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Hello to all,
Just some historical data on Dr. Benjamin VanKirk I received recently while searching for more history on my VanKirk's, Dr. Benjamin is a cousin of mine. Only one son is recorded, but presumably there would be more children.
History sources New Jersey Early Marriages at URL:
http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/marriagedb.html
And:
"The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Volume XLI-Number 2-Whole Number 158--May 1966--The VanKirk Family by Wilson V. Lindley"
Vankirk, Benjamin Sussex Armitage, Sarah 23 Nov 1769 V (Part 2 : 1762-1794) : Page/Item 273
page 108,
# 73: Benjamin Van Kirk, younger son of Henry #41 and his wife Sarah unknown was probably born about 1748 or earlier if he is the one who obtained a New Jersey license on Nov. 23, 1769 to marry Sarah Armitage. He died intestate in Montgomery Township, Somerset County, before Sept. 26, 1815, when Sarah Van Kirk and Reuben Van Kirk were appointed administrators (NJA 42:449). The estate was inventoried at $3,222.37. Since Benjamin was a doctor, it is an interesting speculation that he may have named a son Reuben in honor of another Somerset physician, Dr. Reuben Griggs.
His presumed son:
115. Reuben, b. between 1770 and 1775.
Note no other children mentioned in article, but....may not have been recorded as yet in 1966 findings by this author.
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page 104
Henry VanKirk #41 is second son of Hendrick #21 and his wife Dorothy Morgan, was probably born in Monmouth County about 1725-30. He moved to Hopewell in Hunterdon County by 1756 where he made his will Dec. 18, 1775, and since this was proved April 3, 1776 (NJA 34:545), it places his death between those dates. In it he named his wife Sarah, who is not otherwise indentified, his eldest son John, the other children listed with their husbands, and as executors his sons Benjamin and Joseph. This was witnessed by John Barton, Jesse Pettit, and John Hart.
Children named in will were:
+72. John b. April 20, 1754 (Holl. Soc. application of W. Philip VanKirk "from incomplete records in the L.I. Hist. Soc., Brooklyn")
+73. Benjamin, who if he was the one who mar. in 1769, was born about 1748, which would place his elder brother's birth about 1746, in which case the father was b. at least by 1725, or possibly before his brother Jan (#40) bapized in 1724.
+Joseph.
75. Henry.
76. Dority, mar. Thomas Drake.
77. Jemima, mar. Elisha Barton.
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page 102:
#21 Hendrick Van Kirk, son of Jan Jansz Van Kerk (#7) and his wife Alsey, was probably born in New Utrecht between 1690-1700, but moved to Monmouth County, N.J., where he married Dorothy Morgan, otherwise unidentified, and was the father of:
40. Jan (named for paternal grandfather), bap. Nov. 1, 1724, in Marlboro RDC, b. in Freehold.
+41. Hendrick (sup. named for paternal great uncle).
authors note-(Probably unrecorded daughters).
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page 51:
7. Jan Jansz Van Kerk, presumed third but first American born son of Jan Jansz (#1), was probably born in New Utrecht about 1664. He took the oath of allegiance there as a native in 1687, but joined in the Dutch movement to Monmouth County, N.J., around the turn of the century. He may have been married twice since Bergen (KCo. 370) gives her name as Gertje, but in the baptism of his daughter Sytje she was named Elsje, he names a wife Alsey in his will dated Feb. 10, 1722/3, and Alice, widow of John Van Kirk, married as his second wife about 1725 Thomas Hankinson (Horner, This Old Monmouth of Ours, p. 105). His estate was inventoried at L 89.0.9 on Jan. 28, 1723/4, which places his death somewhat before then, and the will probated on the following March 3 (NJA 23:479). It was witnessed by Richard Poppinger, Thomas Cinney, Haans Van Ooerstrant and Lawrence Van Hook, and in it he named his wife and two sons executors, but the daughters were not named.
Their known and supposed children were:
+21. Hendrick, b. about 1690-1700.
+22. John, named in father's will.
23. Jannetje (sup), mar. Peter Stryker of Flatbush.
24. Rebecca (sup), mar. Hendrick Lott.
25. Sytje, bap. May 29, 1705, Brooklyn RDC; mar. Gerrit Van Duyn, of New Utrecht.
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Page 50:
1. Jan Janszen Verkerk ("Verberck) in the passenger list) emigrated March 15, 1663, from Buren, province of Gelderland, in the Netherlands in De Rooseboom (The Rosetree) with wife and five children, aged 9, 8, 6, 5, and one year old (Holl. Soc., Passengers to New Netherland, p. 23). He was either born in, or came from Buurmelzen near Buren, aged about thirty odd years, so he was very likely born about 1630. Probably he settled directly in New Utrecht in Kings County, N.Y., since his sons Jan and Barent, who were of age in 1687 and stated they were natives in the oaths of allegiance, do not appear in the baptismal records either of the New York or Brooklyn Dutch Churches. He was listed in the assessment rolls of New Utrecht in 1675, 1676, 1683, and 1693; Dongan's Patent of 1686; oaths of allegiance, 1687, and the census of 1698. He served as a magistrate in 1679 and 1684. His will was dated Nov. 10, 1688 (NYGBR 47:232), signed also by his wife "Mayke Verkerke" (who is said to have died in that year; KCo. 370), but in it he only named his last two sons. His wife, whose parentage is unknown, was Mayke Gysberts.
Their known and supposed children were:
+2. Roelof, b. about 1654.
+3. Aert, b. about 1655.
4. Geertje, b. about 1657, mar, Jan Dirckse Van Vliet on Nov. 18, 1683, at the Flatbush Dutch Church.
5. Barendje, b. about 1658, mar. Aug. 21, 1684, at the Flatbush RDC, Nicholas Van der Grift.
6. Cornelis, b. about 1662, d. before 1698.
+7. Jan, b. about 1664.
+8. Barent, b. about 1666.
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I am the great grand daughter of THomas Jones VanKirk, b. 1854 in Knowlton, N.J., he died Dec. 1937 in MI. He was the son of James Burns VanKirk b. 1823 & Sally Ann Decker of Knowlton.
Parents of James Burns VanKirk were:
James VanKirk b. 1780-d. 1833 in Knowlton, buried Knowlton Presbyterian Churchyard.
Willing to share inf. Please excuse any typos or transposed numbers/dates. Any questions I will try to clarify, if possible.
Marilyn
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