Lawrence and Elizabeth Richey of Franklin Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey are among my ancestors. Elizabeth was born on 19 Apr 1776 and died on 02 Apr 1827 in Ulysses Township, Tompkins Co., New York.1 My first clue as to Elizabeth’s ancestry came in finding the middle name of their oldest son, John Wickoff Richey.2
One of the possible fathers of Elizabeth (?) Richey is Peter Wyckoff of Greenwich Township, Warren Co., New Jersey. The two main published secondary sources on this family are The Wyckoff Family of America3 (hereinafter WFA) and the Somerset County Historical Quarterly4 (hereinafter SCHQ). However, there are differences in their accounts of the family of Peter Wyckoff and no sources are cited.
The WFA lists the parents of Peter Wyckoff as Peter Wyckoff and Mary Dildyn, stating he was born on 22 Jan 1754 and lived in Warren County, New Jersey. The SCHQ lists Peter Wyckoff’s parents as Martin Wyckoff and Elizabeth Hubbard, noting he was born after 1742. Both sources list the maiden name of his first wife as Vandervoort and of his second wife as Hageman. The WFA states this second Peter Wyckoff also lived in Warren Co., NJ, but has no further information regarding him.
A review of the tax ratables for Sussex Co for 17745 shows only one Peter Wyckoff owning property in the county. The land was located on the north side of the Musconetcong River near Ashbury, Warren Co., New Jersey.6 Other land and probate records of Sussex County from 1775 – 1800 all appear to refer to the same Peter Wyckoff suggesting there was only one Peter Wyckoff who lived in Sussex County before 1800.
The key for me to finding more information regarding the family of Peter Wyckoff was finding the mother of his first wife, Ms. Vandervoort. In reviewing wills referring to any Peter Wyckoff, I came across the will of Mary Henderson. The abstract of her will7 with my comments [] reads as follows:
1789, June 12, Henderson, Mary, of Hunterdon Co., widow of John Henderson, Sr., will of.
To Peter Wyckoff [son-in-law, husband of Magdalena, deceased], 1/4 of my apparel,
To Mary Reemer [daughter, wife of Isaac DeReimer], 1/4
Jean Opdike [daughter, wife of Abraham Updike], 1/4
Hannah Longer [daughter, wife of Ludwig Lunger], 1/4
Rest of estate to be equally divided between my 6 children and [including?] Peter Wyckoff is to have an equal share with the rest. Executors: Thomas Bowlby and William Runkle. Witnesses – Robert Hagerty, David Hagerty, Jane McCray. Proved Oct. 24, 1789. 1789, Sept 7. Inventory ₤49.5.0, made by Lawrence Updike [brother of Abraham Updike] & John Updike, Sr. [father of Abraham Updike]. 1805, Feb 5. Account by Executors. Lib. 32, p. 34.
The maiden name of Jean (Jannetje) Opdike is known to be Vandervoort from The Op Dyck Genealogy.8 The baptisms of several of Isaac and Mary DeReimer’s children are recorded in the records of the New Brunswick First Reformed Church.9 The children of Ludwig and Hannah Lunger include a Michael and Mary, presumably named after Hannah’s parents.10
The will of Mary Henderson does not mention the children of her husband, John Henderson, and the abstract of the will of John Henderson11 does not mention the children of his wife, Mary, implying they were both married previously. The abstract of their marriage bond12 reads:
“#455; John HENDERSON in the County of Hunterdon, & Abraham VANHORNE (VAN HORNE) of Sussex County... [bound to]... William FRANKLIN, Governour... 500 pounds... 27 March 1770. ... John HENDERSON... obtained license of marriage for himself and for Mary VANDERVARTE [Vandervoort] of the County of Sussex... [w] Tho:s VANHORNE”
Mary Fonteyn is listed as one of grandchildren of Jacques Fontine in an arbitration bond regarding his estate on 15 Feb 1762.13 She is noted as the widow of Michael Vandervoort.
The children of Michael Vandervoort and Mary Fonteyn are listed in the records of New Brunswick First Reformed Church and the Six Mile Run Dutch Reformed Church:
12 May 1745. Vandervoort, Michael and Maria – Maria14
15 Jan 1749. Van der Vort, Magel and Mary – Magdalena15
07 Apr 1751. Vandervoort, Michael and Maria – Jannetje16
23 Sep 1753. Vandervoort, Magiel and Marya – Anna17
18 Jan 1756. Van der Voort, Myshel and maria – Charl18
15 Jan 1758. Van de Voort, Mychil and Maria - Johannes19
The first child of Peter and Lena [Magdalena Vandervoort] Wyckoff[20 is listed in the baptismal records of the New Brunswick First Reformed Church:
28 May 1769. Wyckhoff, Peter and Lena - Marte [Martin]
Peter made a special bequest in his will21 to his granddaughter, Magdalena, presumably named after her grandmother and noted in his will for that fact. Thus, it appears that Peter’s first wife was Magdalena Vandervoort.
Peter’s second wife was Martha Hageman. She was the daughter of Abraham Hageman and Maria Laquer, baptized on 24 Apr 1748 at the Dutch Reformed Church of Harlingen, Somerset Co., New Jersey.22 In his will Abraham Hageman23 lists his daughter as Martha Wikoff. Martha is probably the older woman listed as living with Sarah Wyckoff in the 1830 census24 of Greenwich, Warren Co., New Jersey. The inventory of Sarah Wyckoff’s estate includes a note against Martha Wyckoff.25
The identity of the parents of Peter Wyckoff now becomes clear. Unless he was baptized well after his birth, this Peter could not be the son of Peter Wyckoff and Mary Dildyn who was baptized in 1754. Further, Peter’s oldest son was probably named after his paternal grandfather, Martin Wyckoff. Peter’s daughter, Elizabeth, was probably named after her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hubbard, while his daughter, Mary, was probably named after her maternal grandmother, Mary Fonteyn. His daughter, Sarah, was named after her paternal step-grandmother, Sarah Newell.
Peter’s mother, Elizabeth Hubbard, is said to have died about 1750 [WFA3]. His father, Martin is said to have married (2) Sarah Newell about 1750 and she is said to have been the mother of Martin’s children, Willemptje and Joseph. However, Elizabeth was probably the mother of all of Martin’s children.
1. the baptismal record of Joseph at the Readington Reformed Church reads:
Apr 13 [1755], Marten Wykhoff and Elizabeth – Joseph.26
2. a couple of pieces of indirect evidence indicate Willemtje’s mother was Elizabeth:
a. Willemtje’s oldest daughter was named Elizabeth.
b. The following baptismal record at the Readington Reformed Church may be hers:
Oct 22 [1752], Pieter Wkyhof and Elizabeth – Willemtje.27 I am presuming the father was misstated in this record. Martin’s daughter, Willemtje, was born on 20 Sep 1753, shortly before this Willemtje was baptized. Martin and Elizabeth’s other children after 1745 were baptized at the Readington Reformed Church. Peter and Elizabeth Wyckoff did not have any other children baptized there and I cannot find anyone who has identified this Peter and Elizabeth Wyckoff as a family.
3. At least one researcher lists Elizabeth Hubbard Wyckoff’s date of death as 24 Jul 1759,28 but I do not know the source of that information.
The WFA identifies Sarah Newell’s parents as Johannes Newell and Geertje Hagawout, born 16 Feb 1725/26. However, Newell may have been Sarah’s married name, not her maiden name.
1. Sarah is not listed in a family bible which lists their other children.29
2. Sarah is not listed in the will of Johannes Newell,30 though he mentions a married daughter and a presumably deceased married daughter. All of his other known children are mentioned, except Dirckje of whom little is known beyond her baptismal record.
3. Johannes and Geertje’s older children were baptized at the Reformed Dutch Church on Staten Island.31 Johannes obtained a letter of recommendation from the church dated 9 Nov 1725,32 shortly before Sarah was born, but her baptism was not recorded in the church records.
4. Sarah may have been the wife of Hendrick, son of Johannes Newell and Geertje Hagawout. Their daughter, Geertje, was baptized at the Readington Reformed Church in May 1750.33 Sarah’s maiden name is not given in the record. Hendrick died before his father’s will was written in 1762 and Hendrick’s bequest was given to his daughter, Gertje. Sarah may have married (2) Martin Wyckoff. Though I have no evidence of that, it would explain her name being listed as Newell.
Since it is not known when Magdalena died, the mother of each of Peter’s children, except Martin, is uncertain. However, it is likely that Magdalene was the mother of all of Peter’s children:
Mary Henderson’s will made no distinction between the children of Peter Wyckoff for her apparel, which is relevant to her granddaughters and her will also makes no distinction between the children of Peter Wyckoff for the rest of her estate, which would be relevant to all her grandchildren.
Peter Wyckoff, Sr. named a granddaughter in his will, Magdalene, probably the daughter of Cornelius, who was probably named after her paternal grandmother and John Wyckoff had a son whose middle name was Vandervoort, probably after the maiden name of his mother, implying she was the mother of these two children, John being the next to last child.
I have not found an example of Hageman being the middle name of any of Peter Wyckoff’s descendants and Peter did not have a son named Abraham after his second wife’s father. Jacob and Peter, Jr. both had daughters named Martha. However, since Magdalena had died by 1789, both were probably raised for a significant time period by Martha and could explain their naming daughters after her.
Information on the children of Peter and Magdalena is as follows:
Martin was born before 1 May 1769, the date of his baptism. He probably died before 1793 as he is not listed in the 1793 Military Census of Sussex County, New Jersey.34
Mary was probably the oldest daughter and was born before 1780 based on:
the assumption that according to standard Dutch naming conventions that Mary and Elizabeth, being named after their grandmothers, were probably older than Sarah, and
the order in which the daughters are listed in Peter’s will, i.e., Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth, implies she was the oldest. The order in which the sons are listed in Peter’s will appears to reflect their birth order.
She is listed as being born about 1783 in WFA3. She was married at the time of her father’s will in 1809 but I have not been able to find her husband.
Jacob was born on 1 May 1774 according to the WFA3. This agrees with the 1820 census which lists him as being 45 years old or older.35 However, Jacob is not listed in the 1793 Military Census of Sussex County, New Jersey,36 which included men between the ages of 45 and 18, so he may have been a couple of years younger. He married Isabella Vogan on 12 Apr 1799 and died on 9 Feb 1853 in Jasper, Steuben, New York according to WFA3.
Elizabeth was born before 1793 as Peter’s will implies, she was married at the time. She is listed as being born in 1781 in WFA3, but I believe that is because of her identification as Elizabeth, wife of Egbert Hanmer. A discussion of her marriage follows. As noted earlier, standard Dutch naming conventions would suggest that Elizabeth was named after her paternal grandmother and was older than Sarah and therefore born before 1780. However, the order in which the daughters are listed in Peter’s will implies she was the youngest, so her approximate birth date is uncertain.
Cornelius was probably born before 1783, assuming he was at least 18 when he married Mercy Covenhoven on 07 Nov 1801 at the Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, Warren Co., New Jersey.37 He is not listed in the Military Census of 1793,38 implying he was born after 1775. He is listed as being born about 1776 in WFA3.
Sarah was born before 1780, based on the 183039 census. She is listed as being born about 1778 in WFA3. She is likely the youngest daughter, being named after her paternal step-grandmother.
John was born between 1782 and 1785, based on the 185040 and 186041 census records. He married Mary Martenis on 31 May 1807 at the Greenwich Presbyterian Church27 He is listed as being born about 1780 in the WFA3.
Peter was born on 1 May 1785 and died on 30 Jul 1864 according to his tombstone.42 He married Elizabeth Smith in Apr 1806 at the Greenwich Presbyterian Church.43 His family moved to Ulysses, Tompkins Co., NY sometime after he sold his land in Greenwich Township in 1814 and is buried there31.
The identity of the husband of Elizabeth Wyckoff is still unclear, at least in my mind. She is said to be the wife of Egbert Hanmer of Ulysses, Tompkins Co., NY in WFA3. I don’t know the sources for this, but I have found the following reasons for this identification:
Her oldest son was Peter Wyckoff Hanmer, presumably named after his paternal grandfather.
Their neighbor was Jacob Wyckoff, son of Peter Wyckoff. Jacob had moved to Ulysses, Tompkins Co., NY about 1805, probably a couple of years before Egbert and Elizabeth married.
According to her tombstone Elizabeth died on 1 May 1826 at age 45. Her birth in 1781 puts her in the range of the children of Peter Wyckoff.
An alternative identification of the husband of Elizabeth Wyckoff is Lawrence Richey. The reasons or support for this identification are:
Her oldest son was John Wyckoff Richey, presumably his middle name being Elizabeth’s maiden name. Of the grandchildren of Peter Wyckoff, Sr. there are two other cases of the use of the mother’s maiden name as the child’s middle name. In both cases, the given name was not the same as the maternal grandfather’s. John Vandervoort Wyckoff’s given name was from his father (John Wyckoff), not his maternal grandfather, Michael Vandervoort. Peter S. (probably Smith) Wyckoff’s given name was either from his father (Peter Wyckoff, Jr.) or paternal grandfather (Peter Wyckoff, Sr.), but not his maternal grandfather, Robert Smith. In this case, Lawrence Richey had a brother and a grandfather named John that his son could have been named after.
The Richey family lived near Peter Wyckoff’s family in New Jersey and were also neighbors of the Wyckoff and Hanmer families in Ulysses, Tompkins Co., NY.44
One of the bond holders in the estate of Peter Wyckoff, Sr. was John Williamson, brother-in-law of Lawrence Richey.
The accounting of Mary Henderson’s estate in 1805 includes payments or forgiveness of debts to four of the six heirs. It also includes a payment for services to Daniel Ritchey, father of Lawrence Richey.
According to her tombstone, Elizabeth, wife of Lawrence Richey, was born on 1 May 1776, within the time range of Elizabeth Wyckoff’s birth if in fact she was not Peter’s youngest daughter, as the Dutch naming conventions would imply.
Any information regarding Peter Wyckoff’s family which would help establish the husband of his daughter, Elizabeth, will be appreciated.
Endnotes
1. Old Log Meeting House Cemetery, Ulysses Township, Tompkins Co., New York, see, http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytompki/cemeteries/tcem062.htm
2. “Homer and its Pioneers and Its Men of Today”, W.A. Lane, page 87.
3. “The Wyckoff Family in America; A Genealogy in Two Volumes”; Second Edition; Volume One; Descendants of Nicholas Wyckoff, The Wyckoff House & Association, Inc., 1980, page 23. His family number is 111,15.
4. Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol II, page 193, and Vol III, page 42, “Notes on the Wyckoff Family”, by William F. Wyckoff.
5. Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp., “New Jersey Census, 1772-1890”, August 1774, Greenwich, Sussex Co., New Jersey.
6. “John Richey of Asbury, New Jersey”, by Perry Streeter, page 2, online at: https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~streeter/genealogy/richey.pdf
7. Archives of New Jersey, First Series, Vol 36, Vol 7 of Calendar of Wills, p 107.
8. “The Op Dyck Genealogy”, by Charles Wilson Opdyke, page 211.
9. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 44, 1926.
10. International Genealogical Index - North America
11. Archives of New Jersey, First Series, Vol 36, Vol 7 of Calendar of Wills, p 106.
12. “New Jersey Marriages”, contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by by Patricia M. Bergener (fmlyhstry@verizon.net) (c) 1999. http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/nj/statewide/vitals/marriages/njmarh09.txt
13. Arbitration Bond - grand children Jacques ffontine - 15 February 1762, see Carol V. Yocum’s site http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cyocom/ijfprobate.htm
14. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 44, 1926, Num 2, page 412
15. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 44, 1926, Num 2, page 414
16. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 44, 1926, Num 2, page 416
17. Early Church Records of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Colonial Roots, page 194
18. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 44, 1926, Num 4, page 556
19. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 44, 1926, Num 4, page 558
20. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol 45, 1927, Num 2, page 229
21. File 1217 S. The abstract is in Archives of New Jersey, First Series, Vol 40, Vol 11 of Calendar of Wills, p 385.
22. International Genealogical Index. I did not find this entry in the records of the church published in the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey.
23. Archives of New Jersey, First Series, Vol 38, Vol 9 of Calendar of Wills, p 152.
24. 1830 Federal Census of Greenwich, Warren Co., New Jersey, page 426.
25. File 380 U.
26. “Early Church Records of Somerset County, New Jersey”, published by Colonial Books, page 129.
27. “Early Church Records of Somerset County, New Jersey”, published by Colonial Books, page 126.
28. Familysearch.org: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3Z66-DDZ also https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/237968/I27017/elizabeth-hubbard/individual
29. Newell family bible in the possession of Bergin Davis Newell Carter Jr., translated by Rev. John Y. Broek of Plainfield, N.J.
30. Archives of New Jersey, First Series, Vol 33, Vol 6 of Calendar of Wills, p 306.
31. Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol 4, Staten Island Church Records, p. 20, 23, 26.
32. Source unknown.
33. “Early Church Records of Somerset County, New Jersey”, published by Colonial Roots, Readington Reformed Church, p 122.
34. "New Jersey in 1793", compiled by James S. Norton, Original Manuscript: Militia Census, 1793; Department of Defense, Adjutant General's Office (SDEA0004); New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey, p. 272.
35. 1820 Federal Census of Ulysses, Tompkins Co., New York, page 20.
36. "New Jersey in 1793", compiled by James S. Norton, Original Manuscript: Militia Census, 1793; Department of Defense, Adjutant General's Office (SDEA0004); New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey, p. 272.
37. Transcription online at http://raub-and-more.com/greenwich/greenwichmarriages.html
38. "New Jersey in 1793", compiled by James S. Norton, Original Manuscript: Militia Census, 1793; Department of Defense, Adjutant General's Office (SDEA0004); New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey, p. 272.
39. "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYY-X9N?cc=1803958&wc=35YH-JC6%3A1588480903%2C1588471301%2C1588475103 : 14 August 2015), New Jersey > Warren > Greenwich > image 35 of 53; citing NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
40. 1850 Federal Census of Franklin, Warren Co., New Jersey, page 939.
41. 1860 Federal Census of Franklin, Warren Co., New Jersey, page 471.
42. Grove Cemetery, Ulysses, Tompkins Co., NY, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytompki/cemeteries/tcemgrovv.htm
43. Transcription online at http://raub-and-more.com/greenwich/greenwichmarriages.html
44. 1810 Federal Census of the United States for Ulysses, Seneca (now Tompkins) Co., New York, page 304-305.
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