Johannes was the son of Joseph & Elizabeth (Van Dalssen)Blauvelt.∼========
History of Rockland County 1884
Author: Reverent David Cole, D.D.
Baptisms at Tappan Dutch Reformed Church
Tappan, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
Page A-5 ...... Number # 223
Name of Child Baptized: Johannes
Date of Birth: 19 November 1714
Date of Baptism: 11 January 1715
Name of Parents: Joseph Blauvelt, Elisabeth Van Dalssen
Name of Witnesses: Jan Van Dalssen, Annatie Van Raetsvelt, the maternal grandparents.
========
Residence: 1741
Orangetown, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
◦ Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt's house, built by him, "stood on the old Blauvelt Road, northwest of the present village of Blauvelt.
The central portion was built in 1741. As the family grew the major built on additions. The western portion bore the date of 1752, while the eastern section was built somewhat later and was undated.
The house was demolished in the 1920's."
On the [Landmarks of Rockland County] map published by the Historical Society of Rockland County in 1975, the site of this house was located on present day Sunset Road in Blauvelt, New York.
========
Deed: 1773
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ William Bayard of N.Y. City, and Catharine, his wife, conveyed a tract of land containing 203 acres in Orangetown being the northerly division in Lot No. 20 and part of the Hawdon and Honan Patent, known as the Kakiat Patent, to "Johannes Joseph Blauvelt of Orange Town, Capt."
◦◦◦◦ This property was described in Rev. David Cole's History of Rockland County]:
"A person examining the map of Rockland County will not fail to notice a singular irregularity in the line between
Orangetown and Clarkstown, by which a tract of land south of Nanuet is included in the former town, though it would seem naturally to belong to the later. This tract was the farm and homestead of a branch of the Blauvelt family, and in 1789 was owned by Johannes Joseph Blauvelt. The town line was made to run around his farm in order to gratify his wish to remain an inhabitant of Orangetown."
========
Military Service
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ "At a general Training of the Precinct of Orange, we have chosen field officers and others a Cording to Recommendations of Congress:
Abraham Lent, Col.; Johannes David Blauvelt, Lieut. Col.; Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Major; Jacobus De Clark, Adjutant; Isaac Perry, Quarter Master."
Commissions were issued 22 Dec 1775.
========
Military Service: 1777
◦◦◦◦ Orange Town April ye 7th 1777.
Sir,
The Battalion of this place has been together this day for the purpose of raising men in Obedience of your Orders of the 31st Ult. But as there is no time limited in your Orders how long the men shall be Continued in Actual Service and Adding to this, that we are in an exposed Situation both by land and water, we have taken the Liberty
to put off the raising of the men for a few Days until we hear farther from you, and the more so as our men are much Averse to marching to the Clove and leaving their Families and Effects exposed to the Enemy. The bearer, Mr. De Clark, who is our Adjutant is so well Acquainted with our Situation and the dangers that threaten us, that we think it needless to acquaint you therewith by Letter but refer you to him.
We hope some steps will be taken for our Safety.
We are Sir Your Most Obedient & Very Humble Servants.
... Johannes Jos Blauvelt
... John Bell, Capt.
... Johannes J. Blauvelt, Captain
... (Major) Johannes Joseph Blauvelt wrote this letter to Brigadier General George Clinton and signed it along with Captain Johannes Bell, and Captain Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, all officers in Colonel Abraham Lent's Regiment of Foot Militia in Orangetown.
========
Prison Term: 1777
◦◦◦◦ The imprisonment of Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt:
"The American militia had captured Peter Haring, voorlezer of the schismatic Tappan church, as he went through Tenafly with produce for the British army in New York. Angered by the capture, a Schraalenburgh Tory, David Peek, with other loyalists from New York (one of them Garrit Smith, who had married a cousin of Major Blauvelt), gathered a number of Tappan Tories and indifferent men by cajolery, threats and force.
Going to Major Blauvelt's house, they hustled him off to prison in New York in 1777.
Major Blauvelt was exchanged after a time, a fortunate circumstance indeed for a man his age, as he himself must have reflected when he learned that Jacobus Blauvelt had died in prison on August 14, 1777, and had been buried in a common grave with thousands of other victims of the prison-keepers' brutality."
"Blauvelts of Tappan in the Revolution,"
... Adrian C. Leiby, de Halve Maen,
... Volume XXXV, No. 2, page 8
========
Died: 2 October 1789
Will Dated: 6 September 1782
Will Probated: 14 October 1789
Orange County, New York
"Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Town of Orange, yeoman"
Mentions wife Margaret, sons Joseph, Cornelius, Johannes; daughters Catharine, Mary, Margaret, Vroutje; brother Abraham Blauvelt.
Executors:
Joseph Blauvelt, Resalvert VanHouten (son in law)
Witnesses: John Haring, M. Hogenkamp, Gerat Blauvelt."
========
Buried: Orangeburg, New York
Clausland Cemetery
◦◦◦◦ ◦Johannes was buried next to his wife who died five years earlier.
"In 1932, the Association of Blauvelt Descendants reset the Major's tombstone in concrete and the Shatemuc Chapter of the D. A. R. placed a bronze Revolutionary soldier's marker thereon."
========
History of Rockland County 1884
Author: Reverent David Cole, D.D.
Baptisms at Tappan Dutch Reformed Church
Tappan, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
Page A-5 ...... Number # 223
Name of Child Baptized: Johannes
Date of Birth: 19 November 1714
Date of Baptism: 11 January 1715
Name of Parents: Joseph Blauvelt, Elisabeth Van Dalssen
Name of Witnesses: Jan Van Dalssen, Annatie Van Raetsvelt, the maternal grandparents.
========
Residence: 1741
Orangetown, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
◦ Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt's house, built by him, "stood on the old Blauvelt Road, northwest of the present village of Blauvelt.
The central portion was built in 1741. As the family grew the major built on additions. The western portion bore the date of 1752, while the eastern section was built somewhat later and was undated.
The house was demolished in the 1920's."
On the [Landmarks of Rockland County] map published by the Historical Society of Rockland County in 1975, the site of this house was located on present day Sunset Road in Blauvelt, New York.
========
Deed: 1773
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ William Bayard of N.Y. City, and Catharine, his wife, conveyed a tract of land containing 203 acres in Orangetown being the northerly division in Lot No. 20 and part of the Hawdon and Honan Patent, known as the Kakiat Patent, to "Johannes Joseph Blauvelt of Orange Town, Capt."
◦◦◦◦ This property was described in Rev. David Cole's History of Rockland County]:
"A person examining the map of Rockland County will not fail to notice a singular irregularity in the line between
Orangetown and Clarkstown, by which a tract of land south of Nanuet is included in the former town, though it would seem naturally to belong to the later. This tract was the farm and homestead of a branch of the Blauvelt family, and in 1789 was owned by Johannes Joseph Blauvelt. The town line was made to run around his farm in order to gratify his wish to remain an inhabitant of Orangetown."
========
Military Service
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ "At a general Training of the Precinct of Orange, we have chosen field officers and others a Cording to Recommendations of Congress:
Abraham Lent, Col.; Johannes David Blauvelt, Lieut. Col.; Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Major; Jacobus De Clark, Adjutant; Isaac Perry, Quarter Master."
Commissions were issued 22 Dec 1775.
========
Military Service: 1777
◦◦◦◦ Orange Town April ye 7th 1777.
Sir,
The Battalion of this place has been together this day for the purpose of raising men in Obedience of your Orders of the 31st Ult. But as there is no time limited in your Orders how long the men shall be Continued in Actual Service and Adding to this, that we are in an exposed Situation both by land and water, we have taken the Liberty
to put off the raising of the men for a few Days until we hear farther from you, and the more so as our men are much Averse to marching to the Clove and leaving their Families and Effects exposed to the Enemy. The bearer, Mr. De Clark, who is our Adjutant is so well Acquainted with our Situation and the dangers that threaten us, that we think it needless to acquaint you therewith by Letter but refer you to him.
We hope some steps will be taken for our Safety.
We are Sir Your Most Obedient & Very Humble Servants.
... Johannes Jos Blauvelt
... John Bell, Capt.
... Johannes J. Blauvelt, Captain
... (Major) Johannes Joseph Blauvelt wrote this letter to Brigadier General George Clinton and signed it along with Captain Johannes Bell, and Captain Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, all officers in Colonel Abraham Lent's Regiment of Foot Militia in Orangetown.
========
Prison Term: 1777
◦◦◦◦ The imprisonment of Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt:
"The American militia had captured Peter Haring, voorlezer of the schismatic Tappan church, as he went through Tenafly with produce for the British army in New York. Angered by the capture, a Schraalenburgh Tory, David Peek, with other loyalists from New York (one of them Garrit Smith, who had married a cousin of Major Blauvelt), gathered a number of Tappan Tories and indifferent men by cajolery, threats and force.
Going to Major Blauvelt's house, they hustled him off to prison in New York in 1777.
Major Blauvelt was exchanged after a time, a fortunate circumstance indeed for a man his age, as he himself must have reflected when he learned that Jacobus Blauvelt had died in prison on August 14, 1777, and had been buried in a common grave with thousands of other victims of the prison-keepers' brutality."
"Blauvelts of Tappan in the Revolution,"
... Adrian C. Leiby, de Halve Maen,
... Volume XXXV, No. 2, page 8
========
Died: 2 October 1789
Will Dated: 6 September 1782
Will Probated: 14 October 1789
Orange County, New York
"Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Town of Orange, yeoman"
Mentions wife Margaret, sons Joseph, Cornelius, Johannes; daughters Catharine, Mary, Margaret, Vroutje; brother Abraham Blauvelt.
Executors:
Joseph Blauvelt, Resalvert VanHouten (son in law)
Witnesses: John Haring, M. Hogenkamp, Gerat Blauvelt."
========
Buried: Orangeburg, New York
Clausland Cemetery
◦◦◦◦ ◦Johannes was buried next to his wife who died five years earlier.
"In 1932, the Association of Blauvelt Descendants reset the Major's tombstone in concrete and the Shatemuc Chapter of the D. A. R. placed a bronze Revolutionary soldier's marker thereon."
========
Johannes was the son of Joseph & Elizabeth (Van Dalssen)Blauvelt.∼========
History of Rockland County 1884
Author: Reverent David Cole, D.D.
Baptisms at Tappan Dutch Reformed Church
Tappan, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
Page A-5 ...... Number # 223
Name of Child Baptized: Johannes
Date of Birth: 19 November 1714
Date of Baptism: 11 January 1715
Name of Parents: Joseph Blauvelt, Elisabeth Van Dalssen
Name of Witnesses: Jan Van Dalssen, Annatie Van Raetsvelt, the maternal grandparents.
========
Residence: 1741
Orangetown, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
◦ Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt's house, built by him, "stood on the old Blauvelt Road, northwest of the present village of Blauvelt.
The central portion was built in 1741. As the family grew the major built on additions. The western portion bore the date of 1752, while the eastern section was built somewhat later and was undated.
The house was demolished in the 1920's."
On the [Landmarks of Rockland County] map published by the Historical Society of Rockland County in 1975, the site of this house was located on present day Sunset Road in Blauvelt, New York.
========
Deed: 1773
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ William Bayard of N.Y. City, and Catharine, his wife, conveyed a tract of land containing 203 acres in Orangetown being the northerly division in Lot No. 20 and part of the Hawdon and Honan Patent, known as the Kakiat Patent, to "Johannes Joseph Blauvelt of Orange Town, Capt."
◦◦◦◦ This property was described in Rev. David Cole's History of Rockland County]:
"A person examining the map of Rockland County will not fail to notice a singular irregularity in the line between
Orangetown and Clarkstown, by which a tract of land south of Nanuet is included in the former town, though it would seem naturally to belong to the later. This tract was the farm and homestead of a branch of the Blauvelt family, and in 1789 was owned by Johannes Joseph Blauvelt. The town line was made to run around his farm in order to gratify his wish to remain an inhabitant of Orangetown."
========
Military Service
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ "At a general Training of the Precinct of Orange, we have chosen field officers and others a Cording to Recommendations of Congress:
Abraham Lent, Col.; Johannes David Blauvelt, Lieut. Col.; Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Major; Jacobus De Clark, Adjutant; Isaac Perry, Quarter Master."
Commissions were issued 22 Dec 1775.
========
Military Service: 1777
◦◦◦◦ Orange Town April ye 7th 1777.
Sir,
The Battalion of this place has been together this day for the purpose of raising men in Obedience of your Orders of the 31st Ult. But as there is no time limited in your Orders how long the men shall be Continued in Actual Service and Adding to this, that we are in an exposed Situation both by land and water, we have taken the Liberty
to put off the raising of the men for a few Days until we hear farther from you, and the more so as our men are much Averse to marching to the Clove and leaving their Families and Effects exposed to the Enemy. The bearer, Mr. De Clark, who is our Adjutant is so well Acquainted with our Situation and the dangers that threaten us, that we think it needless to acquaint you therewith by Letter but refer you to him.
We hope some steps will be taken for our Safety.
We are Sir Your Most Obedient & Very Humble Servants.
... Johannes Jos Blauvelt
... John Bell, Capt.
... Johannes J. Blauvelt, Captain
... (Major) Johannes Joseph Blauvelt wrote this letter to Brigadier General George Clinton and signed it along with Captain Johannes Bell, and Captain Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, all officers in Colonel Abraham Lent's Regiment of Foot Militia in Orangetown.
========
Prison Term: 1777
◦◦◦◦ The imprisonment of Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt:
"The American militia had captured Peter Haring, voorlezer of the schismatic Tappan church, as he went through Tenafly with produce for the British army in New York. Angered by the capture, a Schraalenburgh Tory, David Peek, with other loyalists from New York (one of them Garrit Smith, who had married a cousin of Major Blauvelt), gathered a number of Tappan Tories and indifferent men by cajolery, threats and force.
Going to Major Blauvelt's house, they hustled him off to prison in New York in 1777.
Major Blauvelt was exchanged after a time, a fortunate circumstance indeed for a man his age, as he himself must have reflected when he learned that Jacobus Blauvelt had died in prison on August 14, 1777, and had been buried in a common grave with thousands of other victims of the prison-keepers' brutality."
"Blauvelts of Tappan in the Revolution,"
... Adrian C. Leiby, de Halve Maen,
... Volume XXXV, No. 2, page 8
========
Died: 2 October 1789
Will Dated: 6 September 1782
Will Probated: 14 October 1789
Orange County, New York
"Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Town of Orange, yeoman"
Mentions wife Margaret, sons Joseph, Cornelius, Johannes; daughters Catharine, Mary, Margaret, Vroutje; brother Abraham Blauvelt.
Executors:
Joseph Blauvelt, Resalvert VanHouten (son in law)
Witnesses: John Haring, M. Hogenkamp, Gerat Blauvelt."
========
Buried: Orangeburg, New York
Clausland Cemetery
◦◦◦◦ ◦Johannes was buried next to his wife who died five years earlier.
"In 1932, the Association of Blauvelt Descendants reset the Major's tombstone in concrete and the Shatemuc Chapter of the D. A. R. placed a bronze Revolutionary soldier's marker thereon."
========
History of Rockland County 1884
Author: Reverent David Cole, D.D.
Baptisms at Tappan Dutch Reformed Church
Tappan, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
Page A-5 ...... Number # 223
Name of Child Baptized: Johannes
Date of Birth: 19 November 1714
Date of Baptism: 11 January 1715
Name of Parents: Joseph Blauvelt, Elisabeth Van Dalssen
Name of Witnesses: Jan Van Dalssen, Annatie Van Raetsvelt, the maternal grandparents.
========
Residence: 1741
Orangetown, Orange [Now Rockland] County, New York
◦ Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt's house, built by him, "stood on the old Blauvelt Road, northwest of the present village of Blauvelt.
The central portion was built in 1741. As the family grew the major built on additions. The western portion bore the date of 1752, while the eastern section was built somewhat later and was undated.
The house was demolished in the 1920's."
On the [Landmarks of Rockland County] map published by the Historical Society of Rockland County in 1975, the site of this house was located on present day Sunset Road in Blauvelt, New York.
========
Deed: 1773
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ William Bayard of N.Y. City, and Catharine, his wife, conveyed a tract of land containing 203 acres in Orangetown being the northerly division in Lot No. 20 and part of the Hawdon and Honan Patent, known as the Kakiat Patent, to "Johannes Joseph Blauvelt of Orange Town, Capt."
◦◦◦◦ This property was described in Rev. David Cole's History of Rockland County]:
"A person examining the map of Rockland County will not fail to notice a singular irregularity in the line between
Orangetown and Clarkstown, by which a tract of land south of Nanuet is included in the former town, though it would seem naturally to belong to the later. This tract was the farm and homestead of a branch of the Blauvelt family, and in 1789 was owned by Johannes Joseph Blauvelt. The town line was made to run around his farm in order to gratify his wish to remain an inhabitant of Orangetown."
========
Military Service
Orangetown, New York
◦◦◦◦ "At a general Training of the Precinct of Orange, we have chosen field officers and others a Cording to Recommendations of Congress:
Abraham Lent, Col.; Johannes David Blauvelt, Lieut. Col.; Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Major; Jacobus De Clark, Adjutant; Isaac Perry, Quarter Master."
Commissions were issued 22 Dec 1775.
========
Military Service: 1777
◦◦◦◦ Orange Town April ye 7th 1777.
Sir,
The Battalion of this place has been together this day for the purpose of raising men in Obedience of your Orders of the 31st Ult. But as there is no time limited in your Orders how long the men shall be Continued in Actual Service and Adding to this, that we are in an exposed Situation both by land and water, we have taken the Liberty
to put off the raising of the men for a few Days until we hear farther from you, and the more so as our men are much Averse to marching to the Clove and leaving their Families and Effects exposed to the Enemy. The bearer, Mr. De Clark, who is our Adjutant is so well Acquainted with our Situation and the dangers that threaten us, that we think it needless to acquaint you therewith by Letter but refer you to him.
We hope some steps will be taken for our Safety.
We are Sir Your Most Obedient & Very Humble Servants.
... Johannes Jos Blauvelt
... John Bell, Capt.
... Johannes J. Blauvelt, Captain
... (Major) Johannes Joseph Blauvelt wrote this letter to Brigadier General George Clinton and signed it along with Captain Johannes Bell, and Captain Johannes Jacobus Blauvelt, all officers in Colonel Abraham Lent's Regiment of Foot Militia in Orangetown.
========
Prison Term: 1777
◦◦◦◦ The imprisonment of Major Johannes Joseph Blauvelt:
"The American militia had captured Peter Haring, voorlezer of the schismatic Tappan church, as he went through Tenafly with produce for the British army in New York. Angered by the capture, a Schraalenburgh Tory, David Peek, with other loyalists from New York (one of them Garrit Smith, who had married a cousin of Major Blauvelt), gathered a number of Tappan Tories and indifferent men by cajolery, threats and force.
Going to Major Blauvelt's house, they hustled him off to prison in New York in 1777.
Major Blauvelt was exchanged after a time, a fortunate circumstance indeed for a man his age, as he himself must have reflected when he learned that Jacobus Blauvelt had died in prison on August 14, 1777, and had been buried in a common grave with thousands of other victims of the prison-keepers' brutality."
"Blauvelts of Tappan in the Revolution,"
... Adrian C. Leiby, de Halve Maen,
... Volume XXXV, No. 2, page 8
========
Died: 2 October 1789
Will Dated: 6 September 1782
Will Probated: 14 October 1789
Orange County, New York
"Johannes Jos. Blauvelt, Town of Orange, yeoman"
Mentions wife Margaret, sons Joseph, Cornelius, Johannes; daughters Catharine, Mary, Margaret, Vroutje; brother Abraham Blauvelt.
Executors:
Joseph Blauvelt, Resalvert VanHouten (son in law)
Witnesses: John Haring, M. Hogenkamp, Gerat Blauvelt."
========
Buried: Orangeburg, New York
Clausland Cemetery
◦◦◦◦ ◦Johannes was buried next to his wife who died five years earlier.
"In 1932, the Association of Blauvelt Descendants reset the Major's tombstone in concrete and the Shatemuc Chapter of the D. A. R. placed a bronze Revolutionary soldier's marker thereon."
========
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Gravesite Details
Many thanks to John Neafie from April 9, 1911 who had transcibed this Old Burial Ground in Orangeburg, NY. Carole Cummings from Plano, Texas input the information on June 22, 2011.
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