Under the title “Marriages and Banns by Domine Johannes Weecksteen, of Kingston”:
“[Date of marriage not given] ABRAHAM la MATRE, j. m., of Midwoud* [Flatbush, L. I.], and resid. in Kingston, and CEELITIE VERNOY, j. d., from the Esopus,** resid. under the jurisdiction of Kingstoune [Kingston]. First publication of Banns, 17 June [1682] (O. S.)”
Footnotes: * “Doubtless named from Midwoude, in Province of North Holland, west of Enkhuizen.”
** “Esopus was originally a general name for the large and indefinite tract of country in which Wiltwyck, now Kingston, is situated. The name was subsequently applied, in a popular way, to Kingston itself.”
