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Abraham Van (van Kuykendaal) Kuykendall Sr (1719 - 1812)

Captain Abraham Van Kuykendall Sr formerly van Kuykendaal aka Kuykendaal
Born in Kingston, Province of New Yorkmap
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Husband of — married 1743 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1800 in North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Died at age 92 in Buncombe, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Abraham (van Kuykendaal) Kuykendall Sr was a New Netherland Descendant 1674-1776.
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Biography

Abraham Van Kuykendaal

1776 Project
Captain Abraham (van Kuykendaal) Kuykendall Sr served with North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Abraham (van Kuykendaal) Kuykendall Sr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A067605.

Captain Abraham Kuykendall was an important man in early North Carolina. He had served as a member of Samuel Adams’ Committee of Correspondence, considered to be the cadre of the American Revolution. Beginning in 1775, he served as a Captain of a Safety Committee, which governed old Tryon County. Abraham served as a Captain in the North Carolina Militia from 1770 – 1783. Captain Kuykendall also served as Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and Justice of the Peace for the area that eventually became Rutherford County. [1]

Captain Kuykendall died in 1812. His grave is marked by a 10 foot tall marble obelisk. Decorated with several bronze plaques and markers, including one from the Abraham Kuykendall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Birth

Abraham Van Kuykendaal, son of Cornelis Van Kuykendaal and Marretjen Westvaal, was baptized on Oct 18, 1719. Baptism recorded at the Kingston Reformed Dutch Church[2]. Actual location of baptism could have occurred at meeting houses in Ulster and Orange Counties of NY, Sussex, NJ or Pike, Pa.

18 OCT 1719 Kingston, Ulster County, Province of New York[3]

Residence

1800 Morgan, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA[4][5]
1810 Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA[6]

Occupations

Farmer / Served in The Revolutionary War from North Carolina, Tavern keeper

Death

01 APR 1812 Mud Creek, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA[7][8]

Burial

1812 Mud Creek Baptist Church Cemetery at Flat Rock, Henderson, North Carolina.[9]

Church Records

Baptism
  • 1719. Oct 18. Cornelis Van Kuykendaal, Marretjen Westvaal. Abraham. Wit.: Jan Van Etten, Jannetjen Roosa. [10]
  • Abraham was born in 1719. He passed away in 1778.
  • Fact: Christening (18 October 1719) Machackemeck, Orange, New York, United States
  • Fact: Military Service (1750) Abraham was a Corporal in Captain Cobron's Company of Anson Militia in 1750's. He was commissioned to establish the Tryon County boundary line. He was Captain of a militia company, 1770, and on duty as a Captain during and after 1776.
  • Fact: Residence (1800) Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States
  • Fact: Residence (1810) Buncombe, North Carolina, United States
  • Fact: Burial (April 1812) Mud Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Flat Rock, Henderson, North Carolina, United States
  • Fact: Findagrave # 6740564
  • Fact: 1774 He was a Justice of the Peace

Research Notes

LNAB

Van Kuykendaal is the name his father was recorded with for his baptism. The capitilization of the preposition Van is incorrect for the time and goes against the naming conventions used by the New Netherland Settlers Project. Quackenbush-118 16:55, 27 December 2016 (EST)

Notes

A pre-merge profile had a death date of 17 Dec 1778?

Article on "Hendersonheritage.com" mentions a controversy over parentage, and the name of Abraham's first wife. It includes a story about his hiding a pot of gold late in life. It states that he owned slaves.[11]

Follow-up

Note: Minisink, New Jersey Sussex County.....check record....could be Sullivan County (Sullivan County did not exist until 1803 when it was split off from Ulster County), or Orange County in New York.

[Note that the area called "Minisink" encompassed portions of Orange and Sussex Counties, and eastern Pike County, Pa; located immediately across the Delaware. One must not assume that a birth occurred in any one county. People commonly crossed the river to attend Church meetings.]

Sources

  1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 27 Dec 2016), "Record of Abraham Kuykendall", Ancestor # A067605.
  2. ↑ Hoes, KRDC Baptismal Record: 1719 Oct 18; Cornelis Van Kuykendaal, Marretjen Westvaal; Abraham; Jan Van Etten, Jannetjen Roosa
  3. ↑ Source: #S208 Data: Birth date: 18 Oct 1719 Birth place: Death date: 1 Apr 1812 Death place:
  4. ↑ Source: #S245 Page: Year: 1800; Census Place: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: ; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Residence date: 1800 Residence place: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina
  5. ↑ Source: #S236 Page: Year: 1800; Census Place: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: ; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Residence date: 1800. Residence place: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina
  6. ↑ Source: #S209 Page: Year: 1810; Census Place: , Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: 39; Page: 295; Family History Number: 0337912; Image: 00187. Data: Text: Residence date: 1810 Residence place: Buncombe, North Carolina, United States
  7. ↑ Source: #S44 Data: Text: Death date: 1812 Death place: Buncombe, NC, USA
  8. ↑ Source: #S208 Data: Text: Birth date: 18 Oct 1719 Death date: 1 Apr 1812
  9. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial with image of headstone.
  10. ↑ Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (De Vinne Press, New York, 1891)
  11. ↑ http://hendersonheritage.com/abraham-kuykendall/
  • Kuykendall, George Benson, History of the Kuykendall Family, Kilham Stationery & Printing Co., Portland, OR: 1919, pp. 120-121
  • Source: S205 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
  • Source: S208 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Web: North Carolina, Find A Grave Index, 1729-2011 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 19 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi; Repository: #R1
  • Source: S209 1810 United States Federal Census. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Third Census of the United States, 1810. (NARA microfilm publication M252, 71 rolls). Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.
  • Source: S236 and S245 1800 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Second Census of the United States, 1800. (NARA microfilm publication M32, 52 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census.
  • Source: S40 Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  • Source: S44 Author: Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Deaths Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001

Acknowledgements

  • Thank you to Arletta Hudson for starting this profile.
  • Thank you to Thomas Shaw for creating WikiTree profile Kuykendall-444 through the import of 2013-12-28 Roscoe Robert Ross Shaw Family Tree 674.ged on Dec 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Thomas and others.
  • GEDCOM file imported on 1 November 2010 Title: GEDCOM file submitted by Legacy. Imported on 1 November 2010.
  • "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 17 November 2018, 18:58), entry for Abraham Van Kuykendall(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYCM-Y51); contributed by various users.
  • "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 26 January 2019, 15:32), entry for Abraham Kuykendall(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYDV-RCY); contributed by various users.
  • From the family genealogy files of Philip Lee Smith






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C Tate
Abraham was my 1st cousin 8x removed
posted by C Tate
Gélinas-531 Anne-Marie Gélinas
Kuykendall-1454 and Van Kuykendaal-9 are not ready to be merged because: Before the merge, it seeems to me that the issues with the wives or the the deaths date must be solved...

I am quite sure it is the same person, but I am weary about those

posted by Anne-Marie Gélinas
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Anyone have a reliable source for the identification of his wife/wives?

One of them (Bathsheba) crosses over into the realm of the Native Americans project as a supposed daughter of a Native American. I have yet to find evidence of her existence (or of her mother's). And I fear that branch may be one of the many inventions of Don Green's Shawnee Heritage series...

Edited to add: I see that he has a memorial that includes a wife name Bathsheba, but the memorial does not look contemporaneous to his death, but much newer.

posted by Jillaine Smith
edited by Jillaine Smith
Shoults-17 Janne (Shoults) Gorman
His DAR records just give the first names of his wives, but does name his children: https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A067605
posted by Janne (Shoults) Gorman
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Thanks, Janna. Would be great to know what source is cited for his marriage to Bathsheba.

In the meantime, I've detached Bathsheba from her supposed Native mother since no one has responded with a reliable source for that relationship.

posted by Jillaine Smith
Shoults-17 Janne (Shoults) Gorman
I don't know how reliable it is, but this link has a bio for Bathsheba: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KGMS-NNW
posted by Janne (Shoults) Gorman
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
Kuykendall-1454 and Van Kuykendaal-9 appear to represent the same person because: Same father, same birth data, same marriage date. Both married Elizabeth (1728-1800) in 1743 -- she has different last names, but only one profile has parents... I think these two profiles are intended to represent the very same man. Discrepancies in the name of the wife and the date of death do not change that conclusion.

The Abraham baptized on 18 October 1719 was a son of Cornelis, not Matthys. The LNAB of van Kuykendaal is project-protected and should be the merge destination.

Abraham the son of Matthys is Kuykendall-615. He was supposedly born in 1724, and would have been too young in 1743 for a male to marry.

posted by Ellen Smith
edited by Ellen Smith
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Ellen, There was a previous dicussion about not merging these two profiles in the past. The wife attached to Abraham Mathysszen Kuykendall-1545 named Elizabeth Fidler-597 should be attached as the wife of Abraham Van Kuykendaal-9.

Elizabeth Burlseson Van Zandt-259 who's attached as the wife of Abraham Van Kuykendaal-9 is not his wife.

Elizabeth Burlseson Van Zandt-259 married a nephew of Abraham Kuykendall.

I wonder why Abraham Mathysszen Kuykendall-1454 uses Mathysszen?

I believe we should

1. Remove Abraham Mathysszen Kuykendall-1454 as a child of [Leursz-3|Cornelis Leursz-3]]

2. Remove Elizabeth Fidler-597 as Abraham Mathysszen Kuykendall-1454 spouse.

3. Attach Elizabeth Fidler-597 to to Abraham Van Kuykendaal-9.

4. Remove Elizbeth Burlseson Van Zandt-259 as the spouse of Abraham Van Kuykendaal-9. Noting in her profile why we removed her.

5. Find the nephew that Elizbeth Burlseson Van Zandt-259 married.

Thoughts?

posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
edited by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Its possible Abraham Kuykendall-1454 was the son of Matthew Kuykendall and Jannetje Westphal.
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
There's a marriage record for Elizabeth Vinsant and Abraham Kuykendall in North Carolina. Married 3 Jun 1790

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60548/images/42091_334948-00044?pId=634440

posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
edited by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Please add his son Abraham Kuykendall-636
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
Kuykendall-636 was merged and is now a son of James Kuykendall. Was that merge correct?
posted by Ellen Smith
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Hi Ellen, Well, that's a great question. I'm not sure what's going on. Let me look further and I'll get back to you.
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Kuykendall-1454 and Van Kuykendaal-9 are not ready to be merged because: There are issues with the wives, not the same children and different death dates. More research is needed before merging.
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
edited by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Ruby-300 Alan Ruby
Kuykendall-1591 and Van Kuykendaal-9 appear to represent the same person because: Appear to be the same person
posted by Alan Ruby
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
I accidently deleted a note about an Elizabeth Burleson who possibly married Abraham's nephew. Sources need to be provided for his wives.
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
[Living Brannan]
Of all the sources for Abraham that I can find, there are none found that document a marriage to an Elizabeth Fidler. There are sources found that mention marriage to Elizabeth Burleson and Bathsheba Barrett.
posted by [Living Brannan]

Unmerged matches › Abraham Mathysszen (Kuykendall) van Kuykendaal (bef.1719-1792)
Rejected matches › Abraham Kuykendall (1730-bef.1783) › Jacobus van Kuykendaal (bef.1721-1766) › Abraham Kuykendall (1724-1812)

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