| Notes |
- http://www.marietta.edu/~grammerc/genealogy/vannatta/d30.htm#P760
From History of Northumberland County:
VASTINE. The Vastine family is descended fromAbraham Van de
Woestyne, who with his three children, John, Catherine and Hannah left
Holland in the seventeenth century and crossed the ocean in a sailing
vessel, landing at New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1690. They soon
crossedover into New Jersey. About the time William Penn founded
Philadelphia they came into Pennsylvania, and in 1698 we find them in
Germantown, where the daughters, Catherine and Hannah, joined the
Friends.
John Van de Woestyne, son of Abraham, was born in Holland May 24,
1678, and came to America with his father, landing at New Amsterdam in
1690. Records show him living in 1698 in Germantown, Pa., where he
owned real estate. He purchased several tracts of land from one Jeremiah
Langhorn, in Hilltown township, Bucks Co. Pa., whither he moved about
1720, being one of the pioneers in that county. He was very influential
in the opening of roads there, and his name which appears on a number of
official papers and documents on record in Bucks county, is found on
many petitions pertaining to roads and improvements in Hilltown
township. There he erected a granite dwelling along the pike leading
from Philadelphia to Bethlehem.. It stood, as was the custom in that
day, with its gable to the road, fronting south, at a point two miles
north of Line Lexington and four miles southwest from Sellersville,
Bucks Co., Pa. On the above mentioned old petitions for theopening of
roads the name is spelled Van de Woestyne, which has changed gradually,
to Van Styne and then to Vastine its present form. It has also been
found in the forms Voshne and Vashtine. The name in Dutch meant
"forest," hence the early settlers often called John Van de Woestyne
"Wilderness." John Van doWoestyne died at Hilltown Feb. 9, 1738; his
wife, Abigail, survived him some time;
They were the parents of five
children, as follows:
(1) Abraham, born May 24, 1698, died in October,
1772, in Hilltown. He married Sara Buckman, and they were the parents
of five daughters: Abigail, married to Andrew Armstrong; Ruth, married
to James Armstrong; Mary, married to Robert Jameson; Rachel, married to
Hugh Mears; and Sara, married to Samuel Wilson. Thus far we have been
unable to learn anything about their descendants.
(2) Jeremiah, born
Dec. 24, 1701, died in Hilltown in November, 1769. He and his wife
Debora were the parents of one son and two daughters: Jeremiah (whose
wife's name was Elizabeth) died in New Britain, Bucks Co., Pa., in
April, 1778; Martha marriedJohn Louder; Hannah married Samuel Greshom.
(3) Benjamin, born July 1, 1703, died Aug. 17, 1749.
(4) John died Feb. 9, 1765, in Hilltown, Pa., unmarried.
(5) Mary, born March 1, 1699, married a Mr. Wilson and removed to SouthCarolina.
Benjamin Vastine, son of John and Abigail, was the progenitor of
the family in Northumberland county, Pa. He became a member of the
Friends Meeting, and at one of the meetings held in 1730 in Philadelphia
requested permission to hold meetings in his house. About 1738 he
married Mary Griffith, andtheir union was blessed by the birth of seven
children, as follows: Hannah married Erasmus Kelly; John married Rachel
Morgan; Abraham married Elizabeth Williams; Benjamin married Catherine
Eaton (he died in September, 1775); Jonathan married Elizabeth Lewis;
Isaac married Sara Matthews; Amos married Martha Thomas.
Jonathan Vastine, fourth son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith)
Vastine,was born about 1747 at Hilltown, Bucks county. With his nephew
Peter, who wasalso his son-in-law, he came to Northumberland county,
Pa., first to Shamokin, then to the territory south of Danville, where
they purchased large farms (and erected buildings), the former about six
hundred acres where later Valentine Epler lived, and the latter three
hundred acrer
|
Abt 1720 - 