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Schoonover Baptisms and Marriages – Minisink Valley
These records are taken from the book “Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830” published 1992 by Heritage Books, Inc., ISBN 1-55613-556-4 (originally published in 1913 for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society). The page numbers shown in the last column relate to this specific publication.
I have carefully maintained all spelling as it is presented in the book.
Where a single date (month-day-year) is shown in the DATE column, that is the date of baptism. Sometimes the date of birth was also given. In these instances, the first date is the date of birth and the second is the date of baptism.
Entries written in blue represent descendants of Nicholas Schoonhoven (bapt. 1 Feb. 1685) who was the son of Debora Davids. This distinction between the two major family lines can be helpful by revealing geographic patterns as portrayed by the two churches. The Walpeck Church was within the Walpeck Bend of the Delaware River, about a mile west of Flatbrookville, in the Township of Walpeck, Sussex County, New Jersey. The Machackemeck Church stood on the Old Mine Road at the junction of East Main Street and New Jersey Avenue, in the city of Port Jervis in Orange County, New York (and it is important to know that Port Jervis was actually part of New Jersey until 1769 when the New Jersey-New York boundary was established at its present position). These delineations between the two leading family lines are to the best of my knowledge without attempting to confirm relationships as part of this project.
The ground (containing four acres) upon which the Walpeck Church was erected was donated by Nicholas Schoonhoven and his brother-in-law Thomas Brink, the original deed dated February 1st, 1737. This was Nicholas Schoonhoven (bapt. 3 June 1694) the son of Hendrick Claessen Van Schoonhoven and Cornelia Swartwout – thus it is no surprise that the families in this line almost exclusively had their baptisms recorded at this church.
Note: Due to Google Sites formatting glitches, the three tables below are separated by lots of space. Just keep scrolling down.
Jay Schoonover
July 2006