Jim, I found this information on worldconnect.rootsweb. I followed up with the author, Sherri Mickel rosecrow_12871@yahoo.com , requesting the source for her information and she indicated it came from the following: a photograph of a family tree entitled "Sketch and Record of the Van Hoesen Family for 230 Years" that was done for someone in our family around the 1930's. >>>>>By my database the Jacob Jurge Van Hoesen, bp. (not born) 28 Feb 1756, married Geertruy Backus, 4 Feb 1778, at Athens Lutheran, and had five children baptized at Kinderhook Reformed.<<<<<<< Do you have the names of these five children? The children Sheri has listed for Jacob and Sarah (married 28 Feb 1785) are: CORNELIUS, JACOB ( BORN 1798?), WILLIAM, JOHN (BORN 26 MAR 1796), POLLY (OR MARY), SOPHIA, GERTRUDE (OR GETTY), CHRISTINA (OR TINY) By the way, Polly is the wife of Henry E. Clow who were parents to Elizabeth Clough (we have corresponded on this line before). I appreicate you checking this, thanks. Joan

>Sherri Mickel rosecrow_12871@yahoo.com , requesting the source for her >information and she indicated it came from the following: > >a photograph of a family tree entitled "Sketch and >Record of the Van Hoesen Family for 230 Years" that >was done for someone in our family around the 1930's. I haven't seen that one, but I do know that there is a lot of confusion in other Van Hoesen genealogies that I've seen. You'd think that if someone could give an exact date for a baptism that they could also tell you where it was. Oh well. That would be helpful though, because the parents names seem to fit for the offspring of their daughter Polly, since she had a daughter Sarah and a son Jacob Van Hoesen. Just guessing here, but I suspect she was born somewhere in Columbia County. The family doesn't look familiar from my Greene County research. >>>>>By my database the Jacob Jurge Van Hoesen, bp. (not born) 28 >Feb 1756, married Geertruy Backus, 4 Feb 1778, at Athens Lutheran, and had >five children baptized at Kinderhook Reformed.<<<<<<< > >Do you have the names of these five children? All bp. Kinderhook Reformed: Johannes, 26 July 1778; Jurriaan, 12 Aug 1781; Maria, 3 Aug 1783; Jacob, 22 Apr 1787; Geertruy, 9 Dec 1789 >The children Sheri has listed for Jacob and Sarah (married 28 Feb 1785) are: >CORNELIUS, JACOB ( BORN 1798?), WILLIAM, JOHN (BORN 26 MAR 1796), POLLY (OR >MARY), SOPHIA, GERTRUDE (OR GETTY), CHRISTINA (OR TINY) None of this looks familiar. Feels like it might be Columbia County to me, where I still have gaps in my Van Hoesens, after, say, 1780 or so. No locations given for any of this? >By the way, Polly is the wife of Henry E. Clow who were parents to Elizabeth >Clough (we have corresponded on this line before). Yeah, if you can find out more, let me know, it's still a gap in my knowledge. Jim