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MVDW 137
TGE 120. ii.
Family 45.
1727 - August 2, 1787
birthplace
buried in Old Hurley Burial Ground, Ulster County, New York
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married 20 December 1754
1731 - November 4, 1765
birthplace
buried at Old Hurley Burial Ground, Ulster County, New York
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John Charles DeWitt
MVDW 381
TGE 309. i.
October 22, 1755 - December 31, 1833 (source?)
birthplace
Possibly buried in Dutchess County, in Staatsburg vicinity, or in Windham, in Greene County (both New York). See notes below.
Evans, p. 3, says died “circ. 1832, at Windham, Greene Co., N.Y.”
burial location (not found on Find-A-Grave, in Dutchess or Greene Counties or elsewhere)
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Cornelia Cantine
Married 15 November 1778 at location
29 March 1757 - 23 April 1814 (source?)
daughter of Matthew Cantine and Katrina Nottingham
birthplace
burial location
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Charles DeWitt
MVDW 773
19 December 1779 - died in infancy (before 1784)
birthplace
burial location
Catharine DeWitt
MVDW 774
baptized 20 May 1781 - death date?
Birthplace
no marriage record found
burial location
Blandina DeWitt (twin?)
MVDW 775
baptized 29 (24?) Jan 1783 - died 1864
Birthplace
no marriage record found
burial location
MVDW 776
baptized 24 January 1783 - 1863
Birthplace
married Maria Abeel date and location
burial location
Charles DeWitt
MVDW 777
baptized 25 April 1784 - death date?
Birthplace
no marriage record found
possibly moved to Windham in Greene County, New York, with his father, per Jamie Parsons
burial location
Anne DeWitt
MVDW 778
baptized 6 November 1785 - 1860
Birthplace
no marriage record found
burial location
Matthew DeWitt
MVDW 779
25 January 1787 - 21 June 1863
Birthplace
married 1809 Margaret Hasbrouck
date and location
burial location
Elizabeth DeWitt
MVDW 780
baptized 21 September 1788 - 1859
Birthplace
no marriage record found
burial location
Cornelia DeWitt
MVDW 781
baptized 1790 - May 1875
Birthplace
no marriage record found
burial location
Maria DeWitt
MVDW 782
baptized 25 December 1794 - 1812
Birthplace
no marriage record found
burial location
William Cantine DeWitt
MVDW 783
18 September 1796 - 29 December 1871
Birthplace
married Elizabeth Hardenbergh date and location
married Eliza (DeWitt) Palen (MVDW 0702, daughter of Jacob Rutsen DeWitt II)
burial location
Aaron Burr DeWitt (twin?)
MVDW 784
13 September 1799 - 1871 (or 17 February 1870?)
Birthplace
married Maria DePuy
burial location
Moses Edward DeWitt (twin?)
MVDW 785
13 September 1799 - 14 January 1871
Birthplace
married Margaret Salome Goetschius
married 1835 Lydia Ann Miller
burial location
Mary Margaret DeWitt
MVDW 786
20 April 1802 - 3 December 1875
Birthplace
married 1836 William Henry Romeyn
burial location
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Notes
According to Jamie Parsons, John C. DeWitt moved to Dutchess County, across the Hudson from Kingston, and, like his father, he ran a mill there. Jamie provides this link to an August 19, 2014, article about the mill in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
The article says the grist mill was “just west of today’s Pleasant Plains, one of seven hamlets in the Town of Clinton.” It was a three-tier mill on the east side of South Creek Road, just south of Hollow Road; John’s father provided financial assistance in getting it built.
Like his father at DeWitt Mills south of Kingston, John C. added a saw mill to the grist mill; the mill was built of “massive beams” and “2-foot-wide floorboards.” When the mill was dismantled sometime after 1945, the beams were moved to the IBM Country Club in Poughkeepsie.
The Poughkeepsie Journal article says that during the American Revolution, John C. DeWitt’s mill, like the mill of his father in Ulster County, provided flour for the army, via the Fishkill Supply Depot. John C. DeWitt, the article says, was an army captain (his father was a colonel).
Craig Marshall, historian for the Town of Clinton, says in the article that the mill store building (which also held the post office for a time) is still standing, on the northeast corner of Hollow and North Creek roads. The 1773 DeWitt house is also still standing, across Hollow Road from the store.
(2022 address is 18 Hollow Road, Staatsburg, New York, and it is a bed and breakfast owned by Agnes Devereaux Catering.
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DeWitt sold the mill, and the area became known as Frost Mills, after a later owner, Jacob Zopher Frost.
Jamie Parsons says John Charles DeWitt eventually moved to Windham, in Greene County, New York, with his son Charles, and died there (as did Charles).
Mary Veldran DeWitt’s notes about him, currently at the Genealogical Society of Bergen County (New Jersey),
say that John Charles DeWitt served under Colonel Aaron Burr in the Revolutionary War, then served in the Assembly 1792-93, 1795, 1797, 1798, 1800. According to her notes, he lived between 1800 and 1812 at Delaware County, NY, and after 1812 at Greene County, NY.
It is worth noting, since his son John I married Maria Abeel, that there is an Abeel family burial ground in Catskill, in Greene County.
This may give some clues about where John Charles DeWitt lived in his later years.
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Pix
DeWitt Mill, right, along South Creek Road just south of Hollow Road, in Clinton (Dutchess County), New York. Mill store, center, still stands (in 2014), as does DeWitt home. From Poughkeepsie Journal, courtesy Craig Marshall, Town of Clinton Historian.
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Sources
Information is from Mary Veldran DeWitt’s “The DeWitt Genealogy: Descendants of Tjereck Claessen DeWitt of Ulster County, New York.”
Further information from Poughkeepsie Journal (see link above), via Jamie Parsons.
Additional notes (particularly birth and death dates) from the online notes of the Genealogical Society of Bergen County (New Jersey), from the Mary DeWitt collection.
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or ’Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. Transcribed and edited by Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain U.S.N., corresponding secretary of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, etc. New York 1891; original publication De Vinne Press, New York; available today from Higginson Book Co., Salem, Mass., 508-745-7170. Detailed information about baptisms has been filled in through the end of 1687, marriages through 1701. More information is available. Records begin 1660. Other baptisms may have taken place in Hurley and other locations nearby; also from time to time itinerant ministers would travel through and perform various rites, not always entered in the books.
This is available online at archive.org.
Thomas Grier Evans, The De Witt Family of Ulster County, New York (reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, October 1886), New York: Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co., 201-213 East Twelfth Street, 1886. Available online from archive.org.
Evans’s work, reprinted in 1886 up to the point where it left off in Volume XVIII of the Record, was continued in 1890 (Volume XXI, commencing on p. 185) with additional names and family numbering. The reprinted portion includes names of descendants to the fourth generation; the extension shows their descendants, the fifth generation, with considerable further biographical information on some. This later addition to Evans’s work (he also published details on other families that intermarried with DeWitts in Ulster County, including Crispells, Bruyns, and others) extended into Volume XXII (January 1891, pp. 3-6). (I include here links to some publicly available copies of the individual issue and articles from the Record, but a better way to get access to it and a wealth of other genealogical resources, in addition to supporting genealogical research in general, is to join the NYGBS itself.)
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