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Charles DeWitt MVDW 137 TGE 120. ii. Family 45. 1727 - August 2, 1787 birthplace buried in Old Hurley Burial Ground, Ulster County, New York	Blandina DuBois married 20 December 1754 1731 - November 4, 1765 birthplace buried at Old Hurley Burial Ground, Ulster County, New York
Ann DeWitt MVDW 385 TGE 313. v. November 11, 1764 - 3 April 1879 birthplace baptized 18 November 1764 as Ann in Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York parents: Charles de Witt, Blandina du Bois witnesses: Coenraad Nieuwkerk, Ann de Witt burial location: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York (see Find-A-Grave)
Peter Tappen (Tappan) married 16 February 1786 in Old Dutch Church (Kingston, New York): Peter Tappen, Jr., born in Kingston, residing in New Paltz, and Ann DeWitt, born and residing under the jurisdiction of Hurley. First marriage for both. born 31 October 1763 - baptized 4 November 1764(?) - died 9 April 1846 son of Christopher Tappen and Annetje Wynkoop birthplace burial location: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York (see Find-A-Grave)
Blandina Tappen MVDW 807 24 June 1787 - 3 August 1862 (per Find-A-Grave) birthplace married Henry Conrad 1807 date and location burial location: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York children: Lydia G. Conrad (Stanton, 1824-1892), Peter Tappan Conrad (1830-1899) Anna Maria Tappen MVDW 808 born 1788 - death date birthplace marriage date and location burial location Christopher P. Tappen MVDW 809 born October 1791 - 5 January 1877 (per Find-A-Grave) birthplace married Mary Hurd (1793-1886) in 1814 date and location burial location: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York children: Harriet N. Tappan (1815-1882), DeWitt Tappan (1822-1887), Kate Tappan (1828-1913), Mary Tappan Hurd (1835-1863), Christopher P. Tappan (1838-1907) Cornelia Tappen MVDW 810 born 1793 - death date birthplace marriage date and location burial location Sarah DuBois Tappen MVDW 811 born 11 January 1801 - death date birthplace marriage date and location burial location Charles DeWitt Tappen MVDW 812 born 24 June 1798 - death date birthplace marriage date and location burial location (note Charles and Sarah are numbered out of birth order) Henry Philip Tappen MVDW 813 born 16 April 1805 - 18 November 1882 (per Find-A-Grave) birthplace (Find-A-Grave says Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, 18 April 1805 - 15 November 1881) married Julia Livingston (1807-1884) date and location (daughter of John Walter Livingston and Julia Adel Broome; see her Find-A-Grave page for more) burial location: Vevay, Switzerland (see below) They had a daughter, Anne De Witt Tappan (29 May 1838 - 7 December 1843), who is buried today in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, having originally been buried at 500 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn. Henry’s Find-A-Grave page has photos and a biographical sketch: Henry Philip Tappan was an American philosopher and educator. He was the first president of the University of Michigan (1852-1863). He attended Union College where he studied under Eliphalet Nott, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1825. He also graduated from Auburn Theological Seminary. In addition, he served on the faculty of the University of the City of New York as a professor of philosophy. While at the University of the City of New York (now NYU), Tappan embarked on writing a series of philosophical treatises, that began to influence thinking in Europe. In 1845, he received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Union College. He toured Europe between 1849 and 1851 and became increasingly convinced of the superiority of the “Prussian model” of public education, in which a complete system of primary schools, secondary schools, and universities are administered by the state and supported with tax dollars In 1852, he became the first president of the University of Michigan, where he stayed until 1863. Following his tenure at the University of Michigan, Tappan moved his family to Europe. He finally settled in Vevey, Switzerland, where he died at his villa in 1881. He was buried in Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva.
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Sources Information is from Mary Veldran DeWitt’s “The DeWitt Genealogy: Descendants of Tjereck Claessen DeWitt of Ulster County, New York.” Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or ’Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. Transcribed and edited by Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain U.S.N., corresponding secretary of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, etc. New York 1891; original publication De Vinne Press, New York; available today from Higginson Book Co., Salem, Mass., 508-745-7170. Detailed information about baptisms has been filled in through the end of 1687, marriages through 1701. More information is available. Records begin 1660. Other baptisms may have taken place in Hurley and other locations nearby; also from time to time itinerant ministers would travel through and perform various rites, not always entered in the books. This is available online at archive.org. Thomas Grier Evans, The De Witt Family of Ulster County, New York (reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, October 1886), New York: Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co., 201-213 East Twelfth Street, 1886. Available online from archive.org. Evans’s work, reprinted in 1886 up to the point where it left off in Volume XVIII of the Record, was continued in 1890 (Volume XXI, commencing on p. 185) with additional names and family numbering. The reprinted portion includes names of descendants to the fourth generation; the extension shows their descendants, the fifth generation, with considerable further biographical information on some. This later addition to Evans’s work (he also published details on other families that intermarried with DeWitts in Ulster County, including Crispells, Bruyns, and others) extended into Volume XXII (January 1891, pp. 3-6). (I include here links to some publicly available copies of the individual issue and articles from the Record, but a better way to get access to it and a wealth of other genealogical resources, in addition to supporting genealogical research in general, is to join the NYGBS itself.)
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