Jeff: I'd be happy to scan all the relevant pages from The Van Voorhees family in America and email them to you, but unfortunately I can't illuminate anything further on the descendants of John and Janetje. Nancy On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 07:40 AM, Jeff Ward wrote: > I am wondering if anyone on this list has more information than I am > posting here about this couple. I have quite a bit of information > about the ancestors of John Van Voorhees and the descendants of John > Van Voorhees and Janetje Kershow. I am one of those descendants. I > should have bought the Van Voorhees Family genealogy when it came out > in 2000 but I did not and it is not available in any library > reasonably close to my home. This is all that I have about this > couple. In 2000, the Van Voorhees Family Association published a > family genealogy. There are references to John A. Voorhees and wife > Janetje Kershow at pages 34, 102 and 103. Some early records for the > Somerset County, New Jersey branch of the family are taken from very > old family notes kept by David Voorhees. His record says that John A. > Voorhees, born about 1714, married Janetje Kershow in about 1735 and > that she was born about 1719, He was evidently uncertain of the date > of her death but wrote 18 and did not compl! > ete the date. We assume this means she died after 1800. Her parentage > is unknown but many of the descendants of French Huguenot immigrant > Jacques Cossart used the Kershow or Kershaw surname and dropped the > Cossart surname. Others used the surname Cashow and many other > variations. >> From the History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey >> (1881) Page 837--"John Stevens Van Voorhees came from Flatbush (or >> Flatlands), L. I. to Montgomery Township in 1738, purchasing a farm >> of 345 acres southeast of Blawenburg, on the road to Princeton." In >> 1754, he purchased what is known as the Voorhees homestead of 201 1/2 >> acres located in the north branch of Beden's Brook in the township of >> Montgomery. "Both John Van Voorhees and his wife lived to a grand old >> age, the former being nearly 100, and the latter eighty-nine when >> they died. John Stevens Van Voorhees married Jeanetta Kirshaw, at >> Long Island in 1730." Finally, can anyone on this list tell me >> anything about David Voorhees and the family record that he kept? My >> nineteenth century New Netherland ancestors in Allegany County, New >> York, (Dumont and Cole, formerly Cool or Kool) kept a family record >> that is extraordinary and the original is my possession. This is an >> invaluable record for a period when there a! > re few public records available. They were actually filling out the > family record as people were on their death beds, recording when they > "took sick" and when they died. Jeff Ward > > ________________________________ > This email transmission is confidential and may contain proprietary > information for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. Any use, > distribution or copying of this transmission, other than by the > intended recipient, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please notify the system manager at > dherrera@scgc.org and delete all copies. Electronic media is > susceptible to unauthorized modification, deterioration, and > incompatibility. Accordingly, the electronic media version of any work > product may not be relied upon. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >