Person:Jacob Van Etten (1)

He was a member of a "foot company of militia" at Kingston under Capt. Tjerck DeWitt in 1738/39. In the 2 April 1755 Ulster Co. census of slaves he was noted as owning a "Negro woman, 18 years old," and later was one of the Freeman Freeholders and Inhabitants of the town of Kingston who in 1775 signed of the Articles of Association. He had purchased land at Minisink, now Montague, New Jersey in 1745, but was already considered a resident of Namanoch, about 10 miles below Port Jervis, where his children are recorded as having been born since 1730.

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 # 936.

   Parents: Jan van etten, Jannetje Roos
   Child and date: Jacob, 25 Dec 1696
   Witnesses and Sponsors: Ari Roos. Mary Pels.

2. ↑ Some Ten Generations of Jacobus Jansen Van Etten
   p. 16.
3. ↑ Birth date approximated from the baptismal record.