Arent Traphagen

1718 - 1746

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rent Traphagen was baptised at Kingston RDC June 20, 1718 and died at Rhinebeck, New York about 1746. He married September 14, 1739 at Rhinebeck Dutch Reformed Church, Lea Van Etten. Lea was baptized at Kingston October 20, 1717, daughter of Henrick and Rebekka (Roosa) Van Etten.

    After his father's death, Arent inherited the Traphagen Tavern and, according to Dutchess County lore, greatly enlarged it into an inn on the Albany Post Road. Although he is credited with accomplishing this feat in 1769, it is certain that he died before 1746/47 when the widow to Arent Traphagen is listed on the Rhinebeck Tax list. The widow Traphagen remained on the tax list through June 1748 and remarried October 24, 1748 in the Rhinebeck RDC Jacob J. Kipp. Jacob Kipp is listed as a tavern keeper on the Rhinebeck Tax lists from February, 1755 until February 1762. Possibly it was Jacob Kipp who expanded the Traphagen Tavern into the Rhinebeck hotel that became the Beekman Arms Hotel. The Traphagen Tavern seems to have passed to Everardus Bogardus about 1769

Children of Arent and Lea (Van Etten) Traphagen, baptized Rhinebeck RDC:

  1. Rebekka, bap. August 10, 1740; married Cornelius Radcliffe.
  2. Cattarina, bap. June 28, 1741; died young.
  3. Lea, bap. December 18, 1743. Did not marry, a baptismal witness to children of her halfsiblings.
  4. Willem, bap. October 13, 1745, probably died young.
  5. Catharina, bap. December 4, 1746; married Peter Radcliffe.

    This family does not appear to descend through the male line but has numerous descendants through the two daughters that married into the Radcliffe family.

    SOURCES:

  • Kingston Reformed Dutch Church.
  • Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church.
  • Pamphlet of the Beekman Arms Hotel (caveat).
  • Rhinebeck German Reformed Church.