Husband of 1. Cornelia VAN NESS and 2. Sarah RUNNELS. The youngest known son of Michael and Saertje (JOOSTEN) VanDerCook of Morris Co., NJ, Michael VanDerCook was the first white settler in the Schagticoke area of what was then Upper Albany (later Rensselaer) Co., NY. A gristmiller by trade, he removed from Morris Co. and settled on Cook's Patent in May of 1762. Although he was too old to participate in the fighting, he was a nonetheless a true Patriot, serving for the duration of the war as a member of the Schagticoke Committee of Correspondence. As a result of the attention he paid to his patriotic duty, he was physically threatened, then actually raided by Burgoyne's troops. All five of Michael and Cornelia's sons (Michael, Simon, Henry, Cornelius and Isaac) served in the Revolutionary War...most of them in the 14th Regiment of Albany Co. Militia ("Colonel Peter Yates' Regiment"), which was recruited from the towns of Schagticoke and Hoosick.
The inscription on Michael's immense marble tombstone (now almost completely unreadable due to acid rain damage) is, as follows:
In memory of
Here lyeth
the remains of
MICHAEL V.D. COOK
The oldest of this place, he was
born on or about the 10th of Nov. A.D. 1715
in the then Province now State of New
Jersey from whence he emigrated and
became the first settler with his family
on this patent May A.D. 1762. He departed
this life on the 2nd of Nov. A.D. 1786.
Zijn ouders waren van de Province Zelandt
in Hollandt ande zij waren voorstander ande
steunsel van de gereformeerd ande Christelijk
leer van de kerk van Hollandt goals de relfde
geleert ande onderhouder in de veree-
nigdetig staten van noord America.
TRANSLATION OF DUTCH VERSE:
His elders were from the province of Zeeland
in Holland. They were defenders and supporters of the
Reformed Church and Christian doctrine of the Church of
Holland and supporters of the Reformed Church in the
United States of North America.
O glorious hour a blest abode
when he shall be near and like his God;
and flesh and sin no more control
the sacred pleasures of the soul,
his flesh shall slumber in the ground
till the last trumpet's joyful sound:
then burst the chains with sweet surprise
and in his saviour's image rise.
The above sage was a firm friend to the
liberties of this country in 1776
by which he lost the better part of his prosperity
and in July 1777 he had his home
Rob'd and his life threatened by some of the
British King's Robers, while his sons
and the rest of the military were gone to the
Northward to oppose Burgoyne
as also by the depreciation of the then currency;
all of which he bore
With Christian Fortitude
JJ Perkins & Son, Cutter, Troy, New York
Since Troy was called Vanderheyden before 1789, the stone was placed after that year.
The inscription on Michael's immense marble tombstone (now almost completely unreadable due to acid rain damage) is, as follows:
In memory of
Here lyeth
the remains of
MICHAEL V.D. COOK
The oldest of this place, he was
born on or about the 10th of Nov. A.D. 1715
in the then Province now State of New
Jersey from whence he emigrated and
became the first settler with his family
on this patent May A.D. 1762. He departed
this life on the 2nd of Nov. A.D. 1786.
Zijn ouders waren van de Province Zelandt
in Hollandt ande zij waren voorstander ande
steunsel van de gereformeerd ande Christelijk
leer van de kerk van Hollandt goals de relfde
geleert ande onderhouder in de veree-
nigdetig staten van noord America.
TRANSLATION OF DUTCH VERSE:
His elders were from the province of Zeeland
in Holland. They were defenders and supporters of the
Reformed Church and Christian doctrine of the Church of
Holland and supporters of the Reformed Church in the
United States of North America.
O glorious hour a blest abode
when he shall be near and like his God;
and flesh and sin no more control
the sacred pleasures of the soul,
his flesh shall slumber in the ground
till the last trumpet's joyful sound:
then burst the chains with sweet surprise
and in his saviour's image rise.
The above sage was a firm friend to the
liberties of this country in 1776
by which he lost the better part of his prosperity
and in July 1777 he had his home
Rob'd and his life threatened by some of the
British King's Robers, while his sons
and the rest of the military were gone to the
Northward to oppose Burgoyne
as also by the depreciation of the then currency;
all of which he bore
With Christian Fortitude
JJ Perkins & Son, Cutter, Troy, New York
Since Troy was called Vanderheyden before 1789, the stone was placed after that year.
Husband of 1. Cornelia VAN NESS and 2. Sarah RUNNELS. The youngest known son of Michael and Saertje (JOOSTEN) VanDerCook of Morris Co., NJ, Michael VanDerCook was the first white settler in the Schagticoke area of what was then Upper Albany (later Rensselaer) Co., NY. A gristmiller by trade, he removed from Morris Co. and settled on Cook's Patent in May of 1762. Although he was too old to participate in the fighting, he was a nonetheless a true Patriot, serving for the duration of the war as a member of the Schagticoke Committee of Correspondence. As a result of the attention he paid to his patriotic duty, he was physically threatened, then actually raided by Burgoyne's troops. All five of Michael and Cornelia's sons (Michael, Simon, Henry, Cornelius and Isaac) served in the Revolutionary War...most of them in the 14th Regiment of Albany Co. Militia ("Colonel Peter Yates' Regiment"), which was recruited from the towns of Schagticoke and Hoosick.
The inscription on Michael's immense marble tombstone (now almost completely unreadable due to acid rain damage) is, as follows:
In memory of
Here lyeth
the remains of
MICHAEL V.D. COOK
The oldest of this place, he was
born on or about the 10th of Nov. A.D. 1715
in the then Province now State of New
Jersey from whence he emigrated and
became the first settler with his family
on this patent May A.D. 1762. He departed
this life on the 2nd of Nov. A.D. 1786.
Zijn ouders waren van de Province Zelandt
in Hollandt ande zij waren voorstander ande
steunsel van de gereformeerd ande Christelijk
leer van de kerk van Hollandt goals de relfde
geleert ande onderhouder in de veree-
nigdetig staten van noord America.
TRANSLATION OF DUTCH VERSE:
His elders were from the province of Zeeland
in Holland. They were defenders and supporters of the
Reformed Church and Christian doctrine of the Church of
Holland and supporters of the Reformed Church in the
United States of North America.
O glorious hour a blest abode
when he shall be near and like his God;
and flesh and sin no more control
the sacred pleasures of the soul,
his flesh shall slumber in the ground
till the last trumpet's joyful sound:
then burst the chains with sweet surprise
and in his saviour's image rise.
The above sage was a firm friend to the
liberties of this country in 1776
by which he lost the better part of his prosperity
and in July 1777 he had his home
Rob'd and his life threatened by some of the
British King's Robers, while his sons
and the rest of the military were gone to the
Northward to oppose Burgoyne
as also by the depreciation of the then currency;
all of which he bore
With Christian Fortitude
JJ Perkins & Son, Cutter, Troy, New York
Since Troy was called Vanderheyden before 1789, the stone was placed after that year.
The inscription on Michael's immense marble tombstone (now almost completely unreadable due to acid rain damage) is, as follows:
In memory of
Here lyeth
the remains of
MICHAEL V.D. COOK
The oldest of this place, he was
born on or about the 10th of Nov. A.D. 1715
in the then Province now State of New
Jersey from whence he emigrated and
became the first settler with his family
on this patent May A.D. 1762. He departed
this life on the 2nd of Nov. A.D. 1786.
Zijn ouders waren van de Province Zelandt
in Hollandt ande zij waren voorstander ande
steunsel van de gereformeerd ande Christelijk
leer van de kerk van Hollandt goals de relfde
geleert ande onderhouder in de veree-
nigdetig staten van noord America.
TRANSLATION OF DUTCH VERSE:
His elders were from the province of Zeeland
in Holland. They were defenders and supporters of the
Reformed Church and Christian doctrine of the Church of
Holland and supporters of the Reformed Church in the
United States of North America.
O glorious hour a blest abode
when he shall be near and like his God;
and flesh and sin no more control
the sacred pleasures of the soul,
his flesh shall slumber in the ground
till the last trumpet's joyful sound:
then burst the chains with sweet surprise
and in his saviour's image rise.
The above sage was a firm friend to the
liberties of this country in 1776
by which he lost the better part of his prosperity
and in July 1777 he had his home
Rob'd and his life threatened by some of the
British King's Robers, while his sons
and the rest of the military were gone to the
Northward to oppose Burgoyne
as also by the depreciation of the then currency;
all of which he bore
With Christian Fortitude
JJ Perkins & Son, Cutter, Troy, New York
Since Troy was called Vanderheyden before 1789, the stone was placed after that year.
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