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Personal data Joseph Montanye 

• Alternative name: Yost MONTANJE
• He was born about 1701 in New Harlem, New York City.
• He died on March 31, 1788 in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey.
• A child of Abram de la Montagne and Rebecca Theunis van Huyse
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Joseph Montanye

He is married to Maria Covert.

They got married about 1730 at Bridgewater Twp., Somerset County, New Jersey.

Child(ren):

1. Abraham Montanye  1732-1810 
2. John Montanye  ± 1734-< 1802 
3. Rebecca Montanye  ± 1738-< 1805 
4. Joseph Montanye  ± 1740-± 1809 
5. Isaac Montanye  1743-< 1785 
6. Burgon Montanye  1746-1825 
7. Jane Montanye  1749-????

Notes about Joseph Montanye

JOSEPH DELAMONTANIE, son of Abram Delamontanie and his wife Rebecca Van Huyse, was born in Harlem, New York City, New York, between 1695 and 1705.

Unfortunately, because there is no baptismal record to be found for this Joseph in the surviving records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, many descendants have followed red herrings and tried to make a case for being descended from other Joseph Montanyes of the same period for whom there are extant baptismal records.  The other Josephs, however, lived and died in New York City.  They have no descendants today.  Joseph, son of Jan Montanye and Annetje Waldron, who married Margrietje Roll, disappears from the record books thereafter.  Joseph, son of Jesse Montanye and Gerritje Yates, never married and died in New York City in January 1756, according to the records of the Reformed Dutch Church.

Joseph Delamontanie, known in early New Jersey records as Yost Montanje, moved to the Peapack Patent of New Jersey around 1725, in company with brothers Teunis, Ide (Edward), and Nicholas.  Both Edward and Joseph farmed land in the same general area, but Edward’s land eventually was in Somerset County, while Joseph’s land was in Morris County.  Teunis went into the shipping and importing business, while Nicholas is still a very shadowy figure, farming in Somerset County up through the 1740s but not found thereafter.  However, they all appear as related men in the accounts of Jacob Janeway, storekeeper at Bound Brook, between 1735-1745.

About 1731, Joseph married Maria Covert, daughter of Jan Teunissen Covert and Jeanne Brokaw, both from well-known Huguenot families of Newtown, Long Island, who became important landowners on the Peapack Patent.  Maria Covert was baptized on 6 August 1706 in the Raritan RDC; witnesses were Cornelis and Neeltien Teunissen.  There is no record of the marriage of Joseph and Maria, but the names of their children and their patterns of association make Maria’s identification quite certain.

Their oldest child was baptized in 1732 in the North Branch (Readington) RDC, but the younger children were baptized at the Raritan (Somerville) RDC.  There is no known birth record for the middle three children.

Joseph was called Yost and Yeost in Andrew Johnston’s Journals, published in the Somerset County Historical Quarterly.  George Leslie of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, a proprietor of land on the Peapack Patent, leased 205 acres of land to Joseph Montanye in 1749 and eventually sold him the same land in 1753, after it was surveyed by Andrew Johnston.  His closest neighbors were Peter, Bout, and Andries Wortman, while Andrew and Morris Bird were weavers who lived on his land.

New Jersey Supreme Court Record #25222 is a complaint of trespass brought by Joseph Montanye at Roxbury, Morris County, New Jersey, on 23 March 1764, against Joseph Folkerson, who on 1 August 1763 did break and enter the property of Joseph Montanye and did take down and carry away twenty panels of Worm Fence worth ten pounds.  David Ogden acted as attorney in the suit which asked for thirty pounds damages.

Tax lists for 1779 and 1780 show Joseph, along with his sons John, Abraham, and Burgun, and his grandson Abraham Junior, in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey.  Another son, Joseph, was taxed in Walpack Township, Sussex County, in 1773.

Joseph died on 31 March 1788 in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey.  His will was written on 11 March 1788 and is extracted as follows:  “Joseph Montanye of Roxbury Township, Morris County, will of:   ; Son, Abraham, 1/7 of my lands.  Son, John, 1/7. Son, Joseph, 1/7.  Son, Bergon, 1/7.  Daughter, Rebecca Schoonover, 1/7. Daughter, Jane Vanwey, 1/7.  Grandchildren, children of son Isaac, deceased, 1/7.  Executors-son Bergon and friend James Skinner.  Witnesses-Lemuel Fordham, Peter Brown, William Woodhull.  Proved 14 April 1788. Inventory 21 March 1788 for 204 pounds, 5 shillings, 10 pence, made by Peter Brown and Amos Leek.  Lib. 31, p. 188.  #707N.”

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
1.   “First Reformed Church, Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms,”  Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 2:304; 3:57, 58.
2.   “Journals of Andrew Johnston, 1743-1754,”  Somerset County Historical Quarterly 2:186-187; 3:20,24; 4:40.
3.    New Jersey Supreme Court Record #25222, Suit brought on 23 March 1764 by Joseph Montanye of Roxbury, Morris County, against Joseph Folkerson.
4.    Stryker-Rodda, Kenn.  “The Janeway Account Books 1735-1746,” The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 33:1-4; 34:78-79.
5.    Stryker-Rodda, Kenn   “New Jersey Rateables,” The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 40:143; 46:84-96; 52:84-85, 90-93; 53:35-40.
6.    Stryker-Rodda, Kenn.  Revolutionary Census of New Jersey; An Index Based on Rateables of the Inhabitants of New Jersey During the Period of the American Revolution.  Cottonport, LA: 1972. 145.
7.    Will of Joseph Montanye, written 11 March 1788, proved 14 April 1788.  Executors: Bergon Montanye and James Skinner.  New Jersey State Archives, Liber 707N.

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