Toward the close of the Rev, William Sr. served as a militia soldier, records show that he was at the Battle of Guilford Court House under General Green and also at Cowpens and King's Mountain. His son Jacob served as a lieutenant in the army of Gov. William Tryon. Another son, Hezekiah was in the Continental Army and a grandson, Burwell, was a Continental soldier.. Probated December court 1794 by oath of both the witnesses and recorded in Book 3, page 62, C.S.6, Wake County. WILL OF WILLIAM UTLEY In the name of God, Amen, WIlliam Utley, Sr. of the county of Wake in North Carolina, a planter, being in perfect health, mind, and memory and calling to mind my mortality do make and ordain this last will and testament in manner as follows: I give unto my beloved wife Elizabeth her choice of all my horse flesh, either horse, mare, or gilding, and two cows and calves and her choice of one feather bed and furniture and such household stuff and provisions as she thinks fit to keep and during her natural life I lend her the use and profit of my negro woman Cloe and my dwelling plantation and after my wife's decease the negro woman if alive to go with my son, Littleton, any one of my children they shall think proper to take him, for the negro to work for the maintanance of said Littleton Utley. Item. I give to my son Hezekiah after my wife's decease all my land and liberty of any of it but if my said son Hezekiah Utley should die without lawful issue then for the land to be sold and the money divided among all my sons and daughters of if any be deceased the representive of any one of them to inherit the principal part and if the said Hezekiah hath any lawful issue then the said land to him and his heirs and assigns also one cow and calf, one feather bed and furinture, and all the rest of my estate I desire may be divided among all my children at the descretion of my son Jacob utley and Hardy Sanders either by lot or by sale or part of bothe and if any children should be dead for their children or child whether born or in ventria su maria to inherit its principal part. My said children so to have this division is by name John Utley, William Utley, Jacob Utley, Isam Utley, David Utley, Hezekiah Utley, Littleton Utley, Lucy Sanders and Cinthia Hyatt. And I do nominate and appoint the said Jacob Utley and Hardy Sanders to be my Executors of this my last will and testament declaring this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I, the said William Utley, Sr. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 23rd day of December the year of Christ 1780. William Signed sealed in presence of Us Augustus B. Turner (Jurat) Jasper M. Turner (Jurat)
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In the early 1500s, Wolfaert van Keulen was born at or near Cologne (Keulen in Dutch). His son Mathij is
believed to have been born in the 1540s, also Cologne. In 1567, Cologne was taken over by the Spanish. The
Catholic conquerors were very hard on wealthy Protestants, imprisoning large numbers and executing many. As
the van Keulen family were both well off and Protestant, most chose to flee for the safety of the Netherlands.
Mathij Wolfaertse van Keulen appeared first in the records of Antwerp in 1570. It is believed that his son, Jan
Mathijs van Keulen was born in Antwerp @ 1580. In 1585, Antwerp fell to the Spanish. Nothing is known of
Mathij Wolfaertse beyond this date, but brother Jacob Wolfaertse appeared in London in the early 1590s. Jan
Mathijs' firstborn son Mathij Jansen van Keulen, was christened at the Austin Friars Dutch Reformed Church of
London on 2 Feb, 1602, but Jan was listed as a merchant of Amsterdam. Subsequent records involving Jan
Mathijs van Keulen and his family are found in the courts and churches of Amsterdam. Mathij Jansen van
Keulen immigrated to America @ 1636, where he married Margiet Hendrickse, and they had 4 children.
Mathij's grandchildren, through youngest son Matthys, adopted the surname "Van Keuren" in 1716, creating an
artificial Dutch name. There has yet to be a Van Keuren, Van Kuren, or Van Curen that is verified to be a
descendant of any immigrant other than Mathij Jansen van Keulen.
Other family names closely linked to Mathij van Keulen's family:
Peersen(Person, Personius), Jansen(Jonson, Johnson), Van Steenberghen(Van Steenbergh, Steenbergh, Vann),
Van Vliet(Van Vleet, Van Fleet), Dubois, Westbrook, Terwilliger, Swart, and Hover(Huber)Return to Wolfaert VAN KEULEN