Joshua van Bunschoten (1795 - 1878)

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Joshua was born in 1795. He is the son of Egenas van Bunschoten and Phoebe Mass.

3825. VII. JOSHUA V.B. m. in Jan., 1813, Rachel Germond, b. Nov. 2, 1793. He removed to Saratoga county in 1828, and located on a farm near the now celebrated springs. Here his last four children were born, the earlier having come to him on the homestead in Duchess county. In 1836 it was that Egnos and Phoebe, having disposed of their Duchess county real estate the year before, came to spend their last days with him, their youngest son. Just twenty years after coming to Saratoga Springs Joshua "trecked" again, this time to Tioga county to a farm near Owego where his last years were spent.

On Rachel and Joshua, their daughter Mrs. Gibbs says: "My mother was a bright, witty woman and fond of a good joke; and energetic woman, too, and the family discipline had to be administered by her for father was very tender-hearted. He would get ready to punish the offender, then waver and say, 'Are you ever going to do so again?' To this we would, of course, answer 'no', and so go free. He was very fond of horses and also very careful of them, even to the extent of walking up hill to ease their load. He had one particular favorite, White Rosie, that he hated to have any one else use. My brothers lived near us and one night they came to father's barn, took the blanket from Rose and disarranged the harness and wagons. In the morning father was much excited, someone had been using his horse! He went over to my brothers and told them all about it, and insisted on borrowing one of their horses to use during the day, 'for', he said, 'no one knows how much Rosie was used last night.' Finally the whole story came out, and my brothers that that the joke was more on them than on father, for they had had to let him have a horse while Rosie 'rested!'"

Joshua has the enviable distinction of having retained and used the older form of the name, Van Bunschoten. This his descendants cling to today, and I applaud them for it. Over against this, however, is the disheartening spectacle of only two grandsons to the account of Joshua's seven sons. He died July 12, 1878, Rachel Feb. 14, 1874.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ William Henry Van Benschoten, Concerning the Van Buschoten or Van Benschoten Family in America, pp. 723, 724.

• William Henry Van Benschoten, Concerning the Van Buschoten or Van Benschoten Family in America, A Genealogy and Brief History (West Park-On-Hudson: 1907) p. 712.
• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPJ-F7P : 29 July 2017), Joshua Vn Bunschatm, Corinth, Saratoga, New York, United States; citing 194, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 108; FHL microfilm 17,168.
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRP-1NM : 16 August 2017), Joshua Vanbenschoten, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States; citing p. 270, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 336; FHL microfilm 17,205.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1J-PN6 : 12 April 2016), Joshua Vanbenschoten, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States; citing family 1062, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K63K-455 : 13 March 2018), John Vanbunschoten, E.D. 1, Owego, Tioga, New York, United States; citing p. 72, line #19, family #573, county clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 816,364.
• "New York State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNV5-1BQ : 11 March 2018), Joshua Vanbenschoten in household of Steven L Williams, Owego, Tioga, New York, United States; citing p. 9, line 27, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 816,368.
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