BIBLE RECORD FOUND IDENTIFYING ABRAHAM’S (A1) PARENTS

The document Jane sought has been found by this writer on a trip through Oregon. It permits Abraham’s genealogy to go back two more generations. happily, this writer’s search has turned up the family Bible record of Hendrik who married Cornelia Lewis in 1741. It lists the birth dates of their five sons and records Abraham, their last born, on February 2, 1755. All of the other family Bible dates match those of the Dutch Reformed Church records in Hopewell, N.Y., where they were baptized. This was the proof sought to identify Abrabam’s parents and the relationship to Marinus.

The writer’s search led to the Genealogical Society of Portland, Oregon in whose Quarterly (Vol. 12, No. 4, Page 31) Hendrik’s family Bible record shown below, was published. The Bible records were collected by Noel C. Stevenson, Fellow of the ‘American Society of Genealogists’ who sent them to the Portland Society in 1961.

For further verification, the writer corresponded with Mr. Stevenson, living in 1950 in Santa Ana, Calif., as to the why and wherefore of his bible records, and quote his reply in part: ‘I compiled that collection of Bible records circa 1932-33. My system was to visit second hand book stores in the Los Angeles area and copy the Bible records out of the Bibles in their possession, thus preserving family genealogy for posterity before it was lost when sold to dealers or given to charitable institutions. Evidently some of the descendants of your Van Vlack family lived in the Los Angeles area. I am extremely pleased and enjoy knowing that my preservation of old Bible records has been of assistance to contemporary genealogical research. With the above explanation, the writer is convinced that the Bible record did exist and the facts accurately recorded,

Genealogical Forum of Portland, Oregon, Inc.

BIBLE RECORDS

Vol. XII No. 4                         By Noel C. Stevenson                         Page 31

VAN VLACK

Henrick Van Vlack, born 15 August 1712                              M25

Cornelia Lewis, born 10 February 1714                                 wife

Merinus Van Vlack, born 15 August 1740                             M36

John A. Van Vlack, born 19 August 1744                              M37

Henrick Van Vlack, born 25 Jan. 1747                                   M35

Cornelius Van Vlack, born 19 February 1751                       

Abraham Van Vlack, born 2 February 1755                           A1

Henrick Van Vlack, died, 23 January 1763                            M25

Cornelia Van Vlack, died 2 December 1782                          New Info

Grandmother Cornelia Lewis married henrick Van Vlack     M25

John E. Van Vlack died 27 July 1838                                     M37

Cornelia Van Vlack, born 1 January 1769                              *(M35.1)

Mercy Van Vlack, born 7 April 1771                                     *(M35.2)

Henry Van Vlack, born 9 November 1773                             M419

Elenor Van Vlack, born 7 Sept. 1776, died 27 Sept. 1778.    M420

Elesebeth Van Vlack, born 19 September 1779                     M421

Mary Van Vlack, born 3 May 1782                                        M422

John Van Vlack, born 15 January 1785.                                 M424

Abraham Van Vlack, born 11 October 1787                          M423

Jeney Van Vlack, born 26 February 1790.                             M425

(Identification Numbers and notes in italics by W.W.V.V.)