Abraham Appleby

Abraham married Sarah Travis in 1779 in Westchester County, New York. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Travis) was born about 1758 in Tarrytown, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Nancy Appleby was born on 11 Jan 1784; died after 1850.

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Evidently George Washington really did make his Dobbs Ferry headquarters, July-August 1781, at the home of this Joseph Appleby. "George Washington made the Joseph Appleby house his headquarters, in present-day Hartsdale, about half a mile north of the old Dobbs ferry road (the part we now call Heatherdale Road) and a few yards north of the Hartsdale-Ardsley border, near the summit of a small hill, still known by old-timers in the community as Washington's Hill. The Appleby house no longer stands." [George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson & the Trapping of Cornwallis by Richard Borkow. Charleston and London: The History Press, 2011.]

Joseph Appleby served as a 2nd lieutenant in the First Regiment of Westchester County, New York Militia.

Joseph married Rachel van Wert on 30 Oct 1757. Rachel (daughter of Abraham van Wert and Wyntje "Lavinia" Crankheyt) was born on 17 Mar 1739 in Philipsburgh, Westchester, New York; was christened on 10 Apr 1739 in Philipsburgh, Westchester, New York; died on 20 Sep 1771 in Westchester County, New York; was buried in Old Dutch Burying Ground, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 30 Sep 1771, Philipsburgh, Westchester, New York

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"He lived at Eastchester and Fox Meadow, Scarsdale." [Settlers of the Beekman Patent, citation details below.]

Joseph married Mary Tompkins in 1729 in Westchester County, New York. Mary (daughter of John Tompkins and Mercy Jones) was born about 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1713

Abraham married Wyntje "Lavinia" Crankheyt about 1734 in Westchester County, New York. Wyntje (daughter of Hendrick Crankheyt and Annetje Bankert) was born before 25 May 1714; was christened on 26 May 1714 in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living at Mamaroneck in 1693; Westchester 1698, where the census recorded him as a single person.

Joseph married Susannah. Susannah was born about 1679 in of Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Widow of William Noble.

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On April 30, 1702, John Tompkins was appointed to "beat the drum constantly every Lord's Day if occasion required and at other times when it is needful, and to keep the drum in repair; and the said inhabitants do promise to pay him therefor nine pence a piece every one." [Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue, citation details below.]

Among his great-grandsons was Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825), sixth Vice-President of the United States (1817-25).

John Tompkins (b. 1684)
Joshua Tompkins (1705-1736) = Sarah Ogden (1705-1739)
Jonathan Tompkins (1736-1823) = Sarah Hyatt (1740-1810)
Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825)

Daniel D. Tompkins was also the fourth governor of New York State (1807-17). In 1815 he established the settlement on the eastern shore of Staten Island that came to be called Tompkinsville, and he died there only three months after leaving office as Vice President.

John married Mercy Jones. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Belitje Jacobs Hoppe about 1704. Belitje (daughter of Willem Hoppe and Mynoo Paulus Jurckse) was born before 14 Dec 1684; was christened on 14 Dec 1684 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hendrick married Annetje Bankert. Annetje (daughter of Laurens Mattyse Bancker and Jannetie Hendrickse) was born before 28 Mar 1686; was christened on 28 Mar 1686 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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57th on the member list of the Sleepy Hollow Reformed Church.

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"Thomas Appelbee was a first settler of Hastings and was on a petition dated 26 July 1662." [Settlers of the Beekman Patent, citation details below.]

Thomas married Elizabeth Osborn on 6 Jul 1672 in Rye, Westchester, New York. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. Richard Osborn) was born about 1653 in of Rye, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue (citation details below):

On March 5, 1672, John Tompkins and Samuel Hoyt, Sr., were admitted as "Inhabitants of Eastchester." In the land list for the year 1677, we find John Tompkins as holding 24 acres, and on January 31, 1698 he took an "Oath of Allegiance to the King."

The members of the Tompkins family were all Episcopalians, or Church of England, as it was called in colonial days. In later years they were very active in St Paul's church in Eastchester. In 1678, the little colony decided that "we will meet together on Sabbath days, for time to come to celebrate the worship and service of God, in the best manner that we can attain unto." They decided to pay toward the said Sabbath day's services a free-will offering, and here we find John Tompkins contributing eight shillings, and his brother, Nathaniel, ten. The same year they decided to pay 40 pounds to Mr. Morgan Jones, minister of Newtown, Long Island, "provided he will come and live among us, and perform the office of minister." Mr. Jones appears to have been among them until about 1692, when he was succeeded by Mr. Samuel Golding. He was to receive his pay in wheat and corn and John Tompkins subscribed "3 bushel of good winter wheat." In 1693 they resolved to build a meeting-house and John Tompkins and others were chosen to oversee the building of it. In July, 1696, they decided to "lighten the meeting house by a lantern to every seat of the same." One of these seats belonged to John Tompkins. This meetinghouse was a frame building, twemty-eight feet square and about eighteen feet to the eaves. The sides as well as the roof were shingled. [...] John Tompkins held many town offices in Eastchester.

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"Mr. Morgan Jones, minister of Newtown, Long Island" was an odd character with a highly varied life. Some sense of him can be derived from "Morgan Jones, Llanmadock, in America" by Henry Blackwell, viewable hereMagnalia. But he is most remembered for having testified at New York in 1686 that some seventeen years earlier, in Virginia, he and several others were captured by hostile natives and that he survived because he was liberated by "Indians of the Doeg tribe" who, like Jones, spoke fluent Welsh. This was received by the few who took note of it as further proof that, as asserted by various early Welsh poets, one Madog, son of Owain Gwynedd, prince of North Wales, sailed westward in 1162 and established a colony in a land beyond the great sea. Jones's testimony was given wide circulation some decades later, in 1740, when it was published in the Gentleman's Magazine under the heading "The Crown of England's Title to America prior to that of Spain." Accompanying Jones's account, Theophilus Evans, vicar of St. David's in Brecon, wrote, "Sir, That the vast continent of America was first discovered by Britons, about 300 years before the Spaniards had any footing here; and that the descendants of that first colony of Britons, who then seated themselves there, are still a distinct People, and retain their original language, is a Matter of Fact, which may be indesputably proved, by the concurrent Account of several Writers and Travellers. I shall first quote a letter of Mr. Morgan Jones, Chaplain to the Plantation of S. Carolina..."

John married Mary. Mary died after 9 Jan 1702. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Regarding her frequent misidentification as "Mary Hayden," see the entry for her father-in-law.

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Also called Jochem Wouterse. Of Flushing and Midwood (Midwout), Long Island, 1667-1683. Also may have lived at Tarrytown.

Jochim married Styntje Janse before 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Christina Janse.

Willem married Mynoo Paulus Jurckse on 29 Nov 1679 in New York, New York. Mynoo (daughter of Paulus Jurckse and Christina Janse) was born about 1655 in Fort Orange (now Albany), New Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also spelled Meynou, Meijnoú.

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• Alternate death: Aft 2 Aug 1729

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Zabriskie calls him Theunis Hercxen [Krankheyt]. Banker calls him Teunis Herck.

Theunnis married Sophia Hendricksen Wiltse on 10 Sep 1679 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland. Sophia (daughter of Hendrick Martenszen Wiltse and Margrietje Meijering) was born about Dec 1660 in Kingston, New Netherland; was christened on 10 Dec 1660 in Old Dutch Church, Kingston, New Netherland; died after 4 Dec 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptised: 11 Dec 1660, Old Dutch Church, Kingston, New Netherland

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Settlers of the Beekman Patent calls her Sophia (Fytje) Hendrics Wiltsie.

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First appears in New Amsterdam near what is now 125th Street on 7 Nov 1673. In or around 1700 he appears to have removed to Philipsburg Manor, where he was one of the first members of the Sleepy Hollow Dutch Church.

Laurens married Jannetie Hendrickse before 1681. Jannetie (daughter of Hendrick Harmensen and Egbertie Jans) died about 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Janneken Hendricxen.

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From Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue (citation details below):

John Tompkins is said to have come to Boston in 1630, but no proof of this has been found. It seems far more likely that John Tompkins belonged to the group of men who formed the Concord Plantation and who came in to Concord by way of Newtowne in 1635. This was a Company of Colonists under the direction of Reverend Peter Bulkeley and Elder John Jones.

"The Concord plantation was a place where the pioneers found hard fare, and built their huts by leaning the rough logs against the hillside, which served the double purpose of a support and a chimney back.

"The settlers soon erected a grist mill, near what is now the Common, and the little stream which furnished the power, still runs on, but with a lesser current. It is known as Mill Brook." (Hudson, Hist. of Concord, 20-22) Next a meeting house and parsonage were built. The site of the latter is on the present Lowell Street, and is modestly marked by a memorial tablet whic reads:

"Here in the house of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, first minister and one of the founders of this town, a bargain was made with the Squaw Sachem, the Sagamore Tahattawan and other Indians, who then sold their rights in the six miles square called Concord, to the English planters, and gave them peaceful possession of the land, A.D. 1636."

In 1644 there was dissatisfaction and dissension among these planters. They were disappointed in conditions of the soil, and a decision was arrived at by which about one-seventh of the colony emigrated to Fairfield, Connecticut, under the direction of the Reverend John Jones. John Tompkins was one of these emigrants, and he was made freeman at Hartford on 13 May 1669. It is thought by some historians that he died in Fairfield about 1688, and that he never went to Eastchester, as his sons did.

The name of John Tompkins' wife remains unknown, also the date of her death. They had three children. Where the first one, Nathaniel, was born is not known, but the births of Ruth and John are registered in Concord, Mass.

From History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (citation details below):

Of Concord, Mass.; came with Jones contingent to Fairfield where he died; his widow m. William Heyden and rem. to Eastchester, New York.

He died so early that his will is not found; but on 7 Mar. 1660/1, John Wheeler and George Squire, as overseers to [the younger] John "Tomkins," sued William Hayden for £30 for neglect in executing the will of John Tompkins. They won the suit, and Hayden was ordered to surrender the lands to [the son] John. Since William Hayden [of Windsor] sat on the jury which tried the case, it is obvious that a different man of the same name was the defendant.

On 27 Dec. 1687, William Hayden of Eastchester put it upon record that he had sold out of his possession land at Eastchester to his sons-in-law Nathaniel and John Tompkins. [Westchester Deeds]

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To clarify the above: After the death of the elder John Tompkins, his wife, whose name is lost to history, remarried a William Hayden, who therefore became stepfather to the second John Tompkins. This is what was meant when William Hayden of Eastchester referred to the second John Tompkins as his "son-in-law", because at this time, this term could refer to a step-parent relationship as well as a relationship by marriage. Many sources -- including Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Eleanor Ladue -- call Mary, the wife of the second John Tompkins, "Mary Hayden" based on this misunderstanding of what the terms "son-in-law" and "father-in-law" could mean in the time and place in question.

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• Alternate death: Between 25 Mar 1658 and 18 Dec 1658, New Amsterdam, New Netherland

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Also called Hopper. In New Netherlands as early as 10 Sep 1651. He was a merchant, a freighter, and a trader in a variety of goods, including beavers, "zeewan" (wampum), tobacco, pottery, deerskin, elk hides, linen, brandy, grindstones, and florins and guilders. With his yacht or sloop, he travelled up the Hudson to Fort Orange, now Albany, and probably traded with parts of New England as well. "It happened more than once that this enterprising trader, in order to be able to buy in a favorable market, mortgaged some of his property as security for large quantities of merchandise purchased by him. Often he appeared before the Worshipful Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, either to prosecute claims against unwilling or tardy debtors, sometimes also to protect himself against too previous or unreasonable creditors, at other times to force those who sold him merchandise to live up to the conditions of the sale." [Hopper Striker Mott, citation details below]

On 11 Nov 1655 he bought, from Pieter van den Linden, a plot of land in the city on the north side of Bridge Street between Whitehall and Broad, which he probably used as a warehouse. He also owned a house and lot on the east side of Broadway north of Beaver Street.

"There is evidence that the surname Hoppe (Hoppen) existed in Holland as early as the 16th Century. However, we can not be certain that he was Dutch, though it is likely that he, like his wife, was from Holland. George Olin Zabriskie pointed out that their youngest child was named Matthys Adolphus, and Adolphus is not a Dutch name. In typical Dutch fashion the child would have used his father's patronymic Andriesen as his middle name, yet none of his children appeared to follow that tradition. Andries always appeared in records with his surname listed as Hoppe or Hoppen, and never as simply Andries Willemszen, as was usual in those times. In fact his patronymic Willemszen was only used in one church record." [The Hopper Family, citation details below.]

"Shortly before his death, he contracted to buy a large tract of land known as Broncks Land, and later known as Morrisania. After a complicated and long legal battle the property was finally purchased by Andries' widow, but it was sold again the next day, and then acquired by Capt. Richard Morris, for whom it was named." [Hopper Family]

Andries married Geertje Hendricks. Geertje was born in Ahren, Gelderland, Netherlands; died after 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paulus married Christina Janse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a ship's carpenter and, according to John Blythe Dobson, not a Huguenot, despite what many sources (including Settlers of the Beekman Patent) have claimed.

Herck married Wyntje Theunis Quick on 16 Nov 1642 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland. Wyntje (daughter of Theunis Thomaszen Quick and Belitje Jacobs van Vleckesteijn) was born before 23 Jul 1628 in Naarden, Gooi, North Holland, Netherlands; was christened on 23 Jul 1628 in Naarden, Gooi, North Holland, Netherlands; died after 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Settled in the Albany area about 1658. On 23 Jul 1658 he was sued at Fort Orange by Peter Bronck for 170 fl. for beer and wine received.

"On 13 Aug 1658, at Fort Orange, 15 Mohawks requested that someone who spoke French well accompany them and their French captives (one of whom was Louis Paraget) to assist them at Trois Rivieres in New France (now Quebec) in their negotiations on exchange of prisoners as well as a general peace. In response to a public offer of 'one hundred guilders for his trouble,' Hendrick Martensen (called 'a soldier named Henry Martin' in a letter he carried) agreed to make the trip. The Indians agreed to return Hendrick to Fort Orange within 40 days after their departure from Fort Orange on 16 August. There is nothing in the official records at Albany to indicate when Hendrick Martsensen returned there. But had he not returned on or before 9 October 1658, another French-speaking soldier, Jacob Begyn, could not have departed that day enroute to Quebec with some of the same individual Indians Hendrick went with. No mention of Hendrick's trip has been found in any other records." [Zabriskie, "The Wiltsie Family," citation details below.]

Moved to New Amsterdam after August 1659, then in 1660 joined the military garrison at Kingston in Ulster County, "an area known to the Dutch at various times as Esopus, Wiltwyck, and Swanenburg" [Zabriskie].

"On 7 June 1663, the Esopus Indians attacked Wiltwyck and killed, wounded or took captive many of the residents, burned some of the houses, and destroyed the 'new Village.' Among those taken captive was one child of Hendrick Martensen. His children at that time were his daughters Sophia, three and a half years old, and Jannetje, six months old, and probably Jan Hermansen, his step-son, five years old. Among those reported killed was 'Hendrick Martensen, soldier, on the farm'; however, he was captured--not killed. Hendrick and his child were probably among the captives taken from the Indians in September 1663." [Zabriskie]

He was a Lutheran and never joined the Dutch church. His children by his first wife were all brought up in the Dutch church. The intention for his marriage to his second wife, known to us only as "an old widow, Steentje", was recorded 10 Jun 1705 in the New York Lutheran Church. (The actual wedding took place at the home of Pieter Woglum.) The date and year of his death are unknown, though several have been postulated.

Hendrick married Margrietje Meijering on 10 Jan 1660 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland. Margrietje (daughter of Jan Meyers and Teuntje Straetsman) was born about 1633 in Fort Marguerite, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; was christened on 20 Apr 1639 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; died between 1701 and 1705 in Newtown, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Margaret; also called Meyers. Settlers of the Beekman Patent calls her Margret Meyrinck. Zabriskie (citation details below) says "Margrietje was the daughter of Jan Meyers and his wife Teuntje Straitsman. She and her half-brother, Laurens Haff were born in Brazil. The exact spelling of Margrietje's surname is uncertain, but the frequent use of the suffixes 'in' and 'ing' plus the almost complete absence of her patronymic 'Jans,' suggests German rather than Low Dutch ancestry. Her step father, Gabriel Carbosie, was a German."

She joined the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed church on 31 May 1674.

A vignette at Acree/Sachse/Hoover/Ogden/Skipworth/Nelson/TenEyck/Williamson & Associated Families says:

MARGARET JANSEN MEYERS (c1638-1704) was born near Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, to Jan Meyers and Teuntje Straitsman, Germans attached to the Dutch West India Company, the expansive trading/colonizing agency that administered this rich sugar-producing region which the Dutch wrested from the Portuguese in 1630. Her father died before she was ten and her mother married Jurian Haff, by whom she had a son, Laurens [...]

By early 1654, when the Portuguese finally won a nine-year war and obliged the besieged Dutch settlers to leave Brazil, Teuntje was again widowed, with a second daughter, Annetje, by her third husband, who was missing. She and her three children sailed to the Netherlands with most of the other settlers. The West India Company encouraged the displaced colonists to emigrate to New Netherland (New York). Margaret moved there in 1657 upon marrying Herman Jansen Van Lennep, who was recruiting settlers. They were accompanied by her half brother, half-sister and Teuntje, who married for the fourth time upon arrival.

When Herman died two years later, leaving Margaret with a son, she married Hendrick Martensen Wiltsie, a professional soldier from Copenhagen (the beneficiary of an enduring, fabricated parentage written by a fanciful descendant). While living in New Amsterdam (lower Manhattan), the couple successfully sued a man for damages after his boat collided with their canoe. Teuntje had less luck in court, where she was fined on her second appearance for abusing neighbors who had insulted her.

Margaret and her husband moved to Wiltwyck (Kingston), where Hendrick was assigned to the Dutch garrison. That village was raided in mid-1663 by the Esopus Indians, who burned it to the ground, killing or capturing many residents. Hendrick, captured with one of his children, was erroneously reported killed, but both were rescued three months later. The following year Hendrick's military career ended when the English conquered New Netherland. He became a farmer and businessman at Newtown (Queens, NYC), where the couple reared their nine children. Margaret died in 1704. Hendrick remarried the following year and died at the age of 89 in 1712. Teuntje had died in 1662, soon after collecting wages owed her third husband, who [was presumed to have] died on the island of Guadeloupe. [...He] miraculously appeared in New Netherland in the mid-1670s, re-united with his daughter and remarried.

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He came from Amsterdam in 1658, and settled in Flatlands.

Hendrick married Egbertie Jans after 1658 in Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland. Egbertie died after 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her second husband was Jan Sneediker, a widower, who was a shoemaker and tavern-keeper. In 1654 he was sent by Governor Stuyvesant to help found the new settlement at Middewout (Midwood). He was one of the original signers of the patent, and magistrate 1654-64. He died in 1679, only a year or two after his marriage to Egbertie, leaving her significant property.