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A memorial honoring Christopher Crum-Schoonover (1762-1830) as a Revolutionary War Patriot will be conducted by the Gen De Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the William Henry Harrison Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on April 21, 2011 at the Greenbush Cemetery, 11:00AM. Color guard will be provided by the American Legion, Post 11.
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00.01. Christopher (Stoffel) Krom/Crum Schoonover (Rebekka Van Schoonhoven, Niclaes, Hendrick Claessen, Claes Hendrickse, Hendrich1 Van Schoonhoven) was born Abt May 1762 in Machackeneck, Orange County, NY, and died August 30, 1829 in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He married Jane Chandler or, more likely, Janache Decker, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker.
New research by Don Green:
Back in the 1970s, it was Joseph Bachman who put me onto the trail of Christopher Krom Schoonover, my 3d gr-grandfather. At the time, Joe suggested that the maiden name of Jane might be "Chandler" because she had given that as the middle name to one of her sons. but I have gone back to the Minisink region's baptismal records and using the processs of elimination, I now believe that our "Jane" is a DEKKER/DECKER rather than a CHANDLER. More specifically, I believe that she is Janache, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker, Jr. To confuse matters more, Johannes had two "Janes," one by his first wife and one by his second wife. Our Janache's mother is Maragietje Gomar; the second Jane is Jenneke, daughter of Sarah Hornbeck. Janache was born in 1764; Jenneke was born in 1772.
Here is my reasoning and evidence. We know that our Jane was born in 1764 from evidence in Christopher's Pension Record. From the ages of the two older sons, we know that the marriage would have taken place in abt 1783-84, soon after Christopher was discharged from the Continental Army at Newburgh,NY. He returned home right after his release and spent some time with his family. The odds are that he married someone he already knew in the small communities of Machackemeck,NY or Walpack,NJ, only a few miles apart (that is what they did in those days given their limited "social geography"). By the process of elimination in the baptismal records (Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830 by Vosburgh, editor), I have found only one Jane, among the several Dutch variations, born in the period, 1763-66, whose age matches that of our Jane, and that is JANACHE DEKKER/DECKER. And she is the only Jane in that period for whom I can find no record of marriage and/or descendants.
Janache disappears from the records after her birth. Some genealogists have concluded that she died as a child, but I find no evidence of that. She and Christopher would have been married in abt 1783 or 1784 after he was discharged from the army in 1783. I have been unable to find a record of Christopher's and Jane's marriage, but there is a gap in the Machackemeck marriage records from 1777 to 1785 because of the burning of the church by the British and the lack of a clergyman during that period. Finally, it should be noted that Jane gave the name "Decker" to her third son, Isaac Decker Schoonover. The middle initial "D" is found with second son, Solomon D. Schoonover, and my best bet is that the "D" also stands for "Decker." As for Chandler Schoonover, there are no Jane Chandlers in the baptismal records of either the Minisink or Kingston areas. I believe that Chandler was named after a neighbor, Josiah Chandler, who was located 10 households from Christopher's farm in the Census of 1810 in Warren County, PA. The name may have been given in gratitude for some act of kindness.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR
A memorial honoring Christopher Crum-Schoonover (1762-1830) as a Revolutionary War Patriot will be conducted by the Gen De Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the William Henry Harrison Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on April 21, 2011 at the Greenbush Cemetery, 11:00AM. Color guard will be provided by the American Legion, Post 11.
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00.01. Christopher (Stoffel) Krom/Crum Schoonover (Rebekka Van Schoonhoven, Niclaes, Hendrick Claessen, Claes Hendrickse, Hendrich1 Van Schoonhoven) was born Abt May 1762 in Machackeneck, Orange County, NY, and died August 30, 1829 in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He married Jane Chandler or, more likely, Janache Decker, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker.
New research by Don Green:
Back in the 1970s, it was Joseph Bachman who put me onto the trail of Christopher Krom Schoonover, my 3d gr-grandfather. At the time, Joe suggested that the maiden name of Jane might be "Chandler" because she had given that as the middle name to one of her sons. but I have gone back to the Minisink region's baptismal records and using the processs of elimination, I now believe that our "Jane" is a DEKKER/DECKER rather than a CHANDLER. More specifically, I believe that she is Janache, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker, Jr. To confuse matters more, Johannes had two "Janes," one by his first wife and one by his second wife. Our Janache's mother is Maragietje Gomar; the second Jane is Jenneke, daughter of Sarah Hornbeck. Janache was born in 1764; Jenneke was born in 1772.
Here is my reasoning and evidence. We know that our Jane was born in 1764 from evidence in Christopher's Pension Record. From the ages of the two older sons, we know that the marriage would have taken place in abt 1783-84, soon after Christopher was discharged from the Continental Army at Newburgh,NY. He returned home right after his release and spent some time with his family. The odds are that he married someone he already knew in the small communities of Machackemeck,NY or Walpack,NJ, only a few miles apart (that is what they did in those days given their limited "social geography"). By the process of elimination in the baptismal records (Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830 by Vosburgh, editor), I have found only one Jane, among the several Dutch variations, born in the period, 1763-66, whose age matches that of our Jane, and that is JANACHE DEKKER/DECKER. And she is the only Jane in that period for whom I can find no record of marriage and/or descendants.
Janache disappears from the records after her birth. Some genealogists have concluded that she died as a child, but I find no evidence of that. She and Christopher would have been married in abt 1783 or 1784 after he was discharged from the army in 1783. I have been unable to find a record of Christopher's and Jane's marriage, but there is a gap in the Machackemeck marriage records from 1777 to 1785 because of the burning of the church by the British and the lack of a clergyman during that period. Finally, it should be noted that Jane gave the name "Decker" to her third son, Isaac Decker Schoonover. The middle initial "D" is found with second son, Solomon D. Schoonover, and my best bet is that the "D" also stands for "Decker." As for Chandler Schoonover, there are no Jane Chandlers in the baptismal records of either the Minisink or Kingston areas. I believe that Chandler was named after a neighbor, Josiah Chandler, who was located 10 households from Christopher's farm in the Census of 1810 in Warren County, PA. The name may have been given in gratitude for some act of kindness.
PRIVATE
CONTINENTAL LINE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
A memorial honoring Christopher Crum-Schoonover (1762-1830) as a Revolutionary War Patriot will be conducted by the Gen De Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the William Henry Harrison Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on April 21, 2011 at the Greenbush Cemetery, 11:00AM. Color guard will be provided by the American Legion, Post 11.
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00.01. Christopher (Stoffel) Krom/Crum Schoonover (Rebekka Van Schoonhoven, Niclaes, Hendrick Claessen, Claes Hendrickse, Hendrich1 Van Schoonhoven) was born Abt May 1762 in Machackeneck, Orange County, NY, and died August 30, 1829 in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He married Jane Chandler or, more likely, Janache Decker, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker.
New research by Don Green:
Back in the 1970s, it was Joseph Bachman who put me onto the trail of Christopher Krom Schoonover, my 3d gr-grandfather. At the time, Joe suggested that the maiden name of Jane might be "Chandler" because she had given that as the middle name to one of her sons. but I have gone back to the Minisink region's baptismal records and using the processs of elimination, I now believe that our "Jane" is a DEKKER/DECKER rather than a CHANDLER. More specifically, I believe that she is Janache, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker, Jr. To confuse matters more, Johannes had two "Janes," one by his first wife and one by his second wife. Our Janache's mother is Maragietje Gomar; the second Jane is Jenneke, daughter of Sarah Hornbeck. Janache was born in 1764; Jenneke was born in 1772.
Here is my reasoning and evidence. We know that our Jane was born in 1764 from evidence in Christopher's Pension Record. From the ages of the two older sons, we know that the marriage would have taken place in abt 1783-84, soon after Christopher was discharged from the Continental Army at Newburgh,NY. He returned home right after his release and spent some time with his family. The odds are that he married someone he already knew in the small communities of Machackemeck,NY or Walpack,NJ, only a few miles apart (that is what they did in those days given their limited "social geography"). By the process of elimination in the baptismal records (Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830 by Vosburgh, editor), I have found only one Jane, among the several Dutch variations, born in the period, 1763-66, whose age matches that of our Jane, and that is JANACHE DEKKER/DECKER. And she is the only Jane in that period for whom I can find no record of marriage and/or descendants.
Janache disappears from the records after her birth. Some genealogists have concluded that she died as a child, but I find no evidence of that. She and Christopher would have been married in abt 1783 or 1784 after he was discharged from the army in 1783. I have been unable to find a record of Christopher's and Jane's marriage, but there is a gap in the Machackemeck marriage records from 1777 to 1785 because of the burning of the church by the British and the lack of a clergyman during that period. Finally, it should be noted that Jane gave the name "Decker" to her third son, Isaac Decker Schoonover. The middle initial "D" is found with second son, Solomon D. Schoonover, and my best bet is that the "D" also stands for "Decker." As for Chandler Schoonover, there are no Jane Chandlers in the baptismal records of either the Minisink or Kingston areas. I believe that Chandler was named after a neighbor, Josiah Chandler, who was located 10 households from Christopher's farm in the Census of 1810 in Warren County, PA. The name may have been given in gratitude for some act of kindness.
CONTINENTAL LINE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
A memorial honoring Christopher Crum-Schoonover (1762-1830) as a Revolutionary War Patriot will be conducted by the Gen De Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the William Henry Harrison Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on April 21, 2011 at the Greenbush Cemetery, 11:00AM. Color guard will be provided by the American Legion, Post 11.
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00.01. Christopher (Stoffel) Krom/Crum Schoonover (Rebekka Van Schoonhoven, Niclaes, Hendrick Claessen, Claes Hendrickse, Hendrich1 Van Schoonhoven) was born Abt May 1762 in Machackeneck, Orange County, NY, and died August 30, 1829 in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He married Jane Chandler or, more likely, Janache Decker, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker.
New research by Don Green:
Back in the 1970s, it was Joseph Bachman who put me onto the trail of Christopher Krom Schoonover, my 3d gr-grandfather. At the time, Joe suggested that the maiden name of Jane might be "Chandler" because she had given that as the middle name to one of her sons. but I have gone back to the Minisink region's baptismal records and using the processs of elimination, I now believe that our "Jane" is a DEKKER/DECKER rather than a CHANDLER. More specifically, I believe that she is Janache, daughter of Johannes Dekker/Decker, Jr. To confuse matters more, Johannes had two "Janes," one by his first wife and one by his second wife. Our Janache's mother is Maragietje Gomar; the second Jane is Jenneke, daughter of Sarah Hornbeck. Janache was born in 1764; Jenneke was born in 1772.
Here is my reasoning and evidence. We know that our Jane was born in 1764 from evidence in Christopher's Pension Record. From the ages of the two older sons, we know that the marriage would have taken place in abt 1783-84, soon after Christopher was discharged from the Continental Army at Newburgh,NY. He returned home right after his release and spent some time with his family. The odds are that he married someone he already knew in the small communities of Machackemeck,NY or Walpack,NJ, only a few miles apart (that is what they did in those days given their limited "social geography"). By the process of elimination in the baptismal records (Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830 by Vosburgh, editor), I have found only one Jane, among the several Dutch variations, born in the period, 1763-66, whose age matches that of our Jane, and that is JANACHE DEKKER/DECKER. And she is the only Jane in that period for whom I can find no record of marriage and/or descendants.
Janache disappears from the records after her birth. Some genealogists have concluded that she died as a child, but I find no evidence of that. She and Christopher would have been married in abt 1783 or 1784 after he was discharged from the army in 1783. I have been unable to find a record of Christopher's and Jane's marriage, but there is a gap in the Machackemeck marriage records from 1777 to 1785 because of the burning of the church by the British and the lack of a clergyman during that period. Finally, it should be noted that Jane gave the name "Decker" to her third son, Isaac Decker Schoonover. The middle initial "D" is found with second son, Solomon D. Schoonover, and my best bet is that the "D" also stands for "Decker." As for Chandler Schoonover, there are no Jane Chandlers in the baptismal records of either the Minisink or Kingston areas. I believe that Chandler was named after a neighbor, Josiah Chandler, who was located 10 households from Christopher's farm in the Census of 1810 in Warren County, PA. The name may have been given in gratitude for some act of kindness.
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