Enumeration of families in the time of the Revolutionary War, embracing
the head of each family, to wit:
____ Decker.
Jacob Schoonover, Jacobus Van Fliet,
Moses Cortright, Daniel Van Auken,
Abraham Van Auken, Solomon Kuykendall,
Johannis Westbrook, Simeon Westfall,
Johannis Decker, Wilhelmus Cole,
Major John Decker, Peter Kuykendall,
Sylvester Cortright, Martinus Decker,
Anthony Van Etten, Esq., Samuel Caskey,
Levi Van Etten, Jacobus Davis.
Of these families, their children and grand-children, the following
number of families have removed out of this town:
Names. No. of Parents No. of grand-
and children children
____ Decker 2
Jacob Schoonover 1
Moses Cortright 1
Abraham Van Auken 3
John Westbrook 2
John Decker 3
Maj. John Decker 3 6
Sylvester Cortright 2
Anthony Van Etten, Esq. 6 3
Levi Van Etten 1 4
James Van Fliet 1 4
Daniel Van Auken 11 5
Solomon Kuykendall's heir or devisee,
James Van Fliet, Jr. 3
Simon Westfall 4
Wilhelmus Cole 3
Peter Kuykendall 4 4
Martin Decker 2
Samuel Caskey 1
James Davis 6 1
____ ____
56 30
There may have been a few other families who have removed out of the
town whom I have not known.
Of the descendants of those ancients, there now remain, as near as I
can ascertain, about 5 families in this neighborhood.
These numbers, 56 + 30 + 5 = 91 families.
There now are about 20 families in this neighborhood who are of the
anterior emigration from the upper neighborhood and are included in its
calculations.
The following is a calculation of the number of families of each
generation of the lower neighborhood, to wit:
1st generation, which was contemporary with the
second of this upper neighborhood 20
2d, 91
3rd, at an increase of three families to one 273
4th, at the same rate of increase 819
The two last 273 + 819 = 1,092 families. To this last number add the
3,000 of the upper neighborhood and the amount is 4,092.
There are two of these prior generations who, by deaths, may fall short
of these numbers mentioned, but I contemplate that as great an addition
of families exists of the succeeding generation of each neighborhood
as will amount to such loss, and that there now are at least 4,000
families in existence of descendants in some degree of the ancients
mentioned.
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