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| Name | William P. Van Ness |
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New York, New York , United States |
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February 13, 1778
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| Died | September 06, 1826
(48 years)
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| Contributor | nystate63 |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
Jun 17, 2023 12:52pm |
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| Info | He was a federal judge in New York City when he died at the age of 49 years. He had previously been a fugitive from justice when a warrent was issued for his arrest for being a second to Aaron Burr when Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey on July 11, 1804. (Alexander Hamilton did not die immediately from his wound and was transported across the Hudson River back to New York where, before dying in agony from his wound, he eventually received last rites from the reluctant Episcopal bishop Benjamin Moore since the bishop did not approve of dueling.) William Peter Van Ness fled to Kinderhook to his parents' house for help and his father, Judge Peter Van Ness, refused to answer his knock on the front door. William went elsewhere for refuge and eventually sought the help of lawyer Martin Van Buren who had once been his law clerk. Martin Van Buren, who was known as a fine lawyer before he became a politician, managed to get the charges against William Van Ness dismissed. William then went on to eventually become a federal judge in New York City.
William Van Ness was a son of Judge Peter Van Ness of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York and his second wife Elbertie Hogeboom. Peter Van Ness had had a large house built in Kinderhook which was eventually owned by the 8th President of the United States, Martin Van Buren. When Martin Van Buren bought the house he gave one of his sons permission to extensively renovate the house but insisted that the front door and knocker be left in its original condition. Lindenwald is now a National Historical Site and is open to the public.
According to an entry in Volume 3 of Baltimore: its history and its people, published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and written by Clayton Colman Hall, William Peter Van Ness married Anne McEvers at Red Hook (Dutchess County, New York?) on September 20, 1800 with the Rev. John B. Romeyn officiating. Also according to Hall, they were both members of the Dutch Reformed Church and they had five children: Edward, born November 3, 1801 who married Catherine Halcomb; Harriet Mary, born August 16, 1803 who died March 28, 1825 and who married William Maury of England; Eugene, born in New York City December 6, 1804, died in Baltimore, Maryland on May 28, 1862 and who married Julia A. Brush, daughter of Dr. Nehemiah and Margaret (Underhill) Brush; Martha Eliza, born April 10, 1806 and who died unmarried in 1869; and Charles William Van Ness, born October 1, 1807 and died unmarried at Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York on March 13, 1883. Also according to Hall, William Peter Van Ness is buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York as is his son Eugene who was an Episcopalian.
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