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Descendants of Van Brugh Progenitor-353511

Tenth Generation

251. Writer of Moby Dick Melville Herman-240660 (Maria Gansevoort , Peter Gansevoort , Magdalena Douw , Anna van Rensselaer , Catharina van Brugh , Johannes Pieterszen , Peter , Jan , Progenitor ) was born in Aug 1819 in New York. He died on 28 Sep 1891.

He has two drs, one Elizabeth or Lizzie, Mrs MB Thomas and Miss Melville. He is engaged to Elizabeth Shaw, dr of Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of Massachusetts. He has a cousin, Lt Guert Gansevoort. His first whaling trup is on Acushnet, Capt Valentine Pease of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. His uncle Major Thomas Melville moves to Galena, Illionis, with a friend, Eli Fry, see the novel, The Confidence Man. His maternal grandfather is General Peter Gansevoort as once painted by Gilbert Stuart. See http - people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/melvillebio.html/ He is good friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicates Moby Dick. Novelist. http on his biography. See US website on ancestors of William Addams Reitwiesner. Follows notes on 7-2-2008 on netsurfing on HM's grandparents.He is grandson of two Am Rev war heroes, General Peter Gansevoort of Albany and Thomas Melville, a son of a Scottish immigrant finding wealth as a merchant. Thomas M a "Mohican" at Boston Tea Party and a Major in Washington's army, later appointed Commr of Boston and Charlestown Harbour, by Washington, and he bought land at Pittsfield in 1816. a http mentions some earlier genealogical link to Greenleaf (John Scollay and Mercy Greenleaf dr of Daniel Greenleaf and Elizabeth.). Some material can be extracted from a file at: www.wargs.com

Herman married Shaw Elizabeth Knapp-257116 daughter of Chief Justice, Massachusetts Shaw Lemuel-257117 and wife1 Knapp Elizabeth-257118 in 1847 in Boston. Elizabeth was born in 1822. She died in 1906.

She writes to one friend, Catherine Gansevoort. See US website on ancestors of William Addams Reitwiesner. See Amy Elizabeth Puett, Melville's Wife: A Study of Elizabeth Shaw Melville. PhD, Northwestern University, 1969.

Herman and Elizabeth had the following children:

408 M i Melville Stanwix-382920 was born in 1852. He died in 1886 in San Franciisco.

He is son2. he was named for Fort Stanwix, which his great-grandfather General Peter Gansevoort had defended.
409 F ii Melville Elizabeth (Bessie)-382921 was born in 1853.

Elizabeth was born 1853.
410 F iii Melville Frances (Fanny)-382922 was born in 1855.
411 M iv Melville Malcolm-382925 was born in 1849. He died in 1867 in Suicide.

He is son1. He suicided by shooting himself.

258. Hamilton Elizabeth-435151 (John Church Hamilton , Elizabeth Schuyler , Catherine (Kitty) van van Rensselaer , Johannes van Rensselaer , Catharina van Brugh , Johannes Pieterszen , Peter , Jan , Progenitor ) was born in 1831. She died in 1887.

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Elizabeth married (1) General Halleck Henry Wager-435152 son of Halleck Progenitor-435153 and HNotknown Miss-435154. Henry was born in 1814. He died in 1872.

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Henry and Elizabeth had the following children:

412 M i Halleck Henry Wager Jnr-435158 was born in 1857. He died in 1882.

Elizabeth married (2) Major-General Cullum George Washington-435155 son of Cullum Progenitor-435156 and CNotknown Miss-435157. George was born in 1831.

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259. Van Rensselaer Stephen IV-267935 (Margaret Schuyler , Philip Jeremiah Schuyler , Catherine (Kitty) van van Rensselaer , Johannes van Rensselaer , Catharina van Brugh , Johannes Pieterszen , Peter , Jan , Progenitor ) was born in 1789 in Albany New York. He died in 1868 in Albany New York.

Stephen married Bayard Harriet Elizabeth-267936 daughter of Of New York Bayard William-267937 and Cornell Elizabeth-291024. Harriet was born in 1799. She died in 1875.