Letters 4/1/2019

Tentative Schedule (working copy) is here.

BIG NEWS!   SAVE THE DATES:  Sept 12,-16, 2019 in KENTUCKY!
Thursday through Saturday at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601. 
Sunday and Monday at Harrodsburg for the Old Mud Meetinghouse and the Harrodsburg Historical Research Library.

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SENT BY: Janice Cozine (DUTCH COUSINS TREASURER -and general organizer!)
I’m so excited about our venue this year thanks to Rod Dempsey’s influence and connections. This large facility has everything we need, also has floor to ceiling windows overlooking the farm/property. Several hotels nearby give you some variety on where to stay. Most are right off I-64 at exit 53B for your convenience and we still have the option to stay at The Capital Plaza Hotel farther into town.
NOTE: **We are not endorsing any of these hotels, just sharing contact information.The information on hotel contact for reservations is on our website: www.DutchCousins.org——————————————————————

SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
We still need TWO VOLUNTEERS!  for a couple open committee chair positions. Please let us know if you would be willing to fill one of these volunteer roles:  
Dutch T-Shirts Fundraiser or
Dutch Book Displays.
The list of officers and chairpersons for the 2019 Gathering is posted on our website: www.DutchCousins.org
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JOB DESCRIPTIONS:
Dutch T-Shirt Fundraiser-
Previous chairs were Dennis & Carole Karwatka.  People will order sizes desired and pay with their registration. The chairperson is responsible for ordering and receiving the tee shirts, delivering them to the event and handing them out to those who paid for them. (Note: The chairperson does not have to handle or be responsible for the money since they are already paid for, and the treasurer will write the check to the Tee-shirt company) We only have  few extra shirts left from previous events. 
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Dutch Book Displays- 
The previous chair was Joan Murray.
We do not plan to have a book signing event in 2019, but would need a chairman to seek books to show and display for those researching our low dutch history. Authors could post info on how to buy or bring books to sell on their own.

Thank you to everyone for your time and talents volunteering for Dutch Cousins!
We couldn’t do it without you!
Sincerely,
Tamara Fulkerson
 VP Dutch Cousins
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NOTE FROM CAROLYN: We have more letters to share, but I wanted to get this much sent today.  
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NOTE FROM CAROLYN:  ANY COMMENTS WELCOMED IN REGARD TO THIS TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: Please send to: Buffalo234@cox.net

SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield, president, Dutch Cousins 2019
Working with Steve on the bus tour. Will keep you up to date. Schedule is as up to date as I can make it at this time.Proposed Schedule Dutch Cousins 2019
Please hit reply and send comments or suggestions.
Thursday Sept 12, 2019
3:00    Set up Family History Tables, Silent Auction items, book displays, Tee Shirts, Display Tables.
4:00    Early Registration KSU
            Dinner on your own or box lunches for workers (pre-ordered)
6:30    Speaker (To Be Announced) (Possibilities – welcome from Univ. president?: or Show the video from the Dutch trip to NY – if we can fix it – too loud last time but lots of interest)
Friday Sept 13, 2019
8:30    Coffee & registration KSU
9:00    Family History Tables, Silent Auction items, book displays & Tee Shirts
10:00  Meeting begins, flag ceremony and introductions
            Welcome to Kentucky (Governor – hopefully) or (Senator Whitney Westerfield)
10:30 SUGGESTION: VP TAMARA call names of different family groups and have them stand? (first we could call the 50 names that are recorded alphabetically, then the others – what think? Maybe this would be good time to get a leader from each one?)
11:00  10 min to hear about the items for sale (books or silent auction)
            (Book Display chairperson and Silent Auction Bill Hoag)
11:30  Lunch, business meeting (officers & registered cousins)
2:00    Business Meeting disbands, break
2:15    Report on Old Mud & Low Dutch Archives (Amalie Preston)
2:30    Report on Conewago markers progress (Malcolm Banta)
2:45    Break
3:00    Presentation from the Dulcimer society of KY
4:00    (To Be Announced) SUGGESTION: THE DIFFERENT FAMILY GROUPS COULD MEET? You would need a leader for each group so this would take some work beforehand. We did that in 2005.
5:00    Break
6:00    Dinner Buffet – suggested Keynotes:     Steve Henry (Historical Farm Tour) 15 min.
Vince Ackers (Westerfield Massacre) 15 min.
Dan Jones of 21^st Century (The Parklands) 
Saturday Sept 14, 2019
9:00    Coffee – Meet your Cousins, Everything open       
10:30 Group Photos
11:00 Silent Auction ends. Take down all displays.
Excursion (Saturday – Sept. 14^th) King and Sharon Cole, coordinators for trip
11:30 Depart KSU
12:15 Lunch (Location to be determined)
1:15    Parklands Tour, Steve Henry historical property
2:15    Drive-by Low Dutch Station/Westerfield Journey marker
3:00    Dedicate highway markers for Westerfield Massacre/Floyd’s Death
5:00    Return to KSU
6:00    Prayer and dinner is served by (Family Affair of Salvisa KY)
6:30    Keynote speaker: Eddie Price (will let you know topic later) 
Sunday Sept 15, 2019
9:30    Check out & leave Frankfort
9:30    Caravan (45 min drive) to Harrodsburg, KY
11:30  Lunch at 19^th Hole, Harrodsburg, KY
1:00    Old Mud gates open, Group Photos at Old Mud Meeting house
1:30    Dedicate Garden Bench IN MEMORY OF CLAUDE WESTERFIELD (To Be Announced) I will be glad to do it.
2:00    Worship service & Communion at Old Mud Meeting House – Public Invited
            suggested speaker – RUSSELL GASERO, ARCHIVIST OF DUTCH REFORMED CHURCHES IN AMERICA, New Brunswick, NJ 

Monday, Sept 16, 2019
10 till 3: Harrodsburg Historical Society

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HE SAID YES! 
SENT BY: Jim Cozine of Las Vegas, a founder and board member of Dutch Cousins since 2003.
I called Eddie Cozine and asked if he would be willing to take my place on the Board.
I wish I could be more active with Dutch Cousins but it is not going to happen.. I like what I’m doing for the vets and just can’t let go now.I too truly enjoyed all of my time with the cousins — my father knew nothing about the family before they left Kentucky and my great grandfather — folklore was we were French..The family history of all the Dutch cousins is a treasure —I’ll always assist anyone who wants to know about the Cozines and of course I’ll share any good finds.THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.. Jim 
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SENT BY: Connie
THIRLLED to receive your newsletter! And look- I saw my post! Well, boy- you pack a lot of info in this & I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! Looking forward to more!
Cheers-
Connie
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SENT BY: Randal Ofensend

Hello,

Please add me to your email list.  The following are my grandfathers from you surname list:

Epke Jacobse, b1635, 8th GGF
Coenradt Ten Eyck, b1617, 10th GGF
David Demarest, b1651, 8th GGF

I had heard about “the Kentucky Bantas”.  Good to connect with all these cousins!
I did not know about the Westervelt Massacre – an important story.

I graduated from West Virginia University, and have ancestors from southern Ohio and Greene County, PA.

Randal
Glenmoore, PA  (Chester County, west of Philadelphia)

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SENT BY: Logan Westerfield
Hello,
I wish to sign up for your Dutch Cousins newsletter. 
My sister, Sherron Westerfield, tells me we are direct descendants
of the survivors of the Westerfield Massacre. I plan on
attending the 2019 meeting.
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SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield (Dutch Cousins Prez and chair of Westerfield Marker)
We need to re-write the text for the 3 new signs.1.     The Low Dutch Station (sign) One side only.2.     The Bullitt Co Marker (Westerfield Massacre) One side only.3.     The Parklands (sign) One side only. This is the verbiage for the original writing of the:Bullitt Co MarkerWESTERFIELD MASSACRESeveral families, led by LowDutchman Jacobus Westervelt(James Westerfield) camping nearhere April 3, 1781 were attackedin the early morning hours. Adozen men, women and childrenwere killed. Two girls were takencaptive to British at Detroit.Survivors fled to Clear’s Stationa mile and half south. (over) Dutch Cousins of KentuckyPIONEER WILDERNESS ROAD Wilderness Road connecting Fallsof Ohio (Louisville), Bullitt’sLick and Harrodsburg passed nearhere. Early pioneers arrived byflatboat at the Falls, took thisroad into the interior. NativeAmericans, allied with British inthe Revolution, sent raiders tostem the tide of settlers takingtheir KY hunting grounds. (over) Dutch Cousins of KentuckyThe Verbiage for the final marker was as follows:WESTERFIELD MASSACREFamilies led by Low DutchmanJacobus Westervelt moving fromFloyd’s Station to Harrodsburgwere attacked while camped in thearea April 3, 1781. Over a dozenmen, women and children werekilled. Two girls were takencaptive to British at Detroit.survivors fled to Clear’s Stationon Wilderness Road.
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SENT BY: Irving Ostrander
Hello, My name is Irving Ostrander I am tied to the Dutch ancestors I Kingston and Hurley, NY. Our original name was Peterzen but when the English took over we changed it to Von Oostrander. Original date in North America 1651. I am the former President of the Ostrander Family Association and have worked to connect many of our missing lines. You probably have many Ostrander’s already in your club as we are a large clan. My origins are MA, VT, and NY. I now live just outside Raleigh, NC. My Cousin Peter J Ostrander found your web page and sent it to me. I would be glad to share and help if I can. The Ostrander name comes from one family in Kingston and Hurley NY. Our original name was Pietrzen until the British took over New Amsterdam and made the family create a name that will transfer from generation to the next. So all Ostranders are related or cousins! Your migration from Kingston  to Kentucky is from one of the children of Pieter Pieterzen. I will look at what I have and hopefully will give you some better insight. Irving “Skip” Ostrander.
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SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
We still have 2 open committee chair positions for our 2019 Low Dutch Cousins Gathering in Frankfort, KY. Please let me know if you would be willing to fill one of these volunteer roles:  Dutch T-Shirts Fundraiser or Book Displays.
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SENT BY:Della Nash
Attn any HUFF descendants. We had a memorial service and dedicated a marker at Old Mud Graveyard for this guy in 2009. I think I did the obituary and presentation on him if I remember right.  Peter Huff was a member of Col. Taylor’s Regimental New Jersey line during the Revolutionary War.  His service included the battles of Monmouth and Springfield.  Peter has a veteran’s marker in the Old Mud Meeting House Cemetery.  There still are Huffs living in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, at this time.

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SENT BY:  CHARLIE WESTERFIELD, PRESIDENT
We need to start raising funds for the two signs. Steve said we could use the $3,000.00 his group paid for the Parklands sign, but it will have to be made up when it is time to pay for that sign. 
Steve suggested that in our fund raising we make the checks out to “Future Fund Endowment” they will be tax deductible and we will not have to pay sales tax.
We will have to raise $3,000.00 for the Low Dutch Station sign this gathering (by June 1st, and $3,000.00 for the Westerfield Massacre sign (by 2021). This will have to cover the Parklands sign when needed. Hope that Bullitt County will pay for their half of the Westerfield Massacre sign!
I do not know what the expense will be for a parking area for the Bullitt County sign? How much the highway department will provide.

We don’t want to add any more duties to our overworked treasurer! so Anyone who would like to donate to this special fund for the Westerfield Massacre markers, please send to me at:
Charlie Westerfield
3913 Jenica Way
Louisville KY 40241-1530
 Please mark check or money order as: Future Fund Endowment, or Westerfield Marker fund,

Spoke to Malcolm Banta, he is nowhere in his efforts for that historical marker. He said he will make a renewed effort to get that back on track.

Called James Moore, the number we have for him does not work. Sent an e-mail to the e-mail we have asking him to give me a call, waiting on his reply, if the e-mail worked?

I think I am up to date!
Charlie 
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SENT BY:  To stay in touch, we mainly use our official website, www.DutchCousins.org, and the weekly or so Dutch Letters email. The email goes out to almost 1,000 addresses – and I know it is passed on to others who do not use computers, and is posted at some libraries.  The letters are also archived on the website. 

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
Editor, Dutch cousins of Kentucky
E-mail me: Editor234 (at) gmail.com
On my web page www.CarolynBLeonard.com 

Dutch letters are archived on our official webpage, www.DutchCousins.org by Pam Ellingson
Barbara Whiteside has a facebook page that you may find interesting, Dutch Cousins in Kentucky