haring, whose ancestors were also early residents of Bergen County. They have four children: John, Maria, Ellen, and Eliza. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 119.

Abram B. Banta who for forty years has been identified with the grocery trade in Hackensack, is a son of John H. Banta and grandson of Henry W. Banta both of whom were life long residents of Hackensack. The father established the grocery trade on Main and Bridge Streets in 1846, and was identified with that stand until his death thirty-eight years afterward. In 1836 he was married to Lydia Bartholf, who is still living at the age of eighty-one years. Their children were, Henry; Jane T., wife of Thomas H. Camming; Abram B.; John; and Cornelius T. Mr. John H. Banta was at one time Sheriff of Bergen County. Abram B. Banta was born in 1842 and when seventeen years of age went into the grocery business, which he has followed ever since. In 1882, the Banta Brothers started their branch store at Passaic Avenue and Main Street. In 1866, Mr. Banta was married to Miss Rebecca Westervelt and five children have been born of this union. James Van Valen, History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1900

William Sickles Banta, is a lineal descendant of Epke Jacob Banta who emigrated to this country in 1659, coming from Amsterdam in the ship De Trow. This emigrant was born at Harlengen, West Friesland, Holland. Upon his arrival in America he settled at English Neighborhood, now Fairview, and in 1679 was a Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The Banta family remained in this part of Bergen County until about 1750, when Yan Banta, the great-grandfather of William S. removed to Pascack, Washington Township, where he died. His large landed estate was divided among his children. Hendrick his eldest son who was born May 27, 1749, succeeding his father in the old homestead. In 1803 Hendrick died leaving 500 acres of land to be divided among his five sons, one of whom was Henry H., the father of William S. In those early days it was a custom, born of necessity, for young men to learn some useful trade. Of the five sons of Hendrick Banta, but one left home to engage in mercantile pursuits. Henry H., the father of Judge Banta, learned the trade of shoemaker, but the real business of his life was merchandise and farming. In 1833, he removed to Hackensack and formed a partnership with his brother Teunis, under the firm name of H. H. & T. Banta, in which he continued until his death in 1849. Mr. Banta was for some years postmaster of Hackensack, receiving his appointment from General Francis Granger, and was a member of the New Jersey State Militia, with the rank of Adjutant. He was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, serving three terms, from 1829 to 1834, from 1838 to 1843, and 1843 to 1848. Public spirited, active and alive to the best interests of both church and state, he wielded an influence for good, commanding the confidence and respect of his fellow men. [graphic] The maternal ancestry of Judge Banta are of good stock, his mother being Jane, daughter of William Sickles of Rockland County, N. Y., born January 19, 1792, and died September 2, 1870. She was a descendant of Zacharias Sickles, who was born in Vienna, Austria, going to Holland and from there to Curacoa, one of the Dutch West Indies, serving in the military rank of cadet. It was here he met Governor Peter Stuyvesant, and came to New York with him in 1655, soon after becoming attached to the garrison at Fort Orange (Albany), returning to New York in 1693. Judge William S. Banta was born at Pascack, December 12, 1824, and was educated in the public schools, finishing his preparatory course for college, in the private classical school of Rev. John S. Mabon at Hackensack. After being graduated from Rutgers College in 1844, he began the study of law in the office of Abram O. Zabriskie, of Hackensack, afterward Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. Mr. Banta was admitted to the Bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 1847, and as a counsellor in 1851. Soon after his admission to the Bar, Judge Banta was appointed Master and Examiner in Chancery, later being made special Master in Chancery and Supreme Court Commissioner. After acting as Superintendent of Schools in the Township of New Barbadoes (under the old law), he was appointed by the Board of Freeholders to act with Rev. Albert Amerman on the Board of Examiners, a place which he filled with efficiency for several years. In 1860 he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County, and reappointed in 1865. A Republican in politics, he held the office of Deputy Internal Collector from 1862 to 1865. The Judge was President and Treasurer of the Hackensack Gas Light Company for many years, and also Secretary and Treasurer of the Bergen County Mutual Fire Assurance Association, and was one of the first members of the Hackensack Improvement Commission. In 1872 he was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Ashbel Green, Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1873 was reappointed to the same place for five years. In 1879 Judge Banta was appointed Associate Judge of the same court. He was for several years one of the managers of the Morris Plains Asylum. In 1850 Judge Banta was married to Sarah, daughter of John and Katy Ann (Hopper) Zabriskie, of Hohokus, who died in 1853, leaving a son, who died in infancy. His second wife was Adelia, a sister of his first wife, who died in 1869. His present wife is Jane Anne, daughter of Abram H. and Maria (Anderson) Berry, a lineal descendant of John Berry, one of the original patentees of Bergen County. James Van Valen, History of Bergen County, 1900.

THE BERRY FAMILY.  One of the earliest emigrants at Bergen was John Berry, an Englishman who came from Christ Church Parish in the Island of Barbadoes, presumably with Kingsland, Sandford, Moore, and one or two others. He was, perhaps one of the most active and energetic of all the emigrants and certainly the most liberal. In 1668 he bought all the lands between the Hackensack and Saddle Rivers, extending from the Sandford patent as far north as Cherry Hill in Bergen County. The same year he bought three other tracts: one of 1,500 acres on the Hudson River adjoining Edsall, another of 2,000 acres at Schraalenburgh, and another of nearly that number of acres on the upper Saddle River. He came to be one of the most wealthy of the Bergen settlers, and in a sense "ran the towne." He was member of the Governor's Council several years, at one time acting Governor, member of the Colonial Assembly, a Justice for Bergen County, a Captain and Major in the militia, and Commander of the "Bergen Rangers" or train bands. In 1670 he bought land at Bergen, where he made his home. He gave lands for various purposes, especially the land at Hackensack on which stands the "Church on the Green." He died in New York, leaving a large family of children, among whom were John, Mary, Samuel, Richard, Francis, and Francina. Most of these remained in Bergen County, where their descendants are still numerous. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 100-101.

THE BERTHOLFS, who are very numerous in Bergen County, particularly in the western part, are descended from Guilliam Bertholf, who was born at Sluys in Flanders, and with his wife, Martina Hendricks Verwey, came to America in 1684 and first located at Bergen in New Jersey, where they joined the church, October 6, 1684, and where their son Henry was baptized April 6, 1686. Guilliam had studied theology at Middleburgh, Holland, and had come to America in the capacity of catechiser voorleser and schoolmaster. In these capacities he labored at Bergen until 1690, when he removed to Hackensack, where the people so esteemed him that in 1693 they sent him to Holland to the licensed as a minister of the Dutch Church. The Classis of Middleburgh, Holland, ordained and licensed him, and on his return in 1694 he accepted the pastorate of the "Church on the Green," at Hackensack, where he preached until his death. For the first fifteen years of his ministry he is said to have been the only Dutch preacher in New Jersey. During his pastorate he had the control of all the surrounding churches, preaching at Tappan, Tarrytown, Staten Island, Raritan, Pompton, Belleville, and The Ponds. He was a well-read and eloquent man, indefatigable in his work, and organized many churches. His issue were Sarah, Maria, and Elizabeth (all born at Sluys in Flanders), and Henry, Corynus, Jacobus, Martha, and Anna, all of whom joined the Hackensack church. Sarah married David D. Demarest, Maria married John Bogert, Elizabeth married John Terhune and Rolof Bogert, Henry married Mary Terhune, Corynus married Ann Ryerson, Martin married Albert Bogert, Jacobus married Elizabeth Van Emburgh, Ann married Abraham Varrick. Rev. Guilliam Bertholf purchased from John Berry, a farm at Hackensack, extending from the Hackensack to the Saddle River, on which the village of Hackensack is now partly located, and there he died, universally respected, in 1724. All his children remained in Bergen County, over which their descendants are thickly scattered. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 107-108.

THE BLACKLEDGES of Bergen County are descended from John Blackleach, of Boston, and his second wife, Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Herbert), One of their three children, Philip Blackledge, came, it is said, from Wethersfield, Conn., to New York, in 1709, and on November 29, 1710, married Willempie Conwell, born in England in 1680. Philip Blackledge removed from New York to Elizabethtown, N. J., early in 1723, and there remained until his death in 1761. His will was proved and recorded at Trenton, N. J., July 11, 1761. He was a man of some means and wrote the title “Gentleman” after his name. By his will he gave his children each five shillings and the balance of his estate, lands and money, to his wife absolutely. His issue were eight children, four baptized at New York and four at Elizabethtown, N. J.: Annatie, 1713; Philip 1716; Zacharias, 1718; Philip 1720; Catharine, 1730; Jacob, 1735; Sarah, 1740; and Benjamin. Benjamin Blackledge (2) was born at Elizabethtown, N. J., August 25, 1743. While still a young man he went on foot from Elizabethtown to Closter and taught school there, the first one in the northern part of Bergen County. Here he married, April 20, 1770, Cathelyntie Tallman. He became the most prominent man in the northern part of Bergen County, was the first Town Clerk of Harrington Township in 1775, a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of the County Count [sic] of Common Pleas, and filled other township and county offices. He was a splendid penman, of which fact hundreds of old deeds and other documents still extant bear witness. He died at Closter, November 27, 1815, and his wife died October 5, 1836. His issue were Benjamin, 1770; Maria, 1772; Cornelius 1774; Sarah, 1776; Jacobus, 1779; Peter, 1782; Henry, 1784, Jacob, 1786; and Elizabeth, 1788. These married as follows: Benjamin, Deborah Westervelt and Lea Powless; Mria, Daniel Van Sciver; Cornelius, Rachel Powless; Sarah, Seba P. Bogert; Peter, Elizabeth D. Naugle; Henry, Catharine Manning; and Elizabeth, Cornelius Van Valen. Their descendants are still numerous throughout Bergen County. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, pages 126-127.

THE BLANCHES of Bergen County are descended from Richard Blanch, a native of Bristol, England, where he was born in 1704. He came to America prior to 1732, and settled near Closter in Bergen County. In 1733 he married Classie Van Giesen, of New York. He owned lands in what was then called the “Closter Mountains,” on the Palisades of the Hudson. He died September 6, 1767. His use ere Ann, 1734; Isaac, 1736; Thomas; and Cornelia, 1745. Of these Ann married John Blawvelt, of Tappan. Isaac married Geertje Johns Haring. Cornela married David Smith. All of Richard Blanch’s children settled at Tappan and in the upper part of Bergen County. The issue of Isaac Blanch were Isaac, Martina, Richard, Abram, Thomas, John Henry, and Classie. Thomas Blanch (2) was one of the most prominent men in Bergen County in his day. He was a magistrate and held other township and county offices. He raised and was Captain of a company of volunteers from Bergen County during the Revolutionary struggle. He was born near Closter in 1740, and died June 3, 1825. He married, in 1761, Effie Johns Mabie, of Tappan, who was born in 1741, and died August 28, 1825. Their issue were thirteen children: Elizabeth, 1762; Classie, 1763; Ann, 1765; Richarf, 1766; Susanna, 1769; John, 1770; Thomas, 1774; Isaac, 1776; Elizabeth, 1779, and Cornelia, 1779 (twins); Effie, 1783; and Lea, 1786, and Rachel, 1786 (twins). The descendants of these are scattered over Bergen County, particularly the northern part. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 127.

DAVID D. BLAWVELT. After the Demarests and Harings, the Blawvelts are the most numerous of the families that settled the northern part of Bergen County. On the east bank of the River Yssel, in the Province of Overyssel, in Holland, nestles the by no means sleepy town of Deventer-the birthplace of the great Gronovios and the still greater Groote, a town of iron foundries and carpet manufactories, famous for its "honey cakes," a species of gingerbread, tons of which are annually shipped to different parts of the kingdom. The Valley of the Yssel, traversed as it is by numerous tributaries to the river, is exceedingly fertile, and the lands about Deventer are among the most productive of any in Holland. Near Deventer, in 1623, was born of well-to-do Dutch parents one Garret Hendricksen, who, as a youth, is said to have been possessed of a restless spirit. In 1644 he tired of agricultural pursuits, left the paternal fold, and found his way to America, landing, as all emigrants in those days did, at New Amsterdam. Two years later he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Lambert Moll, a native of Berne, who had emigrated to America a few years earlier and was then domiciled at Bushwick, L. I. Garret Hendricksen and his wife, Mary Moll, lived and died in New Amsterdam, having had thirteen children, most of whom adopted the surname of Blawvelt (Blue-Field), in memory, it is said, of the blue hills about Deventer. Of Garrett Hendricksen's sons, Hybert, John, Abraham, and Isaac Blawvelt were destined to transplant the name in Bergen County, principally in Harrington and Washington Townships. Hybert and John (2) joined in the purchase of the Tappan patent, in 1686, and in 1689, with others of the family, became members of the Tappan settlement. Hybert married, April 15, 1679, Wellempie Ariense, a sister of one of his co-patentees, and located in Harrington Township on the Tappan road, just north of what was once known as the "Old Jug" tavern. His brother Abraham (2) settled on the west side of the road leading along the run north of the mill, late of Peter A. Demarest. Isaac and another brother settled on a large tract on which are now the residences of John R. Herring and others. Like the Demarests and Harings, though not to such an extent, the Blawvelts had much to do with the administration of civil, military, and religious affairs of Bergen County. David D. Blawvelt is of the sixth generation in direct line from Garret Hendricksen, the emigrant. He was born at Tappan, Bergen County, November 17, 1819, and is a son of David C. Blawvelt (who was born February 10, 1773, died January 30, 1835, married Maria Demarest, born April 12, 1770, died May 13, 1843), a grandson of Cornelius Blawvelt (born January 9, 1744, died January 11, 1832), who also married a Demarest. His father had six children-four sons and two daughters: one daughter died in 1824, aged nineteen; the other July 5, 1887, aged eighty-eight; James D. Blawvelt died in 1891, at the age of ninety; Cornelius D. died aged eighty-two; and John D. is still living at the age of eighty-four. Educated in the public schools of his native county and reared amid scenes of ancestral associations and agricultural activity, Mr. Blawvelt started, at the early age of sixteen, to learn the trade of cabinet marking, which he followed successfully for fourteen years, gaining in the business a wide an honorably reputation. But this was not to be his life work. The influences and surroundings of his youth drew him back to rural pursuits, and since 1853 he has been actively engaged in farming in Schraalenburgh. When the War of the Rebellion broke out Mr. Blawvelt enlisted in the Union cause, becoming first sergeant of Company C, Twenty-second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. He served nine months, returned with an honorable discharge, and resumed his labors on the farm. In public life Mr. Blawvelt has rendered valuable service to his town and fellow citizens. He was surveyor of township roads for a number of years, one of the Township Committee for three years, a member of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders for four years, Town Assessor for six years, and a member of the Town Council for three years. In each of these capacities he displayed eminent ability, sound judgment, and great sagacity. He has been a consistent member of the Dutch Reformed Church since April, 1860. Mr. Blawvelt has been married fifty-eight years, his wife's maiden name being Elizabeth Quackenbush. They have had eight children, seven of whom-four sons and four daughters are living. They also have thirty-four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mr. Blawvelt inherited his ancestors' worthy lives, has instilled into the minds of his descendants those qualities of head and heart which have served him so well, and which have won for him the confidence and respect of the entire community. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 68-69.

JOHN M. BOGERT is descended from the same common ancestor as Matthew J. Bogert, whose genealogy has been given. Peter M. Bogert, of the fourth generation from Jan Louwe Bougaerdt and son of Matthew P. Bogert (3d gen.), was born at Closter, April 12, 1736, died there 1809, married November 22, 1769, Rachel Banta, born 1740. He was a plain farmer and resided near Closter on part of the lands which his father had bought. He also purchased other lands adjoining them. His children of the firth generation were Margaret, Mary Ann, Matthew P., Seba, Sophia, Samuel, and Margaret. His uncle, Peter Bogert, resided and was one of the earliest settlers west of the Hackensack in Washington township. He was born west of the Hackensack in Washington Township. He was born in 1765 and died in 1786. He was a man of wealth, a Judge of the Bergen County Common Pleas, and held many other offices. Seba Bogert (5th gen.), born at Closter, March 25, 1774, died April 27, 1846, married Sarah Blackledge, born May 20, 1776, died December 20, 1811. Seba was a farmer and resided all his days at Closter. His children of the sixth generation were Peter S., Benjamin S., Matthew S., Samuel S., Henry S., Jacob S., Peter S., and Rachel. Matthew S. Bogert (5th gen.), born at Closter, April 9, 1799, died October 23, 1874, married January 31, 1824, Maria Kipp, who died March 2, 1833. He married (2) November 13, 1833, Margaret Christie, widow, born October 27, 1794, died September 18, 1874. Matthew S. Bogert was a farmer, but was active in township affairs. His children of the seventh generation were Seba M. (now a Wall Street broker), Eliza, Sally, Catharine, David (a soldier in the Union army who died in the service), John M., and Samuel M., who served as a Union soldier and died April 5, 1871. John M. Bogert (7), the subject of this sketch, was born at Closter, N. J., August 6, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm, where he imbibed a great liking for horses, which he still entertains. His business is farming and training horses for speed. He married June 5, 1858, Jane Bogert, a daughter of John J. Bogert, born August 26, 1839. Upon his father's death he succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead at Closter, where he now resides. They have had seven children of the eighth generation, to wit: Margaret (died), David, Clark, Morton, Emma (died), Mabel (died), and Elmer. David Bogert (8th gen.) married in 1885 and has issue four children of the ninth generation, and Morton has one child. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, pages 60-61.

MATTHEW J. BOGERT. The Bougaerdts were a numerous and influential family in Holland, where they filled many important military and civic positions, and attained lasting fame in the arts, sciences, and literature centuries before the advent of any of them in America. Guilliaem Bougaert was Schout of the City of Dordrecht in 1423. His son Adam became first Professor of Music and Rector of the Academy at Leyden, where he died in 1482. He is buried in St. Peter's Church in Leyden, beneath a stone surmounted with a copper plate on which is an inscription setting forth his fame. This church was built in 1315 as a monument to Boerhave, the great physician, and contains the remains of the most distinguished worthies of Holland. Adam's son Jacob became first physician to the City of Antwerp and afterward was Profesor [sic] of Medicine and Surgery at Leyden for more than twenty years. Like his father he also attained the rectorship of the academy. He was a fluent writer on medical science, on which he published a treatise in five parts, the manuscript of which is now in the public library at Antwerp. Harman Myndertse Bougaert came to New Amsterdam in 1629, and was probably the first of the nature to locate in America. He was a medical man of long experience and was appointed official physician to the infant metropolis. In 1634 Rev. Everard Bogardus, a son of William Bougaert, and who wrote his name in Latin Everardus Bougardus, came over to New Amsterdam in company with Governor-General Wouter Von Twiller. Bogardus was the first regular preacher on Manhattan Island, where he married, in 1637, Ann, widow of Roelof Jansen, of Maeslandt, Holland, the lady about whom, and whose estate and Trinity Church, so much has been written and said during the last thirty years. Dominic Bogardus rented a tobacco plantation on the island and spent much time and labor upon it, tobacco being at that time the principal currency of the country. In time he quarreled with Governor Kieft because of the latter's cruelty to the New Jersey Indians. Kieft brought charges of immorality against him, the investigation of which was cut short by the superseding of Kieft, who was drowned off the coast of Wales. Joost (Justus) Bougaert, in 1641, was appointed by Queen Christina, of Sweden, commander of a colony on the east side of the Delaware River below Philadelphia. He held that position some time on an annual salary of 500 florins. In 1652 Teunis Gysbert Bougaert emigrated to New Amsterdam from Hey Koop, a little hamlet northeast of Leyden. Two years later he settled at Brooklyn, when he married Sarah Rapelje, a daughter of one of Brooklyn's earliest settlers. He was Mayor of Brooklyn for three years. His farm fronted on the Walabocht (Wallabout). His descendants scattered over Long Island and along the Raritan River in New Jersey. Matthew J. Bogert is descended from Jan Louwe Bougaerdt, a cousin of Gysbert, above named. Jan was cradled and grew to man's estate at Schoondewoerdt (a word meaning finer words), a small fortified village noted for its salmon fisheries, on a branch of the Maas River twenty miles above Rotterdam and about two miles from Hey Koop, the former home of his uncle Gysbert. Jan was reared a farmer, but early in life struck out for himself. Reaching manhood, he married Cornelia Evertse, the daughter of a well-to-do neighbor, and settled down to farming in his native town. In common with thousands of Hollanders he seems to have caught the prevalent emigration fever, for, on April 16, 1663, we find him and his family with many of his neighbors embarking at Amsterdam on the Dutch West India ship "Spotted Cow," bound for the shores of America. A month later the stanch craft touched the wharf at New Amsterdam, where some of the cargo of emigrants remained and others went to Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Albany. Jan, no doubt, desiring to be near his uncle, repaired to the vicinity of Bedford, L. K., where he bought a farm, and remained there until 1672. He must have been possessed of some means, as in the spring of that year he had an opportunity, of which he availed himself, to take charge of the farm of Dr. John de la Montagne near Harlem. On the 1st of May, 1671, he removed thither from Bedford, and thenceforward for a period of twenty years was an active participant in the civil and religious affairs of Harlem. That he prospered is evidenced by the fact that in 1679, 1691, and 1701 he bought lands at Hoorus Hook, Spuyten Duyvil, and on Hellegat Sound. He was chosen magistrate of Harlem in 1675 and 1676, but failed afterward in the realization of his political aspirations, which seem to have been strong. In 1695 he sold his lands at Bedford and in 1766 his farm lands at Harlem. The following spring, stricken in years, he and his wife removed to New Amsterdam (joining the Dutch Church there May 27, 1767), where they died soon after at a ripe old age. Jan Louwe Bougaerdt was a man of firmness and decision of character; born to command, rather than to follow; hasty in his temper, but prone to justice when cool; a man of his word, who demanded of his neighbor the exercise of the same quality; shrewd in protecting his own interests, but honest in his dealings with his neighbor; a man of sound judgment, keen intelligence, and possessing a large fund of general information; a stern but affectionate and dutiful husband and father, and a devoted Christian, all qualities which, under the trying circumstances in which he was placed, fitted him for the trials of a frontier life. They had nine children of the second generation, to wit: Peter Jansen, Margaretta, Gysbert, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Catharine, Cornelia, Janneke, and Jolin. Peter Jansen Bogert (2d gen.) born at Schoondewoerdt, Holland, in 1656, married in New York, September 29, 1686, Sophia, a daughter of Judge Matthias Flierboom, of Albany. He, with his sister Margaretta, and his brother Gysbert, removed to Tappan, then a part of Orange County, N. Y. Gysbert and Margaretta's husband purchased large tracts of land at Tappan, on which they settled. These were of the third generation, to wit: Cornelia, Maria, Elizabeth, Catalyntic, John P., Matthew P., Peter P., and Willemina. Matthew P. Bogert (3d gen.), baptized at Hackensack in 1702, married, in 1735, Margaretta Tuniscus Talman, and in January, 1740, bought of Bernardus Van Valen 250 acres of woodland south of Closter and extending from the Hudson River to the Tiena Kill Brook. The westerly part of this was soon cleared and stocked and a family mansion erected on the east side of the old road leading to Piermont. Matthew P. Bogert followed agricultural pursuits until his death in 1784. His children of the fourth generation were Peter M., Sophia, Cornelius, Maria, Matthew M., Maria, and Dowe. Matthew M. Bogert (4th gen.) by will obtained and resided on part of the homestead of his father at Closter until his death. He married, in 1777, Sarah Bogert, a relative of his, who survived him. He served as a private in the New Jersey militia in 1776. He was a farmer and left children of the fifth generation, to wit: Margaretta, Sarah, Maria, Matthew M., Albert M., and Sophia. Matthew M. Bogert (5th gen.), born November 6, 1779, died March 30, 1871, married May 9, 1801, Willempie Haring, born March 28, 1783, died July 25, 1859. Matthew M. (5) was also a farmer and resided on the homestead occupied by his ancestors at Closter. His children of the sixth generation were Sally, Jane, Margaret, Maria, and Jacob M. Jacob M. Bogert (6th gen.), born at Closter, N. J., May 15, 1819, died March 18, 1874, married, November 30, 1842, Maria Haring, born in 1823. She survives him and resides in Hackensack. He was a farmer by occupation. Their children of the seventh generation were Henry Ver Valen (deceased), Matthew J., Cornelia, Sarah Jane, Leah, and Huyler. Matthew J. Bogert (7th gen.), the subject of this sketch, born at Closter, N. J., May 1, 1846, was educated in the public schools at Closter and worked on his father's farm until  1864, when he became a clerk in the wholesale store of Pangborn & Bronner in New York City. Later he became a bookkeeper in the hardware house of H. Cater &  Son. May 22, 1873, he married Miss Mary A. Hopper, daughter of James G. Hopper, of Etna, N. J. In 1874 he embarked in the business of wood-turning in Pearl Street, New York. This he made a success, and with his partner, Abraham J. Hopper, now conducts an extensive business in William Street, New York, with mills at Kingsfield, Me. Mr. Bogert is an active, energetic, and thoroughly practical business man. Though an active Republican, with the exception of being Postmaster at Demarest, N. J., since 1892, he has never held any really political office. He has for several years been a member of the School Board of Harrington Township, and for twelve years has been a Director and Treasurer of the Harrington Building and Loan Association, which he helped to organize. He is prominent and active in religious work. He is now an Elder and has during several years held other offices in the Reformed Church at Closter, and for thirteen years has been Superintendent of the Sunday School of that church.  His living children of the eighth generation are Jessie (married in 1900 Frederick W. Mattocks, a New York lawyer), Virgil (now associated with his father in business), and Clarence, who has just entered Princeton University. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, pages 57-60.

THE BROWER FAMILY is another very numerous family in Bergen County. They are descended from Adam Brower, who emigrated to New Amsterdam from Cologne, France, in 1642. Three years later he married Madalena Jacobs Ferdon, of Long Island. He was a miller, and lived in New Amsterdam until 1647, when he removed to Brooklyn, where he joined the Dutch Church in 1677 and paid taxes from 1675 to 1698. His issue were fifteen children: Peter, Jacobus, Aeltie, Matthew, William, Mary, Magdalena, Adam, Abraham, Sophia, Ann, Sarah, Nicholas, Daniel, and Rachel. Peter, baptized in 1646, married (1) Pieternella Uldricks, (2) Gertrude Jans, and (3) Anne Jansen. He first resided at Flatlands, L. I., and subsequently removed to Brooklyn, where he died. His issue were Abram, John, Adolph, Magdalena, Ulrick, Adrientie, Vroutie, Cornelia, Jacob, Hanse, and Madeline. Abraham, John and Adolf removed to Hackensack about 1700, where Abraham married (1) lea Johns Demarest and (2) Elizabeth Ackerman. Ulrick married Hester de Vow, and John married Ann Hendricks Mandeville. The descendants of Abraham, Ulrick, John, and Adolph are to-day very numerous and scattered over the Counties of Bergen and Hudson. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 130.

J. HULL BROWNING, prominent financier and railroad president, was born at Orange, N. J., December 25, 1841, and is the son of John Hazzard Browning and Elizabeth Smith (Hull) Browning, both natives of New London County, Conn. His paternal ancestor, Nathaniel Browning, came to this country from England in 1645 and settled at Warwick, R. I. On the maternal side he descends from Rev. Joseph Hull, born in Somersetshire, England, in 1595, who settled in Weymouth, Plymouth Colony, in 1635, and in 1639 was one of the founders of Barnstable, Cape Code, Mass. The descendants of Rev. Joseph Hull were conspicuous in the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812, both in the army and navy. Colonel John Hull, grandfather of J. Hull Browning, commanded a regiment at the battle of Stonington, Conn. Mr. Browning was brought to New York at the age of two years, was educated in the public schools, and was graduated from the New York Free Academy (now the College of the City of New York). He engaged in the wholesale clothing business in New York City with two brothers until 1883. Upon the death of Charles G. Sisson, his wife’s father, he was left as executor of his estate, and one year later (1875) succeeded him as President of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, a position which he held till July 1897, when he sold out his interest in that corporation. He was left, also, as executor of his father’s estate and succeeded him as Director and later became President of the Richmond County Gas Light Company. HE has been prominently and successfully connected with numerous railroad and commercial enterprises. He improved the facilities of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, and built some of the finest railroad depots in the country to accommodate its business. Although a prominent and influential Republican, Mr. Browning has always refused offers of nominations for public office, but he has taken a leading part in every movement made to advance the interests of Bergen County and of the Town of Tenafly, where he resides. He was for some time President of the County Republican League and is Vice President of Christ Hospital in Jersey City, a charity which has profited by his business ability and generous liberality. HE was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket in 1892 and 1896, but with the exception of these honors, and local responsibilities in the Borough of Tenafly he has held no offices. In 1871, he marred Eva B. Sisson, daughter of Charles G. Sisson, of Jersey City, and they have one son, J Hull Browning, Jr. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 113.

CHARLES PITMAN BUCKLEY, Mayor of the Borough of Tenafly, Bergen County, and a prominent member of the bar of New York City, was born in West Bloomfield, Essex County, N. J., on the 22d of December, 1834. His father, John Buckley, who became a resident of Bergen County in 1845, was a native of Yorkshire, England, while his mother Elizabeth Van Gieson, was descended from Rynier Bastienstianse, a native of Giesen, a village in North Brabant, who came to this country in 1660 and taught the first school at Flatbush, L. I., also performing the duties of court master, rung the bell, kept the church in order, and performed the duties of precentor, attended to the burial of the dead, etc., for a salary of 200 florins, exclusive of perquisites. He removed to Bergen, N. J., where he and his sons Garret, Isaac, George, and Rynier bought land and later purchased and settled on lands north and northeast of Hackensack in Bergen County. Isaac died in 1703 and a son, Jacob, died in 1704. Mr. Buckley received his education in the public schools of New York City and Bergen County, N. J., and subsequently took up the study of law, being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court in New York City at the October term in 1858. Entering at once upon the active practice of his profession in New York, he was in partnership with William G. Wheelright until 1862, and afterward with Jesse C. Smith and John S. Woodward under the firm names of Smith & Woodward, Smith, Woodward & Buckley, and Woodward & Buckley. Since January 1, 1891, he has been associated with William W. Buckley under the firm name of C. P. & W. W. Buckley. In 1873 he was appointed mater in chancery by Chancellor Runyon. Mr. Buckley has resided in Tenafly since 1865. Upon the formation of Palisade Township in 1870, and thereafter for about ten years, he took an active part in political matters, attending all the State and county conventions, at the same time declining all nominations for office. In March, 1899, however, he became Mayor of the borough. He is a member of the Lawyers’ Club and of the New York Athletic club, of New York City, and of the Long Beach Club, of Barnegat, and the Tenafly Club, of Tenafly, N. J. Mr. Buckley was married in New York City, in 1857, to Ella Augusta Mix, who died in 1884, leaving four children: William W. Buckley, a graduate of Columbia College, New York City; Thomas J. Buckley, a graduate of Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.; and two daughters. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, pages 114-115.