Letters 2018

Letters 1/1/18

CAUTION, if printed, this document might exceed 200 pages!

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar Cousins! Happy New Year 2018!

In addition to the fanfare, fireworks, and fun, most people celebrate the beginning of a new year by calling up family and friends, mending quarrels, setting goals for self-betterment and donating to charity. I’ve been doing just that! Last night I called one of my high school classmates who lives in California. We hadn’t talked for at least ten years, so that phone call went on for hours as we laughed over old memories. It’s kind of like the clock for the year starts over and we can begin again. Whether we have personal goals or research goals we always seem to be rejuvenated by a new year.

Jon and I celebrated New Year’s Eve by enjoying a dinner out with a dozen people with whom we have been longtime friends. It was too cold here to participate in the downtown “opening night” entertainments and watch the ball drop at midnight, so we came home and watched the party in New York on TV. Yes, of course, we toasted the new year in, and then enjoyed our traditional lunch of blackeyed peas for good luck on Monday. How did you spend New Years Eve? Do you have a family tradition you would share?
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My Grandmother’s maiden name was Esther Ryker Cunliffe and she was born Madison, Indiana. She was the daughter of Martha Etta Hall, daughter of Mary Ann Ryker, daughter of John Gerardus Ryker who was one of the Banta party that settled in Shelby, Kentucky.

Your website is wonderful and has provided a wealth of information.

(Welcome Linda!)

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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas

On Nov 15, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Marilyn Douglas <Marilyn.Douglas@NYSED.GOV> wrote:
Flatbush Church Records available for sale by the Jacob Leisler Institute – order form attached
Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Volume I 1677-1720; Volume II Deacons’ Accounts 1654-1709. Translated by David William Voorhees
Records of the consistory minutes, baptismal and marriage records, and membership lists of the Dutch Reformed congregations located in the present-day New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Thanks Marilyn

Marilyn E. Douglas, Vice PresidentWebsite www.newnetherlandinstitute.org

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SENT BY: Robert Hastings
I am a Desendent of Richard Whitfield Hastings who married Mary Polly Banta in Gibson Co. Indiana in 1823 done pretty good tracing back the Banta family. But not too good on the Hastings include me in the letter.

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SENT BY: Don William “Bill” Black
(welcome new Dutch Cousin) As an dependent of Joost Janson Van Meter b. 1656 I am very interested in the History of the Low Dutch, especially the Van Meters. I have written a romanticized version of 12 year old Letty Van Meter experience at the Painted Stone Massacre. I’m a clumsy writer but it is a fun story if you have the time to read it. Mary Banta born 1802 in Ky. She was the mother of Richard W. Hastings her dad was David Banta the Banta family. (Bill is the 6th G grandson of Jacob Janson Van Meter)Sign me up.
My 6th ggfather Jacob Janson Van Meter led a group of 100 settlers (mostly kin) from Ten Mile Country, Virginia (now PA)to Elizabethtown, KY in 1779. I have quite a body of research in his line.

(tell us more about your story, Bill! Is it a book? Is it available on Amazon?)
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SENT BY: Janice & Eddie Cozine: Eddie’s cousin 1st cousin.
Larry Cozine passed away this past Monday.
Larry is the son of John Cozine, Eddie’s dad’s brother.
He died from a rare form of cancer.
Larry and his 2 sisters Sharon & Johnnie Kay, attended our 2015 and 2017 DC Gatherings.

Obituary
Larry M. Cozine, 69 years of age died Monday December 11, 2017 with his family by his side. He was born May 21, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky to the late John W. and Carrie (Murray) Cozine. Larry was a Registered Architect in Kentucky and Indiana, and a member of the American Institute of Architects. He retired after 30 plus years with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam war and a graduate of the University of Kentucky and Cornell University School of Architecture. He will be greatly missed and fondly remembered by his family and friends.
Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Geri L. (McDonald) Cozine; daughter, Cathy L. Van Loon (Aaron); two grandsons; sisters, Sharon Metcalf (James) and Johnnie Walker (Daniel); four nieces, two nephews along with several great nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 2:00 pm until 8:00 pm Wednesday, December 13th, and after 9:00 am Thursday at Kraft Funeral Service 2776 Charlestown Rd. His Funeral Service will be held at
11:00 am Thursday, December 14th in the Kraft Charlestown Rd. Chapel. Private entombment will in the Chapel of the Cross at Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park.
Expressions of sympathy to go to Dayspring REC, Hope of Southern Indiana or the Leukemia Society.
Online condolences may be made to www.kraftfs.com

(Gosh we just met Larry – and lost him already. So sorry for your loss Janice & Eddie – and our loss too.)
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SENT BY: Beth Higgins
Hi Carolyn,
I’m just now seeing this email, but it caused me to check out the website, which I haven’t in awhile. It looks great!! Love the Old Mud background. Also, it’s very well organized. Love that. Nice work, webmasters!!

My only comment for the description you profer is that it seems like in the past we’ve described the group as being the pioneers intending to settle a specific tract with the Banta family. You mention “Dominee Cozine was an “intend friend” of the Kentucky move, but he died before the land was ready”, but haven’t mentioned anything about “the land” or what an “intend friend” is.  All references to their intentions to settle a tract together have been removed, and that is what I though held us together the most. I am descended from other Dutch families in the Kentucky area who knew our “Dutch cousins” (Henry Hoagland was Rachel Ryker’s husband and died at Long Run) and they may have worshipped together, but they did not settle on the same tract, did not follow the same migration path necessarily, and were not signers of the petition for the land. (Hoagland, Newkirk, Swearingen, etc.) It is interesting that these other Kentucky Dutch ancestors of mine were not as introspective in their family circles. Also, my newly found Wyckoff family went from NJ to WV to Ohio from what I can tell. Always fun to find more Dutch families. Just my two cents. Merry Christmas to all!!

(NOTE FROM CAROLYN: I think Beth is referring to the 3rd paragraph of “Who are the Dutch Cousins? in the dec 6th issue of Dutch Letters:
“The Dutch groups migrated to Kentucky in the 1780s and continued intermarrying—at least those who survived the Indian attacks and starvation did. Dominee Cozine was an “intend friend” of the Kentucky move, but he died before the land was ready. His children and church members followed the call of the wild west. They wanted to remain a separate people, to feel free to raise their families in their unique faith with a Dutch-speaking Dominee.  Their first settlement was in Mercer County, at their Dutch Fort near Harrods Fort (later Harrodsburg), until they were able to get title to several thousand acres north of there (in Shelby & Henry counties) with its center at Pleasureville, and is still known today as the “Low Dutch Tract.”

MORE INFO from Carolyn: I tried to condense the answer “Who are the Dutch Cousins”– perhaps condensed too much.
Vince Akers’ 1982 booklet “The Low Dutch Company” and his talks at the Gatherings have discussed the two lists in the Low Dutch letter to Continental Congress requesting support for the Kentucky settlement. The letter is undated but believed in 1783 when assistance was denied. One list of about 70 “inhabitants” signed by those already in Kentucky, and one list of more than 100 Intend friends, whose names are published in deHalve Moon, publication of the Holland Society of NY. The “intend friends” were those still residing back east, disposing of property etc, but who intended to come as soon as the “Low Dutch Tract” was secured.

Beginning about 1769, several Conewago families moved to Berkeley Co, VA (now WVA) with plans to go to KY. Samuel Duree, at age 56 was known as the Old Man and was the first to venture into KY. Peter Banta and wife Elizabeth Cozine, (dau of Rev. Cozine) led the 1780 group to the Falls of Ohio (now Louisville).

Rev. Cozine was an intend friend, but I suspect at almost 70 years, he was too old and ill to travel. He died in 1786 before he could come. The Conewago Colony Dutch Reformed church from 1772 to his death was a flourishing Dutch Church, but by 1793 the colony was beginning to disintegrate as so many members had left to go west.

His surviving son Cornelius Jr was in KY by 1784, and inherited the Cozine lot in the Low Dutch tract. When he died age 34 in KY in 1787 the tract was not yet settled. His surviving son Cornelius III died in 1812 at age 29 on his way home from seeing about the land in the Dutch Tract. Cornelius III’s daughter Sara Cozine is the 9 year old child kidnapped from the Dutch Tract area and held captive for five years. Sara’s widowed mother Mary wed Sam Demaree and they settled there. Many of the Low Dutch ancestral lines will have similar stories. I am just more familiar with this one.

(I had never heard before that the entire group intended to settle a specific tract with the Banta family, am I the only one? Is this the above mentioned Low Dutch Tract in Henry and Shelby counties? I know that Abraham Banta was appointed the group’s trustee for the land purchased from Squire Boone in 1786 (signed by Barney Smock), but it was many years before the legal issues were straightened out because of conflicting claims and also by Indian depredations — which is what I meant by the land not being ready. Also that Pleasureville was originally named Bantatown but the map is labeled “The Low Dutch Tract” if I remember correctly.)
(Feel free to jump in here Vince Akers!)
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SENT BY: Greg Huber
(Greg spoke at our 2015 Dutch Gathering on the Dutch Barns in Pennsylvania – or something like that!). He has a new book out on Historic Barns of SE PA, though he seems to be focusing on German barns now. Most of our group of Low Dutch ancestors lived in Somerset County NJ before moving to Conewago, and attended Church there.
This item included in Greg’s Christmas letter is of interest.

“A sentinel of a past long gone” – a letter sent to the Editor of – The Bernardsville News – on April 20th 2017 about the great Basking Ridge Oak in Somerset County, New Jersey that was removed from the church property during the last week of April 2017 (1 page). This was a giant field grown white oak that was nearly 8 feet in diameter measured about one foot above ground level. The tree was likely at least 350 years old. It may have been over 500 years old. This oak was a local landmark that thousands of people passed every year. Plans are afoot to make various wooden objects including furniture from the salvaged timbers of the tree. Greg was at the felling and removal of the tree plus the planting of an oak sapling developed from an acorn of the tree. He generated over 1,500 photos from all the tree activities over a four-day period. (Please Greg send us a picture?)

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SENT BY: As always, sending best wishes for a safe and happy and prosperous New Year 2018 to each and every Dutch Cousin! (from the old Dutch gal and ol’ blue eyes, the engineer)

SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
Editor, Dutch cousins of Kentucky

1/11/2018 The days of our lives …

Dear cousins, Please let me know if you like the photos of the Old Mud Meetinghouse service 2017, or if it makes the file too hard to open. As every year ends, people spend time evaluating the time gone by and making plans for the year to come. The new year brings with it the hope and promise to accomplish all that one couldn’t in the past year.
For my resolutions, I am determined to get some of the family history books finished, and shared with other family members, so that when the “days of our lives” run out of numbers, the research will live on.

In fact I am working hard on that now. Are you among those looking to create a better tomorrow – one with new possibilities and new dreams to fulfill? What are your dreams and plans for 2018? Please share.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. Ready, Set, Go!Hugs and happy new year to each one of you!Carolyn and Jon

(theDutch gal and ol’ blue eyes, the engineer)
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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, click the link below or If you want to be removed from the mailing list, just hit reply and say, “remove me” — and I will do so immediately !I promise we do not share our mailing list with anyone, and do not publish email addresses on the list because of possible scammers.———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Peter Minuit, first director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. He was a Walloon from Wesel (now North Rhine-Westphalia Germany).

(from Wikipedia) Minuit is generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the Dutch from the Lenape Native Americans. Manhattan later became the site of the Dutch city of New Amsterdam, and the borough of Manhattan of modern-day New York City. A common myth states that Minuit purchased Manhattan for $24 worth of trinkets; however, a letter written by Dutch merchant Peter Schaghen to directors of the Dutch East India Company stated that Manhattan was purchased “for the value of 60 guilders,”^[2] an amount worth approximately $1,050 in 2015 dollars.^[3]Minuit also founded the Delaware colony in the early 1600s.———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield, in re to the Historical Markers for the Westerfield Massacre to go up in Bullitt County.
Committee: Charlie Westerfield, Ed Cozine, Lynn Rogers, Vince Akers, Steve Henry,
I spoke with Lynn Rogers this morning and he has agreed to write a rough draft of the verbiage for the two plaques. We plan to have a meeting of the full committee on January 18 at the Kentucky Historical Society at 2 P.M. Let me know if this will work for you? I ask Ed Cozine to set up a meeting with Mr. David Strange and the president of the Bullitt Co Historical Society. Ed has scheduled that meeting for this Thursday at 2 P.M. Anyone who would like to join us, feel free. I will keep the committee up to date on information in this regard. ———————————————————————————————————

SENT BY: Eddie Price, Kentucky Author and speaker

Hi, CarolynHere is the new historical novel due out at the end of January!!! It is the long-awaited sequel to Widder’s Landing. Not available yet, but I invite the cousins to visit my Facebook page at Eddie Price Kentucky Authoror my webpage at: www.eddiepricekentuckyauthor.comI am attaching the working cover. We are still finalizing for the printers. The new children’s book will also be out in January.Eddie———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Wes WesterfieldCarolyn,I’m curious about the arrival of the Dutch Cousins in Kentucky and the region surrounding. I don’t have a good sense of just when the first of them appeared there having left New Amsterdam. Is there a resource I can consult? (NOTE: Watch your email! Vince Akers has sent exactly that information to be included in the next Dutch Letters!)———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Lynn RogersYou have probably been out of the Westerfield Massacre historical marker loop. Charlie Westerfield, chr of the committee, has had contact with the Kentucky Hist Soc. It has pretty much been decided to have two markers, one at exit 121 I-65 “McDonalds” in Shepherdsville, and the other at the park east of Thixton KY (Floyds Fork and Broad Run). It appears that the two markers should be in place by the next Dutch Cousins gathering, prob Sep 2019. All of which suggests a possible dedication as a part of the DC19 program.

Janice Cozine put a massive amount of time and effort into both the DC15 and DC17 (probably available for DC19); but, she has expressed seriously negative feelings about having DC19 in Shepherdsville. She and Eddie live in Mt Washington KY, about 10 miles east of Shepherdsville. So, Mt Washington might be a candidate for DC19.

The Bullitt Co Hist Soc are in the loop. In a telecom, Charlie W said that he and Eddie Cozine planned to meet with them. I indicated that I would be interested in making that trip. If I get there, I will try to explore possible DC19 meeting/lodging facilities with Eddie. He might be, or not be, favorably impressed, and pass them on to Janice.

Happy New Year, Lynn——————————————————————————————————— SENT BY: King and Sharon Cole, Coordinators Dutch Cousins 2019Charlie suggested I check out the Stratton Community Center in Shelbyville. I spoke with Rusty Newton and he said the room capacity is only 75 people. So, too small. I have checked with many other possibilities in the towns near Harrodsburg.
Janice has spoken with Steve Henry to see if he can help us negotiate the rental at the KY History Ctr. We were to talk again in January.
We greatly appreciate your input and any suggestions regarding DC19. (NOTE: ANYONE remember the name of the place where we met in Shelbyville in 2007? We had about 125 or more there that year, and the price was quite acceptable.)——————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Kim Allison RossI’m passing along something interesting I read that maybe other Dutch Cousins might be interested in. Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmerman) had a father raised in the Dutch Reformed Church. His name is Edward Zimmerman. His wife, Agnes Gardner, was Presbyterian. They are German & Scottish.———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY:Jane Cooper, daughter of Frank CooperThis is Jane Cooper, Frank Cooper’s daughter. I don’t know if anyone let you know, but Dad passed away last Sept. 26th, 2017. Mom had died the year before, and I think he was pretty lost without her. He was also suffering from liver cancer, heart failure, and I think was just very tired of not feeling good. We did have a wonderful trip together in June, went to Alaska on a 3 day cruise along the inner passageway, then a few more days over land in a nice motor coach. The cruise part was wonderful, but the land part of the trip was pretty hard on him and he never really recovered from that. He was glad we went though, and I’m so thankful that I had that special time together with him. Anyway, wanted to let you know so you could please add my email to your list so I’ll know when your next Dutch Cousins gathering will be. He loved the one we went to several years ago, and I want to come again. You may already have that as Mom & Dad lived here with me for the last 5 years, so I assume he’d already updated that with you. Today’s the first time I’ve gotten into his email and searched “Dutch Cousins” and found your email – I’m so glad! (Jane is a Van Arsdale descendant, and lives in Topeka, KS. Welcome, Cousin!)———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: David William VoorheesI am attaching in pdf the brochure with an order form for the two volumes of transcriptions and translations of the Flatbush Church Records. You can purchase the volumes through the Jacob Leisler Institute, using the attached order form. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to ask.with best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year (NOTE: I can’t attach the brochure, but if you are interested the hardcover books are $50 each for the two volumes. Vol. I covers 1677-1720, and Vol. II is Deacons accounts 1654-1709. Contact Mr. Voorhees at the Jacob Leisler Institute in Hudson New York. info (at) jacobleislerinstitute.org)———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY:Debbie AllenderIn your letter dated 1/2/18 (Happy New Year!), Robert Hastings mentioned that he was researching his Hastings and Banta families from Gibson County, Indiana. Although I don’t know of a direct connection, I am researching a few Dutch families that migrated from New Jersey to Kentucky to Gibson County, Indiana during the same time period. My families include Gordon, Tichenor, LaGrange, and Vanarsdall. I would love compare notes. I am already on your list, but I would like to contact Robert.———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: (report on services at the Old Mud Meetinghouse in September 2017 – by carolyn)

Russell L. Gasero, Archivist of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), 21 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ conducted the special service in our newly rededicated and restored Old Mud Meetinghouse. His sermon was on Psalm 16:6: “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.” (from the NIV). The Public was invited to enjoy seeing the Cousins celebrating our delightful Dutch inheritance that weekend! Three teenagers, 2 brothers and a sister decendants of the Banta family, sang and played instruments before the service began.

Mr. Gasero, who is an Elder in the RCA, brought four antique collection staves from the Archives. Staves are a long pole with a little bag on the end. Several Cousins served as Elders., here is a snap of Lynn Rogers with the collecting stave.

Greeters and Ushers were:
Jon Heavener of Oklahoma,
Dennis Karwatka of Kentucky,
Larry Westerfield of Tennessee,
Lynn Rogers of Ohio,
Gerald Westerfield of Illinois,
Buck Keith of Indiana.

Standing in the baptistry below the pulpit, the Voorzinger opens the services by reading the day’s verse from the Bible and leading in the singing of a psalm.

Amalie Preston of Salvisa, Kentucky, served as Voorzinger (singer) although women would not have played a part in the Reformed Dutch Church’s early services. (They do today.)
To finance the church in the beginning, members purchased a pew. Wealthier folks paid more to get the pews up front. Less wealthy sat toward the rear.

Acting Domine, Mr. Gasero, stood in silent prayer during the reading and the singing, then he climbed up into the tall pulpit to present the message. Voorzinger Preston timed the sermon, warning the domine when his time was up!

The Elders: Vince Akers of Indiana,
Eddie Cozine of Kentucky,
John C. Westerfield of Pennsylvania,
Larry Voreis of South Carolina,
Malcolm Banta of Florida.

They sat up front to keep on eye on the pastor and critique his preaching, because the elders were responsible for the Spiritual life of the church. They also assisted the Domine in serving communion using the original 1797 sllver communion cup.

After the worship service, each elder shook hands with the Domine, as the minister was called — unless they are dissatisfied with that day’s sermon and needed to let the Domine know their objection. All our elders shook hands with Mr. Gasero so they must have approved.

When the sermon ended, the Deacons (responsible for the physical or financial and property issues) took up the collection by thrusting the antique collection staves in front of each row of seats. While the bags were passed, the Domine could have invoked blessings upon those who give liberally, even calling them by name. (Mr. Gasero did not)
Serving as Deacons were:
Lynn Rogers of Ohio,
Rodney Dempsey of Kentucky,
Gene Heathcoat of Texas,
Jeff Westerfield of North Carolina.

———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: judy cassidyFranklyn E. Frick, 94, of Sioux City died Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003, at a Sioux City nursing home following a brief illness.
Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Cathedral of the Epiphany Catholic Church, with the Very Rev. Paul-Louis Arts officiating. Burial will be in Yankton City Cemetery, Yankton, S.D. Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. today, parish vigil service 7 p.m. and a rosary at 7:30 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.
Mr. Frick was born Oct. 31, 1908, in Sioux City, the son of Frank and Lura (VanOsdel) Frick. He was a lifelong Sioux City resident. He attended Catholic grade school and graduated from Sioux City Central High School. He also graduated from Iowa State University in 1932.
He was employed for several years with Gehan Livestock Commission at the Sioux City Stockyards. He then worked for the Federal Land Bank of Omaha and the W.S. & H.K. Gillman, Gilman, Hatfield and Hatfield as a farm manager.
He was a member of Cathedral of the Epiphany. His hobbies included genealogy research as well as socializing with his many friends and acquaintances.
Survivors include his special friends, Sissy Crawford and Bob Morley of Sioux City; as well as numerous friends from his 94 years of life.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and infant brother and an infant sister.

Letters 1/16/2018

Summary report on September gathering in Frankfort

This is a copy of the report I gave to the Dutch American Group. The Dutch American group is an affiliation of institutes, societies and other organizations that do research, educate, or preserve source materials pertaining to the history and role of the Dutch in America. Members include Mike Vandewoude, Suzanne Roff, Marilyn Douglas, Charles Gehring, Dirk Mouw, Vince & Lisa Akers, James Brumm, Mary Woodfill Park, Andrew Terhune, Charlie & Marilyn Westerfield, Russell L. Gasero, and Carolyn Leonard.

Summary report by outgoing president Carolyn B. Leonard on the Dutch Cousins of Kentucky Gathering 8-11 September 2017 at the Kentucky Historical Center in Frankfort.

Attendance – 120 registered from 18 states.
Mailing list for weekly round robin, and annual newsletter – 580 families (international) plus Facebook page with 250 members.
7 Heritage Tables set up – including family history, DAR, historical documents.
57 different Dutch family names represented, with surname banners on tables.
Photographer took 495 Photos of the event, available on CD (includes separate family name groups).
Excursion to the reenactment of the 1781 Long Run massacre, many Dutch families involved (many killed), reenactment by the www.paintedstonesettlers.org. Committee appointed to get historical markers placed at site of Westerfield massacre near Louisville.
Report by chairman Banta on placing historical markers at former Conewago Colony site near Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
Stories about our group published in Kentucky Bluegrass Roots this year (Kentucky History Society magazine).
Update on the growing Low Dutch Archives collection in KY at Harrodsburg Historical Research Library.
DAR registrar available to anyone wanting info or guidance on genealogy or preparing applications.
Speaker and handouts presented on DNA, but were unable to collect samples as planned due to Hurricane damage at Houston FTDNA site.
Worship service in restored 1800 Old Mud Meetinghouse near Harrodsburg led by Russell Gasero, of NJ, Archivist, Reformed Church of America.
Discussion of a possible bus trip to Conewago and New Jersey following the 2019 Gathering. Russell Gasero volunteered to help if so.
UPDATED Website www.DutchCousins.org
New officers installed for 2018-2019; Charlie Westerfield of Louisville, President.

Letters 2/8/18

Outgoing officers from left: Denise M. Perry, Janice Cozine, Carolyn Leonard, Pam Ellingson, Charlie Westerfield

Any changes or corrections to the minutes, please reply.

2017 Dutch Cousins, 7th Gathering,
Business Meeting Minutes
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Friday, September 8, 2017
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY

The 2017 Dutch Cousins Gathering Business Meeting was called to order on September 8, 2017 at 11:00 by President Carolyn Leonard of Oklahoma in the Brown-Foreman Room of the Kentucky Historical Society. All six officers and two directors were present. Fifty (50) or more Dutch Cousins attended the business meeting.
Parliamentarian Mary Jo Gohmann of Kentucky declared a quorum present to proceed with the business meeting, as based on the bylaws requiring the presence of at least four of the six (6) officers and directors, and any fifteen (15) members who are not officers or directors.
King Cole of Texas led the Pledge of Allegiance. Jeff Westerfield of North Carolina provided the opening prayer.
Minutes: Carolyn Leonard reported the 2015 minutes were emailed to the members earlier, with three corrections suggested. Denise Perry reported the three corrections as follows:
1. Corrected spelling of Malcom Banta (from Malcomb.)
2. Corrected location of 2017 meeting from Shelbyville to Frankfort, KY.
3. Modified the statement regarding T-Shirt sales to read: Total profit from the T-shirts was     $437.80
No additions or corrections were contributed from the floor. Barbara Merideth of Missouri made the motion to accept the 2015 minutes with the noted corrections. Seconded and approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Janice Cozine of Kentucky provided the Treasurer’s Report:
The ending balance from 2015:                                 $5,286.74.
Donation to Old Mud meeting 2015:                         $4,000.00
Opening balance for 2017 meeting:                          $1,286.74
See attachment A for 2017 Dutch Cousin’s Treasurer’s Report. A final report will be filed for audit.
Gathering Committee Reports:

Coordinator & Heritage Tables Lynn Rogers of Ohio
reported the date for the 2017 Gathering was selected to coincide with the Re-enactment of the Long Run Massacre and Floyd’s Defeat produced annually by The Painted Stone Settlers, Inc., www.paintedstonesettlers.org That event tied in nicely with Vince Akers documentation that the Westerfield Massacre occurred April 3, 1781 at Clear’s Station (near Shepherdsville KY), giving rise to a possible Historical Marker. The Saturday excursion included a full bus load of 55 plus about ten (10) who traveled by private vehicle to the Re-enactment. The Capital Plaza Hotel for lodging and the Kentucky Historical Society for our meetings were selected based on favorable rates and our wonderful 2015 experience.
Lynn Rogers made all arrangements for the Saturday excursion, seating, shelters, and announcements. Rod Dempsey of Kentucky made all the arrangements for the R&R Limousine bus company for transportation. Lynn borrowed flags from the SAR for the podium, and hung the Welcome Banners in the meeting hall as well as communicating with the KY historical Society’s technical advisor.
Heritage Tables: Lynn also oversaw signup and placement of family history displays. The following seven (7) people provided the Heritage Table Set up located at the back of the meeting room:

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

The committee of judges selected Emily Welches’ exhibit as the winner of the first place award for the family history tables. Thanks to all who participated.

Registration Janice Cozine of Kentucky
reported there were 111 attended. Janice also provided a preliminary summary of meeting expenses and income (see Attachment A for final report). Janice also tested and selected the menus for Family Affair Caterers. Thanks to Janice’s contacts at the Kentucky Historical Society, she was able to arrange a lower rental fee for this year.
Financial / Audit Report: Vince Akers of Indiana The 2015 Reunion accounting report was closed out promptly after the gathering. Vince made the recommendation to approve the 2015 accounts. He has done a preliminary 2017 Reunion accounting and finds everything in order. Vince offered a special thank you to Treasurer Janice Cozine for her excellent record keeping.

Webmaster: Pam Ellingson of Wisconsin reported on the official Dutch Cousins website; www.dutchcousins.org
- The website has been updated and moved to a new hosting site due to reaching maximum capacity. Jeremy Westerfield volunteered to create a new site and is covering the cost of hosting the new website for the first three years.
  - Pam transferred 229 newsletters from 2011 – 2016 to the new website
- Statistics/Traffic:
  - Sept 21, 2013 to Sept 20, 2014 – 423 visits
  - Sept 2014 to Sept 2015 – 1,627 visits
  - Sept 2015 to Oct 2016 – 1,031 visits
  - Sept 2016 to Aug 2017 – 1,420 visits
- Pam made a motion to approve adding the position of technical website adviser and to appoint Jeremy Westerfield to the position. The motion was seconded and approved.
- The cost of website hosting will need to be added to budget for 2020.
Program speakers: Carolyn Leonard of Oklahoma stated the speakers for the 2017 Dutch Cousins Gathering are lined up and ready to provide a variety of topics.
- Thursday night, after setting up the room and displays by the chairpersons, Debra Rinard of Kentucky presented “The ABCs of DNA.” We were unable to distribute and collect DNA samples as planned because The FamilyTreeDNA warehouse was badly damaged in last week’s Houston, Texas hurricane. This did not allow the products to be shipped in time, so Ms. Rinard also presented “DNA Project, Info & Collecting or Getting Acquainted with Ancestry DNA” on Friday.
- Friday: Cheri Daniels, KY Historical Society Senior Librarian/ Reference Specialist and editor of “Blue Grass Roots” magazine spoke on researching “Dutch History in Kentucky,” Amalie Preston of Kentucky spoke on “Exciting events at the Old Mud Meetinghouse” and “Donate your Genealogy to Low Dutch Archives.” JoAnn Adams, from the 6-mile Old Dutch Meetinghouse of Pleasureville, KY, showed how our ancestors made amazing fabric creations from wool for their homes. Vince Akers presented the Keynote on Friday evening, “Low Dutch Massacres and Defeats.”
- Saturday, after Group Photos is the trip to Shelbyville for the Long Run Massacre re-enactment by the Painted Stone Settlers group. Saturday night keynote speaker, Eddie Price presented in costume “Remember the Raisin” in regard to the 1812 war in Kentucky.
- Sunday: Caravan to Harrodsburg for an 1800s worship service and communion at the Old Mud Meeting house; conducted by Russell Gasero, archivist of the Reformed Church Archives in New Jersey. Many of our Dutch Cousins volunteered to serve as elders, deacons, and ushers.
Dutch Tee Shirts Fundraiser Dennis & Carole Karwatka of Kentucky
stated she preordered 82 bright purple tee shirts from her local Holbrooks Embroidery Plus store in Morehead, Kentucky at a cost of $644.48. She ordered 125 matching bags online from Crestline at a cost of $434.82, which were mailed direct to her. When the shirts were ready Carole picked them up, ironed all the bags and shirts, and brought them to the 2017 gathering. Still on hand are three 2017 Purple Tee Shirts, and 27 Tee Shirts from previous years; 70 purple tote bags, 25 red bags, and 62 white bags. These extras were left with the treasurer Janice Cozine to store until the next Dutch Cousins gathering in 2019.
Hospitality Gene & Carol Heathcoat of Texas,
reported they served coffee and pastries in the hallway outside the meeting room at the Kentucky Historical Society on Friday and Saturday.
Book Displays Joan Murray of Illinois
coordinated the book display in the meeting room. Books authored by Joan Murray and Carolyn Leonard were offered for signing and sale. Grace Banta’s book; “Gracelia, No One’s Child” was displayed and promoted as demonstrating how to write a family history.
Silent Auction Bill & Gail Hoag of Oklahoma
stated there were 51 items given to the silent auction for the 2017 gathering raising $582.00.

Publicity & Planning Denise Merideth Perry of Tennessee reported she printed 570 copies of the biennial newsletter, prepared by Carolyn Leonard, which were mailed to cousins on the mailing list. There were 30 returned due to incorrect addresses and remailed.
- Carolyn Leonard of Oklahoma City emails The Dutch Letters, a “Round Robin” of letters from cousins, updating information and information about the biennial Dutch Cousins gathering. The Letters go to almost 600 families several times a month. She sent press report(s) to ten newspapers in Kentucky and other states. The Dutch Cousins gathering is advertised regularly on several Facebook and internet sites.
HHS Dutch archives & Research Day Amalie Preston of Kentucky discussed activities occurring with the Harrodsburg, KY Dutch Archives. A $10,000 donation has been received from Corning Incorporated towards restoration at the Old School. Monday, Sept 11, the Historical Society Research Library will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for research. Plans for the Old Schoolhouse are being developed, including the configuration of bathrooms and a dressing room. These facilities are needed to enable events to be held at the Old Mud Meeting House including weddings and baptisms. Three weddings have already been held there in 2017, including the wedding of Hope Steele Hasty, one of our Dutch Cousins who is a Cozine descendant.
Photography Charlie Westerfield of Kentucky remains the official photographer for the event. A CD can be ordered for a small ($10) fee. A group photograph and family surname pictures were taken on Saturday, Sept 9.
Surname Banners Tamara Fulkerson of Kentucky displayed the surname banners she created. These were displayed on the tables and will be used during picture taking by surname. There were 57 Dutch family surnames represented.
DAR/SAR Charlotte Olson of Illinois was introduced to the group. She came to assist attendees with DAR and SAR research and had lots of cousins keeping her table busy during the event.
Conewago Project Malcolm Banta of Florida
presented the status of a project to obtain Pennsylvania Historical Markers for the following sites: The Reformed Dutch Church of Conewago Colony; The Northern Low Dutch Cemetery; The Southern Low Dutch Cemetery; and “Father” Henry Banta’s Cabin near the northern cemetery on Swift Run Road. He investigated the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission rules on historical markers and learned that churches and cemeteries are generally not approved unless the nomination demonstrates that the subject meets certain criterion. He is currently pulling together interested parties to help with accessing Arthur Weaner’s records in the Adams County, PA Historical Society, and other pertinent records.
Westerfield Marker Charlie Westerfield of Kentucky presented the project status to obtain a marker for the Westerfield Massacre in or near the massacre site. There were three sites proposed as potential locations. After discussion, the members voted to have a committee of Charlie Westerfield, Eddie Cozine, Vince Akers, Steve Henry, & Lynn Rogers make final recommendation regarding location for the marker.
Also Charlie reported on plans to purchase and place a bench at the Old Mud Graveyard in memory of Claude Westerfield, who is now deceased. Claude was a charter member and one of the organizer(s) of the Dutch Cousins. He served as President from 2011, when the group was chartered, until 2013.

Old Business

There was no old business.

New Business

Recommendation to add office of Newsletter Editor
Carolyn Leonard suggested adding the position of Editor to coordinate the Dutch Letters round robin, and produce the annual newsletter. Denise Perry made the motion which was seconded and approved.
Nominations for 2017-2019 Officers and Board Members
Denise Perry presented the list of proposed nominations for the officers and board members. No recommendations or additions were made from the floor. Motion made, seconded and carried to elect the officers by acclamation.
- Nomination committee report
  Executive Committee:
  President: Charlie Westerfield of Kentucky
  Vice-President: Tamara Fulkerson of Kentucky
  Secretary: Denise Merideth Perry of Tennessee
  Treasurer: Janice Cozine of Kentucky
  Webmaster: Pam Ellingson of Wisconsin
  Finance Chairman: Vince Akers of Indiana
  Editor: Carolyn Leonard of Oklahoma
- Board of Directors:
  Malcom Banta of Florida
  Jim Cozine of Nevada
  Amalie Preston of Kentucky
Meeting location for 2019
King and Sharon Cole of Texas agreed to be coordinators for the 2019 Gathering. Several suggestions were made for the venue of the 8^thDutch Cousin Gathering and also to consider a bus trip to Conewago and New Jersey following the 2019 Gathering. Russell Gasero of New Brunswick, NJ, volunteered to help organize such a trip. The coordinators will check out various possibilities and confer with the new president and officers to set up the time, date, and place of the next gathering.

The Meeting adjourned at 12:00 noon. Most business can be conducted by email, so unless an emergency arises the next business meeting will be at the 8^h Dutch Cousins Gathering in 2019. Location of the next gathering to be determined and announced later.
Respectfully Submitted,
Denise Merideth Perry, Secretary
Attachment A: DC Final Expense Report

Letters 2/25/2018
Welcome to new officers! Here’s Janice’s treasurer’s report!

WELCOME NEW Dutch Cousin OFFICERS 2018-2019: from left, Board Member Amalie Preston, Secretary Denise Perry, Vice President Tamara Fulkerson, Board Member Malcolm Banta, Webmaster Pam Ellingson, Treasurer Janice Cozine, and President Charlie Westerfield.
(Not pictured: Board Member Jim Cozine and Newsletter editor Carolyn Leonard)

Notice we had 111 in attendance at the 2017 Dutch Cousins Gathering from EIGHTEEN states. I don’t think that includes the 70 who attended Old Mud services in Harrodsburg. Let’s see if we can top that in 2019!
The Board must now decide on how much can be donated to Old Mud. Vince recommends the $530 collection taken up during the Sunday church service and the silent auction which took in $582; so, perhaps a total of $1,112 or round up to a little more. Our Old Mud is in good shape now but the 1900s schoolhouse beside OM still needs help!
Amount to keep in bank as seed money for 2019 – at least $1,000 and I’d suggest raising to $1,500 as it was a little tight this year. (We carried over $1,262 from 2015) We need to have a base for the next gathering, and want to have funds on hand to send out another newsletter.
If we donate $1,112 to the Old Mud project, and $100 to the Westerfield marker, that leaves $650 surplus in the bank account above the 2019 seed money. It would also be good if we could donate some to the Painted Stone Settlers, since we came out a little ahead on that event, thanks to Lynn Rogers’ diligence in arrangments.
The new officers will need to decide what fundraisers to keep and if they need to come up with some new ones. For 2017, the Tee Shirt sales brought in $199 net, the ornaments, lapel pins and previous year tee-shirts brought in $149. Not a lot, but every bit helps. We paid more for using the history center room this year, and also –for the first time– paid some of our speakers, so that will be a subject for the next administration. Where do we go from here?

The good news is we came out in the black again!

Letters 2/26/2018

King and Sharon Cole, CO-ORDINATORS FOR THE 2019 GATHERING — More info coming soon!

GOOD READING FOR DUTCH COUSINS

SENT BY: Patti Powell
Hi Carolyn:I am the daughter of the late Stuart Powell who passed away on Sept. 9, 2017. He was planning on attending the reunion in Oct. but unfortunately passed away from complications with pneumonia after falling and fracturing his hip in multiple places. Dad would always share with me the newsletters and we were always very interested in the Mud Meeting House in Mercer Co.My husband Vince DiMartino had talked to dad about maybe playing out there during one of the meetings or reunions since he is a very fine musician that would be a nice touch to include. (Note from Carolyn herself) Oh Patti, I am so sorry to hear this. We just loved your dad. He was so kind to us and let us park our cars at his car dealership while we went on the Dutch Footprints to New Amersterdam trip in 2011. And he always came to see us at the Old Mud Meetinghouse. Your husband is a musician? I worked with dad at the dealership for the past 28 years and plan to continue right on, so you may still park cars there when the need arrives. I would like to make a donation on behalf of our family to go towards the repair of the Schoolhouse next to the Mudd Meeting House in Harrodsburg. Can you send me the information regarding name and address of where to mail the check and then also the correct information on who to make check out to?(NOTE: ALL donations gratefully accepted! We are not for profit but not 501c3. Send to Janice Cozine, Treasurer of Dutch Cousins of Kentucky, 170 River Cliff DriveMt Washington KY 40047) Vince DiMartino is my husband and he is well known in the education and brass world as a wonderful trumpet player and educator. He also loves Kentucky history and was fascinated by the Mud Meeting House and the Cemetary there where a trumpet player is laid to rest.We talked several times with dad about having some type of concert out there once it was in better repair and he was going to suggest that once the meeting house was repaired. He would try and play music that was significant for that time which would be interesting. Dad was much more knowledgeable about our family tree so I need to keep the interest alive. He talked about taking the bus trip to New York but wouldn’t go because of my mom’s illness.She is in the end of stage of Alzheimer’s and we have had 24/7 care for her now for almost 4 years. I continue to visit her everyday just as dad did and I just hope that she will be with him soon. Please let me know if you need anything else, I look forward to reading the newsletters!———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Denise Merideth Perry Calling for my prayer warriors. First meeting today (02/05) with Transplant Surgeon. How this moved so fast I cannot fathom but I know God, family and friends are boosting me up.
I’m putting my faith in God that he still has plans for me and this will be just a slight detour.
God bless all of you and may you also feel Gods peace and love for whatever is going on in your life. ———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Melona GallagherI would love to join the ranks with my closest relative being Van Nuys, leading back to Bantas. Our line left Iowa for Saskatchewan, Canada in the early 1900s.
Isaac Van Nice (Leah Banta) to William Van Nice (Elizabeth Elston) to Charles Van Nice (Ella Warfield Guy) to Euretta Van Nice (John Wesley Bailey) … my great grandparents.
Looking forward to the conversations!
Most sincerely,
~ Melona Gallagher———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Della Nash(Carolyn says – Great info here!!)(from The Wilderness Road to Kentucky, by Wm. Allen Pusey.)The trace marked by Boone led from the Watauga River in East Tennessee (Sycamore Shoals, Carter County) by way of Long Island to Moccasin Gap near Gate City, where it met the Big Road from Philadelphia and Richmond, and extended along the old trail to Powell Valley, through which it passed to Cumberland Gap. From here Boone followed the Warrior’s Path across the ford of the Cumberland, just below Pineville Gap, and down the Cumberland to Flat Lick. At this place he left the main trail and took the old Buffalo Trace, which led cross country to the Hazel Patch near Rockcastle River, and then continued up Roundstone Creek to a gap in Big Hill (Boone’s Gap, two miles southeast of Berea) and on to Otter Creek and the Kentucky River, where Fort Boonesborough was built, near what is now Ford in Madison County.Daniel Boone entered Kentucky through Cumberland Gap, and traveled a N. 81 W. course, crossing Little Yellow Creek twice, to Big Yellow Creek and across; thence to and over the Log Mountains and across Clear Creek to Cumberland Ford; thence across and down the river to Flat Lick (from Cumberland Gap to Old Flat Lick he had followed the Warrior’s Path); thence, leaving the Warrior’s Path around Culton Hill to the present road (U.S. 25E) at Evergreen; thence with said road generally to Trace Branch of Fighting Creek; thence up the same and over the water divide to Trace Branch of Little Richland Creek; thence down the same and Little Richland Creek to Heidrick and across; thence to the present road (U.S. 25 E.) near the junction of the Barbourville road on the north side; thence with the same to the old ford of Big Richland Creek north of the rock dwelling of Walter Evans and across; thence up Big Richland Creek, past Bailey’s (Logan’s old ford) to the mouth of the Main Fork; thence up the Main Fork to the mouth of Tunnel Hill Fork; thence up said fork and over a water divide to about one-quarter of a mile south of Rossland; thence to and across U.S 25 E. at Parker’s store, about one mile from the top of Gillum [sic, Gilliam] Hill and the headwaters of Lynn Camp Creek; from thence via Sam Black’s home and north of Grays to the present Laurel County line, from thence north westwardly, past the home of Dan F. Westerfield, near and south of the present Fletcher Post Office, through the farm of Campbell Smith, south of Camp Ground, to and past Raccoon Spring, on the farm of Hugh Elliott (deeds on record in the Laurel County Courthouse definitely identity the spring on the Elliott farm as Raccoon Spring, from Anna Black to Hugh Elliott, J.K. Lewis to Anna Black, and others). From thence north westwardly to the present Fariston, thence north westwardly to Defeated Camp (Levi Jackson State Park), from thence north westwardly across Little Laurel River to the London Courthouse, thence northeast in the vicinity of the old Bill Lovelace farm through the land recently owned by Elmer Hale to the top of the hill; thence down McFarland Branch (site of McFarland’s defeat) to Big Raccoon Creek and northwest to Little Raccoon about the Feltner farm, by Mt. Pleasant, and across; thence northwest to Wood’s Blockhouse (Hazelpatch); thence over Hazelpatch Creek and across country to the headwaters of Parker’s Creek, and down the same to the Rockcastle River and across.

George Disney, 84 years of age and George Owens, 75 years of age (1938) remember seeing trees along Boone’s route, which they were told, were blazed by him and members of his party. According to these gentlemen
STATIONS ON THE BOONE TRACE
BETWEEN CUMBERLAND GAP AND CRAB ORCHARD

B	Brown	Filson	Speed

From Cumberland Gap to Yellow Creek	2	0	0
From Yellow Creek to Cumberland River	13	13	15
From Cumberland River (Ford) to Flat Lick	9	9	9
From Flat Lick to Stinking Creek	0	2	2
From Stinking Creek to Little Richland Creek	10	0	0
From Little Richland Creek to Big Richland Creek	1	7	7
Down Richland Creek	0	8	0
From Big Richland Creek to Robinson Creek	10	0	0
From Robinson Creek to Raccoon Springs	1	6	14
From Raccoon Springs to Laurel River	2	2	2
From Laurel River to Little Laurel River	5	0	0
From Little Laurel River to Raccoon Creek	8	0	0
From Raccoon Creek to Hazel Patch	4	15	15
From Hazel Patch to Rockcastle River	13	10	10
From Rockcastle River to Scagg’s Creek	5	0	0
From Scagg’s Creek to Head of Dick’s Creek	15	0	0
From Dick’s to English Station	8	25	0
From English Station to Crab Orchard	3	3	0

The above table of distances between points on the Boone Trace was taken from The Wilderness Road to Kentucky, by Wm. Allen Pusey. https://www.knoxhistoricalmuseum.org/history/ and click on Elmer Deckers writing on Boone trace throught Knox County, Ky ———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Ivalee Wheaton BrockMelinda Willcoxin was my great grandmother. Her father was direct in line from Daniel and Squire Boone’s sister, Sarah. I don’t remember now which of your descendants was married to a Boone. I think you told me it was Squire, Jr. There are not that many between Sarah and John Willcoxin and my Great great grandfather. I have a lot of pictures and Basil and I went to the Grayspoint cemetery and found their graves and found the homestead where they lived. Fun.I have their names somewhere. I did this several years ago so will have to hunt it up. However, you will be interested in this, the girl on the other side is the great grand mother of the Fords and Harmon’s who live here. You know, the Hoefer girls and Avery Ford’s family. (note: Many of our Dutch cousins of Kentucky tie in with the Boones families and will find this picture a treasure. Thanks Ivalee for sending)———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Lorine McGinnis Schulze“For some time now I have been writing about various New Netherland settlers and publishing them on Amazon.com and Amazon.caIf this is of interest to you please have a look either at my list of publications onhttps://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/nnbooks.shtml or by going to my author page on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Lorine-McGinnis-Schulze/e/B00MCWXLA0 “
— Follow genealogy news on my blog http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com
———————————————————————————————————SENT BY:Deone PercyIt is my understanding that the Ryker / Riker Family Association disbanded and became part of the Dutch Cousins. Therefore, what is currently the best source for researchers of the Ryker family?
Did they leave a website behind or any source for information?
I receive the Dutch Cousins email newsletters but it seems the Rykers got put on the back burner.

I am a direct descendant of Gerardus Ryker (1740-1781) and his wife Rachel Demaree through their son Samuel Ryker (1769-1833) and his wife Barbara Fullenwider. Samuel and Barbara’s daughter Mary Jane Ryker married Samuel Caplinger (1791- ca 1860) and their daughter Susannah (Caplinger) Deal
Black is my 3rd great grandmother.

I am trying to gather primary source information on all my ancestors to prove up any Revolutionary War soldiers for the DAR.

NOTE: My suggestion would be to write to them. 220 South Chiles St, Harrodsburg KY 40330. And wait for some replies to come to this newsletter.)———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Mary Woodfill ParkThe Holland Dames is publishing a history of the Society and it should be out by June or July.
We would like to donate copies of the book to various libraries across the country that might be interested in Dutch genealogy.
Do you know of libraries and/or Historical Societies? If not, do you know someone who knows?
Hope all is well with you.
My best,
Mary

Letters 3/5/2018

(The family of G.W.WILLCOCKSON, back row left is daughter Malinda. They were connected with the Boone family and several of our Low Dutch. If you can identify the people in the picture, please send the info to me)

How to make deductible donations to Old Mud … and LOTS more…

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Part of my reply got cut off, the reply to Patti Powell’s question about how to donate money: (NOTE: ALL donations gratefully accepted! We are not for profit, but not a 501c3 —but Old Mud owner Harrodsburg Historical Society is!. Send donations to keep Dutch Cousins going to: Janice Cozine, Treasurer of Dutch Cousins of Kentucky, 170 River Cliff DriveMt Washington KY 40047) For 501c3 tax deductible gifts to OldMud and the schoolhouse, AND for donations to the Low Dutch Archives, send to:Harrodsburg Historical Society220 South Chiles StHarrodsburg KY 40330and be sure to put “Dutch Cousin donation” in the lower left “notes” section on your check. For more info call them: ‭(859) 734-5985‬http://www.dutchcousins.org/harrodsburg-historical-society/http://www.harrodsburghistorical.org/ MORE about HHS: Regular Hours* Sunday & Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
1st & 3rd Saturday: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
*If you are from out of town and would like to schedule an appointment for the second & fourth Saturdays, please call at least one week in advance.WINTER HOURS
Remember we may be closed during the winter months due to weather so please call to verify first before visiting us.
———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Tamara Fulkerson

BUS TOUR: AN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR OF CENTRAL KENTUCKYLed by JOHN DAVID MYLESMay 11-12, 2018Join The Filson Historical Society for a two-day bus tour and enjoy an evening at one of the state’s most historic and charming places to spend the night, The Beaumont Inn. This tour will highlight several historic sites and private homes in Mercer and Boyle Counties which document the architectural history of the area from its earliest days through 1860. Some of our destinations will include:The Old Mud Meeting HouseThe Ephraim McDowell HouseClay Lancaster’s WarwickBehinds the scenes tour of the renovations at Shaker Village at Pleasant HillSt. Philip’s Episcopal Church in HarrodsburgParticipation fees are $220 for Filson members and $270 for non-members. This fee includes lunches, a dinner/cocktail reception, and admission to historic sites. Registration for the tour ends April 9! Participants are responsible for making their own accommodations at The Beaumont Inn. Special hotel rates and rooms are only guaranteed until March 15!For more info: The Filson Historical Society1310 S. 3rd St.
Louisville, KY 40208
(502) 635-5083

———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Ivalee Wheaton BrockMelinda Willcoxin was my great grandmother. Her father was direct in line from Daniel and Squire Boone’s sister, Sarah. I don’t remember now which of your descendants was married to a Boone. I think you told me it was Squire, Jr. There are not that many between Sarah and John Willcoxin and my Great great grandfather. I have a lot of pictures and Basil and I went to the Grayspoint cemetery and found their graves and found the homestead where they lived. Fun.I have their names somewhere. I did this several years ago so will have to hunt it up. However, you will be interested in this, the girl on the other side is the great grandmother of the Fords and Harmon’s who live here. You know, the Hoefer girls and Avery Ford’s family. (note: Trying again to include the Willcocksin family photo. Many of our Dutch cousins of Kentucky tie in with the Boones families and will find this picture a treasure. Thanks Ivalee for sending)———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Joyce CollinsGood to hear that the Cousins are in the black financially. ———————————————————————————————————SENT BY:Lorine McGinnis Schulze“For some time now I have been writing about various New Netherland settlers and publishing them on Amazon.com and Amazon.caIf this is of interest to you please have a look either at my list of publications onhttps://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/nnbooks.shtml or by going to my author page on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Lorine-McGinnis-Schulze/e/B00MCWXLA0 “
— Follow genealogy news on my blog http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com
———————————————————————————————————SENT BY:Deone PercyIt is my understanding that the Ryker / Riker Family Association disbanded and became part of the Dutch Cousins. Therefore, what is currently the best source for researchers of the Ryker family?
Did they leave a website behind or any source for information?
I receive the Dutch Cousins email newsletters but it seems the Rykers got put on the back burner.

I am trying to gather primary source information on all my ancestors to prove up any Revolutionary War soldiers for the DAR.

Any information or direction for Ryker research would be greatly appreciated.
Deone Pearcy(NOTE from Carolyn – Hi Deone and thanks for writing. We have many Ryker descendants on this mailing list and I am sure that some of them can help you. As I recall when the Ryker/Riker family disbanded and joined forces with us, they simply gave us money and some great ink pens. We do not keep family research files as such, but encourage everyone to donate their family Dutch history files to the archives at Harrodsburg Historical Society. My suggestion would be to write to HHS.
220 South Chiles StHarrodsburg KY 40330. And wait for some replies to come to this newsletter from other Ryker descendants.)———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Mary Woodfill ParkThe Holland Dames is publishing a history of the Society and it should be out by June or July.
We would like to donate copies of the book to various libraries across the country that might be interested in Dutch genealogy.
Do you know of libraries and/or Historical Societies? If not, do you know someone who knows?
Hope all is well with you.
My best,
Mary

About the Historical Records Book
Essays provide insight into the ways we have achieved our original objectives to perpetuate the memory and promote the virtues of our Dutch ancestors, to collect and preserve genealogical and historical documents relating to the Dutch in America, to encourage excellence in historical research relating to the Dutch in America, and to establish durable memorials in lasting tribute to the early Dutch settlers.   The Society of Daughters of Holland Dames. Historical Records Book 1895 – 2017 also includes reprints of the Society’s Record Books of 1907, 1913, and 1933. These Record Books contain the original criteria for membership in the Society, our papers of incorporation, and a list of Members with their Dutch ancestors. The list of ancestors details the service(s) these men and women played in shaping the colony of New Netherland.  We believe these Record Books are of historic value, as they were an important early start in recording the seventeenth-century families of New Netherland and their service to the Colony at a time when that history had been largely forgotten or overlooked. In addition, there is a list of the Society’s Members with their ancestors from 1934 to 2017, continued from the Third Record Book. We have also reprinted Firth Haring Fabend’s lovely A Catch of Grandmothers. A Poem.———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Preston ForsytheThank you for the update and newsletter. My Mother was a Westerfield in Ohio County, KY. We attended the Westerfield Reunion two years ago and hope to again in the future. Please update me on the Westerfield Marker? Is this a hwy marker near Old Mud. (NOTE: CHARLIE Westerfield: Are you ready to give the group an update?)Committee and Friends,I am filing the required documents with the Historical Marker Board today.I am sending all the documents to the Dutch Cousins and our Friends.I wish to thank the committee and our friends at the The Bullitt County History Museum for all your hard work and dedication!Now the ball is in their court.Thanks,Charlie Westerfield———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Vince Akers
You asked for my thoughts regarding Dr. Andrew Patrick’s cautions about the subjective nature of the term massacre and whether such an emotionally-laden term should be used on our proposed historical markers for the Westerfield Massacre. Dr. Patrick thinks this may be a sore point with the marker committee and suggests replacing massacre with a more neutral term such as attack.

First of all, Dr. Patrick and the committee are to be commended for making the integrity and accuracy of the Kentucky Highway Marker Program a priority. Dr. Patrick’s comments on the wording of our proposed markers have been very helpful and thoughtful.

This is a healthy exercise to challenge us Dutch Cousins to reflect on the use of the term massacreand make sure we are not over dramatizing the event. The term is indeed emotionally laden. Even today it is all too freely and subjectively used to disparage and condemn the actions of opponents in conflicts where both sides are equally culpable. Historical writing is full of the same over use. There is absolutely no question that both sides committed massacres and atrocities during the American Revolution and subsequent Indian Wars. All of this makes it absolutely appropriate that we demonstrate based upon historical evidence that the term massacre correctly applies to this event and that the application has some historical significance. I believe we can do that.

Webster defines massacre as 1 : the killing of many persons under cruel or atrocious circumstances 2 : a wholesale slaughter. The incident certainly qualifies as a massacre under those definitions. The Westerfield party was attacked during the early morning hours as all of the men, women and children were asleep. There was no resistance and there were no casualties among the attackers. Except for two teenage girls taken away as prisoners, the only ones who escaped were those who fled into the darkness of the surrounding forest during the initial moments of the attack. It is the disposition of the captured survivors—mostly women and children—who were briefly held prisoners after that initial attack that qualifies the event as a massacre. Except for the two girls taken to Detroit, the prisoners one-by-one were methodically tested, killed and scalped. A nephew of one of the girls taken away to Detroit told Lyman C. Draper (Draper Manuscripts 24C145) that one mother watched helplessly as her children were taken from her one after another and slain. When they came to take her infant out of her arms the despondent mother held on to the child screaming for its safety. The mother was killed on the spot with a hatchet and scalped. Her infant was then taken by the heels and its brains beat out against a tree.

This sorting and killing of prisoners is well documented in completely separate lengthy accounts of the event in the Draper Manuscripts (the nephew, Hiram Stafford’s account at 24C145 and Rev. John D. Shane’s interview with a daughter of a survivor at 13CC9-12). The event is specifically referred to as a massacre by both Hiram Stafford (24C148¹) and John Ryker, one of the militia who went to bury the dead (Revolutionary War pension application R9129).

The Westerfield Massacre holds historical significance in that the most atrocious circumstance of the massacre was used just shortly after the event to illustrate the distress of the Kentucky inhabitants at the time. This can very clearly be seen from John Floyd’s April 16, 1781 letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of Virginia and future President of the United States. Floyd thanked Jefferson for his appointment as Colonel of the Militia of Jefferson County, but informed him he must postpone recruiting the county’s quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army. Floyd told Governor Jefferson that 47 Jefferson County inhabitants have been killed or taken since the first of the year “and a large proportion of the inhabitants are helpless, indigent widows & orphans” many of whom “must inevitably starve” if the remaining men were to serve as regular soldiers. Floyd described the dire situation of the county with a direct reference to the Westerfield Massacre that had occurred earlier that same month:

     “Whole families are destroyed, without regard to age or sex. Infants are torn from their mothers arms & their brains dashed out against trees, as they are necessarily removing from one fort to another for safety or convenience. Not one week passes & some weeks scarcely a day without some of our distressed inhabitants feeling the fatal effects of the infernal rage and fury of those execrable Hell hounds.”

For very obvious reasons, I would certainly not propose that any of the gruesome details of the massacre be commemorated on the historical markers. However, in view of the well-documented accounts of what took place, I would recommend that the Dutch Cousins respectfully request Dr. Patrick and the committee allow the markers to use the term massacre in the title of the event. Should anyone ever question the use of that term as applied to this event, they can immediately be directed to the three-part series of articles currently appearing in Bluegrass Roots (October 2017, January 2018 and April 2018) for a detailed description and documentation of an event that clearly qualifies as a massacre.

Use of the term massacre to appropriately describe this specific event does not imply that that the pioneer settlers were blameless in the larger causes of the period conflicts or that they did not also perpetrate massacres and other atrocities. In fact, based on Dr. Patrick’s original comments, the wording we have proposed for the markers reminds readers that the lands of Native Americans were being taken by settlers leading to raids such as the one that fell upon the Westerfield group.
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SENT BY: If anyone  is needing research in the Dutch archives, let me know. Theresa & Earl Westerfield Jr  (NOTE: What a generous offer, Cousin Theresa! Members, send the request to me and I will pass it on to Theresa.)
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Letters 4/9/2018

Duree family descendants at the 2017 Dutch Cousins Gathering: Amalie Preston and Mary Jo Gohmann of Kentucky, David Heathcoat and parents, Gene and Carol Heathcoat of Texas.

Save the date! September 13-15, 2019

BIG NEWS! Janice Cozine just whispered this to me … Tell the Cousins to SAVE THE DATES: we are working towards the 2nd OR 3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering.
Sept. 13,14,15 OR Sept. 20,21,22, 2019
We almost lost our Incredibly efficient Silent Auction chairs – Bill and Gayle Hoag — who are scheduled to go on a cruise the last weekend of September, so let’s try to keep these two weekends open – the 2nd and 3rd weekend of September 2019. And hope very soon to have a definite date and place. Also, I heard by the grapevine that our faithful hospitality chairs, Gene and Carol Heathcoat of Texas may be in need of prayers due to some health issues. We love each and every one of our Dutch cousins and wish the best for them.
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SENT BY: Della Nash

Vanarsdall Marriage License and Certificate

by Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, To any Minister of the Gospel, or other Person legally authorized to solemnize Matrimony.

You are permitted to solemnize the Rites of Matrimony between Garret W. Patterson and Cynthia E. Vanarsdall, the requirements of the law having been complied with.

Witness my signature as Clerk of Mercer County Court, this 1st day of January 1866. C. R. Allin, Clerk———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Della Nash

This is to Certify, that on the second day of January 1866, the Rites of Marriage were legally solemnized by me, between Garret W. Patterson and Cynthia E. Vanarsdall, at Henry Vanarsdall’s, in the County of Mercer in the presence of Smith Rose and John Rose.

Signed, L. MarrettNOTE: For some reason, the beautiful certificates will not reproduce in this letter, but Della has them so if these are your ancestors let me know and we will find a way to get you a copy.
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SENT BY: Pam Ellingson
Pam, our webmaster, sent word that her mother, Beverly Ellingson, who attended the Dutch Cousin’s gathering a few years ago is no longer with us. Beverly J. Ellingson, 89, of the Town of New Hope, Portage County, Wisconsin,passed away Sunday, March 11, 2018 at North Haven in Stevens Point.
Memorial Service will be held at North New Hope Lutheran Church at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 24th, with Reverend Michael Peuse officiating. Our condolences to Pam and family.
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SENT BY: Diane Carkhuff

Hi Carolyn, something to pass along…One Day Annual Dutch Festival in Chicago
For those interested in going a step higher to help raise funds for the developmentally disabled at Elim Christian Services, the next annual Dutch Festival is in Crestwood IL on September 22. For more information visit www.elimcs.org/dutch-festival/

Diane Carkhuff, Long Island/New Netherlands ancestors: Cornelius Albertson and (supposed) Anthony Jansen van Salee (Hutcheson/Ketcham/Van Sickle line)
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SENT BY: Valerie Baxter

I’d like to be on the mailing list for the Dutch Cousins.

My connection is… Deborah Westerfield was married to James Baxter in Kentucky. One of their children was William Baxter (b. 1797), his son was Williamson Baxter (b. 1845), and his son was Oliver Otto Baxter (b. 1885) — our grandfather. James and Deborah moved to Jefferson County, Indiana and died there in 1826. My father, Norman Baxter, was the son of Oliver Otto Baxter
(NOTE: VALERIE YOU HAVE BEEN ADDED!)
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SENT BY: Carolyn

Harrodsburg Historical Society newsletter this month has very interesting article about the Greenville institute (now known as Beaumont Inn). It was on the farm of Dutchman Capt. Lucas Van Arsdale. I am pretty sure this would be the Luke Van Arsdale who married Jane Cozine in Conewago 1774 and they were in Mercer County at the “head of Salt River” before Nov. 2, 1795. He had a 228-acre land grant in Mercer county on Salt River in 1790.

Anyway it is a fascinating story about the Greenville Inst. Says that in the early 1800s “there were 21 cottages and a large framed tavern on the Dutchman’s farm” and “so many tourists visited that first season that bed linens had to be rented from several Harrodsburg families.”

Membership of $20 year gets you the quarterly newsletter and other benefits. Best little research library (especially for Dutch cousins) in the world! http://www.harrodsburghistorical.org/
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SENT BY: Kentucky Genealogical Society

Dear Carolyn,

The Spring 2018 issue of Bluegrass Roots is now available to all KGS members.

In this issue:

Details about this year’s KGS Seminar and its nationally acclaimed presenter, Paula Stuart-Warren
Part 3 of 3: The Westerfield Massacre of April 1781
The introduction of a new, continuing feature: “Genealogy How-To.”
Get-acquainted articles about two KGS board members
A list of KGS 2nd Saturday Genealogy programs scheduled for April thru August
. . . and more.

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SENT BY: Carolyn

From:
The Banta Genealogy, T.M. Banta, pgs. 49-58…….It is needless to tell you the reflections we endure; but our nation here in general are liberal and generous, and look upon themselves to be superior to a number of others. They are daily increasing; we expect soon to be able to make up 500 dollars yearly as a salary. We have now made up 300 dollars and if well united might do more, but we hope that God shall forbid that we should be any longer without a minister. This much for your consideration, praying that if you have it in your power to help us, to let no means pass by, so that we might once more become a church and nation. On expectation of your aid and assistance, your petitioners shall ever pray.

   HENDRICK BANTA, GARRET DORLAND,
   ALBERT BANTA, LUCAS VAN ARSDALEN,
   JOHN SMOCK, SIMON VAN ARSDALE,
   ISAAC VAN NUYS, ISAAC VAN ARSDALEN,
   ABRAHAM BREWER, LAURENCE DE MOTT.
   CORNELIUS A. VAN ARSDALEN,

Kentucky, Mercer Co., the Head of Salt River,
November 2, 1795.
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SENT BY: Jack Taylor

Thanks, very interesting.

First, the museum dates from the 1700’s and has some valuable collections.

Second, since names often exist in different languages with slightly different spellings trying to keep it phonetically the same, that spelling could be one of the many spellings of TAYLOR. (Or, should I use the earlier French spelling that became TAYLOR)

Third, Sometimes names are translated. SCHNEIDER is TAYLOR in German. And, many years ago I had a friend by the same name as I, Jack TAYLOR. He and I researched it. It turned out to have been a translated Dutch Name, KLEERMAKER.

Thought you would enjoy this.

https://www.teylersmuseum.nl/en?gclid=Cj0KCQiAsK7RBRDzARIsAM2pTZ8KHTL-17G5vdX3FJaDvBWoI4mDmJF9LIH8wBVdfzl1UI6EQCb9pCIaAj6rEALw_wcB

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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas

Please join The New Amsterdam History Center
For a visit to
The Vander-Ende – Onderdonk House
and a lecture by Archeologist & HIstoric Preservation Specialist
Alyssa Loorya
President of Chrysalis Archeology
GONE BY NOT FORGOTTEN
THE DUTCH OF WESTERN LONG ISLAND
On Thursday, May 10, 2018
5 to 7 PM
1820 Flushing Avenue,Ridgewood, (Queens) New York
The history of the Dutch within present-day New York City has long been overshadowed by the British in our popular historical narrative. However, Dutch influences and contributions remain throughout the physical and cultural landscape. Within Brooklyn and Queens historical archaeology has looked at material culture, architecture, and documentary history to better understand Dutch-American lifeways and contributions to the history of New York City. Studies of properties such as the Onderdonk House, the Hendrick I. Lott House, and Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House provide insight into the development of the City and our collective history.

The Onderdonk House is a charming and well maintained early 18

^th to late 19

^th century house, a combination of Dutch and later architecture. It is named for the two Dutch Families who lived there. It was built by Paulus Vander Ende, a Dutch farmer around 1709 on the land previously owned by Hendrik Barentsz, a silversmith and farmer who lived there around 1650. The Onderdonk family, also Dutch farmers, bought the house at the beginning of the 19

^th century and successive generations of Onderdonks lived in the house for almost 100 years.

Reserve early, space is limited —

$10 NAHC Members; $15 Non-members
Send an Email to

NAHCeberg@gmail.comor go to

events@newamsterdamhistorycenter.org or call 212-874-4702

If you would like to support our programs or become a sponsor of one of our upcoming events, visit us on the web:http://newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/support.
You are receiving this email because you are a current or past member of the NAHC or have attended one of the events organized by the NAHC.

Directions: Bus Q-54 passes and stops two blocks away at the intersection of Flushing and Metropolitan Avenues. Bus B-57 passes the house on Flushing Avenue. “L” subway line to Jefferson Street (Brooklyn) stop; proceed five blocks north (right) along Flushing Avenue. On street car and bike parking is available, plentiful, and free!

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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas
The New Netherland Institute now offers an annual $1,000 prize for the best published article relating to the Dutch colonial experience in the Atlantic world, with a special sensitivity to New Netherland or its legacy. For information on the Prize and how to apply, please go to
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/awards/prize-for-the-best-published-article/
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SENT BY: Vince Akers
The third and final installment of the three-part series “The Westerfield Massacre: When and Where Was It” appears now in the Spring 2018 issue of Bluegrass Roots, the on-line quarterly journal of the Kentucky Genealogical Society. This third part deals with the location of the massacre. The precise location continues to elude us, but the article cites and analyzes the evidence of the general area of the massacre. Part 1 of the series (Fall 2017 Bluegrass Roots) described the massacre itself and Part 2 (Winter 2018 Bluegrass Roots) pinned down the correct date of the event. I would encourage Dutch Cousins to invest $20 in a membership to the Kentucky Genealogical Society (Google search kygs.org) where these and all the Bluegrass Roots quarterly journals since 2011 when it went digital can be viewed and even downloaded as PDFs. Members can also view handouts and videos of past conference lectures put on by the KGS and view early Kentucky tax lists and other information such as Bible records (there’s even a Banta family family).

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SENT BY: New Netherland Institute: For the third time in as many summers, we are taking New Netherland “on the road.” This year, in partnership with the Old Stone House, we are visiting Brooklyn for a Friday evening and Saturday program. Follow the links for details and to be notified when registration opens.

We hope to see you at the Old Stone House in June.

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/index.php?cID=1486

Letters 5/2/2018

*Terhune family descendants at the September gathering: Amalie Preston, Bill and Gayle Hoag, Charlotte Olson, Mary Jo Gohmann, and Joan Murray.*

Save the Dates – 2019 Dutch Cousins Gathering

BIG NEWS! Janice Cozine just whispered this to me … Tell the Cousins to SAVE THE DATES: we are working towards the 2nd  OR  3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering.
Sept. 13,14,15    OR   Sept. 20,21,22, 2019
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SENT BY: Curt Biehn
Being a descendant of Captain Stagg and my lineage from Leah Brewer, it is a real pleasure to see mention of the names mentioned here. Some were by marriage into the family and some were acquaintances. I enjoy hearing of them as they are gradually emerging personalities to me.
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SENT BY: Joan Murray
Hi Carolyn, the daughter of one of my first cousins, has begun to take an interest in family genealogy. I told her about Dutch Cousins, and she seems interested. Would you please put her on the DC mailing list. Her name is Jane deLisser. She is a daughter of Marjorie Gray Gram, a cousin on the Banta side of the family. Her mother, now deceased was the oldest cousin on my father’s side of the family. Thanks, Joan Murray
Her info: Jane (Gram) deLisser
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SENT BY: Pam Ellingson
Oops! Subject (of the recent Dutch Letters) should be 2018 instead of 2019 (you’re already thinking of the gathering)
Beverly Ellingson who recently passed away was my Mother-in-law. My Mother, Beverly Ferguson, passed away in 2013. She is the Dutch Cousin who attended the gathering in 2009.
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Attn DELLA NASH

SENT BY:Debbi Allender
The PATTERSON-VanARSDALL marriage paperwork you shared caught my eye. Thank you so much for sharing it. I have a round-about way that I may be connected to this couple. Bear with me…

I became aware of Cynthia Ellen (VanARSDALL) PATTERSON when someone shared a newspaper article about her from Gibson County, IN. I am researching Christopher VanARSDALL (the most common spelling of his name) who also spent time in Gibson County, IN.  Cynthia (VanARSDALL) PATTERSON was using the same Van spelling and also ended up in the same place as Christopher, but many years later. The only documented family of Christopher’s is his daughter, Anne, who married Aaron LaGRANGE in Mercer County, KY in 1794 and later moved to Gibson County, IN. Since I’m at a brick wall with Christopher, it was worth checking out.

Cynthia VanARSDALL was born in 1846 and was the daughter of Henry VanARSDALL and Elizabeth ROSE. In several online trees, Henry is recorded as the son of Cornelius C. VanARSDALE. I haven’t found documentation, but it’s reasonable. There is documentation that Henry sometimes went by C. (Cornelius?) Henry VanARSDALL (various spellings).

Cornelius C. VanARSDALL was born around 1766 in New Jersey. He married Mary VANDERIPE in 1797 in Mercer County, KY. His bondsman was Christopher VanOSDALLEN. I can’t say for sure this is my Christopher, but it’s possible. If so, it’s also possible that this Christopher is Cornelius’ father (and perhaps the C. in Cornelius’s name refers to him). My Christopher was born around 1740 and lived in Somerset County, NJ.

Do you know of any obvious errors in my assumptions? Do you have any other documentation or information that would fill in some holes?

Thank you so much for sharing the marriage documents. Also thanks for wandering through my grasps at possible connections!

Debbi (LaGrange) Allender
(I know we have some Cornelius C. and Cornelius O Vanarsdall descendants who may be able to help Debbi. Please jump in here cousins.)
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SENT BY: Pam Ellingson

Check out the additions to the DutchCousins.org website.

There are several albums of photos from the 2017 Gathering posted under the resources and photo albums. (Thanks to Charlie Westerfield for these great photos!)

There are two new books (pdf’s) posted under the resources and documents section.
1. Walter Tallman Westervelt’s 1905 book – please be aware some of the pages are out of order and the book is known to contain many errors.
2. Historical Sketch of the Old Mud Meeting House – 1900

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SENT BY: Diane Long (new member)
I believe Samuel and Wyntie Banta Durie are my 6th great grandparents.

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SENT BY: Mark Mount
Subject: Samuel Leander Westerfield

My name is Mark Mount. I live in Livermore, CA. I was born and raised in Shelbyville, Shelby Co. IN. My maternal grandmother was a Westerfield from Manilla, Walker Township, Rush Co, IN. John Monfort Westerfield is my 3g-grandfather and Samuel Leander Westerfield is my 4g-grandfather. I am currently in the process of helping my daughter prepare an application for the DAR. My remaining issue with her application is proving the lineage between John Monfort and Samuel Leander Westerfield. Gary Stanford has been most helpful in providing me with a biographical sketch of John W. Westerfield, a son of John Monfort Westerfield, in which his grandfather, Samuel Westerfield, is mentioned. While I believe that this source should be sufficient for her purposes, I am lead to believe that the DAR may not agree. Consequently, I am looking for a second source of proof of lineage, e.g. obituary, family bible, court records of any kind, etc. Do you know of anyone within the Dutch Cousins community that shares the same lineage as I (John Monfort Westerfield to Samuel Leander Westerfield) that might be able to help me research this?
Thank you for any assistance that you can provide in this matter.
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SENT BY: Juiliete Aalthaia (born Westerfield)
I came across your website, www.dutchcousins.org, while researching my family tree. I am Tiltie Coy Westerfield’s granddaughter. This in turn takes me all the way back to the Netherland’s to being Dirk Van Westervelt’s 13th great-granddaughter.

James Cozine Westerfield is my 5th great-grandfather. I did complete my DNA tests to be sure. I received the results just a few days ago. I am including pictures of some matches of my dna family migrating to Kentucky.

Juiliete Aalthaia (born Westerfield)

NOTE: VOLUNTEER NEEDED. For years, Claude Westerfield was our contact to keep up with the Westerfield Genealogy. Last year we lost that dedicated giant who loved his Westerfield cousins. We need someone to pick up the torch. I know that Claude gave his giant workbook of genealogy charts and information to the Harrodsburg Historical Society, and also gave copies to different people. Who is our next hero?
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SENT BY: New Netherland Institute
Sounds like a great program – if any reader goes please send me a report for the newsletter. https://shop.newnetherlandinstitute.org/products/bringing-new-netherland-back-to-breuckelen-exploring-brooklyns-dutch-roots?variant=5488663724073

Bringing New Netherland Back to Breuckelen: Exploring Brooklyn’s Dutch
shop.newnetherlandinstitute.org
Friday – $75Saturday – $75Both Friday & Saturday – $125 For the third time in as many summers, the New Netherland Institute is taking New Netherland “on the road.” This year, in partnership with the Old Stone House, we are visiting New York City’s most populous borough. FRIDAY: 7:00–8:30 pm Enjoy drinks, including

Friday – $75
Saturday – $75
Both Friday & Saturday – $125

For the third time in as many summers, the New Netherland Institute is taking New Netherland “on the road.” This year, in partnership with the Old Stone House, we are visiting New York City’s most populous borough.

FRIDAY: 7:00–8:30 pm

Enjoy drinks, including a delicious punch prepared with Batavia-Arrack—the seventeenth-century spirit originally imported to the West by the Dutch East India Company (VOC)—as well as hors d’oeuvres in the OSH garden prepared by Jason Novick-Finder, the chef/owner of Gristmill—a Park Slope farm to table restaurant featuring foods prepared in a wood fired grill.

A talk by Island at the Center of the World author Russell Shorto titled “Old and New Amsterdam” will begin at 7:30 pm.

SATURDAY: 9:00am–4:00pm

8:30am
Registration – coffee & pastries

9:00 am
Welcome & Context
Kim Maier, OSH Executive Director
William Parry, PhD., OSH Board Member
Steve McErleane, New Netherland Institute

“The Dutch Golden Age and New Netherland”
Russell Shorto

New Netherland’s Major Settlements
Dennis Maika, New Amsterdam and western Long Island
Janny Venema, Beverwijck and Rensselaerswijck
Charles Gehring, the South River

Panel: “The Past, Present, and Future of New Netherland Scholarship”
Dennis Maika
Charles Gehring
Janny Venema
Andrea Mosterman

12:00-12:30: Lunch
Classic Italian deli sandwiches, including vegetarian options, green and pasta salads, cookies, coffee/tea/soda/water

“East and West on the East River, circa 1650 to 1720”
Len Tantillo

“Forgotten Residents: Brooklyn’s Black Population”
Andrea Mosterman

“Digging Breuckelen: The View from Archaeology”
Diana Wall & Anne-Marie Cantwell

Panel: New Netherland through public sites
Kamau Ware (Black Gotham Experience)
Melissa Branfman (Wyckoff House Museum)
John Krawchuk (The Historic House Trust of New York City)
Steven Jaffee (Museum of the City of New York)

4 pm – End
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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas

On May 1, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Marilyn Douglas <Marilyn.Douglas@NYSED.GOV> wrote:
I received this email and hope that someone will be able to help her – if so, email me and I’ll forward your response to her.

“I saw video about New Netherlands but i am deaf so i could not understand what it was talking about. I am looking for Osterhout family line. Does Osterhout sound familiar to you. I am looking for Jan Jansen Van Oosterhout he left Netherlands and i think he established New Netherlands i am not sure about that. I would like to get more info on Jan Jansen Van Oosterhout. If you do have info don’t you mind sharing info with me. I am very interested. Thanks LeeAnne”

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SENT BY: Janice Cozine
Eddie & I will be driving to Harrodsburg in the morning to meet with Amalie.
I will hand over the Dutch Cousins donation of $1500.00.
Janice Cozine
Dutch Cousin Treasurer.

Letters 5/9/2018

Read a Dutch will from KY 1822

BIG NEWS! Janice Cozine just whispered this to me … Tell the Cousins to SAVE THE DATES: we are working towards the 2nd OR 3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering.
Sept. 13,14,15 OR Sept. 20,21,22, 2019
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SENT BY: Carla Gerding

I have been referring many folks to our cousins news email in hopes that they can make their desired
Connections and learn more about their ancestors. I continue to be amazed at the number of Low Durch
Descendants who are just beginning their research and come thru Henry County. Does Larry still have
Copies of his book available? Had an interested party this week. CArla

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SENT BY: Katie Hortenstein
In response to Mark Mount’s question re: DAR member, please pass on my email information to him. I actually was the one to establish Samuel as a patriot in DAR and used the source he is referring to to prove Samuels migration pattern. I would love to try to help him and his daughters.
Best,
Katie
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SENT BY: Kentucky Genealogy Society
(Many of us have ancestors and relatives buried in the historic Frankfort Cemetery)

Saturday, May 12th
10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Chapel at Frankfort Cemetery
215 East Main Street Frankfort, Kentucky

The Frankfort Cemetery entrance is on East Main (U.S. 60) at Glenn’s Creek Road — about halfway between the Capital Avenue bridge and Martin Luther King Blvd (which runs between U.S. 60 and the East-West Connector). It is just a few blocks east of downtown Frankfort.

**The chapel has no restroom, but restrooms will be available in the cemetery office, which is the first structure on the right after entering the cemetery gate.**

TOPICS FOR THIS SPECIAL 2ND SATURDAY GENEALOGY EVENT:History of the Frankfort Cemetery Chapel.Short history of important people buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.Kentucky Cemetery laws and how they pertain to descendants.Access to family cemeteries.Best documentation methods.Best stone cleaning methods.Advocacy work for all.OUR PRESENTER: ANN JOHNSON
Ann Johnson is the sole proprietor of Sacred Ground, a company specializing in cemetery preservation consultation, workshops, and seminars.

Ann previously worked for the Kentucky Historical Society where she managed their Cemetery Preservation Program for 12 years. While there, in addition to holding workshops across the Commonwealth and managing the cemetery preservation database of registered cemeteries, she designed, wrote and developed the Kentucky Pioneer Cemetery Program and the Adopt a Cemetery Program for the Society. Ann recently retired from the Frankfort Cemetery.
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SENT BY: Kentucky Genealogical Society

Bluegrass Roots

Read the third and final segment in the “Westerfield Massacre” series; The Spring 2018 edition of Bluegrass Roots is available to download for Kentucky Genealogical Society members on the KGS website. Our editor, Fran Salyers, works hard to make this a fantastic read and benefit to members. We are always open to submissions of family photos, articles, mysteries, queries, events, and anything else of interest to our members. Please contact Fran at if you have anything to submit or suggest!
https://kentuckygenealogicalsociety.org/
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SENT BY: Kentucky Genealogical SocietyEarly Kentucky Tax Lists Online!

Pre-statehood and early-statehood tax records are now on this website for six early counties. Sign in and click on the “Early Kentucky Tax Lists” link.

https://kentuckygenealogicalsociety.org/

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SENT BY: Beverly DeMotte Santella
I’m a 5x great-grandchild of Lawrence DeMotte and Dorothy Vanderbeek (-beck) who moved from NJ just after the Revolutionary War to settle in Cove Spring KY . The DeMotte line goes back to Michiel DeMotte New World arrival:1665 at age 14). I have DeMotte info back to Holland as French Huegunots.

Dorothy Vanderbeek’s lineage is a mix of French Huegunot and Dutch and is traced back to Manhattan and Long Island to the earliest settler marriage of families Rapalje and Cortelyou.
Since their son, Richard, was a young adult at the time they moved to NJ (and who subsequently moved to PA from NJ), my main interest lies in the life and times of Lawrence DeMotte (1718-1800) and Dorothy Vanderbeek DeMotte (1729-1752-?) both of whom I believe are buried in Bonita Graveyard, Cove Springs, Mercer Cty, KY

Incidentally, the Richard DeMotte line thrived in PA, eventually about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Since I live in southwestern PA, I would be grateful for a list of resources I can research online as well as museum/historical locations/distant relatives that I could visit and/or request mailed information about Lawrence and Dorothy.
Thank you,
Beverly
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SENT BY: Rodney Dempsey
Here is a little information about our Dutch Cousins organization. Our best member, Carolyn Leonard, who has done everything there is to do with the Dutch Cousins, including being President, writing our Newsletter even down to the tiniest detail is my favorite Dutch Cousin She will become yours, too, when you meet her. I am asking her, by Copy of this email to include his email in your newsletter.

Zane Dempsey is a gradate of Western KY University, a Guidance Counsellor in Henderson County KY schools and a great-grandson of Lucy Demotte Dempsey, who connects him to Dutch Cousins. His Father was Fred Dempsey, Grandfather Marvin Dempsey. He is the only member of that family that has indicated an interest in Genealogy. My Sister Susan’s Husband, Dennis Gudorf, has done extensive research on our DeMotte family heritage, and I am sure he will be glad to share it with you.

I am going to ask Dennis to help you and me, Zane to research our Dempsey family. We need to start our search in Otwell , IN where Lucy and Obadiah Demsey were raised . It is in Otwell, in Pike County, on IN 56 Hwy. I have an old Atlas, which shows I-69m still incomplete out of Evansville. If it is complete, take it to IN 356 to IN 257 then to IN56. If it is not completed, take I-64 to Lynnville and go North on IN 61 to IN 56, go east to Otwell on IN56. Take the IN 356 Exit North to Otwell. Lots of Turkey farms around Otwell , some ma still be owned b Demotte’s or Demsey’s. The Pike County seat is in Jasper, . Dennis has visited there and picked up some Demotte and Gudorf information. So you need to get over there and begin your search. Sister Susan has a book on the Hargraves and the DeBruler’ s who were kin of ours through our the Demotte line. “Obe” Dempsey had a Brotther named Hall, wh Obe helped pay for his Veterinary education in St. Louis, like he paid for his o9wn, by driving a streetcar. Hall Demsey kept the spelling “DEMSEY” . He practiced in Jasper. His wife, Dorothy, was a socialite and must have been pretty haughty to Ma’am Maw Dempsey. She resented Dorothy because Obe paid for Hall’s education and she was high handed toward her and her seven children, living down in the Greenville KY, just getting by, while She and Hallo had n children and lived high on the hog in Jasper.

Zane , that is about all I know about Obe Dempsey genealogy. I did do a little research on the Demsey and Dempsey family at the Mormon Temple Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, UT. I have lost my notes, but I believe that they migrated from Shelby County OH. To Pike County, IN. You are right about Shirelda Chappell being Obe’s Mother, seems liklehis sFather’s name was Joseph-, but I am just guessing.
Love’
Cousin Rodney
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SENT BY: Carolyn (herself)
VOLUNTEER NEEDED. For years, Claude Westerfield was our contact to keep up with the Westerfield Genealogy. Last year we lost that dedicated giant who loved his Westerfield cousins. We need someone to pick up the torch. I know that Claude gave his giant workbook of genealogy charts and information to the Harrodsburg Historical Society, and also gave copies to different people. Who is our next hero?
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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson – WILL OF JAMES STAGG 1822
From Mercer Co KY Will Book Vol 8, pages 372 – 374; Will of James Stagg
(Note: “/” denotes the end of a sentence in the original Will.)
(In left hand margin
“Stagg
James                                                                                                                                    372
His
Will”)            In the name of God Amen.
I James Stagg of Mercer County Ken/tucky in perfect health mind and memory do hereby make this My Last Will/ as followith
First, I give and bequeath to my son/ Daniel Stagg the Plantation & Tract of/ land on the west side of Salt River on/ which he now lives containing one hun/dred twenty two and ¾ acres or there/abouts to him & his heirs forever.
2^ndly I give and bequeath to my daughter/ Anna Dunn wife of Saml. Dunn to be/ paid to her out of the sale of my Estate/ to be made by my Executors the sum/ of Forty three pounds five shillings cur/rent money which with the sum of/ Seventy eight pounds & fifteen shillings/ heretofore advanced at different times/ makes the sum of One hundred &/ twenty two pounds of like money.
3^rdly I give & bequeath to my son-in-law Abr/aham Smock and Polly his wife during/ their natural lives, and at their death to my daughters children which shall ex/ist at her death one quarter Section of a acre/ on Wabash river about five or six miles/ eastwardly of the County (unknown) of Sullivan/ County I also give and bequeath to my/ said Daughter Polly Smock the sum of (Smock, crossed out) sum of the twenty nine pounds/ six shillings to be pd to her ou the sale of my Estate to be made by my Exec which sum with other money’s and property/ already advanced including the price/
373
I give for the land afore said amounting to/ three hundred and nine dollars makes/ the sum of one hundred & twenty-two pounds.
4^thly I give bequeath to my three grand/children Eliazbeth Stagg Samuel Stagg &/ John Stagg the children of my son Jn./ Stagg Dec’d the sum of six hundred/ dollars to be pd them by my Executor/ as they become of age or shall marry. viz One third part thereof to each of/ them but should either of them die bef/ore they come of age or gets married their such decedents or decedents share/ or shares is to be paid to the survivors or/ survivors; but should they all die before they arrive at full age or marries then my/ will is that the whole of this bequest/ be paid to and equally divided between/ my son Daniel Stagg and my daughters Anna Dunn and Polly Smock/ and their heirs.
5^thly My will is that my Executors/ pay to my old slave Dinah now lately/ emancipated the sum of twenty two/ poundswhich added to one Hundred pounds Dinahs value when I eman/cipated her makes the sum of one/ hundred & twenty pounds.
My will further is that after my/ decease my Executors sell the/ tract of land whereon I now live and/ my personal estate and out of the pro/ceeds pay my just debts Funeral expenses & the forgoing legacies and supposing/
374
there should be any residue it is will that/ my Executors divide the same into four/ equal parts and give one fourth to my/ son Daniel Stagg and one fourth to/ my daughter (Annie) one fourth to my/ daughter Polly and one fourth to the chi/ldren of my son John Stagg Dec.
My will further is that my wear/ing apparel be divided into equal/ parts give one part to my son Daniel/ Stagg and the other half to my two gra/ndsons, James & John Stagg sons of my son/ John Stagg Decd.
I do hereby nominate & ap/point my friends John B. Thompson &/ Abraham Comingore Execs to this my/ Last Will & Testament.
In Witness whereof I have/ hereunto subscribed my name and affix/ed my Seal this 3^rd day of Sept 1822.
Witnesses
Thos. Allin Jr.                                                                                 James Stagg (seal)
Philip T. Allin
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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson, Inventory of Estate of James Stagg 1822
From Mercer Co KY Will Book Vol 8, pages 381 – 382; Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of James Stagg
(Note: “/” denotes the end of a sentence in the original Will.)
(In left hand margin
“Stagg
James
Inv of”

381
And Inventory of the Appraise/ment of the Estate of James Stagg/ Dec’d was the 8^th day of June/ 1826.
1 Bed & furniture with (      )                        $12
1          Do Do Do                                                 12
3 coverlids                                                       (     )
1 Quilt & 2 Blankets                                               2 50
7 chairs                                                                  10
One cupboard and candlestand                           6
1 (      )                                                                  1 75
1 pair Saddle bags                                                       5
One pair of fire dogs & tongs                                   2
8 books                                                                         7
5 Dutch Books                                                           11
1 axe                                                                                  73
2 Augers & 1 (     )                                                        2
1 Glue Pot                                                                      1 25
1Braces & Bits                                                              4
1 Screw Cutter & box                                                  2
Box saw & Drawing knife                                            75
16 Chisels & Gouger                                                   5
Box of old Tools                                                           3
1 Grindstone                                                                   25
1 Shot Gun                                                                     3

Amount Brot over                                                      71 75
Flooring Plank                                                             10
Turning lathe & (    )                                                     8
Hand saw hamer & Drawing knife                           3

382
Saddle & Bridle                                                          $3
1 Loom                                                                            7
1 Table                                                                             1 50

We Isaac Chaplin Charles Role &/ Isaac Mitchell being appointed Com/mifsoner by the Mercer County Court/ to value the Estate of James Stagg Dec/eased do hereby certify that the fore/going is a true statement of the valua/tion of the said Estate. Given under/ our hands the 8^th June 1826.
Isaac Chaplin
Charles Role
Isaac Mitchell

Mercer County (     )August County/ Court 1826 The foregoing invent/tory and appraisement of the Estate/ of James Stagg Decd was produced/ unto Court and ordered to be recor/ded.
Att       Tho. Allin CC

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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson, will of James Stagg, 1822, Mercer County Kentucky.

Letters 5/29/2018

Voris/Voorhees/Voreis (and there are more ancestor name spellings) at the Dutch Cousins Gathering in Frankfort September 2017. Zach Akers of Indiana, Mary Jo Gohmann of Indiana, (name?) (name?) Larry Voreis of South Carolina, Suzanne Voreis of South Carolina, Vince Akers of Indianapolis. (Someone please send me the missing names, I am working from faulty memory – sorry.)

Dutch Cousins keep on Giving!
BIG NEWS! Janice Cozine just whispered this to me … Tell the Cousins to SAVE THE DATES: we are working towards the 2nd  OR  3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering.Sept. 13,14,15    OR   Sept. 20,21,22, 2019 Dutch Cousins President Charlie Westerfield of Louisville, said Janice & Eddie Cozine of Mt Washington KY, are still checking some options around Harrodsburg and Steve Henry of Louisville is checking out a possible venue at Louisville. So hang on cousins! Once we get a venue nailed down, things will come together quickly for 2019. ———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Amalie Preston of Salvisa KY (Recently published in Harrodsburg Herald with photo of Amalie, Janice and Dick Bauer, President of HHS. Amalie sent a copy of the item, but it is too dark to reprint.)
DUTCH COUSINS KEEP ON GIVING
On May 2, the Dutch Cousins Organization donated $1400 to the Harrodsburg Historical Society to be used toward the work at the Old Mud Meetinghouse.  These descendants of the Low Dutch (the builders of the meetinghouse in 1800) now meet every two years and hold Sunday worship service in the old church open to the public.  After their 2017 gathering in Frankfort, they earmarked these funds for the restoration project. Dutch Cousins donations to Old Mud are now nearing $140,000 and have brought the 200-year-old structure up to code so it is now available to rent for special occasions such as weddings. A new security system is in place and work continues on the 1900s school house. For an appointment to tour the church, contact HHS.
The Dutch Cousins are dedicated genealogists who research, share and preserve the history of their common Dutch heritage, and this information is available to family researchers in the Low Dutch archive at the Harrodsburg Historical Society.  They held a rededication ceremony at the restored Old Mud Meetinghouse in 2015 and have placed memorial markers in honor of 34 Low Dutch Revolutionary War veterans, and one War of 1812 Vet, most of whom are buried in the Old Mud Cemetery.  For more information about the organization, go to the official webpage, www.DutchCousins.org/
Plans are already underway for the 2019 Gathering.  If you are interested in being on the mailing list, you may contact the organization by e-mailing buffalo234@cox.net.
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mahaney9@netzero.net ———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Lilly Martin of Latakia, SyriaIn reference to:Curt Biehn
Being a descendant of Captain Stagg and my lineage from Leah Brewer, it is a real pleasure to see mention of the names mentioned here. Some were by marriage into the family and some were acquaintances. I enjoy hearing of them as they are gradually emerging personalities to me” I would like for you to forward this email to Curt. I have attached my report on James Stagg and Leah Brouwer and their descendants that I am aware of.Leah Brouwer, d/o Daniel Brouwer (Mary Konig), s/o Abraham Brouwer (Leah Demarest), s/o Pieter Brouwer (Pietronella Kleyn) , s/o Adam Brouwer the immigrant who arrived in Manhattan in 1642, married in 1645 to Magdalena Verdon, and settled in Gowanus, Kings Co, NY.Best regards,Lilly Martin———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: Marilyn E. Douglas, Vice President New Netherland InstituteInvitation – THE NEW AMSTERDAM TOUR – Wednesday, June 13, 2018

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Saturday, June 9th at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 16th at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 23rd at 3:00 PM
Saturday, June 30th at 3:00 PM Admission is $30.00 per person payable in advance by check, credit card or PayPal. Please make your checks out to The Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and mail to: Marion Duckworth Smith
7803 19th Road
East Elmhurst, NY 11370 Go to our tour info page on the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead website. Please RSVP, including date(s) and names of attendees, by email to info@rikerhome.com as soon as possible because space is limited. Private tours are also available by appointment for $50.00 per person, minimum 2 people. About the ToursFolks are free to stroll thru the garden and take photos. A diagram of the cemetery with the inscriptions of all 132 tombstones is included with the tour. A walk thru of the downstairs living quarters will be given by Mrs. Smith as well. Marion’s book, The Romantic Garden, will be available for purchase.
Additional displays on view include Marion’s Collection of Carnival Chalkware Snow Whites, Carousel Artifacts, Broadway Theatrical Memorabilia, and, in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of WWI, the Ascenzi Family History.The Homestead is the oldest private dwelling in New York City and is listed on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.Hope to see you soon! ———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Barbara Merideth, of Caruthersville, MO,  Prayers requested for our Dutch Cousins secretary Denise Merideth Perry of Somerville, TN. She is currently in the hospital at Methodist University in Memphis. She needs a liver transplant and maybe also a kidney transplant. She will have to have a cardiac cath next week. (NOTE: from carolyn: We need our secretary to be well! We love her. Say prayers. and send healing thoughts.)  ———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Carolyn (herself) of OklahomaHoly Moley~ I would love to be there at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn on Friday. Remember our visit there in 2011 on our Dutch Footprints tour.  https://shop.newnetherlandinstitute.org/collections/events/products/old-and-new-amsterdam-a-talk-by-russell-shorto “Old and New Amsterdam”: A Dutch-flavored, open-air reception Join us on Friday night (June 1) at 7pm at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn for the talk “Old and New Amsterdam” by Island at the Center of the World author Russell Shorto followed by a Dutch-flavored reception. What does the founding of New York have to do with the effort to battle climate change? Answer, in both cases: It’s all about the Dutch. The Dutch formed their culture in the Middle Ages around the need to stay dry. They chose to settle Manhattan and the Mid-Atlantic region because of its waterways. And now they’re leading the way—in New York and around the world—in dealing with rising oceans. The evening includes an open-air reception outside the historic Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Enjoy drinks, including a delicious punch prepared with Batavia-Arrack—the seventeenth-century spirit originally imported to the West by the Dutch East India Company (VOC)—as well as hors d’oeuvres in the OSH garden prepared by Jason Novick-Finder, the chef/owner of Gristmill—a Park Slope farm to table restaurant featuring foods prepared in a wood fired grill.———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield (Dutch Cousins President)On May 23, 2018, at 2:50 PM, Charlie Westerfield <charlie@charliewesterfield.com> wrote:We have run out of time and must book a location for our 2019 reunion within the next week to ten days. Without a location it is impossible to make any plans toward our program, thus it is imperative that we get this confirmed asap. Please let me know your suggestions and where we stand at the present. ———————————————————————————————————
SENT BY: Carolyn (herself)GREAT info on Dutch New AMSTERDAM/New York: Although New York transferred to English control in the late seventeenth century, Dutch-American ways of life persisted throughout the region. Many Dutch-American descendants continued to speak the Dutch language, worship in Dutch Reformed churches, eat Dutch-originated foods, and celebrate Dutch holidays well into the early nineteenth century. Their cultural heritage is evident today in family and street names, words like cookie and boss, and the architecture of some eighteenth-century homes that still stand. But the Dutch colonial period had even more long-lasting, albeit less tangible, influences.https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bringing-new-netherland-back-to-breuckelen-exploring-brooklyns-dutch-roots———————————————————————————————————SENT BY: SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas of Albany, New YorkCouncil Minutes, 1656–1658New Netherland InstituteSALE $125.00  $150.00https://shop.newnetherlandinstitute.org/collections/books This volume follows a period in New Netherland which was full of suspense and turmoil. New England had been threatening from the north and a full-scale war between England and the United Provinces threatened to spill over into their North American possessions. Other European powers were asserting international ambitions with possible repercussions in the New World: Sweden’s attempt to establish a colony on the Delaware River brought about territorial problems in the south and caused Stuyvesant a major headache. Sweden’s capture of Fort Casimir in 1654 led to Stuyvesant’s successful takeover of New Sweden the following year. Almost all troops were brought into action for the Dutch invasion, and their absence at Manhattan had the unintended consequence of a simultaneous Indian attack on the heart of New Netherland, called the Peach War. The devastation inflicted on the population around the Manhattan rim during this war was somewhat mitigated by the prospect of a renewed Company interest in New Netherland: Portugal’s recapture of its lost possessions in Dutch Brazil in 1654 had caused the WIC to reshape its trading patterns in the Atlantic and to concentrate more human and financial resources in its Caribbean and North American holdings. Probably the most well-known document in the present volume is an English settlers’ protest of Stuyvesant’s handling of two Quakers. Although the Dutch Republic was noted for its religious toleration, it was basically a simple expression of “freedom of conscience,” i.e. no one would be persecuted for one’s religious beliefs. However, this liberty sometimes ran counter to the equally important principle of pax et concordia, “peace and harmony.” It was this struggle between maintaining a basic human right and preserving harmony over chaos that caused problems. The Dutch solved this dilemma by the simple human response of looking the other way or winking.————————————————————————————————

Letters 6/21/2018

2017-2019 Officers: from left, Amalie Preston, Board Member; Denise M. Perry, Secretary; Tamara Fulkerson, Vice President; Malcolm Banta, Board Member; Pam Ellingson, Webmaster; Janice Cozine, Treasurer; Charlie Westerfield, President.

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: we are working towards the 2nd OR 3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering.
Sept. 13,14,15 OR Sept. 20,21,22, 2019
I know that the officers are working hard to find us a great place to meet next year and hopefully we will know where that is going to be very soon. Don’t give up!

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SENT BY: Susan Fuhr-Dunn
I would like to cast a vote for a gathering in Louisville, if not next time, some time. Many of us have relatives buried at Cave Hill and we can still visit Harrodsburg, etc. I have to fly from California so would love a combo trip.

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SENT BY: Mail Chimp
Your Dutch newsletter list has lost a couple subscribers.
Larry & Geri Cozine
Jay White
May 29, 2018 07:58 p

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SENT BY: Willora Glee
My direct line:
Symon Jansen Van Arsdale
Cornelius Simonese Van Arsdalen
Simon Van Arsdale
Gerrit Van Arsdale
Simon Van Arsdale
Jacob Banta Van Osdol
James Madison Van Osdol
George Hotchkiss Van Osdol
William Weaver Van Osdol
William Elton Van Osdol
Willora Glee Van Osdol Krapf

Have wives and dates and children of the above. Also pictures of the last four generations.
There is one who served in the Rev. war one from the Civil war and one who was in the war of 1812. I belong to the DAR and the DAC from this line.
Glee
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SENT BY: Barbara L. Van Norsdall
Yes absolutely you have my permission to print my info in the Letters. I read every one of your Dutch Cousins letters. I have over 16,000 people in my father’s file. It has ancestors, relatives and in-laws. It goes back to Sijmon Jansen Van Arsdalen and four generations in Holland. It is available on Rootsweb. Just enter Ross Amos Van Norsdall. He was born in 1906 in Weir City, Kansas. It is also on Ancestry, but half the time I can’t find it when I enter a search. I do not understand their indexing scheme.

I am Barbara Van Norsdall. My father was Ross Amos Van Norsdall.

The orphans of Isaac Jansz Van Arsdalen. Isaac, Johannis (his half brother), and William Vanderbilt all died about 1771 at the Conewago Colony in Pennsylvania. They all were young men. Isaac was 27. He left his wife Hannah Pieterson and three children. The children, John, Sarah, and Peter, had to have guardians appointed by the Orphan’s Court in York County, now Adams County, Pennsylvania. Over the years there were several records from the Orphans Court.

My father used to tell the story that had been passed down through the generations about cousins that had gone to Kentucky and started a whisky distillery. I decided to include what I could find in my father’s family tree. I remembered an A. M. Vanarsdall had a distillery in Kentucky, so I started there.

Abraham M. Vanarsdall, son of Cornelius C. Vanarsdall and Catherine Huff started the distillery in 1865 or 1866, it burned in 1875. His half-brother, Jackson Vanarsdell, son of Cornelius C. and his second wife Ida B. Voris, bought the property and rebuilt it. He farmed for 6 months and ran the distillery for 6 months a year. Somewhere along the line he changed the spelling of his last name from Vanarsdall to Vanarsdell. Jackson ran the distillery under the name of J. Vanarsdell Distilling Co. until 1892 when he sold it to a larger distiller, D. L. Moore. Moore continued making Vanarsdell Extra Fine Sour Mash Whisky until Prohibition. I have a picture of a pint of Vanarsdell Whisky at Jackson Vanarsdell on Ancestry. I also have the file on Rootsweb.

Jackson Vanarsdell married Priscilla Jane “Jennie” Brewer, daughter of Lambert Darland Brewer and Sally McAfee. They had six children. I have the ancestors of Lambert and Sally.

Barbara
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SENT BY: Barbara Meredith (INRE: Denise Perry, our Dutch Cousins secretry)
Just wanted to give you guys an update on Denise. She is back in the hospital at Methodist University. She started getting very short of breath and coughing a lot this past week. She was admitted on Thursday night. She has some fluid in her lungs, but so far the heart looks good. They had stopped all of her fluid pills a couple of weeks ago to preserve the kidneys, but they are now having to slowly get the fluid off. They have decided that there is a problem with the shunt they put in and they are going to go in and revise that tomorrow. If that goes ok and her kidney levels are ok, they are planning on doing the cardiac cath on Tuesday. Hopefully then home on Wednesday. The transplant committee doesn’t meet again until next Monday, so that will probably be the earliest we really know anything about the transplant possibilities.

Her boyfriend, Jerry has been with her a lot this week. I am here with her now. Tuesday morning, Denny and Heidi will be here with her.
Please keep her in your prayers. Thank you,

Love you all,Barb

As I typed this, the head of the “liver” department came in and now they may not do the procedure on the liver tomorrow! So confusing. They still plan on doing the cardiac cath Tuesday. So please keep her (and her medical staff as they make decisions about what are the right steps to do in her care) in your prayers!
Note from carolyn: The cath went well and Denise is now in line for a transplant. Keep up the prayers!

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SENT BY: Lilly Martin, Brouwer/Brewer descendant
Hello Carolyn,

Please include this note in the newsletter. Attention to all Brouwer-Brower-Brewer descendants of Adam Brouwer: Chris Chester has studied the origins of Adam Brouwer, our immigrant ancestor. This is available to be see online free of charge. I consider Chris Chester to be the trustworthy source of information on Adam Brouwer. You may like to download it, then do a copy&paste to a document, and save this in your own records.

https://archive.org/stream/NewInsightIntoTheOriginsOfAdamBrouwer6302008/New%20Insight%20into%20the%20Origins%20of%20Adam%20Brouwer%206-30-2008_djvu.txt

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SENT BY: Civil war History lesson in Harrodsburg. Found this while looking for something else – LOL Thought you might want to see it.

from: (Volume XXIII)In the Field, July 20, 1863
http://collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/waro.html:

Halting at Harrodsburg for breakfast, feed, and water, we pushed on, reaching Lawrenceburg at 4 p. m. From Lawrenceburg I sent out Lieut. J. E. Babbitt, with 50 men, to scout between the Kentucky and Salt Rivers. On the Salt River, near Salvisa, Lieutenant Babbitt came upon Captain [G. S.] Alexander’s company, of Morgan’s division, and captured 30, killing 14.
The command remained at Lawrenceburg awaiting orders until 9 p. in. on the 11th instant, when we took up our line of march for West-port, via Eminence and La Grange, reaching Westport at 12 midnight, having marched 73 miles over a very rough and hilly road, with but four hours’ halt at Eminence for rest, feed, and water.
At Westport, Charles Laturner, private Company G, was accidentally shot through the body, and was left at that place, under proper care.
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SENT BY: Carolyn’

Lost one of my mentors this month. sad. Dorothy Koenig, publisher of New Netherland Connections, always encouraged me in my Dutch cousin research and work. Altho we never met in person, she was always available to me online or on phone and she always responded.

She had so much knowledge about the Dutch genealogy and history, and that library is now closed. But I never knew she was a former nun. Notification by the California Genealogical Society.

02 June 2018
In Memoriam: Dorothy Ann Koenig, 1933-2018
Posted by Jennifer Dix

Photo: Facebook
We are sorry to report the passing of longtime CGS member Dorothy Ann Koenig of Berkeley. Dorothy was an expert in the genealogy of colonial New York. She published the quarterly New Amsterdam Connections from 1996-2006, and generously donated many books on early New York to the CGS library. She was a Bay Area native, a retired UC Berkeley reference librarian, a former nun who lived 9 years in Tanzania, a polyglot, and a lifelong learner.

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SENT BY: Carolyn
And here’s some great news. TO ISRAEL, WITH LOVE, Second Edition is now available on Amazon. https://amzn.to/2tfPXw5

This nonfiction book is fully illustrated with more than two hundred photos, mostly by the author, and includes many maps of the area. More than a travelogue featuring biblical events showing where each actually took place more than two thousand years ago, this book also describes what it might be like to visit that place now. It is my hope this journal will at least in some small way provide information to make such a trip more rewarding for you, and that the book will be treasured as a historical record of travel in the late 20th century and early 21st. It took twenty years, two trips to Israel, tons of research, and now here it is. If you have ever dreamed of visiting this incredible country, this book is for you. Best wishes, Carolyn B. Leonard, 2018

Letters 7/10/2018

SENT BY:Carolyn (herself) – wanted share this page from the OLDE TOWNE LEDGER (Harrodsburg Historical Society Newsletter for July/August 2018, page 3). To subscribe, send $20 annual dues to HHS, PO Box 316, Harrodsburg, KY 40330. Phone: 859.734.5985 or Email: library@harrodsburghistorical.org
webpage: http://www.harrodsburghistorical.org/

Our Donation to Old Mud

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: we are still working towards the 2nd OR 3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering. Janice Cozine is working on it. Don’t give up!
Sept. 13,14,15 OR Sept. 20,21,22, 2019
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SENT BY: new member Julia Norton (welcome Julia who lives in Alabama)
(note- her sources seem to come from Ancestry.com, some have source records attached.)

We believe that we are kin a bit indirectly through VanArsdale or VanArdsdell married Elizabeth Lewis. Here is the path to my mother through a step child to my mother’s father and the second list is through a marriage to Elizabeth Lewis and to my mother’s mother.

Cornelius C VanArsdall (1766 – 1866)
paternal grandfather of husband of stepdaughter of wife of 1st cousin 2x removed from Betty Hawkins
Peter VanArsdall (1805 – 1889)
son of Cornelius C VanArsdall
William Henry Van Arsdale (1839 – 1898)
son of Peter VanArsdall
Hannah Davenport Vanarsdall (1838 – 1888)
wife of William Henry Van Arsdale
William Davenport (1800 – 1862)
father of Hannah Davenport Vanarsdall
Lucy Jane Tapp (1821 – 1890)
wife of William Davenport
Henry Kephart (1826 – 1860)
husband of Lucy Jane Tapp
Henry Kephart (1795 – 1877)
father of Henry Kephart
Jacob Kephart (1754 – 1808)
father of Henry Kephart
Rebecca Polly Kephart (1792 – 1860)
daughter of Jacob Kephart
Jefferson Hawkins (1829 – 1903)
son of Rebecca Polly Kephart
Harry Wilmer Hawkins (1883 – 1966)
son of Jefferson Hawkins
Betty Sue Hawkins (1927 – 2007)
daughter of Harry Wilmer Hawkins

Daniel Brewer VanArsdall (1803 – 1861)
father-in-law of 2nd cousin 2x removed
William Stagg VanArsdall (1828 – 1892)
son of Daniel Brewer VanArsdall
Alice T Williams (1828 – 1924)
wife of William Stagg VanArsdall
Elizabeth Rose (1797 – 1859)
mother of Alice T Williams
Mary Polly Lewis (1779 – 1850)
mother of Elizabeth Rose
Alexander Lewis (1750 – 1807)
father of Mary Polly Lewis
Robert Lewis (1782 – 1848)
son of Alexander Lewis
John Alexander Lewis (1824 – 1897)
son of Robert Lewis
James Robert Lewis (1850 – 1895)
son of John Alexander Lewis
Clara B Lewis (1886 – 1969)
daughter of James Robert Lewis
Betty Sue Hawkins (1927 – 2007)
daughter of Clara B Lewis

So we aren’t really related directly, but we are interested in the central and western Kentucky areas. We have been trying to learn the maiden name of the grandmother of Elizabeth married Alexander Lewis in that second list and also the maiden name of Winnie married John Hawkins in the first list you don’t see that but it is the parents of the Kephart spouse.

Well that makes me wonder, are Kepharts in your group or descendants of the same Jacob Kephart (many spellings of course)?

Some of the Lewis gang made a trip to Mercer County and Henry County, KY two years ago to study some of this history and are planning a trip, probably this fall, to North Carolina to continue the search.

We have lots of DNA around, but this is pretty far back for anything except direct line male and female.
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SENT BY: Janet Brewer
I read Lilly Martin’s comments (20 June 2018) regarding Chris Chester with interest. I agree with her 100% that Chris is the foremost researcher of the Adam Brouwer line today. Chris was a long-time administrator of the Brewer Surname Project on FamilyTreeDNA.com. He stepped down as an administrator late last year. Hank Graham and I are 2 of the administrators that Chris appointed to take the reins. We recently added a 3rd person, Daniel Harrison Brewer, another of Adam Brouwer’s descendants. Chris has also signaled his intention to stop his Brouwer research completely at the end of 2018. Daniel and I are working hard to fill Chris’s shoes, but his “retirement” will definitely create a void. We all owe Chris Chester a tremendous “thank you” for all of the work he’s done on the Adam Brouwer line over the years.
Regards,
Janet Brewer (Descendant of Adam Brouwer)
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SENT BY: Cynthia Byxbee
I am interested in receiving your newsletter. I am a descendant of the Westerfields, Cozines, and Demarest Families. My mother and I attended the Ft Harrod reenactment this past weekend and stopped by the Mud Church. It had been several years since we have been, and it sure had changed with new siding. I was able to walk through the cemetery again, and enjoyed my visit. I saw Eddie Price this past weekend at Ft. Harrod and he told me to join your group. I am on a Facebook Group Dutch Cousins. I live in (Hancock County KY) I have been doing genealogy for about 25 years. I have heard about a Westervelt Massacre Marker plan and do not want miss any information about that. I look forward to the next reunion of cousins that I do not know as well.
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SENT BY: Julie Hatfield
Hi,
I know its been a while since we talked. My great grandfather was Edward Eugene Cozine from Kentucky. I just wanted to check in and see how you’re and if anything new with the tree. I have really done any research lately. Last February I lost my dad and things have been rough. I just recently got back into genealogy.

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SENT BY: Bev MyersGood morning, I hope I have the right email. I’d like to be added to the mailing list for Dutch Cousins. My name is Beverle Myers and I live in Louisville. I’m a descendant of Jacobus Westerfield through his son James and his son Cornelius who moved to Ohio County, KY. I’m interested in learning more about the family.

Letters 7/14/2018

Riker, DeMotte, Boone, Banta, & MORE

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: we are still working towards the 2nd  OR  3rd weekend of Sept. in 2019 for the next gathering. Janice Cozine is working on it. Don’t give up!
Sept. 13,14,15    OR   Sept. 20,21,22, 2019

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SENT BY: William e. Davidson
Good morning,
      I thought this was a contact point for Rikers but I never see any mentions. I joined the Society of the Cincinnati on Captain Abraham Riker who died at Valley Forge, PA, in 1778, and was buried nearby by his commanding office, Col. Philip van Cortlandt, per van Cortland’s diary.

   I understand that the modern history of the Rikers asserts that Captain Riker is buried elsewhere with a large headstone. If true, that was a disinterment from the Valley Forge area and would have been quite an accomplishment. I would be interested in the proofs of that disinterment; it would be quite a story.

     I have had a fair amount of experience with genealogical research, including burial records and headstone searching in old cemeteries. One grave never received a headstone because of a family feud and another had a modern marble replacement.
I would greatly appreciate receiving the proofs of Captain Riker’s alleged reburial.
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SENT BY: Beverly DeMotte Santella
I sent an email a couple of months ago regarding my ever so great grandfather Lawrence DeMotte and have since found this connection to the Mudhouse: The following is a partial quote from this link. Perhaps you have this on record but since I have just started to follow Dutch Cousins, I do not know what you might have on record.
CHURCH SUBSCRIPTION 1800.
We, the subscribers, promise to pay to the managers of the New Dutch Reformed Church, on the Dry Fork of the Salt River, the following sums in trade. Such as shall be put opposite our names, on or before December 31, one thousand and 8 hundred, the said trade to be delivered at Peter Carnine’s on Salt River. John Smock: One-second-rate cow. Issac Van Arsdale: one-second-rate cow. Wermadus Van Bryck: one-second-rate cow. John Conniger: one second rate cow and one ewe lamb. Henry Banta: one three-year heifer and ten bushels of rye. Peter Carnine: 3 pounds sterling in trade. Cornelius Van Nuys: 24 pounds in trade. John De Mottes: 15 pounds in trade. Henry Vanderveer: One two-year-old heifer. Peter Demotte: a fat steer. Lawrence Demotte: one fat steer. Peter Van Nuys: one heifer. Abraham Van Arsdale: 20 pounds in trade. Simon Van Arsdale: 18 pounds in trade.
https://sites.google.com/site/steckelcarnine/carn

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SENT BY: Carolyn to Beverly DeMotte Santella
Hi Beverly,
Your John DeMott mentioned below (son of your GGrfther Lawrence Sr Demott and Dorothe Vanderbeek/Verbryke) married Anne Cozine, granddaughter of my 6th great grandfather the Domine, Cornelius Cozine, so we are (sort of) blood cousins. And they all attended Old Mud at one time or another.

We have many DeMotte descendants on this list, have you heard from Rodney Dempsey? His brother in law Dennis Gudorf has the family history on computer so you need to connect with them! I will copy Rod on this email but they are involved in moving to a new place right now so you may not hear from him right away. But when this comes out in the next Dutch Letters, you will probably hear from others.

Blessings,
carolyn
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SENT BY: Dennis Gudorf

Beverly, try this link.  https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6961

U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States …
search.ancestry.com
Original data: Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York, New York. Dutch Reformed Church Records from New Jersey.
I will send her a updated copy of her family tree.

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SENT BY: WILLIAM DAVIDSON on more about RIKER/RYKER
Re: Abraham Riker, b. Newtown, LI, 1740. m. Margaret, 2 Sept. 1766. dau. Jane, bpt. 15 April 1768, m. Rev.(Dr.) Asa Hillyer, Jr., 8 June 1791. d. 28 Aug. 1840, Orange, NJ.
Capt. Riker’s death and burial is in; The Revolutionary War Memoir and Selected Correspondence of Philip Van Cortlandt, compiled and edited by Jacob Judd; A Sleepy Hollow Restoration Book, Tarrytown, NY, 1976, ISBN 0-912882-27-1.

    Vol.1, 124-126.    ” Philip to Pierre Van Cortlandt.
         ” May 10th 1778
             “Not having had an Opportunity of Sending this letter untill now gives me an opportunity of adding to it and to Observe how frail Mankind are and if it is the will of God but of short duration — When I Came to Camp which was the last of April I found all my Officers in Good Health Capt. Riker among the Number who
is now in Eternity he was taken Sick the 2.d of May went out of camp the 3d. Died the 8th and was buried the 9th.
I herewith Inclose a letter to Mr. Bradford his Brother-in-Law this his Sister May be made acquainted with the Death of Husband I had him Interred with the Honours of War in the Burying Yard of Valley Presbyterian Meeting About 3 miles from Camp.
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            My best Respects &c. from Yr. Dutiful and
                                                     Affectionate Son
                                                     Philip Cortlandt.
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Most of my gen research was accomplished before I retired in 1993 (age 65) and it is all on paper. My interest switched to military reenactment and research and writing for the Military Collector & Historian, quarterly journal of the Company of Military Historians. (eventually I acquired a computer for word processing and e-mail- haven’t moved beyond that.)

Working and living in Trenton, NJ, I was excited when a cousin told me about a CT ancestor who crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day in 1776 with Washington. I signed up for the annual Ceremonial Crossing and crossed in 1993 and for seven year after that.

A son (Asa, Jr.) of that CT ancestor (Asa Hillyer, Sr.) married the dau. of Capt. Riker. Riker’s regiment was in the Battle of Trenton. Had the two men met?? I thought that could be a neat story to tell the crowd when I presented artillery firing demos at WCSP/NJ.

Luckily I had access to the David Library of the Am. Rev, nearby at Washington Crossing, PA; the largest repository of Rev. War related microfilm outside of the National Archives in DC. My research took me into the chaos of the annual reorganization of the New York regiments in the first years of the Am. Rev. and resulted in a revision of the accepted Order of Battle for the December 1776 Battle of Trenton.
My short paper was published in the MC&H and I will send a copy if you send me your USPS address.
But had the two men met? NO! Riker was not with his regiment. I had to fit this story into extended endnotes which I think you will enjoy.

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SENT BY: Mr. Lynn Rogers INRE: RIKER/RYKER
Cuz Bill-
Maybe, maybe: The re-interment, or memorial stone, cem for Capt Abraham: [Ryk-AB] ABRAHAM LENT, b. 1674; d. 1746; Notes for ABRAHAM LENT: After living some years in Westchester County, he returned to Newtown in 1729, and took possession of a farm and the Lent-Rapelye house left him by his uncle. By his will, he established the Riker Cemetery adjacent to the house on the farm (Poor Bowery) located near 19th and 78th and Riker’s Island. [Qfig Riker island, cem] ; 7803 19th Road, East Elmhurst, NY 11370 (now 2018 the residence of ??Smith; http://www.rikerhome.com/)

Your “Abraham Riker, b. Newtown, LI, 1740. m. Margaret, 2 Sept. 1766” , who I designate as “[Ryk-HGC]”, is a first cousin to my “[Ryk-HDI] GERARDUS SR4 RYKER [BMJ-184] (JOHN3, ABRAHAM JR2, ABRAHAM1) was b Nov 16, 1740 in Closter NJ bapt Tappan NY (not found, ), and d Sept 15, 1781 in Floyd’s Defeat in present Eastwood KY.”

It is interesting to me that your Abraham was born 1740 in Newtown LI. (do you have a baptism for him?)
James Riker, Annals of Newtown, published in New York, 1852, p. 309; “7. John Riker….(lived in Newtown)… removed, in 1744, to Closter, then Rockland co. NY and now Bergen co. NJ where he had bought a farm. The next year he erected a house on the spot where his grandson, Jacob Riker, now resides.” (note: Rockland County NY was formed from Orange in 1798.)

Some of the timeline and location history for [Ryk-HD] John Ryker (1690-1783) is not well known. It is documented that he was b in Newtown LI NY, and that he bought land in present Rockleigh NJ in 1744. Tradition is that Gerardus was b 1740 in Closter. An account by Helen Ryker says that the only bapt records found for John’s ch are: Margarite bp Newtown 1720; Elizabeth on 24 Dec 1734 at “Abrahams Plantation” Harrington NJ (Cole, p.58 has “Herrington or Old Tappan”); and John Jr at Jamaica LI NY 25 Oct 1736. –David Cole, History of Rockland County NY, 1884; indexed, The Historical Society of Rockland County NY, 1992 reprint

Keep an eye out for the Gerardus Riker who was an Ensign in Capt Outwater’s company (there is a reenactment organization); Ensign Gerardus’s service has been quoted for my Gerardus, who was killed by Indians in Kentucky. I am curious about his identity.

I am a member of the Sons of the American Revolution; my brother Lee has a total of 13 RW ancestors proved. The vets couldn’t wait to move to Kentucky, and due to land and indian chaos, they jumped across the Ohio River into Jefferson county Indiana as soon as they could, some squatting. I have made a presentation to the SAR chapter which meets in Hanover Indiana, where Lee and I are members.

I would love to have a copy of your paper.

Thanks, Lynn
Mr Lynn Rogers
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The 2017 Banta/Bonta group included: Emily Welch, Grace and Bob Banta, (first timer – name?) Betty Banta, (can’t remember name), Mary Jo Gohmann, Malcolm Banta, Joan Murray, Renee Anderson. (Can some cousin please send me the missing names?)
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sent by: Judy Kay Park McKee
My grandmother, Mary Lela Banta Williams saved every card she ever received and also many her parents got. In going through a box of the cards I’ve found one to my great grandfather, James B. Banta from Hattie and Henry D. Banta. The post mark is Hanover Indiana, Dec. 22, 1919. I would be hapke myself a copy for my grand-kids and donate the original to the Old Mud Church for display. We do hope to attend the next gathering unless another hurricane comes in.
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SENT BY: LYNN ROGERS
Do you have any interest in transcribing the LaGuardia Cem list? (I re-named it RikerIslandCemList) We would make it easily and widely available.
Lynn
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SENT BY: Della Nash

The trace marked by Boone led from the Watauga River in East Tennessee (Sycamore Shoals, Carter County) by way of Long Island to Moccasin Gap near Gate City, where it met the Big Road from Philadelphia and Richmond, and extended along the old trail to Powell Valley, through which it passed to Cumberland Gap. From here Boone followed the Warrior’s Path across the ford of the Cumberland, just below Pineville Gap, and down the Cumberland to Flat Lick. At this place he left the main trail and took the old Buffalo Trace, which led cross country to the Hazel Patch near Rockcastle River, and then continued up Roundstone Creek to a gap in Big Hill (Boone’s Gap, two miles southeast of Berea) and on to Otter Creek and the Kentucky River, where Fort Boonesborough was built, near what is now Ford in Madison County.

Daniel Boone entered Kentucky through Cumberland Gap, and traveled a N. 81 W. course, crossing Little Yellow Creek twice, to Big Yellow Creek and across; thence to and over the Log Mountains and across Clear Creek to Cumberland Ford; thence across and down the river to Flat Lick (from Cumberland Gap to Old Flat Lick he had followed the Warrior’s Path); thence, leaving the Warrior’s Path around Culton Hill to the present road (U.S. 25E) at Evergreen; thence with said road generally to Trace Branch of Fighting Creek; thence up the same and over the water divide to Trace Branch of Little Richland Creek; thence down the same and Little Richland Creek to Heidrick and across; thence to the present road (U.S. 25 E.) near the junction of the Barbourville road on the north side; thence with the same to the old ford of Big Richland Creek north of the rock dwelling of Walter Evans and across; thence up Big Richland Creek, past Bailey’s (Logan’s old ford) to the mouth of the Main Fork; thence up the Main Fork to the mouth of Tunnel Hill Fork; thence up said fork and over a water divide to about one-quarter of a mile south of Rossland; thence to and across U.S 25 E. at Parker’s store, about one mile from the top of Gillum [sic, Gilliam] Hill and the headwaters of Lynn Camp Creek; from thence via Sam Black’s home and north of Grays to the present Laurel County line, from thence north westwardly, past the home of Dan F. Westerfield, near and south of the present Fletcher Post Office, through the farm of Campbell Smith, south of Camp Ground, to and past Raccoon Spring, on the farm of Hugh Elliott (deeds on record in the Laurel County Courthouse definitely identity the spring on the Elliott farm as Raccoon Spring, from Anna Black to Hugh Elliott, J.K. Lewis to Anna Black, and others). From thence north westwardly to the present Fariston, thence north westwardly to Defeated Camp (Levi Jackson State Park), from thence north westwardly across Little Laurel River to the London Courthouse, thence northeast in the vicinity of the old Bill Lovelace farm through the land recently owned by Elmer Hale to the top of the hill; thence down McFarland Branch (site of McFarland’s defeat) to Big Raccoon Creek and northwest to Little Raccoon about the Feltner farm, by Mt. Pleasant, and across; thence northwest to Wood’s Blockhouse (Hazelpatch); thence over Hazelpatch Creek and across country to the headwaters of Parker’s Creek, and down the same to the Rockcastle River and across.

George Disney, 84 years of age and George Owens, 75 years of age (1938) remember seeing trees along Boone’s route, which they were told, were blazed by him and members of his party.

Letters 8/5/2018

A Word from our President!

Dutch Cousins President Charlie Westerfield said:

We have confirmed the DC meeting for Sept 12,13,14,&15, 2019 at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601.

I plan to visit the site soon and take some photos for my own satisfaction.

Now that we have a date for 2019 I will start to put together some meeting info and solicit some helpers.

Letters 8/11/2018

Say Prayers for Denise; Eddie has a new book; a note from Vince; and more!

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: We have set the DC meeting for Sept 12,13,14,&15, 2019 at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601. Charlie is still vetting the site. We will have a more formal announcement when he gives the word. Just wanting to get the word out to our cousins so they can save the date on their calendars and start travel plans!
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SENT BY: Dianna Sims Rose
This is going to come from left field but I have a question for your “Dutch” (and mine – Steenburgen) group — does anyone know where the Westerfield Mill Cemetery is in Mercer County? I found a photo of a stone on find-a-grave listed as Westerfield Mill and we don’t have that listed in our Mercer County cemetery books. Amalie and I would like to find it and see if we can locate some lost graves. Also I can’t find a cemetery called Liberty from the same source. The caption did say Mercer County farm but it may be in another county. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ahead of time.
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SENT BY: Melona Gallagher of Canada

Please add me as my family names are Ryker, DeMarest, Van Nuys, Banta.

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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas (NNI)
In a recent editorial in the Albany Times Union, Rex Smith laments the fact that one sees very little ‘visual reference to our native heritage or our colonial antecedents [in the capital region] .’ Further, he comments that ‘what little you can find is largely obscured’. One thing you can find on the New Netherland Institute website is a marvelous and informative digital exhibition ‘The Dutch Among the Natives: American Indian-Dutch Relations, 1609–1664’ https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/the-dutch-among-the-natives-american-indian-dutch-relations-1609-1664/ written by William A. Starna, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta. If you haven’t explored our website in a while, take some time and peruse the sitehttps://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
You’ll be amazed at how much you can find there about our early colonial history.
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SENT BY: Marty Johnson
My major Dutch family lines are Vanover and Fulkerson. Both lines initially settled in the New York area before migrating over time to Kentucky, specifically the Daviess County area.
Thanks for adding me to your mailing list.
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sent by: Carole Davis from Michigan
I would like to be included in the Conewago Colony Dutch Cousin list. I am a descendant of Antje (Ann) VanTine and James Robinson as well as the Rosecranse and Smock families. My ancestors were part of the group that went to Owasco Lake, NY after the colony dispersed. In the next generation, Thomas Robinson and Rachel Rosecranse pioneered from New York to Barry County, Michigan where much of the family still lives. My great-grandmother had Rachel as being born in Pennsylvania, which was clearly not true from NY records. Now I know where the Penn connection comes from!
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SENT BY: Kevin Malof of Ohio
GGGGGrandson of Gerardus Ryker Sr. Please add me to your membership list.
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SENT BY: Vince Akers
Thanks for sending Theresa Westerfield’s recent comments on the proposed massacre marker terminology. It is good to see our Dutch Cousins thinking about this! It’s a timely topic with all the current news reports about rethinking whether some prominent markers are really appropriate for public display. There is definitely a paradigm shift taking place with respect to historical markers! I can’t tell where Theresa is in her thinking and I must admit my own thinking is evolving. I’ve not heard where the Kentucky Historical Society’s marker committee has come out on the use of the term “massacre” in our proposed marker language. I do understand they limited us to one marker and want it located at the Jefferson County Parklands site. I assume Charlie can update the Cousins on the marker developments.

(repeat)
Theresa Westerfield from Lawrenceburg. I would like to comment to Vince Akers report on the terminology concern for the proposed massacre marker. How does the national highway system identify with placing markers for the historical battles with Native Americans to remove them from their lands? To place them on reservations? Descriptive soft terms such as “Trail of Tears”? Did the arrogant white man dispose of Natives in the same manner as they to us? We are talking about hundreds of years of turmoil between the many types of non-native invasions. Not only in 1780 but in 1580, 1680 and 1880. “Clash in Kentucky” such as “Clash of the Titans”? In a recent article Greensboro NC City Council approved the word massacre versus shoot out in relation to a shooting incident between KKK and anti Klan demonstrators in 1978. It was upon the antagonizing fliers of anti klan demonstrators which provoked the incident. They want to recognize 5 deaths of the protestors. Now what is the purpose of and historical significance 40 years later? Globally, I would rather focus on the pioneering times, unrest and danger rather than a particular family, even if it is our family name and history. I recommend a top heading of Kentucky Settlers Memorial. Subtitled Attacks Upon Bear Creek. Thirdly, memorialize known and unknown parties to these attacks with the loss of 17 members of the Van Westervelts xx date.
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SENT BY: Eddie Price

One Drop–A Slave! Wins GOLD MEDAL at the 2018 Florida Authors & Publishers Awards!

Eddie Price’s second novel, One Drop–A Slave! won the Gold Medal for best Historical Fiction at the 2018 Florida Authors & Publishers Awards recently held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Price’s illustrated children’s book, Little Miss Grubby Toes Plays with Fire! won a Silver Medal at the event. Medals were awarded at the Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace in the Disney Springs area. Price was “on the road” promoting his books and was unable to attend the ceremony. He learned of the awards shortly after presenting historical programs at Old Fort Niagara, NY and Canada, and traveling to historical sites along the shores of Lake Ontario researching material for his next novel set in 1740-1759.

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SENT BY: Lora J. Westerfield
To Bev Miller I am a descendent of Jacobus Van Weztervelt also. I am from Cornelious’s son David “Happy Jack”. I am from Ohio County KY. Do you know which one of Cornelious’s son’s you are descended from.
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SENT BY: Just saw this on Facebook:

Denise Merideth Perry is with Erin Merideth Taylor at Methodist University Hospital.

Memphis, TN ·

Blessings today. Prayer Warriors ready?

Liver transplant scheduled for Wednesday 8/15/2018 at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. My niece is donating part of her liver!
Many thanks to Erin’s family, my family and others who have offered and sacrificed so much.
(Denise is our wonderful Dutch Cousins secretary. Say prayers)
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Letters 8/16/2018

Save the Date! On your Mark! Ready? Set? …

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: We have set the DC 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!

This is where we will be meeting next year, September 12-14, 2019, at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601 outside Frankfort. Our president Charlie Westerfield has checked it out and approved the location. He says there are several hotels within five miles and our Salvisa food service caterers (that we love) are coming with us. Looks like there is plenty of parking and in a scenic location. The agriculture service may even offer some great Kentucky grown food for us. Charlie is working on the program for our Kentucky Dutch history research and will be announcing the speakers soon, so if you have special requests you should let him know. Be sure to get this event on your calendar now. On 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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Charlie does not have a new report on the Westerfield Massacre marker progress, but hopes to have something to tell us when he gets a chance to talk to Steve Henry.
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SENT BY: Dr. Ed Westerfield (Young Dr Ed)
I’m giving you a heads up, I would like to weigh in on the wording we choose to place on a marker. It’s imperative that we get it right, for those who follow us. Living in Arizona, I have made friends with descendants of indigenous Americans, who’s ancestors were here before we arrived.

As Vince points out, what we once accepted as cannon, we are now reevaluating in light of new facts and new ways of looking back on our history. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to untangle this personal debate from our current political debates on migration across borders, both geographical and political.

I ask that we not rush this process. I hope that we can leave behind something that the issue that follow us, are proud of what we do now. I don’t want our marker removed in the future.

I’ll send a fleshed out thought, later.

As a side note, my father Russell Westerfield died this past March in Nashville. My sister Laura, my brother Charlie, and I took him back home, and he is interred in Campground Cemetery, off of route 229, outside of London, Kentucky halfway to Barbourville, KY. Route 229 follows an Indian trace, that the Boone Party followed from the Cumberland Gap, to Fort Harrodsburg.
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SENT BY: Julie Van Dyke
I am a descendent of Peter Van Dyke, part of the Low Dutch Settlement at Conewago, near Gettysburg, PA. My ancesters are among the group who did *not* move on to Kentucky, however I would like to be on your mailing list and participate in your group so that I could learn more about this group’s early migration. I would be especially interested to learn anything that is known about the group prior to their arrival in Gettysburg area.
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SENT BY: Bev Myers
In the last Dutch Cousins email Lora J. Westerfield of Ohio County, KY asked a question I think she meant for me, though she said Bev Miller instead of Bev Myers. I am descended through a daughter of Cornelius Westerfield, Phoebe Jane (1823-1863) who married Elijah Perry Moseley. If anyone wants to compare notes on the Ohio County bunch, I can be reached at baroquebev (at) gmail (dot) com
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SENT BY: Ivan D. Lancaster of Trafalgar
This was shared at the recent Sturgeon and Allied Families Association Sessions this past weekend in Eastern Jefferson County, Ky. Louisville’s County. I am sharing because there may be a mention of something of interest to you or your group.

(NOTE: IVAN attached a 4 page report on Long Run Cemetery but I can’t attach it here, and it wasn’t digital so I can’t import it. If interested let me know and I will forward it to you or refer you to Ivan. Carolyn)

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SENT BY: Bradley Granger
My name is Bradley Granger and I am a direct descendent of Hendrick Banta III and Rachel Brower. My line of descent is;

Hendrick Banta III/Rachel Brower
Hendrick Banta IV/Maria Stryker
Henry Banta V/Sarah Sally Shuck
Henry Banta VI/Jennie Fulton
John Fulton Banta/Nancy Cooley
Nancy Evaline Banta/Charles Henry Powell

Nancy Evaline is my great-grandmother. I would appreciate being on the mailing list so I can take part in any genealogical discussions and learn more about the history of the Bantas in Kentucky and points west.

My address is 1 Highgate Ln, Savannah, GA 31411
My phone numbers are 912-335-7507 and 303-328-8298 (cel)
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SENT BY: Phyllis Brown
I have not heard of either of the two cemeteries listed in the query – Westerfield Mill or Liberty. If they are found I would love to visit them!
www.kentuckykindredgenealogy.com
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SENT BY: Lilly Martin
I have found Lambert Banta b. 1813 KY, who in 1850 census is in Hart Co KY, he is single and with 2 single sisters. In the 1860 census he is in the same place, with one of his sisters. In 1867 he married a widow, Mrs. Lucinda Martin, widow of Charles Martin, they married at Green Co KY. I feel they lived on her dead husband’s farm, and raised her 2 grandkids after her daughter died.
In 1870 and 1880 census they are still in Green Co, KY.
I don’t know when they died.
Family trees state that Lambert Banta is the son of Henry Banta and Charity.

It would appear Lambert Banta did not have any children and several of his sisters remained single life long.

If this family is important to anyone, I would be glad to give further information. I am not related to the BANTA family, but ran into him while looking for the Martin family.
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SENT BY: Just saw this on Facebook:

Denise Merideth Perry is with Erin Merideth Taylor at Methodist University Hospital.

Blessings today. Prayer Warriors ready?

Liver transplant scheduled for Wednesday 8/15/2018 at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. My niece is donating part of her liver!
Many thanks to Erin’s family, my family and others who have offered and sacrificed so much.

NOTE: Our Dutch Cousin Secretary, Denise and Erin, her niece, had their surgeries yesterday and at last report both were recovering satisfactorily. The process for both gals took about eight hours, plus prep time. Please keep them in your prayers.

Letters 9/1/2018

The Wade kids, Kaleb, Rachel, & Jesse, singing for us at Old Mud Meetinghouse, parents are Rev. Ken and Dana (Bantau) Wade. Their professional name is “Made New.”

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR IN KY!

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: 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!

This is where we will be meeting next year, September 12-14, 2019, at the Kentucky State University, Sunday September 15 we will have worship again at the Old Mud Meetinghouse at Harrodsburg.
Our president Charlie Westerfield has checked it out and approved the location. He says there are several hotels within five miles and our Salvisa food service caterers (that we love) are coming with us. Looks like there is plenty of parking and in a scenic location. The agriculture service may even offer some great Kentucky grown food for us.

Charlie is working on the program for our Kentucky Dutch history research and will be announcing the speakers soon, so if you have special requests you should let him know. Be sure to get this event on your calendar now. 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.

WESTERFIELD MASSACRE: Charlie does NOT have a new report on the Westerfield Massacre marker progress, but hopes to have something to tell us when he gets a chance to talk to Steve Henry.

CLAUDE’S MEMORIAL: We DO have a report on the Claude Westerfield memorial bench at Old Mud grounds. Claude was our first Dutch Cousins president and a long time supporter of our group. Amalie Preston reported the bench is in place, and we need to collect $450 to pay for it. Donations should be sent to Charlie Westerfield, Chairman, at 3913 Jenica Way, Louisville KY 40241-1530. Be sure to mark clearly on your check what the donation is for. Charlie said the memorial plaque was $110 and is paid for. Many thanks to Amalie and Charlie for their work on this project.
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SENT BY: My apologies to Bradley Granger. I accidentally left his email & phone in the last letters. Fifty lashes with a wet noodle for me. (Thanks to Pam Ellingson for removing that info before archiving.)
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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas
Did you know that the famous African American abolitionist Sojourner Truth was enslaved and spoke Dutch until the age of ten? Or that the Dutch brought enslaved Africans to North America in the merchant ships of the West India Company? This eye-opening guide traces the Dutch presence in New York city and state. The Dutch rule of New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short, but it has had a lasting cultural impact. Dutch colonists, entering the rich American lands, had friendly and violent encounters with Native Americans. They traded and partnered with them, but also fought against them. Enslaved Africans built and formed New York, in farms and households. This bilingual guide invites you to visit many surprising locations of Dutch New York’s histories of trade, treason, resistance, violence, survival, profit, loss, religious zeal, old rituals and new cultural forms. Discover a new layer of information about New York State, that includes the Hudson River Valley and the five boroughs of New York City.
For additional information go to www.mappingslavery.nl
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SENT BY: Phyllis Miller
I read the note from Julie Van Dyke regarding her ancestor, Peter Van Dyke, who spent some time at Conewago but did not go to Kentucky. For many years we have searched for the ancestry of my 4th great-grandfather, William Van Dyke (Vandike) who came to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the 1770’s, seemingly alone. He married Anna Barbara Moyer/Meyer and had a large family of children. Circa 1800 he went over to the neighboring county of Armstrong where he died in 1806. William was probably born around 1750. I wondered if Julie might contact me.
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SENT BY: Eddie Price
So glad to get this news about the next Dutch gathering. If you are looking for a quality historical presentation, I have several available. (You might even be interested in the Kentucky Chautauqua performance “Roscoe Tarleton Goose, Derby Winner” for a Kentucky flair. Always good to book early. With my Kentucky Chautauqua performance, new historical novel and new children’s book in the mix, bookings come in hard and heavy. I will pencil in the dates and wait until I hear from you. I met one our Dutch Cousins at the Colonial Trade Faire in Oldham County this past June. Nice to have good contacts that share a common interest!
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SENT BY: Della Nash and Charlotte OlsonRevolutionary War Veteran Cornelius O. Vanarsdall Pension Papersby Kentucky Kindred Genealogical ResearchWonderful story by writer Phyllis Brown about one of our honored Dutch ancestors and lots of great photos of the Old Mud Meetinghouse and cemetery as well as pension papers, also valuable documents and transcriptions. Too much to put in so I am going to share the website with our readers, and I encourage you to subscribe to the Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research as I do.
https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/author/kentuckykindred/
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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas
In 1648, following the end of the Dutch eighty years revolt, the Dutch of the newly independent United Provinces (of which there were several) of the Netherlands, were the first in history to win their freedom from a world-class empire. In 1609, Henry Hudson enabled the Dutch to lay claim to an area from Delaware Bay to Cape Cod which eventually came to be known as New Netherland – no s. Your lesson for today!
If you’d like to read more about the history of New Netherland, you should start by reading Firth Fabend’s well-researched and easy-to-read New Netherland in Nutshellhttps://shop.newnetherlandinstitute.org/products/new-netherland-in-a-nutshell
(NOTE FROM CAROLYN: The author, Firth Fabend of New Jersey, is a member of our Dutch Cousins and was scheduled to be a speaker last year until health issues intervened,)
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SENT BY: Marian Bauer, Harrodsburg Historical Society
Membership dues are $20.00 annually and payable in May of each year.Student memberships are $5.00.Anyone having queries, articles, announcements or comments they wish to have included should contact to the Olde Towne Ledger, Harrodsburg Historical Society, P.O.Box 316, Harrodsburg, KY 40330. Circuit Court Records on CD — We now have 381 of the 438 needed. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation of this invaluable research source. These records were removed from Mercer County to Frankfort and are available on CD for $25 per roll. Additional purchases will be acknowledged in future Ledgers.
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SENT BY: Lynn Rogers
Your post re Battle of Brooklyn Heights and Jacobus/James Westerfield born August 15th, 1755 on Long Island was interesting to me. The way I understand it, the mother of Jacobus was Marie nee Demaree. I am a descendant of two of Marie’s sisters, Rachel who m Gerardus Ryker, and Tryntie who m Jacob Smock. I am particularly interested in the map of Brooklyn Heights because I think that it includes what was once Ryker/Riker land.

Do you know the source of the map?

Some time ago, you and I also exchanged emails re Westerfield Massacre. It happens that John Ryker, a member of the militia group which went out to rescue survivors and bury the dead, was a son of Rachel. Therefore, the people he was rescuing and burying were blood relatives, aunts, uncles, cousins.

Regards,
Mr Lynn Rogers
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SENT BY: Dana Wade
My parents attended the 2017 Dutch Cousins meeting for the first time. It may be their names that you are searching for, Carl and Cindy Bantau, though they were not present for the Banta photo. My kids and I, all direct descendants of Epke Jacobse de Bonte, and husband (Ken Wade – likely descended from Sir William Waad/Wade of the London Gunpowder plot, we’ve recently learned!) had such a wonderful time with you all on Sunday at Old Mud. We’re trying to persuade more of our Banta/Bantau family members to drive down from Michigan for next year’s meeting. Since we live in Mercer Co., please let me know if I/we can be of help in any way.

Also, you had asked me to write up a blurb regarding the new transitional housing shelter, the House of Grace, Hope, and Mercy. The Director of the project oversees 15-20 ministries from our small Christian Life Center building on Main St.. After receiving much misinformation, I’ve been waiting for an update directly from her. I will send something for the newsletter soon.

Thanks for all that you do!
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SENT BY: Tim Brown
My name is Tim Brown. I recently heard of this group and would like to be on your mailing list. I am a direct decendant of Aaron and Rachel Schenck Van Cleave through John VC and Benjamin VC. Mary Shepherd VC, scalped at Long Run, is also my ancestor.

I recently heard a presentation on YouTube about Dutch serttlements in Beargrass. I have been working on this portion of my family for some time and welcome all information about the Beargrass Stations.

SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield
Carolyn, Looks like a car struck this sign. I will check with Dr. Patrick first of next week on procedures to repair or replace.
Thanks, Charlie

Letters 9/20/2018

Honoring our Duree descendants at the 2017 Dutch Cousins Gathering: Amalie Preston, Mary Jo Gohmann, David Heathcoat, and our hospitality chairmen, Carol and Gene Heathcoat.

See you in Kentucky next year

My name is Marcia McCully Gray and my connection to your group is through the Brewers and Dorlands/Darlands among many others. My great-great grandmother is Matilda J. Brewer born in 1850 in Johnson County Indiana.
Daniel Brewer & Maritje Koning
Abaham Brewer & Sara Van Orden
Daniel Brewer & Theodocia Dorland
Garrett Brewer & Sarah “Sally” Davis
Matilda J. Brewer & Ephraim Marsh
I would appreciate being on your mailing list and learning more about all our many cousins.

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SENT BY: Marilyn Douglas
Old Bridge’s Name Still Recalls New Netherland’s Tribal History
By Peter A. Douglas
The opening of the new Tappan Zee Bridge (officially renamed the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge) in September 2018 can be seen as yet another reminder of the Dutch history of the Hudson Valley. The “Zee” component of the name is clearly Dutch, meaning “sea,” as in the Zuider Zee, or southern sea, in the Netherlands. But what does Tappan mean, and why is part of a river called a sea?
To the Dutch in the seventeenth century, this stretch of the Hudson (the Noort Rivier, or North River, to them) did indeed seem something like a sea because at this point, around ten miles north of Manhattan, there is a widening of the river. This broad “sea” is about three and a half miles across at its widest point near Haverstraw Bay, and runs for a dozen miles between Rockland and Westchester counties, extending from Irvington in the south to Croton-on-Hudson in the north.
The original Tappan Zee Bridge, built from 1952-55, joined the communities of Nyack in the west and Tarrytown in the east. There were concerns about the structural integrity of the sixty year old bridge, and construction began on the new bridge in 2013, running a few yards to the north of the existing bridge and parallel to it.
The word Tappan in the bridge’s name, and that of the river’s natural widening, comes from the name of a sub-tribe of the Munsee-speaking Algonquian tribe, an indigenous people of the northeastern woodlands, whose historical territory included present-day New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River, New York City, western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. The name is thought to derive from the Algonquian language as used by New Netherland settlers, who spelled it Tappaen. A possible origin is the word tuphanne, meaning “cold water.”
The tribe’s first contact with the Dutch settlers was as trading partners. It is from them, for instance, that David Pieterszoon de Vries (c.1593-1655), a navigator from Hoorn who was earlier involved in the Swanendael colony in Delaware, purchased 500 acres of land in 1640 and built Vriessendael in what is nowEdgewater NJ, the first known homestead in Bergen County, where he raised cattle and grew corn and tobacco.
The name Tappan occurs throughout the tribe’s former territory. Vriessendael, the patroonship on the west bank of the Hudson, was also known as Tappan. We see it in Lake Tappan, a reservoir created by the Tappan Dam on the Hackensack River. We find it again in Old Tappan in Bergen County, and in Tappan in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County.
In 1994, the name of NY Governor Malcolm Wilson (1914-2000) was added to the Tappan Zee Bridge’s name on the twentieth anniversary of his leaving the governor’s office in December 1974, though his name is almost never used when the bridge is spoken about colloquially. It’s just the Tappan Zee Bridge.
In June 2017, Governor Andrew Cuomo was successful in passing legislation to name the bridge after his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo (1932-2015). This controversial decision has been met with stiff criticism. A poll of Rockland and Westchester county residents found that only fifteen percent of respondents were in favor of the change, the majority preferring to keep the old name and thereby its local historical associations. This surge of disapproval is reflected in a huge petition against the renaming, and in an Assemblyman’s promise to introduce legislation to revert the bridge’s old name.
So, thanks to those many millions of travelers on I-87 and I-287 who will, despite an unpopular bureaucratic fiat from Albany, still know and call the new bridge by its older common name, the ancient Tappan tribe, who could only marvel at the sight, will in some curious and resilient democratic fashion, continue to be evoked by means of this modern three-mile long, eight-lane, cable-stayed, four billion dollar upgrade.
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SENT BY: HHS Newsletter

The HHS was very saddened to learn of the passing of John Carter, age 78, on June 29, 2018.
An Archeologist for the State of KY, in the Surface Mining Dept. and served in the United States Air Force, John was a long time member and volunteer of the Harrodsburg historical society. He was passionate about saving the Old Mud Meeting House. He attended the Dutch Cousins at least once and spent a good deal of time overseeing and helping with the restoration John was a dedicated researcher and historian with some amazing ideas and thoughts. The family requested memorial donations be sent to Harrodsburg Historical Society, St. Joseph Indian School or The Old Mud Meeting House.
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SENT BY: Marian Bauer, Harrodsburg Historical Society
Membership dues are $20.00 annually and payable in May of each year.Student memberships are $5.00.Anyone having queries, articles, announcements or comments they wish to have included should contact to the Olde Towne Ledger, Harrodsburg Historical Society, P.O.Box 316, Harrodsburg, KY 40330. Circuit Court Records on CD — We now have 381 of the 438 needed. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation of this invaluable research source. These records were removed from Mercer County to Frankfort and are available on CD for $25 per roll. Additional purchases will be acknowledged in future Ledgers.
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SENT BY: My name is Lisa Martin Allen. I am a direct descendant of “Father” Hendrick Banta. I became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution based on my relationship to him and of course, his patriotic service in the war.
Since discovering my Dutch heritage, I’ve become an enthusiastic historian. I look forward to learning more about my ancestors and connecting with my Dutch cousins.
Thank you,
Lisa
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SENT BY: Louise Ledger 9/20/2018
Carolyn, I meant to let you know that my sister, Carol Heathcoat, passed. Gene Heathcoat and our family are having the funeral in Elk City, OK She is in the arms of Christ. (NOTE: Gene and Carol Heathcoat of Denton Texas have served our group as Hospitality chairmen since 2009. Their son David came with them last year. We offer Gene and family our sincerest sympathy)

obit: Carol Ann (Pope) Heathcoat, 76, of Denton, Texas formerly of Elk City, Oklahoma was born on April 20, 1942 in San Diego, California to Jasper David and Dorothy (Bryant) Pope. She went to be with her Heavenly Father on Monday, September 17, 2018 at Avanti Senior Living in Flower Mound, Texas surrounded by her loving family.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, September 21, 2018 at Fairlawn Cemetery in Elk City, Oklahoma. Services have been entrusted to the care of Martin-Dugger Funeral Home in Elk City, Oklahoma.
Family will receive friends from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 20, 2018 at Martin-Dugger Funeral Home, Elk City, Oklahoma.
Online condolences can be sent to the family by using the online guest book at www.martin-duggerfuneralhome.com.
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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
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SENT TO: the DUTCH-AMERICAN GROUP: 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. I know that we have a COZINE/COSINE website, and wonder if our members know of others, because we have more than 60 Low Dutch family groups represented, like Westerfield, Smock, Banta/Bonta, Ryker/Riker, Cozine, Vanarsdall (many spellings), Terhune, Voorhees/Voris, Demaree/Demarest and many more.

Letters 10/30/2018

BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: The DC meeting is set for Sept 12,13,14,&15, 2019 at the Kentucky State University, Harold R. Benson Ag building, 1525 Mills Ln, Frankfort, KY 40601 outside Frankfort. Our president Charlie Westerfield has checked it out and approved the location. He says there are several hotels within five miles and our Salvisa food service caterers (that we love) are coming with us. Looks like there is plenty of parking and in a scenic location. The agriculture service may even offer some great Kentucky grown food for us. Charlie is working on the program for our Kentucky Dutch history research and will be announcing the speakers soon, so if you have special requests you should let him know. Be sure to get this event on your calendar now
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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: Vince Akers
Feel free to give my e-mail or address (10122 Skippers Ct., Indianapolis, IN 46256) to anyone with a serious inquiry. I’ve been charging $5.00 for the Low Dutch booklet to cover printing and postage.
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SENT BY: Geralyn Boyle

I was born Westerfield and would like to know when the next Westerfield reunion will be. Can I please be added to the mail or email list for for information?

Thank you
Geralyn Westerfield Early Boyle

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SENT BY: Elaine Bailey
My ancestor arrived in New Amsterdam in 1660 from Holland. Name is Van Meter____he married Rebecca Dubois. Anxious to join your group.
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SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield
REPORT ON MEMORIAL BENCH FOR CLAUDE WESTERFIELD: (see photos on webpage www.dutchcousins.com)
Visited Old Mud to check out the bench. Placed the marker for a few photos only, (Hope to make placing the marker a big part of our 2019 Service at Old Mud). I am not happy with the way the marker fits, hope to make it more prominent and more secure, will work on it and open for suggestions. Shot most of these photos with a drone, thought you might enjoy a couple of aerials of the property. Also thought you might send these out to the members.
Thanks,
Charlie
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SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield
REPORT ON WESTERFIELD MASSACRE MARKER: Steve Henry has provided the funds ($3,000.00) for the marker through the “Future Fund Endowment”. Now we are waiting for the final location of the marker from the “The Parklands of Floyds Fork” panel. Should have that within the next week and then we can complete the application and return it to The Historical Marker Society. After their approval, we will be ordering the marker.
Charlie
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SENT BY: Tamara Fulkerson
Van Arsdall Bible;

	Bible Gateway (@biblegateway)
10/25/18, 9:58 PM ➡️ BibleGateway.com/plus/?utm_sour… Kentucky Historical Society to give public look into Bible collection ⁦‪@KyHistSoc‬⁩ ⁦‪@statejournal‬⁩ m.state-journal.com/2018/10/25/ken…

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SENT BY: Theresa Westerfield
Theresa Westerfield of Lawrenceburg KY here to add some interesting information to the Dutch Cousins group.

I actually found James Westervelt Jrs. Revolutionary War Land Grant in the Kentucky Archives. It was given in the wrong name on the certificate to James Westerville. There is only one name in the Archives similar to Westerfield, this being it. Since James is a Revolutionary War veteran, he surely would have been given his 400 acres for military service. I am trying to find his land in Mercer County but this is what I found instead.
(files can be uploaded to Dutch Cousins)
The pdf files shown is the original land grant certificate filed in Kentucky, deed and the survey.
http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/nonmilitary/patentseries/vaandokpatents/Default.aspx
Also, James continues to use the legal terminology acknowledging his father James Sr. (killed in the Massacre) as Heir to him on the documents. This was his own property, not of his father, but I would suppose that would relay that his father is deceased and would not have claim to his property. Why did he not give the land to his children or his mother Mary?

The 1780 Virginia Land Grant is numbered 3594 in the name of Westerville. This certificate is proof that you are entitled to land from the Commonwealth of Virginia. At this time Kentucky was Kentucky County until 1792. It was taken to the County Surveyor and the Kentucky Land Survey is number 5405, dated 1798. That would be considered the deed book number in today’s real estate.
But the most interesting information is that James gave away his land to Thomas Kennedy in 1802-3. Thomas was also a Revolutionary War soldier, holding the rank of Colonel. His brothers John and Joseph were landholders for Kennedy Station. This area is east of Harrodsburg on the other side of Lancaster (approximately 20 miles).
James is buried at Old Mud in Harrodsburg and I am not sure why he held onto this certificate for 20 years and did not use it for the Church or to benefit the congregation or did he refuse due to religious beliefs? Did he owe any allegiance to Colonel Kennedy?
Here is a Kennedy family history about the settlers and conditions at Fort Boonesborough and who came to and from. In sections, it mentions Thomas as coming to the area (possibly following battles with natives) and living at his brothers homestead near the time James gave up his land. This property lies in lower Madison/Garrard County (formerly part of the larger Lincoln) as described in this family history:
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.garrard/2550.1/mb.ashx
[ It wasn’t long that John’s brother, Thomas was the owner of his settlement and preemption 1400 acres in present Garrard Co. Per Forrest Calico, “History of Garrard County Kentucky and its Churches” – page 40, Thomas Kennedy, ” …by his own depositions, came to Kentucky in 1781 (Actually 1782) and resided at his brother John’s station on or near Paint Lick Creek.” Here Thomas built his large brick home abt. themid 1790’s. For a short time the records establish that John had a station on his settlement 400 acres (At least for four years as reported by Matthew Robertson, above.) There is evidence that there was a beaten path from his station to that of Bells (current Cornett farm) to the east and just across the present border in Madison County.]
Here is the list of Early Settlers at Fort Boonesborough, some of those people moved to Fort Harrod area such as the McAffee’s. I believe the Westerfield’s lived atMcAffee Station to the north of Harrodsburg.
James is listed here but why, since we all know the family as only coming from Bear Creek Station and the resulting “Massacre”. There is more to research in Madison County….is it just that he had ownership in land for a minimum 3 years?
http://www.fortboonesboroughlivinghistory.org/html/early_settlers.html
Hope all is well,
Earl & Theresa
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SENT BY: Jenny Belger Bragg
Hello! I was researching the Westervelt Massacre,and found the Dutch Cousins,with your email to sign up. Jacobus Westervelt and Maria Demarest are my 6th great grandparents. I am very interested in learning more about this branch of my family. Please sign me up!
Here,below,is my connection to them.I look forward to connecting with cousins!
Jacobus (James Westerfield) Westervelt Jr. (1737 – 1780)
6th great-grandfather
Deborah Westerfield (1768 – 1827)
Daughter of Jacobus (James Westerfield) Westervelt Jr.
Kennedy Baxter (1792 – 1864)
Son of Deborah Westerfield
Julia Ann Baxter (1812 – 1898)
Daughter of Kennedy Baxter
Reuben Richard “Rube” Baucum (1861 – 1924)
Son of Julia Ann Baxter
Josie Phine Baucum ggm (1882 – 1967)
Daughter of Reuben Richard “Rube” Baucum
Ethel Louise JONES Belger Evans (1911 – 1994)
Daughter of Josie Phine Baucum ggm
Grady Allen Belger (1931 – 2013)
Son of Ethel Louise JONES Belger Evans
Jenny (Belger) Bragg
You are the daughter of Grady Allen Belger
I did not know about the massacre until yesterday,found your website while doing research..I shed some tears…and am in awe of Maria and her daughters strength and courage…what a heartbreaking story…I had no idea. I am so very glad to have found Dutch Cousins!! Thank you for the kind greeting,and the amazing information.
Jenny
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SENT BY: KENTUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY – vanarsdall bible

NOTE FROM CAROLYN: IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A MEMBER OF KENTUCKY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, I encourage you to join. kentuckygenealogicalsociety.org
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SENT BY: Peggy Kephart Morrow. I am a descendant of Gerardus Ryker. I am also an amateur genealogist and would like to study him and the others who migrated to Kentucky. The Smock and Demarest families are also ancestors.
Will you please add me to your mailing list? I look forward to learning more about my Dutch ancestors.

I have read some things but don’t have enough evidence or documentation to take my line all the way back to New Amsterdam. I realize how important documentation is. I am lucky that the Dutch kept such good records. I just haven’t looked enough yet.
I am sure I am a descendant of Gerardus Ryker. Eventually the Ryker family married into the Hughey family who then came to Oregon about 1880. I found a Ryker family organization, but I think it is now defunct. I also have Huguenot roots through the Demarests.
This is all so exciting to me to be able to gain more knowledge.

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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 more than 700 addresses – and I know it is passed on to others who do not use computers, and is also posted at some libraries. The letters are also archived on the website.

I know that we have a COZINE/COSINE website, and will ask in the next letters if the members know of others, because we have more than 60 Low Dutch family groups represented, like Westerfield, Smock, Banta/Bonta, Ryker/Riker, Cozine, Vanarsdall (many spellings), Terhune, Voorhees/Voris, Demaree/Demarest and many more.

Letters 12/12/2018

Wishing all our cousins a very merry DUTCH Christmas!

Hoping you always keep a little bit of Christmas in your heart.Speculaas (Dutch Windmill Cookies) The picture is of Speculaas cookie molds. I found this recipe from a Dutch Baker who specialized in these cookies, but I confess I haven’t tried fixing them yet. If you do, please let me know. Cooking Time: 12 minutes, Servings: 5 dozen, Preparation Time: 20 minutes

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup white sugar
1/1/4 cups dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 1/2 tablespoons speculaas spice*
1 teaspoon kosher salt

* Speculaas spice:
8 parts cinnamon
2 parts nutmeg
2 parts ground cloves
1 part white pepper
1 part ground ginger
1 part cardamom
This combination of spices can be found in recipes dating back to the fifteenth century. (you could use pumpkin pie spices instead, but the cookies won’t taste quite the same)

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream butter, vanilla, and both kinds of sugar until light and fluffy. Add both eggs and blend well.
Whisk all of the dry ingredients together and slowly add to the butter mixture, combining until the dough pulls from the side of the bowl.
Divide the dough in half. Wrap each half in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
Roll out dough to 1/4″ or 1/8″ thick and cut with specula as cookie cutters. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

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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.——————————————————————————————————— BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: We have set the DC 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. —————————————————————— SENT BY: Carolyn (herself) Thank you to everyone who sent cards and emails in sympathy for the loss of my brother, your Dutch Cousin John Curtis Branch, whose spirit left last week, December 6. He was a practicing attorney and college professor in Oklahoma city.
——————————————————————SENT BY: Patty HoenigmanHi Carolyn,Reading the note from Peggy Gephart Morrow about Gerardus Ryker…I am a Ryker/Riker descendant also. Please refer her to The Annals of Newtown written by James Riker, published in 1852, which tells a great deal about the Riker family. It is an authoritative resource documenting the earliest settlers of New York/ New Amsterdam/ Newtown. James Riker happens to be my great great grandfather’s brother. Elizabeth Van Arsdale was his mother. . I’ve proven my Revolutionary War ancestry based on John Van Arsdale and my Colonial Dames ancestry based on Abraham Ryken de Lent…the progenitor of the American Riker family.I’d be happy to hear from Peggy and other Riker cousins! (NOTE FROM CAROLYN; We do not publish email addresses on the list because of possible scammers, but if you reply to me I will forward your info to Patty so you can talk privately outside the Dutch Cousins if that is what you wish. It is good to reply publicly because your info might help others on the list) ——————————————————————SENT BY:Joyce CollinsDear Carolyn,Bless you and all the folks working on the 2019 DC get together.I am now 82 and have a heart problem. So won’t be able to attend.Hope you are well.Blessings,T. Joyce Westerfield Collins(NOTE: Stay well Joyce. We will be thinking of you.)——————————————————————SENT BY: Charlotte Olson to Theresa Westerfield From: Early Terhunes of Mercer County, Kentucky and Their Dutch Kin and Scot-Irish Neighbors/West of the Salt Vol II-Maps by Paul and Barbara Terhune 2011:
Vo II, Map 4/2nd Generation Land 1795 – 1815 Mercer County, KY:
James Westerfield Deed #37, 1808
Property size : N 124; W 175; E 135; S (zigzagged….)50, 32, 36, 25 (this seems small to me to be in feet. Will check further on the meaning of these figures.)
100 poles: 1 miles
As the “crow flies:” From this piece of Westerfield property:
From SE border it is 400 poles SE to Old Mud
From SE border it is 200 poles SE to northern most bend in Salt River
From NE corner it is 600 poles NE to Harrodsburg
Clear as “new” mud?

Vol II, Map 5 lists footnote #17: “James Westerfield to James Jr 20A 1826.” Haven’t found the actual map, yet.
Harrodsburg Historical Society has copies of the 3 volume set of Paul and Barbara’s work. I can send you copies of the copies that I have. But if you can get over the HHS there is so much information contained in these volumes it is certainly worth the trip.
This set included extremely well documented records for most of the Dutch families in Mercer County. They are priceless treasures. To date, I have been unable to locate additional copies or information on the copyright, since both Paul and Barbara has gone on to celebrate with our Dutch Cousins founding fathers and mothers! Still looking since I would like to have them reprinted.
Hope this helps. We are not part of the Westerfield family, just neighbors in KY and PA and some in NJ.
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Hi. Based on the genealogy my mother has done as well as from reading a genealogy book written by James VanFleet. I am a descendant of the Dutch man Garrett VanVliet who came to new Amsterdam in something like 1650? It was mid-1600’s. Anyway, we have found lots of VanVliet graves in mercer county and have been told that the name morphed into VanFleet. I have also been told about the intermarrying tradition of the Dutch at that time. I just wondered if you all have any I of on the VanVliet’s? My grandfather AD VanFleet was adopted by his uncle Nathan Banta after his mother died during child birth. So we are also related to the Banta’s. I am actually named after Nathan ‘s wife. Her name was Jennie Bonta. Not sure on her maiden name.
Also, how can we join this group? My brother and I are very interested in this. Our mother passed away two weeks ago and even though the Dutch line was through my dad, she spent countless hours researching the VanFleet genealogy. I really want to learn more about our Dutch family and hopefully find some new family members!

(you are now a Dutch Cousins list member)——————————————————————SENT BY: Michael MonsonI would like to be placed on the Dutch Cousins mailing list.
My Low Dutch connection flows from my maternal great-great-grandmother Charity DeBaun. Charity DeBaun is descended from the following ancestral families: DeBaun, Haring, Hogenkamp, Van Houten, Durie, Demarest, Banta, Terhune, Luyster, Van Barkelo, Wyckoff, Amerman, etc. (you are now a Dutch Cousins list member)——————————————————————SENT BY: Mary Jo GohmannHi Carolyn!
Hope you and Jon are well. Thought you and the Dutch cousins might be interested in the Kasten.
Warm regards,
Mary Jo
https://hudsonvalleykasten.org/

Kasten were central to domestic life in colonial New York. While serving a utilitarian function as the primary storage for linens, these impressive pieces were quintessential to the furnishings of Dutch-American homes, signifying the heritage of the owners, as well as their wealth and social status. The exhibit highlights the enduring influence of Dutch culture in the Hudson Valley.

Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) is pleased to present the online exhibit Kasten from Mid-Hudson Valley Collections, featuring over one dozen 18th-century American cupboards. Based on a furniture form popular in the Netherlands, kasten were adapted in the Hudson Valley for over a century. Although variations exist, the typical kast (plural kasten) is a large, free-standing cupboard with two paneled doors surmounted by an over-scaled cornice. The cupboard usually sits on a base with a single drawer or drawers and ball-shaped feet. Some simpler versions made by country craftsmen feature cut-out or stylized feet.

The online exhibit is based on the original exhibition Kasten from Mid-Hudson Valley Collections, held at Historic Huguenot Street in the Jean Hasbrouck House and the Abraham Hasbrouck House, October 1 through December 17, 2017. The exhibition gathered over a dozen of these important cupboards from prominent regional private and public collections, including examples from Historic Huguenot Street’s own holdings. A 17th-century Dutch-made kussenkast with connections to the Elting family and Huguenot Street is also featured from the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Hudson Highlands. This remarkable piece features elaborate rosewood and ebony ornamentation and thick “cushion-like” doors. A cupboard from the Ulster County Historical Society shares an over-scaled cornice and other elements with Hudson Valley kasten, yet is identified as a schrank or German-style cupboard, owing to its distinctive interior design and other details.
NOTE FROM CAROLYN: This is a photo of the Kasten or Kas (Dutch Cabinet) we saw in the Brooklyn Museum in the Schenck house on our 2011 Dutch Footprints tour.

For more information about tours, programs, or exhibits at Historic Huguenot Street, please visit our website huguenotstreet.org or call 845-255-1889 (Visitor Center) or 845-255-1660 (Main Office).(NOTE: And this pic is of the Dutch Schenck home exhibit (reconstructed) at the Brooklyn Museum.

——————————————————————SENT BY: Michele HammannHi Carolyn,My dear, sweet cousin rescued a lifetime’s work of genealogy that was headed for the dumpster. There are Cozines, Van Arsdales and who knows what else. I came across a letter Vince Akers in response to a query written by Mr Loren Kester, March 29, 1980. I was wondering if Vince would like me to send it to him? It is 4 handwritten pages. I don’t have his email address to ask so if you would forward this email to him I would appreciate it. He might enjoy seeing where along he was in his research 38 years ago.I would love to come to the next DC reunion. NOTE FROM CAROLYN: We sure hope to see you there Michele. God willing, I willl be there too. Find me and give me a big Dutch hug! Tell us more about what was in the package? I’m dying to know what you learned about the Cozines. We have lots of VanArsddales (however spelled) in the group.——————————————————————SENT BY: Kim Allison RossThere is a nice article by Dana Benner titled,“Kentucky Riflemen meet the frontiersmen who opened up this wild territory to help America‘s westward expansion” in American Frontiersman September 2018. Find it at your local bookstore magazine rack or here (not free, not online): https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFrontiersman/——————————————————————SENT BY: Pam EllingsonIn a recent Dutch Letters you wondered about family websites. There are many sites listed on the Dutch Cousins website> Resources> Internet Links page.https://www.dutchcousins.org/links/ If anyone has additional links that should be added please let me know. ellingson.pam (at) gmail (dot) com——————————————————————SENT BY: Charlie Westerfield: (in re: the Low Dutch Station sign that was located at the Brown Park on Kresge Way, has been removed) Charlie inquired about the sign and learned it was removed because it was badly damaged. Note: this is NOT about the Westerfield Massacre sign which will be dedicated in September) The KY Historical Society said: “I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to follow up about your questions regarding marker #1848. The marker was sponsored by the Beargrass-St. Matthews Historical Society, Inc. in 1988. In 1992, the town of St. Matthews help replace a broken post on that marker. At this point, because of its condition, it would need to be fully recast at a cost of $2500 + 6% sales tax (unless paid for by a tax-exempt organization). Please let me know what you’d like to do and I’ll be in touch in the next week or so about finalizing the text for the new marker.”
Charlie wants to know if there is anyone who would like to be chairman of the committee to replace this sign—————————————————————————————SENT BY: Negotiations and communications (and maybe even an argument) continue on the WESTERFIELD MASSACRE marker.————————————————————————————— SENT BY: To stay in touch, we mainly use our official website, www.DutchCousins.org, and the irregular 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. I know that we have a COZINE/COSINE website, and will ask in the next letters if the members know of others, because we have more than 60 Low Dutch family groups represented, like Westerfield, Smock, Banta/Bonta, Ryker/Riker, Cozine, Vanarsdall (many spellings), Terhune, Voorhees/Voris, Demaree/Demarest and many more.

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SENT BY: Carolyn LeonardEditor, Dutch cousins of KentuckyE-mail me: Editor234 (at) gmail.comOn my web page www.CarolynBLeonard.com On the welcome page, choose DutchCousins and LowDutchHeritage.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

Letters 12/24/2018

Merry Christmas! Let the happiness begin.

My family will all be together this holiday, and I couldn’t be happier. Since the 25th comes in the middle of the week, my working kids voted to postpone the party until the next weekend. That’s okay with me as long as we continue the family tradition and we are together. Break out the board games, steam up some hot cocoa and light the fire…I’m ready! Everyone brings something to add to the dinner, and one gift for the drawing. We circle up for a prayer of thankfulness and remembrance. Then after dinner the women catch up on family happenings while the menfolk stretch out to watch the football game and the children play with their new toys. It’s the best day of the year.

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, and do not publish email addresses on the list because of possible scammers.
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SENT BY: Dione Percy
Dear Carolyn,
Your notes and recipe for the Speculaas in the newsletter is a special holiday treat. They are one of my very favorite cookies and I will have to compare your recipe to mine. I have made them several times throughout the years and especially during the holidays as they are wonderful. Thank you!
As a Ryker/Riker descendant, I would also like to request Patty Hoenigman’s email and/or ask you to pass my email on to her:
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BIG NEWS! SAVE THE DATES: 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: 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 FROM CAROLYN: WELCOME ABOARD. We sure do have reunions, and you are invited!)
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SENT BY: Charlotte Olson
reading the following post I see mention of “Dutch Station” in the Will…thought you may know if someone would be interested in this information.have a blessed day.
charlotte

William CHRISTIAN, killed by Indians in 1786, was buried in front of his house on the bank of Bear Grass.
“my Bear Grass land to include the improvement whereon I now live, and to be laid off by a line running from the Oxmoor land to Mr. Bullitt’s, parallel with the Dutch Station and Breckinridge’s line which joins me, to her and her heirs assigns forever.

Lots of good info here: https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2018/12/14/will-of-william-christian-killed-by-indians-in-1786-jefferson-county/

NOTE from Carolyn: This is QUITE a find especially in light of the work being done on the Westerfield Massacre marker.
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SENT BY: Mark Selinger (welcome new Cousin!)
Mark Seliger
My second degree great-grandmother Hanthorn’s maiden name was Martha Westerfield.

My Hanthorn family relatives, through records, found my fourth degree great-grandmother Westerfield’s maiden name was Catherine Montfort, and my fourth degree great-grandfather was Samuel Westerfield.

The story we have is that Samuel’s father Jacobus, and other family members, were killed in the Westervelt Massacre. And the family had recently changed their surname from Westerfield to Westervelt.

We have information going back to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in the 1600s, and further back to the Netherlands, northern France, and Belgium.

What I would like to know, is has anyone confirmed all of this information by records?
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Carolyn Leonard
Hi Mark. The answer is yes, the Westervelt massacre is confirmed in the Draper manuscript and other eyewitness accounts of the period and we are in the process of getting a KY historical marker placed to mark the site. Would youlke to know more? Go to our official website www.DutchCousins.org, and ask to be on our mailing list for Dutch Letters (if you are not already on).
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Mark Seliger
What I was concerned about was about the name change from Westervelt to Westerfield. From what I gather, they are both the same family. That and the genealogical records.I was wondering if someone had actually nailed down the records. We have all these names, dates, and stories, but having actual records is very important.
We do have actual records going back to Catherine Montfort and Samuel Westervelt / Westerfield.
My family then inquired on the Internet, and it turned out that there was the whole story, all worked out.

There was a controversy turned up though, regarding the Demarest family having a lot of the work done by a genealogist by the name of Louis DeBoer, who was later found to be connecting wealthy American client families to titled European aristocratic families. From Louis DeBoer comes the claim that the Demarests are of the Des Marets family, and they probably actually are. Certain titled members of the Des Marets family were the Lords of Cambrai, which is part of Normandy, France. Some of the Demarest family took some time and effort to revisit this, and they conducted a study.

What they were able to prove is that the Demarests were indeed from Cambrai. They were not however, able to prove the family connection to the Des Marets.They found that the records by which they could prove that were lost when a particular church there was destroyed during World War II.They also found that DeBoer’s claims regarding the Des Marets being descendants of William the Conqueror, and of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, were false. The Des Marets family confirmed that.
So, if anything is false, you have to question everything.

I am inclined to think that the information we have is correct. We just don’t have the records. And I have been wondering about actual records, documents. I am very much impressed with the story, but hesitate to say any of it without the disclaimer regarding the lack of documentation and whatever contamination might be by Louis DeBoer.

The Westervelt family is a pretty good family to come from. I know that it’s absolutely unlikely there would be Boeing Aircraft Corporation without George Conrad Westervelt.

Aviation was still a mystery to most Americans when businessman William Boeing and U.S. Navy engineer George Conrad Westervelt began building airplanes.
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Carolyn Leonard
Mark, I would like to post your letter in the Dutch Letters, and send a copy to our DEMAREE expert, Vince, for comment. Our Westerfield Expert, Claude, passed away a couple years ago and I am not sure if anyone has picked up that challenge. I do know that Claude donated his years of Westerfield research to the Low Dutch Archives in the Harrodsburg Historical Society.
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SENT BY: Judy Cassidy
Regarding the query sent in by Michele Hamman regarding saving genealogy papers from the trash, she mentions a letter from Loren Kester to Vince. Over the years Loren Kestrer did a lot of good research on the Low Dutch especially this who migrated to in the Missouri and Illinois areas, but upon his death they all disappeared. He contributed several articles to Charles Vanordol’s The VanGuard as well. Unfortunately after his death all his papers disappeared. He was a single man with one cousin whom I don’t believe is living. None of the Missouri Historical Societies, both State and Local know what happened to them. He was a familiar figure and was well known in the area. My question is, does anyone know what happened to his work? If so, and there are no plans for it, contributing it to the Dutch Cousins Archive in Mercer Co., would be very beneficial.
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SENT BY: Lisa Louise Cooke
Discover Your Dutch Ancestors & More in New Online Records

Featured this week is a fantastic resource for anyone searching for Dutch ancestors! Open Archives recently celebrated reaching 200 million historical person entries and collaborates with dozens of libraries and genealogical societies to make them all available online in one place. Also featured this weekis the Ireland 1911 Census, online access to the New York Death Index, and major new additions to records for Hampshire, England.
https://lisalouisecooke.com/2018/12/14/dutch-genealogy/
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SENT BY: Dick and Marion Bauer in the upcoming Harrodsburg Historical Society newsletter: From the President. . . (excerpt)
Rough in electrical work is complete at Old Mud and the water tap has been installed at the road.Work will resume in the spring, funds and weather permitting.
I wish you and yours a very Happy New Year and hope that 2019 will be a year of joy, health and peace.
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SENT BY: The Old Towne Ledger newsletter is published every two months by the Harrodsburg Historical Society.Back issues can be obtained for $3.00 each.Membership dues are $20.00 annually and payable in May of each year.Student memberships are $5.00.Library e-mail: library@harrodsburghistorical.org
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SENT BY: Circuit Court Records on CD for Harrodsburg Historical Society — now have 387 of the 438 needed. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation of this invaluable research source. These records were removed from Mercer County to Frankfort and are available on CD for $25 per roll.
Library Hours:
Tuesday 10-4
Wednesday-Friday 1-4
1st & 3rd Saturdays 1-4
Telephone 859-734-5985
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SENT BY: Jim Cozine of Las Vegas
I see where this book is reviewed by the Holland Society
“The Dutch”: Bouweries and Early Settlement in New Amsterdam
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-dutch-bouweries-and-early-settlement-in-new-amsterdam

Has anyone seen this before?
the Blog uses this title – Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
St. Martin’s Press, July 2018
304 pages

The blogs have mixed reviews
It does memtion the Cosyn Gerritsen by name but seems only the 1st chapter deals with the Dutch period.
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SENT BY: In the latest episode of NNI’s podcast, Joyce Goodfriend chats with NNI’s Steve McErleane about Goodfriend’s career as a leading historian of New Netherland and early New York. Topics include the origins of Goodfriend’s interest in Dutch New York, the evolution of New Netherland studies and the waning infatuation with the English, the persistence of “Dutchness”—including the role of language and religion—from the seventeenth century through the American Revolution, the nuances of cultural authority and how historians have written about the levers of power, and some potential future paths for New Netherland scholarship.

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/new-netherland-praatjes/
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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.

Keep a little bit of Christmas in your heart all year long.

Big hugs and love from your Dutch cousin in Oklahoma: Carolyn Leonard
Editor, Dutch cousins of Kentucky

E-mail me: Editor234 (at) gmail.com
On my web page www.CarolynBLeonard.com
On the welcome page, choose DutchCousins and LowDutchHeritage.
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