Catrina Schoonmaker

a detailed record appears in: Old Ulster: An Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume 2 edited by Benjamin Myer Brink. (1906) (Ulster County, N.Y.) see: Brink

(XIX) BENJAMIN SCHOONMAKER, fourth son of Jochem Hendricksen Schoonmaker? and Anne Hussey, baptized April 19, 1702; died July -, 1776; married, first, CATRINA DePuy by whom he had ten children, but according to the Dood Kleek* records of the Rochester Dutch Reformed Church, Benjamin buried most of his large family prior to 1760. His second wife was JENNEKE SCHOONMAKER of Minisink. No children.

In his will recorded in the Surrogate's office in New York city, he leaves all his lands, buildings, etc., to his son Cornelius: £600 and two slaves to his grandson, Benjamin Schoonmakers, in trust, and to his widow, Jenneke, he leaves two slaves, an annual income, and a specified support to be provided by his son, Cornelius.

In 1758 Benjamin Schoonmaker built the old stone house in Accord now, in 1906, known as “Appeldoorn," and occupied as a summer house by his lineal descendant, Cyrus Schoonmaker of New York city. This property is a piece of the original tract, known as the Rochester patent, owned by Jochem Hendrickse Schoonmaker and granted to him in 1703 by Queen Anne.

Children of BENJAMIN SCHOONMAKER and CATRINA DE PUY:

• (76) Susanna: Baptized September 23, 1722.
• (77) Antjen: Baptized January 19, 1723.
• (78) Jacobus : Baptized May 2, 1725; died probably 1751.
• (79) Maria : Baptized February 12, 1727; married by license from his Excellency Governor George Clinton, the Royal Governor of New York, by Rev. J. C. Freyenmoet, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Minisink, June 21, 1750, Johannes Bruyn, baptized August 10, 1712; died January 31, 1755, son of Jacobus Bruyn and Tryntje Schoonmaker. Had three children.
• (80) Daniel: Baptized May II, 1729; died probably 1757
• (81) Benjamin: Born between 1729 and 1732; no record of baptism, the records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Kingston between the years 1729 and 1732 having been destroyed ; married at Rochester April 23, 1752, Antje De Puy (daughter of Jacobus De Puy and Sara Schoonmaker), died June 2, 1757. He died January 6, 1754. Had one son, died unmarried.
• (82) Joseph : Baptized January 14, 1732; no further record.
• (83) Johannes; Baptized February 2, 1735; died 1751.
• (84) Moses : Baptized November 5, 1738; died probably 1751.
• (85) Cornelius : Baptism not recorded; born probably about 1740; died 1805; married April 14, 1767, Helena Bassett, baptized in New York city October 6, 1747, died 1803, daughter of Stephen Bassett and Ann Millidge.

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Children of Benjamin Schoonmaker and Catrina de Puy: