Benjamin Hageman I (1730-1804).
Spouse:
Getrude (Gitty) X (1736-1777).
Biography:
Benjamin Hageman was born on the Adrian Hegeman farmstead in Six Mile Run. He lived there until he died. He was buried there in the family burial ground with his first wife Gitty, daughter Anna, and his parents Adrian and Maria Van Vliet Hegeman. There are probably other family members and friends interred there as well. The Adrian Hageman Family Burying Ground was located three hundred yards west of the Adrian Hageman Family Homestead. It was plowed under by farmers many years ago. A cenotaph memorializing Benjamin, Gitty and Ann(a) was erected in the Elm Ridge Cemetery located nearby. Perhaps the cenotaph tombstone honoring Benjamin, Gitty and daughter Anna located nearby in the Elm Ridge Cemetery was originally located in the Adrian Hageman Burying Ground. Private Benjamin Hageman served with the New Jersey State Militia during the American Revolution. During the conflict, troop movements passed by the residence on what is now State Highway 27 which fronts the original homestead site. The original farm is now the home for the Jersey Knights Soccer Club. The ruins of the homestead, which may have been built as early as 1703, are located in the woods behind the soccer fields. Benjamin Hegaman owned at least two slaves. Tone valued at $220 and Tom valued at $270 (an 1804 inventory). Benjamin shared the family homestead with his brother Simon Hegaman who inherited the other half of it from their parents Adrian and Maria. The original farmstead contained about 350 acres. Benjamin applied for compensation from the government for damages incurred during the Revolution in the amount of fifty nine pounds nineteen shillings and five pence. Benjamin Hegaman also owned the lease of at least one indentured servant who fled before the lease expired. A thirty shilling reward was offered for the return of the said servant James McGrady. Benjamin and his first wife Gitty had at least ten children; Six sons and four daughters.
I. Sgt. Adrian "Aaron" Hageman (b.April 1756-d.April 21, 1839); Find A Grave #7985506. He enlisted as a private in the Somerset County Militia."Aaron" Hageman married Frances Wyckoff; Find A Grave #6792637. They had eleven children.
II. a daughter
III. Benjamin Hageman "The Younger" (b.1762-d.Feb. 15, 1829); Find A Grave Memorial #7991374 married Magdalene Garretson Hageman (1774-1814). They had a son Benjamin B. Hageman (1812-1890); Find A Grave Memorial #26568192 married Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle. They had a son Garretson Hageman (1846-1915); Find A Grave Memorial #20938590 married Caroline Gano Staats. They had a daughter Jane Anne "Anna" Van Wickle Hageman; (1889-1978); Find A Grave Memorial #16618793 who married Fred L. Bascom. They had a daughter Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron (1919-2012); Find A Grave Memorial #124627358. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was a member of the Meadows Foundation which owns the Garretson-Hageman House in Middlebush, NJ, the home of her great-grandparents; Benjamin B. Hageman and Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle Hageman. Jane Van Wickle Hageman was a descendant of Symen Van Wickle. The Meadows Foundation also owns the 1722 Symen Van Wickle House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wyckoff-Garretson of 1730 & 1805 which has family connections as well. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was also a member of the DAR and dedicated to the Hageman family genealogical research.
IV. Peter (1764-1838) He married Nancy "Ann" Suydam and had 3 children. Their children:
1. Sarah who never married.
2. Cornelius who died young.
3. Major Benjamin Hegeman who served with the New Jersey Second Battalion, Third Regiment, Somerset County Militia. The entire family eventually moved to Indiana.
V. a daughter
VI. Gertye (b.1769-d.Jan. 1802)
VII. Jannetye "Jane" (b. 1770-d. Jan. 1802); Find A Grave Memorial #51852466 married Cornelius Waldron #5185245. They had one child.
VIII. John Hageman (b.1772-d.Jan. 1802)
IX. Simon (1773-1833) married Ida Suydam and moved to Ohio. He died from cholera on the Mississippi River.
X. William Hageman (1776-1845) had three wives. (1) Phoebe Downing (2) Margaret Traphagen (3) Sarah Glover.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married a widow, Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam. He entered into a marriage contract prior to his betrothal in the amount of five hundred dollars. The widow Suydam, his second wife, had five children from her first marriage. Benjamin Hageman and his second wife Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam Hageman were married on November 2, 1778 and had two children:
I. Isaac Hageman (1779-1849). Isaac Hageman first married Maria (Van Der Veer) Vanderveer. Their children:
1. Sarah Hageman (1801-1841); Find A Grave Memorial
#7369735. She married William J. Oppie (1795-1831). Their known child: Isaac Hageman Oppie (1820-1906). They had several other children as well. Sarah next married a Mr. Spence. He left the family shortly after they married.
2. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1803-1870); Find A Grave Memorial #65360962. He married Maria Thompson Voorhees. Their known children: Elbert N. Hageman (1833-1903); Find A Grave Memorial #68354659 and John Voorhees Hageman (1836-1912); Find A Grave Memorial #68344923.
3. William Brown Hageman (1805-1882); Find-A-Grave #65205846 married Aletta Stryker on January 3, 1827.
William Brown Hageman and Aletta "Althea" Quick Stryker
Their children:
i. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1835-1888)
ii. Abraham Wilson Hageman (1841-1900)
iii. Jane Ann Hageman (1843-1844)
iv. Jane Adeline Hageman (1844-1894)
v. Maria Hageman
vi. John Stryker Hageman
4. Elizabeth Ann Hageman (b.1808)
5. Isaac Hageman Jr., (1810- 1891). Isaac Hageman, Jr. married (1) Maria W. Voorhees (2) Cornelia Ann Little.
6. Peter Hageman (b.1812)
7. Gertrude Hageman (b.1815)
8. Maria Hageman (b.1817)
9. Cornelius Waldron Hageman (b.1820)
10. Simon Van Liew Hageman (b.1822)
11. Andrew Brown Hageman (1824-1903); Find-A-Grave #51897628 married Sarah C. Ross on November 13, 1845 in Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois. They had 11 children:
Their first child, Russell Blakely Hageman is Find A Grave Memorial #30823848. Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman, the wife of Russell Blakeley Hageman, composed a touching poem about their daughter Lillie Mae Hageman who died at the age of two in 1872. The poem (unfinished): "Our Lily's Grave" is on the Lillie Mae Hageman memorial site Find-A-Grave #28878429. NOTE: The Russell Blakely Hageman line of descendants are listed in Find A Grave. The eleven children of Andrew Brown and Sarah C. Ross Hageman:
1. Russell Blakely Hageman (1846-1928); Find A Grave Memorial #30823848 married (1) Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman (1849-1873). Their children: Roland Russell Hageman (1869-1952), Lillie Mae Hageman (1870-1872) and an infant child. married (2) Elmira Francis Rathburn Hageman (1854 -1897). Their children: Luella (Lula), Melissa (Lissa), Edna Pearl Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Walter Hageman. Andrew Walter Hageman (1878-1966); Find A Grave Memorial #70367309, the great-great grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman married Annie Neoda McCaffrey Hageman (1887-1967). Their children: Fern B. Hageman Coleman (1916-1998); Find A Grave Memorial #60394633 and Russell Walter Hageman (1913-1974); Find A Grave Memorial# 70367284. Russell Walter Hageman married G. Marie Rogers Hageman (1923-1995). They had a son who married and had seven children. Joey Russell Hageman (1974-2012); Find A Grave Memorial# 88437102, their son, the great-grandson of Russell Blakely Hageman, the 4th. great-grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman and the 7th. great-grandson of Adrian Hegeman (1625-1672) and Catharina "Catherine" Margetts Hegeman (1625-1690) of Holland and Flatbush, NY.
2. Annie M. Hageman
3. Simon Van Liew Hageman
4. Andrew Jackson Hageman
5. Elizabeth Hageman
6. Albert G. Hageman
7. Margaret Webster Hageman
8. Emma Hageman
9. Sherman Hageman
10. Mary E. Hageman
11. Phoebe Carry Hageman
Isaac Hageman married his second wife Ellen Voorhees on Feb 8, 1834. They had one child: Holmes Milton Hageman (1835-1842); Find-A-Grave Memorial #76236083. He died at the age of seven. Isaac Hageman immigrated in 1837 to Illinois from New Jersey, along with his second wife Ellen Voorhees, many of his children including his grown son William Brown Hageman and his first wife Aletta Quick Stryker, his 13-year-old son Andrew Brown Hageman, and many other Somerset County, New Jersey families. NOTE: The life and times of Isaac Hageman and his descendants is covered extensively by The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman Website.
II. Gertrude Hageman (1781-1859); Find A Grave Memorial
#34510148 married John P. Nevius (1777-1846); Find-A-Grave #77831114. They had at least nine children; Peter Nevius, Sarah Nevius Dunlap, Benjamin Hageman Nevius, Jane Nevius Wilson, Elbert Nevius, Ann Nevius Donaldson, Maria Nevius Wilson, Gertrude Nevins (Nevius) Best and Ellen Stootoff Nevius Emery. Together, Benjamin and his second wife, a widow, Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman, raised at least seventeen children.
Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman and Isaac Suydam, her first husband, had the following children:
I. Mary Sedam (Suydam) who died young.
II. Pvt. Peter Sedam (Suydam); Find A Grave Memorial #71453087
III. Pvt. John Adam Sedam (Suydam) was a Revolutionary War Veteran like his brother and step-father. John Sedam was born on July 23, 1765 in Hillsborough, NJ. He died about 1822. He moved his family to Lycoming County, PA and settled atop Penny Hill. His first wife was Jane Piatt, the daughter of Captain John Piatt; Find A Grave Memorial# 93083487 and Jane Williamson Piatt. They were married in Middlesex County, NJ on March 24, 1785. Jane Piatt Sedam died on Jan. 7, 1798. They had five children. Their son; John Piatt Sedam was born in 1796 (about Feb. 29) in Lycoming County, Pa. His parents were John Adam Sedam and Jane Piatt Sedam, who had moved to Pa. from New Jersey several years earlier. He married Hannah Maria Murrill, Oct. 14, 1821, and they lived in Victory, Cayuga Co., N. Y. It is not known whether they were married before moving to New York State or whether he moved to New York and then met his wife. They had three children: John, born Dec. 22, 1822; Sarah Jane, born Oct 19, 1824, who died in infancy; and William Marrill, born Feb. 22, 1827. Both boys married and moved west. Hannah Maria Murrill died in Victory, July 30, 1828, and on Aug. 6, 1829, John married a second wife, Lydia C. Tuttle, whose family had previoulsy moved from Vermont. Her mother was Lydia Lowell, whose gravestone stands in the cemetery in Victory. John and his second wife Lydia continued to live in Victory, and they had three children: Samuel Columbus, born May 8, 1830; Harriett Henderton, born Feb. 21, 1833, who died in infancy; and Frederick Augustus, born Feb. 15, 1836, and who died July 2, 1858, unmarried. Samuel Columbus Sedam, who later changed the spelling of his name to Suydam, moved to Baldwinsville, N. Y., where he married Oct. 8, 1854, Anna Matilda Bayley. S. C. Suydam was a merchant. John Piatt Sedam is reported to have been a Justice of the Peace in Victory. He died Nov. 8, 1840, and is buried in the Martville Cemetery with his first wife Hannah Murrill. His second wife Lydia, moved to Syracuse, and later to Baldwinsville, where she died March 15, 1872, and is buried in her son's plot in Riverside Cemetery. Pvt. John Adam Sedam's second wife was Sally Rose. They were married on June 11, 1798. She died childless. His third wife was Jane Tate. They married on July 4, 1809. They had five children. John Sedam's grandson Samuel T. Sedam is find-a-grave #16475843. *Private John (Johannes) Sedam (Surdam, Suydam) Office of the Adjutant General dated Trenton November 9, 1926. John Surdam enlisted as private, Captain Thomas Reading's Sixth Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third Regiment, First Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line, Februrary 27, 1776; deserted; brought into Albany, NY, May 23, 1776; mustered at Ticonderoga, NY, November 23, 1776 as Private, Captain John Mott's First Company Continental Line, feb. 21, 1777; mustered at Mount Independence, NY, Feb. 23, 1777. On muster rolls through June 3, 1777.
IV. Ann Sedam (Suydam); Find-A-Grave #8200415 born December 21, 1777 married Andrew Brown; Find-A-Grave #8200215 who was baptized on 26 December 1771 at Six Mile Run DRC. Andrew was the son of Matthew and Hanna Brown and was likely the descendant of William Brown who settled in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ in 1665. Their children were Mary, Isaac. Matthew and Sarah.
V. Isaac Sedam (Suydam), born 27 September 1776. He was born three days before his father died.
NOTE: The original surname was Suydam. Some children used the name Sedam, while others continued to use Suydam. Also, some children used both Suydam and Sedam as well as Surdam. Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman died at the age of 96.
Information for Isaac Hageman and his Desecendants
Taken From: The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman, Descendants of William Brown Hageman and his wives, sisters Althea Quick Stryker and Magdalena Voorhees Stryker and Alice Imig Stipak, 2001., et.al.
Spouse:
Getrude (Gitty) X (1736-1777).
Biography:
Benjamin Hageman was born on the Adrian Hegeman farmstead in Six Mile Run. He lived there until he died. He was buried there in the family burial ground with his first wife Gitty, daughter Anna, and his parents Adrian and Maria Van Vliet Hegeman. There are probably other family members and friends interred there as well. The Adrian Hageman Family Burying Ground was located three hundred yards west of the Adrian Hageman Family Homestead. It was plowed under by farmers many years ago. A cenotaph memorializing Benjamin, Gitty and Ann(a) was erected in the Elm Ridge Cemetery located nearby. Perhaps the cenotaph tombstone honoring Benjamin, Gitty and daughter Anna located nearby in the Elm Ridge Cemetery was originally located in the Adrian Hageman Burying Ground. Private Benjamin Hageman served with the New Jersey State Militia during the American Revolution. During the conflict, troop movements passed by the residence on what is now State Highway 27 which fronts the original homestead site. The original farm is now the home for the Jersey Knights Soccer Club. The ruins of the homestead, which may have been built as early as 1703, are located in the woods behind the soccer fields. Benjamin Hegaman owned at least two slaves. Tone valued at $220 and Tom valued at $270 (an 1804 inventory). Benjamin shared the family homestead with his brother Simon Hegaman who inherited the other half of it from their parents Adrian and Maria. The original farmstead contained about 350 acres. Benjamin applied for compensation from the government for damages incurred during the Revolution in the amount of fifty nine pounds nineteen shillings and five pence. Benjamin Hegaman also owned the lease of at least one indentured servant who fled before the lease expired. A thirty shilling reward was offered for the return of the said servant James McGrady. Benjamin and his first wife Gitty had at least ten children; Six sons and four daughters.
I. Sgt. Adrian "Aaron" Hageman (b.April 1756-d.April 21, 1839); Find A Grave #7985506. He enlisted as a private in the Somerset County Militia."Aaron" Hageman married Frances Wyckoff; Find A Grave #6792637. They had eleven children.
II. a daughter
III. Benjamin Hageman "The Younger" (b.1762-d.Feb. 15, 1829); Find A Grave Memorial #7991374 married Magdalene Garretson Hageman (1774-1814). They had a son Benjamin B. Hageman (1812-1890); Find A Grave Memorial #26568192 married Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle. They had a son Garretson Hageman (1846-1915); Find A Grave Memorial #20938590 married Caroline Gano Staats. They had a daughter Jane Anne "Anna" Van Wickle Hageman; (1889-1978); Find A Grave Memorial #16618793 who married Fred L. Bascom. They had a daughter Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron (1919-2012); Find A Grave Memorial #124627358. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was a member of the Meadows Foundation which owns the Garretson-Hageman House in Middlebush, NJ, the home of her great-grandparents; Benjamin B. Hageman and Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle Hageman. Jane Van Wickle Hageman was a descendant of Symen Van Wickle. The Meadows Foundation also owns the 1722 Symen Van Wickle House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wyckoff-Garretson of 1730 & 1805 which has family connections as well. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was also a member of the DAR and dedicated to the Hageman family genealogical research.
IV. Peter (1764-1838) He married Nancy "Ann" Suydam and had 3 children. Their children:
1. Sarah who never married.
2. Cornelius who died young.
3. Major Benjamin Hegeman who served with the New Jersey Second Battalion, Third Regiment, Somerset County Militia. The entire family eventually moved to Indiana.
V. a daughter
VI. Gertye (b.1769-d.Jan. 1802)
VII. Jannetye "Jane" (b. 1770-d. Jan. 1802); Find A Grave Memorial #51852466 married Cornelius Waldron #5185245. They had one child.
VIII. John Hageman (b.1772-d.Jan. 1802)
IX. Simon (1773-1833) married Ida Suydam and moved to Ohio. He died from cholera on the Mississippi River.
X. William Hageman (1776-1845) had three wives. (1) Phoebe Downing (2) Margaret Traphagen (3) Sarah Glover.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married a widow, Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam. He entered into a marriage contract prior to his betrothal in the amount of five hundred dollars. The widow Suydam, his second wife, had five children from her first marriage. Benjamin Hageman and his second wife Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam Hageman were married on November 2, 1778 and had two children:
I. Isaac Hageman (1779-1849). Isaac Hageman first married Maria (Van Der Veer) Vanderveer. Their children:
1. Sarah Hageman (1801-1841); Find A Grave Memorial
#7369735. She married William J. Oppie (1795-1831). Their known child: Isaac Hageman Oppie (1820-1906). They had several other children as well. Sarah next married a Mr. Spence. He left the family shortly after they married.
2. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1803-1870); Find A Grave Memorial #65360962. He married Maria Thompson Voorhees. Their known children: Elbert N. Hageman (1833-1903); Find A Grave Memorial #68354659 and John Voorhees Hageman (1836-1912); Find A Grave Memorial #68344923.
3. William Brown Hageman (1805-1882); Find-A-Grave #65205846 married Aletta Stryker on January 3, 1827.
William Brown Hageman and Aletta "Althea" Quick Stryker
Their children:
i. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1835-1888)
ii. Abraham Wilson Hageman (1841-1900)
iii. Jane Ann Hageman (1843-1844)
iv. Jane Adeline Hageman (1844-1894)
v. Maria Hageman
vi. John Stryker Hageman
4. Elizabeth Ann Hageman (b.1808)
5. Isaac Hageman Jr., (1810- 1891). Isaac Hageman, Jr. married (1) Maria W. Voorhees (2) Cornelia Ann Little.
6. Peter Hageman (b.1812)
7. Gertrude Hageman (b.1815)
8. Maria Hageman (b.1817)
9. Cornelius Waldron Hageman (b.1820)
10. Simon Van Liew Hageman (b.1822)
11. Andrew Brown Hageman (1824-1903); Find-A-Grave #51897628 married Sarah C. Ross on November 13, 1845 in Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois. They had 11 children:
Their first child, Russell Blakely Hageman is Find A Grave Memorial #30823848. Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman, the wife of Russell Blakeley Hageman, composed a touching poem about their daughter Lillie Mae Hageman who died at the age of two in 1872. The poem (unfinished): "Our Lily's Grave" is on the Lillie Mae Hageman memorial site Find-A-Grave #28878429. NOTE: The Russell Blakely Hageman line of descendants are listed in Find A Grave. The eleven children of Andrew Brown and Sarah C. Ross Hageman:
1. Russell Blakely Hageman (1846-1928); Find A Grave Memorial #30823848 married (1) Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman (1849-1873). Their children: Roland Russell Hageman (1869-1952), Lillie Mae Hageman (1870-1872) and an infant child. married (2) Elmira Francis Rathburn Hageman (1854 -1897). Their children: Luella (Lula), Melissa (Lissa), Edna Pearl Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Walter Hageman. Andrew Walter Hageman (1878-1966); Find A Grave Memorial #70367309, the great-great grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman married Annie Neoda McCaffrey Hageman (1887-1967). Their children: Fern B. Hageman Coleman (1916-1998); Find A Grave Memorial #60394633 and Russell Walter Hageman (1913-1974); Find A Grave Memorial# 70367284. Russell Walter Hageman married G. Marie Rogers Hageman (1923-1995). They had a son who married and had seven children. Joey Russell Hageman (1974-2012); Find A Grave Memorial# 88437102, their son, the great-grandson of Russell Blakely Hageman, the 4th. great-grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman and the 7th. great-grandson of Adrian Hegeman (1625-1672) and Catharina "Catherine" Margetts Hegeman (1625-1690) of Holland and Flatbush, NY.
2. Annie M. Hageman
3. Simon Van Liew Hageman
4. Andrew Jackson Hageman
5. Elizabeth Hageman
6. Albert G. Hageman
7. Margaret Webster Hageman
8. Emma Hageman
9. Sherman Hageman
10. Mary E. Hageman
11. Phoebe Carry Hageman
Isaac Hageman married his second wife Ellen Voorhees on Feb 8, 1834. They had one child: Holmes Milton Hageman (1835-1842); Find-A-Grave Memorial #76236083. He died at the age of seven. Isaac Hageman immigrated in 1837 to Illinois from New Jersey, along with his second wife Ellen Voorhees, many of his children including his grown son William Brown Hageman and his first wife Aletta Quick Stryker, his 13-year-old son Andrew Brown Hageman, and many other Somerset County, New Jersey families. NOTE: The life and times of Isaac Hageman and his descendants is covered extensively by The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman Website.
II. Gertrude Hageman (1781-1859); Find A Grave Memorial
#34510148 married John P. Nevius (1777-1846); Find-A-Grave #77831114. They had at least nine children; Peter Nevius, Sarah Nevius Dunlap, Benjamin Hageman Nevius, Jane Nevius Wilson, Elbert Nevius, Ann Nevius Donaldson, Maria Nevius Wilson, Gertrude Nevins (Nevius) Best and Ellen Stootoff Nevius Emery. Together, Benjamin and his second wife, a widow, Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman, raised at least seventeen children.
Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman and Isaac Suydam, her first husband, had the following children:
I. Mary Sedam (Suydam) who died young.
II. Pvt. Peter Sedam (Suydam); Find A Grave Memorial #71453087
III. Pvt. John Adam Sedam (Suydam) was a Revolutionary War Veteran like his brother and step-father. John Sedam was born on July 23, 1765 in Hillsborough, NJ. He died about 1822. He moved his family to Lycoming County, PA and settled atop Penny Hill. His first wife was Jane Piatt, the daughter of Captain John Piatt; Find A Grave Memorial# 93083487 and Jane Williamson Piatt. They were married in Middlesex County, NJ on March 24, 1785. Jane Piatt Sedam died on Jan. 7, 1798. They had five children. Their son; John Piatt Sedam was born in 1796 (about Feb. 29) in Lycoming County, Pa. His parents were John Adam Sedam and Jane Piatt Sedam, who had moved to Pa. from New Jersey several years earlier. He married Hannah Maria Murrill, Oct. 14, 1821, and they lived in Victory, Cayuga Co., N. Y. It is not known whether they were married before moving to New York State or whether he moved to New York and then met his wife. They had three children: John, born Dec. 22, 1822; Sarah Jane, born Oct 19, 1824, who died in infancy; and William Marrill, born Feb. 22, 1827. Both boys married and moved west. Hannah Maria Murrill died in Victory, July 30, 1828, and on Aug. 6, 1829, John married a second wife, Lydia C. Tuttle, whose family had previoulsy moved from Vermont. Her mother was Lydia Lowell, whose gravestone stands in the cemetery in Victory. John and his second wife Lydia continued to live in Victory, and they had three children: Samuel Columbus, born May 8, 1830; Harriett Henderton, born Feb. 21, 1833, who died in infancy; and Frederick Augustus, born Feb. 15, 1836, and who died July 2, 1858, unmarried. Samuel Columbus Sedam, who later changed the spelling of his name to Suydam, moved to Baldwinsville, N. Y., where he married Oct. 8, 1854, Anna Matilda Bayley. S. C. Suydam was a merchant. John Piatt Sedam is reported to have been a Justice of the Peace in Victory. He died Nov. 8, 1840, and is buried in the Martville Cemetery with his first wife Hannah Murrill. His second wife Lydia, moved to Syracuse, and later to Baldwinsville, where she died March 15, 1872, and is buried in her son's plot in Riverside Cemetery. Pvt. John Adam Sedam's second wife was Sally Rose. They were married on June 11, 1798. She died childless. His third wife was Jane Tate. They married on July 4, 1809. They had five children. John Sedam's grandson Samuel T. Sedam is find-a-grave #16475843. *Private John (Johannes) Sedam (Surdam, Suydam) Office of the Adjutant General dated Trenton November 9, 1926. John Surdam enlisted as private, Captain Thomas Reading's Sixth Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third Regiment, First Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line, Februrary 27, 1776; deserted; brought into Albany, NY, May 23, 1776; mustered at Ticonderoga, NY, November 23, 1776 as Private, Captain John Mott's First Company Continental Line, feb. 21, 1777; mustered at Mount Independence, NY, Feb. 23, 1777. On muster rolls through June 3, 1777.
IV. Ann Sedam (Suydam); Find-A-Grave #8200415 born December 21, 1777 married Andrew Brown; Find-A-Grave #8200215 who was baptized on 26 December 1771 at Six Mile Run DRC. Andrew was the son of Matthew and Hanna Brown and was likely the descendant of William Brown who settled in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ in 1665. Their children were Mary, Isaac. Matthew and Sarah.
V. Isaac Sedam (Suydam), born 27 September 1776. He was born three days before his father died.
NOTE: The original surname was Suydam. Some children used the name Sedam, while others continued to use Suydam. Also, some children used both Suydam and Sedam as well as Surdam. Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman died at the age of 96.
Information for Isaac Hageman and his Desecendants
Taken From: The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman, Descendants of William Brown Hageman and his wives, sisters Althea Quick Stryker and Magdalena Voorhees Stryker and Alice Imig Stipak, 2001., et.al.
Benjamin Hageman I (1730-1804).
Spouse:
Getrude (Gitty) X (1736-1777).
Biography:
Benjamin Hageman was born on the Adrian Hegeman farmstead in Six Mile Run. He lived there until he died. He was buried there in the family burial ground with his first wife Gitty, daughter Anna, and his parents Adrian and Maria Van Vliet Hegeman. There are probably other family members and friends interred there as well. The Adrian Hageman Family Burying Ground was located three hundred yards west of the Adrian Hageman Family Homestead. It was plowed under by farmers many years ago. A cenotaph memorializing Benjamin, Gitty and Ann(a) was erected in the Elm Ridge Cemetery located nearby. Perhaps the cenotaph tombstone honoring Benjamin, Gitty and daughter Anna located nearby in the Elm Ridge Cemetery was originally located in the Adrian Hageman Burying Ground. Private Benjamin Hageman served with the New Jersey State Militia during the American Revolution. During the conflict, troop movements passed by the residence on what is now State Highway 27 which fronts the original homestead site. The original farm is now the home for the Jersey Knights Soccer Club. The ruins of the homestead, which may have been built as early as 1703, are located in the woods behind the soccer fields. Benjamin Hegaman owned at least two slaves. Tone valued at $220 and Tom valued at $270 (an 1804 inventory). Benjamin shared the family homestead with his brother Simon Hegaman who inherited the other half of it from their parents Adrian and Maria. The original farmstead contained about 350 acres. Benjamin applied for compensation from the government for damages incurred during the Revolution in the amount of fifty nine pounds nineteen shillings and five pence. Benjamin Hegaman also owned the lease of at least one indentured servant who fled before the lease expired. A thirty shilling reward was offered for the return of the said servant James McGrady. Benjamin and his first wife Gitty had at least ten children; Six sons and four daughters.
I. Sgt. Adrian "Aaron" Hageman (b.April 1756-d.April 21, 1839); Find A Grave #7985506. He enlisted as a private in the Somerset County Militia."Aaron" Hageman married Frances Wyckoff; Find A Grave #6792637. They had eleven children.
II. a daughter
III. Benjamin Hageman "The Younger" (b.1762-d.Feb. 15, 1829); Find A Grave Memorial #7991374 married Magdalene Garretson Hageman (1774-1814). They had a son Benjamin B. Hageman (1812-1890); Find A Grave Memorial #26568192 married Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle. They had a son Garretson Hageman (1846-1915); Find A Grave Memorial #20938590 married Caroline Gano Staats. They had a daughter Jane Anne "Anna" Van Wickle Hageman; (1889-1978); Find A Grave Memorial #16618793 who married Fred L. Bascom. They had a daughter Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron (1919-2012); Find A Grave Memorial #124627358. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was a member of the Meadows Foundation which owns the Garretson-Hageman House in Middlebush, NJ, the home of her great-grandparents; Benjamin B. Hageman and Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle Hageman. Jane Van Wickle Hageman was a descendant of Symen Van Wickle. The Meadows Foundation also owns the 1722 Symen Van Wickle House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wyckoff-Garretson of 1730 & 1805 which has family connections as well. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was also a member of the DAR and dedicated to the Hageman family genealogical research.
IV. Peter (1764-1838) He married Nancy "Ann" Suydam and had 3 children. Their children:
1. Sarah who never married.
2. Cornelius who died young.
3. Major Benjamin Hegeman who served with the New Jersey Second Battalion, Third Regiment, Somerset County Militia. The entire family eventually moved to Indiana.
V. a daughter
VI. Gertye (b.1769-d.Jan. 1802)
VII. Jannetye "Jane" (b. 1770-d. Jan. 1802); Find A Grave Memorial #51852466 married Cornelius Waldron #5185245. They had one child.
VIII. John Hageman (b.1772-d.Jan. 1802)
IX. Simon (1773-1833) married Ida Suydam and moved to Ohio. He died from cholera on the Mississippi River.
X. William Hageman (1776-1845) had three wives. (1) Phoebe Downing (2) Margaret Traphagen (3) Sarah Glover.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married a widow, Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam. He entered into a marriage contract prior to his betrothal in the amount of five hundred dollars. The widow Suydam, his second wife, had five children from her first marriage. Benjamin Hageman and his second wife Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam Hageman were married on November 2, 1778 and had two children:
I. Isaac Hageman (1779-1849). Isaac Hageman first married Maria (Van Der Veer) Vanderveer. Their children:
1. Sarah Hageman (1801-1841); Find A Grave Memorial
#7369735. She married William J. Oppie (1795-1831). Their known child: Isaac Hageman Oppie (1820-1906). They had several other children as well. Sarah next married a Mr. Spence. He left the family shortly after they married.
2. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1803-1870); Find A Grave Memorial #65360962. He married Maria Thompson Voorhees. Their known children: Elbert N. Hageman (1833-1903); Find A Grave Memorial #68354659 and John Voorhees Hageman (1836-1912); Find A Grave Memorial #68344923.
3. William Brown Hageman (1805-1882); Find-A-Grave #65205846 married Aletta Stryker on January 3, 1827.
William Brown Hageman and Aletta "Althea" Quick Stryker
Their children:
i. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1835-1888)
ii. Abraham Wilson Hageman (1841-1900)
iii. Jane Ann Hageman (1843-1844)
iv. Jane Adeline Hageman (1844-1894)
v. Maria Hageman
vi. John Stryker Hageman
4. Elizabeth Ann Hageman (b.1808)
5. Isaac Hageman Jr., (1810- 1891). Isaac Hageman, Jr. married (1) Maria W. Voorhees (2) Cornelia Ann Little.
6. Peter Hageman (b.1812)
7. Gertrude Hageman (b.1815)
8. Maria Hageman (b.1817)
9. Cornelius Waldron Hageman (b.1820)
10. Simon Van Liew Hageman (b.1822)
11. Andrew Brown Hageman (1824-1903); Find-A-Grave #51897628 married Sarah C. Ross on November 13, 1845 in Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois. They had 11 children:
Their first child, Russell Blakely Hageman is Find A Grave Memorial #30823848. Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman, the wife of Russell Blakeley Hageman, composed a touching poem about their daughter Lillie Mae Hageman who died at the age of two in 1872. The poem (unfinished): "Our Lily's Grave" is on the Lillie Mae Hageman memorial site Find-A-Grave #28878429. NOTE: The Russell Blakely Hageman line of descendants are listed in Find A Grave. The eleven children of Andrew Brown and Sarah C. Ross Hageman:
1. Russell Blakely Hageman (1846-1928); Find A Grave Memorial #30823848 married (1) Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman (1849-1873). Their children: Roland Russell Hageman (1869-1952), Lillie Mae Hageman (1870-1872) and an infant child. married (2) Elmira Francis Rathburn Hageman (1854 -1897). Their children: Luella (Lula), Melissa (Lissa), Edna Pearl Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Walter Hageman. Andrew Walter Hageman (1878-1966); Find A Grave Memorial #70367309, the great-great grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman married Annie Neoda McCaffrey Hageman (1887-1967). Their children: Fern B. Hageman Coleman (1916-1998); Find A Grave Memorial #60394633 and Russell Walter Hageman (1913-1974); Find A Grave Memorial# 70367284. Russell Walter Hageman married G. Marie Rogers Hageman (1923-1995). They had a son who married and had seven children. Joey Russell Hageman (1974-2012); Find A Grave Memorial# 88437102, their son, the great-grandson of Russell Blakely Hageman, the 4th. great-grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman and the 7th. great-grandson of Adrian Hegeman (1625-1672) and Catharina "Catherine" Margetts Hegeman (1625-1690) of Holland and Flatbush, NY.
2. Annie M. Hageman
3. Simon Van Liew Hageman
4. Andrew Jackson Hageman
5. Elizabeth Hageman
6. Albert G. Hageman
7. Margaret Webster Hageman
8. Emma Hageman
9. Sherman Hageman
10. Mary E. Hageman
11. Phoebe Carry Hageman
Isaac Hageman married his second wife Ellen Voorhees on Feb 8, 1834. They had one child: Holmes Milton Hageman (1835-1842); Find-A-Grave Memorial #76236083. He died at the age of seven. Isaac Hageman immigrated in 1837 to Illinois from New Jersey, along with his second wife Ellen Voorhees, many of his children including his grown son William Brown Hageman and his first wife Aletta Quick Stryker, his 13-year-old son Andrew Brown Hageman, and many other Somerset County, New Jersey families. NOTE: The life and times of Isaac Hageman and his descendants is covered extensively by The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman Website.
II. Gertrude Hageman (1781-1859); Find A Grave Memorial
#34510148 married John P. Nevius (1777-1846); Find-A-Grave #77831114. They had at least nine children; Peter Nevius, Sarah Nevius Dunlap, Benjamin Hageman Nevius, Jane Nevius Wilson, Elbert Nevius, Ann Nevius Donaldson, Maria Nevius Wilson, Gertrude Nevins (Nevius) Best and Ellen Stootoff Nevius Emery. Together, Benjamin and his second wife, a widow, Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman, raised at least seventeen children.
Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman and Isaac Suydam, her first husband, had the following children:
I. Mary Sedam (Suydam) who died young.
II. Pvt. Peter Sedam (Suydam); Find A Grave Memorial #71453087
III. Pvt. John Adam Sedam (Suydam) was a Revolutionary War Veteran like his brother and step-father. John Sedam was born on July 23, 1765 in Hillsborough, NJ. He died about 1822. He moved his family to Lycoming County, PA and settled atop Penny Hill. His first wife was Jane Piatt, the daughter of Captain John Piatt; Find A Grave Memorial# 93083487 and Jane Williamson Piatt. They were married in Middlesex County, NJ on March 24, 1785. Jane Piatt Sedam died on Jan. 7, 1798. They had five children. Their son; John Piatt Sedam was born in 1796 (about Feb. 29) in Lycoming County, Pa. His parents were John Adam Sedam and Jane Piatt Sedam, who had moved to Pa. from New Jersey several years earlier. He married Hannah Maria Murrill, Oct. 14, 1821, and they lived in Victory, Cayuga Co., N. Y. It is not known whether they were married before moving to New York State or whether he moved to New York and then met his wife. They had three children: John, born Dec. 22, 1822; Sarah Jane, born Oct 19, 1824, who died in infancy; and William Marrill, born Feb. 22, 1827. Both boys married and moved west. Hannah Maria Murrill died in Victory, July 30, 1828, and on Aug. 6, 1829, John married a second wife, Lydia C. Tuttle, whose family had previoulsy moved from Vermont. Her mother was Lydia Lowell, whose gravestone stands in the cemetery in Victory. John and his second wife Lydia continued to live in Victory, and they had three children: Samuel Columbus, born May 8, 1830; Harriett Henderton, born Feb. 21, 1833, who died in infancy; and Frederick Augustus, born Feb. 15, 1836, and who died July 2, 1858, unmarried. Samuel Columbus Sedam, who later changed the spelling of his name to Suydam, moved to Baldwinsville, N. Y., where he married Oct. 8, 1854, Anna Matilda Bayley. S. C. Suydam was a merchant. John Piatt Sedam is reported to have been a Justice of the Peace in Victory. He died Nov. 8, 1840, and is buried in the Martville Cemetery with his first wife Hannah Murrill. His second wife Lydia, moved to Syracuse, and later to Baldwinsville, where she died March 15, 1872, and is buried in her son's plot in Riverside Cemetery. Pvt. John Adam Sedam's second wife was Sally Rose. They were married on June 11, 1798. She died childless. His third wife was Jane Tate. They married on July 4, 1809. They had five children. John Sedam's grandson Samuel T. Sedam is find-a-grave #16475843. *Private John (Johannes) Sedam (Surdam, Suydam) Office of the Adjutant General dated Trenton November 9, 1926. John Surdam enlisted as private, Captain Thomas Reading's Sixth Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third Regiment, First Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line, Februrary 27, 1776; deserted; brought into Albany, NY, May 23, 1776; mustered at Ticonderoga, NY, November 23, 1776 as Private, Captain John Mott's First Company Continental Line, feb. 21, 1777; mustered at Mount Independence, NY, Feb. 23, 1777. On muster rolls through June 3, 1777.
IV. Ann Sedam (Suydam); Find-A-Grave #8200415 born December 21, 1777 married Andrew Brown; Find-A-Grave #8200215 who was baptized on 26 December 1771 at Six Mile Run DRC. Andrew was the son of Matthew and Hanna Brown and was likely the descendant of William Brown who settled in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ in 1665. Their children were Mary, Isaac. Matthew and Sarah.
V. Isaac Sedam (Suydam), born 27 September 1776. He was born three days before his father died.
NOTE: The original surname was Suydam. Some children used the name Sedam, while others continued to use Suydam. Also, some children used both Suydam and Sedam as well as Surdam. Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman died at the age of 96.
Information for Isaac Hageman and his Desecendants
Taken From: The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman, Descendants of William Brown Hageman and his wives, sisters Althea Quick Stryker and Magdalena Voorhees Stryker and Alice Imig Stipak, 2001., et.al.
Spouse:
Getrude (Gitty) X (1736-1777).
Biography:
Benjamin Hageman was born on the Adrian Hegeman farmstead in Six Mile Run. He lived there until he died. He was buried there in the family burial ground with his first wife Gitty, daughter Anna, and his parents Adrian and Maria Van Vliet Hegeman. There are probably other family members and friends interred there as well. The Adrian Hageman Family Burying Ground was located three hundred yards west of the Adrian Hageman Family Homestead. It was plowed under by farmers many years ago. A cenotaph memorializing Benjamin, Gitty and Ann(a) was erected in the Elm Ridge Cemetery located nearby. Perhaps the cenotaph tombstone honoring Benjamin, Gitty and daughter Anna located nearby in the Elm Ridge Cemetery was originally located in the Adrian Hageman Burying Ground. Private Benjamin Hageman served with the New Jersey State Militia during the American Revolution. During the conflict, troop movements passed by the residence on what is now State Highway 27 which fronts the original homestead site. The original farm is now the home for the Jersey Knights Soccer Club. The ruins of the homestead, which may have been built as early as 1703, are located in the woods behind the soccer fields. Benjamin Hegaman owned at least two slaves. Tone valued at $220 and Tom valued at $270 (an 1804 inventory). Benjamin shared the family homestead with his brother Simon Hegaman who inherited the other half of it from their parents Adrian and Maria. The original farmstead contained about 350 acres. Benjamin applied for compensation from the government for damages incurred during the Revolution in the amount of fifty nine pounds nineteen shillings and five pence. Benjamin Hegaman also owned the lease of at least one indentured servant who fled before the lease expired. A thirty shilling reward was offered for the return of the said servant James McGrady. Benjamin and his first wife Gitty had at least ten children; Six sons and four daughters.
I. Sgt. Adrian "Aaron" Hageman (b.April 1756-d.April 21, 1839); Find A Grave #7985506. He enlisted as a private in the Somerset County Militia."Aaron" Hageman married Frances Wyckoff; Find A Grave #6792637. They had eleven children.
II. a daughter
III. Benjamin Hageman "The Younger" (b.1762-d.Feb. 15, 1829); Find A Grave Memorial #7991374 married Magdalene Garretson Hageman (1774-1814). They had a son Benjamin B. Hageman (1812-1890); Find A Grave Memorial #26568192 married Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle. They had a son Garretson Hageman (1846-1915); Find A Grave Memorial #20938590 married Caroline Gano Staats. They had a daughter Jane Anne "Anna" Van Wickle Hageman; (1889-1978); Find A Grave Memorial #16618793 who married Fred L. Bascom. They had a daughter Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron (1919-2012); Find A Grave Memorial #124627358. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was a member of the Meadows Foundation which owns the Garretson-Hageman House in Middlebush, NJ, the home of her great-grandparents; Benjamin B. Hageman and Jane Anne Van Tine Van Wickle Hageman. Jane Van Wickle Hageman was a descendant of Symen Van Wickle. The Meadows Foundation also owns the 1722 Symen Van Wickle House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wyckoff-Garretson of 1730 & 1805 which has family connections as well. Margaret Hageman Bascom Cron was also a member of the DAR and dedicated to the Hageman family genealogical research.
IV. Peter (1764-1838) He married Nancy "Ann" Suydam and had 3 children. Their children:
1. Sarah who never married.
2. Cornelius who died young.
3. Major Benjamin Hegeman who served with the New Jersey Second Battalion, Third Regiment, Somerset County Militia. The entire family eventually moved to Indiana.
V. a daughter
VI. Gertye (b.1769-d.Jan. 1802)
VII. Jannetye "Jane" (b. 1770-d. Jan. 1802); Find A Grave Memorial #51852466 married Cornelius Waldron #5185245. They had one child.
VIII. John Hageman (b.1772-d.Jan. 1802)
IX. Simon (1773-1833) married Ida Suydam and moved to Ohio. He died from cholera on the Mississippi River.
X. William Hageman (1776-1845) had three wives. (1) Phoebe Downing (2) Margaret Traphagen (3) Sarah Glover.
After the death of his first wife, Benjamin married a widow, Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam. He entered into a marriage contract prior to his betrothal in the amount of five hundred dollars. The widow Suydam, his second wife, had five children from her first marriage. Benjamin Hageman and his second wife Sarah (Brokaw-Voorhees) Suydam Hageman were married on November 2, 1778 and had two children:
I. Isaac Hageman (1779-1849). Isaac Hageman first married Maria (Van Der Veer) Vanderveer. Their children:
1. Sarah Hageman (1801-1841); Find A Grave Memorial
#7369735. She married William J. Oppie (1795-1831). Their known child: Isaac Hageman Oppie (1820-1906). They had several other children as well. Sarah next married a Mr. Spence. He left the family shortly after they married.
2. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1803-1870); Find A Grave Memorial #65360962. He married Maria Thompson Voorhees. Their known children: Elbert N. Hageman (1833-1903); Find A Grave Memorial #68354659 and John Voorhees Hageman (1836-1912); Find A Grave Memorial #68344923.
3. William Brown Hageman (1805-1882); Find-A-Grave #65205846 married Aletta Stryker on January 3, 1827.
William Brown Hageman and Aletta "Althea" Quick Stryker
Their children:
i. Garret Vanderveer Hageman (1835-1888)
ii. Abraham Wilson Hageman (1841-1900)
iii. Jane Ann Hageman (1843-1844)
iv. Jane Adeline Hageman (1844-1894)
v. Maria Hageman
vi. John Stryker Hageman
4. Elizabeth Ann Hageman (b.1808)
5. Isaac Hageman Jr., (1810- 1891). Isaac Hageman, Jr. married (1) Maria W. Voorhees (2) Cornelia Ann Little.
6. Peter Hageman (b.1812)
7. Gertrude Hageman (b.1815)
8. Maria Hageman (b.1817)
9. Cornelius Waldron Hageman (b.1820)
10. Simon Van Liew Hageman (b.1822)
11. Andrew Brown Hageman (1824-1903); Find-A-Grave #51897628 married Sarah C. Ross on November 13, 1845 in Fairview, Fulton County, Illinois. They had 11 children:
Their first child, Russell Blakely Hageman is Find A Grave Memorial #30823848. Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman, the wife of Russell Blakeley Hageman, composed a touching poem about their daughter Lillie Mae Hageman who died at the age of two in 1872. The poem (unfinished): "Our Lily's Grave" is on the Lillie Mae Hageman memorial site Find-A-Grave #28878429. NOTE: The Russell Blakely Hageman line of descendants are listed in Find A Grave. The eleven children of Andrew Brown and Sarah C. Ross Hageman:
1. Russell Blakely Hageman (1846-1928); Find A Grave Memorial #30823848 married (1) Sarah Jane Fulton Hageman (1849-1873). Their children: Roland Russell Hageman (1869-1952), Lillie Mae Hageman (1870-1872) and an infant child. married (2) Elmira Francis Rathburn Hageman (1854 -1897). Their children: Luella (Lula), Melissa (Lissa), Edna Pearl Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Walter Hageman. Andrew Walter Hageman (1878-1966); Find A Grave Memorial #70367309, the great-great grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman married Annie Neoda McCaffrey Hageman (1887-1967). Their children: Fern B. Hageman Coleman (1916-1998); Find A Grave Memorial #60394633 and Russell Walter Hageman (1913-1974); Find A Grave Memorial# 70367284. Russell Walter Hageman married G. Marie Rogers Hageman (1923-1995). They had a son who married and had seven children. Joey Russell Hageman (1974-2012); Find A Grave Memorial# 88437102, their son, the great-grandson of Russell Blakely Hageman, the 4th. great-grandson of Private Benjamin Hageman and the 7th. great-grandson of Adrian Hegeman (1625-1672) and Catharina "Catherine" Margetts Hegeman (1625-1690) of Holland and Flatbush, NY.
2. Annie M. Hageman
3. Simon Van Liew Hageman
4. Andrew Jackson Hageman
5. Elizabeth Hageman
6. Albert G. Hageman
7. Margaret Webster Hageman
8. Emma Hageman
9. Sherman Hageman
10. Mary E. Hageman
11. Phoebe Carry Hageman
Isaac Hageman married his second wife Ellen Voorhees on Feb 8, 1834. They had one child: Holmes Milton Hageman (1835-1842); Find-A-Grave Memorial #76236083. He died at the age of seven. Isaac Hageman immigrated in 1837 to Illinois from New Jersey, along with his second wife Ellen Voorhees, many of his children including his grown son William Brown Hageman and his first wife Aletta Quick Stryker, his 13-year-old son Andrew Brown Hageman, and many other Somerset County, New Jersey families. NOTE: The life and times of Isaac Hageman and his descendants is covered extensively by The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman Website.
II. Gertrude Hageman (1781-1859); Find A Grave Memorial
#34510148 married John P. Nevius (1777-1846); Find-A-Grave #77831114. They had at least nine children; Peter Nevius, Sarah Nevius Dunlap, Benjamin Hageman Nevius, Jane Nevius Wilson, Elbert Nevius, Ann Nevius Donaldson, Maria Nevius Wilson, Gertrude Nevins (Nevius) Best and Ellen Stootoff Nevius Emery. Together, Benjamin and his second wife, a widow, Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman, raised at least seventeen children.
Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman and Isaac Suydam, her first husband, had the following children:
I. Mary Sedam (Suydam) who died young.
II. Pvt. Peter Sedam (Suydam); Find A Grave Memorial #71453087
III. Pvt. John Adam Sedam (Suydam) was a Revolutionary War Veteran like his brother and step-father. John Sedam was born on July 23, 1765 in Hillsborough, NJ. He died about 1822. He moved his family to Lycoming County, PA and settled atop Penny Hill. His first wife was Jane Piatt, the daughter of Captain John Piatt; Find A Grave Memorial# 93083487 and Jane Williamson Piatt. They were married in Middlesex County, NJ on March 24, 1785. Jane Piatt Sedam died on Jan. 7, 1798. They had five children. Their son; John Piatt Sedam was born in 1796 (about Feb. 29) in Lycoming County, Pa. His parents were John Adam Sedam and Jane Piatt Sedam, who had moved to Pa. from New Jersey several years earlier. He married Hannah Maria Murrill, Oct. 14, 1821, and they lived in Victory, Cayuga Co., N. Y. It is not known whether they were married before moving to New York State or whether he moved to New York and then met his wife. They had three children: John, born Dec. 22, 1822; Sarah Jane, born Oct 19, 1824, who died in infancy; and William Marrill, born Feb. 22, 1827. Both boys married and moved west. Hannah Maria Murrill died in Victory, July 30, 1828, and on Aug. 6, 1829, John married a second wife, Lydia C. Tuttle, whose family had previoulsy moved from Vermont. Her mother was Lydia Lowell, whose gravestone stands in the cemetery in Victory. John and his second wife Lydia continued to live in Victory, and they had three children: Samuel Columbus, born May 8, 1830; Harriett Henderton, born Feb. 21, 1833, who died in infancy; and Frederick Augustus, born Feb. 15, 1836, and who died July 2, 1858, unmarried. Samuel Columbus Sedam, who later changed the spelling of his name to Suydam, moved to Baldwinsville, N. Y., where he married Oct. 8, 1854, Anna Matilda Bayley. S. C. Suydam was a merchant. John Piatt Sedam is reported to have been a Justice of the Peace in Victory. He died Nov. 8, 1840, and is buried in the Martville Cemetery with his first wife Hannah Murrill. His second wife Lydia, moved to Syracuse, and later to Baldwinsville, where she died March 15, 1872, and is buried in her son's plot in Riverside Cemetery. Pvt. John Adam Sedam's second wife was Sally Rose. They were married on June 11, 1798. She died childless. His third wife was Jane Tate. They married on July 4, 1809. They had five children. John Sedam's grandson Samuel T. Sedam is find-a-grave #16475843. *Private John (Johannes) Sedam (Surdam, Suydam) Office of the Adjutant General dated Trenton November 9, 1926. John Surdam enlisted as private, Captain Thomas Reading's Sixth Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third Regiment, First Establishment, New Jersey Continental Line, Februrary 27, 1776; deserted; brought into Albany, NY, May 23, 1776; mustered at Ticonderoga, NY, November 23, 1776 as Private, Captain John Mott's First Company Continental Line, feb. 21, 1777; mustered at Mount Independence, NY, Feb. 23, 1777. On muster rolls through June 3, 1777.
IV. Ann Sedam (Suydam); Find-A-Grave #8200415 born December 21, 1777 married Andrew Brown; Find-A-Grave #8200215 who was baptized on 26 December 1771 at Six Mile Run DRC. Andrew was the son of Matthew and Hanna Brown and was likely the descendant of William Brown who settled in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ in 1665. Their children were Mary, Isaac. Matthew and Sarah.
V. Isaac Sedam (Suydam), born 27 September 1776. He was born three days before his father died.
NOTE: The original surname was Suydam. Some children used the name Sedam, while others continued to use Suydam. Also, some children used both Suydam and Sedam as well as Surdam. Sarah Brokaw-Voorhees Suydam Hageman died at the age of 96.
Information for Isaac Hageman and his Desecendants
Taken From: The Ancestors of Isaac Hageman, Descendants of William Brown Hageman and his wives, sisters Althea Quick Stryker and Magdalena Voorhees Stryker and Alice Imig Stipak, 2001., et.al.
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