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[This information is from Vol. IV, pp. 1601-1602 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]
The early spelling of this name was Mebie, and in that form was borne by Jan Pieter Mebie, the Dutch ancestor, who was of Schenectady, New York, at an early date. His home lot in the village was on the east side of Church street, next door to the Dutch church. He also had farm land on the Third Flat on the south side of the Mohawk, eight miles above Schenectady. The house on the farm, known as the "Old Mebie House," was built or at least its stone walls date from 1670-80, and is doubtless the oldest house in the Mohawk Valley. In 1697 Rode, a Mohawk Sachem, called Dirk by the settlers, with the consent of all the other Indians, granted eighty acres on both sides of Schoharie Creek to Jan Pieter Mebie, who married Anna Pieterse, daughter of Pieter Jacobus Borsboom. He made his will, April 3, 1725, died April 8, following. Children:
(II) Pieter, son of Jan Pieter and Anna P. (Borsboom) Mebie, was baptized in Albany, New York, January 20, 1686. He settled on the north side of the Mohawk river on "Arent Mebie's Kill," just north of the stone bridge on the New York Central railroad. He married, November 12, 1721, Susanna, daughter of Arent Vedder. Children baptized:
(III) Jan (Johannes), son of Pieter and Susanna (Vedder) Mebie, was born January 10, baptized January 19, 1728, died November 24, 1796, and was buried in the Fifth Flat. He married, December 13, 1755, Alida, daughter of Simon Toll, a revolutionary soldier who served under Colonel Philip Schuyler, First Regiment, and in the Fourteenth under Colonel John Knickerbocker. Children baptized:
The family residence had up to 1705 been in and around Schenectady. In that year "John Mabie was granted eighty acres of land in the town of Glen, and in 1722 a tract of six hundred acres was granted to his brother Peter (Petrus)." Jan and Peter are believed to have been the first permanent white settlers in the town of Glen, Tryon county, now Montgomery county, New York.
(IV) Simon, son of Jan and Alida (Toll) Mabie, was born July 21, 1769, at Westina, Albany [now Schenectady] county, and baptized August 13, 1769. In 1799 he was a resident of the town of Charleston, with his wife, Susannah. About 1797 he and his brother Pieter built the first sawmill and carding machine in that section. (This is now the town of Glen, Montgomery county.) In 1799 Jan (John) sold his land there, and probably returned to Schenectady. He served in the revolutionary war as a private of the Second Regiment, Albany county militia, Colonel Abraham Wemple commanding. He married Susannah Nexsen, and had issue: Catherine G., George J. W., Jacob S. G. and Elias A. N.
(V) George James Warner, son of Simon and Susannah (Nexsen) Mabee, was born in the town of Charleston, Montgomery county, New York, February 16, 1814, died September 25, 1870. He was educated in the public schools, and became a merchant of New York City with a home in Brooklyn. He was a member of the wholesale drug firm of Williams, Mabee & Clapp, whose place of business "at Old Slip" was totally destroyed in the disastrous fire that devastated New York City in 1835. Later he engaged in the same business under his own firm name. He married Margaret Tiers Nostrand, born February 7, 1818, died September 27, 1900, daughter of Foster and Christianna (Tiers) Nostrand, of the old New York family. Children:
(VII) Douglass William, son of George James Warren and Margaret Tiers (Nostrand) Mabee, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 5, 1848. He was educated in the public schools, and entered business life as a clerk in his father's wholesale drug house in New York City. For several years he was ticket agent for the Erie railroad at Binghamton, New York. After his marriage he became manager of the estate of his father-in-law, George West, of Ballston Spa, New York, and now resides at Saratoga Springs. He is a member of Saratoga Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Saratoga; Knights of Pythias, of Ballston Spa; member of Saratoga Club, Eutopian Club of Ballston and the Republican Club of New York City. He is vice-president of the Adiondack Trust Company, of Saratoga, director of the First National Bank of Ballston Spa, director of the National Folding Box & Paper Company of New Haven, Connecticut. He married, October 13, 1875, Florence Louise, daughter of Hon. George and Louisa West, of Ballston Spa. Children:
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