Person:John Crolius (1)

He carried on the potter's business left to him by his uncle Willem. He was an assistant Alderman in New York in 1799.^S3

A death notice in the New York Evening Post for 16 Oct 1841 identifies John Crolius as a Revolutionary War veteran, and brother of Clarkson.^S1

1. ↑ New York Evening Post, in Barber, Gertrude A., comp. New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection). (ancestry.com)
   16 Oct 1841.

   "Rev.Soldier died yesterday, 15th, John Crolius, 85y 10m. He entered the service of his country at the commencement of the Rev.War. He was at the Battles of L.I., White Plains, Volunteer in Capt. John Van Dyck's Co. of Art., at the Battle of Monmouth. He was a member of the Common Council of this city in 1799 and has filled many offices in this City until he retired from public life. He was the oldest member of the Dutch Reformed Church in this City. Funeral house of Mr.Groesbeck, 6 Allen St. Bro.Clarkson Crolius."

2. ↑ Reformed Dutch Church (New York City), and Tobias Alexander Wright (ed.). Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: baptisms from 1 January, 1731, to 29 December, 1800. (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1902)
   28 Dec 1755.

   Johannes Carolius, Maria Klerkzon; son Johannes; witnesses Willem Carolius, Maria Snyder, j.d..

3.   Nelson, William. New Jersey biographical and genealogical notes from the volumes of the New Jersey archives: with additions and supplements. (Historical Society of New Jersey, 1916)
   p. 93, 1916.

   "bap. Dec. 28, 1755; m. Jane Morgan; he carried on the potter's business left to him by his uncle; he was an Assistant Alderman, in New York, in 1799."