The Osterhoudts of EastWood Farm

By Judith Berkey

Jan Jansen van Oosterhout, one of the first settlers in the Dutch community of Wiltwyck (now Kingston, New York) is the ancestral head of the Osterhoudt family which numbers about 20,000 people in the United States. During the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, eight generations of Osterhoudts lived on EastWood Farm, the home of Jan Jansen's grandson, Laurens J. Osterhout. The story of how the farm land was acquired and insight into the early Dutch settlement of New York has been a life-long research project for Judith Osterhoudt Berkey who grew up in the eighteenth century stone house on EastWood Farm. Her recollections of life there offer a poignant view of the Osterhoudt family and life in the Hudson Valley. She transcribed a set of ten eighteenth century land sale documents to confirm her thesis of the land grants for EastWood Farm. Her research has taken her to the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam and to the town of Oosterhout, Netherlands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1495943852
• ISBN13: 9781495943850
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"