Family of Garret^5 Van Wicklen
Garret^5 Van Wicklen (Garret^4, Garret^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1 Jeppes), b. 1774, Norwich, Chenango, NY
Married: Sarah Underhill (b. 1877, Newtown, L.I.) 1796 in Newtown, Chenango, L.I.
Children:
1. Hannah^6 Van Wicklen, b. 1801, Bushwick, Kings, NY
2. Garret^6 Van Wicklen, b. 1804, Norwich, L.I., NY
3. Helena^6 Van Wicklen, b. 1803, Bushwick, Kings, NY
4. Jane^6 Eliza Van Wicklen, b. 1815, Newtown, L.I., NY
5. Jonathan^6 Underhill Van Wicklen, bap. 1818, Newtown, L.I., NY
6. Phebe^6 Matilda Van Wicklen, b. 1820, Newtown, L.I., NY
7. Another son and another daughter (unnamed) are listed in the 1820 Newtown Census
Parents:
Garret's parents are Garret and Annatje
(Hardenberg) Van Wicklen
Sarah's parents are Jonathan and Hannah (Hyatt) Underhill.
Background information:
Garret^5 Van Wicklen (Garret^4, Garret^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1 Jeppes) was b. 1 March 1774 and bap. 24 May 1774 in Norwich,
Chenango, NY. He married Sarah Underhill 27 November 1799 in Newtown Presbyterian Church, Chenango, L.I. He died 22
December 1851 in Dutch Reformed Cemetery, Newtown, L.I. (grave stone in L.I. Cemetery says 76 y, 9 mo, 22 d). Sarah
Underhill, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah (Hyatt) Underhill, was b. 27 October 1777 and bap. 25 Jan 1778 (Grace Episcopal
Church, Jamaica, NY) and she died 31 October 1844 in Newtown at age 67-0-4 and was buried in the Dutch Reformed
Cemetery, Newtown.
Children: Hannah^6 Van Wicklen was b. 15 January 1801 and bap. 12 April 1801 in Bushwick, King's, NY and d. 21 May 1830
at age 28-4-12. She is bur. with her parents in Newtown RDC Yard, L.I. Garret^6 Van Wicklen was b.1804 in Norwich, L.I. and
m. Catherine Smith 11 November 1837 (2nd marriage?) in Newtown, L.I. Helena^6 Van Wicklen was b. 1803 and bap. 12
February 1804 in Bushwick, Kings, NY She m. Walter WAY 27 February 1823 in Jamaica Queens Dutch Church. She died
November 1853; Jane^5 Eliza Van Wicklen was b. 1815 in Newtown, L.I. and m. John SMITH 27 February 1833 in Jamaica
Queens Dutch Church. They had at least two sons, Garrett^7 Van Wicklen Smith and Wells^7 Lott Smith.
Jonathan^6 Underhill Van Wicklen was b. 16 Jan 1818 and bap. 12 April 1818 in Newtown RDC, and m. Hannah Sharp Williams 14
November 1844. He died 4 July 1894 in Brooklyn, NY. Phebe^6 Matilda Van Wicklen was b. 11 September 1820 and bap. 11
February 1821 in Newtown RDC, L.I. She married James H. Areson, 7 January 1844.
Source:
Harry Macy, Jr. The Van Wicklen/Van Wickle Family: Including its Frisian Origin and Connections to Minnerly and
Kranchheyt; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1997); p. 242.
IGI, familysearch.com
Information on family of Jane^6 Eliza Van Wicklen supplied by KellyJane Moon O'Hara, the great great granddaughter of
Jane Eliza VW.
L. I. Cemetery Inscriptions.
Personal email correspondence (14 June 2000) with Michael^10 Wolfe.
Harry Macy research notes for Garret and Sarah (Underhill) Van Wicklen...
1850 Census - Garret Van Wickle 76 farmer b. NY with dau. Jane Smith and family L.I. Dem 31 August 1852 Notice to creditors, estate Garret VW, Newtown, returnable 15 January 1853. Jonathan U. VW and
Walter Way, admrs.
Sarah "O"nderhill, wife of Garret van Wicklin recd by Dom Van Nest into msp of RDC Newtown 13 May 1809 (JCF, Early
Notes from D Chs at N+J, p. 14)
Newspaper Clippings relating to Newtown, L.I. 2 vols. at LIHS, most page nos. obliterated among package of militia returns
for war of 1812 found in an old house on Hoffman Blvd, Woodside had Garret Van Wycklin in Co. of Capt. Field, Newtown.