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Persoonlijke gegevens Rev. Jacobus van Buskirk 

• Hij is geboren op 11 februari 1739 in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey.
• Geloof: Second minister of Yellow (St Peters) Church near New Wales..
• Hij is overleden op 5 augustus 1800, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Founding Trustee Of The Yellow (St Peters) Church Near New Wales.
• Een kind van Jacobus Van Der Linde van Buskirk
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 juni 2023.

Gezin van Rev. Jacobus van Buskirk

Hij is getrouwd met Anna Maria Hollenbach.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Salome Hollenbach van Buskirk  
2. Christina Hollenbach van Buskirk  
3. Lydia Hollenbach van Buskirk  
4. Elizabeth Hollenbach van Buskirk  

Notities over Rev. Jacobus van Buskirk

Rev Jacob Van Buskirk
Birth: 11 Feb 1739 Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
Death: 5 Aug 1800 (aged 61) North Wales, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Saint Peter's Cemetery, North Wales, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Memorial #: 125015028
Bio: Probably the first American-born Lutheran pastor. Studied under the Rev. J. A. Weygand and the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. Helped with the relations of the Dutch in New Jersey and the Germans in Pennsylvania.
He was a trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Information obtained from Christian Cyclopedia
Family Members
Spouse
Anna Maria Hollenbach Van Buskirk 1749-1829
Children
Matheus Van Buskirk 1776-1778
Georg Van Buskirck 1778-1778
George Van Buskirk 1787-1870
Created by: mjbliese (48053042)
Added: 11 Feb 2014
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125015028/jacob-van_buskirk?_gl=1*3o6ar2*_ga*NzczODE5MjcwLjE2ODA4MDA5NTU.*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*OGIxYTBhMDMtZmYyMy00NzNlLTg2NGEtNDE3YmUzNjU5MjcwLjg2LjEuMTY4MjQ3ODIxOS4yNy4wLjA.
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125015028/jacob-van_buskirk: accessed 25 April 2023), memorial page for Rev Jacob Van Buskirk (11 Feb 1739œ5 Aug 1800), Find a Grave Memorial ID 125015028, citing Saint Peter's Cemetery, North Wales, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by mjbliese (contributor 48053042).
Jacobus Van Buskirk and Elizabeth Lawrence

Hollenbach is another spelling for Anna Maria. Her father
Mattias Hollenbach m. Anna Maria Unknown

Children:

Elisabetha VAN BUSKIRK b: 24 JUL 1765
Jacob VAN BUSKIRK b: 7-AUG-1767
?Johannes VAN BUSHKIRK b: 23 OCT 1769
Salome 'Sarah' VAN BUSKIRK b: 6 DEC 1771
Maria Margaret VAN BUSKIRK b: 14 JUL 1774
Lydia VAN BUSKIRK b: 14 JUN 1779
Ester VAN BUSKIRK b: 25 DEC 1784
Dr. George VAN BUSKIRK b: 11 AUG 1787 in Lehigh Co., PA
Mathias VAN BUSKIRK b: 20 AUG 1776
George VAN BUSKIRK b: 23 MAY 1778
Dina (Christena) VAN BUSKIRK b: 18 APR 1782
Thomas VAN BUSKIRK b: 20 APR 1791

Laurens Andriessen is the common ancestor of the Van Buskirks, well known in the annals of New Jersey and New York. [p.155] His great-grandson Jacob Van Buskirk* born at Hackensack, in 1739, probably was the first American-born Lutheran minister in the United States. A descendant of his is Dr. J. Singmaster, President of the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Penn.

The next pastor was Rev. Jacob Van Buskirk, who began about 1793. He was born at Hackensack, N.J., February 11, 1739. It is said that he came to his death suddenly, August 5, 1800. He was about to start for church, and was in the act of mounting his horse, when the Master whom he served called him. He lies buried near where stood the altar of the church in which he officiated. [Mr. Van Buskirk owned the farm at Gwynedd Station, recently the estate of Rudolphus Kent now [1896] the property in part of Charles Roth. At his death, he left a wife and ten children. His widow subsequently married Philip Hahn.]
Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd (Pennsylvania)St. Peters Churchhttp://www.gwyneddfriends.org/jenkinschapter23.htmhttp://www.gwyneddfriends.org/jenkinschapter23.htm

Rnv. JACOB VAN BUSKIRK. Rev. Jacob Van Buskirk was no doubt the second regular pastor of Egypt Lutheran congregation. He was the son of Captain Jacob (some say Lawrence) Van Buskirk and was of Hollandish descent. This fact, later on, enabled Rev. Van Buskirk to render very valuable services to Patriarch Muhlenberg. He formed a kind of union between the Dutch of New York and the Germans of Pennsylvania. He was born at or near Hackensack, N. J., on February II, 1739. In the years 1751 and I752 when Muhlenberg was often in New York and Hackensack, N. J., Captain Van Buskirk was a member and also an officer of the Dutch Lutheran Church, of New York City. Muhlenberg was a very intimate friend of the Van Buskirk family. We are told that he visited them frequently and even held preaching services in their home, when they and neighboring families had gathered for that purpose. His influence no doubt induced young Van Buskirk to study for the ministry. The preparatory education of Van Buskirk was conducted by his pastor the Rev. lo9 J. A. Weygandt. He also studied for a time at Princeton College, and finally December. 3', I760, he went to Philadelphia; and from this time on until his ordination, on October I2, 1763, he was under the care and direction of Muhlenberg himself. It is claimed that VanBuskirk was the first native born American to enter the Lutheran ministry. He was married March i5, I764, to Anna Marie Hollenbach. His first charge was "New Hanover and Pikestown beyond the Schuylkill." In I765 he was called to St. Michael's, Germantown. In 1769 he came to Lehigh, then Northampton County. In Allentown, then called Northampton, he served from I769 to I778. He also served Macungie, now "Lehigh" Church near Alburtis, Saltzburg, Milford, Upper Saucon and Egypt. In 1783 we find him in Kunkletown, Pleasant Valley, Monroe County. He came to Egypt the latter part of I769, did not remain long, however, this time, and came back again and served the congregation a second time from I789 to I799. He likely' left Egypt the first time in 1770 when he was followed by Rev. John George Yung who had come to Jordan in I 769. In a letter written April i6, I782, by Rev. Emanuel Schultze, then president of the Ministerium of Penna., to Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg then living at the Trappe, Rev. Schultze says he had "received a letter from the congregation in Allen.Township, Northampton County, in which they request the continued services of Rev. Mr. Van Buskirk." We can not determine whether Van Buskirk supplied this congregation from Saltzburg and Macungie, for he was no longer at Egypt nor at Allentown. What congregation this could have been in Allen Township is not easy to determine either. It may have been our Cherryville, as we find Van Buskirk in Kunkletown in I783 and that is not far away from Cherryville. The same letter of Rev. Schultze states that Rev. Theophilus Emanuel Franz was serving congregations at this time not far away from Van Buskirk. Now, at this time, I782, we know that Rev. Franz was at Jordan and Egypt. We know of a certainty that Van Buskirk was at Egypt from 1789 to 1799. In the old records of the Egypt Church is seen that it was customary for the pastor and his church council to audit the current expense account and sign their names to the same. The audit of January I, i8oi, is signed by Rev. Johhnn Caspar Dill and his church council. The one of October i9, 1799, for they seem to have been made only every few years, was signed by Van Buskirk and his church council, so also the audit of October 22, 1796, August 20, 1794, and September 12, 1789 were signed the same way. Before this last date we do not find these signatures, so that we can see that Van Buskirk's second term of service at Egypt extended from 1789 to I799. Besides, in i875 we buried Peter Eberhard, a deaf and dumb man, at Mickley's Church to which place the Eberhard family had moved after leaving Egypt. From his baptismal certificate we learned, ITo as also from the old record for baptisms in Egypt Church, that Peter Eberhard was baptized on September I, I799, at Egypt, by Rev. Van Buskirk. So successful and acceptable was Van Buskirk's ministry in Lehigh County that when he received a call, in 1793, to become pastor of three Lutheran congregations in Bucks County, at Upper Dublin, Whitpain and' Gwynedd, these congregations here refused to call a successor so that he would return again. He really did so and seems to have cared for both charges, for in 1799 he was'back again altogether in Bucks County. For a long time he lived on his farm in Lower Macungie, Lehigh County. In 1792 he sold the farm to Christopher Andres, the great-grandfather of Rev. W. J. Andres, of Bath, Pa., and moved to Macungie, then called Millerstown. In this place he owned a tannery which after his death passed into the hands of his son-in-law, Mr. John Singmaster, the grandfather of Rev. J. A. Singmaster, D. D., president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Gettysburg, Pa. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, a prominent member of the Ministerium of Pa., a member of the first Board of Trustees, of Franklin College, now Franklin and Marshall College, of Lancatser, Pa. He excelled especially as a catechist and possessed wonderful power of personal magnatism. Whilst serving his last charge, the three congregations in Bucks County, already mentioned, he died suddenly on August 5, i8oo, while on his way on horseback to an appointment. He had preached the Sunday before, in the yellow church. He is buried in the cemetery near the Lutheran Church, of North Wales, formerly known as Gwynedd, where his grave can still be seen. His age, when he died, was 6i years, 5 months and 26 days.

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