Individuals from Chrisman Pedigree, page 11

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John Hasbrouck Gosman

m: Sarah Jane Bolstridge (28 DEC 1864-OCT 1938)

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Was President of the Sterling Surgical Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn and Northport, N.Y. whe n he passed away. He lost most of his hair in the late years of his life --- there was no baldness, just a noticeable thinness. In his early years there was a thickness of hair generally tousled which Lillian Briggs thought somewhat becoming to him and he was more or less indifferent to what the public thought of his appearance, but always he was immaculately clean. He was a well built man about 5'11" in height and weighed approximately 165 or so. He was somewhat strangely reticent --- uncommunicative to the point of making one uncomfortable sometimes when with him. His deep set eyes, dark brown were seemingly penetrative but his secretly charitable heart was a real redeeming asset. At the age of about 10 yeras he was bound out (as was the trend of that time) to a family in Iowa where he remained until about the age of 22 years. His father had passed away previous to the time he had left New York City and when he returned home to his mother his brothers were married and his mother living alone in Brooklyn, NY. It was not long before he succumed to the charm of his mother's young visitor Sarah Jane Bolstridge, and in less than three years he married her. He always anticipated returning west but he never did keep the promise he had made to himself to make Iowa his permanent home on this earth. Shortly after marriage he attended The Student's Art League in N.Y.C. His leaning toward art was strong but his training was of short duration tho he painted animals and landscapes in fine detail. However, painting was never more than a hobby for him. To meet family objligations the surgical work in which he made his bread and butter took most of his time and about 1904-5 he and his wife Sarah went into partnership with one Mr. John Douglass and founded the Sterling Surgical Manufacturing Company in Brooklyn. About 1910 with their son Clarence they moved to Northport, N.Y., on Long Island and here Clarence was started as a cutter for the firm which carried on the business in the Gosman home. Soon came World War 1 and a great demand for surgical supplies -- it required a dozen or more sewers and other workers also a small factory building and during the War years John Hasbrouck Gosman amassed a goodly sum of money. About 1918 he financed the birth of the Suffolk County Canning Company of Northport, N.Y. for his older son, John Hasbrouck Gosman Jr., in which he became president until his demise in 1920. Then because of insufficient funds the Company became solvent.

Sarah Jane Bolstridge

m: John Hasbrouck Gosman (22 DEC 1860-DEC 1920)

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Married to John Hasbrouck Gosman by Rev. J. G. Bass.

She was a sincere and exceptionally devout Christian of the Protestant faith and in the early 1900s a Deaconess in the Lenox Road Baptist Church of Brooklyn N.Y. Wholeheartedly she endeavored to aid anyone in trouble of distress and when possible collected for the needy. She was about 5' 1" in height, had hazel eyes, light skin (sort of pinkish) and when young her hair was brown but it was what is known as pepper and salt before she was 35 yeras of age. In her late years the strands silvered and became a crowning glory of pure silky white. Her cheeks were naturally ruddy and her countenance protrayed a sort of goliness.

After her husband's death, she lived with her son Clarence until her death.

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Caleb Bolstridge

m: Elizabeth Cordingly (5 MAR 1843-6 APR 1873)

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m: Margaret Ann Allen (1852-6 NOV 1934)

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Lillian May Briggs (Gosman) knew him for a few years after her marriage.
He was then rather stocky in build and gray haired and had a slow easy gait and quiet manner --- sort of peaceful-like. When I knew him he was night engineer at the Brooklyn, N.Y. Gas Light Company in the Eastern District of Brooklyn and was justly proud of having worked up from office boy with that Company. Sarah Jane, Lillian's mother-in-law, who was Caleb's daughter, often spoke of how hard her dad had worked to attain his position which had never interferred with him being a good father and husband. His devotion to his family was well appreciated. Sarah Jane was about nine years of age and the oldest of the four children left him to care for when his #1 wife Elizabeth Cordingly passed away with tuberculosis and Caleb kept the little family together for five years before marrying the second time. The chore of keeping house was then somewhat easier for Sarah Jane and from all accounts Caleb was well pleased with his choice for a whife and mother. During the last years of his life, while he lived at the old homestead of his parents --- a small cottage in Central Islip, New York --- he suffered with asthma, although it was a reaction to a stroke that partly paralized him, and which took him out of this world in 1917.

Caleb was a Civil War Veteran. He was in U.S. service under General McClellan but was given honorable discharge because of Epilepsy. However, this disease never hindered him in any advancement. He lived a perfectly normal life and in his late years he seemed to have outgrown it. His U.S. Pension record is at the National Archives in Washington D.C., in which city he was discharged from military service.

!Census (1880): Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, T9-0851 p.756C
Caleb Bolstridge, head age 40 b. Eng, Engineer, parents b. Eng/Eng
Margeret, wife, 38 b. Canada, keeping house, parents b. Canada/Canada
William, son, 17 NY, par. b. Eng/Can
Sarah J., dau., 15 NY, par b. Eng/Can
George F., son, 14 NY, par b. Eng/Can
Ellen E., dau., 12 NY, par b. Eng/Can
Ida V., dau., 4 mo., NY, par. b. Eng/Can
Elizabeth Allen, sister-in-law, single, 22 Canada, Tailoress, par. b. Eng/Can
[Note: birth place of mother for children William thru Ellen appears to be incorrect, since they were by Caleb's first wife.]

Elizabeth Cordingly

m: Caleb Bolstridge (8 FEB 1840-13 MAY 1917)

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Died of tuberculosis

Jacobus Bruyn

m: Gertrude Esselstyn

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He was a ship carpenter.

Joseph Bevier Gosman

m: Amelia Emily Chateauneuf (8 MAY 1824-1908)

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Joseph Bevier Gosman was a printer by trade. He was accidently run over by a trolley car i n New York City and killed.

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Amelia Emily Chateauneuf

m: Gray

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m: Joseph Bevier Gosman (10 MAR 1836-1860/1869)

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Joseph Alex Chateauneuf

m: Rennette [---] (14 MAY 1792-)

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Was the son of a representative and General in France.

The following were taken from the Bible records of Amelia (Chateauneuf) Gosman "now in possession of Clarence Bevier Gosman of Wantagh, L. Isl., NY" (as of Nov 1954) as typed by Lillian (Briggs) Gosman:
Joseph Elex Chateauneuf born June 14, 1789
Renette Chateauneuf born May 14, 1792
Estelle Chateauneuf born May 26, 1821
Emilie Chateauneuf born May 8, 1824
Marie Antonnette Chateauneuf born Oct. 24, 1827
Josephine Chateauneuf born Aug. 26, 1829
Minerva Edelle Chateauneuf born Oct. 3, 1831
Joseph Bevier Gosman born Mar. 10, 1836
John Hasbrouck Gosman born Dec. 22, 1860

Rennette

m: Joseph Alex Chateauneuf (14 JUN 1789-)

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Robert Gosman

m: Maria Hasbrouck (13 MAR 1812-AFT 1875)

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Robert Gosman was editor of the Kingston NY Courier and for a number of years on the staff o f the New York Tribune. He attended Rutgers University in the class of 1830. He was a devout Christian of the Protestant faith. According to family tradition he was crippled from birth.

Maria Hasbrouck

m: Robert Gosman (11 MAY 1810-)

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Abraham Joseph "of the strand" Hasbrouck

m: Helena Jansen (3 MAY 1770-1824)

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In "Ulster Co. NY 1798 Tax List" by Kenneth Scott, Nat. Ge. Soc. Quar. Vol 73, No. 2, pg. 117 -123, "Abraham Hasbrouck" appears, the only Hasbrouck in Subdivision I. (But an Abraham J. Hasbrouck appears in Subdivision II).

BIOGRAPHY: From "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress":

BIOGRAPHY: HASBROUCK, Abraham Joseph, (cousin of Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck), a Representative from New York; born at “Guilford,” Ulster County, N.Y., October 16, 1773; was privately tutored; moved to Kingston in 1795 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; one of the incorporators of the Delaware & Hudson Canal; appointed by Governor Jay as first lieutenant of Cavalry; organizer and director of the Middle District Bank of Kingston; served in the State assembly in 1811; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for renomination in 1814; engaged in freighting goods to New York City by water; member of the State senate in 1822; died in Kingston, N.Y., January 12, 1845; interment in Albany Avenue Cemetery.

Helena Jansen

m: Abraham Joseph "of the strand" Hasbrouck (16 OCT 1773-12 JAN 1845)

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Joseph Hasbrouck

m: Elizabeth Bevier (9 JUN 1749-4 MAY 1795)

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m: Mary De Witt (1753-17 MAR 1806)

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In 1775 he was major of militia and in 1778 lieutenant Col of the 3rd regiment.
His farm at New Paltz was a depot of supplies for the army at New Windsor.

Elizabeth Bevier

m: Joseph Hasbrouck (4 MAR 1744-26 FEB 1808)

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The godparents of Elizabeth Bevier were Esther Mamaer and Philip DuBois.

Louis Bevier

m: Esther DuBois (20 JUN 1718-17 OCT 1790)

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Only child.

From an extract of the diary of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck, grandson of the patentee Abraham, in possession of Judge Severyn Sharpe of Kingston, N.Y., the following: "My cousin, Louis Bevier, departed this transitory life 29th day of September 2 o'clock in the morning 1772 age 55 years 4 months 19 days and rests in the Lord until his coming to judge both the quick and the dead. Come, Lord Jesus, quickly, Amen, so be it, Amen.

Esther DuBois

m: Louis Bevier (29 APR 1717-27 SEP 1772)

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Descended from Royalty: A descendant of Macquaire DuBois --- Count d'Rousay.

Esther made her home most of the time after her husband's sudden death in Sept 1772 with her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Brig. Gen. Joe Hasbrouck.

Louis "the Walloon" DuBois

m: Catherine Blanchan

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The following record is in the Old Protestant Evangelical Church at Manheim in French: Oct 1 0, 1665 Louis DuBois son of late Chretien Dubois of Weirs near LaBarrie of the one part and Catherine Blanchan, daughter of Mathew Blanchan of the City of Manheim of the other part, were married in the French Church at Manheim.

Religious persecution in Artois induced Louis and Jacques DuBois to abandon their country. Louis went to Manheim in the Palantinate. At Manheim, Louis was thrown into intimate relations with Mathese Blanchan and Christien Deyou, also Huguenot refugees, the former from vicinity of his father's estate in Artois and the latter from the neighborhood of Calais. In Oct 10, 1655 Louis married Catherine, the daughter of Mathese Blanchan and his wife Madeline Jorisse. The following record is in the Old Protestant Evangelical Church at Manheim in French: "Oct 10, 1665, Louis DuBois, son of late Chretien DuBois of Wiers near La Bassee of the one part and Catherine Blanchan daughter of Mathew Blanchan of the City of Manheim on the other part, were married in the French Church at Manheim."

They had two sons born in Manheim --- Abraham and Isaac. All their other children were born in America.

Louis DuBois, known as Louis the Walloon, followed the agricultural pursuits while Blanchan followed his avocation as distiller.

He was in "St Jean Baptists" in 1661. Ref: p.974 Abridged Compendums of Am. Geneol.

Isaac DuBois

m: Maria Hasbrouck

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Chrietien DuBois

m: Cornelia [---]

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The DuBois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Cotentin in Duchy of Normandy . The heraldic records of Paris commence the geneology with Geoffroi DuBois, a knight banneret and a companion of Duke Williams in the conquest of England 1066.

The mottoe of the DuBois coat-of-arms is "Tiens to Foy" meaning "Keep They Faith".

Chretien DuBois (this entry) was a descendant of the knight Geoffroi. He was a Huguenot gentleman of the family of DuBois Seicneuno(?) of Beaufermez and de Bourse, having an estate at Wieres, in La Bassee near Lille in French Flanders now Artois.

It was undoubtedly owing to Chretien being identified with the Huguenot faith that an attempt to obliterate the public records of the family and destroy all evidence of his connection with nobility of France.

Some Sources:
1. Gosman, Lillian May (Briggs), "Gosman Genealogy and related families", 1963. 2. Reeve, Vera, "Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors", 3rd edition. The National Huguenot Society: Wash. DC; 1983.
3. Le Fevre, Ralph, "History of New Paltz, NY, and its old families (from 1678 to 1820): Including the Huguenot Pioneers, and others who settled in New Paltz previous to the Revolution." Albany, NY: Fort Orange Press; 1903. pg. 253,280-1
4. Smyth, S. G., "The van Metre Genealogy". pg. 12-17, 20-31.
5. Heidgerd, William, "The American Descendants of Cretian De Bois of Wicres, France". New Paltz, New York: Huguenot Historical Society, 1968.

His parentage was supplied to me by Kim Everingham. It seems to be highly credible. Previous theories have been proposed, but disproven.

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