/ Class Jllik Book^^Ji'U 5^' : Secretary. v.n.iKHT. Piano Accompaniment by Miss Etliel D. Woodward. Allegro con spirito. m ? The King \dll take the Queen, but the Queen will take the ^ W^ ^^ f ^ ^^ * ^ i ^ m r r r IT -* #- Knave! Then since we're all to- geth - er, boys, well ^^ I T • -W m. t Ifa— jrr^ ^ have a mer - ry stave. Here's to you. van Vorst! Here's to £ 1 n ^^2=i- /^ f ^^=*"- you with all my heart! We'll have an-oth - er gclass, my boys! A m ^ i: t \ ?: §8=5 ^ ^ ^ W =*=: #■ * 9 — " Here's arlass be- fore we part! to yon , van Vorst ! PfF^ ^f n » ^^ ^3: f I y * ^- The Qtteen will take the Knave, bnt the Knave will take the Ten ! And since we're all together, boys, we'll keep it up like men. Here's^ to you. Bob Roosevelt '. The Knave will take the Ten, but the Ten will take the Nine ! And since we're all together, boys, we'll drink the best of wine. Here's to you, van Dyke ! The Ten will take the Nine, but the Nine will take the Right ! Though most of us are married, boys, we'll not go home till late. Here's to yon, Aaron J.! The Nine will fake tin- Eigclit. but the Eig:ht will take the Seven ! Yoa know you told yom- wives, my boys, you'd be home before eleven. Here's to yon, van Slyck '. The Eipht will take the Seven, but the Seven will take the Six! Tis well the cellar s full , my boys, or we'd be in a fix. Here's to you, De Witt ! The Seven will take the Six, but the Six will take the Five! Whene'er we g;et tof^ether. boys, the vintner's trade doth thrive. Here's to you, van Hoesen ! The Six will take the Five, but the Five will take the Four ! Before we start for home, my boys, we'll all take one gflass more. Here's to you, van Nest ! The Five will take the Four, but the Four will take the Tray ! To this jolly invitation, boys, not one of us says nay. Here's to you, de Groot ! The Four will take the Tray, but the Tray will take the Deuce ! And since were all together, boys, well never cry a truce. Here's to you, van Wyck ! The Tray will take the Deuce, but the Ace wiU take them all ! And since we're all together, boys, we wont go home at all. So once more all roand ! At a meeting of the trustees of the Society held on Wednesday, March 30, 1887, by invitation of Mr. Philip van Volkenburgh, Jr., at his residence. No. 508 Fifth Avenue, New York, the Special Committee on a Badge for the Society reported through its Chairman, the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, who laid before the trustees a box containing twelve plaster casts of ancient geuzenpenningen, procured to be made from originals in the Museum of Antiquities of Amsterdam, Holland, and presented to this So- ciety by our friend. Dr. T. H. Blom Coster, physician to the Queen of The Netherlands ; also, a silver fac- simile of a crescent badge of the Sea Beggars and two electro-galvanized reproductions of the geuzen- penning, presented to The Holland Society by the Zeuwsehe Genootschaap der Wetenschappen te Mid- dleburg, Holland; also, two designs, one in pencil and one in colors, prepared and submitted by Tiffany & Co., showing the appearance of the proposed badge for this Society. After a full discussion, it was imani- mously resolved that this Society do now adopt as its badge the form of the Beggars' Badge shown in the design submitted by Tiffany & Co., ha\'ing upon its face the bust of Philip II. of Spain, surrounded by the motto, " En tout fidelles au roy," and upon the reverse two beggars' sacks, with two hands clasped in the center, between them the date 1566, sur- rounded by the motto, " Jusques a porter la besace," with projecting ilngs from each side and from the base, in which are hung, at the sides miniatiu'e por- ringei's, and from the base a gourd in miniature. The same to be reproduced in silver and suspended by an orange ribbon from a horizontal cross-bar, to be attached to the coat of the wearer, and having upon its face the words, "Holland Society," Such badges may also be made in gold, if desired by any member. The Committee on the Publication of Church Eec- ords, tlu'ough Mr. Theodore M. Banta, Chairman, made a report, and on motion the sum of $500 was appropriated, to be used by the said Committee at their discretion in the measures preliminary to pub- lication, and the Treasurer was instructed to honor all cb-afts of the Chau'man on the order of said Com- mittee. The Secretary reported the following cablegrams : New Yobk, February 19, 1887. To his Majestj^ the King of The Netherlands, The Hague, Holland : Congratulations upon your seventieth bu-thday from The Holland Society of New York, whose members are descended in the dii-ect male line from Dutchmen who settled in the United States of Amer- ica before Sixteen Hundi-ed and Seventy-five. VAN VoKST, President. van Siclen, Secretary. 'sGka-s-enhage, February 19, 1887. To van Vorst, President Holland Society, N. Y., U. S. : His Majesty thanks the members of The Holland Society of New York for theii* congi'atulations. The Aide-de-Camp, DuMENgEAU. The matter of the proposed statue to a representa- tive Dutchman was then discussed. It was unani- mously resolved that the statue to be erected by this Society be that of a typical Dutchman, and not a portrait of any individual. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, as Chainnan of the Com- mittee having such proposed statue in charge, then agreed to confer Avith the President as to the mem- bership and appointment of such Committee. At this meeting, on motion of Judge Ceo. M. van Hoesen, it was resolved that the Secretaiy of The Holland Society, Mr. Geo. W. van Siclen, be and he hei'eby is appointed the special representative of this Society, to proceed to Holland in the summer of 1887 for the purpose of cultivating more close and friendly relations with oiu* Fatherland and its people. The President, Judge Hooper C. van Vorst, then de- livered the following eulogy upon Aaron J. Van- derpoel, our late Trustee, who died suddenly in Palis, in August, 1887 : Fellmv- Trustees of The Holland Society : This Society, yoimg as it is, has not escaped the arrows of the " insatiate Archer," and Death, which moves with impartial step, has akeady entered the dwellings of some of our members and filled them with sorrow. In the beginning of the summer now ended, when its leaves were yet fresh and gi-een, oui" esteemed friend and associate member of the Board of Trus- tees, Aaron J. Vanderpoel, sought relief from the labors of his great profession, to whose demands none was ever more faithful, by a journey over the sea to Holland, the land of his forefathers ; but be- fore the trees had put ou their golden dress which autumn gives, or their leaves had become " sere and yellow," his spirit had returned to God who gave it. His devoted wife, clinging to the " strong staff and the beautiful rod," in which she trusted, — alas ! now broken, — returned home, filled with grief incon- solable, bringing with her the casket containing his sacred dust. The earthly career of our dear friend is ended, and he has entered into his everlasting rest. Now, whilst we may regret that so good, useful, and honorable a life has been so untimely cut off, and before it had given out all the fuUness of a ma- tured and well-rounded intellect, we may yet be thankful that he lived amongst us, and has left to us so many tokens of goodness and vh'tue. He was in truth a distinguished advocate, and his brethren of the law have already given an appropriate expression of their sorrow at his death. We of The Holland Society may well deplore his loss. He was one of its founders, and present at the first meeting of those who originated this institution, and he was always interested in its continued de- velopment. Mr. WiUiam M. Hoes then read the following memo- rial of Aaron J. Vanderpoel : The death of Aaron J. Vanderpoel, which occurred at Paris, France, August 22d, 1887, has created a va- cancy in many a circle and association, but in no organization can his absence be more keenly appre- ciated and sincerely mourned than in this, his beloved Holland Society. Mr. Vanderpoel had so long been idpntified with the civil, social, and legal activities of this gi'oat me- tropolis that at every turn his many devoted friends are involuntarily reminded of their loss. The call to cease his great labors, from which he was then enjoying a short I'espite, came to him sud- denly, when in the midst of his loving family and without protracted pain this loving husband and father, wise counselor, respected citizen, devoted friend, and noble-hearted man was called away. Mr. Vanderpoel's ancestral history is contained among the archives of this Society; the testimony of his great worth in his many spheres of active life has been preserved in the records of memorial meet- ings and mortuary services, and does not require to be extended here. Bom of Holland parentage, our lamented friend was naturally endowed with a strong physical and mental constitution, amiable disposition, and good old Dutch common sense. No more familiar presence frequented the legal arena than that of this great champion and upholder of the law, who, while dealing hard blows to an ad- versary, yet never struck below the belt. The uni- versal feeling of affection and regard entertained toward him by his younger legal brethren forms not the least of the many tributes tendered to his mem- ory. One of a family of juiists, the domain of law natui'ally claimed oui- friend's services, and in the year 1846 he began that laborious practice of his profession which, with unremitting zeal, eminent ability, unswerving integrity, and great success, he carried on for over forty years. Amid all the ceaseless occupation incident to his 2 10 busy life, those who were privileged to enjoy his charming home cu'cle can testify that he never failed in devotion to home and kindred, and withal found time to gratify his social and literary tastes. Roaming over his fertile acres at Kinderhook, with family and dumb pets, afforded him intense pleasui'e, and when in the course of his extended jom-neyings near his country home, some gable-ended relic of his forefathers yielded, from unfrequented room or dusty gan'et, a vellum-covered volume or quaint article of furniture, the keen enjoyment our friend showed in making the capture proved that the loving disposition and antiquarian tastes of this unassuming man were strong within him. Tradition runs that in. the early part of the year 1885 two or three legal Vans were, as opposing coun- sel, conducting a double-headed litigation before august tribunals, presided over by other eminent Vans, and in the brief intei'mission from conflict ac- corded for refreshment, the warring counselors and gi'ave judges, appreciating the extremely Dutch tone of the conflict, so far at least as they were concerned, resolved that after the battle was over the survivors would try and crystallize the Van element in some substantial form. This happy thought of our pres- ent worthy Secretary was communicated to our late friend, Mr, Vanderpoel, who at once approved the suggestion with all the enthusiasm of his warm dis- position and immediately embarked in the undertak- ing. Accordingly, on February 21, 1885, Aaron J. Vanderpoel, Hooper C. van Vorst, Lucas L. van Allen, George M. van Hoesen, George W. van Slyck, and George W. van Siclen met by invitation at the house of the latter, and, amid the enjoyment 11 of tho Dutch hospitality, discussed more fully the proposed Van Society. We are told that Mr. Vanderpoel entered most heartily into the project, and became at once thor- oughly interested in carrying out the same, in some form, and he invited a large number of Vans to meet at his house on March 14, 1885. In the evening the assembled Vans adopted the plan, and the bold signature of our departed friend was the first appended to the articles of incorpora- tion, and he and forty other worthy Dutchmen were then duly certified by the genial brother of the Common Pleas, and The Holland Society thus came into existence. In all subsequent business and social meetings, our friend was seldom absent, and ever ready with advice and encoui'agement. He journeyed with us to Kingston in that pilgrim- age in September, 1886, and upon the mountain-top, on that memorable occasion, in concluding his ad- dress in response to the toast, " Dutch Women," he said, " Gratitude and loving respect to Dutch women should be inscribed on the banner of our Society." At the second annual gathering of this Society, in January, 1887, our departed friend, in the course of a beautiful address in response to the toast, " The President of the United States," quoted a sentiment which we can now truly apply to him: "I am a Dutchman, and so think nothing which concerns the Dutch of unconcern to me." Om* friend was present at the farewell given by the steamship company upon the Dutch steamer Edam, upon which he sailed soon after for Holland with our Secretaiy, and the same steamer a few 12 weeks later brought to these shores his lifeless re- mains. After appropriate church services here, which were very largely attended, the body of our friend was taken to Kiuderhook, and there laid at rest. Truly, we can all say, in thinking of him, we have not many such friends to lose. In commemoration of the invaluable aid and co- operation of Aaron J. Vanderpoel, as one of the founders and the devoted friend of this Society, and its first Vice-President for Kinderhook, and in testimony of the esteem and affection of his fellow- members, it is Resolved, that the foregoing Minute be adopted, and placed upon the records of this Society, and that an attested copy be forwarded to the widow and family of oui" deceased friend and associate. On motion, the Secretary was instructed to enter the said Eulogy and Memorial in fuU upon the Min- utes, and to transmit engi'ossed copies of the same to the family of the deceased. The Secretary determined to take a steamer of the Dutch line, the Netherlands American Steam Navi- gation Company, directly to Amsterdam, upon his visit to Holland, which determination on his part was the cause of a very graceful courtesy on the part of the officers of that line, expressed in the following in\dtation which was sent to the members of The Holland Society : 13 NETHERLANDS AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION CO. ROTTERDAM Weekly JVIail-Service AMSTERDAM -NEW-YORK. New-York, June 3d, 1887. Aeer fc[eacl}te Heer : ^l^e Kederlandsclj Omerlkaansclje ^toomvart rrtaatscpappy beas to request tlje pleasure of your company at a dinner, wpicr) will be tendered to tfeo. W. van ^iclen, Esq., on June SStlp, 1 887, at 6 clocl?, 1 . rH>., on board tlje oompany s ^teanas[)ip Edam, at l;er pier, foot of Y orb ^treet, Jersey oity (next to r. I\, l\. Depot, Oortlandt or Desbrosses ^treet Kerry). Ot sucl^ an early Ijour tl^e formality of a dress- suit IS respectfully waived. ^9e favor of an early answer will areatly obliae, Y ours very respectfully. NETHERLANDS AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, W. H. VAN DEN TOORN, GEN'L AG'T. 14 All of the seventy gentlemen who were able to accept this invitation will always remember it as another of those pleasant occasions which belong to the history of oui' Holland Society. At the meeting of the Trustees, held, by invitation of Mr. Greorge G. De Witt, Jr., at the Union League Club, December 22, 1887, the Committee on the new Form of Certificate of Membership presented a de- sign in colors, and the general form of the certificate presented by said Committee was approved, and it was referred back to the said Committee for amend- ment, with power to cause the same to be engraved and published. The Committee on Publication of the Records of the Dutch Churches, through Mr. Theodore M. Banta, Chairman, reported progi'ess, and the report was ap- proved, and the additional sum of $500 appropriated for copying and other expenses, subject to the order of said Committee. Mr. William M. Hoes presented to the Society a full set of Valentine's Manual, and the thanks of the Society were specially presented to him for his inter- esting and valuable gift. A communication was received from Mr. Isaac C. De Bevoise, presenting to this Society the old com- munion cup of the Reformed Dutch Church of Bush- wick ; the gift was accepted, and the thanks of the Society specially tendered to Mr, De Bevoise for this venerable and valuable historical relic. The designs and etchings for the Spijskaart of the Third Annual Dinner are by our friend, Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith. In introducing the speakers and announcing the toasts the President, ex-Judge Van Vorst, spoke as f oUows : ^0 hey Sv oil an J Society of^bewHjoili " Eindelijk wordt vcii Spruit ccii "Boom." CnDotet oJOiutidwick, (^atuiacy 10, 1S8S De Weleerwaarde hjeer Theo, L, Cuyler, Th. D, zai biddei) over tafel. "£"(•/ ivat gaar /s, Drinck xvat klaar is, Spreeck ivat tuaar is." cJalauwe Jhandton^dclie Uedtetd. Sniiti'riieswijn van 18^4. HeLDER SCHILDPADSOEP. ^55. JylJdcllOteije.i. Topaascbe sereese. 3"^_ Haringen. Kaviaar. Olijven. Selderij. Radijs. Paukenvorm Rothschild. C/ektiilde yciechteiis>. Jong kip Heilbot in Maagde Stijl. Gekookte Parijzer Aardappelen. Roodfuijii. Ossehaas, Balzac Stijl. Pontct Canet. Aardappelen Benedictinorum. Snijboonen, Engelsche Stilj. Champagm-wijn. (OT f T3ij{oi!dt-r Terrier Jouit. i OOtgetecnteilO. Irroy, 'Bmtcugeuoon droog Snippen in busjes, met Perigueux saus. Louis Roederer, Doperwten met Botbr. Grand Tin Sec. Artisjokken in Dubarry Stijl. Kreeft in Newburgsche stijl met Paddenstoelen. Sorbet, Aerikaansche Stijl. yebtaad. Kanefasrug Eendvogels met Gelei van Aalbessen. Broodjes, St. Hubert Stijl. Gekruide Selderij-sla. Bourgogne'^ijn. Kalkoen van beenderen ondaan, Renaissance Stijl. Versierde Yorksche Ham. OSSETONG, MONTPELLIER StiJL. Kalkoen van beend ^oete yezecliteiio, Hollandsche Podding. y etnoii teetde (sft u k h eiijD . Ijs IN Verschillende Figuren. KoEKjEs. Ulevellen. Gelei van Curasao. Vruchten. Nagerecht. Mokka Koffie. Likeuren. Goudsche Pijpen, en Amsi erdamsche Tabak, "Het Wapen der Nederlanden," gebracht van Holland door den Secretaris. Frausche brandewijn van Robin, een en dertig jaaren oud. ^ Heil-Dronken ^ Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. Muiic. Vlaggelied . 2. Jtetisi drnatezdam, atoit-iiici m srealneaa Init ncl m Scoaii Hon. Abr.\m S. Hewitt, Mayor of the City of New- York. Music. IVij li-i't-n vrij. 3. Cm Jl'iilclDmaii and tloe L ankee. Hon. George William Curtis. Music. Yaukic Doodle. e&&. 4. jQ)oi\ana. ^^ Uzame Isoisen ! Mr. George W. Van Siclen, Secretary of The Holland Society of New- York. Music, ^l is oils Landjc nog ^00 klein. 5. Oazlti J/utcb Q)xr)\ozezs> and k^eoaiaplosz^. Ex-Chief-Judge Charles P. Daly, President of the New-York Geographical Society. Music. Dc Kabch loos. 6. Rev. Geo. D. Hulst, D. D., will present to The Holland Society, on behalf of our fellow-member, .Mr. Isaac C. De Bevoise, the old Communion Cup, A. D. 1708, of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bushwick, L. I., the motto inscribed upon which is, "EET WAT GAER is, DrINCK WAT KLAER IS, SPREECK WAT WAER IS." Music. IVicii Ncirlaiidsch Blocd. 7- Uondel, tne ri^ilcb o)tDakespeaie. Hon. John Van Voorhis, of Rochester, New- York. Music. U^ojch cii dc IVijn. 8. Qui '^Tation'c> §^etl to IScffand. Mr. Warner Van Xorden, of New- York. Music. TJic Zihervloot. 9. Cfoe Jtevo oJeweij JSclkinder. Hon. J. WOODHULL BeEKMAN, of Perth Amboy. Music. Hariuglicd. ilommissie fot rcijcliiiti imu dcii Jllnnfiijd. A. T>. 1888. Robert B. Roosevelt, yooriitter. George M. Van Hoesen. Charles A. Vanderhoof. George G. De Witt, Jr. Robert W. Van Boskerck. George W. Van Siclen, Secretaris. THE De viNNE Press. f^olland ^ocidi) ^inner '^[-[OTEL {^RUNSWICK. N. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. 1888 .iGUic ipoint ©gstcrs ^'.lutcnic:^ 187*1 tbcrrlnos Clear t3i*ccn Cuitlc 5oiu> Caviar Olivcs? Cclcrv {Ttiubalcfi 1RotL1cicL1ll^ ^opa;> Sbcrrg IRaM^bee i\ SiiHic cii caiti^c. ^aucc ipciiiiuciu; Jfvcncb peas au bcuirc Brticbohc a la ©ubaiir :ntct Caiiei lobster a la IHcwburg wltb imisbroom^i C'crricrs,'>ouct Spcei.t S>unmiv Hrtra E'tv:. "Cvivcc," 18S4 Soiiirt a r:3fn'r.iinf Cig . . . — ,.ia E>rM Caiiva6=bact? SiicK witb currant jcllv? pams St. Ibubcrt CcIct'S ^ala^ mayonnaise IDuminj Eftra Cr?, "Ciivec ." l*;^! I mm ■. l^o^^trer. ^?<■an^ Pin Sec ^•^iccc£; ^roib^ 5 .1Goiief> Ciirko' IRcnaisEiancc IJorl; Hiani Ibunorlc Coiunic /IRontpcllicr 1I.■>ollan^ lpll^lMlu^ jfano: llcf Cream Curacao 3cllK Ipctits? Jfoure ^ottoci' pcriier=3oiiet Sj>ceial Imms IRoeJHircr, 6^an^ Tin See "!£i Jfruit H>ct.n^LVt Catc /II^oha Xtquciirs Coiiii.i«: tvobm. 30 years olk< Ci^Ard f^ict HeiityBincler Weycle ff\ ;;^ 2.5 /Union ^aUavc VLAGGELIED. (SONG OF THE FLAG.) Arranged for Pianoforte, for The Holland Society, by Piet Hein Van der Weyde. Translated by the Secretary". English words by Mrs Amelia E. Barr. jH'JJ i ^TTT-t ^ P ^¥^ i' f' -^=^ 1. nag 2. Thou art blue 3. Flag, I O tchit - of the Ne as the skies we sa - lute trer>-de kleil ther- lands, and thee. ten ton ^^ f iijj ji ji m ri ^i; j^'ii^ i'f' / ;;i'i, ^ are not our hearts All flag- bearers, sa - cred to thee? To our red as the da\*Ti, Thou art white as the noon - day light, Fi - Free-dom salutes theelAiid not the faint fawn - ing of slaves. JV« - 4er~ lands ilag, teal u-ap- put gif fiei- tangs den xloed.' Woe m i n n 5=2: Cofjriftn issJ liy G*o.W. V*n »♦«« len. ^-^^ song and our shout, • del - i - ty gav^e Flag we sa - Inte klopt Ofif ket har ban - ncr, fly out! , Fly thee her beau- ti - ful bine, And thee, and we vriU up - hold thee Tho te van vreugd en ont - *og, tvan - \ r i 1 a n-i H7J=t=f ^ i -iMv- f J,' I J i i zi asfe rT=^ r=^ PT r out o'er the land Pi - e - ty bound thou should st sink uri - het uw ba and the sea! thee in white . der the waves. nen be - groek .' Un- Then When the .Qnt- plooi u, ont (P 1^^ W^- m ^^ ^ m M ^f=^ -fold thee, un - fold thee, in - vin - ci-ble Flag. Re- Faith and Fi - del - i - ty w^-nl to the field WTiere the hearts of the na - tions are fit-rce with wTong And the ptooJ" u, iinni uil „u , bij uncht en bij dni): r.ij -j Tnijij f i ' i l\^ i i < n ' ii I , mem - blood moutli biiffi ber, re- mem - ber thy brave yoanper years, \Mien of thy he - roes, thy he - roes \v-as shed;. And of the sword, of the sword is red, From an ons /*<■* tee - ken, o hei - Ii - ge tlag, inn P i J— # i=n=f S* ^ J' J u >-H =?^ I* I r^ ' f r- ^ ^ I r men cry- inp '' Free - dom!" died there, where the sword was the - cean of blood we would un - der thee, brave. Mid breath of the Lord, They lift thee, pure As the n ran vroom - hcid , xmi vroom heid e» tnofd, m i LT i ' lJ i « Sg I i 4# ^^ it ^ _ >-JLi J Refrain. ^^# ^ storm- ing: and clash -ing of spears, pave thee thy rib - bon of red. hea - yen a - hove our head. Irouw eti ran iiuutti- held en moed. V Flap of Fi- del - i - ty. -i- j ^j TT i m ^ J — i: '&=S W ^ t — ■ 4 — t ■4 1 t * :$ i * * jJ ^ ^' / | J h N . . ^ ^ ^ J- -0 — * ^ Ti-e-ty. Cou- rape, Thy Bltte,White and Red . we sa - lute! T'^ f M 't t ^ M ^ m Wi ■» # • * # f ^ f-f F ;[j|f f ^^ I 2. Of is iiiet dat Blaauw in zijn smcflooze pracht, Dor trouw- onzer vadren g'ewijd ? Of tuifft niet dat rood van hnn manlijke kracht. En nioed in zoo menigen strijd ? Of wijst Jiiet, of \«ijst niet die blankheid. zoo rein en zoo zacht, Op vrooinheid , die zegen van Gode verwacht, Den zegen, die eenig. die eenig gedijt. Den zegen, die eenig gedijt ? 3. Waai uit dan, o vlag: — zij een tolk (*zer bee, Om tronw en om vroomheid en moed. De wereld ontzle n op golven en ree; Maardaaldet gij ooit op den vloed Wij heffen, wij heffen uw wit uit de schuimende zee, En Toer<'n naart Haanw van den hemel u niee. Al kieurt zich, al kleurt zich uw rood met ens bloed, Al kleurt zich uw rood met ons bloed. /\AAAAA.A,y\AAAAA A AA AAA. A A AtfXAA A A A ^^"t; SPEECH OF EX-JUDGE HOOPER C. VAN VORST. HE choice of the 10th of January by the Committee who have had in charge all the arrangements for this social gathering of The Holland So- ciety was not intended to commem- orate any special event in Dutch history. In fact, it would be difficult to choose any day in the year which is not marked by some important action or event mentioned in the Chron- icles of the eighty years' struggle for national life and liberty which was carried on with such com-- age and sacrifice by the people of Holland and theu- natural aUies in theii* contests with Spain under Philip the Second. And there are actions and events which have transpired upon this Western Continent and in our State and City in the early days of our history, during the settlement and occupation of the Dutch, worthy of commemoration. But it so happens that just thi-ee hundi'ed and six years and six months ago this very evening, and at this hoiu-, that great soldier and statesman, William, Prince of Orange, 15 16 who had struggled so long, and in the end success- fully, and who had brought upon himself the intense hatred of the Spanish King, entered upon his eternal reward. Struck down by the hand of an assassin, engaged for the service by the Spanish King, he died a martyr to the cause of enlightened liberty. But in the pages of om- own Motley his life is embalmed and treasui-ed up to a life beyond life. Not only his own country, but England, the United States, and pohtical and religious freedom everywhere on the globe, owes a debt of gratitude to William the Silent. The free- dom of the nineteenth centuiy was blood-bought, and with the sacrifices of the sixteenth. It is a noble work to keep alive and celebrate the actions of a brave and enhghtened people in their struggle for Independence. That is a grateful duty which posterity owes to its ancestors and it is a part of the work of The Holland Society. Founded about four years ago, this Society, which has the constituents of a true life, has now a member- ship of about five hundred. It has already entered upon a special branch of its work in collecting materials for a history of the actions of our forefathers upon this Continent, and particu- larly in this State and City. The records of the early Dutch Churches in this State and New Jersey contain many facts bearing upon oui" colonial history and that of Dutch families which have not been published. These records are being transcribed so as to be pre- served for all time. All sources of reliable knowledge wiU be thoroughly investigated and the results reached printed. The mission of The Holland Society appeals to the patriotism and ancestral love of the descendants of the Dutch settlers of this country. ARTOTVPt, e BiEHSTADT, 17 In the end the work of this Society will find ex- pression in the erection of a building, in this City, of appropriate design and architectiu-e, in which its membership will be accommodated and where its records and treasm-es of books, documents, and works of art will be preserved. Although our membership has been largely in- creased, the Society has been forced to record during the year the deaths of several of our number. Their names and memory form a part of our treasures. It is not invidious, I am sure, to speak of the late Aaron J. Vauderpoel, one of the six founders of this Society and a Vice-President. He was deeply inter- ested in our work from the beginning and, notwith- standing his large professional business, gave to it his best services. He visited Holland last summer, attracted there by the love of the land of his fore- fathers, and died suddenly in Paris on his way home- ward. But I must close. I turn for a moment only to the pleasui'e and enjoyment of this occasion. The officers tender to you to-night theii- kindest congratu- lations in this early season of the year. The Com- mittee, I am sure, are to be commended for this choice entertainment, and, when I look around and see the faces of the graceful and persuasive speakers by whom you are to be addressed, I am sure that you will say that "the Grovernors of the feast have kept the best wine until now." Chauucey M. Depew responded to the toast to "The Scholars, Artists, and Warriors of Holland." 3 SPEECH OF MR. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. UST as he rose somebody facetiously called out " Hewitt," and Mr. Depew, glancing over the fumes of the two or three hundred clay pipes, said : " He will have his turn, and then perhaps I shall wish I had never been born." Speaking to the toast, Mr. Depew said : " I have already delivered an address to-night to the raikoad men, and my only regret is that it was so diametrically the opposite pole of the kind of ad- dress I have to deliver here, that I could not reflect it here, or could not have spoken there the speech that I intended to sj^eak here. " The cosmopolitan character of the Dutch and the hospitality they dispensed on this island to all na- tionalities is exhibited here to-night. Among the gentlemen who are to respond is my friend the Mayor, of pure English descent ; Judge Daly, of pure Irish, and my friend George William Curtis, of pure Puritan descent. We have got 'em all, and we have taken 'em all in. "Now the Dutch actually fui-nish half the genius that runs this city. Only a week ago the ' business 19 men ' of New York met the Governor of the State at the Hoffman House. In looking over the list of these * business men ' I found that their offices were at the City Hall and the Court-house, and that their business was to run this municipality, where the taxpayers furnish the money and they fui-nish the experience. " Men of most races," Mr. Depew went on, " are con- tented to celebrate one birthday in a year. But that does n't satisfy a Dutchman. On the 6th of Decem- ber he gets himself together and takes a horizontal A'iew of what he is, has, and hopes to be, and it so rouses him that January 10 he takes another look at himself and gets inspiration for Easter Day, when again he gathers himself together for another hor- izontal view of the best fellow in the world. He talks to himself and about himself, like the old farmer who talked to himself because he liked to talk to an intelligent man and liked to have an intelligent man for a listener. A short time ago, when the busi- ness men met the Governor at Delmonico's, that astute, ach'oit, expert politician. Governor Hill, paid his I'espects to me by wishing the dinner abolished, and with it the after-dinner speeches. I have since understood what that wish meant. The dinners to- night, to-morrow night, and next night, at the White House, where the fair bride is receiving the guests of the nation, postpones for four years the prospects of a bachelor administration. And now the Gov- ernor turns to a Republican Legislatui'e for relief and asks it to abolish the dinner ! Mayor Hewitt owes to the dinner his office, for which he gave up the United States Senatorship, and would have given up the Presidency if he could. And so he turns in 20 his distress to the Repubhcan Legislatm*e and asks it to abolish the dinner ! " My friend Mayor Hewitt owes everything to the Dutch examples which preceded him in the greatest office in this country, Mayor of the City of New- York, that office for which De Witt Clinton resigned a United States Senatorship and would have resigned the Presidency if he could. Mayor Havemeyer once said: 'Nobody comes into this office; nobody comes to speak to me. The crowd on Broadway move on and take no notice. Why? Because they know a Dutchman is in the chair. He is attending to their business and they can attend to their own.' " Mayor Hewitt, I think, has followed that good ex- ample, and has attended to the affairs of this muni- cipality so closely that he has become the best Mayor, not a Dutchman, we ever had. As time goes on the municipal bible of the municipal statesman of the future will be The Epistles of Hewitt to Gotham. " A month ago I had the temerity to go down to Boston and make an addi-ess on Forefathers' Day. I made sure that the forefather had that genial hos- pitality which, if my ancestor had known, he would not have hated him as he did. But I discovered, on the other hand, that while he liked to have the myth- ical virtues and gi-eatness which have attached to the Puiitan attributed to him, he did n't like to hear the facts. And when I had mildly stated that he sang through his nose, when I had in the most catholic and chastening spirit alluded to the fact that the in- fluences of civilization all around had evolved him out until he became one of the great factors of modern liberty, what was my reward ? I received a postal card from Cambridge which stated that my speech on the evolution of the Puritan simply showed that 21 I was a specimen, and a magnificent one, of suspended development. "Holland," continued Mr. Depew, "has been a refuge for all nations for many years. It has proved a haven for the poet, for art, and for liberty, and if it had not been for the glorious stand made by the Hollanders for religious and political liberty in the sixteenth centiuy, I doubt very much if there would ever have been any freedom in Great Britain ^r any independence in what is now the United States. "The mottoes of all other nations suggest blood, that of Holland alone speaks peace. ' God made the sea ; we have made the shore.' So they did ; push- ing it out against the might of old ocean, while be- hind them rose a mighty land, a temple of learning and industry, and a cradle of the faith. And those men were dubbed by the haughty king of Spain the 'Beggars of the Sea.' That meanest of all titles William of Orange took and made it the one title that has outlived knight-errantry. The beggar of the sea has become the apostle of the rights of man."* Mayor Hewitt was then introduced as the Mayor of New Amsterdam, the President insinuating that if he was not a Dutchman his mother was. The Mayor, addressing the Society as fellow-citi- zens of New Amsterdam, said : * NoTK. — Mr. Depew delivered, without notes, a most admirable speech upon the topic assigned him, and closed with a most elo- quent peroration. It is therefore deeply to be regretted that the stenographer who was specially hired by the Society and detaUed to take in full Mr. Depew's speech and that of Mr. Hewitt lost all his notes, and finally confessed to having been overcome by the too great hospitality of the Dutch. These imperfect fragments are all of the two speeches that can be culled from the pubhc press. The issue of this volume has been long delayed in the hope of finding or obtaining more, which would more worthily reproduce their excellent matter. SPEECH OF MAYOR ABRAM S. HEWITT. THINK you wiU agree with me that it is a fortunate thing for this city that Mr. Depew did not carry out his original intention of not being born. I have never known him to change in any purpose he has formed, how- ever, so I conclude that he could not help it. If this misfortune had occurred to us, I am sure that you would never realize what punishment after death means, — which is, being compelled to listen to the Mayor of New- York after the President of the New- York Central Railroad. He seems to have been somewhat disturbed by the references made to his Presidential prospects, on a recent occasion, by the Governor of the State, but he did n't give a true explanation of it — he is so modest. The truth is that the Governor referred to Depew because he is the only man of whom the Governor is afraid. I have been hoping that in a moment of weakness Mr. Depew might utter some sentiments which, after a Burchard fashion, might give the Democrats a chance. But he is on his guard. All 22 23 that he has said about Holland will do hiiu uo harm in this countiy. I am rather afraid that his remarks as to the nasal acquirements of Massachusetts people may possibly cost him a few votes, but I think that will be compensated for by the English-speaking people, whose language, you know, came from the Dutch, and the detestation of the latter for every- thing that passes through the nose and theLr admka- tion of everything that passes to the mouth. I am bUled to speak on " New Amsterdam : gi'ow- ing in greatness but not in goodness." I am sorry that the Committee, of which my ancient friend Robert B. Roosevelt is Chairman, takes such a gloomy view of the situation. But then he is a " four-sitter," as the Dutchmen call it (voorzitter), — that is, it takes foui- chairs to accommodate him. I must dissent from the proposition of the toast. There is no gi-owth in gi-eatness without a growth in goodness. At uo period in its history has the commonwealth been so good as it is to-day. At last it is recognized in this City that wealth has its responsibilities. [Mayor Hewitt then referred to many hospitals and libraries recently established in the city.] At no time [he coutimied] has the moral tone of New York been so high — has it been so dangerous to propose unsound doctrines in morals and politics. You talk about the pavements. I find that one himdred years ago yoiu* Dutch ancestors had no pavements. They had double the percentage of criminals and paupers we have to-day. The rate of taxation was higher then than now. We are to be the greatest city on the globe, and wdth our greatness will come greater good- ness. Read my five columns of statistics on the sub- 24 ject to-morrow. I '11 have five columns more for you next week and five the week following ; for I know that, powerful as the Dutch digestion is, it could n't stand them all at once. Response of Hon. George William Curtis to the toast, " The Dutchman and the Yankee." 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That hos- pitality, indeed, — which at this table I seem for the first time fully to comprehend, — was so charming and seductive that it threatened to make the Pilgrim childi-en Dutchmen instead of Yankees, if they had not been wise enough to heed Horace Greeley's advice, long before it was uttered, "Go West, young man; go West." But when, after that long and desolate voyage, they reached the stern and rockbound American coast, the warm vision of the old Dutch hospitality hung in the wintry air, and, remembering the goodly and pleasant Dutch city they had left behind, they in- stinctively turned to plant themselves on Hudson's river near New Amsterdam. But Cape Cod, fore- seeing theii- coming from the beginning, and stretch- ing out into the ocean to secure the precious, sea- 4 26 26 tossed waif, interposed its reefs and breakers, and with its arm of sand gathered the Pilgi-ims to its breast of stone and ice, nourished them upon the east wind and Calvinistic theology, upon plain li\'ing and high thinking; and so the Pilgrims settled in New England instead of New- York, and became Yankees instead of Dutchmen. They had been drawn to Holland by natural affinity. Themselves the bravest of Englishmen, their scholars knew that Tacitus had called the Batavians the bravest of Germans, and, deprived in England of what they believed to be their natural English rights, they came to Holland to become better Enghshmen. An acute observer tracing their descent would have said, with the clear insight of the old lady contemplating the Siamese twins, " Brothers, I presume." The Puritans have been riddled with ridicide for demanding freedom for their own consciences and not for those of other people. But they know that freedom, like charity and other virtues, begins at home. That is what made them Yankees. There- fore the original Yankee, in leaving Holland, made free to take with him the two chief treasures of his foster country, — a free chxu'ch and a free school. It seems an ungi-ateful retui'n for the Dutch hospi- tality; but, with prophetic instinct, he knew that what the poet says of love is true of freedom : True love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. He carried off the prize, but he left Holland as rich as he found her; nay, he left her richer. No, sir; 27 I repel the sly insinuation of yom* smile, not because he went away, but richer by the consciousness that ^ in the freedom of the church and school she had helped to establish upon a rock the freedom of the freest empire in the world. The Dutchman I am sure, therefore, will be just to the Yankee. It is because he was trained in modest and thrifty Holland that he has never wanted more than the best of everything, and, like the ui'chin who beat his grandfather at checkers, he has been always willing to give the Dutchman the smaller half until he was ready to take the whole for himself. This has been con- stantly his generous policy. The Dutchmen warmed New- York for the Yankee. But, determined to be more than literal in his gi-atitude, it appears that in the gi'eat race for fame and fortune the Yankee has repaid him with compound interest by making it exceedingly hot for the Dutchman ! In that noble rivahy, however, he has been but mindful of Bacon's wisdom: "He that seeketh to be eminent among able men hath a great task. But he that plots to be the only figure among ciphers is the decay of a whole age." Suppose Cape Cod had been less enamored of the Pilgrims and they had settled upon the Hudson, what would have been the result ? The result would have come a little sooner, that is all. The conserva- tism of the New Netherland would have been a little earlier leavened by the radicalism of New England ; the radicalism of New England would have been sooner softened and humanized by the genial genius of Holland. One thing, I think, might have hap- pened. Captain Myles Standish might not have 28 filled the snakeskin with powder and flung it trucu- lently to the Indian. The Yankee burning of the Pequot fort, the tragedy of King Philip's war, — indeed, the whole Pmitan Indian policy would prob- ably have been greatly modified had the sagacious and humane methods of the Dutchmen in deahng with the Indians been known to Massachusetts Bay. There are many great names and great events in the annals of New- York, but it is the pride of its early histoiy that the problem with which very few Amer- ican statesmen of to-day seem able to cope was treated successfully more than two centui'ies ago by Arent Van Curler. His weapons in dealing with the Indians were not the torch, and powder and shot. They were good faith, and justice and humanity. To the Indian mind he identified these qualities with the white skin, so that when the English succeeded the Dutch the Indians always called the English governor, whoever he might be, by the name of their first white friend, the Dutch Curler. Our national Indian policy would have been more honorable and more American if it had been that of the Dutchmen in New- York. Arent Van Ciirler leads the van of the great Van family of many names, which has been so illustrious and serviceable to the state. From Van Curler, the commissary of Rennsalaer Wyck more than two and a half centuries ago, down to Van Voorst, the upright judge and your beloved chief magistrate to-day, is a long and honorable line. Mayor Hewitt says, and says truly, that there are not enough Vans in office. He is reproached with appointing so many O's and Mac's, and never a Van. But he answers that it is not his fault ; it is the fault of the Vans 29 themselves. There are not enough of them. Indeed, we may say of him iu Dryden's line : He wheeled in air and stretched his Vans in vain. There are not enough of them to fill the ofiices — and they the only people among us of which that can be tnithfuUy said. The Dutch element in our civil life has been pru- dence, sound judgment, and tenacity. In the ship of state, which has quite sail enough when she is lurching with a surplus cargo amid gales from every point of the compass seeking to scatter it, good Dutch sense is the solid ballast which keeps her from being thrown upon her beam ends. The Dutchman is held to be more practical than poetic, and G-rotius, with his ponderous tomes of inter- national law rather than his tragedies, is held to be the characteristic figiu'e of the Dutch literary genius. But we may well remember here that at the time when as Wendell Phillips says the air of New England was black with sermons, it was in New Netherland that our first and purely literary impulse, gay, joyous, tender, and charming, was quickened ; and that • the touching figure of Rip Van Winkle, beloved of children and loitering with them in the fields and by the streams, the sharp con- trast of Major Jack Downing, and Sam Slick, and Solon Shingle, was the first distinctive and familiar creation of om* literature. And at this table, gentle- men, I like to think that the great debt of New Eng- land and of America to Holland is nobly acknowl- edged and illustrated in those monumental works of oui' literature, in which Yankee genius, glowing with sympathy and admiration, tells the splendid 30 story of tlie Dutch achievements for fatherland, for liberty, and the world — Motley's histories of the Dutch Republic and the United Netherlands. But whether we became Americans through the Dutch or the Yankee line, we are all the children of a contest which began long ago ; in which youi* ancestors and mine stood side by side, which stUl continues, in which our children wiU engage, and of which America is the most illustrious scene. If we would exhaustively define the word America, I think we should say Fair Play. It is the Dutch struggle for fair play which Motley describes. It was to find fau- jjlay that the Puritan fled to Hol- land, and both Dutchmen and Puritans, crossing the sea, stood together to secure fair play on Long Island in disaster, and at Saratoga in triumph. The original Yankee did not bring it in its fullness to New England, but the Mayflower that brought him was full of its seed. He could not shake it off. The Puiitan was strong, but the spirit of fair play was stronger, and when he stamped his iron heel upon the Quaker and the Baptist it merely stamped the glorious seed into the earth and planted it deeper for a future harvest. Its growth is the substance of oui- history. Fair play has prevailed over ecclesi- astical despotism. Fair play has abolished personal slavery. The new questions of corporations and monopolies, of capital and labor, of free trade and protection, are only new forms of the old struggle of Liberty, the good old cause of fair play. Nowhere to-day is the prospect of that cause f au-er than here ; nowhere can encoui'agement be greater than at this very table. Let the past forecast the future. Need we doubt what is to come? Need we doubt that 31 what we have done we can do ? You are Dutchmen and I am a Yankee, and we both gladly own that it is the united genius of New England and the New Netherlands which has made the New- York of our love and pride. I raise my battle-cry of Plymouth Rock ; raise you your glorious Oranje Boven ! and in that sign we shall conquer. Speech of the Secretary of the Society, Mr. George W. Van Siclen, in response to the toast to " Holland." >^» rv^» « v>£w.* » J' *(Si.* **>(?.!.» *j^*fiu%« v>£ J> ? y SPEECH OF GEORGE W. VAN SICLEN. RANJE BOVEN! Okanje Boven ! Oranje Boven ! That was the war- cry of your forefathers, under which they achieved victory. Let me hear you utter it — three times. Now ! [The three hundred gentlemen present sprang to their feet and took up the cry, " Oranje Boven ! Oranje Boven ! Oranje Boven ! " ] Was it not a happy omen, when your Secretary last summer returned to the land of his forefathers, after an absence of more than two hundi'ed and fifty years, that, as the steamship neared the shore, a group of peasants came running down, waving then* hats and shouting, and the words that came as greet- ing were the words of that old war-ciy, " Oranje Boven! Oranje Boven! Okanje Boven!" It thrilled my heart, and as I stood on the deck it seemed that the air and the skies parted, and I saw the spirits of our forefathers in deadly combat with the Spaniards, and there fell upon my ear, like the echo of a memory, " Oranje Boven ! Oranje Boven ! Oranje Boven ! " 32 33 The citizens of Amsterdam have been wise enough and courageous enough to build a canal, the Ymuide, as large as a river, from their city du-ectly to the sea, up which we sailed to the locks of granite built by those patient Hollanders, and which are not so strong to withstand the storms of the North Sea as the national character developed by the same stm-dy people to resist tyi-anny and repress anarchy. Yom* Secretary went back to Holland on the same old line established by Hendrick Hudson in the year 1609, and from which have been naturally evolved, after the Spotted Cow, the Golden Beaver, and the Hope, the iron steamships of the Netherlandsch Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschaappij. You will understand better the esteem and respect in which The Holland Society of New- York is held in The Netherlands when I tell you that the news of the arrival of the steamer in the offing had been telegraphed to Amsterdam and to Leiden, and that the first man to board the vessel was Mr. Felix Driessen, the Secretary of the Third October Asso- ciation of Leiden, who had been thus notified, and had hastened by express to gi-eet the Secretary of this Society as a mark of that esteem and honor. You are many of you members of that Third Octo- ber Association, and all of you should join it. It is, you know, a society to commemorate the relief of Leiden from the siege, A. D. 1572, when the bony arms of its famished defenders, outstretched for bread, formed an arch over the long canal, up which came the boats of the Beggars of the Sea, who, under Admiral Boisot, had cut the dykes, and had come in with the sea and the north wind to their rescue. 5 34 At Leiden I was privileged to enjoy glimpses of the home life of the Dutch, being taken through some of their houses, from the bottom to the top, and being entertained most hospitably and sumptu- ously. Besides being shown the interesting mu- seums and galleries, I stood on the spot where a stone declares that John Robinson lived. Here it was that the Puritans learned all the good traits they have shown, except their own original honesty and sturdiness of pui-pose. Here they lived twelve years; and when they started for America, in the language of William Bradford, familiar, doubtless, to our friend the President of the New England Society, who is present, " They left y" goodlie and pleasaunt citie which had been theu' resting-place near twelve years; but they knew they were pil- grims, and looked not much on these things, but lift up their eyes to y" heavens, their best countrie, and quieted then- spirits." At Leiden I visited a house that is often over- looked, the " Gremeenlandshuis van Rynland" (the House of the Republic), where are kept all the records of all the work that has been done on the canals and the land drainage of the country. In honor of the representative of this Society, the old clerks opened their vaults and their boxes, and showed me receipts on parchment for labor per- formed as far back as A. D. 1152. This autograph letter of George Washington, adorning the wall at this dinner, is one hundred years old, and is an antiquity in this countiy, but the parchment receipts they put in my hands were seven hundred years old. In Holland there are two states, the water state and the civil state, an imperium in imperio. The duty 35 of its Signal Service is not so much to report the winds and the storms as the depth of the water at certain fixed points in the canals. When you look at the morning paper you do not find, with the hour of the moon's rising or of the sun's setting, the time of high tide or low tide, but in place of this a state- ment of the depth of water in the canals at certain bridges, that the boatmen may know whether or not their boats can pass. The water that is accumulated by di'ainage and fi'om rain, and that which neces- sarily enters from the ocean every time the locks are opened to allow vessels to pass in and out from the sea, is pumped back again into the ocean by steam pumps near Leiden, thus maintaining an average depth throughout the country. These canals are of the greatest advantage for intercommunication, and are covered with boats, especially with small steam propellers, by means of which you can travel every- where in Holland, and at a very low rate. I hh'ed one of these boats myself for a day in the city of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, you know, is built on ninety-six islands, and its streets, almost without exception, are water-ways. We started at three o'clock in the afternoon, and traveled continuously through different streets, \isitiug most quaint and picturesque nooks, lowering our hinged smokestack to run under bridges, with an occasional stop at some lock to put our toll in a wooden shoe which the lock-keeper reached down to us, winding in and out among smaller craft and sailing vessels and canal-boats until ten o'clock in the evening, and we had not seen the whole of the city. It was a Danish and not a Dutch king of England who told his courtiers that the sea could not be 36 stayed. The Dutch kiug of England was William III., who had been better taught. It was the Dutch- man who followed him to England just two hundred years ago, A. D. 1688, who dyked and di-ained the marshes of the even country. It took the Dutch eighty years to exclude the waves of Spanish tyi-anny, and four hundred years to conquer the sea; but they succeeded in both eases. They developed not only the existing "water- staat," protected by the gi'eat dyke of the Helder, but also the civil state, protected by the great north- ern dyke of liberty of conscience. It would take too long to teU aU that I saw in Holland as your representative last summer. One of the most delightful entertainments that were proffered me in that capacity was a trip by steamer from Rotterdam down the Rhine to Briel; and I desire to tender, on behalf of this Society, om* most hearty thanks to Messrs. J. V. Wierdsma and Otto Reuchlin, of Rotterdam, merchants, who proffered this great coui'tesy. The cabin of the steamer, the Maas Nymph, was lined with tree ferns, and palms, and flowering plants, and superb bouquets were provided for the ladies of oui- party. Our fellow-member, Aaron J. Vanderpoel, at my urgent solicitation, remained over with his family, delaying his journey to Grermany in order to enjoy this excur- sion, and many times thi'ough the day I heard him say, " Is not this a perfect day ! " " Was there ever a more delightful day ! " The people at Briel had been told beforehand that the representative of this Society would visit them on their market-day, and the streets were thronged. We landed where the Water Beggars landed when 37 they captured the city from the Spaniards ; we vis- ited the old church, aud the Asyhim for Sailors' Orphans, aud iu the street a deputation of citizens stepped out and addressed your Secretary, and pre- sented papers of historical interest, " van de bvu'gerij van Briel aan den burgerij van Amerika." On oui' way from Briel to Dordrecht a dinner was served to us, of the quality and proportions of which you may judge somewhat when I tell you that four quart bottles stood at the plate of each man, and a fresh-caught Rhine salmon was served as one of the courses. At Dordrecht we were taken through the city in open carriages, driving especially through old streets where car- riages are seldom seen. Many houses there bore date early in the sixteenth century, and one we saw marked A. D. 1496, the time when Columbus discovered America! From Dordrecht we passed over to the river Maas, and so back to Rotterdam, and there, at the entrance of the Hotel des Bains, I looked for the last time upon the happy face and received for the last time the hearty grasp of the hand of my friend Aaron J. Vanderpoel. You remember the time-honored witticism about Briel — that when Alva lost Briel he lost his spec- tacles. Briel has become the spectacles thi-ough which Holland looks abroad. When a Dutchman looks you in the eye, — and he always does that, — it is the spirit of a Water Beggar, independent of the world. Holland is the land of charity. You see no beg- gars. Their " poor-houses " are tracts of land, as at Willemsoord, Ommerschans, and elsewhere, where 38 paupers are supplied with tools and stock, aud made self-supportiQg. Holland has solved the Irish land question. The hekletn-regt is the right to occupy a farm at a fixed annual rent which the landlord can never increase. This right descends to the heir, and can be devised and sold, but only to one person ; it is indivisible. Every time, however, that it passes by inheritance, or by will, the landlord receives one or two years' rent. The buildings belong to the tenant, and he may take them away. He pays all the taxes. If the tenant defaults, his creditors can cause the heklem- regt to be sold ; but the claims of the landlord must first be paid by the buyer. This custom began in the province of G-roningen, but is likely to spread aU over The Netherlands. Under it, the tenant farmers become the richest and most influential members of the community. Their rent does not increase as the reward of their indus- try. The laborer enjoys the fruit of his labor. Labor and capital are united, and friends. Dutchmen are nothing if not religious. Whatever their faults, they are sincere in their worship of God ; and truly the land would seem to have reaped the reward promised by the Psalmist : " Soo sullen uwe schueren met overvloet vervuUet worden ; ende uwe perskuypen van most overloopen." (So shall your barns be bursting with plenty and your presses overflow with new wine.) " De velden zijn bekleet met kudden ende de dalen zijn bedeekt met koorn ; sy juychen oock singense." (The fields are covered with kine, and the valleys stand so thick with corn that they laugh and sing.) ^ J^ ^ / ITOIVPE. e. BIEHSIAOT, 39 Stand on the great dyke of the Helder, or sail over the di'owned lands, or the sunken cities of the Zuider Zee, and you cannot help feeling that Holland her- self may some time be overflowed by the ocean. This may happen ; but the pi'inciples of political liberty, freedom of conscience, and free public in- struction, of which she is the mother, will never again be quenched. The flag of The Netherlands is the prototype of our American flag, and well may we apostrophize it in the language of the " Vlaggelied," so admirably versified in English by Mrs. Amelia E. Barr : Flag of The Netherlands ! Are not our hearts All flag-bearers, sacred to thee ? To OUT song and our shout, banner, fly out, Fly out o'er the land and the sea ! Unfold thee, unfold thee, invincible Flag ! Remember thy brave younger years. When men crying " Freedom ! " died under thee, glad, 'Mid clashing and storming of spears. Thou art blue as the skies, and red as the dawn. Thou art white as the noonday light ; Fidehty gave thee her beautiful blue, And Piety bound thee in white. Then Faith and Fidelity went to the field Where the blood of thy heroes was shed ; And there, where the sword was the breath of the Lord, They gave thee thy ribbon of red. Speech of ex-Chief-Justice Charles P. Daly, in response to the toast to "The Early Dutch Ex- plorers and Geographers." SPEECH OF EX-CHIEF-JUSTICE CHARLES P. DALY. T would seem, from the programme, that I am expected to respond to this toast as the President of the American Geogi'aphical Society, and, with whatever responsibility that may imply, I will begin by say- ing that what the people of The Netherlands have achieved as geographical explorers and geographers has never been adequately acknowledged by other countries, and if they have said much about it them- selves it has been in a language that is seldom read beyond theii- own limits, except by such Dutch schol- ars as our friend Mr. Van Siclen. Mr. President, although not the first, the Dutch were among the earliest explorers of the Arctic. They were explorers in that ice-bound region while still involved in their great struggle with Spain for inde- pendence. In the year that that great soldier. Prince Maurice, crowned a succession of victories by the taking of G-roningen, — in that year, 1594, the mer- chants of Middleburgh and of Amsterdam sent out an expedition for the discovery of a passage around ^ '•'■■■■ iKJiujLfmitij '^ffi^ifm J Uf.-a.-h *jt: ^^fn,U-/:f.'jt[ii Tiyiiiiifein.hm ef^^e/rf^ffUfmjn ■ f.-'.r.'.'n.i.- ;.\-rr.,i ^jff.r/jjm\'f.i,.:/f .-.•ri/.-.-.-.i/j;;.- ..X:, .}■■, . "-A ^ .'.•/• //• 4' cliJicxi' r _ C-X.J.TU. 41 the Ai'ctic to the ludios, at the north-east, and two years afterward, iu 1596, the morcliaiits of the latter city sent out another expedition under William Barentz for the same purpose; a voyage that, for the perseverance exhibited, the fortitude displayed, and the suffering endm-ed, is one of the most striking in the history of Arctic adventure. Barentz suc- ceeded in getting around Nova Zembla, and farther north than had then been reached, when he had to abandon his vessel; and he and his companions passed a winter attended by great sufferiug in a hut they had erected in a little bay on the north- east coast of that desolate land, from which they subsequently succeeded in escaping in open boats, by a journey of 1600 miles, over an ice-encumbered and stormy sea, under many trials, and with the loss of their commander. In 1871, after a lapse of 275 years, a Swedish navigator, Captain Karlsen, succeeded for the first time afterward in getting around Nova Zembla. He sailed into the little bay where Barentz and his crew had wintered, and found the hut exactly as Barentz had left it. Neither man nor animal in that long lapse of time had entered it. The sleeping-berths were there, the clock himg on the wall, a flute was found that stiU gave out a few notes, and there were drinking-vessels upon the table; and, as this evening is a festive meeting, I may here mention a touching incident recorded by De Veer, the chronicler of the voyage, that these poor fellows, in the midst of their intense suffer- ing, asked the captain to let them make merry on Twelfth Night, with a little sack and two pounds of meal; an indulgence bringing to theii* minds the assemblage of friends, wives, and children, then in 6 42 the enjoyment of that festive night in their far-oflf homes in Holland. Having failed to discover a north-east passage, these persevering Dutchmen then set to work to discover one at the north-west, and it is to Henry Hudson, sailing in the service of the Dutch along the coast of North America in search of that pass- age, that we owe the discovery of our bay, the site of our city, and the river that is now called after him. He was not, it is true, a Dutchman, and was only then incidentally in the service of Holland, but it is to be borne in mind that the two voyages he had previously made in the service of his countrymen had not been successful ; that the London company that had employed him refused to send him out again on a third venture, and that it was to the intelligent appreciation alike of his abilities and of his plans by the Dutch East India Company that he was enabled to make his third and celebrated voyage in 1609 that led to the founding of this, the third greatest city of modern times, which, with the river that rolls by it, has forever perpetuated his name. The establishment of the Dutch East India Com- pany a year after Barentz's voyage, that is, in 1595, opened up for the people of The Netherlands a new field, alike for geographical discovery and commer- cial enterprise. You wiU remember, Mr. President, that Pope Alexander VI. issued a bull dividing a large part of the earth on the South Atlantic be- tween the Portuguese and the Spaniards ; by which edict all other nations were shut off from reaching India, either by the way of the Cape of Good Hope or through the Straits of Magellan. The Dutch were among the fii'st to take that bull by the horns. In M^AV^OXJTER SCHOTJTElSr van Haehlem 2lsr^ Sciffta^n JU de al^td t-ait ^fitvtUtjm. en hre^ G-tert eenuum- Jian^^n d£t^, nach Menfien n-enaratt M£^ Of her ^oo/r aeyoeit . die nimmer hteft jeiee^ He £rint toffnt maer de_fihetz yan ScstoVTXK, nietjyn dadht ^ kcmmer^ke tacht in herch . cf ho^ , ^ haren. ^Die hem. xnl naJer Jien-. d^for U/e S^ hladen. . 43 1598, Oliver Van Noort (ancestor of George M. Van Nort, of your Society), with foui- vessels fitted out by Dutch merchants, fought his way alike against Spaniards and Portuguese, in what at that time was figixratively called "a stream of blood," until he passed triumphantly through the Straits of Ma- gellan, and then, fighting his way equally along the coasts of ChUi and Peru, completed, in three years, a voyage in which he circumnavigated the globe and vindicated the freedom of the seas ; a policy which Holland stoutly maintained by the expeditions she afterward sent out under Mahu, Spelbergen, and others, until, by the possessions she acquii'ed in what was then called the Spice Islands, also in Japan, and by the founding of Batavia in Java, she became one of the chief maritime powers in the East. About 1615, Mr. President, there lived in Amster- dam a rich merchant, Isaac Le Maire, who was not only a merchant but a geogi'apher. This man con- ceived the idea that a passage might be found through the continent of South America south of the Straits of Magellan. It was supposed, in fact, beUeved at that time, that a great region of land stretched un- interruptedly from the southern shores of the Straits of Magellan to the Antarctic pole and over it, and this supposed continent will be found carefully laid down, with its presumed extent, in the maps and atlases of that period. Le Maire evidently did not share in this general belief. He consulted an experienced pilot, Walter Schouten, of the little town of Hoorn, now one of the dead cities of the Zuider Zee, and the result of this conference was their mutual belief that such a passage could be found, which, if discovered, would 44 be free of the privileges secured to the Dutch East India Company, and give to the people of HoUand a route of their own to the Indies, distinct from the routes that had been discovered by the Portuguese and the Spaniards. Sehouten took command of the expedition, and, reaching the Straits of Magellan, he sailed past them to the south along Terra del Fuego, untU he came to an opening now named the Straits of Le Maire, which led him into an open ocean, where, as he described it, whales and other sea-monsters were so numerous as to embarrass the passage of the vessel, while great sea-mews, with wings stretching a fathom across, flew screaming around them. He followed closely the outline of the land, until it finally terminated in a promontory or projection jutting out into the sea, which he named after his native town, Cape Horn. The southern extremity of South America was thus reached, and the result of this Dutch enterprise has been perpetuated in this well-known name of Cape Horn. The Dutch did not discover the Cape of Grood Hope, but they did more, they settled it and held it untU it was transferred to the English, about the beginning of the present century. They not only did this, but their descendants, the Boers, became the permanent inhabitants, not only of Cape Colony, but the colonizers of the territories that have since been added to it, now known as Natal, the Trans- vaal, and the Orange Free State — the gold and dia- mond fields of South Africa. The English are and have been only the governors and temporary resi- dents, leaving and returning to England when they had bettered then* condition; but the Boers have 45 remained, and have been for a century the real working population that have settled and developed this large portion of South Africa ; and how com- pletely its settlement and civilization is due to them may be judged when I state that the census taken last year showed that of the 50,000 whites in the Transvaal 45,000 were members of the Dutch Church. It has been said that Australia was known to the Portuguese before it was discovered by the Dutch. However that may be, the Dutch were the first to land upon this great island, or, as it is now some- times called, " the fifth continent of the world." A Dutch vessel sailed in 1606 for a thousand miles along its south-western shore, the crew occasionally landing and mixing with its savage inhabitants, and from that time to 1627 this discovery in 1606 was followed up by those Dutch navigators, Hertoge, Zeachen, Jan Edles, de Neutz, and de Witt, who successively surveyed the whole of its western and northern coast; from whose labors and from those of the Dutch navigators who followed them it re- ceived the name of New Holland, which it bore until the present century, when the English changed it to Australia. The poet Campbell, in his well-known hues on La Perouse, after alluding to the fact that the Strait which he discovered was called after him, closed the poem with these felicitous lines : Fair Science, on the ocean's azure robe, StUl writes his name in picturing the globe ; And wreaths, what fairer wi-eath could glory twine, His watery course, a world-encircling line. This poetical tribute might, with equal justice, be paid to many Dutch circumnavigators. It will suf- 46 fice to name one, Captain Tasman, who first thor- oughly circumnavigated Australia and very much reduced its supposed extent, and who discovered the gi'eat island lying south of it, which, after the then Dutch governor in the East Indies, he called Van Diemen's Land; a name it bore until the English, greatly to their credit, recently, in honor of its Dutch discoverer, changed it to Tasmania. The honor was well deserved, for it has been said by an English writer that few voyages, after that of Ma- gellan, had contributed so much to the perfection of geography as that of Tasman. I might dwell upon what was accomplished by those Dutch navigators, Jaques L'hermite and Cor- nelius Van Houtman in Java and the Straits of Ma- lacca, Roggeveen in the West Indies, and Hendi-ick Brower in Chili, saying nothing of that hopeless but persistent navigator off the Cape of Good Hope, the Flying Dutchman ; but time presses, and I have yet to say a few words upon the other branch of this toast. It is one thing, Mr. President, to explore the unknown parts of the earth, and another to gather together all the information thus obtained and to classify and arrange it scientifically, and this is a department in which the Dutch have been espe- cially distinguished. The first atlas, or work in which maps of the dif- ferent parts of the world were brought together and arranged so as to represent the whole of the earth's sm'face in one publication for easy use and refer- ence, was the work, in 1570, of Abraham Ortelius, a native of Antwerp ; and the next, in 1585, in which the term atlas was for the first time used, was by his 47 contemporary and friend, Mercator, who was born in Ruppelmonde, in Flanders. Mercator, by which he is now known, is merely the Latin fonii of his name as he used it in his publications, his real name being Gerard Kaufman, the equivalent of our woi'd merchant. He was not only a great geographer, but as a cartographer he surpassed all his predecessors ; as well by the greater exactness with which he rep- resented the different parts of the earth's sui-face upon maps as by his introduction, in marine charts, of what is known as Mercator's projection. By this great invention, or great discovery, he solved the mathematical problem, to put it in plain language, of the most effectual way for a vessel to sail the nearest to a straight line over a round surface like that of our globe ; and this projection of Mercator's, as perfected and more fully carried out by his Eng- lish successor, Wright, is the one which eveiy sea- man now uses in directing his course over the ocean. I stated in the beginning that the labors of the Dutch geographers had never been adequately ap- preciated in other countries, and I may here mention a striking illustration of it. Some years ago I said to an eminent English admiral, who was dining at my house, that it would probably interest him to hear a paper that was to be read the next evening, before the American Geographical Society, upon the life and labors of Mercator, adding that I had sug- gested the preparation of such a paper to a member of the society, who was very competent to under- take it, as so little respecting Mercator was to be found in the English language. The admiral stared at me with a look of surprise, and then said, " What ! Was there such a man as Mercator ? I always sup- 48 posed that Mercator's projection meant the mer- chant's projection;" and he had been using that projection during the whole of his life upon the sea. It was said long ago of Ortelius and of Mercator that the world is indebted to their united labors for re- leasing geography from the yoke of Ptolemy, in which it was bound for more than thirteen cen- turies. But while Mercator and Ortelius are the principal names, there were many other eminent Dutch cartographers, — Blauew, Jansen, De Witt, Vooght, Vischer, Van de Beste, — but, without enu- merating all their names, it will be sufficient to say that the American Geographical Society has what is regarded as the finest and largest collection of early atlases of any institution in the world, and more than two-thirds of the volumes in that collec- tion are by Dutch cartographers. About the middle of the seventeenth centmy there lived in- Amsterdam a physician named Ber- nard Varens, better known by his Latin name of Varenius. But little has been ascertained respecting the personal history of this remarkable man beyond the fact that, in the practice of his art, he was con- sidered one of the most eminent physicians of that city. In addition to his acquirements as a physi- cian, he had, as far as they were then known, a widely extended knowledge of the natural sciences, and was a mathematician. This practicing physi- cian devoted his leisure moments to studying and reflecting upon the physical features of the earth, and in 1650 he published what he denominated a general geography, explaining the nature and prop- erties of the earth : a work that justly entitles him 49 to be called the father of physical geography, and which i^roduced a greater revolution in that science than had been effected by Ortolius or Mercator. He separated from geography, as then understood, what has become in our day, not only from what is already known but in the problems that are yet to be unrav- elled, the higher and the more important branch of geography. In doing this it is remarkable how much he saw in advance of his time. For instance, that the diversity of temperature over the earth's surface, combined with the motion of the earth upon its axis, is the cause of the winds ; that the motion and direc- tion of the currents of the ocean are produced by the pressure of the winds upon the surface of the sea ; that the ocean is of an equal level all over the globe ; his observations upon its depth and unequal salt- ness ; upon mountain systems, the formation of con- tinents; the origin and distribution of islands; the cause of the Gulf Stream, and many other things. I say it is remarkable, because the active discussion which was carried on a few years ago as to the cause of oceanic currents elicited nothing more satisfactory than the reason given by Varenius; and you will remember, Mr. President, that when the Suez Canal was projected, one of the chief reasons urged against it, and especially by engineers, was that there was a difference of level between the Mediterranean and the Southern Ocean. The canal was cut, and it was found, as Varenius said more than two hundred years ago, that the level of the sea is everywhere the same. " It is," said Humboldt, " the permanent glory of Varenius that he fixed the attention of Newton," referring to the fact that Newton thought 7 50 so highly of his work that he caused it to be reprinted in England, and enriched it by his own contributions. It has been conjectm-ed that Varenius was not a Dutchman, because he said that he was born in a town that had been destroyed in a war. But all that this shows is that the place of his birth is un- known. But it is known that he lived in Amster- dam ; that he was one of its most eminent physi- cians ; that he matured and published his gi'eat work in that city, and that he died there at a compara- tively early age; and this being all that is known about him, these facts are sufficient to warrant me in classifying him among the geographers of Holland. I think, Mr. President, that I have now said enough to show that no toast is more worthy of being honored in an assemblage of the descendants of the Dutch, than the Geographical Explorers and Geographers of The Netherlands. Speech of Rev. George Duryee Hulst, D. D., in presenting to The Holland Society, on behalf of our fellow-member, Mr. Isaac C. De Bevoise, the old communion cup, A. D. 1708, of the Reformed Prot- estant Dutch Church of Bushwick, L. I. SPEECH OF EEV. GEORGE DUEYEE HULST, D. D. Mr. President, and Brethren of The Holland Society , HERE is but one subject upon which to speak to-night — Holland, in the glory of her many-sided greatness; a greatness which we, her children, in the ardor of our love, can hardly exaggerate, and which we can have no nobler ambition than to know and appreciate. I do not exactly see how I am to speak upon this subject, in Anew of the one placed before my name upon the programme. A brother in the ministry, seeing one of his deacons arise in prayer-meeting to make the accustomed prosy speech, endeavored to avoid the inevitable by saying, " Brother Van Am- sterdam, will you please lead us in prayer!" The good brother stood a moment, and then said, " I was about to make a few remai'ks, but perhaps I can throw them into the form of a prayer." I may, per- haps, be able to tell what I would have said had my subject given me any sort of an opportunity. 52 If I were allowed so to do, I might tell of Fatliei" William, Prince of Orange, a Bismarck in diplomacy, a Wellington in war, a Washington in character, a Lincoln in tenderness and humanity. I might tell of Erasmus, prince among scholars, or of olden Barneveldt and Hensius, greatest among diploma- tists. I might tell of the poet Vondel, — of whom another speaks to-night, — who, being plagiarized into English, made the plagiarist one of the two gi'eat poets of the English world. I might tell of Rembrandt, who has had but two or three peers in the history of art. I might tell of Holland's theo- logians. Theology has, in its history, gone along two lines ; to one of these Arminius gave his name, and the orthodox of Holland gave the final formu- lation to the other, and they built doctrinal dykes, not less marvelous than those which hold back the material floods from devoiu-ing their land. A Scotch Presbyterian (and what a Scotchman thinks he don't know of theology is not worth knowing) confessed to me his opinion that the formularies of Dordrecht were the only instance of inspii'ation since the time of the holy apostles ! I might tell how many fathers of science, art, and philosophy Holland finds among her children — Grotius, father of international law ; Leeuwenhoek, father of microscopy; Swammerdam, father of my own " hobby," entomology ; Coster, father of print- ing ; Boorhave, father of modern medicine ; Spinoza, one of the fathers of philosophy ; Arminius, father of modern liberal theology. In our tenderness we speak of HoUand as the motherland; in view of the above, and many more, she surely has a 53 right, above all other countries, to be called the fatherland ! I miglit tell you of a people of whom thei'e was never to be written a story of cowardice and distrust of God, in words like these : What sought they thus afar Freedom to worship God. They, like all nations worthy of freedom, fought for it, won it, and held it, in spite of the gory iron hand of Spain ! I might tell, had it not ah'eady been better told, how a few years' residence in Holland softened the Pui-itans into Pilgi-ims, and how, by the same means, Roger Williams learned to think for himself, and to understand the proper relations of church and state, as realized in the formation of the commonwealth of Rhode Island. In the realm of morals, I might teU how Dutchmen anticipated the reforms which now deeply disturb our politicians. In Holland the first temperance society known in history was organized. It may be of interest to-night to know that by the law of that society no member was allowed to drink more than fom'teen great horns of beer at one sitting! You see also by this, our fathers were in favor of high license — and it was very high license, indeed ! But what has this to do with my subject ? You must bear in mind, dear friends, the clei-gy in these days must be allowed a freedom of logical application unknown in the times of Dordi'echt. A theological 54 student, caught in the current of the age, spoke to a pious but coy maiden : " Don't you think we ought to obey the Bible ? " Of course, she did. " WeU, don't you see, here it says, ' Greet one another with a holy kiss,' and here, 'Go thou and do likewise!'" She was a Dutch girl and pious, and she saw and felt the point. He, however, was not Dutch, for no Dutch theologian, not even a student, would have gone so far out of his way to make an api^lication to any text when there were two heads only! But, briefly now, to my subject. I hold in my hand a cup, with a history written in human hearts and lives, — a history part of earth and part of heaven! It is one of the old communion cups of the Eeformed Protestant Dutch Chm-ch, of Bush- wick, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is given into the custody of this Society by Mr. Isaac De Bevoise, to whom it belongs by inheritance, whose ancestor, Carolus De Beauvois, was the first schoolmaster on Long Island. From this cup his ancestors and mine, for nearly two hundred years, drank the wine of the Holy Communion, and with them the Duryees, the Wyckoffs, the Meseroles, the Johnsons, and many others whose names are in honor among us in this generation. The commercial value of this cup is but little, but as we think of its history — how out of its use souls have risen to take hope in God and in His Son, and to live a nobler life — we recall the lines : Oh, the riches Love doth inherit ! Oh, the alchemy that doth change Dross of body and dregs of spirit Into sanctities rare and strange ! 55 This cup is given to this Holland Society as a proper custodian. Loving the motherland and its history, she will regard that which has been held sacred by the children, and which has had so much to do with what was highest and holiest in their lives. Loving, she will reverence — loving, she will care for and preserve this sacred memento. Just one thing more. On this cup is engraved a motto. It is as follows : Drinck wat klaer is, Spreeck wat waer is, Eet wat gaer is. Which, literally translated, is, " Drink what is pure ; speak what is true ; eat what is well prepared." Could you find a better summary of religion than this ? Theology and religion are not by any means the same, but the Dutch were great in both. What a beautiful paraphrase is this of the apostle's sum- mary of duty, " Grlorify God in your body, and in your spii'it, which are God's." Ah, these men had the true idea of religion. They could lay down dogmas, and, if need be, die for them; but their religion was the religion found in the words, "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all for the glory of God." Theirs was not the religion of convent, cell, or cloister, but the rehgion of country, of society, and of home. Theirs was not the life of the ascetic or the eremite, but the religion taught and exemplified by Him who graced the mar- riage feast in Cana, and by His first miracle sanc- tified innocent joys; who sat down to meat with Simon the Pharisee and Zaccheus the publican, and 56 with them eu joyed the good things of life ; who, as man among men, became known, as He was, as " the friend of publicans and sinners"; who, while true God, was at the same time to all and among all " Immanuel, — God with us ! " Speech of Hon. John Van Voorhis, in response to the toast, " Vondel, the Dutch Shakespeare." / tsr.-tum.cjt.i-.ih//,/.! /.-.':»:. , K^ /:-//,J/i'.-i.A.,ffi//.\ ,/,//.:, l/cxA^l/(rirriu^ 4 fiiU.i *>>>>>> **4>>>>,U.fU *M u*^>n.nA*>A t^Ht^^^^t^^Ht^^Hvff'*^ f f f f f f ^ 1 1 V '* ■»' 1 1 i ■»' ■» ■»■ SPEECH OF HON. JOHN VAN VOOEHIS. S members of The Holland Society of New York, it is our pleasure, I have no doubt, as well as our duty, to see to it, so far as we can, that injustice is not done to the memory of the great men of the fatherland. Among these men, as a poet, Joost van den Vondel stands preeminent. Born near the close of the six- teenth centmy, his life covers seventy-nine years of the seventeenth, inchading that period known as the golden age of Dutch literature. His works, the best editions of which comprise twenty-one volumes, have never been published in English translations, and therefore he is little known to those who do not I'ead the Dutch language. Never- theless, he was one of the great poets of the world. He excelled in every department : in fugitive jjoetry as well as in satire, in the ode and in the epic, but above all in tragedy. Longfellow says of Vondel : " He lived for immor- tality, and knew well that a gi-ateful nation would 8 •" 58 not judge him by the places he had occupied, but by the excellence of his productions." He died at the great age of ninety-two years, and was buried in pomp by his countrymen. A medal was struck in his honor, and, a hundred years later, a simple monument was erected to his memory in one of the chm-ches at Amsterdam, bearing no in- scription but his name. He was the great national poet of Holland. His supremacy was recognized in 1653, at the feast of St. Luke at Amsterdam, when above one hundred poets and painters and lovers of the arts, sahited him as their chief, and placed on his head the lau- reate's crown. " The name of Vondel," says Longfellow, " is still honored in Holland, as that of Shakespeare is in England, and aU the efforts of criticism have served only to augment the brightness of a reputation which covers more than two centui'ies of glory." Ever since the time of Milton, the British have claimed the right of eminent domain in the universe of literature. On account of, and allied to, his genius, they affect superiority to every other nation of the earth. This arrogance of the English shows itself every- where. It is not long since a lord chief-justice of England refused to give any consideration to an American decision, because in America, he said, the judges are elected by the people, and then- terms were therefore short, when in fact the judge who pronounced the decision, had been upon the bench many years longer than the lord chief -justice himself. It is not strange, therefore, that the name of Vondel should rarely appear in English books, and 59 then only for the briefest mention. This colossal egotism of the English nation finds no justification in the truth of history. English scholars, as a class, know absolutely nothing of the Dutch poets from a study of their works. There is no department of scholarship or learning in which the Dutch, in the seventeenth contmy, did not excel. A gi'eat and free commonwealth, powerful and rich, Holland was preeminently the literary country of Europe. The University of Leyden, thou the most famous seat of learning in the world, gathered there eminent men from all countries of Em-ope, both as professors and students. The names of such men as Sealiger and Arminius, G-rotius and Descartes, and many more as eminent as they, are intimately and inseparably connected with this uni- versity. Richelieu declares " there were but three consum- mate scholars of the age," and he locates two of them in Holland. Salmasius and Grotius were indeed paragons of scholarshii?. In arts and in arms, Holland was no less conspicu- ous. Rubens, Rembrandt, and Vandyke were Dutch- men. The gi'eatest captain and the greatest admu'als of the period were Dutchmen. As a lawyer and statesman, Barneveldt had no peer in Europe. Dutch ships vexed every sea, and brought to Hol- land not only the wealth of commerce, but also a wealth of knowledge, from all parts of the earth. It was under these conditions that Vondel achieved his fame. While it is literally true that the Dutch language was and is almost unknown out of Hol- land, there was one man at least, in England, who m knew Vondel aud read his books. That mau was John Milton. lu 1654 Vondel pvxblished a tragedy, entitled "Lucifer." Eleven years later Milton reproduced that tragedy, with modifications, in the form of au epic poem, entitled " Paradise Lost." He gave the Dutch poet no credit. In 16G0 Vondel published an epic poem called " Samson." Eleven years later Milton reproduced that poem, with modifications, in the form of a tragedy and under the name of " Sam- son Agonistes." He gave the Dutch poet no credit. In 1664, and more than a year before the appearance of " Paradise Lost," Vondel published, as a sequel to his " Lucifer," a play entitled " Adam in Banish- ment." Four years afterwards Milton, as a sequel to his " Paradise Lost," wrote his " Paradise Regained." Vondel was in advance of Milton in these three great works, and Milton followed in his footsteps. The original was Vondel; the imitator, or more properly the copyist, was Milton. The "Paradise Lost" has been pronounced by Macaulay the greatest epic poem of the world, if it had only been the first. Sm-ely the man from whom it was borrowed deserves some credit. That MUton appropriated Vondel's " Lucifer " in constructing " Paradise Lost " is established beyond a reasonable doubt by two kinds of evidence : There is the intrinsic evidence furnished by a comparison of the two poems ; and there is the extrinsic evidence showing that Milton knew the Dutch lan- guage and literature, and must have read Vondel's " Lucifer " and other poems. Vondel's "Lucifer" and Milton's " Paradise Lost" treat of the same subject, viz., the revolt of the angels and the fall of mau. 61 Milton has somewhat inverted Vondel's order and plot. He has, in his own estimation, " bettered what he borrowed." That is all that can be said. The gorgeous imagery and lofty diction of Vondel fur- nish the chief graces of Milton's great poem. The labor of comparing these two great poems of these great poets has recently been performed with considerable faithfulness, ability, and success by an English scholar, Mr. George Edmunston, of Oxford. Mr. Edmunston seems to have entered upon the inquiry somewhat out of a desire to do jiistice to Vondel, but more particularly to work out what he regarded as a curiosity in literatui-e. He made copious translations from four of Vondel's works, viz., " The Lucifer," " John the Messenger," "Adam in Banishment," and " Samson," and shows with gi'eat clearness, learning, and skill how Milton borrowed from them all. His book entitled " Milton and Vondel " was published in London in 1885. The intrinsic evidence which the two poems fur- nish can be seen not only by their general, in- wrought, and all-pervading identity, but by a comparison of an unlimited number of parallel pas- sages. This occasion will permit but the barest reference to this gi'eat subject, and I will give only a sample or two of such passages. In the " Lucifer," Apollion tells what prospect met his eyes as he comes toward the earth: From hence I saw a lofty hill emerge, Whereout a waterfall, source of four streams, Foams down a glade. Precipitant I strike My oblique course headlong, and come to rest Upon the mountain's brow, from whence one gains A prospect clear far o'er the netlier world, Her happy fields and rich luxuriance. 62 Milton in the third book of " Paradise Lost " de- scribes the fiend looking down in wonder upon the new created universe : At sight of all this world beheld so fair, Round he surveys, .... and without longer pause Down right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant, and winds with ease Through the pure marble air his oblique way. Southward through Eden went a river large. Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill Passed underneath ingulphed. .... Thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood. Which from its darksome passage now appears, And now divided into four main streams, Runs diverse. Vondel gives a grotesque, detailed description of the submission of the animals to the sway of man, and Milton follows it, only making it a little more diffuse. Thus Vondel : The Uon gazed upon his lord and wagged His tad. The tiger laid his savageness Aside before his master's feet. The ox Bowed low his horns, the elephant his tnmk, The bear forgot his fierceness. And this is Milton's : About them fi-isking played All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase In wood or wOderness, forest or den. Sporting the lion ramped, and in his paw Dandled the kid ; bears, tigers, ounces, pards. Gambled before them ; the unwieldy elephant, To make them mirth, used all his might and wreathed His light proboscis. 63 Vondel's portraiture of Adam and Eve, as com- pared with Milton's, presents something more than casual resemblance : No creature hath on high mine eye so pleased, As these below. Who can so deftly soul With body knit, and twofold angols mold From (^lay and l)oiie ? Their body's shapely frame Proclaims the Maker's art, which in the face, The miiTor of the mind, is chiefly shown. Each limb with wonder strikes, but in the glance I saw the image of the soul revealed. Tlieir form displays each loveliness that hero One singly finds. From human eyes a gleam Divine darts forth. The face's lineaments Express the reasoning soul. While the dumb beasts, Of reason void, looked downward to their feet, Man proudly lifts alouo his head to Heaven In lofty praise toward God, who made him thus. Both man and wife are shaped with equal grace. Perfect from head to foot. Adam of right In valor's traits and dignity of form Excels, as ruler of the earth, elect. But all a bridegroom lists In Eve is found — Fineness of limb, a softer flesh and skin, A kindlier tint, and eyes of ravishment. There shines no seraph bright in heavenly courts Like Eve amidst her hanging hair, a screen Of golden beams, which from the head streams down In waves of light, and falls upon her back. If Milton had not read this, he had not read any- thing in Vondel's "Lucifer." In various parts of the fourth and seventh books of the " Paradise Lost " ai"e found such passages as these : Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-Uke erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all. 64 And worthy seemed ; for iu their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone. ****** Not equal, as theii' sex not equal seemed ; For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule. She as a veil down to the slender waist Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waived. ****** Creatures of other mold, earth-born perhaps, Not spirits, yet to heavenly spirits bright Little inferior, whom my thoughts pursue With wonder and could love ; so lively shines In them Divine resemblance, and such grace The hand that formed them on their shape hath poured. And remarkably correspondent with the last part of the citation from Vondel is this, from the seventh l)ook of the " Paradise Lost " : There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done — a creature, who not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright, with front serene. Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with heaven. . . . ******* And worship God supreme, who made him chief Of aU his works. These correspondences are perfectly clear in a thousand citations which might be made, — citations of single lines, or even phrases. It is necessary for the present purpose only to give a specimen or two. Those who desire to pursue the matter further must read Mr. Edmunston's book and investigate for themselves. 65 Milton puts iuto the mouth of Satan this : Here we may reign secure ; .and, ia my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell; Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. While Vondel puts this into the mouth of his fiend : Rather would I be The first prince of some lower court than in Tlie Blessed Light the second, or e'en less. So, too, Vondel's "Lucifer" declares his purpose: My mind is bent Upon a weighty stroke, that shall not miss Its certain aim, to pluck the battle plumes From Michael's wings. While in the " Paradise Lost " Satan taunts Abdiel in this fashion : But well thou com'st Before thy fellows, ambitious to win From me some plume. Vondel : Is it no help, that in your train you draw A third part of the spiiits 1 Milton : Art thou that traitor angel, art thou he Who Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons ? Vondel's host appear With stars bespangled over aU their backs. Milton's, As with stars, their bodies all And wings were set with eyes. Milton describes the great battle in much the same way with Vondel ; the aims of the leaders, among the fiends and the unfallen angels, are the same in both 9 66 poems. And even this curious description of a fallen angel, after he has actually fallen, is copied by Milton : Just as bright day to murky night is changed, So was his beauteous person, in its fall Down sinking, altered to deformity, Too hideous. That bright face to cruel snout. The teeth to fangs sharpened for gnawing steel, The feet and hands to fourfold claws, the skin Of pearly fairness to a dusky hide. The back with bristles rough, two dragon wings Spreads forth. In short, the Archangel, whom but now All angels honored, is transfigured quite, A medley of seven beasts, each horrible. The transformation of Milton's angel is thus set forth : His visage drawn he felt too sharj) and spare, His arms clung to his ribs, his legs entwining Each other till, supplanted, down he fell A monstrous serpent on his belly prone. Dreadful was the din Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now "With complicated monsters, head and tail. Scorpion and asp, &e But still greatest he in the midst, Now dragon grown. The Eve of Vondel reproaches her husband : Another rib lies nearer to your heart. That God may fashion you another wife, Such as you like. Milton's Adam answers : Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee "Would never from my heart. If, however, it could be established that Milton was unacquainted with the Dutch language, or had never read Vondel's " Lucifer," or heard it read, it 67 might be lu-ged that it is possible that two gi-eat minds might so run in the same channel, that each of them would produce a " Paradise Lost," or a "Lucifer." But no such conjecture can be enter- tained. Milton did know the Dutch language, and he had read Vondel's "Lucifer," and other works. Milton had solicited an introduction to Hugo Gro- tius, the tutor and lifelong friend of Vondel. This introduction was made by Lord Scudamore, the Eng- lish ambassador at Paris, when Milton was about thirty years of age. Grotius was a great Latin scholar, and wi-ote his works in Latin. Milton was the best Latin scholar in England. Milton was gi'eatly pleased with his Dutch acquaintance. Von- del had akeady dedicated several of his woi-ks to Hugo Grotius. He had already acquired a gi'eat reputation in Holland. It can be scarcely doubted that the published works of Vondel were the subject of conversation between these two hterary giants. Presumably that acquaintance continued until the death of Grotius. Milton was as familiar with Dutch politics, and with all the gossip at the Hague, as any man in Holland. The English Government had more important re- lations with Holland than with any other country. The business of the two countries all came under the eye of Milton, as the secretary for foreign tongues. He had earned on a pamphleteering war with Salmasius, a professor at Leyden University, and another with Alexander Moore in Holland. This controversy, on the part of Milton, took the form of a personal and vituperative attack upon the private character of each of his adversaries. These pamphlets show, on the part of Milton, an intimate knowledge of 68 Dutch affairs. A character so famous iu Hollaud as Vondel, could not escape his observation. All this occurred while Milton was serving the English Government as secretary for foreign tongues, and as such had charge of the translation of all dis- patches to and from foreign governments. Once in each week he gave an entertainment to the foreign ambassadors in London. It is a matter of history that Roger Williams visited England and remained there from 1651 to 1654, where he formed an intimate acquaintance with Milton, and read Dutch to him. Mark Pattison, who wrote a biography of Milton, states that he has no doubt that Milton was ac- quainted with the Dutch language, and that he had read Vondel's " Lucifer." The conclusion is irresistible that Milton was acquainted with the Dutch language, and that he read Vondel's works. A comparison of Vondel's " Samson "with Milton's " Samson Agonistes " confirms the correctness of this conclusion. Milton has put on record a code of literary ethics of his own. By this code he claimed the right to borrow from anybody, if only he bettered what he borrowed. May not this code have been made to suit his own case? He would, without doubt, claim that he bettered what he borrowed from Vondel. His " Doctrine of Divorce " and " Tetrachordon " show, that he was capable of making a code of morals, also, to suit his own convenience. When Vondel's works shall be published in Eng- lish translations, and thus become accessible to *\T:(WllEi^ ¥AIKI WOIMOE^J 69 English readers, then I have uo doubt full justieo will be done to HoUaud's great poet. Full justice will also then be meted out to Milton. Then it will be seen that the gi-eater genius was the Dutchman, and not the Englishman. In response to the toast, " Our Nation's Debt to Holland," Mr. Warner Van Norden delivered the following address : SPEECH OF MR. WARNER VAN NORDEN T is an interesting historical fact that modern civilization is indebted for all that we prize most highly to three of the smallest of countries, each of them less extensive than many American counties. From Judea "we received the Christian religion. The phi- losophy of Greece laid the foundation for all modern speculation, and her art has never been surpassed ; while to Holland we must ascribe civil and religious liberty. Doubtless England has done much for us in eman- cipating the race from kingly tyranny, but 't is to Holland that the world owes England itself. The distinguished English historian Freeman tells us that the Anglo-Saxon race found its earlier home on " the wild Frisian shore," and that the English race is but the Dutch transplanted from Holland. This greatest of England's historians calls Holland the first home of the Anglo-Saxon, England the second, and America the third. 71 What do we owe Holland ? At our beginning as a nation we had before us the example and stim- ulus of a successful, heroic, and beneficent revolu- tion. This was the event of a most daring rebellion and the triumph of an eighty years' struggle against the most formidable empire of earth. The Hollanders were a race of peace-loving, industrious burghers, and they successfully defied a colossal tyi'anny that dominated half the world. Only our own revolution parallels that sublime agonistic throe of a nation coming to light and life, and our own conflict falls far behind in self-denials, perseverance, and splendid personal heroism ; and it is quite possible that with- out that stimulus and example our own revolution would have failed. While other nations have learned little by little through many centuries, we entered at once i;pon the full possession of all our rights. England has waged the war in behalf of the rights of man for seven hundi'ed years, ever since the days of Magna Charta, and has not yet learned the full lesson. Italy has groped her way through the darkness of a thou- sand years of fratricidal strife and tyranny, and is only just emerging into the light ; while France and Spain, after generations of suffering, are but now spelling out the A B C of the alphabet of freedom. But we, with the glorious example of Holland before us, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, sprang into national existence in the full vigor of manhood, and in the possession of every right and faculty for a vigorous life. Dm'ing that eighty years' struggle, Holland not only fought and vanquished Spain, created an in- vincible army, devised a new system of war, organ- ized expeditions to the North and South Poles and to the Indies and North America, but she founded two universities, and organized a system of common schools. Here the common school was found by the Puritans dui'ing their thii'teen years' stay, and from thence they brought it to Plymouth, and for its splendid system of education for the people, this country is indebted, not to England nor to Pui-itan, b^^t to our ancestral Holland. The Republic of Holland was founded upon the Bible. The fii'st Reform Church in the United States was organized within the Fort on the Battery, and it still exists — not only the oldest in the Union, but also one of the most prosperous; and from that little beginning, churches of this persuasion have sprung and multiplied until the great Presbyterian family now numbers, in this country, more than the whole population of England in the day of Qiieen Elizabeth. The early Dutch emigi'ant brought his Bible with him, and that Bible has been the corner- stone of this Republic. Restricting now our thought to local indebtedness, let me add that the prosperity of New- York, as a city, is largely owing to the Dutch perseverance and thrift, and to the traditions and example of a remarkably industrious, shrewd, and virtuous citi- zenship, who left behind a numerous progeny with wealth, brains, and culture. I might consume much of your time recounting the names and deeds of honest burghers from the Stuy\"esants and Bogard- uses of old, down to the eminent citizens of the same or like names who still grace all gi-and social oc- casions, and control vast landed and commercial properties. 73 But I prefer the larger beariugs of my theme, and then turn agaiu to marvel over the gi'eatness of Holland. "When we come to muse upon the future of this mighty land of ours, and to pictiu-e the vast population which will here make its home, and to reflect that in these fertile States the Anglo-Saxon race will liud its leadership and its most perfect de- velopment, we cannot but look back in amazement to the little country whence came blessed influences which have occasioned so great results. And we thoughtfullj^ recall the words of William the Silent, at the siege of Leyden, " That not only the liberties of Holland and the cause of religion were dependent upon them, but the issues would be felt by unborn generations." According to Tacitus, the Batavians were the bravest of the Germans. The Batavian cavalry became famous throughout the Roman Republic. In the days of her greatest power, Rome had soldiers from every part of the world. There were native Italians, Greeks, and barbarians; each land con- tributed its quota of hardy and daring warriors, from the steppes of Asia to the pillars of Hercules, from Scandinavia to Ethiopia ; but of the long array, the chosen and trusted men who alone were counted worthy to compose the Emperor's body-guard were from Batavia, the ancestors of the Hollander of to-day, and because, in that, as in all things, they were faithful. So, in later years, to their descendants of Nether- lands was committed by an AU-Wise Providence a sacred trust. To them it was appointed to guard and defend the Genius of Liberty. And we, who proudly boast of these heroic ancestors, inherit that 10 74 sacred trust to-day. And in acknowledging the great debt that we, as a nation, owe to Holland, there is no way to pay it more acceptably than by handing down to our posterity, unabridged, the Christian civilization and civil liberty which we ourselves have inherited from the fathers. M Speech of J. Woodhull Beekman in response to the toast, " The New Jersey Hollander." JOHN WOODHULL BEEKMAN. niOTYPE. 6. PltfiSTAOT, SPEECH OF J. WOODHULL BEEK3IAN. Mr. President and Gentlemen of The Holland Society: WING to the position I occupy upon the addition to the bill of fare, it is hardly necessary for me to state that I hail from the neighboring State of New Jersey, a State that in the minds of some evil-disposed persons occupies a very questionable position in the gi-eat galaxy of our American Union. These evil-disposed and slanderously inclined persons of whom I speak have even gone so far as to assert that the State of New Jersey was out of the Union. Standing here to-night, a citizen of that State, a descendant of a New Jersey Hollander, I refute that assertion, and take the broad geographical gi-ound that as long as New Jersey is flanked by Staten Island, so recently brought into public notice by Buffalo Bill and the Wild West, there is no danger of her di-ifting out of the American Union into the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean ; and if, in the 76 misty future, through some political upheaval, vol- canic action, or other disaster, the State of New Jersey should be hurled from om* common Union out upon the broad bosom of the stormy Atlantic, I feel assured that on that mifortuuate day there will be found on board enough Jersey Hollanders with the sailor instinct, the descendants of a maritime nation, to take charge of the craft, and steer the ship of state direct for the dyke-bedecked shores of the old faderland. Now the great question arises in every inquisitive mind. Who is a New Jersey Hollander? And the answer as readily suggests itself to every inventive mind, A Hollander who settled in New Jersey, or a descendant of such a Hollander. And as one question naturally suggests another, the next question would arise, How did he get there ? Now, profane history tells us (as I can find nothing in sacred his- tory relating to the New Jersey Dutch) that when that English navigator, Hendrick Hudson, in the employ of the West India Company, with a crew half English and half Dutch (who, by the way, did nothing but qiiarrel from the time they left the shores of Holland until they got back again), in the Half Moon, discovered and sailed up the Hiidson River to a point some- where below Albany, the Dutch, by reason of that discovery, claimed all that country lying between where the southerly line of Connecticut now is, or thereabouts, on the north, and the line of Maryland on the south, and as far west as then- Dutch cupidity would allow them to go ; and that, I suppose, must have been co-extensive with the country, having, no doubt, a presentiment, even at that early day, that the future New Amsterdam would produce a great 77 newspaper editor, who woiild be advising the future young Dutchmen of the male gender to betake themselves to occidental emigi'ation. Within that territory was embraced the present State of New Jersey. I do not think tliat, previous to the conquest of New Amsterdam by the English, there were many Hollanders in New Jersey, except a few, perhaps, who settled among the Swedes in south Jersey, and those who came with Michael Pauw, the only patroon that New Jersey can boast of, and settled at Hoboken and vicinity, then called Pavonia. After that irascible old gentleman, Peter Stuy vesant, called by the metal- lic name of " Silver Leg," on account of the amount of bullion he decorated his wooden leg with, surren- dered Fort Nassau, Fort Orange, and New Amster- dam to the English invader, a gi'eat many HoUandors, not willing perhaps to live in close proximity with their conquerors, fled the country, and came to New Jersey, where a considerable portion settled at Com- munipaw, where they soon made the wilderness to blossom as a rose, raising cabbages, and were it not for the Commiinipaw Dutchmen, 1 have grave doubts if you New-Yorkers would ever have known what a decent cabbage was. These Hollanders also settled along the rivers, for, like the muskrats, they stuck to the valleys, Raritan and Passaic, in the counties of Somei-set, Bergen, Passaic, parts of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Hunter- don, a considerable number coming from Albany and settling in New Brunswick, where the street on which they mostly lived still bears the name of Albany. They built their houses with the gables to the street, and kept up the Dutch custom of the old men sitting 78 evenings on the stoop smoking, the women knitting, and the young folks courting. As you travel through the counties of which I speak, you will still find standing the quaint old Dutch farmhouses, with the long, sloping roofs and overhanging eaves ; and, whatever you might say of the early Dutch, you must admit, as you look upon these old Dutch homes, nestling beneath some shelter- ing hUl, that they had an eye for the picturesque and the beautiful. These New Jersey Hollanders kept up the good old Dutch customs, similar to the customs in the State of New York, which have been described so often that I wiU not detain you by again relating them. They stuck to the Dutch language, and were strict Calvinists mostly, feeding theii" children's relig- ious appetites with the Heidelberg Catechism, and were somewhat bigoted, I must admit. I once heaixl of a New Jersey Dutchman who overtook with his team a Catholic priest and asked him to ride. After the reverend gentleman got aboard, the Dutchman, with Dutch inquisitiveness, asked him his business. He said he was a Catholic priest, on his way to estab- lish a parish. The Dutchman immediately stopped his wagon, and told him that he must get out, as he could not allow any heretic to ride with him. Perhaps the early Hollanders should not be ci'iti- cised, after aU, for their bigotry, owing to the times, and the persecutions their forefathers had endui-ed at the hands of fanatical Spain on account of then- re- ligion. Fortunately for the peace of the world, those twin giants, Education and Civilization, have broken down forever intolerance, bigotry, and fanaticism. It was no unusual thing among these Jersey Dutch people for cousins to marry each other, utterly re- 79 gardless of the effect it might have upou the brains of their posterity. As I came across the great meadows to-day, lying between Newark and Jersey City, I thouglit, what a splendid place for a Holland settlement ! The soil was so well adapted for pile-driving and dyke-building, to say nothing of the various water-courses that wander hither and thither over that mosquito-laden vicinity, that would afford to the most enterprising Dutchman all the canal facilities that any reasonable Hollander would or could want, with very little expense, and where windmills could be advanta- geously used. These New Jersey Hollanders (I now speak of the rural Dutch) had a great way of building their houses back in the fields, away from the road. I often won- dered why, and have come to the conclusion that it arose from Dutch stinginess, to get clear of company . for after one had let down half a dozen bars, opened half a dozen gates, and driven away half a dozen dogs in reaching the house, it would be a long time before he would try that Dutchman's hospitality again. The rural Dutch lived a quiet life. They generally had large farms, and kept a number of negro slaves. The hogs woidd eat up the gi'ain, the negroes would eat the hogs, and the unfortunate Dutch farmer would come out at the end of the year as poor as he started. It is said that a New Jersey Dutchman was the in- ventor of Jersey lightning, an electric fluid that has a world-wide reputation ; its influence would disturb the harmony of the most peaceful family, and make a man so far forget himself as to abuse his mother- in-law. 80 But, gentlemen, it is growing late while I have wandered on in this rambling way; besides, you should not expect too much of a New Jersey Hol- lander in response to a toast. It reminds me of a watcVmeeting held by some of our colored brothers in the far South. They had met at the church to watch the Old Year out and the New Year in, and the only watch in the crowd (which was a Waterbury watch) was owned and held by Brother Johnson, who was appointed time-keeper. When the preacher asked him what time it was, he told him that it was eleven o'clock. "Nowyer go right along with the sarvices. When de time comes, I lets yer know." So the preacher preached another sermon, and they sang a lot of hymns, and then he called out to Brother Johnson for the time. He looked at the watch and responded, " De time am ten minutes past eleben. Yer 'tend to de sarvices, and I lets yer know." The preacher continued preaching, they kept up the singing, and Brother Johnson still sat with the watch in his hand, silently watching the time, until a faint glimmer in the east proclaimed the breaking of the day. The preacher came in haste from the pulpit, and called to Brother Johnson for " de time." He looked at the watch, and said it was " ten minutes past eleben." The preacher said, " Dat watch am stopped for sartain." Brother John- son placed the watch at his ear, and broke out, " Dar, I tol' yer so ! Yer can't place any 'liance w'atsom- ever in one of dem dar water-power watches." Now, when you call on a Jersey Dutchman to respond to a toast, you will find him like one of "dem dar water-power watches." You can't place " any 'liance " on his sticking to the subject. 81 Now, my friends, it matters little whether we are New Jersey Hollanders or New- York Hollanders or Hollanders of sister States, let us look with pride upon the achievements of oui* faderland — that little country on the border of the cold and bleak North Sea, that country that gave to the world William the Silent, that coiuitry that struck the first great blow at the infamous feudal system of Europe, that country that in its long sti'ugglo with fanatical Spain gave to humanity the first groat lesson in civil and I'eligious liberty. Among the many works of art which were kindly lent by theii- owners to decorate the dining-hall were copies of pictures by Rembrandt, made by Mr. Thomas W. Shields ; and one of Frans Hals, copied by Mr. J. Carrol Beckwith, which hangs in the town hall at Haarlem, and represents the banquet of the ofiicers of the St. Greorge's Ai-chers, in 1627 ; and a companion Frans Hals hanging in the" same gallery, a group of old Dutchwomen representing the Grov- erning Board of some charity, copied by Mr. William M. Chase. 11 82 Among other interesting relics framed and hung upon the wall of the dining-room was the following autograph letter of George Washington. It belongs to Seymour van Santvoord, Esq., of Troy, N. Y., a member of the Society. " To the Minester Elders and Deacons of the Re- formed Prodistant Dutch Churtch of the Town of Schenectady. Ocntelmen : I sincearly thank you for your Con- gratulations on my arrival in this place Whilst I join you in adoring that supreem being to whome alone can be attrebuted the signel suc- cesses of oiu- Arms I cannot but Express gi-atitude to you Gentlemen for so distinguished a testemony of your Regard May the same providence that has hitherto in so Remarkable a manner Evinced the Justice of our Cause lead us to a speady and honoui'able peace and may I'ts attendant blessings soon Restore this om- Florishing place to its former prosperity Schenectady June 30th 1782 " ^- Washington " >^f^^ ^.^^^s:^^^^^^ ^ ^Z't^ru. AHTOTVPC, e BIEftSTADT AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY. By Judge George M. Van Hoersen. EORGE WEST VAN SICLEN was the first to propose the formation, and the most active in promoting the organ- ization, of The Holland Society. In the year 1880, Mr. Van Sielen ap- peared as counsel for one party, and Mr. Lucas L. Van Allen, as counsel for the other party, in a series of litigations, one bi-anch of which was in the Supreme Court, while another branch was in the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York. In the Supreme Coui*t Mr. Aaron J. Vanderpoel was called in as associate counsel with Mr. Van Sicleu, the hearing came on before Judge Hooper C. Van Vorst, an able and a just judge. In the Coui't of Common Pleas the hearing was before another judge of Batavian descent. The conjunction of Dutch lawyers and Dutch judges suggested to Mr. Van Sielen the thought that the cataclysm of immigration had not entirely submerged the founders of the State, and 84 that an union of the descendants of the pioneers who first raised the flag of The Netherlands over the waters of the Hudson would bring with it pleasure of friendly intercourse among people who had to bind them together the sentiment engendered by a com- mon pride in their origin, and might be made the means of augmenting the wholesome influence that the integi'ity, the wisdom, the tolerance, the industry, and the thrift of the Dutch have never ceased to exercise upon the policy of the State. It was by no means certain, however, that the descendants of a people who had lost their ancient language, that men who had no grievance that united them against a common foe, who had become bone of the bone, and flesh of the flesh, of a nation they fondly loved, who were contented with the past, proud of the present, and confident of the future, who were in their own land, and not soj ourners in a strange place, could be so moved by a mere sentiment as to lead them to form and maintain a society in memory of then* forefathers — whom momentous events rather than the efflux of time had sent to the shade which en- velops the remote ancestors of every people. Desirous to know whether the views he entertained were shared by others, Mr. Van Siclen invited Messieurs Van Vorst, Aaron J. Vanderpoel, Lucas L. Van Allen, G-eorge W. Van Slyck and George M. Van Hoesen to meet him at his house and confer as to the feasibility of forming an association of the descendants of the early Dutch settlers of New Netherland. The gentlemen just named met at the house of Mr. Van Siclen on the 21st day of February, 1885, and determined to make an effort to establish a society, every member of which should be descended AfliOTvPC. ( BICR6TA0T, ■! V. ARTOTTPE, t eiERSTADT, i 85 in the direct male Hue from a Dutohmau of New Netherland. A temporary organization was formed by choosing Judge Van Vorst as Provisional Pi-esident, and Mr. Van Siclen as Provisional Secre- tary, and it was resolved to invite a number of gentle- men whose patronymics gave proof of their eligibility to membership to the next meeting, which was held at the house of Mr. Aaron J. Vanderpoel, March 21, 1885. At that meeting the following named gentle- men were present : Messieurs Hooper C. Van Vorst, George W. Van Siclen, Lucas L. Van AUen, Robert Van Boskerck, S. 0. Vanderpoel, M. D., Aaron J. Vanderpoel, A. B. Van Dusen, F. F. Vanderveer, George M. Van Hoesen, David Van Nostrand, John R. Van Nostrand, Gilbert S. Van Pelt, Richard Van Santvoord, M. D., Abraham Van Santvoord, Corne- liiis Van Santvoord, Robert B. Van Vleck, George Van Wageuen, and Edgar B. Van Winkle. Letters of approval and regret of absence were also received from the following gentlemen : Mes- sieurs "William Van Alstyne, Cornelius VanderbUt, Henry S. Van Duzer, Henry J. Van Dyke, Jr., D. D., Henry H. Van Dyck, Henry D, Van Orden, James J. Van Rensselaer, Kiliaeu Van Rensselaer, Henry Van Schaick, PhUip Van Volkenburgh, WiUiam Van Wyck, Henry S. Van Bm-en, Thomas S. Van Volk- enburgh, Cornelius Van Brunt, Charles R. Van Hoesen, A. V. W. Van Vechten, and Alfred Van Santvoord. To the gratification of all, it was found that the changes that had been wrought by the mighty movements of two centuries, though they had turned the Dutch colonist into the most patriotic of Ameri- cans, had left untouched in him the afiEection for 86 Holland, the pride in the achievements of her heroic age, and the sympathy with the principles at stake in her glorious struggle for civil and religious liberty which were prominent characteristics of the Dutch settlers of New Netherland. The proposition to form a society was warmly welcomed, and steps were immediately taken to perfect the organization. Various names were proposed for the Society, but " The Holland Society " was chosen because it was simple, and it required no explanation to demonstrate its appositeness. As it was the design of its founders that the Society should be representative of the men who lived in New Netherland under the dominion of the Dutch, it was resolved not to admit to member- ship the descendants of those who came to New- York subsequently to 1675, the time at which the ascendency of the English was finally established ; and as it is a familiar fact that men usually look to the paternal side in determining to what stock they are to ascribe their origin, it seemed proper to admit no one who cannot prove his descent in the direct male line from a man who, acknowledging allegiance to Holland, was settled in New Netherland. The desire to prove eligibility to membership has stimulated researches into family history that would never have been made if the Society had not been formed; and in establishing his right to belong to The Holland Society, a member proves that from the very dawn of our country's existence his fathers have tended the tree beneath whose branches sixty millions of Americans repose; and his heart swells with pardonable pride in his origin as he recalls the truth that America derives from Holland, the land \//^^<^ ARtOTVPC. E BIGRSTADT, H. V. ^(L/Ct-'-v^'x/ KrOTYPt. fc BieRSTAOr, I 87 of his ancestors, the three ideas that have made the United States the most happy and the most prosper- ous of nations: liberty of conscience, for with the Dutch it was not necessary to be a member of a particular chui'ch in order to possess the right of self-government; the free-school system, which qualifies man for liberty regulated by law; and lastly the duty as well as the expediency of giving a warm welcome to the exile and the stranger. To these ideas, and not to the boasted energy and enterprise of the people of any locality, is the wonderful growth of the country to be attributed, and those who know that the world is governed by ideas perceive the masterful influence of the Dutch upon every epoch of our national life. As the mind turns from the present greatness of the State of New York to the humble beginning of the Colony of New Netherland, how striking is the significance of the motto of our Society, Eindelijk wordt eeu spruit een boom. BADGE OP THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW-YORK. Adopted March 30th, 1887. The most significant medal, from an historical point of view, which was ever struck in Holland is the so- called " Beggar's Medal." It is the memorial of the very first steps of that march towards civil and religions liberty in which the men of The Netherlands, after heroic struggles, finally led the world. And, therefore, it is a most appropriate token for us to wear, who have received in largest measure, in this New Republic, the benefits of the noble conflict of our Dutch forefathers. 89 In Bizot's "Medallic History of the Republic of Holland," published at Amsterdam in 1G90, the place of honor is given to this famous " Geuzenpenniug." The following description of its origin is translated from that work, with a few additions from the accounts given by Prof. J. W. Kitchiu, of Oxford : " In the year 15G5, immediately after the decrees of the Council of Trent were promulgated, Philip II. determined to put them in force thi-oughout his dominions. Accordingly he now made a more vehe- ment attack upon the reformers ; and then it was, in 1566, that the Netherland nobles, led by Count Bre- derode, signed the famous ' Compromise,' with which the open rebellion of the provinces begins. Margaret of Parma was Philip's Regent in the Low Countries. Before her Brederode appeared with the Protest against the Inquisition and other innovations which the King proposed to introduce into Holland. He was accompanied by three hundred noblemen, who had bound themselves together for the preservation of the Liberties of the Provinces. The Duchess of Parma appeared to be much disturbed at the sight of such a multitude of noble remonstrants, but the Count of Barlemont, who stood beside her, begged her not to be alarmed, ' For,' said he, in French, ' they are only beggars.' " The next day, the 6th of April, 1566, as the con- federates were sitting together at dinner, and talking of a name for theii* new Party, they remembered Barlemont's sneer, and cried out, ' Vivent les Gueux ' (' Hm-rah for the Beggars ! '). When dinner was over, Brederode, having hung a beggar's wallet around his neck, filled a wooden bowl with wine and di'ank the health of the company, declai'ing that, for his part, he 12 90 was ready to sacrifice life, property, everything, iu defence of his country's freedom. The room rang with applause, — ' Hurrah for the Beggars ! ' The cup was passed from hand to hand. Every man di-ank the same toast and made the same pledge of devotion. And thus it was that the name of the Gueux, or Beg- gars, which has become famous throughout Europe, had its origin at a social feast ; for it often happens that the most important and serious affairs begin amid jests and laughter. "Soon afterward the men of the new party ap- peared at Brussels, di'essed in coarse gray cloth, with wooden cups attached to their belts, and with this MEDAl, HANGING ABOUT THEIR NECKS." One of these medals was worn by William of Orange at the time of his assassination. The following is the description, translated by the Secretary, Mr. Geo. W. van Sielen, from van Loon's " Nederlandsche Penningen " : '* The nobles assembled several times in different places to find methods to protect the liberties of their country from the perils which menaced them from all sides. Those who showed themselves most zealous and most ardent upon these occasions were Henri de Brederode ; Louis of Nassau, brother of the Prince of Orange ; Florent de Pallant, Count of Culem- bourg ; and William, Count of Bergen. They pushed the affair so far that meetings were held, fii-st in Breda, and afterward at Hoogstraten. "At the latter place several discontented nobles projected an alliance, which, going from hand to hand, was in a short time accepted and signed by more than four hundred persons, all of whom prom- ised to be in Brussels on a certain day. To give 91 greater eclat to this league, Honri de Bredorode, as chief of the confederates, found it convenient to make his entry into that city on the 3d of April, a. d. 1566, accompanied by Count Louis of Nassau and many nobles, followed by a gi-eat number of servants. The fourth day of that month was employed in prepara- tions and in awaiting the Counts of Bergen and of Culembourg. Although the following day these lords had not yet an-ived, the confederates did not delay in demanding an audience. It was granted to them, and the Pi-incess Regent appointed the hour of noon to avoid the tumultuous concourse of the populace. " The time named being near, Brederode and Count Louis were seen to leave the residence of Culembourg and to walk with a decent gravity toward the court, preceded by more than three hundred gentlemen, of whom they themselves formed the last rank. When they arrived before the Duchess, Brederode spoke for all, and, having finished his harangue, he presented to Her Highness a petition signed in the name of all that illustrious troop. In this petition, after having represented their obedience and their fidelity to the King, they declared that, notwithstanding the hatred that their procedure would very likely draw upon them, they would risk, in the service of the King, showing to Her Highness the dangerous condition of affau-s, and warning her, if the protection of the In- quisition were continued, of the terrible consequences which they foresaw would shake the state to its foun- dations. They demanded, secondly, that the edict of the King relating to the Inquisition, and relating to religion in general, be reformed by the Assembly of the States-General, and that, while awaiting this, the execution of this edict should be suspended, as a pro- 92 teetion against the sad evils of whicli they were al- ready, and of which they would be more and more the fertile source. " The Regent, hiding as well as possible the un- easiness and indignation which this affair caused her, received the petition, and replied to the suppli- cants that she would examine into their demands with the Lords of the Council, and that in a short time she would let them know her decision. "With this response the confederate lords returned to Cu- lembourg's residence in the same order and with the same gravity with which they had left it. " After the Regent had deliberated on the petition of the nobles, that Princess replied the following day in writing that she would represent to the King their first demand in the most favorable manner possible, but that she was obhged to refuse absolutely the second, because the matter was not in her power. " While this affair was thus treated at the palace of the Princess, the populace insulted the confeder- ate nobles by the opprobrious epithet of gueux, which those who understood French badly changed into geuzen, which afterward became very common as the name of a party or sect. Others say that the author of this soubriquet was the Baron of Barlemont, who, seeing the Regent surprised at the sight of so many nobles, tried to encourage her by saying, ' Ce ne sont que des gueux.'' However that may be, this name was received by the nobles as a precious epithet, and soon became the most honorable title of that illus- trious league. "The 6th of April, Brederode, being at dinner with other lords of his party at Culembourg's, put around his neck a wallet, and filling with wine a 93 wooden cup, like that woru by the beggars, made all the guests follow his example. He declared to them at the same time that, while always remaining faithful to his King, not only would he risk every- thing in defense of the liberties of the country, althoiigh he might bo reduced to carrying a wallet, but he was even ready to give up his life in so good a cause. All those who were at the feast, having in turn taken the wallet and the cup, made the same declaration one after the other, in the midst of a continual cry of ' Vlvent les gneux !'' " Several of these nobles appeared the next day in the streets dressed in gray frieze, and carrying at the girdle, as a badge of honor, a small wallet and a little wooden cup or calabash. " Then (a. d. 1566) as now (a. d. 1732) the wooden bowl was in Brabant, like the wallet, a distinctive mark, and, so to speak, a livery of beggars. Fur- nished with this necessary utensil of their profession they went certain days of the week to the cloisters, where, after having taken part in the catechizing, they each received, according as he had answered well or badly, a portion of soup left over by the monks. " It was by this low and despised method that the Professor, Thomas Stapleton, was able to reach the highest degi'ee of erudition, notwithstanding his poverty and low birth. Sure, thanks to his por- ringer, of victuals which were absolutely necessary to him, he applied himself first to the languages, and afterwards to the higher sciences, with such success that he was honored with the most distinguished professorship in the University of Louvain. He never forgot his porringer. In the feasts which they 94 gave when he was elevated to this important charge, not only did he then cause the first toast to be drunk in that cup, then ornamented with a foot of silver, but he desired that after his death it should be added to the rich ornaments of his marble tomb, as an ex- ample and as a beacon for other distinguished men of genius, the meanness of whose extraction might seem to condemn them to darkness. " The reader must pardon me this digi-ession, which I would not have made but from the same motive which caused this great man to parade his beggar's bowl. " The gourd or bottle had its origin from the usage made of it by the pilgrims — that class of people who, to perform a penance or to fulfill certain vows, undertake a journey to the distant shrine of some saint, like that of St. James in Spain or of Loretto in Italy. They are obliged to go there begging by the way, and they cany this bottle-gourd, or calabash, attached to the girdle for the pm-pose of carrying water for their use when they have to traverse dry and arid parts of the country. For this reason these allied nobles made use of both the porringer and the wallet as an emblem of poverty and to turn into pleasantry the name of beggars which had been given to them with so much indignity. This is not all. These lords, wishing to engrave on each other's memory the vow which each had made to defend the privileges of the countiy, even to carrying the wal- let, took pride in wearing on the breast certain medals attached to ribbons, and very often joined with a porringer and a gourd." The form adopted by The Holland Society is a fac- simile of an original Beggar's Medal in the collection 95 of Mr. Daniel Parish, of New York City, which was kimlly placed at the disposal of the Committee. It shows on its face the armed bust of Philip 11. of Spain, with the first half of the motto, "en tout FiDELLES AU ROY," and On the reverse two wallets, between the straps of which are two hands joined, with the remainder of the motto, " jusques a porter LA besace," together with the date, 1566, the figures of which are, however, separated, one in each corner formed by the crossed hands and wallets. Two por- ringers and a gourd are attached as pendants to the medal. Plaster casts of originals of various sizes, in the Museum of Antiquities in Amsterdam, were kindly presented to the Society by Dr. T. H. Blom Coster, physician to the Queen of The Netherlands. The die, which has been cut by Tiffany and Co., is the property of the Society. The badges can only be obtained through Mr. Abraham van Santvoord, Treasurer, 55 Broadway, New- York. HENEY VAN DYKE, ^ H. S. VAN DUZER, V Committee. WILLIAM M. HOES, ) FROM PINKSTER, 1887, TO PINKSTER, 1888. David Depeyster Acker, OP NEW-YORK. Barent Aaron Mynderse, M. D., OF SCHENECTADY, N. Y. Cornelius van Schaick Roosevelt, OF SOUTH ORANGE, N. J. Henry James Ten Eyck, OF ALBANY, N. Y. Clarence Romney van Benthuysen, OF NEW-YOEK. Aaron J. Vanderpoel, OF NEW-YORK. Henry H. van Dyck, OF NEW-YORK. William van Wyck, OF NEW-YORK. Theodore Romeyn Varick, M, D., OP JERSEY CITY, N. J. 96 George Washington Schuyler, OP ITHACA, N. Y. John Voorhees van Woert, OP NEW-YORK. 97a BARTOW W. VAN VOORHIS. [ Died April 27th, 1887.] ANTOTVPE, t. •lEnSIAOT. 13 THE HOLLAND SOCIETY. OFFICERS. 1887-1888. President. Hooper C. van Vorst. Vice-Presidents. KEW-YOKK CUT. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt. brooklyn, x. y. Augustus van Wyck. JERSEY CITY. Rev. J. Howard Suydam, D. D. albany, n. y. Albert van der Veer, M. D. kingston, n. y. Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater. kinderhook, n. y. Peter van Schaack Prxttn, M. D. rockland county, n. y. Garret vai^ Nostrand. westobester county, n. y. Rev. Charles Knapp Clearwater. OAISKILL, N. Y. Rev. E\t;rt van Slyke, D. D. SCHENECTADY, N. Y. James Albert van Voast. amsterdam, n. t. Walter L. van Denbergh. 97 98 newtown, l. i. John E. van Nostrand. new brunswick, n. j. Rev. William Hoffman Ten Eyck, D. D. beboen countt, n. j. George Frederick Schermerhorn. passaic county, n. j. Martin John Ryerson. oobleskill, n. y. John van Schaick. pouorkeepsie, n. y. Frank Hasbrouck. Secretary. George "West van Siclen. Secretary's address 146 Broadway, New York. Treasurer. Abraham van Santvoord. Treasurer's address 56 Broadway, New- York. TEUSTEES. Teitn expires in 1888. W. A. Ogden Hegeman. Herman W. van der Poel. George W. van Siclen. Benjamin F. Vosburgh, M. D. Jacob Wendell. Term expires in 1889. George G. De Witt, Jr. Robert B. Roosevelt. Lucas L. van Allen. Aaron J. Vanderpoel. Henry S. van Duzer. 99 Term expires in 18!X). William M. Hoes. Abraham van Santv'oobd. George W. van Slyck. Hooper C. van Vorst. Alexander T. van Nest. Term expires in 1891 . Rev. Henry van Dyke, D. D. George M. van Hoesen. Chaiincey M. Depew. Theodore M. Banta. Frederic J. de Peyster. COMMITTEES. 1887. Committee on Finance. George G. De Witt, Jr. George W. van Slyck. William M. Hoes. Committee on Oenealog;/. George M. van Hoesen. Aaron J. Vanderpoel. Theodore M. Banta. Committee on History and Tradition. Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke. Robert B. Roosevelt. Lucas L. van Allen. m^ilM»^;l^tl>^lf:>0^^ll:,!0^^4:'*»^)^M*^:fH.W mijeft of a^ntificr^. May 29, 1889. Constitution. Article III. Section 1. No one shall be eligible as a member unless he be of full age, of respectable standing in society, of good moral charac- ter, and the descendant in the direct male line of a Dutchman who was a native or resident of New- York or of the American colonies piior to the year 1675. This shall include those of other former nationaUties who found in Holland a refuge or a home, and whose descendants in the male Une came to this country as Dutch settlers, speaking Dutch as their native tongue. This shall also include descendants in the male line of Dutch settlers who were bom within the hmits of Dutch settlements, and descendants in the male hue of persons who possessed the rights of Dutch citizenship within Dutch settlements in America, prior to the year 1675; also any descendant in the direct male line of a Dutch- man, one of whose descendants became a member of this Society prior to June 16, 1886. ra^^iiARLES Livingston Acker 1^^ David Depeyster Acker * r^i3l David Depeyster Acker, Jr. Franklin Acker New- York City. Francis Henry Adriance Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Harris Ely Adriance Princeton, N. J. Isaac Reynolds Adriance Poughkeepsie, N. Y. John Erskine Adriance " " John Peter Adrlance " " William Allen Adriance " " Benjamin Laitder Amerman New-York City. Frederick Herbert Amerman " " 101 Newton Awerman New- York City. William H. Amerman " " William Libbey Amerman " " Richard AjtERjiAN Anthony " " OHNELius Vreeland Banta . . . New-York City. John Banta " " Theodore Melvtn Banta .... " " Thomas Low Barhydt Schenectady, N. Y. Thomas Francis Bayard Wilmington, Del. Edwin Beekman Middletown, N. J. George Crawford Beekman Freehold, N. J. Gerard Beekman New- York City. Henry M. T. Beeicman Jersey City, N. J. Henry Rutger Beekjlan New- York City. J. William Beekman " " John Woodhull Beeolan Perth Amboy, N. J. Albert van Voast Bensen Albany, N. Y. Frank Bergen Elizabeth, N. J. Herman Suydam Bergen New-York City. James J. Bergen Somerville, N. J. Tunis G. Bergen Brooklyn, N. Y. Van Brunt Bergen Bay Ridge, L. I. Zaccheus Bergen New- York City. Richard J. Berry Flatbush, L. I, Rev. Cornelius Ryckilaj^ Blauvelt .... Nyack, N. Y. David J. Blauvelt " " James Henry Blauvelt " " WiLUAM Oscar Blauvelt " " James Bleecker New- York City. Theophylact Bache Bleecker, Jr. . . " " Dr. Delavan Bloodgood, Med. DLr. U. S. N., Brooklyn, N. Y. Francis Bloodgood Milwaukee, Wis. John Bloodgood New- York City. Joseph Francis Bloodgood, M. D. . . . " " Benjajiin B. Blydenbergh " " John B. Blydenbergh " " Abraham Bogardus " " John Bogart " " Joseph Hegeman Bogart, M. D Roslj-n, N. Y. Albert Gilllam Bogert New-York City. Charles Edmund Bogert " " 102 Dr. Edward Strong Bogert, Med. In- ) „ , , t^t -r;- TT c TVT i Brooklyn, N. Y. spector U. S. N i ^ ' John G. Bogert New- York City. Stephen Gilliam Bogert " " Stephen van Rensselaer Bogert, M.D., New Brighton, S.I. Henry Lienau Booraem Jersey City, N. J. John van Vorst Booraem Brooklyn, N. Y. Louis Vacher Booraem Jersey City, N. J. Theodore Burges Booraem . . . New Brunswick, N. J. Rev Sylvester Daley Boorom, Chap- ) g^^^^j^^^^ ^^ y. lam U. S. N ) James Renwick Brevoort Yonkers, N. Y. Alexander Gordon Brinckerhoff . . Brooklyn, N. Y. Elbert Adrain Brincpcerhopp New- York City. John Henry Brinckerhoff Jamaica, L. I. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff New-York City. Benjamin M. Brink Saugerties, N. Y. Warren Montgomery Brinkerhopp . . Auburn, N. Y. William Bross Chicago, Ills. George Howard Broitwer New- York City. Theophilus Anthony Brouwer " " Abraham Giles Brower, M. D Utica, N. Y. Abraham Thew Hunter Brower Chicago, 111. Bloompield Brower New-York City. Charles De Hart Brower " " John Brower " " John Lefoy Brower " " Ogden Brower " " William Leverich Brower " " Augustus Hasbrouck Bruyn Kingston, N. Y. Charles Burhans " " eter Cantine Saugerties, N. Y. Alphonso Trumpbour Cleae- ) ginggton ^ y. WATER i > ■ • Rev. Charles Knapp Cleabwater . . Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Jacob Winne Clute Schenectady, N. Y. WiLLLUVi Teller Clute, M. D. . . . " " Rev. David Cole, D. D Yonkers, N. Y. Frank Howard Cole " " Alonzo Edward Conover New- York City. Charles Edwin Conover Middletown, N. J. 103 Charles E. Conover Wickatunk, N. J. Frank Bruen Conover Freehold, N. J. Frank EofJAK Conover New- York City. Jacob Dey Cono\'er MidcUetown, N. J. James C. Conover Freehold, N. J. James Scott Conover New- York City. John Barriclo Conover • Freehold, N. J. John S. Conover "Wickatunk, N. J. John S. Conover, Jr Freehold, N. J. La Fayette Conover Wickatunk, N. J. Richard Stephens Conover .... South Amboy, N. J. Stacy Prickett Conover Wickatunk, N. J. Lawrence van Voorhees Cortelyou, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven . . New Brunswick, N. J. John Cowenhoven Bath Beach, L. I. Samuel Decker Coykendall Rondout, N. Y. Thomas Cornell Coykendall " " George Latham Crum New- York City. Cornelius C. Cuyler " " Rev. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D. D. . Brooklj-n, N. Y. Thomas De Witt Cuyler Philadelphia, Pa. RJ^^ EORGE W. Debevoise New- York City. Isaac C. De Bevoise Brooklyn, N. Y. Henry Peek De Graap New-York City. Alfred De Graff Fonda, N. Y. Alfred De Groot Port Richmond, S. I. William De Groot New- York City. Sidney De Kay New Brighton, N. Y. Ezra Doane Delamater Hudson, N. Y. George Beckwith De Lamater New- York City. George Francis Demarest " " David De5la.rest Denise Freehold, N. J. Chauncey Mitchell Depew New- York City. Edgak De Peyster " " Frederic J. de Peyster " " John Watts de Peyster " " Frederick William Devoe " " Abraham van Dyck De Witt Albany, N. Y Alfred De Witt New-York City. George Gosman De Witt Nyack, N. Y. George G. De Witt, Jr New- York City. 104 Henry Clinton De Witt New-York City. Jerome De Witt Binghamton, N. Y. Rev. John De Witt, D. D Chicago, Ills. John Evert De Witt Portland, Me. Moses J. De Witt Newark, N. J. Peter De Witt New- York City. Richard Varick De Witt Albany, N. Y. Thomas Dunkin De Witt Pelham Manor, N. Y. William Cantine De Witt Brooklyn, N. Y. William Gr. De Witt New- York City. Peter Deyo Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. Morris H. Dillenbeck New- York City. Abram Douwe Ditmars " " Edward Wilson Ditmars " " Isaac Edward Ditmars " " Charles Gibbons Douw ....•• Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Coert Du Bois, M. D New- York City. Cornelius Du Bois New-York City. Elijah Du Bois Kingston, N. Y. Eugene Du Bois West New Brighton, N. Y. Dr. Francis Latta Du Bois, Med. } ^ , ,, ^^ „ Inspector U. S. N | Portsmouth, N. H. Cornelius J. Dumond, M. D New- York City. GusTAVUS Abeel Duryee Newai'k, N. J. Rev. Joseph Rankin Duryee, D. D. . . . New-York City. Rev. Joseph T. Duryee, D. D Boston, Mass. Rev. William Rankin Duryee, D. D. . Jersey City, N. J. ETER Q. Eckerson New-York City. Dwight L. Elmendorp Rev. Joachim Elmendorp, D. D. . John Augustus Elmendorp John Barker Elmendorp NicoLL Floyd Elmendorp E. J. Elting Yonkers, N. Y. Irving Elting Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Peter J. Elting Yonkers, N. Y, Edward Elsworth Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Everett James Esselstyn New- York City. Herman Vedder Esselstyn Hudson, N. Y. Jacob Broadhead Essylstyn Claverack, N. Y. 105 ouw Henry Fonda Albany, N. Y. Peter van Vranken Fort. ... " " Robert Livingston Fryer .... Bufifalo, N. Y. Williasi John Fryer, Jr New- York City. m ARRET James Garretson .... New- York City. William Dominick Garrison . . " " Ogden Goelet " " Robert Goelet " " Edward Anson Groesbeck Albany, N. Y. Herman John Groesbeck Cincinnati, Ohio. WiLLLAM Chichester Groesbeck . . Lansingburgh, N. Y. James C. Gulick New- York City. John Callbreath Gulick " " Rev. Uriah de Hart Gulick Brooklyn, N. Y. BRAM Jansen Hardenbergh . . . Brooklyn, N. Y. Augustus A. Hardenbergh . . Jersey City, N. J- Louis v. D. Hardenbergh . . . Brooklyn, N. Y. Ferdinand Hasbrouck, M. D New- York City. Frank Hasbrouck Pougbkeepsie, N. Y. George Wickes Hasbrouck New-York City. Isaac Edgar Hasbrouck Brooklyn, N. Y. Jacob D. P. Has Brouck High Falls, N. Y. John Cornelius Hasbrouck New- York City. Da-vhd Schoonmaker HjVSBROUck Troy, N. Y. Sayer Hasbrouck, M. D Providence, R. I. De Witt Heermance Rhinebeck, N. Y. Martin Heermance " " William L. Heermance New- York City. Johnston Niven Hegeman " " Joseph Perot Hegeman New London, Conn. W. A. Ogden Hegeman* New- York City. Pierre Clute Hoag, M. D " " Pierre van Buren Hoes Kinderhook, N. Y. Rev. Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain ) ^^^^ V/^vtni+,r U.S.N |^ew.YorkCltJ. WiLLiAJi Myers Hoes " " John Hopper Paterson, N. J. Robert Imlay Hopper " " 14 106 David Harbison Houghtaling Brooklyn, N. Y, Albert Hoysradt Hudson, N. Y, Jacob Warren Hoysradt " " Harmanus Barkaloo Hubbard Brooklyn, N. Y. Samuel McKay Hubbard " " Timothy Ingrahaji Hubbard . Flatlands, Kings Co., N. Y. Rev. George Duryee Hulst Brooklyn, N. Y. Henry Hun Albany, N. Y. Leonard Gaijsevoort Hun " " Marcus Tullius Hun " " Thomas Hun " " RTHUR MiDDLETON Jacobus, M. D. New- York City. John Wesley Jacobus " " Richard Mentor Jacobus .... " " Rev. John Nathaniel Jansen Newark, N. J. Jeremiah Johnson, Jr New-York City. P. ENRY Keteltas New-York City. Clarence van Steenbergh Kip . " " George Goelet Kip " " Ira Andruss Kip " " Leonakd Kip Albany, N. Y. David Buel Knickerbacker Indianapolis, Ind. John Knickerbacker Troy, N. Y. Thomas Adams Knickerbacker " " Edgar Knickerbocker New- York City. Francis Duryee Kouwenhoven . . Steinway, L. I. City. braham Lansing Albany, N. Y. Charles Lansing Lansingburgli, N. Y. Charles B. Lansing Albany, N. Y. Edward Yates Lansing * " " Isaac De Freest Lansing " " John Lansing Watertown, N. Y. Rev. John G. Lansing, D. D. ... New Brunswick, N. J. John Townsend Lansing Albany, N. Y. Joseph Alexander Lansing " " Charles Casper Lodewick Greenbush, N. Y. Jacob Holmes Longstreet Bordentown, N. J. 107 Abraham Lott * Brooklyn, N. Y. James van der Bilt Lott " " Henry R. Low* Middletown, N. Y. John W. Low " " Charles Edward Lydecker New- York City. illard Charles Marselius, M. D. . Albany, N. Y. John Marsellus Syracuse, N. Y. Max de Motte IVLvrsellus .... Passaic, N. J. Remsen Varick IMessler Pittsburgh, Pa. Thosl^s Doremus Messler " " George Tobias Meyers Portland, Oregon. Peyton Farrell MHiLER Albany, N. Y. Theodore Miller Hudson, N. Y. George Edw.vrd Montanye New- York City. Lewis Foster Montanye " " William Henry Montanye " " John Jacob Morris Paterson, N. J. Robert Sylvester Morris, M. D New- York City. Albert James Myer Buffalo, N. Y. Andrew Gormly Myers New- York City. John Gillespy Myers Albany, N. Y. Barent Aaron Mynderse, M. D.* . . Schenectady, N. Y. Herman V. Mynderse, M. D " " WiLHELMUS Mynderse New- York City. OHN Lott Nostrand Brooklyn, N. Y. ndrew Joseph Onderdonk . . . New- York City. Thomas William Onderdonk, M. D. " " William Mestne Onderdonk . . " " John Webster Oothout Rochester, N. Y. Howard Osterhoudt Kingston, N. Y. Stephen Melancthon Ostrander «... Brooklyn, N. Y. OHN Paul Paulison New- York City. Archibald Maclay Pentz ... " " DA\aD VAN DER Veer Perrine . Freehold, N. J. Abraham Polhemus . . . New- York City. Henry Ditmas Polhemus Brooklyn, N. Y. 108 Henry Maetin Polhemxjs New- York City. Rev. Isaac Heyer Polhemxjs " " James Suydam Polhemus " " Rev. William Prall, Ph. D., LL. D. . . . Albany, N. Y. William M. Prall St. Louis, Mo. John Moffat Provoost '. . Biiffalo, N. Y. Charles Lansing Pruyn Albany, N. Y. Isaac Prltyn Catskiil, N. Y. John Knickerbocker Pruyn . . . MechanicsviUe, N. Y. John van Schaick Lansing Pruyn .... Albany, N. Y. Peter van Schaick Pruyn, M. D. . . Kinderhook, N. Y. Robert Clarence Pruyn Albany, N. Y. BRAHAM Quackenbush New- York City. Abraham C. Quackenbush ... " " James Westervelt Quackenbush*. Hack' s'k, N.J. John Quackenbush Mahwah, N. J. UGUSTUS Rapelye New-York City. Cornelius Rapelye Astoria, N. Y. James Riker Waverly, N. Y. John Hancock Riker New- York City. John Jackson Riker " " John Lawrence Riker " " J. L. RoMER Los Angeles, Cal. Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, M. D. . New-York City. De Witt Roosa Rondout, N. Y. Charles Henry Roosevelt New- York City. Cornelius van Schaick Roosevelt,* South Orange, N. J. Frederick Roosevelt New- York City. Henry Everitt Roosevelt " " James Roosevelt Hyde Park, N. Y. Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt New- York City. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt " " Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Jr. ... " " Theodore Roosevelt " " William Emlen Roosevelt " " Hyman Rosa, M. D Kingston, N. Y. George W. Rosevelt New- York City. Andrew Zabriskie Ryerson .... Bloomingdale, N. J. Arthur Ryerson Chicago, lU. 109 Martin John Ryerson Bloomingdale, N. J. Robert Colfax Ryerson Caldwell, N. J. "William Falls Ryerson Newark, N. J. leecker Sanders Albany, N. Y. Jacob Glen Sanders " " Jajies Bleecicer Sanders " " Abrahaji Voorhees Schenck . . . New Brunswick, N. J. Caspar Schenck, Pay Director U. S. N. . . . Norfolk, Va. Edward Schenck New-York City. Rev. Ferdinand Schureman Schenck . Montgomery, N. Y. Frederick Brett Schenck New-York City. Henry Jacob Schenck " " George Frederick Schermerhorn . . Rntlaerford, N. J. Jacob Maus Schermerhorn, Jr Syracuse, N. Y. John Schermerhorn Schenectady, N. Y. John Egmont Schermerhorn New- York City. Simon J. Schermerhorn Schenectady, N. Y. Adrlan Onderdonk Schoonmakeb .... New-York City. Augustus Schoonmaker Kingston, N. Y. Capt. Cornelius Marius Schoonjuker, ) K-ir.o.cf^n \r v U. S.N.* ^hangston,JN.X. Frederick Williaji Schoonmaker . . . New- York City. George Beeksl\n Schoonjuxer .... " " Lucas Elmendorf Schoonmaker .... " " Willlam Davis Schoonmaker " " Arent Henry Schuyler " " Clarkson Crosby Schuyler, M. D Troy, N. Y. Garret Lansing Schuyler * New-York City. George Washington Schuyler Ithaca, N. Y. Gerald LrvTNosTON Schuyler New- York City. Herman Philip Schuyler " " Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler ... " " Percival Raymond Schuyler Paterson, N. J. Stephen Schuyler West Troy, N. Y. David Banks Sickels New- York City. Hiram Edward Sickels Albany, N. Y. Robert Sickels Davenport, Iowa. Allen Lee Smidt New- York City. Frank Bishop Smidt - . " " William Henry Smidt " " John William Somabindyck Glen Cove, L. I. 110 John Henry Staren Fultonville, N. Y. John Baker Stevens New- York City. John Bright Stevens " " William H. Stilwell Brooklyn, N. Y. Edward Storm Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Thomas Storm New- York City. Walton Storm " " General Williajvi Scudder Stryker . . . Trenton, N. J. Wm. H. H. Stryker Paterson, N. J. Henry Stuyvesant New- York City. John Reade Stuyvesant . . . Tapley, Osborne Co., Kans. Peter J. Stuyvesant New- York City. John Henry Sutphin Jamaica, L. I, Charles Crooke Suydam Elizabeth, N. J. James Suydam New-York City. Rev. J. Howard Suydam, D. D. .... Jersey City, N. J. John Fine Suydam New- York City. John H. Suydam " " John Richard Suydam Sayville, L. I. Lambert Sitydam New- York City. William Farrington Suydam Hawley, Pa. G-EORGE Albertine Swartwout Pasadena, Cal. John Livingston Swits Schenectady, N. Y. REDERicK D. Tappen Ncw-York City. Rev. Henry W. Teller . . Pompton Plains, N. J. Clinton Ten Eyck Albany, N. Y. Henry James Ten Eyck * " " Jacob H. Ten Eyck " " Jacob I. Ten Eyck Matawan, N. J. James Ten Eyck Albany, N. Y. Peter Ten Eyck, M. D Matawan, N. J. Sandford Rowe Ten Eyck New- York City. Stephen Vedder Ten Eyck, M. D . . . . " " Rev. Wm. Hoffman Ten Eyck, D. D., New Brunswick, N. J. Rev. Edward Payson Terhl^ne, D. D. . . Brooklyn, N. Y. Charles Henry Truax New- York City. Chauncey Shaffer Truax " " ILLIA5I K. VAN Alen .... San Francisco, Cal. Charles H. van Allen .... Albany, N. Y. Garret Adam van Allen ... " " Lucas L. van Allen New- York City. Andrew van Alstyne Chatham Centre, N. Y. Ill WiLLiAJi VAN Alstyne New- York City. WiLLiAJi Charles van Alstyne Albany, N. Y. Cornelius Henry van Antwerp " " DjVniel Lewis van Ant\\t;rp " " John Henry van Antwerp " " Thomas Irwin van Antwerp " " WiLLIAJI MeADON van ANTWERP " " WiLLiASi James van Arsdale New- York City. David H. van Auken Cohoes, N. Y. Edwin Electus vajn Auken New- York City. Myron Wilbeb van Auken Utica, N. Y. Peter Henry van Auken Seneca Falls, N. Y. WiLLARD J. VAN AuKEN New-York City. Eugene van Benschoten " " Samuel van Benschoten " " Clarence Romney van Benthuysen • . « « Charles H. van Benthuysen Albany, N. Y. Edgar van Benthuysen New Orleans, La. Walter van Benthuysen New- York City. Frederick T. van Beltren " " Henry Splngler van Beuren " " George Green van Blarcom Nyack, N. Y. Jacob Craig van Blarcom St. Louis, Mo. Robert Ward van Boskerck New-York City. Arthur Hoffman van Brunt " " Cornelius van Brunt " " George B. van Brunt " " John Holmes van Brunt Bay Ridge, N. Y. WiLLiAJi Halliday van Brunt .... New- York City. John Dash van Buren Newburgh, N. Y. John D. van Buren * " " Amzi Hathaway van Buskirk New- York City. De Witt van Buskirk " '' John R. van Buskirk " " George van Campen Olean, N. Y. John Couwenhoven van Cleap New- York City. Augustus van Cleef " " Jacob Charles van Cleep .... New Brunswick, N. J. James Henry van Cleef " " " Rev. Paul Duryea van Cleef, D. D. . Jersey City, N. J. Alexander Hamilton van Cott .... New-York City. Cornelius van Cott " " Joshua Marsden van Cott " " Lincoln van Cott Brooklyn, N. Y. 112 George Ohlen van de Bogert New-York City, Giles Yates van de Bogert .... Schenectady, N. Y. Lewis Cass van de Grift "Wilmington, Del. "Walter L. van Denbergh Amsterdam, N. Y. Frank I. van der Beek Jersey City, N. J, Isaac I. van der Beek " " Isaac Paulis van der Beek " " Charles Albert van der Hoop .... New- York City. Elisha "W. van der Hoop " " Aaron J. Vanderpoel * " " Augustus H. Vanderpoel " " Herman "Wendell van der Poel .... " " John van der Poel, M. D " " Samuel Oakley van der Poel, M. D. . . " " "Waldron Burritt van der Poel, M. D. " " Eugene van der Pool Newark, N. J. Albert van der "S^eer, M. D Albany, N. Y. Benjamin Beekman van der "Veer . . . New-York City. David Augustus van der "Veer .... Manalapan, N. J. Ferdinand van der Veer Hamilton, Ohio. Frank Fillmore van der Veer .... New- York City. John Reeve van der Veer " " Lawrence van der Veer Rocky Hill, N. J. Mathew N. van der Veer Somerville, N. J. Peter Labagh van der Veer Santa Pe, N. M. "William Ledyard van der Voort . . . New- York City. Almon Augustus van Deusen Mayville, N. Y. Charles Henry van Deventer New- York City. George Mather van Deventer .... " " Hugh Birckhead van De\t:nter, M. D. . Sands Point, L. I. James T. van Deventer KnoxviUe, Tenn. Rev. John Cornelius van Deventer . . . Nyack, N. Y. Ely van de "Warker, M. D Syracuse, N. Y. Rev. George Roe van de "Water, D. D., . New- York City. John "Walker van de "Water " " John Chester van Doren Manalapan, N. J. Louis Otis van Doren New-'Fork City. P. A. V. VAN Doren Pasadena, Cal. Daniel Polhemus van Dorn .... Marlborough, N. J. Abram Bovee van Dusen New- York City. John van Duyn, M. D Syracuse, N. Y. Henry Sayre van Duzer New- York City. Selah Reeve van Duzer Newburgh, N. Y. 113 Selah van Duzer New- York City. Henry H. van Dyck • " " Herbert van Dyke " " Rev. Henry Jackson van Dyke, Sr., D. D. . B'klyn, N. Y. Rev. Henry van Dyke, D. D New- York City. Thomas Kittera van Dyke Lewisburgh, Pa. Evert Peek van Epps, M. D. ... Schenectady, N. Y. Amos van Etten Port Jervis, N. Y. Edgar van Etten Buffalo, N. Y. Solomon van Etten Port Jervis, N. Y. Loms Bevier van Gaasbeek Kingston, N. Y. Rev. Almon Pulaski van Gieson, i tj r,, • xt -rr ^ ^ ' > Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Theodore van Wyck van Heusen .... Albany, N. Y. George M. van Hoesen New- York City. John Willlui van Hoesen " " Henry van Hoevenbergh, M. D Kingston, N. Y. Francis Charles van Horn Dedham, Mass. Stephen van Alen van Horne .... New- York City. Charles Francis van Inwegen . . . Port Jervis, N. Y. Frank van Kleeck Poughkeepsie, N. Y. William Henry van Kleeck New- York City. John James van Kleeck .... Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y. Eugene van Loan Philadelphia, Pa. Henry Fairbank van Loan New- York City. Calvin Decker van Name " " Edward van Ness " " Eugene van Ness Baltimore, Md. Francis van Ness Kinderhook, N. Y. Russell van Ness New- York City. Shersian van Ness, M. D " " Lieut. William Percy van Ness, U. S. A. . Ithaca, N. Y. Alexander T. van Nest New- York City. Frank Roe van Nest Newark, N. J. George Willett van Nest New- York City. Warner van Norden " " George Miller van Nort •' " Charles B. van Nostrand Brooklyn, N. Y. David van Nostrand * New- York City. Garret van Nostrand Nyack, N. Y. Henry Duncan van Nostrand .... Jersey City, N. J. John Everitt van Nostrand New- York City. John J. van Nostrand * Brookljm, N. Y. 15 MaeshaMj R. van Nostrand Elizabeth, N. J. Seymour van Nostrand " " James Edgar van Olinda Troy, N. Y. Charles Hopkins van Orden Catskill, N. Y. Edward van Orden New-York City. Henry De Witt van Orden " " William van Orden Catskill, N. Y. Gilbert Sutphen van Pelt New- York City. John van der Bilt van Pelt .... Bath Beach, N. Y. Townsend Cortelyou van Pelt . . " " L. I. John Bullock van Petten . . Claverack, Col. Co., N. Y. Henry Dwight van Rensselaer .... New- York City. James Taylor van Rensselaer .... " " Kiliaen van Rensselaer " " John van Rensselaer Washington, D. C. Rev. Maunsell van Rensselaer, D. D., ) -vr yop]j citv LL. D i ' ^' William Bayard van Rensselaer .... Albany, N. Y. Cornelius C. van Reypen Jersey City, N. J. Garret Daniel van Reypen " " Dr. Wn^LiAM Knickerbocker van ) Washington, D. C. Reypen, Med. Inspector U. S. N. > Cornelius van Riper, M. D Passaic, N. J. Abraham van Santvoord New- York City. Rev. Cornelius van Santvoord .... Kingston, N. Y. Henry Staats van Santvoord Albany, N. Y. Richard van Santvoord, M. D New- York City. Samuel McCutcheon van Santvoord . . Albany, N. Y. Seymour van Santvoord Troy, N. Y. Eugene van Schaick New- York City. Henry van Schaick " " Jenkins van Schaick " " John van Schaick Cobleskill, N. Y. Ferdinand van Siclen Brooklyn, N. Y. George West van Siclen New- York City. Adrian van Sinderen Brooklyn, N. Y. Alvan Howard van Sinderen " " W. Leslie van Sinderen " " Andrew Webster van Slyck, M. D. . . Coxsackie, N. Y. George Whitfield van Slyck New-York City. Nicholas van Slyck Providence, R. I. William Henry van Slyck New- York City. Rev. Evert van Slyke, D. D Catskill, N. Y. 115 Eugene van Slyke, M. D Albany, N. Y. George W. van Slyke " " Rev. John Garnsey van Slyke, D. D. . . Kingston, N. Y. B. Miller van Syckel, M. D New- York City. Bennett van Syckel Trenton, N. J. James Monroe van Valen Hackensack, N. J. Abrahaji van Vechten Albany, N. Y. Abraham van Wyck Van Vechten . . New- York City. Francis Helme van Vechten New- York City. Henry Cu.\y van Vechten " " Schuyler van Vechten South Orange, N. J. George W. van Vlack Palatine Bridge, N. Y. Abraham Kip van Vleck New- York City. Charles King van Vleck, D. D. S Hudson, N. Y, Prank van Vleck Ithaca, N. Y. Jasper van Vleck New- York City. Robert Barnard van Vleck " " William David van Vleck " " Benson van Vliet Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Deuse M. van Vliet New- York City. Frederick Christian van Vliet, M. D., Shrewsbury, N. J. Frederick Gilbert van Vliet New- York City. PuRDY VAN Vliet " " Brevet Major-General Stewart van I Washington, D. C. Vliet, U. S. A J William Downs van Vliet Goshen, N. Y. Col. James van Voast, U. S. A Cincinnati, Ohio. James Albert van Voast Schenectady, N. Y. Edward van Volkenburgh New- York City. Philip van Volkenburgh, Jr " " Thomas Sedgwick van Volkenburgh . " " Bartow White van Voorhis * " " Bartow White van Voorhis, Jr. ... " " Elias William van Voorhis " " John van Voorhis Rochester, N. Y. Menzo van Voorhis " " William Walgrove van Voorhis . . . New-York City. Abraham A. van Vorst Schenectady, N. Y. Frederick Boyd van Vorst New- York City. Gardiner Baker van Vorst * Albany, N. Y. Hooper Cumjiing van Vorst New- York City. John van Vorst, M. D.* Jersey City, N. J. Adam Tunis van Vranken, M. D. . . . West Troy, N. Y. 116 JosiAH VAN Vranken Schenectady, N. Y. Wm. Townsend van Vredenburgh, M. D., New- York City. Bleecker van "Wagenen " " George van Wagenen " " Gerrit Hubert van Wagenen Rye, N. Y. Henry Williajni van Wagenen .... New- York City. Hubert van Wagenen " " John Richard van Wagenen Oxford, N. Y. Albert van Wagner Londou, England. John Nelson van Wagner Troy, N. Y. Edgar Beach van Winkle New- York City. Rev. Isaac van Winkle, A. M Coldspring, N. Y. John Albert van Winkle Paterson, N. J. John Waling van Winkle .... Passaic Bridge, N. J. Stephen van Winkle Paterson, N. J. James Burtus van Woert New- York City. John Voobhees van Woert * " " John Voorhees van Woert, Jr " " Jasper van Wormer Albany, N. Y. John Rueus van Wormer New-York City. Augustus van Wyck Brooklyn, N. Y. Benjamin Stevens van Wyck* New- York City. Jacob Southart van Wyck " " Jacob Theodorus van Wyck " " John Henry van Wyck " " John Thurman van Wyck * " " Robert Anderson van Wyck " " Samuel van Wyck Brooklyn, N. Y. Stephen van Wyck Roslyn, N. Y. Stephen Miller van Wyck Rhinebeek, N. Y. William Edward van Wyck New- York City. William Harrison van Wyck, M. D. . . " " William van Wyck * " " Maxey Newell van Zandt Rochester, N. Y. Milton Burns van Zandt New- York City. Edgar Pitz-Randolph Varick " " George Clippinger Varick Jersey City, N. J. John Barnes Varick Manchester, N. H. John Leonard Varick New-York City. Theodore Romeyn Varick, M. D.* . . Jersey City, N. J. Theodore Romeyn Varick, Jr " " William Woolsey Varick, M. D. . . . " " Rev. Charles Stuart Vedder, D. D. . Charleston, S. C. 117 Commodore Perry Vedder EUicottville, N. Y. Maus Rosa Vedder, M. D New-York City. Ransom Hollenback Vedder, M. D., Chatham Centre, N. Y. Andrew Truax Veeder Schenectady, N. Y. Harjlvn Wortman Veeder " " Lieut. Ten Eyck De Witt Veeder, U. S. N., " " John D. Vermeule New- York City. Jacob Dyckman Vermilye " " Marion Hoagland Vermilye " " Theodore Chardavoyne VERMiLYE,»Tompkinsville, N. Y. Thomas Edward Vermilye, Jr., Brick Church, Orange, N. J. Philip Verplanck Yonkers, N. Y. Samuel Hopkins Ver Planck Geneva, N. Y. William Gordon Ver Planck New- York City. Egbert Litdovicus Viele " " Maurice Edward Viele Albany, N. Y. Sheldon Thompson Viele Buffalo, N. Y. John Hayden Vischer Brooklyn, N. Y. John Barent Visscher Albany, N. Y. Anson Augustus Voorhees Brooklyn, N. Y. Albert van Brunt Voorhees .... Bath Beach, N. Y. Charles Henry Voorhees New- York City. Charles Holbert Voorhees . . . New Brunswick, N. J. Daniel Wolsey Voorhees .... Ten-e Haute, Indiana. Frederick Nicholas Voorhees .... SomerviUe, N. J. John Enders Voorhees Amsterdam, N. Y. John Hunn Voorhees Washington, D. C. John Jacob Voorhees Jersey City, N. J. Peter L. Voorhees Camden, N. J. Peter V. Voorhees " " Judah Back Voorhees Brooklyn, N. Y. Louis A. Voorhees New Brunswick, N. J. Theodore Voorhees New- York City. WiLLARD Penfield Voorhees . . New Brunswick, N. J. WiLLiAJM Dilworth Voorhees . . . Bergeu Point, N. J. William K. Voorhees Brookl\-n, N. Y. Augustus Marvin Voorhis Nyack, N. Y. Jajies Voorhis New- York City. John R. Voorhis " " John Voorhis Greenwich, Conn. WiLUAM Voorhis Nyack, N. Y. Benjamin Fredenburgh Vosburgh,M.D., New-York City. Fletcher Vosburgh Albany, N. Y. 118 Miles Woodward Vosburgh Albany, N. Y. William Vosbubgh . . . ' New-York City. JosLAH PiERSON Vreeland PatersoD, N. J. J. Beach Vreeland " " Alfred Vredenburgh Bergen Point, N. J. Alfred Purdy Vredenburgh ..." " " Edward Lawrence Vredenburgh . " " " Frank Vredenburgh " " " William H. Vredenburgh Freehold, N. J. Garret Dorset Wall Vroom Trenton, N. J. Capt. Peter Dumont Vroom, U. S. A., San Antonio, Texas. Isaac Henry Vrooman Albany, N. Y. John Wright Vrooman Herkimer, N. Y. DWARD Wemple Fultonville, N. Y. Burr Wendell Cazenovia, N. Y. Benjamin Eush Wendell . . . New- York City. Evert Jansen Wendell " " Frederick Fox Wendell Amsterdam, N. Y. Gordon Wendell New-York City. Jacob Wendell " " Jacob Irvesig Wendell Albany, N. Y. John Dunlap Wendell Fort Plain, N. Y. Menzo Edgar Wendell Troy, N. Y. Ten Eyck Wendell New- York City. Willis Wendell Amsterdam, N. Y. Charles Wessell New- York City. Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook * ... Kingston, N. Y. John Calvin Westervelt New-Yoi-k City. Z. F. Westervelt Rochester, N. Y. Henry Veight Williamson New- York City. Rev. Denis Wortman, D. D Saugerties, N. Y. George Henry Wyckofp New-York City. Peter Wyckofp Brooklyn, N. Y. William Forman Wyckofp " " Augustus W. Wynkoop * Kinderhook, N. Y. Gerardus Hilles Wynkoop, M. D. . . . New-York City. James Davis Wynkoop " " EV. Albert A. Zabriskie .... Jersey City, N. J. 9 SJi^ Albert Stephen Zabriskie . . . Suiferns, N. Y. r'jy'il Albert S. Zabriskie Allendale, N. J. Andrew Christian Zabriskie New-York City. * Deceased. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 068 612 8