Petrus Westfael (1730 - 1756)

Born 1730 in Ulster County, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Arriantje (Rosenkrans) Lyde — married 25 Aug 1754 in Deerpark, New York

Descendants

Died 1756 at about age 26 in Ulster County, Province of New York

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Biography

Petrus Wesfael.

"Arriantje Rosenkrans (a young woman of Teeshachtee, born and living there) was married to Petrus Westfael (a single man, born and living in Machackemech) on 25 August 1754, by John Caspar Fryenmuth." The marriage was recorded in the Reformed Church of Machackemeck.^[1]

Petrus and Arientje (Rosencrans) Westfall's son Abraham Westfall was born at Machackemeck (Deer Park Township, Orange County, N.Y.) Nov. 18, 1755, died 1829 in Carroll County, Ohio.

Petrus died in an Indian raid on 9 August 1756 at the outbreak of the French and Indian War. "We have a certain account from the Northern Frontiers of this Province ... We have a further account from the same place that on Friday last, three men, to wit, Gerardus Swartwout, eldest son of Major Swartwout, Samuel Finch and Peter Westphalen were found merdered and stript quit naked, and Swartwout and Finch scalped by the Indians, some miles highter up the River Mahakamack and with the Province of New York."^[2]

After Arientje was married to John Lyde on 19 August 1757 by Anthony van Etten, Justice of the Peace^[3][4], she left her son Abraham with his Uncle Jurian.

Marriage

25 AUG 1754. Deer Park, New York.^[5]

Church Records

Marriage

• 1754 Aug 25 Petrus Westfael, young man, born at Machackemech and dwelling there, to Arriaentje Rosenkranz, young woman, born at Teeshachtee and dwelling there. ^[6]

Research Notes

LNAB

Westfael is the surname that first appears in church records for Petrus, at his marriage to Arriaentje. Quackenbush-118 20:23, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

Sources

1. ↑ Per Vosburgh, page 270.
2. ↑ New Jersey Newspaper Extracts, Perth-Amboy, August 19, 1756,
3. ↑ Per Vosburgh272: 1757 — July 23 [banns recorded], married August 19. John Lyde, young man, born in Penselvene, to Arriyantie Rosekrans, w. d, v., born at'Tyscbag, and both dwelling there.
4. ↑ "New Jersey, Church Records, 1675-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLGR-Q65W : 3 October 2019), John Lyde and Arriyantie Rosekrans, 19 Aug 1757; citing Marriage, Sussex, New Jersey, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.
5. ↑ Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Deer Park, Vol II, Book 11. Accessed in Ancestry.com U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records from Selected States, 1660-1926 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6961/42037_1521003239_0775-00365
6. ↑ Collections NY Gen. & Biog. Soc.: 1913, Vol. 5, Page 270. Wording "Taken from a pamphlet by Rev. J. P. Ten Eyck, printed 1877."

• Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society (New York)

• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.