Eighth Generation

240. Hendrick* Hendrickse BANTA^{1287,1288,1289,1290,1291,1292} was born about 1718 in Hackensack, Bergen Co., NJ.^1293,1294 In 1738 he was in blacksmith. He Article of Agreement on 14 Mar 1786 in KY.¹²⁹⁵ The Low Dutch Company Article of Agreement

ARTICLE OF AGREEMENT made and Concluded on and Between Abraham Banta of Lincollen County and State of Virginia of the first part and We who Names and within writing Father Hennery Banta Samuel Banta Uncle Peter Banta Daniel Banta Peters Banta Peter Banta Cornelius Bogert Andrew Shock {Cornelius Banta} Abraham Brewer Albert Vorhes
John Comangore big John Vorhes Hennery Banta ble John Vorhes Simon VanArsdelen Jacob Smock Barney Smock {Hennery Shivelle} Francis Coorssart Luke VanArsdelen Luke Vorhes Uncle Albert Banta Daniel Vorhes Samuel Dumere Aran Monfort John Manfort Albert Banta Jacob Banta William Shock Soviah Vorhes John Banta Cornelius Cozine Frances Manfort Daniel al Banta of the other part Witnesseth that whereas the said Abraham Banta has purched a Certain trat or quantity of land of Squier Boon of the County of Jeffersin in the State of Virginia aforesaid Containing five Thousand Six hundred and Ten acres of Land Situated in the County Jeffersen aforesaid lying on the waters of Six miles Beginning on the Deviding ridge between the waters of Six mile Creek and Clear Creek ... Excepting and reserving 335
acres out of the above mentioned Tract at the price of £16,,13,,4 per hundred acres amounting in the whole sum of £935 payable in Eight yearly payments the first payment is 250 pounds and the rest in seven payments Each payment £97,,17 with an intent and Desine to inCourage and premote a Settlement of the Low Dutch Reformed Church Socisity now it is
Covinanted and agreed by and Between the said Abraham Banta and those person Names above mentioned and there seals afixted by these presents that Each of them shall be intitled to any quantity or Numbers of acres of Land of the above mentioned 5610 acres as they and sd. Banta may agree for allowance Being made for Quality of said Lands Subject to and
under the following Restrictions Viz 1 That we our heirs Executors administrators or Assigns will pay or Cause to be paid to the said Abraham Banta his heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns yearly and Every year such a sum or sums as shall bear in purporsion to the Quantity and Quallity of Land Each of us Shall hold to the whole Quntity of Land or sum giving till the whole sum be paid 2d That we will subscribe to and support the Low Dutch Reformed Church Sosicity by giving a Call and Invitation to a Regular Instituted Low Dutch minister to assosiate in said Church as much as in us lie and that we will indeavouer to have our children Taught and instructed in the Low Dutch Tongue so that they may Read the word of God and understand the Gospel when Preached unto them 3d That we will Each of us in purportion to the Quantity of Land we hold with said Abraham banta pay towards purching of said Banta at the price above said 200 acres of Land for a personage or plantation for the minister to be called or invited as above said 4ly That the said Abraham Banta his heirs or Assigns shall not sell or Dispose of any Part of Percil of the above mentioned Tract of Land neither will we whose names are above mentioned our heirs or Assigns sell or Dispose of all or any Part of sd Land we shall hold with said Abraham Banta to any Person or Persons whatsoever unless they will fully Comply with the second above mentioned Article 5ly That is any Time hereafter their shall or may be any Claims or Disputes Related to the Title of said Land or any
Part thereof, we Each of us our heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns will be at a purporsionable Cost and Expence in Defending the Title thereto in purporsion to the Quantity of Land we may hold thereof and That if the title of the whole or any part thereof shall be made Void we will Bear an Eaqual Loss as above there to, as well to the improvement as to the Land, be it in the power of the said Abraham Banta to purchace from the Legal oner Each of us above mentioned shall pay or Cause to be paid to the price for which it may be bought in purportion to that part of Quantity Each of us holds of the mentioned Tract; 6ly NOW Be it known that the above mentioned Abraham Banta has purched a Certain Tract or Quantity
of Land ajoining of the above mentioned Tract with the same Desine and for the purpose as above mentioned, from Richard Beard who Lived in pennsylvania State the Quantity of 2000 acres at Thirty pounds per hundred to be paid in four anul payments ... Now be it known that We the above mentioned will and Shall aid and Assist the above mentioned Abraham Banta his heirs Executors Administrators in Defending both the first and second mentioned tract aforesaid all as one; now for the True performance of all and both Tracts mentioned the second agreeable with first mentioned Tract We the above mentioned our selves our heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns Doth bind ourselves Jointly severally by these presents the one to the other in the penal sum of Three Thousand pounds In Witness whereunto we have set our hands and seals This fourteenth Day of march in the year one Thousand seven hundred & Eighty Six
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{Henry Shively}
frances Cosart
Lukes Van arsdel
Luk Vories
un Albert Banta
Daniel Vorhis
Samuel Demaree
Aron Monfoort
John Monfoort
Albert Banta
Jacob Banta
William Shock
Sophia Vorus
John Banta
Cornelius Cozine
Francis Monfort
Daniel Al Banta
Abraham Banta
fa Hendreck Banta
un Peter Banta
Daniel Banta
Samuel Banta
Petrus Banta
Peter Banta
Cornelous Banta
Andrew Shock
{Cornelius Bogart}
{Abraham brewer}
Albert Voorhies
John Commingor
big John Voorhes
Henry Banta
Bu John Vorus
Jacob Smock
Simon Vanasdal
{Barny Smock} He signed a will on 13 Dec 1799 in , Henry Co. KY.¹²⁹⁶ "In the name of God, Amen, the thirteenth of December, in the year of our Lord one housand seven hundred niney-nine.

I, Henry Banta, of the Count of Henry and State of Kentucky, being weak in body, but of perfect and sound mind and memory, thanks be to God, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. That is to say: I recommend my soul in to the hands of God that gave it, and my body to the Earth to be buried at the discretiion of my Executors, and as touching such worldy estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life. I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and for Imprimis: It is my Will, and I do so order that in the first place all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied.

Item: I give and bequeath unto Anna, my beloved wife, all and singular my lands, as also all my personal estate of every sort and kinde I die so possessed of , to have the same to her, her heirs and assigns forever -

Item - I do hereby constitute, make and ordain Albert Vors and Cornelius Banta, and John Voris, my only and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow, rvoke, and disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, and Executors by me in any ways before this time named, willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.

In Witness hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and year first written above.

Signed, sealed and delivered by
the said Herny Banta as his last signed Hendrick Banta
Will and Testament in presence of
us, the subscribers,
Christopher Bergen
Simon Vanosdal
Rachel Vanosdal"

"At a Court held for Shelby County, the 14th Day of October, 1805, this last will and testament of Henry Banta, deceasd, was produce in Court and proved by the Oaths of Christopher Bergen and Simon Vanosdal, two of the subscribers thereto, and ordered to be recorded

Attest. A.J. Stephens, Clerk, Shelby County Court." He died in May 1804 in , Shelby Co., KY.¹⁰⁸⁴ At the home of a son at age 86. He was buried in 1804 in Shelby Co., KY. Geoge Bergen's Farm, now Pleasureville cemetery.. He served in the military (1776-1783) in , , PA. Committee of Observation in PA. Blacksmith. Moved from Bergen Co to Somerset Co., NJ between 1750 and 1752. He had 6 children by his first wife, Rachel, and 13 to 15 by his second wife, Antie. Hendrick was a natural leader. He was described as "brave, tenacious, unswerving, a man with great force of character." The area of New Jersey that Hendrick was from, Bergen County, was at the crossroads of the fighting during the American Revolution. The Hackensack square, and the Banta Farm, were the place of encampment both the British and the Continental Armies at one time or another. General Washington is known to have established a camp on the Banta property, building up a 3 foot high earthworks for protection, which remained part of the landscape for many decades. Fourteen year old Cornelius Banta, great granson of the original Cornelius, carried a barrel of cider every other day to the Continental troops camped on the land near his father's cider mill. Bergen County residents were not, as a whole, in favor of the rebellion, with the Dutch taking sides, father against son, and brother against brother. The rebuilt Banta homestead in Hackensack is now the Dumont Public Library.

According to Elsa Banta, Hendrick was the leader of the Great Dutch Migration into the American frontier. Overcrowding, and the influence of the English, German and Swedes on the Dutch children, caused Hendrick to desire to move westward. On December 19, 1751, he and Antie's first daughter was born. Soon thereafter, they, and a number of friends from the Schraalenburgh congregation set out for their new home in Somerset County, in western New Jersey. They were not the first to leave, but Hendrick's force of character soon made him a leader in what became known as the "Low Dutch Colony," ("Low Dutch" meaning that their ancestors had come from the low lands of Holland).

When Hendrick went west to Somerset County, New Jersey, he settled in Bedminster, Montgomery township. In 1752, he was a member of the Montgomery Church, and chosen as an Elder in 1758. In 1768, Hendrick and 165 other Dutch and Huguenot families (over 1,000 people) left New Jersey. He settled in Conewago, York County, Pennsylvania, on land that he named "Loss and Gain". The cabin that he lived in there was still standing in 1983 on Swift Creek Run, 2 miles east of Hunterstown, Pennsylvania, 6 miles east of Gettysburg, and 3 miles northwest of New Oxford, just south of U.S. Highway 30. He donated some land on this property for the Low Dutch Church. He was appointed to the York County Committee of Safety in 1774. Owner of the Banta land on Swift Creek Run in 1983 was Russ Osborn.

In 1779, Hendrick once again pulled up roots. He led 75 settlers, via the Ohio River, to Louisville, Kentucky. His son, Abraham, plus 11 others of Hendrick's 19 living children, followed him. From Louisville they proceeded via Beargrass to Cove Spring, Kentucky. They were attacked numerous times by Indians along the way.

Will dated 13 Dec 1799 and probated 14 Oct 1805 in Shelby Co., KY bequeathing property to his widow Antjin. Hendrick* Hendrickse BANTA and Rachel* BROWER were married on 12 Aug 1738 in Schraalenburg, Bergen Co., NJ. Reformed Dutch Church of Schraalenburgh
Marriage ended with death of Rachel following birth of Geertrje.

241. Rachel* BROWER¹²⁹⁸ was christened on 9 Dec 1716 in Hackensack, Bergen Co., NJ. Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh. Witnesses: Benjamin DeMaree and Elisabeth DeGroot, his wife

She was born on 9 Dec 1717 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., NJ. She died on 3 Dec 1749 in , Bergen Co., NJ.¹²⁹⁹ She was buried about 1750 in Bergen, Bergen Co., NJ. First wife of Hendrick H. Banta Children were:

	i.	Hendrick BANTA was christened on 27 Jul 1740 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., NJ. He died in 1777 in Conewago, Adams Co., PA. He was buried in , York Co., PA.
	ii.	Abraham BANTA was born on 18 Apr 1742. He died in 1742.
	iii.	Leah BANTA was born on 15 Jan 1744. She was christened on 15 Jan 1744 in Hackensack, Bergen Co., NJ. She was buried in , Warren Co., OH. Merged General Note: !Sources: Same as father, Hendrick.
120	iv.	Abraham* BANTA.
	v.	Albert BANTA was born on 20 Apr 1747. He was christened on 20 Apr 1747 in Hackensack, Bergen Co., NJ. He was buried in , Preble Co., OH. Merged General Note: !Sources: Same as father, Hendrick.
	vi.	Geertrje BANTA was born on 3 Dec 1749. She was christened on 3 Dec 1749 in Hackensack, Bergen Co., NJ. She died on 6 Dec 1828. She was buried in , Henry Co., KY. !Sources: Same as father, Hendrick. Geertrje was also called "Charity".