Person:Jonathan Westbrook (2)

He operated the mill after his father's death and farmed.

According to the story of a slave named Tim, Jonathan Westbrook died when he was poisoned by another slave named Pete Motte. The story has it that Pete Motte, having gone to Kingston to get medicine for his master, added the fatal dose of poison. The storyteller, Tim, was a native of Africa and evidently was quite talented as a "doctor" particularly in rheumatic cases. He was well-known and sought out in surrounding towns. He remained with the family until he was very old, and then left on his own, his master having given him his freedom (unnamed document in file found at Bennington, VT Library).

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 # 1965.

   Parents: Dirk Westbroek, Catryn Ooster-houd
   Child and date: Jonathan, 1 July 1711
   Witnesses and Sponsors: Evert Wynkoop, Annetjen Kiersteede, David deBooys, Cornelia Vernoy.

2.   Walter D. Thomas. Osterhout Family
   # 70.
3.   Family Files.

   Westbrook Section- unnamed document in file found at Bennington, VT Library

4. ↑ Birth date approximated from the baptismal record.
5. ↑ His will was dated 9 Feb 1759 and was proved 14 February 1761.