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Stoffel Langestraet

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  • Name Stoffel Langestraet 
    Born , , Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died , , Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5599  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

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     1. Dirck Stoffels Langestraet,   d. Aft 1698, Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2417  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 242-43:
      “Stoffel Langestraet.
      He is the first of the family of whom anything is known, and what is known of him is rather limited. He was the father of his son, as shown by his son's name in the manner explained. He never came to America, so far as it appears. He was of the Netherlands, but whether of the United Provinces or of the Spanish Netherlands is not determined. We know not when he was born, nor precisely where he lived, nor whom he married, nor when he died. We do know that the English equivalent for his name was Christopher Longstreet. We know he was Dutch and that he had a son of a similar name that came to America in 1657.”

      2. The book “This old Monmouth of ours: history, tradition, biography, genealogy, and other anecdotes related to Monmouth County, New Jersey,” by William S. Hornor (Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1974) “The Longstreet (Langstraat Family),” pp. 127-28:
      “The Longstreet Family.
      This substantial family springs from THEOPHILUS LANGSTRAAT (1), of Holland, through a son, Dirck, (2), who came to America in 1657. The Anglicised form of the name sufficiently indicates its original meaning and derivation.
      DIRCK STOFFELSE LANGSTRAAT (2), son of Theophilus (or Stoffel) (1), came to America in 1657, eventually settling in Shrewsbury Township. (It may be noted here that among the Dutch the syllables, s, se, pe, and sometimes, te were used to indicate the paternity of the individuals to whom they were assigned, apparently as middle-names. Often the original last names, were dropped and only the "middle-name" retained. Thus we have the families of Hendricks, Laen, Giberson, and Tysen, all proceeding from an original (probably VanPelt), through several brothers who were respectively christened Hendrick, Laen, Gilbert, and Matthias, or Tice.) Dirck Longstreet married first, Catherine VanSiddock, and, secondly, Johannah Havens, widow of Johannis Holshart. His children were: Richard (3), of Shrewsbury; Adrien (or Aaron,) (4); Theophilus (or Stoffle), (5); Samuel (6); and, Classje (7)
      ADRIEN, or AARON. (4), son of Dirck (2), was born in 1677 and died in 1728. He was a cordwainer, and lived in Freehold Township. He married, in 1707, Christina (or Stanchke) Janse. Their children were: John (8); Derrick (9); Stoffle (10); Katherine (11); Nelly (12); Winifred (13); Maria (14); Arinche (15), and, one other child (16), perhaps Christopher, who died in 1758 leaving children, Court (91), and Christine (92), both under age at the death of their father. Of these last Christine is said to have married John Saunders, from whom she was divorced by Legislative Enactment in 1780.
      THEOPHILIS (OR STOFFLE) (5), son of Dirck (2), was born in Flatlands, Long Island, and died on his farm on the Manasquan River, in New Jersey, about 1741. He married Moyka, daughter of Gilbert Lane. She died about 1753. Moyka is, I think, the equivalent of the English Mercy. Their children were: Richard (17), of Squan, whose children are said to have been Derrick (42), born September 1745, and Anne (43), born June 1, 1748; Gilbert (18); Aury (19); Stoffel (20); Yonica (21); Catherine (22), who is supposed to have married William Chamberlain Jr.; Mary or Maria, (23), who married William, son of Daniel and Catherine Hendrickson; Sarah (24); Moika (25), who married and had children: and, Anne (26).
      GILBERT LONGSTREET (18), son of Stoffel (5), lived at Squan, where he died in 1756 or 1758. His wife is supposed to have been Rachel, daughter of Garret and Nelly (Voorhees) Schenck, who married, secondly, Jacobus VanDorn. Their children were: Rachel (44), who died in 1765, having married William VanDorn, who married secondly, Mary Hunt; Garret (45), of Squan; Gilbert (46); Moyca (47); Nely (48); Jane, or Ouicha (49), married John Lake; and, Elizabeth (50).
      AURY (OR AARON) LONGSTREET (19), son of Stoffle (5), was of Rocky Hill, near Princeton. One authority says that he married Catherine, daughter of Samuel Osborne, of Squan, who died before 1759. Another, makes her to have married John Longstreet. The name of his wife needs confirmation, as do those of his children, which have been given as: Moyka (51); Aaron (51-1/2); Richard (51-1/2); and, Lydia (52), bp. 6-10-1759.
      STOFFLE LONGSTREET (20), son of Stoffle (5), was baptised 12-25-1713, and died 1784. He is said to have married Abagail, daughter of Thomas and Patience Woolley, who was born 3-17-1717, and to have been father of at least one child, Samuel, (41-1/2), who died 12-21-1829, at the age of 94.”

      3. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D-16:
      “STOFFEL LANGESTRAET is the first of the family of whom anything is known, and what is known of him is rather negative than otherwise. He was the father of his son, as shown by the son's name, in the manner explained. He never came to America, so far as appears. He was of the Netherlands, but whether of the United Provinces or of the Spanish Netherlands is not determined. We know neither when he was born, nor where he lived, nor whom he married, nor when he died. The English equivalent for his name was Christopher Longstreet. There is a family of the same name, Langestrasse, which is German, and of the Grand Duchy of Brunswick; but whether there is any connection between them and the Dutch family, I do not know.”

      4. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D-15:
      “… the first comers were the family of Van Lieuwen, in 1652, in the year when Van Tromp was parading the English Channel with his broom aloft, seven years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant to the Directorship of the Province, and two years before the organization of the first congregation on Long Island. Next came the Longstreets, in 1657, five years later, and two years after the building of the church at Flatbush. Then arrived the family of Lanen van Pelt, in 1666, the year before the English seizure of the province, and fourteen years before the organization of the church at New Utrecht.
      Although the family of Van Lieuwen preceded the Longstreets by five years, and the natural course of historical statement would therefore demand that account be first given of them, yet the logical arrangement of a genealogical narrative requires that the Longstreets be given precedence: they are the main branch, and any other course would beget confusion.
      By way of preliminary, a statement in respect to Dutch names is needed. They then made but little use of family names. Many of them had none. Even in the most formal and important documents men are frequently designated by their Christian names alone; and that, where they were possessed of patronymics. It was, however, the custom to add to a man's own Christian name that of his father. These peculiarities cause much trouble, in tracing genealogies. There is one drawback on this difficulty, however, which is that the name of a person, as written, usually gives the Christian name of his father; thus Stoffel Dircks, means Stoffel the son of Dirck; Thys Janse means Thys the son of Jan. The terminations used for this purpose were various, but principally these: s, z, es, se, ces, en, sz.”