USA > New York > Ulster County > History of Ulster County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Vol. I > Part 46
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84
Thomas Beckman, spoken of as living on Green Street north of Pearl, was the son of Cornelius Beekman, who occupied the stone house at the corner of East Front and Main Streets, and the father of Coruelius, who occupied it iu later years.
In Green Street, on the west side, and opposite to Main Street, stood the old publie market-house mentioned in the extracts from the village records. This, after being aban- doned for some years, was finally sold by the village directors to J. D. Ostrander.
Cornelius Persen, brother of Matthew Persen, whose homestead is already mentioned, lived at Kaatsbaan, and was the grandfather of John Van Buren, Isaac Van Buren, etc.
In John Street, the small stone house now the office of John Van Etten was occupied by Sarah Persen.
On the west side of JJacob Erman's house, and between that and what was then called Dover Street, stood a long frame building, one end of which was used as a carpenter- shop, and the west end as a dwelling. That was the Joseph Chipp place. It was removed when Fair Street was opened through to North Front Street.
In Dover Street, about mitway between John Street and North Front, on the east side, was a small frame dwelling occupied by John Damond, and in after-years by William Shaw.
This Domond was the father of Mrs. Rachel Beekman, who, when Kingston was burning, carried off a pot of " Suphan" which she was boiling, and, with the aid of a colored girl. drove a pig towards Hurley and beyond the reach of the British.
In Main Street, on the south side, between the Green and Wall Streets, was the stone dwelling of the elder John Van Steenbergh, afterwards occupied by his son, Petrus Van Steenbergh. a watchmaker. That building has within a fow year's been remodeled, and is now the residence of Mr. Daniel E. Brodhead.
Ou the north side of Main Street, next to the Molly ESI. mendorph ruins, and upon the site of the house now vecu- piel by Howard Chipp, was a stone dwelling occupied by Peter Bogardus, an I afterwards by Johannis Lowe.
A frame building standing on the south side of Main Street, east of the Eagle Hotel, was formerly known as the Story house. It was originally built as a store, and was ou- cupied by Christopher N. Kiersted before his removal to New York.
On Main Street, between the residence of the late John Sudam aud his office, were the remains of the foundation of an obl stone house which was owned by Johannis Hoffen- stopple. It was burned down during the Revolution, and afterward, was partly built up and occupied until the build- ing by John Sudam of his house at the corner.
By thus supplementing the address of Geo. Sharpe with the recollections of Hon. Marins Schoonmaker,-both of these gentlewien being acknowledged as standard authorities upon the antiquities of Kingston, -- we obtain a view of the town as it was nearly one hundred years ago. If the ex- tracts from the village records given elsewhere are read in connection with these annals of the old homesteads, they each explain the other, and together constitute a story of surpassing interest to the descendants of these ancient families, many of whom are living not only in the very streets where their ancestors walked, but almost upon the site of the ancient homesteads.
The memoranda of deeds given under the head of " The
£
183
CITY AND TOWN OF KINGSTON.
Corporation of Kingston" from 1653 to 1700 carry this picture, in part at least, one hundred years farther back into the shadows of the receding past. The general notes from the " corporation record-" fill in many of the minor inci- dents of the olen time, umil the writer gathering these papers can widely picture in his own mind the Kingston of two centuries ago, and can clearly understand the honest pride which the citizens of to-day feel in these treasures of historic wealth,-these memorials of an honorable and patriotie ancestry.
GEN. WASHINGTON IN KINGSTON.
From the address already quoted we take the following extract :
" I cannot learn that Gen. Washington made more than one visit to Kingston. This was during the time when the English forces held possession of New York and commanded the North Liver for some distance, and Washington was driven to this eirenitous route to reach West Point from the Jerseys. I think Le cione through Wawarsing, and it is quite certain that the night before his arrival bere he passed at the Lounsbery mansion, in stone Ridge.
" The next day he prorcedol through Marbletown to Ilorley, where be halted. and au ad.Iress of welcome was made to him by Gen. Wyn- koop the eller. It was raining at the fane, and Washington sat upon his borse in the mblille of the oll stage-road, bat in ban I, while tien. Wynkoop was comfortably sheltered under the stoop of a mansion still standing in Hurley.
" It is said that the speech had so strong a flavor of the Dutch accent as to be nearly incomprehensible to the officers forming Wasb- ington's escort, the Father of his Country being of course expected to onderstand the language of all bis children. I do not know that he entered any house in Huiley, and, as the distance traversel by bimo that day was ten miles, or about two hours' ride, in must have arrived in Kingston at an early hoor. During the afternoon he made a call at the Wynkoop house, on Green Street, and walked about the village. " As he proceeded up Last Front Street, tant. Tomany Van Gaas- beck's wifr came out upon the little piazza or was passing from the house to the store. Washington, struck by her beauty, painel to con- template her, and spoke of her afterwards with rolmiration.
" In the evening there was a ball or entertainment " some kind at Bogardas' tavern, to which Washington paid the compliment of bis per- sonal presence. He walked around the Lall- rman, bowing to each lady present, and made brief remarks to a few, and then, creasing himself on account of the fatignes of traveling, he retired to his own room. Mrs. Do lley. of Albany, a lady moving in the most distinguished circles of ber day, and whose husband was a senator of the United States, used to say that Washington passed the night at the Bruyn mansion, on North Front Street, hot no such tradition has remained in fol. Brown's family. It is adder, therefore, to suppose that Washington's quarters were at Bogar las' tivern. an I, this having been removed by the late James W. Baldwin to make way for the residence occupied in mo lern tin.es by William F. Roter, it is not certain that Washing- ton enterei uny house now standing in Kingston other than that of Judge Direk Wynkoop."
This account, it may be proper to add, does not quite cx- plain all of the traditions concerning Washington's move- ments in this county.
The following appears in a gazetteer published in 1870:
" With reference to the old Butzer homestead at Rosendale, now the Cornell place, it is stated that ' firn. Washington visited the county in June, JESS, when Mrs. Washington and Governor and Mrs. Clinton Were entertained in this bouse by Col. Hardenbrigh,' and it is said that a letter is extant among the papers of cher the Hardenbergh or Cornell families notifying the proprietors of the intended visit."
This would appear to be a separate visit from the one mentioned above by Gen. Sharpe.
It is a tradition in Hurley, as noticed in the chapter upon
that town, that Gen. Washington dismounted there and drank a glass of wine in the old hotel,-a buikling now standing at the junction of the main road from Kingston with Old Hurley Street.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Henry C. Rosecrans, the well-known colored citizen of John Street, is the owner of quite a collection of curiosities which he has made during his long and active life. His mother was brought up in the family of the Tappens, and Mr. Roscerans has a fund of incidents and traditions of the Clintons, Tappens, and other families of the Revolu- tionary age. Among his collection of documents is a set of mercantile books covering transactions from the close of the Revolution to 1904 or 1805. The merchant was Wil- liam Tremper, and the names of Jacob Tremper and John Tremper also appear as if they were proprietors a part of the time. Upon a page of 1788 the names of the follow- ing customers appear :
Mozes Yeomans, Annatjo Freer, William Boggs, Jeremiah B. Ilawley, John Tremper, Jon., Edward Churchill, Wilbehnus Tremper, Johannes B. Masten, Thomas Van Gaasbeck. Catherine Tremper, Martin Elmendorf, John Tremper, William Keator. David Dala- mater. James Cockburn, Martin Elmendorph, Isaac Post, Jun., Adijah Dewey, Jeremiah B. Hawley, Isaiah Babcock, Noah Well-, Marshal Lewis, Jacobus Winne, David Bonastale.
Mr. Rosecrans has a manuscript arithmetic appearing to be compiled by Heury Dewitt, dated March. 26, 1755. Its definitions are a curiosity :
" Addition Teacheth yon to add or put together divers numbers and to bring them into oue whole or total sum.
" The next role for Arithmetic is Substraction, or commonly called Substraction, and this rule teacheth to take a less number or sum out of a greater, and sheweth the remainder, rust, excess, or difference."
The following example shows that the pupils of 1753 had to wrestle with abont the same kind of tough " sms" that those of 1880 meet with :
" A regiment of soldiers, consisting of #000, are to have new coats, anel cach coat to contain 2 yards 2 quarters of cloth that is five quar- ters widle, and they are to be heel with shalloou that is three-quarters wide. I demand how many yards of shalivon will line them."
Mr. Rosecrans also has another Brannscript, evidently by the same anthor, upon the higher subjects of arithmetic, -- evolution, progression, and including problems of survey- ing and geometrical constructions. There are also the fichi notes and the map of a survey of " lowland at wenareink on the east side of the creek laid down by a scale of four chains to an inch ; the survey beginning at ye bars at ye fording-place thence running down the creek," ete., etc.
Another set of field-notes applies to "a certain tract called quakersland at Bruynswick."
Bruynstyck is evidently that part of the county settled by the Bruyn family.
There are also the following entries on one leaf, written in Dutch :
" 17:5. Nov. 10 .- 1, Henry Dewitt, married with Marytje Ten Broeck. " 1789, Dee. 2 .- Then was born our first daughter, named Elizabeth. Godparents, Jacob Ten Broeck ami my wife's mother.
" 1741, Sept. 19 .- Then was born, at nine o'clock in the evening. our first son, named Tjerek Clase; baptized by Domini Henricus Borel, of New York. Godparents, Tjerck De Witt and Maria Rous."
1S1
HISTORY OF ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Mr. Rosecrans has a specimen of one of the very earliest issues of Revolutionary paper money, with the following imprint :
" This note shall entitle the bearer to the sum of ten shilling-, New York currency, payable by us, the subscribers, on or before the first day of September next, pursuant lo a vote of credit of the contuillee of the said County of Albany.
" By order of the Committee, JACOB TES EYCK. "ALBANY COMMITTEE CHAMBER, June 22, 1773."
He has also a collection of "shinplaster" money issued in 1862 by various parties.
A brick made in Holland, taken from the Tappen house, that formerly stood on the corner of North Front and Wall Strect, is among Mr. Rosecrans' curiosities. Some of his curiosities bear fanciful inscriptions. An ancient fiddle is declared to be one Rip Van Winkle played upon just before his twenty years' sleep on the Catskills.
Among the Tremper papers, mentioned above, is the following letter :
" DELUI, Nov. 9. 1807. " DEAR SI:,-I have talked with Mr. Cockburn about sending you some estile by hiwi to you, bet the traveling is so bad, and my boys have no shoes ft to travel so far, that I shoull bive lo go myself.
" I give it up. I expect some money in about six weeks, and I will send you out some.
" If I should get disappointed ia my plans I have a number of cows on hand. I can always sell cows in the spring. I intend to pay you before any man I know in the w. rhl, for you and your family have always need me well. You may depend on your pay.
" I am your friend nad well- wisher, '. GILBERT TOWNSEND. (. Mi :. JOHN T. ENPIP."
There are also two promissory notes to Jacob Tremper, --. one by Cornelius Jansen, the other by Hendrick B. Krou.
"PETITION FOR A MINISTER, 1676.
" To the ke Honable $ Elmund Andros K: of Sauemares ; Liene- terant and Couvrea' Generali; vuvier his Local Highnes Denke of Yorke and Albany ; aut Dependances :
" The humble petition of Feuerall of the Inhabitants of Eaupus sheweth unto yor JI. Bo ..
4. Whereas this place is destitute of a mi: ister for the instruction of the people; It is our Earnest desiar ant berabere que tw" all Si.b- mission that yor Honos will bee pleased to bes aiding and assisting in tle procuring one for vs thar enn preuche both Inglich and Dis he web will be most foting for this place it being in its menoritty an-l hating great charge is not very able to maintain- two ministages ; beth - to ter at the charge of sending for une out of Eng and or livi- 1. 1 . vod que are Infer ! Me Postar Trecutmaker is at Party. who is a person well knowne to your Honey and off inted in the's for som time : An lit ty Len procured is very well approved and much desited by muste, Lee being a man of solar life and conversacon having Deportied him. He to satisfaction of ye Inhabitance.
" Wherefer wee bumbly pray that your Honor will be pleased to bee instrumentall in the sauce and yo' Horor' humble Dettieners skall Euer pray, de.
" Thomas Vandermark, Aron Garreson, Hendrick llet trickson, Thomas Bickerstaffe, Peterza, Broadhead, Robert paycock, Wir. Gray. Jacob Joudou Vaneter, Richar.I S. Willson, Meizar Claus, Robert Chisam, Thos. Garton, John Cock, Georg Maile. Garett Van ffet, Henry Pawling. Peter Hillibrand, Guert Price, Lambart Hubert-on, Robot >wartwout, Garret 11. Com.elisa, Derrick Keyser, Anthoine Cre-pel, Albert Ginersa, Win. Azfordbie, MeCarton, We. I. Shea,
John Bigger,
George Porter, Jacob Janser Deeker, llallett. Jansen, Thomas Quynett, Jobn Garton, Anthony Adilison, Tho. Quirk, Teunis Jacobson, Claus Tunison.
Cornelius Dern.
E. J. Whittaker, Thomas Matthews, William Legg, John Ward, Waller Danniell,
John Hall, Thomas Chadoek, Hendrick Alderza, Peter Pelersa."
The " Protestant Reformed Dutch Church at Kings- town" petitioned for incorporation under date of May 1, 1712. The petition was in the name of Petrus Vos, min- ister ; Jacob Ausen, Wessell Ten Broeck, Jacob Du Bois, elders ; and Jacobus Elmendorf, Gerret Wynkoop, Hen- drick Pruyin, William Elten, deacons. They state that they and their predecessors " have many years since erected a church, and dedicated the same to the worship of Al- mighty God, and have also purchased about half an acre of ground for a cemetery or church yard, all at their own charges and expenses."
The report of the Governor's Council, May 2, 1712, favored the granting of the petition for incorporation, but, from the papers in the documentary history of the State, it appears this incorporation was not effected at that time. Seven years after-or Nov. 16, 1719-there appears to have been another report by the Governor's Council, again recom- mending the granting of what was evidently a new peti- tion by the ministers, elders, and deacons: Rev. Petrus Vos, Abraham Delamater, Capt. Wessell Ten Broeck, Guysbert Vandenbergh, Thomas Jansen, Nicholas Hoff- man, Imbert Cool, Capt. John Rutsen, Tirek Van Keuren.
SETTLEMENT OF BEV. MR. BLOM, FIRSE MINISTER TO ESOPUS. The certificate of his ordination bears date in the Classis of Amsterdam, Feb. 16, 1660.
" In the name an.] by the order of all. (Signei) " PETRUS PRORLECS Ecctar's. " Amstelodamensis et Deputatorum ad causas Indicas P't scriba." The following are the closing passages :
" Soliciting all our brethren to accept him as a Lawful Brother, and lawfully called minister of The Gospel of Christ, to honor him for the stke of his ministry aud to assist him win never it is in their power, soo thes he mag elaciate unmolested and cheerfully to glorify Gol's nate an l the conversion and the salvation of souls.
" The Almighty God, who has called this minister to the service of his eborch, enrich bim more and more with all talents and the bless- ings of his Holy Ghost, so that his labors may be crowned with abundant success, to the glory of his name and salvation of men, and reward and adorn him at the appearance of the Great Shepherd of Sheep with the never- fading crown of glory."
THE TRIBULATIONS OF AN EPISCOPAL MINISTER.
From a report upon the state of the Church in the prov- ince of New York, as it was laid before the clergy, con- vened Oct. 5, 1701, at New York, by the appointment of his Excelleney Edward, Lord Corubury, and Col. Francis Nicholson, we take the following extract :
"ULSTER COUNTY, COMMONLY CALLED ESOPCS.
" In this county the greater number of people are Dutch, who, abou: twelve years since, sent to the Classis of Amsterdamo for a minister. Mr. Newcella, being lately called bome, left them destitute of any person to officiate among them, which his Excelleney was pleased to
185
CITY AND TOWN OF KINGSTON.
take into consideration, and has appointed the Rev. Mr. Hepburn to preach and to read Divine Service to them, whereby the English, who had never a minister among them, have the beuetit of public worship, and are in goal hopes of bringing the butch to a conformity. The Rev. Mr. Hepburn has at present amall encouragement from the people, but chiefly under God depends on the kindness and bounty of his Excellency, the Governor of this Province. " WSt. VESEY."
The intimation at the close of the above report that the Episcopal minister was not very cordially received does not harmonize very well with the preceding statement that there were " good hopes of bringing the Dutch into con- formity."
Further light is thrown upon this matter by the follow- ing letter of George Clarke, colonial secretary, alldressed to the citizens of Esopus :
"NEW YORK, August ye 30, 1701.
"GENTLEMEN .- Mr. laburne ( Hepburn ?), who is a minister of ye Established Church of England, and sent by his Excell. to adminis- ter ye Gospel to you in this Vacancy, onght I think. att least to be provided for as well as a Dessenting Minister to ye church, who is only tolerateI to exercise ye unestablishel religion he professes, but it seems yon have not been of that opinion, or if you have, you have not paid that obedience to his Exe-lleney's Commands and that regard to this gentleman's character as was due, awI this appears plainly by ye menn accommodations you provided before. I am therefore by his Excell. CommandI in left you know that you are immediately without delays in misconstrning any part of this to provide a good all con- venient bouse in your town of Kingstown, with necessarys thereto belonging (suitable to the character of Mr. Hepburn) for him, and it there be no other house to be gotten, you are immediately to put bim in possession of ye house late of J'oudy Witelewitt, which was some time since e- hented for her Majie, and mako a speedy returne of what you shall have done berein.
" I am, gertlerin. " Yr very huroble servant, " GEORGE CLARKE."
The following is supposed to show the names of all the freeholders in the year named, and is therefore a valuable paper in throwing light upon early settlement and subse- queut changes :
"THE FFRECHOLDERS FOR THE TOWN OF KINGSTON,
1728.
William Schepmoes.
Mattys Van Steenberge.
Coeurnet Elmendorp, Faq.
Anthony Sleght.
Dort. Jacobus Fimendorph.
Nathaniel Devenpoort.
Simon Van Wagener.
Johannis Low.
ijerck De Witt. Major Johannis Hardenburgh.
Walran Du Mund !.
l'eter Tappen.
Gerrit Van Wagenen.
Tjerck Van Kearen.
6 Nickolas Bogardus
1
Charle. Brodhead.
7 Ilans Kiersteden
John Croocke
22
Abraham Van Keuren ..
5
David De Lametter.
1 Wilhelmus Ilooghtelingh.
6
Hendrickus Steght.
Johannis Do lametter.
1
Jakop tar k ...
1 Poulus Ploegh
Johannis Wynkoop
5 Petrus A. Louw
1
Cornelis De Lametter.
I Iliskiea Du boois.
2
Hen Irick Frayn.
James Whitaker.
Cornelis De Lametter, Jr. 1 Domyny Vas
Jakobus Eltiuge.
1 Ragel Du mont
3
Pieter Tappen.
Jakobus Elmendorph.
Domyno Mansins
thomas Bceckman
2 Abrabam Sleght
1
tjatie tappen
5 Petrus Stedus.
1
Jakobs Wittiker
1 Abraham haesbroeck, Jr. 1
Jar Eltinge.
1
JIiskiagh Du Bois.
J.hamins Ten Brook.
Nicolas De Myer.
Ilendrick Brink.
Cornelius Laugenlyck.
Barent Burhans.
Evert Wynkoop, E-q.
John Persen.
Arie Newkerk.
Tennis Swartt.
Johannis Snyder.
John Wels. Johannis Masten.
Johannis Wm. Snyder.
Adam Swartt.
William Swartt.
William Keel.
Jacobus De Lametre.
Lowrens Swartt.
Cornelius Elmendorp.
Christynen Myer.
Johannis Schoonmaker. Hendrik Jan-en.
Peter Mouerse.
John Oosterhout.
John Pleogh.
Felter Fier.
John Wood, Sr.
Peter Wynnen.
Jobu Wood, Jr.
Lowrens Merkell.
Edward Wood.
Jacob Butsen, Jr.
John Legg. Peter Luyks.
Coll. Wessel Ten Brook.
Johannis V. Steenberge.
l'eter l'erle.
Abraham V. Steenberge.
Andries Ifoff.
Johannis Swartt.
Gysbert Peele.
Philip. Moore.
Peter Van Leuven.
Johannis Jan.en.
Moses Cantyn.
John Makleyn.
Mattys Du Bois.
Doet. Ilans Kiersteeden.
Wilhelmus Hooghtelingh.
Peter Van Acken.
Bondwyn Incouut.
Manuel Gonsalisduck.
Manuel Gensalisduck, Jr.
Christophell Tappen.
Mattys Van Keuren.
Abrahamu De Lametre.
Ario Van Vleet.
.John Freer.
Johannis Hd. Sehoonwaker.
Abraham Low.
Aldert Aticse Roosa.
Thomas Van Steenbergo.
Charles Brodhead.
Arie Van Steenberge.
Dedriek Soets.
John Wolf.
Christopher Wanbomal.
Jobannis Turck.
David Do Lametre.
Stephen Gasharie.
Hendrick Frelingh,
Cornelius Van Keuren.
William Smith.
Corneling Swartt.
Hendrick Ruyter.
Tennis Adamse Swartt.
Hiskiag Schoonmaker.
John Davenpoort.
Jacob Middagh,
Basteyana Dewitt.
Coenraet Righturyer.
Tobias Van Heureu.
Tjerek Schoonmaker."¿
SLAVES IN KINGSTON, 1755.
Davil Lametter, captain of a company of militia in Kingston, makes a return of those who had reported to him their " negrous slaves," as follows :
Abraham hassbrock .. 2
Adain Paorsen.
T
Evert Wynkoop ..
lohn Slecht.
Sammel Barhans.
Nicholas Hofman.
Aldert Kiorstecden.
Mattys Sleght.
Evert Roosa.
Petrus Bogardus.
Solomon Bunschooteo.
Samuel Nights.
Hendrik HI. Schoonmaker.
William liltinge.
Ighbert Schoonmaker.
William Herris.
Edward Whittaker, Esq.
Mijer Johannis Wynkoop.
Mattya Person. Williamn Donghty.
Cryn Oosterhout.
Philip Viely.
Jacobus Dubois.
Lowie Du Bois, Jr.
Arie Kuyckendall.
T hotnas Beekman.
Jneobus A. Van Etten.
Jacob Ten Dro ck, Esq.
Another return by Capt. Laurence Salisbury, apparently
* The above list. with that of other towns iu the county, was pre- pared by Sheriff Jacobus Van Dyck for the purpose of drawing & special jury to determine a cause between Major Itardenbergh and
the corporation of Kingstou. The paper was dated July 7, 1728. .
1
Johann's Jansen.
Cornelis Eliuendorph ... ..
Abraham Lonw
William Dondij
Peck De Witt.
Gisbert Van Denbergh.
Johanuis Tuppen.
Lowrons Hen Irik.
Andries Ileermans.
William Traphagen.
Cornelius Delametre.
Johannis Delemetre.
Coll. Abraham Gassbeck' Chan- bers.
Ilarınanus lommel. Frederik Merkel.
Jeronomonts Klyn. Nicolas Dromboer.
Jurya Overpugh. Juryan Suyder. -
Jonas De Lange. William Ploegb. John Crook, .Fr. liendrik Oosterhout.
. Jobu Oosterhout, Jr. x
William Lerg.
Peter Oosterhout.
2 Hendrick oostrander ... 1
186
HISTORY OF ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK.
for Kingston, contains the following list of masters and number of slaves :
Coll. Abrm. Gaasbeck chain- bers
6
John Burhans.
3
Coll. John Tanbroeck ......
5
Thomas Van Gaasbeck.
5
Capt. Laurence Salisbury ..
3
Wido Blandiena Tenbroeck
3
Capt. Jobn Sleghl
1
Alrai. Van Gansbeck.
1 2
Wido Annaca Johnson.
G
John Van Gaasbeck
1
Abrm. Bu, huns
5
Jacobus Delamelter.
Abrin. post ..
1
Jacob Burhans.
1
John Sneyden
Wido Margaret Burhans
Davil Burhans.
1
David Burhans, Jr.
1
Jacob Drink
3
Isaac Deccar.
1
John Hurhans, Jr.
1
Wid. Rachel Dumond.
4
Laurence Van Gaasbeck
1
I-aac puis.
1
Anras Van Steenbergh ...
1
Peter Winne
1
Marta Snyder .....
1
Tuenes Overlerhont.
1
Philip Vielle .. 1 Henderick Brink.
Another return, apparently about the same time, made by Capt. Petrus Bogardus, gives the following list of mas- ters and the number of slaves belonging to each :
Capt. Petrus Bogardus .. 5
Tjerek Dewitt. 6
Petrus Ed. Elmewlorph ..
Waldron Dumon.
3
Wid. Cattrienna Crocek.
1
Johanis Dubois.
Thomas Beckman.
Jacobus Dumon.
Christofel Kiersted.
Nelle Oost rhoudt
Johanis Chris. Thomas
1 Moses Cortyu
1
Cornelis Viele
1
Anthony Hoffman ..
Trynije Van Keuren.
1
Hendrick freligh
-> 1
Izack Dubois.
3
lohanis Masien.
Evert Bogardus
5 Barber Pleogh.
C
AN INCIDENT IN SETTLING A CHURCH DIFFICULTY.
An interesting experience happened to Rev. Gerhardus Daniel Cork, pastor of the church at East Camp, German- town, in a fraternal attempt to settle a difficulty that arose in 1763 between the church at Kingston and their pastor, Rev. Mr. Hermanus Myer.
Coming over to Kingston at the invitation of the ehlers and deacons of the Kingston Church, he assisted at a facet- ing held for the purpose of adjusting the differences between the respective parties. How successfully the adjustment progressed is not stated in the petition from which these notes are taken ; but the next morning the reverend gentle- man, who had come over here in the interest of peace, sud- denly found himself in the hands of the civil authorities.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.