Letters 2019

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Letters 2/2/2019

These two Dutch Cousins, Denise Merideth Perry of Somerville TN, and her niece, Erin Merideth Taylor of Edmond OK, surprised us this week with a brief visit. Denise is our Dutch Cousins secretary. The gals have an amazing story to tell. Erin saved her Aunt Denise’s life six months ago by giving Denise 60% of her liver. Now they both look great and are doing well. Turns out Erin, whom we had not met before, is active with her family in the large church we attend, Crossings Community Church. Erin is such a loving, giving person we just loved her immediately. (We already loved Denise).

THIS IS THE YEAR FOR THE DUTCH COUSINS IN KENTUCKY! Get ready.

Janice is arranging reduced rates at nearby hotels, and promises to have that information right away.
Charlie Westerfield, our president is getting speakers and programs together and will be sharing that within a week or two. He is in charge of the dedication of the Kentucky Historical Marker for the WESTERFIELD MASSACRE near Louisville, which will probably be a bus excursion.
During our informal meeting this week, Denise and I started planning to get the newsletter together.
Tamara Fulkerson, our vice president, is contacting people and setting up the lists of chairpersons for the different committees, so we will have that information soon, too. I do know she has all but one or two of the chairs filled and we have a new one this year. We like to get as many representatives from the different Low Dutch family groups as possible.
Dana (Bantau) Wade of Kentucky came to her first DC at Old Mud in 2017 and is excited about chairing one of our most important jobs – the display contest. Hope each of our Dutch families is working on a display to show your connection to the Low Dutch ancestors if possible all the way back to New Amsterdam – Or whatever you want to share about your Low Dutch family. We’ll come up with a special award for the display judged best so start working on it.
There’s lots more to do, and more to tell. This is such a talented, friendly, wonderful group of cousins! If Tamara calls and asks if you are willing to help, please say yes. You’ll be glad you did.

Sunday September 15 we will have worship again at the Old Mud Meetinghouse at Harrodsburg. Charlie and his team, Janice and Eddie Cozine, King and Sharon Cole, and Tamara Fulkerson will continue to be hard at work on this project.

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SENT BY: Darren Westerfield
I’m Darren Westerfield, originally out of Fulton Co., IL.
Welcome Mark Selinger, and thanks for more Westerfield information, I’ll take all I can find on family history! I am still trying to find the final link between Harrodsburg, KY, and Fulton Co. IL. Since we Westerfields are famous for using the same first names, usually skipping a generation, your mention of your fourth generation grandfather Samuel, (Jacobus’ son), peaked my interest. Go forward two more generations of time and there is my second generation grandfather also named Samuel, who married Anna Mae Lingenfelter and took the family to Fulton Co., IL., (the “line of Samuel” as told to me by Claude W.) I’ll just take a couple more vacation days and hang out at the Hist. Society to go through Claude’s info. when I come to the reunion in Sept. to see what I can find out. Ironically, my dad’s name was also Samuel and I should have been named after my grandfather, Clayton. Of course, my grandmother’s name is Catherine!

Carolyn, I’ll write you later about what I found in the 1940 census, very fascinating. My favorite name from the past is “Butter” Westerfield, but “Lettuce” is a close second.
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SENT BY: Jim cozine to James Moore

This is Jim Cozine (a Dutch Cousin) living in Las Vegas, NV.

Way back in 2005 or ’07 at the Dutch Cousins Gathering in Kentucky you gave me the following postcard size – string bound 24 page
Sermon… Somehow it escaped my attention and has been in a file folder all these past 11~13 Years — I only just finished reading it a few days ago. As dated the words appear to be 240 yrs old..during the American Revolution. from James Moore.
I tried to image sitting in the Conewago meeting house and listening to this sermon.. Our vocabulary sure has changed..

Question – Is this from an identifiable source or something you put together from various places as a sample for your Business? Please share with us what you know about it. Thanks Jim C
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SENT BY: James Moore:

I made this one just for that event. I customize an original sermon of ours.
“The Necessity of keeping the Soul” is really by Gilbert Tennent, dated December 23rd, 1744
This sermon was intended both to exhort Christians and warn non-Christians.
It is a 24-page sermon/pamphlet containing this sermon which was later published and made available to many who did not originally hear this sermon, even us today. The original imprint measures 4-3/8” x 6-1/4”. It follows all the printing conventions of the day: Caslon-style type, excessive capitalization of nouns, using italics to quote Bible verses, and using “catchwords” (which is a preview the word or syllable at the bottom on a page that will be the first word/syllable on the following page).
I purchase and make replicas of many 17th and 18th century period sermons and books. I sell the pamphlets in my Etsy Store at the following link: We make tackle for fishers of men. by 18thCenturyBibles

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SENT BY: Gary Stanford
Please share the following information with all of our Dutch Cousins. This information was passed down to me from my late uncle, Robert Edward Westerfield in the mid 1980’s. I truly believe it is important to know why many Dutch ancestors chose to change their last names.

Many people wonder why they changed their last name from Westervelt to Westerfield? My late uncle, Robert Edward Westerfield provided the answer to this mystery. As the Revolutionary War approached the British became allies with the Indians in North America. The British government put a 5 pound bounty for the scalps of anyone who had the last names provided by the British. There were several Dutch names on this “Hit List”, so the Dutch Reformed Church decided to do something about these murders. The DRC authorized several names on this list to change their last name so as to confuse the enemy. The Westervelt name was on this list along with other Dutch names. The Allied Indians became confused because if your name was not on the list they would allow you to escape (because you were not of any value to them). The DRC did however have strict guidelines on the name changes. They could only be done at time of marriage or birth and the name change was not reversible.

NOTE: from carolyn: I know the English paid 5 pound bounty for scalps of white captives, as we had several such incidents in our Dutch in Kentucky, but I never heard they paid bounty for a list of names provided by the British. Anyone else familiar with this?
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SENT BY: Can anyone help or have info on this? Dutch Cousins Vivian Stewart and Tamara Fulkerson and others are against a brick wall in applying for DAR membership on their Dutch ancestor, William “Will” Cozine of Kentucky, who was killed in the civil war.

We believe Will was the son of Peter Van Harlyn Cozine, but we still have no proof– other than a William G. Cozine signed as witness on Peter’s application for bounty land. (we need to prove he is the son of Peter VH Cozine, son of Garret Cozine, son of Rev. Cornelius Cozine). Will’s connection to Peter VanHarlyn Cozine is the only missing link for the apps to be approved.

The 80 acres bounty land was right on the Spencer/Shelby county line. After the veteran Peter VH Cozine died in 1857, Will Cozine and family continued to live there, giving their address as Mt Eden. The young widow Rebecca Cozine re-married to Martin Moore in 1870 at the residence of Icy Cranfill, and a third time in 1884 to Thomas Anderson. In the 1900 census, Rebecca (Barnes, Cozine, Moore) Anderson is still living at Mt Eden. Since that is where Peter Van Harlyn Cozine’s 80 acres bounty land was (at Mt Eden, right on the Spencer county line) I believe the land records might hold the proof. Is there anyone who would volunteer to go to the courthouse at Shelbyville and search? Tamara Fulkerson searched in Spencer Co, but never found anything.

William G. Cozine b. ca 1827 KY died 17 Nov 1862 near Columbia KY, buried Mill Springs Nat’l Cem. at Nancy, KY He married Rebecca Jane Barnes on 9 Feb 1854, at Mt Eden, Spencer Co KY. Rebecca (who married twice more after Will’s death) is still living there in 1900.

They had five children:
Octavia Frances Cozine b, 11 Jan 1855 (married Foreman)
Sarah Bell Cozine b. 26 Apr 1857 (Married Rodgers) John T. Cozine b. 24 Oct 1859
Joseph William “JoeBilly” Cozine b. 17 Jun 1862
Martha Cozine b Sept 1863. (no further info)

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SENT BY: Our president, Charlie Westerfield is moving ahead with plans for a big ceremony for the unveiling of the Westerfield Massacre monument near the site of the event (outside Louisville) during the Dutch Cousins weekend. Lynn Rogers just posted a full article about what happened to Jacobus Westerfield and family (and others). Pam Ellingson has it on the website. Go to www.DutchCousins.org or If you google “Westerfield Massacre DC 2019” it comes up very easily.
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SENT BY: Mary Woodfill Park, Past Directress General, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames.
She is now Maryland president of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America until May 2020. We send congratulations – and condolences (smile) for all the new work on her desk.
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SENT BY: Hi!
I’m contemplating coming in September from rural Alberta, Canada.
I would love to be kept in the loop of what is going on, who’s attending and any other relative info I need to potentially attend this event!
Thanks,
Melona Gallagher (Van Nice, Van Nuys, Banta, Bailey, Montfort, Terhune and many more)

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SENT BY: We’ll be having another contest on the best family display at the DUTCH COUSINS gathering in September. Here’s pictures of some previous ones. Dana Wade is the chairman this year. Get started on yours now.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP1KDv-E3V5-qmidpRnkXk_25S8mF4Ho6V-onuwBNN446tbSXJCeLvYhTD7A_qEXA?key=Wk0tbUY2bTktYXp0eFh5MUU4NHdJdG1TUnhSRk

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SENT BY: Peggy Kephart Morrow
I would like to make contact with David A. Harris who sent the following message send in the Dutch Letters email, Dec. 24. I also descend from Kephart’s on my father’s side. My DeMarest/Ryker connection is through my mother’s side. I am curious to know more about the Jacob Kephart he mentions.

Best,
Peggy Kephart Morrow
SENT BY: David A. Harris
Greetings. I would like to receive your letter, and join your group. One of my ancestors was Daniel Harris who married Elizabeth Demarest. Elizabeth was the daughter of Samuel and Lea Demarest. As you know, Samuel Demarest came out to KY as did Daniel and five or six of his children. Daniel Harris and Elizabeth (Demarest) Harris had a daughter named Ellen (Lena) who married Jacob Kephart. Daniel and Elizabeth, along with her father, were members of the Low Dutch community.
In any event, I would like to be added onto your email list, if you please. Do you all have any ‘reunions?’
I live in Idaho, but I went to graduate school at the University of Kentucky in Lexington I wish that I had been doing genealogy back then!. Thank you for your help.
(NOTE: We need David Harris to contact us again. He never returned the request for more infomation, and we do not have his current address)

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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.

Letters 2/16/2019

Mary Woodfill Park with the gravestones of (left) Gerardus Jr. Ryker (1767-1839) and Leah Smock Ryker (1774-1848) at the cemetery on Ryker’s Ridge, Jefferson County, Indiana. His father Gerardus Sr. (1740-1781) was killed in the Long Run Massacre/Floyd’s Defeat in (now) Shelby County, KY. His mother, Rachel Demaree (1843-1814) was scalped by the Indians at Long Run, but escaped and raised a large family. She later married John VanCleve, whose wife was killed in the massacre. (This is not the same event as the Westerfield Massacre). Mary Park is one of us, but is also now serving as Maryland president of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, and is former President of the National Society of Holland Dames in New York. (Photo in 2009)

We’ll be seeing our Low Dutch Cousins soon!

Feel free to share these items, just credit DUTCH LETTERS (date), free genealogy round robin published by Carolyn Leonard. Anyone who wishes to be added to the mailing list, send an email to me at Editor234@gmail.com and say they would like to be on the list – and let us know their Dutch connection and contact info. Please send any pertinent info to be included in the next Letter. If you no longer wish to receive our emails, I’ll be lost, confused and probably lose sleep at night. I mean, really. I will feel like I have failed somehow. But if you really feel that way, please hit reply and say, “remove me” — and I will do so immediately! (You can click the link to MailChimp, but if they remove you by accident I can’t put you back on – even if you beg,) I promise we do not share our mailing list with anyone, and do not publish email addresses on the list because of possible scammers.
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BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES!
ONLY FOUR & HALF MONTHS TILL RESERVATIONS DEADLINE!
We have set the DC reunion meeting for Sept 12,13,14,&15, 2019 at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601. Cousins: save the date on your calendar and start travel plans! Janice Cozine, our treasurer, says she thinks this place will be even better for us than the KY History Center. We hope to have a really big crowd to show it off!

Sunday September 15 we will have worship again at the Old Mud Meetinghouse at Harrodsburg. Charlie and his team, Janice and Eddie Cozine, King and Sharon Cole, and Tamara Fulkerson will continue to be hard at work on this project.

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SENT BY: Janice Cozine (DUTCH COUSINS TREASURER -and general organizer!)
Hello to all!!
Dutch Cousins, hope you all are getting excited and ready to make your plans for our 2019 Gathering.
I’m so excited about our venue this year!!

We are meeting at the Harold R. Benson Research/Demonstration/agricultural farmthat is part of the Kentucky State University.
1525 Mills Lane
Frankfort, KY 40601
This is a large facility that has everything we need, also has floor to ceiling windows overlooking the farm/property. Thanks to Rod Dempsey’s help, we have the opportunity to use/rent this wonderful place.

I have contacted several hotels to give you a little variety on where to stay during our weekend event.
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 that we have used in the past, approx. 4.5 miles farther into town.
**I am not advertising/recommending any of these hotels. I’m only sending info for you to research and choose for yourself.

Hampton Inn Frankfort
1310 US 127 South, Frankfort, KY 40601
502-223-7600
Ask for DUTCH COUISNS GROUPBLOCK, for your discount
$119.00 + tax = $134.97
Includes breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 13, 2019

Holiday Inn Express Frankfort
1000 Vandalay Drive
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502-352-4650
Ask for DUTCH COUSINS GROUP, for your discount
$145.00 + tax + $164.46
Includes breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 26, 2019

The Capital Plaza Hotel – this hotel is in town, approx. 4.5 miles from I-64/53B exit
405 Wilkinson Blvd
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502-227-5100
Ask for GROUP CODE 3741, for your discount
$99.00 + tax = $112.29
Includes breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 22, 2019
capitalplazaky.com

Days Inn by Wyndham Frankfort .
1051 US 127 South/I-64 exit 53B
502-209-8540
** I did not get a block for this hotel because it had poor ratings on-line.
It does have cheaper rates.
If you want to check it out, the info is listed.
Room rates approx. $60.00
Free Breakfast
days-inn-frankfort.hotelsone.com

you can see The Hampton Inn, The Holiday Inn Express & the Days Inn from the I-64 exit 53B
The Capital Plaza Hotel is about 4.5 miles past these 3 hotels. The Benson farm is about 4.5 miles at the I-64 exit going the other direction.

The 3 hotels would be about 4.5 miles to the farm and the Capital Plaza would be about 9 miles to the farm. We liked the Plaza Hotel and it had a better price so I blocked a few rooms there.
Looking forward to September, 2019
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SENT BY: Darren Westerfield
Westerfield Update: “Line of Samuel”.

I have an update since my earlier post. I believe I have tracked my line back to Jacobus and I’ll get more confirmations from the Westerfield clan when I come to the reunion but here’s what I have so far:

Westerfield Branch – “Line of Samuel” Founding Father- Lived in Schraalenburgh, NJ
Jacobus (Westervelt) Westerfield – (See Westervelt Massacre) 1735-1780
Wife: Maria (Demarest) Westervelt

Their Son: REV Samuel Leander Westerfield KY/OH 1760-1832
Wife: Catherine Monfort Westerfield

Their Son: REV Peter J Westerfield, Sr. 1791-1846
Wife: Elizabeth Betsy Doughman

Their Son: Samuel James Westerfield, Sr. 1827-1889
Wife: Susan Haines Westerfield

Their Son: Samuel Westerfield, Jr. 1865-1947
Wife: Annie May Lingenfelter

Their Son: Clayton Mathias Westerfield 1902-1986
Wife: Catherine Johnson

Their Son: Samuel Lewis Westerfield
Wife: Sybil Fay Hendrickson

Their Son: Darren Lewis Westerfield (me!)1959-
Ex-Wife: Beverly Ann Thompson (dec).

I have a family picture of my grandfather, Clayton Mathias, with his siblings all surrounding my great-grandfather, Samuel Jr. and my great-grandmother, Annie May. Grandpa Clayton had 3 sisters and two brothers, Jesse and Paul so I also tracked their families. Uncle Jesse was the eldest son and all in their family have passed. My Uncle Paul also had some sons, one of which recently passed in 2018 in Indiana, Gerold P. (Gerry), Westerfield. Gordon passed in 2013 but the last son, Galen, is supposedly still alive in Illinois and is in his 80’s. When I did a search on Galen Westerfield, two more came up, one is about 65 and lives in Owensboro, KY, no other info. There is also a Galen Westerfield who is about 27 or so and is a graphic designer in San Francisco. I sent him an e-mail on his company’s website, but it came back undelivered. I have no family info on these last two but all having the same name is interesting.
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SENT BY: Charlotte Legg Olson (IN RE: Will Cozine)
Family Search hasn’t been working in days… you can do the search, find a document and then it won’t load. Since the weather here is breaking for a copy of days, I’ll head out to the Library to see if the problem is mine!

Do see the William’s father, Peter is on the 1850 Mercer Co KY Census…. that should be most helpful since William should be still living at home; he was married in 1854. Didn’t see a will for Peter or even division of land at Probate in Mercer Co. That is odd, but one Will Book appears to be missing. Will have to contact HHS to see what’s up with that….of course, it’s the book that they need!

First question for me, to Vivian and Tamara, is, as always, “what is the source of your information?” Just was faced with the importance of that answer when searching with a lady that had been working on her family line for decades and hit many walls. Her original source was Ancestry and one whole generation was incorrect. It didn’t take an hour to sort it out. Certainly did change her family however!

anyway…. will be in touch, if they contact me.
have a blessed day, Carolyn and please know that what you do to keep us connected is more appreciated than words can say…
thought I would share with you what I found in Terhune’s Vol III: page 135, 35 gives genealogy of Peter. There is no mention of a son named William. The first time that a William Cozine is mentioned (that I see…) is page 144.

Doesn’t look (to me) like William is the son of Peter, but Jim Cozine is the expert and it seems that he is related to Peter’s line.——————————————————————
SENT BY: Shannon funeral home, Shelbyville, KY

Mrs. Leonard, my name is John Shannon and I own the Shannon Funeral Service in Shelbyville, KY. You had left a message on our funeral home Facebook page regarding the Cozine family. Yes, we have buried a number of Cozines over the years. The oldest records I have are these:

Benjie B. Cozine: Birth-6/21/1877 Death-9/22/34; Father was John Cozine and mother was Nana Bill.

John P. Cozine: (looks like brother to Benjie); Birth-8/2/1883; Death-1/5/33;Father-John Cozine; Mother–Nannie Bill.

Joe W. Cozine: Birth-6/12/1862; Death-4/26/1933; Father-Will Cozine; Mother-Jane Barnes Cozine.

I have also have newer records for these Cozines dating from with date of deaths from 1946-1995: Nannie C., Martha G, Anna, Claude Percy, Irvine Howard, Norman Saint, and Mary Thompson. In addition, in our newer records (from 1964-2012) I have these Cozines who were related to people we buried: Lizzie, Francis, Belle, Kristy, Shelby Nicole, and Martha Christine.

If I can follow up with any of these individuals, please let me know. My information is more limited in the older records, but there may be something you could use.——————————————————————
SENT BY: Jim Cozine of Las Vegas
I lost track of who was looking for this information but it looks like Barbara Cozine ( in NJ) has really done a lot of work to update the ONLINE Master Tree
Jim Coz

Re Benjie B Cozine go to
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~cozine/genealogy/aqwg19.htm#1571
in the notes can be seen the following details:812. Benjamin Bristow COZINE

1880 Census, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, page 320c (have copy) – Ben Bristow Cosine (spelling on census), age 2, son, born in Kentucky.
1900 Census, Shelbyville, Shelbyville Township, Shelby County, Kentucky, page 144a (have copy) – Benjamin B. Cozine, son, born June 1877, age 22, single, born in Kentucky, editor paper, can read and write.
1910 Census, Precinct 1, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, page 223b (have copy) – Ben B. Cozine, head, age 34, married once for 11 years, born in Kentucky, editor, newspaper, can read and write, renting a house.
1920 Census, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, page 33b (have copy) – Ben B. Cozine, head, age 43, married, can read and write, born in Kentucky, editor, weekly paper.
1930 Census, Shelbyville, Magisterial District 1, Shelby County, Kentucky, page 41b (have copy) – Ben B. Cozine, head, owns residence valued at $20,000, has radio, age 52, married at age 26, can read and write, born in Kentucky, editor, newspaper.
The State Journal, Franfkort Ky, Tuesday, September 25, 1934 Obituary
Surnames: Cozine, Rice, Winsworth, Winch, Canfield
B. B. Cozine, editor of The Shelby News and former president of the Kentucky Press Associaton, died of a heart attack Saturday in Neilsville, Wisconsin. Mr. Cozine and his wife were enroute to the Mayo Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, when he was stricken. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mason Rice Cozine; his mother, Mrs. John P. Cozine of Los Angeles, California; three sisters, Mrs. George H. Winsworth and Mrs. Frank W. Winch of Los Angeles, and Mrs. J. L. Canfield of San Antonio, Texas; and one brother, Claude P. Cozine of Shelbyville. Funeral services will be Tuesday morning at Mr. Cozine’s residence in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.
World War I Draft Registration Card (see scrapbook) indicates that Benjamin Bristow Cozine was living in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky on September 12, 1918.

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SENT BY: Jim Cozine, on the William Cozine proof problem using DNA:
what you need to do is get a male desendent of William G b 1828– to take the test $(99)
and a male desentent of Harvey b1808 – to take the test -(another $99) There are a whole bunch of them..Hopefully you get the closest generation spread – not more than 5 generations.
I have them as brothers on the Master Family Tree – we are on draft #62 of 8/17/17 these days.
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SENT BY: Judy Cassidy
Responding to Peggy Morrow’s requisition regarding Daniel Harris.
Daniel Harris enlisted at Shepherdstown, Berkeley County in the fall of 1780 and was discharged 2 June 1780 from Col. Adam Hubley’s Pennsylvania Regiment. Daniel Harris, age 83, deposed in Switzerland County, Indiana, that “he had enlisted at Shepherdstown, Virginia (now Jefferson County., W. Virginia) on 2 March or 2 April 1777 and served in a Pennsylvania regiment until discharged near Shepherdstown on 1 June 1780.” His statement includes mention of his wife Elizabeth, age 81 in 1820 and residence with their (unnamed) children.After he was discharged ca. 1783, he moved his family to Washington County, Pennsylvania. Daniel Harris appears in the account book of John Huges’s store on Ten-Mile Run Creek in Washington County in 1784-1785. He had moved to Shelby County, Kentucky by 1795, when he was assessed there for four cattle. He and Peter Lock witnesssed the marriage consent of John Tague on 22 December 1797. While the parties to the marriage are not named perhaps it was Elizabeth Tague and Willliam Lock, whose Shelby County Marriage bond is dated 22 December, 1797, Benjamin Lock bondsman.
Daniel’s son Samuel stated when he was 69 years of age, that “he was born in Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York and when about 7 years old moved with his father to Berkeley County Virginia where he entered service in October 1780.” He later stated in his Pension Papers, that he served until 1783 and then “I lived for some time with my father in Washington County, Pennsylvania in the year 1784.” The 1800 Census of Pike Run Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania lists Daniel Harris as a resident but not Benjamin or Sarah Slot/Lock. Samuel Harris moved to Mercer County Kentucky and later joined the Shakers at Pleasant Hill where he died in the East House 10 November1868.

Source: Gale Ion Harris, Janice Pranger, “George Harris of Southampton, Long Island,” The Genealogist, 31(Sa usalito, Ca.: American Society of Genealogists, 2017):17-19. The Locks were most likely the children of Sara Demaree and Benjamin Slot/Lock, whose children included a Petrus and Benjamin. See the section on Sara Demaree Slot/Lock/Agree. Harris, Pranger, “George Harris of Southampton, Long Island,” The Genealogist, 31 (2017):17-1921; Samuel Harris, NARA, Revolutionary War Pension Application Files, M805, R402, Image 256, File # S10813, filed Mercer Co., Ky. age 69, 14 March, 1833. Daniel Harris, NARA Revolutionary War Pension Applications Filed, M805, R 401, Img. 166, File #S36575, Switzerland Co., In, Pension Cert. #9313, issued 26 May 1818; Samuel Harris, NARA, Revolutionary War Pension Application Files, M805, R402, Image 256, File # S10813, filed Mercer Co., Ky. age 69, 14 March, 1833; “Journal 1843-1868,” pt.1 of 2, Shaker manuscript, Harrodsburg Historical Society , pg. 98 (Samuel Harris departed this life at the East House in his 89th year since the 20th of last Nov.”) courtesy of Jan Pranger.
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SENT BY: Mr. Lynn Rogers
Here is a metaphor for US history. Mike Munson, my grandson, who is being deployed to Afghanistan, thinks it is awesome; he has laminated it and plans to carry it with him all the time. I thought that you might want to include it in one of your distributions.

Long Rifle
Long Rifle sees opportunity
Then explains to Tomahawk,
“Tilling the land is healthier and happier.”
Tomahawk insists,
“This land is mine.”
Long Rifle replies,
“You did nothing to earn the land.”
Tomahawk confronts Long Rifle,
“You cannot withstand the storm.”
Long Rifle promises,
“I am storm,
I am legion,
I am thread
For the fabric of a New World Order.
The crucible of hardship strengthens me,
Blood quenches my toughness.
Truly, I am storm.
Safe harbor shall follow for
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Cherish it! Preserve it!”

by L.C. Rogers, 2019 Feb 9
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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas, New Netherland Institute
The due date for applications for the New Netherland Institute’s 2019 Charles W. Wendell Research Grant is FEBRUARY 15 The research project must deal with the Dutch experience in North America and the Dutch Atlantic World, and is expected to result in a publishable article or a component of a larger work. Researchers in any discipline, including family history or biography, are encouraged to apply. There are no eligibility requirements for this grant.
The grant covers a period of one week up to six months, part of which may be devoted to residency at the NNRC, and provides a stipend of $1,000 – $5,000, depending upon the scope of the project.
For more information, see

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/research-grants/charles-wendell-memorial-fund/
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SENT BY: We’ll be having another contest on the best family display at the DUTCH COUSINS gathering in September. Here’s pictures of some previous ones. Dana Wade is the chairman this year. Get started on yours now.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP1KDv-E3V5-qmidpRnkXk_25S8mF4Ho6V-onuwBNN446tbSXJCeLvYhTD7A_qEXA?key=Wk0tbUY2bTktYXp0eFh5MUU4NHdJdG1TUnhSRk

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SENT BY: Kim Allison Ross
Please let the Dutch Cousins know I have this book & would be glad to look up anyone for them. Ulster County New York Wills Vols. 1 & 2. They can email me. The start date is 1665. The book‘s first printing is 1906. This reprint is 1980.

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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.

Letters 3/12/19

LOTS OF NEW INFO HERE!

2019 OFFICERS: Amalie Preston, board member; Denise Perry, secretary; Tamara Fulkerson, VP; Malcolm Banta, board member; Pam Ellingson, webmaster; Janice Cozine, Treasurer; Charlie Westerfield, President. (Tell them thank you!)

IMPORTANT NOTES from carolyn: Probably Friday the 13th of September! we will have an excursion to participate with the Kentucky Historical Society in dedicating the historical marker for the WESTERFIELD MASSACRE where many of our Dutch Cousins were killed in the 1780s,- and two markers in different places will be placed later. GREAT WORK CHARLIE AND COMMITTEE! Not sure about Charlie’s schedule yet, so the excursion could happen on Saturday instead. If anyone does not know about the Westerfield Massacre, you can read about it on our webpage, www.DutchCousins.org

Be sure you have SAVED THE DATES on your calendar. Denise and I are working on the Dutch newsletter now, and will be emailing the registration blanks to this mailing list as soon as we get the excursion info from Charlie.
Attendance is usually from 125 to 150 or more from all over the United States (Internationals are invited also.) Several of the 50-some different original Dutch families may want to hold little gatherings while there, usually many cousins are meeting for the first time. We hope to have a really big crowd to show off the new meeting place.

NOTICE – WE NEED TWO MORE VOLUNTEERS!
BOOK DISPLAY
TEE SHIRTS
(more info below)

Also, I think it would be good to have a volunteer to set up a LOW DUTCH DNA database for our family/families. Charlotte would you be interested in that? I have been receiving so many emails from Cozines that matched my DNA, and the info is really interesting. If you haven’t done the DNA yet, I’ve tried several and found Ancestry gives me the most info for my money.

Thursday evening we will have early registration, set-up for events, and a pre-conference speaker.
Friday morning registration; meeting begins 10 am; 11:30 business meeting; update on Old Mud; 3 pm Dulcimer program, 6 pm dinner and speaker OR: EXCURSION for Marker
Saturday 10 welcome from official, 11 group photos, (maybe noon bus tour), 6 pm dinner and keynote Eddie Price (yippee!).

Sunday September 15 we will have lunch in Harrodsburg and worship again at the Old Mud Meetinghouse. Charlie and his team, Janice and Eddie Cozine, King and Sharon Cole, and Tamara Fulkerson will continue to be hard at work on this project. Gates will open at 1 and we’ll have group photos, and dedicate the bench to Claude Westerfield, past president and a founder. https://www.harrodsburghistorical.org/old-mud-meeting-house/

ON MONDAY September 16, from 10 to 3, Board member Amalie Preston will have the Harrodsburg Historical Society Library open for Dutch Cousins with full access to the ONLY LOW DUTCH ARCHIVES in the nation! https://www.harrodsburghistorical.org/ You do not have to be a member of the society, but if you want to join you can do so online. Membership in HHS is $20.00 annually, students are $5.00 annually and a LIFETIME membership is a one-time fee of $250.00, dues payable in May. By joining you will receive their bi-monthly newsletter, Olde Towne Ledger. ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Janice Cozine (DUTCH COUSINS TREASURER -and general organizer!)
Hello to all!! Dutch Cousins, hope you all are getting excited and ready to make your plans for our 2019 Gathering.I’m so excited about our venue this year!! This large facility has everything we need, also has floor to ceiling windows overlooking the farm/property, thanks to Rod Dempsey’s influence. Several hotels listed here 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.

**I am not advertising/recommending any of these hotels. I’m only sending info for you to research and choose for yourself.

Hampton Inn Frankfort
1310 US 127 South, Frankfort, KY 40601
502-223-7600
Ask for DUTCH COUSINS GROUP BLOCK, for your discount$119.00 + tax = $134.97
Includes breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 13, 2019

Holiday Inn Express Frankfort
1000 Vandalay Drive
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502-352-4650
Ask for DUTCH COUSINS GROUP, for your discount$145.00 + tax + $164.46
Includes breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 26, 2019

The Capital Plaza Hotel – this hotel is in town, approx. 4.5 miles from I-64/53B exit
405 Wilkinson Blvd
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502-227-5100
Ask for GROUP CODE 3741, for your discount$99.00 + tax = $112.29Includes breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 22, 2019
capitalplazaky.com

Days Inn by Wyndham Frankfort .
1051 US 127 South/I-64 exit 53B
502-209-8540
** I did not get a block for this hotel because it had poor ratings on-line.It does have cheaper rates.If you want to check it out, the info is listed.Room rates approx. $60.00
Free Breakfast
days-inn-frankfort.hotelsone.com

The Hampton Inn, The Holiday Inn Express & the Days Inn from the I-64 exit 53B
The Capital Plaza Hotel is about 4.5 miles past these 3 hotels. The Benson farm is about 4.5 miles at the I-64 exit going the other direction. The 3 hotels would be about 4.5 miles to the farm and the Capital Plaza would be about 9 miles to the farm. We liked the Plaza Hotel and it had a better price so I blocked a few rooms there. This one, the Bluegrass Inn, is a little less expensive: Bluegrass Inn in Frankfort. It is about 6 miles past our exit but it would not be any further away than The Plaza Hotel.

Bluegrass Inn Frankfort, Ky
635 Versailles Road
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502-695-1800
Ask for DUTCH COUSINS GROUP, for your discount bluegrassinn.com
This hotel is 6 miles farther down I-64 but has reasonable rates.
Room rates $70.00 + tax = $79.39
Continental breakfast
CUT-OFF DATE FOR RSVP IS AUGUST 15, 2019

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

Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
Secretary Denise M. Perry
Treasurer                                            Janice Cozine
Editor, Dutch Letters & Newsletter Carolyn Leonard
Board Member                                   Jim Cozine
Board Member                                   Malcolm Banta
Board Member                                   Amalie Preston
Immediate Past President                  Carolyn Leonard

Chairpersons:
Gathering Coordinator                        King & Sharon Cole
Registration                                        Janice Cozine
Financial/Audit Report Vince Akers
Webmaster                                         Pam Ellingson
Program Speakers Charles Westerfield
Heritage Displays Dana Wade
Hospitality Emily Welches
Dutch Silent Auction                           Bill & Gail Hoag
Historian                                             Barbara Whiteside
HHS Low Dutch Research Day Amalie Preston
Photography Charlie Westerfield
Surname Banners Tamara Fulkerson
DAR/SAR Ancestor Assistance Charlotte Olson
Conewago Project Malcolm Banta
Westerfield Marker Charlie Westerfield
Publicity Carolyn Leonard & Denise Perry
DUTCH T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER            OPEN POSITION
BOOK DISPLAYS                                  OPEN POSITION
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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 do not have many extras left at all from previous events.

Book Displays-
The previous chair was Joan Murray.
We do not plan to have a book sale 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
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SENT BY: Judy K. McKee
I’ve recently discovered that I have a photo of Elizabeth Roberts Banta. I’d be happy to share copies if anyone would like one. She was my great-great grandmother. I’m now searching for a picture of Isaac Vauter Banta. ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Pam Ellingson
I am forwarding your e-mail to the editor of our Dutch Cousins newsletter which will be sent to many cousins.
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SENT BY: CH Burton
Subject: COOVERT/VAN ARSDALE/BROKAW/BOUWER

Message Body:
Hello there! My name is Connie. I come from long line of COOVERT/COVERT., as well as other Dutch names.

I dabble in my family genealogy & few yrs ago discovered that my COOVERT’s are DUTCH in origin.
There are Van ARSDALEs married to my Coovert. And Brokaw in this mix. And Brouwer as well who married my Vandenburg’s.

Yesterday I met a fellow Coovert/Van Arsdale cousin via genealogy! Imagine my surprise. She told me of this Dutc hCousins page which I did not know about.!!

My great grandmother is Grace Lee COOVERT. Go back 4 gens & that is where the Coovert married Van Arsdale. Go back 3 more & we hit Brokaw’s.(Broucard). Broucard was French Huguenot. The Huguenot movement began in France, which is largely Catholic, and the Huguenots were French Protestants. So much opposition was heaped upon them, they fled their homes and went to other countries. Germany accepted them at first, but the Huguenots found they had to leave again, so they tried Holland and Belgium, which had accepted many fugitives over the years. Once again, the Huguenots began leaving for the New World. They settled right in, next to the Dutch people who welcomed them, and they all went to the Dutch Reformed Church together.

Then on the BOUWER side- they married into my very Dutch line of Vandenburg’s. (Van den Berg/Van de Burg/Vandenburg/Vanderberg-

many variarions of spelling). They were massive land owners in New Netherlands(New York).
From this Vandenburg line, we find several US Presidents! I was flabergasted , yet ‘WOW”, at this info!

Dutch names in my lineage include: Coovert/Covert; Selover, Broucard/Brokaw; Van Cleef; Van Ars Dale; Van Pelt; Vandeburg — just to name a few.

It is always exciting to “meet” new cousins!

I thought it might be fun to see what you all have here on this site and was interested in you all.——————————————————————

SENT BY: THE PREZ: Charlie Westerfield
Historical Marker Committee and friends,
Yesterday I met with the staff at the Kentucky Historical Society about the Westerfield Marker. It was obvious that they had spent a great deal of time working on our behalf, and they are very interested in our history.
This is the decision that was reached for the 2019 gathering:
We are going to dedicate two markers:
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.

(Note from Carolyn) This is really BIG news.)
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SENT BY: Amanda Higgins, Kentucky Historical Society
As promised, this email summarizes of our meeting last week with next steps, deadlines, etc.

Last week we established that the Westerfield Massacre marker would be placed in Bullitt County, because the evidence, as Cheri and Louise laid out, points to the massacre happening along that route toward Bullitt’s Lick. That marker needs text for the second side (we discussed possibly including John Floyd’s story there). This is the marker the Dutch Cousins will dedicate at their reunion in September. Thus, we’ll need finalized text and the research to support it by June 1. The text attached to this email (of one side of this marker) conforms to the foundry requirements.

We also discussed recasting Marker #1848 Low Dutch Station and including new text on the second side. There is not a timeline for this, as funds will need to be secured ($3000 + sales tax unless paid for by a tax exempt organization) in order to recast the marker. When funds are secured, we’ll also need to discuss the text, which I believe we wanted to focus on Floyd and Westerfield’s Stations. Again, we’ll need research to support the new text to be included in the recasting.

Finally, we discussed the possibility of a third marker in the Parklands. This marker could bring together the Revolutionary War angle of the Kentucky settlement story and connect it to the goals and mission of the Parklands project. Again, there is no timeframe here. This marker will need to go through the traditional approval process (applications due March 1 and September 1 of each year). Thanks for a productive meeting and I’m looking forward to continue working with everyone!

Mandy Amanda L. Higgins, Ph.D.Community Engagement AdministratorKentucky Historical Society ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Julia Kelly
My son Steve first aroused my interest at Christmas in researching my family tree. When my mother, Cynthia visited us at Christmas, he even prepared a list of questions and started interviewing her, as he wanted to find as much as he could about his grandparents and great grandparents.

He also discovered your genealogy resources page when started doing research online and wanted to share an excellent guide, http://www.homeadviceguide.com/6-steps-to-your-family-history/, he found that would make a great addition, as we both found it to be very useful. Let us know if you liked it, as my son will be thrilled to know that you liked his suggestion.
Best Wishes
Julia Kelly
Elementary School Teacher ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Russell Gasero,
We do not have any family histories or records relating to the Cossart family. However a variant of that name is included with those who went to Kentucky–many from the Readington church.

My suggestion is to contact Carolyn Leonard and ask her to print a query in the Dutch Cousins newsletter along the lines you sent me. The Dutch Cousins is a group of the descendents from the Harrodsburg, KY, migration of Dutch families. You will find them very helpful and they may turn up a lead that you need.

I have copied Carolyn on this. Her e-mail is: Buffalo234@cox.net

Let me know how this works out.

Russell Gasero

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:35 AM Eden Weber wrote:
Hi Russell:
Terry Digan at Readington Reformed Church told me to contact you. I’m at my wits’ end. My (possible) 4^th great grandfather, David Cossart, was baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church on April 14, 1771. I found his baptismal record on Ancestry.com, but have been unable to find him or his family elsewhere. Supposedly, he’s the father of my 3^rd great grandfather, James Corsaut (they changed the surname spelling sometime between these generations) with his wife, Catherine Vandercook. No one on Ancestry really knows anything about David, except that he died in 1814 in New York. They have no documentation to back this claim, so it’s unfounded.

Do you have any information about the Cossart family around 1771 in Readington? I’ve attached the baptismal record. If you can’t help, any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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SENT BY: Eden Weber
Thank you so much for the information. My Corsauts (as they were spelled since the 1800s) were mostly in New York/New Jersey (?) until they went to Canada for a generation, then out west. I have no evidence of them in Kentucky. I would love to be descended from Jacques Cossart. In the book, “London Township: Families Past and Present” (London, Ontario), David is specifically mentioned as one of Jacques’ descendants, but there’s no citation or bibliography. It was a book written by committee, so I have no idea who came up with that information. I’ve attached the page. Unfortunately, David’s brother Christopher fought on the WRONG side of the War of 1812, so I’ve been suspicious that the entire family were Loyalists. Boo!

Also attached is the baptismal record for David at the Readington Dutch Reformed Church. It may be of help. Francis could be the father of the David Sr in this record? He was born possibly in 17 SEP 1738 in Raritan.

Wow. I have two unsubstantiated sources.

Again, thank you. I look forward to anything that comes from the group. I’m very excited to be in contact with someone with such expertise.

Best.
~Eden

FROM CAROLYN TO EDEN AND RUSSELL:
Dear Russell (copying Eden Weber <edenweber@aol.com>)

I have a small book, “The Cossart Chronicles, A Family history Narrative” by Robert Evan Wheatley. It is still available from Amazon.com for $16. I think you will find it very interesting. I think this may be your family.
https://www.amazon.com/Cossart-Chronicles-Family-History-Narrative/dp/1463768354/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+Cossart+Chronicles&qid=1552347202&s=books&sr=1-1-spell

The Cossarts came from Normandy France to Holland in the 1600s, then to New York the same century. I would guess they were part of the French Huguenot group who joined the Low Dutch in Holland and probably immigrated with the West Indies Company in the 1700s, to New Amsterdam, then New Jersey and then to Conewago Colony Pennsylvania and right after the Revolutionary War down the river to Kentucky (Harrods Fort – now Harrodsburg).

When the family moved to Kentucky around 1800-1810 the spelling of COSAT was used instead of COSSART.

On our Low Dutch tour to New York from Kentucky in 2011, we spent a day or two touring east of Gettysburg (Conewago Colony) and I remember Mr. Weaner – now deceased – who was an expert on the Dutch colony there. He pointed out the David Cossart home and I think I have a photo of it somewhere.

I believe Francis Cossart 1717-1795 may be the ancestor of your David Cossart. He and his wife are buried in the Northern Low Dutch Cemetery of Conewago Colony. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97721739/francis-cossart

My ancestor, the Domine, Cornelius Cosine, is buried there also.

I would be happy to publish your query in our Dutch Letters, and also to invite you to the Dutch Cousins Gathering at Harrodsburg in September. Looking forward to seeing you there again Russell!

Blessings,carolynCarolyn Leonard, Editor, Dutch Cousins of Kentucky
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Westerfield Massacre DC 2019

This document can be found by going to the Resources link on the menu and then the Documents page.

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.

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.

1836 Will of Peter Huff Revolutionary War Veteran – Mercer County. This is a really good website (by Phyllis Brown) to find information on our Dutch ancestors: Check it outhttps://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2019/03/24/1836-will-of-peter-huff-revolutionary-war-veteran-mercer-county/#comments

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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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Letters 4/15/2019

Have you made your reservations yet?

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——————————————————————

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.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
We 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.
The list of officers and chairpersons for the 2019 Gathering is posted on our website: www.DutchCousins.org——————————————————————

SENT BY: Lisa Smock
Please add to to your email list. I look forward to learning about my Smock heritage, and maybe some help in gathering more info to join SSAR, my 80 year old father is interested in this.Thank you!
NOTE FROM CAROLYN: WELCOME LISA! Do send us your oneline SMOCK heritage as far as you know it.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield, president of Dutch Cousins
Time is running out for raising funds for the markers. I’ve created a flow chart to stimulate interest.if you could send it out to all the cousins along with a message encouraging them to act on it right away I’d really appreciate it. Any other suggestions you may have would be welcome.
NOTE: WILL SEND THE FLOW CHART IN A SEPARATE EMAIL.Background:We are going to dedicate two markers: 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) 649-0600‬——————————————————————

SENT BY: Ruby Bishop Ingram about the VanArsdale family
It has been said that there is over 60 known ways of spelling the VanArsdale name. Some trivia: In 1654 Phillip VanArtsdalen had to get permission from the Gouda, Netherlands town council to sell his deceased father’s house. On the tenth of May 1700, Simon Jansen VanAerts Daalen sold to this son Cornelius. VanAertsdalen three 15-acre lots on Connji Island-now called CONEY ISLAND, New York.Actor Humphrey Bogart is the 6th great-grandson of Jannetje Simonse VanAersdalen.
I am kin of both Cornelius A and Cornelius O – the O was for Ouke (O-you-key?) and Ouke is my ancestor.My lineage of the VanArsdale family, which Condit Brewer Vanarsdale, MD, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky researched for many years and compiled. I printed his whole file years ago.

The year of 1500
1. Joosten VanHaesdale
2. Pauwel Joostensz VanHaesdale
3. Panwel Pauwelsz VanAeysdale
4. Jan Pauwelsz VanAedsdaele
5. Simon Jansz VanAersdale, married Pieterye Claessen Conelisz VanSchow
6. Jan Semionsz VamAersdale, married Lammetje Probasco (daughter of Christoffel
Probsco and Ida Stryker who is the daughter of Jan Stryker)
7. Christophel VanArsdalen, married Maghalena Reyniersen
8. Ouke VanArsdalen, married Marya VanCleef
9. Jannetije VanArsdale, married Daniel Coovert (son of Johannis Coovert and Marta
10. Isaac Coovert, married Rebecca Brocaw
11. Ellen Barsheba Coovert, married James Harvey Kelly
12. Nancy Jane Kelly, married George Logan Bishop, Sr.
13. George Logan Bishop, Jr., married Fannie Arnold-two children
14. George Omer Bishop married Margaret Rose Phillips, two children, daughter
Lee Ann Bishop, married Elmer Ernest Sampson, two daughters. Ann Arland
Sampson and Sara-Kathryn Leigh Sampson.
Son, George Clayton Bishop, married JoAnn Brumett, one daughter, Ashley Marie Bishop.
married second to Lori Bailey-no issue. Married 3rd to Jill Curtsinger, two sons, Clayton “Wyatt” Bishop and Landon Reece Bishop.
14. Ruby Ann Bishop, married 1. David Hartford Sexton; 2. Isaac Joe Ingram (no issue)
Janice Gail Sexton, married John David Hagman, three children: Twins, Nicholas David Hagman, surviving twin, and William Alllen Hagman who died at birth. Jaclyn Danielle Hagman, married Michael Marlo Bryant. Their son is Asher John Bryant.
Michael David Sexton, married Donna Marie Cappiello,Their son, Christopher Michael Sexton—————————————————————

SENT BY: Ruby Bishop Ingram about the VanArsdale family
My father’s name is George Logan Bishop, Jr. He was born October 28, 1879. My mother’s name is Fannie Arnold Bishop. She was born April 23, 1903. The late James Anderson, and I, were cousins.

I have entered this short story and poem recently in Cultural Arts and want to share them with you and our Dutch Cousins.

“Shortly after Daddy and Momma moved to the farm they purchased in 1930, Daddy had a bad scare and perhaps almost a life-threatening situation. He had gone out on the farm to take a look at everything when a swarm of bees tried to settle on him. He quickly thought to dart under a small tree with low-hanging branches and the bees settled in the tree. He ran to the house and was out of breath when he got there, as he was almost fifty-one years old at the time and not a sprinter. He related to Momma what had happened, and he decided on the spot to become a bee-keeper. He went to town immediately, about a ten minute drive, and got all the gear he needed. This included a hat with screening that fitted all about his head, gloves, and a smoker. The smoker was a concern that he could suck smoke into and blow out on the bees, thus causing them to become somewhat immobile for a few minutes. Then, he was able to scoop them up and put them into the hive he had purchased.. He would build beehives later when he had more time, and as the bees multiplied. It is hard to describe the smoker: it looked like a tiny accordion, about ten inches tall, with one fold after another in the leather, and was shaped like a V, with a hole close to the top that sucked smoke in and blew it out when he squeezed it. He got all the bees into the hive and this started his bee-keeping. From this small beginning, his colony grew to have perhaps ten or more hives. I remember him having my brother George Omer and me to stand outside when the bees were swarming and beat on pans with large spoons, trying to get the bees to settle nearby-this worked, and they didn’t land on us. Whew! He was afraid they would leave the area and was advised from experts that noise would prevent this happening. He sold this white clover honey through the years, and he gave away a lot. During World War II when sugar was rationed, Momma sweetened almost all her desserts with honey. Daddy had turned his “almost catastrophe” into a blessing for the family.”
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SENT BY: ANCESTORS
Written by Ruby Bishop Ingram
Ancestors of mine
Born so long ago,
Coming so far to
This rugged land,
Facing struggles,
Buffeted by disease,
Weather and strangers.
You wanted to make
A new life built on hope.
Casting care to the wind
Your desire for adventure
Carried you to this
Wilderness that God so
Beautifully created.
Thanks to each of you
For building this great
Nation, for all the churches
You helped build, with
Their lovely pinnacles
Reaching skyward.
Your faith in God
Reaches deep within
Your descendants who
Walk this great land.
Our hearts quicken, and
We wish that we could
Look upon your faces.

NOTE FROM CAROLYN: Thank you Ruby for sharing your stories and your talent with us.
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Letters 4/21/2019

SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield, president of Dutch Cousins
Time is running out for raising funds for the markers. I’ve created a flow chart to stimulate interest.if you could send it out to all the cousins along with a message encouraging them to act on it right away I’d really appreciate it. Any other suggestions you may have would be welcome.

Background:
We are going to dedicate two markers:
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) 649-0600

‬Make 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: Judy Cassidy
Please let Ruby Ingram know that OKEY was originally AUKE OR AUKEY IN NY AND NJ, but as with so many names, got changed over the years. ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Dr. Ed Westerfield
I’m watching the news, of the Notre Dame Cathedral burning. It’s stood a 1000 years….but it’s roof and supporting structure are from 1000 year old forests. The wood was exposed and dry. The entrances are small and few. The church had no fire suppression and was in a almost impossible to reach location in the center of Paris. That it burned was not a surprise, but inevitable. This brings us to the Old Mud Meeting House. While we don’t have the provenance of a 1000 year cathedral, but we are part of a history that is old for our country. We have similar issues of an all wood structure in a remote location. We need to protect Old Mud. If Old Mud caught fire, it would burn to the ground before anyone could respond. Frankly, I’m amazed it wasn’t torched by the locals, over the last 170 years. I’m not proposing any one solution, but I would like to start the conversation on how we can convey Old Mud forward to future generations…intact and as original as is possible. The restoration work that has been done over the last 25 years is nothing short of a miracle. There is so much thanks to give to so many people. We need to protect Old Mud from a fate similar to what happened today in Paris to the Notre Dame Cathedral. Our church is no less important. ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Charles Vanorsdale
Hi Carolyn, It’s been a long time since I posted anything here, but I needed to respond to Ruby Bishop Ingram’s message about the Van Arsdale lineage. Her listing of Sijmon Jansz’ grandfather and beyond actually came from my research some 20 years ago, but I cannot authenticate those individuals (Pauwel Pauwelsz, Pauwel Joostensz, and Joosten). I listed them on a website I had back then, based on some old census data in the Flanders towns of Nukerke, Oudenaarde, and vicinity. However, the corroborating evidence never came so I pulled the information from my site. I knew the longer the information was on the web, the more likely it would be for it to spread, so without definitive proof, I subsequently stopped listing anyone beyond Sijmon’s father. Sorry about that, Ruby; I hope one day to prove up the lineage. ——————————————————————

SENT BY: Judy K. McKee
Our cousin, Julia (Judy) Banta Presnell passed away on Monday 15, April in Gainsville, GA. She was the daughter of James and Christine Banta. Many ofyou knew James from his research days. He’s mentioned in several books by cousins. Judy is survived by her two sons, David and Pax and many, many cousins. (NOTE: PLEASE ACCEPT our deepest sympathy in your loss and thank you Judy McKee for letting us know)————————————————————————————————

SENT BY: Sherron Westerfield
I was speaking today with someone at the “Kentucky Explorer” magazine in Jackson, KY. I wonder if you are familiar with that popular Kentucky publication. They’ve been around for 33 years and are for sale either by subscription or at groceries and drugstores throughout KY. I can send you a copy to review or they might even send you a complimentary edition.They suggested that we Dutch Cousins provide them with information about our September biennial reunion. There is no fee involved. They are also very interested in knowing about the dedication of the Westerfield Massacre plaque. Their phone is: 606-666-5060 and mailing address is: P. O. Box 227, Jackson, KY 41339. A follow-up article replete with photos of the event(s) would also be welcome. That’s 3 items of free-publicity for our group. Let me know what you think.My brother Logan and I look forward to seeing you and all the others in September.

NOTE: Thank you for that suggestion Sherron. My plate has been very full this year but it is looking better, My latest book is finally at the publishers and the income tax is filed. Jon’s and my health is improving and we enjoyed the housefull of family for our annual family Easter egg hunt. Next on my list is the biennial DUTCH COUSINS newsletter and getting the registration form out. -SO I NEED A PARAGRAPH for the NL from every chairman and board member about your plans for the big event, and any suggestions, comments and complaints about the registration form ASAP.
THEN…if no one else volunteers, I will contact the magazine. I promise.

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Letters 4/28/2019 Are you who we are looking for?

Are you ready for a good time?

SENT BY: Bill & Gayle Hoag of Jones OK (and from Carolyn)
Bill, a Terhune descendant, is having some serious heart health issues, in fact he was back in the emergency room last night. Bill and Gayle were our silent auction chairs in 2017 and enjoyed it so much they volunteered to do it again this year, but now Bill thinks we better look for another chair for this fall. Please say prayers that Bill’s strength will return and that his health issues will be quickly cleared up. In the meantime we need to give the Hoags a break. Please volunteer for this important position. In the meantime, send him a cheery note by email: xmayor1 (at) tds.net or on his cell 405(dash)410(dash)8484.
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SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
We 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.

The list of officers and chairpersons for the 2019 Gathering is posted on our website: www.DutchCousins.org

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Background:
We are going to dedicate two markers:
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) 649-0600‬

Make 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).

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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
This year, Dana Wade of Kentucky, a Banta descendant, is chairperson for the Family History Displays. In 2017 we had the fewest charts ever so we are hoping for the MOST EVER in 2019. We believe the History Displays are one of our most important projects. Here is a list of what we had last time.
Cozine descendants chart Eddie Cozine
Westerfield: Pam Ellingson
Westerfield: Earl Westerfield
Rynerson, Banta: Marc Reynerson
Rynerson, Banta Jack Taylor
Banta, Vanarsdall Emily Welches
Ryker, Smock, Demaree, Massacre Lynn Rogers
Book Sales Joan Murray
DAR/SAR Charlotte Legg Olson
Large Historical Document/Maps from 1700’s Vince Akers

Please sign up now. Think vertical! Send your entry information or questions to Dana at wade (dot) family (at) yahoo.com
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SENT BY: Tamara Fulkerson
I hope the New Year has found you happy and healthy.
We 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.

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

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SENT BY: Rod Dempsey
CAROLYN, M Y THOUGHTS WERE, WHEN I SAW NOTRE DAME BURNING, WAS THAT IT HAS BEEN A POPULAR TOURIST ATTRACTION SINCE THE 16^TH CENTURY. IT USED TO BE USED AS A PLACE TO WORSHIp. NOT SO MUCH NOW. PERSONALLy, MY GOD, JESUS, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE IN MY HEART, NOT IN A VERY EXPENSIVE ARCHITECTURAL MARVEL THAT IS CONTINUALLY BEING RENOVATED.

(Old Mud) is CLOSE TO A CREEK. IT IS POSSIBLE WE COULD BUILD AN ELEVATED STANDPIPE ON SITE AT OLD MUD, FILL IT WITH WATERS IN THAT CREEK, AND ENGINEER A SPRINKLER SYTEM, WHERE3 THE ELEVATE3D STANDPIPE, FILLED WITH CREEK WATER,COULD BE ATTTACHED TO A STRONG PUMP, AND HAVE ENOUG WATER PRESSURE TO PUT OUT A FIRE. if SMOKE EDETECTORS COULD SENSE THE FIRE QUICK ENOUGH, TO EXTINGUISH A FIRE.

If NOT, WE WILL ALL STILL BE DUTCH COUSINS, WITH A NEED FOR A NEW PLACE TO MEET.
WE STILL HAVE THE MERCER COUNTY GENEOLOGICAL CENTER IN Harrodsburg, AS A REposITORY OF OUR ANCESTORS RECORDS. THERE ARE OTHER SITES, STILL STANDnIG, WHERE WE COULD MEET.

I WOULD OPPOSE AN EFFORT TO RAISE THE MONEY TO TRY TO RECONSTRUCT OLD MUD LIKE IT USED TO BE, SHOULD IT BURN DOWN. I SPEAK AS AN ANCESTOR OF THE DEMOTTE Hugenots, WHO THE FRENCH
CATHOLICS RAN OUT OF FRANCE, ENABLING THEM TO INTERMARRY WITH THE Dutch IN THE NETHERLANDS.

Carolyn, you and Janice Cozine have given me much more praise and publicity than I ever deserved.
I am grateful to both of you for your loving friendship.
Sincerely,
Rod Dempsey

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SENT BY: Ruby Bishop Ingram

A recent posting from Charles Vanorsdale in reference to my posting, I feel I must answer to what he said. My lineage is from the years of research from Condit Brewer Vanarsdell M. D. (She has all the documentation and would be happy to share.

Doctor Vanarsdall spent years and years getting all the VanArsdale ancestors info together. I remember him saying it was very difficult as so many generations kept using the same names over and over.
I loved Dr. VanArsdall, Senior, like a father. He delivered me when I was born at our family’s home in 1937. He doctored me through the years, and once he sat by my bedside at home when I was so ill: I was around 8 years old and, I had pneumonia
and had been so ill that I was sleeping all the time. I remember opening my eyes and he was sitting there looking at me. He smiled, and he turned to my mother and said, “She will be alright now”. He became Chairman of the Board of Education in Harrodburg and signed my diploma when I graduated from high school in 1955. So, he signed two important documents for me, and he and his wife gave me a graduation gift. They had 3 sons who were doctors ( I was doctored by all 3 of them, Condit Brewer VanArsdall, Junior; Thomas “Carter” VanArsdall; and Alexander VanArsdall, who died when he was 29) and a daughter whose husband was Forrest “Aggie” Sales, and he was our high school’s basketball coach.He was an All American when he was in college at the University of Kentucky. There is a commemorative “star” hanging on a hallway in
Memorial Coliseum in honor of him, Aggie and his wife traveled with my senior class on the George Washington Special train to Washington, D.C. when I was 17 years old.

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2019 Low Dutch Cousins Gathering

Hotel and other information for the upcoming 2019 Low Dutch Cousins Gathering

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

5/10/2019 News about Conewago, our Dutch cemetery

Dear Dutch Cousins, I want to share this letter with you, from Donald Lott, whom we have never met although he has faithfully taken care of the Conewago Colony Low Dutch Cemeteries in Pennsylvania for us all these years. The photos are from our visit to the North cemetery with our group’s Footprints to Dutch New York trip in 2011. We owe Donald Lott (and his father) a big THANK YOU AND HUGS from our cousins for his faithfulness over the decades.
Carolyn

PS. We welcome Alan Weaner, nephew of Arthur Weaner (now deceased) who always kept an eye on our ancestral lands and burials, and was always happy to show us around and share the stories he had grown up with, Welcome Alan! We hope you will come to Kentucky in September so we can show our appreciation! His address is here, so feel free to send a donation to the cemetery care fund.

POST PS we are still hoping to get historical markers up in Pennsylvania for these 2 cemeteries and the Banta Cabin. Malcolm Banta is the current chairman since 2015, and he may be needing some help on this project. Please hit reply and let us know if you are willing to work on getting these markers done.
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Dear Carolyn (and cousins)
As you know, I have been serving as the Administrator and Treasurer of the Low Dutch Cemeteries Improvement Fund for most of the past 40 years, having taken over for my father in the 1980’s. The Low Dutch Cemeteries, located near Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania, are the ancestral burial grounds for many of the “Dutch Cousins” among your membership. For most of my tenure, things went rather well for the cemeteries, but after changing jobs in 2007 and commuting from my home in Pennsylvania to my work, 3 hours away in Washington, DC, my ability to handle things in the same capacity as I had been doing was severely diminished. Recognizing the need to have more robust oversight and management of the cemeteries, I have decided to step down as Administrator and Treasurer and turn those responsibilities over to someone who lives much closer to the cemeteries and has strong personal and family ties to the burial grounds.

I am pleased to announce that Alan Weaner will be taking over as Administrator and Treasurer for the Low Dutch Cemeteries Improvement Fund. If that name sounds somewhat familiar, it should. You and many of your readers may remember Arthur “Art” Weaner who for many years assisted my father, John K. Lott, in managing the Low Dutch Cemeteries Improvement Fund. Art was a well known and well respected local historian who took particular interest in the cemeteries and led many private and public tours through the cemeteries and assisted many persons who had inquiries about their ancestors buried in those cemeteries. Alan is a nephew of Art’s and has a keen interest in maintaining the cemeteries in good condition and preserving the historical and genealogical value of these properties.

I know that Alan intends to start addressing some of the projects I was unable to get started on, such as making repairs to the stone wall fence around the Northern Cemetery, repairing or replacing the wire fence around the Southern Cemetery, painting/repairing entrance gates to both cemeteries, and repairing some broken headstones. To help accomplish these tasks, I’m sure he’d be most appreciative of any donations to the cause that your membership might be willing to make.

For anyone wishing to make contributions to the Low Dutch Cemeteries Improvement Fund, Alan’s address is:

Low Dutch Cemeteries Improvement Fund
c/o Alan Weaner
145 Weaner Road
Gettysburg, PA 17325

Again, it has been a pleasure to serve in the capacity as Administrator and Treasurer for the Low Dutch Cemeteries for as long as I did and I look forward to the new era of leadership under Alan Weaner’s careful management as he strives to protect and preserve the ancestral heritage so important to all of us.

Respectfully,
Donald J. Lott

(photos from our 2011 Footprints to Dutch New York tour) 1. Mary Park (Pres. of Holland Dames of NY), Arthur Weaner (our guide and forever friend) and Carolyn Leonard. 2. Entrance to the cemetery. 3. Carla Gerding finds a relative. 4. Looking for family inside the cemetery. 5. Carolyn Leonard with the replaced tombstone of Rev. Cornelius Cozine, Many years ago, Arthur Weaner (now deceased) saw the original map (now lost) and placed this marker for Rev. Cozine.

Entrance to Conewago Cemetery (North) near Gettysburg.

Mary Park (then-President of Holland Dames of New York), Arthur Weaner (our tour guide and forever friend, now decased) and Carolyn Leonard, (past president and editor of Dutch Letters}.

Inside the walls of Conewago cemetery. Legend is the stones from the church were used to build the walls around the graveyard.

THE STORY OF CONEWAGO (to be continued):

In 1768 our particular group of the Dutch Reform moved west from “the Jerseys” (New Jersey) in a caravan of 150 families and between 700 and 1000 people, according to family history books. They left their beautiful stone houses and well-tended fields, sold their farmland, gathered at Hackensack, crossed the Passaic, passed New Brunswick and Princeton, crossed the Delaware, and moved on through Pennsylvania to the Conewago valley. Conewago is said to be an Indian word derived from Caughnawaga, meaning the place at the rapids. Distance from Harlingen, NJ to Conewago Colony PA was 150 miles as the crow flies, about three hours in a modern automobile. In 1768 travel was mostly on foot, carrying a heavy pack. Fifteen miles a day on foot would get you there in ten days. Rev. Cozine was their first Domine (pastor) of Conewago Colony and served until his death in 1786. The first church at Conewago was apparently on land donated by Hendrick Banta, and the second, larger building before 1783 on Cozine’s Pleasant Plain beside the cemetery.

On Oct 3, 1767, Rev. (Dominee) Cozine was warranted a tract of 208 acres and on June 30, 1773, another tract of 254 acres. His lands were called Pleasant Plain and historical society records show his residence was on the west bank of Swift Run on the north side of the road from York to Nichols’ Gap via Gettysburg. The path is still known as the Low Dutch Road.

Letters 5/13/2019

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

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
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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.————————————————————————————————

Letters 5/20/19 About the coming event…

We will be at the Old Mud Meetinghouse again at 2 pm Sunday, Sept 15th.

Photos from 2017: Russell Gasero, Archivist, Reformed Church of America, New Brunswick, NJ, in the wineglass pulpit. Lynn Rogers taking the collection with the 18th century offering bags on poles. You have to be there to understand the excitement and sense of peace we find.

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Feel free to share these items, just credit DUTCH LETTERS (date), free genealogy round robin published by Carolyn Leonard. Anyone who wishes to be added to the mailing list, send an email to me at Editor234@gmail.com and say they would like to be on the list – and let us know their Dutch connection and contact info. Please send any pertinent info to be included in the next Letter. If you no longer wish to receive our emails, I’ll be lost, confused and probably lose sleep at night. I mean, really. I will feel like I have failed somehow. But if you really feel that way, please hit reply and say, “remove me” — and I will do so immediately! (You can click the link to MailChimp, but if they remove you by accident I can’t put you back on – even if you beg,) I promise we do not share our mailing list with anyone, and do not publish email addresses on the list because of possible scammers.
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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 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 (Friday bus tour to dedicate historic signs outside Louisville.)
Sunday and Monday 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 Low 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.
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SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
We 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: SILENT AUCTION or Book Displays.

The list of officers and chairpersons for the 2019 Gathering is posted on our website: www.DutchCousins.org

LAST MINUTE NEWS: Janice Cozine, already handling the massive duties of Treasurer and Registration Chair, has volunteered to ALSO be chairperson of the T-Shirts fundraiser. We need to clone that cousin! She is certainly doing everything she can to keep the Dutch Cousins event going. She even volunteered her husband Eddie to be her assistant – and Eddie is awaiting board approval to also serve on the Low Dutch Cousins board of directors.

We still need a Silent Auction chair and a Book Display coordinator – will YOU do it? Silent Auction works best as a team of two people. WHO if not YOU?
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SENT BY: Bob Banta
I saw the post regarding “no Banta’s in graveyard ” and am not sure of what graveyard is being referred to. (NOTE fm Carolyn: It is the Cove Spring burial ground) My wife and I stopped to visit the old mud meetinghouse some years ago (when we were both in better health) and spent time at the nearby graveyard. I remember we found a stone marker for “Abraham Banta”, whom we had found in our “Banta Book” (purchased years ago from some Chicago outfit). My wife seems to remember other Banta’s at the graveyard, but that name stands out to me.
We still live on the farm that my great-grandfather, John Calvin Banta, purchased here in 1863 – it passed through my grandfather (Orlando ), my father (Orlando Smith), down to me. My older brother, (Orlando Stanley) , is a snowbird who maintains a summer home in nearby Oquawka.
My aunt, Laura Banta Merrifield, was very interested in family ties, and often corresponded with some Bantas in Wisconsin, where some local Bantas migrated to years ago.
I enjoy reading your posts. // Bob Banta

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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.

SENT BY: Charlotte Ann Legg Olson (our DAR lady chair)
Good morning, Cuzs!
Read with interest the post from Greg Barnard. Could you please send him my email address: My husband Dave, Swedish not Dutch, and I are very interested in preserving the “Banta Demott” Cemetery. Dave has taken classes for grave marker restoration and has worked on restoring the marker of an IL Patriot. While we are all the way over in IL, Dave maybe of some technical assistance. We are aware of the cost but more than that understand the importance of preserving the memorials of our heritage. We whole heartedly support this effort with Greg.

A branch of my family is the Patriot John Gritton/
through his son: Jesse and Sarah Brumfield Gritton/
through their dau Elizabeth Gritton m Ransdell Poulter and this generation united with another Patriot family John Poulter/Polter.

HELP……. Currently I am working on a Supplemental Application for DAR, attempting to establish Elizabeth as Jesse’s daughter. Any assistance from our Dutch Family would be appreciated, even though this branch just married into the Dutch! But, hey, Jesse Gritton married (second wife) and took in the wife and children of a Dutch widow, Ann DeMotte (first husband John DeMotte).

Carolyn: Will check on the DAR book that you mentioned and get back with you.

Thanks, as always
Charlotte Olson
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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard – Maybe one of our readers will recognize names: DEMOTTE-COZINE-GRITTON

John (Johannes) DeMotte married Rev. Cornelius Cozine’s granddaughter, Ann (Antje) Cozine, daughter of Cornelius Jr. Cozine and niece of John Cozine of Harrodsburg (we toured his house in 2005). Vince Akers said the DeMotte family was originally of French Huguenot descent, but were absorbed into the Low Dutch in New Jersey.

John DeMotte, son of Lawrence/Laurens Demotte and Dorothy “Dortie” Vanderbryke. Lawrence moved his family to Mercer Co. KY. About 1790-93; His land deed dated 1794. He acquired a large tract of land at Cove Spring about halfway between Danville and Harrodsburg, in Mercer County, and built his house which is still standing. Lawrence DeMotte continued his religious activities in Kentucky. He was a signer of a petition to the Classis of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick, N.Y requesting them to send a Dutch Reform Domine (minister) to Mercer County, KY, at the Head of Salt River. His call for help was heeded when Peter LaBaugh was sent to Kentucky to organize the Dutch settlers, and form a Church. Lawrence DeMotte helped found the Old Mud Meetinghouse. The DeMott Family Graveyard is located in a lot south of the house at Cove Springs near the Mercer/Boyle line about two miles south of Harrodsburg on US 127. By 1967 the cemetery was abandoned and grown up in weeds.(now referred to as the Banta graveyard apparently). The Cove Springhouse is in the front yard of the DeMott House.

Ann Cozine was baptized by her grandfather at Conewago Colony Dutch Church in Pennsylvania in 1776 and came to KY with her father Cornelius Cozine Jr, who died when she was ten. She married John DeMotte when she was 16 in 1793 Mercer Co, KY. We toured the DeMott house in 2009, home of Ann (Cozine) and her husband John DeMotte . John and Ann DeMott raised five sons (Lawrence, Cornelius, Daniel, John L., and Peter) and three daughters, (Sarah, Mary, and Ann Jr).

Six years after John DeMotte died in 1813, Ann married Jesse Gritton in 1819. Apparently Gritton and children moved into Ann’s house because Ann and both husbands are buried in this abandoned Cove Spring/Banta graveyard, as well as Jesse’s father John Gritton. Ann (Cozine) (DeMotte) Gritton 1776-1854.

Jesse (son of John Gritton and Elizabeth Hoagland) was married first to Sarah Brumfield and they had four sons (Milo, John, William, Valentine) and four daughters (Elizabeth, Sarah, Nancy and Miriam).

Ann was almost 43 years old when she married the widower Jesse Gritton on 1 Nov 1819 and they “begat” no children together. Jesse Gritton’s youngest child Miriam was just a babe (her mother Sarah probably died in childbirth in 1818) so Ann (cozine-demotte) would have raised those eight children too. (Ann’s youngest would have been 10 when she married Jesse Gritton, her oldest was 24, but she probably had 3 daughters and 2 sons still at home. With Jesse’s 8 youngsters and Ann’s five they had a full house at Cove Spring!)

Charlotte’s ancestor, Elizabeth Gritton the oldest daughter of Jesse Gritton and his first wife, Sarah Brumfield,was born 1806 and would have been about 13 when her mother died in 1818.

Elizabeth Gritton married Ransdell Poulter on 13 Nov 1823 by the Rev. Jesse Head, Mercer Co., KY Marriage register 1, p. 310. (Elizabeth was 17 1/2 years) There is also a bond dated 11 Nov. 1823 for them. Bondsman was Cornelius Demott (which could be Ann’s son 1796-1855); bride’s consent: Jesse Gritton; witness Ann [Cozine,DeMott] Gritton. Elizabeth Gritton Poulter died May 1873 in Mooresville, IN, near Indianapolis where Garret Cozine and some family had migrated.

This is interesting. Jesse Gritton filed a lawsuit against the estate of Garret Cozine (Ann’s uncle) for $200, saying he was guardian for John and Ann Demott, Jesse’s step children by his wife Anne Cozine, daughter of Cornelius Cozine Jr. Another Cornelius (son of Garret Cozine) said he borrowed $100 in 1823 from Gritton, with his father Garret Cozine as surety, and renewed yearly plus 10% interest came to $200 by 1830. Apparently, Gritton loaned money held in trust for the Cozine children because in 1830 the money was payable to John L. Demott, Ann’s husband. (at that time, all property of a woman belonged to her husband – just as she did) Garret Cozine claimed notes of the Commonwealth Bank of Kentucky in 1823 were worth only 50 cents on the dollar, and that Cozine had rendered medical services to Gritton’s father worth $9; that he should not be compelled to pay more than 6% interest on the original loan, subject to a credit of $9. Cozine won the lawsuit. Charlotte, send me what you have on Elizabeth Gritton (1806-1873) and I’ll see if I can help you!
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SENT BY: Jim Cozine of Las Vegas
Don’t forget the Cozine genealogy charts at:
freepages.rootsweb.com/~cozine/genealogy/

NOTE FROM CAROLYN: remember though, to keep the site from becoming too unwieldy, Jim only traces the one name Cozine; so when a daughter marries that’s the end of her info on that webpage.
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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) 649-0600‬
Make 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).

More info later.
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SENT BY: WILLIAM SCHULR
I am a 6th great-grandson to Jacobus Westervelt. His son Samuel was my 5th great-grandfather, so I’m more closely related to the Westerfields from Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois. My 3rd great-grandmother was Sarah Jane Westerfield Hawley. Her son was William Hawley whose only daughter was Jennie Mae Hawley—who was my mother’s maternal grandmother. Thus is my Westerfield connection.

I would like to be apprised of any events scheduled that pertain to the Westerfields. I’m interested in connecting with that side of the family. BTW I am from North Dakota. My great-grandmother Jennie Mae Hawley Simon had eventually moved to North Dakota and died here in 1979 and is buried in the Napoleon, ND City Cemetery.
All for now,
Sincerely,
Bill Schuler
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SENT BY: Randal Ofensend
On May 12, 2019, at 3:11 PM, Randal Ofensend <ofensend@gmail.com> wrote:Hello Carolyn,Very interesting information. I am having trouble finding the cemetery on Google Earth or on Findagrave.com.Do you know the Long & Lat numbers so I can search on Google Earth?Thanks for sending this email,RandalNOTE from carolyn: Here you go: Old Mud Meetinghouse Graveyard
GPS Coordinates: 37.7235810, -84.8638380
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/187228/memorial-search?page=1#sr-7789383

Mud Meeting House Cemetery Also known as Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery

LOCATION	Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, USA Show Map
MEMORIALS	216 added (68% photographed)
CEMETERY ID	187228

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SENT BY: Randal OfensendHe Carolyn,Thank you for the quick response. Do you also have the Lat & Long for the Pennsylvania Cemeteries?Thank you for sending out the newsletter. Very interesting and I enjoy reading them!RandalHERE YOU GO:
Northern Low Dutch Cemetery, Adams county, Pennsylvania
GPS Coordinates: 39.8714000, -77.1188000
Southern Low Dutch Cemetery GPS Coordinates: 39.8068660, -77.1742750
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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) formerly 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?
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SENT BY: Sharon Lynch

Hi Carolyn….just a quick note to thank you for all that you do! I love reading about this part of our history and have kept steadily researching my Van Dyke ancestry. I hope to get to the reunion, but ‘up in the air’ as to definite plans. I have decided to make a move and my house will be finished in Sept/Oct….then I’ll also be trying to sell my current house at the same time…lots going on! Still…I am going to really try and make it….so looking forward to meeting my Dutch cousins! Thank you again and Happy Mother’s Day!

hugs, Sharon
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SENT BY: Judy McKee
While living in Panama, the Boy Scouts helped restore the old French cemetery to earn awards. That might be a good place to start in looking for help in some of the old overgrown cemeteries.
Note: You know – I think it was BSA the restored the old French cemetery we visited in 2011 in New Jersey, too.
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SENT BY: RIKER HOMESTEAD TOURS
Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead Tours – May/June 2019
The following tours of the 360-year-old Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead are planned for May and June 2019:
Saturday, May 25th at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 1st at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 8th at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 15th at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 22nd at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 29th at 3:00 PM

Admission is $35.00 per person payable in advance by check, credit card or PayPal. Please make your checks out to Marion Duckworth Smith and mail to:
Marion Duckworth Smith
7803 19th Road
East Elmhurst, NY 11370

FOR MORE INFO: go to our tour info page on the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead website.
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SENT BY: American Ancestors

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PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU LIKE OR DO NOT LIKE THE PHOTOS THAT I INCLUDE…

Dutch Cousins Registration Form 2019

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Letters 7/9/19 Have you sent in your registration yet?

It’s time to register for the Dutch Cousins gathering! The form is on the website www.DutchCousins.org

SENT BY: Pam Ellingson
Lynn Rogers has revised “Clear’s Station as probable Westerfield Massacre Site”, the third part of the Westerfield Massacre document. The revised document can be found on the Dutch Cousins website or through this link. https://bit.ly/30AWnFj
If you have printed the previous version you can contact me by e-mail ellingson.pam@gmail for the revised part 3.
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SENT BY: SENT BY: Vice President Tamara Fulkerson
We have one open committee chair position for our 2019 Low Dutch Cousins Gathering in Frankfort, KY. Please let me know if you would be willing to fill this volunteer roles: 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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SENT BY:Mary L Quinn
My mother: Mildred Banta’s father was Alfred C. Banta, son of Alfred P. Banta, son of Peter Adam Banta and it goes back to Epke Jacobse, or Jacob Epke. His son, Cornelius Epke, changed his name to Banta along with his brothers. I have never be able to find out why they changed it except for Epke means “son of” and is not a proper surname.

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SENT BY: Alice Ramer Rice Bratcher
I have family that married into the Banta/ Shuck families and have been on the mailing list before. My great grandparents Rice married on Andrew Shuck farm place. I want to attend the meeting. I was on a trip this month with GoAHeadTours and ancestry.com and met two of 3 sisters who have the Banta bloodline and one of them would like to attend the Sep. meeting too.

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SENT BY: Pat Mickunas
I am related to Epke Jacobs or Jacobse (on the Banta side of the family). My sister Mary Quinn Bermke is the one who has done the most research into my Mother’s side of the family. My Mother’s name was Mildred Banta Quinn. My name is Patricia Ellen Quinn Mickunas. My address is 5565 Hobson Street N.E., St. Petersburg, FL 33703. 727-527-3433. My older sister is Elizabeth Quinn Charles. I will ask her if she wants to be involved with this e-mail. My sister Mary and I just returned from a Travel to Go Ancestry trip to Ireland. On the trip we met Alice Ramer Rice Bratcher. She is a member of your group and related to us through the Banta side apparently.

I would like to attend the reunion in Kentucky. I’m not sure if I can make it this year however.

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SENT BY: Carolyn (herself)
How many of you have computer programs with family history records? Would you be willing to bring your laptop with that information and be willing to share information with other cousins at the gathering? Send an email to me at editor234@gmail.net.

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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, recommending incoming Eddie Cozine of KY
Board Member Malcolm Banta of RotondaWest, FL
Board Member Amalie Preston of Harrodsburg, KY
Immediate Past President Carolyn Leonard of OKC

Chairpersons:
Nominations Chair   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   Tamara Fulkerson of Crestwood, KY
Hospitality Emily Welches of Noblesville, Indiana
Dutch Silent Auction King & Sharon Cole of Texas
Historian   Barbara Whiteside, Clarksville,IN
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
T-Shirt Fundraiser    Janice Cozine of Kentucky
BOOK & RESEARCH DISPLAYS OPEN POSITION

What would YOU like to do to help keep the Dutch Cousins event going?

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SENT BY: Russell Gasero
I hope you are well. I am putting you in touch with Laurel Auchampaugh as a possible Dutch Cousin. She is the town historian for Owasco, New York, and is a descendent of the Dutch Cousins family groups.

I did forward the registration form to her, but thought it might be valuable to put you both in touch directly.

Russ
Russell L. Gasero, CA
Archivist
Reformed Church in America
21 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Like us on Facebook!
If you would like to help support the work of the Archives, please offer a donation at:
https://www.rca.org/give/archives-special-project

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SENT BY: Carolyn, herself.

We do not have a volunteer for book or research displays. Joan Murray has always done it, but is unable to this time. We decided not to have a book signing for authors, so all the person would need to do is have some research info on hand to help if someone wanted to work on their genealogy. Does anyone have a genealogy program on their laptop computer and be willing to do some lookups in case you have info to share and help another cousin? Claude Westerfield used to do that, he had not just Westerfield but other family included. Is there anyone from any of the Dutch Cousin family who could do that?

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SENT BY: Tamara Fulkerson

Family Heritage Displays

Over the years, one of the most favored parts of our Dutch Cousins Reunions has been our Family Heritage Displays. So let’s get creative and please register with Tamara Fulkerson to reserve table space for your family heritage display. Please email your Name, Dutch Family Name and the Title of your display to Tamara at TLWFulkerson@aol.com . Everyone that participates will receive a certificate and a panel of judges will choose a first place award. The award is a very special surprise this year and we hope to have lots of participation. Your display needs to be concise and not spread out, think vertical presentation. Table set up begins Thursday Sept. 12^th at 3:00pm and take down needs to be completed by 12:00 noon on Saturday Sept. 14^th.

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SENT BY: Mary Wardlow Bermke
I am very interested in attending your reunion. I have a few questions:

If you know of anyone who lives in Western North Carolina I would be delighted if you give them my email address so we could car pool. I have a place to stay there but cannot drive myself. I really don’t want to fly either but that would be the last result.
I am on a restricted diet (gluten & dairy free.) Will this be a problem?

Thanks,
Mary Bermke

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Letters 7/29/2019

Here’s the Latest! Time to register.

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
Sunday and Monday at Harrodsburg for the Old Mud Meetinghouse and the Harrodsburg Historical Research Library.
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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: Joan Murray
I’m really sorry to be missing the Dutch Cousins reunion this year. One of our granddaughters is getting married in Salem, OR at that time. Immediate family comes first (with all of us I’m sure). But I’ll be thinking about all of you and hope you have a good turn-out and a great time. Joan Murray

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SENT BY: Sherron Westerfield

Mailed registration yesterday to Janice Cozine.
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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.
Sunday and Monday 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 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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SENT BY: Laurel Auchampaugh

I recently discovered I am descended from Rev. Cornelius Cozine of Conewago Dutch Reformed Church. His daughter Lemmeje married John Bodine. their son Cornelius Bodine’s daughter Hannah J married my gr-gr grandfather Morgan Lewis Mattoon. I live in Owasco, have visited Lemme’s grave and also where Rev. Geo. Brinkerhoff is buried. I have been the historian of Owasco 35 years. Very involved in the history of the Owasco Reformed Church, where 10 pioneer families from Conewago came to the Owasco Lake Area.
I am descended from 2 of the pioneer families Cornelius. and his brother Abraham Bodine, and Charles VanTine I know Russell Gassaro, Archivist of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and will be willing to share info. Need to learn more about Rev. Cornelius Cozine

Dear cousin Laurel,
I am a descendant of Lemmeje Cozine Bodine’s youngest brother Garret, as is our Cozine expert, Jim Cozine of Las Vegas, so I am copying him on this email. Jim is the author of the webpage on Cozines that you viewed, but he does not follow the female line after they marry to keep the page from getting too complicated. Jim can certainly tell you all about Domine Cornelius and this is a fascinating family line.

I am also attaching a page from my family history sheet on Dom. Cozine and his children, I actually have done some research on the daughters and their families. I’d love to compare notes because I’m sure I have mistakes. I attaching a hotlink to the family page on my dropbox, but not sure it will work for you so I’m also attaching a picture of the page (which may not work either). I will try to find a better way if this doesn’t work. It’s a new update to my Reunion genealogy program and I was not aware of this change. (hate updates!)

We certainly look forward to seeing you at the gathering in September, God willing. I am also attaching the registration blank in pdf, I hear the one I sent in the email last week does not print out right.

More later.Hope to hear from you soon.

Blessings, Carolyn

Carolyn & Laurel
I’m sorry to say that my Family History manuscript “ Finding our wooden shores” has suffered the same fate in my computer — the files are so old they will not open up in my new computer..
But I still have a hard copy of the updated Master of Summer 2015… and can make a copy of the pages covering the Rev Cornelius ( pgs 89~108) and mail it to Laurel..
I see this address in the online phone books – just let me know if this is what is wanted & if the addy is still good – I can mail it tomorrow. Jim Coz.

Dear Cousins:

Thank you so much for sharing information on Rev. C. Cozine
If you were to google my name you might enjoy reading my monthly History Column in the Auburn Citizen.

I have done this since Feb. of 2006. Since I found MY family on the Owasco Church records,
it has been my desire to help many others of the pioneer familiy descendants find theirs .

Not only the Penn. group, but the Orange County families.
It has been such a joy for me to follow the Conewago folk.

I will be so happy to learn more about the Cozines Jim and Carolyn.
I have files on the Owasco Families, told their stories numerous times to visitors to the Church

I have successfully printed the Reg. form for the gathering in September. Will now arrange and fill out for mailing.
Laurel

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SENT BY: Nancy Hensen

My DeGroff ancestry is as follows:

Gen. 1 Jean Laconte b. c. 1640 Picardy Middleburg Zeeland, Holland d. 24-5-1675 Harlem, NY Mar. Mary Laurens b. 1639 France d. 10-11-1687
Gen. 2 Moses DeGraff/DeGroff b. 3-13-1661 Zeeland, Holland d. c. 1720 Ulster Co. NY Mar. Hester LaMaister/ Delamater mar 168I hope th3 d. 1720 Ulster Co, NY
Gen. 3 Abraham DeGroff bp. 6-9-1695 Kingston, Ulster Co NY d. 26-5-1774 Mar. 1683 Elizabeth Palmetier (Palmentier, Parmentier) bp. 16-7-1699 at Brooklyn, Kings Co NY d. Poughkeepsie NY
Gen. 4 Michael DeGroff bp. 9-1-1726 Kingston, Ulster Co NY d. 2-12-1793 Conewago Adams Co PA Mar. 16-4-1748 Rachel Swart bp. 19-3-1732 Kingston Ulster Co NY d. c 1773 Conewago PA
Gen. 5 William Swart DeGroff b. c.1744 Poughkeepsie NY mar. c. 1774 Willempte Nevius b. 25-2-1753 Somerset Co NJ Willempte d. after 1796, Conewago PA
William migrated to Owasco, Cayuga Co NY D. 20-1-1824 Owasco.
Gen. 6 Abraham DeGroff bp. 28-11-1779 Conewago Adams Co PA mar. c. 1805 Cattina (Tiny) VanTine b. c.1783 D.? Abraham d. 6-7-1811 Owasco Cayuga Co NY
Gen. 7 Abraham DeGroff b. 10-3-1810 Owasco Cayuga Co NY D. Nunda Livingston Co NY, Mar. c. 1832 #1 Sarah Duryea, #2 Sarah Perry , b. 6-3-1813 Schenectady, NY d. 26-9-1879 Nunda, NY
Gen. 8 Herbert DeGroff b.21-3-1850 Nunda Livingston Co NY. Mar. 28-10-1885 Margaret Ellis b. 27-7-1865 Arkport NY D. 16-11-1909 Nunda NY
Gen . 9 Ellis DeGroff b. 26-6-1888 Nunda NY Mar. 27-12-1911 Gertrude Parker b. 16-10-1886 Leicester Wyoming Co NY Ellis d. 19-4-1919 Nunda NY Gertrude d. 5-3-1971 Perry Wyoming Co NY

I hope this is helpful. There are a few missing pieces. The search goes on.
Nancy Hansen

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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
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, recommending incoming Eddie Cozine of KY
Board Member Malcolm Banta of RotondaWest, FL
Board Member Amalie Preston of Harrodsburg, KY
Immediate Past President Carolyn Leonard of OKC

Chairpersons:
Nominations Chair   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   Tamara Fulkerson of Crestwood, KY
Hospitality Emily Welches of Noblesville, Indiana
Dutch Silent Auction King & Sharon Cole of Texas
Historian   Barbara Whiteside, Clarksville,IN
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
T-Shirt Fundraiser    Janice Cozine of Kentucky
Family Research    Mary Jo Gohmann of Indiana

What would YOU like to do to help keep the Dutch Cousins event going?
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SENT BY: Eloise Burnaford

FYI— see very last listing in “Conferences”, and see our Dutch Cousins Gathering listed among some other very prestigious events… in the NNI’s July 2019 eMarcurius.

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SENT BY: Carolyn (herself)Had a phone call this week from Andrew Terhune, president of the New York Holland Society. He was asking permission to share information about our Dutch Cousins activities with his society. Of course I told him that was the purpose of our Dutch letters and our website – to share the information. In 2011 on our Dutch footprints to NY tour, we visited the Holland Society said the rent was too high and they have moved the offices to Albany to combine with the NNI group.
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SENT BY: Pam Ellingson

Westerfield Cousins- We will have poster set up at the gathering in September. Please bring a copy of your Westerfield ancestry or other items that you want to add to the display.

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Letters 8/1/2019

Here’s the scoop on the Dutch Markers in KY

SENT BY: (the prez) Charles Westerfield

The fund raIsing graphic is attached. The Low Dutch Station is the sign we are replacing, It is at the Brown Park near Baptist East Hospital in Louisville. The Westerfield Massacre sign is near Shepherdsville. Will will have a dedication at this sign. We need $700.00 to complete all three markers!

Charlie
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SENT BY: (the PREZ) Charles Westerfield

Here are the final versions of the Markers: #2580 Westerfield Massacre, #1848 Low Dutch Station.

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Kentucky Historical Society Historical Marker Program
Low Dutch Station #1848

Low Dutch Station
In 1780 Hendrick Banta led a large group of Dutch settlers down the Ohio River to the Falls of the Ohio from Pennsylvania.
They rented land from John Floyd and built Low Dutch (New Holland) station, one of seven forts on Beargrass Creek. In 1810, leading agriculturalist James Brown of Maryland, acquired the property.
Dutch Cousins of Kentucky

Low Dutch in Kentucky
In the spring of 1781 many Low Dutch families, including a group led by James Westerfield, began moving to safer lands rented from James Harrod in Mercer County. In 1784, families purchased the Low Dutch Tract in Henry & Shelby Counties from Squire Boone, but it was not settled safely for another decade.
Dutch Cousins of Kentucky

DEDICATION DATE: Sept. 14, 2019

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Kentucky Historical Society Historical Marker Program
Westerfield Massacre #2580

Westerfield Massacre Several families, led by Low Dutchman James Westerfield,
were attacked by American Indians while camped near here on
April 3, 1781. Over a dozen travelers were killed & 2 girls were taken as captives to the British at Detroit. Survivors fled to nearby Clear’s Station.

Dutch Cousins of Kentucky
Brooks’ Spring
The spring here, first called Stewart’s or Phillips’ and then Brooks’ Spring, was a well-known camping place in the early 1780s on the main route from the Falls of the Ohio & Beargrass Creek to Bullitt’s Lick & Harrodsburg.
Revolutionary War skirmishes with settlers & British-allied American Indians made the area dangerous.
Hester Family

DEDICATION DATE: Sept. 14, 2019

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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
All Dutch Newsletters from 2005 to 2019 (yep) this newest one) are on thewww.DutchCousins.org web page. Choose NEWSLETTERS and you can download any or all of them. The 2019 NL is printed and in the mail, so if you are on the mailing list, you should be receiving one within a week.

Letters 8/9/2019 Conewago, Old Mud, and more….

Meeting my Dutch Cousins- Completing the Circle

By Laurel Auchampaugh

I have been writing for years about the history and migration of 10 Families who came to Owasco in Cayuga County on July 4^th, 1793 by wagon train from Conewago ,Pennsylvania . They were true pioneers who cleared the forest, built cabins and churches. They farmed the area around Owasco Lake and flourished.

It has been such a pleasure to meet up with their descendants and share their history.

Over the years, these families have shared with me their family stories, Bible records, pictures and genealogy. Many articles about their proud heritage were shared with the public in the Auburn Citizen.

I can say today with true humility, the circle is now complete, for I can now tell the rest of the story. Conewago is a place today known only in the heart-like Brigadoon. Two cemeteries are all that remain of this Dutch community originally from New Jersey. So many folk left the area, the community became extinct.

In 1783, a group of pioneers left for Daniel Boone’s territory in Kentucky.   They built a community called Harrodsburg and nearby a mud meeting house that still exists today.  Their family names were: Banta, Bergan, Bise, Blonk, Bruner, Brower, Covert, La Grange, Stryker, Seburn, Demont, Montford, Smock, Van Arsdale, Commingore, Cosine, Vaunuys, Carmine, Vanderveer, Voorhees, Aten, Demaree.
        Ten years later, in 1793, a second group left Conewago for the “Lake Country” in central New York.  These were the Owasco pioneer families totaling 82 people (not counting their slaves).  Their names were: Brinkerhoff brothers (3), Bodine brothers (2), Van Tine (2), Dates, Johnson, Parsell, Loyster.
                I recently wrote to Russell Gasero, the Archivist of the Reformed Church of America at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey.   I was looking for information on Rev. Cornelius Cosine a newly discovered ancestor. Dominee Cozine was the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of Conewago.  Russell put me in touch with a website called Dutch Cousins, and a gentleman named James Cosine. He also provided me with the name of author Carolyn Leonard.  They like me, are descended from Rev. Cozine.  I have found my Dutch Cousins!
                The most exciting fact is that after this contact the Conewago Kentucky and Owasco families can now meet after 236 years.   On September 12^th – 16^th, there is a Low Dutch Cousins gathering of the Kentucky descendants for a reunion at Frankfort and Harrodsburg.  I am making plans to attend to represent the Owasco families.

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SENT BY: Carolyn
We need to get started on our CONEWAGO historical marker project, so we will be looking for someone to help Malcolm Banta with that.

I am a volunteer for findagrave.com and one of my projects has been to straighten out the Northern Low Dutch Cemetery at Conewago. There are two, the southern and the northern, and someone had mixed them up and put people in the wrong place. Have a look.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2386142/northern-low-dutch-cemetery

Larry Voreis had some good info and photos of Conewago in his book OUR LOW DUTCH HERITAGE, now out of print but available at the Harrodsburg Historical Research Library. And of course, Arthur Weaner’s TAXABLES, THE LOW DUTCH SETTLEMENT OF THE CONEWAGO, York County, is still available from the Adams County, Pennsylvania, Historical Society.

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SENT BY: Paul Gregory
It completely slipped my mind to register for this year’s Dutch Cousins Gathering. I am finishing out my last year as Vice President of Administration for the Kentucky Genealogical Society (KGS) and have been very busy getting things ready to hand off. Plus, I attended IGHR at Athens, GA and the Williard Library’s Moonlight Madness in Evansville, IN…two weeklong genealogy research events.

I am curious if there are any events that I can attend simply to make contact with researchers of the Voorhies surname. My third great grandmother was Hellena Voorhies who became a Shaker at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County. I have a KGS Second Saturday event on Saturday, September 14 and would love to meet up with a Voorhies cousin.
Hopefully 2021 won’t be so busy!
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SENT BY: Iva Wilsey-NM
Thnx for the information.
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SENT BY: Sharon Leezer
Where do we send a donation?
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SENT BY: Dr. Edward Westerfield

DUTCH MARKERS: How much do you need to get your goal? I’ll pay the difference. Let me know.

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SENT BY: “Connie”
THANK YOU! I very much enjoyed reading this newsletter.
I did not know this info before and find it fascinating history!

Having many of my Coovert’s from the area mentioned, I can feel & understand their past better.
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SENT BY: Pam Hastings Carlisle <pcarlisle55@yahoo.com>
Subject: Newsletter

Message Body:
From Jonesboro, AR.

My family line :
Mary Polly Banta Ellis Hastings (1802-1869) David Hendrick Banta (1771-1844) Hendrick Banta ‘Thé Exhorter’ (1718-1805) Hendrick Banta (1696-1740) Deacon HE Banta I (1655-1740) Epke Jacobse Banta (1619-1684) Jacob Epkesz Banta (1600-1656)
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SENT BY: Sharon & King Cole, Dutch “Silent Auction” chairpersons:
Bring items for bidding to the DC 2019
Suggested Dutch inspired items:
Jewelry
Stoneware
Cookbooks
Vintage glassware
Dutch boy and girl
Tulips
Dutch items are always popular, but unique items are welcome.
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SENT BY: Carolyn (herself)
I finally found time to watch the 2015 video, with materials and narration by Vincent Akers of Indianapolis, on the history of the Low Dutch in Kentucky. The video on our webpage, www.DutchCousins.org, shows the important historic documents and names of our ancestors as they begged the Dutch Reformed classis in New Jersey to send a Dutch Speaking Domine or pastor to Kentucky. They started building the Meetinghouse and one finally came, newly ordained Domine Peter Labagh, who stayed a couple months and then went home. The group eventually defaulted to Presbyterian faith, which was most like the strict Calvinist worship they were used to.

The video is in two parts, with with the second showing amazing photos of the changes in Old Mud Meetinghouse over the more than 200 years of its life. I heard and saw the presentation in 2015 at the Dutch Cousins Gathering at the Kentucky History Center, but enjoyed the video even more this week. I encourage each cousin to watch this before coming to Kentucky. It will prepare you to absorb our heritage and add to your enjoyment at the gathering when you see with your own eyes our beloved Old Mud church. This recording was produced at the 2015 gathering, and made available by our own amazing videographer cousin, Jack “Johannes” Taylor of Kingwood Texas who brings his own equipment and donates his time to do this for us.

The reminder makes it obvious how grateful we are to the many people who donated their time and expertise to save our treasure, especially Bill Faulconer of Perryville, KY, and the Timber Framers Guild, Vince Akers who spearheaded the fund drive and donated matching funds, and every cousin who donated to save Old Mud, especially Cozine descendant Ralph Anderson, who passed away in 2010. Thank you also to Amalie Preston, Dutch Cousins Board member, who has overseen completion of the work, and is now involved in the restoration of the 1900 school house just beside the church. We consider the place ours, although it is owned by the Harrodsburg Historical Society. Each showing will keep you mesmerized for about 30 minutes.
Click on this hotlink to go to the webpage with the videos. Happy viewing! See you soon in Kentucky!

http://dutchcousins.org/oldmudmeeting/

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SENT BY: Darren Westerfield

Carolyn,
If it was your team that re-posted all of my Westerfield info, thank you. In addition, I’d like to be an on-line resource, if needed, during the reunion for any Westerfield inquires. I have so much info even going back to Lubbert with a manifest that lists all Dutch families that were shipping out of New Jersey in what I believe was the early 1640’s maybe, (correction?), on the same ship as my line.

(REPLY: our Dutch Cousins president, Charlie Westerfield, had an expert team that worked on the markers and they still had quite a challenge agreeing on the wordage and getting the wording approved by the Kentucky Historical committee. There is a lot of information out there that has been shared between the descendants over the years and I don’t know where all it came from since I am not a Westerfield. Have you read the two massive articles about this massacre that was published in the Bluegrass Roots within the last year? They may also be linked somewhere on our website if you want to look: www.DutchCousins.org) And BTW you are not on the mailing list because we only have an email. Please send complete contact info to stay on the list.

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SENT BY: Denise M. Perry
About the print newsletters. We only have 16 left that are available to address and send.

I have 5 that came back to me but nothing was stamped on them by the post office, no forwarding address. I’m thinking they messed up and sent them to the return address.
They are:
Lynda Passiglia
Michelle Batsford
Frank and PHyllis Cooper
Annie Tobin
Bill and Margaret Shalter
Still no addresses on Darren Westerfield or Beth Hatcher.

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SENT BY:
My name is Ernie Borgoyne and my wife is Kathy (Banta) Borgoyne. Kathy is the 5th Great Grandaughter of Henry Banta, Patriot and leader of the migration to Kentucky.

I’ve become very fascinated with Kathy’s family ever since we visited Amsterdam about a year ago. A simple search on Ancestry quickly took me back to Friesland and I was hooked! When I realized Henry was a Patriot, I got my two Grandsons registered at SAR, and I became almost obsessed! Especially about his involvement as a member of the committee of observation–which I never heard of before. I’m now dabbling in a Historical Novel going back to the arrival of Epke Jacobse (Banta), shedding some interesting historical light along the way.

Kathy and I will be visiting Henry’s cabin near Gettysburgh this September, as we travel from Pittsburgh (my home town) to Philadelphia.

Looking forward to some interesting letters from the community, and sharing what I learn going forward.

Sincerely,
Ernie and Kathy Borgoyne
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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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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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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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(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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Letters 8/18/19

It’s Time to Shine! (and send in your registration)

SENT BY: Carolyn LeonardDeadline for DUTCH COUSINS 2019 registration (Sept 12-16 in Kentucky) with tee-shirt and FREE matching bag is just HOURS 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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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: JANICE COZINE, Dutch Cousins Treasurer and registration chair
Hello Cousins!!
Time is running out to meet the August 20th deadline.You can still register after the deadline but you will not be able to order a t-shirt or receive a FREE matching tote, after this date.We love wearing our shirts for our photos but we also love having YOU join us for this great event!The hotel discounts are drawing near the end as well.Please check out your options and RSVP soon.The Bus Excursion is almost full, only 5 seats left.First come first serve !If we have a lot more cousins wanting to go, I ‘MAY’ be able to get a smaller bus but there is no guarantee a bus will be available on this short notice.  If you miss the bus, you will be able to drive and follow behind the bus, but you will also miss the narration during our drive.Let me know if you prefer to drive yourself OR would be interested in riding a smaller bus. I would have to let you know the cost, but it would not be more than $25.00.Steve & Charlie are also planning a fabulous lunch spot on the tour. You’re going to really enjoy it!Please get your registration forms in SOON, so you can be a part of this wonderful event!We need to finalize everything that’s going on to put this ‘gathering’ together, just for you!So…let’s make our plans to attend the “2019 Dutch Cousins Gathering” now!
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SENT BY: Barbara Whiteside
I have the name in my family lines but there are a couple that I am aware of on my facebook site for DUTCH COUSINS IN KENTUCKY that are from that family. Also am aware of some on the new DNA site for COLONIAL DUTCH AMERICANS.   If she is interested in following any of those sites, be glad to help.
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SENT BY: Laurie (Vanausdle) Shaffer – Ohio
I see in the current newsletter that “Emily Welches – IN – Vanarsdall”  is listed. If you please, would you provide me with her email address. When I was a child, my Dad Hubert Vannausdle/Vanausdle, Uncle Emmett Vannausdal and I went to a Vanarsdall (sp?) funeral to somewhere in KY (do not know first name). So possibly Emily is a relative. The funeral must have been important as my family rarely traveled out of the state So many ways to spell my maiden name!
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SENT BY: Tim Brown
I want to be on the list! Van cleave descendant.
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SENT BY: Charles Vanorsdale
Several years ago, I published some material on the Conewago settlement in The Vanguard. Here is an excerpt of one article that appeared in the December 2002 issue. (I will send a copy of the 1765 Conewago deed to Abraham Van Arsdale later.)
Charles Vanorsdale

The migration to Conewago, the community near present-day Gettysburg, PA in Adams (then York) County was discussed in the first Vanguard (vol. I, no. 1, p. 1). Although they were among the first to settle the Dutch colony, the van Aersdalen family’s migration appears to have taken place not en masse, but over a ten year period.

In the article “The Voorhees Family and the Low Dutch Colony of Conewago” (Van Voorhees Nieuwsbrief, Vol. 20, no. 1, p. 9), Larry Michael Voreis states, “The movement to the western frontier started in 1730 when the Governor of Virginia offered inducements to attract settlers to the Shenandoah Valley. Land speculators were hired to circulate among the New Jersey Dutch and Pennsylvania German settlements, using the lure of large quantities of cheap farm land to start the migration to Virginia.”  (He is talking about OUR Dutch cousin Larry Voreis here)

Another source (Frederick County, Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley, 1730-1830, Wilmer Kerns, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1995: pp. 6-9) adds that father and son John and Isaac Van Meter, Dutchmen from the Western Precinct of New Jersey, petitioned the Governor of Virginia for 20,000 acres of land to settle their families plus at least ten more. They were told that they could have 40,000 acres if they could settle 200 families along the Shenandoah River. German Jost Hite was brought into the picture to help attract German settlers, and the Van Meters eventually reassigned their grants to Hite in 1731. “In the wake of the movement to Virginia, settlers from New Jersey were drawn to the settlement of York , located astride the Great Wagon Road that led west from Philadelphia, forded the Susquehanna and passed through the settlement at York before crossing the Appalachians and turning south toward Hagerstown, eventually entering the Shenandoah Valley at Frederick Town (later Winchester, Virginia)” (Voreis, p. 9).

Additionally, researcher Judy Cassidy notes that in the Somerset County Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 430 there is a discussion of the “Depression of 1765” which impacted New Jersey residents and agitated a movement from the area. This depression resulted from a “scarcety of circulating cash, the failing of the last summer and winter crops, the severe and consuming hard winter” in addition to escalating debt, depressed property values, and the rising rate of debtor imprisonment. A petition was created, addressed to Governor William Franklin, and signed mainly by inhabitants of Bridgewater Township, Somerset County. Those signing the petition included George Davis, Abraham Dubois, Folkert Sebring, and Stoffel Probasco, among those with identified ties to the Van Arsdalen line.

In the early- to mid-1760s, brothers Cornelis4, Johannis4 and Isaac4 van Aersdalen (sons of Jan3 Cornelisz) were in the Shepherdstown, VA (now WV) area, apparently scouting for great-uncle Jacobus Vander Veer. (Jacobus was a wealthy man in part due to his acumen in land speculation. His will, proved February 17, 1777 {NJW 539R, Lib. 18, pp. 559 & 588} enumerated the disposition of over 1800 acres of land in New Jersey and about 1000 acres of land in Virginia, in addition to a number of lots, tracts, and houses. Two of his sons, Jacob and Lawrence, lived in Berkeley County in the late 1700s.) Only 50 miles to the north lay the fertile rolling hills of the Conewago area, already populated by the Scotch-Irish and the Swiss-Germans. Coupled with the enticement to settle the Virginia-Kentucky frontier by Hite and the Van Meters and the depressed economy in New Jersey, the favorable reports from the van Aersdalen brothers were eagerly received. Around 1766 (based on church records), the three brothers and their cousins Cornelis4, Simon4 and Abraham4 van Aersdalen (sons of Simon3 Cornelisz) headed to Conewago, possibly with the patriarch Simon Cornelisz, then almost 70 years old, at the head of the family migration.
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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson, Our own Dutch research specialist!
Greetings Dutch Cousins,
As you may know, many members of our Dutch families participated in the American Revolutionary War.
Some served on the battlefront with the Local Militia or the Continental Line.
Others, due to age, health or religious reasons, served by furnishing supplies like food, clothing and blankets.
From their hometowns, some people kept the local government running and cared for the needs of the family members whose sons, husbands, and fathers where off fighting for our freedom and Independence.
The Daughters of the American Revolution recognizes four distinct categories of service, those mentioned above as well as individuals who signed petitions or oaths of allegiance as Patriotic Service.
On the Dutch Cousins website is a listing of Dutch Surnames. Using that listing, a review was made of the DAR Database of Patriots whose service and lineage has been verified and proven by DAR standards. This DAR listing, of Patriots with Dutch Surnames, has been narrowed to include only families with some link to New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and/or Kentucky.
Should you like to see if your family member is among those already recognized through DAR for their service in the ARW, the list will be available at the Gathering this September.———————————————————

SENT BY: Carolyn Herself.
This is about another opportunity for the cousins. Perhaps the group will want to vote to accept this as another project. FOUR Revolutionary War Vets buried here. We placed a memorial marker for two of them at Old Mud because at that time no one wanted to be responsible for the cemetery.
There is a small abandoned cemetery between Harrodsburg and Danville with a dozen or so family burials, that include at least FOUR Revolutionary war vets. It was originally called the Cove Spring graveyard, sometimes called the DeMotte burials, but more recently called the Banta cemetery. I’ve written about it before in Dutch Letters. (Why is it called Banta if no Bantas are there?) The graves are hidden in weeds and trash.

If the cousins vote to take this on, we have a new cousin named Greg Barnard who is volunteering to chair the project. He is a DeMotte descendant (8th great grandson of Lawrence DeMotte) and has already spent about $400 of his own money on cleaning, as I understand it. He wants to clean up and fence this place now overgrown with weeds. He has met with the property owner five times. The owner agreed to mow it with the rest of his yard, once it is cleared. The project needs sponsorship and donations. Barnard contacted the Kentucky Heritage Council. They agreed to visit the site and ground-scan for remains in unmarked places. They would then designate it a Kentucky Pioneer Cemetary since Lawrence DeMotte (Rev. Vet) was buried there in 1800. Lawrence and Peter Demott both fought at Battles of Monmouth and Springfield, NJ side by side.
It will cost over $1,000 to finish what I cannot do. You can see it on FindaGrave here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1448537/memorial-search
According to my records, here are the known 17 burials:

Lawrence Demott d 1800 (born 1719 NY) Rev. War Vet (Wife Dorothy Vanderbeek/Verbryke)
Peter Demott d 1832 (son of Lawrence, born NJ 1758) Rev. War Vet (wife Mary TERHUNE)
John (Johannes) DeMott 1813 (husband of Antje Cozine)(son of Lawrence, born NJ 1759)
Anna Demott d 1812 a child age 14 (daughter of Peter and Mary)
J.J. McDonald d 1819 age 14
Jane Terhune (Terhune?) d 1825
John Gritton, SR d 1839 (Father of Jesse) Rev. War Vet
George Terhune d 1853 (infant son of Runoff and Paulina (DeMott) Terhune (Paulina is dau of Peter)
Anna (Cozine, DeMotte) Gritton d 1854 (Wife of John DeMott and Jesse Terhune)
Martha Terhune d 1855 infant dau of Runoff and Paulina (DeMott) Terhune (Paulina is dau of Peter)
Jesse Gritton d 1857 (husband of Antje/Anne Cozine DeMott)
Mary Terhune Demott d 1862 (dau of Garret Terhune, wife of Peter DeMott)
Garret Demott age 10 son of Peter Demott and Mary Terhune) died 1813
James Terhune (dates of b & d unknown)
Margaret Vannice (dates of b & d unknown)
Maj. William VerBryck 1737-1824 prob.brother of Dorothy Verbryke Demott) Rev. War Vet

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SENT BY: Carolyn
Haven’t heard from cousin Rodney Dempsey. He is usually the first to register, and thanks to his influence, we were able to get the KSU site for our meeting this year. I know he has had some health issues, can anyone give us an update?
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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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Letters 8/28/19

EXCITEMENT is building! THE COUSINS are coming.

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 Leonard
Deadline for DUTCH COUSINS 2019 registration (Sept 12-16 in Kentucky) with tee-shirt and FREE matching bag is PAST! But you can still register and come! 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.

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: Neal Underwood
This year will be my first for the Low Dutch Reunion. I am something of an outlier, descended from the Andrew Shuck line. We don’t believe they were actually Dutch, as in Low Dutch. The earliest we have evidence is about 1762 near what is now Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He and family later migrated with the Low Dutch to Kentucky where he and sons had tracts. We have no hard evidence as to where he came from or why he allied with the Dutch. Speculation is that his origin was German. He may have originally been with the Brethren aka Dunkers.

I have written up what we know about him and family and put it on a website. Some of the text may ramble a bit. My website has been bounced around over the years due to flaky web hosting companies. That makes it difficult to maintain rankings on Google searches. The most recent one decided to block about half my pages, for reasons they would not tell me. Some words they did not like but they’re a secret. On a genealogy website. Go figure.

I have uploaded the pages to a new website which hopefully will remain fully intact for a while. TheAndrew Shuck section begins at:

http://nealsgenealogy.byethost7.com/shandrew.htm

I have more extensive descendants offline. Some of his children married into the Dutch descendants (Duree and Banta) Other children married Baptiste, Tharp, Young and Poland/Polen.

At this point, I suspect we will never know his origins. The documentation just doesn’t seem to be there. But if anybody has some insights (or corrections), I would certainly be interested. I haven’t worked on this for a number of years now so am rusty.

Looking forward to meeting the Cousins.

Neal Underwood
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BY: Mary Wardlow Bermke
I would like to be signed up for the newsletter. Thanks so much.

My sister Pat Mickunas and I are sending in our registrations today. Can’t wait to meet you and all of our cousins.
Mary Bermke

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SENT BY: Hello Carolyn, Jerry Jones here. We met some yrs. past in Danville, KY. Was doing a genealogy B&B at that time and had a good number of genealogy materials on hand in our gift shop. Years later we still have a few things that might be of interest to your genealogy folks. [like coffee mugs, key chains, t-shirts, etc…] You are welcome to stop by when in the area for your meetings, and see if you would like to get a hold of some genealogy things. Jerry [My # 859-583-2053]
stopped the B&B some 5 yrs ago. Almost 15 yrs, having > 3,000 folks give us a visit. Have had genealogy stuff since closing the B&B, and it now just sets around collecting dust. Still doing my genealogy. A far ways back it goes! Have had MS the past 13 yrs. or so, and it presents some special challenges. Don’t know if you will be close to Danville but if so, stop by and say hello. Jerry

(NOTE FROM CAROLYN) THE COUSINS ARE COMING TO KENTUCKY! We will be in Harrodsburg Sunday the 15th of Sept and Monday the 16th. You should come up for the Old Mud Meetinghouse event at 2 pm on Sunday! Send me a list of what you have for sale.)
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SENT BY: Cynthia VannAusdall

My name is Cynthia VannAusdall (the one who spells it Funny). I have not attended a Gathering in quite a while but am excited about being able to attend this one.
I live in Hardin County, Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I am not going to be able to come over until early Friday morning. Would that be too late to do a family table?
My last table was at the 2015 Gathering. I can send you the pictures from that Gathering, I tend not to do family charts.
You will not hurt my feelings if Friday morning is too late or if what I do is not what you have in mind.
Soooo looking forward to this.

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SENT BY: L.[Leo] H. Schreuders

Maybe, I can contribute a bit from the Netherlands.
I added to the mail my article in de Halve Maen about the origins of what I call the Golden Age Emigrants to New Netherland, as well as a lengthier paper on the same subject.
I visited the NNI conferences.
In the summer of 2012 my wife and travelled on a route along the DRF churches in the Hudson Valley and NJ.

If you feel the need of additional info on the places of origin don’t hesitate to call on me through the mail.

Hartelijke Groet Leo Schreuders
Bilthoven

L.[Leo] H. Schreuders MBA, CPA
The Netherlands
(NOTE FROM CAROLYN – these articles are so interesting I want to share these two, but not sure if the mailing service will send out. If not attached, I will ask Pam to post on website.)
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SENT BY: Ernie Burgoyne
Hi Carolyn,

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.

Regards,
Ernie Borgoyne
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SENT BY: Pam Ellingson
Westerfield Cousins- We will have poster set up at the gathering in September. Please bring a copy of your Westerfield ancestry or other items that you want to add to the display.
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SENT BY: Our VP Tamara Fulkerson (TLWFulkerson@aol.com) volunteered to take on the job of chair of History Displays. Just remember to think vertical because of space limitations!

Hi Carolyn, Sorry to bother you again; but just found out Dana is no longer in charge of the family tables. I spoke with Cynthia VannAusdall and she is wanting to make sure her table is reserved and Renee and I would like to have one as well if there is still room. Could you please pass this along? I do not know who is in charge now. Thank you, Emily Welches

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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: Janice CozineTHE BUS IS FULL!
I just had a thought …..
Steve is not booked.

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Letters 8/29/2019

Family Heritage Displays

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY IN A DISPLAY.
Register for the Dutch Cousins Family History display contest. Please email your Name, Dutch Family Name and the Title of your display to Tamara at tlwfulkerson@aol.com

For ideas, Go here to the Dutch Cousins webpage to see more displays from previous years: http://dutchcousins.org/photo-albums/

Over the years, one of the most favored parts of our Dutch Cousins Reunions has been our Family Heritage Displays. They are always educational and entertaining. So let’s get creative and please register with Tamara Fulkerson to reserve table space for your family heritage display. Please email your Name, Dutch Family Name and the Title of your display to Tamara at TLWFulkerson@aol.com .

**Someone will win this beautiful family heritage photo tree.**

Everyone who enters will receive a certificate, and a panel of judges will choose the Best Display 2019 award. The award is a very special surprise this year and we hope to have lots of participation. Space is always limited, so your display needs to be:
FREESTANDING
FOCUSED
CONCISE
THINK VERTICAL
HANDOUTS ARE ALWAYS A PLUS
See examples of previous displays here and on the Dutch Cousins webpage.
Table set up begins Thursday, Sept. 12^th at 3:00 pm and takedown needs to be completed by 12:00 noon on Saturday, Sept. 14^th.

Family Heritage Displays

Please register with Tamara Fulkerson to reserve space for your family heritage display. Please email
YOUR Name,
YOUR Dutch Family Name and the
Title of your display to
Tamara at tlwfulkerson@aol.com .

Table set up begins Thursday Sept. 12th at 3:00pm and take down needs to be completed by 12:00 noon on Saturday Sept. 14th.

Tamara Lee Fulkerson, Vice President of the Dutch Cousins, is a COZINE descendant, a member of the Filson Historical Society, and a native of Oldham County Kentucky. She is a freelance make-up artist for the advertising and entertainment industries and is an IATSE 798 Journeyman.

After working more than 30 years in the film industry and pushing for passage of tax incentives in Kentucky, Tamara serves as an Ex-Officio member of the Kentucky Film Commission. She has worked as an advisor, director, and juror on several Kentucky based film festivals. She has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky and volunteers as an alumnae advisor for Delta Zeta. She attained sustainer for the Junior League of Louisville and has served on the boards of Oldham County Dollars for Scholars, Arts Association of Oldham County and is a founding board member of Lights…Camera…Kentucky!

Tamara is a member of the DAR John Marshall Chapter, the Dutch Cousins, and the Generous Women Giving Circle.

She is married to David and they have 3 children. She found Dutch Cousins through the discovery of her 2x great grandmother’s name – Frances Octavia Cozine.

We are very proud to have Tamara as Vice President 2018 & 2019 of Dutch Cousins of Kentucky.

Letters 9/1/2019

See who’s registered already!

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
Deadline for DUTCH COUSINS 2019 registration (Sept 12-16 in Kentucky) with tee-shirt and FREE matching bag is past! You can still register and come. 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. IF YOU CAN ONLY COME ONE DAY – JUST FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION AND COME! It will be a day you won’t forget. We will make you mighty welcome! 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.

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: CAROLYN (herself):
I’ve had computer problems this month which makes me crazier than usual! So if your Dutch Letter has not made it into the mailings quickly I apologize. jThank you for your patience. We have bought three or four new router/modems and I think I finally have one that works! Highly recommend the Motorola MG7550 combo (unless it suddenly quits on me!) Also bought a new MacBook Pro laptop to add to the two desktops on my desk that seem to be non-working. One is just 3 years old (5 months out of warranty of course). It’s been frustrating experience so thank you for hanging in here with me.——————————————————————

SENT BY: Beverly DeMotte Santella
I may make an impromptu visit in September, if that’s okay? I am 6 generations removed form Lawrence DeMotte making him my 4x great-grandfather. I have some responsibilities that I haven’t quite figured out yet in terms of coverage in September. If an “impromptu registration” is acceptable, I’ll pay any daily fee(s). Please let me know ASAP. Also, I am unclear about what the family table display(?) for the the Dutch Cousins reunion is all about. Are there any photos of past displays or simply a list of suggestions and/or do’s and don’ts?  On another matter, I have been reading with great interest about the DeMotte/Banta cemetery dilemma. Did I miss the manner in which we’re to make donations for the repair and upkeep of the cemetery? I have quite a few DeMotte cousins here in Pennsylvania that I might convince to donate but I need specifics on to whom and how funds are to be sent. For example, is there a specific bank account or do these funds funnel through Dutch Cousins? Apologies if I glossed over these details, and if so for the inconvenience of the repetition.  Looking forward to someday meeting the Cousins, Beverly DeMotte Santella——————————————————————

SENT BY: Lilly Martin
Here 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
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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson
I would be very spportive of taking the DeMott/Banta Cove Springs Cemetery on as a Dutch Cousinsproject. Looked through by merger Dutch notes, and like you, can’t find a Banta among those families who werelaid to rest at that site.My family conncection to this Cemetery is through the Grittons, John and his son Jesse. We are relatedto Jesse’s first wife, Sarah Brumfield. After her death Jesse married the widow Anna Cozine DeMotte.John/Johnannes DeMott, her husband, died 1812 – 1813, leaving his widow with seven children.The marriage bond, dated 1 Nov 1819, lists on the bond Jesse Gritton and Lawrence DeMott. Lawrence ismost likely Anna’s father-in-law and the Patriot also buried at this Cemetery. Could you please check to see if prehaps the following is a typo–?”Anna (Cozine, DeMotte) Gritton d 1854 (Wife of John DeMott and Jesse Terhune).” I think this is probablyJesse Gritton not Terhune. (says the lady that doesn’t know how to return the script back to …whatever it was!) Thanks for all you do…. really enjoy receiving the updates and all the new information.
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SENT BY: Judy Cassidy
You have permission to publish the fact that my book, The History of Low Dutch Slavery from New Netherland to Kentucky and Beyond is now available both in Kindle and Paper back form on Ancestry. I have also donated copies to the Library at the Harrodsburg His. Society, Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, Henry County Historical Society, The Filson Club and Camp Nelson Historical Monument Libraries. Wish I was was able to join the Cousins at the reunion but am unable to travel that distance.
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SENT BY: Janice Cozine
Hello Cousins!!Our deadline has passed for ordering t-shirts but I will order a few extras to have on hand and hopefully have your size.But….It’s not too late for you to ‘REGISTER’!!One day or 4 days, we would love for you to be a part of this exciting weekend, to learn and share YOUR family stories, photos & history.If you were at past gatherings you know how much fun we have.If you haven’t been in a while or have never been in the past, we would love to see you. Still time to catch the bus excursion , but we only have  4 seats left !!Remember……first come first serve. Listed below is an updated list of Cousins that have already registered..Is ‘YOUR’ name on the list?
Looking forward to seeing you, Janice Cozine
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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson
Wow… that piece read quite well! Thanks Editor-in-Chief!and thanks for the plug for the Banta/Demott Cemetery.Greg and I have been in contact since I was looking for Jesse Gritton. I have an older picture of his marker and thedeterioration is “remarkable.” That’s better than saying “bad.” I emailed Greg to tell him that I would pull together information onthe families buried there, if he would like. No…. didn’t. I just told him I would.So next email will be to “ask” him. I was planning on a visit to the Cemetery probably Monday afternoon.We are staying in Harrodsburg through Tuesday and returning homeWed. That will give us more time with family there. Cousin Wendellis still hanging on but not eating. I talked with his wife Joyce yesterday. any word on the schedule? Husband Dave and my brother Mike are planning a “side trip” to Memphis to see some art display. Are you smiling?They are leaving me in Kentucky…. with a car! I my just head out to Stamping Ground and sit under a tree. Or to the Church on non-Dutchfamily built in Mayo. The cousins we visit live within walking distance onthe original family farm. Their children still farm the land. have a blessed day Carolyn. Thanks again for all you do!
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SENT BY: Pat Settles
Hi Jance, It was meeting you by phone this morning! I greatly appreciate the information re Dutch Cousins that you provided me and am looking forward to meeting the group!As I mentioned to you, I am related on both sides to surnames listed on the Old Mud Meetinghouse group of Dutch settlers. My 4th great-grandmother was Maria Lammerts Dorlandt, and my 4th great-grandfather was Jacob Sortore/Sartore. Thank you very much again for the information and look forward to meeting you at the Old Mud Meetinghouse on Sunday, September 15.
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SENT BY: Janice cozine, registration chair
Hello Cousins!!Our deadline has passed for ordering t-shirts but I will order a few extras to have on hand and hopefully have your size.But….It’s not too late for you to ‘REGISTER’!!One day or 4 days, we would love for you to be a part of this exciting weekend, to learn and share YOUR family stories, photos & history.If you were at past gatherings you know how much fun we have.If you haven’t been in a while or have never been in the past, we would love to see you.  Listed below is an updated list of Cousins that have already registered..Is ‘YOUR’ name on the list?

Looking forward to seeing you, Janice Cozine
DC Treasurer &Registration Chair

NAMES	STATE	FAMILY NAMES	COUNT
Sherron & Logan Westerfield	KY	Westerfield	2
Greg Barnard	KY	Demott	1
Anne Tangeman	IN	Van Voorhees	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 & Ritchey Brown	KY	Visitor	2
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 & John Gohmann	IN	Banta	2
Derek Westerfield	KY	Westerfield	1
Cynthia VannAusdall	KY	VannAusdall	1
Tamara Fulkerson	KY	Cozine	1
Metcalf, Sharon, Carrie & Jamie Khiani	KY	Cozine	3
Tom & Shelia Westerfield	IL	Westerfield	2
Dr. Julia Norton	CA	Kephart	1
Patricia Childs	KY	Van Ardsdale	1
Jean Pollard	AR	Westerfield	1
Dawn & David Knezic	MI	Banta	2
Malcolm & Betty Banta	FL	Banta	2
Gene Heathcoat & Ellen Cheshire	TX	Duree	2
Neal Underwood	IL	Shuck	1
Tom & Caroline Payne	KY	Westerfield	2
Kathleen & Corey Westerfield	IA	Westervelt	2
Jerry Westerfield	KY	Westerfield	1
Jen Mayes Harris	KY	Durie	1
Russell & Maria Gasero	NJ	Dutch Archives	2
TOTAL AS OF August 25	74

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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, 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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Letters 9/10/2019

2019 Dutch Cousin board members & officers
say WELCOME!

Last minute info for the Cousins!

SEE YOU this THURSDAY Sept 12,-16, 2019 in KENTUCKY! (That’s really soon!)
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 Leonard
You can still come. We will make you quite welcome. DUTCH COUSINS 2019 begins in just three days – Sept 12-16 in Kentucky .Go here to download a registration blank and bring it with you, or show up and Janice will do the work! 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.

IF YOU CAN ONLY COME ONE DAY – JUST FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION AND COME! It will be a day you won’t forget.

We have cousins registered FROM NINETEEN STATES so far. 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.

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: Dutch Cousins President Charlie Westerfield can’t: I wait to welcome the cousins to his state next week! He wants it known that his priorities in life are God, Country, and Family.

PLEASE GO TO www.dutchcousins.org, look under documents, TO REVIEW THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING (2017), ND THE TREASURER’S REPORT, THE BYLAWS AND OTHER INFORMATION. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR OBJECTIONS PLEASE HIT REPLY AND LET US KNOW NOW. WE WILL VOTE TO APPROVE AT THE BUSINESS MEETING IF THERE ARE NO CORRECTIONS OR CHANGES.

President’s message Charlie Westerfield, I look forward to seeing all of our cousins (family), the dedication of the Historical markers (Country – and what sacrifices it took to settle this great nation), dedicating Bro. Claude’s marker (family – recognizing a great guy, veteran, and a man that loved the Lord. Tthis will be 1:30 P.M. Sunday), and once again worshipping God in the Old Mud Meeting House (what an accomplishment Old Mud is for the community and our Dutch Cousins.)

Cousins, please email any items you would like to have included in Friday’s Business Meeting Agenda to charlie@charliewesterfield.com ASAP to add to the agenda. The minutes of previous meeting, treasurers report, bylaws, organizational meeting minutes, and 2019 biz agenda are posted on the webpage: www.DutchCousins.org under documents.

See you there,
Charlie
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SENT BY: Kathy Van Every
I’d really appreciate being added to your mailing list. Here is my contact information:
I am the 5th great granddaughter of Major William Verbryck. I understand that there is someone wanting to clean up the burial site of Major Verbryck and others in the old Banta cemetery? If so, can you please forward my contact information as I’d like to help out.
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SENT BY: Lynn Rogers YOU NEED THESE ADDRESSES!!
From: Carolyn Leonard editor234@gmail.com
Subject: Helpful addresses
Date: September 7, 2019 at 10:54 PM
Lynn Rogers put this helpful address list together, you might want to make copies for the cousins from outer states (like
Okies and Texans). Thanks Lynn, good job. Janice just told me yesterday that we are not AT KSU, Benson Ag is about 10
miles from KSU. nOH shoot I’ve been saying every LETTERS we would be at KSU.
Helpful addresses for DC19, Sept 12,13,14,&15, 2019
Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building,
1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601
From Mile Marker 53 on I-64, go south on US-127
S/Lawrenceburg Rd for 4 miles, turn left onto Mills Lane (at
Shell station) and go 1.5 miles ;; turn right at 1525 Mills Ln into
Harold R. Benson Research and Demonstration Farm.
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19 th Hole Restaurant & Bright Leaf Golf Resort
1742 Danville Road, US 127; Harrodsburg, KY 40330
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Old Mud Meeting House & Cemetery
736 Dry Branch Road; Harrodsburg, KY
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Directions From: 19TH Hole Restaurant; 1742 Danville Rd (US
127), Harrodsburg, KY 40330; (859) 734-0509 ;; To: Old Mud;
736 Dry Branch Road; Harrodsburg, Kentucky ;; 4 mi/ 8 min
1. Head southeast on US-127 S/Danville Rd toward Brightleaf
Dr, go 0.1 mi
2. Take the 1st left onto Billy Horn Ln, go 0.1 mi
3. Take the 1st left toward US-127 N/Danville Rd, go 0.1 mi
4. Take the 1st right onto US-127 N/Danville Rd, go 1.6 mi
5. Turn left onto Sparrow Ln, go 2.1 mi
5. Turn left onto Sparrow Ln, go 2.1 mi
6. Turn right onto Dry Branch Rd, Destination will be on the left.
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Directions from Harrodsburg to Old Mud:
From US 127 go west/southwest on US 68;;
After about 0.1 mile, bear slightly left to remain on US 68;;
After about 1.0 mile, turn left (south) onto Dry Branch Road;;
After about 1.5 mi, Old Mud will be on the right.
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Harrodsburg Historical Society
220 South Chiles St., Harrodsburg, KY 40330
Old Fort Harrod St Pk,
100 S College St, Harrodsburg, KY 4033
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SENT BY: Tamara Fulkerson –
It’s not too late to sign up! Send your info to Tamara at TLWFulkerson (at) aol (dot) com

                Pam Ellingson – Westerfield
                Larry Vorheis – Low Dutch Migration from Drenthe to Kentucky: An account of the Voreis branch of the Van Voorhees family, 1660-1780.
                Cynthia VannAusdall – Van Arsdalen How Do You Spell That?
                Russell Gasero – RCA Archives
                Lynn Stenberg – The New York Settlement in Auburn from Owasco
                Emily Welches –
                Alice Bratcher –
                Patricia Knapke – Vincent Robins and Charity Ryker
                Tamara Fulkerson – Frances Octavia Cozine    (I am participating but do not want to be in the running for the award)
                Charlotte Olson – DAR   (needs wall space for a tree

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SENT BY: Susan “Sue” Nease (who collected the material and put together the booklet in 2011 on the 35 Dutch Veterans we honored and placed markers for at the Old Mud Meetinghouse graveyard. She gave permission and Pam Ellingson, our webmaster, has scanned and placed the booklet up on our website.)

Hi Carolyn

No, I haven’t been active in the Dutch Cousins since I wrote the booklet in 2011.

My elderly parents moved up north so that I could help them in 2012. My mom died in 2015 and my 94 year old father and his blind diabetic dog live with us now. They keep me pretty busy.

We just sold our 3 story house this summer and downsized to a ranch and we also have a winter home in Florida that we go back and forth to.

We now have 8 grandchildren and 1 great granddaughter that we try to visit as often as we can. They’re spread out across the USA in Alameda CA, Norman OK, Greensburg PA and Brooklyn NY.

So life has gotten quite a bit more complicated than it was back in 2011 when I had time to write the booklet and be involved in things. I’m afraid I’ve had to cut back on fun stuff like the Dutch Cousins in favor of family commitments.

I so enjoyed the experience of writing the booklet and meeting up with the Cousins in Gettysburg that summer! You are a fun bunch! Say hi to all of them for me.

Sincerely – Sue

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SENT BY: Joseph Jomes
When your group was here two years ago, I attended Vince’s lecture and then the Dutch Reformed service. I had written a paper, mostly plagiarized from Vince, who generously helped me copy his material, for two local journal clubs, and meeting him in person was a treat.

I am happy to pay the registration fee, but I will probably only have time for Vince’s lecture, again, and the service again. I hope that it will be OK for me to show up and give you a check on Friday, if I can make it.

At the last lecture, one of the cousins from South Carolina, whose name I cannot locate right now, had brought copies of a pamphlet with his on-going research on the Van Meters (my ancestors) and some of their connections. I will locate the pamphlet and hope to see him again.
I’d be grateful to learn that nobody will care if I appear, even though not formally registered.

Joe
(Joseph R. Jones, PhD)
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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
Jon and I are almost all packed. We fly east early in the morning. Can’t wait to see everyone.

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SENT BY: Please kindly add me to your Dutch Cousins mailing list. Many thanks,
Gerald M Haslam

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SENT BY:I am not sure about when Pat, Mary and I should arrive in Frankfort, on Thursday
What is the first thing we will/would be involved in.
Thanks
alice ramer rice bratcher
NOTE FROM CAROLYN – COME AT 6:30 UNLESS YOU ARE A CHAIRMAN AND OFFICER SETTING UP FOR THE EVENT, (OR WANT TO HELP SET UP TABLES!) THOSE COME AT 3:30.
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SENT BY: Carolyn
Not registered for Dutch Cousins Gathering yet?
What are you waiting for? It is NOT TOO LATE!
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,
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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Dutch Cousins 2019 Itinerary

Dutch Cousins 2019 (Schedule)

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

(in background) Slide show of past Gatherings

Dinner on your own or box lunches for workers (pre-ordered)

6:30 Greet and meet your cousins.

Friday Sept 13, 2019

8:30 Coffee & registration KSU

9:00 Family History Tables, Silent Auction items, book displays & Tee Shirts

9:45 Meeting begins, flag ceremony and introductions

Welcome to Kentucky (Senator Whitney Westerfield)

(Miss America – Heather French Henry)

10:45 Dr. Kirk W. Pomper, Director of KSU Land Grant Programs (will speak on “The Paw-Paw Story”)

11:20 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 SUGGESTION: THE DIFFERENT FAMILY GROUPS COULD MEET?

5:00 Break

6:00 Dinner Buffet – Keynote:

Flag ceremony from SAR (Revolutionary War Re-Enactors)

Steve Henry (Historical Farm Tour) 15-30 min.

Vince Ackers (Westerfield Massacre) 15-30 min.

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

11:30 Depart KSU (Promptly)

12:30 Lunch – The Parkland’s (Hosted by Texas Road House – their cost) $5.00 per person

1:15 Parklands Tour, Steve Henry historical property

2:45 Drive-by Low Dutch Station/Westerfield Journey marker

3:30 Dedicate Westerfield Massacre Historical Marker

5:30 Return to KSU

6:00 Prayer and dinner is served by (Family Affair of Salvisa KY)

6:30 Keynote speaker: Eddie Price (“The Battle Of The Blue Licks”).

“Kentucky, American Revolutionary War Battle.”

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 – Charlie Westerfield

2:00 Worship service & Communion at Old Mud Meeting House – Public Invited

speaker – RUSSELL GASERO, ARCHIVIST OF DUTCH REFORMED CHURCHES IN AMERICA, New Brunswick, NJ

Monday, Sept 16, 2019

10 till 3: Harrodsburg Historical Society

Letters 10/24/2019 The Wonderful Weekend in KY

**Laurel Auchampaugh and daughter**
**Lynne Stenberg came from New York**

What a wonderful weekend with cousins!

The names on the back of the T-shirts this year were popular:

Feel free to share these items, just credit DUTCH LETTERS (date), free genealogy round robin published by Carolyn Leonard. Anyone who wishes to be added to the mailing list, send an email to me at Editor234@gmail.com and say they would like to be on the list – and let us know their Dutch connection and contact info. Please send any pertinent info to be included in the next Letter. If you no longer wish to receive our emails, I’ll be lost, confused and probably lose sleep at night. I mean, really. I will feel like I have failed somehow. But if you really feel that way, please email Editor234@gmail.com and say, “remove me” — and I will do so immediately! (You can click the return link to MailChimp, but if they remove you I can’t put you back on – even if you beg, They won’t allow it unless you have a different email address.) I promise we do not share our mailing list with anyone, and do not publish email addresses on the list because of possible scammers.
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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard

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’s 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: Louisville Genealogical Society
I am on the board of the Louisville Genealogical Society. I would like to know if you have any members of your Low Dutch Cousins Society who live here in Louisville and who are knowledgeable regarding the Dutch immigration to this state. I think my folks would like to hear the history and genealogy of those Dutch New Englanders who moved to Kentucky; their names; notables among them; achievements; where they settled and descendants who might still reside here.

Unfortunately, our program budget cannot bear the cost for someone to come from out of state. Do you have a recommendation of a member who lives here who would be capable of making an interesting 40 to 50-minute presentation about your group and its Kentucky connections?

Thanks for your consideration.
Mel Arnold, PhD
Louisville Genealogical Society

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SENT BY: Greg Barnard (inre: The Banta/Demott/Cove Spring Cemetery)
Don Alford has cleared about half of the Banta Demott Cemetery. Will have the rest cleared by year-end. He has bought into it. He has done a lot of it himself and is proud of his work. Do not know if I will need $ from any Cousins but still have to go to Kentucky Heritage Council for Pioneer Cemetery designation when it is totally cleaned up. Do not think it will be too expensive. Regardless, I will need your expert advice as usual in the future. Hope you are doing well. Do you have the email for the Demott cousin from Pa. that you introduced me to? A nice lady. Would like to let her know about the cem also.
Greg
NOTE FROM CAROLYN: I’ll be doing a special Dutch Letters with photos of this cemetery and a list of known burials soon)

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SENT BY: Beverly DeMotte Santella (in reply to Greg)
I have been busy doing many things but one of the most interesting is digging up some more DeMotte genealogy history. Going back via Lawrence DeMotte’s wife’s line, Dorothy Vanderbeek DeMotte, has revealed some really interesting stuff. Two of her/my/your ever so great grandparents J. Rapalje and J. Cortelyou from the 1600’s directly established Brooklyn and New Utrecht respectively, 2 of the original 5 Dutch towns on Long Island. I found an article from the 1800’s that states Cat. Rapalje, Joris Rapalje’s wife, is considered a founding mother of our nation. These are just some of the findings. Fascinating stuff.

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SENT BY: Maria Neal (in re: VAN NUYS)
Good afternoon – We are one of countless families descended from an early settler (1650’s) named Van Nuys. I believe he’s Aucke Janse Van Nuys, but I don’t have the records at work.

He sailed from Holland and settled in New Amsterdam, Flatbush area. He and his descendants are documented a number of different ways throughout American history, but I’m not sure if our branch of the Van Nuys family lived in Kentucky.

Another branch of our family helped survey and pioneered in early days of Kentucky, but that ancestry was Scots-Irish.

Since Indiana is a neighboring state, and we have info about various ancestors who lived in Kentucky, would we be welcome to join you and your group sometime?

I don’t see a new date for a cousin’s gathering posted on your web site. Hope you are well.

Thanks. It was fun reading about your group!

Sincerely,

Marina Neal

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SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield, Past president and photographer
Anyone who wants to send him $10 he will send them a disk with the photos. It is almost 400 photos and enormous file, too big to email.

(NOTE FROM CAROLYN: Pam Ellingson and I are hoping to find a way to park the photos on the Dutch Cousins webpage, we hope soon. I’m trying to catch up and get back in the groove after the wonderful gathering. Pam is still trying to catch up after the DC gathering and a 3 week trip to Wales, Southwest England and Germany. —I’m jealous of her trip!)

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SENT BY: Laurel Auchampaugh, Ambassadors to Kentucky from New York

My daughter Lynne and I drove to Frankfort Kentucky to meet up with our Cosine cousins, all 23 of them on September 12 – 16. We were descendants of Rev. Cornelius Cosine, the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of Conewago. The event was called “The Low Dutch Cousins Gathering.” We also planned to represent other Owasco pioneer families who had relatives travel to Daniel Boones Territory by wagon train in 1780. They were the brothers, sisters and cousins of our Owasco pioneers. They left their relatives in Conewago Pennsylvania to become settlers in the wilderness and safety of forts and stations along the Ohio River.

There were constant Indian raids from several tribes including the capture of helpless girls and young men who were sold into bondage causing stress for all. The settlers feared taking the Indian trails where they were surrounded and killed by Indians. The Indians waited in the forest to ambush the helpless groups trying to reach the safety of the forts. Squire Boone invited the Conewago group to come and settle on his land; hoping the presence of more settlers would provide much needed added security from the Indians.

It was not to be. The Westerfield Massacre at their campsite at 3 a.m. on an early summer morning in 1780 was one of the most brutal attacks. Few people escaped to the safety of the fort five miles away. Survivors ran through the woods in the dark; one mother Maria Westerfelt hid her 3 children in a sink hole and under her skirts.. Those back at the campsite watched in horror as their families were butchered and scalped, knowing it would soon be their fate. The leader of the group was a big man by the name of Jacobus Westerfelt/Westerfield. He weighed 333 pounds and it is recorded by a survivor, the Indians thought he was a giant and three of them after his murder, put on his great coat and danced around the fire.

I realized from this history why the Owasco Pioneer families waited ten years to travel from Conewago to the “Lake Country” of Owasco , New York. Surely they had received news by letter of the constant repeated horrific Indian raids on their relatives in Kentucky. They waited until 1793 to come here. The Sullivan campaign ordered by President George Washington was to purge this area of the Native Americans who were persecuting the settlers along the Cherry Valley. Once this order was executed, the land opened up for settlement. This area was heavily forested, and Indian trails were the only roads. It is recorded the Conewago wagon train in the spring of 1793 encountered unfinished roads. On their journey north, the Owasco pioneers would stop and help clear the stumps in sections to open up the roads so the wagons could travel on.In Kentucky, our group took a Bus Tour on Monday the 15^th of September to participate in the dedication and unveiling of a historic marker on the Westerfield Massacre site sponsored by the Dutch Cousins Organization. There were many Westerfields on the bus including the President of the Dutch Cousins Organization, Charlie Westerfield. I could not help but think of their history and heritage as we traveled the route his family took so long ago.

There were 19 states represented on the bus, 80 cousins for the “Gathering”. We called out our location and during the “Sharing” time, I went forward and recited my poem about the building of the Owasco Reformed Church called “That Old Tree”. Lynne and I represented so many families. I thought of the Van Arsdale, Stryker, Covert, Conover, Loyster, Voorhees, Duryea and Cosine families of Conewago, Pennsylvania, Owasco, New York and Harrodstown, Kentucky. I was reminded of the old Carter family ballad “Will the circle be unbroken? By and by Lord, By and by.”

Yes, the circle was complete.

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SENT BY: Laurel Auchampaugh

That Old Tree (This is the poem Laurel read on the bus tour)

Read at The ”Homecoming” of the Owasco Reformed Church’s 200 anniversary by L. Auchampaugh

The stillness deep in the forest was interrupted long long ago,

by the swift sharp crack of a woodsman’s ax, swinging to and fro.

His powerful arms and muscular swing made the ax cut deep in the wood;

next to the notch mark and with a sigh, a mighty tree no longer stood.

The blacksmith gazed from the door of his shop; saw the oxen pulling the old tree past.

He fired up his forge, tied his apron in place, and readied his tools for the task.

Now the blacksmith knew -what iron could do, when heated by fire and shaping.

With each sure strike, he fashioned a spike with pride in the nails he was making.

Hour after hour, the woodsmen cut the trees, and the oxen hauled them away.

And the blacksmith stayed with the beat and the heat, until all was ready one day.

Then carpenters came, and took the old trees, with spikes held them firm and sound,

And soon a mighty fortress rose, on the ridge of Cuykendall’s ground.

The settlers donated their lumber – wagons pulled one by one up the drive,

And from their sacrifice and labor, this church they built, has survived!

Some time ago, a carpenter by the name of Finney, looked at an old beam in dismay.

For after years of support the beam showed signed of decay.

He determined he could make something good, and he planed the decay away.

But first he removed three spikes this one, and two and then three

Made so long ago, at that blacksmiths forge. Mr. Finney gave them to me!

Now surely this story has a meaning,that is meant now for you and me

It’s told to us over centuries and far across the sea….

For long ago in a forest, a woodsman cut at an old tree.

And a blacksmith worked to forge three spikes, for a Cross at Calvary

And a carpenter with gentle healing hands suffered and died on that old tree.

For love and life Jesus sacrificed, that we might live and be free!

Sometimes when the light, is just right the shadow of three crosses I see.

One for our past, one for our future. but this Cross is for Calvary!

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Dutch Cousins 2019 Photos

Banta cabin & Low Dutch Cemetery

I wanted to share pictures of our trip to Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago. The Banta cabin and the Low Dutch cemetery are both in bad shape. Uncertain of their future.
Ernie and Kathy (Banta) Borgoyne

Letters 11/27/2019

Happy Thanksgiving to all Dutch Cousins

Kathleen VanNuys in 2005, with the replica of the old Mud Meetinghouse
at Hopewell Church, Franklin, Indiana.

Please note our webmaster’s note below that more than 400 photos of the 2019 Dutch gathering are now posted on our website: https://bit.ly/2Pm0DVX
While you are there look at the photos of the sad condition of our ancestor’s graves in Conewago Low Dutch burial ground. These were sent by Ernie and Kathy (Banta) Borgoyne of Gilbert Arizona. I have been told the brick wall around the cemetery has collapsed in a couple places also. www.DutchCousins.org

I’ve been swamped ever since getting home from Kentucky in September and many of you probably have been too. I’m still trying to find and pull together all the info we have collected and then decide what more we need for the Conewago project, and also for the newly discovered DeMotte/Banta/Cove Spring cemetery with at least four Dutch Revolutionary Veterans and many, many other family members.

Laurel Auchampaugh of Auburn NY, Larry Voreis of Taylors SC, and Malcolm Banta of RotundaWest, FL, have agreed to direct work on historical markers and repair of the Conewago Cemetery in PA.

Greg Barnard of Danville KY, a DeMotte descendant, is making big strides in cleaning up and restoring the cemetery near Harrodsburg, originally known as the DeMotte graveyard.

We Dutch descendants are so thankful for those who volunteer to be in charge of these projects, so important to our history. Charlie Westerfield and crew did such an incredible job on the Kentucky highway historical markers for 2019. What accomplishments will we have to show off in 2021?

Are you ready for the holidays? I am just fixing a small turkey dinner for three of us tomorrow, but the gang of twenty-five, in all ages and stages of life, will be here Saturday for our annual Thanksgiving pizza party and Jon’s birthday cake. Wish you could join us. You don’t need to bring a thing, except a card for Jon’s 83rd birthday, a piece of paper with one thing you are thankful for, and maybe a helping hand. We’ll have lots of pizza and other finger foods and snacks. If you prefer to bring some food to share, feel free. We will plan to circle up, share our gratitude list, and eat about 2 pm.

Jon wants a homemade lemon cake so I am going to do that, and also bake a classic pumpkin pie and a bourbon pecan pie. We will set a place with a candle for our grand Kadi bug, even tho we know she is in Savanah, Georgia, with her soldier boy husband and can’t be here.

One of my favorite memories is from a few years ago. When we read our gratitude list, most people mention family, our leaders, living in a free country, health, enough money, etc. When Kadi was about 4 years old. She said, I am just thankful for French Fries!

Come with a thankful heart, a smile on your face, and be ready to enjoy being with family!

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard

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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HERE ARE THE PHOTOS FROM THE 2019 Dutch Cousins Gathering in Kentucky!

SENT BY:  Pam Ellingson

I did upload Charlie’s photos to the DC google account. The following link should allow access and people can download the file of 429 photos.

https://bit.ly/2Pm0DVX

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SENT BY: Darren Westerfield
That was a great post, Carolyn. The Westervelt Massacre is such a part of my family’s history, I would like to go and see the plaque in person. Evidently, the adjacent outdoor areas have been developed around the area, kayak rentals, etc., pretty cool.

Since I have most of my Westerfield ancestry traced, I am interested in how my particular family unit got from Drenthe Province to New Amsterdam and then to Bergen Co. NJ. in the 1600’s. Has anyone ever been to Drenthe Province?
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SENT BY: John C. Van Nuys
In Response to Maria Neal (in re: VAN NUYS)

Aucke Janse Van Nuys’ descendants did settle in Mercer County, Kentucky and then Johnson County, Indiana
Aucke is my 10th grandfather back.
To learn more about the Dutch community in Indiana (Hopewell) which was birthed by the Old Mud Meeting House community in Kentucky, check out my mother Kathleen Van Nuys’ (1921-2014) book:  The Hopewell Journey: 350 Years from Immigrant Religion to Hoosier Faith
https://www.amazon.com/Hopewell-Journey-Immigrant-Presbyterian-1831-2006/dp/1425928951/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Hopewell+Journey&qid=1571968510&sr=8-1
I am not trying to peddle the book, but for anyone who wants to know about the Hopewell community and its families my mother’s 684 page mammoth book will tell the tale.
John C. Van Nuys
Crawfordsville, IN

NOTE FROM CAROLYN: I have a copy of the book and photos with Kathleen Van Nuys in the little museum of things from the old Mud Meetinghouse, including a miniature of the church built by one of the members. The book is very well done with lots of photos, well worth the money. It is a big book of almost 700 pages and easy to read print. Here is a picture of the inside detail of the pulpit inside the Mud’s Replica, shown above. Here also is the plaque with the list of founders of the church, most if not all came from their “mother” church, the old Mud Meetinghouse. The photos are from our visit there in 2005. I’d love for someone to take time to transcribe the names and wording to go in the next Dutch Letters.
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SENT BY: Doug Demaree
Thank you for your work with the Dutch cousins. I have found some great things out this week about my Demaree family history. I have been studying our family history for over 30 years. I have some things I would like to talk to Vince Akers about. Could you please have him contact me. I have misplaced his number….thank you. Douglas Demaree . My Gmail account is demareedoug@gmail.com. Thank you so much….tell all the cousins hi. I am thankful for each one.

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SENT BY: Firth Fabend, Author of A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies
How are you in Oklahoma? And how did the last reunion go? I’m looking forward to reports and lots of pictures of the goings on!

I’m reaching out to you and the Dutch Cousins here on behalf of the New Amsterdam History Center, where I’ve been on the Board for about seven years. We would like to offer the Dutch Cousins the opportunity to view our lectures (of which we present two or three a year) either by video or live podcasts. Would there be any interest in this, do you think?

You can go to our website and view past lectures to see the quality and types of topic we cover. The most recent is an event we sponsored earlier this month featuring Jaap Jacobs, a well-known historian of New Netherland, who is also a good friend of mine.

We are making this offer to you in the spirit of interaction, getting to know each other in the fascinating universe of Dutch-American studies! I am copying Esme Berg, our Executive Director and Interim President, who also most warmly hopes to welcome you.

We don’t want to miss this opportunity to expand public knowledge of our organization, so Esme and I, in consultation with other Board members, have decided to add your email to our mailing list, free of charge, in the hope that you will share our notices with your organization. Your members can access our lectures online at www.newamsterdamhistorycenter.org. We are planning our next lecture for February and another in April, and possibly something in December.

We hope and trust that many Dutch Cousins will take advantage of this opportunity to learn more of their origins back East! We are sure it will enhance their awareness of their own long and eventful trek to parts West–and that by sharing our joint histories we may both be made wiser!
All best,
Firth
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SENT BY:
The New Amsterdam History Center Lecture Series
With The Holland Society of New York
Presents
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE
“A Dangerous Liberty”
Mohawk-Dutch Relations and the Colonial Gunpowder Trade, 1639-1665
A Talk By Shaun Sayres, Clark University Followed by a Q & A
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM
St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, New York
131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue)
Admission $25. NAHC and Holland Society Members $15
*Space is Limited* RSVP to: events@newamsterdamhistorycenter.org
for more info, email Esme Berg – nahceberg@gmail.com

The Mohawks and Dutch engaged in cross-cultural interactions centered around the exchange of furs and gunpowder that culminated in the formation of a mutually-beneficial partnership. These Mohawk-Dutch encounters and negotiations, reveal a distinct arc of intertwined fates, outlining their shared rise, peak, and decline within a world embroiled in conflict. Ultimately, the Mohawks survived, but the Dutch did not, relinquishing New Netherland to the English without a shot in 1664.

Shaun Sayres is a doctoral student at Clark University where he studies colonial American history, the Atlantic world, and the age of revolutions. His dissertation research focuses on intercultural encounters, exchanges, and partnerships in the Atlantic world with special attention to New Netherland and seventeenth-century North America.

St. Marks Church In-the-Bowery is one of the most famous and important architectural landmarks in New York City. Its origins date back to 1660 when Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands, built the first chapel on the site. Though the structure he designed is long gone, his remains still lie in a sealed vault at St. Mark’s.
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SENT BY: Just FYI from Carolyn Leonard

GUESS WHAT? It’s finally available! My new book THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS went online tonight. See it here http://amzn.to/2oYsTjG and order if you want to. I ordered some copies just now myself. If you like the book, and if you care to, would you write a couple sentences and post on the book’s page in Amazon.com. Book reviews have a profound impact on sales. It is a nice thing to do for your favorite author. If you want a signed copy, send a request to me, but I just ordered my author copies today so they won’t be here for a week or two.
Here’s a hotlink: https://amzn.to/2KV2CgS
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Letters 12/7/2019

Merry Christmas to all our Dutch Cousins

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
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.——————————————————————

HERE ARE THE PHOTOS FROM THE 2019 Dutch Cousins Gathering in Kentucky!
SENT BY: Pam Ellingson I did upload Charlie’s photos to the DC google account. The following link should allow access and people can download the file of 429 photos. https://bit.ly/2Pm0DVX

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SENT BY: Andrew Leath
Carolyn,
You asked me at the reunion if I knew anything about the Margaret Vannice buried in the DeMotte Cemetery in Mercer Co., since I am a Vannice descendant.
I have not yet placed her in the family, but I have a clue. Lawrence and Dorothy DeMotte had a daughter Deborah DeMotte, baptized in 1763 in Somerset Co., New Jersey. She married in 1792 in Kentucky to Peter Vannice. Deborah and Peter lived most of their married life in Mercer County until moving to Hendricks Co., Indiana, about 1833, where several of their grown children lived. Family tradition says they had several children who died young, and Margaret could have been one of them. Or Margaret could be a grandchild who died young before the family moved to Indiana.
Andy Leath
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SENT BY: Dick MouwHi Carolyn,

You were asking if anyone had information about the Conewago Colony on our DAG conference call.

I might be able to help a little.

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a transcription of the Conewago Church records–mostly deacons records and baptismal register, if I recall correctly. The handwritten transcription was made by a Demarest (HSP thinks it was made by Rev. David Demarest, I think it was made by J. K. Demarest); the original church records are not to be found. HSP’s transcription can be found under “Conewago DRC; Reformed Dutch Church Records.” HSP might have information about the church graveyard and/or Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Adams County too, but I’m not entirely certain.

The Holland Society of New York also has a transcription of the original records and I think the LDS has a microfilm of that transcription available to rent.

A. Van Doren Honeyman published the baptisms in the Somerset County Historical Quarterly; he included a short history of the church/colony. “The Conewago Colony–Baptisms 1769-1793,” SCHQ 4(1915): 267-281

My notes say that J.K. Demarest wrote a history of the Conewago colony that was published in the in the Gettysburg Star in 1884. I have not seen this article.

I’m pretty sure you know about this article but if not, it includes information about the Conewago Colony as well:
Corwin, Edward Tanjore. “The Old Mud Meeting House, Salt River, Ky.” Christian Intelligencer, 20 March 1901.
If you have not seen it, Russ Gasero might have a digitized copy. I have a barely legible copy as well.

I hope some of that might be useful.
Best,
Dirk Mouw

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SENT BY: Gary Storms
Since joining your email list a year or so ago, I have read your emails with interest even though my ancestors were more New York and New Jersey residents than of Pennsylvania or Kentucky. In your recent email, I read with particular interest the email from Firth Fabend inviting participation with the New Amsterdam History Center. I’ve been a member of NAHC for a couple years and can honestly say that I’ve really enjoyed the newsletters that Esme publishes. Also, I’ve especially enjoyed the Dutch colonial period day trips she has organized to Sleep Hollow, NY, to the Met for a Dutch masters’ art exhibit, and to a walking tour of the little-known Dutch landmarks in the Battery Park area of Manhattan. And there were numerous other interesting events that I haven’t been able to attend. So I’m simply writing to encourage your Dutch Cousins members to give the NAHC serious consideration. It’s really worthwhile. Sincerely, Gary Storms
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SENT BY: Mr. Lynn Rogers to Doris Barfield Sanders, 4th great granddaughter Debora Westervelt (Westerfield) Baxter, one of the captives of the Westerfield Massacre, who made a large donation to pay for the Historical Marker.
From Lynn Rogers to Doris: There is now a Westerfield Massacre Marker! And you helped make it happen! Four years ago in 2015 when I became the Coordinator for the next Dutch Cousins Gathering, I found you and Gary on the web, and you helped find sources etc. The Marker is at exit 121 off of I-65, 20 miles south of Louisville, on the outskirts of Shepherdsville. It is about one mile from the site of Clear’s Station.Doris Barfield Sanders reply: Maybe I helped, maybe pushed a bit all the way from Texas. I know all the Dutch Cousins enjoyed the get together. I so wish I could have been there. I do have a question- does anyone know the Indian group who did the Westerfield Massacre?——————————————————————

SENT BY: Ernie & Kathy Banta Burgoyne
I wanted to share a NEW book I just published about the Banta family. It was the Dutch Golden Age. The eighty-years war had ended and Dutch trade, art, military, and science was the envy of the world. Epke Jacobse (Banta) leaves his native Friesland, the Netherlands with his wife Sitske, and five sons, sailing on the ship De Trouw for New Amsterdam, for an opportunity from the Dutch West India Company. He is meeting Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the New Netherland colony in America to receive his assignment. Epke is arriving in America at an extraordinary time. He along with his son, grandson, and great-grandson Henry will leave an indelible mark in the history of the middle colonies leading up to the revolutionary war.
https://www.amazon.com/Faithul-Patriot-Soul-American-Revolution-ebook/dp/B081ZF35RP/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=borgoyne&qid=1575171352&s=books&sr=1-1 the Faithul Patriot: Soul of the American Revolution – Kindle edition by E.W. Borgoyne. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.the Faithul Patriot: Soul of the American Revolution – Kindle edition by E.W. Borgoyne. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the Faithul Patriot: Soul of the American Revolution.www.amazon.com

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SENT BY: Just FYI from Carolyn Leonard
GUESS WHAT? It’s finally available! My new book THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS went online tonight. See it here http://amzn.to/2oYsTjG and order if you want to. I ordered some copies just now myself. If you like the book, and if you care to, would you write a couple sentences and post on the book’s page in Amazon.com. Book reviews have a profound impact on sales. It is a nice thing to do for your favorite author. If you want a signed copy, send a request to me, but I just ordered my author copies today so they won’t be here for a week or two.
Here’s a hotlink: https://amzn.to/2KV2CgS
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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard

Sincerely wishing you each much happiness this Christmas and lots of good food. I know ours will be good. We are having CARAMEL STROOPWAFLES from the Netherlands.

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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 sent through MailChimp mailing service. 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.

I couldn’t find a Dutch blessing to share with you, but here is an Irish blessing I think you will like.

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

Caution- if printed, this document might exceed 150 pages!

Letters 2/2/2019

THIS IS THE YEAR FOR THE DUTCH COUSINS IN KENTUCKY! Get ready.

Letters 2/16/2019

We’ll be seeing our Low Dutch Cousins soon!

Letters 3/12/19

LOTS OF NEW INFO HERE!

Westerfield Massacre DC 2019

Letters 4/1/2019

Tentative Schedule (working copy) is here.

Letters 4/15/2019

Have you made your reservations yet?

Letters 4/21/2019

Letters 4/28/2019 Are you who we are looking for?

Are you ready for a good time?

2019 Low Dutch Cousins Gathering

5/10/2019 News about Conewago, our Dutch cemetery

Letters 5/13/2019

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

No memorials found for Banta in Banta Graveyard.

Letters 5/20/19 About the coming event…

We will be at the Old Mud Meetinghouse again at 2 pm Sunday, Sept 15th.

Mud Meeting House Cemetery Also known as Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery

Dutch Cousins Registration Form 2019

Letters 7/9/19 Have you sent in your registration yet?

It’s time to register for the Dutch Cousins gathering! The form is on the website www.DutchCousins.org

Letters 7/29/2019

Here’s the Latest! Time to register.

Letters 8/1/2019

Here’s the scoop on the Dutch Markers in KY

Letters 8/9/2019 Conewago, Old Mud, and more….

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

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

Letters 8/18/19

It’s Time to Shine! (and send in your registration)

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

Letters 8/28/19

EXCITEMENT is building! THE COUSINS are coming.

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

Letters 8/29/2019

Family Heritage DisplaysTELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY IN A DISPLAY.Register for the Dutch Cousins Family History display contest. Please email your Name, Dutch Family Name and the Title of your display to Tamara at tlwfulkerson@aol.com

Letters 9/1/2019

See who’s registered already!

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

Letters 9/10/2019

2019 Dutch Cousin board members & officerssay WELCOME!Last minute info for the Cousins!

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

Dutch Cousins 2019 Itinerary

Letters 10/24/2019 The Wonderful Weekend in KY

What a wonderful weekend with cousins!The names on the back of the T-shirts this year were popular:

Dutch Cousins 2019 Photos

Banta cabin & Low Dutch Cemetery

Letters 11/27/2019

Happy Thanksgiving to all Dutch Cousins

Letters 12/7/2019

Merry Christmas to all our Dutch Cousins

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

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

Family Heritage Displays

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY IN A DISPLAY.
Register for the Dutch Cousins Family History display contest. Please email your Name, Dutch Family Name and the Title of your display to Tamara at tlwfulkerson@aol.com

2019 Dutch Cousin board members & officers
say WELCOME!

Last minute info for the Cousins!

What a wonderful weekend with cousins!

The names on the back of the T-shirts this year were popular: