Catherine Van Alstyne

Catherine Knickerbocker Chamberlain Birth 1823 Death 1903 (aged 79–80) Burial Carroll Cemetery Trout Creek, Delaware County, New York, USA Memorial ID 70200369 · View Source Advertisement Catherine Knickerbocker Chamberlain Birth 1823 Death

[22]  Catherine Knickerbocker (Laurens, Harmen Jansen), bap. 19 Oct., 1731, at Germantown, N.Y.; m. 17 Sept., 1762 at Claverack, N.Y., Willem Van Alstyne, bap. 10 Bee, 1721, at Albany, N.Y.; d. May 22, 1802, at North East, N.Y.; son of Thomas Van Alstyne and Maria Van Alen.  Willem m. (1) about 1744, Christyntje Van Alen, bap. 16, June, 1723, at Kinderhook, N.Y., dau. of Stephanus Van Alen and Marya Muller. 

William Van Alstyne probably lived on the farm inherited in 1760 from his father to whom it was granted in 1752 by John Van Rensselaer. It was described as lying between the Kinderhook Creek and the Claverack Creek.

On 1 May, 1772, William Van Alstyne of Claverack, yeoman, leased a house and shop and a fulling mill with mill dam and two acres of land to Thomas Avery of the same place, fuller, for

_____________________________________________________________________________________ *** Joshua Weyt (White), m. 24 Nov., 1720, "at the parsonage at Claverack, N.Y.," Christina Dutcher (New York City Lutheran Church Records). He was son of Willem Wit and Judith Meels, bap. 1 May, 1698, at Kingston, N.Y.; she was dau. of Roelof de Duidser and Jannetje Brusy, bap. 8 Aug. 1703. At Albany, N.Y. Roelof de Duidser and Jannetje Brusy were m. 17 Nov., 1700, at Kingston; she being dau. of Christoffel Brusy and Styntje Claes. _____________________________________________________________________________________

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the term of seven years. Said Thomas was to have wood for his own fire, and also for "the press " from any part of said William's land.

In Aug., 1791, he bought a farm in Hillsdale, N.Y., of John Collier.

On 19 Oct., 1793, William Van Alstyne deeded as a gift to his son Lawrence a negro boy called Tom. The residence of both father and son was given as Hudson, but in Dec. of 1794, articles of agreement were entered into between Nicholas and Philip Hoffman of the one part, and William Van Alstyne of Columbia County, of the other part, wherein the party of the first part bind themselves to convey on the first day of April, 1795, unto the party of the second part a certain farm in the town of Amenia, in the county of Dutchess, which formerly belonged to Col. Brinton Paine, and was at that time in the occupation of Elijah Bryan, as overseer for the said Nicholas and Philip Hoffman. In the final division of the county into townships this farm came to lie in North East instead of Amenia.

On 12 July, 1799, William sold to his son Lawrence, also of Amenia, N.Y., the farm he had bought of Nicholas and Philip Hoffman.

William Van Alstyne was a captain in Col. Jeremiah Hogeboom's regiment which served during the Revolutionary War. His commission, dated 4 April, 1770, and signed by Cadwallader Colden, Governor of the Province of New York, is in the possession of the Holland Society.

He was buried in a small burying ground on the farm bought from the Hoffmans. His wife was also buried there but the tombstone has long ago disappeared. She survived her husband, for in her son Lawrence's will, made 2 May, 1806, he provides that his mother, Catharine Van Alstyne, shall have her support out of his estate, and at his house as long as she lives (Lambert Janse Van Alstyne and Some of His Descendants., by Lawrence Van Alstyne of Sharon, Conn.).

1903 (aged 79–80) Burial Carroll Cemetery Trout Creek, Delaware County, New York, USA Memorial ID 70200369 · View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos 1 Flowers 1

Family Members Parents

Lawrence Knickerbocker 1783–1881

Phoebe Juliana Post Knickerbocker 1795–1871 Spouse

Darius Chamberlin 1825–1897 Siblings

Annis Eliza Knickerbocker Boice 1817–1906

Andrew Jackson Knickerbocker 1827–1906 Children

Phebe J. Chamberlin Benedict 1847–1893 Gravesite Details Stone broken in half. Dates are not visible. Catherine, bap. 19 Oct., 1731, at Germantown; spon.: Martinus Hofman and Cathryn Luysze; m. 17 Sept., 1762, at Claverack, N.Y., William Van Alstyne