Of course deeds are a great source for providing family relationships, and for the narrowing down of an individuals date of death... the following is a great source for early NJ deeds: Colonial Conveyances: Provinces of East and West New Jersey, 1664-1794. Two Volumes. Summit, New Jersey: Crestview Lawyers Service, 1974. The Family History Library also has early records on microfilm for several churches in and near Montgomery Township, which you can request and view at your local Family History Center. You should also check the Somerset County Historical Quarterly, of which some of the volumes can be accessed online at both [1]hathitrust.org and [2]archive.org. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Marriage of John Van Voorhees and Janetje Kershow From: Jeff Ward <[3]jjward@scgc.org> Date: Sat, July 20, 2013 9:26 am To: "[4]dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com" <[5]dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Thanks, Nancy. I would appreciate the scan. My home email is [6]jeffjward@bellsouth.net. It seems like there should be better evidence for a couple that was of some prominence. Jeff Ward -----Original Message----- From: [7]dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [[8]mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Terhune Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 5:26 AM To: dutch-colonies Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Marriage of John Van Voorhees and Janetje Kershow 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 > [9]dherrera@scgc.org and delete all copies. Electronic media is > susceptible to unauthorized modification, deterioration, and > incompatibility. 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I got some very nice replies to my queries, including this one with advice that I will gladly accept, but a whole new can of worms has been opened. The Van Voorhees genealogy says John A. Voorhees was married to Jannetje Kershow. But an article published in NYGBR Record Vol. 68:400 (1937) identifies his wife as Lucretia Van Brunt. A somewhat scientific guess is that if his wife indeed was Jannetje Kershow, she may very well have been the daughter of David Cossart and Syntje Van Hoorn baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church in New York City on 15 May 1715. See the article by George Olin Zabriskie "The Jan Cornelisen Van Hoorn/Van Horne Family of New York and New Jersey," TAG: 170-177 describes the family and children of David Cossart and Syntje Van Hoorn at pages 175 and 176 and the date of the publications of the banns and marriage. He gives the names, baptisms and sponsor of all of their children and their known spouses. He describes David Cossart as the son of Jacques Cousse! au and Lydia Willems, the French Huguenot immigrants. The will of David Cosort was made 10 Jun 1736, proved 13 Jan 1740 and the inventory of David of Bound Brook was recorded 1 Jul 1741. It mentions wife Staintiah, son George, son Jacob (deceased), David and Francis; daughters Leah (deceased), Mary Williamson, Susanna Conine, Eleanor, Jane and Eve and three unnamed sons of his deceased son Jacob and their mother Wiiliamtiah. He says that Styntje Cussaar witnessed a will on 9 May 1759 at Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Mr. Zabriskie lists witnesses at the many baptisms and describes the child's relationship with its sponsors. In the case of Jacob baptized at the New York Dutch Reformed Church on 28 Jan 1702, witnesses are Jan Van Hoorn and Jannetje Cosaer, wife of Jacobus Goelet (child's maternal uncle and paternal aunt). At the baptism at the New York Dutch Reformed Church of Jannetje on 15 May 1715, sponsors are Jan Goelet and Lea Cosaar (child's sister). The aut! hor does not list a spouse for Jannetje. The identification of! Jannetj e Cossart (Kershow) as the wife of John A. Van Voorhees, later of Blawenburg, Somerset County, New Jersey is speculative. Jannetje is about the right age to be the wife of John A. Van Voorhees and we do know that some descendants of Jacques Couseau (Cossart) later adopted the surname Kershaw, Kershow or Cashow. As you can see from the description above, the spelling of the surname was rarely consistent. No married name is given for Jannetje in her father's will but she was had probably just turned 21 when the will was written so she may still have been unmarried. To complicate matters further, there is very scanty evidence for the birth, marriage or death of either John A. Van Voorhees or Jannetje Kershow. But descendants of Margaret Van Zandt are scratching their heads saying who was her Momma? Jeff Ward -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of jarm@nycnuts.net Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 1:20 PM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Marriage of John Van Voorhees and Janetje Kershow Of course deeds are a great source for providing family relationships, and for the narrowing down of an individuals date of death... the following is a great source for early NJ deeds: Colonial Conveyances: Provinces of East and West New Jersey, 1664-1794. Two Volumes. Summit, New Jersey: Crestview Lawyers Service, 1974. The Family History Library also has early records on microfilm for several churches in and near Montgomery Township, which you can request and view at your local Family History Center. You should also check the Somerset County Historical Quarterly, of which some of the volumes can be accessed online at both [1]hathitrust.org and [2]archive.org. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Marriage of John Van Voorhees and Janetje Kershow From: Jeff Ward <[3]jjward@scgc.org> Date: Sat, July 20, 2013 9:26 am To: "[4]dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com" <[5]dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Thanks, Nancy. I would appreciate the scan. My home email is [6]jeffjward@bellsouth.net. It seems like there should be better evidence for a couple that was of some prominence. Jeff Ward -----Original Message----- From: [7]dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [[8]mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Terhune Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 5:26 AM To: dutch-colonies Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Marriage of John Van Voorhees and Janetje Kershow 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 > [9]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 > [10]DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [11]DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message 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 [12]dherrera@scgc.org and delete all copies. Electronic media is susceptible to unauthorized modification, deterioration, and incompatibility. 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