In the last post, I looked at Antony Van Benschoten and Margaret Wells, my great x5 grandparents. Antony’s parents were Gerritt Van Bunschoten and Antje Delva, my great x 6 grandparents. Learn more about them on pages 414-416 of the VanScoter book.  The books shares this:

GERRIT Van Bunschoten baptized Mar. 12, 1682 is not found again in the records until his wedding in the spring of 1706, when Domine Henricus Beys who performs the marriage ceremony fails to record the day and month. The entry reads, under the head of 1706:
“Gerrit Van Bunschoten, j.m., born in Kingstowne and residing there, and Antje Delva, widow of Lucas de Wit, born in Kingstowne and residing there. First publication of Banns, March 31.”
Antje Delva was the daughter of Anthony Delva, or D’Elba, and Jannatje Hillebrants who were Roman Catholics and just possibly the only persons of that faith in the little Protestant community. This Antoni D’Elba it was who figured so prominently in the so called “Esopus mutiny” in 1667 when the Dutch burghers resisted the insolence of the English soldiery… (See the link and Van Scoter book, page 414, for more.

– Note that Antje ended up married 3 times, as her first husband Lucas De Wit died, her second husband Gerrit Van Bunschoten also died, and her third and final husband was Hendrick Rosekranse. Thereafter, she lived in Rochester and her date of death unknown.

Gerrit and Antje, after getting married, moved to the vicinity of Catskill but soon returned to Kingstowne, based on Kingstowne records. The books shares some of these records, and then states:

Unimportant as these accounts seem from them we discover two things: that Gerrit was a weaver, also that he was alive Apr. 11, 1712. But from a Court record of Aug. 2, 1712, when Gerrit Van Bunschoten appears as plaintiff and demands from a defendant 30 Gldrs. damage for the killing of his dog, a much closer limit is set to Gerrit’s death which clearly occurred between this latter date and Aug. 27, 1712, when Antje in Elias’ deed is recorded as a widow. On Oct. 26, 1721, Antje again married taking as her third husband Hendrick Rosekrarse…

The baptisms of the children of Gerrit and Antje as recorded in the Kingston Church books:
Gerritje, bp. Jan 19 1707
Antony, bp. Sep 11 1709  *
Salomon, bp. Nov 18 1711. No further trace of him whatever is anywhere found presumably he died young, certainly never married

*Antony is my great x 5 grandfather. The books states:

This name Antony, borne by Antje’s father and given to her second child, was a happy recognition of both grandfathers, it being the Latin or Italian equivalent for Teunis. So all through Gerrit’s descendants you find this form of the name adhered to, while among Elias’ and Solomon’s progeny the Dutch Teunis is the invariable form.

Interesting info on the name Theunis/Teunis/Antony HERE.

Which leads to going back one more generation. The parents of Gerrit Van Bunschoten were Teunis (Theunis) Eliasen. More next post.