Monmouth County NJ Archives History.....Index and Preface: Beekman's, Early Dutch Settlers ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nj/njfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: JMP jpaatter@comcast.net ************************************************ The html index page for this book may be found at http://usgwarchives.net/nj/monmouth/beekman-hist.html ************************************************ EARLY DUTCH SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY GEORGE C. BEEKMAN. MOREAU BROS., PUBLISHERS, FREEHOLD, N. J. Second Edition Printed, 1915. ============================ FILENAME INDEX beekman-index.txt PREFACE. Pg 1 RECORDS OF THE CONOVERS, SCHENCKS AND beekman-01.txt VANDERVEERS. 3 TRAITS OF CONOVER CHARACTER. FANCIFUL ORIGIN OF THE NAME. 4 THE WILL OF JAN SCHENCK, AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 6 DUTCH TENACITY AS SHOWN BY THEIR LOVE FOR THEIR CHURCH. 9 ROELOF SCHENCK AND HIS DESCENDANTS. -- A WOMAN OF GREAT BUSINESS CAPACITY. 12 CHRINEYONCE SCHENCK AND HIS DESCENDANTS. PROBASCO AND POLHEMUS FAMILIES. 15 RULEFF SCHENCK AND HIS DESCENDANTS. SOME OF THEIR PECULIAR TRAITS. 17 THE MASTERFUL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DUTCH WOMEN. 19 THE SIX CONOVER BROTHERS AND beekman-02.txt FOUR CONOVER SISTERS. 21 ODDITIES AND PECULIARITIES OF THE DUTCH PEOPLE AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN MONMOUTH. 24 CORNELIUS COUWENHOVEN OF PLEASANT VALLEY AND HIS CHILDREN. 27 ALBERT COUWENHOVEN AND HIS TWELVE CHILDREN. 29 JACOB COUWENHOVEN AND HIS ELEVEN CHILDREN. 34 THE YOUNGER OF THE SIX CONOVER BROTHERS AND HIS CHILDREN. 37 REASONS WHY THE NEW YORK HOLLANDERS beekman-03.txt MIGRATED TO NEW JERSEY. 40 CONFLICT BETWEEN LEWIS MORRIS AND THE PEOPLE OF MIDDLETOWN. 43 JACOB VAN DORN AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 50 SOME ACCOUNT OF LEWIS MORRIS AND HIS beekman-04.txt DOINGS IN MONMOUTH COUNTY. 55 SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF LEWIS MORRIS OF MONMOUTH AND ELSEWHERE. 67 JAN GYSBERTSEN METRN AND HIS FAMILY. beekman-05.txt 71 GILBERT VAN MATER, HIS DESCENDANTS, AND HIS WILL. 74 DANIEL AND HENDRICK VAN MATER WHO JOINED THE KING'S ARMY. 77 DANIEL, HENDRICK AND CHRINEYONCE VAN- MATER'S ESTATES CONFISCATED.- DEATH OF FENTON, THE PINE ROBBER. 80 ESCAPES OF DANIEL AND CHRINEYONCE VANMATER, ROYALISTS. -THE PINE ROBBERS OF MONMOUTH. 84 GARRETT VAN MATER; HIS CHARACTERISTICS beekman-06.txt AND DISPOSITION. 86 DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMIN VAN MATER AND ELIZABETH LANE, HIS WIFE. 89 DESCENDANTS OF CYRENIUS VAN MATER AND ABAGAIL LEFFERTS, HIS WIFE. 92 THE LONG AND INTERESTING WILL OF JOSEPH VANMATER. 97 THE HULSES OR HULSEHARTS OF MONMOUTH beekman-07.txt AND OCEAN COUNTIES. 99 THE AUMACKS OR AUMOCKS OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES. 103 EFFORTS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND TO CRUSH HOLLAND REPUBLIC. 105 THE BARKALOW FAMILY. beekman-08.txt 109 RECORDS OF DANIEL AND CORNELIUS BARKALOW, SONS OF DERRICK. 111 CHILDREN OF DERRICK BARKALOW AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. 121 THE HENDRICKS OR HENDRICKSON FAMILY. beekman-09.txt 136 ACCOUNT OF A RAID OF TORY REFUGEES IN THE YEAR 1779. 138 CHILDREN OF DANIEL HENDRICKSON AND beekman-10.txt CATHARINE VANDYKE, HIS WIFE. 148 WILLIAM HENDRICKSON, OR WILM HENDRICKS, AS WRITTEN, BROTHER OF DANIEL. 151 WILLIAM HENDRICKS AND WILLIAMPTJE LAEN HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. 156 ERRORS AND OMISSIONS. beekman-11.txt APPENDIX. [i] INSCRIPTIONS TAKEN FROM HEADSTONES IN SCHENCK-COUWENHOVEN CEMETERY, PLEASANT VALLEY. [iii] RE-INTERMENTS FROM SCHENCK-COWENHOVEN CEMETERY TO HOLMDEL CEMETERY. [iv] SCHENCK-COUWENHOVEN MARRIAGES FROM RECORDS OF FIRST DUTCH CHURCH OF MONMOUTH COUNTY. [vii] TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. OLD TENNENT CEMETERY, TENNENT, N. J. [viii] OLD YELLOW MEETING HOUSE CEMETERY, IMLAYSTOWN, N. J. [ix] FIRST CHURCH, CRANBRUY, N. J. SECOND CHURCH, CRANBURY. N. J. PENN'S NECK CEMETERY. OLD PENN'S NECK YARD. [x] BAPTIST CHURCH YARD, HOLMDEL, N. J. OLD RED MEETING HOUSE YARD. FROM SMOCK GRAVE YARD. MARRIAGES SOLEMNIZED BY ELDER JOHN D. BARKALOW. [xiv] TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH YARD, ALLENTOWN, N. J. [xv] WHITEHOUSE, NEW JERSEY, old church yard WHITEHOUSE, NEW JERSEY, oldest grave-yard BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY, High Street Cemetery FIRST REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH YARD, New Brunswick PENNS NECK. N. J. [xvii] THE MONMOUTH ASSOCIATORS, including names of 436 signers. ===================================== PREFACE. When the publication of these articles on the Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth was begun in The Freehold Transcript, I had no idea they would develop to such Length. Several of the articles written for the weekly issues of this newspaper read all right therein, but now, gathered together in hook form, they appear fragmentary and disconnected. A great deal of time and labor by more than one person has been devoted to gathering material from public records, family papers, tombstone inscriptions, and other original sources of information. Much of this is comprised in short notes and small type, and, by putting these compilations in book form they will be accessible for reference. For there is much work to be done before a full genealogy can be written of either the Conover, Hendrickson, or Schanck families. The illustrations are chiefly old dwelling houses erected by the early settlers or their sons. The buildings are disappear- ing before the march of improvement and the decay of time, and in another generation not one will probably he left. Some are of the Dutch style of architecture, others of the English, but they show the radical difference of the two races in character. 1 have been unable to procure the likeness of any of our pioneer settlers, and therefore was compelled to select persons of the present generation, who bear in form or features a strong family resemblance to their parental ancestors. These selec- tions have been made by myself, and solely for the above reason. Among these pictures are four members of different gen- erations of the same family, all closely connected by ties of blood. Each generation shows a marked difference, yet a family likeness can he detected in all of them. G. C. B. Freehold, N. J., August 7, 1901. =========================