+1522 James Westervelt Crolius, b. June 12, 1848.
Magdalen Crolius, b. March 24, 1851; d. May 5, 1851.
+1524 Albert Crolius, b. May 27, 1853.
+1525 Cornelia Arabella Crolius, b. March 18, 1856.
1526 John de la Montaigne Crolius, b. May 16, 1861; d.
Feb. 21, 1863.
997 WILLIAM HENRY, son of James W. (554), was b. in New York, Oct. 26, 1822. He m. Susan Mandeville, dau. of John Tallman and Charity Sloo Thompson, of Nyack, N.Y., Oct. 6, 1847. As a youth he attended the school of Forrest & Mulligan, situated on Franklin Street, near Chapel (now West Broadway). For a brief period he was in the employ of his uncle, John Westervelt, flour merchant, but in 1838 he connected himself with the drug house of Motz & Pollitz, and subsequently became a junior partner under the firm name of O.W. Pollitz & Co. In 1859 this co-partnership was dissolved, and for a period of three years he carried on the storage business with Peter Thoru, in Beaver Street, where the Produce Exchange now stands. In 1862 he associated himself with his brother in the Mediterranean trade, under the firm name of A.B. & W.H. Westervelt. In 1876, his brother having retired, the business was continued as W.H. Westervelt & Co. He d. April 2, 1891, one of the most honored and honorable, and lies interred in the family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
Children of William Henry Westervelt (997):
+1527 Louise, b. Nov. 30, 1848.
+1528 Otto Wilhelm Pollitz, b. June 28, 1850.
998 ADRIAN BOGART, son of James W. (554), was b. at No. 4 Harrison Street, New York, Aug, 28, 1825. He m. Catherine Anne, dau. of John Tallman and Charity Sloo Thompson, of Nyack, N.Y., at the First Reformed Dutch Church, Brookltyn, N.Y., June 1, 1853, the Rev. Isaac S. Davison officiating; and secondly, Eleanor Cornelison,* dau. of John Lawrence and Mary L. (Smith) Salisbury, at the residence of her mother, Cornelison Point, South Nyack, N.Y., June 6, 1899, the Rev. William J. Leggett, D.D., officiating.
*Eleanor Cornelison Salisbury was a lineal descendant of Capt. Sylvester Salisbury, an Army officer and gentleman of considerable importance in England, who accompanied a suitable military force under the command of Col. Richard Nichols, which was sent to America by Charles II, in 1664, for the purpose of capturing New Amsterdam and the Dutch possessions on the Hudson. For some meritorious services, Captain Salisbury obtained a large and valuable grant of land, comprising about 40,000 acres, situateed in the Catskills, and extending from the river to the mountains. He did not live, however, to enjoy this vast estate, and the property was inherited by his son, Francis Salisbury, who came from Albany and associating himself with Martin Garretsen Van Bergen, surveyor, had the boundaries