5 ROELOF, son of Lubbert, senior, the immigrant (1); was bap. in Meppel, Holland, on the 10th of March, 1659. He accompanied his parents to America and resided on Long Island during the days of his boyhood. When 29 years of age he married, at Bergen, Orsolena or Wesselena, dau. of Caspar Stymets and Jannekin Gerrits, of the same town, on the 25th of March, 1688. (Entered in New York church records, April 11, 1688.) The earlier was the date of registration, and the latter the date of the marriage ceremony. On the outer wall of the church at Hackensack are the initials of himself and wife, engraved in 1696.
In 1695, in company with nine others, he purchased from the Lord Proprietors of East Jersey, for the sum of £100, a large tract of land embracing some thousands of acres, extending from the Hudson River to the Overpeck, or English Creek, and running northerly and southerly a distance of about two miles. These lands were fertile, well elevated and sloped gradually from the Palisades to the Overpeck Creek. Roelof obtained the most northerly portion of the tract and settled upon it, part of said lands being still in the possession of his descendants.
In the same year he made a further purchase of the triangular lot (Sections 6 and 7, Map of Bergen Co.), lying between the east and west branches of the Overpeck, which was first patented by the Proprietors, who sold it in 1688 to Samuel Emmett, of Boston. Emmett then conveyed it, Sept. 17, 1695, to Roelof Lubbertsen Westervelt. The Indians disputed Westerveltís title in 1705 and he was obliged to obtain a release from them. This triangular tract extended from the two branches of the Overpeck, northward to the head of Tiena Kill Brook, and gave him one of the largest farms on the Hudson.
He became a member of the church at Hackensack in 1687, was elected a deacon in 1705, in place of Roelof van der Linde, and church master in May 1709, succeeding Jacob Hendrick Banta in that office. He married at Schraalenburgh, for his second wife, Lea, the daughter of Jean Demaree and Jacominia Druens. She was the widow of Abram Brower. This marriage occurred on the 15th of May, 1731. Roelof was then in his 73rd year and his wife in her 50th. They were both living on Oct. 21, 1733.
Patent to Roelof Lubbertse Westervelt and others for the above mentioned lands: :
The Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey. To whom these presents shall come, Greeting:----
Know Yee, That wee have Granted * * * * unto Sibah Eptke (Banta), Cornelius Epke (Banta), Hendrick Epke (Banta), Dericke Epke (Banta), John Cornelius, Ruliph Johnston, Martin Powlson, Hendrick Yorson, John Lotts