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- [S8] Ancestry World Tree Project., Lane, Van Pelt, Wyckoff and other Dutch Families.
CORNELIUS, of near Burnt Mills, Somerset co., b. about 1725; d. about March, 1792; m. (1) Nov. 17, 1744, at Marlborough, Maria Wamsly, who d. (perhaps) about 1752; and (2), Eleanor Compton. It is probable his first wife died after three children were born. No Bible or other record of this family have been found; no gravestones mark their burial place, with exception of three children, Cornelius, Gilbert and Job, who are buried in the old Bedminster cemetery. Cornelius also left his early home in Monmouth co., to follow in the footsteps of his brother, Matthias, to Bedminster twsp., and he went to the same locality, but not until eight years after Matthias. On Dec. 4, 1752, he purchased of Elizabeth Leslie, widow and executrix of George Leslie, "late of Perth Amboy" and George Willocks Leslie, the co-executor, 207 1/4 acres of land "at Pepack," "bounded west by the Middle Brook, south by Langstreet, east by other land of Leslie and north by Vanderveer." Consideration, œ414.10. (Trenton Deeds, Book H 2, 60). About seventeen years later (Dec. 23, 1769), he sold this farm and purchased the farm of about 250 acres on which the Rev. James McCrea resided, near the Burnt Mills, same twsp. Rev. Mr. McCrea, first pastor of the Presbyterian ch. of Lamington, had died on May 10, 1769, and his heirs sold the land to Cornelius Lane for œ1,045.4.6. The deed (unrecorded) is now in possession of Cornelius' great-great-grandson, Harry K. Ramsey, of Bound Brook. In the McCrea house on this farm the unfortunate Jennie McCrea had been born, and until its destruction it was considered to be a notable Revolutionary relic. Cornelius lived in it until his death, when he willed the farm to his sons, Gilbert and Job. Gilbert conveyed his half to Job, who thus became the sole owner. He pulled down the old house and built a new one, but retained some materials of the McCrea building. Job, at his death in 1843, willed the farm to his son, the late Peter J. Lane, and, after the latter's death, in 1894, it was sold and went out of the Lane family, in which the title had rested for 125 years. During the Revolutionary War Cornelius served as a soldier, according to the family tradition, but I have not found his record. Cornelius was an organizer and deacon of the Bedminster Dutch church when it organized, Dec. 25, 1758. (Messler's "Hist. Notes," p. 284). He was also elected elder in 1766, 1774, 1785 and 1789. (Thompson's "Bedminster Church," p. 19). His will, of May, 1780, probat. April 17, 1792 (Trenton Wills, Book 34, p. 83), devised his homestead to his sons Gilbert and Job; mentions his wife Eleanor, and the children hereafter given. Executors were his son, Gilbert, "and son-in-law, Job Compton." (For ch., see infra).
ABBR Lane Families Page: p.200
- [S8] Ancestry World Tree Project., Lane, Van Pelt, Wyckoff and other Dutch Families.
- [S1] Stryker-Rodda Kenn, Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Freehold and Middletown Records, marriages 1745, p. 19, 974.9 B2g.
Cornelius Laan, y.m. and Maria Wamsly, y.d. both b. and living in Middeltown, Nov 3, Nov. 17.
Cornelious md. 2) Eleanor Compton after Maria's death and had issue: Eleanor b. abt. 1752, Sarah b. abt. 1753, Cornelius b. 12 Feb 1755, Gilbert b. 31 May 1766, and Job b. 10 Jul 1769.
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Descendants of Hendrick Willemsz
1722 - 1792 (69 years)
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