Hendrick Janse Decker

HENDRICK JANSEN2 DECKER (JAN GERRITSE(N)1) was born Abt. 1667 in Accord (Kingston), Rochester Twp., Ulster Co., NY, and died 1757. He married (2) ANTJE (HANNAH) GEERTJE QUICK December 18, 1696 in Kingston Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster Co., NY, daughter of THOMAS QUICK and RYMERICK WESTVALL. She was born Bet. 1668 - 1674 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY, and died Abt. 1717 in Port Jervis, Deerpark, Orange Co., NY.

Baptism

• 1667 Oct 09; Jan Gerretsen, Grietjen Hendricks; Hendrick; Kingston DRC Baptisms 1660-1809

Marriage

• 1696 18 Dec; Hendrick Decker, jm, born Kingston; Antje Quick, jd, born Kingston, both liv Mombaccus

Children

• 1697 Sep 11; Hendrick Decker, Antje Quick; Geertje; Carsten Luirssen, Geertje Quick [26]
• 1699 Oct 29; Hendrick Decker, Antje Quick; Femetje; Hannes Hardenberg, Catharina Rutse [26]
• 1702 May 10; Hendrick Decker, Antje Quick; Sara; Mathys Slegt, Mary Magdaleen Slegt [26]
• 1704 Sep 03; Henrik Dekker, Hanna Quik; Thomas; Jan Dekker, Marrytje Du Puis [26]
• 1707 Nov 02; Hendrik Dekker, Antje Quik; Margrietje; Carste Lierse, Ariaantje Waarner [32]
• 1712 Mar 09; Hendrik Dekker, Annetjen Kwik; Johannes; Thomas Steenbergen, Geertruy Tietssoort [26]

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Notes on Johannes Decker and the early Deckers Added by hd132 on 7 Nov 2007

Johannes Decker, the first Decker name recorded as definitely living in America, was the Father of Petrus Decker. He married Hillitje or Hollica, last name unknown, and came to live on the Tietvort tract near the present city of Port Jervis, together with Hendrick Decker, who married Hannah Tietvort. The Westbroeks had also become relatives of the Deckers by the marriage of a Decker girl to a Westbroek. This is recorded as the marriage of James Westbrook, the anglicized name, to Magdalina Decker in Kingston, N. Y. in 1687. The intermarriage of Westbrooks and Deckers is shown by the entry on the Kingston Church records of the baptism of Anthony Westbrook Apr.17,1692, wherein his parentage is given as Johannes of Albany, and his Mother Magdalena Decker, daughter of Jon. Brverson Decker and Hellitje Jacobs of Kingston. It is evident then that Johannes Decker and his wife Hellitje came from Kingston, and that they had a daughter Magdalena as well as a son Petres. They were descendants of one of the Dutch colonists sent out by the Dutch West India Co. to people the New Netherlands in the 17th Century. The Minisink Valley included both sides of the Delaware from Mongaup, about 9 miles west of Port Jervis, to the Machackemech River confluence.

The first Decker in this country was John De Dekker, Counselor of State under Peter Stuyvestant, New Amsterdam, and one of the persons arranging the terms of the treaty for surrender of the Dutch possessions in America to the English Fleet, Aug. 27, 1674. He was the same Herr de Dekker mentioned by Capt. Martin Kraeger in his "Journal of the Second Esopus War". The Indians attacked

Kingston and Herr de Dekker arrived with stores and reinforcements. (Documentary History of New York).

After the surrender of the Dutch provinces to the English the following year, we are able to trace John de Dekker only by the fact that various records in Deckertown, N. J. show that the family which settled there came from Kingston, where the previous generation settled about 1675, the town then being known as Esopus. It is very probable that John de Dekker remained in Esopus after the British took possession and changed the name to Kingston, as the English did not persecute the Dutch settlers, and encouraged them to farm the land and improve it.

John de Dekker's father is belived to be Abraham de Dekker Jr., who is listed as being the Accountant General of the West India Co. in Amsterdam, Holland in 1652. (Holland Documentary Colonial History of New York, Vol.l, Page 480).

There lived in Esopus one John from Holland. He married Greetjen Hendricks Westcoup in New Amsterdam, March 1664. She was a resident of Esopus and later Kingston. They are said by W. H. Nearpass to have been the progenitors of the Decker family in this country. Was he John de Dekker? Hendrick Decker is claimed to have been one of their sons. He married Antje Quick (Stickney in The History of Deckertown).

There is much more detailed information about this first Decker family in Old Ulster by W. H. Nearpass, in the Minisink Valley Historical Society Library at Port Jervis.

Additional information about this story: Description From the geneological notes of Gerald M Best. Date 1950 Attached to Johannes Decker (1675 - 1754)

per James Decker Family Tree: 10/10/2014 spouses & children: Spouse #1: Antje Geertje Quick 1679 - 1746 Children: Magdalena Decker 1697 - 1727 Hendrick Decker 1698 - Femmetjen Decker 1699 - 1780 Sarah Decker 1702 - 1747 Margaret Decker 1707 - Sarah Decker Petrus Decker 1711 - 1773 Johannes Decker 1712 - 1793 Spouse#2 Jannetjen Kortreght 1680 - 1722 Children: Abraham Dekker 1718-1792 Spouse#3 Anna Tietsoort 1704 Children: Elizabeth Dekker 1723 - Neeltjn Dekker 1725 - Jacob Dekker 1728 - Elias Dekker 1737 -

Family Data Collection - Marriages Name: Hendrick Janse Decker Spouse: Antje Quick Marriage Date (Day, Month, Year): 18 Dec 1696 City: Kingston County: Ulster State: NY

Family Data Collection - Individual Records Name: Hendrick Janse Decker Parents: Jan Gerritsen, Grietjen Hendricks Westercamp Birth Place: Ulster, Kingston, NY Birth Date: 9 Oct 1667 Marriage Place: Kingston, Ulster, NY Marriage Date: 18 Dec 1696 Death Date: 1717

Marriage

• 1722 01 Jul; Jan Dekker, jm, born Kingstown; Hilletjen Kwik, jd, born Rochester.[Kingston DRC Marriages 1660-1809]

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