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- [S370] FindAGrave.com, FindAGrave Memorial 90597846; Christina Kuykendall Westfall.
Birth: 1682, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA
Death: 1715, Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Burial: Old Minisink Reformed Dutch Cemetery, Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Styntje (Christina) was born to Leur Jacobsen Van Kuykendal and Grietje Aartzse Tack and was christened on April 2, 1682 by the Kingston Dutch Church. She wed Jurian Westfall in Machackemech (Port Jervis), New York in 1710 and they moved to Big Minisink Island in the Delaware River, next to Montague, New Jersey. There they had three children before she died in 1715. The children were christened (C:) by a circuit rider from the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church.
1) Johannes, C: Jun 24, 1711
2) Jacobus (James), C: Feb 8, 1713
3) Jacob, C: Jun 8, 1715
- [S262] George Benson Kuykendall, M.D., History of the Kuykendall family since its settlement in Dutch New York in 1646 : with genealogy as found in early Dutch church, (Name: Kilham Stationery & Printing Co; Location: Portland, Oregon; Date: 1919;), Chapter VIII, p 39, https://archive.org/details/historyofkuykend00byukuyk.
[The marriage between Jurian Westfall & Styntje Van Kuykendall was] the first intermarriage of the two families. By this marriage Christina had three children, viz:
Johannes, baptized June 24, 1711;
Jacobus, baptized February 8, 1713;
Jacob, baptized June 8, 1715.
... Christina must have died soon after the birth of this child Jacob, for her husband, Jurian Westfall, married the second time to Marytje Koddebeck. August 20. 1717. Both Cuddebacks and Westfalls intermarried with Kuykendalls afterwards many times.
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