FAMILY OF JACOB CUDDEBACK AND WIFE, MARGARET PROVOST--(Jacob
Cuddeback lived to be about 100 years old.)
First son, Benjamin Cuddeback, never married. He, in the first
instance, lived with his brother William, and afterwards with his
nephew, Benjamin Cuddeback. (Lived to be about 80 years old.)
Second son, William Cuddeback, married Jemima Elting, daughter of
____ Elting of the Old Paltz. He became owner of his father's farm,
and resided on the premises afterwards occupied by his son, Captain
Cuddeback. (Lived to be about 74 years old.)
Third son, James Cuddeback, married Neelje Decker, daughter of
Christopher Decker, of Shipikunk, in the north part of New Jersey
where Cuddeback became a resident. (Died about 30 years of age.)
Fourth son, Abraham Cuddeback, married Esther Swartwout, daughter of
Major James Swartwout, of Peenpack. They resided near the present
dwelling house of Peter L. Gumaer until they became old and were
removed by their sons to Skaneateles Lake, in this State, where two
of his sons lived. He owned a farm where he first resided, (Abraham
Cuddeback died at Skaneateles Aug. 18th, 1796, aged 83 years. His
wife died April 11th, 1798, aged 65.)
One daughter, Dinah Cuddeback, married Abraham Louw, a son of Tyse
Louw, [FN] of Rochester, in Ulster county. He was a blacksmith and
settled in Shipikunk, in the north part of New Jersey, and became
owner of a good farm, of which Wilhemus Fredenburgh, Peter and Joseph
Van Noy and James and Evart Van Auken afterwards became owners.
(Dinah lived to be about 74 years old.)
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[FN] Tyse Louw and wife commenced life poor. The writer knows nothing
respecting their ancestors. He was an indolent, non-providing and
intemperate man. She was the reverse of him in those respects; and
the whole business of the family devolved on her, in which he
exercised no manner of control, but left the whole business of the
family to be managed according to her direction. He was naturally
good-natured, and very indulgent to her. She furnished him daily with
such small portions of liquor as would not intoxicate him. She
entered into the business of manufacturing linen, both for the
wearing apparel of the family, and to defray the other expenses, and
did yearly manufacture more than a supply for the same, the surplus
of which she took to New York at the end of every year, and for it
procured such articles of trade as her spinsters and neighbors
generally wanted to purchase, and in this way she made a yearly
addition to her stock of goods and thus obtained wealth and credit,
so that she became enabled to keep a good assortment of such goods as
were salable in her time and commanded quite an extensive trade. She
also carried on the blacksmith business, for which she employed a
workman and put her own son, Abraham Louw, with him in the shop to
learn the trade. Not long before her decease she had told a
confidential friend that she had 1,200 pounds in money. Besides this
she had her store of goods and other property. The 1,200 pounds was
equal to $3,000, which in her time was worth about three times as
much as at the present time.
Another daughter, Eleanor Cuddeback, married Evart Hornbeck, son of
____ Hornbeck, of Rochester, in Ulster county. They first settled on
the farm now in possession of Joseph Cuddeback in this town, and
afterwards moved into the neighborhood of Shipikunk, in New Jersey,
and became residents on or near the premises lately occupied by his
grandson, Capt. Benjamin Hornbeck, where they became owners of a good
farm. He was a blacksmith, which was a good trade in his time.
(Eleanor lived to be about 70 years.)
Another daughter, Else Cuddeback, married Harmanus Van Gorden, son of
____ ____. He was or became owner of the farm, which, after his
death, was owned by his two sons, Daniel and Benjamin Van Gorden, in
the neighborhood of Shipikunk. This name (Shipikunk) originated from
the Indians, and probably had reference to the smooth rocks against
the side of the mountain near the neighborhood, as the name "unk" is
significant of rocks. (She lived to be about 80.)
Another daughter, Maria Cuddeback, married Geo. Westfall, son of
____ Westfall, of the neighborhood of Minnissing, in New Jersey. This
was the ancient Indian name of the neighborhood in which the ancient
Minisink church was located. Her husband died and she afterwards
married ____ Cole. [FN]
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[FN] This woman lived to a great age. It was said of her that in
early life she became very fleshy and was taken with a severe
sickness, which reduced her very low and she became lean, and having
found the inconvenience of being fat and fleshy and fearing to become
so again, she thereafter stinted herself in eating less than her
appetite craved, and lived to the age of about 100 years. She had the
reputation of a fine woman, possessed of excellent qualities of mind.
Youngest daughter, Naomi Cuddeback, married Lodiwyke Hornbeck, a
widower, and son of Judge Jacob Hornbeck, of Rochester, in Ulster
county, where they continued to reside till after the decease of her
husband, whom she survived, and underwent different scenes in life
afterwards. She had the reputation of a sensible woman. They had one
son named Henry and one daughter Maria. The former had children, but
the latter had none. The writer knows nothing in relation to the
children of Henry.
[There appears to have been another son of Jacob Cuddeback and
Margaret Provost named Jacob, who was baptized in the Dutch church in
New York, July 7th, 1706. His name is mentioned likewise in an old
deed of his father. He married Jannetye Westbrook.]
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