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Van Ness was one of the sons of Peter and Elbertie (Hogeboom) Van Ness. The father was a Revolutionary patriot and county judge; two other sons gained some distinction John P. became a member of Congress, and Cornelius P. , governor of Vermont and minister to Spain.
William was born on February 13, 1778, at Claverack (later Ghent), Columbia County, New York; he lived for a time in Kinderhook and for a time in Hudson, but for most of his life in New York City.
William's education was as thorough as the Kinderhook Academy, Columbia College, where he graduated in 1797, and private study in the law office of Edward Livingston could make it.
In 1800, Van Ness began the practice of law in New York City as the admirer and protege of Aaron Burr. In February 1801, he went with Burr to Albany, and wrote back to Livingston, his former preceptor, that the Republicans wanted Burr instead of Jefferson for president. From that day until he became a judge, his political record was as devious as that of any of the New York politicians of the early years of the century, when parties were still wavering and undeveloped.
Burr admired and trusted him and was in turn worshipped by Van Ness, who became his defender in Peter Irving's Morning Chronicle, in politics, and on the dueling field. Van Ness entered with alacrity into the political broils of the Clintons, the Livingstons, and Burr. When James Cheetham published a vicious attack on Burr for his activities in state politics and in the presidential election of 1801, Van Ness replied in a pamphlet entitled An Examination of the Various Charges Exhibited against Aaron Burr (1803), signed Aristides a specimen of invective justifiably compared to the Letters of Junius.
Breaking, in March 1804, with Van Buren, who, having come of age, chose to enter politics as a Clintonian, Van Ness threw himself more zealously into the political arena to the detriment of his law practice. Believing in duels as a gentlemanly method of ridding the party of its enemies, he played the role of second to Burr in the Burr-Hamilton duel (1804), a tragedy which he might have prevented. When the coroner's jury indicted him an accessory in the murder of Hamilton, he fled to Kinderhook and sent pleas for help to Van Buren, with whom he had become reconciled. Through the influence of the latter in the courts and with Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, Van Ness procured the restoration of his civil rights. He was subsequently associated with Van Buren in several enterprises, including the Bank of Hudson, in which they were both directors, but in 1812 clashed with him over a state senatorship, to which Van Buren was elected. In that year President Madison appointed Van Ness a judge in the federal court for the Southern District of New York, a position which he held until his death.
In 1811, the New York legislature had requested him, aided by John Woodworth, to codify the laws for public information. The result, Laws of the State of New York, with notes, was published in 1813; it was notably successful in method and arrangement. His other works were Reports of Two Cases in the Prize Court for the New York District (1814) and A Concise Narrative of General Jackson's First Invasion of Florida (1826), published the year of his death. His careless supervision permitted the clerk of his court to embezzle more than $100, 000, but the episode had no permanent effect upon his own reputation for business integrity.
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No one but Van Buren and Burr, who supplied information on several local and national politicians, seems to have known the identity of the author. Van Ness wrote with such peculiar ferocity and venom that Cheetham's pamphlets appeared almost tame in comparison; Burr was so ably defended that newspapers rang with the unknown author's story of confused truth and fiction. He was highly respected by his friends for his ability and party loyalty.
William Peter Van Ness married Anne McEvers at Red Hook on September 20, 1800. They had five children: Edward, born November 3, 1801 who married Catherine Halcomb; Harriet Mary, born August 16, 1803 who died March 28, 1825 and who married William Maury of England; Eugene, born in New York City December 6, 1804, died in Baltimore, Maryland on May 28, 1862 and who married Julia A. Brush, daughter of Dr. Nehemiah and Margaret (Underhill) Brush; Martha Eliza, born April 10, 1806 and who died unmarried in 1869; and Charles William Van Ness, born October 1, 1807 and died unmarried at Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York on March 13, 1883.
November 31, 1734 - December 21, 1804
25 May 1743 - 20 June 1806
4 November 1769 - 7 March 1846
26 January 1782 - 15 December 1852
8 April 1772 - 28 August 1852
1777 - 24 January 1864
4 April 1767 - 6 September 1829
18 August 1803 - 26 March 1825
6 December 1804 - 28 May 1862
1 October 1807 - 13 March 1883
3 November 1801 - 11 March 1879
