Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:43:05 -0400
From: "Betty Brady" <baylady5@comcast.net>

    I believe the parents of Mary LaGrange Van Name, who married Israel D.
  Johnson, may well have been John Van Name, 1783-1853, & Elizabeth
  Wright, 1792-1875.

    Source - copies of records sent to me on 19 Mar. 1998 by the Staten Island
  Institute of Arts and Sciences - History Of Richmond County, pp. 607, 608:
        AARON and MARY MCLEAN had the following children:  .... MOSES ...
         MOSES (the son of Aaron) married MARY LA GRANGE, and they had the
  following children:  JOHN;
         MOSES (son of Aaron) was born February 23, 1760, married June 9,
  1782, died Oct. 16, 1811; MARY LA GRANGE (wife of MOSES) was born Sept. 8,
  1763 married June 9, 1782, died Feb. 3, 1846;
         JOHN, son, was born June 18, 1783, married ELIZABETH WRIGHT, died
  April 1, 1853;
         The Family of JOHN VAN NAME. - JOHN VAN NAME (son of Moses), born
  June 18, 1783, married Jan. 8, 1809, to ELIZABETH WRIGHT, died April 1,
  1853; ELIZABETH, his wife, born July 2, 1792, died May 22, 1875.
        Their children were:
         MARY LA GRANGE, born Oct. 12, 1809;
         CALEB HALSEY, born Feb. 7, 1813;
         JUDY JOHNSON, born Sept. 2, 1815 (now dead);
         MOSES J., born March 9, 1818;
         CATHERINE, born Oct. 27, 1820;
         SOPHIA LAKE, born May 9, 1823;
         JOHN POINER, born Feb. 2, 1826;
         ANDREW WRIGHT, born July 11, 1828;
         ELIZABETH JANE, born April 28, 1831, died May 23, 1855;
         CHARLES JONES, born Jan. 28, 1834.

    Source - Annals of Staten Island, From its Discovery to the Present Time,
  by J. J. Cute, pub. Press of Chas. Vogt., No. 114 Fulton St., New York,
  1877, pp. 431, 432:
         AARON (last mentioned) had a son MOSES, who married MARY LA GRANGE;
  they had the following children, named in the order of their births:
  JOHN,

    Source - The New York Genealogical And Biographical Record, Vol. 124,
  Number 2, April 1993, Marriage Records of the Reformed Dutch Church On
  Staten Island, p. 89:
     Jan. 8, 1809:  JOHN VANNAME of S.I. to MISS ELIZABETH WRIGHT of S.I.

    Source:  Memorial, History of Staten Island, N.Y., by Morris, Vol. II,
  Page 122:
     Moses, son of Aaron, was born February 23, 1760, married June 9, 1782,
  and died October 16, 1811; Mary LaGrange, his wife, was born September 8,
  1763, and died February 3, 1846.  JOHN (son) was born June 18, 1783, married
  ELIZABETH WRIGHT, and died on April 1, 1853.
     JOHN (son of Moses), born June 18, 1783, married ELIZABETH WRIGHT.  Their
  children were Mary LaGrange, born October 12, 1809; Caleb Halsey, born
  February 7, 1818; Judy Johnson, born September 2, 1815; Moses J., born March
  9, 1818; Catharine, born October 27, 1820; Sophia Lake, born May 9, 1823;
  John Poiner, born February 2, 1826; Andrew Wright, born July 11, 1831, and
  Charles Joseph, born January 28, 1834.