New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-11
"A NAN OF THE PEOPLE.
GARRETT HoBARrs DUTCH ANCESTORS
AND THEIR PART IN NEw-JERSEY
AETArRS

AMI IafAh PANT In NEW -JEftonI
AFFAIRS
| The Rev Theodore W. weles. Of the Second Re-
| formed Church, Paterson, contributes to Tho
Press Of that city the following genealogical study
| OF the Republican candidate for Vice President
Mr.. Hobart Is the descendant OF ancestors who. for
generations reaching back to the cary settlement OF
s De and hsTs ne
to the growth and good name OF the State MT
lnsand Yankee Wo early in GH fe came to Mon
mouth County. ~. j.. as a school teacher He sub
at Marlborough. small h' hamlet about four miles
north OF the village OF Freehold. where ne hvsd
Sor aSa Of in the eommuny
democrat the greater part OF his ne, an eder m ~
s e Eeo sSs GSrcs v, "a, as & 1e s a
organized in the State and delegate in 1854 to the
IN session at Grand nd Rapids Rapid Mich Mr. HoSarfs
4 mother was Sophia Van Derveer woman OF many
ing her h5usehosd with 'T patient tenderness and
prayerfully endeavoring to train her family IN sne
death which occurred in ISL. she was an active
member OF the Woman's Christian Temperance
quainances and friends.
Hobart is idcnt aI with the cd Dutch families OF
New-Jersey. The Van Derveers Of Holland have
the Y last OF cns Of b the s an %
America have esteemed 1t the highest honor TO hold
to seek to establish knship with the titled artstoc.
Dutch psrce we are carried JACKIE back 70 the FIRST Van
Deivcer that stepped upon American soil, ana ma
nanny whose labor has made NewJessey the OAR
den State
Cornelius Janse Van Derveer the :rst to bear the
A:kmaar of North Holland in thc snip Gilded oster
farm in the town Of Fatbush. Kings County. ". Y.
Through the good will OF HI his % neishbors he was
BY "' Gc "s5T"s F f ponsan II Re
dFrXR, and 9' Es cs
Van rDys Of s
son Of Cornelius Janse Van Deryees ana Tryns:e
R re UNTIL s s seass Fl sq HAVING
the commonwealth as Sheriff in lbs He m Yr,,ns
woman from Holland. Of whom there Is no fuller
Information than that she was the mother OF SIX
,Tunis Van Dervssr the first born Of Dominica.
Van Pevssr ad Maria h ,,S Wifi Sss born sse
and and sF in sf Comfy On n IN
81 the Van aSGut IN %dway es
honest INDUSTRIOUS frugai farmer such have ever
s %s the rs f wife s"d w 5as sa ss S ss
daughter q RoeIot Martense schenck and Nee.tje
rs R. Van enes snd Ss jnd Sa'sF OF
The seenck famly claims p remote =, sn Ts
name mann z from Edgar De sstsacksn shst butler 70
who abSut .s ' santed to Edgar TILE Of nobility
and assigned him coat Of arms Be this as may;
purchased farm, on which he resided tho rest Of
Justice Of the Peace also schepen Judge, and
epponed BY Goyer3or sr gaH vs of the Kr
bowen his wife was Id Of w9fs S
wen o is 'ns
present day. the Conover family Of Amer i,n He
U,rech,. Holland. with the colonists who setei at
Rensselaerwyck. near Albany n " and sqbse,
fssani and founded the town Of Fiatlanas Garret
r. schenck father of Alh'e Schenck wife of Tuni,
and settled IN the region little beyond the present
village of Matawan known as Peasant VALLEY
grand %aj juror IN Of sf rst
First Reformed Church Of eehod H., in lo ana
Assembly OF New-Jersey from 172l to l727
veer rr and Ahe schenck. named Garrett for his
ternal grandfather. Carrot r. schenck was as born
pss se st. Of Mr. 81 10
in New;Jersey Like his father he was a tie y.0 Of
the sG aosr a III his s sDsf e ma an
& Jane 0O heS SsRT Of
Of two Of the Oldest families Of Long Island and
New-Jersey: The v19rhies family dates back to
the grcyInss Of Drsn'hs HSls,d j. lSs9 ara settled
Ssck to sn and William
came to New-Jersey with the first Dutch colony
@ " Sn nd the roass S Of
have since rolled by has Furnished legislators In
impea ,i and Of integrity mmovabis
Mr. HobaEts grandparents Ters David C. g H Van
Benjamin ana .! years
pastor Of the United Reformed Dutch Churches
u D r1S e. Van Derveer was the son of Garrett
Val Denver and Jane VOORHEES,. and following the
after the fruit OF his fields and recevng the reward
of his labor in the thrift and comfort Of his house
The Rsy Mr. DUBOIS his fatSeriln;law ;o was
no ~ DuT }O nd TAI
sen. descendant Of Louis Dubois and Catherine
iisious persecution. fed to America and settled at
Wdwyck or Kingston. Ulster County. N Y, in
cS"r9s % I'll
death, in 1927 The little tina, is known of his public
U Of se
from 1888 to 1927 was member Of the Board Of
Of the General Synod Of the Reformed Dutch
Church in America and subsequently, with his |
seed the ses Of which
Dutch churches OF AmerSa into one ecclesiastical
progress OF the Revolution the refugees. or lawless |
up a the
purpose pso Sssn S
Sps went ssoS a Fl,
urn on patrol like pack as was Sneerlnsy
SAID by noted Tory in his congregation. He is
he enemy he could not be keg; in line and SoI
Of his troops. prevent him from being singled out
and shot down. Returning home from one OF his
distance party OF British passing by. They were
100 far of TO do them any injury; but the Dominic
md fired ren,arking pleasantly. They will not be
able 10 say after this that I fired at the
enemy" lie frequently commended the patriot
cause in his sermons and invariably made their
,rs He married Phemertje. Denise. who is de-
'cribed as woman Of intelligence and activity.
,prighy. prudent and plous. She the daughter
If Tunis Denise and Francynthe Hendrickson. who
etted at Freehold previous to i,4O; Descendant OF
rheunse Denyse who em.grated In 1888 from Bin
nick Utrecht Holland. resided In Flatbush. Long
sland. and was Magistrate of Brooklyn in 1866.
AS Garrett A. Hobart Is OF New Jersey. his Dutch
pedigree shows him to be also OF the people whose