09. Captain Matthew Clarkson (1699 – 1739) Son of Honorable Matthew Clarkson

CAPTAIN MATTHEW CLARKSON, third son of Hon. Matthew Clarkson by his wife Catharine Van Schayck, was born in New York City, where he was baptized 9 April, 1699, and where he died in 1739. He was a successful merchant there, and his family occupied a prominent position in the social life of the city. At the time of his death he commanded one of the military companies of New York, to which position he was commissioned in 1738. He married, in 1720, Cornelia, daughter of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker. (See Notes on De Peyster Family.) Upon the death of Captain Clarkson, his widow married Rev. Gilbert Tennent, an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, who was then pastor of a church at New Brunswick, New Jersey, but who shortly afterwards accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, and there removed with his wife and her unmarried children, to which removal may be ascribed the origin of the Philadelphia branch of the Clarkson family. Mrs. Tennent died at Philadelphia, 25 May, 1753. 

Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all bom in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church there : 
I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721; married, I759, Samuel Hazard, Esq’, by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post-master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist 4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 37[?] April, and proved 19 November, 1702, 
1 son Levinua, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta* and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.

Cornelia de Peyster married my forefather Captain Matthew Clarkson. Her brother Johannes de Peyster III was the Mayor of Albany, New York three times between 1729 and 1742. Her brother Willam de Peyster married Margareta Roosevelt. Margareta’s brother was an ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Margareta’s brother Jacobus J Roosevelt had James J. Roosevelt; at the bottom is the line to Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt. Next image will show how, and the image after will show how Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt were fifth cousins.

Paternal Lineage of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt:

Paternal Lineage of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt

Kenneth Lauren Burns[1] (born July 29, 1953)[1] is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), and The Vietnam War (2017). He was also executive producer of both The West (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).[2]

Burns’ documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981’s Brooklyn Bridge and 1985’s Statue Of Liberty)[3][4] and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.[5]

Burns is a descendant of Johannes de Peyster Sr. through Dr. Gerardus Clarkson, an American Revolutionary War physician from Philadelphia, and he is a distant relative of Scottish poet Robert Burns.[22][23] In 2014 Burns appeared in Henry Louis Gates‘s Finding Your Roots where he discovered startling news that he is a descendant of a slave owner from the Deep South, in addition to having a lineage which traces back to Colonial Americans of Loyalist allegiance during the American Revolution.[24]

Burns is an avid quilt collector. Approximately 1/3 of the quilts from his personal collection were displayed for the first time at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska from January 19 to May 13, 2018.[25]