Its been a while since I have posted to this list concerning my Van Brunt family. To reintroduce myself. My gggrandfather was Cortland Van Brunt born 24 September 1827 in New York. I was told NYC but a cousin has Cold Springs, NY. Cortland was the son of Isaac & Lucretia Whitehead Van Brunt. Therein laid the quandry. No one could find anything on Isaac or Lucretia. So here is my update: Just within the last 6 months we have found the following information. Isaac & Lucretia were married 24 February 1827 at the home of Isaac Wilkerson, Rahway Neck, Woodbridge Twp., by Rev. Alfred Chester, of the Rahway Presbyterian Church. Witness was Mr. Van Wincle Sr. We found that Isaac died 5 January 1850 in NYC age 46 address 218 Rivington Street Cause of Death: ?? of the lungs. Cemetery: Methodist Society. We found Lucretia died 9 September 1870 @ 87 Cannon Street 11th Ward NYC [her son John's address] Cause of Death: Abdominal tumor & Ascitis Cemetery: Cypress Hills. [so far no luck in finding her plot] Within the last 2 weeks we found that Isaac & Lucretia's children, Courtlandt, Rachel, & Catherine, were baptized at St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on 25 Aug 1833. We discovered Isaac had a brother Benjamin and that he and Isaac were baptized at St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, Ny 12 June 1814 We discovered that Benjamin married a Silvania Whitehead 29 April 1833 in St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, NJ. [We are presuming that Silvania & Lucretia are sisters until we find out differently] Also we found that Isaac & Benjamin were the sons of Garit[Garrett] & Rachel _____ Van Brunt. Isaac b. 30 Jan 1804 & Benjamin b. 28 December 1806. In Bergen's Van Brunt Genealogy it states Garrett Van Brunt, bap. 25 April 1754, son of Roelef & Elsie Snedeker settled in New Jersey and no further trace. So that is where we are at today. Now we need to find if Garret is the same Garret. And what Rachel's name was. And we trying to narrow down the Whitehead family also. Faye Kizer Robbins Taylor , PA