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Frans Cosaadt

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  • Name Frans Cosaadt 
    Christened 5 Aug 1750  First Reformed Church of Raritan, Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I3808  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father David Cossart,   c. 23 Apr 1704, Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New York City, New York, New York, United States. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Catalyntie,   b. From 1706 to 1711, of, , New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1734  of Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F663  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Nancy Johnson,   b. Bef 1759, of, Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 20 Jun 1777  Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, Fonda, Tryon (now Montgomery), New York, United States. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1863  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The following baptismal records are found in the book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose. Unfortunately none of the baptisms have sponsors' names so currently it is conjecture on my part that David, Cobus, Frans, Susanna are all siblings in the same generation. The source for the baptisms is given by the author as "DRC," which means church records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The entries appear to come from the same original church book meaning that these individuals with the same last name are geographically close. The location of the church is Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y. Book also contains one marriage entry for this surname: "Cosaadt, Frans m. Nancy Johnson, 6/20/1777 (DRC:161).The entries:
      A. Cosaadt, Cobus And Elizabeth (Seedam): Neyltje, b. 4/4/1776, bapt. 4/24/1776 (DRC:37); Peter, b. 1777, bapt. 4/15/1777 (DRC:42); Cobus, bapt. 2/19/1786 at age 2 months (DRC:76, 77).
      B. David:
      a. David Cosaadt and Jannetje (Stimish): Jacobus, b. 11/27/1774, bapt. 1/27/1775 (DRC:32); Cataluntje, b. 11/25/1779, bapt. 1/23/1780 (DRC:54).
      b. David Cosnat and Janneche (Stumerse) [assumed by author and myself to be the same two individuals as above]: Benjamin, b. 12/24/1772; bapt. 3/31/1773 (DRC:24).
      C. Cosaadt, Frans and Nancy (Johnson): Catrina, b. 3/8/1778; bapt. 5/10/1778 (DRC:47).

      2. Variant name spellings include Cosaadt, Cossadt, Cassadt, Cosaardt, Coesaert, Cosart, Cossart, Cosaad, Cressart, Gresaart, Gressaadt, or Cosnat.

      3. Quote from Worldconnect database "rcossart" (Ray at RNCossart@aol.com) accessed 18 May 2013 concerning this individual's father: "[David Sr.'s] father's will showed him receiving a one hundred acre tract of land in the vicinity of Bound Brook, NJ. All of his children were baptized at the Raritan Church indicated that he lived somewhere in that location. David seems to have been the last of his father's four sons to remain in Somerset Co., NJ. George, the eldest, returned to New York City. Jacob died before the father and Francis, the youngest, left for the Connewgo Valley of York Co., PA. David removed with his family to the Mohawk Valley in New York just before the Revolutionary War. This David line is the only one in America that still uses the original French name of "Cossart." He settled south-west from Albany, NY. His three sons: David, Jacob, and Francis served in the American Revolutionary War. David and Catherine both were memebers of the Dutch Reformed Church at Sommerville, Somerset Co., NJ."

      CHRISTENING:
      1. Website http://raub-and-more.com/raritanbap/07.html accessed 18 May 2013. "Baptisms Reformed Church Raritan (Somerville), NJ, March 8, 1699 -June 28, 1829" from the collection of the late Beulah Gangaware (circa 1930s), p. 35. Entry: 5 Aug 1750 Coesaert, David & Calyna(Calyne?); Fraens; no sponsors listed.
      The earliest known ecclesiastical organization in Somerset County was that of the First Reformed Church of Raritan (now Somerville), originally known as the Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan. It was organized March 9, 1699. The church baptismal records are preserved from the beginning, the first three baptisms recorded being March 8, 1699, made, no doubt, by Rev. Guiliam Bertholf, of Hackensack, in whose presence, next day, the first elder and first deacon of the Raritan church were installed. Bertholf probably supplied the organization with preaching until 1717. The next known minister to officiate was the Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, who was called from Holland and arrived in 1720, becoming pastor of the four churches of Raritan, Three-Mile Run, Six-Mile Run and North Branch (Readington). June 9, 1749 Rev. Dr. Messler. The baptisms were written out in the Dutch language until 1720, when English, with some Dutch intermixed, was substituted. Some of the early entries, while admirably kept and well preserved, are exceedingly hard to decipher, owing to the unusual spellings (often greatly varied) of the proper names.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Marriage records of "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga: now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.:
      Frans Frederick and Susanna Cosaadt, 30 Dec 1774.
      Frans Cosaadt and Nancy Johnson, 20 Jun 1777.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Henry Z. Jones is the author of three series of books on the Palatines: "The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who arrived in New York in 1710," (1985); "More Palatine Families," (1991); and "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002. I have reviewed all three and find nothing on this person.