Re: Schoonovers PA-NJ-NY (Nicholas,Ezekiel)
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Schoonovers PA-NJ-NY (Nicholas,Ezekiel)
11/28/98
Your Ezekiel Schoonover, b. 11 Mar 1788, bpt. Ref. Dutch Ch., Walpack, Sussex Co., NJ 25 May 1788, whom. Barbara Garris, was son of Ezekiel-4 Schoonover and Hannah Corson, grandson of Nicholas-3 Schoonover and Paternella Westfall, grgrandson of Hendrick Klassen-2 Van Schoonover, and grgrgrandson of Klass Van Schoonover and Cornelia Fredrickse.I have prepared a mini-genealogy of Schoonover (37 pages).I can e-mail it or send snail mail if I have your address.I can send it as an attachment to 3-mail.I have Microsoft Word 97.It'll be a while because I just finished typing it and have to proof read before I send it out.One of the main problems with this family is that there were two people of the third generation named Nicholas Schoonover, and researchers have mixed them up.The first one was illegitimate.Henricus or Hendrick Klassen-2 married (1st)Debora Christoffels Davids, and while married to Henricus she had an illegitimate child by Derrik Wootin Legg (aka Jay Woodenleg), but the child was bapt. as "Niclaas" son of Hendric Claaz and Debora Davidz at Old Dutch Ch., Kingston, NY 1 Feb 1685.When Henricus found out about it (some say his sister told him) he divorced Debora.But "Niclaas" kept the Schoonover name.He had 3 wives and children by all of them and they went by Schoonover, but all these people were actually Wootin Leggs (aka Woodenleg).Henricus m. (2nd) Cornelia Swartwout, and shortly after marriage made his first will, in which he called Cornelia his only heir. At that time he and Cornelia had no children. He also mentioned "basterd child named Claes whose modder is called Debora" and gave him an English shilling "to hinder all manner of trouble that might arise."Anyway, Henricus-2 and Cornelia had 8 children, and the 3rd was Nicholas-3 who m. Paternella Westfall.My husband, A. J. Myers, descends from Nicholas-3 as well as from his brother Henricus-3.You need to check www.rootsweb.com/-hcpd/norman "Desc. of Nicholas Schoonover" by Don Norman.These are the desc. of the illegitimate Nicholas.It helps to have this info to sort out who's who.
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Re: Schoonovers PA-NJ-NY (Nicholas,Ezekiel)
Don Green 12/15/98