Letters 8/13/19- Only six days to deadline

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
Deadline for DUTCH COUSINS 2019 registration (Sept 12-16 in Kentucky) with tee-shirt and FREE matching bag is just a days away! Go here to download a registration blank and send it in today! https://dutchcousins.org/2019-2/

Thursday through Saturday we will be at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601. 
Sunday and Monday we will be at Harrodsburg KY for the Old Mud Meetinghouse worship and dedication 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 either on flatboats down the Ohio or on the Wilderness Trail in the 1780s to settle the Low Dutch Tract in Kentucky.
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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.
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SENT BY: Carolyn
Have you prepared your family’s history display yet or is it still circling around in your brain? Next issue will be all about the displays so send a note to let me know what you are planning for your display. Bring one for your show and tell!

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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.
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SENT BY: Janice Cozine, registration chair and treasurer of Dutch Cousins.
The Cousins are coming!

NAMES	STATE	FAMILY NAMES	COUNT
Sherron & Logan Westerfield	KY	Westerfield	2
Greg Barnard	KY	Demott	1
Pam Ellington	WI	Westerfield	1
Larry & Suzanne Voreis	SC	Voorhees	2
Samuel Voreis	TN	Voreis	6
Kay Rogers	NM	Voorhies?  Voorhees	1
Emily Welches	IN	Vanarsdall	1
Renee’ Anderson	IN	Banta	1
Carole & Dennis Karwatka	KY	Westerfield	2
Patricia & Wilbur Knapke	KY	Ryker	2
Eddie & Janice Cozine	KY	Cozine	2
Charlotte & David Olson	IL	Terhunne	2
Larry Westerfield & Claudette Sanders	TN	Westerfield	2
Charles & Marilyn Westerfield	KY	Westerfield	2
Phyllis Brown	KY	VISITOR	1
Alice Ramer Rice Bratcher	KY	Banta	1
Mary Bermke	NC	Banta	1
Patricia Mickunas	FL	Banta	1
Barbara Merideth	MO	Westerfield	1
Lynn Rogers	OH	Ryker	1
Denise Merideth Perry	TN	Westerfield	1
Sharon & King Cole	TX	Stagg	2
Vince & Zach Akers	IN	Demaree	2
Carolyn Leonard  & Jon Heavener	OK	Cozine	2
Lora Westerfield	KY	Westerfield	1
Cynthia Byxbee, Faye Davis & Mary Lou Ward	KY	Cozine	3
Mary Jo Gohmann	IN	Banta	1

Have you sent your registration in yet?

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SENT BY:  Melona Gallagher
Paul Gregory, I’m a Voorhees descendant & can’t attend this year but would love to correspond. My clan migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada where we spread from there. 
I’d love to speak to any Vories, Voorhees, 
Van Nuys, Van Nice, Vannice cousins.
I have a tree on www.wikitree.com as well as a small public tree on Ancestry.
~ Melona Gallagher
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SENT BY: Janice Cozine (DUTCH COUSINS TREASURER -and general organizer!)
This large facility (Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building) 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: Curt Biehn
Carolyn…just how do you pronounce “Conewago”?
(A Brower, Stagg descendant)

(Reply from Carolyn):  Here is what Google said: The pronunciation of Conewago is not known

(and I thought Google knew everything!  I have heard it pronounced with or without a long A,or a long O, and a long E;  and the emphasis on the 1st syllable and the 3rd syllable.) Maybe one of our experts knows?

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SENT BY: Ernie Borgoyne
I didn’t see this information on your website, so I thought I’d share it.

http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/pdfs/Frisian%20Roundtable%20%201975%20-%201986.pdf

A newsletter began in 1975 until 1986 that talked about the Frisian legacy. Someone thankfully digitized the paper letters and I found it on the McNeese State University, Lousiana website.

I found this extremely valuable as it talked about the true nature of the Frisian culture especially in terms of their freedom-loving, independent, hard-working and resilient nature.

I Hope the group enjoys this information.
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SENT BY: carolyn
Owasco is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 3,793 at the 2010 census.^[3] Owasco is in the eastern part of Cayuga County and is at the southeast city line of Auburn. The town borders Owasco Lake, from where it gets its name. Owasco is home for many of the wealthier residents of Cayuga County. This is where many of the Cousins at Conewago moved East when many families headed west to Kentucky.

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SENT BY: Joyce Collins (Westerfield)

Dear Carolyn,
I will be with you in spirit , not body at the September Gathering.
God Bless You,
Love,
Joyce 

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SENT BY:  Denise M. Perry, Dutch Cousins secretary

Mr. Edmund Myles died in July 2018.  Mrs. Myles sent me the information by mail.  

I have received the following back without any post office markings.  I believe the post office is sending them to me instead of the correctly addressed person.  I’m emailing those with an email address to see if they are still at that address and if the online newsletter is sufficient or do they wish me to remail the hardcopy.

Ellie Burnaford
Vicki Bivens
Sharon Holtkamp
Ed & Barbara Cozine
Diana Todd

Larry H. Westerfield
Gail Sandusky
Amalie Preston
Judy Howard
Jean Pollard

William and Ann Riker returned for incorrect address.  I emailed him at the email((s) in our data base and it was returned as rejected x 2.

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SENT BY: Carolyn
Not registered for Dutch Cousins Gathering yet? 
What are you waiting for?
 Here’s a small sample of what we offer: A chance to get to know your Dutch Cousins community, learn more about your Dutch ancestors and their lives on the frontier, Find your Dutch roots, A narrated bus tour to see the area and be proud of your family connection, learn from and enjoy the great speakers we have lined up, network with others, make new friends.  
Encouragement. It’s worth its weight in gold,

Friendliness! Hey, that’s a thing. Who wants to come to a snobby conference?

Now’s the time to invest in your dream. Register here:  
https://dutchcousins.org/2019-2

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SENT BY: 

Elaine Van Meter Bailey

My ancestors name was VanMeter who immigrated from Holland in approx. 1660—-to NewAmsterdan. Then, following the Revolutionary War, moved to Kentucky (subsequently a later generation!!!). Would this relative be included in the DUTCH COUSINS?? WOULD LOVE TO ATTEND YOUR GATHERING. Live in Bellingham, Wa.

Please respond to buffalo234@cox.net if you have Van Meter info.
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SENT BY: Glee Krapf

address is correct. Lived here (in PA) 33 years and guess that I will be here till the end of my life. Wish that I could rejoin the list but do not know haw to do that. I cannot come to the reunion. Wish that I could, but have no control over that. Glee

Dear Glee, Did you know you can go to the website www.DutchCousins.org and read all of them? Did you receive the Dutch Newsletter mailed last week?  If not, here it is online also: 
hotlink to the print newsletter (as digital) here: try this: https://dutchcousins.org/2019-2/
We love you, miss you, and wish you were able to come to Kentucky! I know you wish so too.
Hugs, from your Dutch cousin in Oklahoma.
Carolyn 
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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas 

“In Search of Peter Stuyvesant’s Farmhouse: A New Netherland Mystery”

September 15 @ 2pm Carole F. Huxley Theater New York State MuseumIn this visually compelling program, historical artist Len Tantillo and author Russell Shorto compare their methods of bringing New York’s origins to life, focusing on the search for the Stuyvesant “Bowery” home. This program is free (courtesy of the New York State Museum).  Registration is encouraged.

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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas   
Thursday, September 12, 2019, 6-7:30pm: ‘Slavery and Dutch-Palatine Farmers: How did middle class farmers in Colonial New York interact with slavery?’ by Travis M. Bowman.  
 Usually considered a Southern issue, slavery played a surprisingly large role in colonial and revolutionary era New York. Mr. Bowman will examine how slavery evolved in New York under the Dutch, British, and American systems of government and how the institution was utilized at a local and personal level among middle class farmers in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. In New York State slavery existed for 200 years and recent interest and research, particularly focused on the Hudson Valley area, confronts this reprehensible fact. This lecture is an opportunity to learn how slave labor led to the prosperity of many families in the region and also may have eventually influenced the abolition movement.
The Hudson Area Library is located at 51 North Fifth Street in Hudson, NY. 
For more information email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org, call 518-828-1792 x101, or visit the main desk in the library.
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