Written on letterhead stationary of Henry J. Aten, Farm
Mortgage Loans, Hiawatha, Kansas.
July 21st, 1899.
My dear Dr. Thompson: -
I received your favor of the 13th, and thought before this
I could give you the date for the next reunion. But you will doubtless hear as soon as I when they fix the date.
I have a letter from Dr. Corwin to day, but his books and papers are yet unpacked, but he says that the Rev. David K Demarest wrote a pamphlet about the Dutch emigration to Kentucky, but at present he cannot find it. He also says that there never was a Dutch Church at Jerseytown, Pa. However, I am now getting at the descendants of the Atens that went to Jerseytown, direct.
I have a letter from Henry Aten of Danville, Pa. this week. He and his three brothers live there., –old men descended from William the son of Garret Aten and Dina Johnson. Then to day I received a letter from a Van Tassel, at Bloomsburg,Pa. who is a descendant of Hendrick the brother of Derick. So I am doubtless in the way of getting the family record of those who settled at Jerseytown. I have never been sure that there were any Atens in the settlement at Conewago. But that place is not far below Danville and Bloomsburg, and all are on the Susquehanna River, so it is not impossible that the church record at Conwego may contain valuable information.
Dr. Corwin asks for a paragraph or two about the settlement at Jerseytown, which I may be able to furnish a little later. I think now that on my way to the reunion I will stop at Danville, and try to get something more about the Jerseytown settlement than I am likely to get out of my correspondents.
Mr. Isaac S Waters, who is compiling a genealogy of the Snedeker family, has kindly examined the Dutch Church record of the marriage of Guysbert Lubbertse and Lysbet Thomas, and furnishes the following:
DUTCH CHURCH MARRIAGES, page 19
“Feb 22nd, 1655, Guysberts, Lubberts, Uyt de Beemster (out of the meadow)
Noort Holl. Lysbet Thomas, Van (from ) London.” This I suppose settles the question in so far as that she came over from London, but she still may have been Dutch.
I see by the Inter-Ocean that a Mr. Marshall DeMotte, is compiling a genealogy of the Demotte family. He resides in St. Paul, Minn. and I have written him.
Sincerely yours,
Remember
me to
your brother.