The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-23
HISTORIANS MEET.
Papers Read Before the State
Society . Committees
Elected.

TRENTON, Jan. %, 1895 = In the
Supreme Court Rooms, in the
State House yesterday morning at 11:30
the January meeting of the Historical
Society was held. Before lunch a busi-
ness meeting was held, which resulted in
the election Of the following officers to
serve during 1895:-President, Samuel H.
Pennington, M. D., of Newark; Vice
Presidents. William S. Stryker of Tren-
ton; the Rev. George S.. Mott, D. d., of
Remington; Jonathan W. Roberts, OF
Morristown; Corresponding Secretary,
William Nelson of Paterson; Recording
Secretary, Ernest E. Coe of Newark;
Treasurer and Librarian, Frederick w.
Ricord, Newark; Executive Committee,
pavin A. Depue.s Newark; Nathaniel
Niles, Madison; John I. Blair, Blairs-
town; Franklin Murphy Newark; Rob
ert F. .Ballentine, Newark; Garret D.
W. Vroom, Trenton James Nelson, New
Brunswick; William Clark, Newark;
Charles Bradley, Newark.
COMMITTEES ELECTED.
These standing committees for 1895
were also eced:-Finance, L. Spencer
Goble, Theodore Coe. James D. Orton
and Charles G. Rockwiod; Publications,
Garrett D. w. Vroom, VIM Nelson, Aus
tin Scott, Phi, D., and Edmund D. Hal
sey, the Recording Secretary; Library,
Robert F. Ballentine, Frederick w. Ric-
ord, Aaron Lloyd, George j. Hagar,
Henry S. Haines and Ernest e. Coe;
Statistics, T. Wolcott Jackson, Arthur
Ward, M D.. H. E. Deats, Ernest E.
Coe and Edward H. Stokes; Nominations,
L. Spencer Goble, Garret D. w. Vroom,
and Rev. Allen H. Brown; Genealogy,
Atlantic John j. Gardiner, Atlantic City;
Bergen VIM. M johnson, Hackensack;
Burlington, Clifford Stanley Sims, Mt.
Holly; Camden, John r. Stevenson, NJ.
D., Haddonfeld Cape May, Lewis H.
Stevens, Cape May City; Cumberland,
VIM. e. Potter Bridgeton; Essex, Ernest
E. oe. Newark; Gloucester, Francis B.
Lee, Trenton; Hudson, Charles H. Win
Race, M D., Pittstiwn; Mercer, VIM.
s. Stryker Trenton; Monmouth, James
s: Yard, Freehold; Morris, Edmund D.
Halsey, Morristown; Passaic, William
Honeyman, Someryille; Sussex, Samuel
II. Hunt, Newton; Union, Henry r.
Cannon, MD, Elizabeth; Warren, j..
FRENCH EMIGRES IN ELIZABETH.
After lunch Mrs. Frederick H. Pier
son, OF Elizabeth. Secretary of the Wo-
man missionary society OF tne PreS-
byterian Church. read a cleverly written
paper upon the French emigres to Eliza
beth during the latter part of the last
century. This monograph was heartily
applauded and received much favorable
eommendation. In effect. Mrs. Pierson
said that in the erection of the new
buildings for st. Johns Church in Eliza
beth, number of graves, marking the
the town. had been discovered. These
Frenchmen and FrenchWomen came TO
Elizabeth soon after the American revo-
luton, fleeing from, France on account
of the political upheayal which shook
all Europe Many were people of high
rank, as the tombstones show. In Eliza
beth this aristocratic colony lived in
style beftting stheir position, owning
handsome houses and slaves and mingling
much in society. Among those who Wis
tied Elizabeth little later was Jerome
Bonaparte with his beautiful Baltimore
bride.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS
Foremost of this colony was Monsieur
D'Anterroches, kinsman of General
Lafayette D'Anterroches was of noble
family, and after reaching America, dur
ing the Revolution, in the unique posi-
ton of an officer in the British army,
Joined the patriots cause. When near
Mary Van Derpool, daughter of David
Van Derpool noted Jerseyman. In
spite of paternal opposition, the French
man and the young Dutch beauty fell in
ioVe, ana We're married IN li9U by the
Rev. M. Bradford. The ceremony was
repeated seven years later, inasmuch as
D'Anterroches was a Roman Catholic
He became distinguished in the Whiskey
rebellion and died whilst on a visit to
France. Mrs. Pierson related other in
teresting incidents of this parsonage
and showed the relationship existing be-
tween this nobleman and various fanlil-
les now in Elizabeth.
A second paper was that read by Will
lam Nelson, Corresponding Secretary
of the Society. Its subject was The In