SLAVES.

The ages of the following slaves who were in this neighborhood, contemporary with the second generation, were as follows, to wit:

Years.
Capt. De Witt's slaves:
Cuffee about 100
Frances " 70
Woman " 60
Esq. Depuy's:
Man Peter about 80
Woman Dinah " 75
Capt. Cuddeback's:
Woman Susanna " 80
Ezekiel Gumaer's:
Man Jack " 80
Esq. Van Inwegen's:
Woman Susanna " 70
James Swartwout's:
Man Anthony " 70
Woman Jude " 70

The first two generations of the four ancient families had the small-pox naturally, without vaccination or dieting and without the attendance of a physician, and generally had it light. A few individuals, it was said, had only light symptoms of the disease and few pox; yet certain individuals of two families had them hard. A few of the oldest of Depuy's family were considerably pock-marked, and a few of the oldest of Van Inwegen's family. The Cuddebacks and Gumaers were not pock-marked, and the Swartwouts very trifling.

There was in this neighborhood a contagious fever between the years 1750 and 1760, which was here termed "the long fever." It commenced in one of the summers near the end of harvest time, and was more mortal to the black people than the whites. Depuy lost several slaves, who died of this fever. He said the cause had been attributed to eating too many pigeons.

The second generation of the four ancient families, with few exceptions, remained healthy. Rheumatism sometimes afflicted the members of the second Gumaer family, but still were able to perform much labor and were strong, though not equal in strength to the Swartwout or Cuddeback families. All were men of six feet stature, excepting two of the Gumaer and one of the Van Inwegen family, and averaging near 200 lbs. weight.

[LOWER NEIGHBORHOOD.]

The following are the ages of the first generation of descendants of this neighborhood who were contemporary with the second of the other, viz.:

Year's
Wilhelmus Cole died 1829, aged 88
His wife, Leah, died 1820, aged 77
Peter Kuykendal about 80
Martinus (Martin) Decker died in 1802, aged 69
Simon Westfall died in 1805, aged 87
His wife 85
(Sally), wife of his son Simon, died 1837, aged 95
Solomon Kuykendall, Esq. Unknown
His wife, Sarah Cole "
Daniel Van Auken aged about 80
His wife, Leah " " 80
James Van Fliet " " 80
His wife, Margaret Schoonover " " 80
Anthony Van Etten, Esq. " " ____
His wife, Hannah Decker " " 85
Major John Decker " " 70
His wife, Sarah Hornbeck " " 80
Johannis (John) Decker " " 65
His wife, Deborah Van Fliet " " 50
Capt. Johannis (John) Westbrook " " 80
His wife, Magdalena " " 75