Grietje Van der Meulen

Family/Spouse: Hendrick Van de Water. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adriantje married William Willemse Bennet on 15 Dec 1686 in Reformed Dutch Church of New York, New York. William (son of Willem Willemse and Gertruyd Van Mulhem Van Meurs) was born about 1665 in Gowanus, Long Island; died before 9 Apr 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adriantje married William Covenhoven about 1718. William (son of Gerret van Kouwenhoven and Lysbet) was born about 1697 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York; died after 1750 in Three Mile Run, Middlesex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Geertje married Jacob Amack in 1759. Jacob (son of Theunis Amack and Helena Laan) was born on 15 Dec 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mariam Marsh. Mariam (daughter of Richard Marsh and Sarah Thorn) was born on 28 Aug 1769; died on 22 Jul 1831; was buried in Old Walling Family Burial Ground, Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Catherine Aumack and Leonard Walling were fifth cousins, both being 4xG-grandchildren of early New Jersey settlers Richard Stout and his wife Penelope.

Family/Spouse: Leonard Walling. Leonard (son of Daniel Dunbar Walling and Helena Hoff) was born on 25 Apr 1793; died on 26 Jun 1841; was buried in Old Walling Family Burial Ground, Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Therese Walling Seabrook [...] was very active in the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century as well as the temperance movement, being a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Keyport, New Jersey. A highlight of the collection is a letter from Susan B. Anthony (February 22, 1888) to Seabrook thanking her for a monetary donation and comments on her visit to Washington D.C., note by Florence Howe Hall, co-signed by Emma Blackwell and a letter by Clara Bewick Colby." [Rand Boyd, citation details below.]

"Therese Walling Seabrook lived on West Front Street overlooking the Bay. She was the wife of a prominent businessman in Keyport and an activist for women’s rights. She was a strong supporter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and an advocate of women’s suffrage. In her mind, as in the minds of others late in the 19th-century, there was a connection between the temperance movement and the suffrage movement. In 1884, suffragists Phebe Hanaford of Jersey City, Therese Walling Seabrook of Keyport, and Henry Blackwell of Massachusetts met with the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee to press for the introduction of a women’s suffrage resolution in the Assembly. They succeeded in having the bill introduced, but the Assembly would take no action on the resolution." [Keyport Historical Society: Three Generations of Seabrook Women]

"Mrs. Seabrook was an intellectually gifted woman, steeped in local genealogical lore, derived from her great ancestors. Upon their laps she sat when young, or with the assembled elders at the nearby hearthside, to be entertained by their constant repetitions of tales of exposure, hardship, love and war. The old are garrulous, live in the past, delight in the young, and with contracted lives and thought they become the local historians of the past to young but willing ears, upon whose excited imagination the stories remain indelibly impressed. Thus it was that Mrs. Seabrook passed onward the tales of her childhood." [John E. Stilwell, citation details below]

Therese married Henry Hendrickson Seabrook on 5 Feb 1852. Henry (son of Thomas Seabrook and Anne Longstreet) was born on 10 Sep 1813 in Port Monmouth, Monmouth, New Jersey; died on 30 Mar 1872 in Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey; was buried in Green Grove Cemetery, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

New York City Chief of Police, 1874-1885. Author of Recollections of a New York Chief of Police (1887).

Notes:

"Former practitioner of medicine, specializing in diseases of the eye, president of the Nason Manufacturing Company, makers of stream and plumbing supplies with offices at 71 Fulton Street, New York City, died in his apartment in the Hotel Robert Fulton, 228 West 71 St, at age 71." [Harry Hartshorne Seabrook obituary, citation details below.]

Harry married May Nason on 2 Nov 1881 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey. May (daughter of Joseph Nason and Sarah Clark Darracott) was born in Mar 1859 in New York, New York; died on 17 May 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]