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Pieter Ostrander (b. May 11, 1653, d. date unknown)
Notes for Pieter Ostrander:
[Beadle Family.FTW]
"Nothing is known of where Pieter and his sisters lived until an entry in the marriage register of the Dutch Church at Kingston states that on 19 Jan 1679 Pieter Pieterzen and his bride Rebecca Traphagen were both residents of Westquansengh, an Indian name for a locality believed to be in the Hurley area.At the time of her marriage, Rebecca was sixteen, Pieter twenty five years old.Her father, Willem Jansen Traphagen was born about 1616 in Lemgo, Germany, the son of Johannes Traphagen and Heledt Delendal.He immigrated from Leunichor, Holland and on 15 Jan 1661 at Nieuw Amsterdam he married his third wife, Joosje Willemsen Van Noortryck, the mother of Rebecca Traphagen.Joosje, born in 1635 in Amsterdam, Holland died after 1700 at Kingston, NY.Willem Jansen Traphagen died at Kingston in 1669"
"...Pieter Pieterzen was one of the names on a petition asking Governor Andros in 1680 for help in obtaining for the Kingston church a minister "that can preache bothe Inglish and Dutche, weh will bee most fitting for this place, it being in ins Minoritty."By 1695 the population of Ulster County was still only three hundred."
"In 1669 Pieter Pieterzen purchased from Anthony Crispell a two-acre lot in Hurley, the family's earliest land deed on record.A list of Hurley freeholders in 1714 shows that Pieter Pieterzen, by then calling himself Pieter Oostrander, Sr., was the owner of land assessed for tax purposes at eighty five pounds sterling."
"...13 Jan 1706 ..they were the central figures in a double baptism ceremony in Kinderhook, across the Hudson from Albany, at the home of Adam Dingman and his wife, Aeltie Jacobse Gardenier.No doubt many well-wishers, friends and relatives attended and from the Dutch Reformed Church in Albany had come the dominie, Johannes Lydius, to officiate.
The gala double baptism was certainly the first and probably the most memorable ever to be celebrated by the Ostrander family.
One of the infants being christened was Jacob, the thirteenth and last child born to Rebecca Traphagen, then forty three years old, and the proud father whose name appears in the church register as Pieter Van Oostrande, Sr.One of the witnesses for Jacob's christening was Pieter's sister Geestje who had married Hendrik Albertse Ploeg.
Everything had been carefully arranged so that Jacob, the last child of Pieter Ostrander, Sr. and Rebecca Traphagen , could be baptized at the same time as their first grandchild, Rebecca, the daughter of their son Pieter Ostrander, Jr. and Rachel Dingman...."
"As events turned out, Jacob grew up and with wife Maritje Roosa raised a large family of their own.When their sixth child, Helena, was baptized on 31 Mar 1738. (sic)Pieter Ostrander, Sr., was eighty four years old at the time and Rebecca was seventy-five.It was their last appearance on record.Pieter, Sr, is believed to have died in the winter of 1739-40.How long Rebecca, the mother bountiful of the family, lived is not known."
Source: "Ostrander- A Genealogical Record, 1660-1995"
More About Pieter Ostrander and Rebecca Traphagen:
Marriage: January 19, 1678/79, Reformed Dutch Church,Kingston Ulster County, NY.84
Children of Pieter Ostrander and Rebecca Traphagen are:
- +Arent Ostrander, b. October 05, 1684, Kingston, Ulster Co, NY84, d. date unknown.
- Pieter Ostrander, b. Abt. 168084, d. date unknown.
- Willem Ostrander, b. Abt. 168284, d. date unknown.
- Catrina Ostrander, b. Abt. 168684, d. date unknown.
- Johannes Ostrander, b. Abt. 168884, d. date unknown.
- Theunis Ostrander, b. Abt. 169184, d. date unknown.
- Hendrick Ostrander, b. Abt. 169384, d. date unknown.
- Harmanus Ostrander, b. Abt. 169584, d. date unknown.
- Leah Ostrander, b. Abt. 169884, d. date unknown.
- Rachel Ostrander, b. Abt. 169884, d. date unknown.
- Geestje Ostrander, b. Abt. 170084, d. date unknown.
- Rebekka Ostrander, b. Abt. 170284, d. date unknown.
- Jacob Ostrander, b. Abt. 170684, d. date unknown.