Johannis Alexander Rosenkrans 2nd (1724 - 1786)

Born 18 May 1724 in Rochester, Ulster County, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (De Witt) Rosenkrans — married 8 Aug 1751 in Kingston, Ulster, New York

Descendants

Died 5 Jun 1786 at age 62 in Walpack Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Johannis Alexander Rosenkrans Baptism notice #3264 in Hoes, Oct. 18 1724, says baptized in Rochester. ** Note -- another Johannes baptized May 14 1721.**

Burial

Burial:

Place: Shapanack, Sussex Co., NJ

Information from the Hermitage Museum

"The First Three Rosencrantz Generations in America

Harmon Rosenkrans

Harmon Rosenkrans was born into a family that originated in the Netherlands but had obtained fishing rights off the coast of Norway. Harmon himself was probably born in Bergen, Norway, and there may have been some Dutch-Norwegian intermarriages in his family. He would leave from Bergen around 1650 for New Netherlands, the new Dutch colony in North America. He sailed to New Amsterdam, the main port city in the Dutch province, which had been established only thirty years before he arrived.

Harmon stayed in New Amsterdam only long enough to find a bride. In 1657, he married the widow Magdalen Dircks, who was probably Dutch. Within three years, they had moved north on the Hudson River to the smaller and less developed village of Kingston. There they had the first of their nine children, Alexander, in 1660. Because opportunities to own land increased the father one ventured into the frontier, the Rosencranzes moved west in 1680 to the uncultivated banks of the Peterkill in what is now Rochester township in Ulster County. Harmon died in 1697, after almost a half-century in the New World.

Alexander Rosencrants

Alexander Rosencrants spent his youth in Kingston. As a young man, he went with his parents to the interior of Ulster County to clear land, build dwellings, clear farm fields, and help form a new community. He was 53 when he married Marietjen Dupuy in 1713. Her Huguenot father had been born in France and left to find religious freedom. He arrived in New Netherlands in 1662. Like the Rosenkranses, he settled in Kingston, where Marietjen was born, and then moved his family to Rochester in 1680. Alexander and Marietjen farmed in Rochester for nearly two decades and had seven children. In 1731, they saw a chance to acquire more fertile land on a new frontier and became some of the earliest settlers in the Shappanack Tract in the Delaware River Valley near Walpack in Sussex County, New Jersey.

John Rosencrants

One of the seven children of Alexander and Marietjen was John Rosencrans, Elijah Rosegrant's father. John was born in 1724 in Rochester and at seven accompanied his parents to their new settlement in Sussex County, an area in Native Americans still lived. John helped his parents build a home and create farmland out of wilderness. At 21, John acquired 500 acres of good farmland from his father. Six years later, in 1751, he married Margaret De Witt, who had been born in Rochester in 1731. Her father was Tjereck De Witt, son of Tjereck Classon De Witt of the Netherlands, and her mother was a niece of General James Clinton of Revolutionary War fame and a cousin of his son, De Witt Clinton, an early governor of New York. The Rosencranses were also related to the Clintons family, but in a more distant way, through the DuPuys.

Kingston marriage record Aug. 8 1751, #1186 in Hoes, for Johannes Rosekrans of Shapenach, Morris Co. west Jersey, and Margareth de Wit of Ulster Co.

John and Margaret had 14 children who provided help on their large farm. They got additional help from a number of slaves who worked with the family. John's success as a farmer enabled him to acquire additional land, including two tracts totaling 275 acres across the Delaware in Northampton, Pennsylvania. He was a local leader in the Dutch Reformed Church, where he was an elder, gave land for a burial ground, and had a log church built on his farm around 1770. John also took a leadership role in his civic community, becoming a freeholder and a justice of the peace. One of his neighbors was John Cleves Symmes, who would later partner with the Dayton family to become large-scale developers of land in Ohio. Symmes's wife became the mother-in-law of William Henry Harrison, a future president of the United States.

In the 1770s, as friction increased with England, John Rosencrans became a Whig and a leading member of the local Committee of Safety. When the war began, he joined the militia, became a colonel, and was with General {Name} Sullivan in his 1779 campaign against the Native Americans in the Upper Susquehanna and Genesee valleys. After the war, John Rosencrans continued to farm and raise his large family until he died in 1786."^[1]

Born 18 MAY 1724. Rochester, Ulster County, NY. ^[2][3]

Died Cause: on the hill top of the Shappanack burial ground. 5 JUN 1786. Walpack Township, Sussex County, NJ, USA. Note: Colonel John made his last will May 1st, 1786, and died June 15th. following. Of Margaret’s death we have no record, though she was. living at the time his will was made. No lettered monument points out. the place of their burial, but it is probably near that of Mrs. Anna. Symmes, on the hill top of the Shappanack burial ground.^[4][5]

Note: 16. JOHANNIS ROSENKRANS 2nd, son of Alexander (2), was born in. Rochester, Ulster County New York, July 6, 1724, and baptized July 6th. following. At seven years of age he accompanied his parents to. Walpack, Sussex County, New Jersey, then Morris County, when the. country was mostly a wilderness and the forests frequently resounded. with the cries of the panther and the wild whoop of the Indians. Along. the banks of the Delaware he grew to manhood, and while deprived of. the educational advantages of city or modern rural life, he became a. man of moral worth and Public usefulness, an extensive farmer, an. elder of the church and a Colonel in the Continental army. In 1745,. Colonel John purchased of his father the homestead Shappanack farm, of. about 500 acres, adjoining the farm of his brother Harmen, purchased. 1742. Each of these farms, besides the uplands, contained about. seventy acres of river flats of sandy loam, and very productive. The. flats of the Shappanack farms today are the most noted in the count. for productiveness and easy tillage, one of which is now leased by a. syndicate raising special crops of tobacco and potatoes. The date and. beginning of Colonel John’s deed from his father is as follows: 2 "This indenture made the 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord. Christ one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, between Alexander. Rosekrance, of Shappanack, in the township of Wallpeck, county of. Morris and Province of West New Jersey, yeoman, and Marriky, his wife,. of the one part, and Johannis Rosekrance, his youngest son, of the. township, county and province aforesaid, yeoman, of the other part,. WITNESSETH," etc. Having secured for himself a farm and a home, when. his parents were old and feeble, or perhaps departed, Colonel John. Rosenkrans contemplated marriage, but like Isaac and Jacob of old, he. sought not for a wife in the place of his sojourn, but took one from. the land of his fathers, the home of his kindred. On August 8th, 1751,. Colonel John Rosenkrans, of Walpack. New Jersey, married Margaret. DeWitt, of Rochester, Ulster County, New York, and over the "Old Mine. Road," by way of Port Clinton, Port Jervis and Minisink, with perhaps. as good a conveyance as the county afforded, he brought his bride from. Rochester to Walpack.

Baptism: 6 JUL 1724. ^[6]

Colonel John Rosenkrans 2nd served with 3rd Battalion, Sussex County Militia, New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution.

John Rosenkrans 2nd is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A098237.

Buried 15 JUN 1786. Walpack Township, Sussex County, NJ, USA. ^[10]

Residence

Shapanack, Walpack Township, Sussex County, NJ, USA.

Note: Several forts were built along the Delaware River during the French and Indian war. One of these was the old Nomanock fort, in what is now Sandyston ; another stood at Shapanack, and was part of Col. John Rosenkrans' house during the Revolution. It stood on the site of the house now occupied by Joseph A. Hull, and, of all the surrounding country, was the most beautiful and eligible site for a garrison, being on an elevated plateau commanding the river for miles up and down.

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Sources

1. ↑ The First Three Rosencrantz Generations in America. The Hermitage Museum, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. Published at www.thehermitage.org/history/history_people_rosencrantz_buys_tell_me_elijahancestors.html archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20170504074849/http://www.thehermitage.org/history/history_people_rosencrantz_buys_tell_me_elijahancestors.html in 2017.
2. ↑ Source: #S43 ID 16 Page ID 16
3. ↑ Source: #S53 http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457 Page http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457
4. ↑ Source: #S43 ID 16 Page ID 16
5. ↑ Source: #S53 http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457 Page http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457
6. ↑ Source: #S43 ID 16 Page ID 16
7. ↑ Source: #S43 ID 16 Page ID 16
8. ↑ Source: #S53 http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457 Page http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457
9. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 28 Nov 2020), "Record of Rosenkrans, John", Ancestor # A098237.
10. ↑ Source: #S53 http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457 Page http://www.familyorigins.com/users/g/r/a/Marge-V-Gray/FAMO1-0001/d984.htm#P3457

• Source: S43 Rosenkrans, Allen. The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America. Newton, N.J.: New Jersey Herald Press, 1900. Revised version may be available at http://rosenkrantz-genealogy.info/
• Source: S53 Ransom and Newton Townships, PA, Susan LaCoe online http://www.geocities.com/heartland/cottage/8200/], accessed 2000 land/cottage/8200/. Accessed 2000 Bibliography LaCoe, Susan.

Birth date listed as Jul 6, 1724 on Find A Grave

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 13 September 2010.