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From: Iris Gates <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Van Taxel and Van Tassel - (clarification to the article)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:01:51 -0400
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Thank you all for the wonderful research and discussion.
So far, no source is known that links Catoneras, Wynadanch, and the Van
Texel family in _one_ document.
But a body of evidence supports the Catoneras / Van Texel union, and
other land documents give the heirs. Catoneras is linked to Wyandance
elsewhere.
Baptismal records might not show the mother's name, Catoneras as such.
Flatbush baptisms could show children baptized under some variation of
names "Cornelis Jansen of ___" and Catoneras the mother using her
assumed Christian name, if any. Years to check would be 1660's to 1680's.
> After re-reading this article, the author overlooked one important fact.
> There is no evidence Jan Cornelissen Van Texel "transferred the deed."
True. However, documents cited in the article not only finally establish
Van Texel ownership of the land at Crab Meadow, but also give the name
of Cornelissen's wife as Catoneras.
In the article:
signatures of sworn petitions were filed (1705 and 1712) by the
grandsons and grandsons-in law, heirs of Jan Cornelissen (van Texel)
seeking their right to the land at Crab Meadow. They state that the land
had once belonged to Catoneras:
"whereas your petitioner's father [meaning Jan Cornelissen] as heir
to his mother, Catoneras, a native Indian of the Island Nassamo, who in
her lifetime was seized of a certain tract or parcel of land, lying and
being in the Island aforesaid, now in the county of Suffolk, next the
town of Huntington, called by the natives, Anendesack..." (etc).
That land was defined ijn this doc as the beachfront and inland between
"Anendesack," or "Eader's Neck beach," and "Assawanama."
Because of some questionable land transactions in previous decades, and
because of rapid settling in the area, the land had been in dispute. But
a petition for that tract was filed and signed by grandsons Cornelis,
Jacob, and Jan Van Texel, and and sons-in-law "Lent Barent" DeWitt and
Peter Storm as follows:
"Your Petitioners therefore pray etc. Cornelius Van Texel Jacob the mark
of Van Texel Jan Van Texel Hendrick the mark of Lent Barent De Witt
Peter P.S. the mark of Storm."
According to docs presented in the article, Crab Meadow was granted back
to the Van Texel family, heirs of Catoneras, in 1714.
Thanks again to all and happy hunting.
Liz J
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