anus; m., 2d, June 12, 1833, Mary Furman. Had children :- 133. Nelly or Nelte, b. Mar. 7, 1787; d. about 1821, single. 69. PETER, of Bushwick, m., 1st, Blake, widow of John Hulst. Will da. Sep. 21, 1821. Issue : 140. vii. Phebe, m. Wm. Conselyea. Messerole. 141. viii. Maria, m. May 29, 1811, Moses De Bevoise. 70. ELIZABETH, m. June, 1765, Harmanus Barkeloo, of New Utrecht, who had children:-Sarah, Catharine, Harmanus H., George, John or Johannes, William, Elizabeth, and Ann or Nancy. 71. JOHANNES, b. 1760; m., 1st, . . . . ; m., 2d, wid. Lee; d. 1836. Was a clergyman of the R. D. Ch., and officiated in Somerset Co, Issue : N. J. Elizabeth. 148. vi. Jane. 72. FEMMETJE, m. 1778, John Van Pelt, of N. Utrecht, and had children :-Rev. Peter I., George, Aart, William, and Phebe or Femmetje. 73. CATHARINE, m. Professor Peter Wilson, of Columbia College, Ñ. Y., and had children :-Elizabeth, Margaret, Phebe, Christina Cowenhoven, Catharine, Peter, and George. 74. GEORGE, of Bushwick, bp. Aug. 20, 1767; m. Polly or Mary, Sutphen, wid. Maria, of Sharp. Issue: George, b. Feb. 4, 1797. 149. i. 150. ii. Jacob Sharp, b. Ap' 19, 1798. 151. iii. Ann Sebring or Sabina, m. John Brower. DESCENDANTS OF TUNIS DURYEA (40) and Anna Rapalje. 97. CHARLES OR Carel, bp. Feb. 4, 1756. Will da. in 1795, his wife being dead at that date. Issue: DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM DURYEA (42) AND SARAH VAN WYCK. 102. ABRAHAM, m. Antje Schenck. Will da. Sep. 2, 1786, pro. June 9, 1789. Issue:— The foregoing is an imperfect sketch of a portion of the Duryea family, now very numerous, and principally located on Long Island, in the city of New York, and New Jersey. It is made up from notes gathered together by the author in his general researches for genealogical information of the early settlers of Kings county, with the hope that it will have the effect to spur up and induce some member of the Duryea family to gather materials and fill up and give a full and more perfect genealogy of his race. There was a "Jan Dorie or Durie" and a "Pieter de Ry or de Rea", as generally written on the church records of Hackinsack, who had children baptised in 1720 and 1723 in said town, whose descendants now write their names Duryea or Durje, and are numerous in that locality. This Jan and Pieter were probably grandsons of Joost, the emigrant, but of this no positive evidence. GENEALOGICAL FRAGMENTS. BY JOHN J. LATTING. FEAKE. HENRY FEAKE, (supposed) brother of Robert, first appears as an early settler at Saugus (Lynn), Massachusetts, in 1632, on the 14th May, of which year he is admitted as a freeman of that place. In the month of April, 1637, he is one of ten men, all of Saugus (being the second named on the list) to whom leave was granted by the Court of Assistants, sitting at Plymouth, to form a new settlement below Plymouth, on Cape Cod Bay, and to take up sufficient land there for the accommodation of sixty families. The settlement was speedily effected and the place named Sandwich. Mr. Feake was probably married at this time, but the name of his wife has not been ascertained. He had a daughter Elizabeth, who, on the 24th of March, 1650, was married to Capt. John Dillingham, the 2d son of his friend Edward Dillingham, who was one of his coassociates from Saugus in the settlement of Sandwich. He continued his residence in Sandwich till about the year 1652, when he joined a colony from New England, and, removing to Long Island, formed the new settlement near Flushing, to which the name of Middleburg was given-subsequently and now known as Newtown. Accompanying him was also Lieutenant William Palmer, of Yarmouth, who had married his niece, Judith Feake, the sister of Tobias Feake. I have failed to discover the time and place of his wife's death. This event must have occurred prior to 1654, for in that year he married, for his second wife, the Widow Johanna Wheeler. He is described as having at this time three children, while the Widow Wheeler had two by her first husband. The names of these children have not been discovered. It is not unlikely the families bearing this name, and now or recently residing in North Castle, Westchester County, may be descendants of these children of Henry Feake, or of some of them. There was no issue of this second marriage. Henry Feake, died at Middleburg (Newtown), in the latter part of the year 1657, having first made and published his last will and testament, dated 24th September, 1657, in the presence of John Moore and John Barker as witnesses. [See Dutch MSS. in office of Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y., Vol. VIII., p. 801.] TOBIAS FEAKE was the son of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, born there about 1622. He was the nephew of Robert and of Henry Feake, and came to New England about 1638-9. He had a sister, Judith (probably) older than he, who subsequently married William Palmer, of Yarmouth (his second wife). The earliest notice of Tobias Feake occurs on the 10th Dec., 1639, when he was in his seventeenth year, and (probably) residing with his married sister, Mrs. Palmer, at Yarmouth. They appear to have still held from the Company of Goldsmiths a leasehold, or some other interest, in the house and shop which was their father's, on Lombard street, in London; and at the above date, they, together with their uncle, "Lieut. Robert Feake of Watertown in New England, Gentleman," and Judith's husband, "Sergeant William Palmer of Yarmouth in New England," execute a Power of Attorney to their maternal uncle, Tobias Dixon, of London, to dispose of the above mentioned house and shop. It was about this date that Capt. Daniel (Kirk) Patrick and Capt. John Underhill, having been deprived of, or having surrendered, their military commissions under the Massachusetts Bay Company, removed, with Robert Feake, to Stamford and Greenwich, in Connecticut. On the 20th of April, 1640, Capt. Patrick made a purchase from the Norwalk Indians of several tracts of land on the west side of Norwalk River, in and near the present village of Norwalk. Tobias Feake was present at the consummation of this purchase, and signs the Deed as a witness. (Hall's His. Records of Norwalk, p. 31). From this time he probably followed the fortunes of Patrick and of his uncle, Robert Feake, who, in the month of July following, made a joint purchase from the Indians of a large tract of land at what is now Greenwich, Conn., and there fixed their residence. The next allusion to him that we find is in a letter addressed by Governor Eaton, of New Haven, to Governor Winthrop, of New London, on the 21st of July, 1648, in reference to the domestic difficulties in the family of Robert Feake, then absent in England. In this letter "Toby Feake" is given asauthority for denial of the unpleasant rumor industriously circulated respecting his aunt Elizabeth Feake and William Hallett. Patrick had been assassinated in a quarrel with a soldier, at the house of Capt. Underhill, in Stamford, in the month of January, 1644, leaving a widow and several children. Governor Winthrop, in his History of New. England, vol. 2, p. 151, speaks of her as "a good Dutch woman and comely." Her name was Annetje Aelbreghts (Albertse) Van Beyeren,. daughter of Albert Bastiensen Van Beyeren, of a family of some credit. and distinction, residing at the Hague, in Holland, where, it is presumed, she was married to Patrick some time during the period of his military service in the Low Countries in the army under the command of the then Prince of Nassau. At the time of Patrick's death she must have been somewhat the elder of young Master Feake, who had but just attained his majority. Be this as it may, her comeliness, and possibly her pecuniary prospects, obscured or overcame all impediments and discrepancies of age, and she shortly afterwards became the wife of Tobias Feake, now grown to man's estate. The actual date of their marriage has not been ascertained. It was probably before or about the time of his removal to Flushing, on Long Island, which, as is to be inferred from the statements in his Petition to the Lords Directors of the Dutch West India Compauy, hereafter mentioned, must have been in the year 1645. In the month of March, 1649, they are found residing together at Flushing. On the 31st of March, of this year, he binds his step-daughter, Annetje Patricx, to Cornelis Van Tienhoven; and, on the 14th of August, of the same year, Mrs. Feake gives to Adriaen Van der Donck, then "about to depart for Fatherland," a Power of Attorney to investigate the state of her affairs in Holland, and collect whatever may be coming to her. (Dutch MSS. in Secretary of State's office, Albany; Register of Provincial Secretary, Vol. III., p. 54.) From this time Tobias Feake apparently becomes an active and prominent participator in public affairs at Flushing. On the 26th November, 1653, he is a delegate from Flushing to a convention held at New Amsterdam to devise and recommend measures for the public security. On the 10th December, in the same year, he is also the member from Flushing at a convention at New Amsterdam, to represent the state of the country to the authorities in Holland. On the 23d June, 1657, he is one of the Commissioners appointed to protect the Town of Flushing against intrusions of Hempstead people. 99 66 In a Petition for compensation for his services, which he presented in the summer of 1663 to the Directors of the West India Company, at Amsterdam, in Holland, being then on a visit there, he represents that he had "served there (at Flessingin-in New Netherland) about 18 years as a volunteer in the service of the Company under the Director General Kieft," "in the war with the savages," "and again during the late English war," so that he often injured the enemy by his prudence," "without receiving any reward whatever for these his faithful services." It is probable he never obtained the compensation sought. The Lords Directors enclosed his Petition to the Director General Stuyvesant, and wrote the latter from Amsterdam, under date September 21, 1663, as follows: "You shall further see from the enclosed Petition of Tobias Feecx, an inhabitant of New Netherland, what he was soliciting, and as we do not possess any cognizance whatever of this affair, so we have remitted it to your Honor, to act in this case as you may deem proper." In 1657, he was appointed Schout-fiscal (Sheriff) for Flushing, to succeed William Hallet, who had been recently deposed from the same office by Stuyvesant, and fined and imprisoned, for entertaining the Rev. William Wickenden, of Rhode Island, allowing him to preach at his house, and receiving the sacrament of the Lord's Supper from his hands. This was at the memorable period when many of the Quakers, expelled from Massachusetts and driven out of Rhode Island and other places in New England, sought refuge from religious persecutions under the presumed more tolerant jurisdiction of the Dutch on Long Island. Governor Stuyvesant, in his blind obstinacy and narrow-mindedness, not comprehending the liberal and enlightened policy of the West India Company, as expressed in the rebuke they subsequently administered to him, pursued the most stringent measures against the sect and all those who countenanced or harbored them. Among those who fell under the Governor's displeasure was Henry Townsend, then a resident of Jamaica, but who had. previously resided in Flushing, at whose house a number of the Quakers were lodged and entertained, and where they "unrelentingly corresponded." It was charged that he had "convocated a conventicle of the Quakers," at his house, and himself assisted in it. For this he had been condemned, on the 5th of September, 1657, to pay a fine of £8 Flanders, or else to depart the province within six weeks, upon the penalty of corporeal punishment. The cruel treatinent of other prominent members of the sect by the Government at the Manhattoes, with this unjust condemnation of Townsend, so aroused the indignation of the people of Flushing that they assembled, to the number of thirty of the principal inhabitants, at the house of Michael Milnor, in Flushing, and addressed the following respectful remonstrance to the Governor : "Right Honorable: You have been pleased to send up unto us a certain prohibition or command that wee should not relieve or entertein any of those people called Quakers because they are supposed to bee by some, seducers of the people. For our parte we cannot condemn them in this case, neither can wee stretch out our handes against them to punish, bannish, or persecute them, for out of Christ, God is consuming fire, and it is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Wee desire therefore in this case not to judge, least we be judged, neither to condem least wee bee condemd, but rather let every man stand or fall to his own maister. Wee are commande by the law to doe good unto all men, especially to those of the household of faith. And though for the present wee seeme to be insensible of the law and the lawgiver, yet when death and the law assault us, if wee have an advocate to seeke who shall pleade for us in this case of conscience betwixt God and our own soules, the powers of this world can neither assist us, neither excuse us, for if God justifye who can condem, and if God condem, there is none can justifye. And for those jealouses and suspicions which some have of them that they are destructive unto magistracy and ministerye (this) cannot bee for the magistrate hath the sword in his hand and the minister hath the sword in his hand, as witnesse those tew great examples which all magistrates and ministers are to follow (Moses) and Christ whom God raised up maintained and defended against all the enemies both of flesh and spirit; and therefore that which is of God will stand, and that which is of man will come to noething. And as the Lorde hath taught Moses or the civil power to give an outward liberty in the state by the law written in his heart, for the good of all, and can truely judge who is good, who is evil, who is true and who is false, and can pass defenitive sentence of life or death against that man which rises up against the fundamentall law of the States General, Soe he hath made his ministers a saver of life unto life, and a saver of death unto death. The law of love, peace and liberty in the state, extending to Jewes Turkes and Egyptians, |