As we brought out in a previous article we posted (Genealogical Manuscript Beginning, January 2010,) Angeles Oakes has been compiling a genealogical manuscript of the Stoutenburgh family beginning with immigrant Pieter Stoutenburgh who died in New York in 1698. She has been able to document facts for 2952 people in the Stoutenburg tree. She is having the most difficulty with the Luke Stoutenburg family that migrated to Canada around 1800.

For each person she includes in the tree, she needs documentation, such as:

• Birth & Death Registers
• Birth & Death Certificates
• Birth Announcements
• Social Security Death Index
• Newspaper Articles
• Biographical Printed Material
• Marriage Certificates
• Marriage Registers
• Cemetery Records
• Probate Records
• Census Records
• Military Records
• Pension Records
• Church Records
• Funeral Cards
• Bible Records
• Wills
• Land Deeds

Several people have offered to send her documentation of which she is waiting. We want to make sure that your branch is represented, so if you have any such records or documents, please contact us through this website to get in touch with Ms. Oakes.

Thank you to Mae Robinson for bringing to our attention this amazing piece.

Written between 1902 and 1907 this work consists of ten leaflets by Henry Augustus Stoutenburgh (1842-1919.) Volumes 1 and 2 published by the Press of E. Storer, Volumes 3 through 10 by Knickerbocker Press.

Available for reading online, volume three opens with a summary of the persecutions of men during the Reformation in the Netherlands and picks up with the beginning of the settlement in New Amsterdam. An account of arrangements to provide the benefits of various stock indicates business at its most original for the sake of prospering. For instance, two cows were given for use by the Governor for four years, to be returned with half of their increase.

The Governor is also noted to be frustrated with a lack of records pertaining to births, deaths, and marriages, followed by an observation by the author that apparently there was an oversight of checking the family Bibles, where such records were commonly noted.

The occupation and settlement by English, Scottish, and Dutch is referenced and unanswered questions posed as to the reasons the area became peopled as it did. The Dutch were observed by the author to enjoy smoking their pipes in peace.

The author refers to himself as a “compiler” and states there is little original material. This work deserves a leisurely perusal and has much to offer on its many faces.

This past year we have acquired new leadership as we thank Betsy Neal for her stewardship and now welcome a partnership arrangement in the Presidency, consisting of Pat Fox and Christine Van Norstand. At the request of our new board I welcome the efforts of Angeles Oakes and publish here her invitation to you as follows:

Stoutenburgh Teller Family Association
c/o Angeles Oakes

Dear STFA Member,

At the 2009 meeting, the STFA approved my proposal and formed a committee to oversee my writing of a genealogical manuscript beginning with the immigrant Pieter Stoutenburgh and his wife Aefje Van Tienhoven.

At this time, I would like to welcome you to contribute your own genealogical research and information if you are so inclined. Any factual evidence you can provide will be appreciated. It will also speed up the project and help reduce research expenses to the STFA. Please read carefully the outline below.

The following is an outline about the information that will be included in this manuscript.

1. I will begin with immigrant Pieter Stoutenburgh who died in New York in 1698. Much of his information has been provided, and I do not need any information regarding him.
2. The purpose of this manuscript is to prove genealogical lineage using documents that would be considered a primary source or an abundance of secondary sources that would show within reason that a person is related. Materials of interest are those that prove relationship, birth, & death are:
   • Wills
   • Probate Records
   • Land Deeds
   • Obituaries (secondary source)
   • Birth & Death Registers
   • Birth & Death Certificates
   • Funeral Cards (secondary source)
   • Birth Announcements (secondary source)
   • Bible Records
   • Social Security Death Index
   • Marriage Registers
   • Marriage Certificates
   • Newspaper articles (secondary source)
   • Biographical printed material (secondary source)
   • Census Records (secondary source)
   • Military records
   • Cemetery records
   • Pension records
   • Church records
3. As the author of this manuscript, I feel that I should review the documentation proving genealogical lineage. My reputation hinges on the accuracy of the manuscript. The preferred method for members to contribute documentation for this project would be through digital documentation. This can be done by scanning, then mailing a disk or emailing documents to me. If the documents can be found on the Internet or Ancestry.com, you can email the specific link to obtain the document. Lastly, hard copies of originals can be mailed to me.
   • All documents that are submitted should be labeled so that anyone reading the manuscript and would like to obtain a copy can go directly to the source and get it.

   • Legal documents should include the State, County, Volume or Book, and page number.
   • Obituaries should include the Name, Date, and Page number of the newspaper.
   • Bible Records can be transcribed but should state who the Bible belonged to and it’s current location. It is preferable to have a copy of the original if it doesn’t jeopardies the preservation of the original.
   • Biographical material & Books should include the Title page and the page numbers. Since it is possible to Google a book to find its location, it is not required to state where the book was found. This would include books that are transcriptions of Cemetery Records or Church Records.
4. If you are a Stoutenburgh, it will be up to your own judgment where you would like to discontinue your information. Keep in mind, this manuscript will be publicly distributed, available to all STFA members, and vital or personal information from living individuals is discouraged. If vital information is submitted for living individuals, I would ask that a letter of permission to use the information and signed by each living person or their guardian also be attached. As the author, I will not include any information on any living individual unless I am asked to do so.
5. The STFA manuscript committee agrees that a female Stoutenburgh will include information about her, her husband, and her children, then the name will be discontinued.
   • Example: Engeltje Stoutenburgh married William Waldron, any information that can be contributed about either of them will be recorded. Their children will be listed with birth & death dates if known and whom they married. The line will then be discontinued. The same procedure will be used in every generation, so this manuscript will stay true to the Stoutenburgh name. If you are related through a female line, the only information that will be used is the generational documents that will attach to a Stoutenburgh name.

About Me:

I am very excited to begin this project and have volunteered my time to research and put together this project for the STFA. I have been doing genealogical research since 2003 and have been honored to work with my cousin, Kathy Johnson, since that time. Kathy is the Registrar for the Hawaii Daughters of the American Revolution. We have worked closely together on some very challenging DAR Applications. Recently I have been added as Assistant Registrar, for which I am very pleased.

I expect that this project will take at least two (2) years to complete this manuscript with the cooperation of the members of the STFA. To date I have completed two similar projects, one with Kathy’s help and one on my own. Each took four (4) years to complete, the latest project published in December 2009.

Please contact me through this site if you are interested in submitting genealogical material. If you email me, please use the subject of "STFA Manuscript." I hope to hear from you soon.

Respectfully,
Angeles Oakes

We are delighted to present Gloria Waldron Hukle, who has contacted us through this website to introduce her work. We look forward to reading her books! The following is reprinted with her permission.

IMS Malloy

Gloria Waldron Hukle

Gloria Waldron Hukle, a native and resident of New York State is an llth generation Waldron in the line of the New York Dutch Waldron who emigrated to New Amsterdam (NYC) from Holland mid-l7th century settling on the corner of present day Wall Street and B’Way and later Harlem. Hukle is the author of three well-researched historical novels that comprise the "Waldron Series Books." More information to be found at Author Gloria Waldron Hukle website.

The First of the series is Manhattan: Seeds of the Big Apple, the story of Resolved Waldron, his second wife, Tennake, and his three young children by his deceased first wife, Rebecca Hendricks, who came over with him to the raw new world…William, Rebecca, and Aeltie. The story travels a period of ten years spanning the distance from Holland, onward through the journey over, to the family’s first steps upon American soil where they began a new life with Waldron serving Peter Stuyvesant as his assistant night sheriff–to the final closing scenes when the English took over in l664.

The children are active participants in this Manhattan story and the reader is invited to share the family’s growing years. One is also introduced to young Miss Engeltje Stoutenburg with whom the teenage William became enchanted. Of course, we know from the records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York that William Waldron (William & Engeltje are Hukle’s 9th generation grandparents) marries Engeltje February l0, l671.

William Waldron and his wife Engeltje Stoughtenburg Waldron produced several children. Their son, Peter Waldron, most likely named for his grandfather, Peter Stoutenburg migrated north to Albany circa l699. He had married Catharina Vandenbergh in Sept. l698 and the couple parented ten children. Peter Waldron and his Cate are portrayed in Hukle’s, Threads: An American Tapestry just published May 2009 which opens in l723 with the New York Provincial census.

The Diary of a Northern Moon is a mystery connecting old local lore set in more contemporary times in the small hamlet of North Creek, New York, Lake George, and Albany. Two men return from World War II. One dies and the other keeps a secret that turns him inside out until l976 when a murder forces out the truth.

Gloria Waldron Hukle’s books are sold via Barnes & Noble or Amazon. Signed copies can be ordered through Good Buy Books in East Greenbush, New York, 518-479-2665 or Hoss’s Country Corner, Long Lake, New York. 1-800-952-HOSS, in Albany, Stuyvesant Book House.

Back in December of 2007, we published an article here entitled Fascinating Descendants. That article, written by Lanaii Kline, alluded to the work of Perry McDonough Collins, grandson of Maria Stoutenburgh and Richard DeCantillon, in creating the Collins Overland Telegraph and opening up the Pacific Northwest for industrial and agricultural settlement. More recently Lanaii has found and reviewed a wonderful book that greatly expands on these historic events and the singular contribution of Mr. Collins to the history of (at least) two nations spanning two continents: (more…)