Benjamin Rosecrans 
Benjamin was born on December 31st, 1770 in Walpack, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA.1 Benjamin's father was John Rosencrans and his mother was Margaret Dewitt. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Rosenkrans and Marretjen DePue; his maternal grandparents were Tjerck Dewitt and Arientje Decker. He was an only child. He died at the age of 77 on December 20th, 1848 in Walpack, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA. He was buried in Peters Valley Dutch Ref Church.1 1 General Notes
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BIOGRAPHY: 47. MAJOR BENJAMIN ROSENKRANS, twin brother of Joseph, and son of Colonel John (16), was born December 31, 1770, on the upper farm of the Rosenkrans tract of land on the Delaware purchased by his grandfather Alexander, 1729. He married October 27, 1790, Margaret Schoonover, born in Walpack November 16, 1774, daughter of Nicholas, grandson of Nicholas Schoonhoven, who in company with his brother-in-law Thomas Brink, purchased 1,210 acres of land at Lower Walpack, just above the river bend October 10, 1725, and donated and deeded 1737, to the "Christian people" of that community the church and burial grounds for the First Walpack Church, near the bend. The original deed for these grounds, in its quaint form and spelling, as found in Everett & Pecks History, p. 329, is herewith presented:
BIOGRAPHY: "To all Christian people to whom these prances Shall Com Know ye that we Thomas Brink and Nicklas Schoonhovan of Wallpack in the County of Hunterdon Yeoman Know yea that we Do Send greten Know yea that we Thomas Brink and Nicklas Schoonhovan that we have and do this Give gran and by these prances do give grant for the Love good will and afexshans which we do Bair towards the inhabts of Wallpack and the near inhabitons thar a bout an we do give and grant unto the inhabitons abov Riten all and Sigeler that Lot or parsal of Land Lying an Sittu and beinge in Wallpack Buting Bounding at follngs Beging at the northwess Corner of the Buring yard at a Red oak tree markt with three notches on the sides Running from the fence Souerle to a wite oak tree mark with three noches, Runing along to a Black oak tree markt with three notches a corner tre then Runing easterle to a corner a Black oak markited with three notches from thence Northerle to a Black oak Corner tree market on two sides with three notches from thence to the foust Stashon Containing about fore ackers moreso or Les to Gether with all the Rites, titls intrest clames and Demands what so ever we now have and which any or ever of our heirs Executors Administrators or a Signs may hear after have of or to the Said Granted Premises or any part there of have and to hold the Said Pece or Lot of Land unto the above Written inhabtines them their ares asines Execters admini without any maner of Conditions we the said thomas Brink an nickles Schoonhovan have fully freely and absolutely and forever own accord Set and Put in furder testimony in witness whareof we have hear unto Set our hands and Seales this first day of febery in this tenth year of his magesty King George an anodomney one thousand Seven hundred and thirty Seven Sined Sealed Witness in the presnece of us
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1596 in NDordrecht, ZuidHoll, Netherlands d.< 1654 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- b.~ 1606 in Burgesell, Norway
- b.1632 in Bergen Norway d.25 Jun 1692 in Rochester, Ulster Co., NY
- b.~ 1584 in of, Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- b.12 Apr 1659 in New Amsterdam, NEW WORLD d.1692 in Rochester, Ulster Co., New York
- b.~ 1595 in Norway d.24 Apr 1677 in Buchwick, Long Isand NY
- b.~ 1634 in New Amsterdam, NY d.~ 1726 in Rochester, Monroe, NY
- b.1590 in Nord, Valenciennes, France d.<Apr 1632 in Manhatten, NY
- b.1610 in France d. in Bushwick, Long Island, NY
- b.~ 1590 in Nord, Valenciennes, France d.May 1655 in New Amsterdam
- b.06 Jul 1724 in Rochester, Ulster Co., New York d.05 Jun 1786
- b.1594 d.25 Jun 1625 in Sarragosse
- b.~ 1629 in Of Artois, France d.~14 Jul 1690 in Probably, New York, New York
- b.1610 in XX
- b.~ 1657 in Paris, Seine, France d.1754 in Rochester, Monroe, New York
- b.1632 in Of Artois, France XX d.1705 in ,,New York
- b.24 Apr 1681 in Kingston, Ulster Co. New York d.> 1745
- b.1616
- b.~ 1627 in Wyckerom, by Eeded, Gelterland, Holland d.~ 1675 in Esopus, Kingston, New York
- b.04 Jul 1660 in Albany, Albany, New York d.16 Oct 1724 in Albany, Albany, New York
- b.~ 1600 in ,,Netherlands XX
- b.~ 1629 in ,,OF New York d.<16 May 1679 in Kingston, Ulster, New York
- b.~ 1605 in ,,Netherlands XX
- b.31 Dec 1770 in Walpack, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA d.20 Dec 1848 in Walpack, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
- b.1594 in Of Grootholdt, Westphalia, Prussia d. in Esens?, East Friesland, Ger
- b. in Groothold, Sunderland, Holland d.17 FEB 1699/00 in Kingston NY
- b.1596 in Of Grootholdt, Zunderland, East Friesland, Holland
- b.1669 in prob. Kingston, Ulster County, New York d.1754 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York
- b.1595 in Netherlands
- b.1638 in Amsterdam Holland d.06 Jul 1714 in Kingston, Ulster Co. NY
- b.1597 in Netherlands
- b. in Rochester, Ulster Co., NY d.~ 1764
- d.1730
- b.28 Jul 1674 in Newyork City NY d. in Kingston, Ulster County, New York
- d.1730
- b.18 Apr 1731 in Rochester, Ulster Co., New York
- b.< 1640 in Heerden, Gelderland, Holland d.>05 Apr 1706 in Port Jervis, Orange Co., NY
- b. in Holland d.<30 Sep 1654 in Albany, Albany, NY
- b.1640 in New Amsterdam, NY
- b.~ 1615 in Holland d.> 1667 in Probably Kingston, Ulster, NY
- b.02 May 1615 in osnabruck, hanover province, germany
- b.23 Apr 1640 in husum, copenhagen, denmark d.1717 in port jervis, ny
- b. in husom, schleswig-holstein, germany
- b.~ 1664 in esopus/kingston, ny
- b.1615 in Sweden
- b.~ 1640 in joteburg, sweden
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‌Benjamin and Margaret were married in a religious ceremony on October 27th, 1790 in Walpack, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA.1 They had a son named Levi.
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Children
Levi Rosencrans
Levi was born on March 10th, 1800 in New Jersey, USA.1 He died at the age of 80 in 1880 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA.1
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