Rachel Van Donck

parentage is conjecture

see: http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-Matthys.pdf

marriage

as her 1st child was bap. 11/6/1726... perhaps she was married earlier than that year. (Were these free baptized blacks?)

children of Augustyn Van Donk & Rachel Matthiassen

1• Fietje Van Donk (Sophia Van Donk), bp. 6 Nov 1726 Hackensack Ref Ch (wit: Augustyn Van Donk, Fietje Donk)

can we surmise that the family moved to Tappan in the interim?

2• Augustynus Van Donck, b. 5 Jan 1728; bp. 30 Jun 1728 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Jan Van Donck, Anna Maria De Salee) (nomother’s surname in bp. record); important > m. 6 Apr 1753 Tappan Ref Ch, Elizabeth Claese, dau. of Lewis Claese (Manuel) < the importance being that the Claese family held Tappan Patent land

3• Anatye Van Donck, b. 8 Oct 1738; bp. 17 Dec 1738 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Vrans Van Salee, Elisabedt his wife)

Sources

1) Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack..., 1891 (Collections of the Holland Society of New York, Vol. I, Part I);
2) Tappan Baptisms; Durie, Howard I, The Kakiat Patent, p. 50;
3) Cohen, The Ramapo Mountain People, p. 37;
4) Kelly, Arthur C. M., Baptism Record of the Tappan Reformed Church, Tappan, Rockland County, NY, 1694- 1899, Kinship, 1998

see also: http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-VanDonck.pdf

needs research

did Rachel have a sister Marttie who was married to Lowys Claessen ?
It would be a breakthrough to find a continuation of the Fresh Pond Manhattan line in such an association to the Tappan Patent families of Van Donck and Mann