Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

The New Netherland Ancestors of

AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET



Author, College President, State Assembly




		      __Dirck Stoffelszen Langstraat1
		     |
		 __Stoffel Dirckszen Langestraat1
		|    |
		|    |__Catharina Van Lieuwen1
		|
	    __Stoffel Longstreet1
	   |    |
	   |    |          __Mattys Janszen Laenen Van Pelt1,9
	   |    |         |
	   |    |     __Gysbert Thyssen Van Pelt1,9,10
	   |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |    |__Marykens Gysberts1,9
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Maiken Lane1,10
	   |         |
	   |         |     __Adriaen Lambertszen10
	   |         |    |
	   |         |__Jannetje Adriaens1,9,10
	   |              |
	   |              |__Willemke Jans10
	   |
       __WILLIAM LONGSTREET1
      |    |
      |    |__Abigail Wooley1
      |
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET1
      |
      |          __Isaac Fitz Randolph1
      |         |
      |     __James Fitz Randolph1
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __James Seabrook1
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Rebecca Seabrook1
      |    |         |
      |    |         |          __James Grover1,4
      |    |         |         |
      |    |         |     __Joseph Grover1,4,5
      |    |         |    |    |
      |    |         |    |    |__Rebecca Jaspers1,4
      |    |         |    |
      |    |         |__Rebecca Grover1,4
      |    |              |
      |    |              |     __William Lawrence1,4,5
      |    |              |    |
      |    |              |__Hannah Lawrence1,4,5
      |    |                   |
      |    |                   |__(__)1,5
      |    |
      |__Hannah Fitz Randolph1
	   |
	   |          __Hugh Coward1
	   |         |
	   |     __John Coward1,2
	   |    |    |
	   |    |    |          __John Throckmorton1,4
	   |    |    |         |
	   |    |    |     __John Throckmorton1
	   |    |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |    |    |__Rebecca (__)4
	   |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |__Patience Throckmorton1
	   |    |         |
	   |    |         |     __Richard Stout1
	   |    |         |    |
	   |    |         |__Alice Stout1
	   |    |              |
	   |    |              |__Penelope Van Princis1
	   |    |
	   |__Deliverance Coward1
		|
		|          __Nathaniel Britton1,2,6
		|         |
		|     __Nathaniel Britton1,6
		|    |    |
		|    |    |     __Nicholas Stillwell1,2,3,6
		|    |    |    |
		|    |    |__Anne Stillwell1,2,6
		|    |         |
		|    |         |__Ann (__)3
		|    |
		|__Alice Britton1,2
		     |
		     |__Elizabeth Gerritszen2,7



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Biography of AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET

 
LONGSTREET, Augustus Baldwin, author, born in Augusta, Georgia, 22 September 1790; died in Oxford, Mississippi, 9 September 1870, was graduated at Yale in 1813, studied in the law-school at Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in Richmond County, Georgia, in 1815, but removed to Greensboro, Georgia, where he soon rose to eminence in his profession. He represented Greene County in the Legislature in 1821, and in 1822 became Judge of the Ocmulgee Judicial District, which office he held for several years, and then declined re-election. He then resumed the practice of the law, becoming well known for his success in criminal cases, and, removing to Augusta, he established there the "Augusta Sentinel," which was consolidated in 1838 with the "Chronicle," continuing, meanwhile, the practice of the law. In 1838 he became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was stationed at Augusta. During this period of his ministry the town was visited with yellow fever, but he remained at his post, ministering to the sick and dying. In 1839 he was elected President of Emory college, Oxford, Georgia, where he served nine years, after which he became President of Centenary College, Louisiana. Shortly afterward he became President of the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Mississippi, which post he held for six years, resigning at that time to devote himself to agricultural pursuits. But in 1857 he was elected to the presidency of South Carolina College, Columbia, South Carolina, where he remained till just before the civil war, when he returned to the presidency of the University of Mississippi. In 1844 he was a member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was conspicuous in the discussions that led to a rupture of the church, siding throughout with his own section. In politics he belonged to the Jeffersonian school of strict construction and state rights. At an early age he began to write for the press, and he made speeches on all occasions through his life. "I have heard him," writes one who knew him, "respond to a serenade, preach a funeral sermon, deliver a college commencement address, and make a harangue over the pyrotechnic glorifications of seceding states. He could never be scared up without a speech." His pen was never idle. His chief periodical contributions are to be found in" The Methodist Quarterly," "The Southern Literary Messenger," "The Southern Field and Fireside," "The Magnolia," and "The Orion," and include "Letters to Clergymen of the Northern Methodist Church" and "Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts." His best-known work is a series of newspaper sketches of humble life in the south, "Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, etc., in the First Half Century of the Republic, by a Native Georgian," which were collected into a book that appeared first; at the south and then in New York (1840). A second edition was issued in 1867, and though it purported to be revised, he would, it is said, have nothing to do with it. It is said that he sent men through the country to collect and destroy all copies of the first edition. This book is full of genuine humor, broad, but irresistible, and by many these sketches are considered the raciest, most natural, and most original that appeared at the south before the civil war. He also published "Master William Mitten," a story (Macon, Georgia, 1864). Many unpublished manuscripts Were destroyed with his library during the war.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Mayes, Edward, Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with its related
       families : of Van Liewen, Lanen Van Pelt, Van Laer, Verplanck, Wooley,
       Potter, Tucker, Fritz-Randalph, De Langton, Blossom, Dennis, Moore,
       Seabrook, Grover, Lawrence, Stilwell, Van Dyck, Coward, Throckmorton,
       Stout, Van Printz, Briton, Parke, Elmsley, Hawkins, and others.  Rutland:
       Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., (copyright uncertain).  Note:  this book
       contains errors.  The pedigree of Jannetje Adriaens through the Van Laer,
       Verplanck, and Vigné is untrue.
   2.  Stillwell, John E., History of Captain Jeremiah Stillwell, Anne Stillwell
       Britton, Alice Stillwell Holmes, Mary Stillwell Mott, Daniel Stillwell,
       John Stillwell, Children of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell and Appendix
       of Allied Families.  New York:  Privately Published, 1931.  43-55.
   3.  Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell,
       Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America with some Notices of the
       Family in the Kingdom of Great Britain..  New York:  privately
       published, 1930.  35-90.
   4.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  653.
   5.  Ibid., p. 913.
   6.  Ibid., p. 191.
   7.  Stillwell (op. cit.) believes that the parents of Elizabeth
       Gerritszen are Cornelis Gerritszen and (__).  Riker (op. cit.), in his
       discussion of the Britton family, speculates that they may be Gerrit
       Gerritszen and Annetje Hermanse.  However, he does not list Elizabeth
       as a child of Gerrit and Annetje when he address that family (p. 612).
   8.  Coggeshall, C.P., "Material Towards a Genealogy of the Coggeshall
       Family," The Rhode Island Historical Magazine, 5 (1884):  173-190.
   9.  Riker, op. cit., p. 1632.
  10.  Ledley, Wilson V., and B-Ann Moorhouse, "Early Dutch Smiths and Van
       Boerums," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 103 (1972):
       65-78, 138-146.

   A special thanks goes out to Daniel E. Schillinger for alerting me to the New
   Netherland ancestry of Augustus Longstreet, and sharing his findings with me.

 

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