Family:Dirck Westbrook and Catharina Osterhout (1)

He moved his family to Rochester, Ulster Co, NY shortly after his marriage and lived at Canyon Lake Farms, near the present village of Accord. There he built and operated one the early flour mills in the area. It was located at the falls on the "Peterskill," the stream that empties into the Rondout below Accord. The house is still standing, enlarged several times, and modernized. It is north of the present US Route 209 about a mile northeast of Accord, on Old Whitfield Road. The house was occupied in 1858 by Wessel Brodhead Westbrook, and later by Tunis H. Duryea, James Lounsbury, the Marshall family, and presently (2001) by Noah Gottdiener.

"Located near Peterskill Creek, this house has an early rear wing dating back to pre-1700 according to deeds on record. The main stone wing was added at the front in the early 18th century. Finally, in the early 19th century a third addition was made...in the form of a sidelit house entrance, Greek Revival attic, and front entrance, while retaining the earlier twelve light windows."

1. ↑ Dutch Reformed Church (Kingston, New York), and Roswell Randall Hoes (ed.). Baptismal and marriage registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston: Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. (New York, 1891)
   marriage # 106.

   marriage #106 Year: 1695
   25 Aug.
   DIRICK WESTBROECK, j.m., and CATHARINA OOSTERHOUT, j.d., both resid. here [in Kingston.] Banns published, but dates not given.

2.   Barry Benepe, Editor. Early Architecture in Ulster County. (Kingston, New York: The Junior League, 1974)
   p. 86-87.
3.   Walter D. Thomas. Osterhout Family
   # 12.
4. ↑ Dirck WESTBROEK,
   1717 Deed, Transcribed by Paul H. Bardell, Jr.
   Rochester, Ulster Co, NY
   date: December 17, 1717., Page 538.
   
   To all Christian people to whom this writing shall or may come, Jacob DeWitt, Derrick Rosencrans & Jacobus Winshoop the present Trustees of the Town of Rochester in the County of Ulster and province of New York in America send greetings. Whereas her Majy Royal Letters Patent bearing date the 25th of June 1703 is granted for the said Town of Rochester whereby the trustees for the time being are impowered and have liberty granted then to manage, use, order, let, and dispose of the lands & premises with their appurtenances of Rochester aforesaid in part or in the whole for the good benefit and advantage of the freeholders & inhabitants or Rochester aforesaid from time to time in such manner & sort & in such parts & partitions as by then the said Trustees by & with the advice of two of the principle freeholders and inhabitants aforesaid shall be thought fit & conversant as in & by the said Letters Patent remaining on record in the Secretary's Office of New York eslation being there unto had amongst other things doth and may appear. Now Know Ye that we, Jacob DeWitt, Derrick Rosencrans, Jacobus Winshoop by & with the advice of Jurian Kwick and Harmanus Dscholl, principle freeholders & inhabitants as abovesaid testified by their signing of these presents for diverse & good causes then there unto moving but more & especially for & in consideration as is all of the acknowledgment & privileges hereby reserved as of the sum of two pounds ten shillings current money of New York to them or one of them in hand paid before the execution of these presents by DERRICK WESTBROECK of Rochester aforesaid, Have Given, Granted, Bargained, & Sold, released, Ratified and Confirmed and by these presents do freely & clearly Give, Grant, Bargain & Sell, Release, Ratify and Confirm unto the said DERRICK WESTBROECK, his heirs & assigns forever, all that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being within the bounds & limits of Rochester aforesaid. Beginning due south from a black oak tree with three notches & a cross with a stone marked with XDXB sett by it, from thence northerly forty rod to a pine tree marked with three notches & a cross with a marked stone stands by XDXB from thence two hundred rod northeasterly to a white oake tree marked with three notches & a cross with a stone by it marked XDXB from thence Easterly one hundred sixty rod to a white oake tree with three notches & a cross with a stone set by it marked XDXB from thence southerly one hundred & twenty rod to black oake tree stands by a run of water, comes out of a swamp by the name of Nuttsen crupel bar from thence westerly to a white oak tree with three notches & a cross & a stone stands by it XDXB by a run of water out of the southern of the said Nuttsen crupel bar in Donning crupel bar. From thence northerly eighty rod to to a stone standing in the ground marked XDXB and from thence on a straight line to the first station containing one hundred & fifty acres or thereabouts. To Have & to Hold the said tract or parcel of land with all and singular the premises & appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto to him the said DERRICK WESTBROECK, his heirs & assigns and to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of him the said DERRICK WESTBROECK, his heirs and assign for ever, paying for the same yearly & every year for ever to the Trustees of Rochester for the time being One Shilling & six pence aforesd as an acknowledgment & allow sufficient high ways & out ways over said land and any of the freeholders & inhabitants of Rochester for the time being forever are to have free liberty to cut breaks, carry away wood & stone from said tract of land that shall not be fenced in;
   
   In Witness whereof the said Trustees & Inhabitants have hereunto put their hands & caused the Common Seal of Rochester to be hereunto affixed in Rochester, this day of Anno Domini 1717 Seventeenth December.
   
   R Fistants, Jacob N [hisXmark] W DeWitt, Jurian [hisXmark] Kwick, Derrick DRK Rosekrans, Harmanus HD Decker, Jacobs Wynkoop
   
   True Copy- Wattingham, Clerk
   
   Page 538 begins.