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Descendants of Andrew Rector

Generation No. 1

1. ANDREW¹ RECTOR was born Abt. 1762 in Columbia County, NY, and died Abt. 1842 in Benton, Yates, NY. He married CHARITY ROCKEFELLER 8 Apr 1781 in Germantown, Columbia, NY, daughter of JOHANN ROCKEFELLER and ANNA BAEHR. She was born 15 Jan 1766 in Germantown, Columbia, NY, and died 27 Jan 1838 in Benton, Yates, NY.

Notes for ANDREW RECTOR:
Andrew was Andreas Richter when he lived in Columbia County, NY. Although a good guess could be made as to who Andreas' parents were, it not known for certain.

from History and Directory of Yates County, New York, Vol 1
By Stafford C. Cleveland -- Penn Yan, NY
Published by S. C. Cleveland -- Chronicle Office -- 1873
THE WEST WOODS. -- Page 324 of the 1976 reprint
In one of a series of articles contributed in 1869, to the Yates County Chronicle, concerning the "Yates County Gazetteer," Edward J. Fowle, wrote as follows: "After the earlier settlers of Benton, about 1816, there came a colony from Livingston's Manor, Columbia county, who located in the west part of the town, which for many years was designated as the West or Dutch Woods. They were an honest, frugal and industrious people. The 'Old Folks' are nearly all departed, as are most of the log houses they built. Many of the descendants reside there, possessing the virtues of the parents. They are well-to-do farmers, and good livers. Among them will be found the family names of Crank, Rector, Finger, Wheeler, Simmons, Carrol, Hoos, Moon, Miller and Niver. In the young days of the old people, the winters afforded good times for visiting and social enjoyments. Every week, if not oftener, at the log residence of some one of them, the families would all congregate, coming in sleighs or sleds, when there would be music and dancing, story telling, refreshments and smoking, while the huge logs blazed sway in the good large fire-places; and so the evening or night passed away. There was usually one double log house, with only one room below, which had two fireplaces, two looms, two beds, and other furniture, and occupied by two families. And those primitive times were happy times with them, with few artificial wants, with no heed to fashions, no class distinctions, no envyings nor jealousies, their lives glided along smoothly and pleasantly. Their spiritual wants were supplied occasionally by an itinerant Dutch or Methodist minister. They were always kind to one another, at house raisings and logging bees, at marriages. in sickness and at death and burial. The large and small wheel, the reel and the loom, have nearly disappeared from among them, but agriculture, the dairy, poultry flocks and herds; and general household duties, now claim the attention of both men and women, old and young, conducing to health and competence. They have rarely if ever been engaged in law suits, and never has one of them been before the courts for wrong doing. It would be hard for our friends in high life to frame for themselves a more exalted eulogy."
THE RECTOR FAMILY
Andrew Rector was a native of Copake, originally Taghkanick, Columbia Co., N. Y., and was born in 1762. He married Charity Rockefellow, of the same place. He died in Benton, in 1842, at the age of eighty, and she in 1838, at the age of seventy-two. They came to Benton in 1817, bringing most of their family of nine children, and settled in the West Woods, on lot 104, where there was no house or clearing, buying the land of Samuel Colt, of Geneva, who was a considerable landholder in that vicinity, and paying ten dollars per acre. Here they tarried the remainder of their days. Their children were (1) William, (2) Hannah, (3) Mary, (4) Teal, (5) Andrew, (6) Eva, (7) Christiana, (8) Catharine and (9) Elizabeth.

Notes for CHARITY ROCKEFELLER:
According to Reformed Church records in West Copake, Columbia, NY, related to the christening of her children, her name is Gertje Rockenfeller or Gertruv or Gertraut Rakkenfeller. Her sister Christina married a cousin William Rockefeller.

More About CHARITY ROCKEFELLER:
Burial: 1838, Crank Cemetery, Benton, NY

Children of ANDREW RECTOR and CHARITY ROCKEFELLER are:

2.	i.	WILLIAM² RECTOR, b. 10 Nov 1782, Germantown, Columbia, NY; d. 25 Jun 1876, Benton, Yates, NY.
3.	ii.	HANNAH RECTOR, b. Abt. 1784; d. Unknown.
4.	iii.	MARY RECTOR, b. Abt. 1786; d. Abt. 1872, Craryville, Columbia, NY.
5.	iv.	TEAL RECTOR, b. 1 Aug 1789, Columbia, N.Y.; d. 1859.
6.	v.	ANDREW RECTOR, b. 22 Feb 1792, Columbia, NY; d. 2 Nov 1863, Benton, Yates, NY.
7.	vi.	EVA RECTOR, b. 1794, Columbia County, NY; d. 1852, Benton, Yates, NY.
	vii.	CATHERINE RECTOR, b. Abt. 1796; d. Unknown; m. WILLIAM H. SIMMONS; b. Abt. 1790; d. Unknown.
8.	viii.	CHRISTIANA RECTOR, b. 30 Jun 1796; d. 1 Apr 1883, Benton, Yates, NY.
9.	ix.	ELIZABETH RECTOR, b. 1798; d. Unknown.

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