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  1. Gerrit Van Bunschoten: Birth: MAR 1682 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Death: AUG 1712 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA


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a. Note:   http://books.google.com/books?id=j6ZYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA646&dq=%22william+day%22+Van+Bunschoten&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b-4fUp3REoGmyQHa5oHABQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22william%20day%22%20Van%20Bunschoten&f=false
  Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in America: a ...
 By William Henry Van Benschoten
  The birth and parentage of Gerritje Gerrits have been sought in the church records far and wide but to no avail; nothing has been learned. As a sponsor at the baptism of her first-born at Bergen stood a Gerrit Tysen with his wife Hermtje Hermans. He was from Amsterdam; and it is barely possible that he was Gerritje's father by an earlier wife in Holland since when in 1664 he is married in New York to Hermtje Hermans he is not designated as a "young man," after the Dutch custom when such, and so he may have been a widower. None of the after sponsors at Kingston proved to be relatives. There seemed to fall a glimmer of light on Gerritje from domestic sources, for in an old note-book from the New Hackensack branch of our family I find her name mentioned as " Gerritje Gerritse Van den Bergh or Van Vredenburgh;" records, though, fail to bear out either claim. Indeed, no firm facts are found anywhere to build on.. Since very many of the early settlers of Kingston came from Albany and since no church records prior to 1683 survive there it is quite possible that the mystery of Gerritje's parentage and advent, and of Teunis's as well, lies hidden in these missing earliest Albany records.
  Gerritje is last seen in the church records on July 21, 1700, when she and Teunis stand as sponsors for their little grandson Johannes Van Steenbergen. "Gerritje Elisse." she is styled on that occasion. Ever after she is missed from Teunis' side; when he acts as sponsor one of the daughters, usually Marritje, occupies that place. From this I take it, many years before Teunis she found that river "Along whose shores the numerous footfalls cease, The voices and the tears of life expire."
  I was not able to find her baptismal record in a general, automated search on Family Search Org.


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