Paulus (Vandervoort) van der Voort (1681 - abt. 1752)

Born 8 Jul 1681 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Neeltje (Staats) Vandervoort — married 1708 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York

Descendants

Died about 1752 at about age 70 in New Utrecht, Orange, Province of New York [uncertain]

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Biography

Paulus van der Voort was baptised 8 July 1681 in the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church in Kings County, New York. His father, also named Paulus van der Voort, had died before the baptism.^[1] Paulus was raised by his mother Lysbeth Paulus Dircks and step-father Claes Barentse Blom.^[2]

Paulus married Neeltje Staats before 1706.^[1]

Ledley seems to indicate he may have moved between between Mespat Kills, Bushwick, and Newtown,^[1] however, Mespat Kills was an area to which both Newtown and Bushwick laid claim and over which they had a long-standing border dispute,^[3] so it is possible that he was not as itinerant as his appearances in these places would make it seem.

There are rumors that he died in 1738 or 1752 in New Utrecht, Kings County, New York, however no satisfactory sources have presented themselves for either date.^{[citation needed]}

Children

The couple may have had as many as eight children, not all of whom are well-documented.

• Elizabeth van der Voort, bp. 1706
• John van der Voort, b.c. 1714
• Paul van der Voort, b.c. 1716
• Pieter van der Voort, b.c. 1718
• Elsje van der Voort, b. 1720
• Nicholas van der Voort, b. 1723?
• Michael van der Voort, b.c. 1725
• Neeltje van der Voort, b.c. 1727

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wilson V. Ledley, "The Vandervoort-Vanderford Family," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, July 1978) 109:159-160 (http://cdm15636.contentdm.oclc.org.nygbs.idm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15636coll26/id/546 : accessed 16 September 2015); citing Flatbush and Brooklyn Reformed Dutch Church records.
2. ↑ Teunis G. Bergen, Genealogy of the Lefferts Family, 1650-1718 (Albany, N.Y: J. Munsell, 1878) 29; Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofleffe00berg#page/29/mode/2up : accessed 16 September 2015).
3. ↑ See Riker, James. The Annals of Newtown in Queens County, New-York: Containing Its History from Its First Settlement, Together with Many Interesting Facts Concerning the Adjacent Towns : Also, a Particular Account of Numerous Long Island Families Now Spread Over This and Various Other States of the Union. New York: D. Fanshaw, 1852. Print. https://archive.org/details/annalsofnewtowni00rike.

• Taken from ancestry.com.