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by Roxy Triebel
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Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches

OSTERHOUDT / OSTERHOUT / VAN OOSTERHOUDT
ETC.

Members of this family intermarried with my Van Kleeck line (among others).  Most of this information came from my grandmother's book "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches".  It does get very confusing in places as a lot of them married cousins.  I have put names in my direct line in bold letters - don't know whether this will actually help much.  If you would like to make corrections or additions, please feel free to contact me.

The following three paragraphs are copied from "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches":

JAN JANSEN took the name of Van OOSTERHOUDT.  He was from the market of Oosterhout in North Brabrant, Holland.  He came to this country in the early 1660's on the ship "CODDLEBACK".  Jan Jansen was called the Brabranteer; settled in the area known as Brabrant (over the Esopus Creek off what is now Route 28 out of Kingston.  Brabrant Road is still there.)

Later generations dropped the VAN from the name.  He co-owned property with JAN BURHANS in what is now Ulster County - one lot called "Dead Man's Bones" - evidently a burial plot.  It was located about five miles north of Kingston, over the kill (creek) near a footpath leading to Albany.  He also owned a property called "Hell" (don't know where that was located or why called that).

Jan Jansen was married first 25 Oct. 1653 to Annetjen Hendricks and then married second 18 Feb. 1663 in Kingston Dutch Reformed Church to Annejen Jelles.  She was from the Island of Bommelward, Gelderland, Holland.  He was the father of fifteen children.  I will list only several that come into our line.

  1. Jan Van Oosterhout (baptized 1666) married Annetje Hendricks Ploeg.  They had ten children.

  2. Teunis Van Oosterhout (baptized 1668) married Arriantje Roosa, daughter of Arie Roosa and Maria Pels.  They had twelve children.

  3. Pieter Van Oosterhout (ca. 1671 - 1751) married in 1696 to Heyltie Schutt.

    1. Jan Osterhoudt (b. 1699) married Elizabeth Brink.
      1. Heyltie Osterhoudt married Hendrick Ploeg.

    2. Teunis Osterhoudt (b. 1705) married Catherine Legg.  This line descends down to Nancy Van Keuren, wife of Abram / Abraham Osterhout (see photo below).
      1. Maria Osterhoudt married Johannes Meyer.
        1. Josiah Myer (born 1756) married Mareitje Legg.
          1. Sarah Myer married Hezekiah Van Keuren.
            1. Nancy Van Keuren married Abram P. Osterhout (see photos below).

    3. Peter Osterhoudt (born 1710) married in October 1739 to Elizabeth Burhans [according to D. A. R. Linage BK 7:95 and Burhans Genealogy pg 27].  This Elizabeth Burhans (baptized 24 August 1718 Kingston, was the daughter of BARENT BURHANS and Tryntje Legg).  She married II:  in 1748 to Johannes Van Wagenen.

    4. Arriantje Osterhoudt (born 1712) married Jonathan DuBois.
      1. Jonathan DuBois, Jr. married in 1773 to his cousin Marya Osterhout (born 1735).

    5. Hendrick Osterhoudt (born 1714) married in 1735 to Annatje DeWitt.
      1. Marya Osterhout (born 1735) married in 1773 to her cousin Jonathan DuBois, Jr. (see above).
      2. Abraham Osterhout (born 1748) married in 1769 to Catharine Minkler.
        1. Marytie Osterhout (born 1788) married Peter W. Osterhoudt (born 1786).

  4. Kryn Osterhout (born 1679) married in 1704 to Marytie Schutt and they had four children.  Kryn married in 1716 to Marytie Ploeg, the daughter of Hendrick Albertse Ploeg and Tryntje Pieters Ostrander.

    1. Petrus Kreinse Osterhout (baptized 1720) married first to Catherine Wynkoop and second, in 1747 to Margriet Ploeg, daughter of Jan Ploeg and Elizabeth Burhans.

      1. Peter (or Petrus) Osterhout (born 1752) married Elizabeth Van Wagenen, daughter of Johannes Van Wagenen and Elizabeth Burhans (who was the widow of the Peter Osterhoudt born in 1710 - see above).

        1. Peter Whitaker Osterhout (born 1786) married Marytie Osterhout (born 1788), daughter of Abraham Osterhout (born 1748) and Catherine Minkler (see above).

          1. Abraham Osterhout  Abram P. Osterhoudt (born 1813) married in 1841 to his third cousin once removed (see above) Nancy Van Keuren (born 1821 or 1822).  They lived in Sawkill, NY.  He is listed as "Abram P. Osterhoudt" in his daughter Isabel's baptism record.  I have seen other records that give his first name as "Abraham".

            1. Rachel Osterhout  David Van Kleeck  Rachel Emily Osterhout (1842 - 1874) married in 1865 to David Van Kleeck (1839 - 1902).  These are my great great grandparents.  For more information on their descendants, see my Van Kleeck page.

            2. Mariah Osterhout (born and died 1846)

            3. Peter Henry Osterhout (1849 - 1863)

            4. Sarah Eliza Osterhout (born and died 1849)

            5. Amos Osterhout (1853 - 1854)

            6. Amzi Osterhout (born 1857) married a man named Smith.

            7. Isabel or Isabella Osterhout (born 1860) married James Henry Geddes and had at least three sons according to an 1890 baptism record from the Church of the Ascension, Rhinecliff, Rhinebeck Twp., Dutchess Co., NY.

              1. George Edgar Geddes (born 1879)
              2. Clyde Irving Geddes (born 1888)
              3. James Abram Geddes (born 1890)

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