Sebastian and Lydia Strope

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	Husband's Name	Wife's Name
	STROPE, Martin Bastiaen "Sebastian"	VAN VALKENBURGH, Lydia
Birth Date	1 Jan 1744	1738-1744
Christened	Newton/Cairo, New York	Queen of Peahwysock, Pennsylvania
Death Date	04 Jun 1805	about 1814
Burial Data	Wysox, Bradford PA	Wysox, Bradford PA
Marriage Date #1	1756/1769	Possibly Catskill NY
Father	STROPE/STRAUB, Henrich	VAN VALKENBURGH, Isaac
Mother	SPEICHERMANN, Anna Maria Catharina	VAN SLYCK, Lydia

M F	Children-Surname-Given	Birth--Date	Birth Place Town-County	State	Death Data	Location	Married To, Date, Place
F	STROPE, Hannah	unknown	Wysox, Bradford	PA	unknown	unknown	died abt 1808- drowned
M	STROPE, Isaac	unknown	Wysox, Bradford	PA	unknown	unknown	WHITE, Lucy
M	STROPE, Henry	1760	Catskill	NY	unknown	unknown	FOX, Catherine Catharine, born November 9, 1764 d/o Rudolph Fox and Catherine Elizabeth Miller
F	STROPE, Mary	1766	Catskill	NY	unknown	unknown	TALLIDAY, John
M	STROPE, John	22 dec 1782	Wysocks	PA	unknown	unknown	FOX, Eleanor Eleanor in 1801 Birth 24 Oct1782, d/o Rudolph Fox and Catherine Elizabeth Miller
F	STROPE, Elizabeth	1784	Wysox, Bradford	PA	unknown	unknown	#1 VANHORN #2 DENNIGER, William F.
F	STROPE, Jane	1792	Wysox, Bradford	PA	unknown	unknown	#1 WHITE, Jeremiah #2 Whittaker

Some Sources:

From Clement C Heverly's Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Pennsylvania 1770-1825 page 93., Reprint 1994 Bradford Historical Society, Murrelle Printing Company, Inc. 201 W. Lockhart Street, Sayre, PA 18840:

"The Valkenburgh's and Stropes, the second permanent settlers in Bradford County, were of Holland decent. In 1773 they emigrated from Catskill on the Hudson, and located first at Indian Meadows in Wyalusing, where they remained until early in 1776, when, having purchased a right in the Susquehanna Company, came to Wysox and located on the west side of Wysox creek near its mouth. These settlers consisted of Isaac VanValken burg, his wife (Jennette Clement), brother, Herman VanValkenburg (a bachelor), three daughters, Eva unmarried). Mrs. Sebastian Strope and Mrs.John Strope, their husbands and children. Here in the wilderness these hardy Dutch lived, struggled and prospered until 1778, when on the 20th of May, they were surprised by a band of Indians, who, after burning their house and driving off their cattle, carried all into captivity, with the exception of Sebastian Strope, who had started for Wyoming. . . . After nearly three years, arrangements were made for their exchange near White Hall NY. . . Here they were met by Sebastain Strope . . .

From The Reverend David Craft's History of Bradford County, 1992 Reprint Addition by Thomson Shore, Inc., Dexter Michigan.

Page 50b During "the Spring of 1773 a few of the proprietors of the Susquehanna Company came up and made pitches at various points along the river . . . Among these were the Van Valkenburgh's and Stropes at Misiscum."

Page 63a The Reverend Craft states the Van Valkenburghs were from "the neighborhood Claverack, on the Hudson." They emigrated from the Catskills to Misiscum in the Spring of 1773 and located a log cabin, "on the flat below the Frenchtown Depot. . .here they remained for two years. . .then onto Wysox"

Page 63b "Here the old people died, and were buried on a knoll back of Dr. [Thomas] Madill's house."

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