Benjamin Westfall: Robin's Roots

1719 -

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

1. Benjamin Westfall was christened on 29 Jan 1718/19 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA (son of Jurian Westfall and Marytje Koddebeck).

Generation: 2

Jurian Westfall was born on 27 Apr 1684 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA (son of Johannes Jurian Westfall and Maritje Jacobz Cool); died in 1731 in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Old Minisink Reformed Dutch Cemetery, Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: Bef 1725, Minisink, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA; Owned property on the edge of the village of Minisink, with his brother-in-law Jacob Kuykendall

Notes:

Walter Westfall's Westfall Genealogy website is a fountain of information about the Westfall family. You can read about Jurian Westfall and Styntje Kuykendall's youth and descendants at http://westfall55.com/relfam7.html. That extremely long and rather confusing web page begins with Jurian's father Johannes Jurian Westfall. The stories of Jurian and Styntje begin with the fourth paragraph.

Birth:
(date of christening, in Kingston)

Buried:
GRid=67449793; biog. info; ambiguous photo of headstones.

Jurian married Marytje Koddebeck on 20 Aug 1717. Marytje was born in 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3.
Marytje Koddebeck was born in 1690.
Children:

1. Benjamin Westfall was christened on 29 Jan 1718/19 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA.

Generation: 3

Johannes Jurian Westfall was born on 28 Jan 1659 in Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA (son of Jurian Westphal and Marritje Hansen); died in 1725 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA; was buried in Magagkamack Churchyard, Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1690, Ulster County, New York, USA
Residence: 18 Nov 1694, Ulster County, New York, USA; Witnessed their niece's christening

Notes:

Birth:
(date of christening, in Kingston)

Buried:
GRid=67449027; Lengthy bio listing children, places of residence with dates, and land holdings. K Weiss (5/28/2014) notes "I'm sorry I couldn't find Johannes's stone - so many of the stones are illegible."

Johannes married Maritje Jacobz Cool on 28 Jan 1683 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA. Maritje (daughter of Jacob Barentsen Kool and Marretje Symons Schempoes) was born on 7 Mar 1666 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1728 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA; was buried in Magagkamack Churchyard, Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maritje Jacobz Cool was born on 7 Mar 1666 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA (daughter of Jacob Barentsen Kool and Marretje Symons Schempoes); died in 1728 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA; was buried in Magagkamack Churchyard, Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 18 Nov 1694, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=90597450, no photo

Children:

2. Jurian Westfall was born on 27 Apr 1684 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1731 in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Old Minisink Reformed Dutch Cemetery, Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.
Marretje Westfall was born on 16 Aug 1685 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1753 in Minisink Valley, New Jersey, USA.
Jannetjen Westfall was born in Mar 1688 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA.
Sara Westfall was born on 26 May 1691 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died on 20 Feb 1777 in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA.

Generation: 4

Jurian Westphal was born on 12 Mar 1621 in Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; died on 1 Oct 1667 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; was buried in Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1641, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; Listed as his residence on the register of the ship DeHoutwyn, on which he left Amsterdam for America on 6 June 1642
Arrival: 11 Aug 1642, Rensselaerswyck, Rennselaer County, New York, USA; Killian Van Rensselaer chartered the ship DeHoutwyn to bring farm servants and a pastor from Amsterdam. The ship left Amsterdam on 6 Jun 1642, Arrived in New Amtsterdam on 4 Aug, and Rensselaerswyck on 11 Aug.
Residence: Abt 1651, Rensselaerswyck, Rennselaer County, New York, USA
Residence: 1667, Ulster, Ulster County, New York, USA

Notes:

Notes on several Westfall genealogy sites:

Walter Westfall's "Westfall Genealogy" site at http://westfall55.com contains an amazing amount of information about the immigration, life, and descendants of Jurian Westphal, plus a good deal of history about New Netherlands, Ulster County, and the city of Kingston.

Information about Jurian Westfall's origins, immigration, and life are at http://westfall55.com/c.html
His descendancy starts at http://westfall55.com/relfam8.html

Unfortunately, the descendancy is undocumented, each page on the site is awkwardly long, the text all all bold and centered, I haven't really figure out the structure of the site or the flow of the descendancy. So it is quite hard to read, but it's quite a treasure-trove of information.

Don Norman's "Descendants of Jurian Westfall" page at https://hackerscreek.com/norman/WESTFALL/JURIAN.htm is also extensive but problematic. It includes 1163 people (born as late as the 1990's), and would take 73 pages to print. It was updated in 2016, but does not link to any profiles, stories, or sources, There are no citations within the descendancy, and just a list of 40 sources (several of which are censuses and other family trees) at the end.

Ronald Nevin Wall's "Westfall Family Tree" page at http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~whitsettwall/genealogy/Westfall_Family_Tree.htm would take about 91 pages to print. It is easy on the eye and quite navigable, with a fair number of embedded stories. It doesn't contain profiles or citations, and links to a list of about 40 sources.

Ron and Sue Wall's "Westfall Family Page" at http://whitsettandwall.com/Westfall/Westfall_homepage.htm
is a landing page with numerous Westfall links, including some pretty good history and 49-printed-page descendancy that focuses on the Westfalls of West Virginia.

Birth:
Best guess. His family would have been from Westphalia; maybe he was

Buried:
GRid=67448140; No documentation of his burial, but he lived next door to the church, and the minister lived in his house.

Jurian married Marritje Hansen in 1653 in Fort Orange, Albany County, New York, USA. Marritje (daughter of Hans Jansen van Norstrand and Rymerig Volkert) was born in 1636 in Nordstrand, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark; died on 10 Jan 1670 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marritje Hansen was born in 1636 in Nordstrand, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark (daughter of Hans Jansen van Norstrand and Rymerig Volkert); died on 10 Jan 1670 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1639, New Amsterdam, New Netherland
Residence: Betw 1 Apr 1645 and 1 Apr 1648, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA

Notes:

Married:
Or so say most secondary sources. Maritje lived on Long Island, and they might have been married at the Dutch Reformed Church in Oyster Bay.

Children:

Rymerick Westfall was born in 1654 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died on 9 Nov 1719 in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Magagkamack Churchyard, Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, USA.
Nicholas Westfall was born in 1659 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1715/1743 in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Old Minisink Reformed Dutch Cemetery, Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA.
4. Johannes Jurian Westfall was born on 28 Jan 1659 in Esopus, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1725 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA; was buried in Magagkamack Churchyard, Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, USA.
Abel Westfall was born on 25 Sep 1661 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1689 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA.
Simon Westfall was born on 30 Sep 1663 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1733 in Ulster County, New York, USA; was buried in Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, USA.
Rebecca Westfall was born est 1666; died in UNKNOWN.
Ellen Westfall was born on 27 Jun 1666 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1686 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA.

10.

Jacob Barentsen Kool was born on 25 Sep 1639 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA (son of Barent Jacobsen Cool and Marretje Leendertse Degraw); died on 15 Jan 1719 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1659, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA
Arrival: 1660, New York, New York County, New York, USA
Residence: Abt 1719, Ulster County, New York, USA

Notes:

Died:
GRid=105305442; marriage date; no bio or photos; burial location unknown

Jacob married Marretje Symons Schempoes in 1660 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA. Marretje (daughter of Sijmon Florisz and Claertje Arents) was born on 1 Oct 1632 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 1 Jan 1672 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

11.

Marretje Symons Schempoes was born on 1 Oct 1632 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (daughter of Sijmon Florisz and Claertje Arents); died on 1 Jan 1672 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: 12 Oct 1632, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Notes:

Birth:
Symons (should bySymonze, I think) is her patronymic name, but Shepmoes is frequently given as her surname

Died:
GRid=105305635; birthplace is wrong; no burialplace. Lists husband, marriage date and children

Children:

Living
Living
5. Maritje Jacobz Cool was born on 7 Mar 1666 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA; died in 1728 in Machackemeck (Deerpark), Orange County, New York, USA; was buried in Magagkamack Churchyard, Port Jervis, Orange County, New York, USA.


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