Jannetie (Johanna/Joanna) Teller

Notes:

Jannetje Teller Schuyler

by

Stefan Bielinski



Jannetje Teller probably was born before 1664. She was the daughter of New Netherland pioneers Willem Teller and Margaret Donchesen Teller.

In November 1684, she married Arent Schuyler at the Albany Dutch church. By 1700, six children had been christened in Albany and New York. In March 1685, they filed a joint will. Jannetje was named heir and executor of their estate.

These Schuylers initially made their home in Albany's second ward. But by the mid-1690s, they had re-located to New York.

Jannetje Teller Schuyler probably died shortly after the birth of her last child in 1700. Arent Schuyler re-married at the end of 1702.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/t/janteller6613.html#sources

Jannetie married Captain Arent Schuyler 26 Nov 1684, Albany, Albany, New York, British America . Arent (son of Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Margarita Van Schlichtenhorst) was born 25 Jun 1662, Albany; died 26 Nov 1730, Belleville, Bergen, New Jersey, British America . [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 27 Sep 1685, Albany, Albany, New York, British America

Margareta married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Margareta married Charles Oliver 26 Nov 1684. Charles died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 6 Oct 1689, Albany

Other Events:

• Baptism: 13 Mar 1692, Albany, Albany, New York, British America

Notes:

Baptism:
Baptism was 13 Mar 1692 according to the Early Settlements Plains, page 49.

Other Events:

• Residence: Burlington, Atlantic, New Jersey, British America
• Baptism: 5 May 1695, New York

Notes:

"He received from his father a deed for land in Burlington, N. J., at Lossa Point or Wingwortlrs Point. His family continued to reside there for many years. Among his ch. was Arent, who m. Jane _____ , and whose will, dated at Burlington, May 7, 1774, was proved Jan. 10, 1780. In it are the names of his ch., viz. :Aaron, John, Ann, Peter, Charles and Abraham (History of Hudson County, New Jersey, 1871, by Charles H. Winfield, pg. 536).

Residence:
He probably settled near Burlington as his father in his lifetime gave him a tract of 500 acres of land within the bounds of that town called _____ Point.

Casparus married Jane. Jane died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Casparus married Mary. Mary died Dec 1773. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 11 Sep 1687, Albany, Albany, New York, British America

Notes:

Film 102851 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 51

The Family of Philip Schuyler Son of Arent.

When Arent Schuyler removed from Pompton to New Barbadoes his son Philip remained on the farm at Pompton and is the immediate forefather of the branches of the family that settled in this vicinity. He was born at Albany and baptized there Sep 11, 1687 and died at Pompton about 1760. He and his children must have had a large __________ estate. He married about 1712 Hesther Kingsland, daughter of Isaac Kingsland of New Barbadoes who was a member of the Council under several of the deputy Governors of New Jersey. They had 12 children.

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Philip Schuyler, a son of Arent, we are to presume, had patriotic impulses towards self-government long before the tea was thrown overboard at Boston or Patrick Henry made his famous speech, for we are told that Philip was expelled from the New Jersey Assembly in colonial days for drinking a health "to the damnation of the government and justices of the peace." He was subsequently restored to his seat.

History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, Volume 2, p 1245

http://books.google.com/books?id=3NQ4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=history+of+essex+and+hudson+counties+new+jersey,+volume+11&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2SuiUtb9AYbXoATUgIGQBQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=schuyler&f=false

Philip married Hester Kingsland 8 Oct 1727, Second River Dutch Reformed Church, Belleville, New Jersey, British America . Hester (daughter of Isaac Kingsland and Elizabeth) died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 2 Jun 1700, Albany

Arent married Jennette. Jennette died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Arent married Jane Praul. Jane died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Johanna married Isaac Kingsland 24 Jun 1741. Isaac died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 51

It was he in all probability who in 1737 and 1752 was enrolled among the members of the Church of Pompton. His grandfather Arent, it is said, gave him a tract of land above Pompton lying on the north side of the Furnace(?) Pond and on which is the beautifully located residence of the late Cornelius Schuyler.

Transcription of Arant Schuyler's will of Pompton
Dated June 8, 1798. Probated December 15, 1806
Mentions: wife Rachel, sons Philip and Adonyah
Executors: sons Philip and Adonyah and friend William Colfax
Witnesses: John Wright, Nicholas Slingerland, Jr., Charles Wayman

Arent married Rachel Demarest Zabriskie. Rachel was born 19 Mar 1724; died 16 Apr 1812. [Group Sheet]

Arent married Helen Gerritse Van Wagenen\Van Wagoner 1 Oct 1741. Helen (daughter of Gerrit Hermanus Van Wagenen and Annetje (Sip)) was born 3 Dec 1720, Passaic County, New Jersey, British America ; died 13 Jan 1786. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 51

Isaac Schuyler, b. Ap 16.1716. died young

Birth:
Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains pg 51

Lists Isaac's birth as Apr 16, 1716. Died young.

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 52

Philip Schuyler born Dec 23 1717 died. mar? Sara Debow. da of Garret Debow and Maria Van Desbeck. He settled in Bloomindale at the Van Sep Mill. It is supposed he married as a 2 wife Rebecca Ryesson.

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In Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, page 160

Sarah, born in 1740 (married Philip Schuyler), daughter of Garret De Bow (born in New York about 1703 and died about 1768 at Pompton Plains, NJ, married May 23, 1727, Maria, daughter of Paulus Vanderbeck and Catharine Ryerson. Garret settled on the lands of his father-in-law Vanderbeck at Pompton where he spent his days until he died. He had 6 children.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=EdoMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA179&dq=genealogical+and+family+history+of+southern+new+york+arent+schuyler&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KFqeUqnqLKbqiQLEvYCwBQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=philip%20schuyler&f=false

Philip married Sarah DeBow. Sarah (daughter of Garrett Debow \ De Boog \ De Bow and Maria Van Desbeck\Vanderbeck) was born 1740; died Aft 1801. [Group Sheet]

Philip married Rebecca Ryerson. Rebecca (daughter of Martin Ryerson and Elizabeth LaRue) was born Abt 1741; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 53

Lists birth date as Sep 8 1717. Had two sons that they think are Isaac and Philip. They believe Philip to be Major Philip Schuyler b 6 Apr 1764.

Isaac married Margaret. Margaret died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married Reverand Dominie Benjamin Van der Linde\Vandelander 9 Dec 1749. Dominie (son of Hendrick Van der Linde\Vandelander and Adriantje Westerfelt) died 1789. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Transcribed Summary of Will
Peter Schuyler of Pompton
Dated December 17, 1806. Probated October 24, 1808
Mentions: wife Mary, children of brothers Phillip and Isaac and of sisters Elizabeth Vandelander, Anna Board and Johanna Kingsland, Mary Colfax, daughter of William Colfax, Esq., Peter Schuyler, a descendant of Philip Schuyler, son of brother Arent
Executors: wife Mary, Reverend Uall Odgen D. D. of Neward, Philip, son of my brother Isaac Schuyler
Witnesses: Charles Ogden, John Crouter, Peter Crouter

Peter married Mary Ogden. Mary (daughter of Uzal Ogden and Elizabeth Charlotte Thebaut) was born 1740; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 29 Jun 1725, Hackensack, New Jersey, British America

Notes:

Back in the Day - Nov. 6, 1966: Schuyler-Colfax home is builtMonday November 14, 2011, 12:36 AM By BRYAN LAPLACA COLUMNIST

"With ax in hand, a tall Dutchman stands alone in the wilderness. His back glistens with the sweat of labor. Aching muscles are his personal testimonial to days of grueling construction. But determined eyes shine as the hope of the future stands before him. Arent Schuyler has built his home."It is a sanctuary from weather not chained by technology; a wall separating man and inimical nature; a meeting place where friends may talk of a country without a name, without a government as we know it and without a plan even remotely connected with democracy."The year is 1702. The place is Pompton Plains, and the man is the first member of the Schuyler family to come to New Jersey. Two hundred and sixty four years later, the Schuyler family is still living here in the historic quarters which have been witness to the American Revolution, the Independence movement, the results of a constitution written in 1789 and the growth of a nation," began an article about the historic home.The Schuyler-Colfax House hasn’t moved, but it is now located in Wayne Township. The source article is probably wrong in stating that Arent Schuyler built the home in Pompton Plains, as according to the Wayne Township website, the home is close to the Pompton Lakes border. Pompton Lakes is not one of the many towns in the area that was once a part of the once-megalithic Pequannock Township.According to the Wayne Township website, "Until recently the homestead was a private residence for the eighth generation of the family, when it became a Wayne Township Museum. One of only a few colonial homesteads built prior to 1700 on the East Coast of the United States, it was never sold out of original ownership for eight generations. In 1994, Dr. Jane Colfax sold the landmark to Wayne Township to serve as a museum. Each generation produced military, medical, legal, and governmental representatives."The Schuyler-Colfax house was recognized and honored in October 1966 as an historical shrine. The 16th annual New Jersey Historical conference, as part of a tour to many historical sites in New Jersey, presented the dedication. About 200 people attended the ceremonies.Jack E. Boucher, supervisor of historic sites, dedicated the plaque mounted at the foot of the house. As reported, it reads "Schuyler-Colfax. The Schuyler and Colfax families were prominent in shaping New Jersey History."Guests at the dedication included Robert M. Lunny, director of the New Jersey Historical Society, who presided; Wayne Mayor Edward Sisco, who made the welcoming remarks; Peggy Lamont, Butler High School student and member of the Jerseymen, whose winning essay made the dedication possible; and Dr. Jane Colfax and Dr. Richard Colfax, then-owners of the house and direct descendants of Arent Schuyler."The house, which has been continuously occupied by descendants of the original builder (one of three in the United States left), is of significance because of its Revolutionary and pre-Revolutionary architecture," it was reported 45 years ago. "Although the present owners are busy restoring parts of the home, little has been changed since it was first built. As visitors pass through the rooms of the Schuyler-Colfax house, the mood and reality of a developing nation and state emerge."There is a nightcap crocheted by Martha Washington for Lt. William Golfax, born July 3, 1756, who served at Valley Forge. There are yellowed books of state and federal records dated 1793. An antique baby cradle stands by the doorway. Tables are dressed with hand-printed water basins and pitchers. The walls boast a copy of the Declaration of Independence, portraits of George and Martha Washington, and a framed document of the house's plans recorded in the Library of Congress.

"The original plaster ceilings, floor boards (of which no two are alike), and stone walls put together with mortar composed of field clay and reeds remain. The office where Dr. Jane Colfax, present owner of the home and direct descendant of Arent Schuyler, practices medicine is believed to be the original dwelling of her ancestors."One can see a chimney with hooks where meat was once cured. The garret above the room was used as a bedroom by slaves. The heavy beams overhead have now deepened in color. The main hall of the house is supported by walls with permanent color, having been made al fresco when the plaster was applied still wet. The living room supports the original plaster cornice molding and a floor that rests on hand-hewn joists. The original paneled wall in the dining room is also there, the top of which is curved. It is noted that they were constructed by ship's carpenters who built the walls as of a ship."The kitchen is supported by the original oak beams, ceiling boards, and oak floor boards which are ‘preserved and sealed by periodic applications of boiled linseed oil.’ A sandstone hearth stone, 5-feet wide and running the length of the kitchen, served as the base of a large fireplace."While the house, parts of which are still under reconstruction, exemplifies pre- and post-Revolutionary architecture, the mood of the times in which it was built is further enhanced when you learn the genealogy of the generations who lived there," it was reported."The land was purchased in 1697 by Arent Schuyler. The property was left to one of his three sons, Philip, who ran a copper mine and resided at the home with his wife, Hester, and children. His daughter, Hester Schuyler, married Lt. William Colfax, thus, the present name, Schuyler-Colfax Home."President Washington served as godfather to Colfax's son, George Washington Schuyler, and is said to have sat in one of the chairs in the home. William Colfax's other son, Schuyler Colfax Jr., became vice president of the United States under U.S. Grant. His third son, William Washington Colfax, became a doctor in the Passaic and Paterson areas and inherited the home."Since that time, medicine has become a family vocational tradition, and the only two direct descendants now living, Jane and Richard Colfax, are both doctors."Several landmarks are also found around the home, among which is a scarce mile-marker showing the distance from Hoboken to Jersey City; the site of the Morris Canal Feeder in the rear of the home where the Ramapo River flows; and a family graveyard where descendents are buried."As one visitor put it, ‘If the walls of the house could talk, just think of the things they could tell!’ Dr. Jane Colfax and her husband, Michael DeNike, and Dr. Richard Colfax have done a good job of making these walls do just that."

http://www.northjersey.com/community/history/back_in_the_day/133788183_Nov__6__1966_Schuyler-Colfax_home_is_built.html?c=y&page=1

Hester married Teunis Dey. Teunis died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 8 Oct 1727, Belleville, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; Address:

Other Events:

• Residence: Wesel

Jenneke married Board. died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married and had one daughter, Hester who married General William Colfax of Pompton.


History of the City of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, page 308

I I . Christinetje, bap. Oct. 8, 1738; m. Casparus
Schuyler (b. Dec. 16, 1735, son of Philip Schuyler and
Hester Kingsland), and lived in a small frame house on the
northeast side of the Paterson and Hamburgh turnpike
road, near the corner of what is known as Wanaque avenue,
in the present Borough of Pompton Lakes. Pier father, by
his will, d a t e d June 25, 1785, devised to her "the Lott of
Land I purchased from Abraham Garritse containing two
hundred acres lying and being on Hardins plains for and
dureing her Natural life and after her decease if She
Should leave a Child or Children then I give devise and
bequeath the equal half part or moiety of said tract of
Land to be taken off the North side thereof, to such Child
or Children after they a t t a in the age of twenty one and to
their heirs and assigns for ever." In a codicil, dated Nov.
2, 1785,2 he recites t h a t his daughter Christinetie is dead,
and devises said moiety to his granddaughter, Esther Colfax,
in fee. Issue: Hester (Esther), m. Capt. William Col-
1 l b . , 257-9.
2 This will was witnessed by James Christie, Cornelius Hennion and
William Drummond. The codicil was witnessed by Arent Schuyler,
Clemens McMikin and Adonijah Schuyler. Proved June 4, ijgo.—E. J .
Wilts, Liber No. 31, f. 531.

Casparus married Christina Ryerson. Christina (daughter of Martin Ryerson and Elizabeth LaRue) was born 8 Oct 1738; died Between Jun 1785 and Nov 1785. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Misc: 1737, Pompton Plains, British America ; Church Member at Pompton

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 51

Church member at Pompton 1737.

Other Events:

• Misc: 1737, Pompton Plains, British America ; Church Member at Pompton

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 51

Church member at Pompton 1737.

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 51

Birth:
III. Helena, b. Dec. 3, 1720; m. Arent Schuyler (b. Feb.
23> I7I5i s o n of Philip Schuyler), Oct. 1, 1741. Ch., 1.
Philippus, b. Sept. 18, 1743; 2. Gerrit, b. July 31, 1748.

Notes:

III. Helena, b. Dec. 3, 1720; m. Arent Schuyler (b. Feb.
23> I7I5i s o n of Philip Schuyler), Oct. 1, 1741. Ch., 1.
Philippus, b. Sept. 18, 1743; 2. Gerrit, b. July 31, 1748.

Notes:

Buried:
Birth: Jan. 1, 1750
Death: Sep. 6, 1839


Family links:
Children:
Elizabeth Schuyler Boyd (1789 - 1876)*


Burial:
Pompton Reformed Church Cemetery
Pompton Lakes
Passaic County
New Jersey, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 57445924

Adonijah married Elizabeth Bayard\Bogert 27 Aug 1783, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, United States. Elizabeth was born Abt 1862; died 16 Mar 1821. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Found on Page 197 Genealogical Table - Arent Schuyler's Descendants - Colonial New York

Sally married Mandeville. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Found on Page 197 Genealogical Table - Arent Schuyler's Descendants - Colonial New York

Other Events:

• Residence: Resided on a farm on the mountain west of Compton called Cottage.

Philip married Eve. Eve died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Philip married Heather Berry Abt 1808. Heather was born 22 Feb 1776; died 1 Jan 1859. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 28 Oct 1805, Bergen, New Jersey, United States; 1805 Land Record where Garret Schuyler is a witness.
• Residence: 2 Jun 1814, Orange, New York, United States; Deed between Aarent P Schuyler and his wife Hanna to Philip I Schuyler of Saddle River County and Garret Schuyler of Orange County, New York.
• Residence: 20 Mar 1815, Orange, New York, United States; Garret Schuyler sale to Peter Ward 20 March 1815 Garret Schuyler of Orange County, New York Peter Ward of Franklin Township, Bergen County, New Jersey $241.87 and 1/2 cents for 161 acres in Saddle River Township and 7.5 acres of cedar swamp Formerly the farm and homestead of the late Capt. Peter Schuyler (deceased)
• Residence: 1819, Orange, New York, United States; Orange County New York Jury List - Page 201 - Garret Schuyler in 1819
• Residence: 1 May 1819, Minisink, Orange, New York, USA; Mortgage between Garret and Mary Schuyler and Joseph Tice 1 May 1819 Garret and Mary Schuyler from Minisink, Orange County, New York Joseph Tice from Montgomery, Orange County, New York Land in Minisink - Part of 1,000 acres - Lot #25 - Borders land of James C Gray, Silas Corwin and William Wells 1 May 1819 - Rent is $600 1,000 acres divides the Wawayanda patent
• Misc: Sep 1819, Minisink, Orange, New York, USA; Birth of son Philip N. Schuyler
• Census: 1820, Minisink, Orange, New York, USA
• Misc: 20 Nov 1821; Daughter Sarah A. is born.
• Residence: 2 Apr 1822, Minisink, Orange, New York, USA; Sale of Lot #10 in Minisink Township, Orange County, New York 2 April 1822 Sellers: Garret and wife Mary Schuyler Buyer: William B. Stoddard Of Minisink Township Price: $1,700
• Residence: 1824, Westmoreland, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA; Daughter Mary is born. Son Philip's obituary also states that family moved to Pennsylvania in this year.
• Misc: 1826, Westmoreland, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA; Son Philo H is born.
• Misc: 1829, Ohio, United States; Daughter Elizabeth is born.
• Census: 1830, Northmoreland, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 28 May 1830, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Orange Fuller & Wife to John Parrin and other Trustees 22 February 1830 Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church: John Parrin, Thomas Pace, Richard Vincent, Garret Schuyler, Abraham Phanix (All residents of the 134 households in Northmoreland, Pennsylvania in the 1830 census). Possibly this building: 2. Center Moreland United Methodist Church https://www.lycoming.edu/umarch/open_churches/wyoming.htm
• Misc: 4 Sep 1832, Huron, Ohio, United States; Daughter Nancy is born.
• Misc: 1833, Ohio, United States; Daughter Mary's obituary says the family came to Ohio. Son Philip N.'s obituary also says 1833.
• Residence: 1834, Ohio, United States; Article on Philo H in the Huron County History says family moves to Ohio.
• Misc: 15 Sep 1834, Huron County, Ohio, USA; Daughter Nancy dies.
• Misc: 1 Oct 1834, Huron, Ohio, United States; Wife Mary dies and is buried in the Jones Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio 2 weeks after daughter Nancy dies.
• Residence: 16 Mar 1837, Sherman Township, Huron, Ohio, United States; Deed from Garret Schuyler to George Young 16 March 1837 Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio Consideration: $60 Formally owned by George Young and sold to Isaac Birdall
• Census: 1840, Huron, Ohio, United States
• Misc: 20 Dec 1841, Huron, Ohio, United States; Daughter Sarah A. dies.
• Misc: Feb 1843, Ridgefield, Huron, Ohio; Bankruptcy Notices

Notes:

King of Great Britain commissioned commissioners to establish what would become the final border between New York and New Jersey in 1769 and approved the boarder in 1773. Until this period the town of Minisink was in New Jersey, afterwards in New York.

Some of the Schuylers settled in Saddle River Township which was created in March 1716 making it one of the oldest townships in Bergen County. In 1772 a royal decree split Saddle River Township forming Franklin Township from the northern most half. Pompton Township was established in 1797 from both Franklin and Saddle Townships. Saddle River Township changed names in 1955 to Saddle Brook Township.

Bergen County Deeds (Books R-X), Bergen County, New Jersey

Recorded 12-Sep 1803 - 10 June 1813
Recorded at Hackensack
Abstracted by Pat Wardell, 1998

21 January 1804 (recorded 24 May 1804, Bergen Co. R:311)
John A. Schuyler of New Barbadoes Neck and Eliza, his wife, conveyed to William Halsey Esquire of New Ark in the County of Essex, for $6000., rights to Cedar Swamp and Salt Meadow land in the County of Bergen commonly known as Schuyler's Cedar Swamp and Salt Meadow whereof Arent Schuyler died seized, on S side of Road or causeway leading from the bridge over Passaic River at Belleville to the toll Bridge over Hackensack River. Mentioned: chimney of Edmund W. Kingsland house; land lately belonging to said Arent I. Schuyler, dec'd, and lands belonging to William Davis Esquire; mouth of New Ark Bay; Ponky's Kill or Punks Creek; salt meadow formerly belonging to Archibald Kennedy Esquire; Survey made 1767. Rights to cutting down, taking, and carting said Swamp Cedar Wood and Timber. Signed by John A. Schuyler, Eliza Schuyler. Witnessed by Jos. C. Hornblower.

19 May 1803 (recorded 25 Jan 1804, Bergen Co. R:330)
John Dey and Phebe, his wife, of the Township of Saddle River, conveyed to Helmegh Van Giezen and Robert Van Houten of same place, for $350, 17 acres more or less of land in the Township of Saddle River at the Great Falls of Passaic, beginning E side of Passaic River on SE corner of John Van Giesen. Mentioned are: middle of Road; land of John Stiles; land formerly belonging to Garret Van Houten, deceased. Except such part formerly sold to Cornelius Nifie for a Mill lot. Signed by John Dey, Phebe Dey. Witnessed by John Van Giesen, Anthony D. Schuyler.

1 March 1804 (recorded 10 May 1804, Bergen Co. S:143)
Nicholas J. Roosevelt of the City of New York, Merchant, conveyed to John A. Schuyler of the County of Bergen, for $1,000, 10 acres more or less, messuage, Tenement and Lot of Land in New Barbadoes Neck, beginning at Passaik River thence along land of John A. Schuyler; along land of Henry Mercelles to land of Robert Anderson. Signed by Nichs. J. Roosevelt. Witnessed by Louis Mark, Henry Cohlman.

28 October 1805 (recorded 27 January 1806, Bergen Co. X:70)
Michael Fleming and Mary, his wife, of the County of Morris, conveyed to Theunis Hannion of the County of Bergen, for £45, 30 acres strict measure in the Township of Pompton. Signed by Michael Fleming, Mary Fleming (her mark). Witnessed by William Witty, Garret Schuyler.

16 December 1805 (recorded 29 January 1806, Bergen Co. X:82) John A. Schuyler of the Township of New Barbadoes, conveyed to James Bennet [Burnet?] of the Township of Newark in the County of Essex, for $900, a meadow tract in the Township of Newark in the County of Bergen [!], beginning line of lot no. 12 belonging to John N. Cumming, including lots no. 15, 16, 17, 18 (10 acres each lot). Signed John A. Schuyler. Witnessed by Gab. Tichnor, Talmadge Kinney.

15 November 1805 (recorded 1 May 1806, Bergen Co. X:372)
William Colfax of the County of Bergen, conveyed to Cornelius Acker of the County of Bergen, for ¢250, two lots in the Township of Saddle River, of 43 acres and 23 acres; opposite a pond at Jacob B. Dooremus; Henry Cooper; John Tucker; line of Phillip J. Schuyler; Abraham Ryerson,
Esquire for said William Colfax; David J. Hennion, lately of William Drummond. Signed by William Colfax. Witnessed by Thomas J. Gillelan, George W. Colfax.

28 October 1805 (recorded 27 January 1806, Bergen Co. X:70)
Michael Fleming and Mary, his wife, of the County of Morris, conveyed to Theunis Hannion of the County of Bergen, for £45, 30 acres strict measure in the Township of Pompton. Signed by Michael Fleming, Mary Fleming (her mark). Witnessed by William Witty, Garret Schuyler.

29 Mar 1811 Conelius Eckerson and Jane, his wife, of Saddle River, sell to Elias Folley, of Franklin Twsp. 71 acres in Saddle River for $1125. The land is by the land of Henry Cooper,Phillip J. Schuyler, Henry VanWert, Jacob Doremus. Witnesses were Theodore Polhemus and Henry Cooper. Int. 15 Apr. 1811. Received and Recorded 12 Nov 1811.

1814 ?12 May 1814 Elias and Sarah Folly sell to Garret Remaine of Clarkston, Rockland County for $1750 land at Saddle River. Witnesses were William Oliver and C. Merselis. It is in line of Henry Cooper, Philip I. Schuyler. Interviewed 12 May 1814 by Cornelius Merselis.

Elias purchases 131 acres of land in Saddle River. The following people sold the land: 3/8 of land from Garret Schuyler of Minisink, Orange, NY for $960.75, 1/4 land from William Colfax for $42.50, 1/4 of land from Phillip I. or J. Schuyler and wife, Catherine for $652, 1/8 land from Adodinjah Schuyler for $321 all of Saddle River. Land was purchased on 2 Jun 1814 except land of Garret's was purchased 7 Jun 1814. Witnesses were William Colfax, Cornelius Merselius, Garret Schuyler and Eliza Schuyler.

Received and Recorded 15 Jun 1814 and 18 Jun 1814. C. Merselis was the person who interviewed grantors. Land was described as between the land of Edward Jones and Phillip J. Schuyler, Eastern part of Pompton Patent, and the River.

Elias Folly owns 131 acres of land. Neighbors are Peter, Mariah, John, Goerge L., Sally, Peter A., Abram, Martin, Lucas and Nicholas J. Ryerson, Henry Doremus, James N. Jones, Cornelius VanNess, James Jacobus, Peter VanPelt, Cornelius Ackerson, Widow VanNordt, Edward and Nicholas Jones and George ?.

1816 Elias owns 100 acres of improved land and 30 acres of unimproved land. Neighbors were Peter T. Doremus, Abrahm Ryerson, Richard Salter, Amos Oliver, Sally, Harriet, George L., John G., Nicholas, Abram G., Martin, and Lucas Ryerson, Henry Doremus, Sr. and Jr., Samuel Teninglow, Samuel Hays, Lambert Lythof, Jane Jacobus, Cornelius Ackerson, Martha V.Orden,Nicholas Jones, Edward Jones, Henry V.Wart, Samuel Romine, Philip J. Schuyler, William Oliver, Hindley McIntosh, Daniel Smith,Jr.,and Peter Berry.


1800 and 1810 New Jersey Census' missing.

No record of Garret Schuyler as Deed Grantee in Orange County, NY from 1703 through 1826

No record of Schuyler wills 1797-1837 vols. A-G, vols. 1-2 in Orange County

Unable to check Orange County wills 1787-1797 vol. A due to no index


No Schuyler wills from 1787 to 1840 in Orange County, NY

No records in Orange County Surrogate's Office 1629-1971 for Schuyler

According to the Online Index to the Plat Book of ca 1845, Huron County, Ohio the Schuyers did not live in Huron County at that time. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohhuron/platmap.htm

Nothing in Probate for Garret Schuyler in Huron County 10/2013. Huron County, Ohio, Probate Court(419) 668-4383

Land Records - Huron County Recorder (419) 668-1916 - Records before 1980's are filed in indexed books by year. Not searched yet.

Hancock County, Ohio - No probate records for Schuylers till 1918

No Wills or Estate docs for these Schuylers through 1850 in Ohio.

No records of Schuylers in Orange County, New York in index of records: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-28667-22637-10?cc=1920234&wc=M9S9-LK5:532013067

F-A-G
Orange County, NY - 11 Schuyers (earliest, mid 1800?)
Sussex County, NJ - 0 Schuyers
Passaic County, NJ - 49 Schuyers (earliest, 1750)
Largely at Pompton Reformed Church Cemetery
Morris County, NJ - 20 Schuylers

Garret and Mary's daughter Mary will name one of her children Almon, which is very different. This link is to the Almond family in Passaic County, New Jersey. http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/passaic/history/family/almond-t.txt

RESEARCH: Philip Schuyler b. 23 Dec. 1717 and Sarah Debow/Deboog/DeBouw/DeBou/Deboogh(born 1740, daughter of Garret Debow and Maria Van Derbeck). They settled at the Van Ness Mill in Bloomingdale, Passaic County, NJ. possibly Rebecca Ryesson.

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An excellent site that lays out the Schuyler genealogy: http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/schuyler-1.html


Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 53

[Believed to be the link to our family]

Had 6 children

a. Philip born about 1810, died young - Philip N Schuyler b. 6 Sep 1819 d. 1907 (MAYOR)
b. Sarah died young - Sarah Ann b 1821, d. 18 Dec 1841 (Consumption)
c. Philip died young
d. Hetty - married Peter Carr
e. Mary - married John Bastide - hes in Ae........... - 3rd child - b 1824 - married Lucius Jefferson Raynor
f. Sarah - married James Eaten - resides at Sandusky Ohio

Philo born 1826 Pennsylvania, married, died 28 Jul 1899 (could be their second Philip?)
Elizabeth born 1829 Ohio (married to Fitch)
Nancy died 1834 (as a baby)

Buried:
Birth: 1778
Death: Aug. 4, 1849

Burial:
Jones Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 129900133

Garret married Mary Heacock Abt 1817. Mary was born 1791; died 1 Oct 1834, Sherman Township, Huron, Ohio, United States; was buried , Huron, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

History of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, page 309

I I I . Rebecca, bap. May 2, 1741; m. Philip Schuyler.
Issue: 1. Peter; 2. Arent; 3. Anna. Rebecca's father, Marten-Ryer-Marten Reyersen, devised to his grandson, Peter Schuyler, "all ray homestead or plantation on which I now live lying and being at Pompton," containing 230 acres; to his grandson, Arent Schuyler, "All that certain Lott of land containing about twenty acres which I bought of Nicholas Slingerland," at Crooked pond.

Notes:

History of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, page 309

I I I . Rebecca, bap. May 2, 1741; m. Philip Schuyler.
Issue: 1. Peter; 2. Arent; 3. Anna. Rebecca's father, Marten-
Ryer-Marten Reyersen, devised to his grandson, Peter
Schuyler, "all ray homestead or plantation on which I now
live lying and being at Pompton," containing 230 acres; to
his grandson, Arent Schuyler, "All that certain Lott of land
containing about twenty acres which I bought of Nicholas
Slingerland," at Crooked pond.

Arent married Ann. Ann died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 17 Feb 1793 OR 1795, Pompton Plains, British America

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 53

"1. Isaac b Sep 6 1759 but no information."

Notes:

Died:
There are at least eight Revolutionary War soldiers buried in the cemetery

http://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/pequannock_township_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm

Philip married Catherine Duryea 14 Dec 1797, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. Catherine was born 1778; died 1815. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 10 Jul 1754

Philip married Jannetje Post 7 Sep 1780. Jannetje was born 22 Apr 1759; died 10 Aug 1827. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Peter who was left his [land?] by Nathan Ryesson and died young.

Hester married General William Colfax 1 Sep 1783. William was born 3 Jul 1756, New London, Connecticut, British America; died 9 Sep 1838, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet]

Helen married Degray. [Group Sheet]

Helen married Reynier Quackenbush 30 Apr 1807, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, United States. Reynier died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name: Elizabeth Boyd
Birth Date: abt 1788
Birth Place: Campton, New Jersey
Death Date: 6 Dec 1876
Death Place: Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey
Death Age: 88 years
Marital Status: Widowed
Gender: Female
Father Name: Adonijah
Mother Name: Elizabeth Schuyler
FHL Film Number: 494141

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=BOY&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=33&GScntry=4&GSsr=561&GRid=7291735&

Buried:
Birth: Jan. 9, 1789
Death: Dec. 6, 1876

Family links:
Parents:
Adonijah Schuyler (1750 - 1839)

Spouse:
John A. Boyd (____ - 1828)

Children:
Elizabeth Schuyler Boyd Quackenbush (1817 - 1882)*

Inscription:
Mother
Wife of
John A. Boyd

Burial:
First Dutch Reformed Churchyard
Hackensack
Bergen County
New Jersey, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 7291735

Elizabeth married John A. Boyd. John was born 4 Dec 1775, Scotland; died 21 Feb 1828, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: Address:

Notes:

Residence:
Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 52

Cornelius married Anna Harcelis\Merselis. Anna was born 4 Oct 1798, Preakneis, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA; died 1 May 1878. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 53

"Had 6 children. Resides on his father farm at _______"

John married Clarisa P Gridbey? 2 Jul 1835. Clarisa died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In 1870 Philip and his sons live with Allan and Elizabeth Fitch - a possible connection to Philo's wife's family.

The Firelands Pioneer, June 1882
Philip Schuyler was elected President of the Firelands Historical Society at their 25th annual meeting in June 1881.

Philip married Elizabeth Thatcher 1859, Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States. Elizabeth was born 2 Jul 1835, Onondaga, New York, United States; died 5 May 1865, Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
according to Find-A-Grave

Buried:
Birth: Nov. 20, 1821
Death: Dec. 20, 1841

Burial:
Jones Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 129900316

Notes:

Birth:
Mary's obituary lists birth in Westmoreland County, PA but all other records in the family point to Westmoreland, Luzerne, PA

Mary married Lucius Jefferson Raynor 21 Dec 1848, Huron County, Ohio, USA. Lucius (son of James Raynor) was born 13 Mar 1822, New York, New York, USA; died 13 Feb 1890, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

P. H. Schuyler, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994"

Name: P. H. Schuyler
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 19 Jul 1857
Event Place: Huron, Ohio, United States
Age:
Birth Date:
Birth Year (Estimated):
Birthplace:
Father's Name:
Father's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Name:
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Name: Sophia Jane Fetch
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Age:
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated):
Spouse's Birthplace:
Spouse's Father's Name:
Spouse's Father's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Mother's Name:
Spouse's Mother's Titles and Terms:
Reference ID: cn 649 P 110
GS Film Number: 410260
Digital Folder Number: 004260648
Image Number: 00104
Citing this Record

"Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XZ6P-SL1 : accessed 18 Oct 2013), P. H. Schuyler and Sophia Jane Fetch, 19 Jul 1857; citing Huron, Ohio, United States, reference cn 649 P 110; FHL microfilm 410260.


P. H. Schuyler, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"

Name: P. H. Schuyler
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Age:
Spouse's Name: Betsey Evans
Spouse's Birth Date:
Spouse's Birthplace:
Spouse's Age:
Event Date: 20 Oct 1873
Event Place: Huron,Ohio
Father's Name:
Mother's Name:
Spouse's Father's Name:
Spouse's Mother's Name:
Race:
Marital Status:
Previous Wife's Name:
Spouse's Race:
Spouse's Marital Status:
Spouse's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M51344-3
System Origin: Ohio-ODM
GS Film number: 0410260 V. 1-2
Reference ID:

Citing this Record

"Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XDNK-LXQ : accessed 18 Oct 2013), P. H. Schuyler and Betsey Evans, 20 Oct 1873.


P.H. Schuyler, "Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997"
Name: P.H. Schuyler
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place:
Death Date: 28 Jul 1899
Death Place: Lyme, Huron, Ohio
Age: 73
Birth Date: 1826
Birthplace: Pa
Occupation: Farmer
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name:
Mother's Birthplace:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B07051-6
System Origin: Ohio-EASy
GS Film number: 410483
Reference ID: v 2 p 188

Citing this Record

"Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F6KR-52Y : accessed 18 Oct 2013), P.H. Schuyler, 28 Jul 1899.


Buried:
Philo H. Schuyler 1826-1899

Burial:
Lyme Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 51932494

Philo married Sophia Jane Fitch 19 Jul 1857, Huron, Ohio, United States. Sophia (daughter of William Fitch and Nancy Lattimer, daughter of Nancy Lattimer) was born 17 Apr 1817, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died 21 Jan 1872, Lyme, Huron, Ohio, United States; was buried , Lyme, Huron, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Philo married Elizabeth Evans 20 Oct 1873, Huron, Ohio, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Evans) was born 14 Dec 1839, England; died 4 Jun 1915, Lyme, Huron, Ohio, United States; was buried 6 Jun 1915, Lyme, Huron, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1880, Van Buren, Putnam, Ohio

Notes:

Possibly living with Redding family in 1850 census in Huron County, Ohio.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11623-106993-69?cc=1401638&wc=95R3-Y4C:1031310001,1031914901,1032263501

Not living with the family in the 1860 census but a 32 year old woman is living with the Redding family and terms a "seamstress" and since Loyal Redding is a tailor Elizabeth may have also been a seamstress living with her boss's family.

Died:
According to the Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index.

Elizabeth married Allen Smith Fitch 20 Apr 1853, Erie, Ohio. Allen was born 1808; died 1878. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
according to Find-A-Grave

Buried:
Birth: Sep. 4, 1832
Death: Sep. 15, 1834

Burial:
Jones Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 129900290

Isaac married Elisabeth Jones. Elisabeth died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Lucy married Henry Berry 3 Aug 1815, Morris County, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet]

Schuyler married Hannah Delameter Stryker 1820. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Listed in the will of Peter Schuyer - Wills Bergen Cnty-vA-Pg221

"if they should be living at the time of my death, Mary Colfax, Daughter of William Colfax Esqr above mentioned"

Dr. married Hester Mandeville 27 Mar 1826, Pompton Plains, Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Hester was born 7 May 1809. [Group Sheet]

David married Rachel Westervelt. Rachel (daughter of John A Westervelt and Cornelia Brinkerhoff) died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Leah married Thomas Terhune. Thomas died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Adonijah married Sophia Earle. Sophia died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married John Hopper. John (son of Andrew P Hopper and Anna Van Voorhees) died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

John married Elizabeth Ann Bogert. Elizabeth died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 52

Mary married Albert Voorhis. Albert died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Elisabeth married Doctor W. S. Williams. Doctor died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

John married Hannah Smith. Hannah died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Thomas Mandeville?. Thomas died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Not married.

Philip married Hester Budd. Hester died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Hamilton Schuyler was appointed Postmaster in Bellevue, Huron, Ohio on 1 Jul 1898.

On his school record on Ancestry it says he was Asst. Civil Engineer.

Notes:

THE AUTHOR OF THESE NOTES IS SUSPECT. MANY OF THE DATES AND NAME ARE INCORRECT OR DO NOT MATCH UP. SEE NOTES BELOW IN [].

From: jcrosby@buckeye-express.com
Subject: [RAYNOR] Raynor/Walters Family Bible
Date: 18 Jun 2003 05:52:49 -0600

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.

Classification: Query

Message Board URL:

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/UYCBAIB/211

Message Board Post:

Here are the entries from the bible that makes a small 2-3 generation tree:

William Walters b. March 1, 1829 married Margaret Ann Hamilton June 8, 1851. She was born April 1, 1834 and died April 26, 1892.

Their children:

Olynthus V. Walters was born February 28, 1852 and married Eupha (Euphie) Smith, born in Tennessee in 1855, on November 27, 1873. They had 2 children, Clair (m) 1874 and Katie 1878. Taken from Bible records and verified in 1880 census for Findlay, OH.

Irene Lovina Walters was born November 1, 1853 and married Albert T. Raynor, born March 10, 1854, on October 31, 1878. They had daughters Mable in 1879 d. 1968? [No Mable with Albert and Irene on 1880 or 1900 census]and Imo Euzine b. July 7, 1890 d. 1968. Mable married Otto Morton Powell on January 13, 1874 [No record of marriage could be found]. Verified in Putnam County records for Liepsic, OH. Albert was a sewing machine agent.

Eliza Euxine Walters was born on December 5, 1859 and married William H. Dolbeer on April 6, 1879 in Putnam County.

Lissa Jane Walters was born on April 28, 1868 and married Philo (Filo) Wayne Raynor, born 1859, on June 6, 1887. He is also listed as a sewing machine agent in the 1880 Findlay, OH census.

Willie Hamilton Walters was born on October 18, 1874 and married (W)ilda? Helena Lyngberg on April 23, 1900.

The Raynors summary:

Schuylor J. Raynor [This is a combination of the names that does not make sense. Mary Schuyler died in 1907, L. Jefferson Raynor, the father of Mary's husband, died 18 February 1890] in died on December 29, 1880. His children were Albert T (from earlier), his twin Almon J. who died on June 28, 1893. Philo Wayne listed here in another place as born on May 30, 1856 and died April 26, 1907. Eleanor born in 1851 and died October 13, 1874. [This would place Elnora as the 2nd child and not the 5th which she is] James Mack was born on June 28, 1863 and died 1933.

These are all of the entries in the family section for BDM notations. In the back of the bible are several 3x5 portraits on a metallic type surface. They are in excellent condition. The bible itself is in fair condition except for the binding (which is falling apart) This is a Henry Goodspeed printed, illustrated bible with metal print illusrations. This is a monster. It is about 6" thick and measures maybe 10" x 15" and weighs at least 15 pounds. I am sure somebody wants this back in their family with the photos and everything. Just needs to be rebound. If a verifiable family member can claim it, they can have it. All you have to do is come to get it. I am not shipping this giant heirloom :)

Jeff

Albert married Irene Lovina Walters. Irene (daughter of William Walters and Margaret) was born Nov 1853, Ohio, USA; died 11 Apr 1928, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, USA; was buried 11 Apr 1928, Maple Grove Cemetery, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Almon married Martha Elenor Price 13 Jan 1874, Putnam County, Ohio, USA. Martha was born 8 Apr 1854, Hancock County, Ohio, USA; died Abt 1937. [Group Sheet]

Almon married Ella Lewis 1 Feb 1882, Putnam County, Ohio, USA. Ella was born Feb 1857, Ohio, USA; died 1902. [Group Sheet]

Philo married Lissa Jane "Jennie" Walters 6 Jun 1887. Lissa was born 28 Apr 1868, Ohio, USA; died 13 Dec 1947, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Lived: 1880, Belmore, Putnam, Ohio
• Lived: 1900, 45 Orchard Street, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Lived: 1910, 183 John R Street, Detroit, Michigan
• Lived: 1920, 901 Huron Street, Toledo, Ohio

Notes:

Burial information was found on: "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XXS2-31F : accessed 22 May 2013), James M Raynor, 1938.

There is also a headstone picture and entry:
James M.A. Raynor (1863-1938)
Birth: Jun. 28, 1863
Death: Jun. 14, 1938
Burial: Pleasant View Cemetery
Petersburg, Monroe County, Michigan, USA

Created by: James Lemon
Record added: Sep 21, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29965759

Buried:
Husband
James M. A. Raynor
June 28, 1863
June 14, 1938


Burial:
Pleasant View Cemetery
Petersburg, Monroe County, Michigan, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 29965759

James married Olive West. Olive (daughter of Perry Saville West and Adeline Rowe) was born 28 Nov 1879, Michigan, USA; died 10 Oct 1966, North Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet]

James married Ida May Speaker 18 Aug 1882, Putnam County, Ohio, USA; divorced Bef 1890. Ida (daughter of George Speaker and Samantha Learn) was born 11 Sep 1863, Ohio; died 13 Jan 1945, Defiance, Defiance, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

James married Della E Cole 22 Jun 1890, Fulton County, Ohio, USA; divorced 1896, Wood County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

James married Lillius May Massecar 19 Aug 1897, Monroe County, Michigan, USA. Lillius (daughter of Alfred James Massecar/Masecar and Mary Jane Hatch) was born 27 Aug 1871, Oxford, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Apr 1947, Monroe County, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

Mildred married Gavitt. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth: Jun. 17, 1882
Huron County
Ohio, USA
Death: Feb. 17, 1928
Monroeville (Huron County)
Huron County
Ohio, USA

Ohio Obituary Index: RBHAYES
Basic information for person:
Last Name: DUFFETT
First Name: NELLIE
Spouse Last Name: DUFFETT
Spouse First Name: CHARLES
City of Death: MONROEVILLE
State of Death: OH
Month of Death: 2
Day of Death: 17
Year of Death: 1928
There is 1 other family name for this person:
Last Name: SKYLER
First Name: NELLIE


"Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
Name: Nellie Duffet
Event Date: 16 Feb 1928
Event Place: Oxford, Erie, Ohio
Cause of death: Angina Pectoris
Gender: Female; Age: 45
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Housewife
Birth Date: 17 Jun 1882
Birthplace: Lyme Twp.
Burial Date: 18 Feb 1928
Burial Place: N. Monroeville, O.
Cemetery: North Monroeville Cem
Father's Name: Philo Schuyler
Father's Birthplace: Pa.
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Evans
Mother's Birthplace: London, Eng.
Informant: Thomas Schuyler
Spouse's Name: Chas. Duffet
File Number: fn 8517; GS Film number: 1991144
Digital Folder Number: 004022069
Image Number: 02440


Burial:
North Monroeville Cemetery
Monroeville (Huron County)
Huron County
Ohio, USA
Plot: Row 12, Stone 9

Created by: Ghostdigger2
Record added: Oct 31, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 119598852

Nellie married Charles Duffet 20 Apr 1916, Huron, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Garrett - 1877 - 1 Mo. 17 Ds.

Burial:
Lyme Cemetery, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 51933538

Notes:

Died:
Name: Sarah E Frasch
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Aug 1940
Event Place: Metamora, Fulton, Ohio
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Allen Smith Fitch
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Schuyler

File Number: fn 49765 , GS Film number: 2023842 , Digital Folder Number: 004122028 , Image Number: 01213

Notes:

Schuyler Colfax [1823-1885]
US President (or related person)


Schuyler Colfax grew up in a poor family, although he was a descendant of the wealthy Schuyler clan. He grew up in New York City where his father was a bank teller. His father died from tuberculosis several months before he was born. His mother had to raise him by running a boarding house. He was able to get a primary education but only until he was 10 years old. He then had to go to work to help support his family. He never received any other formal education.

His mother‘s name was Hannah Delameter Stryker, a name that hints at strong Dutch roots. His grandmother was Hester Schuyler, a cousin of General Philip Schuyler, the famous Revolutionary general. His grandfather, William Colfax, had served in George Washington’s Life Guard during the American Revolution. He later became a general in the New Jersey Militia.

In 1836 when Schuyler was 13, his mother married George W. Matthews and the family moved to New Carlisle, Indiana. The move apparently did wonders for Colfax. He apparently had been able to self-educate himself, and became a prolific contributor to the local papers. In 1845, at age 22 he purchased a South Bend, Indiana newspaper and renamed it the St. Joseph Valley Register. He used the paper to promote his own political interests. He was a delegate to the Whig Party convention in 1848 and the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1849.

Colfax tried to get nominated as a candidate for the U.S. Congress on the Whig Party ticket in 1852. He was rejected but was nominated again in 1854, won and became a member of the U. S. Congress in 1855, as a Representative from Indiana’s 9th district.

The Whig Party was the forerunner of the Republican Party. He would serve as a Representative in the U.S. House until 1869, when he was elected as Vice President of the United States with Ulysses S. Grant as the President. He served for the full four years of the presidential term until 1873.

While serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was elected as the Speaker in 1863 and served for six years as Speaker of the House until 1869, the year he became the Vice President.

During his service as a Congressman the country went through the tribulations of the Civil War. He was strongly opposed to slavery. Also during his time as Speaker of the House the Thirteenth Amendment was passed in 1865.

Colfax married his childhood friend Evelyn Clark in 1844. She passed away childless in 1863. Colfax was then only 40, and in 1868, two weeks after he was elected to the Vice Presidency he married Ella M. Wade. They had one son, Schuyler Colfax III, born in 1870.

After leaving office in 1873, Colfax was only 50 years old. He began a successful career as a lecturer, all over the country. The railroads had arrived and travel had become a lot easier. In 1885, on one of his lecture trips in the Midwest, he had to walk nearly a mile in extremely cold weather. He encountered a heart attack and died on the spot in Omaha, Nebraska.

His body was returned to his home town, South Bend, Indiana. He was buried in the City Cemetery in South Bend. Since he had grown up in the Midwest, had lectured a lot and had served as Vice President for four years, he became well known. In recognition of his services several states named a town after him. So next time you come through a Colfax just remember the story of Schuyler Colfax, who was able to overcome adversity, and succeed in becoming the Vice President of the United States.

See the appendix at the end of the bio profile for Pieter Schuyler [1657-1724] to understand the relationship, if any, between the eight Schuylers in this listing.

http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/schuyler-colfax/


Schuyler Colfax, 17th Vice President (1869-1873)



Schuyler Colfax


The Vice Presidency is an elegant office whose occupant must find it his principal business to try to discover what is the use of there being such an office at all.
—Indianapolis Journal, March 7, 1871

As amiable a man who ever served in Congress, good-natured, kindly, cordial, and always diplomatic, Indiana's Schuyler Colfax won the nickname "Smiler" Colfax. Through two of the most tumultuous decades in American public life, Colfax glided smoothly from the Whig to Know-Nothing to Republican parties, mingling easily with both conservatives and radicals. He rose to become Speaker of the House and vice president and seemed poised to achieve his goal of the presidency. Along the way, there were those who doubted the sincerity behind the smile and suspected that for all his political dexterity, Colfax stood for nothing save his own advancement. Those close to President Abraham Lincoln later revealed that he considered Speaker Colfax an untrustworthy intriguer, and President Ulysses S. Grant seemed relieved when the Republican convention dumped Vice President Colfax from the ticket in 1872. Even the press, which counted the Indiana editor as a colleague and pumped him up to national prominence, eventually turned on Colfax and shredded his once admirable reputation until he disappeared into the forgotten recesses of American history.

Early Years

Schuyler Colfax was born into a family of distinguished heritage but depleted circumstances. His grandfather, who had fought in the American Revolution and served closely with George Washington, married Hester Schuyler, a cousin of General Philip Schuyler, and named one of his sons for Washington and another for Schuyler. Schuyler Colfax, Sr., became a teller in a bank on New York City's Wall Street. In 1820 he married Hannah Stryker, the daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper. He died of tuberculosis two years later, as his wife was expecting her first child. Four months after his father's death, Schuyler, Jr. was born in New York City on March 23, 1823.

As a boy, Colfax attended public schools until he was ten, when he was obliged to work as a clerk in a retail store to help support himself, his mother, and his grandmother. Three years later, his mother married George W. Matthews, and the family moved to New Carlisle, Indiana. Young Colfax worked in his stepfather's store, which served also as the village post office. Townspeople later recalled that Colfax would sit on barrels reading newspapers as they arrived by post. He borrowed whatever books he could get to provide himself with an education. In 1841, the family moved to South Bend, where Matthews was elected as the Whig candidate for county auditor and hired Schuyler as his deputy. Enjoying politics, the boy became active in a "moot legislature," where he gained his first experience in debate and parliamentary procedure.

Politics and the Press

At sixteen, Colfax wrote to Horace Greeley, editor of the influential Whig newspaper, the New-York Tribune, offering to send occasional articles. Always open to new talent, Greeley agreed and published the boy's writings on Indiana politics, beginning a correspondence and friendship that lasted for the rest of their lives. Colfax also reported on the Indiana legislature for the Indiana State Journal, and when he was nineteen local Whigs engaged him to edit the South Bend Free Press. The young editor described himself as an "uncompromising Whig." He idolized Henry Clay and embraced all of the Whig reforms, taking a pledge of abstinence from alcoholic spirits (but not from the cigars he loved). In 1844 he married a childhood sweetheart, Evelyn Clark, and by the next year was able to purchase the Free Press, renaming it the St. Joseph Valley Register. The writer Harriet Beecher Stowe later proclaimed it "a morally pure paper."

Advancing from the editorial page into politics, Colfax served as a delegate to the Whig convention of 1848 and to the convention that drafted a new constitution for Indiana in 1849. He led the opposition to a provision in the constitution that barred African Americans from settling in Indiana or those already in the state from purchasing land. Despite his efforts, this racial barrier stood until ruled unconstitutional as a consequence of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. In 1851, the Whigs chose Colfax to run for Congress. At that time, Indiana was a Democratic state and Colfax narrowly lost to the incumbent Democrat. He declined to run again in 1852. Dismayed over the disintegration of the Whig party and offended by Senator Stephen A. Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act that repealed the Missouri Compromise, Colfax again ran for Congress in 1854 as an Anti-Nebraska candidate. His friend and fellow editor Horace Greeley, who had served a brief term in 1849, encouraged him: "I thought it would be a nuisance and a sacrifice for me to go to Congress," he advised Colfax, "but I was mistaken; it did me lasting good. I never was brought so palpably and tryingly into collision with the embodied scroundrelism of the nation as while in Congress."

Building a New Party

Antislavery Whigs like Colfax sought to build a new party that combined the antislavery elements among the Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soilers, a coalition that eventually emerged as the Republican party. For a brief time, however, it seemed likely that a nativist organization, the Know-Nothings, might become the new majority party. The first Know-Nothing lodge in Indiana opened in early 1854 and by election time the party had grown, in the words of one Methodist minister, "as thick as the Locusts in Egypt." The Know-Nothings opposed slavery and alcohol but turned their greatest passions against Catholics and immigrants. Although Colfax shared these nativist prejudices (arguing that "Protestant foreigners, who are thoroughly Americanized" should be admitted into the party), he made it clear that he would remain only if the Know-Nothings kept a firm antislavery plank in their platform. When the new congressman arrived in the House of Representatives in 1855, it was unclear which members belonged to what party. The New-York Tribune Almanac estimated that there were 118 Anti-Nebraska representatives, a number that included Republicans, anti-Nebraska Democrats, and antislavery Know-Nothings, comprising a slight majority of the House. By the following year, the Know-Nothings had already peaked and declined, and Colfax announced that he would run for reelection as a Republican.

The House of Representatives proved an ideal arena for Colfax's talents. Short and stocky, fair-haired, with a ready smile, he got along well with his colleagues in private but never hesitated to do battle with the opposition on the House floor. When Republicans held the majority, he served energetically as chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, handling the kind of patronage that built political organizations. Never having been a lawyer, he could put complex issues of the day into layman's terms. In 1856, his speech attacking laws passed by the proslavery legislature in Kansas became the most widely requested Republican campaign document. His speech raised warnings that it was a short step between enslaving blacks and suppressing the civil liberties of whites. Watching Colfax battle southern representatives over the slavery issue, James Dabney McCabe recorded that "Mr. Colfax took an active part in the debate, giving and receiving hard blows with all the skill of an old gladiator."

Colfax traveled widely, spoke frequently, and helped fuse the various Republican and antislavery groups into a unified party for the 1860 election. When the southern Democrats seceded and put House Republicans in the majority, he considered running for Speaker, but after testing the waters declined to be a candidate. He resumed his chairmanship of the Post Office Committee. Colfax took a moderate position on emancipation and other issues of the day, maintaining close ties with both wings of his party. He enjoyed direct access to President Lincoln and often served as a conduit of information and opinion from Horace Greeley and other Republican editors. He worked tirelessly on behalf of the Union, recruiting regiments and raising public spirits. Yet antiwar sentiments ran strong in Indiana and many other northern states, and in 1862 Colfax faced a tough campaign for reelection against David A. Turpie. Winning a narrow victory further elevated Colfax within the party at a time when many other Republicans, including House Speaker Galusha Grow, were defeated. When the Thirty-eighth Congress convened in December 1863, House Republicans—with their numbers considerably thinned—elected Schuyler Colfax Speaker, despite President Lincoln's preference for a Speaker less tied to the Radical faction of his party.

Speaker of the House

As Speaker of the House, Schuyler Colfax presided, in the words of the journalist Ben: Perley Poore, "in rather a slap-dash-knock-'em-down-auctioneer style, greatly in variance with the decorous dignity of his predecessors." He had studied and mastered the rules of the House, and both sides considered his rulings fair. Credited as being the most popular Speaker since Henry Clay, Colfax aspired to be as powerful as Clay. Certainly, he shared Clay's sense of the dramatic, once stepping down from the presiding officer's chair to urge the House to expel an Ohio Democrat who had advocated recognizing the independence of the Confederacy. Another time the Speaker broke precedent by requesting that his vote be recorded in favor of the Thirteenth Amendment. Yet with the exception of the power to appoint members to committees, the Speaker of the House was still mostly a figurehead. Observers declared the real power in the House to be the tough-minded Pennsylvanian Thaddeus Stevens, chairman of the Appropriations Committee and de facto Republican floor leader.

Washington newspaper correspondents celebrated the election of one of their own as Speaker and threw a dinner in his honor. "We journalists and men of the newspaper press do love you, and claim you as bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," said correspondent Sam Wilkeson. "Fill your glasses, all, in an invocation to the gods for long life, greater success, and ever-increasing happiness to our editorial brother in the Speaker's Chair." In reply Colfax thanked the press for sustaining him through all his elections. Trained in journalism, Speaker Colfax applied the lessons of his craft to his political career, making himself available for interviews, planting stories, sending flattering notes to editors, suggesting editorials, and spreading patronage. A widower (his wife died in 1863) with no children, Colfax was free to socialize nightly with his friends on Washington's "Newspaper Row." He hoped to parlay his popularity with the press into a national following that would make him the first journalist to occupy the White House.

The press lavished more attention on Speaker Colfax than they had on Galusha Grow or any of his immediate predecessors. They praised the regular Friday night receptions that the Speaker and his mother held and commended him for the "courtesy, dignity, and equitability which he exhibited in the discharge of the important duties of the chair." It was harder for the press to detect whether Speaker Colfax actually had any influence on specific legislation. He gave the radical firebrands wide latitude, while speaking with moderation himself. At one point, when Radical Republicans were prepared to introduce a resolution in the party conference that defended the Republican record and called for the use of black soldiers in the Union army, Colfax outflanked them with a motion that substituted patriotic flag waving for partisanship, calling instead for all loyal men to stand by the Union. His action was taken as an effort to give the Republican party a less vindictive image that would build a broader base for congressional elections.

On April 14, 1865, Colfax called at the White House to talk over Reconstruction and other matters with President Lincoln before Colfax left on a long tour of the western states and territories. With the war won, Lincoln was in an ebullient mood and held a long and pleasant conversation with the Speaker (whom Lincoln privately regarded as "a little intriguer—plausible, aspiring beyond his capacity, and not trustworthy"). The president invited the Speaker to join his party at Ford's Theater that night, but Colfax declined. Later that evening, he was awakened with news that the president had been shot and rushed to spend the night in the room where Lincoln died.

Reconstructing the South

During the summer of 1865, Colfax toured the mining regions between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific. Newspaper correspondent Albert Richardson, who accompanied him, recorded that the trip proved to be "one continuous ovation" for Colfax, with brass bands, banquets, and public receptions, during which the Speaker made seventy speeches. He returned to a capital still uncertain over how the new President Andrew Johnson would handle the reconstruction of the southern states. Radicals in Congress trusted that Johnson would use federal troops to support tough policies toward the former Confederacy, but there were signs that Johnson favored a speedier, more lenient readmission of the states. That November, at a serenade to mark his return to Washington, Speaker Colfax made some remarks that seemed impromptu but that may have been prearranged. He endorsed Johnson's attempts to begin Reconstruction prior to congressional legislation and set as a minimum for the return of the southern states a guarantee that freedmen would be treated equally under the law. He made no mention of the radical demand that the freedmen also have the right to vote. The speech won widespread praise in the North, where it was perceived as the firm foundation of Republican policy on which both the president and Congress could stand.

Colfax's efforts at party harmony and a moderate course of Reconstruction were short lived. Johnson resented Colfax's preempting his own statement of policy on the subject. The president's plans to reconstruct the South showed little regard for the rights of the freedmen, and he vetoed such relatively moderate congressional efforts as the Freedmen's Bureau bill. His action drove moderate and radical Republicans into an alliance that brought about congressional Reconstruction of the South. Finally, Johnson's dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act convinced even moderates like Colfax that the president must be impeached. Through all of these dramatic events, Colfax's most astonishing success was his ability to retain the support of all sides in his party and to hold House Republicans together. The party defections that saved Johnson took place in the Senate rather than the House.

From Speaker to Vice President

As the 1868 presidential election approached, Speaker Colfax believed the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant to be "resistless." As for himself, he declined to run either for the Senate or for governor of Indiana, leaving the door open for the vice-presidential nomination. Colfax insisted that presiding over the House as Speaker was "the more important office" than presiding over the Senate as vice president. But the vice-presidency was the more direct avenue to the presidency. At the convention, his chief rivals for the second spot were Senate President pro tempore Ben Wade and Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson. Colfax polled fourth on the first ballot and gained steadily with each subsequent ballot. The temperance forces were delighted that Colfax's headquarters distributed no liquor, in contrast to Senator Wade, who handed out spirits freely among the delegates. Among Republicans there was a collective sense that the abstinent Colfax would balance a ticket with Grant, who had been known to drink heavily.

Colfax stayed in Washington while the Republican convention met in Chicago. His good friend, William Orton, head of the Western Union Telegraph Company, arranged for Colfax to receive dispatches from the convention every ten minutes. On May 21 Colfax was in the Speaker's Lobby when he received Orton's telegram announcing his nomination. Cheers broke out, and the room quickly filled with congressmen wishing to offer congratulations. As he left the lobby, Colfax was greeted by House staff members, who "gathered around him in the most affectionate manner and tendered him their regards." Citizens hailed him as he walked across the Capitol grounds. On the Senate side, Bluff Ben Wade received the news that he had been beaten and said, "Well, I guess it will be all right; he deserves it, and he will be a good presiding officer." The news was received with seemingly universal applause. "His friends love him devotedly," wrote one admirer, "and his political adversaries . . . respect him thoroughly."

For years, Colfax had addressed Sunday schools and temperance revival meetings, quoting from the Bible and urging his listeners to a life of virtue. He won support from the religious magazines as a "Christian Statesman." One campaign biography praised his "spotless integrity" and declared, "So pure is his personal character, that the venom of political enmity has never attempted to fix a stain upon it." Democrats, however, lambasted Colfax as a bigot for the anti-Catholicism of his Know-Nothing past. Republicans dismissed these charges as mudslinging and organized Irish and German Grant and Colfax Clubs to court the Catholic and foreign-born vote. (Although it was not known at the time, U.S. Grant had also once joined the Know-Nothings and apparently shared their anti-Catholic prejudices.)

In November 1868, Grant and Colfax were narrowly elected over the Democratic ticket headed by New York Governor Horatio Seymour. Days after the election, the vice president-elect married Ellen Wade, niece of the Ohio senator he had defeated for the vice-presidential nomination. The groom was forty-five and the bride "about thirty," an attractive and charming woman. By April 1870 their son Schuyler III was born. This domestic bliss would in fact contribute to Colfax's political undoing. As a married man, he found less time to socialize with his old friends in the press, and invitations to the lavish receptions at his new home became harder for reporters to receive, causing considerable resentment among his old friends on Newspaper Row, who thought he was putting on airs. Not a wealthy man, the new vice president could never say no to a gift. He grew indiscreet in his acceptance of everything from sterling silver to free railroad passes. In 1868 Colfax also accepted some railroad stocks from his friend Representative Oakes Ames, who promised handsome dividends. Neither suspected the political price that the stock would ultimately exact.

Plans to Retire

The first Speaker of the House ever elected vice president (a previous former Speaker, James K. Polk, had won the presidency in 1844), Colfax moved easily to the Senate chamber as a man long familiar with the ways of Capitol Hill. The Senate proved an easier body to preside over, leaving him with time on his hands to travel, lecture, and write for the press. The Indianapolis Journal observed that "the Vice Presidency is an elegant office whose occupant must find it his principal business to try to discover what is the use of there being such an office at all." Colfax consulted periodically with President Grant, but, as one Democratic paper sneered, the vice president carried "more wind than weight." His distance from the president proved not to be a disadvantage when various scandals began to tarnish Grant and his administration. Speculation soon arose that Colfax would replace Grant in the next election. There was much surprise, therefore, when in September 1870, at age forty-seven, Colfax announced that he intended to retire at the end of his term. "I will then have had eighteen years of continuous service at Washington, mostly on a stormy sea—long enough for any one; and my ambition is all gratified and satisfied." This was an old tactic for Colfax, who periodically before had announced his retirement and then changed his mind. Some believed he intended the announcement to further separate himself from the Grant administration and open the way for the presidential nomination in 1872. But the national press and Senator Henry Wilson took the announcement at face value, and before long the movement to replace him went further than Colfax had anticipated.

Colfax predictably changed his mind early in 1872 and acceded to the wishes of his friends that he stand for reelection on "the old ticket." President Grant may have questioned Colfax's intentions. In 1871 the president had sent his vice president an extraordinary letter, informing him that Secretary of State Hamilton Fish wished to retire and asking him "in plain English" to give up the vice-presidency for the State Department. Grant appeared to be removing Colfax as a potential rival. "In all my heart I hope you will say yes," he wrote, "though I confess the sacrifice you will be making." Colfax declined, and a year later when Senator Wilson challenged Colfax for renomination, the president chose to remain neutral in the contest.

For a man who had assiduously courted the press for so long, Colfax found himself abandoned by the Washington correspondents, who overwhelmingly supported Henry Wilson. Colfax's slide in the opinion of the Washington press corps had its roots in a dinner at the beginning of his term as vice president, when he had lectured them on the need to exercise their responsibilities prudently, since in their hands lay the making and unmaking of great men. The reporters had noted archly that Colfax, like other politicians, had never complained about the "making" of their reputations, just the "unmaking." Mary Clemmer Ames, a popular newspaper writer in Washington, attributed Colfax's downfall to envy within the press corps. He did not invite them to his dinners and receptions, so they decided to "write him down." The naturally cynical and skeptical reporters, apparently considering the vice president's sanctimoniousness contradictory to his newfound riches and opulent lifestyle, sought to take him down a few pegs. One correspondent likened Colfax to "a penny dip burning high on the altar among the legitimate tapers of State." By contrast, the reporters liked Senator Wilson, who leaked so freely that they dubbed him "the official reporter of the [secret] executive sessions of the Senate." Colfax bitterly charged that Wilson had invited newspapermen in "nearly every evening, asking them to telegraph that he was gaining steadily, that I did not care for it." When he lost the nomination, the vice president magnanimously shook Senator Wilson's hand, but one observer noticed that his famous smile had become "a whitened skeleton of its former self." At least Colfax's defeat spared him having to run against his old mentor, Horace Greeley, presidential candidate that year on a fusion ticket of Democrats and Liberal Republicans.

The Crédit Mobilier Scandal

As a man still in his forties, Colfax might well have continued his political career after the vice-presidency, except for his connection to the worst scandal in nineteenth-century U.S. political history. In September 1872, as the presidential campaign was getting underway, the New York Sun broke the four-year-old story about the Crédit Mobilier, a finance company created to underwrite construction of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad. Since the railroad depended on federal subsidies, the company had recruited Massachusetts Representative Oakes Ames to distribute stock among the key members of Congress who could help them the most. Some members had paid for the stock at a low value, others had put no money down at all but simply let the generous dividends pay for the stock. On Oakes Ames' list were the names of both Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, along with such other Washington luminaries as Representatives James Garfield and James G. Blaine. In South Bend, Indiana, Vice President Colfax made a public statement that completely dissociated himself from Crédit Mobilier, assuring his listeners that he never owned a dollar of stock that he had not paid for.

On January 7, 1873, the House committee investigating the Crédit Mobilier scandal called the vice president to testify. Ames claimed that, since Colfax had lacked the money to buy the stock, the stock had been paid for by its own inflated dividends. Ames' notes indicated that Colfax had received an additional $1,200 in dividends. On the stand, Colfax swore flatly that he had never received a dividend check from Ames, but his testimony was contradicted by evidence from the files of the House sergeant at arms. Without missing a beat, Colfax insisted that Ames himself must have signed and cashed the check. Then the committee produced evidence from Colfax's Washington bank that two days after the payment had been made, he had deposited $1,200 in cash—and the deposit slip was in Colfax's own handwriting. Taking two weeks to explain, Colfax claimed that he had received $200 from his stepfather (who worked as a clerk in the House of Representatives) and another $1,000 from George Nesbitt, a campaign contributor by then deceased. This story seemed so patently self-serving and far-fetched that even his strongest supporters dismissed it. Making matters worse, the committee disclosed evidence suggesting that Nesbitt, who manufactured stationery, had bribed Colfax as chairman of the House Post Office Committee in order to receive government contracts for envelopes. A resolution to impeach Colfax failed to pass by a mostly party-line vote, in part because just a few weeks remained in his term. The pious statesman had been exposed, and the public was unforgiving. Colfax left the vice-presidency in disgrace, becoming a symbol of the sordidness of Gilded Age politics. Later in 1873, when the failure of the transcontinental railroads to make their bond payments triggered a disastrous financial collapse on Wall Street, plunging the nation into a depression that lasted for the rest of the decade, one ruined investor muttered that it was "all Schuyler Colfax's fault, damn him."

Later Years

Others implicated in Crédit Mobilier survived politically. Henry Wilson was elected vice president. James Garfield became president in 1880, and James G. Blaine won the Republican presidential nomination, but not the election, in 1884. Colfax, however, returned to private life in South Bend, Indiana. Briefly, there was talk that his friend William Orton would put up the funds to enable him to purchase the prestigious New-York Tribune after Horace Greeley's death in 1872, but the deal fell through. Then a new opportunity developed. Called upon to deliver a short speech at the unveiling of a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, Colfax discovered that the public had an insatiable appetite for information about their martyred president. He commenced a lucrative career as a public lecturer (up to $2,500 per speech) on his wartime relationship with Lincoln. From time to time, Colfax's name surfaced as a candidate for the House or the Senate, or for the presidential nomination, but he declined to become a candidate. "You can't imagine the repugnance with which I now view the service of the many headed public," he wrote, "with all its toils, its innumerable exactions of all kinds, the never ending work and worry, the explanations about everything which the public think they have a right to, the lack of independence as to your goings and comings, the misunderstandings, the envyings, backbitings, etc., etc., etc." On January 13, 1885, on his way to a speaking engagement in Iowa, Colfax was stricken by a heart attack and died while waiting at a railroad station in Mankato, Minnesota, where the temperature dipped to thirty below zero. Unrecognized by those around him, the former Speaker and vice president was identified only by papers in his pocket.

Doggerel from a critical newspaper perhaps served as the epitaph for Schuyler Colfax's rise to national prominence and precipitous fall from grace:


A beautiful smiler came in our midst,
Too lively and fair to remain;
They stretched him on racks till the soul of Colfax
Flapped up into Heaven again,
May the fate of poor Schuyler warn men of a smiler,
Who dividends gets on the brain!

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Schuyler_Colfax.htm

Imo married Hill. [Group Sheet]

Imo married John D. Holiday 1 Aug 1916, Lucas, Ohio, USA. John (son of John D Holiday and Minnie Lawrence) was born Abt 1890, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Imo married Ernest O. Wilson 1 May 1953, Lucas, Ohio, USA. Ernest (son of William R. Wilson and Maggie Holkcomt) died 15 Feb 1979, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, USA; was buried 20 Feb 1979, Findlay, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

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According to a Family Tree on Ancestry.com there was a baby girl born in 1883. No documentation was found.

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James M. Raynor in entry for George A. Solomon and Maude E. Imhoff, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994"
Name: George A. Solomon

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Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 05 Jul 1924
Event Place: Seneca, Ohio, United States
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Age: 37
Birth Year (Estimated): 1887
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Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Father's Name: Albert Solomon

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Mother's Name: Ida Graham

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Spouse's Name: Maude E. Imhoff

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Spouse's Age: 37
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1887
Spouse's Birthplace: Belmore, Ohio
Spouse's Father's Name: James M. Raynor
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Spouse's Mother's Name: Ida Speaker

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Reference ID: bk1920-1924 p585
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Digital Folder Number: 004016657
Image Number: 00354

"Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X8GW-L5B : accessed 22 May 2013), James M. Raynor in entry for George A. Solomon and Maude E. Imhoff, 1924.

June married Roy Franklin Imhoff 2 Oct 1901, Putnam County, Ohio, USA. Roy was born 16 Nov 1878, Fairfield County, Ohio, USA; died 24 Sep 1954, Lima, Allen, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

June married George A. Solomon 5 Jul 1924, Seneca, Ohio, USA. George was born 1887, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; died 22 Sep 1956, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Divorced and became a Nun. Did not have any children. Died in South Carolina. Became a nurse. Died in South Carolina(Per Wally and Jo Ann Raynor 10/23/2014).

Elauna married Clyde A Porter 25 Sep 1916, Chehalis, Lewis, Washington. [Group Sheet]

Clayton married Anna M. Beaudoin 26 Dec 1919, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. Anna (daughter of Adolphus J. Beaudoin and Victorine "Violet" C Christien) was born Sep 1895, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA; died 9 Jul 1925, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

Clayton married Cora Isis Johnson 24 Dec 1927, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. Cora (daughter of James Warren Johnson and Minerva Melvina Wilkins) was born 10 Feb 1902, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 19 Jul 1973. [Group Sheet]

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