I am wondering if there is anyone who is a Brouwer/Brower researcher on the List who can verify (or dispute) the following marriage between Peter Buckhout & Jannetje Brouwer, possibly at Bushwyck, Kings Co. or Fishkill, Dutchess Co., NY. According to "Moses Vail of Huntington, LI Showing his Descent from Joseph (2) Vail, son of Thomas Vail, at Salem, Massachusetts 1640" by Wm. Penn Vail, M.D., 1947, p. 63, Jesse Vail (son of Joseph & Rachel (Miller) Vail) married Elizabeth Buckhout, dau. of Peter Buckhout & Jane Brower. Jesse was born May 5, 1748 and died at Fishkill, Dutchess Co., between 1819 - 1823. Elizabeth died Jan. 19, 1842 and had children from abt. 1774-1803 (according to Vail). I should also mention that one of Jesse & Elizabeth's children, Mary Vail, b. June 12, 1774, m. Cornelius J. Brower. The afore-mentioned Peter Buckhout is the son of Johannis Buckhout and Esther Fine who were married 1712 at Newtown and who resided at Bushwyck, Kings Co., until abt. 1739/1740. The family then removed to Fishkill, Dutchess Co., where Johannis purchased 578 acres of lot #2 at Fishkill with William Barnes, they later partitioned the land and Johannis resided on the northern half of the property. Peter Buckhout is found living in Fishkill, as noted from Tax Assessment records from at least 1755 until 1769, then noted as "Bookhout, Peter estate of" in 1770. From that time period onwards, his wife, Jannetje, is found in numerous court records (Ancient Court Records Dutchess Co.) representing debts owed by her deceased husband Peter Buckhout. I have also traced another child of Peter Buckhout and the purported Jannetje Brower/Brouwer, John Bookhout, who served in the Loyal American Regiment during the Revolutionary War and settled in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada after 1783. In the New Brunswick Archives, "First Families," Manuscript Collection (MC3047), MS2D, Item 5 Donald P. Wright fonds, Chester Lucas notes - "John Bookhout of Saint John, N.B., and Some of his Family "John Bookhout, a Loyalist from Dutchess County, New York, settled following the American Revolution in Saint John, N.B., where he received a grant of Lot 1028, Parrtown. During the War, he had seen service as a Sergeant in Lt. Col. Beverley Robinson's Company of the Loyal American Regiment. On Feb. 26, 1819, John Bookhout, yeoman, gave to his son William, mariner, Lot 1028, Saint John, "in consideration of the Love good will and Affection" he held for him. He died in Saint John, N.B., Oct. 13, 1819. [handwritten notation in the margin: Freeman, St. John, 1795, S-1: 221] Family tradition has it that he was descended from the Rev. Everardus Bogardus and his wife Anneke Jans through their grandson Adolphus Brouwer and his wife Jannetie F(V)erdon." So, I'm wondering if anyone can corroborate the possibility that Jannetje Brouwer (possibly descendant of Adolphus Brouwer and Jannetje F(V)erdon?) did marry Peter Buckhout. Carol Murray 15521 Madrona Drive Surrey, BC V4A 5N2 Phone: (604) 538-5763 Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Visit my web site: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/a/Carol-E-Roach/index.html?We lcome=1075778923 Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress...