Roelof (Eltingh) Elting (1678 - 1747)

Born 27 Oct 1678 in Hurley, Ulster County, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Sara (du Bois) Eltinge — married 13 Jun 1703 in Kingston, Ulster, New York

Descendants

Died 13 Jan 1747 at age 68 in New Paltz, Ulster County, Province of New York

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Biography

Roelof, child of Jan Eltingh and Jakomyntie Slecht, was baptized on 27 October 1678 in the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, New York. Witnesses were Hendrick Slecht and Elsje Slecht.^[1]

In the early 1700s Roelif Elting came to New Paltz. He was the eldest son of Jan Elting and is described as having come to town "with a belt of gold about his waist." He married the daughter of Abraham DuBois, the Patentee, in 1703. His brother Cornelius married her cousin Rebecca.^[2]

Roelif and Sarah had seven children. Their son Josiah Elting...[was] one of the most liberal subscribers to the Conferentia Church, which believed that Dutch Reformed Churches in this country should be subordinate to the Classis of North Amsterdam. The Consistory of the New Paltz Church held that they were not under allegiance to the ecclesiastical power of any foreign country.^[2]

Marriage

Wife: Sarah DuBois, 13 JUN 1703, Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster County, New York

Will, Abstract of

29 October 1745 - ELTINGE, Roeloff, of New Paltz, Ulster Co.

Wife Sarah, sons Noah, John, Josiah, daughters Margaret, wife of Abraham Bevier, and :Jacomyntie, grandson Roeloff, son of dec'd son Abraham. Real and personal estate. :Executors the three sons. Witnesses Petrus

Louw, Jean le Fevre, J. Bruyn. 13 Jan 1747-8. Calendar of Wills page 134. ^[3]

New York City Wills, 1730-1744, Page 218.--In the name of God, Amen. I, ROELOFF ELTINGE, of the New Paltz, in Ulster County, being weak and sick. I leave to my son, Noah Eltinge, all and singular my farm, lands, meadows, dwelling house and tan vats and tan mill, and all appurtenances, now in my possession, situate and lying within or near the limits of the Patent of the New Paltz, on the southeast side of the Paltz creek, between the land of Soloman Dubois and the land of Daniel Dubois; Also all those lots on the north west side of the Paltz creek, and the land commonly called the Great piece, lying in two parcels; Also all that the 1/3 of 1/6, and 1/16 part of all the undivided lands within the bounds of the Patent of the New Paltz, except as hereafter given; Also 1/2 of a certain tract of land by me purchased of Cornelius Dubois, the whole containing 528 acres; which 1/2 is the north west part thereof. My son Noah is to furnish my wife Sarah an honorable maintainance, that is of eating and drinking, lodging, apparell, attendance, and all other things necessary, and he is to pay to my daughter Jacomintie, wife of William Credeback, œ100, and to my grandson Roelof, son of my son Abraham, late of Potumack, deceased, œ100, and the same to my daughter Margaret. I leave to my son Josiah all those several lots of land in the Patent of New Paltz, which I have purchased of my brother-in-law, Abraham Dubois, with the dwelling house, and now in his occupation; Also 1/3 of 1/6 and 1/60 part of the undivided lands; Also 1/2 of the land I bought of Cornelius Dubois, and is the southeast part. And he is to pay œ20 yearly to my wife, and œ300 to my other children, and grand child, viz.: to my children, John, Noah, Janettie and Margaret, and my grandchild Roeloff. I leave to my eldest son John, for life, and then to his sons, Peter and Roeloff, 1/2 of all my right in sundry lots in the Patent of New Paltz fronting upon Hudson river, to begin at the distance of 1 1/2 miles from the river, and to extend west so far as the lots extend. I leave to my sons Josiah and Noah all my 2/3 part of 2 lots of wood land lately laid out in the Patent, one of them on the west side of the Paltz river in the Pine woods, "by a spring between the Horpon and the Klyn Bontekoe;" Also all my right in the woodland to the northwest of the lots of Daniel Dubois and Samuel Bevier, near the Hopon; and the other lot is also on the west side of Paltz creek, adjoining south to the land of Isaac Le Fevre, and upon the Bever creek; Also my undivided part of another lot of woodland, "lying between the Hopon and the Spaase See," which said tract was divided to the heirs of Christian Deyo. I leave to my daughter Margaret, wife of Abraham Bevier, my 2/3 of 2 lots of wood land on the west side of Paltz creek and adjoining each other, and known as lots No. 3 and 4, "lying in a piece of land commonly called the Olynueton;" Also all my right in Lot No. 1, lying between Moghoonck and a lot of Jan Le Fevre, "commonly called Fontyntre," which was also divided to the heirs of Christian Deyo. If my wife Sarah shall not be satisfied to live with my son Noah, but shall choose to live with my son Josiah (She being of her natural senses at the time of such change) he shall allow her the same maintainance. I leave to my daughter Janettie, œ40. To my son Noah, my negro man, wagons, oxen plows, etc. To my daughter Margaret a negro girl. To my son John all the money he owes to me. I leave to my grandson, Roeloff Eltinge, œ100, due me from his father. To my son Noah, œ100. I leave to my son John a certain tract of land in Kingston with the Tan vats. All the rest to my children and grand children. If any of my children shall sell their land they shall give the preference to their brothers and sisters at the same price a stranger will pay. I make my sons executors.

See Baptismal register #160, pg 11 in Hoes. Also see page 483 in LeFevre.

Sources

1. ↑ Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and marriage registers of the old Dutch church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891. page 11, #160.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Peter Ross Elting (original text) and Douwe Elting (updates and Dutch spelling), Bevier-Elting Family Association, biography of Roelof, Jan Roelofsz and Roelof Jansz Elting. Accessed online.
3. ↑ https://ia802703.us.archive.org/27/items/calendarofwillso01fern/calendarofwillso01fern.pdf

• Source: S11476 Albert Harrison VanDeusen, Van Deursen Family, 2 vols. (New York City: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, ©1912): Url:http://www.americanancestors.org/Blogs.aspx?id=25838&blogid=124069&blogid=124069.

• Source: S3977 James W. Elting, comp., The Descendants of Jan Eltinge: The Genealogy of the Elting/Eltinge Family, (Charlotte, N.C.: the compiler, 2002).

• Source: S865 Cornelia McDonald, A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the ShenandoahValley, 1860 – 1865, edited by Hunter McDonald, (Nashville, Tenn.: the editor by Cullom & Ghertner, 1934).

Acknowledgements

• This family is fortunate to be represented by the Bevier-Elting Family Association, which maintains an excellent biography of Roelof, Jan Roelofsz and Roelof Jansz Elting.
• The WikiTree profile Elting-3 was created for Roelof Elting (one f, no e on Elting) through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 September 2010.
• The WikiTree profile Eltinge-5 was created through the import of small2.ged on 30 November 2010.
• The WikiTree profile Eltinge-19, created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011.
• The WikiTree profile Eltinge-35 was created for Roelif Eltinge through the import of wikitree1.ged on Oct 17, 2012 by Kimball G. Everingham.
• Abstract of will inserted by Meehan-411 4 July 2017.
• Archive.org: Hoes, Roswell Randall, editor. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. New York, New York: De Winne Press. 1891

• Archive.org: LeFevre, Ralph. "History of New Paltz, New York and its old families (from 1678 to 1820): Including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled in New Paltz Previous to the Revolution." Albany, N.Y. Fort Orange Press. 1903