Person Page - 531

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

Rev. War: Pvt., NY Militia In Philip Schuyler's & Yates Regm'ts. (Also listed as Albany Co. militia, 3rd Regt. & 14th Regt.) Later Rev. War Service As Seaman On MA State Sloop, "Winthrop," 1782-83. Religion: Dutch Reformed Church.

---

Peter was the son of Bernard Romans and Maria Wendell. Peter accompanied his father on many expeditions. Peter was in the Rev war. He was a Pvt in the NY militia. 3rd Reg. & 14 reg. Later wasa seaman on MA sloop "Windthrop". 1782-83. Rel. Dutch reform church.
He married Catherine Van Deusen in 1785 they had 12 children.

---

Peter Romans sold 50 acres on the east side of his farm to his son Cornelius, and in 1810 they built a sawmill on the present Race St. in Schenevus near the Schenevus Creek. They also built a race to conduct the water to the mill.

Slingerlands bought a farm (a piece of the Romans farm) and built a house in 1825 at the corner formed by the Elk Creek and Schenevus Creek roads, and opposite the house of Peter Romans.

Ezekial Miller and Amos Brown opened a store about 1831 in a house on the south side of Main Street, Schenevus, built by Alexander Smith in 1822, on the Peter Romans farm, he being a son in law of Romans. (Which daughter married Alexander?)

In the late 1820?s C Romans sold out a boat and shoe shop on Main St., Schenevus.

1840 Census in Mendon, Monroe Co, New York and by the U.S. Census of 1850 they have moved to Bedford, Calhoun Co., Michigan. The birth state of the children listed on the later censuses indicates that the family moved to Michigan probably in 1843

(From Priscilla Hexter) In 10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834, p.215 from "Freemans Journal," Cooperstown, #7385, Apr. 21, 1823, "Roman, Peter, 60, died in Maryland, Otsego, New York." He may well have died on the earlier day, i.e., Apr. 1, 1823, (date provided by Elizabeth Thompson). It is hard to tell from the book whether Apr. 21 was the date of publication of that issue of the newspaper or his death date.

from E.A Thompson, 23 Mar 2004 p3.
" Data sent by Ruth Grimes, Town Historian, Rd #1, Boc 1613, maryland, NY 12116
To Anna Neuschafer, Route #1, Box 63, Enterprise, KS 67441
This was in 1988-89; so Ruth Grimes may not be town historian any longer.
Schenevus Village Cemetery, Town (ship) of Maryland, Otsego Co. NY

Peter Romans
died 1 Apr 1823
age 62 ys

Catherine Romans, his wife
died 29 mar 1812
age 47 "

Peter has been accepted by the DAR as Revolutionary War Patriot.

Peter Romans Sr. sold his land in 1822 but failed to execute a warranty deed with the buyer, John Wilcox before he (Peter) died 4 April 1823. This caused the required consent of all heirs. This lists (and adds to our knowledge) Charles Wilder (Leah), Beach Peck (Maria), Stephen Scudder (Margaret) and George A Chamberlain (Gertrude).

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

Catherine Van Deusen was the daughter of Cornelius Van Deusen and Lea Ostrander. She married Peter Romans in 1795 in Albany, NY. Some of her famous family members were President Martin Van Buren and Franklin Roosevelt.
Peter and Catherine had 12 children.

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

Sergeant in Capt. Hendrick M. Roseboom's Co. of Militia, "of ye city of Albany" in the First Battalion. Also an Ensign in Col. Stephen J. Schuyler's regiment.

1785.1786.1787- Paid as caretaker for ?tending Publick Bull? 12 1/2 bu of pease; Pounds 2:16:0 bu. of pease; one half load of hay; 3 bu of pease; Pounds2: 19; Pounds:14:4. Residence, Albany

Source: Cherry Laura Van Deusen Pratt, Genealogy of Rev. W. H. Van Deusen, Rockford Press, Rockford, Ohio, P. 17, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 929.273 v286p (VAN HIS 041).

Baptism sponsors: Pieter and Jannetie Hoogeboon, Cornelius Muller, Mareytie Alen.

Cornelius has been accepted by the DAR as Revolutionary War Patriot.

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

By 1715 Johannes had moved his family to Albany where over the course of time another thirteen
children were to be born. Also in that year Johannes was enrolled as a private in captain Johannes
Mingael's company of militia. Queen Anne's War had ended in the previous year, but peace with Indian allies of the French was still far from secure. In 1722 Johannes was elected assistant alderman in Albany's first ward, and in 1731 and 1732 he was elected to the same office in the third ward. Also in 1731 he was made a freeman of the city. Originally a title from the feudal times, the term "Freeman" in Albany conferred certain taxation and voting privileges on men of property who were elected to the title by the city council upon paying a license fee of six shillings. Source: Emmett Ostrander, Vinton P. Ostrander, and Collin Ostrander, Ostrander, A Genealogical Record 1660-1995, Ostrander Family Assn, Walsorth Publishing Co, Maarceline, Missouri, P. 415 and 416., Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 929.273 Os7oe (OST HIS 002).

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

CHR: Baptismal register of the,Amsterdam Oude Lutheran Kerke:
Den dage der 3 Julius (1657 bij0 do Paulus Cordes. Pieter, Va. Pieter Carstense, moeder, gesije Jans,
getu(ijgen) Annetje Jans.)
Translation:
(Baptized) this day July 3 (2657 by) Domine Paulus Cordes: Pieter, father: Pieter Carstensen, mother:
Geesje Jans, witness: Annetje Jans)
This would confirm that Geesje Jans gave birth to a child named Pieter Pietersen who would have
been nearly four years old when the family emigrated to New Netherlands. Coupled with the origin of
Pieter Carstensen at "Nortstrant" and that sons of Pieter Ostrander were at times designated Van
Noortstrant, there is little doubt that this is Pieter Pietersen Ostrander. Source:
Christopher A. Brooks, Parentage of Pieter Pietersen Ostrander and his Sister Tryntje Pieters (New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record (July 1999) Edited article on Internet), P. 9.,

---

MAR: Kingston Reformed Dutch Church records: Pieter Pieterse, j.m. of Amsterdam and Rebecca
Traphaghe, j.d. of Boswyck (Bushwyc, L. I.), both reside Westquansengh. Banns published three times
n the church. Christopher A. Brooks, Parentage of Pieter Pietersen Ostrander and his Sister Tryntje
Pieters (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (July 1999) Edited article on Internet), P. 9.,
www.geocities.com/~cabrooks/ancestry.htm (OST HIS 001) P. 3.
HIS: The records of the Court and Secretary at Kingston in Ulster County, where Pieter Pietersen
ostrander and Tryntje Pieters lived, were checked a few entried for a Pieter Pietersen were found
between 1665 and 1668. he was a man with financial problems having trouble making ends meet.
However, in the Notrarial records at the Rijksarchief in Amsterdam provices an identify for this Pieter Pietersen:
April 1, 1658 before Notary Jacobus Hellerus:
Jan Jacobs, a bombazinworker, in the name of his son, Jacob Janss, who lives in Groot Esopus in New Netherland, takes for him into service, Pieter Pieterss, 17 years old, in order to work in agriculture there. This for 5 years, with free board, room and transportation there.

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

Gysbert was also known as Van Breuckelen and aende Berg. He was living
in Beverwyck in 1646 on the Hoogenberch farm lying on the east side of
the Hudson River in what is now Greenbush, New York. In 1662, he was
"removed" to the farm of Martin Cornelise Van Buren on the west side of
the river south of Albany. He was found in records up to 1685. All of
his children were born too early to having surviving baptismal records.

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Pedigree:

[TOP]

Notes:

Bernard Romans
(c. 1720-c. 1784) was born in Holland and trained as a civil engineer in England. Sent to the American colonies in that capacity in about 1756, he first worked as a ?draughtsman? and as government botanist near St. Augustine, Florida. With the outbreak of war, he joined the colonists, first constructing fortifications in New York then serving with the Pennsylvania artillery.



In addition to his work as a civil engineer, artilleryman and botanist, Romans was the author of several important publications. The most noted is A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, of which the first volume was published in New York in 1775. It included 12 copperplates etched by the author, and was dedicated to the naturalist and king?s agent, John Ellis. Despite a pretentiousness of style and some typographical errors, the work contained highly valuable information. Although a second volume was projected, it was never published.

The appendix to Romans? History, entitled The Complete Pilot for the Gulf Passage, contained contributions from William Gerard De Brahm and other navigators. It was first published in 1789 and reprinted in 1794 as A New and Enlarged Book of Sailing Directions; in 1797 it was again reprinted with a slightly changed title.

Improvements To Mariner's Compass

Romans had produced an earlier work, Annals of the Troubles in the Netherlands from the Accession of Charles V, compiled and translated ?from the most Approved Historians,? the first volume of which was published in 1778 in Hartford, the first book to have been published in that city; the second volume was issued in 1782. Another of his important contributions was his paper on improvements of the mariner?s compass, which was published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. In it, Romans expressed concern with the unreliability of the brass bowl compass caused by its confinement resulting from the two brass rings of the gimbals. This restricted the movement of the bowl to two vertical motions at right angles to each other within the compass box, so that a sudden concussion or a series of them prevented the compass from recovering, resulting in the unshipping of the compass card as well. He experimented with various means of providing the box with a vertical motion at every degree and minute of the circle, and by compounding these motions, with a horizontal motion of the box as well as of the card. A compass of this type, in which the bottom of the compass had a raised cone instead of a bowl, was being produced in Holland.

Produced Many Maps

Of equal importance were Romans? printed maps. Plans of Pensacola Harbor, Mobile Bar, and Tampa Bay were included in the Appendix of his Concise Natural History. ?A Map of the Whole Navigation, Showing Lieut. Cook?s Tracks,? was published in 1774 as part of John Hawksworth?s A New Voyage Round the World. Romans? map of ?Part of the Province of East Florida,? first produced in 1774, was reprinted in the Concise Natural History; in 1775 he published ?A Map of the Seat of Civil War in America? showing Boston and surrounding regions. He also produced ?A Map of the Southern British Colonies in America? which was published in The American Military Pocket Atlas in 1776. In 1778 Romans advertised for sale ?A Chorographical Map of the Northern Department of North America? and ?A Chorographical Map of the Country Round Philadelphia.?

Pedigree:

[TOP]