• General Notes

  The first of this family to come to this Country was Juriaen Van Westphalen. He arrived in "New Amsterdam at the age of  thirteen aboard the ship Dehoutwun on August 4, 1642. He then went up the river 135 miles arriving at Fort Orange (Albany, New York) on August 11, 1642.
  
  He arrived as an indentured servant to Kiliaen Van Reasselaer. He was placed in the home of Michael Jansen. Juriaen moved south of Albany to Esopus (Kingston) with his friend and fellow indentured servant Schepin Evert Pels in about 1653. He was granted 32 1/2 morgans (70 acres) of land September of 1654.
  
  He married Marretje Jansen that same year. On August 17, 1759 Juriaen and twelve others petioned Peter Stuyvesant to establish a church at Wiltwyck (Kingston) Juriaen signed with a three pronged fork or trident mark. The church was established. Numerous records regarding Juriaen and his descendants are available in Records of then Dutch Reformed Chruch in New York.
  
  Juriaen's son Johannes and eighteen others including his brothers Symon and Nicholas and his widowed sister Rymerick Quick bought land from the Indians in 1696, the land lies principally in Deerpark Township, Orange County, New York.
  
  Johannes began the family's migration when he moved with his family to Minisink in 1699.
  
  Children
  Rymerick Jurriaens WESTVAEL b: 1654 in Kingston, Ulster, NY
  Johannes Jurian WESTPHAL b: 1660 in Esopus (Kingston) New York
  Abel Jurians WESTVAAL b: 25 Sep 1661 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY
  Symon WESTVAEL b: 30 Sep 1663 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY
  Niclaas Jurians WESTVAAL b: 1665 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY
  Elsjen Jurians WESTVAAL b: 27 Jun 1666 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY
  

Details of Juriaen's family with Marritje Hansen Van Noorstad