Family: Luur Jacobsen, (Van) Kuykendall / Grietje Artse Tack (F6838)

• Father | Male Luur Jacobsen, (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Bef 29 May 1650	New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory
  Died	Aft 1720	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Buried
  Married	Abt 1680  [1]	Kingston, Ulster County, New York  [1]
  Father	Jacob Luursen | F6840 Group Sheet
  Mother	Styntie Douwes | F6840 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Grietje Artse Tack

  
  

  Born	16 Aug 1663	Wiltwyck, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory
  Died	Aft 1720	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Buried
  Father	Aert Petersen Tack | F6066 Group Sheet
  Mother	Anneke Adriens | F6066 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Styntie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1682	Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York
  Christened	2 Apr 1682	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Abt 1715	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Buried
  Spouse	Jurian "Euric" Westfall | F6850
  Married	Abt 1710	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 2 | Male Jacob Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	12 Aug 1683	Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York
  Christened	12 Aug 1683	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Between 1741 and 1744	Hunterdon County, New Jersey
  Buried
  Spouse	Ariantje Tietsoort | F6843
  Married	Abt 1708	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Spouse	Sara Westfall | F6844
  Married	3 Feb 1711	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 3 | Male Johannes Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1685	Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York
  Christened		Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Between 1685 and 1688	Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York
  Buried

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Cornelius Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1686	Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York
  Christened	30 May 1686	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Aft 1752	New Jersey
  Buried
  Spouse	Marretje Westfall | F6845
  Married	Abt 1705	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 5 | Male Johannes Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1688	Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York
  Christened	30 Sep 1688	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Abt 1711
  Buried

  
  

  Child 6 | Male Matheus Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1690	Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Aft 1754	Anson County, North Carolina
  Buried
  Spouse	Jannetje Westfall | F6836
  Married	27 Mar 1715	Kingston, Ulster County, New York
  Spouse	Mary Tate | F6837
  Married	Bef 1735	North Carolina

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Arie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1694	Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York
  Christened	8 Jun 1694	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Abt 1759
  Buried
  Spouse	Griertjen Margaret Quick | F6846
  Married	12 Dec 1720	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 8 | Male Pieter Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1698	Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York
  Christened	1 May 1698	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Abt 1778	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Buried
  Spouse	Femmetje Decker | F6847
  Married	9 Jul 1719	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 9 | Female Annetje Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	9 May 1700	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Christened	19 May 1700	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Spouse	Roelof Brink | F3830
  Married	27 Sep 1718	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 10 | Female Sara Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Abt 1702	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Christened	14 Jun 1702	Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Spouse	Jacob Middagh | F6852
  Married	18 Oct 1724	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York

  
  

  Child 11 | Female Seytie Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall

  
  

  Born	Bef 27 Oct 1706	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: It was in Kingston that Luur Jacobsen married Grietje Tack. Old unpublished records show they rented a farm at Marbletown in 1681. The baptisms of the eleven children of Luur and Grietje are recorded in the records of the Kingston Dutch Reform Church. Kingston became the first capital of the colony of New York. In 1664, the British, irritated by the growing population of Dutch between the British colonies of Boston and Virginia, surrounded New Amsterdam with a large naval force and forced New Netherland to become a British Colony, renamed New York. Inheriting a strong pioneering spirit and probably sick of British soldiers and taxes, Luur and Grietje moved their family around 1698 from the vicinity of Kingston to the Delaware valley wilderness known by the Indians inhabitants as Minisink or Machackemeck (now Port Jervis, Orange county, NY). The Kingston Dutch Reform Church records tell us only that Luur and his family were in "Minisink" by 1700. The term Minisink referred to a vast territory along the Delaware valley in the tri-state region of NY/NJ/PA. However, Only two areas were settled before 1700, Peenpack and Machackemeck. Peenpack, or the Upper Neighborhood, was well documented by Peter Gumaer and Luur was not one of the early settlers here. We know that William Tietsoort had been granted land in Machackemeck, or the Lower Neighborhood, in 1698 and we also know that Luur Jacobsen's oldest son, Jacob, married a daughter of William Tietsoort. I think we can fairly safely assume that Luur came to Machackemeck with William Tietsoort around 1698. If for no other reason than the fact that there don't seem to be any other possibilities. Old Minisink Village (Sussex Co, NJ) where Luur's sons, Jacob and Matthew later owned property wasn't settled until in the 1720's. The section of Minisink on the PA side of the Delaware wasn't settled until even later. Initially the local Leni-Lenape Indians, (called the Delaware by European settlers), were friendly toward these new neighbors. However, the Europeans penchant for exclusive land ownership soon led to hostilities. The history books reflect Kuykendall Family members among those scalped and kidnapped by Indian raiding parties. The van Kuykendall children and grandchildren married with the neighboring Dutch families of Westfall, Tietsoort, Westbrook, Decker, Quick, Cole, Cortright, Van Auken, Van Etten, Depue, Van Vliet etc. Also with the Huguenot French families of Gumaer, Swartwout, Cuddeback, DuBois and Freer all of whom spoke Dutch and attended the Dutch Reform Church. Some have been led to believe that church records for the Minisink/Machackemeck (Deerpark) DRC were lost for the years 1720- 1736. Histories of the Dutch Reform Churches in America reveal the following: The Deerpark DRC was not established until 1737. Until that time, Dominies from the established Kingston DRC travelled to the remote areas to perform baptisms which were later entered into the Kingston DRC records. The first Dominie at the Deerpark DRC found notes on baptisms performed in 1716-1719 in Minisink that had never been recorded in Kingston. He appended them to the Deerpark records which actually began in 1737. Hence, the appearance of missing records for 1720-1736. We have no record of when Luur or Grietje died. We know only that both are last recorded in Deerpark church records in 1720. from: Family History Our Dutch Heritage A Research Synopsis of the Kuykendall Family: Kuykendall, Kirkendall, Cuykendall, Coykendall, etc Compiled by Gene Kuykendall, 1997 http://w3.gorge.net/forest/FAMILY%20HISTORY%20BY%20GENE.htm

  
  

• Sources

  [S396] Stowell, Emily AMERICAN NOMADS(1988: Iris Press, Del Mar, California).