Ancestry for: Clarence Orrel KUYKENDALL

Notes

1024. Luur UNKNOWN

The patronym of Jacob Luurszen (son of Luur), tells us his father's
first namewas Luur but the records of Wageningen do not go back
far enough to tell us anything else about the father or mother of
Jacob. Old Luur may have been bornin the Netherlands, but he may
also have been one of the many refugees pouringinto the
Netherlands during that time.

1036. Barent Jacobsen COOL

The Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State
by J.H. French
published 1860

The following narrative contains edited excerpts from the abovecaptioned resource.

Ulster County was formed on November 1, 1683. In its charter it is said to "contain the towns of Kingston, Hurley, and Marbletown, Foxhall and New Paltz, and all the villages, neighborhoods, and Christian habitations on the west side of the Hudson River, from the Murderers Creek, near the Highlands, to the Sawyers Creek". It was named for the Irish title of the Duke ofYork. The boundary of Ulster and Albany counties were not fully settled at theRevolution.

The Dutch established a trading post upon the present site of Rondout in 1614, and probably a few Dutch families settled in the immediate vicinty soon after. This early settlement was broken up by Indian hostilities, and anew one was commenced between 1630-1640. This was again attacked by Indians, and in 1655 was abondoned. Before 1660, settlers had again located at Kingston.In 1660 a treaty had been concluded with the Indians; and the people were so unsuspicious of danger that they left open the gates to their fort both day and night. In June, 1663, the Indians came into the fort at Wiltwyck in great numbers, apparently to trade, while the greater part of the people were engaged in their usual avocations out of doors.

At a given signal the Indians commenced the work of destruction. Recovering from their first panic, the settlers ralliedunder the leadership of Thomas Chambers, and finally drove the Indians out ofthe fort. 18 settlers were killed and 42 were carried away as prisoners. The out settlements were all
destroyed. A destructive war ensured, in which the Ulster Indians were nearly exterminated. During this war the valley of the Wall Kilwas discovered, and soon after the peace of 1663 it was occupied by a colony of French Huguenots. The settlements gradually extended along the valleys of the
Esopus, Rondout, and Wal Kill Creeks and their tributaries.

The following narrative is from the book published in 1880 by Nathaniel Sylvester
titled History of Ulster County, New York.

The county of Ulster is one of the original or "mother-counties" of the State of New York. Situated upon the west bank of the Hudson, midway between New Amsterdam and Fort Orange, in early colonial times Esopus was the acknowledged rival of those two settlements in respect of the trade and commerce of the great river. Lying along the old Indian trail which connected the valley of the Hudson with the head-waters of the Delaware, andplanted among the hereditary homes of powerful Indian tribes, the infant settlements of Ulster were among the first to suffer from early savage warfare. In later times, her people prominent among the river settlements of the province inpoint of numbers as well as in devotion to the cause of civil and religious liberty, Ulster County played an important part in the war of the
Revolution. Honored above her sister-counties in being the birthplace of constitutional government in the great State of New York, the crowning event in the History of Ulster was the adoption of the first State Constitution and the organization of theState Government on the site of the ancient village of Wiltwyck, at Kingston, in the eventful year of 1777.

The following narrative is from the book titledUlster County, New York Probate
Records by Gustave Anjou published in 1906. The introduction is written by
Alphonso T. Clearwater about the History of Ulster County (edited).

The history of Ulster County may be said to consist of four periods. The first began with the establishment of a Dutch trading post atPonckhockie, the junction of the Hudson and the Roundout, in 1614. The second with the settlement of Kingston of Christoffle Daavis, Mattys Hendrix and JohanDeHulter, Dutchmen, and Thomas Chambers, an Englishman, in 1652. The third withthe treaty of Paris
in 1763. The fourth with th