Nicholas Lansing, October 5, 1777) married Elizabeth Meyer, at Kakiat, .January 11, 1798, the ceremony being performed by Rev. George G. Brinkerhoft'. The wife was a daughter of Johannes Meyer and Tryntje Van Houten, both born in the county, but of Holland descent. These had three children -- Isaac D., Catharine and Eliza. The last died unmarried in 1851. The second, Mrs. Thomas Lippincott, who died September 23, 1881, is represented numerously by descendants in New York City and elsewhere. The first was the father of Rev. Dr. Cole.

7. Rev. Isaac D. Cole was born at Spring Valley, Rockland County, N. Y., January 25th and baptized at Kakiat by Rev. Geo. G. Brinkerhofi", March 25, 1799. He was a resident of New York City with brief intervals, from 1801 to 1826, and was married, November 3, 1821, by Rev. Christian Bork, to Anna '

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Maria Shatzel, born in the city November 3, 1797. His history is given with fulness of detail in the " History of Rockland County," published in 1884, under the editorial direction of his son. After several years of teaching in New York City he entered the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N, J., in 1826, and having been licensed to the missionary in 1829, at once became pastor of the Reformed Church at Tappan, in wliich his ancestors had worshipped from its beginning, more than a century and a quarter before, and continued in his pastorate, with an interval of one year, till his retirement from the active duties of the ministry in 1864, at sixty-five years of age. Subsequently and until his death, on the 80th of August, 1878, he lived at Spring Valley upon the family home-ground of more than a hundred years, which he had inherited from his father.