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Encyclopedia of Biography of New York:
William Van Wyck, youngest son of Abraham and Zeruah (Van Wyck) Van
Wyck, was born January 24, 1803, and died June 30, 1867. He resided
in New York City, was a distinguished lawyer, often in the public
service, and a judicial officer. He married, in 1833, Lydia Anderson
Maverick, of South Carolina, born in Charleston, in 1814, daughter
of Samuel and Elizabeth (Anderson) Maverick, granddaughter of General
Robert Anderson, a distinguished soldier in the War of the Revolution,
and a public officer of the State of South Carolina for over thirty
years, the county of Anderson being named in his honor, and a descendant
of John Maverick, who was among the earliest settlers of Charleston,
and whose brother, Samuel Maverick, settled in Boston in 1630. Children:
Children: Samuel Maverick, M. D., died 1861; William, died 1887;
Zeruah, married Charles Banks, of New York; Abraham; Mary; and a
second Abraham, died in infancy; Augustus and Robert A., who receive
further mention in this work; Lydia Ann Maverick, married General
Robert Hoke, of Raleigh, North Carolina; Benjamin Stevens, a physician,
died in 1888. |