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DWIGHT WHEELER De MOTTE
Originally published in 1900 |
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DWIGHT WHEELER De MOTTE, of Jersey City, is a descendant
in the fifth generation from Mattys (Matthew) de Motte, a native of
"Kingston in the Esopus," as the records say, who carm from Kingston,
N. Y., to Bergen, N. J., in 1704, and on April 4, 1705, was united in marriage
with Miss Margriettie Brinkerhoff at Hackensaek. On April 4,
1693, Mattys bought of Elias Michaels Vreeland three lots of land at Bergen
(Jersey City), the combined area of which was eighty-seven acres.
Subsequently at different times he bought other tracts at Bergen and
North Bergen until in a few years he had become a large landholder in
Hudson County HP was an active man in the affairs, of Bergen, taking a
hand in almost everything that came up in the way of improvements. He
and his wife belonged to the "Church on the Green" at Hackensack,
where nearly all of their large family of children were baptized. Mattys
died at Bergen in May, 1759. By his will, proved June 18, 1759, he devised
all his Bergen 'lands to his sons, Michael and George, as joint tenants.
His issue of the second generation were John (died), Michael (married Clasie
Winne), Henry (died), Ann, John (died December 8, 1744),
Henry (married, in 1742, Jannetje Van Wagoner). George (died in 1800,
unmarried), Jacob (married, October 11, 1747, Sophia Van Houten), Mary,
and Geshy (died in 1744). Michael (2) died November 16, 1799, intestate
and without issue, and George (2), by the terms of his father's will, succeeded
to the property at Bergen. Henry (2) located at Pompton. John
(2) left no issue. Jacob (2) removed to Schraalenburgh, N. J. George (2) left
no issue, but a will by which he left all his lands to Michael (3), son of his
brother, Henry, of Pompton. Michael (3) died May 27, 1832, devising his property at Bergen to his children of the fourth generation: Garret, George, Jane (wife of Peter Merseles), Margaret (wife of Richard Vreeland), Maria (wife of James Cadmus), Catharine (wife of Richard Cadmus), and Henry (who had died before his father). One of these children of the fourth generation had a son, Abraham Huyler de Motte, who married Fannie M. Browning and had, besides other children of the fifth generation, Dwight Wheeler de Motte, the subject of this sketch. Dwight Wheeler de Motte was born July 14, 1870, in Jersey City, where he still resides. He was educated in Public Schools Nos. 11 and 12 and subsequently took a course at the Law School of the University of the City of New York. He also studied law in the office of Judge Frank A. Newell and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in 1897 and to the bar of New York as an attorney and counselor in 1900. He is actively engaged in practice, having offices at 150 Nassau Street, New York, and 259 Washington Street, Jersey City. Though a young man, he has already gained an honorable standing at the bar and is highly esteemed by all who know him. He married Viola Vermilye Mitchell and has one child, Jessie Mitchell de Motte.
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