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Styntie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall

Female Abt 1682 - Abt 1715  (~ 33 years)


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  • Name Styntie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1682  Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christening 2 Apr 1682  Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Abt 1715  Machackemeck, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • Christening Notes: (Child/Date of Christening/Parents/Sponsors)

      Styntie............................................................ Leur Jacobz, ..............................Stintie Douwes, April 2, 1682.................................................. Grietje Artz Tack....................... Claes Teunisse.

      From: Kuykendall, George Benson "History of The Kuykendall Family Since Its Settlement in Dutch New York in 1646 With Genealogy,etc" (Portland, OR, 1919)
    Person ID I18658  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Luur Jacobsen, (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Bef 29 May 1650, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1720, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Mother Grietje Artse Tack,   b. 16 Aug 1663, Wiltwyck, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1720, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1680  Kingston, Ulster County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • 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 Old unpublished records show they rented a farm at Marbletown in 1681.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
    Family ID F6838  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jurian "Euric" Westfall,   b. 27 Apr 1684, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1731, Minisink, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1710  Machackemeck, Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • STYNTIE or CHRISTINA, the first child, a daughter of Luur Jacobsen Van Kuykendaal and wife Grietje Aertze Tack, grew up with her parents about fifteen miles from Kingston, New York. She married Jurian Westfall, about 1710; the baptism of their first Child took place in 1711. Jurian and his wife, Christina Van Kuykendaal, lived nearly eleven miles below the present site of Port Jervis, on the Delaware river, in Sussex County, N. J., adjacent to what was then called the "Big Minisink Island." Here Jacob Van Kuykendall and his brother-in-law, Jurian Westfall, lived on part of a tract of land they had bought jointly from Thomas Stevenson, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, containing 500 acres. They sold a part of this tract to a man named Johannes Westbrook, and divided the remainder between them.

      The plat of the old original village of Minisink, made April 7, 1725, shows the names of both Jacob Kuykendall and Jurian Westfall and also that of Jacob's brother, Mattheus. Just what time they might have moved on to this place is not known, but it may have been any time between 1714 and 1725, but was probably nearer the first named date. The marriage of Jurian Westfall and Styntie Kuykendall was the first intermarriage of the two families. By this marriage Christina had three children, viz: Johannes, baptized June 24,1711: Jacobus, baptized February 8, 1713; Jacob, baptized June8.1715. Christina must have died soon after the birth of this child Jacob, for her husband, Jurian Westfall, married the second time to Marytje Koddebeck, August 20, 1717. Both Cuddebacks and Westfalls intermarried with Kuykendalls afterwards many times

      From: Kuykendall, George Benson "History of The Kuykendall Family Since Its Settlement in Dutch New York in 1646 With Genealogy,etc" (Portland, OR, 1919)
    Children 
     1. Johannes B. Westfall,   b. Abt 1711   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Jacobus B. Westfall,   b. Abt 1713   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Jacob B. Westfall,   b. Abt 1715   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F6850  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1682 - Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 2 Apr 1682 - Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1710 - Machackemeck, Orange County, New York Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Abt 1715 - Machackemeck, Orange County, New York Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S168] Kuykendall, Gene (1997)"Family History Our Dutch Heritage" http://w3.gorge.net/forest/FAMILY%20HISTORY%20BY%20GENE.htm.

    2. [S396] Stowell, Emily AMERICAN NOMADS(1988: Iris Press, Del Mar, California), p 485 (Reliability: 3).

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