Person:Annetje Westbrook (1)

W. H. Nearpass relates the story of Annetje Westbrook, widow of Jacobus Swartwout, as a heroine of the 1778 raid of Joseph Brant into the Minisink region. She is described as a strong, robust women, who took one of the pitchforks, ready to aid in resisting the Indian attack. He also says this women was known to have lived on to 1827, when she was ninety, so he must have combined traditions of two different people. If this is so, she was about 41 at the time of the raid, which seems likely, but only 10 when married, which is not likely.

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)
   baptism # 1347.

   Parents: Dirrick Westbroeck, Catharina Oosterhout
   Child and date: Annetje, 11 Oct. 1702
   Witnesses and Sponsors: Hendrick Ploeg, Tryntje Ploeg.

2.   Walter D. Thomas. Osterhout Family
   # 66.
3. ↑ Birth date approximated from the baptismal record.