Captain Jonannes De Peyster

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born about 1695. Daughter of Capt. Johan/Johannes De Peyster and Anna (Bancker) De Peyster, natives of Holland.

Cornelia married about 1718 to Matthew Clarkson and they had about 10 children: Catharine, Matthew, John, Anna, Matthew, David, Matthew, Levinus, Cornelia and Gerardus.

Upon the death of Captain Clarkson, his widow married Rev. Gilbert Tennent, an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, who was then pastor of a church at New Brunswick, New Jersey, but who shortly afterwards accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, and there removed with his wife and her unmarried children, to which removal may be ascribed the origin of the Philadelphia branch of the Clarkson family. Mrs. Tennent died at Philadelphia, 25 May, 1753.

Originally interred in Range C of the Second Presbyterian Church burial ground in Philadelphia. When the Second Presbyterian churchyard was cleared in 1867, Cornelia was transferred to Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Cornelia married Captain Matthew Clarkson in 1718. Matthew (son of First Secretary Matthew Clarkson and Catherine Van Schaick) was born in 1699 in New York City, New York; died on 4 Jun 1739 in New York City, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Matthew Clarkson was born in N.Y. C., went to Philadelphia 1743, where he died and is buried in Christ Church Burial Ground. He was a successful and wealthy Philadelphia merchant living in North Ward in 1756. In 1771-1773 he was a Justice of the Court of General Sessions and Courts of Common Pleas. Q.M. of Associators under Col. John Dickinson and served as Auditor of Accounts. In 1775-1776 he was selected by U.S. Congress to sign $7,000,000 of bills of credit and to oversee the printing of Continental bills, was 1st Marshal of Court of Admiralty for Pa., 1776-1780, one of the 1st Aldermen of Philadelphia, 1789, Commissioner of Bankruptcy for Pa. 1790, and Director of the Bank of the U.S., 1794. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1785 but did not serve. While mayor of Philadelphia, 1792-1796, he did notable work during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, when 4,041 people (10% of the population) died, and again in that of 1794. His will is dated Apr. 19, 1799. Mary Boude was born and died in Philadelphia. and is buried with her husband. Her father Thomas (ca. 1700-1781), was a son of Grimstone Boude (ca. 1661-1716), a wealthy merchant who migrated from England (Sic) to Perth Amboy, N. J. , then to Philadelphia. Her children were born in Philadelphia.

CLARKSON, Matthew, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in New York City in April 1733; moved to Philadelphia, Pa.; was justice of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions of the peace, and of the Philadelphia orphans' court in 1771 and 1772; elected to the Continental Congress in 1785, but did not serve; member of the board of aldermen in 1789; mayor of Philadelphia 1792-1796; died in Philadelphia, Pa., October 5, 1800; interment in Christ Church Burying Ground.

Family/Spouse: Mary Boude. Mary (daughter of Thomas Boude and Sarah Newbold) was born on 14 Feb 1735 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died on 27 Nov 1794 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; was buried in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Ann Graves. Sarah was born in 1756 in Derbyshire, England; died after 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Reverand James L. Swaney. James (son of James L. Swaney and Elizabeth Batto) was born on 26 Dec 1790 in Pennsylvania; died on 13 Oct 1855 in Fostoria, Hancock County, Ohio; was buried in Vickers Cemetery, Washington Twp, Hancock County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Margaret Clark on 7 Oct 1844 in Wood County, Ohio. Margaret (daughter of George Clark and Mary Johnson) was born on 24 Mar 1824 in Ohio; died on 2 Jun 1901; was buried in Vickers Cemetery, Washington Twp, Hancock County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 1861; American Civil War (North)

Jennie married James Austin Mullen on 10 Apr 1871 in Hancock County, Ohio. James (son of James Mullen) was born in Sep 1850 in Ohio; died in 1902 in Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jennie married John David Hostetler on 27 Mar 1905 in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. John was born on 28 Jan 1873 in New Carlisle, St. Joseph County, Indiana; died on 9 Nov 1935 in Osceola, St. Joseph County, Indiana; was buried in Sauktown Cemetery, Michigan Twp, La Porte County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Alta Jane Dellinger on 29 Sep 1897 in Williams County, Ohio, and was divorced about 1910. Alta (daughter of John Albert Dellinger and Mary Matilda Kint) was born on 28 Sep 1880 in Superior Twp, Williams County, Ohio; died on 2 Jan 1946 in Williams County, Ohio; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]