CAPTAIN MATTHEW CLARKSON, third son of Hon. Matthew Clarkson by his wife Catharine Van Schayck, was born in New York City, where he was baptized 9 April, 1699, and where he died in 1739. He was a successful merchant there, and his family occupied a prominent position in the social life of the city. At the time of his death he commanded one of the military companies of New York, to which position he was commissioned in 1738. He married, in 1720, Cornelia, daughter of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker. (See Notes on De Peyster Family.) 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.
Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all bom in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church there :
I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721; married, I759, Samuel Hazard, Esq', by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post-master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist 4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 37[?] April, and proved 19 November, 1702,
1 son Levinua, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta* and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.
Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all bom in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church there :
I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721; married, I759, Samuel Hazard, Esq', by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post-master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist 4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 37[?] April, and proved 19 November, 1702,
1 son Levinua, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta* and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.
CAPTAIN MATTHEW CLARKSON, third son of Hon. Matthew Clarkson by his wife Catharine Van Schayck, was born in New York City, where he was baptized 9 April, 1699, and where he died in 1739. He was a successful merchant there, and his family occupied a prominent position in the social life of the city. At the time of his death he commanded one of the military companies of New York, to which position he was commissioned in 1738. He married, in 1720, Cornelia, daughter of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker. (See Notes on De Peyster Family.) 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.
Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all bom in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church there :
I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721; married, I759, Samuel Hazard, Esq', by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post-master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist 4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 37[?] April, and proved 19 November, 1702,
1 son Levinua, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta* and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.
Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all bom in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church there :
I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721; married, I759, Samuel Hazard, Esq', by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post-master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist 4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 37[?] April, and proved 19 November, 1702,
1 son Levinua, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta* and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.
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