Teunis Egnos van Bunschoten (1780)

Born 23 Dec 1780 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York

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Tunis Van Bunschoten was born December 23, 1780 and baptized at the Reformed Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York on January 28, 1781. He married Hester Searles.

3819. I. TEUNIS E. V.B. m Hester Searles. He early passed to the west side of the Hudson; says Sylvester in his Ulster County History: "Among the early settlers of West Hurley was Teunis E. (Egnos) Van Bunschoten." He located in the town of Hurley on a farm near where Glenford church now stands. It has not been discovered how many of his children were born there, but it is supposed that most of them were. It is found that in 1829 Hester became a member of the Olive Baptist church. One day i nhis old age Teunis left home and was never heard of afterwards. And his old family Bible with all its records has disappeared as mysteriously, so that nowhere do I encounter such a scarcity of dates.^[1]

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1. ↑ 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.

• New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V2HN-9YZ : accessed 07 Oct 2013), Egenan Van Buntschooten in entry for Tunis Van Buntschooten, 23 Dec 1780.