This is info I have found. I have not worked on this family for some time now so these facts have not been verified or research a lot by me. I would like to stay in touch though on this family. Pieter Van Kykendall, b. 1698, d. 1778 and married to Phoebe Decker would be my 7th gr. grand parents, if we are indeed related.
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Copied from OneWorldTree.com family tree of Lackey-Harkleroad Family Project
Contact: Edwin Lackey email
elackey@excite.com (7/2006) Name: Pieter Van Kykendall
Pieter owned a farm at Machackemeck, near the farm of his father-in-law. His place embraced the land comprising a large part of the present site of Port Jervis, N.Y., probably the most valuable portion of the city. The land was originally purchased of a widow named Heleca Decker. She had bought it from Joseph Kirkbride and Sarah Stevenson of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Jacob Kuykendall and Jurian Westfall, his brother-in-law, bought their lands from this same Stevenson. Pieter Kuykendall's residence was located inside the present plat of Port Jervis, just at the edge of the first bench of land above the "bottom." It was in this vicinity that Pieter was brought up from the time he was two years old. Here he lived and died, and here lived also his son, Peter, his grandson Elias and his great grandson Jacob. The place was in possession of the family for over one hundred and twenty-five years. It passed out of the family holding when Jacob sold it in 1840. Until within recent years, there was a barn upon the place that was built by Peter Kuykendall nearly one hundred years ago.
At first the land was used exclusively for farming and stock raising. The old home place was covered with timber formerly, and had to be cleared before it could be farmed. As the country became more thickly settled, and there was more business and trade, there came a demand for better transportation facilities, then later, the Delaware and Hudson Canal was built, and there sprang up a demand for building places. The old Pieter Kuykendall farm was then laid out into town lots and streets. Where the first old log cabin stood, and where the stock yard and pens for pigs, cattle and horses had been, and where corn, wheat and tobacco had been raised, all was laid out into building lots. The canal with its tow path, ran along, closely skirting the base of the elevated knob, called "Point Peter," hugging the bluff, as it swept up the valley beyond the town plat. Lots were sold, new buildings began to cover over that part of the farm. Soon everything was entirely changed, and if today, old Pieter or any of his children could come back, they would not recognize their old home. Looking at it today, one would hardly suppose that where there are lawns, dwellings and business houses, there had been a field and pastures, with haystacks, and that still earlier, there was a dark forest inhabited by wolves, bears and lynxes.
It is quite likely that the first building erected at Machackemeck (now Port Jervis, N.Y.) was built at Carpenter's Point, or near there, but it is quite probable that the tavern kept by the elder Pieter, and afterwards by his son Peter, was at the old home. This "Kuykendall's Tavern" was probably the first in that part of the country. It was mentioned in old accounts as early as 1761.
Petrus (Pieter) was the first Justice of the Peace in the country there, of which there is any record. Here he conducted a farm, ran a tavern and was a prominent member of the Dutch Reformed Church, in which he was an elder and officer for many years. His family grew up and stood high in the community, and as his sons and daughters came to maturity they took an active part in business and society and were members of the church of their father.
Father: Luur Jacobsen Van Kuykendall b: 29 MAY 1650 in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, Dutch Colony, NY
Mother: Grietje Artze Tack b: 16 AUG 1663 in Albany, NY
Marriage 1 Femmetje Decker b: 29 OCT 1699 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY
Married: 8 JUL 1719 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY
Event: Place of Marriage in Old Dutch Church
Children
Henrick Kuikendal b: 10 JUL 1720 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY
Daniel Kuykendaal b: 28 JAN 1721/22
Elizabeth Kuykendal b: 3 JAN 1724/25
Zaloman Kuykendal b: 25 JUN 1727 in Kingston, NY
Petrus Kuykendal b: ABT 1732
Martinus Kuykendall b: 8 JUN 1734 in Port Jervis, Orange Co., NY
Jacob Kuykendal b: 23 AUG 1737
Jacob Kuykendal b: 30 OCT 1739
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Contact: Michael MacCreery Home Page: The Joseph McCreery Clan Homepage
email:
mamacmi@sbcglobal.netTitle: "Old Sussex County Families" by Charles Edgar Stickney
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Contact: Beth Watkins email:
ewatkins25@hotmail.comChristening: 1 May 1698 Ref. Dutch Ch., Kingston, Ulster Co., NY 1
Ancestral File #: 3553-HX
Title: Westfall Research
Author: Lentz, Genevieve, 1911--
Publication: Winchester, Ind.: G. Lentz, c1985
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Contact: Dr. Dr. Michael Ottinger email:
ottinger@mwsc.eduChristening: 1 May 1698 Kingston, Ulster County, Ny
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