Van Scoy, Isaac Drew (b. 8 OCT 1811, d. 20 SEP 1897)

Note: !Isaac Van Scoy and Julia Ann Barrett came to Tioga County in 1837.

Death: 20 SEP 1897 Candor, Tioga, NY

Death: 14 FEB 1917

Death: 1839

Death: 1846

Note: !Phoebe Van Scoy never married.

Death: 23 FEB 1863

Note: !Ann B. Van Scoy never married.

Death: 6 APR 1917

Note: !NOTE: KBK shows Obed, Naomi, Sophia, Laban, Malinda, Matilda, Vincent, Edward
and Dennis as children of this Isaac. In this database, they are shown as
children of Isaac (RIN:3004), per Louanne Barrett.

!This Isaac, born 1755, is listed as son of John, Samuel, John, Samuel. Some
confusion was found in Katharine Barrett Kelly's records between this Isaac
and Isaac, born 1735, son of Samuel, John, Samuel.
(1)-->
Isaac Barrett
Will Carmel, Putnam Co. Book B pg. 106 Isaac of Carmel
.
Commissioners of Forfeiture - Putnam Co. Deeds
.
pg. 46 Land in Frederksburg owned by ISAAC BARRETT no. side of Coles Mill
pond, w. end of dam 121 acres 13 June 1782, formerly owned by Bev. Robinson
.
pg. 102 Fredericksburg, Dutchess Co. - Containing 22 acres. ISAAC BARRETT
formerly owned by Beverly Robinson 18 Oct. 1783
.
Lands conveyed 1779-1786 Map Serial No. 781 Plate 2
No. 208 ISAAC BARRETT 13 June 1782 121 acres
ISAAC BARRETT 18 Oct 1783 22 1/2 acres
On Cole's or Barrett Pond
(2)-->
Isaac Barrett was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was a guard at Red
Mills. The original home of the family was in the locality known as Barrett
Hill, in the Northwest part of the town of Carmel. Isaac left the old
homestead to his heirs.
(4)-->
Ebenezer Barrett petitioned Putnam County Surrogate Court on 11 Apr 1835
asserting that his father Isaac Barrett died a natural death in Carmel 7 March
1824 without a will. He lived in Carmel immediately previous to his
death. The petition lists wife Jemima and children Ebenezer, John and Mary
Barrett (wife of Marcus Barrett) of Carmel and Abigail (wife of Joseph Haight)
of Yates County (failing to list Isaac). He said that goods, chattels,
credits, personal estate & effects did not exceed the sum of $5000. Ebenezer
signed the petition with his mark.

SOURCE: (1) Katharine Barrett Kelly
(2) HISTORY OF PUTNAM COUNTY
(3) Betsey Patterson records indicate Isaac C. Barrett.
(4) Old Estates, V. B, pp 106-107, Putnam County Surrogate Court.

The following supplied by Thomas Stephen Neel, 169 East Main Street, New London
OH 44851 (6 Sep 1995):
ISAAC BARRETT, presumed son of an older Isaac Barrett(1a) was born ca. 1754-56,
died 7 Mar 1824 age 69 years (tombstone in Barrett Cem., Town of Carmel, Putnam
Co. NY); wife JEMIMA LOCKWOOD, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Lockwood(2a), born
ca. 1759-61, died 2 Mar 1841 age 81 years (stone in Barrett Cem.) (3a). Isaac
Barrett "Junr" served in Capt. Hezekiah Mead's Company, Henry Ludington's 7th
Regiment, Dutchess County, New York Militia, as indicated by a voucher in his
military record "no. 42514 August the 18 1786 Isaac Barrett Junr Sertificate
Delivered unto Ebenezer Lockwood upon an order Received pr me Ebenezar Lockwood
L 2.3.10."(4a). Barrett was "one of the guards stationed at Red Mills."(5a). On
a 1777 tax list of Fredericksburg Precinct, his name appears next to that of
his father-in-law, Ebenezer Lockwood (6a). On 13 Jun 1782, Isaac Barrett
purchased 120 acres of Roger Morris in Lot 5, Fredericksburg for 42 pounds 7
pence. "Eben" Lockwood purchased 140 acres from the same man 18 Nov 1782 (7a).
The Barrett home was located on Barrett Hill in the northwest part of Carmel.
Now part of a golf course, the name of the road north of Mahopac Falls (Red
Mills) leading past the farm and cemetery has been shortened to Hill Street
(8a). Federal census records 1790-1820 seem to indicate that the family remained
at this locale. Isaac Barrett was a member of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, as
suggested by an entry in the minutes, dated 13 Apr 1799, "apointed Brother Isaac
Barret and Peter Lockwood to notify Sister Lockwood to attend meeting and
dismised meting By Prayer." (9a). Isaac Barrett is mentioned numerous times in
the minutes for the Town of Carmel, which survive from 1795 - as an overseer of
the highway, 1796, 1798, 1804, 1810, 1812, 1813, 1816, 1818, 1819, 1822; as a
poundmaster, 1799; and fenceviewer, 1812, 1813, 1818, 1820, 1821, 1822, etc.
Since entries continue after Isaac's 1824 death, it is likely that many of the
later references are for his son Isaac Barrett [born 1788], or another relative.
The name Isaac Barrett "jun" first appears in an 1806 overseer reference (10a).
Surrogate Court records for Putnam County give further references to presumeably
this Isaac Barrett. On 17 Mar 1814, Sarah Lockwood, age 15 years on 23 Aug last,
Ebenezer Lockwood, age 18 years on 10 Jan last, and Isaac Lockwood, age 13 years
on 10 Aug last, all minor children of Peter Lockwood, late of Carmel, chose
Isaac Barrett of Carmel, their guardian, having full power over "goods,
chattels, personal estate, and land in the town of Carmel or elsewhere." Sarah
Travis, apparently the remarried widow of Peter Lockwood, filed at least one
petition in this guardianship file (11a). Later Putnam County deeds between the
children of Isaac Barrett mention holdings in the Town of Kent. Joseph Haight
and wife "Abagail Barrett" of Kent, purchase a portion of the Isaac Barrett
estate on 15 Mar 1824 from Marcus Barrett Jr. and his wife Mary, of Kent.
Adjoining lands were owned by the other children; John, Ebenezer, and Isaac
Barrett. A similar deed was made to Isaac Barrett [Jr.] in the Town of Kent, 9
Apr 1824 (12a). Isaac Barrett had died in Carmel 7 Mar 1824, per Surrogate Court
records, which include no will, but name Jemima Barrett, widow, and children;
Ebenezer, John, Mary (wife of Marcus Barrett), all living in Carmel, and Abigail
(wife of Joseph Haight), living in Yates Co. NY, at the time of filing, 11 Apr
1835. Ebenezer Barrett, the son, was named administrator. The presumed son,
Isaac Jr., is not mentioned in Surrogate Court records, but is included in the
land sales (13a). Both Isaac Barrett Sr. and Jemima (Lockwood) Barrett were
interred in Barrett Cemetery on their farm in the Town of Carmel.
(1a) Note: Based on "Jr" in Revolutionary War records; although there is a will
13 Jun 1809 for Isaac Barrett of Frederickstown, naming wife Sarah, and
several children, including an Isaac. An Isaac Barrett of Kent, died Nov
1824, estate dated 20 Jan 1829, in Liber B, p. 10, case 518, may be
difficult to separate.
(2a) Note: Jemima is identified as a Lockwood in Pelletreau, p. 372 [see
citation below), a much later family reunion account [Haight-Coleman Family
Record, ca. 1918, owned by Helen Heyman], and researchers [Harriet Woodbury
Hodge, Philip V. Lockwood] have identified her as one of the five daughters
not named in the will of Ebenezer Lockwood of Fredericktown, made 7 Jul
1789, recorded 22 Aug 1789, Dutchess County Surrogate Records, Liber A, pp.
145-148, because of family, military, and geographical association.
(3a) Buys, Barbara Smith, OLD GRAVESTONES of PUTNAM Co. NY, p. 149.
(4a) National Archives and Records Administration, Revolutionary War military
files, card 37290473, R&P 454712. See also NEW YORK in the REVOLUTION as
COLONY and STATE, Office of the State Comptroller, Albany NY, 1904, Vol. 1,
p. 150. See also DAR #14204 Pierce's Register.
(5a) Pelletreau, William S., HISTORY of PUTNAM Co. NY, p. 373.
(6a) Pelletreau, p. 123-7.
(7a) Dutchess Co. NY Deeds, Liber 8, p. 208, 244.
(8a) Corres., Putnam Co. Historical Society to Neel, 15 Feb 1984, "Our historian
thinks".
(9a) Corres., Harriet Hodge to Neel, 13 Mar 1984. [Histories also mention
Mahopac Falls Baptist Church, and Red Mills Baptist Church -- if they are
different than Mt. Carmel, should be checked.]
(10a) Greene, Marilyn Cole, TOWN MINUTES, TOWN of CARMEL, PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW
YORK 1795-1839, pp. 3, 8, 9, 12, 14, 21, 23, 25, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 53,
57, 58, 60, 64, 67, 71, 72 [and others after 1824].
(11a) Putnam Co. New York, Surrogate's Records, Old Estates, Liber A,
pp.112-115, case no. 104, 105, 106.
(12a) Putnam Co. NY Deeds, Liber B, pp. 186, 263.
(13a) Putnam Co. Surrogate Records, Liber B, pp. 106-107, case 645.
(14a) Note: The compiler has further information on each child, being a
descendant of Abigail (Barrett) Haight, who was a landowner in New London
Twsp, Huron Co. Ohio. A major source consulted for the Lockwood ancestry
was SOME DESCENDANTS of EDMUND LOCKWOOD (1594-1635) of CAMBRIDGE,
MASSACHUSETTS, and HIS SON, EDMUND LOCKWOOD (c. 1625-1693) of STAMFORD,
CONNECTICUT, by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G, 1978, and various letters and
updates from the late Philip V. Lockwood, New York, NY, who apparently
financed the Lockwood research.

Death: 7 MAR 1824 Kent Cliffs, Putnam Co.NY

Burial: Barrett Cem.Carmel, NY

Reference: 19

Reference: 20

Note: !Abraham Barrett lived near Broad Brook Road. He was on the list of Bedford
Freeholders as yoeman in 1763. "The mark of Abraham Barrett is a halfpeny
under each ear and a crop on the near ear and a slitt in the cropp; Recorded 2
May 1748."
.
Abstract of a bill of sale (2):
Margaret Barrett, Jemima Grant, Margaret Barrett Jr., Bathuel Barrett, Charity
Barrett, all of Bedford, Westchester, N.Y., and Michael Smith & wife Mary of New
Windsor, Ulster Co., N.Y.
.
Sold to Abraham Barrett of Bedford, Westchester, N.Y., for L5 "good lawfull
money of the State of New York."
.
Nov. 28, 1785
.
"All that messuage...in...Bedford...butted and bounded as followeth Viz
beginning at a black oak tree by the highway and the northwest corner of the
land set off to Margrett Barrett as her dowry running from thence eastward with
said land to a hemlock tree standing on the bank of Broad Brook from thence
northward with said brook two chains to a heep of stones from thence westward by
undevided land to a stake with stones about it and Jemima Grants southeast
corner from thence westward by said Jemima Grants land and Bathuel Barrets land
to a heep of stones from thence westward to a Chestnutt tree standing by the
highway from thence southward by said highway to a black oak tree and place of
beginning containing twelve acres and a half."
Margaret Barrett her mark
Jemima Grant her mark
Margaret Barrett [Jr] her mark
Bathuel Barrett his mark
Charity Barrett her mark
Michael Smith
Mary Smith her mark
Witnesses: Lot Sarles, Willitt Sarles
.
"Westchester Patriarchs" by Norman Davis lists Margaret Sarles, m Abraham
Barrett b 1725, of Bedford. That conflicts with this record and shows Margaret
Sarles married to Abraham Barrett b 1750. Pam Gilchrist thinks Davis in error.

SOURCE: (1) Bedford Historical Records
(2) BHR IV, page 186

Source: (Birth)
Abbreviation: Putnam County Barretts
Note: Putnam County Barretts Born Before 1900's

Death: BEF 8 NOV 1785 Bedford, Westchester Co., NY

Reference: 6

Note: !Margaret's last name is believed Ketchum or Sarles.

Note: ! Mary Barrett and Michael Smith removed to New Windsor, Ulster County, NY
(1). Records in Ulster County indicate Mary Barrett, Michael Smith's wife, "is
late of Bedford." Details of her life and death are from Ring-Mailler Genealogy,
page 291.
ERRMSG: Mother 55 years of age at birth of child, Alford Smith.

SOURCE: (1) Katharine Barrett Kelly
(2) Ring-Mailler Genealogy
(3) Pamela Gilchrist, Box 656, Chappaqua, NY 10514, 914-238-3522.

Death: 26 JUN 1812 Bethlehem, Orange, NY

Burial: Bethlehem, Orange, NY

Note: !From Ring-Mailler Genealogy, pp 287-292:
MICHAEL SMITH, son of Michael and Maria (Mary) (Spencer) Smith was baptized
in the Dutch Church in New York, May 23, 1756, and the witnesses were Johannes
Meyer and his wife, Freena Spilman.
There appears to be quite a discrepancy about his date of birth. His family
Bible, not known by whom written, gives it as May 3, 1760, but a "very old"
paper found in the Bible states it as May 3, 1757, while the New York Health
Department and his obituary of 1846, make him born 1752 and 1753 respectively.
His statement to the Government as given below states 1760. By close reading one
gains the idea there must have been some questioning about his date of birth, as
he states it "is in a Bible at home," which of course could not have been the
Bible herein copied.
Certain it is that he died at 299 1/2 Grand Street, New York City, April 24,
1846, and the New York Tribune of Monday, April 27, 1846, has the following
notice of his death "Another old Revolutionary Hero Gone. Col. Michael Smith,
whose name is intimately associated with our early struggle of Independence,
departed this life on Friday in the 94th year of his age. His remains were
followed by a detachment of the Sixth Brigade commanded by General Morris, at
half past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Catharine Ketcham of No. 556 Fourth Street." He was buried in the Bedford
Street Methodist Church vault in New York City.
The following letter from the Pension Bureau gives in detail the services he
rendered the Government and also shows where he lived from time to time and
furnishes the fact that his father was not living at the time he joined the army
as he mentioned his mother only, and that there is probably still in existence
the Bible of his parents.
.
Copy of Letter from Commissioner Wm. H. Dudley
U. S. Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE
WASHINGTON. D. C.
. April 9th,1884.
Sir:
In Accordance with your request of the 5th inst. for a history of the
services of your great grandfather, Michael Smith, as a soldier of the
revolutionary war, from the City of New York, for the purpose of a family
record, the following is furnished from his declaration for a pension on file in
this office.
In September 1828 he was living in Cornwall, Orange County, New York, and
states his age as 68 years. In Sept. 1832, his age is given as 72 years. In
answer to an interrogatory of the Court, he replied that he was born in the City
of New York in 1760, and that he had at home a record of his birth in the family
bible, that he lived there until the British occupied that city, when his mother
moved to Tappan, N. Y. He states that in March 1777 he moved to New Windsor,
N.Y., where he remained about one year, then settled in Cornwall, N.Y.
In April 1775 he joined a company of volunteers commanded by Capt. Theophilus
Beekman, in the regiment of Col. John Lasher's, and the services of the company
were exclusively confined to the city, where the Tories embraced every
opportunity to spike the guns on the battery, as well as elsewhere. The company
was divided into detachments to guard and protect the guns from injury, and one
detachment, of which he was a member, was ordered to the 18 mile stone on
Valentine Hill, where the cannon had been spiked. He was appointed Sergeant in
the company and remained with it until March 1776, when the regiment volunteered
for 9 months to join the Continental army, and Smith was appointed Orderly
Sergeant under the command of Capt. Beekman.
When the British fleet appeared at the narrows of New York City Harbor, a
detachment from his regiment, of 24 men, of whom he was one, were ordered with a
6 pounder field piece, under the command of Lt. Ralph Thurman, to proceed to the
Jersey shore, to protect the inhabitants from the incursions of the enemy, and
were stationed at Smith's ferry, on Bergen point. By the use of a boat, they
were em- ployed in scouting along the shore, and being thus engaged for three
days, they discovered an armed square rigged vessel full of men, approaching
towards them under a press of sail. As soon as possible, the boat (which was
flat) was run on shore, but Lt. Thurman and all the men except Smith and three
others, ran for their headquarters. As Smith was thus left in command, he
directed his three men to assist him in getting the field piece out of the boat
to the shore, with the ammunition for the purpose of using them to repel any
attack. In the meantime the enemy were within speaking distance, and commenced
firing at them, which was returned with the field piece, with round shot, but as
no effect was produced, they decided to use grape-shot. The vessel had anchored
and as she swung round the cannon was discharged, raking the vessel from stem to
stern, causing them immediately to haul off in great confusion. As soon as the
British disappeared Lieut. Thur- man with party arrived and the six pounder was
dragged to a place of safety, some three miles distant.
The next morning Sergeant Smith with his three men, against the earnest
remonstrance of Lieut. Thurman, returned to the place of action of the day
previous, for the purpose of recovering the boat, and found two British tenders
lying near by, and that three British soldiers were approaching them, who, on
being hailed explained that they were deserters from the detachment sent from
the vessel of the day before to cut off their retreat, and that the last
discharge of the field piece killed the captain of the vessel with 6 others, and
wounded 9 men.
The Americans returned to the city by the way of Powles Hook, where they
found that the news of the victory had preceded them, occasioning considerable
excitement. Lieut. Thurman immediately re- signed and Congress sent Smith a
commission as captain, but he, having a grandmother, a mother and a sister
depending upon him for support, declined the appointment, at their earnest
solicitation.
He was in the battle on Long Island (Aug. 27, 1776) being stationed at
Flatbush, and was one of the picket guard that was driven in when the attack
commenced, and retreated with the army to New York City, then to Harlem Heights,
where he was in another engagement, then to Kings Bridge and White Plains where
a battle was fought in which he participated, and was discharged in Dec. 1776.
After the occupation of the city of New York by the enemy, his mother removed
to Tappan, but before he was advised of this move ment, he heard that the
village was burnt, and he joined some volunteers under Capt. Blauvelt to pursue
the enemy as far as Hackensack.
In March 1777 he moved to New Windsor, N.Y., and joined the company of
militia commanded by Capt. Christian Van Duzen and the company was divided into
detachments. Several redoubts had been erected extending from West Point to the
forest of Dean, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and in the summer of 1778 he was ordered with a
detachment to redoubt No. 1 in the mountains, but in two weeks he was relieved.
In the spring of 1777 he commenced (probably under Capt. Hogeland) to work on
cheraux de frieze at Nicholls point, and continued until finished about a year.
He was out on several alarms, and at one time stationed at Fort Constitution
and at West Point. A portion of the time he was employed on the cheraux de
frieze may have been under Capt. Jackson.
John Garrett, a witness, who was with Smith in 1775 & 6 in the service,
alleges that Smith and himself fired at a British tender, being the first ball
fired at the British in the State of New York.
Mr. Smith states that he was absent a considerable period of the war of 1812,
in which he served as a Lieut. Colonel, but this office is unable to furnish
additional information of his services in that war, and was detached and served
on a court martial five years, a statement by Walter Case, Esq., of Newburg,
viz: that he assisted in removing the cannon from the battery in N.Y. City
(1776) and was one of those who fired on the old Asia man-of-war.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Wm. H. Dudley,
Commissioner.
Mr. Thos. W. Smith
at 5th National Bank
New York City.
.
BIBLE RECORD
.
Personally, the compiler has not seen the Bible record of Michael Smith, but
a descendant, Mrs. Addie V. Brown of Sea Cliff, L.I., has sent her the following
copy.
Michael Smith, born May 3, 1760 (?) (See text)
Mary Smith, born April 23, 1750
Henry Smith, born October 8, 1779
Catherine Smith, born September 28, 1781
Michael S. Smith, November 21, 1783 (died 1876 as Spencer)
Mariah Smith, March 6, 1786
Mary Smith, September 17, 1787 (died 1873)
Henry F. Smith, November 28, 1789
Alford Smith, June 11, 1805
Michael Smith, died April 29, 1846
Mary Smith, died September, 1787
.
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.
Mary Smith departed this life June the 26, 1812, age 62 years, 2 months & 3
days.
Mrs. Brown then adds: "The following are a copy of two very old slips found
in the Bible."
Col. Michael Smith, born May 3, 1757, married three times in Cornwall, Orange
County. Lived in Bethlehem.
Mary Barret, first wife of Michael Smith, born April 23, 1750.
Catherine Smith, born September 28, 1781, at Bethlehem.
Mary Smith, born in Bethlehem, September 17, 1787.
Henry F. Smith, born in Bethlehem, November 28, 1789.
Michael S. Smith, born in Bethlehem, November 21, 1783.
Col. Michael Smith died April 29, 1846, in New York City. Buried from his
daughter Catherine Ketcham's home in 4th St. with military honors; interred in
Bedford Street M. E. Church Vault, New York City.
Mary Barret Smith died June 26, 1812, buried in Bethlehem, Orange County.
Henry F. Smith died in New York City.
.
Note---The newspapers of the day show that Michael Smith died April 24 and
was buried April 27, l846.
Descendants state that Michael S. Smith, born November 21, 1783, was named
Michael Spencer Smith. His father's will, when proved, shows he was called
Michael.
March 29, 1832, Michael Smith and his wife Elizabeth of Cornwall, N.Y.,
conveyed to Samuel S. Ketcham of New York, 6 1/2 acres in Cornwall, but to be
retained by Michael and his wife for life. Recorded March 30, 1832. (Deeds,
Goshen, New York Liber 44, p. 506.) Samuel S. Ketcham was the son of John and
Catharine (Smith) Ketcham.
Michael Smith married first, as of New York, in the Presbyterian Church at
New Windsor. N.Y., August 24, 1778, Mary Barret, "late of Bedford." She was born
April 23, 1750, and died in Bethlehem, Orange County, N.Y., June 21, 1812, and
family records state that he married twice after her death. The Bethlehem Church
records a marriage of Michael Smith to ______ Ryder on June 31, 1814, and the
family claim the first name of his second wife was Catharine. When he died he
had wife Elizabeth. His children were by his first wife. From his will it is
evident that he made his home, certainly until late in life, in Bethlehem, N.Y.
In 1804 Michael Smith was a Justice of the Peace in Cornwall, and held other
minor offices from time to time.
Michael Smith of Bethlehem, in the town of Cornwall, made his will March 28,
1837, which was proven July 10, 1848, and is recorded in New York City, Liber
96, page 39. He gave his wife Elizabeth his home and the land "now occupied by
me," as long as she was his widow, and left his daughter Mary, widow of Gilbert
Dean, one hundred dollars and mentions daughter Catharine, widow of John
Ketcham, giving her nothing because she has had more than her portion. Two-
thirds of his real estate he bequeaths to his son Henry and daughter Mary, and
the other third to son Michael.
He named Dr. William Murphy and his own wife Elizabeth executors, and the
witnesses were John Denniston and Wesley Still, who were both living in 1848,
and both of Cornwall.
On May 24, 1848, papers in the New York Surrogate's Office show a petition of
Henry F. Smith, mechanic of New York, which state Michael Smith died April 24,
1846, and left next of kin, besides the above Henry F., Catharine Ketcham and
Mary Dean, both residing in New York City and Michael Smith in Connecticut, and
that he left no other children nor descendants of any deceased children
surviving. The ancestry of the first wife of Michael Smith and the mother of his
children has not been found. The New Windsor, N.Y., church records and his
family Bible name her as Mary Barret and the former states that she was late of
Bedford. The meager Bedford, N.Y., records and New York Wills show an early
Barret family in that town and one, Samuel, who died there in 1844 in his 90th
year, but no clue to Mary Barret's connection was found.
Issue: Henry, Catherine, Michael Spencer, Mariah, Mary, Henry F., Alford.
Michael Smith is in the DAR Patriot Index, p.628, b c.5-3-1760 d 4-24-1846
m Mary Barrett Sgt NY.

Death: 24 APR 1846 New York, NY

Burial: 27 APR 1846

Death: 15 AUG 1805

Note: ! MICHAEL SMITH, whose ancestry has not been found to date though diligently
sought for, was married in the Protestant Lutheran Church of New York City (page
35) on October 17, 1742, under the name of Michael Schmidt, to Maria Spencer of
Manhattan Island, and the clerk or minister in rocording it states that he is a
"young man from the Paltz who has been living here 3 years and 1 month."
(Holland Society Year Book, 1903, p. 20.) (Lutheran Church Records in New York
City and Bronx County.)
Just why they were married in that church is not known to the compiler but
certain it is their six children were baptized in the Dutch Church as follows;
1.Jacob, December 26, 1742. Witnesses: Jacob Lang and Barbara Hollemge, widow of
Melchert Smith.
2.Anna Maria, March 15, 1747. Witnesscs: Hendrick Spilman and Anna Smith, wife
of Felix Albrach.
3.Johannes, April 23, 1749. Witnesses: Johannes Michel and his wife, Johanna
Kogh.
4.Hendrick, December 25, 1751. Witnesses: Johannes Broeck and his wife,
Catharina Spencer.
5.Catharine, September 12, 1753. Witnesses: the same.
6.Michael, May 23, 1756. Witnesses: Johannes Meyer and wife
Freena Spilman.
(New York Dutch Bapt., Vol. 2, pp. 99, 132, 150, 173, 187, 210)
.
Regarding the witnesses to the baptisms of the children of Michael and Maria
(Spencer) Smith, it is of interest to state the following which may be found; in
the New York Record, Vol. 60, pp. 352-4:
Hendrick Speelman and wife, Elizabeth Rumel: Jacob Lang and his wife, Barbara
Hollenwagen, were from Zurich, Switzerland, as stated by themselves when they
joined the Dutch Church in New York, February 25, 1745; Felix Albreght and his
wife, Anna Schmidin, joined in 1746 as from Stadel, Switzerland; Johannes Meyer
joined in 1746 as from Henderdensten, Switzerland.
New York Dutch Baptisms, Vol. 2, p. 204, show that Maria, wife of Michael
Smith, witnessed the baptism of Maria, daughter of Johannes Broeck and his wife,
Catharina Spencer, in 1755, and on page 248, Maria, widow of Michael Smith
witnesses the baptism of Jakob, son of Jakob Graf and his wife, Maria Huysman,
on January 4, 1761, and the Dutch Burials in the Holland Society Year Book of
1899, p. 192, shows that Michael Smith died June 20, 1759, and the New York
Record, Vol. 59, p. 379, states that Mary Spencer, widow of Michael Smith, was a
member of the Dutch Church in 1790.
The following conveyance gives Michael and Maria (Mary) a son, James, who
does not appear to have been baptized in the Dutch Church of New York.
On January 14, 1767, Mary Smith purchased from Abraham Willson and wife Ann
in New York City, certain property bounded east by Mulberry Street, west by
Beekman ground, north by ground by said Willson and south by house and ground of
Captain Jacobsen, and on April 26, 1811 (N.Y. Conveyances, Liber 92, page 427)
Jacob Smith of Homer, Courtland County, N.Y., farmer, with wife Mary, John
Albright with wife Catharine of the same place, James Smith, gentleman of New
York with wife Mary, and Michael Smith with wife Mary, of Cornwall, Orange
County, N.Y., who "derived title as heirs at law" of said Mary Smith, sold the
above property to Miss Abijah Arden. One Mary Smith died in New York, August 15,
1805, and was buried in a Methodist vault and may be this Mary as certain of her
descendants were Methodists at that time. Michael Smith died in New York, June
20, 1759 (Dutch Burials Holland Society Year Book, 1899, p. 192).

SOURCE: (1) Ring-Mailler Genealogy, pp. 286-287.

Death: 20 JUN 1759

Note: !Bruce & Pamela Gilchrist P.O.Box 656 Chappaqua, NY 10514

Note: !Michael Smith may have added "Spencer" and used it as his last name. He died in 1876 as "Spencer" Smith.

Death: 1876

Note: !Mary "Polly" (?) Smith.

Death: 1873

Death: --Not Shown--

Note: !Alford Smith appears too late a birth for his mother, or is the date wrong?

Note: ! Abraham Barrett lived near Broad Brook Road. He was identified as yoeman on
the 1763 Freeholders List and he is on the 1779 Tax List. He was in the U.S.
Census of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840. The 1800 census listed 11
children: 4 sons under 10; 2 sons 10-16; 2 sons 16-26; self; wife; and 3
daughters. (1) During the Revolutionary War, he was in the Town of Bedford
Minute Men; 2nd Regiment, Westchester County Militia, Sep 1775 under Capt Eli
Seely, Capt Marcus Moseman, Col Thomas Thomas, serving on and off until 1779.
He died aged 90/08/15. His U.S. Pension, file S 17261, is dated 26 Dec 1832. (2)
He is buried in Plot #A3, Buxton Cemetery, which was purchased in 1788. (3)

SOURCE: (1) Katherine Barrett Kelly.
(2) BHR VII.
(3) BHR VIII.

Death: 10 JUL 1841 Bedford, Westchester Co., NY

Burial: Buxton Cemetery, Bedford, NY

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