General Notes

Jojakim,Jochim,Joghem. Information is taken from the" First Book"  from the Old Sleepy Hollow, Church, Philips Burgh, New York.
First Record Book of the 'Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow' Organized in 1697 and now The First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N. Y.," An original translation of its brief historical matter, and a copy, faithful to the letter, of every personal and local name, of its four registers of members, consistorymen, baptisms, and marriages, from its organization to 1791, by Rev. David Cole, D.D., Yonkers, N. Y., Published by The Yonkers Historical and Library Association, 1901. FOURTH DIVISION (OR "BOOK").  [Baptisms: 1776- 1791]
APRIL 28, 1776 / 2266. Johannis Van Wart, Ragel his wife / Myno / Daniel Martlings, Marytie his wife
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Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburg
by Grenville Mackenzie
Westport, Connecticut, 1966
bound by Sleepy Hollow Restorations
Tarrytown, New York, 1976
THE SETTLEMENT OF PHILIPSBURGH
By MacKenzie, entered by Lisa Shea
The old record book of the "Christian Church of the Manor of Philipsburgh" begun in 1715, gives the following account of the origin of the Manor :- "About the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1680, his Royal Majesty of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc., was pleased to agree by prerogative, consent and license, to grant to the Hon. Lord Frederick Philipse to purchase without restriction at a real estate sale, a certain stretch of land and valley lying in Westchester County in America, beginning at the north of Spuytenduyvel Creek and extending northward along the River to the kill of Kitchewang, as specified in the license and patent granted by the state." * The royal patent was granted in 1693 when Frederick Philipse was confirmed as lord of the manor known as Philipse Manor or the Manor of Philipse.The first settlers on record in the vicinity of Tarrytown were Lourens Matthys Bankert and Jochem Woutersz Van Wert. Both came before 1688. It may well have been that Frederick Philipse brought Lourens Matthys from Flatbush to Tarrytown in the spring of 1682 to look after his affairs at the upper mill. The fact that he named five of his children after members of the Philipse family, and that they acted as sponsors to several of his children, would suggest his status as a trusted and privileged employee.

Jochem Woutersz probably came here about 1683. About or shortly before 1690 they were followed by the Ecker brothers Wolfert and Jan, also from Flatbush. Whatever other residents there may have been before 1690 would seem to have been transients who shortly moved on, leaving no descendants and no record of their existence here. The statement of Governor Bellmont that there were only "twenty poor families" in Philipse Manor in 1698, is an understatement. There were nearly forty. Nineteen families are on record as living in Philipsburg at that date:- Lourens Matthys Bankers (7), Deliverance Conklin (4), David Davids (3), Barent de Witt (5), Abraham de Revier (3), Wolfert Ecker (5), Jan Ecker 94), John Foseur (4), Francois Guiliamse (6), Jan Harmse (3), John Hyatt (7), Thomas Hyatt (2), David Storm (4), Peter Storm (3), Isaac Sie (5), Peter Sie (2), Jochem Woutersz Van Wert (6), Gerret Van Wert (5) and Robert Williams (5). The number in parentheses are the number of persons in each family as determined from church and other records, totaling 83. A few other families who were definitely here shortly after 1698 may have come before that date. The census of 1698 lists twenty one families living in Yonkers, Lower Yonkers. **8 Census record:- 7 men and 7 women over sixty, 62 men and 61 women between sixteen and sixty and 86 boys and 86 girls.