ELEVENTH GENERATION
"23 March JAN GERRETSEN, j. m., of Heerden, and GRIETJEN HENDRICKS WESTERCAMP, of [New] Amsterdam in Nieunederlant [New Netherland], both resid. here [in Wiltwyck, now Kingston]. "Est nec virgo nec vidua." (rough translation: "She is neither virgin nor widowed.") First publication of Banns, 9 March; second, 16 March; third, 23 March. ".
-- Stephen Fuller c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?heerden::decker::995.html
1029. Grietjen Hendricks Westercamp
"(1029[1]) Jacobsen, Pieter: Pieter Jacobsen came to New Netherland by the ship "de Trouw" which sailed on February 12, 1659. He was, as is stated in the list of passengers, from Holstein. He was a miller and settled in Esopus. The Baptismal Register of the old Dutch church in Kingston (= Esopus) giving the date of the baptism of Pieter's son, Pieter, October 1, 1662, states that the father is "miller here". In 1664 he is mentioned as being in partnership with Pieter Cornelissen. The wife of Pieter Jacobsen was (1029) Grietjen Hendricks Westercamp. Pieter died at or before the beginning of 1665."
-- Timm, Klaus, "Schleswig-Holstein Immigrants in New Amsterdam/New York, 1636-1667" c/o http://www.genealogy-sh.com/timm/1636-1667.htm
18 Dec. 1696 Rochester (Mombaccus)/Kingston, Ulster, NY
s/o Theunis Q. & Belitje Jacobse
d/o Jur V & Mar Hans 8 July 1719 Minisink Twp., Orange, NY
27 June 1727 Kingston, Ulster, NY
ABT 1735 Kingston, Ulster, NY
"(1028) Jan lived in Kingston. He bought 222 acres of land in Mombaccus, June 6, 1685 on the north side of the Rondout Kill. In 1705 he gave a plot to Rochester for a town house. Jan bought land in Sussex Co., NJ from Stephen Teitsort (later spelled Titsworth) in 1713..."
SRC: Calvin Owen
"The date of Jan Gerretsen Decker's arrival to this country is unknown... Jan Gerretsen took the name of Decker prior to 1685; yet used the name of "Gerretsen" several times thereafter. There were eight Gerretesens in the area at that time Ours was born in Holland prior to 1840 and died in Port Jervis in 1717."
SRC: Benton Weaver Decker's "The Decker Genealogy" copy right (C) 1980.
REF: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/Donna-L-Jones-NY/BOOK-0001/0006-0002.html
"(1029) Greitjen had an illegitimate child by Pieter Jacobsen (Van Holstyn), who was born in Holstein, Denmark and died 1663 or 1664 at Kingston, NY. He was a miller at Kingston. She sued Pieter Jacobsen on Oct 4, 1662 stating that he had ruined her and asked, "to have her honor restored."
"He denied that the child was his and also that he had promised to marry her. She testified that she had became pregnant at his mill on Dec 17, 1661... He, in turn, said that she was indecent and produced evidence from Jurien Van Westfall and his wife to the fact "Greitjen Westercamp lay under one blanket with Han Van Breeman, with his daughter between them." Pieter Jacobsen, after having been questioned, admitted that he had "lain" with her, but denied paternity or that he had promised to marry her or offered her any money. He questioned that a woman could be pregnant for 13 months 4 days. Pieter Jacobsen sued her on Jan 9, 1663, asking for "release"... He was granted the "freedom to marry whom he pleases" on Feb 6, 1663 but was ordered to pay her 200 guilders for her "services in having "lain" with him." Her child was Pieter (uncertain what surname he may have went by) was baptized Oct 1, 1662 at Kingston, Ulster Co., NY.
"GRIETJE WAS TAKEN CAPTIVE BY THE INDIANS ON JUNE 7TH 1663. ALONG WITH THREE OF HER CHILDREN, LATER TO BE RESCUED."
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2520033&id=I3574 c/o Jerry Mulkins jmulkins@yahoo.com
2058. Hendrick Janse Westecamp/ Westercamp
REF: http://www.boydhouse.com/michelle/quick/hendrickwestercamp/hendrickwestercamp.html
REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=2569586
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