Letters 5/13/2019

Why is it named Banta graveyard if no Banta are there?

SEE YOU 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.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Janice Cozine (DUTCH COUSINS TREASURER -and general organizer!)
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
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SENT BY: Vice President Tamara FulkersonWe 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.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield, president of Dutch Cousins We are going to dedicate two markers with a third in the planning stage: 
Marker One: The Low Dutch Station Marker that is located at Brown Park near Baptist East Hospital will become the “Low Dutch Station” marker on side one, and the “Beginning of the Westerfield journey” (verbiage to be decided) on side two. 
Marker Two: Location to be decided, in concert with the Bullitt Co Historical Society, “Westerfield Massacre” on side one, and “Floyd’s Death” (verbiage to be decided) on side two.
Marker Three: To be dedicated at the 2021 gathering and located in The Parklands to feature the “Travels and Massacre of the Westerfields” on side one, and side two to feature the establishment of the park. 
One marker is already paid for and funds to be raised will cover the second marker. All the verbiage and funds will have to be completed by June 1, 2019.
Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated. Please send donations, questions or comments to Charlie Westerfield, email: charlie (at) charliewesterfield (dot) com, phone ‭(502) 649-0600‬Make the checks out to “Future Fund Endowment” and send to Charlie Westerfield, 3913 Jenica Way, Louisville, KY 40241. “Future Fund Endowment” is the group that Steve Henry represents, if we make the checks out to them we want be taxed (save $180.00 per sign). The fund will pay the Historical Society for all three signs (one sign is already paid for). ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Lilly Martin SahiounieHere is a Brouwer/Brewer family chart if anyone would care to enlarge it, or copy it out to a poster board, to be on display for the 2019 meeting.  I won’t be there, but this might inspire someone from the BREWER families lineage to share this with the group. Adam Brouwer, the immigrant ancestor, is the man who built the FIRST tide-water Flour Mill in North American history.  He built that on Gowanus Creek, in Brooklyn (the creek is still there).  That Flour Mill remained in the family until 1798, when it was sold to John C. Freeke.   Best regards,Lilly Martin #1. Daniel Brouwer (later Brewer)
b. July 05, 1719 Hackensack, NJ
d. January 15, 1791 Mercer Co, KY
Married on : October 10, 1743 to  Maritje Koning b. January 17, 1721/22 NY d. Bef. 1791 KY. #2. Abraham Brouwer 
b. 1675 at Schenectady, Albany, NY
d. Bef. May 15, 1731 Hackensack, NJ
Married on March 29, 1700 to Leah Demarest b. April 18, 1682 Hackesack, NJ d. April 1736 Hackensack, NJ #3.  Pieter Brouwer 
b. September 23, 1646 New Amsterdam (Manhattan, NY)
d. Aft. October 10, 1700 New Jersey
Married before 1673 to Petronella Kleyn b. about 1655 #4. Adam Brouwer 
b. about 1620 Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, now Germany
d. 1692 Gowanus, Brookyn, Kings Co, NY
Married on March 19, 1644/45 at The Tavern on Battery street, New Amsterdam (Manhattan) to Magdalena Verdon, marriage performed by Rev. Everardus Bogardus.Banns  apparently were posted in the Dutch church in New Amsterdam, with the wedding at (Fraunces) Tavern, at that time a Dutch Inn.——————————————————————

NOTE from Carolyn:  on our Footprints to Dutch NY in 2011, we drove by Gowanus Creek in Brooklyn, toured the Flatlands Reformed Church (previously Dutch Reformed) and visited the OLD STONE HOUSE and museum, a reconstruction of the 1699 Vechte-Cortelyou House. Located on the border of Park Slope and Gowanus in Brooklyn, it marks the site of the original Dutch farmstead and mill (of Adam Brouwer) stood and the culminating engagement of the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn took place. It also commemorates the birthplace of the Brooklyn Dodgers.  The genealogy of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon is online at:

http://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.htmlOf the three original Brouwer families found in New Netherland, the family of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon is arguably the most familiar to those researching their Brower or Brewer ancestry. Thanks to no less then fourteen children reaching adulthood and leaving families of their own, Adam and Magdalena must certainly have descendants who number in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands. from: http://www.conovergenealogy.com/famous-p/p98.htm#i4887
Adam Brouwer Berkhoven emigrated in 1642. He was before 1645 a Soldier in the Dutch West India Company, Brazil. Marriage banns for Adam Brouwer Berkhoven and Magdalena Jacobs Verdon were published on 19 March 1645 at Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, New York County, New York. Adam Brouwer Berkhoven married Magdalena Jacobs Verdon, daughter of Jacob Verdon and Mary Badie, on 21 March 1645.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
2018-2019 Officers and Committee Chairs for Low Dutch Cousins

President                                             Charles Westerfield of Louisville
Vice President                                     Tamara Fulkerson of Crestwood, KY
Secretary                                             Denise M. Perry of Somerville, TN
Treasurer                                            Janice Cozine of Mt Washington, KY
Editor, Dutch Letters & Newsletter    Carolyn Leonard of OKC
Board Member                                   Jim Cozine of Las Vegas
Board Member                                   Malcolm Banta of RotondaWest, FL
Board Member                                   Amalie Preston of Harrodsburg, KY
Immediate Past President                  Carolyn Leonard of OKC

Chairpersons:
Nominatons:                                       To be announced
Gathering Coordinator                        King & Sharon Cole of Texas
Registration                                        Janice Cozine of Kentucky
Financial/Audit Report                       Vince Akers of Indiana
Webmaster                                         Pam Ellingson of Wisconsin
Program Speakers                              Charles Westerfield of Louisville,KY 
Heritage Displays                                Dana Wade of H’burg, Kentucky
Hospitality                                           Emily Welches of Noblesville, Indiana
Dutch Silent Auction                           (NOW OPEN) Bill & Gail Hoag of Jones, OK
Historian                                             Barbara A. Whiteside of Clarksville, Indiana                           
HHS Low Dutch Research Day           Amalie Preston of H’burg, KY
Photography                                        Charlie Westerfield of Louisville
Surname Banners                               Tamara Fulkerson of Crestwood, KY
DAR/SAR Ancestor Assistance            Charlotte Olson of Oswego, Ill
Conewago Project                               Malcolm Banta of Florida
Westerfield Marker                               Charlie Westerfield of Louisville
Publicity                                                Carolyn Leonard, OK & Denise Perry, TN
DUTCH T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER          OPEN POSITION
BOOK DISPLAYS                                OPEN POSITION  What would YOU like to do to help keep the Dutch Cousins event going?——————————————————————

SENT BY: Greg Barnard (new member)Just enrolled in Dutch Cousins & plan on attending the Sept gathering in Frankfort and Harrodsburg. Am working clearing the Banta/Demott Cemetary  2 miles south of Harrodsburg. It is horribly overgrown. I have spent $100+ on weed/bush/grass killer but it has honeysuckle type bushes that surrounding it. Am going to hire someone to weed eat it next week. Harrodsburg Historical Soc. said they have no money. Kentucky Heritage Council said same but if I cleaned it up they would provide a plaque and help scan the ground for bodies with unreadable stones or no stones at all. They would then designate it a Kentucky Pioneer Cemetary. 2 Rev War Veterans there: Lawrence and Peter Demott who both have Rev War Markers at Old Mudd. They both fought at Battles of Monmouth and Springfield, NJ side by side.
It will cost over $1,000 to finish what I cannot do. Any suggestions? There are 12 people buried there (6 children and 6 adults. Their names are:

Lawrence Demott d 1800
Peter Demott d 1834
Anna Demott d 1812
J.J. McDonald d 1819
Jane Terhune (Terhune?) d 1825
John Gritton d 1837
George Terhune d 1853
Anna Gritton d 1854
Martha Terhune d 1855
Jesse Gritton d 1857
Mary Terhune Demott d 1862
Garret Demott

Some Banta (women) married other men. Just thought I would ask for suggestions. Maybe some related Cousins live nearby and could help. I have met with the land owner and supports my efforts but unsure about financial help.
Will send photos if you need.
Thanks,
Greg Barnard
Danville, Ky.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Carolyn LeonardPam Ellingson forwarded your email to me. I will put it in the next Dutch Letters which goes out to more than 600 addresses of Dutch descendants. I am sending a copy now to Rodney Dempsey who is a descendant of the Demotte and is very interested in the family history. Because the Cove Spring property was so overgrown and uncared for so many years, our group placed memorials for the Revolutionary soldiers: John Demotte, Peter Demotte, Laurence DeMotte and others at the Old Mud Meetinghouse graveyard a few miles away. I think you can find the memorials for those buried at Cove Spring on this page (hotlink below) if you want to know more about them. I’d be interested in learning why it is called the Banta cemetery when there are no known Bantas buried there? “

No memorials found for Banta in Banta Graveyard.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1448537/memorial-search?page=1#sr-6625009 The cemetery you are speaking of was originally named the Cove Spring cemetery which was next to the property of John and Ann (Cozine) Demotte, they attended Old Mud church and raised seven children who intermarried with other Low Dutch members. After John DeMotte’s death in 1800 Ann married Jesse Gritton in 1819. Jesse’s father John Gritton is buried here. So Antje Cozine’s burial name is Ann Gritton. Her daughter Sally Demotte married David Banta, but they are not buried there.Here’s a hotlink to Ann (Antje Cozine)Demotte Gritton’s memorial on findagrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17054016/antjie-gritton John and Peter Demotte are sons of Laurence DeMott and Dorothe Vanderbeek. Here’s what it says on John Demotte’s memorial at Old Mud:  John DeMott is actually buried near his wife Anna (Cozine) in the Cove Spring burial ground, in the Banta/DeMott Family Graveyard Located in a field south of DeMott house at Cove Springs. (near the Mercer/Boyle line about two miles south of Harrodsburg on US 127.) (1967) The cemetery was abandoned and grown up in weeds before 2005. Mary Terhune (daughter of Garrett S. Terhune and Catherine (Van Nuys/Vannice) married Peter Demotte (1758=1832) so the Margaret Vannice buried there is probably related to this family. Major Wm Ver Bryck (1737-1824) is buried there. He and his wife Rebecca Lowe (1758-1853) had a son named Richard Verbryke (spelling doesn’t count – Ha} (1783-1866) who married Elizabeth Whitenack and after William’s death they (with Rebecca) migrated with the Dutch group to Hopewell in Johnson County Indiana where they are buried. I haven’t seen this book, but one reference on Findagrave says: All records of this cemetery from “Kentucky Cemetery Records, Vol II” Kentucky Society DAR. So if anyone sees it I’d like a copy. Hope this helps. Blessings,carolyn Carolyn LeonardEditor, Dutch cousins of KentuckyE-mail me: Editor234 (at) gmail.comOn my web page www.CarolynBLeonard.com  Dutch letters are archived on our official webpage, www.DutchCousins.org by Pam EllingsonBarbara Whiteside has a facebook page that you may find interesting, Dutch Cousins in Kentucky  ————————————————————————————————

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
 We are getting excited as we gear up for the 2019 Dutch Cousins gathering in Kentucky, Sept 12,-16!
Thursday through Saturday at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601. On Friday we will have a bus tour to dedicate the historical markers for the Westerfield massacre near Louisville.

Sunday and Monday at Harrodsburg KY for the Old Mud Meetinghouse worship, and dedication of the bench in memory of Claude Westerfield, one of the founders, and the Harrodsburg Historical Research Library to study the only repository for the Low Dutch history Archives. We average 125-150 attendance – and can accommodate more! This will be our EIGHTH gathering of descendants of the many Dutch families who came from New Amsterdam to NJ, to Conewago Colony in Pennsylvania, and then on flatboats down the Ohio or on the Wilderness Trail in the 1780s to settle the Low Dutch Tract in Kentucky. 
Our Dutch Cousins MISSION STATEMENT We are descendants of the Low Dutch who settled New Amsterdam, moved to New Jersey, migrated to near Gettysburg, and made history when they later populated the frontier.  Our Dutch Kentucky Cousins goal is to research, share, and preserve the genealogy and history of our common Low Dutch heritage, including but not limited to, the restoration and preservation of the old Mud Meetinghouse built by our ancestors in the early 1800s near Harrodsburg, KY.  We meet every two years to renew our love for each other.  Our mission is to honor the memory of these ancestors and enjoy the friendship of cousins, both newly- discovered and long-loved.————————————————————————————————

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