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Some Fort-Ostrander Family History
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Direct Descendants of JOHANNES FORT & REBECCA OSTRANDER

[following the line of their grandaughter Helen Fort, d/o Abraham and Jane (Monfort) Fort - a line in progress - not carved in stone - additions - corrections - welcomed!

 

1 JOHANNES FORT d:  aft. 07 April 1784
. + REBECCA OSTRANDER b: 14 May 1728 m: 03 December 1749 [Daughter of Hendrick 3 and Elizabeth (VanBommel) Ostrander] It was probably Johannes Fort who built the Fort Homestead about 1759/60 for himself, his wife, Rebecca Ostrander and Family. If Johannes was not the builder, it was built by the VanBommels from whom he bought the property in 1759 and who were possibly related?]
.... 2 ABRAHAM FORT, Major b: 17 August 1750 in Probably, Kingston, Ulster
Co., NY d: 09 August 1822 in Probably Poughkeeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY
Burial: Fort Ground, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY
........ +MARY JANE MONFORT b: 28 August 1757 in Fishkill, Dutchess Co., NY
d: 30 July 1823 in Probably Poughkeeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY Burial: Fort
Ground, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., NY m: 29 December 1776 in Fishkill,
Dutchess Co., NY
........... 3 HELEN FORT d: Bef. 1842 in Probably Canandagua, Ontario County
............... +ISAAC PIERSON m: 1802
.................. 4 HELEN MARIE PIERSON b: 17 July 1807 in New York City d: 07 May 1845 in New York City ****
...................... +HENRY LEWIS PIERSON, Sr. b: 15 August 1807 in Ramapo d: 28 December 1893 in New York City Burial: Ramapo
......................... 5 HENRY LEWIS PIERSON, Jr. b: 03 September 1831 in New York City d: 03 June 1916 in Lawrence, Long Island,NY Burial: Ramapo
............................. +HENRIETTA BROOME HAINES b: 29 April 1841 in
Hamburg, NJ d: 16 February 1920 in Lawrence, Long Island, NY Burial: Ramapo
m: 17 December 1868
................................ 6 THOMAS HAINES PIERSON b: 15 November 1873 in New York City d: 1941 in Ramapo, Rockland County, NY Burial: Ramapo
.................................... +VIRGINIA LOWERY b: 01 August 1873 d:
1949 in Ramapo, Rockland County, NY m: 27 September 1905
....................................... 7 HENRY LOWERY PIERSON b: 1908 in
New York City
........................................... +CORNELIA WALDO BLAGDEN b: 1909
in Hyde Park, Mass m: 02 October 1937
.............................................. 8 DANIEL HAINES PIERSON b. abt. 1939 possibly in New York City
.............................................. 8 ARTHUR CAMPBELL PIERSON b. abt. 1941
possibly in New York City

****Isaac and Helen (Fort) Pierson's other children in addition to Helen Marie (Pierson) Pierson, according to Helen (Fort) Pierson's brother James Fort's 1842 Dutchess County Probate Petition were: Edward Pierson, Jane (Pierson) Whitemore, Sarah Pierson and Emeline Pierson.