dyke, located on the upper west side of Manhattan Island. He and his descendants adopted the surname of Wortendyke, while those of his brothers retained that of Somerendyke. The old Somerendyke mansion house, built of stone, stood, a few years ago, on the Bloomingdale road near West Seventy-fifth Street. Frederick (3d gen.) married, June 10, 1707, Divertie Rynearsen Quackenbush, a granddaughter of Peter Quackenbush, of Oostergeest, Holland. About 1722 Frederick removed to Bergen County, N. J., where he purchased several tracts of land, the principal one of which was nearly five hundred acres in area at what is now Park Ridge, formerly Pascack. On this tract, lying on both sides of Pascack Brook, he built his residence and two or more mills. He was the founder of Pascack settlement and left a large landed estate. After his death his will became the subject of a long litigation. His children of the fourth generation were Aeltie, Rynier, Elizabeth, Frederick F., and Classie.

Frederick F. Wortendyke (4th gen.), born in New York City, April 10, 1720, married April 3, 1748, Sara Peters Durie, of Pascack. By the will of his father he obtained half of the homestead at Pascack on which he resided, besides lands at Tappan and on the Palisades. He died about 1770, leaving issue of the fifth generation Frederick, Jannetje, Jacobus, Marya, Elizabeth, Judith, Peter F., Sara, Susanna, Divertie, Mensie, and John. Of these, Frederick was taken by the British in 1776 and confined for some time a prisoner in the old Sugar House in New York.

Peter F. Wortendyke (5th gen.), baptized August 29, 1754, married Martha Demarest. He resided at Pascack, where he was a farmer and miller. His children of the sixth generation were Frederick P., Augenitie, Peter P., and Jacobus.

Peter P., of the sixth generation, born June 15, 1797, died at Pascack, January 31, 1885. He was a farmer and married, January 6, 1816, Maria Banta, by whom he left issue of the seventh generation Peter P., Maria, Frederick P., Cornelius P., Martha, Laney, and John.

Peter P. Wortendyke, of the seventh generation, born June 14, 1816, died April 12, 1900. He married Harriet Cummings, a native of Spring Valley, N. Y. He resided at Pascack and spent most of his life as a tanner. His children of the eighth generation were Maria, Raymond P., John H., and Charles P., the second of whom is the subject of this sketch.

Raymond P. Wortendyke (8th gen.), one of the prominent members of the bar of Jersey City, was born at Pascack, Bergen County, N. J., December 30, 1845. He is the youngest son of Peter P. and Harriet (Cummings) Wortendyke, and inherits from a long line of ancestors on both sides the sturdy characteristics of his race. He attended the public schools at Pascack and Hackensack, Bergen County, and was graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, June 15, 1862. Subsequently he taught school for upward of seven years, during the last three of which he was connected with Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey City. In the meantime he studied law in Jersey City three and one-half years in the office of Hon. Jacob R. Wortendyke, member of Congress, and for six months with Hon. William Brinckerhoff, State Senator. He was admitted to the bar at Trenton as an attorney June 3, 1869, and as counselor June 6, 1872, and for over thirty years has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession, his present office being in Jersey City.

Mr. Wortendyke resides in Englewood, Bergen County, where he has served as a public school trustee for twenty years and as counselor of the

old Public Road Board for ten years. He has been counsel for the Township of Englewood for many years, and is now City Attorney for the City of Englewood. During his career at the bar he has been connected with a number of important cases in which he has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, untiring industry, and great force of character. He is public spirited, progressive, and patriotic, thoroughly identified with the best interests of the community, and holds a prominent place at the bar.

Mr. Wortendyke has been twice married, first on December 30, 1869, to Caroline, daughter of Levi and Wilhelmina (Ackerman) Gurnee, of Pascack, N. J., who died February 11, 1895. On September 29, 1897, he married Mrs. Ann E. H. (Demarest) Gurnee, of Hackensack, daughter of David A. Demarest, of Tenafly, Bergen County.

DAVID A. DEMAREST was without doubt in his day one of the most widely known and highly respected men in Bergen County. He was of the sixth generation from David des Marest, the French Huguenot emigrant, concerning whom see page 64. The line of descent was as follows: David des Marest (1), the emigrant, and his wife, Maria Sohier, had four children, one of whom was David Demarest, Jr. (2), who married Rachel Cresson and had twelve children, one of whom was Jacobus (3), who married Lea de Groot and Margrietie Cozines Haring, and had fifteen children, one of whom (by the second wife) was Abraham D. Demarest (4), born at Old Bridge, Bergen County, September 25, 1738, died near Closter, N. J., July 9, 1824, married, in 1763, Margaretta Garrets Demarest, born at Schraalenburgh, December 2, 1744, died June 13, 1834. Abraham D. Demarest (4) resided at Old Bridge for many years, when he removed to Hackensack and kept the Mansion House. About 1781 he purchased a large farm on the west side of the Schraalenburgh and Tappan road, lying on both sides of the road to Old Hook. There until his death he kept a general store of groceries, hardware, and such wares as farmers require. He also kept (until 1809) a tavern where the elections were held and other public business transacted. In April, 1787, he added to his farm on the south by purchases from the Harings and Van Horns. Abraham was a man of some

His store and tavern were known and patronized by the people for miles around. From 1781 until 1799 he held many town offices, including those of Commissioner of Appeals, Townsman, Road Master, and Justice of the Peace. He was one of the most active members and workers in the North Church at Schraalenburgh, in which he several times held the offices of Deacon and Elder. His issue were David A.; Rachel, 1768; Margaret, 1773; John, 1775 (died); and Christina, 1783.

Of these David Abraham Demarest (5), the subject of this sketch, was born at Old Bridge, August 28, 1764, and died at Nyack, N. Y., February 1, 1860, aged ninety-five years, five months, and three days. He married, in 1787, Charity Haring, daughter of Cornelius Haring, of Pascack, where she was born July 24, 1769. She died at Schraalenburgh, January, 29, 1849, aged about eighty years. She was a lady of sound judgment, with a kind and cheerful disposition, who was her husband's faithful helpmeet and companion for more than sixty years. The issue of this union was only one child, a daughter, Margaret Demarest, born at Schraalenburgh, N. J., September 5, 1789.

David A. Demarest (5) was an unusually bright and active boy. Realizing this, his father sent him to the best school in the village of Hackensack, where he acquired a fair education, including a knowledge of pen

manship and composition. Clerking in and purchasing stock for his father's store, as well as attending to the wants of the tavern guests, threw him in contact with all kinds and conditions of people from whom he obtained a large fund of information which, in later years, he turned to good account. When the Revolutionary struggle broke out he was a lad twelve years old, yet the father had difficulty in restraining the patriotism of his son sufficiently to prevent him from offering his services as a drummer boy to the Continental forces.

That struggle over, and having married and settled down to business,

he gave his attention not only to the store but to agricultural pursuits, which were then profitable. Products of the farm were sent by sloop from Old Bridge, or Closter Dock, to New York. A considerable trade in pig iron was carried on with the iron works at Ramapo. Groceries were exchanged for pig iron and the iron shipped to New York and sold at a profit. In October, 1794, he was one of the militia force from New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania sent by President Washington to Pittsburg to suppress what in American history is known as the Whisky Insurrection." 1796 he began to mingle in and wield influence in town affairs. From that time to 1843 he held numerous town offices, including that of Justice

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of the Peace. In 1809 he superintended the construction of his father's new stone dwelling (still standing). The tavern business was abandoned with the demolition of the old family mansion.

His daughter Margaret married, in 1810, John Perry, a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families in Rockland County, N. Y., by whom she had issue two daughters, Catharine (1811) and Charity (1822). In 1812 the quota of Bergen County drafted troops for the war with Great Britain rendezvoused at Jersey City for three months. Captain Samuel G. Demarest (of what is now Westwood, N. J.), who raised a company of men for that war, recruited part of his force at the store of Abraham D. Demarest. It has been said that David A. Demarest served in the War of 1812, but if so his name does not appear upon the muster rolls of the companies that went from his vicinity, commanded by Major Van Saun.

At his death in 1824 Abraham D. Demarest gave all his lands to his son, David A. Demarest. The latter soon after purchased several adjoining tracts, until the whole area of his homestead farm was over 300 acres. He also owned a large farm west of the Hackensack River and a tract at Ramapo. Henceforth and until his death he was considered a wealthy man. But he was one of those men whom wealth makes neither proud nor avaricious—a most genial and hospitable man, noted for his liberality. Nearly all his life he had been a member and liberal supporter of the North Church at Schraalenburgh, which he helped to organize and to which he liberally gave. His commodious mansion was always open to the ministers of that and sister churches. They came and went at their pleasure, sometimes staying with their families for weeks at a time. Their host's hospitality was of the good old-fashioned variety, spontaneous and hearty. Everybody was welcome beneath his roof. He had great influence over his neighbors and a happy way of settling disputes. As a Justice of the Peace for many years his practice was to avoid trials, if possible, and usually he would bring the parties to an agreement to settle before the trial day came on. He was a gentleman of "ye olden time "—a sort of “Cadi" in the community to whom the people went for advice in time of trouble and did not go in vain. He was a lover of music, and in 1801 organized a band in which he played second clarinet. The minutes of this band in his handwriting show that it prospered for some time. He was an entertaining conversationalist and story-teller who never lacked for listeners. Physically he was remarkably robust, and was never severely ill. He was found dead in bed one morning at the home of his daughter, at Nyack, N. Y., whom he was visiting. He lay as though he had quietly dropped into a peaceful sleep. He was of the type of man rarely to be met with in these days. He saw the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, and had he lived another year he would have seen the beginning of the Civil War. The year before his death the Northern Railroad was completed. The company gave him a pass, but he never used it, and died without having experienced the sensations of riding on a moving railroad train.

Catharine and Charity Perry, has granddaughters, married, respectively, Isaac and Tunis Smith, of Nyack, N. Y., who, for many years, owned and operated a steamboat line between New York and Nyack. Isaac and Tunis Smith were descendants of Lambert Ariaense, a native of Gilderland, Holland, who came to America when a young man and settled at New Amsterdam, where, on April 9, 1682, he married Margaretta Garrets Blawvelt, a daughter of Garret Hendricksen Blawvelt, of Deventer, Holland. In 1686

Lambert and his brothers-in-law, the Blawvelts, and others purchased the Tappan patent. Lambert settled on part of it at the "Green Bush," in Rockland County. His descendants soon became so numerous that it was necessary to distinguish one from the other, and as Lambert was a smith by profession it became convenient to designate him as Lambert Ariaense Smidt. Most of the family eventually dropped the Ariaense and called themselves Smith. Lambert Smith and Margaretta Garrets Blawvelt had issue, among other children, a son, Garret Smith (2), who married Brechie (Bridget) Peters Haring, of Tappan, and had issue, among other children, a son, Peter G. Smith (3), who married Annetie (Hannah) Blawvelt, and had issue, besides other children, a son, Isaac (4), who married Rachel Smith, and had issue several children, among whom was Peter Smith (5), who married Christina Demarest (a sister of David A. Demarest, above mentioned). Old patrons of the steamer "Chrystenah" will remember her portrait at the head of the stairway to the upper deck. They had issue of the sixth generation: Isaac, Abraham, Tunis, and David.

Isaac married Catharine Perry, and Tunis married Charity Perry, as above stated. The issue of Catharine Perry and Captain Isaac Smith were John, James, and Margaret Ann, all now deceased. The issue of Charity Perry and Tunis Smith were six children, all now deceased except David and Sidney.

JAMES KIPP is of the tenth generation in lineal descent from Roeloff (Ralph) de Kype, who, as the prefix "de" unmistakably indicates, was of French origin, but who resided at Amsterdam, Holland, whither he had fled from France. His life-long calling was that of a soldier, wherein he exhibited bravery, energy, and capacity of the highest order. He attained prominence as a military leader in 1555, during the long and bloody struggle between the Catholics and Protestants, in which the latter finally triumphed. It has been said that in 1559 he returned to France and fought against the Protestants under the banner of the Duke of Anjou. Whether he did or not is at this late date a matter of little importance. It is known that his sons espoused the Protestant cause. One of them is said to have been a stockholder in the Dutch East India Company and an active promoter of the voyage of Hendrick Hudson to New York in 1609. His son, Hendrick de Kype (3d gen.), born at Amsterdam in 1578, came to America accompanied by his son Hendrick (4th gen.). They were the first of the name in the New World. Hendrick (3d gen.), owing to ill-health, soon returned to Holland, but his son Hendrick (4th gen.), who seems to have been the first to drop the "de" from the name and who was usually known as "Hendrick Hendricksen Kype," married and became one of the first permanent settlers on Manhattan Island. Being a tailor by occupation, he was sometimes dubbed "Schneider Kype." On April 28, 1643, he purchased a lot 30 x 110 east of "The Fort" (now Bridge Street, near Whitehall), on which he built his family residence and shop. There, for years, he was the principal tailor of the town. He married Ann de Sille, a daughter of Nicholas de Sille, of Wyck, Holland. About this time Kieft was Governor of New Amsterdam. Kype despised the governor and publicly denounced him as "a butcher" for permitting the massacre of the Hackensack Indians at Pavonia. Kieft summoned him to appear and answer for his insolence, but Kype replied by messenger that he would not appear before "a man of blood." Mrs. Kype likewise denounced Kieft as a false judge. Upon the succession of Stuyvesant to the governorship