Nicholas Schoonover
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Christening: 1 Feb 1685 - Kingston, Ulster, NY
Death: After 1729
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father:
Mother: Debora Christoffels Davids (1665-1693) 5
Father: Hendrick Classen Van Schoonover (1652-1715)
Mother: Debora Christoffels Davids (1665-1693) 5
Spouses and Children
1. Neeltie Van Der Schuyven ( - Bef 1713) 5
Marriage: 20 Oct 1706 - Kingston, Ulster, NY
2. *Weyntjen Quick (29 Sep 1692 - Bef Jun 1728) 5
Marriage: 24 Feb 1713 - Kingston, Ulster, NY
Children:
1. Thomas Schoonover (1714- ) 5
2. Rebekka Schoonover (1717- ) 5
3. Ysaak Schoonover (1719- ) 5
4. Deborah Schoonover (1723- ) 5
5. Willem Schoonover (1725- ) 5
3. Weyntjen De Lange ( - ) 5
Marriage: 19 May 1728 - Kingston, Ulster, NY
Notes
General:
CHR: Roswell Randall Hoes, BAPTISMAL AND MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH OF KINGSTON, ULSTER CO., NY 1660-1809; #408; Minisink Valley Historical Society, Port Jervis, NY.
BIRTH: Deeds of Ulster Co. NY; Complaint dated 17 Oct 1687; Vol. AA, p. 69; photocopied from clerk's office, Ulster Co., Kingston NY; copy in poss. ob Brenda Ericsson, Tucson AZ.
MARRIAGES: Roswell Randall Hoes, BAPTISMAL AND MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH OF KINGSTON, ULSTER CO., NEW YORK 1660-1809; #241 for marriage to Neeltie Van Der Schuyven; #291 for marriage to Weyntjen Quick; #653 for marriage to Weyntjen De Lange; Minisink Valley Historical Society, Port Jervis, NY.
WITNESSES: (at baptism) Jan Willemz, Cornelis Hoogeboom, and Barbara Janz.
CONFLICT AND BIOGRAPHY:
At Nicholas' baptism, his parents were listed as Hendric Claasz (Van Schoonhoven) and Debora Davidtz (David, Davids or Davis).
However, in a will by Claesse Henderick (Van Schoonhoven) dated 12 Nov 1688 (ULSTER CO. NY WILLS VOL I by Gustave Anjou, NY, 1906, p. 49; Orange Co. Genealogical Society, Goshen, NY) he apparently has divorced Debora and is about to be or is newly married to his second wife Cornelia Swartwout. We know that Debora went on to have several children by Pieter Van Bommel so was alive in 1688. In this 1688 will he gave his "Recerdit Basterd Child named Claes whoes modder is called Debora an English Schilling" to save further trouble. In a 3 Jul 1936 newspaper article by Orange Co. historian William J. Coulter (no other identification, clippings located in folder of articles by Coulter found in the Minisink Historical Society, Port Jervis, NY), he writes information from Vol. one, Liber AA, page 69 of deeds of Ulster Co. in the Clerk's Office at Kingston NY: sworn testimony of several people, made on 17 Oct 1687 before Capt. Henry Beeckman, Justice of the Peace, that Debora said she did not love Hendrick Claes and that Dirrick Wooden Legg was the father of her child (she means Nicholas). Derrick scorned Debora and married someone else. By testimony, Hendrick Clason several times promised to "...take hir and live with hir as a man and wife ought to doe..." if she would "...carry hir self as an onest wooman..." but Debora refused.
The above information would seem to show that "our" Nicholas is a Schoonover in name only.
Debora and her son Nicholas seemed to get along well; they witnessed once each at the birth of each other's children; and one of Debora and Pieter Van Bommel's daughters, therefore a half-sister to Nicholas, witnessed one of his daughter's, her namesake, Margrita's baptism in 1710. When Peter Vanbone (Pieter Van Bommel) made his will on 6 Apr 1732, he left to Deborah Schoonhoven, daughter of his wife's son Nicholaas Schoonhoven, 5 pounds in money, 2 pounds in clothing and a cow (Anjou, Vol II, p. 120).
Meanwhile, Hendrik and Cornelia had their first son in 1694. They named him Nicholas and had the same witnesses who had witnessed the first Nicholas' baptism in 1685, plus one.
It was Dutch custom to name another child in the family the same name if the first named child was dead and the name was an important one. Nicholas and Claas were often used interchangeably, and Claas was Hendrick's father's name.
The second Nicholas, born in 1694, married Pietenella Westfall. They named their first-born son Henricus, for Nicholas' father Hendrik. The first Nicholas, born in 1685, did not name any son for Hendrik.
Some other authors have accepted that Nicholas, bap. in 1685, was the son of Hendrik. If they knew of the other documents stating that he was not the blood son of a Schoonover, they have ignored them.