Bartons

!History: Van Tassel papers say "They became members of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow when it was organized in 1697. He was at one time a Deacon and at another an Elder of the Church. in his petion at death he said that he had nine children. The youngest child must have died shortly before the father (and was single)."
"Lived at Midwond(Flatbush), Long Island. It was there that he married his wife Annetje Alberts, and his children were born.
His name appears on the Flatbush records as Jan Cornelissen Van Texel and as Jan Cornelius Van Texel. On the 12 of March 1661, he got a grant of 60 morgens (120 acres) of land at that place and on the 26th of October 1664, his orchard if referred to.

He was later allotted in pursuance of the patent at Flatbush, 23 morgans (46 acres) of land in the said town- on the south side of the Bowerey of Bastel Classen with plain land and salt meadow. He sold it January 20, 1670 to Aucke Janse Van Meyse.

On the 14th of March, 1670, he was allotted a building lot at Flatbush which he sold on the 15th day of May, 1670 to Hendrick Kip. Not long after this sale to Kip, Jan Cornelius Van Texel removed with his family to Westchester County and settled on the east bank of the Hudson River-in that portion of the present town of Cortland which the Indians call "Meagagh". It later became known as "Verpland's Point". The lands immediately east of "Meagagh" bore the Indian name of Appamaghpogh. After Steven Cortlandt had purchased Meagagh or Appamaghpogh from the Indians on August 24, 1683, the whole territory seems for a short time to have been called by the latter name.

Jan Cornelius Van Texel, occupied a farm comprising nearly the whole of the Village of Sing Sing. He was quite a prominent man in that neigborhood. He was appointed tax collector, and for a number of years prior to 1700, collected the taxes from this particular town and paid them over to Chidley Brook, the Colonial Treasurer."

Van Tassel papers have copies of receipts etc.