Individual Details
Benjamin Van Meter
(1 Oct 1744 - 15 Oct 1826)
Their children were: James, Mary, Ann, Sarah, and Fetters [died in infancy]. James married Ruth Jones; Mary [married] Mathew Newkirk; Erasmus [another child? married] Mary Burroughs. Robert Hunter was twice married, first to Rachel Burroughs, second to Sarah Leak Whitaker. Bathsheba [Dunlap Van Meter] married William Mayhew.
James and Robert Hunter Van Meter were physicians. They settled in Salem, N. J. and were identified with the First Presbyterian Church as founders and elders. The line of Dr. James Van Meter is extinct on earth yet the bequests of that family to the Presbyterian Church of Salem, N. J. will keep their memory green while time endures. Dr. Robert H. and Sarah L. W. Van Meter were the parents of eight children: Emma, Mary, Robert, James, Edward, Mason, Josiah, and Harriet. James and Josiah died in their infancy. Mary married Enos R. Pease of Connecticut; Harriet [married] Rev. R. J. Cone of New York; Edward [married] Caroline Whitaker of Deerfield, N. J.; Mason (unmarried) is president of the Fenwick Club. Edward died 14 January 1875. His wife and daughters: Mary Caroline, Harriet F., and Anna Hunter [author of this source, 1902], are all living.
Events
Families
Spouse | Bathsheba Dunlap (1747 - 1831) |
Father | Hendrix "Henry" Van Meteren (1695 - 1752) |
Mother | Mary Le Fevre / Le Fettre (1700 - ) |
Sibling | Fetters Van Meter (1741 - ) |
Sibling | Ephraim Van Meter (1742 - 1790) |
Sibling | Elizabeth Van Meter (1748 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Anna Hunter Van Meter, "A Glance at the Van Meter Family in the United States of America." Salem, New Jersey, March 1902. (Papers held by the Western Kentucky University Library in Bowling Green, transcribed by John H. Ross).
2. Wilson - Swink, Rex Wilson online [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3218686&id=I605151689], accessed Aug 2006, Newhouse, Linda. Canadian Van Meters & More.
3. Anna Hunter Van Meter, "A Glance at the Van Meter Family in the United States of America." Salem, New Jersey, March 1902. (Papers held by the Western Kentucky University Library in Bowling Green, transcribed by John H. Ross).
4. Anna Hunter Van Meter, "A Glance at the Van Meter Family in the United States of America." Salem, New Jersey, March 1902. (Papers held by the Western Kentucky University Library in Bowling Green, transcribed by John H. Ross).
5. Wilson - Swink, Rex Wilson online [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3218686&id=I605151689], accessed Aug 2006, Newhouse, Linda. Canadian Van Meters & More.
6. Wilson - Swink, Rex Wilson online [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3218686&id=I605151689], accessed Aug 2006, Newhouse, Linda. Canadian Van Meters & More.