Hello Marsha, yes we are related. Harriet A VanSteenburgh, sister of John the Anti-Renter, married William Sprague of New Kingston. William and Harriet are my great great grandparents. Also, their daughter Phebe Gertrude Sprague married Abraham L VanSteenburgh, aka "Lawless". I think Phebe and Abraham were cousins, but my VanSteenburgh ancestor files are practically non-existent. Do you know anything about a Barent VanSteenburgh? He was c1800 or earlier- if I have the name right. I suspect they came up from Kingston, before that I am clueless. The Delaware County information is good, but they all moved from New Kingston to Union Grove then over into the wilds of the t/o Hardenburgh, Ulster County c1880. John VanSteenburgh had a farm in the Berry Brook area and Harriet and William Sprague are supposed to be buried out there, but the tombstones in the Berry Brook cemetery are more like Rocks with no writing. I would have thought someone would have owned a chisle. evelyn

----- Original Message ----- From: "calamityjane" <thegrove131@pronetisp.net> To: "NYDELAWA-L" <NYDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:49 PM Subject: [NYDELAWA] VanSteenburgh > Hello Marsha, > yes we are related. > Harriet A VanSteenburgh, sister of John the Anti-Renter, > married William Sprague of New Kingston. William and Harriet are my great > great grandparents. > Also, their daughter Phebe Gertrude Sprague married Abraham L > VanSteenburgh, aka "Lawless". I think Phebe and Abraham were cousins, but > my VanSteenburgh ancestor files are practically non-existent. > Do you know anything about a Barent VanSteenburgh? He was c1800 or > earlier- if I have the name right. I suspect they came up from Kingston, > before that I am clueless. > The Delaware County information is good, but they all moved from New > Kingston to Union Grove then over into the wilds of the t/o Hardenburgh, > Ulster County c1880. > John VanSteenburgh had a farm in the Berry Brook area and Harriet and > William Sprague are supposed to be buried out there, but the tombstones in > the Berry Brook cemetery are more like Rocks with no writing. I would > have thought someone would have owned a chisle. evelyn > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message