Notes for Dina C. DELAMATER
1) Records that substantiate that Cornelis is the son of Abram and Ceelitie Delamater include:
“Genealogy of Descendents of Claude Le Maitre” FHC microfilm
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster Co., NY The Ulster Co. NY Probate Records from the Surrogates Office of NY
The NY Genealogical and Biographical Record1050 (Responses from GenForum Query “Need help w/ Cornelius Delamater b. 1683” by Laurel Berbach (
http://www.genforum.com/delamater/messages/61.html)
1050 include:
1. Leslie Hood (
hood@slkc.uswest.net), posted 23 April 1999, cited The NY GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD and the Ulster Co. NY Probate records from the Surrogates Office of NY as sources proving Cornelius as the son of Abraham DeLameter and Celestie Vernoie.
2. Ruth Feltz (
kfeltz@cyberlink.com), posted 14 May 1999, cited BAPTISMAL AND MARRIAGE REGISTERS OF THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH OF KINGSTON, ULSTER CO., NY as a source proving Cornelius as the son of Abram LaMatre and Ceelitie Vernoy. She also confirms several “siblings were listed in error in the Harlem book, but I corrected the error in my research by going to the baptism records”)
Henry Pennington Toler, “The New Harlem Register” (1903)
760 and James Riker, “Revised History of Harlem” (1904)
1045 erroneously list Cornelius as the son of Jan Delamater and Ruth Waldron.
There are other histories that list Cornelius as Abraham’s son: LaFayette De La Mater
1048, “Genealogy of Descendants of Claude Le Maitre” (1882); for others see Citations
88 98All other generations, including Claude LeMaistre and Cornelius’ children, seem to be unaffected by this discrepancy.