Families of Bethlehem
These family files are available in the Bethlehem Public Library Local History Room.
  • Histories, dating as far back as 1647, of over 150 families
  • Most of these family names can be found in Records of the People of the Town of Bethlehem, 1982
  • These histories, compiled and submitted by family members, have not been verified by us
Family of Family dates
in folder		 Residence Cemetery In People of
Bethlehem		 In Bethlehem
Revisited		 Member Beth
Reformed Church		 Dates in Bethlehem Census to 1840
Adriance, George 1909 - 1909 Selkirk Onesquethaw
Albright, Hendrick 1740 - 1882 Bethlehem yes yes 1800
Alexander, James 1767 - 1843 Bethlehem Nicoll-Sill yes yes 1800
Babcock, Joshua 1747 - 1904 Bethlehem Center, Selkirk private yes yes yes 1800
Bailey, Ephraim 1783 - 1920 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes yes 1800
Baker, Joab 1791 - 1919 Bethlehem, Selkirk yes yes yes 1810
Baumes, Conrad 1791 - 1973 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes yes 1800
Becker, Jan Jurrianse 1630 - 1967 Bethlehem private, Bethlehem, Elmwood yes yes yes 1720, 1830
Bender, Christian 1750 - 1918 Bethlehem private, Bethlehem yes yes 1800
Blaisdell, Arantje 1821 - 1933 Bethlehem, Rensselaerwyck
Blodgett, William 1849 - 1909 Bethlehem, New Scotland Elmwood yes
Bogardus, Anneke Jans 1630 - 1658 Bethlehem, Rensselaerwyck 1820
Bombeck, Christopher 1839 - 1919 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes
Bork, George 1798 - 1835 Bethlehem yes
Borthwick, Lester Bethlehem
Boucher, John 1811 - 1843 Bethlehem yes yes 1820
Boutelle, Frank 1900 - 1979 Bethlehem yes
Bradt, Belthassar 1741 - 1893 Bethlehem, Feura Bush private, Mt Pleasant yes yes yes 1800
Britt, Leah 1776 - 1850 Bethlehem private yes yes 1800
Bronk, Peter 1705 - 1800 Selkirk, Bethlehem private, Selkirk yes yes
Brooks, Abraham 1808 - 1871 Bethlehem private, Bethlehem yes yes 1820, 30
Burhans, Henry 1770 - 1837 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes yes 1800
Chamberlain, Shubal 1871 - 1975 Bethlehem yes
Clapper, Counradt 1759 - 1953 Bethlehem, Selkirk private, Elmwood yes yes 1810, 20
Clark, Aaron 1712 - 1870 Albany
Clink, George 1790 - 1807 Bethlehem yes yes
Coeymans, Barent 1673 - 1833 Coeymans, Rensselaerwyck yes yes 1698, 1720
Colby, Moses 1807 - 1883 Bethlehem, Cedar Hill private, Elmwood yes
Comstock, William 1875 - 1960 Bethlehem Center Elmwood yes yes
Cook, Bennet 1772 - 1832 Berne private, Cook Hill Road
Coonley, George 1832 - 1899 Bethlehem, Selkirk Elmwood yes yes
Creble, Francis 1794 - 1961 Feura Bush, Slingerlands private, Jerusalem yes
Crocker, Abner 1825 - 1953 Bethlehem Bethlehem yes 1866
Crum, Hugh 1782 - 1963 Bethlehem Center Elmwood yes yes
De Friest, David 1834 - 1893 Bethlehem yes yes 1840
Devoe, Isaac 1795 - 1898 Bethlehem yes 1820
Elmendorf, Jacob 1807 - 1866 Bethlehem Nicoll-Sill yes yes 1810
Evertsen, Jan 1645 - 1790 Bethlehem, Rensselaerwyck Albany Lutheran Church yes yes
Flansburgh, Johannes 1795 - 1827 Bethlehem yes yes
Fletcher, Anna 1908 - ? Bethlehem yes
Frazier, William 1810 - 1926 Bethlehem, Slingerlands private, Babcock's Corners yes yes 1820
Gallup, Samuel 1794 - 1928 Bethlehem, South Bethlehem private, St Matthew yes
Gilbert, John 1677 - 1730 New Albany ? yes
Gise, Peter 1859 - 1916 Bethlehem
Golden, James 1777 - 1825 Rensselaerville, Westerlo
Groesbeck, Nealtie 1794 - 1903 Bethlehem private yes yes 1800
Hallenbeck, Maria 1708 - 1870 Bethlehem, FeuraBush, Coeymans Elmwood yes yes 1800, 10
Hanney, John ? - 1853 Bethlehem Mt Pleasant yes yes
Heath, William 1912 - 1966 Bethlehem, Glenmont Elmwood yes
Henry, William 1801 - 1878 Bethlehem, Selkirk Nicoll Sill yes
Hillebrandt, Wendell 1799 - 1841 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1810
Hoffman, Adam 1851 - 1903 Bethlehem yes yes
Hogan, Jane 1796 - 1829 Bethlehem yes yes 1820
Houghtaling, Matthys 1667 - 1905 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1800
Howard, John 1773 - 1962 Albany
Huxley, Jacob 1770 - 1852 Clarksville private yes yes 1820, 30
Imbrie, George 1763 - 1899 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes
Jackson, Samuel 1818 - 1910 Bethlehem, Selkirk yes yes
Jarvis, Thomas 1752 - 1832 Bethlehem private, Nicoll Sill yes yes 1810, 20
Jolly, Hugh 1721 - 1926 Bethlehem, Cedar Hill private, Mt Pleasant yes 1800
Keim, Edna 1920 - 1977 Selkirk
Kelderhouse 1788 - 1926 Bethlehem private yes yes 1810
Kilmer, William 1818 - 1883 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820. 30
Kimmey, Jacob 1748 - 1919 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
King, Margaret 1940 - 1953 Bethlehem
Knapp, Frederick 1837 - 1914 Bethlehem
LaGrange, John 1697 - 1963 Bethlehem private yes yes 1720, 1800
Lamoreaux, Maus 1864 - 1936 Bethlehem Mount Pleasant, Elmwood yes
Lasher, Marcus 1793 - 1942 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1810, 20, 40
Leedings, Laurence 1814 - 1929 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1840
Luke, Coonrath 1753 - 1851 Bethlehem private yes yes 1820, 30
Malary, Harrison 1911 - 1979 Bethlehem, Selkirk yes
Martin, Thomas 1784 - 1909 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
McCulloch, William 1789 - 1949 Bethlehem, South Bethlehem Mt Pleasant yes yes 1820, 30
Mead, David N. 1762 - 1976 Bethlehem Elmwood, Onesquethaw yes yes 1800, 10
Miller, Philip 1802 - 1959 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes
Moak, Jacob 1763 - 1899 Bethlehem private, Jerusalem, Elmwood yes yes 1820
Moore, Ephraim 1754 - 1903 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Mosher, Cornelius 1812 - 1923 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1830
Mull, Abram 1752 - 1963 Bethlehem, Selkirk private, Elmwood yes yes 1830
Myers, Jacob 1752 - 1975 Bethlehem, Selkirk private, Elmwood yes yes 1840
Newell, John 1942 - 1961 Bethlehem Bethlehem yes
Nicoll, William 1687 - 1859 Bethlehem private yes yes 1800, 10
Niver, David 1790 - 1970 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1810, 30
Noyes, Abigail 1809 - 1870 Bethlehem private yes yes
Oliver, Aaron 1867 - 1911 Bethlehem private yes
Oliver, John 1833 - 1857 Bethlehem private yes
Oliver, Richard ? - 1843 Bethlehem Elmwood yes
Osterhout, William 1640 - 1917 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1830
Packard, Isaac 1794 - 1867 Albany
Patterson, Archibald 1810 - 1916 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Peelen, Brant 1652 - 1902 Bethlehem yes
Post, Benjamin Bethlehem yes
Radley, John 1779 - 1985 Bethlehem, New Scotland Bethlehem, Onesquethaw yes yes
Rapalje, Joris 1624 - 1801 Fort Orange
Riggs, Frederick 1881 - 1955 Bethlehem, Glenmont Albany Rural
Rosenkranz, Abraham 1801 - 1890 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1810, 30
Row, James 1797 - 1898 Bethlehem, South Bethlehem Mt Pleasant yes yes 1830
Ruso, Francis 1758 - 1900 Bethlehem, New Scotland private, Bethlehem, Jerusalem yes yes 1800,10-30
Russell, Solomon 1828 - 1927 Bethlehem private, Elmwood, Bethlehem yes yes 1830
Sager, Staats 1755 - 1926 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Scharbauer, Ferdinand 1809 - 1921 Bethlehem, South Bethlehem Mt Pleasant yes ?
Schermerhorn, Abraham 1801 - 1856 Bethlehem private yes yes
Schoonmaker, Hendrick 1624 - 1945 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Screyen, Richard ? - 1856 Bethlehem private? yes ?
Selkirk, James 1757 - 1976 Bethlehem, Selkirk private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
Shafer, Henry 1815 - 1939 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes
Shankland, Robert 1776 - 1863 Bethlehem private yes yes
Simmons, Peter ? - 1855 Bethlehem yes yes
Slingerland, Teunis 1652 - 1927 Bethlehem, Slingerlands private, Elmwood yes yes 1698,1810-30
Snyder, William 1754 - 1979 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Soop, Conrad 1745 - 1937 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
Spawn, Philip 1780 - 1915 Bethlehem, Elmwood yes yes
Spencer, John 1796 - 1981 Bethlehem, Glenmont
Springsteen, Reyer 1752 - 1869 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Smith, Charles 1861 - 1868 Bethlehem yes yes
Staats, John 1756 - 1914 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1830
Stoffels, Peter ? - 1877 Bethlehem
Ten Eyck, Jacob 1678 - 1971 Bethlehem, Slingerlands private, Elmwood, Bethlehem yes yes 1830, 40
Terrell, Ebenezer 1860 - 1926 Bethlehem Elmwood, Mt Pleasant yes yes
Traeger, Christopher 1854 - 1897 Bethlehem
Twitchell, Asa 1840 - 1938 Bethlehem, Hurstville yes
Udell, Samuel 1812 - 1934 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1830
Van Aken, Jan 1625 - 1835 Albany
Van Allen, Johannes 1694 - 1968 Bethlehem private, Jerusalem, Elmwood yes yes 1810, 20, 30
Van Buren, Martin 1735 - 1858 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 40
Van den Berg, Tryntje 1700 - 1882 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1720,1820, 40
Vanderbilt, David 1841 - 1950 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes
VanderPool, Melchert 1683 - 1892 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
VanderZee, Storm 1630 - 1979 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
Van Kempen, Gerardus 1938 - 1977 Bethlehem, Beckers Corners yes
Van Olinda, Catherine 1780 - 1906 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes
Van Slyck, Teunis 1696 - 1859 Bethlehem, Beverwyck private yes 1698
Van Wie, Hendrick 1659 - 1877 Bethlehem, Beverwyck private yes yes 1720, 1820
Van Zandt, Mary 1739 - 1902 Bethlehem Bethlehem yes yes 1820, 30
Veeder, Abraham 1793 - 1913 Bethlehem Elmwood yes yes 1820
Vloebergh, Joseph ? - 1857 Bethlehem Center, Glenmont
Vrooman, James 1647 - 1963 Bethlehem Elmwood, Mt Pleasant yes yes 1767
Wagoner, George 1798 - 1969 Bethlehem, Selkirk private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
Waldbillig, William 1973 - 1976 Bethlehem, Glenmont Bethlehem yes
Waldron, James 1768 - 1926 Bethlehem Mt Pleasant, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Walley, Jacob 1833 - 1917 Bethlehem, Slingerlands private, Bethlehem yes
Wands, Ebenezer 1766 - 1946 Bethlehem, Rensselaerwyck yes yes 1800, 1820
Wemple, Jan 1709 - 1973 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1830
Westervelt, Abraham 1761 - 1973 Bethlehem private, Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30, 40
Whitehead, Samuel 1871 - 1959 Bethlehem Elmwood yes
Wilkes, Hezekia 1817 - 1968 Bethlehem, Selkirk Elmwood yes yes 1820, 30
Williams, Harold 1931 - 1981 Bethlehem yes
Wiltsie, William 1795 - 1896 Bethlehem, South Bethlehem private, Mt Pleasant yes yes 1830, 40
Winne, Peter 1706 - 1961 Bethlehem, Cedar Hill private, Elmwood yes yes 1800, 20, 30
Wisenburn, Grace ? - 1977 Bethlehem, Selkirk Chestnut Lawn yes
Witbeck, Jan 1707 - 1959 Bethlehem, South Bethlehem private, Mt Pleasant yes yes 1830
Wolfe, John 1790 - 1928 Bethlehem, Selkirk Elmwood yes yes
Wood, Arnold 1806 - 1897 Bethlehem, Selkirk
Wynkoop, Josiah 1795 - 1863 Bethlehem private, Jerusalem yes yes 1820, 30, 40