You might be related.  Start your tree to find out. It's free!

We’ll search our network daily and notify you when we find family tree matches.

Start your tree
Added by mwschottstaedt
Footprints
 
Family Members
  • Getting family members ...
 
 
Life Story
  • Birth

  • Marriage

  • Death

  • Story: House Of Johannes Westbrook And Descendants

    <p>Johannes Westbrook Jr. settled here in Minisink Village, south of the stream which separates the present Sandyston and Montague Townships; he is believed to have built the present house, which is still owned and occupied by his descendants.&nbsp; In 1731, he sold part of his land for a cemetery and a schoolhouse.&nbsp; William Ennes, who lived to the southward, undoubtedly taught here.&nbsp; Johannes Westbrook Jr was born in Kingston, baptized there and married there Antjen Roosa of Hurley, who was still living in 1756.&nbsp; Their six children are listed on the previous page.&nbsp; Their son Abraham, has also been attributed to them but he may gave been a grandson,&nbsp; This Abraham married Maria Helm about 1751 and had three children.&nbsp; From which the following list of owners this house are to the present: Martinus, Abraham, Eliza who married a Westbrook, Clementina Westbrook Bell and Burson Bell.</p><p>The children of the present owners are the eighth generation resident on this farm, which has never been out of the family.&nbsp; Their ancestor Johannes Westbrook, Sr., was born in Albany and living in Kingston.&nbsp; He was one of the original settlers of the upper Minisink Region, owning a farm there and voting there in 1701.&nbsp; He died in 1727, survived by wife, four sons and two daughters.&nbsp; Three of his sons settled in the Minisink Region along the Delaware River in New Jersey.</p><p>The house was undoubtedly built shortly after the village of Minisink was platted in 1725.&nbsp; It is a very lough house of rough grey stone, repointed on the east end.&nbsp; The high and steep gable roof is now covered with tin tiling.&nbsp; The farm is between the Old Mine Road and the Delaware River, opposite the south end of Minisink Island and south of a stream.&nbsp; A willow tree guards the entrance to the farm lane.&nbsp; Nearby is the site of Fort Minisink, a similar stone building, which is undergoing restoration.</p><p>Johannes Jr. was the second owner and probably the builder.&nbsp; Abraham sone of Johannes Jr. was the next owner; followed by Martynus Westbrook, Abraham Westbrook, Eliza Westbrook, Reuben Buckley Westbrook, Clementina Westbrook Bell, and their son Burson Bell, present owner.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Source:&nbsp; Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses in New Jersey</p>

 
 
Do you know more about this person's life story? Contact profile creator mwschottstaedt
Errors OccurredX
Errors Loading Page_