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• Baptism: 1784, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York

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Buskirk, Rensselaer, New York

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• Military: 1778, Cambridge, Washington, New York; Served in the American Revolution
• Residence: 1790, Cambridge, Albany, New York
• Residence: 1800, Cambridge, Washington, New York
• Residence: 1810, Cambridge, Washington, New York
• Residence: 1820, Cambridge, Washington, New York

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Revolutionary War service as follows: Served in the Second Company, Fourteenth Regiment, New York, in active service from July 23 to October 13, 1779, from May 17 to June 17, 1780, and from October 10 to November 24, 1781. He was under Captain Jacob Yates, March 4, 1780, Colonel Peter Yates regiment, and under Colonel Lewis Van Woert. (See "New York Rev. War Rolls.")
Martin Van Buskirk lived outside of Cambridge, New York in the hamlet of Buskirk's Bridge from before 1778 until his death in 1828. Buskirk's Bridge named for Martin Van Buskirk was also known by the Indians as “Ty-o-shoke" or variously spelled by the early settlers as Tiossiook, Tiassick or Tiashoke. This hamlet is simply known as Buskirk, New York in modern times. This area was part of the original 70,000 acre Hoosick Patent which Hendrick Van Ness (Maria's gr gr grandfather) was one of the original four grantees in 1638.
On the Hoosick river, and partly in the town of Cambridge, is the village of Buskirk's Bridge. The place derived its name from Martin (Van) Buskirk, an early settler, who built the first bridge across the stream (in 1802 or 1804). He was also a pioneer tavern-keeper, his house on the Cambridge side having a wide reputation. Philip Van Ness, John Quackenbush, and Colonel Lewis Van Wort, of Revolutionary times, were among the early prominent settlers near Buskirk’s. There was a store kept by Carpenter, and afterwards by Allen, which enjoyed a large trade in those days. - History of Washington Co. New York, 1874
Martin Van Buskirk was one of 3 original commissioners of the Northern Turnpike Road Company in 1799. The company was incorporated to build a road from Lansingburgh through Cambridge to Salem and ending at the Vermont state line. Tolls were collected at several points. This road opened up travel and commerce as well as bolstering the development of Cambridge. The road is now known as Rt. 22 and many of the original marble mile markers encased in stone still exist along the route.
Revolutionary War service as follows:Served in the Second Company, Fourteenth Regiment, New York, in active service from July 23 to October 13, 1779, from May 17 to June 17, 1780, and from October 10 to November 24, 1781. He was under Captain Jacob Yates, March 4, 1780, Colonel Peter Yates regiment, and under Colonel Lewis Van Woert. (See "New York Rev. War Rolls.")

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in Island Hill (Buskirk) Cemetery

Martin married Mariah Van Ness on 8 Feb 1780 in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York. Mariah (daughter of Philip Van Ness and Lanah Ten Broeck) was born on 4 Dec 1760 in Tiossick, Rensselaer, New York; died on 17 Feb 1842 in Buskirk, Rensselaer, New York; was buried in Hoosick, Rensselaer, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 25 Dec 1760, Poughkeepsie (The Flats), Dutchess, New York
• Residence: 1840, Cambridge, Washington, New York

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in Island Hill (Buskirk) Cemetery

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Johan married Esther (Hester) Van Horn on 15 Aug 1751 in New York. Esther (daughter of Dirck Cornelisen Van Horn and Lea Banta) was born before 10 Feb 1734 in Albany Co., New York; died on 4 Apr 1807 in Cambridge, Washington, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 10 Feb 1734, New York, New York

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• Residence: 1790, Schenectady, Albany, New York

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Mr. Van Buskirk, of Lansingburgh, a descendant of the early family of Van Buskirks, at the "Bridge," and also a descendant, on the maternal side of the Van Ness family, states that the pioneer Van Ness owned a tract of 1600 acres of land, thus having a farm of 400 acres to give to each of four daughters. ...This settlement was before the Revolution. During the Burgoyne campaign the Van Ness family were in Albany, and the estate was left in charge of two colored men, who proved themselves shrewd and vigilant enough to gather and keep a large harvest away from both Whigs and Tories. When asked how they did it, they replied, "We had two flags, and could show either in a hurry." "But how did you know the Tories from the others?” "We could tell a Tory by his looks just as far as we could see." - History of Rensselaer County
Mr. Van Buskirk, of Lansingburgh, a descendant of the early family of Van Buskirks, at the "Bridge," and also a descendant, on the maternal side of the Van Ness family, states that the pioneer Van Ness owned a tract of 1600 acres of land, thus having a farm of 400 acres to give to each of four daughters. ...This settlement was before the Revolution. During the Burgoyne campaign the Van Ness family were in Albany, and the estate was left in charge of two colored men, who proved themselves shrewd and vigilant enough to gather and keep a large harvest away from both Whigs and Tories. When asked how they did it, they replied, “ We had two flags, and could show either in a hurry.” “But how did you know the Tories from the others?” “We could tell a Tory by his looks just as far as we could see.” - History of Rensselaer County

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in Island Hill Cemetery

Philip married Lanah Ten Broeck on 17 Jul 1759 in New York. Lanah (daughter of Poss. Samuel Ten Broeck and Poss. Maria Van Rensselaer) was born in 1731 in New York; died on 1 Dec 1812 in Cambridge, Washington, New York; was buried in Buskirk, Rensselaer, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: 1800, Cambridge, Washington, New York
• Residence: 1810, Cambridge, Washington, New York

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The Ten Broeck family was a prominent family in Albany for many years. Wealthy and influential, they held high positions in government and military. Lanah’s parents are unknown and some baptism records may be missing from the time period. Lanah may have been a Ten Broeck through marriage as this was the second marriage for Philip and she may have been a widow.

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in Island Hill Cemetery

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• Baptism: 7 Aug 1695, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey

Joost married Trintje Martese Pouwelse in 1717. Trintje (daughter of Marten Pouluse and Margrietje Westervelt) was born before 23 May 1699 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey; died in 1748. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 23 May 1699, Hackensak, Bergen, New Jersey

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Dirck married Lea Banta. Lea was born in in Bergen, Bergen, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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Near the junction of the Walloomsac and Hoosick rivers in the north part of the present town (of Hoosick) was a hamlet called St. Croix in colonial times, probably so named by French missionaries who evidently explored the country as far south as the Hoosick river and there established a mission. Aside from this mission the first permanent settlement here probably was made by Gerrit Cornelis Van Ness, a descendant of the family named as one of the grantees in the patent. - History of Hoosick, New York, Anderson, 1897

Gerrit married Catalyna "Catrina" De Forest on 12 Jun 1709 in Albany, Albany, New York. Catalyna (daughter of Philip De Forest and Tryntje Kip) was born on 25 Nov 1694 in Albany, Albany, New York; died on 27 Mar 1748 in Albany, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 25 Nov 1694, Albany, Albany, New York

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Poss. married Poss. Maria Van Rensselaer. Poss. and died. [Group Sheet]

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Records on Thomas Van Buskirk reflect that he was a landowner in Bergen, Sussex and Hunterdon Counties, NJ and lived all of his life in Bergen Co. and Hunterdon Co. He was appointed a justice of the peace and an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Bergen Co., January 21, 1714/15; he was again appointed a justice of the peace for the same county , August 25, 1725. He was serving as a Justice of the Peace in Bergen Co. as late as 1730. He was also involved in military activities as he was referred to as colonel in 1724. His will was proved October 20, 1748 at Trenton.

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in Schamp Family Burying Ground

Major married Marietje Hendrickje Van Der Linde about 1688. Marietje and died. [Group Sheet]

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Marten married Margrietje Westervelt on 25 Mar 1694 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Margrietje was born on 24 Jan 1647 in Meppel, Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands; died in 1742 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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Cornelis married Margrietje Vanderburgh on 4 Mar 1675 in New York. Margrietje (daughter of Lucas Dirckzsen Vanderburgh and Annetje Cornelis) was born in 1658 in New Amsterdam, New York; died on 22 May 1726. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 26 May 1658, Manhattan, New York, New York

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• Arrival: 1641, New York, New York

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Governor Thomas Dongan granted Hoosac Patent on June 2, 1688, to Maria Van Rensselaer and Hendrick Van Ness of Albany, Garret Tunisson (Van Vechten) of Catskill, and Jacobus Van Cortlandt of New York City.
The Hoosac Patent covered 70,000 acres, including two miles in width on each bank of Skatecook Creek (Hoosac River); and extended up the river from the Devil’s Chimney opposite the Fallen-Hill in Old Schaghticoke to Falls Quequick (now the Village of Hoosac Falls); thence up the valley to the sandy island known as Nach-a-quick-quack, the Ashawagh, or the land between the junction of the Little Hoosac with the Big Hoosac.
Garrett Cornelius Van Ness, eldest son of Hendrick Van Ness, one of the proprietors of Hoosac Patent, was born December 2, 1702. He inherited St. Croix Manor, two miles square, on the northeast bank of the Hoosac, lying between the junctions of the Owl and Walloomsac. At the age of 22, in the year 1724, he married Sarah Van Valkenburgh of Albany, NY. He erected a sawmill and a grist mill on the present site of St. Croix Mills, near the junction of Little White Creek with the Walloomsac, a mile east of the site of Hoosac Junction, and built his manorial mansion on the terrace twenty rods above the Walloomsac ford. About the same time the Dutch stockade, on the site of the Jesuit's Fort St. Croix, was built on the high bluff a few rods east of the Van Ness Mansion. (Undoubtedly the St. Ange fur traders from France built a fort and chapel on this terrace in 1540 - 1542, and the Jesuits aided by Kryn’s Mohawks build another fort and chapel during the Mohawk and Hoosac War on the site in 1667 - 1669. On this same terrace the Dutch founded Fort St. Croix in 1724, and it was replaced by the English Stockade Fort in 1756.)
Cornelius Van Ness, Arendt Van Corlaer the 3rd., Adam Vrooman, Pitt Van Hogleboom, George Nicolls, Johannes De Ruyter, Juria Kreigger, Jan Oothout, Jacob Ouderkirk, Daniel and Albertus Brodt (Bratt), Rykert Borie, Jacob and Abram Fort, Johannes Van Denburgh, Johannes De Fonda, Jan Huyck, David and Stephen Van Rensselaer, Robert Leake (Lake), William Nicholas, Andrew Norwood, George Searles, Pieter Sur Dam and others, were founders of the Fort St. Croix in the year 1724. The only records of the St. Croix forefathers are found today on the Manitou Aseniah (Spirit-stones) marking the site of the Tioshoke Churchyard, northwest of Fort St. Croix terrace.
Simultaneous with the founding of the Fort St. Croix colony in 1724, tenantry from Fort Half Moon (located at the junction of St. Anthony Kill with the Hudson River at Stillwater) and Fort Schaghticoke (near the junction of the Tomhannac with the Hoosac Rivers) colonies pushed up the three branches of the Wanepimoseck Creek, leading towards Rensselaer’s plateau from (the present) Hart’s Falls (Schaghticoke Village), Valley Falls and Eagle Bridge. Philip Van Ness, a cousin of Garrett Cornelius Van Ness, founded the Tioshoke Colony on the north bank of the Hoosac, below the junction of the Owl Kill, about 1724, and later built a sawmill and grist mill. He was joined by Wouter Van Vechten, Lewis Van Woerdt, Johannes Quackenbush, Nicholas Groesbeck and Pieter and Ludovicus Viele, sons of Yocob Viele of the Knickerbacker Colony (located west of the ancient channel of Tomhannac Creek and south of the Hoosac River).
Young Cornelius Van Ness in the year 1750, after his marriage with Alida Van Woerdt, a sister of Captain Lewis Van Woerdt of Tioshoke, returned from New York City to St. Croix Manor, to reside there with his father.
The French and Indian War was first announced in Central Hoosac on May 28, 1754, by a party of French and Indians, who encamped at the Barnhart and Bowen, Falls Quequick sawmills. The Van Ness, Van Corlaer, Van Woerdt, Vrooman, Oothout, Onderkirk, Bratt, Van Derrick, De Ruyter, Letcher, Bachus, De Fonda, Huyck, Van Deel (Diel), Vosburgh (Vose), Van Hogleboom and Kreigger families made their escape to Fort Massachusetts ahead of the war-party. The enemy later burned both St. Croix and Dutch Hoosac and marched up the valley. The Dutch Burghers on their way to Fort Massachusetts sent a warning to the English proprietors at West Hoosac hamlet, now Williamstown, and Captain Elisha Chapin assigned them the West Hoosac homesteader’s barracks. Upon arrival of the English, therefore, they found their quarters crowded with the “Dutch clutter” and several families were forced to journey on to their Connecticut homes. This led to a bitter military jealousy and the Connecticut settlers built a fort on the Square in West Hoosac, not only a refuge from the French and Indians but from the Dutch.
Fort Massachusetts was located on the Upper Hoosac about where Williamstown is now located. August 20, 1746, it was burned by a force of Indians and French from Canada. Some of the English were killed and the rest taken to the prison-pens of Quebec. Fort Massachusetts was rebuilt on the Hoosac meadows in the year 1747. The exterior of the blockhouse was finished June 1, 1747, and according to the historian Perry, was about one hundred and twenty-five feet square. The barracks were seventy feet in length by thirty feet in width, with a seven foot post and low roof. The house was divided into two departments, subdivided into rooms each with a fire place.
The St. Croix Manor was occupied by four generations, descended from Patroon Van Ness, between 1724 and 1818. In 1912 the homestead was owned by Nicholas Hathaway, a grandson of Peter Gooding, a lineal descendant of Garret Cornelius Van Ness. The will of Cornelius Van Ness, son of the elder patroon, bears the date August 25, 1791, and he left the Van Ness Bible to his daughter, Sara Van Ness, later the wife of Jacob Van Valkenburgh of Hoosac. It contains a “Memorandum of the Births and Dying Days”, of the Van Ness and Van Valkenburgh families. Alida Van Woerdt-Ness, wife of Patroon Cornelius Van Ness, died May 24, 1778, thirteen and a half years before himself. They left five sons and one daughter; Garret, Jacob, Johannes, Peter, Hendrick, and Sara Van Ness. The Van Ness Bible descended to Edgar P. Ladd from his aunt Sarah Van Valkenburgh, the seventh daughter of Sarah Van Ness and Jacob Van Valkenburgh. Edgar P. Ladd is the grandson of Henrietta Van Valkenburgh, fourth daughter of Sarah Van Ness and the wife of Samuel Coons. The daughter, Mary Coons, married Hiram Ladd and became the mother of Edgar P. Ladd of Salem, NY. - “The Hoosac Valley - Its legends and Its History” by Grace Greylock Niles

Hendrick married Annetje Everts on 21 Oct 1663 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. Annetje was born in 1638 in Albany, Albany, New York; died before 16 Nov 1688 in Albany, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: as a cooper
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Philip, fifth son of Isaac and Sarah (du Trieux) De Forest, was born in New Amsterdam, in 1652. He became the founder of the Albany branch of the De Forests. He married, January 5, 1676, Tryntje, daughter of Isaac Kip, and removed to Albany. He served as high sheriff, and held many offices. He died in 1727, and was buried August 18 of that year. - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 448

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in Albany Rural Cemetery

Philip married Tryntje Kip on 5 Jan 1676 in New York, New York. Tryntje (daughter of Isaac Hendricksen Kip and Catalyntje Hendricks De Suyers) was born on 13 Sep 1656 in New York, New York; died in 1703 in Albany, New York. [Group Sheet]

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