Re: Elvis's Hood connections?
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Re: Elvis's Hood connections?
10/12/98
I can't tell you about Elvis, but I noticed Rachel Van Bunschoten m. to Johannes Hood.She is found in the book "Van Bunschoten's in America" by William Henry Van Bunschoten, published 1907.She is the youngest of 10 children of Theunis Eliasen (Van Bunschoten)and Gerritje Gerrits who came to America before 1671.She was bp. Dec 22, 1695 in Kingston, NY.The author did not have much information about her, the book is 806 pages long and Rachel's lineage is just one page, the very last.It reads:
"Rachel V.B. married at Kingston Church, in 1718, John Hood who was from New York and of English parentage, I take it, though his name frequently appears in the Dutch records as on this occasion, as Jan Hoed.It is found that at the Kingston election of Mar. 1, 1719-1720, Jan was chosen Constable, and that in 1726-27, he served as highway surveyor from Hurley to the Strand.After the death of Theunis Eliasen and the birth of their daughter Gerritjen all trace of Rachel and Jan themselves is lost, and very completely lost.That they had another and later dughter, and that she was named Rebecca is made certain by the record below.Also that they, or at least some of their family, remained in the general Ulster region is also as good as certain since the name which they monopolized at that time cropped up indigenously, as one might say, a generation later in the Walkill Valley near New Paltz where it figures in the early church records and in the older burying grounds and is borne by men of today.However, following the latter day records of all sorts as remotely back as possible there yet remains a gap of one generation before the children of Rachel and Jan are reached.
These children were:
Theunis, bp Feb 22, 1719
Johannes, bp. Jan 8, 1721
Jacobus, bp. Dec 25, 1722
Catrina, bp. Nov 22, 1724
Gerritjen, bp. Jan 8, 1727
Rebecca, bp. ?
Rebecca Hood m John Johnson; lived for a while at Kington.
Johnson children baptized at Kingston:
Maria bp. Sep 4, 1757
Catherine bp. May 20, 1759"
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