Source: Silversmiths: Everardus Bogardus
Used with permission of Wm Voss
Above picture was made by JHF by combining the Source image and the Source text into a single image file.
From message of Wm Voss; my comments are in brackets [ ]:
"The piece is actually doubly marked -- the lid, inset with a 1632 Austrian coin, has the mark of Henricus Boelen II, though it is not known if he had a hand in the making or just acted as retailer. Here is the full provenance:
| Johannes & Eytie de La grange | |
| to their son, Johannes (c 1706-1782) | [m. Metje Van Buskirk] |
| to his son, Johannes (1733-1798) | [m. Elizabeth Mersereau] |
| to his grandson, Johannes (1823-1878) | [who is this? see Comments below] |
| to his daughter, Harriet (1862-?) | |
| to Willoughby Farr | |
| to Luke B. Lockwood | |
| to Francis Garvan | |
| to Yale University |
I looked through my other collection resources, but could found no other La Grange pieces listed. I will check the database at Winterthur and see if they have anything recorded."
Comments by JHF: Since the silversmith Eberardus Bogardus died in 1704, the above silver tankard must have been made before that, possibly in 1697 when Johannes de La Grange and Eytie Croesvelt were married, and possibly given to them as a wedding present.
John LaGrange (1823-1878) must be son of John LaGrange (1797-1864) and his 1st wife Susan (nee unknown)(1795-1826). That would make him the great-grandson of John LaGrange (1733-1798) and Elizabeth Mersereau (1742-1816), not their grandson.
This John LaGrange (1823*-1878) was married twice: 1st to Fidelia Platt (1830-1867); they had 1 child Harriet (Hattie) LaGrange (1862-?). 2nd to Frances (nee ?)(1842-?); children not known. *He was probably born in 1826, the year his mother died, not in 1823. This is more or less supported by the Censuses (age 24 in 1850, age 32 in 1870, age 44 in 1870).
The descendancy being then: John LaGrange and Elizabeth Mersereau, John LaGrange (1771-1858) and Hannah Halsey (1774-1838), John LaGrange and 1st wife Susan ?, John LaGrange and Fidelia Platt, Harriet LaGrange.
NOTE: This silver tankard almost certainly cannot be one of the 2 silver tankards mentioned in the Will of Johannes LaGrange:
Calendar of Wills p. 253:
[#] 1109
[Date written?] 1747 June 18
[Date probated?] 1750 May 9
LAGRANGE, Johannis, late of Rensselaerswyck Manor, yeoman.
Children Johannis, Christiaen, Annatie, Margaret and Christientie,
granddaughters, "which are Christened after my wife deceased towit Eytje,"
daughters of son Christiaen and daughters Annatie and Christientie.
Real and personal estate (a silver cup, a do. tankard, engraved I L G,
a do. do. engraved O. L G, plate). Executors the two sons.
Witnesses Robert Sanders, Jacob Evertsen and Myndert van Jeveren.
Albany Co. Record, Wills, I., part 2, p. 1.
Note by JHF: The line breaks in the above text are my own, and my notes are in brackets [ ].
The Will of Johannes Lagrange described his personal property:
a silver cup,
a ditto [silver] tankard, engraved I.L.G.,
a ditto [silver] ditto [tankard], engraved O.L.G.,
plate.
Comments: For reasons that may seem unclear these 2 silver tankards became the property of JOSHUA MERSEREAU. What I think probably happened is that the line of heritence was to the eldest child, not to the eldest son, so the 2 silver tankards went to Sophia LaGrange (1731/1734-1770), sister of John LaGrange (1733-1798), since she was probably the eldest child of John LaGrange (1705-1782) and Metie Van Buskirk (1713-1754). Sophia LaGrange was married to Joshua Mersereau, who was the brother of Elizabeth Mersereau. When Sophia LaGrange Mersereau died in 1770, the ownership of the 2 silver tankards passed to her husband who bequeathed them to their 2 sons, Joshua Mersereau and John LaGrange Mersereau.