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From: MRS PATRICIA D HARRISON< >
Subject: Re: Westbroek
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 00:53:00, -0500


>> Would you believe there are two places in New York State called
Rochester. I live just outside the City of Rochester, which is in
Monroe
County. It became a city in 1837 and before that was known as
Rochesterville.

The other Rochester is the Town of Rochester in UlsterCounty. It
has
been named that for over 300+ years. It doesn't usually show on map
because
there is NOT a Village named Rochester in it. As luck would have it,
I have
ancestors that lived near there. In my family database I have people
born
and died in "Town of Rochester, Ulster Co., NY" and also realtives
born in
"Rochester, Monroe Co., NY."<<

One of the oldest churches in Ulster County is at Accord, the "First
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Rochester". This town was
originally called the town of Mombaccus. col. Henry Beekman, Captain
Joachim Schoonmaker and Moses DePuy obtained from Edward, Viscount
Cornbury, Governor of the Province of New York under Queen Anne, June
25, 1703, a patent to a great tract of land in that town to be
conveyed to settlers, and the direction that the town be called
Rochester thereafter. (from Olde Ulster, Vol VI, pp97-104)

There are loads of Westbroeks in the church records.

Patricia Van Wagenen Harrison

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