The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-07-09

est of all in leavening strength --latest
United States Government Food Report.
RoYA1 BAKING POWDER Co. New York.
the Van Derveers. about midway
between Marlborough and Freehold.
He was an honest, industrious, frugal
farmer such as have ever been the
glory and the strength of the Com
mon wealth. His wife was Alhie
Schenck, a granddaughter OF Roe
lof Martense Schenck and Neeltje
Gerretse Van Couwenhoven, and q
daughter of Garret r. Schenck and
Neeltje Voorhees,.
The Schenck family claims re-
mote antiquity, tracing its descent
through the Barons of Tautenberg
to A. ID. $50, and is said to have de-
rived it's name from Edgar DeSchenc-
ken, chief butler to Charlemagne,
Emperor of Germany and France,
who about 79S, granted to Edgar q
title of nobility and assigned him q
coat of arms. Be this as it may,
Roelof Martence Schenck, of Does
bergh, Province of Cumberland, Hol-
land, came to America in 1850, and
purchased a farm en- which he re-
sided the rest of his life, at Flatlands
L. I. He was several times Justice
of the Peace, also Schepen or Judge,
and was appointed by Gov Lelsier
Captain of the Kings County cavalry.
Neeltie Gerretse Van Couwenhoven,
his wife, was granddaughter Oh
Wolfert Gerretse Van Couwenhoyen
the progenitor of the Couwenhoven
or, as it is frequently written at the
present day, the Conover family OF
America. He emigrated in 1640, from
Amersfoort, Province of Utrecht, Hoi-
land, with the colonists who settled
at Rensselaerwyck, near Albany, n.
y, and subsequent tlY purchased the
westernmost flats on Long Island
and founded the town of Flatlands.
Garret r. Schenck, father of AlhIe
Schenck, wife of Tunis Van Derveer,
came to Monmouth County in 1926
and settled in the region, little be-
yond the present village of Matawan,
known as Pleasant Valley. He was
a prominent man in the community
was grand juror in 1897, one of the
first deacons of the First Reformed
church of Freehold, in 1903, and rep
resented Monmouth County in the
Provincial Assembly of New Jer-
seq from 1921 to 1927.
Garret Van Derveer, a son of TunIs
Van Derveer and Alhie Schenck,
named Garret for his maternal grand
father, Garret r. Schenck, was born
Dec. 14th 1871, and died Jan. 81, 1903.
He was the first of Mr.. Hobart
ancestors to be born in New Jersey.
Like his father he was tiller of the
soil, man diligeGt in business ano
fervent in spirit, toiler all his life.
He married April 23d, 1856, Jane
Voorhies, daughter of Hendricks
VOORHEES, and Jannetje Hendrickson,
descendants of two of the oldest
families of Long Island and New
Jersey. The VOORHEES, family dates
back to Steven Coertse Van Voor-
hies. who emigrated from the prov
ince of Drenthe, Holland, in 1860,
and settled at Flatlands, N. Y. The
Hendrickson family dates back to
Daniel and William Hendrickson
who came to New Jersey with the
first Dutch colony from Long Island
during the closing years of the seven
teenth century, and through the
years that have since rolled by has
furnished legislators in both the AS
sembly and the Senate of character
unimpeechable and of integrity i'm
movable
Mr.. Hobart's grandparents were
David g. Van Derveer and Katy Du-
bois, a daughter of the Rev. Ben
jamin Dubois, who for sixty-three
years was pastor of the United Re
formed Dutch Churches of Freehold
and Middletown.
David G. Van Deryeer, was the son
of Garret Vanderveer and Jane Voor.
hies,. and following the example OF
his fathers was a farmer looking
well after the fruit of his fields ana
receiving the reward of his labor IN
the thrift and comfort Of his house
hold.
The Rev. Mr.. Dubois, his father-in-
law, was born at Pittsgroye, Salem
Co. N. r., in 1889. He was the son
of Lewis Dubois and Margaret Jan
sen, a descendant of Louis Dubois
and Catherine Blanchan, French
Hugenots, who to escape religious
persecution fled to America and set
tied at Wildwyck or Kingston, Ulster
Co, n. Y, in 1861. He commenced
his labors as pastor of the Freenoid
church in 1854, and so continued un-
til his death in 1927. The little that
is known of his public life is not
without interest. He was one OF the
founders of Queens, now Rut-
gers College, and from 1888 to 1871
was member of the board OF Trus-
tees. He was a delegate to the first
meeting OF the General Synod OF the
Reformed Dutch Church in America
aud subsequently with his Elder,
Tunis Denise, whose daughter he
married, signed the Articles of Agree
ment which formed the Dutch
Churches of America into one ecclesl-
astical body, indepen lent of foreign
control. During the progress OF the
Revolution the Refugees, or lawless
Tories who took up arms against
their former neighbors, became SO
annoying that the inhabitants favor,
able to the popular cause bound
themselves together, for the purpose
of defence, by articles of agreement.
Mr.. Dubois, although minister;
frequently shouldered his gun and
his knapsack and went out in his
turn on patrol like pack-horse.,
as was sneeringly said by noted
Tory in his congregation. He Is