John Berrien, eldest son of Cornelius, was a farmer and brewer on the paternal estate, at the head of Flushing Bay. He married, April 5, 1697, his step-sister, Ruth Edsall. He served as a justice of the peace, and died in April, 1711. His widow married secondly, Samuel Fish. Children of John Berrien: Cornelius, born January 8, 1698; Samuel, born August 30, 1700; Jane, born March 1, 1703, she married first Dennis Lawrence, and secondly, Andrew Riker; Richard, born September 11, 1706; Catharine, born November 13, 1709, she married Rem Remsen; her twin sister, Agnes, born November 14, 1709, who married Captain Samuel Fish. Samuel and Richard Berrien were seafaring men, and masters of their own vessels. The former it is said, died in the West Indies.

Samuel Fish of Newtown, Long Island, New York; b. 24th November, 1704; d. 27th August, 1776; Captain of a merchant vessel which was captured by the British early in the Revolutionary War; m. (firstly) 21st June, 1727, Agnes BERRIEN; d. 11th October, 1734, dau. of John BERRIEN; m. (second) 22d April, 1748, Abigail HOWARD, dau. of Edward HOWARD; m. (third) 19th November, 1752, Anna BETTS.

Nicholas Berrien, was an intelligent farmer, and for a time a magistrate. He owned a farm on Flushing Bay which he had bought in 1712 of William Stevenson, it having been owned at an earlier date by John Ramsden. Nicholas Berrien married his cousin, Sara, daughter of Abraham Brinckerhoff, and widow of Jacob Rapelje. He died without issue, December 27, 1737, aged fifty-six years. He bequeathed his farm to the children of his brother, John, who sold it to Nathaniel Fish, and is now owned by Daniel Lent.

Commodore John Montgomery Berrien, United States Navy, son of Thomas and Rachel (Freeman) Berrien, was born December 28, 1804. He received his early education at Princeton, New Jersey, and after continuing it in the city of New York, it was completed in Georgia, from which state he received his appointment to the navy. His service extended from the year 1825, March 1, when he was appointed a midshipman from Georgia, until September 2, 1868. He married, at Norfolk, Virginia, April 18, 1837, Mary A. Grice, a niece of Francis Grice, for many years the naval constructor at the Gosport, Virginia, Brooklyn, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, navy yards. One child was born to them--a daughter, Margaret E.--who married Rev. J. B. H. Janeway in June, 1863. She died the following June, leaving one daughter, Margaret, who married H. Eugene Mitchell, and is now deceased. A daughter, Dorothy Berrien Mitchell, survives. Commodore Berrien died in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1883. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Charles H. Tucker, and the remains were interred at Princeton, New Jersey.

Margaret Eaton Berrien the only daughter, died in early womanhood while visiting at the home of her cousin, Judge John Macpherson Berrien, of Savannah

Isaac Scudder Berrien received his education almost entirely from his father, who was a graduate of Princeton college. In his early years he became interested in farming, and made it his vocation through life. He was a man of a high order of intelligence, and of sterling worth and character. Well informed through much reading, genial and kindly, though dignified, and the soul of hospitality; unselfish and self-sacrificing to a marked degree, a most affectionate and devoted husband and father. He was a member of the Methodist church. He died after an illness of three days, June 30, 1888, and is buried in Princeton cemetery.