William Longstreet

The New Netherland Ancestors of

WILLIAM LONGSTREET



Inventor




		 __Dirck Stoffelszen Langstraat1
		|
	    __Stoffel Dirckszen Langestraat1
	   |    |
	   |    |__Catharina Van Lieuwen1
	   |
       __Stoffel Longstreet1
      |    |
      |    |          __Mattys Janszen Laenen Van Pelt1,2
      |    |         |
      |    |     __Gysbert Thyssen Van Pelt1,2,3
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |__Marykens Gysberts1,2
      |    |    |
      |    |__Maiken Lane1,3
      |         |
      |         |     __Adriaen Lambertszen3
      |         |    |
      |         |__Jannetje Adriaens1,2,3
      |              |
      |              |__Willemke Jans3
      |
WILLIAM LONGSTREET1
      |
      |__Abigail Wooley1



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A Chart of the Notable Members of William Longstreet's Family

 

	 WILLIAM LONGSTREET - Hannah Fitz Randolph
      ______________________|____________
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James Longstreet - Mary Dent  AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET - Frances Eliza Parke
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JAMES LONGSTREET              Virginia Lafayette Longstreet - LUCIUS Q.C. LAMAR


 

 


Biography of WILLIAM LONGSTREET

 
LONGSTREET, William, inventor, born in New Jersey about 1760; died in Georgia in 1814. He removed in boyhood to Augusta, Georgia. As early as 26 September 1790, he addressed a letter to Thomas Telfair, then governor of Georgia, asking his assistance, or that of the legislature, in raising funds to enable him to construct a boat to be propelled by the new power. This was three years before Fulton's letter to the Earl of Stanhope announcing his theory "respecting the moving of ships by the means of steam." Failing to obtain public aid at that time, Longstreet's invention remained for several years in abeyance until, at last securing funds from private sources, he was enabled to launch a boat on the Savannah River, which moved against the current at the rate of five miles an hour. This was in 1807, a few days after Fulton had made a similarly successful experiment on the Hudson. Besides this invention, Longstreet patented a valuable improvement in cotton-gins, called the "breast roller," moved by horse power, which entirely superseded the old method. He set up two of his gins in Augusta, which were propelled by steam and worked admirably; but they were destroyed by fire within a week. He next erected a set of steam mills near St. Mary's, Georgia, which were destroyed by the British in 1812. These disasters exhausted his resources and discouraged his enterprise, though he was confident that steam would soon supersede all other motive powers.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Mayes, Edward, Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with its related
       families : of Van Liewen, Lanen Van Pelt, Van Laer, Verplanck, Wooley,
       Potter, Tucker, Fritz-Randalph, De Langton, Blossom, Dennis, Moore,
       Seabrook, Grover, Lawrence, Stilwell, Van Dyck, Coward, Throckmorton,
       Stout, Van Printz, Briton, Parke, Elmsley, Hawkins, and others.  Rutland:
       Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., (copyright uncertain).  Note:  this book
       contains errors.  The pedigree of Jannetje Adriaens through the Van Laer,
       Verplanck, and Vigné is untrue.
   2.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  1632.
   3.  Ledley, Wilson V., and B-Ann Moorhouse, "Early Dutch Smiths and Van
       Boerums," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 103 (1972):
       65-78, 138-146.

   A special thanks goes out to Daniel E. Schillinger for alerting me to the New
   Netherland ancestry of William Longstreet, and sharing his findings with me.

 

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