THE "CAUDEBEC" COAT-OF-ARMS
The Caudebec Coat-of-Arms is a pointed, oval azure, two metal shield, with an ("or") gold embattled mural crown or crest.
Across the face of the shield area charges: three argent finned smelts naiant, placed one above the other.
Near the point of the shield is an "argent" (silver) daisy.
From this, a wreath of "or" (gold) encircles the shield, reaching nearly the crest.
On the sinister side of the shield, this wreath is a laurel branch, on the dexter side, an olive branch. (In heraldry, dexter (right) and sinister (left), denote the right and left sides respectively, of the shield in the position as the wearer views it, and not as viewed by a distant observer). On some of the Caudebec Coat-of-Arms, the laurel and the olive branches are crossed at or near the shield point, and are tied by a bow of ribbon.
The azure (sky blue), the royal color of the Bourbons, predominates in French shields, and denotes justice and loyalty.
The "argent" denotes purity.
The "or" denotes stability and worth.
The smelts were peculiarly and pleasingly flavored fish, with pale green back, and silvery white lower part.
It has been said that the presence of fish on Coat-of-Arms, denoted a predominant occupation of an early period.
The olive and laurel denote peace and victory.
Crests were originally a device indicative of high honor, and were worn upon a helm. Later they were placed upon and attached to the shield. It's form and marking indicate a knight.
The emblems of the family later became the emblems of the town of Caudebec.
CAUDEBEC IN AMERICA
A RECORD OF
THE DECENDENTS OF
JACQUES CAUDEBEC,
1700 to 1920
BY
WILLIAM LOUIS CUDDEBACK, M.D.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
TOBIAS A. WRIGHT
PRINTER AND PUBLISHER
1919
TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEVOTED WIFE ALICE DIMMICK MALVEN CUDDEBACK FOR ME FOR MORE THAN THIRTY-FIVE YEARS A HOMEMAKER IN ITS FULLEST SENSE, A SHARER IN MY LIFE'S JOYS, TRIALS AND SORROWS.
"OUR LIVES ARE WAVES THAT COME UP OUT OF THE OCEAN OF ETERNITY, BREAK UPON THE BEACH OF EARTH AND LAPSE BACK TO THE OCEAN OF ETERNITY. SOME ARE SUNLIT, SOME RUN IN STORM AND RAIN; ONE IS A QUIET RIPPLE, ANOTHER IS A THUNDEROUS BREAKER, AND ONCE IN MANY CENTURIES COMES A GREAT TIDAL WAVE THAT SWEEPS OVER A CONTINENT, BUT ALL GO BACK TO THE SEA AND LIE EQUALLY LEVEL THERE."
"MAN IS A HUNTING ANIMAL," SOME HUNTING FOXES, OTHERS FAME OR FORTUNE, SOME IN THE WORLD OF NATURE, SOME OF MIND, SOME SEEK THE ROOTS OF WORDS AND THE ORIGIN OF THINGS. I AM FOND OF HUNTING OUT A PEDIGREE. WITH THIS COMES A PRIDE OF ANCESTRY AND PEOPLE, AND AN INTEREST WHICH MAY LURE THE READER, AND PERHAPS CAUSE HIM TO CONTINUE THIS "GENEALOGICAL CHASE."
[CONTENTS]
[List of Illustrations] [Genealogical Chart of the Cuddeback Family] [Introduction] [Pioneer Knoll—Home of the First Settler] [Deeds, Lands, Papers, Etc.] [Pioneer Days] [The Cuddeback Patent Dissolved] [First Generation] [Second Generation—1700-1780] [Lineage Paragraphs 2-10] [Third Generation—1730-1800] [Lineage Paragraphs 11-36] [Fourth Generation—1770-1840] [Lineage Paragraphs 37-88] [Fifth Generation—1810-1890] [Lineage Paragraphs 89-237] [Sixth Generation—1820-1900] [Lineage Paragraphs 238-308] [Seventh Generation—1840-1920] [Lineage Paragraphs 309-330] [Eighth Generation—1860 to date] [Lineage Paragraphs 331-332] [Pedigrees of Allied Families] [Caudebec in Normandy, France] [Index]
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
[The Caudebec "Coat of Arms"] [William Louis Cuddeback, M.D.] [Chart of Our French-Dutch-German-Norse-English-Scotch Ancestors, as arranged by W. L. Cuddeback, 1906] [Pioneer Knoll of 1695] [Pioneer Knoll, West Slope] [Pioneer Knoll, Northwest Slope] [Spring Brook, skirting East Slope of Pioneer Knoll] [Pioneer Knoll, Northeast Slope] Maps—Lots of Land Belonging to William Coddebeck and others [sic—illustration does not appear in book] [Cuddeback Stone House and Nearby Log House] [Colonel Peter Cuddeback 1795-1892] [Map—Division of Land] [Home of Col. William A. Cuddeback, 1822, Cuddebackville, N. Y.] [Approach to Cuddebackville, from Middletown, N. Y.] [Approach to Cuddebackville from Port Jervis, N. Y.] [Cuddeback Homes of 1800, Cuddebackville, N. Y.] [Caudebec Inn, Cuddebackville, N. Y.] [Home of Col. Peter Cuddeback, Huguenot, N. Y.] [Home of Elting Cuddeback 1816-1898, Deerpark, N. Y.] [Simon Westfall's House in Deerpark] [Gumaer Stone House] [Westfall Homestead, New Jersey] [Elting Homestead, (formerly Van Auken Fort,) N. Y.] [Van Fleet Homestead, Deerpark] [Home of Levi Van Etten, Deerpark, N. Y.] [A Group of Grandparents at Home of Elting Cuddeback 1880] Home of Col. Peter P. Swartwout, Huguenot, N. Y. [sic—illustration does not appear in book] [Elting Cuddeback, at 80 Years] [Elting Cuddeback, at 40 Years] [Cuddebackville, America] [Traditional Ancestral Home] [Caudebec, France] [Caudebec, France] [Market Place, Caudebec] [View. Entrance to the Church, Caudebec] [Street Scene, Caudebec, France] [Caudebec, France, along River Front]
[INTRODUCTION]
It has been my pleasure and diversion during a period of many years to collect and tabulate data concerning the descendants of Jacques Caudebec.
This has led to a study of the almost interminable network of relationship existing between the old families throughout the Minisink region; to the tracing of the immigration from this region into many of the states, and the development of families in almost every State in the Union.
The emigrant and the frontiersman of the early generations have been succeeded by the farmer, the merchant and the mechanic; later, by those in every branch of human activity and industry. A people of high ideals, honest, intelligent, home-making and law abiding, have ever been exerting an influence uplifting and for the preservation of liberty and freedom.
Much of this early history is derived from the writings of Peter E. Gumaer. Much of the subsequent history was given me by my father, Elting Cuddeback, whose remembrance of these people was accurate, extensive and reaching back to the times of Peter E. Gumaer. Local records have been searched. Also those in Kingston, Albany and New York and Central New York counties. Records have been obtained from the writings of W. H. Nearpass, while extensive family records have been furnished by Mrs. Jennie Titsworth Wright of Sussex, N. J., Mrs. Mary V. Lawton of Skaneateles, N. Y., Mrs. Jane Cuddeback Johnson of Port Jervis, N. Y., Dr. Samuel Outwater of Lockport, N. Y., Mrs. Simeon Cuddeback of Milford, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Cuddeback of Skaneateles, N. Y., and Mrs. Martha M. Griswold of Adrian, Michigan.
I deem myself fortunate to have known and learned from those of earlier generations many facts pertaining to the early history of the family. A physician comes to know the country, the people and the families with an intimacy unknown in other relations.
Forty-one years of the practice of my profession among neighbors, relatives and friends of my boyhood have impressed me with the desirability of a record of our people and of our family. Families scatter. Homes disintegrate. Houses disappear. Among the saddest of my experiences are visits to localities where there is now little or no vestige of the lives or of the drama of life enacted in the old homesteads of bygone years. Many, many times in this study, I have been impressed with the truth of the verses, Psalms 103, verses 15 and 16: "As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more."
As a heritage for those who may hereafter bear the name Cuddeback, for allied families, and for all who may note the development of American families, this ideal development of free men in a free country is presented. These interminglings of people of various nationalities—these Americans, will everywhere be a mighty force for the uplifting of the nation.
That such a people may be enabled to turn to a record of ancestors, and to delight to know from whence they came is sufficient compensation for many hours and days of investigation and collaboration.
William L. Cuddeback, M.D.
Port Jervis, N. Y.
[PIONEER KNOLL-HOME OF THE FIRST SETTLER]
Between the ranges of the Appalachian Mountains as they extend northward into New York State, lies the Valley of the Neversink river and of the Bashas Kill. From these the water flows into the Delaware River at Port Jervis.
The Kitatiny mountains of New Jersey becomes the Shawangunk range in New York and form the southeastern border of the valley. The Blue Ridge mountains of Pennsylvania extend northeasterly into New York, form the northwesterly border of the valley, and extend into the foot hills of the Catskills. Between these mountain ranges lies the valley of the Neversink, the Meckheckemeck of the early days, two hundred to four hundred feet below their crests. It is from one to two miles wide. It is said to have been part of the bed of a vast lake extending to the Hudson before the erosion of the mountain which resulted in the formation of the Delaware Water Gap. At a point near the junction of the Neversink with the Bashas Kill there is a level tract of land extending the width of the valley for about three miles.
The early settlers trailed down the valley from Kingston and came upon this flat land covered with a tall heavy grass (Rheet Grass) about 1690 and tarried there. About 1696 they purchased these lands from the Indians, and settled among them. On Oct. 14th, 1697, a patent for 1200 acres covering this fiat land was granted to Jacob Caudebec, Peter Gumaer, Thomas, Bernarbas, and Anthony Swartwout and their associates. This "Cuddeback" patent is described as "at Maghakameck, beginning at the west bounds of lands called Napeneck, etc., . . . to a small run of water called by the Indians 'Assawaghkemeck,' etc., (a small stream flowing into east side of the Neversink opposite Huguenot) and so along the said run of water and the lands of Mansjwor, the Indian."
This included the level fertile low lands from near Cuddebackville to Huguenot, and was later called the "Peenpack flats." Near the center of this "Caudebec patent" there is a knoll extending longitudinally of the valley, which tradition gives as the location of the homes of the first settlers. It is oval, about three hundred yards long, fifty yards wide, and elevated above the surrounding low lands approximately twenty feet.
This pioneer knoll, today grass-grown and a pasture, gives evidence of its former occupancy. Depressions indicate the location of these log houses. At its most southerly point, a larger, longer depression surrounded by fragments of a stone foundation now covered by earth and sod, indicates the location of an old fort erected at a later date. About twenty yards east of this knoll is a large brook of the clearest spring water, while on its eastern slope is located the remnant of the spring which furnished them water. The accompanying maps and views show these points, and also show that these pioneers built their houses in the most approved manner of their day. The depressions indicative of their cellars are near each other on different sides, on the brow of the knoll. Between them is the slightly elevated rounded top of the knoll. Access to and communication with neighbors from houses thus located could have been easy, quick and continuous.
[DEEDS, LAND, PAPERS ETC.]
The following transcripts from the public records at Kingston, New York and Albany are of value as records of the life and the struggles of these early colonists. The deeds from the Indians covering a large acreage, extending in the Meckheckemeck valley from Naponeck nearly to the Delaware, was made to others besides those named in the Caudebec patent. This was a cause of differences between owners of adjoining patents and led to disturbances between the Indians and the pioneers.
(1) Deed of lands from the Indians.
(2) Petition: Jacob Caudebec and others to Col. Benjamin Fletcher, Governor, for patent for 1200 acres at Waghkomack, which was granted October 14th, 1695.
(3) Petition: dated May 14th, 1697, of Thomas Swartod and others to Governor Fletcher for protection of their patent lands, etc.
(4) Petition dated October 18th, 1699, of Bernard Swartwout and others to Governor Fletcher for protection in the peaceable enjoyment of their lands.
(5) Deed dated February 12th, 1725, Jacob Codebec to his three eldest sons of his seventh interest in the Caudebec patent.
DEED FROM THE INDIANS.
Know all men by these presents that we Achparreny, Orreguan, Harmon Hekan, Tadepaa, Sansanan, Wackheeck, Toorakawa, Paghetenson, Koerderson, Tindemopigton, Namesjarout, Maberotgaroposon, Tonnespaam, Mossingsinck, Capiskeham Indians sendeth greeting. Whereas we the said Achparreny, Orreguan, Harmon Heckan, Tadepaa, etc., for and in consideration of fifty pounds current money, five gunns five blancoats five coats of strouds five coats of Duffels five laps five shirts five pistols five knives five axis five hats five pr of stockings five drawin knives five swords fifty pounds of powder two ancors Rum forty barrels of lead fifty needles fifty ailds fifty fishin hooks eight Barrolls strong beere and six fine coats to them in hand payd before the ensealing and delivery of these presents by Jacob Rutse, Gerrit Aartss, Jacob Aartss, Dan Honan, Coenraet Elmendorp, Thomas Swartwout Dick vanderburgh Anthony Swartwout Jacob Coddebeck Johannis Westphalen, Charles Westphalen, Simon Westphalen the widow of Thomas Quick Barnardus Swartwout Peter Guimair Elyas Und Cornelis Switts Hendrick Janson, Hendrick Decker Cornelius Clase, Cornelius De Duyster have bargained sold assigned and sett over unto said Jacob Rutse Gerrit Aartss, Jacob Aartss, Daniel Honan, Thomas Swartwout and the rest of the partners that have obtained a grant from his Excell. and council for Menissing Waggackemeck. All that certain tract or parcell of land, situate lying and being in the bounds of Menissing & Waggackemeck beginning at the west bound of the land called Naponach to a small run of water called by the indian name Assawagkemeek and soe alongst said run of water and the land of Hansjoor the indian.
To have and to hold the said tract of land unto the said Jacob Rutse Gerrit Aartss Dan Honan Thomas Swartwout and the rest of the partners as above s'd Theire heirs and assigns for ever The said Achparreny Orreguan, Hannon Hekan, Tadipaa & c doth the further covenant promise and engage to warrand and defend the said Jacob Rutse, Gerritt Aartss, Jacob Aartss, Daniel Honan, Thomas Swartwout and the rest of the partners for the said land against all manner of Indyans that shall claim the same.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto sett our hands
In Kingstowne this 8th day of June 1696. Achparreny, X his mark Orreguan, X his mark Harmon Hekan, X his mark Tadepaa, X his mark Sansanan, X his mark Wackheeck, X his mark Toorakawa, X his mark Paghetenson, X his mark Koerdereson, X his mark Tindemopigton, X his mark Namesjarout, X his mark Mabertogaroposon, X his mark Tonnespaam, X his mark Mossingsinck, X his mark Capiskeham, X his mark Signed in the presence of Roeloft Swartwout / Tonnespaam, X his mark W. D. Meyer / Paghetesson, X his mark In presence of Dirk Schopmoos Justice of peace A true Copy & c. J. Wottingham Clerk.
LAND PAPERS
In Office of Secretary of State at Albany. Vol. 2. Page 266:
Petition of Jacob Codeber Thomas Swart & others praying a patent for a tract of land in Ulster County being a part of a tract called Waghaghkemeck.
To Coll Benjamin Fletcher, General & Governor of New York & c.
Thomas Gumbl Jacob Coddeber, Thomas, Anthony & Barnardus Swartwout, James Tys David Jamisson
Showoth
That there is a . . . land called Waghaghkomock in Elster . . . the sixth first petitioners had a lyine on . . . hundred acres for the improvement but . . . uttssen & Company who has a poss . . . the Minissink fort so it is that . . . Waghkomeck is purchased of the indians . . . the first grant
Therefore . . . have a patent for the same to . . .ever as to oath (other?) un equal favor . . . so 1200 acres in the . . . most . . . under a mo . . . Ecell . . . and . . . pray . . . thony Swartwout . . . Paire Gumare . . . out . . . David Jamisson . . . eck . . . Thomas Swartwout.
(The ". . ." indicate that it is impossible to read the lines or make out the words on the original paper owing to its extreme age.)
LAND PAPERS
In Office of Secretary of State at Albany. Vol. 2. Page 235. May 14th, 1697:
Petition of Thomas Swartod & others to have Jacob Rutson & Company restrained from unlawfully obstructing them in perfecting their title to 1200 acros of land, lying at a certain place called by the indian Waghgaghemek.
Col. Benjamin Fletcher Captain in Chieffe of ye Province of New York and Provinces depending thereon Vice Admiral of ye same May 14th 1697 The humble petition of Thomas Swartwod Peter Gumard Anthony Swartod Bernard Swartod Eliashia & c James Codebecke I humbly sheweth
That your Excellenceys petitioners have ye favor of Liene or grant to purchase to ye quantity of 1200 acres of land in Elster County at a certain place called by ye indians Waghgagkemek, which your Excellys petrs have discovered at their great charges and travaille, That pursuant thereunto ye petrs have made an agreement with ye native proprietors for ye said land and have got ye boundry laid out by ye indians by sundry mark'd trees and have paid some part of ye consideration; but have not obtained a deed from ye indians who have agreed to perform and execute the same.
That some months afterwards Jacob Rutsen and company did obtain your excellencey's favor of a liene or grant for purchasing of . . . akers of land at ye Minissing distant from ye petitioners land.
That the said Jacob Rutsen and company have surreptitiously . . . persuaded them not to make the deed . . . your Excellys petrs humbly pray your excellency will give some directions to Jacob Rutsen and company not to place unlawful obstructions to the just proceedings of your excellys petitioners, there being vacant land enough to be purchased in ye said county, if not at the place which they did assigne in their petition to your excellency and for which ye have ye grant.
And your Excellency's petitioners in duty bound shall ever pray & c. J. Codebec.
Another patent was granted May 26th, 1697, to Arent Schuyler for 1000 acres of land. This included the lands in and about Port Jervis and extended up the Neversink Valley about half way to Huguenot.
Another patent (the Minisink Patent) was granted August 28th, 1704, and included all the lands in this vicinity not included in the preceding patents.
LAND PAPERS
At Albany. Vol. 2. Page 275. Oct. 18th, 1699
Petition of Barnardus Swartwout on behalf of himself & others, the owners of sundry lands at Waghahkemek, near Menissincks complaining ill-treatment by indians who were instigated to the same by Jacob Rutsen & company and praying that they may be protected in the peaceable enjoyment of their possessions.
To the Honble John Nasan Esq Leu Govonor & commander in chief of provice of New York & c and the Honble council of the land
The humble petition of Barnardus Swartwout in behalf of himself and copartners in a new Settlement at Waghahkowock now the Minissinks.
Showoth
That on the 14th day of October 1695 the petitioners had lycense to purchase 1200 acres of vacant land at a place called Waghaghkamock, which being understood by Col & Rutsen and others who were desirous of the same lands which the petitioners had by (charge?) and pains discovered found a petition to the Governor and Council afterwards, to wit: The 9th of January 1695-6 for a lysence to purchase 400 acres at great little Minissinks Under color of which lysense being upwards of 20 in number, by large gifts to the Indians and other indirect (works?) (debauches?) them to (bad?) faith to the petitioners, to sell the same lands to them, of which complaint was made to the Governor & Council, & an order thereupon granted that (it approving the petitioners lysense) was prior to the date of that of Rutsen & Compa. and the name of the place certain, and (still) it is of ill consequence to have indirect dealings with the Indians.
That Rutsen and company do desist from any pretensions to purchase the land mentioned in the lysense of the petitions upon penalty of answering the same. Upon which order afterwards to wit the 28th day of May 1696 Rutsen & company prays the Governor & council not to have ill thoughts of them, and allege that the land that the petitioners lay claim to by lysense is not called Waghgaghemeck which being ready and considered in Council, an order issued upon petitioners that Swartwout and company pursuant to their (wish?) should purchase 1200 acres at Waghgaghkemmack and afterwards the other company their 4000 acres. Notwithstanding all which though Rutsen & company ventured still privly to (soist?) with the indians and obstruct the lawful purchase until the middle of the year 1697, when the petitioners to obtain their rights (forms?) of them verbally (consutod?) to make a joint purchase with the other company which being done they thereupon on the 14th of Oct. 1697 obtained his (mahos?) patent for the 1200 acres and betook themselves to the improvement thereof (and?) (company?) to all right and the former orders without any patent or first giving (way?) to the petitioners peacably to enjoy their 1200 acres. Many of the other company (purpose?) appointed by and under them satt down upon the sd land forcibly that it being far from the other Christian settlement & mountain (whethr?) in the county of Elster or Orange the forests could not be removed by the indians that now Shely-irr-tin through months of Aug. and Sept. left and (devvey?) other times. The indians chiefly Asawanta Pindamnius, Karhkolano Sansa and Nashingloan with many others though pretended owners of the land to the petitioners unknown being stirred up freely by the s'd other company have fallen upon the s'd Barnardus Swartwout and his brother another partner and have beaten bruised and badly kicked so that of their lives they did really despair, and robbed plundered and carried away their goods haply and have destroyed their cattel, have (put fire?) often into their houses to burn them in which violent practices those other company, their wives came to look on and render the indians & (hindor?) from killing of them. But the men kept out of the wy which is of very pernicious ( . . . ) and may end in an Indian warr if life should be taken on any other part which your petitioners would strenuously avoid, and therefore humbly pray that said indians may be sent for and made to disclose who they are that put them upon this violence (sound?) prudent (vard?) be taken to prevent future mischief that such punishment may be enforced to their good.
That the quiet & peaceable possession of their estates to the end that justice & right may take place according to your honorable great wisdom and prudence. This ye petrs as in duty shall pray & c.
MORTGAGE—JACOB CODEBEC TO PETER GUYMARD.
To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall or may come.
Jacob Codebec of Wackackhameck in the county of ulster and province of New York sendeth greeting.
Now know ye that the said Jacob Codebec, for divers good causes and considerations him thereunto moving but more and especially for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and seventy pounds currant money of the province of New York to him in hand paid before the ensealing and delivery of these presents by Peter Guymard of the same place. The receipt whereof he the said Jacob Codebec doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and therefrom and of and from every part & parcell therof doe acquitt exhonerate release and forever discharge the said Peter Guymard his heirs administrators and executors by these presents.
It Ave given granted bargained and sold released ratified and confirmed, and by these presents doe fully freely clearly and absolutely give grant bargain & sell release ratify and confirm unto the said Peter Guymard, his heirs & assignes for ever all that certain tract or parcell of land lying and being in Wachachkameck. Being the one just seventh part of the 1200 acres of land granted by patent to David Jamison Thos Swartwout, John Mattison and company by Gouvenour Benjamin Fletcher as by said patent may more fully and at large appear.
So have and to hold the said seventh part of the said 1200 acres of land with all and singular the priviledges the reditaments and appurtanences thereunto belonging or in any way appurtaining unto the said Peter Guymard his heirs and assigns and to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said Peter Guymard his heirs and assignes forever.
Provided always and upon this condition and it is the true intent and meaning of these presents that if the above named Jacob Codebec his heirs executors and administrators or assignes the just and full sum of 170 pounds current money aforesaid on or before the 14th day of February which will be in the year of our Lord 1729 with the yearly interest of 8 p cent per anum.
Then and in such case this present deed of bargains and sale to be utterly void and of none effect Otherwise to stand and abide in full force power and virtue. In testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal this 14th day of February in the 12th year of his magesties Reigne
Annaq Dom 1725/6 J. Codebec SS Sealed and delivered in the presence of us Jno Crooke Jun Joseph Wheeler Barnardus A C Swartwout, X his mark
Ulster Co. This is to certify that on the 16 day of Feb. in the 12th year of his magesties Reigne Annoq Dom 1725/6 appeared before me Abraham Gaasbeek Chambers Esq one of the judges of the inferior court of common pleas for said county.
Jno Crooke June one of the witnesses to this deed and being sworn on the Holy Evangelist declares that he saw the within named Jacob Codebec execute the same as his voluntary act and deed, and that he saw Joseph Wheeler & Barnardus Swartwout sign the same as witnesses and that he signed the same as a witness; and having carefully examined the same & finds no erarures nor interliniations in the same and allows the same to be entered on siad county Record.
vera Copia A Gaasbeek Chambers Gil Livingston Clk. From County Clerk's office Kingston.
DEED OF JACOB C. TO HIS SONS.
To all Christian People to whom this present writing shall or may come Jacob Codebec of Wagachkameck in the county of Ulster and Province of New York In America Sendeth Greeting Now know ye that the said Jacob Codebec for divers good causes and and considerations him thereunto moving, but more & especially for and in consideration of the sum of 170 pounds currant money of the province of New York to him in hand paid or secured to be paid by his three eldest children. That is to say the three eldest sons by name Benjamin William and Jacobus, the receipt whereof he the said Jacob Codebec doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and therefrom and of and from every part & parcell thereof doth acquit exhonerate release and forever discharge the said Benjamin William and Jacobus Codebec their heirs executors and administrators and every of them firmly by these presents have given granted bargained sold released ratified confirmed and by these presents doe fully freely clearly and absolutely give grant bargaine & sell release ratify & confirm unto the said Benjamin William & Jacobus Codebec their heirs and assignes for ever all that certain tract or parcell of land situate being and lying in the county of ulster at Wackachkemeck being one just seventh part of 1200 acres of land.
Said Jacob Codebec stands entitled (?) and possessor? by virtue of a patent from Governor Benjamin Fletcher. Relation thereunto had may more fully & at large appear.
So have & to hold said just seventh part of 1200 acres of land as it is devided & undivided with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any ways appurtaining unto them the said Benjamin William and Jacob Codebec their heirs and assignes and to the only proper use benefit and behoof of them the said Benjamin William & Jacob Codebec their heirs executors and administrators and assignes that whereas the said Jacob Codebec has mortgaged the above said land unto Peter Guymard the 14th inst for the consideration of the above said. Now if the above said Benjamin Codebec William Codebec and Jacob Codebec do pay and release said mortgage with the interest and what said land shall be balanced appraised by three men (indifferently chosen) to be worth more than said money Said Benjamin William & Jacob Codebec shall pay the releasing said mortgage and interest that that money or overplush shall be devided amongst all my natural children by name Benjamin William Jacobus Marytie Elsie Helena Abraham En Naomie In equal shares.
The said Benjamin William and Jacob paying the yearly quit due upon said lands then this deed of bargaine and saile to be in full power and virtue.
In testimony whereof the said Jacob Codebec has hereunto set his hand and affisced his seale this 15 day of February in the 12 year of his majesties Reigne Annoq Dom 1725/6.
The word (the 14th inst) was interhned between the 26th & 27th lines before execution of the presents.
J Codebec SS Sealed and delivered in the presence of us Joseph Wheeler Jno Crooke June Jacobus Swartwout Jr.
[PIONEER DAYS]
These sturdy young people, ambitious, enterprising, accustomed to and delighting in the hardships of frontier life, found in this valley and at this place an ideal spot for their purpose. They determined to place themselves and their families beyond the realms of oppression and persecution, to live as free as the air they breathed, at a point relatively near, where their Huguenot countrymen had settled at Esopus and New Paltz. Game was abundant. Fish were in the streams in quantities. The soil was fertile, productive and easy of cultivation. The native inhabitants were kindly disposed and peaceable. Could anything be more alluring to these after their experience in their native land? Tradition relates that they were happy and contented in these new homes for many years. They were governed by a Christian sentiment and duty. Honor for honest industry abounded. Every person was comforted and ennobled by a "peaceful, pure and stimulating atmosphere of personal and religious freedom."
The typical pioneer's home has been described as a log house on sloping ground, on the brow of a hill, facing and overlooking the level meadow land, from which a path led up to its front door, which was about in the middle of the front of the house. Small high windows are on either side of it. Directly opposite the front is the back door, larger, wider and level with the ground. It opens against the sloping ground so that wood may be carried or rolled in or that the huge back log—the foundation for the fire—may be drawn in by a horse for the great wide fireplace which fills up one end of the single room—the "fire room"—the general living room. Across the ends of the house, logs surround the great stone chimney and are morticed in with the side logs. Between and around these clay and earth fill in the crevices.
Before the days when leaded window glass was first imported from England, thick oiled paper formed their semi-opaque windows. Sun-dials and hour glasses marked the time.
The ceilings were low, the stairs were short and steep. Ladders led to sleeping rooms above. The small cellars contained family supplies to supplement the food furnished by hunting and fishing, in which the Indian residents joined most willingly.
Indian trails widened to foot paths, as every one walked. Later travel by horseback was the custom, and pack horses carried their baggage, food and household effects—canoes and boats were of some service. For light, a bundle of yellow pine knots was burned in a corner of the large fireplace. This "candle wood" would be fastened there between flat stones. Later oil obtained from different sources was burned, as also tallow in betty lamps or brown bettys (shallow pewter or metal dishes two or three inches in diameter with projecting nose over which the wick hangs).
Phoebe lamps were similar but had a second shallow saucer to catch the drip. Later candles were made by dipping, afterwards by moulds. The pale brittle green bayberry candles from the taller shrub or candleberry tree gave most fragrant odor, while later, the brighter better light of the spermaceti candles was of service.
In the latter part of the 17th century, during the active lives of the second and third generations, the lands of the patent were allotted to individual ownership. The several owners then built substantial stone houses at nearby points in the valley. The "Gumaer stone house" of the present day was built. The "Cuddeback stone house," now standing, near the log house by the highway, near a small run of water just south of Port Clinton and about one mile due north of pioneers knoll, was built by Jacob Caudebec and his sons.
This has been occupied by six generations of the Cuddeback family. It is still firm and substantial and a comfortable home. The Swartwout's possessed Seneyaghquan.
These stone houses, generally irregularly rectangular, were most substantially built. Entrance was usually through a large double door, horizontally divided, opening into a large "fire room" at one end, while at the other end of the house was a smaller room, used as a dining room or a "state bed room," where a "Slawbank" or a "half headed bed" was ever ready for the visitor.
The large heavy "lug pole" was replaced later by the light moveable iron crane with its iron hooks, pots and kettles in the great broad fireplace. Andirons and creepers were later added to the household equipment. The ceilings showed great logs and rafters rough hewn and supporting a board floor or roof with its heavy bark covering.
The attic, beside providing sleeping apartments, had near the chimney, a room with an opening to chimney and place to smoke bacon, ham and beef; also a room for grains, storage, etc.
The large deep cellars contained bins for potatoes, apples, turnips, beets, etc., barrels for salted beef, pork, game and fish—tubs of sausage, headcheese, etc., and firkins of butter, eggs—shelves filled with fruit, etc., barrels for cider, vinegar, etc.
In the earlier years, the tables were of boards and the dishes, platters, etc., were mostly of wood, so were the trenches, the borols, the tankards, the spoons of laurel wood and the plates of birch bark. Bottles and drinking cups and noggins of leather and sometimes of the thin hard shell of the gourd of horn. Later pewter dishes were substituted. Food was plentiful. Wild native fruits were in abundance, as huckleberries, strawberries, blackberries, grapes and cranberries. Wild turkey abounded in flocks. Wild geese and ducks by the thousands, and pigeons in flocks to obscure the light, and here were also pheasants, partridge, quail, snipe. These, with the products of the soil made life worth living, and secured the settlers comfort and prosperity.
The Indians, friendly and helpful, taught the planting and the raising of Indian corn, their "gunney wheat" or "turkey wheat"—a native American food—the grinding and the cooking of it and the preparation of many kinds of most nutritious foods from it, samp porridge, suppawn, new samp, succotash, using their handmade mills, their stump and sapling mortar also. They had great fear however of windmills. They were also most helpful in killing, securing and preserving game and fish for winter use. In turn, they learned to secure wild honey. With wonder they called the bees "English flies"; called the maples "sugar trees" as they boiled the sap and gathered the sugar.
They joined in the winter sports and pastimes as fox hunting, squirrel killing, bear bayting, and for a generation lived most peaceably with the settlers.
For about sixty years, friendly and peaceable relations existed with the Indians. The French and Indian war beginning about 1755 changed this. The Indians under French influence withdrew from this region, became hostile, made life perilous—property uncertain, and committed many acts of treachery. Afterwards a few of them returned and remained in the valley until the revolution, when the absence of many of the men and the influence of the cunning Brandt turned them again to be enemies of the whites and led to the invasion of 1777 and 1779.
In 1777 the Committee of Safety directed that three forts be built in the "peenpack" neighborhood. The central one near the house of Ezekiel Gumaer was near by the Pioneer's knoll. Surrounding the stone house, on the open land a "picket fort" a stockade was built. Rows of tree trunks, stakes, etc., were planted upright enclosing several acres, an area sufficient to accommodate the nearby families. Around this fort with Capt. Abram Cuddeback in command, many exciting adventures occurred during the revolution. Gumaer states, "that the fort sheltered eleven families, aggregating one hundred and thirteen persons during the greater portion of the years 1778-9."
William Cuddeback, the father of Capt. Abram, was there with his family. He was an old man and died soon after the revolution. His son, Benjamin Cuddeback, was at Fort DeWitt, near the present Neversink highway bridge, at the time of the raid and was in charge of its defense. After the invasion, he returned to the "Cuddeback Stone House," "Fort Cuddeback," with his family, where he died about 1782 presumably of typhoid fever.
The upper was the neighborhood of Meckheckemeck, while the lower neighborhood embracing the valley from Huguenot, south to the Delaware river was called "Little Minisink Neighborhood." Its forts were—Westfall, Decker, near the Delaware and Van Auken, the latter being east of the Neversink where the stone houses afforded the protection.
After the revolution, more attention was paid to agriculture. The small farms were again cultivated to a greater extent. Timbers were rafted down the Neversink and Delaware to market. Saw mills and grist mills were built in the valley. The cultivation of flax and hemp constituted a large part of their labor. The manufacture of cloth and clothing was a household occupation and year end employment for both the men and the women of the families. The sowing, the cultivation, the gathering of the flax which must be pulled, dried and ripped and spread into a "stook" in the field. This was followed by the cleaning, the drying and the tying in bundles. The new grown hemp must be pounded, swingled, carded and dried, then swingled, pounded and hetcheled until the fibers were assorted, spread and drawn ready for spinning. The raising of sheep, the shearing, the assorting of fleeces, the carding of the wool—the colorings of "golden rod green"—the "pokeberry crimson"—the "sassafras orange yellow"—the hickory-oak bark or indigo as fancy may decide. The skeins bleached, washed, dyed and dried were wound on bobbins for the loom. Then came the knitting, the weaving, and the making of the clothing,—broom corn brooms supplanted birch splint brooms. Such constant employment invariably leads to habits of economy, to adaptability and resourcefulness which makes for independence and strength.
This mutual dependence and assistance resulting from their situation made a "neighborhood" feeling whereby each shared in the profits, the pleasures and the luxuries of the others. They joined together in their work and in generous welcome to the kinsfolks. With such environments, to a people, strong, vigorous, enterprising, voluntary exiles for conscience's and their religious sake, these develop strong characteristics in families, more marked in some individuals.
Gumaer notes this development in the earlier generation. He says, "religious reading meetings were held in the peenpack neighborhood," also "the services of an officer were unnecessary in that neighborhood during the first sixty or seventy years of the settlement. They had the honesty and the prudence to adjust all matters relating to their mutual dealings." When roused by fear and danger they became sturdy energetic soldiers who knew only independence and self-reliance. The extent of this is shown by the military records. In the second regiment of Ulster County militia, in the company of which Captain Abram Cuddeback commanded we find among the enlisted men six of the name of Cuddeback—William, Peter, James, Benjamin, Abraham, Sr., Abraham, Jr., five of the name of Swartwout and several names of each of the families of the region. With such inheritance, with such discipline, with such surroundings, with nature as a firm, kind, unyielding teacher, impress of character was early discernible with these people. These families developed traits of character and physical stature which has been most noticeable in members of succeeding generations.
"William Cuddeback, though uneducated, was versed in the scriptures, was characterized as a wise man in his time." Each succeeding generation developed its leaders in the religious, business and social matters of their day, of sterling uprightness and integrity, among a people gentle, modest, retiring, with strong religious convictions, with sympathy and helpfulness toward each other and a fidelity to duty.
Gumaer states, "I have sat many a long winter evening and many an hour in the day time to hear the conversations and arguments of a few of the individuals of the second generation. Many of these communications and remarks were entertaining and instructive as to what had transpired in this valley, and as to the lives of the people." Gumaer also states from knowledge gained in this way he considers "that Col. Peter Cuddeback had the general resemblance to the early members of the family." His picture herewith presented may be considered as indicative of the features and general physique of the family.
The family life was the community life of the early generations. Remnants of this have continued in some localities where the husking bee, the quilting party or the apple cut afford opportunities for the family to gather and to rehearse tales of the early trials, fortunes and successes. This family visiting, when all of the family were included, with its free hearty welcome, and its unreserved and unstinted hospitality indicated the fellowship of the family as a group and as the unit in the community and is in marked contrast to the twentieth century methods where the individual is the unit.
After the revolution, the state lands of Central New York were opened to settlers. Many of the younger men of the third generation emigrated to that portion of the state and became pioneers on the "Holland purchase" and the military lands of the state where their families have continued to reside.
Later the descendants in the fourth generation, farmers and those of allied pursuits, became owners of nearly all of the most fertile bottom lands in the valley. They were jealous of their ownership of these paternal farms, and guarded them from outside ownership and intrusion. This spirit developed also in the members of those families in western New York where they located. Near Skaneateles, through one section, farm after farm for miles in extent was the property of a Cuddeback, at Owasco, at Moravia. In Niles township, at Twelve Corners, the same conditions existed. Farm after farm was the property of a Van Etten, Westfall, Van Fleet or Cuddeback, or a relative of one of them in the third or fourth generation, from Deerpark ancestry.
Similar conditions to a limited extent existed in other sections as in Wayne County, N. Y., Seneca County, N. Y., Niagara County, N. Y., Wayne and Bradford Counties, Pa., near Adrian, Mich., and in Iowa.
In 1745 Roelof Elting bequeathed to his daughter, Jacomyntje Codebec, certain sums of money—to others lands, which if they sold, they must first offer to their brothers and sisters at the same price a stranger would pay.
In this development of families of succeeding generations in different localities we see illustrated the migratory element of our people.
These sturdy young emigrants of the middle of the seventeenth century settled and established their homes near Kingston, N. Y., about 1650 and reared their families there. As their children reached maturity and began life for themselves, some of them with others, later emigrants, sought adjacent locations for their homes. The Meckheckemeck settlement was formed just previous to 1700. Lands were purchased and the Cuddeback patent was obtained. Here a new generation grew to manhood. Youth again active, restless and alert sought other locations. From 1730 to 1750 the lands along the Delaware, both in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania were attractive. The younger of the families of Cuddeback, Depuy, Shimer and Hornbeck established homes there. Records show that some of the Swartwouts of the third generation, natives of Meckheckemeck, then called "Pin-peck," or "Peenpack," removed to this section.
As the next generation grew to manhood many of them seeking homes crossed over into the valley of Susquehanna into the southern central New York counties. This movement was quite extensive just after the revolution, when influenced by the DeWitts, surveyors, quite a colony from Peenpack established themselves in the "lake country" of central New York.
Again in each succeeding generation similar developments occurred. Soon after 1800 the active, restless young people from Central New York emigrated to Michigan and to Ohio accompanied by relatives and friends from the older settlements on the Delaware and Susquehanna.
These migrations have continued. The more alert or venturesome of each generation have sought new locations to establish their homes. They are now in every state of the Union some who are direct lineal descendants of the emigrant Jacques Caudebec and in the older locations the network of relationship is intricate and closely woven.
The lands in the valley continued to be most productive during the first half of the nineteenth century. Substantial stately houses were built. Large barns and out buildings were erected. The thrift and prosperity of the farmers continued. The social life centered about the church and the homes—a broad hospitality prevailed of which the family was the unit.
During the lives of the fifth and sixth generations, conditions have changed materially. The varied pursuits of the twentieth century gives occupation as varied and diverse as their homes are distant from one another and from the ancestral home of the family. The exhaustion of the soil, the attraction of the productive western farm lands, the migration to the cities, all have tended to diminish the population and the representatives of the family throughout this entire region of country. It is a fact, however, more than eighty per cent, of the lands of the Caudebec patent remains today in the possession of owners whose ancestry may be traced to a patentee.
The first attempt to build a grist mill in the valley was made by Jacob Caudebec and his sons, near the Caudebec stone house. The small run of water over the steep declivity just east of the house furnished the power, the rough stone blocks, the mill stones, were obtained from the Indians. Grains for both the settlers and the Indians were ground there for many years, substituting this for hand pounding with pestle in mortar and for the sapling and stump mortar.
Later other and better mill sites were located in the valley. One of which was the mill site of Henry Decker on the old dam brook. "Ouwe Dam Kill"—a dam across the spring brook about one mile northeast of Port Jervis, overflowed a long, low marshy tract of land extending toward Huguenot, stored water for power purposes for a mill located at that point.
Remnants of this dam are visible today just west of the Huguenot highway where it crosses the railroad as both cross the stream near Port Jervis. Also foundation stone of the old log house, the mill house are still visible about twenty-five feet east of the present dwelling. This property became the property of Benjamin Cuddeback about 1800. The present dwelling built by Benjamin Cuddeback about 1814 stands today typical of its time in shape, size and structure. Later it was the home of Elting Cuddeback for eighty years and of his son, the writer, during his youth.
Jacob Caudebec and Peter Gumaer were French Huguenot refugees. Caudebec came from Caudebec-en-Caux—a thriving agricultural and manufacturing town on the Seine in Normandy, France.
These refugees, Caudebec and Gumaer, fled in 1685 to England or Holland, thence to Maryland, in America, later to New Amsterdam, thence to Oesopus and Wylt Wyck (Kingston), N. Y.
Jacob Caudebec was born about 1666 in Normandy of a family of prosperous merchants. In his flight he became separated from his people. He was unable afterwards to find trace of his own family or sisters or to recover any of their property. Although the following story is found among the writings of Peter Gumaer: "Now I have understood that it had been concluded on between Cuddeback and two of his sisters that he and Gumaer would go to a certain place in England or Holland (I am not certain which) and that after a certain time these two sisters would embark for the same place and bring money to enter into a mercantile business at the place of their destination; and that Cuddeback and Gumaer after being landed at this place waited for these two sisters till after the time for their arrival had elapsed; and giving up all hopes of their coming embarked for America and were landed in the State of Maryland; which passage exhausted the last of their money. Cuddeback had information afterwards, that his sisters after some length of time had arrived and entered into a mercantile business; and he was chagrined in consequence of their having all the money. It was said that after they had arrived Cuddeback corresponded with them by letters and would often remind them of their injustice in keeping to themselves all the property; which I have understood they offered to share with him if he would come and live with them or they would take and do well by one of his children if he would send one of them." Ruttenber states that Peter Gumaer and Jacob Caudebec were the younger members of the families of Abraham Guimar and James Caudebec. He soon adapted himself to the different conditions of life of the new world. He found employment with Benjamin Provost, a trader of New York and Oesopus. He came to this valley in 1690. On October 21st, 1695, he married in New York City Margarette Provost, a daughter of his employer, Benjamin Provost, and Elsje Aelberts who had been married in New York Nov. 5th, 1671.
Jacob Caudebec is quoted as having said that "by leaving France he had been deprived of many enjoyments but he had the satisfaction of leaving his posterity in a country of good land, easily acquired." He is characterized as of a penetrating mind, persuasive in business, of speculative disposition, and most tender towards his family. He retained his mental faculties and physical vigor almost until his last hour. Three of his sons became farmers on the peenpack flats, the lands of the patent. On February 15th, 1726, he deeded a one-seventh interest in the patent to his three sons, Benjamin, William and Jacob, who agreed to pay certain moneys equally to all his children. One son and four sons-in-law became farmers near Shepekunk, in northern New Jersey along the Delaware. In 1715 the name of Jacob Koddeback appears as member of a foot company of Ulster County militia, under the command of Col. Jacob Rutsen. On September 1st, 1689, J. Caudebec, a native of France, took oath of allegiance to King William and Queen Mary.
[THE CUDDEBACK PATENT DISSOLVED.]
The ownership of the lands of the Cuddeback patent were in the names of the patentees and allotted as indicated in the chart.
The dissolution of the community ownership of the lands of the patent was accomplished by an eight party deed of its owners on February 13th, 1768, when Captain Johannas Westbrook, Peter Gemare, Benjamin Cuddeback and William Cuddeback, Geradus Van Inwegen, Benjamin Depuy, Jacob Rutsen DeWitt, Abraham Cuddeback and Phillipus Swartwout, as joint-owners of the 1200 acre patent, deeded to each of their assignes, as individuals, their holdings. William Cuddeback received deed for one-eighth part. William and Benjamin Cuddeback received one-eighth part, which they redeeded to their father, Jacob Cuddeback, and also received deed for
lot No. 5 of 1st division of the patent " No. 6 2nd " " " " No. 5 5th " " " " No. 3 6th " " " " No. 5 7th " " " " No. 2 8th " " "
and also for 12 acres of land with all edifices, barns, barracks, fencing and implements.
No record is found that either John Tyse or David Jamison lived in the valley. It is believed that Tyse was an older man and was a resident of Oesopus where records show the baptism of three of his children about 1680.
David Jamison became the attorney general of the Province of New York in 1720.
Thomas and Bernardus Swartwout removed down the Delaware valley into New Jersey at Smithfield or Walpack, where many of their descendants have continued to live, and today are quite numerous. Some have changed the spelling to Swartwood. Anthony Swartwout died about 1700. His widow with her children and second husband, Harmonas Van Inwegen, continued to live on the lands of the patent.
For more than thirty years, the patriarch of Peenpack, Jacob Caudebec was the sole remaining one of the original patentees to continue to live on the patent and in the Meckheckemeck settlement. His fellow countryman and refugee, Peter Gumaer, died previous to 1732. His will dated September 24th, 1726, was probated at Kingston, N. Y., October 4th, 1732.
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FIRST GENERATION]
FIRST GENERATION
[Transcriber's Note: Numerals above or before an entry indicate a lineage paragraph where that person is mentioned. The same number is used in the index to locate an entry. Superscript numbers after a name indicate that person's generation, with Jacob (Jacques) Caudebec assumed as the first generation of the family. Name spellings are those used in the original book.]
[1]
JACOB CAUDEBEC,1 b. about 1666 in Normandy, d. after 1767, m. Oct. 21, 1695, at New York City, Margaretta Provost. Children (Caudebec):
Benjamin,2 bap. Feb. 19, 1699, at Kingston, d. about 1779, unmarried. He was an Ulster Co. Militiaman in 1738, a signer of revolutionary pledge in 1775.
[2] Maria, bap. Aug. 2, 1696, at Kingston, m. (1) Aug. 20, 1716, Jurian Westfall, m. (2) William Cole.
[3] Elsie, bap. Oct. 19, 1701, m. June 11, 1727, Harmonas, (Herman) Van Gorden.
[4] William, bap. June 2, 1704, in New York, d. about 1778, m. Apr. 8, 1733, at Kingston, Jemima Elting.
[5] Jacob, bap. July 7, 1706, in New York, m. Jannetje Westbrook.
[6] James (Jacobus), bap. July 7, 1706, in New York, d. about 1735, m. Neltje Decker.
[7] Eleanor, m. Evert (Ebert) Hornbeck. Magdalena, bap. Jan. 31, 1712, at Kingston.
[8] Dinah, bap. Jan. 19, 1714, d. about 1778, m. May 31, 1738, Abraham Louw.
[9] Abraham, bap. Aug. 19, 1716, d. Aug. 18, 1796, m. May 29, 1751, Esther Swartwout.
[10] Naomi, bap. Jan. 16, 1726, in Rochester, m. May 11, 1757, Lodewyke Hornbeck.
Benjamin Provost was named in treaty of peace with the Indians at Kingston, Feb. 11, 1679, was on May 1, 1687, by letters patent constituted one of the trustees of Kingston and continued as such until 1690. He d. at Peenpack, July 16, 1720, and was buried there, where his grave may be seen today in the burying ground on a knoll near by Pioneer knoll. His sons-in-law, Jacob Codebec, Anthony DeMill, who m. Maria Provost, Sept. 26, 1706, and his son, David Provost, on May 8, 1725, petitioned for letters of administration on his estate.
David Provost, Jr., was Mayor of New York in 1698-99, having served as alderman, chamberlain, and treasurer of the city.
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LIVING APPROXIMATELY 1700 to 1780
[Lineage Paragraphs 2-10]
SECOND GENERATION
[2]
MARIA2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), bap. Aug. 2, 1696, at Kingston, m. Aug. 20, 1716, at Minisink, Jurian Westfall, b. April 27, 1684, d. about 1731, son of Johannes Juriaans Westphael, m. Jan. 26, 1683, Marytje Cool. He was a grandson of Jurian Westphael and Marytje Hansen, who came to Ulster Co., in 1657. They lived in Northern New Jersey until his death, when Maria m. William Cole. They resided in Sandyston, N. J., where she died about 1796. Children (Westfall):
[11] Benjamin,3 bap. Jan. 28, 1718, m. Annettie Van Aken.
Margrietjen, bap. Jan. 16, 1720, in Rochester.
[12] Marretjen, bap. Jan. 31, 1720, m. Jan Van Etten.
[13] Daniel, bap. Sept. 21, 1723, m. Maria Westbrook.
Children (Cole):
Lena, bap. May 29, 1739.
Maria, bap. Feb. 7, 1741.
Petrus, bap. Oct. 31, 1739.
Wilhelmus, bap. Aug. 18, 1741.
William, bap. Dec. 23, 1744.
Wilhelmus, bap. May 10, 1747.
[3]
ELSIE2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), bap. Oct. 19, 1701, at Kingston, m. June 11, 1727, at Raysester (Rochester), Ulster Co., Harmonas (Herman) Van Gorden, bap. July 12, 1696, son of Alberts (Gysbert) Van Gorden and Rachael Rosenkrans, bap. Aug. 21, 1663, daughter of Harmon Hendrick Rosenkranz, d. in Rochester, 1697, and Magdalena Dircks, who were m. Mar. 3, 1657, in New York City. Harmonas was grandson of the emigrant Albert Gyberson Van Gorden, who m. Aeltje Wiggers of Geldersland, Holland, and who came to America before 1660. They were farmers near the flat rocks (Shipekunk) in N. J., where Elsie d. about 1780. Children (Van Gorden):
[14] Margaret,3 bap. June 18, 1734, m. Jacobus Van Aakin.
[15] Elizabeth, bap. May 19, 1736.
Elias, bap. Aug. 23, 1737.
[16] Benjamin, bap. Oct. 31, 1739, m.
[17] Daniel, bap. Feb. 7, 1742, m. Hannah Westbrook.
Jannetje.
Elsie.
[4]
WILLIAM2 CAUDEBEC (Jacob1), bap. June 21, 1704, in New York, d. about 1778, m. April 8, 1733, at Kingston, Jemima Elting, bap. Mar. 17, 1706, dau. of Roelof Elting, who was bap. Oct. 27, 1678; m. in 1704, Sarah Dubois, dau. of Abraham Dubois, the patentee, both of old Paltz and of Huguenot descent. William owned and occupied the home farm, living in the Cuddeback stone house. Gumaer states "that he was six feet tall, coarse boned, muscular and of great strength, physically and mentally." He was an Ulster Co. Militiaman in 1738 and although over seventy years old, he with his sons signed the Revolutionary pledge in 1775. Children (Caudebec):
[18] Sarah,3 bap. May 4, 1737, d. about 1807, m. Daniel Van Fleet.
[19] Abraham, bap. Oct. 31, 1738, m. Feb. 12, 1759, Esther Gumaer.
Roeloff Elting, bap. Jan. 20, 1745, d. about 1795. He never married. Had a hand to hand encounter with an Indian in 1779 as related by Historian Eager, when each was glad to get away from the other.
[20] Benjamin, bap. June 21, 1747, d. about 1787, m. Catherine Van Fleet.
James.
[5]
JACOB2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), bap. July 7, 1706, in New York, m. Jannetje Westbrook. Child:
Heyltje,3 b. Feb. 20, 1769, bap. May 12, 1769, according to Church Records.
[6]
JAMES (JACOBUS)2 CAUDEBEC (Jacob1), bap. July 7, 1706, in New York, d. about 1735; m. Neeltje Decker. They owned and occupied a farm in Shepekunk, New Jersey. "His widow, Neeltje Decker Codebec (Koddebeck) m. (2) July 2, 1749. Joseph Walloon, b. in Niew Englandt." Children (Caudebec):
[21] James3 bap. April 23, 1744, m. Neyltje Westbrook.
Hendricus, "Codebec (Kuddebeck)," bap. June 29, 1746.
[7]
ELEANOR2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), m. Evert (Ebert) Hornbeck, of Ultser Co., farmer living in Northern New Jersey (Shipekunk) on the Capt. Benjamin Hornbeck farm. She lived to be about seventy years of age. Children (Hornbeck):
[22] James,3 m. Margaret Ennes.
[23] Joseph, bap. June 18, 1734, m. Lydia Westbrook.
[24] Benjamin, bap. June 20, 1747, m. Rebecca Wells.
[25] Evert, bap. May 29, 1739, m. Esther Cuddeback, see under No. [19].
[26] Maria, bap. Aug. 23, 1743, m. James (Jacobus) Rosencrantz.
[27] Margaret, bap. Aug. 26, 1736, m. Isaac Van Auken,
[28] Lydia, bap. Oct. 17, 1746, m. John Jacob Westbrook.
[29] Eleanor (Lena), bap. Jan. 12, 1746, m. Daniel Ennes.
Elizabeth, bap. Jan. 12, 1746.
Abraham, bap. Jan. 14, 1753.
[8]
DINAH2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), bap. Jan. 19, 1714, at "Mennissing," d. about 1778, m. May 31, 1738, at Minisink, Abraham Louw, of Rochester, son of Tys (Matthys) Louw, of Rochester, Ulster Co., and Jannetje Van Haring, grandson of the emigrant, Pieter Cornelisse Louwe, who came from Holstein, Holland, Feb., 1659, in the ship _Faith_ and m. Oct. 27, 1668, Elizabeth Blanchaw, who came from Artoise, France, in 1660. Abraham was a blacksmith and farmer at Shipekunk many years. Children (Louw):
[30] Jane,3 bap. June 17, 1740, m. Jacob Van Etten. Jacobus, bap. April 23, 1744.
[31] Sarah, bap. June 15, 1746, m. (1) Moses De Puy, m. (2) Jonathan Stanton.
[32] Margaret, bap. Oct. 9, 1748, m. Capt. Martynas Westbrook.
[33] Naomi, bap. June 21, 1747, m. Ezekiel Gumaer.
[9]
ABRAHAM2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), bap. Aug. 19, 1716, d. Aug. 18, 1796, m. May 29, 1751, Esther Swartwout, dau. of Major James (Jacobus) Swartwout and Annie Gumaer, of Peenpack and granddaughter of Anthony Swartwout and of Peter Gumaer. She was born 1733 and d. April 11, 1798. They lived until quite old on their farm at Peenpack, when they removed to be with their children near Skaneateles, N. Y. Abraham was an Ulster Co. Militiaman in 1738. Children (Codebec):
Jacobus,3 bap. Feb. 2, 1752.
Petrus, bap. Nov. 25, 1753.
[34] Abram A., b. March 11, 1754.
Manual, bap. May 12, 1754.
[35] Peter, bap. Nov. 28, 1757.
[36] James, bap. Jan. 28, 1759.
Philip, d. when a young man.
Annatje, bap. June 16, 1754.
Esther.
[10]
NAOMI2 CODEBEC (Jacob1), bap. Jan. 16, 1726, in Rochester, m. May 11, 1757, at Kingston, Lodewyke Hornbeck, son of Judge Jacob Hornbeck of Rochester, a widower of Ulster Co., whose first wife was a dau. of the emigrant Peter Gumaer. They lived at Rochester, where she d. about 1796. Children (Hornbeck):
Henry.3
Maria, bap. Sept. 28, 1760.
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THIRD GENERATION]
LIVING APPROXIMATELY 1730 to 1800
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THIRD GENERATION
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BENJAMIN3 WESTFALL (Jacob,1 Maria2), b. in Menissink, bap. Jan. 28, 1718, m. Annetje Van Aken. Children (Westfall):
Maria,4 bap. Feb. 7, 1741.
Cornelis Van Aken, bap. Oct. 18, 1743.
Sara, bap. Aug. 14, 1745.
Jury, bap. Mar. 29, 1747.
Marya, bap. June 21, 1747.
Margriet, bap. Jan. 29, 1749.
Jacobus, bap. Feb. 24, 1751.
Cornelis Van Aken, bap. Oct. 7, 1753.
Lizabeth, bap. April 14, 1756.
Rusje, bap. Jan. 28, 1759.
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MARRETJEN (MARYTJEN)3 WESTFALL (Jacob,1 Maria2), m. Jan Van Etten, son of Jacob Van Etten and Jannetje Westbrook, grandson of Jan Van Etten and Jannetje Roosa, greatgrandson of Jacob Janson Van Etten and Annetje Adriance. He settled near Easton, Pa., about 1760. Children (Van Etten):
[37] Jan,4 bap. April 17, 1720, m. Margaret Westfall.
[38] Magdalen A, b. 1721, m. Rev. Johannes Casparus Freyenmoet.
Cornelis, b. 1723, bap. Jan. 19, 1724, m. Mar. 26, 1746, Heyltje Westbrook, dau. Johannes and Antje Rosa Westbrook.
Jane, b. 1728.
[39] Johannes, b. 1730, m. (1) Maria Gonsales, m. (2) Rachel Williams Decker.
Sarah, b. 1736.
Richard, b. 1739.
Daniel, bap. July 25, 1742.
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DANIEL3 WESTFALL (Jacob,1 Maria2), bap. Sept. 21, 1723, m. Maria Westbrook, dau. of Johannes Westbrook. Child (Westfall):
[40] Altje,4 m. Jonathan Clark.